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joy and love Life has changed dramatically since 1988, when the internet was still in in her journey development, the average rent was $420 per month and gas cost 96 cents a gallon. But one thing remains frozen in to a deeper time: the monthly payout that Hoosier families in deep poverty receive to help them temporarily relationship in the most dire circumstances. That with God amount was set at $288 then by state (Editor’s note: In this series, The Criterion law, and so it remains 33 years later. is featuring young adults who have found a Indiana lawmakers and advocates for the home in the Church and strive to live their poor—including the Catholic Church—are faith in their everyday life.) once again aiming to change this reality. Sen. Jon Ford (R-Terre Haute) is By John Shaughnessy leading the charge to modernize the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Rebecca Kovert flashes a radiant smile (TANF) program, which is funded by a when she talks about her nearly 2-year-old block grant from the federal government. daughter Avila. Only a fraction of the poorest families in And her smile continues to beam when she Indiana currently receive even those modest discusses her relationship with Jesus. cash benefits from the federal program “Once I was introduced to Christ and because of outdated eligibility guidelines— came to know him, what else in life is there another issue that Senate Bill 233 is except that? And everything flows from that, designed to address. and through that, and in that, and for that.” The bill passed out of the Indiana Senate There’s also an undeniable joy in her by a 43-5 vote on Feb. 1, and now heads to voice as she talks about her efforts to help the House for consideration. other young adults deepen their faith for the Rebecca Kovert holds her nearly “This is money that families depend on See MOTHER, page 8 2-year-old daughter Avila. for survival,” said Ford, the primary author (Photos by Sean Gallagher) of the proposed legislation. “But right now only six in 100 families in poverty are being helped by this program.” The primary reason is that Indiana’s eligibility level for TANF is the fourth-lowest in the United States, behind Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama. During a Jan. 25 hearing before the Senate Family and Children’s Services Committee, Ford pointed out that to be eligible for TANF, the maximum income of a Hoosier family must be less than 17 percent of the federal poverty level. “The poverty level for a family of three is around $20,000,” Ford said. “So what a family in the state of Indiana has to meet See ICC, page 8 March is small, but group’s ‘message of solidarity’ with unborn is as strong as ever

WASHINGTON (CNS)—It was the coldest national March for Life in some years, it was the smallest, and it also may be remembered as the bravest. A little more than 200 people, tightly flanked by members of the Knights of Columbus, endured subfreezing temperatures and wind as they sang hymns and trudged a zigzag route See related stories, pages 3, 15. with Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, from the Museum of the Bible to the Supreme Court on Jan. 29. This year’s theme was “Together Strong: Life Unites.” Mancini acknowledged “that we’re all symbolically marching, and we’re all in solidarity with each other.” See MARCH, page 16

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Archbishop, priests to offer Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson Stations of the Cross reflection ______podcasts during Lent this year February 7–16, 2021 February 7 – 2 p.m. February 13 – 11 a.m. CST By Natalie Hoefer reflections by our archdiocesan priests, Annual Scout Awards Ceremony at Virtual Association of Graduate in some small way people will feel SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis Programs in Ministry Retreat To help members of the archdiocese more connected spiritually with their still struggling with feeling isolated archdiocesan February 9 – 10:30 a.m. February 14 – 2 p.m. during the COVID-19 pandemic, the community.” Priest Personnel Board meeting at Rite of Election at SS. Peter and Paul archdiocese is offering a series of Stations Archbishop Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Cathedral of the Cross podcasts this Lent. Thompson shares her Catholic Center, Indianapolis Each of the 28 episodes—14 in English hope. February 16 – 9 a.m. (also made available in American Sign “The Stations of February 10 – 10:30 a.m. Visit at Roncalli High School, Language via separate videos) and 14 the Cross podcasts, in Virtual Wellbeing in Ministry summit Indianapolis in Spanish—will include a scriptural some way, are akin to reflection focusing on Jesus’ walk to the Franciscan spirit February 11 – 8:15 a.m. February 16 – 11:30 a.m. the cross, as well as an idea for fasting, that first brought the Virtual Judicatories meeting Visit at Bishop Chatard High School, almsgiving and works of mercy. Theresa Chamblee Stations of Cross to Indianapolis Archbishop Charles C. Thompson those who could not February 11 – 10 a.m. and more than 20 priests throughout the make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in Leadership Team meeting at archdiocese will host order to retrace the footsteps of Jesus’ Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara the approximately passion and death,” he said. Catholic Center 5-10-minute podcasts. “Since our ability to gather has been (See related article for greatly compromised by the limitations podcast schedule.) involving the pandemic, the podcasts are “The Stations of a creative means to bring the Stations of to anywhere through our smart devices or people will develop a deeper relationship the Cross, for many the Cross to those who cannot otherwise home computers,” Chamblee explained. with Christ by reflecting on his Passion.” Catholics, are one gather together. “People can listen to them on their of the most familiar “They are yet another example of the commute to work or at home. They can (The podcasts and ASL videos will be prayer practices of creativity and talent that exists in the listen to them during their prayer time or available at 6 a.m. on Tuesdays and Archbishop Charles Lent,” explained Laura archdiocese to provide ongoing pastoral while getting ready in the morning. Thursdays during Lent at www.archindy. C. Thompson Sheehan, project and spiritual outreach to the people of God “Our hope is that the podcasts will org/Lent2021. The podcasts will also be coordinator for the throughout central and southern Indiana.” provide a powerful Lenten prayer experience available on Soundcloud, Spotify and archdiocese’s Catholic Charities-Social Father Timothy DeCrane, associate for the listener, that through each podcast, Apple podcasts.) † Concerns office. She is one of four staff pastor of St. Monica Parish in members on the archdiocese’s COVID Indianapolis, will also host an episode. Pastoral Response Team that developed “I think last year with Lent, we had The archdiocese is offering podcasts this Lent reflecting on a Scripture-based and coordinated the podcast project. a very real opportunity to know what Stations of the Cross, as prayed by St. John Paul II on Good Friday 1991. “Many do not yet feel comfortable suffering really meant and focus on God The 28 podcasts—14 in English (with separate American Sign Language videos or are not able to return to the physical when things are out of our control,” he said. available) and 14 in Spanish, each about 5-10 minutes long—will be available by sacred spaces of our churches where “We’re still in the pandemic and will be 6 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at www.archindy.org/Lent2021 and on we normally have encountered the Lord in Lent. But it’s not new anymore, so there’s Soundcloud, Spotify and Apple podcasts. during Lent through such practices as the less of a desire to offer up the challenges They will be hosted by Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and more than 20 Stations of the Cross,” she said. of mask-wearing, social distancing and, for priests throughout central and southern Indiana. The stations will be based on those prayed some, continued isolation. Following is a schedule of the podcasts, as well as who will offer each episode by St. John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. “The podcasts are a good way to look and in what language. “They’re Scripture-based, so slightly at the Stations of the Cross and realize different from the ones that are hanging Christ bore all those things patiently, and —Feb. 16, Station 1: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Father Eric Johnson in our churches,” said fellow team member reflect on how we continue to deal with (English), Father John McCaslin (Spanish). Theresa Chamblee, director of Catholic challenges in our lives.” —Feb. 18, Station 2: Jesus, Betrayed by Judas, is Arrested. Father Douglas Charities-Social Concerns. The advantage to using a podcast Hunter (English), Conventual Franciscan Father Mark Weaver (Spanish). “The hope is that, by listening to format is that “podcasts can be listened —Feb. 23, Station 3: Jesus is Condemned by the Sanhedrin. Father Christopher Wadelton (English and Spanish). —Feb. 25, Station 4: Jesus is Denied by Peter. Father Rick Nagel (English), Father Nicholas Ajpacaja Tzoc (Spanish). —March 2, Station 5: Jesus is Judged by Pilate. Father Michael Keucher (English and Spanish). —March 4, Station 6: Jesus is Scourged and Crowned with Thorns. Archbishop Thompson (English and Spanish). —March 9, Station 7: Jesus Bears the Cross. Father Jude Meril Christopher Sahayam (English), Father Vincent Gillmore (Spanish). —March 11, Station 8: Jesus is Helped by Simon the Cyrenian to Carry the Cross. Father Jeremy Gries (English), Spanish—TBD. —March 16, Station 9: Jesus Meets the Women of Jerusalem. Father Dustin Boehm (English), Spanish—TBD. —March 18, Station 10: Jesus is Crucified. Father Todd Goodson (English and Spanish). —March 23, Station 11: Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief. Father Douglas Marcotte (English), Father Timothy DeCrane (Spanish). —March 25, Station 12: Jesus Speaks to His Mother and Disciple. Father Jeffrey Dufresne (English and Spanish). —March 30, Station 13: Jesus Dies on the Cross. Father Jonathan Meyer Veronica wipes the face of Jesus in this representation of the sixth Station of Cross at the Shrine (English), Father Anthony Hollowell (Spanish). of Our Lady of Lourdes in southwestern France. During Lent, Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and —April 1, Station 14: Jesus is Placed in the Tomb. English—TBD, Father priests from throughout central and southern Indiana will offer podcasts reflecting on the stations Michael O’Mara (Spanish). † and suggesting acts of fasting, almsgiving and works of mercy. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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Anxiety frays our He added, “Our culture gives a lot of the pro-life movement is rooted in Conception in Washington. relationships with others, including our of credibility to science. Well, science the Eucharist, said Archbishop William “Eucharistic adoration followed by pro-life partners, and corrodes that unity attests to the humanity of the unborn E. Lori of Baltimore. the celebration of Holy Mass is like a so necessary if the pro-life cause is to child, psychology attests to the interior “The Eucharist school that forms and equips us to place succeed. pain often associated with procured unites and our humanity at the service of the least “Anxiety incites us to engage in abortions, while almost everyone has a strengthens us in of these, the tiniest of human beings behaviors counterproductive to the soft spot in their hearts for a newborn our efforts to secure and the most vulnerable of all,” the cause of life, and, worst of all, it child.” justice for the archbishop said. hinders us from discerning the Lord’s Reflecting on the Gospel passage unborn, and to create In his homily, Archbishop Lori will amid the challenges we face.” from John 14, Archbishop Lori a culture wherein brought the words of St. Paul to “have God has not abandoned anyone, said, “Make no mistake: We do not every human life is no anxiety” into topical focus. Archbishop Lori said, but “remains with manufacture the peace of Christ. ... cherished, nurtured “We might be tempted to say, us, most especially in the Eucharist, and The peace of Christ is not a mere and protected from ‘St. Paul, are you kidding? Have you he continues to exercise the power of good feeling, but is rather the amazing Archbishop William the moment of seen the executive order rescinding his love in our midst to this very day. experience of a love that is stronger E. Lori conception until the Mexico City policy? Do you know That very fact should not only console than sin and death. natural death,” said that the cancel culture portrays pro-life us, but also embolden us to pray and “Our mission,” he said, “is not to Archbishop Lori, chairman-elect of the advocacy as hate speech?’ ” he said. work for the cause of life perhaps as preach to ourselves, but to connect U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life “Friends, I’d suggest that we give never before.” with and speak persuasively to those Activities. St. Paul more credit than that,” Archbishop The Roman Empire of Paul’s time who have not yet understood the truth, “All these extraordinary efforts, in Lori added. “His encouragement should be was “right in the midst of a culture justice, and love of our cause,” he the midst of this pandemic, testify to ringing in our ears as we march for life—if filled with idols and decadent living,” continued. “Our mission is to reach the importance of anchoring our pro-life only virtually.” but contained “signs and indicators of those who are searching, because mission in the Eucharist,” Archbishop Anxiety, he said, “betokens a lack of God’s own truth and love,” Archbishop at some level, they understand the Lori said in his homily at the Jan. 29 trust in the Lord and his providential Lori said. “Similar signs and indicators stunningly beautiful truth about the closing Mass of the National Prayer love. It suggests that we are in charge, of God’s truth and love exist in our inviolable dignity of each human Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the more like independent contractors culture.” being.” † At vigil Mass, archbishop criticizes Biden, hopes for change from courts WASHINGTON (CNS)—The head Biden. However, the presidency does decisions are far from having the Archbishop Naumann said. of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on not empower him to define Catholic features of settled law as evidenced He cited passages from the Scripture Pro-Life Activities called President Joe doctrine and moral teaching.” by the many statutes passed in state readings used at the Mass: Isaiah’s Biden’s stance on abortion “religiously Archbishop Naumann made legislatures annually testing and declaration that “for now the Lord and ethically his remarks in a startlingly empty challenging the assumptions of Roe and has spoken who formed me as his incoherent” during Basilica of the National Shrine of the Doe.” servant from the womb” (Is 49:5); the his homily at the Immaculate Conception in Washington He offered a refutation of the notion psalmist’s proclamation that “truly you opening Mass of as coronavirus restrictions capped the held by some Christians that the Bible have formed my inmost being; you knit the annual National number of those in attendance at 250. is “silent on the morality of abortion.” me in my mother’s womb” (Ps 139:13); Prayer Vigil for Life What’s more, March for Life “What these Christians ignore is how and Luke’s Gospel account of Mary Jan. 28. organizers, because of the pandemic and frequently the Scriptures speak about meeting her kinswoman Elizabeth, who Biden “proudly security issues arising from the rioting the wonder, awe and beauty of life in tells the Blessed Mother, “For at the professes to be a at the Capitol three weeks earlier, the womb. The Bible speaks of children moment, the sound of your greeting devout Catholic even decided on an all-virtual march, except as a blessing. In fact, fruitfulness is reached my ears, the infant of my womb as he promises to for a small contingent of pro-life leaders recognized as a great gift from God,” leaped for joy” (Lk 1:44). † Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann codify Roe v. Wade, making speeches on the National Mall, seeks to force followed by a walk up to the U.S. American taxpayers to fund abortions ... Supreme Court on Jan. 29. and desires to force the Little Sisters of Archbishop Naumann called the Poor to provide contraceptives and the seating of Amy Coney Barrett abortifacients in their employee health on the Supreme Court “one of the plans,” said Archbishop Joseph unanticipated blessings of the past F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan. year.” “Sadly, President Biden is the perfect “The makeup of the court has vastly example of the religiously and ethically improved in the last four years,” he incoherent straddle: claiming to believe added. “There is legitimate hope that that human life begins at conception the U.S. Supreme Court could modify and personally opposing abortion, while or even reverse the decisions that we “God gives where He finds doing everything within his power to commemorate each year,” a reference promote and institutionalize abortion to the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton empty hands.” - St. Augustine not only in the U.S.A., but also around decisions in 1973 that legalized abortion the world.” throughout the country. He added, “The people of the As Barrett noted during her United States have entrusted enormous confirmation hearings, Archbishop power and responsibility to President Naumann said, “the Roe and Doe

