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CriterionOnline.com January 29, 2010 Vol. L, No. 16 75¢ Amid rubble, Haitians celebrate Standing up for the unborn Church leaders’ lives and legacies PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS)—Amid the rubble of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Submitted photo by Josh Shaffner Submitted photo by the Assumption, Haitians celebrated the lives of the archbishop and vicar general of Port-au-Prince, both of whom were killed in the country’s Jan. 12 earthquake. Church officials—including some from the United States—joined Haitians on Jan. 23 for the funerals of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who died when the impact of the quake hurled him from a balcony, and Msgr. Charles Benoit, the vicar general whose body was pulled from the cathedral debris. They were among more than 150,000 Haitians killed in the magnitude 7 quake. U.N. officials have said the final death toll might never be known. Archbishop Louis Kebreau of Cap-Haitien, president of the Haitian bishops’ conference, celebrated the funeral Mass, and Auxiliary Archdiocesan pilgrims who rode on Bus 2 to the March for Life in Washington pose for a group picture on Jan. 22 with the archdiocesan banner before Bishop Joseph boarding the bus to return home. Lafontant of Archbishop Port-au-Prince Joseph Serge Miot delivered the homily. Archdiocesan youths come out in large numbers Haiti President Rene Preval was among those in attendance. New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, for annual March for Life in nation’s capital who represented the U.S. bishops at the Mass, By Alea Bowling These staggering statistics are what inspire trip was a new experience. Whether they read a message on behalf of Chicago Cardinal Special to The Criterion youths and adults to travel to Washington were veteran pro-life marchers or first- Francis E. George, U.S. bishops’ conference every January for the peaceful, prayerful time participants, each person was ready president. Cardinal George’s message to the WASHINGTON, D.C.—The air was protest against nearly four decades of to stand up and defend the sanctity and Haitians was contained in a letter that was chilly and rain clouds loomed overhead, legalized abortion in America. dignity of life from conception until addressed to Archbishop Kebreau. but the weather didn’t keep pro-life This year, an estimated 300,000 people natural death. “The Church in the United States stands youths and adults from all over the gathered in the nation’s capital for the Archdiocesan pilgrims arrived in with you,” he said. country from gathering in record pro-life march, including three buses of Washington early on Jan. 21 then “In our prayer, we recall that Jesus, too, numbers for the 37th annual March for pilgrims with the official archdiocesan spent the day touring the Capitol, The wept before the tomb of one whom he loved,” Life on Jan. 22 in the nation’s capital. pilgrimage as well as many more groups Catholic University of America and the said the cardinal’s message. “With you, we Every year, more than 1 million from schools and parishes in central and John Paul II Cultural Center, a museum recall in trust that he is the resurrection and abortions are performed in the United southern Indiana. dedicated to the pope’s life and papacy. the life, offering himself to us and calling us States alone. That’s approximately For some of the youths, the march is an The highlight of the first day was the to himself, even in our darkest hour. 3,700 abortions every day. annual pilgrimage, but for others the pro-life See YOUTHS, page 2A “In the United States, our televisions, computers and newspapers have been filled with images of your unspeakable pain, Cardinal urges thousands at shrine vigil to embrace life suffering and loss,” he told them. “Each hour, WASHINGTON (CNS)—Rosary in hand, archbishop gave his blessing. Then See HAITI, page 10A Tom Pottratz surveyed the throng gathered recently retired, Pottratz went to for the opening Mass of the annual March work. for Life on Jan. 21 at the Basilica of the The first year, 1996, he was able

National Shrine of the Immaculate to get about 180 teenagers to fill Stanley Branden Photo by Conception. four buses. Thereafter, the project What he saw gave him a sense of grew. He stepped back from the effort satisfaction. a few years ago when parishes, Mixed among the crowd were more than schools and deaneries began 1,000 people, many of them of school age, sponsoring their own buses. This year, from his hometown of Indianapolis. about 25 buses made the trip from Twenty years ago, when Pottratz started Indiana to Washington. attending the March for Life, Indianapolis “I’ve always known most kids are was not well represented. pro-life, but they’re a little reluctant to After a few years, Pottratz recalled for get up and stand in front because of Catholic News Service, he wondered what what the popular media says,” Pottratz could be done to bring the same enthusiasm said. “That’s until they come out here for making the annual trek to Washington one time and they see 150,000 other that he saw in people from other parts of the youths. They say ‘Wow, it’s kind of U.S. to the young people of central Indiana. cool to be pro-life. OK, I can do it Pottratz, a member of St. Louis now.’ ” de Montfort Parish in Fishers, Ind., in The teens from Indianapolis the Lafayette Diocese, and former longtime helped generate an atmosphere of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein gives a blessing to member of St. Lawrence Parish in Indian- excitement in the basilica as the time Gabriel Klee, a former member of Our Lady of the Most apolis, approached Archbishop Daniel M. for the Mass neared. The congre- Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, who now lives in Buechlein of Indianapolis, offering to gation filled the aisles, side chapels, Michigan, during the recessional of the Vigil Mass for organize bus trips for teenagers to attend the the vestibule and even part of the Life on Jan. 21 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of march and its related activities. The See MASS, page 8A the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Page 2A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010

regardless of what our government is YOUTHS saying. It says that we really care [about] what’s happening in our country.” continued from page 1A

Taylor said she was impressed by all Alea Bowling Photos by opening Mass for the National Prayer Vigil the people who came to march for an end for Life at the Basilica of the National to abortion. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception “I came on the march because I adjacent to Catholic University. think it’s amazing to see all these The basilica was packed to the brim people here standing for life even with pro-life supporters from throughout though the country [is] saying it the country. The sheer number of Catholics doesn’t matter,” she said. “I just feel there was awe-inspiring as was the opening really passionate about it.” procession of seminarians, priests, bishops, The passion and dedication that the archbishops and cardinals, which lasted pro-life cause inspires in people are just almost 45 minutes. two of the reasons that show how In a moving homily which celebrated important it is to defend the life of St. Agnes as a model of joy, Cardinal unborn babies. Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Ben Seiwert, a homeschooled student chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee and member of St. Joseph Parish in on Pro-Life Activities, praised the presence Jennings County, said he is enthusiastic of so many youths at the Mass, calling about doing his part to work for an end to them “a sure sign of infectious joy, the sign abortion, and is “willing to stand up for of life.” all the babies who can’t talk for Jan. 22 began with a Mass for themselves.” Walking together during the 37th annual March for Life on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C., are, from left, St. Patrick archdiocesan pilgrims celebrated by His sister, Courtney, who is a member parishioner Tom McBroom of Terre Haute, the pilgrimage director for archdiocesan youths who rode on Bus 3; Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein in the of the Archdiocesan Youth Council, and Servants of the Gospel of Life Sister Diane Carollo, director of the archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Ministry; and crypt church of the basilica. Ben were glad that they traveled to Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary parishioner Branden Stanley of Avon, who volunteered as a videographer for Newly ordained Father John Hollowell, Washington to stand up for the cause of the Jan. 20-23 pro-life pilgrimage. the chaplain at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High life. School in Indianapolis, spoke directly to “I think it’s pretty cool seeing the people during his homily. 300,000 people all [here] for the same “The one thing that people respond to is cause,” Ben said. “You don’t see that for witnesses—you,” Father Hollowell said. anything else really. It’s just a great thing to “When they see your joy, that is the only be a part of this, and I feel like I’m part of thing that will get them to question how something so much more than just a small they approach this issue of life. You are group.” called to be a witness for life.” The March for Life is a much anticipated Strengthened by the Mass and holy event every year because so many youths Communion, the pilgrims set out for the and adults are eager to stand up for their march along Constitution Avenue in beliefs and try to make a difference in the downtown Washington. country. Archbishop Buechlein said he was Ashley Niemeyer, a member of impressed by the presence of so many St. Thomas More Parish in Mooresville, has Taylor Whittier of Morgantown, left, and youths at the March for Life. participated in the pro-life pilgrimage for Katie Wunderle, right, a member of St. Bartholomew “I think the youths being here is a four years. Parish in Columbus, pose for a photograph on tremendous sign of hope for our Church “It’s just something I love doing,” Ashley Jan. 22 before the archdiocesan Mass for Life at the now as well as in the future,” the said. “There are so many people, and the crypt church of the Basilica of the National Shrine archbishop said. “There’s a lot of energy energy is great out here. I just love being of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on and enthusiasm as well as high ideals in here.” the morning of the 37th annual March for Life in these good and faithful Catholic youths. It Hopefully, many of the teenagers Washington. is very encouraging.” said, next year’s march will be a celebration The teenagers’ excitement, energy and of pro-life victories and the overturn of passion for the pro-life cause were evident Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court Emma Feick, a student at Lumen Christi School by their songs and cheers during the march. decision that legalized abortion during all in Indianapolis and member of Christ the King The presence of so many youths was a nine months of pregnancy. Parish in Indianapolis, carries a pro-life sign on great topic of discussion among some of But until then, like many Catholics across Jan. 22 during the 37th annual March for Life in the marchers. the nation, the archdiocesan pilgrims said Washington. Taylor Whittier, a homeschooled student they will continue to support life every day from Morgantown, said the high turnout at home, at work and at school. was encouraging. “I think it says something about this (Alea Bowling is a homeschooled senior and generation, my generation,” Taylor said, member of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in “and also the generation that’s coming Indianapolis. She serves as president of the because it says that we care about life Archdiocesan Youth for Life.) †

Our Lady of the cutline Most Holy Rosary parishioners Rebekah Murphy, left, and Mary Caito, right, of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein processes Indianapolis, into the crypt chapel of the Basilica of the homeschooled National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in students, carry Washington for the archdiocesan Mass for Life on pro-life signs during Jan. 22. Seminarians Peter Jansen from the the March for Life Archdiocese of Indianapolis, left, and Sean Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein celebrates the on Jan. 22 in Wilson from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, right, archdiocesan Mass for Life in the crypt chapel Washington, D.C. assisted the archbishop as altar servers during of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the the Mass. They are students at Bishop Simon Immaculate Conception on Jan. 22 in Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis. Washington.

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By Sean Gallagher establish the relationship between the archdiocese Retired Msgr. Richard T. Kavanagh and the Hermitage that died on Jan. 20 at St. Paul Hermitage in made it easy for retired Beech Grove. He was 98. priests to live there. File photo by Sean Gallagher Sean by photo File Msgr. Kavanagh, who died of natural When asked in a causes, had lived at the Hermitage since 2006 interview with 1998. The Criterion about His Mass of Christian Burial was what was most fulfilling celebrated on Jan. 27 at St. Michael the for him in his 70 years Archangel Church in Indianapolis. Burial as a priest, Msgr. followed at the Priests’ Circle at Kavanagh focused on his Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis. ministry at St. Michael At 73 years, he was the longest serving Parish. priest in the history of the Archdiocese of “I was able to help Indianapolis. people spiritually, Msgr. Mark Svarczkopf, pastor of administer the Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in sacraments and all those Greenwood, was the homilist at things,” he said. “And I Msgr. Kavanagh’s funeral Mass. enjoyed the work.” A teenage member of St. Michael the Marilyn Bardon was Archangel Parish in Indianapolis when deeply touched by Msgr. Kavanagh was the pastor there, Msgr. Kavanagh’s Msgr. Svarczkopf said in an interview ministry during his many with The Criterion that his pastor was decades at St. Michael. instrumental in shaping his vocation to the She joined the parish priesthood. in 1964 as a 21-year-old “He was a really good pastor, a and also taught at the Msgr. Richard Kavanagh, center, prays a eucharistic prayer during a June 2, 2006, Mass at St. Paul Hermitage in real gentleman, very inspiring,” parish school. Bardon Beech Grove on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination. Concelebrating with him were, from left, Msgr. Svarczkopf said. “I try to be like retired from St. Michael Father Henry Brown and Father John Sciarra, both retired priests in residence at the Hermitage. Msgr. Kavanagh died on him, but I don’t think I’m making it.” School in 2007. Jan. 20. Father Brown died in 2009, and Father Sciarra died in 2007. In addition to being administrator and In 1970, her father pastor of St. Michael Parish for more than died unexpectedly and she traveled to born decades after he was ordained. pastor of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 30 years, Msgr. Kavanagh oversaw Oxford, Ohio, for his funeral. What she In the mid-1980’s, Father Anthony Volz, (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis. projects that did much to shape significant didn’t know at the time was that Msgr. now pastor of Christ the King Parish in From 1940-50, he served in different institutions that make up the Archdiocese Kavanagh and his associate pastor, Indianapolis, was appointed to the capacities, including as the assistant of Indianapolis today. Father Harold Ripperger, also made the archdiocesan Council of Priests a year or superintendent of Cathedral High School According to Msgr. Svarczkopf, he trip. two after his 1985 ordination. in Indianapolis, and the assistant director was active in the founding of the “I did not know that he was coming,” He was a bit taken aback when attending of charities, where he oversaw the archdiocesan Catholic Youth Organization Bardon said. “And it just kind of sat me one of its meetings for the first time. Catholic Youth Organization, United States in the 1940s and its Camp Rancho back to see that. There was my pastor.” “I walked into that room thinking, Organization and Boy Scouts activities. Framasa in Brown County. In the years Thirty-eight years later, Bardon’s ‘What in the world am I doing here?’ ” During this time, he served as the after World War II, he helped oversee the husband died. And Msgr. Kavanagh, who Father Volz said. “And I sat down next to administrator of Mary Queen of Peace construction of the four interparochial was 96 at the time, came once again to this old priest at the end of the table. Parish in Danville, and as associate pastor high schools in Indianapolis. show his concern for his former I didn’t know who he was. It was of Holy Trinity and St. Mary parishes, both Three of those high schools— parishioner. Msgr. Kavanagh. And that man was the in Indianapolis. Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School, “I can remember looking up and most gracious, the most welcoming priest. On Nov. 8, 1951, he was named the Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High seeing Msgr. Kavanagh coming into the I think I sat there next to him at every administrator of St. Michael the Archangel School and Bishop Chatrand High School church [for the wake], being pushed in a meeting. I loved that man.” Parish in Indianapolis. He became the (now Roncalli High School)—were wheelchair,” said Bardon in appreciation Richard T. Kavanagh was born on pastor on Feb. 4, 1955, and would remain named after men who were close to of Msgr. Kavanagh. Nov. 28, 1911, in Evansville, Ind., to pastor until he retired in 1982. Msgr. Kavanagh. He served Mass for Bardon said her former pastor’s Thomas and Delia (Fahey) Kavanagh. During the 1960s, he also served as and became a seminarian under presence during her times of grief was He attended Mercy Convent and the dean of the Indianapolis North Bishop Joseph Chartrand. Cardinal Joseph emblematic of his concern for each of St. Joseph School in Galway, Ireland, and Deanery. In the 1970s, he was the dean of E. Ritter ordained him to the priesthood. his parishioners, no matter what big SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral School in the Indianapolis West Deanery. And he was a close friend of projects he was overseeing either in the Indianapolis before becoming a diocesan In 1965, he was named the first director Father Scecina, who was a military parish or the archdiocese at the time. seminarian. of the archdiocesan purchasing department. chaplain during World War II and died in “If there was a problem and you took He received his priestly formation at Pope Paul VI named him a domestic the line of duty. it to Msgr. Kavanagh, he would listen Saint Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad. prelate in 1967. Msgr. Kavanagh also established the and he never thought it was too small or Bishop Joseph E. Ritter ordained him to Msgr. Kavanagh retired from active archdiocesan Office of Purchasing in too big of a problem,” Bardon said. “He the priesthood on June 2, 1936, at the ministry in 1982. 1965. And in the early 1980s, as a retired would tackle it. I think that he made Abbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln Surviving are two nieces and a nephew. priest, he guided the renovation of the everybody feel that their needs were in St. Meinrad. Memorial gifts may be sent to former home of Cathedral High School important and that our parish’s needs Following his ordination, he was St. Michael the Archangel Parish or into the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic were important.” assigned for two years of pastoral ministry Cathedral High School, both in Center in downtown Indianapolis. Msgr. Kavanagh extended that concern in the then-Diocese of Denver. Indianapolis, or St. Paul Hermitage in Finally, in the late 1990s, he helped to his brother priests, even those who were From 1938-42, he was the associate Beech Grove. †

Governor presents Freedom Award to Father Kenneth Taylor for community advocacy By Mary Ann Wyand Dr. Martin Luther King is that we’re not the faith community, is living in a society that is just black and supposed to be inclusive of Father Kenneth Taylor certainly wasn’t white anymore. all people, no matter where expecting to receive a 2010 Freedom “It’s a multicultural situation that we they come from,” Award on Jan. 14 from Gov. Mitch find ourselves in,” he said, “and we have Father Taylor said. “That Daniels at the Indiana Statehouse in to learn how to get along with a variety of vision is reinforced in [the Indianapolis. people. That is as much of a challenge Book of] Revelation when

The community service award from the today as it was fighting the segregation in we get the vision of the Office Submitted photo/courtesy Governor’s State of Indiana and Dr. Martin Luther the day of Martin Luther King.” throng of people before the King Jr. Holiday Commission recognizes It’s important and necessary to throne of God, and every citizens who break down barriers that celebrate multicultural differences in people, nation, race and divide people. society, he said, rather than fear or avoid tongue are represented there. The pastor of Holy Angels Parish in them in cities and neighborhoods. That vision, I think, is what Indianapolis and director of the “I think part of the recognition [for the we’re all called to work to as archdiocesan Office of Multicultural award] was that as an African-American Church, as [members of] any Ministry has been active in Church and Catholic priest in this diocese that in itself faith community and as Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, right, presented a 2010 Freedom community advocacy efforts since he was has broken down a number of barriers,” neighbors.” Award to Father Kenneth Taylor, third from right, during a Jan. 14 ordained to the priesthood 31 years ago. Father Taylor said. “Since we don’t have He said the civil rights ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse. State Rep. Matthew Bell, He also ministered at St. Monica, that many African-American priests in the movement during the 1960s R-Avilla, left, and Clayton Graham, second from left, also partic- St. Thomas Aquinas, Holy Trinity and archdiocese, either now or historically, I influenced his calling to the ipated in the award presentation. Father Taylor is the pastor of St. Michael the Archangel parishes in think what I’ve been able to do as an priesthood. Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis and director of the Indianapolis as well as the former ordained priest in the diocese was part of “I was in school during archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry. St. Bridget Parish in Indianapolis. it beyond my multicultural ministry the height of the civil rights “Breaking down barriers is involvement.” movement and observing all that was That was very much a part of my something that continually needs to Scripture reminds people to love one going on,” Father Taylor said. “I saw that motivation toward priesthood because I be taught and continually needs to another, he said, and help one another. the Church played a major role in the wanted to be a part of the Church in order happen,” Father Taylor said. “The “I think that we’ve had the vision set promotion of civil rights, and the end of to be a part of this change that was taking one thing that is different from the time of before us by Pentecost where the Church, segregation, separateness and division. place in our society and our nation.” † Page 4A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010

