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CriterionOnline.com May 10, 2019 Vol. LIX, No. 30 75¢ Catholics and Orthodox must work to ‘Be the Light’ heal divisions, pope says SOFIA, Bulgaria (CNS)—On the day Bulgarian Orthodox celebrate as “St. Thomas Sunday” and read the Gospel about the Apostle asking to touch the wounds of the risen Lord, Pope Francis said the divisions within Christianity are “painful lacerations on the body of Christ, which is the Church.” Immediately after Pope Francis meeting Bulgaria’s prime minister and president on May 5, Pope Francis went to the Palace of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for a meeting with Patriarch Neophyte and top bishops. Also present was King Simeon II, 81, who ruled only as a child in the 1940s, was Catholic Charities Indianapolis presented four individuals with Spirit of Service Awards during an April 30 dinner in Indianapolis. Award recipients, exiled and returned to his homeland in 1996. seated from left, are James Morris, Robert “Lanny” Rossman, Yan Yan and Liz Stanton. Standing, from left, are keynote speaker Ed Carpenter, Speaking of St. Thomas and the Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and David Bethuram, executive director of the archdiocese’s Catholic Charities. (Submitted photo by Rob Banayote) wounds of Jesus, Pope Francis prayed that Catholics and Orthodox, like the Apostle, would “touch those wounds, confess that Jesus is risen and proclaim him our lord IndyCar driver lauds Catholic Charities’ and our God.” Patriarch Neophyte welcomed legacy of creating hope for those in need Pope Francis with kisses on each cheek and the greeting, “Christos vozkrese” By John Shaughnessy Still, the Spirit of Service Awards newcomers. And there is much more (Christ is risen). According to reporters Dinner in Indianapolis on April 30 was being done day in and day out to touch present, the pope kissed the patriarch’s It was a celebration touched by essentially the celebration of a promise the lives of more than 75,000 individuals “engolpion”—an icon on a chain worn moments of light-hearted humor, that has been kept. each year in Indianapolis and like a pectoral cross. including the moment when It’s a promise that the archdiocese 200,000 individuals across our The patriarch thanked the pope for the emcee Rafael Sanchez presented made 100 years ago to “provide help and archdiocesan Catholic Charities special attention the Vatican has shown to Archbishop Charles C. Thompson with create hope” to people in need, a promise network.” his country and his Church for decades. the gift of a gaudy black-and-white- that continues to be fulfilled through The importance of that continuing “This is the second visit of a pope to checkered sportscoat—suggesting that the efforts of Catholic Charities across effort was echoed by Carpenter in his Bulgaria, which we cannot explain the archbishop wear it when he gives the central and southern Indiana. keynote talk during the 100th anniversary except as truly special attention,” he said. invocation for the Indianapolis 500 on “The common criteria throughout celebration. St. John Paul II visited in 2002. May 26. all 100 years is human need,” said “I can’t imagine what the world—this Although his Church has withdrawn from It was also a celebration marked by a David Bethuram, executive director of the community—would look like without the World Council of Churches and has a touching moment of friendship—when archdiocese’s Catholic Charities, in his the work of Catholic Charities and other limited international ecumenical involvement, keynote speaker and IndyCar driver remarks at the celebration at the Indiana organizations that do great work,” said the patriarch told the pope that “here in the Ed Carpenter asked the audience of Roof Ballroom. Carpenter, who finished second in last capital of Bulgaria—Sofia, which is named 425 people to join him in a moment of “We have created a proud legacy year’s Indianapolis 500. for God’s wisdom—we always pray for silent prayer for Father Glenn O’Connor, of feeding the hungry, sheltering the He told the audience that while racing the unity of the world in Christ and so that Carpenter’s friend and former pit crew homeless, supporting the disabled, is his passion, he and his wife Heather united, Christians will be stronger.” member who died of cancer on March 15. strengthening families and welcoming See SERVICE, page 8 See BULGARIA, page 10 Readers’ stories reflect angels, life lessons, and mothers’ examples of unwavering love (Editor’s note: In anticipation of “In her arms, bobbing up and down Mother’s Day on May 12, The Criterion from her frantic racing from my room to invited readers to share their thoughts and the floor below, I saw my stepfather in his stories of how their mothers have lived pajamas bolt into my room. He tossed the their faith and shared their faith with their burning humidifier into the snow below as children. Here are some of our readers’ my mother wrapped me in a throw blanket favorite memories of their moms.) and held me. I saw her save my life that night, but she told me that it was really an Second of two parts angel who had saved me. “As she tells it, she was in a dead By John Shaughnessy sleep in the master bedroom when an angel came to her in a dream. ‘What did The earliest memory that Felicia Clark the angel look like?’ I asked years later, recalls from her life involves a nightmarish skeptical. ‘I can’t explain that. But it was moment and an angel’s warning. an angel. I just knew.’ ‘Well what did it “I woke up in my toddler bed to a room say?’ I asked. ‘Your daughter is in trouble, full of dark smoke, my mother stretching and you need to wake up to save her,’ she her arms towards me, lifting me up and explained.” Amy Laddbush examines the artwork crafted by clutching me to her chest,” recalls Clark, a Clark says that moment was just one one of her 11 children on March 6 in her Bowie, member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in example of her mother’s strong faith. Md., home. Mother’s Day is on May 12. Beech Grove. See MOTHERS, page 15 (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019

Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ______May 11 – 22, 2019 May 11 – 11 a.m Confirmation for youths of Prince of May 16 – 10 a.m. Peace Parish in Madison and Leadership Team meeting at St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara at St. Bartholomew Church Catholic Center May 11 – 5:30 p.m. May 16 – 6 p.m. Confirmation for youths of SS. Francis Circle of Giving Mass and dinner and Clare of Assisi Parish, Greenwood at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish, Floyd County May 12 – 11:30 a.m. Confirmation for youths of St. Jude May 19 – 10:30 a.m. Parish, Indianapolis Mass of Newly Initiated at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis May 12 – 5 p.m. Confirmation for youths of May 19 – 2:30 p.m. Holy Family Parish, Oldenburg Bishop Chatard High School graduation, Indianapolis May 13 – noon Pastoral Planning Committee meeting May 21 – 7 p.m. at Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Confirmation for youths of St. Therese Catholic Center, Indianapolis of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis; St. Thomas May 14 – 10:30 a.m. More Parish in Mooresville; and Priest Personnel Board meeting at St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Indianapolis, at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Center Cathedral May 14 – 3:30 p.m. May 22 – 7 p.m. Indiana Bishops’ Province meeting Confirmation for youths of at Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara St. Anthony and St. Mary parishes, Diaconate ordination Catholic Center both in Indianapolis, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ritually lays hands on seminarian Michael Prakasam during May 15 – 9 a.m. an April 27 diaconate ordination Mass at the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln Indiana Catholic Conference meeting in St. Meinrad. Deacon Prakasam is co-sponsored as a seminarian by the Archdiocese of at Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara (Schedule subject to change.) Indianapolis and the Diocese of Palayamkottai, India, where he is from. (Submitted photo) Catholic Center Pope draws lessons from Mother Teresa in city of her birth SKOPJE, North Macedonia (CNS)— speak about the saintly founder of the attention to human hungers—the hunger up being prisoners of a worldview that Pope Francis went to the tiny Balkan Missionaries of Charity, but after praying for bread, but also the hunger for truth, makes them either indifferent to others or nation of North Macedonia to pay tribute silently before her relics, he praised God for God and for love. downright hostile. to a tiny saint who accomplished big for the gift of her life and prayed for her “How well Mother Teresa knew all this Christians must never be afraid things: St. Teresa of Calcutta. intercession for North Macedonia. and desired to build her life on the twin to tell God that they are hungry “for Mother Teresa was born Agnes Pope Francis also prayed that God pillars of Jesus incarnate in the Eucharist an experience of fraternity in which Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in would give Christians the grace “to and Jesus incarnate in the poor,” he said. indifference, disparagement and contempt Skopje on Aug. 26, 1910. After paying become signs of love and hope in our own “Love received and love given” marked will not fill our tables or take pride of the obligatory formal visit to North day when so many are poor, abandoned, her journey from Skopje to India and kept place in our homes,” he said. “We are Macedonia’s president, Pope Francis went marginalized and migrants.” her going. hungry, Lord, for encounters where your on May 7 to the memorial and museum Among the guests present at the Too many people, he said, “have word can raise hope, awaken tenderness built on the site of the church where she memorial were dozens of Missionaries become accustomed to eating the stale and sensitize the heart by opening paths was baptized. of Charity, about 100 of the people they bread of disinformation,” and so they end of transformation and conversion.” † “Moved by the love of God,” the pope serve in Skopje, and two of Mother told the president, Mother Teresa “made Teresa’s cousins, the Vatican said. love of neighbor the supreme law of her Celebrating Mass in the nearby life.” Macedonia Square on a brisk spring At the memorial, Pope Francis did not morning, Pope Francis drew people’s

Military, first responders to be remembered at Memorial Day Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Vox Sacra, the schola cantorum Father Jerry Byrd, pastor of St. Ann and for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, St. Joseph parishes in Jennings County will host a Memorial Day Mass at and St. Mary Parish in North Vernon. 9 a.m. on May 27 at SS. Peter and Paul Vox Sacra will be singing Kevin Allen’s Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in “Requiem for 5 Voices.” Indianapolis. This will be a Mass for the All are invited and welcome to Dead in honor of the deceased men and participate in this Mass, especially women of the military, as well as first veterans and the family members and responders. friends of those who have died serving Pope Francis and Missionaries of Charity nuns pray in front of a statue of Mother Teresa at the Mother The liturgy will be celebrated by our country. † Teresa Memorial during a meeting with religious leaders and the poor in Skopje, North Macedonia, on May 7. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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By Sean Gallagher such chapel in the archdiocese at the time. friend. I never heard him say a cross word celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving Now there are 13. about anybody.” at Our Lady of Lourdes Church the Retired Msgr. Lawrence Moran died Father Jonathan Meyer was impressed In addition to helping lay Catholics following day. on May 4 at Providence HealthCare in by Msgr. Moran’s love of the Eucharist share in the ministry of the Church, His first pastoral assignment was St. Mary-of-the-Woods. He was 91. when he first met him in 2003 at a Msgr. Moran was also dedicated to as associate pastor of St. Michael the The Mass of Christian Burial was convocation of archdiocesan priests encouraging priestly and religious Archangel Parish in Indianapolis, where he celebrated on May 8 at St. Patrick Church shortly before he was ordained a priest, vocations. ministered from 1952-55. He also served in Terre Haute. Archbishop Charles There was a room where the meeting “He never left a stone unturned to as associate pastor of the former St. Anne C. Thompson was the principal celebrant was taking place where the Blessed foster a vocation,” Mother Anne said. Parish in Terre Haute from 1955‑57, of the liturgy. Father John Hollowell was Sacrament was reserved in a tabernacle. Father Richard Eldred knows this from St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus and the homilist. Then-transitional Deacon Meyer kept experience. For some time, the pastor Holy Trinity Parish in Edinburgh from Burial followed in seeing an older priest coming to the room of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Bedford 1957-59, and the former St. Andrew Parish the priests’ circle at to pray. It was Msgr. Moran. and St. Mary Parish in Mitchell said in Richmond from 1959-67. Calvary Cemetery in “His life of prayer was a witness “no” when Msgr. Moran would suggest Msgr. Moran also taught at Cathedral Terre Haute. to me,” said Father Meyer, pastor that God might be calling him to be a High School in Indianapolis from 1952‑55 At the time of his of All Saints Parish in Dearborn priest. But when Father Eldred eventually and the former Paul C. Schulte High death, he had been County. “He very much believed in opened himself to the possibility, he School in Terre Haute from 1957-59. a priest for 67 years eucharistic‑centered prayer. And he knew entered priestly formation and was In 1967, Msgr. Moran began and was the longest- that from that life of prayer was to come ordained in 1999. ministry as pastor of St. Joseph Parish serving priest among evangelization. It was a game-changer in During the past 20 years, Father Eldred in Rockville and administrator of the Msgr. Larry Moran current archdiocesan my own life.” has followed in the footsteps of former Immaculate Conception Mission priests. He served And like Msgr. Moran, Father Meyer Msgr. Moran in many ways: beginning in Montezuma, continuing as pastor in Terre Haute Deanery parishes for has also shared the strength of the two perpetual adoration chapels, of the Rockville faith community until 40 of those years, retiring as pastor of Eucharist with others, starting two supporting evangelization through 1985. From 1985 until his retirement in St. Patrick Parish in 2005. In retirement, perpetual adoration chapels. Catholic radio and helping people in 2005, Msgr. Moran served as pastor of he ministered as the chaplain of the Msgr. Moran, who had been a need. And like Msgr. Moran, he doesn’t St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute. Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in priest for more than 50 years when seek credit for such initiatives, simply St. John Paul II gave him the title of Terre Haute until 2014. Father Meyer was ordained, served as the describing them as “just being a priest and monsignor as a prelate of honor in 1997. Carmelite Mother Anne Brackman, the younger priest’s spiritual director for a doing what needs to be done.” From his retirement from parish monastery’s prioress, knew Msgr. Moran decade. “But at least I had a good teacher,” ministry in 2005 until 2014, he served as over his decades of ministry in west “He was so gifted in knowing Father Eldred said. “I’m thankful for his chaplain of the Carmelite Monastery of central Indiana. what questions to ask to have you talk part in my vocation and priesthood.” St. Joseph in Terre Haute. The cloistered contemplative nun was about what’s going on in your soul,” Lawrence Joseph Moran was born on In 2002, Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon amazed at how Msgr. Moran sought to Father Meyer said. “And in his great May 8, 1927, in Indianapolis to Lawrence presented the Sagamore of the Wabash proclaim the Gospel through a broad humility, it wasn’t about him. It was about and Loretta (Brouillette) Moran. He grew award to Msgr. Moran for his work in array of ministries: pastoring parishes, looking at an encounter with another up as a member of Our Lady of Lourdes supporting people with addictions. In 2005, promoting Catholic education—including human being as an encounter with Christ. Parish in Indianapolis, attending its school Msgr. Moran received a career achievement founding a Catholic high school— Where is Christ working in this person’s for eight years. award at an archdiocesan Celebrating conducting more than 800 interviews on life, and how can I help them proclaim it?” He then became an archdiocesan Catholic Schools Values gala for his strong a Catholic radio station in Terre Haute, Msgr. Moran helped many Catholics in seminarian and received priestly support of Catholic education. running a soup kitchen, counselling the Terre Haute Deanery proclaim Christ formation for 12 years at Saint Meinrad Surviving are his sister, Patricia Carter, people suffering from addictions and through the ministry initiatives he began, Seminary and School of Theology in of Beech Grove, two brothers, David and serving as a spiritual director. according to Mother Anne. St. Meinrad. James Moran, both of Indianapolis, and “His zeal for evangelization was quite “If he came up with the idea and Archbishop Paul C. Schulte ordained several nieces and nephews. remarkable,” Mother Anne said. people embraced it, he let them take Msgr. Moran a priest on May 3, 1952, at Memorial contributions may be sent to But as active as Msgr. Moran was in over,” she said. “It was then their the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of the Monastery of St. Joseph, 59 Allendale, his ministry, she knew that it flowed from responsibility. He enabled the laity to take Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. Msgr. Moran Terre Haute, IN 47802. † a deep interior life of prayer focused on their responsibility for their faith life and the Eucharist. carry it out.” “The Eucharist was central to his life,” Mark Fuson and his wife Susan, Mother Anne said. “That’s where I believe both members of St. Patrick Parish in he gained his strength, really.” Terre Haute, lived out their faith that was He encouraged others to share in strengthened by Msgr. Moran by helping the source of his strength by starting a care for him in his later years. perpetual adoration chapel at St. Patrick “He was a humble, genuine and kind Parish in 1998. 