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CriterionOnline.com August 21, 2009 Vol. XLIX, No. 45 75¢ Italian researchers develop Submitted photos A journey touched by God heart-repair method with adult stem cells VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Italian researchers have developed a method to repair a damaged heart using adult stem cells, and said it confirmed that the adult cells were more therapeutically useful than embryonic stem cells. “The adult stem cell is already prepared to differentiate in the tissue we want to repair. And it is certainly more productive, less wasteful and less dangerous—beyond the ethical aspects—to work with adult stem cells instead of embryonic stem cells,” said Settimio Grimaldi, an expert at the Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine in Rome, which carried out the research. Grimaldi spoke on Aug. 15 to Vatican Radio, which hailed the published results as an important advance in stem-cell therapy. The Italian team developed a new method of isolating cardiac stem cells, cultivating them and injecting them in such a way that they replace damaged tissue. After testing on animals, the researchers hope to apply the method on humans in about three years. Grimaldi said the method should be able To mark his 25 years at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, principal Chuck Weisenbach traveled to Italy this summer to learn more about the life of to help people who have suffered heart Angelo Roncalli—the peasant boy who grew up to become Pope John XXIII. Weisenbach stands near a bronzed statue of Pope John XXIII that was attacks lead a fairly normal life, including erected in front of the home where Angelo Roncalli was born. work and sports activities. “The frontier of regenerative medicine is opening, and this, in our opinion, is the medicine of the future,” Grimaldi said. Roncalli principal follows in the Church experts have long argued that the use of adult stem cells is not only ethically acceptable but appears to be more footsteps of school’s namesake promising on a practical level. Grimaldi agreed. By John Shaughnessy peasant boy who grew up to become one of “Why should we complicate things by the most loved and influential leaders that going and taking embryonic cells, with all Thousands of miles from his Indiana the world and the Church has known. the ethical questions that follow?” he said. home on a recent summer day, Chuck For three weeks this summer, He said that because their team’s method Weisenbach sat in an outdoor café in a Weisenbach and his wife traveled through takes adult stem cells from the patient and small Italian village, marveling at how France and Italy, following part of the life re-injects them, there is no problem of his journey had once again been journey of Blessed Pope John XXIII, a man rejection, a major advantage in this type of “touched by God.” whose concern for and constant outreach to treatment. Part of that feeling came from sharing all people is captured in one of The Italian results may be added to a the trip to Italy with his wife of 25 years, Weisenbach’s favorite stories. growing list of adult stem-cell treatments Jane, who sat across the table from him. The story takes place long before he developed around the world in recent years And part of it came from having spent became pope, when he was Msgr. Angelo that many scientists and Church leaders the morning visiting the humble home of Roncalli serving as a papal diplomat in Pope John XXIII is pictured at St. Andrew have said show embryonic stem-cell one of the great heroes of his life—a See RONCALLI, page 16 Church in Rome on Nov. 13, 1962. research is unnecessary. † Archdiocesan seminarians make pilgrimage to Vincennes

By Sean Gallagher

VINCENNES—Twenty-five seminarians made a pilgrimage on Aug. 12 to Vincennes, Ind., the place Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by where the Church in Indiana began 175 years ago. That is when the Servant of God Bishop Simon Bruté came to minister in what is now known as the Old Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, a church that was built in 1826. The seminarians, accompanied by archdiocesan vocations director Father Eric Johnson, prayed in the crypt where Bishop Bruté and his first three successors are buried, celebrated Mass in the main church and visited the Old Cathedral Library, which was founded in 1794 and is the state’s first library. Much of Bishop Bruté’s own extensive library is preserved there. Father Johnson said that it was important for the men who are discerning if God is calling them to serve the Church in central and southern Indiana as priests to visit the place where it began. “It kind of makes the stories that we know and the Seminarians Gregory Lorenz, left, Dustin Boehm and Phillip Rahman stand before the tomb of history that we’re a part of more tangible and the Servant of God Bishop Simon Bruté, the first bishop of Vincennes, in the crypt of the See VINCENNES, page 8 Old Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes on Aug. 12. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Bishops’ Web site offers background on health reform views

