Inside Restored to radiance Batesville craftsmen proud of work on Our Lady of America statue, page 12. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Souther n Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com August 15, 2008 Vol. XLVIII, No. 44 75¢ vote Submitted photo to revise U.S. catechism on Jewish covenant with God Festive Mass concludes WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. bishops have voted to ask the Vatican to approve a ’s centennial small change in the U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults to clarify Church teaching on God’s covenant with the Jewish people. year celebration The proposed change—which would replace one sentence in the catechism—was discussed by the bishops in executive session at their June meeting in Orlando, Fla., but did not receive the needed two-thirds majority of all members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at that time. After mail balloting, the final vote of 231-14, with one abstention, was announced on Aug. 5 in a letter to bishops from Msgr. Malloy, USCCB general secretary. The change, which must be confirmed by the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, would remove from the catechism a sentence that reads: “Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through remains eternally valid for them.” In June, a group of students danced during St. Aloysius Day festivities, part of the celebration at St. Aloysius Gonzaga High School in Kenya. The school Replacing it would be this sentence: “To was co-founded by Jesuit Father Terry Charlton, a 1966 graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis. the Jewish people, whom God first chose to hear his word, ‘belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the Father Terry Charlton embraces role at worship and the promises; to them belong the , and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ’ ” (Rom 9:4-5; cf. CCC, world’s first high school for AIDS orphans # 839). “Talking points” distributed to the bishops (Editor’s note: “Stewards two older brothers left their which have continued. Now, along with Msgr. Malloy’s letter said the Abroad” is an occasional series home, leaving David to fend for he’s doing a diploma [the proposed revision “is not a change in the that reports on the himself. For the next three years, equivalent of an associate’s Church’s teaching.” efforts of Catholics from the David lived on his own. He degree in the ] in “Catholics understand that all previous Archdiocese of Indianapolis survived by selling community covenants that God made with the Jewish throughout the world.) water in the streets of development. He people have been fulfilled in Jesus Christ Nairobi, Kenya. remains involved in through the new covenant established through He then heard the community and his sacrificial death on the cross,” the talking By John Shaughnessy about St. Aloysius wants to come back points say. Gonzaga High School and help after he “The version of the text,” they He tells the story about a in Nairobi, which is Stewards finishes it. That’s the continue, “might be understood to imply that youth named David, a story believed to be the story of everyone in Fr. Terry Charlton, S.J. one of the former covenants imparts salvation filled with both heartbreak and world’s first high Abroad the school.” without the mediation of Christ, whom hope. school for AIDS When he finishes what I would do coming from a Christians believe to be the universal Savior of Then Jesuit Father Terry orphans—a school sharing that capsule of situation of so much all people.” Charlton wonders how he would co-founded by David’s life, desperation. Father James Massa, executive director of have reacted if he faced the Father Charlton, a 1966 graduate Father Charlton turns pensive: “I’m profoundly struck by the USCCB Secretariat of Ecumenical and challenges that David confronted of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory “I’ve been struck that despite their faith in God and their Interreligious Affairs, told Catholic News in his life. School in Indianapolis. their situation they are similar gratitude. We have a monthly Service on Aug. 11 that he did not “anticipate Growing up in a slum in “David had good marks in his to myself. They’re people with Mass at the school. Their any tensions in the relationship” between Africa, David lived with his primary school, and we accepted desires, with goals—people petitions always start with Catholics and Jews as long as the proposed mother and two older brothers. him,” Father Charlton recalls. who want to accomplish thanks—thanks for their parents, change is properly understood as arising from By the time he was 14, his “He’s a good leader. He started something. Except, I think, their teachers, their opportunities a need to “remove ambiguity” in the mother had died of AIDS and his some AIDS awareness programs they’re better. I don’t know See KENYA, page 2 See CATECHISM, page 11 Athlete’s story shines light on Church’s resettlement efforts WASHINGTON (CNS)—The athletic ceremonies. success of a young man resettled in the Not only were his friends and his United States as a Sudanese refugee in 2001 foster parents, Barb and Rob Rogers of has shined a spotlight on the Catholic agency Tully, N.Y., celebrating his success, but that helped him find a new home after years so were officials at the U.S. Conference of life in a Kenyan refugee camp. of Catholic Bishops. MRS helped Reuters Gray, CNS photo/David Lopez Lomong was among the 3,800 “lost resettle Lomong in the Diocese of boys of Sudan” who were resettled in the Syracuse, N.Y., where he is a member United States in 2001 with the help of the of St. Leo’s Parish in Tully. Catholic U.S. bishops’ Migration and Refugee Charities also helped him get resettled Services (MRS). He became a U.S. citizen in and find a home with the Rogers family. 2007, and today is an Olympian competing “Lopez Lomong’s selection to lead in the games in Beijing. the U.S. Olympic team will remind the Lomong, a Catholic, qualified for the world that the United States remains a 1,500-meter run by finishing third on July 6 beacon of hope for refugees around the Lopez Lomong waves as he carries the U.S. flag at the at Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. globe, and will remind all Americans of opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games at On Aug. 6, Lomong’s teammates on the our history as a welcoming nation,” National Stadium in Beijing on Aug. 8. Lomong, a U.S. Olympic team chose him to carry the said John C. Wester of Catholic and former Sudanese refugee, is to compete in U.S. flag during the Aug. 8 opening See LOMONG, page 2 the 1,500-meter run at the Olympics. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008

start with an idea. It started from interaction with people, listening to

KENYA Submitted photos continued from page 1 their needs, and listening to how we could meet those needs.” for education. And I wonder if I came from their background if I’d be cursing God. So A hope for the future they prove a challenge to me and my faith.” The impact of St. Aloysius on young people’s lives was evident Taking a risk for a group of 12 students and As Father Charlton talks, he is back in four adults from Brebeuf when they central Indiana, part of his annual visit to see visited the school and other African family and friends. For the past 20 years, he sites in the summer of 2007. has lived in Africa, following a path “The kids who went and dedicated to changing lives for the better, experienced St. Aloysius were following a path that, he says, has changed transformed,” said Dr. Matt Hayes, his life for the better, too. Brebeuf’s president. “Their vision When he first arrived in Africa in 1988, of the world is different now. he worked at a spirituality center, teaching [Father Charlton] is absolutely courses and leading retreats. Twenty years wonderful. His ministry there is just later, he has three major responsibilities. He amazing.” is the vocations director for the Jesuits in Freezell Brown had the same Kenya. He is also the national chaplain for reaction when he led the Brebeuf the Christian Life Community (CLC), an group to Kenya in 2007. organization that follows the principles of “We had read about and seen Ignatian spirituality to make a difference in some video of St. Aloysius before the lives of others through service. And he is we came, but none of that prepared the co-founder and chaplain of St. Aloysius us for being there,” recalls Brown, Gonzaga High School. Brebeuf’s director of diversity. “As Jesuit Father Terry Charlton distributes first Communion to 16 newly baptized students during a June 22 Mass at On this day, Father Charlton focuses on we had the chance to view the St. Aloysius Gonzaga High School in Nairobi, Kenya, the world’s first high school for AIDS orphans. A 1966 the school. He shares how it opened in school and meet the students, we graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis, Father Charlton has served in Africa for 20 years. 2004, how it provides a free education to realized what an enormous 260 students who are AIDS orphans, and undertaking the running of the school was. I’m high school otherwise. Education how a new $2 million building that is in awe of what Father Charlton has committed is their way out of poverty.” scheduled to open in 2010 will enable the to. To see what they were accomplishing in the Father Charlton pauses. His school to serve 420 students. lives of the students was just overwhelming.” voice is soft and touched by Then he talks about how members of the Consider the story of Florine. She is one of emotion as he begins to share the Christian Life Community first approached about 3 million AIDS orphans in Kenya. reason for everything he has done him about starting the school—and how it “She was our top girl graduate in 2006,” during his 20 years in Africa. went against his usual approach to life. Father Charlton notes. “Somebody approached “We’re trying to give people “I’ve always been cautious and wanted to us and offered her a chance to attend the hope in their future,” he says. plan ahead,” he says, as a smile begins to University of , at the Parkside “That’s true of our students most cross his face. “When I was approached by campus. She’s now doing a degree in nursing. of all. The motto of the school is CLC members about starting the school, we She expresses a strong desire to come back and ‘to learn, to love and to serve.’ We had basically nothing. I knew it would be a help many more.” try to help them see that, through real risk. But I said, ‘There’s so much need Giving back is at the core of St. Aloysius education, they have so much here, we have to try.’ In a month, we had to School. In return for their free education, potential to make a difference in find a place for the school, money for the graduating seniors do community service for their lives, for their families and school, and teachers. And it’s grown from six to eight months in the slums where they for society. St. Aloysius is a place there.” grew up. Four days a week, the students work. of hope. Our presence is one It’s grown to make a world of difference On a fifth day, they reflect on their days of factor that helps people believe Drummers practice on their instruments as they prepare to in the lives of young people like David. service. there is a way forward.” set the rhythm for the student choir that performed during “It says to me that sometimes we have to “The ideal of our Ignatian education is to St. Aloysius Day, an annual celebration at St. Aloysius take a risk, to believe that God can produce men and women for others,” (For more information about Gonzaga High School in Nairobi, Kenya. The world’s first accomplish something in us, even if we’re Father Charlton says. “If we have this goal, it’s St. Aloysius Gonzaga High high school for AIDS orphans was co-founded by Father not sure of our resources,” Father Charlton very important for us to help them. These are School, check the Web site at Terry Charlton, a member of the first graduating class of says. “I’ve learned from experience. It didn’t kids who wouldn’t have a chance for www.sagnairobi.org.) † Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis in 1966.

Catholic Church can play a role in that,” he said. determine which of them would be resettled Commissioner for Refugees. Each year, the United States welcomes up to in the U.S. She was there alone for most of According to MRS, Lopez was 16 when LOMONG 60,000 refugees from around the world, with the year in 2000 and was involved in he came to the U.S. in July 2001 as an continued from page 1 MRS and Catholic dioceses across the country processing 800 cases. unaccompanied refugee minor and remained Salt Lake City, chairman of the bishops’ assisting about one-quarter of them. “The majority of the children who in the MRS program until 2006 while Committee on Migration. Julianne Duncan, now associate director qualified under the ‘lost boys’ initiative left completing his schooling. In a statement on Aug. 7, he called it “a of children’s services for MRS, worked in home in 1987 and traveled to Ethiopia under “The Catholic bishops were very instru- proud moment, not only for Lopez and his 2000 at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, extreme conditions,” Duncan told Catholic mental in the resettlement of the ‘lost boys’ fellow Olympians, but also for our nation.” the camp where Lomong was living before News Service on Aug. 7. The boys then overall, by identifying this group of the Johnny Young, executive director of MRS, he came to the U.S. made their way from Ethiopia to Kenya. ‘lost boys’ as a group of concern to the also applauded Lomong’s selection as flag She was deployed there by the International “Those now 25 years old were 4 years U.S. government, and [they] arranged with bearer. Catholic Migration Commission under contract old in 1987 and most unaccompanied the government that they would have a group “It is incredible to think that a young boy with the United Nations. children at that age did not survive. ... resettlement opportunity in the United States,” who fled violence in his home country is She was very involved with the case of the Caretakers report horror stories of their said Duncan. now the flag bearer for his new country at “lost boys,” so called because they were driven arrival in Ethiopia at that time before the The bishops on the migration committee the Olympics,” said Young. from their tribal villages and separated from International Committee of the Red Cross and MRS staff traveled to the refugee camps “It is a testament to the U.S. refugee their parents during the height of their country’s and UNHCR brought food and other in Kakuma a number of times in 1998 and program and shows us that former refugees civil war, from 1993 to 2003. Refugee camps necessities, while the smallest children 2001. have much to contribute to our nation. It also became their home. continued to die in very large numbers,” “These children would still be in this demonstrates that a generous U.S. refugee Duncan’s was to interview the boys who she said. refugee camp if it had not been for the policy can save lives and that the were still under 18 and process their cases to The UNHCR is the U.N. High Catholic bishops,” said Duncan. †

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sees the public side of Pope Benedict XVI Church’s attention to ecology, but said it was via Reuters generally at big ceremonial events in false to suggest that the Christian or on foreign travels when he’s under the understanding of “subduing” the Earth meant glare of the media. carelessly exploiting its resources.

