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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The life of a young person and the vocation to which God calls each one is “holy ground” that pastors and parents must respect, nurture and encourage, Pope Francis wrote in a new apostolic exhortation. “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), the pope’s reflections on the 2018 Synod of Bishops on “young people, the Pope Francis faith and vocational discernment,” is a combination letter to young people about their place in the Church and a plea to older members of the Church not to stifle the enthusiasm of the young, but to offer gentle guidance when needed. In the document, released on April 2, Pope Francis talked about how the sex abuse crisis, a history of sexism and Her work toward leading her students closer to God has led Elizabeth “Libby” Wright Saldanha of Holy Family School in New Albany to be this year’s an overly narrow focus on just a handful recipient of the Saint Theodora Excellence in Education Award, the highest honor for a Catholic educator in the archdiocese. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) of moral issues can keep young people away from the Church. But he also said many young people Teacher’s effort to transform students’ want to know and understand the teachings of the Church and, despite what many people think, they long for and need hearts is a success story driven by faith times of silent reflection and opportunities By John Shaughnessy possibilities” open to her, struggling to where she is now in her seventh year. to serve their communities. discover the next direction for her life. And the difference she has made “A Church always on the defensive, NEW ALBANY—It was a rare “With all of the questions and there has led her to be chosen as this which loses her humility and stops time of doubt and indecision for uncertainty swirling in my mind, year’s recipient of the Saint Theodora listening to others, which leaves no room Elizabeth “Libby” Wright Saldanha. an opportunity arose to participate Excellence in Education Award, the for questions, loses her youth and turns All through college, she had achieved in a retreat hosted by the Sisters of highest honor for a Catholic educator in into a museum,” Pope Francis wrote. so many lofty goals, putting together Providence,” Saldanha recalls. “It the archdiocese. “How, then, will she be able to respond to a stunning four years in which she was on this retreat that I discovered “The path that brought me to the dreams of young people?” was class president and valedictorian a love for meditative prayer, and Holy Family was nothing short of Young people have a natural desire while earning Academic All-American subsequently heard a phrase from God divine providence,” says the 29-year-old to improve the life of the Church and and Athletic All-American honors in which has forever impacted me and Saldanha who teaches seventh-grade the world around them, the pope said. If softball. my decision‑making—‘Take me with religion and seventh- and eighth-grade older people in the Church will let the And yet as her time at Saint Mary-of- you.’ ” social studies. “And with each new young people try, it will keep the Church the-Woods College in St. Mary-of-the- She says that “message from God” endeavor I pursue, I am conscious to youthful, too. Woods came to an end in the spring of led her to accept a teaching position at keep God at the heart.” “Let us ask the Lord to free the Church 2012, she became “frozen with all the Holy Family School in New Albany, See AWARD, page 8 from those who would make her grow See POPE, page 7 Homeless advocate lives up to God’s counteroffer

By John Shaughnessy days and often nights. But what comes of all this is great joy and peace—just what I As she neared her retirement, was looking for.” Liz Stanton offered God a deal she hoped What the ever-humble Stanton wasn’t he couldn’t resist. looking for was to be chosen for one She just never expected that God of the archdiocese’s 2019 Spirit of would make her a counteroffer. Service awards, an honor that she will “When I retired at 66, I told him I receive on April 30 in Indianapolis would give him my time, energy and during a celebration that will mark the prayer, in exchange 100th anniversary of Catholic Charities in for him guiding me central and southern Indiana. into opportunities But her admirers insist she is worthy to serve others— of the honor, considering everything that ultimately serving the 78-year-old Stanton has done in the him,” Stanton notes. nearly 13 years since her retirement. She smiles as she shares the plan God had for her—and how she opened her ‘There’s nothing better than bringing heart to it. Jesus to someone’ “You have to be very careful when Start with her efforts to help the dealing with God. He believes you can homeless. do much more than you believe you can She still remembers the “fear and Liz Stanton has spent the nearly 13 years of do. Hence, my very busy, sometimes hopelessness” she felt as an 8-year-old her retirement collecting and providing items to emotionally- and physically-exhausting See SERVICE, page 8 help the homeless. (Submitted photo) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019

Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ______April 6 – April 18, 2019

April 6 – 5 p.m. April 11 – 10 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Leadership team meeting at Clarksville Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center April 7 – 9 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph Church, Corydon April 14 – 10:30 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass at SS. Peter and April 9 – 8:30 a.m. Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis Employee Lenten Day of Reflection at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, April 16 – 2 p.m. Indianapolis Chrism Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral April 9 – 5:30 p.m. Clayton Family Circle of Honor April 16 – 5 p.m. Induction Dinner at Marian University, Dinner with priests at Primo Banquet Indianapolis Hall, Indianapolis April 10 – 10:30 a.m. April 17 – 10 a.m. Priest personnel board meeting at Department heads meeting at Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Papal greeting Catholic Center, Indianapolis Catholic Center April 11 – 8 a.m. April 18 – 7 p.m. Pope Francis greets Trappist Brother Jean-Pierre Schumacher, 95, the last survivor of the 1996 Judicatories meeting at Indiana Holy Thursday Mass, SS. Peter and massacre in Tibhirine, Algeria, who now lives in Morocco. Brother Jean-Pierre was among Interchurch Center, Indianapolis Paul Cathedral priests, religious men and women and members of the ecumenical Council of Churches at the cathedral in Rabat, on March 31. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Schedule subject to change.) Education leader Norman Francis to receive Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)—Norman year on Laetare Sunday, the fourth “All the people I worked with were part of first African-American president of the C. Francis, who served as president Sunday of Lent. this plan and mission, which was not only university. He retired in 2015. of Xavier University of Louisiana for “I am honored by Notre Dame honorable, but was totally necessary when Francis became known as a civil rights 47 years and has recognizing me in this way,” Francis said you look back at what the United States leader and statesman over the years. He been a prominent in a statement released by the university. was at the time.” advised eight U.S. presidents on education voice in the civil “I think the fact that I have the privilege Francis was born in 1931 in Lafayette, and civil rights issues and served on rights movement for of being among Laetare awardees is itself La., and was one of five children in his numerous boards and commissions. He decades, will receive a hope and an inspiration, not just for the family. His early education occurred in also has been a member of the Vatican’s the University of students, but for many others as well.” Catholic schools run by Spiritan priests Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Notre Dame’s 2019 Francis led Xavier University of and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a member of The Catholic University Laetare Medal at the Louisiana to unprecedented growth during and was funded by St. Katherine of America’s board of trustees, and a school’s graduation his long tenure; enrollment nearly tripled, Drexel’s philanthropy during a period of member of the board of directors of ceremony on May 19. the endowment increased 800 percent and segregation in U.S. Catholic parishes. the National Catholic Conference for Norman C. Francis “For more than the school produced the highest number In 1952, he became the first Interracial Justice. President George 50 years, Dr. Francis of undergraduates who completed medical African‑American to enroll in Loyola W. Bush honored him in 2006 with the has been at the center of civil rights school. The school ranks first nationally in University Law School in New Orleans. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the advocacy by leveraging the power of the number of African-American students The university noted that Bishop Joseph nation’s highest civilian award. Catholic higher education,” Holy Cross earning undergraduate degrees in biology, life A. Francis, his late brother, also was a The University of Notre Dame gave Father John Jenkins, Notre Dame president, sciences, chemistry, physics and pharmacy. civil rights trailblazer, having been the him an honorary doctor of law degree in said in announcing the award on March 31. The only historically black and fourth African-American to become a 1988 for his commitment to education “In bestowing the Laetare Medal Catholic university was founded in 1925 bishop when he became auxiliary bishop and civil rights. He received a second upon him, Notre Dame recognizes his by St. Katherine Drexel. She devoted of Newark, N.J., in 1976. honorary doctorate from Notre Dame leadership in the fight for social justice her life to advancing racial equality for Francis entered the U.S. Army after law in 2006 for working to rebuild his own through educational empowerment,” African-Americans and Native Americans, school. When his military stint ended in institution and served as chair of the Father Jenkins added. primarily through education. The saint 1957, he bypassed a law career to became Louisiana Recovery Authority, established The Laetare Medal is so named had a profound influence on Francis. dean of men at Xavier. Eleven years later, after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. because its recipient is announced each “I did not build Xavier. I was part of on April 4, 1968, the day the Rev. Martin Established at Notre Dame in 1883, the Katherine Drexel’s mission to provide a Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Francis Laetare Medal has been awarded annually quality education for all,” Francis said. accepted an invitation to become the at Notre Dame to a Catholic “whose Official Appointment genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and Effective Immediately Share your stories of how mom enriched the heritage of humanity.” Past award recipients include President Reverend Msgr. William F. Stumpf, John F. Kennedy, Dorothy Day, Chicago Ph.D., vicar general and moderator has influenced your life of faith Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, labor activist of the curia for the Archdiocese of In anticipation of Mother’s Day, children and their grandchildren—and Msgr. George G. Higgins and jazz Indianapolis, appointed administrator The Criterion is inviting readers to share why that is important to them. composer Dave Brubeck; Jesuit Father pro tem of St. Susanna Parish in their stories, memories and thoughts of Please send your responses and stories to Greg Boyle, founder and executive director Plainfield while remaining vicar general how their mothers have lived their faith assistant editor John Shaughnessy by e-mail of Homeboy Industries; and Sister Norma and moderator of the curia. and shared their faith with their children at [email protected] or by mail in Pimentel, a member of the Missionaries of and grandchildren. care of The Criterion. 1400 N. Meridian St., Jesus who is executive director of Catholic (This appointment is from the office of Mothers are also invited to share Indianapolis, IN 46202. Please include your Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas the Most Rev. Charles C. 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The comfort measures and compassion in the bills stalled when Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer most difficult circumstances. In addition, Efforts to legalize physician-assisted (R-Beech Grove) and Sen. Randy Head Mullally points to the countless ethical ‘Promoting the dignity suicide have once again failed in Indiana, (R-Logansport) declined to have them issues and dilemmas posed by assisted and sanctity of life from but the Catholic Church and other pro-life heard in their respective committees, to suicide. conception to natural death advocates vow to remain vigilant as the which the bills had been assigned. “If we as physicians have to be arbiters is critically important, practice continues to gain momentum in The ICC had spoken out against the of life and death, that presents us with especially in a culture that other parts of the country. proposed legislation in conjunction with an inherent conflict of interest,” said Last week, New other members of the Indiana Alliance Mullally, who operates Credo Family continues to erode at these Jersey became Against Assisted Suicide. The coalition Medicine, a pro-life practice affiliated basic moral values.’ the eighth state to also includes the Indiana State Medical with the Dr. Jerome Lejeune Catholic sanction assisted Association (ISMA), which formally Medical Guild of Northeast Indiana. He — Glenn Tebbe, suicide, allowing rejected physician-assisted suicide in points to increasing cost-control efforts executive adults deemed terminally ill to obtain and 2016. in health care as potentially damaging for director of the self-administer life-ending medication. Fort Wayne-based physician Andrew the most vulnerable patients, as doctors Indiana Catholic Meanwhile, in Maryland, the state Senate Mullally, a member of the alliance and an opt to provide them with less care or, at Conference blocked an assisted-suicide bill following outspoken opponent of assisted suicide the most extreme, a means to end their intense debate that ended in a tie vote. for years, views this as the “future of the lives. In Indiana, companion bills promoting pro‑life movement.” “The protection of human life is assisted suicide were introduced early “The whole guise of physician- crumbling around us at a rapid pace that in the 2019 legislative session—one in assisted suicide severely marginalizes many people don’t appreciate,” he said. each chamber of the General Assembly. those who cannot speak for themselves,” The biggest national organization The Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC) said Mullally, a member of ISMA and driving the assisted suicide movement is these states with lots of money, and with opposed both bills and urged lawmakers to the Catholic Medical Association. Compassion and Choices, which claims stories that help them sell their concept.” halt them. Neither bill received a hearing. “Obviously, the unborn have no voice, that it “improves care and empowers While Indiana is not one of the group’s “We are grateful that these troubling but this also extends to the disabled and everyone to chart their end-of-life primary targets and the topic appears bills did not advance, and we praise leaders the elderly in many cases. As a society, journey.” Barbara Lyons, who counsels to be closed for this legislative session, in both the Indiana House and Senate we are all less safe when this type of Indiana and other states on ways to Lyons and others say that no one can be for recognizing the detrimental effect legislation passes anywhere.” combat the movement, offers a stark complacent in the current climate. the practice of physician-assisted suicide New Jersey now joins California, counterpoint to this description. “We have worked hard to build a good would have on our state,” said Glenn Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, “This organization has a stated goal coalition here in our state to combat Tebbe, executive director of the ICC, the Vermont, Washington, and the District of of having lethal drugs available to half this movement,” Mullally said. “But public policy voice of the Catholic Church Columbia in allowing assisted suicide. the population of the United States,” said we are always one election away from in Indiana. “Promoting the dignity and In addition to Maryland, New Mexico Lyons, coalitions director of the Patients things changing. We need to be ready to sanctity of life from conception to natural is another state that has come close to Rights Action Fund. “They are very mobilize at a moment’s notice.” death is critically important, especially in legalizing the practice, which proponents well‑funded, and they have a concerted To follow priority legislation of the ICC, a culture that continues to erode at these often describe as “death with dignity” and effort to assault states with their agenda visit www.indianacc.org. This website basic moral values.” a means of avoiding a painful, prolonged and messaging.” includes access to I-CAN, the Indiana Like similar attempts in recent years, death when a person faces a terminal, Lyons, who helped establish the Catholic Action Network, which offers the House Bill 1184, authored by Rep. Matt debilitating illness. Indiana Alliance Against Assisted Suicide, Church’s position on key issues. Those Pierce (D-Bloomington), and Senate Mullally and other opponents of said she was “deeply disappointed” who sign up for I-CAN receive alerts on Bill 300, authored by Sen. Lonnie assisted suicide maintain that hospice although not surprised by the recent legislation moving forward and ways to Randolph (D-East Chicago), both ran into care and palliative care offer patients developments in New Jersey. contact their elected representatives. roadblocks in the Republican-controlled true dignity in such situations, providing “Compassion and Choices had long wanted a major state on the east (Victoria Arthur, a member of St. Malachy coast,” Lyons said. “They’re looking at Parish in Brownsburg, is a correspondent Plaque to honor Latin School students big‑population states, and they come into for The Criterion.) † who died serving U.S. in the military A fund drive has been started to create Please work and pray for peace. a memorial plaque in the courtyard of “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they Our Lady of Holy Rosary Parish in shall be called the children of God” Indianapolis—a plaque that will honor (Mt 5:9). four graduates of the former Latin School One of the members of the who died while serving the United States fundraising committee is Jim Bixler, in the military. a 1974 Latin School graduate and The courtyard is located between a retired lieutenant colonel in the Holy Rosary Church and Lumen Christi U.S. Air Force. Bixler has established School, whose building was the home of a GoFundMe page to raise the money the Latin School between 1955 and 1978. needed to purchase and erect the The school building is also the home of plaque, which will be less than $2,000. the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). Holy Rosary Parish is conducting a Organizers of the effort hope the courtyard restoration project later this “I have found HOPE plaque will also serve as an inspiration to year, and the committee plans to donate the students who attend school and CYO any excess funds to that project. in the GOODNESS events there. You can donate at the GoFundMe page The four Latin School graduates to be which can be found here: bit.ly/2FFQeOu. of the Church. honored are: Donald Cors, class of 1960, You can also e-mail Bixler at airbix@ When you support the William Hartwell, class of 1962, Timothy aol.com or send donations directly to him Maude, class of 1966, and Dennis Reuter, at 3334 Guilford Lane, Plainfield, IN, United Catholic Appeal, class of 1972. 46168. Make checks payable to Bixler Beneath their names, the plaque will with a notation that the donation is for the you’re helping people like me. include this dedication: Latin School Military Memorial Plaque. † THANK YOU for being an answer to my prayers.” MARIAN UNIVERSITY Indianapolis ® Office of Graduate and Online Admission