OPINION

Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. Responding to the crisis in Haiti There are big differences between upon his return. “To some extent, that leaders and managers. Managers proved true.” Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 administer; they mind The objective was to get two and a half Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher the store. But leaders tons of medical supplies donated by the Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus innovate. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Managers hold the down to Haiti and to bring the children fort, leaders develop back. The governor and his team new frontiers. The accomplished both. Editorial manager imitates; the As the rest of us contribute whatever leader originates. we can to the relief effort, we have to Democratic think long-term about eliminating Let’s make 2010 a year of peace Gov. Ed Rendell of poverty in Haiti. As David Brooks Pennsylvania proved pointed out in The New York Times, through growth in love and faith himself to be an innovative leader in his when a magnitude 7 earthquake hit the response to the crisis in Haiti. San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, e are now 10 years into A consummate politician who is always 1989—remember seeing it as you Wthe third Christian in touch with the people, Rendell watched a World Series game between millennium. This has so far been responded immediately to a plea from the Oakland A’s and San Francisco

a troubled decade characterized Roller photo/Bob CNS two Pennsylvania sisters, Jamie and Giants?—63 people were killed. by terrorism, war and economic Ali McMurtrie, who ran an orphanage in When an earthquake of the exact same crisis. Surely we can do better earthquake-shattered Haiti. magnitude struck near Port-au-Prince on than this. As a result, 54 orphans are now in Jan. 12, 2010, uncounted thousands died. Cardinal Francis E. George, in Pittsburgh awaiting adoption and new The difference? Poverty. his recently published collection interest is being shown to children already Flimsy construction, a weak economy, a of essays, The Difference God awaiting adoption in Pennsylvania colonial legacy, illiteracy and widespread Makes: A Catholic Vision of orphanages. political corruption describe the collapsed Faith, Communion and Culture, The earthquake occurred on a Tuesday. infrastructure of a broken nation. argues that all of our social, The governor was on the ground in Haiti Rebuilding it will require strategically political and economic problems for six hours the following Monday, having applied economic assistance, education, stem from the radical separation chartered a plane from Republic Airways. engineering, political stability and integrity of our spiritual lives as the He assembled a rescue team from the in government. people of God from our secular University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, It will also take a lot of time. lives as people who are political, the Red Cross and Catholic Charities of Locate the Caribbean island of economic and social beings. Pittsburgh. U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, a Hispaniola on your map and notice that it “The problem,” he says, “is western Pennsylvania Democrat, was on contains two sovereign nations—Haiti and not how to reconcile the the flight, and he used his contacts in the the Dominican Republic. competing concerns of the White House and State Department to Investigate the disparities between spiritual and secular; the problem obtain visas for the children. them—economic, political and cultural— is orthodoxy, that is to say, A neonatologist who was part of the then give some thought to what is both getting our metaphysics and our medical team on the rescue flight told the possible and achievable in the monumental praise of God in order, so that Pittsburgh Post Gazette: “I felt a little safer task of Haitian reconstruction. we can live in a just, rightly with Gov. Rendell on board, and I don’t Management won’t do it. Leadership ordered society.” think any of what transpired would have if might. “Metaphysics” is the way that the governor had not been on board. But leadership without intellectual we understand reality, the truth Clearance for the plane to land, getting the resources and a global commitment to about our world and about our kids released with special visas; I think social justice will come up short. There is existence as human beings. without him, none of it happens.” also need for a higher power. “Our praise of God” refers to Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the Rendell agreed to accompany the Review the images of devastation in our prayer and worship, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, celebrates Mass Pittsburgh group after Haiti’s ambassador Haiti and heed this suggestion: “The world certainly, but also to the way our on the opening day of the bishops’ annual fall meeting to the United States told him that his help is fragile, handle with prayer.” daily lives give witness to who in Baltimore on Nov. 16. might be needed to cut through any we are as children of God and red tape on the orphans’ behalf. (Jesuit Father William Byron is professor of disciples of Jesus Christ. one with God and with each other. “The ambassador said, ‘If problems business and society at St. Joseph’s How do we get our metaphysics and As hard as it may sometimes be to crop up, you are the only one to get it University in Philadelphia. E-mail him at our praise of God in order? This is the believe, love is growing in our anxious done,’ ” said Rendell at a press conference [email protected].) † challenge we face as individuals and hearts and in our troubled world. The communities who seek to live in a just, seeds of love were planted by God at the rightly ordered society characterized by beginning of time. They were renewed Letters to the Editor peace and love. and restored through the miracle of We face this challenge at the Christ’s resurrection and the coming of the beginning of every new year. Looking Holy Spirit at Pentecost. People of the world must become back 2,010 years, it would be easy to These same seeds of love have been give in to despair. Has any real progress nourished by the blood of the martyrs, and responsible for their own actions been made since Christ first became by 2,000 years of Christian witness given It was nice to see John Fink address decreed. Think of it as spring cleaning. one of us or since he redeemed us by his by holy men and women, who taught us Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Charity Every so many millennia, God decides it’s passion, death and resurrection? Have we by their words and their example that God in Truth.” time to clean house, and the climate learned anything as a result of the ups is love and that peace is possible if we Actually, the encyclical seems to be changes. These changes were occurring and downs of 2,000 years of Christian acknowledge him, and praise him, in our more of the “same old, same old” where before man. Are we to blame for them as history? Or are we still stuck in our sins daily lives. the U.S. is concerned. well? I would think not. as individuals and as communities? The saints teach us that we can get our We are told by the pope that I do not want to save the world. I want Fortunately, we begin each new year metaphysics and our praise of God in redistribution is necessary—where have the world to help itself, and become as people of hope. The gift Christ gives order. We can get our act together as we heard that before?—and we, the U.S., responsible for its actions as I expect to be us each Christmas and, indeed, each time individuals and as Christian should review our lifestyles. responsible for mine. we celebrate the holy Eucharist is the communities—if we open our minds and Our lifestyles: Who was first on the way This is God’s natural order of things, assurance that he is here with us and that hearts to the saving grace of our Lord to help Haiti after the earthquake? Who is and man should be very careful in trying he will come again; that the kingdom of Jesus Christ, if we pray, if we celebrate almost always first in line to help whenever to manipulate that. God is here now in our midst as well as the sacraments, and if we live simply and any tragedy strikes anywhere? Who is Barbara L. Maness coming again at the end of time; and that accept responsibility for others. We can known throughout the world, forgive me, Vevay God’s love continues to grow in us, and change ourselves and our world if we let for being the sucker and the patsy in our world, no matter how bleak or God’s love grow in us so that it transcends whenever help is needed: the United States. hopeless things may seem. our divisions and makes us one. The word “redistribution” bothers me Letters Policy In his encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” Let’s resolve this new year to begin because of what we consistently hear Letters from readers are welcome and (“God is Love”), Pope Benedict XVI again in Christ. Let’s make 2010 a year of today from our president. should be informed, relevant, well- writes: “Love grows through love. Love peace by letting love grow in our I don’t mind helping. My parents expressed, concise, temperate in tone, is ‘divine’ because it comes from God individual hearts, in our families, in our taught me to do just that. I mind doing it courteous and respectful. and unites us to God; through this neighborhoods, in our nation and in the for someone else who will not even try to The editors reserve the right to select unifying process it makes us a ‘we’ world community. do for themselves, and who feel I owe it and edit the letters based on space which transcends our divisions and Let’s become people of peace and love to them. limitations, pastoral sensitivity and makes us one, until in the end who live in a just, rightly ordered society Politicians went from saying global content. God is ‘every thing to every one’ ” by recognizing that we are, first and warming to saying climate change when Letters must be signed, but, for serious (1 Cor 15:28). foremost, the stewards of God’s love. blizzards hit Copenhagen, Beijing, reasons, names may be withheld. Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” We are called to be stewards of the May peace reign in our hearts this new London and several other European cities The Criterion, P.O. Box 1717, Indianap olis, gift of God’s love—women and men year and always. at the time of the global warming IN 46206-1717. who accept gratefully, and share meeting. Readers with access to e-mail may send generously, the divine love that makes us —Daniel Conway Of course, we have climate change. letters to [email protected]. God, in his infinite wisdom, has so The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Page 5A

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Catholic schools hand on the rich heritage of our ancestors e have good reason to celebrate our at the Boeckelman School, and there I spent grounding in our Catholic faith, tradition challenges of our secular culture. WCatholic schools this week. the first two years of grade school. It was and culture. I would also add that my I have a strong sense of their importance As we celebrate, it is noteworthy that kind of like a home school. Most of us, vocation to the priesthood found its roots in from personal experience. I already our parish Catholic schools and the high 25 or so, were cousins, and all of us were the St. Joe’s environment—in addition to mentioned that my Uncle Adam was a lay school systems are a hallmark of the Catholic. my family, of course. teacher. My Mom was the first lay teacher Catholic Church in the United States from An old iron coal stove heated the In many ways, my generation of in my home Holy Family Parish in Jasper the earliest years of our country. one room. There was a “recitation bench” at Catholics still experienced somewhat of an in the late 1950s. The founding of our Catholic school the front of the room where, grade by grade, immigrant connection in our elementary Another aunt also succeeded teaching “system” had very much to do with the we would receive and recite the lesson of education. As I look back, I value that religious sisters in Dubois County. fact that we were an immigrant Church. It the day while the other grades worked at historical connection. Our country’s culture is not friendly to also had to do with maintaining our their desks or practiced writing on the These days, it is not easy to recognize some very important values and teachings Catholic faith and culture in a predomi- blackboard. the immigrant context that gave rise to a of our Catholic faith and tradition. And so nantly Protestant national culture. On Saturday mornings, we would go to truly prominent Catholic education system. our Catholic schools continue to be Nor were the circumstances of the day St. Joseph School in Jasper to receive our Many developments account for the loss of important for handing on the rich heritage friendly to our ancestors. If the Catholic religious education from the Sisters of that connection, the passing of time and the we received from our ancestors in the faith. faith was to be passed on to succeeding Providence. I was prepared for change in our national culture being major We pray gratefully for our ancestors and generations, they decided that it was first Communion and the sacrament of ones. We also regret the loss of the all who generously keep the grand tradition necessary to have their own schools in confirmation on those Saturday mornings. influence of the religious sisters and of our Catholic schools flourishing. † which the faith and our Catholic tradition Our family regularly went to St. Joe’s for brothers as teachers. could be taught to their children. confession monthly on a Saturday We owe an enormous debt of thanks to Traces of that aspect of our Catholic afternoon. That’s when the pastor, those religious who provided so many of us Do you have an intention for heritage marked my own early years of Msgr. Leonard Wernsing, repeatedly nudged with a superb education and religious Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? elementary education. I am pretty sure that Mom and Dad to transfer my brother formation. They played a momentous role You may mail it to him at: is a significant source of my strong Charlie and me to St. Joseph School. I was in the historical development of the convictions about our Catholic schools. in the third grade; Charlie was in seventh. Catholic Church in the United States. Archbishop Buechlein’s In Dubois County, there still existed And that’s where our education came more Now it is only proper to express our Prayer List one-room, eight-grade schools during my extensively under the direction and gratitude to the lay women and men who Archdiocese of Indianapolis early childhood. We called them “school influence of the Sisters of Providence. have stepped up to take over the important 1400 N. Meridian St. houses.” St. Joseph School in Jasper was the role of teachers and administrators in our P.O. Box 1410 In fact, outside of Jasper, there had first school founded by St. Theodora Catholic schools. They are doing an Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 been a Buechlein School near my Guérin—another immigrant connection. At excellent job, especially in the face of the Grandpa Buechlein’s farm. About a mile the time of my elementary education, some from my childhood home, there was the 20 Sisters of Providence were teaching at Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for January Boeckelman School. The names of the St. Joe’s. Interestingly, at that time, it was schools tell of their German immigrant also a public school. Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to origin. Besides receiving an excellent academic consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. My Mom’s brother, Uncle Adam, taught education, we also received a solid Las escuelas católicas transmiten la rica herencia de nuestros antepasados sta semana tenemos buenos motivos para pasé allí los primeros dos años de la agregar que mi vocación al sacerdocio tiene mencioné antes que mi tío Adam era un Efestejar con nuestras escuelas católicas. primaria. En cierto modo, era como la sus raíces en el ambiente de St. Joe, además maestro laico. Mi mamá fue la primera Al tiempo que celebramos, cabe destacar escolarización en el hogar. La mayoría de de en el hogar, por supuesto. maestra laica en mi parroquia Holy Family que desde los albores de nuestro país las nosotros, aproximadamente 25, éramos Mi generación de católicos pudo experi- en Jasper, a finales de 1950. escuelas católicas parroquiales y los primos y todos católicos. mentar de muchas formas algo de esa Una tía también ocupó el lugar de las sistemas de escuela secundaria han sido un Una vieja chimenea de hierro con carbón conexión de inmigrantes en la educación maestras religiosas en el Condado Dubois. sello distintivo de la Iglesia católica de servía para calentar el salón. Había un elemental. Al mirar hacia atrás valoro esa La cultura de nuestro país no acoge de Estados Unidos. “podio de declamación” en la parte de conexión histórica. buena gana algunos de los valores y En la fundación de nuestro “sistema” adelante del salón en el cual, grado por En nuestros días no resulta fácil enseñanzas importantes de nuestra fe y escolar católico tuvo gran influencia el grado, recibíamos y declamábamos la reconocer el contexto migratorio que dio tradición católica. Por lo tanto, nuestras hecho de que éramos una iglesia de lección del día, mientras que los demás paso a un sistema educativo católico escuelas católicas continúan siendo inmigrantes. También tuvo que ver con la grados trabajaban en sus pupitres o verdaderamente sobresaliente. Existen cruciales para transmitir la rica herencia preservación de nuestra fe y cultura católica practicaban la escritura en la pizarra. muchos acontecimientos que han que recibimos de nuestros antepasados en medio de una cultura nacional predomi- Los sábados en la mañana íbamos a la ocasionado la pérdida de esa conexión, en la fe. nantemente protestante. escuela St. Joseph en Jasper para que las siendo los más importantes el paso del Rezamos con agradecimiento por En aquel entonces las circunstancias en Hermanas de la Providencia nos impartieran tiempo y los cambios que ha sufrido nuestra nuestros antepasados y todos aquellos que las que se encontraban nuestros antepasados educación religiosa. En esos sábados en la cultura nacional. También lamentamos han contribuido al florecimiento de la no eran acogedoras. Con el fin de poder mañana me preparé para la Primera haber perdido la influencia de los hermanos magnifica tradición de nuestras escuelas transmitir la fe católica a las generaciones Comunión y para el sacramento de la y hermanas religiosos como maestros. católicas. † posteriores, decidieron que era necesario Confirmación. Tenemos una enorme deuda de gratitud contar con escuelas propias en las cuales sus Nuestra familia se dirigía regularmente a con aquellos religiosos que brindaron a ¿Tiene una intención que desee hijos pudieran aprender acerca de la fe y la St. Joe para la confesión mensual los muchos de nosotros una excelente incluir en la lista de oración del tradición católica. sábados en la tarde. Era allí donde el pastor, educación y formación religiosa. Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar Los vestigios de ese aspecto de nuestra monseñor Leonard Wernsing, animaba a mis Desempeñaron un papel trascendental en el su correspondencia a: herencia católica marcaron mis primeros padres en repetidas ocasiones para que nos desarrollo histórico de la Iglesia católica de años en la escuela elemental. Estoy bastante transfirieran a mi hermano y a mí a la Estados Unidos. Lista de oración del Arzobispo seguro de ésta ha sido una de las fuentes escuela St. Joseph. Yo estaba en tercer grado Del mismo modo, resulta oportuno Buechlein importantes que han tenido incidencia sobre y Charlie en el séptimo. Y fue entonces expresar nuestro agradecimiento a todos los Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis mi firme convicción con respecto a nuestras cuando nuestra educación pasó a estar hombres y mujeres laicos que han asumido 1400 N. Meridian St. escuelas católicas. mucho más influenciada y dirigida por las la importante labor de maestros y adminis- P.O. Box 1410 En el condado de Dubois, durante mi Hermanas de la Providencia. tradores de nuestras escuelas católicas. Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 primera infancia, todavía existían escuelas La escuela St. Joseph de Jasper fue la Están realizando un excelente trabajo, de un solo salón hasta octavo grado. Las primera que fundó Santa Theodora Guérin; especialmente a la luz de los retos que llamábamos “casas escuela.” he aquí otra conexión con inmigrantes. presenta nuestra cultura secular. De hecho, en las afueras de Jasper había Durante aquella etapa de mi educación Por experiencia personal valoro Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, una Escuela Buechlein, cerca de la granja de elemental, había alrededor de 20 Hermanas enormemente la importancia que tienen. Ya Language Training Center, Indianapolis. mi abuelo Buechlein. A aproximadamente de la Providencia enseñando en St. Joe. una milla de mi hogar de infancia había una Resulta interesante que por aquel entonces, La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero Escuela Boeckelman. Los nombres de las era también una escuela pública. escuelas hablan de su origen de inmigrantes Además de recibir una excelente Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus alemanes. formación académica, también sentamos hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para servir en la iglesia, especialmente como El hermano de mamá, el tío Adam, bases sólidas para nuestra fe, tradición y sacerdotes y gente religiosa. enseñaba en la Escuela Boeckelman y yo cultura católica. Asimismo, me gustaría Page 6A The Criterion Friday, Janaury 29, 2010 Events Calendar

January 30 16th St., Indianapolis. February 1 St. Mary Parish, 317 N. e-mail [email protected]. Beech Grove. Open house, The Cathedral Church of Preschool and K-sixth grade St. Christopher School, 5301 W. New Jersey St., Indianapolis. 12:30-2 p.m. Information: St. Edward the Confessor, open house and registration, 16th St., Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Catholic, St. Mary Parish, 317 N. 317-784-9078 or 6361 N. Keystone Ave., Indian- noon-2 p.m. Information: Preschool and K-sixth grade educational, charitable and New Jersey St., Indianapolis. [email protected]. apolis. Pro-life celebration, 317-241-6314, ext. 127. open house and registration, social singles, 50 and over, Almeda Trio, concert, rosary, 10:30 a.m., Anglican 5:30-7 p.m. Information: single, separated, widowed or 7:30 p.m., free-will offering. Oldenburg Academy, Information: 317-637-3983. Mass, 11 a.m., luncheon, noon, St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, 317-241-6314, ext. 127. divorced, new members 1 Twister Circle, Oldenburg. welcome, 6:30 p.m. program, Msgr. Joseph F. 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis. February 6 OASIS Booster Club, Super Information: 317-370-1189. Schaedel, vicar general, speaker. Men’s Club annual pancake St. Mary of the Providence Cristo Rey High Bowl Sunday, all you can eat Information: 317-498-1209 or Immaculate Conception Church, breakfast, “all you can eat and School, 75 N. Belleview Place, breakfast, 7 a.m.-noon, 317-253-3949. 203 Fourth St., Aurora. Parish St. Charles Borromeo Parish, pay what you think,” Indianapolis. “Trivia Night,” free-will offering. Information: mission, “Walking in the 2222 E. Third St., Bloomington. 812-933-0737, ext. 244. 7:30-11 a.m. Information: 6:30-11 p.m., $50 per person St. Bartholomew Parish, Footsteps of Jesus,” Father Jim Jack Jezreel, founder of includes dinner. Information: 317-291-7014. cafeteria, 1306 27th St., Farrell, presenter, 7 p.m. JustFaith Ministries, speaker, 317-289-3324 or Holy Spirit Parish, Dining Columbus. Pro-Life Rally, Information: 812-926-0060 or 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. [email protected]. Commons, 3345 Lexington “Keep the Fire Burning,” MKVS, Divine Mercy and carolyn.meyer@ Information: 812-336-6846. Road, Louisville, Ky. students in grades 7-12, Glorious Cross Center, Rexville, mystmarys.com. February 5 St. Vincent Women’s Hospital, St. Mary-of-the-Woods 1-3:30 p.m. Information: located on 925 South, .8 mile 8111 Township Line Road, Our Lady of the Most Holy College, Alumnae 812-344-1348. east of 421 South and 12 miles February 3 Indianapolis. “Childbirth Rosary Church, 520 Stevens St., Association, “St. Mother St. Christopher Parish, Preparation: Fast Track,” south of Versailles. Mass, noon, Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Theodore Guérin Speaks,” January 31 5301 W. 16th St., 9 a.m., $65. Information: on third Sunday holy hour meeting, Father Rick Nagel, Providence Sister Susan Our Lady of Lourdes School, Indianapolis. “Another Look,” 317-338-4437 or and pitch-in, groups of 10 pray Paweski, presenter, 2 p.m., 30 S. Downey St., for Catholics who have chaplain at IUPUI, presenter, www.womens.stvincent.org. Indianapolis. Open house, the new Marian Way, 1 p.m., been away or feel 6:30 a.m., Mass, breakfast and coffee and dessert following 1-3 p.m. Information: Father Elmer Burwinkel, alienated from the Church, program in Priori Hall, $15 February 7 presentation, no charge. 317-357-3316. celebrant. Information: 7 p.m. Information: members, $20 non-members. Most Holy Name of Jesus Reservations: 502-896-6753 or St. Christopher School, 5301 W. 812-689-3551. 317-241-6314. Information: 317-435-3447 or School, 21 N. 17th Ave., 502-423-8855. †

Retreats and Programs The Shack: An Evening of Reflection with “Women’s Day of Reflection,” Conventual Talk–Life’s Transitions,” session one of five, Father Jim Farrell,” 6:30 p.m., $15 per person Franciscan Friar Bob Baxter, presenter. Information: 6-9 p.m., Dr. Margaret Pike, presenter, $25 per includes light dinner. Information: 317-545-7681. 812-923-8817. February 3 person includes dinner. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. February 5 February 8 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Exploring God’s Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Presence in Our Everyday Lives: A Morning 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest “Men’s Night at the ‘Burg,” Franciscan Father Carl February 12-14 for Moms Program with Rita Burns Awhile,” non-guided reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Hawver, presenter, 7-8:30 p.m, free-will donation. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Senseman,” $30 per person, childcare $25 per person includes continental breakfast and Information: 812-933-6437 or available, Information: 317-545-7681. lunch. Information: 317-545-7681. [email protected]. St. Meinrad. “Be My Valentine–A Married February 4 February 5-6 February 9 Couples Retreat,” Benedictine Father Noël Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Mueller, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or 56th St., Indianapolis. “Meet Me at 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Woman [email protected]. † Two men begin novitiate Monks profess temporary vows at Saint Meinrad Archabbey at Saint Meinrad Archabbey Michael Luckett and Timothy Wymore James Madison Memorial High School Benedictine Novice Gary Edwards and member of SS. Peter and Paul Parish. were clothed in the Benedictine habit on and was a member of Our Lady Queen Benedictine Novice Joseph Waugh He earned a bachelor’s degree in Jan. 19 at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in of Peace Parish. professed philosophy at St. Meinrad during He earned a temporary vows The Catholic a brief ceremony at bachelor’s degree as monks of University of the monastery in 2007 at the Saint Meinrad America. After entrance. University of Archabbey in graduating, he They now begin Notre Dame. St. Meinrad during worked as a a year of monastic During college, a Jan. 20 liturgy at paralegal, high formation, he was an intern the monastery’s school teacher including study of with Big Brothers Archabbey Church and dean of the Rule of Big Sisters of of Our Lady of students. St. Benedict and Dubois County. Einsiedeln. Brother Luke, monastic history. Following Novice Gary 45, was born in Nov. Timothy Wymore, O.S.B. Br. Adam Edwards, O.S.B. Br. Luke Waugh, O.S.B. Nov. Michael Luckett, O.S.B. Novice Michael, college, he spent and Novice Joseph Weston, W.Va., 21, was born in two years working for the National Right have completed their novitiate, a year of where he attended Lewis County High Louisville. He grew up in Rancho to Life Committee. prayer and study of the Benedictine way School. He was a member of Our Lady Cucamonga, Calif., where he was a As novices, the two men take a year of life. of Perpetual Help Parish in Salem, Va. member of SS. Peter and Paul Parish. off from formal studies and/or trades. As is the custom during the profession He attended Radford University in He attended Damien High School in The novitiate is a time of prayer and of vows, they were assigned a religious Radford, Va., and later worked in La Verne, Calif. In 2009, he earned a learning intended to help a novice discern name. Novice Gary will now be known as information technology for a company bachelor’s degree in philosophy at his vocation as a monk. At the end of this Brother Adam and Novice Joseph will be in Roanoke, Va. Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif., year, a novice may be permitted to known as Brother Luke. Temporary vows The three-year period of temporary before coming to Saint Meinrad. profess temporary vows of obedience, are typically for three years. vows provides a continuing opportunity Novice Timothy, 24, was born in fidelity to the monastic way of life Brother Adam, 30, was born in for the monk and monastic community Grand Forks, N.D. He grew up in and stability in the community of Norwich, Conn., where he attended to determine whether monastic life is Madison, Wis., where he attended Saint Meinrad. † St. Bernard High School and was a the right vocation for him. †

VIPs Raymond J. and Patricia L. (Norris) Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, will