WASHINGTON (CNS)—The health reform legislation. CNS U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops “A lot is happening in has launched a Web site that seeks to Congress. It changes daily, but clarify its position on the health care our principles and criteria reform debate and to help Catholics add remain consistent,” she said. their voices to the discussions. “The bishops are right at the The Web site at center of the debate,” Saile www.usccb.org/healthcare features videos added. “But the debate is going addressing various aspects of the health to continue in Congress for reform debate, answers to several frequently several more months. There asked questions, copies of bishops’ will be lots of opportunities to documents and letters to Congress, facts and call, to e-mail and to continue statistics about Catholic health care in the that dialogue with members of United States, and links to send messages to Congress.” members of Congress. In other videos, Richard M. The bishops also plan to offer specific Doerflinger, associate director “action alerts” on the site when Congress of the USCCB Secretariat of returns to work on health reform legislation Pro-Life Activities, explains in September. why the bishops are insisting The site urges Catholics to tell Congress that any health reform that “health care reform should: legislation be “abortion- • “Include health care coverage for all neutral.” people from conception until natural death, “Abortion is the opposite of and continue the federal ban on funding for health care. It kills the patient,” abortions. he said. “We can’t support • “Include access for all with a special reform if it is going to turn concern for the poor. doctors against some of their • “Pursue the common good and preserve patients.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched this new Web site, www.usccb.org/healthcare, to help clarify pluralism, including freedom of conscience. At the same time, information about various aspects of the debate on health care reform. • “Restrain costs and apply costs Doerflinger said, the bishops’ equitably among payers.” goal is not to “advance the pro-life cause” similar message on its Web site at health care providers who do not want to In one of the videos on the USCCB site, through health reform legislation. “We just www.chausa.org. participate in abortions or other morally Kathy Saile, director of domestic social want to preserve all major existing policies “CHA has not endorsed any of the health objectionable procedures,” it says. development in the USCCB Department of and provisions, so that [reform legislation] care reform bills, but our message to The association also has detailed Justice, Peace and Human Development, doesn’t forge new ground against the life of lawmakers is clear: Health reform should information about its “vision for notes that the bishops have not taken a the unborn.” not result in an expansion of abortion and it U.S. health care” on a separate Web page at position for or against any particular piece of The Catholic Health Association has a must sustain conscience protections for www.ourhealthcarevalues.org. † U.S. bishops visit Cuban churches a year after devastating hurricanes

HAVANA (CNS)—Three U.S. Catholic bishops are Hanna and Ike—hit the island in just over a three-week cations systems. touring parts of Cuba that were ravaged by hurricanes last period. Cardinal O’Malley said he also hoped to visit a new year. “We want to see how the situation has evolved after the seminary in Havana and see other projects by Caritas, Boston Cardinal Sean P. hurricanes and to make contact with the Catholic Church’s international aid agency in Cuba. O’Malley told Catholic News the bishops, the clergy and The bishops’ plans also included stops at sites Service on Aug. 17 their goal is missionaries” in Cuba, Cardinal considered historic after Pope John Paul II visited them “to understand what we can do to O’Malley said, noting that there is a in 1998. further assist the Church in Cuba.” long history of collaboration Bishop Wenski told CNS the trip was “a solidarity He and Bishop Thomas G. between the Churches of the visit to strengthen the ties of friendship between our Wenski of Orlando, Fla., and United States and Cuba. sister Churches in Cuba and the U.S.” Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Cantu of The U.S. Conference of Catholic “It’s good to see how our aid has been used and to see San Antonio were to visit parts of Bishops sent $250,000 for hurricane how the Church is doing after the storms,” he added. Cuba that were hit by one or more relief, part of $860,000 in aid to the Besides Havana, the bishops’ delegation was to visit of the three hurricanes—Ike, Cuban Church in 2008. the Diocese of Holguin, which was among the areas Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley Gustav and Paloma—that crossed Bishop Thomas G. Wenski The storms led to only seven hardest hit by Hurricane Ike last September, and the over the island late last summer and fall. deaths, but caused hundreds of Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, home of the Two tropical storms, Fay and Hanna, also caused millions of dollars in damage to homes, agriculture and Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, the significant flooding. Four of the storms—Fay, Gustav, infrastructure, including roads, electrical and telecommuni- patroness of Cuba. †

