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CriterionOnline.com August 12, 2011 Vol. LI, No. 44 75¢ Across political A shared spectrum, Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by HHS action vision of draws religious life and liberty protests WASHINGTON (CNS)—When it comes to issues of religious freedom, William Donohue thinks the Obama love administration has put religious employers between a rock and a hard place. ‘Smooth’ The president of the Catholic League romantic plan for Religious and Civil Rights was among Catholics connects across the political spectrum commenting couple who on the Department of William Donohue Health and Human Services’ Aug. 1 have devoted announcement that contraceptives and sterilization will be among the mandated their lives to preventive services for women under the new health reform law. HHS is proposing that only religious children and employers meeting four criteria would be exempt from providing contraceptives and youths female sterilization through their health plans. Those requirements are that the By John Shaughnessy organization “(1) has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose; (2) primarily Ed Tinder admits that his initial effort to employs persons who share its religious get the attention of the new, young, female Kathy and Ed Tinder stand by the back door of Roncalli High School in Indianapolis where Ed tenets; (3) primarily serves persons who teacher wasn’t exactly the smoothest move first showed his romantic interest in Kathy 38 years ago when they both taught at the school. In share its religious tenets; and (4) is a a guy has ever made in the cause of their 37 years of marriage, the Tinders have dedicated their lives to young people through Ed’s nonprofit organization” under specific romance. leadership of the Catholic Youth Organization and Kathy’s career as a teacher. sections of the Internal Revenue Code. Yet years later, Tinder can laugh at Donohue recalled that as a presidential his self-described “stupid” plan for 39th year as a teacher at Roncalli High after the game on Friday. Would you like candidate, Barack Obama said faith-based three reasons. School in Indianapolis. to join us?’ I’m asking her out, but I was programs that receive government aid should First, he eventually won the heart of the Then there is the third reason that Ed too shy to ask her out directly. She said not be allowed to hire only members of their woman—a blessing that continues can laugh at his “stupid” plan: It makes for yes, and the rest is history.” own faith. considering that Ed and Kathy Tinder a good story. That story unfolded in They were married 10 months later. Since Obama has been in the White House, celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary August of 1973 when Kathy became a “It’s been a good ride,” Kathy says with Donohue said, various groups have lobbied in June. home economics teacher at Roncalli, a laugh as she sits next to her husband in the president to “gut the religious liberty Second, as another school year begins, where Ed had already been a teacher and her classroom. “I don’t know how it could provision in hiring altogether.” the couple will mark a combined 80 years coach for two years. be any other way. Who but me could be his “If you get a federal grant, you can’t use of trying to make a faith-filled difference “She caught my eye,” Ed recalls. wife? Who but him could be my husband? that grant money to proselytize to the people in the lives of children and young people. “One day, I rushed to the back door It’s because of the commitments we both you help and you can’t discriminate against Now the longtime director of the because I knew she would be there at that have made that parallel each other.” them—or against the people you hire—on the Catholic Youth Organization, Ed is time. I said something stupid like, ‘Can I Those commitments include the ones basis of their religion,” Obama said in a beginning his 41st year of serving the carry your books?’ She said no and kept they have made to each other, to their July 1, 2008, speech in Zanesville, Ohio. archdiocese while Kathy is starting her walking. I said, ‘A few of us are going out See TINDERS, page 9 Although Obama recently said that he See HHS, page 2 Sung parts of new Mass translation can be used in archdiocesan parishes beginning in September
By Sean Gallagher using new settings of the “Glory to God” use either the chant setting of the Mass and the eucharistic prayer acclamations. that will be in the new Roman Missal For approximately a year, parish leaders Charles Gardner, executive director and in all missalettes, hymnals and have known that the new translation of the of the archdiocese’s Secretariat for worship aids or the Storrington Mass Mass will be Spiritual Life and Worship, said this by Marty Haugen, available through implemented starting allowance does not apply to a prominent GIA Publications Inc. on the weekend of change in the new translation, “The Lord He said the chant setting is “the Nov. 26-27, the be with you. And with your spirit.” only universal musical setting” of the first Sunday of He said the primary reason for taking new Mass translation, and the Advent. the option for early use of some parts of Storrington Mass was recommended But when the the new translation of the Mass has to do because of “its quality and its usability.” U.S. bishops met in with the “Glory to God.” “It is one that is quite adaptable for June, they decided to “It changes so much that, for the most different instruments,” he said. give each diocese the part, completely new settings are going to Staff members of the Office of Worship option of using be needed,” Gardner said. “And because held workshops through the spring and musical settings of the Gloria is not sung in Advent, the early early summer for pastoral musicians Charles Gardner some parts of the use will enable a new setting to be in place across the archdiocese to help them new translation for the Christmas season.” prepare for the implementation of the new beginning in September. For new Mass settings, Gardner said the Mass translation. Gardner said additional The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has taken Archdiocesan Liturgical Music workshops will be held at parishes in this option, and is allowing parishes to begin Commission is recommending that parishes See MUSIC, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011
new. But I think here, we’re going to need to make MUSIC good use of those leadership techniques.” continued from page 1 (For more information about the early use of new
September. musical settings of parts of the new translation of Sean Gallagher File photo by Whether parishes choose to use new the Mass, call the archdiocesan Office of Worship musical settings of the “Glory to God” at 800-382-9836, ext. 1483, or 317-236-1483 or and the eucharistic prayer acclamations send an e-mail to [email protected].) † in September or wait until Advent, Gardner said that the role of pastoral musicians will be important. While playing a piano, Vincent Howard leads a choir from “All of these musical changes do Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis during the May 3, 2009, put an emphasis on the ministry of Mass at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis celebrating the cantors and choirs as being enabling 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The and helping by call and response,” U.S. bishops recently decided to give each diocese the Gardner said. “That’s the case, of option of using musical settings of some parts of the new course, when you’re learning anything Roman Missal translation beginning in September. Workshops scheduled to help pastoral musicians with new Mass translation The Archdiocesan Liturgical other people interested in musical settings music copies and hospitality. 5353 McFarland Road, in Indianapolis. Music Commission will present of the new translation of the Mass. To register, e-mail the workshop date • Sept. 12—St. Margaret Mary Parish, six evening workshops featuring Sample accompaniments for the and location, along with an estimated 2405 S. Seventh St., in Terre Haute. recommended musical settings of the new Chant Mass will be included, and number of participants from your parish, to • Sept. 19—St. Luke the Evangelist Roman Missal, including the Chant Mass, choral/accompaniment editions of the [email protected]. Parish, 7575 Holliday Dr. E., in the Storrington Mass and several revised Storrington Mass will be available for Each workshop will be held from Indianapolis. Mass settings. discounted purchase. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the following locations: • Sept. 19—St. Bartholomew Parish, The sessions are open to all pastoral There is no charge for the workshop, • Sept. 12—Our Lady of Perpetual Help 1306 27th St., in Columbus. musicians, including directors, cantors, but registration is requested at least Parish, 1752 Scheller Lane, in New Albany. • Sept. 20—St. Joseph Parish in St. Leon, choir and ensemble members, and any five days in advance in order to plan for • Sept. 12—St. Jude Parish, 7536 Church Lane, West Harrison. †
has drawn strong criticism not only from Catholic Health Association, who was a “The administration promised that those known to oppose Obama and his key supporter of the Patient Protection and Americans who like their current health HHS health reform law. Affordable Care Act. care coverage could keep it after we continued from page 1 Stephen Schneck, director of the Sister Carol, a member of the enacted the new reform,” Garvey noted. would not rescind an executive order Institute for Policy Research and Daughters of Charity, said her organization “Employers, employees and issuers who that permits federally funded religious Catholic Studies at The Catholic University would submit written comments to HHS have moral and religious objections to organizations to “retain religious terms in of America in Washington, said in a “and will continue our dialogue with sterilization, contraception and abortion are its organization’s name, select its board commentary published by National government officials on the essential need now free to have health care coverage that members on a religious basis, and include Catholic Reporter newspaper before the for adequate conscience protections.” excludes these practices. It would break religious references” in its mission Aug. 1 announcement that he had Writing in the Aug. 1 issue of America both old and new promises to deprive them statement and governing documents, he supported Obama’s nomination of magazine, Catholic University President of that liberty.” said religious organizations cannot then-Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to John Garvey recalled U.S. President Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, discriminate in hiring “if you have set up a head HHS, even though she took a George Washington’s letter to a group of director of media relations for the nonprofit that is disassociated from your “pro-choice stance on abortion. Quakers in 1789, in which he wrote, “In U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, core religious functions and is out there in “Those of us who supported Sebelius’ my opinion, the conscientious scruples of said on the USCCB media blog that the the public doing all kinds of work. nomination argued forcefully that she all men should be treated with great HHS regulation “conveniently ignores the “If, on the other hand, it is closer to your should not be penalized because her delicacy and tenderness—and it is my wish underlying principle of Catholic charitable core functions as a synagogue or a mosque conscience reached different conclusions and desire that the laws may always be as actions: We help people because we are or a church, then there may be more on contentious issues from those reached extensively accommodated to them, as a Catholic, not because our clients are. leeway for you to hire somebody who is a by the leaders of the Catholic Church,” due regard for the protection and essential “There’s no need to show your believer of that particular religious faith,” Schneck wrote. interests of the nation may justify baptismal certificate in the hospital Obama added at a July 22, 2011, town hall “But it would be a tragic irony if, in and permit.” emergency room, the parish food pantry or meeting in Maryland. adopting the new rules, Sebelius declined “I think it is a point of pride for the diocesan drug rehab program,” she “The Obama administration is playing to afford to Catholic Church organizations Americans that, even with the differences wrote. “Or any place else [that] the Church Catch-22 with religious employers,” the same conscience rights we invoked we have had recently over many issues of offers help, either.” Donohue said on Aug. 2. “If they are too when defending her nomination,” he added. health care, we adhere so carefully to Sister Mary Ann said it makes no sense religious, Catholic social service agencies “Those of us who joined ‘Catholics for Washington’s promise of conscientious for Catholic Charities agencies to “use risk losing federal funds, but if Catholic Sebelius’ did not do so to see our accommodation,” Garvey said. money that would be better spent on hospitals are not sufficiently religious, they conscience rights eviscerated.” But, he added, “I worry that this feeding the poor to underwrite services that cannot be exempt from carrying health Sister Carol Keehan also found fault distinguished record of liberal toleration violate Church teachings. insurance policies that transgress their with the conscience protections in the might soon come to an end.” “Whatever you think of artificial birth religious tenets.” HHS guidelines. Garvey urged HHS to “consider our control, HHS’ command that everyone, The announcement of the narrow “The language is not broad enough to historical commitment to religious liberty including churches, must pay for it exalts “religious exemption” proposed by HHS— protect our Catholic health providers,” in deciding what kinds of services to ideology over conscience and common and subject to a 60-day comment period— said the president and CEO of the mandate” under the new health reform law. sense,” she said. †
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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—At been possible, Walther said, without the The Celtic folk-rock World Youth Day Madrid, they will be back, help of co-sponsors. They include band Scythian bigger and offering more variety than ever. Holy Cross Family Ministries, the performs in 2008 at The Knights of Columbus and the Apostleship of Prayer, Salt and Light World Youth Day in
