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CriterionOnline.com August 17, 2018 Vol. LVIII, No. 44 75¢ Abuse expert: Crisis is call to new vision of priesthood, accountability VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A Jesuit priest who has been on the frontline of advocating for survivors of clerical sexual abuse and developing detailed programs to prevent abuse said the crisis unfolding, again, in the United States is a summons to a new way of envisioning the Church and taking responsibility for it. “I am not surprised” by the new Fr. Hans Zollner, S.J. reports of abuse. “I do not think it will stop soon and, at the same time, I think it is necessary and should be seen in the framework of evolving a more consistent practice of accountability,” said Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical  Gregorian University in Rome. “I know that people are deeply angry and they are losing their trust—this is In their home in Waldron on Aug. 2, Carolyn and Omer Weintraut recreate the pose they struck on their wedding day on Aug. 1, 1953. The members of understandable. That is normal, humanly St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby County recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) speaking,” he told Catholic News Service (CNS) as newspapers were filled with information and commentary about the case of retired Archbishop Theodore Couple of 65 years is fifth generation of E. McCarrick, misconduct in a Nebraska seminary and the pending release of a marriages in family lasting 50-plus years Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse. By Natalie Hoefer “It’s been great,” says Omer. “We’ve Their son Nicholas (see “From the The courage of survivors to speak out, been through a lot, done a lot, prayed a Archives” photo on page 16) and his wife the investigative work of both police and WALDRON—When asked to pose lot. We take care of each other.” Anna settled in Waldron. They became Church bodies, the implementation of while kissing, the bride’s and groom’s It is a pattern that has played out members of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, child protection measures and improved lips linger a bit after the camera finishes through 187 years and five generations of where they marked their 50th anniversary screening of potential seminarians, Church clicking. They smile, gazing into each Weintrauts. in 1902. workers and volunteers mean that children others’ eyes as only those deeply in Their descendants remained in the and vulnerable adults are safer today. love do. Five times 50-plus parish, including their son George and his But, as Father Zollner has been saying “Our nieces and nephews always said In 1831, Franz and Magdelena wife Madgalena. That couple celebrated for years, that does not mean accusations we were always kissing,” admits the Weintraut married in Germany. The 50 years of marriage in 1941. Their son of past abuse will stop coming out, and it happy wife. couple emigrated to America, eventually Albert marked 50 years with his wife does not guarantee there will never again Her name is Carolyn Weintraut, 85. moving to Morris, in southeastern Theresia in 1966. be a case of abuse or sexual misconduct. She and her husband Omer, 90, are Indiana, where they were members Omer, the son of Albert and Dealing with the reality of potential members of St. Vincent de Paul Parish of St. Anthony of Padua Parish. They Theresia, recalls both his parents’ and abuse and the history of clerical sexual in Shelby County. They celebrated their celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary his grandparents’ golden wedding abuse in the Church is a process, he said. 65th wedding anniversary on Aug. 1. in 1881. See MARRIAGE, page 9 See ABUSE, page 10 New partnership between archdiocese, Marian offers scholarships for future Catholic school teachers

By John Shaughnessy Students in the program will also be passed down to future generations are receive classroom experience in the very people for whom this program is Hoping to provide a model for Catholic archdiocesan schools beginning in their designed.” education in the United States, the freshman year, and they will participate Fleming notes that teachers in Catholic archdiocese and Marian University in in a yearlong, paid residency at an schools have a calling to “transform the Indianapolis have archdiocesan school under the direction of world”—a sentiment echoed by Kenith formed a new a master teacher. Britt, the dean of the Klipsch Educators partnership to Another defining element of the College at Marian. recruit and retain program is that the students will study “Our goal for the program is to make educators dedicated to abroad in a country recognized for the sure we have graduates who improve transforming the lives high educational performance of its the lives of young people, not just of students in Catholic students, including Finland, Singapore and academically but spiritually, and from a schools. South Korea. standpoint of character and values,” Britt A key part of the “Some of the very best talent that says. “This is our obligation and duty as new effort is to provide exists in our communities can be found Catholic institutions.” Gina Fleming up to $40,000 in in our Catholic high schools,” says Gina On one level, the program is a response scholarships to any high school graduate Fleming, superintendent of Catholic to the reality that “fewer students are from the archdiocese who is accepted into schools for the archdiocese. “The future entering the field of education in many the Klipsch Educators College at Marian grads of our Catholic high schools who states, including our own,” Fleming and who agrees to teach in an archdiocesan are mission-driven, highly motivated and says, citing significant college debt as Catholic school upon graduation. graced with skills and knowledge that can See SCHOLARSHIPS, page 10 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018

Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ______August 19-28, 2018

August 19 — 9:30 a.m. August 26 — 2 p.m. Mass for opening of school year at Mass for 150th Parish Anniversary at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary, St. Rose of Lima Parish, Franklin Indianapolis August 28 — 11 a.m. August 19-23 Deans’ Meeting at Archbishop Archbishop Charles C. Thompson blesses new seminarians for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis during an Aug. 7 Mass at the chapel of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. The Mass Region VII Bishops’ Annual Retreat Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, was part of the annual convocation of archdiocesan seminarians. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) at Cardinal Stritch Retreat House, Indianapolis Mundelein, Ill. August 28 — 5 p.m. Archdiocesan seminarians gather August 25 — 9 a.m. Work of Angels Dinner to benefit Keynote address for Catholic Charities’ New Albany Deanery Youth Ministry Parish Social Ministry gathering at Huber’s Orchard, Winery and at retreat house to build up fraternity at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Vineyards, Starlight By Sean Gallagher Beech Grove hosting a cookout for them and priests of the August 25 — 5:30 p.m. (Schedule subject to change.) Eight years ago, transitional Deacon archdiocese at his home on Aug. 9. Confirmation of youths of St. Luke Timothy DeCrane was about to enter “It’s good to come together,” the Evangelist Parish at St. Luke the his first year of priestly formation as a Archbishop Thompson said. “Fraternity Evangelist Church, Indianapolis freshman at Bishop Simon Bruté College doesn’t begin after they’re ordained. Seminary in Indianapolis. Fraternity has to begin in the seminary. “The first year, I was really nervous So coming together like this, praying about entering the seminary,” said Deacon together, studying together, reflecting DeCrane, a member of Holy Name of together, enjoying each other’s Bishops, faith leaders condemn Jesus Parish in Beech Grove. “Everything company—this is part of their fraternity.” was a completely new venture for me.” In the past, seminarian convocations Tennessee’s first execution in nine years His nerves started to be relieved, featured pilgrimages to parishes and though, when he began to meet and shrines across central and southern Indiana. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS)—Two Attorneys for Irick had filed a last- become friends with his fellow seminarians Father Eric Augenstein, archdiocesan Tennessee Catholic bishops called the minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in early August 2010 at the annual vocations director, has kept the seminarians execution of Billy Ray Irick on Aug. 9 seeking a stay of his execution until their archdiocesan seminarian convocation. in recent convocations at Fatima. “unnecessary.” lawsuit challenging the constitutionality “Getting to know them, they put me at “The most important goal of the “Tonight’s execution of Billy Ray of Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol ease,” Deacon DeCrane said. “It gave me convocation is to build fraternity among the Irick was unnecessary. It served no useful could be heard by the state Court of an opportunity to connect.” seminarians,” he said. “The more time that purpose,” Bishop J. Mark Spalding of Appeals. Earlier this month, less than a year we can spend together, wherever we’re at, Nashville and Bishop Richard F. Stika of Five hours before the execution, the before his priestly ordination, Deacon helps to build that fraternity. Staying local Knoxville said in a statement after Irick Supreme Court rejected the appeal, DeCrane made connections with new and having more free and unstructured time was executed at Riverbend Maximum with a dissent filed by Justice Sonia seminarians for the Church in central and to be with each other is important.” Security Institute in Nashville. Sotomayor. southern Indiana that are now in the same Deacon DeCrane hopes to continue “In this time of sadness, that “In refusing to grant Irick a stay, the place he was nearly a decade ago. building up fraternity among the began many years ago with the tragic court today turns a blind eye to a proven One of them was seminarian Kris seminarians throughout the coming and brutal death of Paula Dyer and likelihood that the state of Tennessee is on Garlitch, a member of St. Mary Parish in formation year by working with continues with another death tonight, the verge of inflicting several minutes of North Vernon who will be a freshman at transitional Deacon Vincent Gilmore to we believe that only Jesus Christ can torturous pain on an inmate in its custody, Bishop Bruté. organize trips of seminarians at Saint bring consolation and peace,” the while shrouding his suffering behind a “It’s great,” Garlitch said of the Meinrad to Bishop Bruté for the two bishops said. “We continue to pray for veneer of paralysis,” Sotomayor wrote in convocation held at Our Lady of Fatima groups of men in priestly formation for the Paula and for her family. And we also her dissent. Retreat House in Indianapolis. “Everyone’s archdiocese to spend more time together. pray for Billy Ray Irick, that his final On a humid night at sunset, spiritual nice. It’s a wonderful environment to be in to “Both of us share a passion for human thoughts were of remorse and leaders led prayers and read Scripture make friends. It’s good to create friendships bringing the Meinrad and Bruté sorrow for we believe that only Christ to the group. Others who knew Irick now that could last who knows how long communities together,” said Deacon can serve justice. “ from visiting him on death row shared with those guys who will support you.” DeCrane. “We want to be much more They also said they prayed that the memories about him. Nearly all of the 25 seminarians of the intentional about community and people of Tennessee “may all come to “Being in that physical proximity, Archdiocese of Indianapolis gathered for the spending time with each other.” cherish the dignity that his love instills knowing that behind all the concrete walls convocation, which is a time of fellowship Archbishop Thompson would like in every person—at every stage of and barbed wire a killing is going on is a and prayer for the men discerning a possible to have more seminarians for the local life.” very sobering thing,” said Deacon James calling as future priests. Church, but he is pleased with the men Irick, 59, died at 7:48 p.m. CDT after Booth, director of prison ministry for the When the new year of priestly who are in formation now. Tennessee prison officials administered Diocese of Nashville, who stood outside formation begins later this month, the “We have great quality,” he said. a lethal combination of chemicals. the prison with a group of about 20 fellow archdiocese will have 14 seminarians at “Seeing the quality we have both at the According to press reports, before he died anti-death penalty activists as Irick was Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary college level and at the theology level is Irick was coughing, choking and gasping executed. in Indianapolis and 11 at Saint Meinrad hopefully encouraging for everyone. for air and his face turned dark purple as Before the execution, Deacon Booth Seminary and School of Theology in “These guys have shown great the lethal drugs took effect. was planning how he would minister to St. Meinrad. Four new seminarians will courage, humility and generosity in their He was the first person executed in death-row inmates in the coming days. be enrolled at each of the seminaries. willingness to listen to the Spirit and Tennessee since 2009, and the first person “I will let them speak,” he said, to say The 25 seminarians come from 19 to discern this calling. Hopefully if it’s executed in the United States since Pope whatever they want in order to process the parishes and eight deaneries across central meant to be, in God’s grace, most, if not Francis announced on Aug. 2 that he had emotions and the grief they might feel, and southern Indiana. They also represent all, of them will be ordained and serve the ordered a change in the Catechism of the akin to losing a family member. the cultural diversity of the archdiocese. Church in a very rich way.” Catholic Church declaring that the death While the men on death row are guilty Two seminarians are Hispanic and two are penalty is inadmissible in all cases. of horrific crimes including rape and Burmese. (For more information about a vocation Irick was convicted in 1986 for the murder, Deacon Booth believes, and the Archbishop Charles C. Thompson spent to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of murder and rape of 7-year-old Paula Dyer Catholic Church teaches, that they still time with the seminarians at the convocation, Indianapolis, visit www.HearGodsCall. of Knoxville and had been on death row retain their human dignity and capacity celebrating Mass with them on Aug. 7, and com.) † ever since. for forgiveness and redemption. †