Submitted photo 95th birthday Mayer, members of St. Roch Parish in celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Indianapolis, on Jan. 30. will celebrate The couple was married on Jan. 30, celebration their 1960, at St. Joseph Church in Retired Father Hilary Meny, who lives in 60th wedding Shelbyville. Haubstadt, Ind., celebrates his 95th birthday with anniversary on They are the parents of four children: several family members on Jan. 17. With the Feb. 4. Gayle Alvey, Marcia Ewbank, Ann Sellers death of Msgr. Richard Kavanagh on Jan. 20, The couple and Mark Beaver. They have six grand - Father Meny is now the oldest priest of the was married on children and one great-grandchild. † Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The pastor of the Feb. 4, 1950, at former St. Patrick Parish in Madison for more Our Lady of Nick and Patricia (Love) Seats, than 40 years, he will celebrate the Lourdes Church members of Holy Spirit Parish in 70th anniversary of his ordination to the in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, celebrated their priesthood later this year. They are the parents of eight children: 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 23. Kathy Delpha, Patty Ralston, Ann, The couple was married on Jan. 23, Margaret, Mary Lou, Ric, Paul and Steve 1960, at St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Mayer. They have 18 grandchildren. † (Little Flower) Church in Indianapolis. They are the parents of three children: William and Nadara (Fletcher) Kimberly Sherrill, Richard and Ronald Beaver, members of Our Lady of the Seats. They have four grandchildren. † The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Page 7A Indiana Catholic Conference opposes state immigration proposal By Brigid Curtis Ayer “In Indiana, we are experiencing many others testified in opposition to the bill, All bills must pass their house of of the human consequences of a federal including David Sklar of the Jewish origin by midnight on Feb. 3 to The American dream: a good job, a immigration system that is Community Relations “cross over” to the second house. safe place to live for family, and the belief both broken and inadequate,” Council, who also cited that if one works hard enough, economic Tebbe said. “Here, as concerns about an increase in (Bridget Curtis Ayer is a correspondent prosperity will result. throughout the nation, many racial profiling. for The Criterion.) † This dream and the 1980s economic immigrant families are Kathy Williams, who boom inspired a wave of Mexican separated. A lost job or a represents social services immigrants to journey to the United traffic arrest can contribute to frustration, organizations, raised concerns about an States. alcohol abuse and other social evils—and increase in human suffering. Ed Roberts, The Church’s Unlike the immigrants who landed at expulsion.” representing the Indiana Manufacturers Ellis Island, the federal government was Undocumented immigrants are Association, voiced the potential position unprepared to respond to the influx of non-citizens and are aliens in the legal problems that the proposed new law could Mexican immigrants creating today’s sense, but they are not aliens within our cause employers. Angela Adams, an on immigration federal immigration quagmire. human family—they are our brothers and immigration attorney for the Father Steve Gibson, the pastor of sisters, Tebbe said. Lewis & Kappes law reform St. Mary Parish in East Chicago, Ind., in “Because of its firm, stressed a need The Catholic Church does not the Gary Diocese, a parish with a large harmful impact on ‘In Indiana, we are for comprehensive support illegal immigration. Hispanic community, said the pathway to human life and human immigration reform, The Church respects the right of legal citizenship can commonly take more dignity, the Church has experiencing many of but said that it must be nations to control its borders, and the than a decade to attain and, for many, stated that the the human addressed at the federal legitimate need for the state to have there is no clear or legal way to gain entry status quo is immoral,” level. reasonable requirements for into the United States. he said. “We are consequences of a Franciscan Father citizenship and its privileges. These immigrant families—many of insistent in calling for federal immigration Thomas Fox, who Yet the Church sees some rights as whose parents are undocumented and comprehensive reform system that is both serves as a Hispanic inherent in the human condition, children are American citizens—will of the U.S. immigration ministry assistant in the natural rights which extend beyond suffer if a state proposal aimed at system. broken and Archdiocese of Indian- all national boundaries. tightening up immigration enforcement “Unauthorized inadequate.’ apolis, also was present The Church evaluates public becomes law—a proposal that the Indiana presence in the U.S. is at the hearing to testify policy issues in light of sacred Catholic Conference opposes. usually a violation of in opposition to Scripture, the teachings of Senate Bill 213, authored by civil, not criminal law,” —Glenn Tebbe, Senate Bill 213 as was Jesus Christ, and from principles Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, increases Tebbe said. “This Indiana Catholic John Livengood, a derived from our experience of trying penalties for driving without a legislation creates Conference executive lobbyist for the to live and apply those teachings for driver’s license or falsifying identifi- criminal penalties for Indiana Restaurant many centuries. cation, and encourages local law many things that are director Association. Time The Church’s consistent life ethic, enforcement officials to arrest individuals incidental to daily life: constraints prevented the belief that all human beings, from suspected of being undocumented. driving a car to work, them from testifying. conception to natural death, have The Senate Pensions and renting an apartment or using public Representatives from the Indiana inherent dignity given to them by Labor Committee unanimously passed institutions that are designed to protect Federation for Immigration Reform God himself, is applied to public Senate Bill 213 after hours of testimony and promote the common good.” & Enforcement (IFIRE) and the policy. by those who support and oppose the bill. Tebbe told the panel that the provision American Legion testified in support of The unborn, the elderly, the Glenn Tebbe, Indiana Catholic in Senate Bill 213 to encourage local and the bill, claiming that the legislation death-row inmate, the poor, the Conference state law enforcement officers to become would help law enforcement catch handicapped and the undocumented executive director, immigration officials would invite racial criminals and protect against terrorism. immigrant are all human beings who testified in profiling by law enforcement. “If this bill passes, there is no deserving respect and dignity. The opposition to the “This, too, is happening already in doubt that the consequences would be Church approaches the undocu- bill before the some communities,” Tebbe said. “We are disastrous for people in this region and mented immigrant not from a legal Senate panel, said, witnessing an increase in profiling by for the economy of northwest Indiana,” perspective, but from a moral one. “Immigration is, some local law enforcement officers. Father Gibson said. “The same For more information on first and foremost, Law-abiding persons are being pulled compassion we are showing to the immigration or to read the Indiana a humanitarian over and being taken to jail because of victims of tragedies throughout the world bishops’ statement on immigration concern and a looking Hispanic. The economic and is the same compassion we should show reform titled “I Was a Stranger and moral issue. emotional effect on the family when this to our immigrants who live around us.” You Welcomed Me: Meeting Christ Immigration is not happens is significant and unnecessary as Senate Bill 213 was reassigned to the in New Neighbors,” log on to Glenn Tebbe a new well as the offense against the human Senate Appropriations Committee, and www.indianacc.org. Click phenomenon. The majority of us in the dignity of the person.” will undergo another hearing to consider “resources” and scroll down to room, including myself, descended from In addition to the moral and practical the fiscal impact of the legislation. Bills immigration. † immigrant families. concerns of the Church raised by Tebbe, must pass committee by Jan. 29. Health reform effort must continue, bishops’ pro-life chairman says WASHINGTON (CNS)—With the fate With the Jan. 13 election of Republican Cardinal DiNardo and staff members of what is most promising medically”—adult of the current health reform bills in doubt, Scott Brown in Massachusetts to fill the the pro-life secretariat also addressed a stem-cell research, he said. the next challenge is to convince members Senate seat held by the late Democratic variety of current pro-life legislative Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant of Congress not to abandon the health Sen. Ted Kennedy, Democrats lost their challenges and upcoming initiatives during director for policy and communications reform effort entirely, Cardinal Daniel 60-seat supermajority and passage of any the briefing. in the pro-life N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said on amended health reform bill in the Senate The cardinal predicted “a very intense secretariat, Jan. 22. was put in doubt. pro-life contribution” to the immigration unveiled a series The cardinal said he was speaking both Cardinal DiNardo noted that the bishops reform effort, expected to be one of of ads aimed at as chairman of the U.S. bishops’ had never endorsed a particular health Congress’ next major priorities. helping those Committee on reform bill, but have instead “cited our Just as the heads of the affected by Pro-Life Activities preoccupations” with existing legislation— USCCB committees on Migration and abortion— and as head of an a role he said they would continue to play on Domestic Justice and Human including fathers archdiocese that as the debate moves forward. Development have played a strong role and grandparents has “the highest At the briefing, Richard Doerflinger, in the bishops’ health reform efforts, of unborn number of associate director of the bishops’ pro-life the pro-life office will be involved in children—find uninsured in the secretariat, said the challenge on health lobbying for immigration reform, he said. Deirdre A. McQuade healing and country.” reform “has shifted Ecumenical coalitions also will play a key peace. “We need health enormously in the role, he said. “This is the first time we are reform,” he said in last week.” Doerflinger said consideration of the reaching out to men,” who might range a briefing with “We now don’t next set of appropriations bills is a couple from those who are grieving because Cardinal Catholic media know if there will of months away, with “dozens of riders” they never knew the woman was Daniel N. DiNardo at the headquarters be a bill at all,” he likely to be needed to preserve current pregnant until after an abortion to those of the said. “Now we practices on federal abortion funding. who “dragged the woman by her hair” U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in might have to Another issue that is “rearing its ugly to get an abortion and now feel guilty, Washington. “We’re concerned that there encourage Congress head again” is assisted suicide, with various McQuade said. may not be” continued momentum in not to give up on state courts and legislatures moving toward One of the ads pictures a young man Congress “to allow more people to be this moral permitting it, he said. The last major push and the slogan, “I can’t believe I let this insured,” he added. imperative.” by the bishops on that topic was in 1997, happen.” Then it says, “Never let your Cardinal DiNardo was speaking shortly Richard Doerflinger In simplest he added. past keep you from God” and the before the March for Life marking the terms, the bishops want to see health Some in Congress had indicated that tagline from each ad: “Come back to 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s reform in which “everyone gets cared for they would try to further expand federal God, who is love and mercy.” Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. and no one gets deliberately killed,” funding of embryonic stem-cell research The ads, in English and Spanish, have The day before, House Speaker Doerflinger added. this year, Doerflinger said, but “I don’t been placed in Washington Metro subway Nancy Pelosi said there were not enough The cardinal and Doerflinger also met think that is going to happen now with all trains for a month surrounding the Jan. 22 votes in the House to pass the Senate- on Jan. 21 on Capitol Hill with two Texas the science moving in the other direction.” Roe v. Wade anniversary, and will be made approved version of health reform Democrats—Reps. Solomon Ortiz and “The issue is fading as people find out available to dioceses for their own legislation. Silvestre Reyes. that the bishops were absolutely right about campaigns, McQuade said. † Page 8A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Voices for the voiceless Like David, youths march for life in God’s name, priest says By Mary Ann Wyand entertainment industry and the media under their influence,” he said, referring yand The first Book of Samuel’s account to abortion forces in America. W Ann Mary

of David fighting the mighty Goliath “We are preparing to march upon them by

(1 Sm 17) was an appropriate reading armed with nothing other than a few Photo for Mass on Jan. 20 at SS. Peter and posters and banners,” Father Hollowell Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis when said. “Just as Goliath mocked David, we Father John Hollowell preached a homily will be mocked as well—or, perhaps to archdiocesan youths about to depart for worse, we will be ignored.” the 37th annual March for Life in The new Philistines will laugh, he Washington, D.C. said, and ask, ‘Is this what you send to “The Philistines have again amassed fight your battles—teenagers?’ … But an army,” said Father Hollowell, the these people who mock God and mock chaplain at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High us shall learn that it is not by sword or School in Indianapolis, who was spear or scimitar that the Lord does his ordained in 2009 and has participated in damage.” six national pro-life marches. The Psalms relate that the Lord uses “They have weapons, technology, the the lowly to humble the proud, he explained, and the Father John Hollowell,

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belief and trust in the by the Mass for Life on power of God. Photo Jan. 20 at SS. Peter and “The game plan for Paul Cathedral in our battle has not Indianapolis. changed from that Father Hollowell was of the Israelites,” Archdiocesan March for Life pilgrims Chris Slabaugh of Hayden, left, a member of St. Joseph Parish in the principal celebrant Father Hollowell said. Jennings County, and Beth Schoettner of Columbus, right, a member of Holy Trinity Parish in and homilist for the “The ark of the covenant Edinburgh, pray during the Mass for Life on Jan. 20 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis liturgy before was a box with poles on before departing for the March for Life in Washington, D.C. archdiocesan pro-life each side, and inside the pilgrims departed for living God was truly become really and truly an ark of the “Wherever the ark is, there his Washington, D.C. present. The Israelites covenant bearing God’s true presence angels and saints are praising him,” Father Beidelman is the carried the ark of the inside of ourselves.” Father Hollowell said, “and so we march vice rector for the covenant with them into As teenage “jean-wearing, iPod- with the heavenly host in a battle for the Bishop Simon Bruté all of their battles, and so listening, gum-chewing arks of the soul of our nation. We do not know when College Seminary in do we. He is present in us covenant,” he said, the youths will “stand Goliath will fall, … but we do know we Indianapolis. because we consume the arm in arm with an invisible host” during will be victorious” because we march in Eucharist at Mass. We the March for Life. God’s name. †

archbishops of Washington. child can be an inspiration for all Catholics against using federal funds for health plans MASS In his homily, Cardinal DiNardo welcomed in the continuing campaign to protect life. covering elective abortions, the Senate continued from page 1A the thousands of Catholics from across the “St. Agnes was so small that the chains stripped that provision from its bill. country who made the trip to Washington for intended to bind her “That [Senate] bill is also less successful crypt level below the upper church. the annual vigil and march marking the hands and wrists in making health care affordable for all who Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of 37th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s slid off,” he said. are poor or vulnerable, especially Galveston-Houston, chairman of the U.S. Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. “Unfortunately, in immigrants,” he said. “Neither bill has bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, The cardinal said he was particularly our culture we have sufficient conscience protections at this presided at the Mass. He was joined by grateful for the presence of thousands of grown into the point. Cardinals Francis E. George of Chicago, young people, whom he called “a sure mark chains that bind us “Our response must be clear and Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, Justin Rigali of of infectious joy, the sign of life.” and hold us fast in a articulate to Congress on the essential Philadelphia, William H. Keeler, retired He recalled the martyrdom of a youthful grip of deadly criteria for genuine health care reform. archbishop of Baltimore, and William W. St. Agnes—Jan. 21 is the feast day of the attitudes about Abortion is not health care. Health care is Baum and Theodore E. McCarrick, retired Roman saint—saying her witness to faith as a human life, about about saving and preserving lives, not the human person, destroying lives. As our president before Cardinal especially in the Congress recently said, everyone should be Daniel N. DiNardo moments of his or cared for and no one should be deliberately th her beautiful but fragile beginnings and in killed,” he said. 127 Anniversary Air C onditione those vulnerable times of old age and Cardinal DiNardo urged the thousands in r, H eat P ump & Furnace Sale! illness.” the basilica to embrace life willingly and The cardinal offered his views on the earnestly, as did the saints who span the

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Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis: A faith-filled investment in the future of our children By Annette “Mickey” Lentz light bulb went off in my mind and information and then transferring its whatever field one chooses. I realized all the dividends that Catholic importance. For me, knowledge also At the end of 2009, most publications As we begin another calendar year and schools have paid over many years. It’s a means the academic excellence which listed the top 10 stories of the year and a new decade, it causes us to think about totally different type of profit, one I am exists in our schools—not only in test even the decade. In every case, these lists our many blessings still blessed by each day. scores, but also in teaching the whole caused us to pause and reflect on the and gifts, and even There are four major qualities of student in body, mind and spirit. hallmarks mentioned. We have our own the challenges Catholic education: faith, knowledge, Ninety-eight percent of our students stories to remember and consider. What which lie before us. discipline and morals. They are graduate from high school, and an we do reflects who we are and helps to At the start of a qualities I have valued since entering amazing 97 percent continue to higher write our story for the future. I ask you to new year, I always the first grade at St. Patrick School and education. What a dividend for our think about the dividends of Catholic reflect on where I graduating many years later from business world. It doesn’t get much better schools and commit yourself to the have been and what Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in than that. continued support of Catholic school still needs my Terre Haute. These gifts or dividends We all know the importance of education. attention. I call this become a part of who we are and what we discipline. For me, it says that I needed to And so it is that Catholic schools my personal do—a personal portfolio. pay attention to my school lessons and be produce dividends for life. The whole portfolio, just as Let me reflect on each of those qualities able to apply those skills for a happy and world benefits when we share these one also has a stock portfolio. I am called as they pertain to my life. fruitful life. Discipline helped me achieve dividends with others. I am grateful to to take stock of my life. What are my Faith is my personal relationship with my dreams and goals—another great have had that experience. God bless. dividends? How have I profited from my God, and certainly with others, too. My payoff! investments? religion classes, as did all my other Morals are a MUST. Finding a way to (Annette “Mickey” Lentz is the This year’s theme for Catholic Schools subjects and service opportunities, allowed be happy and balanced is not easy. chancellor of the archdiocese and the Week is “Catholic Schools: Dividends for me to express my faith and belief in God, Knowing right from wrong is one thing, executive director of the archdiocesan Life.” When I first saw this theme, my my classmates and later my colleagues. and doing it is another. Morals lead to Secretariat for Catholic Education and mind went to the stock portfolio. Then the Knowledge means acquiring integrity, be it in business, education or Faith Formation.) †

A special connection Making her mark Prayers for God and Mary Faith guides students’ efforts to make a After 50 years in the classroom, teacher still Holy Name School students promote the difference, page 2B. inspires students, page 5B. rosary, page 9B.

A house united A meaningful victory The bond of belief New approach to student leadership creates CYO group uses basketball to help youths with High school sports strive to teach values and deeper faith, tighter bonds, page 3B. disabilities, page 8B. deepen faith, page 12B. Page 2B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 A special connection Faith guides students’ efforts to make a difference

By John Shaughnessy service trip as a perfect way to teach high school students about the Catholic history of Submitted photo Submitted Submitted photo Submitted The images range from fun to Indiana and to show them a different way to heartwarming. help the poor. They also offer connections that spread On the weekend of Feb. 12-14, the from the heroics of Indianapolis Colts chaplain of Father Thomas Scecina Memorial quarterback Peyton Manning to the horror of High School in Indianapolis plans to lead earthquake-devastated Haiti. about 30 students on a journey to southern In all the images, there is this constant—the Indiana and Saint Meinrad Archabbey. way that Catholic school students across the “I’m taking a group of students down archdiocese strive to make a difference in their there for what they call ‘The Wood Chop,’ ” communities and the world. Father Jenkins said. “Those counties down Here is a look at five special efforts that there are among the poorest in the state, and show that service is a way of life and an many of the people down there heat their expression of faith for Catholic school homes with wood. Cutting and gathering students. wood is a way of providing heat for the poor in that area. It’s a way for our students to get ‘Hula Hoops for Haiti’ to see a different picture of the poor.” The students at Sacred Heart School in Father Jenkins also hopes that staying at Jeffersonville had already made a commitment the monastery for three days will also give to Haiti before the Jan. 12 earthquake that the students an insight into a community built devastated that country and killed about upon faith. 200,000 people. “It’s a way to connect them with the “Our school theme this year is Catholic history of Indiana and give them an ‘Sacred Heart School Makes a World of experience of a faith-filled community of Difference,’ and we have concentrated our monks who have been living and praying Alexandra Young and her seventh-grade efforts on ways that we can help our sister there for more than 150 years.” Bishop Chatard freshman Luke Williams never classmates at St. Bartholomew School in parish, St. Raphael, in Haiti,” said realized that community service could involve Columbus stuff Christmas stockings for Becky Spitznagel, the school’s principal. “A A day to remember and savor dancing. He dances with a guest at Joy’s House, American soldiers in Afghanistan. missionary team from Sacred Heart, including Tyler Mayer didn’t know what to expect an adult day care facility in Indianapolis. our pastor, Father Tom Clegg, traveled to Haiti when he organized a service day that sent this past October. After they came back, we 680 students and 115 adults to help nearly talked about the needs of the people there.” 40 social service agencies and community Submitted photo Submitted At the time, the school community decided organizations across Indianapolis. photo Submitted to raise $2,600 to build a As the director of home for a family in Haiti. campus ministry at During Advent, students ‘… even though they are Bishop Chatard High did jobs in their young, … they have the School in Indianapolis, neighborhoods, earning ability to cause great Mayer hoped the day about $1,000 for the home. change in a world that would be a “catalyst for They planned to raise the students to realize, even additional money during needs it so desperately.’ though they are young, Catholic Schools Week—a that they have the ability to time when the school — Tyler Mayer cause great change in a traditionally does a fun world that needs it so event to help a serious desperately.” As part of a school-wide community service day cause. So on Oct. 28, students, teachers, staff on Oct. 28 for Bishop Chatard High School “We decided we would hold a ‘Hula Hoops members and parents from Bishop Chatard students, teachers and staff members in Indian- for Haiti’ event,” Spitznagel said. “The students took assignments that led them to help at Bishop Chatard senior Ari Pappas, left, freshman apolis, freshman Patrick Gordon helps a guest go will take part in hula hoop activities in the gym nursing homes, child care centers, food banks Robyn Van Vliet and sophomore Molly Marsh through the Food Link food pantry in Indianapolis. and collect donations for their efforts. At the for the poor and other sites. hand out food and household items at the end of the hula hoop activities, Father Tom has “Just hearing the students talk about their Food Link food pantry. agreed to be a human ring-toss. For every five experiences was real neat,” Mayer noted. dollars in donations that a student collects, he “Some kids had to build a brick wall, others

Submitted photo Submitted or she will get a chance to toss a hula hoop had to move dirt, but no one complained.

over Father Tom. The top three students to get They knew they were there to help. It gave photo Submitted the most hula hoops around him will get to go them a better perspective of the need that is out to eat lunch with Father Tom.” out there.” While the event is fun, the focus is serious It also gave the places and people they following the earthquake. helped a better understanding of teenagers “The recent tragic events in Haiti have today. altered our focus,” Spitznagel said. “We plan to “The agencies were all thankful,” Mayer send the money already collected to aid in the said. “One of the biggest comments I got earthquake relief efforts.” from them was their surprise [about] the quality of students we brought them. They Bishop Chatard High School students take a A common thread of dedication weren’t sure how teenagers would respond. break during a day of painting walls, raking There was one common thread that It’s cool the way they did respond. It was leaves, cleaning rooms and playing with Students and teachers from Bishop Chatard High weaved its way through the terrific effort by inspirational to see.” children at Christamore House, a multiservice School pose outside a vacant home in Indian- the sixth- and seventh-grade students at community agency in Indianapolis. apolis that they helped to renovate during a St. Bartholomew School in Columbus. A special connection school-wide community service day on Oct. 28. The students wanted to let a unit of The project bears the name of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan Peyton Manning.

