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CriterionOnline.com June 4, 2021 Vol. LXI, No. 34 75¢ Catholic leaders: Biden budget aims to help vulnerable but excludes unborn WASHINGTON (CNS)—The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee called on Congress on May 28 to preserve the Hyde Amendment in any federal budget proposal and “to work toward a budget that truly builds up the common good of all.” The head of the Catholic Health Association (CHA) of the United States likewise called on Congress to support Archbishop Joseph “the long-standing F. Naumann prohibition of federal funding for abortion and maintain the Hyde Amendment.” Earlier the same day, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposed budget of $6 trillion for fiscal year 2022 that would include spending to improve and modernize the nation’s infrastructure, provide free pre-K and community college, and increase domestic programs aimed at boosting public health and helping the poor. His plan does not include the Hyde Amendment, which has been included in spending bills since 1976 to prohibit federal tax dollars from directly funding abortion Transitional Deacons Michael Clawson, left, and Matthew Perronie smile while posing on April 10 outside the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of except in cases of rape, incest or when the Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. The two were ordained transitional deacons for the archdiocese that day after experiencing a challenging year of priestly life of the woman would be endangered. formation in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Both have received full doses of a coronavirus vaccine. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) “There are aspects to President Biden’s budget proposal that will assist vulnerable people. However, Congress must reject the administration’s proposal to subsidize the deaths of unborn children,” said Archbishop Seminarians find blessings and challenges Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., chairman of the U.S. Conference of in priestly formation during pandemic Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities. First of a two-part series archdiocesan seminarians have overcome during the past year “No member of our great nation is since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. weaker, more vulnerable, or less protected, By Sean Gallagher Diaconate ordinations are a high point in the life of than the child in the womb,” he said. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, CHA’s Transitional Deacon Matthew Perronie wore a bright smile St. Meinrad. There was no ordination in 2020 at the president and CEO, in her statement also after being ordained on April 10 at the Archabbey Church of seminary because the pandemic had ended in-person said her organization appreciates the Our Lady of Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. formation activities about two months before an ordination fact Biden’s budget calls “for critical He and four other men took the last major step in their was to take place. investments in family support programs, priestly formation journey that spans years before they are Overcoming the challenges in priestly formation during the health care coverage, public health, ordained priests next year. past year caused by the pandemic made this year’s ordination infrastructure, affordable housing, Deacon Perronie’s happiness at his ordination was increased all the more special for Deacon Perronie. education, food and nutrition and the because of the extraordinary challenges that he and other See FORMATION, page 2 environment.” See BUDGET, page 3 Hermitess embraces life of prayer for the Church in central and southern Indiana

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Ellen Carney was in a dark valley in her long and winding spiritual journey. By the summer of 2016, she had suffered physically, mentally and spiritually for many years. “The bottom kind of fell out of my life in 2010,” said Carney, 67. “It went on for a long time.” At the end of that dark valley, though, stood bright hope in the Eucharist. She felt drawn to it that summer after being a member of the Episcopal Sister Elizabeth Mary of the Visitation, previously Ellen Carney, receives applause after Church for many years. professing vows as a hermitess of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis during an April 26 “I had this impression to go and sit in front of Mass at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis. Joining in the the Blessed Sacrament,” she said in an interview applause behind Sister Elizabeth Mary are Father C. Ryan McCarthy, left, and See HERMITESS, page 16 Father Joseph Newton. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021

Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ______June 5–15, 2021 June 5 – 2:30 p.m. June 12 – 10 a.m. Installation of Benedictine Sister Julie Mass for Intercultural Certification Sewell as Prioress at Our Lady of for Spiritual Direction and Leadership Grace Monastery, Beech Grove Program at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, Indianapolis June 6 – 3 p.m. Graduation of Seton High School June 12 – 5:30 p.m. seniors at St. Andrew Church, Confirmation Mass for youths of Richmond St. Simon the Apostle Parish, Indianapolis, at St. Simon the Apostle Church June 9 – 10 a.m. Department Heads meeting at June 13 – 10 a.m. Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Disabilities Awareness Mass at Catholic Center, Indianapolis SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis, and reception at Archbishop Edward Oscar Castellanos, then-director of the archdiocesan Office of Intercultural Ministry, gives a presentation June 9 – 6 p.m. T. O’Meara Catholic Center on racism to archdiocesan seminarians on Aug. 4, 2020, at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Dedication Mass at Holy Angels Indianapolis. The presentation took place during the annual convocation of archdiocesan seminarians Church, Indianapolis June 14 – 6 p.m. before the start of their formation years at their respective seminaries. (File photo by Sean Gallagher) Virtual USCCB Subcommittee for June 10 – 8:15 a.m. Promotion and Defense of Marriage taking classes online and living a Virtual Judicatories meeting meeting FORMATION restricted community life. continued from page 1 Other archdiocesan seminarians June 15 – 4:30 p.m. returned to their homes or lived at parishes Mass for Missionary Disciples Institute “It was definitely a victory,” he said. for the remainder of the spring semester. at Marian University, Indianapolis “It was kind of like, ‘We’ve done it. Seminarian Justin Horner, a junior We’ve completed the race.’ ” last year at Bishop Bruté, moved into the The pandemic has tested seminarians rectory of his home faith community, central and southern Indiana, did what Language (ASL) to be able to minister to and those responsible for their formation St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Morris in they could to bridge the gap. hearing-impaired people in the future. in the archdiocese in ways that they could the Batesville Deanery. “In a lot of ways, priestly formation “With ASL, you really have to focus have never expected before March 2020. He was there by himself as at the beginning of the pandemic came on the other person,” Horner said. “So, But all of them have witnessed how God St. Anthony’s pastor at the time, Father back to the archdiocese in a way that we you’re much more intentional about is ultimately using the pandemic to prepare Shaun Whittington, lived in the rectory typically don’t do,” Father Augenstein said. having a conversation. It’s a really cool the seminarians even better for ordained of St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County, Seminarians who would have spent language, and I hope to study it more.” ministry in central and southern Indiana. where he also served as pastor. the summer in Mexico stayed instead at Father Augenstein said the summer “It was weird going from a [seminary] Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in assignments and the time that some ‘I was grieving what we were losing’ full of 40 guys to living alone,” Horner Greenwood where both of its priests are seminarians spent living in parish rectories in In-person priestly formation at Saint said. “But, for my own discernment, it was fluent in Spanish and there is a vibrant the spring gave them opportunities to build Meinrad, Bishop Bruté College Seminary good because I was able to see what it was Hispanic community. relationships with archdiocesan priests. and Marian University, both in Indianapolis, like to live on my own [like many priests Seminarians who would have taken part Looking at the priestly formation that where Bishop Bruté seminarians take do] and realizing that I would do all right.” in the Institute for Priestly Formation in the seminarians have received during the classes, came to a quick end in mid-March Omaha went instead to St. Paul Parish in pandemic more broadly, Father Augenstein 2020 at the start of the pandemic. ‘We don’t enter into ministry with our Tell City where its pastor, Father Anthony said that the experience helped these future Deacon Perronie, then a year away from own ideas and plans’ Hollowell, gave spiritual conferences to priests learn “how to minister in times of his diaconate ordination, had mixed feelings After the spring semesters at Saint them. The seminarians had weekly spiritual crisis, something that they might not see in at that time. The seminarian community at Meinrad, Bishop Bruté and Marian were direction with archdiocesan priests. They an ordinary parish assignment.” Saint Meinrad gathered for their last Mass completed online, archdiocesan seminarians also had an eight-day Ignatian retreat led “It’s helping them to remember together and to celebrate at a dinner for the moved on to their summer assignments. by Father Peter Marshall, pastor of St. Jude that,” he said. “We have to respond to outgoing class of transitional deacons, an Archdiocesan director of seminarians Parish in Indianapolis. the situation that we’re in and what’s event that ordinarily happens at the end of Father Eric Augenstein ordinarily “It was great. We were able to utilize going on around us. We have to find the the formation year in the southern Indiana has a broad array of options for the the gifts and backgrounds of some of our presence of Christ in the ministry we’re seminary. assignments: serving in parishes, own priests,” Father Augenstein said. called to in that situation.” “I got emotional,” Deacon Perronie hospital chaplaincy training, a Spanish- Since ministry in parishes remained recalled. “That moment kind of spoke to me immersion program in Mexico and a limited last summer, Father Augenstein (The second of this two-part package will of the idea that a priest has to be willing to priestly spirituality program at Creighton had parish-assigned seminarians learn explore the challenges of in-person priestly rejoice with someone in one moment, then University in Omaha, Neb. about archdiocesan-sponsored ministries formation since last August and lessons grieve with someone in the next moment. I Most of these were unavailable in the and to work on skills that would assist learned from the challenges. For more was grieving what we were losing.” summer of 2020 because of the pandemic. them in future ministry. information on a vocation to the priesthood Deacon Perronie and some other So Father Augenstein, with the help of Horner and another seminarian, for in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, visit seminarians remained at Saint Meinrad, priests and other parish leaders across example, began learning American Sign www.HearGodsCall.com.) † Holy Trinity a ‘marvelous mystery’ of love and unity, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—While expression of St. John which summarizes all and their mutual love is the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity “is not easy to understand,” the intellectually difficult to understand, the of revelation: ‘God is love,’ ” the pope said bond of their unity. pope said Christians “can live this mystery, mystery of the Holy Trinity is understood in on May 30, the feast of the Holy Trinity, “Today we stop to celebrate this mystery all of us, we can live a great deal.” one’s heart as the revelation of God’s love for before reciting the Angelus prayer with because the persons are not adjectives of In revealing the triune nature of God, he all men and women, Pope Francis said. pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square. God, no. They are real, diverse, different explained, Jesus showed all “the face of God The Christian belief that the persons of the Love, he said, “is essentially a gift of self, persons; they are not—as that philosopher as a merciful father,” himself as the Son of Holy Trinity “are not three gods” but rather and in its original and infinite reality it is the used to say—‘emanations of God,’ no, no! God “who gives his life for us” and the Holy “one God in three persons” speaks to the Father who gives himself by generating his They are persons,” he said. Spirit as the “spirit of truth” that proceeds heart because “we find it encompassed in that Son, who in turn gives himself to the Father, Acknowledging that the mystery of the from the Father and the Son. †

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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 3 With world still in knots, pope turns to Mary with prayers VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Reaching the finish line of Mother, venerated in this image as the one who undoes a monthlong rosary marathon, Pope Francis again turned knots. Many, in fact, are the knots entwined around our to Mary, asking her to untie specific knots that have existence and binding our activities. They are the knots of individuals and the whole world tangled in suffering and selfishness and indifference, economic and social knots, difficulty, either because of the COVID-19 pandemic or knots of violence and war.” people’s selfish reactions to it. A group of children who recently received their first A German image of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots—an Communion at a parish in Viterbo—the first in Italy to image of Mary beloved by the pope—made a pilgrimage become a vaccination center—recently confirmed young to the Vatican Gardens and was the centerpiece of the people, a Scout troop and several families, including early evening prayer service on May 31. newlyweds and expectant parents, joined the pope for “Each day, taking our rosaries in our hands, we have the prayer in the gardens. A total of about 300 people sat turned our eyes to you, Mother of Mercy, pleading with under umbrella pines and palm trees, gazing past arches you that the pandemic would end and humanity could of jasmine toward the Marian image and the dome of resume its daily life with greater security,” the pope said St. Peter’s Basilica behind it. as he introduced the prayer. Each of the glorious mysteries of the rosary was Pope Francis had started the month reciting the preceded by a short Bible reading and a special prayer rosary in St. Peter’s Basilica. Each day afterward, the about a “knot” needing to be undone: individualism prayer was led by people gathered at a different Marian and indifference; unemployment; domestic violence shrine or church around the world and was livestreamed and social tensions arising from “injustice and a lack on Vatican Media. of solidarity”; sickness and a lack of solidarity in For the final rosary recitation, Bishop Bertram providing health care for all; and anything holding Johannes Meier of Augsburg, Germany, gave the pope individual Catholics and their parishes back from a special copy of an oil painting of Mary untying knots gathering for prayer and formation and reaching out to from a ribbon; the original, painted by Johann Georg those in need. Melchior Schmidtner, hangs in an Augsburg church After reciting the rosary, Pope Francis crowned the where Pope Francis saw it as a student and began sharing image of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots. the devotion with others. “You, who know how to untie the knots of our Pope Francis, seated before an image of Our Lady, Undoer of After the recitation, the copy was delivered to the existence and know the desires of our hearts, come to our Knots, leads an evening Marian prayer service in the Vatican Domus Sanctae Marthae, where Pope Francis lives. aid,” the pope prayed. “We are certain that, as at Cana Gardens on May 31. The service finished a monthlong rosary In his opening prayer at the rosary, Pope Francis in Galilee, you will ensure that joy and celebration will marathon to pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. said, “This evening we gather before you, our Virgin return to our homes after this time of trial.” † (CNS photo/Filippo Monteforte, Reuters pool)

majority of low-income women, including summer as the proposed budget that would note that you’re a constituent, keep your BUDGET women of color,” he added. include the Hyde Amendment makes its message brief and to the point, and continued from page 1 He said that “taxpayer-funded abortion way through various committees. perhaps most importantly, do not be rude. represents a failure to serve women in Otherwise the legislator may form a However, “we are extremely their maternity by funding despair and Where to go: bad impression of those promoting the disappointed that it would allow for death instead of hope and life. • Go to notaxpayerabortion.com, enter right-to-life cause. federal funding of abortion,” she said. “All women deserve the resources your e-mail and name to sign a petition. Here are some tips on what to say “Since the founding of U.S. Catholic to enable them to fully care for and • Go to cutt.ly/ContactLegislators, which or write as suggested by the USCCB hospitals in the 19th century, the sanctity nurture their baby, to welcome them in a has a pre-written, editable note regarding the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activity: of human life has been at the core our loving, stable environment,” the prelate Hyde Amendment. This site helps direct the • “I’m a constituent of Representative/ mission,” Sister Mary said. said. “These resources would be far message to your elected officials. Senator X.” “At a time when our country has seen better spent supporting women in crisis • To find your officials and their e-mail • “Regardless of where one stands so much death resulting from COVID-19, pregnancies and struggling new mothers or phone number to contact them directly, on abortion, there have been 45 years we believe the president should be solely so that no woman ever feels economic go to votervoice.net/INDIANACC/home of bipartisan agreement that taxpayers focused on supporting the lives of those pressure to have an abortion.” and enter your zip code under “Find shouldn’t have to pay for abortion.” most in need, including the lives of Archbishop Naumann urged lawmakers Officials.” • “I urge Representative/Senator X unborn children,” she added. to produce a budget that “truly builds up to protect the Hyde amendment and to Named for the late Rep. Henry Hyde, the common good of all. What to say: oppose any bill, including appropriation an Illinois Republican who served in the “This should include the many Legislators are busy and receive lots bills, that expand taxpayer funding of House of Representatives from 1975 to proposals in the president’s budget of communication. The key is to first abortion.” † 2007, the amendment has long enjoyed submission that seek to protect vulnerable bipartisan support, even from Biden people,” and also “must preserve the Hyde during his 36 years in the U.S. Senate. Amendment and related provisions which It was excluded, however, in the have protected millions of unborn babies, $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and mothers in difficult circumstances, that was signed into law on March 11 by from the tragedy of abortion.” Help us carry on God’s work. Biden. The U.S. bishops called its absence Since early May, the nation’s diocesan “unconscionable.” Respect Life coordinators and the Biden and Vice President Kamala Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the Harris back the repeal of the Hyde U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops Amendment. have been encouraging Catholics to “For nearly half a century, the Hyde speak out against the repeal of the Hyde Amendment and related provisions Amendment. have protected taxpayers from funding As reported in The Criterion recently, most abortions. These policies have there are several ways to find out who broad support from Democrats and your elected officials are and to contact Republicans,” Archbishop Naumann said. them to tell them to keep the Hyde The policies “have been enacted Amendment. and signed into law by congresses and The USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life presidents of both political parties and Activities suggests reaching out to federal have been broadly supported by the legislators in early June and throughout the

