Inside Emmaus Walk Columnist Debra Tomaselli reflects on a missed opportunity to be Christ to a co-worker, page 12. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com February 24, 2012 Vol. LII, No. 19 75¢ Pope creates 22 new cardinals, including three John Shaughnessy Photo by from U.S., Canada VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals from 13 countries—including three from the United States and Canada—placing red hats on their heads and calling them to lives of even greater love and service to the Church. The Churchmen who joined the College of Cardinals on Feb. 18 included Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and former archbishop of Baltimore; and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto. In their first official act in their new role, the new cardinals were asked to join their Cardinal peers in giving the Timothy M. Dolan pope their opinion, in writing, on the canonization of seven new saints, As a chaplain’s apprentice to Father Jeffrey Godecker at Butler University in Indianapolis, Kaitlyn Willy, center, always looks for different ways to including connect with the college’s Catholic students. Here, she shares a laugh with Meggie Gallina, a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Carmel, Ind., Blessed Kateri in the Lafayette Diocese, and Steven Meuleman, a member of St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis. Tekakwitha, an American Indian, and Blessed Marianne Chaplain’s apprentice uses out-of-the-box Cope of Molokai, Hawaii. The pope approach to connect with college students Cardinal announced at the By John Shaughnessy boxes of crayons. and likeness of God. No matter what’s Edwin F. O’Brien consistory that the “It was during finals week,” Willy going on in their lives, we’re not going to canonization liturgy Kaitlyn Willy knew the college students recalls. “There were days when judge them. We’re going to be there would be celebrated were feeling stressed by exams, professors 30 students came in and colored with me for them.” on Oct. 21 at the and even the actions of their roommates. because they just wanted to hang out and Vatican. She also knew she needed something talk—about roommate troubles, An out-of-the-box choice Cardinal Collins different, something imaginative to help frustrations with finals, problems with If the use of coloring books and said, “I am delighted the Catholic students relax for a while, professors. But they were also excited crayons to connect with college students is that my first action as focus on the good in their lives and about going home, and being with friends an out-of-the-box choice, then so is the a cardinal was to join remind them that God is there for them and family. And sometimes it led to deeper presence of Willy as a chaplain’s with the College of through the challenges and the conversations about what is the Christian apprentice at Butler. Cardinals in tough times. way to respond in a bad situation or to be Willy is a first-year student in Echo, the affirming the So the 23-year-old chaplain’s thankful to God in a positive moment. University of Notre Dame’s two-year Cardinal canonization of apprentice to Father Jeffrey Godecker at “It’s what we call ‘the ministry of master’s degree program that trains Thomas C. Collins Blessed Kateri Butler University in Indianapolis invited presence.’ We do a lot of catechetical stuff prospective parish administrators of Tekakwitha, who has the college’s Catholic students to the with the students, but the big thing is being religious education. She is the first student been such an inspiration for the people of our campus’ Center for Faith and Vocations. present with them. Father Jeff and I love in the eight years of the program to be First Nations and so many others in Canada Then she spread out coloring books and them because they are made in the image See MNIISTRY, page 8 See CARDINALS, page 3 Ad limina visit brings no news on new archbishop, affirms Bishop Coyne’s social media outreach Criterion staff report

Following his return from his ad limina visit with Pope Benedict XVI and other Vatican officials, Bishop Christopher Haring CNS photo/Paul J. Coyne said he didn’t receive any news about who the next archbishop of Indianapolis will be or when the pope will make the appointment. “As far as the next archbishop, I didn’t hear anything about who it may be or any kind of time frame,” Bishop Coyne said in an interview with The Criterion after his visit to Rome from Feb. 8-18. “The Church does these things in its own time for its own reasons. Right now, we’re in that kind of transition period. We’re just kind of holding steady, and making sure U.S. bishops on their ad limina visits concelebrate Mass in front of the tomb of St. Peter in the crypt of that things are done well and that we’re St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 9. From left in the first row are Bishop Christopher J. Coyne getting ready.” of Indianapolis; Retired Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville, Ind.; Archbishop Jerome See AD LIMINA, page 2 E. Listecki of Milwaukee; and Bishop Charles C. Thompson of Evansville, Ind. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Bishops bring variety of concerns to Vatican on ad limina visit VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When bishops come to the Vatican for their ad limina visits, they bring with them concerns and ideas that arise in their ministry and in the lives of their people. Haring CNS photo/Paul In addition to praying at the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul and at the Basilicas of St. Mary Major and St. John Lateran, bishops from Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin participated in meetings at all the major Vatican offices during their ad limina visits on Feb. 9-17. Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago noted that it had been more than six years since the U.S. bishops had made an ad limina visit, “and practically all the heads of Vatican offices are now different.” While cardinals and some U.S. archbishops serve as members of Vatican congregations and councils, most U.S. bishops only get to meet and discuss issues with curial officials when they come for their ad limina visits, which Church law requires of all diocesan bishops so they can report on Catholic life in their dioceses. The face-to-face meetings, Cardinal George said, “are all very helpful in creating a unity of mind and heart, and an atmosphere where the business of the Church can be conducted to everyone’s satisfaction.” Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, second from right, opens a Feb. 14 meeting with U.S. bishops from Illinois, Indiana The visits are known formally as and Wisconsin on their ad limina visits to the Vatican. “ad limina apostolorum,” which means “to the threshold of the Apostles.” Service, “I was looking to hear and to see have deep communion between the local outlining why the Church should Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome something about the importance of beauty bishop—and the bishops as a whole—and recognize the holiness of the late Catholic E. Listecki said the bishops gather before in the new evangelization,” the Church’s our Catholic universities,” he said. televangelist Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul, and “we effort to revive people’s faith. Bishop Rhoades said he would rather The archbishop was born in Illinois in profess or pledge our faith, usually reciting “I think beauty is what is going to have a Protestant who respects the 1895, and died in New York in 1979. the Apostles’ Creed.” attract others to us—the beauty of the Church teach at a Catholic university than The volumes given to the pope still The bishops make the visits in groups, truth of Christ, the beauty of the Church,” a “dissenting Catholic that actually does have to be studied by Vatican officials, and follow a detailed program of the bishop said. “When you go to these more harm to the mission” of the Church, and Bishop Jenky said he used his pilgrimage, prayer and business churches in Rome, you see the beauty and although he believes the majority of ad limina visit to promote the cause a meetings that give them and top splendor of God, and as human beings we professors at Catholic universities should bit more. Vatican officials an opportunity to ask need that.” be Catholic. Archbishop Sheen began his questions and offer advice. For Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Ad limina visits also can be the time television broadcasts when television While Vatican officials may have items Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., having the for a very Catholic type of lobbying— was a new medium. they want to emphasize with the bishops, University of Notre Dame and four other reminding the Congregation for Saints’ “He beat everyone else in ratings, he the heads of dioceses also have Catholic colleges in his diocese means Causes that there are U.S. candidates for won an Emmy,” Bishop Jenky said. suggestions, ideas and concerns to share Catholic higher education is a special sainthood waiting in the wings. “If it is God’s will” that Archbishop with the curia. concern—and one that he shared with Last May, Bishop Daniel R. Jenky Sheen be beatified and canonized, “it will Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Vatican officials. of Peoria, Ill., personally handed be a great gift to the Church, and maybe Madison, Wis., told Catholic News “It’s just so very important that we Pope Benedict XVI two thick tomes especially today,” the bishop said. †

Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president Good News, and trying to perhaps How has faith affected AD LIMINA of the Pontifical Council for Social confront some of the darknesses that your marriage? continued from page 1 Communications, and Msgr. Paul Tighe, are part of the Internet today,” secretary of that pontifical council. Bishop Coyne said. The Criterion is inviting readers to share At the same time, the archdiocese has “I got a lot of affirmation in terms of The ad limina visit also provided stories of how their Catholic faith has had an already established committees to prepare the work that I was doing,” said Bishop Coyne with the opportunity to impact on their marriages, especially in for the installation of the next archbishop Bishop Coyne, who uses various forms of create and build connections and specific moments of joy, struggle, heartbreak when the appointment is made. social media—blogs, Twitter and friendships with the 25 other bishops and hope. “When the next archbishop is podcasts—to promote and spread the from Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin Send your stories to assistant editor announced, we will be ready to get things Catholic faith. “They confirmed that, in who were part of his 11-day stay John Shaughnessy at jshaughnessy@ rolling in terms of the liturgy, in terms of fact, they want us to use the Internet in the in Italy. archindy.org or in care of The Criterion, the celebration, in terms of getting him manner in which I’m using it to spread the “I really got along with everybody 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN out to meet people,” Bishop Coyne noted. Good News, to kind of evangelize, and use that was there, and I hope they got 46202. Please include your phone number in “So we’re in God’s hands and we’re in it as a way of going out to people. along with me,” Bishop Coyne said. case additional information is needed. † good hands in the Archdiocese of “Pope Benedict is very much behind “They’re just good men and very Indianapolis.” our using all of the means of mass interesting. We shared a lot of the things Bishop Coyne shared that perspective communication and social communication that we were dealing with in the after the ad limina visit of the bishops of to evangelize and re-evangelize.” diocese, and asked each other for Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin with That meeting also led to an emphasis advice. One of the things that I found Correction Pope Benedict and the leaders of various on another focus of the Church’s use of very refreshing was just a greater Father George Joseph Nangachiveettil’s name offices at the Vatican. social media—trying to have an impact on camaraderie and fraternity with my was misspelled in a page 6 caption noting a One of the most helpful visits for the Internet itself by “making it a place fellow bishops in Indiana especially, but recent “Vocations appreciation dinner” in the Bishop Coyne came during a lunch with that is also a place of the Gospel, of the also throughout the whole region.” † Batesville Deanery.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Leaders and members of the Catholic Church do not have the

authority to determine its teaching Haring CNS photos/Paul and structure, but are called to ensure its fidelity to Jesus and to the faith passed on by the Apostles, Pope Benedict XVI told the 22 new cardinals that he created. “The Church is not self-regulating, she does not determine her own structure, but receives it from the word of God, to which she listens in faith as she seeks to understand it and to live it,” the pope said in a homily on Feb. 19 during a Mass concelebrated with the new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica. The College of Cardinals was expanded on Feb. 18, and the new members included Cardinals Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture, Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem and “The Chair of St. Peter,” is adorned with former archbishop of Baltimore; candles for the celebration of the feast and Thomas C. Collins of Toronto. of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica at the The family, friends and pilgrims Vatican on Feb. 19. The candles and accompanying the new cardinals special liturgical vestments decorating arrived at St. Peter’s extra early the statue of St. Peter added to the after many of them missed the celebration as Pope Benedict XVI consistory on Feb. 18 because the Pope Benedict XVI concelebrates a Mass with new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 19. The pope concelebrated Mass with 22 new basilica was full. While they created 22 new cardinals during a consistory the previous day. cardinals in the basilica. waited for Mass to begin, they joined in the recitation of the rosary large throne, which symbolizes Jesus Christ and enters into the nationalities and ministries of the presented two members of in Latin. the authority that Jesus gave to dynamic of love that finds its new cardinals, Cardinal Filoni said, their entourage to the pope. The Mass marked the feast of St. Peter, supported by four ancient source in the Eucharist discovers “We are united by one faith in Cardinal Collins introduced his the Chair of St. Peter, a liturgical Church theologians—two doctors true joy and becomes capable, in Christ, love for the Church, fidelity sisters, Catherine and Patricia, to solemnity focused on the authority of the Church from the East and turn, of living according to the to the pope and a deep awareness the pope and Cardinal O’Brien that Jesus entrusted to his Apostles. two from the West, representing logic of gift,” he said. of the real and serious needs of presented two longtime friends The feast usually is celebrated on the unity and diversity within the Like the basilica’s Holy Spirit humanity.” from New York, Patricia Dillon Feb. 22, but was early because universal Church, he said. window with its radiating golden The cardinal also thanked the and Patricia Handal. Ash Wednesday fell on that date The support of the theologians rays, “God is not isolation, but family members present at the After Cardinal Dolan this year. also “teaches us that love rests glorious and joyful love, spreading Mass, several of whom brought introduced his mother, The basilica’s bronze statue of upon faith. Love collapses if man outward and radiant with light,” the offertory gifts to the pope. Shirley Dolan, 83, to the pope, St. Peter, with its foot worn smooth no longer trusts in God and the pope told the new cardinals. Cardinal Filoni said every Pope Benedict told her, “You look by centuries of pilgrims’ caresses, disobeys him,” the pope said. Entrusted with God’s love, vocation, including the new too young to be a cardinal’s was draped with red and gold “Everything in the Church rests every Christian—and, particularly, cardinals’ vocations to the mother,” the cardinal told liturgical vestments for the upon faith—the sacraments, the each of the Church’s cardinals— priesthood, is born within a Catholic News Service. “I told feast day. liturgy, evangelization, charity,” as has a duty to share it with others, family or other community and him, ‘I hope that’s an infallible To illustrate his homily, the pope well as “the law and the Church’s he said. nurtured by the faith of others. statement.’ ” used another artwork, Gian Lorenzo authority,” he said. The altar servers at the Mass Pope Benedict met the new “Let’s face it,” Cardinal Dolan Bernini’s towering sculpture of Catholics cannot make things were seminarians from the cardinals and their families and said. “It’s somewhat rare that a “The Chair of St. Peter,” which is up as they go along, he said. They Pontifical North American friends again on Feb. 20 in the cardinal can introduce his mother topped by the Holy Spirit window must follow tradition, the sacred College, the U.S. seminary in more informal setting of to the pope.” The average age of in the basilica’s apse. Scriptures and the teaching of the Rome where Cardinals O’Brien an audience. the 213 members of the College The Catholic Church is like a Apostles, explained and interpreted and Dolan both had served as He asked the relatives and of Cardinals is more that 75. window into which the light of by the fathers of the Church and rector before being named friends to support the new cardinals Cardinal Dolan also presented truth shines and through which a the popes. bishops. with even more prayers, to listen Vincenza Mustaciuolo to the response of love should radiate, All that the Church teaches and At the beginning of the Mass, to them more carefully, and pope. She is the mother of he said. does in the world must be Italian Cardinal Fernando Filoni, “be united with them and among Msgr. Greg Mustaciuolo, “The Church herself is like a motivated by love and lead to love, prefect of the Congregation for the yourselves in faith and charity in chancellor of the New York window, the place where God the pope said. Evangelization of Peoples, thanked order to be even more fervid and Archdiocese. The monsignor is draws near to us, where he comes “A selfish faith would be an the pope on behalf of all the courageous witnesses of Christ.” one of the cardinal’s closest aides, toward our world,” the pope said. unreal faith,” Pope Benedict said. new cardinals. At the end of the audience, and his mother had never met the Bernini’s sculpture features a “Whoever believes in Acknowledging the different each of the new cardinals pope, the cardinal said. †