Sisters of Life, assisted by several other Television, the John Paul II Institute for Haring CNS file photo/Paul Sydney. The U.S. band organizations, are offering English-speaking Studies on Marriage and Family, FOCUS is set to hit the pilgrims at WYD a huge center where they (the Fellowship of Catholic University World Youth Day stage can attend concerts, learn more about Students) and World Youth Alliance. in Madrid for a their Catholic faith, pray quietly, debate A standard part of World Youth Day is performance at the contemporary issues and access the Internet the morning catechesis led by a bishop. Love and Life Center, with free Wi-Fi. Dozens of English-speaking bishops from a gathering place for Madrid’s Palacio de Deportes—sports around the world will address small English-speaking palace—will be converted into the groups of pilgrims in churches and church pilgrims run by the Love and Life Center during WYD on halls around Madrid. But at the Love and Knights of Columbus Aug. 16-21. Life Center, each morning one bishop will and the Sisters of Life. “First and foremost, we hope the site will take the main stage and address the entire World Youth Day kicks help people learn about their faith. And if assembly. off in Spain’s capital on the pilgrims learn something about the While English will be the common Aug. 16. Knights, I hope it will be the fact that we language at the Love and Life Center, the are an organization that can help them live young people making it part of their out and strengthen their faith by engaging in Madrid itinerary will come from around United States all plan national gatherings strong interest from countries where charity and evangelization of culture,” said the world, Walther said. of their pilgrims at the palacio during English is a second language, such as some Andrew T. Walther, Knights’ vice president “Canada, Australia and the World Youth Day, but we have also had of the Scandinavian countries,” he said. † of communications and media. Pilgrims planning their days in Madrid and anyone interested in following the events at the center from afar can visit the Local young adults making pilgrimage to Spain for WYD center’s website at www.wydenglishsite.org. By Brandon A. Evans celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. archdiocesan Office of Young Adult The Knights and the Sisters of Life, a The pilgrims, who include and College Campus Ministry, religious community founded in 1991 by Forty-one young adults from the four archdiocesan seminarians, will also Catholic chaplain at Cardinal John J. O’Connor of New York, Archdiocese of Indianapolis and the take a day trip to Avila, Spain. Indiana University-Purdue University sponsored a center in Sydney during neighboring Diocese of Lafayette will be Updates and photographs from the trip Indianapolis (IUPUI), and administrator World Youth Day 2008. joining three priest chaplains on a will be available throughout the week at of St. John the Evangelist Parish in “We have invited some of the same pilgrimage to Madrid for World Youth Day. www.archindy.org/wyd or by following Indianapolis, said that this was done speakers and performers to Spain—and Their pilgrimage begins with a 6:30 a.m. twitter.com/IndyCatholic1. to return to the original spirit of many more,” Walther said in an e-mail Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church in Visitors to the blog are encouraged to World Youth Day, which was founded response to questions. downtown Indianapolis on Aug. 13, and submit prayer requests via the comment by Blessed Pope John Paul II as an Size is the big difference between the will end when they arrive home on boxes for the pilgrims to take with them. event for young adults. center in Sydney and the one in Madrid, Aug. 22. This is the first time that the archdiocese he said. The Palacio de Deportes seats During the pilgrimage, the young adults is taking a group made up exclusively of (To follow the pilgrims more than 10,000 people, and events are will participate in official World Youth Day young adults—graduates of high school online, log on to planned from 10 a.m. to midnight with the events, including catechetical sessions, who are age 18 and older—as opposed to www.archindy.org/wyd only breaks being the times when the concerts, talks and a special Mass for past years when high school students were or scan the QR code to pilgrims have the big WYD opening Mass U.S. pilgrims. The weeklong event included. the right on your mobile or appointments with Pope Benedict XVI. culminates on Aug. 21 with a Mass Father Rick Nagel, director of the phone.) † Expanding the offerings would not have Page 4 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011
OPINION Be Our Guest/Dr. Hans Geisler Brain death is the best
Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 criterion for assessing death Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher In the “Be Our Guest” column in the Pope Benedict XVI in November 2008 Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus July 8 issue of The Criterion, Dr. Paul when he said, “The act of love, which is A. Byrne and expressed with the gift of one’s own vital Franciscan of the organs, is a genuine testament of charity Immaculate Father that knows how to look beyond death so Editorial Peter Damian Fehlner that life always wins. … What the wrote an article titled [recipient] receives is a testament of love, “Vital organ and it should give rise to a response equally Clergy Trends transplantation—not generous. … In this way grows [both] the truly dead.” culture of the gift and gratitude.” The number of priests in the U.S. have In their column, In supporting the acceptance of brain been on the decline in the past 20 they note that an organ death as the best criterion that death has years as deacon numbers increased. donor of a non-paired truly occurred, Father Pacholczyk quotes organ should be judged dead beyond doubt an address given by Blessed John Paul II in 60,000 PRIESTS before the organ, to be transplanted, is August 2000 to Catholic health care removed. personnel, when the Holy Father stated, 50.000 In making that point, they take issue with “The complete and irreversible cessation of 40,271 40,000 Father Tad Pacholczyk’s “Making Sense of all brain activity, if rigorously applied, does Bioethics” column which appeared in the not seem to conflict with the essential 30,000 June 24 issue of The Criterion in which he elements of a sound anthropology.” gives the reasons for the Catholic Church’s Father Pacholczyk writes, “As long as 20,000 17,436 DEACONS acceptance of “brain death” as the definitive thorough and accurate medical testing is 10,000 criterion for death having occurred. performed, the Church continues to support Indeed, Byrne and Father Peter Damian, the determination of death based on 0 1990 1995 2000 2005 2011 toward the end of their column, note that, neurological criteria.” “Over time, it has become clear that In other words, brain death is real death Source: Official Catholic Directory ©2011 CNS ‘brain death’ is not true death.” once brain death has been irreversibly I believe that they are wrong. If we are to proven to have taken place by exhaustive encourage organ donation as a way that the neurological criteria. That the brain is truly Fewer priests, more Masses deceased can help their living brethren, we dead is therefore the definitive criterion e hope you read the story we changed in our parishes, and will change should accept the Church’s assessment that followed by the Catholic Church, which Wpublished in the July 22 issue of even more in the future. The CARA study brain death is the best criterion for permits the donation of any unpaired The Criterion headlined “Report finds reported that the average parish now has assessing death. organs of a recently deceased Catholic, fewer priests celebrating more Masses at 9.5 staff members, some more and some My belief rests on the presumption that a such as the heart, liver, etc. fewer parishes” because the data in that less, of course, depending upon the size careful and thorough assessment of the In addition, this is the basis of the article are important for the future of the of the parish. deceased brain’s function being totally gone Catholic belief that “the transplantation of Catholic Church in this country. Of those 9.5 staff members, 5.4 people has been supplied by competent medical organs is morally acceptable” only when It’s not that any of you, our readers, are in ministry positions. This reflects the examination. Such a judgment would “the donor is truly dead” (Compendium: would be surprised by the headline. By increase in the number of lay ecclesial assume that all the criteria, clearly Catechism of the Catholic Church, #476). coincidence, Catholic News Service sent ministers, those who have studied elucidated in the ethical and religious that story to Catholic periodicals the specifically for those roles. In parish life, directives (ERD’s) of the U.S. Conference (Dr. Hans Geisler is a retired gynecologist- same week that we reported the examples are the pastoral associate, of Catholic Bishops, have been adhered to oncologist and member of St. Luke the planned closing of four parishes in the parish catechetical leader, youth ministry in a painstaking manner. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. He is Terre Haute Deanery. leader, and director of liturgy or pastoral The practice of organ donation as a certified in health care ethics by the The article reported on the latest music. Deacons are not included because truly beneficent gift was endorsed by National Catholic Bioethics Center.) † study by the Center for Applied they are members of the clergy, not lay. Research in the Apostolate (CARA) on There are now approximately behalf of no less than five national 38,000 lay ecclesial ministers in Letters to the Editor Catholic organizations that are concerned U.S. parishes, and about 790 additional about the Church’s future. I was a lay ecclesial ministers are being added member of CARA’s board of directors every year. Rich tradition of faith offers perfect from 1978 to 1985. The CARA study found that the Those five organizations are working average number of registered households prescription for curious youths on a project called Emerging Models in each U.S. parish grew to 1,168. The youth of today have a propensity many of us, who are content with a shallow of Pastoral Leadership. It is being The Archdiocese of Indianapolis, for mysticism, phantasm and the oddly out spirituality. funded by the Indianapolis-based though, is far from that number. With of the ordinary. There is no sense deprivation in the Lilly Endowment. 83,465 households in our 151 parishes, They are sufficiently configured to enter world of the youths. They are bombarded It is hardly a secret that we have our average is only 553. into the mystery of the Mass and the covertly and overtly with the occult, the fewer priests today, even though we have The report stated that the average various senses of biblical study, i.e. literal whimsical and interdimensional more Catholics, and that those priests number of individuals registered in and spiritual—allegorical, moral and possibilities. We often think about what is, have more responsibilities. Every time U.S. parishes in 2010 was 3,277. For the anagogical sense. and they ponder what could be. They have the official appointments appear on Archdiocese of Indianapolis, with a While catechizing some of my no problem seeking things only dead folks page 2 of The Criterion, readers see that Catholic population of 224,926 as of students in confirmation class, I made the know. individual priests are sometimes assigned June 30, 2010, the average was mistake of keeping my teaching far too The Catholic Church exists in the additional parishes or as pastors of large only 1,618. simple. They became bored, and wanted to realm of time and space, persisting in the parishes without associate pastors. The study also reported that learn more so we ventured deeper into the two spheres of corporeal and incorporeal, Even though the number of deacons one-third of all U.S. parishes have more subterranean sea of spirituality and they spiritual and material. increases every year, the total number than 1,201 registered households. Only lit up. Our faith is rich in tradition and gifted of priests, deacons, and men and 15 of the parishes in our archdiocese We can use the virtual reality that they with great thinkers and doctors of mystical women religious in the United States have more than 1,201 households—under spend so much time in to extract truths theology, just the prescription needed for declined 41 percent in the 30 years from 11 percent. about the Christian faith and understand the the passionately curious youths of today. 1980 to 2010. The percentage of parishes with teachings of the Catholic Church. Kirth N. Roach With fewer priests and parishes, those 200 or fewer households dropped from Our youths are far more prone to enter Order of Carmelite Discalced Secular priests are celebrating more Masses. But 24 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2010 into the “interior castle” of the soul than Indianapolis that’s hardly all that they are doing. They throughout the United States. In our must be leaders of their parishes, meet archdiocese, it is 35 percent. Forty-nine with engaged couples and perform their parishes have 200 or fewer households. Why is there a lack of outrage and such weddings, plan and conduct funerals, One interesting figure in the study is visit the sick in their homes or health that smaller parishes have higher Mass indifference to the abortion holocaust? care centers, and hear confessions. They attendance than larger parishes. During a recent prayer vigil with scene showcases an unspeakable moral also meet with the parish staff, parish Furthermore, “Although Mass one other pro-life supporter outside an tragedy that somehow must end before council and finance committee. attendance has declined in the long term abortion mill in Indianapolis, I was struck God’s wrath descends on our nation! Then they have additional since the 1950s, there has been no recent by the observation that in its fight for life, Regarding this situation, I also, perhaps responsibilities as members of decline or increase in attendance in the one innocent several-week-old baby in the unfairly, sense a lack of outrage and archdiocesan committees, perhaps as last decade,” the report said. womb was outnumbered by five abortion indifference to this abomination in many of heads of ministries or diocesan offices or All this seems to indicate that the mill staff members—including the our archdiocesan parishes. as volunteer staff members of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis has not yet physician/abortionist flown in from out of Are there compelling reasons why the Metropolitan Tribunal. Seventeen priests been forced to close or consolidate as state—all determined to end that life. streets in front of the four abortion mills in serve in these roles. many parishes as many other dioceses in At first glance, my trivial, irreverent Indianapolis aren’t filled with prayerful Obviously, our priests couldn’t do all the United States. observation was that those five to one odds advocates for the sanctity of innocent this without laypeople helping them. would seem a bit unfair. human life? That is another way that things have —John F. Fink The more meaningful observation, of David A. Nealy course, would suggest that this shameful Greenwood The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Page 5
ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Core of the priesthood is being a friend of Jesus in prayer his week, I continue with Part 2 of administer the sacraments, meditate on what My brother, you have already promised come from compulsion or obligation.” the Ordination Instruction for you are doing. When you celebrate Mass, to live your life in apostolic love, in celibate He also said, “The gap between what TFather Dustin Boehm. reflect on the sacrifice you are offering. chastity. We are called to love the many. We you are and what you know you should be When you pray the office, think about the offer a sacrificial love as a sign of our will become greater. Do not worry. [Jesus] Ordination Instruction words you are saying and the Lord to whom interior love for Christ and our special chose you. He knows what he is doing—so Part 2 you are speaking. When you take care of availability to serve God and our human trust him. He wants you to be his friend— our people, meditate on the Lord’s blood family. Why? We need look no farther than let him. He wants you from time to time to There is something else about that has washed them clean. In this way, all the person of Christ who was celibate. The carry his cross—do so. Pray often, in good obedience. that you do becomes a work of love.” charism of celibacy is the mystery of times and in bad: ‘Speak Lord, your servant Blessed Pope John Paul II once This is the way we can overcome the God’s love at work in us and—as it was in is listening.’ He will answer you and remarked about the gesture of the ordinand difficulties we face which, after all, are part Christ—it is part of that divine paradox that whisper quietly to you in his own way: putting his hands in those of the bishop. of our ministry. we must die in order to live (cf. Light in the ‘Don’t worry—it is going to be all right. … “A priest must be able to feel, especially in Dustin, in your Holy Thursday homily at Lord, Cardinal Basil Hume, p. 35). I chose you” (p. 93). moments of difficulty, of loneliness, that his St. John the Evangelist Church, you said, Finally, Dustin, in a few minutes, as you Being a friend of Jesus means being with hands are held tightly by the archbishop’s.” “In meditation, we find the strength to bring lie prostrate on the floor during the litany, him in prayer. Brother, be that and Isn’t it a mutual gesture, symbolic of Christ to birth in ourselves and in others; so resolve that day by day in prayer you will everything will be OK. Please God, may it safety in the hands of Christ? that our proclamation of Our Lord’s very rededicate your life in love. Your prostration be so. † A priest may complain that as soon as he real, very physical presence in this world is a sign of your dependence on Jesus. comes into church to pray the office or to not remain simply a proclamation of Recall that for his part, Jesus says, and will celebrate Mass, a thousand thoughts fill his words, but a very real and very physical continue to say, “No longer do I call you a Do you have an intention for mind and distract him from God. proclamation of love.” servant but friend” (Jn 15:15). Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? But St. Charles Borromeo asks, “How The holy bishop of Milan, St. Charles, Pope Benedict says that is the meaning You may mail it to him at: did he prepare? What means did he use to asked, “Are you in charge of a parish? If so, of the imposition of hands: I no longer call collect his thoughts, and to remain do not neglect the parish of your own soul, you servants but friends. The core of Archbishop Buechlein’s recollected?” do not give yourself so completely that you priesthood is being friends of Jesus, and Prayer List The saint asks, “Would you like me to have nothing left for yourself. Be mindful of being a friend of Jesus means being with Archdiocese of Indianapolis teach you how to grow from virtue to virtue your people without becoming forgetful him in prayer. 1400 N. Meridian Street and how, if you are already recollected at of yourself.” Cardinal Hume remarked, “Friend. That Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 prayer, you can be even more attentive and Pope Benedict XVI reminds us that our raises the whole thing to a different level, so give God more pleasing worship? Stay priestly spirituality is intrinsically for promises made between friends do not quiet with God.” eucharistic. He says, “The seeds of this Dustin, you have heard me say more spirituality are already found in the words than a few times that our first duty as spoken by the bishop during the ordination Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for August priests is to be men of prayer. liturgy: ‘Receive the oblation of the holy Parish Awareness: that all parishioners will be aware of their role in promoting all St. Charles said, “My brothers, you must people to be offered to God. Understand vocations and have the awareness especially to encourage our youth to consider the realize that for us Churchmen nothing is what you celebrate and conform your life to priestly and religious life. more necessary than meditation. When you the mystery of the cross.’ ”
