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CriterionOnline.com November 26, 2010 Vol. LI, No. 9 75¢ Pope creates new cardinals, ‘We are all part of the same family’ telling them that authority Submitted photo means service VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Pope Benedict XVI created 24 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and called them to be strong in spreading and defending the faith and promoting peace and tranquility within the Church. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican’s Cardinal supreme canon law Donald W. Wuerl court, joined other new cardinals from 13 countries on Nov. 20 in formally professing their Catholic faith and fidelity to the pope. After the oath, all but one of the new cardinals knelt before the pope to receive a David Siler poses for a photo with children that he met during a recent visit to Ethiopia. As the director of Catholic Charities and Family Ministries for red biretta, a the archdiocese, Siler made the trip to witness the work of Catholic Relief Services in Africa. three-cornered hat, Cardinal which the pope said, Raymond L. Burke “signifies that you Journey helps director see how Catholics in must be ready to act with strength, to the point of shedding blood, to increase the Christian America are helping people in Africa faith, for the peace and tranquility of the people of God and for the freedom and gro wth By John Shaughnessy people in Africa, but the trip through the people in need across the world. of the holy Roman Church.” highlands of Ethiopia also provided Siler “It was one of my most intense Cardinal Antonios Naguib, the Catholic The memorable moment with the with a special memory of the people there. experiences of being proud of being Coptic patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, women and the sunglasses was so “Driving up through the highlands, we Catholic,” he says. “I was proud to see the received a new patriarch’s hat with a thin red unexpected and fun that David Siler still took a break and got out of the car when all work of our American Catholic Church in trim added to the traditional black v eil. laughs when he shares the story. these people flooded toward us,” Siler remote areas helping to feed people, Pope Benedict concelebrated Mass on The scene took place as Siler, the recalls. “These four women in total African making greater access to water, educating Nov. 21 with the new cardinals, and gave executive director of Catholic Charities and garb came up and took our sunglasses of f of children and helping people to start small each of them a cardinal’s ring, telling them Family Ministries for the archdiocese, was our faces and tried them on. They laughed, businesses. Catholic Relief Services has it was a sign “of your nuptial pact with traveling through Ethiopia as part of a and we laughed. It was this moment of been in Africa so long that they have a very the Church.” recent tour by Catholic Relief Services— bonding that came from something as silly good reputation there. We’re living the Rather than precious gems, the gold rings the international humanitarian agency of the as trying on sunglasses.” Gospel there.” feature a crucifix, which, “for the same reason Catholic Church in the United States. For Siler, those moments of bonding Much of the trip focused on the relief your clothes allude to blood, is a symbol of The tour wanted to show Siler and became one of the two major themes of the organization’s efforts to make water life and love” as demonstrated by Christ’s 11 other diocesan representatives from 10-day journey through Tanzania and accessible to people in areas where ultimate sacrifice for the salvation of all, the across the United States some of the Ethiopia. The other theme was his pride in water—often described as “liquid gold” in pope said. Catholic Relief Services’ projects to help being part of a faith that reaches out to See AFRICA, page 2 See CARDINALS, page 12 In new book, Pope Benedict XVI candidly addr esses clerical sex abuse, condoms and possible r esignation

ROME (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI’s on the pope’s call for a global “examination of book-length interview is certain to spark conscience” in the face of economic disparity, global attention, and not only for his environmental disasters and moral slippage. comments suggesting that condom use might The pope repeatedly emphasized that the be acceptable in some circumstances. Church’s role in a largely broken world is not In the 219-page book, Light of the World: to impose a “burden” of moral rules but to The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the open the doors to God. Times, the German pontiff spoke candidly on Even before the book’s release, media the clerical sex abuse scandal, relations with attention centered on the pope’s remarks on Islam, papal resignation and the “threatening condoms in AIDS prevention. While repeating catastrophe” facing humanity. his view that condoms cannot be the only The wide-ranging interview was conducted answer to the AIDS epidemic, the pope by German writer Peter Seewald, who posed allowed that in some specific cases—for questions in six one-hour sessions last summer. example, that of male prostitutes—use of a The book was released on Nov. 23 at the condom could be a step toward taking moral Vatican, but ample excerpts were published responsibility for one’s actions. three days earlier by the Vatican newspaper. An entire chapter and parts of others were The book reveals a less formal side of the dedicated to the clerical sex abuse scandal. pope as he responds simply and directly on The pope called it “a great crisis” that left him topics as diverse as the joy of sex and the ban “stunned by how wretched the Church is, by on burqas. Much of the conversation focuses See POPE, page 3 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010 AFRICA

continued from page 1 Siler David Photos by Africa—is scarce. Siler recalls visiting remote villages where the women explained how greater access to water had changed their lives. Where they once traveled several hours every day to gather and haul w ater for cooking, washing and drinking, the women now use that time to focus more Above, four Ethiopian women pose for a photo on the education of their children and their after donning the sunglasses of four American care for their family’s crops and animals. Catholics who were part of a mission trip arranged Those visits touched Siler’s heart, too. by Catholic Relief Services. He shares the story of a couple in Ethiopia who died of AIDS, and how neighbors Left, interacting with the children of Ethiopia was immediately welcomed the dying couple’s one of the highlights of a recent trip to Africa for children into their home and into David Siler, executive director of Catholic Charities their family. and Family Ministries for the archdiocese. A father of five, Siler also recalls a visit to a village in Tanzania where he met a looking right in my soul, and I w as doing the visited two of the mission clinics that song now. young mother, who was about 13, holding same thing. It was this sense of family. All Blessed Teresa established in Ethiopia’s “Who would have thought that Polish a baby. our differences in those moments of eye capital city, Addis Ababa. woman’s skill would be one that is “Even when you can’t speak the contact melted away. We all have the same “One [clinic] serves 800 people, and the needed in Ethiopia? It made me realize language, there are a lot of things you can basic desires. We want to be free. We care other serves 1,400 people,” Siler says. “Both we all have something to give. It shows do with sign language and gestures to deeply about our families. We want our kids places are for the truly neglected and the connections we can make if we’re connect with people,” he says. “I just to be fed and educated. We all want to feel forgotten members of the community. We creative.” started making baby noises as we do. I important, and we all want to have met people with leprosy, a lot with AIDS, the The young woman’s example fits with reached out my hands in a gesture to hold a purpose.” mentally ill, the physically handicapped, Siler’s belief that people must use their the baby. She let me, and I held the little In inviting Siler to see its work in Africa, orphans, the dying. abilities to help others in need wherever girl. I was struck by the trust. She just Catholic Relief Services hoped he would “The Missionaries of Charity sisters live God has placed them in the w orld. trusted me. We just had that moment of share his impressions of his trip when he right there with the people, serving them. “Whether you help people in Africa or connection. I’m a parent. She’s a parent. returned to the United States—to let people And there were tons of volunteers from all at home, it’s really the same. Need is We had that in common.” know the value of the organization’s work. over the world who came to help. One of the need,” Siler says. That feeling of connection stayed with Siler has already begun to honor that goal volunteers was this woman from Poland in “Kids here are starving. People here him as he traveled through areas where while he still tries to sort through all the her 20s. She was a recreational therapist who are out of jobs. You don’t have to go to homes were made of sticks and mud, memories, photos and images of his f irst trip was working with a large group of mentally Africa to help people in need, b ut it is where disease and death too often haunted to Africa. ill women. She was teaching them to important to help somewhere. We all have the everyday lives of people and their One more moment adds to Siler’s defining exercise through dance. She had a boom box the same Father, we are all part of the families. memories of Africa—a moment of surprise that was playing Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face.’ same family, and we all have something “I always try to make contact with and joy that curiously connects Blessed She was happy, and they were happy.” to give. We have to be open to the people’s eyes,” Siler says. “So many Teresa of Calcutta and the pop singer Lady Siler smiles at that memory. He has the Holy Spirit to tell us where our gifts people did that there. It was like they were Gaga. The moment occurred when Siler same reaction every time that he hears that are needed.” † Situations, emotions come to forefront during 10-day journey to Africa By John Shaughnessy reactions—from eating goat at meals to poverty we saw over and over again had it does, Catholic Relief Services wants adjusting to not having access to e-mail to do with the scarcity of w ater.” the local people to take ownership of the During his recent 10-day journey to and a cell phone. Culture shock in returning to project. In one village, I met the man Africa, David Siler experienced a range of Here, the executive director of America: “I’d be in conversation with who was in charge of security for the different situations and emotional Catholic Charities and Family Ministries people, and they’d be complaining about well. He spoke with such pride that he for the archdiocese talks about those things that seemed so hollow in was in charge of security for the well. To experiences during his time of touring comparison to people trying to exist. him, that was his purpose.” projects in Africa that were implemented Here, people are complaining about the Freedom from electronic by Catholic Relief Services—the weather and their luxury car. In the connection: “My phone didn’t work Photo by David Siler David Photo by international humanitarian agency of the capital city of Ethiopia, the largest there, and I didn’t have access to e-mail. Catholic Church in the United States: grocery store had four aisles. Here, our So there weren’t as many distractions. It Culture shock in Africa: “There’s a grocery stores have four aisles of cereal. was very freeing. I had a feeling of culture shock going there, and a culture It just makes you realize how many jealousy—that the way that people spent shock coming back. In both Ethiopia and choices we have for everything.” their time was with their family. The Tanzania, the people, for the most part, The taste of goat: “We ate a fair villages were close-knit, the families live very primitive lives, probably like amount of goat. It’s the most eaten were together. Here, we may not know they lived hundreds of years ago— animal in the world. It’s not too our neighbors or our families are far scratching out an existence through dissimilar from beef. And they use a lot away. There, you would ask them about subsistence farming. Their homes are of sauces.” their family, and they would talk about An African boy holding his goat stops to get made out of sticks and mud. In some The pride that comes with a the whole village. We’ve gotten so far his picture taken. ways, it’s hard to relate. The greatest purpose: “With each water project that away from that in our country.” †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)— HHS Service Mechanism for Foreign around the world, netting trafficking Carmen Maquilon never expected she National Survivors of Human Trafficking,” a syndicates $32 billion annually. would be on the USCCB report marking the 10th anniversary In addition to raising awareness, the law frontlines of of the law. has led to new approaches by law fighting crime. “In 10 years, we have come a very long enforcement officials in relating to victims Her specialty: way,” Maquilon said. “Prior to then, we such as the Peruvians, who previously

