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Archbishop Buechlein ...... 4, 5 Editorial ...... 4 Question Corner ...... 11 The Sunday & Daily Readings. . . . 11 Serving the CChurchCriterion in Centralr andi Southert n Indianae Since 1960rion www.archindy.org June 28, 2002 Vol. XXXXI, No. 37 50¢ Bishops start dealing with new rules on sex-abusing priests WASHINGTON (CNS)—Within days diocesan staff and issued statements or June 23 from Boston Common to the to the board along with Keating June 14, of their historic June 13-15 meeting on spoke with reporters about what would be Cathedral of the Holy Cross, carrying the core group added a fourth member, clerical sex abuse of minors, some U.S. done locally to carry out the Dallas deci- signs with childhood pictures of about 75 Michael J. Bland, clinical-pastoral coordi- bishops began implementing the new sions. alleged abuse victims. They joined about nator of the Chicago archdiocesan Office national charter they established in Dallas. There were new criminal and civil 100 other protesters outside the cathedral. of Assistance Ministry and himself a sur- Several priests with past records of actions against priests accused of sexual The core group of the U.S. bishops’ vivor of sexual abuse by a priest when he abuse, who had been restored to ministry abuse, and attorneys on both sides of civil new National Review Board overseeing was a minor. or Church-related office jobs following cases in the Boston Archdiocese agreed to implementation of the new national pol- A news release from the U.S. Confer- treatment, were removed from those posts, try to reach an out-of-court settlement icy held its first meeting June 20-21 in ence of Catholic Bishops said the full including eight in Chicago. Some retired that could cover up to 275 cases. Oklahoma City under the chairmanship of board should be named by mid-July. It priests were informed they could no longer In Boston, the starting point last Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating. said the core group discussed review wear clerical garb, present themselves as January of the clergy sex abuse scandal Along with Washington lawyer Robert board procedures, the structure of the priests or say Mass publicly. that erupted into a national crisis, alleged S. Bennett and Illinois Appellate Court planned USCCB Office of Child and Bishops held planning meetings with victims and their advocates marched Justice Anne M. Burke, who were named See PRIESTS, page 2 Ruling ending executions of

Photos by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann retarded people is a breakthrough

WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Supreme Court’s ruling that it is unconstitutional to execute mentally retarded people is an important breakthrough, say death penalty opponents, but some cautioned that the opinion does not mean the court has shifted against capital punishment. The court ruled 6-3 on June 20 that exe- cuting people who are mentally retarded violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. (As The Criterion was going to press earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court also ruled that juries, not judges, must decide whether to impose the death penalty. The ruling means that 168 death sentences in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Nebraska must be reconsidered.) In writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said the fact that a growing number of states have banned executions of mentally retarded offenders is an indication Campers sing during a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein on June 23 at CYO Camp Rancho Framasa in Brown County. that society’s moral standards have shifted sufficiently to reflect that in law. “It is not so much the number of these states that is significant, but the consistency Youths grow in faith at CYO camp of the direction of change,” Stevens wrote. He noted that even in states where it is By Mary Ann Wyand as well as Church and community and faith formation programming for legal to execute retarded people, the prac- donors and United Way funding make youth and adults partially made possible tice is rare. Eighteen of the 38 states with NASHVILLE—Past some hills and CYO camp programming possible for by donations to the archdiocesan Legacy the death penalty ban such executions. curves on Clay Lick Road, just north of children of all faith traditions and family of Hope from Generation to Generation Another 12 states have no capital punish- Wallow Hollow and Less Traveled income levels. capital and endowment campaign. ment law. roads, a large wooden sign marks the Fifty-six years after the Dingleys’ On June 23, Archbishop Daniel M. Indiana has prohibited death sentences entrance to the archdiocesan Catholic dream of helping children experience Buechlein dedicated a modern Outdoor against mentally retarded people since Youth Organization’s Camp Rancho and enjoy nature became a reality, CYO Program Center with a