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Opinion Reflection/Sean Gallagher Castroneves’ fourth Indy 500 victory is a reminder of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus the joy of celebrating together In 2020, fans of the Indianapolis 500 race fans around the world? only heard the roar of the engines of the More importantly, it was refreshing Editorial race’s 33 cars through a broadcast of the simply to see so many fans at the world’s Greatest Spectacle in greatest race. Racing. That was surely the case for The grandstands Castroneves. that surround the “I love Indianapolis,” he said 2.5-mile oval were exuberantly in Victory Lane after the race. empty, with fans kept “You guys don’t understand it. The fans— away because of the they give me energy! This is absolutely coronavirus pandemic. incredible.” This year, with the Desiring to gather physically with pandemic in the U.S. other people, gaining energy from the coming under greater gathering, being taken beyond ourselves control, 135,000 spectators were present at in the gathering is deeply woven in the the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the human condition. A part of our humanity 105th running of the Indy 500 on May 30. is taken away from us when such But they not only heard the roar of gatherings are not possible. the engines in person. They created a That’s a big part of what has made life roar themselves—especially when Helio so challenging since the pandemic began Castroneves, arguably the greatest fan in the U.S. in March 2020. Pope Francis gestures as he greets the crowd during his general audience in the favorite during the past 20 years, took the And anything that is truly human is San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on May 26. checkered flag for the fourth time, tying also truly Christian and Catholic. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Indy legends A.J. Foyt, Al Unser, Sr., and Catholics gained a renewed appreciation Rick Mears for the most wins at the race. of the Eucharist when public worship was The Indy 500 is steeped in history, ritual suspended for about two months in the Allow dialogue, humility in and tradition. And Helio created one of spring of 2020. Parish leaders made great them—climbing the fence that separates efforts to make the Mass available online. the racecourse from the grandstands by the But there’s still an undeniable loss when prayer to transform your yard of bricks after a win to be close to the Catholics can’t gather in person to give fans as he celebrated his victory. thanks and praise to God. relationship with God Last Sunday, fans joined in Helio’s Some Catholics in central and southern ritual, many of them climbing the fence as Indiana have returned to worship since the As people of faith, prayer is a part of some in today’s society. And if we’re the Brazilian racer later rode around the reopening of churches in Indiana a little our daily lives. honest, some of us may have gotten into track in a pace car. more than a year ago. Some begin and end their days with the unhealthy habit of having one-sided A victory by Helio would touch off But others have continued to stay away prayer. Others use their time travelling conversations with God. If we are to such a celebration in any year. The special from the Mass for various reasons. to and from work to offer petitions. Still be humble followers, we need to slow context of this year’s race only intensified Hopefully when the dispensation from others make it a point to attend daily down—really slow down—and open our the euphoria. the obligation to attend Masses on Sundays Mass—a great time of prayer itself—to minds and hearts to truly listen to how Pandemic-related restrictions are and holy days of obligation is lifted in partake in the greatest gift our faith our Lord is responding to us. starting to be relaxed around the country. Indiana on June 11, our churches will be offers: the Eucharist. People sometimes pray for the wrong The crowd at the Indy 500 was the largest fuller than ever with Catholics who will But, at times, we need to remind reasons, keen to make sure God is for a sporting event since the start of the joyfully discover anew the energy—what ourselves that God answers our prayers with them, the Holy Father said, “but pandemic. Life is finally beginning to we in the Church call grace—that they according to his timing, not our own, few bother to check whether they are return to normal. gain from worshipping together. and most importantly, according to his actually with God.” And what’s more normal at the will, not our desires. We need to pray that God transforms Speedway than to have an exciting, well- (Sean Gallagher is a reporter and Pope Francis said as much during his our heart, he continued, and to ask the run race won by Castroneves, a favorite of columnist for The Criterion.) † weekly general audience at the Vatican right questions to discover what is best on May 26. for our spiritual health. Prayer is a humble dialogue with God As Los Angeles auxiliary Bishop Reflection/John Shaughnessy to grow spiritually and discover his will Robert E. Barron said in a recent daily for the world, the pope said. reflection, freedom of choice reigns “In prayer, it is God who must supreme in today’s world, where “I Celebrating a life lived convert us, not we who must convert become the person I choose to be.” We God,” he added. need to constantly remind ourselves our for God and family In his main audience talk, Pope faith calls us to be selfless followers of Francis continued his series on prayer Christ. If we are, our lives will bear the The moment took place inside the been touched and blessed in many ways by looking at how people can be certain fruit God intends. stunning St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, by God’s grace, including the gift of each God really listens to their prayers. Jesus heals many people in the but even that setting didn’t compare to the other. “Sometimes our prayers seem to go Gospels, Pope Francis said, either beauty of what happened there between a That touching moment was the first unheard, what we have asked for—for responding to their pleas immediately or mother and a son. one to come into my mind when I learned ourselves or for others—is not fulfilled,” much later. Within an hour the news that Marie Tobin had died on he said. Through time, people may see that on that November May 23 at the age of 98—and that she “Why does he not respond to our some things do work out, “but in God’s morning five years was surrounded by all 13 of her children requests?” the pope asked. way, the divine way, not according to ago, then-Archbishop at the time of her death. Pointing to the Catechism of the what we wanted at that moment. God’s Joseph W. Tobin of Like many mothers of all faiths, Catholic Church, the Holy Father asked time is not our time,” he said. Indianapolis would like many mothers of her generation— his listeners to think more deeply about “Evil is lord of the penultimate day,” kneel in front of including my own mother and my why they demand to see the results Pope Francis said, “the moment when Pope Francis and be mother-in-law—Mrs. Tobin lived her of their petitions: “What is the image the night is darkest, just before the installed as a cardinal life as a celebration of God and family, of God that motivates our prayer: an dawn” when it is so tempting to believe in the Church, but and the two were so intertwined as to be instrument to be used? Or the Father of the devil has won. in the moments before that ceremony, he indistinguishable. our Lord Jesus Christ?” (#2375) But, the pope continued, “the evil was a son anxiously waiting for his then- On that momentous day in Rome, This passage, he noted, warns one is never lord of the last day. God is 93-year-old mother to arrive—wanting to Mrs. Tobin focused on the extraordinary people to avoid “the risk of not living the Lord of the last day. Because that know that she was there for him, wanting moments that occur in many families. She an authentic experience of faith, but of belongs to God alone, and it is the day to make sure she was doing well after she shared with me how she had been blessed transforming the relationship with God when all human longings for salvation had endured a trip across the ocean to to marry her late husband Joe, how they into something magical. will be fulfilled. share in this celebration of the oldest of her both wanted to create a large family, a “Prayer is not a magic wand,” Pope “Let us learn this humble patience, to 13 children. family based on the foundations of faith Francis said. “It is a dialogue with the await the Lord’s grace, to await the final When he finally saw her arrive in her and love. Lord. Indeed, when we pray, we can give day,” when God solves everything, he said. wheelchair, he moved quickly to her. And “I was a teacher,” she recalled. “I in to the risk of not being the ones to serve Our lives are times of constant soon they were holding hands and sharing wanted a whole roomful of kids. And he God, but of expecting him to serve us. conversion. We cannot sit still if we are a laugh as he knelt beside her. For both loved kids, too.” “When we pray, we need to be to do our Creator’s work. As we renew of them, everything was suddenly right They got their wish, 13 children. And humble” and believe “that God will give our journey of faith each day, may we in the world again. The son was with his when she recalled those days of the 15 of me what is right to give. He knows,” the allow dialogue and humility in prayer to mother. The mother was there for her them together, she did so with a smile. pope said. transform our relationship with God. child. Her oldest son often smiled too when Dialogue and humility. Those two Ceremony and prestige didn’t matter. he recalled those days of growing up in words seem to be an afterthought for —Mike Krokos Family and love did. So did the shared their close-knit Irish family, sometimes belief and knowledge that their lives had See REFLECTION, page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Eucharist is both true bread and true body of Christ A survey conducted by The Pew The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body The Eucharist is genuine communion when I drink it new in the kingdom of Research Center (“What Americans Know and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), with God, the actual coming-together-as- God ’ ” (Mk 14:22-25). about Religion,” Pew Research Study, which we celebrate this Sunday, is an one of Jesus and each one of us. If we are Jesus took the gift of his body and July 2019) concluded that many Catholics opportunity for all of us to rejoice in in a state of sanctifying grace, this amazing blood seriously, and so should we. do not fully understand the fundamental Christ’s miraculous presence among us. gift of Jesus’ body and blood nourishes, The Eucharist is a mystery that none teaching of the Church concerning the real During Mass, when the priest invokes renews and fully prepares us, by the power of us will ever fully comprehend, but we presence of our Lord in the Eucharist. the power of the Holy Spirit, ordinary of the Holy Spirit, to love God and to love Catholics are invited (and challenged) to According to this research, nearly seven bread and wine are changed into the body our neighbor. Together with the sacraments accept that Christ is really present in this in 10 Catholics (69%) believe that the and blood of Christ. The Eucharist is not of baptism, confirmation and penance, great sacrament. bread and wine we receive during holy simply a symbolic remembrance of past the Eucharist makes it possible for us to Our reception of the body and blood Communion are merely symbols of the events. It is an actual manifestation (an receive our Lord with a clean heart and of Christ should never be passive or body and blood of Christ. Therefore, this epiphany) of God’s communion with us to accept his invitation to be missionary indifferent. The more we appreciate the study concludes, just under one-third of here and now. disciples in service to others. magnificent gift that we receive each U.S. Catholics (31%) believe that during When we receive the Eucharist, The Gospel reading for Corpus time we go to Communion, the more Mass the bread and wine actually become Jesus himself comes into our minds, our Christi Sunday (Mk 14:12-16, 22-26) we ourselves truly become the body and the body and blood of Jesus and that the hearts and our bodies. He lives within us, affirms that Jesus himself performed this blood of Christ called to share his love and sacrament we receive truly is Christ’s providing spiritual nourishment and filling transformation of ordinary bread and wine goodness with others. actual gift of himself to us. us with the power of his grace. The fact into his own flesh and blood: As we prepare to celebrate the solemn There are those who question these that this happens each time we receive the “While they were eating, feast of Christ’s body and blood this survey findings because of the way the Eucharist is a miracle of God’s amazing he took bread, said the blessing, weekend, let’s reflect prayerfully on its questions were asked. Ordinary Catholics love and goodness that we should never broke it, gave it to them, and said, meaning for us and for our world. Christ should not be expected to know the take for granted. ‘Take it; this is my body.’ is present to us in the most intimate way technical terms used by the Church to Our reception of holy Communion Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and possible. He becomes one with us so that describe this great mystery. But most should be a grateful, loving encounter gave it to them, we can become one with our sisters and pastors and religious educators agree with Jesus. When we receive our Lord in and they all drank from it. brothers everywhere. that we have much work to do to help the Eucharist, he becomes one with us, He said to them, “I am the living bread that came down Catholics better understand and appreciate and we become one with him in the same ‘This is my blood of the covenant, from heaven, says the Lord; whoever eats the transformation of bread and wine into “holy moment” (sacra-mentum). This which will be shed for many. this bread will live forever” (Jn 6:51). May Christ’s body and blood which is freely is not merely a symbolic unity, since a Amen, I say to you,I shall not drink we never take this great gift—and this given to us in the holy Eucharist. sacrament is what it signifies. again the fruit of the vine until the day awesome responsibility—for granted. †