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Opinion Be Our Guest/Mary Schott Make faith a constant

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher despite life’s challenges Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus My faith has been waning of late. With When we dig deeper, we usually find that the clergy sex-abuse crisis and how more is that individual is a person of faith who learned each day, I have felt disheartened is prayerful, hardworking and sacrificial. and have wondered if our whole faith is And we are inspired. So the cycle Editorial just a myth, as some continues, and we are able to get to our in the world try to feet and start or try again. tell us. I guess it just I had that experience recently when goes back to reading I went to pick up my car after it was Scripture every day serviced and found that my bill was not and praying and the anticipated $1,000, but that they had asking for faith and found a way to keep my costs down, still guidance and truth. We do good repairs, and an anonymous donor find if we seek, but we had put $300 toward those repairs. My have to seek. gratitude overflows. When we read I am no longer raising a child alone, “so also faith of itself, if it does not have but I am alone and growing older. We works, is dead” (Jas 2:17), we wonder at often wonder what the future holds, but our own complaisance. we are reminded not to look too far ahead Have we done anything valuable or and to try to concentrate on living this day worthy or helpful to anyone? Is there a well. Basamat Alnoor Jakolo Aldabi teaches school in the Kaya Refugee Camp God, and is he pleased with us? Must we There is one constant in this world in Maban County, South Sudan, on May 7, 2018. Education for refugee girls be so busy and generous and active that and it is Jesus Christ, our faith and our is critical to protect them from trafficking and exploitation says a report by we practically fall dead into bed each Church. The gates of hell will not prevail Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) night? What is God really asking of us? against it (Mt 16:18). We must do what Some of us absolutely fall into the we can to make it better and excoriate evil opposite spectrum of that, and we feel from it. Too many of our sisters and ashamed and embarrassed. Sometimes, We, as Catholics, need to be on the there are extenuating circumstances that same page, and we must be supportive of brothers do not live free prevent us from being as active as we one another and “admonish one another might like to be. Sometimes, we are just … with gratitude in your hearts toward Commitment to end slavery in all its construction sites, agricultural fields, lost, unguided or unsupported, or we just God” (Col. 3:16). forms is rooted in the Catechism of the hotels, spas, nail salons and even private don’t know any better. At any rate, I think I am grateful that no matter what, the Church, which forbids any act leading residences. prayer is always a good response, even if one constant I’ve kept through the years to the enslavement of humans—a Human trafficking is possible because we are not perfect or don’t live up to our is the faith my parents gave me and our sin against a person’s dignity and of the lack of laws against it, the lack of own or others’ expectations. Church taught me. I am grateful. For fundamental human rights (CCC #2414). enforcement of such laws where they Then along comes someone’s kindness without that, I would have nothing at all, This commitment was reaffirmed during do exist, and the ease and ability to and generosity toward us, and we are and that would be a tragedy indeed. the Second Vatican Council, when the re-exploit individuals. Human trafficking humbled and once again brought up Church stated that “slavery, prostitution, has become the fastest growing source of to faith—if just faith in the inherent (Mary Schott is a member of Good the selling of women and children, [and] profits for criminal enterprises worldwide. goodness of others and humanity itself. Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis.) † disgraceful working conditions where The Catholic Church has repeatedly [people] are treated as mere tools for condemned human trafficking, stating Be Our Guest/Edith Avila Olea profit” are “infamies” and a “supreme that human trafficking “constitutes a dishonor to the Creator” (from the shocking offense against human dignity “Catholic Social Teaching and the and a grave violation of fundamental The battle toward higher Church’s Fight to End Trafficking” page human rights.” of United States Conference of Catholic For more than a decade, the United education for Latino youths Bishops’ website). States Conference of Catholic Bishops Growing up as a young Latina in a brought my parents along. He became my (USCCB) has been a leader in the U.S. small town in Georgia granted me some first mentor. We celebrate the Easter triduum this and global response to human trafficking. distinct Southern memories. Once I made it to college, my family month on April 18-21 as the holiest days The Coalition of Catholic Organizations In these memories, there are three struggled to figure out how two immigrant of the Church year. This is the time of Against Human Trafficking consists subtle themes. One, the cops do not like parents were going to pay for college year when we recall—in the most vivid of national and international Catholic us (Latinos). Two, out‑of-pocket because I didn’t qualify for terms possible—the supreme sacrifice agencies working to eliminate the our place was/is in any federal or state assistance. that Jesus made for each one of us. scourge of human trafficking by: the shadows. Three, I quickly learned that earning an St. Paul tell us, in the words of • Formulating plans for combating always be good. education meant my entire family had to an early Christian hymn, that Jesus trafficking and serving its victims. These themes make sacrifices. Through education, God humbled himself and became a slave • Promoting development of services defined me as a child. helped break the generations of poverty in for our sake. Although he was God, he for trafficking victims and approaches to In some ways, they my family, but it was tough. emptied himself and became obedient empowerment of trafficking victims. became my survival Every step in pursuing a higher to death—even death on a cross. ​Jesus’ • Dialoging with government officials mechanisms. education has been a battle. My dad death, and his resurrection from the and others engaged in public policies If you asked me has always told me, “Mija, el querer es dead, freed us from the slavery of sin affecting this issue. today, I would say that I was surviving the poder.” In English, a similar saying might and death. By his wounds, we have been • Devising strategies for public lie that being “second” was necessary for be, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” healed. By his victory over the power of education, awareness-raising and grass me to have opportunities in this country. Over the past 10 years, my father’s voice death, we have been liberated. roots action. It wasn’t until late in my undergraduate became a constant echo in my head. And yet, far too many of our sisters For more information, visit the career that I understood that I was never Recently, I completed a master’s degree and brothers throughout the world do Vatican’s website at bit.ly/2uDvdPl or supposed to be second. God designed us, in public policy from DePaul University not know what it means to live free. the USCCB website at bit.ly/2WGnFYe. all humans, as equals. in Chicago. As I turned in my final paper, Did you know that an estimated The freedom won for us by our Lord’s Yet, there are still so many young I spoke to my parents with tears streaming 12.3 million people are victims of passion, death and resurrection cries Latinos who believe this lie today. In fact, down my cheeks. We did it. This degree forced labor, bonded labor and sexual out to heaven for liberty and justice there are many young people of color is as much theirs as mine. But the journey exploitation each year? ​Did you know for all regardless of their nationality, trying to overcome this lie. This is just itself involved many dedicated people. that nearly 20,000 enslaved people religious background, social or economic one of the results of subtle, structural and One of the main reasons I was able to (mainly women and children) are condition. All human beings were set free systemic racism. overcome so many of these challenges is “trafficked” into the United States by the cross of Christ. All are equal in the When I turned 16, I worked at a local because God blessed me with mentors and each year? Or that 100,000 American sight of God. All are called to be united restaurant. The most common question I people along the way. children are the victims of commercial with each other and with him. received in the seven years I worked there I can count at least six or seven people sexual exploitation each year? This Lent, let’s dedicate ourselves was regarding my ethnicity or race. The who have taken me under their wing. Their Traffickers lure vulnerable women, to proclaiming liberty for all who are question, “What are you?” was normal to me. mentorship and friendship are invaluable to children and men with false promises enslaved—whether by means of human In high school, I took several Advanced me. I hope I am making them proud. of good jobs, an education, economic trafficking or by more subtle forms of Placement classes, classes offered to high In my hometown, most Latino youths security and even love. Once lured, the slavery caused by domestic violence or school students for college credit. I distinctly will not make it to college, especially traffickers are able to keep their victims addiction to alcohol, drugs or pornography. remember being one of the only Latinos first-generation students. Their grades from seeking help by confiscating Let’s put an end to the evils of human in the classroom. To me, that was normal. do not matter. It is the lack of cultural identification documents, using threats trafficking and sexual exploitation once Trying to fit in, I worked hard to blend in. understanding by leaders in the education of violence against the victim or their and for all! And let’s work to overcome I graduated with honors from high system that keeps these students back. family, as well as subjecting the victim the habits of self-indulgence and abusive school. Yet, despite my academic record, Every year around this time, I get a to physical, psychological and/or sexual behavior toward others that are so prevalent not one counselor or teacher asked me if I call or two from soon-to-be high school abuse. No sector or industry is immune in our global culture. had plans to attend college. graduates. They ask: Can I go to college? from human trafficking. Victims have Instead, a family friend at my church What if I don’t have papers? How do I been identified in factories, restaurants, —Daniel Conway asked me. A retired veteran literally start? How did you do it? scheduled my first visit to a college and See LATINO YOUTHS, page 7 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Wounded by sin, Jesus still offers mercy to sinners “Woman, where are they? Has no one does not condone her sin or seek to Yes, our actions have consequences, punishment. It’s also why we refuse condemned you?” She replied, “No minimize it. He tells her quite clearly and we are required to make amends, to cast stones (mentally or physically) one, sir.” Then Jesus said, “Neither do I “from now on do not sin anymore ” but even after repeated failures, the against those who have sinned. God is condemn you. Go, and from now on do (Jn 8:11). Sin is abhorrent to Jesus. Lord does not condemn us or abandon merciful to sinners, and we should be not sin anymore” (cf. Jn 8:10-11). It quite literally wounds him and, in us to our sinful ways. He invites us to also. the end, our sins are responsible for change our behavior and to become Jesus does not condemn sinners, but The Gospel reading for the Fifth his death. But sinners are a different better than we are. he also does not condone our sinful Sunday of Lent (Jn 8:1-11) tells us story. Our attitude toward sinners should behavior. The distinction is a critically everything we need to know about the “Those who are healthy do not be that of Jesus. We should not engage important one for us Christians. It Christian attitude toward sinners. First need a physician,” Jesus tells us, in destructive talk. (Pope Francis has allows us to reject sin without rejecting of all, it reminds us that we are all “but the sick do. I have not come to repeatedly spoken out against the ourselves and our brothers and sisters, sinners. That’s why Jesus can say to the call the righteous to repentance but serious sin of gossip.) Nor should who commit the sins that wound the scribes and Pharisees (and all of us), sinners” (Lk 5:31-32). We are all we point our fingers at others in an Body of Christ, contributing to his “Let the one among you who is without sinners. Therefore, we are all called accusatory way or attempt to punish passion and death on the cross. sin be the first to throw a stone at [the to repentance by Jesus. None of us them for their perceived sins. This Lent, our Church is especially woman caught in adultery]” (Jn 8:7). can afford to cast stones at others. Catholic social teaching emphasizes conscious of the sinful crimes None of us can claim to be without Our obligation is to acknowledge and the core belief that every human committed against many of our sin, so our self-righteous attitudes are confess our sins, and then to repent being—regardless of his or her community’s most vulnerable members. completely inappropriate. The fact and accept the mercy and healing that background or circumstances—is made We dare not ignore, or minimize, these that the scribes and Pharisees used the Jesus offers us, especially through the in the image and likeness of God and is atrocities. And, yet we are challenged law of Moses as justification for their sacrament of reconciliation. To each of therefore entitled to respect. No matter by the Gospel not to fall into the trap desire to condemn the woman is what us, the Lord says, “Go, and from now how grave a person’s sin may be, he or of hateful or judgmental attitudes or prompts Jesus to bend down and write on do not sin anymore. ” she remains a child of God possessed actions. on the ground. What was he writing? Of course, with all the best of great dignity. Yes, those who break “Has no one condemned you?” St. John doesn’t say, but whatever intentions in the world, we continue human and divine laws may need to be Jesus asks each one of us. “Neither do I it was it was enough to frighten the to sin—in small things if not in big restrained from causing further harm condemn you. Go, and from now on do woman’s accusers so that one by one ones. That’s why our repentance and or be punished for their offenses. But not sin anymore.” they all left. conversion can never be just a one-time this does not entitle us to mock them, Let’s take his words seriously. Let’s Next, Jesus, who was now alone experience. God’s mercy is always torture them or end their lives. look at sinners the way Jesus does—as with the woman, confronted her available to us even—or especially— That’s why we engage in sisters and brothers called to repentance with the merciful love of God. He when we stumble and fall. prison ministry and oppose capital and God’s love and mercy. †

