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CriterionOnline.com April 8, 2011 Vol. LI, No. 26 75¢ French cured of Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Parkinson’s to speak at John Paul II prayer vigil (CNS)—The French nun whose healing was accepted as the miracle needed for John Paul II’s beatification will share her story with pilgrims at a prayer vigil in on the night before the beatification Mass. Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the papal vicar for Rome, said the vigil on April 30 would include “the precious testimony” of Joaquin Pope John Paul II Navarro-Valls, the former papal spokesman; Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, who was the pope’s personal secretary for almost 40 years; and Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, the member of the Little Sisters of the Ultrasound technician and pro-life speaker Shari Richard of West Bloomfield, Mich., displays a fetal model made by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Motherhood, who parishioner Noel Merrick of Carmel, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese, during her keynote speech for the Great Lakes Gabriel Project’s second annual had been diagnosed “Partners for Life” fundraising dinner on March 29 in Indianapolis. The pro-life ministry’s website is www.glgabrielproject.org. with Parkinson’s disease and believes she was cured in New technology is changing hearts and 2005 through the intercession of Pope John Paul. saving unborn babies’ lives, speaker says Cardinal Vallini, other officials from By Mary Ann Wyand unforgettable pro-life educational videos. Eyewitness 2: The Next Generation the Rome diocese and Sonographer Shari Richard of featuring incredible three- and Jesuit Father Federico These portraits are priceless. West Bloomfield, Mich., has given a four-dimensional ultrasound images that Sr. Marie-Simon-Pierre Lombardi, the Vatican A preborn baby yawns, and another powerful voice to the unborn by using her clearly display the humanity of unborn spokesman, held a sucks her thumb. Yet another tiny infant pictures of babies growing in utero for DVDs babies, and expose the abortion industry’s news conference on April 5 to discuss the smiles contentedly, and a fourth baby titled Ultrasound: A Window to the Womb lie that fetuses are disposable tissue. details of Pope John Paul’s beatification on stretches his arms and legs. Twins snuggle and Eyewitness to the Earliest Days of Life. During her emotional keynote address May 1 and other events surrounding the together inside their mother’s womb. Her compelling two-dimensional videos for the Great Lakes Gabriel Project’s ceremony. Amazing produced by Sound Wave Images, a second annual “Partners for Life” After the prayer vigil at Rome’s See related editorial, digital ultrasound company that she founded in 1990, fundraising dinner on March 29 in Circus Maximus, eight churches located page 4. images of have educated millions of people about Indianapolis, Richard praised Ian Donald, between the vigil site and the Vatican will developing prenatal development with more than the pioneer of clinical ultrasound remain open all night for pilgrims to pray, babies recorded by the miracle of 500,000 copies distributed, broadcast and technology, for his life-saving invention that the cardinal said. technology are saving lives as well as translated worldwide. she has used for 34 years to show people The cardinal also announced that prayers changing minds and hearts through In 2009, Richard produced Window 2 and See UNBORN, page 8 for the Mass and the office of readings for See CURE, page 8 CRS rep says priority is to help Haitians help themselves

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti 35-year-old Toledo, Ohio, native A woman carries (CNS)—After serving in Iraq and admits is a major challenge given the cabbage in the Congo, Luke King was sent to Haiti immense difficulties confronting a rural community

as country nation historically beset by profound CNS photo/Bob Roller of Petite Riviere director to poverty. The quake killed more than des Nippes, Haiti, manage 300,000 people, and left 1.5 million on March 16. The Catholic people homeless. community is Relief King met with Catholic News working on a Services’ Service in his office at the variety of massive CRS compound in the Haitian capital development response to to discuss how the agency is programs, such the Jan. 12, structuring its work going into the as expanding 2010, future. electrical and earthquake. Q. A year-plus after the clean water Since earthquake, what is CRS working distribution, and Luke King arriving in to achieve in Haiti? improving August, A. “At this point, it’s rebuilding agricultural King—the agency’s fourth country communities in a holistic manner production. director within a year—has overseen through something we call integrated an effort that integrates various forms human development. It takes into of vital assistance while encouraging account all types of qualities of a Haitians to shape the path that their person’s life. There’s the spiritual recovery should take. It is a task the See HAITI, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 High court tosses out challenge to Arizona tuition tax cr edit program WASHINGTON (CNS)—The because appropriations and tax breaks can Supreme Court on April 4 tossed out a achieve identical objectives,” wrote Kagan, challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit “the government can easily substitute program—which directs money to one for the other. scholarships for students at mostly Catholic “Today’s opinion thus enables the nonpublic schools—saying that because no government to end-run [a previous ruling direct state expenditures are involved, that guaranteed] access to the judiciary. CNS photo/Larry Reuters Downing, taxpayers have no legal basis for suing. From now on, the government need follow The 5-4 ruling written by just one simple rule—subsidize through the Justice Anthony Kennedy held that tax system to preclude taxpayer challenges because the arrangement is for taxpayers to to state funding of .” receive tax credits for their donations to The case is a joint hearing of two related tuition scholarship organizations, no actual lawsuits, Arizona Christian School Tuition state spending is involved, and that Organization v. Winn, and the Arizona therefore taxpayers in general lack Department of Revenue v. Winn. jurisdiction for challenging the program. Kathleen M. Winn and other taxpayers “In an era of frequent litigation, brought the suit. class actions, sweeping injunctions with Paul Bender, the attorney for the people prospective effect, and continuing who sued to stop the program, told jurisdiction to enforce judicial remedies, reporters that because the court did courts must be more careful to insist on not address whether the law itself is Security guards walk the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 1. The nation’s the formal rules of standing, not less so,” constitutional, the door remains open for highest court on April 4 tossed out a challenge to Arizona’s tuition tax credit program. wrote Kennedy. He was joined in the another lawsuit, assuming a plaintiff can be decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and found who the court would accept as The 2010 annual report of the year, and more than $9 million Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas having been harmed by the program. Tuition Support Organization of the worth of scholarships during the 2008 tax and Samuel Alito. Scalia also wrote a brief Ron Johnson, the executive director of Diocese of Tucson says it provided year, according to the most recent concurring opinion. the Arizona Catholic Conference, told scholarships for 3,378 students in information on its website. In a strong dissent, Justice Elena Kagan Catholic News Service that Kagan’s 26 schools in seven counties of Johnson said the program has made it said that because of the program the state conclusion that the program costs the state southern Arizona, including 11 schools possible for Arizona’s private schools to has lost an estimated $350 million in money overlooks how much Arizona saves in economically depressed areas. keep up steady enrollment at a time when revenue that never got into government by not having to pay for educating the Forty-seven percent of the students enrolled the state’s economy was among the worst coffers since the 1997 law took effect. thousands of children who get scholarships in those schools benefited. And 34 percent in the nation and parochial schools The program allows tax credits of up to to nonpublic schools. of the individual scholarships went to nationwide have been closing because of $500 for individuals and $1,000 for couples Johnson said the average credit—or the families headed by a single mother, it said, shrinking enrollment. who donate money to a scholarship tuition amount that doesn’t go into state coffers— and the average income of recipient “The tuition tax credit is helping keep organization, which in turn uses the money is $2,000, while the average cost to the families is less than $35,000. schools open, primarily those in inner-city to fund scholarships for students who state to educate a child is $9,000 to There are more than 50 such tuition areas,” he said. If those schools closed and attend private schools, including religious $10,000 a year. The difference of $7,000 to support organizations in the state, the students were pushed into schools. The vast majority of such $8,000 per child is an expenditure the state representing religious and nonreligious neighborhood public schools, “it would scholarships have gone to students who doesn’t have to make for that student. schools, Johnson said. The vast majority of cost the government even more money attend religious schools. Johnson said private schools typically the scholarship beneficiaries are students than they’re not getting because of these “The court’s arbitrary distinction have lower per-student costs, and the who go to Catholic schools. tax credits. threatens to eliminate all occasions for a balance of the expense is covered by the The Phoenix Diocese’s Catholic “I think the ruling was outstanding,” taxpayer to contest the government’s parents and by the parishes or other private Tuition Support Organization awarded Johnson added, “because they said this monetary support of religion. Precisely organizations that sponsor the schools. 6,019 scholarships for the 2008-2009 isn’t government money.” † Indian bishop Indiana Court of Appeals ruling upholds Lawrence who worked for Township decision on nonpublic school bus fee spiritual renewal Criterion staff report parochial schools. The appeal court agreed. Previously, the transportation had “We’re disappointed,” said declared venerable An Indiana Court of Appeals been provided—as required by Indiana G. Joseph Peters, the associate COCHIN, India (CNS)—Syro-Malabar recently upheld an earlier court law—at no cost, but the school board executive director of Catholic Bishop Thomas Kurialassery, the founder decision that Lawrence Township said it had to start charging a fee for education for the archdiocese. “In this of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Schools do not have to provide full the shuttle services because of financial case, they effectively denied Blessed Sacrament, has been declared bus transportation to students who problems in the district. transportation to our students.” venerable by Pope Benedict XVI. attend nonpublic schools. Lawrence Township sought to charge Peters offered that assessment after The pope signed a decree on The appeals court ruling upheld an the two Catholic schools a fee based on noting that it doesn’t help the affected April 2 recognizing the virtues of order by Marion Court a formula of $1 per mile per student. Catholic students to get bussed to the Bishop Kurialassery, who died in 1925, Judge Robyn L. Moberly that In response, the archdiocese filed middle schools when there is no free said Adoration Sister Benjamin Mary, Lawrence Township no longer had to two lawsuits against the school district shuttle service from the middle vice postulator of the bishop’s cause provide free shuttle service from its on behalf of Catholic school parents schools to the Catholic schools—a for sainthood. public middle schools to two Catholic trying to prevent Lawrence Township distance of about five miles. “I’ve been working as vice postulator for elementary schools in the district— from charging the fee, and challenging “We feel the parents and the kids the last seven years,” the 70-year-old nun told St. Lawrence School and St. Simon the district’s decision to not transport are the losers here,” Peters said. “We the Asian Church news agency UCA News. the Apostle School. the students to their Catholic schools. feel it came down to more of a “This news makes us happy and proud as he The dispute started in November In issuing her order, Judge Moberly financial issue than anything else, than founded the Adoration congregation.” of 2009 when the principals of stated, “If the nonpublic schools something in favor of the kids. It may Born on January 14, 1873, those two Catholic schools were request that transportation from the lead us to seek a legislative solution in Bishop Kurialassery was ordained a priest informed that the Lawrence Township middle schools to their respective the future. Our parents are taxpayers. on May 27, 1899, and consecrated a bishop School Board had developed a plan to schools be provided by the defendant They’re already paying for this. We’re on Dec. 3, 1911. He ministered in the charge a fee to those schools for their school corporation, then the nonpublic thankful for the parents and school southern Indian state of Kerala. students to ride public school buses schools must pay the actual cost administrators who attended the The prelate worked for spiritual renewal, from the middle schools to their thereof.” hearings and testified in this matter.” † and his apostolic activities were inspired by devotion to the Eucharist. †