La Eucaristía es a la vez verdadero pan y el verdadero cuerpo de Cristo

Una encuesta realizada por la transformación del pan y el vino en (sacra-mentum). No se trata de una en el reino de Dios’ ” (Mc 14:22-25). firma The Pew Research Center el cuerpo y la sangre de Cristo que unidad meramente simbólica, ya que un Jesús asumió con seriedad la entrega (“What Americans Know about se nos entrega libremente en la santa sacramento es lo que significa. de su cuerpo y su sangre, y nosotros Religion” [Lo que saben los Eucaristía. La Eucaristía es la auténtica también deberíamos hacerlo. estadounidenses sobre religión], La Solemnidad del Santísimo comunión con Dios, la unión real La Eucaristía es un misterio estudio de investigación de Pew, Cuerpo y Sangre de Cristo (Corpus de Jesús con cada uno de nosotros. que ninguno de nosotros llegará julio de 2019) concluyó que muchos Christi), que celebramos este domingo, Si estamos en estado de gracia a comprender del todo, pero a los católicos no comprenden plenamente es un momento para alegrarnos con santificante, este asombroso don del católicos se nos invita (¡y se nos la enseñanza fundamental de la la milagrosa presencia de Cristo entre cuerpo y la sangre de Jesús nos nutre, desafía!) a aceptar que Cristo está Iglesia sobre la presencia real de nosotros. renueva y prepara plenamente, por el realmente presente en este gran nuestro Señor en la Eucaristía. Durante la misa, cuando el poder del Espíritu Santo, sacramento. Según esta investigación, casi siete sacerdote invoca el poder del Espíritu para amar a Dios y al prójimo. Junto Nuestra recepción del cuerpo y la de cada diez católicos (69%) creen Santo, el pan y el vino ordinarios con los sacramentos del bautismo, sangre de Cristo nunca debe ser pasiva que el pan y el vino que recibimos se transforman en el cuerpo y la la confirmación y la penitencia, la o indiferente. Cuanto más apreciemos durante la Santa Cena son meros sangre de Cristo. La Eucaristía no es Eucaristía nos permite recibir al Señor el magnífico regalo que recibimos símbolos del cuerpo y la sangre de simplemente un recuerdo simbólico con un corazón limpio y aceptar su cada vez que comulgamos, más nos Cristo. Por lo tanto, concluye este de acontecimientos pasados, sino una invitación a ser discípulos misioneros al convertiremos nosotros mismos en el estudio, únicamente un tercio de los manifestación real (una epifanía) de servicio de los demás. cuerpo y la sangre de Cristo llamados a católicos estadounidenses (el 31%) la comunión de Dios con nosotros La lectura del Evangelio del compartir su amor y su bondad con los cree que durante la misa el pan y aquí y ahora. domingo del Corpus Christi (Mc 14:12- demás. el vino se convierten realmente en Cuando recibimos la Eucaristía, 16,22-26) afirma que Jesús mismo Mientras nos preparamos para el cuerpo y la sangre de Jesús y Jesús mismo entra en nuestras realizó esta transformación del pan y celebrar la solemne fiesta del cuerpo que el sacramento que recibimos es mentes, nuestros corazones y nuestros el vino ordinarios en su propia carne y y la sangre de Cristo este fin de realmente la entrega real de Cristo a cuerpos. Él vive dentro de nosotros, sangre: semana, reflexionemos en oración nosotros. proporcionando alimento espiritual y “Mientras comían, sobre su significado para nosotros Hay quienes cuestionan los llenándonos con el poder de su gracia. tomó pan, y habiéndolo bendecido y para nuestro mundo. Cristo está resultados de esta encuesta por la El hecho de que esto ocurra cada lo partió, se lo dio a ellos, y dijo: presente para nosotros de la manera forma en que se formularon las vez que recibimos la Eucaristía es ‘Tomen, esto es Mi cuerpo,’ más íntima: se hace uno con nosotros preguntas. No se debe esperar que el un milagro del asombroso amor y la Y tomando una copa, después de para que podamos hacernos uno con católico común conozca los términos bondad de Dios que nunca deberíamos dar gracias, se la dio a ellos, nuestros hermanos y hermanas de todo técnicos que emplea la Iglesia para dar por sentado. y todos bebieron de ella. el mundo. describir este gran misterio, pero la Recibir la Sagrada Comunión debe Y les dijo: “Yo soy el pan vivo que descendió mayoría de los pastores y educadores ser un encuentro agradecido y amoroso ‘Esto es Mi sangre del nuevo pacto, del cielo; si alguien come de este religiosos están de acuerdo en que con Jesús. Cuando recibimos al Señor que es derramada por muchos. pan, vivirá para siempre” (Jn 6:51). tenemos mucho trabajo por hacer en la Eucaristía, Él se hace uno con En verdad les digo, Que nunca demos por sentado este para que los católicos lleguen a nosotros, y nosotros nos hacemos uno que ya no beberé más del fruto de la gran obsequio y esta maravillosa comprender y apreciar mejor la con Él en el mismo “momento santo” vid hasta aquel día cuando lo beba nuevo responsabilidad. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021

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June 7, 14, 21, 28 St. Anthony Hall, Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. Faithful Citizens Rosary raffles, adult and children’s St. Paul Chapel, 216 St. Therese of the Child Mt. St. Francis. Penny Sisto’s Information: 317-574-8898 or Walk, 10:45-11:45 a.m., games, beer garden, free Schellers Ave., Sellersburg. Jesus (Little Flower) Parish Spirit of Love Exhibit and www.catholiccemeteries.cc. meet in front of church. admission. Information. First Saturday Marian Center, St. Therese Room, reception, 6-8 p.m., meet Information: faithful. 812-663-4754 or Devotion, 8 a.m. rosary, 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. fabric artist Penny Sisto and June 19 [email protected]. [email protected]. meditation, prayer; 8:30 a.m. Soulcore Rosary Workout, view her artwork, refreshments St. Michael Parish, Mass with confessions prior. 6:30-7:15 p.m., prayer and served, free. Information: 145 St. Michael Road., Virtual Dialogue on July 2 Information: 812-246-3522. exercise, free. Information: 812-923-8817, Brookville. Fried Chicken Intercultural Competency, Women’s Care Center, 4901 317-727-1167, joane632003@ mountsaintfrancis.org/ Dinner and Festival, 1-6 p.m., via Zoom, sponsored by W. 86th St., Indianapolis. First St. Michael Church, 145 yahoo.com or soulcore.com. penny-sisto. walk-up, carryout or drive archdiocesan Black Catholic Friday Mass, 5 p.m., optional St. Michael Blvd., Brookville. thru, $12, includes 1/2 chicken, Ministry, 10 a.m., “The tour of center to follow. First Saturday Marian June 7-30 June 11-July 9 noodles with gravy, coleslaw, Catholic Church: Do Black Information: 317-829-6800, Devotional Prayer Group, Hats Off to Spring Mount Saint Francis green beans, bread and pie; Lives Really Matter,” Deacon www.womenscarecenter.org. Mass, devotional prayers, St. Augustine Home Guild Center for Spirituality, mega money raffle, silent Royce Winters, Archdiocese rosary, 8 a.m. Information: virtual fundraiser, donate to 101 St. Anthony Dr., auction, teacher’s basket of Cincinnati director of Our Lady of the Greenwood 765-647-5462. Little Sisters of the Poor St. Anthony Hall, raffle, free admission, African American Pastoral Church, 335 S. Meridian St., St. Augustine Home for Mt. St. Francis. Penny Sisto’s 4 p.m. Mass with Archbishop Ministries, facilitating, freewill Greenwood. First Friday July 4 the Aged. Information Spirit of Love Exhibit, Charles C. Thompson. offering. Registration: cutt.ly/ bilingual celebration of the Fairbanks Park (near fishing and donation link: cutt.ly/ exhibition of the work of Information: 765-647-5462 or VDIC. Information: Pearlette Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, dock), 1100 Girl Scout Ln., HatsOfftoSpring or mail fabric artist Penny Sisto, brookvilleparishes@ Springer, pspringer@ Mass, 5:45 p.m., exposition of Terre Haute. Wabash Valley checks made out to hours: Mon., Wed. and gmail.com. archindy.org or 317-236-1474. the Blessed Sacrament, following Rubber Duck Regatta, St. Augustine Home Guild to Sat. 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament 7 p.m., benefitting Catholic Tricia Damler, 11813 Fri. 4-7 p.m., free. Hawthorn Park, 6067 June 27 of reconciliation available. Charities, $5 per duck, owner Rolling Springs Dr., Carmel, Information: 812-923-8817 or E. Old Maple Ave, Terre St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Information: 317-750-7309, of winning duck wins $10,000 IN 46033. mountsaintfrancis.org/ Haute. Quick Quack 5K & St. Maurice campus, 1963 [email protected]. cash and chance to win penny-sisto. 15K Trail Races for Adults, Saint John St., Greensburg. $1,000,000. Information and June 8 1-mile Waddle/Walk/Run Parish Festival, 10 a.m.- July 3 duck adoption: duckrace.com/ Church of the Immaculate June 12 for Kids, 8 a.m., benefitting 7 p.m., chicken dinners, St. John Paul II Parish, terrehaute. † Conception, 1 Sisters of All Saints Parish St. John Catholic Charities; awards Providence, Saint Mary- Campus, 25743 State Route 1, given for top male and female of-the-Woods. St. Mary- Guilford. Marriage finishers (by age), top 15K of-the-Woods. “The Spirit Retreat: It Takes Two to Team, Best Dressed Adult, Breathes” monthly Taizé Tango, 6-9 p.m., Troy and Best Dressed Kid in the Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., Kathleen Billings presenting, Waddle, Walk, Run; $15-$60. silent and spoken prayers, free, register by June 10. Information and registration: simple music, silence, virtual Information: 812-576-4302 or 812-232-1447, opt. 3, or option available at cutt.ly/ [email protected]. quickquack.itsyourrace.com. edding Taize. Information: 812-535- W 2952, [email protected]. June 16 June 23 ANNIVERSARIES Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, McGowan Hall Knights of June 10-12 435 W. Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Columbus, 1305 N. Delaware Our Lady of the Greenwood, Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. St., Indianapolis. Theology 335 S. Meridian St., Information: 317-784-4439 or on Tap, sponsored by  Greenwood. Parish Festival, www.catholiccemeteries.cc. archdiocesan Young Adult and Lester and Elvira Richard Thurs. 5-11 p.m., Fri. 5 p.m.- College Campus Ministry, Lester and Elvira (Nicastro) Richard, midnight, Sat. 2 p.m.- June 17 speaker series for young members of St. John Paul II Parish in Sellersburg, midnight, rides, food, St. Joseph Church, 1401 adults ages 18-39, every other will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on entertainment, outdoor Monte S. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Wednesday through Aug. 18, June 6. Carlo, beer tent, children’s Third Thursday Adoration, free. Information on speakers The couple was married in St. Mary of the games, free admission. interceding for women and topics: indycatholic.org/ Annunciation Church in Montgomery, W.Va., on Information: 317-888-2861 or experiencing crisis pregnancy, theology-on-tap. Questions: June 6, 1951. [email protected]. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at 317-236-1542. They have four children: Teresa, Andrew, David 5:45 p.m. and Jerome Richard. June 11 June 26 The couple also has seven grandchildren and one Mount Saint Francis Our Lady of Peace Cemetery Our Lady of the Most Holy great-grandchild. † Center for Spirituality, and Mausoleum, 9001 Rosary Church, 520 101 St. Anthony Dr., Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Stevens St., Indianapolis. Wedding Anniversary Mass set for Aug. 29 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Robert and Della Hoereth  Each year, the archdiocesan Office awarded to couples celebrating 25, 50 or Robert and Della (Cotter) Hoereth, of Marriage and Family Life honors 60 years—or more—of marriage in 2021. members of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, couples celebrating their wedding A reception will follow in Assembly celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on anniversaries. This year’s Mass will Hall at the Archbishop Edward June 3. honor all married couples. It will take T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 The couple was married in St. Lawrence Church place at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, N. Meridian St. in Indianapolis on June 3, 1961. 1347 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, The event is free of charge, but They have four children: Diane Metz, Susan, at 2 p.m. on Aug. 29. Archbishop registration is required by Aug. 8, and Anthony and Thomas Hoereth. Charles C. Thompson will be the seating is limited. The couple also has three grandchildren. † principal celebrant. Online registration is available at All married couples are invited to www.archindy.org/weddingcelebrations. attend the Mass, in which they will For questions, contact Claudia participate in renewing their wedding Corona at 317-236-7310 or corona@ vows. A certificate of recognition will be archindy.org. †  Post-abortion healing retreat planned in Joseph and Lucy Cahill Joseph and Lucy (Ritter) Indianapolis area on July 30-Aug. 1 Cahill, members of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, The archdiocesan Office of Human By offering a safe place for those will celebrate their 50th wedding Life and Dignity is hosting a Rachel’s suffering to be reconciled with God anniversary on June 12. Vineyard Healing Retreat in the greater and his Church, Project Rachel The couple was married in Indianapolis area from 6 p.m. on helps those suffering after abortion St. Matthew the Apostle Church in July 30 through 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 1. experience mercy, forgiveness and Indianapolis on June 12, 1971. The exact location of the retreat will peace. They have six children: Emily be given upon registration. The cost is $175, but assistance is Hines, Karen, Sara, Christopher, Mike The retreat extends God’s available—cost is never an issue for and Patrick Cahill. unconditional love and forgiveness to those who wish to attend the retreat. The couple also has three women and men, family members and To register, call 317-452-0054 or grandchildren. † friends who experience the tragedy of e-mail [email protected]. abortion. It is offered by Project Rachel, For additional information about the a compassionate and confidential Project Rachel post-abortion healing Announcements for couples celebrating 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or more years ministry for post-abortion healing. ministry visit cutt.ly/projectrachel. † of marriage are accepted. Go to bit.ly/2M4MQms or call 317-236-1585. The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 7