large dining hall 1994. Framasa. Camp Rancho Framasa is beginning a and meeting rooms completed last See COURT, page 13 Founded in 1946 on 280 acres of new era of year-round outdoor education September that enables the camp staff to hilly, wooded land and farmland in provide spiritual retreats, leadership scenic Brown Country, Camp Rancho training and community-building pro- Framasa was a gift to the Catholic grams in addition to traditional camping Church in central and southern Indiana activities. The camp expansion program from the Bert Dingley family of also includes three new winterized cab- St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. ins and five renovated cabins. At the end of World War II, the The dedication ceremony began with Dingleys decided to give their rural a Mass at the spacious outdoor amphi- property near Nashville to the theater constructed last year with help Archdiocese of Indianapolis for use as from Indiana National Guard members an outdoor recreation and education and CYO volunteers under the direction facility for youth. of Holy Spirit parishioner Robert The camp was named Rancho Heidenreich of Indianapolis, a former Framasa for their daughters—Frances, camper and camp counselor. Margaret and Samuella—and has “I want to thank you and congratulate evolved over the years into a premiere you as a board and as a staff” for the summer camp that also provides inclu- beautiful new facilities and wonderful pro- sive programming for persons with dis- gramming, Archbishop Buechlein told the abilities. It serves 2,000 campers during Father Robert Hankee, associate pastor of board of directors, camp staff members nine weeks in June, July and August, St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg and a former and other CYO supporters before blessing and is accredited by the American assistant camp director at CYO Camp Rancho the new archdiocesan recreational and Camping Association. Framasa in Brown County, distributes educational center last Sunday. Annual support from the archdiocese Communion to campers during a June 23 Mass. See CYO, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 28, 2002

who uses a wheelchair and one who is priests will be offered free counseling may be removed from their parishes as a bedridden—have been notified that they through the University of Louisville. result of the new zero-tolerance policy PRIESTS can no longer present themselves as Father Thomas R. Malia was asked to and new evidence uncovered in a two- continued from page 1 priests. resign as pastor of two Baltimore parishes month investigation by the Wayne County Youth Protection, which the board will • The St. Cloud Diocese gave notice to when it was learned that he had hired prosecutor’s office. Two other priests in oversee, and a job description for the three priests, one retired and two who Robert Gee in 1999 as interim music direc- restricted ministries were removed office’s director. held administrative jobs. tor of one of the parishes, knowing that because of past abuse. Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago • Abbot John Klassen told the Bene- Gee had been convicted of sexual abuse of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los announced the removal of eight priests dictine monks of St. John’s Abbey in a teen-ager two years earlier. A diocesan Angeles announced the establishment of a from all priestly ministry on June 23 Collegeville on June 19 that the abbey spokesman said the priest likely would be new 13-member archdiocesan review because of credible accusations against will follow the bishops’ policy and go a assigned to another parish, but not as a pas- board to replace his current nine-member them in the past. Three of them were pas- step further: If a monk has sexually tor. board. Among those named to the new tors, one an associate pastor, one a hospi- abused someone, he will be removed Diocesan officials in Scranton, Pa., indi- board were a psychologist who was sexu- tal chaplain, two worked in administrative from ministry even if the victim was an cated four priests would likely be removed ally abused as a child and the parents of jobs and one, a 72-year-old retiree, was adult. The abbey has 14 monks who live from ministry. One recently resigned from an abuse victim. assisting with weekend Masses. under restrictions because of past abuse a parish; the others were in limited ministry In Augusta, Maine, Bishop Joseph J. Cardinal George said five of the priests of children or young people. without contact with children. Gerry of Portland and Auxiliary Bishop plan to appeal their removal, while two In the Evansville Diocese in Indiana, In San Jose, Calif., Bishop Patrick J. Michael R. Cote met for more than two plan to resign from the priesthood. The Father Michael Allen was removed as McGrath permanently removed two hours on June 20 with 10 alleged abuse retired priest will no longer be able to cel- pastor of St. Peter Celestine Parish in priests from