know how much their dedication meant to Just like a pass from Manning to photo Submitted them. Indianapolis Colts’ tight end Dallas Clark,

Submitted photo “One of our students has an uncle serving in the connection has been a good one between Afghanistan,” said Kathy Schubel, the school’s the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital principal. “So the students decided to send at St. Vincent Hosptial in Indianapolis and them stockings for Christmas. The students Pope John XXIII School in Madison. sewed the stockings themselves. They brought “The hospital has a program where they in sewing machines and did some appliqués on send us hospital bracelets with the names the stockings—stars and hearts. Most of them of the patients there and then we pray for had never done sewing or hand-stitching them every day,” said Jill Mires, the before. They also did different things to raise principal of Pope John XXIII School, money so they could fill the stockings.” which has about 260 students from The project came to a peak in early preschool to sixth grade. December when the students mailed the The program has been a perfect way for stockings, which they had stuffed with small Mires to introduce the young students to the gifts that included writing materials and importance of being there for others in need. personal hygiene items. “The school children have really connected “The uncle sent his nephew pictures of the with it,” she said. “It’s been neat for us both Bishop Chatard freshman Katie Armstrong, left, soldiers receiving the stockings,” Schubel said. spiritually and from a service-oriented and sophomore Shari Bailey paint the interior of “The students were so proud.” standpoint. It’s special to hear the children Students at St. Bartholomew School in a home being restored by “Rebuilding the Wall,” telling their parents about the child and Columbus show the Christmas stockings they an organization that restores vacant homes for ‘The Wood Chop’ their illness, and that they’re praying for them made and filled with gifts for American soldiers low-income families. Father Aaron Jenkins imagines the unusual to heal.” † serving in Afghanistan. The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Catholic Schools Week Supplement Page 3B Submitted photo Submitted

Catherine Aubrey, left, and Hadley Anderson, juniors at Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School in Clarksville, carry boxes of toys on Dec. 11, 2009, that were donated to the Marine Foundation Toys for Tots to the school’s lobby. The toy drive at Providence was organized by the school’s House of Justice and House of Faith. Students from all four grade levels in the senior high school are arranged in eight houses in a new student leadership model launched last fall at Providence. A house united New approach to student leadership creates deeper faith, tighter bonds

By Sean Gallagher charged, with the rest of the members of Catholic identity, according to Providence “Although we’re all great friends and their house, to organize at least four school- senior Kameron Johnson. everyone in the classes is unified, we CLARKSVILLE—A main goal of any wide activities each year. “Even at a Catholic school, it’s not lacked something as classes and in the high school is to prepare its students to “[The house system] is developing our really cool to show your faith a lot of school itself,” Lauren said. “Now we’re become mature, well-rounded adults who students into stronger and better leaders,” times,” said Kameron. “And I think just making changes to kind of bring the can be strong leaders in their said Providence senior Matt Duncan. “I seeing upperclassmen being very genuine school together.” communities. have a feeling that it’s going, in the long with their faith in an environment could Lauren is a member of the House of Catholic high schools also seek to run, to develop our leadership skills and really affect freshmen or sophomores. It Spirit, whose color is blue and whose form their students to be faith-filled really help us one day, when we’re out in might make them more willing to keep patron saint is St. Theodora Guérin. leaders. the workforce, to be able to take charge the cycle going when they’re Providence principal Mindy At the start of this academic year, and to make decisions.” upperclassmen and show their faith to Ernstberger, a member of the school’s Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High Matt is a member of the House of people.” Class of 1974, agreed that the school School in Clarksville launched a major Integrity, whose color is metallic silver Kameron is a member of the House of atmosphere had changed in recent years, overhaul of its student leadership and has St. Jerome as its patron saint. Faith, which has teal for its color and and that the house system has started to structure to better achieve that goal. The house system also creates a St. Gregory the Great as its patron saint. bring new life to the school. Instead of having a student council and stronger bond among students. Upper The house system also presents new “New faculty and staff leadership is class officers like most high schools do, class students interact more with ways for students and teachers to get to emerging,” Ernstberger said. “It has Providence now has what is called the freshmen and sophomores and so become know each other. re-energized some faculty and staff, but “house system.” There are eight houses real role models for them. Each teacher at Providence is assigned has also been a calling for others to that include groups from all four of its “It’s really been nice,” said Providence to a house. One serves as the house become a more vital part of the school classes in the senior high school. senior Travis Cunningham. “I’ve gotten to director, although the students in the community. Relationships with students The junior high school at Providence know a lot of underclassmen that I house still end up making house are strengthening, and a new sense of has one house. wouldn’t have gotten to know otherwise. decisions. commitment to and ownership of Each house is named for one of the I’m finding a new way to bond with “At least in my house, the teachers are Christian leadership is being felt by [the] values that are hallmarks of Providence. people.” on subcommittees, but aren’t leading faculty and staff, too.” They also have a color and a patron saint. Travis is a member of the House of [them],” said Providence senior The house system even includes There are 10 elected leaders in each Truth, whose color is green and has Jacob Kraft. “They’re in there throwing Providence graduates. Each graduating house and 80 in the senior high school as St. Gertrude for its patron saint. out ideas and giving us their knowledge class, dating back to 1955, has been a whole, which contrasts with 20 under The house system’s requirement of of what Providence may have used to be assigned to one of the eight houses in the the previous model. having each class organize a spiritual like. They’ve been able to interact with us school. Providence president Joan Hurley This large group of leaders has been activity also reinforces Providence’s on our own level, I guess, instead of just believes the house system will foster as a teacher.” strong, ongoing relationships with Jacob is a member of the House of graduates. Justice, whose color is red and whose “Our hope is that these alumni will patron saint is St. Ambrose. catch up with the students now in the

Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by A main reason for implementing the houses, perhaps attend one or two of their house system was to renew the spirit that meetings and support the projects each filled Providence in previous years, house conducts,” Hurley said. “I believe according to Leslie Mills, the director of that by tying the alumni to our existing leadership and service at Providence. student body, and allowing interaction Many of Providence’s teachers and through our Web site and other means, administrators are graduates of the the house system grows and brings New Albany Deanery school. Mills is a alumni closer to the school and its present member of the Class of 1993. student body.” “Something had been lost since I had Even after just a few months, senior left,” Mills said. “I think things got stale. Jacob Kraft can see how the house system I think that we had the same student is making a difference to the school. leaders every year. It was such a small “I think the house system can catapult crop to pick from because a lot of people Providence to be so much better,” Jacob didn’t feel like they could jump into those said. “It’s already good. But I think the leadership positions.” house system has so much to offer. It will Mills now sees a renewed spirit in the create a bigger sense of community.” school because of the house system. Jacob Kraft, second from left, a senior at Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School in Clarksville, “I feel a lot of energy in the building (To learn more about the house system at speaks on Jan. 6 at his school about its new student leadership model where groups of students from right now,” she said. Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High all four grade levels are organized into eight “houses.” Listening to Jacob are, from left, Providence Providence senior Lauren Jerdonek School in Clarksville, log on to seniors Lauren Jerdonek and Travis Cunningham. agreed. www.providencehigh.net/node/506.) † Page 4B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Tough question, good answers Teacher asks, ‘If Jesus came to Earth, what would he find?’ By John Shaughnessy would please him, too. Jesus is happy when we take care of nature. Loving others is Lynn Henning’s question about Jesus one of the best ways to make him happy.” and how we live our faith would challenge Parker Gianoli—“I think that Jesus Submitted photos anyone. would not be pleased with the wars, So just imagine what it must have been immigration issues and the endangered like for the third-grade students in animals. He would be disappointed in the Henning’s religion class when she asked broken commandments. He would be sad them to write an answer to this question: at seeing children in pain. He would like “If Jesus came down to Earth today and that the Bible is still being used today.” walked into our room, what would he find Cecilia Seufert—“Jesus would find that that is good and bad in our world?” people care about the environment. The answers that Henning received from Recycling is one of the ways that people her third-grade class at are doing their part. St. Monica School in Planting trees is a Indianapolis impressed ‘We talk quite a bit tradition many her. about how God wants communities have Here is a selection of adopted. These are just a those answers: us to live and what few of the ways that Hilton Sanchez— that means to them. Jesus would see that we “One day, Jesus came to They learn about the are taking care of the Earth and this is what he Earth.” saw. Jesus was very sacraments, Scripture For Henning, the happy because he saw and prayer. But more answers the students families going to importantly, I want gave reflected her hope church. He was also sad for the class. because he saw friends them to know how “My hope for the fighting. Jesus could see those things can help third-grade students this that people were year is for them to respecting nature and make a difference. connect what we learn protecting endangered How can they be the from our books to their animals. change in our world?’ everyday lives,” she said. Above, in her “As he walked along “We talk quite a bit religion class at the Earth, he saw about how God wants us St. Monica School countries at war and —Lynn Henning to live and what that in Indianapolis, divorced families. So means to them. They third-grade Jesus continued walking learn about the student and he saw all the pollution. Sometimes, he sacraments, Scripture and prayer. But more Taylor Wentland saw people performing good services and importantly, I want them to know how wrote that Jesus is also people taking part in the sacraments. those things can help make a difference. happy when we Jesus said, ‘With prayer, the world can be a How can they be the change in our world?” use our talents, better place.’ ” She believes her students are headed in take care of nature Anna George—“If Jesus came to Earth, the right direction. and love he would find lots of good things. He “I wasn’t at all sure what to expect since one another. would like that people are giving and this was our first try at a journal question sharing. He would like that we are still that required them to write this much,” Left, third-grade going to church and praying on Sunday. He Henning said. “I was hoping for some student would find lots of bad things, too. He simple writings. I was very impressed by Hilton Sanchez would not like that people are smoking or the depth of their thinking. They were able imagines Jesus that people are littering. He would not like to take their faith and apply it to other areas coming to Earth to see people robbing houses and banks.” that they are studying, like social studies, and saying, “With Taylor Wentland—“I think that Jesus science and language. They really are prayer, the world would like our Earth because of our art. understanding how their faith connects to can be a better Using our talents such as music and sports the world.” † place.” Guardian Angel Guild raises funds to help students with learning disabilities By Mary Ann Wyand angels,” the Catechism of the Catholic archdiocesan schools to support resource and state disability laws required public Church explains. “ … From its beginning programs, students and instructors. schools to provide special education Guardian angels are a continual source until death, human life is surrounded by Looking to the future, Maher said the coursework. of help for God’s people. their watchful care and intercession” guild hopes to serve more students, During the early years, “The whole life of the Church benefits (#334-#336). financially support more resource Guardian Angel Guild members also from the mysterious and powerful help of For half a century, Catholic education programs in schools and establish an helped tutor students that needed help in the archdiocese has benefited from the endowment for future needs. with mathematics and reading skills at charitable work of a dedicated group of “We continue our mission to help some of the Catholic high schools and guardian angels who tirelessly raise funds children with developmental disabilities to grade schools in Indianapolis. Now there for resource programs and resource reach their potential,” she said, “through is a resource room or special education teachers at schools and St. Mary’s Child testing and support to succeed in every teacher at each Catholic school in the

Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Center in Indianapolis. aspect of their educational endeavors.” Indianapolis area. Since 1959, members of the During his keynote speech, Evansville Guild members said it has been a Guardian Angel Guild in Indianapolis Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger—a former pleasure to help the archdiocese serve have helped God’s children with develop- archdiocesan vicar general, chancellor and parents who want a Catholic education mental disabilities to reach their superintendent of schools—thanked the for their children with learning educational potential at Catholic schools guild members for helping Catholic school disabilities. and look forward to a better future. students with learning disabilities. Maher said the guild continues to help Guardian Angel Guild members and “The Guardian Angel Guild had a key pay for diagnostic evaluations, special guests celebrated the organization’s role, and still does have a key role, of equipment, technology, educational 50th anniversary on Sept. 24 during a providing that kind of assistance to our materials and extra training for teachers luncheon in Indianapolis. The theme was Catholic schools,” Bishop Gettelfinger to better serve students. “Celebrating Yesteryear, Envisioning said. “There is no way to even describe “We also help with the archdiocesan Tomorrow.” what kind of an effect you have had on Office of Catholic Education’s SPRED Guild president Ginny Maher, a these young people for a lifetime.” program [Special Religious Development member of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral He praised the guild members for “the for children and adults with special Parish in Indianapolis, said the volunteer effort that all of you make on an annual needs],” she said, as well as organization began “when a group of basis to raise funds then generously “instructional materials for students with mothers put their concerns and vision into contribute to help young people” with language challenges, autism, During the Guardian Angel Guild’s action” to ensure that students with special needs to be able to receive a Asperger’s syndrome and dyslexia to 50th anniversary luncheon on Sept. 24 in learning disabilities receive the resources Catholic education. pinpoint what they need and then provide Indianapolis, guild president Ginny Maher they need at Catholic schools. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the equipment that would best assist thanks guild members for their dedication Maher said five decades of guild the Guardian Angel Guild’s financial them. and tireless efforts to raise funds to help the fundraisers have benefited hundreds, if not support dating back five decades enabled “It’s such a good feeling to think that archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education’s thousands, of students with special needs. Catholic schools and St. Mary’s Child we are maybe making a difference in a resource programs serve students with During 2009, she said, the guild Center to serve students with learning child’s life,” Maher said, “by offering learning disabilities. distributed more than $32,000 to disabilities, he said, even before federal something that they need.” † The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Catholic Schools Week Supplement Page 5B After 50 years in classroom, teacher still inspires students By John Shaughnessy and friendly. And someone who is fun. Never discount When Marilyn Dever-Miles retires as a fun—I think we do teacher someday, she will head to her sometimes. It’s good for photo Submitted hallway closet where she has stored boxes them to see me go to filled with notes and cards from her church, too. Kids hate a students of the past 50 years. phony, and they look for it Notes thanking her for preparing them in adults. You better not be for college. a phony if you want their Letters of appreciation for how the respect.” demands she made of them now help While she seeks respect, them in their jobs. she also demands Birthday cards telling her how much of punctuality and organi- a difference she has made to their lives. zation from her students. “Someday when I retire, I’ll get the “I want to teach them boxes out, I’ll go through them and I’ll things they’ll need later in cry,” says Dever-Miles, who teaches life,” says Dever-Miles, a English at Roncalli High School in member of St. Jude Parish Indianapolis. “The students used to send in Indianapolis. “Organi- me notes. Now, they send me e-mails. zation and punctuality are Those mean so much. One of them the two biggies for me. I doesn’t just make your day, it makes your don’t allow tardies, and I month.” don’t take late At 71, Dever-Miles has been “making assignments.” the days” of students for five decades— She teaches English— making those days more challenging and and stresses writing, inspiring. grammar and vocabulary— “At 50 years, to still be viewed by your because she believes it’s peers and your students as the most the foundation of so much energetic and passion-filled teacher, I just of what people do in their find that startling,” says careers. She teaches at a Chuck Weisenbach, Roncalli’s principal. Catholic school because “After 50 years, she’s still at the top of she sees the difference that her game. Kids swear by her, even more an emphasis on faith can so when they get to college. My wife and have on students. I have two kids who have had her as a “I went to a Catholic teacher. They just adore her, and they grade school, a Catholic have such respect for how much they high school and a Catholic have benefited from her. She can just college,” says the 1960 flat out teach.” graduate of now Marian Spend time with Dever-Miles and her University in Indianapolis. passion for teaching teenagers fills her “We get the basics of our At 71, Roncalli High School teacher Marilyn Dever-Miles has spent 50 years leaving her mark on the education and the lives words and her facial expressions. religion, and we can of her English students. “The kids keep me going,” she says practice it every day. The with a smile that glows. “They are so full kids can go to Mass every day. We can professors and you still knock them all out Weisenbach says. “She calls parents with of energy, and they are so full of hope. pray in every class. And we really push of the park. … I learned how to always good news about their children. She’s Maybe it’s also the challenge of staying service. Your religion is more accessible write my best, and always take the time to unbelievable.” ahead of them. Sometimes they win, and here.” correct my mistakes. I am very conscious More than anything, she believes. She sometimes I win.” So is she. of bringing materials to class, and being on believes in her students. She believes in her As she shares that last thought, her Consider this note from a former time. You truly made a difference, ability to make a difference in their lives. eyes get bright, and even flash a touch of Roncalli student: “I really see Jesus in you. Mrs. Miles.” “My kids are my legacy,” she says, mischief. Her look becomes a mixture of Your great faith and trust in God is obvious While notes from her students through tapping her fingers with emphasis on a warmth and intensity when she talks through your Mass attendance and your five decades have filled boxes in her table. “It’s any thing and every thing I’ve about her approach to teaching. kind words. I have truly been blessed to hallway closet, she has showered her done to help a kid—whether it was to help “Hold a tight rein and you’re OK. Let know you as my teacher and role model.” students with written praise, too. them through some drama in their life, or up and you’re dead,” she says. “One of There’s also this note from a former “She writes congratulatory notes and help them with their faith, or help them do my goals is to be a good example. I want Roncalli student who is studying in college good-job notes to students who are in the well in college. That’s my legacy. These them to see a good example of a good to become a teacher: “You are still the best play, to athletes who have made the are my kids. Don’t you ever think Catholic woman—someone who keeps teacher I have ever had. After high school, all-county team, to kids who have done otherwise. Whether they want to be or not, her promises, someone who is fair, firm I have had six semesters of college well on the Spelling Bowl team,” they are my kids.” † Zany experiment with snails adds fun and creativity to class Criterion staff report send me a postcard from wherever they are.” The unusual oath was one of the special touches that A first-year teacher Submitted photo Katie Aebersold used in her zany experiment to add fun at Providence, the and real-life communication skills to the French classes 24-year-old Aebersold she teaches at Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High discovered the snails at School in Clarksville. www.adoptanescargot.com With her left hand on a French translation of the Bible while searching online for and her right hand raised, junior Catherine Aubrey teaching resources. became the first student to take the oath—to adopt a She introduced the snail: concept to students during “I, Catherine, swear to take full responsibility for the National French Week when escargot named Raoul, to provide him with safe housing, she gave them a baby adequate clothing and educational keepsake box. Students had opportunities. … I also swear to never spill salt or eat to guess what was inside the shrimp, lobster or crab in the presence of my escargot. boxes before they opened So help me God.” them. Looking inside, the Before the ceremony ended on Nov. 30, 11 French students found a snail shell students became proud adoptive parents of their very that came with a personality own snail. Since then, the snails have helped the students profile. Students were communicate better in French. matched with a snail profile “I was looking for something that would help them that had some of their same communicate real-life situations in the French language,” interests and even fears. Aebersold said. “Laughter filled my Clark Superior Court Judge Jerome Jacobi swears in Candace Popp, a sophomore at Our Lady of As adoptive parents, the students had to introduce room,” Aebersold recalled. Providence Jr./Sr. High School in Clarksville, during a ceremony for students to adopt a snail in teacher their snails to teachers and staff members around the “The students had to pick a Katie Aebersold’s French class. Holding the Bible is Providence science teacher Ginger Shirley. school in French. They have also used the French name for their snail and language to write about experiences they have created for then introduce their snail to the class.” language in everyday life.” the snails. Students have enjoyed the project. For Aebersold, the unusual project is just one more “Before this, they wrote about themselves and that’s “It was nothing like I had ever done before,” memorable moment as a teacher. hard,” Aebersold said. “This has made them more Kristin Simms said. “I will always remember this “It’s been terrific,” she said about her first year of creative with the language and more comfortable with it. experience.” teaching at Providence. “It’s a testimony to the wonderful They’re making houses for the snails, and they’ll have to Classmate Candace Popp noted, “It’s an interesting atmosphere at Providence. It’s a dream job at a dream take them on spring break with them. They’ll have to experience. It helps me to learn how to use the French school.” † Page 6B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Catholic Schools Week Supplement Page 7B

- Catholic Schools An answer to a ARCHDIOCESE OF INDIANAPOLIS parent’s prayer

HENRY WAYNE GREATER INDIANAPOLIS PARKE MARION HANCOCK VERMILLION PUTNAM HENDRICKS Indianapolis Terre Haute Indianapolis Deaneries Connersville Deanery Deanery SHELBY

FAYETTE UNION Brebeuf Jesuit l Preparatory School RUSH MORGAN FRANKLIN OWEN 6 JOHNSON Meridian Street 8 15 VIGO CLAY North Deanery Bloomington BROWN 31

Deanery DECATUR New Alsace 1 l Bishop Chatard High School BARTHOLOMEW 2 DEARBORN 7 l Cathedral High School Batesville MONROE 5 JACKSON Deanery West Deanery 9 4 29 JENNINGS RIPLEY OHIO 3

28 l JEFFERSON Cardinal Ritter Seymour Deanery 30 Jr./Sr. High School SWITZERLAND 26 LAWRENCE Fr. Thomas Scecina INDIANAPOLIS l SCOTT 16 Memorial High School 13 27 14 11 US 40 WASHINGTON 25 10 Washington Street ORANGE US 36 CLARK l Providence Cristo Rey 12 High School East Deanery US 40 33 32 Floyds Knobs CRAWFORD FLOYD 17 18 19 Tell City Deanery 24 (No schools New Albany Deanery in this deanery) HARRISON