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Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher helps teenager choose life Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus In the March 15 issue of The Criterion, positive pregnancy tests in it. I really support there was an article about the sidewalk everything you guys do. My name is Alyssa. counselors who volunteer to lovingly Feel free to share this with your team to let advise women considering abortion them know they are impacting my life.” Editorial to choose instead to save their baby’s Alyssa sent that text message to me Abby Johnson speaks life. The article included a photo of the on April 30. The little pink bag she is on April 23 during Blessings Bag we offer to those who stop. referring to is the Blessings Bags our the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast I just wanted to share a recent story sidewalk counselors give out as women in Washington. about how important those bags are and enter the drive to Planned Parenthood. She is a former the difference they make. Following is a They contain a brochure with abortion Planned Parenthood text I received from a young woman: information and my phone number, a administrator who “On April 11th, I had gone to the handwritten note from the sidewalk quit her job to join the Indianapolis Planned Parenthood. You counselors and a small assortment of pro-life movement. guys were protesting outside and gave me candy. Some days, no one will stop to The recent movie a pink bag with information, candy and take a bag, but some days as many as Unplanned details her Linda’s phone number. That is honestly seven bags have been given out. story. what changed it all! It costs about $4 to make a bag. If you (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) “At the clinic, I had an ultrasound done would like to help us cover the cost of and a consultation. I told my mom I was making our Blessings Bags, please hit the unsure if I could go through with this so donate button on our website at State, national action and film we need to wait before making the next www.glgabrielproject.org or mail a check appointment. On the two-hour hour drive to: The Gabriel Project, P.O. Box 1232, helping to build a culture of life home, I read over and over the bag you Columbus, IN 47202. handed me and now, a month later I have Please pray for Alyssa and her Need evidence that our continuous entities and professionals won’t be bullied chosen to keep my baby at the age of boyfriend as they embrace their journey prayers are bearing fruit in the pro-life out of the health care field because 17. I wanted to thank you and your team of parenthood, and thank God for blessing arena? Recent news not only in Indiana they decline to participate in actions personally as I made this life-changing Alyssa with the courage to say “yes” to but on the national level demonstrate that violate their conscience, including decision. life. that various political leaders are listening the taking of human life. Protecting “That little pink bag changed my life, to our message, and taking steps to conscience and religious freedom not and I can’t thank you enough! I will never (Linda Kile is the president and director strengthen the culture of life that so many only fosters greater diversity in health throw that bag away. … I even put my of the Great Lakes Gabriel Project.) † of us believe should be a staple of our care, it’s the law,” he added. society. And a film is helping, too. Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann As reported in last week’s issue of of Kansas City, Kan., chairman of the The Criterion, the Indiana General U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Letters to the Editor Assembly recently passed a pair of Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and pro‑life bills, which have since been Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcombe. Ky., chairman of the bishops’ Committee Reader: Pope Benedict’s essay House Bill 1211 bans dismemberment for Religious Liberty, issued a joint abortion, an abortion method in the second statement on May 2 commending the on abuse crisis is a must read trimester of pregnancy that involves adoption of these new regulations to ensure This letter is motivated by the It is an easy essay to read in one sitting. tearing a live fetus apart in the uterus existing laws protecting conscience rights in editorial written by Daniel Conway in In my opinion, every Christian and extracting the unborn child piece by health care are enforced and followed. the April 26 issue of The Criterion: “To should have the opportunity to read this piece. Senate Bill 201 expands conscience The statement said these laws have address abuse crisis, God must return to essay. Therefore, it is requested that protection rights beyond physicians and been policy for years, but “the previous the center of our lives.” The editorial is The Criterion reprint the essay to make it hospital employees to nurses, pharmacists administration did not fully enforce basically a commentary on the essay by available to all. It is an historic document. and physician assistants, ensuring that them and now they are increasingly Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI following they are not compelled to participate in being violated.” Pope Francis’ meeting with Church Emery Mapes abortion procedures if they object on The bishops also pointed out that leaders at the Vatican in February to Lawrenceburg moral grounds. “conscience protection should not discuss the current crisis of faith and of The American Civil Liberties Union fluctuate as administrations change,” and the Church. (Editor’s note: Due to space constraints, of Indiana immediately challenged the stressed that Congress should provide After reading Pope Benedict’s essay we are unable to print the essay in its dismemberment abortion law, but Mike “permanent legislative relief through online, it is apparent the essay is far more entirety. It is available online at Fichter, president and chief executive passage of the Conscience Protection Act.” than a commentary on sex abuse. To www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full- officer of Indiana Right to Life, said Unplanned, a film released in late quote Pope Benedict, “the very essence of text-of-benedict-xvi-the-church-and-the- that the legislation is “on very solid March based on the true story of Abby Christianity is at stake here.” scandal-of-sexual-abuse-59639.) constitutional ground.” Johnson, a former pro-choice Planned Providentially, a few days later the Parenthood facility director turned announcement nationally of a new national pro-life advocate, also drew Criterion’s misleading headline conscience protection rule on May 2 national attention. protecting health care workers who As expected, movie critics in the is a disservice to its readers object to abortion procedures on secular media had mixed reviews about the One of the strong points The Criterion been cured, or the fountain of youth had religious grounds was welcome news. unwavering faith-based film. Nevertheless, has shown in the past is to be a voice of been discovered. President Donald J. Trump announced the film ranked number four in box office quiet stating of positions without the use Reading the actual article discloses no the rule at the White House Rose Garden ratings on its opening weekend, and eight of rabble-rousing rhetoric employed by executions had occurred since 1939, and during a speech on the National Day of the following weekend. the more secular press. It is sad to see the only one person was on death row. Prayer. The film premiered during the annual newspaper of the archdiocese indulge in Granted all life is important, but the “Just today we finalized new protections spring “40 Days for Life” campaign, such tactics. newspaper does no one any service by of conscience rights for physicians, whose mission is “to bring together the An article on page 16 of the April 26 wildly overstating what is contained in the pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and body of Christ in a spirit of unity during issue blared “an enormous victory news. faith-based charities,” Trump said. a focused 40-day campaign of prayer, for life” in the headline on potential The rule, issued by the Department of fasting, and peaceful activism, with the legislation in New Hampshire. Based on Michael Connor Health and Human Services (HHS) and purpose of repentance, to seek God’s the verbiage, one would think cancer had Greensburg enforced by that department’s Office of favor to turn hearts and minds from a Civil Rights, offers specific guidelines culture of death to a culture of life, thus requiring hospitals, clinics and bringing an end to abortion.” universities that receive federal funding Shawn Carney, president and CEO of through Medicare or Medicaid to certify the “40 Days for Life” campaign, shared Letters Policy that they comply with laws protecting that the film’s inspirational message Letters from readers are published in letters from readers as necessary based on conscience rights regarding abortion, led some people to immediately go to The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and sterilization and assisted suicide. a “40 Days” prayer vigil after they saw commitment to “the responsible exchange of content (including spelling and grammar). In Under the rule, medical workers or the film to pray for an end to abortion. freely-held and expressed opinion among order to encourage opinions from a variety institutions would not have to provide, Let us thank God that the seeds the People of God” (Communio et Progressio, of readers, frequent writers will ordinarily participate in or pay for procedures they of evangelization we are planting are 116). be limited to one letter every three months. object to on moral or religious grounds. bearing fruit in Indiana and around the Letters from readers are welcome and Concise letters (usually less than 300 words) “Laws prohibiting government funded country. every effort will be made to include letters are more likely to be printed. discrimination against conscience and And let us pray that in our vocation as from as many people and representing as Letters must be signed, but, for serious religious freedom will be enforced like missionary disciples we continue to share many viewpoints as possible. Letters should reasons, names may be withheld. every other civil rights law,” said Roger our message of protecting all human life be informed, relevant, well-expressed and Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, Severino, director of the Office of Civil from conception to natural death. sense of courtesy and respect. Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367. Readers Rights in a May 2 statement. The editors reserve the right to select with access to e-mail may send letters to “This rule ensures that health care —Mike Krokos the letters that will be published and to edit [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Good Shepherd leads his pastors and all of us to eternal life Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice; I the richness, of spiritual health and most directly and most often. The word pastor lets himself get close to us know them, and they follow me. I give maturity. “parish” (paroikia in Greek) is rooted in (taking on “the smell of the sheep,” them eternal life, and they shall never A good pastor should also walk in the idea of a pilgrimage, the journeying as Pope Francis points out). In him, perish. No one can take them out of my front of his people when it comes to together of a group of people who we experience a degree of warmth hand. My Father, who has given them to reflecting on God’s word in sacred share with one another their hopes and and intimacy (always expressed me, is greater than all, and no one can Scripture and experiencing God’s dreams as well as their challenges and appropriately) that we would not take them out of the Father’s hand. The presence in the sacraments, especially frustrations in the search for God, for ordinarily expect from religious or civil Father and I are one” (Jn 10:27–30). the Eucharist. The primary objective of life in all its fullness. leaders. all pastoral ministry is to lead others Finally, a good pastor walks behind “I give them eternal life,” Jesus The Fourth Sunday of Easter to a personal encounter with Jesus his people—bringing up the rear, so says, “and they shall never perish” is also known as Good Shepherd Christ and, so, to experience firsthand to speak. He points the way and then (Jn 10:28). A good pastor accompanies Sunday. On this day, the Church his love and mercy, his healing and his follows closely behind them in order his people on the road to eternal life. invites us to reflect on the pastoral encouragement, his suffering and his to make sure that his people remain on He leads the way, but he also listens to leadership style of Jesus, the Pastor triumph over sin and death. the right path. A good pastor trusts that his people and follows their lead when Bonus (Good Shepherd). A good pastor walks alongside the Holy Spirit will lead and safeguard he discovers that they have insights and Pope Francis tells us that a good his people when he accompanies his people, but he is constantly on experiences that he does not. pastor sometimes leads his people by them on their personal journeys. the lookout for danger and for evil Above all, a good pastor recognizes walking in front of them; sometimes With them, he shares in the joys of influencers who try to lead people that we are all held firmly in the hand by following them; but most often by marriage and childbirth, the sorrows astray. of our loving Father. As Jesus says, walking alongside (accompanying) of sickness and death, the troubles Jesus tells us that good pastors are “My Father, who has given [my flock] them. This insight comes from that stem from unemployment or willing to sacrifice themselves for the to me, is greater than all, and no one reflection on the ministry of Jesus. financial hardships, the consequences people they serve. They abandon the can take them out of my Father’s hand” A good pastor should lead his of sin and all of the experiences of 99 in order to seek and find the one (Jn 10:29). people in prayer and in the search for daily life—good, bad and indifferent. who has strayed. And they rejoice This Good Shepherd Sunday, let’s holiness. Walking in front of his people A good pastor is close to his people. greatly when the one who has been lost pray for our pastors. May they follow here doesn’t mean that the pastor is He knows them, and they know him is eventually found. the words and example of the Good necessarily better at praying or that he to be one of them as a brother, a “My sheep hear my voice; I know Shepherd and may they know the peace, is holier than others, but it does mean friend and a faithful companion on them and they follow me” (Jn 10:27). hope and joy that comes from being that he makes the spiritual life a top the road to life. There is nothing cold, distant or leaders, followers and companions of priority. In so doing, he gives witness Parish life should be the place where indifferent about a good pastor’s love the people entrusted to their pastoral to others about the importance, and this accompaniment is experienced for his people. Like Jesus, a good care. †

El Buen Pastor guía a sus pastores y a todos nosotros a la vida eterna