But over the last three years, the “The brutal consumption of creation L'Osservatore Romano “real Benedict” has emerged most fully in a begins where there is no God, where material series of semiprivate encounters with an is considered only material for us,” he said. CNS photo/ audience he feels at home with—groups of “And the squandering of creation begins priests. where we no longer recognize any power In the northern Italian city of Bressanone over us, but see only ourselves.” in early August, the 81-year-old pope People today have the strong sensation engaged in what has become a summer that “the world is slipping away,” he said, tradition: a question-and-answer session and it’s a perfect opportunity for the Church with the region’s diocesan and religious to publicly promote the Christian solution, priests. which must include a more humble and The dialogue ran the gamut from moderate lifestyle. environmental problems to papal primacy, What distinguishes these encounters is and the pope took more than 10 minutes to that the pope obviously feels he is speaking answer each of the six questions. There as a among priests, not an authority weren’t many softballs tossed his way. figure doing an obligatory drop-by. One priest asked whether pastors should During his first summer meeting with administer the sacraments of Communion priests in 2005, he told his audience: “I also and confirmation to young people who want to say that the pope is not an oracle, aren’t really aware of their significance. that he is infallible in only the rarest of Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a closed-door meeting with about 400 priests and religious in the The pope, in a moment of self-revelation situations, as we know.” That’s a point the cathedral in Bressanone, Italy, on Aug. 6. that’s become typical of these encounters, pope has made more than once as a preface said he used to be more strict about to his responses; he’s there to provide religious traditions and the challenge of free-flowing atmosphere of these administering the sacraments, but he’s come reflection and some guidance, not pre- invigorating parish life. encounters. He’s made only one rule—that to see that it’s more important to be fabricated answers to pastoral dilemmas. One repeated issue in these dialogues it take place away from the public and the generous if it can encourage even a In addition to the summer meetings in has been the shortage of priests. media. “glimmer” of faith. various parts of Italy, the pope holds the In Bressanone, for example, one The content comes out when the Vatican The comment immediately prompted same kind of informal meetings each year questioner spoke of the lack of priests in publishes a transcript a few days later. speculation that Pope Benedict might prove with the several hundred priests of the connection with priestly celibacy and the That’s usually long enough to take the edge to be somewhat more lenient than expected Diocese of Rome. The first came shortly role of women. In other contexts, this might off the media’s appetite. on other sacramental issues, including the after his election, when he fielded have been seen as raising a taboo subject. Of course, the pope has been generous Church’s current policy of no Communion 12 questions and comments. The pope took it in stride, although, as with the media, too. On his recent flights to for Catholics who have divorced and The get-togethers allow the pope to hear Italians would put it, he “dribbled” the the United States and Australia, he gave remarried without an annulment. what’s on the minds of priests these days. question without really confronting the reporters 20 minutes of question-and- Another priest, picking up on a strong For the most part, the focus has been on issue of women’s or the answer time. papal theme of late, wondered whether the modern pastoral trials: the continuing drift relaxation of celibacy rules. His clerical audiences, on the other Church over the centuries had dropped the away from the sacraments, the difficulties in Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the hand, are often treated to nearly two hours ball when it comes to moral teaching on educating young people beyond a certain Vatican spokesman, told Catholic News of unrehearsed dialogue. With priests, the environmental protection. age, the loss of Church members to other Service that the pope wants to keep the pope is clearly in his comfort zone. † British government permits Church to exhume Cardinal Newman’s body LONDON (CNS)—The British sarcophagus in a church in the city, where the Ministry of Justice. photographed. It will then be transferred government has agreed to allow the it can be venerated by pilgrims. 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OPINION Parish Diary/Fr. Peter Daly Forty years after ‘Humanae Vitae’ Forty years ago, there was an eruption in sex, caused it to lose its significance. the over the release of Instead of being special, a sign of love and Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Pope Paul VI’s commitment reserved for husbands and Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher encyclical letter wives, it is now commonplace. Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus “Humanae Vitae” When something becomes (“Of Human Life”). commonplace, it loses its allure. Ice cream At the time, secular and cake, for example, are special if culture pronounced it a reserved for birthdays. If eaten all the time, Editorial “dead letter.” Cultural they are boring, even damaging. critics said the Church The pill has meant that sex is Mary is shown being taken up was out of touch with meaningless, the stuff of sit-coms and lurid to heaven in a painting inside the modern age on the talk shows. a dome of the Basilica of the role of human In our modern world, sex has nothing to National Shrine of the sexuality. do with making babies. It also has very little Assumption of the Blessed “Humanae Vitae” was blamed for the to do with making love. The surreal Sex in CNS file photo/Nancy Wiechec CNS file photo/Nancy Mary in Baltimore. The erosion of respect for the Church’s moral the City world has turned everyone into a feast of her assumption is teaching and the departure of many people sex object because sex is seen as an act celebrated on Aug. 15 in the from the Catholic Church. without meaning or consequence. It has Roman Catholic Church. But, at the time, secular culture made more to do with giving pleasure to the self some pretty extravagant claims for the than showing love for the other. virtues of artificial contraception. Forty years ago, the advocates for contra- Forty years on, it is worth asking, What ception said that it would mean fewer about the claims of secular culture? unwanted children. There would be less Were they right? child abuse and neglect because children The first birth control pill came on the would be more wanted since they were market in the early 1960s. It was featured more “planned.” on the cover of news magazines. It was Ironically, today children seem less talked about on television. People said it wanted. They are seen not as gifts from would usher in a new and happier age of God, but as financial burdens. Television sexual relations. reporters do stories on the “total cost” of Did it? raising a child, as if children could be Forty years ago, it was said that artificial compared to buying a boat or second home. Did Mary die? contraception would make marriages With the ability to prevent pregnancy “ e pronounce, declare, and define from the first century and stones from happier and more stable. Freed from the came the presumption that you should Wit to be a divinely revealed what is believed to be Mary’s house. stress of many children, married couples prevent pregnancy. Babies are now regarded dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of Although the basilica is called would be better able to concentrate on each as a burden. Large families are regarded God, the ever Virgin Mary, having “Dormition,” or “falling asleep,” its other and their marriage. with derision, even in some Catholic circles. completed the course of her earthly life, crypt, venerated as the site where Mary So what happened? Birth control has led to an anti-child was assumed body and soul into died, includes a stone effigy of the The divorce rate has skyrocketed. mentality. heavenly glory.” Blessed Virgin asleep on her deathbed. Marriages are less stable. There were many When a woman today begins to show Those are the words of Pope Pius XII Above her are mosaics of seven women cultural factors involved, of course, but with a third or fourth pregnancy, people ask who, on Nov. 1, 1950, solemnly defined from the Old Testament. whatever can be said about birth control, it her, “Did you make a mistake, dear?” the dogma of the , The other site is the Tomb of Mary. has not made marriages happier or more Forty years ago, there was an explosion the feast we celebrate today—Aug. 15. It It is located near the Garden of stable in U.S. culture. in the Church over “Humanae Vitae.” Now remains the only doctrine of the Church Gethsemane. Pilgrims descend a long Forty years ago, it was said that the pill that the dust has begun to settle a bit, it proclaimed after the First Vatican flight of stairs to reach the tomb. Of would mean more fulfilled sex lives. People seems that secular culture was wrong about Council defined papal infallibility in course, it is empty. The crypt is all that could be more spontaneous. Sex would be many of its claims for birth control. 1870. is left of a Byzantine basilica built in more joyful. People would be less It helps to take the long view. Maybe that The definition is precisely worded, the fourth century. repressed. is God’s view? covering most of what the Catholic There is also a tradition that Mary Did it happen? Church teaches about Mary. It says that died in Ephesus rather than in Separating the sexual act from (Father Peter Daly writes for Catholic she was immaculate, confirming the Jerusalem. Pilgrims to Ephesus are conception has degraded the meaning of News Service.) † doctrine of the , shown Mary’s house where she that she was preserved from original sin supposedly lived with St. John. It seems from the moment of her conception. more likely, though, that Mary It calls her the Mother of God, a continued to live in Jerusalem until she Letters to the Editor doctrine defined by the Council of either died or “fell asleep.” There’s Ephesus in 431 when it gave Mary the nothing to indicate that Mary and John If we are to turn America around, Greek title , or God-bearer. lived in Ephesus while St. Paul lived Although Christ was both divine and there or while he wrote to the Ephesians. we must change our wicked ways human, he was only one person and Although the dogma of the People nowadays feel the American Our government’s only purpose was to Mary was the mother of that person, Assumption was defined only in 1950, it government is going down the wrong road safeguard these God-given rights. Our thus the Mother of God. was being celebrated as far back as the and needs to change. Constitution was made only for a moral The definition also calls Mary ever fifth century, first by the Eastern Church They feel we must strive to restore and religious people. virgin, the doctrine that she remained a in the Byzantine Empire. It spread to the people’s “faith” in our system of America’s problem today is that we have virgin before, during and after the birth Western Church in the seventh century, government by expecting the government turned our backs on God. We have kicked of Christ. Some Catholics don’t realize under Pope St. Adrian I (772-795). It to encourage political stability. God out of the schools, taken the Ten that the Church teaches that Jesus’ birth was preached by the great doctors of the They are out of step with the beliefs of Commandments out of the public square, was miraculous with Mary remaining Church of the 13th century—Albert the and passed laws in direct opposition to the physically intact. Great, and the Founding Fathers who created our The definition also makes a careful . republic. laws of God. We, as a whole, are now distinction between Mary’s assumption Before Pope Pius defined the dogma Our Founding Fathers had virtually no suffering from our disobedience. and Christ’s ascension. Mary “was of the Assumption, he carefully faith in government, but a deep faith in If we are to turn America around, we assumed” by the power of God, while ascertained the sense of the faithful. In God. The basic principle was that America must humble ourselves, pray and seek God, Christ ascended through his own power. an encyclical, he asked whether the was founded on our fundamental human and turn from our wicked ways. But did Mary die? Many Catholics bishops, priests and laity wanted the rights (life, liberty and the pursuit of Al Scheller are firmly convinced that she did not, doctrine to be defined, and the response happiness) coming from God. Elizabethtown that it would be unthinkable that Jesus was overwhelmingly favorable. Even would allow his mother to die. before he wrote that encyclical, an Pope Pius carefully side-stepped that amazing number of petitions for a Thank you for your support of the controversy—as indeed it was back in solemn definition were sent to Rome, 1950. He said simply that Mary signed by 113 cardinals, 18 patriarchs, Retirement Fund for Religious appeal “completed the course of her earthly 2,505 archbishops and bishops, On behalf of men and women who are past age 70, including more than life,” leaving open to further theological 32,000 priests, 50,000 women religious religious throughout the U.S., I extend 4,900 religious who need skilled nursing speculation whether or not she and 8 million laypersons. heartfelt thanks to all the people in the care. These women and men pray daily experienced death. The Assumption has always been a It’s true, though, that most of the popular doctrine. As we celebrate it, let Archdiocese of Indianapolis who for your intentions. evidence points to the fact that she did us pray for a greater devotion to Mary contributed to the annual appeal for The funds from the 2007 appeal were die. and the hope that her assumption into the Retirement Fund for Religious in distributed to religious institutes at the In Jerusalem, there are two sites heaven will inspire us all to grow in 2007. end of June, and I am confident that they associated with the Assumption. The first wisdom and holiness. But you’re free to Your generous donations totaled will be received with profound gratitude is the Basilica of the Dormition at the decide for yourself whether Mary died $282,418.96, almost 5 percent more than for every donor. Benedictine’s Dormition Abbey at the or just fell asleep. was contributed in 2006, and we are Sister Janice Bader, C.P.P.S. top of Mount Zion. Archaeological deeply grateful. Executive Director excavations at the site have found a street — John F. Fink Your generosity helps to provide care National Religious Retirement Office for more than 37,500 religious in the U.S. Washington, D.C. The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Humility of Jesus urges us to imitate him (Tenth in a series) endures the shame of this utter nakedness of for everyone. She could love in this way restoring that public trust. Pope Benedict’s poverty. He is handled roughly and, because she saw Christ in every person she words and actions laid a foundation for our “ ere you there when they stripped undoubtedly, the wounds caused by his met no matter their status in society. imitation. Whim of his clothes?” scourging become bloody once more. The late Pope John Paul II was so dearly The humility of Jesus urges us to imitate The Tenth Station on the Way of the A prayerful reflection on a spirit of loved because of his straightforward and him. Humility and honesty are the basis of Cross describes humiliation upon poverty and simplicity seems appropriate as compassionate manner of dealing with chastity, to which all of us are called. To be humiliation. Jesus has arrived on Calvary, we consider the witness of Jesus. people. He did not put on airs and his love chaste is to honor the true purpose and where the painful ritual of crucifixion How do we deal with the power of shone clearly. nature of human sexuality and love. Chastity begins. There is the pain of total ownership? Do we become preoccupied with One of the striking impressions made by respects the awesome nature of spousal love powerlessness. things? Pope Benedict during his visit to our country that is blessed by matrimony. Pope Benedict XVI wrote a meditation Someone once suggested that a good last April was his unassuming and simple This is a difficult message in a culture for this Tenth Station: “Jesus is stripped of occasional reflection for spiritual manner in every situation. As a bishop friend that views sexual activity as self-centered his garments. Clothing shows a person’s discernment is the question: “Do I own my of mine observed, this Holy Father’s recreation. The dishonest view of sexual social position; it shows a person’s place in things or do my things own me?” unaffected shyness is winsome. He rose to interaction is enslaving. The Christian society, it makes that person someone. His There is no evil in ownership as such; it the public role that is his, and he spoke the message of honesty, simplicity and chastity public stripping means that Jesus is no becomes problematic when things begin to truth clearly and with love. And so he made is freeing. Christ won our freedom at great longer anything at all, he is simply an control our lives. Detachment is a virtue that us proud. personal cost. † outcast, despised by all alike. frees us from untoward preoccupation with The humiliation that Christ endured as he “The moment of the stripping reminds us material things that distract us from personal stood stripped before his executioners and the of the expulsion from Paradise: God’s charity to our family, friends and neighbors. world calls us to humility. The disposition Do you have an intention for splendor has fallen away from humanity, Pope Benedict referred to clothes as that fosters a humble spirit is purity of mind Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? who now stands naked and exposed; unclad indicators of our place in society. An undue and heart. Honesty and integrity are qualities You may mail it to him at: and ashamed. attachment to social status can lead not only of a pure mind. Our society deeply desires “And so Jesus once more takes on the to sinful pride, but also to a habit of people who are trustworthy, people who Archbishop Buechlein’s condition of fallen humanity. Stripped of his exercising inappropriate control over other speak and live the truth as best they can. Prayer List garments, he reminds us that we have all lost people. Trust has been betrayed in our day by Archdiocese of Indianapolis the ‘first garment,’ that is, God’s splendor. At Placing an unseemly priority on some who are in positions of trust. I think of 1400 N. Meridian St. the foot of the cross, the soldiers draw lots superficial status in our relationships in those betrayed by clergy sexual abuse. I think P.O. Box 1410 to divide his paltry possessions, his clothes” society is ultimately based on materialistic of political leaders who betray the trust Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 (Way of the Cross, Pauline Books and values as well. The appropriate Christian vested in them. All of us play a role in Media, Boston, p. 94). attitude is to foster the common good and not Jesus is simply an outcast like others who merely one’s personal good. were led to crucifixion in his day. Stripped Simplicity is an attractive characteristic of Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for August of his clothes, he is powerless before his someone who loves other people for their Parish Awareness: that all parishioners will be aware of their role in promoting all executioners. own sake. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was vocations and have the awareness especially to encourage our youth to consider the This is his ultimate poverty in his human one of the most admired people in the world condition. He became poor for our sake. He because of her simple and unswerving love priestly and religious life. La humildad de Jesús nos insta a imitarle (Décimo de la serie) causadas por los azotes vuelven a sangrar una condición social. pública. Las palabras y las acciones del Papa “¿ vez más. Al difunto Papa Juan Pablo II se le amó Benedicto sentaron bases que debemos stabas allí cuando le despojaron de sus Una devota reflexión sobre el espíritu de tan profundamente por su manera sencilla y imitar. Evestiduras?” pobreza y simplicidad parece adecuada aquí compasiva en el trato con las personas. No era La humildad de Jesús nos insta a imitarle. La décima estación del Vía Crucis cuando consideramos el testimonio de Jesús. presuntuoso y manifestaba su amor La humildad y la honestidad son las bases de describe humillación sobre humillación. Jesús ¿Cómo lidiamos con el poder de las diáfanamente. la pureza a la cual todos estamos llamados. ha llegado al Calvario donde comienza el posesiones? ¿Nos preocupamos de las cosas? Una de las impresiones más impactantes Ser puro es honrar el verdadero propósito y doloroso ritual de la crucifixión. El dolor de Alguien una vez sugirió que una buena que dejó el Papa Benedicto durante su visita a la naturaleza de la sexualidad y del amor la impotencia total. reflexión ocasional para el discernimiento nuestro país el pasado mes de abril fue su humano. La pureza respeta la maravillosa El Papa Benedicto XVI escribió una espiritual es formularse la pregunta: “¿Poseo manera de ser sencilla y humilde en toda naturaleza del amor conyugal bendecido por meditación para esta décima estación: “A yo las cosas o las cosas me poseen a mi?” situación. Como observó un obispo amigo el matrimonio. Jesús lo despojan de sus vestiduras. La ropa No hay nada malo en las posesiones como mío, esta timidez natural del Santo Padre es Este es un mensaje difícil en una cultura representa la posición social de una persona; tales; pero se vuelven problemáticas cuando encantadora. Estuvo a la altura del papel que considera la actividad sexual como evidencia el lugar que ocupa una persona en las cosas comienzan a controlar nuestras público que le corresponde y habló recreación egocéntrica. La visión deshonesta la sociedad, hace que sea alguien. Despojarle vidas. El desapego es una virtud que nos claramente con la verdad en los labios y con de la interacción sexual es esclavizante. El públicamente significó que Jesús ya no era libera de preocupaciones adversas sobre cosas amor. Nos sentimos orgullosos de él. mensaje cristiano de honestidad, sencillez y nada, simplemente un paria, despreciado por materiales que nos distraen de la caridad La humillación que Cristo soportó cuando pureza es liberador. Cristo conquistó nuestra todos por igual. personal para con nuestra familia, amigos y el permaneció despojado de sus vestiduras ante libertad a un costo personal. † “El momento de despojarle de sus prójimo. sus ejecutores y el mundo nos llama a la vestiduras nos recuerda la expulsión del El Papa Benedicto se refirió a las humildad. La disposición que sustenta un ¿Tiene una intención que desee Paraíso: El esplendor de Dios ha abandonado vestimentas como indicadores de nuestro lugar espíritu humilde es la pureza de mente y incluir en la lista de oración del la humanidad, que ahora está desnuda y en la sociedad. Un apego desproporcionado a corazón. La honestidad y la integridad son Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar expuesta; desvestida y avergonzada. un estatus social puede conducirnos no sólo a cualidades de una mente pura. Nuestra su correspondencia a: “Y así, Jesús una vez más asume la un orgullo pecaminoso, sino también al hábito sociedad desea intensamente personas que condición de la humanidad caída. de ejercer un control inadecuado sobre otras sean confiables, gente que hable y viva la Lista de oración del Arzobispo Desprovisto de sus vestiduras, nos recuerda personas. verdad lo mejor que puedan. Buechlein que todos hemos perdido la ‘primera Asimismo, el colocar una prioridad La verdad ha sido traicionada en nuestros Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis vestidura’, es decir, el esplendor de Dios. Al improcedente en el estatus superficial de días por algunas personas que se encuentran 1400 N. Meridian St. pie de la cruz, los soldados echaron suertes nuestras relaciones en la sociedad tiene a fin en posiciones de confianza. Pienso en P.O. Box 1410 para dividir sus insignificantes posesiones, de cuentas un fundamento en valores materi- aquellos traicionados por el clero por causa de Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 sus ropas” (El Vía Crucis, Pauline books and alistas. La actitud Cristiana adecuada es abusos sexuales. Pienso en los líderes Media, Boston, pág. 94). fomentar el bien común y no únicamente el políticos que traicionan la confianza Jesús es simplemente un paria como otros bien personal propio. depositada en ellos. Todos nosotros jugamos Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, que fueron llevados a la crucifixión ese día. La sencillez es una característica atractiva un papel en la restitución de la confianza Language Training Center, Indianapolis. Despojado de sus ropas, está indefenso ante de alguien que ama a otras personas por sus ejecutores. quienes son. La beata Teresa de Calcuta fue La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en agosto Esta es la máxima pobreza de su una de las personas más admiradas del mundo condición humana. Se convirtió en pobre por por el amor simple e inquebrantable que Conocimiento de la Parroquia: Que cada parroquiano sea consciente de su papel para nosotros. Soporta la vergüenza de esta manifestaba por todo el mundo. Ella podía fomentar todas las vocaciones y anime a nuestros jóvenes a con-siderar la vida completa desnudez de la pobreza. Se le amar de esta manera porque veía a Cristo en sacerdotal y religiosa. manipula rudamente y, sin duda, las heridas cada persona que conocía, sin importar su Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Events Calendar August 15 46th and streets, Indian- for Pro-Life Ministry, 317-236- 12 miles south of Versailles. book. Registration: 317-241- Information: 317-357-1200. Northside Knights of Columbus apolis. Sausage Fest, food, 1569 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. Mass, 10 a.m., on third 6314, ext. 122. Hall, 2100 E. 71st St., Indian- music, Fri., Sat. 4 p.m.-11 p.m. Sunday holy hour and pitch- Prince of Peace Parish, 413 E. apolis. Catholic Business Information: 317-253-1461. Our Lady of the Most Holy in, groups of 10 pray the new Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum Second St., Madison. Rosary Church, 520 Stevens St., Marian Way, 1 p.m., Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Exchange, Mass, 6:30 a.m., August 15-17 “Community Festival,” followed by buffet breakfast, Indianapolis. Mass for the Father Elmer Burwinkel, Indianapolis. Monthly Mass, Father Shawe Memorial St. Parish, Defense of the Church, 6 p.m., “Faith in Business,” Andy Ording, celebrant. Information: 2 p.m. Information: Jr./Sr. High School, 201 W. State 114 Lancelot Drive, Franklin. following Mass people can walk 812-689-3551. 317-784-4439 or president, Zipp Speed Weaponry, Parish festival, food, rides, crafts, St., Madison, Fri. 5 p.m.- presenter, $14 per person. or drive to Murat Theatre, 502 N. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. quilts, Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, Sat. New Jersey St., to pray to defend August 19 midnight., Sat. 3 p.m.-midnight, Information and registration: noon-midnight, Sun. noon-5 p.m. St. Christopher Parish, 5301 W. food, carnival rides, games. www.catholicbusiness the Church against anti-Catholic St. Nicholas Church, 6461 E. Information: 317-738-3929. TV commentator Bill Maher. 16th St., Indianapolis. Year 3, St. Nicholas Drive, Sunman. Information: 812-265-4166. exchange.org. Scripture study, “Prophets August 16 Information: 317-784-2773 or Eucharistic healing service, [email protected]. and Psalms,” 7-8:45 p.m., rosary for vocations, praise, August 23 St. Michael Parish, 519 Jefferson St. Monica Parish, 6131 N. $75 per person plus book. St. ’s Knights of St., Greenfield. Couple to Couple Michigan Road, Indianapolis. worship, music, 6 p.m. August 17 Registration: 317-241-6314, Information: 812-623-8007. Columbus, 4332 N. German League of Indianapolis, Natural World Wide Marriage St. Mary Parish, 701 N. ext. 122. Church Road, Indianapolis. Family Planning (NFP) class, Encounter, “Day of Romance,” “A” St., Richmond. Richmond Chili supper to honor Indian- 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $25 per 7-9 p.m. Information: 317-462- Catholic Community, prayer August 20 August 21 apolis Metropolitan Police 2246. couple includes breakfast, St. Christopher Parish, 5301 W. group, 7-9 p.m. Information: Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Officer Jason Fishburn, box lunch, babysitting available. 765-962-3902. 16th St., Indianapolis. Year 3, Mausoleum Chapel, 5-8 p.m., free-will offering to St. Augustine Home for the Aged, Information: 317-216-0979. Scripture study, “Prophets 9001 Haverstick Road, Indian- help pay for his medical care. 2345 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. St. Pius Parish, County Road and Psalms,” 1:15-2:45 p.m., apolis. Monthly Mass, noon. Information: 317-723-3349. “Candlelight procession to St. Michael the 500 E., Sunman. Parish picnic, $75 per person plus book. Information: 317-574-8898 or commemorate the Assumption Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Indian- chicken dinners, games, Registration: 317-241-6314, www.catholiccemeteries.cc. August 24 of the Blessed Virgin Mary,” apolis. Helpers of God’s 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: ext. 122. St. Paul Parish, 9788 N. 8:30 p.m., followed by Precious Infants Pro-Life Mass, 812-623-8007. August 22-23 Dearborn Road, Guilford. refreshments. Information: 317- Father Paul Landwerlen, St. Christopher Parish, Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ 872-6420. celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed by MKVS, Divine Mercy and 5301 W. 16th St., Indianapolis. Parish, 7225 Southeastern Ave., Ladies Sodality, hot breakfast rosary outside abortion clinic and Glorious Cross Center, Year 2, Scripture study, Indianapolis. “Augustrav- bar buffet, 7:30 a.m.-noon, free- August 15-16 Benediction at church. Rexville, located on 925 South, “New Testament,” 7-8:45 aganza,” rides, food, music, will donation. Information: 812- St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Information: Archdiocesan Office .8 mile east of 421 South and p.m., $75 per person plus entertainment, 4 p.m.-midnight. 623-2349. †