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Opinion Be Our Guest/Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro Vatican official: Vaccines are safe People can be confident that the organizational criteria, with actions approved COVID-19 vaccines are at an international and local level Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher safe and ethical and that receiving to facilitate this universal access to Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus the vaccine is vaccines, avoiding a situation in an expression of which the richer countries create a solidarity and sort of reserve of large quantities our responsibility of vaccines, leaving poor countries Editorial to work for the with fewer and later vaccination common good. possibilities. This is a commitment The worldwide that fits into the perspective of the commitment of Pope Francis’ encyclical “Fratelli many scientists and Tutti: On Fraternity and Social public and private Friendship.” institutions, the availability of scientific knowledge What to do as a Church in the virological and oncological On a personal level, as individual fields, the relevant funding and the believers and as Christian communities, reduction of certain bureaucratic steps to get vaccinated can be recognized all have made it possible to have tested as a moral responsibility to protect vaccines in a few months, vaccines that one’s health and that of others, are safe and approved by the competent especially those unable to do so due authorities. to the presence of other pathologies, and to help achieve a sufficient “herd Real protection immunity” to safeguard all subjects. By vaccinating a large number of It should be recalled also that people now, it will be possible to offer falling ill with COVID-19 leads to an March for Life participants make their way to the U.S. Supreme Court building in real protection while subsequently increase in hospital admissions with Washington on Jan. 29, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) studying the duration of immunity the consequent overloading—and even to define future possible collapse— protocols more of health care accurately. This ‘It should be recalled also systems, hindering Be a light to help overcome whole process has access to health been the subject of that falling ill with COVID- facilities for other ethical reflection, patients with often the darkness of abortion including by the 19 leads to an increase in equally or more Catholic Church, serious conditions. It has been 48 years since the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide considering the There is a U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in contraceptives and abortifacients in their entire “life cycle” hospital admissions with the responsibility our country. employee health plans,” said Archbishop of the vaccine to practice real And that day—Jan. 22, 1973—will Naumann of Kansas City, Kan. from its production consequent overloading— solidarity, in the live in infamy for those of us who are “Sadly, President Biden is the perfect to its approval, light of that “we” committed to the tenet of our Catholic example of the religiously and ethically through to its and even possible collapse— on which Pope faith, where we are called to protect incoherent straddle: claiming to believe distribution and Francis strongly every human life from conception to that human life begins at conception and administration. of health care systems, insists, because natural death. personally opposing abortion, while doing by vaccination For many of us, it is hard to fathom everything within his power to promote Ethical criteria hindering access to health we save ourselves the more than 62 million unborn and institutionalize abortion not only in for priority together. The children’s lives taken from the womb by the U.S.A., but also around the world.” The note of the facilities for other patients relationship this evil. It is heartbreaking to see that We believe prayers for President COVID-19 Vatican between personal statistic increase year after year, with no Biden where unborn children are Commission, health and public end in sight. concerned are of paramount importance. “Vaccine for with often equally or more health creates an Yet, some in society continue to The injustice of these policies must All: 20 Points interdependence insist that doing this is OK, that we’re come to an end. for a Fairer and serious conditions.’ and a deep bond no worse off by extinguishing precious But our work must not end there. Healthier World,” that must be taken little ones who never had a chance to We must continue our mission of was published on care of by all of live the lives God had planned for them. educating those who think abortion is Dec. 29, 2020, us. What’s wrong with this sentiment? OK, helping them better understand in collaboration with the Pontifical Everything, if you believe each of us is how precious each and every unborn life Academy for Life. The duty to get correct information created in the image and likeness of God. is. We are, after all, our brothers’ and As the title states, it is essential and Caring for oneself and for others We again marked this tragic sisters’ keepers. urgent that approved vaccines are made is a moral commitment and, as Pope anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision During the Archdiocese of Washington’s available in every part of the world, Francis said, “Everyone must take by celebrating Masses, holding virtual annual “Rally and Mass for Life” prior including in the poorest and most the vaccine.” On the other hand, it is prayer rallies, and taking part in scaled- to the annual March for Life on Jan. 29, remote areas. It is also necessary to also important to inquire, possibly by down marches, including the national speakers used YouTube and other social define the priorities for administering talking to your doctor, resolving doubts March for Life in Washington, D.C. media platforms to encourage young the vaccine. and overcoming unjustified prejudices Although attendance at similar people from across the country to rally, There is a general agreement in and fears. gatherings throughout the U.S.— pray and stand up for life. The virtual rally many countries to start with medical An atmosphere of trust in scientists including in Indianapolis—was down and Mass were celebrated at the Cathedral staff and health care operators and and doctors and an attitude of because of the COVID-19 pandemic and of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. nursing homes for the elderly, and participation and hope would help to restrictions related to it, the message was The youth rally prior to the liturgy then proceed with other subjects practically express that solidarity that the same: We must continue to stand up focused on training young people how engaged in essential public services will help all of us to come out of the for life, be voices for the voiceless, and to engage in civil dialogue and pro-life (law enforcement, schools) and with pandemic together soon. plant seeds of wisdom and understanding apologetics. more vulnerable and fragile groups of to convert those hardened hearts that Josh Brahm, president and people. (Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro is chancellor of don’t fully comprehend the evil they co-founder of Equal Rights Institute—a It is necessary to define ethical and the Pontifical Academy for Life.) † support. Our efforts are about continuing national organization training pro-life to build a culture of life. advocates to think, reason and argue Sadly, many would say our persuasively—urged young people challenges have taken on new meaning to “utilize practical dialogue” when Letters Policy with a Catholic serving as the leader of speaking of the pro-life movement. our country. In a series of videos, he taught Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, “three essential skills” for presenting a Letters from readers are published in letters from readers as necessary based on head of the U.S. bishop’s Committee on pro-life argument: asking clarification The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and Pro-Life Activities, called President Joe questions then responding with your commitment to “the responsible exchange of content (including spelling and grammar). In Biden’s stance on abortion “religiously own thoughts; listening to understand freely-held and expressed opinion among the order to encourage opinions from a variety and ethically incoherent” during his and finding genuine common ground People of God” (Communio et Progressio, 116). of readers, frequent writers will ordinarily homily at the opening Mass of the annual when possible; and making a compelling Letters from readers are welcome and be limited to one letter every three months. National Prayer Vigil for Life on Jan. 28 at argument for the rights of the unborn. every effort will be made to include letters Concise letters (usually less than 300 words) the Basilica of the National Shrine of the It is advice we can all use in our pro- from as many people and representing as are more likely to be printed. Immaculate Conception in Washington. life efforts. many viewpoints as possible. Letters should Letters must be signed, but, for serious The president “proudly professes As we continue this mission, may we be informed, relevant, well-expressed and reasons, names may be withheld. to be a devout Catholic even as he all let the light of faith shine through us to temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” The promises to codify Roe v. Wade, seeks help overcome the darkness of abortion. sense of courtesy and respect. Criterion, 1400 N. 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Scripture reminds us the Lord heals our brokenness “Alleluia! How good to sing praise to until the dawn. … My days are swifter joy of eternal life with him. Jesus is not discouraged by the our God; how pleasant to give fitting than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to In the second reading for the Fifth “pandemic” of mental, physical praise. The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem, an end without hope. Remember that Sunday in Ordinary Time (1 Cor 9:16- and spiritual illness that confronts and gathers the dispersed of Israel, my life is like the wind; I shall not see 19, 22-23), St. Paul uses images of him every day. He doesn’t give up Healing the brokenhearted, and binding happiness again” (Jb 7:1-4, 6-7). slavery and freedom to describe the or lose hope—even when those up their wounds” (Ps 147:1-3). It’s hard to imagine an attitude more “burden” he carries as a missionary closest to him doubt him, or even grim and hopeless than this. disciple: betray him. In the words of St. Paul, February is sometimes seen as a Fortunately, we know the end of “Although I am free in regard to all, Jesus “became weak to win over the dismal month. We are in the dead of the story. Job overcomes all his trials, I have made myself a slave to all weak” (1 Cor 9:22). He surrenders winter, and the weather can be cold and remains faithful to God and is rewarded so as to win over as many as possible. to the world’s darkness in order dreary (or worse). Fortunately, February for his constancy. … To the weak I became weak, to win to transform it according to his is a short month. By the time we get to Job is, of course, an image of the over the weak. I have become all things wonderful light. March, there are signs that spring is not suffering servant, Jesus, who will to all, to save at least some. All this I When things appear gloomy to us far off. redeem all of humanity by his passion, do for the sake of the Gospel, so that I in this dark time of the year, the Good The Scripture readings for the Fifth death and resurrection. By his wounds, too may have a share in it” (1 Cor 9:16, News proclaimed by Jesus challenges Sunday in Ordinary Time display we are healed (Is 53:5; 1 Pt 2:24). 22-23). us to remain faithful, to see through something of a February mood. This is The responsorial psalm for this When we are true to our baptismal the foggy weather and have confidence certainly true for the first reading from Sunday (Ps 147) assures us that vocation, we accept hardships for the that the Son of God has overcome every the Book of Job (Jb 7:1-4, 6-7). Job, a the Lord heals our brokenness. No sake of the Gospel. And we allow the evil. His light shines for us unfailingly righteous man whose faith God allows matter how bad things may seem, love and mercy of God to heal us—and and leads us to a vastly different, Satan to test severely, says bitterly: God is with us. His healing power those we are called to help—by the joy-filled future. “Is not man’s life on Earth a comforts and sustains us. “He heals power of the Holy Spirit. Let’s pray that God’s grace will drudgery? Are not his days those of the brokenhearted and binds up their The Gospel reading for this Sunday help us overcome whatever lingering hirelings? He is a slave who longs for wounds” (Ps 147:3). We cannot avoid (Mk 1:29–39) affirms Jesus’ healing doubts we may have about the bright the shade, a hireling who waits for his the lingering effects of sin and death. power: “When it was evening, after future that awaits us as brothers and wages. So I have been assigned months They are part of the human condition. sunset, they brought to him all who sisters in Christ. Let’s thank our of misery, and troubled nights have But as disciples of Jesus Christ, were ill or possessed by demons. … loving and merciful God for all the been allotted to me. If in bed I say, we believe that our Redeemer has He cured many who were sick with gifts he has given us as we work to ‘When shall I arise?’ then the night overcome the permanent consequences various diseases, and he drove out many proclaim the Gospel of joy in all drags on; I am filled with restlessness of sin and evil. He has gained for us the demons” (Mk 1: 32, 34). seasons. †

Las Escrituras nos recuerdan que el Señor sana nuestros quebrantos “¡Aleluya! Porque bueno es cantar noche sigue, y estoy dando vueltas Conquistó por nosotros la alegría de la los demonios, porque ellos sabían quién alabanzas a nuestro Dios, porque continuamente hasta el amanecer. vida eterna con Él. era Él” (Mc 1:32; 34). agradable y apropiada es la alabanza. [...] Mis días pasan más veloces que En la segunda lectura del quinto Jesús no se desanima ante la El Señor edifica a Jerusalén; congrega la lanzadera, y llegan a su fin sin domingo del tiempo ordinario “pandemia” de enfermedades mentales, a los dispersos de Israel; sana a los esperanza. Recuerda, oh Dios, que mi (1 Cor 9:16-19; 22-23), san Pablo físicas y espirituales a la que se quebrantados de corazón, y venda sus vida es un soplo, mis ojos no volverán utiliza imágenes de esclavitud y libertad enfrenta cada día. No se rinde ni pierde heridas” (Sal 147:1-3). a ver el bien” (Jb 7:1-4, 6-7). para describir la “carga” que lleva como la esperanza, ni siquiera cuando sus Resulta difícil imaginar una actitud discípulo misionero: allegados dudan de él, o incluso lo A veces se considera que febrero más sombría y desesperada que esta. “Porque aunque soy libre de todos, traicionan. En palabras de san Pablo, es un mes sombrío ya que estamos en Por suerte, conocemos el final de todos me he hecho esclavo para Jesús se hizo “débil, para ganar a los pleno invierno, y el tiempo puede ser de la historia: Job supera todas sus ganar al mayor número posible. [...] A débiles” (1 Cor 9:22). Se entrega a las frío y lúgubre (o incluso peor). Pero pruebas, permanece fiel a Dios y es los débiles me hice débil, para ganar a tinieblas del mundo para transformarlo afortunadamente febrero es un mes recompensado por su constancia. los débiles; a todos me he hecho todo, según su maravillosa luz. corto. Cuando llegamos a marzo, hay Job es, por supuesto, la imagen del para que por todos los medios salve a Cuando las cosas nos parecen indicios de que la primavera está cerca. siervo sufriente, Jesús, que redimirá algunos. Y todo lo hago por amor del sombrías en esta época oscura del año, Las lecturas de las Escrituras para el a toda la humanidad con su pasión, evangelio, para ser partícipe de él” la Buena Nueva proclamada por Jesús quinto domingo del tiempo ordinario muerte y resurrección. Mediante sus (1 Cor 9:19; 22-23). nos desafía a permanecer fieles, a ver a reflejan un poco lo que es el ambiente heridas, fuimos sanados (Is 53:5; Cuando somos fieles a nuestra través de la niebla y a tener confianza de febrero. Esto sin duda lo vemos 1 Pe 2:24). vocación bautismal, aceptamos las en que el Hijo de Dios ha vencido en la primera lectura del Libro de Job El salmo responsorial de este dificultades en virtud del Evangelio. todo mal. Su luz brilla para nosotros (Jb 7:1-4; 6-7). Job, un hombre justo domingo (Sal 147) nos asegura que el Y permitimos que el amor y la indefectiblemente y nos conduce a un y cuya fe Dios permitió que Satanás Señor cura nuestras heridas. Por muy misericordia de Dios nos curen, tanto futuro completamente distinto y lleno pusiera a prueba severamente, dice con mal que parezcan las cosas, Dios está a nosotros como a los que estamos de alegría. amargura: con nosotros y su poder sanador nos llamados a ayudar, por el poder del Recemos para que la gracia de “¿No está el hombre obligado a reconforta y nos sostiene. “Sana a los Espíritu Santo. Dios nos ayude a superar cualquier trabajar sobre la tierra? ¿No son sus quebrantados de corazón, y venda sus La lectura del Evangelio de este duda que podamos tener sobre el días como los días de un jornalero? heridas” (Sal 147:3). No podemos domingo del (Mc 1:29-39), reafirma resplandeciente futuro que nos Como esclavo que suspira por la evitar los efectos siempre presentes el poder sanador de Jesús: “A la caída aguarda como hermanos y hermanas sombra, y como jornalero que espera del pecado y la muerte, ya que forman de la tarde, después de la puesta del en Cristo. Agradezcamos a nuestro con ansias su paga, así me han dado parte de la condición humana. Pero sol, le trajeron todos los que estaban Dios amoroso y misericordioso todos en herencia meses inútiles, y noches de como discípulos de Jesucristo, nuestra enfermos y los endemoniados. [...] Y los dones que nos ha dado mientras aflicción me han asignado. Cuando me fe nos dice que nuestro Redentor sanó a muchos que estaban enfermos continuamos la obra de proclamar el acuesto, digo: ha superado las consecuencias de diversas enfermedades, y expulsó Evangelio de la alegría en todas las ‘¿Cuándo me levantaré?’ Pero la permanentes del pecado y del mal. muchos demonios; y no dejaba hablar a estaciones. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021

