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CriterionOnline.com October 30, 2009 Vol. L, No. 5 75¢ African synod closes with message, Mass and final proposals VATICAN CITY (CNS)—After three weeks of discussion and strategizing, the Synod of Bishops for Africa ended with calls for spiritual conversion and social reforms on the African continent. The more than 200 participating bishops published a message to the world on Oct. 23, appealing for a fairer global order based on Pope Benedict XVI Gospel values and telling corrupt Catholic politicians in Africa to “repent or resign” in the name of the common good. At a closing Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25, Pope Benedict XVI said if the Church wants to change hearts and minds in Africa it must itself be a model of unity with “no divisions based on ethnic, language or cultural groups.” The pope, who presided over most of the synod sessions, lunched with participants on Hughes Submitted photo/Kent Oct. 24 and thanked them for “a good job.” John Shaughnessy Photo by He also received 57 final propositions from High above the ground, 13-year-old Irene Velicer begins to swing on the trapeze—part of an unusual and breathtaking physical education class at the synod to be used as the basis for a papal St. Charles Borromeo School in Bloomington. document on pastoral directions in Africa. The propositions called for a new spirituality to counter bad government, ethnic Trapeze program at St. Charles Borromeo School tensions, disease, exploitation by multi - national companies and the cultural agenda of in Bloomington offers lessons in faith and trust foreign aid organizations. The pope encouraged the bishops to return By John Shaughnessy adrenaline rushing through her body. to their African dioceses and broadcast their Moving to the edge of the platform, Delaney reached for 11-page message, which denounced moral BLOOMINGTON—As she climbed higher and the trapeze in front of her. Then she glanced at a and social ills while reminding Africans of higher, 13-year-old Delaney Halloran didn’t think second trapeze about 30 feet away, straight ahead their traditional values, particularly regarding about how she was taking part in one of the most of her. There, Janet French—a 54-year-old mother the family. unusual and breathtaking physical education classes of three who is also the school’s physical education The message said poverty, misery, war and in the archdiocese—and even in the United States. teacher—hung upside down, preparing for the chaos are most often caused by “a tragic The eighth-grade student at St. Charles moment when she would try to catch Delaney as complicity and criminal conspiracy of local Borromeo School in Bloomington just focused on the girl jumped from her trapeze. leaders and foreign interests.” climbing the 24 steps up the silver ladder toward While her classmates waited for their turn Africa needs “saintly politicians who will the trapeze—a climb that left her above the nearby below, Delaney took a deep breath, tightened her clean the continent of corruption, work for treetops and looking straight ahead at a blue sky grip on the trapeze and swung forward. Flying the good of the people, and know how to marked with puffy white clouds. through the air, she let go of the bar and extended galvanize other men and women of good will As Delaney perched nervously on a small her arms—reaching, reaching, reaching toward Janet French from outside the Church to join hands against platform that overlooked the elaborate trapeze setup French, who was swinging toward her from the the common evils that beset our nations,” the and the safety net below, she knew that her next step would opposite direction. message said. be the one that would send an exhilarating mix of fear and See TRAPEZE, page 2 See SYNOD, page 8 Mass celebrates canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan

By Mary Ann Wyand them until they go home to God and enter into eternal life. Joy was visible in the shining eyes and St. Jeanne Jugan, whose religious beautiful smiles of the Little Sisters of the Poor name was Sister Mary of the Cross, and the elderly residents of the St. Augustine founded the Little Sisters of the Poor in Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Home for the Aged as they celebrated the 1839 in France to care for the elderly Oct. 11 canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan poor who had no one to love them. during a Mass of Thanksgiving on Oct. 25 at Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, the St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. principal celebrant for the Mass, spoke of And “JOY”—which stands for “Jesus, the saint’s devotion to God, humble others and yourself”—exemplifies the way that service to the poor and love for the the 4,000 Little Sisters throughout the world elderly during his homily. humbly live out their religious vocation by “It was a great day for our Church, lovingly and respectfully serving the elderly indeed for our local Church, as she men and women who spend their final years on [St. Jeanne Jugan] was canonized [by Earth in their homes. Pope Benedict XVI] in Rome on the As the residents near their time of death, the 11th [day] of this month,” he said. “I was Little Sisters and Association Jeanne Jugan lay impressed to learn that a resident of every Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein thanks Sister Judith volunteers take turns sitting quietly by their one of the Little Sisters’ homes for the Meredith, superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor at bedsides, holding their hands, attending to their aged around the world was chosen to be the St. Augustine Home for the Aged, for a medal of needs, listening to their concerns, praying the present for the canonization. Only one St. Jeanne Jugan at the conclusion of an Oct. 25 Our Father and decades of the rosary, singing Little Sister was chosen by lot to be Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Luke the Evangelist hymns, and lovingly passing the hours with See MASS, page 8 Church in Indianapolis. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009

feeling of flying through TRAPEZE the air.” Delaney Halloran continued from page 1 smiled as she talked

Lessons in faith and trust about flying on the John Shaughnessy Photos by There are many classes in schools that trapeze. try to teach safety, self-confidence, faith “It’s pretty scary, but and trust. It’s the rare class that teaches Mrs. French tells you those lessons while students are swinging what to do. And there’s through the air on a trapeze. the net,” Delaney said. Yet for the past 13 years, Janet French “It’s really exhilarating.” has made the trapeze program a part of The stakes and the her physical education curriculum for lessons increase when the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students training involves letting at St. Charles Borromeo School. go of the trapeze and During the week of Oct. 5, French reaching out to be once again trained students in the art and “caught” by a person on technique of being “high flyers”—a week another trapeze. of trapeze training that always culminates French knows how with the students, French and other hard that transition to professional trapeze artists performing a trusting can be for show for the school and the community. students. “At least 25 kids get to be in the “They do have to trust show,” French said. “They’re wearing you,” she said. “For safety lines the whole time, but we do it some, the fear is so great just like we would do a real trapeze that it takes them time to show.” trust you. When they do The focus on safety is so complete that trust you, it’s really fun.” cutline the high-flying students are harnessed and So are the moments attached to safety lines at every turn, from when the students trust the time they stand at the bottom of the themselves. Physical education teacher Janet French, left, demonstrates to Delaney Halloran, right, the way she will “catch” her when ladder to the moment they land in the net “I had a girl once who they swing toward each other in the air. Alejandra Hamilton, second from left, and Denise Dorotheo also listen to the and then return to the ground. reached out for the bar instructions from French. Still, the challenge remains. During while I held onto her,” one training session, students jumped from French recalled. “She was the platform, swung through the air and so nervous the platform lifted their legs toward the trapeze in the was shaking. But by the hope of locking the back of their knees end of the fourth day, she over the bar—a maneuver that left them was doing the most hanging upside down. difficult tricks that anyone “We talk about courage and facing your had ever done here at fears,” said French, a petite woman who St. Charles. has a touch of Peter Pan in her attitude and “And there was movements. “The worst part is climbing one eighth grader who the ladder for the first time and reaching was brand new here. She for the bar. The students go up there, and wasn’t really an athlete their whole body is shaking at first. Some at all. But she was the fall down, but they get back up. And they best in her class at do it. I’m just hoping they can gain self- trapeze. Later, when she confidence and improve their self-esteem.” played volleyball, she said, ‘I’m not very good Physical education teacher and trapeze artist Janet French makes the perfect “catch” as she grasps the arms of one of Caught up in the adventure at sports.’ I reminded her her students at St. Charles Borromeo School in Bloomington. Eighth-grade student Irene Velicer how good she was on the remembers her frightening introduction to trapeze. And she said, ‘Oh, yeah!’ ” challenging, you wouldn’t still be doing it.” the trapeze. French and her now grown children “The first time I did it I was in the Flying through the air continue to be involved in the Bloomington sixth grade,” recalled Irene, 13. “I was One of French’s favorite stories is how High Flyers Circus. They have performed really nervous. The board was shaking. But she became a professional trapeze artist and led trapeze camps across the as soon as I was able to grab a hold of the and how the show became a signature United States and in Canada, Japan and bar, I was able to steady myself. Since event for the school. Puerto Rico. Her children also help her with then, it’s been a lot of fun. I really like the After a trapeze program was started in the trapeze program at St. Charles Borromeo Bloomington by a woman named School every year. Bernadette Pace, French joined it in “When the school hired me as a teacher, I 1991, viewing it as a fun activity to brought up the notion that we should bring in share with her then small children, the high-flying trapeze program and Jake, Hannah and Leah. Drawing introduce it to our middle school students,” from her experience as a gymnast in French said. “We’ve been doing it for high school and a diver in college, 13 years. When the students start, it’s equal French immediately embraced the for everyone. No one is the star athlete.” feeling of soaring through the air on Yet every student has the opportunity to be a trapeze. a star, performing in front of a crowd, high in “This is the greatest thing I’ve the sky. ever done,” she said. “Just flying “It’s something that most people never get through the air and free-falling. You the chance to do,” said Alejandra Hamilton, don’t get that feeling anywhere else. 13, an eighth-grade student. “Before this, I Only flyers understand it.” didn’t know what it was like to be on a Savoring the view, physical education teacher Harnessed to safety lines, eighth-grade student Her daughter, Leah, now 26, trapeze. It’s nice to try something new, Janet French takes a break on the trapeze—an Cole Blessinger reaches for the trapeze, a sport he added, “Every time you get up there, especially something that is so fun and activity that the 54-year-old teacher calls “the considers “fun and different.” it’s scary. If it wasn’t still exciting.” † greatest thing I’ve ever done.”

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Father Brown died on June 21, 2009, at “It’s his essence,” Father Stumpf said. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is made St. Paul Hermitage, where he had lived for “It’s his very being. And out of that, it up of 151 parishes 11 years. He was 82. shapes everything that you do.” spread out across According to Sean Gallagher File photo by 39 counties in central Benedictine Sister A blossoming vocation and southern Indiana. Sharon Bierman, the In Father Brown, Father Stumpf saw the Its ministries take Hermitage’s adminis- great value in the life and ministry of a place there and in trator, Father Brown priest at the end of his life. many schools and charitable agencies in big ministered at the bedside of so many dying In Michael Keucher, he sees the value of cities, small towns and the rural countryside. residents that other residents contemplating the seeds of a possible priestly vocation Retired Father Henry Brown prays the eucharistic But when you boil it all down, this their final days would frequently ask that starting to blossom. prayer during a May 11, 2006, Mass at St. Paul ministry takes place where one person gives he be with them as they experienced the Soon after Hermitage in Beech Grove. Father Brown, who loving care to another. dying process. he arrived at died on June 21, 2009, became a resident at the Father William Stumpf, pastor of She told the story of Mary, a resident St. Charles Hermitage in 1998, and soon became known for St. Charles Borromeo Parish in who was near death for three days. Borromeo Parish in his tireless ministry to his fellow residents who Bloomington, has gained a keen Father Brown hardly ever left her side 2007, Father Stumpf were close to death. appreciation of this during that time. saw that this young fact over the years. “Every five minutes, she would say, man, now 23, was Keucher is able to devote himself full He saw it in the ‘Father Brown, are you there?’ And he quite active in the time to his priestly formation because of loving care that a would say, ‘Yes, Mary, I am here,’ ” parish, going to the way in which Catholics across the retired priest gave to Sister Sharon said. “We brought him his daily Mass often archdiocese support future priests through his dying mother. He meals. He was so devoted to Mary that he Michael Keucher and helping out in the annual appeal. also has seen it in did not want her to say, ‘Father Brown, are its youth group, “It makes me realize just how blessed I the relationship he you there?’ and he would not be able to school and religious education, and am and how really blessed the Church is, has with a young say, ‘Yes, Mary, I am here.’ ” after-school extended care programs. that her own members are so generous and man from his parish, Father Brown ministered to more people “It didn’t surprise me that, within that understand the role of the priest and the who recently than just the dying. Sister Sharon said that first year, he wanted to have lunch and said, dramatic need that we have for them,” Fr. William Stumpf became a seminarian each evening he would visit all the ‘You know, I think I have a vocation,’ ” Keucher said. “The fact that people are so and is exploring the residents’ rooms. Father Stumpf said. generous is just overwhelming.” possibility that God is calling him to the “He’d go in and give them a blessing Keucher became a seminarian this year Although the support Keucher receives priesthood. and say the ‘Angel of God’ prayer with and began his first year of formation at from Catholics across central and southern Both of these groups of people—retired them,” she said. Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana that he will never know is powerful priests and seminarians—give and benefit But it was his ministry to the dying that St. Meinrad in August. to him, he still comes back to the power of from the person-to-person ministry that was the hallmark of Father Brown’s time at Before he left, students at St. Charles the personal ministry and witness that he happens every day across the archdiocese the Hermitage. Borromeo School had a send-off party for received through Father Stumpf. and that Father Stumpf has come to value Although his brother, Robert, died at the him. “God opened a lot of doors for so much. Hermitage seven years ago, Charles Doyle “What a powerful witness for the parish me through him,” Keucher said. “It’s It is these people that Catholics across still speaks with great appreciation for the community,” Father Stumpf said of Keucher. face-to-face contact that really is how central and southern Indiana support ministry that Father Brown gave to him. “To me, it’s just so energizing to have a Christ continues to work through the through their contributions to “Christ Our “Father Brown was there constantly,” young person that on fire with his faith.” Church. I just saw Christ working Hope: Compassion in Community,” the said Doyle, a member of St. Simon the Keucher has enjoyed the slower pace of through Father Bill in my own life, archdiocesan annual stewardship appeal. Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. “He was at seminary life so far. He has been able to kind of inviting me to do things that I his bedside. He would constantly go in and devote a lot of time to prayer, developing wouldn’t have done other wise—inviting ‘Like an angel by his side’ check on him. And through the night, on good relationships with his fellow me to serve at daily Masses, inviting me In 2005, Father Stumpf’s mother died more than one occasion, he would sit with seminarians and to his academic studies. to go to dinners with him to talk about while living at St. Paul Hermitage in him for hours, even when Bob wasn’t able “I’ve really benefited from that,” Keucher things, and inviting me to get more Beech Grove. He was called when it was to talk or recognize anybody. He provided said. “The whole way the schedule is involved in the parish. clear that she was dying. But the priest was Bob with a real peace. structured reflects those values.” “It was through that person-to-person unable to get there before her death. “… He was like an angel by his side, This is in marked contrast to his relationship that I had with him that is a When he arrived, he saw retired constantly with him.” undergraduate days at Indiana University large reason why I’m here.” Father Henry Brown sitting by her bedside. The way in which Father Brown in Bloomington, where he would work “To know that he was with her when continued to minister in his waning years 20 hours a week in the school’s alumni (To learn more about “Christ Our Hope: she died and that he had been praying with embodied for Father Stumpf the Catholic association while carrying a full load of Compassion in Community,” log on to her was so comforting to me,” belief that when a man is ordained a priest, classes. www.archindy.org/ChristOurHope.) † Colts’ Bill Polian is keynote speaker at Catholic School Values awards dinner Criterion staff report Five individuals will also receive schools. Corporate sponsorships are now Career Achievement Awards at the event: being accepted. Platinum partnerships for the Colts president Bill Polian will be the Patricia Cronin of Christ the King Parish in event represent a $15,000 gift for featured speaker during the archdiocese’s Indianapolis, Oliver Jackson of St. Rita Parish scholarships. Gold partners are $10,000, Celebrating Catholic School Values: in Indianapolis, Charles “Chick” Lauck of silver sponsors are $5,000 and bronze partners Scholarship and Career Achievement Awards St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, and are $1,750. dinner on Nov. 10. Robert and Eleanor McNamara of St. Luke The Colts organization will also receive the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. (For sponsorships and ticket information, contact the Community Service Award during the The event will begin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 10 at Rosemary O’Brien at the archdiocesan Office of 14th annual event, which has raised more than the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. 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Parish Daly/Fr. Peter Daly I want to be a priest like that: St. Damien de Veuster Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher In the dark of our parish theater, Damien the Leper. Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus people could not see the tears rolling Those images are still imprinted on my down my face. They mind. I was shocked that leprosy existed could not see my in the real world, not just in the Bible. chin quivering as St. Damien is a “boy’s saint.” He is not Editorial actor Reid Sasser some delicate figure, hidden away in a made Father Damien cloister. He is in the battle for Christ. de Veuster come Like most men, he had a temper. But Pope Benedict XVI poses alive for us in Aldyth he put it to good use for the lepers. for a photo with Morris’ play, Jesus had a temper, too. Archbishop Rowan Damien. St. Damien was a fighter. He battled