human trafficking. didn’t have the law. Now there’s much more would have been charged with being in the CNS photo/courtesy Department of State Her task: awareness. country illegally and subject to deportation. advocating on behalf “We’re not there yet. A lot of law The law established the T visa, which of trafficking victims enforcement still do not understand what is allows trafficking victims to become and their families in a human trafficking. But even compared to temporary U.S. residents. Up to battle to combat five years ago, lots more is being done,” 5,000 trafficking victims annually can modern-day slavery—considered the fastest she said. become permanent residents three years growing criminal activity in the world. The “more” described by Maquilon after receiving their visa. As director of immigrant services at includes wide-scale training to raise Training is another component of the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of awareness of trafficking, said Nyssa law, which funds efforts to span the wide Rockville Centre, N.Y., Maquilon, a native Parampil, associate director of MRS’ Anti- expanse of workers who deal with of Colombia, and her staff have worked Trafficking Services Program. victims—law enforcement officers, federal with dozens of trafficking victims since “As far as the community level, it’s prosecutors, social service providers, The U.S. Department of State estimates in its 2003. Their first big case came in 2004 after raised awareness in the last 10 years,” trafficking advocates—to exchange ideas 2010 “Trafficking in Persons Report” that about a raid on a Long Island f actory uncovered Parampil said. “We’ve seen a shift from and build networks. 12.3 million people are trafficked around the 60 Peruvians working under grueling people not knowing what trafficking was. Detective Thomas Stack of the world, netting trafficking syndicates $32 billion conditions and with little hope of escaping. They had heard of slavery in the old days, Montgomery County Police Dept. in annually. “It turned into 125 because of the f amily but they didn’t know it was still going on.” Maryland, said he found such training members and others who came forward,” Parampil and her anti-trafficking programs helpful in understanding how to for its victim-centered approach. Maquilon told Catholic News Service colleagues consider the law a milestone be more sensitive to the needs of Even so, Carr is lobbying for the during a break in a training program on the piece of legislation because it gave the law distressed victims. removal of a provision that requires victims needs of crime victims in Washington on enforcement community a stronger tool in On the practical side, Stack said, the to cooperate with law enforcement officers Nov. 17. its pursuit of traffickers who coerce men law allows for stiffer penalties to be in their investigations. In some cases, she Maquilon’s office faced the daunting task and women into prostitution or slave labor. imposed upon convicted traffickers explained, victims are too traumatized and of finding housing, providing counseling Prior to 2000, outdated anti-slavery laws because trafficking now is a recognized fear recrimination if they are compelled to and ushering the Peruvians through legal were all that governed trafficking activity, federal offense. talk with an officer. proceedings so they could remain in the Parampil said. “A person [trafficker] arrested in For every move advocates take, United States. Fortunately, she said, her “Human trafficking today is a lot Maryland and sent to jail is usually out in traffickers make a countermove, taking agency had a useful tool on its side: the different than what we saw 200 years ago. less than half his prison term. If you get better advantage of technology to entrap highly regarded Trafficking Victims So the law had to adapt to the modern form sentenced to 10 years in the federal system, new victims and escape detection by la w Protection Act of 2000. of the crime,” she explained. you’re going to do 10 years,” he said. enforcement officials. For that reason, The law gave the staff the ability to Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, “It’s much easier and faster to do the Parampil said, the task of ending human provide a wide variety of services that chairman of the bishops’ Committee on state case. It’s more intensive in the federal trafficking is far from over. previously had been limited because of a Migration, credited the law for bringing system, but it’s worth it in the long run “It’s going to be a long time before I lack of money. greater worldwide attention to the crime of because you get a better result,” he said. would say society is saturated and human The Rockville Centre program is one of human trafficking. Introduced in 1998 by Rep. Chris Smith, trafficking becomes every-day language,” 108 nonprofits across the United States and “Nations around the world have taken R-N.J., the law was reauthorized in 2003, she said. its territories that have been subcontracted note of U.S. leadership on this issue and 2005 and 2008. It is up for reauthorization “It takes a while to understand this v ery by Migration and Refugee Services of the have taken steps to address the problem in in 2011. hidden crime.” U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to their own countries,” Bishop Wester said in While passage is expected, provide vital services to foreign-born a statement marking the law’s anniversary. anti-trafficking advocates still plan to (Editor’s note: The U.S. bishops’ document trafficking victims. Advocates like to point out that lobby Congress to maintain all funding issued on the 10th anniversary of the Funding comes through a five-year trafficking—what they call modern-day provisions, especially for training and Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is contract with the Department of Health and slavery—does not just involve foreign victim services. They also would like to available online at www.usccb.org/mrs/ Human Services that runs through April. nationals. Thousands of U.S. citizens are change several provisions to ease burdens reflections-letter-20101024-KP.pdf. The MRS had spent $8.7 million under the victims nationwide, Parampil said. on victims. U.S. Department of State’s 2010 contract through April 2010. As of The Department of State estimated in its Bridgette Carr, director of the “Trafficking in Persons Report” is available September, 2,253 victims and their families 2010 “Trafficking in Persons Report” that Human Trafficking Clinic at the University online at www.state.gov/documents/ had been helped, according to “Reflections: about 12.3 million people are trafficked of Michigan Law School, praised the law organization/142979.pdf.) †

a “false prophet” who nevertheless had a “positive effect.” members live the faith in their daily lives. He said that POPE As for the future of the Le gionaries, the pope said it was simple task should be the priority today, rather than continued from page 1 basically sound, but needed corrections that do not embarking on major initiatives like a third Vatican destroy the enthusiasm of its members. Council. how much her members fail to follow Christ. The pope was asked if he considered resigning in the The pope said the Church’s task is threatened by a “It was really almost like the crater of a volcano, out face of such burdens as the sex abuse crisis. He “new intolerance” that would limit religious expression in of which suddenly a tremendous cloud of f ilth came, responded: “When the danger is great one must not run the name of non-discrimination, for example in banning darkening and soiling everything, so that above all the away. For that reason, now is certainly not the time to the display of crucifixes in public schools, or in priesthood suddenly seemed to be a place of shame, ” he resign.” But he added that if a pope is no longer condemning specific Church teachings. said. physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of “When, for example, in the name of non-discrimi- He expressed optimism about the Church’s recovery handling the duties of the papacy, he has a right and nation, people try to force the Catholic Church to change from the scandal, saying God continues to raise up perhaps an obligation to resign. her position on homosexuality or the ordination of Catholic saints. But he also said he understands why The pope spoke candidly of his age and health, saying women, then that means she is no longer allo wed to live some Catholics, particularly victims, have responded by his schedule of meetings and trips “really o vertaxes an out her own identity,” he said. leaving the Church in protest. 83-year-old man. In that regard, the pope said other religions f ace “It is difficult for them to keep believing that the “I trust that our dear Lord will gi ve me as much similar pressures. He said, for example, that he saw no Church is a source of good, that she communicates the strength as I need to be able to do what is necessary . reason for Western countries to ban the burqa, the Islamic light of Christ, that she helps people in life—I can But I also notice that my forces are diminishing, ” veil, as long as it is w orn voluntarily. understand that,” he said. he said. On other topics, Pope Benedict had this to say: The pope said media coverage of the abuse scandal The pope laughed when Seewald suggested that he • He defended the 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” was partly motivated by a desire to discredit the Church. looked good enough to be a f itness trainer, and said he which taught that artificial contraception in marriage is But he added that the Church must be “grateful for e very has to conserve energy during his busy days. Asked morally wrong, but said the Church needs to f ind ways to disclosure,” and said the media could not ha ve reported in whether he uses an exercise bicycle a doctor had given help people live the teaching. this way “had there not been evil in the Church.” him, the pope replied: “No, I don’ t get to it at all—and The pope noted that the Church accepts natural The pope pointed to the Church’s new rules and don’t need it at the moment, thank God.” regulation of conception. He said that method policies on sex abuse, but he appeared to acknowledge He said he spends his free time reading, praying and presupposes that couples take time for each other, and is that more might have been done. He noted that in 2002, sometimes watching DVDs—typically with religious far different from taking a pill “so that I can jump into the Vatican and U.S. bishops established strict norms to themes—with members of the papal household. bed with a random acquaintance.” In general, he said, the curb sex abuse in U.S. dioceses. Much of the book dealt with the pope’s strategy for Church has to return to the “genuinely Christian attitude” “Would it have been Rome’s duty, then, to say to all presenting the Church’s message in a largely skeptical of joy, as well as discipline and responsibility, in the countries expressly: Find out whether you are in the world. The essential problem today, he said, is that the sexuality. same situation? Maybe we should have done that,” he prevailing model of economic and social progress lea ves • He said dialogue with Muslims has impro ved during said. out God, and thus omits the ethical aspect. his pontificate, in part because Muslim scholars accept The pope said that in responding to se x abuse Impending climactic disaster actually provides an that Islam needs to clarify its relation to violence and its allegations against the founder of the Le gionaries of opportunity to evangelize and promote moral decisions, relation to reason. Christ, the late Mexican Father Marcial Maciel he said. The problem, though, is that populations and • The pope took issue with critics of the w artime Degollado, “unfortunately, we addressed these things countries seem unwilling to make sacrifices—which is policies of Pope Pius XII, saying that he “saved more very slowly and late.” The allegations were eventually where the Church can make a difference, he said. Jews than anyone else” by quietly opening doors to substantiated, and the order has been placed under It is urgent to “bring the question about God back into Church institutions. Vatican leadership for a period of reform. the center,” he said. “The important thing today is to see • He said he began distributing Communion on the Pope Benedict said Father Maciel remains for him “a that God exists, that God matters to us and that he tongue during papal Masses not because he w as opposed mysterious figure,” one who lived an immoral and twisted answers us.” to Communion in the hand, but to “send a signal” about life but who built up his religious order with dynamism— He said the Church can do this only if its o wn respect for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010

