Inside Sharing the faith Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin to celebrate Mass in each deanery, The page 3. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960

CriterionOnline.com January 18, 2013 Vol. LIII, No. 14 75¢ Partnerships, sustainability are key Hughes Submitted photo/Kent in Haiti’s earthquake recovery WASHINGTON (CNS)—Soon after a monstrous earthquake devastated much of Haiti three years ago, the mantra among Haitian government leaders and a good share of relief and development agencies was “build back Haiti better.” It was somewhat catchy, of course, and certainly demonstrative of the resiliency of a country battered all too often by Mother Nature. As the Jan. 12 anniversary of the quake came and went, the “build back” slogan has faded from most discussions, but the work of rebuilding—in reality, building—a country has moved ahead even if progress has been slow and difficult to measure. More troublesome is the continuing sense of frustration among Haitians— especially among the 360,000 who remain At 83, Teresa Moore smiles after fulfilling her lifelong dream of joining the Catholic Church during a Mass at St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis on Jan. 6. in tent camps, according to the International Moore is joined in the photo by, left, Anne Corcoran, parish pastoral associate, and Dabrice Bartet, Moore’s sponsor. Organization for Migration—who see little visible change in their lives or their surroundings. Seminarian, parish community help 83-year-old woman “Haiti is not going to become a middle-income country overnight,” realize her lifelong dream of joining Catholic Church acknowledged Eileen Wickstrom Smith, deputy coordinator for assistance in the By John Shaughnessy with him. came to live her dream. Office of the Haiti Special Coordinator at On her perfect day, Teresa also looked the U.S. State Department, in a On the day when her lifelong dream up from her wheelchair and into the eyes of A dream begins, a dream is shared teleconference with reporters on Jan. 9. finally came true, Teresa Moore overflowed the woman who came to her home every Teresa grew up in a family in which she Given that reality, the emphasis on with joy thinking about all the people who Friday afternoon for several months to was the 18th of 19 children. She also grew development has turned to sustainability made it possible. teach her, pray with her, and to share her up on a block in Indianapolis where two and building the capacity of Haitians from On her perfect day, the 83-year-old faith with her. Catholic families lived, families that had all walks of life to overcome the devastating Indianapolis woman realized again just how And on that perfect Sunday when the girls her age. She began the kind of poverty that has strangled the Caribbean deeply her children loved her and how their priest blessed her and welcomed her into friendships with them that would thrive and nation for much of its 200-year history. love encouraged her to embrace her dream the Catholic Church, Teresa turned to see last through all the stages of their lives. Haiti’s needs were overwhelming before at last. all the people in the packed church smiling In her childhood, Teresa was intrigued the earthquake shook the Haitian landscape On her perfect day, she thought about and applauding for her. In that moment, she by her friends’ Catholic faith. Yet she was and claimed 316,000 lives while displacing the young seminarian who appeared by her felt the feeling she had always longed for— raised in a family of Baptists, and her an estimated 1.5 million people. The hospital bed one day as if sent by God, the the joy of being Catholic. mother wanted that approach to faith for catastrophe amplified the problems—lack young man with the welcoming smile and “I feel I’m in the right place,” she said, her children. of infrastructure, especially water and inviting presence who made her feel so at her face glowing with a smile as special and When her mother died when Teresa was sanitation; a shortage of safe and affordable ease that she dared to share her secret wish as warm as the story of how she finally See MOORE, page 8 See HAITI, page 2 As new legislative session begins, Catholics called to engage in political action beyond voting booth

By Brigid Curtis Ayer human being, created in the image and lawmaking process. likeness of God, has an inherent dignity Republican leaders in the House and “A new year, a new governor and a that must be respected in the state’s laws Senate have Republican super majority in the Indiana and policies. stressed their focus General Assembly bring another opportunity What will Gov. Mike Pence and newly this year will be on for Catholics to engage in the political elected state lawmakers contribute to the passing a budget process,” says common good and the consistent life ethic? and moving Glenn Tebbe, “Time will tell,” says Tebbe, but the legislation that executive Indiana General Assembly does have one creates jobs. director of the requirement—to produce a two-year state Pence promised Indiana Catholic operating budget by its April 29 in his campaign to Conference adjournment deadline. fight poverty by (ICC), who serves as the official spokesman During Tebbe’s two decades of following creating jobs and on state and federal issues for the Church state legislation, he notes one characteristic strengthening in Indiana. unique to this session’s House of Glenn Tebbe marriage and While the 150-member legislature, known Representatives is that nearly half of its families. as the Indiana General Assembly, reconvened members have two years or less experience In early December, Pence also expressed on Jan. 7 for a four-month lawmaking session, in the job. That, combined with a walk-out an interest in using some of the state’s the ICC geared up for another year of bringing proof Republican super majority and a surplus to give a 10 percent tax cut to Catholic principles to the public square by diminished Democrat minority influence, Indiana residents. sharing a consistent life ethic that every will make for a unique situation in the See LEGISLATION, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 HAITI continued from page 1 housing; little access to health care; and poor coordination across the education sector. Matters became more complicated nine months after Reuters CNS photo/Swoan Parker, the earthquake when a cholera epidemic erupted when the water-borne disease was introduced by Nepalese troops who are part of the U.N. stabilization forces, MINUSTAH, in the country. Through Jan. 6, cholera had claimed 7,939 lives and afflicted more than 638,000 people, according to the Haitian Ministry of Health and Population. Throw in hurricanes Isaac and Sandy, which devastated a large part of Haiti’s agricultural lands in 2012, and it seems like Haitians can’t catch a break. In developing responses to these calamities, Catholic organizations, such as Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), along with the U.S. government and the United Nations, now speak in similar terms. They stress that the answers to Haiti’s future lie with Haitians themselves. “We want to build things with Haitians for Haitians, and it takes a little longer,” Darren Hercyk, country representative in Haiti for CRS, explained in an interview from Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. “In the end, I have not found a problem where all parties have not bought into it.” Hercyk said the earthquake changed the way CRS approaches its work from being primarily in rural areas A Haitian girl walks on Jan. 3 through a camp for people displaced by the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Almost three years to one with a major presence in urban programming. after the devastating earthquake, nearly 360,000 people still live in makeshift structures. For example, CRS is tackling the rebuilding of St. Francis de Sales Hospital in Port-au-Prince, which their faith communities and manage ministries with an to subsistence farmers in communities where the nearest was destroyed in the earthquake, into a 200-bed state-of- eye toward the future. clean water source was more than three hours away on foot. the-art teaching facility. The U.S. bishops’ overseas relief Father Juan Molina, director of the U.S. bishops’ By piping in water, farmers can grow crops year-round and development agency has partnered with the Office for the Church in Latin America, told Catholic rather than just during the rainy season, and young girls can Haitian Ministry of Health and the Catholic Health News Service that some Haitian bishops have visited attend local schools rather than making daily treks for Association to carry out the project. U.S. dioceses at the invitation of the USCCB to see how far-off water for family needs, said Mary Small, assistant The goal, Hercyk said, is to network the rebuilt ministries are carried out, parishes are managed and vital director for policy at JRS in Washington. hospital with others across the country for the delivery of fundraising is conducted. Such projects can be duplicated nationwide, Small told care and the training of future doctors and nurses. “I think Haiti has a lot of human and other resources CNS, reducing the need for Haitians to flee illegally into the Other key partnerships identified by Hercyk include a that are untapped, but because of the present situation Dominican Republic looking for work and a better life. Catholic education program and the development of there is no coordination,” Father Molina said. “If we can While such programs are beneficial, the State affordable and safe housing to move people still living in garner especially the human resources and an image that Department’s Smith admitted huge challenges remain squalid tent camps scattered across the country. can help everyone go beyond the present desperation and for Haiti. Thanks to a recently completed nationwide see a Haiti that can work, I think we’ve done our job of At a U.N.-sponsored meeting of donor nations assessment of 2,315 Catholic schools that enroll more than supporting our brothers and sisters in Haiti.” two months after the earthquake, governments pledged 600,000 children, about 20 percent of Haiti’s school-age Hand-in-hand with capacity building is an effort by $5.3 billion through 2011 and a total of $9.9 billion through population, CRS and the University of Notre Dame will be JRS to take a holistic approach to development through 2014 for Haiti’s rebuilding. Less than half those amounts able to develop school-specific programs, Hercyk said. projects in local communities. have come through. Smith acknowledged that there has Meanwhile, at the USCCB, the focus is on building the Working largely along the Haitian-Dominican Republic been a “slowness of donors to make good on pledges. capacity of clergy, bishops included, to identify leaders in border, JRS has undertaken a series of efforts to bring water “Much work remains to be done,” she said. † New year brings changes to Criterion editorial staff Criterion staff report he said. Hoefer is a graduate of Roncalli High School Readers will see a new regular byline beginning with in Indianapolis and this issue of The Criterion. DePauw University in

Photo by Sean Gallagher Reporter Natalie Hoefer joined the newspaper staff Greencastle. as a reporter on Jan. 7, succeeding senior reporter Readers of the newspaper Mary Ann Garber, who retired on Jan. 2 after nearly will recognize her byline 25 years of service to the newspaper. because she has been a “I’m sure longtime readers of The Criterion will miss longtime contributor. seeing Mary Ann’s byline in the newspaper each week. “We are very excited to have Over the years, she wrote about nearly every parish in the Natalie join the staff. She is a archdiocese and covered a wide range of topics. Her faith-filled Catholic and talented On Jan. 2, longtime Criterion senior reporter Mary Ann Garber reporting about pro-life issues was among the best in the writer who brings many gifts to retired after nearly 25 years of service to the newspaper. She was country,” said Greg Otolski, associate publisher. “We our publication,” Krokos said. honored with a farewell celebration at the Archbishop Edward wish Mary Ann all the best in her retirement, and thank Natalie Hoefer “She is familiar with T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis, where, among other her for her many years of dedicated service.” The Criterion, and is eager gifts, she received an 8-inch Waterford cross from her colleagues. Editor Mike Krokos echoed Otolski’s sentiments. to continue our mission of sharing the Gospel of Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of Holy Angels Parish in “Mary Ann was everything that you wanted a Catholic Jesus Christ with as many people as possible.” Indianapolis and director of the archdiocesan Office of journalist to be—loyal, honest and intelligent—and we Hoefer and her husband, Bernie, are members of Multicultural Ministry, is pictured blessing the cross for Garber. will miss her unwavering commitment to The Criterion,” St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis. †

The Criterion (ISSN 0574- 4350) is published weekly TheCriterion except the last week of December and the first TheCriterion 1/18/13 Phone Numbers: Staff: week of January. Editor: Mike Krokos Main office: ...... 317-236-1570 1400 N. Meri dian St. Assistant Editor: John Shaughnessy Moving? Advertising ...... 317-236-1454 Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Reporter: Sean Gallagher Toll free:...... 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1570 317-236-1570 We’ll be there waiting if you give us two weeks’ Reporter: Natalie Hoefer Circulation:...... 317-236-1425 800-382-9836 ext. 1570 Online Editor: Brandon A. Evans advance notice! Toll free: ...... 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1425 [email protected] Business Manager: Ron Massey Price: $22.00 per year, 75 cents per copy Executive Assistant: Mary Ann Klein Name ______Periodical postage paid at Postmaster: Graphics Specialist: Jerry Boucher Indianapolis, IN. New Address______Send address changes to The Criterion, Print Service Assistant: Annette Danielson Copyright © 2013 Criterion City ______1400 N. Meri dian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Press Inc. State/Zip ______Web site : www.CriterionOnline.com POSTMASTER: New Parish ______E-mail: [email protected] Send address changes to: Effective Date ______Published weekly except the last week of December and the first week of January. Mailing Criterion Press Inc. Note: If you are receiving duplicate copies please send both labels. address: 1400 N. Meri dian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367. Periodical postage paid at 1400 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN. Copyright © 2013 Criterion Press Inc. ISSN 0574-4350. Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion • 1400 N. Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 3 Archbishop Tobin to celebrate Mass in each deanery Criterion staff report The remaining schedule is as follows: • Jan. 21, Tell City Deanery, St. Paul Church, In an October interview with The Criterion, newly 824 Jefferson St., Tell City. appointed Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin was asked what • Jan. 24, Seymour Deanery, St. Bartholomew Church, he would do to learn about the archdiocese and if he 1306 27th St., Columbus. planned to visit any parishes. • Jan. 29, New Albany Deanery, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Sean Gallagher File photo by “I want to be patient,” Archbishop Tobin said. Church, 3033 Martin Road, Floyd County. “I’m not going to learn [about] 39 counties overnight or • Jan. 31, Bloomington Deanery, St. John the Apostle in six months.” Church, 4067 W. State Road 46, Bloomington. To help learn more about the archdiocese, • Feb. 5, Indianapolis East Deanery, St. Therese of the Archbishop Tobin expressed a desire to celebrate Mass Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Church, 4720 E. 13th St., in each of its 11 deaneries. Indianapolis. “… I find that really life-giving, too,” he said of • Feb. 6, Terre Haute Deanery, location to be visiting parishes. “It always strikes me in [St.] Paul’s determined. letters how often … he thanks the people for their faith. • Feb. 10, Connersville Deanery, St. Andrew Church, … I expect that I’ll more and more grow in gratitude 235 S. 5th St., Richmond. for the faith that’s already here.” • Feb. 11, Indianapolis North Deanery, St. Joan of Arc The archdiocese has released a schedule of deanery Church, 4217 Central Ave., Indianapolis. Masses in January and February where Archbishop Tobin • Feb. 12, Indianapolis West Deanery, St. Malachy will be the principal celebrant. Each Mass will be held at Church, 9833 E. County Road 750 N., Brownsburg. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin processes into St. Anthony Church in 7 p.m., followed by a reception open to all. The first Mass Indianapolis on Dec. 12 to celebrate a Mass in Spanish marking the feast of was held in the Indianapolis South Deanery at St. Jude The place and date for the Mass in the Batesville Our Lady of Guadalupe. Behind him is Ford Cox, executive assistant to the Church in Indianapolis on Jan. 16. Deanery has yet to be determined. † archbishop and liaison for episcopal affairs. Holy Cross Brother Joseph E. Umile USS Indianapolis survivor, remembered for his commitment to others husband of 70 years, dies By John Shaughnessy Catholic faith, and he supported all the things—retreats, By Natalie Hoefer service—that would renew their faith.” His eyes glowed with mischief and his smile beamed in That combination of faith, education and humanity Indianapolis and the Catholic community of central and one of those classic moments that captured part of the was always at the heart of his life. Before he left southern Indiana lost a treasure on Jan. 8. James E. O’Donnell— essence of Holy Cross Brother Joseph Edward Umile. Bishop Chatard, he started the Summa Cum Laude husband, father, firefighter and last Indianapolis-native survivor The moment occurred as “Brother Joe” looked back on program, a rigorous three-year honors program for of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis—died at the age of 92. He his 14 years of pouring his heart academically gifted students that aimed to develop the and his wife, Mary Alice (Gearns), celebrated their 70th wedding and his soul into leading whole person through extensive service requirements, anniversary a little more than a week before his death. The Bishop Chatard High School in demonstrated leadership in extracurricular activities, and a couple was married on Dec. 31, 1942, at Holy Cross Church Indianapolis. commitment to faith-related retreats and projects. in Indianapolis. On that spring day in 2007, just “I think of the Book of Micah when I think of him,” The O’Donnells raised their family at Our Lady of Lourdes before he stepped aside as president said Benedictine Sister Louise Hoeing, who served as the Parish in Indianapolis. In recent years, they worshipped at Holy of the North Deanery interparochial head of Bishop Chatard’s guidance department during Spirit Parish in Indianapolis, where a Mass of Christian Burial was high school, Brother Joe recalled Brother Joe’s tenure. “It mentions three things we should held on Jan. 14. how he initially heard that the do: To act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with In a Feb. 28, 2003, article in The Criterion, O’Donnell said, school was searching for a leader your God” (Mi 6:8). “I’ve always been a strong Catholic.” in 1993. The touch of humility came through in that he didn’t That faith and sheer determination were keys to O’Donnell Br. Joseph As Brother Joe told the story, he talk about his own extensive education background. A surviving the worst naval disaster in U.S. history. E. Umile, C.S.C. first learned about an opening at 1970 graduate of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., On July 30, 1945, two torpedos from a Japanese submarine Marian High School in he also studied at the University of Paris from 1968 sank the USS Indianapolis, which had played a role in delivering Mishawaka, Ind. The opening at Bishop Chatard was listed to 1969. He earned a master’s degree in French at components of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Of the two weeks later. On the east coast, the provincial of his Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., by studying for nearly 1,200 men on board, roughly 300 went down with the ship. order pulled out a small map, looked at Indiana and told eight summers while he was a teacher. He entered the Those remaining, including O’Donnell, suffered five days in Brother Joe—a Connecticut native with a love of the Holy Cross Novitiate in Vermont in 1975. He professed his the Pacific Ocean with no food or water. Soaked in the fuel from ocean and lighthouses—that with either job, Brother Joe final vows in 1983. the sunken ship, the men were burned by the sun by day and could live with the Holy Cross Brothers at the Brother Joe taught French and Italian in high schools chilled by night. University of Notre Dame near South Bend. early in his career. In 1984, he began a two-year stint as the In his submission to the 2002 book Only 317 Survived!, In recalling that moment, Brother Joe gave his principal of Notre Dame International School in Rome. For O’Donnell wrote, “We faced our worst nemesis the first morning characteristically hearty laugh when he shared the question the next six years, he served as the school’s headmaster in the sea. Sharks were in the area and had started to attack the he asked his provincial after he had to drive nearly three before returning to the United States in 1992. A year later, defenseless men.” hours from South Bend to his interview at Bishop Chatard. he came to Bishop Chatard. As the title of the book succinctly states, only 317 ultimately “When I got back to New Rochelle, I asked my “He will always be remembered as one of the finest survived the ordeal, including O’Donnell. provincial, ‘Would you show me the map where it’s high school leaders in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis,” After the war, O’Donnell returned to Indianapolis where he 40 minutes from South Bend to Indianapolis?’ ” said Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor of the joined the Indianapolis Fire Department. He worked his way That moment was among the many stories and archdiocese who served previously as the executive through the ranks, retiring as a lieutenant in 1981 after 36 years memories shared after the news spread that Brother Joe director of Catholic education and faith formation during of service. died on Jan. 13 at age 64. the time that Brother Joe led Bishop Chatard. O’Donnell dedicated much of his adult life to keeping the At the time, Brother Joe was serving as the project “He was the guy whose strong personality was needed memory of the USS Indianapolis alive. He served for years as assistant to the president of Holy Cross College in to turn upward the success of Bishop Chatard High School. a member of the USS Indianapolis Memorial Organization’s board Notre Dame, Ind., where he had been working since 2011. His skills in development and advancement were of directors. In 1995, the group saw the fruits of their He died at St. Joseph Medical Center in South Bend, with instrumental in bringing in new students, programs and labor materialize as the memorial was unveiled along the friends and members of the Holy Cross community donors. He was a deeply committed individual who wanted Central Canal in Indianapolis. praying with him at his bedside. to see good things happen in the North Deanery of In 2009, O’Donnell was honored by the City of Indianapolis A memorial Mass is scheduled to be celebrated for Indianapolis as they related to education, spirituality with the placement of his likeness in bronze in the Brother Joe at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 29 in the chapel at Bishop and athletics.” City Market Plaza. Chatard High School. Lentz also remembers Brother Joe for his “freely given Mayor Greg Ballard honored the passing of O’Donnell in a Beyond remembering his hearty laugh and his sharp opinions that never ceased,” adding that “many of them written statement. sense of humor, friends also recalled the immense softer were right on task.” “The sinking of the USS Indianapolis is one of the greatest side to the heavy-smoking, sometimes-glaring man who “He had a beautiful smile, and his gifts and talents were tragedies in U.S. Naval history,” he said. “The statue of Jimmy often tried to project a tough-looking image. beyond ordinary,” she said. “That is why his legacy will in the City Market Plaza honors his service and that of They remembered how he crocheted baby blankets long be remembered. He was caring and generous, even his shipmates. for children and grandchildren of teachers and staff at though he would deny it. But those who knew him and “As a USS Indianapolis survivor and retired firefighter, Bishop Chatard. worked closely with him knew better.” Jimmy O’Donnell was an American hero and a great citizen They mentioned how the proud Italian often slipped an Brother Joe is remembered in a fitting symbol on the of Indianapolis.” apron on and slaved over a steaming stove to make his grounds of Bishop Chatard. When a huge boulder was O’Donnell is survived by his wife, Alice, who raised their four homemade spaghetti and meatballs for all the high excavated from the site where a new activity center was children as a stay-at-home mom. He is also survived by their school’s sports teams, its drama club and other built at the school, officials looked at the boulder and children, Mary Theresa Hofmeister, and James, Thomas and school groups. viewed it as a perfect tribute to Brother Joe. Timothy O’Donnell, several grandchildren, and several They recalled how the only child doted on his mother, Located near the school, the boulder has a plaque that great-grandchildren. quietly took care of people and situations, visited people includes his name, his years of service, the symbols of the In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to when they were dying, and built a staff that became school and the Holy Cross order, and this tribute to him: the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Paul Hermitage or the devoted to the school and each other. “The ‘Rock’ of Bishop Chatard.” USS Indianapolis Survivors’ Organization. † “One of the things that stands out about him is his “We coined that phrase for him because of his approach to kids,” said Father Gerald Kirkhoff, who lived unwavering commitment to our Catholic mission for Jim and Mary Alice O’Donnell with Brother Joe for three years during his time as pastor 14 years,” said Bill Sahm, current president of pose in a recent photo. The of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. “Remember that old Bishop Chatard who considered Brother Joe as a friend couple celebrated their Submitted photo Army slogan, ‘Be all that you can be’? He wanted that for and a mentor. 70th wedding anniversary on all the students at Chatard. “Wherever he went, he built community, and he built Dec. 31, 2012. Jim, a survivor “Because of his own academic success, he wanted family. And he did that through his wit and by his very of the USS Indianapolis, died Chatard to be a first-class school academically, spiritually loving and hospitable nature. He could be curmudgeonly on Jan. 8 at the age of 92. and socially. He wanted the students to realize their and sarcastic, but on the inside he had a heart of gold.” † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013

