Deacon Nobbe Ordained to the Priesthood

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‘Stay in my hands, and give me yours’ Deacon Nobbe ordained to the priesthood

By Sean Gallagher

In a liturgy imbued with rich symbols, the love of his family and friends, and the fellowship of Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and his new brother priests, Deacon Sean Gallagher Photos by Scott Nobbe was ordained to the priesthood on June 24 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Quoting Pope Benedict XVI during his homily, Archbishop Buechlein reflected on the role of hands in the rite of ordination. “[The pope] said, ‘At the center is the ancient rite of the imposition of hands,’ ” Archbishop Buechlein said. “ ‘With that gesture, Jesus takes possession of us. “ ‘In effect, he does so, saying “You are under the pro- tection of my hands. … You are kept safely in the palm of my hands … Stay in my hands, and give me yours.’ ” Later in the homily, the archbishop returned to the close relationship between Christ and a priest, saying that it is rooted in prayer. “Pope Benedict says that [this] is the meaning of the imposition of hands: I no longer call you servants but friends,” the archbishop said. “The core of the priesthood is being friends of Jesus, and being a friend of Jesus means being a man of prayer.” Continuing with the theme of hands, the archbishop assured Deacon Nobbe of the prayerful support of all present at the liturgy. “Scott, today you put your hands at Christ’s disposal,” he said. “Today, we pray with you that Jesus will take you by the hand again and again, and lead you in your priestly ministry.” Above, Deacon Scott Nobbe places his Deacon Nobbe gave his hands to Christ and the hands in the hands of Archbishop Daniel M. Church during his ordination, but not before his parents, Buechlein while renewing his promise to be Paul and Joyce Nobbe, in a sense, gave him away. obedient to him and his successors. At the start of the liturgy, the archbishop thanked the Deacon Nobbe was ordained to the Nobbes, members of St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville, priesthood on June 24 at SS. Peter and for supporting their son in his priestly formation. Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. But the close connection between Deacon Nobbe and his parents was further highlighted in the liturgy when Left, Father Scott Nobbe and Archbishop Joyce Nobbe sang the responsorial psalm. Buechlein share a moment together Standing in the cathedral’s ambo, Joyce Nobbe sang at following the June 24 ordination liturgy. one point, “For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother’s womb.” She acknowledged afterward the deep emotions that these words brought out in her, causing her to reflect on the “marvel of a birth and where this all went with Scott.” But while leading the congregation in song, she kept those emotions in check. “I was trying not to think of the words even though I could feel them,” Joyce Nobbe said. “I was fine until I got down and then my knees started shaking.” Although gratified by his mother’s special role in his “A lot of the inspiration that I get comes from her Nobbe’s head and his hands were anointed with holy ordination, Father Nobbe acknowledged afterward that his knowing that she has spiritually supported me,” he said. chrism, he used his hands in a priestly gesture for the thoughts were also on his paternal grandmother, Gladys After the archbishop and the approximately 75 priests first time during the eucharistic prayer. He held out his Nobbe, who, at 97, was unable to attend. present for the liturgy laid their hands upon Deacon See ORDINATION, page 8 Blessed Mother Theodore Guérin’s canonization date to be set The Criterion staff report ter in Rome. ond miracle that is leading to the canon- The date for a canonization liturgy, at ization. Many expect the canonization July 1 promises to be a day of great joy which three other people are expected to liturgy to take place this fall. and reverence as Pope Benedict XVI is be canonized, will also likely be A French-born sister, Blessed Mother expected to give announced at the Theodore arrived in the final approval meeting where sig- ‘We are hopeful that the Indiana in 1840. She for the canoniza- nificant papal mat- and her companions tion as a saint of ters are discussed. ceremony will occur near established their mother- Blessed Mother When Blessed house at Saint Mary-of- Theodore Guérin, Mother Theodore is her feast day [Oct. 3] or the-Woods, where they the 19th-century likely canonized, near our Foundation Day also started Indiana’s foundress of the she will become the first boarding school for Sisters of eighth American [Oct. 22].’ young girls. Providence of saint and the first —Providence Sister Ann Margaret Before she died on Saint Mary-of-the- with strong ties to O’Hara, general superior May 14, 1856, Blessed Woods. Indiana. Mother Theodore The pope will The consistory is founded 10 other Blessed Mother give this approval the “necessary last step” in the canoniza- Catholic schools throughout Indiana. Theodore Guérin in a meeting, tion process, explained Msgr. Frederick Blessed Mother Theodore was beatified known as a consis- Easton, archdiocesan vicar judicial, who in October 1998. In February, officials at tory, of the Church’s cardinals who minis- oversaw the local investigation of the sec- See CANONIZATION, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Pope tells Filipino president ‘well done’ for outlawing death penalty

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—“Well done,” constitution to silence dissent. She and her The Vatican statement said the pope Pope Benedict XVI told Philippine supporters deny the charges. and Arroyo also discussed efforts under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as she The pope and Arroyo spent about way to reform the Philippine Constitution, handed him a copy of the law she recently 20 minutes speaking privately before the “paying special attention to the poorest signed outlawing the death penalty in the president presented the members of her sectors of the population,” to Christian- Philippines. entourage, including her son, daughter-in- Muslim dialogue in the country and to CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters) At the end of a June 26 meeting with the law and baby granddaughter. efforts to reflect Christian values in the pope, Arroyo gave the pope a statue of Our A Vatican statement on the meeting said nation’s laws. Lady of Guidance and a copy of the law in the president discussed with the pope the After Pope Benedict welcomed Arroyo a leather case, telling him, “These are two abolition of the death penalty, a bill she into the papal library, he asked her if she expressions of the faith of the Filipino peo- signed on June 24 before leaving for Rome. had ever been there previously. ple.” In addition to banning capital sentences “Three times,” she responded—once as After the pope gave her some medals, in the future, the law changes the death sen- a teenager in 1964 when her father, she spent a couple of moments digging in tences of about 1,000 prisoners to life in President Diosdado Macapagal, met Pope Pope Benedict XVI blesses Philippine her purse before pulling out her rosary and prison without the possibility of parole. Paul VI; during her 1998-2001 term as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s rosary asking Pope Benedict to bless it. Signing the bill, Arroyo said, “We cele- vice president of the Philippines; and in during a meeting at the Vatican on June 26. Earlier on June 26 in Manila, brate life in its most meaningful way, by 2003 as president. Arroyo presented the pope with a copy of a Philippines, members of the opposition gathering our institutions together to repeal After her meeting with the pope, she law she signed abolishing the death penalty in parties filed an impeachment complaint the death penalty law.” spent about half an hour meeting with the Philippines. against Arroyo in the House of She also thanked Congress for “express- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secre- Representatives, alleging that she has con- ing the moral and spiritual force” of the tary of state, then went into St. Peter’s Sacrament Chapel and at the tomb of doned political killings and violated the Filipino people. Basilica to pray in the Blessed Pope John Paul II. †

regarding the second miracle. Father and Vatican officials for moving for- formulate a plan for a parallel liturgy to CANONIZATION The July 1 consistory will be attended ward with Mother Theodore’s canoniza- take place at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on continued from page 1 by two Providence sisters who have been tion,” said Providence Sister Ann Margaret the same day. involved in the canonization process for O’Hara, general superior, in a press release. “We’ve reached the pinnacle of the the Holy See’s Congregation for the Blessed Mother Theodore: Providence “We are hopeful that the ceremony will pyramid” in the canonization process, Causes of Saints affirmed that the curing Sister Marie Kevin Tighe, vice postulator occur near her feast day [Oct. 3] or near our Msgr. Easton noted. of an eye ailment of Philip McCord, an for Mother Theodore’s cause, and Foundation Day [Oct. 22].” He added, “I think everybody who is employee of the Sisters of Providence, Providence Sister Mary Ann Phelan, the Sister Ann Margaret said once the date engaged with this, especially the Sisters of was a miracle that occurred through cause’s associate promoter. for the canonization ceremony at the Providence, are on pins and needles to Blessed Mother Theodore’s intercession. “We are very grateful to the Holy Vatican is established, the sisters will know the date.” † The first miracle attributed to Blessed Mother Theodore’s intercession, the curing of a fellow Sister of Providence continuing as sacramental minister of second six-year term and continuing as from cancer, occurred in 1908. Official Appointments St. Anne Parish in New Castle and pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Rockville. In April, Pope Benedict signed a Effective July 5, 2006 St. Rose Parish in Knightstown. decree affirming the findings of the Effective Jan. 10, 2007 Rev. Francis E. Bryan granted permis- Congregation for the Causes of Saints Rev. John Beitans, pastor of sion to retire as full-time instructor at St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis, to a Rev. Eric Johnson to sacramental min- Marian College in Indianapolis while second six-year term and continuing as ister of St. Agnes Parish in Nashville continuing there as chaplain. chaplain of the Latvian Catholic while continuing as Vocations Director for Correction Association. the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. In the June 16 edition of The Criterion, Rev. Joseph F. Rautenberg, adminis- a caption mistakenly identified the burial trator of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish Rev. Joseph Villa, pastor of Sacred These appointments are from the office of place of Father Joseph Kos. He is buried in Cambridge City, to pastor of Heart Parish in Clinton and administrator the Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, at Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis. † St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish and of St. Joseph Parish in Universal, to a O.S.B., Archbishop of Indianapolis. †

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Massachusetts, seated side by side in the his installation Mass at At a June 22 installation Mass attended third row along the center aisle. the Basilica of the by nine cardinals as well as government “The bishop’s role is also to sanctify,” National Shrine of the officials and foreign ambassadors sta- the archbishop said in his homily, noting Immaculate Conception tioned in the nation’s capital, the new that he will have to do this in an archdio- in Washington on archbishop called on archdiocesan cese “where Sunday liturgy is celebrated June 22. Catholics to help him carry out his respon- in over 20 languages.” sibilities. These Masses show that one faith is Each Catholic has the “weighty charge” “mirrored and echoed in a vast array of of living the Gospel and unfolding “its cultural manifestations,” he said. The archbishop said in his homily that line that separates influencing policy from implications for the issues and circum- Before the Mass started, 25 representa- in Washington he plans to be “the voice of becoming involved in partisan politics. It stances of our time,” said Archbishop tives of various archdiocesan ministries the great teaching tradition rooted in includes being pastoral to controversial Wuerl in his homily during the Mass cele- and groups greeted the new archbishop. God’s word and God’s wisdom.” Catholic politicians while not signaling brated at the Basilica of the National Archbishop Wuerl, 65, was named to As the head of the Washington support for any positions they may have Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in head the Washington Archdiocese on May Archdiocese, Archbishop Wuerl also will contrary to Church teachings. Washington. 16. Prior to that he had been bishop of be in the national spotlight. His post in the Archbishop Wuerl, in his homily, noted “God’s wisdom must impact on the life Pittsburgh for 18 years. nation’s capital places him on the that a block away from the basilica is the of society. The wisdom of God is a thread Archbishop Wuerl comes to Wash- Church’s front line regarding the relation- headquarters of the U.S. Conference of that needs to be woven through that fabric ington with the reputation of being a ship between faith and politics, and the Catholic Bishops, the hierarchy’s adminis- in order to create a truly good and just teaching bishop because of his many cate- relationship of the Church with public trative arm, which “has the responsibility society,” he said. chetically focused pastoral letters, the officials whose stands sometimes oppose to present and reflect the voice and posi- “This aspect of ministry will bring the college classes he taught, the catechism he Catholic teachings. tion of the bishops of this country on pas- Church into relationship with many in the wrote and the television show he hosted. This often involves looking for the fine toral and policy matters.” † Archdiocesan purchasing director attends Archbishop Wuerl’s installation

By Sean Gallagher The exchange happened on June 22 Just a few weeks later, the bishop was for James. as worshippers were entering the appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to one “It was very exciting to see that, Even though they have worked Basilica of the National Shrine of the of the most visible positions of Church knowing him for 10 years,” James said. together for 10 years, Steve James didn’t Immaculate Conception in Washington, leadership in the United States. “He fits the role very well. He’s a very expect Archbishop D.C., where Archbishop Wuerl was As then Archbishop-elect Wuerl was visible person, very active out in his Donald W. Wuerl installed during a Mass as the new making his way through the basilica parishes and schools.” to stop and talk to leader of the Archdiocese of before the installation Mass began, he Having known him for a decade, him on one of the Washington. saw James and stopped to speak to him. James is confident that the faithful of most important James was invited to the liturgy James said that a crowd of photogra- the nation’s capital will be served well days in the because of his leadership role in phers soon descended upon them, taking by Archbishop Wuerl. archbishop’s life. Catholic Purchasing Services (CPS). photos of their conversation and later “He’s very personable, very easy to “It was pretty Since 1989, Archbishop Wuerl has asking James for his name. work with,” James said. “I like him. I exciting,” said served as the episcopal advisor to the Being present for Archbishop Wuerl’s think [people in] Washington will like James, director of not-for-profit organization that serves installation was a moment of satisfaction him, too.” † the Office of the Catholic Church in the United States Purchasing for the in its purchasing needs. Steve James Archdiocese of On May 1, James was elected to a M ARRIAGE S UPPLEMENT Indianapolis. three-year term as the chairman of the “You’re in a crowd with 2,500 people board of CPS during its annual member- and here he sees you and comes over.” ship meeting at Longboat Key, Fla.

