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WASHINGTON (CNS)—Msgr. Stephen Rossetti is out to correct the myth that the typical Catholic priest is “a lonely, dispirited figure living an unhealthy life that breeds sexual deviation,” as a writer for the Hartford Courant once put it. And he has got the data to prove it. The research is Msgr. Stephen Rossetti “consistent, replicated many times and now incontrovertible” that priests as a group are happy, Msgr. Rossetti told a daylong symposium on the priesthood on Oct. 5 at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The symposium was built around Why Priests Are Happy: A Study of the Psychological and Spiritual Health of Priests, a new book by Msgr. Rossetti. A During a season that showed the essence of sports, the players, coaches and key supporters of the kickball team of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., he pause for a photo that reflects the joy of the game. is a clinical associate professor of pastoral studies at the university and former president and CEO of St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., a treatment facility for The spirit of sports soars as teams Catholic clergy and religious. The book’s conclusions are based on a survey of 2,482 priests from combine to create a special season 23 U.S. dioceses in 2009, supplemented by a 2004 survey of 1,242 priests from By John Shaughnessy of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade girls at first experience of playing an organized 16 dioceses and other studies. Holy Angels Parish on the near west side sport,” LaRosa says. “We had to instill that The research found, among other things, It’s one of those “feel good” stories of Indianapolis. responsibility in them, of what it means to that priests are “no more and no less in sports. The parish has long been a haven of be part of a team.” depressed than anyone else in the world,” A team of young players overcomes the hope and faith in an area of the city where During the first three seasons, the “a little bit better than the laity” in studies odds and a history of losing to have a many families struggle economically. At Holy Angels team won just three of the that measure human intimacy and “quite a magical, undefeated regular season that the same time, the parish hadn’t fielded a 22 games that it played. But the coaches bit lower than the general population” in the leads it into the playoffs. team in kickball for decades. But that were encouraged because the girls still degree that they are experiencing emotional Yet, as good as that story is, it gets even changed a few years ago with the arrival wanted to play and get better. And this burnout, the priest said. better considering some of the off-the-field of two young teachers who wanted to give season began the way that all sports More than 90 percent of priests said they moments that occurred during this special the girls something to do after school— seasons do—with hope. The hope grew receive the emotional support they need, season—moments that some people wish third-grade teacher Victoria Marshall and even brighter for the Holy Angels players 83 percent said they are able to share would happen more often in youth sports. fourth-grade teacher Jessica LaRosa. when coaches and teams from other problems and feelings, and only 22 percent The story centers on the kickball team “For most of them, this was their See HOLY ANGELS, page 8 said they are lonely. The vast majority of See PRIESTS, page 2 Loving God and neighbor must be at foundation of beliefs, St. Thomas More Society members reminded at Red Mass By Mary Ann Garber

Scripture tells us that the greatest law is to love God and love your neighbor, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, reminded St. Thomas More Society members during the legal organization’s annual Red Mass on Oct. 3 at St. John the Evangelist MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Church in Indianapolis. Lawyers, judges, other legal professionals and law students have unique opportunities to do that in daily life, he said during his homily on the goodness of God, who is truth and justice. “It’s the basic theology that in all things we seek to love God and love our fellow human beings,” Bishop Coyne said. “We seek to lift up those around us. We seek to bring everything towards God. … Those things serve as a foundation for us in our life of faith.” The bishop acknowledged that he “can’t begin to imagine the kind of complexities that you all face in a pluralistic society, trying to make just laws, trying to make just judgments, trying to live that call to love God and to love neighbor. “Sometimes that involves making hard decisions,” he said. Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, gives Communion “Sometimes that involves perhaps making choices that, in the grand to a member of the St. Thomas More Society during the legal organization’s scheme of things, we wish we didn’t have to make. … But in the annual Red Mass on Oct. 3 at St. John the Evangelist Church in See RED MASS, page 9 Indianapolis. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011

Those who said they engage in private prayer for up to PRIESTS an hour each day are “less emotionally exhausted, less continued from page 1 depressed, less likely to be obese and less likely to be lonely,” he said.

priests cited lay friends as one of their major supports. He said younger priests are more likely to participate MaryFile photo by Ann Garber “That’s what priests do—make relationships,” in “traditional prayer practices” such as eucharistic Msgr. Rossetti said. adoration and recitation of the rosary, but not out of a He expressed concern, desire to return to a pre-Vatican II Church. They also are however, that 42 percent of much more likely than those in the middle years of their priests in the 2004 survey— priesthood to affirm the value of celibacy. “and probably more than “Mandatory celibacy may be waning as a hot-button 50 percent today”—said they issue for priests,” Msgr. Rossetti said, citing its support “feel overwhelmed by the among 81 percent of priests ordained less than 10 years amount of work they have ago, but only 38 percent of priests ordained between to do.” 30 and 40 years ago. “We need to do something The priest said he is not sure why there is such about that,” he said. “We need resistance in the media to the idea that priests are happy, to get together with the bishops despite the evidence. and say, ‘Let’s talk about this.’ ” He said many in the media believe that “religion Father Joseph Newton smiles while giving a sign of peace to then Msgr. Rossetti said the stifles humanity and personal freedom,” and subscribe to newly ordained Father Peter Marshall during a June 6, 2009, primary source of happiness for priests is “a powerful what he called “eat your peas theology.” ordination Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. spiritual life,” and “a connection to God and his people.” In the same way that children are told to “eat your “When you get closer to the Lord, you build peas” in order to get dessert, some believe that “God The symposium was sponsored by friendships,” he said. “If you don’t love the God image in rewards us for doing this miserable thing,” as they see Catholic University’s school of theology and the person next to you, how can you love a God you religion, he said. That viewpoint doesn’t jibe with the religious studies, St. Luke Institute, Theological College cannot see?” idea of happy priests, he added. and the Society of St. Sulpice. † Archbishop reflects on challenges, Truth about happy priests will aid rewards in lives of parish priests vocations promotion, priest says WASHINGTON (CNS)—Although the previously bishop of Belleville, Ill., and life of a parish priest has many rewards, it an auxiliary bishop in Chicago, each for WASHINGTON (CNS)—The best every one of their priests to look at can lead some priests more than a decade—also offered advertisement for vocations to the himself as a recruiter,” he said, noting to become “quite recommendations on how to keep morale priesthood, it is often said, is a happy that although 80 percent of seminarians narrow in their vision high among priests, and how to promote priest. say a priest’s encouragement was a of the world that lies fraternity among priests, and between That’s why primary factor in their decision to just beyond the priests and the bishop. Msgr. Robert become a priest, only 30 percent of confines” of “Each presbyterate that I have had the Panke, newly priests say they have given such that parish, privilege of serving and to which I have elected president of encouragement. Archbishop Wilton been equally privileged to belong has had the National Msgr. Panke also discussed the state D. Gregory of its own unique temperament and history,” Conference of of screening and formation of Atlanta told a he said. “Chicago, Belleville and now Diocesan Vocation seminarians, saying that the symposium on Atlanta each have their own stories, heroes Directors, hopes U.S. Catholic Church is “doing a much the priesthood on and legends. … research showing better job in a rapidly changing culture.” Archbishop Oct. 5. “One cannot become a true part of a that priests are When Jesus, walking by the Sea of Wilton D. Gregory The archbishop presbyterate without listening to its stories happy in their lives Galilee, recruited Peter, Andrew, James discussed the challenges and benefits of the and coming to appreciate its legends,” Msgr. Robert Panke gets wide publicity. and John to become “fishers of men,” diocesan priesthood in a talk at the daylong he added. “Vocations (Mt 4:19) as recounted in the symposium on the campus of The archbishop stressed the importance directors already know that, but it was great fourth chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel, The Catholic University of America of regular priestly gatherings, but said they to get some ammunition,” Msgr. Panke said there was “no interview, no battery of in Washington. must go beyond a merely “casual alliance at an Oct. 5 symposium highlighting the testing, no psychological interview,” The gathering, which attracted about of religious professionals” to “invite and conclusions in Msgr. Stephen Rossetti’s Msgr. Panke said. 300 priests, seminarians, faculty members allow sincere and honest sharing across new book, Why Priests Are Happy: A Study “Jesus can do that—we need to do a and students, focused on Why Priests Are age, cultural, ethnic and ideological of the Psychological and Spiritual Health little more work,” he added. Happy, a new book by Msgr. Stephen differences.” of Priests. But he said vocations directors and J. Rossetti, an associate professor of clinical He acknowledged that every diocese has “Now we have to get the news out,” bishops also need to know when to turn pastoral studies at the university. a few priests “who never join their brothers he added. “Too many people think the down a candidate for the priesthood who Archbishop Gregory, one of four speakers at moments of common life.” priesthood is a sad, lonely life.” is not ready. at the symposium, said parish priests can “To command these reluctant brothers to Director of the Office of Priest “There is a lot of brokenness out there, receive “immediate and frequently expressed attend priestly gatherings ... only introduces Formation and Vocations in the and we have seen the world of harm that affirmation” from their parishioners, and such a negative energy and toxic attitude Archdiocese of Washington for the past a lack of screening can do,” he said. become “grounded in the very lives of their into the environment that many bishops nine years, Msgr. Panke was named last Msgr. Panke emphasized people.” But they must guard against a simply cease compelling their presence— year as rector of the archdiocese’s new Msgr. Rossetti’s conclusions about the tendency to “avoid trying to serve a world but we can never forget them,” he said. Blessed John Paul College Seminary, importance of personal prayer in the life that is beyond their comfort zones,” “They remain a challenge for us as we which is to be formally dedicated on of every priest. he added. continue to reach out to them and invite Oct. 22. “Prayer is key to happy and healthy “Our Church must be Catholic insofar as them to rejoin the fraternity of the He was the closing speaker at the priests,” he said. A priest who prays at it is always open to embrace and call to presbyterate.” daylong symposium, held on the campus of least 30 minutes a day “is less likely to conversion the world beyond any specific Archbishop Gregory said a solid prayer The Catholic University of America in be emotionally exhausted because Christ territory, age, culture or ethnic context,” life and reliance on the sacraments must be Washington. is feeding him,” he added. the archbishop said. “This has been our central to any priest’s ministry. Msgr. Panke said one of the biggest The Washington priest said he was charge since apostolic times when the “Priests do not impart a mundane service obstacles to his vocation work is the personally buoyed by Msgr. Rossetti’s proclamation of the Gospel constantly or deliver a product that they themselves do opposition of parents. finding that retired priests are the required the Church to embrace peoples who not use and in which they do not believe,” “They believe the lie that priests are not happiest of all. were different than the prevalent or dominant he said. “Priests literally market a spiritual happy, and they want their children to be “That gives me great hope that it culture or ethnic or language groups.” joy that they themselves depend upon, and happy,” he said. just gets better and better and better,” Archbishop Gregory—who has headed in which they find spiritual strength in their Bishops “would be wise to encourage he said. † the Atlanta Archdiocese since 2005 and was love for the Lord Jesus.” †

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Schools, religious education programs proclaim the word of God

By Sean Gallagher days, Rash is out in the archdiocese visiting schools.