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This chant, which echoed throughout charter schools to show their beauty,” she Schisla Charles J. Photos by the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, said. “There’s a lot of pressure for was schools to achieve. I think that they generated by [charter schools] can withstand the a crowd pressure and heat, and contribute to the estimated at development of children so that they can 800 people— compete in the global economy.” some of Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor whom were school children—during a of public schools in Washington, D.C., March 30 rally. also attended the rally. Hours after the gathering, House “We have the opportunity in Indiana lawmakers passed the school scholarship today for this state to be leading the bill, House Bill 1003, by a 56-42 vote, charge for education reform. We cannot which allows eligible families to use make this issue about partisan politics,” public dollars to attend a private school of she said. “We have a Republican governor their choice. The Indiana Catholic and a Democrat president who support Conference supports the bill. school choice. I’m a Democrat.” During his address to participants at Rhee, who is the founder and the rally, Indiana Superintendent of chief executive officer of Students First, Public Instruction Tony Bennett said, “In an education reform advocacy group, Above, Indiana Superintendent of all the time I spent coaching basketball, I said she was not a supporter of school Public Instruction Tony Bennett have never enjoyed this time of year as choice until she was responsible for discusses the merits of education much as I am enjoying this year when we 25,000 students in the Washington, D.C., reform legislation during a March 30 turn around education. school system. school choice rally at the “Frequently, when I travel around the The former chancellor said she had Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. state I get this question,” Bennett said. mothers coming to her every day asking Bennett is surrounded by charter “ ‘Tony Bennett, you are the superin- for a choice. school students from across tendent of public instruction. Why do you “I was sending my own children to a the state. support charter schools, private schools private school because I could,” she said. [and] home schools if you are the But for those who could not afford it, Left, many students were among the superintendent of public schools?’ Rhee said, “Who am I, as chancellor of estimated 800 people who attended “I want you to have this answer public schools, to deny these children a a school choice rally on March 30 at galvanized in your heart,” Bennett said. “I $7,500 voucher so they could go to the the Indiana Statehouse. want you to look at the children standing school of their choice? I could not look all around me, and all the children these mothers and their children in the We want to increase the number of “Good education is the key to success. standing up above in the balcony and all eye and tell them, ‘Give it five years for charter schools that are bringing great The goal of the education reform around you in this room. Ladies and the school to improve.’ innovations to the classroom. We want to legislation is to give our kids the gentleman, my public is these children. “Children can’t vote or contribute to move in and turn around schools that are educational opportunities that each of our Your public is these children. Our future campaigns so they are voiceless,” the worst performing. kids need,” said Long, who is the president is these children.” Rhee said. “I want to thank you so profoundly for pro tempore of the Senate. “Tell your Speaker of the House Brian Bosma, She said that when these Indiana coming to show your support for our kids neighbors that the education reform work R-Indianapolis, said, “This is about our lawmakers take heat back in their districts and their futures. The special interest we are doing here is very important. It is constitutional obligation to give every for going against the status quo of the groups who oppose any change of any not against public teachers, but for giving student the most educational opportunities education establishment, they should kind do not represent, thank goodness, the children the best educational fit for them.” that they can receive. This legislation is remember they are representing “the next majority of Hoosiers, and they certainly House Bill 1003 now moves to the about options. We are going to see it generation of constituents and voters.” do not represent the interests of children.” Senate for further consideration. though until the job is done.” Gov. Mitch Daniels addressed the Sen. David C. Long, R-Fort Wayne, Sen. Earline Rodgers, D-Gary, agreed. crowd on a big-screen television. noted the striking difference between this (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for “As a former teacher, I can never get “We have a tremendous opportunity to rally and previous rallies this year. The Criterion. For more information on the away from asking questions,” Rodgers move public education forward,” the “It’s so nice to see a crowd Indiana Catholic Conference and an said, “What takes time, pressure governor said. “We want to ensure a ‘for something’ rather than ‘against update of the status of its priority bills, log and heat?” top quality teacher in every classroom. everything,’ ” he said. on to its website at www.indianacc.org.) † Like , world’s migrants seek a place of welcome, says cardinal WASHINGTON (CNS)—Migrants around the world Cardinal McCarrick. right to be able to support themselves without migrating, struggle to find welcome, making the ’s Globalization makes more urgent the need for the Church governments have a sovereign right to control their challenge to educate its own to defend the human rights of the tens of millions of refugees borders, refugees and asylum seekers should be protected, people about the teachings of the and other people who are in search of a better life, he said. and the rights and dignity of people without immigration faith a universal one, said The cardinal serves as a board member for Catholic Relief documents should be protected. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Services, among other activities that take him around “These rights are not absolute,” the retired of the world. he added, saying the balance Washington, who was the keynote He told of recently meeting a family of Iraqi Christians favors individuals over speaker during a daylong who were refugees in Jordan, and expected not to be able to governments as well as human life conference on the subject. go home anytime soon. and dignity over other concerns. “I have witnessed the The husband of the family explained that he had been Don Kerwin, the vice migration phenomena in all its waiting for Mass to start on Oct. 31 at a Syrian president for programs at the forms,” said Cardinal McCarrick Catholic Church in Baghdad when he heard explosions Migration Policy Institute and at the March 21 conference outside. He decided to leave, and later learned 58 people, former director of the Catholic Cardinal co-sponsored by The Catholic including two priests, were murdered in an attack on Legal Immigration Network, Theodore E. McCarrick University of America and the the church. elaborated on similar points, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “In every visit to After being directly threatened with death, he and his wife J. Kevin Appleby noting, for example, that “states another country, migration is part of the conversation. And decided to leave Iraq, and he told his sons of the plan, he told don’t give us rights. States exist to it’s not a pretty sight. But it cannot be ignored because it the cardinal. The boys said they didn’t want to go because give us ways to honor our God-given rights.” involves human beings.” their friends and familiar places were there. Governments have a responsibility to honor the Earlier in the day, speakers representing the USCCB and Cardinal McCarrick said the man finally told his boys, common good by making it possible for people to survive the Migration Policy Institute took a detailed look at the “Well, if we stay, we can’t talk to Jesus any more,” meaning decently, he said. But “if you can’t survive, you have a theological development of Catholic teaching on migration they couldn’t go to church. right, sometimes a responsibility, to migrate.” and how that shapes the Church’s public policy approach. “We can’t stay without Jesus,” his 6-year-old son He took issue with those who say people who come Later, speakers tackled the role of responded, and agreed to leave. into the United States illegally are greedy, “yet we’re not faith-based groups in the ongoing U.S. debate about Cardinal McCarrick bemoaned the fact that greedy for staying?” immigration policy, and delved into U.S.-Mexico relations U.S. government plans to withdraw troops from Iraq don’t Immigrants also have rights and responsibilities to and how they are affected by migration issues. include any public plan to protect religious minorities. contribute to the social good, Kerwin said, including Cardinal McCarrick, whose international travels haven’t Meanwhile, in neighboring countries, such as Syria and people who are in the country without legal immigration slowed since his retirement in 2006, traced migration- Jordan, which have absorbed Iraqi refugees, “the welcome status. related Scriptural passages from the flight of the Israelites mat is fraying” as they face their own political struggles, To those who say immigrants need to follow “the rule in Exodus to the admonition in Leviticus that “the stranger he said. of law,” Kerwin’s response is, “What don’t you get about who resides with you shall be to you as the native among In outlining Church teaching on the rights of migrants, God-given dignity?” you” (Lv 20:34) and through the New Testament. J. Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy and public The phrase “rule of law” has become a red herring in “Jesus was an itinerant preacher,” he reminded the affairs for the USCCB, traced the same scriptural roots that the immigration debate, he said. What the term means is audience. “He had nowhere to lay his head. There are Cardinal McCarrick referenced and listed some principles that leaders should be bound by the law. But in the case of many like that in our world today.” that guide the work of his office. U.S. immigration laws, they are nearly impossible to In today’s society, “you may not recognize Jesus The principles state that people have a right to migrate to follow with provisions that are retroactive, inconsistently at first” in a stranger, “but he is there,” said be able to care for themselves and their families as well as a applied and don’t reflect realities of life, he said. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011

OPINION Be Our Guest/Fr. Jeffrey Godecker Spirituality and the Final Four

(Editor’s note: The Butler University task and goal. Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Bulldogs advanced to the NCAA Men’s “You shall love the Lord your God with Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Basketball championship game on April 4 your whole self” (Mt 22:37, Mk 12:30, Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus in Houston, where they lost to the Lk 10:27). Wholehearted means pure in University of Connecticut 53 to 41. heart, and that the heart is not divided. Father Jeffrey Godecker, the Spiritual Discovery No. 5—When Catholic chaplain for Butler University in players step onto the basketball floor, they Editorial Indianapolis, wrote this reflection after the take a big risk. They may win, but they also team advanced to the Final Four on could lose. They can make the crucial play March 26.) or miss the play that everybody will South Dakota’s new abortion remember as a mistake and not being good Assumption A—Spirituality is the art of enough to win. law is worth emulating paying attention to the sacred in our lives. A willingness to be vulnerable, to step As Christians, we out in front and risk the mistake is part of state that is famous for its mammoth pay attention to the life life. Vulnerability is present everywhere in Asculptures of four former presidents and words of Jesus as life, and is a spiritual invitation toward carved into a mountainside is making a primary way. But we growth and relationship. news for a different reason these days. can also pay attention Spiritual Discovery No. 6—Forward And those of us who support pro-life to the sacred through Matt Howard will not be featured on the

initiatives are happy to see the Shemitz CNS photo/Gregory A. creation, nature and cover of GQ magazine in the near future— Mount Rushmore State take the lead in art, and also through unless stretched-out socks become that regard. our own experience. fashionable. But if there was a magazine As reported in the April 1 issue of God is not to be found devoted to the inner heart then he would be The Criterion, South Dakota Tom McHugh of St. Patrick Parish in only in some heaven front and center. How Matt performs comes Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law on Bay Shore, N.Y., offers pro-life literature to light years away. He is also to be found in from his heart, not from how he looks. March 22 establishing a three-day waiting passengers of a car entering the parking lot the ordinary and extraordinary lives we Good performance is always tied to the period for all abortions—a time frame of a Planned Parenthood center in lead. inner heart. Without the heart, the hard that exceeds other state laws that require Smithtown, N.Y., on Jan. 19. South Dakota Assumption B—I am not trying to work, the follow-through and the good play 24-hour waiting periods. Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed a law on canonize the Butler University basketball would be missing. The same is true for We applaud the governor and March 22 establishing a three-day waiting team and head coach Brad Stevens. spirituality. South Dakota legislators for adopting the period for all abortions—a time frame that Each of us has our own shadows and Spiritual Discovery No. 7—The road to measure, which also helps women find exceeds other state laws that require 24-hour weaknesses to deal with. However, the the Final Four is a long one. Sometimes a abortion alternatives. waiting periods. team and coach provide us with some very team gets pushed off the road by failure and We were also heartened to see the positive qualities that allow us to also losses. That happened to Butler in January. Indiana House pass House Bill 1210 on immediately announced plans to challenge reflect on our religious lives. Sometimes many Catholics have a rather March 30. Authored by Rep. Eric Turner, it, but the governor said that he has talked Spiritual Discovery No. 1—Paying odd attitude toward personal and moral R-Cicero, the bill would make most with state attorneys who are willing to attention is our first clue and need. failure in religion. Failure isn’t supposed to abortions illegal after 20 weeks. Current defend the law. He also said there is a private Imagine walking out on a basketball happen in the Christian life? Failure can law restricts most abortions after the fetus donor who has agreed to finance the state’s floor and being distracted by last week’s push us off the road, make us give up and is considered viable, generally about costs for defending the law. win, tomorrow’s game or what I am going lead us to indifference. 24 weeks. According to www.LifeNews.com, about to have for supper today. This year’s Butler basketball team gives Among its other provisions, the half of the states across the country have a Athletics is about being fully present to us a totally different model: Failure means House bill would require abortion waiting period that is typically 24 hours in the game at hand. So is spirituality and you pick yourself back up and put yourself providers to tell patients that abortion length. No other state requires women to religious practice. The Butler team back on the road. carries risks, including the possibility of visit a pregnancy center beforehand, but accomplishes what it does because Spiritual Discovery No. 8—A few of the breast cancer. The fact that a similar some states give women information about everybody pays full attention. Butler basketball players come to practice measure has passed the Indiana Senate such centers, which provide tangible help for Someone said that they believe that early. Some of the players stay after. means it is likely some version of the pregnant women. Brad Stevens is successful because he is Practice, practice, that’s the key to growth legislation will reach Gov. Mitch Daniels’ Still, until the new law was passed in always fully present in a natural way. and expertise in any area of life. desk this session. South Dakota, it was obvious that the Fully present—to our lives, to our Without practice, our spirituality and In today’s ever-expanding “me-first” abortion provider had the upper hand. religious practices, to the God that we faith become vague. Christianity invites us society, it is an answer to prayer and gives Rep. Roger Hunt, a South Dakota believe in. to a regular practice. At the top of the list is us hope to see lawmakers putting the life Republican who sponsored the bill, said he In Catholicism, we talk about the real kindness and compassion toward others. of an unborn child at the heart of has been contacted by many women presence of Christ. Christ fully present is Other regular practices include prayer, legislation. who made it clear that they did not get asking for our real presence as well. Sunday worship, care for and respect of the “I think everyone agrees with the goal adequate information or counseling about Spiritual Discovery No. 2— body, sharing resources, fasting, silence, of reducing abortion by encouraging abortion before getting their abortion at the Brad Stevens said after the Florida game hospitality, forgiveness, healing, building consideration of other alternatives,” Planned Parenthood facility in Sioux Falls, that he got out-coached, and that the community, and seeking justice for all. Daugaard, a Republican, said in a the state’s only abortion center. players and assistant coaches held things Spiritual Discovery No. 9—Athletics is statement. “I hope that women who are Women told him of how they were together. An ESPN commentator said in about play. Granted, there is the hard work considering an abortion will use this pressured into getting abortions at the response: “It’s obvious that Brad Stevens and the need for regular practice. But if it is three-day period to make good choices.” Planned Parenthood facility. has never read the sports manual on not also about the joy that comes from play Daugaard said weeks ago that he Brittany Weston of Yankton, who testified self-promotion.” and the sheer fun of the game, sports can be supports life issues, and would likely sign before a South Dakota legislative panel, Spirituality is not about self-promotion. drudgery, leaving the participant lifeless. the bill into law. became pregnant at age 22, but the father of In fact, the self has to get out of the way for The same is true of the spiritual life and “I am pro-life,” Daugaard told the her child insisted that she have an abortion God to get in. Humility is an often religion. Too often, spirituality is articulated Rapid City Journal. “I’ve read the bill and because he did not want to pay child support forgotten virtue in sports, entertainment and in terms of only hard work, difficulty and I’m inclined to sign it, but I want to to help raise the baby. for religious people as well. the moral challenges of life. examine it along with the counsel of Before the abortion, Weston only spoke “Jesus humbled himself,” St. Paul says Christ says in the Gospel of John: “I others to make sure there’s no unintended with staff at Planned Parenthood. She said in his Letter to the Philippians (Phil 2:8). have come that my joy may be yours” consequences that haven’t been identified she wanted the abortion clinic to provide her Spiritual Discovery No. 3—The (Jn 15:11). during the debate.” with help on how to deal with the situation. five players on the floor are a team. The I wonder how often people leave church The South Dakota law, which takes Instead, they performed an abortion and took Butler team excels with qualities of with the sense of joy—and maybe even effect on July 1, requires women the life of her unborn child. cooperation, non-stardom and the ability to excitement—of having prayed and sang considering an abortion to visit a crisis “If this bill you’re discussing today was play together. together, having heard an encouraging word pregnancy center before going to an law at that time, I would have my child right Spirituality also requires others for and having felt something of the presence abortion facility to get counseling on now and he would be about 5 years old,” support and guidance. of Christ in our midst. † abortion’s alternatives as well as the risks Weston told the legislators. “They took Imagine the power of a parish where associated with having the procedure. something from me I’ll never get back—my everybody is working together. Imagine The idea behind the bill is to get child and my soul.” what our world would be like if the Letters Policy women tangible pregnancy help and No matter where you stand concerning different could think of Letters from readers are welcome and support that they won’t normally find at life issues, that chilling testimony should themselves as a team rather than who is should be informed, relevant, well- an abortion facility. The counseling would cause all of us to pause and reflect about right or wrong. Imagine a world where expressed, concise, temperate in tone, not require any out-of-pocket expense on abortion and its consequences. nations are a team in combating the issues courteous and respectful. behalf of the women considering an We wholeheartedly support this new law, of our world. Imagine education where the The editors reserve the right to select abortion. and pray that other states muster the courage learning is done only in teams that play and and edit the letters based on space In a statement supporting the measure to follow suit. work well together. limitations, pastoral sensitivity and before the final vote and the governor’s We must never waver in standing up for Spiritual Discovery No. 4—The Butler content. signature, the Diocese of Sioux Falls said all life—born and unborn. basketball team plays in a wholehearted Letters must be signed, but, for serious reasons, may be withheld. it would help ensure that “mothers are as Millions of defenseless unborn way. This is related to Spiritual Discovery Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” fully aware as possible of the implications babies—and their mothers experiencing No. 1, and includes not just presence, but The Criterion, P.O. Box 1410, Indianap olis, and ramifications of the grave decision to crisis prenancies—are depending on us. also full effort, a full giving yourself to the IN 46206-1410. terminate the most sacred gift of life.” game and team. Readers with access to e-mail may send Opponents of the new law —Mike Krokos Both the Jewish and Christian Scriptures letters to [email protected]. talk about full-hearted loving as a spiritual The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Page 5

