Connecting with each other Couple to Couple League classes teach NFP, ‘open couples to grace,’ page 8. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com February 5, 2016 Vol. LVI, No. 17 75¢ Retired archabbot, vice-rector of college seminary to serve as ‘missionaries of mercy’ VATICAN CITY (CNS)—More than 1,000 “missionaries of mercy” from all over the world, including two from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, will receive a special mandate from Pope Francis to preach and teach about God’s mercy, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella. About 700 of the missionaries who were chosen by Pope Francis will be in Rome to receive their special mandate in person during an Ash Wednesday ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica on Feb. 10, said the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, the office organizing As part of their journey to re-establishing the special bond they had in their childhood, Norb Schott, left, and Ted Schott made a visit to SS. Peter and Retired Archabbot events for the Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, where the brothers walked together through the cathedral’s “door of mercy.” (Photo by John Shaughnessy) Lambert Reilly, O.S.B. Year of Mercy. For the holy year, which runs until Nov. 20, Brothers’ reunion is made possible Pope Francis said he would designate “missionaries of through touches of mercy, forgiveness mercy” to be unique (Editor’s note: Pope Francis has declared old. But not to brothers and sisters. We of Ted and Norb hasn’t been seamless signs of God’s a “Holy Year of Mercy” in the Church know each other as we always were. We through the years. There have been times mercy. He is also that continues through Nov. 20, 2016. As know each other’s hearts. of distance and separation before they giving them special part of the Year of Mercy, The Criterion is We share private family recently reconnected—a reunion made authority to pardon inviting our readers to share their stories jokes. We remember possible through touches of mercy and sins that carry of how their lives have been graced by family feuds and secrets, forgiveness. Fr. Joseph Moriarty penalties that only the the mercy of God and other people—and family griefs and joys. It’s a story the brothers want to share Holy See can lift. how that mercy has made a difference. We live outside the touch during this Holy Year of Mercy, a story The two “missionaries of mercy” from the Here is the second in a continuing series of time.” they hope will help people reconcile and Church in central and southern Indiana are of stories.) The closeness between reconnect with loved ones who have retired Benedictine Archabbot Lambert Reilly the two siblings on this drifted away. of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, By John Shaughnessy cold, winter afternoon and Father Joseph Moriarty, vice-rector in 2016 seems as warm and timeless as Family memories and a special bond at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary Watching Norb and Ted Schott smile the black-and-white snapshot of the two Norb and Ted grew up in a family of and chaplain at Marian University, both in as they share stories and a small bag of of them from 1953, when older brother seven children, the sons of a grocer and Indianapolis. chips, there’s a temptation to view the Norb—7 at the time—protectively placed a homemaker who reared their family in During a news conference at the Vatican two brothers in their sixties in the context his hand on the arm of then 3-year-old Ted. the Fountain Square neighborhood on the on Jan. 29, Archbishop Fisichella said there of a quote from author Clara Ortega: Yet like many stories of family, the south side of Indianapolis. Their parents had been a huge response from priests and “To the outside world, we all grow closeness in those past and current images See BROTHERS, page 16 See MERCY, page 10 Pope: Live faith during Lent, perform works of mercy

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Lent is a time wrote in the message, which was released at the idols of knowledge, power and riches.” of conversion and a time to deepen one’s the Vatican on Jan. 26. “The danger always remains that by faith, demonstrating and sharing it through Particularly during the Holy Year a constant refusal to open the doors of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, of Mercy, he said, Catholics are called their hearts to Christ who knocks on them Pope Francis said. to recognize their own need for God’s in the poor,” he said, “the proud, rich “Faith finds expression in concrete mercy, the greatness of God’s love seen and powerful will end up condemning everyday actions in the death and resurrection of Christ themselves and plunging into the eternal meant to help and the obligation to assist others by abyss of solitude which is hell.” our neighbors in communicating God’s love and mercy But through acts of mercy and charity, body and spirit,” through words and deeds. “by touching the flesh of the crucified Jesus the pope said in “The root of all sin” is thinking that in the suffering,” he wrote, “sinners can his message for one is god, something often expressed in receive the gift of realizing that they too are Lent, which begins a total preoccupation for accumulating poor and in need. on Feb. 10 for money and power, the pope wrote. And “In the corporal works of mercy, we Latin-rite Catholics. just as individuals can be tempted to think touch the flesh of Christ in our brothers Feeding the they have no need of God, social and and sisters who need to be fed, clothed, hungry, visiting the political systems can run the same risk, sheltered, visited,” he wrote. “In the sick, welcoming ignoring both God and the real needs of spiritual works of mercy—counsel, Pope Francis strangers, offering human beings. instruction, forgiveness, admonishment instruction, giving “Love alone is the answer to that and prayer—we touch more directly our See related stories, comfort—“on such yearning for infinite happiness,” Pope own sinfulness.” pages 2 and 3. things will we be Francis wrote. It is the only response to the In the Christian life, Pope Francis said, judged,” the pope longings “that we think we can satisfy with See LENT, page 10 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes

Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled • March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Jude Terre Haute Deanery communal penance services for Lent. The following list of • March 9, 7 p.m. for St. Ann and St. Joseph at St. Joseph • Feb. 14, 2 p.m., St. Mary’s-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of- services was reported to The Criterion. • March 10, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas the-Woods • March 13, 2 p.m. at Good Shepherd • Feb. 15, 6-7:30 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle Batesville Deanery • March 15, 7 p.m. for St. Mark the Evangelist and (every Monday in Lent 6-7:30 p.m.) • Feb. 25, 7 p.m. for St. Anthony of Padua, Morris; St. Roch at St. Roch • Feb. 17, at 7-8:30 p.m., St. Patrick, Terre Haute St. Nicholas, Ripley County; and St. Louis, Batesville at • March 21, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, (“The Light is on for You”) St. Louis Greenwood • Feb. 24, at 7-8:30 p.m., St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute • March 4, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at All Saints, Dearborn County, (“The Light is on for You”) St. Martin Campus Indianapolis West Deanery • Feb 24, at 7 p.m., St. Benedict, Terre Haute • March 4, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, • February 18, 7-9 p.m. at St. Malachy, Brownsburg (“The Light is on for You”) Millhousen; St. Catherine of Siena, Decatur County; • February 23, 7-9 p.m. at St. Monica • Feb. 28, at 2 p.m., Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute St. Maurice, Napoleon; and St. Mary, Greensburg at • March 8, 6:30 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel (“The Light is on for You”) St. Mary, Greensburg • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph • Feb. 29, 6:30-8 p.m., Sacred Heart, Clinton • March 7, 6:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Susanna, Plainfield (“The Light is on for You”) • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Peter, Franklin County • March 15, 6:30 p.m. for St. Anthony and St. Christopher • March 9, 6:30-8 p.m., St. Joseph, Rockville • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville at St. Anthony (“The Light is on for You”) • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel the Archangel • March 10, 1:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Bloomington Deanery • March 17, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More, Mooresville Terre Haute (Deanery Penance Service) • Feb. 23, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Patrick, Terre Haute • March 7, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville New Albany Deanery (Deanery Penance Service) • March 15, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford • Feb. 17, 6:45 p.m. at St. John Paul II, Sellersburg campus • March 16, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton • March 16, 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude, Spencer • Feb. 19, 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, • March 16, at 7 p.m., St. Benedict, Terre Haute • March 17, 6 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, Bloomington New Albany (parish retreat) (“The Light is on for You”) • March 23, 4 p.m. at St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington • Feb. 25, 7 p.m. for St. Augustine, Jeffersonville • March 23, 7:30-9 p.m. at Annunciation, Brazil and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jeffersonville at (every Wednesday in Lent 7:30-9 p.m.) Connersville Deanery Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jeffersonville • March 23, 7 p.m. at St. Benedict, Terre Haute • Feb. 23, 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, • March 15, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, (“The Light is on for You”) Cambridge City New Albany (“12 Hours of Grace”) • Every Wednesday in Lent 7-8 p.m. at St. Joseph • Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. at St. Bridget, Liberty • March 16 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton University Parish, Terre Haute † • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Mary (Immaculate Conception), • March 20, 4 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight Rushville • 7-8:30 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent (after • March 15, 6 p.m., Richmond Catholic Community at Ash Wednesday) at Holy Family, New Albany Lenten disciplines St. Mary, Richmond • 7-8 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent (after Ash Wednesday) • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Anne, New Castle at St. Mary, Lanesville include fasting, • 6:30-8 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent Indianapolis East Deanery (after Ash Wednesday) at St. Michael, Charlestown almsgiving, prayer • Feb. 25, 7 p.m. for St. Philip Neri and Holy Cross at • 6:30-8 p.m. each Thursday in Lent at St. Francis Xavier, Abstinence from meat is to be observed by all Holy Cross Henryville Catholics 14 years and older on Ash Wednesday • Feb. 29, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Therese and on all Fridays of Lent. Ash Wednesday is of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) at St. Therese of the Seymour Deanery Feb. 10. Infant Jesus (Little Flower) • Feb. 23, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Fasting is to be observed on Ash Wednesday • March 9, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit Vevay, and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of Peace, by all Catholics who are 18 years of age but • March 11, 5-7 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield Madison not yet 59. Those who are bound by this may • March 12, 1-3 p.m. for St. Michael, Greenfield • March 2, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Providence, take only one full meal. Two smaller meals • March 14, 7 p.m. for Holy Angels and St. Rita at St. Rita Brownstown, and St. Ambrose, Seymour, at St. Ambrose, are permitted if necessary to maintain strength • March 15, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Indianapolis Seymour according to one’s needs, but eating solid foods • March 3, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; between meals is not permitted. Indianapolis North Deanery St. Mary, North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, The special Paschal fast and abstinence are • March 6, 2-3:30 p.m. at St. Simon the Apostle at St. Joseph, Jennings County prescribed for Good Friday and encouraged for • March 7, 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Pius X • March 6, 2 p.m. for St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, and Holy Saturday. • March 8, 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Holy Trinity, Edinburgh at Holy Trinity, Edinburgh By the threefold discipline of fasting, • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus almsgiving and prayer, the Church keeps Lent Indianapolis South Deanery • March 13, 4:30 p.m. for St. Patrick, Salem and American from Ash Wednesday until the evening of Holy • March 5, 9 a.m. SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi, Martyrs, Scottsburg at American Martyrs, Scottsburg Thursday, which is March 24. † Greenwood • March 7, 7 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

contrary to the way Satan proposes to re-lives the great events of salvation him and the way men wish to attribute history in the ‘today’ of her liturgy. But to him (see Mt 16:21-23). this also demands that catechesis help CATECHISM CORNER “This is why Christ vanquished the faithful to open themselves to this the Tempter for us: ‘For we have spiritual understanding of the economy of not a high priest who is unable to salvation as the Church’s liturgy reveals it sympathize with our weaknesses, but and enables us to live it.” one who in every respect has been #1438 “The seasons and days of What the catechism says about Lent tested as we are, yet without sinning’ penance in the course of the liturgical year The season of Lent is mentioned in liturgy, sees Christ prefigured in various (Heb 4:15). By the solemn forty days (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the the Catechism of the Catholic Church in ways in the Old Testament. of Lent, the Church unites herself death of the Lord) are intense moments of various sections. Finally, in #1438, the penitential nature each year to the mystery of Jesus in the Church’s penitential practice.” It is brought up in #540 in the section that of Lent is discussed in the section on the the desert.” explains Christ’s public ministry. sacrament of reconciliation. #1095 “… the Church, especially (To read the Catechism of the In #1095, Lent is discussed in regards to #540 “Jesus’ temptation reveals the during Advent and Lent and above Catholic Church online, log on to the way in which the Church, especially in its way in which the Son of God is Messiah, all at the Easter Vigil, re-reads and www.usccb.org/catechism/text/.) †

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By Sean Gallagher

Lent is a season when many Catholics ‘We always hear about the poor in the Scriptures. seek to enter more deeply into their faith. And our pope and many Church leaders refer to Parishes often respond to this desire by the poor. But this provides a little bit more depth offering adult faith formation sessions in into our Church teaching, and the beauty of it the weeks leading up to Easter. around love for the poor and most vulnerable.’ During this Lent in the Holy Year of Mercy, Catholics across central and southern Indiana from middle-school age —Theresa Chamblee, archdiocesan director through adults can learn more about the of Catholic Relief Services and the Catholic Church’s teaching on helping those in Campaign for Human Development need and its spiritual meaning by studying

“Poverty at the Crossroads: The Church’s “For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the Responses to Poverty in Indiana,” a breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall …” pastoral letter issued by the five bishops of director of Catholic Relief Services apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of —Isaiah 25:4 Indiana last March. and the Catholic Campaign for Human the Gospel,” his bull of indiction that Catholic Bishops of Indiana

Poverty at the Catholic Bishops of Indiana A reflection guide to the pastoral Development, said the guide can help announced the Holy Year of Mercy, and a Crossroads