Cardinal O’Brien told reporters afterward that the would be “the foundation, stimulus and strength” of their CARDINALS ceremony and the pope’s remarks underlined that becoming faith, and that it would be reflected in their love and continued from page 1 a cardinal “is not a reward, it brings on greater charity toward others. responsibilities—something [that] the pope experiences During the ceremony, Pope Benedict placed rings on and the United States.” every day.” the fingers of the 22 new cardinals and assigned them a Cardinal Dolan also mentioned the consultation on the He said that when he knelt before the pope, “I thanked “titular church” in Rome, making them full members of canonization of Blessed Kateri, who was born in what is him. I said I’d serve him completely with my the Rome clergy and closer collaborators of the pope in now New York state, and Blessed Marianne, who served whole heart.” governing the universal Church. there before ministering in Hawaii. Cardinal Dolan, who delivered the main address on Cardinal O’Brien’s titular church is the historic Church “As grateful as I am for being a cardinal,” he told evangelization at a meeting of the College of Cardinals the of St. Sebastian on the Palatine Hill. Cardinal Collins was reporters later, “I really want to be a saint. I mean that, but I previous day, said that when he knelt before the pope, the assigned the Church of St. Patrick in the Via Veneto have a long way to go.” pope thanked him again for his presentation. “I said thank neighborhood, where an English-speaking congregation St. Peter’s Basilica was filled to overflowing for the you, for this, I’m the one who is grateful,” he said. worships; and Cardinal Dolan became the titular ceremony, and several thousand people sat in a sunny “The Gospel and the homily were very sobering,” he cardinal of the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the St. Peter’s Square watching it on large video screens. Choirs said, because they recalled the words of Jesus that “we’re Monte Mario neighborhood. from New York and from several Italian dioceses provided not in it for the prestige, we’re not in it for the honor, we’re The new cardinals, the pope said, “will be called to music for the service. not in it for the glory. We’re in it to serve.” consider and evaluate the events, the problems and the At the end of the ceremony, the College of Cardinals had In all things, Pope Benedict had told them, “the new pastoral criteria which concern the mission of the 213 members, 125 of whom were under the age of 80 and, cardinals are entrusted with the service of love—love for entire Church.” therefore, eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. God, love for his Church, an absolute and unconditional The pope asked the new cardinals “to serve the Church The consistory took the form of a prayer service. After love for his brothers and sisters, even unto shedding their with love and vigor, with the transparency and wisdom of the Gospel reading, in what the Vatican described as an blood, if necessary,” a fact underlined by the red color of teachers, with the energy and strength of shepherds, with allocution, not a homily, the pope told the cardinals that the biretta—a four-cornered hat—and the red the fidelity and courage of martyrs.” love and service, not an air of greatness, are to mark their cardinal’s robes. The Bible reading at the service was taken from the lives as cardinals. “He is servant inasmuch as he welcomes within Gospel of St. Mark and recounted how the disciples were “Dominion and service, egoism and altruism, possession himself the fate of the suffering and sin of all humanity. tempted by the idea of honor, but Jesus told them that and gift, self-interest and gratuitousness. These profoundly His service is realized in total faithfulness and complete greatness means becoming the servant of all. contrasting approaches confront each other in every age and responsibility toward mankind,” the pope said. “Serving God and others, self-giving. This is the logic place,” Pope Benedict said, but the cardinals must model “The free acceptance of his violent death becomes the which authentic faith imparts and develops in our daily their lives on that of Jesus, loving others to the point of price of freedom for many,” he told the new cardinals, lives, and which is not the type of power and glory which giving up his life for them. praying that “Christ’s total gift of self on the cross” belongs to this world,” the pope told them. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012

OPINION Be Our Guest/Sr. Diane Carollo, S.G.L. Religious conscience and the Obama administration Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher What does the Fugitive Slave Act of press; or the right of the people peaceably GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus 1850 have in common with the U.S. to assemble, and to petition the government John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Department of Health and Human Services’ for a redress of grievances.” (HHS) mandate on The HHS mandate is so dangerous contraception? because it effectively denies to Catholics The Fugitive Slave and other religious entities the right to Editorial Act attempted to enlist practice what they preach, and live their every citizen in the faith in accordance with their consciences. United States to assist Does Obama think that he can Cardinal-designate Timothy in the capture and effectively suppress the teachings of the M. Dolan of New York, right, talks return of fugitive Church and her mission by emulating the to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, slaves to their owners. practices of world leaders who oppose the president of the Pontifical CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Of course, the freedom of conscience and religious Council for Promoting New abolitionists—people opposed to the liberties? Evangelization, before the start of restriction of human freedom—disregarded In recent days, the president has a meeting of the world’s cardinals the attempts of the government to coerce proposed a compromise to the problem of with Pope Benedict XVI in the them to act against their consciences. forcing Catholic institutions to violate their synod hall at the Vatican on Catholics and other religious entities in consciences. However, the bishops of the Feb. 17. Cardinal-designate Dolan the United States today find themselves United States, though committed to was chosen to give the formal confronted by the HHS mandate that asks “life-affirming health care for all,” remain introduction to the day’s them to violate their consciences by cautious and focused on their objections to discussion of the Church’s new cooperating in “intrinsically evil practices” the “preventive services for women” issued evangelization efforts. that are promoted as “women’s by HHS. health care.” Catholic Americans must wake from Like the abolitionists, Catholics must their political stupor and act responsibly in Evangelization vs. secularism never allow themselves to be coerced into the political arena, especially in the formal cooperation with evil. upcoming elections. ope Benedict XVI has increasingly Kathleen Sebelius issued regulations that The good news is that President Barack Our political action and behavior in the Pstressed two topics recently, and we would force Catholic institutions Obama and his administration’s decision to voting booth must reflect what is best for are certain to hear more about both of to provide free abortifacients, impose on Catholic institutions the the common good. What is best for the them as this year progresses. They are the contraceptives and sterilizations in requirement to provide and pay for common good is always what is in accord “new evangelization” and religious liberty. employee health plans. Even recent contraceptives, abortifacient drugs and with sound moral principles. Let’s get back Last October, the pope announced “accommodations” to their original sterilizations next year has backfired. to the basics! that he was convening a special mandate are unacceptable. Clearly, the HHS mandate assaulted our To read the most recent comments by the “Year of Faith” in 2012-13 as part of the That is where religious liberty comes First Amendment rights. What the Obama U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the new evangelization. Its aim is to renew the into play. Bishops, university presidents, administration underestimated was the attacks against religious liberty, log on to Church’s missionary energy with an directors of Catholic Charities and others response of the Catholic hierarchy to the wwwusccb.org/conscience. emphasis on getting Catholics to know objected that the government was forcing real threat against the Church’s divine On the bishops’ website, you will also their faith better in order to share it them to do something that violated their mission and public witness. find an “action alert” and a video by with others. religious freedom. The First Amendment to the United Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York Pope Benedict established a new The people who favor those regulations States Constitution is part of the Bill of on the ongoing crisis on religious liberty. council, the Pontifical Council for say that most Catholics ignore Church Rights. It states: “Congress shall make no Promoting the New Evangelization, last teaching on contraception. A secularized law respecting an establishment of religion, (Servants of the Gospel of Life Sister Diane June. He said that the council’s purpose society pays no attention to such teachings or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or Carollo is director of the archdiocesan would be to combat the progressive anyway, they say. abridging the freedom of speech, or of the Office for Pro-Life Ministry.) † secularization that has overtaken the The issue isn’t whether some Catholics countries where the Church has long practice contraception. The issue is existed. He called it “a serious crisis of whether Catholic institutions, and Letters to the Editor HHS issue is between the sense of the Christian faith and role of taxpayers with moral objections, should government and all the Church.” be forced to pay for those free There will also be a synod of bishops contraceptives, including abortifacients A call to defend our religious organizations, from all over the world on Oct. 7-28 to and sterilization. Church and not violate discuss “New Evangelization for the Cardinal Raymond Burke, prefect of reader says Transmission of the Christian Faith.” the Apostolic Signatura, has strongly the tenets of our faith Now that some of the dust has settled on the It is a theme that the pope has been criticized Sebelius. He told the Obama administration’s health care dictate issue emphasizing throughout his pontificate, Cardinal Newman Society, “To the degree President Barack Obama is not a foolish with religious organizations, some things come although the term “new evangelization” to which [Sebelius] proclaims herself to man, but he does a good imitation of one. into much clearer focus. came originally from Pope Paul VI and be a practicing Catholic, she is very In his next four years, it wouldn’t surprise Under the new rule, which the administration was popularized by Blessed John Paul II. wrong.” me if he offered French fries with his stresses is an “accommodation” and not a All threee popes recognized that He said that it is “simply political arsenic. compromise, non-profit religious organizations something must be done to counteract incomprehensible” for a Catholic to The greater tragedy that I see in this can opt out and not directly provide birth the secularism that has taken over Europe, “support the kind of measures that she is country is that we as a people don’t produce control, et al. However, the insurers they hire to and is now spreading quickly in the supporting.” or provide many people of credible cover their employees cannot opt out. United States. Cardinal Burke, who is a former opposition to Obama and his suspicious Private organizations of any type that Thus, when the U.S. bishops began Archbishop of St. Louis, was also agenda. Everybody running is rather self-insure will be required to offer coverage for their ad limina visits to the Vatican in passionate in his condemnation of shallow. birth control and morning-after pills. November, Pope Benedict told them that secularism. The Republican Party hopefuls are more Health insurance is not free, and this means they must respond to the challenges of a “It’s a war,” he said, between “a culture a coward than timid Christians, and the the costs for such care for any organization, secularized culture. of secularization which is quite strong in Democrats represent apocalypse now. such as birth control and the morning-after pill, Can anyone be unaware of how secular our nation,” and “the Christian culture I was all set in my mind to vote for the will be borne by all employees because insurers our culture has become? Religious beliefs which marked the life of the United States president until he revealed his campaign to are not going to offer this coverage for free. You and moral values are regularly ridiculed in during the first 200 years of its history. circumvent “religious freedom” and impose could be accused of logical thought processes if our media. “If Christians do not stand strong, give his dictatorial intrusion upon “religious you think this accommodation is not different There is a precipitous decline in the a strong witness and insist on what is right freedom,” especially targeting the from the original decision. percentage of married people, and a and good for us both as individuals and Catholic Church. This issue is not solely between the corresponding increase in the number of society, this secularization will in fact I am not a passive Christian, nor am I a administration and Catholics in America. It is people who are living together outside of predominate and it will destroy us,” timid Christian, and I feel no obligation to between the government and any religious marriage. Polls show that most Americans he said. vote for Obama merely because he is black. organization. reject the Church’s teaching that Those people who are reading It is insulting to me as a practicing If the federal government can compel any premarital sexual activity is this must join efforts to combat Catholic whose conscience is formed religious organization to provide free coverage morally wrong. secularization. Start within your family through the teaching of “Mother Church” to for birth control and the morning-after pill, what Decisions being made by our political because that is where children first learn demand that I violate the tenets of my faith is contained in the U.S. Constitution that will leaders ignore traditional Christian beliefs to practice their faith. Teach your children and comply with his mandates. prevent said government from compulsory as if they are irrelevant. That is what is the truths of our religion, and make sure President Obama is a shrewd man who coverage for abortions? And it may not stop happening in the current campaign to they learn more about them as they are knows that he can use “lukewarm there. Use your imagination. convince the public that opposition to growing up. Christians” who have convinced themselves I do not believe that any of the above has so-called same-sex marriage is Do your best to instill in them the that a lie is a truth, and wrong is right, to anything to do with controlling health care discriminatory. There is no consideration moral values that secularization is trying follow him as the Pied Piper. costs, and everything to do with government given to the fact that unnatural couplings to eliminate. control over the entire health care exchange by homosexuals are not the same as the Then you will be part of the new Kirth N. Roach between patients and providers. love between husband and wife. evangelization. Holy Angels Church This is way serious. That is also what happened when Discalced Carmelite Community of the Health and Human Services Secretary —John F. Fink Resurrection Greg Harter Indianapolis Columbus The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Page 5 Scholarship Tax Credit clears Senate, faces hurdles in House By Brigid Curtis Ayer