Retreats and Programs Catechetical ministry, “New Year– Information: 812-933-6437. September 19-21 New Start,” Franciscan Sisters Jeanne Hunt Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. and Kathleen Mulso, presenters, 9-11:30 a.m., August 18 September 17 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend,” free-will donation. Information: 812-933- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. marriage preparation program for engaged 6437. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Day of Silence,” 56th St., Indianapolis. “Day of Silence,” couples. Information: 317-545-7681 or 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $25 per person. Information: 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $25 per person. Information: September 8 www.archindy.org/fatima. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. “Men’s Night at the ‘Burg,” Franciscan September 20 August 19-21 Father Carl Hawver, presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Monastery Immaculate Conception, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, free-will donation. Information: 812-933- Food and Growers Association, “Tasting Kordes Center, 841 E. 14th St., Ferdinand, St. Meinrad. “The Virtue of Humility for 6437. the Harvest,” cooking demonstration and Ind. “Saturday Morning at the Today,” Benedictine Brother Thomas annual meeting, Kathy Cooley, presenter, Dome–Staying Grounded in the Midst of Gricoski, presenter. Information: 800-581- September 16 6-8 p.m., $15 per person and $4 per Change,” Benedictine Sister Jane Will, 6905 or [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. additional family member. Information: 812- presenter, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., $35 includes 56th St., Indianapolis. “Morning for Moms,” 933-6437. continental breakfast and lunch. Information: August 22-24 Mary Ann Schaefer, presenter, 8:30 a.m.- 812-367-1411 or [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 1 p.m., $30 per person. Information: 317-545- September 18 St. Meinrad. “The Holy Spirit in Our 7681 or [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. September 26-28 Lives,” Benedictine Archabbot Bonaventure “Healing the World from the Inside Out,” Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Knaebel, presenter. Information: 800-581- September 16-October 21 session one of three, Franciscan Sister Olga St. Meinrad. “Celebrating Paul of Tarsus,” 6905 or [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Catholic Catechism for Adults,” six-week Wittekind, presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Benedictine Father Noël Mueller, presenter. August 23 series, Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mulso, $35 per session or $95 for the series, Information: 800-581-6905 or Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., $50 series. includes lunch. Information: 812-933-6437. [email protected]. † Benedictine VIPs Blue Mass to Julius and Theresa (Anderson) Bella sister professes Spiegl, members of St. Lawrence Parish be celebrated in Indianapolis, will celebrate their co-executive 60th wedding anniversary on Aug. 18. first vows The couple was married on Aug. 18, on Sept. 11 1948, at St. Philip Neri Church in producer is Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell made her Indianapolis. first profession of vows on June 21 at Our Lady The sixth annual archdiocesan They have two children: Janet Stephans ‘Celebrate of Grace Monastery in Blue Mass will be celebrated at and Don Spiegl. They also have six grand - Beech Grove. 6 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Calvary children. † Life’ speaker Her profession was Cemetery Mausoleum Chapel, 435 W. witnessed by her Troy Ave., in Indian- John C. and Carol E. (Bischoff) Berlier Jason S. Jones, co-executive family, friends and apolis. Jr., members of St. Pius X Parish in Indian- producer of Bella and a pro-life Benedictine Msgr. Joseph F. apolis, will celebrate advocate, is the keynote speaker community. Schaedel, vicar their 50th wedding for the 26th annual “Celebrate Sister Julie’s vows general and anniversary on Life” dinner at 7 p.m. on Sept. 16 of stability in the pastor of Aug. 16 with a Mass at the Sagamore Ballroom at the monastery, fidelity to Our Lady of the followed by a Indiana Convention Center in the monastic way of Most Holy reception for family downtown Indianapolis. life and obedience Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, will be members and friends. Right to Life of Indianapolis Sr. Julie Sewell, O.S.B. according to The Rule the principal celebrant. The couple was sponsors the annual fundraiser to of St. Benedict are for a three-year period. Father Steven Schwab, pastor of married on Aug. 16, benefit its Educational Trust Sister Julie entered Our Lady of Grace St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in 1958, at St. Joan of Fund. Monastery on Sept. 7, 2005, and entered its Indianapolis andCatholic chaplain for Arc Church in Indianapolis. During the program, Joseph novitiate on June 17, 2006. the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police They have three children: Julia Postma, and Kathleen Turk of Zionsville, She is the daughter of Gary and Rosemary Department, and Father James Elizabeth Sterns and Douglas Berlier. They Ind., will receive the Charles E. Sewell of Loveland, Ohio, and is the eldest of Wilmoth, pastor of St. Roch Parish in also have eight grandchildren. † Stimming Award and Clark their three children. She has two sisters, Jackie Indianapolis and Catholic chaplain for of Indianapolis, executive director and Jill. the Indianapolis Fire Department, will Frank and Beverly (Elliott) of the American Family Sister Julie earned a bachelor’s degree in concelebrate the liturgy. D’Eramo, members of St. Pius X Parish Association of Indiana, will history and philosophy at Edgecliff College of The Blue Mass is offered for all in Indianapolis, accept the Respect Life Award. Xavier University in Cincinnati. law enforcement officers, firefighters, celebrated their Jones also is the founder and In 2004, she completed the Spiritual emergency medical technicians and 50th wedding president of Whole Life America, Direction Internship Program at the auxiliary personnel, both living and anniversary on a non-profit organization that Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center deceased. All law enforcement Aug. 9. promotes the dignity of the in Beech Grove. personnel, firefighters and EMTs are The couple was human person regardless of Prior to her entrance into Our Lady of Grace invited to attend, in uniform, with married on ability, age, status, race and Monastery, Sister Julie was employed at their families. Aug. 9, 1958, at geography. Solucient, a Chicago-based firm that services A procession to the Public Servants St. Mary Church Reservations are $55 per the healthcare industry. Section of the cemetery will follow in Marion, Ohio. person before the Sept. 4 Presently, she is the associate director of the Mass. For more information, call They have three children: F. Patrick, deadline. For reservations, log on development for the Sisters of St. Benedict in Calvary Cemetery at 317-784-4439. † Michael and Tony D’Eramo. They also to www.RTLindy.org. † Beech Grove. † have nine grandchildren. † The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Page 7 Four-session program to focus on Catholic identity and doctrine

