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Gifts of the Season Young and Old Take Special Christmas Outreach to Heart Missionary and Inside patron saint Mass celebrates 500th anniversary of birth of St. Francis Xavier, page 11. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com December 15, 2006 Vol. XLVII, No. 11 75¢ Gifts of the season Young and old take special Christmas outreach to heart By John Shaughnessy as a clerk in the medical imaging depart- ment, where her goal is to treat each The story of the unusual Christmas patient with care and dignity. event involving young people will come “When I have patients come through, I later. can see the fear in their eyes,” she says. “I Photo by John Shaughnessy So will the story of the 90-year-old try to give back to people in the way of volunteer who has found abundant understanding and compassion—to get examples of faith during the Christmas them a blanket if they need it or to hold season. their hand.” Both stories are part of the special Her co-workers saw her compassion effort being made by Catholic schools, toward others. They also knew about the parishes, agencies and volunteers in the hardships in her life. So they secretly rec- archdiocese to ommended her for the Hope for the make Christmas Holidays program that has been a part of more Christ- St. Vincent for about 20 years. like. The Christmas-giving program is set up Yet, right to help patients and employees who have now, the focus faced overwhelming struggles within the turns to the past year. Like the family who lost a child Christmas story to cancer. Like the parents whose child of the young had a serious heart condition. Like the grandmother family of Spitzig-Cady. who is sitting at “The program was developed by nurses the hospital and social workers who felt a need to do Lisa Harden cafeteria table, more for patients and their families,” where she holds explains Lisa Harden, the coordinator of a photograph of her 1-year-old grandson the Hope for the Holidays program. “They near a crystal cross. knew the families were going home to As Ann Spitzig-Cady begins her situations that were difficult. They wanted Christmas tale, it soon becomes clear to make Christmas better for them.” that the crystal cross Individuals who is at the heart of her work at the hospital story of faith, hope ‘I told God I don’t know sometimes “adopt” a and rebirth. how I’m going to get family for Fifteen months Christmas. More ago, Spitzig-Cady through everything, so I often, a group of was in the midst of was leaving it in his employees combine what she calls “a hands. My sons and I their efforts to make terrifying time” in her Christmas more life. Her marriage of needed something to hold special for the 140 17 years was crum- onto, to see there are or so families who bling, her daughter people who care. It’s not annually need help. Ann Spitzig-Cady holds a photograph of her 1-year-old grandson, Serj, near a crystal cross—two was unexpectedly The caring efforts Christmas gifts that have helped her through a difficult time. pregnant and her just the gifts under the usually touch the health was suffering. tree. It’s hope …’ families who receive don’t know how I’m going to get through “I don’t normally get Christmas Still, she tried to do the gifts. Sometimes, everything, so I was leaving it in his gifts,” she says. “When I opened it, it all she could to make — Ann Spitzig-Cady the gifts even hands. My sons and I needed something to spoke to me. It let me know I’m on the a good home and a change lives. Just hold onto, to see there are people who right path. Before I go out the door good life for her two ask Spitzig-Cady. care. It’s not just the gifts under the tree. each day, I look at the cross and say a teenage sons, one who has a form of Her sons received presents. So did her It’s hope that there will be light at the end little prayer with my sons, ‘Lord, help autism. daughter. Her newly-born grandson was of the tunnel. I feel they saved my life in us to have your strength. We’re asking She drew strength from one of the given toys and clothes. more ways than one.” for your guidance to use our minds and foundations of her life—her job at “I was just astounded and so grateful,” That feeling especially overwhelmed our hearts in the way you want us to St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, a she recalls. “I had been praying, not ask- her when she opened her gift and saw the use them, to use our gifts in the way job she started two years ago. She works ing for anything specific. I told God I crystal cross. See OUTREACH, page 2 Papal peace message stresses basic human rights VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Even when The pope’s message included prayers mented in certain recent situations of war,” faced with a potential terrorist attack or in for peace in war-torn countries, such as he said. the midst of war, basic human rights must Lebanon; special concern for child Specifically citing the July war in be respected, Pope Benedict XVI said in victims of violence; a condemnation of Lebanon between Hezbollah militias and his message for World Peace Day 2007. continued nuclear proliferation; and con- Israel, Pope Benedict said the duty to pro- “Peace is cern over the potential for violent conflicts tect, assist and avoid involving the civilian based on respect over energy resources. population “was largely ignored.” for the rights of The basis of any hope for peace, the “The heart-rending situation in Lebanon all,” the pope said pope said, is a recognition that each human and the new shape of conflicts, especially in his message person is created in the image and likeness since the terrorist threat unleashed com- for the Jan. 1 of God and, therefore, endowed with a pletely new forms of violence, demand commemoration. dignity and with rights that cannot be that the international community reaffirm The message, usurped by anyone. international humanitarian law and apply “The Human Most countries around the world have it to all present-day situations of armed Person, the Heart adopted the tenets of international humani- conflict,” the pope said. of Peace,” was tarian law, recognizing that it applies in While recognizing the difficulties posed Pope Benedict XVI sent to heads of situations of conflict as well as in peace- by the threat of terrorism, Pope Benedict state around the time, he said. said countries must conduct “a profound world and was released on Dec. 12 at a “Unfortunately, to say nothing of past reflection on the ethical limits restricting Vatican press conference. cases, this has not been consistently imple- See PEACE, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, December 15, 2006 that basic human rights are God-given or PEACE natural; when an individual or a society continued from page 1 decides it can determine who will enjoy which rights, both human dignity and peace the use of modern methods of guaranteeing are threatened, he said. internal security.” “As far as the right to life is concerned, CNS photo/Elie Abou Faysal, Reuters Cardinal Renato Martino, president of we must denounce its widespread violation the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in our society,” the pope said. told reporters at the Vatican on Dec. 12 that “Alongside the victims of armed con- the global fight against terrorism can be flicts, terrorism and the different forms of seen as “the Fourth World War. The Cold violence, there are the silent deaths caused War was the third.” by hunger, abortion, experimentation on He continued, “But this war does not human embryos and euthanasia,” he said. have the parameters of the wars we experi- “How can we fail to see in all this an enced in history. This must push countries attack on peace?” Pope Benedict asked. to ask, ‘What should we do?’ and to The pope also condemned as a violation develop regulations” that will provide of human dignity, and a threat to peace, security while guaranteeing respect for situations in which individuals are not free human rights. to practice their religious faith, either In his message, Pope Benedict also because a national regime imposes one reli- called for “a vision of the person untainted gion on its residents or because a “system- by ideological and cultural prejudices or by atic cultural denigration of religious beliefs” political and economic interests which can encourages people to hide their faith or Lebanese civilians evacuate after an Israeli aircraft destroyed a house in Tyre, Lebanon, on July 16. In instill hatred and violence.” limits their ability to express religious his message for World Peace Day 2007, Pope Benedict XVI cited the war in Lebanon between And he urged members of religious com- beliefs in public. Hezbollah militants and Israel as a situation where the duty to protect, assist and avoid involving the munities and their leaders to renew their In addition, he said, violations of “the civilian population “was largely ignored.” commitment to dialogue and to denouncing natural equality of all persons” also threaten “conceptions of God that would encourage peace. But also, the pope said, “inadequate personal dignity and for the exercise of intolerance and recourse to violence against Obviously, he said, the fact that so many consideration for the condition of women their fundamental freedoms.
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