OPINION

Reflection/Sean Gallagher With apologies to Vince Lombardi, there is more to life—and Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 GregMost A.Rev. Otolski, Joseph Associate W. Tobin, Publisher C.Ss.R., • Publisher Mike Krokos, MikeEditor Krokos, • John Editor F. Fink, Editor Emeritus football—than winning Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Legendary football coach Louise Smith said. Vince Lombardi once famously said, Te’o ended the season with more than “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only 100 tackles, seven interceptions and Editorial thing.” nearly became the first exclusively With all due respect defensive player to win the Heisman to the man whose Trophy. But the highest award he may status in the pantheon have received is knowing that he has of football greats is so reached out to share the consolation that large that the trophy he received from his teammates and for the Super Bowl many others. winner bears his name, To a man, the members of the Colts and CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy Phelan I beg to disagree. Notre Dame football teams are disappointed And I would that their seasons came to an end with a venture to say that loss on the field. And I suspect that various many fans of the Indianapolis Colts and the sports commentators will now use these University of Notre Dame football team losses to crow that the Colts and Fighting would join me in disagreeing. Irish teams were paper tigers all along. On two consecutive days earlier this Such a viewpoint, however, is based month, the dreams of glory of these on a rather narrow definition of success. two fan bases disappeared in a puff of Our faith, on the other hand, offers a smoke. The Colts lost 24-9 in a playoff broader view. game against the Baltimore Ravens To be sure, God calls us to use the gifts A memorial to unborn children is pictured outside a Catholic church in on Jan. 6 in Baltimore. The next day, he has given us as well as we can. He Alexandria, Va., in this 2011 file photo. the University of Alabama blew wants us to strive for excellence. out Notre Dame 42-14 in the On the other hand, Blessed Teresa of BowlChampionship Series national Calcutta reminds us that God ultimately 40 years after Roe v. Wade championship game in Miami. calls us to be faithful, not successful. n Dec. 3, 2012, a gunman killed laws through underground networks of But in the seasons that led up to those Indeed, according to the ways of the O20 children in Newtown, Conn. clergy and doctors, and eagerly crushing losses, the teams, their coaching world, Christ himself and the martyrs past On that same day, an abortionist killed sought opportunities to debate staffs and fans were reminded in a dramatic and present could all be deemed colossal 35 children in Indianapolis. pro-life advocates.” and heartfelt way that the ultimate purpose failures according to the standards of the This is not meant to somehow make After Roe, though, Shields wrote, even of athletics, and of football in particular, is world. They all sought to proclaim the the shootings in Newtown seem less Sarah Weddington, the lawyer who won to mold in a positive way the characters of peace of the kingdom of God, and yet horrendous than they are. It’s meant to the Roe case, admitted that “our energy the athletes, and to help them work were crushed by men who wielded drive home the point that the killing of and contributions sagged and we seemed together for the common good and not for worldly power. children in abortion facilities is still only to plod forward.” They won, individual glory. Seen through the eyes of faith, however, with us. pro-choice advocates thought, so it The Colts were a ragtag team led by a Christ and the martyrs were victors in the As we observe the 40th anniversary was over. rookie quarterback and head coach that great moral struggle set before them. The of the Supreme Court’s decision on However, that’s not how the pro-lifers was pieced together during last year’s world wanted them to compromise and Jan. 22, 1973, that legalized abortion in saw it. Shields wrote, “While Roe bred offseason. Yet they came together and won adopt its measure of success, and they never the United States, the issue of legalized apathy and conservatism in pro-choice 11 games and made the playoffs when gave in. abortion is as divisive as ever. However, ranks, it energized many pro-lifers.” most experts predicted them to be an In making this comparison, I am in no there is evidence that the pro-life Many of them devoted their lives to NFL cellar dweller. way saying that the Colts and Fighting Irish movement is having an effect. changing the hearts and minds of their But this terrific season for the Colts was football squads are martyrs. What I do While even one abortion is one too fellow citizens. driven by something far more important. contend, however, is that our faith can lead many, abortion rates have actually An example of that, of course, is the The team came together and achieved far us to a broader view of success while still declined by nearly a third since they annual March for Life in Washington, beyond their perceived potential because of encouraging us to excel. peaked in the early 1980s. And perhaps which every year attracts greater numbers their care and concern for their head coach, The Colts and Fighting Irish did excel to the best news is that, according to recent of pro-lifers. And most of those marchers Chuck Pagano, who was diagnosed in a high degree, even if they lost in the end. surveys, young Americans are more are now young people. September with leukemia. But their effort to overcome adversity pro-life than their elders. Today there is no doubt that our society With cries of “Chuckstrong” by the with strength and compassion are Politically, many people say that the is the most secular and liberal in American team and their fans, the team fought and unmistakable reminders that the “moral Democratic Party has become the history on any number of issues, but won for Pagano, who carried a heavy cross victories” that are sometimes looked down pro-abortion party. How did this happen? particularly on any issues that pertain in during his cancer treatments. upon by sports commentators can really be Some would say the two political parties some way to sex—redefining marriage, And in the process, the team and their the best victories of all. have actually switched positions on cohabitation, contraception, dating, etc. coach renewed hope for many people this issue. Despite that, Shields said, “pro-choice suffering from various forms of cancer, and (Sean Gallagher is a reporter for Historically, the Democratic Party was sentiment stopped increasing after Roe inspired scores of other people to support The Criterion.) † seen as the party that championed the altogether, even though it had grown cancer research. weak, the poor and the defenseless. That’s dramatically in years prior.” In South Bend, senior linebacker why Catholic immigrants found their way Pro-lifers, though, are as determined to Manti Te’o was the leader of Notre Dame’s Letters Policy into that party. But who is weaker or more limit abortions and put an end to this team. Since coming to the school from his Letters from readers are published in defenseless than the unborn child? Yet it’s heinous practice as they ever were. That’s native Hawaii four years ago, Te’o had The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s now the Republican Party, historically the obvious when you see people praying near endured some disappointing seasons. commitment to “the responsible exchange party of the wealthy and privileged, many abortion centers, hoping to persuade Indeed, Notre Dame football had been in of freely-held and expressed opinion would say, which is in some cases, women to change their minds. On that the doldrums for more than a decade among the People of God” (Communio et championing the rights of the December day when an abortionist from before they went undefeated during the Progressio, 116). unborn child. Dayton, Ohio, killed 35 children in 2012 regular season. Letters from readers are welcome and There are, obviously, many pro-life Indianapolis, there were two Leader though he was, Te’o was led to every effort will be made to include letters Democrats. They just have not, thus far, “saves”— women who changed their hope and consolation by his teammates and from as many people and representing as convinced enough of their other party minds and let their children live. the Notre Dame community during the many viewpoints as possible. Letters should members that the rights of unborn The Roe decision also galvanized season when, within a few hours, his be informed, relevant, well-expressed and temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic children are something they pro-lifers to help women during and grandmother died, then his girlfriend died sense of courtesy and respect. should uphold. after their pregnancies. Today in the of leukemia on Sept. 11. He went on to The editors reserve the right to select During the past 40 years, since the United States, there are some play one of the best games of his life the letters that will be published and to Roe v. Wade decision, pro-lifers have 3,000 pregnancy help centers—more than shortly after that tragic day. edit letters from readers as necessary continued to fight for that decision to there are abortion centers—providing Then he handed on the gift he received. based on space limitations, pastoral be overturned. alternatives to abortion. In early October, Te’o learned of sensitivity and content (including spelling In fact, according to an article by These centers are heavily dependent Bridget Smith, a 12-year-old girl that was a and grammar). In order to encourage Jon A. Shields in the January issue of on volunteers. According to Shields’ Notre Dame fan in the final stages of her opinions from a variety of readers, First Things, the magazine published by article, “the average center has about one battle with cancer. Unbeknownst to anyone frequent writers will ordinarily be limited the Institute on Religion and Public Life, employee for every six volunteers.” Since but her parents, Te’o wrote a letter to to one letter every three months. Concise the decision “crippled the pro-choice and most of the women they serve are poor, the Bridget that arrived on the day she died. letters (usually less than 300 words) are energized the pro-life movement, creating centers try to meet their economic needs. In a Yahoo Sports article, Louise Smith, more likely to be printed. one of the largest campaigns of moral We hope and pray that those who Bridget’s mother, was quoted as saying that Letters must be signed, but, for serious suasion in American history.” march in Washington will continue their the letter was “a bright spot on the saddest reasons, names may be withheld. Shields argued that, before Roe, enthusiasm for the pro-life movement day of our lives.” Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, “the pro-choice movement was truly a when they return home. “It’s so encouraging to have Indianap olis, IN 46202-2367. movement. It organized letter-writing someone in that position know there’s Readers with access to e-mail may send campaigns, subverted restrictive abortion —John F. Fink something more important than football, letters to [email protected]. more important than athletics,” The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 5 Shifts in balance of power create uneasy relations in Latin America LIMA, Peru (CNS)—When Venezuela’s bishops spoke Church leaders in Chile in the 1970s also initially out against postponing the inauguration of ailing supported former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s violent President Hugo Chavez, the president’s supporters crackdown on opponents, although their position changed accused them of meddling in politics, while government over time, Wilde says. There, too, many Church workers opponents praised their comments. at the grass roots took an active stand against the That latest round of Church-state sparring is typical of dictatorship. the uneasy relationship between Church leaders and Because of their positions in Latin American societies, government officials in many Latin American countries both presidents and Church leaders run the risk of Reuters CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, amid shifts in the balance of power between the Church becoming isolated from the grass roots, says Wilde, who and political leaders. has studied human rights and violence in various Venezuela’s Supreme Court allowed indefinite countries in the region, including Chile. postponement of the inauguration, scheduled for Jan. 10, “It’s a bubble—it happens to people in power,” raising questions about political leadership in the country. he says. He adds, however, “You hardly ever get a Chavez has not spoken or appeared publicly since hierarchy that is uniform,” and bishops have been undergoing a fourth cancer operation in Havana on threatened or killed for taking stands against dictators or Dec. 11. strong-arm rulers. Images of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Jesus are held But if Venezuela’s prelates were criticized for While Church leaders were accused of being too close up at a rally in Chavez' honor outside Miraflores Palace in expressing political views, they are not alone. to right-wing governments in the 1970s and 1980s, they Caracas on Jan. 10. Venezuela’s Supreme Court allowed Church-state conflicts date back to colonial times, and have distanced themselves from a new breed of Latin indefinite postponement of his inauguration, scheduled for when the region shook off Spanish rule, the Catholic American leader. Since the 1990s, countries such as Jan. 10, raising questions about political leadership in the Church had to readjust its relationship with each newly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia have elected left-leaning, country. Chavez has not spoken or appeared publicly since independent Latin American country, says Alexander populist presidents who pledged to redistribute wealth undergoing a fourth cancer operation in Havana Dec. 11. Wilde, a senior scholar in the Washington-based Wilson and give poor, indigenous and disenfranchised citizens a Center’s Latin America program. greater role in their countries’ civic life. often made newspaper headlines. Most countries’ constitutions gave the Catholic Church In all three countries, bishops have sparred with the Cardinal Terrazas, who did not attend the bishops’ a privileged place, but some of those privileges have presidents in newspaper headlines and public statements, meeting for health reasons, sent a message in which he eroded as those documents have been revised over although Uranga says the reasons vary from country warned of government “manipulation” of the judiciary, as the years. to country. well as the expansion of crime and drug trafficking. One sign of the shifting relationship was a Jan. 10 In a statement issued on Jan. 3, with an eye toward the Bolivia’s vice minister of social defense and controlled meeting between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez Feb. 17 presidential elections, Ecuador’s bishops called substances, Felipe Caceres, shot back that the bishops and leaders of the Argentine Federation of Evangelical for voters to “not favor political and legislative options were “taking sides, ideologically speaking,” while a Churches. The half-hour session—the first time an that are contrary to fundamental values and ethical congressman from Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism Argentine president has met officially with an evangelical principles,” and called for respect for human rights and accused the Church of “politics.” delegation—is a likely first step toward constitutional “freedom of expression.” In their message, the Ecuadorean bishops separation of Church and state, said Washington Uranga, Opponents have accused Ecuadorean President acknowledged that politics is a touchy subject. a Uruguayan journalist, political analyst and university Rafael Correa of attempting to stifle criticism in the “Some people say the bishops should support all professor in Buenos Aires, Argentina. media, a charge that has also been leveled against Chavez governments acritically; others say they should maintain That may further complicate an already complex in Venezuela and Fernandez in Argentina. steadfast opposition; and some say we should abstain Church-state relationship in that country, where former The Ecuadorean bishops also noted that citizens were from saying anything. The three views are partial and dictator Jorge Videla last year accused top Church not “an amorphous mass to be manipulated or used as a imprecise,” they wrote in their Jan. 3 statement. “It is not officials of complicity in the government’s “dirty war” tool, but a group of people with their own vision of public our place to express political preferences, but it is our job against leftist opponents between 1976 and 1983. In affairs, who are willing to defend their rights and carry to evaluate the ethical and religious implications and November, the bishops denied that claim and issued a out their obligations.” consequences of political plans.” general apology, asking “the forgiveness of everyone The Bolivian government’s use of power was on the Those comments reflect what Wilde says is broader whom we failed or did not support as we should have.” agenda when the country’s bishops met in mid-November ambiguity about the Church’s involvement in politics. The bishops said they were open to a review of their to elect new leaders of their conference. The prelates “The Vatican has sent very different signals in recent predecessors’ actions under the dictatorship, which often chose Bishop Oscar Aparicio Cespedes, head of the years,” he says. “There’s always an inherent tension put them at odds with priests, sisters and other Church military ordinariate, replacing Cardinal Julio Terrazas because the Church claims some authority over the whole workers who were threatened by the government because Sandoval, 76, who led the conference for 15 years, and society, and where the lines are drawn as a practical of their work on behalf of victims and their families. whose sharp exchanges with President Evo Morales have matter may change over time.” † Vatican doctrinal chief says politics Cardinal urges governor to rethink that ignore God are bound to fail support for ‘radical’ abortion bill ROME (CNS)—Politicians who want truth, how is it possible to achieve an NEW YORK (CNS)—A New York disappointment regarding your continued to act as if God did not exist and as if there authentic dialogue?” measure that would prevent state support for the radical Reproductive was no such thing Archbishop Muller said that in the regulations on Health Act.” as objective moral current run-up to Italian elections he has abortion is a New York Right to Life is among other truths are bound to heard that some politicians want the “radical” bill in a opponents of the measure, first introduced in fail in their efforts Catholic Church to “talk about love, charity state where the the Legislature two years ago. to promote the and mercy of God,” but not insist that the abortion rate is In a statement on its website, the common good, said truths it preaches be upheld. already “double the organization said the measure would write the head of the “But where is love without truth?” the national average,” “fundamental reproductive rights” into Congregation for archbishop asked. New York Cardinal New York state law and make changes “that the Doctrine of The archbishop made his comments Timothy M. Dolan represent the opinion of only a tiny subset of the Faith. during a short presentation of his new told Gov. Andrew New Yorkers who hold extremist “The politics we book in Italian, Ampliare L’Orizzonte Cuomo on Jan. 9. pro-abortion views. have today in della Ragione. Per una Lettura di Joseph The cardinal “The bill would provide full legal cover Archbishop Cardinal Gerhard L. Muller Europe and North Ratzinger-Benedetto XVI, (Broadening Timothy M. Dolan made the to the tragic and well-entrenched practice of America without the Horizons of Reason: Reading comments in a abortion-on-demand through all nine months ethical foundations, without a reference to Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI). letter to the governor after Cuomo delivered of pregnancy,” New York Right to Life said. God, cannot resolve our problems, even In the book, Archbishop Muller his annual State of the State address, which New York decriminalized abortion those of the market and money,” said highlights: the importance Pope Benedict opens the legislative session. in 1970, before the Roe v. Wade decision Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of gives to the need for faith and reason to He congratulated the governor on his made abortion legal virtually on demand the Congregation for the Doctrine of support and purify one another; the pope’s remarks, saying, “There is much to cheer in across the country. Backers of the the Faith. insistence that Christianity is primarily your report, and my brother bishops and I Reproductive Health Act say it is needed to The archbishop, coordinator of the about a relationship with Jesus Christ and look forward to working with you to update current state law that is “outdated project to publish the complete works of not simply the acceptance of rules and advance much of this agenda.” and confusing” and to protect women’s Joseph Ratzinger-Pope Benedict XVI, said doctrines; and the key role that studying the He noted Cuomo’s references to recent “reproductive rights.” one of the key teachings of the pope is the life and work of St. Augustine has had both gun violence in the nation and said the In his letter, Cardinal Dolan reminded the importance of faith and reason going hand on the pope’s theology and on his ministry. Catholic leaders share his “absolute horror” governor that “millions of New Yorkers of in hand. During the presentation, the over such incidents, including the all faiths, or none at all, share a deep respect Speaking on Jan. 11 at a Vatican archbishop also underscored how deeply “unspeakable massacre” in Newtown, for all human life from conception to natural bookstore in downtown Rome, Pope Benedict believes the liturgy, Conn., that claimed 26 innocent lives on death. I also know that you are aware that Archbishop Muller said, “Faith and reason especially the Mass, is central to the life Dec. 14. New York state’s abortion rate is, incredibly, are like two people who love each other and future of the Church. In his speech, Cuomo outlined an double the national average. deeply, who cannot live without each The first volume of the pope’s complete agenda for the coming session that includes “Sadly, nearly 4 in 10 pregnancies other, and who were intimately made for works in German to be translated into reforming gun laws, improving the state’s statewide end in abortion. In some parts of one another, so much so that they cannot Italian was Volume 11 on the liturgy. The health care system, bettering care for the New York City, the rate is higher than be considered separate from one another decision to begin with that, Archbishop mentally ill, working for safer schools and 60 percent, mostly in the impoverished and cannot reach their goals separately.” Muller said, was “the express will of the raising the minimum wage. He also backed black and Latino communities,” he He quoted Pope Benedict’s speech to Holy Father because he said it is a decisive a number of measures on women’s issues, continued. “As we have discussed in the diplomats on Jan. 7. “It is precisely man’s question for the Church today and for including the proposed Reproductive past, we obviously disagree on the forgetfulness of God, and his failure to its future. Health Act to codify abortion in state law. question of the legality of abortion, but give him glory, which gives rise to “The liturgy is not just a memorial, but Cardinal Dolan told him that while there surely we are in equally strong agreement violence. Indeed, once we no longer make an encounter with God … with Jesus Christ was much to praise in the address, “I would that the abortion rate in New York is reference to an objective and transcendent present among us,” the archbishop said. † be remiss if I did not renew my great tragically high.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Events Calendar