Catholic families struggling to pay school tuition may see a light at the end of the tunnel if Schisla Charles J. Photo by a bill providing additional entry points to the Scholarship Tax Credit (STC) program passes this year. “The good news is it passed the Senate. The bad news is it will be a struggle in the House,” said Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), who serves as the official spokesperson for the Catholic Church in Indiana on public policy matters. “We are supportive of helping income eligible non-public school families gain access to the tax credit scholarship for their children,” Tebbe said. The proposal, Senate Bill 296, authored by Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, would give students who are currently enrolled in Catholic or non-public schools an opportunity to qualify for the tax credit Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels talks with parents and students at the “Ed Reform Rocks Rally” at the State Capitol in Indianapolis on Feb. 15. More than scholarship in grade eight. Once eligible, 2,000 parents and students attended the rally to support school choice and quality schools. they could receive a scholarship during high school. income guidelines, will be eligible for a it through the process,” Leising said. Behning said that non-public school The STC program is privately funded state-funded voucher for first grade. Rep. Bob Behning, R-Indianapolis, students in first through 12th grade who by charitable donations to scholarship “… What I’m trying to do is allow House sponsor of Senate Bill 296 and a lose eligibility to the STC program due to granting organizations (SGO’s), which eighth-graders to be school choice a family’s income award scholarships to eligible students. eligible for a tax advocate, will be fluctuation cannot Families whose incomes fall under credit scholarship, carrying the bill in gain access again 200 percent of the federal free and which could allow the House. unless they leave reduced lunch qualifying amount are them to be eligible Behning, who the non-public eligible for a tax credit scholarship. This is potentially to receive also chairs the school, and about $85,000 for a family of four. a school voucher for House Education attend a public Leising explained that under current ninth grade and the Committee, school for STC guidelines, there are two entry points rest of their high where the bill is two semesters— for students to receive the scholarship. A school years,” assigned, plans to even though the student may apply for a scholarship in Leising said. amend it to improve family meets the kindergarten. If awarded a scholarship, the Tebbe said that the STC program. income student is eligible to apply for a voucher Glenn Tebbe while a conversion Sen. Jean Leising Behning said Rep. Bob Behning guidelines. for first grade—provided the family still of the tax credit that current law “What I’m meets the income guidelines. The scholarship to a voucher for high school was governing scholarships granted through the trying to accomplish here is a ‘once second entry point is for students who are the original intent of the bill, Senate Bill 296 STC program does not provide flexibility eligible, always eligible’ for the tax credit enrolled in a public school. was amended in the Senate Education for families whose incomes fluctuate from scholarship, provided the family meets “The second entry point is not really a committee where they removed the year to year. the income guidelines,” Behning said. viable option for non-public school conversion of the tax credit scholarship to a For example, the only entry points for “For families whose income fluctuates students in first grade through 12th grade voucher for students who receive a scholarship tax credits are for from year to year, they could remain because, to become eligible, their scholarship in grade eight. kindergartners entering either a public or eligible for the tax credit scholarship parents would have to pull them out of the Despite the change, Tebbe said the non-public school or any student who even though their income goes up in non-public school for one year in order to tax credit scholarship will provide some attends a public school. some years.” † get the scholarship,” Tebbe said. financial assistance for families who want to Leising said that with all the education send their child to a non-public high school, reform that passed last year, there was and who are eligible for a scholarship very little direct relief for the families through an SGO. Stay connected with the legislature already attending a non-public school. Legislative Service Agency, a “Senate Bill 296 is an effort to provide non-partisan group that provides legal and through weekly I-CAN updates relief for some of those families that are fiscal analysis to the Indiana General Get connected and join the ICC Legislative Action Center. making the sacrifices to send their child to Assembly, estimated that last year there Indiana Catholic Action Network— Under policy tools, click on a non-public school,” Leising said. were about 26,630 students attending I-CAN. “issues and legislation” and access the “St. Louis Catholic School in non-public schools who meet the income Interested parties may join I-CAN state or federal bills by clicking Batesville has a Scholarship Tax Credit guidelines to be eligible for a voucher. These electronically at the ICC Web page. “current legislation.” program set up for kindergarten, and about students would also meet the income In addition to the I-CAN Update each People can access the archived half of their kindergarten kids were guidelines to receive a tax credit scholarship, week, people can obtain more detailed updates, ICC positions and other financially eligible for the tax credit but are ineligible primarily because they information regarding the bills and the background information at the scholarship,” she said, “so all of those kids currently attend a non-public school. legislative process through the ICC Web site at www.indianacc.org. † next year, if they remain eligible under the “Right now, the concern is I’ve got to get Family is key to new generation rooted in Gospel, pope tells symposium audience VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The family is the Church’s dedicated to finding ways in which European and values in people’s daily life spread to the family and how best ally for raising a new generation resistant to African Catholics can cooperate in evangelization. people make sense of one’s life.” materialism and committed to living out the Gospel, During the symposium, Cardinal Josip Bozanic of The increasing problems of pornography and prostitution Pope Benedict XVI told bishops from Africa and Europe. Zagreb, Croatia, said that even though economic and social are symptoms of this “serious social malaise.” “Europe and Africa need generous young people who conditions in the two continents are vastly different, the The Church must also pay close attention to the current know how to take responsibility for their future,” he said. Gospel is universal. culture and work diligently in helping “the light of the All institutions, like the family, school and Church, Wherever it finds itself, the Church has a message of Gospel insert itself in the cultural milieu” so as to enlighten “must be well aware that these young people hold the future faith that “understands humankind, whether in Europe or it, and prevent “false cultures” that dehumanize people from and that it is important to do Africa, as created in the image and taking hold. everything possible so that their likeness of God, and who deep Pope Benedict said the Church needs to pay close journey is not marked by down has basic needs that only God attention to the family, which, as the domestic Church, uncertainty and darkness,” he said. can fully satisfy,” he said. “is also the strongest guarantee of the renewal of society.” The pope made his remarks “Social and spiritual concerns The family safeguards traditions, customs, habits and during a Feb. 16 audience with are both present. One is not rituals of faith, and can have a big impact on fostering 80 bishops, priests and other separated from the other but, vocations, he said. participants attending a joint rather, they are dimensions of the The current mentality of materialism can have a negative conference organized by the one same integral development of effect on vocations, but the family is also a pivotal player in Symposium of Episcopal the human person and society,” the the formation of the young, he said. Conferences of Africa and cardinal said. As the Church, family and other institutions work Pope Benedict XVI Madagascar, known as SECAM, and Cardinal In his speech to the group, the together in raising the next generations, the pope asked the the Council of European Bishops’ Josip Bozanic pope said a huge obstacle in bishops to pay special attention to young people’s “human Conferences, known by the acronym CCEE. proclaiming the Gospel is and spiritual growth, encouraging them also to do volunteer The conference, held in Rome on Feb. 13-17, was hedonism, “which has contributed to making the crisis of work, which can have educational value.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Events Calendar

February 24 Indianapolis. Men’s Club, February 25 101 St. Anthony Drive, Family Life Center, 8155 N. Navilleton. Mass for high Our Lady of the Greenwood Lenten fish fry, 5-8 p.m. Knights of Columbus Hall, Mount St. Francis. Oaklandon Road, Indianapolis. school students, 6:30 p.m. Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Information: www.ollindy.org. 624 Delaware Road, New Albany Deanery Catholic Natural Family Planning Information: 812-989-9528. Greenwood. “Praying the Batesville. Oldenburg Youth Ministries, “Family class, 1 p.m., $75 per couple Lenten Weekday Lectionary,” St. Mary Parish, 2500 St. Mary’s Academy, Lenten Presentation,” for the series includes book, February 28 Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, Drive, N.E., Lanesville. New “A Night at the OA Corral,” Doug Brummel, comedian and registration deadline on Saint Meinrad Archabbey, presenter, 7 p.m., no charge. Albany Deanery Catholic Youth social, 6 p.m. Information: storyteller from Lighten Up! Feb. 23. Information: gallery, 200 Hill Drive, Information: 317-888-2861. Ministries, “Family Lenten 812-933-0737 or Ministries, presenter, 317-823-2198 or St. Meinrad. Black history Presentation,” Doug Brummel, lamping@oldenburg 6:45-8:45 p.m., free-will [email protected]. lecture, “The History and Our Lady of the Greenwood comedian and storyteller from academy.org. offering. Information: Sanctity of Father Augustus School, 399 S. Meridian St., Lighten Up! Ministries, 812-945-2000 or St. Anthony of Padua Church, Tolton,” Most Rev. Joseph N. presenter, 316 N. Sherwood Ave., Greenwood. Lenten fish fry, Mount St. Francis [email protected]. Perry, auxiliary bishop of 6:45-8:45 p.m., free-will Clarksville. New Albany 5-7 p.m. Information: Center for Spirituality, Chicago, presenter, 7 p.m. 317-888-2861 or offering. Information: 101 St. Anthony Drive, Deanery Catholic Youth Ritz Carlton, 12156 N. Information: 800-682-0988 or [email protected]. 812-945-2000 or Mount St. Francis. Meridian St., Carmel, Ind. Ministries, “Family Lenten www.saintmeinrad.edu. [email protected]. New Albany Deanery Catholic O’Connor House gala, Presentation,” St. Pius X Church, Youth Ministries, “Live, fundraiser benefits ministry for Doug Brummel, comedian and March 2 7200 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis. St. Lawrence Parish, Laugh, Love,” young adult storyteller from Lighten Up! single women experiencing Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Charismatic Mass, praise and Father Conen Hall, 6950 E. 46th conference,” 3-9 p.m., $20 per crisis pregnancy, Ministries, presenter, 3-5 p.m., worship, 7 p.m., Mass, St., Indianapolis. person. Information: free-will offering. Information: chapel, 1530 Union St., 6:30-10:30 p.m. Information Indianapolis. Lumen Dei, 7:30 p.m. Information: Lenten fish fry, 812-945-2000 or and reservations: 812-945-2000 or Mass, 6:30 a.m., breakfast 317-846-0705. 5:30-7:30 p.m., $7 fish dinner, [email protected]. 317-844-8562. [email protected]. $4 pizza or pasta, children following Mass at Pure Eatery. Our Lady of Lourdes School, 2 and under free. Information: Mount St. Francis February 26 St. Mary Church, Information: 30 S. Downey Ave., 317-546-4065. Center for Spirituality, St. Simon the Apostle Parish, 7500 Navilleton Road, [email protected]. †

Retreats and Programs Angela Jarboe, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., $25 per Chicago auxiliary bishop to present person includes dinner. Information: February 24-26 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. black history lecture on Feb. 28 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. March 1 Bishop Joseph N. Perry, auxiliary diocesan priest of African descent. The 56th St., Indianapolis. “Retrouvaille Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago, will cause for his sainthood was introduced Weekend–A Lifeline for Marriages.” “Four Contemporary Stories of Discovering present the annual by the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2010. Information: 317-849-6811 or One’s Way,” Lenten series, session one of four, black history lecture Bishop Perry is vice president of the www.archindy.org/family/troubled.html. Franciscan Sister Barbara Leonhard, presenter, at Saint Meinrad board of the National Black Catholic 6:30-8 p.m., $15 per session or Seminary and Congress and chairman of the Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, two for $25. Information: 812-933-6437 or School of Theology U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ St. Meinrad. “Reading the Book of Hosea,” [email protected]. Lenten retreat, Benedictine Father Eugene at 7 p.m. CST Committee on African-American Hensell, presenter. Information: 812-357-6585 March 2-4 on Feb. 28 at Catholics. or [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. The Gallery in The Saint Meinrad lecture is free and 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Desert Calls– St. Meinrad. open to the public. February 29 A Weekend Lenten Retreat,” He will discuss Parking is available in the Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Notre Dame Sister Catherine Griffiths, “The History and Guest House and student parking lots. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. presenter, $153 per person/$286 per couple. Sanctity of The Gallery is located on the “Lenten Journey–Ways of Forgiveness,” Information: 317-545-7681 or Bishop Joseph N. Perry Father Augustus first floor of St. Gregory Hall. session two of four, Benedictine Sister [email protected]. † Tolton.” For more information, call Father Tolton was born into slavery in Mary Jeanne Schumacher at Grief ministry seminar on March 22 1854, and became the first American 812-357-6501 during business hours. † offers help for pastoral ministers The Catholic Cemeteries Association ministers and caregivers continue the ‘Voices Uniting to End Hunger’ and archdiocesan Office of sacred work of supporting people during Family Ministries will host the 10th annual critical transitions in life and death. conference is March 3 in Indianapolis Mission Day for caregivers on March 22 at Brenda Kenyon, an end-of-life grief The public is invited to attend a begins at 8:30 a.m. and concludes at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, counselor at St. Vincent Hospice in conference on “Voices Uniting to 6:30 p.m. 5353 E. 56th St., in Indianapolis. Indianapolis, will facilitate the End Hunger” in the U.S. and other IHN members include Bread for the The day will begin with registration at bereavement program. countries presented by the Indy Hunger World–Indiana, Catholic Charities, 9 a.m., include lunch and conclude at She will be assisted by Network (IHN) on March 3 at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the 4 p.m. Registration costs $30 and seating Margie Shortle, a Catholic chaplain who Christian Theological Seminary, Christian Theological Seminary, is limited. is board certified by the National 1000 W. 42nd St., in Indianapolis. Connect2Help, Gleaners Food Bank, The workshop will provide participants Association of Catholic Chaplains, and Former U.S. ambassador Tony Hall, Second Helpings and The Worship Studio. with experiences and tools to renew their Tony Pinto, a counselor. Rev. David Beckmann, a World Food To register for the conference, log on to skills for serving people who are dying or For a registration form or additional Prize recipient, and Dr. Sharon Watkins www.cts.edu/events. Registration is $10 grieving. information, log on to the archdiocesan will address the conference, which online or $12 at the door. † Theoretical frameworks around Office of Family Ministries website at creativity and spirituality will be explored www.archindy.org/family or contact through presentations and experiences. Deb VanVelse at [email protected], The day is intended to help pastoral 317-236-1586 or 800-382-9836. † Submitted photo Saint Meinrad art exhibit “Psalm 22 CrossRoad” is one of several mixed media works by artist Linda Witte Henke of Indianapolis that is on display at the

