Olympic inspiration Columnist Christina Capecchi explains how the Olympic spirit is a needed virtue, page 12. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com August 12, 2016 Vol. LVI, No. 44 75¢ New Zika infection fears A father’s lesson, spark renewed debate on abortion a son’s gift WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS)—With a growing number of U.S. travelers returning from abroad with the Zika virus and with several cases of Zika-related microcephaly and birth defects reported in the U.S., the disease has inflamed the abortion debate domestically. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. a Republican from Miami, where the Zika virus has now started spreading in one neighborhood through mosquito transmission, said he does not believe the Zika virus should be a pretext for an infected pregnant woman to get an abortion. Rubio met in Miami on Sen. Marco Rubio Aug. 4 with Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Florida’s Gov. Rick Scott. The senator also was making a renewed push to call the U.S. Congress back into session to approve funding for combating Zika domestically and to introduce legislation that would provide U.S. troops serving in high-risk areas with additional protections from Zika. He also reportedly told the news magazine Politico on Aug. 8: “Obviously, microcephaly is a terrible prenatal condition that kids are Brendan McCormick, left, and Johnny Malan had never met until a magical moment at an Indianapolis Indians’ baseball game earlier this year brought born with. And when they are, it’s a lifetime the two Catholic school students together. (Submitted photo) of difficulties,” he said. “So I get it. I’m not pretending to you that that’s an easy question you asked me. But I’m pro-life. Magical moment at baseball game strikes And I’m strongly pro-life. I believe all human life should be protected by our law, irrespective of the circumstances or condition to the heart of a beautiful relationship of that life.” Earlier this year, Rubio co-sponsored By John Shaughnessy your father. an “education outside the classroom” President Barack Obama’s Zika-fighting Which makes the story of what day for schools at Victory Field in legislation, which failed to pass into law in For nearly everyone who goes to a Brendan McCormick did at an Indianapolis. The idea is to create some part because of partisan divisions over the professional baseball game, the great Indianapolis Indians’ game this season educational challenges for students bill’s inclusion of components of birth control hope is to come home with a souvenir so special. involving the sport of baseball, and then services from Planned Parenthood. baseball that was used on the field. And it becomes even more have them enjoy watching a game. New York and California officials have Having that hope become a reality is heartwarming when you learn about Brendan and the other sixth-grade indicated cases of babies in those states born even more thrilling when you’re 12 and Brendan and his dad. students at St. Pius X School in with Zika-related microcephaly, and at least your favorite sport is baseball—a passion The story begins near the end of the Indianapolis were among the 15 babies nationally have been born with that you learned from and share with last school year when the Indians hosted See BASEBALL, page 9 See ZIKA, page 2 Archdiocesan pilgrimage to Notre Dame provides ‘reality of being connected’

By Natalie Hoefer

NOTRE DAME, Ind.—It is said to have been a bitterly cold day on Nov. 26, 1842, when Holy Cross Father Edward Sorin arrived on the 524 acres in northern Indiana he’d been given by the bishop of the Vincennes Diocese to start a Catholic institute of higher learning. Aware of only one of the two lakes on the property due to the snow, the French priest decided to name the school “L’Université Notre Dame du Lac”—the University of Our Lady of the Lake. In a letter to his superior, Father Sorin wrote that he envisioned a college that “cannot fail to succeed. Before long, it will develop on a large scale. It will be one of the most powerful means for good in this country.” Almost 175 years later on July 19, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and 51 other pilgrims from central and southern Indiana stood on the spot where Father Sorin named what is now the internationally acclaimed University of Notre Dame. Pilgrims from central and southern Indiana kneel in prayer in front It is known for its academic rigor, its successful alumni, and of course of the Our Lady of Lourdes grotto at the University of Notre Dame See PILGRIMAGE, page 11 during an archdiocesan pilgrimage on July 19. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Patience hailed as a virtue at eucharistic congress’ closing Mass WASHINGTON (CNS)—Practicing said the servants did not know when patience can be a great virtue, said the master would return, but they were Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry of happily expectant. Chicago in his homily at the Aug. 7 “Don’t miss the detail how Jesus closing Mass of the African National described his heavenly Father” as the Eucharistic Congress in Washington. master in the parable, he said. “What greater school for patience Bishop Perry also lauded the family is there than family life?” asked structure in his homily. “The Church Bishop Perry, who is episcopal liaison looks to you, families, to be models of the to the African Conference of Catholic larger family of God,” he said. “Thank Clergy and Religious in the United States, you, families, for your faithful witness of one of the eucharistic congress’ sponsors. marital love and family life. “Jesus calls us to embrace the gift.” “I’m happy to see husbands and wives Bishop Perry described situations standing side by side to receive the where patience can be a virtue in his Eucharist together,” Bishop Perry added. homily at the Mass, celebrated in the crypt As food nourishes the body, “the holy church of the Basilica of the National Eucharist revives the soul,” he said. Shrine of the Immaculate Conception The crypt church was filled to in Washington. standing-room-only capacity. The One such situation: “Imagine for a vast majority in the congregation moment you are stuck in traffic as others were Africans. lag out of work,” Bishop Perry said. All The music reflected the African that is visible, he added, is a “line of continent’s culture as well. The opening taillights.” processional, “We Are Marching in Next, he said, imagine there’s the Light of God,” was sung in other “someone between you and the exit you languages in addition to English. And A girl approaches Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo, for a blessing after an call home.” Upon encountering that the third Communion song, sung by a Aug. 6 Mass at the Third African National Eucharistic Congress at The Catholic University of America person, Bishop Perry added, would you combined choir whose members were in in Washington. (CNS photos/Rhina Guidos) give that person a wave to allow them ethnic dress and headdress, crescendoed to travel safely to their destination, “or in volume and intensity as it continued, would you give them another kind of hand eliciting shrieking and ululation from gesture?” he asked to laughter. some in the assembly, which rose to give Another case likely to test one’s an ovation at its conclusion. patience is being greeted at the other end The Third African National Eucharistic of a phone call by a prerecorded voice Congress, held on the campus of The saying, “Your call is very important to us. Catholic University of America, was ... Your call will be taken in the order in sponsored by several partner organizations, which it was received.” including the Secretariat of Cultural Patience, the bishop noted, also can Diversity in the Church and several be diverted into irritation, anger and other offices of the U.S. Conference resentment, as he cited the situation of a of Catholic Bishops; the national man intentionally arriving early to wait shrine and Catholic University; the outside a relative’s house to avoid her National Association of African Catholics likely reproach for being late—and then in the United States; Trinity Washington being forced to wait an hour before she University; the Knights of Columbus and traipses out of the house entirely oblivious Knights of St. John; the Catholic Health to his having waited. Association of the United States; and the The Gospel of Luke from the St. John Paul II Shrine. 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time proclaimed The African Conference of Catholic at the Mass included the parable of Clergy and Religious in the United States servants waiting for their master to return held its own meeting in advance of the African Catholics gather for an Aug. 6 Mass during the Third African National Eucharistic Congress at home from a wedding feast. Bishop Perry eucharistic congress. † The Catholic University of America in Washington. Grant applications for funds from three endowments are due by Oct. 31 Criterion staff report of the archdiocese may apply for grants which will be through a generous gift by James P. Scott to be used to available from the following three endowments: support capital needs in the archdiocese. 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Zika is the most recent and high-profile immoral and contrary to these great goods, last April following the CDC’s finding that ZIKA instance of any number of diseases that and no circumstances can justify either.” the Zika virus can cause some babies to be continued from page 1 might have deleterious effects on the In February, U.N. officials said pregnant born with microcephaly. unborn children whose mothers contract it women infected with the Zika virus should “Naturally the Zika virus is a cause for Zika-related birth defects as of late July, while pregnant, the statement noted. be allowed easier access to abortion and concern, and we call upon governments according to the CDC. “In no way, however, would it justify birth control, and criticized countries and medical professionals to continue In February, the National Catholic a change in the Catholic Church’s whose governments urged women to hold to develop appropriate treatments and Bioethics Center issued a statement that consistent teachings on the sacredness and off getting pregnant as Zika cases have interventions,” Father Pavone said. “But Zika does not justify abortion or artificial inviolability of human life and the dignity increased. in no way does this justify recourse to birth control even with the suspected and beauty of the means of transmitting life In New York, Father Frank Pavone, abortion. The child in the womb is a patient connection between the Zika virus and through marital relations. Direct abortion national director of Priests for Life, issued too, and killing one’s patient is never an birth defects. and contraceptive acts are intrinsically a statement on the Zika-abortion debate appropriate response.” †

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The poor, the suffering and The date of Mother Teresa’s those who minister to them will canonization will coincide with be at the center of celebrations the conclusion of the Year of leading up to the canonization Mercy pilgrimage for workers of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata at and ministers engaged in works the Vatican. of mercy. The main event—the Here are the main events canonization Mass—will begin at planned around the canonization 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 4, the Vatican of Mother Teresa: announced on Aug. 5. • Sept. 1, “feast for the poor A “family feast” for the poor, a and Missionaries of Charity musical, Masses and prayer vigils family,” including a musical will precede her canonization, based on Mother Teresa’s according to programs published life. by the Vatican and by the • Masses on Sept. 2 in various Missionaries of Charity, the order languages in Rome’s she founded. Basilica of St. Anastasia al Known as the “saint of the Palatino and veneration of gutters,” Mother Teresa was her relics. In the evening, revered for ministering to the a prayer vigil with solemn sick and the dying in some of the eucharistic adoration will world’s poorest neighborhoods. be held at Rome’s Basilica Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu of St. John Lateran with in 1910 to an ethnic Albanian Cardinal Agostino Vallini, family in Skopje, in what is now the papal vicar of Rome, part of Macedonia, Mother Teresa presiding. went to India as a Sister of • Catechesis on Sept. 3 by Loreto in 1929. Receiving Pope Francis for the jubilee what she described as a “call celebration of workers and within a call,” she began her volunteers for mercy. In Blessed Teresa of Kolkata cares for a sick man in an undated photo. (CNS photo/KNA) missionary work with the poor the evening, a prayer and and laid the foundation for what musical meditation will be to venerate St. Teresa’s relics Parolin, Vatican secretary of St. John Lateran. would become the Missionaries held at Rome’s Basilica in the evening at the Basilica state, presiding. Pilgrims will • Sept. 7-8, veneration of of Charity. of St. Andrea della Valle of St. John Lateran. be able to venerate the relics the relics of St. Teresa of Following her death in 1997, followed by veneration • Celebration on Sept. 5 of a of St. Teresa at St. John Kolkata at Rome’s Church of St. John Paul II waived the of Mother Teresa’s relics Mass of thanksgiving and Lateran in the evening. St. Gregory the Great, along usual five-year waiting period and Mass. the first feast of St. Teresa • Sept. 6, continuing with the possibility of visiting and allowed the opening of the • Canonization Mass on of Kolkata in St. Peter’s veneration of the her room at the convent of process to declare her sainthood. Sept. 4. Pilgrims will be able Basilica with Cardinal Pietro relics of St. Teresa at St. Gregory. † Vatican prepares ‘St. Teresa’ of Kolkata stamp for release VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic stamp’s release. will anticipate the canonization of Office announced the stamp’s release on “She was a humble messenger of the Blessed Teresa of Kolkata with a special Aug. 5, and distributed initial images of it. Gospel and of Christ’s love, known as postage stamp, which will be released The 95-cent stamp features a wrinkled ‘a small pencil in the hands of the Lord,’ on Sept. 2, two days before Pope Francis but radiant Mother Teresa smiling in her doing her work quietly and always with officially declares her a saint. blue-trimmed, white sari. Overlaid on the great love,” it said. “She assisted the poor, design by Patrizio Daniele is another image the sick and the abandoned with tireless of her holding the hand of a small child. dedication, offering smiles and simple The Vatican will anticipate the canonization “Frail but equally determined in her gestures, finding strength to persevere of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata with this special vocation, Mother Teresa loved God and with her vocation through prayer and trust postage stamp, which will be released on Sept. 2, the Church with great strength, simplicity in God.” two days before Pope Francis officially declares and extraordinary humility, glorifying The philatelic office said it would print her a saint. (CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Philatelic and with her life the dignity of a most humble and sell a maximum of 150,000 sheets of Numismatic Office) service,” said the brochure announcing the 10 stamps each. †