January 18 Church, 3354 W. 30th St., January 24 Disciples of Christ, 75 N. Information: February 6 Northside Knights of Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s Fairview Presbyterian Church, 10th Ave., Beech Grove. [email protected]. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Precious Infants, pro-life Columbus Hall, 2100 E. 4609 N. Capitol Ave., Focolare Movement and January 31 Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 71st St., Indianapolis. Mass, Father Glenn O’Connor, Indianapolis. Catholic First Christian, “Prayer for Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed Christian Unity,” 2-3 p.m. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Catholic Business Exchange, Charities Indianapolis, St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Catholic, educational, Mass, breakfast and program, by rosary outside abortion monthly caregiver support Information: 317-840-0228 or charitable and social singles, clinic and Benediction at [email protected]. Wabash Valley Right to Life “Keeping the Faith: Even when group, 5:30-7 p.m. banquet, Jill Stanek, keynote 50 and over, single, separated, life gets in the way,” church. Information: Information: 317-236-3378. widowed or divorced, new Archdiocesan Office for January 27 speaker, 6 p.m. Information: Brooke Olzendam, St. Lawrence School, 6950 E. wvrtl.org. members welcome, 6:30 p.m. TV host/sideline reporter for Pro-Life Ministry, January 25 Information: 317-370-1189. 317-236-1569 or SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 46th St., Indianapolis. Pacers’ TV broadcasts, Open house, 1-3 p.m. January 31- presenter, 6:30-8:30 a.m., 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. 1347 N. Meridian St., Indian- February 9 Information: 317-543-4923, February 1 St. Thomas More Parish, $15 members, apolis. Solemn Observance of SS. Francis and Clare School, January 20 ext. 238 or saintlawrence.net. 1200 N. Indiana St., $21 non-members. Catholic Community of Roe v. Wade, Mass, noon, 5901 Olive Branch Road, Mooresville. Mardi Gras Reservations and information: Richmond, 701 N. “A” St., rosary procession. Information: January 29 Greenwood. Open house, Hoosier Style, food, music, www.catholicbusiness Richmond. Charismatic 317-236-1569 or St. Augustine Parish, 315 E. Thurs. 6-8 p.m., Fri. 9-11 a.m. 6 p.m.-midnight, $10 single, exchange.org. prayer group, 7 p.m. 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. Chestnut St., Jeffersonville. Information: 317-215-2826 or $15 couple. Information: Information: Seminar, “Life’s Challenges,” [email protected]. 317-831-4142. Knights of Columbus, [email protected]. St. Augustine Home for the 7-8:30 p.m., no charge. 542 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg. Aged, chapel, 2345 W. Information: 812-283-7256 or February 1 Batesville Deanery Vocation January 23 86th St., Indianapolis. 812-282-1669. Marian University, Holy Family Parish, 815 W. dinner, 6 p.m., freewill St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, Charismatic Mass, praise and Bishop Chartrand Chapel, Main St., Richmond. offering. Information: Father Courtney Room, worship, 7 p.m., Mass, January 30 3200 Cold Spring Road, 6th Annual Chocolate Fest, 812-290-5096 or 7575 Holliday Drive, E., 7:30 p.m. Information: St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, Indianapolis. Lumen Dei 6-9 p.m., $12 adults, [email protected]. Indianapolis. Catholic 317-846-0705. Father Courtney Room, meeting, Mass, 6:30 a.m., $5 children 6-12 years old, Apologetics A-Z, 7-9 p.m. 7575 Holliday Drive, E., breakfast following Mass. children 5 and under no charge. January 19 Information: January 26 Indianapolis. Catholic Information: 317-435-3447 or Information: 765-969-4919 or St. Michael the Archangel [email protected]. First Christian Beech Grove, Apologetics A-Z, 7-9 p.m. [email protected]. [email protected]. †

Retreats and Programs Mothers in the Gospels–Our Models and Pre Cana Conference and Tobit Weekend Our Mentors,” Benedictine Sister Kathy prepare engaged couples for marriage January 19 Huber, 8 a.m-4 p.m., $30 per person. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Information: 317-545-7681, ext. 15, or Two marriage preparation programs materials and refreshments. The 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Ways of [email protected]. offered in the archdiocese—the Pre Cana registration fee is non-refundable. To Grace–The Experience of Prayer Conference and Tobit Weekend—help register, log on to Practices,” Benedictine Sister Susan Marie February 8-10 Lindstrom, presenter, 9:30-11:30 a.m., $25 per Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, prepare engaged couples for the sacrament www.archindy.org/fatima. session. Information: 317-788-7581 or St. Meinrad. Couples retreat, “Building of marriage as well as the challenges of Tobit Weekend retreats are scheduled [email protected]. Family Love,” Benedictine Father married life. at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Noel Mueller, presenter. Information: Pre Cana Conference programs are during 2013 on Feb. 8-10, May 17-19, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. scheduled during 2013 on Feb. 10, May 31-June 2, July 26-28 and “Self Image,” Franciscan Sister Doris March 3, April 7, May 5 and 19, June 2, Sept. 13-15. Holohan, presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., February 9 July 21, Aug. 25, Sept. 8, Oct. 6 and 20 at The registration fee of $292 includes $45 per person, includes lunch. Information: Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, the program presented by trained 812-933-6437 or 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mt. St. Francis. 5353 E. 56th St., in Indianapolis. facilitators, meals and overnight oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. “Couples Retreat Day, Gifts for the The program, sponsored by the accommodations for the weekend. January 20 Journey,” 9 a.m. Information: 812-923-8817. archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education, Registration is required. A $150 non- Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. is presented by a priest and trained refundable deposit is required at the “Coffee Talk: Living the Sacraments,” Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality, volunteer couples. It begins with check-in time of registration. To register, log on Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mulso, presenter, 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mt. St. Francis. at 1:15 p.m. and concludes at 6 p.m. on the to www.archindy.org/fatima. 10:45 a.m.-noon, freewill offering. New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth Ministries, Sundays listed above. Early registrations are recommended Information: 812-933-6437 or “Catholic 101 Retreat,” grades 9-12, 9 a.m. Registration is required. A $46 fee per because both marriage preparation oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Information: 812-945-2000 or couple helps pay for a workbook, other programs fill up quickly. † January 25-26 [email protected]. Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality, 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mt. St. Francis. February 20 “Women of the Scriptures—Revelations of Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, God,” Franciscan Brother Bob Baxter, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. presenter. Information: 812-923-8817. “Visio Divina: Lenten Series,” Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, presenter, January 26 6:30-9 p.m., $30, per session or $25 per session

Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. if registered and paid in advance for all Leslie Lynch Submitted photos by “Understanding the Beatitudes,” five sessions. Information: 317-788-7581 or Franciscan Sister Sharonlu Sheridan, [email protected]. presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 per person, includes lunch. Information: 812-933-6437 or February 22-24 oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Office of Family Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Spiritual Autobiography, Series 1 of 6,” Ministries, “Retrouvaille weekend: A Lifeline Angela Roesler and Jennifer Profitt, for Marriages.” Information: 317-489-6811 or presenters, 9 a.m-11:30 a.m., $90 per person retroindy.com, or register online at for six sessions. Information: 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. February 25 January 27 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 56th St., Indianapolis. Our Lady of Fatima and “Understanding the Greatest Images of the the Benedict Inn, “F.B.I. Lent: Multi-choir concert Universe,” Franciscan Sister Olga Wittekind, Reconciliation—A Holistic Approach to New Albany Deanery parishes held a multi-choir Epiphany concert on Jan. 6 at Holy Family presenter, 2-4:30 p.m., freewill offering. Peace,” Franciscan Sister Norma Rocklage, Church in New Albany. Seven parish choirs, above, and the Holy Family children’s choir, below, Information: 812-933-6437 or presenter, Mass, 5:30 p.m., buffet dinner oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. performed. The event was the brainchild of Jeannine Stilger Newcomb, music director at 6:30 p.m., presentation and discussion, Holy Family Parish. Participating choirs included St. Mary Parish in Lanesville; St. Mary Parish in January 31 7-9 p.m., $30 per person, includes dinner. New Albany; St. Joseph Parish in Corydon; Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany; Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 317-545-7681 or St. Michael Parish in Bradford; and St. Joseph Parish in Clark County. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Morning for Moms: [email protected].† Right to Life of Indianapolis hosts Roe v. Wade 40th anniversary event

At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20, Right to by year the victims of legalized abortion. Life of Indianapolis will mark the After the ceremony, attendees are invited 40th anniversary of the devastating to join on a memorial walk around Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Monument Circle in honor of the 55 million The event will take place at the Indiana War lives lost to abortion since the Roe v. Wade Memorial Auditorium. decision was handed down on Jan. 22, 1973. Singer and songwriter Maria Jones will The Indiana War Memorial Auditorium is give the keynote address. Her talk will be located at 431 N. Meridian. Enter from followed by a rose ceremony commemorating Michigan Street. † The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 7 ‘Youth-friendly’ novena part of ‘Nine Days’ event to mark Roe decision