The Church’s Response to Poverty in Indiana letter developed by archdiocesan leaders clear up “misconceptions” about the report on poverty in Indiana developed by A Poverty at the Crossroads Supplement is available at www.archindy.org/ Church’s teaching on poverty. the United Way. holyyearofmercy. “We always hear about the poor in the Chamblee said these additional “We feel like this could be a resource Scriptures,” Chamblee said. “And our readings give the pastoral letter that could be used far and wide,” said pope and many Church leaders refer to “a broader base.” southern Indiana. Ken Ogorek, archdiocesan director of the poor. But this provides a little bit more “This goes a little deeper,” she said. The reflection guide ends with an catechesis. “And we believe that people as depth into our Church teaching, and the “This is more of a spiritual reflection opportunity for users to make a personal young as junior high could make great use beauty of it around love for the poor and about why the two great commandments commitment to take action to help people of this resource for learning, discussion most vulnerable.” to love God and our neighbor are suffering from poverty in the state. and faith sharing.” To provide that depth, the guide also so important.” “Every single one of us has to make a Theresa Chamblee, archdiocesan offers users excerpts from Pope Francis’ While the five sessions of the reflection commitment—whether it’s through prayer, guide fit well within Lent, the guide can action within the community, educating be used at any time of the year. those around us,” Chamblee said. “All of The study sessions, which can take us have a call to live out our faith.” ‘Oftentimes, documents like pastoral letters place in groups in parishes, schools or Ogorek said that the reflection guide make an initial splash and then they sit on a other settings, or by individuals, involve could help the pastoral letter have a greater shelf. I know that Archbishop [Joseph W.] Tobin’s an opening prayer, a Scripture reflection impact on the fight against poverty in the fond hope is that this reflection guide will be a and questions about the readings from the state, and in the faith life of Catholics great motivation for people to make the poverty pastoral letter and other sources assigned across central and southern Indiana. pastoral more of a living document.’ to that session. “Oftentimes, documents like pastoral Users are encouraged to submit answers letters make an initial splash and then they to questions in the reflection guide in sit on a shelf,” Ogorek said. “I know that —Ken Ogorek, archdiocesan director of bold to [email protected]. Archbishop [Joseph W.] Tobin’s fond hope catechesis This will help archdiocesan leaders gain a is that this reflection guide will be a great more complete understanding of poverty motivation for people to make the poverty as it exists in various parts of central and pastoral more of a living document.” † School choice proposal advances in Senate during School Choice Week By Brigid Curtis Ayer access to use the scholarship twice per year. The regulatory streamlining portion of the Indiana residents who celebrated School bill will reduce the ‘Simply put, the bill provides the ability for Choice Week at the Statehouse during the paperwork in half children to receive a voucher for the spring last week of January have a reason to cheer. since school staff semester of school. Under current law, students A proposal to will not have to go have to receive the voucher in the fall, and if increase access through the signature to Indiana’s collection repeatedly, anyone wants to attend a nonpublic school at Choice but only once per any other time during that school year, they are Scholarship school year.” stuck waiting until the next school year.’ program has Yoder said advanced in the state Senate. this issue became —Sen. Carlin Yoder Senate Bill 334, authored by important to him Sen. Carlin Yoder, R-Middlebury, would because of a add a second opportunity to access a Glenn Tebbe faith-based group The legislation would assist not only nonpublic and public schools because Choice Scholarship during the school year. called Crossing children wanting to attend the Crossing, public schools have more regulations The bill passed the Senate School of Business and Entrepreneurship, but would open the door to all students that they have to adhere to than do Appropriations panel by a 9-1 vote, and which operates schools across Indiana. that need a change midyear to access a nonpublic schools. moves to the Senate floor for further Yoder explained that the alternative high scholarship. According to Legislative Services consideration. school program serves at-risk students John Elcesser, executive director of the Agency, a nonpartisan research firm for “Simply put, the bill provides the ability ages 14-20 who dropped out of school or Indiana Non-Public Education Association lawmakers, 32,954 students are receiving for children to receive a voucher for the were expelled. (INPEA), who supports the bill, said, an average Choice Scholarship grant of spring semester of school,” Yoder said. The senator described the Crossing’s “Almost every year, I get calls from about $4,132 per student for the 2016 fiscal “Under current law, students have to receive mission as “very near and dear” to his principals who have been approached by year. For the 2015-16 school year, there the voucher in the fall, and if anyone wants heart. He said the goal is to try to get families wanting to enroll at the semester are 316 schools participating in the to attend a nonpublic school at any other at-risk students back into school to finish point, and they need a scholarship for that Choice Scholarship Program. time during that school year, they are stuck their education. Yoder found out that to be possible. They found out months The Friedman Foundation for waiting until the next school year.” these students are expelled or drop out of into the school year that the choice they Educational Choice, a national school Glenn Tebbe executive director of the school, and by the time they learn about the made was not the right fit for their son or choice nonprofit based in Indianapolis, Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), who Crossing, the scholarship date has passed, daughter, and they want to explore other reports on the scope of school choice serves as the legislative and public policy making them ineligible for the scholarship options.” Unfortunately, by then, the around the country. Currently, there are spokesperson for the Church in Indiana, until next year. Yoder said that given the Choice Scholarship deadline has passed, 59 school choice programs in 28 states and supports the legislation. “We believe troubles experienced for this population, he added. the District of Columbia. Indiana’s Choice parents should have the choice of where waiting 6-8 months to return to school Elcesser said that there are a variety Scholarship Program is the nation’s largest they send their children to school. If they could result in incarceration or even death of reasons a child needs a scholarship voucher program in terms of participation. are income eligible, this bill gives them for some. midyear. “Sometimes it’s an academic Nationwide, there are 166,500 students need. Sometimes it’s a bullying situation. receiving a school choice voucher. It could be for number of other reasons Tebbe said he expects the bill will pass ‘Almost every year, I get calls from principals why a student needs to change schools,” he the Senate. If the bill passes there, it moves who have been approached by families wanting said. “This bill would make the scholarship to the Indiana House of Representatives for to enroll at the semester point, and they need a available to them.” debate and further consideration. scholarship for that to be possible. They found Carol Oslander of the Indiana Chamber As the ICC tracks bills, it posts out months into the school year that the choice of Commerce also supports the bill. She legislative update on its Web page. To said that in addition to being in favor of receive legislative updates via e-mail, they made was not the right fit for their son or school choice in general, the bill ensures join the Indiana Catholic Action daughter, and they want to explore other options.’ that the money follows the child. Network (ICAN). These and other Some of the opponents of the bill public policy resources are available at —John Elcesser, executive director of the include Gail Zeheralis of the Indiana State www.indianacc.org. Indiana Non-Public Education Association Teacher’s Association and Joel Hand of the Indiana Coalition for Public Schools. They (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for raised concerns about the equity between The Criterion.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016

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Reflection/Elizabeth Heile Pilgrimage, unexpected delay offer lessons in patience, trust and sacrifice Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 One of the most memorable stories I will unborn children. Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor ever have is our recent March for Life trip. As we joined the march, we were Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus It is a story I will be able to tell for years engulfed by the crowd. We walked for what to come. On this trip, there were some seemed like a few miles, and began up a unexpected events, hill where I could see the Capitol building but they helped my in the distance. Editorial faith in God grow At that moment, I turned around. As far by teaching me as my eyes could see through the falling patience and trust. snow, I could see people. They were all Arriving at the marching for the same cause, for the same Basilica of The reason: to end abortion, trying to give every National Shrine child a chance to live and love. of the Immaculate On the way home, something Conception in unexpected happened. A few hours into Washington is an our drive back, the bus came to a stop experience that will on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. At first, last a lifetime. Although I had visited the we thought it would only be a few hours. basilica twice before, the memory in no Those few hours turned to eight hours, then way compares to the event of being there to 10, and the time we sat going nowhere for the opening Mass on Jan. 21 of the kept increasing. National Prayer Vigil for Life. To pass the time, a few of us went Standing outside, even from far away, outside. It was the first time I had a my gaze is always drawn to the beautiful snowball fight in the middle of an architecture of the church. Once, I heard interstate. A few miles ahead, some young that traditional churches were designed people built an altar out of snow so a priest to make you look up. The extravagant could celebrate Mass for them. A vendor displays a blanket with an image of Pope Francis on Jan. 27, to be sold mosaics and paintings that enveloped the We were at a standstill for hours, until a inside a store of religious items in Mexico City. The pope will visit Mexico on ceilings drew my eyes upward, and made few men on our other bus decided to dig us Feb. 12-17. (CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters) me feel as if heaven was right up there on out of the snow with cardboard boxes. The the walls. whole bus cheered as we pulled out and The Mass was stunning. It was moving went on our way home. to see so many people in one area all There were many things I learned about Mexico’s vicious drug cartels supporting the same cause. The masses of myself and others on this trip. I was able to From Feb. 12-17, Pope Francis will expose the activities of a local drug cartel people were so great that there was no more get to know my friends a little better and be in the country that has replaced known as the Zetas. room to sit! Little chapels on the sides of meet new people. I learned that I can’t be Colombia as the world’s most The Committee to Protect Journalists the basilica were full, and many took seats on a bus for more than 22 hours at a time dangerous place for priests. He will be said that Maria Castro’s murder was the in the crypt to watch the liturgy on TV. without nearly going crazy, and that one in Mexico. first murder ever documented for the use I had a great view. Since there were no of the best meals anyone could have after Mexico is known for its citizens’ of social media. Macias blogged under seats, my group sat on the sides of one of that fiasco is a cheeseburger and burnt great devotion to Our Lady of the penname “The Girl from Laredo,” the aisles. I could see everything, from the French fries. Guadalupe. Unfortunately, it is also and was a champion of the poor, Missionaries of Charity sitting in the front The most important thing was the lesson known for its vicious drug cartels that especially migrants. She was only 39 row to the procession of priests that lasted learned. A pilgrimage is full of sacrifice. It don’t put up with interference by those when she was murdered. several minutes. requires patience, trust and the willingness who preach Christianity. She is hardly the only journalist The next day, our group attended the to give. Various paramilitary groups, who has been murdered by cartels. national March for Life. I was amazed. traveling in armored vehicles, exercise According to the Mexican Human Rights Contrary to what many news reports say, (Elizabeth Heile is a sophomore essentially unchallenged authority over Commission, Reporters Without Borders, thousands of people showed up. Even at the Oldenburg Academy of the entire regions of the country, and the and the Committee to Protect Journalists, with a blizzard warning, people risked Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg, Catholic Church is usually the only between 2000 and 2012 several dozen not staying in the safety of their homes and a member of St. Nicholas Parish in voice speaking out on behalf of the journalists were murdered for covering and warm beds to stand up for all of the Ripley County.) † interests of ordinary people. narcotics-related news. Offices of The number of people killed in Televisa and of local newspapers have Mexican drug warfare since 2006 is been bombed. estimated at 179,000. Mostly they are The drug cartels are powerful and casualties of the eight major cartels ruthless. They exist because of the drug fighting each other or the Mexican problem here in the United States. They government, but not all. Often, they are control approximately 70 percent of the people who have spoken out against foreign illegal drugs that flow into this the cartels. The murders are meant to country, including cannabis, cocaine, frighten others to keep silent. heroin and methamphetamines. Many of For example, Father Francisco these drugs are produced elsewhere, but Sanchez Duran was beaten to death in they flow into the United States through his church of El Patrocinio in San Jose, the Mexican cartels. south of Mexico City. He had been It’s a matter of supply and demand. As critical of local bands of thieves. long as the demand for drugs is so strong In another case, the body of Father in this country, a way to supply that Salvador Ruiz Enciso was found in a demand will be found. Tijuana neighborhood, with his hands One of the cartels, Sinaloa, was in the and feet tied, beaten so far beyond news recently because of the recapture of recognition that positive identification its head, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, had to rest on DNA testing. He was who had escaped from a Mexican prison killed because he was persuading through an elaborate tunnel. Before young people to stay away from gangs. his recapture, he met secretly with film In December of 2014, Father star Sean Penn and Mexican TV star Gregorio Lopez’s body was found Kate del Castillo to discuss the making with a bullet in his head. He was of a movie about him. Penn subsequently the third priest killed during 2014 in reported on his interview with Guzman Guerrero State. in Rolling Stone. Letters Policy In central Puebla State, In Apatzingan, Michoacán State, Father Erasmo Pliego’s beaten and Father Andres Larios told America Letters from readers are published in from readers as necessary based on space burned body was found on a road. magazine correspondent Tim Padgett that The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s limitations, pastoral sensitivity and content He was the 11th Mexican priest to be the drug cartel La Familia Michoacana commitment to “the responsible exchange of (including spelling and grammar). In order to murdered, usually after being tortured, dumped 20 severed heads in the town freely-held and expressed opinion among encourage opinions from a variety of readers, in the past three years. Two other square. Father Larios and other priests in the People of God” (Communio et Progressio, frequent writers will ordinarily be limited to priests are missing and presumed dead. Michoacán have received death threats 116). one letter every three months. Concise letters Letters from readers are welcome and (usually less than 300 words) are more likely It’s not only priests who are if they continue to speak out against the every effort will be made to include letters to be printed. being killed. On Sept. 24, 2011, the drug cartel. from as many people and representing as Letters must be signed, but, for serious decapitated body of Maria Macias Michoacán is one of the places the many viewpoints as possible. Letters should reasons, names may be withheld. Castro, a leader in a Catholic lay pope will visit during his trip. Surely, be informed, relevant, well-expressed and Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” movement, was found on a road near knowing this pope, he will condemn the temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, Nuevo Laredo. Her naked corpse was drug cartels. sense of courtesy and respect. Indianap­olis, IN 46202-2367. Readers accompanied by a note saying she The editors reserve the right to select the with access to e-mail may send letters to had been killed for using her blog to —John F. Fink letters that will be published and to edit letters [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Page 5