The devil’s in the details: After-school Satan club seeks OK in several states WASHINGTON (CNS)—It’s 3 p.m. Do you know schools after school hours on the same terms as other As he sees it, the discussion about Satan clubs provides a where your children are? community groups. teachable moment for school districts and the nation. Parents, schools and school districts are paying even Dozens of organizations supported the Good News “Many Americans are in favor of religious freedom until closer attention to after-school activities ever since a group clubs with “amicus” or friend-of-the-court briefs including it’s tested, and then they are not sure they like it,” he told called the Satanic Temple announced a group of 20 theologians and religion scholars of various Catholic News Service (CNS) on Aug. 4. He noted that the in early August that it plans to denominations and law and philosophy professors from the proposed group is “tongue in cheek on one hand, but it is introduce after-school Satan clubs at University of Notre Dame. deeply serious on the Constitution side.” some U.S. public elementary schools “I don’t think the Satan club is interested in getting into Haynes said the key issue—providing an equal playing this year. the after-school business. They know the only way to make field for all religious and nonreligious groups—is a tricky Parents across the country, many their point is to call the court’s bluff, saying what’s good for balance to achieve and must constantly be re-evaluated. of whom have yet to purchase their the Good News clubs is good for us,” said Charles Haynes, He said some school districts will likely grant the Satan children’s necessary school supplies, director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum clubs access for after-school meetings and others won’t, had to scratch their heads when they Institute in Washington. but if they don’t they will have to stop other groups from heard this one. These clubs certainly don’t sound like the Haynes said the Satanic Temple failed to make its point meeting on school property after hours as well. typical band, science or Scout groups that typically gather through litigation, so it is trying another avenue to raise Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with Alliance Defending after the bell rings. awareness. Its request to meet for public school access in a Freedom, who helped litigate the Good News Club case And the Satan clubs’ planned activities—focusing on letter to a number of school districts—near Satanic Temple before the Supreme Court said in the online magazine reason and science, according to the website—also are not chapters and schools where Good News clubs exist—is The Federalist, that the Satanic Temple, with pushing its nearly as eerie as the group’s name implies. That’s because carefully written, Haynes said, adding that on face value it group’s inclusion, is missing the big picture. Many student Satanic Temple, the political activist and religious group would likely be acceptable. The “only thing objectionable groups, religious and non-religious, meet in public schools, based in New York, is more about bringing attention to to some is the name,” he said. so students learn to tolerate fellow classmates who do not what it describes as an unfair after-school playing field than The group has asked for permission to meet in school share their beliefs, he said. devil worship. districts in the following states: Arizona, California, Lorence also said Satan clubs have the right to Their name alone has raised some red flags. Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon and Utah. “espouse their views,” but he did not think the group’s The group says it is making a statement showing their The requests are still under review. leaders were showing “respect for First Amendment opposition to Christian after-school programs around the But even if school districts provide meeting space for traditions or for the dignity of other people to advocate country called Good News clubs, which are sponsored these clubs, Haynes is confident they will not take over the views that differ from theirs.” by the Child Evangelism Fellowship. Doug Mesner, afternoon activities world. Instead, he wrote: “What I see is a snarky disdain for co-founder of the Satanic Temple, told The Washington Post “How many parents are going to sign a permission slip anyone who believes in religion, demonstrated in part by that if Christian evangelical groups have a spot in for a second-grader to go to a Satan club after school?” the use of ‘Satan’ in their organization’s name to evoke after-school programs, why shouldn’t Satanists be able to he asked, pointing out that the required permission slip of responses that have nothing to do with their beliefs.” do the same thing? elementary school group activities provides a filter. These clubs “have the right to meet in public schools, but But he also has pointed out that the group is not religious But he also noted that even if the group doesn’t only on the same terms and conditions as everyone else,” in nature, and uses Satan more as a mythical symbol. attract many members, it will still draw attention—even he said, adding that the group’s leaders should “abandon In 2001, the Supreme Court in Good News Clubs more than it already has—because all groups have to be their condescending attitudes toward fellow citizens with v. Milford Central School, said the clubs, which feature treated the same and each can send out fliers announcing religious beliefs, and join with us to protect the dignity of Bible lessons, songs and games, can meet in public their programs. all people to exercise their freedom of speech.” † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016

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Our Global Family/Carolyn Woo I have met hope … in person In July, I traveled to Serbia, Greece and being booked, was to flee. Yet serving Lebanon to review the refugee situation this detention center are nine women from Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 now that the borders to northern Europe Caritas who provide social and medical Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor are closed. While care 24/7. The majority of them are in Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus the flow of people their 20s and 30s. has diminished, They move without hesitation into it has not ceased. the cells to offer care; their boom boxes Migration is now broadcast music after 2 p.m. when most Editorial largely dependent of the guards go off duty, and they host on traffickers, who celebrations with foods and games on charge individuals special days. “Angels” I call them. We met 4,000 to 6,000 euros with the colonel of the center, who not only to facilitate illegal praised these women, but also formulated a crossings. memorandum of understanding that would Most of the guarantee Caritas’ long-term presence. refugees I met in Serbia were young Syrian I am happy to say a new above-ground men in their 20s who were desperate to detention center, brightly painted and with find work. They were weighed down with dignified accommodations, will open in the responsibility to families back home September. In it is a wing for the Caritas who liquidated their belongings to pay for operation. Somehow in the most oppressive their journeys. Depending on their route, physical environment both guards and many encountered beatings and confiscation volunteers found a way to honor the of everything they had. Broken arms and humanity of those being detained. legs attested to this gratuitous brutality A woman who fled Kosovo for Serbia and cruelty. 20 years ago spoke of leaving with nothing Nevertheless, amid this deep suffering, but a Bible, the only possession her mother The new Refugee Olympic Team arrives for the opening ceremony in a spirit of goodness and resilience believed they needed as they would be in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 5. In a personal message addressed to each of the broke through. God’s hands. She endured hardships of 10 members of the new Refugee Olympic Team, Pope Francis wished them In Lebanon, I met a woman, herself working without formal papers, but noted success in their events and thanked them for the witness they are giving the a trafficked victim, who awoke from an the kindness of people who took risks to world. (CNS photo/David Gray, Reuters) accident without memory and missing one hire her. leg. Yet she gave thanks for the leg she does Since then, she has retrieved her have, and devoted her energy as a volunteer documents with the help of a CRS partner, Refugee team offers testimony at a shelter for abused women. Balkans Migration Center, and now owns After four years, she joined the staff to a business. I asked if her mother was to the true spirit of Olympics build not only the capacity of the ladies for right. She nodded without hesitation: God a trade, but also their spirit to imagine and accompanied them. With the 2016 Summer Olympics the motor stalled. She, her sister and have confidence in a new life. On her days A Muslim refugee from Syria who in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, garnering another woman—the only people on off, she brings home-cooked food to the is now living and working in Athens so much media attention this month, the boat who could swim—pushed the inmates of a prison. As she told me, there with his family said that if it were all it should come as no surprise that boat to shore. was no other place she would rather be. up to him, he would name his newborn Pope Francis’ universal prayer From Greece, Mardini traveled The detention center for illegal daughter “Caritas” for the assistance and intention for August is “that sports on to Germany, where she was given workers in Lebanon is situated inside kindness his family had received from may be an opportunity for friendly official refugee status in March, and an underground garage with no sunlight Caritas Greece. His wife did not quite buy encounters between peoples and may continued her training as a competitive and minimal ventilation. Five hundred to into this, but what a sentiment! contribute to peace in the world.” swimmer. 600 detainees are held, sometimes for up Yes, I have met hope … in person. Let What some sports enthusiasts may Five of the athletes—including to a year, in seven cells so crowded that us be hope, with God’s grace, for each not have envisioned is a team this year Rose Nathike Lokonyen, 23, the occupants had to take turns alternating other. competing under the auspices of the team’s flag bearer for the opening between sleeping and standing. Refugee Olympic team. ceremony—are South Sudanese My first instinct, amid the heat, odor, (Carolyn Woo is president and CEO of Consisting of 10 members, the team refugees who were living in the huge darkness, sight of people caged and people Catholic Relief Services.) † includes athletes from South Sudan, Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Syria, Congo and Ethiopia. These In his message to all Olympic games marked the first time a athletes in Rio during his weekly Letter to the Editor refugee team officially participated in general audience on Aug. 3, the the Olympics. Holy Father reminded the participants Senator’s thinking, waiting periods—to now supporting Team members marched under that there were more important things his party’s aim to repeal the Hyde the Olympic flag in the opening to gain than a gold medal at the actions do not jibe Amendment, which forbids federal ceremonies and, if a team member wins Summer Games. with his Catholic faith, funding for most abortions and a gold medal, the Olympic anthem was “In a world thirsting for peace, continues to be included in many federal to be played instead of the national tolerance and reconciliation,” reader says appropriation bills for abortions. anthem of the athlete’s home country. Pope Francis said, “I wish that Kudos to The Criterion for its story Though Kaine claims his is a The group caught the attention of the spirit of the Olympic Games in the July 29 issue bringing to light the traditional Catholic position on abortion, Pope Francis, who noted that he had would inspire all—participants and true picture of Hillary Clinton’s pick as his personal position strongly supports a read some of the interviews with team spectators—to fight ‘the good fight’ her running mate for vice president on woman’s “right to choose” life or death members, “so that I could get closer to and end the race together, desiring as the Democrat ticket, Sen. Tim Kaine for her defenseless baby. your lives and your aspirations.” a prize not a medal, but something of Virginia. Noteworthy was his anguish over The pope’s words concerning the much more precious: the creation A lifelong Catholic who attended a 11 death penalty executions carried out team didn’t stop there. of a civilization where there reigns Jesuit high school, he claims, “My faith while he was governor with his concern “I extend my greetings and wish solidarity founded on the recognition is central to everything I do.” and prayer, but no mention of daily you success at the Olympic Games that we are all members of one human Kaine’s mantra, though, has prayer for thousands of Virginia babies in Rio—that your courage and family, no matter the differences of become more accepting of abortion aborted under his watch. strength find expression through the culture, skin color or religion.” since his time as governor of Virginia Olympic Games, and serve as a cry Many of us are awed by the (2006-10)—going from funding for Tom Schweitzer for peace and solidarity,” he said in a skill and excellence of Olympians crisis pregnancy centers and 24-hour Rising Sun personal message addressed to each of in their chosen sport. But like the the 10 members, signed in late July. Syrian refugee family that arrived Pope Francis also expressed his in Indianapolis last December and hope that through the team “humanity others who have fled persecution and would understand that peace is violence in war-torn countries, the Letters Policy possible, that with peace everything Olympic athletes who are refugees can be gained, but with war all show us an unwavering spirit that Letters from readers are published in from readers as necessary based on space can be lost. should inspire us. The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s limitations, pastoral sensitivity and content “Your experience serves as Let’s each take to heart commitment to “the responsible exchange of (including spelling and grammar). In order to testimony and benefits us all,” the pope Pope Francis’ evangelization prayer freely-held and expressed opinion among encourage opinions from a variety of readers, told the team members. intention for August “that Christians the People of God” (Communio et Progressio, frequent writers will ordinarily be limited to The heartrending stories some of the may live the Gospel, giving witness to 116). one letter every three months. Concise letters (usually less than 300 words) are more likely refugees bring to the competition make faith, honesty, and love of neighbor.” Letters from readers are welcome and every effort will be made to include letters to be printed. their participation that much more May that witness include not only from as many people and representing as Letters must be signed, but, for serious remarkable. our support and prayers for members many viewpoints as possible. Letters should reasons, names may be withheld. Yusra Mardini, an 18-year-old of the Refugee Olympic team, all be informed, relevant, well-expressed and Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” swimmer from Syria, fled her war-torn refugees and all Olympians, but all temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, country through Lebanon and Turkey. who cross our path each day. sense of courtesy and respect. Indianap­olis, IN 46202-2367. Readers She found a space on a rubber dingy to The editors reserve the right to select the with access to e-mail may send letters to make her way to Lesbos, Greece, but —Mike Krokos letters that will be published and to edit letters [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Page 5

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Pope Francis asks: ‘Where are our children?’ “Parents always influence the moral been bruised or broken by the reality of them grow “in freedom, maturity, overall basic instruction for their children. But, development of their children, for better selfishness and sin. discipline and real autonomy” (#261). as Pope Francis says, “The family is the or worse” (“The Joy of Love,” #259). In the seventh chapter of “The Joy As a result, the real question is not first school of human values where we of Love,” the Holy Father turns his where our children are physically (as learn the wise use of freedom” (#274). hildren are the concrete attention to the challenge of educating important as it is to know this), but where Parents who neglect this responsibility expression of their parents’ love children today. He begins by asking, they are on life’s journey, on the road to do their children grave harm. “In the Cand generosity. Born of the “Where are our children?” And he happiness and eternal life. family, we learn closeness, care and self-giving of a man and a woman who means this question both literally and This is not a question we ask very respect for others. We break out of our have made a lifelong commitment to figuratively. “Only if we devote time often: Where are our children on the path fatal self-absorption and come to realize each other, children should be reared in a to our children, speaking of important to heaven? But it is probably the most that we are living with and alongside loving family that teaches them how to be things with simplicity and concern, and important question we can ask ourselves. others who are worthy of our concern, as loving and generous as their parents. finding healthy ways for them to spend And next, of course, is the question: What our kindness and our affection” (#276). This is the grand vision of marriage and their time, will we be able to shield them are we doing, or not doing, to help lead Unless these fundamental lessons on family that informs our Church’s teaching from harm” (#260). our children to heaven? what it means to be an authentic human and practice. It’s the traditional view of To devote time to our children, we “Parents, as educators, are responsible person are learned in the family, children marriage and family life that is threatened have to know where they are, and we by their affection and example, for are disadvantaged in every phase of their now by all kinds of destructive forces in have to be with them—not occasionally instilling in their children trust and life’s journey. Regardless of how much contemporary culture. or superficially, but really and truly loving respect,” the pope reminds us. they learn in school or “on the streets,” In “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of “where they are” day in and day out. “When children no longer feel that, for they are not prepared to live fully as adult Love”), Pope Francis addresses both “Obsession, however, is not all their faults, they are important to their women and men. the authentic Catholic vision of love in education,” the Holy Father points out. parents, or that their parents are sincerely “The virtuous life thus builds, the family and the practical reality of “We cannot control every situation that concerned about them, this causes deep strengthens and shapes freedom, lest family life today. He challenges us to a child may experience. Here it remains hurt and many difficulties along their we become slaves of dehumanizing pursue the vision unhesitatingly, but not true that ‘time is greater than space.’ In path to maturity” (#263). There is simply and antisocial inclinations” (#267). The to presume that it is a reality in our own other words, that it is more important to no escaping the fact that “parents always Church stands firmly with parents as the lives or in the lives of those around us. start processes than to dominate spaces” influence the moral development of their primary educators of their children. May That’s why the pope repeatedly calls our (#261). What is most important, the pope children, for better or worse” (#259). we always support and assist them in the attention to the need for mercy—to bring tells us, is not to try to control children, Parents today rely on schools great work of rearing their children in healing and hope into situations that have but to guide them, form them and help (including home schooling) to provide faith, love and hope! †