WASHINGTON (CNS)—The anniversary. Bishops are encouraged to U.S. Catholic bishops have launched preside at Mass or a holy hour for the “Nine Days of Prayer, Penance and pilgrims, and to formally bless them Pilgrimage” to take place on Jan. 19-27 before their journey. as part of events marking the • Parishes are encouraged to hold a CNS photo/Bob Roller 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade “40 Hours Devotion” or a holy hour for decision legalizing abortion virtually on Life, including a “Prayer Service for demand in the U.S. Forgiveness and Healing.” Jan. 22 is the actual anniversary of the • Pro-life and youth ministry directors U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision, but are encouraged to sponsor a video because this year it is the day after public contest for high school-age pilgrims, with ceremonies for the presidential 30- to 60-second video footage to be shot inauguration, the annual March for Life at in Washington will take place on Jan. 25. pro-life events that take place during the Materials about the “Nine Days” “Nine Days” observance. program posted on the website of the For example, the videos could U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops illustrate what it means personally to take (USCCB) suggest prayers, activities and part in a pro-life pilgrimage or in the other ways U.S. Catholics can mark the pro-life movement generally. Roe anniversary, whether they planned to • A blessing of pilgrims may also be come to Washington or to attend local or offered on their return from various regional pro-life rallies, events events. and liturgies. • To conclude “Nine Days,” parishes A signature event of the program is a are asked to offer a holy hour for novena, which people can participate in Reparation and Healing on Jan. 27 for all via a daily e-mail by signing up at those impacted by abortion. www.usccb.org/9days or by texting “May we Young people walk with a banner at the start of the annual March for Life in Washington on “9days” to 99000 to receive a daily respond to 40 Jan. 23, 2012. The pro-life demonstration marks the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision text message. years of the culture that legalized abortion across the nation. Described as “youth-friendly,” the of death with great daily message will include: an confidence and include the National Prayer Vigil for Life parishes, daily family rosary, special intercession; simple prayers; a brief hope,” Tom at the Basilica of the National Shrine of prayers of the faithful at all Masses and reflection on the saint of the day or a Grenchik, the Immaculate Conception, which opens fasting and abstinence on Fridays. A lesson from the daily readings; executive director with an evening Mass on Jan. 24 and second “Fortnight for Freedom” event is suggestions for concrete acts of prayer, of the U.S. closes with early morning Mass on planned for 2013 to raise concern about penance and charity; and “a powerful bishops’ pro-life Jan. 25. The March for Life begins at noon infringements to religious freedom. myth/reality comment related secretariat, said in on the National Mall. In 2012, the first “Fortnight” was held to abortion.” a Jan. 4 statement. According to the USCCB, the on June 21 to July 4, and Catholics around In other “Nine Days” suggestions: “In addition to our “Nine Days” program is part of a pastoral the country responded by participating in Tom Grenchik • On the weekend of Jan. 19-20, current everyday strategy the U.S. bishops approved during Masses, devotions, holy hours, educational diocesan pro-life and youth ministry pro-life efforts, a nationwide their fall general assembly in Baltimore to presentations and rallies. directors are invited to assemble local commitment to prayer and penance is address life, marriage and religious liberty students/pilgrims who will be making a essential to ushering in a culture of life.” concerns. (More information about the “Nine Days” pilgrimage to Masses, rallies, marches In addition to the March for Life, Roe Components include monthly program is available at and other events marking the Roe anniversary events planned in Washington eucharistic holy hours in cathedrals and www.usccb.org/9days.) † Grow closer to Christ to find healing, piece of mind and heart, speaker says By Mary Ann Garber Jannette Pruitt, project coordinator of multicultural ministry, about loving ourselves.” and a committee of volunteers in response to the Church’s Honor your body, White said, in order to be the nurturing, Sometimes both faith and courage are needed to reach out international Year of Faith. loving, Christian woman that God and touch the hem of Jesus’ garment, Dr. C. Vanessa White “What more faith can we show than to touch the hem of has called you to be. told 70 African-American Catholic women attending an his garment?” Sister Jannette said, citing the Gospel story of The best ways to do that are to Advent day of reflection on Dec. 15 at Our Lady of Fatima the woman with the hemorrhage who was healed when she pray more, she said, be grateful for Retreat House in Indianapolis. touched Jesus’ cloak (Mk 5:25-34 and Lk 8:43-48). God’s blessings, drink a lot of water, But when the pain of daily life situations becomes greater “This program was designed to help enrich the fabric of eat the right foods in moderation, get than the pleasure of being alive, she said, growing closer to who we are,” she said. “African-American women have a enough rest, and make time to enjoy Christ is the only way to find healing as well as peace of deep faith. We know that God is our Savior, and we believe recreational activities or hobbies that mind and heart. that anything we ask God for will come to pass.” renew your body and spirit. White, an author and faculty member at the Catholic White’s presentation encouraged the women to look Divine Word Father Charles Theological Union in Chicago, was the keynote speaker for closely at their personal needs to achieve balance in the Smith, a Catholic chaplain at the the first black Catholic women’s retreat sponsored by the midst of busy schedules and stressful life situations. Veteran’s Administration Hospital in archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry. Take time to think about how you are using your time and Sr. Jannette Pruitt, O.S.F. Indianapolis, was the celebrant for a The day of reflection was organized by Franciscan Sister energy, she said, and what problems challenge you each day. Mass in the retreat house chapel. “Name it and claim it,” White said, then—if necessary— “We cannot forget that God is in the business of change it. helping us to redeem who we are and whose we are,” Next, reflect on how God is working in your life, she said, Father Charles said. “There’s been a lot of tragedy in our and whether Jesus is your primary focus. world, a lot of sickness and pain. But God is still able to READY TO GETEGOTYDAER RIDIRTE D “What are you thirsting for?” she asked the women. help us to have some hope despite the misery and the pain. OF YOUR FRIDGEIRFRUOYFO YET??TEYEGD “What may be standing in the way of you reaching out to So let us rejoice. Let us give praise. … God is the Savior Jesus and really beginning to care for yourself?” of the universe.” If theehtfI AvocadoAAvv color turnsnrutrolocodaco you green or theehtroneerguoysn Consider ways to strengthen your spirituality, White said, Holy Angels parishioner Cheryl Shields of Indianapolis, a Harvest Gold is causinggnisuacsidloGtsevraH you to go pale, whyyhw,elapogotuoy which will enhance your joy in life. nurse who cares for nursing home patients, said she liked not let your “old” becomeemoceb”dlo“ruoytelton someone else’s “new”??”wen“s’esleenoemos “Love your life,” she said. “Live your passion.” White’s suggestion to take Sabbath time for rest and Praying the rosary is a powerful Catholic spiritual practice relaxation every week. The people we serve need your stovestoves, w,s washersashers because this Marian prayer “allows the [Holy] Spirit to “We, as women, are so nurturing and giving that we very and dryers,dd too—regardlessld eldrager—oot,sreyrddna of their color thathlhf ahtrolocriehtfosse t work” in your life, she said. “Spiritual practices are seldom take time for ourselves,” Shields said. “But if we looked so good 202doogosdekool 0 yearsyears aago.go. TTheyhey needneed themthem badly.badlyy.. transformative. … They lead you to a new way of life. don’t take that time for ourselves then how can we [continue “Jesus said, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all to] give to others and provide for others? I’m going to try a ToTo schedule a pick-up-kcipaeludehcs u your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all Sabbath day once a week.” of household items gogsmetidlohesuohfo your strength,’ ” White reminded the women, “and the Angel Ingram, a tax manager who also is a Holy Angels toot www.svdpindy.orgwww vs. ddpp ni ddyyy..or or second part is ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself. parishioner in Indianapolis, said the retreat gave her tools callllac 317-687-1006..6001-786-713 YouY There is no other commandment greater than these’ ” that she can use to grow in her spiritually and deepen her can also make a monetarynomaekamoslanac (Mk 12:30-31 and Lk 10:27). relationship with Christ. contribution or becomeocebronoitubirtnoc m “But how are you loving and caring for yourself?” she “I think this has been a great opportunity to get together a volunteer online..enilnoreetnulova asked. “Scripture says to treat your body as a temple of the with women and take some time out to reflect on our faith,” Holy Spirit. It’s about balance and wholeness. … Women are Ingram said, “and how we can take better care of ourselves good at loving and caring for others, but we are not good and [focus on] what we need to do for God.” †

‘What are you thirsting for? What may be standing in the way of you reaching out to Jesus and really beginning to care www.svdpindy.orgwww.svdpindy for yourself?’ SSocietyociety ooff SSt.t. VVincent de Paul —Dr. C. Vanessa White 3001 E. 30th StStreet Indianapolis, t IN 46218 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013

Dabrice Bartet to serve as Teresa’s sponsor. MOORE “God works in mysterious ways,” Bartet continued from page 1 said. “Anne was looking for someone who Submitted photoS could go to their house because Teresa is in a a teenager, Teresa started to share in some of wheelchair and she had had a stroke. I was the activities at St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis, very busy with work, but then my Friday where her friends were members. She thought afternoons opened. It was just like divine of becoming Catholic then, but the memory intervention. It was my first time as a sponsor. of her mother’s wishes stayed with her—even I feel it’s our duty to pass on our faith to during the 25 years she worked at St. Vincent others. This is a good way to bring someone Hospital in Indianapolis. else into the Church.” Flash forward to the summer of 2012 Bartet and Teresa met every Friday when Teresa was a patient in the hospital afternoon for two hours for several months so where she once worked. A year before, she Teresa could learn the tenets of the Catholic had suffered a stroke, but she was in faith. After Teresa kept asking questions about St. Vincent’s this time for concerns related the Blessed Mother, Bartet taught her how to to a problem with her heart. At the same pray the rosary. She also answered Teresa’s time, archdiocesan seminarian Xavier Raj questions about the Eucharist. Most of all, she was serving as a student chaplain at calmed Teresa’s fears that she would die the hospital. before she was able to enter the Church and “I was awful sick,” Teresa recalled. “He receive the Eucharist. came around every day and asked, ‘Is there “I told her, ‘Don’t worry. God has a plan anything you want to talk about?’ He’d sit for you,’ ” Bartet recalled. there, and when I looked up, he’d smile. After his third visit, I started to ask him questions A perfect moment in a perfect day about the Catholic Church.” The plan came to a climax at the 10:45 a.m. She also told him the story of her life. Mass on Jan. 6 at St. Monica Church when “I talked to her a lot, more than 10 days,” Teresa made her profession of faith and recalled Raj, who is in his third year of received the sacrament of confirmation and priestly formation at Saint Meinrad Seminary first Communion. Her three daughters were and School of Theology in Saint Meinrad. “I with her. Bartet was by her side. Father would be with her every day, spend time with Goodson kept smiling at her. her and just listen to her. “I was so excited when She told me she had a lot my daughters got me of desire to join the ready to come to the Catholic Church. It was a church,” Teresa recalled. very nice experience to “I felt good. Then when be with her.” the priest called me up It was also and I said, ‘I do believe,’ I life-changing for felt wonderful. He turned Teresa, according to me around and introduced her daughters. me to the church, and everyone was smiling as ‘God has a plan ‘I would be with her every far as I could see.” for you’ day, spend time with her It was a perfect Father Todd Goodson celebrates the sacrament of confirmation with Teresa Moore during a Mass at “He was really good,” and just listen to her. She moment in a perfect day, St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis on Jan. 6, the day that Moore became a Catholic. said Shelley Moore, told me she had a lot of a moment that everyone one of Teresa’s daughters, involved won’t forget. about Raj. “Without desire to join the Catholic “She was practically saying much, it was like Church. It was a very nice dancing on air,” said he knew her like a experience to be with her.’ Cynthia Moore about book—what she was her mother. feeling and thinking. —Seminarian Xavier Raj “She had the faith and They just had a the relationship with connection. That’s good, Christ, but she had this because we didn’t know about this dream yearning for being in the Catholic Church,” she had.” Corcoran said. “She’s just happy to be here. When her daughters, all raised Baptist, It’s just like heaven to her. It’s such a learned about their mother’s dream, they were testimony to a loving family. Her daughters surprised and delighted for her. Teresa have such a devotion to their mother. They remembers a conversation she had in the were so supportive of their mom living hospital with her youngest daughter, her dream.” Valerie Cameron. Bartet noted, “At the end, I told her I would “I told her I was thinking about it, but I stop by every now and then to pray the rosary was too old,” Teresa recalled. “She said, ‘If with her. We will continue because it is a you want to be a Catholic, and it’s been on lifelong journey together.” your mind all your life, you need to do it.’ ” Teresa savored it all, thinking back to her Raj provided the information that the childhood friends who introduced her to the family lived close to St. Monica Parish in Catholic faith, thinking of her daughters and Indianapolis, and Cameron contacted its her new friends who were there to see her pastor, Father Todd Goodson. Touched by the and help her become a member of the story, Father Goodson asked the parish’s Catholic faith. pastoral associate, Anne Corcoran, to help “There’s just something about the After she was received into the Catholic Church on Jan. 6, Teresa Moore poses with her three Teresa with her dream. Corcoran met with Church I’ve always liked,” Teresa said. “I’m daughters who encouraged her to embrace her lifelong dream. Standing, from left, are the family and enlisted parishioner so happy.” † Valerie Cameron, Shelley Moore and Cynthia Moore.

the 2014 election. Catholic in the pew,” Tebbe said. “I invite Church is following.” LEGISLATION Tebbe expects, however, that the interested Catholics to stay connected to The Indiana General Assembly is made continued from page 1 General Assembly will not take action on what’s going on through the ICC’s up of 50 state senators and 100 state the possible amendment because the electronic Legislative Action Center representatives, and is expected to consider “Governor Pence will reiterate these U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule in available on the ICC’s Web page. more than 2,000 bills this year. promises and unveil his agenda during the June on cases involving the redefinition of “When the Indiana General Assembly Since 1967, the ICC has worked to upcoming State of the State address to be marriage. is in session, getting input from bring to light moral dimensions of state televised [on] Tuesday night, Jan. 22,” Even though the 2012 election is behind constituents in a timely manner on public policy making. While the role of the Tebbe said. us, Catholics in the pew also have a role legislation is vital to the process,” Tebbe ICC is to serve as the official voice of the While budget and economic issues and responsibility in the public square as added. “When Catholics contact their Catholic Church in the public policy arena will be the major focus, there will be citizens, says Tebbe. These responsibilities representatives in unison with the work of primarily in Indiana, those who visit the many other topics that will require are outlined in a November 2011 statement the Catholic Conference, it allows the ICC website can opt to be notified about scrutiny as well. Tebbe expects the ICC called “Forming Consciences for Church to be more effective in shaping important federal legislation that the to track other important moral issues Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political morally sound public policy. The use of U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops is this year, such as medical coverage for Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops this service by Catholics has the potential concerned about. The site also offers the low-income families, education of the United States.” to significantly impact the Church’s role in means to contact members of Congress. programs, criminal sentencing reforms, It says, in part, “This obligation to the public policy arena. It is my hope that To explore the ICC’s electronic public chemical abortion and end-of-life participate in political life is rooted in our our faith community will seize the policy tool and join the ICC legislative regulations, mass transit and early baptismal commitment to follow Jesus opportunity to take advantage of this network, log on to the ICC web page at childhood education initiatives. Christ and to bear Christian witness in all online tool. www.indianacc.org, and click “Legislative The ICC will also watch for any progress we do.” The entire document is available “Catholics that have a particular interest Action Center.” in the passage of a possible amendment to online at www.faithfulcitizenship.org. in pro-life, social justice, education, Indiana’s constitution that would define “Our role at the ICC is not only to immigration reform, health care or family (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for marriage as between one man and one inform and educate our elected officials, life issues will be able to stay connected, The Criterion. For more information about woman. If passed, it would become a ballot but to serve as a conduit to facilitate or and be counted when important legislative the Indiana Catholic Conference, log on to measure to be voted upon by state voters in make political engagement easier for the decisions are made on priority issues the www.indianacc.org. ) † The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 9 U.S. bishop says young Palestinians he met showed hope, vision BETHLEHEM, West Bank (CNS)— during the recent fighting with Israel, and Young Christian Palestinians from the he viewed areas bombed by the Israelis. He Gaza Strip and West Bank demonstrate noted that the sites appeared to have been “a great deal of hope and vision,” despite “very strategically” bombed. CNS photo/Debbie Hill CNS photo/Debbie the reality they face, said Bishop Gerald “Not whole neighborhoods were [hit] F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz. but individual houses,” he added, though Bishop Kicanas told Catholic News neighboring properties did suffer some Service on Jan. 8 he was especially moved damage as well because of their proximity by the “daunting spirit” he found in the to the targets. young people of Gaza. CRS helped repair the Rosary Sisters “While they have experienced trauma, School windows that were shattered during disappointments and restrictions, they are the bombings. Locals confirmed that two advancing,” said the bishop, who was soccer stadiums that had been targeted by participating in the 13th annual Holy Land Israel had most likely been used as a Coordination on Jan. 5-10. “Their hopeful warehouse for weapons, he said. desire is to somehow, in the near future, be One mother recounted how she was able able to use the skills [they are gaining in to use the skills she had learned as a their studies] to help their society. It even participant in the CRS risk-reduction gives me hope, though the situation does program to help her children through not seem to improve and might [even] be difficult moments of the war, getting worse.” Bishop Kicanas said. Though the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “She was able to anticipate what to do remains discouraging, with Israel in that situation,” he said. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., shares a light moment with Bethlehem University students expanding settlements and encroaching on Meeting with the parishioners and during a Jan. 9 visit to the West Bank campus. Bishop Kicanas said young Christian Palestinians from the Palestinian land, religious leaders must listening to their stories was a Gaza Strip and West Bank demonstrated “a great deal of hope and vision,” despite the reality they face. forge a sense of hopefulness, said “heartwarming, moving experience,” Bishop Kicanas. he said. “The situation is bleak and, yes, one of Other bishops participating in darkness but ... we continue to hear of light the coordination included in the darkness, moments of hope,” he said. Archbishop Richard Smith of One helpful way of understanding Edmonton, Alberta, president of the the complexity of the situation in the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; Holy Land is to make a pilgrimage and Bishop Declan Lang of Bristol, chairman meet the people to experience the of the English and Welsh bishops’ circumstances of their lives, he said. Department of International Affairs, “That the protection of Israel is and Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney important is clear,” he said. “But the other of Birmingham, England; Bishop Michel piece of the situation is not well known, the Dubost of Evry, France; Bishop Stephan Wales of England and Bishops' Conference CNS photo/Marcin Mazur, feelings involved when one is in a situation Ackermann of Trier, Germany; of occupation and limitation.” Bishop Peter Burcher of The annual Holy Land Coordination is Reykjavik, Iceland, representing the designed to show support for the local Nordic bishops’ conference; and Churches there, and the focus this year was Archbishop Joan Vives Silicia of on the “suffering and vulnerable people in Urgell, Spain. the Holy Land.” The bishops were calling Prior to the start of the coordination, for a more effective response from the they visited Jordan and met with Iraqi international community for the refugees. A planned visit to a Syrian Catholics gather for Mass with a group of bishops from other countries on Jan. 6 in Zerga, Jordan. humanitarian needs of refugees from the refugee camp on the border was canceled The bishops were in the Holy Land in early January to assess the needs of the people and local Syrian civil war as well as other by Jordanian authorities, but they met with Churches there. Mideast wars. the Caritas aid workers who work with Braving a brewing winter storm, those refugees. of their desire to stay in their country, but What gives them hope in such a Bishop Kicanas, chairman of the Board of In Bethlehem, the group met with also of the difficulties they face finding situation is the love and support of their Catholic Relief Services (CRS), was the Latin Patriarchate Fouad Twal and the work once they graduate. families, said Georgina Mukarker, 18, in only bishop who was able to cross into Vatican’s ambassador to Israel, the “The economic situation is very bad for response to a question by Bishop Kicanas. Gaza through the checkpoint at the Israeli Palestinian territories and Cyprus, the simple reason that [this] is a closed Father Peter-John Pearson, director of border. For “unclear” reasons, including the Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto. They economy,” said Fadi Saleh, 25, a computer the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops’ possibility that permit applications were were also briefed by nuns working with the information system student. “That is why Conference Parliamentary Liaison Office filled out incorrectly, the other bishops most vulnerable communities of African the most brilliant minds of our generation and a participant in the coordination, urged scheduled to visit Gaza did not receive refugees and asylum seekers, migrant like to go abroad. It is really a loss for our the students to have the courage not to their permits. workers and Christian prisoners. country. It is sad because these are the give up. In Gaza, Bishop Kicanas met with The Church leaders met with youth and power of Palestine, and they are “The fight is yours, but victory will also parishioners who revisited their experiences Bethlehem University students who spoke exported outside.” be yours,” he said. † Allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented benefits all, say advocates CHICAGO (CNS)—Undocumented immigrants who Advocates for the program say that it benefits before Medicare stepped in and handled it. The other can prove they have lived in Illinois for at least a year everyone in the state because all drivers—including some driver, an undocumented immigrant without a license or will soon be eligible for temporary driver’s licenses, 250,000 undocumented drivers—would be tested on their insurance, also was injured. under a bill passed on Jan. 8 by the Illinois state driving skills and on the rules of the road before being “We need people driving safely,” Sister Marilyn told House of Representatives. granted a license, and all of them would be eligible to, the Catholic New World, newspaper of the Chicago The Illinois Senate passed the bill in December, and and required to, obtain insurance. Archdiocese. “We need them to be educated in our Gov. Pat Quinn has said he will sign it. Undocumented immigrants who get a temporary driving laws and to allow them to purchase insurance.” visitor’s driver’s license would no longer have to live in Long an advocate for immigration reform, she fear that being pulled over for a minor traffic infraction offers pastoral care to immigrants being detained in would lead to deportation, said Robert Gilligan, executive McHenry County. She knows that many, if not most, director of the Catholic Conference of Illinois. undocumented immigrants drive without the benefit of a Catholic New World Catholic New “Too many of our immigrant families have been torn license because it is the only way they can get to work apart by the simple act of driving,” Gilligan said. or school. That is because unlicensed, undocumented drivers are Several dozen members of Sisters and Brothers of detained rather than ticketed when they cannot produce a Immigrants and Priests for Justice for Immigrants also

