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The Criterion staff report Gettelfinger. XVI’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas (“God and responsibility to provide secure bor- Typically, statements from the bishops is Love”), saying “there is an intimate and ders for the protection of our people and The Indiana Catholic bishops call the are done though the Indiana Catholic unbreakable connection between love of to guard against those who would do faithful “to welcome others as Christ him- Conference, the Church’s official public God and love of neighbor. In loving our harm,” but the bishops “reject positions or self” in a pastoral let- policy voice. However, the pastoral letter neighbor, we meet the person of Christ.” policies that are anti-immigrant, nativist, ter on the treatment of is a unique move by the bishops giving The pastoral defines a neighbor “not ethnocentric or racist. Such narrow and immigrants issued on the statement a distinctive teaching simply as someone who is familiar and destructive views are profoundly anti- Jan. 12. authority which carries more significance close at hand, [nor] someone who shares Catholic and anti-American.” Titled “I Was a and weight—that of shepherds addressing my ethnic, social or racial characteristics.” They call for balance between “the Stranger and You the faithful. Rather, as the Gospels define neighbor, right of a sovereign state to control its Welcomed Me: “We Catholic bishops of Indiana “Our neighbor is anyone who is in need— borders, and “the right of human persons Meeting Christ in New recommit ourselves and our dioceses to including to migrate Neighbors,” the pas- welcoming others as Christ himself,” the those who are so that they toral is the first of its pastoral says. “Together with all our sis- homeless, Read the entire pastoral letter in both can realize Archbishop Daniel kind issued collec- ters and brothers throughout the state of hungry, sick English and Spanish, pages 13-16. their God- M. Buechlein tively by the Indiana Indiana, we embrace an authentic and or in prison. given bishops in recent times. enduring form of Hoosier hospitality that A neighbor rights.” The The joint letter is signed by goes beyond superficial slogans to the may well be a complete stranger whose pastoral says, “the state may impose rea- Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. heart of what it means to be a community background, experience or social stand- sonable limits on immigration, but the Buechlein, Lafayette Bishop William L. of faith that welcomes all who wish to ing is very different from ours,” the common good is not served when the Higi, Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop share our way of life.” bishops say. basic human rights of the individual are John M. D’Arcy, Gary Bishop Dale J. In the letter, the Indiana bishops In the letter, the bishops recognize and violated.” Melczek and Evansville Bishop Gerald A. remind the faithful of Pope Benedict “vigorously support” the “nation’s right See PASTORAL, page 2 Amniotic-fluid stem cells

Photo by Sean Gallagher hailed as another alternative to embryo use WASHINGTON (CNS)—The recent announcement by scientists at Wake Forest and Harvard universities that the amniotic fluid surrounding a child in the womb can be the source of medically useful stem cells is just the latest in a series of studies show- ing the research value of the byproducts of live birth, according to the deputy director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Richard M. Doerflinger told Catholic News Service on Jan. 8 that various stud- ies have shown that the placenta, cord blood, the umbilical cord itself and other byproducts of birth “may all contain very versatile stem cells, with many of the advantages of embryonic stem cells with- out the practical disadvantages or moral problems.” “With 4 million live births every year in Father William Ernst, pastor of St. Mary Parish in New Albany, baptizes Jackson Munk on Dec. 10 at St. Mary Church. Jackson is being held by his our country alone, an ample supply of these father, Jeffrey Munk, and watched by his mother, Elizabeth Munk, both of Carmel, Ind. cells lies readily at hand,” he added. The study was reported on Jan. 7 in the online edition of the journal Nature Chosen from among the people Biotechnology and included research by New Albany pastor reflects on a life of parish ministry See STEM CELLS, page 2 By Sean Gallagher Father Ernst has served parishes in eight of “I was kind of excited when I heard the archdiocese’s 11 deaneries over those that,” he said. “When I was in school, I NEW ALBANY—Some priests gain a nearly 43 years. was pretty much a daily communicant. Of reputation as outstanding homilists, inspir- For the past 17 years, he has been the course, in those days, you couldn’t eat ing retreat masters or effective ministers to pastor of St. Mary Parish in New Albany, breakfast before Communion so most of youths and young adults. not far from the parish where he spent sev- the kids didn’t go to Communion at Through these special talents, they right- eral years of his childhood: St. Mary Parish Mass. fully gain the attention and appreciation of in Navilleton. “I did almost every day. I’d take my the faithful. breakfast along, which was usually an Other priests devote decades of their From Navilleton to Saint Meinrad egg sandwich.” lives to the His priestly vocation emerged much like After completing the eighth grade, See Religious Vocations ordinary other priests of his generation, through the Father Ernst entered Saint Meinrad Supplement, page 7. duties of careful observations and suggestions of a Seminary in 1952 and continued his parish min- religious sister, Benedictine Sister Eugenia priestly formation there until his ordina- istry, impor- Reibel, who taught him at St. Mary-of-the- tion 12 years later. tant tasks that touch the lives of countless Knobs School in the late 1940s and early Although he persevered in his discern- people but that often remain unknown to 1950s. ment, he acknowledged that there were the broader public. When the possibility that God might be some difficult times for him, saying that One such priest is Father William Ernst. calling him to the priesthood was raised to “giving up marriage and family life and A seminary classmate of Archbishop him, Father Ernst said that it hadn’t come children” weighed heavily on his mind Daniel M. Buechlein and ordained in 1964 as a total surprise. In fact, he kind of liked for some time. in the midst of the Second Vatican Council, the idea. See VOCATION, page 17 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007

capture true stem cells?’ The answer is yes.” STEM CELLS Doerflinger said it is “especially ironic” continued from page 1 that the frozen embryos that some scientists want to destroy for stem cells “may pro- scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for duce more beneficial stem cells if allowed Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, to survive and be born.” N.C., and Children’s Hospital and Harvard “New life, not premature death, may show Medical School in Boston. us the way to a brighter medical future,” he CNS photo/courtesy of Wake Forest University The U.S. House of Representatives was added. expected to vote on Jan. 11 on expanded Doerflinger also disputed the results of a federal funding of stem-cell research recent public opinion poll commissioned by involving the destruction of human the Civil Society Institute in which 68 per- embryos. President George W. Bush cent of all the respondents—and 69 percent vetoed a similar measure in July, and the of the respondents who described themselves 109th Congress failed to override the veto. as Catholics—said they wanted Congress to In the journal article, Dr. Anthony act quickly to expand federal funding of Atala of the Wake Forest institute said he embryonic stem-cell research. and his colleagues had used stem cells The margin of error for the survey was derived from amniotic fluid to create mus- plus or minus 3 percentage points. cle, bone, fat, blood, nerve and liver cells “Studies like this are seriously flawed Dr. Anthony Atala is pictured in his lab at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston- in the laboratory. because they ask about support for ‘stem-cell Salem, N.C. The recent announcement by scientists at Wake Forest and Harvard universities that the “It has been known for decades that research’ without acknowledging other amniotic fluid surrounding a child in the womb can be the source of medically useful stem cells is both the placenta and amniotic fluid con- sources of beneficial stem cells or making it the latest in a series of studies showing the research value of the byproducts of live birth. tain multiple progenitor cell types from the clear that obtaining stem cells requires developing embryo, including fat, bone and destroying the human embryo,” Doerflinger used only for avenues that do not require added. “The great majority of Americans muscle,” said Atala in a statement. “We said. destroying embryonic life, to determine favor medical progress, but would greatly asked the question, ‘Is there a possibility “When told the facts, most Americans whether we even need to consider taking prefer that it be pursued without destroying that within this cell population we can [and most Catholics] want their tax dollars the morally controversial course,” he life at any stage.” †

The letter also says, “Immigrants in this undocumented immigrants who must that by 2010, the U.S. will create 22 mil- PASTORAL country without proper documentation drive to work in order to feed and clothe lion new jobs—9 million more jobs than continued from page 1 should be provided opportunities to obtain their families; driver’s permits needed for new workers entering the job market. legalization if they demonstrate good moral securing automobile license and insur- This gap will increase after 2010 as the The pastoral calls Catholics to recognize character and earned legalization should be ance; a broader process for immigrants to “baby boomers” reach retirement age and the fundamental moral principle of the dig- achievable and independently verifiable.” obtain legal documents for ownership of leave the labor force. nity of all persons from conception to nat- “In their pastoral care for the Church, property beyond the Bureau of Motor According to the 2006 general sum- ural death. The letter stresses the inherent the bishops are addressing this statement to Vehicles (BMV); access to health care and mary of the Official Catholic Directory rights of immigrants and says “the human the Church faithful primarily, but it is not education for immigrant children; and P.J. Kenedy & Sons, the Archdiocese of dignity and human rights of undocumented exclusively an internal document,” said equal access to protective and emergency Indianapolis has 232,273 Catholics; the immigrants should be respected,” and be Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the services for immigrants.” Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana has the guiding force for immigration reform. Indiana Catholic Conference. “It is also for According to the 2000 census, 3.1 per- 105,196; the Diocese of Evansville has The letter says, “Immigration reform is the benefit of anyone who is interested. The cent of Indiana residents, or more than 87,821 Catholics; the Diocese of Fort evident and should include a broad-based pastoral statement is a public letter to the 186,500, are foreign born. This includes Wayne/South Bend has 156,509 program of earned legalization for undoc- Church addressing an issue of importance those who are now citizens and those here Catholics; and the Diocese of Gary has umented persons; a temporary worker to the Church for the good of the Church as non-immigrants, such as refugees, stu- 185,550 Catholics, for a total of program with appropriate protections for and the civic community.” dents and workers with visas as well as 767,349 Roman Catholics in the state. both U.S. and foreign workers; changes to In the letter, the bishops address the the undocumented residents. Growth For information regarding state issues the family-based immigration system to direction and debate in which public policy since 2000 is estimated to be approxi- and further explanation of conference reduce waiting times for family reunifica- in Indiana should take during the coming mately 68,000, raising the total to 4 per- information, log on to the Indiana tion; and restoration of due process for and future sessions of the Indiana General cent of the total population. Catholic Conference Web page at immigrants.” Assembly, including: “driver’s permits for The U.S. Department of Labor projects www.indianacc.org. †

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(Editor’s note: As our nation celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 15, The Criterion offers this essay from Tim Hickle, a student at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. Hickle won first place in the 2006 Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Statewide Essay Contest. There were File photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann 3,600 entries.)

By Tim Hickle

Thanks to Dr. King, numerous barriers were abolished so that our “world-house” could function peacefully. He led many non-violent rallies to obliterate racism. What many do not realize, however, is that in the last year of his life Dr. King attempted to obliterate poverty and oppression, the barriers that are most prominent in and lethal to our world-house today. Our world-house consists of three stories. On the bottom rests the luxurious suites of the upper class. After a short elevator ride, one will find the comfortable apartments of the middle class. After a long climb up a steep staircase, however, one will find a closet filled with the impoverished and oppressed of today’s society. As one enters this dismal closet of the dejected, he sees the faces of thousands of people with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The hardest part, however, is Holy Angels School sixth-grader Marcus Saloane of Indianapolis leads students in reciting the “Student Pledge of Nonviolence” during a knowing that these people have no exit, just an entrance Jan. 13, 2006, Mass and program at Holy Angels Church in Indianapolis that honored the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This through which more will enter. year, Holy Angels students will honor the late civil rights leader on Jan. 12 by marching along the 2800 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Poverty currently creates the largest division in our Street at 10 a.m. then participating in Mass at 10:30 a.m. at the church. world-house and the precise thing that King was trying to fight in his final days. In his last hours, many hand, to lift the load of poverty.” of my friends and family, it did not. supporters of Dr. King began to stray. Many people who To help lift the load of the impoverished, I volunteer While I may be comfortable in my apartment on the supported his anti-racism protests discouraged his new at the Lord’s Pantry, an Indianapolis-based organization second floor, I still see the closet every day. Something “Poor People’s Campaign.” Nothing, however, could that helps feed the poor, and encourage others to do the needs to be done now. This was the same attitude that sway him from his objective. same. I also have founded a charity, the CF Fighters, led Dr. King to form his “Poor People’s Campaign.” Dr. King noticed poverty destroying our world-house partnering with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to fight a Now, we need to complete the daunting task that he was and decided to end it. He said, “The dispossessed of this deadly genetic disease. As I gaze into this closet, I know unable to finish. We need to help overcome poverty and nation—the poor, both white and Negro—live in a that I myself was nearly there. Being a victim of a oppression, for these are true obstacles to our world- cruelly unjust society. …Society is refusing to take [the] traumatic brain injury nearly spun my life off course. house. It is on our watch, America. It is time to clean means which have been called for, and which are at Luckily, thanks to courage, resources, and the strength out the closet. † Catholic Conference supports Death Row plea for life in prison without par ole

By Mary Ann Wyand The five-member Parole Board will conduct a clemency “This case is further compromised somewhat because of hearing for Timberlake on Jan. 16 at the Indiana Government the mental status of Mr. Timberlake,” he said. “We’re hopeful Indiana Death Row inmate Norman Timberlake told the Center in Indianapolis. that Gov. Daniels will commute his sentence to life impris- state Parole Board on Jan. 8 that he did not kill Indiana State Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Indiana Catholic onment and not proceed with an execution if the appeals are Master Trooper Michael Greene during a roadside traffic stop Conference, the public policy arm of the Church, said he not fruitful.” along I-65 in Indianapolis in 1993. hopes the Parole Board, a U.S. District Court judge or Tebbe noted that the governor commuted the capital Last week, Timberlake’s attorneys filed a third legal appeal Gov. Mitch Daniels will commute Timberlake’s capital sentence of Arthur Baird II to life in prison without parole in to stop his execution by chemical injection, which is sentence to life in prison without parole. 2005 because of Baird’s mental illness. scheduled for Jan. 19 at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan “The Catholic Conference and the bishops have a long- “Because of that precedent and because of Mr. Timber- City, Ind. standing position on this that there is no reason to have an lake’s mental state, we think that would be an appropriate In December, Timberlake’s attorneys appealed his execution and that life imprisonment would be sufficient resolution to this case,” Tebbe said, speaking on behalf of conviction by a Marion Superior Court jury on the basis of punishment for the crime,” Tebbe said on Jan. 8. Indiana’s five bishops. † mental illness. Timberlake is 59. In recent weeks, his attorneys also filed an appeal charging that execution by lethal injection causes unnecessary pain. Raise your ministry to the next degree.

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OPINION Be Our Guest/Anita Moody At Gabriel Project, God works through the goodness of people Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher As Christmas approached, I could not children in a home for women in crises Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus imagine how the void created by the pregnancies. We will stay in touch with death of my mother was going to be her, continue to give her emotional filled. I was dreading the holiday support and keep her in our prayers. season. In addition to the above story, we Editorial Although our family always focuses have had four referrals this month from on the spiritual side of Christmas, my sidewalk counselors who pray at the mother had always been such an four abortion centers in Indianapolis and important part of it all. I couldn’t tell women that they deserve love—not imagine getting through it this year abortion, that God loves them and that without her. the Gabriel Project will help them and After the death of my mother in their families.

Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by January of 2006, I had more free time It has been so gratifying to see that on my hands so I volunteered and all the prayer and effort at the abortion became the area coordinator for the centers is producing such abundant fruit. Gabriel Project. More than 130 women have walked Volunteers called “Angels” serve away from abortion at these centers women who find since January of 2006. themselves in crisis What I had dreaded pregnancies either More than 130 women became one of the because of financial have walked away most fulfilling difficulties, lack of from abortion at these Christmases of my family support or a life, and somehow I sundry of other centers since January felt the presence of my reasons. We offer of 2006. mother even more spiritual, emotional closely than when she and material support in was on Earth. any way we can. If you are moved to get involved, Father William Ernst, pastor of St. Mary Parish in New Albany, blesses children preparing I have enjoyed my work with the there are many things you can do. We to leave for a children’s Liturgy of the Word program at the start of a Dec. 10 Mass at Gabriel Project, but in December things need prayer for the success of the St. Mary Church. seemed to take on a special significance. Gabriel Project and for our mothers and I received a call for help from a young their children. We need more “Angels” pregnant woman who had packed up her (both men and women) to give direct Happy priests two toddlers with as many personal items care to our mothers or be good, as she could load in her car and left her encouraging listeners on the phone. We ould any parent disagree that the he wrote, “Priests who like being husband, who had become addicted to need people willing to collect gently Wgreatest wish they have for their priests are among the happiest men in drugs and had become abusive to her. used baby items at your parish or from children is that they be happy? Then the world.” He identified the problem at She told us that she did not want to your friends and neighbors. We need parents should hope and pray that their that time: Priests, though happy leave him and that she is praying that he your financial support. sons have, and accept, a vocation to the themselves, think that other priests are will find God and get help. She believes in To find out more about the Gabriel priesthood. not happy because of the beating they prayer—not divorce, but a drug counselor Project or to find out if there is a Preposterous, you say? Not at all. took over the sex-abuse scandal. had encouraged her to move away for the Gabriel Project near you, send an e-mail Despite the supposed drop in prestige Obviously, not all men are called to safety of herself and her children. to me at [email protected] or call of priests because of the sex-abuse be priests. As St. Paul made clear in his She ended up in a motel in me at 317-918-0997. You can also visit scandal, and the heavier workload as a letters to the Romans, Corinthians and Indianapolis with very little money. I our Web site at www.ProjectGabriel.org. result of the decline in the number of Ephesians, God has given all of us got so involved in helping her work If you want to help someone and feel priests, studies show that most priests different gifts—“some as Apostles, through her problems that I forgot mine! fulfilled, please call us and we will are extremely happy—more than those others as prophets, others as I saw repeatedly how God works welcome you and find a place for you to who have chosen other professions or evangelists, others as pastors and through the goodness of people as more help in this beautiful ministry. vocations. teachers” (Eph 4:11). But we should and more people came to her assistance. For example, St. Luke’s Institute in rejoice if God has given one of our It was still touch and go as to where we (Anita Moody is a member of St. Therese of Silver Spring, Md., questioned sons the gifts necessary to be a priest. were going to place her when everything the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in 1,286 priests in 16 dioceses during their This issue of The Criterion profiles fell into place. We now have her and her Indianapolis.) † annual convocations between Father William Ernst and other September 2003 and April 2005. They religious who are living joyful lives as were asked to react to the statement they minister to the people of God. “Overall, I am happy as a priest.” More What is a priest? St. John Vianney, than 90 percent agreed. the Curé of Ars, once answered that Furthermore, when asked if they question by saying, “Only in heaven would choose the priesthood again, will we know what a priest is. If we 81 percent said they would. Only were to know this on earth, we would 6 percent said they were thinking of die, not of grief, but of love.” leaving the priesthood. The Second Vatican Council’s Do you think you’d get such high Decree on the Ministry and Life of results from surveys of doctors, Priests is a bit more specific. It says lawyers, teachers, journalists or nurses? that priests “are signed with a special Or from married men and women? character and so are configured to When quoting that survey in the Christ the priest in such a way that they November 2006 issue of Crisis are able to act in the person of Christ magazine, Father John Jay Hughes the head” (#2). asked, “How is that possible? Why From the earliest days of the would any man in his right mind want Church, priests have had three distinct to be a Catholic priest today?” duties, as outlined in Vatican II’s He replied to his question by quoting Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: Archbishop John R. Quinn, the retired “to preach the Gospel and shepherd the archbishop of San Francisco. faithful as well as to celebrate divine Archbishop Quinn wrote, “I believe worship” (#28). … that this is the best time in the While most priests will probably history of the Church to be a priest, agree that the third duty—celebrating because it is a time when there can be divine worship for God’s people—gives only one reason for being a priest or for them the most joy, preaching and remaining a priest—that is, to ‘be with’ pastoral ministry also give great Christ. It is not for perks or applause or satisfaction. respect or position or money or any Yes, the priesthood has taken a other worldly gain or advantage. Those beating in recent years. But Catholics things either no longer exist or are still support and love their priests. swiftly passing.” Perhaps that, in addition to the One person who wasn’t surprised by knowledge that what they do for the the results of that survey by St. Luke’s Church is important, is why priests are Institute was the sociologist/novelist so happy. Father Andrew Greeley. Back in 2004, in his book Priests: A Calling in Crisis, — John F. Fink The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Call to holiness is more than a career choice od willing, 2007 will be the Yet, an amazing number of our youth are the relative security they had begun to enjoy. as priests and religious. 43rd year of my priesthood, the searching for a way to make a difference in Only God’s grace can make that possible— I thank God daily for the gift of my G20th as a bishop and the 15th as an life, perhaps as consecrated religious and and moral support from parents, friends and parents, family, friends and mentors along archbishop. priests. They need support, but may not find peers. the way to priesthood. They demonstrated In many ways, it seems like an unlikely it from their parents or from many of their The experience of our Bishop Simon faith in God and God’s grace in a simple, outcome for a kid from a small rural peers. Bruté College Seminary provides that kind no-nonsense way. I had the blessing of community in southern Indiana. Some of our youth who inquire about a of environment for young college fellows. It being formed, nurtured, encouraged, In faith, we can believe that God gets us possible religious vocation want to do so in gives them the opportunity to experience challenged and supervised. where he wants us. It is only by his grace a confidential manner because they don’t some human and spiritual formation while Surely that is no less possible or needed that any of us can live our call to holiness want their folks to know. Some are they live with like-minded peers in a college by youth and young adults today. We need and make a difference in our world. embarrassed for peers to know of their environment. Whether or not they continue to keep in mind that we share a call to No one is born a priest or a religious. Yet thoughts about holiness and vocational on in a theological seminary or become holiness that is more than a career choice. God’s grace does such things and, often discernment. priests, they gain an enviable personal, By God’s grace, it is the road to happiness enough, in unlikely circumstances. A lot of our youth who sense that they academic and spiritual development that and peace. A lot has changed in our world since I are called to holiness in the Church— serves them for a lifetime. I plan to sponsor an opportunity for entered the seminary many years ago. The whether as lay persons or priests, sisters or The challenge to find vocations to young men to join me in prayer and cultural environment is dramatically brothers—found their inspiration from Pope priesthood and consecrated life among our reflection about the call to priesthood on the different. John Paul II. And they continue to admire youth and young adults is large. First of all, Friday and Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Years ago, seeking a lucrative career was his successor, Pope Benedict XVI. societal mobility makes it difficult to find Details will follow. † not the first priority for most of us. Not that These days, as in earlier times, many them. Secondly, because the needed contact wanting to live a successful life wasn’t on young people are inspired by a priest or nun with priests and sisters is not as easy to find Do you have an intention for our minds; it was. But I didn’t have the or brother. I find it admirable that these because of declining numbers, we have to Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? impression that our parents were as youth and young adults, if given the be more creative in providing such opportu- You may mail it to him at: pressured to direct us toward financial opportunity, are comfortable praying alone nities. success. or with others. Helping youth and young adults to walk Archbishop Buechlein’s True, once in awhile one would hear that Given the opportunity, many love to pray against the mainstream of secular, materi- Prayer List parents wanted their children “to have it before the Blessed Sacrament, and they are alistic and individualistic values of contem- Archdiocese of Indianapolis better” than they did. For the most part, like willing to spend time in quiet adoration. I porary society requires a multi-faceted effort 1400 N. Meridian St. my Mom and Dad, parents were ready to suspect that some may be more comfortable on the part of all of us Catholics: parents, P.O. Box 1410 support sons and daughters who felt called in prayer than their parents might be. grandparents, teachers and coaches as well Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 by God to serve as priests or religious Our seminarians and those who are sisters or brothers. postulants and novices in religious Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for Januar y In the environment of today, often that is communities pursue their vocational not the case. Families are smaller, and the discernment at great personal cost and Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to desire to have grandchildren can trump sacrifice. Some forgo successful career consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. having a priest or religious in the family. starts. Some sell their houses and give up El llamado a la santidad es más que la elección de una carr era on el favor de Dios, el 2007 será el Sin embargo, un número impresionante comenzado a disfrutar. Únicamente la gracia Todos los días le doy gracias a Dios por aniversario número 43 de mi de jóvenes están buscando una forma de de Dios hace que esto sea posible, así como el obsequio de mis padres, mi familia, mis Cordenación como sacerdote, el marcar la diferencia en la vida, quizás como el apoyo moral de los padres, amigos y amigos y mis tutores en el camino al número 20 como obispo y el número 15 religiosos consagrados y sacerdotes. compañeros. sacerdocio. Demostraron fe en Dios y en su como arzobispo. Necesitan apoyo pero tal vez no lo La experiencia del colegio seminario de gracia de manera llana y sencilla. Tuve la En muchos aspectos parece un desenlace encuentren en sus padres o en muchos de nuestro Obispo Simon Bruté proporciona bendición de recibir formación, educación, poco probable para un niño proveniente de sus compañeros. ese tipo de ambiente para los jóvenes ánimo, desafíos y supervisión. una pequeña comunidad rural en el sur de Algunos de nuestros jóvenes que universitarios. Les brinda la oportunidad de Ciertamente eso no es menos posible o Indiana. preguntan sobre las posibles vocaciones experimentar una cierta formación humana necesario para los jóvenes adultos de hoy en En la fe, creemos que Dios nos lleva religiosas desean hacerlo de manera y espiritual mientras conviven con día. Debemos recordar que compartimos un hacia donde Él desea. Únicamente por confidencial porque no quieren que sus compañeros que comparten su misma llamado a la santidad que es más que la medio de su gracia cualquiera de nosotros padres lo sepan. Algunos se sienten orientación dentro de un ambiente univer- elección de una carrera. Por la gracia de puede vivir el llamado a la santidad y marcar avergonzados de que sus compañeros se sitario. Independientemente de si prosiguen Dios, es el camino a la felicidad y a la paz. la diferencia en nuestro mundo. enteren de sus pensamientos sobre la en un seminario teológico o se convierten en Pretendo patrocinar una oportunidad para Nadie nace sacerdote o religioso. Sin santidad y el discernimiento vocacional. sacerdotes, obtienen un desarrollo personal, que los jóvenes me acompañen en una embargo, la gracia de Dios puede tales obras Muchos de nuestros jóvenes que se académico y espiritual envidiables que les oración y reflexión sobre el llamado al y por lo general, en circunstancias poco sienten llamados a la santidad en la sirve para toda la vida. sacerdocio, el viernes y el sábado después probables. Iglesia—independientemente de si es como El reto de hallar vocaciones al sacerdocio del Miércoles de Ceniza. Más adelante daré Varias cosas han cambiado en nuestro personas laicas o sacerdotes, hermanas o y a la vida consagrada en nuestros jóvenes y mayores detalles. † mundo desde que entré en el seminario hace hermanos—hallaron su inspiración en el jóvenes adultos es grande. Primeramente, la muchos años. El ambiente cultural es drásti- Papa Juan Pablo II. Y continúan admirando movilidad social hace que sea difícil ¿Tiene una intención que desee camente distinto. a su sucesor, el Papa Benedicto XVI. encontrarlos. Segundo, porque el incluir en la lista de oración del Hace años buscar una carrera lucrativa no En estos días, al igual que en épocas fundamental contacto con sacerdotes y Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar era la primera prioridad para la mayoría de pasadas, muchos jóvenes se sienten hermanas ya no es tan fácil de hallar debido su correspondencia a: nosotros. Eso no quiere decir que no inspirados por sacerdotes, religiosas o al número decreciente y por consiguiente pensáramos en vivir vidas exitosas: por hermanos. Encuentro admirable que estos debemos ser más creativos para poder Lista de oración del Arzobispo supuesto. Pero no tenía la impresión de que jóvenes y jóvenes adultos, si se les da la brindar estas oportunidades. Buechlein nuestros padres sintieran la presión de oportunidad, se sienten a gusto rezando a Ayudar a los jóvenes y jóvenes adultos a Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis orientarnos hacia el éxito financiero. solas o en compañía de otros. caminar contra la corriente de valores 1400 N. Meridian St. Ciertamente, de vez en cuando se Si se les da la oportunidad, a muchos les seglares, materialistas e individualistas de la P.O. Box 1410 escuchaba que los padres querían que a sus encanta rezar frente al Santo Sacramento y sociedad contemporánea requiere un Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 hijos “les fuera mejor” que a ellos. En su están dispuestos a pasar tiempo en silente esfuerzo multifacético de parte de todos los mayoría, tal y como mi mamá y mi papá, los adoración. Sospecho que algunos de ellos tal católicos: padres, abuelos, maestros y padres estaban dispuestos a apoyar a sus vez se sientan más a gusto rezando que sus entrenadores, así como sacerdotes y Traducido por: Language Training Center, hijos e hijas que se sintieran llamados por propios padres. religiosos. Indianapolis Dios para servir como sacerdotes o Nuestros seminaristas, así como las hermanos religiosos. postulantes y novicias en comunidades La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero En el ambiente de hoy en día, por lo religiosas, siguen su discernimiento general ese no es el caso. Las familias son vocacional a costa de un precio elevado y Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus más pequeñas y el deseo de tener nietos sacrificio personal. Algunos renuncian a hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para ser vir en la iglesia, especialmente como puede pesar más que tener un sacerdote o un carreras exitosas. Otros venden sus casas y sacerdotes y gente religiosa. religioso en la familia. renuncian a la relativa seguridad que habían Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Events Calendar

January 14 service. Information: 812-522- St. Nicholas Drive, Sunman. www.inholyspirit.org or e-mail and program, $10 per person. Health fair and blood drive, St. Anthony Parish, Parish 5304. Healing service and rosary for [email protected]. Information: www.catholic “Mind, Body and Spirit Health Center, 379 N. Warman Ave., vocations, 6 p.m., eucharistic businessexchange.org. Fair,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Informa- Indianapolis. Euchre party, January 15 adoration, praise and worship, Ursuline Motherhouse Library, tion: 317-784-5454, ext. 5. St. Bartholomew Parish, 1306 January 19-21 1:30 p.m., $3 per person. 6:30 p.m., confession available. 3115 Lexington Road, Louis- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 27th St., Columbus. “Divorce Information: 812-623-8007. ville, Ky. Ursuline Sisters of January 20-24 and Beyond” class, session two, Louisville, women’s film festi- House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indian- St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Cathedral High School, O’Malia apolis. “Retrouvaille Week- Performing Arts Center, 5225 E. 7-8:30 p.m. Information: 812- January 18 val, It Was A Wonderfull Life, 4052 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. 379-9353, ext. 333. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 6 p.m., free admission. Informa- end” for married couples experi- Parish mission, “The Experi- 56th St., Indianapolis. “The encing problems. Information: Lion, The Witch and The 1347 N. Meridian St., Indiana- tion: 502-212-1750. ence of Being Church,” Father January 15-February 19 polis. “Pro-life Prayers and 317-236-1586 or 800-382-9836, Jim Farrell, presenter, Sat. Mass, Wardrobe,” 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., St. Vincent de Paul Parish, old Reflection,” Richard Doerflinger, January 18-March 20 ext. 1586. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. Mass 10 a.m., $5 per person. Ticket line: 317- schoolhouse, 4218 E. Michigan Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara deputy director of U.S. Confer- call to mission; Sun. 4 p.m., 968-7436. St., Shelbyville. “Catholics Catholic Center, Benedictine January 20 ence of Catholic Bishops’ Secre- dinner, 5 p.m. mission; Mon. Returning Home,” 7-8:30 p.m. Room, 1400 N. Meridian St., St. Michael the Archangel tariat for Pro-Life Activities. 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Mass, Tues. MKVS and DM Center, Rexville Information: 317-392-3879. Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad Church, 3354 W. 30th St., (located on 925 South, .8 mile presenter, 6:30 p.m., free admis- Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s 7 p.m. Information: 317-546- sion. Information: 317-634-4519. School of Theology, Ecclesial east of 421 South, 12 miles south January 16-February 13 Lay Ministry classes, “What is Precious Infants Pro-Life 1571. of Versailles). Mass, 1 p.m., St. Francis Hospice, 438 S. the Old Testament?” 1:30- Mass, 8:30 a.m., followed by St. Athanasius the Great Byzan- January 22-March 26 with Father Elmer Burwinkel. Emerson Ave., Greenwood. 4:30 p.m. Information: 812-357- rosary outside abortion clinic and tine Church, St. Mary Hall, 1117 Holy Cross Parish, 125 N. Ori- Information: 812-689-3551. Bereavement support group, 6721 or 800-334-6821. Benediction at church. Informa- six sessions, session two, Blaine Ave., Indianapolis. tion: Archdiocesan Office for ental St., Indianapolis. St. Fran- January 14-18 6:30-8 p.m. Advance registra- Catholic Charismatic Renewal January 19 Pro-Life Ministry, 317-236-1569 cis Weight Loss Center, weight St. Ambrose Parish, 325 S. tion: 317-865-2092. of Central Indiana, praise, Knights of Columbus Hall, 2100 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. management and wellness pro- Chestnut St., Seymour. Parish worship and healing prayers, E. 71st St., Indianapolis. gram, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $100 per mission, 7 p.m., child care avail- January 17 7:15-8:45 p.m. Information: Catholic Business Exchange, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, person. Information: 317-637- able, fellowship following St. Nicholas Church, 6461 E. 317-592-1992, Mass, 6:30 a.m., buffet breakfast 21 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. 2620, ext. 406. †

Information: 317-545-7681, 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, Meyer, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., no charge. Information: 317-545- Retreats and Programs ext. 1596. 7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. January 12-14 January 29 February 9-11 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality, 101 St. Anthony Drive, “Tobit Weekend” for engaged couples. Information: 317-545- “Volunteers, Seniors and Friends Monthly Mass and Social,” Mount St. Francis. “Married Couples Retreat.” Information: 7681 or e-mail www.archindy.org/fatima. 9 a.m., continental breakfast, free-will offering. Information: 317- 812-923-8817. † 545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Listening to God in Our Dreams: Experiencing the God With-In,” Franciscan Sister February 1 Olga Wittekind, presenter. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. [email protected]. “Morning for Moms: Moms and Prayer,” Father Jim Farrell, presenter, $25 per person, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., baby-sitting available. January 16 Information: 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Day of Reflection, February 2-4 “Intimacy with Jesus through Prayer,” Franciscan Sister Patty Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Campbell, presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $35 per person includes “Tobit Weekend” for engaged couples. Information: 317-545- lunch. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail center@olden 7681 or e-mail www.archindy.org/fatima. burgosf.com. January 16-18 Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Couples Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Mid-week retreat, “All You Need Is Love,” Benedictine Father Noël retreat, “A Personal Preparation for the Paschal Mystery,” Mueller, presenter. Information: 812-357-6611 or e-mail Benedictine Father Jeremy King, presenter. Information: 812-357- [email protected]. 6611 or e-mail [email protected]. February 3 January 18 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, convent, Oldenburg. “Watercolor Oldenburg Franciscan Center, convent, Oldenburg. Day of Reflec- for Children and Teens,” Franciscan Sister Ann Vonder Meulen, tion, “In the Spirit, Signs of Life,” Franciscan Father Carl 9 a.m.-noon for children 7-11, 1-4 p.m. for children 12-16, $20 per Hawver, presenter, 10:45 a.m. Information: 812-933-6437 or person. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail center@olden e-mail [email protected]. burgosf.com. January 20-February 10 February 6 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, convent, Oldenburg. “Watercolor “Day of Reflection,” Father Jonathan Meyer, presenter, 8:30 a.m.- 101 for Adults,” Deb Ward, instructor, 9 a.m.-noon, $95 per 2:30 p.m., $35 per person. Information: 317-545-7681 or person. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail center@oldenbur- www.archindy.org/fatima. gosf.com. February 8 January 22-March 26 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, convent, Oldenburg. “Divorce and “Theology of the Body for Parents and Teens,” Father Jonathan Beyond,” Franciscan Sister Janet Born, presenter, 7-9 p.m. Infor- mation: 812-933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. VIPs January 27 George and Judy (Neimeyer) Gurchiek, members of Day of Reflection Oldenburg Franciscan Center, convent, Oldenburg. “Praying with St. Margaret Mary Parish in Terre Haute, celebrated their Oldenburg Franciscan Sister Patty Campbell, parish life coor- Children,” Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mulso, presenter, 9 a.m.- 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 28. dinator of St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in Franklin County, noon, $20 per person. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail The couple was married on Dec. 28, 1946, at St. Mar- [email protected]. holds an icon of the three angels that visited Abraham. Sister garet Mary Church in Terre Haute. Patty will present a Day of Reflection on “Intimacy with Jesus January 28 They have four children: Loretta Dorman, Annette Through Prayer” on Jan. 16 at the Oldenburg Franciscan Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Murphy, Jeff and William Gurchiek. They have three Center in Oldenburg. For more information, call 812-933-6437. “Pre-Cana Conference” for engaged couples, 1:45-6 p.m. grandchildren. †