El papa Francisco nos pregunta: ‘¿Dónde están los hijos?’ “Los padres siempre inciden en el egoísmo y del pecado. Como resultado, la verdadera pregunta “la familia es la primera escuela de los desarrollo moral de sus hijos, para bien o En el séptimo capítulo de “La alegría no es dónde están físicamente los hijos valores humanos, en la que se aprende el para mal” (“La alegría del amor,” #259). del amor,” el Santo Padre se concentra (si bien esto es sumamente importante buen uso de la libertad” (#274). en el desafío de la educación de los saberlo), sino dónde se encuentran en el Los padres que no se ocupan de esta os hijos son la expresión concreta hijos hoy en día. Abre su exposición camino de la vida, en el sendero hacia la responsabilidad provocan un gran daño del amor y la generosidad de sus con la interrogante: “¿Dónde están felicidad y la vida eterna. a sus hijos. “En el contexto familiar Lpadres. Nacidos de la entrega de un los hijos?” Plantea esta pregunta tanto He aquí una pregunta que no nos se enseña a recuperar la vecindad, el hombre y una mujer que se han hecho un de forma figurada como literal. “Sólo hacemos muy a menudo: ¿Dónde se cuidado, el saludo. Allí se rompe el compromiso para toda la vida, los hijos los momentos que pasamos con ellos, encuentran los hijos en el camino hacia primer cerco del mortal egoísmo para deben crecer en una familia amorosa hablando con sencillez y cariño de las el cielo? Sin embargo, es probablemente reconocer que vivimos junto a otros, con que les enseñe a ser tan amorosos y cosas importantes, y las posibilidades la pregunta más importante que otros, que son dignos de nuestra atención, generosos como sus padres. Esta es la sanas que creamos para que ellos ocupen podríamos plantearnos. A lo cual sigue, de nuestra amabilidad, de nuestro afecto” maravillosa visión del matrimonio y la su tiempo, permitirán evitar una nociva por supuesto, la pregunta: ¿Qué hacemos (#276). A menos que los hijos aprendan familia que transmiten las enseñanzas invasion” (#260). o qué no hacemos para ayudar a guiar a en el seno de una familia las lecciones y las prácticas de nuestra Iglesia. Se Para poder dedicar tiempo a los nuestros hijos hacia el cielo? fundamentales sobre el significado de ser trata de la perspectiva tradicional del hijos tenemos que saber dónde están, y El Papa nos recuerda que los un verdadero ser humano, se encontrarán matrimonio y la vida familiar que hoy en tenemos que estar con ellos, no ocasional padres, como educadores, tienen la en una posición desventajosa en cada día se encuentra amenazada por todo tipo ni superficialmente, sino estar real y responsabilidad de “generar confianza etapa de la vida. Independientemente de fuerzas destructivas procedentes de la verdaderamente presentes todos los días en los hijos con el afecto y el testimonio, de cuánto aprendan en la escuela o en la cultura contemporánea. “donde ellos estén.” inspirar en ellos un amoroso respeto.” calle, no estarán preparados para vivir En su exhortación apostólica “Amoris “Pero la obsesión no es educative,” “Cuando un hijo ya no siente que es a plenitud como hombres y mujeres Laetitia” (“La alegría del amor”), el papa apunta el Santo Padre. “No se puede valioso para sus padres, aunque sea adultos. Francisco aborda la visión auténtica del tener un control de todas las situaciones imperfecto, o no percibe que ellos tienen “La vida virtuosa, por lo tanto, amor en la familia según el catolicismo, por las que podría llegar a pasar un una preocupación sincera por él, eso crea construye la libertad, la fortalece y la así como también la realidad práctica de hijo. Aquí vale el principio de que ‘el heridas profundas que originan muchas educa, evitando que la persona se vuelva la vida familiar hoy en día. En ella nos tiempo es superior al espacio.’ Es decir, dificultades en su maduración” (#263). esclava de inclinaciones compulsivas exhorta a seguir esta visión sin titubeos, y se trata de generar procesos más que Que “los padres siempre inciden en el deshumanizantes y antisociales” (#267). a no presumir de que esta sea la realidad de dominar espacios” (#261). Lo más desarrollo moral de sus hijos, para bien o La Iglesia respalda firmemente a las de nuestras propias vidas y de quienes importante, según nos dice el Papa, no para mal” es una verdad incontrovertible madres y los padres como los primeros y nos rodean. Es por ello que el Papa es intentar controlar a los hijos, sino (#259). principales educadores de sus hijos. Que dirige repetidamente nuestra atención a guiarlos, formarlos y ayudarlos en los Los padres de hoy en día dependen siempre los apoyemos y ayudemos en la la necesidad de misericordia, de aportar “procesos de maduración de su libertad, de las escuelas (incluso de las escuelas gran labor de criar a sus hijos en la fe, esperanza y sanación a situaciones en las de capacitación, de crecimiento integral, en el hogar) para que sus hijos reciban con amor y esperanza. † que se han sufrido las magulladuras o de cultivo de la auténtica autonomía” la formación académica básica. Pero las rupturas que provoca la realidad del (#261). tal como lo expresa el papa Francisco: Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016

For a list of events for the next four weeks as reported to Events Calendar The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/events.

August 17 Harrison Lake Country Club, Information: 317-357-1200. create scarves, 1-4 p.m., $100, Road, St. Mary-of-the-Woods. August 24 Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, 524 N. Country Club Road, registration deadline Aug. 13. Registration deadline St. Luke the Evangelist 435 W. Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Columbus. Golf Scramble to St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Information: 812-535-2931, for T-shirt for Mary’s Church, 7575 Holliday Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. celebrate St. Bartholomew 4625 N. Kenwood Ave., [email protected], events. Village Church Hunger Drive E., Indianapolis. Information: 317-784-4439 or Parish’s 175th anniversary, Indianapolis. Sausage sistersofprovidence.org. Bust Fun Run/Walk on A Tribute to Primo Levi and www.catholiccemeteries.cc. 4-person golf scramble, 11 a.m. Fest, Fri. 6 p.m.-midnight, Sept. 10, proceeds benefit the Holocaust, musical tribute registration and lunch, shotgun Sat. 5 p.m.-midnight, August 20-21 Providence Food Pantry in to Italian Jewish chemist, start 12:30 p.m., $100 per sausage, food, music, games. St. Mary-of-the-Knobs West Terre Haute, check-in St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. writer and Holocaust survivor player, $400 per foursome, Information: 317-253-1461. Parish, 5719 Saint Mary’s 9-9:45 a.m., race 10 a.m., Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Primo Levi, performed by Aug. 14 registration deadline. Road, Floyds Knobs. download registration form Third Thursday Adoration, August 20 “Knobfest,” Sat. 9 p.m.- music students from the interceding for women Information: 812-378-1944 or from Facebook at Hunger [email protected]. St. Barnabas Church, midnight, “Louisville Bust Fun Run/Walk, $10 University of Notre Dame, experiencing crisis pregnancy, 8300 Rahke Road, McNally Crashers,” gambling and check made out to Hunger reception to follow, 7 p.m., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at Northside Knights of Hall Entrance 8, Indianapolis. beer garden 6 p.m.-midnight, Bust/St. Mary’s Village freewill donations accepted. 5:45 p.m. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Substance Abuse Ministry Sun. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Church, mail to St. Mary’s Information: 317-259-4373, 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Workshop, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., home-cooked chicken dinners, Village Church, P.O. Box [email protected]. Our Lady of Peace Business Exchange, “In free, register online at booths, prizes, quilts, bingo, 155, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Cemetery and Mausoleum, Pursuit of Equal Dignity” by www.archindy.org/plfl/ kids’ zone. Information: IN 47876, must be received Eagle Creek Golf Club, 9001 Haverstick Road, Duke graduate and Rhodes ministries-sam. Information: 812-923-3011. by Aug. 22 to receive T-shirt, 8802 W. 56th St., Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Monthly Scholar Jay Ruckelshaus, 317-236-1475, indicate Youth S, M, L or Adult Franciscan Alliance Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Mass, breakfast and program, [email protected]. August 21 S, M, L, XL, XXL, XXXL. Foundation Central Indiana’s 317-574-8898 or 7-9 a.m., $15 members, $21 St. Nicholas Parish, Information: 812-535-3048, 30th Annual Golf Outing, www.catholiccemeteries.cc. non-members, breakfast Helpers of God’s Precious 6461 E. St. Nicholas Dr., [email protected]. morning 9-hole scramble at Mass included. Reservations Infants, Indianapolis. Sunman. Parish Festival, $150 per person or $600 per August 19 and Divine Mercy Chaplet at 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken and August 23-October 25 Louisville Slugger Field, and information: foursome, afternoon 18-hole www.catholicbusiness 8:30 a.m. at St. Michael the roast beef dinner. Information: St. Christopher Parish, 401 E. Main St., Louisville, scramble at $250 per person exchange.org. Archangel Church, 3354 W. 812-623-2964. Damascus Room, 5301 W. KY. New Albany Deanery 30th St., followed by prayer 16th St., Speedway. Book or $1,000 per foursome, continental breakfast or dinner Catholic Youth Ministries August 19-20 at a local abortion center, and St. Paul Catholic Center, of Genesis Scripture reception corresponding outing to see Louisville Bats Nativity of Our Lord continued prayer at the church 1413 E. 17th St., Bloomington. Study, meets weekly for to session of play, joint vs. Indianapolis Indians, Jesus Christ Parish, for those who wish to remain. “Welcome Back Everybody!” 10 weeks, 7-8:30 p.m., open luncheon for all players, meet at 6 p.m., game begins at 7225 Southeastern Ave., pitch-in picnic, after to all, $75, or $100 if also 7 p.m., fireworks after game, Indianapolis. White Violet Center for 5:30 p.m. Mass. Information: sign up for spring study of deadline to register is Aug. 12, $10 includes reserved seating, Augustravaganza, 4 p.m.- Eco-Justice, 1 Sisters of 812-339-5561. Gospel of John, registration proceeds benefit Franciscan Bat’s hat and food voucher. midnight, bingo, Monte Carlo, Providence, Saint Mary-of- required by Aug. 21. St. Francis Neighborhood Aug. 17 registration deadline. catered dinner. 5K Walk/Run the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- August 22 Information and registration: Health Center. Information: Information: 812-923-8355 or and 1 mile Family Run Sat. Woods. Nuno Felted Scarves, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Lois Jansen, 317-241-9169 or 317-528-7807, Jessica.tooley@ [email protected]. 9 a.m., registration 8-8:30 a.m. learn process of felting fibers to College, 3301 St. Mary’s [email protected]. franciscanalliance.org. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Vocation discernment panel discussion