CNS photo/Karen Callaway, CNS photo/Karen Callaway, driver’s license if they are pulled over, even for made the trip, and reported a positive response from something as minor as having a tail light out. legislators. When Catholic immigration advocates participated in a The Illinois Catholic bishops came out in support of special lobbying day on the issue in Springfield on Nov. 28, the idea on Nov. 13, and it also won support from a Notre Dame Sister Marilyn Medinger was among them, group calling itself the Highway Safety Coalition, even though she might not have the kind of story that which includes representatives of a number of law people would expect from an advocate of allowing enforcement agencies; Gov. Quinn; and Chicago Mayor undocumented immigrants to get legal driving status. Rahm Emanuel. Notre Dame Sister Marilyn Medinger, her arm in a sling after a On a Sunday afternoon last October, Sister Marilyn, Temporary driver’s licenses now are available to recent auto accident involving a undocumented immigrant 74, was driving north on Sheridan Road in Chicago at visitors to Illinois who have proper documents but not without a driver's license, looks on while Viatorian Brother about 4:30 in the afternoon when a car traveling in the permanent residency or Social Security numbers. They Michael Gosch and Living Word Sister Kristine Vorenkamp plan southbound lanes crossed the center line and smashed are good for three years and are valid for driving visits to politicians in late November 2012 at the Illinois State into her car. purposes only, not for identification for other purposes. Capitol in Springfield. The state House voted on Jan. 8 to allow “All of a sudden, I was looking at headlights and, of Undocumented immigrants would be able to get undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses. The course, he hit me,” said Sister Marilyn, whose car was them with an IRS-issued individual taxpayer measure, which was already approved by the state Senate, was totaled and who is still receiving therapy for a dislocated identification number, which undocumented immigrants headed to the desk of Gov. Pat Quinn, who planned to sign it elbow she suffered in the crash. She spent a night in a can use to pay federal taxes; a passport from another into law. hospital and received a statement that costs were $28,000 country; or a consular identification card. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Pope administers the sacraments as chief shepherd of the Church

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—As the usually among those chosen. Though parents chief shepherd of the Catholic Church, around the world have asked, Pope Benedict Pope Benedict XVI plays many roles, among has never celebrated a Mass specifically for a them minister of the sacraments. group of children receiving their first Along with his daily celebrations of the Communion, but a few children have CNS Haringphoto/Paul Eucharist, the pope’s 2013 agenda opened received their first Communion from him at with the ordination of new bishops on Jan. 6. Mass during papal trips. Just a week later, he marked the Jan. 13 feast The pope gives Communion at the of the Baptism of the Lord by baptizing Mass he celebrates every morning in his 20 infants in the Sistine Chapel. private chapel. During the pontificate of For most Catholics, receiving any Blessed John Paul, those Masses were often sacrament from the pope would be a special attended by dozens of outside guests, but event, yet such opportunities are necessarily Pope Benedict has typically limited rare. On what occasions does the pope attendance to members of the papal personally administer the sacraments and household. to whom? Confession—Pope Benedict heard the Baptism—The babies whom the pope individual confessions of young people in baptizes in the annual January rite usually are St. Peter’s during Lent in 2007 and 2008, the children of Vatican employees, as was to then again at World Youth Day in Madrid in be the case this year. August 2011. The pope also traditionally administers the He has not continued Blessed John Paul’s sacraments of Christian initiation—baptism, practice of administering the sacrament in confirmation and first Communion—to a St. Peter’s every year on Good Friday group of adult converts in St. Peter’s Basilica morning. Pope Benedict XVI gives Communion to a nun during Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the on Holy Saturday every year. This event Confirmation—Pope Benedict confirmed Vatican in this Dec. 24, 2012, file photo. The pope has publicly administered six of the seven became the focus of controversy in 2008 a group of young people attending World sacraments as chief shepherd of the Church. after one of the baptized, Egyptian-born Youth Day in Sydney in 2008 and will journalist Magdi Allam, publicly and confirm another group in Rome on April 28 Families in October 2000, Blessed John Paul the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, emphatically repudiated his former of this year, one of the events organized for celebrated the weddings of eight couples, Good Shepherd Sunday, which will be on Islamic faith. the 2012-13 Year of Faith. using his homily to affirm the family as a April 21 this year. Pope Benedict has not continued Matrimony—While this sacrament is life-long union of husband and wife with Since his election as pope, he has also Blessed John Paul II’s practice of baptizing actually administered by the spouses naturally conceived children. ordained 22 bishops, most recently on adults during foreign trips, occasions that the themselves, the Church normally requires The late pope also married a Jan. 6, when he ordained four new prelates late pope used to initiate hundreds into Catholics to exchange vows of marriage in young couple from Rome in 1979. including Archbishop Georg Ganswein, his the Church. the presence of a priest or deacon. Blessed John Paul had been visiting a longtime personal secretary who is now also Communion—Who receives Communion Pope Benedict has not celebrated a sanitation center there when the bride, the prefect of the papal household. from Pope Benedict at papal Masses in Rome marriage ceremony as pope, but given his daughter of a street cleaner, asked him to Anointing of the Sick—The pope has and elsewhere is up to the pope’s master of increasing emphasis on the need to defend celebrate her wedding, which he did in the administered this sacrament in public only liturgical ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini. traditional marriage, it would not be Vatican’s Pauline Chapel. once since his election, to 10 sick pilgrims During papal trips, prominent or highly surprising if he were to do so soon. Holy Orders—Pope Benedict ordains at the shrine of Lourdes in southwestern active members of the local Churches are At a Mass marking the Jubilee for priests in St. Peter’s Basilica every year on France in 2008. † What was in the news on Jan. 18, 1963? A united religious plea for racial justice, and the archbishop’s request for prayers of unity By Brandon A. Evans Cardinal Albert Meyer, Rabbi Julius Mark Church Unity during the annual Chair of draws fire and J. Irwin Miller told delegates to the Unity Octave observance, which opens • Urges better news set-up when This week, we continue to examine National Conference on Religion and Race today, January 18, and extends through council reconvenes what was going on in the Church and the that religious must be in the forefront of the January 25. This year’s observance, the • Increase in vocations seen in world 50 years ago as seen through the battle against racial discrimination. … archbishop pointed out, takes on a Latin America pages of The Criterion. Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago, special meaning because of the emphasis • Tells how Reds aid the cause of unity Here are some of the items found in the called the race issue the ‘nation’s Pope John has placed on the work for unity • Children’s contributions to missions Jan. 18, 1963, issue of The Criterion: unfinished business,’ and said that through the Vatican Council. Protestants are listed • Eradicate ‘our whole future as a nation and as a and Orthodox throughout the world will be • Cardinal raised $1 million for racial religious people may be determined by praying for the same intention. Churches ransom prejudice, what we do about the race problem in the affiliated with the World Council of • Seed of race problem traced to U.S. interfaith next few years.’ ” Churches are observing a ‘Week of Prayer agriculture leaders urge • ‘The common touch’: Pope warmly for Christian Unity.’ ” • Visit Chicago Negro homes: “CHICAGO—A praised by Methodist bishop • Protestant churchman, bishop ‘Pilgrimage of understanding’ draws cardinal, a rabbi and a leading Protestant • Asks faithful to join unity discuss council enthusiastic response layman called here for coordinated efforts observance • Ecumenists report: Observers • Soviets lure top Latin America by the three major religious faiths to “Archbishop Schulte urged the faithful ‘genuinely happy’ with their students eradicate prejudice in this country. of the archdiocese to ‘pray fervently’ for treatment at council • Sees council project on religious • The right to know: Latin American freedom ‘black-out’ • Churches cannot ignore race issue, • Evelyn Waugh versus the parley told ecumenical council • ‘No help to learning’: Hutchins sees (Read all of these stories from our Jan. 18, no future for ‘wall of separation’ 1963, issue by logging on to our archives • Political poll of clergy in Italy at www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

Travel with other Catholics to Alaska!

Norwegian Cruise Line Alaska Cruise

02-02-13. Plus a YMT Paci c Northwest Vacation

15 Days Departs June 16, 2013 from $2248* Furnace or Heat Pump Travel with other Catholics. Fly into Salt Lake City and enjoy the sightseeing highlights, then take a scenic drive to Jackson Hole, WY. See Grand Teton National Park, and spend 2 days in Yellowstone National Park before heading to Butte, MT. Travel through Montana’s “Big Sky Country” and through northern Idaho; see Coeur d’ Alene; Spokane; Grand Coulee Dam; and end in Seattle, Washington. Board the NCL Jewel for your 7-night Alaska Inside Passage Cruise. Next travel through a wondrous 02-02-13. 02-02-13. 02-02-13. maze of forested-island and glacier-caved ords, past charming costal villages, migrating whales and calving glaciers to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skayway and Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island! Your YMT chaplain, Fr. Wittouck, SCJ is a former Army chaplain; was pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Houston, TX and currently ministers in prisons and in the Cypress Assistance Ministries. This will be Father Wittouck’s seventh trip as a YMT Catholic chaplain. Single room add $1,600. *Price per person based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra. For reservations & details & letter from YMT’s chaplain with his phone number call 7 days a week: 1-800-736-7300 A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2013 FaithAlive! by Catholic News Service. Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. enter the new evangelization

By Marcellino D’Ambrosio

In 1946, a book was published by a French priest that said what faithful Catholics in Europe did not want to admit, World Catholic New particularly that France, “the eldest daughter of the Church,” had, for the most part, lost its faith. France, Mission Country? showed that the trend toward secularization had begun to empty the pews in the 19th century, and this change became more prevalent among the CNS photo/Karen Callaway, working class in the 20th century. As people picked up their heads and glanced at the other countries of Europe, they noticed much the same thing. Hence, a new emphasis on evangelization was placed in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and in the writings of every pope since. This “eclipse of God in the West,” in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, has cast its shadow on the Americas as well. It has spared neither the Anglo-French communities of the North nor the Latino communities of the South. While theoretical atheism is restricted to a few, there is a widespread and growing “practical atheism” in popular culture that dismisses faith as irrelevant to the concerns of daily life. Whether they are produced in the U.S. or Mexico, in English or Spanish, most contemporary movies, songs and books promote the same culture of individualism, sensuality and secularity. As a consequence, we see Mass attendance in the Western Hemisphere on the decline. We also witness increasing numbers, especially of young Hispanics, declining A young man holds an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe during the annual “antorcha Guadalupana,” Guadalupe torch run on to identify themselves with any church or religious tradition at Dec. 20, 2012, in Des Plaines, Ill. Hispanic Catholics in the U.S., like other segments of the Catholic population, are becoming more and all. more secularized and therefore an important community to reach out to in the new evangelization. So how can we encourage and empower an intensification of the new evangelization in this Year of Faith in the Hispanic efforts to attract Hispanics is a testimony to the hunger under the age of 35 are Latinos. But we are losing Hispanic community in the U.S.? among Latinos for such an intimate experience of both God youth to the secular world’s “practical atheism” at an Let’s draw on several strengths of the Hispanic community and meaningful Christian community. We must work to alarming rate. While many parishes are doing a good job and also address some challenges. encourage the growth of such apostolic movements among catechizing young children, many drop out of the practice of • Joy—If joy is “the most infallible sign of the presence of Hispanics in the U.S. the faith from the years of middle school to mid-20s at about God,” as French writer Leon Bloy said, then the natural Organizers of English-language retreats and meetings the same rate as the wider Catholic community. exuberance and joyful “alabanzas” (“songs of praises”) that need to find ways to reach out and attract English-speaking The vast majority of Hispanic teens speak English. I have come to characterize Hispanic liturgy in the Americas Hispanics to their events and add more Spanish-language believe all Catholics in any given locale, Hispanic and over the past few decades should be further encouraged, not events. Small groups need to be organized and creatively non-Hispanic, need to collaborate and invest in youth stifled. promoted. ministry that is vibrant, creative and effective. There is a movement in the Church universal, encouraged • Male leadership—Mothers and grandmothers have too Music and fun, along with retreats and small group by the pope and bishops, to recapture a greater sense of often carried complete responsibility for spiritual leadership experiences, need to be part of any teen and young adult reverence in the liturgy. The Hispanic community has shown in Hispanic families, and done so valiantly. There are many ministry that hopes to have a profound and life-changing that joy and celebration can be held together with a deep reasons for this, including fathers absent due to divorce or impact. Parishes or groups of neighboring parishes need to sense of reverence and awe in God’s presence, integrating having to work far from home. invest in gifted young adults to staff such ministry, including deep eucharistic and Marian devotion with guitars and praise. But we need to find ways to encourage lay men to step up bilingual Hispanic young adults. • Conversion and small groups—The Cursillo movement, to greater spiritual leadership in the Hispanic community, We can no longer object that we don’t have the funds. We originating in Spain, has led the way in the U.S., stimulating a particularly in the domestic Church of the family as fathers, need to raise the funds. This is the future of the Church and personal encounter with Christ and the formation of small grandfathers, uncles and older brothers. the nation. Failure is not an option. groups of faith sharing that can sustain a vital life of They can provide a witness that faith is an essential part discipleship beyond mere Mass attendance. This was further of real life. This will have a significant impact on the (Marcellino D’Ambrosio writes from Texas. For spread by the charismatic renewal in the Hispanic community. evangelization of youth and inactive or unchurched Latinos. his Spanish and English resources, log on to The increasing success of Pentecostal and evangelical • Youth—It is stunning that six out of every 10 Catholics www.crossroadsinitiative.com .) † Latinos can be a source of renewal for the Church in America By Mar Munoz-Visoso testimony of faith, such as praying the participation. Stations of the Cross on a street, “posadas” I can tell you that diocesan pastoral Latinos have evangelized me anew in many and “pastorelas.” These are significant in a and catechetical certification programs ways over the years. culture that tends to relegate religious around the country continue to help I can tell you of the young adult group that practice to the private sphere. Latinos grow in their faith and that, in the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic would gather after the Sunday evening Mass at They are reminders, to Catholics and last couple of decades, Hispanics have Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Denver, others, of Jesus’ presence in our midst. They been responsible for 70 percent of the Colo., filled with faith and energy. I dearly are a call to conversion and his message of growth of the Catholic Church in the remember those two to three hours together, salvation and special closeness to the poor United States.

