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Archbishop-designate William E. Lori of Baltimore has walked the halls of political power in the U.S. Capitol in Washington many Above, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne offers times during the last the opening prayer at a March 25 Mass at several months, St. Church in Henryville advocating for a three weeks after two tornadoes devastated the renewed defense of community. Father Steve Schaftlein, pastor, religious freedom. looks on as altar server Conner Martin, 11, As chairman of assists the bishop. At right is cantor the U.S. bishops’ Barbara Gilley. Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Left, volunteers pause to greet Father Steven Archbishop-designate Freedom, the Schaftlein, right, pastor of St. Francis Xavier William E. Lori New Albany native Parish in Henryville, on March 23 while repairing has been one of the Church’s chief voices the church’s roof. It was severely damaged on calling on President Barack Obama to rescind March 2 when a tornado knocked the church’s his administration’s mandate that nearly all chimney onto the roof, shattering three large oak employers provide free abortifacient, beams. Pictured are Frick of Nineveh, sterilization and contraception coverage to left, Nick Clifton, Jeremy Helms, Randy Jewell in their employees even if they are opposed in the yellow hard hat, Gary Israel on the scaffold, conscience to these medicines and all of Indianapolis, and Father Schaftlein. procedures. In being such a prominent public advocate for religious freedom, Bishop Coyne commends St. Francis Xavier Archbishop-designate Lori is following in the footsteps of another son of New Albany, parishioners, assures archdiocese’s long-term Cardinal E. Ritter. Nearly 50 years ago, Cardinal Ritter stood on the floor of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome commitment to tornado-ravaged area during the final session of the Second Vatican Council to persuade his brother bishops from By Patricia Happel Cornwell parishioners for actively demonstrating their The bishop pledged the archdiocese’s around the world that religious liberty is part Special to The Criterion Christian faith during the aftermath of the resources to help restore the parish and of the teaching of the Church. recent tornadoes. community “for as long as you need us,” In the end, the vast majority of bishops HENRYVILLE—Beneath the “In this community in the past few and said, “thank you for showing [others] voted in favor of “Dignitatis Humanae,” the tarp-covered roof of St. Francis Xavier weeks,” he said, “we’ve seen people step up what it means to be Catholic.” Council’s “Declaration on Religious Church, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne and show others what it’s like to be a good To date, the archdiocese has received Freedom.” concelebrated Mass on March 25 with Christian and a good Catholic. tells us nearly $300,000 in its tornado relief efforts. At the time, Cardinal Ritter was serving Father Steven Schaftlein, the parish’s pastor. over and over that we have to die to Father Schaftlein, pastor of both as the archbishop of St. Louis. He had Plywood covered some windows, and a ourselves and live for others. It’s not about St. Francis Xavier Parish in Henryville and previously led the Archdiocese of box-like supporting structure blocked the me. It’s about the needs of others. St. Michael Parish in Charlestown, said that Indianapolis. area beneath the church’s damaged roof. “We can see the devastation when a during the first 10 days after the disaster, Archbishop-designate Lori was ordained Orange work lamps provided lighting for tragedy like this occurs, but we can also see St. Francis parishioners fed 5,000 people a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington the organist and cantor. how God works. God works through the per day. Henryville’s population is in 1977. In his homily, Bishop Coyne, people around us, answering our prayers only 1,900. For the past 10 years, he has served as the apostolic administrator, commended through the people in our community.” See ST. FRANCIS, page 2 See LORI, page 9 Spirit of Service winners are committed to helping those in need By John Shaughnessy St. Parish in Indianapolis when a parish committee was William Spangler believes in the simple trying to decide the needs of the parish approaches that can change a person’s life during an archdiocesan capital campaign. and the lives of others. “All of the committee members had an Take the first step, knowing it can lead to idea for what the parish needed the most,” an amazing journey. recalls Tom Hirschauer, a St. Luke Speak up, parishioner. “Expand the school. Repair the knowing your voice roof. Add a community center. Then came can help others the voice of Bill. He said that while all pursue a worthy these things were needed, shouldn’t we purpose. think about the real work of the Church So it seems fitting and how we could use this campaign to Shelter. And he has been a member of to share a simple, provide for those less fortunate. St. Luke’s Christian Social Action Mission revealing story about “Bill’s suggestion was to raise at least for 20 years. Spangler—one of the $250,000 to start a St. Luke Endowment to “I really feel blessed because service six people who will be used to help the poor. Bill was heard, has strengthened my faith immeasurably,” be honored by the and the parish responded. We now have an he says. “We tend to think we need to be William Spangler archdiocese with the endowment that is providing funds to help some tremendously gifted person to help 2012 Spirit of Service the poor.” others. But we all have the tools to do Award, a group that also includes Spangler’s actions also back his words. something for someone. Take that Tom Egold, Pat and Elaine Jerrell, and He has served as the chairman of the board first step, and let God do the rest.” Fred and Mary Pitzer. of Catholic Charities Indianapolis. He has It also helps to remember that “Jesus Spangler’s telling story took place at volunteered on the board of Holy Family See AWARDS, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012

representatives arrived in the town on ST. FRANCIS March 3, and most had completed their continued from page 1 assessments and left by March 17. The deadline for applying to FEMA is May 8. The parish provided food to victims People seeking aid at St. Francis Xavier and volunteers with help from the Parish are now being referred to Happel Cornwell Patricia Photos by Clark County Sheriff’s Department, Catholic Charities. Little Caesar’s, Papa John’s Pizza, Taco Bell At the St. Francis parking lot, trucks are and individual donors. filled with essentials—from soap and socks Representatives of the Red Cross, to shovels and food. Shelves were delivered Indiana Homeland Security, National Guard on March 23 so supplies could be organized and Federal Emergency Management Agency in the church basement. Donated goods are (FEMA) converged on Henryville immediately being stored at St. Francis and a nearby after the disaster, and the archdiocesan lumber warehouse because people whose Catholic Charities staff organized training homes were demolished have nowhere to sessions for volunteer case managers. The keep large quantities of goods at one time. case managers from parishes throughout the “Traffic [of victims requesting aid] has archdiocese will stay in contact with assigned dropped to about 10 percent of what it was families to help them through the process of right after the tornadoes. But the need accessing available resources, and rebuilding continues. We want to be able to completely their homes and lives. restock a family’s needs a house at a time,” Trudy Stephens of Marengo Father Schaftlein said. volunteered to conduct intake interviews The parish will now begin sending Bishop Christopher J. Coyne and Father Steven Schaftlein greet parishioners as they leave Mass at for Catholic Charities in a trailer at the out volunteer crews to help rebuild homes, St. Francis Xavier Church in Henryville on March 25. The bishop pledged the archdiocese’s long-term St. Francis Church parking lot. a prospect that the pastor expects to go assistance to the parish and community as they rebuild from the destructive March 2 tornadoes. “I just came because I could help,” on for a year. He expects the number of she said. out-of-town groups offering to help with students will finish the school year at Her words could be the anthem of reconstruction will also “ramp up” in April borrowed facilities. Elementary students thousands of volunteers who converged on the as weather becomes milder. resumed classes on March 19 at the vacant area following the March 2 tornadoes when Nearly 100 Purdue University students Graceland School in New Albany, and 175-mile-per-hour winds flattened much of were among the first volunteers to arrive high school students will return to classes on the small towns of Henryville, Marysville and to help with cleanup in Henryville and April 2 at Mid-America Science Park Osgood. nearby Marysville. The students were from in Scottsburg. Tractor-trailer loads of “The first 10 days, thousands of people 20 countries, including , India, school supplies have been donated by took off work and just stayed with us to help Colombia and Brazil. Staples Midwest Distribution Center in clean up,” Father Schaftlein said. “The town While such volunteers are a great help, Terre Haute, Vigo County Schools and other is almost ‘immaculate’ now compared to what “only the local people can manage the organizations. it looked like at first. It’s amazing how reconstruction properly,” Father Schaftlein West Clark Community Schools officials quickly it is being cleaned up. We’re in the said on March 25. “We need local people expect Henryville Junior-Senior High Trudy Stephens of Marengo conducts an intake rebuilding mode already. A thousand people with experience as carpenters, plumbers, School to be rebuilt by September. interview with a Henryville resident seeking have already signed up for FEMA aid in landscapers and other professionals to be A total of 65 tornadoes on March 2 assistance from Catholic Charities in the this area.” project supervisors. An outside group can and March 3 were confirmed by the organization’s trailer at the parking lot of Although cleanup is under way, the help, but it doesn’t have a sense of National Weather Service. The twisters St. Francis Xavier Church on March 23. town is still a scene of devastation. The ownership.” touched down in 10 states, and left first impression as a driver leaves He noted that the Knights of 41 people dead in five states, including will move forward and be a stronger Interstate 65 at Highway 160 is a sea of Columbus are conducting a nationwide 15 in Indiana. community of deeper faith because bright blue tarpaulins covering roofs and drive to collect donations of tools and Father Schaftlein said that, weeks after of this.” vehicles everywhere. compressors. the disaster, people are now starting to come The first tornado to touch down in “The biggest thing is getting people to to him for help with spiritual difficulties (Patricia Happel Cornwell is a freelance Henryville was an EF1 tornado with winds go for help,” Father Schaftlein said. related to the shock of their losses. writer and member of St. Joseph Parish in between 86 to 110 miles per hour. Half an “Rural people have that [attitude of] After the March 25 Mass with Corydon. Information on how to volunteer is hour later, a deadlier EF4 tornado, which self-sufficiency. There is a sense of pride. Bishop Coyne, he told the congregation, available at www.archindy.org/tornadoes or packed 175 mile-per-hour winds, destroyed They think, ‘Somebody else is worse off “Part of the realization that’s starting to hit at 317-236-1500 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1500. much of the town. Where homes and than me.’ But if you go on and get help, us is that things may not be the same as Checks made payable to Catholic Charities, businesses once stood, there are piles of maybe you’ll be in a better position to before. We may have to be in a different Archdiocese of Indianapolis, with debris. Trees are decapitated. Vehicles are help someone else the next time. You pay house. We’re moving toward normalcy, but “tornado relief” on the memo line, may be pocked with baseball-size hail damage, their it forward.” it’s a new kind of normalcy. Like Jesus in mailed to Catholic Charities, Attention: windows blown out as if in a war zone. Henryville’s public schools were the Gospel, we must die to some of our Tornado Relief, 1400 N. Meridian St., Insurance adjusters and FEMA extensively damaged by the tornadoes, and old ways and rise to new ways. And we Indianapolis, IN 46202.) †

Holy Week liturgies are set at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and Meinrad Correction Holy Week liturgies at SS. Peter and Paul SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral palms followed by Mass for Palm Sunday of the Cathedral in Indianapolis and Saint Meinrad • April 1—10:30 a.m. Mass for Palm Sunday of Lord’s Passion, 5 p.m. Vespers. The traveling Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln in the Lord’s Passion. • April 5, Holy Thursday—5 p.m. Mass of the exhibit on the Shroud of St. Meinrad are open to the public. • April 3—3 p.m. chrism Mass. Lord’s Supper. Turin will not be on Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic • April 5, Holy Thursday—6:30 p.m. Evening • April 6, Good Friday—3 p.m. Liturgy of the display at administrator, is scheduled to be the principal Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Passion and Death of the Lord. St. Christopher Parish celebrant of all the liturgies at SS. Peter and Paul eucharistic adoration until 10 p.m. • April 7, Holy Saturday—5 p.m. Vespers, in Indianapolis during Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, • April 6, Good Friday—3 p.m. Liturgy of the 8 p.m. Vigil of Easter beginning with the the week after including the Easter Sunday Mass. Father Passion and Death of the Lord. Blessing of the Fire. The Eucharist will conclude Holy Week. Casey, rector of the cathedral, will be the • April 7, Holy Saturday—9 p.m. Easter Vigil. around 11 p.m. The exhibit will be homilist at the Easter Sunday Mass. • April 8, Easter Sunday—10:30 a.m. Easter • April 8, Easter Sunday—8:30 a.m. Lauds, on display at Due to space constraints, The Criterion is Sunday Mass. 11:30 a.m. Midday Office, 5 p.m. Vespers. St. Monica Parish, only able to list these two Holy Week liturgical • April 9, Easter Monday—9:30 a.m. Mass, 6131 N. Michigan Rd., schedules. For information about liturgies at Saint Meinrad Archabbey Church 5 p.m. Vespers. in Indianapolis during parishes or other religious communities, contact (All times are central time.) • April 10, Easter Tuesday—7:30 a.m. Mass, Holy Week from 3 p.m. them individually. • April 1—9:15 a.m. blessing and procession with 5 p.m. Vespers. † to 8:30 p.m. on April 2-6. †