PERRY l Roncalli High School 23 22

MARION Meridian Street COUNTY 21 South Deanery DEANERY SCHOOLS Batesville Deanery Bloomington Deanery New Albany Deanery St. Mary School (P–8) Seymour 20A 420 E. Eighth St. St. Ambrose School (P–8) 20 Aurora Bedford Clarksville New Albany, IN 47150 301 S. Chestnut St. St. Mary of the Immaculate St. Vincent de Paul School (P–8) Our Lady of Providence 812-944-0888 Seymour, IN 47274 Conception School (K–8) 923 18th St. Jr./Sr. High School (7–12) 812-522-3522 211 Fourth St. Bedford, IN 47421 707 Providence Way Sellersburg Aurora, IN 47001 812-279-2540 Clarksville, IN 47129 St. Paul School (P–6) GREATER INDIANAPOLIS DEANERY SCHOOLS 812-926-1558 Bloomington 812-945-2538 105 St. Paul St. Terre Haute Deanery Sellersburg, IN 47172 Terre Haute Indianapolis North Deanery 7. St. Matthew School (K–8) 11. Holy Spirit School (P–8) 18. Holy Name School (P–8) 24. St. Roch School (P–8) 30. St. Michael the Archangel Batesville St. Charles Borromeo School St. Anthony School (P–8) 812-246-3266 St. Patrick School (P–8) 4100 E. 56th St. 7241 E. 10th St. 21 N. 17th Ave. 3603 S. Meridian St. School (K–8) St. Louis School (K–8) (P–8) 320 N. Sherwood Ave. • Bishop Chatard High 449 S. 19th St. Indianapolis, IN 46220 Indianapolis, IN 46219 Beech Grove, IN 46107 Indianapolis, IN 46227 3352 W. 30th St. 17 St. Louis Place 2224 E. Third St. Clarksville, IN 47129 School (9–12) Terre Haute, IN 47803 317-251-3997 317-352-1243 317-784-9078 317-784-9144 Indianapolis, IN 46222 Batesville, IN 47006 Bloomington, IN 47401 812-282-2144 Seymour Deanery 5885 N. Crittenden Ave. 812-232-2157 8. St. Pius X School (K–8) 12. Our Lady of Lourdes 19. Nativity of Our Lord Jesus 317-926-0516 812-934-3310 812-336-5853 Corydon Columbus Indianapolis, IN 46220 7200 Sarto Drive School (P–8) Christ School (P–8) Indianapolis West Deanery 31. St. Monica School (K–8) St. Joseph School (P–6) St. Bartholomew School (P–8) 317-251-1451 Greensburg Connersville Deanery Private High School Indianapolis, IN 46240 30 S. Downey St. 3310 S. Meadow Drive • Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High 6131 N. Michigan Road St. Mary School (P–6) 512 Mulberry 1306 27th St. 1. Christ the King School (K–8) Brookville Oldenburg 317-466-3361 Indianapolis, IN 46219 Indianapolis, IN 46239 School (7–12) Indianapolis, IN 46228 210 S. East St. Corydon, IN 47112 Columbus, IN 47201 5858 N. Crittenden Ave. St. Michael School (K–8) Oldenburg Academy of 9. St. Thomas Aquinas 317-357-3316 317-357-1459 3360 W. 30th St. 317-255-7153 Greensburg, IN 47240 812-738-4549 812-372-6830 Indianapolis, IN 46220 P. O. Box J, 275 High St. the Immaculate School (K-8) 13. St. Michael School (P–8) 20. Our Lady of the Greenwood Indianapolis, IN 46222 32. St. Susanna School (P–8) 812-663-2804 Floyds Knobs Franklin 317-257-9366 Brookville, IN 47012 Conception (9–12) 4600 N. Illinois St. 515 Jefferson Blvd. School (P–8) 317-924-4333 1212 E. Main St. Lawrenceburg St. Mary-of-the-Knobs St. Rose of Lima School (P–8) P.O. Box 200 2. Immaculate Heart of Mary 765-647-4961 Indianapolis, IN 46208 Greenfield, IN 46140 399 S. Meridian St. 25. St. Anthony School (P–6) * Plainfield, IN 46168 St. Lawrence School (K–8) School (P–6) 114 Lancelot Drive Oldenburg, IN 47036 School (K–8) Connersville 317-255-6244 317-462-6380 Greenwood, IN 46143 349 N. Warman Ave. 317-839-3713 524 Walnut St. 3033 Martin Road Franklin, IN 46131 812-934-4440 317 E. 57th St. St. Gabriel School (P–6) 15. St. Simon the Apostle 14. St. Philip Neri School (P–8) * 317-881-1300 Indianapolis, IN 46222 Lawrenceburg, IN 47025 Floyds Knobs, IN 47119 317-738-3451 Indianapolis, IN 46220 Private Schools 224 W. Ninth St. 812-923-1630 317-255-5468 School (P–8) 545 N. Eastern Ave. 20A. S.S. Francis and Clare 317-636-3739 812-537-3690 Madison 33. Lumen Christi Catholic Connersville, IN 47331 8155 Oaklandon Road Indianapolis, IN 46201 School (P–3) 26. Holy Angels School (P–6) * Jeffersonville Father Michael Shawe 3. St. Andrew & St. Rita School New Alsace 765-825-7951 Indianapolis, IN 46236 317-636-0134 5901 Olive Branch Road 2822 Dr. Martin Luther Sacred Heart School (P–8) Memorial Jr./Sr. High School Catholic Academy (P–8) * 580 E. Stevens St. St. Paul School (P–6) Richmond 317-826-6000 Greenwood, IN 46143 King Jr. St. 1842 E. Eighth St. (7–12) 4050 E. 38th St. 16. St. Therese of the Infant Indianapolis, IN 46203 9788 N. Dearborn Road Seton Catholic High 317-215-2826 Indianapolis, IN 46208 Jeffersonville, IN 47130 201 W. State St. Indianapolis, IN 46218 Jesus/Little Flower 317-632-3174 Guilford, IN 47022 School (7-12) Indianapolis East Deanery 21. St. Barnabas School (K–8) 317-926-5211 812-283-3123 Madison, IN 47250 317-549-6305 School (P-8) • Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory 812-623-2631 233 S. 5th St. • Father Thomas Scecina 8300 Rahke Road New Albany 812-273-2150 4. St. Joan of Arc School (P–8) 1401 N. Bosart Ave. 27. St. Christopher School (P–6) School (9–12) Richmond, IN 47374 Memorial High School Indianapolis, IN 46217 Shelbyville Holy Family School (P–8) 500 E. 42nd St. Indianapolis, IN 46201 5335 W. 16th St. 2801 W. 86th St. 765-965-6956 Pope John XXIII School (P–6) (9–12) 317-881-7422 St. Joseph School (P–5) 217 W. Daisy Lane Indianapolis, IN 46205 317-353-2282 Indianapolis, IN 46224 Indianapolis, IN 46268 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton 221 W. State St. 5000 Nowland Ave. 317-283-1518 22. St. Jude School (K–8) 317-241-6314 127 E. Broadway (P–6) New Albany, IN 47150 Madison, IN 47250 Indianapolis South Deanery 317-524-7128 School Indianapolis, IN 46201 5375 McFarland Road 28. St. Gabriel School (P–8) Shelbyville, IN 46176 812-944-6090 812-273-3957 5. St. Lawrence School (P–8) • Cathedral High School(9 –12) 801 W. Main St. 317-356-6377 • Roncalli High School(9 –12) Indianapolis, IN 46227 6000 W. 34th St. 317-398-4202 Our Lady of Perpetual 6950 E. 46th St. 5225 E. 56th St. Richmond, IN 47374 North Vernon 10. Holy Cross Central 3300 Prague Road 317-784-6828 Indianapolis, IN 46224 Sunman Help School (P–8) Indianapolis, IN 46226 Indianapolis, IN 46226 765-962-4877 St. Mary School (K–8) School (P–8) Indianapolis, IN 46227 1752 Scheller Lane * 23. St. Mark the Evangelist 317-297-1414 St. Nicholas School (P–8) Rushville 209 Washington St. 317-543-4923 317-787-8277 317-542-1481 125 N. Oriental St. School (K–8) 29. St. Malachy School (K–8) 6459 E. St. Nicholas Drive St. Mary School (P–6) New Albany, IN 47150 North Vernon, IN 47265 6. St. Luke School (K–8) Indianapolis, IN 46202 17. Central Catholic School (K–8) * 541 E. Edgewood Ave. 330 N. Green St. • Providence Cristo Rey High Sunman, IN 47041 226 E. Fifth St. 812-944-7676 812-346-3445 7650 N. Illinois St. 317-638-9068 1155 E. Cameron St. Indianapolis, IN 46227 Brownsburg, IN 46112 School (9–12) 812-623-2348 Rushville, IN 46173 Indianapolis, IN 46260 Indianapolis, IN 46203 317-786-4013 317-852-2242 75 N. Belleview Place 765-932-3639 317-255-3912 * Mother Theodore Catholic 317-783-7759 Indianapolis, IN 46222 Academies (Consortium) 317-860-1000 Page 8B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Submitted photos Submitted

Members of the CYO high school basketball team from Good Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis pose with the team from Damar Services Inc. after their game on Jan. 4. The Good Shepherd team served as mentors this season for the Damar team, which played in the CYO high school league for the first time this year. A meaningful victory CYO group uses basketball to help youths with disabilities By John Shaughnessy going to do a fun activity.’ “It’s good for them to have that During 36 years of working for the interaction with the CYO kids. Research Catholic Youth Organization, shows that for children in treatment, Bernadette Price has always appreciated their length of stay is shortened when those moments of sportsmanship when they’re around positive social peers.” young players show they know there is So when Tinder extended the offer to something more important than the have a boys’ basketball team from numbers on a scoreboard. Damar play in the CYO league, the Another one of those splendid moments Damar staff viewed it as another came into focus for Price as she snapped winning situation for the youths who picture after picture during a CYO high are developmentally disabled and school boys’ basketball game on Jan. 4 behaviorally challenged. between a team from Good Shepherd Their involvement was enhanced Parish in Indianapolis and a squad from when the Good Shepherd teams offered Damar Services Inc., a program that strives to serve as mentors for the Damar team. to enable people with developmental “One of the biggest impacts for our disabilities to lead successful lives. kids has been being around positive The Damar team was playing in its social peers,” says Jim Porter, the first year in the CYO league, at the recreation director for Damar. “The invitation of the CYO’s executive director, other thing for our kids is that they are Edward Tinder. competitive, and they wanted to play As a teenager from the Damar against other talented teams. This really team stood at the foul line waiting to gives them a lot of confidence and take a free throw, a player from the makes them feel good about what they Good Shepherd team walked up to him, are doing.” patted him on the back and offered That confidence developed from the sincere words of encouragement, telling first time the Damar players stepped For nearly 35 years, the youth group from Good Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis has sponsored a Christmas the Damar player, “Hey, you can do this. onto the court. party for youths from Damar Services Inc. Members of both groups pose with Santa Claus during the 2009 Just take your time.” “For a lot of the first half of our first Christmas party on Dec. 16. It was a moment to savor for Price, who game, our guys were ahead,” Porter also serves as a moderator of the youth notes. “That set the tone to make our guys Damar for more than four years. He plays through high school,” says Brooke Propes, a group at Good Shepherd Parish. feel they belonged. They had some anxiety on a high school basketball team at member of Good Shepherd Parish and a “The encouragement they gave during about this because they viewed this as a real Good Shepherd Parish, and he and his senior at Roncalli High School in Indian- that game was amazing,” Price recalls. “I basketball league. For them to feel they teammates have served as mentors to the apolis. “We go there a lot, and we get to honestly couldn’t tell you what the score belonged was just great.” youths on the Damar team. know the kids. They have so many was. No one really paid attention to the “Their games were either before or after challenges, and yet they’re usually smiling. score.” Meaningful victories ours,” says Schoettle, a senior at The children there make me realize how The Damar team eventually lost that first Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. lucky I am. It’s changed my relationship A lasting connection game. They didn’t get a win during the rest “We’d come early or stay late to watch with God and others. It’s made me think That small moment reflects the great of the season either, at least not on the them. We cheered them on and talked to about what I might want to do later in my connection that has existed between the scoreboard, but Porter said more meaningful them after the game.” life—maybe work with people who have youth group at Good Shepherd Parish and victories were gained. They continued that approach even disabilities. I love Damar.” the young people at Damar Services Inc. “We definitely saw improvement on the during the Jan. 4 game when the two teams It’s all part of the difference that since the mid-1970s. For nearly 35 years, sportsmanship side for our guys,” Porter played each other. volunteering can make in the lives of young youths from Good Shepherd Parish have says. “They see good sportsmanship being “They were competitive,” Schoettle says. people, Price says. coordinated dances, hayrides, bingo nights, modeled on the other teams and they model “They were in the game with us. It also shows just how special teenagers drama classes, Christmas parties and other it themselves. For us to go up at the end of Afterwards, we talked to them and took a are today, she adds. activities for the Damar youths. the game, shake hands with the other team couple pictures with them. We talked about “I am amazed at how busy kids are today “The Good Shepherd-CYO group has and say, ‘Good game,’ that’s a good thing basketball and how school is going—the and how competitive things in our world can been the longest group to volunteer here,” for our kids. They feel like they’ve normal things any high school kids talk be,” Price says. “Here are two groups of says Donna Stutler, the volunteer resources competed. They feel like they’ve given a about. It’s been rewarding watching them kids who are from different worlds, but it director for Damar Services. “When I tell good effort, and they feel good about play.” doesn’t matter. They care about each other. our kids that the CYO group is coming, themselves.” The connection continues off the They all mix and mingle together. It shows they always view it as a positive. To them, The youths at Good Shepherd Parish feel basketball court, too. the youth of today are definitely headed in it means, ‘Kids are coming and we’re the same way. Alex Schoettle has helped at “Damar has shaped who I’ve become the right direction.” † The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Catholic Schools Week Supplement Page 9B Prayers for God and Mary Holy Name School students promote the rosary By Mary Ann Wyand more interested in the rosary than most people are,” Josh said. “He wanted BEECH GROVE—“I pray the everyone else to know about the rosary, rosary.” and that when you pray the rosary you Holy Name School eighth-grade become closer to God. If more people do students in Beech Grove are proudly pray, then God is with us more of Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann wearing T-shirts they decorated with this the time.” message. Tristan Morphew said he likes to pray. They made the T-shirts after watching “I think when you’re praying you feel a “YouTube” video during religion class more comfortable,” he said, “and you feel about a teenager who promoted his like something is coming around and Catholic faith as well as his devotion to embracing you. Like with the rosary, you Jesus and Mary in this way. feel like it might be a part of you Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette somehow. Especially when it’s blessed, Etienne, a member of Our Lady of you feel like you’re doing something Grace Monastery in Beech Grove and that’s important, and you’re doing the religion teacher at Holy Name something that doesn’t only just help you. School, said she enjoys teaching It helps others. It’s not only that I want to students to pray the rosary as part of get other people to pray the rosary. I want their vocation to know, love and other people to know that I pray the serve God. rosary, too.” She makes handmade rosaries, Tristan said his teacher inspires him to a skill that she learned last March be faithful because, as a religious sister, from her mother, St. Paul parishioner she promises to live a life of prayer. Kay Etienne of Tell City, who taught her “It inspires me that nice women like the Marian prayer during her childhood. her take so much time out of their lives to Sister Nicolette gives one handmade pray and pray,” he said. “It just rosary to a Holy Name student every shows that she wants to go to heaven like week to promote all of us.” this devotion. During the Father Stanley lunch break, Pondo, the pastor Sister Nicolette of Holy Name of said she has been a Jesus Parish, Sister of blesses the St. Benedict for students’ rosaries 24 years and a after school teacher for Masses. 25 years. A few Sister Nicolette years ago, she felt displays dozens of called to learn rosaries and more about Marian 10 Marian images Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette Etienne uses special devotions. on a bulletin board pliers to connect rosary beads during her lunch break on “I feel like I with information Jan. 13 at Holy Name School in Beech Grove. Her mother, know and love Holy Name School eighth-grade students Ben Coons, right, and Jake Farnworth, left, of Beech Grove about some of the St. Paul parishioner Kay Etienne of Tell City, taught her God so much more pray a decade of the rosary on Jan. 13 during religion class. Ben, Jake and other classmates recently Mother of God’s how to make rosaries. now than I ever decorated T-shirts with the message “I pray the rosary” to promote their Catholic faith as well as their many titles have in my entire devotion to Jesus and Mary. throughout the world. life,” Sister Nicolette said. “I love that I During religion class on Jan. 13, am continuing to grow in my faith. I Holy Name eighth-grade students said think the rosary has helped me to get their teacher inspires them to pray more in touch with my relationships with because she has a strong faith and deep Mary, our Blessed Mother, and her son, love for Jesus. Jesus.” Ashley Kedra said she drew large, She asked her sisters to donate their colorful letters on her T-shirt with bright extra rosaries for a classroom display. markers because she wants to make a “Every rosary is so unique and so bold statement about her Catholic faith. beautiful,” Sister Nicolette said. “I’ve “Praying the rosary is important to given several away because sometimes me because it’s a way to talk to God and the students become attached to a certain Mary,” Ashley said, “and whoever you’re rosary. At the end of the school year, I praying for or whatever you’re praying allow them to take one if they want it. for, I think it helps.” “I just fell in love with the devotional Ben Coons drew a cross on his T-shirt part of the Church, and I don’t want my next to the words. students to miss out on that,” she said. “It “I’m Catholic,” Ben said, “and I want seems like the older I get, the more other people to know about God and the devotional I have become. I love rosary. It really calms me to pray the adoration, and I love that my students are rosary because I know that God is learning about the practice of praising listening. I’ve been praying to God for God in adoration and by praying the so long that I know he’s there.” rosary.” Jamaica Hayden said she learned how Sister Nicolette said she is pleased that Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette Etienne, left, shows a rosary to Marian University senior and to pray the rosary in the second grade her students are willing to pray the rosary. student teacher Liz Nelis, right, of Atlanta, Ga., during the lunch break on Jan. 13 at Holy Name School when each student made a rosary while “They love it,” she said. “They love to in Beech Grove. Sister Nicolette’s brother, Bishop Paul D. Etienne, is a former diocesan priest and was preparing for first Communion. come in and pick a rosary off the recently installed as the bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo. “Ever since then, we have prayed the [bulletin] board and pray. I teach grades rosary,” Jamaica said. “It helps me get four through eight, and all my students closer to God and makes me feel closer enjoy doing that. I have students who tell to his mother, Mary. We pray the rosary me all the time that it’s so calming to be a lot. On Thursdays, we go to able to walk in the classroom and pray [eucharistic] adoration and pray the even a decade of the rosary.” rosary. It helps us understand our faith a During spring break last year, she little better.” spent three days with her mother in Taylor Burger said her friends who Tell City learning how to make rosaries. are not Catholic don’t understand why “Ever since then, I’ve been making she prays the rosary. rosaries every day,” Sister Nicolette said. “I play soccer and some of the kids “I love that it’s a gift that my mother gave wonder why I even care about it,” Taylor me. I think that’s wonderful because the said. “I tell them that it’s how I grew up Blessed Mother is so important in my and how I trust God. … I think it’s a life, and it’s important to me that my form of prayer so God can call you, and mother taught me how to do this. Mary can help you through your “When my mom and I sit down and troubles.” make rosaries, a whole new level of peace Eighth-grade students at Holy Name School in Beech Grove wear T-shirts they decorated with the Josh Cannaday said he recently and calm comes into both our hearts,” she words “I pray the rosary” as they pose for a class picture on Jan. 13 with their teacher, Benedictine prayed the rosary for a cousin who was said. “And what do we have in the end? Sister Mary Nicolette Etienne, who is seated in the middle of the first row. “Teaching is like oxygen to very sick with cancer. We have a beautiful gift that we can give me,” Sister Nicolette said during the lunch break. “It gives me life, and I know I give the students that I “I think the guy in the video was to people to encourage them to pray.” † teach life as well.” Page 10B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Back home again Former student returns to lead two Catholic schools By John Shaughnessy enrollment and the fundraising success of the The phone call that changed schools. Philip Kahn’s life and led him to return “My goal is to ensure the photo Submitted home after 22 years came from a friend he legacy and future of these has known since the first grade. schools in this community The caller wanted to know if Kahn for a long time to come,” (pronounced Kane) would be interested in Kahn says. “In traveling returning home to help ensure the future of around a lot, I truly believe the Catholic schools that had shaped his life we have a diamond in the and the lives of so many other people. rough down here. As great As Kahn listened to the caller, the then- as our product has been, 40-year-old executive for Eli Lilly & Co. in we’ve just scratched the Indianapolis became increasingly intrigued surface. If we can raise about applying to become the president of more money and improve the two Prince of Peace Schools in the product, it would be Madison—Pope John XXIII School and better for everybody. I’m Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. excited.” High School. Part of that excitement “She knew I loved the schools,” Kahn comes from returning home recalls. “The more I went through the to Madison with his wife of interview process, the more I got excited 12 years, Tania, and their about the opportunity. I always felt they two sons, Philip, 4, and were my schools even though I was gone Connor, 1. After graduating for a number of years. Coming back to help from Shawe in 1987, Kahn try to make them bigger and better was a attended a college in motivating factor for me.” Alabama and later served as Kahn got the job, and since August he’s an assistant basketball coach been enjoying the responsibility of taking at colleges in Georgia and As the president of the two Prince of Peace Schools in Madison, Philip Kahn has tried to be a visible presence to students the two schools to an even higher level. South Carolina before at Pope John XXIII School and Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School. Near Thanksgiving, he joined staff “It’s really been pretty neat,” says Kahn, taking a job with Lilly in members and teachers at the high school to serve a traditional feast to students. a 1987 graduate of Shawe. “My wife and I 2003. are back home, and I’m helping the schools Six years later came the life-changing schools. They’re very dear to him.” Coming home is Kahn’s way of paying I grew up in. It’s neat knowing that every phone call from a friend he has known since Kahn’s difference-making ability has some debts from his past. day at work can lead to something new the first grade—Jill Mires, the principal of already been noticed by Jerry Bomholt, the “I’ve always felt like whatever successes and exciting for the community. It’s a Pope John XXIII School. longtime principal of Shawe High School. I’ve had, and the person I’ve become close-knit community down here. There are “He’s always had leadership skills since “He’s worked extremely hard,” Bomholt religiously, were molded by the education 400 students pre-K through seniors. It’s a high school,” Mires says. “I thought of him says. “We see a lot of positive things and the environment I’ve experienced at family atmosphere. We are the Catholic and how he had been in the education field headed in the right direction. He’s made these two schools,” he says. “My mom sent schools here. A lot of dedicated people have and the business field. I thought that mixture himself available to every family and every us here as a single mom. It meant a lot to helped Pope John and Shawe be the great would be a good combination for us. He’s person on staff. He’s the right fit for what me when I was here, but it meant even more places they are.” very friendly, very outgoing, a people we needed. It appears he has all the when I was away from the situation. This is Kahn’s main focus is to increase the person. And he has a true love for the qualities to get the job done.” my opportunity to give back.” †