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OLDENBURG—Throughout much of her 50 years of religious life, Franciscan Sister Christa Franzer has been asked to serve in ministries she would never have planned for herself. She never expected to be principal of Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg. She could have never imagined serving as director of human resources at Marian University in Indianapolis. And she certainly didn’t foresee being elected on April 15 as the superior, known as congregational minister, of her community, the Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg. As congregational minister, Sister Christa is the 16th successor of Mother Theresa Hackelmeier, who founded the Oldenburg Franciscans in 1851. But Sister Christa sees venturing out of her comfort zone one time after another as an expression of her embrace of religious life, which has a vow of obedience at its heart. Ultimately, that obedience is to the will of God. “That’s what obedience is, after all— listening to God, [including] God speaking through other people,” Sister Christa said. Franciscan Sister Christa Franzer poses beside a statue of St. Clare of Assisi on the grounds of the Oldenburg motherhouse of her community, the At the same time that Sister Christa Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. On April 15, she was elected the superior, known as congregational minister, of the community was elected congregational minister and will serve in that role for a six-year term. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) of the Oldenburg Franciscans, three other sisters were elected as members by several months of discernment by “My spiritual director encouraged me helping to carry out her community’s of the community’s council, which will the Oldenburg Franciscans of what their to pray through those hesitations,” Sister priorities, which include focusing on care assist and work with Sister Christa as priorities should be as a community, and Christa said. “It’s good to have expressed of creation, helping women and children a leadership team. They are Franciscan who best among them could lead them in and acknowledged them. But you can get in poverty and becoming more rooted in sisters Delouise Menges, Barbara carrying them out. past them by praying through them.” their Franciscan spirituality. Leonhard and Annette Grisley. Their Over that time of prayerful The community expressing its will on But she recognizes that there will be six-year term of office began on July 1. consideration, Sister Christa learned that April 15 was an emotional experience for challenges for these goals because of “the “We have a wonderful team,” many of her fellow Franciscans were Sister Christa and the others elected to the fact that we are aging, that our numbers Sister Christa said. “I’ve already been serious in seeing her as a possible leader council. are declining.” very impressed.” for the community. “It was pretty overwhelming,” That reality, though, does not dampen Sister Christa served two previous At first, she laughed off such Sister Christa recalled. “To have that kind Sister Christa’s conviction that religious terms on the community’s council, from suggestions. of support to be called forth from the life will continue to be important in the 1994-2000 and from 2006-12. The other “Teasingly, I would say, ‘You community is really a powerful experience.” life of the Church and that the Oldenburg sisters on the recently elected council are mean two terms weren’t enough?’ ” As congregational minister, Sister Christa Franciscans will contribute to it. new to community leadership. Sister Christa recalled. will oversee the ministry of all the members “It’s not going to be the same religious “I assured them from the beginning that, But when the calls for her to consider of her community, including the many life of 40 or 50 years ago,” Sister Christa though I might share a way that we’ve done serving in leadership started to come from who serve the Church in central and said. “But certainly some form of something previously,” Sister Christa said, a wide variety of sisters throughout the southern Indiana. She will also be involved religious life will continue. So we want “I do not ever want to make it seem that, community, she became more serious— in two institutions that have a long and to be part of that new growth in whatever because this was the way we did it before, and more prayerful—during a time when continuing history of building up the life of ways we can.” we have to do it the same way now.” she doubted whether she could serve in the archdiocese: Oldenburg Academy and An expression of religious life in the The April 15 election was preceded this way. Marian University. future that she sees as critical is to follow Sister Christa spoke with pride the call of Pope Francis in accompanying about how Marian in particular has for through times of joy and sorrow those ‘I think the real focus this time is on our presence, generations trained educators who have with whom and around whom they live. served in Catholic schools across the “I think the real focus this time is who we are to people and relationships with people. central and southern Indiana, and now is on our presence, who we are to people Franciscans concentrate on relationships. involved in forming future priests through and relationships with people,” Sister That aspect of presence is what we probably its partnership with Bishop Simon Bruté Christa said. “Franciscans concentrate are going to be remembered for more than building College Seminary in Indianapolis. on relationships. That aspect of presence “It’s all a source of real pride,” she is what we probably are going to be hospitals and teaching in schools.’ said. “It’s a great blessing to be able to remembered for more than building —Franciscan Sister Christa Franzer, congregational minister of the hear that and be aware of the influence hospitals and teaching in schools.” Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg that we’ve had and continue to have.” Sister Christa hopes in the coming (To learn more about the Oldenburg six years to broaden that influence by Franciscans, visit oldenburgfranciscans.org.) †

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Opinion Be Our Guest/Michael Bayer Three traits young people crave from the Church Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher This fall, bishops from every corner of lovable, and we are loved. But far too often Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus the globe will gather in Rome to discuss the message that is broadcast is a list of sins the Church’s ministry to youth and young we had better be avoiding, lest we condemn adults. Pope Francis has called on the ourselves to eternal damnation. leadership of the We want to know we are loved, right Editorial Church not simply now, as we are. And that our elders in the to talk about young Church love us enough to not leave us people but to listen there, but to challenge us to become the directly to them. From version of ourselves God made us to be. my own ministerial • Humility: We want to experience a experience, I would Church that is human as well as divine. highlight three traits We want to hear leaders candidly confess that young people the immeasurable damage that has been desperately crave inflicted on the faithful as part of the from the Church. clergy abuse scandal and the immense • Authenticity: Young people have hurt pervasively experienced by LGBT access to more information than our persons in the Church. We want youth ancestors dreamed possible. We are ministers who aren’t afraid to say, “I inundated by ceaseless digital interactions don’t know,” and bishops who can and immersed in a sea of competing acknowledge, “We got that one wrong.” ideas. We are bombarded by fake news Amid a societal din of strident and pressured to believe that the friends self‑assuredness and inflexible orthodoxies, and celebrities we follow on Instagram young people want the Church to approach truly are living their best life 24/7. them with gentleness, acceptance and a We don’t know what’s real. We don’t belief that those under 30 themselves have know whether a given politician really something to teach the Church, and that made that terrible remark, or whether it’s the transmission of truth is not merely a political opponents taking words out of unidirectional transfer from pulpit to pew. context to score points on cable news. We Instead of leaping immediately from don’t know whether the Snapchats from a hearing about a teenager’s relationship Pope Francis greets pilgrims as he arrives in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Aug. 12, after an classmate requesting risque pictures mean woes or struggle with substance use to outdoor Mass celebrated by Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia-Citta della Pieve, president of that he’s really interested or whether he issuing advice or admonishment, we who the Italian bishops’ conference. (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters) just wants to view nudes. represent the Church can practice the art And we hunger for a Church that can of accompaniment. name explicitly these precise, practical things To use phrases like, “I hear you,” and Pope’s words to young people we’re experiencing, while guiding us through “Wow, that sounds awful,” and “So what a spiritual discernment of what it all means. can I do to help?” We can greet their should speak loudly to all of us We are allergic to artificiality, and too vulnerability—perhaps the most precious often, adults in the Church are projecting an gift a young person can share—with patient It’s not hard to understand why so Church’s preparation for October’s impossibly pious exterior that young people ears, loving eyes and a merciful embrace. many people grow disheartened by the Synod of Bishops on young people and often know isn’t honest—and if it were, they There’s no magic bullet to bring young challenges they see and hear about in vocational discernment, we can all use wouldn’t be able to live up to it, anyway. As people back to the Church, or to ensure our fractured world on a daily basis. the pope’s words as our blueprint for a cohort, young Americans are congenitally that those in our congregations and Though life may be good—for the being our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. cynical, and it’s a near‑universal truth that classrooms are having an experience of most part—for many of us in the U.S., “If we do not oppose evil, we feed young people want adults to be real with faith that will keep them committed for there are still millions of our brothers it tacitly. It is necessary to intervene them instead of posturing. life. There’s no single DVD series, Catholic and sisters in Christ in America who are where evil spreads; because evil spreads • Charity: As is being ubiquitously motivational speaker or youth rally that unemployed or underemployed, have where there are no daring Christians discussed, our civilization is descending will guarantee their participation, much inadequate or no shelter, and struggle to who oppose with good, ‘walking in love’ into a toxic polarization and reflexive less a genuine encounter with Jesus. find food to eat on a daily basis. [Eph 5:2], according to the warning of tribalism that makes vulnerable, loving Rather, it is on each of us, baptized Walk certain streets in many cities, St. Paul,” the pope said. encounters a rarity rather than the norm. believers, to be Christ to one another— including downtown Indianapolis on If we want to be true missionary Today’s young people have grown up to model, in every interaction with an evening, and a sobering snapshot of disciples, it is incumbent upon each of listening to partisan pundits shouting past young people, the authenticity, charity homeless individuals will greet you. us each day to love others through good one another on TV and having the option and humility that has defined so many The empty expression on some of those works and deeds, Pope Francis told the to unfriend, unfollow or block anyone holy men and women down through the faces makes many of us question how, young people. whose opinion they don’t share. centuries, most of whose names are lost to in 2018, such sadness and loneliness can In his talk before the recitation of Bullying follows us around to a degree history but whose impact on individuals still so clearly and painfully exist? the Angelus, the pope also reminded the unimaginable to our parents, with peers can never fully be calculated. Widen the picture around the globe, young men and women to live their lives able to harass others in the middle of and you see similar circumstances and “in a coherent way, not with hypocrisy” the night from the safety of anonymous (Michael Bayer is director of heartache. by renouncing evil and doing good. online accounts. evangelization and adult formation at For some, especially in developing “To renounce evil means saying ‘no’ At the same time, we show up to church, St. Clement Parish in the Archdiocese of countries, there are jobs, but they to temptation, to sin, to Satan,” the pope craving to hear that, contrary to what this Chicago. He is a guest columnist for the pay extremely low, outrageous, some said. “More concretely, it means saying cacophony of critical voices insists, we are Catholic News Service.) † would even say criminally, negligent ‘no’ to a culture of death that manifests wages. There are other people being itself in escaping from reality toward a forced to flee from their homeland, and false happiness that expresses itself in Letter to the Editor Christians and other people of faith lies, fraud, injustice and in contempt of being persecuted—and even killed—for others.” We must not forget we are all descendants of their beliefs. Those truths remind us that living What’s a person of faith to do when as disciples of Christ means doing immigrants, Criterion reader notes they see and hear of these things? things that today many would consider Bravo to John F. Fink for his “Background” all descendants of immigrants. Putting Not sit silently in indifference, but countercultural. column in the July 27 issue of The Criterion with restrictions on who can and can’t seek refuge follow young people’s example of being “It isn’t enough to not hate, you the headline: “The United States has not been as in our country is a blatant condemnation of “dynamic, passionate and courageous” need to forgive; it isn’t enough to not welcoming as we think” concerning immigration. what makes America great. Trying to “make disciples. hold a grudge, you need to pray for I wish I had a nickel for every time American great again” by arbitrarily limiting Many times, Christians can be your enemies; it isn’t enough to not I’ve reminded President Donald J. Trump, immigration is flat-out oxymoronic! tempted to “think they are saints” and be the cause of division, you need to Vice President Mike Pence and our Indiana Our leaders need to pay heed to the lyrics justify themselves by saying, “I don’t bring peace where there is none; it senators and congressman that, “If we don’t of the song, “God Bless the U.S.A.” harm anyone,” the pope told a group isn’t enough to not speak ill of others, believe in what Lady Liberty stands for, we of young people before reciting the you need to interrupt when you hear might as well ship her back to France.” Alice Price Angelus at the Vatican on Aug. 12. someone bad-mouthing another,” the Except for Native Americans, we are Indianapolis “How many people do not do evil, but pope said. also do not do good, and their lives flow May we follow the Holy Father’s into indifference, apathy and tepidity! message for young people and be Letters Policy This attitude is contrary to the Gospel, “protagonists of good.” And may we and is also contrary to the character of live the words of St. Alberto Hurtado, Letters from readers are welcome Letters must be signed, but, for serious you young people who, by your very a Jesuit priest who served the poor in and should be informed, relevant, reasons, names may be withheld. nature, are dynamic, passionate and Chile before his death in 1952: “It is well‑expressed, concise, temperate in tone, Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” courageous,” Pope Francis said. good to not do evil, but it is evil to not courteous and respectful. The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, The editors reserve the right to select and Indianap­olis, IN 46202-2367. Even though his message was geared do good.” edit the letters based on space limitations, Readers with access to e-mail may send toward thousands of young adults pastoral sensitivity and content. letters to [email protected]. on a pilgrimage as part of the Italian —Mike Krokos The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Turn to Mary, who shows us how to be holy

“Far from being timid, morose, acerbic closer to us than we are to ourselves— woman who rejoiced in the presence of in and day out, and she will show us or melancholy, or putting on a dreary and he walks with us, accompanying God, who treasured everything in her how to be holy. face, the saints are joyful and full of us on the journey to true life in heart, and who let herself be pierced Holiness is not something that is good humor. Though certainly realistic, him. God gives us the gifts we need by the sword. Mary is the saint among reserved for people who are “better they radiate a positive and hopeful to discover and do his will. These saints, blessed above all others. She than us.” It is for us. spirit” (Pope Francis, “Gaudete et include prayer and the sacraments, teaches us the way of holiness, and As the pope says, “When in God’s Exsultate,” #122). the inspiration of holy reading and she walks ever at our side. She does presence we examine our life’s reflection on God’s word, and the not let us remain fallen, and at times journey, no areas can be off limits. In This is the final column on example of the saints—including she takes us into her arms without all aspects of life, we can continue Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation, “ordinary” people, such as our mothers judging us. Our conversation with her to grow and offer something greater “Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Rejoice and and grandmothers, who are not perfect, consoles, frees and sanctifies us. Mary to God, even in those areas we find Be Glad”). During the last several but who are serious about living the our Mother does not need a flood of most difficult.” All we need to do weeks, this column has offered Gospel in their daily lives. words. She does not need us to tell her is “to ask the Holy Spirit to liberate reflections on what it means to be holy. Two days ago, on Aug. 15, we what is happening in our lives. All we us, and to expel the fear that makes Holiness is not something remote or celebrated the Solemnity of the need to do is whisper, time and time us ban him from certain parts of our inaccessible. It is close to us, available Assumption of the Blessed Virgin again: ‘Hail Mary…’ ” (“Gaudete et lives” (“Gaudete et Exsultate,” #175). to everyone. That doesn’t mean that it’s Mary into heaven. Mary’s holiness is Exsultate,” #176). God knows our secrets and the hidden easy to be holy. It simply means that a model for us all. As the mother of We, too, can be holy. We can live burdens we carry in our hearts. Let’s God reaches out to each of us through our Lord and our mother, Mary shows the Beatitudes to the best of our ask him to set us free! the power of his grace and invites us us how to be holy. Starting with her ability. We can open our hearts to And let’s turn to the Blessed Virgin to be our own true selves, the people openness to the mysterious will of Jesus and accept both the joys and Mary and ask her to intercede for us he created us to be. The obstacles are God, which changed her life radically, the sorrows of his way of life. We so that we, too, can say “yes” to God’s many—especially our own sinfulness Mary shows us how to say “yes” to can trust in God’s mercy so that will. Let’s ask her to show us how to and the temptations of the evil one. whatever God asks. when we fall short of his hopes for live the Beatitudes of Jesus and grow But God’s love and mercy sustain us As Pope Francis tells us in his us we can beg for forgiveness and in holiness in every aspect of our daily and encourage us to grow in wisdom, concluding remarks: “I would like rejoice in his saving grace. We can lives. “In this way,” Pope Francis tells courage and love. these reflections to be crowned by turn to Mary our Mother at any time, us, “we will share a happiness that the God does not call us to holiness and Mary, because she lived the Beatitudes and she will guide us to her son, world will not be able to take from us” then abandon us. He stands with us— of Jesus as none other. She is that Jesus. We can whisper her name day (“Gaudete et Exsultate,” #177). †