Archbishop/Arzobispo Joseph W. Tobin

Rejoice in the Lord

Alégrense en el Señor

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Preparing for a holy Lent in the Year of Mercy

sh Wednesday is only a few to dust, and we appreciate the fact that permanently separate us from the love What a powerful Lenten image! days away. With this extremely Ash Wednesday speaks the truth about of God if we truly repent and seek The more we seek God’s forgiveness, Apopular observance, we begin the the frailty and impermanence of our the forgiveness of the One who is the more we experience his closeness. six and a half weeks that make up the human condition. ever-merciful. And no matter how seriously we have liturgical season of Lent. The Second Vatican Council taught Pope Francis urges us to seek and find sinned, nothing can prevent us from Why do you suppose that that Lent has a twofold character: 1) it “a genuine experience of God’s mercy, being touched in a tangible way by the Ash Wednesday, when we bless the ashes recalls our baptism and the universal call which comes to meet each person in the amazing grace that alone frees us from of palms and then mark our foreheads to holiness; and 2) it stresses the fact that Face of the Father who welcomes and the negative effects of our sin! with the sign of the cross, is so popular? in order to experience the joy of eternal forgives, forgetting completely the sin What can we do to prepare for this In a culture that celebrates perpetual life with God (symbolized by the joy of committed.” We are not asked to pretend genuine experience of God’s mercy? youth and tries to deny the reality of Easter), we must suffer and, eventually, that our sins are “no big deal,” just as we Allow our loving Father to come close death, isn’t it odd that we dramatically we must die. do not deny that we will one day die and to us. Speak with him in prayer. Open symbolize that we are dust and to dust The penitential season of Lent is return to dust. our hearts to him in the sacraments of we shall return? designed to prepare us for great joy. It is Sin is horrible, an offense against reconciliation and Eucharist. Observe the I think Ash Wednesday is popular not a gloomy or depressing season, but it heaven and Earth, and justice demands Lenten practices of fast and abstinence. because it’s a day when we freely let go is a time of sober reflection intended to that we atone for our sins and accept Perform the corporal and spiritual works of all false pretenses and vain ambitions. help us get ready for what Pope Francis the punishment we deserve. And yet, of mercy. Fasting and abstinence represent the calls “an experience of closeness to the God is free to intervene in our lives and I plan to write about many of these traditional posture of monks, nuns, Lord who in the mystery of his passion, to wipe away the consequences of our Lenten themes during the next six weeks hermits and other holy people who repent death and resurrection indicates the royal selfishness and sin simply because he as we prepare for the joy of Easter. of their sins and disdain what the world road which gives meaning to pain and loves us and desires that we be happy Lent is truly a time of grace and, as has to offer. loneliness.” with him forever. Pope Francis says, an opportunity to Most of us are not monks or nuns, This Lent, we are especially blessed Yes, our God is just, but our faith make the mercy of God “become visible but we are people who—in our heart because we have the opportunity to tells us that God’s mercy transforms in the witness of concrete signs as Jesus of hearts—long for a degree of purity experience the Lord’s closeness through our notions of justice—allowing us, as himself taught us.” and freedom that cannot be found by observance of the Holy Year of Mercy. Pope Francis teaches, “to be touched in a Let’s prepare for a holy Lent in this attachment to what this world has to Lent is the season of mercy. It’s a time tangible way by the mercy of the Father, very special Year of Mercy. Let’s ask offer. We know that we will not live when the Church reminds us that no who wants to be close to those who have God to open our hearts this Lent and, so, forever, and that we will one day return sin—no matter how grievous—can the greatest need of his forgiveness.” allow him to come close to us! †

Preparativos para una Cuaresma santa en el Año de la Misericordia stamos a pocos días del Miércoles y valoramos el hecho de que el Miércoles permanentemente del amor de Dios si Y no importa qué tan graves hayan sido de Ceniza, el día de precepto de Ceniza muestra con toda honestidad nos arrepentimos verdaderamente y nuestros pecados: nada puede impedir que Eextremadamente popular que marca la fragilidad y lo transitorio de nuestra procuramos el perdón de Aquel que es llegue a nosotros, de una forma tangible, el inicio de las seis semanas y media que condición humana. eternamente misericordioso. la maravillosa gracia que en sí misma nos conforman la temporada litúrgica de la El Concilio Vaticano Segundo nos El papa Francisco nos exhorta a que libera de los efectos negativos del pecado. Cuaresma. enseñó que la Cuaresma tiene un doble busquemos y encontremos la “genuina ¿Qué podemos hacer para prepararnos ¿Por qué creen que el Miércoles de propósito: 1) nos recuerda nuestro experiencia de la misericordia de Dios, la para esta genuina experiencia de la Ceniza, ocasión en la que bendecimos las bautismo y el llamado universal a cual va al encuentro de todos con el rostro misericordia de Dios? Permitir que cenizas de las Palmas y nos marcamos la la santidad y 2) hace énfasis en que del Padre que acoge y perdona, olvidando nuestro padre amoroso se acerque a frente con el símbolo de la cruz, es una para poder vivir la alegría de la vida completamente el pecado cometido.” No nosotros. Hablar con Él en la oración. ceremonia tan popular? En una cultura eterna con Dios (simbolizada en la se nos pide que le restemos importancia Abrirle nuestros corazones a través de que celebra la juventud perpetua e intenta alegría de la Pascua), debemos sufrir y, a nuestros pecados, como tampoco los sacramentos de la reconciliación y negar la realidad de la muerte, ¿acaso finalmente, morir. podemos negar que un día moriremos y la eucaristía. Cumplir con las prácticas no resulta extraño que simbolicemos de La temporada penitencial de la en polvo nos convertiremos. cuaresmales del ayuno y la abstinencia. forma tan vívida que somos polvo y que Cuaresma está diseñada para prepararnos El pecado es una falta terrible contra Realizar las obras corporales y en polvo nos convertiremos? para la gran alegría. No se trata de una el cielo y la tierra, y el principio de la espirituales de la misericordia. Considero que la popularidad del temporada sombría ni deprimente, sino de justicia exige reparación por nuestros A lo largo de las siguientes seis Miércoles de Ceniza radica en que es un momento de seria reflexión destinada a pecados y que aceptemos el castigo que semanas planeo escribir acerca de un día en el que nos sentimos libres prepararnos para lo que el papa Francisco merecemos. Sin embargo, Dios tiene la muchos de estos temas cuaresmales y nos despojamos de todas las falsas denomina “vivir la enfermedad y el libertad de intervenir en nuestras vidas mientras nos preparamos para la pretensiones y ambiciones banales. El sufrimiento como experiencia de cercanía y eliminar las consecuencias de nuestro alegría del Pascua. La Cuaresma es ayuno y la abstinencia representan la al Señor que en el misterio de su pasión, egoísmo y pecado, sencillamente porque verdaderamente una época de gracia postura tradicional de los monjes, las muerte y resurrección indica la vía nos ama y desea que seamos felices para y, como lo dice el papa Francisco, una religiosas, los ermitaños y otras personas maestra para dar sentido al dolor y a la siempre junto a Él. oportunidad para que la misericordia santas que se arrepienten de sus pecados y soledad.” Sí, nuestro Dios es justo, pero nuestra divina se haga “visible en el testimonio desprecian las tentaciones terrenales. Esta es una Cuaresma especialmente fe nos dice que la misericordia de Dios de signos concretos como Jesús mismo La mayoría de nosotros no somos ni bendecida ya que tenemos la transforma nuestra noción de justicia y, nos enseñó.” monjes ni religiosas, sino personas que, oportunidad de sentir la cercanía con tal como nos lo enseña el papa Francisco, Preparémonos para una Cuaresma en lo profundo de nuestros corazones, el Señor mediante la celebración del llegar a sentir “realmente la misericordia santa en este Año de la Misericordia tan anhelamos un grado de pureza y de Año de la Misericordia. La Cuaresma del Padre que quiere estar cerca de quien especial. ¡Pidámosle a Dios que abra libertad que no es posible alcanzar es la temporada de la misericordia; más necesita de su perdón.” nuestros corazones en esta Cuaresma para mediante el apego a todo lo que ofrece el es el momento en el que la Iglesia ¡Qué imagen tan impactante para la que pueda estar cerca de nosotros! † mundo. Sabemos que no viviremos para nos recuerda que ningún pecado, sin Cuaresma! Mientras más procuramos el siempre, algún día volveremos a ser polvo importar su gravedad, puede separarnos perdón de Dios, más cerca estamos de Él. Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016

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February 5 Meridian St., Greenwood. to St. Patrick Adoration 10:30 a.m.-noon, and surrogacy, sponsored by February 14-16 St. Anthony Church, First Friday celebration Chapel at 1807 Poplar St. third session from 7-8:30 p.m., pro-life ministries of Holy St. Maurice, Napoleon; 379 N. Warman Ave., of the Most Sacred for Divine Mercy Chaplet, reconciliation available Rosary and St. John the St. John the Baptist, Osgood; Indianapolis. Serra Club, Heart of Jesus, Mass, completed around 10:30 a.m. Feb. 8 from 5:45-6:45 Evangelist parishes, 6:30 p.m. and Immaculate Conception, 5:45 p.m., exposition of the Mass for Vocations, coffee p.m. All are invited. February 13 Millhousen parishes. Parish and discussion following Blessed Sacrament, following St. Michael Church, Information: 812-988-2778 or St. Joseph Church and mission, “Mercy: God’s Mass, 9 a.m. Information: Mass until 9:30 p.m., sacrament 145 St. Michael Blvd., [email protected]. Parish Hall, 319 E. Gift,” Father James Farrell, 317-748-1478. of Reconciliation available. Brookville. First Saturday Information: 317-888-2861 or Devotional Prayer Group, February 9 South St., Lebanon, Ind. presenter, opportunities for St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 E. (Lafayette Diocese). the sacraments of healing, Marian University chapel, [email protected]. prayers, rosary, confession, 46th St., Indianapolis. Catholic Indianapolis and Lafayette confession and anointing 3200 Cold Spring Road, meditation, 8 a.m. Information: February 6 Charismatic Renewal of Cursillo Community each evening. Feb. 14, Indianapolis. Lumen Dei 765-647-5462. St. Therese of the Infant Indianapolis, Life in the Spirit Ultreya, Mass 4:30 p.m., Immaculate Conception Catholic Business Group, Jesus (Little Flower) Parish, session three of pitch-in dinner 6 p.m., Ultreya Church, 2081 E. County Road Mass and monthly Holy Family Parish, Seminar, 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. seven, 7-9 p.m. Information: 7 p.m., John Ameis speaker. meeting, 6:30-8:30 a.m., 815 W. Main St., Richmond. 820 S., Greensburg, 7 p.m.; Little Flower Ladies Club Joseph Valvo, 317-546-7328 or Information: Mark Scheller, breakfast, $15 per person. Chocolate Fest and silent Feb. 15, St. John the Baptist Chili Supper, adults $6, seniors auction, 5-8 p.m., $15 adults, [email protected]. 317-733-4184. Church, 331 S. Buckeye St., Information: 317-435-3447 or $5, children $3, cafeteria $5 children 6-12 years of age, Osgood, 7 p.m.; Feb. 16, St. [email protected]. entrance number 6, door February 14 children under 6 no charge, Maurice Church, 8874 Harrison prizes, kids’ games, 4-7 p.m. advance ticket sales only. February 11 St. Michael the Archangel Most Holy Name of Jesus St., Napoleon, 7 p.m. Information: Susan Spilly-Lee, Information: 765-935-2552 or St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Information: 317-372-4948 or 317-626-1454. [email protected]. Cenacle (house on parish Indianapolis. Mass in French, Beech Grove. First Friday grounds), Indianapolis. Hope 1 p.m. Information: [email protected]. devotion, exposition of the Helpers of God’s Precious February 7-8 and Healing Survivors of 317-523-4193 or Blessed Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; Infants Prayer Vigil, St. Agnes Church, 1008 [email protected]. February 16 Suicide support group, 7 p.m. St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 E. reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; Terre Haute. 7:30 a.m. Mass McLary Road, Nashville. Information: 317-851-8344. Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the at the Carmelite Monastery “The Joy of the Gospel” St. Therese of the Infant 46th St., Indianapolis. Catholic Sacred Heart and prayers for at 59 Allendale, 9:25 a.m. Parish Mission, led by February 12 Jesus (Little Flower) Church, Charismatic Renewal of the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. parking on Ohio Blvd., Msgr. Paul Koetter, Feb. 7 Our Lady of the Most Holy 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Life in the Spirit Information: 317-784-5454. 9:30 a.m. assemble on light lunch at noon, followed by Rosary Church, Priori Hall, Class of ’63 monthly Seminar, session four of sidewalk in front of Planned first session from 1-2:30 p.m.; 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. gathering, 6 p.m. Mass, seven, 7-9 p.m. Information: Our Lady of the Parenthood at 30 S. 3rd St. Feb. 8 Mass at 9 a.m., followed “Breeders: A Subclass optional dinner afterward. Joseph Valvo, 317-546-7328 or Greenwood Church, 335 S. for prayers, 10 a.m. travel by second session from of Women?” film about Information: 317-408-6396. [email protected]. †

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February 19-21 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. campaign from Feb. 10-March 20 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, February 23 40 Days for Life is an international campaign involving peaceful prayer vigils at 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Lenten Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference abortion centers with the goal of changing hearts and ending abortion. weekend retreat. Information: 317-545-7681 Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. In the archdiocese and other locations close to archdiocesan borders, peaceful or www.archindy.org/fatima. Christian Simplicity: A Lenten Dialogue, prayer vigils will be held on the public right-of-way outside of abortion facilities in the February 21 Tuesdays in Lent, session two, following locations: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, Benedictine Sisters Sheila Marie Fitzpatrick • Indianapolis: Planned Parenthood, 8590 Georgetown Road. 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana and Angela Jarboe and Patty Moore, • Bloomington: Planned Parenthood, 421 S. College Ave. Marriage Preparation Conference, 8 facilitators, $15 per session plus $15 one-time • Fishers (Lafayette Diocese): Planned Parenthood, 8937 Technology Drive. a.m.-4 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681 or fee for materials. Information: 317-788-7581 • Evansville (Evansville Diocese): Planned Parenthood, 125 N. Weinbach Ave. www.archindy.org/fatima. or [email protected]. • Louisville, Ky. (Archdiocese of Louisville): EMW Women’s Surgical Center, 138 W. Market St. February 22 Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference For more information on the campaign or to sign up to participate in a local prayer Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. vigil, log on to 40daysforlife.com/browse-campaigns/. † 56th St., Indianapolis. Ignatian Spirituality Personal Retreat Day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $35 Project, monthly evening of prayer and per person. Information: 317-788-7581 or community, 6-7:30 p.m. Information: [email protected]. † Celebrate Marriage ministry offers reception Reverse raffle and dinner on Feb. 20 to for all married couples on Feb. 13 benefit Catholic Charities Indianapolis Celebrate Marriage, a ministry meal, followed by a DJ-led dance and offering large group, small group and door prizes. A reverse raffle and dinner event to items will be available through pull tabs, individual couple events to enrich The cost is $40 per couple. Doors benefit Catholic Charities Indianapolis a 50/50 pot and a silent auction. marriages, will offer a “Celebrate open at 6:30 p.m., and dinner begins at will be held at the Archbishop Edward Tickets for the “Big 30” items will be Romance” wedding reception for all 7 p.m. T. O’Meara Catholic Center, sold for $20 apiece—but only 30 tickets married couples in Madonna Hall at For more information or to register, 1400 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, per item will be sold. Prizes for the Our Lady of the Greenwood Church, contact the Our Lady of the Greenwood starting at 6 p.m. on Feb. 20. “Big 30” drawings include four Pacers 335 S. Meridian St., in Greenwood, on parish office at 317-888-2861, or log on Doors open at 6 p.m., dinner and tickets with a parking pass; a “Stay, Feb. 13. to www.celebratemarriageministry.com. drinks start at 6:30 p.m., and the raffle Dine and Play” package, including an The evening will start with a catered Registration is due by Feb. 7. † starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner overnight stay at the Horseshoe Casino, and drinks are $20, or $50 for dinner, two food vouchers and two $10 casino drinks and a ticket for a $1,250 raffle. cash coupons; and four Winter Jam The event features prize pools for concert suite tickets, including food $750 with tickets costing $25 apiece, and drinks. and $1,250 with tickets costing $50 To print a registration form for the apiece. Only 100 tickets for each raffle event, log on to www.archindy.org/cc/ will be sold. indianapolis/happening.html, or call Other opportunities to win money and Valerie Sperka at 317-592-4072. †