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February 9 February 18 by Feb. 19. Registration and no registration needed, free. confessions prior. Information: March 17 Monthly Virtual Taizé St. Joseph Church, 1401 information: 812-535-2952, Log on: carmelthirdoption. 812-246-3522. Calvary Mausoleum Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., S. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. [email protected] or www. org/web then click on link Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., silent and spoken prayers, Third Thursday Adoration, spsmw.org/event. at top of page. Information: St. Michael Church, Indianapolis. Monthly simple music, silence. Link: interceding for women carmelthirdoption.org/web, 145 St. Michael Blvd., Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Taize.SistersofProvidence.org. experiencing crisis pregnancy, Annual Shawe and Pope or Keith Ingram, kingram@ Brookville. First Saturday 317-784-4439 or www. Information: 812-535-2952, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at John Virtual Auction Dinner, aicinvest.com or 317-324-8446. Marian Devotional catholiccemeteries.cc. [email protected]. 5:45 p.m. benefitting Prince of Peace Prayer Group, Mass, schools in Madison, two March 5 devotional prayers, rosary, March 18 February 11 Our Lady of Peace Cemetery raffles, prizes up to $10,000, Women’s Care Center, 8 a.m. Information: St. Joseph Church, 1401 Sisters of Providence White and Mausoleum, 9001 200 raffle tickets at $200 each. 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. 765-647-5462. S. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Violet Center for Eco- Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. To buy tickets, donate items or First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., Third Thursday Adoration, Justice Virtual Workshop: Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. sponsor event: 812-273-5835 optional tour of center to March 9 interceding for women Baking Sourdough Bread, Information: 317-574-8898 or ext. 246, or 812-801-1660. follow. Information: Monthly Virtual Taizé experiencing crisis pregnancy, via Zoom, 6:30-8 p.m., $45 www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Online auction link: qtego.net/ 317-829-6800, www. Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at includes instruction materials qlink/popauction21. womenscarecenter.org. silent and spoken prayers, 5:45 p.m. and sourdough bread starter, The Third Option virtual simple music, silence. Link: register by Feb. 4. Registration marriage crisis/enrichment March 3 Our Lady of the Greenwood Taize.SistersofProvidence.org. Our Lady of Peace Cemetery and information: 812-535- class, “Understanding MCL Cafeteria, 5520 Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Information: 812-535-2952, and Mausoleum, 9001 2952, [email protected] or Expectations,” 7-8 p.m., Castleton Corner Lane, Greenwood. First Friday [email protected]. Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. www.spsmw.org/event. Thursdays bi-weekly through Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, bilingual celebration of the Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. May 20, viewing all sessions 5 p.m., Catholic, educational, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, March 11 Information: 317-574-8898 or The Third Option virtual recommended but not required, charitable and social singles— Mass, 5:45 p.m., exposition The Third Option virtual www.catholiccemeteries.cc. marriage crisis/enrichment no registration needed, free. separated, widowed or of the Blessed Sacrament, marriage crisis/enrichment class, “Responsibility and Log on: carmelthirdoption. divorced—age 50 and older, following Mass until 9 p.m., class, “Control Issues,” The Third Option virtual Blame Game,” 7-8 p.m., org/web then click on link new members welcome, also sacrament of reconciliation 7-8 p.m., Thursdays marriage crisis/enrichment Thursdays bi-weekly at top of page. Information: call about regular Friday night available. Information: bi-weekly through May 20, class, “Listening Beyond the through May 20, viewing carmelthirdoption.org/web, dinner events. Information: 317- 317-750-7309, msross1@ viewing all sessions Words,” 7-8 p.m., Thursdays all sessions recommended or Keith Ingram, kingram@ 796-8605 or 317-243-0777. hotmail.com. recommended but not bi-weekly through May 20, but not required, no aicinvest.com or 317-324-8446. required, no registration viewing all sessions registration needed, free. March 4 March 6 needed, free. Log on: recommended but not required, Log on: carmelthirdoption. February 27 The Third Option virtual John Paul II Parish, carmelthirdoption.org/ no registration needed, free. Log org/web then click on link Sisters of Providence White marriage crisis/enrichment St. Paul Chapel, web then click on link at on: carmelthirdoption.org/web at top of page. Information: Violet Center “Virtual class, “Re-Defining Power 216 Schellers Ave., top of page. Information: then click on link at top of page. carmelthirdoption.org/web, Alpaca Encounter,” via Struggle,” 7-8 p.m., Thursdays Sellersburg. First Saturday carmelthirdoption.org/web, Information: carmelthirdoption. or Keith Ingram, kingram@ Zoom, 10-11 a.m., $15 plus bi-weekly through May 20, Marian Devotion, 8 a.m. or Keith Ingram, kingram@ org/web, or Keith Ingram, aicinvest.com or optional $10 per alpaca viewing all sessions rosary, meditation, prayer; aicinvest.com or [email protected] or 317- 317-324-8446. ornament felting kit, register recommended but not required, 8:30 a.m. Mass with 317-324-8446. 324-8446. † Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Mich., offer ‘Zoom and See’ weekend The Dominican Sisters of Adrian, “Zoom and See” will include time Mich., will host a virtual “Zoom and for prayer, silence, faith-sharing and See” weekend for single Catholic fun, as well as the opportunity to women ages 19-35 seeking to discern learn about the life of a Sister and the their call in life on Feb. 12-13. Dominican life. ANNIVERSARIES The weekend is a virtual opportunity To register, go to tinyurl.com/ edding to spend time spend with the Adrian ADSDiscern. For more information, W Dominican Sisters and with other contact Sister Tarianne DeYonker at young Catholic women discerning their [email protected] or future. call or text her at 517-920-1395. † Salvatore and Claudette (Waugh) Years Viscuso, members of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, celebrated their 60th wedding Webinars on unaccompanied children 60 anniversary on Jan. 14. The couple was married in St. Cecilia Church in available on Thursdays in February Cleveland, Ohio, on Jan. 14, 1961. They have four children: Brian, Frank, Kevin and The archdiocesan Catholic Charities- On Feb. 18, licensed foster parents Vito Viscuso. Social Concerns office is offering a will discuss “Supporting Kids and The couple also has seven grandchildren and five series of three separate webinars on Families in Our Community.” They will great-grandchildren. † unaccompanied immigrant children share why they chose to become involved called “Family Changes Everything” in supporting children and families, and from noon-1 p.m. on Feb. 11, 18 and 25. explain how others can volunteer. There is no cost to join the webinars. On Feb. 25, the topic “Current The Feb. 11 topic is “Loved, Trends and What’s Next?” will be Connected and Safe: How the Need addressed by archdiocesan Refugee is Being Met.” The discussion will and Immigrant Services policy advisor

address the life of an unaccompanied Laura McCarter and an immigration Jerry and Theresa (Vogel) Simmons, child, share how they are being helped attorney. They will discuss current Years members of St. Ambrose Parish in Seymour, will by the archdiocesan Refugee and policies and how individuals can celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Feb. 6. Immigrant Services and Indianapolis- advocate for future needs. 50 The couple was married in St. Joseph Church in based Bethany Christian Services, and The webinars are free, but Jennings County on Feb. 6, 1971. how individuals can help in meeting the registration is required. To register, go to They have three children: Jennifer Johnson, Debra needs of such children. Several experts familychangeseverything.eventbrite.com. McLaughlin and Brian Simmons. will speak, including Heidi Smith, For more information, contact The couple also has six grandchildren. † archdiocesan director of Refugee and Simona Reising at 317-236-1457 or Immigrant Services. e-mail [email protected]. †

Announcements for couples celebrating 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or more years of For a complete list of retreats as reported to marriage are accepted. Go to bit.ly/2M4MQms or call 317-236-1585. Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats.

Feb. 10-March 24 tables provided, watercolors presenter, six sessions, $100. Information, registration: CEUs. Information, registration: Information, registration: Mount Saint Francis Center available for purchase, Registration: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], for Spirituality, Pump House $20 per session. Registration: mountsaintfrancis.org/retreats oldenburgfranciscancenter.org/ oldenburgfranciscancenter.org/ oldenburgfranciscancenter.org/ Studio, 101 St. Anthony Dr., mountsaintfrancis.org/retreats or 812-923-8817. programs. programs. programs. † Mt. St. Francis. Watercolor or 812-923-8817. 101, Wednesdays 9:30-1:30 a.m. February 19 February 20 February 21 Events and retreats can be or 6:30-8:30 p.m., learn basic Feb. 18, 25, March 4, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Second Half of Life virtual Virtual “Mystics & Prayer” submitted by logging on to watercolor techniques from 11, 18, 25 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. A program via Zoom, offered by Coffee Talk via Zoom: www.archindy.org/events/ Conventual Franciscan Father Lenten “Letting Go” Series, Quiet Day of Renewal, self- Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Raimon Panikkar, offered submission or mailing us Vincent Petersen, open to Mount Saint Francis Center guided retreat, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 9:30-11:30 p.m., Franciscan by Oldenburg Franciscan at 1400 N. Meridian St., all levels, bring watercolor for Spirituality, via Zoom, $20 includes private room, Sister Olga Wittekind Center, 10:45 a.m.-noon., Indianapolis, IN 46202, paper; easels and drawing 7-8:30 p.m., Judy Ribar $70 with spiritual direction. facilitating, $25, $40 with Bruce Garrison presenting. ATTN: Ann Lewis. The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Page 7

Saint Meinrad monk professes solemn vows on Jan. 25 Benedictine Brother Stanley Rother Wagner Benedictine professed solemn vows as a monk of Saint Meinrad Brother Stanley Archabbey in St. Meinrad on Jan. 25 in the Rother Wagner monastery’s Archabbey Church of Our Lady of professes Einsiedeln. solemn vows A native of Quincy, Ill., Brother Stanley Rother, 33, as a monk of currently serves as an assistant to the Saint Meinrad Saint Meinrad archivist, as an oblate novice mentor and as custodian Archabbey in for pilgrimages to the monastery’s Shrine of Our Lady St. Meinrad on of Monte Cassino. Jan. 25 in the Before entering the monastery, he worked as a monastery’s teacher at St. Anthony High School in Effingham, Ill., Archabbey and as an archivist for the Illinois secretary of state. Church of Brother Stanley Rother earned a bachelor’s degree Our Lady of in history at Quincy University in Quincy, Ill., and a Einsiedeln. (Photo master’s degree in liturgical studies at the University of courtesy of Saint St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill. Meinrad Archabbey) In professing solemn vows of obedience, fidelity to the monastic way of life and stability in the community at Saint Meinrad, Brother Stanley Rother is a full and permanent member of the Benedictine community. †

Saint Meinrad Archabbey receives Benedictine novice professes new novices into community temporary vows at Saint Meinrad In a recent ceremony at Saint Meinrad Novice Matthew, 33, a native of Benedictine Novice Simon Holden A native of Lexington, Ky., Brother Archabbey in St. Meinrad, two new Fort Thomas, Ky., earned a bachelor’s of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Peter, 24, earned a bachelor’s degree novices were received degree in history St. Meinrad in music in 2019 at the University of by the monastic and theology at professed temporary Louisville in Louisville, Ky. He worked community. Bellarmine University vows as a monk in as a music theory and music history Benedictine in Louisville, Ky. He a liturgy on Jan. 20 tutor while a student. Novices Connor Zink worked for Kroger in the Archabbey His most recent home parish was and Matthew Morris for 18 years in a Church of Our Lady St. Leo Parish in Versailles, Ky., where he were clothed on variety of positions of Einsiedeln. was a volunteer in the faith community’s Jan. 19 in the and was a member As is the custom Alpha program. Benedictine habit. of St. Catherine of of Saint Meinrad, Temporary vows are typically They now begin a Siena Parish in Fort he took on a for three years. This period offers a year of monastic Thomas. religious name continuing opportunity for the monk and Nov. Connor Zink, Nov. Matthew Br. Peter Holden, O.S.B. formation, including Morris, O.S.B. Novices take a O.S.B. during the the monastic community to determine study of the Rule of year off from formal profession of vows. whether monastic life is, indeed, the right St. Benedict and monastic history. studies and trades. The novitiate is a time Novice Simon is now Brother Peter. vocation for this individual. † Novice Connor, 24, a native of West of prayer and learning intended to help Chester, Ohio, earned a bachelor’s degree a novice discern his vocation as a monk. in Catholic studies at Marian University in At the end of this year, a novice may be Indianapolis in 2018. He previously worked permitted to profess temporary vows of in retail for Meijer and was a member of obedience, fidelity to the monastic way St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Liberty, of life and stability in the community of Ohio, where he did volunteer work. Saint Meinrad. †

