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Respect Life Month Inside Witness to life Notre Dame president names Mary Daly the coordinator for university life Criterion initiatives, page 15. Serving the Church in Central and Souther n Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com October 1, 2010 Vol. LI, No. 1 75¢ Charities head Respect Life Month marks 100 years Archdiocese with call for honors pro-life Submitted photo ‘21st-century supporters for solutions’ WASHINGTON (CNS)—One hundred their service years and a day after the founding of the national organization that became By Mary Ann Wyand Catholic Charities USA, its president called for “21st-century solutions to 21st-century Promoting the culture of life and problems,” and said keeping track of how helping save the lives of defenseless many people are fed or given shelter for a unborn babies are priorities for the night is no longer enough. 2010 recipients of archdiocesan pro-life “We need to track not only money and volunteer service awards. services, but how many people have escaped St. Joan of Arc parishioner the need for such services,” said Father Larry Patricia Yeadon of Indianapolis, who has Snyder, a priest of the Archdiocese of faithfully St. Paul and Minneapolis who has been volunteered as a president and CEO of pro-life sidewalk Catholic Charities counselor outside USA since 2005. abortion clinics for Father Snyder 24 years, will spoke on Sept. 26 at receive the his organization’s Archbishop centennial gathering Edward T. in Washington, where O’Meara it was founded by Respect Life about 400 Catholic Patricia Yeadon Award for her leaders in 1910. distinguished Fr. Larry Snyder The conference service to the cause of life at the conclusion opened the day before of the archdiocesan Respect Life Mass on with a Mass at the Basilica of the National Oct. 3 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and a Indianapolis. group photo on the campus of The Catholic Cardinal Ritter High School senior St. Joseph parishioner Brian Weigel of St. Leon pounds a cross into the ground with the help University of America, replicating a photo of Alyssa Barnes, a member of St. Malachy of another youth in the parish on Sept. 18 along Route 1 just south of Interstate 74 in Dearborn County. the founding members 100 years ago. Parish in Brownsburg and a dedicated The “Cemetery of the Innocents” display of 4,000 crosses represents the number of babies that die in Father Snyder acknowledged that “there pro-life volunteer, legalized abortion each day in the United States. The traveling pro-life exhibit will be on display in will always be those who need the safety net” is the recipient of St. Leon through Oct. 2. of services, such as the Our Lady of See related column, food, shelter or Guadalupe Catholics in central and southern pray for an end to abortion. page 12. financial assistance, Pro-Life Youth Indiana are invited to participate in the but said that for Award, which also archdiocesan pro-life Mass, which is Respect Life Award many, “the safety net is broken.” will be presented part of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Yeadon began praying the rosary in “It can trap families into a lifetime of following the Bishops’ national Respect Life Sunday front of abortion clinics in 1986, and her need,” he said. “Our efforts must be Respect Life observance organized to educate people prayerful presence there evolved into transformative,” and must help place liturgy. about the sanctity and dignity of life pro-life sidewalk counseling as a volunteer individuals and families on “the pathway to Msgr. Joseph F. from conception until natural death. with the ecumenical Truth and Compassion self-sufficiency,” he added. Alyssa Barnes Schaedel, vicar After the Mass, Catholics Ministry organization. Outlining the history of the organization general, will are encouraged to join the “I was trying to get St. Joan of Arc founded as the National Conference of celebrate the Respect Life Mass at 1 p.m. Central Indiana Life Chain, an parishioners involved in going to the Catholic Charities, Father Snyder said it was on Oct. 3 on behalf of Archbishop Daniel ecumenical, one-hour, pro-life prayer abortion mills to pray,” she said. “That’s established “at a time of great social M. Buechlein, who is leading a pilgrimage vigil along North Meridian Street in how I started going there. I had no idea that transformation” when the United States to holy sites in Austria and Germany. Indianapolis, at 2:30 p.m. to silently See LIFE, page 2 was moving from an agrarian to an See CHARITIES, page 2 Haitian bishops agree on broad-based program to oversee reconstruction of parishes and schools WASHINGTON (CNS)—Haitian the heels of meetings on Sept. 20-21 bishops agreed on Sept. 24 to the that the Haitian bishops had in creation of a