September 1 St. Meinrad. “Simplicity: To Have is set for Aug. 25 at Holy Rosary Parish Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference Not to Be,” Benedictine Father Vincent Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary with young women in their discernment Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Tobin, presenter, $255 single, $425 Parish, 520 Stevens St., in Indianapolis, journey; and parents who have a child Christian Simplicity: Care for Our double. Information: 812-357-6585 or will sponsor a vocation discernment that has seriously discerned a religious Common Home, session one of five [email protected]. panel discussion in Priori Hall beneath vocation. stand-alone sessions (Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 the church from 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 25. The panelists will share their and 29), facilitators Benedictine Sisters September 8 The panel will consist of men and discernment stories, and ample time will Sheila Marie Fitzpatrick and Angela Jarboe, Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference women who have discerned religious be allowed for questions. and Patty Moore, 7-9 p.m., $25 per session vocations recently, including a recently Father C. Ryan McCarthy, pastor of or $100 in advance for all five sessions, book Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. ordained priest; two individuals who Holy Rosary Parish, will also give a brief $15 if needed. Information and registration: Personal Retreat Day, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., 317-788-7581, www.benedictinn.org. spent time living at a monastery and a overview of different kinds of vocations $35 includes a room for the day and convent but have since returned to the and the importance of discernment. September 2-4 lunch, spiritual direction available for an lay state; a young woman planning to For more information, Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House additional fee. Information and registration: enter a cloistered community next year; e-mail Pam Malinoski at and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, 317-788-7581, www.benedictinn.org. † a Little Sister of the Poor who works [email protected]. † VIPs Tom and Jackie (Miller) Quarto, members of Sisters of the Living Word to host three St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 13. hands-on discernment experiences this fall The couple was married on Aug. 13, 1966, at Christ the King Church in Indianapolis. The Sisters of the Living Word, based and serving meals in a soup kitchen. They have two children, Teresa Nunley and Michael Quarto. near Chicago, are offering three five-day The discernment opportunities are They also have four grandchildren. hands-on discernment experiences free and include meals and lodging, They celebrated with family and friends with a dinner at on Sept. 12-16 and Sept. 26-30, and although participants will need to provide The Mousetrap in Indianapolis. † Oct. 17-21. their own transportation to and from Participants will have the opportunity Mississippi. to join the sisters in assisting those The events are co-hosted by the in need, while also discerning the Chicago Archdiocesan Vocation Peter J. and Joan T. (Uhl) Schickel, members of St. Mary religious life. Association and Sacred Heart Southern Parish in Lanesville, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary on All three events will take place in Missions. June 6. Holly Springs, Miss. Service projects For more information, contact They were married on June 6, 1946, at St. Michael Church in include tutoring children, assisting at Living Word Sister Sharon Glumb at Bradford. a food pantry, cleaning homes for the [email protected], 847-577-5972, ext. 233, The couple has five children, Janet Hardy, Carol Hoehn, elderly, repairing tornado-damaged homes or 601-291-6738. † Marilyn Lines, Donna Zutt and Robert Schickel. They also have 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. The couple celebrated with Mass at St. Mary Church in Lanesville followed by a family gathering at the couple’s farm. † All catechists invited to day of formation on Sept. 10 at St. Agnes in Nashville The archdiocesan Office of Catechesis • Helping Kids and Adults Get the is offering a day of formation called Most Out of Confession Sisters of St. Benedict offer Taizé “The Catechist as Voice of God’s Mercy” Parish catechetical leaders will service for peace and mercy on Aug. 18 at St. Agnes Parish, 1008 McLary take part in a business meeting in the Road, in Nashville, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. afternoon. As part of their Year of Mercy events, which participants will reflect on how on Sept. 10. Our Sunday Visitor is Check-in starts at 8:30 a.m. Lunch the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of God’s mercy is at work in their life. co-sponsoring the event. will be provided, and participants can Grace Monastery, 1402 Southern Ave., in Father James Farrell will lead the retreat. Joseph White, national catechetical bring a lawn chair if they wish to eat Beech Grove, invite all to participate in a The cost is $35, and information and consultant for Our Sunday Visitor and outside on the beautiful parish grounds. Taizé service in the monastery chapel at registration are available by logging on to author of www.sharingcatholicfaith.com, Participants are invited to stay—or visit 7 p.m. on Aug. 18. The prayer will be for www.benedictine.org or by calling 317- will give the keynote address. The day Nashville then come back—for 4:15 p.m. peace and mercy in the world. 788-7581. will also include participants’ choice of confessions and 5 p.m. Mass at St. Agnes. The sisters are also offering The second event is another prayer two of the following sessions, one in the Each participant’s parish will be two other events honoring the Holy service at the monastery, again praying morning and one in the afternoon: assessed $15 per participant. Year of Mercy. The first is a morning of for peace, at 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 6. • Conversation with God: Forming The deadline to register is Sept. 1. reflection called “God’s Gift of Mercy,” Participants are invited to remain for the Learners to Pray in Many Ways To register, log on to from 9-11:30 a.m. on Oct. 11, during sister’s community prayer. † • Using Saints in Catechesis www.archindy.org/catechesis. † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Page 7 Biden called ‘counter-witness’ to Church teaching for presiding at wedding WASHINGTON (CNS)—By officiating at a same-sex apart one is to unravel the whole fabric,” they wrote. and to ‘recognize their grave responsibility in society to wedding, Vice President Joseph Biden as a prominent “When a prominent Catholic politician publicly and support laws shaped by these fundamental human values Catholic politician has created voluntarily officiates at a ceremony to solemnize the and oppose laws and policies that violate [them],’ ” the confusion over Church teaching on relationship of two people of the same sex, confusion three added, again quoting from the pope’s words to marriage and “the corresponding arises regarding Catholic teaching on marriage and U.S. lawmakers. moral obligations of Catholics,” the corresponding moral obligations of Catholics,” the According to AP, the wedding of Joe Mahshie and three U.S. bishops said on Aug. 5. prelates said. “What we see is a counter-witness, instead Brian Mosteller took place at the vice president’s official “Questions revolving around of a faithful one founded in the truth. residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. The marriage and human sexuality “Pope Francis has been very clear in affirming the two asked Biden to officiate, AP said, adding that the are deeply felt in our homes and truth and constant teaching of the Church that same-sex vice president had to get a temporary license to do so communities,” said the bishops. relationships cannot be considered ‘in any way similar or from the District of Columbia to make the marriage legal. “We join with our Holy Father even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and In 2012, Biden said as a Catholic he was “absolutely Pope Francis in affirming the family,’ ” they continued, quoting from “Amoris Laetitia,” comfortable” with same-sex couples marrying, inviolable dignity of all people the pope’s apostolic exhortation summing up two synods adding they should get “the same exact rights” Vice President Joseph Biden and the Church’s important role in on the family. heterosexual married couples receive. Shortly after accompanying all those in need. Referencing “Forming Consciences for Faithful that, President Barack Obama announced his support “In doing so, we also stand with Pope Francis in Citizenship,” the bishops’ quadrennial document on for same-sex marriage. In a June 2015 ruling, the preserving the dignity and meaning of marriage as the political responsibility, the three prelates also noted that U.S. Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in union of a man and a woman.” “laws that redefine marriage to deny its essential meaning the nation. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., are among those that Catholics must oppose, including in Biden also has long-supported keeping abortion legal. president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, their application after they are passed. In their blog post, Archbishops Kurtz and Wenski was joined by two USCCB chairmen in writing a blog “Such witness is always for the sake of the common and Bishop Malone said that “faithful witness can be post about Biden presiding at a same-sex wedding of good,” they added. challenging—and it will only grow more challenging in two longtime White House aides on Aug. 1. The posting is Archbishops Kurtz and Wenski and Bishop Malone the years to come—but it is also the joy and responsibility on the USCCB blog, usccbmedia.blogspot.com. also quoted from Pope Francis’ address to Congress of all Catholics, especially those who have embraced Signing on to the blog post were Bishop Richard last September: “He reminded us that all politicians positions of leadership and public service. J. Malone of Buffalo, N.Y., chairman of the Committee ‘are called to defend and preserve the dignity of “Let us pray for our Catholic leaders in public life, that on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth; and [their] fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding they may fulfill the responsibilities entrusted to them with Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, chairman of the pursuit of the common good, for this is the chief aim of grace and courage and offer a faithful witness that will Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. all politics.’ bring much needed light to the world,” the three bishops “The two strands of the dignity of the person and the “Catholic politicians in particular are called to ‘a said. “And may all of us as Catholics help each other be dignity of marriage and the family are interwoven. To pull heroic commitment’ on behalf of the common good, faithful and joyful witnesses wherever we are called.” † 5,600-plus religious sisters call for civility by candidates in 2016 presidential race SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS)—More than every person.” dignity of those with whom we disagree and treats 5,600 U.S. religious sisters have signed a letter asking for The letter was written by the Leadership Conference all with the respect that is their God-given right,” the civil discourse in the presidential campaign. of Women Religious, which represents about 80 percent letter said. “Please join us in promising to seek the The letter was to be sent on Aug. 8 to the candidates of the 49,000 women religious in the United States. common good, to desire only good for all others, and to of the Democratic, Republican, Green and Libertarian LCWR, based in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring, offer our own truth with equal measures of conviction parties, as well as their vice presidential running mates has 1,362 members, who represent 308 congregations of and humility.” and the chairs of their respective parties. women religious. The letter quoted from Pope Francis’ address “We simply ask that all who seek to lead refrain from A total of 5,671 sisters have signed the letter. Their to Congress when he visited the United States last language that disrespects, dehumanizes or demonizes ministries include education, health care, and other September: “You are called to defend and preserve another,” the letter said. “We pray that all who seek pastoral and social services. the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and to influence public opinion will be mindful of the “We urge you to join us in pledging to engage in demanding pursuit of the common good, for this is the common good and respectful of the dignity of each and careful listening and honest dialogue that honors the chief aim of all politics.” †

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Page 8 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Saint Meinrad monks celebrate jubilees of monastic profession

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Five Benedictine monks at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad celebrated their 60-year jubilee of monastic profession on July 31. Father Meinrad Brune grew up in Indianapolis as a member of the former St. Catherine of Siena Parish. He made his first profession of vows on Aug. 15, 1956, and was ordained a priest on May 7, 1961. He has a master of arts degree from Butler University, a bachelor’s degree in sacred theology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, and completed his theological training at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. Following ordination, Father Meinrad taught in the former Saint Meinrad High School and College for 16 years. For the next seven years, he served as pastor at St. Meinrad Parish in St. Meinrad, and at St. Mary Parish in Huntingburg, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese. In 1984, he began work in Saint Meinrad’s development office as an associate director and then as alumni director for nine years. He has served in his current position as director of the monastery’s Benedictine Oblate Program since 1995. Father Denis Quinkert is a native of New Albany where he grew up in the former Holy Trinity Parish. In 1950, he came to Saint Meinrad to study at the former St. Placid Hall, a high school for those interested Five Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey are celebrating their 60th anniversary of profession monastic vows. They are, from in becoming a brother. He joined the Benedictine left, Fathers Timothy Sweeney, Denis Quinkert, Lambert Reilly, Brother Andrew Zimmermann and Father Meinrad Brune. (submitted photo) Blue Cloud Abbey in Marvin, S.D., in 1954. He made his first profession of vows on Feb. 10, 1956. he did graduate studies at The Catholic University of He taught at the former Saint Meinrad College As a Benedictine brother, Father Denis worked on the America, Georgetown University in Washington, the for 10 years. From 1975-78, he was prior (second in abbey farm, helped with the construction of the monastery University of Evansville and Arkansas State University in leadership) of the archabbey. On June 2, 1978, he was and farm buildings, and served as a prefect at the Indian Jonesboro, Ark. elected archabbot of Saint Meinrad and served in that role schools staffed by monks of Blue Cloud Abbey. Father Lambert served as the archabbot of the monastic for 17 years. He later studied theology at Pope John XXIII Seminary community from 1995 to 2004. He then returned to his Father Timothy served as administrator of two parishes in Weston, Mass., and was ordained a priest on May 25, ministry of preaching and giving retreats. For more than following his tenure as archabbot. Then from 1996-2005, he 1976. He served as a pastor at Ft. Totten in North Dakota, 40 years, Father Lambert has been a retreat director and was pastor of the Parish of the Immaculate in Owensboro, and in the towns of Wagner and Milbank in South Dakota, speaker on issues of spirituality and prayer. Ky. From 2006-09, he served as pastor of St. Paul Parish in as well as at St. Paul Parish in Marty, S.D. He also served He also taught Latin and education courses at Tell City. as a chaplain to the Benedictine sisters of Sacred Heart Penn State University in State College, Pa., the former He is currently administrator of St. Isidore the Monastery and the students of Mount Marty College in Saint Meinrad College, and the former Mount Sacred Farmer Parish in Bristow and St. Martin of Tours Yankton, S.D. Heart College in Hamden, Conn. In addition, he served Parish in Siberia. He also serves as archivist for Saint Father Denis was elected abbot of Blue Cloud two times, as principal of the former St. Elizabeth High School in Meinrad and for the Swiss-American Congregation of serving from 1986 to 1991 and again from 2009 until Pittsburgh and as a consultant to the Office of Education in Benedictine monasteries. the abbey closed in 2012. At that time, he joined the the Diocese of Peoria, Ill. Brother Andrew Zimmermann was born in Saint Meinrad community. He also has assisted in parishes, worked in public Richmond, Va. He made his first profession of vows as a He serves as a commuting chaplain for Monastery relations, and served in the monastery as guest master, Benedictine monk on March 11, 1956. Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Ind., and assists with assistant oblate director, assistant to the novice master and He worked in the monastery tailor shop until he transportation at Saint Meinrad. pro-prior. He is the author of two books, Because There Is was sent to assist at Saint Meinrad’s priory in the Father Lambert Reilly is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. He Jesus and Latin Sayings for Spiritual Growth. South American country of Peru in November 1963. made his first profession of vows on Aug. 15, 1956, and Father Timothy Sweeney is a native of Indianapolis Seventeen years later, Brother Andrew returned to was ordained a priest on Sept. 20, 1959. as a member of St. Philip Neri Parish, and made his Saint Meinrad to work in the business office and mailroom/ He earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from first profession of vows on Aug. 15, 1956. He was ordained duplicating office. St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., in 1955. He also a priest on May 7, 1961. From 1992-96, he worked in the monastery’s vestry holds master of divinity and master of religious education He has a licentiate in sacred theology from the and transportation offices. Brother Andrew then served degrees from Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Pontifical International Institute of Saint Anselm in Rome, in Guatemala at Marmion Abbey’s foundation from Theology, as well as a master of science in education and a licentiate in philosophy from the Institute Catholique 1996-2004. He now works at the Guadalupe Center in from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In addition, in Paris. Huntingburg, Ind. †