The teachers at St. Patrick School in The same goes for Ken Ogorek, the Submitted photo Terre Haute work hard to help their students archdiocese’s director of catechesis, in the grow in their knowledge of the academic assistance he gives to parish administrators of subjects taught throughout the school year. religious education across the archdiocese. But for Amy McClain, who is in her third “In any given month, I’m in several year as St. Patrick’s principal after having deaneries one way or another,” Ogorek said. taught at public schools for 12 years, there’s a One of the catechetical leaders in the “higher purpose” to her work. archdiocese that he has visited and talked with “It isn’t just about the education,” said frequently on the phone is Linda Robertson, McClain. “Granted, I understand that that’s director of religious education at St. Vincent important. But to see a child have an ‘ah ha’ de Paul Parish in Shelby County. moment in faith just makes me feel like I’m “We call them at any time,” Robertson in the right place at the right time.” said. “They’re not nine-to-five type of people. In these moments, McClain experiences It makes me feel so much better.” how Catholic schools across central and Ogorek and other OCE staff members southern Indiana play an integral role in who work in faith formation are also involved one of the Church’s most fundamental in helping parish leaders seek out new ministries—proclaiming the word of God. administrators of religious education and “Our motto here is that we’re not raising training catechists. kids, we’re raising adults,” she said. “And if “I often say to parish administrators of Two boys hold up hula hoops during a physical education class on Sept. 26 for third-grade we want faith-filled adults, then we have to religious education that I’m only a phone call students at St. Patrick School in Terre Haute. Standing behind the hula hoops are, from left, instill Catholic values and the habit of going or e-mail away,” Ogorek said. “I’m intently Andrew Wilson, Matthew Graham, Dylan Major, Nate Givan and Jorjia Hancock. to Mass and being a part of the sacraments in focused on getting back to people when our students.” they’re trying to get hold of me. Through their participation in the “It’s very fulfilling for me to know that, by “Christ Our Hope: Compassion in being available to folks within reason, I am by Christ Our Hope annual appeal supports Community” annual appeal, Catholics across God’s grace helping them to serve God’s local ministries across archdiocese central and southern Indiana assist McClain, people where they live and breathe and work.” the faculty and staff of other Catholic schools McClain is glad that Catholics who might By Sean Gallagher they can volunteer in various across the archdiocese as well as parish live several hours away from her school in ministries in their faith communities. administrators of religious education and their Terre Haute still share and support the In his first encyclical letter, In the coming weeks, members volunteer catechists to proclaim the word of Gospel values that she, her faculty and the “Deus Caritas Est” (“God is of parishes across the archdiocese God in their schools and religious education OCE staff members that she collaborates Love”), Pope Benedict XVI wrote will speak at weekend Masses about programs. with share through their participation in that proclaiming the word of God, Christ Our Hope, and invite their This assistance is given in a Christ Our Hope. celebrating the sacraments and fellow parishioners to prayerfully significant way through the appeal’s support “The same experience that we have here is exercising the ministry of charity consider how they might participate of the ministry of the staff members of the really supported by a universal people, a are the three essential components in the annual appeal. archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Education group of folks and families that have the same of the “deepest nature” of the Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, (OCE). concerns and same interests,” McClain said. Church (#25). apostolic administrator, recently “There’s so much that we would miss if “At a time when there are so many uncertain The “Christ Our Hope: spoke about the importance of they weren’t there for professional things, it is so nice to be certain that there is Compassion in Community” annual Christ Our Hope and the gratitude development and updates from the state someone out there and that you’re not alone, appeal helps Catholics across that he has for the contributions government,” McClain said of the OCE staff and that they have the same interests in mind central and southern Indiana carry made to it by Catholics across members that she works with. “We’re pretty and at heart as you.” out those ministries in their central and southern Indiana. far away. I’m 57 miles away from Indian- Robertson is impressed by how members parishes, and in shared ministries “Thank you for all of the apolis. But their arms stretch that far.” of her own Batesville Deanery parish and that no one parish can accomplish blessings that you are able to They stretch far in many cases through other people across the archdiocese support on its own. bestow on many because of your phone calls. Rob Rash, the archdiocese’s her ministry and that of the OCE staff These include fostering charitable giving,” Bishop Coyne assistant school superintendent, prides himself members through their participation in the Catholic education and faith said. “Thank you for what you on his availability to principals throughout Christ Our Hope annual appeal. formation, supporting the formation have done, and thank you for central and southern Indiana. “It does show that connectedness, that of future priests and deacons, caring what you’re continuing to do to “I was [once] at a Ball State football game, we’re a part of the universal Church,” she for retired priests and helping those support the good works of the and I was talking to a principal outside of the said. “We do have that mission to support in need served by Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Indianapolis through stadium,” Rash said. everybody, every Catholic in this archdiocese. agencies across the archdiocese. the Christ Our Hope annual appeal.” Rash and other OCE staff members also “It’s kind of awesome if you think Christ Our Hope gives Catholics offer online seminars, called “webinars,” to about it.” in archdiocesan parishes the (For more information about faculty and staff across the archdiocese that opportunity to support those “Christ Our Hope: Compassion in help them develop their curriculum and (For more information about “Christ Our ministries located in their own Community,” log on to prepare for accreditation visits. Hope: Compassion in Community,” log on to region, and to learn about ways that www.archindy.org/ChristOurHope.) † And about half the time during his work www.archindy.org/ChristOurHope.) † Peoria Catholic Charities withdraws from state social service contracts PEORIA, Ill. (CNS)—Citing increasing clashes Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union ensure the continuity of care for each child. between Illinois law and Church teaching, Bishop Daniel Act, and a Sangamon County Circuit Court judge “In the midst of the ongoing debate in the R. Jenky of Peoria announced on Oct. 6 that ruled on Sept. 26 that the state could begin Legislature, the media and the courts, the primary Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria is canceling its foster care and adoption contracts with concern for both Catholic Charities and the Illinois withdrawing from all state-funded social service Catholic Charities. Department of Children and Family Services has been contracts. Catholic Charities of Peoria’s decision to withdraw to prevent disruption to the services provided to the To prevent disruption to the 1,000 foster care from ongoing litigation and from all state-funded children and families being served by the foster children and families now served by Catholic Charities social service contracts came after months of care system,” said Patricia Gibson, chancellor and of Peoria, plans call for those state-funded contracts to deliberation and prayer, said Bishop Jenky. general counsel for the Diocese of Peoria and diocesan be transferred by Feb. 1, 2012, to a newly formed “I have a responsibility as bishop to assure that Catholic Charities. “While I am saddened to see nonprofit entity called the Center for Youth and Family Catholic Charities operates consistently with the Catholic Charities withdraw from this valued good Solutions. The Diocese of Peoria and its Catholic teachings and values of the Church,” he said in the work, I hope that this transition will provide stability Charities will have no connection to the new entity. Oct. 6 statement. Recalling the agency’s nearly for each client family as well as bring peace of mind to Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Joliet, Peoria 100-year history of serving the poor and vulnerable, the committed staff in these programs,” added Gibson. and Springfield as well as Catholic Social Services of he said it was in keeping with that mission that The foster care contracts total about $15 million and Southern Illinois in Belleville have been involved in Catholic Charities partnered with the state to provide affect more than 200 Catholic Charities employees, legal proceedings with the state since Illinois services to those most in need. who are invited to transfer with the contracts to the recognized civil unions on June 1. “Public policy and state laws, however, have new, independent Center for Youth and Family At issue is the agencies’ long-standing practice of increasingly clashed with Church teachings in such a Solutions. It will be overseen by a five-person referring prospective adoptive and foster parents who way that we no longer can maintain this partnership as community board. are cohabiting—regardless of sexual orientation—to a viable option,” said Bishop Jenky. Both Bishop Jenky and Gibson emphasized that the other agencies or the Department of Children and Representatives of both Catholic Charities of Peoria mission of Catholic Charities will continue, and even Family Services. The state interprets the policy as and the Department of Children and Family Services expand in other areas, relying exclusively on discriminatory to same-sex couples under the new said the solution involving the new nonprofit entity will private funding. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011

OPINION Making Sense Out of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk ‘To give or not to give’— that is the marital question Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher In a recent column, David O’Brien, “proportionally grave reasons” exist for doing GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus associate director of religious education for lay so, and when one is earnestly “seeking to John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus ministry in the help the other spouse to desist from such Archdiocese of Mobile, sinful conduct [patiently, with prayer, charity Ala., recounts the story of and dialogue; although not necessarily in that Agnes and Jake, devout moment, nor on every single occasion].” Editorial Catholics who conceived The “Vademecum” and sound counselors and delivered four children say that participation in such an act would during the first five years not be in and of itself immoral on the part of Bishop William of their marriage. the non-contracepting spouse, but these E. Lori of Agnes described how counselors would also say that the Bridgeport, Jake “wanted to be a good one trying to lead the Christian life ought CNS photo/Bob Roller Conn., delivers father and husband, and he not to initiate sexual relations with the the keynote couldn’t see how that could happen if we contracepting spouse. speech during continued to have more children. In short, he Thus, while Agnes would not be obliged the National was getting a vasectomy.” to facilitate her husband’s sin, she could Catholic Prayer Agnes had a strong Catholic formation, and herself, without sin, engage in marital Breakfast in understood that married couples should not relations with him if she thought refusal to do Washington on engage in sexual acts that have been so might lead to other sins, such as April 27. intentionally blocked or “rendered infecund.” temptations to infidelity or divorce, as long as She struggled with Jake’s new stance, and she continued to seek and encourage a dug her heels in. change of heart and a change of perspective She wondered how she could possibly be an in him. authentic witness to the Gospel “if within my While Agnes came to understand this marriage, I was no longer open to life. How point in her head, she hesitated in her heart. could I minister to other women and encourage After pleading with Jake for over a year, them to be bold in their faith if I wasn’t living it she found herself burned out and exhausted. myself? And what do I teach my children about Once, after crying through the night, a Challenges to religious freedom marriage and sex when their father and I sudden and unexpected thunderstorm came s we report in this week’s issue on in our Aug. 19 editorial, Bishop Paprocki weren’t aligned?” through. As she heard the intense raindrops Apage 5, the U.S. bishops are so is among those fighting to keep the state She went through an emotional roller falling, she reflected on how the raindrops concerned about what they consider an of Illinois from ending contracts with coaster. “At first, I cried. Then I yelled. Then I were like God’s tears. She realized that God, assault on religious freedom in this Catholic agencies because they refuse to argued, calmly and intelligently. Then I cried too, is in a kind of broken marriage, a country that they have established an place foster children or adopted children some more. I shared with my husband excerpts difficult marriage with the humanity that Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty with same-sex couples. from Kippley’s Sex and the Marriage Covenant, he loves. to coordinate the Church’s response on Bishop Paprocki, a member of the and the encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae.’ We She considered how the Church, while this issue. Illinois Bar Association for 30 years, was listened to Christopher West and Scott Hahn in being his spotless mystical bride, has There have been a number of particularly forceful in an address that he the car.” members who are often unfaithful, hurting examples of government interference delivered on Sept. 29 at the dinner Nonetheless, her husband was unchanging. the Lord and blocking his life-giving love. with the way that Catholic organizations following a Red Mass—a Mass for As it became clear that Jake would go ahead “And yet,” she reflected, “he never holds have been serving the public. members of the legal profession—in with the vasectomy notwithstanding her back. He comes to us, over and over again.” But what might be considered the final Houston, Texas, at the invitation of protests, Agnes confronted a question that Indeed, God continues to give his body to straw was the proposed mandate by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of many Catholics have had to contend with in the Church on her altars, ever beckoning us Health and Human Services Secretary Galveston-Houston. their marriages. to conversion and perfection. Kathleen Sebelius that health insurance Bishop Paprocki quoted She wondered whether it would still be Agnes decided that for the time being, if plans offered by Catholic employers must Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, allowable for her to engage in marital relations her husband sought marital relations, she cover contraception and sterilization. who recently spelled out, in his with her husband after the vasectomy. would consent, while patiently seeking to It has been called the Catholic archdiocesan newspaper, the similarities When one spouse is involved in this convince him that his unilateral decision Contraception Clause. between communism and contemporary so-called “abuse of matrimony,” the other about the vasectomy was a mistake. We commented on this issue in our secularism. spouse is placed in an awkward situation. She hoped to bring him to consider a editorial “Threats to religious freedom” Cardinal George wrote, “The purpose A husband can struggle with a similar reversal of the vasectomy. She sought to keep in our Aug. 19 issue. Since then, it of communism and of contemporary problem when his wife refuses to get off the pill communication on the matter open and appears that Sebelius’s proposal, which secularism is the same: to create a and stop contracepting. While the contracepting active, entrusting this painful trial in their will become effective next August if not society where God cannot appear in spouse is clearly doing something morally marriage to God. “I lift up our marriage, our modified before that, has united Catholics public, to erase any evidence of religious wrong, doesn’t the non-contracepting spouse intimacy and our continued conversion to more than any other issue recently. belief from public life and to prevent the also sin by cooperating in an act that the other God, who knows our hearts.” The U.S. bishops have spoken out Church from acting in history, confining spouse has made infertile? against the proposal, and so have the Church’s mission to private worship, Pope Pius XI addressed this issue as far back (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., Catholic Charities and the carrier of a belief system that can have as 1930, but the clearest teaching of the Church earned his doctorate in neuroscience at Catholic Health Association. no influence on society except on came in a 1997 Vatican document called the Yale University and did post-doctoral work at Eighteen Catholic colleges and secularist terms.” “Vademecum for Confessors.” Harvard University. He is a priest of the universities united to oppose it. Then Bishop Paprocki said, “The It notes that cooperation in the sin of Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as The University of Notre Dame’s imposition on religious freedom comes one’s spouse by continuing to engage in the the director of education at The National president, Holy Cross Father John in the guise of nondiscrimination laws marital act when the spouse has taken recourse Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. Jenkins, wrote a letter to Sebelius. The and codes. The result is that faith to contraception can be permissible when See www.ncbcenter.org.) † Catholic University of America president, organizations are told whom they must John Garvey, wrote a letter against it that employ and what they must assent to or was published in The Washington Post. face being shoved off the public square.” is the fact that a large percentage of people When he announced the new Later in his talk, Bishop Paprocki Letter to the Editor who receive food stamps, medical care, committee, New York Archbishop spoke of how Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski government housing and an education Timothy M. Dolan, president of the and a young bishop named Karol manage to smoke cigarettes at $40 to $50 a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Wojtyla defended religious freedom in What would Jesus do? carton, have access to the Internet, a cell mentioned other actions at various levels Poland. I would like to comment on the column in phone, cable TV, and sometimes drugs and of government that pose dangers to the “But we should note,” he said, “that the Oct. 7 issue of The Criterion titled alcohol that they do not pay for. The health free exercise of religion. Some of them their eventual success was bolstered by a “Holding onto ideals in a broken world is a care costs alone for smokers on Medicaid is pertain to requirements in some states fervent and determined laity.” challenge” by John Garvey. astronomical. that Catholic adoption agencies place The Soviets claimed that they Garvey said that his daughter would give The poor who receive government children in same-sex homes. permitted “freedom of religion,” but by her last $5 to a panhandler then not have assistance should, at a minimum, be These restrictions on the that phrase they meant “freedom of enough money for the ride home. required to take a drug test and not smoke. Catholic Church have been nibbling at worship.” The “free exercise of religion” I, too, give a dollar or two to many of the It is a lot more complicated in this day the Church’s freedom for some time now. protected by the First Amendment is panhandlers that I see because at least they and age than giving a couple of dollars to It was recognized a year ago by Bishop supposed to cover Catholic educational are out there trying to do something about the poor. That’s why the poor who need William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., institutions, hospitals, nursing homes and their situation. assistance should be referred to the agencies who issued “Let Freedom Ring: A social service agencies. But their Unfortunately, a lot of the time the money that are equipped to handle their needs. Pastoral Letter on Religious Freedom.” It freedom is now being challenged. that is donated is used for cigarettes, alcohol What would Jesus do? I do agree that it was because of that letter that Archbishop Archbishop Dolan was clear when he and sometimes drugs. I’ve actually had is no longer as simple as giving a few Dolan named Bishop Lori chairman of said, “Never before have we faced this panhandlers turn down food because what dollars to the poor. It might actually be the new committee. kind of challenge in our ability to engage they really wanted was the money. enabling the poor to continue in the lifestyle Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of in the public square as people of faith Jesus said to feed the hungry, and every they have already become dependent on, Springfield, Ill., is another bishop and as a service provider. If we do not working person in America does that through and that is not good for them in the long run who has experienced government act now, the consequences will be grave.” their taxes. There are many organizations, either. interference in the workings of especially within the Catholic Church, that Catholic organizations. As we mentioned —John F. Fink exist solely to feed the hungry. Laura Kazlas But what many people do not feel is right Brownsburg The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Page 5 Horn of Africa risks ‘lost generation’ due to famine, says cardinal