Magnet priests and nuns meant to encourage prayer for vocations

By Sean Gallagher “The goal is to put vocations in front of people, to remind people of the need The first weekend of June is to be praying for vocations, especially to ordinarily when men are ordained priests the priesthood and religious life,” Father for the Church in central and southern Keucher said. “It puts vocations in the Indiana. There will be no ordinations home, because homes will have a priest this year, however, because the or a nun on its refrigerator door. It’ll archdiocese does not have seminarians be seen every day by everybody in the at present who have completed their house.” priestly formation. But a lot of work was needed to But Catholics in parishes across the accomplish that goal if the magnets of archdiocese will be given reminders priests and nuns were to be distributed this weekend to pray regularly for in faith communities across central and an increase in priestly and religious southern Indiana. vocations. That’s where Gaye McKinney arrived. The reminders are handcrafted, One of Father Keucher’s parishioners miniature priests and nuns that can serve at St. Joseph, McKinney developed a as refrigerator magnets. plan to make the magnets quickly and It’s the idea of Father Michael inexpensively. Keucher, archdiocesan vocations “Being a grandmother, I have a director and pastor of St. Joseph Parish refrigerator full of my grandkids’ in Shelbyville. He has been impressed drawings and notes,” she said. “So, I at how Chick Fil-A restaurants have thought, ‘Why don’t we just put them up given away toy soldiers to customers on refrigerators?’ Everybody at one point A miniature priest and nun refrigerator magnets are displayed on a refrigerator. In an initiative around Veterans Day to encourage them or another during the day goes to their of the archdiocesan vocations office, 30,000 of them have been crafted and will be distributed in to remember those who serve in our refrigerator. It’s a great reminder to pray parishes across central and southern Indiana as a reminder to Catholics to pray for priestly and country’s armed forces. for priestly and religious vocations.” religious vocations. (Submitted photo) He thought something similar could The miniature priests and nuns are be done for priestly and religious made of tongue depressors or wooden to help promote vocations, especially Many volunteers in Shelbyville have vocations. pegs, felt, hot glue and magnetic tape. A to priesthood and religious life,” said spent several hours a day making the permanent black marker puts a face on Father Todd Goodson, Our Lady of the magnets. McKinney said the gathering the priests and nuns. There is also a card Greenwood’s pastor. “I hope that we can of the volunteers has been faith-filled. on each one that offers a reminder to continue to partner with the vocations “We pause every work session to pray pray for priestly and religious vocations office and assist them with its needs.” the Angelus,” she said. “There’s such a and has the address for the archdiocese’s Dozens of volunteers at St. Joseph, sense of community. We talk about our vocations website. other archdiocesan parishes and priests from our past, seminarians who “Each one has a distinct personality, organizations like the Indianapolis Serra have been here and all the remarkable depending on the artist drawing the Club have pitched in to help make the things that our faith does. It goes beyond face,” McKinney said. “Some look like miniature priests and nuns. the scope of just getting together and they’re in prayer. We have some very Mary Dougherty is a member of having fun. You can feel the presence of jovial priests [too].” Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in faith and spirit in that workroom.” Each miniature priest or nun costs Indianapolis and of the Indianapolis Father Keucher has been amazed by about 8 cents and takes about 4 minutes Serra Club. She and other volunteers the way that Catholics at his parish and to make. have been making refrigerator magnet well beyond have pitched in to make his Although the cost was low, Father priests and nuns, and hopes to distribute idea of encouraging people to pray for Keucher wanted 30,000 of the miniature them in the parishes of the Indianapolis priestly and religious vocations a reality. priests and nuns, so about $4,000 was North Deanery. “It’s exciting to see so many needed for supplies. “We’re part of something that’s much people jump on board to help the Funding came from the Donald bigger,” said Dougherty. “I’m amazed at vocations efforts of the archdiocese,” L. Mezepella Endowment Fund how many people that [Father Keucher] he said. “People are excited. They want Clare Delaney, a member of St. Joseph Parish for Vocations of Our Lady of the got involved doing this. There’s such a vocations. It’s really encouraging.” in Shelbyville, works on creating a miniature Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. need to make people aware of the need priest refrigerator magnet on May 23 at the “It was nice to be able to use the for vocations. If they hang one of these (For more information about vocations Knights of Columbus Hall in Shelbyville. resources for its intended purpose and on their refrigerator, it’s going to be to the priesthood and religious life in the (Submitted photo) assist [Father Keucher] in his mission something to remind them every day.” archdiocese, visit HearGodsCall.com.) †

Pope Francis promulgates revised canon law on crimes, punishments VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A series of laws and said, for bishops, the observance of canon law “can in when drafting a law that will be valid on every continent procedures promulgated by now-retired Pope Benedict no way be separated from the pastoral ‘munus’ [service] and in every culture. XVI and, especially, by Pope Francis to protect children, entrusted to them, and which must be carried out as a In incorporating recent Church law regarding abuse, promote the investigation of allegations of clerical sexual concrete and inalienable requirement of charity not only the new code does not refer to abuse of “vulnerable” abuse and punish offenders are toward the Church, the Christian community and possible adults or “vulnerable persons” as Pope Francis did in his included in a heavily revised section victims, but also toward those who have committed a May 2019 motu proprio, “Vos estis lux mundi.” of the Code of Canon Law. crime, who need both mercy and correction on the part of Bishop Arrieta said the term “vulnerable person,” The revision of “Book VI: Penal the Church.” while understood and recognized in the law of many Sanctions in the Church,” one of Through the years, he said, it became clear that the countries, is not universally accepted as a legal category seven books that make up the code code’s description of crimes and penalties needed to be of persons deserving special protection. Instead, the for the Latin rite of the Catholic “modified in such a way as to allow pastors to use it as new law refers to people whom the law recognizes as Church, was promulgated on June a more agile salvific and corrective instrument, to be deserving of the same protection extended to minors and 1 and will go into effect on Dec. 8, employed promptly and with pastoral charity to avoid those with “an imperfect use of reason.” Pope Francis wrote. more serious evils and to soothe the wounds caused by The revised law also foresees penalties for “a person Pope Francis Rewriting 63 of the book’s 89 human weakness.” who neglects to report an offence, when required to do so canons, the revision addresses a host The revised book was presented to the press on June 1 by a canonical law.” of issues that have come up in the life of the Church by Archbishop Filippo Iannone and Bishop Juan Ignacio Bishop Arrieta said that provision refers to the since St. John Paul II promulgated the code in 1983. The Arrieta, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical obligation to report serious crimes, such as sexual abuse, descriptions of crimes of sexual abuse, including child Council for Legislative Texts. In 2009, Pope Benedict had to Church authorities, not civil authorities. If criminal pornography, are more explicit, and the required actions asked the council to begin the revision project. reporting to the state is obligatory, the state will enforce of a bishop or superior of a religious order in handling The revision moves the canons about the sexual abuse that, he said. allegations are more stringent. of children—on the part of a priest, religious or layperson The revised code also says, “Both a person who The revised canons also include new references to working for the Church—out of the section on violations attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the the attempted ordination of a woman and to a variety of the obligation of celibacy and into a newly titled section woman who attempts to receive the sacred order, incur a of financial crimes; like with the new canons dealing of “Offenses Against Human Life, Dignity and Liberty.” ‘latae sententiae’ [automatic] excommunication reserved with sexual abuse, they rely on language from laws It adds to canon law the crime of “grooming,” calling to the Apostolic See; a cleric, moreover, may be punished promulgated separately during the past 20 years. for penalties, including dismissal from the priesthood for by dismissal from the clerical state.” “In the past, much damage has been caused by a a cleric who “grooms or induces a minor or a person who Given that Pope Francis in April 2020 formed a failure to perceive the intimate relationship existing habitually has an imperfect use of reason or one to whom second “Study Commission on the Female Diaconate,” in the Church between the exercise of charity and the law recognizes equal protection to expose himself or Bishop Arrieta was asked why the revised canon did not recourse—when circumstances and justice require herself pornographically or to take part in pornographic specify priestly ordination, leaving open the possibility of it—to the discipline of sanctions. This way of thinking, exhibitions, whether real or simulated.” ordaining women to the diaconate. as experience has taught us, risks leading to a life of However, the revised language still refers to rape and Canon law, he said, relies on the current state of behavior contrary to the discipline of morals, for the other forms of sexual abuse as “an offence against the the teaching of the Church. “If we come to a different remedy of which exhortations or suggestions alone are Sixth Commandment”—You shall not commit adultery. theological conclusion, we will modify the norm,” he not sufficient,” Pope Francis wrote in “Pascite Gregem The continued use of the Sixth Commandment to refer said, just as was done in January when Pope Francis Dei” (“Shepherd God’s Flock”), the apostolic constitution to any improper, immoral or even criminal sexual activity ordered a change in the wording of canon law so that promulgating the changes. “is traditional” in Church law, Bishop Arrieta said, and women, as well as men, could be formally installed as While Church law applies to all Catholics, the pope for Catholics its meaning “is clear,” which is necessary lectors and acolytes. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 9 Archbishop praises CYO volunteers as being ‘enduring witnesses of Christ’

By John Shaughnessy A lineman making the unnoticed block that springs a The archbishop noted that those principles capture the various opportunities for our young people to develop “about the glory of God,” the archbishop said. running back to a touchdown. essence of the volunteers who were honored during the mind, body and spirit—the entire person. That’s what “Competition is a great thing, but ultimately our goal During an evening celebrating the volunteer spirit of the A setter putting the ball in just the right spot for a kill ceremony at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. we’re always about—lifting up the person, all created in together is to succeed, to be faithful to the Gospel, to Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), Archbishop Charles by an outside hitter. “As Christians, that’s what we’re called to do,” he said. “Be the image of God.” be enduring witnesses to Christ.” he said. “Never giving C. Thompson’s message emphasizing joy, selflessness and All those images came to mind as Archbishop Thompson faithful to our beliefs, our principles. Be true to our character. The archbishop added, “That’s what’s great about up. Rejoicing always, even in the face of hardships and faithfulness evoked images from the world of sports. shared three of his main thoughts during the archdiocese’s Rejoice always. Keep the goal in mind. Work together. “ CYO—working with young people, being part of difficulties. A soccer or basketball player making the extra pass to CYO Volunteer Awards Ceremony on May 4: “Work He noted that the volunteers’ efforts to stay true to something greater than ourselves.” “We have the privilege to represent being Christ-like lead to an easy score by a teammate. together.” “Keep the goal in mind.” “Rejoice always.” those principles “make it possible for us to provide the Even more, it’s about being part of the family of God, to one other.” †

serve with pride as a member of the school’s board of years. With both the boys in Scouting and the girls in 22 boys’ basketball teams, from fourth grade to high CYO expanded to ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams so everyone Coach’s focus is on directors—a position he has also held for the past six basketball, Heath strives to give them opportunities to school. “I tell all the coaches to have sportsmanship and could get to play. I wanted to be on a team so years with the CYO’s board. grow in leadership and develop their character. teach that to their players. I tell the kids, ‘Sports is not badly when I was in grade school. Whenever there providing opportunities “In our Catholic faith, we’re taught to give our time, “There’s too much chance for kids to scoot by,” says going to get you through life. I want to see you get to was a ‘B’ or ‘C’ team that needed a coach, I was talent and treasure. It’s a real honor to give back to a the father of three grown children and the grandfather of college and have a good life. You have to work hard. You there.” and giving back school and an organization that have given me a lot.” † four. “They need to learn to be proud of themselves, their have to earn it. That will make you successful in life.’ ” That dedication has led to Warner being a 2021 team and their Church.” Coaching young people is a passion for Marino, who recipient of the St. John Bosco Award, the highest honor By John Shaughnessy It all adds up to explaining why Heath always comes is also the head coach of the varsity girls’ softball team at the CYO gives a volunteer. back to coach another year. Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis. In his 47 years as a coach, mostly in basketball, “Play hard, play the right way. Have good The quality and character of a person can often be “I enjoy the kids. And there’s the pride that you’ve “I like being around the kids, teaching them, watching he has led teams at St. Simon the Apostle Parish in sportsmanship,” he says. “In all the years that I’ve measured by what he or she chooses to do anonymously. Emotional tribute touched a kid’s life—that you’ve taught them something, them grow, watching them get better,” he explains. Indianapolis, Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech coached, I’ve never had a technical foul. I’m really proud So when a friend nominated Greg Corsaro to receive that you’ve watched them grow, that you’ve watched He emphasizes commitment—a quality he demands of Grove and his home parish of St. Barnabas in of that.” the 2021 St. John Bosco Award—the shows the impact a them develop friendships, that you’ve helped them himself. Indianapolis. Still, his most defining experience may He’s also proud of this reality: “I’ve never had highest honor given to a volunteer develop their character by how they act on and off the “I talk about commitment at the beginning of the have come in coaching a girls’ basketball team at a team that had an attitude that wasn’t a good by the archdiocese’s Catholic Youth coach can make court. That’s something we can do as coaches.” † season. I talk to them about treating other people right, St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis. reflection of our parish and our faith. Faith is Organization (CYO)—the friend focused the way they want to be treated. The only time I allow “Most of the girls had never touched a basketball,” important to me. We always say a prayer before on Corsaro’s quiet acts of generosity: By John Shaughnessy them to miss a practice is because of their education. I recalls Warner’s fellow coach, Theresa Wells-Ditton. the game. I want them to try to live out their faith “Not many people know this, and also don’t let kids play when they’re hurt. I make the “There was also a language barrier with some of the through the game and be examples of our faith Greg would probably be upset with me The emotional tribute to Steve Heath came from one Coach keeps connections kids’ well-being come first, whether that be school or players and their parents. However, there was Jack with through good sportsmanship. for sharing this, but there have been of his former players, offering a poignant example of the their health. his patience and calming demeanor, teaching the girls “Some of my favorite moments were the teams countless examples of Greg proactively impact that coaches can make beyond their sports. “Everything I do is connected to commitment. It’s the basics of basketball, helping to instill confidence that weren’t very talented, but they worked hard to stepping in and making sure kids that “My first year playing CYO high and commitment as key the same way with my faith. I go to church as much in them and showing them how to become great get better. Every player I’ve coached has Greg Corsaro may need help with fees for athletics, school basketball was during the as I can, and I pray every night. I have faith in God in teammates.” been important to me, and I wanted them to equipment, field trips, etc., do not have most difficult time of my young life, themes of his playbook everything he does for me, for my kids, and I carry that That experience capsulizes his approach as a coach. know it.” † to worry about how they might participate. Greg’s extreme and Mr. Heath was my coach,” the through my life.” † generosity to so many has always been done with quiet woman noted. By John Shaughnessy dignity and respect for those in need.” “My dad had just died from cancer, Asked about his approach in such situations, Corsaro and Coach Heath showed me such Matt Marino’s joy shines through when he talks downplayed his efforts, adding that what he tries to do is just kindness and compassion. He was about the two state championships his boys’ teams Disappointing time helps a reflection of his upbringing as a child and his involvement so supportive and had such a calm have won and the two city championships his girls’ CYO recognition highlights volunteer in sports as an athlete and as a coach of more than 20 years. demeanor. In many ways, he displayed teams have earned in basketball in a coach become a great “You see different things in life,” says Corsaro, a Steve Heath the qualities that I missed so much from the archdiocese’s Catholic Youth efforts of adults and youths member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove. my dad—and he set a great Christian Organization (CYO) program. “You see that some kids, due to circumstances beyond example for us all. At that time in my life, he was exactly the Still, he doesn’t mention these blessing for his teams 2021 St. John Bosco Award recipients • St. Thomas Aquinas Parish—Peter Foree and Jeff their control, may not have the opportunity to succeed person that I needed, and I will cherish that forever.” successes until deep in a conversation, Stickel as much as others. No one should be prevented from Bruce Scifres, the executive director of the archdiocese’s long after he has shared what he By John Shaughnessy • Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove—Greg reaching their full potential because of things they don’t Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), shared that tribute when considers the best part of coaching both Corsaro 2021 Spirit of Youth Award recipients have. I’ve tried to help in that way.” he honored Heath as a recipient of the 2021 St. John Bosco the boys’ and girls’ Cadet basketball Sometimes the tough moments in childhood lead • St. Barnabas Parish—Steve Heath and Jack Warner The theme of “opportunity” echoes through a Award—the highest honor the CYO gives a volunteer. teams at St. Simon the Apostle Parish a person to make a dramatic difference in the lives of • St. Simon the Apostle Parish—Matt Marino • Good Shepherd Parish—Wyatt Ward conversation with Corsaro. For Heath, hearing that tribute was a crowning moment in Indianapolis for the past 22 years. others as an adult. • Holy Name of Jesus Parish—Keigan Miller and His voice fills with joy when he talks about in his 27 years of coaching basketball at his home parish Matt Marino “My favorite thing is just gaining When now-65-year-old Jack 2021 Msgr. Albert Busald Award recipients Luke Monroe coaching—his favorite part being teaching fundamentals of St. Barnabas in Indianapolis. The tribute was also a the friendships. I’ve met tons of nice Warner was in the seventh and • Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish—Jameson to 5- and 6-year-olds. And a father’s love fills his reflection of his priority as a coach—building relationships. people through this. That’s the most rewarding part,” eighth grades at St. Therese of • Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish—Marq Boggs Browne comments about having the opportunity to coach his “That really got to me,” he says about hearing that Marino says. “When I walk into church with my kids, the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) and Mike Caskey • Providence Cristo Rey High School—Jackie three now-grown children in their younger days. tribute. “Just to think you’ve touched someone that much. people are saying ‘Hi’ to me and reaching out to me. My School in Indianapolis, he wasn’t • Holy Name of Jesus Parish—Sissy Curd Hughey and Isaiah Kimp “It’s not just the time you were coaching them, it’s As a coach, you want to be part of their lives for the few kids say, ‘You know everybody here.’ ” viewed as good enough to play • Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish—John • St. Mark the Evangelist Parish—Katie Cleary and the time you were with them, to and from practices and years you have them. You get to know them, and they Marino is also known for caring about his players for the only basketball team that Newett Sam Runholt games. That’s the best thing about it.” get to know you. You want to make sure they’re learning beyond their abilities in basketball. In nominating him the school had back then in the • Our Lady of Lourdes Parish—Erin Bakemeyer • St. Roch Parish—Sophia Andrews, Ava Carothers, That depth of emotion is also revealed when he talks something, they’re having fun, they enjoy coming to for the 2021 St. John Bosco Award—the highest honor Catholic Youth Organization • St. Barnabas Parish—Sean Boyle and Jaime Moran Isabelle Littell and Joseph Luttrell about his marriage of 34 years to his wife, Susie: “She’s practice, and they feel they can talk to you. the CYO gives a volunteer—one parent described him as (CYO) league. Yet his being “cut” • St. Mark the Evangelist Parish—Michelle Goss and • St. Rose of Lima Parish in Franklin—Ryan Henry the best person I’ve ever known.” “I’ve been invited to a lot of graduation parties. When “an amazing role model for our kids,” noting that Marino Jack Warner in tryouts has turned into a great Bryan Stonecipher They met when they were both star you’ve touched their lives enough for them to ask you to pays “genuine attention” to developing them as students blessing for all the teams he has • St. Matthew the Apostle Parish—Greg Bowers 2021 Edward J. Tinder CYO Official of the student-athletes at Roncalli High School in come, that means a lot to me.” and people as much as athletes. coached for the past 47 years. • St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield—Tony Olejnik Year Award recipient Indianapolis. And Corsaro’s memories of So does his involvement in helping to lead the “Sportsmanship is number one with me,” says Marino, “I knew there were a lot of kids like me who • St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) his time at Roncalli have led him to Boy Scouts program at St. Barnabas for more than 20 who also serves as the coordinator for all of St. Simon’s wanted to play,” Warner says. “I was really glad when Parish—Lynda Trimble • St. Pius X Parish—Bill Farney