L'Osservatore Romano Williams of Canterbury, But I was not the bishop and bureaucrat for his leper head of the Anglican only one crying. friends. I loved that he helped to build Communion, during their I could hear sniffles. I could see people chapels, a hospital, houses and a water CNS file photo/ meeting at the Vatican in reaching for hankies. I could hear them system. He even dug graves for the this May 5, 2008, file photo. blowing their noses. lepers. The Vatican announced This happened the same day that I said to myself, “That is what I want Oct. 20 that the pope has Father Damien was canonized by to do—be a priest who helps people.” established a special Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. Ultimately, St. Damien took on the structure for Anglicans Morris’ play is a powerful script. The wounds of Christ in the sores of a leper. who want to be united with one-man drama lays out the life of After I saw that film, I went out and the Roman Catholic Joseph de Veuster, a Belgian farm boy bought the book with my grass-cutting Church. who went halfway around the world to money. It was the first book that I ever Hawaii in the 19th century, took the bought. I paid 65 cents for the Image name Damien and died serving the paperback. lepers on the island of Molokai. Years later, I went to Hawaii to see my The most beautiful line for me is high school friend, Charlie Connor, who when St. Damien explains what a was stationed there in the Navy. Anglicans becoming Catholics vocation is. He says, “If we are lucky, Charlie suggested we go to Molokai. we get a call within a call. We find our We rode mules down the steep cliffs to s reported in our Oct. 23 issue of under Queen Elizabeth I. In 1558, priests niche.” the Kalaupapa peninsula. Escape by land AThe Criterion, Pope Benedict XVI were required to leave England or face He found his niche with the lepers of or by sea from that place was almost has established a special structure for capital punishment, and 128 of them Molokai. When he saw them for the impossible for the lepers. Anglicans who want to be in full were put to death, along with 93 others. first time from the boat, their fingers and We got a tour of the leper settlement communion with the Roman Catholic (During Queen Mary’s five-year reign, toes missing, their faces eaten away by by Richard Marx, the “sheriff” of Church while preserving aspects of their 276 Protestants were burned at the disease, he said, “I knew I must go and Kalaupapa. He was a leper, and was Anglican spiritual and liturgical heritage. stake.) Persecution continued under be their priest.” missing some fingers. In his voice, you Why would Anglicans want to do Oliver Cromwell, who ruled England Reid Sasser’s presentation of Morris’ could hear that St. Damien was a living that, and isn’t this a case of the Catholic from 1649 to 1658. play was a chance for me to introduce presence. The lepers of Molokai still Church stealing members of the Without going into the whole history another generation to St. Damien, the mourn that St. Damien’s body was taken Anglican Communion? of Catholicism in England, suffice it to holy man of Hawaii, just as I “met” him back to Belgium in the 1930s. It’s hardly a secret that Anglicans say that, by 1702, Catholics in England 50 years ago. People need heroes. have experienced much controversy had dwindled to less than 1 percent. It When I was a kid, I saw a film about St. Damien is one of mine. among its members during recent years. wasn’t until 1778 that a law was passed St. Damien. The nuns showed it to our I hope in that theater there was another Those controversies include the that permitted Catholics to acquire, own grade school. In the 1950s, it was a rare boy thinking, “I want to be a priest like ordination of women as priests and and inherit property. The Catholic treat to see a movie in school. that.” bishops, the ordination of an openly gay Emancipation Act was passed in 1832, Assembled in the school gym, we bishop, and the blessing of same-sex and dioceses were re-established by watched a grainy black-and-white film (Father Peter Daly writes for Catholic unions. The controversies have caused Pope Pius IX in 1850. But it wasn’t until based on the book by John Farrow, News Service.) † divisions in the Anglican Communion, the Catholic Relief Act in 1926 that especially in Africa, with many virtually all legal disabilities of Catholics Anglicans turning to the Catholic in England were finally repealed. Letters to the Editor Church, where they believe they will Today there are about 4.5 million feel more comfortable. Catholics in England and Wales, about As for stealing members, Anglican 9 percent of the population. The Catholic Archbishop Buechlein’s column provides Archbishop Rowan Williams of Church has continued to grow as Canterbury, head of the Anglican Anglicans have been switching road map to everlasting life, couple says Communion, has given his blessing to membership. Meanwhile, churchgoing in the new structure. the United Kingdom, including the Once again, Archbishop Daniel M. love—to care and to give rather than to In a letter to top Anglican leaders, he Church of England, has been declining Buechlein’s weekly column has provided a fight and to grasp. said that “this new possibility is in no steadily. In 2008, the Church of England nugget of inspiration—this time a road map To fully share in God’s love and to find sense at all intended to undermine said that 1.7 million people attend its to everlasting life—when he wrote that happiness in this world and the next, we existing relations between our services each month. conversion requires a heart open to the need to let the power of God’s grace two communions or to be an act of The Church of England describes power of God’s grace as we continue to try (his life within us) transform our natural proselytism or aggression.” itself as “Catholic Reformed” rather than to overcome the natural self-centeredness self-centeredness into an active concern for It is, though, recognition of the fact Protestant—Catholic in that it views that nudges us to sidestep opportunities to the welfare of others, to be Jesus’ hands and that the recent changes within some of itself as part of the universal Church of help our unknown neighbors. voice for today’s world. the Anglican provinces makes the Christ in continuity with the apostolic Our world is based on survival of the Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your possibility of full unity between the and medieval Church, and reformed in fittest, and we learn to compete and to faithful and enkindle in us the fire of your Anglican Communion and the Catholic that it has been shaped by some of the grasp for what we want from birth. love. Church highly unlikely anytime soon. doctrinal principles of the Protestant But Jesus taught us by his words and Mike and Ann Walro The principal problem that Reformation. In practice, Anglicans example that the way to eternal life is Madison Archbishop Williams has had in holding often refer to themselves as high church the Anglican Communion together is the (Anglo-Catholic), low church fact that there is no binding authority in (evangelical) or broad church (liberal). the Communion. There is no single When the new structure was Anglican Church with universal announced, Cardinal William J. Levada, Letters Policy authority. Rather, it is an association of prefect of the Congregation for the 38 provinces of national or regional Doctrine of the Faith, said that a new Letters from readers are published in letters from readers as necessary based on churches that are in communion with the apostolic constitution establishing the The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and Church of England. The Episcopal structure, and norms to implement it, commitment to “the responsible exchange of content (including spelling and grammar). In freely-held and expressed opinion among Church is the Anglican province in the would be published soon. It will order to encourage opinions from a variety the People of God” (Communio et Progressio, United States. establish personal ordinariates to oversee of readers, frequent writers will ordinarily be 116). limited to one letter every three months. 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ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Feasts of All Saints and All Souls are an opportunity to pray for parents hose of you who have followed my In brighter light and softer airs, a how I remember her fondly, both on The feasts of All Saints and All Souls column over the years know that, beauteous sisterhood?” All Saints and All Souls days. might be an opportunity to pray gratefully Talmost as regular as a five-year Bryant wrote the poem to Not surprisingly, the marriage of for our deceased parents. And for those cycle, I reflect about my mom and dad this commemorate the death of his sister, who my mom and dad was also less than who are blessed with living parents still, a time of year. apparently died in early November—thus dramatic, unless remaining steady and review of your response to them and a Two events bring my parents to the gray and grieving tone of his poem. faithful is considered dramatic. grateful prayer for them would be a good mind—three events really. Most of us can probably relate to the And in the culture of our times, I thing as well. The first is the October date of their melancholy feeling of the often sunless suppose their fidelity and perseverance Believe me, I know that some of you wedding anniversary. The second is the weather of late fall and approaching through the trials and difficulties of do not have happy memories of your passing from beautiful fall into the gray winter. And we also grieve about the loss their life together should be described parents or one of your parents. That is skies of winter. The third reminder is that of our loved ones, but we can grieve with as dramatic. very painful, and life was or is unfair for of All Saints and All Souls days at the hope because of our faith. I was too young to realize how you. It would be a generous act to pray for beginning of November. My mom was not melancholy by difficult it must have been for folks of parents who may have been wayward and It has been at least five years since I temperament. Nor was she the bubbly type their generation to endure the poverty seemingly unloving. quoted the beginning of William Cullen of personality. She was just steady and of the Great Depression. Prayer and the consolation of speaking Bryant’s poem “The Death of the balanced, a good witness for me and my Someone who grew up in similar with a spiritual guide might lead to Flowers.” brother and dad. circumstances as I did was remarking healing peace. I pray for that for you in His poem comes to mind because As a teacher, she loved poetry and to me recently that we didn’t really any case. almost always during my early youth at would decry the fact that reading and know we were living in difficult times. Our faith can help us live with hope. † this time of year my mom would quote his memorizing poetry had slipped away, for The poverty wasn’t dire, but we did poem, usually while we were doing the the most part, from elementary and without things and were part of a close supper dishes on a gray evening. At least secondary academic curricula. family. Our parents led the way, and Do you have an intention for that is how I remember it this many years Above all, she was a woman who lived we can only be grateful. Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? later. her Catholic faith on good days and I think this time of year, as we You may mail it to him at: “The melancholy days are come, the melancholy days. She wasn’t very approach the end of another liturgical saddest of the year, demonstrative about her beliefs and Church year, it might be good to Archbishop Buechlein’s Of wailing winds, and naked woods, practice. She carried her share of suffering revisit how we responded to our Prayer List and meadows brown and sere. and burdens in life, but she took them as parents during the years of growing Archdiocese of Indianapolis Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the they came. up. 1400 N. Meridian St. autumn leaves lie dead; She has been on my mind as I have We remember good times, but we P.O. Box 1410 They rustle to the eddying gust, and to been “doing rehab” for my shoulder may not always have been as Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 the rabbit’s tread; replacement. Mom had broken both hips appreciative as we wish we had. The robin and the wren are flown, and and was faithful in rehabilitation. I from the shrubs the jay, remember how much I respected her for and from the wood-top calls the crow that. Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for October through all the gloomy day. Mom’s kind of holiness was less than Youth Ministers: that they may always encourage youth to consider service in the Where are the flowers, the fair young dramatic, but it has become more and Church, especially as priests and religious. flowers, that lately sprang and stood more attractive to me over the years. It is