Acudamos a María quien nos enseña a ser santos

“El santo es capaz de vivir con alegría mantiene junto a nosotros, incluso porque ella vivió como nadie las nombre a cada instante y ella nos y sentido del humor. Sin perder el más cerca de lo que estamos de bienaventuranzas de Jesús. Ella es enseñará a ser santos. realismo, ilumina a los demás con nosotros mismos, y camina con la que se estremecía de gozo en la La santidad no es algo que esté un espíritu positivo y esperanzado” nosotros, acompañándonos en presencia de Dios, la que conservaba reservado para la gente “mejor que (Papa Francisco, “Gaudete et el sendero a una vida verdadera todo en su corazón y se dejó atravesar nosotros;” es para nosotros. Exsultate,” #122). en Él. Dios nos da los dones que por la espada. Es la santa entre los Tal como lo expresa el papa: necesitamos para descubrir y santos, la más bendita, la que nos “Cuando escrutamos ante Dios los Esta es la última columna sobre cumplir Su voluntad. Entre ellos enseña el camino de la santidad y caminos de la vida, no hay espacios la exhortación apostólica del papa se encuentran la oración y los nos acompaña. Ella no acepta que que queden excluidos. En todos los Francisco, “Gaudete et Exsultate” sacramentos, la inspiración de las nos quedemos caídos y a veces nos aspectos de la existencia podemos (“Alegraos y regocijaos”). Durante lecturas sagradas, la reflexión sobre lleva en sus brazos sin juzgarnos. seguir creciendo y entregarle algo las semanas anteriores he ofrecido la palabra de Dios y el ejemplo de Conversar con ella nos consuela, más a Dios, aun en aquellos donde algunas reflexiones con respecto al los santos que incluye a la gente nos libera y nos santifica. La Madre experimentamos las dificultades más significado de ser santos. “ordinaria,” tal como nuestras no necesita de muchas palabras, no fuertes.” Lo único que tenemos que La santidad no es algo remoto madres y abuelas quienes no son le hace falta que nos esforcemos hacer es “pedirle al Espíritu Santo o inaccesible sino algo próximo perfectas pero que viven a cabalidad demasiado para explicarle lo que nos que nos libere y que expulse ese a nosotros y que se encuentra el Evangelio en sus vidas cotidianas. pasa. Basta musitar una y otra vez: miedo que nos lleva a vedarle su a disposición de todos. Esto no Hace dos días, el 15 de agosto, ‘Dios te salve, María…’ ” (“Gaudete entrada en algunos aspectos de la significa que sea fácil; sencillamente celebramos la Solemnidad de la et Exsultate,” #176). propia vida” (“Gaudete et Exsultate,” significa que Dios se acerca a Asunción de la Santísima Virgen Nosotros también podemos #175). Dios conoce los secretos y los cada uno de nosotros mediante el María al cielo. La santidad de María ser santos, podemos vivir las pesares ocultos que llevamos en el poder de Su gracia y nos invita es un modelo para todos nosotros; bienaventuranzas de la mejor forma corazón. ¡Pidámosle que nos libere! a ser fieles a nosotros mismos, a como la madre de nuestro Señor y posible. Podemos abrir nuestros Y acudamos a la Santísima Virgen nuestra persona, tal como hemos nuestra madre, María nos enseña corazones a Jesús y aceptar las alegrías María y pidámosle que interceda por sido creados. Existen muchos a ser santos. Comenzando por su y los dolores de vivir según su palabra. nosotros para que, al igual que ella, obstáculos, especialmente nuestra disposición a aceptar la misteriosa Podemos confiar en la misericordia de podamos decirle “sí” a la voluntad propia condición de pecadores y voluntad de Dios que cambió Dios para que cuando no cumplamos de Dios. Pidámosle que nos enseñe las tentaciones del inicuo. Pero el radicalmente su vida, María nos con Sus expectativas podamos rogar a vivir las bienaventuranzas de amor y la misericordia de Dios nos enseña a decir «sí» a todo lo que por el perdón y regocijarnos en su Jesús y a crecer en santidad en cada sostiene y nos anima a crecer en Dios nos pida. gracia salvadora. Podemos acudir a aspecto de nuestra vida cotidiana. sabiduría, valentía y amor. Según lo expresa el papa Francisco María nuestra Madre en cualquier “Así compartiremos una felicidad Dios no nos llama a la santidad en sus comentarios finales: “Quiero momento y ella nos guiará hacia que el mundo no nos podrá quitar” y luego nos abandona, sino que se que María corone estas reflexiones, su hijo, Jesús. Podemos musitar su (“Gaudete et Exsultate,” #177). † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018

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August 20-31 Indianapolis. Parish Festival, Pascal Nduka presenting, Chamblee, 317-236-1404, August 31 August 31-Sept. 3 Indianapolis St. Vincent Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri. 5-11 p.m., 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., followed [email protected]. St. Paul Hermitage, Sacred Heart Parish, de Paul Distribution Center, Sat. 5-11:30 p.m., food, by optional vigil Mass, 501 N. 17th Ave., Beech gymnasium, 558 Nebeker St., 1201 E. Maryland. St., rides, games, beer garden, lunch provided, freewill August 25-26 Grove. Ave Maria Guild, Fall Clinton. Spaghetti Fest, Indianapolis. Bikes for the Annie’s Attic, silent auction. offering, register by Aug. 22. St. Mary Parish, Rummage Sale, 8:30 a.m.- Fri. 4-9 p.m., Sat. and Homeless, accepting used Information: 317-821-2909. Registration and information: 1331 E. Hunter Robbins Way, 2:30 p.m. Information: 317- Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m., adult bicycles (must be Pearlette Springer, Greensburg. On Eagles 223-3687, [email protected]. Mon. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., rideable), locks, helmets and August 24-26 317-236-1474, pspringer@ Wings 5K Walk/Run, sauce prepared by Knights backpacks, drop-off hours Diocese of Nashville, archindy.org, or Sally Stovall, Sat. 8 a.m. (register online August 31-Sept. 2 of Columbus #9441, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri., Catholic Pastoral Center, 317-727-5736. www.oneeagleswings5K.com). St. Joseph Parish, air-conditioned dining, pick-up available if five or 2800 McGavock Pike, Festival, Sat. 5:30-11 p.m., 1401 S. Mickley Ave., handicapped accessible, more bikes by calling Jeff Nashville, Tenn. Parish Immaculate Heart of Mary Sun. 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Indianapolis. Fall Festival, adults $8, children 12 and Blackwell, 317-924-5769, Twinning Program of Parish, 5692 Central Ave., Sat.: only adults age 21 and Fri. and Sat. 5-11 p.m., younger $5, silent auction, ext. 320. Information: the Americas National Indianapolis. Neighborhood older admitted, pork chop Sun. 3-11 p.m., American and craft booths, free parking. www.svdpindy.org. Conference and 40th 5K Run/Walk, 9 a.m., meal, live music by “Nuttin’ Vietnamese food, rides, kids’ Information: 765-832-8468. Anniversary Celebration, $20 entry fee, Fall Festival Fancy” 7-11 p.m., beer garden, tent, community barn sale, August 21-October 30 “One Are We … the Blessings 4-11 p.m., free up to age 20, casino games, raffles, silent blackjack, poker, beer garden, September 1 St. Christopher Parish, of Twinning: Celebrating our $2 age 21 and older, local auction; Sun.: family day, chicken bingo, silent auction. St. Michael Church, Damascus Room, Past, Envisioning our Future,” music, food, beverages, kids’ fried chicken and pork BBQ Information: 317-244-9002. 145 St. Michael Blvd., 5301 W. 16th St., Indianapolis. Fri. 1 p.m. through Sun. 11 a.m., games. Information: dinners served 10:30 a.m.- Brookville. First Saturday Scripture Study on the speakers, opportunities 317-257-2266. 2:30 p.m., bake sale, kids’ CYO Camp Rancho Framasa, Marian Devotional Psalms, in the Old Testament to share and learn best games, inflatables, casino 2230 Clay Lick Road, Prayer Group, Mass, and their use in the Mass, practices, $239.37. Holy Name of Jesus Parish, games, bingo, concessions, Nashville. Fall Family Camp, prayers, rosary, confession, consecutive Tuesdays through Information, registration 89 N. 17th Ave., Beech raffles including Fri. 7 p.m.-Sun. 2 p.m., meditation, 8 a.m. Oct. 30 and continuing and lodging information: Grove. Parish Social $5,000 grand prize, live climbing, canoeing, crafts, Information: 765-647-5462. Tuesdays beginning on Jan. 15 615-298-3002, www. Ministry Gathering, for music by “Keith Swinney archery, evening activities, through March 26, 2019, parishprogram.org. priests, deacons, parish staff, Band” noon-4 p.m. campfires, corral horse rides September 2 7-8:45 p.m., $50 per semester volunteers and those interested Information: 812-663-8427. and more, $50 per child St. Catherine of Siena Parish, payable in installments, August 25 in social concerns, keynote (up to 17), $75 per adult; Decatur County, St. John the financial arrangements St. Andrew the Apostle Parish speaker Archbishop Charles August 26 Saturday-only option, Evangelist Campus, available. Registration and Social Hall, 4052 E. 38th St., C. Thompson, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., St. Martin of Tours Parish, check-in 8-9 a.m., check-out 9995 E. Base Road, information: Lois Jansen, 317- Indianapolis. “Transform the $15 includes lunch, 1709 E. Harrison St., after campfire, $30 per child Greensburg. Enochsburg 241-9169, [email protected]. Jonah in Me [Eph 4:23-24]” optional Mass at 8:15 a.m. Martinsville. Parish Picnic, (up to 18), $55 per adult. Church Picnic, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Retreat, sponsored by the Registration is requested by 11:30 am.-1:30 p.m., Information and registration: Fireside Inn fried chicken, August 23-25 Black Catholic Ministry of Aug. 20: www.archindy.org/ hamburgers, hot dogs and www.campranchoframasa.org/ roast beef dinners, mock St. Ann Parish, the archdiocesan Office of ParishSocialMinistryGathering. brats, games, bounce houses. family-camps, 888-988-2839 turtle soup, games and booths. 6350 S. Mooresville Road, Intercultural Ministry, Father Information: Theresa Information: 765-342-6379. ext. 122. Information: 812-934-2880. † Creation Care prayer service to be VIPs Jack and Carol (Bischoff) Berlier, members held at Holy Spirit Church on Sept. 1 of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Aug. 16. A prayer service on the World Day Pope Francis has declared Sept. 1 as The couple was married in St. Joan of Arc of Prayer for Creation Care will be held World Day of Prayer for Creation Care. Church in Indianapolis on Aug. 16, 1958. at Holy Spirit Church, 7243 E. 10th St., The Season of Creation begins on They have three children: Julie Postma, Beth in Indianapolis, at 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 1. Sept. 1 and ends on Oct. 4, the feast Warner and Doug Berlier. The service is being hosted by day of St. Francis of Assisi. The couple also has eight grandchildren and the Holy Spirit Parish Creation Care For additional information, call two great-grandchildren. † Ministry in conjunction with the 317-562-0197 or visit the parish Eastside Creation Care Network. website at www.holyspirit-indy.org. †

Thomas and Betty (Via) Reese, members of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis, will celebrate Fun run/walk to benefit Providence their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 17. The couple was married in St. John the Food Panty in Terre Haute on Sept. 8 Evangelist Church in Indianapolis on Aug. 17, 1968. St. Mary-of-the-Woods Parish in Food Pantry in West Terre Haute. They have two children: Christina Vavra and St. Mary-of-the-Woods is hosting a Pre-race activities include a free kid Matthew Reese. benefit “Hunger Bust Fun Run/Walk” zone area with face painting and games. The couple also has three grandchildren. on the campus of St. Mary-of-the- The cost is $10 per person. The couple will celebrate with a family trip to Woods College and the grounds of Registrations will be accepted Mexico this fall. † the Sisters of Providence, 1 Sisters through the day of the race. Those who of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the- register by Aug. 23 will receive a free Irvin and Patricia (Moynihan) Stumler, Woods, in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, T-shirt at the event. members of Holy Family Parish in New Albany, on Sept. 8. For additional information or to celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Registration is from 9-9:45 a.m. request a registration form, e-mail Aug. 16. with a 10 a.m. race start. Jamie Richey at [email protected] The couple was married in St. Anthony All proceeds benefit the Providence or call 812-535-3048. † de Padua Church in South Bend, Ind., on Aug. 16, 1958. They have two children: Peggy Torres and Randy Stumler. The couple also has eight grandchildren. † Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House to host widows’ weekend retreat on Sept. 21-23 “Peace in the Mourning,” a retreat The retreat offers an opportunity for for widows, will be held at Our Lady of hope and healing for faithful widows as Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., they remember their beloved spouses. in Indianapolis, starting at 6:30 p.m. Widows of all faith backgrounds on Sept. 21 and ending by 1 p.m. on and ages are welcome. Sept. 23. The cost is $195 and includes private The retreat will be facilitated by accommodations and all meals. Mass Providence Sister Constance Kramer, will be celebrated during the retreat. a certified group counselor and grief Scholarship money is available specialist. by contacting Cheryl McSweeney at Presenters include Father James 317‑545-7681, ext. 106. Farrell and Jennifer Trapuzzano Cripe, Register online at www.archindy. ‘STEMstars’ a recently remarried Catholic woman org/fatima or by calling Dustin Nelson In May, Krista Konradi, left, and Amanda Farmer, right, kindergarten teachers at St. Louis School who created the retreat after her first at 317-545-7681, ext. 101, or e-mailing in Batesville, were selected as “STEMstars” by Genesis: Pathways to Success (GPS) for their husband was murdered in 2014. [email protected]. † efforts to inspire their students to explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) areas by developing creative and innovative activities. Here, they pose with a few of their students along with some of the resources the teachers used to teach STEM concepts. GPS is an initiative Events and retreats can be submitted to The Criterion by logging on to of the Ripley County Community Foundation that promotes STEM education. (Submitted photo) www.archindy.org/events/submission, or by mailing us at 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202, ATTN: Cindy Clark, or by fax at 317-236-1593. The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Page 7 Golden anniversary couples celebrate 2,900 years of marriage