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Director of the archdiocesan Office SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS— Kim HarmlessPhoto by of Priestly and Religious Vocations Anita Owens was accepted into the Sisters of Providence postulancy on In a letter written during the early Sept. 14, 2006. A month later, the years of the Sisters of Providence within congregation’s foundress, St. Theodora the Diocese of Vincennes, St. Theodora Guérin, was canonized in Rome by Guérin counseled her Pope Benedict XVI. fellow sisters: “And Talk about the pinnacle of rest assured, my dear excitement! daughters, if you “I have entered the Sisters of lean with all your Providence at an extremely special weight upon time,” Owens said. “Mother Theodore’s Providence, you will legacy inspired me to live out my ideals find yourselves well in a dynamic way. supported.” “I have to try to live up to the legacy of At the time, these Mother Theodore’s sainthood. To those to words of trust and whom much is given, much is expected. hope were intended as encouragement What a wonderful role model we have in during a period of real struggle, anxiety our foundress.” and uncertainty. And indeed, in the face As the world begins to know and Providence Sister Regina Gallo prepares to receive Communion from Pope Benedict XVI on Oct. 15 of such difficulties, it was St. Theodora’s understand more about St. Theodora, the during a Mass held at St. Peter’s Square in Rome during which the foundress of her religious own lived example of trust in God and his interest of women in initial formation with community, St. Theodora Guérin, was declared a saint. providential care that helped sustain the the congregation has intensified. sisters in their life and ministry. Providence Sister Regina Gallo, who I need to do to serve God’s people with example of living with integrity and living As the Church in central and southern entered the congregation in 2001, said she love, mercy and justice.” the Gospel. The canonization is a unique Indiana has just recently celebrated the felt especially drawn to St. Theodora while Having a saintly role model has opportunity in the history of the congre- canonization of its first saint, it seems attending Mother Theodore Guérin High stimulated deeper faith and spirituality for gation to share our lives more globally.” fitting to have her emphasis on School in River Grove, Ill. those who aspire to follow in her footsteps. Celebrations continue in small ways to Providence serve as the theme for this “I developed a deep love for her, a deep “It feels to me that we are being called honor St. Theodora as parishes and year’s Religious Vocations Supplement bond to her,” Sister Regina said. “Her toward boldness in this time as Mother diocesan groups pay homage to her life, her and to allow St. Theodora’s words to courage and the way she dealt with Theodore was a woman of boldness. We devotion to God and her accomplishments. speak to us anew. adversity in her life, and how she handled are called to be risk-takers as Mother But the celebrations are also a gateway St. Theodora’s conviction that those those things with such grace is always an Theodore was a risk-taker,” said recently to the future as more and more people offer who lean on Providence will be well inspiration to me.” professed Providence Sister Beth Wright. devotion to the Church’s newest saint. As supported remains relevant to the life and Sister Regina believes the canonization “Maybe we are being called to walk to the future beckons, the sisters, both young ministry of the Sisters of Providence is a profound moment for the congregation the edge and cross over as Mother and old, are eager to share their foundress more than 160 years later, but it also but, for her personally, it’s only confir- Theodore did, moving into a new land, into with the world. speaks an important truth to all of us. mation of her devotion to St. Theodora. the unknown with the trust of Providence to “The people where I work are mainly Her words stand as a reminder of “The fact that she was proclaimed a guide us. Who knows what one will non-Catholic, but in a setting of a Catholic God’s great love and concern for us as saint is really not a huge factor for me. It’s ‘become’ when one lets go and chooses to school, [and] have responded with a lot of well as his constant presence and activity more about how she lived her life. She’s trust in Providence.” curiosity and enthusiasm,” said Sister Patty. in our lives. In a world touched by always been a saint to me,” Sister Regina Providence Sister Patty Wallace, “Many groups and people are claiming struggle, anxiety, uncertainty, brokenness, said. “It’s about the path we take. It so currently serving as a mission novice, said connections to Mother Theodore and the loneliness and grief, her counsel invites happened she was on a path to become a “Mother Theodore calls me to think about congregation and individual sisters and us to remember that our lives are in public saint, whereas I am on a path to turn what it means to be a Sister of Providence their ministries.” God’s hands, that he is with us, sustaining to her as an example of strength to do what in the world today. She is a wonderful See PROVIDENCE, page 8 us and calling us to his joy. As a Christian people, all of us, through our lives and prayer, are called to Deacon candidate ponders questions through prayer, service live in the mystery of God’s love, to By Sean Gallagher as a deacon, which is scheduled to occur in Church, a domestic Church, the place where recognize the movements of that love in June 2008. it all begins,” he said. those that surround us and to be an MADISON—Deacon candidate Mike Gardner has spent 32 of his 53 years Looking back on it now, Gardner instrument of that love to others. In doing Gardner stood in the front of a classroom at married to his wife, Cindy. Seven years recognizes that this long-held conviction so, we are called to the mystery of Pope John XXIII School in Madison, after their wedding, their life changed might have a profound impact upon his Christ’s promise to be with us and to fielding questions about the diaconate posed forever when they participated in a possible life and ministry as a deacon. sustain us. to him by the school’s eager third-graders. Marriage Encounter weekend. “I think that’s part of the way God has To lean on Providence is to trust in Most of the queries were straight- “… Going into that weekend [we were] formed me and has something in mind there this promise. It is to lean on the God who forward, dealing with the duties of a deacon seeing only black and white and gray,” he to bring into the diaconate and minister to loves us and seeks to journey with us, to in his ministry. said. “And coming out of that weekend, people that way,” he said. bring all that we are and all that we do But one made him pause. He was asked [it was] full Technicolor. Life was full. When the possibility of restoring the into our relationship with him and, why he wanted to become a deacon. “There was just joy and an awesome diaconate in the archdiocese was publicly through that relationship, to be a witness “That’s a hard question,” said Gardner, feeling that God has put us here for a raised and Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein of his providential care for others. one of 25 men who make up the reason … ” began the process to start the current deacon To lean on Providence is to recognize archdiocese’s first deacon formation class. Over the next several years, Gardner and formation program, Father John Meyer, that our lives are not our own, that we “And it’s a question that I probably will his wife helped other couples come to the pastor of Prince of Peace Parish in Madison have a purpose—a vocation—to be answering for the rest of my life.” same joy-filled realization as they helped since 1992, quickly knew who among his participate in God’s plan of salvation. In fact, Gardner has already devoted facilitate Marriage Encounter weekends. parishioners would be a good potential The lived example of trust in God much prayerful reflection to this Later, they were active in their parish and deacon. and his providence are important gifts fundamental question about the meaning of its school as their three sons grew and “As it was announced, I remembered that offered by priests, deacons and his life. became active in sports. Mike had expressed a desire in the past to religious brothers and sisters. In In an interview with The Criterion after Through it all, Gardner was dedicated to be involved, possibly as a deacon if that embracing a vocation of service in and his classroom presentation, Gardner spoke living out his faith consciously within his ever became an option for him in the for the Church, they bear witness to about how he has come to see that his life family life. archdiocese,” he said. “It didn’t take a huge their trust that God will sustain them. up to now has prepared him for ordination “We really viewed ourselves as a little search on my part.” They serve as living signs of the Having ministered with Gardner in intimate presence of God, who loves us. various parish programs for many years and And in their ministry, Providence gotten to know him in informal settings, touches us. Whether through teaching, Father Meyer appreciated his spiritual counseling, prayer, preaching, celebrating values. Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by the sacraments or simply through their “Besides his commitment to the Church presence, priests, deacons and religious and to his family and to his faith, there’s an bring God’s love to bear on our lives. We obvious care and compassion that he has for lean on these men and women of faith other people,” he said about Gardner. because, through their witness and “There’s a gentle strength that he has in his ministry, we are called more deeply into involvement in the parish and in the the life and love that sustains us. community. He has a deeply spiritual side This supplement contains some of to him that is a key characteristic that I their stories. Though each is unique, I notice [in him].” believe all of them witness to trust in One person who has observed Gardner’s God’s providential care. In reading these commitment and compassion up close is his stories, may we be reminded that if we wife. lean with all our weight upon Providence, “He has more of a quiet faith,” Cindy we will indeed find ourselves well Gardner said. supported. † Deacon candidate Mike Gardner, a member of Prince of Peace Parish in Madison, discusses the “He’s a hard worker. But he’s not one diaconate on Nov. 16 with third-graders at Pope John XXIII School in Madison. See GARDNER, page 10 Page 8 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 From Brownsburg to Rome Life’s blessings and crosses aid Danda along path to priesthood

By Sean Gallagher Father Thomas Schliessmann, How does an eager young altar server get from left, pastor of Brownsburg to living in the shadow of the Vatican in Rome? St. Rose of Lima Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by The circuitous route that seminarian Sean Danda took to Parish in Franklin the Eternal City included stops in Indianapolis, where he and Holy Trinity was a student at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School, and at Parish in St. John Vianney College Seminary in St. Paul, Minn. Edinburgh, chats Now a second-year seminarian at the Pontifical North on Oct. 14 with American College in Rome, Danda is a little more than two seminarian Sean years away from being ordained a priest. Danda on the Along his path to the priesthood, Danda, who grew up a steps of St. Mary member of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, has Major Basilica in experienced the heartache of his mother’s debilitating Rome during the illness, but also the blessings found in the care given him by archdiocesan his grandparents and the companionship of teenage friends pilgrimage to and diocesan priests. Italy for the Through it all, his desire to serve God as a priest has canonization of never wavered. St. Theodora In an e-mail from Rome to The Criterion, Danda said Guérin. that he thought about being a priest as early as the second grade. During that same time, he was forced to confront at a young age many deep questions about life and death as he learned about his mother’s illness, scleroderma, a debili- tating and potentially fatal disease that causes a hardening of the skin and connective tissues. “I remember lying in bed one night and asking myself quite vividly, ‘If we are all to die one day, why are we here priests have been fatherly role models for him. relax for a while,” he said. today?’ ” he said. “And I heard very clearly an answer that “Many children find father figures in coaches, teachers But while Danda knows how to relax and enjoy life, he said ‘to love and serve the Lord.’ [or] a friend’s dad,” he said. “I found father figures in the also has benefited from life’s challenges. “I do not remember this from any classes at St. Malachy priests that I knew, and I desired to imitate and take on that From the time that he was in grade school, he has coped at the time, but I asked another question confidently, ‘How same fatherly role.” with a reading disability. Yet Danda has overcome it to excel can I do that?’ And, I heard, ‘You can be a priest.’ ” However, Msgr. Schaedel said that while he was pleased in the academic sphere of his priestly formation. Throughout his grade school and high school years, with Danda’s interest in the priesthood, he also encouraged His mother’s continuing illness has been a struggle as Danda’s grandparents, whom he described as “a second set him as he entered his teenage years to have “a normal high well. of parents,” did much to raise him because of his mother’s school experience.” Danda has approached these and other crosses with faith. illness and his father’s work schedule. And Danda did that at Ritter, having fun with a steady “I always knew God was there and trusted that he was,” Pauline Danda witnessed how her grandson’s difficult group of friends throughout his four years there. he said. “The thought did not change, but it affected me family circumstances brought him closer to God. One such friend was Jonathan Anderson, a member of differently at different stages in my life.” “Being the type of child that he was, he was a very caring St. Malachy Parish and currently a student at the Indiana The next stage for Danda will be when he is ordained a person,” she said. “And [since] his mother was not in good University School of Law in Indianapolis. deacon and then a priest. He believes that his faith, which health, I think that brought him closer to [his] faith. I think it “We did anything any normal high school friends would grew through the challenges he faced as a young man, will inspired him, too.” do,” Anderson said. “It wasn’t like it was different because be a blessing to him and those he will serve after ordination. Danda’s closeness to his faith led him to be an he was going to be a priest. We didn’t even think about it, “I imagine that this perspective will bring me great peace enthusiastic altar server. honestly.” and grace to persevere, and I hope to bring that to others as In 1994, he was preparing to serve Holy Thursday Mass Anderson recalled with pleasure the many afternoons that well,” he said. “I hope that I will be able to rely more fully at his parish when the associate pastor, then Father Joseph he and his friend whiled away lounging next to the pool at on Christ and remember that I am only an instrument for his Schaedel, asked which of the servers were going to become Danda’s house. use.” a priest. Since Danda has been in Rome for the past year and a Although Danda has traveled the world in his priestly Danda eagerly responded, “I am.” half, he hasn’t had the chance to relive those lazy high formation, he knows that his future life and ministry as a In the ensuing years, Msgr. Schaedel took an interest in school summer days for a long time. But he’s scheduled to priest will rest on how Christ has worked in his life. Danda, who often served Masses for him after he became return home this summer, and Anderson is looking forward “It is true that the Lord has led me many places, but I am the pastor of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in to spending time with his friend. who I am,” he said. “I am different [because of my travels], Indianapolis in 1999. “I know he’s definitely going to be busy next summer, and I should be. When we stop changing, we die. I hope that Danda said that Msgr. Schaedel and other diocesan but we’ll get together … and we’ll have to sit down and I am always growing and turning toward the Lord.” † PROVIDENCE Brescia University continued from page 7 “Mother Theodore is in each Sister of Providence. Her Ministry Formation Program spirit is alive as is her dedication to God. 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By John Shaughnessy Benedictine Sisters Julie Sewell, left, and BEECH GROVE—The questions challenged and haunted Mildred Wannemuehler Julie Sewell. chat at Our Lady of “While I was brushing my teeth one morning, I heard Grace Monastery, their Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by something say to me, ‘What are you really doing with your religious community’s life? Is this what you really should be doing?’ ” she recalls. home in Beech Grove. “It wasn’t an audible voice. It came from inside of me. It came from out of nowhere.” Until that moment, she thought she was content. She had a good job in Chicago doing strategic planning for a health- related company. She enjoyed her work, had close friends and never felt there was anything missing in her world. Yet those questions started her on what she calls “the long, winding journey” of her life, a seven-year journey that has shaken her foundations, stirred her soul and led her to Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove where, at the age of 46, she is following her heart as a Benedictine sister. In a way, it’s the story of one woman’s journey to find her place in the world—to find her way back to the faith she had set aside, to find her way to the calling she resisted for so long. “I grew up in the Catholic Church, but I hadn’t been active for 10 years when the questions started,” says Sister Julie as she sits inside the monastery. “I hadn’t gone to church regularly. I appreciated my Catholic upbringing, but with the traveling I did at work I kind of drifted away.” Once the questions surfaced in 1999, she couldn’t ignore give up your job and follow me, there would be abundance in “You’re participating in the life and the liturgy and the them. So she sought the help of a woman in Chicago who your life.’ ” prayer of the community,” she says. “You have a great helped people discover the most important elements of their She still didn’t give up her job, but she moved to Indian- spectrum of people who live here. The older sisters have so lives. As an exercise, the woman took her to the Art Institute apolis to do it. She viewed the city as a place where she was much wisdom and you gain from their wisdom. You see how of Chicago and asked her to point out the paintings she liked getting answers to her questions. She began taking theology they model the Benedictine life. They embrace and live the and give her reasons why. The exercise showed that the most courses and attending more retreats. Then she enrolled in a life, and they want that to happen for you.” important value in her life was spirituality. spiritual direction internship at Our Lady of Grace Benedictine Sister Mildred Wannemuehler has served that She began reading the Bible, and books by Thomas Monastery. role for Sister Julie as her Scriptures teacher. Keating and Thomas Merton. She also visited an aunt in “I began to have a lot of exposure to this community,” she “She’s very mature,” says Sister Mildred, who has Indianapolis, who took her on a spiritual retreat one says. “The more time I spent here, the more I felt I been in the order for 59 years. “She’s had a lot of weekend. belonged.” experience. I think we have kindred spirits. I go to help “I just had a profound experience while I was there that Finally, on Sept. 7, 2005, she entered the monastery with in the [Indiana Women’s Prison] on Tuesday nights, and my life needed to go in a different direction,” Sister Julie a desire to become a Benedictine sister. she’s interested in that.” recalls. “I flew back to Chicago. I still didn’t know what to “I remember the first couple weeks I was here,” she says. Sister Julie previously served as a mentor to juvenile do with all of this. I tried to work, but the experience “I remember thinking, ‘Have I done the right thing?’ Then, offenders. She hopes her life as a Benedictine sister will let wouldn’t let me go. I started to go back to church again. I one day, it hit me that no matter what happens, it’s a blessing her serve others. started to reconnect.” to be here. I felt at home. Since then, I’ve tried to immerse “I want to be involved in ministry, in helping people out. I Still, the move toward a religious vocation didn’t come myself in the experience it’s given me. They really give you was working with the homeless and poor in the past. I feel I until she had another life-altering moment. the opportunity to study and see what this life is like so when want to continue in that way.” “I came back to Indianapolis to see my aunt,” she recalls. you do make a commitment, you’ve done it from a heartfelt She pauses and thinks about “the long, winding journey” “At her church, I was getting some cups ready for some place.” she has made, a journey that she believes has taken her to her function. Someone asked me to put lemon slices in the cups. She is in her second year as a novice. She is scheduled to spiritual home. I had 12 cups left and I couldn’t find another lemon. Finally, take her temporary vows in June of 2008. She would make “The hard part was all that struggle before I came. I didn’t I found a small one on the floor. I washed it, scraped it and her final vows three to five years later, she says. know for sure if I was making the right decision. I didn’t cut it up into small pieces for all the cups. She admits that her former co-workers, some of her want to make a mistake, but I knew the only way I would “When I woke up the next morning, I was brushing my friends and even some family members didn’t understand the figure it out was if I tried it,” she says. “Since I came, I really teeth. I heard this thought rise up again, ‘Your life is like that choice she made. Yet she has found strength and support in have the feeling that I’m in the right place. This is an one lemon that you tried to stretch so far. If you would just the influence and inspiration of the sisters at the monastery. incredible blessing.” † Former member of St. Nicholas Parish ordained a priest in Rome

The Criterion staff report no meaning, because God is the only antidote to sadness and Cheshire, Conn., in 1993. From there, his preparation for the despair, because he is the only remedy to death,” Cardinal priesthood has brought him to several parts of the Legion of Christ Father Daren Weisbrod, formerly a Rode told the new priests in his homily. “Live joyfully! No United States and Italy. member of St. Nicholas Parish in Sunman, was ordained a difficulty, no weakness can ever be a cause to abandon “Generosity is the primary gift that God gave me when it priest on Dec. 23 at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. yourselves to sadness or despair.” came time to saying yes to my vocation,” said Father Daren. Cardinal Franc Rode, prefect of the Holy See’s Institute of Born in Cincinnati in 1974, Father Daren later was a “Having the world mapped out before me, and having a new Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, was the student at St. Nicholas School, where he was taught by the reality proposed instead was at first difficult to accept, but at celebrant of the liturgy during which 55 members of the Sisters of St. Francis based in Oldenburg. the very end of the candidacy I realized that God was asking Legion of Christ were ordained to the priesthood. “I am extremely grateful,” Father Daren said, “for the care more than I was giving. “Be convinced that you are priests the world needs they always showed for our religious formation, and above all “And in the end, I said, ‘Lord, if you want me, I’m yours.’ because the world needs God, because without him life has for the example of generous fidelity to their religious lives. I And I’ve never looked back. God blesses you when you’re think that I owe my religious vocation to their example, generous.” † sacrifice and prayer.” Life at home was centered on the family and the education