their posts on June 21 and survivors and heard their stories of being ebrate Mass publicly or present himself as Celestine, Ind. Father Allen, who sexually informed two retired priests with sexual sexually abused by priests as children. a priest. abused a teen-ager in 1976, had received abuse records that they will no longer be Participants described it as an intense, Concerning the priests who plan to national news coverage before the bish- able to say Mass in public or identify emotional session. contest their removal, archdiocesan ops’ meeting as an example of a former themselves as priests. The following day, the Maine attorney Chancellor Jimmy Lago said, “Due offender who repented and converted and Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, general’s office announced that it had com- process is necessary to honor the personal was loved by his parishioners. N.Y., met with diocesan department heads pleted its review of diocesan personnel files rights of all concerned.” In Louisville, Ky., Father Joseph less than 48 hours after the Dallas meeting on 33 priests, none of whom is still active In Minnesota: Stoltz, who had been treated in 1991 fol- ended to outline responsibilities that vari- in ministry. The state office distributed case • The St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese lowing the revelation of a child abuse ous departments will have in implementing files to local prosecutors to determine if removed three priests, two from admin- incident in the 1970s, was removed from the national charter within the diocese. any could lead to criminal charges. istrative jobs and one from a convent St. William Parish. Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit Union County, N.J., prosecutor chaplaincy. Louisville Archbishop Thomas C. called a meeting of his priests on June 24 Thomas Manahan said June 22 that the • A spokesman for the Crookston Kelly on June 20 named the first mem- to discuss the implications of the charter Newark Archdiocese had turned over the Diocese, in the northwest corner of the bers of a new advisory board to handle with them. Just three days earlier, a dioce- names of 10 priests, but all the cases state, said three retired priests long ago allegations of sexual abuse and san spokesman said three priests previ- appeared to him to be too old to prosecute restricted from ministry—including one announced that victims of such abuse by ously cleared of sexual abuse allegations under the state’s statute of limitations. † Archdiocesan priest placed on St. Louis auxiliary bishop administrative leave named to Milwaukee

Father John B. Schoettelkotte, a we are all aware, the scourge of WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pope John in Rome, and was ordained a priest of the priest of the Archdiocese of clergy sexual misconduct is a horri- Paul II has named Auxiliary Bishop St. Louis Archdiocese on June 19, 1976. Indianapolis for 42 years, was placed ble scandal. Timothy M. Dolan of St. Louis to be After serving as associate pastor at on administrative leave on June 18 “The bishops of the United States archbishop of Milwaukee. Immacolata Parish in Richmond Heights, he for a substantiated allegation involv- recently met in Dallas and approved He succeeds Archbishop Rembert G. went to Washington for advanced studies. ing the inappropriate touching of a a ‘Charter for the Protection of Weakland, who turned in his resignation He earned master’s and doctoral teen-age girl more than 30 years ago. Children and Young People.’ That when he turned 75 on April 2 as required degrees in Church history from The The leave is indefinite at this time. charter is very strict because the by canon law. In May, his resignation was Catholic University of America and was Father Schoettelkotte is pastor of problem of sexual abuse of minors is accepted by Pope John Paul II following the St. Louis archdiocesan representative Holy Cross Parish in St. Croix and very serious. I joined the vast major- disclosure of a financial settlement of a to the National Shrine of the Immaculate St. Isidore the Farmer Parish in Perry ity of bishops who approved the sexual harassment case brought against Conception, located on the university County. charter in its strict form because I him. campus. His doctoral thesis was on the The monks of Saint Meinrad believe its very strictness will best Archbishop Dolan, 52, was named an life and ministry of Bishop Edwin Archabbey will be providing for the serve to restore both trust in the lead- auxiliary bishop for St. Louis last year Vincent O’Hara, founder of the National pastoral needs of the parishes until ership of the Church and the reputa- following a seven-year stint as rector of Catholic Rural Life Conference and a further notice. tion of the vast majority of clergy— the North American College, the U.S. leading figure in the development of the This is the first action the archdio- both of which have been jeopardized national seminary in Rome. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. cese has taken against a priest since by the scandal.” His Milwaukee appointment was Following other parish assignments in the bishops of the United States The archbishop also apologized to announced in Washington on June 25 by the St. Louis Archdiocese, Father Dolan adopted a “Charter for the Protection all victims. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic was assigned for two years to the staff of of Children and Young People” on “Abuse of minors is inexcusable; nuncio to the United States. the Apostolic Nunciature, or Vatican June 14 at their general meeting in it is evil; it is a crime. I again offer He is to be installed in his new post Embassy, in Washington. Dallas. Under the charter, any priest sincere apologies to anyone who has Aug. 28 in ceremonies at St. John the He returned to St. Louis as vice rector who has ever sexually abused a suffered abuse from anyone working Evangelist Cathedral in Milwaukee. of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary. In 1994, he minor is to be removed from min- on behalf of the Church, and I ask Born in St. Louis on Feb. 6, 1950, was named rector of the North American istry and will not receive a future for their forgiveness,” Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan began his prepa- College in Rome and was made a prelate assignment. Buechlein said. “This is truly a very ration for the priesthood at St. Louis of honor with the title of monsignor. “Father Schoettelkotte is very difficult time for our Church, but I Preparatory Seminary South and Cardinal On June 19, 2001, the silver anniver- much loved and respected by his have to believe that God is in all Glennon College. He did his theological sary of his ordination, he was named an parishioners and friends, so it is a sad this. We will be a purified Church studies at the North American College auxiliary bishop of St. Louis. He was duty to have to place him on admin- with a purified priesthood that will and the University of St. Thomas Aquinas ordained a bishop on Aug. 15. † istrative leave,” said Archbishop be stronger and closer to Jesus Daniel M. Buechlein. “However, as Christ.” † SSummeerr The Criterion (ISSN 0574- 4350) is published weekly FAMILY GETAWAY except the last week of December and the first May 21st thru Sept. 14th The 6/28/02 Weekday Criterion week of January. er Park Moving? 1400 N. Meridian St. • Indoor Wat 95 Box 1717 • Paddle Boats 99. per couple We’ll be there waiting if you give us two weeks’ Indianapolis, IN 46206-1717 • Train Rides Weekend advance notice! 317-236-1570 Shopping 800-382-9836 ext. 1570 Outdoor Pool • [email protected] • 95 Name ______ent! 124. per couple Periodical Postage Paid at e Entertainm New Address______• Liv Indianapolis, IN. PACKAGE INCLUDES: City ______Copyright © 2002 Criterion • Dinner • Lodging State/Zip ______Press, Inc. 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By Jennifer Del Vechio Ave., to St. Andrew School. St. Rita teachers have taken jobs with other Teachers will attend staff development would have stayed open with students Catholic schools in the archdiocese. sessions to focus on how to use new tech- St. Rita School in Indianapolis is clos- from kindergarten through the fifth grade. “I think consolidating the two schools nology in the classroom, with a special ing due to declining enrollment. The Enrollment in the middle school grades with give us the best teaching and best emphasis on using that technology in school building also needs expensive ren- was already low, with an average class practices,” Lentz said. “It’s a win-win for reading, language arts and math classes. ovations. size of eight students. both schools. Both schools retain their More also will be done with class The closing will send St. Rita students The plan to keep St. Rita open for the name and they are able to function and assessment and standardized tests to help to St. Andrew the Apostle School, at 4052 elementary grades required having at least move forward.” students learn on an individual basis. E. 38th St., which will be re-named 80 students. However, only 47 students The merger will build on the already The archdiocese is planning to use St. Andrew-St. Rita Catholic Academy, had registered for the next school year by “model concept school” that was being money from the second phase of Building said Annette “Mickey” Lentz, secretary the May 31 deadline. That number of stu- put in place to accommodate the middle Communities of Hope to match a $10 mil- for Catholic education and faith formation dents would not have provided the needed school students moving from St. Rita. lion challenge grant given by Lilly Endow- for the archdiocese. tuition money to operate the school or to Plans were already in the works to ment Inc. to implement the model school. St. Rita School opened 83 years ago, pay the teachers, Lentz said. increase resources at the combined Lentz said the merger means but in recent years