CNS photo/Dave Crenshaw, Crenshaw, CNS photo/Dave filled with “alabanzas” (songs of praise), and vulnerable. But I can also tell you there are far too prayer, Scripture, small-group reflection and I can tell you of their love for Mary, few of them in Catholic schools, higher “convivencia” (social gatherings). whom they often refer to as “Madrecita,” education theological programs and in I can tell you of the anxious Spanish- (an endearing term for “mother”). That has positions of responsibility within the speaking adults who would sign up for our transformed my own relationship with her so Church in the U.S. archdiocesan catechetical education programs that she is not just the beloved mother of In my experience, many Latinos are so they could participate in and, at times, lead Jesus who can intercede for me, but also my natural evangelizers. They evangelize with the religious education programs in their mother. Jesus’ words on the cross, “Behold, words and, most often, they evangelize parish. How beautifully their faces lit up with your mother,” have taken on a new with actions. the emotion of just having learned something dimension for me (Jn 19:27). Now, imagine if we arm them with a new in the treasure of our faith or having The same can be said of the relationship good solid Catholic education? And what found the words to express something they with the saints and even their ancestors in the if we make an extra effort to promote knew all along but didn’t know how faith. One could well say that the relationship vocations among younger Latinos? Then to explain. between the Church on Earth and the Church the Catholic Church in the United States They couldn’t wait to share it with others. in heaven is a daily affair among Latino would really be on for a revival of Father David Medina, pastor of St. Francis It is this thirst for the word of God that Catholics that goes beyond the Mass. evangelization. Xavier Parish in Tulsa, Okla., prays in 2008 made me want to learn the faith better, not I can tell you that liturgical revival for before a cross made from candles during a just so I could teach it better, but live it them means respect and reverence, but also (Mar Munoz-Visoso is executive director “Dia de los Muertas,” or Day of the Dead, better myself. a true sense of celebration, a fiesta of of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for event at the predominantly Hispanic parish. I can tell you, too, of Hispanics’ public thanksgiving and praise through conscious Cultural Diversity in the Church.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Catholic Evangelization Outreach/ Peg McEvoy Year of Faith: Jesus as our personal Savior Yes, we Catholics do take Jesus Christ and Mariology in the Church are and that, “For our sake, he was crucified An ‘elevator pitch’ as our personal Savior. simply another aspect of the under Pontius Pilate.” for the faith? I wanted to make that point at the start Christological focus.” We Catholics, therefore, believe that of this column because In other words, devotion to Mary must Jesus is our personal Savior. The reason An “elevator pitch” is a short, to-the-point some people seem to help us focus on Jesus Christ. I’ll say that he suffered and died was for our summary lasting no more than two minutes— think that we don’t. more about that later in this series of salvation. The goal of salvation is union the length of a typical elevator ride—that Perhaps it’s the image columns for the “Year of Faith” when I with God, the eternal life of heaven, and defines and explains the value of a proposal. they have of Catholics write about devotion to Mary. the consummation of our happiness as We need to have in with rosary beads in What we Catholics believe about Jesus human beings. mind, and ready at a their hands or saints’ is summarized in both the Apostles’ Creed We believe, as is stated in the Acts of moment’s notice, an pictures in their and the Nicene Creed. the Apostles, that “there is no salvation “elevator pitch” for the homes. They know In the former, we say that we believe through anyone else, nor is there any Catholic faith. that Catholics usually that Jesus was God’s only Son and that other name under heaven given to the Can you express the have a greater devotion to Mary than do he “was conceived by the Holy Spirit, human race by which we are to be saved” importance of your most Protestants. Maybe that’s why they born of the virgin Mary, suffered under (Acts 4:12). Catholic faith in have the impression that Jesus has gotten Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was Jesus died in accordance with his two minutes? lost in the shuffle. buried. He descended into hell. On the Father’s will, to save us from our sins. It Of course, two That would be tragic, of course. third day he rose again from the dead. He is now up to us to take advantage of the minutes cannot cover Actually, every devotion in the Catholic ascended into heaven and is seated at the graces he has gained for us to complete the breadth or depth of anyone’s faith. Church must lead directly to Jesus. If it right hand of God the Father Almighty. our salvation. However, we can hone in on a few key themes doesn’t, it’s not truly Catholic. From thence he will come to judge the Unlike some Protestants, though, and/or events. As Pope John Paul II wrote in his living and the dead.” Catholics do not believe that our salvation How does the Catholic faith help Jesus best-selling book Crossing the Threshold The Nicene Creed, which Catholics is assured once we accept Jesus as our touch your heart? Would it include devotion to of Hope, “From the beginning, Christ has recite every Sunday and solemnity during personal Savior, which we do in baptism. the Eucharist, holy Scripture, Mary or another been at the center of the faith and life of Mass, is a bit more technical. Composed We must cooperate with the graces that saint? What practices or traditions would you the Church, and also at the center of her in the fourth century, this creed affirms come from God through the Church, and include? teaching and theology.” our belief that, “For us and for our live our lives in accordance with the It should be no surprise to anyone who is He also wrote, “A Marian dimension salvation, he came down from heaven” teachings of Christ’s Church. † familiar with the Year of Faith that learning about and sharing faith in Jesus Christ is For the Journey/Effie Caldarola essential to reinvigorating the faith in our culture. Log on to www.archindy.org/yearoffaith. This is one of Starting the new year open to revelation in our lives of faith the keys to the new evangelization. I love words, as any writer should, and Jan. 6, and whether you have already January brings with it a cascade of I often hear Catholics paraphrase a quote “epiphany” is a favorite word of mine. experienced it as you read this matters little. New Year’s resolutions, including “I’m attributed to St. Francis of Assisi that goes In a Christian sense, “Epiphany” is a good reminder, a good going to lose 10 pounds,” “I will start something like, “Preach the Gospel at all it names a great word, a good experience to carry us through exercising,” “I will remember to call my times, if necessary use words.” January liturgical feast, January and into the new year. grandmother more often,” “I will never It is certainly true that the way we live our namely the Scripture How many epiphanies do we really leave the house with my bed unmade” lives is the most important witness that we can story about three experience in life? There are times in … yada, yada, yada. give to the Gospel. However, sometimes this mysterious men life when we feel we know quite a bit How about just resolving to keep our quote is used as a justification for not bearing gifts, and aren’t necessarily open to the eyes open for the next epiphany that God professing or explaining the faith. This is a appearing from the world-shattering nature of epiphany. sends? Do you think those storied Magi problem. East, looking for the This certainty strikes different people at were expecting to find a poor baby at the Catholics need to tell the story of our faith baby Jesus to worship different times. end of their journey? What an epiphany for to others. We aren’t being asked to stand on a him. It arrived on the The late teenage years affect some that them, the meaning of which they probably street corner or a college quadrangle shouting Twelfth Day of Christmas, and it way. We’ve got it all figured out, until we spent the rest of their lives trying to figure out pious statements. We are being asked to culminated our celebration. start college and all the new information out. Don’t “expect,” just pay attention. share our story of faith with others when the The Church uses it as the occasion to blows away all our certainty. I’ve known Franciscan Father Richard Rohr tells opportunities occur. remind us that Christ came for all, not just others who reach this know-it-all stage in about an epiphany the great St. Francis of Pope Benedict XVI is even more specific in for his fellow Jews, but for the Gentiles, later life. Assisi had. Like many saints, Francis was his announcement of the Year of Faith, which and by extension all of us throughout “I’ve seen that.” “I know all about that.” a party animal as a youth. Perhaps he continues through November of this year. He history. It was an epiphany, an awakening, “I’ve been there once, and I don’t need to thought he knew it all. says, “Faith grows when it is lived as an for all humankind. go again.” “One night, he left the party and experience of love received and when it is “Epiphany” in its secular, dictionary I’ve known a few older folks who looked up at the stars above Assisi,” writes communicated as an experience of grace and definition, complements the religious simply aren’t looking for any more Father Rohr. “He stood there for a long, joy.” Our faith grows when we receive love, meaning, and always seems like a thrilling epiphanies. Been there, done that. Ho hum. long time. He was truly in awe of what he and we help ourselves and others to grow in word. Here is one definition: A sudden All of us are susceptible, at any age, to saw. He said, ‘If these are the creatures, faith when we express this faith with grace realization about the nature or meaning of getting in a rut and not keeping our eyes what must the Creator be like?’ ” and joy. something. open to the epiphany that may surprise us Let me live this year awakening each We need to be open to receiving and to To realize the meaning of something— around the next corner. All of us can be day to ask God for the courage to be open communicating the faith so, yes, people my life, my gifts, an illness, a death, an reluctant, and sometimes with reason, to to continuing revelation—epiphanies great should be able to experience God’s presence ordinary day—that’s huge. It’s a delicious saddle up our camels and follow some and small—that God offers in my life. through each of us and how we live. word, this revelation about the very nature distant star. I mean, really, isn’t that a little However, the pope issues us a challenge, of something. romantic, a little quixotic? It sounds risky, (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News too. The challenge is to be ready to explain We celebrated the feast of Epiphany on and besides I know all about that already. Service.) † how we experience our faith—our relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Coming of Age/Karen Osborne “We want this Year to arouse in every believer the aspiration to profess the faith in fullness,” he said, “and with renewed Learning from a gold medalist what it takes to win conviction, with confidence and hope” I recently had the opportunity to see goof off as much as her friends and use the help of a spotter. (Porta Fidei, #9). and hear gymnast Gabrielle Douglas as classmates, she told the audience that part We tend to think that successful people To “profess the faith … with confidence she spoke to a packed of the reason she feels she was able to get are superhuman, when they are just like and hope” is to explain how our faith makes a room of adoring fans. to the Olympics was that she kept her the rest of us. We choose not to remember difference in our lives. If you don’t know dreams foremost in her life. the hours upon hours they spend in the This may sound wonderful in the abstract, Gabrielle, check the As an elite athlete, she has to pay gym or the sacrifices they take on to get but what does it really mean for parish winners’ list from last attention to good nutrition and health. where they are. We don’t feel we are evangelization teams and the rest of us in year’s London While she likes to splurge, she told the equipped to make those sacrifices. We like the pews? Olympics. She won crowd, she also has to eat and sleep well, to look at ourselves and say that we’ll When we use words to profess or explain the gold medal in the and avoid destructive habits like drugs, never be a Gabrielle Douglas or the faith, it is hard to do unless we have team and the junk food and alcohol. Taylor Swift. prepared. Try putting together an “elevator individual women’s Gabrielle has learned to deal with But imagine what would have pitch for the faith” that would help people all-around pressure. During the Olympics, she had to happened if Gabrielle had watched understand why your faith makes a difference competitions, impressing people all over compete in front of millions. Instead of footage of gymnasts Mary Lou Retton and to you and to the world. the world. thinking about all those eyes on her vaults Dominique Dawes and told herself that This can be a family activity in the car on At 17, Gabrielle seems to have it and turns, she ignored the cameras and she couldn’t possibly be like them. the way home from Mass or a more organized together. Yes, she has gold medals, imagined herself doing well. Focusing on There is no gold medal at the end of activity for a small group like an evange- championships and awards under her belt. the positive and eliminating the negative your story if you choose to tell yourself that lization team. You can have it ready for the More important, she has a fantastic helped her win. you are not good enough, strong enough or welcome booth at the parish fair or you can outlook on overcoming life’s challenges. Gabrielle doesn’t let feeling afraid keep driven enough to achieve your dreams. write it down and use it as a reminder on Gabrielle isn’t scared to ask for help. her from learning new things. She wasn’t Everyone has greatness in them. Take a difficult days. Since she is home-schooled, teachers born a gold medalist and wasn’t always at page from Gabrielle and knock down all But don’t be stingy—share it! aren’t always there to hound her about her the top of the heap. Ten years ago, she of the barriers you put up for yourself. homework. Instead, she has to take the was just like any young gymnast, scared Find your dream, focus on achieving it (Peg McEvoy is the archdiocesan associate initiative to ask her tutors for assistance of falling off the high uneven bars. She and wear a positive attitude. director for Evangelization and Family with tough concepts and problems. found that the best way to get over Catechesis. For questions and/or help starting Gabrielle keeps focused on her goals. paralyzing fear was to do the thing she (Karen Osborne writes for Catholic News a parish evangelization team, contact her at Although she sometimes wishes she could was scared of doing and not be afraid to Service.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 13

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 21 Friday, Jan. 25 The Sunday Readings St. Agnes, virgin, martyr The Conversion of St. Paul Hebrews 5:1-10 the Apostle Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 third reading. Psalm 110:1-4 Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22 Unique to John, the miracle at Cana in • Isaiah 62:1-5 Galilee was the first recorded of the Lord’s Mark 2:18-22 Psalm 117:1-2 Mark 16:15-18 • 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 miracles. It occurred at the start of the Tuesday, Jan. 22 • John 2:1-11 Lord’s public ministry. The emphasis usually lies upon the Day of Prayer for the Legal Saturday, Jan. 26 The Book of Isaiah furnishes this marvel of the changing of the water into Protection of Unborn Children Sts. Timothy and Titus, weekend’s first reading. wine. This indeed was remarkable. But the Hebrews 6:10-20 bishops When this third story has other powerful lessons. Psalm 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c 2 Timothy 1:1-8 or Titus 1:1-5 section of Isaiah was A great lesson is about Mary. John’s Mark 2:23-28 written, the Hebrew Gospel never names her. It always simply Psalm 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10 people had just refers to Mary as “the mother” of Jesus. Wednesday, Jan. 23 Luke 10:1-9 emerged from a terrible This is not an oversight. It stresses her St. Vincent, deacon, martyr period in their history. unique role as the Lord’s earthly parent. Sunday, Jan. 27 Their homeland, The response of Jesus to the obvious Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17 divided into two embarrassment of the host in not having Psalm 110:1-4 Third Sunday in kingdoms after the enough wine for the guest can be puzzling. Mark 3:1-6 Ordinary Time death of King Was the Lord indifferent to the host’s Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Solomon, had been distress? His reply seemed to stress that the Thursday, Jan. 24 Psalm 19:8-10, 15 overrun by the mighty Babylonian Empire, messianic mission was not to provide for St. Francis de Sales, bishop, 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 or centered in today’s Iraq. human needs, but to draw all to God and to 12:12-14, 27 Many people died, or were killed, in the eternal life. doctor of the Church conquest. Others were taken to Babylon, Mary enters the picture. First, Jesus Hebrews 7:25-8:6 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 the imperial capital. There these exiles, hears her. Secondly, her faith is unqualified Psalm 40:7-10, 17 and then their descendants, languished for and frank. She trusts her Son, telling the Mark 3:7-12 four generations until political fortunes servers to do whatever he orders them changed. The more powerful Persians to do. conquered Babylonia itself. So this reading reveals the power and As a result, the exiles were allowed to mission of Jesus, as well as Mary’s perfect Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle return to their homeland. The prophets did response in faith to the Lord. not see the sequence of events leading to A baptized person is purified of sin this happy release as merely coincidental or Reflection the result of human political maneuvers. The Church celebrated the feast of the Rather, God provided for it. God has Nativity at Christmas, rejoicing in the birth and reborn as a child of God promised to protect the people. The people of the Lord in time and space. In observing I have a friend who is driving me crazy our pastor placed the Christmas crib in front upset the arrangement by sinning. the feast of the Epiphany, the Church Qabout “reborn Christians.” That’s all he of the church, to the side of the main altar. Despite their sinfulness, however, God joyfully proclaimed to us that the Lord ever talks about, and he says that is the one way That way, one would be able to kneel at the was constant. He provided. came to show all of us the unlimited love to salvation. I think he needs to be straightened altar rail to pray while viewing the crib. For its second reading this weekend, the of God for us. The feast of the Baptism of out. Would you please give But we have a new priest, and he has the Church presents a passage from St. Paul’s the Lord told us that Jesus lived, and me all the information you crib in the back of the church. I have been a First Epistle to the Corinthians. eventually, died for us. He became one have on this topic? parishioner here for all but seven of my Leading the Corinthian Christians to of us. (Huletts Landing, N.Y.) 84 years, and this is the first time this has genuine fidelity was a considerable This weekend, in the words of Isaiah, ever happened. challenge for Paul. In reaction to rivalries the Church reminds us that no earthly or The term “reborn”— Why is there no room on the sanctuary and arguments in Corinth, Paul wrote human force, however mighty, is beyond Aor “born again”—is floor for the Christ Child, who is the center what has become a blueprint for Christian God’s strength given to those of faith, such widely associated with of our lives? (Atlantic City, N.J.) living. He reminded the Corinthians to as Mary. evangelical Christianity, whom he wrote that each of them has The story of Cana reinforces us in our and is used to describe a It’s a bit difficult to answer without special gifts and opportunities. Such faith. By this miracle, Jesus teaches us that “conversion experience” in Aknowing the exact size and proportions diversity was welcome since it meant that no human situation should distract us from which a person consciously accepts Jesus as his of your church’s sanctuary. I can tell you, there were so many occasions for the fact that being with God is our destiny or her personal Savior. It is often linked with though, that the main focus of a church individual believers to bring the sweetness and therefore our priority. moments of deep emotional satisfaction. should always be the altar since that is of the Gospel into the world. Paul even An important fundamental lesson is that In his book Born Again, the recently where the sacrifice of Christ is offered and lists different skills and talents to make earthly concerns are not everything. Our deceased Watergate conspirator Charles Colson where Christ becomes present. his point. intention must be everlastingly to be with described such an experience while he was Consistent with that, the “General St. John’s Gospel supplies the the Lord in heaven. † incarcerated. Instruction of the Roman Missal,” in #299, Having asked Jesus to come into his life and says the altar should have ample room for having committed himself to Christ, Colson the ministers of the Mass to walk around. My Journey to God wrote, “With these few words ... came a More specifically, a document devoted to sureness of mind that matched the depth of Church art and architecture titled “Built of feeling in my heart. There came something Living Stones,” issued by the U.S. more—strength and serenity, a wonderful new Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2000, assurance about life.” explains that “the altar should remain clear The Catholic view links being “reborn” to and free-standing, not walled in by massive the sacrament of baptism, referencing the floral displays or the Christmas crib.” words of Jesus to Nicodemus in the third At the same time, the Christmas crib is