Retreat for busy mothers scheduled at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Feb. 26-28 Mothers in need of quiet reflection are Church of the Immaculate Conception, invited to the “Retreat for Busy Catholic an opportunity for the sacrament of Moms,” sponsored by the Sisters of reconciliation, tours and prayers at the Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Shrine of Saint Mother Theodore Guérin The retreat will begin at 7 p.m. on and the National Shrine for Our Lady Feb. 26, and conclude at 1:30 p.m. of Providence. on Feb. 28. It will be facilitated by The cost to attend the retreat is $200, Providence Sister Mary Montgomery. which includes all meals and lodging. Gabriel Radio kickoff raises $75,000 Presentations from Danielle Bean’s The sisters will also welcome commuter “Momnipotent” program will be offered participants at a cost of $110, which Eileen Hartman and Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin pose with others for a photo during a during the retreat. There will also be time includes all meals. The deadline to fundraising event for Gabriel Radio at St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus on Jan. 6. for discussion of the program, which register for the retreat is Feb. 22. Great Lakes Gabriel Project, headed by Hartman, is seeking to raise $400,000 to purchase land features many of the issues mothers For more information or to for Gabriel Radio, a Catholic radio station whose range will extend from Nashville to Greensburg, face daily. register, call 812-535-2952, e-mail and Seymour to Greenwood. Those wishing to support the project can send checks (made out to The retreat will include prayer, [email protected], or register online at The Gabriel Project with “Gabriel Radio” in the memo line) to The Gabriel Project, P.O. Box 1233, learning from other mothers, Mass in the events.sistersofprovidence.org. † Columbus, IN, 47202, or log on to www.goangels.org. (Submitted photo) The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Page 7 Conventual Franciscans reach out to the margins from Mount St. Francis (Editor’s note: The Church’s Year of Consecrated Life This year, the province is celebrating began in November 2014 and concluded on Feb. 2, 2016. the 40th anniversary of the founding of its With that in mind, The Criterion has published a series of Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality. It often hosts articles featuring the life and history of each of the religious retreats for Catholic high schools and youth ministry groups communities based in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. This in southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. It also offers is the sixth and final article in that series.) retreats of its own. Over the 120 years that Conventual Franciscan friars By Sean Gallagher have lived at Mount St. Francis, Father John said that the place has been “a huge magnet for all kinds of ministry that MOUNT ST. FRANCIS—Conventual Franciscan expresses our charism—friars that have taught, friars that friars across the United States look at their colleagues in have worked to be healers as chaplains in hospitals, and the Our Lady of Consolation friars that have been working with the poor.” Province, based in Mount Conventual Franciscan Father James (Jim) Kent serves St. Francis since 1926, as the as the provincial of the Our Lady of Consolation Province. “cowboys” of their order. A native of Columbus who grew up in St. Bartholomew WAKE UP THE WORLD ! With a missionary heart, Parish, he sees the spirituality center as reaching out in a 2015 Year of Consecrated Life they’ve ministered among Franciscan way to the poor—but a new kind of poor. migrant workers in New Mexico, among the poor in “I think now, especially with technology, people are Central America, and in Zambia in southern Africa where spiritually poor,” said Father Jim. “And I think they’re the Church was still young. coming to realize that. We’re trying to provide a place … to They also historically ministered among German unplug for a little bit.” Catholic immigrants in various parts of the United States, Through their 800-year history, Franciscans have been including in parishes in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, at known not only for their care for the poor, but also for their a time in the 19th and early 20th centuries when they were embrace of poverty themselves. on the margins of American society. In the 21st century, Father Jim said that the “[We’re] willing to take on new frontiers, new Conventual Franciscans of the province he leads are challenges in ministry, new mission expansions,” said experiencing poverty in new ways. Conventual Franciscan Father John Bamman, who One is in welcoming friars from India, which is bursting promotes vocations for his province. “We were involved with vocations and cannot find enough places for priests to Conventual Franciscan friars process into the chapel at in a lot of missionary activity, and minister in their home country. Mount St. Francis in Mount St. Francis on Easter Sunday, other provinces perhaps stayed a The province in India is also young, with few members April 5, 2015. The friars of the Our Lady of Consolation Province little more insulated.” older than 50, so coming to the United States helps them have been based at Mount St. Francis since 1926. (Submitted photo) Conventual Franciscan Father gain experience in ministry and to learn from the wisdom of Maurus Hauer knows from personal a province that reaches back more than a century. experience that being a cowboy friar “It’s not easy to receive people from other cultures,” can mean doing any number of jobs. said Father Jim. “They have to be prepared for that. But we A native of Terre Haute, have to be prepared for that also. … There are things for us Father Maurus was assigned to a to teach them, but also things for us to learn from them. It’s parish in southeastern New Mexico wonderful. But it’s not easy.” made up primarily of migrant The Conventual Franciscans of the Our Lady of Hispanic crop workers shortly after Consolation Province have pushed cultural boundaries Fr. John his ordination in 1945. throughout much of its history. Bamman, O.F.M. Conv. “I did carpentry work, making In serving as missionaries in Central America and Africa, blackboards for the school,” said they helped to establish new provinces for their order, made Father Maurus, who is 98. “I drove up of natives of those regions. Because of that, American a school bus. I taught catechism friars no longer minister there. in the school. I’d put boots on “That’s the sense of mission,” said Father Jim. Conventual Franciscan friars and students at the minor seminary and work in irrigation. A little bit “You establish something, and you go on.” they operated at Mount St. Francis from 1896-1975 pose for a of everything”—even directing Now they don’t have to go far from Mount St. Francis photo in 1912. (Submitted photo) the moving of a church building to experience cultural diversity. The Hispanic ministry that 20 miles across land from a closed Conventual Franciscans carried out in New Mexico now hearing that invitation and call from God. That’s got me military base to his parish. takes place in nearby St. Mary Parish in New Albany and excited and busy visiting vocation prospects.” “We got prisoners out of the St. Mary Parish in Lanesville. Father Jim gives much of the credit for this change to the jail to take down fences,” he said. Father Jim said that this kind of ministry brings the example of Pope Francis, who took the name of the founder Fr. Jim “A potash company loaned us friars of his province close to a similar kind of poverty they of the Franciscans. Kent, O.F.M. Conv. 200 railroad ties to make a bridge experience in living and ministering with their colleagues “We really think it’s the Pope Francis effect,” said across a concrete irrigation ditch. from India. Father Jim. “He’s put an emphasis not only on Franciscan We had [the local utility] to take down power lines, and the “Poverty … is sometimes giving up your language and spirituality, but also on simplicity. I think people resonate telephone company to take down telephone lines.” learning a new language, or accepting a new culture,” he with that. All of this wide and varied work, though, Father Maurus said. “That’s something we’re wrestling with in the Church “They might even feel a desire deep in themselves to said, is at the heart of what it means to be a follower of in the United States.” explore that. We hope we can reflect what we profess to be, St. Francis. With the number of men attending vocations events which is a challenge.” “The Franciscan spirit is open to whatever God wants for his province doubling in recent years, Father John has us to do,” said Father Maurus, who later served as pastor of high hopes that a growing number of men will embrace the (To learn more about the Conventual Franciscans St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Clarksville. poverty and ministry at the margins of society that is at the of the Our Lady of Consolation Province, visit And that can change from one time period to another. heart of Franciscan life. www.franciscansusa.org. To learn more about From 1896-1975, the Conventual Franciscans operated a “That’s very promising for our Church,” he said. the Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality in minor seminary at Mount St. Francis. “There’s something marvelous happening. People are really Mount St. Francis, visit mountsaintfrancis.org.) † What was in the news on Feb. 4, 1966? A hope for peace in Vietnam, confusion over decrees on the use of Latin, and Father Hans Kueng expresses changes he’d like to see By Brandon A. Evans vernacular to the extent that Latin is excluded. The things, he said: Catholic decrees of excommunication reference to Latin liturgy ‘seems very strange to me,’ against Martin Luther should be lifted, just as they This week, we continue to examine what was going on Father Daniel O’Hanlon, S.J., professor of theology at were last year from the 1054 excommunication in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through Alma College in Los Gatos, Cal., told the Review.’ ” of Orthodox Patriarch Michael Cerularius of the pages of The Criterion. • Vatican decree reinforces Latin use among clerical Constantinople.” Here are some of the items found in the Feb. 4, 1966, religious • Montessori expert to appear at Marian issue of The Criterion: “VATICAN CITY—The Holy See has issued a decree • Marriage of priest draws fire • Pope’s plea prompted UN effort for peace reinforcing the use of Latin in the worship of clerical • Need for new-type missionary seen “UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—U.S. Ambassador Arthur religious communities on grounds of providing for • 90 per cent favor new liturgy J. Goldberg told the United Nations Security Council ‘opportune uniformity.’ The decree establishing • New Sheen movie ready for release that the United States supports ‘the view expressed by laws for use of vernacular language in the Mass • Kentucky enacts civil rights law the pope’ that the Vietnam conflict could be resolved and community recitation of the Divine Office was • Forbids jazz music at Mass by arbitration under UN auspices. Earlier, he told made public less than a week after publication of a • Hint steps in mill for papal visit the NCWC News Service that the Holy Father’s similar order requiring the use of Latin in the Mass in • Dominican nun is 105 years old special appeal in a speech three days earlier ‘was seminaries. The new law for religious communities of • Protestant scholar gets papal honor an important factor in the U.S. decision to bring the the Western Church in general provides that Latin must question of Vietnam to the United Nations.’ ” be used by these clerical Religious bound to recitation • U.S. liturgy leaders: Question directive on of the Divine Office in choir.” seminary Latin • Archbishop raps school ‘boycotts’ “ST. LOUIS—National liturgical leaders interviewed • Clergy transfers are announced by the St. Louis Review have questioned the propriety • Issue confirmation schedule of a new document on the liturgical training of • Change mixed marriage laws, Father Kueng urges priests issued by the Roman Curia Congregation of Church Seminaries and Universities. The document calls for “HAMBURG, Germany—Father Hans Kueng has the use of Latin as the ‘language of public worship suggested that the Catholic Church recognize the Read all of these stories from our in seminaries.’ Sent to bishops, it states that Latin is validity of mixed marriage in non-Catholic churches Feb. 4, 1966, issue by logging on to our archives at the language of the Church and should be known to and that it give parents full freedom to determine the www.CriterionOnline.com. † every seminarian. It also cautions against using the religious training of their children. … Among other Page 8 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Page 9

WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Bube-Binversie Chilman-Kirchner Curry-Hirsch Daeger-Sadtler Sherry Lynn Bube Lauren Irene Chilman Lauren Danielle Curry Alison Nicole Daeger and Nathaniel Randall and Alex Patrick and Tyler James Hirsch and Patrick Thomas Sadtler Binversie will be married Kirchner were married on will be married on April 16 will be married on Aug. 2 on April 16 at the Church of June 20, 2015, at St. Mary at Holy Family Church in at St. Barnabas Church in the Immaculate Conception Church in North Vernon. New Albany. The bride is Indianapolis. The bride is at St. Mary-of-the-Woods The bride is the daughter the daughter of Danny Jr. the daughter of Greg and Church in St. Mary-of-the- of Jerry and Kimberley and Donna Curry. The Julie Daeger. The groom is Woods. The bride is the Chilman. The groom is the groom is the son of Steven the son of Jim and Kaaren daughter of Raymond and son of Patrick and Sandra and Kris Hirsch. Sadtler. Sharon Bube. The groom Kirchner. is the son of Randall and Stephanie Binversie.

DuBois-Babcock Frye-Musgrove Neeley-Sutterer Patterson-Williams Sarah Elizabeth DuBois Elizabeth Frye and Elizabeth Rea Neeley Elisabeth Corrine and Charles Edward Kolton Musgrove were and Brian Joseph Sutterer Marie Patterson and Babcock were married on married on Aug. 1, 2015, at will be married on Scott Christopher Williams Jan. 2 at Christ the King St. Margaret Mary Church May 21 at St. Patrick will be married on May 28 Church in Indianapolis. in Terre Haute. The bride Church in Terre Haute. The at St. Luke the Evangelist The bride is the daughter is the daughter of Bernard bride is the daughter of Church in Indianapolis. of Marck and Debbie and Myrthel Frye. The Steven Neeley and Brenda The bride is the daughter of DuBois. The groom is the groom is the son of Danny Wall. The groom is the Jean Patterson. The groom son of Charles and LuAnn and Michele Musgrove. son of Kevin and Kathy is the son of Gary and Rose Babcock. Sutterer. Williams.