Jesús dijo: “Mis ovejas escuchan mi Un buen pastor también debe La palabra “parroquia” (del griego acerca mucho a nosotros y adquiere voz, yo las conozco y ellas me siguen. caminar delante de su pueblo al paroikia) tiene su raíz en la idea de “el olor a oveja,” como lo expresa Yo les doy Vida eterna: ellas no momento de reflexionar acerca de la peregrinación, el viaje que realizan el papa Francisco. En él, somos perecerán jamás y nadie las arrebatará la Palabra de Dios en las sagradas juntas un grupo de personas que capaces de sentir un grado de calidez de mis manos. Mi Padre, que me las escrituras y experimentar la presencia comparten entre ellas sus esperanzas e intimidad (siempre expresada ha dado, es superior a todos y nadie de Dios en los sacramentos, y sus sueños, así como también sus adecuadamente) que no esperaríamos puede arrebatar nada de las manos especialmente la eucaristía. El retos y frustraciones en la búsqueda normalmente de otros líderes de mi Padre El Padre y yo somos uno” principal objetivo de todo el de Dios, de la vida en todo su religiosos o civiles. (Jn 10:27-30). ministerio pastoral es guiar a los esplendor. “Yo les doy Vida eterna—dice demás hacia un encuentro personal Por último, un buen pastor camina Jesús—ellas no perecerán jamás” El cuarto domingo de Pascua se con Jesucristo y, de esta forma, detrás de su pueblo para alentar a (Jn 10:28). Un buen pastor acompaña conoce también como el Domingo vivir de primera mano su amor y su los rezagados. Él señala el camino y a su pueblo en el camino a la vida del Buen Pastor. En este día la Iglesia misericordia, su sanación y su aliento, los sigue muy de cerca desde atrás eterna; nos guía por el camino, pero nos invita a reflexionar sobre el estilo su sufrimiento y su triunfo sobre el para cerciorarse de que su pueblo se también escucha a su gente y les sigue de liderazgo pastoral de Jesús, el pecado y la muerte. mantenga en el camino correcto. Un el paso cuando descubre que tienen Pastor Bonus (el Buen Pastor). Un buen pastor camina junto a buen pastor confía en que el Espíritu conocimientos y experiencias que él no El papa Francisco nos dice que un su pueblo cuando los acompaña en Santo guiará y protegerá a su pueblo, ha tenido. buen pastor a veces guía a su pueblo su trayectoria personal y comparte pero siempre está atento a los peligros Por encima de todo, un buen caminando delante de él; en otros con ellos las alegrías del matrimonio y a las influencias perniciosas que pastor reconoce que nuestro Padre momentos lo sigue, pero la mayoría y el nacimiento de los hijos, las intentan desviar al pueblo de su amoroso nos lleva a todos de la de las veces camina junto a él y lo tristezas de la enfermedad y la muerte, camino. mano. Y tal como dice Jesús: “Mi acompaña. Esta imagen proviene de una las dificultades que surgen por un Jesús nos dice que los buenos Padre, que me ha dado [las ovejas], reflexión sobre el ministerio de Jesús. desempleo o dificultades económicas, pastores están dispuestos a sacrificarse es superior a todos y nadie puede Un buen pastor debería guiar a su las consecuencias del pecado y en favor del pueblo al que sirven; dejan arrebatar nada de las manos de mi pueblo en la oración y la búsqueda de todas las experiencias de la vida a 99 para ir en busca de aquel que se Padre” (Jn 10:29). la santidad. En esta metáfora, caminar cotidiana, sean estas buenas, malas o ha perdido y se alegran enormemente En este domingo del Buen Pastor, delante de su pueblo no significa indiferentes. El buen pastor está cerca cuando aquel que estaba perdido recemos por nuestros pastores para necesariamente que el pastor rece mejor de su pueblo, los conoce y ellos saben aparece finalmente. que puedan seguir las palabras y o que sea más santo que los demás, que el pastor es uno de ellos como “Mis ovejas escuchan mi voz, el ejemplo del Buen Pastor y que sino que hace de la vida espiritual hermano, amigo y compañero fiel en el yo las conozco y ellas me siguen” conozcan la paz, la esperanza y la su principal prioridad. Al hacerlo, camino de la vida. (Jn 10:27). El buen amor de un pastor alegría que proviene de ser líderes, da testimonio a los demás sobre la La vida parroquial debe ser el por su pueblo no conoce de frialdad, seguidores y compañeros del pueblo importancia y la riqueza de la salud y la lugar donde se percibe más directa distanciamientos o indiferencia. Al que se encuentra bajo sus cuidados madurez espiritual. y frecuentemente esta compañía. igual que Jesús, el buen pastor se pastorales. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019

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

May 13 Indianapolis. Third Thursday Indianapolis. Serra Club Rogers, [email protected], designed to offer family, friends tour of center to follow. Archbishop Edward Adoration, interceding for Dinner Meeting, Franciscan 812-923-8355. and caregivers confident and Information: 317-829-6800, T. O’Meara Catholic Center, women experiencing crisis Sister Marj English presenting helpful tools in being present to www.womenscarecenter.org. 1400 N. Meridian St., pregnancy, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., “Spiritual Direction for all May 22 those suffering, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Indianapolis. Divorce and with Mass at 5:45 p.m. the Seasons of Your Life,” The Well Community Center, free. Register requested by Our Lady of the Greenwood Beyond Support Group, 5:40 p.m. optional rosary, 554 Pit Road, Brownsburg. May 31: 812-945-2374, Church, 335 S. Meridian St., 7-9 p.m., Mondays through May 17 6-8 p.m. dinner and speaker, Caregiver Support Group, [email protected]. Greenwood. First Friday June 24 except for Memorial Knights of Columbus Hall, $15 member, guests free. sponsored by Catholic celebration of the Most Day, all faiths welcome, $30 2100 E. 71st St., Indianapolis. Information: smclauglin@ Charities Indianapolis, Mission 27 Resale, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, includes materials. Registration Catholic Business Exchange, holyspirit.cc, 317-748-1478. 1-2:30 p.m. Information: 132 Leota St., Indianapolis. 5:45 p.m., exposition of the and information: www.archindy. Indianapolis Colts general Monica Woodsworth, 317- Senior Discount Day, every Blessed Sacrament, following org/marriageandfamily (choose manager Chris Ballard May 21 261-3378, mwoodsworth@ Tuesday, 30 percent off Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament Divorce Ministry) or Gabriela presenting, Mass 7 a.m., Ironwood Golf Club, 10955 archindy.org. clothing, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., of reconciliation available. Ross, 317-592-4007, gross@ buffet breakfast and program Fall Road, Fishers (Lafayette ministry supports Indianapolis Information: 317-888-2861 or archindy.org. following, $15 members, Diocese.) Catholic Radio May 24-25 St. Vincent de Paul Society [email protected]. $21 non-members. Register by Indy Annual Golf Outing, Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, Food Pantry and Changing May 14 noon on May 16. Information 10 a.m. registration, 1005 W. Main St., Danville. Lives Forever program. St. Lawrence Church, Church of the Immaculate and registration: www. 11 a.m. Mass, 11:30 a.m. lunch, Women’s Club Rummage Information: 317-687-8260. 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Conception, 1 Sisters of catholicbusinessexchange.org. noon shotgun start, dinner Sale, Fri. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., First Friday Charismatic Providence, Saint Mary-of- and prizes, $125 per person, Sat. 8 a.m-12:30 p.m., free. June 5 Renewal Praise and Mass, the-Woods, St. Mary-of- May 19 $450 foursome. Registration: Information: 913-832-8472, Archbishop Edward praise and worship 7 p.m., Mass the-Woods. Monthly Taizé White Violet Center for www.catholicradioindy.org. [email protected]. T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 7:30 p.m. Information: 317-546- Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., Eco-Justice, 1 Sisters of Information: Valerie Bendel, 1400 N. Meridian St., 7328, [email protected]. silent and spoken prayers, Providence, Saint Mary- 317-870-8400, valerie@ June 1 Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, simple music, silence. of-the-Woods, St. Mary- catholicradioindy.org. St. Michael Church, Catholic, educational, June 8 Information: 812-535-2952, of-the-Woods. Sundays at 145 St. Michael Blvd., charitable and social singles, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Church, [email protected]. the Woods: Farm Tour, Mount St. Francis Center for Brookville. First Saturday 50 and over, single, separated, 5719 Saint Marys Road, presented by Lorrie Heber, Spirituality, 101 St. Anthony Dr., Marian Devotional Prayer widowed or divorced. New Floyd Knobs. Parish Social St. Paul Hermitage, 2-4 p.m., freewill offering, Mt. St. Francis. “Abide” Group, Mass, devotional members welcome. 6 p.m. Ministry Gathering South, 501 N. 17th Ave., Beech registration not required. Adoration Service, sponsored prayers, rosary, 8 a.m. Information: 317-243-0777. for priests, deacons, parish Grove. Ave Maria Guild, Information: 812-535-2952, by Catalyst Catholic, 7-8 p.m., Information: 765-647-5462. staff and volunteers, 8:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Information: 317- [email protected] or every third Thurs. of the June 7 refreshments, 9 a.m.-noon 223-3687, [email protected]. www.spsmw.org/event. month, featuring guest June 4 Women’s Care Center, program, free, but RSVP speaker, praise band, silence Our Lady of Perpetual Help 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. requested to Theresa May 16 May 20 and confessions, child care Parish, 1752 Scheller Ln., First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., Chamblee, 317-236-1404, St. Joseph Church, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat available. Information and New Albany. How to Be a Benedictine Father Lambert 800-382-9836 x. 1404, 1401 S. Mickley Ave., House, 5353 E. 56th St., child care reservations: Chris Christian Consoler workshop, Reilly presiding, optional [email protected]. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Indianapolis. Tobit Marriage 1402 Southern Ave., Preparation Weekend, Beech Grove. Monastic June 11 on Workshop and Retreat, June 21 $298 includes separate room Retreat—Women on God’s Oldenburg Franciscan Benedictine Brothers Martin Our Lady of Fatima Retreat accommodations for couple, Loom: Tapestries of God, Events and Center, 22143 Main St., Erspamer and Michael House, 5353 E. 56th St., meals, snacks and materials. Benedictine Father Joseph retreats can be Oldenburg. Lunch and Moran presenting, limited Indianapolis. Day of Silence, Information and registration: Feders presenting, 6 p.m. submitted to Learn: How to Navigate space, $695 single, $1,045 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $35 per day, Cheryl McSweeney, Sun. through 1 p.m. Sat., Alzheimer’s Disease, clinical double. Information: includes breakfast and lunch, [email protected], $525 per person, includes The Criterion by social worker Kristin Cooley 812-357-6585 or mzoeller@ room to use throughout the 317-545-7681, ext. 106 or meals and lodging. logging on to presenting, 11:30-1 p.m., saintmeinrad.edu. day, access to common areas www.archindy.org/fatima/ Information and registration: $20 includes lunch. and grounds. Depending on calendar/tobit.html. 317-788-7581, www.archindy.org/ Information and registration: June 19 availability, overnight stay www.benedictinn.org. events/submission, 812-933-6437, www. Benedict Inn Retreat & costs additional $28, $9 cold June 22 oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Conference Center, plate dinner when available. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, June 28-30 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Information and registration: 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. Saint Meinrad Archabbey or by mailing June 14-20 Grove. Personal Day of Khristine Meyer, 317-545- Forgiveness: The Healing of Guest House and Retreat us at 1400 Saint Meinrad Archabbey Retreat, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 7681, [email protected], Memories, Patrick Murphy Center, 200 Hill Dr., N. Meridian St., Guest House and Retreat $35 includes room for the day www.archindy.org/fatima. Welage presenting, 9:30 a.m.- St. Meinrad. The Miracle Indianapolis, IN Center, 200 Hill Dr., and lunch, spiritual direction 2:30 p.m., $45 includes lunch. of Chartres: A Close Look 46202, ATTN: St. Meinrad. The Image as available for $35. Information June 21-23 Information and registration: at a Gorgeous Gothic Cindy Clark, or a Window to the Spiritual: and registration: 317-788- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 812-933-6437, www. Cathedral and the Mysteries An Artist’s Six-Day Hands- 7581, www.benedictinn.org. House, 5353 E. 56th St., oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Behind It, Benedictine Father by fax at Noël Mueller presenting, 317-236-1593. June 23-29 $255 single, $425 double. Archbishop Thompson to celebrate Mass Benedict Inn Retreat & Information: 812-357-6585 or for the newly initiated on May 19 Conference Center, [email protected]. † Archbishop Charles C. Thompson Immediately following Mass, a St. Thomas More Parish in Mooresville to will be the principal celebrant at a reception will be held in the Assembly bilingual Mass for the newly initiated Hall of the Archbishop Edward hold Marian prayer program on May 19 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 1347 T. O’Meara Catholic Center across the N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, at street from the cathedral. The Knights of Columbus Council who are at risk throughout the world. 10:30 a.m. on May 19. The parking lots at the cathedral and #7431 will hold a Marian prayer The traveling icon will be on display All who were baptized and those the Catholic Center will be open. service with an icon of Our Lady in the parish’s perpetual adoration who received their first Communion For additional information, contact of Help of Persecuted Christians chapel from May 13 through the and confirmation on Easter are invited, Christina Tuley at 317-236-1483 or at St. Thomas More Church, morning of May 18, and in the church as well as their families. e-mail [email protected]. † 1200 N. Indiana St., in Mooresville, at until the time of the prayer service. noon on May 19. For additional information, call This will be a guided prayer service 317-919-4156 or e-mail seeking intercession for people of faith [email protected]. † Providence Sisters accepting Providence Associate applications through May 31 Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality to The Sisters of Providence of Saint the candidate spends a year meeting one- Mary-of-the-Woods, in St Mary-of- on-one on a regular basis with a Sister host children’s art and nature camps in June the-Woods, are accepting Providence of Providence or another Providence Associate applications through May 31. Associate companion to learn and share Mount St. Francis Center for to work with clay, paint and explore Providence Associates are women about Providence Spirituality. Spirituality, 101 St. Anthony Dr., in the outdoors while learning about the and men of diverse faith backgrounds, For more information, or to request Mt. St. Francis, will be hosting two Franciscan love of art and nature. ages 18 years and older, who share an application, contact Providence children’s art and nature camps in June. The cost to attend is $100 per child their own unique gifts and talents with Associate co-director Providence Sister The first camp is planned from June with a $50 deposit due upon enrollment others while walking with the Sisters of Sue Paweski at 312-909-7492 or e-mail 10-13 for children ages 6-10, and from and the balance due on the first day of Providence. [email protected]. June 17-20 for youths ages 11-16. camp. Accepted applicants attend an To learn more about Providence The camps will be held from 9 a.m.- For information or to register, orientation at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Associates, visit noon each day. call 812-923-8817 or go to www. in October. Following the orientation, www.providenceassociates.org. † Campers will have the opportunity mountsaintfrancis.org/retreat-offerings. † The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Page 7 St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities in New Albany celebrates 40 years of ‘giving hope, changing lives’ By Natalie Hoefer Office of Catholic Charities and Price Counseling Associates in Louisville. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Ariel LaGrange And so began Catholic Charities was 24 and unmarried when she became New Albany as an agency offering pregnant. She balked when her mom counseling services to “the unmarried encouraged her to contact St. Elizabeth mother, her family and the alleged father.” Catholic Charities (SECC) in New Albany In 1986, the agency added a for help. Supported Living Program to help “I said I didn’t want to live [in their maintain independent living for those crisis pregnancy home] because I have with developmental delays in Clark and family to support me,” LaGrange, 31, Floyd counties. recalled. The following year, the agency became “Then my mom said they had more the coordinator for Floyd County’s Court to offer than just the pregnancy home, Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) like counseling. … It was through their program, adding Washington County in counselors that I learned to become an 1993. CASA volunteers assist children adult.” innocently caught up in the court system. While the counseling was instrumental, “Because of the growing drug LaGrange said, she struggled to find a epidemic, there’s never been a greater job to support her and her daughter and need for adults to speak up for children,” felt “stuck in poverty.” Fortunately, she Casper said at the gala. With SECC’s qualified to rent an apartment through help, last year 74 CASA volunteers helped the organization’s Affordable Supportive 372 children—an increase of 271 percent Housing (ASH) program. in the last three years. “We’ve lived in our own home for two years now,” LaGrange said as she From teens to 30-year-olds gestured for her 7-year-old daughter Nearly a decade after Catholic Charities Ava Isabella to come on stage with her. New Albany was founded, another “Thanks to St. Elizabeth’s, I’m now able organization was created in New Albany to support myself and Ava.” in 1989 to help unwed mothers and their As she grabbed her daughter’s hand children in southern Indiana: St. Elizabeth and raised it high, nearly 700 supporters Regional Maternity Home. gave them a standing ovation. Those seeking help from the home LaGrange’s story was one of several “in the 1990s were mostly teens whose shared at the organization’s annual families didn’t want their names sullied,” “Giving Hope, Changing Lives” Casper explained in an interview with fundraiser gala, held this year at the The Criterion. Kentucky International Convention Center “Now the age goes up to about 30. in Louisville on April 25. And instead of mom and dad kicking During the St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities “Giving Hope, Changing Lives” gala on April 25 in And her story is just one of them out, it’s more a case of the Louisville, Ky., Ariel LaGrange, left, shares the story of how the New Albany agency helped her and thousands that could be told by those boyfriend saying, ‘I didn’t sign up for her daughter Ava Isabella, right. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) who have been helped by SECC, which this, and if you’re not going to get an celebrated its 40th anniversary at the abortion, then I’m gone.’ ” Now serving as head of the council’s annual event. Occasionally a young mother at the home facilities committee, he noted with a In the last four decades, the chooses to place her child for adoption, said chuckle that he “put in a lot of blood, organization has merged with two other Casper, a member of Most Sacred Heart of sweat and tears into that expansion.” agencies, expanded from one service Jesus Parish in Jeffersonville. “But usually if In 2012, several structures along a to eight programs, and grown from two they live [at St. Elizabeth], it’s because they one-block stretch on Market Street in buildings to 10, with additional offices in want to parent.” downtown New Albany were acquired. Louisville and Salem. It soon became apparent that the They include a donation of the nearly “When I think of all the women and young mothers still needed emotional 170-year-old former Holy Trinity Parish children who have walked through our and practical support after giving birth. rectory—now SECC’s administration and doors in 40 years, I’m both sad and In response to that need, the organization social services building—and several happy,” SECC executive director Mark created a transitional housing program in homes renovated to create nine ASH units. Casper told the crowd. “I’m sad for their 1996. That same year, SECC received need, but happy we could help.” In 2004, St. Elizabeth and Catholic certification from the Council on Charities New Albany combined to help Accreditation (COA) as a social service ‘Never been a greater need’ unwed mothers and their children. They agency. The agency’s story begins with joined their services and their names, “That [accreditation] took us from a conversations in 1979 about a need for forming St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities. ‘mom and pop’ or ‘good people doing social services for unwed mothers in good things’ agency to an agency with a southern Indiana. ‘We’ve had to change with the world’ lot of strong and transparent and high-care The need was acknowledged by the “Our growth in the last 10, 15 years social services,” said Casper. “pastors of the Southern Indiana parishes has been exponential,” said Phil Kruer, Those services expanded in 2014 and Catholic Charities Indianapolis [as] past vice-president and president of when SECC acquired Adoption Bridges a responsibility belonging to them.” Such SECC’s advisory council and a member of Kentucky in Louisville, now called were the words of a contract formally of St. John the Baptist Parish in Adoption Bridges of Kentuckiana. signed in 1980 between the archdiocesan Starlight. “By merging, we took their staff, who are skilled at working with and training adoptive families and at finding birth mothers, and matched that up with our residential programs and counseling,” Mark Casper, executive director of St. Elizabeth Casper explained. “It was a perfect fit.” Catholic Charities in New Albany, talks about Growth continued in 2015, when SECC the organization on April 25 in Louisville, Ky., constructed a new building to house its during the agency’s annual “Giving Hope, Marie’s Ministry Community Distribution Changing Lives” fundraiser gala. Program. The service originally offered donated baby items to those served emphasized. “The world has changed, and by SECC. With the expansion from a we’ve had to change with it.” 200-square-foot space to a 2,500-square- foot building, the program was able to ‘Couldn’t do it without caring accept furniture and appliances as well. community’ Also in 2015, SECC began providing a The organization’s expansion occurred licensed social worker to a local Catholic despite a financial setback. In 2014, the school “to meet the changing needs since federal Department of Housing and Urban the [state’s] school voucher program Development (HUD) drastically reduced started,” Casper said. The service is now funding to agencies offering shelters and offered in four Catholic schools in the low-income rent services—both a major New Albany Deanery. part of SECC’s services. And just last year, SECC opened a “Since HUD funding was reallocated, culinary training kitchen where clients the community has lost two shelters in can learn a marketable skill set. SECC southern Indiana, including a shelter was chosen as Impact 100 of Southern for women experiencing domestic Indiana’s first-ever grant winner, receiving violence,” Casper said. “We’re now the $50,000 for the project. only emergency women’s shelter in the Tex Very, left, and Page Walker pose with the Spirit of Hope awards they received at a St. Elizabeth “Everything we do comes out of the area.” Catholic Charities gala on April 25 in Louisville. need to meet the needs of today,” Casper See SECC, page 9 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019

At the heart of their efforts is the same SERVICE foundation that guides Catholic Charities. continued from page 1 “For sure, faith is the foundation for all the lessons we want to pass onto our kids. have based their marriage on a more Faith is the most crucial thing we can do important goal. for them, for all of us, frankly for all of “For sure, our most important job that society,” Carpenter said. “I think at times we have is raising our three kids and there is not enough faith in this day and helping instill in them the correct moral age. Without the solid foundation and the foundation in how to live their lives—to sacrifice that God made for all of us, we model how God has intended for them, wouldn’t know or understand the purpose for us, to live,” Carpenter noted. “Living for how we live our lives.” our best life and living that way really Earlier during the celebration, requires service.” Bethuram shared that the theme of the Carpenter especially credited his wife agency’s 100th anniversary is “Be the in leading the two main ways that the Light.” He said that theme will guide couple tries to model the importance of Catholic Charities in the archdiocese “as service for their children. we launch the next century of providing Although their children attend a school help and creating hope across southern in an affluent part of Indianapolis, the and central Indiana.” Carpenters soon learned that 70 percent He also noted how the agency of the students there were on a free or has evolved into six sites across the reduced-payment lunch program. So the archdiocese, including Bedford, family established a food pantry for the Bloomington, Indianapolis, New Albany, school, making it possible for students to Tell City and Terre Haute. At every have something to eat over the weekend. location, the focus is on “touching lives.” “It was a great way for us to help “As I walk through each of our sites, I those people in our community, but also am often met with a variety of emotions,” to show our kids what that means—how Bethuram said. to serve right there in their own school,” “I see a young mother indulging her Carpenter said. “They need to understand son’s imagination as he so innocently IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter delivers the keynote speech during the archdiocese’s annual Spirit of that some of their friends don’t have all talks about Spider-Man climbing the walls Service Awards Dinner in Indianapolis on April 30. (Submitted photo by Rob Banayote) the blessings they have.” of our building while they wait for food. The couple also started a foundation I see a young man—struggling to better implement programming and services goodness to others. Tonight, we celebrate in 2007 to help people in the racing himself for his family—stepping outside that specifically address the root causes of what is so wonderful about what we do as community, after a young racer named his comfort zone and walking into a class poverty, such as lack of training, lack of Catholics. We do it in so many ways, but Paul Dana was killed in an accident. to learn a new and employable skill. I education, poor health and unbalanced diets. no better place than in Catholic Charities. “He left behind a wife and an unborn see an elderly man at our food pantry “We need your support by embracing So I thank you for that great witness that son,” Carpenter said. “We felt we needed requesting food for the next seven days our theme of ‘Be the Light,’ to help us you give and that you continue to bring to to do something about it. Heather until his Social Security income has been build a consolidated system where case society and to our community. started the Indy Family Foundation. I’ve deposited.” management and supportive services are “Our hearts burn within us to recognize supported her along the way. Father Glenn He added that while the agency the critical intervention.” and see the presence of Christ in our was a big part of that charity as well, and “will continue to provide ‘safety net’ During his remarks near the end of the midst. Our hearts burn within us with that he helped her. It’s an honor to help those services that help with food, utilities and event, Archbishop Thompson focused on love of God. You help bring the Good members of the racing community, not emergency housing,” Catholic Charities is the support that people give to Catholic News to others just by being yourselves. just IndyCar but anyone who comes up committed to developing strategies to help Charities’ efforts to foster dignity in And the 100 years that we’ve been around on hard times—illness, loses their job, families and individuals “out of poverty.” people’s lives. doing this in Indianapolis, what a great whatever. That’s something we’ve been “To do this, we must continually study “You are the face of the Church that thing to take pride in. We are very proud able to do.” community needs, dedicate resources and reveals Christ’s love and mercy and for this witness.” † Spirit of Service winners live out their faith by helping others By John Shaughnessy “You got to be willing to help “We’re going to find someone at some Yan Yan, Young Adult Spirit of Service people,” says Rossman, a member of place who needs something,” she says. Award Four individuals were honored for their both St. Agnes Parish in Nashville and “And we’re going to cheer them up.” For Yan Yan, the tattoo on his right leg contributions to the community during a St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. represents his approach to serving others celebration of the 100th anniversary of “We’re only here for a short time, and James Morris, Spirit of Service Award and honoring God. The 20-year-old’s Catholic Charities in central and southern I want to do what I can.” On every mantle in the home of James tattoo features the Latin phrase Imago Indiana. Morris, this saying is ingrained: “Thank Dei. Here is capsulized information Liz Stanton, Spirit of Service Award God for faith, family, friends, community “It means image of God,” he says. about the award recipients, who were As she neared her retirement, and vocation.” “Since everyone is created in the image each featured in front-page stories in Liz Stanton offered God a deal she hoped That focus has guided the 76-year of God, every action I take should be for The Criterion in March and April. he couldn’t resist. She just never expected Morris during a career dedicated God. I got the tattoo on my leg because that God would make her a counteroffer. to making the world better at every it’s a reminder that every step I take is to Robert “Lanny” Rossman, Spirit of “When I retired at 66, I told him I turn, including: helping to transform serve God.” Service Award would give him my time, energy and Indianapolis into a major city, serving That philosophy has guided his His joy for life often radiates from prayer, in exchange for him guiding as the executive director of the efforts to help children from Burmese the face of Robert “Lanny” Rossman, me into opportunities to serve others— United Nation’s World Food Programme families in Indianapolis to improve their and it was on high beam as he stood in ultimately serving him,” Stanton notes. to lessen worldwide hunger, and being the English and their academic skills, all front of a house on the near west side of She smiles as she shares God’s United States’ permanent representative in the hope of aiding them to adapt to Indianapolis in early March. counteroffer: “You have to be very careful to the executive board of UNICEF, which life in America and pave the way for a Rossman and his nephew Steve Adams when dealing with God. He believes you focuses on improving the lives of children better future. had spent 14 months tearing down can do much more than you believe you around the world. Yan’s concern for youths who are and building up the interior of the can do.” “It’s important for everyone to be struggling stems from his own struggles once‑abandoned house—a complete Consider everything that the driven to make a difference in the lives upon arriving in the United States overhaul that gave the 75-year-old 78-year‑old Stanton has done in the nearly of those around them, to build great when he was 13. His family’s journey Rossman an overwhelming sense of 13 years since her retirement. communities and great institutions,” to freedom began when his father—a satisfaction. She seeks bargains and calls upon Morris says. “None of that can be done Catholic—fled Burma because of Yet what brought the true joy to friends and neighbors to donate clothing, alone. When I was at the World Food religious persecution. Yan and his parents Rossman is knowing that he not only toiletries and food that she then delivers to Programme, my motto was, ‘Do more. Do became refugees in Malaysia before helped to transform the house, he helped Holy Family Shelter in Indianapolis and it better. And do it together.’ ” moving to America. to transform a family’s life. The house Operation Leftover, a monthly homeless Among his many influences in Indiana, A turning point in his life came when became a home for a single mother and outreach in downtown Indianapolis. Morris has served as the president of he attended St. Mark the Evangelist her three children, a home that the family A great-grandmother, Stanton also Lilly Endowment, Inc., founded the School in Indianapolis for eighth grade. couldn’t otherwise afford. tutors first-, second- and third-grade Indiana Sports Corporation and helped His year there strengthened his faith “I remember she was extremely excited children at a public elementary school. bring the Pan American Games and the and his resolve to make a difference. and thankful when they moved in,” says A member of St. Luke the Evangelist National Collegiate Athletic Association As a student at Roncalli High School in a smiling Rossman, one of the founding Parish in Indianapolis, she has served headquarters to Indianapolis. Indianapolis, he volunteered as an English members of Hearts and Hands of Indiana, as an extraordinary minister of holy Currently the vice chairman of Pacers instructor for younger Burmese children. an organization that buys abandoned Communion, bringing the Eucharist to Sports & Entertainment, the father of That commitment has continued houses in the area and rehabilitates them people in hospitals and nursing homes. three and grandfather of eight also is while he’s a student at Marian University as homes for low-income families. “I She also works to help people who are focused on reducing hunger among in Indianapolis. He’s the after-school don’t think there’s a greater feeling than trying to change their lives after serving children in the city. program coordinator for Hope for that, knowing you can provide a home for a prison sentence. She collects donated Morris considers all his outreach as an Tomorrow, an organization that helps someone.” furniture, kitchenware and bedding to extension of his faith in God, and what Burmese children with their homework. A father of four, Rossman has also help them as they move into an apartment. God calls people to do in life. Yan is also a teacher’s aide at St. Mark coached football and basketball in the Stanton is also the “Crime Watch” “God loves us. God expects us to love School, focusing on the Burmese students. archdiocese’s Catholic Youth Organization captain for her neighborhood, patrolling each other, and that means having our “We have so many great things that (CYO) for more than 40 years. And for the the streets with her 10-year-old dog that arms open, being sensitive and caring, have happened to us here,” he says.” But past 20 years, he has served as a volunteer she has dubbed “Deputy Harry.” serving, sharing and doing the best we there are so many potentials our Burmese with the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Stanton looks forward to the daily can with all that’s given us, and having community has, too. I’m trying to lift that Brown County. adventures that await her and God. respect across the board for each other.” up in any way I can.” † The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Page 9 SECC continued from page 7 2017-18 PROGRAM STATS New Albany Mayor Jeff Gahan, a Providing Help member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Marie’s Community Distribution Program Supported Living Program School Counseling Parish in New Albany, told The Criterion Serving consumers 797 Offering 17 families served Creating Hope that the city is “very proud of the 705 organization and the work they do, and children support 12,226 we’re very fortunate to have them here in to succeed New Albany. They fulfill a very important 24.8% need in our community. And they do so of new clients receiving services hours of with a lot of love and respect, providing for the first time serving 3 schools direct support their services with dignity to those who turn to them.” To honor SECC’s pivotal role in CASA the community, in 2014 the city of 36 new volunteers sworn in this year 74 dedicated CASA Volunteers 372 With your support, we continue to move forward – New Albany declared June 30 as children served providing more help, creating more hope and serving more “St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities Day.” women, children and families than ever before. And in light of the HUD funding cuts, the city also presented a $25,000 check to the Increase of organization, which receives no municipal Adoption Bridges of Kentuckiana 271% 0 10 20 30 40 50 funding. in the number of According to Casper, one-third of children served by Adoptive family our CASA program home studies 48 SECC’s budget is donated, while “the rest over the last 3 years is earned income—billing for adoption Residential Programs Expectant studies, state reimbursements. parents served 55 “There’s almost no funding left for shelters. We rely on $450,000 86% Children placed in donations and grants as well as Family of residents 13 Women & Stability moved on $200,000 in donated materials and time Children’s Program: Affordable to a 90% Emergency Women – 12 Supportive permanent maintained or increased Provided professional to make our $2 million budget work. We Shelter: Children – 16 Housing: setting services for 29 Women – 58 Women – 7 income just wouldn’t be able to do it without a Children – 55 Children – 7 finalized adoptions caring and loving community, volunteers, (Courtesy of Sextons Creek) donors, staff and prayers.” Noting that nearly 96 percent of every Casper was particularly excited about dollar donated goes directly to funding one aspect of the evening: For the first services, he acknowledged that “people time in the gala’s history, the archbishop want to help people. No one is excited of Indianapolis was present to give the about putting a new roof on a shelter or keynote address. administrative costs.” “You bring home what Pope Francis Rather, Casper said, a 5 percent stipend reminds us,” Archbishop Charles through the archdiocese’s United Catholic C. Thompson told the crowd. “He talks Appeal assists with the costs for SECC’s about accompaniment—meeting people 16 full-time and 14 as-needed employees. where they are, but not leaving them “Giving to the appeal is just so there, … looking them in the eyes as you critical,” he stressed. “It allows the meet their needs. greater Church [in central and southern “I applaud you. … You lead people Indiana] to contribute; then money is beyond where they are now. … I thank redirected back down into the deanery for you for the dignity you find in every St. Elizabeth’s. If we had to raise an extra person you meet and serve. Never forget $100,000 for administrative costs, we’d that you give witness to Christ when you have to lose staff or drop services.” serve others.” In a lighter moment, LaGrange noted ‘This is St. Elizabeth’ at the end of her talk that her daughter A good portion of SECC’s needed Ava was excited about coming to the gala. donations for services comes through its “She wanted to know when she would annual gala. get to meet St. Elizabeth,” she said with a Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, left, shares a laugh with Joyce and Don Day of St. John Paul II Donations are still coming in, Casper laugh. Parish in Sellersburg during the St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities annual “Giving Hope, Changing said, but so far $281,000 has been raised, As she closed the event, master Lives” gala on April 25 in Louisville, Ky. Don has served either on the agency’s advisory council nearly $11,000 more than last year. of ceremonies and Louisville ABC or development committee for 29 years, and Joyce volunteers for the organization’s community The evening of live and silent auctions affiliate WHAS Great Day Live co-host distribution program. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) featured LaGrange’s talk, as well as Angie Fenton recalled the little girl’s wish. videos highlighting SECC programs. “Ava, you wanted to meet Each year at the event, a “Spirit of St. Elizabeth,” Fenton said. Then Hope” award is presented to a person or gesturing to the crowd with a sweep persons in recognition of their dedicated of her arm she said, “Well, Ava, this is service to the organization. This year, St. Elizabeth.” Tex Very and Page Walker received the award. Both have served for many (For more information on St. Elizabeth years on SECC’s advisory council, and Catholic Charities and their programs, ShelbyShelby UpholsteringUpholstering both currently serve on the council’s go to www.stecharities.org or call development committee. 812-949-7305.) † && MillMill EndEnd WindowWindow FashionsFashions

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Page 10 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 After offering instruction, pope gives first Communion to 245 children RAKOVSKI, Bulgaria (CNS)—In the Catholic heart of Bulgaria, Pope Francis celebrated a special Mass for 245 children receiving their first Communion and thanked them for helping him, their parents and grandparents remember their own first Communion. “Today you have made it possible for us to relive that joy and to celebrate Jesus, present in the bread of life,” the pope told the children on May 6 in Rakovski’s Church of the Sacred Heart. While only about 1 percent of Bulgaria’s population is Catholic, in Rakovski the vast majority of the city’s 27,000 people are Catholic. “Jesus is alive and here with us; that is why we can encounter him today in the Eucharist,” the pope said. “We do not see him with our physical eyes, but we do see him with the eyes of faith.” After he read his prepared homily, Pope Francis focused on the first communicants, dressed in white robes and seated in the front rows. “Are you happy to receive your first Communion?” he asked them. “Yes,” the braver ones said out loud. “Are you sure?” the pope asked. “Yes!” they all shouted. “In the homily, I said something I want you to remember forever,” the pope told the children. “I spoke of the ID card of a Christian. I said our ID card is this: God is our father. Jesus is our brother. The Church is our family, and we are brothers Pope Francis gives first Communion to children during a Mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Rakovski, Bulgaria on May 6. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) and sisters. Our law is love.” To drive the points home, After the recitation of the Lord’s another 500 people inside the church and “We have to ask how we can Pope Francis had the children repeat Prayer, the pope had more words for the an estimated 10,000 people gathered on translate the love God has for us into each line after him—or rather, after the children. “Now you will receive Jesus,” the church grounds for the Mass. concrete and understandable languages translator who was telling the children he told them. “Do not let yourselves be The Vatican press office said it was the for the younger generations,” the pope in Bulgarian what the pope had said in distracted; think only of Jesus. Come first time on a papal trip that Pope Francis said. Italian. to the altar to receive Jesus in silence; had administered first Communion. The key is “finding ways to touch their At one point, either to test the silence your hearts.” At the Church of St. Michael the hearts, to learn about their expectations translator or the children, the pope said, The pope, dipping the consecrated host Archangel later in the day, Pope Francis and to encourage their dreams as “We are enemies.” When it was about to in the consecrated wine, personally gave urged the region’s Catholics to be bold a community-family that supports, be repeated, he said, “Are we enemies?” Communion to each of the children, while and creative in handing on the faith to accompanies and points to the future with Of course, they shouted, “No.” other priests brought the Eucharist to new generations. hope,” Pope Francis said. † Christians’ first mission is to witness that God is love, Pope Francis says SOFIA, Bulgaria (CNS)—God is love, but too many When things don’t go the way people plan and hope, “God calls and God surprises because God loves,” he Christians live their faith in a way that undermines any the pope said, it is natural for them to wish things could said. “Love is his language.” attempt to communicate that essential fact to others, go back to the way they were and to just give up on Christians draw strength from knowing God loves Pope Francis said. hoping for something new and powerful. them and that love must motivate them to love others as Celebrating a late afternoon Mass on May 5 in Sofia’s “This is the ‘tomb psychology’ that tinges everything they try to share the Christian message, the pope said. Battenberg Square, the pope wore over his chasuble a with dejection and leads us to indulge in a soothing sense With papal trips always described as visits to confirm gold-embroidered, Byzantine-style stole given to him that of self-pity,” Pope Francis said. But the resurrection Catholics in the faith, Pope Francis used his homily to morning by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. of Jesus makes clear that a “tomb psychology” is not encourage Bulgaria’s 68,000 Catholics—just 1 percent of The pope’s homily focused on the day’s Gospel compatible with a Christian outlook. the country’s population—to acknowledge the wonders reading about the disciples’ miraculous catch of fish after However, the pope said, even when Peter seems about God has done for them and to set out again on mission, the risen Jesus told them to try again even though they to give up, Jesus comes to him, calls him again and “knowing that, whether we succeed or fail, he will always had caught nothing all night. reconfirms his mission. be there to keep telling us to cast our nets.” After the resurrection, the pope noted, “Peter goes “The Lord does not wait for perfect situations or Thirty years after the fall of communism and the back to his former life” as a fisherman and the other frames of mind; he creates them,” Pope Francis told the breakup of the Soviet bloc, the pope called Bulgarian disciples go with him. estimated 7,000 people gathered for the Mass. Jesus Catholics to a “revolution of charity and service, “The weight of suffering, disappointment and of “does not expect to encounter people without problems, capable of resisting the pathologies of consumerism and betrayal had become like a stone blocking the hearts of disappointments, sins or limitations,” but he encourages superficial individualism,” and instead sharing the love of the disciples,” he said. “They were still burdened with and loves and calls people to start over again. Christ. † pain and guilt, and the good news of the resurrection had not taken root in their hearts.” The saints’ respect for differences, he said, also BULGARIA teaches Christians today a way to approach the process of continued from page 1 increasing European unity while respecting the variety of languages, faiths and cultures present on the continent. REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW In his speech to the patriarch and synod, Pope Francis “We too, as heirs of the faith of saints, are called to be If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on expressed hope that one day Catholics and Orthodox could builders of communion and peacemakers in the name of behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim celebrate the Eucharist together, but he pointed to signs Jesus,” the pope said. of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance that show there already exists a level of oneness in faith. After the pope’s formal meeting with the Orthodox coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: First, he said, are the “witnesses of Easter,” the leaders, Metropolitan Antoniy of Western and Central Ethics Point Catholic and Orthodox martyrs who gave their lives Europe accompanied Pope Francis to the nearby 1 Confidential, Online Reporting www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 freely for the faith, especially during the times of St. Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Cathedral. The Orthodox communist persecution. synod had said their clergy would not participate in any Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 “I believe that these witnesses of Easter—brothers and joint prayer with the pope, so a chair was placed before sisters of different confessions united in heaven by divine the altar and the pope prayed alone in silence for several 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 charity—now look to us as seeds planted in the earth and minutes. [email protected] meant to bear fruit,” the pope said. In the square outside the church, the pope then led an An ecumenism of service to the poor also exists, estimated 3,000 people in praying the “Regina Coeli” the pope said, and must be encouraged to grow. While prayer. Online Lay Ministry Formation doctrinal and disciplinary issues divide Christians, their While Bulgaria is “an Orthodox country,” with some The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the call by Christ to assist those in need unites them. 80 percent of the population belonging to the Orthodox University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University The 9th-century missionary brothers, Sts. 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He prayed that Mary would Orthodoxy, are considered saints by both Churches. intercede with her son to ensure Bulgaria always would For more information, please log on to That shared veneration, the pope said, flows from be “a land of encounter, a land in which, transcending www.archindy.org/layministry an “ecumenism of mission,” especially in a form that all cultural, religious and ethnic differences, you can respects the traditions of different cultures, but preaches continue to acknowledge and esteem each other as the one Gospel of Jesus. children of the one heavenly Father.” † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2017 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Unique feminine gifts can help all women be spiritual mothers