Photo courtesy Archabbey Saint Meinrad Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library in St. Meinrad through April 15. Her work may be viewed at www.lindahenke.com. For information about library hours, call 812-357-6401 or 800-987-7311. Golden Shamrock Award Rob Barlow, right, poses for a photo with his family on Feb. 2 at Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison with his “Golden Shamrock Award,” the highest honor presented by Prince of Peace Schools in Madison. Barlow, a member of Shawe’s Class of 1967, was with his wife, Michele, also a member of the Class of 1967, and their son, Trey, who graduated from Shawe in 1997. Barlow received the award for being a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Catholic school. The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Page 7 Former Anglican priests begin formation to be ordained Catholic priests HOUSTON (CNS)—Forty-two former faith while retaining elements of their Anglican priests from across the country Anglican heritage and traditions. have officially begun their training to Our Lady of Walsingham serves as the become Catholic priests. principal church of the ordinariate. It was both a long-awaited milestone St. Mary Seminary is housing the and the beginning of a new journey as nine-month program of formation. CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy Phelan they gathered in the Archdiocese of On Feb. 12, a Mass of Institution also Galveston-Houston for the first formation officially inaugurated the ordinariate. At weekend in late January at St. Mary the same time, Father Jeffrey N. Steenson Seminary and Our Lady of Walsingham received the title of “monsignor” and Church in Houston. officially became its head. The group included the wives of the Seminarians currently enrolled at Catholic clergy-in-training so there was a St. Mary’s served as hosts during the total of 76 participants. opening day of the first formation More than 100 former Anglican priests weekend in January. have applied to become Catholic priests “I think the seminarians at St. Mary for the U.S. Personal Ordinariate of the understand how significant this is, Chair of St. Peter. To date, 42 have been and they have been incredible,” accepted into the program. Msgr. Steenson told the Texas Catholic The application process for each Herald, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Father Jeffrey N. Steenson, newly appointed leader of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of candidate included a criminal background Galveston-Houston. “They are so St. Peter, confirms a member of Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore during Mass at the former check, psychological evaluation and energized about this—they know it is Anglican church on Jan. 22. Members of Mount Calvary are among about 100 Anglican priests and recommendations from the Catholic historical.” 2,000 laypeople in the U.S. seeking to join the new ordinariate and become in full communion with the bishop where he lives and from his He credits the “extraordinary Catholic Church. Based in Houston, the new ordinariate is similar to a diocese but national in scope. Anglican ecclesiastical authority, if efforts and help” and “time and resources” possible. of the archdiocese and Cardinal Daniel Life and Work of the Catholic Priest,” moving into the fullness of the Church,” he Based in Houston, the ordinariate is N. DiNardo with bringing about “exactly “Pope Benedict’s Vision of the said. “It is an incredible time for us. We similar to a diocese, but national in scope. what Pope Benedict XVI hoped for—the Anglican Ordinariate,” and a keynote have worked so hard and this is the It is the first U.S. ordinariate established close relationship with the local diocese address and conversation with culmination of a long journey, but it is the by the Vatican earlier this year to facilitate and the new ordinariate.” Marcus Grodi of the “Journey Home” beginning of a new era for all of us to be in and shepherd communities of former Topics covered during the program on the Eternal Word union with the see of Peter.” Anglicans wishing to join the Catholic first formation weekend included “The Television Network. Sly and his wife, Sandy, have been More formation training comes in the Catholics since 2006. Sandy Sly recognized spring, covering subjects such as the “novelty” of meeting the other wives of “The Petrine Ministry and Catholic seminarians, but said their bond was ‘I was reflecting [on] when I was in Ecclesiology,” “Catechesis and the certainly profound. seminary and how we would do the same Stewardship of the Catholic Tradition” and “It has been wonderful to meet other type of liturgy, and I was thinking “I am “The Catholic Approach to Scripture.” wives who are also on this journey, just to There also will be sessions on marriage; see that they are pouring their lives out for home. I am really home.” ’ baptism/initiation; anointing of the sick; the Lord, like our husbands are,” she said. and the sacrament of reconciliation and “We want to be the best support for our instruction on the culture of the Catholic husbands and for whatever we can do in —Former Anglican priest Mark Lewis, Church—from priestly manners to the ministry. We are just taking it one day at who is in formation to become a Catholic ecclesial movements. Formation will a time.” priest conclude with individual theological Mark Lewis, a former Anglican priest, assessments. was “overwhelmed” and visibly moved as “This is something we have all been he looked around a room filled with others waiting for since 2009, and now in 2012, who have shared the long trek with him. we are not just hearing about it but living Lewis is administrator of St. Luke’s NOW - THE TRUTH OF THE EUCHARIST it,” Randy Sly of Potomac Falls, Va., said Catholic Ordinariate Community in REVEALED AS... of formation. “It was just astounding to Bladensburg, Md. 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encounter. It’s provided a spot where we MINISTRY can all gather, and we all have the same continued from page 1 belief system. I wouldn’t be as much a part of this group as I am if it wasn’t for assigned full time to a non-Catholic Kaitlyn. She’s a mentor. She helps in every John Shaughnessy Photo by college. possible way.” “We partner with dioceses that in turn “She knows what we’re going through,” look at the parishes and the different says Trey Meehan, a 19-year-old freshman places where apprentices can be used,” says from Huntington, Ind. “She knows we’re Colleen Moore, director of the Echo trying to balance college life, academics program. “Our focus has been primarily in and making religion a part of our lives. She the parish setting, but we also want to be knows the religious questions we have. open to new settings. The Archdiocese of Here, a lot of people don’t share our Indianapolis proposed this to us. Kaitlyn Catholic faith. So it’s good to have has experience in campus ministry, and she someone to talk with about it. If I need has a welcoming presence. And it fit anything, I just feel that she and Father Jeff Father Jeff’s emphasis on relationship are the people that I can count on.” building with students.” Father Godecker has appreciated Big plans, harmful decisions, one goal that connection ever since Willy started The key for Willy is being accessible at Butler at the beginning of the to students—an approach she learned 2011-12 school year in August. when she helped with campus ministry As the Catholic chaplain at Butler University in Indianapolis, Father Jeffrey Godecker has welcomed “For me, it’s great having someone during her undergraduate years at the the assistance of Kaitlyn Willy, a chaplain’s apprentice who is part of the Univeristy of Notre Dame’s to work with who has a high interest University of Dallas, a small Echo program. and a background in theology,” says Catholic college in Irving, Texas. Father Godecker. “It’s also an advantage So she’s always looking for ways Willy says. “They see their friends make for each other,” Willy says about the group for the Butler Catholic Community because to connect with the students, whether moral decisions they’re not comfortable that lives at the former St. Elizabeth/ I’m 69 and she’s 23. She works with it’s in the faith-sharing group on with. They want to talk about how to love Coleman Center in Indianapolis. “They students in a very different way. She’s more Tuesday night, conversations after the their friends through those times when their show me what it means to be a family.” chatty in a way I’m not. I like having that mid-day Wednesday Mass, the leadership friends make decisions that they don’t presence here. I know it’s opened up dinner on Thursday evening or the agree with. ‘I’m seeing God’s grace’ conversations about faith and Christ and afternoons when she finds an empty table “When I’m working with students, every Willy’s unique situation at Butler has all theology that probably wouldn’t have inside the Starbucks at Butler and makes once in a while I’ll say, ‘OK, if you don’t the makings of a successful experiment, happened without her.” herself available to anyone who wants to remember anything else, remember this: according to Ken Ogorek, the archdiocese’s Catholic students at Butler agree. For stop by, sit down and talk. Every person is made in the image and director of catechesis who helps guide the freshman Maggie Di Renzo, this year is the “I think the students are excited to have likeness of God. They have dignity whether Echo students here. first time she hasn’t attended a Catholic another person here,” Willy says. “I know you agree with them or not.’ More than “It’s a constant reminder to us as school. It’s a transition where Willy has the women enjoy the opportunity to have anything, my hope is to bring them closer Catholics that part of the great commission made a difference. the women’s group and a woman they can to Jesus. If I can do that, he takes care of that Jesus gave us was to literally go “We have women’s ministry every talk to.” everything else.” everywhere,” Ogorek says. “We have to Tuesday night,” says Di Renzo, 19, from The conversations sometimes focus on While she strives to support the faith of think outside the box. Even though Fort Wayne, Ind. “It’s a faith-sharing night, the troubling and harmful decisions that students, she also relies on the support of parishes are very important places to be, and we talk about what’s been going on in college students can make. others in her own faith journey. we need to be on college campuses and in the week, issues we’ve had and things we “Very frequently, it’s roommate trouble,” “Father Jeff has taught me a lot about other settings.” patience and trusting in the Holy Spirit,” Willy is just thrilled to have the she says. “I’m a big planner. Father Jeff opportunity to help students notice and makes plans, but he trusts a lot in God as to embrace the presence of Christ in ‘It’s a constant reminder to us as Catholics that how those plans will work out.” their lives. part of the great commission that Jesus gave us Willy also draws support from the “In Echo, we talk a lot about where we three fellow Echo students currently see God’s grace, and where we see God was to literally go everywhere. We have to think serving at Indianapolis parishes— acting in our lives,” she says. “More and outside the box. Even though parishes are very Joseph Sheehan at St. Joan of Arc Parish, more, I’m seeing God’s grace in my important places to be, we need to be on Patrick Sullivan at St. Monica Parish students. I’m sometimes amazed at the college campuses and in other settings.’ and Amy Yeagle at St. John the Evangelist capacity that the students we work with Parish. have for joy, trust and love. “It’s a wonderful feeling to leave work “Even while I’m trying to teach them —Ken Ogorek, and know I’m going home to three people and trying to bring them closer to God, I archdiocesan director of catechesis who are just as drained and just as always feel that they are equally teaching exhausted as I am, and know we’ll be there me and bringing me closer to God.” † Future of Catholic health care seen in service to community, poor

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Even with health reform, and the number of women religious who are hospital some people will remain uninsured, and Catholic health administrators or CEOs has gone from 770 in 1968 to care must continue to be known for its “special eight now. predilection for the poor,” said panelists at a As lay leadership of Catholic health care continues to CNS photo/Bob Roller Washington colloquium. grow, he said, the challenge will be to keep the systems “Without that, we would have a hard time true to their faith-based mission. distinguishing ourselves from other not-for-profit “The Catholic health ministry will be strengthened hospitals,” said Robert V. Stanek, retired president and when we hold onto the concept that we are not CEO of Catholic Health East in Newtown Square, Pa., institution-based, but based on healing, on the personal and current chairman of the board of trustees of the touch,” Stanek said. “If our health care delivery system is Catholic Health Association. truly person-centered, the Catholic ministry will be alive Corrine Parver, health policy attorney and former and well regardless of what form it takes.” executive director of the health law program at He said this is the first generation of lay leaders American University’s Washington School of Law, not working side by side with women religious in Mari Etzel, 25, a nurse who works as a volunteer at Christ House expressed dismay that only 60 percent of those who are Catholic health care. though the Catholic Volunteer Network, treats a patient in 2011 at uninsured today are expected to be insured by 2019 when Stanek said the lay leadership has progressed from the medical facility in Washington. Panelists at a recent the health reform law is fully implemented. saying, “Sister, tell me what to do” to asking “What conference said home- and community-based care is the future of That situation will give Catholic hospitals “an would the sisters do?” But they need to continue to Catholic health care. opportunity to provide more progress to the point of asking, “What will we do, from a community benefit,” she said. perspective totally consistent with our heritage?” he said. In addition, she said, it is not clear where the money is Jesuit Father John Haughey, a Saying that the “variety of rapidly emerging going to come from for expansion of the Medicaid research fellow at Georgetown technologies will impact Catholic health care very program, as required by the law. University’s Woodstock Theological strongly in the future,” Stanek said he did not believe the Father Haughey said the major responsibility of Center, focused on Catholic health major emphasis of health care in the future will be large Catholic health care institutions is to represent “Christ’s care’s role as a continuation of acute-care hospitals. healing presence, one that is sufficiently tangible with Christ’s healing ministry. He said “We can’t afford as a society to continue to treat God’s presence that it can ignite or reignite faith and that understanding should infuse people in the most expensive vehicle possible,” he said. hope and love in its patients and personnel.” any Catholic health care institution, Parver, a member of the board of trustees of Holy Cross He warned against a tendency toward “nostalgic piety” “from the CEO down to the Hospital in Silver Spring, Md., said home- and or to the “myopic” view that reduces “responsibility for one who mops the corridors.” community-based health care is the wave of the future, and the religious mission of the institution to the pastoral Robert V. Stanek The three speakers were part of a described some of Holy Cross’ outreach programs to care unit.” panel discussion during a daylong underserved and vulnerable segments of the population. What people should experience through Catholic colloquium on Feb. 14 at The Catholic University of In addition to two health centers for uninsured adults, health care is “more than competence, though that, more America in Washington. Sponsored by the university’s she said, the hospital has programs focusing on than efficiency, though that too, more than Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies and its preventive care and treatment for several diseases— professionalism, though that too,” Father Haughey said. School of Nursing, the conference had as its theme including breast cancer, diabetes and heart problems. “It is people giving of themselves, emptying “Learning from the Past, Planning the Future.” In the policy arena, Parver expressed concern that themselves to serve their brothers and sisters. ... If that is Reviewing changes in Catholic health care over the some major employers have said they might not continue what is experienced in your facility,” he said, “you are past few decades, Stanek said most Catholic hospitals are offering health insurance to their employees under the extending Christ’s healing mission in that facility at now part of health care systems, many of them multistate, new health reform law. this time.” † The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Page 9 Hearing examines contraceptive mandate’s impact on religious liberty

