Inside Rosary devotion Parish and school promote greater devotion to the rosary, page 9. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com January 14, 2011 Vol. LI, No. 14 75¢ Threats to religious freedom abound, including Smith Submitted photo/Kevin in the West, pope says

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Religious freedom and religious diversity are not threats to society and should not be a source of conflict, Pope Benedict XVI told diplomats from around the world. The pope asked the representatives of 178 countries, as well as of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the European Community and the Knights of Malta, to examine how well their own countries respect the rights of individuals to believe, to act in accordance with their conscience, to gather Pope Benedict XVI with other believers for worship, and to carry out the educational and social projects their faith inspires. Now 11, Makenzie Smith of St. Mary Parish in Navilleton has led a coat collecting drive to help people in need for the past five years. This year, Pope Benedict met on Jan. 10 with Makenzie’s Coat Closet collected more than 4,000 coats that were distributed to people from southern Indiana and northern Kentucky on Dec. 14, 2010. diplomats accredited to the Holy See and continued his See related editorial, Christmas-season Concern for less fortunate people leads to page 4. focus on the connection between religious liberty and peace, and on threats to special outreach efforts in archdiocese full religious freedom in Western democracies as well as in countries notorious for violating By John Shaughnessy we meet, he was very thankful to God one evening a week. “But then I go out human rights. that we came along to help.” again. It’s because of the people we see Once again, he denounced recent attacks on The memory of that night—and the Bogan listened to the young man. out there. They feel blessed that we come Christians in Iraq, Egypt and Nigeria, and question she didn’t ask the young man— She also gave him some food and some to see them, and I get a feeling that expressed concern about the recent renewal of haunted Kathy Bogan for a long time. things to help keep him warm. But as she maybe I’ve helped someone for a Chinese government restrictions on As usual on that wintry night, Bogan drove away, she remembered there was moment. All of us should do this at least Catholics there. drove along the streets of Indianapolis one thing that she didn’t do, one question once to see what it’s like out there.” Condemning the murder on Jan. 4 of with two volunteers, stopping to give that she didn’t ask the young man, that Bogan’s attitude and efforts reflect the Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab in soup, sandwiches, socks and sleeping bothered her. commitment of many Catholics in the Pakistan, the pope said the country must bags to homeless people. “I usually ask their names so I can archdiocese who offer a touch of overturn its blasphemy law, which makes At one of the stops, Bogan met a pray for them by name,” she says. “But I humanity to the homeless and other insulting the Prophet Mohammed or the Quran young homeless man. As they sat and never asked him his name. For a long people in need during the winter. punishable by death. talked, the man began to cry, sharing time, it bothered me, especially since I That help and hope are there at the Taseer supported the move to abrogate the with her that he had no place to go, and never saw him again.” Interfaith Winter Shelter in Bloomington, law, which the pope said often “serves as a no one he knew in the city. While that moment haunted her, it also an overnight homeless ministry that is pretext of acts of injustice and violence against “Times like that are very emotional. inspired her in her volunteer efforts for a staffed by parishioners of St. Paul religious minorities.” They’re also very spiritual,” says Bogan, homeless ministry in Indianapolis called Catholic Center in Bloomington. The pope also announced that the a member of St. Therese of the Infant Helping Our Own People. It’s also there year-round in the efforts communist government of Vietnam has Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in “Sometimes I think I don’t want to do of staff members and volunteers at accepted his appointment of a papal Indianapolis. “Like most of the people this anymore,” says Bogan, who helps See OUTREACH, page 8 See FREEDOM, page 2 As Tucson mourns, victims are remembered TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS)—With flags nationwide flying at half-staff and people pausing for a moment of silence on Jan. 10, the victims of the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson were being remembered for their warmth and goodness, some for their sense of public service, and several for their involvement in

their Churches. Wilking, Reuters CNS photo/Rick The attack during a Saturday morning meet-your- congressional-representative event at a Safeway shopping center left six people dead and another 14 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, 40, who hosted the event. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, was stopped by bystanders and is being held on initial federal charges related to the deaths of two U.S. government employees—a federal judge and a congressional aide—and the attempted murder of Giffords and two of her staff members. Amid the outpouring of grief and shock in Arizona, the personal stories of the shooting victims were putting their faces into focus for the world. U.S. District Court Judge John M. Roll, 63, and Christina Taylor Green, 9, who were killed, were both active in A girl and her father light a candle at a memorial on Jan. 9 outside Tucson their Catholic parishes. Roll, the chief judge of the Tucson federal University Medical Center in Arizona, where victims of a Jan. 8 shooting are court, had stopped by the shopping center in northwest Tucson to recovering. U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was in critical condition at the see Giffords on his way home from morning Mass at St. Thomas center after being shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner, 22. He is accused of See TUCSON, page 2 killing six people and wounding 14 others in the Jan. 8 shooting rampage. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011

Jesus said [Mt 19:14]. Christina is with him,” wrote Bishop Kicanas to parishes. TUCSON Roll for many years began his day by continued from page 1 serving as a lector at Mass at SS. Peter and the Apostle Church. Bill Badger, one of Paul Church or St. Thomas the Apostle several people who tackled the shooter to Church, the bishop said. “He lived his faith Reuters Thayer, CNS photo/Eric stop his rampage, as a servant of our nation for the cause despite his own of justice.” gunshot wound, also Allison said he regularly saw Roll at the is active in the daily noon Mass at St. Augustine Cathedral, parish that he shared a few blocks from the federal courthouse with the judge, downtown. according to “He was absolutely dedicated and Fred Allison, a devoted in terms of daily Mass attendance spokesman for the and dedicated to the ministry as a lector,” Tucson Diocese. Allison said. “His faith was a wellspring of Christina Green who he was as a judge and in his marriage.” Judge John M. Roll came to meet The bishop put words to the emotions Giffords with a felt by people in Tucson and around the neighbor because she was so interested in world who watched events unfold at the civics, having just been elected to the suburban shopping center. student council at Mesa Verde Elementary “It is incomprehensible that such a School. The third-grader also was part of a horrible tragedy could happen in the children’s choir at St. Odilia Parish, located community that we love so much,” he wrote just a few blocks from the shooting scene in his letter. “I am shocked and devastated where a healing and remembrance Mass as I see the horrible pictures on the news, was celebrated on Jan. 11. and hear the reports of those who have been The young athlete was part of a killed and injured.” Above, a picture of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, sports-focused family. Her grandfather is In a message that Bishop Kicanas sent to D-Ariz., is surrounded by candles during a vigil former major league pitcher and manager Allison as he left Jerusalem to return to outside the Tucson University Medical Center in Dallas Green, and her father, John Green, is Tucson, he said watching the television handout via Reuters Arizona on Jan. 9. Giffords was in critical a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The coverage from afar was overwhelming. “I condition at the medical center after being shot only girl on her Little League team, could not sleep. I just wanted to return in the head by Jared Lee Loughner, 22. He is accused of killing six people and wounding Christina was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and home as soon as possible.” The Arizona Republic was featured in a book called Faces of He noted that “as I would expect, the 14 others in the Jan. 8 shooting rampage. Hope, about 50 babies born on that day of community has risen to the occasion” with terrorist attacks on the United States. bystanders stepping up to help at the scene, Left, Christina Taylor Green is pictured with her mother, Roxanna Green, in this undated

Roll, a fourth-degree member of medical personnel working feverishly, and CNS photo/Mark Henle, the Knights of Columbus, was remembered public servants “trying to find answers to a photograph. The 9-year-old Catholic girl was as “a person of great faith and great horrific act of violence perpetrated against one of six people killed when Jared Lee integrity” who was a devoted member of innocent people, everyone praying and Loughner, 22, went on a Jan. 8 shooting two Tucson Catholic parishes, according to offering support and condolences.” rampage at a public event in Tucson, Ariz. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas. Bishop Kicanas He said that before he left the returned to Tucson hastily from the Middle East, he concelebrated a Mass with Middle East, where he was to attend the 10 other bishops at a small Catholic church annual Coordination of Episcopal in Jericho, where only about 50 Catholic Conferences for the Church in the families live in the village, “but they all Holy Land, representing the expressed to me their condolences for what U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. happened in Tucson and promised their community knows well the result of answer to that question, we can, each in our The bishop was to celebrate a Mass for prayers, as did each of the bishops from senseless violence. Their families have own way, strive to respect others, speak the Healing of Our Community, Canada, Albania, France, Germany, mourned the loss of loved ones and cared with civility, try to understand one another Remembrance of Those Who Have Died, England and the Holy Land. Their comfort for those injured.” and to find healthy ways to resolve our and for the Consolation of All Victims and and heartfelt prayers meant a lot.” He added that the people in Jericho, after conflicts. Their Families at St. Odilia Church, where Bishop Kicanas observed that “in the hearing about the Tucson events, asked him “But right now, it is important as a Christina Green made her first Communion Holy Land, violence is feared and expected. how to prevent such acts of violence. community to pull together, and to reach last spring. Violence, too often, tears apart both the “I wish I knew the answer,” he wrote. out in care and concern to all who have “ ‘Let the children come to me,’ Israeli and the Palestinian people. Each “But as the world continues to seek an been affected by this tragedy,” he added. †

The Vatican has insisted on the right of Catholic health society and inserted in national legislation or in interna- FREEDOM care workers, including pharmacists, not to be involved in tional directives, are nonetheless merely an expression of continued from page 1 abortions or other procedures that violate Church teaching on selfish desires lacking a foundation in authentic human the right to life. nature,” the pope said. representative to Catholics in the country. Vietnam agreed in Father Lombardi said the pope’s reference to consci- Father Lombardi said those “alleged new rights” June to allow the pope to name a representative as a first step entious objection in the legal profession referred to the right included a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, toward diplomatic relations. Jesuit Father Federico of Catholic lawyers and judges to refuse to participate in and the right of homosexual people to marry and adopt Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the representative’s cases involving adoption by gay couples, for example. children. name would be announced shortly. Pope Benedict also condemned educational programs Miguel Diaz, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Pope Benedict told the diplomats that when religious that want to “mandate obligatory participation in courses attended the audience with the pope and said the believers are free to practice their faith, society benefits of sexual or civic education” with content opposed to U.S. government will continue to work around the globe from an increase in upright behavior, respect for others, Catholic teaching. Church leaders and Catholic parents in for the defense of human rights, particularly the right to and solidarity with the poor and weak. Spain have objected to a public school curriculum for religious liberty. Discussing threats to full religious freedom in children that presents homosexuality and abortion in a “One of the great things about our democracy is that, Western democracies, the pope expressed concern about positive light. from the beginning, religious freedom has been defended,” efforts to push religion to the margins of public life and The pope told the diplomats that there is no such thing as he said in an interview with Catholic News Service. about situations in which citizens are denied the right to a “scale of degrees of religious intolerance” whereby a Each of the ambassadors had a chance to personally act in accordance with their religious convictions, “for certain amount is acceptable. greet the pope at the end of the audience. Diaz said he example, where laws are enforced limiting the right to It is not permissible to infringe on the freedom of assured the pope that the United States would continue to conscientious objection on the part of health care or legal conscience out of concern to uphold “other alleged new defend religious freedom around the globe, and he said the professionals.” rights which, while actively promoted by certain sectors of pope thanked the United States for its commitment. †

The Criterion (ISSN 0574- 4350) is published weekly The except the last week of Criterion December and the first TheCriterion 1/14/11 Phone Numbers: Staff: week of January. Main office: ...... 317-236-1570 Editor: Mike Krokos 1400 N. Meri dian St. Moving? Advertising ...... 317-236-1572 Assistant Editor: John Shaughnessy P.O. Box 1410 Toll free:...... 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1570 Senior Reporter: Mary Ann Wyand Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 We’ll be there waiting if you give us two weeks’ Reporter: Sean Gallagher Circulation:...... 317-236-1425 317-236-1570 advance notice! Toll free: ...... 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1425 Online Editor: Brandon A. Evans 800-382-9836 ext. 1570 Business Manager: Ron Massey [email protected] Price: $22.00 per year, 75 cents per copy Executive Assistant: Mary Ann Klein Name ______Periodical postage paid at Postmaster: Graphics Specialist: Jerry Boucher New Address______Indianapolis, IN. Send address changes to The Criterion, Print Service Assistant: Annette Danielson Copyright © 2010 Criterion City ______P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 Press Inc. State/Zip ______Web site : www.CriterionOnline.com POSTMASTER: New Parish ______E-mail: [email protected] Send address changes to: Criterion Press Inc. Effective Date ______Published weekly except the last week of December and the first week of January. Mailing 1400 N. Meridian St. Note: If you are receiving duplicate copies please send both labels. address: 1400 N. Meri dian St., P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410. Periodical postage P.O. Box 1410 paid at Indianapolis, IN. Copyright © 2010 Criterion Press Inc. ISSN 0574-4350. Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 The Criterion • P.O. Box 1410 • Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 3 New Catholic lawmakers ready to tackle state’s challenges