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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Page 3 Benedictine Father Boniface Hardin founded Martin University By Mary Ann Garber Mass of Christian Burial on March 30 at Saint Meinrad. diagnosed with prostate cancer, he became an advocate for Benedictine Father Davis was the homilist. prostate cancer awareness.” Benedictine Father Boniface Hardin, a monk of Well-known as a civil rights activist, Father Boniface Father Boniface was “a brilliant man,” Father Taylor Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad who was the founded the inner city college named for the late said. “Not everybody can start a college.” founder and president of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and St. Martin de Porres to James Dwight Randolph Hardin was born on Martin University in Indianapolis serve adult learners in low-income neighborhoods. Nov. 18, 1933, in Bardstown, Ky., and graduated from the for 30 years, died on March 24 at a Under Father Boniface’s leadership, the then former Saint Meinrad High School in 1951 and former nursing home in Indianapolis after Martin Center College grew from a small, Saint Meinrad College in 1956. suffering a stroke. He was 78. urban, coeducational school at 35th Street and On July 31, 1954, he made his monastic profession with Benedictine Archabbot Justin North College Avenue to an accredited, nondenominational, the Benedictine monks at Saint Meinrad. DuVall praised Father Boniface for liberal arts university that was relocated to the former He earned a master of divinity degree at Saint Meinrad his commitment to the Gospel and St. Church and School campus at School of Theology in 1959, and was ordained to the described him as a “voice for 2171 N. Avondale Place in 1977. priesthood on May 11, 1959. justice” in his ministry to the poor. Martin University’s current enrollment is more Father Boniface completed graduate studies at the “As a member of the monastic than 1,000 students, many of whom are minority, University of Notre Dame in 1963. community of Saint Meinrad, low-income adults. From 1959-65, he served as assistant treasurer of Fr. Boniface Hardin, O.S.B. Father Boniface was formed in his Father Taylor remembered Father Boniface as a longtime Saint Meinrad Archabbey. early years by the values of the friend and wonderful mentor. He ministered as assistant pastor of Holy Angels Parish Rule of St. Benedict,” the archabbot said. “His commitment “He was always looking for ways to help improve in Indianapolis from 1965 until 1969, when he founded the to the Gospel, which guides the life of every monk, society as well as individuals,” Father Taylor said. “He put Martin Center. eventually led to his long years of work in the city of everything he did in the context of the Gospel. People’s Often told that he resembled the late abolitionist Indianapolis. lives are better and stronger because of him either through Frederick Douglass, Father Boniface created and performed “Father Boniface was well known for his work among the education they got from his endeavors or through his an educational monologue about the former slave. the disadvantaged and for his vision in establishing sickle cell [disease awareness] initiatives.” In 2002, he was diagnosed with cancer. Martin University,” Archabbot Justin said. “These works As the associate pastor of Holy Angels Parish from Also that year, Father Boniface was honored as a were an expression of the deeply held values that had 1965-69, Father Boniface “helped lift up the community … Living Legend by the Indiana Historical Society and shaped his life as a monk and a priest. The people of the and protect it from the things that he saw would endanger International Citizen of the Year by the International Center city of Indianapolis have lost a voice for justice, and the the health and well-being of the people,” Father Taylor said. of Indianapolis. monks of Saint Meinrad have lost a brother whose love for “That focused mostly on the interstate being built [through In 2004, he was recognized by the Archdiocese of Christ remains an example for all.” inner city neighborhoods] at that time in the 1960s. He Indianapolis with a Celebrating Catholic School Values A Mass for the Dead was celebrated at 10 a.m. on fought against that because he wanted the neighborhood to Award. March 29 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. be as strong as it possibly could be. Father Boniface retired as president of Martin University Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, “His whole impetus in starting the Martin Center was to in 2007 after three decades of leadership there and was was the principal celebrant for the March 29 funeral liturgy improve the community, improve society and improve named president emeritus. at the cathedral. Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of individuals,” Father Taylor said. “Martin Center started out For many years, he was a member of the National Black Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis and director of the as an effort to combat racism. He saw racism as something Catholic Clergy Caucus. archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry, was that divided the community and kept people down. Any Surviving are three brothers, William Hardin of the homilist. ways that [prejudice] could be removed would help lift up Louisville, Albert Hardin of Louisville and John Hardin of The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at people’s lives.” Bowling Green, Ky., as well as several nieces and nephews. 10 a.m. (CDT) on March 30 at the Archabbey Church of St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Jane Schilling helped Memorial gifts may be sent to Saint Meinrad Seminary Our Lady of Einsiedeln at Saint Meinrad. Burial followed at Father Boniface start the Martin Center, which evolved into and School of Theology, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN the Saint Meinrad Archabbey Cemetery. a college then university. 47577 or Martin University, 2171 N. Avondale Place, Archabbot Justin was the principal celebrant for the “Later in his life,” Father Taylor said, “after he was Indianapolis, IN 46218. † Archdiocese buys land, new Catholic high school a possibility for site By John Shaughnessy more in that area as part of our Catholic institutions.” proceeds used to acquire a more suitable property.” The land is located near SS. Francis and Clare of Bishop Coyne noted that any future discussion of When the archdiocese recently purchased 87 acres of Assisi Parish in Greenwood. plans for the land’s use would include input from land in Johnson County, it did so with the possibility that While a new Catholic high school is a possibility for people in the area and representatives of the existing the land may be used in the future for a new Catholic high the site, there are no immediate plans to build a school Catholic high schools. school, according to Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic or even a commitment that a new high school would be “We wouldn’t do anything without consultation, not administrator. built there. only with the people of that area, but also with the existing “It’s one of the possibilities,” Bishop Coyne said. “It’s “We bought the land, but we may decide later that Catholic high schools, especially Roncalli High School, probably the strongest possibility. The reason we’re looking we need to sell it and buy land farther southwest,” which is on the south side of the city,” Bishop Coyne said. at the possibility of adding a high school down there is that Bishop Coyne said. “We wouldn’t want to do anything that would negatively there really isn’t a private high school from the southwest The land was purchased on March 15 for $826,500. affect its mission, which it does so well.” end of Indianapolis down to the state border, to “For the time being, the land will be held as an The land purchase reflects how the demographics in the Bloomington and elsewhere. investment to protect against increases in property values archdiocese continue to change, he said. “It’s a real growth area in terms of population, especially in the general area,” said Jeffrey Stumpf, chief financial “In some places in the archdiocese, we’re closing Catholic population. We want to give people options to send officer for the archdiocese. “Any study of the needs in the parishes because the numbers aren’t there anymore,” their children to Catholic high schools. I see it as a great area would also include an evaluation of the best place to Bishop Coyne said. “In other places in the archdiocese, sign of hope that we’re even talking about the possibility of locate services. If a location different from this location is we’re expanding our parishes and expanding our footprint building a Catholic high school or even doing something preferred, the property could be exchanged or sold and the because that’s where the Catholics are.” †

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OPINION

Be Our Guest/Dr. Richard Feldman Mandate infringes on religious rights

The Obama administration’s mandate President Barack Obama would alienate Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 that religious-sponsored institutions such a large segment of employers, Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher provide contraceptive especially more than 600 Catholic GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus benefits in their hospitals. John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus employee insurance The administration actually thought it plans has created a could soothe the pain by giving religious confrontation institutions an extra year before between religious implementation to figure out how to Editorial leaders and the violate their consciences. U.S. Department of And then it tried to calm the storm by Health and Human requiring the insurance carrier to provide Now is the time to be ‘all in,’ Services (HHS). these services by separate contract with The decision the employees, thus keeping the religious further defines the Affordable Care Act employer completely out of it. Sound like stand firm for religious liberty provision that insurance companies must a solution? Probably not. hey came by the hundreds in a steady provide certain preventative services at Most Catholic institutions continue to Train to the Indiana Statehouse in no cost. object. They believe they will still be at Indianapolis on March 23. HHS followed the Institute of least indirectly involved and paying the People of various faith traditions wanting Medicine’s recommendation that insurance company for contraception even their voices to be heard as they stood up for Sean Gallagher Photo by contraception, including sterilization and though the insurance company is religious freedom. emergency contraception—considered by supposed to cover this “separately” at Need more proof that the many to be an abortifacient and identified their own cost. U.S. Department of Health and Human as such in HHS informational releases— The insurance empire will recoup their Services mandate that forces employers, should be included in those free costs one way or another from these including religious ones, to provide preventative services. objecting employers. And many large contraception, sterilization and abortifacients The ruling exempted religious religious organizations are self-insured, in their health plans doesn’t sit well Wendy Langer, left, and Maria Western, institutions, such as houses of worship and are thus guaranteed to pay for it. across America? members of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in and those that employ and serve members The administration must re-evaluate its The scene was repeated in Chicago, Peru, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese, hold of their own faith. But the exemption position. A totally employer-independent Cincinnati, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Diego signs showing their support for religious excluded other religious entities, solution must be created. Otherwise, and more than 130 other cities throughout freedom during a March 23 rally on the including religious-affiliated universities hundreds of religious employers will drop the that day. grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in and hospitals. their health insurance plans and pay the Young people, middle-aged folks, Indianapolis. Outraged religious institutions, significant, but much less expensive seniors—thousands of citizens of all ages primarily Catholic, passionately object to penalty for not providing their employees and walks of life—were united in prayer and resources that have been posted there. the requirement of providing these insurance. convictions. Let your congressional representatives insurance benefits. For them, it would be In the end, more working people will Speakers throughout the country urged in Washington know how you feel about a compromise of their religious beliefs, end up uninsured or pay more for health people of faith to stay strong in their defense this issue. and immoral and unconscionable to be insurance. Another reason why health of our first freedom, religious liberty, which And, finally, pray. involved in their provision. insurance should not be employer the U.S. bishops “Prayer is the ultimate source of our The Catholic Church and many sponsored. See related story, recently noted “is strength—for without God, we can do institutions consider this a direct assault Is the regulation lawful or page 15. not only protected nothing. But with God, all things are on religious freedom and a violation of constitutional? Relevant federal laws in the laws and possible,” the bishops said in their recent the First Amendment. and court rulings are conflicting. A customs of our great nation, but rooted in statement titled “United for Religious Conservatives agree and relish the Supreme Court decision on the parameters the teachings of our great tradition.” Freedom.” opportunity to use this against the Obama of religious liberty would be important if Father John Hollowell, chaplain of Pray that our efforts to stand up for administration in an election year, the administration cannot fix this. Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in religious liberty bear much fruit. although outrageous comments by some This column is concerned exclusively Indianapolis and associate pastor of may impair any potential benefit of about the rightness of government to St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, had it —Mike Krokos influencing independent voters. impose its position on those who would right while speaking to about 700 people at Meanwhile, liberals and women’s be forced to violate their religious beliefs, the Indianapolis rally when he said that health advocates believe the Church ethics and values by fiat. are “endowed by their Creator God is at work should not be allowed to compel their Some will be surprised by my opinion, with certain inalienable rights. beliefs on others, and hail the decision as but I agree, as do a number of Jewish and “It’s important to note that the a victory for wider access for health and Protestant groups, with the position Founding Fathers saw these rights and in Henryville preventative services. expressed by the Catholic Church that freedoms as things given to each person by Life in rural America is simple for most What a mess. An already deeply feels so violated. their Creator,” Father Hollowell said. people. politically divided country has one more President Obama’s decision would “There’s a very dangerous notion that has But as we learned again recently, all of issue to fight about. State attorneys have disappointed James Madison and begun to creep into our vocabulary in this that can change in an instant. general are filing suit, and states and Thomas Jefferson. country. And that is—some [people] are The tornadoes that ravaged Henryville Congress are considering legislation in beginning to suggest that the rights that we and its surrounding area earlier this month attempts to block the implementation of (Dr. Richard Feldman is director of have are given to us by the federal offered a lesson on how quickly things out the rule. Medical Education and Residency government or the state government or some of our control can affect a community. The Obama administration really Training at Franciscan St. Francis Health other government.” The March 2 tornadoes that decimated stepped in it. I was surprised that in Indianapolis.) † What the government seems to be a good portion of the area left homes and providing us these days is more “mandates” hearts tattered and torn, but out of the of how we should live our lives according to tragedy we see how God works. Obama Administration and Religion its newly created standards—not our Gospel Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic values which date back thousands of years. administrator, said as much as he What many leaders in Washington, D.C., concelebrated Mass at St. Francis Xavier Percent saying the administration is toward religion don’t seem to be able to grasp is that many Church in Henryville on March 25. He of us are committed to living out the tenets praised parishioners for actively ALL 39 of our faith. demonstrating their faith during the CATHOLICS Yes, we wear it on our sleeves. aftermath of the tornadoes. 42 And yes, we stand together when our “In this community in the past few freedoms, like religious liberty, are weeks,” he said, “we’ve seen people step 32 threatened. up and show others what it’s like to be a In a recent homily at an area parish, a good Christian and a good Catholic. Jesus 25 priest discussed the challenges or crosses tells us over and over that we have to die that many of us face as we try to live lives to ourselves and live for others. It’s not of faith. about me. It’s about the needs of others.” 23 Nothing changes, he said, unless we Those needs continue. Information on tackle those challenges as people committed how to volunteer is available at 25 to following Jesus’ example on the Cross. www.archindy.org/tornadoes or The priest said that faith is not a spectator 317-236-1500 or 800-382-9836, An increasing number of Catholics say the sport, and we “need to be in the game.” ext. 1500. Checks made payable to administration is unfriendly toward religion As we approach Holy Week and Easter, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of AUG 2009 MAR 2012 CHANGE now is the time to make sure that we are Indianapolis, with “tornado relief” on 15% 25% +10% “all in” concerning protecting religious the memo line may be mailed to liberty and its freedoms. Catholic Charities, Attention: Visit the U.S. Conference of Catholic Tornado Relief, 1400 N. Meridian St., Based on telephone interviews conducted March 7-11 among a national sample of 1,503 adults. Bishops’ website at www.usccb.org/ Indianapolis, IN 46202. The sampling error for the entire sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points; plus or minus issues-and-action/religious-liberty/ May God bless you for your generosity. 6.5 percentage points for the Catholic group. conscience-protection/ Source: Pew Research Center ©2012 CNS resources-on-conscience-protection.cfm for —Mike Krokos The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Page 5 At Mass, recognizes Cubans’ struggles, calls for freedom SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS)— absent for reasons of age or health to include Celebrating an outdoor Mass on his first day people who, “for other motives, are not able in Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged to join us.” the struggles of the country’s Catholics after Before the pope arrived, a man in the half a century of communism, and described crowd shouted an anti-communist slogan and Haring CNS photo/Paul human freedom as a necessity for both was immediately taken away. salvation and social justice. The pope painted a dire picture of a The pope spoke on March 26 in society without faith. Antonio Maceo Revolution Square in “When God is set aside, the world Cuba’s second-largest city. He had arrived in becomes an inhospitable place for man,” he the country a few hours earlier, after said. “Apart from God, we are alienated from spending three days in Mexico. ourselves and are hurled into the void. The Vatican had said the square would “Obedience to God is what opens the hold 200,000 people and it was full. Several doors of the world to the truth, to salvation,” thousand also filled the pope said. “Redemption is always this the streets leading process of the lifting up of the human will to to the square. full communion with the divine will.” Cuban President Taking his theme from the day’s liturgical Raul Castro, who feast of the Annunciation, when Mary welcomed the pope learned that she would conceive and bear the People cheer as they wait for Pope Benedict XVI to arrive for Mass at Antonio Maceo Revolution at the airport, sat in Son of God, the pope emphasized that Square in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on March 26. the front row for fulfillment of the divine plan involved Mass. Mary’s free acceptance of her role. Mariela Castro, daughter of hoped to see the pope in Havana. Older Tens of “Our God, coming into the world, wished President Raul Castro, the country’s pilgrims traveled by train or bus, she said. thousands of those to depend on the free consent of one of his parliament is scheduled later this year “I came to see the pope because I am Pope Benedict XVI at the Mass creatures,” Pope Benedict said. “It is to consider the legal recognition of Catholic and he is the successor of Peter, were wearing touching to see how God not only respects same-sex marriage. who was the first pope,” she said, adding white T-shirts welcoming the pope as the human freedom. He almost seems to Despite his challenges to Cuban society, that she saw Blessed John Paul in “pilgrim of charity.” Many wore baseball require it.” Pope Benedict concluded his homily by Camaguey in 1998. caps to protect them from the hot sun. The most specific advice in the pope’s repeating an earlier call for patience with the During a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady Before the pope arrived in the homily regarded a topic familiar to his Catholic Church’s policy of dialogue and of Charity of El Cobre on March 27, popemobile, the original statue of Our Lady listeners in the prosperous capitalist cooperation with the communist regime, a Pope Benedict prayed that Mary’s maternal of Charity of El Cobre, Cuba’s patroness, countries of Western Europe and process initiated by Blessed John Paul II care would wrap her golden mantle around was driven atop a white truck through the North America—the sanctity of the during his 1998 visit to Cuba. the people of Cuba. cheering crowd. The statue then was “family founded on matrimony” as the “May we accept with patience and faith For 400 years, Cubans—believers and enthroned near the papal altar. “fundamental cell of society and an authentic whatever opposition may come,” the pope nonbelievers alike—have brought their In his homily, Pope Benedict recognized domestic Church. said. “Armed with peace, forgiveness and sorrows and joys before the little statue of the “effort, daring and self-sacrifice” “You, dear husbands and wives, are called understanding ... strive to build a renewed Mary, and even Cuba’s communist rulers required of Cuban Catholics “in the concrete to be, especially for your children, a real and and open society, a better society, one more have claimed her as a cultural icon of the circumstances of your country and at this visible sign of the love of Christ for the worthy of humanity, and which better Cuban struggle for freedom and equality. moment in history.” Though now more Church,” Pope Benedict said. “Cuba needs reflects the goodness of God.” When Pope Benedict visited the ’s tolerant of religious practice than in earlier the witness of your fidelity, your unity, your After the Mass, the pope paid homage to shrine, he joined the thousands of pilgrims decades, the communist state continues to capacity to welcome human life, especially Our Lady of Charity by placing at the statue marking the 400th anniversary of the prevent the construction of new churches that of the weakest and most needy.” a gold rose weighing more than a pound and discovery of the statue, and he echoed the and strictly limits Catholic access to According to the Center for Demographic standing almost a foot tall. prayers of many of them for a future marked state media. Studies at the University of Havana, A 30-year-old woman in a baseball cap by less poverty and greater freedom. In a possible allusion to reports that the Cuba’s divorce rate has almost tripled in who identified herself only as Xichel told “I have entrusted to the mother of God regime had prevented political opponents four decades, rising from 22 divorces per Catholic News Service she and about the future of your country, advancing along from attending the Mass, Pope Benedict 100 marriages in 1970 to 64 in 2009. 100 other people traveled about 165 miles the ways of renewal and hope, for the extended his customary mention of those In response to a campaign led by from Camaguey for the Mass, and she greater good of all Cubans,” he said. † Trust in God to help change society, pope says in Mexico’s heartland