Celebrating Catholic School Values awards dinner is Nov. 10 in Indianapolis Criterion staff report Awards during the 14th annual event, which has raised more The premiere annual Catholic school event in the than $4 million to support need-based education scholarships archdiocese brings together corporate sponsors in celebration The Indianapolis Colts often take center stage during the to Catholic schools in the archdiocese. of archdiocesan Catholic schools. Corporate sponsorships are fall in Indiana, but for at least one special November evening This year’s recipients of the Career Achievement Awards now being accepted. Platinum partnerships for the event the pro football team will share the spotlight with will be Patricia Cronin of Christ the King Parish in Indian- represent a $15,000 gift for scholarships. Gold sponsors several outstanding individuals. apolis, Oliver Jackson of St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis, are $10,000, silver partners are $5,000 and bronze partners The Colts organization will receive the Community Charles “Chick” Lauck of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, are $1,750. Service Award during the archdiocese’s Celebrating Catholic and Robert and Eleanor McNamara of St. Luke the Evangelist For sponsorships and ticket information, contact School Values: Scholarship and Career Achievement Awards Parish in Indianapolis. Rosemary O’Brien in the archdiocesan Office of Stewardship dinner on Nov. 10. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the Indiana and Development at 317-236-1568 or 800-382-9836, Five individuals will also receive Career Achievement Convention Center in Indianapolis. ext. 1568, or e-mail her at [email protected]. †

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Box 1717 • Indianapolis, IN 46206-1717 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 3 Sin in America Researchers attempt to find who’s good and who’s not WASHINGTON (CNS)—How much • Greed: comparing total per capita sin is in America? income with the number of people living in It depends on where you live, according poverty per capita as reported by the to four Kansas State U.S. Census Bureau. University geography • Envy: statistics from researchers. “FBI Uniform Crime Reports” CNS Thompson graphic/Emily In what researcher related to stealing, i.e., Thomas Vought described robbery, burglary, larceny and as a not-too-serious study motor vehicle theft. meant to garner attention at • Wrath: more statistics a convention of geographers from the FBI, but for rape, in Las Vegas as much as to assault and murder. contribute to understanding • Gluttony: comparing the the habits of people around total number of fast-food the country, the foursome restaurants per capita as found that the South— reported by the “U.S. Census encompassing an arc from Bureau 2002 Economic North Carolina through Louisiana—was Census: Food Services and Drinking Places most prone to the traditional seven deadly Report.” sins. • Lust: the number of sexually And the least sinful areas? transmitted diseases per capita from data Kansas State University geography researchers released the results of a not-too-serious study that The Midwest and western Appalachia, collected by the U.S. Department of Health found areas of the South to be most prone to the traditional seven deadly sins. the study’s findings showed. and Human Services. Lest Southerners beg to differ, Vought • Pride: With no data that could be from Kansas to North Dakota. analysis of the seven virtues, identified in told Catholic News Service the study is not related, the researchers calculated pride as When it came to envy, wrath and lust, the Catholic tradition as the cardinal virtues meant to serve as the aggregation of the other six sins. data pointed to the South as being the most of prudence, justice, temperance and See related editorial, an authoritative Vought said the researchers found that sinful area. A swath from western courage and the theological virtues of faith, review of the the sins of gluttony and sloth were minor Appalachia to the upper Midwest proved to hope and charity. page 4. country’s compared with greed, lust, envy, wrath and be the least sinful. The trouble with such a study, Vought sinfulness. pride. The most gluttonous area, so to Pride, the aggregate of all the other sins, and his friends fear, is that it’s much more “I don’t think we started this to send a speak, encompassed southeastern Virginia largely matched the patterns for envy, subjective and a bit more difficult to message to anyone,” he said. “It was a fun and northeastern North Carolina. Pockets of wrath and lust. quantify all the