Las fiestas de Todos los santos y de los Fieles difuntos nos brindan la oportunidad para rezar por nuestros padres quellos de ustedes que han seguido retoñaban y se erguían afectuosamente tanto en el Día de todos los bendición de contar con padres que aún mi columna a lo largo de los años ante la luz brillante y delicadas brisas, santos como en el de los Fieles difuntos. vivan, resultaría ideal elevar una plegaria Asaben que, casi en intervalos de cual encantadora armonía?” No es de sorprender que el matrimonio de agradecimiento y analizar su actitud cinco años, reflexiono sobre mi madre y Bryant escribió este poema para de mis padres tampoco tuviera nada de para con ellos. mi padre en esta época. conmemorar la muerte de su hermana, quien espectacular, a menos que ser estables y Créanme que sé que algunos de ustedes Hay dos acontecimientos que me hacen supuestamente falleció a principios de fieles se considere algo espectacular. no conservan gratos recuerdos de sus evocarlos; en realidad, tres. noviembre y de allí el tono tan gris y Y supongo que en la cultura de nuestros padres o de uno de ellos. Es algo muy El primero es la fecha de su aniversario pesaroso del poema. tiempos la fidelidad y la perseverancia en doloroso y quizás la vida fuera injusta con de bodas en octubre. El segundo es la Probablemente la mayoría de nosotros se todas las pruebas y dificultades de su vida ustedes o todavía lo sea. Rezar por aquellos transición del hermoso otoño a los cielos identifica con la melancolía de los días juntos podría describirse como algo padres que tal vez fueran caprichosos y grisáceos del invierno. El tercero es la carentes de sol de finales del otoño y del sensacional. aparentemente poco cariñosos sería un acto celebración de Todos los santos y de los inminente invierno. Y también nos Era demasiado joven para darme cuenta generoso. Fieles difuntos a comienzos de noviembre. apesadumbramos por la pérdida de nuestros de lo difícil que debió ser para la gente de La oración y el consuelo de hablar con Han transcurrido al menos cinco años seres queridos, pero lo hacemos con su generación soportar la pobreza de la Gran un guía espiritual tal vez puedan conllevar desde que cité el inicio del poema de esperanza, gracias a nuestra fe. Depresión. a una paz sanadora. De una forma u otra, William Cullen Bryant, titulado The Mi madre no tenía un carácter Alguien que creció en unas circuns- rezo por ustedes. Death of the Flowers (La muerte de las melancólico, ni tampoco tenía una tancias similares a las mías observó recien- Nuestra fe puede ayudarnos a vivir con flores). personalidad efervescente. Era ecuánime y temente que nosotros realmente no sabíamos esperanza. † Me viene al recuerdo este poema armónica, un buen ejemplo para mi que vivíamos en tiempos difíciles. La porque casi siempre por esta época, hermano, mi padre y yo. pobreza no era extrema, pero prescindíamos durante mis primeros años de juventud, mi Como maestra, le encantaba la poesía y de cosas y formábamos parte de una familia ¿Tiene una intención que desee mamá citaba ese poema, generalmente criticaba el hecho de que la lectura y la unida. Nuestros padres guiaban el camino y incluir en la lista de oración del mientras lavábamos la loza en una noche memorización de la poesía hubieran sido no podíamos menos que agradecerles. Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar gris. Al menos así es como lo recuerdo relegadas de la mayoría de los programas de En esta época, a medida que nos su correspondencia a: después de tantos años. estudios de la escuela elemental y la acercamos al final de otro año litúrgico de la “Llegan los días de melancolía, los más secundaria. Iglesia, quizás resulte buena idea examinar Lista de oración del Arzobispo tristes del año, Por encima de todo, era una mujer que cómo nos comportábamos con nuestros Buechlein de vientos que aúllan, de bosques vivía su fe católica tanto en los días buenos padres durante nuestra crianza. Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis desnudos, prados mustios y como en los melancólicos. No hacía alarde Recordamos los buenos tiempos, pero 1400 N. Meridian St. castaños. de sus creencias y prácticas. Llevaba su quizás no seamos tan apreciativos como P.O. Box 1410 Apiladas en los huecos de las cuota de sufrimiento y de cargas de la vida, quisiéramos. Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 arboledas, yacen muertas las hojas pero los aceptaba conforme se presentaban. Las fiestas de Todos los santos y de los del otoño; La he tenido muy presente en mis Fieles difuntos podría ser una oportunidad crujen por las ráfagas remolinantes y el sesiones de rehabilitación para el hombro. para rezar con agradecimiento por nuestros Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, paso de las liebres; Mamá se fracturó ambas caderas y era fiel a padres difuntos. Y para quienes tienen la Language Training Center, Indianapolis. El petirrojo y el chochín han partido y su rehabilitación. Recuerdo el respeto que desde los arbustos llaman; me infundía por ello. La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en octubre en la penumbra del día y desde las El tipo de santidad de mi madre no era cimas de los leños el cuervo grazna. en modo alguno sensacional, pero con el Pastores Juveniles: Que ellos siempre puedan animar a los jóvenes a considerar ¿Dónde están las flores, las jóvenes y pasar de los años se me ha vuelto cada vez dando servicio a la iglesia, sobre todo como sacerdotes y religiosos. hermosas flores que otrora más atractivo. Es por ello que la recuerdo Page 6 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Events Calendar

October 30 8590 N. Georgetown Road, groups of 10 pray the new required: 317-782-4422. St. Pius X Church, Green St., Brownsburg. Indianapolis. Information: Marian Way, 1 p.m., 7200 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis. Christmas Bazaar and Craft St. John the Baptist Parish, November 3 331 S. Buckeye St., Osgood. www.40daysforlife.com/ Father Elmer Burwinkel, Catholic Charismatic Sale, holiday items, scrapbook SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Knights of Columbus, Indianapolis. celebrant. Information: Renewal of Central Indiana, items, candy, jewelry, 1347 N. Meridian St., Indian- Council #8487, pork chop 812-689-3551. “Praise and Worship,” Mass, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: apolis. Multicultural Ministry dinner, 4-8 p.m. Information: Northside Knights of 7:30 p.m. Information: 317-892-4494 or [email protected]. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. November 2 of the Archdiocese of Indian- [email protected]. 812-689-4244. Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, 71st St., Indianapolis. apolis, feast day of St. Martin St. Martin of Tours Parish, Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. November 7 Oct. 30-Nov. 23 Tamarindo Foundation, de Porres, “Fiesta/Harambee” 1720 E. Harrison St., Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. St. Joan of Arc Church, Clowes Memorial Hall, “An Evening with John and Mass, Archbishop Daniel Martinsville. 26th annual All Souls Day Masses, noon 4217 N. Central Ave., Indian- Butler University, Indianapolis. Guiliano,” dinner, M. Buechlein, celebrant, “Holiday Bazaar,” crafts, “Holy Lands–Journey of a entertainment, and 6 p.m. Information: 7 p.m., celebration at the apolis. “Pro-life and 317-574-8898 or Pro-family Retreat,” cookies by the pound, bake Pilgrim Artist,” photographs 5:30-7:30 p.m. Information: Archbishop O’Meara Catholic shop, and audio narrative of images [email protected]. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., $5 per person, $10 per family, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: from holy sites on four following Mass. Bring your 765-342-6379. continents by Denis Ryan Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum favorite ethnic food. one rosary for religious orders, Parish, 14598 Oak Ridge Road, Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Information: 317-299-2535 babysitting available for Kelly Jr., free exhibit, meet the St. Luke’s United Methodist Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of Indianapolis. All Souls Day (English) or 317-298-3033 children no longer in diapers, photographer Nov. 1, Church, choir room, 100 W. 12:30 p.m.; Nov. 8, 1:30 p.m.; Lafayette). “Fighting Mass, noon. Information: (Español). 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Pornography,” The King’s 317-784-4439. Reservations: 317-225-8902 or 86th St., Indianapolis. Interna- Nov. 12, 6 p.m. Information: tional adoption informational www.deniskelly.com. Men founders Mark Houck and November 4 317-926-4118. Damian Wargo, presenters, Calvary Cemetery, Vito’s on Penn, 21 N. seminar, free, 10-11:30 a.m. October 31 12:30 p.m. Information: 4227 Wabash Ave., Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. St. Anthony Church, 379 N. Information: 888-797-9900 or St. John the Evangelist Parish, 317-514-6638 or Terre Haute. All Souls Day Theology on Tap, “Healing Warman Ave., Indianapolis. www.ftia.org. 126 W. Georgia St., Indian- [email protected]. Mass, 11 a.m. Information: Hidden Hurts,” Debbie Miller, Healing Hidden Hurts November 7-8 Gothic Pulpit Fund 812-232-8404. presenter, 7 p.m. Information: ministry, 10th anniversary apolis. St. John the Baptist Parish, garage and bake sale, St. Paul Church, www.indytheologyontap.com. Mass of Thanksgiving, 2 p.m., 25743 State Road 1, Dover. 8-11 a.m., tour of Church, 814 Jefferson St., Tell City. St. Francis Hospital, Cancer light refreshments following Craft show and soup lunch, 9 a.m., concert, 10 a.m. 150th Anniversary Mass, Center, 1201 Hadley Road, November 6 Mass. Information: Sat., 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. craft Information: 317-635-2021 or Archbishop Daniel M. Mooresville. Support Our Lady of the Most Holy 317-297-7578. show and chicken dinner, [email protected]. Buechlein, celebrant, 10 a.m., program for breast cancer Rosary Church, 520 Stevens lunch and reception following patients, 8 p.m. Information: St., Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Archbishop O’Meara Catholic 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Information: November 1 Mass. Information: 317-782-4422 or meeting, Daniel Elsener, Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 812-576-4302. St. Augustine Home for the 812-547-9901. www.StFrancisHospitals.org/ president of Marian University Indianapolis. SS. Peter and Aged, 2345 W. 86th St., cancer. in Indianapolis, presenter, Paul Cathedral Parish, November 8-11 Indianapolis. “40 Days for MKVS, Divine Mercy and Mass, 6:30 a.m., Mass, “Trivia Challenge–“If You Our Lady of Perpetual Help Life” closing reception and Glorious Cross Center, St. Francis Hospital, Cancer breakfast and program at Know It, Show It,” 7 p.m., Church, 1752 Scheller Lane, baby shower, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Rexville, located on 925 South, Center, 1201 Hadley Road, Priori Hall, $15 members, $25 per person, $200 per team. New Albany. Parish mission, holy hour, 2-3 p.m. reception .8 mile east of 421 South and Mooresville. “Look Good, $20 non-members. Information: 317-634-4519 or 7-8:30 p.m., child care available and baby shower, 3:30-7 p.m. 12 miles south of Versailles. Feel Better” workshop for Information: 317-435-3447 or [email protected]. by reservation. Information: pray in front of Planned Mass, noon, on third Sunday women with cancer, e-mail 812-944-1184 or Parenthood abortion clinic, holy hour and pitch-in, noon-2 p.m. Registration [email protected]. St. Malachy Parish, 326 N. connie_andres20@ yahoo.com. † VIPs Retreats and Programs Ministry,” Benedictine Father Eugene Hensell, Your Family toward Peacefulness,” John A. and Delores (Skillman) presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or Benedictine Sister Paula Hagen, presenter, [email protected]. Miller, members of St. Roch Parish in November 2-6 Fri. 6-9 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-1 p.m., $12 per person Indianapolis, will Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, November 6-7 or $20 per couple, child care available. celebrate their 60th St. Meinrad. Retreat for priests, “Reflections St. Monica Parish, 6131 N. Michigan Road, Information: 317-328-1253 or wedding anniversary on the Gospel of Luke and Contemporary Indianapolis. Retreat, “Letting Mary Guide [email protected]. † during a Mass at 5 p.m. on Nov. 7. The couple was Benedictine monk is inducted into Indiana Conservation Hall of Fame married on Nov. 7, 1949, at St. Roch Benedictine Father Damian Indiana Wildlife Federation old-growth forests. Church in Indianapolis. Schmelz, a monk of co-hosted the event. As chairman of a blue They are the parents Saint Meinrad Archabbey in The Hall of Fame recognizes ribbon committee assigned to of six children: Judy Delk, Anna St. Meinrad and the pastor of individuals, living or deceased, study controlled deer hunts in Everroad, Mary Moyer, Ruth White, John St. Henry Parish in St. Henry, who have made extraordinary Brown County State Park near Miller and the late Mike Miller. They also Ind., in the Evansville Diocese, contributions to the conser- Nashville, Father Damian and have many grandchildren and great- is among the first group to be vation and preservation of other state wildlife experts grandchildren. † inducted into the Indiana natural, cultural and historical determined that the hunts Conservation Hall of Fame. heritage. would thin deer herds and Jim and June (Hart) Meeks, members The inaugural class was Since 1976, Father Damian prevent destruction to the flora of St. Mary Parish in New Albany, will honored at a banquet on has been a member of the of the state park. celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 25 at The Garrison at Indiana Natural Resources Father Damian taught during a Mass at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 at Fort Harrison State Park in Commission. biology at the former their parish church. Indianapolis. The Natural Father Damian is also known Saint Meinrad High School and The couple was married on Oct. 31, Fr. Damian Schmelz, O.S.B. Resources Foundation and the for his research on Indiana College for nearly 40 years. † 1959, at Holy Family Church in New Albany. † ‘Angels Submitted photo Submitted photo from the Heart’ Volunteers work to put siding on a home on Sept. 19 in the neighborhood surrounding Sacred Heart of Jesus Church on the near south side of Indianapolis. The neighborhood improvement initiative was part of the “Angels from the Heart” program sponsored by the parish annually since 2000 to help low-income residents. About 400 volunteers representing 40 groups helped paint a house, New Stations of the Cross install siding on another house, remove tree limbs Father Thomas Kovatch, the pastor of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Parish in Bright, incenses and overgrown bushes, one of the outdoor Stations of the Cross on Oct. 11 that were recently installed on the grounds of and clean streets, the Batesville Deanery parish. Assisting Father Kovatch are, from left, altar servers Matthew and sidewalks and alleys. Anthony Ohlhaut, and Deacon Timothy Heller, who ministers at the parish. The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Page 7 Conventual Franciscan serves home parish in Terre Haute (Editor’s note: In conjunction with the stories he would tell me about the poor own people, and pay back where my Year for Priests, The Criterion is publishing people in Africa and how he was vocation came from. It’s a very holy time a monthly feature titled “Faithful Fathers.” ministering to them. I decided that was for me, and I enjoy it very much. We We plan to profile a priest from each what I wanted to do. have many ministries that reach out to deanery during the next nine months.) “When I got to the eighth grade, I wrote help the poor, [including] a soup kitchen. a letter to the [Franciscan] provincial at It’s not Africa, but we are ministering to Wyand Mary by photo File Ann By Mary Ann Wyand Mount St. Francis in southern Indiana, and the people around us.” asked to go to high school there to have Conventual Franciscan Father Joel some discernment about my vocation. Sister also answered God’s call to Burget is the pastor of St. Benedict Parish “After high school, I stayed on and went ministry—“I have two sisters. One of in Terre Haute. to the novitiate then entered the major my sisters, Providence Sister Ann He was seminary [the former Assumption Brendan Burget, started the day care ordained to the Seminary near Minneapolis] and did my center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.” priesthood in 1966 bachelor’s program there. At the same time and is 70. Born I was doing my theological studies, I did a God’s plan for his life—“If I would and raised in master’s program in geography because have planned [my religious vocation] Terre Haute as a there was an opening at St. Francis College myself, it never would have turned out as member of in Zambia. They were looking for a well. God has a way of making things St. Benedict geography master. After college, I went [to happen.” Parish, he also served as a missionary priest Zambia]. I stayed there until September of in Zambia from 1966 until 1989. 1989 when I came back to the states.” Life as a Conventual Franciscan— “Our Franciscan charism always has been Love for his home parish—“My Hospital chaplaincy—“I went into reaching out to the poor. We’ve always family has been here since the 1840s. My hospital chaplaincy and worked for nearly been associated with those who have less, great-grandfather was one of the founding 10 years [from 1989 to 1998] as the and that’s why we’re called the Lesser fathers of St. Benedict Church. … We grew director of pastoral care at St. Mary’s Brothers. … Our philosophy is to serve up right down the street. My brother and I Hospital in Centralia, Ill. The hospital is people who have little or less or nothing. Conventual Franciscan Father Joel Burget proclaims used to come and serve Mass. We all went operated by the Felician sisters out of “We live in community, where all the the Gospel during Mass on March 22 at St. Benedict to school here. We were very close to the Chicago. I stayed there as director of members share the tasks and duties of Church in Terre Haute. He served as a missionary Church in everything that we did. Our pastoral care until the provincial called me ordinary living. Our order is somewhat priest in Zambia for 23 years. church holds so many childhood memories and said I needed to come back to contemplative, but it’s also very much an for me.” Terre Haute because they needed a pastor active life where we serve people.” translate my homilies to a different there.” language and see if I got the nuances right. Early call to a vocation—“We’ve Future plans for the friars—“Last The Scriptures are what I base my always had the Franciscan presence here. Homecoming—“I never expected to week, we were down at Saint Meinrad [priestly] ministry on.” The Franciscans have been here since come back to my hometown. I had left at [Archabbey] for meetings. We had our 1872. Originally, it was a Benedictine age 13, but many of my relatives were still regional assembly. We had 103 friars there Why he enjoys the priesthood—“I like church, but they could no longer care for it here. So I took the position and will have that are planning the future [for the being a priest, but more especially I like so the Franciscans took it over in 1872. been here 12 years on the third Sunday of members of the province] for the next few being a Franciscan priest because we do “I’ve been associated with Franciscans Easter in 2010. … It’s a holy place for me years. We’ll have new assignments given to not minister alone. We’re always together all my life. I never really thought much because that’s where my vocation was us in 2010 when we have our chapter in community, bonding together, working about the priesthood until I was in the formed, and we had all of our catechetical meeting.” together, playing together and praying seventh grade. instruction there. We were taught by the together. There’s a lot more intensity in our “A missionary priest visited from Sisters of Providence.” Ministry support—“The Scriptures are community life, which gives us more Zambia. [The Conventual Franciscans] had so alive to me. In Africa, it was much stability in our active ministry. … When we missions in Zambia at that time. I got to Gratitude for his ministry—“[The different because you had to work all the come home, we have another life together. know him, and was enthralled with the provincial] assigned me to minister to my time translating, and here … I don’t have to It’s not all just ministry.” † Current and former Boy Scouts invited to help parish troop celebrate 50 years By Mary Ann Wyand He said nearly 600 boys and adult leaders have been … That’s an age at which they need positive influence with members of the troop during the past five decades. a group of peers who are doing wholesome activities. Even without a campfire, it’s fun to swap Scouting stories. “Once I reached the age where you could be a Scout, Scouting—along with what they get in school and sporting It’s even more fun when the Boy Scouts are grown men I joined the troop,” Price said. “I think I was the second programs—helps create a very well-rounded person.” who reminisce about their childhood camping trips. Eagle Scout of Troop #400. I have been involved with the St. Michael parishioner Jeb Bardon is a franchise Memories, jokes and perhaps a few tall tales will probably troop committee for years.” restaurant owner and also serves the people of Indiana as dominate the conversations when St. Michael the Archangel Scouting teaches boys important leadership and outdoor the state representative of District 25. parishioners in Indianapolis welcome former and current skills as they earn a variety of merit badges, Price said, “It was a social activity as much as a training or members of Boy Scout Troop #400 to a 50th anniversary which help them succeed as adults. leadership or community service activity,” Bardon said. “We reunion on Nov. 7 at the Parish Life Center behind the “Because we are a Catholic Scout troop, the spent literally countless days, if not weeks, off doing things church at 3354 W. 30th St. scoutmasters that I had always made sure when we did as friends with the guidance of some outstanding adults. If I St. Michael parishioner and attorney Phil Price said weekend camping that we made it to church,” he said. “We had not been involved in Scouts, I would never have had Boy Scouts of all ages will celebrate 50 continuous years of went to church as Scouts in our uniforms.” these opportunities. We even went spelunking in southern Catholic Scouting at the Indianapolis West Deanery parish. Boy Scouts are always learning new skills, Price said, Indiana and spent the night in a cave.” † The reunion begins with a Mass at 5:30 p.m. in the church whether it is cooking outdoors or starting fires with sticks. concelebrated by Father Varghese Maliakkal, the parish “It’s the camaraderie of being with the guys,” he said, administrator, and Msgr. Mark Svarczkopf, a son of the “accomplishing things and learning from our mistakes.” parish and former Boy Scout who is now the pastor of St. Michael parishioner Dave Hennon, the current Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. scoutmaster, said 18 boys are active in the troop, and FLIP-FLOPS AND The reunion continues in the Parish Life Center with Eagle Scouts come back occasionally to help with campouts social time at 6:30 p.m. and a program at 7 p.m. and other activities. TEE-SHIRTS “We’re going to celebrate our history as a troop and the Hennon is an information systems director at a hospital ARE OKAY FOR fact that we are one of the longest, continuous troops within and the father of two boys who are members of the troop. the West Deanery,” Price said. “There were many more. “I think the Scouting program really helps build self- SUMMER St. Gabriel [the Archangel] Parish, St. Christopher Parish and reliance and confidence,” he said. “The kids learn by doing. a number of other parishes had troops. We’re still an active … Scouting allows them to learn from their mistakes. … troop.” They learn leadership skills, which are useful to them in school and throughout their life in many capacities.” Scouting helps boys learn how to motivate themselves, BUT NOT FOR WINTER Hennon said, as well as accept responsibility and finish For some, flip-flops are the only shoes they have, and projects on time. tees the only shirts they own. The season for cold- “I enjoyed the water craft sports,” Hennon said. “Sailing weather wear is coming, and we receive more requests Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann was, I think, my favorite [activity] because we went to than we can accommodate from people who have none. Camp Ransburg, a really large Scout camp in southern Men’s, women’s and children’s clothing—especially Indiana on Lake Monroe. Spending days out on the coats and shoes—that is clean and in good condition is reservoir on a sailboat was a lot of fun.” needed. Blankets and bedding, too. Boy Scouts gain unique life skills, he said, including first aid and [tying] knots, which he still uses as an adult. “A lot of the things that Scouts do [to earn merit badges] CAN YOU HELP? teach them personal management skills,” Hennon said. “I Drop them off at our Distribution think probably the more important thing in terms of a life Center at 1201 E. Maryland St., skill is building a good, solid citizen. A big part of the or call 687-1006 to arrange pick-up. St. Michael the Archangel parishioners Phil Price, from left, his program is not just leadership, but also service—giving son, William, and Jim Cowden, all of Indianapolis, reminisce about back that spirit of service to the parish and community— Society of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Scouting during a meeting on Oct. 1 at St. Michael School that carries into adulthood. 3001 E. 30TH Street in Indianapolis. Current and former members of St. Michael “That is part of the reason why I said I would be a Indianapolis, IN 46218 Parish’s Boy Scout Troop #400 will celebrate 50 years of Scout leader,” he explained. “It’s very rewarding. Watching Or donate online at continuous Scouting on Nov. 7. the older boys organize and lead activities is very gratifying. www.svdpindy.org Page 8 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009