WASHINGTON (CNS)—During a Conscience?” nearly five-hour congressional hearing on He also pointed out that the Feb. 16, religious and university leaders Democratic members’ request for the

explained how the contraceptive mandate female witness—a Georgetown CNS photo/Bob Roller in the U.S. health reform plan is an University law student—had been affront to their religious liberty rights. submitted too late to be considered, and Bishop William E. Lori of was “not an appropriate witness.” The Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the committee accepted the Rev. Barry Lynn, bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious executive director of Americans United Liberty, and two Catholic college for Separation of Church and State, as a presidents were among 10 panelists who panelist. Although he did not speak on the addressed the House Oversight and panel, he submitted his testimony for the Government Reform Committee. record. Panel members included an Orthodox Testimony that the law student, rabbi, a Baptist minister, the president of Sandra Fluke, would have given was the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and read at the end of the hearing by officials from Christian universities. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa. In it, she The hearing took place nearly a week described how a fellow student suffered after President Barack Obama revised a severe health issues which she said federal contraceptive mandate, saying could have been prevented if the religious employers could decline to university had given her access to the cover contraceptives and sterilization if birth control pill. they were morally opposed to them, but Braley said her remarks, submitted for the health insurers that provide their the record, reveal “the complexity of Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious health plans would be required to offer this issue.” Liberty, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Ben Mitchell, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Craig Mitchell are sworn contraceptives free of charge to women But throughout the at-times- in before testifying at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 16. The hearing of the House who requested such coverage. contentious hearing, religious leaders Oversight and Government Reform Committee was on religious liberty, prompted by debate over a The revision came after three weeks spoke at length about the complexity of federal mandate on contraceptive coverage. of intensive criticism that the the issue, particularly when lawmakers Department of Health and Human grilled panelists on the law’s impact on Church” to provide contraceptives Catholics. The facts don’t back that up, Services’ contraception mandate would their faith traditions. against Church teachings. “That’s what not in the slightest,” he added. require most religious institutions to pay Bishop Lori compared the we don’t want to do. It’s one thing when The day before the hearing, a group for coverage they find morally contraceptive mandate to a law that would tax dollars pay for it. It’s another when of Catholic leaders objectionable despite a limited force all food providers, including kosher Church dollars do.” held a telephone religious exemption. delicatessens, to serve pork. John Garvey, president of press conference The religious leaders at the hearing The bishop asked if it would be The Catholic University of America, said described as a said that the change still violated their permissible for the government to weigh there would be a fine of almost $2,000 “pre-buttal” to the religious freedoms because it involved the in on one side of this hypothetical per employee per year if the university congressional government requiring their participation, dispute. doesn’t provide health insurance. “We’re hearing. even indirectly, in practices they He was asked more than once if the not an institution rich enough to afford Some speakers disagreed with on moral grounds. Catholic Church, which is morally that penalty so I’m trying to not look said they opposed Democrats at the hearing were highly opposed to artificial birth control, would that far down the road,” he said. the original federal critical of the lack of female panelists, ever consider the use of contraceptives “We will not violate our faith,” said health mandate, but and two of them walked out after for health reasons. William Thierfelder, president of felt its revised form expressing concern that women were not “Catholic moral theology is very Belmont Abbey College, a small Catholic William Thierfelder was an acceptable liberal arts college in Belmont, N.C. The compromise. college has filed a civil lawsuit against the Mercy Sister Anne Curtis, a member federal government on the grounds that of the Institute Leadership Team of the the contraception mandate is contrary to Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, said ‘We’re not an institution rich enough to its beliefs. she felt there was “a lot of good will in afford that penalty so I’m trying to not Thierfelder told lawmakers that he the effort to resolve this,” and hopes hoped the school would “never come to dialogue about it will continue so that look that far down the road.’ the extreme of having to pay a huge fine ultimately good health care can be or closing. provided for those “most vulnerable and — John Garvey, president of “I’m confident we won’t come to fragile in our society.” that,” he said, adding that the Nicholas Cafardi, a law professor at The Catholic University of America congressional hearing could prompt Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, said further discussion on the issue along the bishops had “prevailed” with the with the realization that “we need to do mandate being revised. something about this.” Cafardi also said he believes able to discuss the importance of free nuanced” in its ability to see how the Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., “everything my Church teaches,” but access to contraception. There were no same drug can be used for different acknowledged the strong feelings about doesn’t see the mandate as “a question women on the first panel and two on the things, he said. “We operate with a lot the issue and accused both sides of of dogma,” but rather as an “issue of second. None of the witnesses spoke in more nuance than we’re usually given distorting the facts. how we apply dogma in the real world.” favor of the contraceptive mandate in the credit for.” “I’m disappointed in some who At the hearing, the health reform law. The bulk of the discussion was suggest that the Catholic bishops’ stance Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., religious leaders being asked by represents something sinister, that it is the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, committee chairman, reminded Republican lawmakers if they would an attempt to deny all women, of any said he would rather go to jail than lawmakers that the hearing was not about comply with the new law and violate faith, access to any contraception or comply with the revised mandate, which he contraception, but about the law’s impact their consciences or refuse to comply reproductive health care of any kind. I said still requires religious institutions to on freedom of religion and conscience. with the mandate and pay steep fines or don’t think that’s the case,” he said. pay indirectly for services that violate their The hearing was titled “Lines Crossed: even close some of their ministries. “I’m also disappointed in those who religious beliefs. Separation of Church and State. Has the “We will not violate our claim that the administration has an “I will give up my sons to fight” for Obama Administration Trampled on consciences,” said Bishop Lori, who agenda—to increase abortions, these liberties, he said. “I will give up Freedom of Religion and Freedom of noted that the issue is about “forcing the sterilizations and contraceptive use by every single thing [that] I have.” † What was in the news on Feb. 23, 1962? A plea for Catholics not to support the John Birch Society, and 10 new cardinals mark an all-time high By Brandon A. Evans government which the society espouses, viewing the number of titular churches in Rome.” government as a necessary evil, is wholly antagonistic to • Cracking the curtain: Catholic priest in Russia This week, we continue to examine what was going on in Catholic social philosophy.’ … He said that ‘in practice, the • ‘Constructive dialogue’ on school aid advised the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the recommendations and program of the society for the defeat • $1 million expansion set by Benedictine Sisters pages of The Criterion. of communism are inconsistent with the recommendations • Indianapolis Serrans announce essay contest Here are some of the items of the social encyclicals of the popes since 1891.’ ” • Pope kept tabs on Glenn flight found in the Feb. 16, 1962, issue • Record high of 87: Ten new cardinals named by the • What is socialism? of The Criterion: pope • Urges more action for racial justice • Protestants propose to “VATICAN CITY—His Holiness Pope John XXIII has • 155 canonizations held in 374 years, new report shows study ‘shared time’ broken records for the fifth time in his reign with the • ‘Don’t be selfish’: How to avoid marital dissension education plan naming of 10 new cardinals from eight countries, bringing • Networks to carry Pope John’s appeal • Quit Birchers, Catholics urged membership in the College of Cardinals to an all-time high • U.S. high court refuses to review school bus ban “CLEVELAND—Catholics who belong to the John Birch of 87. … Pope John departed from long-established • Archbishop is named for ’Frisco See Society should get out of it and start reading His Holiness traditions on at least eight occasions. Once he raised the • Sizes of dioceses studied by Council Commission Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Mater et Magistra instead total membership of the Sacred College to the highest • Committee gives report on 1960 election bigotry of the Birch ‘Blue Book.’ This advice was offered by number in nearly 400 years. Four times he raised it to • Orthodox prelate sees ‘surprise’ at coming Council Msgr. Francis W. Carney, president of the National Catholic all-time highs. He departed from a provision of canon law • Pledge to fight housing prejudice signed by 2,500 Adult Education Commission, who said the Birch Society, by to name a new cardinal who already had a brother in the its principles and practices, ‘stands in open opposition to Sacred College. He twice raised the number of American (Read all of these stories from our Feb. 23, 1962, issue by Catholic social principles.’ … ‘The philosophy of cardinals to six, the highest in history. He also increased logging on to our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 ‘Faithful Citizenship’ gives Catholics a chance to seek the common good

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Despite all the headlines Development, told the 450 attendees that the document is awareness about the November election by joining a lately, concern over the sterilization and contraceptive rooted in the Church’s social and moral teaching, and is statewide campaign to place initiatives on the ballot that mandate and the related issue of religious freedom is not meant to help Catholics discern their response to would end the death penalty and require parental or the only thing on the minds of the U.S. bishops. important political issues. guardian notification when a minor seeks an abortion. This being an election year, the bishops’ “What ‘Faithful Citizenship’ does is give us different Linda Batton, director of social ministries in the Department of Justice, Peace and questions to ask. It’s not are you Diocese of San Jose, Calif., said parishes were set to Human Development has better off than you were four years conclude signature drives on both measures in parishes undertaken an intensive effort to ago? [It’s] are we better off? Are the the weekend of Feb. 18-19. The effort also offered bring the quadrennial document unborn protected? Are the poor left diocesan social action offices the opportunity to begin “Forming Consciences for to die? Is religious freedom planning how to bring “Faithful Citizenship” to Faithful Citizenship” to as many protected? It’s questions of life and parishioners, she said. Catholics as possible. death and war and peace. It’s not “We have to see ourselves as bridge builders,” Batton The bishops want people in the just the economy, stupid, even in told Catholic News Service. “I think our role in the works pews to better understand their this moment of economic distress. we do in ministry is to be carriers of hope in the middle political responsibility not just at It’s about who moves ahead and of a devastating situation with the economy, people the polls come November, but also as they consider any who gets left behind,” he said in his losing their homes, people being so overburdened with number of social issues locally or nationally on any 45-minute address. their own problems that it’s hard for them to see beyond given day. John Carr “What ‘Faithful Citizenship’ their needs.” The department’s staff has established a website— does is ask us to look at politics For Debi Haug, director of community life and www.faithfulcitizenship.org—with numerous resources, from the bottom up,” he said. “How do policies, how do outreach at St. Joseph Parish in South Bend, Ind., Carr’s prayer guides, teaching tools and school activities in these leaders, how do these choices affect the people with message hit home. The key, she said, is getting the English and Spanish. no voice—unborn children, immigrants who have no message of “Faithful Citizenship” into people’s hands. The document was discussed during the annual hope, the poorest people on Earth who have no place at “What John Carr said, it’s not just to be a faithful Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in the nation’s capital the Senate Finance Committee, and those who are left citizen at election time. We’re supposed to be a faithful on Feb. 12-15 as much if not more than the religious behind in this economy?” citizen throughout our life,” she said. liberty implications of the controversial rules governing Carr challenged Catholic Republican and Democrat “By really understanding that they are supposed to be the implementation of health care reform. The gathering’s leaders to embrace the full realm of Catholic teaching on a faithful citizen, that it’s not just politics. It’s about their theme—“Faithful Citizenship: Protecting Human Life and the issues confronting the country if they truly identified faith and it’s about others, and it’s about the poor and it’s Dignity, Promoting the Common Good”—reflected the with the Church. about having a voice for the other,” she said. focus of daily programs. He also cautioned the delegates to be aware of The document already is forming the basis of a “Faithful Citizenship” traditionally has been released a attempts by individuals across the political spectrum to stronger advocacy push by the year before a presidential election as a teaching document use the document to support their own views or to Society of St. Vincent de Paul, said on the role of faith and conscience in political life. This disavow it altogether for giving Catholics too much Sheila Gilbert, the organization’s time around, the bishops reissued their 2007 document leeway in forming their conscience. national president. but added a new introductory note explaining that the Carr’s comments resonated throughout the gathering as “We have an absolute document reflects their teaching and their guidance for delegates began considering how to carry the document to commitment to ending poverty,” Catholics as they exercise their rights and duties under the pews. Several delegates told CNS they felt it was said Gilbert, a member of American democracy. vitally important for Catholics to present a unified voice St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Many social ministers were eager to engage Catholics and to debate issues peacefully. (Little Flower) Parish in in their parishes back home with the document. They “I’d like to see it go where there’s less antagonism, Indianapolis. The organization is carried with them new ideas and helpful tips from where people can find the common good,” said looking to tap the stories of the strategy sessions on the gathering’s final day. Above all, Jack Knapp, a leader of the JustFaith program at poor people that local parish they said they wanted to make the document better St. Maria Goretti Parish in Coal Valley, Ill. “To me, a Sheila Gilbert councils serve to help mainstream known in their diocese. vehicle like this so people can recognize the common Catholics understand “there are Opening the gathering, John Carr, executive director of good is a good thing.” policies, there are procedures, and there are laws that are the Department of Justice, Peace and Human In California, dioceses already have begun raising really holding people in poverty,” she explained. †