La base del sacerdocio es ser amigos de Jesús en la oración sta semana continúo con la segunda sacramentos, mediten sobre lo que están vida en el amor apostólico y en la derivan de obligaciones ni apremios.” parte de la Instrucción de la haciendo. Cuando celebren la Misa, castidad del celibato. Estamos llamados a También dijo: “La brecha entre lo que Eordenación de padre Dustin Boehm. reflexionen acerca del sacrificio que están amar a muchos. Ofrecemos un amor de eres y lo que sabes que deberías ser se ofreciendo. Cuando recen el oficio, piensen sacrificio como símbolo de nuestro amor tornará todavía más grande. No te aflijas. Instrucción en las palabras que están pronunciando y en interior a Cristo y nuestra disposición [Jesús] te eligió. Él sabe lo que hace, así Parte 2 el Señor al cual le hablan. Cuando se especial de servir a Dios en nuestra que confía en él. Quiere que seas su amigo; ocupen de nuestra gente, mediten sobre la familia humana. ¿Por qué? Sin ir más permíteselo. De vez en cuando querrá que Hay algo más acerca de la obediencia. sangre del Señor que los ha lavado. De esta allá, observemos la persona de Cristo que cargues su cruz; hazlo. Ora a menudo, en El beato Papa Juan Pablo II comentó en forma, todo lo que hagan se convierte en fue célibe. El carisma del celibato es el los buenos tiempos y en los malos: ‘Habla, una ocasión acerca el gesto del ordenando una obra de amor.” misterio del amor de Dios en acción en Señor, tu siervo te escucha.’ Te responderá de colocar sus manos sobre las del obispo. De esta manera podemos superar las nosotros, al igual que lo fue en Cristo: y te susurrará quedamente a su manera: “El sacerdote debe sentir, especialmente en dificultades que enfrentamos las cuales, forma parte de esa paradoja divina en la ‘No te preocupes; todo va a estar bien. … momentos de dificultad y de soledad, que el después de todo, forman parte de nuestro que debemos morir para poder vivir Yo te elegí” (p. 93). arzobispo le tiene de la mano.” ministerio. (cf. Light in the Lord [Luz en el Señor], Ser amigo de Jesús significa estar con él ¿Acaso no es éste un gesto mutuo que Dustin, en tu homilía del Jueves Santo cardenal Basil Hume, p. 35). en la oración. Hermano, hazlo y todo irá simboliza la seguridad que experimentamos en la iglesia St. John Evangelist, dijiste: Por último, Dustin, en unos minutos, bien. Te ruego Señor que así sea. † en las manos de Cristo? “En la meditación hallamos la fuerza para cuando yazcas postrado en el suelo durante Puede que el sacerdote se queje de que lograr que Cristo nazca en nosotros y en el la letanía, toma la determinación de que día tan pronto llega a la iglesia para rezar el prójimo. Así pues, nuestra proclamación del tras día volverás a dedicar tu vida por ¿Tiene una intención que desee oficio o celebrar la Misa, la mente se le Padre Nuestro se torna en una presencia amor. Postrarte es una señal de tu incluir en la lista de oración del inunda con miles de pensamientos que lo muy real, muy palpable en este mundo, no dependencia de Jesús. Recuerda que, por Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar distraen de Dios. se limita a una mera entonación de su parte, Jesús te dice y continuará su correspondencia a: Pero a este respecto, San Carlos palabras, sino que es una proclamación de diciéndote “ya no te llamo siervo sino Borromeo indaga: “¿Cómo se preparó? amor muy real y muy palpable.” amigo” (Jn 15:15). Lista de oración del Arzobispo ¿Qué medios usó para controlar sus El santo obispo de Milán, San Carlos, El papa Benedicto asevera que ese es el Buechlein pensamientos y mantenerlos ordenados?” preguntó: “¿Estás a cargo de una parroquia? significado de la imposición de las manos: Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis El santo pregunta: “¿Te gustaría que te De ser así, no descuides la parroquia de tu ya no os llamo siervos, sino amigos. El 1400 N. Meridian Street enseñara cómo avanzar de una virtud a otra propia alma, no te entregues de tal modo fundamento del sacerdocio es ser amigo de Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 y cómo, si ya mantienes tus pensamientos que no quede nada para ti mismo. Ocúpate Jesús y serlo significa estar con él en la ordenados en la oración, podrías estar más de las personas sin olvidarte de ti.” oración. atento para alabar a Dios de una forma que El papa Benedicto XVI nos recuerda que El cardenal Hume señaló: “Amigo. Eso Le agrade aún más? Quédate en silencio nuestra espiritualidad sacerdotal es intrínse- hace que la cuestión tome un cariz distinto, Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, con Él.” camente eucarística. Expresa: “En las ya que las promesas entre amigos no se Language Training Center, Indianapolis. Dustin, me has escuchado decir más de palabras que pronuncia el obispo durante la una vez que nuestro primer deber como liturgia de ordenación se encuentran ya las La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en agosto sacerdotes es ser hombres de oración. semillas de la espiritualidad: ‘Recibe la San Carlos dijo: “Mis hermanos, deben limosna del pueblo santo para ofrecerla a Conocimiento de la Parroquia: Que cada parroquiano sea consciente de su papel para darse cuenta de que para los hombres de la Dios. Comprende qué celebras y amolda tu fomentar todas las vocaciones y anime a nuestros jóvenes a con-siderar la vida Iglesia nada es más necesario que la vida al misterio de la cruz.’ ” sacerdotal y religiosa. meditación. Cuando administren los Hermano, ya has prometido vivir tu Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Events Calendar
August 12 Oldenburg Academy, August 16 Information: 812-663-8427. “Augustravaganza,” rides, St. Maurice Parish, 8874 N. OASIS athletic booster club, food, music, entertainment, St. Rita Church, St. Christopher Parish, August 19 Harrison St., Napoleon. 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown cornhole tournament, Damascus Room, 5301 W. 4 p.m.-midnight. Information: Pulled-pork dinner, Northside Knights of Ave., Indianapolis. registration, 4 p.m., 16th St., Indianapolis. 317-357-1200. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. 4-7:30 p.m., $8 adults, Charismatic Mass, praise and tournament, 6 p.m., $10 per “Scripture Study,” 7 p.m. 71st St., Indianapolis. August 20 $4 children 6-12 years old. worship, 7 p.m., Mass, person or $20 per team. Information: 317-241-9169 or Catholic Business Exchange, St. Michael the Archangel Information: 812-852-4394 or 7:30 p.m. Information: Information: [email protected]. Church, 3354 W. 30th St., [email protected]. 317-846-0706. www.oldenburgacademy.org. Mass, breakfast and program, “Catholic Confusion Over Indianapolis. Helpers of Marian University, 3200 Cold Health Care Reform,” God’s Precious Infants, August 19-20 August 13 August 13-14 Spring Road, Marian Hall, St. Paul Parish, 9798 N. Dr. Matthew Will, presenter, pro-life Mass, Father John St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Room 305, Indianapolis. Dearborn Road, Guilford/ 6:30-8:30 a.m. $14 members, McCaslin, celebrant, 8:30 a.m., 46th and Illinois streets, House, 5353 E. 56th St., Catholic Adult Fellowship, Parish festival followed by rosary outside Indianapolis. Sixth annual New Alsace. , “Life of Grace,” $20 non-members. Indianapolis. “SausageFest,” Sat. 5:30 p.m.-midnight, music, Reservations and information: abortion clinic and “Missions Helping Missions Chris Godfrey, presenter, 7 p.m. food, music, Fri. 6 p.m.- Bazaar and Family Picnic,” Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken www.catholicbusiness Benediction at church. midnight, Sat. 6 p.m.-midnight. Information: Archdiocesan 10 a.m.-6 p.m., buffet dinner, dinner. Information: August 17 exchange.org. Information: 317-253-1461. noon-7 p.m., $10 per person or 812-487-2096. Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum Office for St. Rita Parish, Pro-Life Ministry, $30 for a family of five, Mass, August 14 Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., August 21 4 p.m. Information: 317-545- Indianapolis. Mass, 2 p.m. 1733 Dr. Andrew 317-236-1569 or St. Pius Parish, County Road Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. 7681, ext. 14, or Information: 317-784-4439. J. Brown Ave., Indianapolis. 500 E., Sunman. Parish picnic, www.archindy.org/Fatima. House, 5353 E. 56th St., “The Future of the chicken dinner, mock turtle Indianapolis. Discalced August 18 African-American Catholic Nativity of Our Lord Benedict Inn Retreat and Carmelites Secular Order Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Family,” Deacon Harold Jesus Christ Parish, soup, games, Conference Center, meeting, noon. Information: Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Burke-Sicers, presenter, 7225 Southeastern Ave., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: 1402 Southern Ave., 317-545-7681. Indianapolis. Catholics United reception, 6 p.m., presentation, Indianapolis. “5K Run and 812-623-8007. Beech Grove. “Parish for the Faith, Abba, Father 7 p.m., covered dish and Walk,” 9 a.m. Information: Pro-Life Ministry–Living the St. Mary Parish, Chapter meeting, 6:30-8 p.m. free-will offering. Information: 317-357-1200. Richmond Catholic 2500 St. Mary’s Drive, Gospel of Life Authentically,” Information: 317-236-1569, 317-632-9349. Community, 701 N. “A” St., Lanesville. Parish picnic, 800-382-9836, ext. 1569, or Murphy’s Steakhouse, 4189 N. day of renewal and Richmond. Charismatic networking, fried chicken and country ham [email protected]. Keystone Ave., Indianapolis. St. Monica Church, 6131 N. prayer group, 7 p.m. 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., no charge. dinners, booths, quilts, games, Michigan Road, Indianapolis. St. Philip Neri School, Class Information: Information: 317-236-1569, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Office of Family Ministries, of 1951 60-year Reunion, 800-382-9836, ext. 1569, or 812-952-2853. Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. family Mass and social, for noon. Information: [email protected]. [email protected]. Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. families experiencing 317-357-4443. Queen and Divine Mercy Mass, 2 p.m. Information: separation or divorce, Mass, Sacred Ground School of St. Roch Parish, Family Life Center, Rexville, located on 317-574-8898 or www.catholic- 7 p.m. followed by social. St. Monica Parish, 6131 N. Dance, 2 W. Main St., Suite 9, Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., 925 South, .8 mile east of cemeteries.cc. Information: 317-236-1586 or Michigan Road, Indianapolis. Greenfield. “Liturgical 421 South and 12 miles south Indianapolis. Single Seniors, [email protected]. “The Treasures of Church Dance,” class, demonstrations meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and of Versailles. Mass, 9:30 a.m., St. Mary Parish, 208 S. Teaching,” Deacon Harold by Sacred Ground Liturgical over. Information: on third Sunday holy hour East St., Greensburg. August 19-20 Burke-Sicers, presenter, Mass, 317-784-4207. and pitch-in, Father Elmer Inspirational program, Nativity of Our Lord 11:30 a.m., lunch, 12:30 p.m., Dance Company, 1-5 p.m., Burwinkel, celebrant, daily Anne Ryder, presenter, Jesus Christ Parish, presentation following lunch $40 per person. Information: RomWeber Marketplace, Mass, 9 a.m. Information: $10 per person suggested 7225 Southeastern Ave., until 4 p.m. Information: 317-442-8279 or sacred 7 S. Eastern Ave., Batesville. 812-689-3551. donation, 6:30 p.m. Indianapolis. 317-632-9349. [email protected]. †
Retreats and Programs VIPs 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. August 23-25 Larry and Margaret (May) July 4, 1961, at St. Michael August 16 Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Schank, members of Church in Cannelton. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, St. Meinrad. “By the Finger of St. Michael Parish in They have two children, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. God–The Miracles of Jesus,” midweek Cannelton, celebrated their Julia Kunkler and “Catholic Identity and Doctrine–The B and retreat, Benedictine Father Vincent Tobin, 50th anniversary on July 2. Brian Schank. They also b of Baptism,” session one of four, They were married on have six grandchildren. † Mary Lynn Cavanaugh, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or $25 per person. Information: 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. www.benedictinn.org. August 26-28 St. Vincent de Paul Society receives grant August 19-21 Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “Simplicity Retreat Revised–A The National Council of the Society of housing and a healthier lifestyle.” St. Meinrad. “Reflections on the Miracles Way of Life,” Benedictine Father Noël St. Vincent de Paul awarded a grant of The Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Stories of the Gospels,” Benedictine Father Mueller, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 $1,500 on July 19 to provide bicycles for Indianapolis has distributed 100 bicycles Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: or [email protected]. † the needy in Indianapolis. to those in need since 2008. More than “Besides housing and jobs, many of 150 of their homeless clients are on a the homeless we serve have no bicycle waiting list. transportation,” said Maureen McLean, The disbursement to Indianapolis is New novice is welcomed into who helped write the grant application part of $80,000 in Friends of the Poor for the St. Vincent de Paul Conferences grants that the St. Vincent de Paul Society Saint Meinrad Archabbey at St. Philip Neri and Holy Cross will make this year throughout the parishes, both in Indianapolis. United States. In a brief ceremony at the Battaramulla and attended “A bike enables many of them to find monastery entrance, Anushka Fonseka St. Joseph’s College in Colombo, and keep jobs as well as keep their medical (For more information on the Society of was clothed in the Benedictine habit both in Sri Lanka. appointments,” McLean said. “Those St. Vincent de Paul in Indianapolis, log on at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in In 2008, he earned a bachelor’s benefits, in turn, lead to more permanent to www.svdpindy.org.) † St. Meinrad on Aug. 5. He begins a degree in civil engineering at the year of monastic University of South Alabama in formation, Mobile, Ala. He worked as a structural including study engineer at Barter and Associates Inc. of the Rule of in Mobile until joining the monastery.