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Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter License #140711 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Page 9 BASEBALL continued from page 1 first students in the ballpark, and he and two close friends—Luke Bauer and Johnny Kraege—snagged three front-row seats down the left field line, close to where the Indians’ pitchers warmed up in the bullpen area. As he waited for the game to begin, 12-year-old Brendan noticed a group of third-grade students from SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi School in Greenwood settle into seats right next to the St. Pius group. He particularly noticed one boy because of the hearing aids and glasses the younger child wore. Turning his attention back to the field, Brendan watched an Indians’ pitcher and catcher warming up before the game when a ball got by the catcher. Hustling to retrieve it, the catcher picked up the Above, a mutual love of baseball is just one of the ball near where Brendan sat. Then the characteristics that marked the close relationship catcher did something that Brendan never between John McCormick and his youngest son, expected. He tossed the ball to Brendan. Brendan. (Submitted photos) As Brendan smiled and held the ball, some of his classmates begged to see and Left, in a family photo, Laurie and John McCormick hold the ball while others made offers pose with their three sons, Kiernan, left, Brendan for him to give it to them. Yet Brendan and Sean. already had plans for the ball. He immediately moved from his seat says Ducote, who still struggles at times Bishop Chatard, Lawrence Central and saw John, Laurie made sure Brendan, Sean and weaved his way through the St. Pius- with the death of her father two years ago. Franklin Central. and Kiernan had some private time with and SS. Francis and Clare sections until “I had my dad more than 40 years, and it’s “I just really enjoy baseball,” Brendan their dad. he was face to face with the boy with the hard for me as an adult.” says. “My dad would take me to the “I gave him a card,” Brendan says. “It hearing aids and the glasses. Her thoughts return to what games and explain stuff to me. I would sit was very sad. At the time, I’m 12 and I’m He held out the ball to Johnny Malan, a Brendan did in the midst of that in the dugout with the players and help out about to see my dad die. I wanted to have child he was meeting for the first time. heartbreaking time. the team.” time with him.” “I said, ‘Here you go. Here’s the “OK, it’s just a baseball, but that’s During that time, Brendan thought ball,’ ” Brendan recalls. “He was every kid’s dream when they go to a ‘Thank you God for another day’ of one of the last gifts his dad had given really happy.” baseball game—to get a ball,” Ducote So a love of baseball and his dad’s him—the extensive collection of baseball says. “God had an angel in human form guidelines to life were ingrained in cards that John McCormick had collected ‘That’s every kid’s dream’ that day in Brendan.” Brendan on that day in May when the since he was a boy himself. As nice as that moment was, it’s only Indians’ catcher tossed him the ball. “He told me, ‘You’re the one who loves part of the story. A father’s approach to life and It was also a time when John was baseball,’ ” Brendan says with a smile. In the SS. Francis and Clare section, parenting continuing to teach and coach at Brendan also smiles when he one of the school’s third-grade teachers No one knows better the relationship Franklin Central, even as he came home remembers the last baseball game that he had been keeping her eyes on her children. between a father and his children than the many evenings exhausted. and his father shared together. It was the And if there’s one thing that’s true about mother of those children. “When he got the diagnosis, he was last game of Brendan’s youth baseball third-grade teachers, it’s this: They rarely Laurie McCormick was attracted to her determined to fight it and win,” Laurie league this spring, and John McCormick’s miss anything that happens involving the future husband shortly after he transferred says. “He went back to school, and taught friends had arranged for him to see the children in their care. So Kathy Ducote to Cathedral High School as a junior when and coached. And he wouldn’t miss game from a golf cart. Brendan hit a triple had seen everything that unfolded in that she was a sophomore. John gave a note to anything involving our kids. He didn’t that game, and made a couple of nice plays special moment between Brendan and Laurie, asking her to give it to one of her care how tired he was. in the field as his proud father savored the Johnny. And she was moved. fellow cheerleaders for him. She smiled “The first thing he said every day when moments. “He did something adults wouldn’t do,” and sweetly told him that he should give he got up was. ‘Thank you, God, for “My dad insisted on seeing my Ducote recalls. “What he did exhibited the note to her. They dated, became high another day.’ He was deeply faithful. He last game,” Brendan says. “I played what our faith is all about—love your school sweethearts, and married in 1995. would pray his rosary daily. But he also really good.” neighbor.” Three sons followed: Sean, 18, Kiernan, struggled with why this was happening.” Ducote left her seat and walked toward 16, and Brendan, now 13. Even if Brendan didn’t know his A father’s lesson, a son’s gift Brendan and Johnny. On the verge of As she watched her boys grow through father’s struggle of faith, he daily saw the John McCormick died on June 23— tears, she thanked Brendan and asked to the years, Laurie always marveled at faith and courage his father showed in four days after Father’s Day—at the age take a photo of the boys together. After the the approach John had as a father. In trying to overcome his physical struggles. of 44. photo, she asked Brendan his name. When describing him as “an amazing dad,” she And those thoughts and principles of his At his viewing, more than 1,000 people he told her his first name, she took a closer offers a list of his guidelines as a parent: father were with him as he moved through showed up. Many of them were former look at his face behind his sunglasses and • From the day they are born, make the Victory Field crowd to give the ball to students who shared stories of how he baseball cap. your children your world. Johnny Malan. made a difference in their lives as a “I asked him, ‘Are you an Alerding? • Teach them to respect others, and to His father would be the first person that teacher, a coach, a friend and a mentor— Oops, a McCormick?’ ” Ducote recalls. especially look out for people who may Brendan told about what he did that day. including how he bought shoes and food Brendan said yes to both his mother’s need your help. “When my dad came home, I told him,” for them in times of need. maiden name and his family’s name. • Be involved in their lives, asking Brendan says. “He gave me a hug and All the stories captured the essence Ducote immediately thought of Laurie them questions and talking to them about told me he was proud of me. Then he said, of the way her husband lived his life, and John McCormick, her friends what matters most to them. ‘I need to lie down.’ ” Laurie says. from their days as fellow students at • Show your children to stay close to “You just give and give, and it becomes Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. God by living your faith. ‘I wanted to have time with him’ who you are,” she says. Ducote also thought of the devastating • Always give them your love. Forty-six days later, Brendan and his Then there is the story of what a father reality that, in early February of 2015, Like his older brothers, Brendan has brothers Sean and Kiernan spent their last taught a son, a story of the moment when John McCormick had been diagnosed with been blessed by his father’s approach to Father’s Day—June 19—with their dad. a 12-year-boy who loves baseball gives a a terminal brain cancer where the average parenting and life. He is also the son who By then, John McCormick’s prized ball to a younger boy. extended life expectancy was another has completely embraced his father’s love courageous effort to make the most of his Brendan still remembers the look on his 15 months. And since Brendan had given of baseball. last 16 months was in its final days. As father’s face when he first told him about Johnny the ball in early May of 2016, His closeness with his dad and his he rested in hospice, his large, extended what he did with the ball. those 15 months had just about passed. passion for the sport grew during John’s Catholic family had gathered to share their “I think he felt really good, kind of like, “I couldn’t even fathom watching your years as a teacher and a baseball coach at memories, their prayers and their love ‘I taught my son how to do this. I taught dad struggle like that when you’re 12,” three high schools in the Indianapolis area: with him one more time. Before the family my son to be a good person.’ ” † Pakistani Church deplores suicide blast at Quetta hospital NEW DELHI (CNS)—The Catholic Church in Pakistan “The commission and the Catholic Church stand firmly “This is terrible,” Cecil Shane Chaudhry, executive has condemned a suicide blast at a hospital in Quetta, with the people of Balochistan in this hour,” and asked director of the justice and peace commission, told Catholic Pakistan, where at least 70 people—many of them lawyers the government “to bring the perpetrators of this heinous News Service from Lahore. “The atmosphere is getting and journalists—were killed and more than 120 injured. crime to justice,” said the Church statement signed by frightening. Lawyers and journalists are targeted like this.” The Aug. 8 blast was carried out at the entrance of the justice and peace officials, including Bishop Joseph While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his emergency department of the hospital when the body of Arshad of Faisalabad, chairman. “deep grief and anguish” over the killing, lawyers and Bilal Anwar Kasi, president of Balochistan (provincial) “This tragic incident has caused bereavement journalists held protest demonstrations across several Bar Association, was being taken after he was shot by throughout the country,” the statement said, offering cities. According to local media reports, the slain Quetta two unidentified gunmen while on his way to court. prayers for peace and condolences to the families of Bar Association chief had condemned the early August “Killing innocent people is [an] inhuman act and the victims. killing of a lawyer and announced a two-day boycott of totally unacceptable,” said the National Commission Pointing out that Balochistan province has experienced court sessions to protest the death. for Justice and Peace, a rights-based organization of the more than 1,400 incidents of violence and targeted killing On Aug. 8, 2013, gunmen shot dead a police official in Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, in a statement over the past 15 years, the statement urged the government Quetta, and a suicide blast at the funeral claimed the lives condemning the “tragic killing.” of Pakistan to improve security measures. of nearly 30 people, including several police officials. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Forgive others and find peace, pope says during brief visit to Assisi

ASSISI, Italy (CNS)—Celebrating how God’s mercy confessions before making his scheduled visit to has been experienced for 800 years in a tiny stone Franciscans in the nearby infirmary. church in Assisi, Pope Francis said people need to Earlier, Pope Francis told those gathered before the experience God’s forgiveness and start learning how to Portiuncola that St. Francis could ask for nothing greater forgive others. than “the gift of salvation, eternal life and unending joy” “Too many people are caught up in resentment and for the townsfolk of Assisi. harbor hatred because they are incapable of forgiving. “Forgiveness—pardon—is surely our direct route to They ruin their own lives and the lives of those around that place in heaven” that Jesus promised his followers, them rather than finding the joy of serenity and peace,” the pope said. “What a great gift the Lord has given us the pope said on Aug. 4 during an afternoon visit to the in teaching us to forgive and, in this way, to touch the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels. Father’s mercy!” Before speaking about the importance of confession In his brief remarks, Pope Francis offered a reflection and forgiveness, Pope Francis set a bouquet of red on the parable of “the unforgiving servant” from and white roses on the altar and prayed silently for St. Matthew’s Gospel. 10 minutes in the Portiuncola, a stone chapel in the Like that servant, the pope said, many Christians middle of the basilica. feel they have a debt to God that they can never repay. The abandoned ninth-century Benedictine chapel “When we kneel before the priest in the confessional, was entrusted to St. Francis of Assisi in the early 1200s. we do exactly what that servant did. We say, ‘Lord, have When St. Francis felt God calling him to rebuild the patience with me.’ ” church, he first thought he meant the little chapel. And the Lord does, he said. Over and over again, St. Francis restored the chapel in 1207, and two years people confess the same sins and each time, God later he founded his religious order there. The chapel is forgives them. so important to the Franciscan family that when it was “The problem, unfortunately, comes whenever we time to build a larger church, the new basilica was built have to deal with a brother or sister who has even around the chapel, leaving it intact. slightly offended us,” Pope Francis said. But the reason Pope Francis visited on Aug. 4 and Again, many people act like the servant in the parable the reason thousands travel there each August is the who, after pleading for leniency, goes to those who owe “Pardon of Assisi,” a plenary indulgence offered to him and demand they pay immediately. visitors who are sincerely sorry for their sins, go to “Here we encounter all the drama of our human confession, receive the Eucharist, recite the Creed and relationships,” the pope said. “When we are indebted to pray for the intentions of the pope as a sign of their unity others, we expect mercy; but when others are indebted to with the Church. us, we demand justice. In Franciscan history, it was God who authorized “This is a reaction unworthy of Christ’s disciples St. Francis to offer the Assisi indulgence—a reduction and is not the sign of a Christian style of life,” of the temporal punishment one rightly should endure Pope Francis said. “Jesus teaches us to forgive, and to do because of sins committed. Kneeling in prayer, so without limit.” St. Francis asked the Lord to grant full pardon to those God’s forgiveness is “like a caress,” he said, who came to the Portiuncola and confessed their sins. “so different from the gesture” of a threatening fist The Lord agreed. The next day—on Aug. 2, 1216— accompanied by the words, “You’ll pay for that!” Pope Honorius III agreed. The pardon St. Francis preached at the Portiuncola, Although it was not written in the pope’s prepared Pope Francis said, is as necessary as ever. text or mentioned in the Vatican schedule for the “In this Holy Year of Mercy, it becomes ever clearer visit, Pope Francis ended his talk in Assisi asking the that the path of forgiveness can truly renew the Church Franciscan friars and bishops present to go to one of the and the world,” he said. “To offer today’s world the confessionals and be available to offer the sacrament witness of mercy is a task from which none of us can of reconciliation. He put on a purple stole and heard feel exempt.” †

Pope Francis prays in the Portiuncola, the medieval chapel preserved inside the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, in Assisi, Italy, on Aug. 4. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

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April of 1879. Many thought it was the end PILGRIMAGE of the university, but Father Sorin vowed continued from page 1 that the building would be completed for students to return for the fall semester for its football team. in four months’ time. Through his But the university as a pilgrimage site? determination, as well as donations and Absolutely, says Archbishop Tobin. (See the herculean effort of 300 men working the archbishop explain why in a video at every day for four months, he held true to youtu.be/HkY2fjJtKV0.) his promise. “A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy The dome came later. Adorned place,” he explained to the pilgrims on the with a 19-foot, two-ton statue of the bus ride to northern Indiana. “It’s a place Blessed Mother for whom the university is where we go to pray and worship. It’s a named, the dome is covered in eight ounces place where we can enter into connection of nearly 24-karat gold leaf. When the with lots of pilgrims before us. … dome is touched-up about every 10 years, “I think today is a day for us to said the tour guide, flakes of its gold are experience the reality of being connected. mixed in with the paint for the football We leave our homes, and we experience a team’s helmets. They are also mixed deeper connection with Father Sorin, who with the gold used for the diploma seals, arrived at Notre Dame and began in a very “allowing us to take part of the dome with bitter winter the institution there.” us,” the guide said. To mark the day as holy, the pilgrimage Other stops on the campus tour/ began with a tour of the university’s pilgrimage included a replica of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, whose doors log cabin where Father Sorin and his are among those designated as doors of six companion Holy Cross brothers mercy during the Holy Year of Mercy. first lived; a one-seventh scale model Construction on the basilica was started of the grotto at Lourdes, France; and a in 1870, replacing the first church on view of Hesburgh Library’s “touchdown the campus. It was finally completed Jesus” mural, so named for the position and consecrated in 1888, although the of Christ’s raised arms as visible in the first Mass was held there in 1875 and the background behind one of the end zones church was in continuous use thereafter. of the university’s football stadium. The Not part of that first Mass was the mural actually depicts Christ and the magnificent, high altar. Before being “saints of learning,” and is officially called installed at the basilica, the multi-tiered, “Word of Life.” French-made altar was displayed at the Archbishop Tobin noted that the Centennial Philadelphia Exposition in archdiocese is more connected with Notre 1876, winning first prize for design. Dame than just via the Catholic faith. For many members of the pilgrimage, He mentioned how several of the the day’s highlight was Mass at the archdiocesan schools benefit from basilica, with Archbishop Tobin as the the university’s Alliance for Catholic principle celebrant, accompanied by Education—or ACE—teachers. 17 concelebrants. “The alliance takes students who are “Just being in the basilica for Mass, interested in doing graduate work in The Basilica of the Sacred Heart towers behind a group of pilgrims from central and southern Indiana it was powerful,” said Mary Burk of education and provides that education at the University of Notre Dame as they listen to a student provide some school history during a tour St. Michael Parish in Brookville. “The in return for a contribution of teaching, of the campus on July 19. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) church was packed. On a Tuesday? usually in a difficult or marginalized area,” That’s great!” the archbishop explained. “Our relationship Katherine and Norbert Krapf of St. Mary Patty Meyer of St. Michael Parish in Theresa Blevins of St. Ann Parish in with ACE is going to intensify this year Parish in Indianapolis were among those Brookville had never been to Notre Dame. Jennings County agreed. as they take a new and very serious with degrees from the university. Both “I always wanted to go,” said Meyer. “The Mass was so beautiful,” she said. responsibility for the five Mother Theodore earned advanced degrees from Notre Dame “[Seeing Notre Dame] was on my “I’ve never seen so many priests up on Guerin Catholic Academies within the city in the 1960s. bucket list.” the altar.” of Indianapolis.” They also earned each other’s love and When she read about the pilgrimage in She also appreciated the statues and A number of the principals in trust for life there. The Criterion, she invited Burk to join her. art in the basilica. Luigi Gregori, who had the archdiocese have attended the “It was the fall of 1968,” Katherine Though raised Catholic, Burk had fallen been painter-in-residence at the Vatican, university’s Remick Leadership Program recalls. “We met in the library. There was away from the faith for many years. Her agreed to come to Notre Dame for three to become better administrators, a place down in the basement of the library faith was recently renewed through the years to paint murals on the walls and specifically of Catholic schools, he [with vending machines] called The Pit. … Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. ceiling of the basilica. Fifty-six murals, said. And many parishes and schools Usually it was full, but the day that I went “As a kid, I learned what I learned 14 Stations of the Cross and 17 years later, have interns of Notre Dame’s Echo down, we were the only two people in the [about the faith] because I had to,” she Gregori was finished. He also painted program—a two-year service-learning room, so we had to meet!” said. “And now it’s because I want to. That murals of Christopher Columbus and other program preparing faith formation leaders The Krapfs were married in the [program] made my faith a lot stronger. areas within Notre Dame’s Main Building. in the Church. Lady Chapel of the basilica, and celebrated “I’m glad [Patty] asked me to come. I’ve With its golden dome, the Main Archbishop Tobin also gave credit to the their 46th wedding anniversary in June. been [to Notre Dame] for a football game Building is probably the most known of university’s Center for Social Concerns. The pilgrimage provided a good before, but this was very different.” the university’s structures. Its existence is The center hosted an Indiana Catholic opportunity for them to “reflect on the Like Meyer, Cindy Redmon of a testament to the iron will of Father Sorin Poverty Summit in April 2013. Out of that past, to recall where we were in our lives St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville had never and his declaration that the university summit came “Poverty at the Crossroads: when we met, and where we are now,” been to the university. “cannot fail to succeed.” The Church’s Response to Poverty in said Katherine. “I’ve always wanted to see the campus, The structure was just what its name Indiana,” a pastoral letter by the five “Whenever you come back to a place and [also] to have some quiet time, some suggests—the main building where bishops of Indiana. you’ve been before, there are always still time,” she said of her reasons for virtually the entire university was The archbishop acknowledged that memories and associations,” Norbert said in joining the pilgrimage. originally housed. there were many among the pilgrims who agreement. “And it’s relaxing to do it with The experience was all she hoped for. As recounted by a student tour guide, had their own connections to Notre Dame, someone else driving!” “It was a beautiful day, just perfect,” the building was destroyed by a fire in either as alumni or as parents of graduates. Unlike the Krapfs, Burk’s friend she said. †