By Natalie Hoefer

Some love stories begin at first sight. Other tales start as early childhood friendships that blossom and grow through the course of many years. Most originate somewhere in between. Regardless of how their narrative began, the stories of the 58 couples gathered at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis shared much in common: love, faith, commitment, sacrifice and joy written during a span of 50 years of marriage. The couples came together from 36 parishes throughout southern and central Indiana on Aug. 5 to participate in the annual archdiocesan Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass. Together, they represented 2,900 years of marriage, 163 children, 324 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. As Archbishop Charles C. Thompson welcomed the couples and their families at the beginning of the Mass, he noted that 2018 also marks the 50th anniversary of the re-establishment of the permanent diaconate in the United States by the country’s bishops. The first class of deacons in the history of the archdiocese were ordained in 2008. There are now Archbishop Charles C. Thompson delivers a homily on Aug. 5 in SS. Peter 57 permanent deacons serving in the and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis during the archdiocesan Golden Wedding archdiocese, plus three who are retired. Jubilee Mass. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) Two of the active deacons were among those at the Mass celebrating 50 years of of those celebrating a golden jubilee of us. [We’re] called marriage. anniversary within the context of Mass.” to holiness, called to “As a core belief of our Catholic faith, He noted that the Gospel reading from this righteousness in we hold that it is the very real presence John 6:24-35 was one of several in the Jesus Christ alone, of Jesus Christ made available to us in coming weeks focusing on Christ as the by sacramental grace the Eucharist that sustains us in life, in Bread of Life. Such a claim caused many throughout the course our vocations [of] marriage, priesthood people of Jesus’ time to struggle and of living out one’s and service,” the archbishop told the eventually to walk away from him. vocation. congregation during his homily. “So, it is “We, too, struggle with challenges and “[The pope] goes most appropriate that we gather in honor uncertainties as we strive to live out our on to tell us, it’s by respective vocations,” the little things we do Archbishop Thompson daily that helps us to Ron and Sandra Hartlieb of St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis dance said. “We do well to take grow in holiness— to a jazz band in the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in to heart the exhortation of when we are attentive Indianapolis on Aug. 5 at a reception following the archdiocesan Golden St. Paul to the Ephesians, to the needs of one Wedding Jubilee Mass. in our second reading, another, as husband brides and grooms were invited to share seeking truth not in and wife must be to one another, and to a kiss. ourselves, not in just their children, and children to their parents.” At the reception held across the street anything that comes Archbishop Thompson closed his at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara along, … but seeking homily with a note of gratitude “for the Catholic Center after the Mass, three of truth, St. Paul says, witness of you couples gathered with those couples shared with The Criterion always in Christ.” us this day, witnessing not only to your their love stories, the role of faith in their Later in his homily, families and your communities, but to the marriage, and advice for couples so that Archbishop Thompson entire world and the Church. they, too, might one day celebrate their referred to Pope Francis’ “May all that we are and all that 50th wedding anniversary. Their stories recently published we accomplish be founded in him, the can be found below and on page 8. apostolic exhortation on Bread of Life.” holiness, “Gaudete et After his homily, the archbishop asked (Anniversaries of 50 years or of five-year Exsultate” (“Rejoice and all of the couples celebrating golden increments from 60 years and more can Be Glad”), which declares anniversary to rise and join hands. He be announced in The Criterion by filling that “the call to holiness is then invited all present to pray in silence out the form at bit.ly/2M4MQms [case A couple holds hands during the archdiocesan Golden Wedding rooted in baptism for each for the couples. And just as at the end sensitive], or by calling Cindy Clark Jubilee Mass in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on of us—not just for a few of their weddings five decades ago, the at 317-236-1585 or 800-382-9836, Aug. 5. but for each and every one ext. 1585.) † Sellersburg couple says ‘the right spouse … will help you get to heaven’ By Natalie Hoefer to church. He wasn’t a stick in the mud, “We decided early on that we wanted but he also wasn’t wild or crazy.” to give our kids a Catholic education. It’s To marry at the age of 30 is not In addition to knowing from the first not that we had a whole lot of money—it uncommon nowadays. But such has not moment that he wanted to marry her, was just important to us. always been the case. Merlin also found Betty to be “a very “When the kids were in school, we When Betty Popp was in her late 20’s, attractive young lady. … Being a nurse, always tried to take part, and we’ve her mother “used to tell people, ‘This is she ran around with a good crowd. She always been active in church,” she says. my daughter, Betty. She’s not married,’ ” was a good Catholic girl, so I told myself, The Popps pass along some advice to says the member of St. John Paul II ‘I think I’ll marry her,’ ” he says with a young couples who want to one day revel Parish in Sellersburg. “I got married when grin. in their own 50th anniversary. I was 30. Back then, that was old to be And so, after two years of dating, Betty “There will be bumps in the road,” getting married. But I was just waiting and Merlin were wed at the “old” ages of says Merlin. “Just realize that you can’t for the right one,” she says, turning to her 30 and 33. have your way all of the time. If you husband with a smile. Two children and four grandchildren can’t compromise, you’ll have a rough Their love story began fittingly enough later, the couple celebrated their way.” at a wedding. Betty knew Merlin Popp 50th anniversary at the archdiocesan Betty notes that couples shouldn’t by sight through mutual friends, but had Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass on Aug. 5 “expect to agree on everything all the never met him. That situation changed at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in time, but you have to agree on the when the bride needed to speak with him Indianapolis. important things.” and asked Betty to find him. They take great pride and joy in the One thing Betty and Merlin agree on is “The first time I saw [Betty], I knew I fact that their children sought Catholic the impact each has had on the other. wanted to marry her,” says Merlin. spouses, are active in their faith and are “I really think Merlin is a good Later, through a series of connections, sending their children to Catholic school. influence on me,” says Betty, followed by he found out where Betty lived, and the “I like to think we played a role” in a vigorous nodding of the head and “vice Betty and Merlin Popp of St. John Paul II Parish two reconnected. their children devoutly living their faith, versa” from Merlin. in Sellersburg smile after sharing a kiss as part “I liked him,” Betty recalls. A friend’s says Betty. “If you have the right spouse—and I of the renewing of their nuptial vows during father told her that Merlin “was a great “I grew up in a little Catholic town [in do,” she continues with a loving look at the archdiocesan Golden Wedding Jubilee at guy and that a lot of women would like to Kentucky],” she says. “I always told myself her husband, “they will help you get to SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis be dating him. He was Catholic, he went I was going to marry a Catholic man. heaven.” † on Aug. 5. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Page 8 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018

For successful marriage, ‘trust and believe in God,’ says couple By Natalie Hoefer “She was always nice and quiet and assisting her, you could friendly,” says Oliver. “She was there if I see tears of joy and When Cora Jackson refers to her needed to talk.” happiness all around.” husband Oliver as her “knight in Cora, too, found Oliver to be “really Her recovery took shining armor,” she means it a bit more nice, and he was good looking. And he several years, but the literally than most women in love. It was a snappy dresser—I appreciated that,” Jacksons consider goes back to the night they met, when she adds with a girlish giggle. that time as the “in she was 15 and he was 16. Oliver The two started dating after sickness, in health” recounts the tale. high school, and married when she part of their marriage “It was Halloween, and she was was 20 and he was 21. They have journey. [taking] her siblings trick-or-treating,” three children, and now have eight In light of that he recalls. “I was living with my grandchildren. challenging time, aunt, and they had just left her house. The Catholic faith that provided the Oliver would advise Someone started giving them trouble. foundation in which their relationship young couples to “be They were all girls, so I went out and grew has been the focal point of their faithful to one another, intervened.” marriage. no matter what happens More than 50 years later, the two “There were good times and bad times, in your marriage.” now take care of each other as husband but we always kept the faith, and God was “And always and wife. Oliver—now a permanent always there for us,” says Oliver. “And we keep the line of deacon for the archdiocese—and shared it with our family.” communication open Cora celebrated that fact on Aug. 5 Cora agrees, noting that they between you two,” Cora during the Golden Wedding Jubilee “always blessed our children when adds. Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral they left the house … and we still bless But above all, the in Indianapolis. (See related article them on the phone. Now we bless our two agree, faith is below about the 50th anniversary of the grandchildren—it’s a long tradition essential. institution of the diaconate.) with us.” “Trust and believe After that Halloween night, says It was their deep faith that brought the in God, no matter what Oliver, “it seemed like every time I Jacksons through a particularly difficult you go through in life turned around, she was there.” Both time. Their daughter was preparing for and in marriage,” says were—and still are—members of St. Rita marriage when Cora suddenly became Oliver. Parish in Indianapolis and lived just a ill, couldn’t walk and was confined to a “Ditto,” Cora says. block-and-a-half apart. wheelchair. “There’s no way we While the two attended different “That was really a challenge, but could have gotten high schools, they were able to develop we put our faith and trust in God,” through those 50 years Deacon Oliver and Cora Jackson share a moment of silent prayer their friendship at church as they Oliver says. “When she got out of the without faith in the Lord. while renewing their nuptial vows at the archdiocesan Golden both became more involved in youth wheelchair at the wedding and walked He’s played a big part in Wedding Jubilee Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis activities. down the aisle with me and our son our lives.” † on Aug. 5. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Couple celebrates 50th anniversary of marriage—and the diaconate By Natalie Hoefer ‘why me?’ But God will take care of you “I’m here to be his helper,” says Cora. His wife’s support does not go if he’s called you.” “I don’t mind helping and serving. If I do unnoticed by Oliver. In 1968, Oliver and Cora Jackson said So Oliver applied for and was accepted that, then it pleases the Lord.” “She helps keep me on track,” he “I do” in St. Rita Church in Indianapolis. in 2008 into the second class of men to be But supporting a husband in his role as says, admitting he might forget about an That same year, the United formed for the diaconate. deacon does have its difficult moments. appointment, and Cora will remind him. States bishops said yes as well—to “But I backed out,” he says. “I said, ‘If “It can be a lot of pressure on the “I can get upset sometimes, and we’ll re-establishing the permanent diaconate in it comes back, I’ll do it again.’ ” wife,” Cora admits. “For us, it’s been talk. We’ve always talked and shared our the U.S. And a third class was instituted, in like, [someone from] the church might faith, but now we do it even more, and This year, the Jacksons celebrate their June of 2013. Oliver was once again call at the last minute with something that that draws you closer.” 50th wedding anniversary. accepted into the program, and on wasn’t in our plan, and we have to change As he reflects on the re-establishment But they celebrate the 50th anniversary June 24, 2017, Deacon Oliver Jackson everything we were committed to. of the permanent diaconate in the of the restoration of the diaconate as well, was ordained to the permanent diaconate. “We always put in a lot of time U.S. 50 years ago, Oliver says he is “very for it is an act that has greatly impacted Today, he is one of the 57 active volunteering at the church even before appreciative that they brought it back. It’s their lives. That impact began five years permanent deacons serving throughout he was a deacon, and I thought, ‘Maybe given a lot of lay men and married men ago when Oliver was accepted into the central and southern Indiana. things won’t change too much.’ But there a way to serve not as priests, but as that archdiocese’s deacon formation program. Permanent deacons can baptize, have been quite a few changes. … The bridge between the lay person and the “It actually goes back 10 or 11 years witness marriages, perform funeral and last-minute stuff—I pray on it, and the minister. ago,” says Oliver. “A personal friend of burial services outside of Mass, distribute Lord will help me through it.” “All through my life, I always felt mine was saying God was sending her holy Communion and preach homilies. But Cora adds that “the benefits there was something God wanted me to messages for me about being a deacon. I Additionally, because charity is at the heart outweigh the burdens, most definitely.” do. We’ve both been so active at St. Rita. didn’t want to accept it. ... Even though I of their ministry, deacons serve in one or One benefit is the time she and her … But now God has shown me he wants was going to church and listen to God, I several other capacities—as priest assistants husband share in prayer. Deacons are me to do more, and that’s what I do as a felt like I wasn’t right for [the diaconate].” in parishes, as chaplains, in prison ministry, required to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, deacon”—with Cora by his side as she He shared his doubts with St. Rita’s in hospitals, and in bereavement ministry. also known as the Divine Office, and was 50 years ago when they solemnly pastor at the time. Oliver is assigned to assist at his and Cora joins Oliver in this ancient prayer of vowed, “I do.” “He said, ‘I said the same thing about Cora’s lifelong home parish of St. Rita. the Church in the mornings and evenings. the priesthood,’ ” Oliver recalls. “Then One could say they both assist—a “We really do that faithfully,” she says. (For more information on the diaconate he said, ‘If not you, then who?’ We never deacon’s wife, after all, is impacted by “I think that helps us a lot, and helps me in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, go to know who God will call. Many question her husband’s service. refocus.” www.archindy.org/deacon.) † Golden anniversary is ‘celebration of life’ for Lanesville husband and wife By Natalie Hoefer He eventually did rediscover together so long, I know what she’s going Charlene’s name. The two stayed in touch to say and she knows what I’m going to Around 1963, 18-year-old Malcolm while she continued her education and he say.” noticed a “pretty good-looking” girl at a went into the military. They started dating Such closeness is bound to happen birthday party in Clarksville. after Charlene turned 18. when two people journey together “for “What’s that?” she asked, standing next “I think he’s really sincere, and I love better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to a tape recorder someone had brought. sincerity in a man,” she says of what in sickness and in health.” And the Ettels Malcolm showed her how it worked … attracted her to Malcolm. have had their share of sickness. by smoothly reaching his arm around her “She laughed at my jokes,” he says “We’ve both had very serious shoulder to push the button. with a grin, then turns serious. “I found illnesses,” Charlene shares. “But God “I thought it was pretty clever the someone who loves me more than she has helped us in every way. Our faith is way he put his arm around me, but I loves herself. She backs me up. She’s everything.” knew what he was up to,” Charlene been my partner.” “She prayed me out of [my sickness], says 55 years later with a smug look at After 50 years of marriage, raising two and I prayed her out of hers,” Malcolm Malcolm Ettel, her husband of 50 years. children and enjoying five grandchildren, adds. The couple, members of St. Mary the Ettels have advice for couples seeking At one point Charlene was so ill, “the Parish in Lanesville, participated in the to reach the half‑century mark. doctors and nurses all said she wasn’t archdiocesan Golden Wedding Jubilee “I think forgiveness is important,” says going to make it,” Malcolm recalls. Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Charlene. “You have to have a lot of that She considers that fact as she Indianapolis on Aug. 5, and enjoyed the in a marriage. reflects on celebrating 50 years of reception after. “And don’t give up [on your marriage] marriage. They didn’t start dating immediately. so fast. If you marry a man or a woman “I’d look in the paper at all the Malcolm and Charlene Ettel of St. Mary Parish in “She had to graduate from high school, who will be a good mother or father, then anniversaries, and honestly, I never Lanesville share a kiss during the archdiocesan and I still had to grow up a lot,” Malcom you can have so much history together.” thought I’d make it,” she says. “This is Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass at SS. Peter and admits. “And I forgot her name,” he “I agree, hang in there,” says Malcolm. more than an anniversary for us. This is a Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on Aug. 5. sheepishly adds. “Fifty years ago, I was scared. After being celebration of life.” † (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Page 9