OPINION Be Our Guest/John Garvey Going postal about video games and their effect on our children Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher I suppose that we can get general to children. Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus agreement on the proposition that children Let us forget for a minute about the le gal should not kill, maim rules and think about moral ones. or sexually assault There is, in the modern liberal view of people. human relations, a consequentialist view of Editorial In the world of evil that might be summed up in the phrase video games, however, “no harm, no foul.” Pope Benedict XVI they can do all of According to this view, the husband who celebrates Mass these things virtually. keeps a stash of pornography can still be the outside the “Grand Theft model of fidelity because what he does in cathedral of Auto” famously his fantasy life isn’t really cheating, after all. Santiago de allows players to This approach ignores the real-life Compostela in commit murder and consequences of fantasy of the forbidden: CNS photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters CNS photo/Stefano Spain on Nov. 6. In other violent crimes, like slapping around brutality and violation of the participants, his homily, the prostitutes. subtle erosion of marital affection. pope said, “We “Postal II” invites players to set others The measurable effects are particularly need to hear God on fire with napalm, beat police officers to evident with the young, who have a way of once again under death as they beg for mercy, and urinate on imitating in real life what they see others do the skies of people to make them vomit. and what they watch on television. Europe.” Manufacturers of these games maintain There are also effects on the soul—no that this is OK because the violence is less real, but invisible to the modern mind. virtual, not real. The philosophical disconnect The state of California sees it between thought and action is a rejection of differently. It passed a law in 2005 a more sophisticated classical and Catholic forbidding the sale to minors of video view of the human soul. Just as e very act games that depict gruesome acts of forms us for good or ill, so do our thoughts. violence against people. (Parents can still We make ourselves worse each time we We must return to God and buy the games for their children.) entertain evil as a possible option, even if Courts have issued injunctions against we never have the opportunity to act on our similar laws in other states. That is what malicious ideas. be open to transcendence happened here, in a case called This obviously applies when we engage Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment the mind in evil for long periods for the sak e “God is the origin of our being and the says. “The Europe of science and Merchants Association. California has of entertainment, and especially when the foundation and apex of our freedom, not technology, the Europe of civilization taken the case to the Supreme Court where entertainment is so realistic and brutal. its opponent. ... How can it be that there and culture, must be at the same time a it was argued in early November. Prolonged exposure to gratuitous is public silence with regard to the Europe open to transcendence and The question for the court is whether the violence is likely to have an even worse first and essential reality of human life? fraternity with other continents, and law is inconsistent with the freedom of effect on children’s formation. The state has How can what is most decisive in life be open to the living and true God, starting speech guaranteed by the First an interest here because children who play confined to the purely private sphere or with the living and true man. Amendment. violent video games are learning to think banished to the shadows? We cannot live “This is what the Church wishes to Freedom of speech does not protect and do bad things. in darkness, without seeing the light of contribute to Europe: to be watchful for literally all kinds of speech. Obscenity— The Supreme Court will decide the case the sun. How is it then that God, Who is God and for man, based on the certain kinds of really sexually explicit in June. Whatever it does, parents might the light of every mind, the power of understanding of both which is offered speech—is carved out. But the court has want to think twice when shopping for every will and the magnet of every heart, to us in Jesus Christ.” not carved out a similar exception for video games this Christmas. be denied the right to propose the light Many of us Americans can trace our violent speech. that dissipates all darkness?” ancestry back to Christian Europe. The There are other exceptions to the (John Garvey is president of The Catholic (Pope Benedict XVI) waves of European immigrants who First Amendment that depend on the University of America in Washington.) † came to our country brought with them characteristics of the speaker or the n his recent visit to the shrine of a vibrant faith. They were motivated by audience. Children are the best example. ISantiago de Compostela in Spain, this faith to build churches, schools, We have different free-speech rules for Letters Policy Pope Benedict XVI challenged the hospitals and social service agencies in them than we do for adults because the y Letters from readers are welcome and people of Europe to return to God—“the every region of the New World. are still growing up. should be informed, relevant, well- origin of our being and the foundation Where the faith of Europe was old Children are citizens, but they are not expressed, concise, temperate in tone, and apex of our freedom.” and divided by schism—Protestants allowed to vote until they are 18. States can courteous and respectful. The Holy Father has made the new versus Catholics—the immigrants’ hope bar children from buying pornography, The editors reserve the right to select evangelization of Europe one of the was to find freedom of worship and even if it is not legally considered obscene. and edit the letters based on space signature themes of his papacy. expression in the new lands that they The government forbids radio limitations, pastoral sensitivity and Where Blessed John XXIII called for sought out as pioneers and missionaries stations from broadcasting some vulgar or content. the evangelization of South America, keenly aware that God was their profane language during hours when young Letters must be signed, but, for serious and Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II foundation and their ultimate goal. people may be listening. Public schools can reasons, names may be withheld. Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” called attention to the need for Sadly, too much in our American punish children for using racist epithets The Criterion, P.O. Box 1410, Indianap olis, missionary work in Africa and Asia, our culture mirrors the decline in faith of the that are, in other contexts, protected by the IN 46206-1410. current pope has made the Old World, Old World. First Amendment. Readers with access to e-mail may send the nations and peoples of Europe a We, too, have come to regard science So there might be a legal basis for letters to [email protected]. major focus of his own and others’ and technology as the source of our arguing that California can forbid sales missionary activity. hope in the future. The pope is convinced that Europe— We, too, have forgotten that its leaders and many of its people—has the foundation of our American way und the ToAr TTaable forgotten God and lost touch with their of life is the deep faith and vibrant Christian roots. devotion that our grandparents and “Tragically, above all in 19th century great-grandparents carried with them as of UcenerP p.St ts wenar. w cts ahildrith e 17 or yygen gunoe er Europe, the conviction grew that God is their most prized possessions as they left who saayy their famil eay dinner ta ethergots somehow man’s antagonist and an nearly everything else behind. enemy of his freedom,” the Holy Father Pope Benedict’s words to the people explained. “As a result, there was an and nations of Europe are words we attempt to obscure the true biblical f aith should attend to. Without God, we are Everyday in the God who sent into the w orld his truly on our own, a people set adrift in Son Jesus Christ, so that no one should the hostile waters of individualism, A few times perish but that all might have relativism and materialism. eternal life.” Europe must be open to a week 34% For the nations of Europe to f ind their transcendence and return to its Christian 50% way, the pope says, there must be a roots, the Holy Father says. His words— occasionally 11% renewed openness to transcendence and and Europe’s response—is of vital a willingness to rediscover the Christian interest to us here in Indiana and never 3% faith that underlies so much of what has throughout the United States. distinguished European culture for the Will we return to God? Or will we go past 1,500 years. it alone? don’t know/ “One cannot worship God without Our future and the future of our refused taking care of his sons and daughters; children and grandchildren depends on and man cannot be served without our answer. 2% asking who his Father is and answering the question about him,” Pope Benedict —Daniel Conway Source: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ©2010 CNS The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Pray and keep on looking for ward during Advent or years, I have used a book book, whereupon my soul would at once would broaden out, at last, into perfect It might be appropriate for us to practice containing daily meditations as become disturbed and my thoughts begin to day. some sacrifices as part of our way of being Fpart of my morning reflection. wander. As soon as I started to read, the y “This attitude of expectation is one a little more watchful for the true values Off and on, I quote from this series in began to collect themselves and the book which the Church wants to encourage in us, presented to us in Advent and for my weekly column. acted like bait to my soul. Often the mere her children, permanently. She sees it as an Christmas. Our parishes offer the In order to look ahead to the season fact that I had it by me w as sufficient. essential part of our Christian drill that we sacrament of penance and reconciliation. of Advent, I took the first volume of Sometimes I read a little, sometimes a should still be looking forward; getting on We might make an extra effort to take In Conversation with God by Opus Dei great deal, according to the favor which the for 2,000 years, now, since the first advantage of this sacrament as a primary Father Francis Fernandez (Scepter Lord showed me” (St. Teresa, Life, 4). Christmas Day came and went, and we must way of making ourselves ready for the Press) off my book shelf. St. Teresa is down-to-earth. still be looking forward. So she encourages celebration of Christmas. I discovered a passage from the life As I turned to the suggested meditation us, during Advent, to take the shepherd-folk Two Marian feasts also offer a special of St. Teresa of Avila that appeals to for the First Sunday of Advent, I found a for our guides, and imagine ourselves way to celebrate the Advent season. The me. I had not noticed it before. It quotation from an Advent sermon by traveling with them, at dead of night, Feast of the Immaculate Conception and addresses the reality of distraction in Msgr. Ronald Knox. He had a way of straining our eyes towards that chink of light the Feast of Mary as our Lady of prayer. I want to quote it at length preaching that hits home. And so I offer which streams out, we know, from the cave Guadalupe are timely. † because some of you have told me that another lengthy quotation. at Bethlehem” (R. A. Knox, Sermon on you struggle with this challenge of “Everybody knows, even those of us Advent, Dec. 21, 1947). distraction. who have lived most unadventurously, what Msgr. Knox said we must keep on Do you have an intention for St. Teresa wrote: “It would have it is to plod on for miles, it seems, eagerly looking forward. How do we do so during Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? been impossible, I think, for me to straining your eyes towards the lights that this time of Advent? You may mail it to him at: persevere during the 18 years for somehow mean home. How difficult it is, First of all, it means we must w atch and which I had to bear this trial and these when you are doing that to judge distances! pray with a renewed attentiveness. Vigilance Archbishop Buechlein’s great aridities due to my being unable In pitch darkness, it might be a couple of is required of us at all times, b ut in this Prayer List to meditate. During all these years, miles to your destination; it might be a fe w season of expectation it is particularly Archdiocese of Indianapolis except after receiving Communion, I hundred yards. So it was, I think, with the appropriate. We need to examine our values 1400 N. Meridian St. never dared to begin to pray without a Hebrew prophets, as they looked forward to see if perhaps we are so f ixed on the P.O. Box 1410 book. My soul was as much afraid to to the redemption of their people. They “things of the earth,” that we miss the point Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 engage in prayer without one as if it could not have told you within a hundred of Christmas, indeed of life itself. were having to go and fight a host of years, within 500 years, when it w as the enemies. With this help, which was a deliverance would come. They only knew Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for November companionship and a shield with that some time, the stock of Da vid would which I could parry the blows of my burgeon anew; some time, a key would be Catholic high schools: that they may be a continued sour ce for promoting the Catholic many thoughts, I felt comforted. For it found to fit the door of their prison house; values of service and giving of one’s life as a gift for others, especially as priests or was not usual for me to suffer from some time the light that only showed now, religious. aridity: this only came when I had no like a will-o’-the wisp on the horizon