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By Fr. David K. O’Rourke, O.P. “From famine, plague and war, Lord deliver us.” In the wilderness of Judea, the I see these three terrors as the desert is a place no one enters by basis of the temptation of Christ. CNS photo/Crosiers choice. It is desolate and empty. Satan told Jesus—If you are the But Jesus did enter this desert. Messiah, prove it. Make the After 40 days in this land world perfect. Stop war, end of death, Satan put hunger, eliminate disease. three temptations before Jesus. If you turn stones into bread, He asked him to turn stones into you can end famine. If you take bread, to throw himself from the over the government, you can end temple and to worship him to tyranny and war. And if you take gain temporal power. over the forces of nature, you can What are we to make of these end disease. You are the Messiah. temptations? Do we take them at These are the evils. Cure them. face value? I believe we are to see How could these be them in their concreteness. temptations? Aren’t these the Nothing could be more concrete goals we all work for? We call than the sense of isolation in them temptations only because the desert. they are called temptations in The experience of feeling Scripture. In the Catholic desolate in our spiritual desert is tradition, while seeking as concrete as we can get. These understanding, we try to temptations are to be seen in this comprehend how they can be particular context. temptations. That understanding I also like to see them as tells us two things. symbols of Jesus’ role as the First, we can see them as Messiah. In these temptations because they are an three temptations, Jesus is asked end run around the human to show his control over the condition. They ask Jesus to three greatest evils in his world and sidestep the normal course of in ours. human life, with all its The ancient world had humiliation and suffering and three great evils—famine, plague failures, and substitute it for a and war. Ancient historians tell divine power play. terrible stories of drought and crop But Catholic theological failure bringing on starvation. tradition teaches us that the Historians paint pictures of humanity of Jesus, the suffering diseases arriving out of nowhere humanity of Jesus, is the means and decimating the population. through which our sinfulness is Perhaps, most of all, historians healed. That Jesus would take on tell stories of war. Armies arrived, this human nature and live with all burned, killed, stole what they the powerlessness and indignity wanted and took the able-bodied that goes with it—all while A stained-glass image of Satan tempting Christ is in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I. as slaves. Some things have not obeying God’s will—is the means changed. Today, we see scenes of through which humankind is not use his divine powers to cure The means for healing us was By seeing people in need, not starvation in Africa, war in the restored to friendship with God. the worst that afflicts human to take on and live with the worst as problems to be solved but as Middle East and AIDS deaths Second, there is a difference nature. God-made-man that he is, in our condition. people like us, perhaps we can around the world. War, famine between curing ills and healing Jesus will submit to the limits of Throughout Lent, we recall the begin to understand what it means and plague remain our great evils. people. Satan calls on Jesus to being human. He will do this to belief that we have been given to be in need of healing. The liturgy of the early Church cure the world’s ills. But the heal our fallen state, to restore us the privilege of participating in put these three terrors together in mission of Jesus is not just to cure to friendship with God, to heal Christ’s healing work. All the (Dominican Father the litany of the saints: “A fame, ills, it is more than that. It is to our despair and hopelessness, and world’s ills cannot be cured, but David K. O’Rourke is a senior peste et bello, libera nos heal the world’s people. to ease our fears that, ultimately, we believe that people can be fellow at the Santa Fe Institute in Domine,” which translates as, Jesus says no to Satan. He will nothing matters or makes sense. healed. Berkeley, Calif.) † Taking ‘desert time’ during Lenten season can bring us closer to Christ By David Gibson merely the fearsome, hostile places depicted in old movies. mystery of Jesus in the desert” (#540). Many Christians nowadays seek what they call How so? Do you like deserts? “desert time.” By this, they mean time away from daily In God’s mysterious ways, biblical deserts can be Deserts are dry, which may be the first thought that routines, time to take stock and rejuvenate their passion places of trouble and temptation, but a journey toward comes to mind for many people when they think of for living. new life, nonetheless, proceeds in them. these terrains. This dominating image suggests that The deserts they visit can be retreat centers or other The account of Jesus’ 40 desert days reminded the deserts are infertile places. places to relax, read, think and walk. Some people spend a early Christians of the Exodus and the 40 years that But beautiful flowers bloom in deserts. And a little desert time in their backyards. their Israelite ancestors wandered in the desert, desert’s uniquely colored landscape, stretching to the If you spend much time with the Bible, you will visit a tempted at times to worship idols. horizon, can stir the human spirit. Deserts are not real desert. In the end, though, God led the Israelites to the • Upon escaping Egypt during the Exodus and setting Promised Land and to new life. out for the Promised Land, the Israelites spent 40 years in Jesus’ public mission, marked at its start by desert the desert. Their wilderness wanderings never would be encounters with Satan, proceeded toward Easter. forgotten. Remember that the first Christians believed Easter’s • Jesus spent 40 days in the desert just as his public life-giving events established a new creation. mission began. He was “led by the Spirit into the desert” Do you like deserts? File photo by MaryFile photo by Ann Garber to be “tempted by the devil,” St. Luke’s Gospel says A little “desert” period can be time well-spent, (Lk 4:1-2). especially when we face difficult challenges that cloud The devil intruded aggressively during Jesus’ desert our thinking. time. Interestingly, Jesus kept a clear sense of himself Desert time offers a needed opportunity to wrestle while pressured by devilish offers. Scholars say that Jesus with false gods tempting us to ignore what matters showed in the desert that he was God’s Son. most in life. If I imagine myself standing alongside Jesus in the Taking a lead from the Bible, it appears that even in desert, my mind’s eye will witness the force of these the wilderness of the desert people can keep sight of temptations. It should prove more inspiring, however, to God. Desert time can spark an adventuresome journey Good Shepherd parishioner Greg Kocher of Indianapolis prays see that adverse circumstances are not fated to redefine a of the spirit. on May 4, 2008, on the scenic grounds of Our Lady of Fatima person negatively. They did not redefine Jesus. Retreat House in Indianapolis. Taking “desert time” during Lent The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that during (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s to spend time in prayer can bring us closer to God. Lent’s 40 days, “the Church unites herself each year to the editorial staff for 37 years.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Biblical readings: The beginning of Exodus Form children in The biblical readings in the Office of culminating in Jacob and his family moving to to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Readings that started on Thursday, the day Egypt. Wow! What an assignment. Return to Egypt God’s glorious after Ash Wednesday, Exodus begins where Genesis left off. where he is wanted for murder? To lead and those for the days Seventy people moved to Egypt, but after people who don’t trust him? Moses has freedom that follow are taken 430 years they had become “so numerous and five objections before he finally agrees to go Some 2,000 years ago, St. Paul wrote in from the Book of strong that the land was filled with them” with his brother, Aaron, to demand that the one of his most inspiring lines that “the Exodus. During the (Ex 1:7). Pharaoh enslaved them, and “they had new Pharaoh let the people go. sufferings of this present time are as nothing first 10 days, the to build for Pharaoh the supply cities of Pithom Then, of course, we have Pharaoh’s compared with the glory to be revealed for readings are from and Raamses” (Ex 1:11). Pharaoh Ramesses II refusal. He takes revenge by making the us,” and that this glory was, in part, the Chapters 1-13, which (1290-1223 B.C.) built those cities. Hebrews work harder, which makes the “glorious freedom of the tell us how the Israelites We then get the story of Moses, a Hebrew Hebrews angry with Moses and Aaron. It is children of God” (Rom were delivered from who was raised by Pharaoh’s daughter. When then that God sends 10 plagues upon the 8:18, 21). slavery in Egypt. he was grown, he visited his kinsmen and saw Egyptians—water turned into blood, frogs, As our sons continue If our biblical knowledge came only from an Egyptian strike a Hebrew. Moses killed the gnats, flies, pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, to grow—God’s children the readings in the Office of Readings, we Egyptian and then had to escape. He fled from darkness and the death of the first-born. that have been entrusted would have no idea how the Israelites came Egypt to Midian, east of the Red Sea. He Chapter 12 tells us about the Passover to us—my wife, Cindy, to be in Egypt. For that, we have to read the married there and had two children. ritual that the Hebrews performed so that the and I strive with the help Book of Genesis and the Office of Readings “A long time passed, during which the king Lord would pass over their homes when he of his grace to form them has only one reading from that book—for the of Egypt died” (Ex 2:23). Then God revealed killed every first-born in the land of Egypt. in that glorious freedom. feast of the birth of Mary on Sept. 8. himself to Moses out of a burning bush that was Then Pharaoh ordered the Hebrews to leave. It is a freedom from God I suggest, though, that before reading not consumed. This is an important moment Chapter 13 tells us that God ordered the whose goal is not so much to let them do Exodus, you read the story of Joseph in because God reveals his name, “I am who am” Israelites to consecrate to him every whatever they want to do, although God in his Genesis (Gn 37-50). It is a magnificent or “I AM” (Ex 3:14). In St. John’s Gospel, first-born to commemorate the fact that God respect for our freedom allows us to take such story of divine Providence, with every event Jesus uses these words to tell us that he is God. redeemed the Israelites by killing every a sad and dangerous course. laying the groundwork for the next, God tells Moses that he wants him to return first-born of the Egyptians. † Instead, the freedom which God has blessed us with is intended by him to help us Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes become who he created us to be—his children, fully loving him and each other in On the Lenten journey with present-day Apostles our every thought, word and deed in the unique vocation to which he has called each of Bishops are the present-day versions of create and modernize several Church 1992, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein was us. Christ’s Apostles. Think about that. Bishops agencies, although one of his decisions was installed. A wag remarked that, “We had an All of this may sound like high and mighty and archbishops are to us as Peter, Andrew, unpopular with our family. Irish Setter, and now we have a German ideals. And they are. But they are worked out James, John and the other eight Apostles Because of declining numbers of students Shepherd.” The new archbishop was a in the concrete and often messy circumstances were to the people of Christ’s time. As such, at the Latin School, which four of our sons Benedictine monk of Saint Meinrad of everyday life. We form our children in their they inspire respect, admiration and, attended, he ordered it closed just before our Archabbey, a quiet and prayerful man. Until glorious freedom by encouraging them to be sometimes, awe. last son’s senior year. High school seminaries, his retirement, unlike his predecessors, he good and kind and respectful toward us, their Over the years, I including the one at Saint Meinrad Archabbey, wrote a popular weekly column in brothers, cousins, friends and even children or have been fortunate to no longer seemed tenable or useful. Today, The Criterion. adults they might meet when we are together meet, work with or be seminary schools on the college level are in Last year, the Vatican assigned in a park or at a library. inspired by five bishops operation instead, such as Bishop Simon Bruté Auxiliary Bishop Coyne to assist They need to show that goodness, kindness of the Archdiocese of College Seminary in Indianapolis. Archbishop Buechlein, whose health was and respect because each one of those other Indianapolis. They Sadly, Archbishop Biskup was in poor failing. Now, since Archbishop Buechlein people are all children of God endowed with began with health during the last year or so of his life. retired to Saint Meinrad, Bishop Coyne is the that glorious freedom. When they fail in that Archbishop Paul C. In January 1980, Archbishop Edward apostolic administrator of the archdiocese. goal and act in bad, mean or disrespectful Schulte, who confirmed T. O’Meara became Archbishop of You might say we have an Irish Setter again, ways, Cindy or I will correct them and give me as an adult convert, Indianapolis. He was a large, genial Irishman following our German Shepherd. them a punishment that is appropriate for and they continue today with given to good cheer and optimism. He brought Since its beginning, the Archdiocese of their age. Bishop Christopher J. Coyne. with him experience of the wider Church, Indianapolis has been fortunate to have wise We also try to give them a good example of Archbishop Schulte was tall, handsome, having been national director of the Society and spiritual leaders who understood the good, kind and respectful behavior, although I quiet and imposing. He was the kind of for the Propagation of the Faith and, while character and needs of the people they will be the first to say that I sometimes fail in priest who you felt could see into your very here, continuing to head the Church’s served. They had the “common touch” that regard. Nevertheless, I try to tell them soul, noting your faults but also recognizing international Catholic Relief Services’ efforts. without neglecting their authority. Some when I have given them a bad example, and your virtues. He was a great administrator Under Archbishop O’Meara, Catholic bishops have been sociable, some reticent, let them know that I want them and myself to with amazing foresight. At the time I met agencies of the archdiocese were consolidated some funny, some serious, but all were be better than that. him, he was busy buying up undeveloped and housed in the former Cathedral High good leaders. Unfortunately, our sons are being given a parcels of land along 86th Street on the School, which had moved to another location I like to think they must be a lot like their bad example right now that is more difficult to north side of Indianapolis. Later, these in Indianapolis. The centralization of predecessors—Peter, Andrew and the other change than my own daily choices. That is the properties became the sites of St. Augustine administration in the new Catholic Center Apostles—good companions to have on the steps that our federal government leaders have Home for the Aged, Brebeuf Jesuit offered efficiency and also inspiration since it Lenten journey. taken recently to limit the freedom of religion Preparatory School and St. Vincent Hospital. was right across the street from SS. Peter and of Catholics and other people of faith. Archbishop George J. Biskup followed Paul Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis, the (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the Religious organizations are being forced to Archbishop Schulte. He was quiet, central church of the archdiocese. Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular offer health insurance to their employees that unassuming and shy. Still, he managed to Following Archbishop O’Meara’s death in columnist for The Criterion.) † include coverage for contraceptives, including those that cause abortions, and sterilizations, Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli even if they believe these medicines and procedures are immoral. On Feb. 10, President Barack Obama said Me, a sinner? Confessions of a self-centered co-worker that insurance companies, not faith-based “I confess to Almighty God … and to you pulled a little cart containing her personal office, which was buzzing with computers organizations, would pay for such coverage. my brothers and sisters … that I have belongings. Normally, if we arrived and teeming with conversation. But many religious organizations, like the greatly sinned … through my fault … and I simultaneously, I would accompany her, Before I even made it to my desk, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, are self-insured. ask you … to pray for me to the Lord our opening the heavy glass doors to the foyer Jessica, a popular co-worker, greeted me. The payments made by insurance companies God.” of our building and summoning the elevator. Suddenly, my looming deadlines lost their for them come solely from them. But today, I was running late. Instead, importance. We were still standing and In any case, this policy still intrudes on a Tardiness is my middle name. I run late I scurried past her, looking the other way, chatting when I noticed Jennifer plodding faith community’s and an individual person’s to everything. In fact, I purposely don’t want unwilling to slow down. by, dragging her cart. ability to define for themselves how they are to be the first arrival at In addition, other co-workers, well-liked I glanced at the clock. Jennifer arrived to live out that faith, an ability recently upheld a social gathering, and and more fashionable, were arriving at the only moments after my stairway dash. In by a 9-0 Supreme Court decision in its it doesn’t disturb me if I same time. I didn’t want to be seen fact, she made it to her work station before Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church miss the kickoff to a with Jennifer. I even sat down at mine. and School v. EEOC decision. football game. The sidewalk seemed endless. I had to I cringed, realizing that I had ignored In the midst of all this, Cindy and I are However, other pass right by Jennifer. Hoping that she my neighbor’s need in exchange for trying to give our sons a good example by commitments, like hadn’t noticed me, I slipped inside the selfish reasons. Had I missed the asking our legislators to strengthen our Mass or work, carry a building when suddenly I had an ugly opportunity to be Christ to someone else or government’s respect for the glorious freedom high priority for realization—I had made a thoughtless, to let them be Christ to me? Had I ignored of all God’s children in this country. Whether timeliness. self-centered decision. an eternal opportunity for the sake of a or not our requests—and hopefully those of I never thought of Racing up the stairs, I tried to justify momentary gain? thousands of other good, like-minded people this leading to sinfulness until one hazy my unkindness. “My desk is swamped When reciting the familiar lines at the across the country—will prove effective or fall morning when I was running late to work. with deadlines,” I thought, listening to the beginning of Mass, I always thought others on deaf ears isn’t really the point. That’s when tardiness tempted me to sin, click of my heels echo in the solitary in the congregation were carrying some For although I pray that the sufferings of and I fell for it. stairway halls. deep, dark mortal sin. We were praying for this present time will truly be outshone by the I parked my car and was rushing through A nagging unrest persisted while yet them, not for me. Now I know better. revealing of the glorious freedom of the the parking lot when I spotted a co-worker, another realization surfaced. It didn’t matter Please pray for me, brothers and sisters. children of God in our midst, that may not Jennifer, laboring to exit her vehicle. A blue if Jennifer noticed or not. God knew my happen here and now. But if Cindy and I will handicap tag hung from her vehicle’s mirror. every intent. And I knew. (Debra Tomaselli lives in Altamonte respect this freedom, then, by God’s grace, our Jennifer suffers from back pain. She is Could this be the sin—the one that I ask Springs, Fla. Her column appears in boys will have had that freedom and a loving overweight and walked slowly, huffing and God to help me overcome? several diocesan newspapers. Her e-mail respect for it in others planted firmly in their puffing. Instead of carrying a purse, she Moments later, I stepped inside the address is [email protected].)† own minds and hearts. † The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012 Page 13