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Not charitable organizations on the According to the only are millions of lives at risk in situation in the Horn of Africa. United Nations, 13 million the Horn of Africa due to hunger Pope Benedict XVI, who people in the Horn of Africa are in and drought, those who escape the appealed on Oct. 5 for increased urgent need of emergency aid, famine then risk becoming a lost aid, wanted the meeting so particularly in Somalia, where generation due to a severe lack of Catholic agencies could review the thousands of people risk death. Reuters i sal O m ar, CNS photo/Fe stability, education and resources, current situation and look at ways Caritas Internationalis, the said a top Vatican official. the Church is responding to the Vatican-based confederation of “The millions of displaced humanitarian emergency, the 165 national Catholic charities people on the move now in an cardinal said. agencies, has helped 1.1 million effort to survive will tomorrow “It’s the first time that people in the region, especially the become refugees, illegal Cor Unum has thought of gathering most vulnerable like the elderly, immigrants, without a nation, Caritas [agencies] to reflect and women, children and the disabled, without a home, work and a respond to the concerns of the said Michel Roy, the confed- community,” said Guinean Holy Father,” he said. eration’s general secretary. Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of Cor Unum also invited a Through its appeal campaign, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. representative of the Anglican Caritas Internationalis has “A whole generation risks being Archbishop of Canterbury for the raised 31 million euros—about lost,” he said during a Vatican news meeting. $41.7 million. It expects to raise a conference on Oct. 7. Cardinal Sarah said the pope total of 60 million euros— The only way to guarantee a had received a letter from $80.7 million—to provide An internally displaced Somalian woman cries on Sept. 20 near the body of her future after the humanitarian crisis Anglican Archbishop emergency food aid, clean water, son, who died of malnourishment, next to their temporary home in Mogadishu. abates, he said, is to create schools Rowan Williams expressing his sanitation, drought-resistant seeds, Pope Benedict XVI asked the international community to continue aid to the where skills, communities and concern over the situation unfolding and develop water conservation drought- and famine-stricken Horn of Africa, and asked individuals to offer futures are built. in the Horn of Africa. Cor Unum systems, he said. prayers and donate money to help save the millions facing death. The cardinal launched an appeal was then contacted “to see what we Ken Hackett, outgoing for a school to be built in every could do with other Christian president of the U.S. bishops’ community to step up donations on building schools, saying village. “Where there is an communities,” and join forces in Catholic Relief Services, said the and help Somalis with nation Catholic schools “are the best education, there is a possible responding to the crisis, Cardinal agency’s short-term and long-term building since, he said, one of the combatants against terrorism” future, there will be work for Sarah said. projects have made a real difference root causes of the instability and because people from diverse tomorrow and families will form,” “Faith communities have a in people’s lives. Those hunger is the lack of a central ethnicities, religions, nations and he said. distinctive role to play” in communities that were helped in government. backgrounds come together in The Church has a long tradition addressing crises because they are past crises are much better off than Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Catholic institutions where they of education and forming moral already a part of the local people in areas CRS was unable to Djibouti, who also is apostolic learn “to live together and respect consciences so Catholics should be communities and help with reach, he said. administrator of Mogadishu, one another.” especially dedicated to this long-term development, which “Our contributions, while very Somalia, said the Church must initiative, he said. in turn helps communities significant over the years, are only also find ways to collaborate with (To contribute to the Church’s Cardinal Sarah led a panel become more resilient to future a small part of what needs to be Muslim organizations that provide relief efforts in the Horn of Africa, of speakers presenting ideas that catastrophes, Archbishop Williams done” because the scope of aid for those affected by the log on to www.crs.org and click came out of a Vatican-sponsored wrote in a separate message to problem is so great, he added. food crisis. on “Horn of Africa Famine: meeting with major Catholic Cardinal Sarah. Roy called on the international He also supported the emphasis Help Now.”) † Bishops’ new ad hoc committee will tackle r eligious liberty concerns

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Saying they are increasingly the issue, and hopefully there will be good and effective as a service provider,” the archbishop said in a statement. distressed over government policies that promote action.” “If we do not act now, the consequence will be grave.” contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage and amount Bishop Lori has been a public defender of religious Archbishop Dolan cited a series of actions at various to an assault on religious freedom, the U.S. bishops have liberty over the last year. In October levels of government that pose dangers to the free exercise established a committee to shape public policy and 2010, he issued “Let Freedom Ring: of religion. coordinate the Church’s response on the issue. A Pastoral Letter on Religious Specifically, he pointed to the narrow religious The Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty was Freedom,” which carefully laid out exemption in New York in regard to same-sex marriage, the announced on Sept. 30 by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan an argument that some legislative Justice Department’s recent argument that the support of of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of efforts in the government seemed traditional marriage as defined in the Defense of Marriage Catholic Bishops. to be aimed solely at the Act amounted to bigotry, and the requirement by the Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., was Catholic Church. Department of Health and Human Services that the named chairman of the new committee. He also addressed the topic at the USCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services provide the “full “There is a common and factually grounded perception National Catholic Prayer Breakfast range of reproductive service”—including abortion and that religious liberty is increasingly in April. contraception—to trafficking victims in its cooperative under assault at the state and federal Bishop Lori said the USCCB has agreements and government contracts. Bishop level in the United States, whether William E. Lori discussed its concerns about He also repeated the U.S. bishops’ concern about Health through unfriendly legislation or restrictions on religious freedom and Human Services regulations that would mandate the through rules and regulations that repeatedly, most recently at its June meeting in suburban coverage of contraception and sterilization in all private impede or tend to impede the work Seattle, and again when the administrative committee met in health insurance plans while failing to protect insurers and of the Church,” Bishop Lori told Washington in mid-September. individuals with religious or moral objections to Catholic News Service on Sept. 30, In his announcement, Archbishop Dolan said that the mandate. explaining the motivation for committee members will work with a variety of national “As shepherds of over 70 million U.S. citizens, we share forming the committee. organizations, ecumenical and interreligious partners, a common and compelling responsibility to proclaim the “Hopefully, we will raise up the charities and scholars to “form a united and forceful front in truth of religious freedom for all and so to protect our issue for the entire Catholic defense of religious freedom in our nation. people from this assault which now appears to grow at an Archbishop community in the United States,” he “Never before have we faced this kind of challenge in our ever-accelerating pace in ways most us could never have Timothy M. Dolan said. “We will help educate about ability to engage in the public square as people of faith and imagined,” Archbishop Dolan said. †

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Indiana St., meeting, 6 p.m. Information: $20 non-members. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Mooresville. Chili supper, October 16 St. Isidore the Farmer Parish, 317-955-6271 or Reservations and information: St. Augustine Home for the of all ages, “Mary, Our 6 p.m. Information: 6501 St. Isidore Road, Bristow. [email protected]. www.catholicbusiness Aged, 2345 W. 86th St., Mother,” 1-6 p.m., $5 per 317-831-4142 or “Fall Festival,” exchange.org. Indianapolis. person. Information: [email protected]. October 19 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., food, Catholic Adult Fellowship, [email protected]. Columbus Bar, 322 Fourth St., Oct. 21-23 “The Positive Side of the Richmond Catholic games, shooting match. Columbus. “Theology on Tap” Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 20 Commandments!” day of Knights of Columbus Hall, Community, 701 N. “A” St., Information: 812-843-5713. series, “A Night with the reflection, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 511 E. Thompson Road, Richmond. Charismatic Exorcist,” Father Vincent St. Mary-of-the-Woods. registration deadline Oct. 10, Indianapolis. “Shop for a prayer group, 7 p.m. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Lampert, presenter, 7 p.m. St. Mother Theodore Guérin 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. free-will offering. Information: Cure,” 1-4 p.m. Information: Information: Information: Fest, “Living the Legacy Monte Cassino pilgrimage, 317-410-4870 or 317-888-7249. [email protected]. www.indytot.com or “Mary, the Peacemaker,” Now!” Information: [email protected]. indytheologyontap@ Benedictine Father Noël 812-535-2925 or Indiana Roof Ballroom, 140 W. St. Mary Parish, 415 E. gmail.com. www.SistersofProvidence.org. Holy Trinity Parish, 902 N. Washington St., Indianapolis. Eighth St., New Albany. Mueller, presenter, 2 p.m. Information: 812-357-6501. Holmes Ave., Indianapolis. St. Elizabeth/Coleman “America Needs Fatima,” Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum October 22 Dinner dance, 5:30 p.m., Pregnancy and Adoption rosary rally, noon. Chapel, 435 W. 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Retreats and Programs Challenges of Contemporary Priestly Former Christ the King parishioner Ministry.” Information: 800-581-6905 or October 14-16 [email protected]. professes vows with Dominicans Our Lady of Grace Monastery, October 28-30 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Come and Dominican Sister Imelda Grace Lee, Grace is the daughter of James and Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, See Weekend,” vocations discernment retreat formerly a member of Christ the King Debra Lee, also members of Christ the for women, 7 p.m. Fri.-1 p.m. Sun. St. Meinrad. “From Our Hands to Parish in Indianapolis, professed King Parish. Information: 317-787-3287, ext. 3032, or Our Hearts–Praying the Rosary,” [email protected]. temporary vows She attended Indiana University in Benedictine Brother Zachary Wilberding, on July 28 as a Bloomington and is currently enrolled at October 16 presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or member of the Aquinas College in Nashville in Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. [email protected]. Dominican Sisters preparation to become a teacher. “Youth Night at the ‘Burg,” jam session, of St. Cecilia During the July 28 Mass, 14 other high school students and older, 6:30-8 p.m. October 29 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Congregation members of the order professed their Information: 812-933-6437 or based in temporary vows with Sister Imelda [email protected]. “Good Medicine–A Healing Approach to Living,” Franciscan Sister Karla Barker, Nashville, Tenn. Grace. Seven sisters professed their October 18 presenter, 9-11:30 a.m., $25 per person. A graduate of perpetual vows. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Information: 812-933-6437 or Bishop Chatard For more information on the 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Catholic High School in Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia [email protected]. Identity and Doctrine–The History and Indianapolis, Congregation, log on to Theology of the Mass,” session three, Sr. Imelda Grace Lee, O.P. Sister Imelda nashvilledominican.org. † Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, presenter, October 30 6:30-9 p.m., $25 per person. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 317-788-7581 or www.benedictinn.org. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana Program,” 1:30-6 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681, ext. 15, October 21-23 or [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “Tools of the Trade from the November 4-6 Walk for Life winner Holy Rule of St. Benedict,” Benedictine Father Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Columba Kelly, presenter. Information: St. Meinrad. “Good Grief–A Musical Zarya De Souza, a 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. Approach to Healthy Grieving,” seventh-grade student at October 22-23 Father Noël Mueller, presenter. Information: St. Charles Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality, 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. Mount St. Francis. New Albany Deanery Borromeo School in Catholic Youth Ministries, November 8 Bloomington, holds a trophy on Oct. 1 “Catholic 101 Retreat.” Information: Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Stella Hooker-Haase Submitted photo by 812-945-2000 or [email protected]. “Caring for Our Home, Planet Earth,” following the Walk October 24-28 Franciscan Sister Janet Born, presenter, for Life, a pro-life fundraising event in Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 7-8:30 p.m., $15 per person or $25 for two. St. Meinrad. Priests’ retreat, “Reflections on Information: 812-933-6437 or Bloomington. Zarya the Life and Ministry of Jesus and the [email protected]. † earned the trophy by raising $1,128, the most in the middle school and St. Joseph sister celebrates high school division of the event. Seated next to Zarya is her 50 years of religious life mother, Kelly De Sister Karen Van De Walle the-Woods and Cathedral High Souza, St. Charles recently celebrated the School in Indianapolis. Borromeo Parish’s 50th anniversary of her entrance Since 1981, Sister Karen coordinator for the into the Congregation of has blended her love of pottery Walk for Life. All St. Joseph, based in Tipton, Ind., with spiritual direction at proceeds from the in the Lafayette Diocese. The Potter’s House, a studio event benefited the In addition to teaching art at she maintains in Indianapolis, Crisis Pregnancy Catholic schools in the where she meets people from Center and Lafayette Diocese, Sister Karen all over the world who share Hannah House has taught at Saint Mary-of-the- her passion for the spirituality Maternity Home in Bloomington. Sr. Karen Van De Walle, C.S.J. Woods College in St. Mary-of- of art. † The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Page 7 Washington cardinal confirms members of former Episcopal community