By Mary Ann Wyand Grace Monastery will explore the faith, Catholic support or study what and how of Catholic belief groups, and non-Catholics who are Do you understand Catholic identity and doctrine? with a focus on basic affirmations interested in Church teachings. Many adult Catholics admit that they cannot accurately of the Creed, the fundamental She said the four-part program discuss the beliefs of their faith and could benefit from a content of Catholic faith, and the featuring a casual dinner with like- refresher course on Catholicism. act of believing as a human action. minded people and an informative A recent survey conducted by the Pew Forum on • On Oct. 21, Sara Koehler will presentation followed by time for Religion and Public Life released on June 23 found that address “A People of Tradition: questions and discussion is a only “29 percent of Catholics [interviewed] said they Church History.” response to requests from area participate in prayer groups, Scripture study sessions or The longtime Cathedral High Catholics who want to focus on other types of religious education on a regular basis, with School theology teacher will their spiritual and educational just 13 percent doing so weekly and 16 percent partici- Fr. Matthias review how Church history is the Msgr. Joseph F. needs. pating monthly or yearly.” Neuman, O.S.B. story of the interaction of God’s Schaedel St. parishioner A new four-session program on Catholic identity and inspiration and human striving. A member of St. Monica Jane Dias of Indianapolis is the mother of three young doctrine presented by the Benedict Inn Retreat and Parish in Indianapolis, Koehler will also discuss boys and works part time in the Spiritual Direction Conference Center in Beech Grove during August, “fascinating people and pivotal events which continue to Internship Program at the Benedict Inn. September, October and November will address that teach us useful lessons and give us hope for the future.” Dias said this four-part refresher course will help her spiritual need. • On Nov. 18, Msgr. Joseph F. feel more confident in passing on the Catholic faith to her “Are You Catholic and Don’t Know What You Schaedel, vicar general, will children because her own religious instruction after the Believe?” will feature religious education topics by present “A People of Worship: Second Vatican Council mostly focused on how God is noted local presenters once a Sacramental Life.” love and the importance of following all of the month. The programs begin at The former Catholic school Ten Commandments. 6:30 p.m. on four Tuesdays and teacher and principal will examine “Our children are in elementary school,” she said. “We conclude at 9 p.m. how the Catholic faith makes use have these [Church] traditions, and I want to be able to • On Aug. 26, Benedictine of many external signs that express explain [to them] why Catholics are different than other Sister Mildred Wannemuehler will an inward disposition of belief or faiths and denominations.” present “A People of Prayer: Mary, practice, which help form a Dias said she appreciates the U.S. Catholic Catechism the Saints and Prayer.” Catholic identity and culture in for Adults, but knows that many people don’t have copies The popular retreat leader and Sara Koehler society. of the catechism and would enjoy learning during a former prioress of Our Lady of The registration fee of $25 per religious education program. Grace Monastery in Beech Grove session is due two weeks before each program and “I think it’s going to really hit home for the people will examine how Catholics includes a box dinner. Programs will be held at the retreat who attend,” she said. “I’m getting a group together to go Sr. Mildred consider intercessory prayer as an and conference center, 1402 Southern Ave., in to all four programs.” Wannemuehler, O.S.B. important part of our lives. Beech Grove. • On Sept. 23, Benedictine Benedictine Sister Mary Luke Jones, administrator of (To register for one or more of the programs, call the Father Matthias Neuman will discuss “A People of Faith: the Benedict Inn, said the four-part program is ideal for Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center at Creed and Catholic Beliefs.” parents who want to pass on the Catholic faith to their 317-788- 7581 or send an e-mail to The monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and children, returning Catholics who want to recapture their [email protected] at least two weeks before chaplain for the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of faith, Catholics who want to grow in and strengthen their each session.) † Florida official praises ruling allowing vote on faith-based pr ograms TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CNS)—The executive director Commission to place two proposed amendments on the Schools International—sought and received permission of the Florida Catholic Conference praised an Aug. 4 Nov. 4 ballot did not exceed the commission’s authority. to intervene in the case, saying that their “interests will circuit court ruling that clears the way for voters to decide The first, Ballot Initiative 7, would repeal a provision be directly and immediately impacted” by the court’s whether the state constitution should be amended to allow of the state constitution that prohibits spending public decision. public funding of faith-based and school-choice funds on religious institutions. The second, Ballot “Based on their religious convictions, intervenors offer programs. Initiative 9, would change a section of the constitution to a wide variety of social services, such as elder care, D. Michael McCarron called the decision “a pivotal explicitly allow the public funding of scholarships, health care, education and indigent care to vulnerable step toward safeguarding health, education and social including those to religious and other private schools. populations that, in some cases, few or no other organi- service programs in which Floridians benefit through the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, zations are willing to provide,” said a brief filed on behalf participation of faith-based providers.” the Florida Education Association and other groups filed of the groups. “Ballot Initiative 7 would remove a barrier “All Floridians, particularly the vulnerable and in need, suit on June 13 to remove the proposals from the ballot, to treat the intervenors equally under the law so that deserve the opportunity to benefit from programs with a saying they “would erase religious freedom safeguards intervenors are judged on the merits of their programs, secular purpose provided by religious organizations,” he and harm public schools in the state.” rather than according to their religious affiliation.” said in an Aug. 5 statement. The Florida bishops—along with Mercy Hospital, The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans Circuit Court Judge John C. Cooper ruled that a Friends of Lubavitch of Florida, Catholic Charities of the United for Separation of Church and State, said in an decision by the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Archdiocese of Miami and the Association of Christian Aug. 5 statement that the decision would be appealed. † Pope calls for immediate end to military action in Georgia SEPT 17-27 HOLY LAND TOUR – 4 SEATS LEFT! Experience the countryside where Christ spent his earthly BRESSANONE, Italy (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI ministry, including Galilee, Tiberias, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. appealed for an immediate end to military operations in With The Most Reverend Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. Georgia and its breakaway province of South Ossetia. Citing reports of heavy civilian casualties and a large number of refugees, the pope called on the international SEPT 27-OCT 5 TRAINS OF NEW ENGLAND community to act quickly to bring Russian and Georgian Fall-foliage tour, tastes of Vermont and a stay at the Trapp leaders to the bargaining table. Family Lodge. “It is my fervent wish that military actions cease immediately,” the pope said on Aug. 10. He urged both sides to “refrain, also in the name of a OCT 1-5 SEDONA ADVENTURE common Christian heritage, from further confrontations and Day trip to Grand Canyon, star gazing at Lowell Observatory violent retaliations that could degenerate into a wider conflict.” The Silver Star from the Grotta and a walk on the Lava Flow Trail. The pope made the remarks in the northern Italian city OCT 26-29 THE GREENBRIER RESORT of Bressanone, where he was ending a two-week vacation. 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Like Father Baraga, he traveled appointed him a Two weeks ago, I wrote about all over the vast territory on foot, horseback, Missionary Apostolic, giving him authority Lately, two unrelated stories ran in our Frederic Baraga and his work among the canoe and snowshoes. He founded “to establish the Dominican Order on the local paper, the Anchorage Daily News. Indians. This column numerous parishes and built three churches, banks of the Upper Mississippi.” Both were stark about Dominican including the first church in Wisconsin in With that authority, he established a reminders of the Father and Venerable Green Bay. novitiate and Sinsinawa Mound College as biblical concept of As more priests arrived in Michigan, a school for boys. Both, however, proved to forgiveness. will seem quite similar. Father Mazzuchelli moved southwest to the be unsuccessful and ceased to exist. Each story involved Like Father Baraga, region where Wisconsin, Illinois and He was more successful when he the court sentencing of Father Mazzuchelli meet, and there he remained from 1835 founded the sisters’ community of a young man who answered the call for until his death. He made his principal Sinsinawa Dominicans of the Most killed another young in the residence in Sinsinawa, Wis. He is credited Holy Rosary. It continues to exist, but he man, and each story Diocese of Cincinnati, with founding about 30 parishes and transferred it to Benton, Wis., where he focused on the which then included the current states of building 14 churches. He founded served as pastor the last 15 years of his life. heartbroken father of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and St. Thomas Aquinas College and St. Clara Besides building churches, the dead man. Wisconsin. Academy. The college closed after his Father Mazzuchelli also designed civic In one story, a teenager who was Father Mazzuchelli left Rome in 1828 death. The academy became buildings, including the state capitol in obsessed with guns and dreamed of being a while he was still a Dominican seminarian. Dominican University at River Forest, Ill. Iowa City, the courthouses in Galena, Ill., Marine held a gun to his best friend’s head He completed his theological studies in The Diocese of Dubuque was founded in and Fort Madison, Iowa, and the and fired, apparently believing the gun was Somerset, Ohio, and Bishop Edward 1837, with (who called Market House in Galena. not loaded. Alcohol fueled the tragic event. Fenwick ordained him a priest in 1830. The Father Mazzuchelli “Matthew Kelly”) as its Throughout his ministry, In the other story, a man who was in his bishop sent him to Mackinac Island, the first bishop. The bishop appointed Father Mazzuchelli was an advocate for the 20s at the time grabbed a gun and killed his first priest to minister in Michigan’s “Father Matthew Kelly” the vicar general. Indians, writing on their behalf to the sister’s husband, a drug user, after an Upper Peninsula in 60 years. Father Baraga Father Mazzuchelli suffered a severe governor, president and members of the altercation in which he felt he was joined him there about a year later. illness in 1843 and returned to , Italy, U.S. Congress. protecting his sister. According to the story, Irish settlers, and even the French Bishop where his family lived, for a year. While He contracted pneumonia on Feb. 23, however, the killer “unloaded seven bullets Mathias Loras, called Father Mazzuchelli there, he wrote his Memorie to acquaint 1864, after traveling on a bitterly cold into Josh, pumping shots long after Josh’s “Matthew Kelly.” He worked among the Italians with his work in the United States morning to anoint two parishioners. He died body hit the ground.” Menominee, Winnebago and Chippewa and to recruit other missionaries. that evening at age 57. † Who among us could deny the fathers of the dead their anguish? Yet the judge in the first incident is The Joyful Catholic/Rick Hermann looking anew at the young man, just 16 at the time of his crime, who has now No matter the age, spiritual exercise is good for your soul completed high school and is ready for college. The teen had immediately “My life has changed,” said my friend. “I discovered,” she recalled, “how to put they notice more blessings, and it shows in expressed remorse—he spoke to She spoke with excitement and a big myself entirely in God’s loving hands and their radiant faces. 911 operators after the shooting and smile. praise him for all things. Nothing good or Next, she asks, “What is one thing you tearfully pleaded for help. He was, in a “Since I discovered bad happens unless God allows it to pass might have done differently today?” sense, a victim of horrible parenting. His the power of gratitude, through his fingers. So we can be grateful This teaches them how to be more aware mother bought him both beer and the guns I see everything and for everything. of their words and actions. They learn to be that he kept in his bedroom. everyone in a new “My life is transformed,” she continued. problem solvers and peacemakers. They Although the young man was supposed light. I no longer see “I feel like I’ve awakened from a delirious dream of ways to be better in the future. to be sentenced for manslaughter this the glass half-empty; nightmare. Maybe I found the Holy Spirit. I Finally, she says, “Name one time today month, the judge is sending the case to a now I see the glass just want to share this joy and wisdom with when you felt God’s presence.” special panel of judges to determine if a half-full.” the world!” This helps them recognize God’s loving lighter sentence can be imposed. The This woman She decided to offer her children an easy presence in their daily lives. family of the dead youth, including the struggled with a version of the spiritual exercises by asking Her older children are starting to father who has never removed his dead critical spirit and a self-proclaimed them three questions. appreciate how God can bring good from son’s clothes from his closet, is having a tendency to see a problem in every situation Every night at bedtime, starting with the bad and healing after hurt. very hard time dealing with this and sees and a fault in every person. youngest, she sits on the side of the bed as This gently moves them closer to God the son’s death as murder. Then she read The Spiritual Exercises of they kneel and say their prayers. by helping them identify his certain In the second story, Josh’s father came to Saint Ignatius and discovered the power of She listens intently to them just as God presence every day of their lives. court from another state and spoke in favor gratitude. listens to her. Gradually, they see God in all the love of the prosecutor’s plea for a 25-year On the first page, St. Ignatius stirred her Then they jump into bed and she tucks they give and receive—for God is love. sentence. heart with these words: “Man is created to them in, saying, “Name one thing you are Then the children drift off to sleep When the offender—Josh’s killer—got praise, reverence and serve God our thankful for.” knowing the peace and joy of the up to speak, he spoke quietly and asked for Lord.” At first, she recalled, they mentioned Great Comforter. the forgiveness of the dead man’s family, As she practiced the spiritual exercises ice cream, flowers and birthday parties. “This nightly ritual,” she says, “is giving forgiveness for the heartache he had caused. of St. Ignatius, she found herself allowing Gradually, they expanded their lists to them a much deeper faith than I had as a He said he prayed for that forgiveness every God to guide her to supernatural health. include surprises like Grandpa’s laugh or a child. I actually see my children now as day. She had found a new personal trainer. teacher’s compliment. little saints in progress.” Then something strange happened. We During her nightly examination of This helps her children see the endless Catholics might call it a movement of the conscience, she reflected on her day. Then variety of God’s blessings every day. (Rick Hermann of St. Louis is a Catholic Holy Spirit. The father asked to speak she thanked God for all his blessings and Previously, they rocketed through the columnist and speaker. His e-mail address again. He had changed his mind, he told the praised him for his own sake. day without noticing God’s blessings. Now is [email protected].) † judge. He wanted to ask for the minimum sentence. The newspaper quoted the father: Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister “We do forgive you. For reasons we don’t understand, we love you; we do.” No one can judge the first father, who is Volunteers needed to organize 3,000 rosary rallies still, after two years, reeling from his tragic loss. We should all pray for peace for him My previous column this month Christian Newswire, I learned that America organized 2,173 rosary rallies to honor the and for his family. emphasized the feast days for the Blessed Needs Fatima (ANF) is organizing rallies anniversary of the apparitions of the At the same time, we pray in thanks- Virgin Mary. Now I throughout the U.S. The rallies will be held Blessed Mother at Fatima. Besides the giving for the forgiveness that filled the focus on something dear on Oct. 11, the Saturday closest to Oct. 13, volunteers on phone duty in Kansas, ANF heart of Josh’s father. It’s the true route to to the hearts of Catholic which is the date that the historical “Miracle needs more rally captains, each of whom peace. men and women of the Sun” was witnessed at Fatima. gather people in their towns to pray the Once at a parish retreat, the retreat worldwide: the Fatima ANF is promoting peaceful rallies through rosary in public. The event is called the master asked us to use one word to define message. rally captains, who are organizing friends Public Square Rosary Crusade. Scripture. Naturally, the word “love” came As many of us know, and other members of their communities— More information can be obtained at to mind. Maybe “peace” or “salvation”? more than 90 years ago, hopefully across the nation. www.americaneedsfatima.org or by calling No, said the retreat master. The word Jesus Christ’s mother, At a national coordination office in 888-317-5571 and leaving a message. that best defines both Hebrew Scripture and Mary, appeared several Rossville, Kan., last year, 120 volunteers Also, the Web site was extremely Christian Scripture is “forgiveness”—the times in Fatima, made 35,000 calls. This information comes helpful, even giving a mailing address: forgiveness that Jesus asked for from the Portugal, to three shepherd children. During from Robert Ritchie, executive director of America Needs Fatima, P.O. Box 341, cross for those who did not understand these visitations, Our Lady of Fatima told America Needs Fatima, which was founded Hanover, PA 17331. ANF’s e-mail is what they were doing. The forgiveness them and all the faithful what she wanted in 1985. [email protected]. offered over and over to the Hebrew people them to do. Ritchie reports, “An amazing network is If readers in the Archdiocese of Indian- by a God who repeatedly gave them a The 1917 promise was that if we forming to honor the Mother of God and apolis are involved with the Public Square second chance. The open-armed forgiveness followed her instructions, not only would we pray for the conversion of America … only Rosary Crusade, I would appreciate of the father embracing his prodigal son. be protected from evil, but we will be God can help us stop abortion, pornography, knowing about your experiences previously Forgiveness is difficult. But when we see rewarded for faithful devotion to her wishes. blasphemy and sins against nature that are so or after October. true forgiveness, it inspires us and we know According to America Needs Fatima, it is widespread. … If anything can stop the it is of God. now up to us to continue spreading devotion moral crisis in society, it’s the power of the (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of Christ to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. rosary.” the King Parish in Indianapolis, is a (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News Through various sources, including Last year, 140,000 members nationwide regular columnist for The Criterion.) † Service.) † The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Page 9