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Parish Diary/Fr. Peter J. Daly The Josephites and the Gulf: Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Hope after the hurricanes Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus New Orleans has hope. The Gulf Miss., floated up onto the nearby Coast has hope. African-American railroad tracks during Katrina. Catholics in that Father Michael Thompson, one of the devastated area have youngest Josephites at 48, spent several Editorial hope. days on an interstate overpass in That’s the feeling New Orleans after he was rescued by I got after spending boat from his rectory. A girl with a glass of milk sits a week giving a Father Ray Bomberger spent several at Nyumbani home in Nairobi, retreat to the nights in the dark and quiet of Kenya. The home, run by Jesuit Josephite priests and New Orleans after the flood when he Father Angelo D’Agostino, cur- brothers from the had to retreat to the second floor of his rently cares for 94 HIV-positive hurricane-ravaged rectory at Epiphany Church. From there, CNS photo from Reuters children. Some 1.9 million chil- parts of Louisiana, he watched the city in uncommon dark- dren under 15 are living with Mississippi and Texas. ness and could hear voices crying out HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan The Josephites are a community of from rooftops around him. Africa, according to the latest just under 150 priests and brothers. Whatever their age and whatever dis- State of the World's Children They are the only religious community aster befell them, the Josephites were report by UNICEF. The agency in the Church with a charism to serve focused on the future. In a strange way, estimates that by 2010 more the African-American community. these terrible storms might be a blessing than 18 million African children Admittedly, things have looked for the Catholics of the Gulf Coast and will have lost one or both par- pretty bleak lately for both the Gulf for the Josephites. The hurricanes have ents to AIDS unless swift action Coast and the Josephites. Everybody given those communities new drive and is taken. knows the devastation wrought by the purpose. hurricanes, the evil twin sisters Katrina The hurricanes also have reminded and Rita. Two pastors on the retreat lost the rest of the Church in America about their parishes altogether. Several are them. We are reminded of the being reassigned because their commu- Josephites’ great missionary work and nities are “mothballed” for 18 months of a half century of education for black until it can be determined if people are youth in New Orleans at St. Augustine coming back. High School, even when other religious AIDS: Condoms vs. chastity Over the past several years, like orders educated whites only. many religious orders, the Josephites Maybe there is opportunity in all this n May 3, a group that included this number of sexual partners taken each have lost members as the elderly die disaster. There is a chance to invite Owriter visited the Hector Peterson year is falling.” and few young men come forward for African-American men into work in School in one of the shantytowns in That’s the approach taken by vows. the vineyard of the Lord. There is also Cape Town, South Africa. PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency But this is where the hope comes in. a chance to remind the whole The school is teaching 1,619 students Plan for AIDS Relief. We believe it’s the Suddenly, this community is back on U.S. Catholic Church that the work of in 12 grades. They come from tiny correct approach. the radar screen of the Church in building a just society and a multiracial homes made of corrugated steel inhab- An article in the June issue of Crisis America, and thousands of individual Church is far from done. ited by about 600,000 people in by Sue Ellin Browder reports on a suc- Catholics have had exposure to that The storms have certainly changed Cape Town. In a high percentage of cessful campaign against HIV/AIDS in area in relief efforts. my life. Our parish now has made four those homes, teens are heads of the fam- Uganda. It used an ABC approach: The Josephites do not seem dispirited. trips to the Mississippi Coast to help ilies because their parents have died of “Abstain, Be faithful, or for those who True, they are aging. Their median rebuild the Josephite parish in Pass AIDS. refuse to do either, use Condoms.” age is 70. Five active pastors on the Christian. We don’t have the latest figures, but Using that program, rates of 13- to retreat were over the age of 80. But The experience of my parish has been in 2002 an average of 1,370 people per 16-year-olds having sex in one district of they are still active in ministry in their replicated in dozens of other parishes day died of AIDS in South Africa. That Uganda plummeted from nearly 60 per- ninth decade of life. and by hundreds of other people around country is only one of the sub-Saharan cent in 1994 to less than 5 percent in Despite all kinds of disasters that the country. countries of Africa that have been rav- 2001. Less than 10 percent of unmarried had befallen them, like St. Paul, they This is not an opportunity to be lost. aged by AIDS. The disease, of course, is Ugandan women reported multiple part- might be shipwrecked but they are not The Josephites don’t intend to lose it. also here in America and is spreading ners. And national HIV infection rates lost. That is why they have hope. quickly to India and other parts of the fell between 1992 and 2002 from One of them, Father Bart Endslow, world. 21 percent to 6 percent. 86, is living in a little FEMA travel (Father Peter J. Daly writes for Catholic The world knows that HIV/AIDS is Rand L. Stoneburner and Daniel trailer. His rectory in Pass Christian, News Service.) † spread through sexual promiscuity. The Low-Beer of Cambridge University way our secular culture has chosen to observed in Science magazine, “Uganda fight the disease is by distributing has shown a 70 percent decline in HIV condoms. In South Africa alone, prevalence since the early 1990s, linked Letters to the Editor 198 million condoms were distributed in to a 60 percent reduction in casual sex.” Reader: Without Jesus, Yet despite his anguish as he faced death, 1999. (Again, we don’t have the latest Browder wrote that Dr. Edward C. he accepted it in an act of complete and figures.) Green, a research scientist at Harvard’s death is an enemy and free submission to his Father’s will. The That solution, though, hasn’t worked. School of Public Health, reported in the cannot be good or happy obedience of Jesus has transformed the The more condoms distributed, the Journal of Medicine and the Person that curse of death into a blessing.” I very much enjoyed the two excellent higher the rate of HIV infections. Either the ABC approach is also working in Without Jesus, death is an enemy and a they aren’t used consistently or correctly other African nations. In Kenya, he articles in the April 21 issue of curse and cannot be good, happy or beau- The Criterion dealing with the so-called (fewer than half of those distributed in wrote, the response to AIDS before 1999 tiful. Through him, and only through him, South Africa were used), or they deterio- was supplying and promoting condoms. good or happy death. can death be good or happy because it Not mentioned in them, though, is the rate in quality. After the ABC approach was intro- can become the door to eternal and reason our deaths can be good or happy: There is, though, a way to stop the duced that year, “Between 1998 and blissful life. Not because we die at home or are free spread of HIV. It’s called chastity. 2003 among never-married people ages Finally, the articles also did not men- from pain or even because we are sur- Naturally, the idea that teens and 15 to 24, the number of individuals tion that in a speech given a little more rounded by our loved ones when we young adults will actually abstain from abstaining from sex rose from 44 per- than a year before his own death, Pope die—comforting as those things undoubt- sex is pooh-poohed by “sophisticated” cent to 59 percent among men and from John Paul II made it clear he believed that people. Nevertheless, they are. The pos- 68 percent to 79 percent among women. edly are—but because our Lord suffered unto death so that we might be happy “the administration of water and food, sibility of contracting HIV/AIDS is a The number of women with multiple even when provided by artificial means, powerful incentive to refrain from sex. partners dropped from 4 percent to with him forever. The Catechism of the Catholic Church always represents a natural means of pre- The Economist reported in its June 3 2 percent, while the number among men serving life, not a medical act. Its use, issue that figures from UNAIDS show dropped from 30 percent to 17 percent. (#1008 and #1009) says “Death is a con- sequence of sin. The Church’s Magister- furthermore, should be considered, in that the proportion of people having Meanwhile, the overall prevalence of principle, ordinary and proportionate [as sex before they reached the age of 15 HIV in adults went from 10 percent to ium ... teaches that death entered the world on account of man’s sin. Even opposed to extraordinary or dispropor- had dropped in eight of the 11 African 6.7 percent.” tionate], and as such morally obligatory, countries studied—parts of Africa As Browder wrote in her article in though man’s nature is mortal, God had destined him not to die. Death was there- insofar as and until it is seen to have where prevention methods hadn’t Crisis: “The only surefire way to prevent attained its proper finality.” worked before. AIDS in general-population epidemics is fore contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a conse- And, the Catechism of the Catholic “Whisper it softly in the halls of to urge people to abstain or be faithful to Church, (#2279) says, “Even if death is activism,” the article stated, but absti- their spouses; condoms should be quence of sin. Bodily death from which thought imminent, the ordinary care owed nence before marriage and fidelity offered only as a last resort to those man would have been immune had he not to a sick person cannot be legitimately within it may actually be working. “In unwilling to do A or B. That’s not reli- sinned is thus the last enemy of man left interrupted.” some countries at least, young people gion, but rather a verified, recent, scien- to be conquered. I am grateful for your wonderful are becoming less promiscuous. The age tific finding.” “Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, of first intercourse is rising, and the — John F. Fink the son of God, also himself suffered the publication. death that is part of the human condition. Thomas Tarzian, Bloomington The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR

Prayer is deep connection with God in our daily life ope Benedict XVI said to the young Church’s charitable activity should be final major point. “Prayer, as a means of temptation to doubt the goodness of God. pilgrims in Cologne at World Youth moved by Christ’s love, persons whose drawing ever new strength from Christ, is “Often we cannot understand why God PDay. “It is not ideologies that save hearts Christ has conquered with his love, concretely and urgently needed. People refrains from intervening [in the face of the world; but only turning to the living awakening within them a love of who pray are not wasting their time, even suffering]. Yet he does not prevent us God, who is our creator, the guarantor of neighbor… . The personnel of every though the situation appears desperate and from crying out like Jesus on the Cross: our freedom, the guarantor of what is Catholic charitable organization want to seems to call for action alone. Piety does ‘My God, my God, why have you truly good and true. The true revolution work with the Church and therefore with not undermine the struggle against the forsaken me?’ We should continue asking consists solely in turning without reserve the Bishop, so that the love of God can poverty of our neighbors, however extreme. the question in prayerful dialogue before to God, who is the measure of what is spread throughout the world.” In the example of Blessed Teresa of his face: ‘Lord, holy and true, how long right and [at] the same time is eternal The pope stressed the point that, “My Calcutta, we have a clear illustration of the will it be? … Even in their bewilderment love. And whatever could save us if not deep personal sharing in the needs and fact that time devoted to God in prayer not and failure to understand the world love?” sufferings of others becomes a sharing of only does not detract from effective and around them, Christians continue to A commentator on the Holy Father’s my very self with them: If my gift is not loving service to our neighbor, but is in fact believe in the ‘goodness and loving encyclical “God is Love” thought of what to prove a source of humiliation, I must an inexhaustible source of that service. In kindness of God.’ ” the fox said to the Little Prince in the give to others not only something that is her letter for Lent 1996, Blessed Teresa The second section of the pope’s Saint-Exupery story: “One does not see my own, but my very self; I must be wrote to her lay co-workers: ‘We need this encyclical ended with these words: “Love well except with the heart. The essential personally present in my gift.” deep connection with God in our daily life. is possible, and we are able to practice it is invisible to the eyes. Men have Those who serve are not superior to the How can we obtain it? By prayer.’ because we are created in the image of forgotten this truth. You must not forget ones served, however miserable the “It is time to reaffirm the importance of God. To experience love and in this way it.” The thought expresses well the way situation may be. “Christ took the lowest prayer in the face of the activism and the to cause the light of God to enter into the the pope encouraged us to carry on the place in the world—the Cross—and by growing secularism of many Christians world—this is the invitation I would like practice of charity: “to see with the eyes this radical humility he redeemed us and engaged in charitable work… . A personal to extend with the present encyclical.” of the heart.” constantly comes to our aid. relationship with God and an abandon- As successors of the Apostles, the “When we consider the immensity of ment to his will can prevent man from (This concludes the archbishop’s eight- bishops are charged with the primary others’ needs, we can, on the one hand be being demeaned and save him from falling part commentary on Pope Benedict XVI’s responsibility for carrying out the driven towards an ideology that would prey to the teaching of fanaticism and first encyclical “God is Love.”) † diaconia in the particular Churches. aim at doing what God’s governance of terrorism.” Many people of a diocese assist the the world apparently cannot: fully Briefly, the Holy Father addressed the bishop in fulfilling this responsibility. resolving the problem. Or we can be One thinks of Catholic Charities agencies tempted to give in to inertia, since it Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for July and organizations such as the Society of would seem that in any event nothing can St. Vincent de Paul and many others. be accomplished. At such times, a living Men Religious: that the special gifts their communities bring to the Chur ch may be The Holy Father wrote: “More than relationship with Christ is decisive.” more widely appreciated and encouraged. anything, the personnel who carry out the These thoughts led the Holy Father to a

La oración es una conexión profunda con Dios en nuestra vida diaria l Papa Benedicto XVI expresó a los sido conquistado por Cristo con su amor, “La oración se convierte en estos El Santo Padre abordó brevemente el peregrinos en Colonia: “No son las despertando en ellos el amor al momentos en una exigencia muy conc- tema de la tentación de dudar de la bon- Eideologías las que salvan el mundo, prójimo….El colaborador de toda organi- reta, como medio para recibir constante- dad de Dios. “A menudo no se nos da a sino sólo dirigir la mirada al Dios zación caritativa católica quiere trabajar mente fuerzas de Cristo. Quien reza no conocer el motivo por el que Dios frena viviente, que es nuestro creador, el con la Iglesia y, por tanto, con el Obispo, desperdicia su tiempo, aunque todo haga su brazo en vez de intervenir [ante nue- garante de nuestra libertad, el garante de con el fin de que el amor de Dios se pensar en una situación de emergencia y stro sufrimiento]. Por otra parte, Él tam- lo que es realmente bueno y auténtico. La difunda en el mundo.” parezca impulsar sólo a la acción. La poco nos impide gritar como Jesús en la revolución verdadera consiste únicamente El Papa hizo énfasis en el hecho de piedad no escatima la lucha contra la cruz: ‘Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me en mirar a Dios, que es la medida de lo que “La íntima participación personal en pobreza o la miseria del prójimo. La has abandonado?’ Deberíamos per- que es justo y, al mismo tiempo, es el las necesidades y sufrimientos del otro se beata Teresa de Calcuta es un ejemplo manecer con esta pregunta ante su rostro, amor eterno. Y ¿qué puede salvarnos sino convierte así en un darme a mí mismo: evidente de que el tiempo dedicado a en diálogo orante: ‘¿Hasta cuándo, el amor?” para que el don no humille al otro, no Dios en la oración no sólo deja de ser un Señor, vas a estar sin hacer justicia, tú Un comentarista de la encíclica del solamente debo darle algo mío, sino a mí obstáculo para la eficacia y la dedicación que eres santo y veraz?’....En efecto, los Santo Padre “Dios es amor” recordó lo mismo; he de ser parte del don como per- al amor al prójimo, sino que es en reali- cristianos siguen creyendo, a pesar de que el zorro dijo al Principito en el sona.” dad una fuente inagotable para ello. En todas las incomprensiones y confusiones cuento de Saint-Exupery: “Sólo con el Aquellos que sirven no son superiores su carta para la Cuaresma de 1996 la del mundo que les rodea, en la ‘bondad corazón se puede ver bien. Lo esencial es a los auxiliados, independientemente de beata escribía a sus colaboradores laicos: de Dios y su amor al hombre.’ ” invisible a los ojos. Los hombres han lo lamentable de la situación. “Cristo ‘Nosotros necesitamos esta unión íntima La segunda sección de la encíclica del olvidado esta verdad. Tú no debes olvi- ocupó el último puesto en el mundo—la con Dios en nuestra vida cotidiana. Y papa termina con estas palabras: “El darlo.” Esta idea expresa muy bien la cruz— y precisamente con esta humildad ¿cómo podemos conseguirla? A través de amor es posible, y nosotros podemos forma como el papa nos invita a desem- radical nos ha redimido y nos ayuda con- la oración.’ ponerlo en práctica porque hemos sido peñar la práctica de la caridad: “ver con stantemente. “Ha llegado el momento de reafirmar creados a imagen de Dios. Vivir el amor los ojos del corazón.” “La experiencia de la inmensa necesi- la importancia de la oración ante el y, así, llevar la luz de Dios al mundo: a Como sucesores de los apóstoles, la dad puede, por un lado, inclinarnos hacia activismo y el secularismo de muchos esto quisiera invitar con esta encíclica.” † principal responsabilidad de los obispos la ideología que pretende realizar ahora cristianos comprometidos en el servicio es llevar a cabo la diaconía en nuestras lo que, según parece, no consigue el gob- caritativo....La familiaridad con el Dios iglesias particulares. ierno de Dios sobre el mundo: la solución personal y el abandono a su voluntad Muchos integrantes de la diócesis ayu- universal de todos los problemas. Por impiden la degradación del hombre, lo dan al obispo a cumplir con esta respons- otro, puede convertirse en una tentación a salvan de la esclavitud de doctrinas Traducido por: Language Training Center, abilidad. Nos vienen a la mente las agen- la inercia ante la impresión de que, en fanáticas y terroristas.” Indianapolis cias de caridad católicas y organizaciones cualquier caso, no se puede hacer nada. tales como la Sociedad San Vicente de En esta situación, el contacto vivo con La intención de vocaciones del Ar zobispo Buechlein para julio Paul, y muchas otras más. Cristo es la ayuda decisiva para continuar El Santo Padre escribió: “Han de ser, en el camino recto.” Hombres Religiosos: Que los dones especiales que sus comunidades traen a la iglesia pues, personas movidas ante todo por el Estas ideas conducen al Santo Padre a sean más apreciados y alentados por todas partes. amor de Cristo, personas cuyo corazón ha una cuestión final aun más importante. Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Events Calendar July 2 535 E. Edgewood Ave., Indiana- Blaine Ave., Indianapolis. festival, food, music, Fri. 6 p.m.- July 9 entertainment. Information: 812- Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Arch- polis. “Divorce and Beyond” Catholic Charismatic Renewal midnight, pork chop dinner, Sat. Holy Family Council, Knights of 945-3350. abbey Church, 200 Hill Drive, St. program, 7-9 p.m. Mon. Infor- of Central Indiana, praise, 2 p.m.-midnight, German dinner, Columbus Hall, 200 N. Lynhurst July 10 Meinrad. Organ concert, David mation: 317-236-1586, 800-382- worship and healing prayers, Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken din- Drive, Indianapolis. Breakfast, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Saunders, organist, 3 p.m. (CDT). 9836, ext. 1586, or mhess@ 7:15-8:45 p.m. Information: 317- ner. Information: 812-738-2742. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Information: 317- Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meri- Information: 812-357-6501. archindy.org. 592-1992, www.inholyspirit.org 240-3782. or e-mail [email protected]. July 8 dian St., Indianapolis. Office of MKVS and DM Center, Rexville July 5 St. Lawrence Church, 6944 E. Family Ministries, annulment Harrison County Fairgrounds, information evening, (located on 925 South, .8 mile St. Mary Parish, Marian Center, July 7-8 46th St., Indianapolis. Praise 7-9 p.m. 317 N. New Jersey St., Indiana- St. Benedict Parish, 111 S. Ninth 341 Capitol Ave., Corydon. Information: 317-236-1586 or east of 421 South, 12 miles south and worship service, 7 p.m. St. Joseph Parish, parish picnic, of Versailles). Mass, 3:30 p.m., polis. Solo Singles, Catholic St., Terre Haute. Parish festival, 800-382-9836, ext. 1586, or Information: 317-546-4065. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., chicken dinner, with Father Elmer Burwinkel. singles 50 and over, single, wid- flea market, children’s games, e-mail [email protected]. owed or divorced, new members food, entertainment, 4 p.m.-mid- quilts. Information: 812-738- Information: 812-689-3551 or Cordiafonte House of Prayer, welcome, 6:30 p.m. Information: night. Information: 812-232- 2742. St. Francis Hospital, Community e-mail [email protected] 3650 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. or log on to Schoenstatt Web site 317-897-1128. 8421. Relations, 3145 E. Thompson Silent prayer day, 9 a.m.- at www.seidata.com/~frburwink. Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. Road, Indianapolis. “Freedom July 6 July 7-9 2:30 p.m. Bring lunch. Free-will High School, 707 W. Highway from Smoking,” seven-week July 3-July 17 St. Athanasius the Great Byzan- St. Lawrence Parish, 542 Walnut offering. Registration: 317-543- 131, Clarksville. Julyfest, “A class, 6-8 p.m., $50 per person. St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, tine Church, St. Mary Hall, 1117 St., Lawrenceburg. Parish 0154. Julyfest Beach Party,” food, Information: 317-782-7999. †