like it wasn’t a big switch for me” MARRIAGE marrying into the Weintraut family. continued from page 1 “The only difference was our faith background.” anniversary celebrations as being “really Both Carolyn and Omer were devout in nice.” His comment is not surprising, their faith—Carolyn even started at Butler given the closeness of the Weintraub clan. with the idea of putting her education So close, in fact, that it was Omer’s sister degree to work for a church. The who introduced him to his future wife. difference was that she was raised in the Protestant rather than the Catholic faith. ‘Family was important to both of us’ “I was raised that ‘the family that Dorine Weintraut and Carolyn prays together stays together,’ ” says Weinantz, both of Shelby County, were Carolyn. “I went to [Mass] with Omer working together at the Statehouse in all the time. I was happy to take on his Indianapolis in 1951. Dorine’s brother faith.” Omer was on leave from the Navy. She Carolyn was welcomed into full suggested he and Carolyn join her and her communion of the Catholic Church boyfriend on a date. Both agreed, and the shortly before their wedding. two couples saw a movie. Any concerns her father might have Carolyn says that later Omer admitted had about his daughter marrying a that after the date “he told his friends he Catholic were settled during a stay he had was going to marry me.” in a hospital while Carolyn and Omer In October of the same year, Dorine were engaged. invited Carolyn to her wedding. After the “He was in a room with a Catholic,” nuptial Mass, Carolyn was ready to leave. she says. “When my dad mentioned I was “I said, ‘I won’t know anyone to sit marrying a Catholic, the man said, ‘Well, with,’ ” she recalls. “Dorine said, ‘You’re you can rest assured that she’ll be going going to sit with my brother.’ I think it to church every single week.’ That was was planned,” Carolyn adds with a grin. good enough for my dad.” She didn’t know that the day before the He still did some checking around wedding, Omer had received a hardship to make sure Omer was a good enough discharge from the Navy to farm for his man for his daughter. He asked a banker father. He was home for good. who knew Omer what his thoughts were The two began to date as often on the young man. Carolyn’s father was as possible, given their schedules. impressed with the answer. Carolyn was studying education on a “He said the banker told him Omer full scholarship at Butler University in came home from the Navy, put his work Indianapolis. Omer was busy not only clothes on, and hasn’t stopped working farming for his father, but also working since,” Carolyn recounts. nights at the Chambers Corporation, an oven manufacturer located in Shelbyville. ‘I never saw my parents fight’ The couple soon discovered their The same hard-working ethic defined similar interests and values. the couple after they wed. They lived “We didn’t care much for going to as tenants on a farm owned by Omer’s movies,” says Carolyn. “We both liked aunt. He farmed both for her and for his Omer and Carolyn Weintraut stand in the yard of their farm in Waldron in Shelby County. The couple cards, so we would play cards with family father during the day, then worked nights celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Aug. 1. They are the fifth generation in the Weintraut for dates. Family was important to both at his aunt’s canning factory in Waldron, family to celebrate a marriage of more than 50 years. of us.” “sometimes getting only two hours of (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) It still is, she says, noting that the sleep,” says Carolyn. family still “gets together all the time, She worked hard as well, helping on “And they always prayed at least once or twice a month, even the the farm and raising their two children. together. They’d be on grandkids and great-grandkids,” of which She then spent the next 30 years a trip or even just going there are eight and six, respectively. teaching, first at St. Joseph School to Grandma’s [house] The couple’s two children, in Shelbyville, and then at Waldron 30 minutes away, and Linda Weintraut and Mark Weintraut, both Elementary School. they would say the rosary. live on farms just down the lane from Summers were no time to relax during Now they go to Mass Omer and Carolyn’s farm. Linda, 63, lives those years. Taking classes during the almost every single day,” on George and Magdalena Weintraut’s summers while still helping on the farm says Linda, who is also a farmstead, which Linda still plows, plants (the Weintrauts bought their own farm member of St. Vincent de and cultivates. in 1969), Carolyn earned a bachelor’s Paul Parish After a year-and-a-half of dating, Omer degree in elementary education from Perhaps such prayer is proposed to Carolyn. She left Butler, and Marian College (now Marian University) the reason she says her the two set their wedding date for Aug. 1, in Indianapolis, and a master’s degree parents “never fought. My 1953, “because the family would be too in education from Indiana University in friends didn’t believe me busy farming [early] in the summer,” Bloomington. when I said I never saw my Carolyn says. “Something that always impressed me parents fight.” is [how] they always worked together,” “I don’t think we ever did ‘Put his work clothes on, and hasn’t says Linda. “Mom helped in the fields in get in an argument,” Omer stopped’ the summer, and in winter Dad cleaned, says in agreement. With both bride and groom coming cooked and did the laundry. Whenever “Except about where from German families and raised with they saw the other needed something, they to eat,” Carolyn adds with similar values, says Carolyn, “I feel were there. a chuckle. “Or where to turn.”

‘We’re just joined together’ While Omer credits their 65 years of peaceful marriage to the fact that he “married a good woman,” Carolyn cites the couple’s Pictured above is a poem written by Haddison Johnson, Omer many similarities. and Carolyn Weintraut’s 10-year-old great-granddaughter, for the “We both have mild couple’s 65th wedding anniversary. (Photo image by Natalie Hoefer) personalities,” she says, “and we enjoy the same things.” there, and all the states,” Carolyn notes. One of the pastimes they share is The couple also traveled to Canada, fishing—an activity new to Carolyn upon Mexico, and several countries in Central their marriage, and one she came to enjoy. America. “After Dad finished in the fields, after “Really, I don’t know why they supper we would take a blanket and bothered keeping a house,” Linda jokes. snacks and go fishing” as a family, Linda In a more serious tone, she describes recalls. her parents’ marriage in a simple It was a pastime the family enjoyed at statement: “They work together, pray a cabin the couple owned near Brookville together and play together.” Reservoir. Later, Carolyn and Omer Carolyn nods in agreement. spent many hours fishing in the winter “We enjoy life, and we enjoy being while at the condominium they rented together,” she says. “We believe in God. in Port Aransas, Texas. Last winter was I think he intended for us to be together. the first season they did not return to We love each other, we take care of each Port Aransas in 25 years. other, and God has blessed us.” Omer Weintraut, left, and his wife Carolyn stand with retired Father Paul Landwerlen after a Mass Carolyn and Omer enjoy traveling, too. After 65 years of marriage, Carolyn at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Shelby County on July 29 in honor of the couple’s 65th wedding “We’ve been to Europe four or five summarizes, “We’re just joined anniversary. (Submitted photo) times, been to almost every country together.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 ‘Take clear action,’ young Catholics urge U.S. bishops in open letter NEW YORK (CNS)—A group of young various disciplines at Catholic and secular They committed themselves to the minor and over allegations of his abuse of Catholics has urged the U.S. bishops to “take universities in the U.S. and elsewhere. following actions: seminarians and young priests. The group clear action” by conducting an independent “You are the shepherds of the Church. • “We will refuse to be silent when also is angry “that ‘everybody knew’ investigation of who knew what and when If you do not act, evil will go unchecked,” we see or hear of sexual assaults taking about these crimes, that so few people did about actions by Archbishop Theodore the letter said. place anywhere in the Church and by any anything about them and that those who E. McCarrick, who has been accused of It asked the bishops to “agree to a person, clerical or lay.” spoke out were ignored.” sexual abuse. thorough, independent investigation into • “When those we know are assaulted, The letter mentioned “reports of They also stressed claims of abuse by Archbishop McCarrick, we will encourage the victims to come networks of sexually active priests who that the bishops both of minors and of adults. We want to forward. We will stand with them until promote each other and threaten those should engage in know who in the hierarchy knew about justice is done.” who do not join in their activities; [and] “formal acts of his [alleged] crimes, when they knew it • “We will not accept silence and inaction. of young priests and seminarians having public penance and and what they did in response. This is the Rather, we will publicly name and expose their vocations endangered because they reparation” for what least that would be expected of any secular those who harm others and superiors who fail refused to have sex with their superiors or has happened. organization; it should not be more than to take action when others are harmed.” spoke out about sexual impropriety …” “An Open Letter we can expect from the Church.” They said they are “grateful for the The writers said: “We need bishops to from Young Catholics” The letter also asked that “the silence way good priests and bishops lay down make clear that any act of sexual abuse or Archbishop Theodore was published online surrounding sexual impropriety in the their lives for us day after day. They say clerical unchastity degrades the priesthood E. McCarrick on Aug. 8 on the Church be broken,” and that the bishops the Mass, absolve us from sin, celebrate and gravely harms the Church.” website of First Things, a journal of the “take clear action when priests flout the our weddings and baptize our children.” They wrote that they are “scandalized” Institute on Religion and Public Life, Church’s sexual teaching and that networks The letter writers also said they would that Archbishop McCarrick held a which is an ecumenical research and of sexually active priests be rooted out.” speak out when they “discover clerical position of authority in the Church, education center based in New York. The It said good priests should have the sexual impropriety,” and would work to and said they are “alarmed by reports journal is printed 10 times a year. freedom to tell their bishops what they “protect the good priests and seminarians that Pope Francis acted on McCarrick’s The letter, addressed to “Dear Fathers know, without fear of reprisal. who are threatened when they refuse to guidance in creating cardinals and in Christ,” had 43 signatures. The group The letter writers described themselves condone the sins of their fellow clerics, or appointing men to senior positions in the includes authors, writers and editors; the as some being younger than others, but when they speak out about them.” Church,” adding that “men McCarrick heads of Catholic and other organizations; that they were “all children in the decades “We are also angry,” the letter said, mentored and lived with are now and professors, assistant professors, leading up to the sexual abuse crisis of about the “credible and sustained” report important archbishops and heads of doctoral candidates and research scholars in 2002.” of Archbishop McCarrick’s abuse of a Vatican dicasteries.” †