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

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR

Take time for reflection and prayer to open your heart to God’s love f we page through the man. His glory must shine through, and to be as single-hearted and honest as we refresh our Christian mission to carry New Testament, the ordinary give us confidence in our prayer. can be. Christ to others—the Christ who suffers Ipicture of Jesus is a very human We can be grateful that in our times of Soon, at Easter, when we renew our and the Christ of joy. What a marvelous one. trouble and need, we have someone who baptismal promises, we testify to do our Lenten grace—to remember more clearly Jesus is the son of a carpenter. He is can offer us even more than consolation. part to let our lives and our loves be why we live and why we die. the son of Mary. He was a man who We have the Christ to whom all power in transformed by God’s love. We struggle Maybe during the fifth week of Lent, tired, a man who lost his patience. He heaven and on Earth has been given. to remember that his love is the truly we need to seize the opportunity to renew had friends like us, and when his The beautiful mystery of the consistent thread in our lives. We prepare our resolve to come closer to Jesus and to friend, Lazarus, died, Jesus wept. Transfiguration, which the Church to renew our radical faith in the powerful prepare the rest of this week for a truly During this time of Lent, we focus presented to us earlier in Lent, takes us to and faithful love of Jesus. prayerful and faith-filled Holy Week. on the fact that Jesus was a man who the mountain and helps us remember, once We need Lent because our promise to Perhaps we need to take a little more suffered. He was mocked and scourged. more, what is important about life and carry God’s love gets lost in the busyness time for reflection and prayer to open our He died on the criminal’s cross. what is important about death. and challenges of everyday life. How hearts to receive God’s love, especially The disciples of Jesus were As it did for Peter, James and John, the easily we forget why we do what we do the sacrificial love of his Son. distressed and discouraged to hear from showing of the Lordship of Jesus for in life. Daily, we face the hazard of It is not too late to be still and quiet in Jesus that he must suffer and die at the one, brief, shining moment assures us that having our fundamental faith gradually the prayer of our hearts. † hands of the chief priests, elders and the fullness of love indeed wins out over dry up and, with that, the meaning of life scribes. And so to encourage them, the pain and power of evil. and death is confused. Jesus gave them a glimpse of his glory Day after day, we look at the many Both the Christ of human sorrow and Do you have an intention for in the Transfiguration. faces of evil. During Lent, we are the Christ of joyful power is present to us Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? Unlike the disciples, our recollection dramatically reminded to seek the face of in this sacrament of the Eucharist. As You may mail it to him at: of Christ as a suffering and courageous Jesus and to listen to him. We are Christians, we need to contact the human person is a source of consolation to us. reminded that we share in the glory and and the powerful Christ. Archbishop Buechlein’s We, in our joys and sorrows, easily fullness of God’s love. In this season, we Our observance of Lent and our Prayer List identify with him, and we are are reminded that there is much more to remembering the Lordship of Jesus in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis encouraged to pray to him for help. life and reality than meets the eye. midst of his suffering gives us a chance 1400 N. Meridian St. Yet it is a good thing for us, too, that But how forgetful we are. Like Peter, to renew our faith in the constancy of P.O. Box 1410 the Church recalls to our minds the James and John, we get confused. The God’s love. Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 mystery of the Transfiguration on the face of the Lord Jesus gets lost in the And we still have the opportunity to way to Holy Week. crowd. Pain and suffering and all kinds of Christ, after all, is more than a painted masks veil the simple glory of Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for April suffering, patient and brilliant teacher. God’s love and presence all around us. Like the disciples, we need to know As Christians, we promise to love God Priests: that they may joyfully and faithfully live out their priestly promises and that Christ is divine. as simply and as faithfully as we can. encourage other men to embrace God’s call to the priesthood. The Christ of our faith is the God During Lent, once again, we are called

Dedique tiempo a la reflexión y la oración para abrir su corazón al amor de Dios i hojeamos el Nuevo Testamento, nos estos tiempos de tribulaciones y necesidad renovamos nuestras promesas tan maravillosa: recordar con más claridad daremos cuenta de que la imagen de tenemos a alguien que puede ofrecernos bautismales, declaramos que haremos por qué vivimos y por qué morimos. SJesús resulta muy humana. más que consuelo. Tenemos al Cristo a nuestra parte para permitir que nuestras Tal vez durante la quinta semana de la Jesús es el hijo del carpintero. Es el hijo quien se le han dado todos los poderes del vidas y nuestros amores sean Cuaresma necesitemos aprovechar la de María. Era un hombre que se cansaba, cielo y de la Tierra. transformados por el amor de Dios. oportunidad para renovar nuestro que perdía la paciencia. Al igual que El hermoso misterio de la Transfigu- Luchamos por recordar que Su amor es el propósito de acercarnos más a Jesús y nosotros, tenía amigos, y cuando su amigo ración que la Iglesia nos presentó a verdadero hilo constante en nuestras para preparar el resto de esta semana para Lázaro murió, Jesús lloró. principio de la Cuaresma nos transporta a la vidas. Nos preparamos para renovar arribar a una Semana Santa verdade- Durante esta época de la Cuaresma nos montaña y nos ayuda a recordar una vez nuestra fe radical en el amor poderoso y ramente piadosa y colmada de fe. concentramos en el hecho de que Jesús fue más qué es importante en la vida y qué es fiel de Jesús. Quizás debamos dedicar un poco más un hombre que sufrió. Se burlaron de él y importante en la muerte. Necesitamos la Cuaresma porque de tiempo a la reflexión y a la oración fue azotado. Murió en la cruz de un Tal como les ocurrió a Pedro, Jacobo y nuestra promesa de llevar el amor de Dios para abrir nuestros corazones para recibir delincuente. Juan, ver el poder de Jesús por un breve y se pierde en el ajetreo y los desafíos de la el amor de Dios, especialmente el amor Los discípulos de Jesús se sintieron esplendoroso momento nos garantiza que vida cotidiana. ¡Con qué facilidad penitencial de Su Hijo. afligidos y desanimados cuando Jesús les la plenitud del amor efectivamente olvidamos por qué hacemos lo que No es demasiado tarde para hallar dijo que debía sufrir y morir a manos de los prevalece por encima del dolor y el poder hacemos en la vida! A diario enfrentamos calma y sosiego en la oración de nuestros sumos sacerdotes, los ancianos y los del mal. el peligro de que nuestra fe fundamental se corazones. † escribas. Así pues, para alentarlos, Jesús les Día tras día vemos los distintos rostros agote gradualmente y con ello se confunde mostró un atisbo de su gloria en la Transfi- del mal. Durante la Cuaresma se nos el significado de la vida y de la muerte. guración. recuerda drásticamente que debemos En el sacramento de la Eucaristía se ¿Tiene una intención que desee A diferencia de los discípulos, el buscar el rostro de Jesús y escucharlo. Se nos presentan tanto el Cristo del incluir en la lista de oración del recuerdo de Cristo como una persona que nos recuerda que tenemos participación en sufrimiento humano como el Cristo del Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar sufre y que es valiente constituye una la gloria y la plenitud del amor de Dios. poder jubiloso. Como cristianos su correspondencia a: fuente de consuelo para nosotros. En esta temporada se nos recuerda que la necesitamos comunicarnos con el Cristo Nosotros, en nuestras alegrías y nuestras vida y la realidad encierran mucho más humano y con el poderoso. Lista de oración del Arzobispo tristezas, podemos identificarnos fácilmente que lo que resulta evidente. Nuestra observancia de la Cuaresma y Buechlein con él y se nos exhorta a que le recemos Pero ¡qué olvidadizos somos! Al igual recordar el poder de Jesús en medio de su Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis para pedir su ayuda. que Pedro, Jacobo y Juan, nos sufrimiento nos brinda la oportunidad de 1400 N. Meridian St. No obstante, para nosotros también confundimos. El rostro del Señor Jesús se renovar nuestra fe en la constancia del P.O. Box 1410 resulta beneficioso que la Iglesia nos pierde entre la multitud. El dolor, el amor de Dios. Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 evoque el misterio de la Transfiguración en sufrimiento y todo tipo de máscaras Y todavía tenemos la oportunidad de el camino a la Semana Santa. disfrazan la sencilla gloria del amor y la refrescar nuestra misión cristiana de llevar Después de todo, Cristo es más que un presencia de Dios a nuestro alrededor. a Cristo a los demás, al Cristo que sufre y Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, maestro penitente, paciente y brillante. Al Como cristianos, prometemos amar a al Cristo del gozo. Qué gracia cuaresmal Language Training Center, Indianapolis. igual que los discípulos necesitamos saber Dios tan sencilla y fielmente como que Cristo es divino. podamos. La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en abril El Cristo de nuestra fe es el Dios Durante la Cuaresma, una vez más, se hombre. Su gloria debe brillar y brindarnos nos llama a ser todo lo honestos y Sacerdotes: ¡Que ellos realicen sus promesas como sacerdotes con júbilo y fe y den confianza en la oración. sinceros que podamos ser. ánimo a otros hombres para que contesten la llamada de Dios al sacerdocio! Debemos estar agradecidos de que en Pronto, en la Cuaresma, cuando Page 6 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Events Calendar

April 8 St. Susanna Parish, 1212 W. 8:30 a.m.-noon luncheon. info@IndianaHome included, $50 per person, director of archdiocesan St. John the Evangelist Parish, Main St., Plainfield. Information: 317-926-3324. Schooling.org. register by April 8. and 126 W. Georgia St., Men’s Club and CYO April 10 Information: 317-788-7581. Family Ministries, Indianapolis. “Hungry?” fish fry, 5-8 p.m., fish dinner, St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, presenter, 6:30-8:30 a.m., St. Therese of the Infant Jesus young adult Lenten series, $7 per person, feed a family of 7575 Holliday Drive, Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, “Fraud Prevention Strategies (Little Flower) Church, four for $20. Information: Indianapolis. PTO and Knights Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. for Small Business Owners,” 6 p.m., food provided. 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. Information: 317-635-2021. 317-837-8315 or of Columbus, blood drive, Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Scott Long, assistant [email protected]. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Information: Retreat, Social Justice Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Committee, “The Call to Live vice president, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 317-407-2124 to 317-574-8898 or Huntington Bank, presenter, St. Lawrence Church, 6950 E. [email protected]. Like Jesus–A Lenten www.catholiccemeteries.cc. (Little Flower) Parish, 1401 N. Journey,” Franciscan Sister 8:30-9 a.m., online reservations Bosart Ave., Indianapolis. 46th St., Indianapolis. only. Reservations and Lenten concert, musicians Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Norma Rocklage and Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Stations of the Cross, Father Jeffrey Godecker, information:www.catholic Tony Avellana, Katie Stark, 89 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 5:30 p.m. at church, Lenten presenters, 7 p.m. Information: businessexchange.org. Linda Yu-Picard and Alumni association, “I Want Indianapolis. Catholics United fish fry, 4:30-7:30 p.m., mcavosie@easterand John Bolt, 7:30-9:30 p.m., My ’80’s Dinner and Dance,” for the Faith, Abba, Father April 16 carry-out available, $7 adults, cavosie.com. $6.25 seniors, $4 children no charge. Information: 6:30 p.m.-midnight, $35 per Chapter, meeting, 6:30-8 p.m. Our Lady of the Greenwood 317-546-4065. person, $60 per couple. Information: 317-236-1569, School, 399 S. Meridian St., under 10. Information: Queen and Divine Mercy Information: 317-865-3051 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1569, or Greenwood. “Hearts for 317-357-8352. Center, Rexville, located on St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish, [email protected]. [email protected]. 925 South, .8 mile east of Haiti,” fourth annual sale of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 3033 Martin Road, children’s clothing, toys and Floyds Knobs. St. Mary-of-the 421 South and 12 miles south Broadway United Methodist 30 S. Downey Ave., St. Bartholomew Parish, Mass, 9:30 a.m., equipment, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Knobs and Knights of of Versailles. Church, 609 E. 29th St., Indianapolis. Lenten fish fry, 1306 27th St., Columbus. on third Sunday holy hour cash only. Information: Columbus, annual social, Indianapolis. “Faith United,” 5-8 p.m., fish or shrimp dinner, Archdiocesan Office of and pitch-in, Father Elmer 317-881-1300. 7:30 p.m., $25 per person. an interfaith summit on $6 adults, $3 children. Worship, “Revised Roman Burwinkel, celebrant, daily Information: 812-923-3011. volunteerism and service, Information: 317-356-7291. Missal” workshop, parish Mass, 9 a.m. Information: St. Michael the Archangel 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Information: liturgical leaders and pastoral 812-689-3551. Church, 3354 W. 30th St., St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, St. Joseph’s musicians, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 317-921-1271 or Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s 535 E. Edgewood Ave., at God’s Country, no charge for workshop, April 12 [email protected]. Precious Infants, pro-life Indianapolis. Fish fry, 25992 Cottonwood Road, optional lunch $10 per person. St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Mass, Father Paul Landwerlen, Bristow. “Lenten Soup with Marian University, 5-7:30 p.m., $7 adults, Information: 317-236-1483 or 17th Ave., Beech Grove. celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed Substance,” speakers’ series, Hackelmeier Memorial Library, $4 children and seniors. [email protected]. Ave Maria Guild, “National by rosary outside abortion Angelus followed by simple 3200 Cold Spring Road, Information: Volunteer Month,” Mass, clinic and Benediction at pitch-in meal of soup and Indianapolis. Sen. Richard G. [email protected]. St. Mary Catholic Academy, 11 a.m., lunch following Mass. church. Information: bread, Mass, 6 p.m. CDT, Lugar Franciscan Center for 415 E. Eighth St., New Albany. Information: 317-885-5098. Archdiocesan Office for Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, pitch-in dinner, 7 p.m. CDT, Spring craft and vendor Global Studies, speaker series, candlelight rosary trail, 8 p.m. April 13 “Ethics, Interpretation and Pro-Life Ministry, Parish Hall, 1125 S. show and luncheon, 317-236-1569 or Meridian St., Indianapolis. CDT. Information: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: Our Lady of the Most Holy the Torture Memos,” Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. Lenten fish fry, 5-7 p.m., 812-631-2377 or 812-944-0417. Peter Brooks, presenter, 7 p.m., www.stjosephsholyfamily.org. Indianapolis. “Spaghetti and free admission, registration $6 adults, $3 children. Holy Parish, 901 N. St. Malachy Parish, 9833 E. Spirituality,” Mass, 5:45 p.m., required. Reservations: Information: 317-638-5551. April 8-10 Holmes Ave., Indianapolis. County Road 750 N, pasta dinner, “The Bible and http://www.marian.edu/LFCGS Mary of-the-Woods, the Mass?” Father Peter Haughville Health Fair, St. Lawrence Parish, Brownsburg. “Walk with /Pages/SpeakerSeries St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Stravinskas, presenter, health screenings and activities Conen Hall, 6944 E. 46th St., Haiti,” 8:30 a.m., $25 per Registration.aspx. Sisters of Providence, “Come suggested donation $7, related to health, safety and Indianapolis. Lenten fish fry, person, $80 per family. and See” weekend for women reservations no later than April 14-16 nutrition, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 5:30-7:30 p.m., $6 and Information: 317-407-2384 or 18-42 considering a call to 5 p.m. on March 28. Cathedral High School, $4 meals. Information: [email protected]. Information: 317-253-6212. apostolic religious life. Information: 317-636-4478 or O’Malia Performing Arts 317-546-4065. Information: 812-535-2897 or www.holyrosaryindy.org. Center, 5225 E. 56th St., Oldenburg Academy, [email protected]. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Indianapolis. The Secret Parish, 1752 Scheller Lane, 1 Twister Circle, Oldenburg. St. Mary of the Immaculate St. Michael Church, Garden play, Thurs.-Sat. New Albany. Spring prayer Holly Bruns Memorial 5K Conception Parish, April 9 11400 Farmers Lane N.E., 7:30 p.m., Sun. 3:30 p.m., breakfast for those who have walk/run, registration, 9 a.m., 211 Fourth St., Aurora. St. Roch Parish, Family Life Bradford. Dessert and card general admission $8, preferred lost a loved one, Kathy Wilt, run and walk, 10 a.m. Lenten fish fry, 4-8 p.m., Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., party, 6-9:30 p.m., $5 per admission $12. Ticket line: $10 adults, $5 children ages Indianapolis. Single Seniors, presenter, 9-11 a.m. Information: 513-382-1922 or person. Information: 317-968-7436 or [email protected]. 6-10, children age 5 and under meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and Information: 317-945-2374. 812-364-6646 or [email protected]. no charge, carry-out available. over. Information: [email protected]. Information: 812-926-1558. 317-784-4207. Southeastern Church of Christ, April 15 Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 6049 E. 91st St., Indianapolis. April 14 Northside Knights of St. Mary-of-the-Woods. St. Michael Parish, Holy Angels Parish, 740 W. Indiana Foundation for Benedict Inn Retreat and Columbus Hall, 2100 E. White Violet Center for 11400 Farmers Lane, 28th St., Indianapolis. Home Schooling, “Getting Conference Center, 71st St., Indianapolis. Eco-Justice, 13th annual Bradford. Fish fry buffet, African Catholic Ministry, Started” and “Support 1402 Southern Ave., Catholic Business Exchange, Earth Day celebration, 4:30-7 p.m., $8 and $4 meals. day of recollection, “What Is Group Leadership,” Beech Grove. “Caregiving– Mass, breakfast and program, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., free-will Information: 812-364-6173, the Purpose of Our workshops, 9:15 a.m.-noon, A Spiritual Transformation,” “Catholic Charities–Needed donations. Information: ext. 22, or Ministry?” Father Kenneth $10 per event per person. sixth annual day of renewal, Now More than Ever,” 812-535-2930 or [email protected]. Taylor, facilitator, Information: 800-465-2505 or 8:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m., lunch David Siler, executive [email protected]. † Spring sale continues during Lent at Our Lady of Fatima Retr eat House Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Gift Shop and The archdiocesan retreat house’s Gift Shop and weddings and confirmation. Bookstore, 5353 E. 56th St., in Indianapolis is offering Bookstore offers a wide variety of books, greeting cards, Call 317-545-7681 for more information and hours a sale on all items through Holy Week. home décor items, and gifts for first Communion, of operation. † Submitted photo Submitted photo