St., Indianapolis. “Retrouvaille” weekend, peer e-mail [email protected]. August 12 Retreats and Programs ministry program for couples suffering pain and July 30 Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. “Let’s Make an disillusionment in their marriage. Information: Animal Mask,” children in grades K-5, Linda Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. June 30-July2 317-236-1586 or 800-382-9836, ext.1586, or Ottaway, presenter, $15 per child, $8 additional [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. Summer Reflection, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, “Parables 101: Paradoxes, Not Problems,” siblings. Information: 812-933-0661 or e-mail St. Meinrad. “The Return of the Prodigal,” July 21-23 Richard W. Smith, presenter, 7-9:30 p.m., [email protected]. Benedictine Father Gabriel Hodges, presenter. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 812-357-6611 or e-mail $10 per person or $25 per family. Information: August 18-20 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend” for 317-545-7681 or e-mail [email protected]. [email protected]. engaged couples. Information: 317-545-7681 or Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, e-mail www.archindy.org/fatima. July 31-August 4 St. Meinrad. “The Prodigal Son and his Elder June 30-July 7 Brother,” Benedictine Father Eugene Hensell, Kordes Retreat Center, 841 E. 14th St., Ferdi- Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. “Ecology Camp,” presenter. Information: 812-357-6611 or e-mail nand, Ind. “Soul Sisters: Connecting, Bonding Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, boys and girls ages 8-12, $50 per camper. and Healing,” guided retreat, Edwina Gateley, St. Meinrad. “Redemptive Suffering,” Bene- Information: 812-933-0661 or e-mail michaela [email protected]. presenter. Information: 812-367-2777, 800-880- dictine Father Noel Mueller, presenter. Informa- [email protected]. August 25-27 2777 or [email protected]. tion: 812-357-6611 or e-mail avinson@saint meinrad.edu. August 6 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, July 7 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Worldwide Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. “Brownie Try-It July 23 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana Conference” Marriage Encounter Weekend.” Information: Day,” 10 a.m.-noon or 2-4 p.m., $6 per person. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. for engaged couples, 1:45-6 p.m. Information: 317-576-9785 or [email protected]. “Pre-Cana Conference” Information: 812-933-0661 or e-mail michaela 56th St., Indianapolis. 317-545-7681, 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, for engaged couples, 1:45-6 p.m. Information: August 27 [email protected]. ext. 1596. 317-545-7681, 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Kordes Retreat Center, 841 E. 14th St., Ferdinand, ext. 1596. August 9 56th St., Indianapolis. Summer Reflection, Ind. Directed retreat. Information: 812-367- Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. “About “Religious Orders 101,” Holy Cross Brother 2777, 800-880-2777 or [email protected]. July 25 Joseph Umile, presenter, 7-9:30 p.m., $10 per Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Education,” for educators to learn about ani- person or $25 per family. Information: 317- 56th St., Indianapolis. Summer Reflection, mals, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Jan Nowicki and Jack’s July 7-July 14 545-7681 or e-mail [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Sharing Your Faith Journey,” Father Larry Dogs, presenters, $20 per person. Information: “Summer Fun in the Potter’s House” series, Crawford, presenter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 812-933-0661 or e-mail michaelafarm@seidata.com. September 23 session 1, 1:30-4:30 p.m. or 6-9 p.m., Franciscan $30 per person. Information: 317-545-7681 or Indiana Convention Center, 100 S. Capitol Ave., e-mail [email protected]. Sister Ann Vonder Meulen, presenter, $140 per August 11-13 Indianapolis. “Lions Breathing Fire: Why Be session includes supplies. Information: 812-933- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Catholic?” first annual Indiana Catholic 6437 or [email protected]. July 29 Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. “Nature’s Polli- 56th St., Indianapolis. “Retreat and Planning Men’s Conference, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. July 14-16 nators,” 10 a.m.-noon, donation to Michaela Weekend for the Home Educator Mother.” Information: 317-924-3982, 317-888-0873 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th Farm appreciated. Information: 812-933-0661 or Information: 317-818-8960. www.indianacatholicmen.com. †

vocations, Benediction and exposition of the 4 p.m., rosary, 5 p.m., Benediction, 5:30 p.m., Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after Regular Events Blessed Sacrament after 7 p.m. Mass. Mass, 5:45 p.m. Information: 317-244-9002. 8 a.m. until Communion service, 1 p.m.

Monthly Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, 2801 W. 86th St. Rita Church, 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Holy Guardian Angels Church, 405 U.S. 52, St., Indianapolis. Indiana Autism and Sertoma Ave., Indianapolis. Sacred Heart devotion, Cedar Grove. Eucharistic adoration after First Sundays Club meeting, 7-9 p.m., child care provided. 11 a.m., holy hour, 6-7 p.m. Information: 317- 8 a.m. Mass-5 p.m. Information: 765-647-6981. Marian College, Ruth Lilly Student Center, Information: 317-885-7295. 632-9349. 3200 Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis. People of St. Michael Church, 519 Jefferson Blvd., Green- First Wednesdays St. Charles Borromeo Church, chapel, 2222 E. Peace Secular Franciscan Order, (no meetings field. Mass, 8:15 a.m., exposition of the Blessed July or August), noon-2 p.m. Information: 317- St. Mary Parish, 317 N. New Jersey St., Indian- Third St., Bloomington. Adoration of the Catholic singles Sacrament after Mass until Benediction, 5 p.m. 955-6775. apolis. Solo Singles, 50 and Blessed Sacrament, noon-6 p.m. over, single, widowed, divorced, new members Information: 317-462-4240. Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 1530 Union St., welcome, 6:30 p.m. Information: 317-897-1128. Holy Name Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Beech Indianapolis. Mass with contemporary appeal, Grove. Mass, 8:15 a.m., eucharistic adoration Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish, 335 S. 5 p.m. Information: 317-638-5551. St. Francis Home Health, 438 S. Emerson Ave., following Mass until 5 p.m. Benediction. Infor- Meridian St., Greenwood. Caregivers support Greenwood. Cancer support group meeting, mation: 317-784-5454. group, 7-8:30 p.m., monthly meeting sponsored Fatima Knights of Columbus, 1040 N. Post 6-8 p.m. Information: 317-257-1505. by Alzheimer’s Association. Information: 317- Road, Indianapolis. Euchre, 1 p.m. Information: St. Peter Church, 1207 East Road, Brookville. 888-2861, ext. 29. † 317-638-8416. St. Francis Hospital, 1201 Hadley Road, Mooresville. Cancer support group meeting, St. Paul Church, 218 Scheller Ave., Sellersburg. 6-8 p.m. Information: 317-257-1505. Prayer group, 7-8:15 p.m. Information: 812- First Thursdays Summer fun 246-4555. Immaculate Conception Church, 2081 E. First-grader Patrick Burke cools County Road 820 S., Greensburg. Holy hour, down at the end of the last day of St. Thomas More Church, 1200 N. Indiana St., Finch CNS photo/Paul 7-8 p.m. Information: 812-591-2362. Mooresville. Holy hour of adoration, prayer classes at St. James School in and praise for vocations, 9:15 a.m. Information: First Fridays Syracuse, N.Y., on June 16. Students 317-831-4142. St. John the Evangelist Church, 126 W. Georgia got the chance to enjoy the water St., Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed spray from a fire-engine tanker First Mondays before heading out for summer Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Sacrament, 12:45-5:15 p.m., Vespers and Meridian St., Indianapolis. Guardian Angel Benediction, 5:15 p.m. Information: 317-635- break. Guild, board meeting, 9:30 a.m. 2021.

St. Bartholomew Church, 1306 27th St., Colum- Christ the King Church, 1827 Kessler Blvd., E. bus. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Drive, Indianapolis. Exposition of the Blessed 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: 812-379-9353. Sacrament after 7:15 a.m. Mass-5:30 p.m. Benediction and service. First Tuesdays Divine Mercy Chapel, 3354 W. 30th St., Indian- Holy Rosary Church, 520 Stevens St., Indiana- apolis. Confession, 6:45 p.m., Benediction of polis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Blessed Sacrament for vocations, after 5:45 p.m. Mass-9 a.m. Saturday. Informa- 7:30 p.m. tion: 317-636-4478.

Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 5333 E. Washing- 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Women: ton St., Indianapolis. Exposition of the Blessed No Longer Second Class,” program, Sacrament, prayer service, 7:30 p.m. Informa- 7-8:30 p.m. Information: 317-788-7581. tion: 317-356-7291.

St. Joseph Church, 2605 St. Joe Road W., St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. Mickley Ave., Indian- Sellersburg. Rosary, holy hour for religious apolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Page 7 Three Benedictines celebrate jubilees at Saint Meinrad The Benedictine monks of Ark., and at St. Paul Hermitage in Father Cyprian taught history at a Master of Saint Meinrad Archabbey celebrated the Beech Grove. Saint Meinrad School of Theology and Divinity degree 60-year priesthood jubilee of Father He also served as secretary to the the former college from 1957-82. He from Ralph Lynch and the 50-year jubilees of archabbot, coordinator of pastoral assis- also served as a visiting professor in Saint Meinrad Father Cyprian Davis and Father Mel tance, assistant oblate director and West Africa, Senegal and Burkina Faso School of Patton on May 28 in St. Meinrad. Archabbey Library staff member. as well as at several Benedictine and Theology. He Father Ralph was born on Until 2006, he was chaplain for a lay Trappist monasteries in Nigeria. completed May 20, 1920, in Cleveland. He made Dominican community in New Hope, He received the John Gilmary Shea post-graduate his profession of vows as a Benedictine Ky. He currently resides at Award from the American Catholic work at monk on Aug. 6, 1942, and was Saint Meinrad. Historical Association for his book titled Marquette ordained a Father Cyprian was born on Sept. 9, The History of Black Catholics in the University. priest on 1930, in Washington, D.C. He professed United States. He has written and edited Prior to June 11, 1946. his vows on Aug. 1, 1951, and was many articles and books on black coming to He received ordained on May 3, 1956. Catholic history and lectured throughout Saint Meinrad, a Master of He received the United States. Father Mel Fr. Mel Patton Divinity degree a Master of Father Cyprian serves as professor of served in the from Divinity degree Church history at Saint Meinrad School U.S. Army from 1944-46, and earned a Saint Meinrad from of Theology. He also regularly teaches Purple Heart and Bronze Star. School of Saint Meinrad black Catholic history courses at the He taught Latin, English, music and Theology in School of Institute for Black Catholic Studies at journalism at Saint Meinrad’s former 1947 and a Theology in Xavier University in New Orleans. high school and college. He was also the Master of Arts 1956 and a He also serves as archivist for organist for the monastic community for degree in eco- Licentiate of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, the Swiss- many years. nomics from Sacred American Benedictine Congregation and Father Mel also ministered as director Fr. Ralph Lynch the University Theology from the National Black Catholic Clergy of retreats and director of public of Notre Dame The Catholic Caucus. relations at Saint Meinrad, and served as in 1954. University of Father Mel was born on March 2, a chaplain at Fort Knox in Kentucky for Father Ralph taught civics, history America in 1925, in Fairview Village, now called many years. and economics for more than 20 years at 1957. He also Fairview Park, in Ohio. After concluding his career as a Fr. Cyprian Davis Saint Meinrad School of Theology as earned a He made his first profession of vows teacher, he was the chaplain at Holy well as at the Benedictines’ former high licentiate in 1963 and a doctorate in on July 31, 1953, and was ordained to Angels Convent in Jonesboro, Ark. He school and former college. history in 1977 from the University of the priesthood on Sept. 22, 1956. presently serves as the infirmary From 1982-84, he served as chaplain Louvain in Belgium. He also holds sev- Father Mel earned a Bachelor of Arts chaplain at Sacred Heart Monastery in at Holy Angels Convent in Jonesboro, eral honorary degrees. degree from John Carroll University and Yankton, S.D. † Catholics, Jews meet on schools, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism WASHINGTON (CNS)—The annual Washington on June 20, the participants group that hatred-promoting games on while a number of anti-Semitic sites are U.S. Catholic-Orthodox Jewish consulta- said the statement on school choice the Internet include such action as shoot- sponsored by Arab governments.” tion drafted a joint statement on school “was approved, pending several minor ing “wetbacks”—Mexican immigrants— Weitzman told the group that there is choice and heard a report on anti- emendations.” and running death camps for Jews. a need to alert schools, public and pri- Semitism and anti-Catholicism on the Eugene Fisher, an associate director “There are a number of common vate, “that they cannot simply assign a Internet during a meeting in New York of the USCCB Secretariat for Ecumenical themes in the sites aimed primarily at topic and let children loose on the Net,” on June 14. and Interreligious Affairs, told Catholic Jews and/or the Catholic Church,” the the communique said. According to the report, the Internet News Service the statement should be communique said. “Both are frequently “Jews and Catholics must work has more than 5,000 hate sites and com- released this summer. linked with Satan and portrayed as con- together to combat the stereotypes of us puter game offerings that are anti- The communique said the statement spiratorial, ever plotting to take over the both that are all too prevalent in modern Semitic or anti-Catholic or both. addresses “the various constitutional world, and as polluting the racial purity society,” it added. The consultation involves the approaches being considered in various of the white race.” The co-chairman of the meeting from U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ states to provide equitable means of Weitzman also found significant the Catholic delegation was Bishop Committee on Ecumenical and addressing the needs of the widest range differences. William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, Interreligious Affairs and the Rabbinical of children, especially low-income fami- “What makes the two forms of hate- N.Y. The Jewish co-chairman was Rabbi Council of America and Union of lies in various religious communities.” mongering different,” the communique Fabian Schonfeld of the Young Israel of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of Mark Weitzman of the Simon said, “is that the anti-Catholic sites do Kew Gardens Hills congregation in New America. Wiesenthal Center presented the results not call for genocide of all Catholics as York, chairman of the Interreligious In a joint press communique after the of his study of hate sites on the Internet. the anti-Semitic sites do for Jews, and Affairs Committee of the Rabbinical meeting, released by the USCCB in The communique said he told the they are not sponsored by governments, Council of America. †