Pope meets with head of World Food Program, which has been flagging crises VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis Speaking to the gathering virtually on on Jan. 28 met with David M. Beasley, Jan. 27, Beasley said the COVID-19 pandemic the executive director of the U.N. World showed how important it was to bolster Food Program (WFP), which was awarded vulnerable supply chains to poor countries the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. that have been unable to get food to their Headquartered in Rome, the WFP is the people, according to the Associated Press. world’s largest humanitarian organization “If you think you’ve had trouble getting addressing hunger and promoting food toilet paper in New York because of supply CREATIVE WAYS TO SUPPORT security. chain disruption, what do you think’s The private papal audience was held happening in Chad and Niger and Mali and PARISHES, SCHOOLS & AGENCIES in the apostolic library at the Vatican, and places like that?” he said in his talk. the Vatican provided photographs, but no The global food supply system does THREE EASY WAYS TO GIVE AND RECEIVE A TAX BENEFIT! other details. work, but the pandemic has worsened

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questions about what the Church MOTHER teaches,” Kovert says. “She introduced continued from page 1 me to the person of Jesus Christ. And there’s a huge difference between past four years as the event and volunteer knowing about and knowing someone coordinator for the archdiocese’s young truly, and that just changed everything. adult and college campus ministry. “Once I understood what the Church Even turning 30 on her most recent taught and understood that relationship birthday didn’t dim her exuberance— with Christ, that’s when I really dived “I’m pretty pumped about it,” Kovert in headfirst. Once you fall into love, says with another smile. you want to just launch into the fullness So it’s hard to imagine her time in of knowing and loving that person. So college when she was so disenchanted that’s what I feel I did with my faith.” with the Catholic faith that she crossed That dive led her into depths of her her arms, put her head down “and was faith she never once imagined. all grumpy” during a Bible study that focused on the Blessed Mother instead ‘It changed my life’ of Jesus. After graduating from Ball State To know the depth of her in 2012, Kovert became a campus disenchantment with the Catholic faith missionary with the Fellowship of during her first two years at Ball State Catholic University Students (FOCUS), University in Muncie, Ind., consider the an organization “whose mission is to approach she took toward share the hope and joy of the young, Catholic the Gospel with college campus missionary who students.” She served said hello to Kovert every two years at Bradley time she saw her. University in Peoria, Ill., “We laugh about it and a year at Wright State now, but there was a point University in Dayton, where I was actually Ohio. trying to convert her away “I know that God just from Catholicism,” Kovert says. wanted me to do it,” she says. “The same “I definitely had a struggle with my zeal I have for young people now was Catholicism in college. I think I really present then. I was convicted that I was turned away and turned toward the non- handed on this truth, and that it changed denominational aspect of Christianity. I my life.” just wanted Jesus and the Bible.” Another defining life change came A short time later, she learned what in 2015 when she married her husband Jesus wanted for her—a turning point Kyle. Two years later, she joined the that came in an unexpected way. staff of the archdiocese’s young adult and college campus ministry. ‘Once you fall into love . . .’ “I choose to work with young adults A family photo captures Rebecca and Kyle Kovert sharing smiles with their daughter, Avila. Although Kovert had turned away because of my own conversion as a young (Submitted photo) from her Catholic faith, a friend adult,” she says. “And also because so recruited her to serve as a volunteer for a much happens in young adulthood. There ‘There are certain things we long for’ books. They talk about love and youth group headed to the 2009 National are so many transitions. You’re going Kovert has reached another transition self-donation. That language comes to mind Catholic Youth Conference in Kansas away to school, you’re trying to find a job, point in her own life. when I think about my faith. The Lord has City, Mo. Surprisingly, she said yes. you’re getting married, you’re moving, She will soon be stepping aside from blessed me and given me everything. Out of “On the bus ride there, I was reading you’re having children—all within this her role with the archdiocese to become love for him, I want to give in return. Also, the Bible and thought, I’m so much time frame. So much is happening.” a full-time mom to her daughter. At the out of love for neighbor.” better than Catholics because they Her smile and her joy keep growing same time, she hopes to volunteer for the Her exuberance is full-throttle now. don’t read Scripture. I was so prideful,” as she talks. young adult and college campus ministry, “There are certain things we long for, she recalls. “In that moment of pride, “Young adults are just spending so with the thought of helping to expand its we desire, we want. There are so many God said, ‘Do you trust me? Do you much time trying to figure out who they outreach toward young married couples, paths we can choose. But there is an allow Catholicism to be on the table of are, where they’re going, their path in including those with families. authenticity that fulfills us fully, and it only potential churches and potential truths?’ life, and what they’re supposed to do. In her own marriage and family, her comes through Jesus Christ, only comes In that moment, I opened the door, and There are so many choices. Young adult faith is her foundation; her relationship through the Church, who knows our heart the Lord used that to come in.” is fertile soil. You’re old enough to make with Christ her inspiration. and what will make us truly happy. So did the young college missionary your own decisions, but still young “It’s my everything, and I continually “From my experience, I was feeling kind whom Kovert tried to turn away from the enough to have so many decisions to seek to put Christ more and more into of lost without God. Now, knowing that God Catholic faith. be made. I love it. And I think the faith the center of my life and just make that could fulfill me most perfectly and show “Her persistence and her friendliness can keep us grounded, offering some my lifestyle,” she says. me what is true, good and beautiful, I want were there when I started having more practical foundations for life.” “I’ve been reading different parenting others to know. I want that for others.” †

family of three, from $288 to $513—and ICC modify them annually using Social Security continued from page 1 cost-of-living adjustment rates. ‘Beyond the cash benefits, which are certainly If enacted, the legislation also would critical, TANF also promotes the dignity of to qualify for TANF is roughly $3,400 update TANF eligibility guidelines workers, from providing job training to helping in annual income. States around us like to enable far more Hoosiers to take with transportation to work, uniforms and Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan have advantage of the program, which also eligibility levels of a little over $10,000 includes intensive job training assistance other necessities.’ for a family of three.” and other services to lift people out of —Angela Espada, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Indiana set its income requirements poverty for good. Conference to qualify for TANF in the mid-1990s, The bill has a broad base of support, when welfare reform was signed into law including from the Indiana Catholic by then-President Bill Clinton. Those Conference (ICC). eligibility guidelines have not been adjusted “We are in favor of this bill for a shows lawmakers a photo of herself from of Feeding Indiana’s Hungry, another for inflation since then. Among other variety of reasons based on Catholic social 1988—when she was 7 years old. organization backing Senate Bill 233. provisions, Senate Bill 233 would increase teaching,” said Angela Espada, executive “We need to make this change,” said “This does not even begin to touch monthly TANF payment amounts—for a director of the ICC, the public policy voice Fraser, a member of St. Thomas Aquinas on the other valuable supports that TANF of the Catholic Church in Indiana. Parish in Indianapolis. “Families in Indiana provides, like child care and workforce “From the standpoint of solidarity, when need this and have needed it for a long while. training. We support the purposes our brothers and sisters are in need, we must TANF is the only program for families in of Senate Bill 233, to raise both the ‘This is money that do what we can to help them. Beyond the deep poverty to have cash in their pocket so eligibility guidelines and benefit levels for families depend on for cash benefits, which are certainly critical, that they can take care of their day-to-day TANF. Both are long overdue and vital to survival. But right now TANF also promotes the dignity of workers, needs that aren’t covered by other programs. help families with few resources to better from providing job training to helping Income matters for families.” provide for their children.” only six in 100 families in with transportation to work, uniforms and She and other advocates emphasize that To follow this and other priority poverty are other necessities. Especially considering other government assistance programs, such legislation of the ICC, visit www. being helped the devastation that many families have as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance indianacc.org. This website includes by this gone through because of the coronavirus Program (SNAP)—more commonly known access to I-CAN, the Indiana Catholic program.’ pandemic, the needs are greater than ever.” as food stamps—place limits on what can Action Network, which offers the One of the staunchest supporters of be purchased with the funds. TANF payouts Church’s position on key issues. Those —Sen. Jon Ford, modernizing TANF is the Indiana Institute can help close that gap. who sign up for I-CAN receive alerts on the primary for Working Families, which for years has “TANF provides cash assistance that legislation moving forward and ways to author of been promoting legislation like Senate Bill families can use for expenses that no other contact their elected representatives. Senate Bill 233. To bring home the point that it has been program can address—things like gas 233 more than three decades since TANF was money, diapers, clothes for school and (Victoria Arthur, a member of St. Malachy updated in Indiana, Jessica Fraser, program medication, to name a few examples,” said Parish in Brownsburg, is a correspondent manager for the organization, routinely Emily Weikert Bryant, executive director for The Criterion.) † The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Page 9

Former abortion doctor to speak at 40 Days for Life event in Indy By Natalie Hoefer half of the fee the woman paid.” Robinson believes that a relationship Abortion centers are “not a fun with Christ combined with knowledge For nearly 40 years, Dr. Haywood place to be,” Robinson admitted. “But about the medical world can fundamentally Robinson “loved” everything about his you have your ways of rationalizing change a person’s view of abortion. job as a family doctor. something you know is horribly, horribly “They’re not separate,” he said. “You “I loved family medicine, loved my wrong. You push it back [in your mind]. have to remember who made creation patients, loved doing deliveries [of You become more desensitized. The and laws of nature. … The enemy wants babies],” he said, genuine joy resonating mom, the baby and the doctor become you to separate creation of life with in his voice. “I love dehumanized—that’s the only way you God. But is killing any different between helping people.” can walk in a stranger’s room and in five someone in their 20s and a baby in the Yet the same minutes kill her baby, take her money womb, even when it’s just one cell?” doctor performed and walk out.” The pro-life movement and saving the abortions for three The couple stopped performing lives of unborn children is “about God,” years after finishing abortions when they moved to Bryan- said Robinson. “And what he holds at his residency in College Station, Texas, in 1981. It was his highest level of concern and love is 1978 at a hospital in there, during a call-down of the Holy human beings made in his image.” Los Angeles. Spirit for healing during a Christian He mentioned the staggering statistic It was not until concert in 1986 that Robinson knew of the more than 62 million lives lost to Dr. Haywood 1986 when he “something inside me had changed.” abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Robinson encountered Christ “I know something was different, but 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. And that’s that Robinson I didn’t know what,” he recalled. just in the United States, he noted. recognized “the evil of abortion.” Three weeks later, Noreen gave birth to “It’s a global holocaust of unprecedented “I don’t know why he didn’t save me their first child. They asked a friend, the proportions,” said Robinson. “Until the before I did all those abortions,” he said. son of a Pentecostal preacher, to be the Holy Spirit takes that knowledge to the Larelle Thompson, 3, wears a sign during a “But he had to keep me blind and build godfather. During his visit for the baptism, heart, those 62 million lives are just another 40 Days for Life kickoff event at the Planned that testimony in me.” two more lives were born again in Christ. piece of information.” Parenthood abortion facility in Indianapolis Robinson will share that testimony “He shared the Gospel with us, on Sept. 26, 2018. Her life was saved from in Indianapolis on Feb. 17 during an and right then and there Noreen and I ‘Come one time with an open heart’ abortion at the same facility three-and-a-half event to kick off the spring campaign accepted Christ into our lives. Thus, while Robinson’s role for 40 years prior. (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) for 40 Days for Life (see related article “We were born again,” he said. “And Days for Life is to educate, he believes below), a pro-life movement he has been now that [God] had us, he showed us the “people cannot be coerced” into ‘Lord, if it be your will, give me your involved with since it began in 2004. evil of abortion.” embracing the cause of saving the lives Spirit to motivate me to come back. Put of the unborn. in me the same care and love that you ‘You become more desensitized’ ‘A global holocaust of unprecedented “That is the work of the Holy Spirit,” have for these babies. Help me find time It was during his residency that proportions’ he reiterated. to carve out so I can be here again and Robinson met Noreen Johnson, an Robinson became active in the pro- So, for those “on the fence” about make a difference, and to see your glory obstetrics and gynecology resident at life life movement while he and his wife their involvement in the movement, work through me in saving babies.’ ” the same Los Angeles hospital. It was continued their medical practice. He has Robinson does not encourage signing up Noreen whom he would later ask to be been involved in 40 Days for Life since for a weekly hour of praying outside an (The 40 Days for Life kickoff where his wife. its inception in his hometown of Bryan- abortion center during the 40 Days for Dr. Haywood Robinson will speak will And it was she who taught him how College Station in 2004. Life spring campaign. take place on the sidewalk in front of the to perform abortions. In 2019, he retired and became the Instead, he suggests making a trip Planned Parenthood abortion facility at Upon finishing their medical director of medical affairs and education there to pray briefly. 8590 Georgetown Road in Indianapolis training, the couple stayed in Los for 40 Days for Life. “Why don’t you come one time with at noon on Feb. 17. Parking is available Angeles to practice medicine. They also “I enjoy doing it,” said Robinson. an open heart,” he suggested. “While on the shoulder on both sides of “moonlighted” at abortion centers. “Even though I’m not seeing patients, you’re there, pray that babies are saved. Georgetown Rd, just south of Planned “Abortion facilities were all around I’m still involved with medicine. This Pray that the facility is closed, and pray Parenthood. Do not park in the lots L.A.,” he said. “It was easy to get after- is just a variation of what I used to do. that the facility workers leave their jobs. of neighboring businesses, including hours and weekend work. You’d get paid Each baby saved is like a patient to me.” “Then, with a truly open heart, pray: Women’s Care Center.) † Spring 40 Days for Life starts on Feb. 17; Indy adds nighttime pray-at-home slots