By Brigid Curtis Ayer Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer, R-Beech Grove, is “I’m very concerned with all the social can we hold off on or where can we cut a paralegal/risk management specialist for issues, and the economic issues,” he said. back. This is what we are going to have to Seven Catholic lawmakers who are new St. Francis Hospital, Ubelhor said he will be co-authoring an do with the budget. Moms are really good members of the Indiana General Assembly who joined the informed consent bill and a bill to prohibit at making these kinds of decisions say they will Catholic Church as an any state money from going to abortion lovingly, but [also at] making the tough, draw on their adult. She said she providers. sometimes heart-wrenching decisions.” faith to tackle will be guided by Rep. Rebecca Kubacki, R-Syracuse, is Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, is the some of the contemplative prayer the daughter of migrant workers. She said owner of Healthkick Nutrition Centers. He state’s biggest throughout the her Catholic faith will affect her decision said, “My Catholic faith has guided me in challenges as session. making from the many decisions in they begin their journey under the Capitol “To be honest, I’m sense of having to be my life, and it will dome in Indianapolis. a little nervous, but “true to myself.” continue to guide Producing a balanced budget, creating there are about Kubacki, who me this legislative jobs, reducing abortion and providing school Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer 20 new lawmakers in grew up in a family session. I feel very choice for all Hoosier children top the new the House all starting with six brothers and strongly about Catholic lawmakers’ “to do” list this year. together,” Kirchhofer said. sisters, said that she protecting Hoosier “My faith will always guide my decisions “The priority is to get a balanced budget,” will ask God to help taxpayers, in everything [that] I do,” said Rep. Ron added Kirchhofer, a member of Sacred Heart her make the right promoting job Bacon, R-Chandler. “We always have to be of Jesus Parish in Indianapolis. “I feel a decision to serve the creation and looking out for the certain moral responsibility with the budget to greater good of reforming underserved and be a good steward. I’m used to working with people in the state. education. Rep. Rebecca Kubacki Rep. Bob Morris underprivileged. My the Catholic ethical and religious directives, Kubacki, a “Another issue Catholic faith has and I go back to them to help make member of St. Martin de Porres Parish in that is very close to my heart is the issue instilled that in me.” decisions.” Syracuse in the Fort Wayne-South Bend of pro-life,” said Morris, a member of A cradle Catholic Sen. Jim Tomes, R-Wadesville, is a Diocese, said her most important issue is St. Charles Borromeo Parish in and member of former teamster and union steward in the job creation. Fort Wayne in the Fort Wayne- St. John the trucking industry. Coming from a large family, Kubacki South Bend Diocese. “As a father of Evangelist Parish in “It was my recalled times when they had to make five children, [and] number six on the Daylight in the Catholic Christian sacrifices while growing up. way, I value the lives of all children Evansville Diocese, faith and prayer that “My mom always said, ‘God will take greatly, especially those just conceived, Bacon said he got me into the Senate care of us,’ and he always did,” she said. because those are our youngest souls.” Rep. Ron Bacon believes that all the race, and it will A stay-at-home mother who has been issues are important, but described himself as continue to be a married for 37 years, Kubacki said, “When (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for “very passionate” about the right-to-life issue. guiding force for all I run my household, I have to look at what The Criterion.) † A respiratory therapist and the owner of my decisions—not R. Bacon Enterprises Inc. in Boonville, just those I make in Bacon is married, and has two daughters and the legislature,” said Catholics make up nearly 25 percent three grandchildren. Rep. Jim Tomes Tomes, a member of Rep. Sue Ellspermann, R-Ferdinand, is the St. Wendel Parish in of Indiana’s state lawmakers in 2011 founding director of the University of Wadesville in the Evansville Diocese. Southern Indiana’s A veteran of the Vietnam War and former Of the 150 lawmakers who are currently serving in the Indiana General Center for Applied member of the 101st Airborne, Tomes is Assembly, 36 of the legislators are Catholic. Research. She said authoring an informed consent bill and a Ten are state senators, including: that economic resolution banning same-sex marriage. • Sen. Richard Young, D-Miltown • Sen. Thomas Wyss, R-Fort Wayne development and “I am here to serve. I am an employee of • Sen. Frank Mrvan, D-Hammond • Sen. Ed Charbonneau, D-Valparaiso informed consent will the people. I understand my role,” Tomes said. • Sen. Sue Landske, R-Cedar Lake • Sen. Timothy Skinner, D-Terre Haute be the issues closest “My challenge will be to fulfill this obligation • Sen. John Broden, D-South Bend • Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg to her heart during with honor.” • Sen. Joseph Zakas, R-Granger • Sen. Jim Tomes, R-Wadesville this session. Rep. Matthew Ubelhor, R-Bristow, serves “We need as a coal mine operations manager for Twenty-six are members of the Indiana House of Representatives. They include: economic Viking Mine and • Rep. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend • Rep. Matthew Ubelhor, R-Bristow Rep. Sue Ellspermann development in the Miller Creek Mine. • Rep. David Niezgodski, D-South Bend • Rep. Philip Pflum, D-Milton smaller, rural He grew up in a large • Rep. Ryan Dvorak, D-South Bend • Rep. Suzanne Crouch, R-Evansville communities and to stop the brain drain,” said Catholic family with • Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City • Rep. Nancy Dembowski, D-Knox Ellspermann, a member of St. Ferdinand six brothers and • Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon, • Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, D-Fort Wayne Parish in Ferdinand in the Evansville Diocese. five sisters. D-Munster • Rep. Ed Clere, R-New Albany “Rural areas have been left behind in the “My Catholic faith • Rep. Chester Dobis, D-Merrillville • Rep. Rebecca Kubacki, R-Syracuse state’s economic development at the is the basis of all my • Rep. Donald Lehe, R-Brookston • Rep. Phil Hinkle, R-Indianapolis high-intellect level.” decisions, legislatively • Rep. Thomas Dermody, R-LaPorte • Rep. John Day, D-Indianapolis Ellspermann said life issues are “critically or whether I’m • Rep. Jeb Bardon, D-Indianapolis • Rep. Sue Ellspermann, R-Ferdinand important” to her, and she will be working to driving down the • Rep. Sheila Klinker, D-Lafayette • Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer, update Indiana’s informed consent law. Rep. Matthew Ubelhor road,” he said. • Rep. Timothy Neese, R-Elkhart R-Beech Grove “It’s a given [that] if a mother has an Ubelhor, a member • Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Jasper; • Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne ultrasound and sees her baby, she is not at all of St. Peter Parish in Linton in the Evansville • Rep. Ed DeLaney, D-Indianapolis • Rep. Ron Bacon, R-Chandler likely to abort,” Ellspermann said. Diocese, describes himself as “very pro-life.” Archbishop Dolan reaffirms pledge to help any pregnant woman in need NEW YORK (CNS)—In response to recent statistics we are not even talking about it,” said Sean Fieler, the may even increase the incidence of abortion. revealing that 41 percent of pregnancies in New York City president and chairman of the Chiaroscuro Foundation, a “We need to pledge ourselves to help people in 2009 ended in abortion, New York Archbishop Timothy private organization based in New York which supports understand the consequences of abortion, and do whatever M. Dolan reiterated the pledge of his predecessors to help pro-life activities. we can to give women reasons not to abort, and to help any pregnant woman in need. Fieler said that New Yorkers are still framing the the children in this great city of ours,” he said. “Through Catholic Charities, abortion discussion in terms of the procedure’s legality David Zweibel, an Orthodox rabbi and executive adoption services, lobbying on instead of focusing on reducing the number of abortions. vice president of Agudath Israel of America, an organi- behalf of pregnant women, “From an action perspective, this is something almost zation that promotes Orthodox Jewish activities, said, mothers and infants, support of everyone can agree on. No one but the most radical “Despite our different perspectives, we can all agree that life-giving alternatives, health care extremist will defend this ratio,” he added. there is something terribly wrong when abortion becomes and education of youth for healthy, He said the Chiaroscuro Foundation, which began in just another method of birth control.” responsible, virtuous sexual 2009, will spend $1 million this year to help reduce the He said the best approach to reduce abortions is to behavior, we’ve done our best to number of abortions in New York. He also told change the culture that “glorifies promiscuity and mocks keep that promise and these Catholic News Service that the foundation would fund responsibility” or, at the very least, to shield young people haunting statistics only prod us to abstinence education and crisis pregnancy programs from the “harmful influences of that culture.” keep at it,” he said during a Jan. 6 through the New York Archdiocese, the Sisters of Life, Sister Lucy Marie, a Sister of Life and the Respect Life Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan interfaith news conference in World Youth Alliance and Expectant Mother Care. coordinator for the Archdiocese of New York, said the New York. Archbishop Dolan said the archdiocese plans to launch city’s abortion statistics were sadly familiar. The statistics were released in late December by the an intensive chastity education program at Catholic high “I wish it was startling to me, but it’s not. Many of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene schools next year. the women who come to us [for help] have had repeat in its annual summary of vital statistics. According to the “We’re going to have a SWAT team of experts go into our abortions,” she said. figures, the 87,000 abortions performed in New York City Catholic high schools and give the seniors a high-powered She said the tragedy is that many pregnant women are in 2009 continue a pattern of decline from previous years, two-week formation in healthy chastity,” he told CNS. The afraid and don’t know where to go for help. but the overall rate of abortions is much higher than the curriculum will address biological, emotional and moral “We have failed to reach out and let them know the national average of 23 percent. aspects, and include preparation for marriage. resources that are available,” she added. Speakers at the news conference called the percentage Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said the Sister Lucy welcomed Archbishop Dolan’s pledge, of abortions tragic, and urged renewed efforts to promote diversity of the world’s most multicultural city is being saying the sisters have served 10,000 women since chastity and support mothers and their children, born dampened by the abortion rate, which is highest in the 1991, and have 10,000 volunteers “just waiting” to help and unborn. black and Hispanic communities. He said that sex education women in need with jobs, housing, health care, and “Not only are we not addressing this human tragedy, programs in public schools are devoid of moral content and financial and legal assistance. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, Janauary 14, 2011

OPINION Be Our Guest/Daniel Elsener Let us follow Sen. Lugar’s

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 lead and pull together to Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus support the most deserving of our young people Editorial Sen. Richard G. Lugar should be dedicated to working with these individuals commended for his innovative thinking to make their dreams come true and serve about the the United States as well. We need these Coptic Development, Relief young people, and they need a chance to be Orthodox and Education for successful. priests pray Alien Minors On Dec. 18, 2010, Lugar voted for the on Jan. 3 in (DREAM) Act, and DREAM Act. I encourage all Hoosiers to Alexandria, for his courage to continue to support Lugar and all leaders of

CNS photo/Asmaa Waguih, Reuters Waguih, CNS photo/Asmaa Egypt, in the take serious action goodwill who want to deal with house of toward a real immigration issues in a long-term, Fawzy Bkheit, solution. productive and comprehensive manner. 58, who Action—bold and In a comprehensive reform context, I am died after a forthright—is confident that the DREAM Act, which Jan. 1 bomb Lugar’s legacy of would provide a select group of attack service to this country on so many issues. high-achieving students with a legal outside an His tireless quest for peace and justice pathway to United States residency, will Orthodox deserves our adamant support. He certainly pass. church. has mine. With the new Congress now convened About In the Dec. 7, 2010, issue of for 2011, let us all pull together to see that two dozen The Washington Post, a reporter the most deserving of our young people get people died described the DREAM Act as legislation that a chance to become highly effective citizens in the is “impossible to ignore.” in our communities and nation. bombing. Like that reporter, I agree that we must continue to point out the human face of this (Daniel Elsener is the president of issue—faces of hope, opportunity and our Marian University in Indianapolis.) † Violence against Christians nation’s future. Of course, the human tragedy of limiting case could be made that Christians Assisi in 1986. the achievements of talented young people is Letters Policy around the world are being Middle East religious leaders, though, reason enough to pass the DREAM Act, but A Letters from readers are welcome and persecuted today more than adherents of don’t think that is enough. Maronite the economic and national defense reasons should be informed, relevant, well- any other religion. It appears that Bishop Bechara Rai of Jbeil, Lebanon, are also compelling. expressed, concise, temperate in tone, Muslim extremists believe that called for an Islamic summit to stop Valuable creative and intellectual capital courteous and respectful. Christianity is a Western religion and attacks targeting Christians in Egypt and is being lost every day because of both The editors reserve the right to select they feel obliged to kill us “infidels.” Iraq. He also called on the Arab League parties’ failure to enact a plan that will help and edit the letters based on space It is not true, though, that Christianity to meet to protect the safety of both productive and worthy young people limitations, pastoral sensitivity and is only a Western religion. Those who Christians and Muslims. develop their talents and make positive content. are being persecuted lately are “We cannot be content with verbal contributions to our nation. Letters must be signed, but, for serious not Westerners. condemnations, as the pope said. There Lugar proposed a sound policy that reasons, names may be withheld. The latest episode, as this editorial is should be action on the ground,” he said. would benefit a tremendous number of Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” The Criterion, P.O. Box 1410, Indianap olis, being written, was aimed at Orthodox Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III undocumented young people as they seek to IN 46206-1410. Coptic Christians in Egypt, where a Laham of Damascus, Syria, also called create a better life for themselves, their Readers with access to e-mail may send bomb exploded as parishioners were for Arab and international action against families and our nation. letters to [email protected]. leaving a church in Alexandria after a terrorism. Marian University in Indianapolis is New Year’s Mass at about 12:30 a.m. At “It is a clear criminal and terrorist act least 25 people were killed and dozens targeting innocent Christians,” he said were injured. about the bombing in Egypt. “It is a The greatest persecution, though, has phenomenon that calls for anxiety and 2010 Papal Visitors been in Iraq—the country that the United vigilance that Christians might be a target States supposedly liberated. for terrorist acts which move from one In his address on Jan. 1 marking the area to another.” World Day of Peace, Pope Benedict XVI Coptic Orthodox Bishop Youhannes 2.27 million denounced what he called the practice of Zakaria of Luxor, Egypt, has said that he “planting bombs close to the homes of received many visits from Muslims— visitors and pilgrims came to see Christians in Iraq to force them to leave.” ordinary individuals and officials, Pope Benedict XVI in person At least seven Christian homes in including the governor—expressing their Baghdad were targeted on Dec. 30, sympathy and solidarity after the leaving at least 13 people wounded. bombing in Alexandria. 1.22 million These were only the latest episodes in “They [Muslims] don’t accept this people attended the pope’s Sunday Iraq, and they are having their desired violence. They are very upset about this,” effect. Hundreds of thousands of he said. and holy day recitation of the Angelus Christians have left Iraq or escaped to We accept that, although we also know northern Iraq, where they feel safer. that tensions between Christians and However, this persecution isn’t Muslims in Egypt have grown in recent 381,500 happening only in the Middle East. In years. For some time now, Christians the Philippines, a bomb exploded during have complained that the Egyptian people attended the pope’s Masses Christmas Mass at a Catholic chapel on government has not been doing enough to and prayer services the island of Jolo. In Nigeria, gasoline protect them from violence. However, the bombs were detonated in three churches New Year’s attack was the first bombing. on Christmas Eve, leaving at least six Where has the U.S. government been 493,000 people dead, including a Baptist pastor. during all this? It appears that it is only Pope Benedict has been speaking out religious leaders who are reacting to the people attended one of the pope’s against this terrorism. He did it in his terrorism and violence against Christians. 45 weekly general audiences World Day of Peace message, at his We agree with Bishop Rai that, in the Christmas Mass, again on Jan. 1, and in final analysis, it is up to Muslims to put a an address to world diplomats on stop to the actions of Muslim extremists, 178,150 Jan. 10. He has called for religious but shouldn’t the United States put some freedom in countries with a Muslim pressure on the Arab League to get on people were part of groups that had a majority. with the task of protecting both Christians special audience with the pope He also plans to invite religious and Muslims? leaders from the world’s major faiths to Without the cooperation of gather in Assisi, the birthplace of governments in those countries where St. Francis, to “solemnly renew the Christians are a minority, there is little commitment by believers of every that religious leaders can do besides religion to live their religious faith as speaking out against violence and asking a service to the cause of peace.” for religious freedom. Pope John Paul II convoked a similar World Day of Prayer for Peace in —John F. Fink The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Let God become your ‘weekday friend’ during Ordinary Time he Christmas season ended with the are friends. as St. Paul wrote to the Romans, from only humility and trust but, more precisely, feast of the Baptism of the Lord on “There has to be a moment like that in things visible we come to the knowledge of it requires faith in him and the belief that TJan. 9. Now, for a time until our relationship with God. the one who is beyond the experiences of we are important enough in his eyes that he Ash Wednesday, we observe what the “He ceases to be just a Sunday our senses (Ibid). will come to our assistance. It takes stillness Church calls Ordinary Time. After Lent and acquaintance and becomes a weekday If we want God to be a “weekday and quiet to recall that the Good Shepherd the Easter season, Ordinary Time will friend” (A Spiritual Companion, friend,” we also have to dig deep for the leaves the 99 to look for the one gone resume up to next Advent. Paraclete Press, 2001, p. 11). humility and trust that friendship demands. astray. We need the patience to wait and to The late Cardinal Basil Hume, O.S.B., For God to become a “weekday friend” The cardinal wrote: “When you get no believe that God knows our needs. Archbishop of Westminster in England, had requires reflection and prayer. consolation in prayer, when you feel you are Ordinary Time and our quest to find God been a favorite role model of mine for And Ordinary Time is a recommended getting nowhere, that may be the best prayer as our weekday friend beckon us to stillness coming to terms with a practical spirituality. fit. Yet, to be silent and still is an art to be you have ever said, because you are doing it and reflection, to prayer. We don’t have to He died of cancer in June of 1999. learned. The learning is essential if we do not for your sake, but for God’s. Always be perfect at prayer. Our task is to spend the He would describe the intervening not want to be trapped in the purely secular seek the God of consolation; never seek the time and to let God do his part. Ordinary Time of the Church’s liturgical and the material aspects of life. consolations of God. It is always that Weekday friendship with God is a cycle as the season for quiet reflection. We need to escape from the emptiness way round. gracious gift waiting for us no matter our He spoke and wrote often about the need of secularism and the attractions of “Quite often, we are in a kind of state in life. † for a stillness and peace in the routine materialism. distraught mood, and simply don’t know of our lives—with a focus on the Cardinal Hume makes the point that how to pray, feeling that deep sense of scriptural readings. “true religion does not condemn what is being lost. It is good at such times to see Do you have an intention for Often, I resort to a short piece that he material, nor does it fail to respect the laws oneself rather like the lost sheep in the Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? wrote on “The Mystery of Love.” of science, economics or medicine. It parable caught in the briars, surrounded by You may mail it to him at: He wrote: teaches that the world is good, that we are fog; the more you try to escape from the “Holiness involves friendship with God. stewards of creation, and in cultivating brambles, the more you get entangled. The Archbishop Buechlein’s “The movement towards the realization its riches we work with the Creator” more you try to rush through the fog, the Prayer List of God’s love for us is similar to our (cf. A Spiritual Companion, Paraclete Press, more likely you are to get lost. When you Archdiocese of Indianapolis relationship with other people. 2001, p. 74). are in that mood, just wait in your prayer; 1400 N. Meridian St. “There comes a moment, which we can Cardinal Hume also cautions that a wait for him to come and disentangle you” P.O. Box 1410 never quite locate or catch, when an steward so easily becomes an exploiter, and (A Spiritual Companion, p. 77). Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 acquaintance becomes a friend. that the perfection of the individual an end To wait for God to come requires not “In a sense, the change from one to the in itself. And thus, he makes his point that other has been taking place over a period we have to withdraw from time to time to Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for January of time. be silent and still, to get perspective, to look “But there comes a point when we know beyond this world, and to search for the Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to we can trust the other, exchange origin and purpose of all. consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. confidences, keep each other’s secrets. We Be silent and still, look and listen, then,