good being done in exercise.” gluttony also were found in central The concept of the seven deadly sins, American society. If such a study could be The study revolved around the Appalachia and western Texas. also known as cardinal sins, can be traced done with a high degree of accuracy, he traditional seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, Slothful pursuits also were few and far back to the fourth-century writings of said, it might show that the geographic greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. Vought between. The data showed sloth most Roman-born Christian monk Evagrius areas that seem to be more sinful may be explained that the researchers wanted to common in southern Montana, south-central Ponticus, who identified eight evil thoughts more virtuous as well. use objective data to help in their analysis Pennsylvania, and Los Angeles and in which all sinful behavior was based. In In case you’re wondering about where to avoid subjectivity and bias. So they surrounding communities. order of increasing seriousness they were: Las Vegas—the so-called “Sin City” and turned to census data, FBI crime reports Greed was more widespread with large gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, America’s gambling capital where the and Department of Health and Human pockets in southern Florida, much of acedia (spiritual sloth), vainglory (vanity) researchers presented their findings to the Services statistics. California, southern Nevada, western and pride. Association of American Geographers— Plotting the data by county, the Arizona, and the Atlantic Coast from Late in the sixth century, Pope Gregory I stacks up, the researchers said the city researchers were able to project where each northern Virginia through southern —St. Gregory the Great—profuse writer came across as pretty average in the study of the seven deadly sins were more New England. But, surprisingly, significant that he was, revised the list, which became but only because it was compared with the prevalent or less prevalent. pockets of greed showed up in Seattle and known as today’s seven deadly sins. rest of the country. Within the state of Here is how the Kansas State western Washington, Denver and northern St. Thomas Aquinas commented on the Nevada, it turned out to be the most sinful researchers calculated the sinfulness of any Colorado, the Houston and Dallas areas, an sins in “Summa Theologica” in the area with Carson City close behind. one region: arc around the southern tip of Lake 13th century. Since then—from poet Vought admitted that questions abound • Sloth: expenditures per capita on Michigan, and the area around the western Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy” to when it comes to mapping a murky concept entertainment and recreation, such as video basin of Lake Erie. contemporary depictions in television, film like sin. He acknowledged that the analysis, games and movie rentals, that tend to keep The least greedy areas proved to be the and video games—the sins of humanity while based on official statistics, is not people isolated from one another as Southern states in an arc extending from have been the focus of writers, perfect. reported in the “U.S. Census Bureau Georgia through Arkansas and philosophers and theologians. “People will read into it what they will,” 2002 Economic Census: Arts, northeastward into West Virginia, Vought and his fellow researchers have he said. “That’s all my colleagues and I Entertainment and Recreation Report.” north-central Texas, and the upper Midwest tossed around the idea of doing a similar really want.” † Justice starts at home: Vatican job norms reflect Church teaching VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When Pope Benedict XVI spouse is sick, while a member of a religious order may years ago. wrote in his new encyclical that efficiency and profit need time off to participate in his or her order’s general Laypeople far outnumber priests and religious at offices cannot be the only things motivating an ethical employer, chapter. belonging to the government of Vatican City, which he was speaking for himself as well. Bufacchi is most proud of the Vatican’s efforts to assist include the Vatican newspaper, Vatican Radio, the Vatican The Vatican published the encyclical “Caritas in Vatican employees with their family obligations. Museums, the Vatican Gardens and the Vatican health care Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) on July 7, the same day the “The norms that recently have entered into force are service. pope signed the new statutes of the Labor Office of the very advanced in terms of provisions for the family,” he Laymen also outnumber priests and religious working Holy See. said. in Vatican congregations and councils, but not The office was established 20 years ago, at a time when In addition to generous maternity leave, the Vatican overwhelmingly. Vatican lay employees publicized labor grievances and gives a bonus to mothers or fathers when a new baby is The Labor Office publishes the base salary schedules threatened work