Schaftlein-Cox Shade-Harbeson Weigel-Conklin Zeilinga-Hart Lauren Paige Schaftlein Jessica Marie Shade and Maria Johanna Carol Sue Zeilinga and and Ryan Jesse Cox were Patrick Wayne Harbeson Weigel and Adam Paul Jacob Andrew Hart were married on June 20, 2015, will be married on July 16 Conklin will be married married on Aug. 29, 2015, at St. Martin of Tours at St. Michael Church in on April 23 at St. Mary at St. Rose of Lima Church Church in Louisville, Ky. Bradford. The bride is the Church in Greensburg. The in Knightstown. The bride The bride is the daughter of daughter of Greg Shade bride is the daughter of is the daughter of Fred and David and Lisa Schaftlein. and Stacy Deck. The David and Linda Weigel. Kathy Zeilinga. The groom Julie and Matthew Miller pray on Jan. 30 in the perpetual adoration chapel at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in The groom is the son of groom is the son of Roger The groom is the son of is the son of Donald and Indianapolis, where the husband and wife are parishioners. The Millers head the Couple to Couple League of Michael and Deborah Cox. and Karen Harbeson. Paul and Connie Conklin. Lynn Hart. † Indianapolis. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer)

Couple to Couple League classes teach natural Parishes and groups offer marriage ministry throughout archdiocese Criterion staff report www.stluke.org/marriage-on-tap. “the largest pro-marriage organization in the world” family planning, ‘open couples to grace’ • Celebrate Marriage, organized by Marcy and (according to their website), providing experiences Throughout central and southern Indiana, various Tom Renken of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in “for couples who want to make their good marriage By Natalie Hoefer explains. “We don’t have a lot of teaching couples down south. Now they can take parishes and groups offer marriage enrichment ministries. Greenwood. Offers Christ-centered marriage enrichment even better.” For more information and a list of retreat classes online and have it taught the same way as live.” Below is a list of a few such ministries. opportunities through large group, small group and locations and dates, log onto www.wwme.org/. For nine years, Laura Buening felt tired and moody. She also dealt with Even in Indianapolis, CCL currently has only nine teaching couples and • Marriage on Tap, offered through St. Luke individual couple events. For more information, log on to weight gain. two couples in training, and one couple in Terre Haute. the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. Offers celebratemarriageministry.com/. (For a list of marriage enrichment resources Now, all of that is gone. And more importantly, her marriage with her husband “That’s why we really want to promote the online classes,” Matt says. “It’s right monthly dinner date night with speakers at • Weekend retreats in English, Spanish, French and and references, log on to www.archindy.org/plfl/ Joshua has improved in communication and in closeness as a couple and with God. at their fingertips.” various locations. For more information, log on to Korean offered by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, resources-marriage.html.) † There was no magic pill that led to all this healing. On the contrary, Buening The Buenings encourage couples to learn about NFP, whether in a classroom or credits the improvements to the couple’s switch from using hormonal contraceptive online. It’s a decision they wish they’d made years ago. pills to practicing natural family planning, a method they learned through the After nine years of being married outside of the Church and having Couple to Couple League’s Indianapolis chapter. three children, the couple had their marriage convalidated at St. Monica Parish in “It’s allowed grace to build our marriage,” says Laura. “[The problems] Indianapolis, where they are now parishioners, in 2010. Pre Cana Conference, Tobit Weekend and One in Christ disappeared when we worked together and were open to God’s will.” “I knew the Church was opposed to [contraception], but I didn’t really know Such improvements are common results of practicing natural family planning why,” says Laura. After having three difficult pregnancies and childbirths, she was programs prepare engaged couples for marriage (NFP), according to Matthew (Matt) and Julie Miller. The Millers, members of St. afraid to no longer use contraceptives. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, are the coordinators of the Indianapolis It was about that time that the Buenings met the Millers through mutual friends chapter of the Couple to Couple League (CCL), a non-profit organization that at a prayer group. Three marriage preparation programs offered in the 6:30-9:30 p.m. on the first day and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on the Registration is required. A $150 non-refundable deposit promotes and provides teachers of NFP through in-person classes in Indianapolis, “Julie explained the efficacy and reliability of NFP,” Laura recalls. “They let us archdiocese—the Pre Cana Conference, Tobit Weekend second day. Conferences are scheduled for July 22-23, is required at the time of registration. To register, log on to and online throughout the archdiocese. know about the concept of responsible parenting,” in which couples discuss, pray and One in Christ—help prepare engaged couples for Sept. 30-Oct. 1, and Oct. 21-22. www.archindy.org/fatima. “It’s not just instruction in the technical part of NFP,” says Matt. “There’s and discern monthly—taking certain factors into consideration—whether they feel the sacrament of marriage as well as the challenges of For more information about the program, contact One in Christ three-day marriage programs are a good dose of Catholic thought as to why you would use NFP as opposed to called to be open to having more children. married life. Scott Seibert, coordinator of marriage and family scheduled for March 12, 13 and 19 at St. Luke the contraception to prevent pregnancy.” “[Joshua and I] have always pushed each other to grow in faith, and [practicing Early registrations are recommended for all programs, as enrichment for the archdiocese, at 317-236-1527, Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis; June 11, 12 and 18, The Millers, who have four children ranging in age from 4-10, see many natural family planning] is one more step in accepting the faith and what the each fills up quickly. 800-382-9836, ext. 1527, or [email protected]. To also at St. Luke; and Sept. 10, 11 and 17 at Our Lady couples grow in relationship with each other and God as a result of using NFP. Church teaches. We avoided intimacy [during cyclically fertile times] when we felt Pre Cana Conference programs, offered at Our Lady of register, log on to www.archindy.org/fatima. of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. The first They laud the practice of the method for fostering communication and deeper called to avoid pregnancy, and we were open when we felt called to be open. That Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., in Indianapolis, Tobit Weekend retreats are scheduled at Our Lady day is from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., the second day is respect between a husband and wife. method was effective enough for us to consider the risks to us when I’m pregnant.” are in the process of changing format from a one-day of Fatima Retreat House during 2016 on April 22-24, from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the third day is from “It’s about men and women learning to relate to each other,” says Julie. “It gives According to a 2007 study in the medical journal Human Reproduction, conference to a two-day conference. Prior to July, May 20-22, June 24-26, July 29-31, Sep. 16-18 and 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. them an opportunity to talk each month about intimate subjects and to allow God NFP proved to be 99.6 percent effective in avoiding conception naturally when programs cost $92 and are scheduled from 1-7 p.m. Oct. 28-30. The cost is $220 and covers meals and materials. to work with them. It connects you on a deeper level, more than the surface, ‘How practiced correctly. on April 3, May 22 and June 26. In July and after, the The registration fee of $292 includes the program was your day?’ The Buenings did eventually feel called to be open to more children. Their conferences involve an overnight stay at the retreat house. presented by trained facilitators, meals and overnight (For more information call 317-495-1901, e-mail “And if you’ve discerned that the time is not right to try to conceive, there fourth child is now 3 years old. The cost is $175, and the conferences are scheduled from accommodations for the weekend. [email protected], or log on to www.OICIndy.com.) † are other forms of love, like using courting behavior during that time. That’s so Based on the health, relational and spiritual benefits of practicing NFP, the appreciated, especially from women, to know you’re loved and not being used by Buenings say they would recommend CCL classes to anyone. the other person.” “[NFP] helps communication, and it opens people to the grace that I think Matt and Julie had been teaching NFP for several years when the former married couples in our society need,” says Laura. “With divorce rates, you need Indianapolis CCL chapter coordinators stepped down in March of 2014. The grace to be committed to each other. [NFP] keeps your marriage and the choices Millers took on the role, and have been instrumental in implementing changes you make in your marriage important every day.” Couples may announce engagement or marriage in The Criterion made at the national level. One of the changes is the offering of online classes—classes that follow the (For more information on the Couple to Couple League of Indianapolis, the same format and schedule of in-room classes, but offer viewing and live online natural family planning method, volunteer opportunities to teach or promote NFP, Engagement announcements for couples that are months may announce their marriage if an engagement An engagement or wedding photo may be submitted calling from the comfort of home. and a schedule of classroom and online classes, log on to www.nfpindy.org. For planning to be married at a Catholic church during the fall announcement was not published before the wedding date. by e-mail. Digital photos must be clear, high-resolution A new self-paced online class has also been added, with information broken frequently asked questions on Church teaching on sexuality and family planning, and winter months will be published in the July 15 issue of The wedding announcement form is available online color images. down into modules that couples view on their own time. log on to goo.gl/RvCLbs to view the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ page on The Criterion. at www.criteriononline.com by clicking on the “send us There is no charge for the engagement or marriage “This allows people from anywhere in the archdiocese to take classes,” Julie the topic.) † Couples who were married at a Catholic church in recent information” link then the “weddings” link. announcements. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 At close of congress, pope urges Catholics to be missionaries to world

CEBU, Philippines (CNS)—Pope Francis urged reiterated the pope’s message that those who attended the Catholic families and young people, especially in the congress be renewed in “apostolic and missionary zeal.” Philippines, to go out and be missionaries to the world. “The world sees hopelessness everywhere,” In a video message to the closing Mass of the Cardinal Bo said. “Philippines needs hope. The Church 51st International Eucharistic Congress on Jan. 31, the needs hope. Our families need hope. The world today pope said Christ’s presence is a promise of everlasting joy needs a four-letter word. H-O-P-E.” and peace, and a summons. The cardinal sprinkled his homily with Tagalog and “It is also a summons to go forth as missionaries Visayan dialects, remarking, as he did throughout the to bring forth the message of the Father’s tenderness, congress, on the Philippines’ prominent place in the forgiveness and mercy to every man, woman and Church, especially in Asia. child,” he said as the crowd of about 1 million focused “Filipinos and Filipinas, be proud that you remain a on large video screens. “How much our world needs favorite daughter of the Church in Asia,” Cardinal Bo this message.” said to enthusiastic applause. But he also cautioned that in With conflicts, injustice and “the urgent humanitarian 10 years’ time, they would be “the oldest daughter” and crisis” of today, “we realize how important it is for every asked if they would be willing to take up the challenge of Christian to be a true missionary disciple, bringing the being “a prophet to the nations.” good news of Christ’s redemptive love to our world “Yes,” screamed some in the crowd. in such need of reconciliation, justice and peace,” the “You will be the chosen one not only for Asia, but First communicants carry flowers during a children’s pope added. for the world, in this millennium,” said the prelate. first Communion Mass at the International Eucharistic Congress Pope Francis said Filipinos have been an example of “The youth of the Philippines, are you ready to be the in Cebu, Philippines, on Jan. 30. (CNS photo/Katarzyna Artymiak) fidelity and deep devotion. ‘Paul of Tarsus’ to the world?” “They have also been a people of missionaries, Cardinal Bo said that in countries where churches Cardinal Bo pressed the faithful to keep their spreading the light of the Gospel in Asia and to the ends are empty and vocations are declining, Christianity is families intact, saying they were the “living bread on of the Earth,” Pope Francis told the Massgoers, who described as something “in the twilight zone.” He said the altar” offered in Communion with other families included delegates from more than 70 countries. Philippine nationals could turn those countries into “an of the Mass. He said the family in the Philippines and About 10 million Filipinos live or work in all exciting dawn of new Christianity. Filipinos, go! Multiply all over the world needs to be protected and promoted continents, often practicing their Catholic faith in your missionaries, multiply your children!” and nurtured. countries that are minority Christian. He told them to populate countries that have Christian During the video message, Pope Francis announced Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon, Myanmar, was papal minorities, and to go to Europe and the United States that the next International Eucharistic Congress would be legate to the congress and celebrated the closing Mass. He where they have “more dogs and cats than children.” in Budapest, Hungary, in 2020. †

indicates that his children must be merciful, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the office accessible-to-all way of living the Jubilee too, by living a greater love, especially by that promotes and coordinates Catholic of Mercy,” he said. “The works of mercy LENT taking care of the little ones, the poor and charity, told reporters that Pope Francis describe what we as Christians can actually continued from page 1 defenseless.” wants to help Catholics rediscover the do every day, and that is why I find them so “the corporal and spiritual works of mercy The cardinal said that from his own traditional corporal and spiritual works of fascinating.” must never be separated.” experience as archbishop of Agrigento, he mercy, which seem to have been left on As part of Cor Unum’s celebration Cardinal Francesco Montenegro, has seen how people’s faith and joy have the shelf with dusty old books. Maybe, of the Year of Mercy, he said, it has president of Caritas Italy and head of the grown and become contagious when they he said, “it was no longer fashionable” to developed materials for a retreat day for archdiocese that includes the Italian island not only go to Mass, but also volunteer to preach about the daily actions of believers people engaged in Church charitable of Lampedusa, told reporters at a Vatican assist the thousands of migrants who land or maybe “our ecclesial practice has become activity. The materials are online— news conference that the pope’s message, on Lampedusa’s shore seeking safety and a quite institutionalized and politicized. www.corunumjubilaeum.va—and can like the Bible, “does not stop simply at better life for their families. “The works of mercy are a very be adapted for use by a group, a parish reaffirming that God is merciful, but clearly Msgr. Giampietro Dal Toso, secretary of simple, concrete, direct, alive, daily, easy, or a diocese. †

dioceses, but they may be invited by other over the world, he said, including China, The appointed missionaries are invited MERCY bishops to visit other dioceses as well. United Arab Emirates and East Timor. to Rome for a special meeting with the continued from page 1 The pontifical council will send out to There were to be 125 missionaries from the pope on Feb. 9. They are to receive their all the world’s bishops a list of the names United States, and 10 missionaries from papal mandate the next day during a religious men who—with permission and personal contact information of all the Canada, the council said. ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in the from their bishops or superiors— missionaries appointed by the pope, the “It is only the pope who nominates these presence of the relics of Sts. Padre Pio and requested to serve as these special archbishop said. missionaries, not the bishops, and it is he Leopold Mandic—both Capuchin priests missionaries. It will then be up to an individual bishop who entrusts them with the mandate to who spent 14 hours or more a day hearing The original plan was to have just to reach out to a missionary on the list to announce the beauty of the mercy of God people’s confessions. 800 missionaries. However, the number of invite him to his diocese, as well as cover while being humble and wise confessors It will be the first time their relics come requests was so great, 1,071 men ended up expenses and provide what may be needed who possess a great capacity to forgive to Rome, Archbishop Fisichella said. being chosen, Archbishop Fisichella said. for his stay, the archbishop said. those who approach the confessional,” the The relics are to be brought to St. Peter’s The missionaries will serve in their own Missionaries were chosen from all archbishop said. Basilica by procession on Feb. 5, and Those who wanted to serve as special remain in the central nave in front the Altar missionaries, but were not chosen, are of the Confession until Feb. 11. encouraged to “work as witnesses of mercy The pope requested their relics be in their own daily missions, in the parishes, exposed for veneration in the basilica, institutes, and other communities where according to jubilee organizers, to be a sign they offer their service with love,” the for the missionaries of how God welcomes ShelbyShelby UpholsteringUpholstering council said on its website, www.im.va. those who seek forgiveness. † “Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner” & Mill End Window Fashions Our staff & Mill End Window Fashions has over 76 years of rd Catholic Anniv Education 133 ersa ry Sale