Submitted photo of Father Daren and his three older brothers to become men Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College fully prepared for all that life would ask of them. Announces ... “I can sum up my youth in these words: hard work, family fun and living life to the full,” said Father Daren. He learned how to work hard alongside his father and brothers from the time he was a small boy. “Work was sacred and tough, and looking back leaves me A Symposium Celebrating the Sainthood with some of the best memories of my childhood,” of Mother Theodore Guerin Father Daren said. “As Sunday is the Lord’s Day, in a similar February 2-4, 2007 way Saturday belonged to my Dad.” Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana Being pushed for excellence in every field, Father Daren Call for Presenters qualified for the National Honor Society at Milan High The Committee welcomes proposals for School in Milan with a 3.74 grade point average. In his high presentations and workshops that examine school years, he played various sports, took up acting and the connections between women of faith even won a state championship medal for singing. and Saint Mother Theodore, founder of Although he had initially planned on attending music the Sisters of Providence, and Saint school for college, his father invited him to enroll at the Mary-of-the-Woods College, a woman Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. There, in the fall of prayer, an educator, caregiver, naturalist, of 1992, he began studies for a double major in television and businesswoman, champion of justice ... radio broadcasting and business management. a woman imaging God. After one year of college, feeling inspired to give more to Christ and live the Catholic faith to the full in an active way, For more information contact he thought about the priesthood. Dr. Patricia McIntyre, [email protected], “The first place I checked out was the Legion, and I felt Dr. Virginia Unverzagt, [email protected] Cardinal Franc Rode ordains Legion of Christ Father Daren right at home.” MAPT Office 1-812-535-5206 Weisbrod on Dec. 23 at St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Page 10 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Benedictine brother answers call to monastic life By Mary Ann Wyand pilgrimage that has included trips to Benedictine many countries. Brother ST. MEINRAD—“Listen,” the first A native of Michigan City, Ind., where Christian Raab word in The Rule of St. Benedict, reminds his family attends Notre Dame Parish, plays his guitar Benedictine Brother Christian Raab that Daniel Christian Raab started thinking Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann on Jan. 2 at God is always present. about becoming a priest when he was 11. Saint Meinrad’s “Our prayer really begins with not what He was intrigued by his older brother Joe’s new guest we have to say but with what God is saying temporary interest in the priesthood and house. He enjoys to us,” Brother Christian explained during a inspired by a young priest serving at his community break from his seminary studies on Jan. 2 parish. prayers, music, at Saint Meinrad School of Theology in After graduating from Marquette High Mass, reading southern Indiana. School in Michigan City in 1993, he earned and silence, “Recognizing what God is saying, a bachelor’s degree in history, religious which he recognizing God’s presence, is an act of studies and education at Indiana University describes as “a faith, an act of belief,” he said. “There are in Bloomington in May 1997. matter of times countless moments when I have felt While at IU, he worshiped at St. Paul and places” in confirmed about where I am in my life, and Catholic Center. During a retreat at monastic life. affirmed that God is with me and guiding Saint Meinrad Archabbey with several me, that he has brought me here to know college friends, he realized that he felt him in a particular way.” called to monastic life there but wasn’t Brother Christian describes himself as a ready to pursue a religious vocation. contemplated his future. the age of 30, and enjoys seeking God and “seeker” and believes God’s Providence led “Being at Saint Meinrad, I felt this “I was very much a seeker, and I had serving the Church. him to monastic life with the Benedictine amazing sense of peace and freedom some very extraordinary opportunities Brother Christian said he sees life as “a monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in inside,” he said. “I felt like I had come during my life,” he said. “I’ve traveled all big journey, which is ironic because monks October 2003. home, like I was in the place where I could over the world. I’ve been to Europe a take vows of stability, but I think that in “It is in praying the Divine Office— become the person God had made me to number of times, the South Pacific, India, coming to the monastery there was a sense praying the psalms with my monastic be. But I was unable to really receive the Latin America, Canada and much of the of coming home, finding God, finding brothers—that I feel most in touch with my call at this time because I was afraid of U.S. I was on a physical search and an truth, and finding beauty and goodness. vocation and closest to God,” he said. “The choosing a life of celibacy, and a life of intellectual search, which I pursued through “It has its challenges, but it’s all very prayer we pray is actually the prayer of doing something so different, and—like so my studies at IU. And I was on an rewarding and wonderful,” he said. “It’s Christ. When we pray, we are praying many college students—because my moral emotional search like so many people are, incredibly consoling to know that I am along with him. The Spirit comes and life had some kinks that needed to be trying to find love, purpose and meaning in loved and have a place in this world. At the unites us to Christ, who is the leader of our worked out.” my life. What I have come to discover was same time, the pilgrimage continues. It’s praying band.” After graduation, he taught religion that I was really on a search for God.” never ending.” His favorite Scripture passage is from classes at St. Benedict High School in He visited Saint Meinrad a second time Brother Christian hopes to make his Chapter 5 of St. Paul’s Letter to the Chicago for five years and was a member in September 2003, and again felt God solemn monastic profession in February Ephesians, which reads in part, “ … Be of several folk rock bands. calling him to monastic life there. He met 2008 and is preparing for his ordination to filled with the Spirit, addressing one While teaching, he earned a master’s with the vocations director and enrolled in the priesthood during the summer of 2009. another [in] psalms and hymns and spiritual degree in theology at Loyola University in the novitiate program a month later. As he continues his studies for the songs, singing and playing to the Lord in Chicago and discerned religious life by “Everything that I had felt here during priesthood, Brother Christian said he is your hearts, giving thanks always and for going to daily Mass, meeting with a my college years returned again,” he said. “thankful to God that he never stopped everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Benedictine monk for spiritual direction “Christ is a fisher of men, and I was sowing seed on my path. … The insatiable Christ to God the Father” (Eph 5:18b-20). and visiting a number of religious caught.” spiritual hunger God planted in me simply He believes that it summarizes the communities, which he describes as his He made his simple monastic profession wouldn’t relent until I found him. God kept goal of his life journey, an ongoing “period of cultivating good soil” as he as a Benedictine monk on Feb. 2, 2005, at calling!” †

“I think that prayerfulness kind of breaks GARDNER down … selfishness,” he said. “I know, for continued from page 7 me, I’d much rather watch TV than go out into the world and do God’s [work]. that would stand up and be in the “So that prayer keeps us in touch that limelight … .” God doesn’t have that in mind for us. Shying away from the adulation of the [And] in your service, you find out that crowd is a good trait for a deacon, there’s a lot more out there to pray for according to Mike Gardner, who said a than just yourself. It pulls you out of deacon is called to be “a humble servant.” yourself.” Thus far in his participation in the Looking back on the time he shared with deacon formation program, Gardner has the third-graders at Pope John XXIII had the chance to put this principle into School, Gardner suggested a deeper answer action in many ways. to the question of his vocation, an answer He’s done jail ministry at the Jefferson that he wanted to instill in his young County, Ind., Jail, distributed Communion audience. at King’s Daughters’ Hospital in Madison “We’re within the kingdom of God,” and participated in a service trip sponsored Gardner said. “And that reality has flowed by Prince of Peace Parish to St. Clare in on me since formation [for the diaconate] Parish in Waveland, Miss., which was began. That’s what we’re about. severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. “I talked to the kids over there [about But in order to maintain that attitude of this]. It’s not about a nice car and a nice humility in his ministry of service, Gardner house and a good job. We’re here because has found a wellspring of grace in his life we were created to be with God for of prayer. eternity.” †

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Oldenburg Franciscan Sister Monica Zore teaches calculus classes at Marian College in Indianapolis, which was founded by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1936 in Oldenburg and relocated to Indianapolis in 1937.

Franciscan Sisters Ann Marie Quinn, left, and Joan Miller examine the body of Franciscan Sister Marie Nett pets a beefalo, which is part steer and part a hawk preserved for education programs at the congregation’s Michaela buffalo, on Nov. 15 at Michaela Farm in Oldenburg. Sister Marie is responsible Farm in Oldenburg on Nov. 15. Sister Ann Marie is the director of for the gardens and animals at the sisters’ organic farm. programming and public relations at the farm and Sister Joan is the vocations director for the community. Photos by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann

Carrying the Eucharist, Franciscan Sister Evelyn Franciscan Sister Jannette Pruitt arranges an icon of As president of Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Forthofer prepares to bring Communion to sisters St. Martin de Porres in front of the altar at St. Monica Conception, Franciscan Sister Therese Gillman also living at St. Clare Hall, the health care facility at the Church in Indianapolis before a feast day Mass there on finds time to teach a class on Nov. 15 about how to start motherhouse in Oldenburg, on Nov. 15. Nov. 3. She ministers as director of religious education a not-for-profit business. at St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis. Page 12 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Franciscan brother finds peace in service to God

By Mary Ann Wyand “Through thinking and praying and visiting religious communities, I came to the conclusion that I should look at A pro-life pilgrimage to the nation’s capital changed the Brotherhood of the People of Praise,” he said. “I spent Zygmunt Mazanowski’s life in unexpected ways. a year right after high school with this small community in In late January of his junior year at Bishop Chatard Portland, Oregon. Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann High School in Indianapolis, he traveled to Washington, “But I wasn’t ready [for religious life] at that point,” he D.C., with University of Notre Dame students to said. “I was 19 years old, and ended up coming back home participate in the National March for Life and pray for an and working for a little while then going to Ball State end to abortion. University. The desire was there, but it just wasn’t the right That pilgrimage, sponsored by the Knights of time.” Columbus, helped him grow closer to God. While studying philosophy at Ball State, he lived with a As a high school junior, he heard God calling him to the family that is active in the People of Praise community in priesthood while he kneeled on the marble floor of the his hometown of Muncie, Ind. Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate After earning a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, he Conception during the Mass for Life concelebrated by decided to study theology at Saint Meinrad School of cardinals, bishops and priests from throughout the Theology on weekends and during the summer while United States. living with another family in the People of Praise “I was 17,” he recalled. “Part of the trip was going to community in Fishers, Ind. the Mass at the national shrine. It was very crowded and “Growing up in a lay community family environment there were no seats [in the pews] so we had to sit on the was an important part of my life,” Brother Zygmunt said. floor. I decided that I was going to stand when everyone “I was in the community as an adult for seven years, and stood and kneel when people were kneeling or sitting, that experience laid a really good foundation for religious mainly as a way to sacrifice for the unborn and the mothers life.” of unborn children.” He graduated from Saint Meinrad’s lay master’s He quickly discovered that kneeling on the hard marble program in the summer of 2004 and—through a lot of floor hurt his knees. prayer and discernment—realized that God was calling “As the Mass went on, that became pretty challenging, him to religious life. to say the least,” he explained. “It was painful. After I went As part of his discernment process, he considered up to receive Communion and came enrolling at Franciscan University in back and knelt down again, I had this Steubenville, Ohio, operated by the experience that I still remember of ‘If you are called by the Third Order Regular Franciscans. supernatural joy. Holy Spirit to religious While continuing his discernment, he “That’s what I call it,” he said. “I felt life, which may take a traveled to Europe with his sister, Third Order Regular Franciscan Brother Zygmunt Mazanowski felt God speaking to me in my heart saying, Kristin, and visited Rome, St. Francis of called to religious life while attending Bishop Chatard High ‘If I call you to be a priest, you will be little while to figure out, it Assisi’s home and St. Maximilian School in Indianapolis. His family attends St. Luke Parish. “The happy.’ Right then I knew that the joy has been my experience Kolbe’s parish in Warsaw, Poland, first stage of religious life involves growing in your prayer life,” he was coupled with the suffering I had to that it is a joyful, peaceful, where the Conventual Franciscan friar said, “maturing as a person in countless ways, growing in your experience throughout the Mass from character-building, served before dying in the Nazi concen- experience of the beauty of our Church and the wide variety of kneeling, and that if I embraced this call sacrificial, exciting and tration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. celebrations and feast days, ... and having a chance to experience suffering was going to be a part of it.” sometimes unimaginable— “That [trip] left a big impression on ministry up close and in new ways.” That spiritual message prompted him me,” he said. “I came to the conclusion to begin praying about what to do after in a good sense—way to that the next step for me was to move university or seminary. graduating from high school. live.’ from Indianapolis to Steubenville for a His father, Zygmunt Mazanowski III, is proud of his In January of his senior year, he semester, and I accepted an invitation to oldest son. returned to the nation’s capital with — Third Order Regular pray Morning Prayer from the Liturgy “I couldn’t be prouder that he is following a path that hundreds of teenagers as part of a youth Franciscan Brother of the Hours with the friars.” will allow him to serve the Lord and eventually be a pilgrimage organized by the Zygmunt Mazanowski He also visited their friary at Loretto, priest,” the elder Mazanowski said. “I’m really happy that archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Pa., where the order operates St. Francis he’s happy. I’ve always had confidence that Zyg would Ministry with financial assistance from University. discern God’s will and follow it.” the Knights of Columbus. “I started going to spiritual direction with a Franciscan His sister, Kristin Lobodo, the athletic director at Twelve years later, Third Order Regular Franciscan priest in Steubenville,” he said. “I experienced a lot of Ave Maria University in Naples, Fla., said discerning Brother Zygmunt Mazanowski is studying for the peace as I moved forward with this … and decided to religious life has been a wonderful journey for him. priesthood at The Catholic University of America, adjacent apply to their postulancy program. I was accepted and in “We accepted Christ into our lives at the same time,” to the basilica in Washington. August 2004 moved to Loretto to begin postulancy, a nine- she said. “It was really through him and his example that I He has enjoyed the adventures that God has given him month experience of living in the community—being a gave my life to the Lord and started following him and since he said yes to religious life nearly three years ago. part of the order and praying with them—and taking wanted to work for the Church.” “I have experienced so many things,” he said, “and had so classes at the university.” By sharing his story, Brother Zygmunt hopes other many unique opportunities in ministry during prayer He decided to continue formation as a novice in young people will step aside from the busyness of daily experiences, being mentored by spiritual directors, traveling May 2005, which involves a year of prayer and study as a life to listen for God’s call. all over the U.S. and meeting … brothers, sisters and priests Franciscan brother. “If you are called by the Holy Spirit to religious life, from many religious communities and dioceses. “That year went really well and I was impressed with which may take a little while to figure out, it has been my “During these last two years, I never would have had a their community life,” Brother Zygmunt said. “I was able experience that it is a joyful, peaceful, character-building, chance to have so many awesome experiences had I not to do a lot of ministry at the university. As the year went sacrificial, exciting and sometimes unimaginable—in a given religious life a try,” Brother Zygmunt said. “I on, I felt God calling me to continue. I had a lot of peace good sense—way to live,” Brother Zygmunt said. actually believe that living as a Franciscan brother is the about it.” “Although you don’t experience physical intimacy like a most adventurous way I could choose to live.” He professed simple vows as a Third Order Regular married couple would, you have the opportunity to He grew up in a loving environment with six siblings. Franciscan brother on May 26, 2006. experience spiritual intimacy with Jesus and a wide variety His family is active in the People of Praise charismatic Now 29, Brother Zygmunt is studying for the priesthood of people. community, and worships at St. Luke Parish in Indian- at Catholic University and pursuing a sacred theology “If living within God’s plan for you includes becoming apolis and St. Louis de Montfort Parish in Fishers, Ind., in baccalaureate degree. 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I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me: Meeting Christ in New Neighbors A Pastoral Statement by the Catholic Bishops of Indiana

Then the king will say to those on his status—should be welcomed as Christ right, “Come, you who are blessed by my himself. Everyone should be encouraged to Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you feel a genuine sense of membership and

from the foundation of the world. CNS photo from Reuters belonging in our parish communities and For I was hungry and you gave me food, I dioceses. The new immigrants remind us was thirsty and you gave me drink, a of our ancestral heritage as children of stranger and you welcomed me, naked and immigrants and of our baptismal heritage you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in as members of the body of Christ. prison and you visited me.” On January 22, 1999, in Mexico City, Then the righteous will answer him and Pope John Paul II stood beneath the figure say, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and of Our Lady of Guadalupe and proclaimed feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? a message of hope to all the peoples and When did we see you a stranger and wel- nations of the Americas. In his apostolic come you, or naked and clothe you? When letter, Ecclesia in America (“The Church did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you? in America”), the late Holy Father spoke And the king will say to them in reply, of the diverse gifts and talents of our peo- “Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for ple, the natural beauty and vast resources one of these least brothers of mine, you did of our land, and the many distinctive cul- for me” (Mt. 25:34-40). tures and traditions that have contributed to the way life is lived in the great metro- We Catholic bishops of Indiana recommit politan centers, small towns and rural vil- ourselves and our dioceses to welcoming lages in which we live. As members of others as Christ himself. Together with all one family, Pope John Paul reminded us, our sisters and brothers throughout the state we are called to conversion, communion of Indiana, we embrace an authentic and and solidarity as brothers and sisters in enduring form of Hoosier hospitality that Christ. goes beyond superficial slogans to the heart We believe that preaching and living the of what it means to be a community of faith Gospel will lead the peoples and nations of that welcomes all who wish to share our way the Americas “to a daily vision of the risen of life. Lord, present and active in the world, In his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est especially in the poor, in the stranger, and (“God Is Love”), Pope Benedict XVI in the migrant and refugee” (Ecclesia in reminds us that there is an intimate and America, Apostolic Exhortation, John Paul unbreakable connection between love of God II, January 1999). and love of neighbor. Because God has first loved us—completely and unconditionally— The teachings of our faith we are compelled to love one another. And Our commitment to human life and the in loving our neighbor, we meet the person dignity of immigrants is rooted in of Christ. Scripture and the social teachings of our Who is my neighbor? Not simply some- Church. “When an alien resides with you one who is familiar and close at hand. Not in your land, do not molest him. You shall simply someone who shares my ethnic, treat the alien who resides with you no social or racial characteristics. In the differently than the natives born among Gospels, we learn that our neighbor is any- you; have the same love for him as for one who is in need—including those who are yourself; for you too were once aliens in homeless, hungry, sick or in prison. A neigh- the land of Egypt. I, the LORD, am your bor may well be a complete stranger whose God” (Lv 19:33-34). background, experience or social standing is The Church’s dedication to caring for very different from ours. migrants was explained by Pope Pius XII when he said “the émigré Holy Family of An immigrant Church Nazareth, fleeing into Egypt, is the arche- The Catholic Church, especially in the type of every refugee family. Jesus, Mary United States, is an immigrant Church, a pil- and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to grim people on a journey of faith, hope and CNS photo/Karen Callaway escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all love. We are fellow travelers on the way to times and all places, the models and pro- our heavenly home, the kingdom of God. As tectors of every migrant, alien and refugee members of Christ’s body, the Church, we of whatever kind who, whether compelled are an exceptionally diverse group of people by fear of persecution or by want, is who are called to unity in Christ who gathers forced to leave his native land, his beloved all of the dispersed children of God into one parents and relatives, his close friends, family of faith (Jn 11:52). and to seek a foreign soil” (Exsul Familia Unity in diversity is our vision. Looking Nazarethena, Apostolic Exhortation, Pius at the history of Catholicism in our country, XII, August 1952). we call attention to the waves of immigrants Immigration has been a constant fea- that shaped the character of our nation and ture of America’s history. In accord with of our local churches. We also note that the the teachings of Sacred Scripture and con- immigrant experience, which is deeply sistent with Catholic tradition, immigrants rooted in U.S. religious, social and political should be met with a welcoming attitude. history, is changing. We affirm with Pope John Paul II that “the These new immigrants are diverse in their Church in America must be a vigilant origins, but they also reflect a wide range of advocate, defending against any unjust skills, experiences and educational back- restriction of the natural right of individual grounds. Many left their homelands because persons to move freely within their own of fear of persecution. They are seeking a nation and from one nation to another. new life filled with hope, prosperity and the Attention must be called to the rights of ability to live, work and raise their families. migrants and their families and to respect These new waves of immigration have for their human dignity, even in cases of challenged our society and our Church to non-legal immigration”(Eccelsia in remember where we come from as the America, Apostolic Exhortation, John Paul descendants of immigrants and where we are II, January 1999). headed as people who are on the way to a foundly anti-Catholic and anti-American. are made in God’s image. They also con- We call to mind the complementary better life, a more secure world characterized They oppose the principles of human tradict the essential unity and catholicity to teachings of the Church regarding the right by unity, peace and prosperity for all. dignity and freedom that are the founda- which we are called as members of the one of a sovereign state to control its borders As a Catholic community, we vigorously tion for our American way of life—a way family of God. in furtherance of the common good, along support our nation’s right and responsibility of life that has historically been extended with the right of human persons to migrate to provide secure borders for the protection to all who have come to our shores seeking A call to conversion, communion so that they can realize their God-given of our people and to guard against those who life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in and solidarity rights. Therefore, the state may impose would do us harm. At the same time, we a just and prosperous society. Such divi- Every member of the Catholic commu- reasonable limits on immigration. But the reject positions or policies that are anti- sive and exclusionary attitudes are also nity in Indiana—regardless of his or her common good is not served when the basic immigrant, nativist, ethnocentric or racist. profoundly anti-Catholic because they place of origin, ethnic or cultural heritage, human rights of the individual are violated. Such narrow and destructive views are pro- deny the dignity of human persons who economic or social position, or legal See PASTORAL, page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Page 15 Yo Fui Forastero y Tú Me Acogiste: Encontrando a Cristo en los nuevos vecinos Declaración Pastoral de los Obispos Católicos de Indiana