Hibernian Mass Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Ladies’ Ancient Order of Hibernians pose for Franciscan jubilarian a photograph before a Mass on March 6 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. With the Hibernians, at left from first row to third row, are Father Harold Rightor II, the pastor of Conventual Franciscan Father Pius Poff speaks to a member of the Knights of Columbus during Annunciation Parish in Brazil and Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville; Father Glenn O’Connor, the a Feb. 19 celebration for his 50th jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood at St. Mary Parish in pastor of St. Ann and St. Joseph parishes in Indianapolis; and Father Noah Casey, the pastor of Navilleton in the New Albany Deanery, where he serves as the pastor. Father Pius grew up as a St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. member of nearby St. Joseph Parish in Clark County. The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Page 7 Bishop urges seminarians to exercise Christ’s authority in priesthood

PHILADELPHIA (CNS)— said how Jesus shared his authority Seminarians must not be afraid to with “the 72” (Lk 10:1)—the disciples he exercise the priestly authority of Christ sent out—and they returned to him from Catholic Courier upon their ordination to the priesthood, their mission rejoicing that “even the Bishop Samuel F. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., demons are subject to us in your name” told an assembly of seminarians in (Lk 10:17) although Jesus redirected them

Philadelphia. to keeping their eyes on the Father, from Crupi, CNS photo/Mike “Jesus is the shepherd who teaches us, whom all authority comes. as bishops and priests and future priests, Jesus told the Apostle Philip in the how to shepherd, Gospel of John, “The words that I say to how to live his you I do not speak on my own authority; own pastoral but the Father who dwells in me does his authority bestowed works” (Jn 14:10). Jesus “is at the service upon us by him of the Father,” Bishop Aquila said. and the Holy Spirit Earlier in John’s Gospel, Jesus declares, on the day of our “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent ordinations,” me; if any man’s will is to do his will, he Bishop Aquila said shall know whether the teaching is from at the 10th annual God or whether I am speaking on my own Symposium on the authority” (Jn 7:16-17). Bishop Aquila Bishop Spirituality and added, “The teaching authority of Jesus Samuel F. Aquila Identity of the stems from his intimate union with Diocesan Priest. the Father.” Peter Mottola, center, and other men who are discerning if they are called to a priestly vocation are He urged the seminarians to Bishop Aquila said there are four ways seen in this April 2008 photo praying during daily Mass at Becket Hall, a Rochester, N.Y., residence for understand how direct Christ was in for seminarians to form “receptive hearts” seminarians and other men considering the priesthood. In a speech in Philadelphia, Bishop Samuel calling people “to change their way of to this authority. F. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., told seminarians they must not be afraid to exercise the priestly authority of acting and thinking,” and learn his One is to nourish intimacy with the Christ upon ordination. criteria “for correcting a or Trinity through “lectio divina,” a form of sister,” especially those who dissent prayerful meditation on the word of God. bishop said, and he provides the criteria the responsibility to govern,” he said. from Church teaching on abortion, Another is to “experience the school of “for correcting a brother or sister. Bishop Aquila outlined ways that contraception, same-sex unions and Nazareth,” according to Bishop Aquila, “Jesus is teaching us, but do we listen bishops and priests exercise the pastoral euthanasia. He also questioned why quoting Pope Paul VI’s 1964 visit to and follow his example?” Bishop Aquila authority of Christ—teaching, sanctifying Catholic politicians who year after year Jesus’ hometown: “Here we can observe asked. “If this criteria had been followed and governing the Church. vote to keep legal abortion continue to and ponder the simple appeal of the way with dissenting theologians, priests, “We as the servants of Christ and the receive Communion. God’s son came to be known, and religious and faithful in 1968 with the Church must teach boldly and without In today’s secular society, “with its profound and yet full of hidden meaning. ‘Humanae Vitae,’ would we hesitancy. The ‘new evangelization’ rejection of God” and his authority, And gradually we may even learn to still be dealing with the problem today of means following the example of Jesus!” exercising the office of governance is the imitate him.” those who dissent on contraception, he said. most difficult for the Church’s leaders, The other two ways are closely abortion, same-sex unions, euthanasia and “We must remember to contemplate but they learn how to exercise that linked—“regular celebration” of the so many other teachings of the Church? within our hearts the sanctifying authority authority by turning to Christ. sacrament of reconciliation and “One must honestly ask, how many that Jesus bestowed on his Apostles and The March 18 symposium was “daily celebration” of the Eucharist. times and years may a Catholic politician the 72 in the Gospels, and thus upon sponsored by the Institute for “Every seminarian must know himself vote for the so-called ‘right to abortion,’ bishops and priests, to forgive sins, to Priestly Formation and St. Charles as a sinner,” Bishop Aquila said. ‘murder’ in the words of [Pope] John preach, to heal the sick and to cast out Borromeo Seminary in the “Conversion is constant in the life of the Paul II in ‘Evangelium Vitae,’ and still be demons. ... Every priest has the Philadelphia Archdiocese. faithful priest,” he continued, adding that able to receive holy Communion?” he sanctifying authority bestowed by Christ Bishop Aquila delved into the Gospels he “recovered the practice” of weekly asked. to be victorious over the power of evil in to point out several examples of how confession during his graduate studies in “The continual reception of the spiritual battle.” Christ exercised that authority. Rome more than 20 years ago. holy Communion by those who so visibly Bishops and priests, he said, “must Quoting from the Gospel of “A deep love for the daily celebration contradict and promote a grave evil, even return to a full exercise of the governing Matthew, he noted that Jesus called his of the Eucharist,” he said, is the “most more than simply dissent, only creates authority of Christ witnessed in the Twelve Apostles and “gave them important way for the seminarian to grow grave scandal, undermines the teaching Gospel. If we do not exercise that authority over unclean spirits, to cast in the desires of Jesus.” and governing authority of the Church, authority, are hesitant to exercise it or them out and to heal every disease and Jesus was clear and direct in calling and can be interpreted by the faithful as doubt it, then it only leads to the every infirmity” (Mt 10:1). people to “conversion,” and to change indifference to the teaching of Christ and ‘father of lies’ taking hold of the minds From Luke’s Gospel, Bishop Aquila “their way of acting and thinking,” the the Church on the part of those who have and hearts of the faithful.” † Artist’s work aims to make Stations of the Cr oss ‘more immediate’ WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pennsylvania artist At the beginning of the casting process, the part of the for St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Lancaster. The church Virginia Maksymowicz said she created her sculpted reliefs model that is needed for a particular Station, such as the commissioned the pieces. of the Stations of the Cross using real people as models hands or the feet or the face, is covered in alginate, a “This is actually the first major commission that I have because she wanted each Station to seem “more immediate” nontoxic, flexible mold-making material often used in ever gotten. It was a dream commission. They were so to viewers than be some abstract imagery they could easily dental applications. A secondary mold, called a “mother” or open, the community at St. Thomas,” she said. dismiss. “shell,” is made of plaster-impregnated gauze and formed “St. Thomas had a competition and I won. The reason I “In most Roman Catholic churches, the Stations are up over the alginate. applied was because it was socially concerned work that all the time, and we sort of dismiss the imagery and don’t “I didn’t want to go the [Mel] Gibson was also in line with Catholic doctrine,” notice it anymore,” Maksymowicz said in a phone interview route and go gory,” she noted, referring she explained. “I teach at a college in from Lancaster, Pa. “Some contemporary ones are to Gibson’s 2004 film The Passion of the Lancaster, and I made a proposal to do simplified or abstract. However, I think you can make it Christ, criticized by some as being too body casting and they loved it. They more universal, more personal, by making it more particular violent and bloody. The 14 Stations of the also agreed to allow me to make a with casting real people.” “In an odd way, that turns people Cross, also called the second set of the Stations and that’s the Maksymowicz’s sculptures are on display in away. But having real people would Way of the Cross, are set that I tour with.” Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the make it more immediate.” The immediate response to her work through April 25. After the alginate and gauze molds the chief scenes of at St. Thomas was very positive. “The “The process that I use involves alginate, and it picks up are removed from the model, they must Christ’s suffering community loved it, and it’s up right every pore and wrinkle. It makes it really real,” she told be reinforced with pottery plaster. Open and death. The now in Lancaster. I’m delighted they Catholic News Service. ends are “dammed” with Plastilene, an allowed me to cast a second set,” oil-based clay, and a type of ultra-hard Resurrection is she said. plaster called Hydro-Stone is added. sometimes included as Receiving the commission from “There’s something about St. Thomas was a delight for the body casting that is so real. No matter the 15th one, though it veteran artist.

CNS photo/Bob Roller how realistic a sculptor you are, it never is not traditionally “When I was a kid, I loved art, I allows the realism of being able to see part of the Stations. loved to draw, and my mom taught me pores and wrinkles. With casting, they to draw,” she told CNS. can see for themselves,” Maksymowicz “I didn’t expect to go to college— said. there was no money in the family. But The 14 Stations of the Cross, also back then, college was free. My mom called the Way of the Cross, are the chief scenes of said, ‘Great! Wonderful, you can go to college!’ I decided I Christ’s suffering and death. The Resurrection is sometimes was going to study something I love. I love art.” included as the 15th one, though it is not traditionally part In 1973, she received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at of the Stations. Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. In Maksymowicz has exhibited her work in New York City 1977, she earned a master’s of fine arts in visual arts at the Artist Virginia Maksymowicz stands next to one of her as well as at college, university and nonprofit galleries University of California at San Diego. Stations of the Cross sculptures on March 25 at the Basilica of throughout the United States and abroad. She is a past Maksymowicz has been a visiting artist at the the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship American Academy in Rome, an artist-in-residence at the Washington. The Lancaster, Pa., sculptor said she created the in sculpture, and has other grants as well as several honors Powel House Museum in Philadelphia, and a fellow at the Stations in a lifelike relief style to make the story of each one and awards. Vermont Studio Center. She is currently an associate more meaningful to visitors to the exhibit. Her sculptures are on Her sculptures on display at the national shrine are professor of art at Franklin & Marshall College display at the shrine through April 25. replicas of Stations that she created a number of years ago in Lancaster. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011