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IS-5987722 A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2016 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Jesus taught that caring for the homeless was caring for him By David Gibson

I wonder how the prodigal son would have appeared to others as he made his way back to his father’s home from the “distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation” (Lk 15:11-23). Did he look unkempt? Were his clothes tattered? Perhaps he seemed malnourished, downcast and anxious. The parable of the prodigal son in the Gospel of St. Luke is a story that does not provide such details. Reading between the lines, however, it is tempting to fill in the blanks and to imagine that someone witnessing him along the road might have thought he was a homeless, destitute stranger. In his last days in that “distant country,” after freely spending the entire inheritance received from his father, the prodigal son “found himself in dire need.” So he hired himself out to a local citizen, “who sent him to his farm to tend the swine.” The prodigal son longed on that farm “to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.” That was when “he got up and went back to his father.” His father, in the best-loved part of the parable, defines through his actions what it means to be compassionate, welcoming and lovingly hospitable. He exhibits neither anger nor hostility over his son’s past actions. Upon the son’s arrival home, his father immediately embraces him. Quickly deciding to celebrate his son’s return with a banquet, the father instructs his servants to “bring the finest robe” (Lk 15:22) for the young man to wear. A homeless man sits on a sidewalk in Philadelphia on Sept. 26. Pope Francis has expressed sadness over the fact that the homeless are Thus, the father happily and generously accepts his ignored by people who could so easily give them care and concern. (CNS photo/CJ Gunther, EPA) son, treating him as someone worthy of respect, care and happiness. Before he arrived home, however, some surely In fact, homelessness is so common that it is possible and work Jesus identified himself with newcomers and with would have thought he was an aimless wanderer. for society at large to take it for granted, something that other marginalized persons in a special way” by saying, Many wanderers in today’s world are homeless, but not concerns Pope Francis. In June 2013, he remarked: “I was a stranger and you welcomed me” (Mt 25:35). always for the same reason. Some temporarily lack a place “That some homeless people should freeze to death By identifying with the stranger and others who suffer, to call home, having lost their jobs during an economic on the street—this doesn’t make news. On the contrary, Jesus indicates that he wants his followers to view these downturn. Others suffered a lasting illness that drained their when the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it very people as signs of his presence. financial resources. constitutes a tragedy. In this way, people are thrown aside It all reveals, moreover, that Jesus is genuinely Still others, like the prodigal son, become homeless as if they were trash.” hospitable toward the homeless stranger, the naked, the after making self-destructive lifestyle decisions. It is Possibly some people wondered in biblical times if Jesus thirsty, the hungry, the sick and the imprisoned. “Whatever well known, too, that many homeless people suffer from was homeless, Pope Francis remarked on another occasion, you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for mental illness. pointing out that the Lord was a wanderer. “Jesus’ life me,” Jesus explains (Mt 25:40). Refugees fleeing violence, hunger and religious was on the road,” the pope told the pastors of Rome The hospitality of Jesus—his acceptance and welcome persecution enter the ranks of the homeless for months or during Lent 2014. of others—is a form of love put into action. It confirms, to years. Some others become homeless after being abandoned Jesus identified with this world’s wanderers, it borrow the words of Pope Francis, that “to love God and by a spouse, or due to a lack of affordable housing, or in the frequently is noted. Jesus could see himself in their shoes. neighbor is not something abstract.” wake of a natural disaster. He considered himself as one with them. He respected their Boston’s Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley commented in a Still others suddenly discover, having had no choice but humanity and dignity. spring 2015 homily that “the hospitality of the Gospel is to live for a very long time from paycheck to paycheck, that This was noted in January 2014 testimony on the Syrian about welcoming the stranger and, like the good Samaritan, events have overtaken them; their funds have run out. refugee crisis delivered before a U.S. Senate subcommittee making the stranger the object of our love, part of our It is hard to know why someone is homeless unless by Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle, who community, even a brother.” we ask. Appearances do not tell the whole story. But chairs the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on Migration. in communities everywhere, short-term and long-term “The image of the migrant is seen in the life and (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s editorial homelessness are not rare. teachings of Jesus Christ,” the bishop said. “In his own life staff for 37 years.) † God calls his followers throughout the Bible to welcome strangers By Daniel S. Mulhall meaning is clear: Believers are called to provide shelter Leviticus puts it quite strongly: “When an alien resides for those in need, especially those who are refugees. with you in your land, do not mistreat such a one. You The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that Judaism identifies strongly with caring for those shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently one of the corporal works of mercy is “sheltering the fleeing from their homeland. Abraham, the great patriarch than the natives born among you; you shall love the alien homeless” (#2247). The Gospel of St. Matthew, the source of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, at God’s direction as yourself; for you too were once aliens in the land of of the list of the corporal works of mercy, says that those left his homeland to an unknown destination in Canaan. Egypt. I, the Lord, am your God” (Lv 19:33-34). who are “blessed by my Father” are those who welcome “Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your Clearly, Jesus’ teaching about welcoming the stranger the stranger (Mt 25:34). father’s house,” God told him, “to a land that I will show comes from this understanding. While the wording here is somewhat different, the you” (Gn 12:1). This teaching of Jesus also emphasizes the importance Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, and his family later seek of providing hospitality to the stranger, as expressed in refuge in Egypt during a famine. Hebrews, which connects the importance of hospitality to The Book of Deuteronomy says that when the Hebrews an experience of the divine: “Let mutual love continue. reach the Promised Land they are to identify themselves Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have this way: unknowingly entertained angels (Heb 13:1-2),” a reference “Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, to Abraham doing just this in Genesis 18. your God, ‘My father was a refugee Aramean who went If we are to shelter the homeless and welcome the down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a stranger then we must act: Good intentions are not enough. resident alien’ ” (Dt 26:5). As James puts it, “What good is it, my brothers, Numerous passages lay out how visitors are to be if someone says he has faith, but does not have treated, including Leviticus: “When one of your kindred is works?” (Jas 2:14). As the First Letter of John says, “let reduced to poverty and becomes indebted to you, you shall us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth” support that person like a resident alien; let your kindred (1 Jn 3:18). live with you” (Lv 25:35); and Exodus: “You shall not Shelter the homeless and welcome the stranger. That is Fifth-grade students prepare and package sandwiches to be oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens what Jesus would do. distributed to the homeless in Tucson, Ariz. The Bible states residing in the land of Egypt” (Ex 22:20). clearly and frequently that God’s followers are to care for Isaiah declares that the fast God requires is “bringing (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist. He lives in Laurel, strangers. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) the afflicted and the homeless into your house” (Is 58:7). Maryland.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Making a Difference/ Renaissance Church: The popes became Renaissance men Tony Magliano Reflecting on (First in a series of columns) leading family for three centuries. Through a pretty sorry lot. The Catholic Church marriages and business relationships, it was survived them only through the providence Pope Francis’ The Renaissance is a period of time connected to most of Europe’s other elite of God. First there was the three-year reign between the Middle Ages and modern history. families. of Callistus III, who is known mainly for the World Day of Historians usually date it The Medici family produced favors he lavished on his relatives, including from the 14th century, where four popes: Leo X (1513-1521), two nephews who were created cardinals Peace message it started in Florence, Italy, to Clement VII (1523-1534), while in their 20s. the 17th century. However, Pius IV (1559-1565), and Leo XI (1605). Then there was Pope Pius II, author before Deeply concerned about a the Catholic Church was in However, the Renaissance in the Church his election of the erotic comedy Chrysis “globalization of indifference,” no position to participate began well before any of them became pope. and a novel called Lucretia and Euryalus, Pope Francis in his in the Renaissance during It probably began with the election of the amorous adventures of King Frederick’s 2016 World Day the 14th century, especially Pope Nicholas V, who was the founder of chancellor, Caspar Schlick. Pius II had of Peace message during the Great Western the Vatican library. Before he became pope also fathered several illegitimate children titled “Overcome Schism that I wrote about two weeks ago. in 1447, he had tutored wealthy families before abandoning a dissolute life and being Indifference and The Renaissance was noted for a renewed from Florence, thus being introduced to ordained a priest. During his pontificate, Win Peace,” warns interest in culture, including painting, leading figures in art and culture. He spent he concentrated mainly on war against that “the first kind sculpture and classical learning. The papacy vast sums on collecting manuscripts and the Turks. of indifference in participated in all of that, and tourists to the having them copied, and he set about Next was Pope Paul II, born into a rich human society is Vatican today can enjoy seeing artwork that rebuilding Rome. merchant family in Venice, who loved to indifference to God, which then leads originated during that period. Unfortunately, it was during his papacy provide sports and entertainments to the to indifference to one’s neighbor and The Renaissance must be associated with that the Turks sacked Constantinople in people. He was a great promoter of carnivals. to the environment.” the Medici family, which came to power in 1453. Pope Nicholas felt that he had to try to He also surrounded himself with scholars, Pope Francis writes, “Some people Florence during the 15th century. The Medici organize a crusade to try to regain the city, restored ancient monuments, and installed the prefer not to ask questions or seek controlled the Medici Bank, the largest in but he was unable to do so. When he died in first printing press in Rome. answers; they lead lives of comfort, Europe, and an array of other businesses. 1455, he felt that he had failed in restoring The popes now were clearly Renaissance deaf to the cry of those who suffer. Once established under Giovanni, then his Rome and making the papacy the leader men who ruled as secular kings and princes. Almost imperceptibly, we grow son Cosimo, and then his grandson, Lorenzo of civilization. They were far too interested in enriching incapable of feeling compassion the Magnificent, the family was Florence’s The popes who followed Nicholas were their families. † for others and for their problems; we have no interest in caring for It’s All Good/Patti Lamb them, as if their troubles were their own responsibility, and none of Use Lent as a time to strengthen your spiritual muscles our business.” To help reverse this indifference, One evening earlier this week, it was time a famous football player. (Most of my worldly temptations and falling into spiritual the Holy Father appeals to national to pull out the flashcards for some review analogies are sports-related with my daughter. laziness. When I rely on people and material leaders for concrete gestures in the with the kids. My fifth grader You’d understand if you met her.) things instead of God, I get into trouble. creation of “dignified jobs to combat needed to practice Spanish Before bed that evening, I did a double Lent gently calls my attention back to the social plague of unemployment. vocabulary words, and my take when I looked at the calendar, and the fact that I’m human—and a sinner—and … Special attention needs to be second grader had to hit the I discovered that Lent starts next week. I’ve got work to do. I have flaws to mend, given to women—who unfortunately math facts. Flashcards are Friends, please don’t judge when I admit that relationships to restore, and crutches on still encounter discrimination in the our go-to study tool since the way Margaret feels about flashcards is the which I should stop leaning. It’s a time workplace—and to some categories they always helped me when way that I—sometimes—feel about Lent. It’s to examine my friendship with God, and of workers whose conditions are I was in school. like being summoned for spiritual drills and think about how I might encourage others precarious or dangerous, and whose After cleaning up from exercises, but I know it’s for my own good. to know him. pay is not commensurate to the dinner, I yelled up the stairs “time for Lent is an annual reminder that I’ve Life has so many distractions and importance of their social mission.” flashcards!” Whining and protesting ensued. got work to do, and that it’s time for commitments which slyly pull our attention A very good way to respond (That last sentence is an understatement.) strengthening my spiritual muscles. To away from God. The season of Lent to Pope Francis’ concerns here You would have thought I had shouted, me, it’s a season that comes with its own reminds me to shift my focus back to God, would be to visit the Institute for “It’s time for mom to perform a root canal on invisible deck of faith flashcards, prompting and evaluate whether I’m practicing his Global Labour and Human Rights you kids in the kitchen! Who’s first?” us to review the importance of prayer, love and mercy. (www.globallabourrights.org.) to learn “Whyyyy do I have to do this?” Margaret, fasting, abstinence and almsgiving. It’s a Like my teacher said years ago, “Practice what you can do to help correct many 8, bemoaned. time when we’re called to own up to our makes permanent.” That sentiment is not of these injustices. Suddenly, I had a flashback to sentence own shortcomings, and become spiritually limited to the classroom, and it applies to Regarding migrants, Pope Francis diagraming in junior high, and I remembered introspective. more than shooting free throws or learning asks that legislation on migration that particular teacher’s comment when I These 40 days challenge us to do the to play an instrument. It is true of our faith “reflect a readiness to welcome balked at a lengthy assignment. work of actively practicing our faith. We are journeys. If we don’t observe and practice migrants and to facilitate their “Practice makes permanent,” she said. reminded to reflect on whether we’re in touch what Jesus called us to do, we lose sight of integration.” That comment sort of stuck with me. with our Creator, or if we’ve gotten rusty our goal: eternal life, our permanent home With emergency crises throughout I explained to Margaret that practicing and have some work to do in improving our with God. the world, the pope’s call for welcome and reviewing isn’t always fun, but it’s relationships with God. If we don’t practice, and integration should inspire those necessary. I told her that she wouldn’t know we become complacent and submit to the (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna Parish of us who live in safety and comfort who Andrew Luck was if practice wasn’t part ways of the world. More often than I like to in Plainfield, is a regular columnist for to urge our government—with of his daily regimen, leading him to become admit, I find myself easily getting sucked into The Criterion.) † solid vetting processes in place— to generously offer hospitality to Our Global Family/Carolyn Woo suffering refugees. On prison reform, the Holy Father Let us encounter our Muslim neighbors with love, not fear reminds societies that rehabilitation of criminal offenders needs to be an A few months ago, I wrote a column invaded our society. I grieve the poverty in U.S. military. They contributed innovations essential goal of penal systems. And about the word “they” and how it can spirits that bleeds hearts of all love, and fills that built America: Fazlur Rahman Khan here he emphasizes, “I would like be a dangerous word. them with the desire to kill. I fear most what devised the structural system of frame once more to appeal to governmental Since then and after the fear can do to us as people: how it can rob us tubes that enabled skyscrapers, including authorities to abolish the death penalty tragedies in Paris and of compassion, harden us, hijack our ability the Sears Tower and Trump International where it is still in force.” San Bernardino, Calif., the to think rationally, diminish our openness Hotel and Tower in Chicago; Ayub Ommaya The pope added this threefold point is driven home by the to different cultures, and dull our sense invented the intraventricular catheter appeal to the leaders of nations: “to consequences when some of optimism. system for relieving cerebrospinal refrain from drawing other peoples segments of global societies Fear, however, does not always have the fluid; Ernest Hamwi concocted the into conflicts or wars which destroy label Muslims as “they.” upper hand. Despite the mass shootings and first edible waffle cone that makes ice not only their material, cultural and In the U.S., some political candidates bombings in Oklahoma City, Columbine, cream street vending something we all social legacy, but also—and in the have called for banning all Muslim Virginia Tech, Aurora, Sandy Hook, enjoy; Ahmed Zewail, Nobel Laureate in long term—their moral and spiritual immigrants and the establishment of a Charleston, Colorado Springs, Roseburg, chemistry, situates his research and teaching integrity; to forgive or manage in a registry to track their whereabouts. Both are Washington’s Navy Yard, and many more at a leading U.S. university. And in the sustainable way the international debt antithetical to the U.S. Constitution, which unnamed shootings here in the U.S., we do sporting culture of America, who would not of the poorer nations; and to adopt provides for religious freedom and forbids not label all American males as threats to know Muhammad Ali? Shaquille O’Neal? policies of cooperation which, instead discrimination on the basis of religion. society. We do not segregate nor banish them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? of bowing before the dictatorship of In a society with a strong sense of from our families and communities. Extremism is a scourge, but let us fight certain ideologies, will respect the decorum, we’ve heard reports of people We are able to distinguish an aberrant this by reaching out to and encountering values of local populations and, in spitting on Muslims; feces have been fringe that we do not allow to define our Muslims. Isn’t this the point that any case, not prove detrimental to the smeared at their places of worship; and the conception of males at large. Why would we Pope Francis made at a mosque during fundamental and inalienable right to routine act of boarding a flight has been not do this for our Muslim neighbors? his trip to the Central Africa Republic? life of the unborn.” challenged by a fellow passenger because of If we get to know Muslims better, we “Together, we must say no to hatred, to With an increased commitment prejudice. Where could this lead? will have an image rather different from the revenge and to violence, particularly that to non-violent conflict resolution Violence is a reality in the United States one that dominates Western media and that violence that is perpetrated in the name of a strategies, an end to the arms trade, and globally. It is a daily concern for shapes our perception. Muslims are part religion or of God himself,” he said. In the multilateral disarmament, deep cuts Catholic Relief Service colleagues, partners of U.S. history from the early days with Gospel, fear is not countered by security, in military spending, abolishing and beneficiaries from different faith Bampett Muhammad, Yusuf Ben Ali and but by love. nuclear weapons, fair trade practices, traditions who work in countries torn Peter Buckminster serving in battles under significant increases in domestic and asunder by acts of annihilation. George Washington. (Carolyn Woo is president and CEO of foreign poverty-focused spending, I deplore that mass shootings have Muslims continue to be part of the Catholic Relief Services.) † See MAGLIANO, page 15 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Page 13