Entonces el Rey dirá a los de su derecha: “Venid, benditos de mi Padre, frente a la figura de Nuestra Señora de heredad el reino preparado para vosotros Guadalupe y proclamó un mensaje de desde la fundación del mundo. esperanza a toda la gente y naciones de Porque tuve hambre, y me disteis de América. En su carta apostólica Ecclesia comer; tuve sed, y me disteis de beber; fui Joe Rimkus Jr. CNS file photo by in America (La Iglesia en América), el forastero, y me acogisteis; estuve desnudo, Santo Padre habló de los diversos dones y y me cubristeis; estuve enfermo, y me visi- talentos de nuestra gente, la belleza nat- tasteis; estuve en la cárcel, y vinisteis a ural y los abundantes recursos de nuestra mí.” tierra, y las muchas y variadas culturas y Entonces los justos le responderán tradiciones que han contribuido al estilo diciendo: Señor, ¿cuándo te vimos ham- de vida que se vive en las grandes urbes briento, y te sustentamos, o sediento, y te metropolitanas, pequeños poblados y dimos de beber? ¿Y cuándo te vimos comunidades rurales. Como miembros de forastero, y te recogimos, o desnudo, y te una familia, el Papa Juan Pablo II nos cubrimos? recuerda que hemos sido llamados a la ¿O cuándo te vimos enfermo, o en la conversión, comunión y solidaridad como cárcel, y vinimos a ti? hermanos y hermanas en Cristo. Y respondiendo el Rey, les dirá: De Creemos que el predicar y vivir el cierto os digo que en cuanto lo hicisteis a evangelio llevará a la gente y las naciones uno de estos mis hermanos más pequeños, de América “a una visión diaria del Señor, a mí lo hicisteis. (Mt. 25:34-40). que está presente y activo en el mundo, especialmente en el pobre, en el forastero, Los Obispos Católicos de Indiana junto en el inmigrante y el refugiado” (Ecclesia con nuestra diócesis nos hemos compro- in America, Exhortación Apostólica, Juan metido a acoger al prójimo como si fuera Pablo II, Enero 1999). Cristo. Junto con todos nuestros hermanos y hermanas a lo largo del estado de Las enseñanzas de nuestra fe Indiana hemos adoptado una auténtica y Nuestro compromiso con la vida perdurable hospitalidad de la gente local humana y con la dignidad de los inmi- que va más allá de frases superficiales al grantes está arraigado en las Escrituras y corazón de lo que significa ser una comu- en la doctrina social católica de nuestra nidad de fe que recibe a todo aquel que iglesia. “Cuando un forastero vive contigo desea compartir nuestra forma de vida. en tu tierra, no lo agredas. Deberáis tratar En su primera encíclica, Deus Caritas al forastero que vive contigo como a uno Est (Dios es amor), El Papa Benedicto de vuestro pueblo y deberáis amarlo como XVI nos recuerda que hay una conexión a ti mismo; pues forasteros fuisteis muy íntima e inquebrantable entre el amor vosotros en la tierra de Egipto. Yo, el de Dios y el amor a nuestro prójimo. Señor, soy tu Dios.” (Levíticos 19:33-34). Porque Dios primero nos ha amado a La dedicación de la iglesia por la soli- nosotros—completa e incondicional- daridad con los emigrantes fue explicada

mente—estamos obligados a amar al Sean Gallagher Photo by por el Papa Pio XII cuando expresó que prójimo. Y con el amor a nuestro prójimo, “La Sagrada Familia Peregrina de Nazaret encontraremos a Cristo en persona. huyendo de Egipto, es el prototipo de ¿Quién es mi prójimo o mi vecino? No todas las familias refugiadas. es simplemente alguien que nos es famil- Jesús, María y José, que viviendo en el iar o cercano a nosotros, no es simple- exilio en Egipto escaparon de la furia de mente alguien que comparte nuestras mis- un malvado rey, son, por a través de todos mas características étnicas, sociales o los tiempos y por todos los lugares, el raciales. En los evangelios, aprendemos modelo y protección de todos los inmi- que nuestro prójimo es alguien que está en grantes, forasteros y refugiados de necesidad—como lo son aquellos que cualquier clase, que sin importar si fueron viven en la calle, los que tienen hambre, obligados por el miedo a la persecución o los que están enfermos o en la cárcel. El por decisión propia, son forzados a dejar prójimo puede ser completamente extraño, su tierra natal, a sus amados padres y cuyos antecedentes, experiencia o forma- familiares y a sus amigos cercanos para ción social es muy diferente a la nuestra. buscar una tierra extranjera”. (Exsul Familia, Exhortación Apostólica, Papa Una Iglesia inmigrante Pio XII, Agosto 1952). La Iglesia Católica, especialmente en La inmigración ha sido una constante los Estados Unidos, es una Iglesia inmi- característica de la historia de América. grante, gente peregrina en un viaje de fe, De acuerdo con las enseñanzas de la esperanza y amor, compañeros de viaje en Sagrada Escritura y siendo consistente con camino a nuestro celestial hogar, el reino la tradición católica, los inmigrantes de Dios. deben encontrarse con una actitud de Como miembros del cuerpo de Cristo, nuestra iglesia que nos hace recordar de Tales posturas divisivas son profunda- acogimiento y de bienvenida. Nosotros la Iglesia, somos un excepcional grupo dónde venimos como descendientes de mente anti-católicas porque niegan la dig- estamos de acuerdo con el Papa Juan diverso de gente quienes hemos sido lla- inmigrantes y hacia dónde vamos como nidad de las personas que están hechas a Pablo II en que “la Iglesia en América mados a la unidad en Cristo quien reúne a personas al buscar una mejor manera de imagen y semejanza de Dios. De la misma debe ser un juez vigilante, defendiendo todos los hijos dispersos de Dios en una vida, un mundo más seguro que se carac- forma son contradictorias a la unidad cualquier restricción injusta al derecho sola familia de fe (Juan 11:52). terice por la unidad, por la paz y la pros- esencial y al catolicismo al que somos lla- natural de las personas para establecerse Nuestra visión es la unidad en la diver- peridad para todos. mados como miembros de la familia de libremente dentro de su país y de un país a sidad. Al repasar la historia del catoli- Como comunidad católica, nosotros Dios. otro. Se debe prestar atención a los dere- cismo en nuestro país, prestamos atención apoyamos profundamente el derecho y chos de los inmigrantes y de sus familias a las olas de inmigración que dieron responsabilidad de nuestra nación de Un llamado a la conversión, comunión y respetar la dignidad humana, hasta en forma al carácter de nuestra nación y al de brindar fronteras seguras en protección de y solidaridad los casos de inmigración illegal” (Eccelsia nuestras iglesias locales. También nos nuestra gente y de cuidarnos de aquellos Cada miembro de la comunidad in America, Exhortación Apostólica, Juan hemos dado cuenta que la experiencia que pudieran causarnos daño. Al mismo católica en el Estado de Indiana sin Pablo II, Enero 1999). migratoria, la cual está muy arraigada a la tiempo, rechazamos las posiciones y importar su lugar de origen, su herencia Hacemos un llamado para que se le historia religiosa, social y política de nue- políticas anti-inmigrantes, etnocéntricas o étnica o cultural, su posición económica o dé la importancia necesaria a las stro país, está cambiando. racistas. Estas limitadas y destructivas for- social, o su situación legal debe ser enseñanzas complementarias de la Estos nuevos inmigrantes tienen diver- mas de ver la realidad son completamente acogido como el mismo Cristo y debe ser Iglesia: El derecho de un estado sober- sos orígenes, y también reflejan un amplio anti-católicas y antiamericanas. motivado a sentir una sensación real de ano para controlar sus fronteras fomen- rango de aptitudes, experiencias y trayec- Estos puntos de vista son opuestos a los involucramiento y pertenencia en las par- tando el bien común; el derecho de las toria educativa. Muchos dejaron sus tierras principios de la dignidad humana y a la roquias de nuestra comunidad y de nuestra personas de emigrar para que puedan natales por miedo a la persecución. Están libertad que son los cimientos de nuestra diócesis. Los nuevos inmigrantes nos alcanzar los derechos que Dios nos dio. buscando una nueva vida llena de esper- vida Americana—una manera de vivir que recuerdan nuestra herencia ancestral como Por lo tanto, el estado puede imponer anza, prosperidad y de oportunidades de a través de la historia ha sido expandida a hijos de inmigrantes y de nuestra herencia limitantes razonables respecto a la inmi- vida, de trabajo y de mantener a sus famil- todos lo que han cruzado nuestras costas bautismal como miembros del cuerpo de gración, pero el bien común no aplica ias. buscando una vida, libertad y buscando Cristo. cuando se violan los derechos humanos Estas nuevas olas de inmigración han alcanzar una felicidad en una sociedad El 22 de enero de 1999, en la Ciudad básicos de las personas. implicado un reto a nuestra sociedad y a justa y próspera. de México, el Papa Juan Pablo II se postró Mira DECLARACIÒN, pagina 16 Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007

Política pública de Los Estados Unidos Estamos profundamente consternados por aquellas per- DECLARACIÒN sonas que se verán afectadas por los cambios propuestos continuado de pagina 14 en nuestras leyes de inmigración, los cuales esperamos

Guía de principios de la reforma que se debatan en nuestro Congreso. Wiechec Nancy CNS photo by Los principios que establecen estas enseñanzas nos lle- La necesidad por realizar una reforma a nuestro sis- van por la búsqueda de soluciones a problemas de inmi- tema migratorio es evidente. Debe contar con los sigu- gración: ientes elementos: • Las personas tienen el derecho de buscar oportu- • Un programa amplio de legalización merecida de las nidades en su tierra natal. personas indocumentadas; • Las personas tienen el derecho a emigrar para man- • Un programa temporal de trabajadores con las protec- tenerse a ellos mismos y a sus familias. ciones apropiadas tanto para trabajadores de E.E.U.U • Las naciones soberanas tienen el derecho a controlar como para trabajadores extranjeros; sus fronteras. • Cambios al sistema migratorio basado en la familia • Los refugiados y quienes buscan asilo deben recibir para reducir los tiempos de espera para la reintegración de protección. la familia; y • La dignidad humana y los derechos humanos de los • Restauración de los debidos procesos legales para inmigrantes indocumentados deben ser respetados. inmigrantes. El Papa Juan Pablo II dijo: “...es muy importante que la A los inmigrantes en este país sin la documentación opinión pública esté bien informada sobre la condición apropiada se les debe proveer de oportunidades para real en que se encuentra el país de origen de los inmi- obtener una legalización si demuestran carácter de buena grantes, acerca de las tragedias en los que se ven involu- moral. La legalización merecida debe ser alcanzable y crados y los posibles riesgos que correrían si volvieran. verificable independientemente. La miseria y la desdicha que les afectan son un motivo Muchos de los inmigrantes vienen a Los Estados más para salir generosamente al encuentro de los inmi- Unidos para cubrir empleos. La experiencia de los grantes (“Migrantes Indocumentados”, mensaje de El E.E.U.U. con programas de trabajadores temporales ha Papa Juan Pablo II en la Jornada Mundial del estado llena de abusos. Debe haber un sistema más Inmigrante, 1996). racional y humano en el que los trabajadores que vienen Como obispos católicos, nos entusiasma de todo de otros países puedan entrar al país de manera legal— corazón apoyar los esfuerzos para desarrollar futuras leyes con permisos de trabajo temporales—para cubrir empleos de nuestra nación referentes a la migración de gente a en la fuerza laboral. nuestro país. Las leyes actuales y las políticas de inmi- Estamos obligados a levantar un tema problemático. gración no son adecuadas para proteger los derechos y la Actualmente los ciudadanos americanos y los residentes obtener documentación legal de propiedad fuera del con- dignidad de los inmigrantes y sus familias. De la misma permanentes legales deben de soportar muchos años de trol de la Oficina de Transporte (BMV, ‘Bureau of Motor forma, éstas no logran mantener apropiadamente nuestras separación de sus familiares cercanos para poder reunirse Vehicles’ por sus siglas en Inglés). fronteras ni tampoco ofrecen una seguridad adecuada a con ellos en los Estados Unidos. El retraso en el trámite • Acceso a servicios de salud y educación para hijos de nuestra nación. Se requiere un cambio urgente, los obis- de visas disponibles para miembros de la familia es de inmigrantes. pos católicos del Estado de Indiana nos mantenemos com- diez, quince o hasta más años de espera antes de que su • Acceso equitativo a los servicios de protección y de prometidos a trabajar a nivel local, estatal y nacional. visa pueda estar disponible. Debería haber una reducción emergencias para inmigrantes. Pedimos apoyo para el clero, religiosos y líderes laicos en los trámites pendientes y más visas disponibles para que colaboran con organizaciones comunitarias, agencias propósitos de reunificación familiar. Una Iglesia peregrina de la iglesia y otros grupos religiosos a favor de los dere- Con toda la energía y el entusiasmo de nuestra juvenil chos de los inmigrantes en sus lugares de trabajo, escue- Política pública en el Estado de Indiana iglesia, nosotros apoyamos a los inmigrantes y refugiados las, servicios públicos y sistemas legales. De igual manera, los obispos de Indiana tenemos un en el Estado de Indiana porque nosotros compartimos sus La defensa a favor de los nuevos vecinos es completa- profundo interés en los temas que afectan a los nuevos experiencias—en nuestra historia y en nuestra espirituali- mente consistente con el papel que a través de los años inmigrantes que vienen a nuestro estado y en los temas dad—como la gente peregrina de Dios. hemos desempeñado en nuestra iglesia como un lugar de que necesitan ser debatidos en nuestra Asamblea General. ¡Hermanos y hermanas, únanse a nosotros! asilo, hospitalidad y refugio para todos los que vienen a Algunos elementos que requieren de inmediata aten- Únanse a nosotros en encontrar a Jesús en nuestros nosotros en búsqueda del amor de Cristo. ción son: nuevos vecinos. Nos regocijamos en el pluralismo cultural que es nues- • Permisos de conducir para inmigrantes indocumenta- Únanse a nosotros en pedirle a nuestra Señora de tra propia herencia de la iglesia. Nos comprometemos a la dos que deben manejar para ir a trabajar y poder alimentar Guadalupe, la patrona de América, para dar ayuda y conversión, comunión y solidaridad mientras acogemos a y mantener a sus familias. sabiduría cuando recibamos a nuestros nuevos vecinos. nuestros nuevos vecinos y trabajaremos para asegurar que • Permisos de conducir necesarios para sacar el seguro ¡Únanse a nosotros en invitar a nuestros nuevos vecinos ellos también disfruten de las oportunidades económicas, de sus automóviles y obtener la documentación necesaria a recibirnos, ya no somos extranjeros para ellos… a religiosas, sociales y políticas que les pertenecen como del vehículo. recibirnos como alegres hermanos y hermanas hechos por gente libre hecha a imagen y semejanza de Dios. • Extender el proceso para que los inmigrantes puedan nuestro bautismo común en nuestro Señor! †

Current laws and immigration policies are inadequate to There should be a more rational and humane system by PASTORAL protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and their fami- which laborers from other countries can enter the country continued from page 13 lies. They fail to properly maintain our borders or to ade- legally—including temporary work permits—to fill jobs in quately secure our nation. the labor force. Principles guiding reform Change is urgently needed. We Catholic Bishops of We are compelled to raise a troubling issue. Currently, The principles drawn from these teachings guide us in the Indiana remain committed to working at the local, state U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents must endure search for solutions to immigration issues: and national levels. many years of separation from close family members • Persons have the right to find opportunities in their We pledge our support for the clergy, religious and lay whom they want to join them in the United States. homeland. leaders who collaborate with community organizations, The backlog of available visas for family members • Persons have the right to migrate to support themselves Church agencies and other religious groups on behalf of results in 10, 15 or more years of waiting before a visa and their families. the rights of immigrants in the workplace, schools, public becomes available. There should be a reduction of the • Sovereign nations have the right to control their borders. services, and legal system. pending backlog and more visas available for family reuni- • Refugees and asylum seekers should be afforded protec- Advocacy on behalf of our new neighbors is com- fication purposes. tion. pletely consistent with our Church’s historic role as a place • The human dignity and human rights of undocumented of sanctuary, hospitality and refuge for all who come to us Public policy in the State of Indiana immigrants should be respected. in need of Christ’s love. Similarly, we bishops of Indiana, have deep interest in Pope John Paul II has said: “… it is very important that We rejoice in the cultural pluralism that is our own issues affecting new immigrants to our state and issues that public opinion be properly informed about the true situation Catholic heritage. need to be debated in our General Assembly. in the migrants’ country of origin, about the tragedies involv- We commit ourselves to conversion, communion and Some elements of immediate concern include: ing them and the possible risks of returning. The poverty and solidarity as we welcome our new neighbors and work to • Driver’s permits for undocumented immigrants who misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet ensure that they enjoy the economic, religious, social and must drive to work in order to feed and clothe their fami- another reason for coming generously to their aid.” political opportunities that belong to them as free people lies (“Undocumented Migrants,” Message of Pope John Paul II made in the image and likeness of God. • Driver’s permits needed for securing automobile for World Migration Day, 1996). license and insurance As Catholic bishops, we wholeheartedly support efforts to Public policy in the United States • A broader process for immigrants to obtain legal docu- further develop our nation’s laws concerning the migration We have deep concern for those who will be affected ments for ownership of property beyond the Bureau of of people to our country. by proposed changes in our immigration laws, which we Motor Vehicles (BMV) hope will be debated in our Congress. • Access to health care and education for immigrant The need for reform of our immigration system is evi- children dent. It should include the following elements: • Equal access to protective and emergency services for • A broad-based program of earned legalization for immigrants. undocumented persons • A temporary worker program with appropriate protec- A pilgrim Church tions for both U.S. and foreign workers With all the vibrancy and enthusiasm of our youthful • Changes to the family-based immigration system to Church, we stand with migrants and refugees here in reduce waiting times for family reunification Indiana because we share their experience—in our history CNS photo by Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register Tennessee Musacchio, Rick CNS photo by • Restoration of due process for immigrants. and in our spirituality—as the pilgrim people of God. Immigrants in this country without proper documenta- Brothers and sisters, join us! tion should be provided opportunities to obtain legaliza- Join us in meeting Jesus in our new neighbors. tion if they demonstrate good moral character. Earned Join us in entreating our Lady of Guadalupe, the legalization should be achievable and independently patroness of the Americas, for help and wisdom as we verifiable. embrace our new neighbors. Many migrants come to the United States to fill jobs. Join us in inviting our new neighbors to embrace us, no The U.S. experience with temporary workers’ programs longer strangers to them, but as joyful brothers and sisters has been fraught with abuses. made so by our common baptism in the Lord! † The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 17