Aun herido por el pecado, Jesús ofrece misericordia a los pecadores “Mujer, ¿dónde están tus acusadores? Dios. No condona su pecado ni busca de resarcirlas, pero aún incluso después es la razón por la cual nos negamos a ¿Alguien te ha condenado?” Ella minimizarlo; le dice muy claramente de fallar repetidamente, el Señor no nos lanzar piedras (mental o físicamente) le respondió: “Nadie, Señor.” “Yo “vete, no peques más en adelante” condena ni nos abandona por nuestros contra los que han pecado. Dios es tampoco te condeno,” le dijo Jesús. (Jn 8:11). Jesús aborrece el pecado; en pecados. Nos invita a cambiar nuestro misericordioso con los pecadores y “Vete, no peques más en adelante” (cf. efecto lo hiere y, en definitiva, nuestros comportamiento y hacernos mejores de nosotros también debemos serlo. Jn 8:10-11). pecados son la causa de su muerte. Pero lo que somos. Jesús no condena a los pecadores, los pecadores son algo distinto. Nuestra actitud hacia los pero tampoco condona su conducta La lectura del Evangelio del quinto “No son los sanos que tienen pecadores debe ser como la de pecaminosa. Esta distinción es domingo de Cuaresma (Jn 8:1-11) nos necesidad del médico—nos dice Jesús; no debemos enfrascarnos en críticamente importante para los habla de todo lo que debemos saber Jesús—sino los enfermos. Yo no he conversaciones destructivas. (El papa cristianos ya que nos permite rechazar acerca de la actitud cristiana frente a venido a llamar a los justos, sino a los Francisco ha hablado en repetidas el pecado sin rechazarnos a nosotros los pecadores. Primero que nada, nos pecadores, para que se conviertan” ocasiones en contra del grave pecado mismos y a nuestros hermanos, por recuerda que todos somos pecadores. (Lc 5:31-32). Todos somos pecadores; del chisme). Ni tampoco debemos ser pecadores que hieren al Cuerpo de Efectivamente, por eso Jesús les dice a por lo tanto, Jesús nos llama a todos al señalar a los demás de forma Cristo y que contribuyen a su pasión y los escribas y a los fariseos (y a todos arrepentimiento. Ninguno de nosotros acusadora ni intentar castigarlos por muerte en la cruz. nosotros): “Aquel de ustedes que esté puede darse el lujo de lanzarle piedras sus supuestos pecados. Durante esta Cuaresma, nuestra sin pecado, que le arroje la primera al otro. Nuestra obligación es reconocer Las enseñanzas sociales católicas iglesia está especialmente consciente piedra [a la mujer sorprendida en y confesar nuestros pecados, y luego hacen énfasis en la creencia de los terribles delitos que se han adulterio]” (Jn 8:7). arrepentirnos y aceptar la misericordia fundamental de que cada ser cometido contra muchos de los Ninguno de nosotros puede declarar y la sanación que Jesús nos ofrece, humano, independientemente de sus integrantes más vulnerables de nuestra que está libre de pecado, de modo especialmente a través del sacramento antecedentes o circunstancias, está comunidad. No nos atrevemos a ignorar que nuestras actitudes petulantes son de la reconciliación. El Señor nos dice a hecho a la imagen y semejanza de ni a minimizar estas atrocidades y sin totalmente inapropiadas. El hecho cada uno de nosotros: “vete, no peques Dios y, por consiguiente, merece embargo el Evangelio nos desafía a de que los escribas y los fariseos más en adelante.” respeto. Independientemente de la que no caigamos en la trampa de las utilizaran la ley de Moisés como Por supuesto, aún con las mejores gravedad del pecado de una persona, actitudes o las acciones rencorosas o justificación de su deseo de condenar intenciones del mundo, seguimos esta sigue siendo hija de Dios y dotada sentenciosas. a la mujer es lo que lleva a Jesús a pecando aunque sea en cosas pequeñas, de una gran dignidad. Sí, aquellos que “¿Alguien te ha condenado?” agacharse y a escribir en el suelo. ¿Qué cuando no en grandes. Por esa razón quebrantan las leyes humanas y divinas Pregunta Jesús a cada uno de nosotros. escribió? San Juan no lo dice, pero nuestro arrepentimiento de conversión tendrán que ser reprimidos para evitar “Tampoco yo te condeno. Vete, no independientemente de lo que haya jamás puede ser una experiencia de una que causen más daños o ser castigados peques más en adelante.” sido, fue suficiente para amedrentar a sola vez. Siempre tenemos a nuestra por sus ofensas. Pero esto no nos da Tomemos estas palabras muy en los acusadores de la mujer y uno tras disposición la misericordia de Dios, derecho a burlarnos de ellos, torturarlos serio. Miremos a los pecadores de otro se retiraron. incluso, o especialmente, cuando nos o a poner fin a sus vidas. la misma forma que lo hace Jesús: A continuación, Jesús, quien tropezamos y caemos. Por esta razón participamos en como hermanos y hermanas llamados ahora estaba solo con la mujer, la Sí, nuestras acciones tienen el ministerio en las prisiones y nos al arrepentimiento, al amor y la enfrentó al amor misericordioso de consecuencias y tenemos la obligación oponemos a la pena capital. También misericordia de Dios. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019

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April 8 St. Paul Hermitage, ($35 at the door), $10 adults younger, includes children’s Indianapolis. Caregiver St. Joseph Parish, 1401 S. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 501 N. 17th Ave., Beech ($12 at the door), $5 children mac-n-cheese meal or Support Group, sponsored Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. House, 5353 E. 56th St., Grove. Ave Maria Guild, (ages 6-12), desserts, beer and individual cheese pizza, by Catholic Charities Third Thursday Adoration, Indianapolis. “Leave 12:30 p.m. Information: 317- wine available for purchase, $4 includes drink, $5 shrimp Indianapolis, open discussion interceding for women in crisis the Light On” sacrament 223-3687, [email protected]. 5-8 p.m., carry out available. cocktails. 5-7:30 p.m., for family and friends caring pregnancies, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., of reconciliation, 9 a.m.- Advance tickets: www.stluke. curbside pick-up available. for adults age 60 and older, with Mass at 5:45 p.m. 7 p.m. Information: Khristine April 10 org and after Masses in church Information: Larry Schulz, 5:30-7 p.m. Information: Meyer, 317-545-7681, St. Luke the Evangelist narthex. Information: 317-259- [email protected], Monica Woodsworth, April 19 [email protected], Parish, 7575 Holliday Dr., 4373, [email protected]. 317-582-0326. 317-261-3378, Church of the Immaculate www.archindy.org/fatima. E., Indianapolis. Evening [email protected]. Conception, 1 Sisters of of Reflection and Lenten Our Lady of the Most Holy April 14 Providence, Saint Mary-of- April 9 Supper: “Rerun of the Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., St. Thomas Aquinas Church, April 16 the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- St. John the Evangelist Beatitudes,” Benedictine Indianapolis. Fish Fry Friday, 4625 N. Kenwood Ave., Mount St. Francis Woods. Way of the Cross for Parish (Pan Am Plaza Father Lambert Reilly, former sponsored by the Santo Indianapolis. Mass in French, Center for Spirituality, Justice, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Building parish hall), Saint Meinrad Archabbey Rosario Knights of Columbus 12:30 p.m. Information: 317- 101 St. Anthony Dr., Mt. St. freewill offering, no registration 126 W. Georgia St., archabbot, presenting, Council #14449, fish and chips 627-7729 or acfadi2014@ Francis. “Abide” Adoration required. Information: 812-535- Indianapolis. Pro-Life 5:30 p.m. Mass followed by with coleslaw and drink, gmail.com. Service, sponsored by 2952, [email protected] or Film Series, viewing of simple soup supper, 7-9 p.m. 5-8 p.m., $10 full order, Catalyst Catholic, 7-8 p.m., www.spsmw.org/providence- the documentary The Third presentation. Registration $6 half order, carry out available. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus every third Thursday of center/events. Way: Homosexuality and the requested: dcarollo@ Information: 317-636-4478. (Little Flower) Church, the month, featuring guest Catholic Church, 6:30 p.m. stluke.org. 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. speaker, praise band, silence April 20 followed by panel discussion, St. Lawrence Parish, Class of ’63 monthly and confessions, child care Military Park, 100 N. West St., sponsored by St. John the St. Paul Catholic Center, 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. gathering, 6 p.m. Mass, available. Information and Indianapolis. 5K Easter Egg Evangelist and Our Lady 1413 E. 17th St., Bloomington. Fish Fry Fiesta/Cenas optional dinner afterward. child care reservations: Chris Run/Walk and Children’s of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Charities in Cuaresmales, 6-8 p.m., fried Information: 317-408-6396. Rogers, [email protected], Fun Run, benefiting the parishes in Indianapolis, Bloomington Breakfast Benefit, and baked fish, fish tacos, 812-923-8355. Indianapolis Society of light supper served, freewill speaker, program updates, quesadillas, rice and beans, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat St. Vincent de Paul; 10 a.m., offering. Information: Sheryl breakfast, freewill offering, live entertainment, $9 dinners, House, 5353 E. 56th St., April 18 $35 adults thru March 28; Dye, [email protected], 7:45-9 a.m. Information: kids meals and a la carte Indianapolis. Stations of the Archbishop O’Meara $40 March 29-April 11, 317-407-6881. 812-332-1262 or Cheri Bush, options available. Information: Cross, 3-3:45 p.m. traditional Catholic Center, 1400 N. $45 April 12-19, $50 day of [email protected]. 317-546-4065, fishfryfiesta@ “Way of the Cross,” on Meridian St., Indianapolis. (plus $3 registration fee), Church of the Immaculate gmail.com. outside trails, or 4-5:15 p.m. Holy Thursday Simple $20 children thru April 19, Conception, 1 Sisters of April 12 contemporary set to music in Soup and Bread Lunch, $25 day of (plus $2.50 Providence, Saint Mary-of- St. Luke the Evangelist Parish St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish chapel. Information: Khristine benefiting the Catholic registration fee), includes the-Woods. St. Mary-of- gymnasium, 7575 Holliday Hall, 10655 Haverstick Road, Meyer, 317-545-7681, Charities Indianapolis Crisis T-shirt, medal, all-ages egg the-Woods. Monthly Taizé Dr. E., Indianapolis. Fish Fry, Carmel (Lafayette Diocese). [email protected]. Office, 11:30 a.m. prayer and hunt, beer/soda. Information: Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., sponsored by the Knights of Fish Fry, baked salmon with reflection, 11:45 a.m.- Darlene Sweeney, 317-924- silent and spoken prayers, Columbus Council #14895, crab cakes or all-you-can-eat April 15 1 p.m. lunch, $10 suggested 5769, darlene.sweeney@ simple music, silence. all-you-can-eat baked or fried fried pollock, three sides, St. Mark the Evangelist donation. Information: 317- svdpindy.org. Registration: Information: 812-535-2952, fish, cheese pizza, assorted cookie and drink, School, Door One, 236-1411 or Cheri Bush, www.svdpindy.org/event/third- [email protected]. sides and drink, $30 family $11 per person, $5 ages 12 and 541 E. Edgewood Ave., [email protected]. annual-easter-egg-5k-runwalk. †