Above, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin delivers a homily in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame during an archdiocesan pilgrimage on July 19.

Left, the magnificent, 140-year-old high altar of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame shines in the background as Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, back left, and other pilgrims from central and southern Indiana listen to a tour guide in the basilica during an archdiocesan pilgrimage on July 19.

Right, the golden dome of the Main Building and the spire of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart announce the Catholic presence of the University of Notre Dame. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and 51 pilgrims from central and southern Indiana made a pilgrimage to the basilica and campus on July 19. Page 12 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ 20th-century Church: Vatican City State established Christina Capecchi Olympic (Third in a series of columns) the only faith in all of Italy, called for from various countries are posted to the Catholic education in Italy’s cities, and Holy See, not to Vatican City State. inspiration: Pius XI was pope from 1922 to 1939, gave freedom for Catholic Action, a lay The Holy See, rather than the State of between World War I and World War II. organization which sought to increase Vatican City, conducts the administration waiting for that He built on Pope Benedict XV’s efforts the influence of the Catholic faith on of the universal Church. The Secretariat of toward diplomacy, society. It also compensated the Holy See State, the papal congregations, tribunals, unifying moment mainly by negotiating for the loss of the Papal States by paying councils and commissions, all of which 18 concordats with the 750 million lire in cash and 1 billion lire in assist the pope in administration, are It was a rough July, on a national scale, major powers. He was 5-percent negotiable government bonds. collectively known as the Roman Curia. marked by division: shootings, protests, funerals, the first pope to head In return, the Church accepted the Meanwhile, Pope Pius XI tried to conventions. Vatican City State. loss of the Papal States, and agreed to improve relations with Germany after Whether you tuned Benito Mussolini recognize the Italian state with Rome as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis took over that into Trump and Clinton, had come to power in the capital of Italy. country in 1933. A concordat, negotiated clicked over to the Italy, and was anxious Today, Vatican City State consists by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, was signed late-night comics or to win the good will of 108.7 acres, plus the extraterritorial that year guaranteeing liberty for the braced for sharp Facebook of the Church. The possessions mentioned above. The pope Church, independence for Catholic exchanges, you likely felt pope, too, wanted to end the situation that possesses full executive, legislative and organizations and youth groups, and a sense of separation, of had made five popes “prisoners in the judicial rights. The Pontifical Commission religious teaching in schools. people moving further Vatican” since 1870. After two years of for the Vatican State carries out Good relations with Mussolini and apart, digging in their negotiation, the Lateran Treaty was signed administrative duties. Hitler didn’t last long as it became heels and drawing on Feb. 11, 1929, establishing the State of Vatican City State should not be apparent that they were intent on circles around their camps. the Vatican City. confused with the Holy See (or Apostolic totalitarianism after Nazi racial policies “At times, it seems like the forces pulling The treaty extended recognition See). The former term designates only were adopted in Italy. Pius XI wrote us apart are stronger than the forces binding us to the Church’s holdings outside the the territorial possession of the papacy, encyclicals against Italian Fascism, together,” former President George W. Bush Vatican itself, such as Castel Gandolfo, while the latter term refers to the universal Nazism and Communism. observed at a Dallas memorial service. “Too various office buildings, and basilicas spiritual sovereignty, and authority of the During his pontificate, Pius XI also often, we judge other groups by their worst such as St. John Lateran and St. Paul pope over the Church. spoke out strongly against the persecution examples while judging ourselves by our Outside the Walls. It recognized the pope The Holy See is the oldest sovereign of the Jews and against the persecution of best intentions.” as the absolute owner and sovereign state to participate in international the Church in Mexico, the Soviet Union To reverse this impulse—to trust in others’ of Vatican City. relations, and it remained so after the and Spain. better intentions and recognize our own bad It also accepted Catholicism as loss of the Papal States. Diplomats More about Pope Pius XI next week. † examples—is the ultimate act of mercy, the virtue we need so desperately this year. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes I’m hoping August can provide what July failed to deliver: unity. And I’m banking Remembering the wry northern sense of humor on the Olympics to give us that lift through 17 days of drama and daring, with more than Garrison Keillor will be sorely missed, tribal gatherings and ceremonial costumes. Minnetonka on which the town fronted. 10,000 athletes from 207 nations coming at least in this household. He and his tales That’s fine, but the problem was the flat So here was a lovely scene dominated together in 306 events. It’s time to root for of Lake Woebegon resonate with those of roof typical of the southwest. Unlike that by trains rumbling by in front of it. The someone who doesn’t look or sound like you, us who come from hot, sunny climate, Minnesota experiences main street of town became a corridor to cheer on athletes because you like their story up north because frequent snowstorms which would cover next to the railroad, with buildings along or their anxious mom, because they’re young or he’s right on target. the roof several feet deep with heavy the other side. To us, it seemed perfectly old, because they’re shy or bold, because you Aside from the movie snow. So the janitors spent most of their reasonable that the movie theater and the can glimpse their spirit shining through. Fargo, he’s the most time up there shoveling snow off the roof grocery and hardware stores admired the The beauty of enduring Olympic moments is accurate chronicler of before it could collapse. scenery through interruptions from noise that they cannot be planned or predicted. They that weird, rather dark Garrison liked to tease Lutherans, and speeding behemoths. are unscripted. Part of the magic is watching humor that pervades implying that they were dour and Northern humor is largely laconic. Of them unfold before our eyes. We follow the up there. Somehow, humorless. That isn’t exactly true because course, people laugh raucously now and athlete with the most hype, while an underdog all that cold and snow they, like us, believe that God must have a then and make jokes, but mostly their sneaks up and stuns. A star is born, and we feel and winter darkness sense of humor, and we are made in God’s humor is the kind where you chuckle part of it because we have given witness to it. creates hilarious situations and characters image. After all, God gave us free will, inside and share it with others through a History is replete with golden Olympic and events. which led to all kinds of amusing behavior. look or a shrug. moments. They do not require athletic Now, I don’t think they set out to be My hometown of Wayzata also had It’s also kind of politically incorrect. supremacy, though many contain it; they do funny. It just happened, as in the erection a strangely humorous beginning. It It’s not socially acceptable to make fun require a triumph of human spirit. of my grade-through-high school building. seems that Jim Hill, the empire builder of death or gruesome ways of achieving Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila ran a marathon Keep in mind that this is Minnesota we’re and founder of the Great Northern it, but northerners do. Think of the scene in the 1960 Summer Games barefoot—and talking about, a place with very cold and Railroad, had a dispute with the city in the movie Fargo where the murderer is won. Hermann Maier, an Austrian skier, had a snowy winters. fathers about where his tracks would run disposing of his crimes in a wood chipper. devastating crash in the downhill competition When my mom was a junior in the through the town. Humor of any kind is a gift and a at the 1988 Nagano Games, then returned to the same high school, the school building Hill wanted the more or less direct blessing. Personally, I agree with Garrison slopes days later to win two gold medals. burned down and they had to build a new route through the middle of the downtown, that up north the women are strong, the Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea one. Contrary to all sense, they chose a connecting the trains from Minneapolis men are good-looking and the children are had just recently taken up swimming, and gained southwestern style of architecture. The on to South Dakota. But the city didn’t above average. And they’re funny, too. † entrance into the 2000 Summer Games through a school looked like a big white pueblo, like that and refused permission. So Hill wildcard for athletes from developing countries. white with wooden beams poking out retaliated by building his railroad track (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the He lost the 100-meter freestyle qualifying race, here and there. Inside, the décor was through town right along the publicly Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular but set a record for his home country, wowing southwestern Indian, with paintings of accessible shore of beautiful Lake columnist for The Criterion.) † fans with his memorable first swim in an Olympic-sized pool. Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. British sprinter Derek Redmond tore a hamstring during the 400-meter semi-finals in Micah, Xavier—what’s in a name? Plenty, if we look 1992, and struggled to rise to his feet. His father broke through security to join his son on the Recent weeks have brought violence ruler of the universe. God cannot be an unlighted torch. But with faith, these track, propping him up and helping him reach and senseless killings to this nation. I am anything but interested in the decisions words from Micah provide light for our the finish line, which Derek crossed on his own. thinking in particular of Baton Rouge, we as a nation decide now to make about path into an unknown future. Canadian sailor Lawrence Lemieux was La., and Dallas. It governance in the immediate future. We simply have to decide now to work expected to medal at the 1988 South Korea intrigues me that the And God cannot be anything but faithful unceasingly for justice. We have to set our Olympics, but noticed a competitor’s capsized Dallas assassin bore to us. minds on the knowledge of what is good boat amid dangerous winds and abandoned the names Micah and So, mindful that God holds our destiny and seek it without fail. And we have to the race to rescue the two injured sailors. After Xavier. in his hands, it makes a lot of sense to turn restore a good name to humility and let it handing them off to a crew, he returned to What were his to him for guidance. Life is God’s gift to put us on the path, with the Lord, to walk the race, still managing to beat out 11 other parents thinking us. What we do with our lives is our gift to into a future full of hope. competitors and place 22nd out of 32. He was when they gave those God. Our decisions are important. It is idea time in America. Big ideas are awarded an honorary medal for heroism. names to their infant As we look to the future of our nation, needed. Ultimately, epic Olympic moments reveal son? Did Micah we pray for the elimination of hatred and They have to find their way into laws, truth and beauty. They stir us to strive for Xavier Johnson ever violence from our lives. And we need policies and programs that will bring this something more. read the Book of Micah? Did he ever learn protection from confusion. So the words nation together in unity, and thus enable “Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation anything about St. Francis Xavier? of St. Francis Xavier are just right for our nation to meet its responsibilities of of the whole man,” Pope Pius XII once said, I was asked to deliver the invocation us at the present time: “In you, O Lord, helping a tired world, suffering now from “and while perfecting the body as an instrument at the Democratic National Convention in have I put my hope. Let me never be so much poverty and violence, make its of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a Philadelphia on the evening of July 27. I confounded.” way toward peace and prosperity. more refined instrument for the search and chose to lace the words of both the prophet And the prophet Micah quite literally Micah and Xavier can help us find communication of truth, and helps man to Micah and St. Francis Xavier into that enables us to listen now to words God our way. achieve that end to which all others must invocation, because our nation stands has spoken to us: “You have been told, be subservient, the service and praise of his in need of an interpretative framework O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord (Jesuit Father William J. Byron is Creator.” through which to process our present requires of you: Only to do justice and to university professor of business and thoughts and plans for building unity and love goodness and to walk humbly with society at St. Joseph’s University (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer establishing peace in our times. your God” (Mi 6:8). in Philadelphia. E-mail him at from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and the God, of course, is the Creator and Without faith, as we know, Scripture is [email protected].) † editor of SisterStory.org.) † The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Page 13