Oren y continúen mirando hacia el futur o durante el Adviento or años he utilizado un libro que Teresa, Vida¸4, 9). Santa Teresa tenía los vida. Considera como una parte esencia el Adviento y para la Navidad. Nuestras contiene meditaciones diarias, pies sobre la tierra. de su misión hacer que sigamos mirando parroquias ofrecen el sacramento de la Pcomo parte de mis reflexiones Conforme procuraba la meditación al futuro, aunque ya pronto va a penitencia y de la reconciliación. Quizás matutinas. De vez en cuando hago citas sugerida para el Primer Domingo de cumplirse el segundo milenio de aquella podríamos hacer un esfuerzo adicional de dichas series en mi columna semanal. Adviento, encontré una cita del sermón primera Navidad, que la liturgia nos para beneficiarnos de este sacramento Con el fin de prepararme para la sobre el Adviento del monseñor Ronald presenta inminente. Nos alienta a que como la principal forma para prepararnos temporada del Adviento saqué de mi Knox. Su forma de predicar llega muy caminemos con los pastores, en plena para la celebración de la Navidad. biblioteca el primer volumen de Hablar hondo y por tanto, ofrezco otra cita noche, vigilantes, dirigiendo nuestra Hay dos festividades marianas que con Dios del padre Francisco Fernández extensa. mirada hacia aquella luz que sale de la también ofrecen una forma especial para del Opus Dei (Scepter Press). “Todo el mundo ha tenido la gruta de Belén.” (R.A. Knox, Sermón celebrar la temporada del Adviento. La Descubrí un pasaje de la vida de experiencia, incluso los que hemos vivido sobre el Adviento, 21-XII-1947). festividad de la Inmaculada Concepción y Santa Teresa de Ávila que me resultó sin mayores osadías, de lo que es Monseñor Knox dice que debemos la festividad de María como Nuestra atractivo. No había reparado en él. caminar en la noche y arrastrar los pies seguir mirando hacia el futuro. ¿Cómo Señora de Guadalupe resultan oportunas. † Dicho pasaje aborda la realidad sobre durante kilómetros, alargando podemos hacer esto durante la época del las distracciones durante la oración. ávidamente la vista hacia una luz en la Adviento? ¿Tiene una intención que desee Deseo citarlo extensamente ya que lejanía que representa de alguna forma el Primero que nada, significa que incluir en la lista de oración del algunos de ustedes me han dicho que hogar. ¡Qué difícil resulta apreciar en debemos observar y rezar con renovada Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar luchan contra el desafío de la plena oscuridad las distancias! Lo mismo concentración. Se nos exige estar atentos su correspondencia a: distracción. puede haber un par de kilómetros hasta el en todo momento, pero en esta Santa Teresa escribió: “Fuera lugar de nuestro destino, que unos pocos temporada de expectativas resulta Lista de oración del Arzobispo imposible, me parece, perseverar cientos de metros. En esa situación se especialmente adecuado. Debemos Buechlein dieciocho años que pasé [..] en grandes encontraban los profetas cuando miraban examinar nuestros valores para Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis sequedades [en la oración], por no poder hacia adelante, en espera de la redención determinar si quizás estamos tan concen- 1400 N. Meridian St. [...] discurrir. En todos estos [años], si de su pueblo. No podían decir, con una trados en las “cosas mundanas” que P.O. Box 1410 no era acabando de comulgar, jamás aproximación de cien años ni de pasamos por alto el significado de la Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 osaba comenzar a tener oración sin un quinientos, cuándo habría de venir el Navidad, y en efecto, de la vida misma. libro [...]. Con este remedio [...], andaba Mesías. Sólo sabían que en algún Tal vez resulte adecuado practicar consolada. Porque la sequedad no era lo momento la estirpe de David retoñaría de algunos sacrificios como parte de nuestra ordinario, pues era siempre cuando me nuevo, que en alguna época se manera de estar un poco más atentos a Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, faltaba el libro que era luego encontraría una llave que abriría las los verdaderos valores que nos presenta Language Training Center, Indianapolis. desbaratada el alma; y los pensamientos puertas de la cárcel; que la luz que sólo perdidos, con esto los comenzaba a se divisaba entonces como un punto débil La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en noviembre recoger, y como por halago llevaba el en el horizonte se ensancharía al f in, alma. Y muchas veces, en abriendo el hasta ser un día perfecto. Las escuelas secundarias católicas: que ellas sean una fuente continua para libro, no era menester más. Otras leía Esta misma actitud de expectación promover los valores católicos de servir y dedicar su vida como regalo a los demás, poco, otras mucho, conforme a la desea la Iglesia que tengamos con sus especialmente en el cargo de sacerdotes o religiosos. merced que el Señor me hacía.” (Santa hijos en todos los momentos de nuestra Page 6 The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010 Events Calendar

November 27 Novena to the Immaculate December 3 Education (PIE), students and senior citizens, December 14 St. Luke the Evangelist Conception, Mon.-Thurs. Our Lady of the Most Holy hot breakfast bar buffet, Sat., $30 per person, $24 for St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Church, 7575 Holliday Drive 6 p.m.; Fri. Mass, 6 p.m.; Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., 8 a.m.-noon, free-will offering, students and senior citizens, 17th Ave., Beech Grove. E., Indianapolis. “Pro-life Sat. and Sun. 4 p.m. Indianapolis. Lumen Dei pictures with Santa, 6 p.m. Information: Ave Maria Guild, Christmas Prayer Vigil for All Nascent Information: 812-825-4642 or meeting, 6:30 a.m. Mass, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Information: [email protected]. party and pitch-in luncheon, Human Life,” 7:30-8:30 p.m. [email protected]. breakfast and program in Priori 812-623-2631. December 10 noon. Information: Hall, “How my mission work 317-885-5098 or Information: 317-328-0948 or St. Francis of Assisi Church, November 30 with the IU-Kenya Mount St. Francis Retreat [email protected]. [email protected]. 1960 Bardstown Road, St. Teresa Benedicta of partnership affects my Center, 101 St. Anthony Drive, Louisville, Ky. November 27-28 the Cross Parish, spiritual and professional Mount St. Francis. New December 15 “Merton–From Jazz to Our Lady of the Greenwood 23455 Gavin Lane, life,” Susan Cordes, Albany Deanery Catholic Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum Chant,” 6:30-7:45 p.m., Parish, 335 S. Meridian St., Lawrenceburg. “Emmanuel– Young Adult Ministry, Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., presenter, $15 members, $10 suggested donation. Greenwood. “Nativity The Story of Christmas,” “Advent Renewal,” day of Indianapolis. Christmas Mass, $20 non-members. Information: 502-899-1991. Display,” Sat. 2-7 p.m.; concert by Tatiana, Information: 317-435-3447 or reflection, Conventual 2 p.m. Information: Sun. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Catholic vocalist, e-mail Franciscan Brother Bob Baxter, December 11 317-784-4439. Information: 317-888-2861 or 7 p.m., free-will offering. [email protected]. presenter, 11 a.m. Information: St. Roch Parish, Family Life [email protected]. December 16 Information: 812-656-8700. 812-945-2000 or Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, November 28 Marian University, Peine [email protected]. Indianapolis. Single Seniors, Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. December 1 Theatre, 3200 Cold Spring meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and St. Joseph Parish, Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. St. Mary Parish, 317 N. Road, Indianapolis. Dead Man Marian University Adult over. Information: 312 E. High St., Corydon. Christmas Mass, 2 p.m. New Jersey St., Indianapolis. Walking, 8 p.m., no charge. Education, 8435 Keystone 317-784-4207. “Emmanuel–The Story of Information: 317-574-8898 or Solo Seniors, Catholic, Information: Crossing Blvd., Ste. 108, Christmas,” concert by www.catholiccemeteries.cc. educational, charitable and [email protected]. Indianapolis. Open house and December 12 Tatiana, Catholic vocalist, social singles, 50 and over, information session, Marian University, December 18 7 p.m., free-will offering. single, separated, widowed or December 5 5:45-6:45 p.m. Information: Hackelmeier Memorial Library, St. Michael the Archangel Information: 812-728-2742. St. Rita Church, 3200 Cold Spring Road, divorced, new members 317-252-5690 or Church, 3354 W. 30th St., 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Indianapolis. Sen. Richard G. welcome, 6:30 p.m. [email protected]. Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s MKVS, Divine Mercy and Ave., Indianapolis. African Lugar Franciscan Center for Information: 317-370-1189. Precious Infants, pro-life Glorious Cross Center, Catholic Ministry, “African December 8 Global Studies, speaker series, Mass, Father Todd Goodson, Rexville, located on 925 South, Mass and reception,” Mother of the Redeemer “Annual Global Studies celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed .8 mile east of 421 South and St. Michael School, 3-6 p.m., African attire Retreat Center, 8220 W. State Address,” Sen. Richard Lugar, 275 High St., Brookville. by rosary outside abortion 12 miles south of Versailles. encouraged, free-will offering. Road 48, Bloomington. presenter, 7 p.m., free clinic and Benediction at “The Best Way to Prepare for Mass, noon, on third Sunday Information: 317-545-6375 or Solemnity of the Immaculate admission. Registration church. Information: Christmas,” Ken Ogorek, holy hour and pitch-in, 317-269-1276. Conception Mass, procession required. Reservations: Archdiocesan Office for groups of 10 pray the presenter, 7 p.m., no charge. and reception, 6 p.m. http://www.marian.edu/LFCGS Pro-Life Ministry, Marian Way, 1 p.m., Information: 765-647-5462. St. Louis School, Information: 812-825-4642 or /Pages/SpeakerSeries 317-236-1569 or Father Elmer Burwinkel, 17 St. Louis Place, Batesville. [email protected]. Registration.aspx. 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. celebrant. Information: December 2 Eighth-grade class 812-689-3551. Marian University, Marian fundraiser, “All-you-can-eat December 9 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat December 20 Hall, 3200 Cold Spring Road, breakfast,” 7 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Marian University, House, 5353 E. 56th St., Richmond Catholic November 29- Indianapolis. “Catholic High free-will offering. Allison Mansion, 3200 Cold Indianapolis. Carmelite Community, 701 N. “A” St., December 7 School Choral Festival,” Spring Road, Indianapolis. Secular Order, meeting, Richmond. Charismatic Mother of the Redeemer 7:30 p.m., no charge. St. Paul Parish, 9788 N. “Madrigal Dinner and noon-4 p.m. Information: prayer group, 7 p.m. Retreat Center, 8220 W. State Information: Dearborn Road, New Alsace. Choral Concert,” Thurs. and 317-259-4936 or Information: Road 48, Bloomington. [email protected]. Parents Involved in Fri., $28 per person, $24 for [email protected]. [email protected]. †

Retreats and Programs presenter, evening prayer, 5:15 p.m., dinner, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Grief–From “Coffee Talk–Advent: Waiting for God,” 6 p.m., presentation following dinner, $30 per Darkness to Light,” weekend retreat, Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mulso, presenter, November 29 person includes dinner and program. Father James Farrell and Mary Weber, 10:45 a.m.-noon, free-will offering. Information: 317-788-7581 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. presenters, $150 per person. Information: Information: 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. [email protected]. Monthly Mass and Social,” 9 a.m., breakfast December 3 following Mass. Information: 317-545-7681 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, December 11 [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Silent Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Night, Silent Day–A Holy Getaway,” Advent “Advent–The Amazing Mystery of God’s November 30 $25 per person includes light breakfast and silent retreat, $155 per person. Information: Word: We Wait for God’s Revelation,” Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or 317-788-7581 or Franciscan Sister Barbara Hileman, presenter, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. [email protected]. [email protected]. “Advent–Exploring the Joyous Mysteries in 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 per person includes Our Lives,” an “FBI” (Faith Building December 3-5 December 5 lunch. Information: 812-933-6437 or Institutions) program, Msgr. Paul Koetter, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. [email protected]. †

Cathedral Kitchen in need of canned vegetables The Cathedral Kitchen, a charitable or parishes are welcome. ministry of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Those wishing to donate such items to Parish in Indianapolis, is in great need the Cathedral Kitchen should call its of canned vegetables for its food pantry director, Margie Pike, at 317-972-4824 or Submitted photo by Linda Augenstein Submitted photo by that serves those in need. send her an e-mail at Donations from individuals, schools [email protected]. † Submitted photo by Linda Augenstein Submitted photo by

Memorial dedication Father Herman Lutz, chaplain of St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove, leads a dedication service of Food drive a memorial to deceased members of the Ave Maria Guild at the retirement and nursing home facility on Nov. 9. The guild supports the ministry of the Hermitage. Attending the dedication Students at St. Mark School in Indianapolis pose outside their school on Nov. 17 with the service were, from left, Benedictine Sister Mary Mark Bartoo, Emily Gutzwiller Vance and 9,350 food items that were donated in a recent food drive sponsored by the school. This Sister Sharon Bierman, administrator of the Hermitage. Several relatives of deceased guild represented a 56 percent increase over the total of last year’s drive. The food items were donated members also participated in the service. to Food Inc. and the Little Sisters of the Poor. A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2010 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. Find courage in Advent’s vision of the kingdom of God