Criterion staff report 7 p.m. on Saturday through noon on parish to see if there is a parish Information for cities participating Sunday. This is a great option for 40 Days for Life coordinator, or near archdiocesan boundaries include: The 40 Days for Life 2021 spring seniors, those who are sick, those who sign up at www.40daysforlife.com/ campaign runs from Feb. 17-March 28. don’t drive and those who are concerned indianapolis. For more information, —Evansville, Ind.: 125 N. Weinbach, Bloomington and Indianapolis are about being exposed to others due to the contact Tim O’Donnell at 317-372-0040 sign up at www.40daysforlife.com/ participating within the archdiocese. ongoing coronavirus pandemic. or [email protected]. evansville or contact right to Life of Campaigns near the archdiocese Events associated with the spring Southwest Indiana at 812-474-3195 or include Evansville, Ind.; Louisville, Bloomington campaign include: [email protected]. Ky.; and Cincinnati and Dayton/ The campaign will take place —Kickoff: noon on Feb. 17 outside Kettering in Ohio. outside of the Planned Parenthood of the Planned Parenthood abortion —Louisville, Ky.: 136 W. Market 40 Days for Life is an international abortion center at 421 S. College center at 8590 Georgetown Road. St., sign up at www.40daysforlife.com/ campaign that seeks to end abortion Ave. To participate, call your parish Former abortionist Dr. Haywood louisville or contact Carol Masters or through peaceful prayer vigils at abortion to see if there is a parish 40 Days Robinson speaking. (See related article.) Ed Harpring at 502-424-6446 or 502- centers, and to raise community awareness for Life coordinator, or sign up at —Midpoint rally: 1-2 p.m. on March 7 472-4575 or [email protected]. of the consequences of abortion. www.40daysforlife.com/bloomington. outside of the Planned Parenthood abortion The campaign runs twice a year, once For more information, contact Deacon center at 8590 Georgetown Road. —Cincinnati, Ohio: 2314 Auburn in the spring and once in the fall. During Russell Woodard of Holy Trinity Parish —Closing ceremony: Outside of the Ave., sign up at www.40daysforlife. the 40-day campaigns, individuals and in Edinburgh at 317-759-1225 or Planned Parenthood abortion center at com/cincinnati or contact Mary Clark groups silently pray during one-hour [email protected]. 8590 Georgetown Road. Bring diapers; at 513-791-4039, 513-365-2606 or time slots in front of abortion centers gently used cribs (no drop-side), crib [email protected]. around the world. Indianapolis mattresses, crib bedding, bassinets, This year, the Indianapolis campaign The campaign will take place on playpens, breast pumps, strollers, —Dayton/Kettering, Ohio: is offering 24-hour coverage by inviting the public right-of-way outside of the highchairs, baby clothes up to 2T, 1401 E. Stroop Road, sign up at participants to sign up for an hour to Planned Parenthood abortion center at blankets, towels, baby toys; or new car www.40daysforlife.com/dayton or pray at home between 7 p.m.-7 a.m. on 8590 Georgetown Road. To participate seats, bottles, bottle accessories and contact H. Kistler at 937-885-2952 or Monday through Saturday, and either in-person or at home, call your pacifiers. [email protected]. †

Yangon’s auxiliary bishop: Prayers, vigilance needed for situation in Myanmar VATICAN CITY (CNS)—After a military coup and detained top political leaders, including Nobel laureate Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon was visiting the the detention of top government leaders in Myanmar, the Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, according northern state of Kachin for pastoral reasons during the auxiliary bishop of Yangon, the nation’s largest city and to the Associated Press (AP). coup and could not be reached by Fides. former capital, called for prayers, caution and stocking up The military declared a state of emergency and said Bishop Saw Yaw Han instead launched an appeal to all on provisions for the people. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing would be in charge of the country Catholics to pray for peace. “We must live in a spirit of vigilance and prayer,” for one year because the government had not acted on the Priests should be particularly vigilant, he said, “and Auxiliary Bishop John Saw Yaw Han of Yangon told military’s claims of fraud in November’s elections and control the people who enter the church complex” for Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the because it allowed for an election despite the COVID-19 security reasons. Evangelization of Peoples. pandemic, reported AP. Suu Kyi’s ruling party had won a He asked that priests and religious not issue “individual Concerned that the situation could become critical, majority of the available parliamentary seats in that election. statements” about the current situation, “in order to Bishop Saw Yaw Han also called on the Church to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a maintain the unity and coherence of communication” and “provide food reserves to avoid shortages,” and “also take statement, “All leaders must act in the greater interest of avoid any “uncertainty and confusion.” care of stocks of medicines to ensure the health of the Myanmar’s democratic reform, engaging in meaningful Priests were invited “to oversee liturgical services and people,” Fides reported on Feb. 1. dialogue, refraining from violence and fully respecting encourage all believers to pray intensely for peace in The military in Myanmar staged a coup on Feb. 1 and human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Myanmar.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021

Office of Worship shares guidance on Lenten liturgies during pandemic

By Sean Gallagher on the top of a worshipper’s head during a time of pandemic. Lent in 2020 was a time of loss for The archdiocesan Office of Worship Hoosier Catholics. noted in its guidance that this practice In the dioceses of Indiana, public has been the norm throughout much of celebration of the Mass was suspended Europe for centuries. on March 18, 2020, just after the Third It was brought to southern Indiana Sunday of Lent. It was a measure taken to in 1854 by the Benedictine monks of help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland who Although the pandemic continues, founded Saint Meinrad Archabbey in greater knowledge of how to protect St. Meinrad. It continues in the monastic people from it, advances in medical community there today. treatment of those infected by it and, Benedictine Brother Kim Malloy, more recently, the development of who has served as sacristan for Saint vaccines have allowed parishes for Meinrad since 1982, spoke recently with months now to welcome worshipers The Criterion about the history of the back to church. practice. “It’s a recovery of what we lost last “It was brought here [to Saint year, the most significant celebrations of Meinrad] by the first monks when the liturgical year,” said Father Patrick they came here,” Brother Kim said. Beidelman, executive director of the “Historically, it started by ashes being archdiocesan Secretariat for Worship and put on the top of the head. Putting Evangelization. ashes on the forehead was a much later The archdiocesan Office of Worship development. Benedictine Archabbot Kurt Stasiak sprinkles ashes on the head of Benedictine Father Thomas that he leads recently shared with parish “In the early Church, people that Griscoski during an Ash Wednesday Mass on March 1, 2017, in the Archabbey Church of Our Lady leaders guidance regarding liturgical were excommunicated put on sackcloth of Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. Since its founding in 1854, the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey celebrations and public devotions related and covered themselves with ashes as have followed the older custom in the Church of sprinkling ashes on the top of the head on Ash to Lent in 2021. a penance in preparation to be received Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) Many of the recommendations for back into the community. Ashes were a Ash Wednesday, which occurs on symbol of penance.” The guidance shared by the Office will forgo penance services and instead Feb. 17 this year, penance services and He even noted that the kind of ashes of Worship also noted the deep roots of will increase opportunities for individual the public praying of the Stations of the early Christians had on their bodies and sprinkling ashes on the head found in the confession. Cross follow practices related to social the amount placed on them could blister Old Testament, where covering the body The public praying of the Stations distancing and sanitizing that parishes the skin. in ashes was a sign of penance. of the Cross and other Lenten have followed for months now during “It was painful,” Brother Kim said. “It “What we’re doing in Lent is part devotions are likewise permitted so the pandemic. wasn’t just a fashion statement.” of our heritage spiritually in the Judeo- long as “social distancing can be “We know a lot more,” Father In reflecting on the practice for the Christian tradition,” Father Beidelman maintained and proper sanitizing Beidelman said. “And we’ve been doing distribution of ashes recommended said. procedures can be followed,” the this for a while. So, people have become by the Holy See, Father Beidelman The Office of Worship’s guidance guidance said. comfortable, familiar and consistent with emphasized the interior disposition that noted that communal penance services “Much like hymnals, booklets for the the precautions that we should take.” the ashes are meant to symbolize. are permitted. Stations/devotions should not be used,” A particular precaution related to the “Where we put the ashes as a “All would need to follow the the guidance explained. “Participants distribution of ashes on Ash Wednesday symbol for the beginning of our time of same social distancing and sanitation could either be given booklets to keep follows a note issued by the Vatican’s repentance in the season of Lent isn’t as expectations of Mass,” the guidance and re-use, or disposable handouts may Congregation for Divine Worship and important as our interior repentance and noted. “There may be a need for ushers be used.” the Discipline of the Sacraments, which commitment to conversion of heart,” he to help maintain social distancing and the archdiocesan Office of Worship also said. “That’s the most significant thing sanitizing during the liturgy.” (A link to “Considerations for Upcoming shared with parishes. that we’re beginning, which is marked Father Beidelman expects that many Liturgies and Lent 2021,” can be found The note describes sprinkling ashes by this ritual gesture.” parishes in central and southern Indiana at www.archindy.org/worship.) †

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says about Lent The season of Lent is mentioned in “This is why Christ vanquished the salvation as the Church’s liturgy reveals the Catechism of the Catholic Church in Tempter for us: ‘For we have not a high it and enables us to live it.” various sections. priest who is unable to sympathize with #1438 “The seasons and days of It is brought up in #540 in the section our weaknesses, but one who in every penance in the course of the liturgical year that explains Christ’s public ministry. respect has been tested as we are, yet (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the In #1095, Lent is discussed in regard to without sinning’ (Heb 4:15). By the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the way in which the Church, especially in solemn forty days of Lent, the Church the Church’s penitential practice. its liturgy, sees Christ prefigured in various unites herself each year to the mystery “These times are particularly appropriate ways in the Old Testament. of Jesus in the desert.” for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, Finally, in #1438, the penitential #1095 “… the Church, especially pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary nature of Lent is discussed in the section during Advent and Lent and above all self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, on the sacrament of reconciliation. at the Easter Vigil, re-reads and re-lives and fraternal sharing [charitable and #540 “Jesus’ temptation reveals the great events of salvation history in missionary works].” the way in which the Son of God is the ‘today’ of her liturgy. But this also Messiah, contrary to the way Satan demands that catechesis help the faithful (To read the Catechism of the Catholic proposes to him and the way men wish to open themselves to this spiritual Church online, log on to www.usccb.org/ to attribute to him (see Mt 16:21-23). understanding of the economy of catechism/text/.) † Lenten disciplines each year The include fasting, almsgiving, prayer Abstinence from meat is to be strength according to one’s needs, but INFORMED observed by all Catholics 14 years and eating solid foods between meals is not older on Ash Wednesday and on all permitted. way to Buy or Fridays of Lent. Ash Wednesday is on The special Paschal fast and abstinence Feb. 17. are prescribed for Good Friday and Sell a HOME! Fasting is to be observed on Ash encouraged for Holy Saturday. Wednesday by all Catholics who are By the threefold discipline of fasting, 18 years of age but not yet 59. Those almsgiving and prayer, the Church keeps Serving our friends and who are bound by this may take only Lent from Ash Wednesday until the customers for over 30 years in one full meal. Two smaller meals are evening of Holy Thursday, which is on permitted if necessary to maintain April 1. † Central Indiana. Specializing Tom McNulty in Brokerage, Legal and Investment Services for all Check your parish for opportunities BROKER/ATTORNEY 317.507.0688 types of real estate transactions. to receive the sacrament of [email protected] reconciliation during Lent MCNULTYRE.COM The liturgical season of Lent begins on pandemic, parishioners are encouraged to Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17. consult their local parish for opportunities to Because of the ongoing COVID-19 receive the sacrament of reconciliation. † The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Page 11

A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2020 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Church teaches work should contribute to human flourishing By Don Clemmer

