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.