SILAO, Mexico (CNS)— through a divinely inspired change Guadalupe.” Celebrating Mass in the of the human heart. But reaffirming his message Catholic heartland of Mexico, The pope made note of the of nonviolence, the pope prayed Pope Benedict XVI told a nation monument to Christ the King that Mary’s influence would and a continent suffering from visible atop a nearby hill, and “promote fraternity, setting aside Haring CNS photos/Paul poverty, corruption and violence to observed that Christ’s “kingdom futile acts of revenge and banishing trust in God and the intercession of does not stand on the power of his all divisive hatred.” Mary to help them bring about a armies subduing others through The presidential candidates from more just and fraternal society. force or violence. It rests on a Mexico’s three main political “When addressing the deeper higher power that wins over parties attended the Mass along dimension of personal and hearts—the love of God that he with President Felipe Calderon and community life, human strategies brought into the world with his his family. will not suffice to save us,” the sacrifice and the truth to which he The Vatican said 640,000 pope said in his homily during the bore witness.” people attended the Mass. Some outdoor Mass at Guanajuato That message was consistent Mexicans traveled for hours just to Bicentennial Park on March 25, the with Pope Benedict’s frequently see Pope Benedict on his first trip second full day of his second papal stated objections to strategies for to the country since being elected People wave the flags of the Vatican and Mexico as they wait for Benedict XVI’s visit to Latin America. “We must social progress that blend Christian in 2005. arrival for an encounter with children at Peace Square in Guanajuato, Mexico, on have recourse to the one who alone social doctrine with Marxism or The journey was not easy for March 24. The pope was on a six-day pastoral visit to Latin America with stops in can give life in its fullness because other secular ideologies. many people. Thousands of the central Mexico and Cuba. he is the essence of life and “The Church is not a political faithful walked more than its author.” power, it is not a party,” the pope three miles from parking lots in the March 24 and attended the Mass expected to return immediately Citing the responsorial psalm for told reporters on his flight to town of Silao, 220 miles northwest the following day. after the Mass. Some parishes the day’s Mass—“Create a clean Mexico on March 23. “It is a moral of Mexico City. Getting a ticket was another opted not to send people to the heart in me, O God”—the pope reality, a moral power.” “This is nothing too difficult,” matter. Nambo won a raffle for Mass because of concerns about said that evil can be overcome only In his Silao homily, the pope did quipped Jose Trinidad Borja, 81, a some of the tickets that the security along the route. not specifically address any of retired hardware store owner from Archdiocese of Leon allotted to “We hope that things calm Latin America’s current social Queretaro, who boasts of having St. Joseph and St. James the a little after this visit,” said problems, but after praying the participated in the annual eight-day Apostle Parish. Others simply Silao resident Jorge Morales as he Angelus following the Mass, he diocesan pilgrimage to the decided to try their luck by walked to the Mass. recited a litany of ills plaguing Basilica of Guadalupe in showing up—and many pilgrims The previous evening, after a Mexico and other countries in the Mexico City for 65 straight years. could be seen outside the Mass brief appearance before a crowd in region. “So many families are An army of vendors hawked site behind barricades guarded by Guanajuato’s main square, separated or forced to emigrate, … water, coffee and tamales along the federal police officers. Pope Benedict privately greeted a so many are suffering due to route in addition to Vatican flags Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of group that included eight people poverty, corruption, domestic and photos of Pope Benedict and Saltillo said his diocese only who have lost relatives to violence, violence, drug trafficking, the crisis his predecessor, Blessed John Paul received its allotment of much of it drug-related, which has of values and increased crime.” II, who, with his five visits, became 2,500 tickets 10 days before the killed nearly 50,000 Mexicans Speaking in the central Mexican one of the most beloved figures in Mass, making it difficult for during the last five years. state of Guanajuato, which was a an officially secular country. parishes to plan trips for Addressing his remarks there stronghold of the 1920s Cristero “With Benedict, I feel churchgoers. Still, all the tickets particularly to local children, the Rebellion against an anti-clerical something indescribable,” said were claimed and more than pope called on “everyone to protect Pope Benedict XVI uses a censer as national regime, Pope Benedict Guadalupe Nambo Gutierrez, 6,500 requests were made. and care for children so that nothing he celebrates Mass at Guanajuato recited the invocation that served as a retired secretary from Most of those coming from may extinguish their smile, but that Bicentennial Park in Silao, Mexico, on the Cristeros’ rallying cry. “Long Guanajuato City, who saw the Saltillo, in northern Mexico, they may live in peace and look to March 25. live Christ the King and Mary of pope in the colonial town on traveled overnight and were the future with confidence.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Events Calendar

March 30 Mother,” Passionist Father benedictinn.org. April 1 Archbishop O’Meara Catholic www.catholiccemeteries.cc. St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. John Schork, presenter, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 17th Ave., Beech Grove. 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., $10 per St. Parish, House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, St. Mary Parish, Ave Maria Guild, rummage person includes lunch, 25743 State Route 1, Guilford. Indianapolis. Discalced Catholic, educational, 212 Washington St., sale, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. reservations due March 24. ACT for Christ, youth group Carmelites Secular Order charitable and social singles, North Vernon. Jennings County “Living Way of the Information: 317-885-5098 or Information: 317-241-6314. from St. John the Baptist, meeting, noon. Information: 50 and over, single, separated, youth, Cross,” [email protected]. St. Joseph, St. Martin and 317-545-7681. widowed or divorced, new 2 p.m. Information: Most Holy Name of Jesus St. Paul parishes, spring craft members welcome, 6:30 p.m. 812-346-3604. Information: 317-370-1189. Our Lady of the Greenwood School, gymnasium, 21 N. show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sisters of St. Francis, St. Mary of the Immaculate School, 399 S. Meridian St., 17th Ave., Beech Grove. handcrafted items, lunch and 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. April 6 Spring rummage sale, Conception Parish, Greenwood. Lenten fish fry, bake sale. Information: Jennings County youth, Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: 812-576-4302 or 211 Fourth St., Aurora. 5-7 p.m. Information: “Living Way of the Cross,” Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Lenten fish fry, 317-784-5454. www.stjohndover.org. 4:30-7:30 p.m. 317-888-2861 or 2 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Stations of the Information: 812-926-1558. [email protected]. 812-346-3604. Cross, noon. Information: Benedict Inn Retreat and Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 317-784-4439 or April 7 March 31 Conference Center, Guest House, 100 Hill Drive, April 4 www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Oldenburg Academy, 1 Twister Knights of Columbus Hall, 1402 Southern Ave., St. Meinrad. Abbey Press and Columbus Bar, 322 Fourth St., Circle, Oldenburg. Alumni 5350 Allied Blvd., Beech Grove. Relay for Life team, Columbus. Theology on Tap, Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Association, Easter egg hunt, Indianapolis. St. Christopher Shop INNspired gift shop, “Trivia Night,” 6:30 p.m., “It’s the Most Holiest Time Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. 10 a.m. Information: Parish, day of reflection, “Spring Stravaganza,” $15 per person. Information: of the Year,” 7-8:30 p.m. Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. 812-934-4440, ext. 240, or “The Passion of Jesus and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: 812-357-8319 or Information: 812-379-9353, Stations of the Cross, 2 p.m. slamping@oldenburg the Sorrows of the Blessed www.benedictinn@ [email protected]. ext. 241. Information: 317-574-8898 or academy.org. †

Retreats and Programs Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Golf Fore Faith” outing set for May 14 “RCIA Retreat–A Call to Discipleship,” Franciscan Sister Barbara Leonhard, presenter, The archdiocesan Office of Catholic Crooked Stick as well as tickets to March 30-April 1 1-5:30 p.m., $45 per person includes supper. Education is sponsoring its third annual Colts, Pacers, Indiana University, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, Information: 812-933-6437 or “Golf Fore Faith” outing on May 14 Purdue University and University of 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. [email protected]. at Crooked Stick Golf Club, Notre Dame football games. “Transformation–Change That Lets Your April 2-5 1964 Burning Tree Lane, in Carmel, Ind. The outing begins with registration at Soul Grow Up,” Oblate of Mary Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Sponsorship and foursome packages 10:30 a.m. and will include short game Father John Mark Ettensohn, $153 per person/ 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest are available. and swing clinics, lunch and an awards $286 per couple. Information: 317-545-7681 or Awhile,” silent, non-guided days/evenings of Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, reception. [email protected]. reflection, $30 per day, $25 per night. apostolic administrator, will play in the For information about registration and Information: 317-545-7681 or tournament as part of a foursome as an sponsorship opportunities, send an e-mail Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, [email protected]. additional fundraising opportunity. to Margaret Hendricks at St. Meinrad. “St. Benedict’s Way,” April 4 Prizes will include tickets to the [email protected] or call her at Benedictine Brother Maurus Zoeller, presenter. 2012 BMW Championship to be held at 317-441-8956 or 317-236-1478. † Information: 812-357-6585 or Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, [email protected]. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “A Seminar–Bridges to April 1 Contemplative Living,” session two of four, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, presenter, Saint Meinrad to host theater group 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. 5:15 p.m., Mass, 6 p.m., simple supper, “Outdoor Stations of the Cross,” 4 p.m. $89.95 includes book and supper. Information: 317-545-7681 or Information: 317-788-7581 or for two plays on April 20-21 [email protected]. [email protected]. † The National Players, America’s longest-running classical touring company, will perform two plays on April 20 and April 21 sponsored by Cancer research memorial fundraiser Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad.

for Katie Lynch is set for April 21 Because the seminary’s St. Madeleine Russell Submitted photo by Theater is undergoing renovations, the A fundraising run and walk event in T-shirt. performances will take place at the memory of Katie Lynch will begin at 10 a.m. Registration on the day of the event Forest Park High School auditorium, on April 21 at Roncalli High School, will begin at 8 a.m. 425 E. 15th St., in Ferdinand, Ind. 3300 Prague Road, in Indianapolis. For more information or to register, On April 20, the company will The Roncalli student died at age 17 in log on to www.katieshope.org, send an perform William Shakespeare’s 2011 after a three-year battle with cancer. e-mail to Angie Heinzelman at The Taming of the Shrew. Proceeds from the 5K running and walking [email protected], or call On April 21, they will perform Michael Pettey, left, and Mat Leonard perform as event will benefit the IU/Riley Dance Heinzelman at 317-407-5762 or John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie in the National Players’ Marathon for childhood cancer research and Patty Liegibel at 317-439-3313. Both performances begin at production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Katie Lynch Scholarship, a tuition assistance Checks for the registration fee 7 p.m. CDT. which is directed by Jason King Jones. fund for future Roncalli students. can be mailed to Heinzelman at Both performances are free. For Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology The entry fee is $25 for adults, $15 for 5842 Perry Woods Way, Indianapolis, IN more information, call 812-357-6501. † is sponsoring a performance on April 21. students and $100 for families. Participants 46227. Make checks payable to who register by April 14 will receive a “Katie’s Hope.” † Submitted photo Submitted photo