independence as possible,” Father Zollner clericalism—is one key ingredient, and Responding to comments that the ABUSE said. “When dealing with accusations was highlighted as a major contributing clerical sexual abuse crisis is a result continued from page 1 against a bishop, there should be at least factor to abuse and a reluctance to report of the sexual revolution and the loss a mixed board—meaning some bishops it in the December report of Australia’s of sexual morals, Father Zollner urged “We see that people were first speaking and some independent lay persons. If it Royal Commission into Institutional caution and an objective study of the out about the misbehavior of priests is not possible to have a fully complete Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. facts. and now it’s bishops, so there is a investigation by independent lay persons, In an essay published in January by “The statistics from the Royal development there. I am not surprised, there should be as many as possible and Civilta Cattolica, an Italian Jesuit journal, Commission report in Australia indicate and I do not think it will stop soon.” as experienced as possible. Our canon Father Zollner said, “Whoever in infancy or that the abuse had its peak in Australia in After Archbishop McCarrick resigned lawyers are trained in legal procedures; youth or as a candidate for priesthood learned the ’50s and early ’60s, which was way from the College of Cardinals and was they are not trained in investigation.” that a priest is always blameless can easily before the sexual revolution took place, so ordered to live a life of prayer and But the response must go far beyond develop the mindset that he does not need to this goes against that argument,” he said. penance pending a Church trial, many setting up another new structure, he said. justify himself to anyone. Anyone endowed Studies from the United States, Ireland U.S. bishops began speaking publicly of “Since God is the Lord of history, I with sacred powers can take anything he and Germany also show that most abusers devising a process to review accusations understand all this as a call to a deeper wants for himself. That kind of mentality can did their seminary training and were made against bishops. understanding of what is the Church explain, at least in part, why some priests ordained before the sexual revolution. Father Zollner agreed that is a good about, what is priesthood about and what who have abused children or young people “Among the clergy, the number of new idea, but he believes it must be part of “a is the Christian life,” he told CNS. deny doing so or believe that they themselves allegations from the last 20 and especially new way of coming together as the people “From my point of view, the were victims or merely accomplices [‘he the last 10 years has dropped almost to of God” and taking responsibility for the temptation can be to return to a very seduced me,’ ‘he liked it’), often making nil,” he said. Church. strict, closed-fortress idea of Church, them blind to the suffering they have caused.” At the same time, Father Zollner To make that happen, he said, “we controlling everything,” he said, but “that In addition to a renewed understanding urged a renewed vigilance because of need to honestly look at what we can will not work anymore. We need a new of priesthood, Father Zollner told CNS, “the whole area of the Internet, and the learn from the way society and companies model of accountability and responsibility Catholics must reflect more fully on availability of pornographic material function in terms of accountability, and a new way of educating the whole and articulate more clearly “what an and all kinds of sexual exploitation transparency and compliance.” people of God in Christian ideals.” integrated sexual life for married people, that are facilitated by that; it brings a “A Church body investigating The dominant understanding of single people and clergy would look like. new dimension to this and to society at allegations needs to have as much priesthood and power—described as There is a lot to be done in that area.” large.” †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—In a June constant bed sharing he had often heard In the letter to Cardinal O’Malley, 2015 letter to Boston’s Cardinal Sean about was “something he shouldn’t have Father Ramsey says that he had in the P. O’Malley obtained by Catholic News been doing.” past told Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of Service (CNS), a New York priest tells the The letter dated June 17, 2015, was Louisville, who died in December 2011, prelate about “sexual abuse/harassment/ sent just shortly after the Pontifical about his concerns. Archbishop Kelly intimidation” allegations he had heard Commission for the Protection of told him that “stories about Archbishop concerning then-Cardinal Theodore Minors, headed by Cardinal O’Malley, McCarrick had been circulating among E. McCarrick, and asks that if the matter received its statutes in May 2015. the American bishops,” the letter says, and doesn’t fall under his purview, to forward Father Ramsey said he sent it then that Archbishop Kelly mentioned to him a it to the “proper agency in the Vatican.” because he had heard of the formation story involving a flight attendant. The letter “has taken me years to of the commission, and had recently In the interview with CNS, write and send,” writes Father Boniface been at the funeral for New York Father Ramsey said the story was about Ramsey, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who died a male flight attendant whom Archbishop Yorkville in New York City, who made in March 2015, and saw Cardinal McCarrick “picked up” on a flight, telling the letter available to CNS in early McCarrick there. At that point, the him that perhaps he had a vocation, and August. But it was the second time he prelate was the retired archbishop of ended up enrolling him in a seminary, had attempted to tell Church officials in Washington. but there seemed to be reasons other writing. “I was angry,” Father Ramsey told than religious for wanting him there. The In it, he describes for Cardinal CNS. “I said, ‘this guy is still out and flight-attendant-turned seminarian was O’Malley conversations with the rector about.’ ” later kicked out of the seminary. of a seminary in New Jersey about trips Father Ramsey said it made him Father Ramsey writes in the letter then-Archbishop McCarrick, as head of “upset” to see that Cardinal McCarrick, that after Archbishop McCarrick Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., would after “this long history which so many was appointed to the Archdiocese of of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection take with seminarians to a beach house. people knew about, he could continue to Washington in 2000, he tried to speak to of Minors, is pictured before a consistory in During the time period he mentions show his face.” the apostolic nuncio in Washington, who St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on June 28. A in the letter, 1986 to 1996, he says he He had written a letter about his was then Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo U.S. priest, Father Boniface Ramsey, wrote to was teaching at Immaculate Conception concerns more than a decade before, in Higuera, about what he knew. The nuncio Cardinal O’Malley in 2015 regarding the alleged Seminary at Seton Hall University in New 2000, and it didn’t seem to go anywhere, told him to write him a letter, which sexual abuse of seminarians by Archbishop Jersey. He writes of the accounts he had but his new motivation came about when Father Ramsey said he sent. He told a Theodore E. McCarrick. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) heard of Archbishop McCarrick’s repeated he saw Cardinal McCarrick and “wanted priest friend about the letter and that trips to a New Jersey beach house where, this stuff to stop with the seminarians,” he friend tried to dissuade him from sending sexual misbehavior, he said in the after too many seminarians were invited said in the interview. So, he sat down to it, telling him it could hurt him. letter that “it seems bizarre to me for too few beds, “the extra seminarian write a letter—again. “I never received any acknowledgement, that Cardinal McCarrick is out and was then told that he could share the “The matter does not have to do with although I have certain knowledge that about, a conspicuous presence at archbishop’s bed.” the abuse of minors, but it does have to do the letter was received, and that the religious [including papal] events, “Some of these stories were not with a form of sexual abuse/harassment/ information was forwarded to somewhere being interviewed, giving speeches, presented to me as mere rumors but were intimidation or maybe simply high in the Vatican,” he wrote Cardinal serving on committees and the like. told me by persons directly involved,” he jinks as practiced by Theodore Cardinal O’Malley. Was not what he did at the very least wrote. McCarrick with his seminarians and The writing of the letter didn’t seem highly questionable? Was it not taking In an Aug. 13 phone interview with perhaps other young men when he was to hurt Father Ramsey, as his friend had advantage of young men who did not CNS, Father Ramsey said he didn’t know the Archbishop of Newark,” writes Father feared. But its revelations also didn’t know how to say no to their archbishop? any sexual acts were taking place, “but I Ramsey to Cardinal O’Malley. seem to hurt Archbishop McCarrick. Has it not, for the many laity and thought his [McCarrick’s] behavior was In a July statement, Cardinal “I found it shocking at the time that clergy who were aware of his actions, extremely inappropriate at the least.” He O’Malley said he did not “personally” Archbishop McCarrick was ever advanced contributed to cynicism about the said he was careful about what he wrote receive the letter, but the statement to the Archdiocese of Washington, since church and the hierarchy?” in the letter to Cardinal O’Malley because said “at the staff level the letter was I have little doubt that many persons in Father Ramsey said he did not keep he didn’t want to be spreading rumors he reviewed and determined that the the Vatican were aware of his proclivities a copy of the letter sent in 2000 to the had heard, but he had concerns about the matters presented did not fall under before he was named,” he wrote in the nuncio, but in between the first and bed-sharing after hearing that it weighed the purview of the Commission or the letter to Cardinal O’Malley. “And then, the second letter he sent, he said he on one of his friends who was tasked with Archdiocese of Boston...” However, the of course, on to the cardinalate, which tried to speak with others, including finding seminarians for the archbishop’s response from the cardinal’s office did was to be expected for the Archbishop of Cardinal Egan, about stopping beach visits. not say whether it had been forwarded Washington, but still distressing.” then‑Archbishop McCarrick. “I’d never heard of any adult who had to the proper agency, as Father Ramsey Mentioning cases of high-ranking “He [Cardinal Egan] didn’t want to hear sex with McCarrick,” he said, but felt the had requested. officials disgraced because of about it,” Father Ramsey said to CNS. † Cardinal O’Malley calls for investigation at Boston seminary WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Archbishop of Boston of sacred Scripture, will serve as interim rector at St. John serious concern to me as archbishop of Boston,” he said in an Aug. 10 statement that he has asked the Seminary as Msgr. James P. Moroney, its rector, goes wrote. “The ministry of the Catholic priesthood requires rector of its main archdiocesan St. John Seminary to on sabbatical leave for the fall semester, “in order that a foundation of trust with the people of the Church and go on sabbatical leave immediately, and is asking for there can be a fully independent inquiry regarding these the wider community in which our priests serve. I am an investigation of allegations made on social media matters,” he wrote. determined that all our seminaries meet that standard of about activities there “directly contrary to the moral Cardinal O’Malley said he also has appointed a group trust and provide the formation necessary for priests to standards and requirements of formation for the Catholic “to oversee an inquiry into the allegations made this live a demanding vocation of service in our contemporary priesthood.” week, the culture of the seminary regarding the personal society.” “At this time, I am not able to verify or disprove standards expected and required of candidates for the Cardinal O’Malley is one of Pope Francis’ chief these allegations,” said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley in a priesthood, and any seminary issues of sexual harassment advisers on clerical sexual abuse and heads the Pontifical statement sent to media via e-mail. He does not say in the or other forms of intimidation or discrimination.” Commission for the Protection of Minors. statement what the allegations are about. He said he has asked the group to submit its findings Boston was the epicenter of the abuse scandal that However, a post on the community section of a as soon as possible. erupted in the Church in 2002. The Boston Archdiocese Facebook page for the Archdiocese of Boston has a “The allegations made this week are a source of was then headed by Cardinal Bernard F. Law. † comment by someone named Andrew Solkshinitz‎ with a link to a blog post that describes seminarians at a “conservative seminary” drinking heavily, “cuddling” after a drunken party, and being involved in sexual REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW St. Nicholas behaviors and acts. Solkshinitz says on Facebook that the If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on seminary not identified in the blog post is St. John. behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim Annual Church “As a former Boston seminarian for three years, I of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance am calling upon the Church to seriously examine the coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: Picnic seminary located on Lake Street,” Solkshinitz writes Ethics Point 1 Confidential, Online Reporting Sunday, August 19, 2018 in the post he made on the page. “The Church has not www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 learned her lesson, and maybe if the stories are once Buffet Serving Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM again made public then things will finally change.” P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 2 Carryout available til 6:00 PM In a statement released by the archdiocese, Cardinal 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 O’Malley said that Father Stephen E. Salocks, professor Mass at 10:30 AM [email protected] Serving: • All you can eat buffet dinner – Fried Chicken or Roast Beef Online Lay Ministry Formation • Also St. Nicholas The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the Famous Turtle Soup University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University • Carry out available all day for (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: dinners and soup • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry • Games for the whole family • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program Directions: • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church • I-74 to the Sunman-Milan exit #156 • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners • Turn south on SR 101 to Sunman (approx. 4 miles) For more information, please log on to St. Nicholas Church • After RR tracks turn right and follow signs to 6461 E. St. Nicholas Rd. St. Nicholas Church (approx. 3 miles) NMLS #124728 www.archindy.org/layministry Sunman, IN 47041 www.stnicholas-sunman.org Contact the parish office with any questions License: 145616 (812) 623-2964 Page 12 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Perspectives Worship and Evangelization Outreach/Teresa Venatta Our Global Family/Carolyn Woo Are you being ‘called to listen’? If so, take that step Summer enchantment One of the “personality gifts” that I but by truly listening to another’s journey this ministry, but also the forum to discern puts us in the inherited from my father was that of not to the deepest part of themselves. The whether or not God is “calling you to knowing a stranger. spiritual director’s listening is an act of listen.” presence of God My father would love in accompanying their directees on a Honest self-assessment opens the For prayer, I sit next to a window by a engage almost path to self-awareness and the discovery door for prayerful dialogue with God. small tiered terrace. During the summer, it all the people he of a more intimate and loving relationship This open door is an invitation to growth overflows with red dragon wing begonias encountered in genuine with God. and intimacy with God—growth and interspersed with pink conversation, truly In this age of cynicism and busyness, intimacy that begs to be shared with hydrangeas and slender desiring to learn spiritual direction can provide a means others. This is the call of spiritual curly stalks of the something about or to make our Christianity more personal, directors: to experience and relate to God praying hands plant from the person he just practical and transformative. The loving in such an intimate and spacious way that sends shoots of met. ear of a spiritual director can embody how that one desires to share this gift with flowers skyward. As a child and God meets us where we are and loves us others. The branches of the young adult, I through the joys and challenges of life. In order to respond to the promotion begonias extend out remember noticing how the prospect Through the leadership of Father of the ministry of spiritual direction, like what one might of sharing one’s story or ideas with my Patrick Beidelman, executive director the archdiocese has created the position imagine as dragon father would make those he met come of the archdiocesan Secretariat for of discernment companion to facilitate wings. The flowers alive! I believe we all desire our stories Worship and Evangelization, the smooth and prayerful connections flutter in loose garlands painting the space and journeys to be heard and honored, Archdiocese of Indianapolis has been between seeker directees and a spiritual red. Inevitably, I am mesmerized. My that in this telling we are called forward proactive in supporting this ministry director. mind empties, time passes and I have not to more intimate relationship and personal within our parishes. We are always The next step is to reach out. Are you opened my prayer book. growth. looking for qualified and well-formed being invited to experience the fruits This experience prompted me to ask If any of this resonates with you, spiritual directors to participate on the of spiritual direction? And maybe then, others what is enchanting about summer maybe it is a divine nudge toward archdiocesan directory. “called to listen”? If so, we hope to hear for them. the ministry of spiritual direction. The first step in becoming a spiritual from you. One pantomimed her words with gestures Fundamentally, this ancient ministry director is to personally find a spiritual of messy juice dripping down her chin from a serves to offer spiritual companionship director and begin your own journey of (Teresa Venatta is a discernment companion peach; a niece mentioned heirloom tomatoes to those seeking greater connection and self-discovery in Christ. This not only and spiritual director with the Archdiocese as she did a virtual tasting; a friend described growth with God. provides the means to experientially of Indianapolis. She can be reached at the moment sitting with her 101-year-old This offering is not through counsel, understand the dynamics and merits of [email protected].) † mom in front of a lake into which her husband was about to jump in with their two That All May Be One/Fr. Rick Ginther grandsons; I recalled watching my 37-year- old nephew hand over a frog to his sister, who screamed when the unwilling creature Interfaith and ecumenical resources available for us all did its business on her. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis covers sponsored in part by the Archdiocese of Interfaith Cincy has grown into a very Unfortunately, enchantment is not a lot of ground: 13,757.7 square miles, Louisville. It celebrates “the timeless wisdom large consortium of cooperation. Its goal the sentiment that captures our current which includes 39 counties! contained in the diversity of the world’s is to seek out interfaith groups and the events: floods, raging fires, scorching We serve 129 parishes faith traditions, honoring the union between services they provide in order to enable heat, bickering politicians, nuclear threats, and missions—and the thinking globally and acting locally.” Its 24th them to expand its capacity services. Its separated families. The public airwaves majority of those are annual “Festival of Faiths” will take place website, www.interfaithcincy.org, is also invade our mental space with fighting words outside of the greater on April 23-27, 2019. This is a “nationally an educational tool designed to strengthen that are shrill, demeaning and coarse. Facts Indianapolis metro area. acclaimed interfaith event of music, poetry, interfaith dialogue. are contorted to fortify positions rather than Any organization film, art and dialogue with internationally Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater to enlighten and inform deliberations. whose main renowned spiritual leaders, thinkers and Cincinnati (IHNGC) began on Oct. 26, 1991, Disenchantment is more like it. “headquarters” is practitioners.” For more information, go to with a day center and eight congregations What we face is a serious corrosion located in a city which centerforinterfaithrelations.org. which opened up the doors of their churches of principles, values, manners, civic itself gives its name The Interfaith Center at the University and synagogues to homeless families. responsibilities and bonds that unite us in to the organization of Louisville houses the offices of They have grown to include more than friendship, solidarity and community. struggles to be perceived as “remembering Hillel (a Jewish student organization) 100 congregational partners, representing We indeed must engage with our voices, the outlying areas” it serves. and Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, people of Protestant, Catholic, efforts and treasures. Yet disenchantment I have lived the experience of having Presbyterian and United Methodist Jewish, Muslim and Unitarian faiths. cannot be the only fuel we run on. It served parishes as “far outlying” as campus ministries. They provide Congregations provide overnight shelter casts those who disagree with us as they come: Tell City, Richmond and resources and activities not only to their and meals for homeless families in an uncaring rivals and morons. When we Terre Haute. Each complained or opined students and faculty, but to the larger emergency shelter program. take up the cause, we enter as warriors how they seemed forgotten by “the big community. More information is available They have also grown and enhanced equipped with war chests, power, dirt and city,” the “ivory tower” in Indy. at www.uoflinterfaithcenter.org. the services offered over the years “to continuous rounds of verbal ammunition. But, like I said, this perception comes Interfaith Paths to Peace (IPP) is a provide wraparound support for the whole We cannot find common ground as we do with the territory (pun intended). grassroots community peace organization, family that extends beyond emergency not understand the other’s fears, and we Interfaith and ecumenical efforts in established in 1996. It serves the shelter.” Go to ihncincinnati.org. for more dismiss their experiences. and among our parishes in central and Louisville community, promoting information. Untempered, disenchantment leads to southern Indiana need close resources interfaith understanding and peacemaking I hope this information will whet your cynicism, which discards hope for pessimism upon which to rely. Only then can they through programming and events. Go to appetite to learn more about resources in and disengagement. Simply put, when we remain vibrant and attuned to the current paths2peace.org for more information. or near our archdiocese. No matter how give up on the other, we give up on God. patterns and connections in such ministry. Cincinnati is to our southeast. far we live from the “center,” interfaith When we throw up our hands, we do With this in mind, I am going to Interfaith Cincy began as a joint and ecumenical resources are at hand. not acknowledge that the Holy Spirit is in highlight two “closer resource cities” for academic and interfaith project between the the world—working in our midst, guiding our southern and southeastern parishes. Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier (Father Rick Ginther is director of the us, multiplying our work, patching us Louisville, to our immediate south, has University and the Jewish Foundation of archdiocesan Office of Ecumenism. He is up, sending us forth again and making some wonderful interfaith resources. Cincinnati Fellowship through Hebrew pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in good out of whatever it can use. When The Center for Interfaith Relations is Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Indianapolis.) † all we aim for is victory, we jeer at the Christian mandate for healing, forgiveness, The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick reconciliation and peacemaking. Enchantment is to put ourselves in the Uplifting spiritual food abounds waiting for us to digest it presence of God and particularly in his love for the world. Captivating beauty, Delicious food often treats us to the and live in the peace of Christ. Definitely heavenly bliss, so simple and soul simple moments, juicy peaches connect us best in life. More awesome than this is the the insight creates food for thought. nourishing, as is Gregorian chant. to the tenderness, goodness and bounty of spiritual food in our midst that we often Three times I visited the past exhibit Reading St. Ambrose on the beauty God, who made us and everybody else to underutilize. “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea” of the psalms is ever so nourishing! “In be at our divine best. From H.V. Morton’s at the National Museum of Women in the the Book of Psalms,” he writes, “there Father Ronald Rolheiser wrote, “Beauty book In the Steps of Arts in Washington, D.C. Each time, it is profit for all, with healing power for awakens the soul by mirroring it. In beauty, St. Paul, we learn that was spiritual meditation at its best. our salvation. There is instruction from the soul sees itself, it recognizes kin.” In her Tarsus at the time of One of the portraits depicted Mary with history, teaching from the law, prediction ode to heirloom tomatoes, my niece Daphne St. Paul, was a thriving the Christ Child and her parents at her side. from prophecy, chastisement from offers, “When everything that’s elemental intellectual center It had never occurred to me until then that denunciation, persuasion from moral conspires to create the perfect harmony.” with a prosperous Christ had grandparents—saints who also preaching. We need to cultivate the habits of seaport. One of its nurtured him. This left me gazing at the “All who read it may find the cure for enchantment so that when we do the work noted philosophers painting in wonderment of the multiple their own individual failings. All with of the world, we let it be God’s work and was Athenadoros, relationships in Christ’s childhood. eyes to see can discover in it a complete by God’s way. As the Jesuit St. Peter Faber who taught people like Augustus, the first There was also a painting of Mary with gymnasium for the soul, a stadium for all instructed, “Seek grace in the smallest things, Roman emperor and the great-nephew the Christ Child and a goldfinch next to the virtues, equipped for every kind of and you will find also grace to accomplish, to and adoptive son of Julius Caesar. One of them. The goldfinch who loves to hover in exercise; it is for each to choose the kind believe in and to hope for the greatest things.” the lessons he passed down addresses our thorny bushes symbolizes Christ’s crown he judges best to help him gain the prize.” temper: When you are incensed, recite the of thorns and Mary’s pierced heart; yet Spiritual food abounds just waiting for (Carolyn Woo is distinguished president’s alphabet before acting. more spiritual food to consume. us to digest. fellow for global development at Purdue Reading this makes us wonder if this I often play Mozart’s “Ave Verum University and served as the CEO and influenced St. Paul’s burning desire that Corpus” on my violin. Playing his (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for president of Catholic Relief Services from his followers patiently seek reconciliation religious music is like drinking in Catholic News Service.) † 2012-16.) † The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Page 13