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Those present for the priestly ordination of Deacon Scott Nobbe join him in prayer during the litany of the saints while he lies prostrate on the cathedral floor. ORDINATION continued from page 1 right hand in the direction of the altar where the archbishop was consecrating the bread and wine. “That was just momentous for me,” Father Nobbe said after his ordination. “I was extremely calm. I think it was a sense of overwhelming peace and gratitude that was present that made me calm instead of being nervous at that point, being the first time to concelebrate at Mass.” The ordination Mass concluded with Father Nobbe joining Archbishop Buechlein in the final blessing. Many who sought the newly ordained priest’s blessing after the liturgy were members of the archdiocese’s Hispanic community. On July 5, Father Nobbe will begin service as the archbishop’s part-time executive assistant and his liaison for Hispanic ministry in the archdiocese. He will also minister to Hispanics in the Indianapolis West Deanery. Franciscan Father Tom Fox, who has ministered to archdiocesan Hispanics for 12 years, said he is looking forward to having Father Nobbe join him in this ministry. “I am just thrilled to death about this,” he said. “I think Scott knows the community well. I think he’ll just be first class.” Gerardo Dimas, a Hispanic member of St. Monica Parish in the Indianapolis West Deanery, was also present for the liturgy. “It’s the first time that I’ve come to an ordination,” he said. “I’ve wanted to come, but I never had the chance. But today is the day. And he is important for us.” Father Nobbe celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving at Charles Borowicz Photo by 10:30 a.m. on June 25 at St. Gabriel Church in Connersville. Benedictine Father Guerric DeBona, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and a member of the faculty of Saint Meinrad School of Theology, was the homilist at the Mass. Among the 12 priests concelebrating were Father Joseph Riedman, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis; Father Harold Rightor, pastor of St. Martin Parish in Yorkville and St. Paul Parish in New Alsace; and retired Father Donald Schmidlin. Father Nobbe will celebrate all the weekend Masses on July 1-2 at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Fortville, the parish where he grew up.

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Middle left, Joyce Nobbe smiles at her husband, Paul, during the liturgy in which their son, Father Scott Nobbe, was ordained to the priesthood.

Bottom left, Father Joseph Riedman, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in Indiananpolis, left, and Benedictine Father Severin Messick, right, pastor of St. Michael Parish in Greenfield, place priestly vestments on Father Scott Nobbe.

Top right, in a gesture of prayer, Father Eric Johnson, archdiocesan director of vocations, lays his hands on Deacon Scott Nobbe during the ordination liturgy.

Middle right, Father Scott Nobbe holds his niece, Jamie Wells, after being ordained a priest.

Right, Father Scott Nobbe receives the applause of those present at the conclusion of his priestly ordination. The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Page 9 ‘You are a priest forever’ Msgr. Richard Kavanagh celebrates 70 years as a priest

By Sean Gallagher The violence of those times persuaded Msgr. Kavanagh’s mother to move back to BEECH GROVE—Throughout his life, the United States, and she settled in Msgr. Richard Kavanagh has been a close Indianapolis. witness to history. Within a few years of his return, Sean Gallagher Photos by Msgr. Kavanagh passed another mile- Msgr. Kavanagh began his formation for stone on June 2 when he became, as far as the priesthood at Saint Meinrad Seminary, can be determined, the first priest in the being assigned there by then Bishop Joseph Archdiocese of Indianapolis to celebrate Chartrand. the 70th anniversary of his priestly From the time he became a semi- ordination. narian—when the archdiocese was less The 94-year-old resident of St. Paul than 100 years old—to the present, Msgr. Hermitage in Beech Grove marked the Kavanagh has served under six bishops. occasion by doing something he has done Many priests have also served under almost every day during the past seven him as associate pastors during his 31-year decades: He celebrated Mass. tenure as pastor of St. Michael the Nowadays, he ordinarily celebrates Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. Mass privately in his apartment. But on One of them was Father Harold June 2, he was the principal celebrant at the Ripperger, pastor of St. Mary Parish in retirement facility’s daily Mass and was Lanesville. He ministered with joined by several retired other priests who Msgr. Kavanagh from 1967-70. also live there. (See related story.) “He was 100 percent Catholic, dedi- Also present for the Mass were some cated to the Church, to his God, and of Msgr. Richard Kavanagh, second from left, prays a eucharistic prayer during a June 2 Mass at St. Paul women religious as well as scores of lay trying to be of help to people,” Father Hermitage in Beech Grove on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his priestly ordination. residents of the facility and many friends Ripperger said. “He really was.” Concelebrating with him were, from left, Father Henry Brown, Father John Sciarra and Father Herman and relatives of Msgr. Kavanagh. Many young men who grew up under Lutz, all retired priests in residence at the hermitage. This gathering for Mass by so many Msgr. Kavanagh’s tutelage later became people representing the Church typified the seminarians. At one time in the 1960s, “Bishop Ritter promised me that he when we’d get into a discussion, it was fulfillment that Msgr. Kavanagh has found there were 12 seminarians alone from would let me go,” he said. “But then usually that I sided with Schulte [and] in his life and ministry as a priest. St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Father [Thomas] Finneran was removed against Bosler on whatever it happened to “I was able to help people spiritually, Indianapolis, where he served as pastor from Cathedral [High School] and be. It was a very interesting time for me.” administer the sacraments and all those from 1951 to 1982. Bishop Ritter came to me and said, ‘I have Those many conversations he had about things,” he said. “And I enjoyed the work.” One of them was Msgr. Mark to send you to Cathedral. You can’t go now, Vatican II helped Msgr. Kavanagh imple- But even after 70 years of ministry, Svarczkopf, pastor of Our Lady of the but the next time I send a priest as a chap- ment the changes it brought about in his Msgr. Kavanagh still knows there is a Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. lain, you can go.’ Well, he never let me go.” parish. profound mystery in being a priest. “He was a very kind man, and very His disappointment in staying on the “I didn’t have any trouble with that,” he “It’s kind of hard to put it into words,” much the pastor that everyone respected,” home front was balanced with the joy he said. “Towards the end of the council, we he said. Msgr. Svarczkopf said. “He was always found serving at Cathedral High School—a had all kinds of meetings explaining things. It would take many words to describe present. When you would dial the parish joy that continues to this day in his service We prepared [the parishioners] well for the the long path that Msgr. Kavanagh has trod office, you wouldn’t get a secretary or a as an emeritus member of the private changes.” during his 94 years. recording, you’d get [Msgr. Kavanagh Catholic school’s board of directors. Msgr. Svarczkopf looks back on the He was born in 1911 in Evansville, Ind., saying], ‘St. Michael’s.’ ” In the heady days following the end of years following the council with fondness. to Irish immigrants, and his father died Msgr. Kavanagh was ordained a priest the war, Msgr. Kavanagh helped direct a “It was a very stimulating time to go to when he was 2 weeks old. on June 2, 1936, by Bishop Joseph E. tremendous era of growth in the Mass because he [Msgr. Kavanagh] and the His mother later took him and an older Ritter. archdiocese. other associates would really get into issues brother back to Ireland—just in time for the When the United States entered He oversaw the construction of four like the [Vietnam] war and the Church and start of World War I, and the later conflict World War II some six years later, interparochial high schools in Indianapolis, the Vatican Council,” Msgr. Svarczkopf for Irish independence and the island’s Msgr. Kavanagh wanted to serve as a including Father Thomas Scecina Memorial said. “It was just really good.” subsequent civil war. chaplain. High School. The school was named for a Msgr. Kavanagh retired in 1982, but close friend of Msgr. Kavanagh, who continued to serve the archdiocese in many After celebrating his first Mass on served and died as a chaplain during the ways, including providing weekend sacra- June 7, 1936, then Father Richard war. Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School was mental assistance at many parishes. He also Kavanagh, third from left in front photo Archive named for the bishop who had ordained helped oversee the conversion of the old row, poses in front of the rectory of him to the priesthood. Cathedral High School campus into the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Msgr. Kavanagh celebrated the current Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Indianapolis. Assisting him at the 25th anniversary of his priestly ordination a Center in downtown Indianapolis. Mass were, from left, in the front year before the Second Vatican Council After having lived through so much his- row, Benedictine Father Bernardine began in 1962. tory, Msgr. Kavanagh looks hopefully Shine, Father Bernard Sheridan, Although he did not attend the council, toward the future of the archdiocese. Msgr. Raymond Noll and Father he closely monitored its progress by play- “I think it’s going to go well. The only Barrett Tieman, and from left, in the ing golf twice a week with Archbishop Paul problem will be, we’ve got to get some second row, Fathers James Hickey, C. Schulte and Msgr. Raymond Bosler, the priests,” he said. “But I think it’s going to John Lynch and George Dunn. In archbishop’s theological adviser, when the happen. I think we’re going to get it built the third row were seminarians pair were in Indianapolis while the council up right.” Joseph Dooley, Charles Koster and was not in session. Berault (first name unknown). “Bosler and Schulte didn’t think the (For more photos, log on to same way,” Msgr. Kavanagh said. “So www.CriterionOnline.com.) † Priests at St. Paul Hermitage continue to minister in retirement By Sean Gallagher ministering to their fellow residents. staff at the hermitage and a member of can’t do that anymore. And so it would The hermitage residents are well-served St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. be wrong to kind of neglect them now BEECH GROVE—In 1998, Msgr. and by priests of great experience and pas- But the residents and staff are not the that they can’t do that anymore.” Richard Kavanagh was already 16 years toral wisdom who have a combined only ones to benefit from their relationship But while the argument could be into his retirement, but he was still serv- 351 years in priestly service. with the retired priests who live there. The made that the retired priests should be ing the archdiocese. Some residents are attracted to the priests themselves are helped by the lives able to rest from their many years of ser- That year, he helped establish a spe- facility specifically because they know of faith of those around them. vice, Father Lutz said his continued min- cial relationship between St. Paul they will be ministered to by the priests “You see these people and their faith, istry is therapeutic. Hermitage and the archdiocese. and the Sisters of St. Benedict, who and that’s what helps push your own faith “It kind of keeps me mentally busy The third floor of the facility was ren- founded it. up,” said retired Father John Sciarra, who and occupied,” he said. “I feel better ovated into apartments by the Sisters of “It’s everything to me,” said resident resides at the hermitage. because of that. I don’t want to sit St. Benedict of Our Lady of Grace Loretta Sweeney, who was a member of Retired Father Herman Lutz, the junior around and rot.” Monastery in Beech Grove. Retired Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis for priest in residence with 47 years in the The care of the priests residing at priests may live there if they wish. many years. “That’s why I picked this priesthood, serves as the official chaplain St. Paul Hermitage is funded in part Msgr. Kavanagh was the first retired place, because you have Mass every day at St. Paul Hermitage. through the United Catholic Appeal and diocesan priest to move there. and confession and everything.” He makes sure that Mass is celebrated the Legacy for Our Mission: For Our Priests who move to the hermitage The resident priests not only touch the daily and that other sacramental, devo- Children and the Future campaign. may live relatively independently in the lives of the residents, but the staff as tional and pastoral needs of the 118 resi- Other priest residents are Fathers apartments or can receive more constant well. dents are met. Henry Brown and William Cleary. medical care in the health care section. “I think it makes it more comforting to “Most of the people here have been Father Jim Rogers, a retired priest of the Five other priests now live at the her- know there’s someone [here] that has that good Catholics all their lives,” he said. Evansville Diocese, but originally mitage. But even in their twilight years, spirituality about them,” said Laurie “They did all kinds of things for the ordained in 1939 for the archdiocese, is they still continue to live out their call by Zielinski, a licensed practical nurse on Church during their lives. And now they also a resident. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Maryknoll priest recalls life with talented, humble ‘Ser vant of God’ MARYKNOLL, N.Y. (CNS)—Maryknoll Father Dan and joined the 1st Marine Division in 1966 as battalion Dolan remembers the colleague he called “Father Vince” chaplain. as a very “focused and serious type” with “a unique com- Father Capodanno “set an example for other missioners bination of talent and modesty.” in the way he carried out his duties as chaplain, and his Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, whom Father complete dedication to the men for whom he was pastor,” Dolan met in 1959 when both were engaged in pastoral added Father Dolan. He said the chaplain “was willing to work in Taiwan, is now also called “Servant of God.” face a considerable amount of danger to be with the troops The title comes from the Vatican as Father Capodanno, on the front lines of battle.” killed in Vietnam in 1967 while serving the Marines as a He was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest CNS photo/courtesy and Brothers Maryknoll Fathers chaplain, takes the first step toward sainthood. His cause military honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, “for for canonization was initiated by the U.S. Archdiocese for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life the Military Services in May. above and beyond the call of duty.” “I am not at all surprised at Father Vince’s designation Father Capodanno “was very mature for his years, very as servant of God in terms of his track record in his work committed and concerned about doing mission work, and as chaplain,” said Father Dolan. everything he did in life was the same way,” Father Dolan Ordained to the priesthood June 14, 1958, Father said. “He put his heart and soul in it in every way.” Capodanno spent the first eight years of his priesthood as A tribunal set up by the Archdiocese for the Military a missionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Services is gathering information about Father Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, a Navy chaplain, is pictured Commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Dec. 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Mick In the fourth century, St. Augustine also left us much information on the cate- When the Second Vatican Council chumenate, on the meaning of baptism, (1962-65) called for a renewal of the on penance and many theological issues liturgy, it gave approval to a movement of the day. Some of his preaching about Northwest Indiana Catholic that had been in process many years. the Eucharist is as vibrant and stimulating Much of the movement’s momentum today as it was so long ago. was generated by historical studies in the “It is your own mystery that is placed previous century that uncovered insights on the altar,” he taught the newly bap- into how the liturgy was celebrated in the tized. “You reply ‘Amen’ to that which CNS photo/Karen Callaway, early periods of Christian history. you are, and by replying you consent. For Renewing the liturgy involved look- you hear ‘The Body of Christ’ and you ing back to our past to discern the way reply ‘Amen.’ ... Be what you see, and forward. This was not a matter of find- receive what you are.” ing some ideal previous period when the Another time, he chastised his congre- liturgy was perfect. But knowing how gation for trying to decapitate Christ by things were done in the early centuries, thinking they could receive just Christ and how various additions and changes (the head) without embracing the Church occurred, provided the basis for wise (his body). decisions for the present and the future. Hippolytus, Augustine and other The fathers of the Church, early ancient writers like Cyril of Jerusalem, writers who left written records of their Theodore of Mopsuestia and Ambrose of theology and preaching, offer a rich trea- Milan left us many insights into the clas- sure of insights about the liturgy. sic form of the catechumenate in their St. Justin describes the Eucharist as it time. Those records were invaluable when was celebrated in the second century: recent scholars were called upon by the “On the day which is called Sun-day, bishops at Vatican II to restore the cate- all, whether they live in the town or in chumenate for use today. the country, gather in the same place. We can draw from that experience, Then the memoirs of the Apostles or the letting the past shed light on issues today. writings of the prophets are read for as Today, as in the early Christian celebration of the Mass, the eucharistic gifts of bread, wine and water long as time allows. When the reader (Father Lawrence Mick is a priest of the are brought forward following the Liturgy of the Word. Renewing the liturgy during the Second Vatican has finished, the president speaks, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio.) † Council involved looking back to our past to discern the way forward. exhorting us to live by these noble teachings. Then we rise all together and pray. Then ... bread, wine and water are Fifth-century Church also faced cultural war brought. The president then prays and gives thanks as well as he can. And all By Joseph F. Kelly the Egyptians,” that is, their material neonatal unit at a hospital. She told me the people reply with the acclamation: possessions. that thanks to ultrasound machines, more Amen! Modern Americans have grown accus- Augustine said the “goods of the and more people realize that fetuses really “After this, the Eucharists are distrib- tomed to hearing about “cultural wars,” a Egyptians” symbolized pagan culture, and are babies—individual persons with a right uted and shared out to everyone, and the conflict between different groups claim- just as the Hebrews used these goods, so to life. However inadvertently, this piece of deacons are sent to take them to those ing to represent either Christian values or could “modern”—that is, fifth-century— modern technology which is used so com- who are absent.” individual freedom. Christians use Roman culture. monly in pregnancy today makes some That description tells us that much of As with most wars, there is no middle Augustine avoided extremism. He people reconsider having an abortion. what we do at Mass is very ancient. Justin ground and Catholics can find themselves urged Christians to look carefully at This is not an exception. Thanks to even goes on to describe the collection! puzzled by which way to turn or even Roman culture to see what was good modern communications technology, peo- Yet some things are quite different. whether they should turn at all. about it and to use that. Conversely, he ple in the prosperous Western world have The readings lasted “as long as time In the fifth century, a similar cultural urged them to avoid what was harmful. been made aware of the sufferings of peo- allows.” war erupted. What should Christians do Catholics do not accept a culture that ple in much of the rest of the world. In the next century, a document called about Roman culture? Could they use it considers abortion a “choice” or accept a Pope Benedict XVI’s call for help for “The Apostolic Tradition,” attributed to or was it essentially anti-Christian? Could rampant materialism that values people the Darfur region of Sudan, for example, Hippolytus, contains much information Christians benefit from this culture or more for their possessions than for their resounds more effectively because we about the catechumenate (the preparation would they be corrupted by it? virtues. cannot avoid what is happening there. of those joining the Church), the ordina- The answer came from one of the But Catholics can accept a culture St. Augustine’s insight helps us value tion of bishops, priests and deacons, and greatest theologians who ever lived, whose care for tsunami victims produced and promote the goods in our culture. the celebration of the Eucharist. The text St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). He charitable giving at a previously unheard of the eucharistic prayer found in this found an obscure passage in the Book of of rate and which slowly but surely has (Joseph F. Kelly is chairman of the Depart- work is the basis for our current Second Exodus (Ex 12:35-36), where the depart- pushed so many diseases into oblivion. ment of Religious Studies at John Carroll Eucharistic Prayer. ing Hebrews took some of the “goods of One of my daughters works in a University in University Heights, Ohio.) † Discussion Point Church history refutes lies This Week’s Question “To encourage and strengthen their belief that Jesus Christ is present in the Church, renewing the face of Why is it important for Catholics to study the the earth, for example, [in] the many, many works of Church’s history? charity over the past two millennia, with Christ “Because there are multiple challenges and lies told indwelling in the saints.” (Joe Reynolds, East Lansing, about the Church, like in The Da Vinci Code. If we Mich.) know the history of the Church, we can refute the lies and tell the truth.” (Mary Wiss, Pikeville, Ky.) Lend Us Your Voice “It tends to make the story of our religion continue to Have you served as a layperson in a special role at the flow. Everybody likes to know their family beginnings, Sunday Eucharist—for example, as lector, and it’s important because there’s truth and tradition extraordinary minister of holy Communion or usher? there. We’re always confident that [our religion] will What preparations did you receive for your role(s)? continue. We’ve been promised that.” (Diane Mathis, To respond for possible publication in an upcoming Sherwood, Ark.) edition, send your response to cgreene@catholic “Because it’s part of who we are. It defines how we news.com or write to Faith Alive! at 3211 Fourth St. got to where we are.” (Julie Winkler, Memphis, Tenn.) N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS photo/courtesy Knights of Columbus Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher St. Paul: The Council of Jerusalem Dive into God’s