the school has faced She said a decision was made to close school. “expanding and broadening” opportuni- enrollment and repair issues. Archbishop the school in order to make the best use For example, 60 computers are being ties for students, which include adding a Daniel M. Buechlein called for the forma- of available resources for all the students added to give each classroom three com- staff counselor, reading and writing labs, tion of a task force to study the situation. involved and to allow teachers to plan for puters as well as a separate computer lab and the National Junior Honor Society A plan to keep the school open would the next school year. with 24 computers. chapter. † have sent middle school students from All teachers from St. Rita will have St. Rita, at 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown jobs. Most will teach at St. Andrew. Two Priest tortured by communists plans conference in Indianapolis Let Us Share The Gift Of Faith By Jennifer Del Vechio During the communist regime in the We Have Received 1950s, his father still had a Sacred Heart of When Father Anthony Jelnick was 6 Jesus statue in his office and refused to years old, he received his first beating for handle divorce cases if the couple did not Catholic social teaching proclaims we are keepers of being Catholic. have annulments from the Church. our brothers and sisters. We believe that we are one It was the start of persecutions that con- “If they didn’t have an annulment, he tinued into his adult life as he suffered would tell them, ‘I cannot help you. If I human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, under communist rule in Hungary. do, I would be in a conflict with God,’ ” and economic differences. Currently a priest with Mary Town in said Father Jelnick. Libertyville, Ill., the national shrine for St. His father also would help couples rec- Maximilian Kolbe—the saint known for oncile, bringing him into conflict with giving his life for another prisoner in a other lawyers in the firm who lost potential World War II concentration camp—Father clients. His father also helped counsel mar- Jelnick wants to help others learn how suf- ried couples secretly with the help of a few fering brings one closer to Christ and his priests. It was this activity in communist mother. Hungary that led to his father being asked Father Jelnick will conduct a one-day to leave the law firm, and almost led to a conference starting at 8 a.m. on July 13 at jail term. the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center, Father Jelnick’s family credits the inter- 1400 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, cession of Mary and St. Joseph with help- titled “The Life and Times of Our Lady— ing his father stay out of prison and find Are Her Virtues Still Active In Us Today?” factory work carrying 200-pound sacks on The conference also will include discus- his shoulder. Eventually, the job caused his sions about how the Blessed Mother lived father’s health to deteriorate. her life, what can be learned from her Despite the hardships, the Catholic faith example, the grace of the sacraments and a stayed at the center of the family’s life. meditation on Jesus’ words to become like “My parents were saints,” Father children. Jelnick said. Father Jelnick, 58, said his faith in Jesus Communism in Hungary meant no reli- in the Blessed Sacrament and his devotion gious education at private schools, so to the Blessed Mother healed him of the Father Jelnick attended public schools emotional wounds he received from being directed by the government. tortured. It was at school that Father Jelnick “What we went through is nauseating,” received his first persecution at age 6 for Father Jelnick said. “I’ve only told my being Catholic. spiritual director in Hungary all of it, who One day, school officials called all the was in a political jail for 17 years.” children who served at Mass into the Growing up in Budapest, Father Jelnick office. said his family suffered for their faith. His Lining the 50 children against the wall, father, once a judge with the royal house they were slapped around until they fell to of Hungary, was later killed because of his the floor. beliefs. “They told us to come back tomorrow if Through prayer, reflection, and solidarity with the After leaving his job with the royal we served the altar,” said Father Jelnick. house, his father began to work as a lawyer Day after day, they were called into the poor we can respond to the needs of others. in civil cases. See PRIEST, page 15

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Seeking the Face of the Lord Official Weekly Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler The 1915 - 1994 CCriterionriterion Founding Editor Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher William R. Bruns, Associate Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Praying for Editorial one another in Christians still leaving the troubled times Eighth in a series