world. MASS Like the daughters of St. Jeanne Jugan, continued from page 1 Archbishop Buechlein present from your local community. The said, “let’s go forward and Wyand Mary by Photos Ann gesture symbolized the respect you continue on a journey of consecrated daughters of St. Jeanne have for hope … by faithfully the aged residents under your loving care.” proclaiming the word of In different places in the Gospels, God, celebrating the the archbishop explained, “Jesus sacraments, and exercising emphasizes our duty to love and to do so our ministry of charity.” with simplicity and humility. Perhaps one of Thirteen priests the most familiar recent witnesses of the concelebrated the Mass of simple love that is our mission of charity is Thanksgiving, including Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Less familiar to Father Noah Casey, the many but, we have learned, equally pastor of St. Luke Parish. admirable is the witness of St. Jeanne Jugan. At the conclusion of the … I think of St. Jeanne as someone so like liturgy, Sister Judith Mother Teresa.” Meredith, the superior of Commending the Little Sisters for their the Little Sisters of the ministry of love, Archbishop Buechlein Poor at the St. Augustine noted that “the reverence and respect and Home for the Aged, told love [that] Mother Jugan’s daughters offer the gathering of sisters, the aged residents who might otherwise residents, volunteers and have been abandoned in lonely poverty is benefactors that “Jeanne truly a significant gift to the mission of our Jugan often said, ‘Be kind Church.” to the elderly. Treat them The Little Sisters of the Poor are well. Yes, be kind because “witnesses of hope in a society that longs in serving them it is Sister Judith Meredith, superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor at the St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis, for hope,” Archbishop Buechlein said. Jesus Christ himself whom reads the general intercessions during a Mass of Thanksgiving for the Oct. 11 canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan on Oct. 25 “Genuine hope is rooted in faith. Genuine you are serving.’ This is at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. hope is found in the provident love of God.” the privileged work that Christ is the “true light,” he said, and we we do at [the] St. Augustine Home.” of yourself as just one of God’s servants are called to be “lights of hope” in the Expressing the Little Sisters’ “spirit of doing whatever good is accomplished.” gratitude,” Sister Judith presented a medal St. Jeanne Jugan always gave credit to of St. Jeanne Jugan to the archbishop. the Lord, Sister Judith said. “She always Twenty-five Little Sisters of the Poor said, ‘Blessed be God’ or ‘Thank you, my from their homes in Indianapolis, God’ or ‘Glory be to God.’ We’re only his Evansville, Cincinnati and Louisville partic- instruments.” ipated in the Oct. 25 Mass of Thanksgiving Mary Ann Phelan, an Association for the canonization of their foundress. Jeanne Jugan member and resident of the Currently, 11 Little Sisters serve St. Augustine Home, was one of the 94 residents at the St. Augustine Home pilgrims from Indianapolis at the for the Aged. canonization Mass in Rome. During a reception at the home after “The highlight of the entire trip for me the liturgy, Sister Judith said St. Jeanne was the morning when we were sitting Jugan is a wonderful inspiration to the outside at the Vatican listening to the pope Little Sisters. make Jeanne Jugan a saint,” she said. “She is such an example to us,” “This overwhelming feeling came over Sister Judith said. “The canonization is me—first of all, of how grateful I was to wonderful, and the fact that the Church is be able to be there to witness such an recognizing her as a saint is wonderful. extraordinary event, and second of how But what it means to me is how her life— grateful I am to live at the home with the the way she lived her life, and her spiritual Little Sisters of the Poor. Without St. life and her deep union with our Lord, and Jeanne Jugan, there would be no Little St. Luke the Evangelist parishioner how she was able to accept humiliation Sisters of the Poor and there would be no Anthony Lee of Indianapolis prays before a and suffering—is a real witness and homes for those of us to live in who need Little Sister Marthe Pugliese displays a cake relic of St. Jeanne Jugan after the Mass of example to me in my own life of what is them. I just felt such gratitude and such decorated in honor of St. Jeanne Jugan during Thanksgiving for her canonization on Oct. 25 at really important. And what really is joy and an overwhelming feeling of the a reception on Oct. 25 at the St. Augustine St. Luke Church. important is not to be important, to think beauty of it all.” † Home for the Aged in Indianapolis.

recognize the success obtained by sex slavery and sex prevention programs advocating tourism.” SYNOD abstinence and fidelity within marriage. Synod members continued from page 1 The synod’s propositions also spoke promised to promote the CNS photos/Paul Haring photos/Paul CNS The bishops called on international about AIDS, calling for efforts against education of girls and corporations operating in Africa to stop anything “that helps the spread of the women, open shelters for “their criminal devastation of the disease, such as poverty, the breakdown of those who are abused and environment in their greedy exploitation of family life, marital unfaithfulness, bring women into Church natural resources.” They lamented that no promiscuity and a lifestyle that is devoid decision-making international body or world leader has of human values and Gospel virtues.” structures. come forth to stop “these crimes against One of the strongest synod propositions The closing Mass was humanity” that “foment wars in order to condemned a section of the 2003 Maputo concelebrated by more make fast gains from chaos at the cost of Protocol, adopted by the African Union in than 200 African bishops, human lives and blood.” Maputo, Mozambique, on women’s rights and the liturgy combined The synod’s message noted the in Africa for encouraging the continent’s Roman and African Bishops process from St. Peter’s Basilica at the conclusion of the Church’s valuable work in fighting governments to provide abortion services elements. A Nigerian closing Mass of the Synod of Bishops for Africa at the Vatican on HIV and AIDS and caring for those in cases of rape, incest or danger to a choir, backed by a Oct. 25. affected, and expressed agreement with woman’s physical or mental health. restrained drum and Pope Benedict that condoms would not While thanking international aid percussion section, sang a processional and sisters who in Africa suffer poverty, beat the pandemic. It asked people to agencies for their assistance, the bishops hymn in the Igbo language as the pope, diseases, injustice, wars and violence, and also criticized aid programs that come dressed in gold vestments, entered the forced migration,” he said. with strings attached that violate the basilica. The pope said the Church must operate recipients’ moral and cultural values. In his homily, Pope Benedict said the by combining evangelization and the The propositions said the family in Church is called upon to deliver, in word promotion of social justice. Its method of Africa is threatened today by the practice and deed, Christianity’s perennial message “living the Gospel in the first person” of abortion, the denigration of of hope, which “the Lord of history never seems to be the only one capable of childbearing, “the distortion of the notion tires of renewing for the oppressed and helping Africa emerge from “the slavery of marriage and the family itself,” and overwhelmed humanity of every era and of hunger and sickness,” he said. divorce. The bishops called for better every land.” He said globalization, in particular, education of Catholics in the meaning of “Get up, Church in Africa, family of needs to be steered by the Church toward Christian marriage, improved marriage God,” he said. “Set out on the path of a a more inclusive economic model that preparation programs and better support new evangelization with the courage that benefits all people and not only the for families. comes from the Holy Spirit.” wealthy. The Church must work to “ensure The propositions condemned all acts of God’s plan does not change, he said, that no African should be deprived of his violence against women, including “the and it is always aimed at the kingdom of or her daily bread,” he said. battering of wives, the disinheritance of liberty and peace for all. This implies his The liturgy ended with an “Ave Maria” Pope Benedict XVI distributes Communion daughters, the oppression of widows in the preference for those deprived of peace and sung in Igbo by the Nigerian choir, and a during the closing Mass of the Synod of name of tradition, forced marriages, freedom, and those violated in their liturgical chant in Ge’ez, a liturgical Bishops for Africa in St. Peter’s Basilica at the female genital mutilation, trafficking in dignity, he said. language of Ethiopia, invoking the “path Vatican on Oct. 25. women and several other abuses, such as “We think in particular of our brothers of truth.” † The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Page 9 Super Bowl champion encourages men to follow God’s plan for life