Indiana Council of Catholic Women 40 Days of Life closing ceremony planned retreat planned in Tipton on May 7-8 at St. Luke the Evangelist on April 14 “Everyday Sanctity: The Simple Way and a spirituality session. The retreat The closing ceremony for the attention to the evil of abortion through to God” is the theme of the Indiana ends around 3 p.m. Indianapolis 40 Days for Life campaign prayer and fasting, constant vigil and Province of the National Council of The cost to attend is $70, which that began on March 6 will be held community outreach. Catholic Women (NCCW) retreat at includes continental breakfast and lunch. at St. Luke the Evangelist Church, Participants are asked to bring a St. Joseph Retreat and Conference For those wishing to spend the night 7575 Holliday Dr. E., in Indianapolis, donation of a baby item for the Gabriel Center, 1440 W. Division Road, in at the retreat center on Tuesday, add at 2 p.m. on April 14. Project Resource Centers at St. Therese Tipton (Lafayette Diocese), on May 7-8. $80 for a single occupancy room to the Rev. Fredrick Boyd, pastor of Zion of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) and NCCW consists of Catholic women registration fee or $55 for a double. Unity Baptist Church in Indianapolis, St. Joseph parishes in Indianapolis. and affiliated Catholic women’s Dinner is included with the overnight will be the featured keynote speaker. For additional information, contact organizations in parishes and dioceses stay. Check-in begins Tuesday at 40 Days for Life is a community- Timothy O’Donnell at 317-372-0040 or throughout the United States whose 3:15 p.m. based campaign that takes a e-mail [email protected]. mission is to support, empower The deadline to register is on April 23. determined, peaceful approach twice To learn more about the work and educate all Catholic women in A downloadable registration form a year to showing local communities of 40 Days for Life, visit spirituality, leadership and service. can be found at www.stmalachy.org/ the consequences of abortion. It draws www.40daysforlife.com. † Activities begin with Stations of indiana-council-of-catholic-women- the Cross at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, retreat. followed by 5:30 p.m. dinner and an For more information, contact evening social hour beginning at 7 p.m. Deborah Timko by e-mail at Sisters of Providence to host workshop Registration is on Wednesday [email protected]. from 8:15-9 a.m., followed by a day To learn more about the NCCW, visit on positive aspects of aging on May 4 featuring speakers, Mass, the rosary www.nccw.org. † “Aging Gracefully: Exploring workshop, you will explore the many the Gift of Years” is the theme of a positive aspects of aging. workshop planned at the Providence The workshop will be facilitated Two events in archdiocese to mark National Spirituality & Conference Center, by Sisters of Providence clinical care 1 Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of- coordinator Elizabeth Collins and Day of Prayer to End Abortion on April 13 the-Woods, in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, well-being coordinator Katie Harich. from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on May 4. The cost to attend is $10. To mark the fourth National Day of of all faiths are welcome to join in the Getting older is often seen as Registration is required online by Prayer to End Abortion on April 13, prayers. synonymous with loss—of health, May 1 at www.spsmw.org/event. both of the archdiocese’s 40 Days for In Bloomington, the vigil will take status, freedom and meaning. However, For additional information, call Life campaign efforts will host an place from 3-4 p.m. outside of the embracing one’s advancing years can 812-535-2952 or e-mail provctr@ hour-long candlelight prayer vigil. Planned Parenthood abortion facility be empowering and joy-filled. At this spsmw.org. † The events will include prayers such at 421 S. College Ave. For more as the rosary, Divine Mercy chaplet information, contact Monica Siefker at and other prayers, as well as hymns, a [email protected]. witness talk from a member of the In Indianapolis, the vigil will take Style show and fundraiser for Indianapolis pro-life Silent No More campaign and place from noon-1 p.m. outside of the other speakers at the Indianapolis vigil. Planned Parenthood abortion facility St. Vincent de Paul Society set for April 26 The vigils are not a protest but a at 8590 Georgetown Road. Parking peaceful presence to pray for the end is available along Georgetown Road. The second annual Society of The cost to attend is $75 per person of abortion. Families are encouraged to For more info, contact Larry Kunkel at St. Vincent de Paul of Indianapolis and $150 per couple. The event attend with their children, and people [email protected]. † “Struttin’ Our Stuff” style show and includes a silent and live auction, fundraiser will be held at Marian, Inc., dinner and drinks. 1011 E. St. Clair St., in Indianapolis, Sponsorship and table opportunities from 6-10 p.m. on April 26. are also available. Submit your event to us! Local celebrities will be featured in For tickets and additional the style show modeling clothes from information, contact Jenny Matthews at Events and retreats can be submitted to The Criterion by logging on to Mission 27 Resale, and Archbishop 317-289-3324 or jmattbogey@ www.archindy.org/events/submission, or by mailing us at 1400 N. Meridian St., Charles C. Thompson will be present at gmail.com, or Mary Ann Klein at 317- Indianapolis, IN 46202, ATTN: Cindy Clark, or by fax at 317-236-1593. the event. 796-6325 or [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Page 7 A perfect fit: Pope describes how to discover one’s vocation VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Within the guiding your many efforts and actions toward young at heart, he said. “When I began my universal Christian vocation of serving God service to others.” ministry as pope, the Lord broadened my and serving others, God handcrafts a specific Finding one’s vocation “has nothing to do horizons and granted me renewed youth. calling for each person, a vocation that fits with inventing ourselves or creating ourselves The same thing can happen to a couple his or her personality and abilities, Pope out of nothing. It has to do with finding our married for many years, or to a monk in Francis said. true selves in the light of God and letting our his monastery. There are things we need to “To discern our personal vocation, we lives flourish and bear fruit.” ‘let go of’ as the years pass, but growth in have to realize that it is a calling from God’s personalized gift of a vocation “will maturity can coexist with a fire constantly a friend, who is Jesus. When we give bring you more joy and excitement than rekindled, with a heart ever young.” something to our friends, we give them the anything else in this world. Not because that Most young people will discover their best we have. It will not necessarily be what gift will be rare or extraordinary, but because vocation is to marry and form a family, he is most expensive or hard to obtain, but what it will perfectly fit you,” Pope Francis wrote. said, and that requires preparation to grow in we know will make them happy,” the pope “It will be a perfect fit for your entire life.” self-knowledge and in virtue, “particularly wrote in “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”). Following a vocation, he said, “is a very love, patience, openness to dialogue and The document, his apostolic exhortation personal decision that others cannot make for helping others.” reflecting on the Synod of Bishops on us,” which is why it requires “solitude and “It also involves maturing in your own Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary‑general “young people, the faith and vocational silence,” as well as serious discussions with sexuality, so that it can become less and less of the Synod of Bishops, holds Pope Francis’ discernment,” was released at the Vatican on friends and wise guides. a means of using others, and increasingly a apostolic exhortation, “Christus Vivit” April 2. Pope Francis offered basic questions each capacity to entrust yourself fully to another (“Christ Lives”), during a news conference for Much of the document is a summary person should ask him- or herself: “Do I person in an exclusive and generous way,” its presentation at the Vatican on April 2. (CNS photo/CNS photo/Paul Haring) of the discussion at the 2018 synod and a know what brings joy or sorrow to my heart? the pope wrote. presynod meeting of young adults about What are my strengths and weaknesses?” And while most young people will marry, ways to improve youth and young adult But since a vocation isn’t about serving he said, Catholics must believe that God “The other person must sense that I am ministry and create more space in the Church oneself, he said, those questions lead to continues to call men to the priesthood and listening unconditionally, without being for the contributions of young people. others: “How can I serve people better and men and women to religious life. offended or shocked, tired or bored,” he said. But the most original part of the 35,000- prove most helpful to our world and to the “The Lord cannot fail in his promise And while listening, “I need to ask myself word document is its explanation of what Church? What is my real place in this world? to provide the Church with shepherds, for what is it that the other person is trying to a vocation is—strongly moving away from What can I offer to society?” without them she would not be able to live tell me, what they want me to realize is seeing vocation only as a reference to And, then, he said, one must ask: “Do I and carry out her mission,” he said. And “if happening in their lives.” priesthood or religious life—and practical have the abilities needed to offer this kind of it is true that some priests do not give good Assistance also means having such ways for a person to discern his or her service? Could I develop those abilities?” witness, that does not mean that the Lord respect for the work God is doing in the vocation. Discovering one’s vocation, even in the stops calling. On the contrary, he doubles life of the other, that the guide would never A Christian’s first vocation is a call to deepest prayer, is not like finding the exact the stakes, for he never ceases to care for his dare to try to dictate the way forward, he friendship with Jesus, he said. And closely road map for one’s life with all the stops beloved Church.” said. “In the end, good discernment is a related to that is the call to serve others. and starts and obstacles and detours clearly The key qualification for helping someone path of freedom that brings to full fruit “Your own personal vocation does not marked, he said. Instead, it is more like being in their vocational discernment is an ability what is unique in each person, something consist only in the work you do, though that invited on an adventure. to listen, the pope said. The helper may be a so personal that only God knows it. Others is an expression of it,” the pope said. “Your That sense of adventure, even as a person priest, religious, layperson or even another cannot fully understand or predict from the vocation is something more: It is a path ages and slows down, is what keeps them young person. outside how it will develop.” †

to make changes based on what young is gradual, respectful, patient, hopeful, should acknowledge and appreciate that POPE people themselves say they want and tireless and compassionate,” as Jesus was ‘sexuality, sex, is a gift from God. It is continued from page 1 need. when he walked with the disciples on the not taboo. It is a gift from God, a gift the “Young people need to be approached road to Emmaus. Lord gives us,’ ” he wrote. Sexuality “has old, encase her in the past, hold her back with the grammar of love, not by being Parents, pastors and spiritual guides two purposes: to love and to generate life. or keep her at a standstill,” Pope Francis preached at,” he said. “The language must have “the ability to discern pathways It is passion, passionate love. True love wrote. “But let us also ask him to free that young people understand is spoken where others only see walls, to recognize is passionate. Love between a man and her from another temptation: that of by those who radiate life, by those who potential where others see only peril. a woman, when it is passionate, always thinking she is young because she accepts are there for them and with them. And That is how God the Father sees things; leads to giving life. Always. To give life everything the world offers her, thinking those who, for all their limitations and he knows how to cherish and nurture the with body and soul.” that she is renewed because she sets her weaknesses, try to live their faith with seeds of goodness sown in the hearts of Pope Francis also encouraged young message aside and acts like everybody integrity.” the young.” people not to dismiss out of hand the else.” Directly addressing young people, “Each young person’s heart should fact that God may be calling them to The core of the pope’s message to he said, “Take risks, even if it means thus be considered ‘holy ground,’ a priesthood or religious life. young people was that they remember making mistakes. Don’t go through life bearer of seeds of divine life, before God’s call to each person is individual, they are loved by God and saved by Jesus, anaesthetized or approach the world like which we must ‘take off our shoes’ in made-to-measure just for him or her, the who continues to live and act in the world tourists. Make a ruckus!” order to draw near and enter more deeply pope said, so discovering that call can and in their lives. And, he told them, reach out to other into the mystery.” be done only with calm, silence, prayer “His love is so real, so true, so young people, do not be afraid to mention A long section of the document is and the wise help of someone who truly concrete, that it invites us to a relationship Jesus, and invite friends to Church or a focused on discerning one’s vocation, knows how to listen and ask the right of openness and fruitful dialogue,” even Church-sponsored activity. which, he said, always is a call to serve questions. when one is angry with God, the pope “With the same love that Christ pours God and to serve others, but always in a A vocation, he said, is a gift that “will said. “He does not get upset if you share out on us,” the pope said, “we can love unique way. help you live to the full and become your questions with him. He is concerned him in turn and share his love with others Discovering one’s vocation, he said, someone who benefits others, someone when you don’t talk to him, when you are in the hope that they too will take their “has to do with finding our true selves who leaves a mark in life; it will surely not open to dialogue with him.” place in the community of friendship he in the light of God and letting our lives be a gift that will bring you more joy Drawing on the final documents from established.” flourish and bear fruit.” and excitement than anything else in the synod and from a presynod gathering Youth ministry cannot be elitist or For most young people, that will mean this world. Not because that gift will be of young people in Rome, Pope Francis focused only on the teens and young marrying, forming a family and working, rare or extraordinary, but because it will urged parishes and dioceses to rethink adults already active in the Church’s the pope said. perfectly fit you. It will be a perfect fit their youth and young adult programs and life, he said. It mustSt.Aug.Ad_The be “a process Criterion.qxp_Layout that 1 “Within 3/11/19 5:43the vocationPM Page to 1 marriage, we for your entire life.” † LATINO YOUTHS REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW continued from page 4 If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim I wish they would have reached out sooner. By the of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance time they muster up the courage to seek assistance, most P R E S E N T S coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: application deadlines have passed. Ethics Point 1 Confidential, Online Reporting Our young leaders of color need mentors who are www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 willing to put themselves second and raise the youths to be first. It is our responsibility to help build the next ATS FF TO PRING Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator H O S 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 generation of leaders. The structure that nearly kept me from serving our A LUNCHEON FASHION SHOW 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 [email protected] world is holding countless students back. This is not PROCEEDSBENEFIT OK. Like Jesus mentored his disciples, we must mentor THE ST. AUGUSTINE HOMEFORTHE AGED our youths. We must work to break down the lies that LITTLE SISTERSOFTHE POOR are fed to our Latino youths. Online Lay Ministry Formation The Catholic Church in the U.S. has grown over The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019–10:30 AM University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University the past few decades due to the growth of the Latino (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: population. Today, most of the Latino Catholics are RITZ CHARLES under the age of 30. 12156 N MERIDIAN STREET CARMEL, INDIANA • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry We have an incredible opportunity to help mentor the • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program $55.00 PERPERSON • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church future leaders of our Church. It’s a privilege to be able • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners to journey with the immigrant population. They are no RSVP: WWW.LITTLESISTERSOFTHEPOORINDIANAPOLIS.ORG burden; they are the future of our Church. For more information, please log on to www.archindy.org/layministry (Edith Avila Olea is associate director of the justice and peace ministry in the Diocese of Joliet, Ill.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019

The retreat has become a mainstay AWARD of the seventh-grade experience at continued from page 1 Holy Family. “It continues to transform hearts year An eye-opening experience after year,” she says. Saldanha believes that God was with her again in a moment that she uses to A success story driven by faith define her “greatest accomplishment” in Saldanha has a gift for transforming teaching. the hearts, souls and minds of her In 2015, she and her teaching partner students, say the people who nominated Sarah Green noticed that their seventh- her for the Saint Theodora honor. grade students didn’t have the usual “The middle school years are a time of tight bonds that had connected previous constant growth and change among most classes. Remembering how a retreat had students,” notes Father Jeremy Gries, made a major impact on her life, Saldanha pastor of Holy Family Parish. suggested that concept to Green, and the “It is a time when they really start to two teachers developed a retreat program mature and grow emotionally, physically based on the theme, “Encounters with and socially. They can also be difficult Christ.” years. In this precious time, it is essential The retreat included a service project, to have teachers of sound guidance and bonding activities, the sacrament faithful witness to help the young people of reconciliation and a traditional navigate. Libby is just such a teacher.” Seder (Passover) meal. Saldanha says Fellow Holy Family teacher Elizabeth it also involved a first-time experience Lobeck regards Saldanha as a “dynamic,” for the students “to look at God face to team-oriented instructor whose vitality, face”—eucharistic adoration. creativity and attention to detail shine “I first experienced adoration when through in her hands-on projects and her I was on a retreat in high school, and I use of technology. remembered thinking how eye-opening She also praised Saldanha’s a prayer experience it was for me,” she coordination of the annual eighth-grade says. “I wanted to share that with my trip to Washington. There, students have kids. participated in laying a wreath at the Tomb During a project to test the creativity and ingenuity of her students at Holy Family School in “It gives me chills to remember so of the Unknown Soldier and attending New Albany, Elizabeth “Libby” Wright Saldanha checks on the efforts of Aidan Allen, center, and many of the students’ reactions to their Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine Jack Bryant. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) first adoration experience. The kids of the Immaculate Conception. looked changed and energized when they Still, Lobeck says, “I am most Anna Sekula has experienced that in Floyd County, where she married came out of there. One student said, ‘That impressed by Libby’s attitude toward— approach as a member of the current her husband Mervyn on Sept. 22, 2018. was the first time I felt God was talking and treatment of—our students. She truly seventh-grade class at Holy Family. There, she is an extraordinary minister of to me.’ They formed a relationship they loves her students and looks for the best “Mrs. Wright takes time to truly holy Communion. didn’t have before.” in them.” understand how the students need to For Saldanha, everything she does learn,” Anna says. “During our religion comes back to God’s guidance for her to class, she connects us to our faith in ways “take me with you.” Finalists for teaching honor come we can understand. I can tell she cares “My ministry as a teacher is a role a lot about her students. You can always I fully believe has been entrusted to trust her if you ever have a problem.” me by God. Though my classroom from throughout the archdiocese Holy Family’s principal Jerry responsibilities are hugely important to While Libby Wright Saldanha of Holy Family School in New Albany has been Ernstberger also notes that Saldanha’s me, I feel my most influential role lies in selected as this year’s recipient of the Saint Theodora Excellence in Education students “perform far above both my calling to be a living witness to our Award, five other teachers were named as finalists for the highest honor for a archdiocesan and state achievement faith each and every day. Catholic educator in the archdiocese. levels” in Indiana’s standardized testing. “When former students come back and Finalists also included: “I believe her success begins and is ask me to sponsor them as they make their Jeanne Angermeier—St. Barnabas School in Indianapolis driven by her faith and her stewardship of confirmation or when a good friend asks Kristin Campbell—St. Mary School in North Vernon her many talents,” he says. “Her devotion me to be a spiritual mentor as a godmother Jeffrey English—Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ School in Indianapolis to prayer and meditation is shared with to her infant son, there is no feeling that’s Jillian Hollins—St. Louis School in Batesville teaching staff and students alike.” equivalent. When others are able to see the Alan Mathews—Our Lady of Providence High School in Clarksville † That focus on faith also extends to love and devotion I have for my faith, I her home parish, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs know I am serving our God well.” †