For people who prefer to keep their job and their faith separate, the Catholic Church poses a massive challenge. Catholic teaching simply does not see it that way. This isn’t about being a vocal believer at work, but about how work itself is an essential expression of human dignity. The Church’s body of teaching on work and the dignity and rights of workers bridges from the very beginnings of our tradition to contemporary phenomena and the most cutting-edge advancements in society. The Genesis creation stories depict God as working and proclaiming as good the fruits of labor. Being able to work and delight in that meaningful creative process is part of what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God. In his 1981 encyclical “Laborem Exercens” (“On Human Work”) St. John Paul II wrote that the Book of Genesis is the first “gospel of work” and that God also experienced work on Earth as Jesus, a carpenter (#6). Work played a central role in birthing the entirety of modern Catholic social teaching. Pope Leo XIII’s landmark 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (“Of New Things”) addressed the challenges posed to working people and society overall by the Industrial Revolution. An immigrant from Mexico works at an apparel factory in downtown Los Angeles. Work is a sacred space for flourishing, not a backdrop for exploitation He laid a foundation that reverberates and abuse. (CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters) through Catholic teaching to present day. What we would now call wage theft, Pope only describe how individuals, businesses, produced and the level of equity in the and developments in artificial intelligence Leo XIII addressed with: “To defraud any governments and religious institutions distribution of income” (#303). that could make entire job sectors one of wages that are his due is a great can live in balance, but also challenges Income inequality, a reality that has obsolete in decades. crime which cries to the avenging anger everyone, individually and systemically, worsened precipitously in recent decades, In November 2020, Pope Francis said of heaven” (#20). to work toward the common good in has drawn criticism from Church leaders. progress in artificial intelligence should “Rerum Novarum” was so influential to solidarity with one another. The U.S. bishops’ 2013 Labor Day always be “joined to the common good.” Catholic thought that it sparked numerous Catholic social teaching exists to statement said that current imbalances He has endorsed universal basic income “sequels”—subsequent popes applying promote human flourishing, which is one “demand boldness in promoting a just proposals—regular monetary payments the Gospel to other signs of their times. of those know-it-when-you-see-it concepts. economy ... by creating jobs that pay a from the government—as a way of helping The teachings enshrined in these and Or not see it, as the case may be. living wage and share with workers some people flourish. Whether it’s the factories other encyclicals are enumerated in the A person who cannot work because profits of the company.” of the Industrial Revolution or lines of 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine no jobs are available is not flourishing. Pope Benedict XVI wrote prophetically binary code, the Church opposes workers’ of the Church. A person who has to work multiple of the perils of rampant inequality in his humanity being sliced and diced by systems. This Vatican document describes jobs essentially nonstop just to get by 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” Work is a sacred space for flourishing, work as a fundamental right and a good is not flourishing. A young adult who (“Charity in Truth”), noting that “not only not a backdrop for exploitation and and that workers have certain rights. has no health insurance because their does social cohesion suffer, thereby placing abuse. More than a way to pay the bills or These include: the right to a just wage; employment consists of a patchwork democracy at risk, but so too does the sustain ourselves, the Church challenges to rest; to a safe work environment; of short-term, part-time gigs is not economy, through the progressive erosion of us to make work where we become who to unemployment assistance; to senior flourishing. A family that is technically ‘social capital’: the network of relationships God always intended us to be, and in pensions; to health care; to disability meeting its need, but also continually in of trust, dependability and respect for rules, doing so, get to know him better. The God insurance; to parental leave and benefits; a state of scarcity, insecurity and social all of which are indispensable for any form who labored to enjoy the fulfillment of his to organize and to strike. marginalization is not flourishing. of civil coexistence” (#32). creation wants the same for all of us. These rights carry with them The compendium states: “The This is why Pope Francis carries on implications for how society should be economic well-being of a country is not the tradition of applying the Gospel to (Don Clemmer is a writer and structured, as well as what the Church measured exclusively by the quantity of ever newer “new things,” including the communications professional based in advocates for in the public square. The goods it produces, but also by taking into widespread disruption of COVID-19, Indiana. He edits Cross Roads magazine principles of Catholic social teaching not account the manner in which they are which has thrown millions out of work, for the Diocese of Lexington, Ky.) †

A Palestinian worker looks after flowers at a nursery in Ramallah, West Bank, on April 13, 2020. Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical letter “Rerum Novarum” emphasized the need to protect the dignity of workers and sparked several successive popes to add to the Church’s social doctrine. (CNS photo/Mohamad Torokman, Reuters) Page 12 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Perspectives Pastoral Ministries/Pearlette Springer The Theology of Technology/ A reflection on Black history and Catholicism Brett Robinson The celebration of Black History acknowledging the history of the people The sons of my mother were angry with A place Month began as a way to address the of African descent, Black history. Yet, it is me; they charged me with the care of the small amount of information taught in the done every day. vineyards: my own vineyard I did not take to be fully classroom regarding Black history begins with creation. care of” (Sg 1:5-6). African Americans. Science says that humans, as we know When I talk about Black history and Beginning in 1926, them today, evolved from Africa. Science Catholicism, I point to Hosea: “When human the second week named her Eve. The Book of Genesis says Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Where are you? Are you reading this of February was that humans were made in the image and Egypt I called my son” (Hos 11:1). online? If so, where would you say you designated Negro likeness of God. God called them Adam Or I point to the Gospel of Matthew: are? Perhaps you are at home or the office History Week by and Eve. These humans, created in the “Joseph rose and took the child and his or a waiting room. When we’re online, scholar G. Carter image of God, include the descendants mother by night and departed for Egypt” our physical location Woodson, who of people from seven continents: Africa, (Mt 2:14). seems to matter less. co-founded what Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North Or I look to the Acts of the Apostles: Focused on the screen, was then called the and South America. “We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, the rest of the world Association for the Study of Negro Before I continue, I must make the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and kind of fades away. Life and History. Starting in the 1940s, disclaimer that I am not a biblical scholar. Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia As the pandemic African Americans advocated for the My background is in African/African and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of has taught us, work addition of Black history to the history American Studies, Theology, Philosophy, Libya near Cyrene” (Acts 2:9-10). and school don’t books. This advocacy for Black history and the Human and Social Sciences. Or, “Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch have to be conducted included many African Americans Biblical scholars learn the language, the … seated in his chariot, he was reading the in a shared physical researching, documenting and writing context, and understand the content of prophet Isaiah. … Philip and the eunuch location. As long as Black history books themselves. scripture. Me? I just read, reflect and both went down into the water, and Philip we can “connect,” any place can become In 1970, African American professors embrace Scripture. baptized him” (Acts 8:27-28, 38). work or school. at Kent State University in Ohio began Some biblical scholars point toward In other words, the history of people The dining room table, once reserved celebrating Black History from Jan. 2 to the Book of Genesis and Ham’s story as of African descent, the history of Black for the family meal, has become a Feb. 28. This celebration slowly spread to the first mention of Blacks in Scripture. people, the history of African Americans multifunctional space that doubles as other colleges and universities in the United Other biblical scholars say that the term is entwined in the history of Catholicism. a school room or office desk. This is States. Finally, in 1976, the United States “Ethiopian” is Greek for people with dark We can’t talk authentically about understandable given the current conditions, recognized the month of February as Black skin. It is also rumored that Solomon, Catholicism without including people of but it deeply affects our sense of place. History Month. Today, Black History Month the son of David, in the ancestry line of African descent. We can’t celebrate Black If places and objects are no longer set is celebrated in the United States, the United Jesus Christ, was dark-skinned with long, History Month without acknowledging apart but repurposed for “practical reasons” Kingdom, Canada and Ireland. tightly curled hair. In other words, Black. who we are as Catholics. then they can lose their distinctiveness, What does Black history have to do I point to chapter 1 of the Song of DeColores! “In colors!” their original purpose, you might even with Catholics and the Catholic Church? Songs, where the writer states, “I am black say their sacred character. Think of the It is difficult to talk about Christian and beautiful, daughters of Jerusalem, (Pearlette Springer is the coordinator churches forced to close that have become or Catholic history, or U.S., Mexican, like the tents of Qedar, like the curtains of of Black Catholic Ministry in the breweries or nightclubs. The physical place Canadian, European, Central American Solomon. Do not stare at me because I am archdiocese. She can be reached at loses its sacred meaning and purpose. or South American history without so black, because the sun has burned me. [email protected].) † Where are you? God asked this same question of Adam after he had eaten the forbidden fruit in the garden. If God It’s All Good/Patti Lamb knows everything, why did he have to ask Adam where he was? St. Augustine said it was a reminder to No act of love is too small to go unnoticed by God Adam that there was nowhere Adam could For Christmas, the St. Susanna Women’s Club gifted all Aunt Dolores would always spoil her by sending her off with be once God was not in him. Yes, Adam parishioners with devotionals from which to choose. The book small treats. was still physically in the garden (hiding), I selected from the table was Do Something Beautiful for God: Next, I asked Margaret to share a fond memory from summer. but his sense of the place changed as a result The Essential Teachings of Mother Teresa. “When Henry and I collected rocks in the yard, drew on them of his disobedience. For Adam, the garden I opened the book to one of my favorite and set up a table at the end of the driveway and then sold them went from a place of peace to a place of quotes by St.Teresa of Calcutta: “There to our neighbors,” she said. She started to giggle as she added, fear. No longer a sanctuary, the garden are no great things, only small things with “The Prices, the Stremmings and other neighbors were so nice became a hiding place, a place of shame. great love. But those small things done with and gave us quarters for bad artwork on rocks just to be kind.” What happens when our home no great love become the source of great joy. I She recalled counting and sharing quarters with her brother longer feels like a sanctuary? What don’t do great things. I do small things with and feeling a sense of accomplishment at 4 years old. happens when the cares of school and great love.” Margaret asked me why we were taking this trip down memory work can no longer be left behind, but are My daughter saw my expression and lane and wondered when I would circle back to answering her ever present as long as there are phones asked, “What did you just read that made question about why Mother Teresa’s quote made me smile. and laptops in the same space? you smile like that?” I explained that all the answers she gave me were basically the It’s hard not to notice the shiny Apple I let her read the quote, and Margaret said she sort of same. The things she remembered most were little things done logo on the back of many of those devices, understood it, but not exactly. And she didn’t understand why with great love by kind people. Tootsie Pops, an annual scavenger an apple with a bite removed. A reminder it resonated so much with me. hunt carefully planned with clues that rhymed, and neighbors who of our first parents’ mistake in the garden I tried to think of a way to explain it to her, so I asked her a bought rocks and complimented “budding artists.” has followed us home, and it has changed series of questions as we drove home. That evening, I read the introductory paragraph of the book. the way we relate to the places we inhabit. “What’s one of your favorite Easter memories?” I asked. “It has been 20 years since Mother Teresa died. She died What did the serpent promise? That “The Easter morning scavenger hunt that we do before humbly while the whole world was looking the other way,” I Adam and Eve could be like gods. What leaving for Mass every year,” she answered, smiling as she read. “The world was obsessed with the death and funeral of does much of today’s technology promise? remembered the time she discovered her Easter basket in the Princess Diana, and Mother Teresa took that opportunity to slip The same! That we can be omniscient clothes dryer. from this world into the arms of her loving God.” (Google) and omnipresent (Zoom). “What’s something you remember about Aunt Dolores?” I Sometimes, I think we all need this reminder about the And yet, after spending hours a inquired. impact of small acts of love delivered from the heart. Sharing day using these powerful tools, we are Margaret used to go with me to visit my aunt when she was love through small acts, most of which will go unnoticed until exhausted. Far from feeling like gods, we a toddler. After my Uncle Paul died, my aunt found herself much later—if ever—while the rest of the world looks the feel even less human. needing routine assistance organizing pills and collecting other way is how we move closer to our eternal reward. No act When my children are online with a groceries due to macular degeneration. of love is too small to go unnoticed by God. glazed look in their eyes, I often ask, “What “Tootsie Pops!” Margaret immediately shouted, recalling are you doing?” They tend to answer in the the jar of suckers in the pantry from which Margaret would get (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield, is a flat, zoned-out tone of someone who is not to pick a sucker for the long ride home. She talked about how regular columnist for The Criterion.) † fully present. “Playing a game.” “Chatting with my friends.” When I see them so engrossed in a screen, sometimes I too want A More Human Society/Richard Doerflinger to ask, “Where are you?” St. John Paul II called the internet the Let’s join our prayers, efforts to end the perils of isolation new “Areopagus,” a new forum for human communication and culture. However, it’s The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed bright ideas is incredibly stupid. Mary Eberstadt cites many broken important to remember that the internet is many victims, beginning tragically with For me, as for many married people, families and fatherless homes in their not a place. It’s not a superhighway, it’s the death of hundreds of thousands of that person is my spouse. For others, it backgrounds. They find a new family in a not a community, it’s a network of bits our neighbors. Some can be other relatives or a friend, neighbor tribe that nurtures internal solidarity and and servers that project images that fall of its harms are or fellow parishioner. But when deprived contempt for other tribes. desperately short of reality. more intangible, but of their usual close connections with those And that helps lead to some incredibly Tonight, reconnect to the real by clearing equally real. who can offer a different perspective, stupid and destructive actions, from off the dining room table and sitting down Precautions needed people starved for love and acceptance the storming of the U.S. Capitol by the with your family, your roommates or just to contain the spread gravitate toward those who see things “Proud Boys” and others to antifa’s riots yourself and God. Break bread, drink wine of the virus—masks, exactly as they do. And that can help in Portland, Ore., and Seattle a few days and give thanks for the spaces and places social distancing, create the kind of tunnel vision that leads later—protesting the inauguration of that God gives us to be fully human. the closing of public to violence. President Joe Biden, as it turns out. venues—also tend This, of course, can happen without With less overt violence, but broader (Brett Robinson is director of to isolate us from a pandemic. Studying those who incite tragic consequences, the polarization of communications and Catholic media others. And that can leave us with no violent protests at both extremes of our our politics has become self-sustaining. In studies at the University of Notre Dame trusted person to tell us when one of our political culture, social commentator See DOERFLINGER, page 15 McGrath Institute for Church Life.) † The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Page 13