WASHINGTON (CNS)—During a year—walked up to be confirmed, and later Mass marked by a joyful homecoming of to receive his first Communion as a new

faith, Washington Cardinal Donald Catholic, following his parents, his wife, Catholic Standard W. Wuerl welcomed 71 members of a Vickey, their daughter and grandson. former Episcopal parish into full “I was brought to tears several times,” communion in the Catholic Church with Lewis said afterward. “As I watched the rite of reception on Oct. 9 at the my people come forward for their

Basilica of the National Shrine of the first Communion [as Catholics], I was Kossoff, CNS photo/Leslie E. Immaculate Conception in Washington. praying and thanking God. They’re so “Today is a day of rejoicing for all of open to what God is doing in their lives. us,” Cardinal Wuerl said in welcoming the I’ve been honored to be their pastor.” St. Luke community from the Maryland Under “Anglicanorum coetibus,” suburb of Bladensburg at the beginning of an apostolic constitution issued by the Mass in the Crypt Church of the Pope Benedict XVI in November 2009, Basilica of the National Shrine of the the Church has provided a way for entire Immaculate Conception. Anglican parishes or groups to become He noted that during that Mass, the Catholic while retaining some of their new Catholics from St. Luke, and the Anglican heritage and liturgy. other Catholics in attendance, could come “This is the first former Episcopal together “to the altar of the Lord, filled parish [in the United States] to be with joy and gratitude. formally received into “The Church is the the Catholic Church body of Christ, the ‘I thought, these are our since the beginning of the family [members], these announcement of kingdom, the family of Anglicanorum God, and the way to are our brothers and coetibus,’ ” said salvation,” the cardinal sisters, come to welcome Father Scott Hurd, a said in his homily. us home. That’s when I priest of the “Today, as part of your Archdiocese of faith journey, you come got emotional. That Washington and Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl confirms Mark Lewis during an Oct. 9 Mass at the Basilica of to the Church to meant the world to me.’ former Episcopal the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Lewis, a former Episcopal priest complete your initiation priest now serving as who served as rector of the former St. Luke Episcopal Parish in Bladensburg, Md., and 70 other into the body of Christ. —Susan Mathis chaplain of the members of the parish were received as full members of the Catholic Church during the Mass. “The heart of our St. Luke community. communion, our Cardinal Wuerl, Another 10 to 15 St. Luke members and their daughter, Maggie, said after bonding, our spiritual the Vatican’s are expected to be confirmed at a receiving first Communion as a Catholic life, is this altar,” Cardinal Wuerl said, representative for implementation of later date. that she was moved to watch her fellow adding, “Today, we will invite everyone “Anglicanorum coetibus” in the In his homily, Cardinal Wuerl Catholics come to the altar. [here] to that table of the Lord, to receive United States, is being assisted by emphasized how the gifts of the Holy Spirit “I thought, these are our family that Communion that bonds us with Father Hurd in that effort. poured out on the Apostles at the [members], these are our brothers and Christ and with one another.” The Vatican is expected to announce first Pentecost continue to be poured out sisters, come to welcome us home. Mark Lewis, former rector of the the formation of an ordinariate for former onto the faithful today. Today’s followers of That’s when I got emotional. That St. Luke community, who as an Anglican parishes seeking to enter the Jesus, he said, are invited to walk with meant the world to me,” she told the Episcopal priest shepherded his Catholic Church as a congregation. An Christ through life, not just as individuals, Catholic Standard, newspaper of the parishioners through the process of ordinariate is a geographic region similar “but as members of his family, his Church.” Washington Archdiocese. joining the Catholic Church, said after to a diocese, though typically national in From that day forward, he said, the Then-Rev. Mark Lewis had announced the Mass, “I’m so glad to be home.” scope. Until the U.S. ordinariate is St. Luke community members will stand in early June that the St. Luke’s Row by row, the members of the established, the St. Luke community will as part of a faith community who look to community, after several years of St. Luke community filed up to be be under the care of the Archdiocese of the pope as their chief shepherd and the prayerful discernment, felt called to join confirmed as new Catholics by Washington. touchstone of their faith. the Catholic Church. Under terms of an Cardinal Wuerl, who made the sign of the At the Oct. 9 Mass, 58 members of After the Mass, members of the agreement with the Episcopal Diocese of cross with sacred chrism on each person’s St. Luke were confirmed and received St. Luke community spoke of their belief Washington, the St. Luke congregation forehead, saying his or her name and the Communion for the first time as that the Holy Spirit had guided them to will continue to worship in its current words “Be sealed with the gift of the Catholics. Another 10 members already unity with the Catholic Church, and they church in Bladensburg. The agreement is Holy Spirit.” confirmed in the Catholic Church described how their journey of faith was a lease with a purchase option. After his former parishioners had renewed their commitment to Christ as only beginning. Lewis has praised the support offered to received the sacraments of initiation during Catholics, and three younger members Susan Mathis of Laurel, Md., a the St. Luke community by Cardinal Wuerl the Mass, Lewis—who hopes to begin received their first Communion as homemaker who entered the and Bishop John Bryson Chane of the studying for the Catholic priesthood next new Catholics. Catholic Church with her husband, James, Episcopal Diocese of Washington. † George Mason law professor to receive C o n d i t i o Notre Dame’s Evangelium Vitae Medal A i r n e r & H e a t P u m p S a l e NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)— Richard Doerflinger, associate director Helen Alvare, associate professor of of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for law at George Mason University in Pro-Life Activities. 1 2 8 t h A n n i v e r s a r y S a l e Arlington, Va., is the second winner of Alvare, who earned a law degree the Evangelium Vitae Medal from the from Cornell University and a master’s Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life. degree in systematic theology from

Expires 6/18/11 The award, which will be presented at The Catholic University of America, began an April 25 banquet, was announced on her career with the Philadelphia law firm of Oct. 2 to coincide Stradley, Ronon, Stevens and Young, with Respect Life specializing in commercial litigation and Sunday. free exercise of religion matters. In announcing She joined the U.S. bishops’ Office of the 2012 award General Counsel in 1987, serving as a winner, staff attorney for three years before David Solomon, moving to the Secretariat for Pro-Life who chairs the Activities as director of planning and fund’s governing information. In that role, she testified committee, said before congressional committees, lectured Alvare “has nationwide, and spoke on numerous 2 8 t h A n n 1 2 8 t h A n n 1 2 8 t h A n n courageously and television and radio programs for the 1 i v e r s i v e r s i v e r s a a r y S a l e a r y S a l e r y S a l e Helen Alvare powerfully U.S. bishops. Save defended the cause She also assisted the Vatican on $ of life against all comers for two decades. matters concerning women, marriage and ½ Price 89 95 “In some of the darkest hours for the the family, and respect for human life. Service Call pro-life cause in this country, her voice Since 2008, she has served as a consultor With Repair was heard clearly,” said Solomon, director on the Pontifical Council for the Laity. of the university’s Center for Ethics and Alvare became an associate professor On the Purchase of a new 90% Gas On the Installation of a new High Efficiency Furnace, heat pump or air conditioner Culture. “With a public presence in the of law at Catholic University in 2000, Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. popular debate, a foot in the scholarly teaching courses in property, family law, world that bolsters and sustains the Catholic social thought and legislation, deep arguments on life issues, and her until she joined George Mason’s law extraordinary ability to connect with school faculty in 2008. Expires 10/29/11 Expires 10/29/11 Expires 10/29/11 people, she has been a hero to us all.” Her current academic concerns are The Evangelium Vitae Medal, related to abortion’s impact on women, which includes a $10,000 prize, was marriage, parenting and new reproductive first presented earlier this year to technologies. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 HOLY ANGELS Submitted photo continued from page 1 Submitted photos schools offered help in different ways. Before the season, coaches of the kickball teams at St. Matthew the Apostle Parish and St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish, both in Indianapolis, let the Holy Angels team practice on their kickball diamonds because Holy Angels School doesn’t have a playground that’s big enough to practice the sport. The cheerleaders at St. Matthew also donated new shoes and shorts for the Holy Angels kickball players. The players at St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg supplied team socks for the Holy Angels girls, while the team at St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis bought kickballs, made bracelets and wrote letters of encouragement for the Holy Angels players. “Holy Angels isn’t a needy school, but they needed help from other schools to get the program started,” says Antoinette Burford, an assistant coach for the Holy Angels team. “Kickball is so competitive, but our girls saw the other teams wanted to help them get better. And that was a big deal to them. The girls have pride, and you can see it.” That sense of pride shined through as the Holy Angels team won its seven regular season games—a dramatic change from previous seasons when the girls didn’t Above, the players and coaches of the understand the game and felt intimidated by some of the kickball teams of Holy Angels Parish and other teams, according to Kumba Songor, a sixth-grade St. Barnabas Parish, both in Indianapolis, student in her third year on the team. have their photo taken together after a “This season has just been exciting,” Kumba says. playoff game on Sept. 21—a moment that “Before our first game, I didn’t have a lot of confidence. shows the special connection that the Then I saw how many runs we were scoring. It’s just Holy Angels team had with other teams been amazing for the whole team.” during a memorable season. So was the continuing support of other teams during the season. After Holy Angels played Little Flower, the Left, Father Robert Gilday presents a two teams enjoyed a cookout together, feasting on division championship trophy to the hot dogs, chips, drinks and desserts. kickball players of Holy Angels Parish in “All the kids hung out together,” says Ann Sutton, Indianapolis. It’s the first trophy the the coach of Little Flower’s kickball team. “They had parish has earned in a sport since 1995. such a great time together that they didn’t want to leave. A playoff game between the teams of It made it meaningful for the kids. It would be nice if this Holy Angels Parish and St. Barnabas sort of outreach happened more often. The girls really Parish was played on Sept. 21 at enjoyed it.” St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Other teams made signs and came to cheer for the (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis, Holy Angels players during the season. The team at where Father Gilday is the pastor. SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish in Greenwood rescheduled a game when the Holy Angels team had transportation problems. Considering everything that happened during the Organization for their division championship. The Those examples of sportsmanship made an impact on season, it seemed appropriate that the playoff game heartbreak lingered until the principal of Holy Angels the Holy Angels players. matched the Holy Angels girls with one of the teams that School, Sherlynn Pillow, saluted the team in a Sixth-grader Karrington Abstone says she enjoyed had supported and encouraged them—the team from school-wide announcement. Pillow told the school the opportunities to socialize with players from the St. Barnabas. And it seemed even more fitting that after children that the kickball team had earned the school its different teams. the playoff game ended—with a St. Barnabas victory— first trophy in a sport since 1995. “It was fun,” she says. the two teams posed for a group photo together. The other students cheered for the players and It was almost as much fun as finishing the regular Still, the disappointment was etched in the faces of congratulated them. season undefeated, winning a division championship, many of the Holy Angels players as that photo was taken. “That cheered them up,” Marshall says. making it into the playoffs for the city championship and “They were heartbroken. There were tears,” says It was a season of support, sportsmanship and success being invited to Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Marshall, one of their head coaches. that the Holy Angels girls will never forget. Indianapolis, where the students held a pep rally for The disappointment stayed with the Holy Angels team “One of the best parts was coming out and being part the Holy Angels girls on Sept. 21, the day of their members when they arrived at school the following of a school sport and having fun with my friends,” playoff game. morning with the trophy from the Catholic Youth Kumba says. “It was just a rush of excitement.” † Pope Shenouda declares days of mourning after protest turns violent