“But, as in any relationship, you have ups and downs, and there have been struggles HAITI in the past. We realized after the earthquake continued from page 1 that no matter what the struggles, you have to CNS photo/Bob Roller side, the economic side, the physical side, keep supporting these institutions because the physical infrastructure that they have in these are the institutions that are going to be other areas. here long after we’re gone. These are the “We’re focused on not just building to people who are going to lead the community rebuild and getting people back to work, into recovery. but connecting communities with the “That is our top priority for the next institutions [that] they’ve known and sought five years—reinforcing those institutions, solace at for years—reconnecting them reinforcing our relationships with the local with their neighbors, with their schools— Church and supporting the idea of trying to do it in a manner we think creates subsidiarity, of permitting space for Haitians a more just foundation for development. to lead this response.” “The one-year anniversary of the Q. What are the specific goals for the earthquake was a key transition point. It next year or five years? was a moment to remember what happened A. “The overarching goal is, through the past year, to take stock, to look at what solidarity and right relationships, to we accomplished, and sort of re-energize strengthen the partners, to become true agents our efforts in these communities. of change in these communities. Of course, “It coincides with where Haitians we get to that through programs addressing are with their recovery. They’re anxious shelter or water and sanitation, but it’s no to get back into their communities, to longer for us the ‘what.’ Even though we are get out of the camps, to restart their interested in getting people under roofs and income-generation activities, whether they helping families to get enough food and had jobs or whether they had businesses, to water, we’re focused on the ‘how’—how An elderly resident stands amid the rubble of homes destroyed by the 2010 earthquake in the Diquini get their churches rebuilt, to get back to a we’re going to go about that process, and area of Carrefour, Haiti, on March 11. sense of normality. what sort of skills we are going to transfer to “There was a period when it was just partners.” community is so hard to access that we can’t Q. Is it empowerment that you are complete shock. There was so much Q. When U.S. bishops have visited, what do anything until the rubble is cleared.’ They doing? trauma. Everyone was focused on the has been their message? said, ‘Give us some tools.’ We gave them A. “I don’t know if that’s the right word. physical trauma, the buildings that were A. “All of the bishops who have come here tools. They came back two weeks later and There’s certainly the sense that we don’t destroyed. But there was an emotional have been very moved by what they see. said, ‘We’re ready.’ So we sent a few folks want to do work for people. We want to trauma as well. It still isn’t completely They’ve been very appreciative of what all the over and we didn’t expect to see much help them, we want to listen to them and healed, but I feel the tide is turning, that members are doing. We progress. They had changed the place hear what their priorities are and hear what people are beginning to move on.” hear a lot of thanks. We receive a lot of their completely. They had gotten almost all the they can do. We want to support those types Q. How much is CRS working with the prayers and a lot of their encouragement. rubble out. of initiatives. Haitian Church? They don’t just come and sit in the office with “Now we’ve built over 200 shelters “We recognize that Haiti is a place A. “Something we realized after the me. They go out in the camps. in that community, Delmas 62. We where there often is a lack of leadership. earthquake was that we needed to reinforce “There was a moving moment in one of took Bishop [Richard J.] Malone Over 80 percent of Haitians with college our relationship with the Church. We have the camps where two young women have [of Portland, Maine] there, and he was degrees leave the country to work always had the Church as our partner of transformed the community. They walked talking with these women. As we left, they somewhere else. We recognize, if we intend preference, and we’re here by invitation of here several times, knocking on our door asked if he would bless them. He gave them to have a lasting impact here, [that] we need the Church. We’ve been working with them [and] asking if we could help them. We were a blessing right there. It was really a to invest in this country. We’re committed for 54 years. so busy at the time, we said, ‘Well, that touching moment.” to the idea of building capacity.” †

the person—recognized as a saint—can be venerated Pope John Paul’s casket from its grotto burial site to the throughout the Catholic Church. chapel of St. Sebastian on the main floor of the basilica. CURE Even after the beatifications of Pope John XXIII and The body of Blessed Innocent XI, who originally was continued from page 1 Mother Teresa of Kolkata, the Vatican insisted on buried in the chapel, will be transferred on April 8 to the Pope John Paul’s feast day should be approved before the maintaining the restrictive rule even though bishops around Altar of the Transfiguration, closer to the main altar, beatification, although he said people will have to wait the world requested permission to have feast day Masses in Father Lombardi said. until the beatification Mass to find out which date will be their dioceses. During the news conference, Msgr. Marco Frisina, the Pope John Paul’s feast day each year. Cardinal Vallini said that the Vatican recognizes that director of the Rome diocesan liturgy office, released the The Vatican, he said, will be “very flexible” in Pope John Paul is a “universal figure” and, therefore, public text of a hymn that he has composed for the beatification. granting permission to use the Blessed John Paul Mass Masses are likely to be approved for more dioceses than just The diocesan communications office, working with the texts around the world. Rome and Krakow, where he served as archbishop. for Social Communications and Generally, when someone is beatified, only Catholics Father Lombardi told reporters that the grotto under assisted by young adult volunteers, announced the in his or her diocese or religious order can celebrate St. Peter’s Basilica would be closed to the public on addition of a beatification page to the revamped website publicly the blessed’s feast day Mass. With canonization, April 29 and April 30 as Vatican workmen prepare to move for young people at www..net. †

other pro-life ministries. “I said, ‘God, use me.’ And that’s George turned out to be a girl who “For the first time in American “In 1987, when The Silent why I’m here today. is now 24 years old. history, the polls are showing that UNBORN Scream came out—which is “I had seen ultrasounds over “God called her from the womb the majority of the people are now continued from page 1 actually an abortion being done and over again,” she said. “I see to be a prophet for the nation,” pro-life,” Richard said, “and they the miraculous stages of fetal viewed by ultrasound—and I them every day. I know what Richard said. “God chose the give the credit to ultrasounds.” growth. watched the baby’s heart rate and babies do in the womb. They weakest of the weakest to confront Pointing to one of her prenatal “We couldn’t do this [pro-life saw the baby try to get out of the move, they jump, they relax, … the lies.” ultrasounds projected on a large work] without all of you coming way and then the baby’s mouth and I could no longer be silent. So Sometimes women who saw this video screen, she explained, “The together,” she said, to help the opened, I just screamed too,” I collected my ultrasound images.” special ultrasound would tell her, “I first thing you can see, which is so Great Lakes Gabriel Project and Richard told the pro-life supporters. Richard named her favorite aborted a baby at that age. I was cool, is that little, little heart beat baby “George” because the told that it was a blob of tissue.” four weeks following conception. delightful 10-week-old fetus Richard could see the grief and … So much [fetal development] continually bounced around in his pain in the women’s eyes so she happens in those first few weeks. mother’s womb during the began producing her first pro-life “At seven to eight weeks from ultrasound. educational video to show to conception, every organ is formed

Photos by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann “George never stopped women experiencing crisis and just need to develop and grow,” moving,” she recalled, so she took pregnancies and high school she said. “At 24 weeks, the baby his ultrasound to Capitol Hill when students so they can see the truth weighs about one pound, and can she testified before Congress in an about the miracle of life. hear her mother’s voice and effort to end legalized abortion. “I had a powerful tool that God heartbeat. The mother will begin to “Sen. Orrin Hatch [of Utah] gave me,” she said. “[The video of] feel the first stirrings of life within said it was the most powerful George went everywhere I went, her. … During the third trimester, testimony ever brought before and gave me the confidence to from 28 to 40 weeks, the baby’s Congress,” Richard said. “No one speak out [against abortion, weight will triple to more than had brought in an ultrasound including on television]. All George seven pounds and the baby will Above, sonographer before.” had to do was jump around.” grow to about 20 inches. … Shari Richard’s pro-life videos A year after she recorded Now, Richard also teaches The unborn baby now uses the of prenatal ultrasounds have George’s amusing prenatal antics, volunteer nurses to do obstetrical four senses of vision, hearing, educated millions of people the baby’s mother contacted ultrasounds at pro-life clinics like taste and touch.” about prenatal development Richard to say thank you for the Gabriel Project’s recently Fetus is not a bad word, Richard with more than 500,000 copies helping her to choose life for her opened 1st Choice for Women at said. “It means ‘young one.’ ” distributed, broadcast and unborn baby. 5455 W. 86th St. in Indianapolis. Because these young ones translated worldwide. At the time, Richard said, “Your life is never the same cannot speak for themselves, “I didn’t realize that she was once you start serving God,” she pro-life supporters must give them a Above left, Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner Noel Merrick, left, of Carmel, Ind., scheduled for an abortion the said, who healed her from the pain voice, she said, by helping crisis in the Lafayette Diocese, poses for a photo on March 29 with ultrasound technician next day.” of an abortion as a college student, pregnancy ministries purchase Shari Richard of West Bloomfield, Mich., after he gave her a fetal model that he Gender is difficult to determine led her to become an obstetrical ultrasound machines to reveal the sculpted to help her with her pro-life ministry. Tears cover the baby’s face to by ultrasound at 10 weeks of sonographer and blessed her as the truth and beauty of God’s symbolize the more than 54 million preborn babies killed in abortions since 1973. gestation, she explained, and mother of three sons. miraculous gift of life. † The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Page 9 Unexpected blessings Volunteers say helping people in need moves their heart and soul

By John Shaughnessy how our needy friends feel when we help them. They are moments of unexpected “It’s not so much the food and the blessings—moments that touch the clothes. It’s that you show them heart and the soul of anyone who somebody cares.”

experiences them. The warm feeling continued for Hahn John Shaughnessy File photo by Some people even suggest that the odds when he reached the place where he of experiencing an unexpected blessing distributes food and clothes to people. increase when a person is involved in “I saw all the women gathered around helping someone in need. the coats we had,” he notes. “They That’s definitely the view of Tim Hahn, a weren’t grabbing, pushing or shoving, but member of Holy Cross Parish in holding up the coats, and passing them Indianapolis who leads a grassroots, down to the children, all the children, non-profit organization called whom they thought the coat would fit. Helping Hand—a volunteer effort that Strange how a day that started out bad provides needed food and clothing for could end up good. It will remain a warm Hispanic families. memory for me.” As an example, Hahn shares the story of Anne Evans knows that feeling, too, a cold Saturday morning in February when from her efforts for the St. Vincent he picked up groceries from one of the de Paul Society of Indianapolis. She stores that donate surplus food for his volunteers at its distribution center, ministry. giving blankets, sheets and towels to “The strong wind and bitter cold people in need. She also collects the reminded me that I had not dressed warm stories that appear in the organization’s enough,” Hahn recalls. “As I tried loading newsletter. the bread from the grocery cart into plastic One of those stories recalled the As the founder of a grassroots group that helps the poor, Tim Hahn, second from right, has learned trash bags, the bags became parachutes and unexpected blessing that happened for a that his efforts to help others work best when he puts his trust in God. Here, Hahn stands between 10- flew down the ramp. The loaded carts client at the St. Vincent de Paul year-old Alexander Simons and Amy Moore as people in line select the food they want for their quickly followed, spewing bread onto the food pantry and a volunteer who helped families in July of 2010. pavement. him. It’s the story of a family reunion. “My eyes were watering, my hands felt Here’s an edited version of the story desperate to find her. again until the man returned to the food like cold bricks, and as I was bent over my that appeared in the newsletter, as shared “Well, our client information is strictly pantry a week later. trunk, the wind shut the trunk on my back. I anonymously by the volunteer: confidential. I could not share the lady’s “I did not recognize him at first, but am not proud of the next 10 seconds of my “A gentleman came to my work address with him. I did not know the when he spoke it came back to me. He life or my vocabulary, but at just that time I station, and I proceeded to enter his client circumstances of their separation, nor was thanked me for sending his letter. He said saw a woman calmly chasing down the number in our system. As I was verifying it any of my business. For all I knew, the lady was his mother [and they carts, bread and trash bags, and returning his information, he mentioned to me that there may be a good reason for the planned to reunite]. I could not speak. I them to my car. Although I had never seen he had noticed on a visit that we separation. I thought if he was being just looked at him. her before, and still have no idea who she had a person in our system that had the truthful with me, he could write the “I finished entering him in the system. is, she seemed to know exactly what to do. same name as his mother. If a client does person a note, explaining to her his As he got up to leave, I gave him a hug “She held the sacks while I put some not have their shopping card, we must situation, and she could call him if she and told him that I thought he was the bread in for weight, collected all the carts perform a name search on our records. wanted to.” reason I came into the pantry the and helped me finish loading. I was too Apparently, during the name search, he The volunteer gave the man a piece of Saturday before.” cold to talk, but finally I said, ‘I’m Tim.’ looked at the screen and noticed the name paper. He wrote his phone number and a That unexpected blessing moved the She replied, ‘I know who you are, and you of a client identical to his mother. note on it, and returned the paper to the volunteer in another way, too. need a hat.’ I took the carts back in, and “He asked me if we had his mother in volunteer. After the man left, the “I am one of those shy Catholics, you she was gone. Angel? Who knows? But our system. He stated that he had been volunteer decided to mail his note to the know, the ones who realize that God she was to me. It was just as cold and looking for his mother for over woman. The volunteer also wrote a letter touches all of us, but I just don’t like to windy when she was helping me, but it eight years with no luck. He said he had to the woman, explaining the situation. talk about it. Well, I talked about it this didn’t seem so. Maybe she made me feel lived in Michigan at one time, and he was The volunteer didn’t think about it time.” † Pope advances Educators learn about Catholic identity at New York symposium sainthood causes, NEW YORK (CNS)—A New York what an incredible lesson in humanity,” communicate the answers. City bus is not the most likely place Sister Mary Thomas said. “The bus driver “This day is in honor of Pope John Paul including cause of that you would expect a child to learn a was taking care of the boy, ... but was also II, and he left us a great legacy of how, in valuable life lesson. teaching the young man.” the midst of this culture, to reach young Canadian brother But Dominican Sister Mary Thomas Unfortunately, those kinds of lessons people, to articulate to this generation who VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Huffman, the principal of St. Cecilia can be few and far between in daily life in is the human person,” she explained. “And Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood Academy in Nashville, Tenn., related an early 21st century awash in media we’ve all watched him dearly resonate with causes of 35 candidates, including Canadian how a young boy received one on a bus saturation, technology and instant young people, sometimes hundreds of Christian Brother Adolphe Chatillon. she also was gratification. thousands at a time. During a meeting on April 2 with riding downtown Catholic schools must fill in the gaps in “If we have that example, it is possible Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the from a recent the intellectual, ethical and moral for us to work with the 20 young people in Congregation for ’ Causes, the visit to the education of our children, Sister Mary our classroom. ... I think we have to be pope signed a decree recognizing that Cloisters Thomas told a symposium on explicit in what we teach and we have a lot Brother Adolphe lived the Christian virtues museum in Catholic education sponsored by the of things at our disposal. But the number in a heroic way. Upper Catholic Education Foundation at one thing we need to do first, before Before Brother Adolphe can be beatified, Manhattan. Cathedral High School in Manhattan on anything else, we need to love them,” she the pope would have to recognize a miracle The child, March 25. said. attributed to his intercession. about 8 or 9, had The Catholic Education Foundation, Following the symposium, Boston Brother Adolphe, who lived from 1871- entered the bus based in Rochester, is committed to Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley celebrated Mass 1929, taught at schools in Quebec and at the with a couple of ensuring a strong future for Catholic high for participants at Holy Innocents Church in Christian Brothers’ . Sr. Mary Thomas older children schools in the United States through Manhattan. Pope Benedict also signed decrees that pave Huffman, O.P. and, in the providing scholarships to needy students The federation also honored the way for several beatifications: confusion that a and by strengthening the Catholic identity Cardinal O’Malley at a gala dinner with its • He recognized the martyrdom of bus full of kids can sometimes produce, of Catholic schools. Lifetime Achievement Award, and inducted French Norbertine Father Pierre-Adrien tried to sneak a ride without paying Sister Mary Thomas reminded her several people into the Catholic Education Toulorge, who was guillotined in 1793 during his fare. audience of the long odds. Foundation Hall of Fame, including Joe the French Revolution. Calling him back to the front, the “When our students walk into the doors Petriello, the chair of the religion • He recognized the martyrdom of driver confronted the boy: “ ‘Do you of our school building each morning, for department and director of Ignatian service 22 priests and a layman, have a card?’ ” Sister Mary Thomas the last 16 hours they’ve been exposed to, programs at Xavier High School in Candido Castan San Jose, killed in 1936 recalled him asking. “The boy said been listening to, watching and reading Manhattan. during the Spanish Civil War. ‘no.’ The bus driver said, ‘You know things that are in many ways counter to “Our headmaster, Michael LiVigni, • He formally recognized the miracles what, son, that’s all right, but what is the message that we share with them informed me that I was one of the award needed for the beatifications of two Italian not all right is that you tried to play like every day in the classroom.” recipients. I didn’t even know that he had priests, two Italian and a Spanish nun. you had a Metro [fare] card. You know That message, Sister Mary Thomas nominated me so it’s kind of a big surprise,” In addition to recognizing the heroic virtues what that is called? It’s called said, can be boiled down to two essential Petriello told Catholic New York, the of Brother Adolphe and of three Italian nuns, dishonesty. The best thing to do when questions, “Who is God, and what and archdiocesan newspaper. the pope recognized the heroic virtues of a you get on is to say, I don’t have a who am I?” As an inductee, he also was called on to 14-year-old boy from his native Bavaria. Metro card, but can I ride? And most of She offered the teachings of Pope John respond to Sister Mary Thomas’ Bernhard Lehner was born in us [drivers] will say yes. Honesty will Paul II, who was posthumously honored at presentation. “A lot of what she said Herrngiersdorf, Germany, in 1930, and entered get you a long way in life.’ the symposium, as giving Catholic re-enforced my own observations as a the minor seminary in Regensburg when he “As I was sitting there, I thought educators excellent guidance in how to teacher in a Jesuit high school,” he said. † was 12. He caught diphtheria and died shortly after his 14th birthday in 1944. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Archdiocesan parishes schedule Lenten penance services