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, February 8 Friday, February 12 St. Jerome Emiliani Genesis 3:1-8 Sunday, February 7, 2021 St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin Psalm 32:1-2, 5-7 • Job 7:1-4, 6-7 Genesis 1:1-19 Mark 7:31-37 • 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 Psalm 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35c Mark 6:53-56 Saturday, February 13 • Mark 1:29-39 Genesis 3:9-24 Tuesday, February 9 Psalm 90:2-4c, 5-6, 12-13 The Book of Job is the source of the readings. In this passage from First Genesis 1:20-2:4a Mark 8:1-10 first reading for Mass this weekend. Corinthians, Paul insists that he was free Psalm 8:4-9 Scholars disagree as to when this book to accept the call to be an Apostle or to Mark 7:1-13 Sunday, February 14 was written. This spurn the call. He chose to accept it. Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time book furnishes few He evangelizes. He proclaims the Wednesday, February 10 Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 details about the good news. He explains the identity St. Scholastica, virgin Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 11 identity of Job. It is and mission of Jesus. Paul’s faith Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17 1 Corinthians 10:31-11:1 nonetheless one of the compels him to evangelize. It is an act Psalm 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30 Mark 1:40-45 great literary works of service and of love given for people Mark 7:14-23 in the Old Testament who otherwise would not know Jesus. since it so remarkably People’s needs in this regard are so great Thursday, February 11 captures the struggle that Paul’s obligation, correspondingly Our Lady of Lourdes experienced by many intense, makes him their slave. Genesis 2:18-25 believers as they try to For its final reading, the Church offers Psalm 128:1-5 match their faith in the merciful God to us a selection from St. Mark’s Gospel. It Mark 7:24-30 problems in their lives. is the story of the Lord’s curing of Peter’s A misreading of Job has led to a mother-in-law. Matthew and Luke have phrase that has entered into English their versions of the same story. common speech, the “patience of Job.” The story is clear. Merely by touching in Capernaum. They confirmed their at Christmas and underscored in the Clear in many places in this book is the her hand, Jesus cured the woman. She discovery by the fact that ancient Christian lessons of the feast of the Epiphany fact that Job was not always so patient was so fully cured, in fact, that she inscriptions were found on the walls. and in those of the feast of the Lord’s with God. immediately rose from her sickbed and As the story continues, Jesus heals the Baptism. For example, in this weekend’s began to wait on Jesus and the disciples. sick and drives demons away. He ordered Jesus is Lord, the Son of God, with all reading, Job vents his impatience. He She was healthy again, and she used the demons not to speak, and they obeyed. power. He came to us to bring humanity asks if life on Earth is not, in reality, her health to care for others. For all Jesus went by himself to a distant place God’s mercy. drudgery. Each human being, Job writes, Christians, the impulse to serve others is to pray. The Apostles pursued Jesus, longing The condition of Peter’s mother-in-law, is a slave to this fate. He says he has been true stamina. to be near the Lord, needing the Lord. and the anxiousness with which Peter and assigned “months of misery” (Jb 7:3). “I While the cure is extraordinary, Mark When at last they found Jesus, the Lord the others search for Jesus, tell us about shall not see happiness again,” he writes does not make the fortunate mother-in- reminded them that the messianic role ourselves. Conditions trouble our lives, drearily (Jb 7:7). law the centerpiece of this reading. That was to reach all people. such as this persistent pandemic. In their St. Paul’s First Letter to the belongs to Jesus. worries, Job, Paul and Peter’s mother-in- Corinthians provides the second reading. Christians long have remembered Reflection law would be at home with us. We are The same source has given earlier this miracle. Indeed, archeologists found The Church continues to introduce helpless, but we are not doomed. Jesus is weekend liturgies this winter their second traces of this mother-in-law’s house us to Jesus, a process begun weeks ago with us. †

Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle My Journey to God Holy Name Society supports prayer, Catholic schools, works of charity Salvation By Greg Hublar Some of my fondest memories of why we pray only for the souls of the I am not in your endless worries, Qparenthood include attending, in the faithful departed. nor am I in your fears or anxieties. 1960s, Mass and a breakfast meeting Shouldn’t we also pray for the souls I can’t be found in the spiraling endless review afterward with my of those who may have struggled with of worrisome outcomes. four sons that was their faith or who may never have had the I do not exist at the base of your wild imagination sponsored by an opportunity to learn about God? Could we that plays out the worst-case scenarios. organization called pray instead for “the souls of all the departed Nor do I reside in the fear of future events, the Holy Name children of God,” rather than focusing only many which you know will never happen. Society. It seemed on those who were faithful? (Indiana) Look for me in the stillness of a peaceful mind, to me an effective one without the fear that comes from self-reliance. way to involve parish I couldn’t agree more: We should Let go of the useless lie that you are in control, families in worship Apray for all those who have passed and hold tight to the one who actually created everything. (Greg Hublar and fellowship. from this life into eternity. And we do. You were never created to serve yourself, is a member of Does such an Prompted by your question, I decided to but to love your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Our Lady of organization still exist; and if not, what take a closer look at the four principal Return to me in the simplicity of a loving child, Perpetual Help caused its demise? Could it and should it eucharistic prayers for the Mass, one of and then the light of my truth will conquer Satan’s lies. Parish in New be revived? (Wisconsin) which is commonly selected for use at Peace will quickly return when you lay down your life, Albany.) (Photo by parish Masses—and I think you will be and remember the one who created you Natalie Hoefer) The Holy Name Society does still comforted by the language. and the plans he has for you! Aexist, although its numbers have In each of the four prayers there is a dropped in recent decades. An article a few section that commemorates the deceased. years back in the Baltimore archdiocesan The first eucharistic prayer, I would news outlet The Catholic Review noted agree, could be used to bolster your that, whereas once the society listed contention; that text says, “Remember 40,000 members within the archdiocese, also, Lord, your servants who have gone membership in 2012 numbered some 700, before us with the sign of faith and rest in with chapters in 30 parishes. the sleep of peace. Grant them, O Lord, The society was founded in the late we pray, and all who sleep in Christ, a 13th century, when Pope Gregory X place of refreshment, light and peace.” commissioned a Dominican preacher But the other three eucharistic prayers named John of Vercelli to encourage are more clear that the prayer is universal respect and devotion to the name of Christ in scope. The second one says, “Remember to combat a heresy of the time that held also our brothers and sisters who have fallen that Jesus was not divine. asleep in the hope of the resurrection and The society’s agenda broadened through all who have died in your mercy; welcome the years to include promoting the spread them into the light of your face.” of the Gospel message, pledging a life of The third reads, “To our departed brothers personal prayer, raising funds for Catholic and sisters and to all who were pleasing to education and encouraging the corporal works you at their passing from this life, give kind of mercy, especially by feeding the poor and admittance to your kingdom.” And the fourth finding shelter for the homeless. Although eucharistic prayer is even more specific: founded initially as a male fraternity, in many “Remember also those who have died in the parts of the U.S. the society has opened its peace of your Christ and all the dead whose membership to women in recent years. faith you alone have known.”

I have often heard in church the (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Qprayer which goes, “May his/her soul Doyle at [email protected] and and the souls of all the faithful departed 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York rest in peace.” It has caused me to wonder 12203.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021

Wolven. Sister of Karen Hogan and Debbie Russell. Grandmother of five. DOLEHANTY, Joseph, Rest in 81, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Richmond, Jan. 4. Father of Welcome to Ari-‘snow’-a? Carole, Casie, Darrin and peace Dennis Dolehanty. Grandfather of six. Please submit in writing DREHOBL, Robert, 90, to our office by 10 a.m. St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Thursday before the week of Jan. 4. Husband of Beverly publication; be sure to state Drehobl. Father of Theresa date of death. Obituaries of Mason, Mike and Steve archdiocesan priests serving Drehobl. Grandfather of six. our archdiocese are listed Great-grandfather of four. elsewhere in The Criterion. DUERSTOCK, Gerald O., Order priests and religious 74, St. Mary, Greensburg, sisters and brothers are Jan. 6. Husband of Paulette included here, unless they are Duerstock. Father of Jennifer natives of the archdiocese or Hersley, Julie Nobbe, Cindy have other connec­tions to it; Slaven and Tim Duerstock. those are separate obituaries Brother of Robert Duerstock. on this page. Grandfather of 12. FULTON, Robert A., 79, Our ADERS, Kenneth M., 84, St. Lady of Lourdes, Indianapolis, Meinrad, St. Meinrad, Dec. 29. Father of Michael, Jan. 6. Brother of Judy Dial, Robert, Jr., and Sean Fulton. Ida Kelly, Eleanor Lasher, Grandfather of four. Great- Joyce Murphy, Ruth Werne, grandfather of one. Gerald and Maurice Aders. GEIS, Janet S., 79, Uncle of several. St. Michael, Brookville, Jan. 5. ANDERSON, Harry, 81, Mother of Jennifer Strohmier, St. Mary, New Albany, Angela, Dr. Laura, Brian, Dec. 27. Father of Theresa Charles and Capt. Randall Carroll and Kevin Anderson. Geis. Sister of Angela Linkel, Brother of Merlinna Dunn, Drusilla Masters, Mary Susie Jenkins, Linda Stinson, Margaret Thomas, David, David, Dennis, Gary, Robert Richard and William Ellis. and Theron Anderson. Grandmother of 14. Great- Grandfather of three. Great- grandmother of one. grandfather of seven. GIBSON, Rita A., 91, Elephants enjoy a rare snowstorm at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 26. (CNS photo/Reid Park Zoo via Reuters) ANDRETTI, Aldo, 80, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus St. Malachy, Brownsburg, (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Dec. 23. Mother of Catherine, Evangelist, Indianapolis, Jan. 3. MEANS, Jayne A., 85, Moody. Brother of Gretchen SCHNEIDER, Flora Belle, Dec. 30. Husband of Carolyn Mother of Mary Hole and St. Mary, Rushville, Dec. 28. Cline, Bonita Hobbs, Melinda 84, St. Mary, Lanesville, Andretti. Father of Mary Jo David, Michael and Thomas Pfarr. Stepmother of Sherry Daniel McElroy. Grandmother Wife of Bill Means. Mother Trenkamp, Bryan and Michael Dec. 19. Mother of Joy Ewing, Dial, Carolyn Molander, Adam of 13. Great-grandmother of of Chris Gindling, Cathy Moody. Grandfather of two. Julie Weathers, Kerry, James, and Mark Andretti. Brother of Bernal, Vickie Doenges and Valorie Shutt. Grandmother six. Lewis, Julie Reynolds and PADGETT, Ruth E., 73, Pete and Richard Schneider. Anna Maria Burley and Mario Lora Vaughn. Grandmother of Grandmother of eight. Andretti. Grandfather of 11. of seven. Great-grandmother LEBANO, Edoardo A., St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, of 10. 86, St. John the Apostle, seven. Great-grandmother of Jan. 4. Mother of Elizabeth SCHUMAN, Richard, 87, ARVIN, Millie A., 73, Holy Bloomington, Nov. 28. Father eight. Craig, Meg Jackey and Joe All Saints, Dearborn County, Spirit, Indianapolis, Jan. 3. GRANNAN, J., Lloyd, 87, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, of Tito and Mario Lebano. MELLOH, Jo Ann M., 74, Padgett. Sister of Mary and Dec. 8. Husband of Pat Wife of Edward Arvin. Mother Grandfather of two. Great- Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Perry Edwards. Grandmother Schuman. Father of Connie of Jennifer Arvin, Katie Baugh Dec. 31. Father of Jill Schultz, David and Michael Grannan. grandfather of two. Christ, Indianapolis, Dec. 29. of two. Hornbach, Regina Kamos, and Cheryl Crum. Sister of Wife of Art Melloh. Mother Marilyn White, Joan, Cliff, Sharon Keilman. Grandmother Grandfather of seven. MCCARTY, Mary Therese, PICKERILL, Ruth E., 84, 89, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, of Amy Kitley, Tara Spencer, St. John Paul II, Sellersburg, John and Rick Schuman. of four. JOHNSTON, Patricia, 86, St. Tina Stephens, David and Paul Brother of Joe Schuman. Roch, Indianapolis, Jan. 6. Mother of Kathryn, Jan. 4. Mother of Lisa BALDWIN, JoAn M., 94, David, Dennis, Michael and Melloh. Grandmother of eight. Vanover, Brian, David, Ken Grandfather of 16. Great- Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Jan. 5. Sister of Kathleen Great-grandmother of two. grandfather of seven. Cecil, Maureen Green, Sharon Thomas McCarty. Sister of and Loren Pickerill. Sister Jan. 5. Mother of Deborah Eileen White. Grandmother MOODY, John D., 68, of Helen Lindsay and Ron (correction) Baldwin, Bonnie Payton and Piazza, Danny and Terry Johnston. Aunt of several. of 13. Great-grandmother of St. Louis, Batesville, Jan. 5. Voyles. Grandmother of eight. SNYDER, Dorothy M., 83, Susan Torzewski. Grandmother seven. Husband of Elaine Moody. St. Mary, Rushville, Dec. 31. of six. Great-grandmother of KEENAN, Carl E., 84, Father of Desiree and Sean Mother of Debra Banks, Mark 12. St. Mary, Navilleton, Dec. 28. and Matt Snyder. Grandmother BEIKMAN, Sharon A., Father of Brian, Kelly, of seven. Great-grandmother 76, St. John the Apostle, Kevin and Shawn Keenan. Providence Sister Martha Ann Rifner of one. Bloomington, Jan. 6. Grandfather of 12. Great- grandfather of four. SUMMERS, Matthew K., 31, BRINER, Robert D., 68, served in Catholic schools for 32 years St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 30. KNUEVEN, Mary C., Dec. 31. Son of Kevin and Husband of Sherry Briner. infant, All Saints, Dearborn Providence Sister Martha Ann Rifner, a Sisters of Providence, Sister Martha Ann Kay Summers. Brother of Father of Bethany Strother. County, Dec. 29. Daughter member of the Sisters of Providence of Saint ministered as an educator for 32 years in Chuck Summers. Grandson of Grandfather of three. of Brian and Jill Knueven. Mary-of-the-Woods in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, schools in Illinois and Indiana. She later served Kirby Julian. Sister of Catherine Knueven. died on Jan. 16 at Methodist Hospital in at the motherhouse in transportation. Most BUSALD, Kimberly A., 62, SWANSON, Flostella, 93, Granddaughter of Bill and Indianapolis. She was 95. recently, during the coronavirus pandemic, she St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 30. Bev Knueven and Bill and St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Because of the coronavirus pandemic, a volunteered up until a week before her death to Wife of Garry Busald. Mother Geraldine Kuntz. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, of Ashlie Busald Rafferty virtual funeral service was held on Jan. 22. sanitize one of her community’s kitchens. Jan. 2. Mother of Dewey and Kyle Busald. Daughter KUNKLER, Barbara (Hole Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. In the archdiocese, Sister Martha Ann Swanson. Sister of Patsy Hall. of Patricia Hogan and Wayne McElroy), 91, St. Luke the Sister Martha Ann was born on March 1, served at St. Michael School in Greenfield Grandmother of two. Great- 1925, in Muncie, Ind. She entered the Sisters of from 1966-68, at the former St. Margaret Mary grandmother of two. Providence on Feb. 2, 1953, and professed final School in Terre Haute from 1968-77 and at the TALLANT, E. Ann, 86, Online Lay Ministry Formation vows on Aug. 15, 1960. motherhouse from 1987-2019. St. Mary, North Vernon, Jan. 2. Sister Martha Ann earned a bachelor’s degree at Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Mother of Jenny Brown, Mary The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the Cross, Elise Wade, Bryce, University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint degree at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN J.C. and William Tallant. (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: Sister of Dorine May, Louise During her 68 years as a member of the 47876. † • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry Reichert, Joan, Charles and • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program Paul Miller. Grandmother • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church of 12. Great-grandmother of • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners Batesville native Franciscan Father Jack eight. For more information, please log on to TREJO, Matias Martinez, www.archindy.org/layministry Wintz served in Catholic media for decades 79, Prince of Peace, Madison, Jan. 6. Father of Rosalva and Franciscan Father Jack Wintz, a member of the honor of the Catholic Press Association of the Francisco Roman Martinez. Cincinnati-based Franciscan Province of St. John United States and Canada. Grandfather of 11. the Baptist, died on Jan. 11. He was 84. He served for decades on his province’s WESSELER, Ann M., 78, REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated St. Anthony Messenger magazine, founded St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on on Jan. 18. Burial followed at St. Mary St. Anthony Messenger Media’s Catholic Dec. 28. Wife of Thomas behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim Cemetery in St. Bernard, Ohio. Update religious education newsletter in 1973, Vernon. Mother of Jean of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance Father Jack was born on Feb. 22, 1936, in and traveled the world while reporting on Ryan, Lynn Seufert and Allen coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: Batesville and grew up as a member of articles and books that he wrote. Wesseler. Stepmother of Carol, Ethics Point St. Louis Parish. He became a Franciscan In addition to his ministry in Catholic media, Nancy, James and Raymond 1 Confidential, Online Reporting Vernon. Sister of Carol www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 novice in 1954, professed temporary vows in Father Jack did parish ministry and taught in high 1955 and final vows in 1958. Father Jack was schools in St. Bernard, Ohio, and Fort Wayne, Ind. Nowlin, Connie Nobbe and Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator Dr. Richard Moeller. ordained a priest in 1963. He also served as a missionary in the Philippines. 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 Grandmother of five. Step- 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 Known for his decades of service in the Father Jack is survived by a sister, Tese grandmother and step-great- [email protected] Catholic media, Father Jack received in 2006 Neighbor of Seattle, and a brother, Gary Wintz grandmother of several. † the St. Francis de Sales Award, the highest of Marina del Rey, Calif. † The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021 Page 15 Young people urged to be ‘persistent in highlighting’ sacredness of life