CAIRO (CNS)—Orthodox Pope Shenouda III declared “The army and the police are confronting the Copts. more than 21 years for a permit and said that, even after a three days of mourning, fasting and prayer for victims of This is the problem,” Father Rafic Greiche, official permit was granted, state or local officials could stop peaceful protests that turned violent, and Church and spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in a construction for “security issues.” government leaders called for Egypt to reaffirm its statement to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Cardinal Naguib told the Italian bishops’ news agency, commitment to religious freedom. Need. “It is not a Christian-Muslim problem anymore. … SIR, that the “attacks by Islamists against Christian At least 26 people—mostly Christians—were killed and People—not just Christians but many Muslims, too—are institutions continue always under the pretext that nearly 500 were injured on Oct. 9 as gangs armed with frightened for the future of our country. churches are being built without explicit official firebombs, sticks, swords and rocks attacked about “We are accusing the army and the police who used authorization, which still remains very difficult to get.” 1,000 people staging a peaceful sit-in outside a state vagabonds, a rabble force of street fighters, to attack the He said it was hard to tell how Egypt’s leaders viewed television building. As the violence escalated, a speeding demonstrators,” the priest said. the treatment of Christians because Shariah, or Islamic military vehicle mounted a sidewalk and rammed into a “They were armed with swords, sticks and stones— law, seemed to conflict with some previous declarations group of protesters, killing a number of them. some of them had rifles, it seems,” he said. “They did not of intent. Witnesses said headless bodies lay in the street in the have to use force. It was a peaceful demonstration.” He said Egyptian Christians have lived through similar worst sectarian violence since the ousting of President Hardline Salafi Muslims have initiated violent protests situations. Hosni Mubarak in the “Arab Spring” revolt earlier this year. against the construction of two churches in southern Egypt “We will continue to do all we can, sustained by prayer But several Catholic leaders said the problem had moved on the grounds that the building projects were illegal. and trust in God, and the spiritual and moral support of all beyond sectarianism. Four churches have been subjected to arson attacks in as Catholics, Christians and people of good will,” he said. many months. Skirmishes in Cairo continued through Oct. 10, with The Christian demonstrators were protesting one such several hundred Christians pelting police officers with attack on a Coptic Orthodox church, and were seeking rocks outside the hospital where many of the victims greater protection from the authorities. were taken. Catholic Bishop Antonios Aziz Mina of Giza told In a televised address on Oct. 10, Egyptian Prime Vatican Radio that Christians were asking to be able to live Minister Essam Sharaf blamed the violence on foreign peacefully in their own country. intervention, and warned Egyptians that such actions

CNS photo/Amr Abdallah Dalsh, Reuters “If they [the police] had taken a position of being would delay the country’s transition to civilian rule. against those who destroyed the churches, we would never Government leaders also weighed in on the violence. have gotten to this point,” he said. The White House said U.S. President Barack Obama Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic patriarch was deeply concerned by the Oct. 9 incident. of Alexandria, told Vatican Radio the situation was “As the Egyptian people shape their future, the provoked by outsiders, and added that it was complex. United States continues to believe that the rights of He said even the armed forces have a dilemma: Do minorities—including Copts—must be respected, and that they “face the people creating conflict by [using] force all people have the universal rights of peaceful protest and An Egyptian Christian woman shows a picture of her son during or act very cautiously, giving the impression they are religious freedom,” said an Oct. 10 White House a funeral at Abassaiya Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo on Oct. 10. slow and lack resolve?” statement. At least 26 people, mostly Christians, were killed on Oct. 9 when Under Mubarak, any permit to do with a church The European Union and British Foreign Secretary troops broke up a peaceful protest against an earlier attack on a building—even repainting it—had to be signed by the William Hague also condemned the violence, and urged church in southern Egypt. former president. At least one priest recalled waiting Egyptian authorities to reaffirm freedom of worship. † The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Page 9 RED MASS continued from page 1

end, each of us, in our own ways, seeks to MaryPhotos by Ann Garber love God and to love neighbor.” If we make that Scripture passage the foundation of our beliefs, Bishop Coyne said, “starting with the way in which we live our lives, it seems to me that even when it is most difficult for us to find our way, we can be helped, we are helped—by the Spirit, by the teachings of the Church, by all the things that God gives us—to find our path” amidst the complexities of life. “Thanks be to God,” he said, “we have the teachings of the Church, the sacraments that we share and the Eucharist that we are able to receive to strengthen us … in our daily life and our lives of prayer.” Marion County Superior Court Judge David Certo of Indianapolis welcomed society members and guests to the annual dinner following the liturgy. “When we treat people with dignity and compassion and respect,” he said, “we serve them and Christ in them.” St. Thomas More, while facing martyrdom, described himself as “the king’s good servant, but God’s first,” Certo said. “That is a lesson to all of us, particularly Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator and principal celebrant for the annual Red Mass on Oct. 3, elevates the Body of Christ at St. John the when we’re confronted by the little choices Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. Concelebrating the St. Thomas More Society’s annual liturgy were, from left, Msgr. William Stumpf, moderator of the that lead us off in the wrong way. archdiocesan curia; Father James Bonke, defender of the bond for the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal; Father Stanley Pondo, adjunct judicial vicar for Confronted by the greatest of choices, he the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal; and Father William Munshower, a retired priest and chaplain of Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. Another gave us a model to follow.” concelebrant, Msgr. Frederick Easton, not shown, a canon lawyer who recently retired as vicar judicial of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal, received Abigail Kuzma, director and extended applause at the start of the Mass for his many years of service to the Church. chief counsel of the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General’s “… We’re doing a big initiative with respect Office, received the organization’s to … protecting victims of human 2011 Woman for All Seasons Award for her trafficking.” distinguished legal service to the poor. As a legal professional and state Kuzma served on U.S. Sen. Richard employee, Kuzma said, “I just feel so Lugar’s staff in Washington before moving grateful to have that opportunity to represent to Indianapolis to raise four children. those folks who need help, maybe the lowest In 1994, she co-founded the of our population.” Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic then Kuzma also assists Attorney General served as its executive director for 15 years. Greg Zoeller with efforts to protect people “While I was there, the St. Thomas More facing foreclosure of their homes as well as Society was very much a partner to us,” assist enlisted men and women struggling Kuzma said. “From my perspective, I feel with financial, legal and family challenges like service is something that they really while serving their country at times half a know how to do well.” world away. She said several Scripture passages “It’s very meaningful and rewarding,” she inspired her and other clinic staff members. said. “This is something we need to be “They really are, I think, still to me involved in. The Neighborhood Christian Marion County Superior Court part of why I do what I do,” Kuzma said, Legal Clinic is a partner in this endeavor as Judge David Certo of “and why I think most of us do what well so I’m very grateful for that.” Indianapolis welcomes members Abigail Kuzma, director and chief counsel of the Consumer we do.” Kuzma also cited Scripture passages from of the St. Thomas More Society Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General’s Office, Psalm 82 speaks of the need to “defend the Letter of St. James about the need to to the legal organization’s annual received the St. Thomas More Society’s 2011 Woman for All Seasons the cause of the weak and fatherless, combine faith and action (Jas 2:14-17) as Red Mass on Oct. 3 at St. John Award for her distinguished legal service to the poor. Indiana maintain the rights of the poor and well as a verse from St. Paul’s Letter to the the Evangelist Church in Attorney General Greg Zoeller presented the award during a oppressed, rescue the weak and the needy, Ephesians, which speaks of how God Indianapolis. banquet after the legal organization’s annual Red Mass on Oct. 3. and deliver them from the hands of the prepared us to do good works (Eph 2:10). wicked,” she said, quoting from Ps 82:3-4. “I felt the Lord leading me to take that more than $1 million. us to do.” “What a privilege to be able to feel like risk and to be involved” in 1994 in the “Only the Lord can do that,” she said. Before his closing prayer at the dinner, you’re part of that Scripture [passage],” Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic, she “We’re all grateful to go along for the ride Bishop Coyne reminded the legal Kuzma said, and to be able to continue that said, which started small and was only open and be a little bit of a part of it. It was very professionals that, “This, more than anything kind of compassionate service for the on Saturday mornings. much a blessing. … We are created to do else, is a time when we need to be people of Indiana Attorney General’s Office. Last year, Kuzma said, the faith-based, good works. He has figured out what it is hope and joy. We need to say to people that “We’re absolutely seeking to serve those nonprofit, neighborhood legal clinic served that we need to do to serve him, and all we we’re all in God’s hands always, and that who cannot defend themselves,” she said. about 12,000 people in need with a budget of have to do is find that work that he wants God’s hands are my hands and your hands.” † Mideast Church leaders worried about Christians if Syria has civil war BEIRUT (CNS)—Pressure being put on the third party “that could unite those who are in conflict,” the Maronite Catholic leaders also have called for dialogue Syrian government could have very bad consequences, government and the opposition. on the situation in Syria. especially for Christians, warned the patriarch of the The patriarch said the West should push for true “We’re neither for nor against a regime,” said Syrian Catholic Church. democratic reforms rather than just trying to change Archbishop Paul Sayah, vicar general of the Attempts to collapse the political systems, which they believe are dictatorial, “into an Maronite Patriarchate in Beirut and former archbishop of government “will very probably unknown system where the very, very respect of civil rights Haifa. “We judge a regime on its merits and how it deals lead to chaos,” Patriarch Ignatius is absent. with the values of freedom, democracy and rights.” Joseph III Younan told “By civil rights, we mean not only the freedom of He explained that Syria’s small, minority-represented Catholic News Service. speech, … but civil rights to implement the religious government, the Alawites who have been running the “This chaos, surely—with no freedom for all,” Patriarch Younan said. “That means to country for 40 years, are not going to let go easily because means to implement security—will implement a civil society that respects the charter of human they know if the Sunnis take over, “it’s going to be very lead to civil war,” said the patriarch, rights as already stipulated by the U.N. in 1948,” he added, dangerous for them [Alawites], to put it very mildly.” who stressed that a civil war in referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The bishop pointed to the slogans used near the Syria would not merely be a The patriarch said a society that respects all is beginning of the Syrian uprising in March: “Christians to struggle among political parties to “absolutely vital,” and the civilized world should uphold Beirut; Alawites to the coffin.” Those might be only Patriach Ignatius control the power. “It will be this, not just take the position that the majority should rule slogans, he warned, “but they are significant.” Joseph III Younan confessional [religious], and war in the country. This is especially the case if the majority is of If change is not brought about peacefully, “there is a risk the name of God is far worse than a political struggle. And the conviction that there is no separation between religion that it may go from an oppressive regime to a more brutal this is what we fear.” and state, he added. one, especially now that the atmosphere tends to be rather Patriarch Younan was one of several Christian leaders “This would surely result in discrimination against those fundamentalist in the region,” Archbishop Sayah said. He who spoke with Catholic News Service about the situation who do not share their religion,” he said. also expressed concern about a potential civil war. facing Syrian Christians, who make up about 10 percent of “The Church has always defended, and it stands for, the “Everyone knows what kind of disaster civil war is. the nation’s population. civil rights of all human beings,” Patriarch Younan said. Iraq is a very loud example,” he told CNS. “In Iraq, the He told CNS that Syria needs a lot of reforms, a While it would take time to make the needed reforms in Christian minority paid a huge price. Two-thirds of multiparty system of government and freedom of speech. the case of Syria, those seeking change for the good of their Christians had to leave Iraq.” He said the Church “is all for reforms,” and does not country “have to be kind of patient and find a way to make “Since we know enough about the situation in Iraq,” said support a particular regime. those needed reforms. Patriarch Younan, “we fear that the kind of pressure put on “But those reforms have to be executed or accomplished “However, it doesn’t look feasible that these reforms will requiring the fall of the government in Syria will have very through dialogue,” he said, expressing a need for a neutral come out of violence,” he said. bad consequences, even worse than in Iraq.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries campus dedicated By Patricia Cornwell After Mass, Msgr. Schaedel blessed the Special to The Criterion newly arrived, six-foot bronze statue of St. Theodora Guérin, foundress of the GEORGETOWN—Blue skies prevailed Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-

as some 300 people gathered on a cool, Woods. Several members of the order lined Cornwell Patricia Photo by windy afternoon for the dedication of the up afterward to sprinkle the statue with Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries holy water. (PSSM) campus in Floyd County. Members of the choir from St. Joseph Providence Sister Barbara Ann Zeller, Parish in Corydon provided prelude and president and CEO of PSSM, greeted the liturgical music for the liturgy. Mass was crowd before the Oct. 1 outdoor Mass. followed by a meal, and music performed “We celebrate this liturgy and dedicate by Gina Emerson and the Back Country this campus in memory of the legacy of our Rock Band. founder, St. Mother Theodore Guérin,” St. Theodora was canonized by Sister Barbara Ann said. “She was a CEO, a Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. She is the caregiver, a nurturer of souls, but mostly a eighth U.S. saint and first saint from Indiana. servant of God.” The French nun came to Saint Mary-of- Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor of the-Woods in 1840 to establish the St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in congregation in order to educate the children Indianapolis, was the principal celebrant of of pioneers. the Mass. Retired Father Gerald Burkert, In 1994, the Sisters of Providence Father Juan Valdes, and Franciscan Fathers established PSSM, and opened a group home John Elmer and Donald Halpin for abused and neglected children in the concelebrated the liturgy. Roy McClain, former convent at Holy Family Parish in retired pastor of Georgetown Christian New Albany. Church, was the lector. In 1999, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis In his homily on the Gospel reading of gave PSSM 12.5 acres for its original the Sermon on the Mount, Msgr. Schaedel campus. The property on Unruh Drive in said, “Like Jesus’ original listeners, we Georgetown now extends to 28 acres, and is have our own list of what would make us home to ministries that serve people of happy. ‘… Blessed are the poor in spirit.’ all ages. Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, blesses a The poor in spirit are those who are not In 2000, PSSM founded six-foot bronze statue of St. Theodora Guérin at the conclusion of a Mass on the campus of proud, who know they need God. We Providence House for Children, providing Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries (PSSM) in Georgetown. The Mass was celebrated as part of the cannot save ourselves. … A place like this licensed group homes for abused and dedication of the campus. Assisting Msgr. Schaedel are, from left, Providence Sisters Maria Smith and [campus] teaches us that we all need God. neglected children, furnished apartments and Barbara Ann Zeller, president and CEO of PSSM, and Father Juan Valdes, administrator of St. Mary Mother Theodore, the saint of Indiana, case management services for families Parish in Lanesville. teaches us that we need God. Blessed are reuniting with children in foster care, or for those who know they need [God’s] families at risk of separation due to In 2005, Guerin Woods, a multifaceted 17,000 individuals and families in Providence.” homelessness or substandard housing. housing development for senior citizens, southeastern Indiana and Terre Haute, and opened adjacent to Providence House. The a total of 112,031 people in Indiana and complex includes apartments for people other states. age 62 and older on limited incomes, a senior citizens center, assisted living (For more information about and skilled nursing facilities, and a Providence Self Sufficiency Ministries, health clinic. log on to www.spsmw.org/pssm/ Since 1994, PSSM has served more than home------pssm.aspx.) †