SERVICE In her free time, Stanton is the “Crime “Prayer is the most essential core of “How much fun can we have today, continued from page 1 Watch” captain for her neighborhood, my being,” she says. “I pray all the time. God?” patrolling the streets with her 10-year-old God and I have a constant dialogue. He’s Stanton smiles at that sign, looking living on the streets with her mother. So she dog that she has dubbed “Deputy Harry,” a my best friend. I talk to him every night forward to the adventures that await her relentlessly seeks bargains and calls upon mix of a dachshund and a wild-hair terrier. and say, ‘If you want me to keep doing and God together. friends and neighbors to donate clothing, Everything she does has led to a fan this, you have to keep me in good health “We’re going to find someone at some toiletries and food that she then delivers to club that marvels at Stanton, including and keep giving me the strength. I’m 78.’ place who needs something,” she says. Holy Family Shelter in Indianapolis and Andrew Costello, who directs Operation “He blesses me every night. One “And we’re going to cheer them up.” Operation Leftover, a monthly homeless Leftover, the homeless outreach. of the prayers I say at night is, ‘Thank God knows how to make a deal. outreach in downtown Indianapolis. “Liz empties herself in the service you, Lord, for all the blessings you’ve Stanton knows how to live up to it. A great-grandmother, Stanton also of others,” says Costello, a member of bestowed on me today, especially those I tutors first-, second- and third-grade St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis. “Liz failed to observe.’ ” (In upcoming issues, The Criterion children at a public elementary school, lives out her faith, and the Gospel is very The prayers continue early the next will feature two other recipients of the helping them with their reading. much a part of the fabric of her life. She day as she leaves her home to help the archdiocese’s 2019 Spirit of Service “A lot of them come from broken serves regardless of race, color or creed.” children, the homeless, the elderly and the Award: Yan Yan of St. Mark the Evangelist homes, and they don’t have a lot of former prisoners trying to start a new life. Parish in Indianapolis, and James one‑on-one time,” says Stanton, a member ‘God and I have a constant dialogue’ On her way into that world, she pauses Morris, vice chairman of Pacers Sports & of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Stanton also treats the people to read the sign in her laundry room that Entertainment. Robert “Lanny” Rossman Indianapolis. “By the second session, I’m she serves with compassion and leads into her garage, the sign that notes, was featured in a March 29 story.) † usually their best friend. I love to shape understanding, notes Taylor Clark, who young minds.” coordinates volunteers and donations for She has also served as an extraordinary Holy Family Shelter: IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter to speak minister of holy Communion, bringing “She helps others uphold their dignity the Eucharist to people in hospitals and in by meeting them where they are and by at Spirit of Service Awards Dinner hospice and nursing homes. filling needs they may have, whether that “There’s nothing better than bringing be a clean shirt or a listening ear.” IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter will be Four individuals will be honored Jesus to someone,” she says. “I love Stanton says she’s just trying “to the keynote speaker during the Spirit of with Spirit of Service Awards during sitting one-on-one with people, especially imitate Jesus, watching for needs and Service Awards Dinner in Indianapolis on the event: Liz Stanton of St. Luke the the older people who are lonely, anxious offering a healing touch or a word of April 30. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, Yan and depressed. They have to learn to trust encouragement.” The dinner benefits Yan of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in in God because he will see them through. At the heart of it all for her is her Catholic Charities Indianapolis, Robert “Lanny” Rossman “I know because I’ve had open heart prayer life. Indianapolis, which of St. Agnes Parish in Nashville and surgery and skin cancer and cervical Just as her computer room is filled this year is marking St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, cancer. From being in the hospital myself, with so many donated items that she 100 years of helping and James Morris, vice chairman of I know the strength and peace that came sometimes can’t find the computer, she people in need in Pacers Sports & Entertainment. to me when I received the Eucharist.” can barely see any hint of glass on her the archdiocese. Individual tickets are available for She also works to help people who are bathroom mirror because it’s marked The dinner will be $250 while tables of eight are available trying to change their lives after serving a by so many sticky notes listing prayer held at the Indiana for $800. There are also opportunities to prison sentence. She makes the rounds of intentions. Roof Ballroom, 140 help sponsor the event. garage and yard sales and seeks donated She prays for the homeless. She prays Ed Carpenter W. Washington St., in For tickets, visit www.archindy.org/ furniture, kitchenware and bedding to for the children she tutors. She prays for Indianapolis. Doors cc/indianapolis. For information contact help them as they move into an apartment. animals. She prays for priests. She prays open at 6 p.m. and the evening’s festivities Cheri Bush at [email protected] or “I even found two cars for them,” she for the three soldiers she once met on a begin at 6:30 p.m. 317-236-1411. † says. plane. She prays … . The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Page 9 Spread mercy, build fraternity, pope urges Morocco’s Christians RABAT, Morocco (CNS)—Celebrating Mass with members of Morocco’s tiny Catholic community, Pope Francis praised them for the many ways they “bear witness to the Gospel of mercy in this land.” At the Mass on March 31 in an arena at Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, the pope honored the way that Catholics, although much less than 1 percent of the population, reach out to help their Muslim brothers and sisters and the thousands of migrants who pass through, hoping to reach Europe. “I encourage you to continue to let the culture of mercy grow, a culture in which no one looks at others with indifference, or averts his eyes in the face of their suffering,” he said. The languages used at the Mass reflected the fact that the Catholic community in Morocco is made up almost entirely of foreigners. The readings were in Spanish, Arabic and French. English, Portuguese and Italian were added for the prayers of the faithful. More than a dozen Muslim leaders attended the Mass in a sign of friendship and were given seats near the front of the arena. As is his custom, the pope’s homily at the Mass focused almost entirely on the day’s Gospel reading, which was the story of the prodigal son. However, Pope Francis put special attention on the elder son in the story, the one who never left home or squandered his inheritance. While the merciful father rejoiced when his younger son returned home, the older son grew angry and refused to join the celebration. “He prefers isolation to encounter, bitterness to rejoicing,” the pope said. “Not only is he unable to understand or forgive his brother, he cannot accept a Choir members sing and wave flags as Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass at Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, on father capable of forgiving, willing to wait patiently, to March 31. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) trust and to keep looking, lest anyone be left out—in a word, a father capable of compassion.” The key to acting as a Christian, he said, is to look at While sad, the elder son’s attitude is not unthinkable situations from the perspective of the father, who loves or unusual, the pope said. It is the same “tension we both his sons and is a representation of God, who created experience in our societies and in our communities, and all people to be brothers and sisters. even in our own hearts” when people ask, “Who has the “Let us not fall into the temptation of reducing the right to stay among us, to take a place at our tables and fact that we are his children to a question of rules and in our meetings, in our activities and concerns, in our regulations, duties and observances,” Pope Francis told squares and our cities?” the Catholics of Morocco. When faced with situations that can bring Noting that the Gospel story does not say whether, confrontation, division and strife, he said, “often we are in the end, the elder son reconciled with his brother and tempted to believe that hatred and revenge are legitimate joined the party, the pope said each Christian is called to ways of ensuring quick and effective justice.” write his or her ending to the story. But experience, not to mention faith, “tells us that “We can complete it by the way we live, the way we hatred, division and revenge succeed only in killing regard others and how we treat our neighbor,” he said. Pope Francis uses incense as he celebrates Mass at our peoples’ soul, poisoning our children’s hopes, and “The Christian knows that in the Father’s house there are Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, on March 31. destroying and sweeping away everything we cherish,” many rooms: the only ones who remain outside are those (CNS photo/Paul Haring) the pope said. who choose not to share in his joy.” † Pope Francis visits Muslim training center, migrants in Morocco RABAT, Morocco (CNS)—Moving from ideals and vulnerable of the estimated 80,000 migrants currently in crossing Nigeria, Niger and Algeria, I arrived illegally in principles to concrete examples, Pope Francis met in Morocco. Morocco.” Morocco with Muslim men and women studying to be Neither the pope nor the king gave a speech at the He tried to reach Spain, but was unsuccessful, so prayer leaders and preachers and with dozens of migrants Mohammed VI Institute for the Training of Imams, he spent time in the informal migrant settlements in assisted by Caritas. Morchidines and Morchidates. Instead they listened. the forests and in the cities, until he met a priest. “He A religious faith respectful of others and care for Aboubakr Hmaidouch, a 25-year-old student born in welcomed me into his home, the church, and gave me a migrants were key themes in Pope Francis’ speech at his France, said the terrorist attacks there inspired him to new breath,” and a job, helping other migrants. Finally, in arrival ceremony in Rabat on March 30. After meeting study Islam more seriously. At the institute, he said, “the 2016, he received a Moroccan residency permit thanks to privately, Pope Francis and King Mohammed VI went on training is inspired by a doctrine that takes into account a program by the king to regularize the migrants present to the school the king founded to counter violent strains practical life and culture, and that accepts diversity; in the country. of Islam by training imams and “murshid,” men and a dogma based on moderation and reaching a middle The way a country treats migrants and refugees says women preachers and spiritual guides. ground, but also on a spirituality that unites you to God something about what its people think is “the value of And the pope ended his day at the Rabat Caritas center and his creatures through the bond of love.” each human life,” the pope said. for migrants, a facility providing special care to women, Hindu Usman, a woman from Nigeria, told the pope “Every human being has the right to life,” he said. unaccompanied minors and others among the most and king that terrorism and anti-Christian violence in her “Every person has the right to dream and to find his or country is fueled by a faith “founded on passion, rather her rightful place in our common home. Every person has than knowledge,” but that thanks to her education in a right to a future.” Rabat, “I will be able to argue and convince [people] that Economic indicators alone cannot measure a nation’s religion is for peace and goodness, that a believer is only progress, he said. accountable before God [and] that women are equal with “It depends above all on our openness to being touched men in their rights.” and moved by those who knock at our door. Their faces At the Caritas center, the pope continued the reflection shatter and debunk all those false idols that can take over he began earlier in the day as the king formally welcomed and enslave our lives; idols that promise an illusory and him to Rabat. momentary happiness blind to the lives and sufferings The pope had described Morocco as a “bridge between of others,” he said. “How arid and inhospitable a city Africa and Europe,” and most of the 80 migrants the becomes, once it loses the capacity for compassion,” it pope met at the Caritas center had set off from their becomes “a heartless society—a barren mother.” homes hoping to cross that bridge and make a new life in Pope Francis repeated his frequent appeal to the global Europe. community to do more to assist poor countries so people Pope Francis had called for “a change of attitude do not feel forced to migrate and to expand the pathways toward migrants, one that sees them as persons, not that would allow migrants and refugees to move to a new numbers, and acknowledges their rights and dignity in country legally and safely. daily life and in political decisions.” Until that happens, he said, “the emergency of “The issue of migration will never be resolved by irregular migration has to be met with justice, solidarity raising barriers, fomenting fear of others or denying and mercy,” adding that “forms of collective expulsion, assistance to those who legitimately aspire to a better life which do not allow for the suitable treatment of for themselves and their families,” the pope had said. individual cases, are unacceptable.” Meeting the migrants, he insisted that “no one can be Governments, churches and other institutions also indifferent to this painful situation” of so many millions must do more to help newcomers and longtime residents of migrants around the world. It is “a wound that cries get to know each other and learn about each other’s out to heaven,” he said. cultures. When people know nothing of the other, he Pope Francis greets children as he meets with migrants in the Abena Banyomo Jackson, a migrant from Cameroon, said, it is natural to “raise barriers to defend ourselves,” diocesan Caritas center in Rabat, Morocco, on March 30. told the pope he left his home in 2013 hoping to get but people of good will should fight the temptation to be (CNS photo/Paul Haring) to Europe to find work and help his family. “After “conditioned by fear and ignorance.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Pope issues new child protection law, guidelines for Vatican City State VATICAN CITY (CNS)—To better under Vatican City State jurisdiction. protect minors and vulnerable adults from Since September 2017, Vatican City all forms of abuse and exploitation, Pope State officials have been investigating Francis approved a new law and a set of allegations that a future priest abused a safeguarding guidelines for Vatican City younger fellow-student at the St. Pius X State and the Roman Curia. pre-seminary. Pope Francis established the new norms The new law will now cover all forms and legal, criminal and safeguarding of physical and emotional abuse—not just procedures with an apostolic letter given sexual violence through coercion—as well “motu proprio” (on his own initiative), as serious forms of mistreatment, neglect, published on March 29. The law and abandonment and exploitation against procedures are to go into effect on June 1. minors, who are below the age of 18, and Because the safeguarding of children vulnerable adults. and vulnerable people is an integral part It covers acts, behaviors or of the Gospel message, “I wish, therefore, conditions: that occur on Vatican City to further strengthen the institutional State territory, including the Pontifical and normative order to prevent and fight Villa of Castel Gandolfo; that harm abuses against minors and vulnerable any minor who is a citizen or resident; adults,” the pope wrote. or that are allegedly perpetrated by The law and guidelines have been any “public official,” which includes created, he wrote, “so that in the Roman all employees of Vatican City State Curia and in Vatican City State” there and Holy See, members of the Roman will be, among other things: respect and Curia and related institutions as well as awareness of the rights and needs of Vatican diplomats and personnel. minors and vulnerable adults; greater As long as they are not breaking the vigilance, prevention and corrective action seal of confession, all “public officials” when abuse or mistreatment is suspected are required to report “without delay” or reported; clearer procedures as well to the promoter of justice at the Vatican Swiss Guards march in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Dec. 25, 2017. To better protect minors and as specific offices for making claims; City State’s tribunal any abuse the official vulnerable adults from all forms of abuse and exploitation, Pope Francis approved a new law and a support services and protections for learns about or is given reason to suspect set of safeguarding guidelines for Vatican City State and the Roman Curia. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) alleged victims, their families and those while operating as a Vatican official or accused; and adequate formation for and employee. • The Vatican tribunal’s obligations the same material in the new law with background checks of new personnel, A failure or “wrongful delay” in protecting the alleged victim from the the addition of requiring the vicar including volunteers. in reporting can result in a fine of suspect, from a repeat of the crime and general to appoint a delegate who will The new law “On the Protection of 1,000‑5,000 euros for a “public official” from “intimidation and retaliation.” coordinate and verify the city state’s Minors and Vulnerable Persons” further or up to six months imprisonment for a • How the investigation and trial safeguarding efforts. enhances a major set of criminal laws for police agent or official. should be conducted so that it is fair, The five-page set of guidelines apply Vatican City State the pope approved in Any individual, even someone unbiased, maintains a presumption of to all areas and all clergy, chaplains, 2013; the earlier laws dealt with child completely unconnected with the Vatican innocence for the accused and respects assistants, employees or volunteers of the sexual abuse, child pornography and or Holy See, can also make a report if the dignity and psychological state of the vicariate, including at St. Peter’s Basilica the sale or prostitution of children, and they are aware of behavior harming a alleged victim. and the St. Pius X pre-seminary. The specified that any Vatican employee minor, it added. • The creation of a special office guidelines also apply to all members of around the world can be tried by the The crimes against minors are within the Vatican’s health care service consecrated life or lay associations who Vatican court for violating those laws. automatically prosecutable and the that will offer victim assistance, starting reside in Vatican City State. While the amendments in 2013 brought prosecutor’s office can proceed with a “listening service” and including The guidelines include prohibiting: Vatican law into detailed compliance with automatically, it said, adding that the psychological, medical and social support. corporal punishment; photographing, several international treaties the Vatican statute of limitations on the crimes is • The availability of information and filming or contacting a minor by phone, had signed over the past decades, the 20 years after the alleged victim turns 18. programs to educate all Vatican staff, online or through social media without new law on child protection was meant to If the suspected perpetrator is a priest minors and families about abuse, how written parental consent; being alone better comply with the U.N. Convention or is a member of a religious order, his or to identify it, better prevent it and the or out of sight of others when with a on the Rights of the Child and its optional her superior will be notified immediately obligation to report it. minor or vulnerable adult; and showing protocol, which the Vatican ratified in so the procedures prescribed by canon law • The obligation to do a background favoritism to one child with gifts. 1990 and 2001, respectively. can begin. check and exercise more vigilance in the The vicar general’s office is also While few minors are resident in The new law also outlines: selection and hiring of personnel and required to alert the Vatican’s promoter Vatican City State, there are minors in • The legal rights, specific protections volunteers. of justice of any credible accusation and the Sistine Chapel Choir, and there is a and support services available to the The safeguarding guidelines for remove the suspected perpetrator from pediatric hospital and a minor seminary alleged victim and family. the Vicariate of Vatican City cover pastoral activity. † ‘Spiritual combat’ must be part of fight against sex abuse, pope says ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO forget the spiritual weapons of prayer and about interreligious dialogue, religious wire, that separates Morocco from two ROME (CNS)—To fight clerical sexual penance “to defeat the spirit of evil. That freedom and migration. Spanish enclaves and about the wall abuse, the Catholic Church must have is not washing your hands.” Pope Francis said his trip in February U.S. President Donald J. Trump is trying clear laws and procedures, but it also must Pope Francis said his 2018 letter to to the United Arab Emirates and his to complete along the U.S.-Mexican engage in “spiritual the bishops of Chile regarding the abuse trip to Morocco were opportunities border. combat,” because it is crisis there and the letter he wrote to the to demonstrate the Catholic Church’s “Those who build walls will end up obvious the devil is U.S. bishops at the beginning of their commitment to interreligious dialogue. being prisoners in the walls they’ve built,” at work, Pope Francis retreat in January both looked at the Asked what, concretely, had been he said. “The builders of walls, whether said. “human, scientific” and legal aspects of accomplished, the pope responded that they are razor wire or bricks, will end up After the Vatican the crisis as well as the spiritual aspect. “now there are blossoms, the fruit will being prisoners.” summit on abuse The U.S. bishops’ proposals for a code come later. But the flowers are promising. A Spanish reporter, he said, recently in February, the of conduct and a third-party reporting We mustn’t give up.” brought him a piece of razor wire. pope said, he read a system, he said, “were too much like that He also insisted that every religion, “Sincerely, I was bothered and when he newspaper article that of an organization, methodological, Catholicism included, had members who left I cried. It just never entered my mind” Pope Francis said he had “washed and—without their meaning to—neglected are intransigent and against dialogue, that someone would design a fence that his hands and blamed the second dimension, the spiritual.” people who “live on bitter memories of would tear the flesh of someone who tried the devil” for the abuse crisis. The laity and everyone else must be past struggles and seek war” more than to climb over it. Speaking to reporters on March 31 on involved, he said, but “the Church is peace. “This is not the way to resolve the his way back to Rome from Morocco, not a congregationalist church. It is the In response to a question about the serious problem of migration,” the pope the pope said stopping abuse requires a Catholic Church where the bishop must many Muslim-majority countries where said. “I understand a government with multi‑pronged approach, including prayer take control of this as the pastor. The pope freedom of worship is respected, but legal this problem is holding a hot potato, but and penance. must take control of this. And how should or social pressures prevent Muslims from it must resolve it humanely. ... I saw that Pope Francis said that is why he asked he do this? With disciplinary measures, converting to Christianity, Pope Francis razor wire, and I couldn’t believe it.” the U.S. bishops not to vote in November with prayer, with penance, with self- insisted freedom is a concept that grows Asked about Catholics who vote for on a new code of conduct for bishops and examination.” over time. politicians espousing strict anti-immigrant new procedures for handling allegations Pope Francis was asked specifically In fact, he said, there are still Catholics policies, Pope Francis said most of them raised against bishops. Instead, he asked about the case of French Cardinal who strongly oppose the Second Vatican “are a bit taken by the fear that is the the bishops to have a retreat and wait until Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, who was Council’s teaching on religious freedom normal preaching of populists.” after the February summit to decide how found guilty in early March of covering and its insistence that even non-Christians But, “fear is the beginning of to move forward. up abuse and was given a six-month have a right to follow their consciences. dictatorship,” he said, pointing to the Some things, like the abuse crisis and suspended sentence. He offered his In many so-called Christian countries, example of the end of Germany’s Weimar child pornography, he said, “cannot be resignation to the pope, but the pope he added, doctors and other medical Republic and the “promises and fear” that understood without the mystery of evil.” declined to accept it. personnel do not have a legal right to led to Adolf Hitler’s election. “Let’s learn “We in the Church will do everything Responding to a reporter’s question, conscientiously object to euthanasia, for from history.” to end this scourge,” the pope said. the pope said while the cardinal awaits example. Pope Francis also insisted that In his address at the end of the summit, the appeal of his conviction, it would “Removing freedom of conscience European and other countries that sell he said, he offered concrete measures to be a violation of “the presumption” of is the first step to losing the freedom of the weapons that lead to war cannot then be followed, but he also recognized that innocence to accept his resignation. religion,” he said. refuse to accept the migrants and refugees there is a danger the Church would focus During the inflight news conference, Another reporter asked Pope Francis fleeing the fighting and the poverty and exclusively on laws and norms and would the pope also responded to questions about the wire fence, topped with razor hunger that go with war. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2017 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Meditate on Christ’s last words to be drawn into his suffering and death By Shemaiah Gonzalez