By Sr. Nancy Usselmann, F.S.P. nurtured, sustained and developed through the presence of Mary as a spiritual Sometimes it becomes awkward in mother. church on Mother’s Day when, at the What does this mean for us? The end of Mass, the priest asks mothers to “feminine genius” that St. John Paul stand for a blessing. As a religious sister, referred to in the Theology of the Body, I’ve been in the position of half-standing, is the ability to gather people together, to half-sitting, unsure of what to do, not share life, to give comfort and support, knowing if “spiritual mothers” are while also influencing society with a included in that prayer. particularly feminine way of seeing the If I stand, would people think I world. actually have children? Do they really I don’t go about my day thinking: see me as a spiritual mother? Ugh. It “I’m now being a spiritual mother to becomes complicated, so I slip into a all these people to whom I am speaking noncommitted sit-kneel position. at this conference.” However, without As I leave church, ushers pass out conscious awareness, I am that for the roses to the women. One man didn’t people I encounter by my spousal love want to give me a rose because that with the Lord whose love speaks, acts was only for and works mothers. I just through me for stared at him— others. somewhat I am not pathetically— my own, but I and he belong to the reluctantly gave One whose me one! love embraces Often, there the whole is no mention world, every of spiritual person and motherhood, each creature. but there are Every woman many single can say the women and When Mother’s Day rolls around, don’t forget to same thing. religious sisters wish all women—married, single, consecrated I am like who provide —a happy Mother’s Day, for we all are mothers Mary, that nurturance in an by our feminine gifts that bring to the world instrument unseen manner. graciousness and blessing. of God, the Perhaps spiritual “reed of God” motherhood swaying in the needs to be drawn out into the light. wind bending in flexibility to the will Since I entered religious life in the of the Divine Lover, as the 20th-century mid-‘80s, I’ve heard the term “spiritual English mystic Caryll Houselander motherhood” in relation to the missionary would say. These characteristics make work of sisters. spiritual motherhood tangible and In my community, the Daughters of intelligible. St. Paul, it was in reference to our media I remember being in our Pauline Books ministry because we minister to people and Media Center in New York City we do not encounter physically, but assisting a patron who was looking for a through books, music, movies and other gift for a friend who was suffering from forms of media. cancer. I showed her several prayer books We were taught that we feed those that could guide her friend to go through who are “spiritually poor” and offer her terrible suffering with purpose and Sister Mary Elizabeth, vicar general of the Sisters of Life, holds a baby during the annual Mother’s Day spiritual nourishment for the soul. grace. celebration at the religious community’s retreat house in Stamford, Conn. There are many “spiritual However, the first time I really reflected I began to feel the pain of the woman mothers,” single women and religious sisters who provide nurturance, often in an unseen manner. on this theologically was while reading seeing her friend suffer while feeling (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) St. John Paul II’s 1988 apostolic letter, helpless to assist her. At a loss, she “Mulieris Dignitatem” (“On the Dignity came to us for guidance. As I spoke, she and Vocation of Woman”). looked at me and said, “You are in love, In it, he reflects that the two paths of aren’t you?” I was taken back by her motherhood and virginity are found in comment, thinking what an odd thing Mary. She became the perfect example to say! of both paths because her motherhood Then I realized what she meant and did not come from the physical intimacy responded with absolute assurance, “Yes. but through the Holy Spirit, therefore Yes, I am!” remaining a virgin even after the The Lord is never outdone in his incarnation. generosity to us! He even sent me Though virginity is the renunciation someone who made me discover the of marriage and physical motherhood, heart of my vocation at a time when I there is a spousal love that captures the felt a bit discouraged and unsure about heart so that love is birthed through the future. the outward expressions of daily self- That moment of spiritual motherhood gift. These expressions are the small, became a moment of grace for both of seemingly insignificant ways unmarried us, and hopefully for her ill friend as women share their life and love with the well. world. When Mother’s Day rolls around, St. John Paul writes, “The dignity of don’t forget to wish all women— woman is measured by the order of love” married, single, consecrated—a happy (#29). It is this love that is the heart of all Mother’s Day. We all are mothers by motherhood. our feminine gifts that bring to the Pope Francis follows his predecessors world graciousness and blessing. They by recognizing the dignity of women are nurturers, gatherers, supporters and and the necessity for the Church to lovers. So please give us all a rose! have them present at its heart. He has appointed more women to positions (Sister Nancy Usselmann is a member of traditionally held by men than any other the Daughters of St. Paul and director pope. of the Pauline Center for Media Studies He also, like St. John Paul II, in Los Angeles. She is a theologian, film A doctor measures the arms of a child attending a local nutrition clinic in 2017 in Venezuela, a emphasizes that Mary was at the spiritual reviewer, blogger for bemediamindful.org partnership between sisters of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception of Castres and Caritas center of the Church in the upper room, and author of Sacred Look: Becoming Internationalis. Unique feminine gifts can help all women give motherly care to others. and that the faith of the Apostles was Cultural Mystics.) † (CNS photo/Cody Weddle, GSR) Page 12 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Perspectives Twenty Something/ Joyful Witness/Kimberly Pohovey Christina Capecchi Our faith calls us to ‘stand in the gap’ for one another All the news “Lord … help my unbelief!” to ask God for your own intervention, it their sword in the other. They had to [Mk 9:24]. At one time or another, we will be my job to ‘stand in that gap’ for stand in the gap and build up the wall that’s fit to print have all been there … that point of you.” The lyrics of his song were about at the same time, interceding for their “Wife Returned After Having Fine desperation from circumstances in our how her prayers healed him on many nation to create a literal and spiritual Funeral.” life that hurl us into accounts because she stood in the gap wall of protection around the house of The headline of a 483-word story in chaos, leaving us for him. Israel. This image gives me a whole the March 15, 1904, fearfully in a state of I’ve thought about that so many new outlook on the phrase “spiritual edition of The New doubt. times since. We all pray for others: warfare.” York Times bore a sly But what if it’s when someone experiences a loss, when Have you ever had a loved one facing nod to Tom Sawyer. not our unbelief we someone is sick, when someone has a painful time in his or her life? I have. A man named Ignacio worry about? What a need. But how much more powerful I know this person I so dearly love Valente was charging if we agonize over can it be to pray as if we are literally believes in God but was in so much the city with a funeral the unbelief of a “standing in the gap” between that pain, he could not recognize God in his bill he had been loved one? In my person and God? life. He said he didn’t believe. That is wrongfully issued, experience, the only I wondered if this notion of “standing where I know I was called to stand in according to the Times. thing worse than your own pain is not in the gap” had scriptural significance, that gap between his unbelief and our It had all started in the kitchen: “Valente being able to lift the excruciating pain and I found that it did. God. is an Italian, and about six weeks ago he of someone you love. “I searched for a man among them For as long as it took, I prayed and quarreled with his wife, Angelico, over the One morning as I was driving to who would build up the wall and stand in prayed for that wall to be fortified, way she cooked macaroni. As a result of church, I listened to a contemporary the gap before me for the land, so that I for that gap to be closed. He didn’t the quarrel, the wife left Valente’s home, Christian music radio station. The radio would not destroy it; but I found no one” experience a miraculous healing, but a declaring she would rather die than return.” show host was interviewing the musician (Ez 22:30). slow and steady process of healing, as if Indeed, she did not return, and Valente who wrote the song they were about to I also found this: “You have not gone God were literally building him up—one reported her missing to the police, who play. I was intrigued as he introduced the up into the breaches, nor did you build brick at a time until the gap gradually said the body of a woman matching his song’s backstory. the wall around the house of Israel to sealed. description was at the morgue. He explained that he was inspired to stand in the battle on the day of the Are you being called to “stand in the Valente identified the clothing of the write the words after he faced a serious Lord” (Ez 13: 5). gap” for someone? dead woman, but not the body. illness that required surgery. As he If a wall became broken down at any The story goes on: “ ‘This woman was awaited the operation, a nun came by point, these were called “breaches” or (Kimberly Pohovey is a member of better looking than my wife,’ Valente says to comfort him. He rebuffed her offer “gaps.” In Nehemiah’s day, soldiers had St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis. She is he declared. ‘Death beautifies them all,’ to pray, letting her know he was not a to literally stand in those gaps to fortify the director of mission advancement the morgue man is said to have replied.” believer. the wall against their enemies, many for Archdiocesan Education Eventually, Valente was persuaded, and She replied, “That’s OK, I will pray times trying to rebuild the wall, holding Initiatives.) † he went on to have the body dressed in his for you, and while you aren’t in a space a trowel in one hand while wielding wife’s wedding dress, a request she had once expressed. He attended her funeral Our Works of Charity/David Bethuram and footed the bills. Notice of the event was published in Make time to be a Good Samaritan, innkeeper to those in need Italian papers, which came to the attention of “the real Mrs. Valente,” who hurried It was Ernest Hemingway who once that accompany our earthy existence, samaritans as well as fair and attentive home. Her husband arrived and found her said, “Time is the least thing we have of.” it seems to me that we’re left with two innkeepers. “rummaging about her for wedding dress.” And he was right. choices: either we can fuss and whine That dual obligation comprises our The story proceeds: “ ‘Why, I buried How quickly time about lengthy stop lights and months response in mercy and justice on behalf you in it three days ago,’ Valente, in his passes—and how trying to find our keys, or we can of those who have been consigned to life surprise, replied. Real troubled followed often we lament this. take the time we’ve got left and spend on the margins. The samaritan fully enters this and, when Valente had satisfied If only we could it wisely—really wisely—with our into the world of our suffering neighbors himself it was his real wife who stood add an extra 25 or priorities in right order. with a heartfelt vision, strategic awareness before him, and that he had buried the 30 years to the usual In 2015 during Pope Francis’ visit to and a well-conceived action plan. The wrong woman, he could only restore lifespan. There is so the United States, he continually invited innkeeper remains proactively vigilant in peace by promising his wife another much more we want us to promote a “culture of care” and supporting people’s return to a sustainable wedding dress just like the one in which to see, to celebrate, to compassion. He asked us to be especially life. the strange woman had been buried.” do. So many places attentive to the cries of the poor. If we are called to use our time According to the Times, Valente was now to go, so much to The Holy Father echoed the same wisely and look to the Good Samaritan demanding that the city pay for his funeral enjoy, to feel, to read, to talk about, to message in a video message to Catholic as a model on how to be vigilant in expenses as well as $110 for a new wedding participate in, to encounter. Yet, for each Charities at our annual national gathering both engaging and supporting those dress and $40 “for wages lost through grief of us, this thing called time is in such in 2014. We are all connected to one who are vulnerable and in need, then and because of illness that followed the short supply. another, and we encounter the face of let’s encourage one another to cultivate shock of finding his wife alive.” Our frustration is compounded by the God through the people whose lives we relationships, building memories that The reader is left to imagine what that numerous unimportant things that steal serve. He added, “The compassion of the will help lift the load of future trials, and illness was and which way the scale tilted our minutes and siphon the significance Gospel is what accompanies us in times deliberately pursue activities that will for Valente among his mixed emotions, of our hours. Things like getting gas or of need, that compassion of the Good yield eternal dividends. recovering from the “real trouble” that a haircut, standing in the endless line at Samaritan, who ‘sees,’ ‘has compassion,’ The pillars of true charity are deeds ensued with the macaroni maker. the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, doing the draws near and provides concrete help” and the gift of self. Maybe Hemingway For all its humor, the story also has laundry, washing the dishes after a meal, (Lk 10:33). wasn’t right after all. You and I have more a bygone feel, harkening back to an era mowing the lawn and a dozen other time- At Catholic Charities, we are called time than we realize—once we get our when the Times felt like a small-town consuming things that have to be done. But to be both Good Samaritans and good priorities in the right order. paper to New Yorkers. In 1904, Ignacio they keep you from doing the things that innkeepers, attending to those who and Angelico’s plight had landed among make life so invigorating and fulfilling. are beaten down, the legions lying on (David Bethuram is executive director of “all the news that’s fit to print.” Since “time is the least thing we the sides of roads of discrimination, the archdiocesan Secretariat for Catholic The debate over what qualifies as “news have of” and because there is no way neglect and disdain in our society. We Charities. E-mail him at dbethuram@ that’s fit to print” has picked up fervor in our we’re going to escape all the time-traps must be ever-new and compassionate archindy.org.) † Misinformation Age, when we tap through fake news, funny news and failing news The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick with a single slide of the thumb. Editorials, advertorials and objective reporting. Conversion, responding to God’s order is remedy for true progress The most newsworthy stories are those we can’t stop thinking about, discussing over Why did so many people have a of heart under the influence of the Much of today’s life lacks order. cubicles, fences and treadmills: the discovery conversion experience at the preaching word of God and in the perspective of Often those looking to restore it point of Jayme Closs, the Notre Dame fire. of St. John the Baptist, Christ and the the kingdom. But penance also means to outside resources like more funding, And yet, there is another definition for Apostles? changing one’s life in harmony with the manpower and creativity. No doubt this Christians: the Good News. St. Paul gives us change of heart. ... (#4). helps, but unless the heart is in the right Easter once felt like news. The shock one answer in stating “Doing penance is something place, much goes for naught because of the empty tomb. The sought-after when God created authentic and effective only if it is the order we pursue is not out there but account of the first witness. The soaring us, God planted the translated into deeds and acts of within us. and inexplicable triumph of it all. virtue of temperance penance. In this sense penance means The greatest human progress is made For those who believe, it was—and within us. Temperance ... asceticism, that is to say, the concrete when men and women have a change remains—the biggest news of all time. is often seen as self- daily effort of a person, supported by of heart and die to self in order to make To truly be Easter people, as we are control. Its deeper God’s [grace], to lose his or her own life our world better. True happiness and called, means to not only be people of hope meaning translates: for Christ as the only means of gaining desired progress ultimately depend on but people of words, with a story burning in “God put order in us.” it; an effort to put off the old man and put responding to God’s order within us that our hearts. We’d noodle it again and again When our life is in on the new” (#4). prompts to “put off the old man and put like any newsworthy story: what it means to order, heartfelt progress follows. Whenever conversion occurs, it is often on the new.” me, what you make of it, what we do and What best generates this happiness? because we are looking for a happier life; Ultimately, metanoia—conversion— don’t know so far, how it’s affecting us. Ironically, it is the workings of repentance. worldly wisdom has left our hearts empty. and responding to God’s order within us is We’d ask with wide eyes: Have you St. John Paul II stated in the apostolic Behind our pursuit of happiness is a desire our best remedy for true progress. heard the good news? exhortation “Reconciliation and to move on from a stagnant life lacking Penance,” “If we link penance with the spirit of ascetism that energizes God’s (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer metanoia ... it means the inmost change order within us. Catholic News Service.) † from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) † The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Page 13