By Fr. Lawrence E. Mick survive despite the alligators and to work to drain the swamp— to For many people, life often seems improve the world in which we live. like a slog through the swamp. And as Thus we yearn for the coming of one wit put it, when you are up to God’s kingdom in its fullness, but we your waist in alligators, it is hard to also commit ourselves to work for Wiechec Nancy CNS photo by remember that your primary objective justice and peace, to spread God’s is to drain the swamp! love so that our world will move a bit Life is not easy, and there are many closer to the vision. obstacles that make it more difficult. Of course, sometimes, as Cassius We yearn for something better. says in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: At least from the viewpoint of the “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our swamp, life looks better on the top of stars, but in ourselves.” a mountain. Not all the evil in the world is The prophet Isaiah uses the image outside of us. Some of it has found a of a mountain to portray the kingdom home in our minds and hearts. of God for which we long. “The If the kingdom is to come more mountain of the fully, it must Lord’s house shall penetrate our be established as The challenge, of defenses and the highest displace the evil mountain and course, is to continue that dwells in us. raised above the to live in hope and to Thus, Advent is hills. All nations persevere in our also a season that shall stream calls us to toward it” (Is 2:2). efforts. repentance and The nation of conversion. Israel will see its faith in God While we can legitimately validated, and God’s people will know complain to God about the state of peace. “One nation shall not raise the the world, God could also complain sword against another, nor shall they to us that we are often part of the train for war again” (Is 2:4). problem rather than part of This reading from Isaiah begins the the solution. season of Advent, which is a time to Advent calls us to change our express our yearning for the kingdom minds and hearts to come into closer of God. agreement with the will of God. The We know that the kingdom has improvement of our own lives, like come in Jesus, and yet it is not here the improvement of our world, is a fully. So we express our longing long, slow process. during Mass: “We wait in joyful hope The challenge, of course, is to for the coming of our Savior, continue to live in hope and to Jesus Christ.” persevere in our efforts. Every Advent, we begin the season That is where the vision is by looking forward to Christ’s important. Only if we keep the vision coming—not his first coming at in our minds and hearts will we f ind Bethlehem, but his second coming at the strength and courage we need. the end of time. The Responsorial Psalm for the As we move through the season, First Sunday of Advent echoes the liturgy focuses our attention more Isaiah’s vision and invites us to and more on Christ’s first coming that anticipate what it will be like when we will recall and celebrate on God’s kingdom has fully come: “Let Christmas. But at the beginning of us go rejoicing to the house of the Advent, we focus on what is yet Lord.” to come. Then we will live in peace with all Our awareness of the gap between people. Then we will give thanks to the vision of the kingdom and the the Lord forever! realities of our present world leads us to the prayer of lament during Advent. (Father Lawrence E. Mick is a priest We cry out to God about the sorry of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and Michelangelo’s painting, “The Last Judgment,” adorns the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Early in Advent, the Church state of our world, asking for help to a freelance writer.) † focuses not on the first coming of Christ in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, but on his second coming at the end of time. Be vigilant and embrace new life in Christ during Advent

By Fr. Dale Launderville, O.S.B. rather than tomorrow, “for at an hour you do extended within our parish communities not expect, the Son of Man will come ” (Mt so that our identity as God’s family takes The Church has designated Advent as a 24:44). on flesh and bones.

Long Island Catholic time to step back and reflect on where we St. Paul echoes this theme of vigilance. When St. Paul says: “Put on the are and where we are going. He wants us to be aware that we already live Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision The busyness that keeps us from tending in the end times even though the full for the desires of the flesh” (Rom 13:14), to what is most important in our li ves is realization of that end is yet to come. He he is calling us to put aside self-centered evoked in the Gospel of Matthew with says: “You know the time; it is the hour now existence, for it is a way of life that reference to routines of people prior to the for you to awake from sleep (Rom 13:11). deprives us of a future. CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS photo/Gregory A. ” flood at the time of Noah. The people Although we have already been baptized Instead of looking for distractions or “were eating and drinking, marrying and into Christ’s death and resurrection, it is activities that will obliterate giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah urgent for us to embrace now the new life consciousness, St. Paul urges us to entered the ark” (Mt 24:38). we have been offered. embrace the reality of Christ, who They were caught off guard. They had So St. Paul exhorts us: “Let us then surrounds us and is near to us. no chance to get their lives in order: to ask throw off the works of darkness [and] put Now is the time of decision. forgiveness, to become reconciled to God on the armor of light” (Rom 13:12). Jesus Christ is our ultimate concern; and other people, to reach out to that To be clothed in light is to li ve in faith, therefore, in a special way in this time of person whom one has been avoiding. hope and love, not squandering our time and Advent, all other concerns should be Giana Gray holds her 13-month-old daughter, The relationships that we so often tak e energy on activities that tie us up in aligned with this life-giving relationship. Samara, during Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral for granted may slip away from us if we ourselves and do not contribute to love of in Rockville Centre, N.Y. Advent is a time to always tend to other things first. God and others. (Benedictine Father Dale Launderville is embrace new life in Christ by rejecting Jesus warns us that we need to ha ve our The network of meaningful relationships a Scripture scholar at St. John’s self-centeredness and caring for others. priorities straight and act upon them today that we call family is to be cared for then University in Collegeville, Minn.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Wisdom of the saints: St. Francis Xavier Have a St. Francis Xavier, whose feast is on Sancian, 100 miles from Hong Kong when mentioned above, he noticed that some of ‘holy impatience’ Dec. 3, is considered the greatest he was 46. the people had great intelligence. They missionary since He sent letters back to his superior, would make excellent Christians, he said, this Advent St. Paul. He is the Ignatius, in Rome, telling how busy he if someone could educate them in the patron of Catholic was, but how eager the people were to Christian way of life, as he was doing. Patience, we are told, is a virtue. missions, along with learn about Christianity. In one of his There was only one reason why Given the little trials that we f ace each St. Thérèse of Lisieux. letters, he wrote that the native Christians people in the East were not becoming day, let alone the big He is also the patron had no priests, “nobody to say Mass for Christians, he said: There is nobody to burdens that come our of the Archdiocese of them; nobody to teach them the Creed, the make them Christians. He wrote: “Again way from time to time, Indianapolis, along Our Father, the Hail Mary and the and again, I have thought of going round patience, at the very with St. Theodora Commandments of God’s Law.” the universities of Europe, especially least, is helpful in Guérin. Nevertheless, he said, they know that they Paris, and everywhere crying out like a being reasonably He met St. Ignatius of Loyola while are Christians. madman, riveting the attention of those happy in this life. both men were students at the University He reported that he conscientiously with more learning than charity: ‘What a Looked at from an of Paris. They and five others founded the made the rounds of the villages, and had tragedy: how many souls are being shut eternal perspective, Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, in 1534. baptized “a very large number of out of heaven, thanks to you!’ ” patience can be seen as Francis was ordained a priest in 1537. children.” The older children, he said, kept He thought that surely he could stir a key to our salvation. In 1541, he was appointed an apostolic at him to teach them “one prayer or up most of those students to meditate on It is suggested in Christ’s teaching that “the nuncio to the East Indies, and left for the another,” keeping him so busy that he spiritual realities as hard as they worked one who perseveres to the end will be Orient, arriving in Goa, India, in 1542. scarcely had time to pray the Litur gy of on their books. “They would forget their saved” (Mt 10:22; Mt: 24:13). He spent 10 years as a missionary, the Hours or to eat. Then, though, he said own desires,” he wrote, “their human And we should strive with the help of first in India, then in Indonesia, and that he “began to understand: ‘The affairs, and give themselves over entirely grace to imitate Christ who is “patient with finally in Japan. (Look at a map and see kingdom of heaven belongs to such as to God’s will and his choice. They [us], not wishing that any should perish but what a great distance this was.) these’ ” (Mt 19:14; Lk 18:16; Mk 10:14). would cry out with all their heart: ‘Lord, that all should come to repentance” His many adventures read like a novel. Francis said that, while teaching “the I am here! What do you want me to do? (2 Pt 3:9). He was on his way to China in 1552 when confession of faith in the Father, the Son Send me anywhere you like—even But in the face of such trustworthy he died on the island of Shangchw an, or and the Holy Spirit” then the prayers to India!’ ” † authorities, might I suggest that we embrace during this Advent season what Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes might be called a “holy impatience?” Now I see impatience in my home all Making sure that we are not the Pharisee in the stor y the time, but it’s usually not holy impatience. I see it in my young sons who, Remember the Pharisee in St. Luke’s thankful that I can cook a tasty meal than the sinner next to us, that will be our many times a day, ask for things from my Gospel who was thankful he wasn’t like while others can only order in undoing. wife, Cindy, or me and want them right the poor sinner sitting cardboard pizza. Now, there is nothing wrong with pious now. Then I see it in myself when I ha ve behind him in the I am also thankful that my kids still activity or following the letter of religious asked the boys to do a chore and the y drag synagogue treat me with respect and affection practice, as long as we aren’t proud of their feet in doing it. (Lk 18:9-14)? After while others’ families are estranged or doing it. We shouldn’t forget that the right Every now and then, though, I am all, the Pharisee dysfunctional. I am hand is not supposed blessed to see that impatience transformed practiced pious works thankful for a long and to know what the left by grace into something holy—like this all the time, and gave happy marriage when hand is doing, virtuous past Halloween. alms to good causes, others suffer divorce or as it may be. Nor is it On that night, my boys didn’t go out and followed the letter separation, sometimes It is that moral up to us to judge the trick-or-treating. They instead went to a of the law, unlike that more than once. superiority, that efforts and motives of couple of All Saints Day parties and visited other wretch. I am thankful that blindness to our own the other guy. their grandparents. Of course, we like to think that we my friends are loyal It seems to me, That evening, we weren’t planning on aren’t the Pharisee in the story, but I when others can’t seem sins, and the belief instead of dwelling on handing out candy, mainly because we suspect that is not always the case. to maintain long-term that we are better than how good we are or usually hadn’t been home on previous Speaking from personal experience, I relationships. I am the sinner next to us, how good we have it Halloween nights. must admit that I am thankful that I am thankful that I am a because of our own But those plans changed when we sa w not like some others: serial killers, woman living in the that will be our sterling efforts, we some neighbors and their two young adulterers, child abusers, etc. You know, U.S.A. rather than undoing. should pray for costumed children walk by. So we called the people we hear about constantly on being a woman in Now, there is nothing guidance to help that out to them and gave the children some TV news and talk shows. I harbor a secret Somalia or Afghanistan. fellow next to us who candy corn from the two small bags of it feeling of moral superiority over folks And I am thankful to wrong with pious is beating his breast in that we had on hand. like that. have faith in God when activity or following penance. In fact, we Welcoming people to our home and Not only am I thankful that I am not others struggle with probably should join giving them candy caught my boys’ guilty of serious crimes, but also that I am unbelief. the letter of religious him since it takes a imagination. They immediately wanted to innocent of other kinds of failings. This all sounds practice as long as we sinner to recognize give away the rest. So we turned on the I am thankful I am not obese—or, pretty mean of me, and aren’t proud of doing another sinner. porch light and soon other trick-or-treaters rather, not obese enough—to require it is when I let the Most of all, I am were knocking on our door. Raphael kept a stomach surgery like that other lady. I am Pharisee in me take it. thankful that God has vigilant lookout at our front window, and thankful that I still have all my original over. That’s because the given me so much to Michael was ready at a moment’s notice to bodily equipment, unlike those with Pharisee’s fault is not in be thankful for … and give away candy at the door. artificial this and that. And I am thankful being glad for his good thankful for so much Soon, however, our small supply of that I have a job when the other guy fortune, which is a natural reaction. help from others when I need to be candy corn was depleted. But our boys doesn’t, and a place to live when he or Rather, it is in his judgment of the forgiven. were so impatient to welcome trick-or- she may be homeless. other fellow as morally inferior because Now, that’s a Happy Thanksgiving! treaters that they started giving away the I am thankful that I am an educated he is not as virtuous as the Pharisee candy that they had collected at the parties person, when others are ignorant or just thinks himself to be. It is that moral (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the they had attended. dull. I am thankful to be clean when superiority, that blindness to our own Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular They didn’t think twice about it. Cindy others live in filth and squalor. I am sins, and the belief that we are better columnist for The Criterion.) † and I didn’t ask them to do it. They were just so impatient for the next group of Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli ghouls and goblins to come to our door that they gave their own candy away. Stay in touch with God and others this Christmas and beyond That’s what I call a holy impatience. And it is the kind of impatience that is I just finished reading an e-mail from in touch? plan of salvation. There is no worldly good to foster in our hearts during these a dear friend. Our paths hadn’t crossed In these days of Advent leading to possessions; no pressing expectations. weeks of Advent leading up to Christmas. in awhile, and she expressed sadness Christmas, as I crawl in traffic snarls There is only love. For centuries, the people of Israel w aited about that, closing around shopping centers, try to make I continue to read, and the Christ and waited for the coming of the long- with the following extravagant purchases on a shoestring child appears here, in the manger of my promised Messiah. We can see their statement: budget, and stress over holiday heart, delivering harmony, fellowship impatience, perhaps a holy impatience, in “Please stay in obligations, I wonder if my preparations and good will. An overwhelming the psalms: touch. I think of you have been more about consumerism than conviction arises that these precious “How long, O Lord, will you for get me? so often.” the One whose birth we are to celebrate. gifts far exceed anything money How long will you hide your f ace?” It might as well Then, resilient trumpets squeal “Joy can buy. (Ps 13:2). “Lord, how long will you look have been penned by to the World” amidst tinkling Salvation This Christmas, may you discover on? Come to my rescue?” (Ps 35:17). the hand of God Army bells, a fellow shopper extends a peaceful joys, quiet moments and the In our own day, we shouldn’t be so himself. courtesy and dusk delivers a chorus of everlasting love of Christ. Born in patient to grow close to the Lord that we He thought of us lights shimmering from nearby rooftops. humble surroundings, his presence are to the point of being indifferent about it. more than 2,000 years ago when he sent “Please stay in touch,” I hear him transcends all ages and reaches into our Ask our heavenly Father to plant in your his Son to redeem the world. say. “I think of you so often.” times, our activities and our hearts. heart during this Advent season a holy He thought of us while we were yet I open my Bible and study the birth And let’s promise to stay in touch. impatience for Christ to come into your life in our mother’s womb. of Christ in the second chapter of the in a new and life-giving way. He thinks of us today, in each Gospel of Luke. (Debra Tomaselli lives in Altamonte Then you will be like Michael and moment of our lives, in every As I begin to pray, my focus shifts. I Springs, Fla. Her column appears in Raphael were on Halloween—always on circumstance of our day. ponder Mary and Joseph’s trust in God several diocesan newspapers. Her e-mail the lookout for Christ coming to The question is: Do we stay and the unassuming beginnings of his address is [email protected].) † your door. † The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010 Page 9