By Mary Ann Wyand ball sometime in the future, too,” he said. “… Any good coach will tell you The game is on, the clock is ticking and the only difference between winners and we are called to follow God’s plan for our losers is that winners get up again after lives. they lose.” Wyand Mary by Photo Ann “God has called each of us to something His Super Bowl ring is “as much a big, something much bigger than ‘Monday testament to perseverance as it is to Night Football,’ ” former New York Giants excellence,” he said. “If perseverance is starting right guard Chris Godfrey told important in football, it’s a … lot more 950 participants during the fourth annual important in our personal lives. … Our “Lions Breathing Fire—Cast Out Your Nets” talent is God-given, … but our heart, our Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference on character, we have everything to do Oct. 17 at the Indiana Convention Center in with. We make our character through the Indianapolis. choices we make in life.” “He has called each of us to cast out our The sooner we realize that we need nets and to live our lives in the prime time, God, he said, the sooner we can do to be a faithful son of God, to be a true something about it. husband, to be a good father,” Godfrey Following God’s plan for his life emphasized. “And maybe even doing all of resulted in the priceless blessings of his these things as a priest, following Jesus, who Catholic faith, he said, as well as his is the bridegroom of the Church, and wife, Daria, and their six children. As begetting countless spiritual children. But parents, they practice natural family whatever the call is, the ball is now in your planning in accordance with Church hands and you can count on God’s help in teachings. Chris Godfrey, who earned a Super Bowl championship with the New York Giants in 1987, encourages moving it down the field.” “Now I know that having a good Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference participants to follow God’s plan and Church teachings. He was a Godfrey was a member of the Giants’ relationship with God and others is the keynote speaker at the conference on Oct. 17 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. offensive line in 1987 when the team key to my happiness in this world and in completed the National Football League the next,” Godfrey said. “The relationship Whatever you want me to do, wherever you I needed to do things God’s way first then season with a 17-2 record and won between a husband and wife mirrors the want me to go, you’re the boss now.’ I had all these other things that I wanted in my Super Bowl XXI. relationship that Christ has with his Church. never really prayed like that before, but my life … would take care of themselves.” Now the Detroit native is a lawyer in It touches upon the very meaning of life plans weren’t working out so I decided to A shoulder injury ended his time with South Bend, Ind., and a member of the itself. It’s that important.” give God a crack at it. the Packers, he said. “But I had an Indiana Bar Association. The oldest of nine children, he grew up in “[Then] Bart Starr, the head coach of the opportunity to grow in my faith and to Godfrey also is the president of a Catholic home, received the sacraments Packers, apologized for cutting me and grow in my relationship with Jesus. … I Life Athletes Inc., an organization of more and attended Catholic schools. asked me to stay,” Godfrey said. “I was grew strong on the inside while my knees than 300 professional and Olympic athletes “I had every spiritual advantage growing flabbergasted. I’d been around the NFL and shoulder were healing, too.” dedicated to trying to live—and inspire up,” he recalled. “… But as I got older and long enough to know that they just didn’t After the 1982 NFL strike, the New York others to live—lives of virtue, abstinence more successful in playing football, my make mistakes like that. I knew that God Giants signed him. and respect for life. relationship with God changed. … I was just had a hand in the whole thing. I knew that “I can honestly say that God keeps his “My participation in Life Athletes is my going through the motions of my faith, … God was close to me, and because he was promises,” Godfrey said. “… The best own answer, my own casting out of the net,” growing farther and farther away from God.” close to me I wanted to get closer to him.” thing that I have is my relationship with he said, “… to make a persuasive argument Godfrey said he grew up believing that He started to pray and attend Mass more God, and nothing else matters as much to for upholding human life.” “Jesus loved me and would always be there often, and joined a Bible study group with me. … As St. Paul indicated, the quality of The mentoring organization promotes the for me,” so he took God for granted even as some of his Packers teammates. our spiritual life is closely related to our “Life Athlete’s Commitment” to youth and he pondered what was most important in his “It was amazing,” Godfrey said. “Things life at home because marriage and family is adults based on four promises: life. that I had heard before at Mass or maybe the normal path to holiness for most men. • I will try to do what is right even when “Even though I was big and strong on the even read on my own before in the Bible So in loving my wife and children, I’m it is difficult. outside,” he said, “when I asked myself all of a sudden just took on a whole new actually growing closer to God.” • I will give myself only to that special those kinds of questions I felt weak on the life and had a whole new meaning to me. It’s good to be fishes in the Lord’s net, person whom I marry as my partner for life. inside. … I didn’t have an answer.” One passage in particular just jumped off but that’s just the starting point for the • I will respect the lives of others, He played briefly for the Washington the page [of the Bible] at me. It was Kingdom of God, Godfrey said, especially the unborn and the aged. Redskins, New York Jets and Green Bay Matthew 6:33, one of God’s promises. It emphasizing that we also have to follow • I will not quit or make excuses when I Packers, but was cut from the teams. says, ‘Seek first his kingdom and his Jesus and be fishermen for souls by casting fail. I will try again. “It was my third cut in a year,” he said. righteousness and all these things will be out our own nets in our families and in “We have all done things that we wish we “Without even thinking about it, I … fell to added to you.’ What it told me was that society to spread the Good News and hadn’t done, and we’ll probably drop the my knees and said, ‘Lord, I give up. I needed to get my priorities straight. … defend the God-given right to life. † In the ‘game of life,’ choose to live for Christ and others, priest says

By Mary Ann Wyand Christ with all of our being, with everything that we have? Christ said, ‘There is no greater love than this than to lay Choose to live your life for Christ and others, down one’s life for that of a friend’ [Jn 15:13], and he Father Rick Nagel urged 950 men attending modeled that for us on the cross.” “Lions Breathing Fire—Cast Out Your Nets,” the fourth To truly follow Christ requires desire, drive and Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann annual Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference on Oct. 17 at devotion, Father Nagel explained. “If we’re going to be the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. ‘in the game,’ we’ve got to do more than just sit on the Father Nagel is the director of young adult and college sidelines. … We better have our head and our heart and our campus ministry in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and whole being in the game.” the Catholic chaplain for Indiana University-Purdue The conference has been an opportunity to have a University in Indianapolis. personal encounter with Jesus, he said, and get to know the In his homily during the conference Mass, he explained living Christ better as men of the Church and men of God. that St. Ignatius of Antioch, a great saint of the early “All of you are here for a reason,” Father Nagel said. Church, laid down his life for the Lord as a martyr. “God has touched you today, there’s no doubt about it, by “In our own lives, we are called to be men who lay those who have come to share their stories, to share their Father Rick Nagel preaches the homily during Mass at the down our lives for Jesus Christ and for one another,” wisdom, to share Jesus Christ with you. Pay close attention fourth annual Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference on Oct. 17 at Father Nagel said. “… Do our lives, mine and yours, to that. Whatever it is that has resonated with you today, the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. acknowledge Jesus Christ, the son of God the Father? whatever you have heard here that you know is right and Do the ways that we live our lives really bring Christ to true and good, make sure it gets transferred to your heart [Be] men of reconciliation [who are] … willing to make our world? Do we acknowledge Christ in the way that we and to your whole being so that each one of us can leave some sacrifices to be sure that our souls are OK.” live and in the words that we speak?” here today and say, ‘I’m in the game,’ and our lives reflect As one body of Christ, he said, we face these He also referred to comments by a conference speaker, that by the way we choose to live each day. challenges in life with help from God’s grace. Chris Godfrey of South Bend, Ind., about being “We can’t stop with the desire that has been placed in “We all desire eternal life,” Father Nagel said. “We strengthened “in the game” of life by a personal our hearts today to continue to grow as men of virtue, to have the drive to be in eternity, to be in paradise, one day. relationship with God. continue to grow as men of holiness, to continue to grow Who will you bring with you? … We’ve got to be Godfrey was the starting right tackle for the New York as men of Jesus Christ,” he said. “… Now the drive must accountable for one another [and] encourage one another. Giants in 1987 when the team completed the be set into place again. … The good news is that Christ … Be men who are devoted. It’s not a sprint. It’s a National Football League season with a 17-2 record and meets us right where we’re at and continues to journey marathon. We must be steadfast in our commitment … to Super Bowl XXI championship. with us forward to grow closer to him. … The things that the sacraments, to prayer and to study the lives of saints God calls men to holiness, Father Nagel said, and to will drive us are so beautiful and so clear and so true and who have gone before us, and to model that in our own demonstrate heroic virtue in our world. so good. [They are] the sacraments, prayer [and] … the lives.” “That’s what it means to be a son of God the Father,” saints that have gone before us [who] help us be driven to When we do that in daily life, we teach others about the he said. “Today we had a lot of opportunities to hear about follow Christ.” love of the living Christ, he said. “Bring others to Christ the word of God, to learn more about the word of God, to Become men of the Eucharist, Father Nagel by being men of great virtue in our world. … Choose to receive Christ more fully in our lives, [and] to think about emphasized. “… Be men who know that Christ is be ‘in the game.’ … Choose to be on the journey to what it means to be men of heroic virtue. The question is, beautifully present at this table today. … Be men who are holiness.” ‘Are we in the game?’ Have we decided that we are going willing to change your lives for the good of others around to be virtuous men of God, … to be holy, … to follow us. Be men who have the drive to love the sacraments. … (Next week: More coverage of the Men’s Conference.) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Our Lady of Lourdes Parish to celebrate 100 years on Nov. 8

By Sean Gallagher school,” Kramer said. “I was very happy that we were able to send them.”

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in As attached as the members of photo Submitted Indianapolis has been celebrating its Our Lady of Lourdes Parish have histor- centennial with a series of events over the ically been to Irvington, the broader past 12 months. community on Indianapolis’ east side The celebration will culminate with a might not have initially been that Nov. 8 anniversary Mass at 2 p.m. in the welcoming of the new Catholic parish parish church, 5333 E. Washington St., in 100 years ago. Indianapolis. Archbishop Daniel M. In the early 1920s, Irvington was at Buechlein is scheduled to be the primary the heart of Ku Klux Klan activity in celebrant of the Mass. A reception will Indiana. Famed Klan grand dragon, follow the liturgy. D.C. Stephenson lived in a mansion just Although it is part of the Indianapolis blocks from the parish. East Deanery, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Any pressure that parishioners is situated in the heart of Irvington, a in Irvington may have felt from the historic neighborhood on the city’s anti-Catholic Klan didn’t keep the east side. parish from steadily growing in its Irvington was founded as a town in first decades. 1870, and soon became the first home of For many of the families who made up Butler University. Although it was the parish during that time, Our Lady of annexed into Indianapolis in 1902, Lourdes was a hub of constant activity. Irvington still had the feel of a town “Lourdes was just our focal point,” said distinct from the state capital when Kramer of her time as a youth and young Our Lady of Lourdes Parish was adult in the 1930s and ’40s. “We didn’t established seven years later. need anything else. It was where we did It still retains much of that close-knit everything. We socialized. We prayed. neighborhood spirit today, according to Everything was through Lourdes.” Father J. Nicholas Dant, Our Lady of During that time, the parish was served Girls process out of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in May 1955 at the conclusion of a May crowning ceremony Lourdes’ current pastor. by Msgr. Michael Lyons, who was its in the parish situated in the heart of Irvington, a historic neighborhood on Indianapolis’ east side. For one parishioner, it was the parish’s pastor from 1919-40, and his successor, place in the Irvington community nurtured Father James Moore, who was pastor from fellow parishioners in an even more Father Jim and told him, ‘I can’t even pray over several 1940-56. dramatic way when both were diagnosed anymore,’ ” she said. “And he said, ‘That’s generations that “He was a wonderful man. But I was with cancer within three weeks of each why you have people praying for you. God helped build up one scared to death of him as a child,” said other in 1999. knows what you need and, if you can’t of its defining Kramer of Msgr. Lyons with a laugh. “He The parents of five children, they pray, there are people praying for you.’ ” characteristics: seemed so stern. And we were threatened had twins who were students at It’s that kind of heartfelt care by volunteerism. at school that if we didn’t mind Sister, our Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High Our Lady of Lourdes’ parishioners for “There next step was over to Father Lyons. Well, School in Indianapolis at the time. body and soul that led Rachel Ayres, 31, to were a lot of of course, I never got to Father Lyons Parishioners organized prayer services move back to Irvington with her family volunteers,” said because I was so scared to death. for them, brought meals to them three or after they had moved only a 15-minute Lucile Morand, 89, “But he would come out on the four days a week for several months, held drive away. of the time when playground and always asked you a fundraisers for them and drove them to Like her parents, she grew up in the Fr. J. Nicholas Dant she raised her question about geography. And I hated their sometimes twice daily radiation parish. Now Ayres is seeing her two sons, children in the geography with a passion.” treatments. an eighth-grader and third-grader at the parish in the 1950s and ’60s. “The Of Father Moore, Kramer said that “[he] “When you’re both going through it parish school, experience the same mothers and the fathers all got involved in was a jewel. He died a very early death. He at the same time, you don’t really have privilege. something or other. We were all interested had cancer of the ear.” that backup there,” Paula Bittelmeyer A volunteer volleyball coach at the in the kids, and what they were doing and A half century later, Father Dant had his said. “You needed somebody else, and he parish since 1997, Ayres wanted her family where they were going.” own bout with cancer in 2005. [Father James Farrell, the pastor at the to be close to the parish because of the Morand was later in a good position While he was being treated, he time] was there at the drop of a hat to crucial unwritten lessons of volunteerism to see the continuing volunteerism of personally experienced the spontaneous help us out. So the parish was very and service that can be passed on to her parishioners while serving as the service of his parishioners. instrumental … keeping us going and young sons with such familiarity. parish secretary and bookkeeper from “People sent me cards, all kinds of keeping our spirits up.” “The people there are extremely 1982 until 2005. cards, all of the time,” Father Dant said. While she valued the material personable,” Ayres said. “Everybody gives Helen Kramer, 85, is a lifelong member “The people were very aware of my support from parishioners, the spiritual more than they’re asked to. People are so of the parish who played the organ during suffering and surgery and pain.” support that she and her husband involved and ready to give that it’s really parish liturgies for 37 years as a volunteer. Parishioners also volunteered to take received from Father Farrell and the inspiring. She saw her parents support the parish him to his daily chemotherapy treatments. parishioners was perhaps even more “It’s not something that comes out of a when she was a student at its school in the “It’s just that consciousness that we important to Bittelmeyer, who has book. It comes through example. That’s 1930s, and then took her turn when her need to help each other out that comes volunteered as Our Lady of Lourdes’ one thing that I took from Lourdes.” six children were students there in the from being a strong neighborhood,” parish nurse since 1997. 1950s and ’60s. he said. “Going through it with both of us at the (To learn more about Our Lady of “They followed in our footsteps and Robert and Paula Bittelmeyer same time, day after day, month after Lourdes Parish, log on to were able to go through a wonderful experienced similar support from their month, I got to a point where I called www.lourdesparish.com.) †