Parishes throughout the archdiocese April 11, 7 p.m. at St. Roch have scheduled communal penance April 12, 7 p.m. at St. Ann services for Lent. The following is a list April 13, 7 p.m. at St. Jude Shemitz y A. of penance services that have been April 18, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the reported to The Criterion. Greenwood, Greenwood Due to space constraints, penance CNS photo/Gregor services scheduled later during Lent Indianapolis West Deanery may be omitted from the list in this April 12, 6:30 p.m. at St. Susanna, week’s newspaper. However, the entire Plainfield schedule is posted on The Criterion April 13, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Online at www.CriterionOnline.com. April 14, 7 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Batesville Deanery April 11, 7 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta New Albany Deanery of the Cross, Bright April 10, 3 p.m. at Holy Family, April 13, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, New Albany Shelby County April 13, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton April 13, 7 p.m. at St. John the April 17, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Evangelist, Enochsburg Starlight April 14, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg Participants at a pro-life youth rally line up for confession at the Verizon Center in Washington on Seymour Deanery Jan. 22, 2009. Bloomington Deanery April 10, 2 p.m. for Holy Trinity, April 8, 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. for Edinburgh, and St. Rose of Lima, St. Paul Catholic Center, Franklin, at St. Rose of Lima, Lenten activities available online Bloomington; St. Charles Borromeo, Franklin Be sure to visit The Criterion’s Lenten Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, a Bloomington; and St. John the April 18, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann, Web page at www.archindy.org/lent. full list of communal penance services Apostle, Bloomington; at St. Paul Jennings County; St. Mary, The page consists of links to daily taking place at parishes and other Catholic Center, Bloomington North Vernon; and St. Joseph, readings, a Lenten column by features. † April 14, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Jennings County; at St. Joseph, Martinsville Jennings County

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Psalm 113:4-6 succinctly describes the God to whom praise is due: “High above all nations is the Lord, above the heavens his glory. Who is like the Lord, our God, who is Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann enthroned on high and looks upon the heavens and the Earth below?” The Lord not only holds power, but uses it to care for all people. This affirmation of God’s power and love lies at the heart of hymns of praise that describe God’s attributes and typical ways of acting (e.g., Ps 8, Ps 19, Ps 29, Ps 65). When tragedy strikes, we are tempted to doubt one of these two divine attributes—God’s power or God’s love. But the challenge for the person of faith is to hold firmly to both claims. God is not only powerful, but also cares for us. The Magnificat that Mary prays in response to her cousin Elizabeth’s affirmation of Mary’s elect status echoes Psalm 113. Mary proclaims: “Behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name” (Lk 1:48-49). Father Michael O’Mara, the pastor of St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis, comforts mourners after the caskets of six homicide victims were carried from As a pregnant woman engaged to be SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on June 7, 2006. God mysteriously allows tragedies in our lives to draw us closer to himself. married, Mary most likely was suspected of having committed adultery. Yet, in this conditions were. Therefore, the tension oftentimes is essential in order to promote the deceased and those yet to be born, to join situation of danger and distress, she is between God’s mercy and justice can healing of those who have been injured. him in giving thanks and praise to God consoled and supported by Elizabeth, and so potentially explain the full range of God’s demand that satisfaction be made for (Ps 22:23-32). breaks forth into songs of praise, human experience. injuries suffered makes the case that he takes This act of praising God, particularly in proclaiming God’s power and love. God comes near and seriously the rights of times of great distress, is an indispensable After the Israelites worshipped the golden withdraws in order to the poor and oppressed. means for coming into right relationship calf at the base of Mount Sinai, the Lord bring us humans more As such, when we are with God. desired to withdraw from traveling in their fully into his love. Such ‘ … ups and downs in confused by the anguish When we have emerged from a troubled midst. But Moses interceded for them, and ups and downs in our our experience can be that we are undergoing, situation, we are ready to proclaim with the God revealed himself to him, describing experience can be the lament psalms psalmist: “You let men ride over our heads; himself in what came to function like a disorienting if we are not disorienting if we are (e.g., Psalm 89:39-52) we went through fire and water, but you creedal statement among the Israelites: aware that God uses not aware that God uses encourage us to cry out have led us out to refreshment” (Ps 66:12). “The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and these rhythms of daily these rhythms of daily to God to change the When we have been restored, we are gracious God, slow to anger and rich in life in order to bring us circumstances or ready to acclaim God’s mercy: “For as the kindness and fidelity, continuing his into right relationship life in order to bring us illuminate us. heavens are high above the Earth, so kindness for a thousand generations, and with him and others. into right relationship As Jesus was about surpassing is his kindness toward those who forgiving wickedness and crime and sin; yet Many Christians have with him and others.’ to die upon the Cross, fear him. As far as the east is from the west, not declaring the guilty guiltless, but an easier time embracing he cried out to God: so far has he put our transgressions from us. punishing children and grandchildren to the the mercy of God, but “My God, my God, As a father has compassion on his children, third and fourth generation for their fathers’ have great difficulty in why have you forsaken so the Lord has compassion on those who wickedness!” (Ex 34:6-7). coming to terms with God’s wrath. me?” (Mk 15:34), essentially praying Psalm fear him” (Ps 103:11-13). This statement sums up the way that the Many people are also tempted to say 22. And by crying out to God to respond and God’s parental care for us leads us to be Israelites’ understood the Lord to be—a God that God’s anger is expressed primarily in not be absent from him, Jesus was able to bring people of hope (Rom 5:3-5). who was both just and merciful. the Old Testament, and that God’s to expression his anguish and his faith in God. Both the good times and the bad times patience and kindness rule supreme in Notice that, by the end of Psalm 22, not (Benedictine Father Dale Launderville is a were seen as issuing from the Jesus’ ministry and thereafter. only is the psalmist praising God, but also has Scripture scholar at St. John’s University in Lord’s will—no matter how extreme the Yet, God’s attention to issues of justice exhorted all humans both near and far, both Collegeville, Minn.) † ‘Beauty so ancient and so new’—Praise God with beautiful music

By Fr. Gerald O’Collins, S.J. dance, let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.” has created the world and who, through suffering and The psalms repeatedly praise God, who has made the dying for us on the Cross, has then taken away sin and The Book of Exodus, Chapter 15:20-21, recalls how universe and lovingly delivers us from various dangers become our “Savior God.” the prophetess Miriam led other Israelite women in and evils. Praising and thanking God is the only appropriate song and dance to praise God for liberating them from To drive home this theme, the Book of Psalms closes lifestyle for believers. Egypt. with six psalms that praise God as Creator and Savior. In its picturesque way, the Book of Revelation calls And Psalm 149:3 picks up this language, inviting all The climax of this final sequence, Psalm 150, lists the on Christians to unite themselves with the marvelous the people of Israel to “praise his name in the festive instruments of an ancient orchestra to tell everyone and liturgy that is the life of heaven. We should join in the everything to “praise the Lord ... for his mighty deeds” universal song of praise offered by the angels and the (Ps 150:2). God’s people are to use “lyre and harp ... saints to God and to Christ, the crucified and risen strings and pipes ... clanging cymbals” (Ps 150:3-5). Lamb of God. This powerful hymn calls on the down Christian hymn books supply us with the language Long Island Catholic through the ages to praise God always and everywhere in and tunes of praise that we can also sing to ourselves. a sacred concert that will never end! There are new hymns of praise, such as “Glory and Praising God means “telling out” the greatness of the Praise to Our God” and “All the Ends of the Earth.” Lord, echoing, for example, Mary’s Magnificat Think, too, of some traditional hymns of praise: (Lk 1:46-55). “All People Who on Earth Do Dwell,” “Holy God,

