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CultureInside of vocations Bishop Bruté Days gives ‘a sense of how seminary life Criterion is,’ page 3. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com June 24, 2011 Vol. LI, No. 37 75¢ Vatican calls on businesses to be John Shaughnessy Photo by ethical, create economic justice VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican and some Catholic thinkers are urging businesses to not only employ ethical policies within their companies, but also to become dedicated to bringing economic justice to the wider world. In fact, people should be wary of superficial ethical practices that “are adopted primarily as a marketing device, without any effect on relationships inside and outside the business itself,” and without promoting justice and the common good, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state. Cardinal Bertone was one of a number of speakers invited to the Executive Summit on Ethics for the Business World, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Legion of Christ’s Fidelis International Institute, which promotes ethics in Francesca LaRosa is scheduled to sing the ballad version of the theme song “Called to Glory” for the 2011 National Catholic Youth Conference in business. Indianapolis in November. Here, the senior at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis performs during a musical program at St. Roch Church in Cardinal The June 16-17 Indianapolis on June 6. Tarcisio Bertone conference brought high-profile leaders from the manufacturing, industrial, Teenager chosen to perform NCYC banking and financial sectors, including representatives from General Electric and Goldman Sachs, as well as Catholic experts theme song is grounded in her faith in Catholic social teaching. Organizers purposely chose people from By John Shaughnessy 2008, a season of excitement, uncertainty “A lot of people were telling me to be different industries, countries and religions and change before her freshman year at a certain way—to dress a certain way and in order to hammer out ethical principles As she talked to the grade school Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. act a certain way—to be popular,” held in common, which often reflect the children, Francesca “Chessie” LaRosa For most of her years at St. Barnabas Francesca says. “I was really frustrated. values inherent in Catholic social thought, could have focused on how she is School in Indianapolis, Francesca didn’t It was killing me. I just really wanted to namely the principles of the centrality of scheduled to sing in front of 25,000 young have many friends. She often considered be with God and be for God. I started to the human person, subsidiarity, solidarity people who are expected to come to herself as “weird” to her classmates and realize my goal was to get to heaven.” and the pursuit of the common good, said Indianapolis in November for the viewed herself as “shy,” “awkward” and So Francesca did what she has done Father Luis Garza Medina, vicar general of 2011 National Catholic Youth Conference. “not good enough.” But that perception most of her young life. She poured her the Legion of Christ, who helped plan Instead, the 18-year-old singer- began to change in her eighth-grade year heart into the lyrics of a song, writing the event. songwriter chose to share a defining when she wrote a song called “We Are” one called “Who I Want to Be.” The real challenge, however, is taking moment from one of those tough, that became her class’ theme song. “It’s reaching out to the girls and guys those common principles and translating soul-searching times that most teenagers People began to see her in a different who feel they aren’t good enough,” them into concrete action that will have a eventually face—a time when she had to light. She found confidence and new Francesca told the students at St. Roch real impact on local and world economies, decide what really mattered in her life. friends. Soon, she also found herself School in Indianapolis during a program and on people’s lives, he said. It happened during the summer of facing a choice. See LAROSA, page 8 See ETHICS, page 8 Bishops approve statement on assisted suicide, charter revisions BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS)—The U.S. bishops on June 16 approved a policy statement on physician-assisted suicide, the first on the issue by the bishops as a body, and they also approved revisions to their 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” The votes came on the second day of the bishops’ annual spring CNS photo/Stephen Brashear general assembly held near Seattle in Bellevue on June 15-17. Taking on the issue of physician-assisted suicide in the state where voters most recently approved it, the U.S. bishops hope to counter the recent “strong resurgence” in activity by the assisted suicide movement, said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, in presenting the document a day before the vote. In the document, titled “To Live Each Day With Dignity” and approved in a 191-1 vote, the U.S. bishops declared assisted suicide “a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent.” It says if advocates of assisted suicide succeed in their campaign to see it legalized in more and more states, “society will Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of undergo a radical change.” Catholic Bishops, center, speaks during the opening session of the bishops’ The revisions to the charter were approved 187-5 with annual spring meeting near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash., on June 15. At left is four abstentions. They reflect changes in Church law since the last Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., USCCB vice president, and at See BISHOPS, page 2 right is Msgr. David Malloy, general secretary. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2011 Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington BISHOPS on progress being made toward a continued from page 1 U.S. personal ordinariate for former Anglicans who want to enter into full revision in 2005, bringing it into line with communion with the Catholic Church. recent Vatican instructions in response to As many as 100 U.S. Anglican priests CNS photos/Stephen Brashear the crisis of sexual abuse of minors by and 2,000 laypeople could be the priests. These include mentioning child first members of the U.S. ordinariate, said pornography as a crime against Church law the cardinal, who was appointed by the and defining the abuse of someone who Vatican last September to guide the “habitually lacks reason,” such as a person incorporation of Anglican groups into the with mental retardation, as the equivalent of Catholic Church in the United States under child abuse. “Anglicanorum coetibus,” an apostolic They also outline procedures to follow if constitution issued by Pope Benedict XVI a bishop is accused of having sexually in November 2009. abused a child and another bishop becomes At a news conference following his aware of it. report, Cardinal Wuerl said he “wouldn’t be The experiences of the past nine years surprised” if the Vatican were to establish have shown that “the charter works,” the U.S. ordinariate by the end of the year. said Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane “I think it will be sooner rather than later,” said on June 15. As chairman of the he said. USCCB Committee on the Protection of Earlier in the day, the U.S. bishops Above, U.S. bishops gather for Mass on Children and Young People, he introduced voted overwhelmingly to authorize June 15 before the opening session of the the document to the bishops on June 15. preparation of a 50-page document on U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ “The charter has served the Church preaching for consideration in annual spring meeting near Seattle in well,” he said. “It is a helpful tool as we November 2012. Bellevue, Wash. keep our pledge to protect children, St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson promote healing and rebuild trust.” presented the proposal on behalf of the Left, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington The next day before the vote, there Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life delivers a report during a June 15 session of was little debate on the proposed revisions. and Vocations, which he chairs, but said the annual spring meeting of the But not every bishop is on board with the document would be drawn up in U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops near the charter’s provisions, as evidenced consultation with various committees of the Seattle in Bellevue, Wash. Cardinal Wuerl was by the 28 amendments proposed by U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. appointed by the Vatican last September to Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Archbishop Carlson said the document guide the incorporation of Anglican groups Lincoln, Neb., and rejected by the would be “at once inspirational and into the U.S. Catholic Church under committee. practical, … grounded in the tradition of “Anglicanorum coetibus,” an apostolic Most of the amendments suggested by the Church,” and would aim to “adequately constitution issued by Pope Benedict XVI in Bishop Bruskewitz were aimed at convey the purpose of the homily at November 2009. weakening the charter’s wording because Mass—the personal encounter with the the bishop said in a rationale included with Incarnate Word.” • Dropped from their agenda without U.S. Catholic community. the amendments, “The USCCB bureaucracy In other action on the first day of the comment a discussion of their perennial • Heard from Father Edward Dougherty, cannot bind bishops to obey the charter.” assembly, the bishops also: “Faithful Citizenship” document on superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers Retired Archbishop Francis T.

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