WASHINGTON (CNS)—The trusts this generous public witness to Members of the Archdiocese continuing COVID-19 pandemic and strict the deepest conviction of our faith will of Washington Youth restrictions intended to slow its spread contribute to fostering a culture of life.” Leadership Team pray during did not stop young people and others Speaking to “my dearest young a Jan. 29 Mass for Life at from rallying, praying and standing up sisters and brothers in Christ,” Cardinal the Cathedral of St. Matthew for life on Jan. 29. Gregory during his homily reminded the Apostle in Washington. As it has done for nearly 30 years, the those virtually attending the Mass of “the The Mass and a youth rally Archdiocese of Washington hosted its “Rally inalienable value of human life at every were held before the annual and Mass for Life” prior to the annual March moment of its existence. The word of March for Life. Because of for Life. However this year, because of the God exhorts us that it is no longer the ongoing pandemic, the the ongoing pandemic, the D.C. event was fashionable to hate—and it never was. D.C. event was held virtually virtual, with no traditional large in-person “For 48 years, regrettably the people and livestreamed, as was the gathering at the Capital One Arena. of our nation have been given all types of national March for Life. (CNS The 48th annual March for Life, which deceptive excuses to continue our dreadful photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard) marks the anniversary of the 1973 Roe practice of killing infant children within v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, also the womb,” Cardinal Gregory said. was primarily virtual. “Various people have called it merely Using YouTube and other social media a choice, others claim it as a human right, platforms, young people from across the some have defended it as a personal country—and as far away as Australia— decision,” he continued. “A few even Special Care “gathered” for the rally and Mass at the suggest it as just a womanly act of self- Classified Directory Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in determination—anything to keep from Washington. accepting God’s standard of respect and Construction The event—which included a recitation of love for every human life—even that Trusted and Compassionate Care the rosary, talks, musical performances and which is waiting to be born.” Serving people with Autism & reflections—was hosted by the Archdiocese He said that society has found itself Developmental Disabilities of Washington Youth Leadership Team. “hopelessly mired” in other “acts of ∙ Medicaid Waiver ( CIH & FSW) “I hope it is a joyful time for all those brutality” against the terminally ill and ∙ Residential, Community, Respite who are participating virtually. Our young aged, immigrants and prisoners “who may and PAC Services ∙ Staff screened and trained people bring with them an energy that is have committed heinous crimes, but are life-giving,” Washington Cardinal Wilton still human beings.” Assisted suicide and Kathy and Terry Huser D. Gregory said. “I hope we realize as we support for capital punishment, he added, (317) 255-5700 Call 317-236-1585 www.HuserSpecialCare.com do this from a distance that we are really also are attacks against life. Career Opportunities Available close and united.” “We continue to pursue unspeakable TO ADVERTISE IN The Criterion He asked young people to be human brutality against other people with “persistent in highlighting the importance whom we might disagree,” he said. “We Employment of human life. look for any grounds to avoid the divine “Our young people know how to use standard of respect for every living person. social media, and I ask them to use it Yet we are called to a standard that dares effectively, persistently and consistently to to demand that we become perfect, just as Diocese of Evansville, Indiana flood [it] with the truth and do it in such a our heavenly Father is perfect.” way that the truth is undeniable.” Referring to the beatitudes as Human Resources Director/Manager He also asked young people to pray “categorically the greatest and most enduring because “we are people of faith, and we transformation in standards that any of The Catholic Diocese of Evansville, Indiana, which serves a Roman Catholic have to anchor whatever we do in prayer. If us will ever be asked to accept,” Cardinal community of more than 75,800 across 12 counties in southwestern Indiana, our prayer is sincere, we will be successful.” Gregory said that Jesus’ words call the seeks candidates for the newly created position of Human Resources Manager/ Cardinal Gregory was the principal faithful “to a new standard, a higher standard, Director. The actual position title will be dependent on the qualifications and celebrant and homilist at the Mass for a divine standard—and one that will not pass experience of the successful candidate. Life. Concelebrants included Washington away as ever being outmoded or obsolete. Auxiliary Bishops Mario E. Dorsonville and “The beatitudes are the new standards The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the diocesan Roy E. Campbell Jr.; Cardinal Donald that dare to suggest that we are to view life benefits plan; develop, maintain and continuously improve the diocese’s W. Wuerl, retired archbishop of Washington; itself and our opinions about other people comprehensive process for hiring employees; oversee the compensation Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic in a different way,” he said. “These new system for diocesan-agency employees; develop and maintain a performance- nuncio to the United States; Archbishop standards are even so revolutionary as to evaluation process; and serve as an advisor to pastors and management team William E. Lori of Baltimore; Bishop Barry propose that no life, no person, and no class members parishes, schools and other diocesan agencies. C. Knestout of Richmond, Va.; and other of people are beyond our love and respect.” bishops from throughout the region. The cardinal stressed that “there is The successful candidate will be a Catholic in good standing, a bachelor’s degree Prior to the start of Mass, Archbishop no such thing as an inopportune life or a is required (master’s degree preferred) in human-resources management, Pierre noted that rallying, praying and reason, no matter how grave, no matter organizational development, business administration or a related field. At least marching for life is “so important because how serious, no matter how convincing five years of previous experience in human resources management is required. life is a gift from God. We do not possess that renders any life useless and deserving Designation as a Senior Professional in Human Resources or Professional in life, we receive it and we have to be of hatred or destruction. Human Resources is preferred. The successful candidate also must complete a careful about it.” “Let us pray for a widely accepted way full Criminal History Clearance. Reading a message from Cardinal of viewing and valuing all human life— Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, God’s way—an old fashioned yet perfectly A complete position announcement is available online at www.evdio.org/ issued in the name of Pope Francis, contemporary way of seeing every life as employmentopportunities.html. Archbishop Pierre said: “His Holiness sacred, holy and inalienable.” † To apply, send a letter of application, resume and at least four references to: Search Committee, Human Resources, Diocese of Evansville, hr-manager@ between those who identify as pro-life evdio.org. No phone calls, please. DOERFLINGER and pro-choice, it has said to pro-life continued from page 12 Americans: “We have some minimal respect for you and your convictions. recent years, politicians have interacted While the law allows abortion as a private chiefly with members of their own choice, we will not force you to support it Vice President for Finance and Operations tribe. The bipartisan cooperation once as a public good.” seen in Congress, and even the personal In fact, even some abortion Scecina Memorial High School friendships that used to cross party lines, practitioners have called abortion an act seem largely a thing of the past. of violence. And even many “pro-choice” The Vice President for Finance and Operations is committed to student success And if I never get to know my Americans oppose public funding of and the mission and values of Scecina Memorial High School. He/she manages opponents, it is much easier to treat abortion. and monitors school budget preparation and control, internal financial controls, them with contempt. If my side loses an Rejecting Hyde undermines that election, it must be fraud; if my side wins, minimal respect and that regard for financial reporting systems, and human resource processes while overseeing I must complete the punishment of those the will of the people. As the act of a systems for payroll administration, accounts payable, tuition receivables, and who lost. president said to be a “devout Catholic,” auxiliary activities. The person in this role manages the tuition-assistance At his inauguration, President which can only mean a Catholic who program and supervises the business office staff, cafeteria manager, and spirit Biden called for unity, civility and accepts Catholic teaching, it seems to shop manager. He/she maintains compliance with school, archdiocesan, and cooperation in building a better society. show disrespect even for himself. state of Indiana policies. The Vice President is a member of the President’s That is a welcome message, which is in This is a great danger in what is almost Administrative Team and Finance Committee of the Scecina Board of Directors. considerable tension with stances he has a one-party government. No one close to Qualified and interested candidates are invited to send a letter of interest and taken on abortion and religious freedom. you will point out which of your bright resume to: One of the most divisive of these is ideas is divisive, stupid and even violent. his newfound opposition to the Hyde The Catholic bishops have rightly urged Joe Therber Amendment, which saves Americans from the president to listen to the better angels having to subsidize elective abortions of his nature, and we should join our President with their taxes. The amendment, first prayers and efforts with theirs. Scecina Memorial High School enacted in 1976, has been approved each 5000 Nowland Avenue of the past 45 years by Congresses and (Richard Doerflinger worked for 36 years in Indianapolis, IN 46201 presidents of both parties. the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the [email protected] In a country about evenly divided U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2021

stay home and participate in smaller local MARCH marches. A prayerful, public witness for life continued from page 1 But the aftermath of the violent Jan. 6 insurrection—5,000 National Guard troops Before they stepped off, she told the are still protecting members of Congress, marchers, originally a group of 60, that House and Senate office buildings and the although this year was a deeply somber fenced-off Capitol building—and fears of occasion, “let’s be prayerful” and fulfill more unpredictable violence by random the event “in the best way we can.” individuals increased the symbolism of Marchers included Auxiliary Bishop the moment. It was the first street event in Joseph L. Coffey of the Archdiocese for Washington since Jan. 6. the Military Services. “Never despair, In a callback to a former March for Life never give up and keep fighting,” Bishop tradition, Mancini and others in the core Coffey told EWTN while marching. group carried single red roses, which, she Others included former pro football announced, would “symbolize the profound player Benjamin Watson and Abby grief pro-life Americans feel over the deaths Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood of 62 million unborn children through legal clinic director who operates the pro-life abortion.” They laid those on the sidewalk ministry And Then There Were None. behind the fenced-off Supreme Court The march, lasting about 90 minutes, building as marchers broke into the “Ave was considerably quieter than the placard- Maria” and “God Bless America.” and flag-filled processions of thousands In its early years, the march had sent up Constitution Avenue in previous years. individual roses to every member of And there were no counterprotesters. Congress. Tim Saccoccia, a March for Life board The smallest previous march, during a member and a senior policy director for 1987 snowstorm, was officially estimated the Knights of Columbus, said the original at 10,000. The U.S. Park Police stopped group was joined halfway through the issuing crowd counts after disputes arose route by more than 100 others who seemed over the size of the Million Man March to be mostly from the Washington area. in 1995, and the agency’s estimates were There was a brief moment of concern, always considerably lower than that of but the additional marchers turned out march organizers. to be well-behaved. “They were very Last year, with President Donald respectful,” Saccoccia told Catholic News J. Trump speaking at the pre-march rally Service (CNS) in a phone interview from at the National Mall, more than 100,000 the march. were believed to be in attendance. Future “We had a fantastic partnership with restrictions on Washington protest the D.C. police,” he added. “The Capitol marches of any size will be the topic of Police also came out to help us.” debate in the coming months. Geri March, left, a member of St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute, stands next to her pastor, Father It was tough, even with a diminished The first march was held on Jan. 22, 1974, Daniel Bedel, outside of the Vigo County courthouse on Jan. 30 for the 11th Terre Haute Roe event, “to stay socially distanced at organized by Nellie Gray, a government v. Wade Solemn Prayer Observance. According to St. Patrick parishioner Tom McBroom, who times,” Saccoccia acknowledged. “Not lawyer, and the Knights of Columbus. The coordinates the annual event, “A record of 42 prayer warriors braved the cold, drizzling sleet and everyone is a professional marcher.” idea was to form a “circle of life” around swirling wind” to peacefully and prayerfully stand up for life in public. He said participants came The 48th annual march, a continuing the Capitol and Supreme Court. Mancini from Annunciation Parish in Brazil, St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, and St. Joseph protest of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade assumed leadership after Gray died in 2012. University, St. Margaret Mary and St. Patrick parishes and Maryland Community Church, all in decision legalizing abortion nationwide, Sacoccia pronounced the event a Terre Haute. This year, members from the new student pro-life group at Indiana State University already was hampered by COVID-19 success. “We represented tens of millions in Terre Haute added to the record number of participants. (Submitted photo by Tom McBroom) pandemic restrictions, and Mancini, of Americans who have suffered and lost announcing a virtual event, told people to their lives from abortion.” †

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