The season of Lent, and Holy Week especially, invite us to walk through the sufferings of Christ. Christ said very little when he was betrayed. He did not attempt to defend himself, but “humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8). With so little said, Christ’s last words hold weight. A Jesuit priest in the 17th century is said to have started this devotion, and it has become a well-loved tradition since. We contemplate not on a single word but these last seven statements he said. During these final weeks of Lent, set some time aside to meditate on his precious words.

• “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do” (Lk 23:34). The soldiers who led Christ to the cross cast lots for his clothes, an unseemly “bonus” for their A statue depicts the crucifixion at St. Patrick Church in Moravia, N.Y. The work. Even in the midst of his own suffering Jesus endured in his passion suffering, Christ offered prayers and death highlight for believers his for his tormentors, aware they were humanity and how he came to share the unknowingly fulfilling Scripture pain experienced by all people. (Ps 22:18-19). Christ offers (CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier) forgiveness even in his own pain. Open our hearts, Lord, to offer holy. Christ experienced that with forgiveness when we are wronged. us. The words used to convey the • “Amen, I say to you, today devastation of this abandonment is you will be with me in paradise” another fulfilment of Scripture in the (Lk 23:43). language from Psalm 22. Two criminals are crucified on Enlighten our hearts, Lord, to the either side of Christ. One hurls intimate relationship you desire for insults at Christ, but the other us. recognizes him for who he is. “Remember me” he calls out. Christ • “I thirst” (Jn 19:28). reassures the believer that he will be These words of Christ remind with him in paradise. Again, Christ us that not only was he fully God, offers forgiveness and compassion. which he showed by his ultimate Teach us, Lord, to comfort those forgiveness, but he was also fully around us. man. Someone soaks a sponge in cheap wine and offers it to Christ on • “Woman, behold, your son. ... a hyssop stalk. Behold, your mother” (Jn 19:26-27). Even though he had been battered, Christ sees his mother, Mary, at a crown of thorns pressed into his the foot of the cross. He presents skull, nails hammered into his hands John the beloved disciple as her son, and feet, this is the only time he and to John, Mary as his mother. By vocalizes his physical suffering. this time, Mary was most likely a We will never know the pain he widow. Christ, as Mary’s firstborn experienced on the cross, but we have Mary and the disciple John stand at the foot of cross in this depiction of Christ’s crucifixion at Holy Family Church in son, was legally responsible for experienced thirst. His words ground the West Bank city of Ramallah. During the last weeks of Lent, set some time aside to meditate on the last words of providing food and shelter for us in his human experience. Christ. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) her. His death would have left her May we thirst, Lord, for your vulnerable, financially, socially and living water. emotionally. Some of Christ’s last words are to care for his mother. • “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). Move us, Lord, to compassion to Christ isn’t just saying his suffering see the needs of others. is nearly over, death is upon him, but that his mission is complete. He had • “My God, my God, why have completed what he came to do, to lay you forsaken me?” (Mt 27:46 and down his own life, a ransom for the Mk 15:34). sins of all humanity so that we would The weight of the sin of the no longer be separated from God. His world has been placed on Christ. words are one of ultimate surrender. In this moment, he mysteriously Lord, reveal what I need to experiences in his humanity being surrender to you. completely abandoned by God the Father. Sin separates us from the • “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit” (Lk 23:46). The curtain in the Temple dividing the holy place and the holy ‘ … Christ’s last words of holies has been torn in half. That hold weight. which kept us from God has been destroyed. Christ had been obedient During these final to the Father, even till the end. weeks of Lent, set Christ’s words clearly convey that this act was one of his own free will. some time aside May obedience to you, Lord, be to meditate on his our greatest desire.