stoppages. New salary structures were born. The bonus is equal to two-thirds of the employee’s for Vatican employees, with the exception of the prefects, introduced and the Labor Office functioned as an monthly salary and, obviously, doubles if the mother has presidents, secretaries and undersecretaries of the congre- arbitration and mediation service for employees with twins. If both parents work for the Vatican, the bonus is gations and councils and the directors of other Vatican grievances. based on the salary of the person earning more. offices. In the first few years of its existence, the office handled The Vatican also has a schedule of family allowances The starting salaries for the lower-level employees about 400 cases each year, said Massimo Bufacchi, who based on total family income and the employee’s number range from the equivalent of about $1,690 a month to recently was named director of the Labor Office. of dependents—a spouse, children, a person with about $2,680 a month. The figure increases with each year Bufacchi told the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore disabilities. Also according to household income, there are of service. In addition, Vatican salaries are tax-free, many Romano, that the serious complaints have all but ended, so additional allowances for day care and a special annual employees live in Vatican-owned apartments where they the statutes have the office focusing more on promoting contribution toward the expense of schoolbooks, which pay below-market rents, they can shop at the Vatican’s the professional and spiritual development of the Italian parents purchase even for children attending state discount supermarket and they are fully covered by the employees and creating a work environment marked by schools. Vatican’s own health service. justice, equality and “authentic respect for the human The Vatican’s new-child bonus extends to an employee And while Italian politicians, labor unions and other dignity of each collaborator.” adopting a child under age 6, and there is a special groups have spent months arguing over whether to set a The Vatican’s employment practices and the work allowance to help cover costs incurred by employees who common retirement age for women and men—currently environment have to reflect Church teaching that “the travel to countries outside Italy for adoptions. the Italian age is 60 for women and 65 for men—the value of human labor is not the type of work that is done, According to information released with the annual Vatican already treats men and women the same. but the fact that the person doing it is a human being,” he Vatican budget figures in July, the Vatican employs Currently lay men and women working at the Vatican said in the interview published on Aug. 8. 4,626 people, at least 1,150 of whom do not benefit from retire when they are 65; priests and religious retire at 70, In the Vatican, the thing that gets a bit tricky is that in the family-friendly policies because they are priests, and bishops, archbishops and cardinals at 75. most offices there are laypeople, clerics and religious religious brothers or religious sisters. The new provisions adopted by Pope Benedict in April working side by side and they have different needs and The figures show that just under 18 percent of the stipulate that, beginning with employees hired in 2010, the obligations outside the office that can impact their work workforce is female—715 laywomen and 116 nuns—but retirement age will rise to 67 for laity and 72 for priests life. A lay employee may need time off when a child or Bufacchi said that is 5 percent more than the ratio five and religious. Prelates will continue to retire at 75. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009

OPINION

Making Sense Out of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk The authentic transformation of ‘useless’ human suffering Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Human beings naturally recoil at the The U.S. Conference of Catholic Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus prospect of pain and suffering. Bishops, in an important document called When a sharp object the “Ethical and Religious Directives for pokes us, we instinc- Catholic Health Care Services,” reminds us tively pull away. When that “patients experiencing suffering that Editorial the unpleasant neighbor cannot be alleviated should be helped to comes up on caller ID, appreciate the Christian understanding of we recoil from redemptive suffering.” Father Laurence Tracy answering the phone. The very concept of “redemptive hears a confession on Our initial response is to suffering” suggests that there is much more April 8 during a avoid noxious stimuli to human suffering than meets the eye, and reconciliation service and pain, similar to most that it is not simply an unmitigated evil from at Our Lady of animals. which we should instinctively flee. Perpetual Help Church Yet when dealing with painful or Rather, it is a mysterious force that can