The write stuff: Catholic school students win this year’s national handwriting contest Pope dedicates June prayers WASHINGTON (CNS)—In our modern, To be in the contest, students first had The winners’ teachers also received the nine semifinalists and a Catholic school Andrea D’Emic, principal of St. Edmund’s they live in and they need to be proficient, for soon-to-be newlyweds high-tech society, it turns out some students to win best in their grade in their school’s personalized certificates. student was one of two winners in the Elementary School in Brooklyn, the school but there are also skills that we shouldn’t still have good penmanship. And the handwriting contest. These winners advanced Zaner-Bloser is a Columbus, Ohio-based category for students with special needs. On of this year’s fifth grade national handwriting be neglecting as we focus on technology,” VATICAN CITY (CNS)—While said. “It is a vocation that is born from the winners of this year’s Zaner-Bloser National to state competitions, and state winners company that started as a penmanship school the state level, Catholic school students won champion, Caitlyn Ngo, couldn’t be prouder she told Catholic News Service on May 25. uncertainty in the world may deter young heart, it is a conscious lifelong decision Handwriting Contest, announced this May, moved on to the national competition, where and now produces educational materials, the top writing spots in more than 30 states. of the winning student’s handwriting. In Caitlyn’s contest entry, she said couples from taking the next big step in that requires a specific preparation. have very good penmanship. judges selected nine grade-level national including, of course, handwriting lessons. Lisa Carmona, president of Zaner- She said the school, which has often writing cursive helps her to read and write their relationships, the vocational call “Please, never forget! God has a dream Students’ entries were judged by how champions and nine semifinalists. In a time when handwriting almost seems Bloser, said Catholic school students often had a state winner in the contest, would this style of writing. “It is also important to marriage is a risk worth taking, Pope for us—love—and he asks us to make it they wrote: “The quick brown fox jumps In this year’s contest, three students from a lost art, the students awarded for their win this contest. have liked to honor their winning student for when you grow up,” she said. Francis said. our own,” the pope said. over the lazy dog.” Catholic schools won the grand national perfect loops and curves would surely make “We have found that Catholic schools during a school assembly. Due to COVID-19 The Brooklyn principal sees it fitting Marriage “is a challenging journey, At the start of each month, the Pope’s That sentence has been the standard championship as the top writers for their the monks of the Middle Ages—known for and Catholic school parents really put a protocols though, the school is not having that Catholic schools in general continue to at times difficult, sometimes even Worldwide Prayer Network posts a short criteria in the educational company’s annual grade level. The winners were: Rhys Acas, copying manuscripts by hand—proud. high level of importance on foundational assemblies this year and instead announced teach handwriting, calling it an example of confrontational, but it is worth the risk,” video of the pope offering his specific handwriting contest for the past 30 years a kindergarten student at St. Thomas More The contest itself also shows that more skills for their students,” she said, stressing Caitlyn’s win on the public address system’s our “philosophy and mission to provide a the pope said. “And in this lifelong journey, prayer intention. because it contains every letter of the alphabet. Catholic School in Elgin, Ill.; Caitlyn Ngo, students are writing old school—with pen that handwriting is one of these skills that is morning announcements after prayers. comprehensive education program.” the husband and wife are not alone: Jesus Reciting his intention, the pope prayed The judges examine the letters in each a fifth-grader at St. Edmund Elementary and paper—than one might think, since important for reading, writing and language. D’Emic said handwriting is part of She said the schools want to prepare accompanies them.” for “young people preparing for marriage of these nine words carefully, eyeing the School in Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Soldae more than 75,000 entries were submitted The ability to write by hand is a life skill, the school’s curriculum for students in students for college and careers, and “the In a video message released by the with the support of a Christian community, shape, size, spacing and slant to determine Givens, an eighth-grader at St. Benedict the just this year. In a nod to technology, this she added, especially in this digital age. kindergarten through sixth grade, and more we offer them, the better prepared they Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network on so that they may grow in love, generosity, the best elementary school handwriting Moor School in Pittsburgh. year the entry forms could be submitted She also said the talent is a form of artistic she is a big advocate of it, saying studies are.” Plus, it scores points with grandparents. June 1, the pope offered his prayer faithfulness and patience.” across the country. These winners received a trophy and electronically. expression, noting that “when children have shown that it helps students develop Carmona said handwriting has recently intention for the month of June, which he The Pope Video was first launched Students in kindergarten through second $500, and their schools received a $1,000 This competition also shows that struggle to express themselves and find their cognitive thinking skills. had ebbs and flows, but in the past few dedicated to “the beauty of marriage.” in 2016 to encourage people to join an grade submit manuscript or print entries in the Zaner-Bloser product voucher and a Catholic schools have kept the tradition voice, handwriting gives them an outlet.” She The students turn in papers the old- years she has seen a renewed interest in it. Acknowledging the belief that young estimated 50 million Catholics who already contest, while students in grades three through certificate of achievement handcrafted of teaching cursive writing at a time when sees this in the answers students give in their fashioned way to demonstrate their During the pandemic, for example, there people “do not want to get married, had a more formal relationship with the eight submit cursive entries. They also were by Michael Sull, known as a master many public schools across the country contest entries; many say it is an art form and handwriting skills, but they also submit was a resurgence in writing letters. especially in these difficult times,” the prayer network—better known by its asked to answer, in their best penmanship, penman. Sull literally wrote the book on have dropped this requirement. a way to express themselves. assignments electronically with Google “It became a thing,” she said, as young pope said that marriage and sharing one’s former title, the Apostleship of Prayer. how their handwriting makes them a better penmanship with his 2018 publication: The Along with the three top-place winners, Winners through the years have gone on Classroom and Google Docs. people realized their grandmothers would life “is a beautiful thing. The prayer network is more than 170 reader and writer and why this is important. Art of Cursive Penmanship. four Catholic school students placed among to be artists or designers and also doctors. “Technical skills are vital in the world love to get handwritten notes. † “Marriage is not just a ‘social’ act,” he years old. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Learn how to find victory REFLECTION in ‘losing,’ pope tells athletes continued from page 4 VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A real winner Manchester City finished first in humorously adding, “We learned to knows how to find victory even in losing, England’s Premiere League this season, its live with diversity because it’s hard to Pope Francis told a group of athletes. seventh championship win, but it lost the be selfish if you have one bathroom in Facing defeat with “maturity,” he said, European UEFA Champions League final on the house and eight sisters.” “helps you grow, helps you understand May 29, coming in second behind Chelsea. Yet it was also a family touched that, in life, not everything is sweet, not Rival fans mocked Guardiola on social by tragedy when her husband died at everything is about winning.” media for kissing the runners-up medal as 54 of a heart attack that he suffered In an audience at the Vatican on he stepped down from the podium. after helping people stranded in a May 31 with a delegation from the Pope Francis, however, praised the blizzard. Suddenly, she was a single Italian Basketball Federation, which was gesture, saying, “when a sportsman, a mother of 13 children, one of them Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin spends time celebrating its 100th anniversary, the pope sportswoman knows how to ‘win defeat’ 5 and another one 6. Still, on that with his mother Marie on Nov. 19, 2016, highlighted the importance of having the with dignity, with humanity, with a big day in Rome, she didn’t talk about the day he was installed into the College right attitude about losing. heart, this is a real award, a true human the heartbreak or the struggles she of Cardinals, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the The pope said he had just heard victory.” faced as a single mother. Instead, she Vatican. (File photo by John Shaughnessy) about somebody whose team got second During the audience, the pope shared her belief that her husband place and yet, the person still kissed the encouraged the members of the basketball was there with her through it all. the faith in God and family that she runners-up medal. federation to see they have a “noble” duty “He’s here,” she said. “He’s had helped nurture in them, relying on “Usually when people come in second, to promote healthy play and competition residing in heaven. He’s looking down the faith in God and family that she they’ve got a long face,” and there is the among children and young adults. on us every day. He’s been taking care lived every day. temptation to toss aside the medal, he said. “Help young people look up high, to of us for 40 years since he’s been in She once described her life in this However, “this man kissed the medal never give up, to discover that life is a heaven. I never felt I was raising the way, “I’ve led an ordinary life of a and this teaches us that even in defeat journey made up of losses and victories, kids alone. mother, and I just appreciate that God there can be victory,” he said, referring but that the important thing is to never lose “An old Redemptorist priest told planted me here and wanted this gift to Josep “Pep” Guardiola, the soccer the desire to ‘be in the game,’ ” he said. me when he died, ‘One of you had to for me. The Seven Sorrows of Mary manager of England’s Premier League “Help them to understand that when in be in heaven because your kids will be have been so close to me. Mary didn’t club Manchester City. life ‘you don’t make the basket,’ you have all over the world someday.’ And that’s lie down—she wasn’t prostrate—in Guardiola is considered one of the not lost for good. You can always get back been true. Their work has taken them front of the Cross. She stood there with greatest managers of all time, holding on the court, you can still be a team with all over.” her Son, and isn’t that what we all have records for the most consecutive league the others and you can take another shot,” As much as she was proud of her to do?” games won in Spain, Germany and England. the pope said. † oldest son that day, she was equally On a day in Rome five years filled with joy that 12 of her 13 ago—a day when her oldest son knelt children were together in Rome—the next to her, a day when she smiled only one missing had a scheduled about the continuing presence of her surgery. husband, a day when so much of her ‘Help young people look up high, to never give “I would go anywhere in the world family surrounded her—she offered up, to discover that life is a journey made up to be where my children are,” she said. another thought about her life: of losses and victories, but that the important Someone once remarked to her, “Thank you, thank you. God is very thing is to never lose the desire to “be in the “Mrs. Tobin, how wonderful—13 good to me.” children and they all went to college!” Her words mark the celebration of a game.” ’ She replied, “How wonderful—13 life lived for God and family. —Pope Francis children and they all practice their faith!” On the day of her death, all 13 of (John Shaughnessy is assistant editor her children were with her, relying on of The Criterion.) † INSPIRED BY WHAT MOVES YOU. And by moving you toward less pain. Total joint replacement, now offered in a Same-Day Surgery setting, has helped thousands of people get their quality of life back. Our expert team of surgeons, nurses and therapists is inspired to keep you doing the activities you love. Franciscan Health Mooresville, home to the Center for Hip & Knee Surgery, is honored to be ranked #1 Hospital in Indiana for patient safety in Joint Replacement by CareChex, an information service of Qantros, Inc. 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A cozy sweater. A question about life’s direction. A toothbrush, toothpaste. A pandemic-weary heart. Along with everyday items, people making retreats often “pack” questions or concerns that they hope to engage with during their time in quiet, away. These vary from person to person, influenced by personal experience, present concerns and even, perhaps, anxiety about personal piety or “worthiness.” The type of retreat can frame questions, too. A preached, group retreat might focus on a particular topic about faith or spirituality, whereas a self-directed retreat might provide less structure and more spiritual breathing room. But whether it is a 30-day Ignatian experience or a weekend of faith exploration, one of the blessings of a retreat is that neither the packing nor the person making the “getaway with God” need be perfect. Unexpected peace, new forms of prayer, insight, relaxation and reflection—these and other, less tangible objects can bring the retreatant, however imperfect, into a profoundly rich experience. “Retreats aren’t just for pious people. They’re for people trying to find God in their lives, in whatever clumsy or bumbling way. You don’t have to be perfect to walk in the retreat door,” says Jesuit Father William Campbell, director of Gonzaga Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Mass. Father Christopher Sullivan elevates a monstrance during eucharistic adoration on July 18, 2020, at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. “Once the person is here, we begin during a weeklong retreat for high school and college students. Retreats can be a time to “relax in the Lord,” says Benedictine Father Patrick Sheridan. from a place of Ignatian spirituality,” (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Father Campbell says. “We’ll often ask the directee or retreatant, ‘Why perspective. religious order’s spirituality, however Yavarone, director of spirituality at the are you here? What’s the desire within “In general,” says Father Campbell, brief the stay, can open new avenues center, says, adding that the pandemic you that’s prompted you to make the “you are entering a space that I hope for personal spiritual development. has also surfaced different themes. retreat? In the midst of this desire, who has been set up to be welcoming “We have many Catholics who “There is more stress and anxiety. is God for you, now?’ ” and an environment that will be are practicing,” says Father Patrick. To go somewhere by oneself with He added, “Focus on the present encouraging, wanting to meet the “They want to immerse themselves in the Lord and have spiritual direction can be a blessed beginning for first- individual where he or she is already. Benedictine spirituality—Scripture is what they are looking for. Anger time retreatants afraid of being It’s inappropriate to be judgmental and hospitality. On a self-directed and stress often go together. People ‘inadequately prepared.’ It can also about where someone is.” retreat, I’d urge people to attend at [might come] in angry about some encourage those with more retreat A blessing on any retreat, more least some of the Divine Office [the aspect of the pandemic, or with one experience, but who might have been time to pray can spark insight and Liturgy of the Hours]. Get an idea of particular political party or another. so distanced from faith during the connections with profound faith the rhythm of our monks’ life. Also, Or they’re trying to get a handle on pandemic that they are not sure how to traditions. don’t feel guilty about sleeping. how to better live with their spouse or re-engage.” At St. Andrew’s Abbey Retreat St. Benedict makes allowances for his family members because they’ve been Questions someone expects to Center in Valyermo, Calif., the monks to get sufficient sleep and food in closer quarters,” says Father Mark. encounter might flow into those guestmaster, Benedictine Father Patrick to encounter the Lord and their work.” “The thing I hear from a lot of people leading to a broader spiritual Sheridan, notes that experiencing a The special encounter with prayer who come here … is that they find and liturgy in a retreat peace.” center’s quieter and usually With some retreat centers increasing lovely setting can be a their capacity and more about to good way to ease back into reopen, now is an ideal time to start parish life. planning. “People want to Hesitant? reconnect with their faith,” Father Mark says, “I would echo says Father Patrick, “and Pope John Paul II. ‘Be not afraid.’ God do it in a place that’s loves you more than you do.” a little less crowded, a Not sure where to start? little more calm than their “The beauty of the individually parish.” directed retreat,” Father Campbell says, Our Lady of Perpetual “is the attention one’s spirituality gets.” Help Retreat and Afraid you’re not perfect enough for Spirituality Center in a retreat? Venice, Fla., offers a “The whole point is to relax in the variety of lengths and Lord,” says Father Patrick. “Don’t styles of retreats, but put a lot of pressure on yourself. Let during the pandemic, the Spirit move you. A retreat can be interest in individual an opening of a different approach to retreats was high. life, a process, rather than a one-off “People did want to experience. And hopefully, you’ll come come by themselves back again.” to pray, have spiritual Visitors look out over the water in 2014 at the Shrine of St. Therese in Juneau, Alaska. Retreats offer a “getaway with direction,” Oblates of the (Maureen Pratt’s website is www. God” in which retreatants explore questions of faith related to their everyday lives. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) Virgin Mary Father Mark maureenpratt.com.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Perspectives Living Well/Maureen Pratt For the Journey/Effie Caldarola Rekindling care ministry after a pandemic of loneliness The power If anyone needs evidence that a weekly, The move “helped a little bit,” Kelley huge. We had a pandemic of loneliness hourly visit from a friendly volunteer says. But it was hard on volunteers, who before the pandemic.” of words, makes a big difference in others’ lives, the “went through a lot of guilt” because they Fortunately, the care ministry Kelley effect of the pandemic could not personally visit. coordinates has a clear foundation when necessary on homebound Also, although people who were confined and mission to build on. Kelley says, ministries to seniors is could still have contact with volunteers, some “We call it a ‘ministry of sustaining In Pádraig Ó Tuama’s book, In the proof. did not benefit as greatly as they did with presence.’ ” Shelter, he tells a story about a young Before COVID-19, personal visits. For example, phone calls Volunteers go through a criminal woman traveling through Europe in the whether because of were difficult for the hearing impaired, and background check and have a valid 1980s. In France, she illness, effects of persons with dementia missed the familiarity driver’s license and insurance. They also meets a man and falls aging, weakness or of seeing as well as hearing someone. attend training and regular team meetings. in love for the first other factors, seniors Another challenge was that, during the “We train in active listening skills, time. who had to stay at pandemic, the number of people home the limits of care, that it’s hands-off, They agree to meet home often relied alone increased. nonmedical visitation,” says Kelley. at an embassy in Rome upon visits from fellow parishioners to “I got a phone call from one of the big Those who receive visits and their the following week, bring companionship, Eucharist, news hospitals’ geriatric social worker,” says caregivers agree upon a care plan. Regular and on the appointed from the faith community or just kind Kelley. “She said that the elderly were assessments are made with the volunteers day, she goes there. conversation. being discharged and going back to an and the senior being visited. But he doesn’t show If they were present, family caregivers empty home.” “We want elders in the parish to have up. She goes the next could take a brief break during the visits, Kelley started a “phone pals” project, a say,” says Kelley, “to feel like their day, and the next, but to no avail. go to another room for some quiet or run sending out an “open invitation to all our opinions are heard.” On her lonely way back to the place a quick errand or two without worrying. current volunteers” to add people to their Recently, the Catholic Health she is staying, she passes a priest on the If family lived far away, they could be “visiting” list and asking if others wanted Association collaborated with Catholic street, a man she doesn’t know. Their eyes assured that someone local and friendly to join. Many did. Charities USA and the Community meet and he offers the word, “coraggio.” was checking in on their loved one. Now, as parishes reopen, Kelley is of Sant’Egidio on webinars on topics Courage. But with the lockdowns, the visits, transitioning the program from phone related to aging, faith and our response When the woman told the story years respite and peace of mind abruptly back to in-person visits. (available free of charge online at cutt.ly/ later, Ó Tuama said she revealed that she stopped, and many suffered because of it. It will be a challenge, says Kelley. AgingAndFaith. had “lived her life differently since the Melissa Kelley, care team ministry “We’ve had so many deaths among our As discussion with and about the hearing of that word.” program coordinator of Catholic volunteers, who are older, and some of seniors among us increases, and needs Never underestimate the power of words. Charities in Madison, Wis., says, “During our care partners who are older. emerge, may a collective ministry of I think of the words I have used today. lockdown, the first thing we did was “Most of the churches and volunteer sustaining presence grow too! Have they been words of support and ask all 20 care teams to stop visiting ministries need to be rebuilt and affection? Have they been curt or impatient? completely and switch to phone calls and reinvigorated,” Kelly notes, and the need (Maureen Pratt’s website is www. Did my words overwhelm, so that others sending greeting cards.” within the community “is going to be maureenpratt.com.) † had no chance to tell their story? Did my words console? Did I give others a chance to speak, or did I fill in every pause? It’s All Good/Patti Lamb Might someone, someday far in the future, recall a word I spoke today and speak of how it changed them? Or remember how it hurt Don’t allow life’s busyness to distract you from Jesus them, long after I’ve forgotten? Less than a year ago, we moved into a new home on the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted The stories we have heard during the other side of Plainfield. We’ve been working down a list of by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him 50 days of Easter were wonderful, but house projects to make our new house feel like home. From and asked, ‘Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to words were used sparingly. We might wainscoting and painting to installing light do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!’ ” (Lk 10:38-40). imagine that the risen Lord would have a fixtures and a fence, we’ve been busy inside “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and lot to talk about, instructions to give, big and outside of the house. I was hoping the upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary explanations or reprimands for failure. house would be in order for a small lunch has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from He did explain the Scriptures to the pair gathering I was hosting for my sisters and her” (Lk 10:41-42). walking to Emmaus. But ultimately, mother. I went into a cleaning frenzy and I calmed down after asking the kids to clean up their mess they recognized him in the simple but finally had the house put together. and enjoyed a lovely afternoon with my beloved sisters and profound breaking of the bread. After taking a shower, I came downstairs mother. That night, I remembered a book a friend had given me Jesus offers a consoling presence in his to the kitchen, and there it was. called Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, and I opened it. post-resurrection appearances, the God A dirty chocolate milk cup was sitting A few of the paragraphs on a page captured my attention. who has shown up. on the counter next to the dishwasher. The “The Living Room Intimacy Mary enjoyed with Jesus will There’s Jesus, by the Lake of Tiberias. dishwasher was not even half-full of dirty dishes, and I couldn’t never come out of the busyness of Martha’s kitchen. Busyness, What could be more endearing than the sight understand why an intelligent human wouldn’t just load the cup into by itself, breeds distraction. Luke 10:38 shows us a woman with of Jesus cooking a simple breakfast over a the dishwasher. Then I looked over and saw potato chip crumbs all the gift of hospitality. Martha opened her home to Jesus, but that charcoal fire? No scolding for running or over the counter, spilling onto the floor. (You read the part that the doesn’t automatically mean she opened her heart. In her eagerness denying. No “I told you so.” No lectures. kitchen was clean 20 minutes ago, right?) The Twizzlers wrapper on to serve Jesus, she almost missed the opportunity to know Jesus. Jesus is with them, his words the floor—near the trash can, but not in it—was the final straw. … We can get caught in the same performance trap, feeling as measured. He tells the fisherman to put “Who didn’t put his or her cup into the dishwasher?” I though we must prove our love for God by doing great things their nets out and try again after a failed shouted. Demanding an answer at once, I summoned the kids for him. So we rush past the intimacy of the living room to get fishing trip. And the result? A bounty of and interrogated them about the chip crumbs, menacingly busy for him in the kitchen—implementing great ministries and fish. Always a bounty. wielding the Twizzlers wrapper. wonderful projects, … but in the end, will he know us?” Like the bread on the hillside that fed I had dark thoughts of changing the Wi-Fi password and I closed the book and invited my family to the living room. thousands, always more than enough, and hiding my son’s car keys. I pulled out a board game, a bag of popcorn and some Oreos, bread for everyone, no questions asked, And in that moment, I recalled the story of Mary and and we enjoyed living room intimacy for a change. Despite the no litmus tests. Martha, from Luke’s Gospel: crumbs, it was lovely. And forgiveness. Jesus, on the lake, “As Jesus and his disciples were on their way home, he asks Peter if he loves him. He asks him came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield, is a three times, symbolically offering Peter home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the regular columnist for The Criterion.) † three chances to atone for his denials just days before. Not a time to berate Peter, but a time to love him with great mercy The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick and very few words. When I read Ó Tuama’s story, I wonder Wise farming lessons instill order for us as they did for Christ what the priest sensed. Was he a deep listener, someone attuned to the Spirit, Have you ever reflected on why attention when earnestly needed. increased dramatically. To counter this, whose heart was open to sense the needs Christ employs agrarian images in his When these principles are summarized, the principle of fertilization is needed: The of another? Was his inner landscape parables? For example, the smallest seed the common denominator is order. As God mind requires fertilization for strength available to the presence of Christ? becoming a large bush, created order to change chaos into orderly to combat depression. Inspiring reading, As we spend time with Jesus, we ask the curse of the fig cosmos, so too are Christ’s agrarian parables friends and praying for wisdom are that for the grace to consider the words we use tree, pruning a vine aimed at living a wholesome ordered life. fertilization for coping successfully. with our family, neighbors, our friends, and burning weeds. When applied to everyday life, these In the farm community I served, the casual encounters of our day. We This leads us to ask: principles touch upon its very core. we once experienced a heavy rain that consider social media, where Catholics use What are some wise Much of my priestly ministry deals drowned the fields and hindered farmers increasingly vile words to each other. We agrarian principles with marriage problems. One major reason from planting. Lost time meant lost crops. consider our political discussions, grown for coping with life’s of the problems is a husband or wife Good timing is ever so important. When, ever more rancorous and untruthful. How complexities? dominating the other. Suffocation often for example, a friendship falls on rocky can we temper our words with love? The first principle leads to animosity and subsequent divorce. ground and a moment comes to say, “I am Prayer helps us learn to listen. A is weeding to create As plant life needs space to expand and sorry,” the principle of timing encourages nightly review of our day helps us to breathing space for plant expansion. grow, so do couples need their private space us to jump on it. recall when we failed to listen, when we The need for fertilization is a second to breathe. When each of them respects the This meditation on wise farming talked too much or too carelessly. principle that generates healthy growth. other’s space, marriage becomes much more principles reflects why Christ employed We ask to learn from the risen Jesus, Timing is yet another critical process. As blissful. However, as weeding is required them to enhance our life. who used words with great sensitivity. the Book of Ecclesiastes suggests, there is for plant growth, so too is an earnest effort a time to sow and a time to reap—to strike to weed out the tendency to dominate. (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News while the iron is hot and give immediate During the pandemic, cases of depression Catholic News Service.) † Service.) † The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 13