Deje que Dios se convierta en su ‘amigo de toda la semana’ en el Tiempo Ordinario a temporada de la Navidad culminó “En nuestra relación con Dios tiene que llegamos a conocer a aquél que está más allá socorrernos. Requiere quietud y sosiego con la festividad del Bautismo del haber un momento así, en el cual deja de ser de las experiencias de nuestros sentidos. recordar que el Buen Pastor deja a las 99 LSeñor, el 9 de enero. Ahora por un tan sólo un conocido de domingo y se (Ibid.) para buscar a la que se ha perdido. tiempo, hasta el Miércoles de Ceniza, convierte en un amigo de toda la semana” (A Si deseamos que Dios sea un “amigo de Necesitamos paciencia para esperar y creer observamos lo que la Iglesia llama el Spiritual Companion [Un compañero toda la semana” debemos también ahondar que Dios conoce nuestras necesidades. Tiempo Ordinario. Después de la temporada espiritual], Paraclete Press, 2001, p. 11). en busca de la humildad y la confianza que El Tiempo Ordinario y nuestra búsqueda de la Cuaresma y la Pascua, se retoma el Para que Dios se convierta en un “amigo exige la amistad. para encontrar a Dios como nuestro amigo Tiempo Ordinario hasta el siguiente de toda la semana” se requiere reflexión y El cardenal escribió: “Cuando no obtienes toda la semana nos lleva a la quietud y a la Adviento. oración. consuelo en la oración, cuando sientes que reflexión, a la oración. No tenemos que ser El difunto cardenal Basil Hume, O.S.B., Y el Tiempo Ordinario es ideal para ello. no vas a ningún lado, quizás esa sea la mejor perfectos en la oración. Nuestra tarea es arzobispo de Westminster en Inglaterra, ha No obstante, estar en silencio y quietud es un oración que jamás hayas pronunciado, dedicar el tiempo y dejar que Dios haga su sido uno de mis modelos a seguir predilectos arte que debe aprenderse. El aprendizaje es porque no lo haces por tu propio bien, sino parte. en lo que respecta a la reconciliación de la esencial si no queremos estar atrapados en por el de Dios. Busca siempre el Dios del La amistad de la semana con Dios es un espiritualidad práctica. Murió de cáncer en los aspectos meramente seculares y consuelo, nunca el consuelo de Dios. obsequio dadivoso que nos aguarda, junio de 1999. materiales de la vida. Siempre sucede así. independientemente de nuestra situación en Describía la intervención del Tiempo Debemos escaparnos de la frivolidad del “Muy a menudo estamos consternados y la vida. † Ordinario del ciclo litúrgico de la Iglesia secularismo y de la atracción del simplemente no sabemos cómo rezar, con como la temporada para una reflexión materialismo. una sensación de profunda desorientación. ¿Tiene una intención que desee tranquila. Con frecuencia hablaba y escribía El cardenal Hume señala que “la En tales momentos conviene que nos veamos incluir en la lista de oración del acerca de la necesidad de quietud y paz en la verdadera religión no condena lo material, ni más bien como el cordero perdido de la Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar rutina de nuestras vidas, con énfasis en las tampoco irrespeta las leyes de la ciencia, la parábola, enredado en la zarza y rodeado de su correspondencia a: lecturas de las escrituras. economía o la medicina, sino que enseña que niebla; mientras más tratas de escaparte de la A menudo me remito a un breve texto el mundo es bueno, que somos adminis- zarzamora, más te enredas. Mientras más Lista de oración del Arzobispo que escribió sobre “El misterio del amor.” tradores de la creación y que al cultivar su intentas atravesar la niebla, más probable es Buechlein Escribió: riqueza trabajamos junto al Creador” (Cf. A que te pierdas. Cuando te sientas así, sólo Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis “La santidad supone una amistad con Spiritual Companion [Un compañero aguarda en tu oración; espera que Él venga a 1400 N. Meridian St. Dios. espiritual], Paraclete Press, 2001, p. 74). desenredarte” (A Spiritual Companion [Un P.O. Box 1410 “El avance hacia la realización del amor El cardenal Hume también advierte que compañero espiritual], p. 77). Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 de Dios es similar a nuestra relación con un administrador puede convertirse muy Esperar a Dios en la oración exige no otras personas. fácilmente en un explotador y que la solamente humildad y confianza, pero más “Existe un momento que no podemos perfección del ser individual es un fin en sí concretamente, requiere fe en Él y la señalar ni captar exactamente, en el cual un mismo. Y por consiguiente hace notar que de convicción de que somos lo suficientemente Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, conocido se convierte en un amigo. vez en cuando debemos retirarnos para estar importante ante sus ojos para que Él venga a Language Training Center, Indianapolis. “En cierto modo, la transición de uno a quietos y en silencio, para adquirir una nueva otro ha estado ocurriendo durante algún perspectiva, para ver más allá de este mundo La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero tiempo. y para buscar el origen y el propósito de “Pero llega el momento en el que todo. Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus sabemos que podemos confiar en el otro, Quédate quieto y en silencio; observa y hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para servir en la iglesia, especialmente como intercambiar confidencias, guardar los escucha; entonces, tal y como San Pablo sacerdotes y gente religiosa. secretos. Somos amigos. escribió a los Romanos, a partir de lo visible Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Events Calendar

January 15 January 16 January 17-19 Returning Home,” session 317-574-8898 or pro-life march downtown and St. Michael the Archangel Richmond Catholic St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, three of six, 7 p.m. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Respect Life Rally at Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Community, 701 N. “A” St., 10655 Haverstick Road, Information: 317-650-5751. January 21 Veterans Memorial Plaza, Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s Mass, noon, followed by march Richmond. Charismatic Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of Northside Knights of Precious Infants, pro-life Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum prayer group, 7 p.m. Lafayette). Parish mission, Columbus Hall, 2100 E. and rally until 4 p.m. Mass, Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Father Eric Johnson, “Listening to God’s Call,” 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Information: Archdiocesan Information: Indianapolis. Mass, 2 p.m. celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed Benedictine Archabbot Business Exchange, Mass, Office for Pro-Life Ministry, [email protected]. Information: 317-784-4439. by rosary outside abortion Lambert Reilly, presenter, breakfast and program, 317-236-1569 or clinic and Benediction at 10-11:15 a.m. and 7-8:15 p.m. 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. MKVS, Divine Mercy and January 20 “Nothing Bad Has Ever church. Information: Information: 317-846-3850 or Happened To Me,” Glorious Cross Center, Marian University, 300 S. Archdiocesan Office for www.seas-carmel.org. Jeff Worrell, president, St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Pro-Life Ministry, Madison Ave., Suite 201, Rexville, located on 925 South, Advantage Medical, presenter, 2222 E. Third St., 317-236-1569 or .8 mile east of 421 South and January 18 Greenwood. Adult Programs, open house and information 6:30-8:30 a.m., online Bloomington. Second annual 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. 12 miles south of Versailles. St. Pius X School, reservations only. Reservations session, 6-7 p.m. Information: Bloomington March for Life, Mass, noon, on third Sunday 7200 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis. and information: 317-955-6271 or 10 a.m., Mass, followed by St. Mary Parish, 415 E. Open house, 6:30-8 p.m. www.catholicbusiness holy hour and pitch-in, [email protected]. rosary procession to Eighth St., New Albany. Information: 317-466-3361. exchange.org. Altar Society, bean soup groups of 10 pray the Planned Parenthood abortion supper and social, 4:30-8 p.m. Marian Way, 1 p.m., January 19 Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, January 24 facility, 421 S. College Ave. $7 adults, $5 children. Father Elmer Burwinkel, St. Malachy Parish, 9833 E. Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Information: 812-330-1535 or Information: 812-944-0417 or celebrant. Information: County Road 750 N., Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. 1347 N. Meridian St., monica.siefker@ www.stmarysna.org. 812-689-3551. Brownsburg. “Catholics Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Mass for Life, sbcglobal.net. †

Retreats and Programs Information: 317-545-7681 or St. Meinrad. “A Love Triangle That Works– Information: 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. A Valentine Retreat for Married Couples,” [email protected]. Benedictine Father Jeremy King, presenter. January 26 February 4 February 25-27 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 800-581-6905 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 56th St., Indianapolis. “An Evening of 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest St. Meinrad. “Reflections on the Suffering Reflection,” Father Michael McKinney, Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., February 18-20 Servant Songs of Isaiah 4-55,” Benedictine presenter. Information: 317-545-7681 or $25 per person includes continental breakfast Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Father Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: [email protected]. and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend,” 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. January 27 [email protected]. marriage preparation retreat. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. February 26 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. February 4-5 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Your Spiritual Life is Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Sacrament of Better Than You Think,” day of reflection, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Renewing the St. Meinrad. “Praying the Bible,” Marriage, a Priest’s Perspective–Date Night Father Michael McKinney, presenter. Renewed–A Program for Men,” Father John Benedictine Brother Zachary Wilberding, for Engaged and Married Couples,” Information: 317-545-7681 or McCaslin and team of lay ministers, Father Todd Goodson, presenter, 6-9 p.m., [email protected]. presenters, $125 per person includes presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. $50 per couple includes dinner. Information: accommodations and meals. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. January 30 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. February 19 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana February 7 Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate Conference,” marriage preparation Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, Ind. Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, Ind. program, 1:30-6 p.m. Information: 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Art of Spiritual (Evansville Diocese). “Saturday Morning at (Evansville Diocese). “Sunday 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Direction,” day of reflection,” Father Peter the Dome–Marriage as a Process,” Eucharist–Why We Do What We Do,” Marshall and Mary Schaffner, presenters, Barbara McDonald, presenter, Benedictine Sister Anita Ann Lowe, presenter, January 31 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $35 per person includes 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m., light lunch, $45 per person. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $65 per person. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. continental breakfast, lunch, Mass and Information: 812-367-1411. 812-367-1411. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima” program. Information: 317-545-7681 or February 21 February 27 monthly Mass and social, Mass, 9 a.m., [email protected]. goodwill offerings accepted. Information: Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. February 8 Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, Ind. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, (Evansville Diocese). “Compassionate Conference,” marriage preparation February 1 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Healing,” Benedictine Sister Anita Louise program, 1:30-6 p.m. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Woman Talk–Enhancing,” session one, Lowe, presenter, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., $65 per 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Art of Spiritual Diana Hendricks, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., person. Information: 812-367-1411. Direction–A Morning for Moms,” $25 per person includes dinner. February 28 Father Peter Marshall and Mary Schaffner, Information: 317-788-7581 or February 22-24 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. presenters, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., $30 per person [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima” includes continental breakfast, lunch, Mass Meinrad. “A Personal Preparation for the monthly Mass and social, Mass, 9 a.m., and program, child care included at no February 11-13 Paschal Mystery,” midweek retreat, goodwill offerings accepted. Information: additional charge, but space is limited. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Benedictine Father Jeremy King, presenter. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. † Family Rosary contest deadline is Feb. 1 EASTON, Mass. (CNS)—Feb. 1 is the deadline for 12th grade who attend a Catholic school, are enrolled submitting entries to the 16th annual “Try Prayer! It in a parish religious education program, are active in a Works!” national contest sponsored by the Easton-based parish or are involved with a Catholic organization. Family Rosary. Applications can be downloaded from the contest Photo courtesy Archabbey of Saint Meinrad The contest aims to encourage children to express their website at www.FamilyRosary.org/tryprayer. All faith through art, poetry and prose. entries must be postmarked by the Feb.1 deadline. This year’s theme, “Speak, Lord, Your Servant is Up to three winners are chosen per grade. Listening,” focuses on the Annunciation, which celebrates First-place winners are awarded $100, and the the announcement that Mary would become the mother sponsoring organization earns $200. of Jesus. Judges choose the winners based on the content of The contest asks entrants to use creativity to depict the submissions as well as the entrants’ ability to their thoughts and feelings about how they listen when capture and interpret the theme, their artistic and God speaks to them. technical proficiency, and their adherence to The contest is open to students in kindergarten through contest rules. †

Submitted photo Christmas concert

Pastels exhibit Erin Hays, from left, Sarah Stockton, This landscape, titled “Rim Light at the Peony Farm,” by artist Daniel Farrel and Kevin Ellenberger, Jan Frazier of Owensboro, Ky., is one of several pastels that will be members of St. Michael Parish in on display at the Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library in St. Meinrad Greenfield, perform a Christmas concert from Jan. 15 through March 5. Pastels by Irish Gentry of Henderson, on Dec. 19 at their parish’s church. Ky., will also be included in the exhibit, which is free and open to the public. For library hours, call 812-357-6401 or 800-987-7311 or visit the Archabbey Library’s website at www.saintmeinrad.edu/library/library_hours.aspx. The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 7 Archbishop: Haitians feel abandoned amid continuing disasters