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, August 20 Friday, August 24 Sunday, August 19, 2018 St. Bernard, abbot and doctor St. Bartholomew, Apostle of the Church Revelation 21:9b-14 • Proverbs 9:1-6 Ezekiel 24:15-24 Psalm 145:10-13ab, 17-18 • Ephesians 5:15-20 (Response) Deuteronomy John 1:45-51 • John 6:51-58 32:18-21 Matthew 19:16-22 Saturday, August 25 The Book of Proverbs is the source Ephesus, then a great seaport and home St. Louis of the first reading for Mass on this to an important pagan shrine on the weekend. Proverbs is part of what is Mediterranean coast of what today is Tuesday, August 21 St. Joseph Calasanz, priest known as the Old Turkey. St. Pius X, pope Ezekiel 45:1-7b Testament’s wisdom Paul admonishes these Christians Ezekiel 28:1-10 Psalm 85:9-14 literature. These of Ephesus to watch their conduct. (Response) Deuteronomy Matthew 23:1-12 books came to be They should live as true disciples of 32:26-28, 30, 35-36 in an interesting Jesus. Lip service is not enough for true Matthew 19:23-30 Sunday, August 26 development of discipleship. history. St. John’s Gospel supplies us with the Twenty-first Sunday in As the years last reading. Wednesday, August 22 Ordinary Time passed, and as It is one of the most memorable The Queenship of the Blessed Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b circumstances passages in this thoroughly memorable Virgin Mary Psalm 34:2-3, 16-21 occurred, good and Gospel. It is familiar to all believers by Ezekiel 34:1-11 Ephesians 5:21-32 bad, many Jews left the land of their showing the early Christians’ intense love heritage and moved to other areas in the for the Eucharist. Psalm 23:1-6 or Ephesians 5:2a, 25-32 Middle East or North Africa. In another Jesus declares, “I myself am the Matthew 20:1-16 John 6:60-69 movement, the armies of Alexander the living bread” (Jn 6:51). The Lord then Great swept across and conquered much continues, in great eloquence and depth, Thursday, August 23 of this same territory. to explain this revelation. St. Rose of Lima, virgin The Jews, descended from their It is real food and real drink. It is not Ezekiel 36:23-28 forebears who had come from the imaginary or symbolic. As in other New Holy Land, found themselves in an Testament texts about the Eucharist, the Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19 overwhelmingly Greek cultural context. message is precise. The bread truly is the Matthew 22:1-14 They then sought to reinforce their faith Lord. Those who consume this living, and ancient religious practices, and to life-giving bread will be raised on the last convey this tradition to new generations. day. The Greeks cherished the sciences Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle and process of logic. So, in places where Reflection Greek culture dominated, the Jews sought For weeks this summer, the Church to show how revelation, as it had been has called us to discipleship. Having The Church has long revered given them by God through Moses and put before us the image of Jesus, the the prophets, was consistent with logic. crucified, the risen Lord, at Holy Week Michael the Archangel as a saint In other words, the Jews had to and Easter, with all the accompanying convince others—their own communities lessons of the Ascension and Pentecost, I am not a Christian, but I enjoy Church’s liturgy on Sept. 29, which today and their own children—that the the Church has invited us to follow Jesus. Qreading your column and learn a lot is also the feast day for the archangels teachings of the prophets and Moses It also frankly has reminded us of our from it. I am hoping that you can explain Gabriel and Raphael. made sense. limitations. We cannot find peace and true why St. Michael the Proverbs was one such effort in this happiness alone. We cannot secure eternal Archangel is regarded My father died earlier this week, and process. In this reading is an interesting life alone. We need God. as a saint. I have Qhis body has been cremated. He loved technique used by the author of Proverbs. This is a difficult lesson for Christians, always been under the his cats, and a few years ago he told me It is the personification of wisdom. Thus, for humans, to learn and accept. The impression that a saint that he wanted me to scatter his ashes in wisdom, as if a person, speaks in the first Church repeats it again and again, but is a deceased believer the backyard where his cats are buried, so person. while warning us, the Church reassures who is recognized by that he could be with them. The problem In this passage, wisdom invites anyone us. Although we are limited, even though the Catholic Church is that, although he was not a Catholic (an who is “simple” to come (Prv 9:4). we cannot achieve salvation of ourselves after the process of avowed atheist, in fact), I am. So would Awaiting is a marvelous meal of the finest alone, God is lavishly and mercifully canonization. But it be a sin for me to honor his request? food and wine. forthcoming. He envelops us in mercy, Archangel Michael has never been human, (Georgia) St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians love and strength. He guides us. He right? (Missouri) provides the second reading. sustains us. In October 2016, the Vatican clarified Here, as in all New Testament epistles, God gives us all this in Jesus, the very In the contemporary Church, what Athat the remains of the deceased the purpose was both to strengthen bread of life. In the Eucharist, we, even if Ayou have said is true: A saint is a should be treated with respect and laid to and to encourage the early Christians. imperfect, are united with Jesus, the Son deceased believer who, after a lengthy rest in a consecrated place. That teaching In this case, the early Christians were of God. He is our life and our joy and our investigation, is formally declared by is based on the Church’s belief that the those followers of Jesus who lived in hope. † the Vatican to have reached heaven and human body constitutes an essential part to be worthy of veneration. But in the of a person’s identity and will one day be early centuries, there was no such formal reunited with the soul. process. This Vatican instruction simply My Journey to God The first saints were martyred reinforced what had already been the for their faith during the Roman Catholic Church’s practice. In 1997, persecutions, and Christians began an appendix to the Church’s Order of spontaneously to honor their memory Christian Funerals had explained that Always and to commemorate annually the dates “the practice of scattering cremated By C.S. Likins on which they had died. It was only in remains on the sea, from the air or the 12th century, under Pope Alexander III, on the ground, or keeping cremated that the process of canonization began remains in the home of a relative or Is Jesus trying to tell you something? to be more defined and to involve the friend of the deceased are not the Listen everywhere Holy See in Rome. reverent disposition that the Church His word is carried on the breeze St. Michael, as you point out, was requires.” through the cities and trees never a human being. Like the other These regulations represent a discipline Look for His presence in all places angels, he was created by God as a pure of the Church, and do not have the force on all faces spirit—with intellect and will, but no of its doctrines. And, in any case, the way He is here always physical body. The word “saint,” though, in which respect is shown to cremated is derived from the Latin word “sanctus,” remains varies from culture to culture and He is near always meaning “one who is holy.” The holiness even within our own culture here in the The Way, the Truth of Michael has long been recognized by United States. and the Light the Church. Your father, as a non-Catholic, was not Open yourself to Jesus Michael is one of the three angels bound by the Church’s regulations. Nor Shine bright mentioned by name in the Scriptures— would I imagine that he meant his wish as the others being Raphael and a public repudiation of the Church’s belief Gabriel. In Chapter 12 of the Book of in a bodily resurrection. Revelation, Michael is portrayed as So I would say that you are free to leading the faithful angels in defeating honor his wishes. And I know that, when the hosts of evil and driving them out you visit his backyard, you will remember (C.S. Likins is a member of of paradise. He has thus been revered to pray for your father’s eternal happiness St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. in Catholic tradition as the protector of in the company of the Lord. Photo: The moon makes a rare pass the Church. over the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica As early as the fourth century, (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth in Rome on Sept. 9, 2016.) Christian churches were dedicated to Doyle at [email protected] and (CNS photo/Paul Haring) St. Michael, and since the ninth century 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York his feast day has been celebrated in the 12203.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018