First Sunday of Advent/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Nov. 29 Friday, Dec. 3 The Sunday Readings Isaiah 4:2-6 Francis Xavier, priest Psalm 122:1-9 Isaiah 29:17-24 Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 Matthew 8:5-11 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 • Isaiah 2:1-5 human will face the end of earthly life. Matthew 9:27-31 • Romans 13:11-14 For the Roman Christians of Paul’s Tuesday, Nov. 30 • Matthew 24:37-44 era, the end very well might have come in Andrew, Apostle Saturday, Dec. 4 the form of a gruesome death after being Romans 10:9-18 John of Damascus, priest and The Church organizes the biblical convicted of the crime of refusing to gi ve Psalm 19:8-11 doctor readings at Mass into three cycles—A, B up one’s faith in Christ. Matthew 4:18-22 Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 and C. Because of this harsh reality, Paul had This weekend, the a genuine task to accomplish in Psalm 147:1-6 First Sunday of encouraging and challenging the Roman Wednesday, Dec. 1 Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 Advent, begins the congregation of Christians. Isaiah 25:6-10a new Church liturgical The Gospel of Matthew, the last Psalm 23:1-6 Sunday, Dec. 5 year. Therefore, the reading, predicts the final coming Matthew 15:29-37 Second Saturday of Advent readings for this of Jesus. weekend, and until Beneficial reading of the Gospels Isaiah 11:1-10 Advent 2011, will be requires understanding three perspectives: Thursday, Dec. 2 Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 within Cycle A. • the Gospel event in the actual time of Isaiah 26:1-6 Romans 15:4-9 Predominantly, the Jesus, Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a Matthew 3:1-12 Gospel readings will come from the • the event as its implications came to Matthew 7:21, 24-27 Gospel of St. Matthew. be understood in the time when the Because of this emphasis, this Gospels were written, likely decades after forthcoming year will be an opportunity Jesus, to learn about and reflect upon • the place that the event occupies in Matthew’s Gospel. the general literary structure of the Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen This weekend’s first reading is from individual Gospel. the first section of the Book of Isaiah. Likely composed generations after Inevitably, all of Isaiah is eloquent and Jesus, Matthew was written for Heaven is eternal life in God where our profound. Christians who yearned to be relieved of In this section, Isaiah is blunt and the burden, and indeed peril, of living bodies will be conformed to God’s glory frank. He often warned the people that if amid harshly antagonistic circumstances they did not return to religious f idelity by experiencing the triumphant Your recent column about life after some salvation of the soul in a vague then doom awaited them. This is a theme Second Coming of Jesus. Qdeath, which explains that purgatory afterlife where everything cherished by us of the first section. Recalling the Lord’s own words, the is not a “place” but a condition of in this world will be eliminated. While forbidding, the reading is not Gospel reminded those Christians, and cleansing, strengthens what we have been “Nothing that is precious and dear to hopeless. Isaiah also reassured the people reminds us, that Jesus will come again taught about the afterlife. us,” Pope Benedict proclaimed, “will fall that if they reformed then God would in glory. But we have a into ruin. Rather, it will find fullness protect them. The faithful should question about heaven in God.” never despair. Reflection as a state or place. The pope carries this theme to After all, such was the ancient Advent, which begins in the liturgies We were taught as another level. Covenant. God promised to protect and of this weekend, calls us to prepare for children that heaven In eternity, he said, our world “will secure the people, although the people Christmas. had to be a physical also be the fulfillment of this earth, as themselves could, at least for a while, Preparation is much, much more than place so that after the St. Paul says, ‘Creation itself will be set bring catastrophe upon themselves by addressing Christmas cards and resurrection of our free from its bondage to decay and obtain their sins. decorating Christmas trees. bodies we would have the glorious liberty of the children of The almighty God will judge the good It means actually working to make the a place to exist. God’ ” (Rom 8:21). and the bad. Such is the divine right. It is coming of Jesus into earthly life, Mary’s assumption It is this belief, he added, that mak es also, pure and simple, very logical commemorated on Christmas, a truly and Jesus’ resurrection were proof of this. us Christians desire “to build a world because all behavior must be balanced personal experience when the Lord comes How do your explanation and your open to God, people full of jo y who can against the justice and love that are in into our loving hearts. quotations from Pope John Paul II fit in glimpse the beauty of the future w orld God. All must conform to God’s law. The The Church calls us to be good with that? (Pennsylvania) amidst the worries of daily life, and in faithful hasten the day of their security by Christians and to rid ourselves of this certainty live, believe and hope.” loving God and obeying God. anything standing in the way. As you infer, Pope John Paul II, in his Heaven is eternal life in God, who St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is the It calls us to set our priorities. Aremarks about heaven, hell and “will change our lowly body to conform source of the second reading. Regardless of Christmas 2010, Jesus purgatory, simply made explicit what has with his glorified body” (Phil 3:21). Always, Paul called upon Christians to will come again to earthly existence in a always been implicit in our faith. What exactly that means or how it live as authentic followers of Jesus. While most glorious, victorious and final sense. I think few Christians really believe happens is mystery and, as Pope John stressing the need to be faithful models of We will meet the Lord, as God’s judge, that heaven is some planet out in the Paul said, no human words will ever Christ in human living, the Apostle urged after death. We must prepare to meet the cosmos. suffice to explain it. disciples to set their priorities by the Lord. We must refine ourselves as honest The Catechism of the Catholic Church We return ultimately to Jesus’ last meal standard that eternal life is the goal. disciples of the king born in Bethlehem. puts the word in quotation marks when it with his disciples for an additional Moreover, each Christian may face the We must shape our lives with Christian says heaven is a “place”—the word means insight. end of earthly life at any time. Every priorities in mind. † something different in this context. When they prodded him for more Interestingly, Pope Benedict XVI information about what is in store for us returned to this subject in his homily on after this life, Jesus replied, in effect, that My Journey to God Aug. 15, 2010, the feast of the if he tried to tell them, the y wouldn’t Assumption. understand, and they should just trust him Expanding on Mary’s being taken into that it will be glorious. heaven at the end of her earthly life, he The Light of the Advent Wreath noted that by the word “heaven” we are (A free brochure describing basic not referring to a star somewhere in Catholic prayers, beliefs and moral Step up the universe. precepts is available by sending a To the Advent wreath. “We wish to say that God, the God who stamped, self-addressed envelope to Lean in made himself close to us, does not Father John Dietzen, Box 3315, And look closely. abandon us in or after death, b ut keeps a Peoria, IL 61612. Questions may be sent See each candle’s unlit wick, place for us and gives us eternity,” he said. to Father Dietzen at the same address or Soon to be progressively lit “We mean that in God there is room by e-mail to [email protected].) † One week at a time. for us.” Watch how each flame climbs, We are, Pope Benedict said, “ushered Reaching toward a higher purpose, into eternity with the whole of our being Readers may submit prose Igniting in us an awareness in him, in his Creator love,” and it is “this Of the true meaning for its seasonal love that we call ‘heaven.’ God is so great or poetry for faith column glow— The Pilot that he also makes room for us.” The Criterion invites readers Not that which is emitted from storefront Jesus, said the Holy Father, “is the to submit original prose or poetry windows, guarantee for us that the being-man and relating to faith or experiences of But rather this accumulation of light being-God can exist and live, the one prayer for possible publication in the That rises above its wreath, within the other, for eternity.” “My Journey to God” column.