St. Benedict and As a novice, he will take a year off 25th Submitted photo monastic history. from formal studies and/or trades. The Novice novitiate is a time of prayer and Anushka, 28, learning intended to help a novice jubilee was born in discern his vocation as a monk. At the Colombo, end of this year, a novice may be Sri Lanka. He permitted to profess temporary vows of Father Stephen Akange, right, was a member of obedience, fidelity to the monastic way associate pastor of St. Louis Parish in Nov. Anushka Our Lady of of life and stability in the community Batesville, processes into his parish’s Fonseka, O.S.B. Fatima Parish in of Saint Meinrad. † church at the start of a July 24 Mass to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his priestly ordination. Processing into the church with Father Akange is transitional Deacon Jerry Byrd, a Italian Heritage Society Mass member of St. Louis Parish. Seven priests concelebrated the is Aug. 14 at Camp Atterbury festive Mass that was attended by more than 400 members of the The Italian Heritage Society of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in southeastern Indiana parish. Indiana will hold its 22nd annual Mass Indianapolis, will be the celebrant of the Father Akange was ordained for the and picnic at 11 a.m. on Aug. 14 at the Mass to honor the Virgin Mary and pray Diocese of Makurdi, Nigeria. He has Italian POW Chapel at Camp Atterbury in for world peace. ministered in the Archdiocese of southern Johnson County. For more information, call Indianapolis since 2005. Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor of James Divita at 317-293-4607. † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Page 7 St. Simon the Apostle Parish to celebrate 50 years on Aug. 21 By Sean Gallagher It was originally located at 8400 Roy Road, on Indianapolis’ Jeanie Fentz is looking forward far east side, about a mile east of to the festive Mass on Aug. 21 that Shadeland Avenue. Wyand y Mary Ann will celebrate the 50th anniversary But by the mid-1980s, many of of the founding of her parish, the factories along Shadeland that F i le photo b St. Simon the Apostle Parish, had employed thousands of people 8155 Oaklandon Road, in when St. Simon was established in Indianapolis. 1961 were being closed. The Mass will begin at 11 a.m. At the same time, many people with a reception to follow. were moving into new Fentz was a young mother in neighborhoods on the far northeast her early 20s when she joined the side of Indianapolis. parish in 1962. Because of these demographic At the time, many of her fellow changes, St. Simon Parish was members in the fledgling parish moved to its current location, were also young parents who had about 10 miles north of its original moved to Indianapolis’ far east side site, in 1997. Its church was to work in the bustling industrial dedicated in 2001. corridor along Shadeland Avenue. Fentz recalled the time when Many of the people who will the decision was made to change join her at the anniversary Mass St. Simon’s location and the Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein accepts offertory gifts from Beverly Hansberry and Franciscan Sister Yvonne Conrad at the will also be young mothers and preparations for the move Dec. 1, 2001, dedication Mass for the new St. Simon the Apostle Church in Indianapolis. Transitional Deacon John McCaslin, fathers, but of her children’s followed, noting that some left, a St. Simon parishioner who was ordained to the priesthood in June 2002, and Father Robert Sims, then St. Simon’s generation. parishioners chose to join other pastor, assisted the archbishop during the liturgy. At the time, Hansberry was St. Simon’s director of faith formation, and “[They’re] like me all over nearby parishes. Sister Yvonne was the parish’s administrative assistant. again,” Fentz said. “They go places “It was harder on some than on and do things with people from me,” Fentz said. “When we were outreach service projects. in the 1960s and 1970s. The parish’s grounds that will also St. Simon. … It brings back first told, I was really excited about She and her family joined parish and its booming school at celebrate its 50th anniversary. memories because it appears to be it. … Some of the older people had St. Simon Parish in 2007. that time—the three sections of “For over 50 years, our like [what it] was when my kids a really hard time. “When we would go into Mass, his first-grade class combined had community has celebrated the joys were little. You go to church and “But it’s all come full circle. it had a welcoming environment,” more than 100 students—did a lot of baptisms, weddings and get your support from those And I think we’re all happy.” Stephenson said. “Everyone was to nurture his life of faith. graduations,” said Father William people.” One of those members who is friendly. That was initially what “Our whole family life was Marks, St. Simon’s pastor since While many things have stayed happy at St. Simon Parish is got us in the door of St. Simon. focused around the parish,” he 2008. “We the same over St. Simon Parish’s Nicole Stephenson, 35. A mother “What’s kept us there is that, said. “We were very active in the have also first 50 years, other things have of three children under age 9, once you get to know everybody, parish, in CYO sports, in all the supported changed. Stephenson is president of the you get a great sense of events and activities of the school. each other Most prominent among them is parish’s women’s club, which community and family. Everybody I’m still friends with a good in times of the parish’s location. organizes parish social events and knows everybody there, and you number of my classmates that I sorrow and look out for each other.” grew up with.” pain, Fentz appreciates how her son Although Father McCaslin is funerals and and his family are now active in busy as the pastor of St. Anthony illness.
ve photo Arch i ve the parish like she was 50 years Parish and the administrator of “A sign ago. Stephenson hopes her Holy Trinity Parish, both in of a faith- children will make it their spiritual Indianapolis, he keeps up with his filled home when they have their own St. Simon classmates on a Fr. William Marks community families. Facebook page. is not one “I hope that, by doing “It was a great parish to grow that survives over time, but one that everything that I am doing, I’m up in. It really was,” he said. continues to give its very heart and creating an environment for my “I had a great experience there. It spirit to all who pass through the kids that will nurture their morals,” was a great community. There was doors of the church. St Simon … she said. “[I hope] that they’ll a lot of investment and ownership has much to celebrate because over grow up to be good people and, in in it. I couldn’t have asked for a the years it has been a community turn, stay in this community and better experience growing up.” giving of itself to others.” In this archive photo from the 1980s, a child has fun on a ride during St. Simon maybe do the same things that I’m Former members of St. Simon the Apostle Parish’s annual festival. At the time, the parish was located at doing for their kids someday.” Parish are invited to participate in (For more information about 8400 Roy Road on Indianapolis’ far east side. In 1997, it was moved to its current Father John McCaslin grew up the Aug. 21 Mass, and at a St. Simon the Apostle Parish, log on location at 8155 Oaklandon Road in Indianapolis. as a member of St. Simon Parish Sept. 24 parish picnic on the to www.saintsimon.org.) †
St. Mary’s August 18 Family Picnic 2010 6:00 pm - Texas Hold ‘Em Greensburg, Indiana
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Nativity Catholic Church 7225 Southeastern Ave., Indianapolis, IN (317) 357-1200 www.nativityindy.org License #123944 www.CatholicRadioIndy.org Page 8 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Catholic News Around Indiana DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE New Matthew 25 Center
• Diocese of Gary Cullen Kevin Photo by • Diocese of Evansville in Carmel is a house of • Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana blessing and a place of love • Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend CARMEL—The new Matthew 25 Center at Compiled by Brandon A. Evans Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish is a lifeline for thousands of local people in need. Each day, it lives out DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE the Bible verses after which it was named. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was ‘All are welcome’: Family thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you with 34 children enrolls at cared for me,” Jesus said. “Whatever you did for Christ the King Parish one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me” Father Richard Doerr, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish (Mt 25:35-36, 40). in Carmel in the Lafayette Diocese, speaks during the dedication EVANSVILLE—When Mary-Jo Jackson heard “All Are The $2 million, 13,091-square-foot structure, of the parish’s new Matthew 25 Center on July 16. Standing Welcome” is this year’s theme for the schools in the Diocese of dedicated by Bishop Timothy L. Doherty on July 16, is behind him is Bishop Timothy L. Doherty. Evansville, she had one thing to say—“Sounds good.” the new home to the Merciful H.E.L.P. Center, which She and her husband, Michael, are members of Christ the hosts Hamilton County’s largest food pantry and DIOCESE OF FORT WAYNE-SOUTH BEND King Parish, and the biological parents of seven grown children 20 other outreach ministries for those in need, and the and the adoptive parents of 27 children. They recently arrived in Trinity Free Clinic, which offers free acute medical care Bishop Rhoades encourages Evansville from New York, and are in the process of getting their and dental services to the uninsured. children enrolled in school. Five of the children, Ross, Mercy, The pantry and clinic served more than 18,000 local complete enthusiasm in Maria, Fiona and Elijah, are attending Christ the King School. people in 2010. That makes the Matthew 25 Center the Six of their children will attend Reitz Memorial High School, largest facility serving the poor in the county. ‘new evangelization’ while others will be enrolled in schools in the Evansville- “I think it’s fantastic that the community has WARSAW—Hispanic Catholics from 14 parishes were Vanderburgh School Corporation. come together to build this. There is such a need,” said called to participate in a “new evangelization” at Our Lady The parents say that their “original seven” taught them about Jeff Bentivoglio, a member of Our Lady of Mount of Guadalupe Parish and Diocesan Shrine in Warsaw on soccer teams, Scouts and music lessons. Those parenting Carmel Parish. July 23. More than 150 priests and laity from these experiences prepared the couple for the “new clan,” which With approximately 2,800 households, Our Lady parishes were present at the diocesan convocation, and consists of children from Russia, Kazakhstan, Serbia, China, of Mount Carmel is the largest parish in the contributed toward a diocesan pastoral plan for Romania, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Korea and the United States. Lafayette Diocese. It has a school, 240 ministries Hispanic ministry. Recently, the parents took some of their children to Christ the and many needs, but the Matthew 25 Center “The Catholic Hispanics are not immune to the King to see their new school. construction project was “at the top of the list,” said temptations of the culture of death or materialism and As they walked into the science lab, sixth-grader Mercy, who Father Richard Doerr, pastor. secularism of this culture,” Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades told has a constant smile, said, “Science is my thing! I really “Our people here feel economically blessed, and they the group in Spanish in his homily during Mass. like science.” know it’s their responsibility to serve others in need,” he “In this situation, I believe the Lord calls us,” he said. Her older brother, Ross, who is going to be in the said. “It’s the highest form of love to serve the poorest “He calls you to participate, have a strong faith to dedicate eighth grade, took a good look at the gym. He said he knew of the poor.” and have a complete enthusiasm in the work of the new Indiana was a basketball-loving state. “My mom told me, and The brick, one-story Matthew 25 Center, standing evangelization. This begins within the Hispanic I’ve watched ‘Hoosiers.’ ” northwest of the school, was funded by parishioners. community, within itself and after you extend love to those Mary-Jo and Michael Jackson say that “through it all, our An additional $475,000 for equipment was the result Hispanics that you know are not coming to church and love as a couple has grown immeasurably and our faith in God of grants. invite them to come home.” has continued to direct our lives.” (For more news from the Diocese of Lafayette, log on to (For more news from the Diocese of Fort Wayne- (For more news from the Diocese of Evansville, log on to the the website of The Catholic Moment at South Bend, log on to the website of Today’s Catholic at website of The Message at www.themessageonline.org.) † www.thecatholicmoment.org.) † www.todayscatholicnews.org.) † What was in the news on Aug. 11, MonogramMaternity.com 1961? Public welfare legislation and should mom stay home? By Brandon A. Evans • Politics in Germany: Catholics, Protestants cooperate in one party This week, we continue to examine what • Rumors have the Pope naming new was going on in the Church and the world cardinals 50 years ago as seen through the pages of • ND scholar hits dither over moon The Criterion, which is celebrating its • Catholic medical educator supports 50th anniversary. aged health plan Here are some of the items found in the • Mother and Teacher: Popes confirm Aug. 11, 1961, issue of The Criterion: Church’s right to speak in social matters • Decries giving socialism tag to public • The Faith Explained: The spiritual welfare legislation works of mercy are more urgent “GALVESTON, Tex.—Archbishop Robert • Delaney still gunning for Federal E. Lucey of San Antonio said here that school bill opposition to public welfare • Professor flunked legislation on the grounds Castro soldiers, flees to that it is ‘socialism’ is a St. Louis ‘shopworn’ argument. ‘I find • Internationally no cause in logic or in agreed: Let mother stay history for giving socialists home all the credit for constructive “WASHINGTON—An legislation in the field of international meeting of human welfare,’ he told the state AFL-CIO family life specialists, both Catholic and Baby, You’ve Arrived. convention. ‘Civil government should seek non-Catholic, agreed that mothers who work the common good, and if it has police outside the home are ‘paying too heavily’ for power to defend the rights of the strong, it what they get from it. … [Msgr. Irving A also has a duty to assist the weak and the DeBlane] said delegates agreed that the Introducing the brand-new maternity suites at St.Vincent needy. This is not socialism. It is love of working mother situation leads to such Carmel Hospital. Gorgeous new amenities. Same great care. What a neighbor. It is patriotism and good common disadvantages as a ‘notable imbalance in SODFHWRVWDUW7ROHDUQPRUHVHHWKHURRPVRUÀQGDQ2E*\QWRFDUH sense,’ the archbishop added.” the child’s emotional life’; misunderstanding for you throughout your pregnancy visit MonogramMaternity.com. • Belgian cardinal dies; foe of Nazis between husband/wife and between mother 2UFDOOWRVSHDNZLWKD0RQRJUDP0DWHUQLW\1XUVH and Reds and children; increased household expenses; • New office will assist S. America physical wear and tear on the mother; birth • What they hope for: Laymen ‘view’ control; and an unhealthily extreme spirit of Council independence among women.” • Shawe Memorial teacher designs • U.S. priest heads project to feed novel monstrance Peruvian children • English get secretariat for unity • Bishop asks minimum wage in Spain • Name Terre Haute couple to receive • Catholics urged to push temperance papal honor • Laud positive aspects of Pope’s • Colleges advised to stress business encyclical ethics courses • Believes future of world rests with • Pro-Castro priest exposed as fake Latin America • Opinion of our Readers: Dispute stand on socialized medicine (Read all of these stories from our Aug. 11, • ‘Promise of the Future’: Automation 1961, issue by logging on to our archives at and Society www.CriterionOnline.com.) † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Page 9