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Frustration and aggravation are simmering across Haiti a year after a terrifying earthquake ripped apart the country’s most densely populated region, and as a persistent cholera epidemic endangers the health of virtually everyone in the impoverished nation. CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters Life in a tattered tent in a crowded makeshift camp with no alternative on the horizon, threats to personal safety and the need to scramble for food and clean water are fueling the growing anger, said Archbishop Louis Kebreau of Cap-Haitien, president of the Haitian bishops’ conference. “The people of Haiti are tired of misery,” Archbishop Kebreau said in a Jan. 4 interview with Catholic News Service during a visit to the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “They are tired of living in their tents. The people are saying they are not happy. They’re frustrated and angry. That provokes violence.” More than 1 million people continue to live in hundreds of settlements that sprouted after the 35-second magnitude 7 earthquake. At least 230,000 people were killed. He expressed concern that the surge of hopefulness felt by Haitians at the world’s compassionate response immediately after the Above, Haitian Jan. 12 quake has given way to a children make their feeling of abandonment. People way through debris don’t think their pleas are being on Jan. 6 caused by heard any longer, he said. the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Citing the widespread CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters cholera epidemic that has claimed Haiti continues to reel Archbishop from a series of Louis Kebreau 3,650 lives since mid-October, Archbishop Kebreau called upon disasters including a Haitian authorities to openly discuss the source of the cholera epidemic disease and acknowledge the concerns of Haitians. that has claimed Although tests showed the cholera strain originated in 3,650 lives since south Asia and was traced to the Artibonite River in central mid-October. Haiti, authorities have declined to link the outbreak to the alleged dumping of human waste from an outpost of Left, a Haitian woman U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal located on the waterway. infected with “The problem is that the government knows it comes cholera grimaces in from Nepal,” he said. “But the government doesn’t have the pain at a clinic in guts to say it openly. You have the United Nations troops Port-au-Prince on from Nepal so people are reacting to that because the Dec. 11. government hasn’t acted. “Truth and openness,” he added, “would resolve a lot of trouble.” The archbishop’s unease about the potential for violence allow more time to prepare ballots and polling stations. making money than taking care of people,” he said. stems in part from Haiti’s 207-year history, which has been While declining to comment on the candidates, Archbishop Kebreau, who has rallied the Church to meet scarred by strong-armed rule and violent efforts to Archbishop Kebreau said he feared the election, whenever pastoral needs despite the country’s enormous poverty, is overthrow that rule. Only recently has the country it occurs, could spark renewed violence if charges of fraud buoyed by the prospect of rebuilding parish infrastructure in experienced relative calm and peaceful government resurface. the earthquake zone under a newly formed commission. transitions. Still, there is more than the election contributing to the Known in English as the Program for the Reconstruction of However, violence flared again in early December. restive atmosphere, according to Archbishop Kebreau. In the Church in Haiti, or PROCHE, which means “close by” in Hundreds of protesters blocked streets and set fires in the addition to Haitian government officials, the United Nations French, the commission will review and approve parish capital of Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien and other and even aid agencies often are skewered by Haitians who projects to ensure that building plans meet modern communities to express their dissatisfaction with the results believe international parties have failed to deliver on construction codes. of the Nov. 28 presidential election amid charges of fraud. promises to rebuild the country, he said. PROCHE primarily will administer an estimated $33 The country’s Provisional Electoral Council determined “Just imagine all the millions that supposedly are million contributed by American Catholics designated for that Jude Celestin, a protege of outgoing President Rene arriving [in Haiti],” he said. “Where are they going?” reconstruction. About 70 parishes were destroyed in the Preval, had narrowly finished second among 18 candidates, Archbishop Kebreau urged government, U.N. and aid quake. ahead of popular carnival singer Michel “Sweet Micky” representatives to begin talking with average Haitians to Crafted in a venture between the USCCB and Catholic Martelly. Preval, who has maintained a low profile discover their needs. He also offered the Haitian Catholic Relief Services, PROCHE could serve as a model for all of throughout his two terms as president, has been widely Church as a bridge between the parties. Haiti, he said. criticized for not taking a leading role in earthquake “The problem we have is the Church is marginalized,” he “It’s a unique opportunity for the Church to use this recovery efforts. said. “They [government officials and aid workers] don’t experience to give the world a different perspective [of Haiti’s new president will be chosen in a runoff between make contact with us. The Church is present and filled with Haiti],” the archbishop said. Celestin and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, who the people, and we could give them information. We can “We must learn from one another,” he added. “We topped all candidates in first-round balloting. Originally help them, but they don’t ask us. need to learn from everyone without distinction of race scheduled for Jan. 16, the runoff has been postponed to “One gets the impression that they are more interested in or color.” † Bishops ask Catholics to pray for Haitians on earthquake anniversary WASHINGTON (CNS)—The annual collection for Latin America, which one-year anniversary of the massive includes Haiti. earthquake that affected a wide swath of “Haiti and its people still very much Haiti gives Catholics an opportunity to need our prayers and solidarity,” stand in prayerful solidarity with the Archbishop Wenski said in a statement.

CNS photo/Allison Shelley, Reuters CNS photo/Allison Shelley, people of the impoverish Caribbean “As we approach the anniversary of the nation, said a member of the U.S. earthquake in Haiti, we join together with Conference of Catholic Bishops. parishes, Catholic schools, youth groups, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski colleges and universities from across the of Miami, chairman of the Haiti country to remember the tragic events of Advisory Group of the U.S. bishops’ that fateful afternoon and to respond in a Subcommittee on the Church in Latin faith-filled way.” America, invited Catholics to pray and In addition to the novena, other reflect for nine days using the novena to catechetical and reflection resources— Our Lady of Guadalupe. including material from Catholic Relief The novena started on the evening of Services, the U.S. Catholic Church’s Jan. 12, the anniversary of the overseas aid and development agency, magnitude 7 quake, and ends with the which has an extensive aid effort in Haiti— celebration of Mass the weekend of is available at a new website: A girl walks hand-in-hand with a woman on their way to church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 9. Jan. 22-23, the date of the bishops’ www.usccb.org/haiti/one-year-later.shtml. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 OUTREACH continued from page 1

Bethany House in Terre Haute and John Shaughnessy Photo by Holy Family Shelter in Indianapolis, archdiocesan shelters that provide havens of hope for homeless families, married couples, expectant mothers and single parents with children. “The archdiocese is very concerned about the homeless and cares about them,” says Bill Bickel, the director of Holy Family Shelter. “And there are so many volunteers across the archdiocese who show a really strong public witness to help the homeless. They are an extraordinary example of how people are always looking beyond themselves to help others.” Concern for others is reflected in the heartwarming actions of 11-year-old Makenzie Smith and 84-year-old Mary Zinkan.

A special kind of warmth For the past five years, Makenzie has led an amazing coat-collection drive as a member of St. Mary Parish in Navilleton in southern Indiana. The girl started her coat drive when she was in the second grade and her teacher told her class that some people couldn’t even count on having a warm coat to wear Standing near the trunk of her car, Mary Zinkan, right, shows the sleeping bags that have been stitched together by members of the Ugly Quilt Committee at in the winter. Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis. Zinkan gave the sleeping bags to Kathy Bogan, left, who volunteers with Helping Our Own People, a volunteer Hoping to help, Makenzie collected organization that gives soup, sandwiches, socks and sleeping bags to homeless people. 79 coats that first year. In 2010, her collection netted more than 4,000 coats, The Ugly Quilt Committee which were distributed to people from As the head of the Ugly Quilt Committee southern Indiana and northern Kentucky at Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, the on Dec. 14 at the Cathedral of the 84-year-old Zinkan leads a team of

Assumption in Louisville, Ky. volunteers who make sleeping bags for Smith Submitted photo/Kevin “We invite shelters, schools, homeless people in the city. individuals,” says Makenzie, now a The group made 45 sleeping bags that sixth-grade student. “They come in, and have been distributed to the homeless this they choose the coat they want. A woman winter—sleeping bags that were stitched came up to me and started crying. She was together with thread, batting and pieces of so thankful that she had a coat to keep her cloth donated by members of the parish. warm. And there was a man who walked “It takes at least 14 feet of material to in. He had a woman’s coat on that was make each one of them,” says Zinkan, who tattered and torn. He was glad to get a has been coordinating this effort for the past man’s coat.” six years. “That’s a lot of material. Still, the moment that touched Fortunately, people bring things to my house Makenzie the most involved a small girl. and to church. They’re absolutely wonderful. “She was about 7 or 8,” Makenzie says. People love to give.” “She didn’t have a coat. I thought, ‘Wow, So does Zinkan. Above, rows of coats for people of all ages were she’s about my age.’ I helped her find “People have always been good to me my lined up inside the Cathedral of the Assumption a coat.” whole life so why shouldn’t I want to give in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 14. The coats were Makenzie gets a lot of help from people back? And there are a lot of people in need,” distributed to people in need by volunteers of Makenzie’s Coat Closet, a charitable effort led in her parish and school, Borden she says. “It makes you feel good to help.” John Shaughnessy Photo by Elementary School in Clark County. Her Zinkan gives the sleeping bags to by 11-year-old Makenzie Smith. coat drive is also a family effort that Kathy Bogan, the volunteer for the homeless involves her parents, Kevin and Carrie ministry called Helping Our Own People. Left, at 84, Mary Zinkan of Christ the King Parish Smith, and her younger siblings, Bogan is a member of the office staff at in Indianapolis leads the Ugly Quilt Committee, a Hayden and Delaney. Christ the King Parish. group of volunteers that make sleeping bags for “It brings us closer as a family. We “They [the homeless people] are very homeless people. work together as a team, and it makes us grateful for them,” Bogan says. feel fortunate,” Makenzie says. “I’m Members of the Ugly Quilt Committee them,” Zinkan says. “It’s important that we Shelter, visit the website at giving back to people in need. I just feel attach a special tag to each sleeping bag. reach out and help them. I think that’s what www.holyfamilyshelter.net. For more that God wants me to do this.” The tag reads, “Bless this person who God would want us to do.” information about Makenzie Smith’s coat That belief is shared by Mary Zinkan, receives this gift. Let them know that we collection efforts, visit the website at the leading member of another homeless made this for them because we love and care (For more information about www.makenziescoatcloset.com. For more ministry in the archdiocese. It’s a group for them.” Bethany House, visit the website at information about the organization Helping with an unusual name and a colorful gift “It’s a good thing for the people who are www.CatholicCharitiesTerreHaute.org Our Own People, visit the website at for people who live on the streets. out there to know that someone cares for For more information about Holy Family www.HelpingOurOwnPeople.org.) † What was in the news on Jan. 13, 1961? The pope and the Church in the Congo By Brandon A. Evans the necessary legislation whereby all in the Vatican at noontime, and sent up a life the American author ‘struggled school premises and buildings will be raucous chorus of horns to summon against religious prejudice.’ ‘Not for This week, we continue to examine taken over completely Pope John to his window.” nothing,’ the station said, ‘was he what was going on in the Church and the and the ownership • Quest for Unity: called the American Voltaire. He world 50 years ago as seen through the thereof vested in the Catholics and the realized that in the history of mankind, pages of The Criterion, which is government without Ecumenical Movement the Church had always played a celebrating its 50th anniversary. compensation.’ ” • At National Shrine: reactionary part, that it had been a Here are some of the items found in • A Protestant Special services stronghold of obscurantism and the Jan. 13, 1961, issue of The Criterion: Answers: Is scheduled for ignorance.’ According to the Moscow • Aid those who are less fortunate, U.S. Catholicism more Unity Octave station, Mark Twain described pontiff urges well-to-do families robust in rural areas or • Germany acts to halt Christianity as ‘sham and hypocrisy.’ ” • Church is free to work in most of urban centers? needless Sunday work • Egypt’s Catholics fear new assault the Congo • ‘Honkers’ gain Pope’s ear • Foraging priest finds self on on their schools • School grab in Ceylon seen “ROME—Ever honk your car fighting front in Laos • Catholic pupils survey parish without parallel horn for the pope? A bunch of Romans • Question Box: May godparents racial attitudes “COLOMBO, Ceylon—The did, and it worked: His Holiness, marry each other? • The Faith Explained: Heaven is Catholic Bishops of Ceylon labeled Pope John XXIII, came to his window • Family Clinic: Feels husband visits more than family reunion government plans to seize ownership and even blessed the honkers. It his mother too often • Marian College adopts new honors of private schools ‘drastic legislation happened on the feast of the Epiphany, • Mark Twain is new Red ‘Hero’ program which is without parallel in any a time of mad celebration in Rome and “MOSCOW—A Moscow Radio democratic country.’ … ‘The a day when the normal anti-noise laws broadcast said some of the writings of (Read all of these stories from our government proposes to summon are suspended. Hundreds of Romans Mark Twain were being utilized by Soviet Jan. 13, 1961, issue by logging on to our Parliament immediately, and introduce drove their cars into St. Peter’s Square atheistic propagandists because all his archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 9 Parish and school promote greater devotion to the rosary By Mary Ann Wyand

“Pray the rosary” often tops the list of New Year’s resolutions for many Catholics.

Members of a rosary group at Our Lady Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis want to encourage Catholics to do just that. After celebrating the centennial anniversary of their parish on Nov. 8, 2009, these Lourdes parishioners decided to foster greater devotion to Jesus and Mary through the rosary as well as offer prayerful thanks for blessings received by parishioners during the past century. They promote family rosary time in the church before Mass each Saturday throughout the year. Colorful drawings and written petitions from Our Lady of Lourdes They also organized a daily rosary at School students fill a basket at the base of the altar at Our Lady of 6:45 p.m. at the Marian grotto adjacent to Lourdes Church in Indianapolis after the “Living Rosary” last fall. the church from May through October, and plan to continue that tradition this spring. Our Lady of Lourdes And they worked with Cara Swinefurth, School fourth-grade the principal of Our Lady of Lourdes student Cecelia Linn School, and faculty members to teach the of Indianapolis holds a students the importance of the Marian carnation as she devotion by arranging an annual waits for her turn to “Living Rosary” on Oct. 7, the feast of raise it and recite a Our Lady of the Rosary, in the church. “Hail Mary” during a Other parish Marian devotions include a “Living Rosary” on “May Crowning” ceremony in the church to Oct. 7 at Our Lady of honor the Mother of God. Lourdes Church in “Our annual ‘Living Rosary’ began with Indianapolis. Lourdes our 100th anniversary year,” said parishioners and Father Nicholas Dant, the pastor of the east students are side parish. “The [parish] Spiritual Life and encouraged to pray the Worship Commission thought it would be a rosary to honor Jesus good idea—since our parish was designated and Mary, their parish to honor Mary under the title of Our Lady patroness. of Lourdes—to begin an annual tradition of praying the rosary with the students.” Children representing each grade hold carnations to symbolize the rosary beads as Rays of sunlight filter they stand along interior walls of the historic through stained-glass church and pray the decades. windows at Our Lady of All of the 261 students also place their Lourdes Church in written prayer petitions in a basket at the Indianapolis near a base of the altar before they pray the Marian statue. “Living Rosary.” Our Lady of Lourdes parishioner Linda Abner of Indianapolis prays the rosary at “I think our staff and our teachers do a the Marian grotto adjacent to Our Lady of Lourdes Church last fall. Members of the good job of trying to hand on the faith,” parish Spiritual Life and Worship Commission and rosary group organize regular Father Dant said. “I’m proud of the tradition rosary times for parishioners and Our Lady of Lourdes School students. that we have here of teaching the faith at Our Lady of Lourdes School.” your heart up for the Lord to see, to take offered those prayers as we said the rosary.” we would sit around it and pray when we Students also pray the rosary after the care of, to comfort, to lead and to guide. It’s As a Marian parish, Swinefurth said, “we were little girls. I was lucky enough to go to school Mass every Friday during October, a beautiful way to pray. And what better have focused on the rosary, and we Marian College, and I prayed the rosary in the month of the holy rosary. things can we think about than the lives of encourage the students to pray the rosary the beautiful chapel there.” Lourdes parishioner Tim Arvin, a Jesus and his mother?” with their families before Mass on She was happy when the Marian grotto member of the Spiritual Life and After the students pray the Saturdays.” was dedicated on Sept. 30, 1984, to mark the Worship Commission who helps organize “Living Rosary,” they present their Parishioner Mary Ann Hacker grew up in 75th anniversary of Lourdes Parish. the “Living Rosary,” said “it brings tears to carnations to Mary by placing the flowers St. Bernadette Parish just west of Our Lady A plaque at the grotto explains that it was your eyes and melts your heart to hear these in vases at the base of the altar next to their of Lourdes Parish. “a gift of the parish for 75 years of countless little voices” in prayer. prayer petitions. “I started praying the rosary in the blessings from our beloved patroness.” Lourdes parishioner Linda Abner, who “The rosary is taught in some way in first grade, and I’ve prayed the rosary my “Mary will always be there to intercede also helps coordinate the “Living Rosary,” each grade level,” Swinefurth said. “It whole life,” Hacker said. “It means a lot to with our Savior,” Markovich said. “She is said “it just does my heart such good” to see makes me feel proud of the students, and I me. The ‘Hail Mary’ is very close to my the Lord’s mother, and she understands the children praying together. think underscores our mission to build heart. Every day, there is always something when we bring our life problems to her. She “I think it’s beautiful in the sight of children in their faith and encourage their that comes up that I want to pray for. It is there all the time for us. All we have to do God,” she said. “I imagine Mary and the spiritual growth. We do that through all makes life easier. It’s really nice to have the is give Mary and Jesus our time in prayer.” Lord seeing them, and I think they must be kinds of experiences, including praying the Marian grotto, and to remember the story of Lourdes parishioner Bernice Verlage likes smiling. I think it’s a gift for these kids that rosary in an active and engaging way. St. Bernadette and Our Lady of Lourdes.” to pray the rosary and spend time meditating their parents care enough to teach them the “All of the students and the visitors who Lourdes parishioner on the life of Jesus. faith and encourage them to pray. In our joined us for the ‘Living Rosary’ were able Marianne Markovich also learned how “Even if I don’t have the words [to pray] world, we need that. to put a prayer intention in the basket,” the to pray the rosary as a child. and the situation is difficult, I can always “I appreciate having a prayer that I can principal said. “Every student—from our “It’s been there all the time for me,” pray the mysteries of the rosary,” she said. always turn to,” Abner said. “It allows you preschoolers who drew pictures to our older Markovich said. “My father had a “It strengthens your prayer life. It’s another to meditate on a deeper level, and to lift students who wrote heartfelt intentions— hand-carved statue of Our Lady, … and avenue to speak to God.” † Pope baptizes 21 infants, and says faith formation is crucial task VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI baptized parents and the godparents need to work together to 21 infants, and told their parents and godparents that provide, he said. via Reuters educating them in the faith will not be easy in “Cooperation between the Christian community and the today’s society. family is more necessary than ever in the current social The liturgy on Jan. 9 in the Sistine Chapel, enlivened by context in which the institution of the family is threatened the cries of the newly baptized and their siblings, marked on many sides, and must face many problems in its L'Osservatore Romano the feast of the Baptism of the Lord—an event depicted in mission of educating in the faith,” he said.