me,” she said. “He put Father Bill in my VOCATION path.” continued from page 1 Ministering from a canoe Photo by Sean Gallagher “I really didn’t decide for sure that I Father Ernst has also ministered to families wanted to continue on to ordination until I in more informal ways—by sharing meals, a was a sophomore in college,” Father Ernst night at the theater or even on canoe trips. said. “I was really torn.” Thomas Rosenfeld, currently a member of But through the aid of his spiritual direc- St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby County, tor and his own life of prayer, he went on to was active at St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville ordination, freely forgoing the family life 25 years ago when Father Ernst was its pastor. that had stood before him as a real option. On more than one occasion, he and other members of the parish spent Sunday after- One of the family noons canoeing with their pastor. Since then, he has filled many decades “Those were just fun days,” Rosenfeld ministering to families and helping them said. “We’d take off after the 10 a.m. Mass grow in faith. and go down and float down the river and just As all parish priests are expected to do, have a lot of fun. this occurred through the sacraments and in “He was a pretty good athlete. He was a pastoral care during times of sickness and pretty good racquetball player.” loss in the lives of families. Besides enjoying companionship with the “To me, it’s always struck me that I’m families of his parishes, Father Ernst part of their life at the really important acknowledged that these outings served other Father William Ernst proclaims the Gospel during a Dec. 10 Mass at St. Mary Church in New Albany. times,” Father Ernst said. “I come into a purposes as well. parish, and I don’t know anybody. A One was to let those whom he served qualities in the members of the parish and that, and how that’s not always easy, even mother is dying and they want me there. I know that, although he was a priest, he had yet remained a leader himself. for a priest.” walk in like I’m one of the family almost.” ordinary human interests just like they did. “When you’re going to give responsi- Although it may not be easy at times This happened a few years ago in the life “Even though [a priest] is ordained by bility to people, you need to let them for him, Father Ernst said that prayer— of Jan Daly who, at the time that she met God, still he’s somewhat chosen from among lead,” Rosenfeld said. “But if they get off especially the Eucharist—is an indispens- Father Ernst, was not Catholic. the people,” Father Ernst said. “To me, that track, you also have to bring them back to able part of his life. It’s a value he traces She was the widowed mother of three was very important, that I, as a priest, was the center. all the way back to his days as a young children that she and her late husband had chosen from among the people. I didn’t pop “He’s very good at that. He’s the type student at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs School. adopted years earlier. out of heaven or anything like that.” that lets you do that without telling you “I couldn’t imagine not celebrating Coming to grips with her husband’s death what to do. He’s a good leader, but a quiet the Eucharist, to be perfectly frank,” he and the challenges of single motherhood Letting people lead leader.” said. “It’s the one thing that as a priest I was, in her words, “a spiritual journey.” By spending time with the laity, he also couldn’t imagine being without.” “My spiritual path took a long time until helped them come to know their own spiritual A man of prayer Ultimately, through his prayer and I really just followed my heart,” she said. gifts and ability for leadership in the parish, Father Ernst’s quietness reflects his per- ministry in the many parish communities “Father Bill has been part of that journey. something that Father Ernst came to value in sonality. “I’m not a great talker,” he said. in which he has served, Father Ernst has He’s a very easy person to talk to, a very the laity through his participation in a But it also might reflect his prayerful- been drawn closer to Christ. good listener. He didn’t tell me what to do. Cursillo weekend in 1968. ness, a quality in him that stood out Interestingly enough, he came to this He just listened.” “Leadership in spirituality [is] not just the strongly for Dan Schipp, a member of St. realization in 1977 when he went on a She eventually came into the full com- role of the priest, the nuns and the brothers,” Paul Parish in Tell City when Father Ernst pilgrimage far away to the Holy Land. munion of the Church through St. Mary he said. “It [is] also the role of the laity, too. was pastor there from 1985-89. “I came to realize that I experience Parish’s Rite of Christian Initiation of And it became very real [for me] at the Schipp, who described him as a “man of Christ’s presence much more in the parish Adults program. Since then, her life of faith Cursillo. It had a profound impact on me.” prayer,” said that his former pastor’s value community than I did in the Holy Land,” and the ministry of Father Ernst have been a Rosenfeld, who was active on St. Joseph of prayer was apparent in “how he presided Father Ernst said. source of comfort and strength. Parish’s Pastoral Council and board of educa- at liturgies and also in his preaching, talk- It is no wonder then that he has been so “I actually believe that God worked tion when Father Ernst was pastor, saw ing about the importance of prayer in his at home ministering quietly for so long in through him to make all of this happen for clearly how the priest valued the leadership own life, and his trying to be faithful to so many parish communities. † 2007 Summer We Pray for Vocations Spirituality Institute June 25-29, 2007

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WARSAW (CNS)—Polish “To the Holy Father, I declare that I Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus of submit to his every decision,” the Warsaw resigned just two days after statement said. formally taking office after admitting In a Jan. 4 statement, the Polish that he acted as an informer for Poland’s government’s commissioner for civil

former communist secret police and that rights, Janusz Kochanowski, said his Reuters Andrews, CNS photo/Peter his cooperation harmed the Church. commission had concluded after The archbishop made the examining secret police documents that announcement on Jan. 7 at the start of there was “no doubt” about Archbishop what was to have been his installation Wielgus’ “deliberate secret cooperation.” Mass in Warsaw’s St. John Cathedral. The following day, a separate five- Many Poles outside the cathedral member Church commission appointed showed their support for Archbishop by the Polish bishops’ conference Wielgus by shouting anti-media slogans. reported that it had also seen “numerous Archbishop Wielgus, formerly bishop important documents” confirming then- of Plock, was named on Dec. 6 to Father Wielgus’ “readiness for succeed Cardinal Jozef Glemp, but was deliberate, secret collaboration with the accused in a Dec. 20 report by the security organs of communist Poland” Gazeta Polska weekly of having been a and indicating that “collaboration took “trusted collaborator” for 22 years of place.” Poland’s secret police. Father Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, a Initially, Archbishop Wielgus denied Polish priest who has been investigating Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus, center, arrives for Mass at the cathedral in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 7. the allegations and, just hours before he the secret police archives, said in an Archbishop Wielgus, who was supposed to be installed archbishop of Warsaw during the service, formally assumed office on Jan. 5, interview with CNS the evidence instead resigned from the post. A Church commission had found evidence that he cooperated with issued a statement denying that he had indicated Archbishop Wielgus was not Poland’s communist-era secret police. Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow and Cardinal Jozef informed on fellow clergy and Poles an “innocent” collaborator, but an Glemp are seen at left. living abroad. “important agent” who was employed Later on Jan. 5, Archbishop Wielgus for spying outside the country. said he had presented the pope and He said it was clear that the relevant Vatican agencies with “that part archbishop had agreed to collaborate as Archbishop’s resignation prompts of my life which was entangled in a young priest and that he remained contacts with secret intelligence, acting registered as an informant for more than Vatican embarrassment, relief in the conditions of a totalitarian state, 20 years. The fact that he acted as an hostile to the Church.” informant outside Poland indicated he VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Wielgus, who resigned on Jan. 7, two “Today, I state with full conviction was well trusted by the secret police, resignation of Polish Archbishop days after admitting he had once that I didn’t inform on or try to harm Father Isakowicz-Zaleski said. Stanislaw Wielgus of Warsaw has cooperated with the secret police of anyone. But through the fact of this The priest acknowledged that the prompted embarrassment and Poland’s former communist regime. entanglement, I harmed the Church,” secret police documentation is not disappointment in the Vatican along with Privately, however, several Vatican he said. always trustworthy and cannot be read a sense of relief that officials expressed irritation that the “I harmed it again when, in recent “like the Bible,” but he said there was News Analysis Pope Benedict XVI archbishop had apparently not been fully days, facing a heated media campaign, enough to indicate Archbishop Wielgus did not allow the frank about his past from the beginning. I denied the fact of my cooperation. This was unusually important to the awkward drama to continue a single day They also questioned how the Vatican’s weakened the credibility of statements communist regime. longer. normally exhaustive vetting process by people of the Church, including those Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza reported In an official statement, the Vatican broke down in one of Eastern Europe’s bishops who were in solidarity with on Jan. 8 that the government had sent praised the “humility” of Archbishop See ANALYSIS, page 21 me,” he said. See RESIGNATION, page 21

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Executing mentation on embryos, euthanasia and the someone guilty of a crime “is not the way death penalty, which are denials of the to restore justice and reconcile society,” the transcendent dignity of the human person Vatican spokesman said after Saddam created in the image of God,” he said. Hussein was hanged on Dec. 30. Latin-rite Archbishop Jean Sleiman of

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said, Baghdad told Vatican Radio justice was not CNS photo/Rebecca Cook, Reuters “A capital execution is always tragic news, served by hanging Saddam. Although he a motive for sadness, even when it involves hoped it would not worsen the situation in a person found guilty of serious crimes.” the country, he said “it could.” In a formal statement issued shortly after “We already are in a situation that is Saddam’s death was announced, Father more than tragic on the level of security, Lombardi said, “The position of the relations among populations and also the Catholic Church against the death penalty economy of the country,” he said. has been reaffirmed Meanwhile, the many times.” Vatican newspaper, The death penalty not “I hope and pray that L’Osservatore Romano, only will not restore this act will not denounced how justice in Iraq, but also contribute to Saddam’s execution can “increase the spirit of aggravating the already was turned into “a vengeance and sow new spectacle” as video and violence,” he said. critical situation in Iraq, photographic images of “In this dark time in a country already so his hanging were the life of the Iraqi harshly tried by circulated worldwide on people one can only television, in hope that all leaders will divisions and fratricidal newspapers and on the make every effort so that struggles.” Internet. in such a dramatic Saddam’s execution situation spaces will — Cardinal Renato Martino, and the media blitz open for reconciliation president of the Pontifical surrounding it marked and peace,” he said. Council for Justice and Peace “another example of the Cardinal Renato violation of the most Martino, president of the basic human rights,” Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said an editorial in the Jan. 2-3 edition. who earlier had expressed hope that the “To have held up to public scorn a execution would not be carried out, told person condemned to die, for however Vatican Radio on Dec. 30, “I hope and pray guilty he may have been” and “to have that this act will not contribute to made a spectacle” of his death seem to be aggravating the already critical situation in expressions “of political hubris,” the Iraq, a country already so harshly tried by newspaper said. divisions and fratricidal struggles.” This arrogance is even more deplorable The cardinal said the Catholic Church’s since Iraq is already “disfigured by every opposition to the death penalty is based on kind of violence” and could use not its recognition of every human life as a gift “arrogant gestures,” but “courageous Men stand in front of the grave of Iraq's former President Saddam Hussein during a funeral in Awja, of God that must be defended from choices” that break away from the near Tikrit in northern Iraq, Dec. 31. Saddam was executed by hanging in Iraq on Dec. 30 after being conception to natural death. country’s violent past and promote peace convicted for crimes against humanity. The Vatican spokesman called the execution "tragic news" and “That position excludes abortion, experi- and reconciliation, it said. † said the death penalty will not restore justice in Iraq.

Legacy for Our Mission: For Our Children and the Future Holy Family Planning to Enlarge Sanctuary, Refurbish School

oly Family is the only parish in the New Albany Holy Family is located in southeastern Indiana’s Floyd HDeanery still occupying a structure originally de- County, part of a fast-growing and heavily Catholic metro- signed 50 years ago for temporary worship space and politan region just across the Ohio River from Louisville. eventual use as a gymnasium. Its school building has never been renovated. Fortunately, help is on the way Father Day was born in the area and, following stud- for both facilities with proceeds from the Legacy for Our ies at Saint Meinrad Seminary in southern Indiana and Mission campaign. subsequent ordination in 1967, returned to spend most of his life in the region. He has served at Our Lady of Holy Family Church and School, built on a 6.5 acre site, Providence High School in Clarksville and several par- have seen additions of new structures over the years but ishes in the area, and he is the former dean of the New have not undergone refurbishing since their dedication Albany Deanery. Father Day was named pastor of Holy in 1954. “We’re at a crossroads. We have to make these Family in 1996. improvements or we can’t accomplish our missions. We must rescue our buildings,” said Father Wilfred What does the future hold for Holy Family? Father Day (“Sonny”) Day, pastor. “We’re at a crossroads. We have to make these said that the parish leadership will continue to pursue improvements or we can’t accomplish the much-needed addition and improvements to the While Holy Family Church will remain in its current our missions. We must rescue our buildings.” church sanctuary and refurbishment of the school for facility, improvements are in the works. The church’s current and future generations of students. flat floor provides only limited visibility of the sanc- tuary from the back of the facility. Proceeds from the Carl Wolford, a founding member of the parish, co- Legacy for Our Mission, the archdiocesan capital campaign, parish Legacy for Our Mission campaign, which began in chairs the Legacy for Our Mission campaign along with is guided by the principles of Christian stewardship and is the fall of 2006, will allow the sanctuary space to be his wife, Mary Kay, and another couple in the parish, designed to address the unique needs of your local parish. By elevated and enlarged. The parish has 1,134 households Dale and Donna Gettelfinger. “There are so many needs contributing to the Legacy for Our Mission campaign, you are and the church has a seating capacity of 450. in our parish and in the archdiocese,” explained Mary helping your parish address its most urgent capital, operating Kay, “we couldn’t raise the funds without the Legacy for and ministry needs as well as the shared ministries and home Campaign proceeds also will be used for major in- Our Mission campaign.” missions needs of the archdiocesan community. frastructure improvements to the school to update plumbing, heating, cooling and electrical systems. She added that Father Day “set the bar high” for the Please visit the new online home of the Legacy for Our Holy Family School, which has 335 students enrolled campaign, still another indication of his devotion to the Mission campaign. Our new campaign Web site is in pre-school through eighth grade, has achieved parish. “Father Sonny is a very warm person. He loves http://www.archindy.org/legacy. It can also be accessed Blue Ribbon recognition for its academic excellence. our parish and it shows. He works very hard. Because of at www.LegacyforOurMission.org. In addition, there are plans to make the facilities and him, people like to belong to Holy Family and enjoy all their restrooms accessible to all. of the activities here.”

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behavior of [Archbishop] Wielgus during the years of the bishops’ conference, can examine the information and communist regime in Poland seriously compromised his present it in a balanced way. ANALYSIS authority, even with the faithful.” It was the same historical commission that helped seal continued from page 19 That’s what the pope and his aides ultimately weighed, Archbishop Wielgus’ fate when it disclosed on Jan. 5 that most important episcopal appointments. said one source. The discussion about accepting the substantial documents confirmed his willingness to secretly “When Msgr. Wielgus was nominated, we knew nothing resignation focused on the archbishop’s authority and was cooperate with communist security forces. about his collaboration with the secret police,” Cardinal not regarded as “punishment” for not telling the truth, he Vatican insiders acknowledged embarrassment over the Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for said. affair, but said it will not necessarily reflect badly on Clergy, bluntly told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Father Lombardi also signaled the Vatican’s serious fears Pope Benedict. The pope made the right decisions based on Sera. that this scandal may be followed by other accusations what he knew at the time, they said, and by removing the This failure was all the more surprising because the against priests and bishops in Poland, based on spurious archbishop he was seen as trying to restore credibility to the nuncio to Poland, the man who coordinated the search information and motivated more by antagonism toward the Church in Poland. process, is a Pole himself—Archbishop Jozef Church than by a search for historical truth. In choosing a replacement for Archbishop Wielgus, Kowalczyk—who has been on the job since 1989 and The Vatican believes the documentation about the sources said, the pope could go two ways: turn to presumably would have spotted a problem before it “collaborationist” priests and bishops is highly suspect another of the three candidates who were considered became a disaster. because it was put together by a communist regime that months ago and make a quick appointment, or take a And “disaster” is how it’s viewed inside the Vatican for specialized in blackmail, but Church experts presume there’s longer pause to put a mechanism in place to ensure this several reasons: more to come. doesn’t happen again. • Archbishop Wielgus became the highest-ranking “I think there’s probably a lot more out there, and for this In either case, the sources said, it is certain that the Church leader to admit that he agreed to spy for an reason it’s important to have all the facts,” said one Vatican candidate will be asked to be completely forthright about East European communist regime, raising suspicions source. He said it was hoped that the Polish Catholic Church any covert cooperation with Poland’s former communist about the rest of the hierarchy in the eyes of much of Historical Commission, launched late last year by the Polish government. † the faithful. To many, the archbishop’s qualifier that he “never inflicted any harm on anyone” seemed disingenuous. • The debacle was played out in public, crowned by the painfully embarrassing “installation” Mass on Jan. 7 that turned into a resignation Mass. It was the first time anyone could remember that an archbishop was sent home on the day of his scheduled installation, an “emeritus” after only two days in office. • Pope Benedict was drawn directly into the controversy. A Vatican statement on Dec. 21 expressed the pope’s “full trust” in Archbishop Wielgus and “full awareness” of his past. But sources now say it appears the archbishop had not told the pope everything—that he had admitted contacts with the secret police, but not that he had agreed to collaborate in a spying effort. By Vatican standards, the statement by its spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, was unusually direct: “The RESIGNATION continued from page 19 the Vatican a translation and analysis of the 88-page file on Archbishop Wielgus. The newspaper said a presidential spokesman had disclosed that “several discreet talks” took place between the office of President Lech Kaczynski and the Vatican; it reported that before Archbishop Wielgus’ resignation, Kaczynski had spoken directly with Pope Benedict, whom the paper said was “extremely angry” about developments in Poland. A Dec. 21 Vatican press office statement said Pope Benedict had shown “full confidence” in Archbishop Wielgus, after Vatican officials took “account of all his life circumstances, including those connected with his past.” Preaching at the cathedral Mass on Jan. 7, Cardinal Glemp said the secret police had “infiltrated every sphere of society,” especially Poland’s Catholic clergy. He said secret police archives housed in the country’s National Remembrance Institute were too “dirty and superficial” to be relied on. In a Jan. 7 statement, the Polish bishops’ conference executive council appealed to the media to respect Archbishop Wielgus’ decision to resign, without “overinterpreting the event in disregard for the truth.” “The Church in Poland needs to look humbly and truthfully at its past, present and future,” said the statement. “We urge all [the] faithful to try to accept this difficult experience in a spirit of faith and to offer prayers for the Church … in Poland.” The day following Archbishop Wielgus’ resignation, Father Janusz Bielanski resigned as rector of Krakow’s Wawel Cathedral, the burial place of Poland’s kings and queens and a landmark of Church history. Father Bielanski also had been accused of cooperation with communist-era secret police. †