Holy Land hose of you who follow my deeply concerned for our dedicated weekly column know that I feel and generous priests. I share your hose Palestinian suicide bombers in Christian Palestinians are leaving at a close to my deceased mom and sorrow and the burden of feeling Israel are undoubtedly doing more higher rate than Muslims because, thanks dad because of our Catholic betrayed by the sins of a few. damage to their cause than good. to a variety of Christian schools and col- T T belief in the Communion of Saints. A few individuals have written to American public opinion was already leges, they are better prepared to do so. Our deceased loved ones (and other express concern about the fact that more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, and Their status as a minority among the saints) are present to us spiritually, a we may be involved in “a cover-up” those terrorist attacks are only strengthen- Muslims on the West Bank and Gaza is presence that is real. I not only pray or “secret payoffs” or paying “hush ing that opinion. also an incentive for them to leave. But as for my parents, but with them. And, money” to silence victims. Some fear Even more important, the people who the better-educated people leave, those are being hurt the most, aside from the who remain are the poor and uneducated, especially in tough times, I pray to that we don’t take care of those who immediate victims of the attacks, are the lacking job skills and any reasonable them. may have been abused. Palestinian people themselves because of hope for rebuilding a viable society. This week, as I express my concern I realize that a general impression Israel’s retaliation. It’s not just Israel, the West Bank and for you, our faithful laity and religious, can be taken from some media cover- Back in 1964, Pope Paul VI was a pil- Gaza where Christians are leaving. I ask “What would Mom and Dad say age that this is the way things are. I grim to the Holy Land. While there, he According to the Catholic Near East about these grueling months of intense also realize that this is an issue of saw for himself the suffering of the Welfare Association, Christians are also public focus on the sins of some of our trust in my leadership and that of my Christians and other Palestinians. He also leaving Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. priests?” Frankly, I am grateful they associates. saw that the number of Christians in the A study by the World Student look on all of this from the kingdom Unfortunately, my options for a Holy Land was dwindling because they Christian Federation’s Middle East region of heaven because, like most of you, response seem limited. First of all, I were migrating to other countries. He found that half of Jordan’s Christian they would find this extremely painful, encourage you to carefully read the lamented that the Holy Land was becom- youth would like to leave their country and they would be worried about how booklet we have published that out- ing nothing but a Christian museum because of economic stagnation there and because of the exodus of so many because of fear over the growing waves their son is handling it. lines in detail the process that gov- Christians. of Islamic fundamentalism. I was studying in Rome in the mid- erns how our archdiocese deals with As one of his efforts to do something Iraqi Christians—Chaldean and Syrian 1960s when so many of the changes in any allegation of sexual impropriety, about it, the Vatican founded Bethlehem Catholics, Armenians and Assyrians—are the Church began after the Second especially with children and minors. University. The pope said that its purpose escaping to Jordan because of the Vatican Council. Priest-friends of our The longstanding policy deals with was to educate the Palestinians so they decade-long sanctions imposed on that family and religious sisters with whom clergy, religious, employees and vol- could find jobs in the Holy Land and country. my mom taught left the ministry and unteers, and is strictly enforced. We wouldn’t have to leave their country. Lebanon has seen an exodus of its citi- the consecrated life. report allegations of abuse of children That hasn’t worked. Today we have zens ever since its civil war began in Weekly letters from home and minors to child protective ser- educated Palestinians who still cannot 1975, and it has continued since that war reflected what a painful and worri- vices or to local law enforcement as find jobs in their homeland, but can do so ended in 1991. Between 1991 and 2000, some time it was for my folks. Mom Indiana law requires. in other places, especially in South somewhere between 200,000 and America, Australia and Western Europe. 