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Aug. 18 Friday, Aug. 22 The Sunday Readings 24:15-24 The Queenship of the Blessed (Response) Deuteronomy 32:18-21 Virgin Mary Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 Matthew 19:16-22 Ezekiel 37:1-14 • 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 107:2-9 • Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 in the fact that by the time of the last third of Tuesday, Aug. 19 Matthew 22:34-40 • Matthew 15:21-28 the first century A.D., arguably the major John Eudes, priest portion of the Christian population was not Ezekiel 28:1-10 Saturday, Aug. 23 Jewish in origin, although it cannot be (Response) Deuteronomy 32:26- Rose of Lima, virgin The third section of the Book of Isaiah forgotten that Christianity sprang from provides this weekend’s liturgy with its Judaism, was built upon Judaic themes and 28, 30, 35c-36b Exodus 43:1-7ab first reading. contained within its ranks many, many Jews, Matthew 19:23-30 Psalm 85:9ab, 10-14 Understanding this including Paul, the Blessed Virgin and the Matthew 23:1-12 part of Isaiah requires other Apostles. Wednesday, Aug. 20 some knowledge of the Paul, in this letter, re-commits himself to Bernard, abbot and doctor of Sunday, Aug. 24 cultural context of the evangelizing the Jews because God promised the Church Twenty-first Sunday in time. It was not a happy salvation to the Jews and Paul, as an Apostle, time. Life for the Jews is the agent of God. Ezekiel 34:1-11 Ordinary Time had changed very much St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the last Psalm 23:1-6 Isaiah 22:19-23 from what it was when reading. Matthew 20:1-16 Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8 David or was In this story, Jesus is in an area populated Romans 11:33-36 king. Long gone were the by as many Gentiles as Jews, if not more. Thursday, Aug. 21 Matthew 16:13-20 prosperity, peace and tranquility known under Not surprisingly, the Lord encounters a these kings. “Canaanite” woman. The Evangelist’s use of Pius X, pope Invading neighboring states had swept this term to describe the woman underscores Ezekiel 36:23-28 into the two Hebrew kingdoms that the fact that she is an outsider. “Canaanite” Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19 composed the political structures of the figures prominently in the Old Testament to Matthew 22:1-14 Holy Land after Solomon’s death. These indicate persons not of the revealed religion, invasions extinguished Hebrew even persons of great sin. independence. Jesus says that the Messiah’s mission is to Untold numbers of Jews died in the bring salvation to God’s people. The woman process. Others had been taken to Babylon, persists. She believes in Jesus. She wants and Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen the capital of the great Babylonian empire. needs God’s mercy. Jesus responds to this At last, Babylonia itself was overtaken. need. Ringing bells for The descendants of the first Jews taken to The reading closes by establishing the Babylon returned home, but desolation and common denominator among all humans. It hopelessness awaited them. is that all human beings commit sins, and so dates back to the Middle Ages Living was much more pluralistic than it all people need God’s mercy. had been centuries earlier. The Jews at the We recently suggested to our new Of course, at that time most of the time that this section of Isaiah was written Reflection Qpastor that we would like the hand Mass was said almost silently by the lived amid religious and ethnic diversity. So We cannot overplay the references in these bells rung at the priest, with his back to the people, so “foreigners” were in many places, and they readings to ethnicity. Another element of consecration. these were the only ways that allowed the were “foreign” in several respects. separation within society at the time was the He said that would faithful to “keep up” with what was going Apparently from this reading, some of fact that the Canaanite woman was female. In not be necessary or on during the Mass. these “foreigners” embraced the ancient the culture of the time, a woman’s approach fitting for the liturgy. In 1972, the Vatican congregation Hebrew religion. They were accepted, but to a male stranger was revolutionary. Did sin When we stated responsible for the liturgy related the use they were expected, actually by the prophets set her apart? Perhaps. Regardless, she was that the bells were of bells to the level of liturgical education and therefore by God, to observe all that the set apart, a woman and a foreigner. rung at a Mass in the parish. Hebrew religion required. She was doubly excluded, yet she went to celebrated by Where this education has been St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans provides Jesus. She knew her true needs. She knew Pope Benedict XVI, he adequate, it noted, there is no need the second reading. that she needed God’s mercy, and she replied that we do not for this kind of signal. If sufficient Throughout Christian history, the great devoutly believed that Jesus bore this mercy. have to do what the pope does. liturgical instruction is, in fact, lacking, Apostle, St. Paul, has been remembered He could dispense it. He was the “son of We were surprised at his answers. Can bells should be rung at least at the especially for his outreach to Gentiles, to David,” the voice of God and the agent of you explain? (Missouri) two elevations to elicit joy and attention persons not of Jewish birth or religion. God’s redemption. (Notitiae, the official publication of the His efforts in this regard, and surely similar Times have changed, but it matters not. General law of the Church is that a Congregation for Divine Worship and efforts by his disciples and by others, resulted God loves us all. † Ashort time before the consecration, the Discipline of the Sacraments, “when appropriate,” the server rings a bell 1972 #343). as a signal to the people. Today, we have a deeper awareness My Journey to God As the priest shows the host and than did the people of earlier days that, chalice at the consecration, “according to while Jesus becomes present in a new local custom,” the server also rings the way under the forms of bread and wine bell (General Instruction of the Roman in the Eucharist, he doesn’t become O Mary, Blessed Mother Missal, #150). fresh, as it were. He is present in his Thus, there is no universal rule for the word, which we hear, and in his faithful Church, and the U.S. bishops have not people, the body of Christ, as we gather O Mary, Blessed Mother, made a rule for their country. Bells are to celebrate the Eucharist before he Give us your shoulder to weep on permitted, but are not required. becomes present to us as our food and And dry the tears from our cheeks. It’s true that apparently the pope likes drink, and as our sacrifice to the Father. Your soothing mercy helps us through the to have the bells rung at his Masses, but Also, we now express that joy over dark. that does not make it obligatory for the Lord’s eucharistic presence with our everyone. What he prefers does not own voices, especially in the acclamation O Mary, Blessed Mother, automatically become a rule for the whole after the consecration and in the Let your arms carry us Church. If he wishes to make it a “Great Amen” at the end of the Down the river of hope regulation, he has ample avenues to do so. Eucharistic Prayer. To an ocean of faith. Perhaps a bit of history will help put As in many other ways, we now do this in perspective. As is true of most folk ourselves what the faithful formerly could O Mary, Blessed Mother, customs, the reasons are not always easy only listen to or watch someone else do Your hand helps heal when touching our to untangle. during the celebration of the Mass. † hearts with understanding. Ringing bells at Mass apparently began Your patience saves us through all of our in monasteries during the Middle Ages. suffering Only choir monks attended the typical Readers may submit prose As we bask in the warmth of your conventual (community) Mass in the blessings. morning. Other monks out in the fields or poetry for faith column followed the progress of the Mass through The Criterion invites readers to O Mary, Blessed Mother, the chapel bell. submit original prose or poetry relating Let the kindness of loving fill our hearts One event which occasioned the to faith or experiences of prayer for And the wisdom of fairness guide our increased use of bells around consecration possible publication in the “My thinking, time was the introduction of the elevation Journey to God” column. So one day we will have peace and of the host and chalice around the year Seasonal reflections also are happiness, 1200. These elevations came to be seen, appreciated. Please include name, O Mary, Blessed Mother. even into the last century, as the main part address, parish and telephone number of the Mass. with submissions. By Genea Tessier Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann At one time, fervent Catholics walked Send material for consideration to from church to church just to watch the “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, (Genea Tessier is a member of Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis. This sculpture of elevation. Bells were rung to express P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 the Pieta is displayed at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis.) elation that “Jesus is now here” and all or e-mail to [email protected]. † present could look at him. Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Rising cost of back-to-school supplies is testing par ents WASHINGTON (CNS)—The rising cost of back-to- school supplies is forcing parents across the country to do the math before they head to the store. Parents—already coping with the high cost of food and gas—are now getting hit hard with a school-supply price tag that increases each World Catholic New CNS photo/Karen Callaway, year as items on the list become more high tech than the traditional pens, pencils, glue and notebooks. In response, parents are doing their homework. They are looking for sales or heading to discount stores. Others are relying on sales-tax holidays or seeking donated items from charity groups. According to a trade organization report, one-fifth of U.S. parents set aside a portion of this year’s federal stimulus check specifically for school purchases. Back-to-school shopping—the second-biggest shopping season after Christmas—is expected this year to run about $594 per family (including electronics and clothing), up from last year’s $563, according to the National Retail Federation, a trade group based in Washington. In its annual report released in July, the group noted that back-to-school spending for students in kindergarten through 12th grade this year is expected to reach $20.1 billion. Spending is projected to increase for elementary and high school students, but it is expected to Parents and students line up to receive donated school supplies and food at St. Clare of Montefalco Church in Chicago in August last go down for college students, from last year’s $641 per year. Several charities across the U.S. have stepped up to help families with their back-to-school needs. The cost of school supplies and student to $599 this year. clothing can average around $600 per family, according to a retail association. It is estimated that overall spending for students this year will be $31.2 billion. and computers without paying state sales taxes. Leonor Alvarado, director of the emergency food pantry Even though that kind of money could buy a lot of New York held the first back-to-school tax holiday in at the St. Vincent de Paul Center in Porterville, Calif., protractors, retailers are worried they will feel the pinch 1997. Massachusetts, Vermont and West Virginia joined in knows full well about the increased need for services based with parents tightening their spending budgets in today’s this year. Not all legislators favor the measure since it on the influx she has seen at the pantry in recent months. As tight economy. The overall school-supply spending estimate means a loss of state revenue. a child of a farmworker family, she also knows what it is includes an expected 2.5 percent increase over last year, but And for many people, the markdowns, sales and tax-free like to not be able to afford school items. it is the lowest increase in at least five years, according to shopping days don’t help enough. That’s why she instituted the backpack drive at the the trade group. Catholic Charities agencies sponsor back-to-school center sponsored by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stores are trying to lure parents with markdowns on drives to collect items for those in need. Fresno, Calif. basic school items, free shipping and advertisements that These days, such drives in cities and rural areas go “I see people coming who don’t have money to buy compare the relatively inexpensive cost of school supplies beyond collecting crayons and notebooks to collecting food, so how will they have money for their kids’ to the high cost of gas and groceries. money for clothes or shoe vouchers. school supplies, especially when they have five or Several state legislatures also have stepped in to offset Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Joliet, Ill., has been six kids?” she said. costs by approving sales-tax holidays specifically for sponsoring back-to-school drives for nearly 20 years after a “With the economy and gas prices, it’s either food or school-related purchases. Currently 16 states and the single mother asked for help with school supplies for her gas,” she told Catholic News Service on Aug. 7. She also District of Columbia offer tax-free shopping days specif- children. said it is a self-esteem issue for children who don’t have ically for school items. During these days, usually in Since that initial drive, the agency has sponsored as new markers or clothes when the school year begins. August, customers can purchase clothes, shoes, supplies many as four annual school fairs. This year, they were to Not all students face the same back-to-school worries, hold two fairs on Aug. 6-7. They though. While some families can’t afford basic items, other were expected to provide school students might balk at lacking a cell phone. Increasingly, Back-to-SchoolBack-tto-SchhoollS SpendingSpendiding supplies to about 8,000 children. cell phones—although not school-required items—have At the fairs, students from been finding their way onto school shopping lists. RisingRising prices are makinmakingg it difdifficultficult f oforr so someme f afamiliesmilies to to low-income families are given According to the Nielsen Co., which tracks consumer affordafford aallll ooff tthehe bacback-to-schoolk-too-school iitemstems scschoolshools cacallll ffofor.r. backpacks full of supplies based habits, 46 percent of 8- to 12-year-olds and 80 percent of on school districts’ lists of what teenagers own cell phones. AVERAGEAAVVERAGE AAMOUNTMOUNT they will need. They also receive “For kids today, mobile phones have become just as SPENT PERPER FFAMILYAMILLYY PURCHASEPUURCHASE BREBREAKDOWNAKDOWN health services such as much a part of their daily school life as pens and pencils,” $$594.24594.24 immunizations, vision exams and said James Russo, the group’s vice president of marketing. $$563.49563.49 dental cleanings, while their “Going back to school without a phone is parents get information on voter unthinkable for many young people, who consider it $$527.08527.08 electronicselectron clothingothing registration, employment, child their lifeline,” he added. 26% care and, for the first time, credit But some things are the same for tech-savvy youths and 39% counseling. parents struggling to make ends meet. The traditional 17% “It’s a one-stop shop of health school-lunch staple—the peanut butter and jelly $443.77$443.77 schoolschoo suppliessuppl 19% and human services,” said Lorri sandwich—is apparently still in favor. Nagle, director of development According to a Nielsen press release, U.S. consumers are ‘05‘06 ‘07 ‘08 shoes for the Joliet Catholic Charities, expected to spend more than $87 million on peanut butter adding that “each year, we serve and nearly $13 million on jelly during the first four weeks Source:Source: NNationalational RRetailetail FFederationederation ©2008© CNSCNS more and more people.” of school. †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—In the not-too-distant future, concerns among observant Jews songs such as “You Are Near,” “I Will Bless Yahweh” and about pronouncing the name of “Rise, O Yahweh” will no longer be part of the Catholic God. As an example, she cited worship experience in the United States. Heinrich Schutz’s “Thanks Be to At the very least, the songs will be edited to remove the Yahweh,” which appears in a File photo by Sean Gallagher File photo by word “Yahweh”—a name of God that the Vatican has GIA hymnal under the title ruled must not “be used or pronounced” in songs and “Thanks Be to God.” prayers during Catholic Masses. Bishop Serratelli said the Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman Vatican decision also would of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, provide “an opportunity to offer announced the new Vatican “directives on the use of ‘the catechesis for the faithful as an name of God’ in the sacred liturgy” in an Aug. 8 letter to encouragement to show his fellow bishops. reverence for the name of God in He said the directives would not “force any changes to daily life, emphasizing the power official liturgical texts” or to the bishops’ current missal of language as an act of devotion translation project, but would likely have “some impact on and worship.” the use of particular pieces of liturgical music in our His letter to bishops came with country as well as in the composition of variable texts, a two-page letter from the Vatican such as the general intercessions for the celebration of the Congregation for Divine Worship Mass and the other sacraments.” and the Sacraments, dated June 29 John Limb, publisher of OCP in Portland, Ore., said the and addressed to episcopal most popular hymn in the OCP repertoire that would be conferences around the world. The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir performs a concert on July 10, 2007, at SS. Peter and affected was Dan Schutte’s “You Are Near,” which begins, “By directive of the Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis during a convention of the National Association of Pastoral “Yahweh, I know you are near.” Holy Father, in accord with the Musicians held in Indianapolis. Paula Gile Trybus, a 1994 Notre Dame graduate and a former He estimated that only “a handful” of other OCP hymns Congregation for the Doctrine of member of the choir, invites those present to join the choir in song. In the not-too-distant future, use the word “Yahweh,” although a search of the the Faith, this congregation ... songs such as “You Are Near,” “I Will Bless Yahweh” and “Rise, O Yahweh” will no longer be part OCP Web site turned up about a dozen examples of songs deems it convenient to of the Catholic worship experience in the United States. that included the word. communicate to the bishops’ OCP is a nonprofit publisher of liturgical music and conferences ... as regards the translation and the pronun- faithful to the Church’s tradition, from the beginning, that worship resources. ciation, in a liturgical setting, of the divine name signified the sacred Tetragrammaton was never pronounced in the Limb said the company would be contacting composers in the sacred Tetragrammaton,” said the letter signed by Christian context nor translated into any of the languages to “ask them to try to come up with alternate language” Cardinal Francis Arinze and Archbishop Malcolm into which the Bible was translated.” for their hymns. But he said hymnals for 2009 had already Ranjith, congregation prefect and secretary, respectively. The two Vatican officials noted that “Liturgiam been printed so the affected hymns would not include the The Tetragrammaton is YHWH, the four consonants of Authenticam,” the congregation’s 2001 document on new wording for at least another year. the ancient Hebrew name for God. liturgical translations, stated that “the name of almighty Even when the new hymnals are out, “it may take time “As an expression of the infinite greatness and majesty God expressed by the Hebrew Tetragrammaton and for people to get used to singing something different,” he of God, it was held to be unpronounceable and hence was rendered in Latin by the word ‘Dominus,’ is to be added in an Aug. 11 telephone interview with Catholic replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of rendered into any given vernacular by a word equivalent News Service. the use of an alternate name: ‘Adonai,’ which means in meaning.” At Chicago-based GIA Publications, another major ‘Lord,’ ” the Vatican letter said. Similarly, Greek “Notwithstanding such a clear norm, in recent years Catholic publisher of hymnals, no major revisions will be translations of the Bible used the word “Kyrios” and Latin the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of necessary because of the company’s longtime editorial scholars translated it to “Dominus”—both also mean Lord. Israel’s proper name,” the letter said. “The practice of policy against use of the word “Yahweh.” “Avoiding pronouncing the Tetragrammaton of the vocalizing it is met with both in the reading of biblical Kelly Dobbs-Mickus, senior editor at GIA Publications, name of God on the part of the Church has therefore its texts taken from the Lectionary as well as in prayers and told CNS on Aug. 11 that the policy, which dates to 1986, own grounds,” the letter said. “Apart from a motive of a hymns, and it occurs in diverse written and spoken was based not on Vatican directives but on sensitivity to purely philological order, there is also that of remaining forms,” including Yahweh, Jahweh and Yehovah. †