CNS photo/Mike Crupi, Catholic CourierCNS photo/Mike in Rochester, N.Y. unpleasant situations, we can also respond mold us in important ways and mature us, a deliberately and in ways that radically differ- force we ought to learn to work with and entiate us from the rest of the animal accept as part of our human journey and kingdom. destiny. We can choose, for example, to confront Each of us, in our pain and suffering, can and endure our pain for higher reasons. We become a sharer in the redemptive suffering know that a needle will hurt, but we decide to of Christ. hold our arm still when getting an injection As children, we may have been taught because our powers of reason tell us it will those famous three words by our parents improve our health. when pain and suffering would come our We know the pain of talking to our way: “Offer it up!” difficult neighbor, but we figure that we Those simple words served to remind us Do you live in a sinful ‘state’? should rise to the challenge and do it anyway, how our sufferings can benefit not only attempting to build peace in the ourselves, but those around us in the As a Catholic, you don’t have to neighborhood. mystery of our human communion with We can also approach our pain and them. When we are immobilized in our eware if you know anyone who lives Though Vought told CNS that the suffering in unreasonable ways, driven by hospital bed, we become like Christ, Bin the South. study is not meant to serve as an author- worry and fear. immobilized on the wood of the Cross, and Be happy if you reside in the itative review of the country’s sinfulness, When we suffer from a difficult powerful redemptive moments open before Midwest and western Appalachia. as Catholics, it offers us a gentle relationship, we can turn to drugs, alcohol or us, if we accept and embrace our own At least that’s the message, albeit a reminder of one of the gifts that our binge-eating. When we suffer from the situation in union with him. not-too-serious one, in a Catholic News faith provides us—the sacrament of thought of continuing a pregnancy, we can Because of the personal love of the Lord Service article about sin in America. reconciliation. terminate it by taking the life of our son or towards us, we can in fact make a very real The story, featured on page 3 of As the United States Catholic daughter by abortion. When we suffer from addition to his plan of salvation by uniting this week’s issue of The Criterion, Catechism for Adults tells us, the pain of cancer, we can short-circuit our sufferings to his saving cross, just as a includes the results of work done by “Confession liberates us from sins that everything by physician-assisted suicide. little child can make a very real addition to four Kansas State University trouble our hearts and makes it possible How we decide to respond to suffering, the construction of her mother’s cake when geography researchers. to be reconciled to God and others” whether rationally or irrationally, is one of the she lovingly allows her to add the eggs, flour As you’ll read, the study revolved (USCCA, page 238). most important human choices we make. For and salt. around the traditional seven deadly sins: It adds, “In confession, by naming many in our society, suffering has become a While the mother could do it all unaided, lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy our sins before the priest, who singular evil to be avoided at all costs, leading the child’s addition is real and meaningful as and pride, and how researchers gleaned represents Christ, we face our failings to many irrational and destructive decisions. the love of the mother meets the cooperation census data, FBI crime reports and more honestly and accept responsi- While physical pain is widespread in the of the child to create something new and Department of Health and Human bility for our sins. It is also in animal world, the real difference for human wonderful. Services statistics to obtain their confession that a priest and penitent beings is that we know we are suffering and In the same way, God permits our findings. can work together to find the direction we wonder why, and we suffer in an even sufferings, offered up, to make an indelible One of the researchers, Thomas needed for the penitent to grow deeper way if we fail to find a satisfactory mark in his work of salvation. Vought, said the not-too-serious study’s spiritually and to avoid sin in the answer. We need to know whether our This transformation of the “uselessness” goals, which he termed “a fun exercise,” future” (cf. Catechism of the Catholic suffering has meaning. of our suffering into something profoundly included contributing to understanding Church, #1455, #1456). From our hospital bed or wheelchair, we meaningful serves as a source of spiritual the habits of people around the country. As imperfect people, we know that can hardly avoid the piercing question of joy to those who enter into it. Though we won’t go into all the sin can rear its ugly head at a moment’s “why,” as grave sickness and weakness make For those who are in Christ, suffering and details, the researchers found that the notice in our daily