SPRED friends Inclusive Mass SPRED friends, catechists and volunteers gather for a photograph with Father Stephen Giannini, vicar for clergy, on March 11 at St. Church in Indianapolis. They are, front row, Indianapolis South Deanery Special Religious Development participants, from left, Vincent Perr from left, Dan O’Brien, a catechist; Ginny O’Brien, a volunteer; Clara Spaeth, a catechist; and John McGee, and SPRED volunteer Jim Milharcic bring up the offertory gifts during a Mass Judy Proctor, a catechist; and Jean Milharcic, a catechist. In the back row, from left, are Victor Perr, for persons with disabilities on March 11 at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. a parent; Vincent Perr, a friend; Mike Risch, a friend; John McGee, a friend; and Father Giannini. The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Page 7 Ken Hackett, retired CRS leader, to receive 2012 Laetare Medal NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)—Ken Hackett, who where he managed a nationwide leprosy program and retired in December after 18 years as president of maternal and child health program. Catholic Relief Services (CRS), will receive the Subsequent positions took him to various posts in University of Notre Dame’s 2012 Laetare Medal. Africa and Asia, as well as in CRS’ Baltimore Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, university headquarters. As regional director for Africa, he president, announced the honor on March 18. Given managed the agency’s response to the Ethiopian famine annually since 1883 to a Catholic “whose genius has of 1984-85. He also supervised CRS operations in ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of East Africa during the crisis in Somalia in the 1990s. courtesy of CRS Snyder, CNS photo/ the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity,” it will Hackett was appointed president of CRS in 1993. be presented at Notre Dame’s 167th commencement During his tenure, he established a division focusing on ceremony on May 20. outreach to dioceses, parishes, Catholic organizations, “Ken Hackett has responded to a Gospel imperative and colleges and universities, and laypeople were first with his entire career,” Father Jenkins said in a statement. appointed to the CRS board of directors. “His direction of the Catholic Church’s outreach to the Catholic Relief Services now operates in more than hungry, thirsty, naked, sick and unsheltered of the world 100 countries with a global staff of nearly 5,000. has blended administrative acumen with genuine Hackett is a former North American president of compassion in a unique and exemplary way.” Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of humanitarian Born in West Roxbury, Mass., Hackett joined the agencies of the Catholic Church, and continues to serve Peace Corps shortly after his 1968 graduation from on the board of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum at the Boston College. Assigned to a Catholic mission in rural Vatican and as an adviser to the U.S. Conference of Then Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett speaks with a Ghana, he worked in an agricultural cooperative, and saw Catholic Bishops. CRS partner in Galle, Sri Lanka, in this 2005 file photo. Hackett will “the actual impact of American food aid on the health and The Laetare Medal is named for the fourth Sunday of receive the University of Notre Dame’s prestigious Laetare Medal well-being of very poor kids in a very isolated part of a Lent on the Church calendar, known as Laetare Sunday, during commencement exercises on May 20. West African country,” he said recently. when it is announced each year. After completing his Peace Corps assignment, Hackett Among the previous recipients of the Laetare Medal novelist Walker Percy, Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. joined CRS, the U.S. Catholic relief and development are Civil War Gen. William Rosecrans, President John Bernardin, labor activist Msgr. George G. Higgins and agency, in 1972. He started his career in Sierra Leone, F. Kennedy, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, jazz composer Dave Brubeck. † Popular Italian Street Festival in Indianapolis to resume in 2013 Special to The Criterion a smaller, Italian-themed event for this August or October “The festival had grown so large, it had become, in to coincide with Columbus Day celebrations. its way, a small business enterprise that consumed much A committee of volunteers from Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish reluctantly cancelled the of David’s time throughout the year,” Father Magiera Holy Rosary Parish and the Italian Heritage Society of 2012 Italian Street Festival after its longtime organizer, said. “No one individual—or even a group of Indiana have dedicated themselves to resurrecting the parishioner David Page, announced that he would no individuals—was immediately ready to take over such a annual Italian Street Festival in June 2013. This year’s longer be able to coordinate the event. No one had been large undertaking. By the time our volunteer committee festival was recently cancelled. adequately prepared to succeed him in his position, leading stepped forward, we deemed it imprudent to do a “We want to assure the public that this much-loved Father Magiera to call for volunteers to save the event. ‘rush ’ and have a festival this year that wouldn’t live civic event has not seen its final days,” said The Italian Street Festival has been held annually in up to our standards or the expectations of those people Father Michael Magiera, administrator of Our Lady early June at the corner of East and Stevens streets near who come here year after year.” of the Most Holy Rosary Parish, in a press release. downtown Indianapolis since 1983. The “mini-festival” being planned for later this year, “It will return in all its glory to its rightful place on the From the beginning, the simple parish festival quickly possibly under the title “Taste of Italy,” will serve as a calendar in June 2013.” grew under Page’s leadership into an event that attracted transitional event. The exact date for the 2013 festival In the meantime, the volunteer committee is planning tens of thousands of patrons from around central Indiana. will soon be determined. † C. S. LLewisewiwis Easter TV MASS for Shut-Ins

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secretary of the all-volunteer organization Indianapolis. “I can’t think of a couple Then there came the chance meeting AWARDS that serves more than 100,000 people in that lives their faith more. They are doing that Egold had in 2009, after a funeral, continued from page 1 need each year. God’s work.” with Father John McCaslin, pastor of The couple has also been active in In nearly 55 years of marriage, the Holy Trinity and St. Anthony parishes in didn’t cure 1,000 people at a time,” their faith community—St. Jude Parish in Pitzers have taken the approach that no Indianapolis. The two men had known Spangler says. Indianapolis—where they have served on act of kindness is too small and no each other at St. Parish when “He did it on an individual basis,” he the leadership team of the Marriage challenge is too big when it comes to Father McCaslin was an associate pastor says. “What we do best is healing the Enrichment program, the Christ Renews helping others. there and Egold people right in front of us. There are so His Parish team and as extraordinary They are longtime volunteers at was president of the many people in need. I’ve really found ministers of holy Communion. Hunger, Inc., a south side Indianapolis parish council. that if you take the time to be with them, The parents of two grown children and program that provides food for the hungry. As they talked look into their eyes and be present, they’ll grandparents of six have also been When a fellow parishioner at after the funeral, open up to you. And you can be the presenters for the Indianapolis Pre Cana St. Mark’s was a single father struggling Father McCaslin presence of Christ to them.” Conference for engaged couples. to raise his seven children, they were told Egold about That attitude is shared by all the Elaine has also taught at Roncalli High always there, providing food and other his vision to revive winners who will be recognized during an School in Indianapolis for 33 years. support. the struggling areas April 26 dinner at the Indiana Roof “One of the things I like about teaching For more than 20 years, they have of his parishes by Ballroom in Indianapolis, which will is that I learn a lot from my students,” she worked on the parish’s funeral meal forming a benefit Catholic Charities Indianapolis. says. “Being around them, I know I’m ministry, planning, preparing and serving grassroots Here are more stories about this year’s going to learn more about God and Jesus.” food for funerals at St. Mark Parish. They Tom Egold organization that winners. Pat has the same experience when he also once organized a wedding reception would buy and works among the 4,000 volunteers of for three Burmese refugee couples. rebuild homes so low-income families Pat and Elaine Jerrell the Indianapolis chapter of the St. Vincent Fred has donated blood for 50 years could purchase them. He asked Egold if de Paul Society. while Mary has poured her heart into he could help. “They’re fun to be around,” says Pat, a making quilts that raise money for the So much for retiring from volunteering. retired engineer. “They’re focused on other parish. Ever since, Egold has been a key force people, not themselves. They just enjoy They have served as hospitality in Hearts and Hands of Indiana, an life. When you help somebody else and ministers at the church for more than organization that has already bought give them hope, it brings peace to your 25 years, and they also lead the effort to and renovated two vacant homes near mind and your heart. It’s brought such joy prepare more than 400 pounds of Holy Trinity Parish for two families— to our lives.” “St. Mark Famous Barbecue” for the with two more homes on the way. parish’s summer festival. “Tom volunteers between 30 and Fred and Mary Pitzer It should also be noted that 40 hours of work a week to Hearts and the couple has five children, Hands as president,” Father McCaslin 12 grandchildren and three great- says. “His leadership, tenacity and faith grandchildren. have been vital to its progress and As sponsors for couples who are “We do everything together except I success. For Tom, being a good steward engaged to be married, Pat and don’t do quilts,” Fred says with a smile. is an every moment of your life thing.” Elaine Jerrell sometimes share thoughts “You’re helping other people. You can’t Egold downplays the praise, seeing and tips from their 40 years of marriage, live your life in a shell. You have to be the Spirit of Service Award as an honor including this insight on the importance there for other people.” to be shared with his wife, family and of service to others. Mary smiles and adds, “Some of this friends from the 1961 graduating class “In a marriage relationship, you need volunteering is selfish, too. It’s of the former Sacred Heart High School time together,” Pat says. “But you also something I enjoy. And it’s more in Indianapolis—a group that has need to plug into something bigger than fulfilling than shopping.” embraced Hearts and Hands as a way to yourselves.” It is one of the best compliments that give back to the Church and the Elaine nods and adds, “I think it’s someone could be given. It is also one of Tom Egold community for all the blessings in good if you can find something the two of the best descriptions of a life lived in There was a time—briefly—when their lives. you can do as a couple. It’s a way to service to others. Tom Egold thought his years of “What drives me is my Catholic show your gratefulness for everything “Love God, live simply, work hard, volunteering should come to an end, when faith,” says Egold, the father of three and you have.” help others, stay organized. Those the time he dedicated to service at the grandfather of eight. “It’s just The Jerrells have found that common five values are what you will see in St. Barnabas Parish, Marian University and rewarding to watch the people we’ve ground. Pat serves as president of the Fred and Mary Pitzer day in and day out,” the Catholic Youth Organization—all in helped grow in self-esteem. We’re all Indianapolis chapter of the St. Vincent notes Ann Berkemeier, a member of Indianapolis—should be turned over to a God’s children. God has blessed us, and de Paul Society while Elaine is the St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in new generation. we have to give back.” † Daughters of Charity, Sisters of St. Francis President of Super Bowl Host to receive special Spirit of Service awards Committee is keynote speaker By John Shaughnessy passion for care of the poor. They grew our ministry. We don’t have as many sisters as we’ve at Spirit of Service dinner It will be a moment of humility and appreciation. had at some times, but over the years the sisters Criterion staff report It will be a moment when two religious sisters have influenced our lay leaders to embrace our accept a special award in recognition of all the mission and core values, and to believe in our Fresh from her role as the president of the 2012 Indianapolis women in their communities who have worked Catholic identity. In receiving this award, it shows Super Bowl Host Committee, Allison Melangton will deliver the through the years to care for the sick and the poor at that even though we are small in numbers, our spirit keynote speech at the Spirit of Service Awards Dinner on April 26. the two Catholic hospitals in Indianapolis that their is still mighty.” The event at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis orders started. That same spirit has guided the Sisters of benefits and celebrates the efforts of Catholic Charities On April 26, the archdiocese will present St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in their Indianapolis to help people in need. Spirit of Service Community Awards to the commitment to Franciscan St. Francis Health. The dinner is also an opportunity for Daughters of Charity, the founding order of In 1909, two sisters from St. Francis Convent business, community and social service St. Vincent Health, and the Sisters of St. Francis of in Lafayette, Ind., traveled to Beech Grove by leaders to help celebrate this year’s Perpetual Adoration, the founding order of horse-drawn buggy to talk about starting a hospital honorees who have dedicated their lives Franciscan St. Francis Health. there. In 1914, St. Francis Hospital was opened. in a spirit of service to others. The awards will be made during the The Beech Grove site was recently consolidated “The Spirit of Service Awards Dinner Spirit of Service Awards Dinner at the with the newer Franciscan St. Francis Health provides us with the opportunity to Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis, an event hospital in Indianapolis. share how the staff and volunteers of that benefits the work of Catholic Charities “We’ve been in the archdiocese for almost Catholic Charities, on a daily basis, have Indianapolis to help people in need. 100 years,” says St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration the chance to cultivate our solidarity in “I was pleasantly surprised and very pleased Sister M. Angela Mellady, provincial of the order. providing compassionate service to when I received the call about the award,” says “The sisters who came before us left a great legacy the poor and others in need,” says Daughter of Charity Sister Catherine Kelly. for us to try to follow. What incredible faith Allison Melangton David Bethuram, agency director of “But like any good Daughter of Charity, it’s a they had.” Catholic Charities Indianapolis. little humbling because what we do in our The story of that faith traces back to the order’s Tables for eight people can be purchased at these levels— ministries, it’s just our life. It’s our life breath. It’s beginning in Germany when it was founded by $10,000 for a benefactor, $5,000 for a patron, $1,750 for a our tradition to be Christ for the poor. But it’s Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel in 1863, says partner and $800 for a parish table sponsor. Single tickets always nice to be appreciated. And it’s nice when Sister Angela. are $250. people are aware that we are present in the “She had great trust in Divine Providence,” she The funds raised by the awards dinner will help to support archdiocese, and we still go about doing what we says. “When she would receive a request from a the efforts of Catholic Charities Indianapolis to provide have for 131 years.” diocese or bishop, she would pray upon it and then family support, eldercare, crisis assistance and shelter while Sister Catherine sees the award as a special send the sisters.” serving as an advocate for peace and social justice. tribute to all the Daughters of Charity who have Today, the order stays true to the spirit of “Each year, day in and day out, we welcome with charity and followed in the footsteps of the four religious sisters St. Francis, the power of prayer and the example of dignity the homeless family, the elderly, the refugee, the unborn who came from Emmitsburg, Md., in 1881 to combining a life of contemplation with a life of and the person in crisis,” Bethuram says. establish a Catholic hospital in Indianapolis. performing works of mercy, Sister Angela says. She During 2010-11, Catholic Charities Indianapolis served “They had $34.77 in their pockets. That’s the views the Spirit of Service Community Award as a 43,000 people. amount they used to start St. Vincent Health,” says tribute to that approach to life. Sister Catherine, vice president for mission “It’s a great honor,” she says. “Our thoughts go (For more information about the awards dinner or to make integration at St. Vincent Health St. Joseph Hospital to the many sisters and co-workers who have gone reservations, call 317-592-4072 or 800-382-9836, ext. 4072, or in Kokomo, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese. before us in the Indianapolis area to provide log on to www.CatholicCharitiesIndpls.org.) † “They came with a real commitment and a services to all those who come to our doors.” † The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Page 9 Foundation of Archbishop-designate Lori’s vocation laid in New Albany By Sean Gallagher religious vocation, Horton said. “We have several students looking into Archbishop-designate William E. Lori the priesthood from our parish and our of Baltimore has followed a winding path school,” she said. “I know Father Eric to become the leader of the oldest diocese will bring [Archbishop-designate Lori] up in the United States. when he talks to the kids about Sean Gallagher File photo by That path began in New Albany, his vocations.” boyhood home. When Archbishop-designate Lori, 60, When the news reached the southern was growing up in New Albany during Indiana town that Pope Benedict XVI the 1950s and 1960s, his parents were had appointed him to become the aware of his interest in the priesthood, but 16th shepherd of this 227-year-old did not force it on him. archdiocese on March 20, his parents, “We didn’t do anything to get him to friends and well-wishers there were be a priest or to keep him from being a happy, but not necessarily surprised. priest,” said Frank Lori. “It was his idea “I wasn’t surprised by it,” said in the first place. We let him go do Frank Lori, Archbishop-designate Lori’s whatever he wanted to do.” 90-year-old father who, along with “As a young man, he was very sure of Margaret Lori, his wife of 65 years, is a himself,” Margaret Lori said. member of St. Parish After graduating from Our Lady of in Clarksville. Perpetual Help School, Archbishop- Such might be the words of a proud designate Lori attended high school and father. But Frank and Margaret didn’t use college seminaries in Kentucky before that word to describe their feelings receiving the last four years of his priestly regarding their son’s accomplishments. formation at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary “I don’t use the word ‘proud,’ ” in Emmitsburg, Md. Margaret said. “We are grateful for his He was ordained a priest for the In this file photo from 2008, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein talks in the home of Cardinal Joseph vocation. We’re grateful for the Archdiocese of Washington in 1977. He E. Ritter with Frank and Margaret Lori, members of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Clarksville. The inspiration that he has had since the later earned a doctorate in theology at Loris are the parents of Bishop William E. Lori. Bishop Lori grew up in New Albany. On March 20, second grade.” The Catholic University of America, and Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to be the 16th archbishop of Baltimore. Archbishop-designate Lori was a was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the student at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Washington Archdiocese in 1995. becoming a cardinal at a liturgy in Rome. “It’s not that much different, really, School in New Albany, which proudly Blessed John Paul II appointed him to “I was quite impressed in shaking his than with Cardinal Ritter,” Hock said. displays a picture of him as a bishop in lead the Bridgeport, Conn., diocese in hand,” said Hock, a member of Our Lady “You can go to school at Our Lady of one of its hallways. 2001. of Perpetual Help Parish. “I’m sure he Perpetual Help and be anything that you “We are very proud of him,” said During that time, Archbishop- said something to me. I remember going want to be. It’s a neat thing that they’ve Theresa Horton, the school’s principal. designate Lori has maintained a lifelong back and saying to [Archbishop-designate come out of these local parishes.” “It’s great to have him from our parish friendship with David Hock, a classmate Lori], ‘I just met Cardinal Ritter.’ ” Although Archbishop-designate Lori and our school.” from his days at Our Lady of Perpetual For several years, Hock has led a had the foundation of his vocation in part Archbishop-designate Lori is the Help School. foundation that is dedicated to restoring laid in the education that he received at second bishop with ties to Our Lady of Hock is planning to attend his friend’s the boyhood home of Cardinal Ritter. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the constant Perpetual Help Parish. Bishop Paul installation, which is scheduled for He now sees his boyhood friend prayer of his parents also played an D. Etienne of Cheyenne was the pastor May 16. providing a similar kind of leadership for important role. there from 1998 to 2007. “I’ve already made reservations,” Hock the Church in the United States that And they continue to pray for him “We seem to foster bishops here, said with a laugh on the day after the Cardinal Ritter did half a century ago. today. which is good,” said Horton with a laugh. appointment was announced. He is proud that the parishes and “The only thing that we can offer is The faculty of the New Albany When Hock was in school with Catholic schools of the New Albany our prayers,” said Margaret Lori. “We Deanery school, along with Archbishop-designate Lori, both boys Deanery are communities that inspire give thanks to the Lord for his vocation, Father Eric Augenstein, the parish’s were thinking about becoming priests. young people like Cardinal Ritter and and all the wonderful people who have pastor, work hard to encourage the In 1961, Hock attended a reception in Archbishop-designate Lori to use the worked with him throughout Connecticut students there to consider prayerfully that New Albany to welcome Cardinal Joseph talents that God gave them in service to [and elsewhere]. We give all of them God might be calling them to a priestly or E. Ritter back to his hometown after the Church. complete thanks for their support.” †