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ALDERSON, Harry, 92, Walt Fassnacht. Grandmother of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 21. Great-grandmother of 28. Richmond, Aug. 6. Father of DOLL, Mary L., 54, Jenie Lahmann, David, Michael St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, and Pat Alderson. Brother of Aug. 4. Wife of Dan Doll. Norma Frady. Grandfather of Mother of Jennifer Hall, Jessica eight. Great-grandfather of 10. Weiler, Rebecca and Kevin ALFORD, Sandra K., 60, Doll. Sister of Dorita Hodges, St. Gabriel, Connersville, Betty Hoff, Joyce Kraus, James, Aug. 1. Wife of John Alford. Joseph, Leroy and Paul Hountz. Mother of Elizabeth Molloy and Grandmother of eight. Austin Ackerman. Stepmother DOWNS, David R., 75, of Gary Stephens and William Church of the Holy Cross, Alford. Sister of Sharon Indianapolis, July 18. Brother Bolinger, Linda Prater and of Patricia Brown, Marietta Calvin Larson. Grandmother of Bustle, Linda Cravens, Sharon five. Step-grandmother of two. Hanley, Catherine Jones, James ALIG, Myles D., 3, All Saints, and Stephen Downs. Uncle of Dearborn County, Aug. 4. several. Son of David and Emily ELSTRO, Thomas, 66, Alig. Brother of Ella Alig. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Grandson of Diane Alig, Mary Richmond, July 28. Father of Jane and Mark Stuerenberg. Melissa Howe, Jennifer Quinn Great‑grandson of Ruth Gaynor. and Laura Elstro. Brother of Jim ARVIN, Norbert J., 96, Elstro. Grandfather of six. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus FISHER, David A., 62, (Little Flower), Indianapolis, St. Anthony of Padua, Aug. 8. Father of Susan Clarksville, July 23. Husband Tour de Lourdes Williams, Chris, Ed, Jerry, of Mary Lu Fisher. Father of Italian cyclist Marco Marcato is greeted by a priest as he visits the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France on July 27 before the Steve and Tim Arvin. Brother Amy Brown, Erin Holdaway start of the Tour de France cycling race. (CNS photo/Benoit Tessier, Reuters) of Jean Boltman, Tyne Gruver, and Jessica Wethington. Stepson Monica Shuffman and Bernie of Teresa Fisher. Brother of Tipen. Grandfather of 16. Becky Baldwin and Bob Fisher. GONZALEZ-CERNA, KASS, Richard H., 64, and Bob Naville II. Brother of Mary Sheehan. Grandfather of Great‑grandfather of 16. Grandfather of three. Salvador, 84, St. Mary, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Dolores Spitznagel. Grandfather two. Great-grandfather of two. Aug. 1. Husband of Jean Kass. of 17. Great‑grandfather of 33. BURKETT, Thomas E., FOX, Esther J. (Patton), New Albany, July 29. Father of SCHLEGEL, Jayne D., 83, Father of Laura Underwood and Great-great-grandfather of one. 88, St. Joseph University, 90, St. Gabriel, Connersville, Marie de la Piedad-Gonzalez, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Aug. 4. Emelia, Felipa, Irene, Reyna, Michelle Kass. Brother of Judy Terre Haute, Aug. 4. Husband Aug. 1. Wife of Mark Fox. NEWKIRK, Caroline R., 44, Mother of Susan Hassfurder, Desiderio, Patrico and Salvador Gobeli. Grandfather of two. of Anne Burkett. Father of Stepmother of Cathy Cochran, St. Mary, Rushville, Aug. 3. Don and Timm Schlegel. Mary Creamer, Rebecca Kaylor, Shirley Eubanks and Michael Gonzalez. Grandfather and KOCHER, George F., 95, Wife of Brad Newkirk. Mother Martha Lorenzano, John and Fox. Step-grandmother of five. great-grandfather of several. St. Mark the Evangelist, of Damian Dickson. Stepmother STENGER, Doris, 92, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Robert Burkett. Grandfather of Step-great-grandmother of four. HAVLIN, Robert E., Jr., Indianapolis, Aug. 2. Husband of Hannah, Chris and Wyatt Richmond, Aug. 8. Aunt of 14. Great-grandfather of 15. 57, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, of Betty Kocher. Father of Newkirk. Daughter of Becky GEYMAN, Bernard N., 76, several. DECKARD, Barbara A., Prince of Peace, Madison, July 31. Father of Samantha Jan Dexter, Sharon Fehnel and Riley and Ed Dickson. Sister 87, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, July 22. Husband of Debby Sears, Tabitha Havlin-Myers, Ron Kocher. Grandfather of 14. of Jackie Dickson and Annie WOLFSCHLAG, Priscilla, July 19. Mother of Cindy Geyman. Father of Kenneth Daniel and Robert Havlin III. Great-grandfather of 26. Ratliff. 71, Prince of Peace, Madison, Eaton, Brenda Hillman, Mary and Kevin Geyman. Brother Son of Robert and Peggy NAVILLE, Robert J., 90, PIKE, Joseph, 81, St. Mary, Aug. 3. Mother of Laurie Hudon, Melissa Reed, Nancy of Alfreida Higdon and Lester Havlin, Sr., Brother of Donna St. Mary, Navilleton, Aug. 6. Rushville, July 22. Husband Wolfschlag. Sister of Shannon Schweibold and Kevin Deckard. Geyman. Grandfather of four. Earnest, Peggy Lawler, Nancy Husband of Irene Naville. Father of Ivanna Pike. Father of Edwards, Herbert and Raymond Sister of Helen Bresnahan and Great-grandfather of four. Wethington, Bill and Joe Havlin. of Judy Cooper, Jill Rowe, Bill Marguerita Honaker. Brother of Stucker. Grandmother of two. † Vatican makes progress on pushing drug availability for kids with HIV AMSTERDAM (CNS)—An initiative authority and says, ‘This is the right need more of that,” Msgr. Vitillo told Central Africa increased by 35 percent to identify and properly treat children thing to do, this is the moral thing to do, Catholic News Service (CNS). between 2010 and 2016, even while it fell living with HIV has gained new this is the ethical thing to do. And you, In the last year, the series of Rome elsewhere in Africa. momentum as international organizations Company X and Organization Y, you are meetings has expanded to include Yet it’s not just Big Pharma that has to and pharmaceutical companies respond to doing the right thing by making sure we manufacturers of diagnostic devices that up its game. The Vatican meetings have a Vatican push to look past profit to doing get treatment to children,’ ” Thurman said. allow for a quick diagnosis of a child’s also pushed the Church to fight harder the right thing. “We were lagging on a pediatric status. against the stigma and discrimination that Few children in the developed world AIDS response, but we’ve finally gotten “We now have machines at testing can be just as deadly as the virus. get infected with HIV anymore, so there’s traction because of this incredible Vatican sites which return test results in about “Stigma is very high in West and little market for drug makers to earn a initiative,” she added. 90 minutes, instead of the average of Central Africa. There are clinics with return on their investment. Children do “Children have always been the 50 days it takes when they send a blood space, but the people aren’t there,” said get infected in poor countries, however, missing link in the AIDS response,” sample off to be tested somewhere else,” Deborah Von Zinkernagel, director of the but there’s little profit to be made selling said Stuart Kean, a consultant to the explained Chip Lyons, president and Community Support, Social Justice and them drugs. World Council of Churches, which CEO of the U.S.-based Elizabeth Glaser Inclusion Program for the United Nations Enter Pope Francis. supports the Vatican initiative. Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Joint Program on HIV/AIDS. In 2016, he convened the first of “Getting children onto the agenda Lyons, who has participated in “Religious leaders getting publicly tested several meetings within the Vatican’s has been difficult because they’re not the Rome meetings, helped get 1,700 and speaking from the pulpit about HIV will Pontifical Academy of Sciences, bringing physically here and they’re not making diagnostic machines placed at clinics and go a long way in breaking down the barriers Church leaders, international health noise. So it’s other people who have to testing sites in eight African countries, to testing and treatment,” she said. officials and CEOs of some of the largest speak up for them. Which is why the many of them in Church-run facilities. At a meeting at the Vatican last drug companies into the same small room meetings in Rome are great. We finally “Going from 50 days to zero days to November, participants adopted a where it was hard to hide. got all the people who need to listen into get the results is a really big deal,” Lyons 41-point “Rome Action Plan” with “It’s like being sent to the principal’s the same room,” Kean said. said. “That means immediate counseling specific milestones for corporations and office. Everybody has to show up and stand The initial focus of the meetings, and initiation of ARVs [antiretroviral international organizations. A monitoring before Cardinal Turkson and Father Bob,” according to Msgr. Vitillo, was to get drugs] for the child. The difference for the group meets monthly and updates a public said Sandra Thurman, chief strategy officer antiretroviral drugs that treat HIV into caregiver, usually the mom, is dramatic. website displaying progress toward those for the President’s Emergency Plan for formulations that work for children. She gets the meds right away that she and goals. Another meeting in December will AIDS Relief, a U.S. government program “We now have some dosages her infant need, instead of coming back discuss what more needs to be done. that funds AIDS response around the globe. and formulations which are more several times over two or three months.” “We are constantly monitoring progress. She was referring to Cardinal Peter child‑friendly, but some of the most The diagnostic machines in the We try to tick the boxes to see what has Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for important medications still need to be foundation’s pilot program are all located happened and not happened and figure out Promoting Integral Human Development, refrigerated, and you don’t have a regular in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 86 percent how to follow up. We still don’t have all the and Msgr. Robert Vitillo, secretary general supply of electricity in many countries. of the world’s HIV-positive children and formulations we need for children, drugs of the International Catholic Migration Some of the formulations taste terrible, adolescents. In West and Central Africa, that kids want to take and mothers can Commission and long the Vatican’s point so children won’t tolerate them. Some 80 percent of infected children are not easily give. There are some companies we man on HIV and AIDS. companies have begun to develop what receiving any antiretroviral therapy. And need to push harder,” said Gottfried Otto “It’s the power of someone standing they call sprinkles, like granulated sugar, it’s getting worse. The number of 15- to Hirnschall, director of the World Health before you who looks at you with and you can mix it with porridge. We 19-year-olds dying of AIDS in West and Organization’s Department of HIV/AIDS. † The Criterion Friday, August 17, 2018 Page 15 U.S. physician is a reluctant hero in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan “You get a lot (CNS)—A U.S. physician who has won of credibility when accolades for his service in a war-torn people see you corner of Sudan said he has just done sticking around, see what any missionary is called to do. you eat what they eat “I’m a lay missionary. We’re and share the same supposed to show the face of Christ to fear they experience. people, but how can you do that if you It’s a huge witness. take off when the going gets tough?” It speaks more asked Dr. Tom Catena, a 54-year old powerfully than any physician from Amsterdam, N.Y., sent preaching can do,” by the Catholic Medical Mission Board he said. to run the Mother of Mercy Hospital Sister Angelina in Gidel, a village in the isolated Nuba Nyakuru, a Comboni Mountains. sister from Uganda, In 2011, fighting between rebel Nuba heads the hospital’s forces and the central government in nursing staff. She and Khartoum grew particularly fierce. The Catena both came area around the Church-run hospital to Gidel to open the began to experience intense bombing hospital in 2008. She by the Sudanese Armed Forces. said Catena’s courage Bishop Macram Max Gassis, then the proved infectious bishop of El Obeid, which includes the several times. Nuba region, ordered all foreign Church “In 2015, there workers, including Catena, to leave. The were rumors that bishop sent three planes on a daring northern soldiers were mission to evacuate the foreign staff, most just 30 kilometers of whom were contracted teachers and [19 miles] away and nurses from Kenya and Uganda. moving toward us. Catena was among a handful who You could hear the said no. big artillery. It was “My organization was getting nervous. frightening. Everyone They had someone in Juba assessing the on the staff decided situation who said it was too dangerous, to leave, but Dr. Tom Dr. Tom Catena, a Catholic lay missionary from the United States, examines a patient during rounds in late April at the Mother so I would have to leave. I said I wouldn’t put up his hands and of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The Catholic hospital, at which Catena is often the only go. They said if I didn’t leave they would said he wouldn’t go. physician, is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) terminate my contract. I said OK,” “So I told Catena told Catholic News Service (CNS). the sisters I wouldn’t leave either,” Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president and an Catena said he is embarrassed by the “We made up in the end, but the way Sister Angelina said. “All the sisters indicted war criminal. attention he has received. I saw it was that if I left, that tells the stayed, and one priest. Everyone else Catena’s passion and commitment “I’ve never asked anyone to come people here that my life is more valuable relocated across the border for two have brought him attention from the here and interview me. But if people than theirs. And I don’t believe that. weeks until things calmed down. His outside world, including last year’s come, fine. If I can be the one to get That’s not how Christ was; he gave his calm commitment encouraged the rest Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. the message out, to show another face life for everyone. of us. Every He’s the subject of a recently released of the Church and the good it’s doing And we’re supposed time something documentary film, The Heart of Nuba. in the world, then let me give it a shot,” to follow Christ. So happened, Dr. Tom And Nicholas Kristof, writing in he said. how can we take off ‘‘I’m a lay missionary. was ready to The New York Times, quoted a local “And I haven’t been alone. The sisters in the middle of a We’re supposed to show sacrifice his life.” Muslim leader who called Catena never left. The priests didn’t leave. The crisis?” the face of Christ Catena is not just “Jesus Christ” because he heals the sick Nuba nurses and other incredible hospital Catena said it the only surgeon for and helps the blind see. staff didn’t leave. But when I tell that to wasn’t a difficult to people, but how can a million people. For some, the world’s focus on Catena a journalist, they often respond, ‘They’re decision. you do that if you He’s the director of is unfair. from Africa,’ as if Africa was just one “We knew the take off when the going a 435-bed hospital “Tom is a hero. He has given 10 years country. They want to write about the consequences if wrestling with staff of his life to the people of the Nuba, Khawaja’ [a local Arabic term for white we left, because gets tough?’ discontent about and he’s a rock star in that hospital,” person] from the United States, because the wounded were stagnant salaries and said John Ashworth, a former Mill Hill that’s what people in the U.S. want to coming in right and —Dr. Tom Catena the technological missionary priest who serves as an read about. Otherwise, nobody cares.” left. There was no challenges of advisor to the Catholic bishops in Sudan At the end of the day, Catena said he way we could leave. practicing medicine and South Sudan. just wants people to care. Many of the other staff stayed as well, so in one of the poorest corners of the “But there are lots of heroes there, “One way I’ve tried to get comfortable I wasn’t by myself,” he said. planet (the hospital just got its first X-ray hundreds of heroes, yet they are not with the attention,” he said, “is to believe Catena said that years earlier, before machine). In rare moments of candor, he white and they’re not American. They are I’ve been given a chance to show both he arrived, the area had been subjected to rants about the international agencies that Africans, and they all have interesting how the Nuba are suffering, as well as heavy shelling and bombing, but pastoral won’t enter the Nuba Mountains because stories, but the journalists aren’t interested the great work that the Catholic Church is workers had stayed put. they’re afraid of incurring the wrath of in them,” Ashworth told CNS. doing here.” †

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