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By Fr. Herbert Weber This mere mortal has entered a “holy.” It may be sufficient as we holy experience, and comes out sing the Sanctus to reflect that we At a staff meeting, our parish empowered and cleansed. are being joined by a heavenly music director played the musical It is truly what is called an host of saints and angels in CNS photo/Crosiers settings of the Mass acclamations experience of the “holy.” praising God. that he chose for the new Chapter 6 of Isaiah presents Think, perhaps, of those who translation of the Roman Missal. his call to be a prophet in an are committed to doing the It was fine music that the account that introduces the Lord’s bidding and carrying out assembly would likely learn Emmanuel prophecies that we his will. As believers in the and sing. hear during the Advent and communion of saints, we also I asked him, however, to play Christmas liturgies. find ourselves surrounded at again the new Sanctus. My The word “hosts” is closer to that very moment by saintly concern was whether the music the way most Bibles translate the men and women even from our fits the words and mood aforementioned passage in Isaiah. own families. conveyed at this pivotal In the Old Testament, the term Because people use the word acclamation that concludes the “hosts” usually means a great “holy” so often, some of its preface and introduces the number of warriors. This is power in reference to God as “the eucharistic prayer. conveyed in the previous Holy One” has been diminished. In short, I asked if the music translation by the words “power To be invited into the holy conveys a sense of and might.” mystery of God, therefore, is so awe and wonder. It is the very profound that it is almost too In the new power of the much to bear. One can Roman Missal, ‘To be invited source of the understand Isaiah’s sense of there is only into the holy Sanctus that led “woe is me” (Is 6:5). one change in the mystery of God, me to reconsider God the Holy One, the Lord of Sanctus. In the the music that we hosts, can only be experienced in a opening line, the therefore, is so were reviewing limited way in this life. new line is “Holy, profound that it for the parish. Sometimes standing in a great holy, holy Lord, is almost too The second of cathedral or participating in a God of hosts” two significant papal celebration of the Eucharist, instead of “Holy, much to bear.’ Scripture people experience a taste of the holy, holy Lord, references sublime. But in truth, God is God of power and included in the beyond human understanding even might.” Sanctus is from Matthew 21:9, as he opens up the mystery of the Both are translations of which presents the narrative of Eucharist for humans to join in. A stained-glass window portrays the prophet Isaiah. In the new Roman Missal, the Isaiah 6:3, where Isaiah tells of a the Palm Sunday entrance into Singing the Sanctus both Sanctus will see one change. Both translations, the original and the new, come vision in which he sees the Jerusalem: “The crowds reflects people’s desire to be in the from Isaiah 6:3. Lord God enthroned above, preceding [Jesus] and those presence of the awesome God surrounded by seraphim: following kept crying out and while at the same time helping Mass in the backyard of a home Instead of stained glass or great “One cried to the other: ‘Holy, saying: ‘Hosanna to the Son of people to experience that very for abandoned children. All of the paintings, our church had holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! All David; blessed is he who comes holiness. children had profound physical innocent children. Our a cappella the earth is filled with his glory!’ ” in the name of the Lord; hosanna One must remember, too, and intellectual disabilities. None singing was from the heart and a The seraphim’s triple in the highest.’ ” that the experience of the holy could walk or talk. One child, true song of praise. repetition of the word “holy” I will focus, however, on the is not found just in great David, literally had been found Even Isaiah, who had brings it to the superlative, that is words of Isaiah. cathedrals or with thousands of laying on a pile of trash. experienced the “holy,” was to say, the most holy of all. Our use of “Holy, holy, holy, people. The holiness of God Even so, love was present in probably smiling at our encounter Meanwhile, Isaiah is Lord God of hosts” as we enter can also be experienced in the the way these children were with holiness. overwhelmed by the event and the eucharistic prayer is a way of love of a mother for a newborn being treated. All of them were fearful that he may die for seeing remembering that we are also baby or in the reconciliation reverenced as gifts from God. (Father Herbert Weber is the Lord. entering a holy experience. As between friends. I celebrated Mass there for the the founding pastor of Instead, God chooses Isaiah to such, the acclamation invites While visiting Haiti a few years dedicated staff and some fellow Blessed John XXIII Parish in be his prophet and spokesperson. worshipers to experience the ago, I was blessed to celebrate visitors. The liturgy was simple. Perrysburg, Ohio.) † The assembly addresses Christ directly in the mystery of faith By Allan F. Wright Liturgy, which is rooted in biblical tradition, conveys Both options A and B are derived from meaning to participants. And when liturgical texts are 1 Corinthians 11:26: “For as often as you eat this “Life is not static; it changes,” said Bishop Arthur precisely translated from the original Latin and understood bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Serratelli, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on through poetic biblical imagery, liturgy facilitates active Lord until he comes.” Divine Worship, in comments on the changes in the new participation at Mass. Christ’s title in option C is found in John 4:42, where Roman Missal to be implemented on the weekend of Faithful translations inspire the soul and make God’s the woman who met Jesus at the well is told by her Nov. 26-27, the first Sunday of Advent. voice more accessible. fellow Samaritans: “We know that this is truly the Savior “To be alive is to change,” he explained. “Our One noteworthy change takes place directly following the of the world.” institutions, people and languages change. Liturgy is life, consecration. All three acclamations incorporate familiar therefore liturgy changes.” Presently, the priest says, “Let us proclaim the mystery of elements, although some of the phrases, when faith.” But in the new translation, he will simply announce, compared to our present text, have been rearranged. “The mystery of faith” (“Mysterium fidei”). The acclamation used now in option B—“Dying you This formulation accomplishes two things. destroyed our death, rising you restored our life”—has • First, it acclaims the mystery of Christ’s sacrifice been substantially amended to shift the emphasis more already present on the altar, in which “is contained the upon Christ’s own death and resurrection and not on whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ ours: “When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we himself, our Pasch” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.” CNS photo/Regis Duvignau, Reuters #1324). It is a declarative statement about the Eucharist The familiar acclamation “Christ has died, Christ is now present. risen, Christ will come again” that is present in the Blessed Pope John Paul II reflected on these words in his current option A is dropped in the new translation. This encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church comes is because it does not directly address Christ, who is from the Eucharist”). The very thought of the mysterious made present in the Eucharist, nor does it speak of our gift of the Holy Eucharist, he said, should fill us with relationship with him. “profound amazement and gratitude” (#5). In all, the new translations speak of a love that is too • Second, it invites the faithful to acclaim the sacramental great for words. mystery. In response, the people will make one of three Pope Benedict XVI elevates the host during a Mass for the sick revised acclamations that are rooted in Scripture. (Allan F. Wright is academic dean of evangelization at the Marian sanctuaries of Lourdes, France, on Sept. 15, 2008. Each employs the second person “you/your,” addressing at St. Paul Inside the Walls: The Catholic Center The revised texts and translations of the mystery of faith Christ directly. for Evangelization at Bayley-Ellard in the emphasize the assembly at Mass directly addressing Christ. Each includes the phrase “we proclaim” and “save us.” Diocese of Paterson, N.J.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Biblical readings: The books of Esther and Baruch Puppy love, Next week, the 29th week in Ordinary The Jews celebrate their deliverance with it shall be granted you” (Est 5:3). Time, the Old Testament books of Esther and the annual feast of Purim. The Office of Readings has only whale watching Baruch are included in The story has three major sections: how two passages from Baruch, a book the Office of Readings. Esther is selected to become queen; ascribed to Jeremiah’s scribe but actually and St. Francis Most of Esther is read Mordecai’s conflict with Haman and Esther’s composed by four writers centuries after Across the country, young married couples on Sunday through intervention to save the Jews; and the revenge Baruch’s death. The first passage is a have settled on the perfect preparation for Thursday and parts of the Jews take against their enemies. penitential prayer, which consists of a parenthood—a puppy. Baruch on Friday and This book was originally written, in confession of guilt speaking of God in the It is a trial run that Saturday. Hebrew, toward the end of the Persian Empire third person, and then a plea for mercy delivers many of the The Book of Esther in the fourth century B.C. However, it had addressing God directly in the same tussles and is historical fiction, a no reference to God anyplace in it. In the second person. delights—a tiny, big-eyed novella about God’s second century B.C., a Greek version was The second passage, the book’s creature who is named Providence. It’s the story of a young produced with the addition of 107 verses centerpiece, is a poem that extols wisdom as and measured and potty Jewish girl who is chosen queen of the inserted in appropriate places. The additions the great gift God has given to Israel. It trained, who interrupts Persian Empire by King Ahasuerus— include prayers by Mordecai and Esther. demonstrates that two scriptural traditions, Netflix and upends the Hebrew for King Xerxes, 485-464 B.C. She Since the additions were in Greek, the Jews that of Job and that of Sirach, are not budget, protracting is queen when the king’s powerful vizier, did not accept them in their canon, but the incompatible. Job illustrated that wisdom is Saturday mornings and Haman, plots to destroy, in a single day, all Catholic Church did, including Esther’s prayer unfathomable (Job 28:1-28), while contracting Saturday nights. Someone to worry the Jews living in the empire because of his before she went to meet the king. Sirach stated that it is accessible in the law about and brag about, to snuggle and scold. hatred for Mordecai, who happens to be The only New Testament reference to the (Sir 24:1-34). Someone to put in the Christmas card photo. Esther’s uncle and foster father. Book of Esther occurs when King Herod Baruch says that only God knows It may seem silly, but the multi-vitamin dog Esther uses her charms with the king to Antipas says to the daughter of Herodias, wisdom, but he has revealed it to Israel in treats and rhinestone-encrusted collars come avert the pogrom against the Jews. She “I will give you anything you ask, even half the Torah: Wisdom “is the book of the with the immediate miracle of getting outside manages to reverse the royal decree of my kingdom” (Mk 6:23). That’s an echo of precepts of God, the law that endures yourself—committing to that pup and feeling extermination so that Haman is hanged on King Ahasuerus, who said to Esther, “What is forever; all who cling to her will live, but your heart rise and fall with its every whimper. the gibbet he built for Mordecai. your request? Even if it is half of my kingdom, those will die who forsake her” (Bar 4:1). † Puppy training is, indeed, parent training. Three in four Catholic households report Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes having a pet, according to the American National Election Studies. We think ‘I’ is the most important word in any language This month, we saluted their patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi, and all the motley pets we Did you ever notice how personally most of of problems over which we have little control. suffer or waste natural resources just have loved. We gathered under the slanted sun us take catastrophes in our lives? We’re But it’s another thing to make a bad decision because we wanted to be comfortable or for animal blessings, a reminder of the offended when bad things happen to us good and have to endure the consequences. If we because it was convenient. After all, catholicity of Catholicism, that the stuff of people, especially when we had no control decide to cheat just a little and get caught, we hadn’t God entrusted them to us as the home life has a place in the Church—even the over what happened. figure we deserve it. If we hastily marry an masters of the universe? critters that shed. For example, we’ve listened to the people untrustworthy person, we’re not exactly Sometimes this attitude extended to Jackie, 48, a curly-haired Catholic who has around New Orleans saying, “Why me?” on surprised if the marriage fails. Or if we abuse or “me first” in human relationships as well. never married, cherishes her Shih Tzu. Without the TV when Hurricane Katrina hit the ignore our kids, despite all our rationalizations, Our perceived “needs” came first. her, the New Jersey native says, “this house Gulf Coast and destroyed we have no valid excuses when they act out. Sometimes we even went to war as would be really lonely.” their homes or At one point in time, people thought the sun nations because of selfish human desires. Jackie lost her male Shih Tzu in May, “after businesses. revolved around the Earth. After all, people Christ startled everyone by insisting 15 and a half years of happiness and love.” I’m sure people in lived on Earth, and wasn’t it obvious that instead that we must always put the other Hallmark introduced pet sympathy cards in many states are saying it everything centered on them and their world? guy first. We must forgive 70 times seven 1984 and, over the years, sales have steadily again now in light of all Even the Church fought scientific evidence to or treat our neighbor as we would like to increased. “Your pet was part of the family,” the floods and other the contrary for a while. It was just too hard to be treated. Our human obligation is to reads one card, picturing an empty soft chair. natural disasters which believe that the natural order did not obey love and to serve others, and to do so “That’s what makes saying goodbye so hard.” have happened so often human self-centeredness. without whining. The more hours I log in my office, the more lately throughout the U.S. Maybe we should never have learned that Babies come into this world needing I appreciate even passing animal encounters, Most of us are miffed we’re made in the image of God because it sure everything and thus being the natural like the four raccoons that cautiously to discover all the ailments that accompany made some of us feel important. Think of the centers of attention. Then they learn the descended our oak tree after a thunderstorm, aging. What’s worse, they’re happening to me! Christian believers in predestination who were word “I”—or “me” in toddler talk—and crawling in pairs and leaning against each And we often don’t have much patience with convinced that they must be the Elect in continue expecting to be the king or other. Or the tree frog that landed on the front others who are experiencing the same thing. contrast to all those other poor slobs who were queen of the family. But when they door one August evening, mystifying with its When our spouse graduates from selective not. Or think of all the religious wars finally grow up, some later than sooner, bulging yellow eyes. hearing to actual deafness, we take it throughout history between faiths claiming to they learn to use “I” sparingly. And, Sit too long at a computer and you can personally. We pout if he or she doesn’t hear be the only one favored by God. hopefully, the egotism that goes with it. forget everything outside the inbox. what we say or gets it wrong. We make scenes Also, we often took the imperative to be That’s why my family packed over missed appointments or obligations even stewards of the Earth to mean that we could (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the three binoculars and a 16-gigabyte when they were really just misheard, not treat the rest of God’s creation however we Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a memory card on our recent Alaskan cruise. carelessly forgotten. Aging presents a variety pleased. We could abuse the soil, make animals regular columnist for The Criterion.) † We yearned to see some hulking mammal living among the woodland and waterfalls. The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco Goats and moose and bears—oh, my! Bald eagles flew overhead, salmon swam A question that those of us who ar e Catholic are often asked below us. And I couldn’t pass up the opportunity for whale watching. Two and a “God finds us again and again, when we Religion Publishers Group and everyone, but was learning the hard way” that half hours and a guarantee of a whale least expect him. He finds us because he Crossroad Publishing Company. he could not. He then “began to wonder what spotting or your money back. I handed over never left us.” In 2007, Leach, who is dubbed “the dean it would be like to love just one person with my credit card and signed up. These comforting of Catholic book publishing,” was honored all [his] heart, and have a family and do just Two and a half hours later, the outlook was words, found in with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the that one thing right.” bleak: gray sky, gray water, biting wind and Why Stay Catholic? Catholic Book Publishers Association. He tells how he met “stunning Vickie,” pelting rain. Unexpected Answers to I have known him for more than 40 years. whom he married a year later. No whale. a Life-Changing But it was in April of 2001 that he took me by That was more than 40 years ago, and now “This is when they toss out the Question (Loyola Press), surprise with a special request. Vickie has early stages of Alzheimer’s battery-operated rubber whale,” stay with me because of He called me, saying that he had read disease, but praises God, Leach writes, for someone joked. the power contained an editorial that I had written for the the “miracles” in her life—her “sweetheart” And finally, a humpback. On our side of the in them. Hartford Courant, expressing how appalled I and “wonderful boys.” boat. Not far. The book’s author, was that Montana had brought back the death The book is full of love stories. The dorsal fin made a smooth arc, sliding Michael Leach, is publisher emeritus and penalty, which I had opposed all of my life. Leach also reminds Catholics that from right to left. I snapped my camera editor-at-large of Orbis Books. And I continued opposing it even though my “Catholic social teaching is founded on the repeatedly, pointing it at the whale and In Why Stay Catholic, he confronts a son, John, and his wife, Nancy, had been principle of solidarity—a spiritual awareness lowering it to my chin so I could observe reality that we all live with—knowing people, murdered in Montana not long before the that each of us is responsible for the good of directly, without any filter. often our relatives, who were once good state resumed executions. all of us. It is knowing that when a family in Here was a 40-ton beast in an endless ocean Catholics, but now never go to Mass. Leach then asked if I would write a Chicago gets food stamps, a city is richer; choosing that very moment to dip above the Leach honestly acknowledges that many book on the death penalty for him to publish when a family in Maine receives health care, water. Witnessing that spontaneous act in that Catholics have left the Church because of at Orbis. a state is healthier; when taxes from a natural environment felt like peering behind scandals or something as mundane as “simple I asked him, “When do you want it?” corporation in Manhattan help provide shelter the curtain into a secret world. You only get a boredom” that led them to question their He said on Aug. 1, and I agreed. for a homeless family on the Gulf Coast, a few seconds, but you memorize the sight. faith. But then he gives remarkable reasons But when I hung up, I thought, “You crazy country is stronger; and when a wealthy “All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these for celebrating our Catholic faith despite our lady! You just said you’d write a book in country sends AIDS medicine to families in brother and sister creatures,” St. Francis wrote oftentimes great disappointments. three-and-a-half months!” Nigeria, the entire world is blessed.” in his “Canticle of the Creatures.” While the book is significant, the man I did manage to write Choosing Mercy, We Catholics should respect, he said, our We echo his words today, craning our necks behind the book is even more so. A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End “deposit of faith [that] is not a limited to take it all in. The world is big, and we Leach has edited and published more than the Death Penalty, but mainly because Leach checking account. It’s a trust fund that are small. 2,000 books by such authors as Nobel Prize polished it well and titled it. increases and multiplies.” and prestigious book award winners. He is the In Why Stay Catholic, he shares his (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer in former president of the Catholic Book personal story of how he had become a priest, (Antoinette Bosco writes for Catholic News Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be Publishers Association, the ecumenical thinking he could “make things right for Service.) † reached at ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011 Page 13