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By Louise McNulty

The process of becoming a priest starts

long before a man applies to a seminary, Haring photo/Paul CNS said Father David Toups, associate director of the Secretariat for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It starts when a man first feels a stirring in his heart to serve Christ and begins to seriously discern if the Lord is truly calling him to holy orders. Father Toups, a priest of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, Fla., who ministers in Washington, noted that feeling a call does not necessarily mean that a man “will become or is meant to become a priest.” And while a seminary is the place for a time dedicated to discernment, much of the process should be going on before entering. “The man should spend a good amount of time in daily prayer, at daily Eucharist and under the spiritual direction of someone who is more mature spiritually,” said Father Toups, who was ordained in 1997. He also encourages a prospective seminarian to become involved in parish ministries and activities where he has a desire to serve, and to establish contact with Father David Toups, third from right, speaks with young men from New Zealand and the U.S. at the vocations expo at World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, in the vocation director of a religious 2007. Father Toups is the associate director of the Office of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. community or his diocese. After six months to a year of private discernment, U.S. bishops. After the two years of pre-theologate the spiritual, so that a man is imbued with a Father Toups said, he should then approach The actual seminary application process studies, the candidate begins four years of deep prayer life and a spirituality that informs the vocation director to say he is ready to for diocesan priests generally includes theological training, which usually results in all areas of life. Intellectual/academic make an application to either a religious interviews with the local bishop, priests, earning a master’s degree in theology. formation is fostered through courses in order or to his local diocese. religious and laity in ministry, a background Throughout his studies, Father Toups said, philosophy and theology. And pastoral “Religious order priests follow the screening and psychological evaluations to the seminarian continues to discern God’s call. formation begins when a seminarian takes on charism established by their founder assure that the Church is Regular meetings with a weekly assignments, spending an afternoon and their community, and feel called to dealing with a healthy, spiritual director and in different service areas, doing such work as share in that charism, whether it be, for wholesome individual. ‘When a man takes serving in various priestly helping in a soup kitchen, a hospital or example, teaching or ministry to the poor,” “Assuming that the holy orders, he is ministries help teaching catechesis to children.” Father Toups explained. “A diocesan priest person is accepted, he married to the Church throughout this These four dimensions, Father Toups said, is ordained for a particular Church. In a would basically begin the discernment process. are meant to be integrated, not separated. sense, he is kind of a general practitioner, process of formation,” for life. He becomes a Those who do not have Around the end of the second year of most often as a parish priest.” Father Toups said. He married man in a an undergraduate degree theological studies, the seminarian is The first step for those aspiring to must then apply to a have the option of expected to make a decision on his own since become members of a religious order is to seminary recommended committed relationship entering a college he would make vows to the transitional apply for acceptance into a particular by the diocese, again with the bride of seminary or transferring diaconate during his third year. In some religious community, Father Toups going through additional Christ, the Church.’ there from secular dioceses and seminary programs, seminarians continued. Following acceptance, the next interviews and procedures institutions. There are are ordained deacons in the first semester of step is to enter the novitiate—a period of which Father Toups also a few seminaries in their fourth year. training for a person new to formation. described as “a second —Father David Toups the U.S. designed for Father Toups compared this decision to One to two years of intense spiritual level of accountability older candidates. that required of a man dating a woman. discipline is undertaken. Then a man would and protection for the While the formation “At some point, they have to get engaged,” go to the seminary to study philosophy and Church.” process for seminarians may vary from he said. “When a man takes holy orders, he is theology. Once accepted, the candidate enters the religious orders to dioceses, all involve four married to the Church for life. He becomes a This process, Father Toups said, is very seminary. If he has an undergraduate degree, very basic dimensions that all seminarians married man in a committed relationship with similar to that for a diocesan seminarian, he would begin a two-year pre-theologate undergo, Father Toups explained. the bride of Christ, the Church.” who goes through six years of study program. During this time, he would study “First, ... the human dimension is mandated by the program of priestly philosophy and lay the groundwork for the developed so that we have a healthy, (Louise McNulty is a freelance writer in formation of the Vatican and the further study of theology. wholesome individual,” he said. “Second is Akron, Ohio.) † Discussion Point Today’s culture makes it difficult to hear God’s call This Week’s Question materialism. Also, the Church has suffered with some bad scandals ... that might discourage some young Do you think it is difficult for men to answer the call men.” (Carol Arnold, North Tonawanda, N.Y.) to priesthood today? Why or why not?

“Absolutely. There are just too many things that “It’s difficult because of the environment we live in. happen in their lives, too many outside influences, to Everything is so secular and ... we have lost so much allow them to focus. Also, a lot of young people in of the sacred. And with girls [as servers] at the altar, that age group simply are not going to church. They’re the emphasis on men has diminished.” (Eleanore not hearing [the call] because they’re not there to Willett, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio) listen.” (Donna Geiger, Erie, Pa.)

“I think it is difficult for men to answer the call to the Lend Us Your Voice priesthood because this call requires sacrifice. Why would you sacrifice yourself for something if you An upcoming edition asks: What does it mean for you don’t believe in it with your whole heart and soul?” to be “vigilant at all times and to pray”? (John Wagner, Norton, Ohio)

“Perhaps [the priesthood] is not encouraged in families To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to as it once was. Families aren’t together as much and [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at are not centered around religion. There’s too much 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS photo/Reuters Page 12 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Basic Catholicism: Abortion and Communion Appreciate your (Thirty-eighth in a series) drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will most pro-abortion politicians— have to answer for the body and blood of the Massachusetts, for example. Or Rhode common The Catholic Church has not done a good Lord” (1 Cor 11:27). “Unworthily” is Island, which has the highest percentage of job of convincing all Catholics either of the defined as being in the state of mortal sin. Catholics in the nation and where polls say priesthood evil of abortion or the It’s a sacrilege to do so. that 63 percent of the people are pro-choice. seriousness of receiving Any mortal sin—adultery, skipping As much as the popes and bishops have in the Year for Communion only when Sunday Mass, stealing a large amount of emphasized life issues, they apparently have one is in the state of money, defaming someone’s good name, not been able to convince many Catholics. grace. The evidence for etc.—is incompatible with going to And it is not just abortion, but also Priests that statement is the Communion. euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research Did you ever think about how when you controversy that comes But the present controversy concerns and capital punishment, too. are changing your baby’s diaper, raking up whenever bishops abortion. Anyone who votes for a politician The Catechism of the Catholic Church leaves, working on a tell political candidates precisely because he or she supports clearly teaches, “Anyone who desires to factory floor or that they may not abortion rights, while knowing that that is receive Christ in Eucharistic Communion preparing a legal brief receive Communion if they support grievously wrong, is committing a mortal must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware that you could, in these abortion. sin and may not receive Communion. of having sinned mortally must not receive and all the ordinary The issue really is quite simple: Catholics The U.S. bishops have not taken a united Communion without having received circumstances of life, have an obligation to respect life, and it is a stand on the issue of whether priests should absolution in the sacrament of penance” be acting like a priest? grievous sin to encourage abortion. Those refuse Communion to pro-abortion (#1415). This is hardly new teaching. If not, then you with any grievous sin on their souls are not politicians. There is agreement that such Perhaps Catholics are no longer aware of might not be aware of worthy to receive Communion. politicians should not present themselves for what mortal sin is. The catechism states: an ancient teaching of This is not just a rule for politicians. It Communion, but not on whether they should “For a sin to be mortal, three conditions the Church renewed at applies to everybody. It also isn’t a matter of be refused if they do. must together be met: Mortal sin is sin the Second Vatican Council. the Catholic bishops getting involved in Meanwhile, we have to face the fact that whose object is grave matter and which is Believe it or not, all Catholics are partisan politics. They are defending what the Church still has a serious need to educate also committed with full knowledge and priests. the Church has consistently taught about the the faithful about the seriousness of the issue deliberate consent” (#1857). We read in the First Letter of St. Peter Eucharist ever since St. Paul warned the of abortion. Those states with the highest Again, the same thing the Church has that all the members of the Church together Corinthians: “Whoever eats the bread or percentage of Catholics are those with the always taught. † are “a holy priesthood [who] offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Coming of Age/Erick Rommel Christ” (1 Pt 2:5). It was commonplace before the Council for parents to tell their children to “offer Learning the power of making a stand in life up” the hardships that they experienced One of the lessons taught in every different. Kentucky has more tobacco farms teens’ presentation, but government being from day to day. social studies or government class in high than any other state. These kids aren’t just government, no decision is forthcoming. What they were essentially suggesting schools across the standing up for better health; they are The council wants to investigate the issue their children do was to offer their trials up United States is the standing up against the industry that likely further, and hear from businesses that like a priest renews the one sacrifice of importance of civic provides jobs to their families and many will be affected by any changes. Christ on Calvary at every celebration of responsibility. The people they know. Whether these teens are ultimately the Mass. voice of the people is The leadership council’s message is successful with all of their quests is The bishops at the Second Vatican essential to ensure simple: A smoking ban will improve the irrelevant to the bigger picture. They Council reflected on how ordained priests those elected to public health of the community and protect have learned that people with a common and the common priesthood of all the office understand the children who don’t have a say in where they cause can be heard, a lesson that is often faithful are rooted in the one priesthood of views of those whom eat. lost in our world of Facebook and Christ. They did this rather eloquently in they represent. Taking such a stand is courageous, but Twitter, where many people talk as “Lumen Gentium” (“Light of the Nations”), Teenagers who you might be surprised to learn it has also individuals and not as a group. the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church: want to actively engage in the democratic been successful. Years from now, the current members “For all their works, prayers and process and let their voices be heard often So far, the teenagers have visited of the Pike County Youth Leadership apostolic endeavors, their ordinary married take the lessons learned in the classroom three communities in their area. One enacted Council will graduate and move on to and family life, their daily occupations, and immediately apply them to the real a smoking ban soon after the teens appeared different activities. But they won’t forget. their physical and mental relaxation, if world. before the town council. And in follow-up, They have given their voice and initiated carried out in the Spirit, and even the That is just what dozens of teenagers the teen organization’s president shared with change. It may not be too long before hardships of life, if patiently borne—all are doing in eastern Kentucky. The teens the town’s leaders new information some of those teens are on the town these become ‘spiritual sacrifices belong to the Pike County Youth indicating that since that town initiated its councils they once appeared before. acceptable to God through Jesus Christ’ ” Leadership Council. They are on a smoking ban many of its restaurants have Maybe their sights will be set even (#34, quoting 2 Pt 2:5). mission—they want the towns in their shown increases in business. higher. Think of the way your ordinary daily life community to ban smoking at The second community hasn’t taken any Wouldn’t it be something if these at home with family or your relationships restaurants—and they are demanding that action yet. And the teens just met with the students who are learning about with co-workers could be transfigured by their voices be heard. third community in August. government today became those who God’s grace if you consciously live out the Depending on where you live, that may When the teens visited this community, lead government tomorrow? profound spirituality expressed in this short not seem like a big deal. In the Northeast they didn’t just bring statistics. They also If that happens, we will be in very quotation. and other parts of the country, smoking offered petitions with the signatures of good hands indeed. Not only would this be a blessing to you, sections in restaurants have been outlawed thousands of registered voters who also but it could be a way for God to shower for years. support a smoking ban. (Erick Rommel writes for Catholic News down blessings on others. In Kentucky, however, things are a bit The town’s leaders were impressed by the Service.) † For when you “offer up” whatever task you might be doing, you offer it up for Your Family/Bill and Monica Dodds someone else or some worthy intention. When you change your baby’s diaper, you can offer that up so that God might Establishing a homework routine can help families bless your baby. It seems that even grade-schoolers’ And so, the grade school’s new policy met with incremental deadlines. With this priestly perspective on your homework has been affected by the recent for seventh- and eighth-graders is a grade • Establish a place, time and environment life of faith in your heart and mind, economic troubles. of 50 for any assignment turned in for homework. All of us are creatures of you’ll be more easily and fruitfully able No, we don’t one day late and zero if two days late. routine, and it is possible to establish good to connect the ordinary duties of your mean Mom and Dad And now for fifth- and sixth-graders, it is habits (as well as fall into bad ones). daily life to the worship you give to God have lowered any 75 for one day late, 50 for two days late • Remember you are there to help, not to at Mass. promised payments and zero for three days. do the work. The bishops at Vatican II spoke about on good report cards. Amazingly, a poor semester grade during • Never hesitate to get outside help for this also: “Together with the offering of the (The two of us never freshman year can hound a student’s grade yourself and your student. For some kids Lord’s body, they [all the tasks mentioned had that deal as point average throughout high school and tip and their parents, homework really is torture, above] are most fittingly offered in the children and never the balance when it comes to getting into and that is not a reflection on the parents or celebration of the Eucharist” (#34). offered it as parents.) college. And not just at an exclusive college. the children. This brings the common priesthood of We mean colleges A state college. (Not that we, as state college • Keep in mind that in the long run and all the faithful close to the ordained have cut back on the number of students graduates ourselves, have anything against throughout life, effort, attitude and priesthood of the priests who are the they are accepting. state colleges!) perseverance often trump IQ. (The smart celebrants at Mass. And so, as one Catholic grade-school And so, now parents have even more kids don’t necessarily do well in the many Although the ordained priesthood is teacher told us, representatives from the reason to hate homework. And that doesn’t years following school and the not-so-smart fundamentally different than the common local Catholic high school recently stopped seem possible, does it? kids can do very well indeed.) priesthood, the Catechism of the Catholic by to tell the faculty that incoming freshmen As the new school year is unfolding, here There is help for families on the Internet. Church teaches us that it is “at the service were shocked—shocked!—to learn that if are a few suggestions for helping your sons Type “help with homework” into any search of the common priesthood” and “is directed they didn’t turn an assignment in on time and daughters finish those assignments on engine and you are going to find many, at the unfolding of the baptismal grace of they would receive a greatly reduced credit time with a minimum of frustration and many great choices. all Christians” (#1547). for it. Or—horrors!—a big fat zero for it. tears. (And without your children being In this Year for Priests, we lay Catholics And so, the high school was getting the frustrated or crying too!): (Bill and Monica Dodds are the founders of might fulfill Pope Benedict XVI’s wish that word out to the local grade schools that • Know what those assignment deadlines the Friends of St. John the Caregiver and all the faithful pray for our ordained priests those 14-year-olds would have been helped are! Keep an up-to-date calendar in a editors of My Daily Visitor magazine. Their and by living out more consciously our if they had been given a taste of that harsh prominent place. (Love those refrigerator Web site is www.FSJC.org. They can be common priesthood, offering up tasks in reality when they were 12 and 13. And a magnets.) Break down big assignments into contacted at MonicaDodds@YourAging our everyday life as spiritual sacrifices for hearty dash of it when they were 10 and 11. smaller, more manageable steps that can be Parent.com.) † them. † The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009 Page 13