Manifests and radiates the message of Tracy, CNS photo/Gregory It is not only part of us that will Seasonal reflections also are Hope, joy and peace. continue to exist, Pope Benedict appreciated. Please include name, It beckons us to allow its brightness to For the Light of the World to come explained. “God knows and loves the address, parish and telephone number seep And be born there. whole of the human being, what we are. with submissions. Into every corner of our hearts And God welcomes into his eternity what Send material for consideration to As we expectantly prepare By Cathy Lamperski Dearing is developing and becoming now, in our “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, life made up of suffering and love, of P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206 (Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis.) hope, joy and sorrow.” or e-mail to [email protected]. † Our Christian faith, therefore, is not in Page 10 The Criterion Friday, November 26, 2010

Indianapolis, Nov. 3. Wife of Joseph McGuire. Mother of Jeanne, Charles, David, John, Patrick, Robert and William Rest in peace McGuire. Sister of Marian Rentmeesters. Grandmother Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Please submit in writing to our Tim Gavaghan. Son of James of 12. office by 10 a.m. Thursday Gavaghan. Brother of Pattiann POTE, Janice Marie Ferstle before the week of publication; Johnson, James, Dennis and (Glenn), 79, Our Lady of the be sure to state date of death. Robert Gavaghan. Grandfather of Greenwood, Greenwood, Obituaries of archdiocesan one. Nov. 10. Wife of Robert Pote. priests serving our archdiocese HAAG, Arthur P., 94, Mother of Michael and Robert are listed elsewhere in Most Holy Name of Jesus, Glenn. Stepmother of Mariangela The Criterion. Order priests Beech Grove, Nov. 7. Uncle and Robert Pote. Grandmother of and religious sisters and of several. seven. Step-grandmother of three. brothers are included here, Great-grandmother of two. unless they are natives of the HAMILTON, Anna M., 86, archdiocese or have other Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, RIZZI, Karyn Marie (Egan), connec tions to it; those are Oct. 18. Mother of Sondra 37, Most Holy Name of Jesus, separate obituaries on this Branson, Vicki Mattingly, David Beech Grove, Nov. 8. Wife of page. and Jerry Kuner. Grandmother of Tommy Rizzi. Mother of nine. Great-grandmother of 18. Hannah, Josie, Mark and Nick ALLEN, Everett L., 89, Bowles and Nick Rizzi. Daughter St. Joseph, Sellersburg, Nov. 11. HIGGS, Robert F., 87, St. Augustine Home for the of Tom and Angie Egan. Sister of Husband of Alleen Allen. Father Jackie Shepard, Craig, Pete and of Ruth Lile, Dianne, Linda and Aged, Indianapolis, Oct. 3. Brother of Dorothy Thomas. Tony Egan. Granddaughter of David Allen. Brother of Mabel Ruby Maddox. Balmer, Irene Ehringer and JONES, Paul J., 87, Holy Spirit, Raymond Allen. Grandfather of Indianapolis, Oct. 17. Husband of RUSSELL, Joseph E., 59, three. Great-grandfather of one. Betty Jones. Father of Michael Holy Cross, Indianapolis, Oct. 23. Husband of Darlene ARIENS, Andrew A., 79, Jones. Grandfather of one. Great- Protecting life to its natural end Russell. Father of Christy Walton St. Mary, Rushville, Nov. 9. grandfather of four. and Andrew Russell. Brother of Husband of Gertrude Ariens. KLOSTERKEMPER, Anne, Dr. Paul A. Byrne, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Agnes Dodd, Eileen Dyson, Brother of Carolyn Bir and 89, St. John the Evangelist, Toledo, Ohio, gave a presentation titled “Protect and preserve life to its natural end” on Nov. 5 at Mary Jensen, Kathleen, Donald, Ernestine Johnston. Uncle of Enochsburg, Nov. 11. Mother of St. John the Apostle Parish in Bloomington. Byrne, a past president of the Catholic Medical Ed, John and Leonard Russell. several. Deborah Clemons, Joey Milburn, Association, discussed brain death and its implications for organ donations. “We get our life from Grandfather of seven. BERG, Joan (Scott), 93, Teresa Ward, Anne and Brian God,” Byrne said during his presentation. A member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, he Immaculate Heart of Mary, Klosterkemper. Sister of Cecilia SHIRLEY, Raymond, 80, argues that there is no consensus on the diagnosis criteria for brain death. “Brain death is not true Indianapolis, Nov. 5. Mother of Rees and Monica McCoy. Grand - St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, death,” he said. What one doctor considers death, another does not, leading to great arbitrariness. Barbara Leversen, Mary Ann mother of 10. Great-grandmother Floyds Knobs, Nov. 13. Husband Byrne is among those asking if “brain death” was created for a solely utilitarian purpose—to acquire of 13. Yates, Matthew, Richard and of Martha May (Osterholt) organs for transplant so that many lives would be saved. He recommended that people go to the Life Shirley. Father of Barbara Stephen Berg. Sister of Jack LUKEMEIER, Antoinette Guardian Foundation, http://lifeguardianfoundation.org., an organization dedicated to educating the Reynolds, Karen Summers, Scott. Grandmother of 18. Great- (Ulrich), 81, Holy Family, public that the life of the human person is a gift, for more information. “Respect is owed to every grandmother of 22. New Albany, Nov. 7. Mother of Angela Thompson, Donna, Daniel and Michael Shirley. human person regardless of their state of health throughout their entire lifespan from conception BREEN, Rose Marie, 92, Joy Marie Lukemeier. Sister of Brother of Sharon Heavener and until his or her natural end,” the Web site’s mission statement says. St. Luke the Evangelist, Frank Ulrich. Grandmother of Ronald Shirley. Grandfather of Indianapolis, Nov. 3. Mother of three. Great-grandmother of one. 12. Step-grandfather of three. Anne Iles, Rose Marie Traylor, MARLEY, C. Christine Great-grandfather of four. Father Adrian Figuerola Pijoan was former Jane, Joseph and Michael Breen. (Meade), 63, St. Roch, Grandmother of eight. Great- Indianapolis, Nov. 14. Wife of STUCKEY, Hubert G., 83, chaplain at St. Augustine Home for the Aged grandmother of five. Robert Marley. Mother of Beth St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Nov. 11. Father Adrian Figuerola Pijoan, the former He was a priest for the Archdiocese of Ann and Scott Marley. Daughter Father of Cindy Dornick, Diane FRENCH, Dorothy E. (Ruch), chaplain for the Little Sisters of the Poor at the New Orleans for many years. 92, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, of Clyde Meade. Sister of Sharon Eastman, Laura McGrady, Peggy St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis, Meade. Grandmother of six. Neese and Bernie Stuckey. He served the Little Sisters as their chaplain for Nov. 9. Mother of Luticia died on Nov. 16 at the home. He w as 92. 11 years. Cranfill, Bonieta Gardner, Great-grandmother of one. Brother of Rita Mariani, Margie The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated After retiring in 2008, he remained at the Rosemary Kelley and Mary Ann McALOON, Col. James J., 88, Renie, Norma and Tom Stuckey. on Nov. 20 at the St. Augustine Home Chapel. St. Augustine Home as a resident priest. Williams. Sister of Mary St. Anthony of Padua, Grandfather of nine. Great-grand - Burial followed at the Priests’ Circle at Our Lady Margaret Meyer and Catherine Clarksville, Oct. 24. Husband of father of one. of Peace Cemetery in Indianapolis. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Little Sisters Weed. Grandmother of 14. Great- Constance McAloon. Father of WILLIAMS, McCoy, 74, Father Adrian was born on June 16, 1918, of the Poor, St. Augustine Home for the Aged, grandmother of 21. Great-great- Bridget Barber, Deirdre Boelter, St. Joseph, Rockville, Nov. 6. in Spain. 2345 W. 86th St., Indianapolis, IN 46220. † grandmother of four. Constance Fust, Brendan, James Husband of Diane Williams. GAVAGHAN, William J., 59, and Sean McAloon. Brother of Father of Kimberly Crawford, Providence Sister Marianne McGriffin was Holy Cross, Indianapolis, Margaret Leach. Grandfather of Maria Gourley, Debbie Herron Oct. 21. Husband of Mary 15. Great-grandfather of seven. and Paul Greene. Brother of an educator, artist and iconographer Margaret (Commons) Gavaghan. McGUIRE, Veronica Clete Williams. Grandfather of Providence Sister of the Sisters of Providence on Catholic grade schools in Father of Kelly Litwin and (Murtaugh), 88, Holy Cross, eight. Great-grandfather of two. † Marianne McGriffin, formerly Feb. 2, 1944, professed her Indiana, Illinois and Maryland Sister Trinita Marie, died on first vows on Aug. 15, 1946, and for 22 years. Oct. 24 at Union Hospital in professed her final vows on In the archdiocese, Terre Haute. She was 84. Aug. 15, 1951. 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Peter and Paul Cathedral Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Shelbyville File photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann Dec. 1, 7 p.m. for St. Magdalen, Ne w Marion, and St. John Indianapolis North Deanery the Baptist, Osgood, at St. John the Baptist, Osgood Dec. 12, 2 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Peter, Franklin County Dec. 14, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X Dec. 1, 7 p.m. for St. P aul, New Alsace, and St. Martin, Dec. 15, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X Yorkville, at St. Martin, Yorkville Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Indianapolis South Deanery Aurora Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Dec. 12, 1 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, Millhousen, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at Most Holy Name of Jesus, Beech Gro ve and St. Maurice, Napoleon, at St. Maurice, Napoleon Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Roch Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Rock, Franklin County Dec. 12, 3 p.m. at Good Shepherd Advent, a season of joyful expectation before Christmas, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. for St. Anne, Hamburg; St. Maurice, Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ begins on Nov. 28 this year. The Advent wreath, with a candle Decatur County; and St. John the Evangelist, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Jude marking each week of the season, is a traditional symbol of Enochsburg, at St. John the Evangelist, Enochsburg Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenw ood, Greenwood the liturgical period. This Advent wreath was on display at Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. for St. John the Baptist, Do ver, and Dec. 21, 7 p.m. at St. Mark the Ev angelist St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis in 2007. St. Joseph, St. Leon, at St. Joseph, St. Leon Daily, 11 a.m. at St. John the Ev angelist Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County Advent resources Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg New Albany Deanery Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. La wrence, Lawrenceburg Nov. 30, 7 p.m. for Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, are available on Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Bright Jeffersonville, and St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, at Dec. 21, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, Morris St. Augustine, Jeffersonville archdiocesan Web site Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Corydon Bloomington Deanery Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Flo yd County During the season of Advent, the Archdiocese of Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington Dec. 5, 4 p.m. at St. Mary, Lanesville Indianapolis will have a special Web page at Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, Bloomington Dec. 6, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Clark County www.archindy.org/advent. Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. P aul Catholic Center, Bloomington Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m. at St. P aul, Sellersburg The page contains various Advent resources, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Francis Xa vier, Henryville including links to the daily readings, reflections from Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville Dec. 12, 4 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, penance service Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Bradford schedules, images of past Criterion Christmas Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ne w Albany supplement covers and links of interest to other Connersville Deanery Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton Advent Web sites. † Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel, Connersville Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. Bridget of Ireland, Liberty Dec. 19, 4 p.m. at Holy F amily, New Albany Dec. 6, 7 p.m. at St. Rose, Knightsto wn Tell City Deanery Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary , Seymour Deanery Dec. 12, 4 p.m. at St. P aul, Tell City Cambridge City Nov. 30, 6 p.m. at American Martyrs, Scottsburg Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at Holy F amily, Richmond Dec. 9, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Vevay, Terre Haute Deanery and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of Peace, Dec. 2, 7 p.m. at St. Mar garet Mary, Terre Haute Indianapolis East Deanery Madison Dec. 7, 7 p.m. at Annunciation, Brazil Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at St. Rita Dec. 15, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Pro vidence, Brownstown, Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary, Seelyville Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit and St. Ambrose, Seymour, at St. Ambrose, Seymour Dec. 9, noon and 7 p.m., Sacred Heart, Clinton Dec. 6, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Bernadette and Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Rockville St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) at Dec. 20, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, Dec. 14, 1:30 p.m. at St. Ann, Terre Haute St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Uni versity, Terre Haute Dec. 9, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenf ield St. Joseph, Jennings County Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. P aul the Apostle, Greencastle † Young organizer receives CCHD’s Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award BALTIMORE (CNS)—The executive director of an The daughter of immigrants from the Azores, Carreiro, losing their homes. interfaith community group working to improve the lives of 29, has focused much of her recent or ganizing efforts to Her work involved identifying struggling people, training low-income and poor residents near Boston w as honored help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure on them to speak for themselves and supporting them as they with the Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award from their homes. addressed officials. the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. During the height of the foreclosure crisis in 2009, she Carreiro told the gathering that her w ork as a missionary Janine Carreiro, who joined the Brockton Interf aith helped organize two meetings involving hundreds of in East Timor, which she was forced to leave when violence Community in Brockton, Mass., in 2008, received the award residents—many of them of Latino and Portuguese flared, has guided her work in Brockton and that her on Nov. 15 at a reception during the annual f all general background—who told local, state and federal officials of Catholic faith plays a key role as she attempts to correct assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. their concerns related to employment and the prospect of injustices that affected marginalized people. †