CNS photo/ one of the splendid Renaissance frescoes that adorn the He said rapid social changes and the weakening of walls of the chapel. cultural stability make religious education a real challenge In his homily, the pope said the Church encourages the today. For that reason, he said, the parish should make baptism of newborns as the “beginning of a path of holiness every effort to aid families in this task of transmitting the and conformity to Christ.” He compared it to the planting of faith to younger generations. a seed that will one day turn into a magnificent tree. The infants baptized by the pope, 13 boys and Naturally, he added, at a later age each of the baptized eight girls, are children of Vatican employees. will need to give their free and conscious assent to the faith. Speaking at his noon blessing on the same day, the That presupposes that, as children, they will receive pope underlined the importance of baptism in the lives of Pope Benedict XVI baptizes one of 21 infants during a Mass in formation in Scripture and in Church teachings, he said. all Christians as well as the “great responsibility” assumed the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Jan. 9. This educational path is something that the Church, the by parents and godparents in the sacrament. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Back to Assisi: Pope to commemorate event he skipped

VATICAN CITY (CNS)— unconditionally” what he insisted was Left, Pope Pope Benedict XVI said he would go really a “multireligious prayer,” one in Benedict XVI lights to Assisi in October to mark the which members of different religions a lamp in 2007 at 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s prayed at the same time for the same the tomb of interreligious prayer service for peace, but intention without praying together. St. Francis in he did not actually say anything about In multireligious prayer, he wrote, the Assisi, Italy. The praying with members of other religions. participants recognize that their CNS photo/Maurizio Reuters Brambatti, pope said he would Announcing the October gathering, he understandings of the divine are so go to Assisi in said that he would go to Assisi on different “that shared prayer would be a October to mark the pilgrimage and would like representatives fiction,” but they gather in the same place 25th anniversary of of other Christian confessions and other to show the world that their longing for Pope John Paul II’s world religions to join him there to peace is the same. interreligious commemorate Pope John Paul’s “historic U.S. Jesuit Father Thomas Michel, who prayer for peace, gesture,” and to “solemnly renew the was an official at the Pontifical Council for but he did not commitment of believers of every religion Interreligious Dialogue in the 1980s and actually say to live their own religious faith as a service was involved in organizing the first Assisi anything about in the cause of peace.” meeting, said, “It wouldn’t make a lot of praying with While Pope Benedict may be more open sense to pray together when you don’t members of other to interreligious dialogue than some of the believe in the same God,” but Catholics religions. most conservative Christians would like, he believe there is only one God and he hears continues to insist that dialogue must be the prayers of whoever turns to him with Below, Pope honest about the differences existing sincerity and devotion. John Paul II is between religions and that joint activities In an e-mail response to questions, pictured during a should acknowledge those differences. Father Michel said, “The only confusion 1986 interfaith In the 2003 book, Truth and Tolerance, [surrounding the 1986 Assisi meeting] was prayer gathering in a collection of speeches and essays on among those who did not understand the Italian town of Christianity and world religions, the then- Vatican II teaching and subsequent Assisi. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger dedicated four magisterium. They expressed their pages to the topic of “multireligious and confusion before the event, boycotted the interreligious prayer.” event itself, and expressed more confusion As a cardinal and prefect of the afterwards.” Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “Nostra Aetate,” the Second Vatican he was one of the very few top Vatican Council document on relations with other officials to skip Pope John Paul’s religions, affirmed that Jews, Christians and 1986 meeting in Assisi. He later said the Muslims believe in, worship and pray to way the event was organized left too much the same God. CNS file photo/KNA open to misinterpretation. When Pope Benedict went to Istanbul’s His chief concern was that the gathering Blue Mosque in Turkey in 2006, some could give people the impression that the people believed he blatantly contradicted highest officials in the Catholic Church what he had written in 2003 about the were saying that all religions believed in impossibility of praying together. the same God, and that every religion was At the mosque, a place of prayer for an equally valid path to God. Muslims, the pope stood alongside an A few years later—and after having imam in silent prayer. participated in Pope John Paul’s Days later back at the Vatican, the pope 2002 interreligious meeting in Assisi—he said it was “a gesture initially unforeseen,” wrote in Truth and Tolerance that with but one which turned out to be “truly such gatherings “there are undeniable significant.” dangers, and it is indisputable that the “Stopping for some minutes for Assisi meetings, especially in 1986, were reflection in that place of prayer, I turned to misinterpreted by many people.” the one God of heaven and of earth, the holiest site. symbolic places respectively of Judaism He wrote that Church leaders had to merciful father of all humanity,” the After visiting Jerusalem, Pope Benedict and of Islam.” take seriously the possibility that many pope said. told visitors at the Vatican that faith In a message commemorating the people would see Jews, Christians, Muslims were touched by the pope’s demands love of God and love of neighbor. 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul’s Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus and gesture, but some Christians went to great “It is to this that Jews, Christians and Assisi meeting, Pope Benedict said the others gathered together for prayer in the lengths to insist that the pope’s “turning to Muslims are called to bear witness in order 1986 gathering effectively demonstrated to Umbrian hilltown and get the “false God” was not the same thing as prayer, to honor with acts that God to whom they the world that “prayer does not divide, but impression of common ground that does especially in a mosque. pray with their lips. And it is exactly this unites” and is a key part of promoting not exist in reality.” People found it easier to accept the fact that I carried in my heart, in my prayers, as peace based on friendship, acceptance and At the same time, he said, it would that Pope Benedict stopped for prayer in I visited in Jerusalem the Western or dialogue between people of different be “wrong to reject completely and Jerusalem at the Western Wall, Judaism’s Wailing Wall and the Dome of the Rock, cultures and religions. † Event marks 30 years, honors brother of U.S. nun slain in El Salvador WASHINGTON (CNS)—William justice for his sister and three other and the Salvadoran ambassador to the for torturing three Salvadorans and Ford, the late brother of Maryknoll Sister U.S. Churchwomen murdered in United States. awarding the plaintiffs $54.6 million. Ita Ford, was honored in a Capitol Hill December 1980 in El Salvador at the Assistant Secretary of State “We never felt we completely got event on Jan. 6 for his 28-year pursuit of height of the nation’s civil war. Michael Posner, head of the department’s justice,” Posner said. But with the help of “We honor one person, William Ford, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Dodd, former Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., whose life ... and that of his family was Labor, presented Mary Anne Ford with a and others in Congress who pushed for an changed forever by the death of his sister,” Salvadoran-made plaque commemorating her investigation and prosecution, the trial of said Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin, husband’s work to shed light on the women’s the guardsmen in El Salvador was “the president of the order. Ford died in 2008. deaths and on the U.S. role in supporting the first break in a culture of impunity,” he said. CNS photo/Patricia Zapor CNS photo/Patricia She noted that the gathering was the repressive Salvadoran government. In accepting the award, Mary Anne Ford first time that an effort had been made to Posner recalled that at the time of said her sister-in-law’s death led to her bring together all those who worked with and their deaths, he was part of the fledgling husband’s transformation. As he began to knew Sister Ita, Maryknoll Sister Maura Lawyers Committee for International find out what Sister Ita’s life among the Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay Human Rights when he got a call from the poor of El Salvador was really like, his missionary Jean Donovan, and those who Maryknoll Sisters informing him about the mission became not so much to seek justice worked after their deaths to bring their killers women’s deaths and asking for legal help. for “the authors of a crime,” as it was “that to justice and to seek changes in the People warned that “we would never be the lives of the women would be Salvadoran government and in U.S. policy in able to do anything in Congress... we would remembered.” Central America. The event also remembered never be able to hold anyone responsible,” Dodd and Democratic Reps. Maryknoll Sister Carol Piette, another Posner said. Through the persistence of Marcy Kaptur of Ohio and Nita Lowey missionary in El Salvador, who drowned Bill Ford and others in the religious and of New York praised Bill Ford’s work as an earlier in 1980 while escorting a newly human rights communities, five members of example of how one person can make a released prisoner to his home. El Salvador’s national guard were found difference. Dodd and Kaptur recalled that The 30th anniversary commemoration of guilty of the murders in 1983. Efforts to hold the women’s murders were one of the Thirty years after four U.S. churchwomen were the women’s kidnapping and murder featured the guardsmen’s superiors responsible led to first big issues they faced when elected. found murdered near Santiago Nonualco, the presentation of the Maryknoll Sisters’ civil trials in the United States of former As a new senator, Dodd sat in on El Salvador, residents near the site continue Justice Award to Bill Ford’s wife, Mary Anne. generals Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, a Foreign Relations Committee hearings to maintain a chapel in their memory. Other Ford family members and relatives of former director of the Salvadoran national that helped shed light on the U.S. role in Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, the other women also attended the reception guard, and former Defense Minister Jose funding the Salvadoran government. Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay in the Rayburn House Office Building, as did Guillermo Garcia. And both told of being advised by the missioner Jean Donovan are memorialized in several members of Congress, former Though a federal jury cleared the men of late House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, photos at the base of the altar. A Jan. 6 event Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., many culpability in the women’s murders, in 2006 D-Mass., about where to get information in Washington marked the 30th anniversary of members of different religious orders and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and advice about foreign policy. the December 1980 murders. representatives of the Obama administration upheld a civil suit holding them responsible “I listen to the nuns,” O’Neill told both. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2010 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. Good communication can help families resolve conflicts