broad-based Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, to reconstruction program involving discuss reconstruction needs and The Florida Catholic Church partners from around the other Church programs. world that will guide how parishes Called the Program for the and Catholic schools destroyed in the Reconstruction of the Church in Haiti, Caribbean nation’s January earthquake the plan would establish a are rebuilt. commission with both Haitian and They met in Miami on Sept. 22-26 international members that will CNS photo/Ana Rodriguez-Soto, with Catholic officials from the United review and approve parish projects, States, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, and ensure that building plans meet Dominican Republic, El Salvador, construction standards based on France, Germany, Guadeloupe and appropriate building codes. Mexico, and the Inter-American “As Haitians continue to struggle Development Bank. The bishops were to recover from this unprecedented considering the proposal developed natural disaster, the Church walks Bishops from Haiti and Latin America process in for Mass at over several months primarily by the with them, bearing the cross of St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami on Sept. 25. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Christ, in [the] hope that suffering group of bishops, who also included bishops from Europe as and Catholic Relief Services. will give way to new life and to a new well as the Miami Archdiocese, celebrated the Mass to close a The four-day gathering came on See HAITI, page 8 meeting about a program to rebuild the Church in Haiti. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 1, 2010 opportunities to offer sidewalk counseling to LIFE expectant mothers outside abortion clinics during volunteer shifts that last from 7 a.m. Submitted photo continued from page 1 until 1:30 p.m. I would continue, and that God would keep “I fast for the babies,” she said, “and I me going there for this many years.” pray the rosary or read Scripture, usually the While there is “a lot of heartache psalms. I pray for the women that are involved in pro-life sidewalk counseling,” already inside [the abortion clinic], pray for Yeadon said, there also are moments of the staff and—if I know who the abortionist overwhelming joy when women that is—pray for him or her by name. Sometimes experience crisis pregnancies decide to people come by from the neighborhood, and choose life for their unborn babies. they want to stop and pray about something. “I think God gives you a way to protect I am there for whoever God sends my way.” your heart when you do this in obedience to The daughter of Dolores Yeadon and the him,” she said. “It’s simply God’s grace. late Bill Yeadon grew up in a large family of Even with the suffering comes joy because 15 children that includes her twin sister, you know what you’re doing is the right Nancy, as well as several adopted siblings thing. I think it comes back to knowing that and foster siblings. God sent you out there, and being willing to “It was always a big thrill to have a new listen to the Holy Spirit.” baby in the house,” she said, “so it’s hard for A “Cemetery of the Innocents” at St. Joseph Parish in St. Leon educates people about the tragedy of The hardest part of sidewalk counseling me to understand that sometimes people legalized abortion. Father Scott Nobbe, the administrator of St. Joseph Parish and St. John the Baptist is making a personal connection with don’t welcome babies.” Parish in Dover, said about 150 parishioners participated in the pro-life project, including homebound women considering abortion, she said. “You Benedictine Sister Kathleen Yeadon, a people who prayed for an end to abortion. The crosses are part of a traveling pro-life exhibit created have to truly show the women that you care member of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in by Larry and Kay Sendelback of Cold Spring, Ky. about them. You have to expose your heart Beech Grove, said her older sister schedules completely, and you are so vulnerable. her home cleaning business and social Indianapolis, attends the archdiocesan first ever Pro-Life Week. … She is a visible Sometimes they will reject what you have activities to allow time for sidewalk Helpers of God’s Precious Infants witness to the pro-life movement by praying said then go ahead and have an abortion. So counseling during busy days at clinics. monthly Mass at St. Michael the Archangel at Planned Parenthood, and by attending— you continue to pray for them, and offer “Patty’s name is Patricia Ruth Ann Church, participates in the Central Indiana and encouraging other students to attend— information [about post-abortion syndrome Yeadon, and the first letters of her name Life Chain and “40 Days for Life” prayer the monthly pro-life Mass at St.
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