File photo by MaryFile photo by Ann Garber chapter of St. John’s Gospel, where Christ clearly a valued object of devotion and equates being “born again” with “being born of should be placed where families can draw water and Spirit” (Jn 3:5). near to it with ease. It may be that in its new The Catechism of the Catholic Church says, position in your parish church, it is now “Baptism not only purifies from all sins, but even more accessible than it was when also makes the [baptized person] ‘a new people knelt at the Communion rail to creature,’ an adopted son of God” (#1265). view it. Since most Catholics were baptized as infants, as far back as they can recall they have (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth believed, trusted and loved Jesus as Savior and Doyle at [email protected] and Lord. They recognize that their baptism 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.) † commits them to a gradual but lifelong Feel the hope, the love of this place. deepening of their faith in Christ and holiness of life. Readers may submit prose Cathedral Eyes see the pictures of the pain, As to your friend’s contention that a By Katie Ulrich the hardship of the Rock, of our “born-again” experience is the only route to or poetry for faith column cathedral, the sacred place that salvation, I would refer him to the Second The Criterion invites readers Pillar’s gold shimmers brightly in the sun, consumes our hearts. Vatican Council’s decree “Lumen Gentium.” to submit original prose or poetry streaming in the stained-glass window. In that document, the council fathers relating to faith or experiences of Angels above me feel explained that “those who, through no fault of prayer for possible publication in the Quietness fills the air, the Spirit’s fiery heat, their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or “My Journey to God” column. sitting silently in a pew. the holy flame burning bright his Church, but who nevertheless seek God Seasonal reflections also are The mural of him is so big, so pretty. in you, in me with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try appreciated. Please include name, Spiral stairs adorn the sides. because of this holy place. in their actions to do his will as they know it address, parish and telephone number through the dictates of their conscience—those with submissions. (Katie Ulrich is a member of St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County, and an too may achieve eternal salvation” (#16). Send material for consideration to eighth-grade student in her parish’s school. The crucifix and mosaic in the sanctuary “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis has inspired prayer for the thousands Why should a priest put the crèche in the Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 or e-mail of Catholics who have come there for worship for several decades.) Qback of the church? We happen to have a to [email protected]. † small church with no side altars, and for years Page 14 The Criterion Friday, Janaury 18, 2013

Wife of Charles Gottemoeller. Mother of Daniel and Timothy Gottemoeller. Grandmother of two. Rest in peace HAHN, Norbert V., 85, St. Mary, Greensburg, Dec. 24. Please submit in writing to our Karla Coots and W. Allen Father of Nicki Wuestefeld, office by 10 a.m. Thursday Cundiff. Grandmother of five. Andy, Dan, Gordon, Mark, Pat before the week of publication; Great-grandmother of five. and Ted Hahn. Brother of Ralph Hahn. Grandfather of 22. Great- be sure to state date of death. CRAWLEY, Wilbur, III, 61, grandfather of seven. Obituaries of archdiocesan St. Agnes, Nashville, Dec. 12. priests serving our archdiocese Husband of Julianna Crawley. HALLER, Jim, 63, St. Paul, are listed elsewhere in Father of Anna and Joshua Tell City, Dec. 25. Father of The Criterion. Order priests Crawley. Son of Mary Crawley. Brenda Popp. Brother of Connie Wales of England and Conference Bishops’ CNS photo/Marcin Mazur, and religious sisters and Brother of Barbara Arnold, Mary Betz, Becky Blum, Judy Raaf, brothers are included here, Back, Lisa Carr, Monica Fritsch, Barb and Mary Haller. unless they are natives of the Laura Hoog, Cynthia Reed, Grandfather of one. Step-grand - archdiocese or have other Brian, Martin, Michael and father of one. connec tions to it; those are Philip Crawley. Half-brother HUBER, Elden, 77, St. Joseph, separate obituaries on this of Jennie Burgess and page. St. Leon, Dec. 29. Father of Bob, Montissa Rookard. Don and Jim Huber. Grandfather BARTLEY, Betty Jane, 83, DAUBY, Albert G., 97, St. Paul, of 10. Great-grandfather of two. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Tell City, Dec. 26. Father of JENKINS, Nancy S., 76, Jan. 1. Mother of Anna Dailey, Brenda Lee. Brother of Delores Christopher and Mark Bartley. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, James. Grandfather of two. New Albany, Dec. 23. Mother Grandmother of 13. Great-grand - Great-grandfather of one. mother of eight. of Sandy Winn and Herbert Snow in Bethlehem DEER, David A., 66, Jenkins III. BENNETT, Ethan Hunter St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Children pose with a snowman outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Martin, 19, St. Joseph, JOHNSON, Bobby Jean, 82, Dec. 28. Husband of Jo Ann Bethlehem on Jan. 9 during a rare cold spell. Clark County, Sept. 12. Son of Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Dec. 9. Deer. Father of Amy and Eric Mother of Catherine Honeycutt, Tony and Kelley Bennett. Brother Deer. Grandfather of two. of Collin and Zachary Bennett. Andrew, Chris, Daniel, Eric, KOWALSKI, Jerome J., 75, McManama. Grandfather of 13. Rose Roell, Rita Struewing, Grandson of Kenneth and DENNY, Erstel, 85, James, Philip and Sean Johnson Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, and Jim Burrows. Sister of St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Great-grandfather of one. Dorothy, Albert, Arthur, Bernard Barbara Bailey and Jerry and Dec. 27. Husband of Barbara and Joseph Schneider. Charlotte Bennett. Dec. 21. Husband of Mary Marlene Brinkman, Jane Elson, MILLER, Kathryn (Feeney) Denny. Father of Helen Martin, Donna Mundy and Darrell Deck. Kowalski. Father of Kathleen Gaughan, 97, St. Pius X, SCHUTZ, John Joseph, Jr., 94, BERSOT, Marie, 99, Jacqueline Stone, Darrell and Grandmother of 27. Great-grand - Allison and Patrick Kowalski. Indianapolis, Dec. 23. Mother of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, John Denny. Brother of Rev. mother of 16. Brother of James Kowalski. Kathy White and Patrick New Albany, Jan. 1. Father of Dec. 26. Aunt of several. Stepbrother of Carole Kauss. Charles and Donald Denny. JONES, Raymond, 86, Gaughan. Grandmother of seven. Jeanne Brashear, Ivar Zzyznius, Grandfather of four. Great- BIGGS, Malcolm S., Jr., 73, Grand father of 13. Great-grand - St. Bridget, Liberty, Nov. 19. Great-grandmother of 10. Sara and David Schutz. Brother Our Lady of Lourdes, father of three. Great-great- Husband of May Jones. Father of grandfather of 10. of Eugene Schutz. Grandfather of grand father of one. MOSS, Nancy (Fields), 77, Indianapolis, Dec. 27. Husband Kendra Brooks, Karen Faverty, KUBEC, Beverly L., 84, St. Charles Borromeo, nine. Great-grandfather of 17. of Debbie Biggs. Father of Lori DIETZ, Robert L., 69, Karla Kaufman and Kathy St. Luke the Evangelist, Bloomington, Dec. 11. Wife SCHWEITZER, Penny Marie O’Brien, Amanda, Nicole, St. Louis, Batesville, Dec. 19. Ramey. Brother of Dorothy, Indianapolis, Dec. 23. Wife of of Clemens Moss. (Litch), 52, St. Mary, Lanesville, Rebecca and Michael Biggs. Brother of Jane Fullenkamp. James and Joseph Jones. Willett Kubec. Mother of O’SHAUGHNESSY, Dec. 20. Mother of Brandy Brother of Diane Edwards and Uncle of several. Grandfather of 15. Great-grand - Carolyn McClamroch. Sister of Raymond A., 81, St. Pius X, Schaeffer, Michael Aydlett and Robert Biggs. Grandfather father of 21. William Lanphere. Grandmother DOLL, Dorothy L., 96, Indianapolis, Dec. 12. Husband James Litch. Sister of Robyn of five. of three. Holy Family, Oldenburg, KAZMIERZAK, Beatrice F., of Patricia O’Shaughnessy. Gosselin, Terri Waggoner, Rick BRUNS, Irene F., 86, Dec. 28. Mother of Julie 82, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, LIVERS, Lois Jean Father of Colleen Baumgartner, Ford, Joe Knaebel and Toby St. Michael, Brookville, Dec. 27. Eckstein, Mary Ellen Grossman, Dec. 30. Mother of Cynthia (Thallemer), 85, St. Rose of Peggy, Dennis, Michael and Litch. Grandmother of four. Mother of Carolyn Erfman, Dan Cathy Schene, Donna and Barnes, Susan Nix, Debora Lima, Franklin, Dec. 7. Mother Patrick O’Shaughnessy. Brother SIMPSON, Leo K., 95, St. Paul, and Stephen Bruns. Sister of Zimmermann, Allen, Larry, George Doll. Grandmother of 26. of Leanne Gilmore, Gail Trafford of Jack O’Shaughnessy. Grand - Tell City, Dec. 7. Father of Bill, Alice Gesell, Yvonne Hornbach, Great-grandmother of 53. Great- Lt. Col. Michael, Robert and Roy and David Livers. Sister of Don father of eight. Great-grandfather Kerry and Richard Simpson. Patricia Moody, Joe, Tom and great-grandmother of one. Kazmierzak. Sister of Hilda Thallemer. Grandmother of five. of one. William Ratz. Grandmother of SONSINI, James Sr., 87, EBBING, Eugene, 59, Kunz. Grandmother of 23. Great- Great-grandmother of two. 16. Great-grandmother of 28. RENN, Martha, 99, St. Joseph, St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 9. St. Joseph, Jennings County, Dec. grandmother of nine. LONGENECKER, Susana, 81, Clark County, Dec. 21. Mother of Husband of Elizabeth Sonsini. BURCH, Edith A., 92, 23. Husband of Elizabeth KINNEN, Charles M., 99, St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 12. Juanita Byers, Doris Edwards, Father of Mary Siler, Barbara Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Dec. 6. (Cornett) Ebbing. Father of St. Mark the Evangelist, Mother of Terri Bullerdick and Judith Spond, Alvin and Charles Wood, Annie and James and Mother of Lynn Lawson, Barbara Jennifer and Andrew Ebbing. Indianapolis, Jan. 6. Husband of Pam O’Banion. Grandmother Renn. Grandmother of 15. Great- John Sonsini. Brother of Mary McLaughlin and T.J. Burch. Brother of Rosemary Hyde, Anna Ruth (Hivnor) Kinnen. Father of grandmother of 27. Great-great- of five. Williams. Grandfather of eight. Sister of Marcella Doyle and Marie Palazzolo, Theresa Luanne, Pamela and Charles grandmother of five. Marie Williams. Grandmother of Peacock, Cathy Wardrop, John Kinnen Jr. Brother of Warren MADDOX, Gladys, 90, Great-grandfather of six. ROSENGARTEN, Mary D., nine. Great-grandmother of nine. and Tony Ebbing. Grandfather Kinnen. Grandfather of three. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus SPAETH, Betty J., 78, St. Mary, 83, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, of two. Great-grandfather of one. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Rushville, Dec. 15. Wife of CARNEY, Carole (Houppert), Dec. 12. Wife of Dick Nov. 19. Mother of Michael Bernard Spaeth. Mother of 63, St. Bernadette, Indianapolis, ELIXMAN, John Robert, 81, KLUMP, Joseph Frank, 101, Rosengarten. Mother of Jean Loudin. Sister of Paul Yanich. Dec. 20. Wife of Stephen Carney. St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Jan. 3. St. Paul, New Alsace, Dec. 6. Davidson, Mary Beth Fortson, Connie Amos, Eileen Clemons, Grandmother of three. Mother of Desiree and Genevieve Husband of Marcia Elixman. Uncle of several. Jim and Rick Rosengarten. Jennifer Hoeing, Ann Robben, Carney. Daughter of Robert and Patty Schultz, Jeanie Sutter, Father of Beth Campbell, Kathy KNUEVEN, Howard B., 89, McDERMOTT, Martin Grand mother of nine. Mildred (Watson) Houppert. Hirtz-Bickel, John and Ric Bengie, Bill, Chuck, David, Jim, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Downing, 80, St. Luke the RUEHRWEIN, Georgia Marie, Sister of Mary Williams, Bonnie, Elixman. Grandfather of eight. Bill and Richard Spaeth. Grand - Dec. 26. Husband of Carolyn Evangelist, Indianapolis, Dec. 30. 92, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Christine, Brian and Kevin Great-grandfather of one. mother of 44. Great-grandmother Knueven. Father of Leacarol Father of Jean Cratty, Vivian Nov. 30. Wife of William Houppert. of 11. GEIS, William, 77, St. Peter, Bennett, Susan Wong, Chris, Jim Getz, Catherine McClure, Ruehrwein. Mother of Sharon CRONIN, James David, Sr., 74, Franklin County, Dec. 25. Father and Kevin Knueven. Brother of Suzanne Sherman, John, Martin, Kwiecinski, Rose VonHolle, SPERZEL, Virginia Adeline Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, of Linda Decler, Sharon Charlene Rauch, Msgr. Harold, Russell and William McDermott. Susan Wendel, Steven and (Naville), 101, St. Mary Dec. 14. Father of Donna Stise, Gramman, Betty Schuman, Joe and Willard Knueven. Grand - Grandfather of 16. Great-grand - William Ruehrwein. Grand - Navilleton, Floyds Knobs, James Jr. and Michael Cronin. Peggy Smith and William Geis. father of 11. Great-grandfather father of nine. mother of 11. Great-grandmother Dec. 12. Mother of Betty Atkins Brother of Kitty Tiederman, Joe, Brother of Adeline Kuebel, of seven. McMANAMA, Jerre, Sr., 76, of three. and Larry Sperzel. Grandmother Carroll and Ralph Geis. Grand - of one. Richie and Ronnie Cronin. KOMLANC, Mary M., 95, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 22. SCHNEIDER, Wilbur, 64, father of 18. Great-grandfather Grand father of 10. Great-grand - Holy Trinity, Indianapolis, Husband of Donna McManama. St. Joseph, St. Leon, Dec. 7. STALKER, Patrick, 77, of six. father of three. Dec. 12. Mother of Mary Agnes Father of Kellie, Jerre Jr., Kerry Husband of Ella Rose Schneider. St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, CUNDIFF, Johanna Marie, 82, GOTTEMOELLER, Marjorie Collins, Diane, Frank Jr., Mike and Kevin McManama, Danny, Brother of Marie Dierckman, Dec. 24. Husband of Janet Most Sacred Heart, Ann (Brewer), 86, St. Mark the and Tom Komlanc. Grandmother Kenny and Tim Humbert. Theresa Eckerle, Frances Stalker. Brother of Shirley Jeffersonville, Dec. 19. Mother of Evangelist, Indianapolis, Dec. 21. of 11. Great-grandmother of 19. Brother of Tina and Terry Hartman, Ruth Messerschmidt, Butler. † Providence Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin taught at Benedictine Sister Mary Constance Kleeman taught Catholic schools in several states for 41 years in many schools in the archdiocese Providence Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin died on schools in Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Benedictine Sister Mary Constance Sister Mary Constance ministered in Dec. 21, 2012, at Mother Theodore Hall at New Hampshire. For 10 of those years, she served Kleeman, a member of Our Lady of Grace Catholic schools for several decades. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 86. as principal. Monastery in Beech Grove, died on In the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, she The Mass of Christian Burial was In the archdiocese, Sister Mary Eleanor taught celebrated on Jan. 5 at the Church of the at the former St. Ann School in Terre Haute from Dec. 31, 2012, at St. Paul Hermitage in taught or served as principal at Christ the Immaculate Conception at the motherhouse. 1950-51, the former St. Anne School in New Castle Beech Grove. She was 95. King School and the former Assumption Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. from 1952-55 and the former St Ann School in The Mass of Christian Burial was School, both in Indianapolis; St. Ambrose Marilyn Barbara Galvin was born on Dec. 3, Indianapolis from 1958-59. celebrated on Jan. 5 at Our Lady of Grace School in Seymour; the former St. Columba 1926, in Malden, Mass. In 1988, she began ministry in pastoral care at Monastery Chapel. Burial followed at the School in Columbus; St. Joseph School in She entered the congregation of the Sisters Providence Health Care. sisters’ cemetery at the monastery. Corydon; the former St. Joseph School in of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on In 1999, Sister Mary Eleanor retired and Sister Mary Constance was born on Clark County; St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Feb. 2, 1945, and professed her final vows on volunteered in the office that promoted the Feb. 6, 1917, in Clinton, Ill., and given the School in Floyd County; and the former Aug. 15, 1952. canonization of St. Theodora Guérin, foundress of name Cecilia Philomena at her baptism. St. Paul School in Tell City. Sister Mary Eleanor earned a bachelor’s degree the Sisters of Providence. She entered Monastery Immaculate Memorial gifts may be sent to the at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Surviving is a sister, Providence Sister Conception in 1934 and professed Retired Sisters’ Fund, c/o Our Lady of master’s degrees from St. Michael University in Michaela Galvin. perpetual vows in 1939. She became a Grace Monastery, 1402 Southern Ave., Winooski Park, Vt., and Emmanuel College Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of founding member of Our Lady of Grace Beech Grove, IN 46107 or online at in Boston. Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Monastery in 1960. www.benedictine.com. † During 67 years as a Sister of Providence, she Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, ministered as an educator for 41 years at Catholic IN 47876. † The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Page 15 C.S. Lewis’ exploration of Christian faith inspires new generation OXFORD, England (CNS)—In who were also interesting. The evil acting a part, eating and drinking a wooded suburb of this fabled characters were always more my own condemnation.” university city, a battered typewriter compelling,” she said. “By When Lewis returned to the sits on a desk beside a bay window portraying Christ as the lion Aslan Anglican faith at Oxford in 1931— that overlooks a tangled landscape in the Narnia stories, he hoped to thanks to the devoutly Catholic EnterprisesCNS/Disney of oaks and beeches. reveal the real-life attractiveness of Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Nearby, ancient bookshelves the holy.” Rings trilogy—he described guard a leather armchair A native of what is now himself as “the most dejected and surrounded by wall maps and Northern Ireland, Lewis won an reluctant convert in all England.” pictures depicting a fantasy world. Oxford scholarship in 1916, Although Lewis disappointed When Clive Staples Lewis graduating after fighting in the Tolkien by declining to become a bought The Kilns, a former brick trenches of World War I. He Catholic, he was sympathetic to the factory, in 1930, he used its remote became a fellow of Oxford’s Catholic doctrines of confession calm to produce a stream of Magdalen College in 1925. and prayers to the saints. His return Christian stories, the best known of The city is full of landmarks to faith released new powers of Ben Barnes and Warwick Davis star in a scene from the 2008 release which, The Chronicles of Narnia, connected to Lewis. There is the imagination and launched him on a The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Three blockbuster movies have been has since sold 100 million copies in Eagle and Child pub where his fresh career as an interpreter who released based on C.S. Lewis’ bestselling series. more than 45 languages. literary group, The Inklings, met; popularized Christianity. But Lewis also gained renown the walkways where he nurtured his Lewis’ Mere Christianity, based communities could be corrupted “Lewis owed it to his fans to for his Christian apologetics. His fascination for Nordic, Celtic and on wartime broadcasts for the BBC, with “uneasy intensity and avoid complexities and set Mere Christianity, published in Greek legends; and the Anglican tackled popular objections to defensive self-righteousness.” Christianity’s core beliefs in place,” 1952, was rated “best religious Holy Trinity Church where he Christianity, stripping it to its In The Great Divorce, he Hooper told CNS. book of the 20th century” by the lies buried. essentials with simple arguments exposed the vulnerability of human “But he was adamant those core U.S. magazine Christianity Today. As a new generation is and observations. self-awareness, while in Reflections beliefs, the deposit of faith, must Until now, Lewis has been introduced to the world of Narnia, Diarmaid MacCulloch, on the Psalms he explained why the always remain, no matter how largely Anglican Father Michael Ward, a professor of Church history at Old Testament’s contents, however things change. If you get rid of ignored at university chaplain, said he thinks Oxford, said Lewis’ “terrible and contemptible,” were Christianity’s sense and meaning, Oxford Lewis’ Christian vision is gaining a nondenominational approach to needed to show humanity’s you’ll have nothing to come back University, new relevance. Christianity explains his popularity true colors. to,” he said. where he Lewis’ work has appeared on in the U.S., and is giving him Walter Hooper, an American Lewis has been criticized by taught for reading lists in both English renewed appeal today. Catholic who was living with atheists in Britain and the U.S., three literature and systematic theology at “Lewis has become a Lewis at the time of his death, while many professional decades, Oxford. The C.S. Lewis Society standard-bearer for conservative remembers the author as affable theologians still maintain a haughty until his hosts weekly seminars at the Christians when religion seems to and hard-drinking, but also as a disdain for him. death in university’s Pusey House. be undergoing a great realignment man who sincerely attempted, But Hooper predicted Lewis’ 1963. He “Like his close friend, between the forces of tradition against difficult odds, to live a contribution to popularizing has gained J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis expressed his and change,” MacCulloch told Christian life. Christianity will gain ever greater C.S. Lewis greater Christian faith through narrative Catholic News Service. “This Now 81 and a trustee of Lewis’ acknowledgment, especially when recognition and imagination which seems to be tension runs across the theological estate, Hooper has edited Lewis’ the Christian faith appears in danger in the U.S., where the Episcopal chiming in with contemporary categories and can now unite a letters and diaries, some of which of being ignored. Church celebrates a “Holy C.S. needs,” explained Father Ward, conservative Catholic with a were rescued from a bonfire “Lewis believed he had a Lewis Day” each November. co-editor of the groundbreaking conservative Protestant, something two months after the writer’s death. responsibility to spread the Gospel With interest growing, however, The Cambridge Companion to which wouldn’t have happened He agreed that interest in Lewis through his writings and showed and three books of the Narnia C.S. Lewis. half a century ago.” also is growing among Catholics. how Christianity could be presented series now blockbuster films, things “People are picking up Other experts concur that Lewis During a 1988 Cambridge in almost any form, from science are changing. intuitively again on the timeless succeeded in capturing the University lecture, then-Cardinal fiction to children’s fables,” “Lewis wasn’t a professional religious element in his books, even Christian imagination where the Joseph Ratzinger praised Lewis’ Hooper said. theologian, but his sense of the if they’re not directly aware of their theological abstractions of rejection of “destructive relativism.” “Because the academics world Christianity portrays was just fundamentally Christian message,” churches often seemed too Hooper recalled how wouldn’t touch him, it’s taken a as profound as the best modern the priest said. high brow. Blessed John Paul II also revealed a long time for his creativity to be theologians,” said Judith Wolfe, an Lewis was raised in the Anglican In The Screwtape Letters, a knowledge of Lewis’ works taken seriously. But Lewis couldn’t expert on the author and a theology Church of Ireland, but abandoned series of imagined exchanges when the two met during a 1988 deal with anything without faculty member of Oxford’s his faith in school, recalling in between an older and younger general audience in Rome and the illuminating it, and I think many St. John’s College. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of my demon, Lewis satirized human late pope lauded his 1960 work, people are now appreciating the “He realized Christian literature Early Life how he had received weakness and self-deception, The Four Loves, as well as Lewis’ inspirational power which runs wasn’t presenting good characters Communion “in total disbelief, showing how Christian devotion to a practical apostolate. through his work,” he said. † Supreme Court lets stand policy on embryonic stem-cell research funds WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Supreme Court on of lines that existed to that point. stem cells derived from embryos created for artificial Jan. 7 let stand a lower court order allowing government The two scientists, Dr. James Sherley and Theresa insemination and donated to scientists after the parents funding of research involving certain embryonic Deisher, sought to block the expansion, arguing that it was decided to discard them. stem-cell lines. barred under a 1996 law, known as the Dickey-Wicker The Catholic Church opposes stem-cell research that The court also scheduled oral arguments for March in amendment, that prohibits use of federal funds for “the destroys human embryos. The same objections do not two cases over state laws on same-sex marriage. creation of a human embryo or embryos for research arise over research using adult stem-cell lines because Without comment, the court let stand an August ruling purposes” or “research in which a human embryo or these are cells taken from anyone after birth. by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of embryos are destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to The court the same day announced that oral Columbia which dismissed a lawsuit by two scientists risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research arguments would be heard on consecutive days who said the funding policy inhibits their chance of on fetuses in utero.” in March in cases over same-sex marriage laws. getting government grants for their research on adult stem In his August ruling, Chief Judge David B. Sentelle of On March 26, the court will hear arguments in cells, and argued that violates another law. the D.C. Circuit, said the National Institutes of Health’s Hollingsworth v. Perry, which considers California’s Under a 2009 policy, the government began allowing (NIH) interpretation of the Dickey-Wicker amendment was Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. federal funding of research on human embryos that were “reasonable” in permitting funding of embryonic stem-cell On March 27, it will take up United States created for in vitro fertilization but were no longer needed research using cells derived using private funds. v. Windsor, which weighs the constitutionality of the for that purpose. Under a previous policy, government Sentelle said the funding guidelines promulgated by federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines funding was allowed on stem cells derived from a handful NIH in 2009 correctly and legally allowed funding on marriage as between one man and one woman. †