lives. us feel useless and even burdensome to death represent the birth pangs of a new and South—encompassing an arc from But thanks to our faith, we know that others. redeemed creation. North Carolina through Louisiana—was if we stray we can return to the path to In the final analysis, however, no suffering Our sufferings, while never desirable in most prone to the seven deadly sins. redemption through the sacrament of is “useless,” though a great deal of suffering themselves, always point toward The study also showed that the reconciliation. is lost or wasted because it is rejected by us, transcendent possibilities when we do not Midwest—including Indiana—and May we never forgot this gift of faith. and we fail to accept its deeper meaning. flee from them in fear. western Appalachia, were the least sinful Pope John Paul II often remarked that the areas. —Mike Krokos answer to the question of the meaning of (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. suffering has been given by God to man in earned his doctorate in neuroscience from the cross of Jesus Christ. Yale University and did post-doctoral work Continuing to celebrate the Year In the field of Catholic health care, the at Harvard University. He is a priest of the question of suffering arises with regularity Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as for Priests in our archdiocese and, while the dedicated practice of medicine the director of education at The National strives to lessen suffering and pain, it can Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. lain and simple, there are a lot of print all the responses we receive, we never completely eliminate it. See www.ncbcenter.org.) † Pgood priests serving the Archdiocese hope to feature more readers’ stories of Indianapolis. about how priests have made a You have told us as much in recent difference in their lives of faith in the Letters to the Editor weeks. coming weeks and months. After Pope Benedict XVI officially If a priest has meant a lot to you, if Unlike Michael Vick, Letters Policy began the “Year for Priests” in June, we you have seen him minister well or if his many convicted felons Letters from readers are welcome and asked readers to share stories of priests life has helped your faith grow, we want should be informed, relevant, well- who have ministered to them in various to know about it. are still looking for a expressed, concise, temperate in tone, capacities in the archdiocese. Send your stories to Sean Gallagher courteous and respectful. We hoped people would answer the by e-mail at [email protected] or second chance The editors reserve the right to select call to recognize holy men who are mail to P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN Why an editorial about Michael Vick in and edit the letters based on space serving or have served our parishes and 46206. a Catholic newspaper? limitations, pastoral sensitivity and schools in central and southern Indiana, During this Year for Priests, Pope Of course, he deserves a second chance, content. Letters must be signed, but, for serious and you have done just that. Benedict has encouraged us to pray for but he is already financially secure. reasons, names may be withheld. Our thinking for this reader-response our priests’ growth in holiness. My young friend, a convicted felon like Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” was simple: many of us probably take As people of faith, may we continue Vick, cannot even get a job at a The Criterion, P.O. Box 1717, Indianap olis, our pastors and associate pastors for to do our part to support our priests’ convenience store, a fast-food restaurant, IN 46206-1717. granted, and here is a chance to thank ministry and never take them for Kroger, Wal-Mart, etc. Readers with access to e-mail may send that priest or priests for their life and granted. How about an editorial about him and letters to [email protected]. ministry. the thousands like him? Although space does not allow us to —Mike Krokos John E. Combs Batesville The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Eternal life with God is a mystery and our profound hope ternal life is a mystery and a “eternal life” suggests that life as we know is—this is what it should be like. Besides Using a very powerful image, the pope profound hope. No one knows the it goes on forever. We can hardly imagine what we call life in our ordinary language is goes on to say, “It would be like plunging Edetails of what eternal life will be what heaven will be like; if we think of it in not real life at all.” into the ocean of infinite love, a moment in like, but our faith gives us some important natural terms, we can’t help but be turned Quoting St. Augustine, the Holy which time—the before and after—no clues. off by the idea of our current existence, with Father continues: “Ultimately we want longer exists” (“Spe Salvi,” #12). Scripture speaks of it using images of its suffering and sorrow, continuing only one thing—the blessed life, the life Eternal life is a blessed communion with happiness or joy: life, light, peace, wedding