Fourth Sunday of Easter/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, May 13 Friday, May 17 Sunday, May 12, 2019 Our Lady of Fatima Acts 13:26-33 Acts 11:1-18 Psalm 2:6-11b • Acts of the Apostles 13:14, 43-52 Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4 John 14:1-6 • Revelation 7:9, 14b-17 John 10:1-10 • John 10:27-30 Saturday, May 18 Tuesday, May 14 St. John I, pope and martyr The Acts of the Apostles supplies the the Good Shepherd. For an audience St. Matthias, Apostle Acts 13:44-52 first reading for Mass this weekend. It overwhelmingly agrarian, as was the Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 Psalm 98:1-4 gives a glimpse into the St. Paul’s way audience to which Jesus preached, of life as he moved imagery built on sheepherding, sheep Psalm 113:1-8 John 14:7-14 across Asia Minor in and shepherds was familiar and instantly John 15:9-17 his proclamation of understood. Sunday, May 19 the Gospel of Jesus. This passage states that the sheep Wednesday, May 15 Fifth Sunday of Easter Paul evidently know the shepherd. In turn, the shepherd St. Isidore Acts 14:21-27 first went to knows them. It implies a relationship of synagogues, which closeness, total devotion and trust. The Acts 12:24-13:5a Psalm 145:8-13 is not surprising. reading says that this shepherd gives Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Revelation 21:1-5a After all, he was of eternal life. Following the shepherd, the John 12:44-50 John 13:31-33a, 34-35 Jewish descent and sheep will never perish. background, and he No one can snatch them away from the Thursday, May 16 was well educated in the Jewish culture shepherd. The shepherd will protect them Acts 13:13-25 and religion of the time. He would have from all predators, because the sheep been comfortable among Jews, and also belong to him. It is the will of the Father. Psalm 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27 more likely to be heard when he spoke to In a great testament of self-identity, John 13:16-20 them. Jesus proclaims oneness with the Father. Even so, he obviously was not always met by universal acceptance, although Reflection Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle it would not be accurate to say that he This weekend, the Church calls us to attracted no converts from among the celebrate the resurrection once again. It Jews whom he met. He drew many of begins the fourth week of proclaiming the Bishops are the successors of them into the ranks of Christians, and he wondrous news that it first pronounced at attracted Gentiles as well. Easter. Christ lives! the Apostles in the Church today These details are only secondary to With the readings this weekend—and the story. The point of this reading is that with those of the preceding weeks of My understanding is that the Church to get your marriage annulled first. You the word of God, pronounced by Jesus, Easter—the Church essentially makes Qteaches that bishops and priests are the would only need to do that if you wanted continued to be spoken and received long two points. successors of the Apostles. Can this line to remarry. after the ascension. It was proclaimed by The first point is that Jesus lives, really be traced back Your question reminds me that there is an Apostle whom Jesus personally had literally, and the sublime act of to one of the original a fair amount of misunderstanding among called and by St. Barnabas, a disciple of resurrection gives us evidence that Jesus Apostles? (Ohio) Catholics about divorce. Sad to say, some this Apostle. is divine, the Son of the eternal Father. Catholics who have been divorced— So salvation continued through the As risen, Jesus is unique among humans. The 12 Apostles sometimes through little or no fault of Apostles. Jesus still spoke. As God, Jesus is the bearer of life, truth, Awere the their own—feel that they have thereby The Book of Revelation furnishes the peace and joy. There is no substitute for privileged eyewitnesses separated themselves from the Church next reading. It is symbolic in its language, the Lord. sent to proclaim and may even stop coming to Mass. but its meaning is clear. Among those saved The second point made this weekend the teachings of So, it is helpful when a parish explains by Jesus are people from every nation. and in past weeks is that the word of Jesus. The Gospel on its website, as does the parish of Their number is great. They are baptized, Jesus, and the salvation given by Jesus, of St. Matthew St. Vincent de Paul in Niagara Falls, wearing the white robes of baptism. Their continue. They did not cease with the reflects the fact that Christ, following the N.Y., that “Catholics who are separated sins have been washed away, precisely by ascension. Jesus lived in the preaching resurrection, commissioned the Apostles or divorced, and who have not remarried the sacrificial blood shed by the Lord on and the good works of the Apostles and and guaranteed his help: outside of the Church, are in good Calvary. lives in their followers and successors. “Go, therefore, and make disciples of standing in the Church and can receive the They carry the palm branches of As an example, through Paul and all nations, baptizing them in the name sacraments, including holy Communion. martyrs, as they have kept their faith Barnabas, Jesus touched people needing of the Father, and of the Son and of the “[They] are encouraged to fulfill despite persecution. hope and salvation, needing to know God. Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all their Catholic commitment by attending The Good Shepherd leads them. He By emphasizing these points, the that I have commanded you. And behold, Church on a weekly basis ... [and] to rescues them from the heat of the day and Church presents us with its basic belief I am with you always, until the end of the fully participate in all aspects of parish the dryness of earthly life. that Jesus is God. In Jesus is truth and age” (Mt 28:19-20). life. [They] are invited to serve in any St. John’s Gospel provides the life. The Church reassures us. Jesus is It is the further belief of the Church, in ministries—including lectors, eucharistic last reading. It also presents Jesus as with us still. † what is known as the doctrine of apostolic ministers and catechists. [They] may serve succession, that bishops today are linked as godparents for baptism or sponsors for in an unbroken line to those same original confirmation. Catholics who are separated My Journey to God Apostles. Priests share in the ministerial or divorced are not excommunicated.” priesthood of the bishops. But it is the Similarly, St. John Paul II said in his bishops alone who have the fullness 1981 apostolic exhortation “Familiaris of this priesthood and are considered Consortio”: “I earnestly call upon pastors Special Graces successors of the Apostles. and the whole community of the faithful St. Ignatius of Antioch—who died in to help the divorced, and with solicitous By Gayle Schrank the year 108 and is believed to have been care to make sure that they do not a disciple of the Apostle St. John—wrote consider themselves as separated from the As Jesus’ Mother, in a letter to the Ephesians: “For we ought Church, for as baptized persons they can, to receive every one whom the Master of and indeed must, share in her life” (#84). Mary is always close to His heart. the house sends to be over his household, That fact will make it natural: as we would do him that sent him. It is (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth special graces she will impart. manifest, therefore, that we should look Doyle at [email protected] and Let us not reject upon the bishop even as we would upon 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York this wondrous gift we have been given. the Lord himself.” 12203.) † Our prayers joined with Mary’s The visible sign of ordination, from the New Testament onward, has been the will help us get to heaven. imposition of hands. Thus, the transmission Readers may submit prose The salvation we seek of the apostolic ministry is achieved by or poetry for faith column comes from God alone. that ritual, together with the prayer of the But, we need one another, ordaining bishop that the ordinand be granted The Criterion invites readers to submit original prose or poetry relating to faith or to find our way home. the gift of the Holy Spirit to accomplish the ministry for which he has been chosen. experiences of prayer for possible publication in the “My Journey to God” column. Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Can a divorced person serve as “Poems should be no longer than Qan extraordinary minister of holy 25 lines (including lines between stanzas Communion, or do you need to receive if applicable) of either 44 characters an annulment first? I have no intention of (including spaces) to allow room for a remarrying, nor am I living with a partner staff‑selected photo, or 79 characters (Gayle Schrank is a member of or having a sexual relationship with (including spaces) if no photo is desired.” St. Mary Parish in Navilleton. Photo: anyone. What is the Catholic Church’s Please include name, address, parish and This stained-glass image of the rule on this? (Trinidad and Tobago) telephone number with submissions. Blessed Mother adorns the narthex of Send material for consideration to “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, 1400 N. St. Susanna Church in Plainfield.) Yes, you absolutely can serve as (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Meridian­ St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Aan extraordinary minister of holy or e-mail to [email protected]. † Communion—and no, you do not need Page 14 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019

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ALLEN, Gloria A. (Bailey), HAGAN, Robert J., 61, 96, St. Gabriel, Connersville, St. Michael the Archangel, April 17. Mother of Joan Indianapolis, April 24. Father of Brockman, Lisa Campbell, Amanda Stephenson. Brother of Jane Ann Stidham and Mark Mary McAuley, Donny, Greg, Allen. Grandmother of eight. Jeff, Marty, Michael, Ricky and Great-grandmother of two. Timmy Hagan. Grandfather of ALLEN, Richard L., 91, five. St. Jude, Indianapolis, April HARMON, Timothy J., 64, 25. Father of Diana Castner, St. Mary, Greensburg, April 26. Linda King, Nancy Mills, David Husband of Janet Harmon. and Daniel Allen. Brother of Father of Hillary Ebejer, Rosemary Heidelberger and Kellen and Ryan Lawrence. Robert Allen. Grandfather of Grandfather of three. seven. Great-grandfather of KLOSE, Gilbert, 88, seven. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Spring at the seminary BOKELMAN, Arnold, Richmond, April 29. Father of A statue of Mary is visible among the vivid spring blossoms on May 1 at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. 84, St. Mary, Greensburg, Megan, Christopher and Kevin (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) April 24. Husband of Rita Klose. Grandfather of five. Bokelman. Father of Ann KREKEL, George M., Jr., Sciarra, Mark and Mike 84, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, RIPBERGER, Henrietta April 26. Husband of Elizabeth Indianapolis, April 23. Wife of Yvonne Grismore, Robin Bokelman. Grandfather of six. Floyd County, April 27. J. (Brunsman), 83, Rothbauer. Father of Donna of John Scheidler. Mother of Slye and Wanda Thompson. Great-grandfather of five. Husband of Joanne Krekel. St. Gabriel, Connersville, Koenig, Diana Waggoner James, John, Jr. and Joseph Aunt of several. BOONE, James R., 89, Father of Kelley Blasdel, April 29. Mother of Dianna and Richard Rothbauer. Scheidler. Sister of Debbie TAYLOR, Amy C. (Weber), Prince of Peace, Madison, Pamela Seewer, Chris and Caudle and Joyce Ruckel. Brother of Henry and Steve Phelps and Doug Prang. 39, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, April 17. Husband of Rita Patrick Krekel. Brother of Grandmother of three. Rothbauer. Grandfather of four. Grandmother of six. April 22. Mother of Tiffany Boone. Father of Collista Joyce Koeberlein, Diane Great-grandmother of one. Great-grandfather of nine. SULLIVAN, Sherrey T., 70, Taylor. Daughter of Larry Krebs, Linda Huber, Joe Wibbels and Donald ROTHBAUER, Charlie, 91, SCHEIDLER, Jamie (Prang), Our Lady of Lourdes, April 4. and Mary Weber. Sister of and Todd Boone. Brother Krekel. Grandfather of six. St. John Paul II, Sellersburg, 60, St. Luke the Evangelist, Wife of Michael Sullivan. Sister Lori Pol. † of Amanda Battcher, Great-grandfather of two. Charlotte Blair and Ann LAYNE, Kathy A., 68, Hagan. Grandfather of nine. St. Mark the Evangelist, Providence Sister Mary Leahy served in education and development work Great-grandfather of six. Indianapolis, April 17. Sister Providence Sister Mary Leahy, formerly Sister Marie Anita, from 1954-55 and as vice president for institutional advancement CREBBE, Jocelyn A., 85, of Diane Chastain and Robert died on April 30 at Mother Theodore Hall at the motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in St. Mary-of-the-Woods St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Layne. Aunt and great-aunt of of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in from 1985-87. April 22. Wife of Kenneth several. St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 84. After earning a master’s degree in business administration, Crebbe. Mother of Carrie MAHONEY, Thomas R., The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on May 17 she moved from education to development work, serving in a Lange, Susan Sonomyama and Sr., 83, Our Lady of Perpetual Neil Crebbe. Sister of Cathy at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at the motherhouse. parish in Illinois, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and in Help, New Albany, April 27. Burial will follow at the sisters’ cemetery. Washington at Georgetown University and the National Catholic Hayes and William Gallagher. Husband of Betty Mahoney. Grandmother of seven. Mary Ann Leahy was born on Jan. 25, 1935, in Chicago. She Education Association. Father of Lisa Howard, Laurie entered the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on In 1997, Sister Mary began service as director of the GANNON, William, 76, Pry, Rick and Tom Mahoney, Jan. 7, 1952, and professed final vows on Aug. 15, 1959. National Religious Retirement Office at the United States Our Lady of Lourdes, Jr. Brother of Linda Stravakis Indianapolis, April 19. Brother and Jenny Youngs. Grandfather Sister Mary earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, retiring in of Mary Mattingly. Uncle of of 10. Great-grandfather of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a master’s of education degree 2000. She then served as a development consultant and in several. eight. in science at the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree ministry at a parish in Bradenton, Fla., until returning to the in biology at St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minn., and a motherhouse in 2018, where she committed herself entirely to HABOUSH, Natalie, 96, MEDENWALD, James St. Malachy, Brownsburg, J., 86, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, master’s degree in business administration at Rosary College prayer. April 20. Mother of Barbara, April 13. Father of Paula (now Dominican University) in River Forest, Ill. She is survived by two sisters: Sheila Ruskauff of Jacqueline and Alexander, Berry, Sandra Fansler, Arlene During her 67 years as a member of the Sisters of Providence, Mount Pleasant, S.C., and Margaret Frederick of Libertyville, Ill. Jr. Grandmother of seven. Sheean and Dean Medenwald. Sister Mary ministered as an educator for 25 years in schools in Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Providence, Great-grandmother of 13. Grandfather of nine. Illinois, Indiana and Washington, D.C. In the archdiocese, she 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Great-great-grandmother of five. Great-grandfather of 14. served at the former St. Margaret Mary School in Terre Haute St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876. † Visit to memorials expands high school students’ civil rights views ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS)—St. Thomas “It’s a completely different thing He joined 19 other local high school questions about why they wanted to go. Academy senior Sean Hubbard because you actually get the feeling students and chaperones from four Before leaving, they read the 2010 book understood the story of Rosa Parks in a of being there where actual history Minnesota parishes for a civil rights Racial Justice and the Catholic Church by new light when he saw the bus stop in took place, so you actually have more field trip in Alabama this spring. The Father Bryan Massingale, a professor of Montgomery, Ala., where she boarded a of a feel for it, and you don’t take it group visited civil rights museums and theological and social ethics at Fordham bus on Dec. 1, 1955, the day she refused as something light,” said Sean, 17, a memorials in Montgomery and Selma that University in New York. to give up her seat because of her skin member of St. Peter Claver Parish in told the stories of slavery to modern-day “It really made me think about color. St. Paul. racism. our history,” said Elise Carroll, 15, a “It was a very eye-opening experience member of St. Cecilia Parish in St. Paul. for me,” Sean said, noting that the trip She said seeing exhibits of people’s taught him more about that part of history. struggles for civil rights and hearing Everlyn Wentzlaff, 67, a St. Peter stories told by tour guides made things Claver parishioner, organized the youth come alive for her. trip after sharing her experience with Hubbard said the sites helped him fellow parishioners about her own trip understand “the deeper context of the civil to the National Memorial for Peace and rights movement.” Justice in Montgomery when it opened Liza Pirjevec, 17, a member of St. Peter last year. Claver, said she was particularly impacted Social justice groups from St. Peter by letters on display written by incarcerated Claver Parish and Guardian Angels Parish African-Americans, noting that some were in Oakdale sponsored the trip. Wentzlaff from people as young as 15. also received a grant through the National In Montgomery, the group visited Black Catholic Conference. the National Civil Rights Memorial, the Wentzlaff, who chairs the St. Peter Freedom Riders Museum and the Dexter Claver social justice committee, said a lot Avenue Baptist Church, where Rev. of African-American history isn’t taught Martin Luther King Jr. first served. In regularly in public schools. She said the Selma, they visited the Slavery and Civil trip deepened the students’ understanding War Museum, the National Voting Rights of civil rights and blacks in the Catholic Museum and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Church. the site of brutal beatings during a 1965 She added the students were amazing civil rights march that came to be known on the trip, and she thinks it was a good as Bloody Sunday. Kenny Jordan and Shaquille Young view a statue during a tour of the National Memorial for Peace and experience and life lesson. “It’s important to know this Justice on April 1 in Montgomery, Ala., organized by St. Peter Claver in St. Paul, Minn. As part of the trip’s application information and to be able to share it with (CNS photo/Debi Green for The Catholic Spirit) process, the students responded to essay other people,” Elise said. † The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 Page 15