ISTEP scores for 2001 - 2009 archdiocesan students ISTEP+ Combined Results 95% well above state averages 90% 85% Criterion staff report percentage of students meeting the new proficiency standards. 80% In the spring of 2009, 10,082 The average of archdiocesan 75% third- through students at each grade level eighth-grade students from passing both the language 70% more than 60 Catholic schools arts/English and mathematics is 65% within the boundaries of the above both the Indiana state Archdiocese of Indianapolis averages. The archdiocesan 60% took the Indiana Statewide Test percentages range from of Educational Progress 87 percent at third grade to 55% PercentPassing Both LanguageArts and Mathematics (ISTEP+). 91 percent at sixth grade. The 50% Fall Spring Previously, the test had been trend continues. Simply stated, 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 given to students in the fall. the longer a student remains in 2008* 2009* After moving to a spring test, archdiocesan schools, the Archdiocese 76% 80% 84% 84% 86% 86% 86% 85% 84% students across Indiana have greater the growth in student Indiana 56% 60% 62% 63% 64% 64% 65% 63% 61% shown a slight decline in the proficiency. † * Only includes grades 3 to 8 in F2008 & S2009 Archdiocese Indiana

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Indiana Fall 2008 Indiana Spring 2009 Archdiocese Fall 2008 IN Proficiency 2008 to 2010 (72%) Archdiocese Spring 2009 Students at St. Mark School in Indianapolis celebrate the glory of a beautiful autumn day in 2009. The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Catholic Schools Week Supplement Page 11B Committee charged to find new Catholic education leader By Sean Gallagher archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Education (OCE) for 13 years, announced last June that William Kuntz knows what it means to she would be stepping down from the find a winner. position when she was named the new He found winners when he coached chancellor of the archdiocese. File photo by Sean Gallagher Sean by photo File Roncalli High School’s first state During her time leading OCE, 24 schools championship football team in 1985. in the archdiocese have been recognized by And for nearly 25 years since then, the U.S. Department of Education as No Kuntz has worked in the business world, Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools, finding winning professionals to fill open more than any other diocese in the country. positions for businesses across the country. Lentz was principal of St. Mark School Still, when Archbishop Daniel M. in Indianapolis in 1985 when it became the Buechlein asked Kuntz to be the chairperson first school in the archdiocese to be so of the committee charged to find the next honored. executive director of the archdiocesan The current graduation rate at Catholic secretariat for Catholic education and faith high schools in the archdiocese is formation, he was taken aback at the task 98 percent, with 97 percent of those put before him. graduates going on to college. “My initial thought was, ‘This is a After considering this resumé of success, no-win job. How are you going to replace Kuntz took a different perspective on Mickey Lentz?’ What a challenge we have finding the next leader for OCE. here,” said Kuntz, a member of St. Jude “What a great opportunity for someone Parish in Indianapolis. because of Mickey Lentz,” he said. “It really Annette “Mickey” Lentz, executive director of the archdiocesan secretariat for Catholic education and Annette “Mickey” Lentz, who has led the is an attractive job, I believe, in part because faith formation, sits among the approximately 1,000 students from Catholic schools from across the of what Mickey has built—the people that archdiocese during a Catholic Schools Week Mass celebrated on Jan. 31, 2007, at SS. Peter and Paul she’s surrounded herself with at OCE, the Cathedral in Indianapolis. processes that are in place.” For her own part, Lentz sees a lot of director could begin work soon thereafter or take us to the next level of education and importance in this search for the future of by the start of July at the latest. catechesis,” Lentz said. “I think it’s very Catholic education and faith formation in “It’s an exciting opportunity for those of important that they do a very thorough File photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann central and southern Indiana. us on the search committee,” Kuntz said. search, and that it be a national search.” “Education, at this time, is at many, “And certainly it’s one that we’re all taking “I think there will be a large candidate many turning points,” she said. “There are very seriously. We want to do a great job for pool because the job is very attractive,” just a lot of things that need to be the archdiocese. Kuntz said. “It’s a very meaningful position. considered in education, and in catechesis “The talent and the passion that [the On the flip side, we’re looking for a 10. And and faith formation. And it’s very important members] bring to the search committee there are not a lot of 10s in this world.” Annette “Mickey” Lentz, executive director of the that we find a leader who can take us to the position us to do the job well. We’re As Kuntz reflected on finding a winning archdiocesan secretariat for Catholic education next level in these two areas.” committed to do it to the very best of our person to serve as executive director of OCE, and faith formation, talks with students at the The timeline of the work of the search ability.” his thoughts turned back to his experience annual A Promise to Keep: God’s Gift of Human committee, according to Kuntz, will be to Part of that will be to cast a wide net for as a football coach. Sexuality awards luncheon on March 6, 2008, at make recommendations of finalists to fill the candidates. “We’re going to expect our new the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center in position by mid-April. “I think it’s very important that we find a executive director to win Super Bowls in the Indianapolis. It is hoped that the new executive person of vision and leadership who can world of education, just like Mickey has.” † 2009-10 facts about Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis

Summary any archdiocese in the country. Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of • Schools are using information Catholic schools: 72 Indianapolis operate as an extension of the technology in instruction, and see Elementary schools: 61 (29 in Marion County) family to unite faith and educational replacement and renewal and training for High schools: 11 (seven in Marion County) excellence through Gospel values, high technology as a high priority. (includes four private high schools) educational standards, prayer and sacraments • Sixteen elementary schools are Preschool programs: 46 (Pre-K programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds) to achieve the teaching mission of the currently involved in a four-year Strategic Extended care programs: 57 (Pre-K-8, before and after-school care or both) Church—learning, teaching and sharing our Management and Development Process to faith. The schools accomplish their build their capacity for strategic planning, Professional staff: 1,800 (full-time and part-time) educational mission through there attract enrollment and raise funds toward responsible use of resources generously their preferred future. Enrollment 2009-10 (Unofficial Oct. 1, 2009, enrollment): shared by the parents, faculty, parishioners The Schools Team of the Office of Total pre-school-12: 22,580 and the larger community. There are Catholic Education works to provide Preschool: 1,779 72 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of guidance, support, training, and processes Elementary (K-8): 15,158 Indianapolis; 61 are elementary schools for curriculum development, assessment, High school (9-12): 5,643 (29 in Marion County) and 11 are high school accreditation, school safety, schools (7 in Marion County). Seven of the administrative employment and leadership Religious composition: Elementary High school high schools are interparochial development for school administrators Catholic: 85 % 90 % (archdiocesan) and four are privately owned. and teachers. Non-Catholic: 15 % 10 % • More than 1,800 dedicated people staff NOTE: Approximate demographic figures for seven Indianapolis center-city schools are: the schools. Project EXCEED Continuation and 74 % minority, 47 % non-parishioners and approximately 78 % qualified for Federal Lunch • 57 elementary schools have before- Replication Program. school and/or after-school extended care Project EXCEED (Excellence in programs. Catholic Expectation for Education) High school graduation rate (2009): 98.2 % (in four years or less) • 46 schools have preschool or daycare represented a commitment to raise Percent of graduates entering college (2009): 97.4 % programs. student academic achievement through NOTE: All figures above this line include private Catholic high schools. • 7 Indianapolis center-city schools a new set of Three R’s in Catholic serve 74 percent minority, 47 percent schools. The project was the result of a Average tuition rates, first child (estimated): Catholic Non-Catholic non-parishioners and approximately historic $10 million challenge grant Elementary schools: $3,458 $4,616 78 percent qualified for the Federal from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to Interparochial high schools: $7,000 $9,000 Lunch Program. private schools in Marion County for NOTE: Elementary tuitions are set at the parish level and vary greatly. Schools receive parish • 6 center-city schools were formed into a school improvement from 2002-06. subsidies except for private Catholic high schools, which are not included in these figures. consortium in 2004, now known as the The challenge to the archdiocese was Mother Theodore Catholic Academies, to met with nearly $8 million in matching Estimated operating costs of Catholic schools in the archdiocese FYE 2009: serve urban families, monitor and control the gifts from generous corporate, Elementary schools cost-per-pupil: $4,683 finances for the schools, share resources and foundation, government and individual Interparochial high schools cost-per-pupil: $8,156 staff, and minimize the financial burden of donors. The program has implemented the parishes for support of the schools. innovative, measurable and sustainable Total operating cost of archdiocesan schools: $100 million • Catholic schools in the archdiocese cost best-practice strategies to: (Estimated using 2008-09 K-12 enrollment (18,817) excluding capital costs and private high school more than $100 million per year to operate • Recruit, retain, reward and develop costs) and save Indiana taxpayers more than the best school teachers and $214 million each year (estimated). administrators. Annual savings to Indiana taxpayers (estimate): $214 million • The graduation rate for the Catholic • Teacher Advancement Program (Estimated at aggregate Indiana public school 2008 K-12 composite estimated expenditure high schools is more than 98 percent (in (TAP). per pupil of $11,366 x 2008-09 Catholic school K-12 enrollment (18,817 students) excluding four years or less), and more than 97 percent • Network for Catholic School private high schools) of graduates go on to higher education. Excellence (NCSE). • 22 National Blue Ribbons have been • Raise the level of students’ earned by schools in the archdiocese since performance and report their progress. • Reach out to children with special Through the recent Legacy for Our 2003 through the No Child Left Behind Blue • Curriculum management and learning needs or advanced capabilities. Mission capital campaign, the Office of Ribbon School program. Assessment. • Urban Schools Program. Catholic Education plans to sustain the • 25 schools in the Archdiocese of • Standards alignment. • Latino outreach. most effective EXCEED programs and Indianapolis have earned a total of • Monitoring performance (value • Special needs. replicate these throughout the 31 Blue Ribbons since 1985, the most by added assessment). • Technology program. archdiocese. † Page 12B Catholic Schools Week Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 The bond of belief High school sports strive to teach values and deepen faith

By Bob Kelly Special to The Criterion

The spirit and intensity often rise to a ‘It is to help build higher level when teams from Catholic John Shaughnessy Photo by high schools compete against each other faith in each other in sports. And yet there is a bond that connects so they can count the coaches and student-athletes of these schools—the bond of faith. on each other, and In fact, one of the emphases of Catholic high school sports programs is become friends and how coaches strive to deepen their players’ faith during athletic seasons. not just teammates. Ty Hunt, the head coach of the varsity football team at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis, works hard There is more to it to get his players involved in events where they have the opportunity to get in than competition.’ touch with their faith. “One of the first things I did was to start going to Mass as a team on the Fridays before we play the game,” Hunt says. “We — Tom Moorman have started to transfer this program over to Father Thomas our basketball teams, too. “We take the kids to the chapel, not to Scecina Memorial pray for a good performance or a win, High School but to instill upon them it is to pray for their blessings of good health and to give softball coach thanks for the support we get from our community.” The girls’ basketball program at Bishop Chatard High School in Indian- apolis also looks for opportunities to help goal—building the teammates’ faith in the players build their faith in God and each other. each other. Scecina softball coach Tom Moorman “We have a pre-game devotional, and sets aside times during the season when we look at a passage of Scripture and he doesn’t have a practice so the find other motivational tools, such as student-athletes can help each other with Father John Hollowell celebrates Mass on Sept. 25, 2009, for members of the varsity football team of poems to help them build life lessons,” homework or assist each other with Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis. As a chaplain, teacher and assistant football coach says Alicia Michaelsen, an assistant girls’ other concerns in their lives. at Cardinal Ritter, Father Hollowell celebrates Mass on the Friday afternoon before every football basketball coach at Bishop Chatard “It is to help build faith in each other game—continuing the emphasis that head coach Ty Hunt has of making faith a crucial part of the High School. so they can count on each other, and teenagers’ football experience. Michaelsen recalled how the team become friends and not just teammates,” reached out to others last season by Moorman says. “There is more to it than raising money to support cancer research. competition.” “I think the girls got a lot out of it Jean Kesterson says that faith is at the because they were doing something core of the girls’ volleyball program that special, and it just did not pertain to she coaches at Cathedral High School in athletics,” she says. Indianapolis. Bob Kelly Submitted photo by As the head coach of the girls’ volleyball “We talk about our mission statement program at Roncalli High School in Indian- with the players on how we want to apolis, Missy Marsh has her team end each promote our faith on and off the practice with a prayer. She also tries to build volleyball court,” Kesterson says. “We team camaraderie and character through are representatives of our faith, and community service efforts. when we play we want to set the “We are involved in a program called example through our good sports- ‘Lucious’ Training Wheels,’ ” Marsh manship.” notes. “The girls teach special-needs kids how to ride a bike. It shows them how (Bob Kelly is the editor of the Web site they can be a role model, and they find www.sportschronicle.net, which focuses out that there is more to life than just on covering a variety of sports for playing the game of volleyball.” four Indianapolis archdiocesan high Besides trying to help build the schools: Bishop Chatard, Cardinal Ritter, players’ faith in God, the girls’ softball Roncalli and Scecina Memorial. The Web program at Father Thomas Scecina site also covers sports for two private Memorial High School has another schools, Cathedral and Heritage Christian high schools in Indianapolis.) †

Above, during a basketball game on Dec. 19, 2009, Bishop Chatard High School basketball player Nikki Kimack, left, is part of the Lady Trojans’ Submitted photo by Bob Kelly Submitted photo by swarm that surrounds Neely Marks, a player from Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School. Cathy Doyle, right, and Rachael Kimack add to the pressure.

Left, a Scecina softball player heads toward home plate in a game during the 2009 season. Scecina softball coach Tom Moorman strives to build his players’ faith in each other and in their relationship with God. The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Page 9A Participants at annual March for Life urged to keep up their efforts WASHINGTON (CNS)—Despite overcast skies, the mood at the Jan. 22 annual March for Life in Washington was decidedly upbeat as speaker after speaker urged the crowd to keep up their efforts in Lockley photo/Peter CNS the pro-life arena. Several speakers told the tens of thousands at a rally on the National Mall— bundled in winter gear and holding aloft placards with pro-life messages or banners identifying where they were from—that they were now in the majority, and would continue to make inroads in society and in government policies. Although the rally’s opening prayer asked God to grant the march participants “the courage to be a voice for the voiceless,” this group hardly seemed to be lacking bravery. They showed stamina by simply showing up in vast numbers— many as repeat marchers—despite calls for sleet and freezing rain, which never materialized. A statement posted on the March for Life Web site afterward did not give a count, but said the size of the crowd for this year’s rally and the march that followed it “far exceeded” last year’s number. In 2009, the organization estimated the crowd to be 100,000. March for Life participants make their way past the Supreme Court building in Washington on Jan. 22. The annual pro-life demonstration marks the 1973 The U.S. Park Police, which has respon- Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the nation. sibility for the Mall, and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Obama’s support for legal abortion. then urged them to “speak loudly for opportunities to fulfill their dreams,” he Columbia have not given official crowd Nellie Gray, president of the March for leaders to understand we are pro-life.” said in the statement released in the counts for any demonstration since Life Education & Defense Fund—the He encouraged the participants to keep evening. about 1995. group that organizes the march—told up their efforts, stressing that the “fight will After the rally, participants walked to During the rally, a glance at the banners participants that their presence at the be long and hard,” and that young people, the Supreme Court, then many planned to across the mall showed that the participants 37th annual march represented a “whole who made up a large percentage of march meet with their representatives to lobby for included people from Texas, Michigan, new surge” for the pro-life movement to attendees, would need to see the efforts pro-life measures. The marchers talked Ohio and Massachusetts. The relatively not only continue to educate government through. with one another, sang and prayed as they subdued crowd cheered enthusiastically officials about the immorality of abortion, Brownback told the crowd that “for the made their way down Constitution Avenue. when speakers stressed that abortion should but also to show a united front. first time you live in a majority pro-life As marchers were lining up in the street, never have been part of health care reform Those involved in the fight against country,” referring to recently released Father Paul Hrezo, spiritual director for the legislation before Congress or when abortion, she said, are not just working to Gallup poll results showing 51 percent of college seminarians at the Pontifical speakers criticized President Barack change laws, but are also giving support for Americans to be pro-life on the abortion College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, pregnant women and women who have had issue and 42 percent of Americans as said it was important to be at this event “to abortions. pro-abortion. be counted with others and give witness to Several speakers on the podium with “You have done it—persuading others— what we believe.” Gray highlighted the pro-life movement’s keep it up,” he said. The priest, who is a veteran marcher,

Photo by Alea Bowling Alea by Photo outreach efforts, and urged participants to Each year when President George W. came with about 80 people. support pro-life doctors and pharmacists, Bush was in office, marchers received a Even though many marchers have made and to let members of their community greeting from him expressing support for this event an annual one, some in the crowd know about the available pregnancy centers the pro-life cause. He usually spoke via a told Catholic News Service that this march or post-abortion counseling programs. telephone hookup from the White House or was their first. With the U.S. Capitol in the from other locations if he was traveling. Two women from SS. Peter and Paul background, 23 Catholic bishops and As he did last year, Obama issued a Parish in Turnersville, N.J., said they had 21 members of Congress joined pro-life statement expressing his continued support never attended the march before because leaders on the rally’s stage. for what he said Roe affirmed—“every they weren’t quick enough to get seats on Among the bishops were woman’s fundamental constitutional right the parish-sponsored buses. Cardinals Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston- to choose whether to have an abortion,” and They were pleased simply to see the Houston, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ “each American’s right to privacy from turnout. Theresa Ramsey, taking pictures of Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and governmental intrusion.” He said he was the crowd, said she was surprised to see Justin Rigali of Philadelphia. Several of the committed “to working with people of people “coming from all directions.” lawmakers were Catholic, including good will to prevent unintended She also was confident that the sheer U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; pregnancies, support pregnant women and number of people had to make an impact, Pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who is families, and strengthen the adoption either in Washington or in their local make their way toward Capitol Hill during the co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus; system.” efforts. 37th annual March for Life on Jan. 22 in and Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, R-La. “Today and every day, we must strive to “Let’s hope people are listening,” she Washington, D.C. Cao led the group in a pro-life cheer and ensure that all women have limitless said as her friend nodded in agreement. † Divided Christians must unite in bringing Gospel values to world, pope says ROME (CNS)—Divided Christians can to reflect on ways to promote Christian time, such as secular- and must be united in meeting the modern unity in order to preach the Gospel more ization and indifference, challenges of secularization, threats to effectively. relativism and hedonism, human life, environmental destruction, war The obvious question, he said, was, delicate ethical themes and injustice, Pope Benedict XVI said. “How, in fact, can unbelievers accept the regarding the beginning Haring photo/Paul CNS “It is precisely the desire to proclaim proclamation of the Gospel if Christians, and end of life, the limits Christ to others and bring the world his while all referring to the same Christ, are of science and message of reconciliation that makes one in disagreement among themselves?” technology, and dialogue experience the contradiction of Christian Unity is “a particularly important with other religious divisions,” the pope said on Jan. 25 as he condition for greater credibility and traditions,” he said. closed the Week of Prayer for Christian effectiveness,” the pope said. The pope told the Unity. Unfortunately, Christians still are Christian leaders that Leaders of Orthodox, Anglican and divided on important issues of dogma, they also must work Protestant communities in Rome joined doctrine and Church discipline, which more closely on the pope for the annual prayer service at must be overcome through prayer and “safeguarding creation, the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, theological dialogue, he said. the promotion of the offering prayers and proclaiming the At the same time, the pope said, common good and Pope Benedict XVI prays during vespers concluding the Week of readings. Christians already can proclaim together peace, the defense of the Prayer for Christian Unity at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the The Week of Prayer 2010 focused on “the fatherhood of God, Christ’s victory centrality of the human Walls in Rome on Jan. 25. Msgr. Guido Marini, papal master of the common Christian vocation to witness over sin and death through his cross and person, [and] the ceremonies, is at right. to Christ in the world. resurrection [and] trust in the transforming commitment to defeating When the modern ecumenical action of the Spirit.” the miseries of our time, such as hunger, a few individuals or a few Churches are movement was launched, the pope said, it “While we are on the path toward full poverty, illiteracy and the unequal called, but rather it is part of fulfilling started with a conference of missionaries communion, we are called to offer a distribution of goods.” Christ’s will for all those who follow him. from different denominations who common witness in the face of the Pope Benedict said working for Unity is something for which all gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1910 increasingly complex challenges of our Christian unity is not a specialty to which Christians must work and pray, he said. † Page 10A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010

to be untouched. HAITI “It brought me to tears, this crucifix, rising tall in this darkness ... rising from continued from page 1A this cosmic ‘why’ groaning from the we see the faces of the widows and Haitian people. It was a very powerful orphans, and all of those who have lost symbol,” he said. family and friends and all of their life’s Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of possessions.” Orlando, Fla., and Oblate Father Andrew

He said the U.S. Church was Small, director of the U.S. bishops’ Church Relief ServicesCatholic Fajardo, A. photo/Sara CNS committed to “doing everything we can in Latin America office, also attended. so that you may rebuild and renew and Bishop Wenski told Catholic News begin again your lives of faith and family Service on Jan. 25 that Bishop Lafontant, and service to Haiti.” in his homily, told the hundreds gathered Archbishop Dolan, who also serves that the funeral was not only for the as chairman of the board of Catholic deceased clergy, but that it represented Relief Services, was accompanied by funerals for the thousands of other people Msgr. David Malloy, general secretary of who died in the disaster and had not had a the U.S. bishops’ conference. proper funeral. Back in New York on Jan. 25, “He said this was not the wrath of God, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York blesses the caskets of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot and Archbishop Dolan described the funeral but it does call us to responsibility to build Msgr. Charles Benoit during a funeral in the courtyard of the destroyed Catholic cathedral in to Catholic News Service as “a a new Haiti in which people will have Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 23. Archbishop Dolan, chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services, therapeutic and holy occasion to grieve.” hope and prosperity,” Bishop Wenski said. joined the Haitian community in mourning the two priests who perished in the Jan. 12 earthquake. “There was a longing for the Archbishop Miot’s body was one of the community to express sorrow,” he said. first recovered after the earthquake. clergy asked that the archbishop’s funeral hands were around a reliquary with a host Archbishop Dolan said that, while Archbishop Bernardito Auza, papal nuncio be at the cathedral. inside. standing in front of the devastated to Haiti, asked that it be taken to the A statement from Caritas, the Church’s The archbishop and the vicar general cathedral, he noticed the crucifix that coastal city of St. Marc because there was network of charitable aid agencies, said were buried in Lilavois Cemetery in the stood at the front of the building appeared no electricity in Port-au-Prince. Local when Msgr. Benoit’s body was found, his Haitian capital. † Caritas official: Agencies must gear up to help Haitians in long term LIMA, Peru (CNS)—Nearly two weeks after the Haitian water, sanitation services and housing. earthquake, Catholic aid agencies must gear up to provide “The destruction in Port-au-Prince has caused the longer-term food, housing and health care assistance to displacement of people to other provinces and to the people who lost their homes and possessions. Dominican Republic,” Hanashiro said. “People who have But even the massive amount of aid pouring into the lost their homes and jobs are migrating so there are country is dwarfed by the overwhelming needs of people thousands of displaced families in other provinces because who lost their homes, families, jobs and possessions in the of the lack of assistance.” Jan. 12 quake, said Hector Hanashiro, Caritas emergency Many families are still searching for their loved ones, a coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean. quest that is even more difficult because some of the injured “There is still a great lack of assistance,” Hanashiro told were evacuated to hospitals in the Dominican Republic,