When Paul left Corinth in the year 51 the Jewish law, he thought, were com- Antioch with a letter saying that Gentile love this summer to return briefly (he thought) to Antioch, pleted irrelevant. converts did not have to be circumcised. he took Aquila and Priscilla with him as After hearing Paul’s arguments, the But if Paul thought that that settled the We’re now in the days of summer— far as Ephesus. Church in Antioch sent him, Barnabas and matter, he was badly mistaken. Soon, the days that take me back to my child- He apparently had Titus (an uncircumcised Gentile convert) Peter arrived in Antioch to learn more hood when I spent decided to make to Jerusalem to get this matter cleared up. about this community with a mixture of many hot days in our Ephesus his home base When they arrived in Jerusalem, Paul was Jews and Gentiles. This was new to him. neighbor’s pool. since it was approxi- shocked again to find that Peter wasn’t the Then other Jews from Jerusalem As my thoughts go mately at the center of final authority. Instead, there was a com- arrived, not just out of curiosity. They back in time, the bot- a circle equidistant mittee composed of Peter; James, the were intent on driving a wedge between tom of my feet almost from Corinth, brother of Jesus; and John. James was the Jews and Gentiles, and they did it over start to feel hot again Thessalonica and head of the leadership in Jerusalem, and the issue of table fellowship. The Jews as I recall quickly Galatia, with excellent he continued his lifestyle as a Jew. and Gentiles did not eat together. Even skittering barefoot to land and sea routes. There then occurred what has been Peter and Barnabas were swept up, as the pool along the Aquila and Priscilla were given the task called the Council of Jerusalem, described Paul wrote in his Letter to the Galatians sun-baked sidewalks of starting a Christian community in in Chapter 15 of the Acts of the Apostles. (Gal 2:11-14). Paul stood up to them, call- of my neighborhood. Ephesus while re-starting their tent-mak- After much debate, Peter sided with Paul, ing them hypocrites. I suppose these memories are more ing business in a strange city. Paul asked a saying, “We believe that we are saved This time, Paul lost the battle. The vivid for me these days because my lot from his followers. through the grace of Jesus Christ, in the Jewish Christians continued to refuse to 4-year-old son, Michael, has started to When he reached Antioch and reported same way as [the Gentiles].” have table fellowship with Gentiles. It got take swiming lessons at a nearby YMCA. on his successes, he was in for a shock. Finally, James agreed, probably for prac- so contentious that Paul no longer wanted A week or so before the lessons Members of the mother Church in tical rather than theological considerations. to be part of the Church of Antioch. He started, my wife took Michael to the pool Jerusalem had gone to Antioch and He apparently realized that, while Jewish decided to do what he had planned— at the facility to get him acclimated to it. insisted that Gentile converts had to Christians were first and foremost Jews, cir- move to Ephesus and continue his At first, he was scared even to touch become Jews, an idea that never entered cumcised Gentile converts would not really missionary work. the water. Then, when he did get in, he Paul’s mind. He was convinced that Jesus, have an attachment to Judaism. They were From now on, though, he wouldn’t do just wanted to hold on to his mommy. as the Messiah, was the alternative to the followers of Christ, not of Moses. it under the auspices of Antioch. This was Finally, in the days leading up to his first Jewish law. Circumcision and following Paul, Barnabas and Titus returned to to have repercussions. † lesson, he was willing to let his feet touch the bottom in the shallow end. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes On the day of the first lesson, Michael was ready. As he learned a kicking stroke, a broad smile spread across his Learning comes with great teaching face as water splashed all around. Hopefully, there will be many days of The beginning of summer vacation including some almost as old as she. And suburb of Hamburg. Johannes teaches pool-time fun for Michael in the months from school seems a good time to reflect they were special-needs students! English and American History to and years to come—just like there were on teachers we have Just when many of us may despair about 10th- and 11th-graders, many of whom for me so long ago. known (or know). the current state of education, teachers are the children of immigrant workers. But this summertime sentimental jour- Most of us would appear on the scene who inspire us by their Johannes turns to his advantage the ney is filled with more than just senti- agree that a good excellence. One such is a friend who fin- ethnic and cultural differences of the stu- ment. There is something that we can teacher makes all the ished her teaching degree after raising a dents that might be obstacles in the class- learn about the life of faith from scenes difference in a child’s family. She graduated with honors and room. Once, he used the Myers-Briggs of kids jumping into pools on hot July attitude toward went on to teach at inner-city public personality test to teach his kids that, days. learning. schools. although some are Muslim and some The life of faith is a life of risk. God Of course, times This woman’s class is usually composed Christian, some quick-tempered and some challenges us to release our tight grip on change. Back in the of kids from low-income families. They run passive, some bright and others so-so, all those things that we think give us com- dark ages of my child- the gamut from the working poor to the of them have separate gifts to contribute fort. He invites us to trust that he will hood, we spent each year of grade school vaguely criminal, from average or above to the class so that together all will learn. provide more joy and fulfillment than we with one teacher who was responsible for intelligence to undiagnosed disabilities Recently, he dreamed up a unit on could ever imagine when we give away teaching everything from art to geogra- requiring special instruction, from multi- “The Simpsons” TV show. The kids ourselves for the good of others. phy. And, the teachers were always generational households to every kind of learned about American life and humor in We humans don’t like such a proposi- unmarried women. Only in “junior high” marital arrangement or cohabitation. They a fun way, and also how to find truth hid- tion. We like what we see here and now, grades seven and eight did we travel from represent a rainbow of ethnicity and color. den in satire. The study reinforced critical and find it hard to believe that something class to class with a separate teacher in Despite all these prospective handicaps, thinking without demonizing any nation great awaits us on the other side of each, some of whom were actually men. every year Susan manages to produce a or viewpoint. sacrifice. Some of my cousins went to one-room class of kids who show real progress. We can only hope and pray that all It’s like when Michael stood fright- schools, where one teacher taught all Although a few are unreachable or just teachers remain dedicated to the kind of ened at the edge of the pool. Getting in eight grades. If the teacher was clever— plain unteachable, most of her students end creative teaching that Susan and Johannes the water seemed scary. How could it be and I imagine she had to be clever—she’d each year knowing how to read, even read- employ. fun? make sure the lesson she presented aloud ing for pleasure, and knowing about the Because someday, their students will But mommy was in the pool. So were to some of the pupils was reinforcing the world beyond their own. In short, she’s be running the world! some of his friends. It can’t be all that learning of the others. taught them to be intellectually curious. bad. So he eventually, if still with hesita- Recently, we visited a similar Amish Another fine teacher is our German (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the tion, made the plunge. school in which one young woman man- son-in-law, who teaches children of many Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Although his first fears are in the past, aged a large room of students of all ages, varied backgrounds in a lower economic columnist for The Criterion.) † others will likely come. I suspect that when he is asked to take off his flotation Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister device, the anxiety he felt in the past will resurface. In the past, in our lives of faith, we One Hoosier’s words of wisdom for all faiths may have, by the grace of God, jumped into it after overcoming our trepidations. On a dusty shelf recently, I found a “Go placidly amid the noise and the gracefully surrendering the things of But then there are new challenges. We paper “jacket” meant to protect a 45 rpm haste and remember what peace there may youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield may have taken our first few strokes in record, which was be in silence. As far as possible, without you in sudden misfortune. But do not trusting God more. But he’s always ask- missing. surrender, be on good terms with all distress yourself with dark imaginings. ing for more. The more we trust him, the Printed on the persons. Many fears are born of fatigue and lone- more that we will be bathed in his love. jacket are inspira- “Speak your truth quietly and clearly; liness. Just like Jesus 2,000 years ago invited tional words titled and listen to others, even to the dull and “Beyond a wholesome discipline, be the fisherman Simon to “set out into the “Desiderata,” wrongly ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid gentle with yourself. You are a child of deep” (Lk 5:4), God calls us today to credited as being loud and aggressive persons; they are vex- the universe no less than the trees and the immerse ourselves in the depths of his found in 1692 in atious to the spirit. If you compare your- stars; you have a right to be here. And love through a greater and greater trust in Old Saint Paul’s self with others, you may become vain or whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt him. Church in Baltimore, bitter, for always there will be greater and the universe is unfolding as it should. His love, if we embrace it, will cast Md. Recent research lesser persons than yourself. “Therefore be at peace with God, out all our fears. proves it was written by Terre Haute, “Enjoy your achievements as well as whatever you conceive him to be. And For us, contentment in our growth of Ind., poet and lawyer Max Ehrmann your plans. Keep interested in your own whatever your labors and aspirations, in faith and the other virtues is not an (1872-1945). career, however, humble; it is a real pos- the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in option. God always urges us to give more The only connection between session in the changing fortunes of time. your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and of ourselves, to approach that height and “Desiderata” and the Baltimore Episcopal Exercise caution in your business affairs, broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. depth of love where we cling only to church is that in 1959, the church’s rector, for the world is full of trickery. But let this Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” him. the Rev. Frederick Kates, used the poem not blind you to what virtue there is; many Max Ehrmann copyrighted this in The deep waters of God’s love may in devotional materials. Somehow the persons strive for high ideals, and every- 1927. His widow, Bertha K. Ehrmann, seem scary to us, like the deep end of a church’s founding date was transferred to where life is full of heroism. renewed the copyright in 1954. She died big pool for a 4-year-old beginning the poem. “Be yourself. Especially do not feign in 1962. swimmer. “Desiderata”—Latin for “Things to be affection. Neither be cynical about love; The water of God’s love is where our Desired”—is shared here in prose poem for in the face of all aridity and disen- (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of feet can’t touch the floor. Fling aside style for Criterion readers, especially chantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is your fears and dive into the abyss of those unfamiliar with it: Take kindly the counsel of the years, a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † God’s love this summer. † The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Page 13

Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, July 3 Psalm 19:8-11 Sunday, July 2, 2006 Thomas, Apostle Matthew 9:1-8 Ephesians 2:19-22 • Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24 daughter might die. However, as a syna- Psalm 117:1-2 Friday, July 7 • 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 gogue official, he most likely was a reli- John 20:24-29 Amos 8:4-6, 9-12 • Mark 5:21-43 gious man. Always, in the Scripture, religious Psalm 119:2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131 devotion aided a person. Faith illuminated Tuesday, July 4 Matthew 9:9-13 The Book of Wisdom is the source of the mind. Faith eased the way for wis- Elizabeth of Portugal the first reading. dom. So, in his personal goodness, and in Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 Saturday, July 8 When this book originally was writ- his religious devotion, Jairus was able to Psalm 5:4-8 Amos 9:11-15 ten, the plight of recognize the divine power within Jesus. God’s people was not Jesus, of course, goes to the girl’s bed- Matthew 8:23-27 Psalm 85:9, 11-14 good. They had expe- side and heals her. She rises and walks Matthew 9:14-17 rienced many difficul- around. Everyone saw her recovery. It Wednesday, July 5 ties in their history. was not imaginary. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, priest Sunday, July 9 Among these experi- In the second story, a woman with a Amos 5:14-15, 21-24 Fourteenth Sunday in ences was the loss of chronic hemorrhage approaches Jesus. their national inde- Discreetly, the Gospel does not precisely Psalm 50:7-13, 16-17 Ordinary Time pendence, resulting in describe the hemorrhage, but if it was Matthew 8:28-34 Ezekiel 2:2-5 an ongoing humilia- gynecological in nature, as likely it was, Psalm 123:1-4 tion and misery. she was by this fact ritually unclean. Thursday, July 6 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 Many people had left the Holy Land This factor set her apart outside the Maria Goretti, virgin and Mark 6:1-6 and made new homes elsewhere. But in community. martyr these new places, if they retained their Under the same rules, anyone whom ethnic and religious identity, they were she touched also was unclean. However, Amos 7:10-17 virtual outcasts. she touched the garment of Jesus. He It is not surprising, therefore, that the allowed it. No earthly circumstance could obviously devout author of Wisdom took render the Lord unclean. He was the pains to insist that “God does not make blameless Son of God. nature or the evil acts of others. sickness and anxiety are part of life. death.” God does not design the hardships Jesus realizes her faith. He tells her Paul, in the second reading, reminds Jesus possesses the key to eternal life. We and terrors that come upon people. The that her faith has cured her. The hemor- us that our priorities easily can be access this life by turning to the Lord. evil wills of people bring these misfor- rhage stops. confused. However, we must be sincere. Our faith tunes upon others. Finally, St. Mark’s Gospel tells us that must be real. † Nevertheless, God’s justice and good- Reflection ness will prevail. It may be that time is These three readings all remind us that Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen required for the ship of human life to human reasoning can be flawed. In the right itself when struck by the strong first reading, attention obliquely is drawn waves of evil, but the ship will right to the fact that some people willingly hurt Church no longer publishes itself because God’s justice ultimately others on a modest scale or on a great will prevail. scale. The minds of oppressors are dis- St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the torted, but oppressors often continue to Corinthians supplies the second reading. work their evil will. ‘Index of Forbidden Books’ This reading states a fact that Even good people can fail to see that humans, even committed Christians, are hardships come not from God, but from I recall years ago reading about the no provision for a list of prohibited inclined to forget. This fact is that the Q“Index of Forbidden Books,” a list books. There is no such list today. greatest treasure is not stored in vaults, of books that Approval by proper Church authori- but rather is the knowledge of God and Readers may submit prose Catholics were not ties is still required for certain types of the insights for living that this knowl- supposed to read or publications, either before or after they edge produces. or poetry for faith column even own. are printed. These generally include The Apostle continues to say that if The Criterion invites readers to sub- What happened to translations and editions of the Bible, anyone has a surplus in the things of this mit original prose or poetry relating to this index? Where liturgical and devotional books, and earth, then this surplus should be put at faith or experiences of prayer for pos- might one obtain a works intended as texts for religious the disposal of those in need. sible publication in the “My Journey to current list? (Texas) instruction (“see especially Canons For its last reading, the Church this God” column. #824-#830”). weekend offers us a passage from the Seasonal reflections also are appre- The Catholic Although these provisions are consid- Gospel of Mark. ciated. Please include name, address, AChurch has rec- erably less restrictive than previously, It is a collection of two miracle stories. parish and telephone number with ognized almost from the beginning that the Church understandably continues the In the first story, a synagogue official, submissions. what people read greatly influences their same concern for the integrity of our Jairus, comes to Jesus, saying that his Send material for consideration to faith, for good or bad. faith. The shift is toward a different daughter is critically ill. There is no rea- “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, This is the reason, for example, that understanding of the way that Church son to assume that desperation has driven P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Christians always have monitored law should reflect that concern. Jairus to sincerity and to faith. He was or e-mail to [email protected]. † translations and copies of the sacred certainly desperate. He feared that his Scriptures carefully to make certain they I have a question about “hell” in the were as accurate as humanly possible. QApostles Creed. A clergyman Some of the most colorful and surpris- recently gave a different answer than the My Journey to God ingly acrimonious documents we possess one I was taught. from early Christianity are letters that The creed says Jesus “descended into flowed between early theologians and hell.” According to the minister, his saints—notably St. Augustine and time in hell was part of the suffering Lead Me St. Jerome—arguing about the most appro- that Jesus endured for our sins. What priate translation of words in the Bible. does this part of the creed mean? Death, gently take me by the hand. This concern eventually extended to (Arkansas) Escort me past the halls of fear. other writings, books relating to religion Guide me along the path of peace, and Christian religion in particular, The belief of Catholics and most Where there’s no need to shed a tear. which it was judged that Christians Aother Christians is that the redemp- should not read, at least without suffi- tive suffering of Jesus ended at the Explain, again, the place I seek cient preparation and background. moment of his death. There was no Is better than the one I know. The first actual list or “Index of extension of his Passion in whatever Have patience with me on this walk. Prohibited Books” was issued in 1557 happened after he died. I may be tired, I may be slow. by the Congregation of the Inquisition. The word “hell” in the creed does not In 1571, after the Council of Trent, stand for the “hell of the damned,” its Death, sail me on a raft of light, Pope Pius V established a Congregation usual meaning in current English. It Where shadows cannot lurk and hide. of the Index to be in charge of the list comes from the old Teutonic word “hela,” Reveal the life awaiting me, and keep it updated. which meant a hidden or dark place. In When doubt and gloom are set aside. The index continued in one fashion or early English literature, it was used to another up to modern times. describe any kind of dungeon or pit. Death, with your help, a chapter ends In 1897, Pope Leo XIII placed such Our word is an English translation of With questions answered, pardoned sins. duties as controlling the availability of a Latin—and Greek and Hebrew—term Now then, lead me to the threshold. literature more in the hands of diocesan for the lower or infernal regions, a place Let God’s mercy invite me in. bishops. people went after death, with no neces- Gradually, particularly in the last cen- sary connotation of reward or