freedom in the 1960s was directly related to his earlier sixth grade, and taught me in the third grade. Well into the LORI work against racism both here in the Archdiocese of 1980s, my parents and I would visit with Sister Viator and continued from page 1 Indianapolis and in St. Louis? Sister Mary William, who had been the principal and my A. “Absolutely.” eighth-grade teacher. shepherd of the Bridgeport, Conn., diocese. On March 20, “They had a big influence on me. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to lead the Archdiocese Q. You’re not the first archbishop of Baltimore to “There were so many strong Catholic families. I was of Baltimore, the oldest diocese in the United States. He have been born in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. blessed by my mother and father in their strong faith. I will be installed in Baltimore on May 16. Archbishop William D. Borders was born in 1913 in think of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hock, the parents of my In a March 22 telephone interview with The Criterion, Washington, Ind., which was then in the Diocese of good friend, David Hock. If you went there for dinner, you Archbishop-designate Lori reflected on his connection to Indianapolis. also knelt with the family to pray the rosary. Cardinal Ritter, growing up in New Albany and the role of And the first bishop of Vincennes was Bishop Simon “I think as well of Bud and Frances Oeffinger, who lived his parents, Frank and Margaret Lori, in forming him in the Bruté, who ministered in the Archdiocese of Baltimore across the street from us on Indiana Avenue in New Albany. faith and in his vocational discernment. and, particularly, at your alma mater, Mount St. Mary’s It was Mr. Oeffinger who had a bunch of us pile in the back The following is an edited version of that interview. Seminary, before coming to Indiana. of his station wagon, and we went down to Saint Meinrad. Do these connections between the Church in central “That was a great encouragement toward my priestly Q. What’s it like for you to consider that, in many and southern Indiana and the Archdiocese of Baltimore vocation.” respects, you are following closely in the footsteps of have special meaning for you as you look forward to Cardinal Ritter in providing leadership and service for beginning your leadership there? Q. How would you describe the effect of your the Church in our country? A. “They do. I knew Archbishop Borders because I parents and their example on the development of your A. “Certainly, Cardinal Ritter was a great and visionary served in Washington for so many years. I liked own life of faith and your vocational discernment? leader. The thought of following in his leadership and his Archbishop Borders very, very much. So I immediately A. “One of the first things that I must have come to vision is something that one prayerfully aspires to. Not his thought of that connection when I was appointed. And I know was how seriously my mom and dad took their honors [as a cardinal], but his leadership. made the connection as well between Bishop Bruté and faith. The rosary was very much a part of our life as was “I’ve always admired Cardinal Ritter from the time that I Mount St. Mary’s, where I was a seminarian. The thought Sunday Mass. When Mom and Dad could do it, they were was a very young man. I’m hoping that Cardinal Ritter is that someone who has a deep Maryland connection and a daily communicants. interceding for me.” deep Indiana connection, and whose cause for sainthood is “The parish was very much at the heart of our life at now proceeding [is special to me]. I feel that I have an home. There was no question that I would be sent to the Q. The tie that binds you and him goes even deeper additional friend who can pray for me as I begin my work Catholic elementary school at Our Lady of Perpetual than your shared hometown. He was an advocate for in Baltimore. Help. I was encouraged to serve [at Mass]. religious freedom nearly half a century ago. And now “I think of him as someone who can intercede for me.” “When I first thought about having a priestly vocation, you’ve taken up that cause today. Mom and Dad very wisely didn’t push me and they didn’t A. “That is a wonderful connection, and one that is Q. How did the broader Catholic community in the pull me. really humbling for me to consider. New Albany Deanery contribute to the foundation of “I have a brother with special needs. And their love for “Cardinal Ritter really was a very strong advocate of your life of faith and your priestly and, ultimately, him, which is not always easy, influenced me greatly. I’m religious liberty. And I believe that he brought to the episcopal vocation? sure it played a role in my own life of faith, but also in [Second Vatican] Council a keen theological insight and a A. “I was very blessed to grow up in a very strong my vocation as a priest. Talk about living out your love of his American experience. That made him a very parish, a growing parish and, at the time, a young vocation to love. forceful and convincing advocate for ‘Dignitatis Humanae.’ parish—Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Father [Charles H.] “In the baptismal rite, it says that parents are to be the “What I’m really doing now is being true to that vision, Wagner, of happy memory, was working as hard as I’ve first teachers in the ways of faith. Mom and Dad have which he and the whole Church set forward about the ever seen anyone work to build that parish and to been and remain the best of teachers.” dignity of the human person, about the truth that religious strengthen it. liberty is a gift not bestowed by the state but given by God. “I was confirmed by Archbishop [Paul C.] Schulte. And Q. As your own vocation has unfolded over many “Religious liberty is crucial for building a just and it was really not too long after that confirmation that the years now, how has your gratitude for their love and compassionate society, which the cardinal certainly thought of a priestly vocation occurred to me. guidance grown over the years, especially as they have advocated for long before the Second Vatican Council.” “I was educated by the Franciscan sisters of Oldenburg. I been faithful to their own vocation for 65 years? remember very well Sister Mary Viator. She taught my A. “I’d say that it grows exponentially. It really does. Q. So are you saying that his advocacy for religious father at the orphanage in Vincennes. She had him in the The older I become, the more I appreciate it.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Sainthood causes advance for Boys Town founder, other Americans OMAHA, Neb. (CNS)—Father Edward Flanagan shortly afterward, with many family and friends was declared a “” during a Mass on following her from the Church of Jesus Christ of March 17 at Immaculate Conception Church at Latter-day , said McDevitt. Born in 1904, she moved to Catholic Voice Boys Town as the Archdiocese of Omaha formally Southern California in 1941 and to Boulder Creek in 1956. opened the cause for sainthood for the founder of the “Cora loved the . She considered the Mormons home for troubled youths. her heritage people,” McDevitt told Catholic San

Omaha Archbishop George J. Lucas presided at the Francisco, the archdiocesan newspaper. “She wanted them CNS photo/Lisa Maxson, liturgy, and Father Steven Boes, executive director of to know who Jesus was, and she wanted them to have the Boys Town, concelebrated and was the homilist. Eucharist. She prayed for Mormons.” During his homily, Father Boes sat in front of the altar Evans rejected the Mormon faith in 1924 for what with several Boys Town residents gathered around him, she considered to be false teachings about God and began a and he described the early days of Father Flanagan’s 10-year search for the true religion, according to a ministry in downtown Omaha in the early 1900s. biography presented to the Vatican by the Directing the sermon at the youths, he said Diocese of Monterey in February 2011. Father Flanagan helped children in need, and the She became Catholic shortly after listening to the Father Steven Boes, executive director of Boys Town, is internationally known ministry that stands as his legacy Catholic radio hour on Dec. 9, 1934, when she was too sick surrounded by young Boys Town residents as he gives his homily continues to do the same work. to change the station despite a great aversion to Catholicism, during Mass on March 17 at Immaculate Conception Church in Alluding to the clerical sex abuse scandal, Father Boes McDevitt said. She went to nearby St. Joseph Catholic Boys Town, Neb. The Mass marked an early step in the sainthood said the cause for Father Flanagan’s sainthood appeared Church with questions because what she heard was nothing cause for Father Edward Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, after to be happening at an opportune time for the Church, like what she had been taught about Catholicism, he said. the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., announced on Feb. 27 that it which some have perceived in a negative light because of She was baptized on March 30, 1935. was formally opening the cause for the founder of the home for the evil actions of a few priests who have hurt children. Jesus and many saints reportedly appeared multiple troubled youths. “The Church needs to hold up people who held times to Evans, according to the two-page chronology children up,” Father Boes said. sent by Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia to the of who had been assigned to work At the end of the Mass, Archbishop Lucas formally Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. in China. He soon died of an infected appendix on opened the cause for sainthood, which included the In Father Ciszek’s cause, the Allentown Diocese said Sept. 12, 1919. archbishop and five members of a tribunal taking oaths of materials and documentation sent to the Vatican in 2006 The Diocese of Raleigh said Father Price is being secrecy and a promise to faithfully execute their duties as included testimony from 45 witnesses, the Jesuit’s proposed for sainthood because of “his great love of God, they review Father Flanagan’s life and works. Six people published and unpublished works, and transcription of his holiness of life, his devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary forming theological and historical commissions created hundreds of his handwritten documents. and his faithful dedication to priestly ministry.” † for the cause of also took oaths, with each An additional 4,000 pages of documentation from the person placing one hand on Father Flanagan’s Bible. Jesuit archives in the U.S. and Rome, the original store of Father Flanagan’s was not the only U.S. sainthood documents archived at the Father Ciszek Center in cause to advance in recent weeks. Among the other Shenandoah, Pa., and other important documents Lenten penance services developments: obtained from state records in Russia were sent to the • The Vatican is reviewing documents that would allow Vatican in 2011. are scheduled at the cause of sainthood to go forward for Cora Evans, a Father Ciszek volunteered to work in Poland in 1939 and wife, mother and possible mystic who was baptized fled to the Soviet Union during World War II. Captured by archdiocesan parishes Catholic in 1935 after becoming disillusioned with the the Soviets as a suspected spy, he was interrogated for years Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled Mormon faith. at Moscow’s notorious Lubianka prison then sent to a communal penance services for Lent. The following • The Diocese of Allentown, Pa., reported that the Siberian labor camp. After his release years later, he lived list of services were reported to The Criterion. Vatican has given its formal approval for the canonization and worked in small towns in Siberia, where he heard process to begin for Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek, a confessions and celebrated Mass at the risk of being Batesville Deanery U.S.-born priest who spent many years in Soviet labor discovered and executed. April 4, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for St. John the Baptist, camps and ministered clandestinely among the Siberian Presumed dead by his fellow Jesuits, the priest was Dover; St. Martin, Yorkville; St. Paul, New Alsace; population after his release. released in 1963 in a prisoner exchange negotiated by and St. Joseph, St. Leon, at St. Joseph, St. Leon • The Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., opened the diocesan President John F. Kennedy. He later wrote With God in phase of the canonization cause of Maryknoll co-founder Russia, an account of his years in the Soviet Union, and Indianapolis South Deanery Father Thomas Frederick Price on March 9. The cause He Leadeth Me, his spiritual memoirs. April 2, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, was originally introduced in the Archdiocese of Father Price, who co-founded the Catholic Foreign Greenwood , where Father Price died, but was transferred Mission Society of America, also called Maryknoll, with to the Archdiocese of , where the majority of Father James A. Walsh in 1911, was the first native-born Indianapolis West Deanery the documentation regarding his life is located, and then priest from . March 31, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Michael the to North Carolina, where he was born and spent 25 years Born on Aug. 19, 1860, in Wilmington, N.C., and in missionary work. known as Fred, he was ordained on June 20, 1886, for the Evans, who died in Boulder Creek, Calif., on of North Carolina, which covered the New Albany Deanery March 30, 1957, reported visions of Jesus and the saints, entire state but only included about 800 Catholics. April 1, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight and a mission from Jesus to promote the “mystical Named in 1887 as pastor of St. Paul Church in New Bern, humanity of Christ,” the idea that Christ is always within which included 17 missions in an area covering more than Seymour Deanery us and we should behave always as Christ would, 300 square miles, Father Price asked his bishop in 1896 for April 2, 7 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, said Mike McDevitt, a member of Our Lady of the permission to start a magazine. Truth magazine, established North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay, Calif., who is the in Raleigh in 1897, had 17,000 subscribers throughout the St. Joseph, Jennings County promoter of Evans’ cause of sainthood. The spirituality is country by 1905. also focused on praying the Mass. After he and his seminary classmate, Father—and later— Tell City Deanery Evans’ two children were baptized with her in Bishop Walsh, received Vatican permission to create April 1, 2 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City † Ogden, Utah, and her husband, Mack, became Catholic Maryknoll, Father Price departed in 1918 with the first group Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House

‘Finding God in the Garden’ A Day with Fr. Michael O’Mara April 13, 2012 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

Spring is a perfect time to come and reflect with Fr. Michael O’Mara, pastor of St. Mary Parish, as he shares his love of gardening and this earth that is entrusted to us. He will seek to share some of the ‘secrets’ of Scripture that he has found that relate to this passion of gardening and backyard poultry.