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ROME (CNS)—Visiting The pope greeted Pope Benedict XVI a shelter and soup kitchen hundreds of people who greets people operated by the Rome had gathered outside the CNS/Reuters outside the Caritas diocesan Caritas organi- complex before touring the shelter and soup zation, Pope Benedict XVI reception center, the kitchen in Rome said offering loving service kitchen, the dining room on Jan. 4. The to others is a and the pontiff renamed way to better Nativity scene the center after his know God. In return, the set up by the predecessor, Pope “Here one pope gave the center’s clients John Paul II. It has can experience shelter 10,000 and served an the fact that blankets and volunteers. estimated 9 million when we love 2,000 winter In the meals since our neighbor courtyard of opening in 1983. we know God coats and wished the soup better: In the everyone ‘a good kitchen, he grotto of day and a good spoke to some Bethlehem, he lunch.’ of the 120 revealed volunteers himself to us who regularly in the poverty of a newborn staff the center and to needing everything,” the several hundred of its pope said on Jan. 4. regular guests. When the pope arrived at The Nativity scene, he the Caritas complex, it was said, speaks of the love of named for the God. neighborhood, Colle Oppio, “In its simplicity, the where it is located. But creche tells us that love and bread of life,’ makes without distinction of race, spreads a proclamation that said, the volunteers before he left, he had poverty go together,” he himself visible in a way religion or culture,” he said. is for everyone: Jesus loves “experience the beauty of officially renamed it in said. every day in this soup “From the grotto of us and teaches us how to this love; they can feel the memory of Pope John Paul “Jesus, ‘the bread come kitchen, where people not Bethlehem, from every love,” he said. depths of the joy that II. down from heaven’ and ‘the only are fed, but are served Nativity scene, there In serving others, he derives from it, a joy that certainly is different from that illusory joy claimed in advertising.” Caritas officials gave Pope Benedict a laminated pass to the soup kitchen

I NDIANAPOLIS and an apron, while residents of the center’s B EECH GROVE shelter for mothers and M OORESVILLE children gave him an album With the foresight to of drawings they made themselves. In return, the pope gave advance cardiology the shelter 10,000 blankets 5-star rated by HealthGrades® in treating heart attacks in 2005. and 2,000 winter coats and wished everyone “a good day and a good lunch.” In his speech to the group, the pope offered his The heart to best wishes to the center’s clients and to all of their friends who, “coming from achieve almost all the countries of the world,” are present in excellence Rome. Awarded the 2004 and 2005 HealthGrades Distinguished The Diocese of Rome reported that the center had Hospital Awards for Clinical Excellence.™ served more than 9 million meals since it opened in 1983 and that foreigners have made up the majority The courage to listen and anticipate of its clients from the Consistently improving our services and facilities, including a beginning, but their percentage is growing. $40 million expansion currently under way in Mooresville. Foreigners now represent more than 70 percent of the more than 4,500 people who eat at the center each Rebuild and restore year, the diocese said, and Top 5% in the nation for overall orthopaedic care. they come from 98 countries. The vast majority of Italians relying on the center for a hot midday With machines, medicine and faith meal are senior citizens, it A philosophy of healing that incorporates our Franciscan values of said. compassionate concern, joyful service and respect for life. In the formal program at the complex, which included a brief prayer service, Roberto Festuccia was invited to speak on We are leading the way behalf of his fellow diners. With three convenient hospital campuses, a medical staff of more “Years ago, I lost my parents and was left alone,” than 700 doctors and 4,000 employees to serve your needs. he said. “I felt the agony of solitude and indifference. But from the time I started coming to the soup kitchen, I discovered a new family, with many brothers and sisters with whom I can share joys and sorrows,” Festuccia said. He thanked the pope for his visit, saying “your StFrancisHospitals.org presence makes us feel like you are on our side.” †

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By Fr. Robert L. Kinast

The first attribute that the Book of Genesis ascribes to God is creativity. CNS photo/Crosiers In the beginning, there was only a formless wasteland covered by darkness. Then God created light, separated the waters, brought forth vegetation, made all kinds of living creatures and finally fashioned human beings in God’s own image. Seeing that this creative output was indeed good, God entrusted it to us, not as a finished product to be preserved unaltered, but as a boundless gift to nurture and develop. Today we recognize this fact as an invitation to be co-creators with God. An examination of the phrase reveals three major implications: one about creation, one about God and one about us. • Co-creation implies that God’s creation isn’t finished. It is a continuing process with more to be discovered, learned, developed and produced. For all we have learned about creation, there is so much more we don’t know, both in terms of the creation that already exists and the potential for new developments we cannot yet imagine. Viewed in this way, creation demands our respect even as it invites us to explore its reality and possibilities. My nephew, a chemical engineer, lives this reality every day. As he studies the complex makeup of organic and inorganic substances, he searches for applications of Seeing that this creative output was good, God entrusted it to us, not as a finished product to be preserved unaltered, but as a boundless this knowledge to medicines, treatments and other gift to nurture and develop. therapies that do not now exist. His professional ambition is to contribute to a cure for a disease that wants. tyranny with democracy, slavery with equality, warfare currently afflicts innocent people. He is helping to When I watch music award shows, I always am with diplomacy. Just as often, an individual or group co-create a better world. struck by how many performers, in their acceptance may need resources, encouragement and opportunity to • Co-creation implies that God wishes to share speeches, give thanks and praise to God for their talent translate vision into action. creative power with us. This is part of what it means to and the opportunities to express it. If their musical The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2006 to be made in God’s image. We are actual sharers in God’s creativity is undertaken consciously in union with God, Muhammad Yumus. Wasn’t creativity at work when he creative activity. they are brought closer to an experience of God as pioneered the field of micro-lending, giving cash loans Put another way, we are not just recipients of the gift co-creator. to individuals and groups when no one else would help of creation; we are participants in it. The more we • Co-creation with God serves as a mirror that helps them? Farmers, artists and small manufacturers around participate, the more we are drawn into God’s life and us see ourselves more clearly. In this respect, two the world form co-ops to produce and market their the better we understand who God is and what God aspects of being human stand out: imagination and goods independently of conglomerates or international freedom. companies. Creativity begins with imagination, the ability to The God of creation obviously delights in our Creativity brightens life perceive the given world in a different way. This is the exercise of creative imagination and values the ability to impulse behind all human innovation from the arts and carry out our visions freely. The more we do both, the By David Gibson science to every other aspect of human life, such as more we grow into the image of God and enter God’s technology, business, education and medicine. own way of being. The creative person, like God, brings light where there is To be creative, however, imagination must be rooted This is a humbling realization, but also a cause for darkness. There are lots of ways to do this. in the novel achievements of those who have gone recognizing how exalted God has made us, a little less What can any of us do to bring light into the darkness of before us. Otherwise, it becomes fantasy and cannot than heavenly beings crowned with glory and honor, as daily life? contribute to the real world. When we learn from the the psalmist proclaims (Ps 8:6). If someone angers you, but you wait until you can experience of others, we are in a better position to add The beginning of a new year is an appropriate time to respond calmly and constructively enter a conversation with our own innovation. renew the desire and intention to live more creatively. the person, is that creative? This sort of ordinary but self- My sister is an outstanding painter, but still takes Perhaps a resolution for all of us is to claim our role as possessed action rearranges the elements of a situation so classes to learn new techniques and experiment with co-creators with God. It need not be a daunting task. It that something new and better can emerge from it. new styles and forms. Her artistic creativity draws upon can be as simple as the quotation from author John Another way to be creative is exhibiting respect for the experience of others as she co-creates a more Updike which I have taped to my computer monitor: someone who lacks self-respect. How many other ways are beautiful world. “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares there to act as an agent of healing, help move sadness aside Creativity requires freedom, the ability to act upon about doing it right or doing it better.” in order to make room for hope, and love others? what one imagines and turn it into reality. Exercising such freedom can involve a long-term struggle, as (Father Robert L. Kinast is director of the Center for (David Gibson edits Faith Alive!) † exemplified in the social world by the effort to replace Theological Reflection in Prairie Village, Kan.) † Discussion Point Sacrifice is a part of life This Week’s Question “Being a Grand Knight in the Knights of Columbus is a great involvement. We do a lot of different Does sacrifice characterize your life—sacrifice of your things for the needy, helping people out. It takes time, money or interests? How? time, but I don’t think of it as a real sacrifice.” (Calvin Kenneth Jones, Anchorage, Alaska) “My husband and I sacrifice money so I can stay home and be the main caregiver for our children, who are Lend Us Your Voice 6 and 4. I’ve been very blessed to be able to share this time with them before they’re both in school and I go An upcoming edition asks: What does your family back to work.” (Carrie Furka, Stow, Ohio) do together—during leisure time on weekdays—to

“My biggest sacrifice is being present—giving my “break the routine” of daily life? Northwest Indiana Catholic time and being available—for people and family who need to be heard. Sometimes it’s not even much To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail time, but people need to be listened to. You have to to [email protected] or write to Faith give people time, and it is so rewarding.” Alive! at 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. (Doretha Gurry, Marshfield, Mass.) 20017-1100. † CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Page 24 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Prayer: Each of us must decide when to pray The crucifix (Twelfth in a series) night prayers, plus the Office of Readings. But, of course, we can pray at any other Others make it a habit to say their favorite time of the day. That’s where aspirations, in your cubicle It’s probably obvious that each prayers or meditate early in the morning. ejaculatory prayers and good thoughts individual must decide for himself or That’s also a good time to consider what come in. I read a book a few years ago in NBC’s Emmy-winning comedy series herself when the best tasks, transactions and occasions for serving which various people described how they “The Office” portrays work in all its mind- time of the day is for God you may meet on this day. pray. Many of them wrote that they have numbing dullness, prayer. Some people find late afternoon, before formed the habit of saying short punctuated by a slow- Perhaps early dinner, a good time for prayer. I generally ejaculations when something occurs during moving clock, lame morning is a good time, agree with C. S. Lewis that “no one in his the day. After reading that, I formed the insult swapping and a but that probably isn’t senses, if he has any power of ordering his habit of breathing a quick “Come, Holy know-it-all co-worker. true for young parents own day, would reserve his chief prayers for Spirit” before answering the telephone, Many viewers busy with getting their bedtime—obviously the worst possible hour asking the Holy Spirit to help me with relate. children fed and ready for any action which needs concentration. whatever the caller is calling about. And if they’re for school. Never- The trouble is that thousands of unfortunate All of this goes along with what St. John seeking that fresh start theless, I know parents people can hardly find any other.” Chrysostom wrote: “It is possible to offer in 2007, they just who get up early enough in the mornings to Prayer before bedtime, though, is fervent prayer even while walking in public might file their two pray before the children get up. important, and good parents have always or strolling alone, or seated in your shop, weeks. Nobody is too busy to start the day, even used bedtime to help their children learn to … while buying or selling, … or even Work is the pursuit that defines us, before getting out of bed, with a simple, pray. The Church encourages us to make an while cooking.” informing an introduction with a handful of “Good morning, Jesus. Everything I do examination of conscience at bedtime In the end, of course, it gets back to assumptions and an invariable follow-up today will be for you.” That might be followed by an Act of Contrition. And just St. Paul’s admonition to “pray always.” As question. Work is the place we spend the followed with the more formal Morning as parents teach their children, it’s a good Origen wrote: “He ‘prays without ceasing’ majority of our waking hours. And when Offering, offering Jesus all your prayers, time to pray prayers of intercession for who unites prayer to works and good works the “9 to 5” that Dolly Parton lamented works, joys and sufferings of the day. relatives and friends. We then beg Our to prayer. Only in this way can we consider begins well before 9 a.m. and extends to Those who pray the Liturgy of the Hours Lady, our guardian angel and the saints to as realizable the principle of praying 6 p.m. or 7 p.m., work can be the source of will say morning, daytime, evening and watch over us. without ceasing.” † “hardness of heart,” Pope Benedict XVI warned. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes Hardness of heart happens when a job splinters a person’s skills and values, the pieces of a personality that beg to be Using a tool to increase possibility integrated. We bring more than a skill set to a job; This may not seem like an important principal in Homer, N.Y. And although diagramming was fun, but I also believe it we bring a belief system, too. “The whole subject but believe me, it is: diagramming Florey felt it was not useful to her as a was extremely useful. The logic and organi- person, body and spirit, participates in sentences. Who knew? writer, she thought it “made language seem zation of it taught me much, not only about [work], whether it is manual or Actually, no one friendly” and fun. language construction, but also how to intellectual,” Pope John Paul II wrote in his under the age of 50 has Briefly, to use Florey’s childhood think and speak with articulation. 1981 encyclical “On Human Work.” probably even heard example, this is how to diagram the How many times these days do we hear Faith informs work in various ways. It of diagramming sentence “The dog barked”: “… the words young people say “like” every third word in keeps us from cussing when the computer sentences. Sounds like ‘dog’ and ‘barked’ sat on a horizontal line, an effort to increase the meaning of what crashes. It compels us to credit a co-worker something out of with a short, vertical slash between them they say? Instead of hearing speech which for a successful project. It drives us to seek Victorian literature, and with ‘the’ hanging below on a diagonal is meaningful because the speaker’s a solution to a hopeless task. It prods us to some moldy exercise arm.” “That was it, subject, predicate and thoughts were organized beforehand, we’re be honest with the time sheet, to resist in the English the little modifying article that civilized the apt to listen to a garbled account full of office gossip, to practice patience. language now out of sentence—all of it made into … a picture of vague and often superfluous words. A Catholic worker heeds St. Francis of date and totally irrelevant to modern language.” (If you are under the age of 50, In the end, I think that language is a tool, Assisi’s exhortation, preaching the Gospel people. ask an older person to explain this.) not only of feeling but also of possibility. at all times—and using words if necessary. Well, think again. It turns out that the During the 1960s, along with many other We’ve abandoned real self-expression in Ultimately, Pope John Paul II wrote, diagramming of sentences is not only a accepted disciplines, the diagramming of favor of selfishness. It seems that people no work allows us to draw close to our subject for current discourse, but also the sentences was replaced by what’s been longer are willing to use such tools to earn Creator, humbly advancing “the discovery subject of a recent book! Forgive me for called by its critics “grammatical illiteracy.” their desired goals. They try to skip of the resources and values contained in the getting so excited, but I am (literally) an old Obedience to orderly language rules was education or years of experience to become whole of creation.” The talents God gave us English major. replaced by encouragement of a student’s the boss, or ignore legal permissions such are our tools to execute his unique design Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog, written self-expression and, ostensibly, his or her as marriage to enjoy family life and for our lives. by Kitty Burns Florey, is described by a self-esteem. parenthood. And when they fail, they seem Whether science or art, entrepreneurial reviewer as her “homage to the lost, but not Students learned parts of speech, such as surprised. or managerial, every career has the capacity quite forgotten, art of diagramming nouns, verbs and prepositions, but were on Well, maybe I should lighten up. to be Catholic when we execute it with sentences.” Florey recalls diagramming and their own when it came to their Diagramming sentences will not cure the earnestness and tap into our God-given her entire parochial school education with arrangement on paper. The idea was for the world’s social ills. Then again, it just might gifts. When an architect designs a stunning affection, a pleasant change from some of child to put down his or her thoughts and help. That’s what tools are for. structure. When a counselor dispels self the bitter memoirs we’ve read recently. feelings in order to validate them. Another doubt. When a teacher enlightens a student. She outlines the history and influence of reader’s making sense of them or finding (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the When a nurse tends to the ill. diagramming sentences, which was first meaning in them might or might not follow. Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Work that stems from the brain and introduced in an 1860 textbook by a school Personally, I agree with Florey that columnist for The Criterion.) † connects with the heart bears a fingerprint that is holy. Whether we sit in a corner Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister office or a crowded cubicle, we can each illuminate God’s glory. I’m struck by Pope Benedict’s first Carrying Christ into 2007 with ‘Hoka Hey!’ public words upon his election. Standing on that balcony, facing an overwhelming Often, I have suggested in my column he sat at the kitchen table while his knows or meets. Daily, he deals with a audience and a daunting task, he leaned on that we must move forward with the mother wrote cards and personal debilitating neuromuscular disease with the Lord. right spirit and messages. fortitude and humor and hope, passing “Dear brothers and sisters, after the great intention each day. “I couldn’t wait until she … addressed those qualities on to others. Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have This week, envelopes so I could lick the 3-cent Jack ended his Advent message in a elected me, a simple, humble worker in the however, I look stamp and affix it to the upper right hand unique way: “Thank you for being there. vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord backward, but only a corner,” he recalled. Take care and be well. Hoka Hey!” knows how to work and to act even with little—to last month “Then there were the lean times right “Hoka Hey!” is his signing-off insufficient instruments comforts me … .” when we celebrated after marriage,” Jack wrote, when he and trademark, borrowed from Native That fact also comforts young adults the birth of Jesus his late wife, Evelyn, counted pennies. Americans who, when going into battle, embarking upon careers, wrestling tangled with beautiful “We managed to send cards … and as shouted these words, often interpreted as ambitions, unscathed ideals and Masses, holiday food each child entered our life we added a “It’s a good day to die.” unpredictable reality. and drink, and good name and more love,” he explained. However, Jack explained, “Indians There’s no how-to manual to follow, just will toward all. “After our first child, we had the card used ‘Hoka Hey’ for other reasons. It the sense of a blank screen, an empty slate Many of us also sent and received printed with ‘Unto us a child is given,’ was a way of saying, ‘Do your best and, waiting for our signature. Christmas messages, and did something and inserted a picture of her. if you can, it is a good day to die. I am Amid the haze of uncertainty, I can special for those forgotten, lonely or “All these years, we were able to send not afraid of anything. ... Look trouble grasp one truth: A career can be steeped in otherwise needy. cards with our love ... but this year all I in the eye and tell it to ‘get lost.’ ” spirituality. The pursuit of a paycheck and However, in about the second week of can send is my love.” My friend carries Catholic virtues success also can be a personal offering to December, Jack, a friend living in He did not ask for sympathy or into life all year long, doing his best no the Lord. Florida, shared this message with me by anything else. Instead, he encouraged us matter what confronts him. Even if newsmakers like Enron’s Jeffrey e-mail: to do what many of us forget—to carry “Hoka Hey, Jack!” Skilling separate work and values, we can “Christmas means so much to me; Christ’s love all through the New Year, “Hoka Hey, dear readers!” intertwine them. And we’ll feel better—and that is what makes this so hard to write. sharing the Christmas season virtues and work better—when we do. 2006 has not been kind so I will not be blessings with everyone. (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of able to send cards this year. I cannot Jack considers himself a simple Christ the King Parish in Indian- (Christina Capecchi is a graduate student remember not sending cards.” person, rich with love and friendship, but apolis, is a regular columnist for at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Jack reminisced about how as a child he’s also an inspiration to everyone he The Criterion.) † E-mail her at [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007 Page 25