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, August 15 Friday, August 19 Sunday Readings The Assumption of the Blessed St. John Eudes, priest Virgin Mary Ezekiel 37:1-14 Sunday, August 14, 2016 Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, Psalm 107:2-9 • Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 proclaimed this weekend says that Jesus 10ab Matthew 22:34-40 • Hebrews 12:1-4 was “shameless” even when dying the Psalm 45:10-12, 16 • Luke 12:49-53 ignoble death of crucifixion (Heb 12:2). 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Saturday, August 20 Regardless of the insults and scorn of Luke 1:39-56 St. Bernard, abbot and doctor The Book of Jeremiah is the source others, Jesus rose to sit at the right hand of of the Church of the first reading for this weekend. the Father in glory. Jeremiah is regarded as one of the more For its last reading on this weekend, Tuesday, August 16 Ezekiel 43:1-7b important prophets. the Church offers us a passage from St. Stephen of Hungary Psalm 85:9ab, 10-14 In fact, four prophets, St. Luke’s Gospel. Ezekiel 28:1-10 Matthew 23:1-12 Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel Always in reading the Gospels, it (Response) Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, are should be remembered that they were 32:26-28, 30, 35cd-36b Sunday, August 14 considered major written not at the time of Jesus, but Matthew 19:23-30 Twenty-first Sunday in prophets. likely many years later. This Gospel, for Jeremiah was active instance, is thought to have been written Ordinary Time as a prophet during the about 40 years after Jesus. Wednesday, August 17 Isaiah 66:18-21 reign of King Josiah By the time this Gospel was composed, Ezekiel 34:1-11 Psalm 117:1-2 of Judah between hostility against Christians already had Psalm 23:1-6 Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 640 and 609 BC. begun to form in the Roman Empire. In a Matthew 20:1-16 Luke 13:22-30 Generally, Josiah was seen as a good and short time, this hostility would erupt into a upright king, loyal to God. full-fledged persecution. The hostility was It is important to remember that to be expected. The Christian ethic stood Thursday, August 18 kingship in the eyes of the devout ancient utterly opposite the prevailing culture. Ezekiel 36:23-28 Hebrews was not a matter of governing the So, the Evangelist selected words Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19 country primarily, or of conducting foreign spoken by Jesus to apply to conditions Matthew 22:1-14 affairs, or of commanding the military. meaningful to his audience. Instead, for God’s people, the king’s This being the case, it is easy to see responsibility, regardless of the person who why the Gospel in this reading quotes was wearing the crown at any given time, Jesus as saying that there would be no was to see that the law of God was obeyed, peace on the Earth. Jesus brought fire. It Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle and that the people of the kingdom were can be a sobering thought, even somehow attentive to their covenant with God. a contradiction of the Gospel of peace. Very often, this view meant that In reality, it says that Christians must The Church encourages participation in prophets placed themselves in conflict with be prepared to withstand many pressures the powerful. rather than forsake the one true message ecumenical and interfaith prayer services Jeremiah in this reading certainly of Christ. We live in a rural area with the Catholic Church is represented involved himself in politics, which can be Q several small churches of various through you. controversial. So, Jeremiah made enemies. Reflection denominations. For many years during Indeed, enemies gathered to plot his The Church is always inviting us Lent and Advent, Our new pastor has already brought death. The reading speaks of their wish to to follow the Lord. Indeed, its most weekly ecumenical Q up several times the notion of tithing. annihilate this annoying prophet. magnificent liturgical moments are in services have been He says that, as Catholics, we are called Despite this threat, despite the scheming Holy Week when it tells us so brilliantly held at different to give 10 percent of our annual gross of his enemies, Jeremiah still spoke of the Lord’s love for us, given in the churches—along with a income to charity, and he promises us that with determination that God deserved Eucharist and on Calvary, and of the large interfaith service “God will not be outdone in generosity.” obedience. The covenant had to be Lord’s identity as Son of God, definitively at Thanksgiving, Can you explain the Church’s teaching honored. It was that simple. affirmed by the resurrection. and one in June as a on tithing: Is it really a requirement, like The Epistle to the Hebrews provides the Nevertheless, in inviting us to baccalaureate for area Sunday Mass attendance, that Catholics second reading. discipleship, the Church never leads us high school graduates. tithe? The Catechism of the Catholic The letter was written with eloquence down a primrose path. It is very frank The former pastors Church simply says that the faithful “have and majesty for an audience of Jewish and blunt. of our Catholic parish always participated the duty of providing for the material converts to Christianity. With many strong Following Christ may often cause us to in these services, but our present priest needs of the Church, each according to references to Hebrew history and symbols, swim against the tide. Pushing against us is unwilling to do so. So my question is his abilities” (#2043). I agree, but we this epistle splendidly proclaims the Lord will be the setting in which we live, those this: Is this a matter of official Church also have to balance that against our Jesus to be the Redeemer, the Lamb of God among whom we love, or ourselves. guidelines, or one of personal preference? responsibility to provide for the material and the High Priest. As did Jeremiah, as did Christ, we must Some Protestant neighbors have begun needs of our children. (Minnesota) The passage from the epistle withstand all that is contrary to God. † to ask why we no longer have Catholic representation. What do we tell them? The practice of tithing was formally (New York) Aestablished in the Torah, the Jewish My Journey to God law of the Old Testament. A person The position of the Church is that offered to God, by giving to the Temple, Asuch services as you describe are one-tenth of the harvest of grain of the definitely encouraged. The Vatican’s fields or the produce of fruit of their trees. 1993 “Directory for the Application of That practice carried over into the early Principles and Norms on Ecumenism” say centuries of the Church’s history, and in that “prayer in common is recommended the eighth century Charlemagne made for Catholics and other Christians so that tithing to the Church a civil law. together they may put before God the Today there is no obligation for needs and problems they share” (#109). Catholics to donate a specific fraction Although the Church encourages this of their income—only, as you mention, kind of ecumenical prayer, it does not the general obligation that all Catholics mandate it in all circumstances. So, in should, to the extent of their abilities, fairness to your priest, I don’t know if contribute to the material support of circumstances in your local situation could the Church. be the reason for his reluctance. In addition to the passage you cite from Suppose, for example, that some the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Catholics were forgoing Sunday Mass Church’s Code of Canon Law says that during Advent and Lent, figuring that “the Christian faithful are obliged to assist What beauty lies they were “covered” by the ecumenical with the needs of the Church so that the Ebony In black black eyes services. That would be a clear Church has what is necessary for divine And warm brown chocolate skin, misunderstanding: The Mass is the highest worship, for the works of the apostolate and Pearl form of worship, the one that puts us in and of charity” (Canon 222.1). What beauty lies closest touch with the divine, and the one Studies have shown that Catholics By Katherine Strathearn Baverso In sky blue eyes offered to us as a gift from Jesus himself. typically give between one percent and And milk of honey skin. Not to mention the fact that Catholics have two percent of their income to local (The late Katherine Strathearn Baverso a serious religious obligation to share in parishes, but to that figure must be added is the mother of Josephine Borrasso, Where oh where does hatred die the Sunday Eucharist. the considerable donations made to a member of St. Charles Borromeo And love for all begin? Why not arrange to sit down with your religious orders as well as to Catholic Parish in Bloomington. Sardinian priest, perhaps with two or three other hospitals and Catholic charitable agencies, and Hungarian team members When minds and hearts are opened wide parishioners who share your concerns, which make up the largest private network shake hands before their match at Hands clasped in honest caring, and try to determine the reason for your of health care and social service agencies the Special Olympics international Trusting, willing, sharing pastor’s reluctance. If he still chooses in America. soccer tournament sponsored by the Like little children side by side not to participate in such services, you Knights of Columbus in Rome on All welcome God within— and other like-minded Catholics in your (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth May 21.) (CNS photo/Giampiero Sposito) Then does love for all begin. area are free to attend them. Hopefully Doyle at [email protected] and your Protestant friends will realize that 40 Hopewell St. Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016

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Please submit in writing and Judy Neal. Grandmother of congress to our office by 10 a.m. five. Great-grandmother of six. Thursday before the week of Parishioners hold hands FLODDER, Harold D., 84, publication; be sure to state St. Louis, Batesville, July 26. during a July 30 Mass at the date of death. Obituaries of Husband of Viola Flodder. Hispanic Congress of the archdiocesan priests serving Father of Ann Carlson and Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, our archdiocese are listed held on July 30-31 in Sioux elsewhere in The Criterion. Bill Flodder. Brother of Jean City. (CNS photo Jerry L. Mennenga, Order priests and religious Struewing. Grandfather of two. sisters and brothers are Great-grandfather of two. Catholic Globe) included here, unless they are HAHN, Matthew L., 2, natives of the archdiocese or St. Mary, Greensburg, July have other connec­tions to it; 23. Son of Matt Hahn and those are separate obituaries Angie Robertson. Brother of on this page. Mataya Hahn, Nevika, Taylen BERRY, Lois G. (Human), and Logan DeBiase and James 89, Prince of Peace, Madison, Supler. Grandson of Pat and July 25. Mother of Marianne Mona Hahn, Lavada Hennen Dahlem, Dolly Tuttle, David, and J.R. Robertson. MEYER, Wilbur J., 89, Moss. Sister of Anne, Peg and Greenwood, July 29. Mother WALTERMAN, Rosemary E., John and Roger Berry. KASPER, Marjory A., 70, Grandmother of 12. Great- Holy Family, Oldenburg, Jim. of Mary Anne Davis, Sharon 66, St. Mary, Greensburg, Christ the King, Indianapolis, Tussinger, Kathleen Webb and 66, July 29. Mother of Wendi grandmother of 16. Great-great- July 21. Father of Donna and NIEHOFF, Marilyn K., July 21. Wife of David Kasper. Don Partain. Grandmother Moore, Julie Weber, Gregory grandmother of two. Shirley Kieffer, Wanda Lecher, St. Mary, Rushville, July 28. Mother of Kristin and Rebecca of seven. Great-grandmother and Shawn Walterman. DAVIDSON, Caroline C., 86, Bernard and Eugene Meyer. Mother of Karen Wagner Kasper. Sister of Hugo Diehl. of five. Daughter of Geraldine Wilson. St. John Paul II, Clark County, Grandfather of 10. Great- and Darren Niehoff. Sister of Sister of Susan Henry, Sandra July 30. Mother of Deborah LEIDOLF, Oliver J., 94, grandfather of 18. Glenda Fraley and Janet Wilson. RUSSELL, G. Richard, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, Loudin, Angela, Charles, Miles, Donna Rogers and MORRISON, Suzanne M. Grandmother of five. Great- 95, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, July 26. Husband of Ruth Donald, John, Michael, Terry Davidson. Sister of Tillie (Otto), 79, SS. Francis and grandmother of two. Floyd County, July 31. Father Russell. Father of Margie Paul and William Wilson. Cooke, Lucille Triplett and Clare of Assisi, Greenwood, of Van Leidolf. Brother of NORRIS, Kathleen, 65, Setterlof and Mike Russell. Grandmother of eight. Great- Robert Graf. Grandmother of July 30. Mother of Dolores six. Great-grandmother of 12. Arthur Leidolf. Grandfather Annunciation, Brazil, July 14. Grandfather of five. Great- grandmother of three. Gualtieri, David and Dennis Wife of John Norris. Mother of of two. grandfather of 12. WILSON, Ronald L., 71, FITZGERALD, Ella L., 82, Morrison. Sister of Elizabeth Jennifer Walters, Christopoher MEYER, Jr., George G., 98, St. Mary, Rushville, July 29. Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Domer and Mary Margaret Krampe and Robert Norris. SEMMLER, Juliana J. St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, (Hess), 93, St. Christopher, Husband of Donna Wilson. Christ, Indianapolis, July 27. Sweeny. Grandmother of seven. Sister of Barbara Gwen, Theresa Wife of Robert Fitzgerald. July 29. Father of Dorene Indianapolis, July 14. Mother Father of Jennifer and Daniel Great-grandmother of two. Krampe and Diana Wetnight. Mother of Janice Fitzgerald Bruckert, Cynthia Meyer- of Taryn Blair, Joan Fitzpatrick, Wilson. Stepfather of Jan Grandmother of three. Milligan, Susan Reuter, Joseph England and Paul Meyer. MOSS, Mary, 85, St. Luke the Gregory, Mark, Richard and Willhelm, Joni, David and and Richard Fitzgerald. Sister Grandfather of four. Great- Evangelist, Indianapolis, July PARTAIN, Rosemary H., 90, Stephen Semmler. Grandmother Mark Osborne. Brother of Bill of Theresa Hedrick, Jane Minto grandfather of five. 16. Mother of Jim and Tom Our Lady of the Greenwood, of 16. Great-grandmother of 28. Wilson. Grandfather of six. † Body found in river near Wichita park identified as missing seminarian WICHITA, Kan. (CNS)—Law of a life vest floating in the water with a his kayak to save the woman before getting Bergkamp had just finished his enforcement officials in Wichita on Aug. 1 rosary attached to it. That discovery led to pulled under himself. He was not wearing second year at Mount St. Mary’s announced that a body found some days finding the body of the missing seminarian. a life jacket. The other kayakers made Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., which is earlier in the The coroner on July 29 confirmed it was it to shore. in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He is Arkansas River near Bergkamp, and his family was given the His family said his funeral and burial the son of Ned and Theresa Bergkamp one of the city’s news first. would be private. of Garden Plain, and would have been parks was the body Bergkamp, who was studying for the “Our prayers continue to be lifted up for ordained to the transitional diaconate of Brian Bergkamp, Kansas diocese at a Maryland seminary, the consolation of Brian’s family as they at the end of the upcoming school year. a seminarian from had been missing since he saved the life of take the next step to honor the memory of His brother, Andy, was ordained to the Diocese of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River their son and brother,” the Wichita Diocese the transitional diaconate in May. He Wichita. on July 9. Three days later, he remained said in an Aug. 1 statement. is preparing for the priesthood for the The Wichita missing and was presumed to be dead. The diocese expressed “gratitude to Diocese of Wichita at Mundelein Seminary Eagle daily Bergkamp, 24, was among five people God for his abundant graces offered to in Mundelein, Ill. newspaper reported traveling in separate kayaks when all got strengthen all impacted by Brian’s death, “I knew Brian to be an exceptional that a fisherman caught in turbulent waters. According to to the members of the recovery team and seminarian, well on his way to Brian Bergkamp had spotted a piece The Wichita Eagle, Bergkamp jumped from personnel of the Wichita Fire and Police demonstrating so many of the qualities departments, and to those others who have needed to be a good and faithful priest,” helped in any way throughout this tragedy. Wichita Bishop Carl A. Kemme wrote in “Brian’s diocesan family is also thankful an e-mail to The Catholic Advance, the that his mortal remains will be able to diocesan newspaper, at the time of his be laid to rest and have a place at which rescue of the kayaker. “I personally looked continued prayers may be offered for his forward to the day when I might be able to ShelbyShelby UpholsteringUpholstering eternal well-being,” the statement said. ordain him.” †