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS photo/Gregory A. God is indeed all good, all powerful, all wise and—let We Praise Thy Name,” “Praise God From Whom All us not forget—all beautiful! Blessings Flow” and “Praise, My Soul, the King of St. Augustine of Hippo called God “the beauty of all Heaven.” things beautiful,” and confessed: “Late have I loved you, On our Lenten journey, we can check our lives and Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!” ask: How much do we praise God, day by passing day? God is gloriously beautiful and wonderful. We must join in Michael Perry’s splendid hymn and sing: “O God, (Jesuit Father Gerald O’Collins has taught theology at Jessica Lacrete sings with the English youth choir of beyond all praising, we worship you today.” Gregorian University in Rome. His 48 published books St. Jerome Parish in Brooklyn, N.Y., during a special Mass for Breaking into songs of praise expresses the truth of include Jesus Our Redeemer, published by young Catholics of African ancestry at St. Boniface Church in who God is, and what he has done for each one of us. Oxford University Press, and Pope John Paul II: Elmont, N.Y. The hymn “How Great Thou Art” sings to God, who A Reader, published by Paulist Press.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Wisdom of the saints: John Baptist de la Salle Christina Capecchi This column is particularly for those men academies and colleges. Worldwide, untiring care for them,” he said, “and feel Escape ‘The and women who teach children, either as there are 1,335 Christian Brothers. as though God were encouraging them full-time teachers at our Catholic schools, In a letter to his brothers, John through you because you perform your Waiting Place’ those who teach reminded them that St. Paul declared duties as ambassadors of Christ.” religion to children that that there are different kinds of ministry Above all, he said, teachers must let with wisdom attend public schools, and work, but we all have a special their charity and zeal show that they love parents who are our place in the Church, depending upon our the Church. from Dr. Seuss children’s first teachers gifts. “Your work is for the Church, which is Another batch of graduates is nearing the or anyone else who Therefore, John said, “you should not the body of Christ,” he said. “By your finish line, and preparations are humming helps form our children doubt that you have been given the same diligence, show your love for those whom along—party planning and robe ordering, in the faith. kind of grace to teach boys, to instruct God has given you, just as Christ loved the i dotting and t crossing. St. John Baptist them in the Gospel, and to form them in Church.” And speech writing, of de la Salle, whose feast religion. This is a great gift which God Their most important task, he indicated, course. day is on April 7, was named the patron of gave you when he called you to this was to teach their students in such a way That’s my favorite part schoolteachers by Pope Pius XII in 1950 holy work.” that they will “enter into the building up of of the pomp and because of St. John’s efforts in upgrading At that time, the brothers taught this temple so that one day they may circumstance—the prospect school instructors. only boys. become worthy to stand, glorious and of a send-off speech that He lived in France from 1651-1719 and John told them that the children must without spot or wrinkle, before the summarizes the past four is known especially as the founder of the see by the way they teach that they are of Jesus Christ.” years and prepares for all Brothers of the Christian School, who are true ministers of God, full of true charity The results of teachers’ labors will be the remaining ones. An commonly known as the Christian Brothers, and sincere in carrying out their task. seen far into the future as the students grow address that wipes away in 1680. “It is most important,” he said, “for into adults. distractions—sweltering heat, silly stilettos, stiff Although suppressed for a period during you to realize that you are ministers, not Therefore, John said, “See to it that the chairs—and makes us all feel promising and the French Revolution, the community only of God, but also of Jesus Christ and abundant grace God has given them may powerful. A bold-face life manual. continues today. In the United States, its 94 the Church.” be shown in the years to come as well as My hope is to be surprised, challenged and houses are spread over 33 archdioceses and In their teaching, he said, teachers the grace given you to teach them and to delighted by something original, free of cliché dioceses. The brothers are teaching should be driven by the love of God. bring them up to inherit the kingdom of and the standard quote recipe of 30,000 pupils at parochial schools, “Let your students be moved by your God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” † John F. Kennedy plus Martin Luther King Jr. plus Helen Keller. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes I’ve collected my favorite commencement addresses, stored as hardback books and When duty calls, will we answer it in our lives? YouTube clips, and I turn to them on foggy days. Lately, I’ve been reading the new knew that the privilege of her station made authority through World War II, the Last night, I revisited what may be the best official biography of Great Britain’s her responsible for others. nation’s governmental change into a one, Dr. Seuss’ rollicking speech turned book, Queen Mother These ideas are partly the reason for the welfare state, and the declarations of Oh, the Places You’ll Go! It was published in Elizabeth. Queen Mother’s widespread popularity independence among much of the 1990, the year before he died, and has enjoyed Since she lived to since she was truly interested in others, Commonwealth. one of the longest stays on The New York Times be a little over 100, receptive to their advances and responsive Duty called, and the Queen Mother bestseller list, landing there 178 weeks—nearly and the biographer, to their feelings. Men and women, old and answered. three and a half years. William Shawcross, young, rich and poor, all believed that she Blessed Teresa of Calcutta also It was nothing like I had remembered. is obsessively saw them as the people they were or hoped answered this call even through several I recalled the rhyming fanfare, the mountain conscientious, the to be, and they loved her for it. years of experiencing a crisis of faith. moving and “banner flip-flapping.” book is more than Monarchy was thrust upon Elizabeth Here again, love and attention made The part about my success being 98¾ percent 900 pages long. I’ve and “Bertie” unexpectedly in 1936 when people better and allowed them to live in guaranteed. I suppose that’s what I wanted been reading and his older brother, King Edward VIII, joy despite whatever hardships they were to hear. reading and reading, and have now abdicated the throne to marry a enduring. But reading it again, I saw it more clearly, not learned more than I ever wanted to know divorced woman. Firefighters called to respond to the as a celebratory book, but as a cautionary one. about this lovely lady. Since the monarch is also the head of disaster of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 “Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the The Queen Mother was a commoner the Church in England, the ruler was not were doing their duty. best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. who gained royal status by marrying permitted to marry a divorcee. This created School children finishing their Except when you don’t. Because sometimes you Prince Albert, the Duke of York, who was an unexpected trial for Bertie, now homework on time and teachers giving up won’t. I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true a son of King George V and Queen Mary. King George VI, since he was a shy extra time to help students are also doing that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen Her status as a commoner doesn’t man with a debilitating stutter—as their duty. to you.” mean that she was what we think of as documented so well in the recent Academy Duty is not a dirty word. There are The book is a tour through pitfalls and coming from a family of common people. Award-winning movie The King’s Speech. many, many less dramatic examples of potholes, which makes it a valuable read for the Her parents were a duke and duchess The Queen Mother supported, soothed doing our duty—things like trudging to post-graduate, those of us who have traveled far who owned a large estate in Scotland, and and encouraged her husband into work at a so-so job every day to feed our enough to have hit some. the young Elizabeth’s social circle becoming one of the most popular and families, swallowing our pain cheerfully Dr. Seuss doesn’t sugarcoat anything, noting included other aristocrats and members of successful heads of state in modern so that others don’t have to worry, or that life’s detours are lengthy, and that you’ll the royal family. history. caring for a crabby oldster or handicapped “grind on for miles” and “hike far” and row Elizabeth was also a child of the Her gift for encouragement also child with kindness and patience. “up many a frightening creek, though your arms generation which had one foot in extended to the couple’s two daughters, It is God who calls us to duty, and it is may get sore and your sneakers may leak.” Victorian attitudes and the other in the one of whom is now Queen Elizabeth II, God’s great joy that we receive in return. The two-page spread that struck me most social change of the 20th century. and to the entire British Commonwealth. illustrates “The Waiting Place,” which looks like She was a devoted Christian, who was Partly through Elizabeth’s efforts, the (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the one big, drawn-out staring contest with long trained to believe that duty came before British monarchy survived as a strong Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular lines, long faces and blank expressions. any other element of a person’s life. She symbol of national pride and moral columnist for The Criterion.) † There, people wait for “the mail to come, or the rain to go, or the phone to ring, or the snow The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco to snow, or waiting around for a Yes or a No, or waiting for their hair to grow.” It’s a wake-up call for 20-somethings like me, Book offers insight into finding good news in bad times caught in the drift between graduation and Imagine telling people that you are an invitation to choose either despair or piece of good news. The good news is The Rest Of My Life, floating between the inviting them to accept a special invitation inertia, or trust and action.” that you don’t know how great you can milestones of 21 and 30, settling for that has the potential I have learned from the events of my be! How much you can love! What you The Good Enough For Now. of bringing them own life how true his words are, and can accomplish!” Somewhere along the line, the important and “greater happiness ... how important it is to not only Lozano asks, “What if Anne the urgent are divorced. A bad job market takes a deeper remember such heart-wrenching times, is right, that we all have a piece of the blame. Grad school slows our pace. And understanding of life” but to simultaneously ask and trust the good news within us, a potential to love busyness masquerades as meaning and purpose. and a “spiritual Lord to direct you to the hope and joy that is present even in the midst of great Suddenly, we’re in “The Waiting Place,” awakening.” that will sustain you. sadness or misfortune?” sitting on stories and leads and invitations, That is, in fact, It is so important to remember, He leaves us with some questions that holding the keys, but afraid to unlock the door. the invitation really remember, how very special we are so important for self-examination: “No!” Dr. Seuss screams out. “That’s not being offered by are, each one of us, Deacon Lozano “Where have you experienced the most you! Somehow you’ll escape all that waiting and Deacon John says, emphasizing that “the fact that we growth, learning and personal staying.” P. Lozano in his book Good News in exist means we are loved.” development in your life? Was it from So join me today. Stop waiting, and start Bad Times: Discovering Spiritual He shares the wisdom of your successes, awards and achievements doing. Meaning in the Midst of Crisis and Albert Einstein, who said, “There are or from your failures, sufferings and We walk the path of the saints, who turned Uncertainty (ACTA Publications). two ways to live: You can live as if losses?” dreams into deeds—whether there was rain or Deacon Lozano has worked for nothing is a miracle; you can live as if His book certainly offers us much to snow, whether they heard yes or no. We heed 24 years at Villanova University in the everything is a miracle.” think about. God’s call to action, his summons to use our Department of Theology and Religious I was very touched when I read Best of all, it helps us to find truly talents and not bury them. And we hold the Studies. again the words of Anne Frank, the spiritual ways of responding to the crises, banner high, with a Seuss-like bravado, so the I have always known that books can be young Jewish girl who died at the uncertainties and tragedies in our lives new graduates can see where to go. silent teachers, and this book confirms my hands of the atrocious Nazis in even as we rejoice in our successes. belief. World War II, and I was grateful that (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Deacon Lozano writes, “Each piece of the author also remembered her (Antoinette Bosco writes for Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached bad news, like every crisis and failure, is writing: “Everyone has inside him a Catholic News Service.) † at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Page 13

Fifth Sunday of Lent/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, April 11 Friday, April 15 The Sunday Readings Stanislaus, bishop and martyr Jeremiah 20:10-13 Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, Psalm 18:2-7 Sunday, April 10, 2011 33-62 John 10:31-42 • Ezekiel 37:12-14 or Daniel 13:41c-62 • Romans 8:8-11 had died. Psalm 23:1-6 Saturday, April 16 • John 11:1-45 When Jesus arrived at last, Lazarus John 8:1-11 Ezekiel 37:21-28 was dead. In fact, he had been dead for (Response) Jeremiah 31:10-13 The Book of Ezekiel provides the several days. Putrefaction of his body had Tuesday, April 12 John 11:45-46 first reading for this weekend. begun. Numbers 21:4-9 Even a quick reading of the history of Responding to the sisters’ faith, the ancient Israel shows Lord restores Lazarus to life. Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21 Sunday, April 17 that there were Several important themes occur in the John 8:21-30 Palm Sunday of the precious few periods passage. Lord’s Passion of prosperity and First, of course, is the active, Wednesday, April 13 (Procession) Matthew 21:1-11 calm. Indeed, only the life-giving love of Jesus. In the mystery Martin I, pope and martyr Isaiah 50:4-7 reigns of David and of the Incarnation, Jesus knows and Solomon might expresses human love. Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95 Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, properly be Secondly, the faith of Martha and Mary (Response) Daniel 3:52-56 23-24 considered as truly is unqualified. John 8:31-42 Philippians 2:6-11 good times. The Evangelist sees a parallel between Matthew 26:14-27:66 However, some the and the Thursday, April 14 or Matthew 27:11-54 times were more trying than other times restoration of earthly life to Lazarus. Genesis 17:3-9 were. Certainly, the generations of people In each account, mourning women are who spent their lives in Babylon lived essential parts of the story. A stone closes Psalm 105:4-9 during a miserable time. the tomb. The body is dressed and a face John 8:51-59 Confined in Babylon in wretchedness cloth, customary in Jewish burials of the and as a minority, the Jewish exiles time, covers it. yearned for the day when they would be Finally, in each story, faith and human able to return to their homeland. limitation have important roles. Go Ask Your Father/Fr. Francis Hoffman Ezekiel built upon this theme of hope and expectation. As did all the prophets, Reflection Good confession involves sorrow and he saw a release from Babylonian Next week, on Palm Sunday, the bondage not as an accident or happy turn Church will invite us to learn and to resolution to avoid sin in the future of events. Rather, he saw it as a result of worship during the most intense liturgical God’s mercy and of fidelity to God. days of its year. What is a good confession? I grew up sicknesses that may need more than Thus, in this reading, the Lord speaks, Calling us to Christ, with ancient Qthinking that one had to be very specific counseling in order to heal.” promising to breathe new life into the drama and the most compelling about telling sins. But the sacrament of the anointing of defeated, dejected people. symbolism, it will proclaim Jesus as the My friend says that is the sick was not intended to cure mental St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Savior and Risen Lord. not true anymore. She illness. It is chiefly to strengthen the soul in furnishes the second reading. This weekend, the Church prepares us insists that we should just times of physical suffering and anguish, Rome was the absolute center for for this experience, giving us the beautiful say, “I committed and secondarily it can restore strength and everything in the first century and wondrous story of Lazarus. adultery” or “I vitality to the body to give the soul an Mediterranean world. It was the political, Echoing the Lord’s own resurrection, fornicated” or “I stole.” opportunity to prepare to meet the Lord. economic and cultural heart of the today’s message is clear. If we are united What is the truth? The Code of Canon Law stipulates that, empire, and its inhabitants came from with Jesus, as Lazarus and his sisters Should we be specific or “The anointing of the sick can be everywhere, having brought with them a were united, then in God’s power we will more general in our administered to any member of the faithful great variety of customs and beliefs. It have everlasting life. confession? who, having reached the use of reason, was a sophisticated city. However, this eternal life will occur begins to be in danger of death by reason Paul wrote to the Christian Romans, only if we seek Jesus, and if we seek A good confession is an integral of illness or old age” (#1004.1). among whom he eventually would die as Jesus with the faith uncompromisingly Aconfession accompanied by genuine Commentators note that in practice this a martyr. shown by Martha. Only Jesus can give us sorrow for one’s sins, and a firm resolution to means that the sacrament can be given to a This reading stresses two spiritual life. improve and avoid future occasions of sin. person before surgery as well as to the realities. The Christian is linked with God The other readings reinforce this A confession is integral if the penitent elderly “if they have become notably in Christ, and the Christian possesses the theme. For everyone, life can be taxing. mentions the number and kind of all mortal weakened even though no serious illness is very life of the Holy Spirit, a life, of Death awaits all. sins of which he or she is aware and which present,” and that it “must be given to course, that will never die. Ezekiel assures us that God will give have not been previously confessed. children, even if there is some doubt as to For its third reading, the Church this us true life. It will be the life of holiness, When confessing mortal sins, it is enough whether they have attained the use of weekend presents the Gospel of John. the life that never ends. to mention the number of times, the nature of reason.” Jesus went to Bethany, then a separate St. Paul reminds us that this divine life the sin and any aggravating circumstances. An In general, if there is any doubt, the community but now part of greater abides only in Jesus. So, as Lent aggravating circumstance would be any sacrament should be administered Jerusalem. He was summoned by Martha progresses, as Lent anticipates its situation that made the sin more serious. according to canon law (#1005): “If there is and Mary, who were anxious because culmination, the Church calls us to Jesus, For sins against the Sixth Commandment, any doubt as to whether the sick person has their brother, Lazarus, the Lord’s friend, the Lord of life. † it is enough to mention, for instance: “I reached the use of reason, or is dangerously committed adultery on two occasions with ill, or is dead, this sacrament is to be two different persons. I committed fornication administered.” My Journey to God three times.” For those who suffer spiritual illnesses An aggravating circumstance might be that are more pronounced than what is the age of the person or the relationship of typical of the consequences of , that person to you. Another aggravating I would suggest that they participate in the Signs of Spring circumstance might be intoxication. sacrament of reconciliation on a monthly If you stole something, you should also basis. mention the value of the item and how you For mental illnesses, a qualified mental The daffodils plan to make restitution. health expert, psychologist or psychiatrist On yonder hill Normally, an experienced confessor might should also be consulted. Welcome spring ask some questions to help you be complete If there is reason to believe the devil is As winter fades, and sincere while at the same time avoiding involved, either through obsession or And birds sing useless questions. possession, perhaps a priest exorcist should A livelier trill, For the confessor to give you sound advice, be consulted. Awaiting me still, he needs to know the complete picture of your I greet the day. situation so try to be very sincere. If you are Does a Communion service fulfill a telling too much detail or sharing useless QSunday obligation? God’s creation, information, the confessor will politely cut My oblation, you off and redirect the conversation. No. However, if it is physically or Lifted arms Amorally impossible to attend Mass on In thanksgiving Catholic Courier Should the sacrament of the anointing of Sunday or the anticipated Mass on For all the living— Qthe sick be sought by someone suffering Saturday evening then the obligation no In harmony, from a long-term mental and spiritual wound longer applies. I ponder my call caused by being a victim of a sin or crime? In the case that you attend Sunday Mass To be one with all. Extreme unction seems to be reserved for in your parish and, to your surprise, the those in physical danger of death, and yet priest does not arrive and a Communion

By Sandy Bierly Crupi, Mike CNS file photo by there are serious, persistent mental and service is offered instead, you have spiritual sicknesses that may need more than attempted to fulfill your Sunday obligation (Sandy Bierly is a member of Our Lady of Perpetual Help counseling in order to heal. and that’s what counts. It’s not your fault. Parish in New Albany. Rays of afternoon sun fall on a statue I believe this sacrament has been neglected. Even in that event, however, I would of the Mary and blooming daffodils outside St. Mary encourage you to go to the next parish and Church in Dansville, N.Y., in late April in 2005.) You are correct in stating that “there are try to attend Sunday Mass there if that is at Aserious and persistent mental and spiritual all possible. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011