Legal Vacation Rental BEACHFRONT CONDO, Maderia Beach, Fl., 2BR/2BA, pool & 25ft If you are a victim of balcony overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Meet Indpls. owner. See Classified Directory Report sexual misconduct by a person photos, maps. Call Robin at 317-506-8516. For information about rates for classified advertising, call (317) 236-1454. ministering on behalf of the Home Improvement Education sexual Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim of Brother’s Construction misconduct such misconduct, please contact D &24-hour S ROOFING service! Online Lay Ministry Formation the archdiocesan victim Rubber, torch downs, hot tar roofs, Chimney’s cleaned & inspected $99.00 reroof and tearoffs. assistance coordinator: The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the now • Any large or small repairs • Furnace Specialist • Wind or hail damage repairs University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Call Dale for free estimates! • Complete Chimney 317-357-4341 to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1410 Licensed • Bonded • Insured & Furnace Work 33 years experience • References available • Brick & Concrete Specialist • Courses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church from CDU 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 • Home Electrical Work • All 12 classes for a Certificate in Lay Ministry available online [email protected] KELLY’S • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners • Fencing & Carpentry Work • Employees also receive reimbursement upon course completion GUTTER SERVICE St. Lawrence Parishioner Gutter Cleaning Only For more information, please log on to Free Estimates Serving the Eastside since 1976 www.archindy.org/layministry Web space for sale! Call 236-1454 today! 317-862-9377 5066 E. Michigan Street 317 501-4830 Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 18, 2013 Community helps bring Eagle Scout’s prayer garden project to life

By Leslie Lynch which then turned into heavy Special to The Criterion equipment-breaking day. Even heavier equipment was required to get the job LANESVILLE—Josh Hublar of done. The intense labor of erecting a St. Mary Parish in Lanesville almost retaining wall happened to coincide

quit Boy Scouts when he was 14. with the hottest day of the year. Leslie Lynch Submitted photos by “I was tired of Scouting,” he said. Josh despaired several times, afraid “It wasn’t fun.” that the project had failed before it had But Scouting is Scout-driven, not a chance to start. adult-led. He woke up one morning and But with the encouragement of his realized the responsibility for change dad, Rob Hublar, and guidance from rested squarely on his shoulders. parishioners Jerry Philpot and “I can’t sit here and keep David Fulkerson, the prayer garden complaining about how things in my began to take shape. troop are going. I might as well step Over the next few months, the up,” he thought. foundation for the inscribed granite was Josh ran for and won a leadership prepared and final funds were raised. role in his troop, and the outcome of A three-week delay on delivery of that decision changed his life. the granite—which came from The next few years sped by in a South Dakota via an inexplicable detour flurry of school, Scouts, family and through Canada—created Church activities, and Josh earned all more pressure. the requirements for Eagle Scout except The stone finally arrived, but it for the culminating project. was already October, and Josh’s His mother, Donna Hublar, urged 18th birthday was on Nov. 7. him to complete the process. “I was able to squeeze it all in, and we “I told him he’d regret not earning got it [the prayer garden] done two weeks Eagle rank,” she said, “but that he’d before my birthday,” he said. never regret getting it.” The dual boards of review quickly But no projects piqued his interest— followed, and Josh accomplished his not that they were unworthy ideas, but goal with mere days to spare. because they came pre-packaged, Parishioners supported the needing only a body to execute them. project with enthusiasm, ordering just He wanted to do something that would shy of 150 engraved stones and raising leave a lasting impression—a project nearly $12,000. over which he would have total control Eleven businesses donated material, and a weighty equipment, time and responsibility. labor, and 41 people On a Scouting ‘I told him he’d regret volunteered more trip, he walked along than 900 hours in a trail built by not earning Eagle sweat equity— another Scout as his rank, but that he’d literally—during Eagle project, and the one of the hottest seed was planted. never regret getting it.’ Hoosier summers The opportunity on record. Father Juan Valdes, administrator at St. Mary Parish in Lanesville, blesses the new prayer garden on Dec. 2 for quiet, solitude —Donna Hublar, Josh recognizes on the parish’s grounds during a dedication ceremony. He is assisted by Eagle Scout Josh Hublar, a member and reflection is the impact of the of the parish, who built the prayer garden for his Eagle Scout project. important to Josh, Eagle Scout Josh community’s and he began to think Hublar’s mother support in bringing about a place “to his vision to life. look over Lanesville, “I couldn’t have to sit and relax, and be by yourself for done it without everybody’s help,” he a little bit.” said. The idea of a prayer garden His Eagle Scout award has already was born. changed his future. St. Mary Church is situated at the Like many high school students, Josh top of a hill overlooking the town, and hadn’t paid much attention to his grades the parish cemetery rises on a gentle until he got closer to graduation and knoll above the church. began looking at college entrance He could visualize a stone grotto at requirements. the base of the cemetery, easily His grade point average on its own accessible to parishioners from the wasn’t enough to gain admittance to the parking lot. school of his choice. Paving the floor of the grotto with But Indiana State University individualized, engraved stones would officials in Terre Haute gave him a create a link between parishioners, chance to answer three more loved ones they wished to honor and questions before they decided on his future visitors to the space. admission application. Josh presented a plan to the parish Had he done any community service council then waited eight months for projects? On what does he base his approval. When it finally came, he leadership? What has made a big impact sprang into action. in his life? In order to meet the requirements for “Shoot, I might as well start talking The new prayer garden at St. Mary Parish in Lanesville. Eagle rank, the project not only had to about Eagle Scout,” Josh said. be completed, Josh also had to go Based on his response, Indiana State before two review boards before he University, where he plans to study turned 18. He had just celebrated his automotive engineering, accepted him. 17th birthday, and the clock “Everything’s falling together for was ticking. me,” he said. “I was so used to Josh knew that he wanted granite everything falling apart while I was instead of paver stones for its enduring building the project.” qualities, and by then he had researched The prayer garden was dedicated on the basics of the construction process. Dec. 2, 2012. Numerous companies stood ready to Josh, wearing his new Eagle patch on donate supplies, but the project’s cost his Scout uniform, assisted as skyrocketed with the choice of granite. Father Juan Valdes, the parish’s He launched a “Buy a Stone” administrator, prayed for God’s blessing campaign at the parish then lost sleep on the site. over the possibility that his family Many people lingered afterward to would end up bearing the cost. view the stones they had commissioned. “I didn’t want to put that burden on Josh Hublar dreamed big, learned to my parents,” he said. “I’ve never been ask for help and left this legacy for so stressed in my life.” St. Mary Parish in Lanesville—“A He was ecstatic when Rena Phillips, place for prayer, meditation, silence and office manager at St. Mary Parish, reflection. A place to remember those called and told him that enough money whom we love. A place to gather as had been raised to begin the project. one.” Soon, there were other challenges. Eagle Scout Josh Hublar poses with family members on Dec. 2 after the dedication ceremony. Shown from Groundbreaking day on June 2 (Leslie Lynch is a member of St. Mary left are his grandmother, Virginia Hublar; Josh’s mom, Virginia Hublar; Josh Hublar; and his grandmother, turned into bedrock-breaking day, Parish in Lanesville.) † Mildred Heitkemper.