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Catholic Bishops was devoted primarily to conference. Submitted photo internal matters—the election of new During the executive conference leaders, discussion of how their session on Nov. 17, own statements should be produced, Cardinal George named

budgetary and structural questions and Bishop Kicanas chairman of information about how they can better the board of Catholic Relief integrate new media into diocesan Services, the U.S. bishops’ structures. overseas relief and

They also affirmed an historic development agency. agreement to recognize baptisms in Archbishop Dolan held the four Protestant Church communities. post, but had to vacate it upon Public sessions made up the first two his election as president.
days of the Nov. 15-18 assembly with the In other voting on Nov. 16,
bishops spending the remainder of the the bishops also chose meeting in executive session. treasurer Archbishop Joseph E. The last public action the bishops took Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., as
was a nearly unanimous vote on Nov. 16 to vice president and
approve the preparation of a brief polic y Bishop Michael J. Bransfield statement on assisted suicide, which they of Wheeling-Charleston, will debate and vote on at their spring W.Va., as treasurer. They also
assembly in June. selected chairmen-elect
Before the afternoon vote, Cardinal for six committees. Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop Kurtz and chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Bishop Bransfield took office Pro-Life Activities, outlined the at the conclusion of the “increasingly urgent threat” posed by the meeting, while the chairmen-elect were to be they refused to agree to an increase in the what those developments were. wider use of assisted suicide in the in charge of their committees beginning in assessment on dioceses to fund the The USCCB opposed passage of the United States. November 2011. conference’s work in 2012. final health reform legislation, saying it The one surprise of the meeting came In other action on Nov. 16, the bishops, by Cardinal George opened the first day of would permit federal funding of abortion, on Nov. 16 when the bishops voted for new a 204-11 vote, affirmed the “Common the meeting with his farewell presidential inadequately protect the conscience rights leaders of their conference. Breaking with Agreement on Mutual Recognition of address. In it, he criticized those who def ine of health care providers and leave out precedent, the sitting vice president, Baptism.” It was drawn up over the past the Church’s usefulness by whether it immigrants. Other Catholic groups, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., six years by a team of scholars from the provides “foot soldiers for a political including the Catholic Health Association was not elected to succeed Chicago Catholic-Reformed dialogue group, made commitment, whether of the left or and many orders of women religious, said Cardinal Francis E. George, who was up of representatives of the USCCB, the right.” the final bill and an executive order completing his three-year term as Christian Reformed Church in He devoted much of his talk to reviewing signed by President Barack Obama would president. North America, Presbyterian Church (USA), the debate over health care reform earlier exclude any possibility of federal money Bishop Kicanas lost to New York Reformed Church in America and this year, and the “wound to the Church’s going to pay for abortions under the Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan 128-111 in United Church of Christ. unity” caused by differences over the final health plan. third-ballot voting. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta, legislation. Cardinal George said the debate also It marked the first time since the chairman of the bishops’ Committee on In discussing health reform in his address, raised the question of “who speaks for the bishops’ conference was reorganized in Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, called Cardinal George said “developments since Catholic Church.” 1966 following the Second Vatican Council the bishops’ vote “a milestone on the the passage of the legislation” have “The bishops ... speak for the Church in that a sitting vice president who sought the ecumenical journey.” confirmed that “our analysis of what the la w matters of faith and in moral issues and the presidency did not win election. In tw o The bishops approved a $180 million itself says was correct and our moral laws surrounding them. All the rest is elections, in 1974 and 1977, circumstances balanced budget for the USCCB in 2011, but judgments are secure.” He did not specify opinion,” he said. †

you will be the slave of all” (Mk 10:43-44). What was in the news on Nov. 25, 1960? CARDINALS Pope Benedict told the new cardinals that Jesus’ “style of living became the basis By Brandon A. Evans football title continued from page 1 of new relationships within the Christian • Increase is noted in class B films During the consistory on Nov. 20, the community and of a new way of exercising This week, we continue to examine “WASHINGTON—The National pope assigned the new cardinals a “titular authority.” what was going on in the Church and the Legion of Decency rated as objectionable Church” in Rome, making them members Even after Jesus explained to the world 50 years ago as seen through the nearly a quarter of the U.S. films it of the Rome diocesan clergy, which is disciples that following him would pages of The Criterion, which is reviewed last year, compared with about what the Church’s first cardinals were. involve suffering, they demonstrated that celebrating its 50th anniversary. 14 percent the year before. The 26-year- Cardinal Burke’s titular church is they had “expectations and plans for Here are some of the items found in old Church agency charted with St. Agatha of the Goths. Cardinal Wuerl’s greatness, authority and honor in the e yes the Nov. 25, 1960, classifying films by is St. Peter in Chains, the church f amous of the world,” the pope said. issue of moral content said for hosting Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. Jesus was patient with them, he said, The Criterion: 24.33 percent of the The consistory to create new cardinals but he also made it clear that to be his • Trujillo radio 222 U.S. films it took the form of a prayer service in disciples they must be totally obedient to opens drive against looked at were put in St. Peter’s Basilica. With the exception of God and follow “this road that passes religious schools class ‘B,’ morally the pope’s homily and the prayers of the through humiliation, suffering and death • Government objectionable in part faithful, the service was in Latin. for love.” and music: for all.” Outside the basilica a storm was Pope Benedict told the new cardinals New Albany • Dutch Catholics approaching and, as Pope Benedict they must recognize that becoming parishioner promote dialogue announced the name of the new “unique and precious” collaborators in the combines two • Decadent films Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of papal mission to serve the Church is not careers aid Reds, hurt West, official says Kinshasa, Congo, the applause for him w as an honor they can take credit for, but is a • Pope praises U.S. bishops’ • Artificial life creation ‘compatible’ accompanied by a roll of thunder. vocation to which they are called. aid program with dogma At the end of the service, the Jesus’ teaching that authority means • San Juan prelate retracts chancery “ROME—The Italian Catholic College of Cardinals numbered a record humble service is a message that continues office threats Medical Association officially declared 203 members, with 121 cardinals under the to be valid for the Church, “especially for “CHICAGO—The Archbishop of that ‘the creation of life, or of living age of 80 and eligible to v ote in a conclave those who have the task of guiding the San Juan has flatly denied that the beings, by artificial means is not in to elect a new pope. With the induction of people of God,” the pope said. “It is not the Church will punish Catholics who failed opposition to the doctrine or dogma of Cardinals Wuerl and Burke into the logic of domination, of power according to to heed their Bishops’ instructions on the Catholic Church.’ … Professor Mario College of Cardinals, the United States human criteria, but the logic of bowing how to vote. On the contrary, he said, Torrioli of the Rome Chemical Institute has 18 cardinals, 13 of whom are under the down to wash feet, the logic of service, the ‘the pardon they desire’ is extended to all explained that one of several molecules of age of 80. logic of the cross, which is at the basis of such Catholics. Archbishop James P. the substance now known as ADN and Only Italy has more cardinals. With every exercise of authority.” Davis did not directly refer to a San Juan produced in laboratories ‘presented a 10 new cardinals, Italy has a total of Meeting reporters after the consistory, chancery statement calling for denial of functional, reproductive and formative 48 members of the college, 25 of whom are Cardinal Wuerl said it was “a glorious day” Sacraments to disobedient Catholics and activity proving the experimental under 80. with the basilica filled with people from public repentance by them, but he said: creation of life.’ … ‘Science today is In his homily, Pope Benedict said he around the world, showing the universality ‘Recent statements reported in the press almost capable of creating life,’ chose as cardinals “pastors who govern of the Church. as coming from the chancery office of the Father [Giuseppe] Bosio said. ‘The important diocesan communities with zeal, “Every believer, every Catholic has a tie San Juan archdiocese were not Church always has admitted the prelates in charge of dicasteries of the with the pope, but the cardinals—because authorized by the Archbishop of San Juan possibility of spontaneous generation, Roman Curia or who have served the they are asked to work very, very closely and, therefore, are without effect.’ ” and life in a test tube can be, and will be, Church and the Holy See with with him—have a special bond,” he said, • U.S. Bishops stress the need for considered spontaneous without changing exemplary fidelity.” and the visible sign of that is the red hat. personal responsibility one iota of our religious doctrine.’ ” The Gospel reading used for the prayer The cardinals, with their family • Nigerian student alerts homeland • Italian bishops charge State bias service was St. Mark’s account of the members and faithful, met Pope Benedict to Red threat disciples vying for a place of honor with again on Nov. 22 during an audience • Question Box: What is the truth (Read all of these stories from our Nov. Jesus, and Jesus telling them, “Whoever reserved for the new cardinals and the about faith-healing? 25, 1960, issue by logging on to our wishes to be great among you will be your groups who traveled with them to Rome • Little Flower wins Cadet archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † servant; whoever wishes to be first among for the consistory. †