He also stressed the Catholic teaching that it is “never Therese Brown, associate director for marketing, sales and CATECHISM permissible to impose our faith on others.” service at USCCB Publishing, said about 190,000 copies of the continued from page 1 Although some Jews as individuals may choose to adult catechism had been sold to date. Another printing of become Christians, “it is also the Church’s understanding 50,000 copies took place in May and those copies are catechism. that the full incorporation of Israel into the saving covenant expected to run out around the middle of next year, she said. † “The catechism is not the place where you work out of Christ may be the fruit of the end times, may not happen difficult theological problems,” he said. “That’s what until the end of history,” Father Massa said. scholars are charged to do.” In his letter to bishops, Msgr. Malloy said that if the Father Massa said the status of the Jewish covenant has Congregation for Clergy grants “recognitio,” or Now You Can Hear been “a very fertile area for theological investigation” in approval, to the revised passage it will be incorporated recent years, although Church teaching has been clear on into the next printing of the U.S. Catholic Catechism two related points: for Adults. • The Jewish people “are in a real relationship with God “The next printing will not occur until the remaining based on a covenant that has never been revoked.” volumes from the latest printing are exhausted,” he added. Catholic • “All covenants with Israel find fulfillment in Christ, Adopted by the U.S. bishops in November 2004 and who is the Savior of all.” later approved by the Vatican, the 664-page adult catechism Father Massa added that the current wording in the is the first official catechism produced by the nation’s catechism “was not flat-out wrong,” but “was ambiguous bishops since the creation of The Baltimore Catechism, Radio and needed to be qualified.” But because the catechism is a first published in 1885 and revised in 1941. catechetical tool and not a theological textbook, the bishops In the first two weeks after its July 31, 2006, publication, decided not to expand that section to provide a fuller it sold more than 25,000 copies, according to consideration of the issue, he said. USCCB Publishing. † Everywhere In or around Indianapolis… Archdiocese of You can hear the station at 89.1 on your FM radio. If you have difficulty receiving it in Indianapolis this area, you can get a “SMALL MIRACLE” radio for just $20 that will receive the station CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters Blake, CNS photo/Mike Olympian even inside your home. Call 317-870-8400 for details. Bridget Sloan of the U.S. competes on the balance beam at the Anywhere in the Archdiocese… 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug. 10. Bridget is a member of You can hear the station at St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg www.CatholicRadioIndy.org on your computer. and will be a sophomore at Tri-West High School in Linton this Mass Daily at 8am and noon fall. Teammate Samantha Peszek, a Rosary at 7:30am Daily junior at Cathedral High School Catholic Answers Live 6-8pm and member of St. Simon the Apostle Parish, both in Indian- Great Catholic Programs 24 Hours a Day apolis, sprained her ankle during warm-ups on Aug. 10 and was only able to compete on the uneven bars during the women’s qualifi- cation round. As this newspaper went to press, Samantha’s status for the women’s team final on Aug. 13 was uncertain. Page 12 The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Batesville craftsmen proud of work on Our Lady of America statue By Mary Ann Wyand preparation for installation at the cultural This statue of center. Our Lady of America Restored to radiance by craftsmen at William J. Weberding made the first was displayed for Weberding Carving Shop Inc. in wood carving of the Our Lady of America veneration at Our Lady Batesville, a statue of Our Lady of statue during the 1960s as well as several Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann of the Most Holy Rosary America has a new, temporary home in replicas. His sons have worked on the Church in Indianapolis the rotunda of the Pope John Paul II current statue, which is made of fiberglass on Nov. 3 and Nov. 4 in Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. and stands more than 6 feet tall with the 2007 before it was The Marian statue is displayed “on the gold-plated metal crown. restored by craftsmen very location where his holiness, “It’s an absolutely stunning statue,” at Weberding Carving Pope Benedict XVI, sat on his throne and St. Louis parishioner William Weberding Shop Inc. in Batesville. greeted the faithful during his recent visit” Jr. of Batesville explained during a recent On May 24, it was on April 17, according to information phone interview. placed on display at the posted on the cultural center’s Web site. “We’re so proud of it,” he said of their Pope John Paul II Our Lady of America’s statue was recent restoration work on the Marian Cultural Center in placed on display at the cultural center on statue. “You don’t get too many chances Washington, D.C. If May 24 and will remain there pending the to do things like that. It was really great. approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ … We showed it to a lot of people.” U.S. bishops, the Marian decision on a request for permanent His brother, Tim Weberding, also a statue will be placement at the nearby Basilica of the member of St. Louis Parish in Batesville, permanently displayed National Shrine of the Immaculate has restored the statue several times. at the Basilica of the Conception adjacent to The Catholic “It’s traveled around the country for National Shrine of the University of America. several months and it’s been back here Immaculate Conception Our Lady of Mount Carmel [for repairs] about three times,” adjacent to The Catholic parishioner Al Langsenkamp of Carmel, Tim Weberding said. “We went over it University of America in Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese, in a letter 100 percent and touched up everything. Washington. written for the Our Lady of America They said to go over it with a fine-tooth newsletter and Web site, explains that the comb so we did that and repaired the base U.S. bishops “await the outcome of a then re-crated it for the trip to process of discernment undertaken by … Washington.” [Bishop] Leonard P. Blair of Toledo …, Tim Weberding said the craftsmen at the diocese where [Precious Blood] his family’s company “take great pride in Sister Mary Ephrem [Mildred Neuzil] the work we do … because there’s only lived out her last days on this Earth. one way to do it and that’s the right way.” Our Lady of America appeared to He said his father made several wood Sister Mary Ephrem on Sept. 26, 1956, at carvings depicting Our Lady of America a site in the state of Indiana not far from in various sizes from 18 inches to Toledo, Ohio.” four feet many years ago, but family In the letter, Langsenkamp notes that members don’t know their locations. pleased with it. Tell my children I thank basilica’s Web site. “Dr. Hugh Dempsey, deputy director, and “Pilgrims from all over the world will them. Let them finish it quickly and make The late Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, the staff at the Pope John Paul II Cultural see the statue in Washington,” Tim it a place of pilgrimage. It will be a place then the of The Catholic Center welcomed the Our Lady of Weberding said. “It’s exciting. The statue of wonders. I promise this. I will bless all University of America and founder of the America statue [in May] that was first is in pristine shape now in a place of those who, either by prayers, labor or shrine, initiated plans for the church in displayed in 2006 at the U.S. Bishops’ honor at the cultural center. Someday we material aid, help to erect this shrine.” 1910 and established a committee to Conference in Baltimore.” hope to see it there or at the basilica.” Sister Mary Ephrem also reported that raise funds for its construction in 1914. From Baltimore, the Marian statue was Our Lady of America seeks to lead the Mary emphasized that her image should be The cornerstone was dedicated on taken to the Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis, world to peace and purity, according to displayed at the basilica with the title Sept. 23, 1920, and construction began St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan near information about this Marian devotion. “Our Lady of America, the Immaculate on Sept. 18, 1922. ground zero then to St. Patrick’s Cathedral Sister Mary Ephrem said the Blessed Virgin.” Now members of the Blessed Virgin in New York and the Cathedral Basilica of Virgin Mary first appeared to her as The Marian apparitions reportedly Mary Foundation, a not-for-profit the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J. Our Lady of Ameica on Sept. 26, 1956, continued during 1957 and 1958 with corporation based in Indianapolis, look During the fall of 2007, the Our Lady of the feast of the North American Martyrs, Our Lady’s instructions to Sister Mary forward to the day when the Our Lady of America statue was transported to churches then again on Oct. 13, 1956, holding a Ephrem that people must reform and America statue is installed and venerated in , Houston and Milwaukee small replica of the completed Basilica of sanctify their lives with a focus on purity. at the national Marian shrine. then to Indianapolis, where it was the National Shrine of the Immaculate The Basilica of the National Shrine of displayed for veneration at Our Lady of the Conception. the Immaculate Conception is the largest (The full text of the “Prayer to Our Lady Most Holy Rosary Church on Nov. 3 and “This is my shrine, my daughter,” Catholic church in the United States and of America, Patroness of Our Land” is Nov. 4 before it was taken to the Sister Mary Ephrem said that Mary told North America, and one of the 10 largest posted with this story on our Web site at Weberding Carving Shop for restoration in her during the apparition. “I am very churches in the world, according to the www.criteriononline.com.) †