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Oct. 17 Thursday, Oct. 20 The Sunday Readings Ignatius of Antioch, bishop Paul of the Cross, priest and martyr Romans 6:19-23 Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011 Romans 4:20-25 Psalm 1:1-4, 6 • Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 in the Roman Empire, which covered all (Response) Luke 1:69-75 Luke 12:49-53 • 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b of Asia Minor and Greece, stood in utter Luke 12:13-21 • Matthew 22:15-21 opposition to the Gospel of Jesus. Friday, Oct. 21 Paul, therefore, had to reassure, Tuesday, Oct. 18 Romans 7:18-25a The second part of the Book of Isaiah encourage and strengthen this community. Luke, evangelist Psalm 119:60, 68, 76-77, 93-94 provides this weekend’s first reading. He also had to assert his own credentials. 2 Timothy 4:10-17b Luke 12:54-59 Much happened He was an Apostle, specially chosen by after the first section Christ. His authority came from the Lord, Psalm 145:10-13, 17-18 of Isaiah was written. and he spoke as a most devout believer in Luke 10:1-9 Saturday, Oct. 22 The mighty the message of Jesus. Romans 8:1-11 Babylonian Empire St. Matthew’s Gospel supplies the Wednesday, Oct. 19 Psalm 24:1-6 had overwhelmed last reading. John de Brebeuf, priest and Luke 13:1-9 God’s people, literally It is one of the best known passages in destroying the last the New Testament. Again and again, this martyr remaining kingdom of text has been used to defend a very Isaac Jogues, priest and martyr Sunday, Oct. 23 the Hebrews, the draconian view of separation of Church and their companions, martyrs Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary kingdom of Judah. and state, almost as if it is that there are Romans 6:12-18 Time The reigning dynasty there was two reservoirs of divine authority in Psalm 124:1-8 Exodus 22:20-26 extinguished. Many people were killed. human life—one dealing with religion Luke 12:39-48 Psalm 18:2-4, 47, 51 The Babylonians took a number of and the other with government—and captives to Babylon, the imperial capital. never the twain shall meet. 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10 There, these exiles and their descendants, The Gospel clearly exposes an attempt Matthew 22:34-40 were to languish for four generations. to ensnare Jesus. If the Lord spoke against However, during those four generations paying taxes, then Roman law would be the Babylonians lost power. Eventually, defied, and the Romans were unforgiving they too were overtaken by a stronger in the face of defiance. Yet, by approving adversary, Persia. payment of taxes, the Lord would be seen Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle The Persian king, Cyrus, conquered as endorsing the hated Roman conquest Babylon. He had no interest in the exiles and occupation. from the kingdom of Judah so he allowed Jesus fell into neither trap. The basic Declaring bankruptcy does not absolve them to return home. For the exiles, it was final point was that the more important a day of unequalled joy. reality is the kingdom of God in which person of moral need to repay debts An unusual turn of phrase was the God reigns. Everything is subject to I was told once by a friend that, in the wipe out all their resources. But there are also prophet’s designation of King Cyrus as an God’s moral law. QCatholic Church, declaring bankruptcy is those who simply live beyond their means or instrument of God. The reason that this morally wrong and that, are negligent or imprudent in the conduct of was a novelty was because Cyrus was a Reflection even though a court business. pagan. He was not in any sense a son of It is a great pity that this magnificent relieves you of a debt, you In the case of the person you mentioned in Abraham. His ancestors never followed lesson from St. Matthew’s Gospel so must pay back the amount the question, you indicate that he arrived at Moses across the Sinai Desert in often is diverted to—and indeed you owed or else you can bankruptcy through no fault of his own—so it the Exodus. incorrectly presumed as—the teaching of never receive absolution in would seem to me that he incurred no moral Yet, God used Cyrus to accomplish the Christ about the relationship between confession. fault, needs no absolution and, all other things divine will. The divine will was to effect Church and state. I know someone who being equal, is fully qualified to share in the the survival—and the return to peace and The lesson is much, much more was forced into sacraments of the Church. security—of the children of Abraham. profound. It is about reality. Church-state bankruptcy through no Most likely, he has little discretionary For the second reading, the Church relations, of course, are real with quite fault of his own. income right now and is struggling to get his presents a passage from St. Paul’s serious implications. However, the His company went bankrupt, his stock life back in economic balance. First Epistle to the Thessalonians. message is much broader. All the options evaporated and his broker I would say that, down the road, if it ever Thessalonica was a Greek city located discussion of Church-state relations aside, mishandled his accounts, leaving him with came to be that he had resources beyond what on the Greek mainland of the Balkans. It Christians must make every decision in an Internal Revenue Service tax bill of was needed to maintain his family reasonably, exists today as a living community, the light of the Gospel. $40,000 and no way to pay it. he should endeavor to repay the debts that the Greek city of Saloniki. “Render to God” is the standard. Does the Church really require this person bankruptcy court discharged legally. The epistle comes from Paul, along “Render to Caesar,” yes, but most to pay back all of the debts that were canceled, with his disciples, Silvanus and Timothy. importantly render all obedience to God. and before he can ever receive absolution? I often witness adults chewing gum As Christians were at that time Base all judgments on God’s law. (Solon, Iowa) Qduring Sunday Mass and then going everywhere throughout the nearby Life cannot be compartmentalized, right up to receive holy Communion. Asia Minor, the Christians of either for individuals or for states. Since the economic downturn began in the Am I wrong in thinking that chewing gum Thessalonica were living in the midst of a Everything is subject—first, last and AUnited States in 2008, petitions for breaks the one-hour fast that Catholics are hostile culture. Virtually every convention always—to God’s law. † bankruptcy have increased meteorically. required to observe before receiving the The surprising thing is that so little precious body and blood of Christ? theological writing has been done on the (Galloway, N.J.) My Journey to God morality issues involved in declaring bankruptcy. The governing canon (#919 in the Just about anything written today refers the AChurch’s Code of Canon Law) says that reader to the original Catholic Encyclopedia, “one who is to receive the most holy published in the early 1900s, which says that Eucharist is to abstain from any food or God Bless the Geese lawyers and theologians agree that the effect of drink, with the exception only of water and a discharge in bankruptcy is simply to bar any medicine, for at least the period of one hour legal proceedings by creditors against the before holy Communion.” bankrupt, and that “his moral obligation to pay I don’t think you’ll find any official rule all his debts in full when he is able book that details what is food and what is not. still remains.” So we should simply use our heads as God Sound morality dictates that a person who and the Church expect us to do in a lot of borrows money incurs a moral obligation as things. CNS photo/David Moir, Reuters Moir, CNS photo/David well as a monetary one, and that there is an I have heard one opinion that, if gum is implied and binding promise to repay it. sugar-free, it does not break the fast since it In the early years of the United States, a has no nutritional value. person who was unable to satisfy creditors was To me, such reasoning is silly and thrown into a “debtor’s prison” until his family artificial. God bless the geese I love their very goosiness— or friends could come up with the money to Let’s look at the reason for the rule and And winged things Their clamorous calls and waddling discharge his debts. then seek to apply it. That soar the skies walks. The bankruptcy laws that developed The Eucharist is special food, nourishing On gracious wings. Though loathed by many, grace subsequently are a humane hallmark of social not only our bodies for a day but also our unseen— progress and actually have their roots in the souls for eternity. To remind us of just how They sing their praises to Our Lord, Our Lord’s life, too, was paradox. Old Testament concept of a “jubilee year,” special this gift is, the Church requires that no Day by day, near and far. where every half-century debts would other food enter our mouths for an hour They don’t pretend, they don’t conspire, By Linda Abner be forgiven. before receiving it so as not to mix the They don’t ask “Why?” They simply are. Bankruptcy laws enable a debtor to re-enter profane with the sacred. the mainstream of society and begin anew to Gum, whether you chew it or swallow it, (Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis. A skein of function productively. whether it has sugar or not, profanes the pink-footed geese fly past the moon as they prepare to land at the Vane Farm nature People arrive at bankruptcy by different mouth and makes it less worthy as a receptor reserve near Loch Leven in Fife, Scotland, in October 2009. Around 20,000 pink- routes, and there is clearly an element of for the body of Christ. footed geese stop off at the nature reserve each year as they migrate south from morality involved in that. So yes, gum is food, and people should Iceland before the winter season.) Sometimes a catastrophic illness can bury a not chew it during the hour before they family in medical bills or a natural disaster can receive Communion. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, October 14, 2011