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, June 7 Friday, June 11 The Sunday Readings 2 Corinthians 1:1-7 The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Psalm 34:2-9 Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9 Sunday, June 6, 2021 Matthew 5:1-12 (Response) Isaiah 12:2-6 Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 • Exodus 24:3-8 Tuesday, June 8 John 19:31-37 • Hebrews 9:11-15 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 • Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 Psalm 119:129-133, 135 Saturday, June 12 Matthew 5:13-16 The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Providing the first reading for Mass on The three synoptic Gospels report the Virgin Mary this feast is the Book of Exodus, the story Last Supper and the institution of the Wednesday, June 9 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 of an event that occurred as the Hebrews Eucharist by giving the actual words used St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor of the Psalm 103:1-4, 9-12 made their way across by Jesus, “This is my body” (Mk 14:22), Church Luke 2:41-51 the Sinai Peninsula, in “This is my blood” (Mk 14:24). 2 Corinthians 3:4-11 flight from Egypt and This feast day’s reading is from Psalm 99:5-9 Sunday, June 13 slavery. St. Mark’s Gospel. Before mentioning the Matthew 5:17-19 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time To modern ears, Last Supper, the Gospel says that Jesus sent Ezekiel 17:22-24 the story may sound two disciples into the city. He told them Thursday, June 10 Psalm 92:2-3, 13-16 gruesome, giving the that they would see a man carrying a water 2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1, 3-6 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 details as it does of jar. They should follow this man. The man Psalm 85:9ab, 10-14 Mark 4:26-34 the ritual sacrifice will go to a house, Jesus said, whose owner Matthew 5:20-26 of a young bull, but the disciples should encounter and ask for then ritual slaying and a room in which the Lord and the disciples sacrificing of animals were common then. could gather to eat the Passover meal. The ceremony required that the blood An interesting passage, it reveals that Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle be sprinkled on the people. This gesture the Last Supper, and all that happened at showed the thinking that life itself resided the Last Supper, were utterly within the in a creature’s blood. It is not difficult to plan of God. It was no ordinary meal. Psalm Jesus quoted from the cross understand how this notion originally arose. God prepared it to provide the means of The ancient peoples had a limited knowledge human beings to unite with Jesus. testifies to God’s undying love of physiology, but they knew if the blood What was the meaning of Christ’s At the same time, he could also have stopped flowing, the creature died; if Reflection Qwords from the cross when he experienced at that moment in his enough blood escaped from the body due to Cathedrals often place tabernacles said, “My God, my God, why have you humanity a distance from the heavenly hemorrhage, then death followed. in special chapels, not to diminish the forsaken me?” (United Father. Offering the bull to acknowledge Eucharist, but instead to give the Blessed Kingdom) God’s majesty made the bull holy. Its Sacrament greater prominence and to I am a retired Catholic school blood therefore was holy, and because provide worshippers opportunities to pray Both St. Matthew Qprincipal and the product of 18 years of the sacrifice, the blood somehow was before the tabernacle without distraction Aand St. Mark of Catholic school education. It troubles touched by God’s own life. By sprinkling and more intimately. indicate in their me greatly that the Church routinely this blood on the people, they in turn St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Gospel accounts that “assigns” sins to people. Missing Mass on were touched by God in a special way. Washington, D.C., is one of the glories among the last words Sunday is one example. For ancient Jews, these sacrifices had a of American Catholic architecture. Its of Jesus on the cross Catholic teaching says that the subject message, the core of which remains good mosaics are breathtakingly beautiful. were the following: matter of a mortal sin must be gravely today to consider, despite our culture’s The wall behind the tabernacle in its “My God, my God, immoral, the individual must agree that different views on this kind of sacrifice. Blessed Sacrament chapel, in mosaic, why have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46; the action is gravely immoral and the The Epistle to the Hebrews is one displays images of the two disciples who Mk 15:34). individual must choose the action with of the New Testament’s most eloquent walked with Jesus to Emmaus, as told in Some readers might find this full freedom while agreeing that it is sources for knowledge about the person St. Luke’s Gospel. An inscription reads, puzzling and ask, “How can God gravely immoral. and mission of the Lord. This feast’s “They recognized him in the breaking of abandon God?” Actually, though, Jesus In my experience, any number of selection is wise. From the reading, we the bread,” an ancient Christian term for was uttering the first words of a familiar people may not agree that attending Mass learn about the miracle of the Mass. the Eucharist. psalm, Psalm 22. on Sunday is a grave matter. In these This reading stresses that Jesus is the This great feast celebrates that That psalm/prayer, as it develops, is cases, they cannot be assigned a mortal perfect victim of sacrifice as well as the Jesus, the Son of God, the Savior of the really a testament to the enduring love sin. (New York) great high priest. The sacrifice of bulls is world, literally is present in the Blessed and support of the Lord. no longer necessary. Jesus replaced that Sacrament. Though the psalmist addresses God The Church has spoken clearly ritual by giving us the Holy Sacrifice Those who pray before tabernacles, in with the anguished plea, “Do not stay Aon the obligation of a Catholic to of the Mass, and therefore the Blessed churches great or small, have found the far from me, for trouble is near, and attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of Sacrament. Lord in the “breaking of the bread,” and there is no one to help” (Ps 22:12), the obligation. The Mass is the sublime offering of the they wish to be near Jesus and with Jesus. psalm goes on to proclaim the confident The Catechism of the Catholic innocent Lamb of God, Jesus the Lord. He is everything. † assurance of divine support: Church says, “The Sunday Eucharist “For he has is the foundation and confirmation of not spurned or all Christian practice. For this reason, My Journey to God disdained the the faithful are obliged to participate misery of this in the Eucharist on days of obligation, poor wretch, did unless excused for a serious reason [for not turn away example, illness, the care of infants]. Goodbye from me, but … Those who deliberately fail in heard me when this obligation commit a grave sin” By Linda Abner I cried out” (#2181). (Ps 22:25). I agree with you that gravity of matter Now the inner circle draws close And the is one of the three necessary conditions And the outer holds the inner last line of for a mortal sin—the others being All loathe to give this dear one up the psalm complete consent of the will and full All praying, holding this beloved lauds God’s knowledge of the sinful character of the In our hearts triumphal act or omission. We don’t understand; it seems a cruel trick reign: “The Where I disagree with you, though, is Our prayers were not answered as we’d hoped generation your apparent belief that an individual can But we trust in the promises of God; we know to come will ignore the Church’s teaching and simply That what is seen is temporary, what is unseen, be told of the decide for himself what is a sin and what Eternal Lord, that they isn’t. Unseen things have happened here, are may proclaim A Catholic has to be guided by the Happening still to a people Church, and the Church has already With tears and aching hearts we say goodbye yet unborn the spoken on the gravity of missing Mass. To our beloved deliverance you Perhaps this section of the catechism But not forever— have brought” is relevant here: “Mortal sin requires We will meet again in the Mystery that is God (Ps 22:32). full knowledge and complete consent. So, did It presupposes knowledge of the sinful Jesus have such character of the act, of its opposition later verses to God’s law. It also implies a consent of the psalm sufficiently deliberate to be a personal in mind when choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness (Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady he quoted the of heart do not diminish, but rather of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis. Photo: start of it? I increase, the voluntary character of a sin” Archbishop Charles C. Thompson prays over the think that’s a (#1859). casket of the late Archbishop Daniel fair conclusion M. Buechlein during his funeral Mass at to make given (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on his knowledge Doyle at [email protected] and Jan. 31, 2018.) (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) of the Hebrew 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York Scriptures. 12203.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021