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Schaedel, Archdiocesan Director    (    =;<3 The Criterion Friday, August 15, 2008 Page 13 Serra Club vocations essay Diocesan priests can have great influence on youths By Zach Hartley Scripture, pray together and discern what their own vocation Under the direction and leadership of Archbishop Daniel Special to The Criterion might be. M. Buechlein, and with veteran priests like Father Daniel This title, First Thursday, was chosen by Father Meyer Mahan, Father Stephen Giannini, and Father James Bonke, By definition, a priest is someone who performs and because it was on a Thursday that Jesus and his disciples the archdiocese has drawn and developed young priests like administers religious rites. gathered for the last time to break bread and pray with one Father Meyer and Father Whittington as well as Father Rick When we think of priests, we another. This was also the time when Jesus instituted the Nagel and Father Robert Robeson. often think of them as the people sacrament of . Therefore, it is on the first Thursday And with good, young seminarians in formation, such who say Mass; those who baptize of every month that we gather in much the same way. as John Hollowell and Benjamin Syberg, we are going to and forgive sins. This is true. Father Meyer has done a fabulous job with the be “casting the nets” and leading our Catholic community These are duties of a priest. community as a whole. Whether it’s his work while at for many years to come. However, certain individuals— St. Luke or organizing a mission trip as director of youth priests in our own archdiocese— ministry for the archdiocese, he is a major asset to our (Zach Hartley and his mother, Teresa Hartley, are go above and beyond the archdiocese and we are blessed to have him. members of St. Parish in everyday duties of the However, he is only one member of a wonderful Indianapolis. Last spring, he completed the 11th grade at priesthood. community of diocesan priests. We are truly blessed in the Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis and is the These young priests have done Indianapolis Archdiocese to have so many great men who 11th-grade division winner in the 2008 Indianapolis an absolutely phenomenal job at have heard and responded to God’s call to the priesthood. Serra Club Vocations Essay Contest.) † Zach Hartley inspiring the youths and young adults in our community. Father Shaun Whittington, whom I had the privilege of knowing when he was a seminarian, and Father Jonathan Meyer, the associate pastor at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, are two of these men. Both priests have the ability to really connect with Healthcare camps are youths. They can get down on their level, and they use this to their advantage. They use this to teach them. They get young adults interested in the faith. The faith comes alive with them. Young people begin to look at their faith a cool way for students in ways they hadn’t before. They learn more about themselves, what they believe in and what it means to be Catholic. Due to Father Whittington’s current assignment as to spend their summer instructor of Theology and chaplain at Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison, I have not been able to witness personally all that he has accomplished recently. However, as a member of St. Luke The Metropolitan Indianapolis- the Evangelist Parish, I have been able to witness Central Indiana Area Health firsthand the impact of Father Meyer. Education Center (MICI-AHEC) Upon Father Meyer’s arrival at St. Luke, the liturgical services received a serious upgrade. Whether it’s incense, is offering the following interactive bells or the use of candles at the Gospel, the Mass has camps this summer for students become much more reverent. interested in pursuing a career Father Meyer also created a new group of high school altar servers. These young men are distinguished on the in healthcare: altar by their wearing of cassocks and surplices. This has helped to show younger kids that serving can be a “cool” Science Enrichment and Health Career thing that they can continue to be involved with as they Camp – July 21-24, 2008 get older. ¾¹2BHDMBDHR2HLOKDº&Q@CDR* Select individuals from this high school group are also ¾¹2SDOOHMFHMSN2BHDMBDº&Q@CDR trained as masters of ceremonies. These MC’s, along with Father Meyer, work to make every liturgical service as ¾¹!DXNMC!HNKNFXº&Q@CDR glorifying to God as possible, as well as keeping the /QNFQ@L.AIDBSHUDR Increase knowledge congregation engaged at the same time. of the human body systems, foster an Father Meyer also instituted a program known as awareness of health-science connections, First Thursdays. This program is designed to bring young facilitate an interest in healthcare men together to have a meal, discuss their faith, look over careers, encourage healthy life choices and provide opportunities for unique and Pope impressed fun health-science activities. “Health Care Hoops Camp” by ‘authentic joy’ Academic Enrichment and Basketball Camp – July 14-17, 2008 of WYD pilgrims /QNFQ@L.AIDBSHUDR Increase knowledge of math and science through enrichment BRESSANONE, Italy (CNS)—Pope Pope Benedict XVI activities, learn the fundamentals of noted the “authentic joy” experienced by World Youth Day basketball through drills and activities, participants and said it stood in stark increase knowledge of health careers, contrast to the drug-fueled escapism affecting many young people today. and foster an awareness of health- The pope spoke on Aug. 10 science connections. about his World Youth Day trip to Australia in July at the end of a two- “Nursing University” – August 4-7, 2008 week vacation in the northern Italian /QNFQ@L.AIDBSHUDRIncrease knowledge city of Bressanone. PGUIFOVSTJOHÞFME GPTUFSBOBXBSFOFTTPG He said he was impressed by the “joyous faces of so many boys and health-science connections, demonstrate girls from all over the world.” the practical application of nursing “In the great cities of the young science principles, and provide opportunities Pope Benedict XVI Australian nation, those young for unique and fun nursing. people were a sign of authentic joy, sometimes noisy but always peaceful and positive,” he said. Although an estimated 400,000 young people partic- ipated in the Australian events, the pope noted that they caused no disorder or damage. “To be happy, they didn’t need to resort to vulgarity or violence, or to alcohol and drugs,” he said. Instead, they drew happiness from meeting each other and discovering a ConnectingConnecting StudentsStudents toto Careers,Careeers, ProfessionalsProfessionals toto new world, he said. 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When Katrina caused the 17th Street Canal Anne Campbell, principal of Mount Carmel but the needs exceeded the capability of In the fall of 2006, FADICA—Foundations to breach, the Congregation of Our Lady of Academy. “We’re still working on the sister contributions available from fellow religious and Donors Interested in Catholic Mount Carmel’s entire seven-acre complex house [the academy’s faculty residence], and orders. Activities—alerted its member foundations was inundated with 8 to 10 feet of toxic water. the motherhouse is still under construction as She asked Butler to spearhead a to urgent needs those congregations still The motherhouse, which had a preschool on well” with roof repairs and interior work not Catholic foundation appeal and helped faced a year after Katrina. the ground floor, and all the buildings of yet completed, she said. him arrange for leaders of two of the Since then, member foundations have Mount Carmel Academy were affected. She added that the order just got a New Orleans women’s congregations to come up with more than $4.4 million in These included the classrooms, a faculty $250,000 grant from a FADICA member to speak at the fall 2006 FADICA meeting, held grants to help pay the costs of cleaning and residence, chapel, gymnasium, theater, fine restore its hurricane-damaged retreat in New Orleans to focus on needs there. rebuilding the sisters’ schools, convents and arts center, library and a new four-story house—on the Gulf Coast outside In addition to the Congregation of Our other facilities destroyed or severely building that still carried a $6 million New Orleans—which it plans to offer to Lady of Mount Carmel, the congregations damaged by Katrina. mortgage. members of other women’s orders as a place receiving assistance are the Marianites of Combined requests from the religious In January 2006, less than five months of relaxation and spiritual renewal. Holy Cross, the Sisters of St. Joseph of orders total $6.3 million. Some requests after Katrina, Mount Carmel was the first Some grants to women religious from Medaille, the Ursulines, the Sisters of the FADICA members went to projects that had Holy Family, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, SENIOR LIVING SHOPPING already been completed using the sisters’ the Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic financial reserves so they could return quickly and the Sisters of St. Teresa of Jesus, or to New Orleans and resume their ministries. Teresians. At the sisters’ request, the first round of Sister Chris Perrier, treasurer of the grants went primarily to restoring their Marianites of Holy Cross, said that despite YOUR BEACH ministries and educational and service flood damage to all their houses and school programs, Butler said. facilities the members of her congregation TO BAY “Now we’re into a second round of needs. wanted to return to New Orleans as soon as A theme that runs through … is housing for possible because “we really wanted to be a REALTOR the sisters,” he said. presence to the people in this area.” “Initially they just wanted to get their Shortly after Katrina, they started the ministries and schools back in operation,” he Marianite Bywater Project—named after the NOW is the time in said, but “a lack of housing is severely upper Ninth Ward neighborhood of Bywater, SOUTHWEST FLORIDA! handicapping them.” where they live—to help impoverished Butler credited Sister Sally Duffy, residents, many of them senior citizens on • NAPLES a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, with the fixed incomes, cope with the economic, initiative that drew FADICA and the social, psychological and spiritual aftereffects • BONITA BEACH Leadership Conference of Women Religious of Katrina. • ESTERO (LCWR) together to form the New Orleans Recovery Project. (Editor’s note: More information about the • FT. MYERS BEACH Sister Sally, president and CEO of her project is available by writing to: order’s SC Ministry Foundation and a FADICA/LCWR, New Orleans Recovery Parish member: OLG, Greenwood, IN FADICA board member, said that after Katrina Project, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite Parish member: St Leo, Bonita, FL the LCWR—whose members represent 825, Washington, DC 20008. Contributions 239.273.8453 • [email protected] 67,000 women religious in the U.S.—posted may also be sent to the same address.) † SENIOR LIVING SHOPPING