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Thursday, February 11 Daily Readings Our Lady of Lourdes Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Sunday Readings Monday, February 8 Psalm 1:1-4, 6 St. Jerome Emiliani, priest Luke 9:22-25 St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016 1 Kings 8:1-7, 9-13 other Gospels. Here Luke seems to use the Friday, February 12 • Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8 Gospel of Mark as a source, but then he Psalm 132:6-7, 8-10 Isaiah 58:1-9a • 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 adds details drawn from a source also used Mark 6:3-6 Psalm 51:3-6b, 18-19 • Luke 5:1-11 by John. Matthew 9:14-15 Of course, Jesus is the central figure in Tuesday, February 9 The Book of Isaiah is the source of the the story, but the next most important figure 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30 Saturday, February 13 first reading this weekend. Written before is Peter. A fisherman, along with his brother, Psalm 84:3-5, 10-11 the Babylonian conquest, this prophecy Andrew, both of them living in Capernaum, Isaiah 58:9b-14 was composed when Peter was in his boat on the Sea of Galilee Mark 7:1-13 Psalm 86:1-6 the southern kingdom when Jesus joined him in it. The Lord Luke 5:27-32 of the Hebrews began to preach to the people assembled on Wednesday, February 10 was tranquil and the shore. Ash Wednesday Sunday, February 14 prosperous—relatively Then Jesus told Peter to row into deeper Joel 2:12-18 speaking and with some water, and to lower the nets into the water. First Sunday of Lent qualifications. Peter mildly protests, saying that he and Psalm 51:3-6b, 12-14, 17 Deuteronomy 26:4-10 Nevertheless, Isaiah his associates had been fishing all night, 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15 felt that he was called but with no success. Nonetheless, Peter did Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 by God to confront as he was told. The result was that the nets Romans 10:8-13 the people about their were so filled with fish that Peter and his Luke 4:1-13 infidelity to God, or at least about their companions had difficulty in pulling the lukewarmness in responding to their role as nets aboard. God’s special people. The story, told in this Humbly, aware of the Lord’s power, reading, conveys by its drama and bluntness Peter confessed his own sinfulness. Jesus the totality required in Isaiah’s willingness to swept beyond this admission, recognizing answer the divine calling to be a prophet. Peter’s faith instead, and called Peter Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle Here, in this reading, Isaiah displays thereafter to be a fisher of men. the fervor and power that are typical of the writing in this ancient book. Reflection Saints mentioned in Eucharistic Prayer 1 St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians Since Christmas, the Church has been provides the next reading. Paul recalls introducing us to Jesus. The great feasts come from early centuries of the Church the death of Jesus, and then the Lord’s of the Epiphany and of the Baptism of the In Eucharistic Prayer I, we honor should remain in the Mass where it had Resurrection, giving the details that Jesus Lord told us about Jesus. Qthe saints Linus, Cletus, Clement, traditionally been placed. It had been was seen after the Resurrection by St. Peter, Now, subtly but firmly, the Church urges Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, thought by some that this exchange might whom Paul calls “Cephas,” using the Greek us to respond to this entry of Jesus into our Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and better be placed earlier in the Mass, term, St. James and even 500 of those who consciousness. How shall we respond? Damian among others. prior to the presentation of the gifts, believed in the Gospel. The Church answers the question by The Church recognizes more than and that possibility was given serious The reading also is autobiographical. putting before us three great figures in the 8,000 saints, many consideration. Paul declares that he himself is an Apostle, tradition of holiness—Isaiah, followed by of whom are much But the letter, issued by the having been called by the Lord, but he calls Paul, and then finally Peter. better-known than that Congregation for Divine Worship, himself “least” among the Apostles, since Each manifested his unworthiness to be list in that eucharistic explained that the present positioning he, unlike the others, once persecuted Christ a part of the great and divine mission of prayer. Couldn’t we highlights the unity of the congregation as living in the community of Christians. salvation. Yet, fully realizing this limitation, draw more inspiration it prepares to receive the body and blood Still, God called him. Despite his sense of God called them each to a particular task. from saints whom we of Christ. Interestingly though, the letter personal unworthiness, Paul wholeheartedly Each person who hears the word of know a bit about— did refer to the danger you discussed: that responds to this calling. He is God’s Christ, and is healed and strengthened by perhaps St. Francis the motion and conversation during the instrument. Through him, God works his Christ’s life in grace, has a holy task. Each of Assisi, St. Patrick, sign of peace could prove distracting. plan of redemption and mercy. believer has a role to play in the work St. Anthony of Padua, To minimize that concern, the letter St. Luke’s Gospel supplies the last of salvation, beginning with his or her St. Thérèse of Lisieux or others? (Virginia) notes, among other cautions, that the reading. This particular passage shows the personal salvation. Everyone is unworthy, faithful should not move about while fine literary hand at work in the composition but God calls us and will give us all that Eucharistic Prayer I, which is also exchanging the sign and that the priest of Luke’s Gospel and, by extension, the truly is needed to be a disciple. † Aknown by its former title, “the Roman should not leave the altar to greet Canon,” served as the only eucharistic members of the congregation. In addition, prayer in the Roman rite for more than a during ceremonies such as weddings and My Journey to God thousand years. funerals, the greeting should not become It mentions, first, several of our the occasion for congratulations and best-known saints (Mary and Joseph, condolences, the letter said. Peter, Paul and Andrew) before listing When it comes to singing during the in parentheses a list of 21 saints that the distribution of Communion, the “General priest may add if he so chooses. That Instruction of the Roman Missal” does longer list includes the saints you mention, say (in #86) that the Communion chant who—naturally, given the prayer’s is “to express the spiritual union of the early origin—come from the Church’s communicants by means of the unity of first few centuries. Linus, Cletus, Clement, their voices” as they process to receive Sixtus and Cornelius, for example, were the Eucharist. martyred popes. I would think that the chant should be Only the third eucharistic prayer a familiar one, simply sung, so that hymn specifically gives to the priest the option of books would not have to be carried to adding other saints—the saint whose feast the altar. Also to your point, the “General is being celebrated, perhaps, or the patron Instruction of the Roman Missal,” in saint of the parish. #88, notes that “when the distribution of The Four hilly miles from Bethlehem she pressed, I agree with you that greater attention Communion is over, if appropriate, the Up to Jerusalem, cradling her “yes” should be given to saints, particularly priest and the faithful pray quietly for Presentation As a newborn babe in her adolescent arms. the more contemporary ones. In our some time.” While there to dedicate her son parish, I typically give a 90-second talk By Natalie Hoefer Per the Jewish law and custom, at the beginning of weekday Mass about (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth She met a man who spoke of grace and harm. the particular saint whose feast we are Doyle at [email protected] and (Natalie Hoefer is a Perhaps the “righteous” Simeon smiled marking. They are our heroes in the faith, 40 Hopewell St. Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † member of St. Monica As he gazed upon God’s very child, and we ought to keep their example in Parish in Indianapolis Before foretelling of future grief and joy. front of us. and is a reporter for The Prophesying what God designed, Readers may submit prose Criterion. This poem Simeon spoke of humankind Some parts of the Mass can be commemorates the Feast And what God planned to do through the infant boy. Qdistracting to me. Soon after the or poetry for faith column of the Presentation of How would one react when hearing consecration, we invite people to converse The Criterion invites readers to submit the Lord, which was Of the promised salvation nearing, with one another at the sign of peace, original prose or poetry relating to faith celebrated on Feb. 2. And that your heart would be pierced by a sword? which I believe should come much earlier or experiences of prayer for possible Pope Francis greets a But this was not just any “one”— in the eucharistic celebration. publication in the “My Journey to God” baby during an audience This was the mother of God’s son, Taking a song book with me while in column. to exchange Christmas The one who trusted the angel Gabriel’s word. line for Communion is also distracting. Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. greetings with Vatican One can only guess that she Couldn’t the Communion Rite be a Please include name, address, parish and employees in Paul VI Would hold the words as mystery “quiet time” and only have a song of telephone number with submissions. hall at the Vatican on As when the kings and shepherds both knelt, awed. thanksgiving afterward? (The Bahamas) Send material for consideration to Dec. 21.) (CNS photo/ May we ponder, just like Mary, “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, L’Osservatore Romano) The normal and extraordinary, In June 2014, following lengthy 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN And treasure all as the perfect plan of God. Adiscussion, the Vatican issued a 46202 or e-mail to [email protected]. † letter determining that the sign of peace Page 14 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016