they tried to deal with their shock and TINDERS their grief. continued from page 1 “Kathy has reached out in a special way Submitted photo to so many different students over the three grown children, their two years,” says Chuck Weisenbach, the grandchildren—with another on the way— principal of Roncalli. “For some, she is a and countless other children and youths second mother. Others, she is a listening through the years. ear. Others, she is the mom that maybe is All in all, it’s a love story—a mature not present in their homes. Others, she is a one that shows the impact that two people counselor or the person who really believes can have individually and together, even in them.” when their lives have been touched by “I love the kids, and I know I can make a challenges, heartbreak and pain. difference to them,” Kathy says. What she doesn’t say is that she has From heartbreak to human touch taught the past seven years while dealing The heartbreak that Kathy has known with a serious kidney disorder. At times, she has made her the caring teacher that she is. has even had to give herself dialysis She was just 9 years old when both her treatments in the middle of a school day. parents died. In the aftermath, she and her Those two pieces of information are two siblings were sent to different places to provided by Ed. As he shares those details, live. Kathy spent 18 months in a foster there’s a telling tone of admiration in home, a time during which she became his voice. so sick she had to be hospitalized for “She has an understanding of each six weeks. That’s when an aunt and uncle child,” Ed says. “She does education with made room for her in their home. compassion. Her classes are not just “I can tell you the only thing that kept individuals learning. There’s some bond me sane was praying to the Blessed Virgin, between them. In society, that’s what we all and saying the rosary every night,” need to do better—develop an appreciation she recalls. for each other, a love for each other.” When she attended Christ the King The Tinder family poses for a photograph on Nov. 26, 2010—the day Megan Tinder and Eddie Keever School in Indianapolis, a religious sister Connecting Catholic values and sports were married at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis. From left, Jennifer Tinder, who was also a teacher looked out for her Kathy is equally complimentary about Mike Tinder, Kathy Tinder, Ed Tinder, Megan Tinder Keever, Emma Tinder, Eddie Keever, Faith Tinder, and helped her feel good about herself for Ed’s role in leading the Catholic Youth Chris Tinder and Kelly Tinder. the first time in a long time. Equally Organization, which provides programs in important was the later influence of a sports, music, chess, science fairs and focus and give everything they have during through the years.” professor at Ball State University in summer camps for children and youths a game. But he also sees the greater need to Ed gives the praise to others. Muncie, Ind. throughout the archdiocese. put the emphasis on developing a child as a “The people I get to be around are “She knew her students, liked her “One of his best qualities is his concern person rather than just a player—especially among the most special people in our students and was willing to help go the for the children in the program,” Kathy in the context of the Catholic faith. community and the Catholic Church,” extra mile,” Kathy says. “She took an says. “He wants the coaches to know that “Connecting all of our programs to Ed says. “They’re great people who are interest in me. I’ll never forget her each child is looking up to them as a role Catholic values and Gospel messages is the dedicated to the faith. I get to work with kindness.” model, and that each team is designed for most important thing we do,” says Ed, who them in a culture that the CYO is about— Or her example. their improvement and self-esteem. All of leads a year-round staff of 22 people. developing young people physically, “I know how difficult life can be for the things he does can be traced back to Two of the staff members—Bernie Price mentally, socially and spiritually.” young people, and no one necessarily what is best for the kids.” and Jerry Ross—help Ed form a That same bond has connected Ed and knows about their lives,” Kathy says. “I Ed acknowledges that his perspective remarkable team of dedication and Kathy Tinder ever since he tried to open a wanted to be the classroom of refuge. about sports has changed since his days as longevity to the CYO. With Ed’s 31 years, way into her heart by opening the back Come into my room and learn a lot of an athlete at the former Bishop Chartrand Bernie’s 37 years and Jerry’s 28 years at door at Roncalli for her years ago. practical skills, but also be in an High School, and his time as a teacher and CYO, they combine for 96 years of service Then there is the bond of their marriage. atmosphere of love and respect. I know a coach of football, basketball, baseball and in this youth ministry. “We both believed in the commitment of how much it can mean when a teacher golf at Roncalli during the 1970s. Back Ed also includes among his extended marriage when we got married,” Kathy smiles at you or speaks directly to you. then, winning was always a major focus for staff the nearly 4,000 men and women who says. “We talked about it. It helps that we Any show of compassion and kindness can him. As the head football coach of the serve as volunteer coaches for CYO teams have shared the same goals and values. We go a long way.” Rebels for three years—from 1977-79— each year. just fit together.” When Kathy noticed that a student Tinder also reflected the intensity and The impact of that combined effort on The fit continues. wasn’t eating lunch for several days, she competitiveness that has long marked the young people is life-changing, according “There’s no question that a marriage is learned that his family was struggling school’s football program. to Weisenbach. tremendously challenging, but we’ve had financially. She quietly gave him a few Yet his approach toward sports has “I and many others in our Catholic the good fortune of having our paths cross,” dollars every school day for lunch for a evolved in a different direction since he community could make a strong argument Ed says. “The commitment grows in a month. She has used her sewing skills to joined the CYO staff in 1980, and became that outside of the Church and its marriage beyond the two individuals. We alter a countless number of prom dresses the executive director of the organization sacramental presence in our lives that no have the commitment of our children, our for Roncalli students. And when a in 1984. other agency in the archdiocese is more grandchildren, our jobs and our example. Roncalli student died unexpectedly in the He still loves sports and appreciates the critical to the Church than the CYO,” says We take those seriously.” spring of 2011, she sat with her students value that competition provides in terms of Roncalli’s principal. “Ed has done a He smiles and says, “We were fortunate in a circle, all of them holding hands as making individuals and teams prepare, phenomenal job of guiding the CYO to meet at the back door.” † CYO tries to hold the line in
Submitted photo ‘the tug of war’ of youth sports By John Shaughnessy contests. “In CYO, I grew up with St. Jude When kickball season begins on doesn’t like St. Barnabas, and St. Luke Aug. 18, it will signal the start of doesn’t like St. Pius, and Roncalli another year of sports in the archdiocese’s doesn’t like Cathedral,” he says. “But Catholic Youth Organization. Roncalli should like Cathedral because It will also mark the continuation of it forces them to prepare better, to play what Ed Tinder calls “the tug of war” hard, to focus, to execute. And the concerning youth sports. same should be true for Cathedral “You have a tremendous number of about Roncalli. So when the game is human beings who come together in a over, there should be a mutual respect competitive environment,” says Tinder, the and appreciation for what is As the executive director of the archdiocese’s Catholic Youth Organization, Ed Tinder talks to the longtime executive director of the CYO. accomplished.” runners who competed in the CYO Cross Country Meet in Indianapolis in October of 2010. “As a staff, we’re constantly interacting While the CYO strives to emphasize with the public—many times on an the better qualities of youth sports, emotional level. People are emotional some of Tinder’s favorite moments Involvement in CYO sports because their kids are involved. stem from a CYO coach letting his “Our jobs are like a big tug of war. emotions get the best of him or her continues to be on the rise On one side of the line, there is society’s during a game. view of sports, with its emphasis on “I like it when coaches get in The involvement of children and increased from 46 to 150 teams from 1988 winning, athletic development and sports trouble,” Tinder says with a smile. young people in the archdiocese’s to 2011, while the number of kickball specialization. We’re on the Church side of “To me, there is no more meaningful Catholic Youth Organization activities teams has risen from 87 to 151 teams. the rope, trying to pull the youth side of moment than when a coach stands in has increased tremendously from In volleyball, the number of teams has sports into the educational side—helping front of his or her team and says, ‘I 1988 to 2011. soared from 70 to 300. The number of develop young people physically, mentally, made a mistake. I let the emotions The number of boys’ and girls’ participants in the CYO’s annual music socially and spiritually. We know we’re not carry me away.’ I think that says more basketball teams has jumped from 276 to contest has also increased from 400 to going to get everybody on our side of the to a team than if that opportunity had 655 during that time, according to 800 participants. line, but you should never let go.” never happened. You take that mistake CYO statistics. In all, there are about 1,500 teams that Tinder shares a similar philosophy when and turn it into a very teachable The number of football teams has play CYO sports in the archdiocese. † he talks about the emotions and attitudes moment. I tell coaches that that that can develop when Catholic schools moment will stay with their kids the face other Catholic schools in athletic rest of their lives.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Immigration law makes Christian charity illegal, say Chur ch leaders MOBILE, Ala. (CNS)—Alabama’s letter. “[It] prohibits almost everything new immigration law will affect “every which would assist an undocumented part” of undocumented immigrants’ lives immigrant or encourage an undocumented and make “the exercise of our Christian immigrant to live in Alabama.” West CNS photo/Jim religion” illegal, Mobile’s archbishop said Bishop Baker said in a statement that in an Aug. 1 letter to Catholics. the law “aims to shut the doors of our “Both supporters and opponents of the churches and social ministries, against our law agree that it is the broadest and wills, to a whole class of people, denying strictest immigration law in the country,” them access to such basic human needs as he said. food clothing, shelter and, most Mobile Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi, importantly, worship of God.” Bishop Robert J. Baker of the Diocese of Bishop Parsley and Bishop Willimon, Birmingham, Bishop Henry N. Parsley Jr. who is presiding bishop of the of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and Birmingham area of the North Alabama Methodist Bishop William H. Willimon Conference of the United Methodist have joined together in a lawsuit Church, issued their own statements challenging the echoing that sentiment. law, which is About 338,000 Alabama residents supposed to take belong to the Episcopal, Methodist and effect on Sept. 1. Catholic Churches. The Catholic The religious population of the state is about 101,000. leaders filed the Archbishop Rodi said the law “makes suit in Birmingham it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, on Aug. 1. The hear the confession of, celebrate the U.S. Justice anointing of the sick with, or preach the Department filed word of God to an undocumented suit the same day immigrant. Nor can we encourage them to to stop the law, and attend Mass or give them a ride to Mass.” Archbishop a week before the Churches cannot let undocumented Father Donald F. Hanchon, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Church in Detroit, holds an image of Thomas J. Rodi Southern Poverty immigrants “attend adult Scripture study Our Lady of Guadalupe as he marches with other protesters during a May 1, 2007, immigration rally in Law Center, the American Civil Liberties groups, or attend CCD or Sunday school Detroit. Catholic leaders in Michigan and Alabama recently made statements calling on legislators to Union and other groups also filed a legal classes,” the archbishop continued. “It is protect the dignity of immigrants. challenge. illegal for the clergy to counsel them in Provisions of the law, among other times of difficulty or in preparation for frustration with the lack of action by there called on the federal government things, allow police to detain anyone they marriage. It is illegal for them to come to Congress on immigration reform has “to enact and enforce laws that treat suspect is undocumented and mandates Alcoholic Anonymous meetings or other given rise to state laws, such as the migrant peoples with the same dignity as criminal penalties for people who recovery groups at our churches. one passed in Alabama. its native-born citizens.” transport undocumented migrants. “The law prohibits almost every “However, the Church is not in charge Like Archbishop Rodi, they noted that Rep. Mike Hubbard, speaker of the activity of our St. Vincent de Paul of our borders,” Archbishop Rodi said. the lack of “a cohesive and effective state House of Representatives, said in a chapters or Catholic social services,” he “We do not determine who enters our federal policy on immigration that statement that the law will be enacted said. “If it involves an undocumented country. But once immigrants are in our addresses the common good for all despite the legal action taken against it. If immigrant, it is illegal to give the disabled midst, the Church has a moral obligation, peoples in the country” has led individual changes are needed in the law, they will person a ride to the doctor; give food or intrinsic to the living out of our faith, to states to address the issue. be made, he said, “but Alabama is not clothing or financial assistance in an be Christ-like to everyone.” In a statement released by the going to be a sanctuary state for illegal emergency; allow them to shop at our People of faith, “as Americans Michigan Catholic Conference, the immigrants.” thrift stores or to learn English; it is and as citizens of Alabama,” have a bishops said that if the state Legislature The Pew Hispanic Center estimates illegal to counsel a mother who has a constitutional right to worship freely but takes it up, any immigration measure it that about 120,000 undocumented problem pregnancy, or to help her with also have a right to the “free exercise” considers “must strive to: uphold the immigrants live in Alabama. News outlets baby food or diapers, thus making it far of religion. human dignity of all persons and work have reported that many Hispanic more likely that she will choose “ ‘Free exercise’ means that, when we against any injustice which would immigrants seem to be leaving the state in abortion.” leave church on Sunday, we have the right compromise the dignity of immigrants; advance of enforcement of the law. There Archbishop Rodi said the to exercise our faith in our daily lives. promote and give priority to the are similar fears next door in Georgia, responsibility for controlling and This new law prevents us as believers reunification of families; [and] recognize which also has enacted a similarly tough regulating the U.S. borders “is the from exercising our life of faith as the rich contribution to the community by law, though some provisions have been responsibility, first and foremost, of the commanded by the Lord Jesus,” he added. those immigrants and migrants who work held up in court. federal government.” In Michigan, the Catholic bishops and live here.” † The Alabama law “attacks our very He said some argue the federal understanding of what it means to be a government has not done enough to Christian,” Archbishop Rodi said in his control illegal immigration, and that Celibacy is whole-hearted response to God’s love, Cardinal Ouellet says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—While committed by clerics,” the cardinal told priestly celibacy is increasingly the bishops of Brazil. Publicity of the C o n d i t i o misunderstood and even under attack, the abuse cases has led to “generalized A i r n e r & H e a t P u m p S a l e discipline continues to be a call to a suspicion of the clergy,” he said. whole-hearted response to God’s love, “The living and important tradition of said Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, celibacy in the Church has been belittled 1 2 8 t h A n n i v e r s a r y S a l e prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. and even put into question,” he added. “The celibacy of priests, as well as of Cardinal Ouellet was in Brazil to lead a bishops, has been put into question today retreat for the country’s bishops. The