Join us for this day which includes continental breakfast, lunch and Liturgy and enjoy the beautiful and blooming 13 acres of Fatima Retreat House.

Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House 5353 E. 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46226 (317) 545-7681 www.archindy.org/fatima A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2012 FaithAlive! by Catholic News Service. The Passion of Christ is a ‘tale of divine suffering’ By William Thorn misunderstand Jesus. The rest argue about washing, debate who is greatest and get The Passion of Christ—rife with distracted by swords. betrayal, humiliation, torture, mockery and And still Jesus loved them, and suffered death—is the ultimate tale of suffering. yet further—in foresight of what was It appears in all four Gospels— to come. Mt 26-27, Mk 14-15, Lk 22-23 and “If the world hates you, realize that it Jn 12-19—as the climax of Jesus’ earthly hated me first. … If they persecuted me, life, setting the stage for his Resurrection. It they will also persecute you. … They will Rosati, courtesy ArtCNS photo/A.M. Resource begins with the conspiracy against Jesus expel you from the synagogues. In fact, the and ends with brutal crucifixion. hour is coming when everyone who kills It is not without bright moments— you will think he is offering worship to Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples in God” (Jn 15:18, 20; 16:2). which he washes their feet and sings In Gethsemane, following his arrest, hymns with them. He heals and converts “they all left him and fled” (Mk 14:50). soldiers. He impresses Pilate. Noble And still, there is no doubt that Jesus characters appear—Simon of Cyrene, the mourned the suicide of Judas Iscariot. good thief who by tradition is known as The ungrateful masses fare no better— Dismas and Joseph of Arimathea. demanding things, robbing Jesus of But the Passion remains a tale of divine precious final moments with his disciples suffering. and shouting for his crucifixion in Pilate’s The physical abuse begins with Pilate. court. Jesus taught, fed, led, healed and The governor has Jesus flogged, whipped forgave them. They demand Barabbas. and scourged. And once condemned, the The power hierarchy gladly humiliates world’s best soldiers—a cohort of Jesus. He is arrested with spears, clubs and 600 Romans—strip him, beat him, dress torches like a common thief or wild animal. him up, beat him again, strip him again and In bondage, he is lied about, slandered and Christ crowned with thorns is depicted in a fresco detail from the Collegiata in San Gimignano, Italy. crown him with thorns. mistried, repeatedly. The suffering that Christ endured in his Passion was relentless, and happened at the hands of both “They spat in his face and struck him, “The chief priests and entire Sanhedrin his friends and enemies. while some slapped him, saying, ‘Prophesy kept trying to obtain testimony against for us, Messiah: who is it that struck Jesus … but they found none. Many gave (Lk 22:42-45). very eyes of his most beloved, the only you?’ ” (Mt 26:66-67). false witness against him, but their Meanwhile, his disciples slept. people who didn’t betray, desert, deny On the road to Golgotha, an exhausted testimony did not agree” (Mk 14:55-56). Some of his final words from the Cross or persecute him. “, and bloodied Jesus stumbles and falls, “They brought charges against him, are directed to his Father. “Eli, Eli, lema Mary the mother of the younger James weary and spent. To quench his thirst, he is saying, ‘We found this man misleading our sabachthani?”—“My God, my God, why and of Joses, and Salome .… followed him given bitter spiked gall. people; he opposes the payment of taxes to have you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46). when he was in Galilee and ministered to Crucifixion—marked by nails, bleeding Caesar and maintains that he is the Jesus suffers further abuse while on him. There were also many other women and suffocation—is intentionally gruesome. Messiah, a king. … He is inciting the the Cross. who had come up with him to Jerusalem” It is a dishonorable death, of indignity and people throughout all Judea’ ” (Lk 23:2-5). “Those passing by reviled him, shaking (Mk 15:40-41). disgrace. Not only does Jesus suffer on the In Herod’s court, “the chief priests and their heads and saying, ‘You who would Christ’s Passion includes suffering of all Cross, he is robbed while hanging there scribes meanwhile stood by accusing him destroy the temple and rebuild it in types, suffering from all sides—relentless, and stabbed after he dies. harshly. [Even] Herod and his soldiers three days, save yourself, if you are the Son human suffering. Yet, Jesus’ emotional and spiritual treated him contemptuously and mocked of God, [and] come down from the cross!’ ” Would the worst suffering be to foresee suffering may be worse. him” (Lk 23:10-11). (Mt 27:39-40). and anticipate it all? And who but God In tragic juxtaposition, he suffers at the Jesus is flooded with fear and agony in “The rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him could do so and still go through with it? hands of nearly everyone he has taught, the garden. “Troubled and distressed … he and said, ‘He saved others, let him save healed and touched. said, ‘My soul is sorrowful even to death’ ” himself.’ Even the soldiers jeered at him. … (William Thorn is a freelance journalist in From his chosen ranks, there is (Mk 14:33-34). One of the criminals hanging there reviled Milwaukee. He is an author and former Judas Iscariot’s betrayal and Peter’s denial. “He was in such agony and prayed Jesus, saying, ‘Are you not the Messiah? reporter for Catholic News Service and the St. John’s Gospel portrays ignorant and so fervently that his sweat became like Save yourself and us’ ” (Lk 23:35-36). Bangkok-based Union of Catholic Asian weak disciples. Thomas, Philip and Jude drops of blood falling on the ground” Worse still, all this happened before the News.) † Pain can be life-giving because of Christ’s suffering and death By David Gibson boundaries of our lives, it often arrives faces. It feels as if suffering, or its cause, leading to Easter form the bearing the greatest of disappointments or pronounces a final word for us. “paschal mystery.” This term, as Pain-free suffering. What a frustrations. It may offer sadness or It is all the more surprising, then, that so Pope Benedict XVI explained during his contradiction in terms! physical pain. It may drain us. many people say later that suffering was 2008 visit to New York, “refers to When suffering enters within the Sometimes suffering makes us angry. not the final word. Hope somehow was Christ’s Passion, his death and Given all of that, it is amazing that reawakened for them. resurrection,” along with his Ascension. anything good ever takes root in The need for hope is one reason it is The paschal mystery encompasses environments of suffering. Yet, all sorts of essential that people not be abandoned to what Pope Benedict, during the people testify that this happens. suffer alone. August 2011 World Youth Day gathering Long Island Catholic Perhaps they matured as human beings In a 2010 pastoral reflection on in Madrid, Spain, described as the while caring for a sick child or spouse. suffering, New Zealand’s Catholic bishops “mysterious wisdom of the cross by Perhaps their pain over a job loss yielded said, “Unable to avoid suffering, none of us which man lives. an overdue recognition that they were should have to meet it alone. … The “The cross was not a sign of failure, called to a different kind of work. simplest sign of love can make all the but an expression of self-giving love,” the

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS photo/Gregory A. Looking back upon a period of genuine difference to a person’s ability to find peace pope added. suffering, many people are certain that God and purpose amidst even the severest British Cardinal Cormac was active in their lives the entire time discomfort.” Murphy-O’Connor similarly pointed out although they understood this only later. The mystery of Easter connects in a 2010 speech that in the paschal In the end, they believed God was suffering and love. It makes this connection mystery “we touch the core of faithful to them and that, yet again, they without denying the painful reality of Christ’s life ... his continuous self-gift, were asked to respond faithfully to God. Christ’s suffering. In light of this, the which never ceases, even in the silence of The surprise in suffering is that it can be Easter mystery relates pointedly to the the cross.” life-giving. actual lives that people lead. At Easter, then, the final word is But suffering most definitely is not It is love that “is the final word spoken “love.” Happily, in my view, that does not pain-free. What is hard is the way that over human life, and this word is spoken mean Easter somehow glosses over the suffering seems to erect a wall blocking our personally to us by God,” Bishop Daniel facts about Christ’s suffering by view of life as we knew it. E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, said in a suggesting it was of a pain-free variety. Suffering can be confusing and 2010 address. What Easter does announce is the disorienting. Frequently, people just don’t He commented that having “a deep possibility of hope, which is essential for Father Fred Hill, with fellow chaplain know what to do about it. They may feel sense of and conviction about the triumph suffering people. Theresa Maynard, blesses patient Bill Murphy alone even when with others. of love over death and despair is the grace at St. Medical Center in Suffering is the kind of invader that of Christian hope.” (David Gibson served on Catholic News Smithtown, N.Y. appears at first to be closing a door in our Taken together, the events in Christ’s life Service’s editorial staff for 37 years.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Biblical readings: Letter to the Hebrews for Holy Week Wallowing in The biblical readings for Holy Week in the to faith, loyalty, endurance and hope. The For Good Friday, we move to the mud of sin? Office of Readings are from the Letter to the Jewish Christians are encouraged to endure Chapter 9:11-28, which is about the sacrifice Hebrews just as they their trials as God’s discipline, remembering of Jesus. Here, Hebrews tells us that, when are this week for the how Christ endured the opposition of sinners. Christ came as high priest, he entered once Let God Fifth Week of Lent. I For Holy Thursday, the reading backs up for all into the sanctuary “not with the wrote last week about to Chapter 4:14 through Chapter 5:10. We blood of goats and calves, but with his own clean you up the first eight chapters of read about Jesus the high priest on the day blood, and achieved eternal redemption” Little boys are attracted to mud like that book. we celebrate the Evening Mass of the (Heb 9:12). That, of course, is what we metal to a magnet. For Palm Sunday and Lord’s Supper, the institution of the commemorate on Good Friday. I’ve seen this proven true when my Monday, the readings Eucharist, and empowerment of the Apostles However, it says that “Christ did not first three sons are from Chapter 10. and their successors to do as Jesus did. enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a were toddlers. On a This chapter begins by Hebrews combines what we call both copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that recent Sunday emphasizing again that Jesus abolished the “high” and “low” Christologies. Jesus is he might appear before God on our behalf” afternoon, it was first covenant with the Jews to establish the God’s Son, but he is also fully human. (Heb 9:24). confirmed again by second. Jesus, it says, is unlike those priests “For we do not have a high priest who is It says that both the first covenant made my 2-year-old son, who offer again and again the same unable to sympathize with our weakness, but with God by and the second covenant Philip. sacrifices. Jesus “offered one sacrifice for one who was tempted in every way that we made by Jesus were accomplished with the It was an sins and took his seat forever at the are, yet never sinned” (Heb 4:15). shedding of blood. unusually warm and right hand of God” (Heb 10:12). Priests do not take the honor of the For Holy Saturday, the Office of sunny day for the In light of this, Hebrews says that priesthood upon themselves, Hebrews says, Readings returns to Chapter 4:1-13. This middle of March, and Christians must remain faithful to the practice “but only when called by God” (Heb 5:4). is encouragement to enter into the Lord’s Philip wanted to play outside when we of their religion. “We should not stay away Therefore, “It was not Christ who glorified rest: “A sabbath rest still remains for the got home from church. from our assembly, as is the custom of some, himself in becoming high priest, but rather people of God. And he who enters into It had rained the previous night, and but encourage one another” (Heb 10:25). the one who said to him: ‘You are my son; God’s rest, rests from his own work as God there was a good bit of mud next to our The readings then jump to Chapter 12 for this day I have begotten you’ [quoting did from his. Let us strive to enter into that driveway. Tuesday and Wednesday. It is an exhortation Psalm 110:4]” (Heb 5:5). rest” (Heb 4:9-11). † As I sat in our breakfast nook, I saw Philip toddle outside and head straight For the Journey/Effie Caldarola for the mud. Knowing his proclivity to be covered from head to toe in mud once he starts playing in it, I said to him through Embracing the frog, not the prince, within each of us an open window, “Philip, stay out of the I spent several years teaching a class of tricks and fear that people will notice a few they are in their sweatpants with the hole in mud.” 4-year-old preschoolers so I wasn’t surprised extra pounds. the knee. He looked at me and dutifully said, when the priest pulled Who hasn’t worried about that initial The greatest people are the ones who “OK, Daddy,” and trotted off. the fuzzy green toy reaction when entering a room? walk into a room worrying about who they But a couple of minutes later, Philip frog out of his bag. Men want to be princes, too. Like will see, not how they look. was back near the mud. I repeated my The frog has a big, women, they worry about the impression They are happy to have you cry on a warning and he walked away, only to smiling zipper mouth. they create with their image, their title, the shoulder that isn’t covered by this year’s best come back again. I’ve seen the old car they drive, the house they show off, the cashmere. After a while, I got tired of this back frog-to-prince trick, and kids they brag about. The people on your list aren’t obsessively and forth, and let Philip play in the mud it’s a good one. We want to exude a sense of success. We fashionable or successful by the world’s to his heart’s content. Sure enough, when When the frog is don’t want to be the failure. We don’t want standards. They worry about more he came inside, his legs and hands were pulled inside out, a to be the frog. important things. caked with it. purple-robed prince The poor frog, after all, gets kissed Ultimately, they are more like Thankfully, I caught him before he with a golden crown emerges. The frog has fleetingly as we make our way to the prince. Blessed Teresa of Kolkata or Jesus. made a mess in the house. I took off his disappeared. But think about the people in your life. Did Jesus die a prince? No, Jesus died as muddy shoes and socks, got a wet rag But it was the priest’s words that stuck Imagine that you are suddenly in dire trouble a crucified, tortured criminal, a man executed and carefully wiped him clean of all with me. They contained a truth I believe, and need a true friend. Would you care about by the state. his filth. and yet it’s a truth that is sometimes hard the clothes that person wears or would your So here is to embracing the frog within As he went off to play in the basement to accept. choice revolve around her integrity, wisdom me. Here is to trying to emulate the people with his brothers, and I was left alone in “You know, most of us spend our lives and faithfulness? on my “greatest friend” list and the qualities the breakfast nook, I reflected on an trying to be princes and princesses,” he said. Make a mental list of the most influential that put them there rather than the shallow important Lenten lesson found in this “But it’s the frog within us that people really people in your life. Did their lithe bodies or qualities of this fleeting world. Here is to typical toddler incident. respond to.” impressive title have the tiniest thing to do looking outward at others, and not inward at Just as Philip and all little boys are How true. with their place on your list? “How do I look?” drawn to mud like moths to a light, I’ve spent some time trying to be a Usually, the people at the top of our life’s Here is to answering the call of Jesus, humanity on this side of heaven just can’t princess, and I think that goes for most list of greatest folks are the ones who, like a who never yielded to the need for success or get away from the allure of sin. of us. comfortable old shoe, wear well with the prestige, but died a failure in the world’s Over the centuries, God has tried to We worry about the image we convey. years. They don’t call attention to eyes and a model of faithfulness for all of us. draw us away from evil through the We can be consumed with “What I shall themselves. They are the ones who are words of the prophets, the proclamation wear?” when headed to a special event. We always available, and don’t mind you (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News of the Gospel by the Apostles and the rue a bad hair day, have a bag of makeup popping in when their house is dirty and Service.) † continuing teachings of the Church. But he respects our freedom, and lets Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli us choose the dirtiness of sin over the purity of grace that lightens our hearts Lessons from the Savior during Lenten season and beyond and fills them with life. If we looked at God simply through “Crucify him! Crucify him!” However, months later, when I requested mind. One day when the computer network human eyes, we would expect him to Most of us don’t have to endure the a day off, I was told that I didn’t get any paid quit working, Nancy offered everyone the reject us when we come back to him intensity of suffering that Jesus bore as he vacation time. I wrinkled my nose and choice of a paid vacation day or unpaid time covered in muck after we have ignored stood before the angry scratched my head. off. When I didn’t reply, she called me into his warnings so many times. mob clamoring for his But Nancy, the office manager, insisted. her office. I would certainly get frustrated crucifixion. “No,” she said. “You don’t get paid “Why didn’t you respond?” she asked. quickly if Philip came to me many times But people can say vacation time.” “You said I don’t get paid vacation,” a day to have the mud cleaned off of him. and do things that make Perplexed, I shrugged and left her office. I replied. But God not only is never fatigued by us feel beaten and That night, however, I searched at home until “Well, you do now,” she said. our constant need for his cleansing imprisoned. In those I found the original employment letter. My eyes widened in disbelief. My mercy, he actually rejoices when we instances, we have There it was, written in black and white. shoulders relaxed like a great burden had come to him for help because Jesus tells much to learn from One week of paid vacation after six months been released. I sighed. us that “there will be more joy in heaven our Savior. and two weeks of paid vacation after “If it bothered you that much, why didn’t over one sinner who repents than over Meek and humble, one year of service. you say anything?” Nancy asked. ninety-nine righteous people who have Jesus did not fight or resist the taunts. In fact, I sighed with relief. I was right. Nancy Humbly, I felt no need to answer. Instead, no need of repentance” (Lk 15:7). Pilate was so disturbed by Jesus’ submission must have forgotten. I remained silent. Christ washes us in a special and that he pulled him aside and asked, “Don’t I brought the document to the office the Suddenly, I recalled Jesus’ response to unrepeatable way in the waters of you know that I have the power to release next morning, but when Nancy saw me Pilate on that fateful day. As I retreated baptism, which will be renewed soon in you or to crucify you?” (Jn 19:10). coming with my paperwork in hand she from Nancy’s office, his words echoed from Easter Vigils across the archdiocese. Jesus responded, “You would have no waved me away. deep within. Christ’s reply was my unspoken After that, it happens in the healing power at all over me unless it were given to “That was a mistake,” she growled, answer. intimacy of the sacrament of you from above” (Jn 19:11). pointing toward my letter. ”You don’t get “You would have no power at all over reconciliation. In the secrecy of a Can you believe that? paid vacation time.” me unless it were given to you from above” confessional, Christ comes to us and Initially, I couldn’t relate to his statement. “But …,” I waved the proof. (Jn 19:11). lovingly pours anew over our souls the I would have argued and fought. But when a “That was a mistake,” she barked. I believe that. And a deep and abiding merciful and cleansing water that flowed work situation arose that left me feeling I didn’t argue. I didn’t fight. I would peace remains. from his pierced side on the Cross. betrayed and imprisoned, I suddenly never sue, but I went home from work that So don’t be discouraged when you understood his response. day and cried. I couldn’t afford to take a day (Debra Tomaselli lives in find yourself again and again covered in It happened years ago when I took a job without pay. I felt imprisoned. Yet, I never Altamonte Springs, Fla. Her column the mud of your bad habits and usual with an insurance agency. Although the questioned her ruling. I accepted it and appears in several diocesan newspapers. sins. position was part time, the terms of trusted God to deliver peace. Her e-mail address is Go to Jesus, especially in confession, employment included a paid vacation. Months later, something changed Nancy’s [email protected].)† and he will be there to clean you up. † The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012 Page 13