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Please submit in writing to our Bordenkecher Jr. Brother of Reed, Reuters CNS photo/Jason office by 10 a.m. Thursday Pauline Graf, Carolyn Hives, before the week of publication; Margaret Kennedy, Phyllis be sure to state date of death. Metzler, Anita, Joseph, Norman Obituaries of archdiocesan and William Bordenkecher. priests serving our archdiocese Grandfather of 11. are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and CONSTANTINO, Mary religious sisters and brothers are Lucille, 75, Our Lady of the included here, unless they are Most Holy Rosary, Indianapolis, natives of the archdiocese or March 21. Mother of Patricia have other connec tions to it; Borzabadi, Antoinette Martin and those are separate obituaries on Dan Constantino. Sister of Lola this page. Carter, Marie Cross, Ruth ATKINSON, Marie E., 90, Norman, Rita Paitson, Kay Sauer St. Pius X, Indianapolis, March 27. and Linda Sutherland. Grand - Mother of Anita McMahon, Jeanne mother of 12. Great-grandmother Norton, Barbara Ockomon and of two. Mary Ann Atkinson. Sister of TODARO, Daniel R., Jr., 18, Charles Habig. Grandmother of 10. St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Great-grandmother of 20. Floyds Knobs, March 27. Son of BILLINGS-REINA, Thelma R., Daniel Todaro Sr. and Laurie 95, Immaculate Heart of Mary, (Cahill) Balmer. Brother of Christ the Redeemer Indianapolis, March 16. Mother of Nathan and Ryan Todaro. Roberta Stadtmiller and S. Richard Members of the media are silhouetted against the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 20. Grandson of Joseph and Joan Billings. Sister of Leona Hurst and Cahill, Joan Miller and Frank Betty McDermont. Grandmother of nine. Great-grandmother of 12. Todaro. P. Robert Bonke, the father of Father James Bonke, volunteer ed at BORDENKECHER, Anita M., WIMSATT, Joseph Robert, 67, Good Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis as the business manager 81, St. Jude, Indianapolis, St. Mary, Navilleton, March 24. March 24. Sister of Pauline Graf, Husband of Theresa (Fink) P. Robert Bonke, a member of Good Shepherd Parish in Jan. 19, 2008, after 64 years of marriage. Carolyn Hines, Margaret Kennedy, Wimsatt. Father of Kristie Indianapolis and the father of Father James Bonke, died on He was a charter member of St. James the Greater Parish in Phyllis Metzler, Joseph, Norman Pellman, Linda, Bill, John, Mike April 1 in Indianapolis. He was 88. Indianapolis, which later became Good Shepherd Parish. and William Bordenkecher. and Robert Wimsatt. Brother of The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on April 7 at He served the Church in many capacities through the years, and Good Shepherd Church in Indianapolis. Burial followed at spent his retirement years as the volunteer business manager and BORDENKECHER, Charles Joan Foster, Esther Fredericks, Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis. bookkeeper at Good Shepherd Parish. Walter, Sr., 79, Mary, Queen of Mary Paul, Maureen Pierce, He was born on July 14, 1922, in Indianapolis. He was a charter and life member of the Knights of Columbus Peace, Danville, March 19. Father Sheila Schmidt, Jean Tevis and of Barbara Lehman, Ruth Snider, Rita Tooley. Grandfather of He graduated from Manual High School in Indianapolis in Council #3660 in Indianapolis. Nancy Wheelock and Charles seven. † 1940 then enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942. He served as an Surviving are five children, Mary Augsburger of aviation machinist mate, and was stationed in Hawaii until his Woodbridge, Va.; Anne Keller of Kendall Park, N.J.; discharge in 1945. Peggy McNelis of Spartanburg, S.C.; Jeanne Wagner of He attended the Dwyer School of Business to learn Indianapolis; and Father James Bonke of Indianapolis; as well WHATWHAATT COULD MY MEAGER accounting, which became his life’s work. He earned a as nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. DONATIONDONAATTION MEAN TO SVdP? bachelor’s degree at Marian University in Indianapolis in 1980. Memorial contributions may be sent to Good Shepherd Parish, He married Margaret Raftery on Aug. 21, 1943. She died on 2905 Carson Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46203. † $10 buys 70 lbs.lbs. of food from a food bank. Franciscan Sister Joan Elise $20 buys 2,000 grocery bags (we use 15–20,000 a week). Smith was a teacher, librarian $25 buys a case of recycled copy paper for office operations.oper .ations SAS Sale $50 buys weekly diesel fuel for trucks to pick up donated Franciscan Sister Joan Elise Smith, a member of the Apr. 9th thru Apr. 23rd Congregation of the Sisters of the of St. Francis in household items on Saturday morningsmornings.. Oldenburg, died on March 24 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. She TM TM $75 buys a reconditioned refrigerator,refrigeratorr,, stove,stove or washer.w, .asher New Free Time Time Out was 83. for Women for Men The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on March 29 at $100 buys a reconditioned mattress and box springspring.. Tour for Women the motherhouse chapel in Oldenburg. Burial followed at the sisters’ $150 pays for monthly trashtrash pick-up.pick-up. with cemetery. SAS EZ Lace.® 1 white The former Helen Louise Smith was born on Jan. 23, 1928, in All to serve the needy at no charge to them. Does your Dayton, Ohio. $ 00 She entered the Oldenburg Franciscan community on donation seem so “meager” now? New 25 Sept. 8, 1946, and professed her final vows on Aug. 12, 1952. Journey ToTo schedule pick-up hhouseholddlohesuo items gogsmeti o for Men Sister Joan Elise served as a teacher, librarian and media instructor with SAS EZ Lace.® at Catholic grade schools and high schools in Indiana and Ohio. to svdpindy.orgsvdpindyy..orgg or call 317-687-1006. 1 0FF White & Black She taught at the Academy of the Immaculate Conception in YouYYoo cu can ana also mosl makeeka a monetary contribution Oldenburg as well as in Evansville, Ind. or become a volunteer onlineonline.. New All Men’s and Sister Joan Elise also ministered in Indianapolis at Holy Trinity Spirit Women’s SAS Shoes, School, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) School, 11”w. x 9”h (Dark brown) Marian University and the Hispanic Apostolate in the archdiocese. Purses and Sandals. She also served at the Batesville Deanery Resource Center until her retirement in 2008. svdpindy.orgsvdpindy.org SHOE 620 MAIN ST., Surviving are three sisters, Dorothy Colwill of Wickliffe, Ohio; ECKSTEINSTORE BEECH GROVE, IN Eleanor Gardner of Hebron, Ohio; and Ruth Sweeney of Society of St. VVincentincent de Paul Springfield, Ohio; as well as several nieces and nephews. TUES.-FRI. 9-6, SAT. 9-4 3001 E. 30th StrStreeteet t Indianapolis, IN 46218 317-786-7086 Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of the Third Order of CLOSED SUN. & MON. St. Francis, P.O. Box 100, Oldenburg, IN 47036. †

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Kathy and Terry Huser (317) 255-5700 or 332-8261 An Equal Opportunity Employer Supportive of a Multicultural Environment www.HuserHomeCare.com Equal Opportunity Employer Page 16 The Criterion Friday, April 8, 2011 Caritas reports 1,000 people dead or missing in Ivor y Coast town VATICAN CITY (CNS)— One thousand people were suspected to be dead or missing in the town of Duekoue, Ivory Coast, after clashes throughout the country intensified, Caritas Internationalis reported. Aid organizations have been recovering hundreds of bodies in Duekoue, according to news reports. Caritas workers visiting the town “are reporting a thousand people have been killed there or ‘disappeared,’ ” Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s aid and development agency, said in an April 2 statement. “Caritas condemns all attacks on civilians and says the humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast is rapidly deteriorating,” it said. Army forces and militia supporting President-elect Alassane Ouattara have been CNS photo/Reuters/Benoist Matsha-Carpentier/International of Red Cross and Crescent Societies Federation clashing with security personnel and others loyal to outgoing President Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to leave office after Ouattara was declared the winner of elections on Nov. 28. Some 1 million people have fled the violence, according to the United Nations. Many have escaped the violence by taking refuge in Liberia. Caritas Internationalis called for an investigation into the deaths to find out who is responsible. The massacre took place in a part of Duekoue controlled by pro-Ouattara forces during intense clashes on March 27-29, it said. Bishop Gaspard Beby Gneba of Man, whose diocese includes Duekoue, told the Vatican’s missionary news agency Fides on People fill buckets with water from a pump in the Liberian border village of Sawien in this photo released to Reuters on April 4. Water is the main problem April 2 that civilian and Church-owned for the local communities and for refugees who have fled violence in neighboring Ivory Coast. There is hardly any water coming out of this well and the facilities in his diocese, such as churches, population keeps growing. According the the U.N. refugee agency, some 123,000 Ivorians have fled to Liberia. schools and health clinics, have been destroyed and looted. Abidjan told Fides on April 4 that the Meanwhile, the diocesan director of promotion at Caritas Ivory Coast in Bishop Gneba said 20,000 people had situation there was quiet yet extremely Caritas in Abidjan, Father Richard Kissi, Abidjan, Jean Djoman, told Fides on taken refuge at the Catholic mission in tense—like the calm before a storm. was released on March 31 after he and April 1 that the humanitarian situation was Duekoue, and another 2,000 refugees were He said people have locked themselves another priest were kidnapped by an armed dramatic with 30,000 displaced people in in the two parishes of Guiglo. Among them in their homes, and many were without group on March 29. different areas in Abidjan. were many Liberians who had been in water, electricity and food. Father Kissi was in good condition and He said the humanitarian situation in Ivory Coast since the end of the civil war in “We are awaiting the finale to the battle. had not been mistreated by his captors, the west of the country, which is in the Liberia in 2003. It’s an indescribable tragedy,” the according to Fides. hands of pro-Ouattara forces, was Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of archbishop said. The director of development and human “extremely grave.” † Pakistani archbishop calls for arrest of U.S. pastor over Quran bur ning

LONDON (CNS)—The president of the Pakistani Catholic charity for persecuted Christians around the world. the country. bishops’ conference has called for the arrest of a “In view of the effects his actions have had all over the The worst incidents involved an April 1 attack on a U.S. Protestant pastor whose decision to burn the Islamic world, he should be controlled and understand the harm that U.N. base in the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, in which sacred book has caused fury in the has been done,” he said in an April 4 telephone interview. 14 people were killed, seven of them U.N. staff, and the Muslim world and the deaths of “The U.S. government talks about religious freedom, killings of 10 other people in the southern city of more than 20 people. but we call upon the U.S. government to prevent such Kandahar on April 2. Archbishop Lawrence actions by extremists and other fundamentalist Christians,” Riots continued in towns in the east of the country on Saldanha of Lahore, the conference the archbishop said. April 4. president, said the U.S. government He added that although there had been no reports of Last year, Rev. Jones announced his intention to burn should seek to diffuse mounting attacks on Pakistani Christians by Muslims outraged by the 200 copies of the Quran on a “burn the Quran day” to tensions by detaining the Quran burning, he said he feared that the situation “could mark the al-Qaida terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Rev. Terry Jones of the Dove World become ugly.” His decision to burn a Quran last month was described Outreach Center Church in Jones authorized a copy of the Quran to be soaked in as “an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry” by Gainesville, Fla., who oversaw the gasoline and burned on March 20. The incident, witnessed U.S. President Barack Obama in an April 2 statement. Archbishop burning of the Quran by the by a small number of people, went unnoticed until a video “However, to attack and kill innocent people in response Lawrence Saldanha Rev. Wayne Sapp, his assistant. of the burning was posted on YouTube. is outrageous and an affront to human decency and “The U.S. government should Since then, Muslims in the Middle East have reacted dignity,” Obama added. detain the pastor for some time,” Archbishop Saldanha told violently with four consecutive days of demonstrations in Jones is under round-the-clock protection from the FBI, the British branch of Aid to the Church in Need, a Afghanistan and demands for U.S. troops to leave having received more than 300 death threats. †

What was in the news on April 7, 1961? Those rising hemlines and pr edictions of the future By Brandon A. Evans John Birch Society attractive knees. A woman [young or old] the Catholic Church will see a wider • What about ‘Operation Abolition’? who really knows fashion allows designers centralization of administration in the This week, we continue to examine • 300 parishes in U.S. serve to serve her, but she will not allow them to diocese while parishes concentrate on the what was going on in the Church and the Eastern Rite dictate to her. She is well dressed because formation of apostolic Christians. The world 50 years ago as seen through the • There’s no place she is never guilty of laymen’s role will greatly expand—both in pages of The Criterion, which is for strikes in space age the extreme. When a participation in worship—which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. • Are parochial new fashion calls for mostly in the peoples’ language and in Here are some of the items found in the schools a ‘divisive’ drastic change, she will administrative functions. And unity with April 7, 1961, issue of The Criterion: element? not be one of the other Church bodies will be near reality, if • Stop resting on laurels, Catholic • CYO convention to first to wear it. She, not a fact, by that time. These are some of educators told open tonight like all well-bred the predictions of seven Catholic experts in • Christ will triumph, pontiff tells the • Anne Culkin: persons, has no desire special articles written for the Easter world Those rising hemlines to be conspicuous.’ ” edition of The Oklahoma Courier, weekly • Plea made for rights of women “ ‘Dear Miss Culkin: • New Orleans newspaper of the Oklahoma City and Tulsa • Congo violence flares What do you think of the new above-the- lay group seeking racial justice diocese.” • Orthodox rabbi appeals for knee hemline for spring? I have awful • Vermont tuition aid case goes to • Attorney detects ‘snare’ in school aid private school aid knees. Do you think I would look out of Supreme Court proposal • Extremists hurt anti-Red cause style or silly if I didn’t wear my dresses that • Daily paper hits film smut • Says Reds will fail to silence Church • What does patriotism mean? short?’ • Air France pilot ordained a priest • Catholic editor decries supermarket “ ‘I think you will look silly if you do • Catholic scholars take look at (Read all of these stories from our patriotism wear them “that short!” And I would be of Church’s future April 7, 1961, issue by logging on to our • Senator Dodd: Hits excesses of the same opinion even though you had “OKLAHOMA CITY—Within 50 years, archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) †