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In 1966, Sister Laurita was named Sister Laurita Kroger is celebrating treasurer of Marian College, a position 75 years. that she held for 17 years while Sisters Michael Ann Aubin, simultaneously ministering as an elected Lavonne Long, Teresa Carol councilor for the Oldenburg Franciscan Sr. Laurencia Sr. Noel Marie Sr. Laurita Van Compernolle and Ruth Ann Wirtz are community from 1968 to 1974. Listerman, O.S.F. Worland, O.S.F. Kroger, O.S.F. 70-year jubilarians. She also ministered in Ohio. Sister Laurencia Listerman ministered In 1988, Sister Laurita served as in the archdiocese at St. Mary Parish in coordinator of employee services at the North Vernon, Oldenburg Academy of the Oldenburg motherhouse. She retired in Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg, the 1994 and resides at St. Clare Hall. former St. Mary Academy in Indianapolis Sister Michael Ann Aubin ministered in and Father Thomas Scecina Memorial the archdiocese at St. Therese of the Infant High School in Indianapolis. Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in Indian- She also served at parishes in apolis, St. Andrew Parish in Richmond, Evansville, Ind., and in Missouri St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, St. John and Ohio. the Baptist Parish in Dover, St. Leon Sister Laurencia served as assistant Parish in St. Leon, St. Mary Parish in minister and pastoral care minister for the Lanesville and St. Lawrence Parish in Sr. Michael Ann Sr. Lavonne Sr. Teresa Carol Sr. Ruth Ann retired sisters at the motherhouse from Lawrenceburg. Aubin, O.S.F. Long, O.S.F. Van Compernolle, O.S.F. Wirtz, O.S.F. 1984 until her retirement in 1996. She She also served at the former resides at St. Clare Hall, the health care St. Vincent Orphanage in Vincennes, Ind., center at the motherhouse. and at parishes in Ohio and Missouri. for 45 years. She is retired and resides at Sister Ruth Ann Wirtz ministered as a A native of Shelbyville, Sister Noel In 1993, Sister Michael Ann retired to the motherhouse. music teacher and organist at Our Lady of Marie Worland ministered in the the Oldenburg motherhouse. She resides at Sister Teresa Carol Van Compernolle Lourdes, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus archdiocese at St. Mary Parish in Rushville, St. Clare Hall. ministered in the archdiocese at St. Therese (Little Flower) and Holy Trinity parishes St. Andrew and Holy Family parishes in A native of Rushville, Sister Lavonne of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower), in Indianapolis as well as at the former Richmond, St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville, Long, formerly Sister Francis David, St. Lawrence and Holy Trinity parishes, all St. Mary Academy in Indianapolis. and St. Mark the Evangelist, Our Lady of ministered at Holy Name Parish in in Indianapolis, as well as St. Anthony She also served at parishes in Ohio. Lourdes and St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Beech Grove, Father Thomas Scecina Parish in Morris and St. Gabriel Parish in Sister Ruth Ann also ministered at (Little Flower) parishes in Indianapolis. Memorial High School in Indianapolis, and Connersville. Marian University in Indianapolis from She also served at parishes in as a teacher and principal at the former She also served at parishes in Missouri 1959 until 2011 as an organist and Vincennes, Ind., and Evansville, Ind., as St. Mary Academy in Indianapolis. and Ohio. associate professor of music emeritus. well as in Ohio and New Mexico. In 1973, Sister Lavonne returned to In 1987, Sister Teresa Carol ministered She resides at Marian University. In 1985, Sister Noel Marie entered Scecina Memorial High School as as assistant sacristan and secretary at the semi-retirement at the Oldenburg guidance director. In 1995, she began motherhouse. She is retired and resides in (Additional Oldenburg Franciscan motherhouse and served as curator of the service there as administrative assistant. St. Clare Hall. jubilarians’ biographies will be published Heritage Room until she retired in 1996. Sister Lavonne ministered at Scecina A native of Princeton, Ind., in a future issue.) † Chinese priest held since April released, urged to join ‘open’ Church BEIJING (CNS)—A young priest in northern Bishop Thomas Zhao Kexun of Xuanhua, who is in hiding to accept the principle of a church independent from Rome, Hebei province was released to his hometown after more from the government. to receive a “priest card” issued by the “open” church than three months in detention, Church sources said. Chinese officials do not recognize the Xuanhua Diocese. known as the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and Father Joseph Chen Hailong of Xuanhua, who has Bishop Zhao, who is in his 80s, has headed the diocese concelebrate Mass with other priests who are part of the served in the Yanqin parish on the outskirts of Beijing since since 2007 but has remained underground throughout much officially recognized church. his ordination in 2009, had been detained since he was of his tenure. Father Chen repeatedly refused the demands, the sources seized by plainclothes police on April 9, reported the Asian Father Chen was held in isolation for nearly two months, said, and he was later taken to meet a former underground Church news agency UCA News. during which time he suffered malnutrition, sources told bishop who has since joined the officially recognized In recent years, government officials in the Zhangjiakou UCA News. church. The unidentified prelate, who has received area have cracked down on priests who are not affiliated They added that the priest’s spirit nearly broke government recognition, tried to persuade the priest to with the government-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic during his detention. To dispel loneliness and hunger, accept the officials’ demands, the sources said. Association. Father Chen drew the Eucharist on the wall of his room Authorities finally released Father Chen on July 23. Two young Catholics who were taken away with in a guesthouse and adored the Blessed Sacrament, the Meanwhile, the whereabouts of three other priests from Father Chen were released two days later. sources said. Xuanhua—Fathers Cui Tai, Yan Zongzhi and Simon Zhang Local Church sources said authorities held In addition to questions about the whereabouts of Jianlin—who were taken into custody by authorities on Father Chen to question him about the whereabouts of Bishop Zhao, authorities also repeatedly urged Father Chen June 22, remain unknown. †
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In a letter to him, he through your idleness, indolence saints in my book wrote, “My dearest son, if you desire to or neglect.” spirituality: Married Saints— honor the royal crown, I advise, I counsel, He further admonished his son to show St. Stephen of I urge you above all things to maintain the his favor not only to relations or kin or to The power of Hungary this week and Catholic and apostolic faith with such the most eminent, “but also to foreigners St. Louis of France diligence and care that you may be an and to all who come to you.” If he fulfills Christ’s light next week. example for all those placed under you by his duty in that way, he said, “you will St. Stephen, whose God, and that all the clergy may rightly reach the highest state of happiness.” Implementing a Twitter firewall at home is feast is on Aug. 16, call you a man of true Christian Therefore, he wrote, “Be merciful to a bit like asking a roommate to hide your was born a pagan, but profession.” all who are suffering violence, keeping Halloween candy. was baptized along If he failed to do that, Stephen wrote, always in your heart the example of the It is an act of surrender with his father, Geza, the chief of the his son would not be called a Christian Lord. Be patient with everyone, not only and of conquest. What Magyars, when he was about 10. or a son of the Church. Indeed, he said, with the powerful, but also with you lack in self-control When he was 20, he married Gisela, in his royal palace the Church held the weak.” you make up for in sister of the future emperor, St. Henry. He second place—after the faith itself— Finally, he told his son to be strong lest self-knowledge. succeeded his father in the year 997, and because it was “first propagated by our prosperity lift him up too much or My self-imposed was crowned the first king of Hungary by head, Christ; then transplanted, firmly adversity cast him down. “Be humble in Twitter sabbatical has Pope Sylvester II on Christmas day constituted and spread through the whole this life, that God may raise you up in the been a good move, setting in 1000. world by his members, the Apostles and next. Be truly moderate and do not punish my summer on a sunnier He devoted much of his reign to the holy fathers.” or condemn anyone immoderately. Be course. More than Christianization of Hungary, establishing a Although the Church was ancient, he gentle so that you may never oppose 200 million people use the website, firing off system of tithes to support churches and wrote, in Hungary it was young and newly justice. Be honorable so that you may tweets of 140 characters or fewer. help the poor. He decreed that one of planted. “For that reason,” he wrote, “she never voluntarily bring disgrace upon But me? every 10 towns had to build a church and needs more prudent and trustworthy anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid I’m ready for a break. I’d like to think support a priest. He abolished pagan guardians lest a benefit which the divine all the foulness of lust like the pangs longer thoughts. customs, and crushed a pagan revolution. mercy bestowed on us undeservedly of death.” † I decided to seize the summer, vowing to replace my aimless web surfing with creative Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes endeavors. Less technology, more art. On Memorial Day, I bought a $16.95 sketchpad, cringing at the price— Of course, God is our oldest and best friend no sale, no coupon—while relishing the It’s a funny thing about friends. You He married and divorced about was a neighbor with whom I became splurge. The hard, black cover and thick pages can make new ones any old time, often three times, with live-in girlfriends in acquainted before she and her husband dignified my work. Soon, I was drawing by chance. And you between. He had several children, many of had children, and when ours were in teacups and peacock feathers, tilting my head don’t need to share whom do not speak to him any more. He middle school. By the time she had her and smiling inside. all interests with is extremely interested in justice, believe it boy and girl, we were like surrogate Later that week, I memorized some poetry, them. Many of my or not, and is generous, kind and attentive grandparents to them and, in fact, used to which I hadn’t done since high school friends are different to those he deems worthy. He is also attend their Grandparents’ Day events at Shakespeare. I have been reciting the verses all from me in age, race, funny, insightful and very competent when school because their real ones lived far summer, and each time it is like unwrapping a sex and whatever he likes what he is doing. away. To this day, we are “family,” down Hershey’s Kiss. other variety of The main reason that we are still pals is to those kids’ children, whose birthday I assembled my clarinet, read on the porch human condition nostalgia about our shared childhood. Our parties we look forward to. and journaled my heart out—103 pages since there is. We don’t moms were good friends and we went to My two college roommates have been Memorial Day. It’s much more honest when no always share the the same school. We were in the same lifelong treasured friends to me, even one else is reading, and you’re not secretly same opinions, either. class, but he flunked a grade and entered though they were not fond of each other vying to pick up followers. How often life “Old” friends are the best, they say. I that gray area of kids who are looked and were absolutely opposite kinds of morphs into a popularity contest—and how don’t know about that, but I do know down upon by teachers and peers. Still, people. One is a down-to-earth often we play along. that loyalty over the years is one of the we could—and still do—get together and horticultural expert who keeps my yard But the most formal artistic undertaking most endearing traits that a friend can compare notes about the funny things that presentable in lovely plants, while the of my summer was also the most foreign— have. I’m fortunate to retain many happened, the idiocy of certain persons or other was a witty English major with taking a stained-glass window class through friends that I went to grade and high the unfairness of the social order at whom I shared countless laughs and St. Paul, Minn., community education. school with for 13 years, although, the time. literary talk. Oh, to be a student again, experiencing that sadly, many of them are passing now. One dear friend whom I met in middle Church friends are important to me, same old arc of emotions that makes you feel Frank, whom I have mentioned before, age is a great reader, and we love to share including the special woman who helped so young—thrilled to get an e-mail from the is one of those old friends, and talk about and discuss books we are reading. When steer me into the Catholic Church after we instructor, anxious to depart for the first class, different! He was one of nine kids in a we meet for lunch or some event, we graduated from the same high school. empowered to master a new skill. rather abusive home, and I was a always carry along a bag we have saved Like God, our best friend of all, she I am one of five students gathering on well-loved and cared-for only child. As a full of books to trade, and articles we continues to understand my spiritual Monday nights to cut glass and solder lead. result, although he’s very smart, he never think the other will be interested in. We searching. One student looks to be 20. Two appear close got much of a good example or an also love to cook, and we compare notes to 60. And we all look happy to be there. We education. So he became a long-distance about new hints or recipes that we (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the want to make art. truck driver with all the fabled drinking have tried. Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Before the class began, I’d put a lot of and womanizing that went with the job. Another close friend, younger than I, columnist for The Criterion.) † thought into my design, dreaming up intricate patterns and imagining them as birthday gifts. Consider This/Stephen Kent But stained glass is more about skill than artistry. I like the physicality of it—standing there The advent of the new minority in the United States for three hours, leaning into an oak work The U.S. Census Bureau is rolling out Mildly upset by seeing more and more while also giving undocumented immigrants bench and hearing the sizzle of severing glass. data this summer that could have a ethnic eating places in the old a chance to earn permanent residency and It is a welcome antidote to a day at the profound effect on how neighborhood? eventual citizenship. computer, a pleasant switch from head Americans live with Get used to it. The census data may help us face the to hands. one another. The anti-immigration arguments for reality that a reversal of minority/majority I panicked when I cut my longest section of The information, if building more walls and putting more status among U.S. population groups is well glass and veered off the line. “Life Goes On” used properly, could guards on the borders are a bit ineffectual. under way and refocus the agenda from was playing in the studio, and Peggy, the provide insight for The increase in minorities won’t be coming exclusion to inclusion. student across from me, helped me through it. overcoming ignorance over the wall. “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” When I cut the wrong side of the glass, I and advancing unity They are here. written by Bob Dylan almost 50 years ago, beckoned our instructor, Bob. “I think I made a and community. Or it In the next few decades, the newest was the anthem for a generation. Now that mistake,” I told him. could be used as minority in the country will be white senior same generation prepares to deal with “We don’t say that in art,” he said. another wedge to open citizens. Today, 80 percent of Americans becoming a statistically smaller group, and Later, we slid our glass into lead, which further divisiveness in the nation. 65 years and older are white, and 73 percent learning how to be a minority. made our imperfect pieces fit together For the first time, minorities make up the of those aged 45-64 are white. Ideally, this information should perfectly. “It hides a lot of sinning,” Bob said. majority of the babies in the United States. Census Bureau projections that whites become the raw material for planning, for I thought of St. Peter: “Above all let your “Demographers say the numbers provide will become a minority by 2050 are fueling learning how to accept the new reality. love for one another be intense, because love the clearest confirmation yet of a changing fears that whiteness no longer represents the Multiculturalism is more than occasional covers a multitude of sins” (1 Pt 4:8). social order, one in which racial and ethnic norm. This fear has been compounded by liturgies and ethnic dinners in the parish hall. God is the One who takes all our broken minorities will become the U.S. majority the recent recession. The new census data could spark a new pieces and turns them into art. He is the by midcentury,” according to an The data could also become another awareness, a new paradigm for community sunlight that makes our stained glass radiate. Associated Press article. weapon for demagoguery. “Take back the and unity. I’m seeing the world in sharper lines and The population of white children under country” is not going to happen. Failing that, self-interest alone should richer hues this summer—and it is 5 years old is now under 50 percent in An enforcement-based policy to keep provoke sober reflection by those eventually one unspoken, unceasing thank you to the 12 states, double the number in 2000. people out is not going to solve economic destined to be the new minority. Creator, who looks at everything he has made Seven more states could gain this status in problems. and finds it very good. the next seven years, researchers say. The U.S. Conference of Catholic (Stephen Kent, now retired, was editor of Irritated by the bilingual signs Bishops has consistently advocated archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from throughout the home-improvement comprehensive reform of U.S. immigration Seattle. He can be contracted at Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be megastores? policy as a way to secure U.S. borders [email protected].) † reached at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Page 13
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Aug. 15 Friday, Aug. 19 The Sunday Readings Assumption of the Blessed John Eudes, priest Virgin Mary Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22 Sunday, August 14, 2011 Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, Psalm 146:5-10 Isaiah: 56:1, 6-7 10ab Matthew 22:34-40 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Psalm 45:10bc, 11-12ab, 16 Matthew 15:21-28 Luke 1:39-56 Saturday, Aug. 20 Bernard, abbot and doctor of The third section of the Book of Isaiah was built upon Judaic themes, and Tuesday, Aug. 16 the Church provides this weekend’s liturgy with its contained within its ranks many, many Stephen of Hungary Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 first reading. Jews, including Paul, the Blessed Virgin Understanding this and the other Apostles. Judges 6:11-24a Psalm 128:1-5 part of Isaiah requires True to his title as “Apostle to the Psalm 85:9, 11-14 Matthew 23:1-12 some knowledge of Gentiles,” Paul in this letter recommits Matthew 19:23-30 the cultural context of himself to evangelizing the Jews. Why? Sunday, Aug. 21 the time. This was the Because God promised salvation to the Wednesday, Aug. 17 Twenty-first Sunday in context. Life for the Jews, and Paul, as an Apostle, is the agent Jews had changed of God. Judges 9:6-15 Ordinary Time very much from what St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the last Psalm 21:2-7 Isaiah 22:19-23 it was when David or reading. Matthew 20:1-16 Psalm 138:1-3, 6, 8 Solomon was king. In this story, Jesus is in an area Romans 11:33-36 Neighboring states had swept into, and populated by as many Gentiles as Jews, if Thursday, Aug. 18 Matthew 16:13-20 across, the two Hebrew kingdoms that not more Gentiles than Jews. Not Judges 11:29-39a had come to compose the political surprisingly, the Lord encounters a structures of the Holy Land. The “Canaanite” woman, a term describing her Psalm 40:5, 7-10 two kingdoms forever were defeated and as an outsider. “Canaanite” figures Matthew 22:1-14 extinguished. prominently in the Old Testament to Untold numbers of Jews had been indicate persons not of the revealed killed or had died in the process. Others religion, and even persons of great sin. had been taken to Babylon, the capital of Jesus recalls the mission of the Messiah the great Babylonian empire. to bring salvation to God’s people. The Go Ask Your Father/Fr. Francis Hoffman At last, Babylonia itself was subdued. woman persists. She believes in Jesus. Her The descendants of the first Jews taken to daughter wants, and needs, God’s mercy. Babylon returned home, but they easily Jesus responds to this need. Selling Church treasures is not were disillusioned. The reading makes two points. Living was much more pluralistic than First, this woman, of pagan background necessary to help those in need it had been centuries earlier. The Jews at and therefore in Jewish eyes woefully the time this section of Isaiah was written inadequate, expresses faith. Recently someone asked me why the This is about a subject that has been on lived amid religious and ethnic diversity. Secondly, Jesus acknowledges and accepts QVatican doesn’t sell all of the treasures Qmy mind for just a few years, but So “foreigners” were in many places, and her faith, her inadequacies set aside. in the museums and recently a photo of Pope Benedict XVI struck they were “foreign” in several important St. Peter’s Basilica, and me enough to prompt me to write. I respects. Reflection help the poor and the happened to see a news program which Apparently from this reading, some of In the Gospel setting, the Canaanite victims of sexual abuse. pictured Pope Benedict riding in his open-top these “foreigners” embraced the ancient woman was not a Jew, and also was out of How should I respond? car through a crowd of people. He was Hebrew religion. They were accepted, but bounds by virtue of her feminine gender. dressed in what appeared to be a white they were expected, actually by the In the culture of the time, a woman’s Indeed, how should flowing garment, and he had a large prophets and therefore by God, to observe approach to a male stranger was revolu- Ayou respond? With rose-pink hat on his head. I am sure the hat all that the Hebrew religion required. tionary. So she was doubly excluded. patience and charity. All was to protect him from the sun. In a Others remained foreign—or pagan. Yet, she went to Jesus. She admitted the money in the world previous article that I read, it mentioned that St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans her daughter’s true needs. Jesus reaffirmed will not help victims of Pope Benedict wore rose-colored Ferragamo provides the second reading. God’s pledge to the people of Israel, but sexual abuse. Only God’s grace and mercy shoes on formal occasions. Throughout Christian history, the great also realized that the woman’s daughter will help them heal their wounds and get on In reflecting on the fact that the pope is a Apostle, St. Paul, has been remembered needed God’s mercy. Three times she with their lives. representative of Christ on Earth—at least the especially for his outreach to Gentiles, to pleaded for help. Jesus praises her for her That being said, the lawsuits against head of Christ’s Church that he founded—I persons not of Jewish birth or religion. faith, and casts a demon out of her the Church resulting in billions of dollars am somewhat disturbed by the rather His efforts in this regard, and surely daughter. of losses have helped us to take far more glamorous looking clothing that the similar efforts by his disciples and by God’s law is everlasting, as was the seriously the scandal of clerical Holy Father wears in public. Christ was poor others, resulted in the fact that by the divine promise to the Chosen People. But sexual abuse. and so humble. The Gospel reflected on his time of the last third of the first century God’s love has no bounds. All the money in the world will not help sending out the 72 with no sandals on their A.D., a significant portion of the For those who are Canaanites not by the poor unless we can change unjust feet (see Lk 10). Poor missionary priests, Christian population was not Jewish in ethnicity, but by their sins, hope lives, regimes and flawed economic systems. nuns and brothers are all over the world origin. Although it cannot be forgotten realistic hope. If they are faithful, never There are very different classes of the poor working among the poor. Frankly, it just that Christianity sprang from Judaism, halting in faith, they will be rewarded. † in the world. The urban poor in American bothers me that the pope dresses so grandly. cities face different problems than the agrarian poor in the hills of Mexico. As the I looked on the Ferragamo website, and My Journey to God Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, Ayou’re right, those are very expensive this issue is not only “material poverty, but shoes! They’re nice looking, too. But also the … many forms of cultural and Pope Benedict’s shoes are actually made by religious poverty” (#2444). an Italian cobbler named Adriano Stefanelli. Please let your friend know that no I am happy that the pope is wearing nice Where Is God? institution in the world does as much to aid clothes and has a good tailor, just as I the poor, educate the ignorant, and care for beamed satisfaction when my parents dressed Where is God? the sick and the aged as does the up for dinner on a Saturday night. I’m in the street Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is the Perhaps his personal way of living Where people are walking largest charitable organization on the planet. Christian poverty—detachment—is With cold, tired feet. Last year, Catholic Relief Services USA expressed in his willingness to obey and raised more than $80 million of relief funds shoulder the burden of the office at age 78. Where is God? Haring CNS file photo/Paul for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. I Now he’s 84, and if it were up to him, I’m In far off places, don’t know of any other Church organization sure he would live in his country cottage You can find me. that offered as much. in Germany. And I’m in your heart. Additionally, it is important to recall that, I don’t know how many garments he has Look in and see. when those art treasures were donated to the in his wardrobe, but one thing I know for Church, the intention of the donors was that sure—it’s a very limited collection. When he Where is God? they would be available for all to enjoy— gets up in the morning, he doesn’t have much I’m in the dark of night rich and poor, educated and illiterate. choice about what he’s going to wear—a When our eyes are closed Finally, the beauty and magnificence of white shirt, a white cassock, some white And we’re sleeping tight. Where is God? St. Peter’s Basilica is for the glory and socks, red shoes—can you imagine having to With all of you worship of God. We have a duty to give God do that?!—and maybe a hat. The hat you Where is God? In whatever you do. our best. Recall that it was only Judas who mentioned, by the way, is called a saturno in I’m awaiting the dawn Til the end of time complained that Mary splurged and anointed Italian. And you are right that he wears it on With the warm sunshine I’m beside you. Jesus’ body with expensive ointment. He very sunny days. And hope you’ll smile complained that it should have been sold and Still, it is appropriate that the few items he And say you’re mine. By Linda Ricke given to the poor. wears be of good quality to reflect the Judas knew the cost of everything and the dignity of his office. Recall that when Jesus (Linda Ricke is a member of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg. A full moon is juxtaposed value of nothing. You might want to remind was crucified he did not have much, just with statues of saints on the colonnade in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on your friend that Judas was the only one who one seamless cloak. But it was of such fine March 29, 2010.) complained when his friends lavished Jesus quality that the soldiers decided to cast lots with expensive gifts. for it rather than rip it to pieces. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011