By Beatrice B. Stires CNS photo from Crosiers tury, the prohibition against printing, punishment. selling, possessing or reading certain The presence of “hell” in the creed is (Beatrice B. Stires is a member of St. Michael Parish in Greenfield. A painting at books was mitigated and now is misleading, but has been traditional for SS. Peter and Paul Church in Mauren, Liechtenstein, depicts Christ’s ascension.) repealed altogether. so long that it hardly will be changed The 1983 Code of Canon Law contains now. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006

Joseph and Ronald Elkin. City, June 17. Mother of Judy Domeika. Sister of Gloria Wife of Dennis E. Smith. Grandfather of 16. Great-grand- Yarwick and Roger Jonas. Galeener. Grandmother of two. Stepmother of Edward Smith. father of three. LONGWELL, John W., 58, Great-grandmother of two. Sister of Karen Noel, GROVE, Leonore E., 89, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, SANFORD, Judy Kay Rev. Elwood Jr., Rev. Gary and Rest in peace St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby June 10. Brother of Edward and (Stacy), 57, St. Lawrence, Mitch Whitehouse. County, June 12. Mother of Richard Longwell. Lawrenceburg, June 12. Wife of WAGNER, William F., 76, Please submit in writing to our five. William Grove. Grandmother of MANFUSO, Louis J., 94, Tim Sandford. Mother of Shelly St. Luke, Indianapolis, June 10. two. Great-grandmother of two. Benning, Tonya Ross and office by 10 a.m. Thursday CERVO, Pauline Louise, 82, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Husband of Marilyn Wagner. Tracey Shinkle. Daughter of before the week of publication; St. Jude, Indianapolis, May 28. HARKER, Marian Frances, May 28. Husband of Minerva Father of Mary Kay, Michael, be sure to state date of death. 81, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Manfuso. Father of Linda Foust Frank and Juanita Neurohr. Stephen and William Wagner. CLARK, Betty J., 74, Sister of Angela Ascherman, Obituaries of archdiocesan Indianapolis, June 8. and Rita Rader. Brother of Carolyn Rooney and St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Connie Colgate, Chris Hall, priests serving our archdiocese HARNETT, John F., 73, Marcel Wagner. Grandfather of June 21. Wife of Kenneth E. MERCER, Daniel P., 19, Monica Neurohr, Linda are listed elsewhere in The St. Charles Borromeo, Bloom- Clark. Mother of Kenneth L. St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, Rinehart and Larry Stacy. eight. Criterion. Order priests and ington, May 6. Husband of Jane May 29. Son of Jeff and Pam religious sisters and brothers Clark. Sister of George Curren. SCHUELER, George A., Jr., WARMOTH, Margaret C., Grandmother of four. Great- Harnett. Father of Kathleen (Kieffer) Mercer. Brother of 85, St. Christopher, Indian- are included here, unless they Barker, Cory, J. Christopher and 70, St. Mary, Lanesville, grandmother of two. Anthony, Jeff and Joe Mercer. apolis, June 13. Sister of are natives of the archdiocese Kevin Harnett. Brother of June 6. Father of Kathleen Grandson of Roger Mercer, Mildred Blakney, Dorothy or have other connections to it; DONLEY, Francis W., 78, Margaret Wolfe. Grandfather of Robert and Martha Kieffer. Leuthart, Paul and Ronnie those are separate obituaries St. Jude, Indianapolis, June 19. Schueler. Brother of Bernice Hunget and Marie Storck. four. PETERS, Gregory D., 42, on this page. Husband of Anna May (Guidos) Barr, Mary Litch and Francis WERKE, Edward, 78, HERBERG, Richard J., 83, St. Louis, Batesville, June 18. Brent Donley. Father of Karen Schueler. Grandfather of six. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, ASHACK, Grace Teresa, 82, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Father of Clarice Peters. Smith. Grandfather of two. June 20. Brother of Wanda and St. Anne, New Castle, June 19. June 10. Husband of Janet Brother of Sharon Cozart, SMITH, Laurie M., 43, Wife of Leonard W. Ashack. ELKIN, Robert M., 68, (Lavelle) Herberg. Father of Gerald, Tyrone and William St. Mary, New Albany, June 12. Paul Wernke. † Mother of Richard and Leonard St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis, Joan Koenig, Jeanne Vogt, John Peters. Ashack II. Sister of Sam June 19. Father of Ruthanne and Joseph Herberg. Grand- REILLY, Margaret (Schisla), Lombardo. Grandmother of Eaton, Teresa LeBeau, John, father of three. 84, St. Bernadette, Indianapolis, U.S. cardinal to retire Deacon Albert McConahay was JAMES, Robert D., 79, June 21. Wife of Harold H. St. Paul, New Alsace, June 7. Reilly. Mother of Patricia and remain at Vatican charter member of St. Simon Parish Husband of Dorothy Gaynor. Dellinger, Peggy Shockley, Father of Mary Lou Knollman. Michael and Steven Reilly. VATICAN CITY (CNS)— another apartment inside the Deacon Albert L. McCona- Parish in Lafayette, Ind. He had Grandfather of five. Sister of Charles and Robert When U.S. Cardinal Edmund 109-acre city state. hay, who ministered in the lived in Indianapolis for most of JARDINA, Rose M., 97, Our Schisla. Grandmother of 10. C. Szoka retires as president Pope Benedict XVI Lafayette Diocese and was a his life. Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, Great-grandmother of 15. charter member of St. Simon Surviving are two daughters, of the commission governing announced on June 22 that he Indianapolis, June 21. Aunt of ROBERTSON, Karen Lee, Vatican City State in Septem- accepted Cardinal Szoka’s the Apostle Parish in Indian- Michelle McConahay and Col- several. apolis, died on May 22 in leen Deweese; two brothers, 63, Sacred Heart, Clinton, ber, he will be moving out of resignation, but asked him to Lafayette. He was 67. Charles and Joseph McConahay; JONAS, Luella, 93, St. Eliza- June 14. Wife of Donald his apartment at the Vatican remain on the job until He was a member of St. Ann and two grandchildren. † beth of Hungary, Cambridge Robertson. Mother of Donetta governor’s palace—but to Sept. 15 when Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican’s foreign minister, will take the helm. While Cardinal Szoka said he someday might spend part of the year in Rome and part of the year in Detroit, where he served as archbishop, he will stay at the Vatican for at You can do it. You can lose the weight. least another year. And you can keep it off, once and for all. “I am a member of five Because we will be with you, every step of different Vatican congregations, some of which meet the way, with a personal treatment plan every month,” Cardinal Szoka just for you. Do it. Take the first step. said. His responsibilities include serving on the (317) 782-7525 Congregation for Bishops. While the normal retirement age for a bishop or Vatican official is 75, the cardinals remain members of Vatican congregations and councils until their 80th birth- days. Cardinal Szoka will turn 79 on Sept. 14. Cardinal Szoka has served at the Vatican for 16 years—seven as president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, the Vatican’s budget management office, and nine years as head of the governor’s office. Cardinal Szoka said he is proud to serve the pope and the Church by overseeing extremely worldly Vatican concerns from budget deficits g to parking problems. The Vatican post office, museums, gardeners, police, garbage collectors, fire department, and water, telephone and electrical systems were among Cardinal Szoka’s responsibilities. Under his governorship, a new entrance to the Vatican MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WEIGHT LOSS CENTER weightloss.StFrancisHospitals.or Museums was completed and two underground parking garages were opened. Cardinal Szoka also stan- dardized the accounting pro- cedures in all the departments reporting to the governor’s office. The cardinal helped find ways to increase income, cut expenses, overhaul the bud- geting process with the help of outside experts and bal- ance the budget. He held press conferences twice a year to explain the budget. “My goal was to have transparency,” he said. † The Criterion Friday, June 30, 2006 Page 15

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Retreat helps teens grow in faith, be open to priesthood

By Sean Gallagher

MORGAN COUNTY—Members of the Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary community recently took another step in building up a culture of vocations in the archdio- Sean Gallagher Photos by cese. From June 14-17, they served as leaders of the first- ever Bishop Bruté Days, held at the Bradford Woods Outdoor Center in Morgan County. Father Robert Robeson, rector of the seminary, along with several of the resident seminarians and other adult volunteers, helped 16 teenage boys from seven archdiocesan deaneries grow in their faith and consider a possible call to the priesthood. The retreat involved outdoor activities, spiritual conferences, group discussion, daily Mass and eucharistic adoration, an opportunity for confession and other forms of prayer. Father Robeson said he hoped the participants would gain through the retreat “a deeper relationship with Christ and a deeper commitment to whatever their call is.” During the retreat, Alex Wilson, a homeschooled member of St. Louis Parish in Batesville who will be a high school freshman in the fall, spoke about the positive impact he hoped the experience would have on him. “I hope that it will … allow me to be a better son,” Above, Father Robert Alex said, “a better older brother and a better Catholic Hausladen, associate pastor of and allow me to discern my vocation.” St. Pius X Parish in Colin Robertson, a member of St. Vincent de Paul Indianapolis, is joined by Father Parish in Shelby County who will be an eighth-grader in Robert Robeson, rector of the the fall at Waldron Jr./Sr. Bishop Simon Bruté College High School, didn’t Seminary at Marian College in know any of the other Indianapolis, in praying a participants before eucharistic prayer during a coming, but soon found Mass on June 15 at the first- that he was making ever Bishop Bruté Days, a friends. retreat for young men open to a “I’m learning a lot vocation to the priesthood. here, and I’m learning more prayers,” Colin said. “But mainly I think Left, Seminarian David Proctor I’m getting more friends listens to Colin Robertson, a and helping them. I think member of St. Vincent de Paul that’s the best thing.” Parish in Shelby County, during A young man participating in Even though he was a small group discussion on Bishop Bruté Days listens during a just getting to know the June 15 during Bishop Bruté spiritual conference. The saying on other young men on the Days. his T-shirt, “In Hoc Signo Vinces,” retreat, Colin said that its (“In this sign you will conquer”) atmosphere helped him College in Indianapolis. ultimately ordained to the priesthood. was the epicopal motto of open up. But the retreat didn’t just benefit the young men who “Especially in a parish as a young priest, I would love Bishop Bruté. “A lot of times in con- participated. It was also uplifting for the seminarians who to work with the youth and in youth ministry activities,” versations I just listen to helped lead it. Casey said. “And being here, ministering to these kids, the other people, let them talk it out,” he said. “But in “It’s been a great experience for me,” said seminarian talking to them and getting to know them, I think is these conversations, I actually get involved with it.” Kristen Casey. “It’s kind of reassured me that there are a going to help me learn to do that.” The retreatants were divided into different teams that lot of young guys that are actually considering or at least During the middle of the first Bishop Bruté Days, competed in athletic activities and trivia contests. open to the vocation of the priesthood.” Casey was already hoping that it would happen again “We give each other moral support, even when we lose A member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, next year. or we win,” Colin said. “We just help each other.” Casey recently completed his first year as a resident sem- “This is a great opportunity, and I just pray that we Father Robeson hopes to build on the camaraderie that inarian at the Bishop Bruté College Seminary. continue to do this in coming years,” he said. the retreatants shared by having regular gatherings of He said that helping out with the retreat helped him young men at Bishop Bruté College Seminary at Marian look forward to the kinds of ministry he might do if he is (For more photos, log on to www.CriterionOnline.com.) † ST. 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