precious words … ’ (Shemaiah Gonzalez is a freelance The crucifixion is re-enacted by parishioners during a living stations of the cross presentation at St. Agnes Parish in writer. Her website is Greenport, N.Y., in 2014. In one of the last things that Christ said before his death, he humbly offered forgiveness for www.shemaiahgonzalez.com.) † those who treated him cruelly and nailed him to the cross. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic) Page 12 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Perspectives The Theology of Technology/Brett Robinson Making A Difference/ Don’t rely on screens; connect with Jesus through Mary Tony Magliano Before we are born, our nervous work through difficult emotions like us and our loved ones, especially mothers U.S. bishops systems are receiving stimuli from our feeling angry or sad are often ignored and children, is the first step toward a mothers. If our mom feels pain, we when a digital device becomes a pacifier richer interior life where the word can confront racism, sense it too. If she for an upset child. take root and bear fruit. is stressed out, we Screens take on the role of a surrogate “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, call us to learn what that feels parent in far too many situations, be it done unto me according to your like by experiencing meaning that the young child’s cognitive word.” Mary’s deep interior life where brotherhood the same rush of and emotional capacities are being she frequently “pondered ... in her heart” “See what love the Father has bestowed stress hormones like programmed by both mother and machine. gave her a clear view of her identity and on us that we may be called the children cortisol. The Church offers us an antidote in vocation in God’s eyes. of God. Yet so we are” (1 Jn. 3:1). With It’s all part of a the person of Mary. Many parents worry She is open and receptive, the “holy these beautiful words complex and beautiful about how to navigate this complex soil” who receives the seed of God’s love from Scripture, the neurobiological environment of digital distraction, and and bears fruit a hundredfold. Mary had U.S. bishops introduce process preparing they would do well to turn to Mary, the excellent reception. Not cellphone or us to their recent us for life outside the womb. So what mediatrix of grace. If mothers mediate Wi-Fi reception, but a connection to God pastoral letter against happens when the mother and baby’s the world to us from the time we are that confirmed her identity and purpose. racism titled, “Open touch, gaze and attention is diverted by conceived, Mary mediates God to us in “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt wide our hearts: the digital distractions? the Word made flesh. among us.” The fruit of attention, a rich enduring call to love.” What starts in the womb continues The Angelus prayer provides a step-by- interior life and a sense of our God-given Just think about it. as infants as we synchronize with our step guide for following Mary’s lead in identity is a deep intimacy with Jesus Christ, God is not a distant mother’s physiological rhythms. The heart the formation of a healthy interior life free the Word made flesh. We are extensions slave master, but a close rate and brain waves of mother and baby of digital pollution. of Christ in the world. This can be hard loving Father who calls us his children. That are often in perfect alignment, a critical “An angel of the Lord declared unto to remember when we are fixated on the is a truly awesome thought! “Yet so we are.” process in the development of the child’s Mary, and she conceived of the Holy technological extensions of ourselves. Thus, no matter what religion we emotional life. Language skills, social Spirit.” Mary was paying attention. How? Use this Lent as an opportunity to claim or don’t claim, no matter what our skills and emotional regulation all begin By keeping herself in prayer whenever reconnect with Jesus through Mary by nationality is, no matter what our ethnic taking shape in these critical early years. possible so that when the ultimate reflecting on her mediating role in our lives. heritage might be, and no matter what Unfortunately, in many instances, the moment of grace arrived she had the color we are or race we belong to, we all mother-child bond is interrupted when capacity to utter the “fiat” that changed (Brett Robinson is director of equally share one loving Father. screens are used to placate a restless toddler. the world. communications and Catholic media And that unmistakably means that all Human cues like a caregiver’s touch Cultivating attention by minimizing studies at the University of Notre Dame of us are brothers and sisters! and eye contact that help young children distraction and the things that get between McGrath Institute for Church Life.) † Imagine how wonderful the world would be if only we would truly take this It’s All Good/Patti Lamb sacred teaching to heart, and with every thought, word and deed put it into practice. But sadly, this is often not the case. Priests’ deaths remind us that faith is stronger than grief The bishops write, “Racism comes in Recently, our St. Susanna Parish family for the world’s shortest, but most efficient our God, the most tenderhearted, gracious many forms. It can be seen in deliberate, in Plainfield lost two pastors, and friends, four-word homily: “Do good. Avoid evil.” and merciful being, loves us beyond our sinful acts. In recent times, we have seen within three days of each other. And I have a feeling that his prayers wildest imaginings and eventually wants us bold expressions of racism by groups as We were stunned to might have helped secure a Super Bowl back to himself forever. well as individuals. The reappearance of learn of Father Kevin title for the Indianapolis Colts. “I am the resurrection and the life; he symbols of hatred, such as nooses and Morris’ death in a car Father Glenn’s business card said, who believes in me will live even if he swastikas in public places, is a tragic accident and, three “Working to beat hell.” Once, when a dies, and everyone who lives and believes indicator of rising racial and ethnic animus.” days later, we were fifth‑grade class at St. Susanna School in me will never die” (Jn 11:25-26). Drawing forth specific examples of again shocked to earned a “Donuts with Father Glenn” day, Both pastors read those words to us racism, the bishops highlight the fact that hear of Father Glenn he let them try out a slot machine at the over the years. So, in our humanity, we often Hispanics and African‑Americans O’Connor’s death due rectory. Every year on Easter morning, after grieve. But certain of eternal life, we “face discrimination in hiring, housing, to illness. renewing our baptismal promises, it was rejoice for their heavenly reward, and ours educational opportunities and incarceration. Death—especially always funny to witness some unsuspecting to come when God calls us. Racial profiling frequently targets Hispanics when it visits worshipper get soaked with holy water. It’s a rebuilding time for us, and we’ll for selective immigration enforcement unexpectedly, twice in one week—deeply “Now you’re really holy,” he would do it together. The good Lord knows practices, and African-Americans, for stings. exclaim, with that wry Irish smile. we’ve got some new intercessors in suspected criminal activity.” Combined, these men were with us We were blessed with two pastors who cahoots up there to bless us. The bishops critically say, “Extreme for nearly 20 years during our highs modeled the way Jesus wants us to live— This Lent, we are reminded in a way nationalist ideologies are feeding the and lows. Like pastors across central holy, big-hearted and genuine in their love very close to home that we are Easter American public discourse with xenophobic and southern Indiana, they shared joyful for Christ. people. rhetoric that instigates fear against foreigners, moments of baptism, first reconciliation, By the end of the second vigil, I had We believe in Jesus’ sacrifice and death immigrants and refugees. Finally, too often first Communion and holy matrimony wept so bitterly that my eyelids were on the cross, which restored us to the racism comes in the form of the sin of with our families. They buried our loved practically swollen shut. I cannot imagine promise of eternal life. omission, when individuals, communities, ones and consoled us in our grief. Both the grief felt by both families, and by their This is our faith, and we proclaim it. and even churches remain silent and fail ministered to us in times of trouble, closest friends. We are St. Susanna, and our hope is in to act against racial injustice when it is reminding us to lean on our faith. Then, after discarding another tissue the Lord! encountered.” Each had his own humorous and into the trash, I started feeling like a P.S.—To our friends in Richmond, who Why do so many who are not sometimes slightly unorthodox style, hypocrite. I believe in life, death and also mourn the loss of Father Kevin and minorities and are people of faith remain which endeared them to us all the more. resurrection. We’re in the midst of Lent, Deacon Frank Roberts, God be with you. largely silent about racism? They were both unique, from broken for goodness sake, and I stood there God be with us all. I don’t think it’s because these believers molds intricately fashioned by God. crying like an overgrown baby. are prejudiced against African-Americans, Father Kevin wore a unique vestment If there’s anything these two Irishmen (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna Native Americans, Hispanics, Muslims or on Halloween for the anticipation vigil of imparted to their St. Susanna flock, it’s Parish in Plainfield, is a regular columnist any other minority. Rather, as with other All Saints Day. He’ll go down in history that our faith is stronger than our grief, and for The Criterion.) † social justice and peace issues, it’s a matter of “out of sight, out of mind.” The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick So as a corrective to this serious inattentiveness, let’s pray, educate ourselves on racism, talk with people in Reconciliation is needed to renew Church, create unity minority groups about their experiences, One summer, a young deacon something in what we said triggered off a scene in which Christ asks Peter, “Do befriend persons of different races and preparing for the priesthood helped us bad memory we had nothing to do with.” you love me?”(Jn 21:15)—an example ethnic backgrounds, lobby to increase at Mass. I remember standing outside of Here, the virtue of understanding of heartfelt reconciliation, empathy and refugee admissions, and vote for politicians church after his first implores us to look more deeply into an sympathy par excellence. who are committed to pursuing policies of homily and watching incident like the above; to seek the roots Today, dialogue is needed to renew the racial/ethnic equality and comprehensive the congratulations of the problem so as to be on the same Church and create greater unity. Prudence and just immigration reform legislation. pour out and his wavelength with another and to work prompts us to put ourselves into the world A thoughtful reading of “Open wide face beaming with toward reconciliation. of another and see it from his or her side. our hearts: the enduring call to love” joy. Then along There is a passage in the Gospels Often this mollifies a dispute by unveiling would be time well spent. came a dour-looking in which Christ counsels us to drop why people do what they do or say what And let us commit ourselves to praying parishioner who everything when there is a dispute with they say. and working for a society and world blurted out, “I could another, and to go to him or her and work Reconciliation is at the heart of where as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr not disagree with you toward reconciliation. mended marriages, family feuds, the said, “People will not be judged by the more on what you “If you bring your gift to the altar, and avoidance of wars, wholesome treaties color of their skin, but by the content of said. You sure missed the point.” there recall that your brother has anything and returning to God. When it is missing, their character,” and where all persons His chin suddenly dropped to his chest, against you, leave your gift there at the so are peace, joy, forgiveness and love. recognize each other as brothers and and his cheerfulness darkened. As we altar, go first and be reconciled with your At times, reconciliation is a bitter pill sisters who are all equally loved by the walked back to the rectory, all he could brother, and then come and offer your to swallow. When it is the route taken, the same divine Father. remember was that negative comment. gift” (Mt 5:23-24). results often lead to us say, “Why didn’t I My homiletics teacher taught us, One way to read the Bible is through do this earlier?” (Tony Magliano is an internationally “Do not let that woman pass, but gently the eyes of reconciliation in which God is syndicated social justice and peace inquire why she was disturbed. Often forever reconciling his people. After Peter (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for columnist. He can be reached at it is not us that disturbs a person, but had denied Christ, we have that beautiful Catholic News Service.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Page 13

Fifth Sunday of Lent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, April 8 Friday, April 12 Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 Jeremiah 20:10-13 Sunday, April 7, 2019 or Daniel 13:41c-62 Psalm 18:2-7 • Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 23:1-6 John 10:31-42 • Philippians 3:8-1 John 8:1-11 Saturday, April 13 • John 8:1-11 or John 8:12-20 St. Martin I, pope and martyr Tuesday, April 9 Ezekiel 37:21-28 The Book of Isaiah supplies the first For its third reading this weekend, the Numbers 21:4-9 (Response) Jeremiah 31:10-13 reading for Mass for this weekend in Church gives us a selection from St. John’s Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21 John 11:45-56 Lent. The passage is from the second Gospel, which is a literary gem. It tells its John 8:21-30 part of Isaiah, written version of the life and teaching of Jesus Sunday, April 14 at a time that was with remarkable brilliance and appeal. Wednesday, April 10 Palm Sunday of the Passion of a difficult period in Its eloquence and relevance captivate the Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95 the Lord the history of God’s hearts and minds of readers. (Response) Daniel 3:52-56 Luke 19:28-40 (procession) people. Certainly, such is the case in this The people passage. The danger before the woman, John 8:31-42 Isaiah 50:4-7 Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18a, 19-20, had been rescued and also the mercy of God in Christ, are Thursday, April 11 23-24 from exile. They, so evident. St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr or their parents By way of explanation, the woman had Philippians 2:6-11 Genesis 17:3-9 or grandparents, been caught in the act of adultery. Jewish Luke 22:14-23:56 Psalm 105:4-9 had survived the law and custom were very hard on female or Luke 23:1-49 conquest of the Hebrew kingdoms by the adulteresses, not to victimize women, John 8:51-59 Babylonians, the conquest that resulted in but rather to secure the racial integrity of the exile. the people who were chosen to be God’s By no means was all well, however. special people. If an adulterous woman Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle The land was not flowing with milk and gave birth to a child conceived outside honey. On the contrary, it was lifeless and her marriage, then fraud would upset the Use of bells at Mass is not required desolate. This starkness easily prompted family’s line of descent and the identity people to be cynical and to deny that God of the people might be in jeopardy. by the Church, but remains an option cared for the people. Some even said that Ultimately, it was a trick. The God did not exist. opponents of Jesus knew that to show I was in a liturgy committee meeting where people who are visitors or are not With great power and clarity, this mercy to the woman would be in Qat my parish, and I suggested that we regular churchgoers take part.” section of Isaiah insisted that God will accord with the Lord’s teaching, yet have the altar server make all things right. He is almighty. He any semblance of downplaying her ring the bell at the For the second time in recent weeks, will not forsake the people. He will cause misconduct would appear to disregard the consecration during Qmy 5-year-old son said to me the rivers of life-giving water to flow through law of Moses and ancient Jewish custom. the Mass on Easter other day, “Boys can marry boys and girls the arid land. Fearlessly, Jesus came to the woman’s Sunday. (We don’t can marry girls.” For the second reading, the Church rescue by forgiving her. He also upheld normally use altar He was clearly looking to me for insight, presents a passage from St. Paul’s the sinfulness of adultery by admonishing bells at our parish.) but what he got was stunned silence. He said Epistle to the Philippians. The Christians her not to sin again. One of the committee something counter to my faith but, at the of Philippi had this in common with members said that the same time, I don’t want him to judge, hate or Christians living in every other major Reflection use of altar bells has fear homosexuals. Do you have any advice city of the Roman Empire. They were Next weekend, the Church will been banned by the for parents on how to have a constructive, relatively few in number, and their observe Palm Sunday of the Passion of Church since the Second Vatican Council. faith-filled discussion with their children devotion to Christ drew them into a the Lord. Only two weeks of Lent remain. Is this true? (Maryland) about gay marriage? (Pennsylvania) lifestyle and way of thinking utterly The Church urges us that there is opposite the culture. Furthermore, still time to repent and to refine our The committee member was wrong. I am not a master of pedagogy— hostility, official and unofficial, engulfed determination to follow Christ. Our sins AThe use of altar bells during Mass Aparticularly when it comes to 5-year- them. haunt us. Temptations still may be strong. is neither mandated by the Church nor olds! You would have a much better read on So, Paul, as in his other epistles, We know our imperfections quite well. forbidden. It is an option but not an what your son can understand. But I think encouraged but also challenged the Abandoning them will not be easy. obligation, left to the discretion of the that you might say something like this: Christians. It is eloquent in its message, This Gospel reading tells us that Christ priest celebrating the Mass. “Some people do think that boys can using the imagery of racing. Paul will forgive all—even terrible sins. He Here’s what the “General Instruction marry boys and girls can marry girls. But says that he has not yet finished the will strengthen, support and protect us if, of the Roman Missal” says: “A little your mom and I—and the religion we belong race, but he has his eyes on one goal with the help of his grace, we endeavor before the consecration, if appropriate, a to—don’t think so. We think that the way alone, namely the finish line. When he not to sin again. minister rings a small bell as a signal to God created things is best: that mommies crosses this line, in other words when Sin is real. So is divine mercy. God the faithful. The minister also rings the and daddies can have babies together and he dies an earthly death, he will have will help us to renounce sin and to turn to small bell at each elevation by the priest, help their children to grow up. The luckiest won the race because he will enjoy life Christ. Nothing else matters. We need the according to local custom” (#150). children in the world are the ones who have everlasting. Lord. He awaits us. † The ringing of bells during the both a mommy and a daddy.” consecration has a long history in the You might even add, “Up until just a Church, beginning about the 13th century. few years ago, almost the whole world My Journey to God In those days, many churches were large, agreed with us, and that’s what your mom the priest faced the altar and Mass was and I still think.” offered in Latin. Churches often had raised As for guiding your son not to “judge, platforms in front of the altar for the choir, hate or fear homosexuals,” you are right the result being that some worshippers on target. The Catechism of the Catholic Your Love Is … could not see the altar. The ringing of Church says that men and women with bells served to draw the attention of the “deep-seated homosexual tendencies By Caroline Hakanson congregation to the fact that the sacred act ... must be accepted with respect, of transubstantiation was taking place. compassion and sensitivity. Every sign My Lord, After the liturgical reforms of of unjust discrimination in their regard Vatican II—with the priest now facing should be avoided” (#2358). It is often that I ponder the love you have for the people and the language in the me, vernacular—many parishes decided to (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth So unconditional, so forgiving, so discontinue the use of altar bells. Bells Doyle at [email protected] and unbelievable. do, though, add reverence and solemnity 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York to a celebration. (Note that bells are rung 12203.) † It is an endless ocean, at the Gloria during the Easter Vigil Mass to express the joy of the resurrection.) Readers may submit prose It is the sky, so vast and wide and open, Altar bells are commonly used in the basilicas of Rome and, interestingly, in 1972 or poetry for faith column It is the wind that moves through me and all when asked the question “Is a bell to be The Criterion invites readers to submit around me, rung at Mass?” the Vatican’s Congregation original prose or poetry relating to faith or for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the experiences of prayer for possible publication It is a peaceful abandon, in the “My Journey to God” column. Sacraments gave this reply: Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. A luxury of the heart, “From a long and attentive catechesis “Poems should be no longer than and education in liturgy, a particular 25 lines (including lines between stanzas It surrounds me, it soothes me, liturgical assembly may be able to take if applicable) of either 44 characters part in the Mass with such attention and (including spaces) to allow room for a All encompassing, all enveloping for all awareness that it has no need of this staff‑selected photo, or 79 characters eternity. signal at the central part of the Mass. (including spaces) if no photo is desired.” This may easily be the case, for example, Please include name, address, parish and (Caroline Hakanson is a member of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. with religious communities or with telephone number with submissions. Photo: Then-Archbishop of Indianapolis Joseph W. Tobin takes a few moments of particular or small groups. The opposite Send material for consideration to “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, 1400 N. quiet reflection gazing upon the Sea of Galilee in Capernaum on Feb. 9, 2015, may be presumed in a parish or a public Meridian­ St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.) (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) church, where there is a different level or e-mail to [email protected]. † of liturgical and religious education and Page 14 The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019