Palm Sunday/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, April 2 Saturday, April 7 The Sunday Readings Monday of Holy Week Holy Saturday 42:1-7 Holy Saturday Night— Sunday, April 1, 2012 Evangelist. The imprint of the respective Psalm 27:1-3, 13-14 The Easter Vigil Evangelist’s sense of the meaning of what John 12:1-11 Genesis 1:1-2:2 • Isaiah 50:4-7 happened on the first Good Friday is clear. • Philippians 2:6-11 Without doubt, the death of Jesus or Genesis 1:1, 26-31a • Mark 14:1-15:47 occurred as a result of a horrendous process Tuesday, April 3 Psalm 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10, 12-14, of torture and humiliation. It loses sight of Tuesday of Holy Week 24, 35c This weekend, the Church celebrates the Gospel’s message, however, to see the Isaiah 49:1-6 or Psalm 33:4-7, 12-13, 20-22 Palm Sunday, to use the older term, or the awfulness of these tragic events and Psalm 71:1-4a, 5-6ab, 15, 17 Genesis 22:1-18 Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. nothing more. As the rite of the procession of the The story ultimately is about the John 13:21-33, 36-38 or Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, palms begins, a inevitability of God’s will. In love, God 15-18 selection from willed that even sinful humanity should Wednesday, April 4 Psalm 16:5, 8-11 Chapter 11 of have the option of replacing disobedience Wednesday of Holy Week Exodus 14:15-15:1 St. Mark’s Gospel with obedience. God provided a way for Isaiah 50:4-9a (Response) Exodus 15:1-6, 17-18 is read. this to happen through the life and Psalm 69:8-10, 21bcd-22, 31, Isaiah 54:5-14 These reflections sacrificial death of Jesus. examine the readings Another important lesson is in the 33-34 Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b in the Liturgy of the reactions of others in the story—the Matthew 26:14-25 Isaiah 55:1-11 Word itself. Jewish officials with their intrigue, the (Response) Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, For the first of these impulsiveness and then the betrayal of Thursday, April 5 5-6 readings, the Church Peter, the pragmatism of Pilate, and the Holy Thursday Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4 presents a passage from the third part of the uncompromising loyalty of Mary and the Book of Isaiah. women with her. They all present images of Isaiah 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9 Psalm 19:8-11 It is one of the four Songs of the human nature, and how human nature Psalm 89:21-22, 25, 27 Ezra 36:16-17a, 18-28 Suffering Servant, the four poetic and differs as it is presented in one life and then Revelation 1:5-8 Psalms 42:3, 5; 43:3-4 highly moving compositions that form in another. Luke 4:16-21 or, when baptism is celebrated, one of the great glories of Third Isaiah. Holy Thursday Evening (Response) Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, Over the centuries, Christians have seen Reflection Evening Mass of the Lord’s 5-6 the image of Christ, the innocent Lamb of This Palm Sunday’s profound reading God, in these Suffering Servant Songs. from the Gospel of St. Mark calls us to the Supper or Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19 Scholars debate the identity of the basic fact that—despite all the horror, and Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14 Romans 6:3-11 Suffering Servant. Was he the prophet regardless of all the chaos and plotting— Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 Psalm 118:1-2, 16ab-17, 22-23 himself? Was he a collective identity for the Jesus was unswerving in fulfilling God’s 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Mark 16:1-7 people of Israel? Did he represent the holy will, and indeed God’s will prevails. John 13:1-15 devout and faithful among the people? Was What was God’s will? It was that all he someone else? people are to be freed of the effects of sin Sunday, April 8 In any case, the message is clear. and be able to be at peace with God and in Friday, April 6 Easter Sunday of the Despite outrages brought against him, the God to possess eternal life. Good Friday of the Passion of Resurrection of the Lord Suffering Servant remains true to God. The first reading, the figure of the the Lord Acts 10:34a, 37-43 The second reading from St. Paul’s Suffering Servant, gives additional focus Celebration of the Lord’s Psalm 118:1-2, 16ab-17, 22-23 Letter to the Philippians is one of the most upon the obedience of Jesus. Passion Colossians 3:1-4 eloquent sections in the New Testament. A favorite literary technique employed Scholars think that this reading had its by St. Mark is irony. It is ironic that Isaiah 52:13-53:12 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 origins in an ancient Christian liturgy humanity’s only chance for freedom and Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 25 John 20:1-9 dating from the times of the Apostles. It is eternal life is in Jesus, yet humans schemed Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 or Mark 16:1-7 appealing and very instructive in its excited and maneuvered to upset the mission John 18:1-19:42 or, at an afternoon or proclamation of faith in Jesus. of Jesus. evening Mass, For this year’s Palm Sunday liturgy, the The most pious of the Jews, presumably, Church presents the Passion Narrative of even allowed themselves to ally with the Luke 24:13-35 St. Mark’s Gospel. pagan Romans, their oppressors, to While all the Gospels go into confound the Lord’s work of salvation. considerable detail in telling the story of God’s will for humanity endures today the Lord’s trial and crucifixion, they differ for each of us. Ironically, do we—with our from each other in certain insights and sinfulness and in our blindness—frustrate Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle emphases. for ourselves the opportunity given to us in Each Gospel is the work of a distinct Christ to be with God? † Special relationship between husband My Journey to God and wife may continue into eternity After decades of a really good But our speculation must begin with what Qmarriage, my spouse passed away we know, which is that a similar question and I have some was once asked of Jesus. questions. In the Gospel of Matthew, some Is there marriage in Sadducees, in an attempt to ridicule the heaven? Does the belief of the Pharisees in an afterlife, one who is in heaven posed to Christ the problem of Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber have a special link seven brothers who had been married with the one who is successively to the same woman—with still alive? the issue being whose wife she would be When both of them in heaven (Mt 22:23-30). have died, will there Jesus replied, “At the resurrection they be a particular neither marry nor are given in marriage relationship between them in the context but are like the angels in heaven” of perfect happiness? (New York) (Mt 22:30). Resurrection means not just In a recent column, when asked resuscitation, a return to the bodies that Qwhether pets go to heaven, you said we currently experience. In heaven, our that if you need your pet to be happy in bodies will no longer be mortal or heaven then you can be sure they will vulnerable, nor will we need to worry be there. about the survival of the species or the If the physical body gets resurrected continuation of a family name. and spouses meet in heaven, will sex But at the same time, it seems logical In Gethsemane continue to be a part of their life? that a special relationship would continue I know this might be a delicate question into eternity between a man and woman I saw a solitary tree And its Creator, to discuss in print, but I would really like married on earth. Planted Absorbing the depth an answer. (Virginia Beach, Va.) There is, in the marriage relationship, a On the barren hillside, And the gift quality of transcendence that points Rooted deeply in the earth, Of aloneness, As to what life will be like in heaven, beyond itself to a reality that is divine. Reaching and touching the sky Of loneliness, Aa preliminary disclaimer is proper: We are made in the image of the As if in a posture of prayer, And We don’t know. We have been cautioned Trinitarian God, an eternal relationship Aware Regretting it not. by St. Paul that, “What eye has not seen, of profound self-giving love, and I can Of its purpose, position and place, and ear has not heard, and what has not well imagine that a couple will find their Its connection to self, others, By Cathy Lamperski Dearing entered the human heart, what God ultimate fulfillment in rejoicing together has prepared for those who love him” before the face of God, which is the (Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis.) (1 Cor 2:9). ecstasy hinted at in all earthly We are reduced, then, to speculation. intercourse. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, March 30, 2012