By Allan Wright lack of forgiveness? Having hurt feelings and being Home repair is easier and less angry is quite natural when we are expensive when you do some injured, but what we do with those preventative maintenance. hurt feelings and anger is where Wittman CNS photo/Bill It’s the same with the family. our Christian character is revealed. While there is no perfect family, When forgiveness is not we all like to belong to a healthy modeled in the home and the injury family, and that takes some effort is not even acknowledged, family as well as preventive maintenance. members cease trying to be Before a family gets to a crisis understood, and withdraw from mode, there are inevitably signs one another and family activities. that all is not well. The first sign of Jesus gives us a template in a crack in the family foundation is which to deal with those who hurt a lack of communication. us. He says: “If your brother sins When we hurt one another, [against you], go and tell him his even if it seems insignificant, it fault between you and him alone” can be the beginning of the end. (Mt 18:15). People have a tendency to either How often is our first inclination withdraw from one another when to involve others in the dispute hurt or to lash out in inappropriate instead of confronting the one who and unbecoming ways. harmed us? What gets broken is not so We seem to want to build much a rule but rather a alliances and have family members relationship. The lines of choose sides, which fractures the communication subsequently family more. shut down. The thought of confrontation Allowing time each week for makes many people uneasy and family members to vocalize their anxious. Very often, however, their Family members pray before sharing a meal together. Good communication among members of a family can help resolve feelings and to communicate fears are relieved when they conflicts before they create deep divisions in a home. what’s important to them is actually speak to their family empowering. And if it is done at member about what is troubling distress in ways that usually add to to really listen to one another, provide a plethora of programs for regular intervals, it can prevent their heart. the misery of all involved. share meals together, champion families, creating hope for more major conflicts. Family gatherings, such as But for others, family gatherings one another, and play with and than 9 million people each year A vital element for all healthy weddings, funerals and reunions, draw out the very best in them— relax with one another. regardless of their religious, social families and a deterrent to family often bring out the best and worst patience, kindness, gentleness, It is a myth to think that or economic backgrounds. breakdowns is the ability to in families because of the myriad forgiveness and love. They are able healthy families are just born that For some single parents who forgive and to of emotions to view the event from another way. They require a commitment struggle with the basics of life, ask for evoked by such perspective—the perspective of to one another and time to grow as such as food, heating and mortgage forgiveness. important, yet faith—that leads to peace and a family. payments, there are organizations Forgiveness ‘The first sign of a stressful, times. restoration of relationships. Some families will need help that provide assistance with those was not only crack in the family Sin, of Oftentimes, the help that a from outside the home, and there needs as well. modeled by course, is the family needs comes from within are many good organizations, Whatever damage has been Jesus, he also foundation is a lack of root cause of the home. The recognition that religious and secular, available to done to family relationships, commanded it communication.’ all discord, and their family needs help in restoring offer it. Catholics believe that faith in of his disciples it reveals itself relationships is a significant These families have the Christ can make all things anew, for good in both subtle first step toward a healthy wisdom to realize that they need including their families. reason. and overt ways. family life. help to become all that God wants Without genuine forgiveness, Some family members respond When a family recognizes that them to be. (Allan Wright resides in we won’t be able to function in to family events with envy, each member has a role to play in Retrouvaille is a program that Basking Ridge, N.J., with his wife community. Its absence will stifle jealousy, gossip, contention and the health of their family life, then provides tools for marriages that and three children, and is the our freedom and ability to love. verbal outbursts. They feel that they they can grow in unity. need assistance. author of The Bible’s Best Love How many families and have been the victim of some Family communication must be Catholic Charities agencies Stories, published by St. Anthony friendships suffer because of a injustice, and they express their made a priority. Families can begin throughout the United States Messenger Press.) † Prayer is essential to healing deep divisions in families By M. Regina Cram mother had concerns about. simple family meeting can head it off. If changes people—including us. The mother tended to be bossy, and the family members are willing to seek • Do an honest evaluation of The family tension began when the daughter resented her mother’s frequent forgiveness for hurting one another and yourself. When arguments brew, at daughter started dating a guy that her attempts to break up the romance. then agree to disagree, they are on their what cost do you press your point? Do The mother said that she just wanted way to healing. you insist on being right, even when what was best for her daughter. Remember to “put on then, as God’s the consequences include alienating By the time an engagement was chosen ones, ... heartfelt compassion, loved ones? announced, the mother and daughter were kindness, humility ... and patience, ... • Swallow your pride and speak barely speaking. The mother refused to forgiving one another ... as the Lord has privately to your loved one. Ask if he or Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by attend the wedding. The daughter refused forgiven you” (Col 3:12-13). she is willing to make a fresh start. her brother’s invitation for Thanksgiving It is important to listen to one another Focus on how you have failed, rather dinner because her mother was invited. at this stage. When a family member than trying to justify your actions. How do family breakdowns get feels unheard, wounds deepen. Apologize for hurting that person, and this far? Unfortunately, sometimes a prepare to listen to his or her perspective. All families disagree, but a breakdown complete breakdown does occur. To Once you have done these things, occurs when family members cling to address this, the late newspaper columnist continue to pray. You cannot force your their own opinions and hurts, even when Ann Landers began promoting an annual loved one to accept your apology, but doing so wounds those whom they love. Reconciliation Day on April 2. Its you can change your own behavior. What can be done to repair a family intention is to re-establish relationships As for the mother and daughter who breakdown? And how might it be that have been shattered or damaged. were at odds, the process of healing prevented? Landers reminded her readers that life began when a child in their extended Prevention is always best. Activities is too short to hold a grudge, family became gravely ill, leading the such as family dinners, family fun nights encouraging them to pick up the phone mother to reassess her harsh stance. and family prayer create strong bonds and extend the hand of peace. Now, many years later, the child is that enhance a sense of belonging and Here are some steps to help the healthy and the family has reconciled. A woman kneels in prayer on Nov. 10, 2010, in identity. This makes it easier to dismiss peace process: Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in small hurts rather than cling to them. • Pray. Prayer is not a last resort, it is (M. Regina Cram is a freelance writer Indianapolis. When conflict does arise, sometimes a a first resort. Through prayer, God in Glastonbury, Conn.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ The wisdom of the saints: St. Hilary Christina Capecchi St. Hilary, whose feast day is on given him the gift of speech to be at God’s all eternity.” Secondhand Jan. 13, was a great fourth-century service, to make him known as Father, the He went on to say that we must not defender of the Father of his only-begotten Son. He must proclaim a change in truth regarding the books and doctrine of the Trinity. use this gift, he said, to preach to those number of gods. “We must not deny that As Bishop of Poitiers, who did not know him, and to the heretics [Jesus] is begotten of the one God; nor recycled grace: France, he battled who refused to believe in him. must we assert that he is other than the against the heresy of He then prayed for the gift of God’s true God.” Why good Arianism, which help and mercy, for the breath of the He then asked God to impart to him the taught that God the Holy Spirit “to drive us on as we begin meaning of the words of Scripture and the Son was created by this course of proclaiming your truth.” He ability to understand it “with reverence for stewards share God the Father in time promised to study the sayings of the the doctrine and confidence in its truth.” Nothing feels like a better bargain than a and, therefore, not prophets and Apostles “with He repeated that it is through the one-cent book so I always click on Amazon’s eternal and equal to the Father. unflagging attention.” prophets and Apostles that we know about used category. The heresy was condemned by the Hilary admitted that there is an inertia the one God the Father and the one Lord Not only does it save Council of Nicaea in 325, but its in our nature that makes us dull, and “we Jesus Christ. He asked for the grace, me money, it comes adherents spread it widely. St. Jerome are held within the bounds of ignorance despite the heretics who deny him, “to with the added benefit wrote, “The world groaned and marveled by the weakness of our minds.” Yet, in honor you as God, who is not alone, and of footprints from a to find that it was Arian.” The Roman trying to comprehend divine truths, we to proclaim this as truth.” previous reader—marks Emperor Constantius, an Arian, exiled can do so, he said, by earnest attention to Although this was a sermon-prayer on flagging the sentences Hilary to Phrygia, in modern Turkey, but God’s teaching and by obedience to the Trinity, there was only that slight that struck someone eventually he was permitted to return to the faith. mention of the Holy Spirit. St. Hilary somewhere, a person France. He is one of the 33 Doctors of He then declared, “as part of the believed in the equality of the Holy Spirit who can unknowingly the Church. mystery of revelation: that you are the as it was declared in the Council of offer me a flashlight for Here are excerpts from one of his eternal God, the Father of the eternal, Nicaea and proclaimed in the the story ahead. sermons, which he expressed as a prayer only-begotten God; that you are one and Nicene Creed, but the fight against the I also look for clues to identity—a library to God the Father: not born from another; and that the Arians concerned the nature of God the stamp, a cursive inscription—and marvel at He first acknowledged that God had Lord Jesus is also one, born of you from Son. † the book’s journey. A copy of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes end-of-life reflection, The Gift Of Peace, was passed from a daughter to a mother then back to a daughter from a mother—with Goodwill Giving aid and comfort to the ‘enemy’ in between. When I read the note inside, Does the beginning of a new year find who we are, and our mail becomes filled lounge chair, your dining chair and even dated April 1998, “To Mom—All my love, you feeling more like the old bearded guy with innumerable catalogs of “comfort the chair in that private room. Mary,” I knew a similar love brought it to me. in the baggy outfit aids” to prove it. We are offered ways to Comfort in clothing takes on new Then there is the Chicken Soup For the leaning on a cane, hear better, be more mobile, digest foods meaning in these catalogs as well with Soul: Living Your Dreams edition, copyright rather than the cheery, more efficiently, and fulfill almost any various apertures and fasteners designed 2003. Amazon offers 121 used copies—18 of diapered baby other bodily need you can think of. It is to help you get in and out of things. them for a penny—but mine came through wearing a “2011” sash embarrassing just to read the darn things. Beauty, stylishness and tailored fit are not Sam’s Club, where it sold for $7.47, down over his chest? We learn to our chagrin that when the considerations in these items. For sure. from its cover price of $12.95. It was later Well, if it’s the Scripture tells us we must learn to be If we still have our original teeth, there consigned for a dollar. former, you have humble, it means humble as in humiliated. are all kinds of whiteners, straighteners The first chapter includes a goal sheet for probably seen several, We don’t really understand what humble and what-have-yous to make them more the reader to fill out. A previous owner played if not scores, of new means until we are older. That new-year presentable, and if we don’t then there are by the rules, leaving secrets in black ink. years come and go. baby in diapers is cute, but we in our adult creative soaks, holders, refiners and He vowed to triple his income of Either that or you’ve had remarkably versions are simply humble. But that’s OK patching devices to improve our false $30,000 and lose half of his 240 pounds. bad luck! when we consider the alternative. ones. This is but the tip of the iceberg of “My ideal soul mate is: someone I can talk As a case in point, I think of my Who knew you could buy a 14-day pill implements designed to restore what age with, share things we like to do together,” he college roommate who complained tote that looks like a book? You can hath taken away or changed dramatically. wrote in the book. “My right livelihood is: be recently that she was making mistakes, always pretend it is your Kimble or maybe It is a wonder second only to God’s my own boss. Other dreams I have are: a something she never did before. She is your portable laptop. And how about those creation itself! home on a lake.” indeed an extremely competent woman, big-print items that would knock the socks Personally, I am grateful to God 1) for It’s not just hand-me-down books that whose life usually runs smoothly thanks off the normal reader? Things like the life itself, and 2) for whatever help that I become hand-me-down wisdom. to her ability to reason and focus. telephone dial and the oven timer and the can get in retaining it in some usable and As I orient to 2011, I am thinking of all She was actually indignant about it, clock numerals, not to mention the less annoying semblance. I truly the things we share—recipes and knock- and did not appreciate it when I laughed numbers on that 14-day pill tote. appreciate what has been given to me, and knock jokes, bobby pins and bug spray, and said she should “join the club.” I We fondly remember the days when also what I can manage to maintain by my parking spaces and prayer cards, passwords meant the club consisting of members sleep basically involved just a comfortable own efforts. and priests. How impossible a year would be over 60 or more years for whom memory mattress and a pillow. Now we have Life is beautiful at any age—and in any if I were left to my own bag of tricks. lapses are an unfortunate byproduct of pillows shaped in every contortion condition. Giving something small can have a big aging. They cause all of us eventually to imaginable to fit our knobby old bodies, effect, cracking open the heart and sharpening make silly mistakes. That’s just the way it necks, elbows, tummies—you name it. (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the a sense of purpose. I know for sure that is when we are human. And we have cushions galore—for the car Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular generosity invites grace, and I am determined Somehow, the rest of the world knows driver’s seat, the car’s back seat, your columnist for The Criterion.) † to welcome the new year with upturned palms as the cheerful giver that God loves. Spirituality for Today/Fr. John Catoir When we share, we are drawn into community, practical support underlined by neighborly affection. We love ex-Catholics, and we want them back Our year began with Epiphany, when the Recently, an article in an October 2010 probably never really had a deep faith in However imperfectly Catholics may Magi from the East follow the star. Along the edition of the National Catholic Reporter the first place. They may have gone to practice their faith, they are just about as way, they share bread and blankets. Their was about the 2008 Catholic schools, but their young minds loyal to their Church as the Protestants fellowship guides and sustains them, carrying findings of the didn’t accept what was being taught, are to theirs. Protestant fidelity to the them to Bethlehem, where they drop to the Pew Forum on especially with respect to the Eucharist. denomination of their youth has been ground in worship of the Christ Child. “Then Religion and Public An additional three in 10 of unaffiliated falling off sharply for the past 30 years. they opened their treasures and offered him Life, which indicated Catholics claim that they left between the The Catholic Church is far from gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh” that many Protestant ages of 18 and 23. mortally wounded. In fact, it is quite (Mt 2:11). Churches benefit from According to a Gallup poll, about vibrant despite the recent disruptions due We are prepared for this well-known the exodus of lapsed 40 percent of them years later claim that to the child abuse scandals and all the Gospel by a short second reading when Catholics. they are open to considering a return to controversy surrounding abortion, St. Paul tells the Ephesians about “the Ex-Catholics draw the faith of their childhood if they were to homosexuality, celibacy, divorce and stewardship of God’s grace that was given to a lot of interest be invited back. birth control. me for your benefit” (Eph 3:2). because the Church in the United States is This tells us much about the importance These are undoubtedly the cause of And therein is the key to it all, that we are so huge—68.1 million strong in a country of our “Come Home” programs. much unrest in some places, but the vast merely stewards of the blessings and crock of nearly 311 million people. We love ex-Catholics, and we want majority of Catholics have enough faith pots and laptops in our homes. We do not Since there are about 23 million them back. and enough sense to recognize that they own them. We are temporary keepers. In that ex-Catholics, it means that lapsed Only two out of 10 of the unchurched need the Eucharist more than they need a spirit, we do not count or collect, but Catholics alone are large enough to form ex-Catholics left the Church after the age change of address. give freely. the second-largest Church in the country of 24. Despite our disagreements over the When we embrace the call to community behind the Roman Catholic Church itself. Maybe we didn’t do a good enough job various moral teachings of the Church, and stewardship, it becomes easier to journey The Southern Baptists, who number about in educating them or maybe it just means the vast majority of Catholics believe that toward the star. As you do, look out for the 16.2 million, would come in third. that they didn’t want to believe. God’s revelation is more about mercy than pilgrims who fall into stride with you, if even Nearly 70 percent of those who are I now realize the fear we had that there about moralism. They subscribe to the for an hour. born Catholic remain in the Church until is a mass exodus of adults leaving the wisdom of St. Augustine, who wrote, “Do And together, leave bread crumbs for the death. Of the 30 percent who leave, a little Catholic Church is highly exaggerated. what you can do and pray for what you ones who will follow. less than half become unaffiliated for life. According to the latest reliable surveys, cannot yet do.” Of the unaffiliated Catholics, we find that there is definitely some (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer 48 percent said that they left the Church leakage taking place, but not a massive (Father John Catoir writes for Catholic from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be before they were 18, which means they hemorrhaging. News Service.) † reached at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 13

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, Jan. 17 Friday, Jan. 21 Anthony, abbot Agnes, virgin and martyr Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011 Among John the Baptist’s qualities was Hebrews 5:1-10 Hebrews 8:6-13 his absolute intellectual and religious Psalm 110:1-4 Psalm 85:8, 10-14 • Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 honesty. He was fearless. He thoroughly • 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 believed that God had called him to be Mark 2:18-22 Mark 3:13-19 • John 1:29-34 a prophet. St. John’s Gospel presents John the Tuesday, Jan. 18 Saturday, Jan. 22 The Book of Isaiah furnishes this Baptist in most favorable terms. Hebrews 6:10-20 Vincent, deacon and martyr weekend’s first reading from the Scriptures. In this reading, John the Baptist sees Psalm 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c Hebrews 9:2-3, 11-14 There is the overtone Jesus in the distance and acknowledges of relief and joy. There is Jesus as the Redeemer. The element of Mark 2:23-28 Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9 the promise of a bright sacrifice is present. John identifies Jesus as Mark 3:20-21 future. It was all because the “Lamb of God.” Wednesday, Jan. 19 of the fact that, first, after Finally, treasured Old Testament symbols Hebrews 7:1-3, 15-17 Sunday, Jan. 23 the humiliation and testify to the identity of Jesus. The dove Psalm 110:1-4 Third Sunday in Ordinary anguish of being descends from the sky, from heaven, to rest Mark 3:1-6 Time conquered by Babylon, upon Jesus. God is in Jesus. and then after generations Isaiah 8:23-9:3 of exile there for many, Reflection Thursday, Jan. 20 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 God’s people were At Christmas, the Church excitedly told Fabian, pope and martyr 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 entering a new day of return to their us that Jesus was born. The son of Mary, Sebastian, martyr Matthew 4:12-23 homeland, and hopefully to lives of prosperity Jesus was a human, as are we. The Hebrews 7:25-8:6 or Matthew 4:12-17 and security. shepherds adored Jesus, and represented Lest anyone think this fortunate turn of all humanity. Psalm 40:7-10, 17 events was the mere outcome of changing At the Epiphany, the Magi found Jesus Mark 3:7-12 politics or luck, the prophet eloquently insists after searching for God. To assist them, God that the plight of the people is improving led them and protected them. In Jesus, they because of God’s direct and merciful found God. intervention into human affairs. At the baptism of Jesus in the God brings their relief. God had promised Jordan River, which was celebrated during to protect and sustain the people, despite the last weekend’s liturgies, the Church Go Ask Your Father/Fr. Francis Hoffman misfortunes that might befall them. They were introduced us to Jesus as the Savior of God’s people. doomed humankind. In Jesus, humans In turn, the Hebrews, God’s people, would have access to eternal life. When Catholics ‘proclaim the death’ human instruments on Earth of the divine Now, continuing the process, John the will, had been faithful during their years of Baptist, so reliable and insightful, proclaims of Jesus at Mass, we honor his sacrifice trial. Jesus as the Lamb of God. For its second reading, the Church this In all these settings, the Church carefully What does “proclaim your death” our churches. weekend selects a passage from St. Paul’s puts before us the person of Jesus the Lord, Qmean, exactly? It sounds almost It’s praiseworthy that you are First Epistle to the Corinthians. and tells us about Jesus. celebratory. Does it pondering the deeper meaning of these The Apostle Paul ranks among the greatest It is an invitation to follow Jesus. Hearing truly mean that we words. Christian figures of all time. He was a most these Scriptures of this season, we know “remember” your There are endless treasures in the extraordinary figure in the development of Jesus. He is no stranger. However, truly death? robust liturgy of the Catholic Church. Christianity in the crucial time of the knowing the Lord depends upon our If so, ought not it For more information about the new first century A.D. willingness to respond to this invitation. † be more clear, such as translations of the Roman Missal, log on However, attaining this distinction was not we “commemorate” to the U.S. Conference of Catholic without personal cost for Paul. He had to or the priest re-enacts Bishops’ website at contend with converts to Christianity that Readers may submit prose the death? www.usccb.org/romanmissal. were not always loyal to the Gospel. This recitation at The very culture in which they lived not or poetry for faith column Mass has only I am in my 70s, and through my only surrendered without a whimper to human The Criterion invites readers recently begun to disturb me as I attempt Qlife it was always taught that when instincts, but also elevated these instincts to submit original prose or poetry to ponder seriously everything that the Catholics die it is very important that literally to the level of the divine, delighting in relating to faith or experiences of members of the congregation recite they be buried in Catholic cemeteries lust, gluttony, drunkenness and so on. prayer for possible publication in the during the eucharistic liturgy. because they would receive graces from Certainly, such was the case with the “My Journey to God” column. the Masses offered in the church of that Christian converts in Corinth, then one of the Seasonal reflections also are You ask about the meaning of one of cemetery. major cities of the Mediterranean world. appreciated. Please include name, Athe responses to the invitation My husband and I live in an area Another burden for Paul was that his very address, parish and telephone number “Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith,” where many churches are closing. Are credentials to preach the Gospel were with submissions. which occurs right after the consecration. the people buried in the parish questioned. He had to insist that Jesus had Send material for consideration to To the invitation “Mysterium fidei” in cemeteries connected to these closed called him to be an Apostle. “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, Latin comes this response in Latin: churches now without the benefit of The last reading is from St. John’s Gospel. P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206 “Quotiescumque manducamus panem such graces? St. John admired John the Baptist and was or e-mail to [email protected]. † hunc et calicem bibimus, mortem tuam We have not bought our burial plots likely a disciple of his at one time. annuntiamus. Domine, donec venias,” yet because we do not know if the which is rendered in English as, “When church cemetery plots are more we eat this bread and drink this cup, we advantageous for our immortal souls My Journey to God proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until than the plots in the community you come in glory.” cemetery, where we are told that the The new translation of the Mass that ground is blessed and consecrated when will be implemented later this year reads, a Catholic is buried there. Awareness “When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup we proclaim your death, O Lord, Whenever possible, a Catholic I noticed how until you come again.” Ashould choose to be buried in a the snow and cold “We proclaim your death” could also Catholic cemetery, not only because the took hold of my hands be translated as “we announce your Church considers that ground to be and led me back inside; death” or “we advertise your death on sacred, but also because Mass will winter’s way the cross carried out for our redemption.” normally be celebrated at or near the of inviting me to inwardness, The point of this acclamation is to cemetery on All Souls Day and on wrapping me, like a blanket, activate us as witnesses and apostles to tell Memorial Day each year, and the Mass in stillness, the whole world about the life of Jesus will be offered for the repose of the nurturing me with Christ, about his death and resurrection, souls buried there. a peace and calm about his everlasting mercy and goodness, As for the souls buried in Catholic where I feel safe and secure. and about “the reasons for hope within us,” cemeteries connected to closed parish In the quiet, I realized as St. Peter reminds us (1 Pt 3:15). churches, they are still remembered at Jesus must have felt just like this As Christians and disciples of Christ, Mass from time to time at the remaining on the night He was born, we do not “celebrate” his death in the parishes to which they have been and it was Mary’s arms that displayed sense of happiness and parties. What we assigned if the parishioners of that the Christmas gifts I desired most— celebrate and rejoice about is his parish request that a Mass be celebrated to find rest, miraculous resurrection and victory over for that intention. to be held death, which constitutes the most In any case, the best way to insure and to feel utterly loved. important proof of his divinity. prayers for the repose of your soul is to We proclaim his death because we direct that Masses be celebrated for