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Paul Andres. Grandmother of 12. July 25. Husband of Kay KUTSKO, Carolyn, 81, Nelson. Father of Stephanie Angel and St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Nelson-Jones, Jay, Jeff and July 30. Mother of Betty Philip Nelson Jr. Grandfather of saint Walker and Michael Kutsko. eight. Great-grandfather of one. Rest in peace A stained-glass window

Grandmother of four. Great- ODUM, Betty Anne, 86, CNS file photo/Joanne Asher in the main chapel of the grandmother of one. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Please submit in writing to our FIELD, Arthur F., III, 75, Mother Cabrini Shrine office by 10 a.m. Thursday Sacred Heart of Jesus, Indian- Indianapolis, July 28. Aunt of LAHRMAN, James, 55, near Golden, Colo., before the week of publication; apolis, Aug. 2. Husband of St. Andrew, Richmond, July 24. several. depicts an angel be sure to state date of death. Charmaine Field. Father of Husband of Sue Lahrman. PASSMORE, Lorraine M., 78, Obituaries of archdiocesan Maureen Annee, Charmaine Father of Jennifer Reynolds and St. Mary, Mitchell, July 18. appearing at her death. priests serving our archdiocese Cota, Kathleen Heath, Karen Scott Lahrman. Son of Clem Mother of Jim Passmore. Sister of Mother Cabrini died in are listed elsewhere in McDowell, Colleen, Arthur IV and Susanne Lahrman. Brother Mary Botello, Dorothy Gregg and Chicago on Dec. 22, 1917, The Criterion. Order priests and Kevin Field. Brother of of Marianne Foster, Joan Jones, Jack Pacheco. Grandmother of and later became the and religious sisters and Alice Ann Davis and Robert Daniel and John Lahrman. five. Great-grandmother of one. first U.S. citizen to be brothers are included here, Field. Grandfather of 18. LAZO, James Rojas, 96, QUIGLEY, Louise M., 85, named a saint. She was unless they are natives of the HAAG, Joseph J., 96, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, July 19. canonized in 1946 by archdiocese or have other Holy Name of Jesus, July 27. Father of Denise Mother of Suzanna Givens, Pope Pius XII. Although connec tions to it; those are Beech Grove, July 30. Father of Boyer, Gloria Cleghorn and Annette Martin, Ed and Tim born in Italy, she became separate obituaries on this Mary Anne Deer and Joseph J. Jeffrey Lazo. Grandfather of page. Quigley. Sister of Marian an American citizen in Haag II. Brother of Arthur Haag. eight. Great-grandfather of 15. Buckingham and Jean McCarty. 1909. Her feast day is BIEHL, Donald H., 84, Grandfather of six. Great- METELKO, Joseph C., Sr., Grandmother of 10. Great- Nov. 13. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Indian- grandfather of nine. 90, St. Martin of Tours, grandmother of 13. apolis, July 29. Father of Donna Martinsville, July 14. Father of Dezern and Diana Jones. HIPPLEHEUSER, Guy N., STROTHMAN, Frances, 89, St. Rosalie Nevitt, Lorraine Brother of Helen Groves. Sr., 72, St. Jude, Indianapolis, , Connersville, July 25. O’Brien, Geraldine Robinet, Grandfather of six. Great- July 6. Husband of Mary Jo Mother of Joanna Huber. Carlene Sessions, John and y grandfather of one. Hippleheuser. Father of Grandmother of two. Great- Joseph Metelko II. Grandfather J.J., Jolene, Guy Jr. and Pete grandmother of six. a BREITSCH, Susan, 63, of 17. Great-grandfather of 13. Hippleheuser. Son of Guy and VANDENBERGEN, Patricia, St. Simon the Apostle, Indian- d Helen Hippleheuser. Brother of MIK, James D., 61, apolis, July 26. Wife of John 74, St. Gabriel the Archangel, Charles, Lynn, Maurice and St. Bartholo mew, Columbus, n Breitsch. Mother of Mark and Indianapolis, July 20. Wife of Robert Hippleheuser. Grand- June 9. Brother of Marie Michael Breitsch. Sister of Lori Richard Vandenbergen. Mother of u father of eight. Stachnik and Jerry Mik. DeLeon and Doreen Gruber. Kristin, Linda and Steve Vanden- Reverend Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel HOFFMAN, Fred J., 91, MOLLOY, Anna H., 12, bergen. Grandmother of six. S Vicar General, Moderator of the Curia Grandmother of two. Director of the Mission Office St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, St. Jude, Indianapolis, July 31. Great-grandmother of three. CARRASQUILLO, Daniel Archdiocese of Indianapolis Floyds Knobs, July 30. Father of n Patrick, 19, St. Mary, Daughter of Pete and Julie ZIEGLER, Millie F., 83, Peter Hoffman. Brother of New Albany, July 27. Son of Molloy. Sister of Peter Molloy. St. Anthony, Morris, July 29. o Invites you to join him to

Edward Hoffman. Grandfather i Julie Carrasquillo. Stepson of Granddaughter of Richard Mother of Peggy Jackson, Mary,

of three. Great-grandfather of s Eric Chaffin. Grandson of Johnson and Fran Molloy. Charles, Daniel, Robert and Celebrate World Mission Sunday three. Hector and Justina Carrasquillo. MUNCHEL, Mildred C., 87, William Ziehler. Sister of Emma s October 19, 2008 JONES, Mary Mabel, 89, Lou Wilkas. Grandmother of 10. i ENNEKING, Gilbert J., 82, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, 2:00 PM Holy Family, Oldenburg, St. Mary, Rushville, July 28. July 21. Mother of Melanie Great-grandmother of five. Sister of Charles and Kenneth Chacon, Theresa Geyra, Janice M

Aug. 5. Husband of Rita ZUPANCIC, John F., 86, Enneking. Father of Nancy Risselman. Markellos, Carol Morrow, St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Huey, Vicki Huffman, Jane KOETTER, Gladys M., 74, Dr. Mary Posner, Barbara, John July 30. Husband of Mary d 1347 N. Meridian St. l Kramer, Leon and Tom St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, and Wayne Munchel. Sister of Zupancic. Father of Helen Smith, Indianapolis, IN 46202 Enneking. Brother of Luella Floyds Knobs, July 27. Wife of Floyd. Grandmother of 15. Monica Witt, Anna, Charles, r Great-grandmother of nine.

Britch and William Enneking Jr. Robert Koetter Sr. Mother of George, Harry and John III. o Grandfather of 22. Great-grand - Jack, Kenny, Phil, Robert and NELSON, Philip E., 76, Grandfather of 14. Great- Reception to follow in the father of eight. Wayne Koetter. Sister of St. Malachy, Brownsburg, grandfather of 23. † W rectory of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral

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QUEBEC CITY (CNS)—Supreme court Catholic voters by saying that from around the world stood up and Anderson also promised that the Knight Carl Anderson challenged abortion is one of many issues that loudly applauded. Knights would remain focused on American deserve attention in any election. Anderson said he was not singling out protecting marriage as a life issue. He Catholics to “It’s time to put away the arguments of candidates from any political party for cited a second set of constitutional overturn the political spin masters that only serve to criticism. amendments on the November ballot in “regime of justify abortion killing,” Anderson said. Later, Anderson told Catholic News Arizona, California and Florida that Roe v. Wade” in In apparent reference to Illinois Service that he decided to focus on the would define marriage as the union of a November by Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive same terminology that Obama is using in man and a woman or ban polygamy, withholding their Democratic nominee for president, his presidential campaign “to get people’s group marriage and same-sex marriage. votes from any Anderson said change in the country can attention.” Focusing on the California ballot issue, candidate who come only when the practice of aborting “This is kind of the touchstone for this Anderson took aim at that state’s supports abortion. unborn children ends. whole election year. I’d like Catholics to Supreme Court, which ruled 4-3 on He made the “We have all heard a great deal this think what real change, fundamental May 15 that such same-sex couples have comments during year about the need for change,” he said. change in a Christian sense would mean,” the right to have the state designate their Carl Anderson an address to the “But at the same time we are told one he said. civil unions as marriages, in essence 126th annual convention of the Knights of thing cannot change, namely the abortion At the same time, he repeated that his legalizing same-sex marriage. Columbus in Quebec City. regime of Roe v. Wade. It is time that we message was not aimed at any specific Saying that the court’s justices took it In a wide-ranging 68-minute report demand real change and real change candidate. “upon themselves to ignore the will of the that reviewed the organization’s means the end of Roe v. Wade. During his speech, Anderson said people and impose a radical new interpre- accomplishments during the last year, “It’s time to stop accommodating voters in California, Colorado and tation of the law,” the supreme knight Anderson saved his strongest comments pro-abortion politicians, and it’s time we have the chance to limit called for Californians to let their voices for nearly the end of his address. He start demanding that they accommodate abortion by voting for ballot initiatives be heard by voting for the constitutional criticized politicians of all parties who us,” Anderson added as the 500 delegates on Nov. 4. amendment. †

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