Rest in peace Please submit in writing grandfather of 22. Great-great- to our office by 10 a.m. grandfather of seven. Thursday before the week of EDWARDS, Doris L., 80, publication; be sure to state St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, date of death. Obituaries of Jan. 5. Mother of Jane Harker, archdiocesan priests serving Elizabeth Young and Steve our archdiocese are listed Edwards. Grandmother of four. elsewhere in The Criterion. Great-grandmother of one. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are FERGUSON, Delores A., included here, unless they are 78, Prince of Peace, Madison, Jan. 19. Mother of Martina natives of the archdiocese or Caudill, Nina LaPine and have other connec­tions to it; Kenneth Holt. Sister of Donna those are separate obituaries Combs, Joyce Jones, Kim on this page. McMillian and Steve Carrigan. AUEL, Louis J., 84, Grandmother of 11. Great- St. Nicholas, Ripley County, grandmother of 13. Jan. 22. Husband of Linda Auel. GEDIG, John E., 90, Father of Randall Auel. Brother St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, of Jean Caseltine, Joan Hostetler Jan. 22. Father of Karen Burnett, and Jim Auel. Grandfather of John, Kurt, Paul and Richard five. Great-grandfather of five. Gedig. Brother of Bill and Bob Girls hold rosaries as Pope Francis leads his general audience in BEYER, Bernard, 92, Gedig. Grandfather of 10. Great- A time of prayer St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Jan. 27. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) St. Vincent de Paul, grandfather of seven. Shelby County, Jan. 18. Husband JOYCE, Thomas A., 93, LEILAND, Ethel May, NIELSEN, Matthew, 40, SMITH, Ann, 79, Most Holy James Fleek. Daughter of Anna of Roberta Beyer. Brother of Rita Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Jan. 9. 86, St. Roch, Indianapolis, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Jan. 12. Name of Jesus, Beech Grove, Marie Marshall. Sister of Theresa Teal and William Beyer. Husband of Betty (Neeb) Joyce. Jan. 22. Mother of Michele Husband of Teresa Nielsen. Jan. 14. Mother of Patricia Keenan. Grandmother of three. ECKSTEIN, Cornelius E., 90, Father of Niki Simpson and Garriott-Pliley, Carole Hoffer, Father of Emma and Evan Cantrell, Cathy Gray, Debra WINDHOLTZ, James F., St. Nicholas, Ripley County, Kevin Joyce. Grandfather of five. Nancy Oldham and Tom Nielsen. Son of Ruth Nielsen. Jenkins, Michael and Steven 82, St. Peter, Franklin County, Jan. 17. Husband of Carol Great-grandfather of eight. Davidson. Grandmother of four. Brother of Emily Nielsen. Morgan. Grandmother of 14. Jan. 22. Father of James Eckstein. Father of Kathy Great-grandmother of three. Great-grandmother of five. KLEIN, Antonia, 93, St. RETZNER, Alvin H., 93, Windholtz. Grandfather of four. Johnson, Anita Wallace, Darrell, Mary, New Albany, Jan. 8. St. Nicholas, Ripley County, TAYLOR, Patricia (Michaelis), McFARLAND, C. Rosemary, Great-grandfather of three. Greg, Mark, Rodney and Steve Mother of Patty Ballard, 92, St. Mary, Greensburg, Jan. 23. Father of Mildred 73, St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis, Eckstein. Brother of Verena Ginny Burton, Alan and Jan. 24. Mother of Natalie Mobley. Grandfather of three. Dec. 31. Sister of Kathy ZIEGLER, Carole M., 73, Fette, Matilda Nordmeyer, Alice Tom Klein. Sister of Ann Armstrong, Karen Hardesty, Great-grandfather of 23. Great- Humphrey, Nancy Marchand, Holy Family, Oldenburg, Wuestefeld, Edmund, Father Duhanich and Dorothy Kukla. Anita Kendall, Kathy Whitmore, great-grandfather of 21. Philip and Robert Michaelis. Jan. 27. Wife of Robert Ziegler. Francis and Walter Eckstein. Grandmother of four. Great- Prudence, Don, Pat, Phil and SALAMONE, Mario M., 92, Aunt of several. Mother of Pat Jacobi, Karen Grandfather of 20. Great- grandmother of three. Tim McFarland. Sister of St. Jude, Indianapolis, Jan. 19. TITARA, Laura Ann, 53, Pedigo, Billy and Susie Johnson. Margherita Meyer and Rita Father of David and Dennis Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Stepmother of Angie Boyd, Kerri Rust. Grandmother of 15. Salamone. Brother of Mary Rose Christ, Indianapolis, Jan. 18. Browder and Melissa Kerker. Great-grandmother of 16. Fisher. Grandfather of two. Wife of David Titara. Mother of Grandmother of 11. † Sister Mary Ann Schumann helped start archdiocese’s first perpetual adoration chapel across central and southern Indiana Sister Mary Ann Schumann, an anchoress in the later returned to the United States and earned a degree in Archdiocese of Indianapolis, died on Jan. 29 at St. Vincent theology in 1978 at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Hospice in Indianapolis. She was 79. Steubenville, Ohio. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Feb. 1 at She worked as a nurse for 15 years at Eskenazi Hospital in St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. Burial followed at Indianapolis. Our Lady of Peace Cemetery in Indianapolis. Sister Mary Ann worked with Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor Sister Mary Ann was born on Jan. 19, 1937, in Kinross, Iowa. of St. Luke, to establish the first perpetual adoration chapel in the She joined the Sisters of St. Francis in Maryville, Mo., in 1953 archdiocese. Adoration in the Divine Mercy Chapel, located on the and professed vows in 1956. She graduated from St. Anthony’s grounds of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis, was school of nursing in 1960, and served as a nurse at the school and inaugurated on Sept. 14, 1989. in Guthrie, Okla. Over the next 26 years, Sister Mary Ann oversaw the chapel Sister Mary Ann left her religious community in 1970, and promoted the Divine Mercy devotion and eucharistic and spent a year with Project Hope in Tunis, Tunisia. She adoration. There are now 11 other perpetual adoration chapels across central and southern Indiana. Sister Mary Ann professed vows as an anchoress on May 30, 2000, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Msgr. Schaedel, then serving as archdiocesan vicar general, received her vows. An anchoress is a form of consecrated life in the Church in which a woman, living under vows, dedicates herself to solitude, prayer and penance. She is survived by her sisters, Cindy Roth of Cairo, Mo., Martha Schumann of Columbia, Mo., Helen Skinner of Cairo, Mo., and Theresa Urenda of Wichita, Kan. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 2345 W. 86th St., Indianapolis, IN 46260. †

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CALL NOW: 1-877-410-5289 ymtvacations.com Mention promo code X6027 The Criterion Friday, February 5, 2016 Page 15 Applications for Brooke Nichole Lahr Scholarship due on Feb. 12 Applications for the Brooke Nichole Lahr first international mission. Saturday before their venture. Scholarship for international mission funds are due • Have a financial need to be able to go on • Keep either a written journal, photographic on Feb. 12. the mission. journal, or video journal of their mission. The scholarship was created in memory of Lahr, • Be in high school, college or early adulthood. • Share the journal with the foundation to a lay missionary from St. Gabriel the Archangel • The mission must have some Christian encourage continued financial support of the Parish in Indianapolis, who was struck and killed by faith connection. scholarship or identify other candidates for the a car in Mexico in 2013 at the age of 25 while doing • Complete the application process. scholarship. what she loved—international missionary work. • Send a short “selfie” video clip explaining Applicants for the scholarship must meet the the mission. (For more information or to access an application, following requirements: • Attend a pre-mission “networking and sharing” log on to goo.gl/cPNqPa. Questions may be Brooke Nichole Lahr • Have the passion to go on their gathering with current and former recipients on a addressed to [email protected].) † Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in HHS mandate cases on March 23 WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. Supreme Court the secretary of the Department of Health and Human contested coverage. on Jan. 29 announced that it will hear oral arguments on Services (HHS). These employers must notify HHS in writing of their March 23 in seven pending appeals in lawsuits brought by Under the federal Affordable Care Act, most employers, religious objections. Then HHS or the Department of several Catholic and other faith-based entities against the including religious ones, are required to cover employees’ Labor in turn tells insurers and third-party administrators Obama administration’s contraceptive, abortifacient and artificial birth control, sterilization and abortifacients, even that they must cover the services at no charge sterilization mandate. if employers are morally opposed to such coverage. to employees. Among the plaintiffs are the Little Sisters of the Poor, In all of the cases to be argued before the high court in But the religious groups object to that third-party the Archdiocese of Washington, the Pittsburgh and Erie March, appellate courts in various jurisdictions sided with notification, saying they still would be complicit in dioceses, Priests for Life, Southern Nazarene University the Obama administration. The rulings said the religious supporting practices they oppose. and Texas Baptist University. entities’ freedom of religion was not burdened by having Only those religious employers that meet narrow The cases are being referred to collectively as to comply with the mandate as they have argued, because criteria set by the Obama administration are exempt from Zubik v. Burwell. Bishop David A. Zubik heads the the federal government has in place an accommodation, the mandate. Houses of worship are exempt, for example, Diocese of Pittsburgh, and Sylvia Mathews Burwell is or “work around,” for a third party to provide the but most Catholic and other religious employers are not. †

borrowed), and the elimination of While thanking and encouraging find mercy and, as peacemakers, they will MAGLIANO funding to organizations that provide people of all ages who undertake works of be called children of God (Mt 5:6-9). continued from page 12 and/or promote abortion, leaders of solidarity, and who generously help those nations could demonstrate concrete in need—near and far—Pope Francis (Tony Magliano is an internationally cancelling the remaining “debt” of ways of honoring Pope Francis’ appeal offers the wonderful consolation of Jesus: syndicated social justice and peace poor nations (who in many cases have for overcoming indifference and that their hunger and thirst for justice will columnist. He can be reached at already paid back the original amount winning peace. be satisfied, their mercy will lead them to [email protected].) †

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the Indiana community of Roachdale. BROTHERS And when Marian was diagnosed with ‘Watch out for God’s grace and mercy! The continued from page 1 a deadly respiratory disease several years ago, he became her primary caregiver. He Good Shepherd will always surprise us as also raised their children in the Catholic focused on her needs as she inspired his he did me. I feel wholesome. It feels like a faith, attending Mass together as members faith by her “beauty and strength during of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish. her suffering and discomfort.” Spirit-led friendship. I couldn’t imagine this The brothers—born next to each Norb’s world was rocked to its would happen.’ other in the family line-up—remember foundation in January of 2015 when he their walks to the parish school together, lost the woman he fell in love with in especially the ones on bitterly cold winter 1979. Another jolt came several months —Norb Schott mornings. With much more fondness, later when his and Ted’s youngest brother, they also recall the family vacations in the Henry, died of cancer. summer when their parents loaded up their “It made us realize we’re mortal,” says in my life,” Norb says. “It just felt good to called the “doors of mercy” during this children and camping equipment for a trip Ted, now 65. be with him. The Holy Spirit guides me. special year. to a state park. Henry’s death also led to a challenge— Now, I can’t wait until the week provides The looks on their faces indicate it “We would always check into a motel and an opportunity—for Norb last summer. me the opportunity to see him.” feels right to be there, in the same way on Saturdays to get cleaned up and It came from his baby sister, Mary, who In their weekly meetings, Norb has they had already opened a new door in ready for Mass on Sundays,” Norb says had started praying the rosary once a week learned some of the details of Ted’s their relationship, leading them to each with a smile. with Ted at his home. struggles and successes in life, including other again. Ted flashes a smile, too, as he “She insisted that I come to pray “how he reaches out to other mentally ill “This has meant the world to me,” Ted remembers the fun they had bouncing on the rosary with them,” says Norb, 69, a people and provides comfort.” says outside the cathedral. “I appreciate the motel beds. member of St. Paul the Apostle Parish “To be with him, to see his housing, to Norb coming around. It’s been wonderful. “It was a good time together as a in Greencastle. see how he gets by, it’s an eye-opener for He’s just such a gentle spirit.” Pausing for family,” Norb says. “When we took Norb couldn’t believe Ted was actually me,” Norb says. “I’m fascinated by how a moment, his eyes sparkle with a touch of those long vacation trips, I remember joining in the litany of prayers to the he’s trying to be independent.” brotherly mischief when he adds, “And he we dropped our heads on each other’s Blessed Mother: “Him pray the rosary? It’s just one of the ways their reunion does buy me dinner once in a while.” shoulders and fell asleep.” He hasn’t belonged to a parish for years. has been a revelation to Norb, a reunion he The line leads the two brothers to The bond between Norb and Ted had its Surely, he is unworthy. How can he credits to God’s “grace and mercy.” laugh together. own special connection. possibly change?” Wanting a way to thank God for his “Watch out for God’s grace and “Mom used to always tell me, Then another thought filled Norb’s mercy and for leading him back to his mercy!” Norb says. “The Good Shepherd ‘Take care of your brother Theodore,’ ” mind: “How can I possibly change?” brother, Norb came up with what he will always surprise us as he did me. I Norb recalls. “I suspect, as only a mom He drove to Indianapolis to pray with considered a fitting plan that ties in with feel wholesome. It feels like a Spirit-led can, that she knew he would have a Ted and Mary. the Year of Mercy. friendship. I couldn’t imagine this troubled life with mental illness. I felt He learned that two churches in the would happen.” protective of him.” ‘Watch out for God’s grace and mercy!’ archdiocese have been designated as Yet that protective approach slipped “I took the chance the Holy Spirit was pilgrimage sites that Catholics may visit (The Criterion continues to invite our away when they became adults. whispering in my ear—‘Go pray. Give it to to receive a plenary indulgence during the readers to share their stories of how their Mary,’ ” Norb says. “Not only did we pray Year of Mercy. The churches are SS. Peter lives have been graced by the mercy of God A dramatic change the rosary, we started sharing a meal and and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, and and other people—and how that mercy has “My younger brother has been afflicted wonderful conversation.” the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of made a difference. with mental illness since he was a young Ted nods and adds, “We would sit out Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. Please send your stories and responses man,” Norb notes. “He cannot hold a job front and say the rosary. Mary would bring Norb asked Ted to join him in a visit to assistant editor John Shaughnessy by for long. He has been evicted by friends sandwiches over. It was really nice.” to the cathedral in Indianapolis, followed e-mail at [email protected] and landlords. I fell into the current of The two brothers have continued by attending the daily 5:15 p.m. Mass in or by mail in care of The Criterion, thinking that he was at fault.” meeting weekly. the cathedral’s Blessed Sacrement Chapel. 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN Through the years, Norb also became “Norb just kept calling me up and Entering the cathedral on this recent cold, 46202. Please include your parish and consumed in his nursing career and his life coming over,” Ted says. winter afternoon, the brothers pass through a daytime phone number where you with his wife Marian and their family in “Without Marian, there was a vacancy the designated “holy doors,” which are also can be reached.) †

CELEBRATING YEARS of retreats

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