By Cathy Lamperski Dearing Haring CNS photo/Paul should never forget what Jesus has done that intention. for us. Even if you are buried in a public (Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. A For that reason, the crucifix with the cemetery, the loved ones who survive tourist enjoys the light snowfall at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Dec. 17.) crucified body of Jesus Christ is you may request that Masses be displayed clearly in the sanctuaries of celebrated for the repose of your soul. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011

EHALT, Irene, 90, Our Lady of HOFF, Raymond E., 58, Dildine, Sharon Winalski, Bill, Margaret Orth. Father of Barbara Perpetual Help, New Albany, St. Peter, Franklin County, David, Jim and Steve Kijovsky. Huffman, Victoria Regan, Robert Dec. 20. Aunt of several. Dec. 18. Son of Blanche Hoff. LOWRY, Patricia Ann, 71, Dunn, Robert and William Orth. FISHER, Richard J., 85, Brother of Alvin and Chris Hoff. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Uncle of several. Brother of Jacqueline Dunnege Rest in peace Most Holy Name of Jesus, Dec. 23. Mother of Cindy West, and Joann Ryan. Grandfather of Beech Grove, Jan. 3. Husband of IOZZO, Elizabeth V., 94, Brad Croddy and John Lowry. nine. Great-grandfather of 14. Please submit in writing to our CLARK, Wanita L. (Sprinkle), Audrey Fisher. Father of Joanie Our Lady of the Greenwood, Sister of Rosemary Collins, Janet office by 10 a.m. Thursday 77, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Edwards and Greg Fisher. Greenwood, Dec. 24. Mother of Einhaus, Betty Sample, David, PFLANZER, Alice Elizabeth Lani Cummings, John and before the week of publication; Dec. 26. Mother of Deborah Brother of St. Joseph of Mike and Tom Greiwe. Grand- (Ryskey), 90, Most Holy Name be sure to state date of death. Wayt, Linda Weilhamer and Carondelet Sister Mary Ann Thomas Iozzo. Sister of Kathleen mother of five. (Zenz) Clendenin and Franciscan of Jesus, Beech Grove, Dec. 23. Obituaries of archdiocesan Duane Clark. Sister of Beverly Fisher, David and William Fisher. LUX, Marjorie N., 93, Sister Lillian Zenz. Grandmother Mother of Patty Bowen, Linda priests serving our archdiocese Emerson and Kathleen Hobbs. Grandfather of seven. Great- St. Vincent de Paul, of eight. Great-grandmother are listed elsewhere in Grandmother of six. Great- grandfather of nine. Shelby County, Dec. 21. Mother Dean, Randy, Raymond and of three. The Criterion. Order priests grandmother of 12. FREDERICK, Scotty of Sherry Harding, Danny, Jerry Richard Pflanzer. Sister of and religious sisters and COLVIN, Lea, 61, St. Jude, Matthew, 23, St. Bartholomew, KAVANAUGH, Mary and Michael Lux. Sister of Jay Lorraine Anderson, Marcella brothers are included here, Indianapolis, Dec. 27. Husband Columbus, Dec. 22. Son of Elizabeth, 49, St. Jude, Luther. Grandmother of 12. Miskovich, Gladys Roland, unless they are natives of the of Mary Beth Colvin. Father of Matthew Frederick and Julie Ann Indianapolis, Dec. 19. Mother of Great-grandmother of 14. archdiocese or have other Katherine Bennett and Kimberly Margaret Swindle and Clarence Alison, Katherine and Lea Reid. Brother of Cameron and McKEE, Austin, 81, connect ions to it; those are Shive. Daughter of Richard and Ryskey. Grandmother of 14. Colvin, Adam and Andrew Katie Adams, William Eikenbary, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, separate obituaries on this Alice Brown. Sister of Vanessa Great-grandmother of seven. Sertich. Grandfather of one. Laren and Evan Frederick. Dec. 15. Father of Patricia page. Diekhoff, Catherine Henderson, Grandson of Jim and Barbara Depko, Joy, James, Mark and CONNAUGHTON, John B., Bart and Ben Brown. Grand - POPE, C. Thomas, 70, ARMBRUSTER, Evelyn L., Frederick, David and Virginia Michael McKee. Grandfather of 82, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Reid, and Pete and Carol mother of seven. Christ the King, Indianapolis, 92, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Indianapolis, Dec. 22. 11. Great-grandfather of nine. Sageser. Great-grandson of KRUER, Rosemary (Meyer), Dec. 27. Brother of Sue Leap and Dec. 14. Sister of Melvin Husband of Barbara (Weber) MUMFORD, Bill, 70, St. Mary, Jack Akin. 68, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Beverly Sokolek. Armbruster. Connaughton. Father of Lisa Lee Navilleton, Dec. 22. Husband of GAMBRALL, Helen, 84, Jeffersonville, Jan. 2. Wife of ARMBRUSTER, Joseph A., and Laura Connaughton. Grand - Patricia Mumford. Father of RIES, George Patrick, 60, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 18. George Kruer Jr. Mother of 82, former member of father of two. Brandy Graham, Wendy Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mother of Gerri Hensel, Jeanne LeAnne Scott, Nannette Vint and Most Holy Name of Jesus, McCrory and Dawn Mumford. CURRY, Mary Jane, 86, Hoagland, Therese Howe, George Kruer III. Sister of Kathy Indianapolis, Dec. 12. Husband Beech Grove, Dec. 14. Husband Brother of Tracy Merman. St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 14. Anthony and David Gambrall. Erskine, Charlie, Mark, Michael of Marianna (Schafer) Ries. of Joan (McCarthy) Armbruster. Grand father of four. Mother of Pamela Laswell, Grandmother of 12. Great-grand - and William Meyer. Grand - Father of Carol Cooney, Jane Stepfather of Bonnie Stone, Patricia Olmstead, Nancy Reale mother of 24. mother of three. MURCHIE, Donna Dee McKendree, Sharon Tolin, Gary and Michael Curry. Grandmother (Keevers) Jacob and Jay Morris. Son of KUNTZ, Karen, 53, St. Jude, , 51, SS. Francis and and Martin Armbruster. Brother of 10. Great-grandmother of 14. GOODIN, Melinda A., 53, John and Mary (Sullivan) Ries. Indianapolis, Dec. 18. Wife of Clare, Greenwood, Dec. 22. of Virginia Toner. Grandfather of St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Brother of Sally Lydick, Barb 14. Great-grandfather of six. DANDA, Edward S., 92, Dec. 21. Wife of Paul Goodin. David Kuntz. Mother of Ethan ORTH, T. William, 81, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Mother of Chelsea and Savannah and Michael Kuntz. Daughter of St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Stumpf, Rosie Young, David, BRADLEY, Linda Darlene, 59, Dec. 26. Husband of Pauline Goodin. Daughter of Beatrice Mary Kijovsky. Sister of Kathy Dec. 15. Husband of John and Kevin Ries. † St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 16. Danda. Father of Patricia, David Caine. Sister of Teresa Lawson, Sister of Cynthia Schouten, and Richard Danda. Grandfather Michelle Rinehart and Gregg, Steve and Tom Bradley. of five. Great-grandfather of one. Keith Caine. BRYK, Alfred X., 79, DOWNEY, Thomas Michael, HANCOCK, Margaret F. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, 74, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, (Rogers), 89, Most Holy Name Nov. 21. Husband of Judy Bryk. Dec. 19. Husband of Lydia of Jesus, Beech Grove, Dec. 17. Two opportunities to experience two wonderful presenters… Father of Michele Peddycord and Downey. Father of Tara Mother of Joan Bechdol, Jackie “The Art of Spiritual Direction” Steven Bryk. Brother of Marie Downey-Miller, Laurajean Norman, Mary Williams, Mark Grzybowski, Delores Kaveliski, February 7, 2011: A Morning for Moms Day of Reflection Tucker and Michael Downey. and Michael Hancock. Grand - for moms of all ages Catherine Rheinschmidt and Brother of Carol and Jeanne mother of 19. Great-grandmother $30 per person • 8:30 am - 1:00 pm George Bryk. Grandfather Downey. Grandfather of seven. of 20. Great-great-grandmother of five. AND DOWNS, Sara L., 74, of one. CARRASQUILLO, Hector, February 7, 2011: A Day of Reflection Open to All St. Malachy, Brownsburg, HARRIS, Ingle R., III, 59, $35 per person • 8:30 am - 2:30 pm 76, St. Mary, New Albany, Dec. 26. Mother of Kelly Most Holy Name of Jesus, Dec. 23. Father of Geraldine Crouch, Kristie Foxworthy, Kara Beech Grove, Dec. 8. Husband of Our Presenters… Smith, Julie, Hector and Luis Tsuleff, Kathy and Kevin Downs. Linda Harris. Father of Julie Fr. Peter Marshall, Associate Pastor of St. Pius X Carrasquillo, and Dominic Sister of Shirley Aldrich, Cheryl Stennett and Tracy Harris. Son of and Morales. Brother of Carmen and Piland and Tony Williams. Ingle Harris and Alice Koepke. Mary Schaffner, Pastoral Associate and DRE for Chefa Carrasquillo. Grandfather Grand mother of 13. Great-grand - Brother of Beth Prindle. St. Anthony & Holy Trinity Parishes of eight. Great-grandfather of mother of four. Grandfather of two. will help us learn about the practice or art of spiritual direction: What is it? eight. Who can benefit? What does it have to do with my relationship with EAGAN, Robert Eugene, 83, HODSON, Marie Cecilia God, my prayer life, my sacramental life? CAUFIELD, Mary J., 62, Most Holy Name of Jesus, (Reed), 93, Most Holy Name of Fr. Peter and Mary will help us understand the history, purpose and Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Beech Grove, Dec. 19. Husband Jesus, Beech Grove, Dec. 14. benefits of this ancient practice within the context of our faith tradition. New Albany, Dec. 6. Mother of of Rose (Minatel) Eagan. Father Mother of Marilyn Jarvis and Tiffany and Todd Caufield. Sister Rosalind Sylvester. Grandmother For complete program information and registration, please visit us of Cathy Kremer and Michael www.archindy.org/fatima of Madonna Burke, Joy Sprigler, Eagan. Brother of Bernard of four. Great-grandmother of or call us! Eddie, Glenn and Nick Hancock. Eagan. Grandfather of four. nine. Great-great-grandmother Grandmother of three. of three. Great-grandfather of one. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House 5353 E. 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46226 Furnace, Heat Pump & (317) 545-7681 Air Cond le itioner Sa www.archindy.org/fatima

nace, He Fur at Pump & Air Condi le tioner Sa Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House With Labor

Expires 1/29/11 “Renewing the Renewed” A Retreat for Men February 4-5, 2011

“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.” ~Pope Paul VI

When did you first experience renewal? Was it on a CRHP weekend? Was it with a small faith sharing group? Are you looking for a path to reconnect with that faith experience?

Fr. John McCaslin, Pastor of Holy Trinity and St. Anthony Parishes, Furnace, Heat Pum Furnace, Heat Pum Furnace, Heat Pump Indianapolis, and a team of men with various lay ministry p & Air p & Air & Air C Conditioner Sale Conditioner Sale onditioner Sale experiences, will lead this overnight program developed to renew your faith life and help you find that path once again.

Join men from other parishes for community, prayer and Furnace, Heat Pump, discernment and to strengthen your roots in Christ. Cost is $125 per person and includes overnight accommodations, all meals, or Air Conditioner snacks, materials and the program. Register online or call us! On the Purchase of a new 90% Gas On the Installation of a new High Efficiency Tune-Up! Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House 5353 E. 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46226 Expires 1/29/11 Expires 1/29/11 Expires 1/29/11 (317) 545-7681 www.archindy.org/fatima The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011 Page 15 Mother and daughter tea party celebrates the Epiphany