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 15 Friday, Jan. 19 Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007 story has other powerful lessons. Hebrews 5:1-10 Hebrews 8:6-13 A great lesson is about Mary. John’s Psalm 110:1-4 Psalm 85:8, 10-14 • Isaiah 62:1-5 Gospel never names her. It always simply Mark 2:18-22 Mark 3:13-19 • 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 refers to Mary as “the mother” of Jesus. • John 2:1-11 This is not an oversight. It stresses her unique role as the Lord’s earthly parent. Tuesday, Jan. 16 Saturday, Jan. 20 The Book of Isaiah furnishes this The response of Jesus to the obvious Hebrews 6:10-20 Fabian, pope and martyr weekend’s first reading. embarrassment of the host in not having Psalm 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c Sebastian, martyr When the third enough wine for the guests can be puzzling. Mark 2:23-28 Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14 section of Isaiah was Was the Lord indifferent to the host’s Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9 written, the Hebrew distress? His reply stressed that the people had just messianic mission was not to provide for Wednesday, Jan. 17 Mark 3:20-21 emerged from a terrible human partying and festivity, but to draw Anthony, abbot period in their history. all people to God in much more important Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17 Sunday, Jan. 21 Their homeland, ways. Psalm 110:1-4 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time divided into two Nevertheless, Mary enters the picture. Mark 3:1-6 Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 kingdoms after the First, Jesus hears her and acts upon her Psalm 19:8-10, 15 death of King concern. Secondly, her faith is unqualified Solomon, had been and frank. She trusts the Lord, telling the Thursday, Jan. 18 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 overrun by the mighty Babylonian Empire, servers to do whatever the Lord orders Hebrews 7:25-8:6 or 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27 centered in today’s Iraq. them to do. Psalm 40:7-10, 17 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 Many people were killed in the So, this reading reveals the power and Mark 3:7-12 conquest. Others were taken to Babylon, mission of Jesus as well as the perfect the imperial capital. There, these exiles, and response to the Lord, namely that of Mary. then their descendants, languished for four generations until political fortunes changed Reflection Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen and the more powerful Persians conquered The Church has celebrated the Feast of Babylonia. the Nativity at Christmas. The Lord has As a result, the exiles were allowed to been born. The Son of God has become Church canonizes saints in honor return to their homeland. The prophets did flesh. not see the sequence of events leading to Last weekend, in observing the Feast of of their lives of holiness, ser vice this happy release as merely coincidental or the Epiphany, the Church joyfully the result of human political maneuvers. proclaimed to us that the Lord came to We have several questions about occurred in the last several decades, Rather, God provided for it. God has show all of us the unlimited love of God Qcanonization that we hope you will broadening the base of whom the promised to protect the people, but they for us. answer in your column. When was the Church sees as living authentically holy upset the arrangement by sinning. Despite This weekend, in the words of Isaiah, first saint canonized? What does lives deserving consideration for their sinfulness, however, God was the Church tells us that earthly life would “canonization” mean? Is it just an canonization. constant. He provided for the people. be beautiful if we all loved God in return. honorary title or is there more? One is the recognition of heroic For its second reading this weekend, the How do we love God? The story of (New York) holiness in the lives of ordinary people Church presents a passage from St. Paul’s Cana tells us. Jesus teaches us that no living ordinary, unspectacular lives. First Epistle to the Corinthians. human situation should distract us from the Canonization is the process by During the l930s, Pope Pius XI, Leading the Corinthian Christians to fact that being with God is our destiny and Awhich the Catholic Church speaking of the universal call to genuine fidelity was a considerable therefore our priority. proclaims its belief holiness, pointed to what he called challenge for Paul. Mary instructs us that we can go to that a member of the “il terribile quotidiano,” the terrible In reaction to rivalries and arguing in Jesus with any worry. But, she tells us, as faithful is in eternal daily round in which, he said, people Corinth, the Apostle wrote what has she told the servants, we must follow the glory with God and can live heroically virtuous lives as become a blueprint for Christian living. He Lord and trust the Lord. † may be publicly they faithfully fulfill their personal reminded the Corinthians to whom he venerated by Christian vocations. wrote that each of them has special gifts Christians. The other development concerns men and opportunities. Readers may submit prose The word comes and women, religious and lay, who are Such diversity was welcome since it from the fact that killed not because of their adherence to meant that there were so many occasions or poetry for faith column the saint’s name particular Catholic doctrines, as the for individual believers to bring the The Criterion invites readers to henceforth could be early martyrs were, for example, but sweetness of the Gospel into the world. submit original prose or poetry relating included in the canon (Eucharistic because they died in retaliation for their Paul even lists different skills and talents to to faith or experiences of prayer for Prayer) of the Mass. love and service of others. make his point. possible publication in the “My The canonization procedure has gone The most pointed example of such a St. John’s Gospel supplies the third Journey to God” column. through numerous stages over the past “martyr for charity” is St. Maximilian reading. Seasonal reflections also are 2,000 years. For centuries, saints were Kolbe. After an attempted escape at the Unique to John, the story of the miracle appreciated. Please include name, declared by general acclamation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, officials at Cana in Galilee long has been seen as address, parish and telephone number people or by a variety of processes condemned a number of other prisoners the first of the Lord’s miracles. It is the with submissions. established by local bishops. to starvation in reprisal. He offered recorded beginning of the Lord’s public Send material for consideration to At first, only martyrs who died for himself as a substitute for a husband ministry. “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, their faith were so honored. In the and father who was one of the The emphasis usually lies upon the P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 fourth century, “confessors,” those who condemned, and Maximilian starved to marvel of the changing of the water into or e-mail to [email protected]. † valiantly professed their faith even if death. wine. This indeed was remarkable. But the they were not killed, began to be added, Research into his death revealed followed by virgins and eventually conclusively that the Nazis condemned people of other walks of life. him to die not for reasons of faith, not My Journey to God Understandably, this rather informal even because he was a priest, but solely practice began to make regulating the because he offered himself to substitute veneration of saints increasingly for the man originally chosen. difficult. Cults of some saints began to The Congregation for the Causes of spread from region to region. Bishops Saints recommended against his Daily Bread usually, at least to a degree, favored canonization because he did not fit the local persons who left reputations for traditional criterion for martyrdom. I often pass a small town square unusual holiness. Pope John Paul II decided otherwise, And notice benches waiting there Eventually, popes stepped in and however, and in November 1982 For those whose days are now too long, tried to put more uniformity and decreed that Maximilian Kolbe, who Who’ve done their thing and sung their song; credibility in how saints were declared, had been beatified (declared a blessed, Who dare not venture from the known— leading to the first attested canonization a step before canonization) as a The well-worn path from bench to home— in the year 993 when Pope John XV confessor, “shall henceforth be Where passersby can entertain canonized Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, venerated also as a martyr.” An oldster leaning on a cane Germany. The pope’s decree referred to the And listen to the thrice-told tales Since then, perhaps some 650 persons words of Jesus, “There is no greater Of youth that was and still prevails; have been formally canonized (it’s love than that one should lay down his Where birds can beg a crumb each day impossible to be sure; many records no life for his friends.” From hands arthritic, veined and gray longer exist), most of them by Pope John As author Kenneth Woodward notes Till shadows warn the wary eye Paul II, who, as far as can be determined, in his scholarly but very readable book That, for today, best say goodbye presided at more canonizations than all Making Saints, “By using that text in a And hope tomorrow holds its share other popes combined. solemn declaration of canonization, Of benches, birds and folks who care. The Vatican Congregation for the some saint-makers insist, John Paul II Causes of Saints is in charge of the sanctioned the concept of the martyr for

By Dorothy M. Colgan Happel Cornwell Patricia File photo by process today. After studies are charity as a new category of saint—and complete, the congregation advises the with it the possibility of bestowing the (Dorothy M. Colgan is a member of St. Meinrad Parish in St. Meinrad.) pope, who makes the final decision. title of martyr on a wider range of Two interesting developments have candidates.” † Page 26 The Criterion Friday, January 12, 2007

Dec. 5. Father of Amy Hogan, Grandmother of 15. Great- Craig, Margaret Jackey and Ignacio Jr., Jorge and Raymond Laurie Meek and Michelle grandmother of three. Joseph Padgett. Grandfather of Peña. Brother of Paula Flores, Tansy. Brother of Delores JUERLING, Walter, 68, two. Santos Perez, Rosa Ruiz, Forbes, Patricia Garrett and St. Andrew, Richmond, PARSHALL, Norman E., 81, Josephine Salazar, Maria Rest in peace Marjorie Stevens. Grandfather Dec. 13. Brother of Ruth St. Luke, Indianapolis, Dec. 10. Trevino, Chris and Jose Peña. of six. Hubbard and Donna Whittaker. Husband of Catherine Parshall. PIERCE, Louise Marian, 75, FOSSKUHL, Irma (Engle), Father of Patricia Eddleman, Please submit in writing to Dec. 8. Son of William and KERTIS, Kathleen, 90, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, 90, St. Mary, New Albany, Margaret Green, Nancy Wehl our office by 10 a.m. Mary Cassidy. Brother of Anita Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Dec. 4. Wife of Arthur Pierce. Dec. 16. Mother of Beverly and Steven Parshall. Mother of Mary Franklin and Thursday before the week of Asbery, Theresa Keith and Rita Dec. 11. Aunt of several. publication; be sure to state Lane. Frankowski, Brenda Masden PEÑA, Ignacio Rodriguez, 71, David Pearson. date of death. Obituaries of and Frances Roberts. Sister of KISSINGER, Debra K., 58, COLUSSI, Albert J., 74, St. Anthony, Indianapolis, PIERCY, Catherine, 74, archdiocesan priests serving Melvin and Robert Engle. Our Lady of Lourdes, Prince of Peace, Madison, Dec. 15. Husband of Linda Sue Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, our archdiocese are listed Grandmother of 10. Great- Indianapolis, Dec. 17. Wife of Dec. 7. Husband of Lea Peña. Father of Irene Bays, Nov. 26. Mother of Kristine elsewhere in The Criterion. grandmother of 11. Thomas Kissinger. Mother of Colussi. Father of Ann Dee, Rachel Gamez, Maria Weddle, Clark, Lisa Hawley, Michelle Order priests and religious Kelly Kissinger and Kristi Ellen Miller, Jane Romick and GARDNER, Florence B., 81, Venessa, Gabriel and Macario Thompson, Ralph and R. Mark sisters and brothers are LeBeau. Daughter of Joyce Joseph Colussi. Brother of Toni St. Matthew, Indianapolis, Salazar, Rosie and Guadalupe Piercy. Sister of Eileen Priest, included here, unless they are Garzolini. Keller, Jacquelyn Young and Dec. 15. Mother of Robert and Trevino, Martha, Topacip, Anna Roberts and Victor natives of the archdiocese or Donald Colussi. Grandfather of Thomas Gardner. Grandmother KLEIN, Ethel (Deweese), 92, Daniel, Faustino, Fernando, Vaughn. Grandmother of 11. † have other connections to it; of six. St. Mary, New Albany, Dec. 14. those are separate obituaries nine. GEIMAN, Joseph Adam, Jr., Mother of Carolyn Blunk, on this page. COMELLA, Anna C., 97, Providence Sister Claretta Burbine 87, SS. Peter and Paul Shirley Stiller and Leo Klein. Our Lady of the Most Holy BENEDICK, Helen Edith, 93, Cathedral, Indianapolis, Sister of Harvey Borgman. taught grade school for 56 years Rosary, Indianapolis, Dec. 14. St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 2. Dec. 12. Father of James, Grandmother of 15. Great- Grandmother of nine. Great- Sister of Lucille Wright. Joseph III, Richard and Thomas grandmother of 22. Great-great- Providence Sister Claretta Providence in Indiana, Illinois, grandmother of seven. Grandmother of two. Great- Geiman. Brother of Kenneth grandmother of six. Burbine died on Dec. 4 at North Carolina, Maryland, grandmother of two. DATTILO, Sarah E., 90, Geiman. KNECHT, Margaret R., 86, Mother Theodore Hall at New Hampshire and BLIND, Pearl Eva, 94, Prince of Peace, Madison, GODA, Robert T., 80, Sacred St. Peter, Franklin County, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She Massachusetts. St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Dec. 10. Mother of Catherine Heart, Terre Haute, Dec. 7. Dec. 2. Mother of Bertie was 96. In the archdiocese, Sister Nov. 1. Sister of Ralph White. Courtney, Elizabeth Jackson, Brother of Jerrie Fox, Betty Bauman, Betty Dunbar, Cindy The Mass of Christian Claretta taught at the former Great-aunt of one. Susan Reed and Peter Jones and Joe Goda. Ross, Marilyn Weller, Connie Burial was celebrated on St. Benedict School in Dattilo Jr. Grandmother of Wintz, Butch, Gary and Mark Dec. 9 at the Church of the Terre Haute in 1932 and the BORNO, Edna Pauline eight. HAMMETT, Juanita, 87, Knecht. Sister of Nettie Bulach. Immaculate Conception at former St. Joseph School in Lemaire , 73, St. Paul, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Grandmother of 21. Great- Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Terre Haute from 1936-39. Sellersburg, Dec. 4. Wife of DISQUE, Eunice Mary New Albany, Nov. 4. Mother of grandmother of 38. Burial followed at the sisters’ She also taught at St. Joan of Ray Borno. Mother of Donna (Hamson), 85, Our Lady of Patricia Mader. Grandmother of cemetery at the motherhouse. Arc School in Indianapolis from Adams, Diane Shaver, Patrick Providence, Brownstown, LANG, Seivren Anthony, 28, three. Great-grandmother of The former Celine Burbine 1939-44 and Holy Cross School and Randy Borno. Grand- Dec. 22. Wife of John F. three. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, was born on July 31, 1910, in in Indianapolis from 1954-56. mother of eight. Great-grand- Disque. Mother of Terri French, New Albany, Nov. 23. Son of Jan Lustig, Kathy Marcisz, HILBERT, Harry Jr, 94, Leland and Jeanine Lang. Yarmouth County in Nova At Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, mother of three. St. Gabriel, Connersville, Donna Schuck, Bill, Jerry, Jim, Brother of Tyler Lang. Scotia. Sister Claretta also served as an CAMPBELL, Henry D., 78, Joe, John, Steve and Tom Dec. 16. Father of Louanna She entered the congrega- infirmarian from 1931-32. St. Joseph, St. Joseph Hill, NIESSE, Vincent P., 80, Prince Disque. Sister of John Henry Booth, Daryl, David and Larry tion of the Sisters of In 1988, she returned to the Dec. 12. Husband of Mary Hilbert. Brother of Arthur and of Peace, Madison, Dec. 13. Hamson. Grandmother of 45. Providence of Saint Mary-of- motherhouse and ministered in Louise Campbell. Father of Robert Hilbert. Grandfather of Father of Mary Anderson, Great-grandmother of 49. the-Woods on July 18, 1928, health care and residential Mary Rose Malott, Theresa 13. Great-grandfather of eight. Marlene and Dennis Niesse. professed first vows on services. In 2000, she began her DOERR, Ruth L., 88, Christ Brother of Ida Rowlett and Wolford, Dennis, Henry and JONES, Antoinette Adaline, Feb. 24, 1931, and professed prayer ministry with the senior the King, Indianapolis, Dec. 17. Richard Niesse. Grandfather of Paul Campbell. Brother of 92, Holy Family, New Albany, final vows on Aug. 15, 1936. sisters. Mother of Maryann and Robert six. Great-grandfather of one. Sis Terrell, Lee Campbell and Dec. 19. Mother of Nancy During 78 years as a Sister Memorial gifts may be sent Billy Jackson. Grandfather of Doerr. Grandmother of seven. Russell, Mary Alice, Melba, PADGETT, Louis J., 58, of Providence, she ministered to the Sisters of Providence, seven. Great-grandfather of six. Great-grandmother of one. Terri, Bill, John and Paul Jones. St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, as an educator for 56 years. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, CASSIDY, Michael F., 48, FILCER, Joseph L., 84, Sister of Evelyn Banet, Carl, Dec. 10. Husband of Ruth Sister Claretta taught at grade St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Richard and William Schmidt. Padgett. Father of Elizabeth schools staffed by the Sisters of 47876. †

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By Mary Ann Wyand filled anew, / As past and present merge as one. / … O sixteenth Benedict, find ST. MEINRAD—Ninety-year-old strength / From namesakes sleeping now Dorothy Colgan could be the poet in peace. / With Benediction from your

laureate of the Archdiocese of Indian- hand / May harmony and love increase.” Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann apolis if there were such an honorary title. After Hurricane Katrina decimated the The longtime St. Meinrad parishioner Gulf Coast in late August of 2005, has had more poems published in the Colgan shared a reflection titled “My Journey to God” column of “Requiem,” that explains, “Death is the The Criterion than any other Catholic blossom, / life the stem— / One breath poet in central and southern Indiana. will touch the two of them. / During the past two years, 18 of her Forevermore the bloom will live / religious poems were published in the Reflecting what the stem could give. / diocesan newspaper, including tributes to … O ageless flower, withered stem, / Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI How sweet the scent of requiem.” and St. Theodora Guérin. As the Church prepared for the She also contributed a four-part canonization of St. Theodora, Colgan reflection on the mysteries of the rosary preserved the joy and excitement about as well as a meditation on the Stations of Indiana’s first saint in a poem that the Cross published begins, “No shoreline with a photo essay of too far, / No ocean too the ornate stations at vast— / When God historic Sacred Heart of plants the seed / He Jesus Church in Indian- unfurls the mast.” apolis. Benedictine Father Writing poetry is a Tobias Colgan, prior of devout expression of Saint Meinrad her faith for the mother Archabbey, said he is of seven children, who amazed by his mother’s still leads a busy life gift for conveying so Above, St. Meinrad that includes trips to much meaning in so parishioner Dorothy other states to visit her few words. Colgan discusses the sons and daughters. “I think the thing I inspiration for her poetry, As a grandfather clock chimes the find startling about her writing is that it which is frequently hours in her small apartment just down is simple words and simple concepts that published in the the hill from Saint Meinrad Archabbey, are very profound,” Father Prior Tobias “My Journey to God” Colgan sits at her dining room table and explained. “The way she can turn a little column in The Criterion. takes pen in hand to craft poignant phrase or the way she’s looking at a She said writing poetry expressions of life and faith inspired by particular scene that is so familiar to us helps her converse with Scripture, saints and daily events. gives us a chance to look at it a little God. “I say, ‘Oh Lord, show “I write for the person in the pew,” differently.” me how to finish this she said on Jan. 2. “I get a thought and He said his mother “contemplated the [poem]. I want to make it I’ve got to chew on it. … I just keep blank tableau” for many years while right.’ ” scratching out and putting in and saving raising seven children with his late a line. … It helps me converse with the father, Thaddeus Colgan, who died in Left, Dorothy Colgan Lord. Doing what you like to do just 2001. poses for a photograph makes the road [of life] so interesting to Dorothy Gstettenbauer Colgan grew with one of her sons, me.” up in Rock Island, Ill., on the east bank Benedictine Father In a tribute to St. Joseph published in of the Mississippi River. Her maternal Tobias Colgan, prior of the poetry column, she wrote, in part, grandmother’s maiden name was Saint Meinrad Archabbey, “St. Joseph, not by words but deeds, / “La Plume,” which is French for on Jan. 2 outside her You showed the strength that patience “the pen,” and her German father loved apartment in St. Meinrad. needs. / Anxiety, when quelled by trust, / to rhyme words. She believes that she Can fashion sanctity from dust. …” inherited their creative talent. As Pope John Paul II lay dying at the Colgan has always loved to write poetry, Vatican on April 2, 2005, people stood in and was able to focus more on her gift of prayerful silence at St. Peter’s Square. imagery during her retirement years in a Colgan offered her thanks to the Holy house built on the hill in St. Meinrad that Father with these words, “Two windows she named “Mount Rush No More” and washed / By pilgrim tears / Formed, drop now in her apartment. by drop, / Throughout the years / By Much of her inspiration for poetry See “My Journey to God,” longing hearts / That time endears.” comes from Gospel accounts of the page 25, and And when the College of Cardinals miracles performed by Jesus. www.criteriononline.com. elected German Cardinal Joseph “I think about the people who Ratzinger as the 265th pope on April 19, witnessed the miracles,” Colgan said. 2005, Colgan captured the historic “Their lives must have been embellished moment in a three-stanza poem titled by what they saw happen. 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