deep love for God and a strong faith in MOTHERS him. I hope I will carry to my deathbed continued from page 1 the principles of morality which you have taught me and your beautiful “She is the strongest person I know, full interpretation of sex—a word which has of grace even in the face of hardship. When come to be associated with so much that I was in elementary school, I was one of is disgusting and degrading in this world the few children without a father in my and is so frequently misused. Amidst all class. She and my stepfather had divorced the repulsive talk of sex, I can still see the years earlier, and I had been curious about beauty of it when used as God intended. where my biological father was. I learned “Without the Christian training that she had been a teenage runaway when received from you, this world would often she became pregnant with me. seem void of any good, and life would “I felt very guilty because I thought have no meaning. of how I must have been the reason she “I realize that often I have gone against didn’t graduate high school and had to your wishes and returned sorrow for your work two jobs just to put food on the love. I hope you will forgive me and I feel table. I remember I asked her why she that you already have, for your love has didn’t just have an abortion, and if she always been a love of complete sacrifice ever thought her life would have been and giving of self. I hope I can repay you better if she had. for your undying love, but right now all I ‘You were the greatest gift God gave have to offer is my sincere love in return. me. He had a plan for me. You saved my “Love always, life. Abortion never crossed my mind,’ she Mary” told me. ‘I wouldn’t change a single thing because now I have you.’ ” A truck-driving mom’s road to faith Her mother’s unfailing love has guided Mary Sommer admits that her favorite her life and her relationships, Clark notes. memories of her mother don’t include the “I did not have a father at home, but I Sunday mornings when her mom drove believe God made that plan for our family the family to Mass in a coal truck. for a reason. I am no longer angry, and I “It was a little embarrassing at that time, A woman plays with her 1-year-old son in late February at Our Lady’s Inn maternity home in St. Louis. have recently reconnected with my father since most people had cars, before pick-ups All mothers are honored in special ways on Mother’s Day, which is on May 12 this year. and forgave him for not being around. became an item,” notes Sommer, a member (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) “I believe my mother taught me that of St. Augustine Parish in Leopold, about there is strength in forgiveness. Now I have the truck that her father drove for his work. It starts with the way she treated him attention to the way her mother lived her my own daughter, and I try my best to instill Still, Sommer has nothing but pride for and his four brothers. life. the same strong Christian values my own the way her mother embraced and lived “Mom spent hours upon hours She noticed how her mom “imparted mother put in me. Some days are harder her faith. listening to her sons talk about school, the goodness of God” through her actions. than others, but my mother taught me to “She was raised of a strong Baptist work, money, relationships, hurtful She knew the comfort of her mother’s have faith—and to listen to the angels.” faith until after she married my dad situations, and much more,” says Yost, affection. who was Catholic. I was the youngest a pastoral associate of Our Lady of She also saw how her mother “gave A mother’s best lesson in love of six children that God blessed them Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. completely” to her family. As a teacher, Sue Levell knows the with, and the only girl. She told me that “She is by far the best listener I have All those qualities contribute to the importance of passing along knowledge when my oldest brother started school ever known. I have given her the title of way she still feels about her mother from one generation to the next. The at St. Paul’s in Tell City, they decided to Patron Saint of Listeners. She still listens 44 years after her death. Martinsville woman says she learned her send him through catechism classes and to me each morning in prayer.” “I miss my mom,” notes Schott, a greatest lessons from her mother. she attended with him. By the time he Yost has counted on that connection member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish “I learned to read from hearing my finished, she realized Catholicism was the since Juanita Yost died suddenly of a in Beech Grove. “I miss her warmth and mother read the Bible to my brothers, and true religion. We were all baptized at the stroke two years ago. her kindness, her serenity and her gentle I therefore read before I began school,” same time with her.” “Like her family and friends left nature. I miss her deferential ways and Levell says. “I learned by heart that ‘God That faith guided her mother through behind, I am sure she was surprised her servant attitude. I miss her heart. so loved the world that he gave his only tough times in her life—working in at the time of her death,” he says. “I remind myself of her chastising begotten son’ (Jn 3:16). factories and tobacco fields, and even “Although she may have been surprised, words in my raucous teenage years, ‘Just “In my heart, I know God is love and shoveling coal off a truck to help her I have no doubt she was ready to be because everybody’s doing it doesn’t God is truth. Thank you, Mama.” husband. As a balance to that side of her called home by Christ. She lived life make it right.’ We would do well to life, she wrote poetry. daily with faith, love and service to God remember that wisdom in today’s crazy A love letter to Mom “She had a hard life for the most part, and to others. culture. She came across the letter recently, a but she never lost hope or faith. 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Fred+SonsAd_Criterion_3.375x2.indd 1 2/12/18 2:01 PM Page 16 The Criterion Friday, May 10, 2019 No Hesburgh documentary without From the Catholics vs. Convicts, filmmaker says WASHINGTON (CNS)—Patrick Creadon, who made the new Bishop Simon Bruté ARCHIVES documentary Hesburgh about Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, said that film wouldn’t have been possible had it not been for a feature he made three years earlier for ESPN, Catholics vs. Convicts. The latter documentary chronicled the buildup to a legendary Notre Dame vs. Miami football game played at Notre Dame in 1988. Both teams were undefeated, Notre Dame won 31-30, and the infamous T-shirt that gave the film and the rivalry its nickname had been made by Creadon’s roommate at Notre Dame, where both were seniors. The show debuted on ESPN in 2016. Father Hesburgh had died the year before. “I was on campus a lot. I started thinking a lot about him, and what his life was and what his life means,” Creadon told Catholic News Service (CNS) in an April 25 telephone interview from This is a promotional poster for the new Chicago. “I started thinking this is the documentary “Hesburgh,” about Holy Cross kind of movie that might never get told.” Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who Instead, Creadon and his crew spent led the University of Notre Dame for 35 years. two and a half years making Hesburgh, Director Patrick Creadon and his crew spent two and a half years making “Hesburgh,” which which opened on May 3 in 35 U.S. opens on May 3 in 35 U.S. cities. cities with the promise of more cities in (CNS photo/courtesy OCP Media) following weeks. “I never thought of his story as just a Notre Dame story. I always The civil rights commission was thought of it as an American story.” just one of 16 federal commissions on School library at St. Luke in Indianapolis Creadon said: “I think the fact that we which Father Hesburgh sat. He also was In this photo, Tim Fox and Irma Noel peruse the biography section of the library had made the ESPN film really helped us.” awarded 150 honorary degrees. “That’s at the St. Luke the Evangelist School in Indianapolis. The photo was published He described it as “an olive branch” to the in the Guinness Book of World Records,” in the St. Luke the Evangelist Church dedication souvenir booklet from Oct. 22, two schools, even getting a handwritten Creadon told CNS. 1961. The booklet notes that the school library contained 1,200 books at that time. thank-you note from Jimmy Johnson, then Creadon said Father Hesburgh’s story St. Luke Parish was established on Sept. 2 of that same year, and the school, which the Miami coach, who is now a studio “really speaks to the moment we’re in in had already been under construction, opened a few days later. analyst on the Fox network for pro football. the country right now.” “To be honest with you, when we He added: “I think anyone who plans (Would you like to comment on or share information about this photo? Contact started making Hesburgh, I was somewhat to vote in 2020 and is looking for a archdiocesan archivest Julie Motyka at 800-382-9836, ext. 1538; 317-236-1538; or disappointed—although not totally different kind of leadership, a different by e-mail at [email protected].) surprised—that few people knew who he style of leadership, this film is a very was. Now, his name is going to live on good first step in considering what forever in the Notre Dame community very strong, wise, kind leadership can Satan, not God, tricks people with and the Notre Dame family,” Creadon look like. Hesburgh was one of utmost said. But “step out of the Notre Dame influential men in America for decades. community, and the name recognition ... He never raised his voice. He temptation, Pope Francis says falls off,” he added. “Catholics know who certainly didn’t swear. He was decent VATICAN CITY (CNS)—God never this. A father helps us up immediately,” he he is, a little bit. ... It would be a terrible and kind and he was a gentleman, even tricks, traps or tempts his children to sin had said in the interview. loss to let his story fade away.” to people who were his most powerful or commit evil, Pope Francis said. The pope reiterated the same point at Even though he’s a Notre Dame adversaries.” God is with his people every step his general audience, saying that despite graduate, “I didn’t get into this line of work Hesburgh got its debut on April 26 in of the way—during times of joy and the various translations, one thing is to make puff pieces about people,” Creadon Chicago and South Bend, Ind. Creadon sadness, triumph and undisputed: “We must exclude God as said. “We looked, really, for missteps grew up in Chicago; his father and tribulation—and he the source of the temptations that impede along the way. We researched 12 or 15 grandfather went to Notre Dame. His always helps lead humanity in its journey as if God himself archives around the country. We dug and college roommate, the T-shirt maker, still people away from were on the prowl, setting snares and dug and dug. At the end of the day, he’s an lives in Chicago and has found success in the devil and his traps for his children.” individual who lived an extraordinary life. the business world. “We’re best friends,” temptations, the pope In the Gospels, Jesus has revealed the And certainly, as much I am disinclined Creadon said. “We stood up at each said during his weekly true image of God as a loving, protective to do a puff piece for someone, I am also other’s weddings. His daughter is my general audience in father, he said. disinclined to become a muckraker or find goddaughter.” St. Peter’s Square on “Christians don’t have anything to do things that weren’t there.” And in South Bend, where May 1, the feast of with a jealous God who is competing Hesburgh follows its subject not through Father Hesburgh’s name still resonates, Pope Francis St. Joseph the Worker. with humanity or who enjoys testing every part of his peripatetic presidency, but interest in the film was so strong at one Marking the feast them. These are images of many pagan frames it largely around his work on the multiplex that it pushed aside a pair of day, the pope prayed that the saint, a divinities,” the pope said. U.S. Civil Rights Commission, to which opening‑night showings of Avengers: carpenter and Jesus’ guardian, would God the Father is not the source of he was appointed by President Dwight Endgame to satisfy the need for Hesburgh support people sacrificing so much to do evil, he said. Rather, when evil appears D. Eisenhower and, as commission chair, tickets. good in the world and intercede on behalf in people’s lives, God is the one “fighting forced to resign by President Richard “The Walt Disney Co. is going to do of all those who have lost their job or at their side so that they may be freed. M. Nixon after Nixon’s 1972 re-election just fine,” Creadon said. “But in South cannot find employment. [He is] a God who always fights for us, because the commission had named the Bend, Ind., Father Ted took away two of Unemployment “is a global tragedy not against us.” federal government as the biggest danger the Avengers’ screens to meet the desire today,” he said at the end of his audience. Evil and temptation come from the to civil rights due to lax law enforcement. of their customers.” † In his main audience talk, the pope devil, who even targeted Jesus in the continued his catechesis on the Lord’s desert before his public ministry began, Prayer, looking at the next to last Pope Francis said. invocation, “Lead us not into temptation.” “So many people say, ‘Oh, why do Modern translations from the original you talk about the devil when it is so Greek expression “are a bit shaky” old-fashioned? The devil doesn’t exist.’ and do not give a precise rendering of Well, look at what the Gospel teaches. the real meaning, he said. But recent Jesus faced the devil and was tempted by Vatican‑approved translations in some Satan,” he said. languages, like French, Italian and But Jesus rejects every temptation Spanish, include equivalents such as “Do and is victorious in his battle against evil not abandon us to temptation” or “Do not no matter the difficulties and anguish it let us enter” or “fall into temptation.” causes, the pope said. Pope Francis already highlighted the During his moment of great agony in translation issue as part of a television the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asked series on the Lord’s Prayer in 2017 when his friends to stay and “keep watch” with he said some translations of the “Our him, he said. Instead, they fell asleep. Father” can give believers the wrong But “during the worst moments in Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, second from left, joins hands with with the Rev. Martin Luther impression that God can and does lead life, the most insufferable, the most King Jr., the Rev. Edgar Chandler and Msgr. Robert J. Hagarty of Chicago, far right, in 1964 at the people into temptation. distressing, God keeps watch with us, Illinois Rally for Civil Rights in Chicago’s Soldier field. The image is part of the new documentary “I’m the one who falls. But it’s not God fights with us, he is always near,” the Hesburgh, about Father Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who led the University of Notre Dame for [God] who pushes me into temptation to pope said. “Why? Because he is a father” 35 years. Director Patrick Creadon and his crew spent two and a half years making Hesburgh, which see how I fall. No, a father does not do who never abandons his children. † opened on May 3 in 35 U.S. cities. (CNS photo/courtesy University of Notre Dame)