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Rest in peace Joseph Risselman. Brother of CNS photo/Bob Roller Charles Risselman. Grandfather Please submit in writing to our HUESMAN, Ruth L., 87, of five. office by 10 a.m. Thursday St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Sept. 30. RITTER, Gemma Elizabeth, before the week of Mother of Donna Daub, Jane publication; be sure to state Kuhn, Teresa Muldoon, James, infant, St. Louis, Batesville, date of death. Obituaries of Jerry, John, Pat and Sam Sept. 30. Daughter of Jade and archdiocesan priests serving Huesman. Sister of Ruby Woods, Elizabeth Ritter. Sister of our archdiocese are listed Donald and Willard Stohry. Allysan, Meg, George, Hank and elsewhere in The Criterion. Grandmother of 18. Great-grand - Paul Ritter. Grandddaughter of Order priests and religious mother of 17. Albert and Ellie Amberger and sisters and brothers are HUSER, Martha Jean, 92, Gene and Joan Ritter. included here, unless they are St. Mary, Greensburg, Oct. 1. SCHEELE, Charles H., 76, natives of the archdiocese or Mother of Grace and Fred Huser. Holy Family, Oldenburg, have other connec tions to it; Grandmother of two. Great- Sept. 30. Husband of Beverly those are separate obituaries grandmother of one. on this page. Scheele. Father of Natalie and KUHN, Andrew Dale, 36, Nicholas Scheele. Stepfather of BIERLY, Roberta K., 60, St. Joseph, Shelbyville, July 16. Kim Caramela, Deborah Davis, St. Peter, Harrison County, Son of Stephan Kuhn and Sandra Cindy Schmidt and Gregory Sept. 16. Wife of Roger Bierly. Kuhn. Brother of Kathleen Mother of John Bierly Jr. Sister Bolengo, Julia Weintraut and Busch. Brother of Clara Becker, Tribute to women religious of Janie Whittaker. Alice Stenger, Irene Tebbe, Mary Michele Vicen. A monument dedicated to the women religious who ministered to wounded and dying soldiers and Lambert Scheele. Grand - COTTERMAN, Lynn, 86, RAJA, Vincent A., 76, from the North and South during the American Civil War is located across the street from the father of three. Step-grandfather St. Luke the Evangelist, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. Indianapolis, Sept. 29. Mother Sept. 24. Husband of Ann Raja. of 10. of Bill Cotterman. Sister of Father of Julie Flickinger, SCHRODER, Mary C., 91, Vance Cotterman. Grandmother Kathleen Pugh and Vincent Raia. St. Joseph, Sellersburg, Sept. 14. of three. Grandfather of nine. Great- Mother of Angela Hayes, Franciscan Sister Sue Bradshaw was a teacher, ECKRICH, Matthew John, grandfather of three. Bernard, James and Mark college professor and served in parish ministry 84, St. Therese of the Infant RIALL, Lucille C., 86, Schroder. Grandmother of 13. Franciscan Sister Sue Bradshaw, formerly as in parish ministry in Indiana and Ohio. Jesus (Little Flower), St. Joseph, Sellersburg, Sept. 1. Great-grandmother of 25. Indianapolis, Sept. 19. Husband Sister Catherine Marie, died on Sept. 30 at In the archdiocese, she taught at Wife of Bob Riall. Mother of St. Clare Hall, the health care facility for the of Mary Helen Eckrich. Father SHIRLEY, James, 68, St. Mary- St. Louis School in Batesville, St. Joan of Arc Ron Riall. Stepmother of Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, in of Betsy Glowinski, Christina of-the-Knobs, Floyd County, School in Indianapolis and St. Christopher School Rhonda Harris and Randy Riall. Oldenburg. She was 76. Tebbe, Cathy Walter, Kevin Sept. 30. Husband of Linda in Indianapolis. Sister of Ruth Deitsch, Betty The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Klaiber, Theresa, Mark, Sister Sue also served on the faculty at Hutchinson, Mary Loftus and (Flanigan) Paulley Shirley. Father on Oct. 4 at the motherhouse chapel in Oldenburg. Matthew III and Tom Eckrich. Marian University in Indianapolis from 1974 Dorothy Patton. Grandmother of of Laura Arthur, Justin Flanigan, Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. Brother of Franciscan Sister until she retired to St. Clare Hall at the six. Vivian and Christopher Paulley. Sister Sue was born on April 24, 1936, in Helen Eckrich and Tom Eckrich. motherhouse in 2008. RICHMER, Forrest G., 81, Brother of Jean Loftus, Alvin, Indianapolis. She entered the Oldenburg Grandfather of 18. Great- She also ministered on the pastoral staff at St. Mary, Lanesville, Sept. 28. Jerry, Ray and Rob Shirley. Franciscan community on Sept. 8, 1954, and grandfather of eight. St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis and Husband of Agnes (Receveur) Grand father of nine. Great-grand - professed her final vows on Aug. 12, 1960. St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis, and assisted GRANNAN, Julieanne M., 74, Richmer. Father of Linda father of four. She earned a master’s degree at Our Lady of the Greenwood, Poliskie, Jean Wills, Carol, Alan, Xavier University in Cincinnati and a doctorate in with the formation program for Franciscan friars. Greenwood, Sept. 30. Wife of Dale, Dennis and Larry Richmer. YOUNG, Martin D., 96, Asian studies at Georgetown University in Surviving are a brother, John Bradshaw, and Anthony Grannan. Mother of Brother of Mary Rita Smith and SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Washington, D.C. several nieces and nephews. Bryan, Curtis and Mark William Richmer. Grandfather of Indianapolis, Oct. 1. Uncle Sister Sue served as a grade school teacher, Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Grannan. Grandmother of two. 18. Great-grandfather of 15. of several. † high school teacher and college professor as well St. Francis, P.O. Box 100, Oldenburg, IN 47036. †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)— accompany their lives from geological point of view,” but also Endless news, noise and crowds morning to night,” he said during a because of the upheaval caused by have made people afraid of silence visit to an Italian monastery negative social and behavioral and solitude, which are essential on Oct. 9. patterns. for finding God’s love and love for “Some people are no longer “It’s a land where others, Pope Benedict XVI said. able to bear silence and solitude unemployment is worrisome, CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters Progress in communications for very long,” he said during a where often ferocious criminality and transportation has made life vespers service at a Carthusian tears the social fabric, [a] land in more comfortable, as well as more monastery in Serra San Bruno which there is a constant feeling “agitated, sometimes frantic,” he in Calabria. of being in a state of emergency,” said, especially in cities, where Monasteries remind people of he said in his homily. there is a constant din, even all the need for silent reflection, “Don’t ever give in to the night. which lets people delve into the temptation of pessimism and Young apparent emptiness of solitude and turning inward,” he said, urging people experience real fullness, that is, those gathered to use their faith seem to God’s presence and true reality, in God to foster collaboration, want to fill he said. help others and promote the every By spending time alone in quiet common good. moment prayer, people find life’s essentials Monasteries are indispensable Cloistered monks listen as Pope Benedict XVI leads a prayer at the Carthusian with music and unity with others, he said. for society because they remind monastery in Serra San Bruno, Italy, on Oct. 9. The pope spent one day in the and video, The pope spent one day in the people of the need to put God region of southwestern Italy still struggling with organized crime, corruption and and there Diocese of Lamezia Terme in and the common good before high unemployment. is a southwest Italy—a region still self-interest, he said after the Pope Benedict XVI growing struggling with organized crime, Mass. economic interests, concerned place in society, he said. risk that corruption and high Today’s societies are not only with earthly things and “Rather, the monastery is a people are more immersed in a unemployment. healthy, the pope said. The air lacking a spiritual dimension.” model of a society that puts God virtual world rather than in reality During an outdoor Mass, the “is polluted by a mentality that is Not only is there no room for and fraternal relations at the because of the constant stream of pope called the region a un-Christian and inhumane God, but other people and the center,” something “we really “audiovisual messages that “seismic territory, not just from a because it is dominated by common good no longer have a need in our day, too,” he said. † What was in the news on Oct. 13, 1961? Mixed neighborhoods, a Rosar y Crusade, the Reds’ biggest fear and the continuing battle of the sexes By Brandon A. Evans changed to: ‘Do you mean you’re really Family Rosary Crusade.” the Guild of St. Athanasius parish [Oct. 8] staying there?’ ‘Why not?’ retorts Byrne, a • Praises good will of non-Catholics that Catholics should pay far more This week, we continue to examine tall, rangy young salesman. ‘If people only • Exclusive interview: Sen. Morse attention to bring the principles of Christ to what was going on in the Church and the would stop to realize that Negroes are defends his school aid stand bear on the basic needs of our day.” world 50 years ago as seen through the people like anybody else,’ says his wife.” • Labor backs Kennedy on school • Family Clinic: The battle of the pages of The Criterion, which is • Though the wall: Finds life in aid issue sexes will never be settled celebrating its 50th anniversary. E. Germany oppressive to • Awakened • Year’s sacrifices by laity bring Here are some of the items found in the believers Christendom called mission windfall Oct. 13, 1961, issue of The Criterion: • Request use of English Reds’ biggest fear • Feel free to criticize, Delegate tells • Fresh wave of persecution faces in the Mass “EVANSTON, Ill.— the laity Catholics in Hungary • North Vernon parish Communists the world • Seek change in laws on immigration • ‘It can be done’: Won’t leave mixed to observe centennial over fear that the followers • Avoid backing extremists, Catholic neighborhood • Use of vernacular of Christ will wake up in press advised “CINCINNATI—When Jim and granted to Poland time to dedicate themselves • 4,000 Third Order members attend Evelyn Byrne moved into suburban • Half million attend to solving world problems, interracial rally North Avondale four years ago, some of ‘Rosary Crusade’ Father James Keller, M.M., director of the • Reject priest’s offer to teach their friends raised their eyebrows. “SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—What was Christophers, said here. ‘Once that Bible course ‘How come you moved into a Jewish described as the ‘largest religious happens,’ the priest said, ‘the march of • Canadian laymen plan publication neighborhood?’ they asked. Since last gathering ever to take place in the communism across the globe will falter and spring, however, the next-door neighbors of United States’—a throng of more than fail. But not till then!’ While there should (Read all of these stories from our Oct. 13, the Byrne family on both sides have been 500,000 persons—jammed San Francisco’s be reasonable efforts to check subversion, 1961, issue by logging on to our archives Negro families. Now the question has Gold Gate Park for a rally of the he declared in a special talk sponsored by at www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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This view of the San Francisco skyline taken on Sept. 26 includes St. Ignatius Church, a Jesuit parish near the Bay. The first parish church was established by Jesuit priests in 1855, six years after they arrived as missionaries from Italy. The present church was dedicated on Aug. 2, 1914.

Above, Msgr. William Stumpf, moderator of the curia, celebrates Mass on Sept. 27 at the historic Mission San Francisco Solano Church in Sonoma, Calif. It is the only mission founded in California after Mexico’s independence from Spain. It was founded by Father Jose Altimira on July 4, 1823, and is named for St. Francis Solano, a missionary to the Peruvian Indians.

Left, archdiocesan pilgrims visited historic Mission San Francisco de Asis, also known as Mission Dolores, in San Francisco on Sept. 25 during a six-day pilgrimage to churches and other holy sites in California led by Msgr. William Stumpf, moderator of the curia for the archdiocese. The mission, originally located on San Francisco Bay, served as an important naval base for the Spaniards to protect their colony from outside invaders. It is now located in downtown San Francisco. It was founded on June 29, 1776, under the direction of Blessed Junipero Serra. It is the oldest original intact mission in California as well as the oldest building in San Francisco. Mission Dolores Parish now comprises the basilica and old mission.

Above, archdiocesan pilgrims, front row, from left, Rogelio Mahor of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Terre Haute, pilgrimage director Othmar Grueninger of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, Susan Lindeman of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood and William Uber of St. Paul Catholic Center in Bloomington pray during Mass on Sept. 27 at Mission San Francisco Solano Church in Sonoma, Calif. Above, Old Mission San Juan Bautista was founded by Franciscan Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, the successor to Blessed Juniper Serra, on June 24, 1797, near what is now Monterey Bay in California. The pilgrims visited the historic church on Sept. 29.

Left, giant redwood trees grace the summit of Bear Mountain near Santa Cruz, Calif. The pilgrims visited Bear Mountain on Sept. 29 via a scenic narrow-gauge railroad train route.

Right, a historical marker at Old Mission San Juan Bautista identifies the church and mission as an important site in the history of the Catholic faith in California.