Joe, Steve and Tony Fisse. Grandmother of 18. Great- grandmother of 42. Great- great-grandmother of seven. Rest in GALLE, Rosemary, 85, Holy Family, Oldenburg, Super moon over Nazareth May 20. Wife of Gene Galle. peace Mother of Sandi Rohde, Cindy Wanstrath, John, Michael, Richard, Ronald and Steven Please submit in writing Galle. Sister of Mildred to our office by 10 a.m. Meyer and Russell Fette. Thursday before the week of Grandmother of 31. Great- publication; be sure to state grandmother of one. date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving HUBLER, Michael J., 55, our archdiocese are listed St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd elsewhere in The Criterion. County, Dec. 19, 2020. Son Order priests and religious of Robert Hubler, Sr., and sisters and brothers are Patricia Hubler. Brother of included here, unless they are Kathleen Jones and Robert natives of the archdiocese or Hubler, Jr. have other connec­tions to it; HURRLE, Marilyn R., 90, those are separate obituaries St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, on this page. May 19. Mother of Terri Adams, Cathy Bray, Lynn Cox, Jenni Peterman and Jim ALBERT, Lucille A. Hurrle. Grandmother of 16. (Dwyer), 93, St. Charles Great-grandmother of 30. Borromeo, Bloomington, May 20. Mother of Dave JURISS, Suzanne L., 72, Albert. Grandmother of two. St. Luke the Evangelist, Great-grandmother of four. Indianapolis, May 20. Wife of Joe Juriss. Mother of Joanna ALLGEIER, Imelda, 82, and Jason Juriss. St. Mary, Greensburg, May 24. Wife of John Allgeier. Mother OSER, Carol J., 77, of Ann DeWeese and Jim St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad, Allgeier. Sister of Jacqueline June 19, 2020. Mother of Armbruster and Rose Susan Burch, Bonnie, Denise, Weisenbach. Grandmother of Kurt and Rick Oser. Daughter four. of Dolores Klem. Sister of Brian, Jeff, Mark, Stan and BOHNERT, Ruthie L., Tim Klem. Grandmother of 73, St. Michael, Greenfield, 17. Great-grandmother of 18. May 19. Mother of Trevor Bohnert and Nathan Logan. QUIXTIANO, Alejandro, 39, Grandmother of nine. St. Anthony, Indianapolis, May 19. Husband of Rocio BURKHART, Elizabeth, 81, Go. Father of Isabel, Eric and St. Mary, Greensburg, May 20. Ivan. Wife of Russell Burkhart. Mother of Marilles Mauer and SCHRADER, Barbara K. Tony Burkhart. Grandmother (Hibbert), 72, St. Michael, of four. Great-grandmother Greenfield, May 7. Mother of six. of Kristi and Kevin Schrader. Sister of Nancy Nemecek, COOK, Sr., William, 80, Phyllis Trowbridge, Theresa St. Michael, Greenfield, Welhoelter, Ed, Mark and A full moon, known by the name “Super Flower Moon,” rises over the Makam al-Nabi Sain Mosque in Nazareth, Israel, on May 26. May 4. Father of Christina Steve Hibbert. (CNS photo/Jamal Kiwan, Reuters) Davis and Andrea Smitty. Grandfather of four. Great- SEIB, Norma J., 65, grandfather of two. St. Thomas Aquinas, Daughter of Beth Cordell. Sister Husband of Barbara Wenning. WILSON, John F., 70, and Joshua Wilson. Brother Indianapolis, April 29. Wife of Patty Williams and Dale Father of Lucy Fields. Brother St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad, of Martha Schuler, Carolyn FISSE, Marge, 91, St. Mary, of Edmund Seib III. Mother Cordell. Grandmother of 10. of Marlene Camarota and Jim June 17, 2020. Husband of Siebold, Maryann Ubelhor, Greensburg, May 18. Mother of Christina Stinette, Edmund WENNING, Donald J., 83, Wenning. Grandfather of five. Sandra Wilson. Father of Daniel, Robert and Thomas of Judy Dinn, Pat Moeller, IV, Matthew and Michael Seib. Great-grandfather of four. Carrie Day Wilson, Emily Wilson. Grandfather of five. † Marjean Welch, Bob, Don, St. Louis, Batesville, May 23. California bishop prays for victims of another ‘senseless’ shooting SAN JOSE, Calif. (CNS)—San Jose Bishop Oscar bring healing,” the bishop tweeted. “Pray also for all Holy Family, we are unable to protect our own fellow Cantu urged prayers for the victims and their families the first responders and law enforcement officers. May citizens from the ravages of gun violence,” he added. after a gunman opened fired on the morning of May shock and grief give way to healing and grace, as we In a statement released late on May 26, Archbishop 26 at a rail yard operated by the Santa Clara Valley work together to protect the innocent and prevent such Coakley also said: “As Americans, we must understand Transportation Authority, or VTA, north of downtown senseless acts in the future, so that peace may prevail in why these horrific occurrences of violence continue to San Jose. our hearts and communities.” take place in our communities, and then unhesitatingly Eight people were shot dead at the scene by the The gunman also died at the scene from a self-inflicted act to root out the causes of such crimes.” gunman, later identified by law enforcement as VTA gunshot wound, sheriff’s officials confirmed later. The USCCB, he said, “has called for many years employee Samuel Cassidy, 57. A ninth person was “This is a horrific day for our city, and it’s a tragic for rational yet effective forms of regulation of these critically injured and taken to a local hospital, where he day for the VTA family,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo dangerous weapons,” and also has “urged increased died that evening. said. “Our heart pains for the families and the co-workers mental health outreach and services to identify and treat “May God comfort their families and loved ones and because we know that so many are feeling deeply this potential areas of conflict before they become tragic loss of their loved ones and their occurrences. friends.” “Action is needed to attempt NBC-TV Bay Area reported that to reduce the frequency of these Online Lay Ministry Formation at about 6:35 a.m., San Jose police abhorrent acts through legislation and The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the received multiple 911 calls about training,” he added. University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: gunfire at the VTA yard, and dozens Archbishop Coakley called on of San Jose police and Santa Clara Catholics “to pray for the dead • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program County sheriff’s vehicles responded and injured, as well as for healing • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church to the scene. in the community. May the Holy • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners Several law enforcement agencies Spirit, whose wisdom and guidance Bishop Oscar also went to Cassidy’s home in Archbishop Paul S. we celebrated this past Sunday on For more information, please log on to Cantu San Jose to conduct a search. A fire Coakley Pentecost, bring consolation and www.archindy.org/layministry had been set at the home early in the strength at this time of great loss.” morning, but whether it was set before the shooting was At a news conference at the VTA rail yard some being investigated, according to NBC-TV. Technicians hours after the shooting, California Gov. Gavin Newsom with the San Jose Police Department’s bomb squad were delivered emotional remarks, saying there is “a sameness REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW searching the suspect’s home as well as the VTA building to this” gun violence and called for additional gun control If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on at the rail yard. measures. behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, California already has comprehensive background of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ checks, waiting periods and ammunition restrictions. coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: (USCCB) Committee on Domestic Justice and Human While Cassidy’s motive remains unclear, his ex-wife, Ethics Point Development, said the shooting “reminds us once again Cecilia Nelms, and a former girlfriend told reporters he 1 Confidential, Online Reporting www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 that something fundamentally broken in our society and had serious anger issues. Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator culture must be courageously examined and addressed, so Nelms, who divorced him in 2004 after 10 years of 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 that ordinary places no longer become scenes of violence marriage, said he often wanted to kill his co-workers, 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 and contempt for human life. but she never thought he was serious. The ex-girlfriend [email protected] “It is particularly tragic that in a city named in honor alleged he raped her and suffered mood swings caused by of St. Joseph, who was such a loving guardian of the alcohol. † The Criterion Friday, June 4, 2021 Page 15 Serra Club Vocations Essay St. Joseph is a model of obedient service in his care for Mary, Jesus