PEARSON, Paul Edward, 81, Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Indianapolis, March 15. Father of Donna Franciscan Custer, Julia Monday, Daniel and Rest in peace CNS photo/Bob Roller Edward Pearson. Grandfather of Please submit in writing to our and Ronnie Kirchgessner. eight. Great-grandfather of five. flowers office by 10 a.m. Thursday Brother of Mildred Fessel, PIRTLE, Frances Marie (Lori), Tulips and pansies bloom in a before the week of publication; Marcella Graf, Martha Rhodes, 92, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, garden in front of the be sure to state date of death. Albert, Edward and Emil New Albany, March 12. Mother Franciscan Monastery in Obituaries of archdiocesan Kirchgessner Jr. Grandfather of of Paula Smith and Donna Pirtle. Washington on March 20, the priests serving our archdiocese five. Great-grandfather of one. Sister of Roseann Bowman, are listed elsewhere in first day of spring this year. LITTLE, Vivian F., 96, Freida Jahn, Jesse Skelton and The Criterion. Order priests March 20 through March 23 Holy Family, Oldenburg, Francis Lori. Grandmother of and religious sisters and March 14. Mother of Kay four. Great-grandmother of 10. was the peak time to see brothers are included here, Blackwood, Carol Crays, Denise 70 percent of the cherry unless they are natives of the RECEVEUR, Viola E., 83, Daro, Betty Gabbard, Monica blossom trees blooming in the archdiocese or have other Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, Steidinger, Linda Wenning, Julia, nation’s capital. This year connec tions to it; those are March 14. Mother of Cindy Dan, Joe, Paul and Tim Little. marks the 100th anniversary of separate obituaries on this Beasley, Jeanette Cline, Judith Sister of Catherine Entienne. the gift of 3,000 cherry trees page. Davis, M. Suzanne Graves, Grandmother of 19. Great-grand- from Toyko, Japan. Each year, BRINKMAN, Marilyn, 81, mother of 17. Great-great-grand- Barbara Lawson, John Jr., Robert and Roger Receveur. Sister of the National Cherry Blossom St. Louis, Batesville, March 14. mother of nine. Festival commemorates the Wife of Jerry Brinkman. Mother Bobby Wood. Grandmother LITZELMAN, Agnes M., 98, 1912 gift and honors the of Karla Binder, Kathy Riley and of 15. Most Holy Name of Jesus, lasting friendship between the Tom Brinkman. Grandmother of REISERT, Judith, 55, Beech Grove, March 11. Aunt of United States and Japan. six. Great-grandmother of five. several. St. Andrew, Richmond, March 12. Daughter of James BRUEGGE, Vincent G., 82, LOMBARDO, August Reisert and Betty Brown. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Joseph, Jr., 92 Half-sister of Rhonda and Jimmy March 9. Father of Rhonda Our Lady of the Greenwood, Reisert. Stepsister of Laurie Kinman, Vicki Swarnkar, David Greenwood, March 13. Husband and Gary Bruegge. Grandfather of Theresa (McGinnis) Brown, Karen Martin, Bryan and of nine. Great-grandfather of one. Lombardo. Father of Kathleen Michael Brown. CAMPBELL, Walter R., 89, Rusler and Michael Lombardo. RIEDEMAN, Clyde R., 82, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Brother of Josephine Stickford St. Mary, Greensburg, March 13. Attend the 76th Annual Way Of the Cross Feb. 21. Husband of Wintress and Paul Lombardo. Grandfather Husband of Barbara Riedeman. Sponsored by the Central Indiana Chapter, Knights of Columbus Campbell. Father of Barb Cullen, of several. Step-grandfather of SAHM, Suzanne Marie Jeff and Steve Campbell. Grand- several. Great-grandfather of , 58, father of three. Great-grandfather several. Step-great-grandfather of Most Holy Name of Jesus, of one. several. Great-great-grandfather Beech Grove, March 10. Wife of of several. Michael Sahm. Mother of Sara COGHILL, Margaret Helen, Klindt, Stephanie Stapert, 81, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, LOWS, Gregory Brent, 63, Michelle Stanley, Mary, Mark March 10. Mother of Jane Ahaus, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, and Matthew Sahm. Daughter of Jill Moody, Janice Slaughter, March 19. Son of Robert and Marianne (Lowe) Hermann. Mary Jo Smith and Steven Mary Lows. Sister of Beth Finney, Dolores Coghill. Grandmother of three. MASCARI, Frank A., 89, Thie, Donna Williams and GRITT, William Edward, 82, St. Roch, Indianapolis, March 20. Robert Hermann. Grandmother St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Father of Andy Hart, Liz of six. March 19. Husband of Barbara Schoettle, Rita, Trese, Chris, Joe SCHOENTRUP, Aloysius (McNulty) Gritt. Father of Mary and Nick Mascari. Grandfather of , 82, Rankin, Peggy, Bill Jr. and Mike 13. Great-grandfather of four. St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Gritt. Brother of Mary Kay March 17. Father of Debbie MINTA, Peter J., 76, Schoentrup-Cook and Beth Lashbrook, Jeannie O’Hara, St. Anthony of Padua, Joan, David, George and Tom Schoentrup. Brother of Catherine Clarksville, March 2. Brother of Wertz and John Schoentrup. Gritt. Grandfather of 10. Great- Anne Noller and Thomas Minta. grandfather of four. SCHOETTMER, Albert W., MORALES, Richard D., Sr., HAWKINS, Mary Katheryn 80, Immaculate Conception, , 54, St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Millhousen, March 15. Husband 79, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, March 5. Husband of Irma Villa. Jan. 21. Wife of Price Hawkins. Father of Vanessa Childers, of Pauline Schoettmer. Brother of Mother of Barry and Rick Joseph, Michael, Richard and Kathleen Berkemeier, Lucille Hawkins. Steven Morales. Son of Margie Case, Margaret Greiwe, Ruth JOLIVETTE, Ross C., 91, Morales. Brother of Dolores Steinkamp, Mary Ann Sullivan, St. Charles Borromeo, Magana and Manuel Morales. Virginia Wamsley, Agnes Bloomington, March 15. Father Grandfather of 16. Wagner, Ralph, Richard and of Janet Spore, Julie Wetzel, Jeff, Ronald Schoettmer. Location: American Legion Mall (North of the Indiana War Memorial) PARSON, Robert, Jr., 56, Date: Good Friday April 6th Jon and Jordan Jolivette. Grand- St. Roch, Indianapolis, March 17. SPENCER, Thomas father of five. Great-grandfather Time: 12:00 Noon Husband of Nina (Gentry) Richard, II, 60, St. Roch, Moderator: Rev Msgr. Mark A. Szarczkopf of six. Parson. Father of Theresa, Brian Indianapolis, March 12. Father of Pastor of Our Lady of the Greenwood KIRCHGESSNER, Clifford and Jason Parson. Brother of Susan Anderson. Son of Norma Music by the Columbians Anthony, 76, St. John the Linda Stone, Pam Thompson, (Kelley) Spencer. Brother of Baptist, Starlight, March 20. Heather Wood, Jay and Fritz Suzanne Snoddy and Patrick Father of Diane Amburn, Larry Parson. Grandfather of three. Spencer. Grandfather of one. †

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They come from our Creator.” 700 people from across central Indiana who Father Hollowell also reflected on how came to “stand up for religious freedom” on the Bill of Right’s First Amendment Sean Gallagher Photos by the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in guarantees that Congress would not pass a Indianapolis on March 23. law which prohibited the “free exercise” Right to Life of Indianapolis organized of religion. the city’s “Stand Up for Religious “We are hearing the dangerous phrase Freedom” rally, which was repeated in ‘freedom of worship’ more and more from about 140 other cities across the country on some of our politicians as if religious the same day. beliefs are only to be on display behind the A coalition of pro-life organizations closed doors of churches and mosques and sponsored the rallies in response to the synagogues,” he said. “We already have a mandate of the U.S. Department of Health word for people who only practice their and Human Services (HHS) that nearly all faith behind church doors. That word is employers must provide free coverage ‘hypocrite.’ ” for abortifacients, sterilizations and Father Hollowell then encouraged his Father John Hollowell, left, chaplain of Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis and associate contraceptives even if they are in conscience listeners who oppose the HHS mandate to pastor of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, speaks on March 23 during the “Stand Up for Religious opposed to these medicines or procedures. let their voices be heard. Freedom” rally on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. Religious and civic leaders as well as “I have a say. And you have a say. And citizens spoke under a tent placed near the we all have a say,” Father Hollowell Sebelius, and all those men and women south steps of the Statehouse. emphasized as the crowd at the rally who wrongly believe that this is a war They were welcomed by Marc Tuttle, applauded. “And, despite the fact that some waged on women when, in reality, it is a president of Right to Life of Indianapolis. would try to take that say away from me war waged on religious freedom,” Novak “This is a historic day for a couple of and you, I’m going to keep saying my say said. “This is not a time for placating reasons,” Tuttle explained at the start of the until they cart me off to jail. words and niceties. This is a time of strong rally. “We are just one of 140 cities across “And I say this, ‘Enough.’ The resolve, courage, and sacrifice of time and the country that are simultaneously having government is supposed to be protecting strength until we see these rights restored.” these rallies to stand up for religious the rights that have been given to me by Although much attention has been freedom. But sadly, it’s a historic day God, not swallowing them up.” focused on the Catholic Church during the because we have to have this rally.” Maria Novak had her say after public debate regarding the HHS mandate, Father John Hollowell, chaplain of Father Hollowell. A member of Our Lady a majority of the speakers at the Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in of Mt. Carmel Parish in Carmel, Ind., in the Indianapolis rally were not Catholic. Indianapolis and associate pastor of Lafayette Diocese, Novak, 27, is married They included Yaqub Masih, pastor of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, offered a and works as an architect. Abundant Life International Church in prayer then delivered the rally’s first speech. She told the rally attendees that she and Indianapolis. He reflected on the fact that the others like her accept the Church’s teaching “I’m so proud that the Catholic Church Declaration of Independence said people are on contraception. took a stand and has spoken against this “endowed by their Creator with certain “There are many people in our country [mandate],” Masih said. “Psalm 11, verse inalienable rights. who believe that people like me don’t 3, says that if the foundations are Marian Copley, a member of Our Lady of “It’s important to note that the exist,” Novak said. “I’m here to tell you destroyed, what can the righteous do? Mt. Carmel Parish in Carmel, Ind., in the Founding Fathers saw these rights and that we do exist. “ … This Health and Human Services Lafayette Diocese, holds a sign showing her freedoms as things given to each person by “I didn’t need contraception to be where mandate is stepping on the religious beliefs support for religious freedom during a March 23 their Creator,” Father Hollowell said. I am today. I hope that I don’t fit the of God’s people. We forget that the rally on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse “There’s a very dangerous notion that has stereotype of a woman stuck in the foundation of this nation is based upon in Indianapolis. begun to creep into our vocabulary in this Dark Ages.” religious liberty.” country. And that is—some [people] are Novak later questioned the notion that Masih pointed out that in the coming “We need to pray. If you can fast, beginning to suggest that the rights that we those who oppose the HHS mandate are days the U.S. Supreme Court will be fast and pray,” Masih said. “And cry out to have are given to us by the federal waging a war against women. hearing arguments in a case questioning the Lord that he would have mercy upon government or the state government or “We must pray for our country, for our the constitutionality of the health care our nation, and that he would give wisdom some other government. leaders, especially President [Barack] reform act that ultimately brought forth the and understanding to these judges that they “That is flat wrong. And our Obama, [HHS Secretary] Kathleen HHS mandate. may make the right decision.” †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI called on theme from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians: “Rejoice in the Christ’s message, they are “a set of essential and valuable young people to not pursue power, money and prestige, but to Lord always” (Phil 4:4). rules leading to a happy life,” he said. find true joy in Christ and live a life of generous service to “Joy is at the heart of the Christian experience,” the pope “Christianity is sometimes depicted as a way of life that others. said. In a world marked by so much sorrow and anxiety, “joy is stifles our freedom, and goes against our desires for In his message for World Youth Day 2012, he told the an important witness to the beauty and reliability of the happiness and joy,” he said. world’s young Catholics to start making the world a better, Christian faith.” Rather, faith in Christ, who is truly present for everyone, more just and humane place right He told young people to recognize that the many temptations brings real joy, he said, because Christians recognize that now even while they continue to and false promises of modern-day culture veer people away they are not alone and that Christ is always near, especially pursue their studies, talents and from true and lasting happiness. during times of great difficulty. interests. People are often pressured “to seek immediate goals, “Christian joy is not a flight from reality, but a Do not be content in giving the achievements and pleasures” as the dominant culture supernatural power that helps us to deal with the challenges minimum, he said. “fosters fickleness more than perseverance, hard work and of daily life,” he said. “The world needs men and women who are competent and fidelity to commitments,” he said. The pope told young people, “Learn to see how God is generous, willing to be at the service of the common good,” “May your entire life be guided by a spirit of service, and not working in your lives and discover him hidden within the the pope said. by the pursuit of power, material success and money,” he said. events of daily life,” to know that God will never abandon The Vatican and most dioceses around the world will mark God loves his children so much that he sent his only Son to anyone, and know that God in his mercy always offers World Youth Day on Palm Sunday, April 1. International be with them, and he gave people specific directions—the sinners the possibility of redemption. celebrations of World Youth Day are normally held every Ten Commandments—for following the right path in life, “If the way Christians live at times appears dull and two to three years. Pope Benedict said. boring, you should be the first to show the joyful and happy In the message, released by the Vatican in English, While the commandments may seem like just “a list of side of faith,” he said, as he urged young people to share Spanish, Italian and French on March 27, the pope chose the prohibitions and an obstacle to our freedom,” in light of the good news of Christ with everyone. † What was in the news on March 30, 1962? Cardinal Ritter is praised for his fight against racism, and a rabbi gives thanks for Pope John XXIII By Brandon A. Evans Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of the American rights measure Jewish Committee’s Interreligious Affairs Department, also “ST. LOUIS—A public official said here that This week, we continue to examine what was going on in said in an interview, ‘Equally heartening have been the Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis, provided the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the demonstrations of fraternal outreach practiced by the the impetus that resulted in passage of an antibias law in pages of The Criterion. World Council of Churches, which represents some this city last July 1. ‘Many persons were working for years Here are some of the items found in the March 30, 1962, 300 million adherents of Protestant, Anglican and on passage of a human rights bill in St. Louis,’ said issue of The Criterion: Orthodox Churches throughout the world.’ ” Chester E. Stovall, the city’s director of public welfare, ‘but • Cardinal Tien reports • New Orleans plans to integrate schools it wasn’t until Cardinal Ritter’s leadership came forth that torture used against • Indianapolis parish inaugurates special Bible we were successful in passing the public accommodations Chinese clergy devotions during Lent law.’ The law states that Negroes cannot be barred from • ‘The parish with a heart’ • A citadel of liberal arts: Marian passes a milestone restaurants, theaters and other public places. It had been helps a stricken member • Bar Brazilian priests from political office up before the city’s Board of Aldermen at least 10 years in • A Lutheran’s appeal: Protestant devotion to Mary is • Soviets vary tactics to wipe out religion succession, but had been defeated each time until its advocated • Annual clergy institute on alcoholism scheduled passage in July.” • Catholic right to resist State’s injustice cited • Drop first grade in crowded schools • Swiss bishop’s appraisal: Not all military uses of • Rabbi lauds unity moves of Pope John • Immaculate Heart wins Criterion Quiz Contest A-weapons seen evil “HARTFORD, Conn.—A rabbi said here that • Family Clinic: Are today’s children more • Says bigotry will stop aid to private schools His Holiness Pope John XXIII ‘has brought a new spirit into disobedient? Roman Catholicism which is accelerating the translation of • Holy Father sets up hierarchy for Korea (Read all of these stories from our March 30, 1962, issue by the Church’s teaching of charity and fraternity into practice.’ • Role of Cardinal lauded in passage of logging on to our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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