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Tradition says Mary caused snow to fall on the spot in 358 as an indication that Gettelfinger, Jo Ann Pendleton, GUERTIN, Mary L., 97, former member of Our Lady of she wanted a church built in her honor. Linda Smith, Alice Volpert, Dick Lourdes and St. Andrew the Libs and Bruce Andres. Uncle of St. Malachy, Brownsburg, July 18. Mother of Louise Irvin. Apostle, Indianapolis, Aug. 1. several. Wife of Bryan Saario. Mother of HOHMAN, Jerome, 87, BEESON, Vicki Lynn, 61, Lara McGowen and Ross Saario. Summer novels are fine, but pick up St. Peter, Brookville, July 29. St. Mary, New Albany, July 25. Sister of Ann Marie Bernardon, Husband of Dolores Hohman. Sister of David and Jim Beeson. Brian, Denis and Roger Aull. Father of David, Don, Kevin, and read the Bible, too, Holy Father says Grandmother of two. DAVIS, Ruth A., 89, St. Paul Mike and Ron Hohman. Grand - CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS)— “The Bible is a little library born over the Hermitage, Beech Grove, father of eight. Great-grandfather SCHEIBLE, John Robert, 59, While there is nothing wrong with a bit of course of a millennium,” he said, and some July 24. Mother of of three. St. Mark the Evangelist, light reading in the summer, reading a book of the books inside are very short. They Indianapolis, July 19. Father of or two of the Bible also can be a relaxing— would be a great place to start for someone Amy and Joshua Scheible. as well as enlightening—vacation activity, who has never read an entire book of the Brother of Jane Mathews. Pope Benedict XVI said. Bible. SHEPARD-GOLD, Margaret, “Naturally, many of the books of The short books the pope suggested are 97, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus literature we pick up during vacation are for Tobit, “an account which contains a very TRI-COUNTY (Little Flower), Indianapolis, a diversion, and this elevated sense of family and marriage,” July 22. Mother of Marilyn is normal,” he said Esther “in which the Jewish queen—with ASPHALT Fillenworth, Peggy Kennedy, on Aug. 3 as he held faith and prayer—saves her people from Bernard and John Shepard. Sister Paving Indiana Since 1948 of John Dunne. Grandmother of his weekly general extermination,” or Ruth, the story of “a 13. Great-grandmother of 16. audience in the foreigner who knows God and experiences CALL FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATES Great-great-grandmother of two. town square at his Providence.” Castel Gandolfo. The three books, he said, “can be read in SPRINGER, Robert John , 77, With some less than an hour.” • ASPHALT DRIVEWAYS St. Roch, Indianapolis, July 28. 4,500 visitors and Longer, “true masterpieces,” he said, • SEALCOATING Husband of Carol (Holmes) Springer. Father of Mary Adams pilgrims present include the Book of Job, “which faces the and Michael Springer. Grand - for the audience, great problem of the suffering of the Discounts for Senior Citizens father of two. 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CRS is looking at ways to Fatima Mohammed told support the work of others, it’s Catholic News Service that her unlikely to get directly involved. family had lived through drought “We want to come here and before, but that support from aid assist, but we also recognize this agencies helped them survive is one of those intractable until the rains returned. situations,” Callahan said. “If you “This time, al-Shabaab won’t get into the camps, you may never let them in,” she said, referring to get out. Our priority is helping the Islamist group that controls people become self-sustainable, portions of Somalia. “So when and this doesn’t look like one of our animals started dying, our those situations. So we’re listening only choice was to stay and die and trying to figure out how best ourselves, or else start walking we can contribute.” for Kenya.” The need for assistance is They trekked across the clear, however. Adow Ibrahim Ali, right, provides water to Ibrahim Osman Mohammed in a remote section of eastern Kenya near the Somali desolate stretch of African bush, “Most people here seem to border on July 27. Traveling with his cousin, Mohammed left his home in Buale, Somalia, three weeks earlier because severe all 11 members of the family, have no strategy to go back, so drought killed most of their animals. often walking with other families the Kenyan government is in a in large groups to dissuade tight bind. The international hungry, the refugee community through him we are funding some provide for the safety of the attacks from wild animals and community has to step up and has gone out of its way to receive projects addressing hunger there. citizens of the world in certain bandits. They arrived in Dadaab help them,” Callahan said. them and give them supplies, food He has advised us to be very countries?” at the end of May. According to the camp and clothes,” she explained. “This cautious about going into Somalia Callahan admitted that the idea As the world has watched, in manager, Anne Wangari, has happened in all the camps. and currently, given the U.S. of intervening in Somalia is “huge recent weeks the three camps that Dadaab’s long-term residents When the United Nations stopped position on it, we can’t,” he said. and complicated,” but must be make up the Dadaab refugee have helped fill the gaps that giving biscuits, the old refugees The U.S. government addressed. complex have swollen to barely emerged with the new influx, went to the shops and bought designates the Islamist group “If people are ready to risk their manageable proportions. despite cultural differences. biscuits. They let the new arrivals al-Shabaab, which controls a large lives and cross the border, at times Originally designed for “Refugees have been coming settle on their small plots. The portion of Somalia, to be a with a dead baby on their back, 90,000 refugees when it opened here since time immemorial, but sense of sharing among the terrorist group, and thus prohibits we’re doing something wrong as two decades ago, the complex the new refugees are different than Somalis, and among the Muslims, U.S. organizations from working an international community. We today host upward of the old refugees, who have been is great.” in areas it controls. have to step up and start evaluating 390,000 refugees, plus at least living under Kenyan law for Callahan said he would prefer After speaking with refugees where we intervene as an 60,000 people who have fled 20 years. They know the to respond at the source of the here, Callahan said he was international community in order to Somalia but are not yet officially usefulness of queuing and a bit of refugee flow, within Somalia, but impressed “at the lengths to which protect people’s rights to life and registered with camp managers. patience. But queuing and courtesy security concerns make that people have gone to seek hope and dignity,” he said. United Nations officials say are foreign to the new arrivals, impossible. opportunity for their children. 1,300 newcomers arrive every day. who want to go to the food “We’ve been in and out of They have risked so much to come (For more information on CRS The rapid growth—and the distributions with a weapon,” said Somalia over the years. We consult here, to a situation that, frankly, efforts in East Africa and to dramatic media attention—has Wangari, who works for the with Bishop [Giorgio] Bertin isn’t that wonderful. What does contribute to those efforts, log on brought an influx of new ACT Alliance, a network of [apostolic administrator of that say about where they came to http://crs.org/ethiopia/ agencies looking for ways to Protestant aid agencies. Mogadishu] on how we should act from, about the failure of the east-africa-drought-solutions-run- augment the work of the almost “When the newcomers arrive and what we should do, and international community to deep/.) †
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Page 16 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2011 Knights will buy cultural center, establish shrine to late pope DENVER (CNS)—Supreme Knight Carl Anderson announced on Aug. 2 that the Knights of Columbus will purchase the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington. The announcement came during the business session of the Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy Knights’ 129th annual convention on Aug. 2-4. Anderson, delivering his annual report, said that over the next year, the fraternal organization will build a shrine to Blessed John Paul and put up related exhibits on the property. Carl Anderson “True to Pope John Paul II’s vision, and using the story of his life as inspiration, the shrine will be an opportunity to evangelize and spread the Good News of the Gospel through a new evangelization,” he said. The center, which went up for sale about 18 months ago, sits on 12 acres adjacent to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and The Pope John Paul II Catholic University of America. It cost $75 million to build, and the property has been valued at $37.7 million. The Knights bought the property for $22.7 million, according to a letter from Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron to priests and laypeople of the archdiocese. The letter, which is posted on the archdiocesan website, also said the sale should be finalized in 60 days. The Knights of Columbus announced that it will open a shrine dedicated to Blessed John Paul II at the current location of the Pope John Paul The center opened in 2001 with financial backing II Cultural Center in Washington. In its Aug. 2 announcement, the Knights said it is purchasing the struggling center, which opened in 2001 with from the Detroit Archdiocese. Under the terms of the financial backing from the Archdiocese of Detroit. Seen here in an April photo, the center is located in northeast Washington adjacent to the sale, the archdiocese will receive about $20 million, and Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and The Catholic University of America. Catholic University, which has a secured interest in the land, will receive $2.7 million. and in remarks there said, “I can think of no more Church, he hopes the new shrine dedicated to the pontiff “Because of his tireless evangelization efforts, an fitting way to venerate this extraordinary pope whom at the center “will provide a focal point of new devotion” entire generation of Catholics has become known as the the Church has declared ‘Blessed,’ and to honor and to him. He hopes, too, that it will help spread among ‘John Paul generation,’ and certainly we are honored to carry on his legacy, than through this shrine.” Washington Catholics and all pilgrims “the great gift of continue to spread his profound and powerful message of The center experienced financial difficulties the Church that Blessed John Paul II was and continues hope for our country, our continent and our world,” throughout its history as it never attracted the number of to be.” Anderson said in his remarks. visitors it expected. In 2006, because of low attendance He added that with the Knights purchasing the The complex has been overseen by a foundation rates, it discontinued museum activities and focused on center “with the specific view of enhancing the new chaired by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, being a place of research on the pontiff. It has been evangelization of America—which was so much the who on the day of Anderson’s open only by appointment. [legacy] of John Paul II—I think we’ll see a resurgence, announcement issued a decree Archbishop Vigneron in his letter thanked the Knights not only in devotion to Blessed John Paul II, but also in establishing the cultural center as for “stepping forward to make this transaction a reality.” the vitality of the programs [offered there].” an official archdiocesan shrine. He applauded the fraternal organization’s intention to The Knights of Columbus worked closely with Cardinal Wuerl said beatification “strengthen the vision of the center and continue the Pope John Paul throughout his papacy. For more than a of the late pope “has focused intended purpose for the building and land.” century, the fraternal organization has been involved with increased attention on the great gift He noted the amount the archdiocese will receive Catholic institutions in Washington. To date, the Knights’ that he is for the Church. from the sale is “notably less than the $54 million” it work includes major support for the national shrine, the “Evident devotion to him has invested in the center’s design, construction and U.S. bishops’ conference, Catholic University and the prompted the decision to designate maintenance, but nevertheless “the sale will enable us to John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, the facility being acquired by the recoup some of what we invested and will end now located on the university’s campus. Knights of Columbus as an archdiocesan outlays averaging $65,000 per month to Last August, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Cardinal archdiocesan shrine. This shrine maintain the building and grounds.” The proceeds “will Mother of the Eucharist signed an agreement with the Donald W. Wuerl will provide a focal point for help stabilize” archdiocesan finances, he added. Archdiocese of Detroit to buy the facility as a house of increased devotion to Blessed John Paul II and an Archbishop Vigneron said all of the offers from studies for its members, but in March the order decided ongoing recognition of his legacy,” he added. potential buyers were in the $20 million range, but the not to go through with the purchase because it would Exhibits planned for the center will include displays Knights “presented the best offer and terms of sale.” have cost too much to remodel the space to meet on the life and legacy of Blessed John Paul, and on the In an interview with the Catholic Standard, its needs. Catholic heritage of North America. Washington’s archdiocesan newspaper, Cardinal Wuerl In May, the center was opened for a celebration of Cardinal Wuerl was attending the Knights’ convention, said that given Pope John Paul’s “great impact” on the Pope John Paul’s beatification. †
Serra Club vocations essay Benedictine sister teaches student to love like Christ did (Editor’s note: Following is the fourth in a series When Christ was on Earth, he did not simply tell Sister Kathleen realized how this man’s story could featuring the winners of the Indianapolis Serra Club’s everyone to love each other. He showed us how to love teach us about God’s love for everyone so she invited him 2011 John D. Kelley Vocations Essay Contest.) one another through his actions. to speak to our class. By bringing him in, she showed us Though I learned a lot about my faith and my that even when something as terrible and powerful as an By Will Shine relationship with God by listening to her in class, addiction has control over your life, God keeps watching Special to The Criterion Sister Kathleen showed us how to love as Christ did over you. Through his love for us, God can bring us out through her everyday actions. of any situation we face in our lives. Growing up as a Roman Catholic, priests, deacons The best way I can think to describe Sister Kathleen One of the hardest things to do in life is to teach and other religious have been great examples for me of would be that she is simply a bundle of energy. She is Christ’s love through words. Sister Kathleen realizes this the love that Christ has shown us always fired up about teaching her students about so she teaches us through her actions. in the Gospels. God’s love, and how we can show that love to others. However, she is not the only religious who I have Looking up to them as models In my personal faith life, I had begun to view religion witnessed passionately serving others and teaching others of a faith that I strive to attain, as simply doing the right thing because we have to in about the love of God. religious in my life have shown order to achieve salvation. After a year of taking Many religious through their life, ministry and me, by example, how Christ Sister Kathleen’s class, my mindset toward religion had teaching have revealed a small glimpse of how God teaches us to love and completely changed. desires all of us to show love to everyone around us. serve others. She taught us, through her actions, and not by words, One specific example of a that God’s love never stops, never slows down and certainly (Will Shine and his parents, Kevin and Kate Shine, are religious being a model for me never quits. We are called to serve others unceasingly, not members of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in is Benedictine Sister because we have to, but because we want to do it. Carmel, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese. He completed the Kathleen Yeadon. She teaches Outside of school, Sister Kathleen helps at a house for 11th grade at Bishop Chatard High School in Will Shine sophomore religion at my recovering alcohol and drug addicts. One man whom she Indianapolis last spring, and is the 11th-grade division school, and I was privileged met there recently beat a drug addiction, and is now winner in the Indianapolis Serra Club’s 2011 enough to have her as a teacher. living a good life helping others. John D. Kelley Vocations Essay Contest.) †