By Elizabeth Daoud Pope Francis has proclaimed 2021 our Lord. Being an obedient and tender families. Let love, respect, fidelity and faith Special to The Criterion as the Year of St. Joseph because the father, he offered himself in love. fill the hearts of every member of each world desperately needs a father figure. I am inspired by St. Joseph to say yes family. Let the kids, by the intercession of In a world full of noises, chaotic ideas St. Joseph raised Jesus as his own child, to Jesus and Mary by fully relying on them St. Joseph, grow up in a loving and caring and misleading conceptions, people try to taught him manhood and taught him the and by letting the love of God and my full family. Good families raise solid members, embrace any idea even if it is wrong, just value, dignity and joy of work. Those are trust in him overcome every obstacle. guided by the Holy Spirit. Our world will to fit into a society values that our world strives for. I have learned to listen to his calls become more beautiful and more peaceful stained by corruption “The carpenter of Nazareth,” explains and his ways in my life. Like St. Joseph, when family is the core of the society and and false claims. the pope, “was able to turn a problem I put everything into the hands of Jesus the whole world. We see more and into a possibility by trusting in divine and our Blessed Mother. I say yes to his “As the family goes, so goes the nation more families falling providence.” will, and I pray that Jesus and Mary will and so goes the whole world in which we apart, and trailing St. Joseph is the true model of saying help me to say yes to everything that will live,” said Pope John Paul II. behind them are yes to serve our Lord because St. Joseph happen in my life. kids who will end trusted when an angel told him about “I don’t know what tomorrow will (Elizabeth and her parents, Lina and up confused and Mary being pregnant with Jesus by the hold for me, but I do know who holds Jauques Daoud, are members of segregated between a Holy Spirit. He took Mary into his home tomorrow,” Anonymous. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in mother and a father and raised Jesus. St. Joseph trusted and I pray that St. Joseph, protector of the Richmond. She recently completed the who have chosen to live their life each on served the Lord when he left his work holy Church, will intercede for the unity seventh grade at Seton Catholic High his or her own path. and home to flee with Mary to Egypt to and peace of the Catholic Church and School in Richmond and is the seventh- This will create a troubled child protect Jesus from being killed by Herod. the purity of her priests, that they will be grade division winner in the Indianapolis striving for peace and settlement. Kids Joseph was already protecting the guided by God’s wisdom. Serra Club’s 2021 John D. Kelley are losing trust in the core of their home. Church by protecting Mary and her child, I ask St. Joseph to protect all the Vocations Essay Contest.) † USCCB president, committee chair decry anti-Semitic attacks in U.S. WASHINGTON (CNS)—Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of nation is deeply troubling,” they added. “Any attack on a Jews at any time by anyone,’ ” quoting from the Vatican Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic community or individual on the basis of faith or otherwise is II document “Nostra Aetate,” the Declaration on the Bishops (USCCB), and the prelate who chairs the USCCB’s contrary to who we are called to be as the people of God.” Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions. Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs decried Citing the pope’s 2020 encyclical “Fratelli Tutti: On “This is integral to the irrevocable friendship we have a recent rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the United States as Fraternity and Social Friendship,” the two bishops said: cultivated and continue to build with our Jewish brothers “contrary to who we are called to be as the people of God.” “Pope Francis continually reminds us of our duty to build and sisters,” they said. “We cannot remain silent when we witness our a culture of encounter by building bridges that transcend The attacks in the United States appear to be tied to brothers and sisters suffering on account of being Jewish, differences and divisions. In doing so, we must denounce the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. Jonathan and we will never tire of our commitment to decry every violence unconditionally and take up dialogue.” Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, told the form of hatred, especially those formed in contempt of Archbishop Gomez and Bishop Talley said, “PBS NewsHour” on May 24 that attacks during the two faith,” said a May 26 statement by Archbishop Gomez “We remain steadfast in the promise of the Second weeks of the conflict were up 63% during the two weeks and Bishop David P. Talley of Memphis, Tenn. Vatican Council to decry ‘all hatred, persecutions and prior. The attacks include harassment, physical violence, “The recent rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the manifestations of anti-Semitism directed against the vandalism and hate speech on social media. †

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With her assistance, Sister Elizabeth HERMITESS Mary, raised in a strict, non-liturgical continued from page 1 Protestant faith tradition, attended a papal Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. with The Criterion at Our Lady of “I thought that I had died and gone to the Most Holy Rosary Parish in heaven,” she said. “This little Church of Indianapolis. Christ girl didn’t know beans from apple “Within 30 minutes, I was here,” butter. I must have looked like I had recalled Carney, who lives minutes away been gobsmacked.” from the Indianapolis South Deanery Sister Elizabeth Mary returned to the faith community. “This was the first U.S. a young woman spiritually changed place that popped into my mind. But I forever. had never darkened its doors before. I “The Church of Christ wasn’t cutting slithered in and cried for two hours.” it, not cutting it,” she said. Within a couple of months, Carney, who had studied the faith assiduously ‘I think God kind of picked me up by for years, was received into the full the scruff of the neck’ communion of the Church. Her taste of liturgical prayer and Receiving Communion for the first centuries-old spiritual culture in Europe time was a revelation for her. eventually led Sister Elizabeth Mary to “I realized I had been starving to the Episcopal Church, which she joined death my entire life,” she said. “Don’t after moving to Indianapolis in 1976 to ever, ever underestimate the power of the work at St. Vincent Hospital. sacraments. If they do, send them to me. Soon after marrying in 1991, she and We’ll have a chat.” her husband learned that he had severe After having been married in the health challenges, which ended with his 1990s before her husband died, Carney death in 1999. eventually discerned a call to live as a During that time, Sister Elizabeth hermitess in Indianapolis in the Episcopal Mary’s spiritual life took a back seat. Church while continuing to support “I wasn’t paying much attention other herself by working weekend nights as than to putting bread on the table and a registered nurse at Indiana University taking care of him,” she recalled. “I was Health Hospital in Indianapolis. physically and mentally exhausted.” She gave up that solitary life when After several years of discernment and she was received into the Catholic theological formation, Sister Elizabeth Church. But with the help of her Mary began her life as a hermitess in the spiritual director and archdiocesan Episcopal Church in 2007. leaders, she felt that call renewed. Guided today by the Church’s Code On April 26, she professed vows of of Canon Law, the life of hermits and poverty, chastity and obedience as an hermitesses is the oldest form of religious archdiocesan hermitess during a Mass life in the Christian tradition, dating back at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary to the third century in Egypt when men Church, taking the name Sister Elizabeth and women began living solitary lives of Mary of the Visitation. prayer in the desert there. “St. Elizabeth, the mother of St. John Because of her Episcopalian the Baptist, found the fruition of her background, she chose to become a vocation later in life,” she said. “I’m the member of the Ordinariate of the Chair Sister Elizabeth Mary of the Visitation lies prostrate in prayer on the floor of Our Lady of the Most same way. of St. Peter when she was received into Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis during an April 26 Mass in which she professed vows as an “I’m overjoyed to be able to have the Catholic Church in 2016. archdiocesan hermitess. (Photos by Sean Gallagher) this vocation … . Hopefully people will The ordinariate is a diocese-like know that I am indeed praying intensely structure within the Church for Anglicans her soul that this is what God wants her a hermitess in her interview at Holy for them.” and Episcopalians in the U.S. and Canada to do.” Rosary. who have been received into the Church He also spoke about how her life of “I come here,” she said. “I go to ‘I thought that I had died and gone to and who want to retain spiritual traditions faith has strengthened his own. the grocery store. I go to the friars [in heaven’ of the Church of England. “She lives a very simple life,” said Monroe County] and repeat. Intense is a good word to describe St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne Parish Ashton. “It’s been helpful for me to watch “I pray the Office [Liturgy of the Sister Elizabeth Mary’s personality. She is an ordinariate faith community that her. It’s helped me reground myself in Hours]. I do two hours of mental prayer lives and loves her faith intensely. And is based at the archdiocesan Good the idea that it doesn’t take a lot to follow each day. Several times a week, I do her reflections on her life of adventure Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis. While God’s leading. The rest of it will follow.” an hour of adoration or a holy hour, are filled with intensity, too. Sister Elizabeth Mary prays Evening While he is impressed by her life of depending on what’s available. I try to Some of those adventures have Prayer with the ordinariate community prayer, Ashton also noted how Sister go to Mass every day, depending on my taken place within her soul. Others on Thursdays, she is a member of Holy Elizabeth Mary has used her professional health.” have happened in locales around Rosary Parish and worships at Sunday skills as a nurse to help others. She also regularly gives spiritual the world, such as when she was a Mass there. When a member of the ordinariate direction to several people. medical missionary in the mid-1970s in When she discerned a call to be a parish was dying of colon cancer, Ashton Although her interactions with others Zimbabwe, the southern African country hermitess in the Church, leaders of the recalled, Sister Elizabeth Mary “jumped in are limited due to the nature of her which soon descended into a civil war. ordinariate, based in Houston, said they immediately and was at his home by his vocation, Sister Elizabeth Mary views “We got thrown out. It got ugly— would be unable to oversee her religious bedside. She was there when he was dying. her life as an integral part of the Church really ugly,” Sister Elizabeth Mary life and recommended that she seek out She helped the family greatly with her in central and southern Indiana. recalled. “I kind of grew up there. You the guidance of archdiocesan leaders in medical knowledge and her spirituality.” “My job is prayer, sacrifice and grow up fast. Indianapolis. “She is very balanced,” Ashton said. reparation to build up the Church,” “We packed up the hospital—anything Looking back on the many twists and “She has her spirituality and brings that she said, “to pray for the archbishop, that was not red hot or nailed down. We turns of her spiritual journey that led to to the game. But she’s also not afraid to the clergy, seminarians and everyone put it on a truck and bugged out.” her life as a hermitess in the Catholic pull her sleeves up and say, ‘This person thinking [about priestly vocations], for On her journey back to the U.S., Church, Sister Elizabeth Mary described needs help.’ ” the moms and dads and everybody else Sister Elizabeth Mary traveled across it all in her intense and homespun way. Franciscan of the Immaculate Father trying to raise kids in this environment.” Europe like many young adults at the “I think God kind of picked me up by Terrance Chartier, Sister Elizabeth That focus on prayer at this time in time. She came first to Rome and was a the scruff of the neck and said, ‘You’re Mary’s spiritual director, reflected on her life and in the life of the Church confused first-time visitor until taken under going to be a hermitess, and this is how how her life as a caregiver and her faith is important to Sister Elizabeth Mary the wing of an American religious sister. we’re going to do it,’ ” she said. “But it’s have come together in her vocation because she sees prayer as “the absolute only on the other side of during the homily he preached at the nexus of what’s needed in this sorry things that you can see April 26 Mass in which she professed world. Without it, you might as well that.” vows as a hermitess. pack it up and go home, because you’ve “A nurse by training and profession, just lost all the juice that gives forth ‘A spiritual nurse’ Sister Elizabeth’s new mission is to be evangelization, good works or anything Lee Ashton, a member a spiritual nurse, assisting our Lord, else.” of St. Cuthbert Parish, is who is the divine physician, in the work After having gone through many glad that Sister Elizabeth of guiding, converting, sanctifying and years of discerning her vocation, Sister Mary has finally been able saving souls with her … life of prayer Elizabeth Mary shared wise advice for to pursue her vocation. and penance,” said Father Terrance, who others pondering what their calling from “This has been a ministers at the Mother of the Redeemer God might be. dream for her and all Retreat Center in Monroe County. “If you have any interior wondering, of us,” said Ashton “Grace doesn’t destroy nature, but rather check it out with somebody—your of himself and the builds on it. Once a nurse, always a pastor, a religious, somebody you look ordinariate community in nurse, but now a spiritual nurse.” up to who’s a good Catholic,” she said. Indianapolis. “We’ve all “Talk it over. There’s never any harm in Sister Elizabeth Mary of the Visitation, right, laughs during a prayed long and hard for ‘My job is prayer, sacrifice and inquiring.” conversation with Franciscan of the Immaculate Father Ignatius her to be able to get back reparation’ Manfredonia, left, and transitional Deacon Zach Samples of the to where she knows God Sister Elizabeth Mary, who lives (Sister Elizabeth Mary of the Visitation Diocese of Springfield, Ill., after an April 26 Mass at Our Lady of has led her to go. She alone in her home on the near westside can receive prayer intentions by e-mail the Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis. knows in her heart and in of Indianapolis, described her life as at [email protected].) †