First Sunday in Lent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Feb. 27 Friday, March 2 The Sunday Readings Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18 Ezra 18:21-28 Psalm 19:8-10, 15 Psalm 130:1-8 Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 of baptism. Indeed, in baptism, they attain Matthew 25:31-46 Matthew 5:20-26 everlasting life. • Genesis 9:8-15 The Church will refer to this symbolic • 1 Peter 3:18-22 link between Noah and Christ, between Tuesday, Feb. 28 Saturday, March 3 • Mark 1:12-15 flood and baptism, during its splendid Isaiah 55:10-11 St. Katherine Drexel, virgin Holy Saturday Easter Vigil liturgy. Psalm 34:4-7, 16-19 Deuteronomy 26:16-19 The Book of Genesis provides the St. Mark’s Gospel is the source of the Matthew 6:7-15 Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8 first biblical reading for this first Sunday third reading. Matthew 5:43-48 of Lent. It is brief, but its message is stark and The first rule to direct. John has been arrested. The last of Wednesday, Feb. 29 remember in reading the great prophets preceding Jesus has Jonah 3:1-10 Sunday, March 4 Genesis is that it is a been silenced. Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19 Second Sunday of Advent religious book, and it However, all was not lost. Jesus Luke 11:29-32 Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, was designed to be a went into the desert—presumably the 15-18 religious book. It is to Judean desert located between Jerusalem teach us about God. and the Jordan River—to pray for a long Thursday, March 1 Psalm 116:10, 15-19 This weekend’s period of time. Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25 Romans 8:31b-34 story is familiar. It is Then Jesus emerged from this solitude Psalm 138:1-3, 7c-8 Mark 9:2-10 about the great flood and went to Galilee to call people to Matthew 7:7-12 and Noah’s response to God. repentance and to belief in the Gospel. Not read in this reading, but essential Redemption had come! to understanding this passage and indeed the entire narrative, is the fact that sin and Reflection human wickedness drastically disordered The readings offer us a contrast—death Go Ask Your Father/Fr. Francis Hoffman creation. Sin brought death from a force or life. Baptism is essential to this story as powerful as a flood. of contrast. However, God did not leave the people, Across the country, many people at this All three persons of the Trinity or creation itself, hopelessly doomed in time are in the final stages of preparation the face of this flood. God instructed for baptism. are part of our prayer at Mass Noah, telling him how to survive by At the Easter Vigil, they will be taking his family into a specially baptized and become members of the What is the epiklesis? I know it has Can a non-Catholic receive the constructed ark, and also to take partners Church. In this union with the Church Qsomething to do with the act of Qanointing of the sick? of all the living creatures. These partners will be their union with Jesus, the Son of consecration that takes I witnessed this in my own parish and were to be male and female so that they God, the Messiah so eloquently described place during Mass. questioned its validity. The recipient is an could reproduce and carry on the cycle in First Peter. What role does the Episcopalian and married to a Catholic of life. Also very much included are believers Holy Spirit have in all parishioner at our parish. An important message here is that in already baptized. At the Vigil, they will of that? I’m sorry if I’m all these processes of reproduction, repeat original baptismal promises. They not using the right The short answer is yes. A parenting figures are instruments of God’s will renew the pledges spoken perhaps terms. Anon-Catholic can receive the might and creative power. long ago. anointing of the sick in special situations. Noah obeys God, and the world’s The Church calls us all to the waters of The epiklesis, a Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died to creatures are saved. baptism, there not to die, but rather to rise AGreek word which save all people. He won superabundant The second reading is from the from them to true life. is spelled “epiclesis” in grace for us by his death on the Cross. First Epistle of St. Peter. This weekend, the Church begins English, is part of the eucharistic prayer at The Church teaches that a person must The Church always has highly Lent in earnest. Lent prepares us for Mass and refers to the moment when the be in the state of grace when he or she dies venerated this epistle and its companion Holy Saturday. priest calls upon the Holy Spirit in in order to get to heaven. as somehow expressing the teaching of If we authentically restate our preparation for the consecration of the bread One of the most effective means for Peter, the chief of the Apostles. baptismal promises, we must forsake and the wine. grace is the sacraments so we want to do The reading this weekend is rich in its everything and humbly turn to God. We It means “invocation” or “calling upon.” whatever we can to provide the sacraments message and in its symbolism. must concentrate on God just as Jesus The priest calls upon the Holy Spirit to to all of the baptized, Catholic or not. First, it proclaims Christ as Savior. He turned to God—and God alone—in sanctify the gifts, thus forming an integral For that reason, the Church allows died to reconcile humankind with God. the desert. part of the eucharistic prayer. baptized non-Catholic Christians to receive He died in the wake of human sin. Just as We are all sinners, and we all must You know the priest is praying the not only the anointing of the sick, but also God saved creation and humanity through repent. Among the contemporaries of epiclesis when he holds his hands extended the sacrament of reconciliation and the Noah, God saves humanity through Jesus. Jesus, repentance had a very demanding over the gifts—and not so much by the Holy Eucharist in special circumstances. Then the reading compares the flood to meaning. This meaning summons us to words that he uses—because in each of the Chief among those circumstances is when a baptism. All aboard the ark—humans and embrace an absolute and total change of four eucharistic prayers the words are person is in danger of death. animals—survived the flood. Through mind, heart and soul so that we offer different. In these cases, there is only them, earthly life endured. everything in our very being to God. At the moment of the epiclesis, because one requirement. The person must ask for The genuinely holy endure the waters Nothing less is sufficient. † it is an important moment, the server can the sacrament. If the attending priest ring the bell so that everyone pays attention. explains things clearly and has some Let’s consider the epiclesis in the various pastoral skill and grace on his side, the My Journey to God eucharistic prayers. gravely ill person usually wants to receive The first eucharistic prayer, or such sacraments. Roman Canon, reads: This case is provided for in the Instrumental by God’s Grace Alone “Be pleased, O God, we pray, to bless, Code of Canon Law: “If there is a danger acknowledge, and approve this offering in of death … Catholic ministers may I am like a drum, Lord. every respect; make it spiritual and lawfully administer these same I am empty and hollow, and by acceptable, so that it may become for us sacraments [penance, Eucharist, anointing myself I can do nothing. the Body and Blood of your most beloved of the sick] to other Christians not in full But when you tap upon me, Lord, Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. communion with the Catholic Church, then I can make music. The second eucharistic prayer is: who cannot approach a minister of their It is only through you that I “Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we own community and who spontaneously File photo by MaryFile photo by Ann Garber become useful. pray, by sending down your Spirit upon ask for them, provided that they I am just the instrument, them like the dewfall …” demonstrate the Catholic faith in respect in my weakness you make me The third eucharistic prayer reads: of these sacraments and are properly strong. “Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore disposed” (Canon #844.4). † So tap upon me, Lord, you: by the same Spirit graciously make upon the membrane of my holy these gifts we have brought to you for heart. consecration …” Readers may submit prose Tap a melody of mercy for others, The fourth eucharistic prayer is: a march for the dignity of life, “Therefore, O Lord, we pray: may this or poetry for faith column a pattern of acts of kindness, same Holy Spirit graciously sanctify these The Criterion invites readers a rhythm of charity for all. offerings …” to submit original prose or poetry Tap upon me, Lord. As to your question about the role of the relating to faith or experiences of Make me instrumental, Holy Spirit at Mass, it’s helpful to prayer for possible publication in the and make a love song of my remember that the Mass is a “My Journey to God” column. life. Trinitarian action: the Son praising the Seasonal reflections also are Father with the Holy Spirit. appreciated. Please include name, By Natalie Hoefer Since the Church is the mystical body of address, parish and telephone number Christ, during Mass each of us joins Christ with submissions. in praising the Father with the Holy Spirit. Send material for consideration to (Natalie Hoefer is a member of St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis. Father Jean The Holy Spirit, also known as the “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, Gregory Jeudy, pastor of St. Georges Parish in Bassin-Blue, Haiti, plays the drums for Sanctifier, not only sanctifies the bread and Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 or e-mail students on Oct. 22, 2010, at Our Lady of the Greenwood School in Greenwood.) wine, but also sanctifies and makes each of to [email protected]. † us holy. Page 14 The Criterion Friday, February 24, 2012

Mother of Janice Joachim, Jack and Kevin Hart. Grandmother of four. Great-grandmother of six. HESLIN, Dr. Elise Sophia (Pokrzywinski), 44, Rest in peace Haring CNS photo/Paul Immaculate Heart of Mary, Please submit in writing to our Carol DeSmul, Susan Sokolsky Indianapolis, Feb. 7. Wife of office by 10 a.m. Thursday and Gregory Cislak. Dr. Bruce Heslin. Mother of before the week of publication; CORRIGAN, Rachel Elizabeth Henry and Walter Heslin. be sure to state date of death. (Ewing), 81, Christ the King, Stepmother of Sasha and George Obituaries of archdiocesan Indianapolis, Feb. 2. Wife of Heslin. Daughter of Bernard and priests serving our archdiocese Daniel Corrigan. Mother of Jacqueline Pokrzywinski. are listed elsewhere in Roberta Marks, Sharon Stevens, Sister of Jennifer Murphy, The Criterion. Order priests Christine and Robert Corrigan. Christopher, Jonathan and Joshua and religious sisters and Pokrzywinski. brothers are included here, DePAUL, Louis Arthur, 59, HORAN, Ruth M., 89, unless they are natives of the St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Feb. 10. Husband of Carolynn St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, archdiocese or have other Feb. 14. Mother of Michele connect ions to it; those are (Prosser) DePaul. Father of Heather DePaul, Theresa Bruno Bohling, Patia Tolle, Chris, separate obituaries on this and Kristen Jung. Brother of Kevin, Mike and Tim Horan. page. Mary Jo Dolson, Alice Smith, Grandmother of 14. Great- BAILEY, Louis Sr., 86, Donald and Phillip DePaul. grandmother of 11. St. Anthony of Padua, Grandfather of eight. KELLEY, Jessie Mae, 95, Night at the Vatican Clarksville, Jan. 21. Husband of DETTLINGER, St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville, Joyce Bailey. Father of Erin Herman A. Jr., 80, St. Anthony Jan. 17. Wife of Robert Kelley. Spear, Bridget, Kathleen, of Padua, Clarksville, Jan. 27. Sister of Bonnie McCallister. The moon shines over St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s Square during the early morning on Maureen, Patty, Louis, Michael, Feb. 11 after a snowfall at the Vatican. This was the second snowfall in a week in Rome, a city Father of Diana Recktenwald and McNELIS, Ruby Therese, 95, Shawn and Tim Bailey. Grand - Tim Dettlinger. Brother of Mary where snow is as rare as a papal conclave. father of 13. St. Jude, Indianapolis, Feb. 8. Louise Hoffman. Grandfather of Mother of Patricia Lemieux, BENNETT, Floyd, 76, six. Great-grandfather of two. Bridget Shewman and Theresa Bengert, Jack and Jerry PRICE, Alice J. (Doyle), 71, St. Joseph, Corydon, Feb. 1. Tony Kirkman. Brother of Sue FREIJE, Thomas J., 53, Stewart. Sister of Mary Neuendorf. Tell. Grandfather of several. Husband of Betty (Engleman) St. Therese of the Infant Jesus St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Feb. 5. Riedeman. Grandmother of three. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Great-grandfather of several. Bennett. Father of Pamela Father of Michelle and Kevin Great-grandmother of six. OHL, Glen R., 82, Martin, Larry and Mark Bennett. St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Feb. 7. Mother of Daniel VIII SENESE, Margaret, 93, Freije. Son of Thomas and Betty MILLER, Emmet Robert, 103, and Thomas Price. Sister of Ann Brother of Marlene Duley, Betty Lou Freije. Brother of Marie Feb. 7. Husband of Beverly Ohl. St. Andrew, Richmond, Feb. 6. Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, McCarty, Donna Hasty, Marilyn Hayden, Cathy Thomas, Jerry Armstrong, Ruth Semmler and Father of Gregory, Jeffrey, Steven Mother of Linda Harbin, Sallie Feb. 10. Father of Marilyn Kennedy, Rita Summers, Bill, and Michael Bennett. Grand - Keith Freije. Grandfather of and Timothy Ohl. Brother of and Dan Senese. Grandmother of Schrage and David Miller. Grand - Jack and Tom Doyle. Grand - father of two. three. Tom Ohl. Grandfather of eight. six. Great-grandmother of 14. father of 13. Great-grand father of Great-grandfather of one. mother of three. BRANDENBURG, Annemarie, GRAF, Mary Rose (Kuebel), STUBBS, Betty, 81, St. Andrew, 20. Great-great-grandfather of six. PUTHOFF, Jerry, 83, 87, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Feb. 7. 85, St. Paul, New Alsace, Dec. 6. OWENS, Betty, 83, St. Mary, Richmond, Feb. 11. Mother of NEUENDORF, Harry, 83, St. Andrew, Richmond, Feb. 8. Mother of Ellen Armbruster. Mother of Dale, Kenneth, Paul Rushville, Feb. 8. Mother of Karen Morford, Kathy TenBrink Our Lady of the Most Holy Father of Jacqueline Brown, Terri Grandmother of two. and Thomas Graf. Sister of Irma Polly Raike, Mike and Tom and Wayne Stubbs. Sister of Rosary, Indianapolis, Dec. 8. Kunsey, Dennis, Jay and Michael Andres, Mildred Swales, Owens. Grandmother of nine. Charles and Ed Weiss. Grand- CISLAK, David John, 51, Father of Jean Earle and Paul Raymond and Russell Kuebel. Great-grandmother of 13. Great- Puthoff. Stepfather of Suzi mother of five. Great-grand - St. Luke the Evangelist, Neuendorf. Brother of Elsie great-grandmother of two. Hengstler, John, Michael and mother of five. † Indianapolis, Feb. 3. Husband of Grand mother of seven. Great- Lauren Cislak. Father of Preston grandmother of five. Cislak. Son of Peter and HART, Rita (Pfister), 92, Providence Sister Petra Daschbach taught Latin and r eligion classes at Margaret Cislak. Brother of St. Agnes, Nashville, Feb. 11. Catholic high schools in several states for 41 years Providence Sister Petra Daschbach died on Jan. 13 at Sister Petra taught Latin and religion classes at Catholic high schools Knights of Columbus Mother Theodore Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 92. in Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., for 41 years. In Service to One - In Service to All The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Jan. 18 at the In the archdiocese, Sister Petra taught at St. Philip Neri School in Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Indianapolis in 1942, the former St. John Academy in Indianapolis Be the difference... Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. from 1948-50, the former Archbishop Schulte High School in Mary Elizabeth Daschbach was born on July 8, 1919, in Terre Haute from 1953-55 and Our Lady of Providence High School Pittsburgh. in Clarksville from 1955-59. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence on In February 2010, Sister Petra retired to Lexington, Ky., where she Feb. 1, 1939, made her first profession on Jan. 23, 1942, and dedicated herself to the ministries of prayer and presence at Our Lady Join Us professed her final vows on Jan. 23, 1948. of the Rosary Parish there. and Be the Difference Your Sister Petra earned a bachelor’s degree in Latin at Saint Mary- In August 2011, she returned to the motherhouse and participated Our Founder of-the-Woods College and master’s degree in Latin at in the ministry of prayer with the senior sisters. Catholic Faith Calls You to Be Venerable DePaul University in Chicago. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. Michael McGivney During 72 years as a Sister of Providence, she ministered in Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Providence, Catholic education for 42 years. 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Batesville Deanery CNS photo/Karen Callaway Feb. 24, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for St. John the Baptist, Dover; St. Joseph, St. Leon; St. Paul, New Alsace; and St. Martin, Yorkville, at St. Martin, Yorkville March 4, 1 p.m. for St. Denis, Jennings County; St. Maurice, Napoleon; and Immaculate Conception, Millhousen, at Immaculate Conception, Milhousen March 7, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Rock, Franklin County March 7, 7 p.m. for St. Charles Borromeo, Milan; St. Mary Magdalen, New Marion; St. Pius, Ripley County; and St. John the Baptist, Osgood, at St. John the Baptist, Osgood Jason Mesick of Chicago prays on Nov. 18, 2011, after receiving the sacrament of reconciliation during the National Catholic Youth March 9, 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Conference at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. More than 23,000 Catholic youths and their adult chaperones were on hand Cross, Bright for the biennial conference, a three-day experience of prayer, community and empowerment for Catholic teenagers. March 10, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Bright March 29, 7 p.m. for SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and March 28, 7 p.m. for St. Mary, Navilleton, and St. Mary-of- March 12, 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg St. Mary at St. Mary the-Knobs, Floyds Knobs, at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, March 14, 7 p.m. at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Floyds Knobs Aurora Indianapolis North Deanery March 29, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Bradford March 15, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at March 11, 2 p.m. at St. Pius X April 1, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight St. Peter, Franklin County March 12, 7 p.m. at St. Pius X March 21, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Shelbyville March 13, 7 p.m. at St. Pius X Seymour Deanery March 22, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg March 6, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Vevay, March 27, 7 p.m. for St. Nicholas, Ripley County, and Indianapolis South Deanery and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of Peace, St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, at St. Anthony of Padua, March 7, 7 p.m. at St. Roch Madison Morris March 19, 7 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ March 11, 2 p.m. for St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, and March 28, 6:45 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist, Enochsburg March 20, 7 p.m. at St. Jude Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, at Holy Trinity, Edinburgh March 28, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County March 21, 7 p.m. at St. Mark the Evangelist March 14, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Providence, April 4, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for St. John the Baptist, Dover; March 25, 3 p.m. at Good Shepherd Brownstown, and St. Ambrose, Seymour, at St. Martin, Yorkville; St. Paul, New Alsace; and March 29, 7 p.m. at St. Ann St. Ambrose, Seymour St. Joseph, St. Leon, at St. Joseph, St. Leon April 2, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood March 15, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus March 28, 6 p.m. at St. Patrick, Salem Bloomington Deanery Indianapolis West Deanery March 29, 6 p.m. at American Martyrs, Scottsburg March 13, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m. at St. Monica April 2, 7 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, March 22, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville March 6, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More, Mooresville North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at March 25, 3 p.m. for St. John the Apostle, Bloomington; March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Malachy, Brownsburg St. Joseph, Jennings County St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington; and St. Charles March 8, 7 p.m. for Holy Angels at Marian University Borromeo, Bloomington, at St. Charles Borromeo, March 13, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel the Archangel Tell City Deanery Bloomington March 13, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony March 7, 6:30 p.m. at St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad March 27, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford March 21, 7 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville April 1, 2 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City March 21, 7 p.m. at St. Christopher Connersville Deanery March 27, 6:30 p.m. at St. Susanna, Plainfield Terre Haute Deanery March 1, 7 p.m. at St. Mary (Immaculate Conception), March 27, 9 p.m. at Marian University March 1, 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton Rushville March 28, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph March 4, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Rockville March 6, 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Cambridge City March 31, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel March 8, 1:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Bridget of Ireland, Liberty March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Benedict, Terre Haute March 14, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel, Connersville New Albany Deanery March 13, 7 p.m. at Annunciation, Brazil March 22, 7 p.m. at St. Andrew, Richmond Feb. 28, 7 p.m. at Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jeffersonville March 21, 7 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle † March 29, 7 p.m. at St. Rose, Knightstown March 6, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Albany Indianapolis East Deanery March 7, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Charlestown March 5, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Bernadette March 10, 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Lenten activities available online and St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) at Floyds Knobs Be sure to visit The Criterion’s Lenten Web page at St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) March 13, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Lanesville www.archindy.org/lent. March 7, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit March 14, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Corydon The page consists of links to daily readings, March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville March 18, 4 p.m. for Holy Family, New Albany, and archived Lenten columns by Archbishop Emeritus March 14, 7 p.m. for Holy Cross and St. Philip Neri at St. Mary, New Albany, at St. Mary, New Albany Daniel M. Buechlein, a full list of communal penance Holy Cross March 22, 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul, Sellersburg services taking place at parishes and other features. † March 27, 6 p.m. at St. Rita March 26, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Clark County