By Mary Ann Wyand

“Does anyone know what the 12th day of Christmas is called?” Artist Leigh Dunnington-Jones of Indianapolis smiled as Photos by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann one of the girls answered her question correctly. “Yes, that’s right,” she said. “It’s the feast of the Epiphany.” The Epiphany of the Lord—the Church’s feast commemorating the visit of the Magi, who brought gifts to honor the Christ Child in Bethlehem—is celebrated on Jan. 6 as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. For Eastern Rite Catholics, the Epiphany celebrates the baptism of Christ. In Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Indianapolis, the Epiphany is a special day for a group of mothers and daughters from the historic Meridian-Kessler Neighborhood Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Kathy O’Neil, right, plays Christmas carols on her who gather for a formal tea party with Dunnington-Jones. guitar as a group of mothers and daughters from Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in This year was her 17th annual Epiphany celebration, Indianapolis sing during a celebration on Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, at the which includes Christmas carols, a treasure hunt and the 115-year-old Meridian-Kessler home of Leigh Dunnington-Jones, center, who is wearing a crowning of one girl as the “queen” of the tea party. Victorian dress and seated in front of the fireplace. “This year, I had 20 young ladies and their mothers—35 total— join me for tea,” Dunnington-Jones said. “I would Above, Immaculate Heart of Mary like people to know that Christmas is a state of mind, and it parishioner Eve Holl of Indianapolis wears doesn’t end on Dec. 25. The celebration can go on until at the “queen’s tiara” after pulling the lucky least Jan. 6. I keep a little bit of Christmas decorations out ribbon and ornament decorated with a all year in my home. I keep Christmas in my heart.” charm from a crystal punch bowl during the Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Sidney Eisgruber mother-daughter tea party on Jan. 6, the feast made the chocolate Epiphany cake, and several other of the Epiphany. mothers helped Dunnington-Jones prepare the scones, cucumber sandwiches and tasty delicacies. Left, Anna Johnson, from left, “Her Victorian home is so beautiful,” Eisgruber said. Caroline Burns, Mary Monesmith and “The Epiphany party is her way of giving back to the Kate Johnson of Indianapolis pull ribbons neighborhood.” tied to Christmas ornaments from a crystal Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Shelby Goble, punch bowl to see if they will be crowned the who is now an eighth-grader, has enjoyed nine tea parties. “queen” of the tea party hosted by She volunteered to help with kitchen duties this Leigh Dunnington-Jones to celebrate the year because “it’s really important to celebrate feast of the Epiphany of the Lord on Jan. 6. Jesus’ birthday.” † The Savior of the world is found among the poor, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Christ, the King of the of Herod in us as well?’ Perhaps we, too, sometimes see could have everything he or she wanted,” the pope said. world, is not found on the thrones of power or in the God as a kind of rival,” who we think needs to be removed Yet, that kind of power would have been “a kind of hallways of learning, Pope Benedict XVI explained on the so we could have unlimited power to do whatever we want, violation of humankind because it would have deprived feast of the Epiphany of the Lord. the pope said. people of the fundamental elements” of being human, he Instead, the pope said, Christ is found defenseless However, letting God into one’s life “does not take said, such as their free will and capacity to love. among the poor and humble. anything away and does not threaten anything,” he said. God wants people to exercise their freedom and love, “At times, power—including that of knowledge— “Rather, he is the only one capable of offering us the the pope said, so he came to the world as a child and blocks the path to encountering that Child,” the Son of possibility of living to the full and feeling real joy.” displayed “the apparent helplessness of his love.” God, the Savior of the world, he said. In Jerusalem, a city of power and learning, the Magi met After the Mass, Pope Benedict gave his noonday “God does not manifest himself in the power of this with scribes and theologians for guidance, he said. But the Angelus address from his apartment window to thousands world, but in the humility of his love—that love that asks Jerusalem-based scholars did not embark on the journey to of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square. us, in our freedom, to welcome it so that we may be seek out the Christ child, preferring instead to stay a while Epiphany is a national holiday in Italy, largely transformed,” he said. and continue to study, examine and discuss the Scriptures. dedicated to children, and the square was filled with The pope made his remarks during a Mass at St. Peter’s “Again, we can ask ourselves, ‘Is there not also in us the young people. Basilica on Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany. temptation to see the sacred Scriptures—this extremely rich The pope said everyone is called to be like the star of In his homily, the pope highlighted the journey of the and vital treasure for the faith of the Church—more like Bethlehem and lead others to Jesus with his light. Wise Men or Magi, who were in search of something something for specialists to study and discuss rather than Christians “must shine like children of the light, more—for “the true light that would be able to indicate like the book that indicates the path to take in life?’ ” to attract everyone to the beauty of the kingdom of God,” the path to follow in life.” the pope asked. he said. Following the star, the Magi met King Herod in In the end, the star brought the Magi to the small town of On the eve of the Epiphany, the pope visited children Jerusalem. Herod, a man of power, considered Jesus, the Bethlehem, the pope said, and “led them among the poor, who are patients at Rome’s Gemelli hospital “to be a little promised king of the Jews, to be a rival and wanted to the humble, in order to find the King of the world.” like the Magi,” he told them. kill him. The Magi, like many people today, had expected to The pope brought stuffed animals, music boxes, books Even today, God can seem like “a particularly find the Savior of the world “in places of power and and candy for the children, many of whom were receiving dangerous rival who would want to deprive people of their culture,” he said. care for spina bifida, a birth defect. personal space, of their autonomy and their power,” the Many would imagine that if God was coming to save the The pope greeted and blessed the children, who gave pope said. world, he would have displayed his might by “giving the him small statues of the three kings and drawings that “We have to ask ourselves, ‘Is there perhaps a little bit world a more just economic system in which everyone they had made for the occasion. † Catholic Radio Great Catholic Programs 24 Hours a Day • Daily Mass - 8:00 am & noon • Rosary - 6:30 am Classified Directory • Son Rise Show - 7:00 am • Catholic Connection - 9:00 am • The Doctor Is In -1:00 pm • Open Line - 3:00 pm For information about rates for classified advertising, call (317) 236-1572. • Al Kresta - 5:00 pm • Catholic Answers - 6:00 pm– 8:00 pm Health Care Now Three Ways to Listen For web ad space INDIANA KNIGHTS 1. From east of Terre Haute to Indianapolis and south of Lafayette to Martinsville listen on your call radio at 89.1 FM. CRUSADE FOR LIFE 2. In Indy or within about 10 miles of the city you can listen on a Small Miracle Radio, even inside Trusted and Compassionate Care your home, even in weak signal areas. 317-236-1572 • Elder or special needs care Call 317-870-8400 ext. 21 for details. • Personal care assistance 3. If you live anywhere in the Archdiocese (or the PRAYER AND FASTING world) listen at www.CatholicRadioIndy.org on today! • Companion care your computer. • Homemaker services Home Improvement • Respite care CHERISH LIFE Brother's Construction Chimney's cleaned • Transportation & errands & inspected $99.00 Concrete & Brick Specialist Call for free in-home consultation. Roofing & carpentry,New & repair JOIN OUR CAUSE 317 356-2884 Kathy and Terry Huser BC Fencing Chain link & wood (317) 255-5700 or 332-8261 SNOW REMOVAL indianakofc.org or [email protected] Serving the Eastside since 1976 www.HuserHomeCare.com 5066 E. Michigan Street www.CatholicRadioIndy.org 317 501-4830 Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 14, 2011

A wonderful way to give and receive in 2011

Special to The Criterion provides the charitable tax deduction, affords For ages between those listed, rates will you and your family with financial and partially tax-free income and benefits her be between two age markers. For example, a intangible benefits. The Catholic Community Foundation Church ministry. 74 year-old annuitant would receive a rate For more details or assistance in has many options to support the ministry of Mary, being less than enthusiastic about the of 6.3 percent. (These rates are as of July 1, exploring opportunities that meet your the Church and present CD renewal rate, explores the 2010. Please contact our office to verify financial and philanthropic goals, contact financially help the charitable gift annuity. She likes the idea that, current rates.) Ellen Brunner, director of planned giving, people we serve. in exchange for her gift, she will receive By funding a charitable gift annuity, you at [email protected] or call If given the lifetime payments at a fixed payout, regardless and your family will preserve our Catholic 800-382-9836, ext. 1427, or 317-236-1427. opportunity, most of of fluctuations in markets or interest rates. faith and create a lasting legacy for future Also, visit our website at us would like to The current income tax deduction for a generations and, at the same time, provide www.archindy.org/ccf. † leave a lasting charitable donation also is appealing. Mary legacy to the learns that she can make a gift of $10,000 and ministry programs receive lifetime annual payments of $630, that mean the most which is a 6.3 percent payout rate. And nearly Make a tax-free gift through to us. Through more $480 of the annual income of $630 is tax-free Ellen Brunner tax-favored ways of until her death. giving, more of us The $10,000 gift also would provide an an IRA charitable rollover can experience the joy of making a income tax charitable deduction of $3,892 for The IRA charitable rollover that charitable gift and not a distribution difference. the current tax year or it can be spread over allows transfers from your IRA to to a charitable remainder trust or a Whether you are planning for the five years if the donor cannot take the full qualified public charities has been charitable gift annuity. future or seeking income today, a charitable deduction in one year. With all the benefits of extended for 2010 and 2011. • Qualified direct distributions to gift annuity can benefit you and the the charitable gift annuity, the 6.3 percent Most importantly, you can make an charity from your IRA are not subject Archdiocese of Indianapolis, your parish, payout rate is the equivalent of 10.3 percent in immediate impact on the ministry of the to income tax. The new law provides school or agency. the market. Church. The full amount of the that you can make a distribution Charitable gift annuities are one of the From Mary’s perspective, the gift annuity distribution is not diminished by income through Jan. 31, 2011, and count it as best ways to give to the Church and has a lot to offer—substantial benefits for her taxes. a gift for 2010. produce a steady personal income in and the Church. Here are the basic rules for direct For more information about how retirement. transfers from an IRA to a qualified you and the Church can benefit from Mary, age 74, has several certificates of Charitable gift annuity payment rate public charity: an IRA charitable rollover, contact deposit—CDs—coming due. She has used chart—single life, current • Donors age 70½ and older can direct your parish office or Ellen Brunner, the interest from the CDs to supplement her Age Rate a distribution of up to $100,000 from an the director of planned giving for the income, but the current interest rates are 70 5.8 percent IRA to the Church. The IRA transfer must Catholic Community Foundation, quite low. 75 6.4 percent be made directly from a custodian or Inc., at 800-382-9836, ext. 1427, or Mary is intrigued by the idea of a 80 7.2 percent trustee to the charitable organization. 317-236-1427 or e-mail her at charitable gift annuity because it pays a 85 8.1 percent The IRA distribution must be a direct [email protected]. † higher rate of interest based on her age, 90 9.5 percent Court says cross on San Diego hillside violates Constitution

PASADENA, Calif. (CNS)—A federal Marriage court has ruled that a cross on a San Diego "1 /- hillside, as “presently configured,” conveys a
message of government endorsement of

religion and violates the Establishment Clause Maung CNS photo/David Be a part of our Spring Marriage Edition of the Constitution. The order sends the case back to lower courts to decide whether the cross can remain iL°Ê{]ÊÓ䣣]ʈÃÃÕiʜvÊ The Criterion on the piece of land now owned by the federal government and administered by the Defense Department. vÊޜÕÊ>ÀiÊ«>˜˜ˆ˜}ÊޜÕÀÊÜi``ˆ˜}ÊLiÌÜii˜Ê>˜°ÊÎäÊ>˜`ÊՏÞÊ£]ÊÓ䣣]ÊÜiʈ˜ÛˆÌi I The Jan. 4 ruling by a three-judge panel of ޜÕÊ̜ÊÃÕL“ˆÌÊÌ iʈ˜vœÀ“>̈œ˜ÊvœÀÊ>˜Ê>˜˜œÕ˜Vi“i˜Ìʜ˜ÊÌ iÊvœÀ“ÊLiœÜ ° the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Pictures acknowledged that “no broadly applauded 9œÕʓ>ÞÊÃi˜`Ê>Ê«ˆVÌÕÀiʜvÊÌ iÊVœÕ«i°Ê*i>ÃiÊ`œÊ˜œÌÊVÕÌÊÌ iÊ« œÌœ}À>« °Ê/ iÊ«ˆVÌÕÀ i resolution is possible because this case “ÕÃÌÊLiÊÜ>i̇ÈâiÊ>˜`Ê܈ÊLiÊÕÃi`Ê>ÃÊë>ViÊ«iÀ“ˆÌðÊ7 iÊV>˜˜œÌÊ}Õ>À>˜ÌiiÊÌ i represents the difficult and intractable Ài«Àœ`ÕV̈œ˜ÊµÕ>ˆÌÞʜvÊÌ iÊ« œÌœÃ°Ê*i>ÃiÊ«ÕÌÊÌ iÊVœÕ«i½Ãʘ>“iÃʜ˜ÊÌ iÊL>VŽÊœvÊÌ i intersection of religion, patriotism and the « œÌœ°Ê* œÌœÃÊ܈ÊLiÊÀiÌÕÀ˜i`ʈvÊ>ÊÃÌ>“«i`]ÊÃiv‡>``ÀiÃÃi`Êi˜Ûiœ«iʈÃÊi˜VœÃi`° Constitution. Hard decisions can make good Visitors look at a display of plaques honoring E-mailed photos law, but they are not painless for good people war veterans at the Mount Soledad Veterans’ * œÌœÃÊà œÕ`ÊLiÊÃ>Ûi`ʈ˜Ê«}ÊvœÀ“>Ì]ÊLiÊ>ʓˆ˜ˆ“Õ“ÊÓääÊ`«ˆÊÀ i܏Ṏœ˜Ê>˜`Ê>Ì and their concerns.” Memorial in the La Jolla area of San Diego on i>ÃÌÊÎʈ˜V iÃʜÀÊÈääÊ«ˆÝiÃÊ܈`i°Ê œœÀÊ« œÌœÃÊ>À iÊ«ÀiviÀÀi`°Ê*i>ÃiÊÃi˜`ÊޜÕÀ The 43-foot concrete cross on Jan. 5. A federal appeals court ruled on Jan. 4 « œÌœÊ>ÃÊ>˜Ê>ÌÌ>V “i˜ÌÊ̜ÊÌ iÊi‡“>ˆ°Ê Mount Soledad in the La Jolla section of that the public display of a 43-foot cross San Diego has had a long legal history since conveys a message of government Deadline the first, much smaller, wooden cross was endorsement of religion and violates the
Ê>˜˜œÕ˜Vi“i˜ÌÃÊ>˜`Ê« œÌœÃʓÕÃÌÊLiÊÀ iViˆÛi`ÊLÞÊ£äÊ>°“°Êœ˜Ê/ ÕÀÃ`>Þ]Ê placed there in 1913. Only since the 1990s, Establishment Clause of the Constitution. >˜°ÊÓÇ]ÊÓ䣣°Ê­No announcements or photos will be accepted after this date°®Ê when litigation challenged the cross’s position on property then owned by the city of The 9th Circuit panel did not order the San Diego, has the site taken on any character cross’s removal. Instead, they sent the case — Use this form to furnish information — of the veteran’s memorial that it is described back to a lower court to determine whether ˆ«Ê>˜`ʓ>ˆÊ̜\Ê , -]ÊThe Criterion]Ê
// \Ê >ÀÞÊ
˜˜Êiˆ˜]Ê*°"°Ê œÝÊ£{£ä]ʘ`ˆ>˜>«œˆÃ]Ê Ê{ÈÓäÈ Deadline with photos: / ÕÀÃ`>Þ]Ê>˜°ÊÓÇ]ÊÓ䣣]Ê>ÌÊ£äÊ>°“° as today, the court noted. the property can be modified to pass *i>ÃiÊ«Àˆ˜ÌʜÀÊÌÞ«i\ After federal courts in the 1990s ruled that constitutional muster or whether the cross the cross violated the state constitution’s will have to be removed. >“iʜvÊ Àˆ`iÊ­vˆÀÃÌ]ʓˆ``i]ʏ>ÃÌ® >Þ̈“iÊ* œ˜i guarantee of separation of Church and state, “We are not faced with a decision about

>ˆˆ˜}Ê
``ÀiÃà ˆÌÞ -Ì>Ìi <ˆ«Ê œ`i voters approved selling the cross and its what to do with a historical, long-standing surrounding park to a memorial association. veterans’ memorial that happens to include a >“iʜvÊ Àˆ`i½ÃÊ*>Ài˜ÌÃÊ­vˆÀÃÌ]ʏ>ÃÌ® That sale was voided by courts, and cross,” the court said in the opinion, written subsequent efforts to sell to a private by Judge M. Margaret McKeown. Nor does ˆÌÞ -Ì>Ìi organization or to donate it to the the ruling have implications for military >“iʜvÊ Àˆ`i}Àœœ“Ê­vˆÀÃÌ]ʓˆ``i]ʏ>ÃÌ® U.S. Department of the Interior also were cemeteries with crosses and other religious overruled for various reasons. symbols, the judges said. >“iʜvÊ Àˆ`i}Àœœ“½ÃÊ*>Ài˜ÌÃÊ­vˆÀÃÌ]ʏ>ÃÌ® In 2006, President George W. Bush signed “Instead, we consider a site with a a law transferring the property to the free-standing cross originally erected in 1913 ˆÌÞ -Ì>Ìi Defense Department as a war memorial. The that was replaced with an even larger cross 7i``ˆ˜}Ê >Ìi ÕÀV ˆÌÞ -Ì>Ìi current lawsuit by the Jewish War Veterans of in 1954, a site that did not have any physical ❑ Photo Enclosed America and others challenges the predom- indication that it was a memorial nor take on ❑ No Picture -ˆ}˜>ÌÕÀiʜvÊ«iÀܘÊvÕÀ˜ˆÃ ˆ˜}ʈ˜vœÀ“>̈œ˜ÊÊÊÊÊ ,i>̈œ˜Ã ˆ« >Þ̈“iÊ* œ˜i inance of the Latin cross as a religious symbol the patina of a veterans’ memorial until the on public land. 1990s, in response to the litigation.” †