Catholic News Service in an e-mail interview. “There are he said. Reuters via Cross Red Norwegian Saltbones, A. photo/Olav CNS not enough donations for the 3 million people who have In addition to the Dominican Republic, many other been affected and more than 200,000 injured survivors of injured were evacuated to emergency U.S. health care the earthquake.” facilities. On Jan. 24, a government spokesman said an estimated Looking beyond the immediate needs, Hanashiro added, 150,000 bodies had been buried, and some officials said “because of the breakdown of the Haitian economy, it is the death toll could be as high as 200,000. crucial to create temporary jobs immediately and About 2 million people were affected in Port-au-Prince, sustainable employment in the long term.” and 1 million more in other cities, including Jacmel, Caritas, the Catholic Church’s aid network that Gressier, Carrefour and Petit-Goave, Hanashiro said. Some includes Catholic Relief Services in the United States, has 500,000 people who lost their homes are living in makeshift designed a response plan that includes immediate food, camps around the Haitian capital, he said. shelter, health care, water and sanitation, and psychological “There are specific high-risk groups that need assistance, and social assistance for about 40,000 families, or Volunteer St. Simon Magalie offers water to 4-year-old Joe, an including pregnant women, people with chronic illnesses, 200,000 people, Hanashiro said. The Vatican has asked orphan at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this children who have been orphaned, and people who were CRS, which already had a large presence in Haiti, to take picture taken on Jan. 22. Joe is one of many lost children in Haiti. injured and who, because of trauma and complications, the lead in the Caritas effort. Someone noticed him lying naked on the ground and he was have had to have limbs amputated,” Hanashiro said. “The strategy we are using is to coordinate with base brought to the Norwegian Red Cross field hospital in the center of In a country where basic services were scant and about communities and parishes, as well as the diocesan Caritas Haiti’s shattered capital. Other patients there gave him some help, 75 percent of the population lived in poverty even before offices in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other dioceses, to sharing water and food. the quake, the most pressing needs are food, health care, identify the priority zones and groups, in order to channel the urgent assistance immediately. So far, we have been materials for rescue work and specialized care in field able to distribute aid to 26,500 families,” he said. hospitals,” Hanashiro said. We are a local Indiana Caritas also provided rescue equipment and medical International assistance has been hampered by lack of owned bookbinding teams. coordination among aid agencies, but Hanashiro said the company. We specialize in custom bookbinding “The Caritas office is providing lodging and support for greatest problem was simply the magnitude of the disaster. services including the about 60 specialists from Mexico, South Africa and “While many countries and organizations are offering repair of bibles, Jamaica, who have brought equipment, medicines and aid and cooperation, it is not enough,” he said. “Food textbooks, hymnals assistance does not meet the demand in the neighborhoods etc … . We can repair one or hundreds and camps. There is high demand for medical care, but a For more information: depending on your need. limited number of specialists and medicines, and minimal www.yourbookbydesign.com facilities for operations. There is a need for more water and 765-522-1736 Given the for removal of rubble and waste, and roofing and shelter are Fax: 765-522-1096 • e-mail: [email protected] in short supply.” † P.O. Box 377 • Roachdale, IN 46172 Choice our clients would rather not be here

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Kinast those who have faith will see whereas those who do not have faith remain blind. The Gospel of Mark is a compact, This leads to a pivotal moment in Jesus’ action-based account of Jesus’ public movement from Galilee to Jerusalem. When he photo/Crosiers CNS ministry. asks his own disciples who they think he is, Unlike the Gospel of Matthew, which is Peter confesses that he is the Messiah structured around five major discourses, a (Mk 8:27-29), and Jesus immediately begins continuous journey is the structure for to explain what that entails. Mark’s Gospel. Three times during the journey to Jerusalem, It begins in Galilee, moves back and Jesus predicts that he will suffer and die. Each forth across the Jordan River, and time, these events are coupled with a glimpse of culminates in Jerusalem with pivotal events what will follow his death. at each transition. After the first prediction (Mk 8:31) comes The ministry of Jesus begins in Galilee, the Transfiguration (Mk 9:2-8), a kind of the region where he grew up. pre-resurrection revelation. After the second His message is simple and direct. The (Mk 9:30-31) comes a discussion of who will reign of God is at hand, and anyone who be greatest among Jesus’ followers—those with wishes to enter it must change his or her childlike dispositions. After the third old way of living. (Mk 10:33-34) comes a discussion on who will Jesus elaborates this message not with be closest to Jesus—those who serve as he extensive teaching—there is only one major does. parable, that of the sower (Mk 4:1-9)—but During this period, it is not the religious with healings and other signs. authorities who have difficulty with Jesus, but Eleven healings are described in detail, his own disciples. The Pharisees appear only beginning with a man possessed by an once to question him about divorce unclean spirit (Mk 1:23-26). (Mk 10:1-2). Mark’s Gospel also relates the stories Peter presumes to tell Jesus that he is wrong of a leper (Mk 1:40-42), a paralytic about suffering and dying (Mk 8:32-33). Peter (Mk 2:10-12), a woman with hemorrhages then misconstrues the Transfiguration as the (Mk 5:25-34), two daughters of parents occasion for setting up a shrine (Mk 9:5-6). who sought out Jesus (Mk 5:41-43 and The disciples don’t understand why they Mk 7:29-30) and a deaf man (Mk 7:31-35). couldn’t heal a possessed boy (Mk 9:28) even There are several other general though they had been given that power by Jesus references to people bringing their sick to (Mk 6:13). They worry about an outsider who Jesus, who heals them (Mk 6:56). was using Jesus’ name to expel demons Jesus also feeds crowds of 5,000 and (Mk 9:38), wonder about their own reward for 4,000 (Mk 6:34-44 and Mk 8:1-9), and following him (Mk 10:28) and vie for positions twice calms a storm at sea (Mk 4:35-41 and of honor as if in an earthly kingdom Mk 6:48-51). (Mk 10:37). All these actions are intended to validate The transition from Jesus’ movement in and his message and indicate the kind of out of the trans-Jordanian towns toward behavior expected in the reign of God— Jerusalem is marked once again by the healing selfless concern for and service of of a blind man, Bartimaeus, at Jericho. As with one another. the blind man at Bethsaida, it is Bartimaeus’ Overall, the response of the villagers and faith that gives him sight, and with his newly townspeople is amazement, astonishment, acquired sight he follows Jesus along the way to wonder and gratitude. Their reactions are Jerusalem (Mk 10:46-52). The Gospel of Mark records the journey of Jesus during his years of public ministry, and many of his offset by the criticism of the scribes and The third stage of Jesus’ journey centers on miracles and healings. His message is simple and direct. The reign of God is at hand, and anyone who some Pharisees, who question Jesus’ the Temple. The day after triumphantly entering wishes to enter it must change his or her old way of living. authority to forgive sins (Mk 2:7) as well as the holy city, Jesus returns from Bethany. his practice with regard to fasting, Sabbath Expecting to find fruit on a fig tree in bloom, he disciples to be prepared for the end time to be occurs after Jesus’ crucifixion when he regulations and hygiene rituals. discovers that it is barren—a stark symbol of issued in by his resurrection (Mk 13:26). appears to his disciples, and sends them forth In addition, some of his relatives try to the emptiness of current Temple practice. These actions elicit the opposition of to continue his journey and proclaim the seize him because they think he is “out of Just as Jesus curses the fig tree religious leaders whose questions about Gospel to the whole world (Mk 16:15). his mind” (Mk 3:21), and he can do little in (Mk 11:14, 21), so he cleanses, or prunes, the Jesus’ authority (Mk 11:28), his position on That journey has had many other his hometown of Nazareth because of the Temple area of its commercial activity paying taxes to Rome (Mk 12:14), the transitions and activities, and it has not yet people’s lack of faith there (Mk 6:5-6). (Mk 11:15-16). resurrection of the dead (Mk 12:18-23) and come to an end. The Galilee phase of Jesus’ ministry Subsequently, Jesus predicts the destruction the greatest commandment (Mk 12:28) mask ends with the healing of a blind man at of the Temple (Mk 13:3), echoing the their intent to arrest and execute him. (Father Robert L. Kinast is a pastoral Bethsaida (Mk 8:22-26), symbolizing that predictions of his own death, and urges his The final transition in Mark’s Gospel theologian in Prairie Village, Kan.) † Discussion Point Mark’s Gospel records many miracles This Week’s Question understand, and I especially like his account of the Transfiguration (Mk 9:2-8). He makes the story come What is your favorite passage from the Gospel of Mark? alive, with the cloud and the voice of God coming down Why? from heaven. It makes me think [about] how spectacular it would have been to have lived then and witnessed it “Mark records a lot of healings and miracles, but I like myself.” (Regina Petit, Akron, Ohio) the story of the Phoenician woman’s faith (Mk 7:24-30). Although she is an outsider and a woman—which made “I think the parable of the sower (Mk 4:1-20) is very her doubly looked down upon in those days—she visual and dramatic. As a teacher, I’ve [presented] it in believes in Jesus, and dares to come to him and ask [for] play form with young children. I like it too because, help for her daughter. She is such a great example of although Jesus presents a lot of parables, with this one [the power of] persistent faith.” (Joe Motowski, he asks the Apostles if they understand it and he explains O’Fallon, Ill.) it.” (Joan Bell, Visalia, Calif.)

“I like [the passage in] Mark where Jesus says that the Lend Us Your Voice second most important commandment is to ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mk 12:31). It doesn’t talk about An upcoming edition asks: What is your favorite passage loving only the people that you choose. ... It’s a lesson from the Gospel of John? Why? for everyone, including other religions, to love and embrace all people.” (Mary Clement, Swansboro, N.C.) To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at “Mark writes in a way that is clear and easy to 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS photo/Crosiers Page 12A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher ‘Charity in Truth’: Migration and religious freedom Families can help (Eighth in a series of columns) collaboration between migrants’ country Humans are not lost atoms in a of origin and their countries of random universe, the pope said. Rather, and be helped This penultimate column on destination. The rights of individual they are God’s creatures, “whom God Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Charity migrants and their families, and, at the chose to endow with an immortal soul by Haitians in Truth” (“Caritas in same time, their host countries, must be and whom he has always loved.” The giant earthquake that rocked Haiti Veritate”) will cover safeguarded. He emphasized that religious freedom on Jan. 12 caused the deaths of some two unrelated topics: Migrants seldom emigrate just does not mean religious indifferentism 200,000 people, what he said about because they want to. It is usually or imply that all religions are equal. injured and made immigration and, because they feel forced to do so in Some religious and cultural attitudes, he homeless millions then, freedom of order to support their families. said, without mentioning them by name, more, and brought religion. Therefore, suffering and dislocation “do not fully embrace the principle of about destruction of Regarding accompany their aspirations as they love and truth and therefore end up buildings that is immigration, he make their move. retarding or even obstructing authentic beyond what I suspect reminded us that Foreign workers, Pope Benedict said, human development.” Some religions, he any of us can “every migrant is a human person who, make a significant contribution to the said, alienate people from one another comprehend. as such, possesses fundamental, economic development of the host country rather than bringing them together. But it has also inalienable rights that must be respected through their labor. They also contribute to God must have a place in the public inspired many people by everyone and in every circumstance.” the economy of their country of origin realm, he wrote. “The exclusion of in our own archdiocese, across the country The sheer numbers of migrants through the money they send home. religion from the public square—and, at and around the world to give generously to throughout the world represent, he said, As regards freedom of religion, the other extreme, religious fundamen- the relief effort for the people of Haiti, the “a social phenomenon of epoch-making Pope Benedict first condemned talism—hinders an encounter between poorest country in the Western Hemisphere proportions.” “terrorism motivated by fundamentalism, persons and their collaboration for the even before the earthquake. The United States, of course, has which generates grief, destruction and progress of humanity.” This is also a time when parents can always been a migrant country, and that death, obstructs dialogue between As he has done in the past, take steps to instill in their children a real continues today. But Europe, too, is nations, and diverts extensive resources Pope Benedict called for effective spirit of stewardship. seeing more immigrants from Africa from their peaceful and civil uses.” cooperation between reason and religious Those with young children might filling jobs created by Europe’s declining Not only does religious fanaticism faith. encourage them to give part of their population. Wars, droughts and other impede the right to religious freedom, he “Reason always stands in need of allowance to the relief effort. Parents might problems create migrants in Africa, and said, so too does the promotion of being purified by faith,” he wrote, and invite them to do extra chores around the Asia, too, has its immigration problems. religious indifference or practical this is also true for political reason. house, and give them a small monetary Therefore, the pope said, the atheism. This deprives people of the For its part, he said, “Religion always reward for doing so on the condition that phenomenon of migration requires moral and spiritual strength required to needs to be purified by reason in order they give part of it to help those affected by international cooperation and close attain integral human development. to show its authentically human face.” † the quake. Older children who have part-time jobs Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes could be encouraged to donate some of their earnings. Since the need for help is so clear on Are we really free at last? this occasion, it should be easier to Soon it will be February, and the annual educational or societal supports they wrongly determine our own fates. convince children to do their part. celebration of Black History Month. view as “white” traps. Again, the only catch in this Their contributions might not add up to Considering this, along There are blacks, again like some whites, arrangement is the fact that we are human. much, but if their efforts play any part in with the recent who believe that black values are often at We may be made in God’s image, but we building up a habit of stewardship within Martin Luther King, Jr. odds with white values. They fear losing ain’t perfect. The chief example of this is them then the ultimate benefits will be holiday and the seasonal their identity to the majority culture or not that the very society which set out on the manifold. Kwanzaa observance, being able to measure up to the national ideal idealistic path of equality promptly allowed Stewardship, though, is far more than turns our thoughts to because, no matter what they do, they will the practice of slavery. It took a Civil War about making a monetary donation. If it is this nation’s largest always be different. Their color constantly to end its legality. to become a habit, a real and daily part of racial minority. puts them in the role of The Other. To add insult to injury, it took another our life of faith, then it must have a firm, Those of us who are Like most racial and ethnic minorities, century before laws and general practice spiritual foundation. black probably think it they fear being branded as less valuable finally changed enough to make true racial Making a contribution to relieve the is about time we are citizens than the White Anglo-Saxon equality possible. Today, non-discrimi- suffering of those affected by the being recognized as part of Our Gang. Protestants and other whites who largely nation is the name of the game and earthquake in Haiti should be the fruit of a Certainly we are as patriotic as the next guy, founded this country. It reminds them of the Jim Crow is no more. deep, almost visceral awareness that every and we contribute to American society in so early idea in our political system that a Negro Sounds good, but in fact we have not yet single thing that we have is a gift from many ways. only counted as three-fourths of a white man. reached the Christian goal of genuine God, and that he lovingly provides for all After all, the story of blacks in this But everyone, black or white, should equality before God. The result is we have of our needs. country is the original and most impressive remember that America is an experiment in the disaffection of many blacks, and the Interestingly enough, this is where the immigrant success story in U.S. history. human justice. The white WASPs and others suspicions of many whites. We follow the faith-filled people of Haiti can help us. They were brought here against their will as who wrote the Constitution and fought for letter of the law, but not always its spirit. As I have done reporting on how slaves, yet they eventually advanced to political independence were seeking Some may think that celebrating a archdiocesan parishes are participating in become Supreme Court justices, individual freedom based on the fact that all Black History Month and other such events the Haitian relief effort, I’ve heard from internationally revered statesmen, artists and men are created equal by their Creator with is superfluous in an inclusive society such more than one person how the people of athletes, and even president of the an inalienable right to life, liberty and the as ours. But I think they provide an Haiti, who live in such poverty even in the United States. pursuit of happiness. opportunity for all of us to examine our best of times, have a deep trust in God and Unfortunately, human nature being what Of course, this is an extension of the own motives and behaviors in light of what his Providence. it is, some Americans continue to point out Christian belief that all (wo)men are created it really means to be a Christian American. “God is good” seems to be always on that blacks (like whites, which is not by a loving God with the inherent freedom to their lips. And, for them, it’s not an empty mentioned) are not always good citizens. discern and do God’s will. It is only fair that (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the phrase. Some are criminal, some are moochers, all of us, black, white or what-have-you, Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Georgann Coons, who helps coordinate some refuse to avail themselves of should be able to make choices which columnist for The Criterion.) † the Haitian mission work of St. Ambrose Parish in Seymour, forwarded to me an Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli e-mail sent to her by Father Rodolphe Balthazar, a Haitian priest she has worked with over the years. Letting God work through you in the stillness of life In his e-mail, he wrote that he had For weeks, I worked to deepen my addresses a spiritually dry period in his The priest smiled and disappeared, but family members injured in the quake who relationship with God, but no matter how life, a time when he, too, was searching an overpowering delight filled me. God needed to go to a hospital. many prayers that for a deeper relationship with God and seemed to whisper, “You understand. “The problem is,” Father Balthazar I recited, services found only stillness. In hindsight, he That’s all I want.” wrote, “that we cannot go to any hospital I attended, volunteer reflects, “God had indeed been silent. But The next morning, the sound of the because Port-au-Prince is like a big works I performed, he silent in the way an artist at work is silent. kids awakened me. I slipped from the cemetery with dead bodies all over the seemed distant and He had been quietly at work in me, bedcovers and twisted open the blinds. streets.” untouchable. forming Christ in me.” Hot pink streaks scored the early He went on to write of other challenges The same routines With that thought, I relaxed. Maybe morning haze. Suddenly, I remembered equally unimaginable to most Americans. that formerly silence was OK. my dream. Yet, in the end, he was able to write, delivered a glimpse of That night, I dreamed I was walking on As I thanked God for the gift of yet “Thanks for all your prayers. God is good!” his holy presence the beach at sunset with an insightful another day, I traded my frustration, All of us, myself included, can and failed to create a stir. priest from our parish. Streams of deep anxiety and isolation for appreciation and should learn from the faith of In fact, the busier I got searching for him, pink dissipated into the dark night sky. We acceptance of God’s offering—no matter Father Balthazar and countless other the more remote he seemed. reached the far end of the building, where what the day held or released. Haitians like him. Then I needed to put my life on hold to he planned to head inside for the evening. And the joy never left my heart. If we had a faith like his, and manifested undergo minor surgery. I expected to As we parted, he turned to me and Dear Lord, help us to develop thankful it in a daily life of loving stewardship in return to my normal routine on Monday, asked, “What will be your first thoughts hearts, regardless of our circumstances our homes, parishes, the broader but medical complications dictated when you wake up in the morning?” today. Amen. community and the world at large, there extended bed rest. Instead, I spent the day At first, I drew a blank. Then I blurted, would be no limit to what God could do feeling isolated, devalued and frustrated. “I will thank God for the gift of another (Debra Tomaselli lives in Altamonte through us. Finally, I picked up my copy of a book day.” Even in my dream, my response Springs, Fla. Her column appears in Then more and more people could say called Divine Embrace by Ken Gire. I startled me. I had been anything but several diocesan newspapers. Her e-mail from the bottom of their hearts, “God is flipped to a page where the author thankful for the day I just had been given. address is [email protected].) † good!” † The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Page 13A