Feast of All Saints/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Nov. 2 Friday, Nov. 6 The Sunday Readings The Commemoration of Romans 15:14-21 All the Faithful Departed Psalm 98:1-4 Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009 Twelve tribes composed the people of Israel. (All Souls) Luke 16:1-8 Jesus called 12 Apostles, and so on. • Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 The number 144,000 is achieved by Wisdom 3:1-9 • 1 John 3:1-3 multiplying 12 by 12,000 as if to underscore Psalm 23:1-6 Saturday, Nov. 7 • Mt 5:1-12a perfection. Romans 5:5-11 Romans 16:3-9, 16, 22-27 In the story, 144,000 souls are with God. or Romans 6:3-9 Psalm 145:2-5, 10-11 This weekend, the Church celebrates the It is not a narrow number, a warning of John 6:37-40 Luke 16:9-15 Feast of All Saints, rejoicing in the holy lives exclusion. Rather, it refers to the lavish of all its members who have died and are mercy of welcome, drawing all humankind forever with God. to faith and, with God’s grace, many Tuesday, Nov. 3 Sunday, Nov. 8 It is one of the oldest respond. They come from everywhere, Martin de Porres, religious Thirty-second Sunday in Christian feasts. The gathering before the throne of the Lamb, the Romans 12:5-16a Ordinary Time thought of honoring Lord Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God. Psalm 131:1-3 1 Kings 17:10-16 holy men and women For its second reading, the Church this Luke 14:15-24 Psalm 146:7-10 who have died in grace weekend offers us a selection from the is very old itself. An First Epistle of John. Hebrews 9:24-28 ancient Christian writing This reading extends the theme, Wednesday, Nov. 4 Mark 12:38-44 from the second century proclaiming how much God loves us. He has Charles Borromeo, bishop or Mark 12:41-44 A.D. speaks of paying made us nothing less than children of God. Romans 13:8-10 homage to saintly St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the last Psalm 112:1-2, 4-5, 9 people who have gone to the next life. reading. Luke 14:25-33 Even the vigil for this feast has a It is the beautiful passage called the history—All Hallows Eve, now known as Beatitudes. Halloween. It would be difficult today to In one sense, the Beatitudes are Thursday, Nov. 5 describe the purpose of this vigil, or this commandments. Certainly, they are Romans 14:7-12 secular holiday, as it has become in our revelation. They tell us who is saintly, and Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 culture. It never was a time to shrink away in for whom everlasting life will be the reward. Luke 15:1-10 fear in the face of devils, witches and wicked It will be the peacemakers, the humble, the persons. Rather, it was a happy time to mock truly God-fearing, the pure in heart, and evil because evil has been conquered by those who endure the abuse and trials of this holiness. world. Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen The first reading for this feast is from the Book of Revelation, which was called the Reflection Apocalypse in older Catholic translations of This ancient, wonderful feast calls us to God offers the gift of salvation the Bible. redouble our Christian commitment and No book in the New Testament is more stand firm with Christ in this life. filled with symbolism and mystery, and none Everlasting life with Christ will be our to everyone to accept or reject is written with greater imagery, than reward. The Lutheran-Catholic dialogues of Revelation. Certainly, it depicts conflict Revelation was written in a time when Our Bible study group recently recent decades have considerably between good and evil. After all, the conflict Christians were beginning to undergo great Qdiscussed predestination. ameliorated the conflict by revealing that between good and evil is a fundamental trials. Persecution was underway. It was a The Presbyterian there is much more in common on this topic reality of Christian life. However, in the last frightening time for the followers of Jesus. ladies were familiar than had been evident in previous belligerent analysis, its message is not of doom and Matthew’s Gospel hints at the conflict with the concept. Those arguments and mutual condemnations. death, but of victory and peace. between good and evil as it speaks of those of us who are Catholics Resulting texts from these dialogues are The reading today is about heaven and the who suffer and of perseverance. couldn’t remember it available on the Internet. saints. In the day in which Revelation was The Church urges us to see in the being discussed in written—a time when numbers demanded holiness of persons who lived with the Lord, religion classes. I have noticed priests and other teachers none of the exactness that we associate with and who have died in the Lord, a great What is that theory? Quse the term “unconditional love.” mathematics today since then so few could example for the Christian life. Does the Bible explain Is that found anywhere in Scripture? If even count, let alone calculate in terms of If we are holy then we can anticipate life it? (New Jersey) so, where? What is meant by the term, and higher mathematics—numbers had a more forever with God in Christ. True discipleship why do we seem to hear about it so often in symbolic value. can be daunting, but God’s grace and The concept of predestination has been relation to God? Twelve was the most perfect of all the strength will flood over us if we ask for Aa major point of theological conflict numbers and represented perfection. God’s help. † between Catholics and many Protestant Unconditional love means a love that is groups for the past 500 years. Anot subject to any conditions or “ifs.” It deals with the apparent conflict Many relationships we identify as love are My Journey to God between God’s foreknowledge of our conditional ones—I will love you if you do salvation and our free will. this, or as long as you behave this way or If God knows who will and who will not that. be saved, and that knowledge is founded in The most genuine and total love is Finding Grace God’s will, we have no real choice. unconditional. We are told often, especially Our salvation or condemnation is already in the New Testament, that our love for God In the soul established. In fact, the outcome of our lives, must be total and unconditional, and that our exists a craving for it. good or bad, ultimately has nothing to do love for one another must imitate his love In the eyes, with our actions. It is all God’s choice and for us. longing for it. work. In the Old Testament, God insists on the In the arms, Catholic theology, on the contrary, holds totality of that love. Particularly after Hosea, feeling for it. that God offers the gift of salvation to and later in the Book of Deuteronomy, the In the ears, everyone, and it is our free choice to accept mutual love which God sees as the listening for it. that gift or deny it. relationship he desires between himself and In the mouth, The two major 16th-century figures in his people becomes more and more evident. tasting for its sweetness. the Reformation, Martin Luther and The most astounding proofs of the In the breath, John Calvin, held sometimes ambiguous enormity and generosity of God’s love are in smelling for its aromatic love. positions on the subject, but in the end seem the New Testament, particularly in Jesus’ to come down firmly on the side of predesti- words about how God’s love for us can be Catholic Courier When the moments happen that grace nation. measured only by the love which he has for spreads its wings, Calvin took literally Paul’s remark that the Father and the Father for him from all enveloping one’s entire being, God hates some people and loves others eternity. a true gift from God is felt. (see Rom 9:11-16). There’s no injustice “As the father has loved me, so I have

The feeling is unlike anything earthly. Crupi, CNS photo/Mike here, says Calvin, because God doesn’t owe loved you” (Jn 15:9), he told his disciples. There exists a sudden sense that all things us anything, and we can do nothing to merit He later prayed “that they may be one as we are right. Grace ... salvation. are one” (Jn 17:21) so the world would Grace shares the realization that God is in Not hidden. Luther is less absolute about it, but in his know “that you loved them as you loved control. Welcomed. work The Bondage of the Will he insists so me” (Jn 17:23). It deepens the faith that He is there in Longed for. much on God’s knowledge and power that That is genuine unconditional love, the good times and rough. Life-giving. our efforts and intentions appear to be measure that Jesus gives for our love of Grace produces a hope that gives the Peaceful. meaningless and futile. one another. weakest strength. God’s loving arms surrounding us. The ecumenical Council of Trent It erupts a joy that radiates throughout the (1545-63) countered these theories several (Catholic Q&A: Answers to the Most mind. By Maria Vespo Harr times by restating Catholic doctrine that Common Questions about Catholicism is a God invites everyone to be his children in 530-page collection of columns by Father (Maria Vespo Harr is a member of St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis. She said Christ, and we can all respond to that call John Dietzen published by Crossroad inspiration for this poem came after she felt called to attend the parish mission in with the gift and power of the Holy Spirit. It Publishing Company in New York. Questions October of 2009. A statue of St. John the Baptist baptizing Jesus is in the narthex of condemns those who claim that we humans may be sent to Father Dietzen at Box 3315, Our Lady of the Americas Church in Rochester, N.Y.) have no power to do evil, and it is God who Peoria, IL 61612 or by e-mail to does evil works just as he does good. [email protected].) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2009

McDermott. Mother of Jeanne O’Brien and Paul McDermott. Sister of Alta Combs and Alford Everidge. Grandmother of four. Rest in peace Great-grandmother of one. PARMER, Pauline E., 93,

Please submit in writing to our Husband of Dolores (Herman) St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Shemitz photo/GregoryCNS A. office by 10 a.m. Thursday Francis. Father of Ann Jensen, Oct. 11. Mother of Lee Ann, before the week of publication; Gail, David, Gregory, Jason, Susan and David Parmer. Grand- be sure to state date of death. Joseph and Raymond Francis. mother of 12. Great-grandmother Obituaries of archdiocesan Brother of Sue and Harvey of 23. priests serving our archdiocese Francis. Grandfather of five. RICE, Alice, 88, are listed elsewhere in FUSSNER, Mary C., 96, St. Bartholomew, Columbus, The Criterion. Order priests and Sacred Heart of Jesus, Oct. 18. Mother of Kevin, Larry, religious sisters and brothers Ind ianapolis, Oct. 13. Richard, Robert and Ronald Rice. are included here, unless they Sister of seven. Grandm other of are natives of the archdiocese or GRIFFIN, William, 81, St. Jude, 14. Great-grandmother of 14. have other connections to it; Indianapolis, Oct. 17. Father of those are separate obituaries on Susan Ruhana, James, Joseph and ROERING, Alois H., 72, this page. Michael Griffin. Brother of Paul St. Agnes, Nashville, Oct. 6. Sanders. Grand father of eight. Father of Ann Bak, Chris and BOLLY, Virgil E., 75, St. Joseph, Great-grandfather of two. Michael Roering. Grandfather of Sellersburg, Oct. 12. Husband of seven. Anne Bolly. Father of Judy JACKSON, Virginia H., 85, Lawrence, David and Virgil St. Monica, Indianapolis, Oct. 5. ROMINE, Cheryl M., 51, Bolly III. Brother of Carolyn Mother of Barbara Bonczek, St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Ernstberger and John Bolly. Mary Sue Bledowski, Judith, Oct. 15. Wife of Robert Romine. Grandfather of five. Nancy, Virginia, David, George, Mother of Darcy Goodman, James, Michael and Robert Danielle Henry, Missy Rutan, DENNIN, Colleen Elizabeth Jackson. Sister of Ruth (Habig) Robin Steinway, Teresa (Boyle), 28, Mary, Queen of Guardian angel Green. Grandmother of 14. Great- Vanarsdall and Kyle Romine. Peace, Danville, Oct. 8. Wife of Sister of Beverly Bickell, Pam grandmother of nine. A statue of an angel overlooks a grave site at the Sisters of St. Joseph’s cemetery in Scott Dennin. Daughter of John Cook, Debra, Timothy and Tom and Anita (Koers) Boyle. Sister of JORDEN, Thomas James, 74, Blanford. Grandmother of 10. Brentwood, N.Y., on Oct. 20. All Souls’ Day, the commemoration of all the faithful departed, is Nicole Silcox, John Boyle III and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, observed on Nov. 2 each year. Tim Boyle. New Albany, Oct. 18. Husband of SMITH, William G., 85, St. Gabriel the Archangel, Indian- DROEGER, Louise, 75, Teresa Anne Jorden. Father of Maureen Campbell, Mark, apolis, Oct. 15. Father of Barbara St. Philip Neri, Indianapolis, Shrake, Charlotte Tsareff, Linda, Charity Sister Louise French, who was born in Oct. 16. Mother of Shelley Matthew and Michael Jorden. Grandfather of seven. David and William Smith Jr. Austrew, Jim and Mike Droeger. Grandfather of nine. Great-grand- Indianapolis, was a college professor for 35 years Sister of Elda, Sally, Joseph, Paul KLUEMPER, Ed, 80, father of seven. and Willie Mattingly. Grand- St. Maurice, Napoleon, Oct. 3. Sister Louise French, a The former Anne French was Chicago from 1968 until 2003. THOMPSON, Joseph mother of seven. Great-grand- Father of Patricia Ferguson, , 74, Sister of Charity of the born on June 23, 1918, in Indian- During 69 years as a Sister of Sacred Heart of Jesus, mother of 12. Carlotta Gunter and Janet Orr. Blessed Virgin Mary and a native apolis. She attended St. Joan of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Terre Haute, Oct. 12. Husband Brother of Mary Kluemper. of Indianapolis, died on Oct. 21 at Arc School in Indianapolis. Mary, she also taught at schools FEDORCHAK, Michael, 85, of Aloisia Thompson. Brother of Grand father of 22. Great-grand- Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa. She entered the congregation in Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri St. Charles Borromeo, Delores Utz. She was 91. on Aug. 31, 1940, professed and Iowa. Bloomington, Oct. 16. Husband father of 23. WEIDENBENER, Robert P., The Mass of Christian Burial first vows on March 19, 1943, and Surviving are nieces and of Margaret Fedorchak. Father of KRACHENFELS, Richard P., was celebrated on Oct. 28 in professed final vows on Aug. 15, nephews. Paul Fedorchak. Brother of Anna 66, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, 91, Christ the King, Indianapolis, the Marian Hall Chapel at 1948. Memorial gifts may be sent to Chekansky and Walter Schurko. Oct. 14. Husband of Catherine Oct. 11. Mount Carmel. Sister Louise was a professor the Sisters of Charity of the Grandfather of three. Weidenbener. Father of Michael McDERMOTT, Carol, 84, Weidenbener. Son of Golda Burial followed at of philosophy at Clarke College in Blessed Virgin Mary Support FRANCIS, Otis Roger, Jr., 69, Holy Name of Jesus, Weidenbener. Brother of Donna Mount Carmel Cemetery in Dubuque as well as at Mundelein Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, St. Agnes, Nashville, Oct. 13. Beech Grove, Oct. 23. Wife of Joe Weidenbener. † Dubuque. College and Loyola University in Dubuque, Iowa 52003. †

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Right, Roberto Marquez, a pastoral minister at St. Philip Neri Parish in Indianapolis, Photos by Sean Gallagher Photos by standing at left, and Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein laugh while chatting with members of the parish school’s kindergarten class on Oct. 20. Archbishop Buechlein visited the school that day to bless it after major renovations had been completed. St. Philip Neri School is one of six Mother Theodore Catholic Academies in Indianapolis. The renovations were made possible through a grant received from the Lilly Endowment Inc.