Peter. Grandmother of 13. Great‑grandmother of 12. EVAN, Linda J., 74, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Rest in peace March 17. Wife of Steven Evan. Mother of Dawn, Misty Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday and Steven. Grandmother of before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. 15. Great-grandmother of 14. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are FAULKNER, Gary E., 79, listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives Feb. 24. Husband of Judith of the archdiocese or have other connections­ to it; those are Faulkner. Father of Keith, separate obituaries on this page. Kody and Kraig Faulkner. Brother of Marcia Harris and BAXTER, Richard V., 92, Mother of Mary Pat Tully Ronnie Faulkner. Grandfather St. Luke the Evangelist, and Robert Dallmann. of 10. Great-grandfather of Indianapolis, March 16. Grandmother of six. several. Husband of Mary Jane Great‑grandmother of 14. HORNING, Margaret Baxter. Father of Peggy DAWSON, Patrick, 45, A., 106, Holy Spirit, Baxter Cremer, James, John, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Richard, Jr. and Stewart Indianapolis, March 8. Mother March 10. Father of Zachary of Anna Rose Dalton and Baxter. Grandfather of 13. Dawson. Son of Joseph and Great‑grandfather of two. James Horning. Sister of Rose Myrna Dawson. Brother Venezia. Grandmother of six. BIASI, Primo, 93, of Daniel Tippit and Paul Great-grandmother of 12. SS. Francis and Clare of Dawson. Great-great-grandmother of Assisi, Greenwood, March 16. DEVNEY, Alan, Jr., 52, four. Husband of Mary Biasi. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Father of Bob, Jim and Larry LENCESKI, Larry J., 69, March 14. Husband of Ashley St. Anne, New Castle, Biasi. Grandfather of six. Devney. Father of Kerry Great‑grandfather of five. March 15. Husband of Cathy Bowman and Noah Devney. Lenceski. Father of Joseph, CUNNINGHAM, Blanche Brother of Ann Marciano, Larry and Paul Lenceski. M., 93, St. Malachy, Kathleen Rogers and Tom Brother of Karen Mitchell. Brownsburg, Feb. 22. Mother Devney. Grandfather of three. of Janet Rodgers and Curtis ETIENNE, Mary P., 89, Cunningham. Grandmother MALLORY, Charles O., St. Paul, Tell City, March 21. 85, St. Augustine, Leopold, of six. Great-grandmother of Mother of Mary Ann Bernard, several. March 24. Father of Cathy Tracy Schroeder, John and Reece and Richard Mallory. DALLMANN, Catherine Tom Etienne. Sister of Grandfather of four. L., 97, Our Lady of Perpetual Betty Hartz, Jane Huber, Great‑grandfather of seven. Help, New Albany, Feb. 26. Helen Spencer and Charles MCGILL, Timothy M., 63, St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Providence Sister John Mary March 22. Uncle of several. RAMSEY, Rosemary, 84, Rifner served in Catholic St. Elizabeth of Hungary, schools for 30 years Cambridge City, Feb. 7. Wife of Dudley Ramsey. Mother Providence Sister John Mary Rifner died on March 21 at of Diane Williams, David Mother Theodore Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 89. and Robert Ramsey. Sister The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on March 28 at of Charles and John Smith. the Church of the Immaculate Conception at the motherhouse in Grandmother of three. St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. ROSZCZYNSKI, Wanda Cecilia Ann Rifner was born on April 1, 1929, in New Castle (Adamczyk), 87, Prince of and grew up as a member of St. Anne Parish. She entered the Peace, Madison, March 19. Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Feb. 2, Mother of Aline Cambron and 1953, and professed final vows on Aug. 15, 1960. Edward Roszczynski. Sister Sister John Mary earned a bachelor’s degree at of Irene Mroz. Grandmother Saint Mary‑of-the-Woods College, and a master’s degree at of three. Great-grandmother Fire in historic French church of five. Indiana State University in Terre Haute. A firefighter is seen as flames shoot through the front door of the historic St. Sulpice Church in During her 66 years as a member of the Sisters of Providence, SANGL, Terry R., 60, Paris on March 17 in this still image taken from social media. Vandals and arsonists have targeted Sister John Mary ministered in education for 30 years in St. Malachy, Brownsburg, French churches in a wave of attacks that has lasted nearly two months. schools in Illinois, Indiana, Maryland and Massachusetts. In March 14. Husband of Nancy (CNS photo/Instagram@agneswebste via Reuters) the archdiocese, she served at St. Susanna School in Plainfield Sangl. Father of Megan Harris, Amy Hollmaier, Sheila from 1969-81, St. Simon the Apostle School in Indianapolis Woodside and Adam Sangl. SOMMER, Danny J., 64, Marie Below, Josephine James and Msgr. Joseph from 1981-85, and at the former St. Anne School in New Castle Son of Virginia Sangl. Brother St. Mark, Perry County, Healy and Rosemary Page. Riedman. Grandmother of 16. from 1966-69. After retiring from education, Sister John Mary of Patsy Gebhart, Randy and March 22. Husband of Alice Uncle and great-uncle of Great‑grandmother of six. returned to the motherhouse where she served as a driver and in Rob Sangl. Grandfather of Sommer. Father of Kelly several. WAIZ, William, Sr., many other ways for 26 years. She dedicated herself entirely to nine. Cash and Andy Sommer. UNDERWOOD, Mary 93, St. John Paul II, prayer beginning in 2017. SEALS, Dorothy K., 74, Half-brother of Carl Krieg. J. (Riedman), 91, St. Gabriel, Sellersburg, March 14. Sister Mary John is survived by a sister, Providence Sister St. Mary, Greensburg, Grandfather of five. Connersville, March 13. Father of Donna Smith, Lynn Martha Ann Rifner. March 16. Wife of Jerry Seals. SPICUZZA, Larry, 97, Mother of Beth Blessing, Underwood, Janice Wilson, Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Providence, Mother of Jason Seals. Sister Our Lady of the Most Lynne Eckerle, Jayane Carolyn, Alan and Billy 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, of Mary Trabel, David, Joseph, Holy Rosary, Indianapolis, Skaff, Jim, John, Mark and Waiz. Grandfather of 16. St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876. † Ken, Stanley and Steve Lieland. March 22. Brother of Anna Tom Underwood. Sister of Great‑grandfather of 24. † Author’s lengthy journey to Catholic faith detailed in updated book By John F. Fink mainly up to date since readers seemed was attending over some issue, he was to like the book and wondered what persuaded that that would be a mistake. Catholics have been part of the happened after it was published. However, through his reading the mainstream in the United States since Shanks was an only child of parents New Testament and histories of the shortly after World War II, so it can be who practiced no religion. At age 10, he Church, Shanks realized that the Church a bit jarring to realize that many people discovered a dusty Bible in the home and didn’t vanish in 90 A.D., and he became think of Catholicism started reading it, awakening his interest dissatisfied with thinking of “the Lord’s as a cult. in religion. When he was 12, his parents Supper” as only an optional, occasional, That’s what let him go to a church they nominally “communal” meal. So he called the offices Ken “Sonny” belonged to even though they never went of St. Joseph Parish in Corydon and made Shanks thought for there: the Reorganized Church of Jesus an appointment. most of his life. of Latter Day Saints, an offshoot from the He went through the Rite of Christian Today, though, Mormon church. Initiation of Adults (RCIA) program at he is a Catholic, That began about 40 years of church St. Joseph Parish and soon discovered that a guitar‑playing hopping as he thought every Christian he had been a closet Catholic for a long time member of St. Joseph denomination was about the same. Shanks without knowing it. He was finally received Sonny Shanks Parish in Corydon, was told, and believed, that the Church into the Catholic Church during the Easter the author of religious founded by Christ “vanished” in 90 A.D., Vigil Mass by Father Robert J. Hankee, who books, and a sometime contributor to but was “restored” by the Protestant has been pastor of the parish since 2010. The Criterion’s “My Journey to God” reformers 1,500 years later. The book also tells many details of weekly feature. As for the Catholic Church, that was Shank’s life besides his religious seeking. One of his books is titled A Closet just a cult. Shanks was told that Catholics A Closet Catholic Comes Out is Catholic Comes Out—and Avoids the were pseudo-Christians who worshiped available from Amazon.com, either as a Cafeteria: My 40-Year Journey to the Mary and prayed to many gods. A few paperback or a Kindle book, for $8.99. Writings from the Thoroughfares of Life: Catholic Church. That’s a mouthful of a times when he mentioned to a friend Other books written by Shanks include Past and Present. title, but kind of tells the picture. that he thought he might check out the Heaven in the Bible, Hell in the Bible, Shanks published that book several Catholic Church, usually after there Demons in the Bible, Angels in the Bible, (John F. Fink is editor emeritus of years ago, but he has now brought it was a split in the Protestant church he Jesus and Buddha: a Conversation and The Criterion.) † The Criterion Friday, April 5, 2019 Page 15 Mississippi governor signs ‘heartbeat’ bill into law WASHINGTON (CNS)—Since the Women’s Health Organization. President Marjorie Dannenfelser said: “The to strengthen his resolve to sign the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh last Pro-life advocates cheered the bill’s people of Mississippi, like most Americans, measure even before the bill was passed, October and the 2018 midterm elections, passage, among them Mississippi Bishops reject the extreme status quo of abortion saying: “We will all answer to the good a number of states Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson and Louis on demand through birth imposed by Roe Lord one day. I will say in this instance, have new laws in F. Kihneman of Biloxi. v. Wade. ... It is no wonder we see growing ‘I fought for the lives of innocent babies, place to either expand In a joint statement, they extolled the momentum to humanize our laws.” even under threat of legal action.’ ” or restrict abortion, bill for protecting “the tiniest and most Groups that support legal abortion A legal fight may indeed prove including Mississippi, vulnerable of our citizens,” and expressed already have plans to challenge the new problematic for the bill. According to whose new law puts hope that “the courts will uphold this law law. According to The Washington Post, The Hill, a similar measure was approved the state among the and continue to pray for an end to abortion the Center for Reproductive Rights, the by Kentucky’s legislators and signed by most ardent on the pro- in our nation.” They concluded with a list American Civil Liberties Union and the governor on March 15, only to be life side of the battle. of clinics in the state that assist women who NARAL Pro-Choice America have all stopped by an order from a federal judge On March 21, find themselves in difficult pregnancies. labeled it unconstitutional and plan to the same day. The legislation is on hold Gov. Phil Bryant Mississippi Gov. Phil The bill makes abortions illegal as soon wage a court battle against it soon. Hillary until a hearing on it can be held. Leading Bryant, a Republican, as the fetus’ heartbeat can be detected, Schellner, an attorney at the Center for the effort against the Kentucky version signed into law S.B. 2116, a “heartbeat bill” which could be as early as six to eight Reproductive Rights, told The Washington was the ACLU, which teamed up with the which will prohibit abortions in the state weeks. In some cases, it may be as late as Post that “this ban is one of the most state’s only abortion clinic. after the point a fetal heartbeat is detected. 12 weeks when detected with a Doppler restrictive abortion bans signed into law, Other states in which heartbeat bills It was approved by a 34-15 party-line fetal monitor. The only exceptions would and we will take Mississippi to court to have gained traction include Georgia vote with most Republicans supporting it be to prevent a woman’s death or her make sure it never takes effect.” and Ohio. Iowa also had passed such a and most Democrats rejecting it. The House serious risk of impairment. Bryant fired back at the bill’s detractors measure, but in January, a judge declared passed it in a 78-37 vote. Set to take effect in The Susan B. Anthony list, a national in a tweet where he affirmed his pro-life it unconstitutional. Other states, like July of this year, it will set tough restrictions pro-life advocacy group based in convictions. He also mentioned that the Rhode Island, continue to seek policies for the state’s only abortion clinic—Jackson Washington, echoed similar sentiments. prospect of legal challenges only served that will expand abortion access. † Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes Parishes throughout the archdiocese Indianapolis East Deanery ŸApril 8, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More, ŸApril 11, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., “12 Hours of have scheduled communal penance ŸTuesdays in Lent 6-7 p.m. at St. Mary Mooresville Grace” at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, services for Lent. Below is a list of services ŸApril 5, 6-8 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield ŸApril 9, 7 p.m. at St. Susanna, New Albany reported to The Criterion. ŸApril 6, 10 a.m.-noon at St. Michael, Plainfield ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. at St. Augustine, Greenfield ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. at St. Malachy, Jeffersonville Batesville Deanery ŸApril 9, 7 p.m. at St. Philip Neri Brownsburg ŸApril 12, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany ŸApril 5, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., “12 Hours of ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas, Fortville ŸApril 12, 7 p.m. for St. Michael the ŸApril 14, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Grace” for All Saints, Dearborn County, Archangel, St. Gabriel the Archangel Starlight at St. Martin Campus, Yorkville Indianapolis North Deanery and St. Monica, at St. Michael the ŸApril 10, 7 p.m. at St. Louis, Batesville ŸApril 7, 2 p.m. at St. Simon the Apostle Archangel Seymour Deanery ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. at Holy Family, ŸApril 8, 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. for St. Bartholomew, Oldenburg ŸApril 9, 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence New Albany Deanery Columbus, and Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, Ÿ Wednesdays in Lent, 5-7 p.m. with at St. Bartholomew Bloomington Deanery Indianapolis South Deanery adoration at St. Michael, Charlestown ŸApril 10, 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude the ŸApril 10, 7 p.m. for St. Barnabas, ŸWednesdays in Lent, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Terre Haute Deanery Apostle, Spencer St. Mark the Evangelist and St. Roch, at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd County ŸApril 10, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton ŸApril 10, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville St. Barnabas ŸWednesdays in Lent, 6:30-7:45 p.m. at ŸApril 15, 7 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle, ŸApril 11, 6 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, ŸApril 11, 7 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord St. Mary, New Albany Greencastle Bloomington Jesus Christ ŸThursdays in Lent, 5-7 p.m. with ŸApril 17, 11 a.m. at St. Joseph, ŸApril 17, 4-9 p.m. for St. Charles ŸApril 13, 9 a.m. at SS. Francis and Clare adoration at St. Francis Xavier, Rockville Borromeo, Bloomington, and St. Paul of Assisi, Greenwood Henryville Catholic Center, Bloomington, at St. Paul ŸApril 15, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the ŸSaturdays in Lent following 8 a.m. Mass Tell City Deanery Catholic Center Greenwood, Greenwood and at 4-4:45 p.m. at Holy Family, ŸApril 7, 2 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City New Albany Connersville Deanery Indianapolis West Deanery ŸSundays in Lent, 5-5:50 p.m. at (An updated version of this list, along ŸApril 9, 6 p.m. for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Ÿ Wednesdays in Lent, 6-7 p.m. at Mary, Holy Family, New Albany with other Lenten resources, can be at St. Mary Church, Richmond Queen of Peace, Danville ŸApril 10, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton found at www.archindy.org/lent.) † Classified Directory Special Care Hauling & Removal • Tree Removal, Topping & Trimming For information about rates for classified advertising, call (317) 236-1454. • Shrub Trimming & Removal Trusted and Compassionate Care • Light Hauling

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