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Feb. 1 Friday, Feb. 5 Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 2 Samuel 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13 Agatha, virgin and martyr Psalm 3:2-7 Sirach 47:2-11 • Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19 increases. Maturity is reached. The Mark 5:1-20 Psalm 18:31, 47, 50-51 • 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 insecurities and smallness of youth pass Mark 6:14-29 • Luke 4:21-30 away. St. Luke’s Gospel is the source of the Tuesday, Feb. 2 The Book of Jeremiah is the source of last reading. The Presentation of the Lord Saturday, Feb. 6 this weekend’s first reading. Jesus, as the story clearly states, Malachi 3:1-4 Paul Miki, martyr Regarded as one of appears in the synagogue in Nazareth. In Psalm 24:7-10 and his companions, martyrs the major Hebrew earlier verses, which are not part of this Hebrews 2:14-18 1 Kings 3:4-13 prophets because of weekend’s reading, Jesus stands to read the extent of his aloud a section of the Book of Isaiah. Luke 2:22-40 Psalm 119:9-14 recorded writings and In this section, Isaiah recalled his own or Luke 2:22-32 Mark 6:30-34 the brilliance with calling to be a prophet. Isaiah gave details which he wrote, as to what this calling meant. It meant Wednesday, Feb. 3 Sunday, Feb. 7 Jeremiah was that he was God’s spokesman, sent by Blaise, bishop and martyr Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time descended from God to bring liberty to the oppressed, priests. He was from a hope to the poor and sight to the blind. Ansgar, bishop Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8 small village, Then, continuing, in the passage read 2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17 Psalm 138:1-5, 7-8 Anathoth, only a few miles away from this weekend, Jesus declares that this Psalm 32:1-2, 5-7 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Jerusalem. prophecy has now been fulfilled. In other Mark 6:1-6 or 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, 11 As was usual for prophets, Jeremiah words, Jesus is the long awaited Luke 5:1-11 was not universally popular, to say the spokesman of God. Thursday, Feb. 4 least, among his contemporaries. His At first, the audience is impressed. But prophecies drew sharp rebukes. Critics then Jesus recalled an incident, mentioned 1 Kings 2:1-4, 10-12 accused him of blasphemy, a crime that in the Old Testament, in which God (Response) 1 Chronicles 29:10- had death as its punishment in the showed mercy upon gentiles. 12 Hebrew code of law. This mention of divine favor for Mark 6:7-13 It was this statute that centuries later anyone outside the Chosen People led to some of the demands for the infuriated the audience in the synagogue crucifixion of Jesus. so much that they tried to murder Jesus. Despite the rejections and He, of course, escaped from them. denunciations based on falsehoods, Jeremiah never paused in his prophetic Reflection Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen mission of insisting upon faithfulness to The readings this weekend very much God and of demanding loyalty to God as put us, as humans, in our place. It is a Confession puts our sins in God’s a personal and national imperative. place that we do not readily acknowledge. Furthermore, despite all the criticisms, It is a realization that we are quite hands for reconciliation and healing he never doubted that he was on a mission limited, as a human race and as from God. individuals, in our ability to perceive and A few weeks ago, you answered a When God called Jeremiah to the to judge. Thus, it was the same with the Qquestion about degrees of sinfulness penances called “penitentials” for mission of prophets, during the reign of contemporaries of Jeremiah and the and mentioned confessors to use in this process of King Josiah, who ruled the Kingdom of people whom Jesus offended in the venial sin. reconciling sinners with God’s grace. Judah from 640 B.C. to 609 B.C., God synagogue. I think I understand By around the 13th century, the terms told Jeremiah to be prepared for harsh The mysteries revealed in the liturgies mortal sin, but what is “mortal” and “venial” came to distinguish responses to his prophesies. of Christmas, the Epiphany and the venial sin exactly? between more and less serious offenses. As its second reading for this weekend, Lord’s Baptism say quite directly that Could you give a list of Mortal sins were fatal to one’s the Church offers us a passage from the God has not left us to our doom. He has them? (Florida) relationship with God and neighbor. First Epistle to the Corinthians. supplied what we lack because of our Venial sins, coming from the Latin word It is one of the loveliest and best limitation. He has given us strength A bit of history “venia,” which means “pardon or known sections of the entire corpus of through grace and the truth revealed Aabout the Church’s forgiveness,” were more easily forgiven. Pauline literature. It is the beautiful ultimately in Christ Jesus. attitude toward sin Though varieties of expressions were explanation of love, this ability which is As the Gospel makes clear, no one is should help you understand the answer to used to describe them, three elements had unique to humans in nature. beyond God’s mercy, but we must do our your question. to come together for a sin to be grave: It is clear and straightforward. It is part in receiving this mercy. We must love In the beginning of Christianity, apart • The matter itself must be serious, not greatly inspiring. others with a love that is as pure as that from those based mainly on the natural trivial or inconsequential. Paul then reveals what happens when a described by St. Paul. law—the Ten Commandments, for • One must be aware of the serious person embraces the Gospel. First, however, we must face the fact example—one sin was particularly nature of the act at the time that it is Imperfections fade away. Knowledge that we need God. † identified as the big one: abandoning committed. one’s faith in Christ because of fear or pain • There must be full, conscious desire to or death. commit the sinful action. My Journey to God That was the option often faced by Doubt about or lessening of any of these Christians during the Roman persecutions conditions renders the offense less than of those days: Either be faithful to Christ grave, making the action or omission a and die or deny Christ and live. venial sin or no sin at all. A Poem for Haiti Those who chose to live, but who later This may sound complicated, but wished to return to the Christian faith faced generally the Church relies on people to Haiti, lengthy public penances conducted by the use good sense, enlightened by the I must confess bishop. When these were completed, teachings of Christ, to determine what is I didn’t think about you much, sinners could be reconciled with the serious and what is not. except there was that time once Church once, but only once. It’s clear that the conceivable ways when my friend, Susan, As time went on, other moral offenses— one might offend against love of God and stayed with you. murder, bestiality, adultery and abortion of neighbor—by racism, greed and other She dressed and healed your wounds, unborn children among them—also social evils—are numerous and complex. helped you walk again, required extended public penance. Dying Fortunately, a more comprehensive and and upon her return without ritual forgiveness of these sins detailed list of sins has never been I saw in her eyes resulted in, so it was believed, the loss of attempted.

a love for you. Reuters CNS photo/Jorge Silva, eternal life. It’s not healthy for us to try to do this Not much formal attention was given to either, except to attend to the leanings in Three days ago, Now I think of you all of the time. lesser sins, which could be forgiven by acts our lives that could become more sinful, the earth shook and quaked. of charity, prayer, celebration of the and seek ways to improve that part of our I saw Haiti fracture and break. Although I am not there, Eucharist and other spiritual works. life, which is what a great part of the graces Painfully, words and pictures please, please hear my deepest prayer Hundreds of years later, in the of sacramental penance are for. came into view. that God grant you sixth century and after, Irish monks began Ultimately, we can still only do what our I began to learn more about you. His infinite mercy and love, to introduce into the rest of Europe the kind Catholic ancestors did: Put all our faults As I wrapped my heart and mind dress and heal your wounds, of confession with which we are most and sins trustingly into God’s hands for around the devastation and pain, and help Haiti familiar—individual private confession and forgiveness and healing. I pleaded, walk again. absolution one on one with a priest. “How much more can Haiti take?” Originally viewed suspiciously by (A free brochure answering questions that The headlines read, “Tragedy, Redefined.” By Cathy Lamperski Dearing Church authorities, this form of penance Catholics ask about the sacrament of was at first discouraged and forbidden, penance is available by sending a stamped, (Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. This but later became the required way of self-addressed envelope to Father John child was photographed at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 20. A sacramental forgiveness in the Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612. heavy aftershock from the Jan. 12 earthquake hit the devastated capital that morning, Roman Catholic Church. Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at creating panic among survivors.) To achieve some degree of consistency the same address or by e-mail to and clarity, monks prepared lists of sins and [email protected].) † Page 14A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010

Husband of Lena Deloris Luber. Father of Mary Green, Linda, Providence Sister Brendan Harvey ministered in David and Robert Luber. Grand - Taiwan and co-authored several children’s books father of 10. Great-grandfather Rest in peace of 26. Providence Sister Brendan education for 36 years at workbooks for the Economy MATTOX, Bernard E., 63, Harvey died on Jan. 14 at Catholic schools in Indiana, Reading Series, a children’s Please submit in writing to our GAMBLE, Evelyn, 100, Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville, Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Maryland, Missouri and Illinois, book, The Story of Anne Therese, office by 10 a.m. Thursday St. Andrew, Richmond, Jan. 14. Jan. 14. Husband of Kathie She was 90. teaching grade school and about St. Theodora Guérin, and a before the week of publication; Sister of George Block. (Westfall) Mattox. Father of Amy The Mass of Christian Burial special education students. coloring book. was celebrated on Jan. 18 at the In the archdiocese, In 1992, she began working be sure to state date of death. GAUCK, Margaret M., 91, King, Abigail Price, Brian Church of the Immaculate Sister Brendan taught at with Catholic Charities in Obituaries of archdiocesan St. John the Evangelist, Gruner and Paul Mattox. Grand - Conception at the motherhouse. Holy Cross School in Terre Haute, which led to her priests serving our archdiocese Enochsburg, Jan. 17. Mother of father of 18. Burial followed at the sisters’ Indianapolis from 1947-55, opening and directing the are listed elsewhere in Polly Fox, Donald, Ernest, PRENTICE, Doris M., 78, cemetery. Nativity School in Indianapolis Providence Food Pantry in The Criterion. Order priests Gerald and Timothy Gauck. Holy Family, Oldenburg, Jan. 14. The former Margaret Harvey from 1955-58, St. Patrick School West Terre Haute. She also and religious sisters and Grand mother of 15. Great-grand - Mother of Donna and Kathy was born on Aug. 27, 1919, in in Terre Haute from 1962-66, served as a tutor at brothers are included here, mother of 23. unless they are natives of the Nobbe, Dan and Mike Prentice. Ayrshire, Scotland. St. Mary’s Child Center in Providence Educational archdiocese or have other HANLEY, Helen B., 70, Sister of Charles and Tim She entered the congregation Indianapolis from 1966-69, the Services and activity room connec tions to it; those are Sacred Heart of Jesus, Bentfield. Grandmother of six. of the Sisters of Providence on former Cara School in coordinator at the motherhouse. separate obituaries on this Indianapolis, Jan. 10. Mother of Great-grandmother of seven. Jan. 9, 1937, and professed her Terre Haute from 1969-72 and She continued her volunteer Kimberly Maue and Paul Hanley. first vows on Aug. 15, 1939, and the Children’s Learning Center service until December 2009. page. RINGWALD, Wilfred, 93, Sister of Nancy Harris, Wanda her final vows on Aug. 15, 1945. in Terre Haute from 1972-75. Surviving is a sister, ALVIS, Sheryl, 58, St. Joseph, Prince of Peace, Madison, Jan. 6. O’Brien, Janet Starr, Clessie, Sister Brendan earned a In 1988, Sister Brendan Providence Sister Marie Brendan Shelbyville, Jan. 11. Mother of Father of Theresa Buehler, Agnes Dorman and Leonard Holloway. bachelor’s degree in education at ministered for a year in Taiwan, Harvey. Craig, Kelly and Patrick Alvis, Grandmother of three. Clift, Barbara Grandstaff, Karen Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College where she helped begin a school Memorial gifts may be Benjamin and Nicholas Giant. McClure, Marilyn Swift, Patricia and a master’s degree in special for children with disabilities that sent to the Sisters of Providence, Sister of Judie Fisher, Sue JOURNELL, Ruth S. 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Brother Sarah, Michael and Phillip as a grade school teacher and college registrar FISCHER, James, 84, St. Paul, of Trudy Powell, Judy Sumner, Rolfes. Daughter of Anne Tell City, Jan. 11. Husband of Joe, Kenny and Paul Kleemann. Reisman. Sister of Mary Graf, Providence Sister Mary her final vows on Jan. 23, 1950. Mary-of-the-Woods College from Jo Ann Fischer. Father of Grandfather of two. Annette Hountz, Terri Sterwerf, Magdalen Schwartz died on Sister Mary Magdalen earned a 1977-79. Carolyn Herrmann. Brother of Larry, Steve and Tom Fischer. Jan. 16 at Mother Theodore Hall bachelor’s degree in mathematics In 1983, Sister Mary KNUEVEN, Elaine Marie, 54, Rosie Johnson, Dave and Tony Grandmother of one. at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Magdalen began full-time Fischer. Grandfather of three. St. Nicholas, Sunman, Jan. 8. was 87. College and a master’s degree in volunteer work for her Daughter of Mary Anne WOERNER, Edward Francis, The Mass of Christian Burial physical science at the University congregation as well as FROEHLICH, William, 83, Knueven. Sister of John, Michael 79, St. Luke the Evangelist, was celebrated on Jan. 23 at the of Notre Dame. community service. St. Paul, Tell City, Jan. 8. and William Knueven. Indianapolis, Jan. 5. Husband of Church of the Immaculate She ministered in education for In 2000, she retired to the Husband of Jean Froehlich. Beverly Woerner. Father of LINNE, Maurice, 85, St. Pius V, Conception. Burial followed at 45 years at Catholic schools in motherhouse and began her Father of Jo Ann Sherry, David, Joseph and Robert Woerner. Troy, Jan. 17. Husband of the sisters’ cemetery. Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and prayer ministry full-time with the John, Paul and William Brother of Marie Brummett. Froehlich Jr. Stepfather of Kristi Onia Evelyn Linne. 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(Editor’s note: In conjunction with the Latin School of Indianapolis. parishes in French Lick and Paoli from Year for Priests, The Criterion is publishing That was a time of great change in the 1989 until 2001. a monthly feature titled “Faithful Fathers.” Church, especially in the liturgy. “Being a volunteer department, there was We plan to profile a priest from each “As the Mass was being changed, we only a small number of people available deanery during the next five months.) would have training sessions for the priests during the day time,” Father Hall said. “So I Sean Gallagher Photo by [at the seminary],” Father Hall said. “We was helping fight fires. I had the gear. I knew By Sean Gallagher were on the front lines with that, being how to put on the mask and bunker pants involved in the sacristy. The vestments and and turnout coat and helmet. But I wouldn’t MARTINSVILLE—Father John Hall is the style of the Mass were changing. We in be rushing in. I’d stay more on the outside.” the pastor of St. Martin of Tours Parish in the seminary were involved in all of that.” Father Hall doesn’t fight fires anymore— Martinsville, and Msgr. Charles Koster—Msgr. Charles “Not at 56 years old!”—but he serves as the the administrator Koster was perhaps the most influential chaplain for the Martinsville fire and police of Our Lady of the priest for Father Hall. He was pastor of departments. Springs Parish in St. John Parish when he was a seminarian, Ministry of presence—Being a chaplain French Lick and and hired him as a janitor for the parish for emergency personnel is just one part of Our Lord Jesus during his summer breaks from Saint what Father Hall sees as his ministry of Christ the King Meinrad College in the 1970s. simply being present among the people of Parish in Paoli, all “He allowed me to work there,” his parishes and the broader community. located in the Father Hall said. “And when he was “Whether it’s in the parish or in the Bloomington Deanery. teaching at Saint Meinrad in my college community, whether it’s at the store, at a He was ordained in 1980 and is 56. days, he would take me out for supper. restaurant, at a parish dinner, whether it’s at a Born in Beech Grove, Father Hall grew “And from that, I’ve learned to make it a social event or a religious event in church, up a member of Our Lady of the habit of writing letters to our college celebrating the sacraments—it’s being with Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. students from the parish. Once in the fall the people and bringing Christ’s presence, Meeting priests—Father Hall’s priestly and once in the spring, we send care being someone who cares for them, someone Father John Hall stands by the altar on Jan. 21 vocation was nurtured at Our Lady of the packages to them and I write them a letter.” who is walking with them.” at St. Martin of Tours Church in Martinsville, Greenwood Parish and at St. John the Putting out fires—It was in getting to For most of his priestly life, Father Hall where he has served as pastor since 2005. He is Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, where he know Father James Wilmoth, who was an has served at small parishes in the also the administrator of Our Lady of the had relatives who were members. associate pastor of Our Lady of the countryside or in small towns that make such Springs Parish in French Lick and Our Lord As he grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, Greenwood Parish during his youth, that a ministry more easily possible. Jesus Christ the King Parish in Paoli. both parishes had many priests serving as Father Hall gained an interest in “You get to know the people,” he said. associate pastors or in residence there. firefighting. “You’re able to walk with them and maybe them.” “I got to know the different styles of the Father Wilmoth was a chaplain for the spend a little bit more time with them in Advice for those discerning a priestly priests,” Father Hall said. “I was exposed to Indianapolis Fire Department at the time. their situation. You have the freedom and a vocation—“Be open to it,” Father Hall said. different priests, their interests and hobbies. As a high school seminarian, Father Hall little bit more time to be involved in the “Pray about it. It is a good life. Yes, there It was kind of like, ‘OK, I can fit in here.’ became involved in a Boy Scouts Explorer community.” are demands. But there is a lot of goodness “I remember even in grade school days post run by the Indianapolis Fire But wherever he is ministering, in it. serving maybe three or four Masses on a Department in which he received some Father Hall feels most like a priest when he “You’re involved with parts of people’s Sunday at St. John. Weekday Masses was basic firefighting training. is simply present to people. lives that really no one else is involved with. my turn to serve at Our Lady of the As a college seminarian at the former “I think it’s when I’m being with people There are struggles. But which lifestyle Greenwood, and on weekends I was up at Saint Meinrad College in St. Meinrad, at the times of the sacraments, the Mass,” he doesn’t have struggles? There is a lot of St. John’s.” Father Hall served on the local volunteer said. “[I like] listening to people, maybe not reward. 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Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Equal Opportunity Employer 317-236-1544 Page 16A The Criterion Friday, January 29, 2010 Aging with grace St. Paul Hermitage has been a home for the elderly for 50 years By Mary Ann Wyand undertaking for our community. … Because of this wing, we were able to BEECH GROVE—As the new year offer even more comprehensive care for begins, the Sisters of St. Benedict of our residents. That is the beauty of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in St. Paul Hermitage. We continually seek Photos by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann Beech Grove are looking ahead to future ways to enhance the lives of our plans for their ministry to the elderly at residents. Our care for the elderly is St. Paul Hermitage. second to none and, God willing, we will Last year marked the 50th anniversary be able to continue this outstanding care of the Hermitage, which the Benedictine long into the future.” sisters built in 1959 at 501 N. 17th Ave., Resident James McNulty is thankful adjacent to their monastery and former for the loving care provided by girls’ academy, at the request of then Benedictine Sister Sharon Bierman, a Archbishop Paul C. Schulte. licensed health facility administrator and Archbishop Schulte provided 30 acres the eighth sister to direct the Hermitage, of land in Beech Grove, and asked the and other staff members. Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Ind., James and Juanita McNulty moved to to construct a monastery, girls’ school and the Hermitage on May 15, 2004. When retirement home there. she died on Feb. 8, 2008, he was grateful “Not to take anything away from that he did not have to face her death Archbishop Schulte, but I truly believe alone. St. Paul Hermitage was actually God’s “My family was here except for a son, plan for us,” Benedictine Sister Juliann who was in Chicago,” he said. “I had Babcock, the prioress of Our Lady of tremendous support from Sister Sharon Grace Monastery, said and all the employees. in her reflection for the They came on the sisters’ chapter meeting ‘We welcome each morning following her on Nov. 8. death, knocked on the “It all began with the person as we would door and extended their dream of one man and Christ. Our residents sympathies.” the fulfillment of that and staff care about It was a comfort to dream by a group of share the last years of women,” she said. “At one another. We are a their married life at the the same time [that] family. This is a hermitage, McNulty Archbishop Schulte had ministry of love.’ said. “We were very a dream, the Ferdinand happy for the 60-plus community was years of our marriage.” considering the — Benedictine Sister Now that he is establishment of new Sharon Bierman widowed, McNulty foundations. I don’t finds companionship think it was just a with other residents and coincidence. I think it was the exact attends daily Mass at the Hermitage direction God had intended for our chapel. He also participates in a group community. exercise class. “Fifty years later, St. Paul Hermitage “There are a lot of special things continues to be one of the finest retirement happening, a lot of different activities facilities, not only in the city or the state, going on, so we keep fairly busy,” but possibly even in the country,” Sister McNulty said. “I try to take a walk every Juliann said. “The respect people have for afternoon. I still have my automobile so I this institution is a testimony to the quality can go out occasionally. There’s enough care given to the residents, and dedication going on every day that we keep pretty Benedictine Sister Sharon Bierman, center, the eighth administrator of St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove, of our sisters and staff.” active. It really is a family here.” talks with residents Clare Bosler, left, and Jane Marshall, right, on Nov. 17 in the hermitage lobby. Chapter 37 of the Rule of St. Benedict Katherine Svarczkopf, the mother of instructs Benedictine monks and sisters Msgr. Mark Svarczkopf, has lived at the celebrant. He is the pastor of St. Pius X health care to a new addition constructed throughout the world to always be hermitage for three and a half years. Parish in Indianapolis and archdiocesan on the first floor in 1992. “compassionate toward the old.” The Mass of Thanksgiving for the vicar for advocacy for priests. “It is wonderful for me, as the During the past half century, she said, conclusion of the golden anniversary year Father Thomas Murphy, a retired administrator, when we get a new the Beech Grove Benedictines have on Nov. 1 was especially memorable, she diocesan priest and hermitage resident, resident because we inherit their family, provided a loving home and quality said, and the chapel was filled to capacity. preached the homily. and keep building more and more health care for 1,042 senior citizens at the “It was a beautiful evening, a perfect “St. Paul Hermitage is a shining relationships,” Sister Sharon said. “The Hermitage, including a number of retired one, with almost a full moon, just example of what can happen when energy support that our residents have from their diocesan priests who reside in apartments delightful,” Katherine Svarczkopf said. combines with a religious orientation families is phenomenal. They visit them in the clergy wing on the third floor. “We had a wonderful Mass, and then the centered on Christ,” Father Murphy told often and on holidays many of our “We have had the honor of caring for Roncalli [High School] students were the residents, sisters and guests. residents go to a family member’s home. these wonderful people in their golden outside getting over 1,000 luminarias Father Gerald Burkert is the retirement We also have excellent Thanksgiving and years until they achieved their heavenly ready for us. What a production that facility’s chaplain and Father Herman Lutz Christmas dinners here for those reward,” Sister Juliann said. “… The was.” assists him. Both priests are retired from residents who no longer have families.” addition of the new health care wing Seven priests concelebrated the liturgy full-time diocesan ministry and live at the Fifteen efficiency apartments on the nearly 15 years ago was a huge with Father Gerald Kirkhoff, the principal Hermitage. third floor are reserved for retired priests. Daily life at the Hermitage is happy and Msgr. Richard Kavanagh, who at holy, Katherine Svarczkopf said. “The 98 was the oldest diocesan priest until his calendar of the Church directs our days. death on Jan. 20, helped plan the priests’ We have Mass and pray the rosary. We retirement home and had lived there since have our routine, and I look forward to it opened in 1998. that. The sisters and staff are so good to “Archbishop [Edward T.] O’Meara us. I’ve known some of the sisters for asked the sisters to provide a home for about 20 years now since my mother-in- our retired priests,” Sister Sharon said. law was living here.” “We have six retired priests living with Sister Sharon began her ministry at the us, and we love having them here.” Hermitage as a physical therapist in 1978 More than 85 percent of the residents then served as the director of the attend daily Mass at 11 a.m. in the rehabilitation department before her chapel. Morning, afternoon and evening appointment as administrator in 2000. hours are filled with a variety of fitness “We have 105 residents and activities, arts and crafts, card games, 108 employees,” she said. “We offer special entertainment and social time independent living and skilled care for our with friends. residents. We are licensed with the state “It’s been a wonderful experience for 70 residential beds, and those residents helping the residents and their families,” are fairly independent. … In addition, we Sister Sharon said. “People always have a skilled care wing with 52 compre- comment on how clean our facility is, hensive care beds. We are currently how friendly all the residents, staff and providing 24-hour nursing care for 48 volunteers are, and how they can feel the St. Paul Hermitage resident James McNulty of Beech Grove enjoys a walk on the scenic hermitage residents there.” Spirit of love here. We welcome each grounds every day. He took advantage of an unseasonably warm fall day on Nov. 17 to step outside The comprehensive care unit was made person as we would Christ. Our residents the front door of the 50-year-old retirement home operated by the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady possible by a $4 million campaign to and staff care about one another. We are a of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. relocate the residents in need of skilled family. This is a ministry of love.” †