300,000 Lebanese emigrated. In and Dad’s response was to pray all We do not publicize individual The situation today is worse than it Lebanon’s case, about 46 percent of the the more fervently and to reach cases, largely out of respect for the was in 1964—far worse. Today Christians emigrants were Christians and 49 percent deeper into their faith. I admired wishes of victims who do not want comprise only 2.1 percent of the popula- Muslims. Druze emigrants comprised the them. Years later, I was humbled and their plight publicized. Lawsuits, of tion of Israel and 2.2 percent of the popu- additional 5 percent. moved to find a prayer book at home course, would be a matter of public lation of the West Bank and Gaza. Since Emigration is also affecting Israel. that fell open to “A Prayer for a record. If it is substantiated that any- an estimated 92 percent of Christian Many Israelis are now seeking more Priest of the Family.” That page was one—cleric, religious, employee or Palestinians now have relatives outside secure lives in Europe. The country is no dog-eared from daily use. volunteer—has abused a child or a the Holy Land, they are leaving as longer experiencing the large number of I thought of this because so many minor, he or she is removed from quickly as they can. Jewish immigrants it did after it was of you have gone out of your way to ministry. Employees are terminated And who can blame them? The Holy founded or after the breakup of the Soviet express concern for our Church, for and are not rehired. As a matter of Land’s primary industry—tourism—is Union in 1991. According to Israel’s Shas now almost non-existent. Christian gift Party, half of the immigrants from the our priests and for me in these trou- policy, we provide victims with pro- shops, with their Holy Land souvenirs, Soviet Union were not Jews and many bled times. I want to thank you for fessional help if they so desire. As a have no customers. Most Palestinians are were married to Christians. sustaining your trust and going to matter of policy, we do not get unemployed, and 60 percent of them have Similarly, when Ethiopians were air- prayer for God’s help for all of us. involved in “secret payoffs.” lost property through bank foreclosures lifted to Israel in 1985 and 1991, many of These are not easy times, especially if Confusion about “payoffs” may on mortgages and loans. Homes have them were not Jews. The Shas Party fears the primary source of information is come from publicized reports about been destroyed or at least badly damaged. the country will lose its Jewish identity. the secular media. lawsuits in some dioceses that were Families live in fear, cooped up in their All this gives all the more reason why Let me assure you once more of settled out of court, a legal process homes, when Israeli tanks roll into efforts must be increased to find a solu- our archdiocesan priorities concern- often recommended by attorneys, not Bethlehem and other Palestinian towns. tion to the violence and terrorism in the ing the recent painful revelations of only in Church matters but across the Why wouldn’t they get out? Holy Land. † abuse. 1) First and foremost, we are board to other entities. Most often, — John F. Fink committed to take care of and protect out-of-court settlements are agreed to our children. 2) We are committed to in order to save the time and espe- reach out with compassion and pas- cially the expense of a lengthy trial. toral sensitivity to those who have It is common practice in such settle- been abused physically, emotionally ments to include a confidentiality and sexually, especially if by clergy, clause. Unfortunately, in cases religious Church employees or volun- involving the Church, these have teers. We want to help you. 3) I am been characterized as “secret pay- Published weekly except the last week of December and the first week of January. Mailing concerned for all of you, lay and reli- offs” or “hush money.” Address: 1400 N. Meridian Street, Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1717. Periodical gious members of our local Church. With my associates, I will do every- Postage Paid at Indianapolis, IN. Copyright © 2002 Criterion Press, Inc. ISSN 0574-4350. 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Buscando la Cara del Señor Letters to the Editor Arzobispo Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. year, like the doctor stated for medical Taking birth control pills reasons, I could be married in the for medical reasons Catholic Church. I got married, took the pills for one This letter is in reply to Michael and year, and I got pregnant right after I Ann Green’s letter to the editor in the stopped the pill. Rezando unos June 14 Criterion on the use of birth con- I was able to deliver another baby seven trol pills for medical reasons. years later without taking the pill. I cer- My husband and I got married in 1967 tainly could have had more children if I in Louisville, Ky. The monsignor that was had taken the pill and stopped like before. por otros en to marry us probed deeply into our lives in But I wouldn’t take the pill anymore. our marriage counseling sessions. He dis- At no time did the monsignor tell me covered that I had not had a [menstrual] not to have sexual relations with my hus-