Below, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein blesses students and teachers of St. Philip Neri School in Indianapolis on Oct. 20 in front of the school’s main entrance.

Parishioners, bishop reflect on New Jersey pastor slain in stabbing

CHATHAM, N.J. (CNS)—Father Edward Hinds helped making today,’ and have a taste. He became part of our about the profound and many people during his 35 years of priestly life, the last lives and, in turn, we became part of his.” lasting impact that he six of which were spent as pastor of St. Patrick Parish in The body of the priest, who was stabbed 32 times, had made in their lives,” The Beacon Chatham in the Paterson Diocese. was found on Oct. 23.The parish janitor, Jose Feliciano, said Bishop Arthur J. His brutal murder in the rectory of St. Patrick Church 64, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Serratelli of Paterson in

on Oct. 22 stunned the diocese and the nation. As parish- Prosecutors said on Oct. 25 he had confessed to the a column scheduled to CNS photo/Joe Gigli, ioners, friends and brother priests mourned his sudden murder. appear in the Oct. 29 loss, they also remembered him fondly. According to Feliciano’s written affidavit, he was issue of The Beacon, When Marie Ryan, consultant for the diocesan arguing with the priest in the rectory on the evening of Paterson’s diocesan Office of Respect Life, thinks about Father Hinds, she Oct. 22, took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed the newspaper. remembers him as more than her family’s pastor. She priest. CNN reported that Morris County Prosecutor “We mourn his remembers him as a dear friend who would stop by and Robert Bianchi said the two men were arguing over passing for we know that visit. Feliciano’s continued employment. Father Hinds strove, “He would knock on the door to my home and just say Feliciano had worked for the parish since 1992 when within the limits of our hello,” said Ryan, who lives a few houses away from the he moved to New Jersey from Puerto Rico. He was common humanity, to church. “When he would come into the kitchen, he would baptized a Catholic at St. Patrick Church in 1996, and open for others the way Father Edward Hinds raises the open the pots on the stove and say, ‘Let’s see what you’re sent his children to the parish grade school. His youngest to the heart of Christ,” host during his first Mass as the child is still an eighth-grader there. he said. new pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Funeral arrangements for the priest had not been Being among the Chatham, N.J., in 2003. The priest Catholic News Around Indiana finalized. people was an essential was found stabbed to death in the John Polanin, parish trustee at St. Patrick, said his part of Father Hinds’ parish rectory on Oct. 23. Police fondest memory of Father Hinds was from the parish priestly ministry. have charged a parish janitor, • Diocese of Gary picnic this past summer. Retired Bishop Frank Jose Feliciano, in the priest’s • Diocese of Evansville “It was a beautiful sunny day and the park was J. Rodimer of Paterson death. • Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana filled with people. Father Hinds was wearing a straw remembered • Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend hat and sunglasses and was so happy. He skipped Father Hinds, who served as his first priest-secretary around and greeted the people.To me, that’s what it after he was ordained a bishop in 1978. Is available online this week at was all about for Father Ed, being among his people,” “It was his own personal preference to serve in the he said. parish ministry,” he said. “Even though he had advanced www.CriterionOnline.com. Father Hinds’ slaying “has wounded the hearts of all degrees in canon law and was trained for administrative who knew him. Already, many people have told me work, he wanted to directly work with people.” †

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By Sean Gallagher lives belong to the Church. And we have to keep praying for the freedom that we need For the first time in 20 years, a priest of to be who the Lord needs us to be, to go the Archdiocese of Indianapolis has been where the Lord needs us to go, and to say appointed a bishop. what the Lord longs for us to say on his On Oct. 19, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, behalf.’ apostolic nuncio to the United States, And now, as I got this phone call and courtesyPhoto Smith/WTE Michael of announced that Pope Benedict XVI had made this journey to Wyoming, it’s just all chosen Father Paul D. Etienne, pastor of the more clear and evident that my life is St. Paul Parish in Tell City, to become the not my own anymore. I will now have new bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo. He will be someone else keeping my calendar and ordained a bishop on Dec. 9 in Cheyenne. telling me where to go. It is no longer my The day after the announcement, own. It’s more and more the Church’s. Bishop-designate Etienne, still in Cheyenne But the theological understanding of the after meeting with the diocese’s pastoral staff bishop is that it’s the fullness of the and local members of the media, spoke with priesthood. And that’s what all this emotion The Criterion in a telephone interview. translates to for me. It’s almost like a physical pouring in of the grace and the Q. I understand you learned about the fullness of that spirit of this office of bishop. appointment a couple of weeks ago. I feel it in an almost physical way. A. [I learned about it on] Monday, Oct. 5. That’s what this abiding sense of peace is Q. What was that like for you? all about [that I had] yesterday. It’s just the A. Well, it was bizarre. I don’t know what presence of the Spirit and the fullness of else to say. Archbishop Sambi called the God’s presence saying, ‘I am with you. Do office at the parish and it was my day off. We not be afraid. I’ll give you the words to had to play phone tag. I was up at the speak.’ It’s a physical experience of what [family] farm with a chain saw, working in this fullness of the priesthood is going to be the woods. And, when he called, I was just on that ordination day. getting out of my pickup truck. Q. When you have the fullness of the I was in my Carhart jeans and in my work priesthood, you’re being conformed, as boots, and had nothing to take notes with. I much as a man can be conformed, to the was just sitting there in my truck listening to fullness of the image of Christ. That, him tell me that I’ve just been named [a] necessarily, means carrying the cross. bishop. And he had to say ‘Cheyenne’ A. Correct. four times before I could understand what he Q. I would think that leaving your was saying. hometown four months after you began I still just can hardly believe it. It’s a very serving as the pastor there would unusual experience. What can I say? potentially be a heavy cross, at least as Q. I understand that you could not you might consider how other people are speak about the appointment until just taking it— your parents and other people Bishop-designate Paul D. Etienne smiles during an Oct. 19 Mass that he celebrated at St. Mary shortly before you left for Cheyenne. That that you know there in town. Cathedral in Cheyenne, Wyo. He was in Cheyenne to meet with staff members of the Diocese of must have been difficult. A. The weekend before … I kind of lost Cheyenne and members of the local media after Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the A. It was very difficult. I was just an it in my homily. [In the Gospel], Jesus told United States, announced earlier that day that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed Bishop-designate emotional wreck Saturday night [Oct. 17] Peter when he asked, ‘Lord, what’s in it for Etienne the new bishop of Cheyenne. during Mass at Tell City. I just really had a us? We’ve been following you?’ And [Jesus] difficult time getting through the eucharistic says, ‘You, know, Peter, there’s no one amount of paternal love and support from A. The next few weeks are going to be prayer and the rest of Mass. I’m sure the who’s left everything behind for my sake [the late] Archbishop [Edward T.] O’Meara given to my people at home. We’re going to whole congregation was wondering, ‘What is that will not receive a hundred-fold more: because I was just a seminarian in those enjoy being together for whatever time we wrong with him?’ family, friends, possessions, lands, with days. He was a real spiritual father to me. have together now. And that’s parishioners, And then I left from Mass to go out to tell persecutions, and eternal life in the age to And then, with Archbishop [Daniel M.] family and friends. They will be my focus Mom and Dad because I was leaving town come.’ Buechlein, he’s been my bishop. And there’s now until I move and begin my ministry on Saturday night. While I was there, we And I can hear that now more with a been that fraternal bond between a bishop here. called the rest of my brothers and sisters. sense of peace. This is a part of the playing and his priests that has grown over our Q. Do you have any particular hopes It was very emotional: lots of joy, but also field. There are many blessings. But the 17 years together. He was appointed just a or areas of focus for your episcopal the sorrow of knowing that there was going cross is right in the middle of everything month after I was ordained. I appreciate that ministry and for the Church in Wyoming to be a greater separation now between us. I that is about Jesus Christ. And to ignore that relationship that I have with him. as you look forward to being their was filled up with emotion. And I still am. I is to be unrealistic. That’s why Jesus was so And then Bishop [Robert N.] Lynch in shepherd? still have a little emotion each day, kind of freely open and speaking about [this] with St. Petersburg and I have been friends since A. I will continue to be a strong advocate being a little overwhelmed with it all. his Apostles and any Christian that follows he was ‘Father Bob’ [when they worked for priests as well as recruiting seminarians. Q. How does the phone call from him. together at the U.S. Conference of Catholic I want to do two [other] things. I want to Archbishop Sambi represent a point in So leaving Tell City behind after just Bishops in Washington in the mid-1980s]. spend time in each of the deaneries of the your life after which everything changes? arriving there again is a part of the sorrow of He’s been a model of priesthood and diocese to celebrate with the people. A. There’s a liturgical song called this new turning of the world for me. But it episcopal life from a different vantage point And then I want to spend a good amount ‘Canticle of the Turning.’ It’s a song [about] doesn’t change the joy that is a part of the for me. of time in the diocese—an evening, an Mary. And the refrain of it [says], ‘The world call either. And I think there’s something to take afternoon, a night, a morning—with my is about to turn.’ That hymn was in my mind Q. How would you say that your away from each of the numerous other priests just so that we can be together and for the next two days after I got that phone 17 years of priestly ministry in the bishops that I’ve known at one point or visit. They can share with me what it’s like call. archdiocese prepared you for the ministry another—more before they were ordained to be a member of this presbyterate, their That phrase sums it up. My world turned that you’re now being asked to bishops than as bishops—and their unique hopes and dreams for the future. And after with that one phone call. undertake? gifts as priests and bishops. 12 months of listening, then we’ll bring Q. Does it bring into a different A. I think everything I’ve done in my Q. How did you come to choose your everybody together in a planning process for perspective the idea that, ultimately, when life, plus the 17 years of priesthood, has motto, “Veritas in Caritate” (“Truth in the future. you’re ordained a deacon you’re not your prepared me to do this. More than anything, Love”)? Q. You’re quite a hunter as an own man at that point? what I think it’s done is it’s taught me how A. Right, Ephesians 4:15. It’s just been avocation. It seems like Wyoming would A. I was telling the [Diocese of] to rely upon God’s grace. It’s taught me how something that’s been very much on my be a hunter’s paradise. Evansville seminarians when I gave them a we have to be men of faith and men of hope mind. I’ve been making notes in my own A. It is. Quite honestly, I’m looking retreat this summer, ‘Guys, our lives are not to be good shepherds in the Church, journal over the years. This reality of truth, forward as much just to hiking and being in our own. Our lives belong to Christ. Our whether that’s as priests or bishops. any time the Scriptures speak of truth—it’s the mountains and just being in the beauty It’s a part of that reality, just one of those things that captures my of God’s creation out here. The hunting—if again, of the cross being in the mind and my heart and my preaching. that happens—will be great. I just want to midst of the ministry. Are we It’s something that I spoke to the enjoy the outdoors more than anything. going to focus just on the seminarians about a lot when I was Q. You’re going to a diocese that’s even cross? Are we going to focus vocations director and vice rector [of more spread out than the Archdiocese of just on the joys? Or are we Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis. Is that a daunting task in

Photo courtesy Diocese Cheyenne going to focus on the reality Indianapolis]. [We] can’t beat people over some way? Or is it something that you of it all as a whole? the head with the truth. You have to present just take as it is and you’ll travel I think that’s a part of what the truth with love. wherever God leads you? 17 years of priesthood has It was a no-brainer with me when this A. All you can do is embrace the reality. been teaching me. The Lord’s call came. I went immediately to that You can’t change terrain. You can respect it. in the midst of it all. And we passage as my motto. You have to just embrace it and do the best just have to be realistic and And I think the fact that the pope’s recent you can to be in touch with your people and embrace the reality. encyclical was the inversion of that, “Love communicate. Father Michael Carr, right, speaks on Oct. 19 during a press Q. Are there particular in Truth,” was another confirmation to me But the years of running along I-65 and conference in Cheyenne, Wyo., at which Bishop-designate Paul D. bishops that you have that this is what it is. I didn’t even think I-64 back and forth from Tell City to Indian- Etienne, left, was introduced as the new bishop of the Cheyenne looked up to that might about it [that connection]. That’s just what it apolis has been a good preparation for this. Diocese. Father Carr served as the administrator of the diocese serve as a role model for you was going to be. since its previous shepherd, Bishop David L. Ricken, was as you go forward into this Q. What’s going to be happening in (For previous articles about the appointment appointed to lead the Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., in July 2008. new ministry? the next few weeks before you are of Bishop-designate Etienne, log on to A. I received a tremendous ordained a bishop on Dec. 9? www.CriterionOnline.com.) †