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IS-5987722 The Criterion Friday, August 12, 2016 Page 15 Little Sisters provincial accepts highest award from Knights of Columbus TORONTO (CNS)—The Little Sisters L’Arche founder Jean Vanier in 2005, who fought the big system heard the Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz in 2010 and cheers, held back tears and accepted Chicago Cardinal Francis George in 2015. the Gaudium et Spes Award from the The award to the sisters fits Knights of Columbus at the Knights’ into a religious freedom theme the annual gala “States Dinner” on Knights of Columbus promoted at its Aug. 2 in Toronto. 134th Supreme Convention in Toronto. Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, superior The Knights also brought bishops from of the Little Sisters’ Denver province, Iraq and Syria to participate. The Knights nearly cried as she described how happy of Columbus played a significant lobbying she felt walking out of the Supreme Court role in persuading the U.S. Congress to of the United States in Washington after declare massacres of Christians by the hearing a unanimous May 16 decision Islamic State group “genocide.” in Zubik v. Burwell. The Supreme Court Sister Loraine said the Little Sisters ordered lower courts to find a compromise of the Poor did not go looking for a to exempt the Little Sisters of the Poor and high-profile fight against Washington other religious employers from having to regulators. pay for health insurance that covers the cost “We would never have chosen to of artificial contraception, abortifacients become the public face of resistance to the and sterilization. HHS mandate,” she said. “I felt as if I was walking on air,” said In 2000, the Equal Employment Sister Loraine. “It was one of the most Opportunity Commission ruled that Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, mother provincial of the Denver-based Little Sisters of the hopeful, joy-filled days of my life.” companies providing insurance for Poor, speaks to the media outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 23 after The Knights of Columbus in the prescription drugs to their employees, but attending oral arguments in the Zubik v. Burwell case. The Little Sister received the Gaudium United States provided $1 million to fund excluding birth control violated the 1964 et Spes Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Knights of Columbus, on Aug. 2 in Toronto. the exhaustive legal battle between the Civil Rights Act. After the contraceptive, (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters) Little Sisters and the Health and Human abortifacient and sterilization mandate was Services’ (HHS) mandate contained in rules included in the Affordable Care Act, the Sister Loraine told about 2,000 Knights 2015 global fundraising was $1.5 million for the 2011 Affordable Care Act. Little Sisters of the Poor argued in multiple gathered in Toronto’s Allstream Centre higher than in 2014. Last year was the “With a kind yet intrepid spirit, courts that it violated their constitutional that, rather than trying to win legal points, 17th year in a row that the Knights set [the Little Sisters of the Poor] opposed right to the free exercise of religion by the Little Sisters want to get on with records for both hours of service and government regulations that sought to force forcing them to indirectly pay for medical operating their 27 homes for vulnerable, dollars raised. them to act against their consciences, so procedures that violate Catholic teaching. elderly Americans. In Canada, the Knights of Columbus in that they may continue to carry out their Most courts ruled the burden on the “In this current cultural context, we wish 2015 raised $22.2 million and gave more long-standing service to the poor,” said the Little Sisters’ religious freedom rights was nothing more than to continue serving the nine million hours of volunteer service. award citation. not substantial. needs of the elderly poor,” she said. She Quebec was Canada’s most generous The Little Sisters are the first religious The Supreme Court found that the said she also hoped the media spotlight province for the Canadian Knights. order to receive the Gaudium et Spes lower courts should have sought a would help her order with new vocations. The convention has attracted Knights Award, the highest honor bestowed compromise which would allow the This year, the Knights are celebrating from the Philippines, Puerto Rico, only occasionally by the Knights. It order of Catholic sisters a way out of $175 million raised worldwide for Poland, Mexico, Mindanao, Guam, the was first given to Blessed Teresa of paying for contraception, abortifacients worthwhile causes and more than Dominican Republic and all parts of the Kolkata in 1992. Other honorees include and sterilization. 73.5 million hours of volunteering. Their United States. † Pope Francis: Encounter with suffering makes people authentic witnesses of truth VATICAN CITY (CNS)—By encountering those also can help preachers better understand and experience Meeting with them a few hours before he was who suffer, Christians will regain the passion of being Jesus’ message of compassion for people, he said. “The scheduled to travel to Assisi, Pope Francis jokingly said he witnesses of the truth rather than succumbing to the more we go out to satisfy the thirst of our neighbor, the was spending “a day among friars.” temptation to preach salvation through knowledge and more we will be preachers of the truth, of the proclaimed “Today we can describe this day as ‘a Jesuit not through the redeeming power of Jesus’ death and truth of love and mercy.” among friars’ because in the morning I’m with resurrection, Pope Francis said. Dominican delegates were in Italy for their general you, and in the afternoon I’m in Assisi with the “In the encounter with the living flesh of Christ, we chapter meeting in Bologna on July 15-Aug.5. Franciscans,” he said. are evangelized and we regain the passion to be preachers Founded by St. Dominic of Guzman, the Dominicans— For eight centuries, he said, God has enriched the and witness of his love. We also free ourselves from the also known as the Order of Preachers—are celebrating Church with the gift of Dominican friars and nuns dangerous temptation of gnosticism which is so current the 800th anniversary of the approval of their order by whose ministry was built on “three pillars” of preaching, today,” the pope said on Aug. 4 to members of the Pope Honorius III in 1216. According to the Vatican’s witness and charity, pillars that will “secure the future Dominican order from around the world. 2016 yearbook, the order has 5,769 members, of whom of the order” and “maintain the freshness of the Attending to the cry of the poor and the marginalized 4,385 are priests. foundational charism.” †

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(CNS)—In his encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis does not mince words: “Living our vocation to be protectors of God’s handiwork is essential to a life of virtue; it is not an optional or a secondary aspect of our Christian experience.” But what does living that vocation look like for Catholics, and how can the faithful go beyond simply recycling bottles and newspapers at home and turning off lights? A new guide draws from more than a dozen countries and cultures to offer practical ways to care for creation and respond to the pope’s call to action. The Eco-Parish Guide: Bringing Laudato Si’ to Life is a tool for pastors, staff, pastoral councils and parishioners to combat climate change—what Pope Francis refers to as “one of the principal challenges facing humanity in our day.” Students from St. Francis of Assisi School in Triangle, Va., rake leaves as part of a clean-up Divided into three main sections, the effort in 2015. St. Francis of Assisi Parish was certified as a “GreenFaith Sanctuary” in The cover of a new “eco-parish” guide is pictured guide includes initiatives that can help 2014 and is featured in a new guide to help Catholic parishes combat climate change. in this photo. The guide gives Catholics practical parishes reduce emissions, suggestions (CNS photos/courtesy St. Francis of Assisi Church) ideas to combat climate change. for how they can inspire and engage parishioners about environmental issues, They also incorporated Catholic social a worldwide network of more than be implemented easily and for free. and ways to practice solidarity and teaching on the environment into parish 300 Catholic organizations. Composed And some initiatives can save parishes advocacy that serve the neediest and build celebrations and engaged and informed of laypeople, priests, religious, bishops as much as 20 percent to 30 percent in up the common good. parishioners on environmental justice. and others, the Catholic movement energy costs, according to the guide. It encourages parishes to form While the certification process united by “the moral imperative of More importantly, the document shows a Care for Creation Team, which was ambitious, “every parish can do responding to and raising awareness how climate change is directly related to spearheads projects with approval from something to help the environment,” about climate change,” according to the poverty and other social justice issues, the pastor; provides recommended said Rob Goraieb, a secular Franciscan, Eco-Parish Guide. said Kendall. In “Laudato Si’,” the pope resources; and contains a climate-action who is coordinator of Franciscan Action Lead author of the guide was writes that “our relationship with nature idea checklist. It also has a section on and Advocacy at St. Francis of Assisi. Gail Kendall, a Massachusetts Institute is inseparable from fraternity, justice and benchmarking—comparing energy “It’s about taking incremental steps; of Technology-trained engineer with faithfulness to others” (#70). performance of a church to buildings you do what you can,” he told the decades of experience in climate change Understanding such interconnectedness of comparable size and location—and Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of work across the globe. Kendall said is part of the charism of the Franciscan certification. the Diocese of Arlington. that with more than 220,000 Catholic order and thus interwoven into the Among the Catholic communities Goraieb said he hopes his parish’s parishes around the world, the Church spirit of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, featured in the 45-page guide—available certification and other examples in the can play an integral role in reducing said Franciscan Father John O’Connor, at bit.ly/Eco-ParishGuide—is St. Francis guide will “bring the big march for greenhouse gas emissions. temporary administrator of the parish. of Assisi Church in Triangle, one of three climate change into the pews—making it To be useful to parishes worldwide, “Very much part of what it means parishes highlighted in North America. practical and tangible so that it grows into the guide reflects the diversity of for all of us to be disciples of Jesus is St. Francis is noted for its certification an effort of the heart, not the fist.” parishes in the Catholic Church, said to understand that we are responsible through New Jersey-based GreenFaith, Real change will occur he said, not Kendall. for cherishing, protecting and a national interfaith environmental through a “fight for climate change” One parish featured in the guide celebrating creation,” Father John said. coalition. The parish and school but by transforming behavior informed is St. Peter’s in Bandra, a suburb of “The average person goes through established nontoxic maintenance and by faith. “Our foundation has to be the Mumbai, India. Parishioners installed life not thinking much about creation— cleaning practices; reduced energy, Gospel,” he said. “We must operate out nearly 200 solar panels on the church maybe just thinking how nice the trees paper and water use; and became a of that.” terrace to power parish buildings. or the birds are,” he said. “But if we’re National Wildlife Federation certified The Eco-Parish Guide was created by The guide points out that many not careful with the beauty of the world wildlife habitat. the Global Catholic Climate Movement, efforts to combat climate change can around us, we could lose it.” † What was in the news on August 12, 1966? Race violence affects a nun, parish holds a ‘Beatle Burning’ protest rally, and the council that never was By Brandon A. Evans • College to share facilities Doctrinal Congregation. … According to the article… • New Jersey creates commission for study of school the Doctrinal Congregation favored the summoning This week, we continue to examine what was going on aid issue of a council to clarify various doctrinal points so in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through • Luci carried rosary, papal gift to Lynda as to combat various errors, including communism. the pages of The Criterion. • Is compulsory arbitration the answer? … Among the errors to be challenged were those of Here are some of the items found in the • Fr. Rivers named to receive medal existentialism, false concerns of the relations between August 12, 1966, issue of The Criterion: • St. Catherine captures sixth tennis crown revelation and theology, scorn of St. Thomas and other • Raps ‘Catholic mob’ in ‘stoning’ of nun: Brick hits • ‘Whoozit’ slated at Little Flower scholastic teachers, errors regarding the primary Sister in race march • Value of suffering is pontiff’s topic end of marriage, the limitation of births, artificial “CHICAGO—Rioters who cursed and injured a • Mammoth altar will be used for millennium rite insemination, errors of those who favor communism Catholic nun of Chicago’s Southwest Side were • Parent involvement in schools is urged and class warfare, and against those who desire to strongly criticized as ‘Catholic Know-Nothings’ by The • Work of Catholic schools is cited as resolve problems between nations by warfare and those New World, weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of ‘extraordinary’ who advocate total warfare. … The project of a council Chicago. ‘For the first time in the history of this city, a • CIC, Legion slate picnic encountered difficulties within the central commission nun was attacked on the streets of Chicago in a public • St. Meinrad clergy assignments made itself because of a split in opinions. A minority favored demonstration,’ wrote Father Williams F. Graney, • Protest rally held: CYO’ers hold ‘Beatle burning’ holding a brief council and favored an elaboration New World assistant editor, in a signed editorial. ‘And “The now infamous remarks by Beatle John Lennon, of the principal truths professed by the Church with the attack came from a mob of howling Catholics,’ he referred to by some wags as ‘the Gospel according the greatest importance for the modern world… The said. Father Graney described the nun, Sister Mary to John,’ that ‘Christianity will go’ received public majority, however, favored holding the council in the Angelica, as a ‘prime target’ of the mob of nearly reaction this past Tuesday evening in Indianapolis. traditional form with a long period of preparation. 1,000 whites that gathered to battle Negro and white St. Catherine’s parish Junior CYO, one of the most Once the council was summoned, bishops had to be marchers led by aides of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. active in the archdiocese, promoted a “Beatle burning’ given fullest liberty… The last central commission The violence occurred near Marquette Park. ‘Sister on the parish ground which attracted one thousand meeting was held on January 4, 1951. Because of the was struck with a brick or rock that drew blood. Some teenagers and scores of adults. … Comment from disagreement on what form the council was to take, it stitches were finally required to close the wound,’ Patty Hornberger, Chartrand senior: ‘We are NOT was decided to refer the matter back to Pope Pius. And the editorial said. ‘The cursing, yelling, frantic mob challenging the positions of the Beatles as entertainers. that is where the matter ended.” of Catholics [mainly, according to statistics for the You may or may not like them as entertainment. Some • Pilot project: Seek to pinpoint social needs neighborhood] cheered when the nun was struck. The of us think they are great, and we are finding it very • Nun treasures LBJ ‘note’ mob cheered. Think about that for just a minute if difficult to make the sacrifice of some of our favorite you want to see how out of balance, how crazed and Beatle records. But the sacrifice we are making is a irrational the reaction was to the demonstration.’ ” sign of faith in the future of Christianity, which is in • St. Mary-of-the-Rocks pilgrimage Monday our hands.’ ” • Revelation Constitution seen working like leaven • In early 50’s: Reveal Pius XII’s plans for council in Church “ROME—More than 10 years before Pope John XXIII • Announce transfers of clergy announced plans to hold the Second Vatican Council, • Summer program: Girls get pre-career glimpse his predecessor Pope Pius XII had ordered studies for a into social worker’s world council drawn up. Details never before released of the Read all of these stories from our August • Name Foster Parents’ Advisory Committee possibilities of a council in the early 1950s have been 12, 1966, issue by logging on to our archives at • Civil rights bill passed by House published by Rome’s Jesuit magazine, Civilta Cattolica. www.CriterionOnline.com. † • Alcoholism: It could be you or your neighbor They were drawn from secret archives of the