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God’s loving, merciful work each day changing the direction of people’s lives MaryPhoto by Ann Garber with their “boots on the ground,” because you’re stepping in and stepping Father James Farrell explained, as a up to announce Good News to them, to first line of defense in the critical pro-life remind them that the children they carry battle to save the lives of the least among within their wombs are blessings and us—defenseless gifts, not burdens.” unborn babies As a priest, he said, “I am often whose mothers are taken aback by what I see in the experiencing crisis Gabriel Project—taken aback in the sense pregnancies and of … the wonderful ways in which people need help to choose have come together to provide for women life for them. a safety net, a source of strength and During his encouragement, at the very time that they keynote speeches need to hear good news. for two Great Lakes “They want someone to remind them Gabriel Project of a message that they have lost,” fundraising dinners Father Farrell explained. “The message is, Fr. James Farrell on Feb. 9 and ‘This child within you is life, is made in Feb. 14 in the image and likeness of God, is your Indianapolis, Father Farrell discussed how flesh and blood, is already alive, [and] his Mary lovingly, faithfully and or her heart is already beating.’ They just courageously said “yes” when the need a Gabriel to remind them of the truth Archangel Gabriel delivered God’s that is unfolding within them.” message that she had been chosen to Gabriel angels “come forward and do Father James Farrell, left, and Kate Fuhrman of Indianapolis, right, join other Great Lakes Gabriel become the mother of his Son. some listening, address some concerns, Project supporters in a standing ovation for St. Bartholomew parishioner Eileen Hartman of Gabriel Project volunteers, known as gently remind them of the truth, and Columbus, center, who founded the parish-based pro-life ministry 12 years ago, during a fundraising “angels,” also respond with love, faith and awaken them to the deepest desire in their dinner on Feb. 14 at the Northside Knights of Columbus Hall in Indianapolis. courage when they help women life and their heart to do what is right,” he considering abortion to choose life for said, “… and to help them avoid an action Volunteers are needed to pray for life at honor roll. their infants, Father Farrell said in his [choosing abortion] that will leave them home or outside abortion facilities, he said, Recently, the single mother and her inspirational talks. with regrets for the rest of their lives.” support the Gabriel Project’s First Choice five children were baptized. The pastor of St. Pius X Parish and The Gabriel Project focuses on for Women pregnancy resource center, put “I didn’t want to do it,” she explained director of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat constructive action, Father Farrell said, to the ministry’s help line bumper stickers on in the video, “but I felt like [abortion] House, both in Indianapolis, painted transform crisis pregnancies from burdens their cars, and donate layettes, cribs, was the only option. … I already had emotional pictures with his poignant to blessings. playpens and new or gently used clothing four children and had just lost my job. … words of souls saved, babies born and There are many good ways to for babies and children. I dialed a number and it wasn’t women healed during two presentations “communicate to the world that this is “These ways to help won’t take much, Planned Parenthood. It was the to help raise funds for the pro-life real human life, these children within the but they will mean much,” Father Farrell Gabriel Project.” ministry founded on May 1, 1999, womb,” he said, and the Gabriel Project is said. “There are lots of ways to be an Help line volunteer Elizabeth Kane, by St. Bartholomew parishioner among the best of these pro-life efforts. angel, an angel of mercy. His name a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Eileen Hartman of Columbus, who “We can’t wait any longer,” is Gabriel.” Parish in Carmel, Ind., in the Lafayette volunteers as executive director. Father Farrell emphasized. “We still Following his keynote address, Diocese, who regrets choosing abortion “We are often, I hope, in the same boat must work on legislative matters, Father Farrell introduced an equally years ago, told her that, “You need to [as Mary was] that even though we don’t absolutely. But we can’t wait for that.” emotional video testimonial by know that God has his hand on your life always understand everything God is Christians have to put their “boots on Marlena Stowers of Indianapolis, who right at this moment.” asking of us, we still give a ‘yes’ because the ground,” he said, quoting a favorite received much needed help from the Project Gabriel volunteers sprang into we trust God,” he said, “and we’re phrase of Father Peter Marshall, Gabriel Project after she accidentally, or action to help her choose life for her confident that God will never lead us associate pastor of St. Pius X Parish in providentially, called their help line while unborn daughter. down a path that he will not also provide Indianapolis. trying to contact an abortion clinic. “I was struggling and I needed some for us the grace, support and strength we “We have to be doing constructive, After two years of extreme struggles, help,” she explained in the video. “I’m so need to accomplish the work that he has practical, deliberate, intentional things including two evictions and having to thankful for all of my children and I’m so entrusted to us.” right now to help women who need help move herself and her five children in thankful for the Gabriel Project. I just As “partners for life,” Father Farrell right now,” Father Farrell said. “They with her mother in a one-bedroom want to succeed. … I have to make it. I said, Gabriel Project supporters and can’t wait for some law to change the apartment for two months, she maintained have to do right because of my children.” volunteers enable expectant mothers in availability of abortion. They need us to a positive attitude with help from the need to receive financial and material remind them of the Good News, and we Gabriel Project and is now living in (For information on how to help the help with housing and utilities expenses, can and we are. And you are a part of subsidized government housing, working Gabriel Project, log on to layette supplies and employment as well that, and if you’re not, we want you to at The Children’s Museum, and her www.glgabrielproject.org or as emotional support for their daily life as become part of it.” three girls in primary grades are all on the www.goangels.org.) † Governor Christie vetoes same-sex marriage bill, wants issue put to voters TRENTON, N.J. (CNS)—New Jersey November ballot for voters to decide Gov. Chris Christie on Feb. 17 made good the issue. on his pledge to veto a bill legalizing In testimony at a Jan. 24 hearing, the ‘Marriage as a union of one man and same-sex marriage passed by the state executive director of the New Jersey one woman has its roots not only in human Legislature, but at the same time said he Catholic Conference urged state lawmakers might name an ombudsman to make sure “to continue to recognize marriage as a union tradition and history, but also in natural law, the state’s current law recognizing civil between one man and one woman. This is which transcends all man-made law.’ unions is respected. critical as marriage is the foundation of the The state family. The family, in turn, is the basic unit Assembly passed the of society. —Patrick Brannigan, executive director of bill on Feb. 16 with a “Marriage as a union of one man and the New Jersey Catholic Conference, 42-33 vote. The state one woman has its roots not only in human the public policy arm of the state’s Senate approved it tradition and history, but also in natural law, Catholic bishops 24-16 on Feb. 13. which transcends all man-made law,” said When the bill Patrick Brannigan, executive director of the reached his desk and conference, which is the public policy arm of total of 13 complaints filed since 2007, Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a he vetoed it, Christie the state’s Catholic bishops. when the law was passed, authorities had Democrat, told reporters. He and other said in a statement “Marriage is a natural institution,” he said. found “probable cause” in only one of advocates of legalizing same-sex marriage that “same-sex “New Jersey, like other states, has from the those complaints. say it is a civil right guaranteed by the Gov. Chris Christie couples in a civil beginning recognized marriage, honored it, Brannigan also said couples in civil U.S. Constitution. union deserve the and sought to support and protect it.” unions claim they are not able to participate The bill as passed by the Legislature very same rights and benefits enjoyed by He also said while the Catholic Church in their partner’s health care decisions, but included an exemption for religious married couples—as well as the strict opposes legalizing marriage for same-sex he said the law guarantees they can, noting leaders, churches and faith-based enforcement of those rights and benefits. couples, it teaches that homosexuals “must be that Catholic-run health care facilities organizations so they could not be forced to “Discrimination should not be tolerated accepted with respect, compassion and specifically allow individuals to designate perform marriage for same-sex couples or and any complaint alleging a violation of a sensitivity. “anyone they wish as a health care allow such couples the use of their citizen’s right should be investigated and, if “The fundamental human rights of decision-maker.” facilities. appropriate, remedied,” the Republican homosexuals must be defended and we must Supporters of same-sex marriage In Maryland, the House of Delegates governor said, suggesting an ombudsman strive to eliminate any forms of injustice criticized Christie’s proposal to appoint an on Feb. 17 passed a measure to legalize be appointed. against homosexual persons,” Brannigan said. ombudsman to make sure the civil unions same-sex marriage in that state. The As the same-sex marriage measure He noted that many supporters of law is being upheld properly, saying that it Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee moved through the Legislature, Christie, a same-sex marriage claim that the civil unions is not an acceptable substitute for marriage was expected to pass the House version on Catholic, said legalizing marriage for law “is not working,” but that the state’s for same-sex couples. Feb. 21, and advance it to the full Senate same-sex couples should be put on the Division of Civil Rights found that out of a “It’s not equal. It’s not the same,” for consideration later in the week. †