forever—endlessly—like the witch’s curse which is simply life, simply happiness. God and with all who are in Christ. It is “a feast, the Father’s house, the heavenly in a fairy tale. This is not what we In the final analysis, there is nothing else plunging ever anew into the vastness of Jerusalem, paradise. Christians believe. that we ask for in prayer. Our journey being, in which we are simply overwhelmed We also know, with the certainty of faith, What, then, do we Christians believe has no other goal—it is about this alone” with joy” (“Spe Salvi,” #12). The Lord what eternal life will not be like. Let’s start about life after death and about the hope (“Spe Salvi,” #11). himself tells us, “I will see you again and with the negative and work our way to the that was promised at the time of our We believe that human beings who die in your hearts will rejoice, and no one will meaning of the positive images given to us baptism? God’s grace and friendship, and who have take your joy from you” (Jn 16:22). in Scripture. If we look carefully at the words of our been purified, live forever in Christ. They This is our most profound hope: to be The myths of ancient peoples often Lord in the Scriptures, we can begin to are in heaven, which is not a place with Christ and to be overwhelmed with suggest that life after death will simply be a develop an understanding of what life with according to our earthly understanding. lasting joy. † continuation of earthly life. That’s why God in heaven will be like. We mustn’t fool Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment hunting or farming implements—and in ourselves here. Eternal life with God is a of our deepest human longings, the state of some cultures jewels, furniture and even mystery and a profound hope. We will not supreme happiness. (See the Catechism of Do you have an intention for slaves—were placed in the graves of their fully understand it until we experience it, by the Catholic Church, #1023-1024.) Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? former owners. Life after death is the same the grace of God, at the end of time. In “Spe Salvi,” Pope Benedict comments You may mail it to him at: as earthly life—only better, happier and But through Christ’s death and on the difficulty we have imagining what lasting forever. This is not what we resurrection, we have been given some eternal life must be like. He says it is Archbishop Buechlein’s Christians believe. fundamental insights into the true meaning certainly not “an unending succession of Prayer List In classical Greek and Roman thinking, of life after death. What the Apostles and days in the calendar.” Archdiocese of Indianapolis life after death was ghost-like, shadowy and martyrs and all the saints tell us, and what Rather, he teaches that heaven is “more 1400 N. Meridian St. insubstantial. Even in the Old Testament, the Church has consistently taught since the like the supreme moment of satisfaction in P.O. Box 1410 Sheol, like the Greek Hades, was viewed as Holy Spirit was given to us at Pentecost, which totality embraces us and we embrace Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 a place less vivid or real than earthly life. provides us with some fundamental truths totality.” The immortal soul is separated from the concerning the mystery of eternal life. body, which decays and returns to Pope Benedict XVI addresses this elemental matter. The disembodied soul mystery in his encyclical letter “Spe Salvi” Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for August then remains in a permanent state of (“Saved by Hope”). The pope writes, “What Parish Awareness: that all parishioners will be aware of their role in promoting all spiritual existence. This is not what we in fact is life? And what does eternity really vocations and have the awareness especially to encourage our youth to consider the Christians believe. mean? There are moments when it suddenly To our ordinary way of thinking, seems clear to us: Yes, this is what true life priestly and religious life.

La vida eterna con Dios es un misterio y es también nuestra profunda esperanza a vida eterna es un misterio y una conocemos se prolonga por toda la algo: Sí, esto sería precisamente la amor infinito, en el cual el tiempo—el antes profunda esperanza. Nadie conoce los eternidad. Difícilmente podemos verdadera vida, así debería ser. En contraste y el después—ya no existe” (“Spe Salvi,” Lpormenores de cómo será la vida imaginarnos cómo será el cielo; si pensamos con ello, lo que cotidianamente llamamos #12). eterna, pero nuestra fe nos ofrece algunos en ello desde nuestra perspectiva natural, no vida, en verdad no lo es.” La vida eterna es una comunión indicios importantes. podemos menos que sentirnos desalentados Citando a San Agustín, el Santo Padre sagrada con Dios y con todos los que Las Escrituras hablan de ello empleando por la idea de que nuestra existencia actual, prosigue: “En el fondo queremos sólo una están con Cristo. “Este momento es la imágenes de felicidad o júbilo: vida, luz, con sus sufrimientos y pesares, se prolongue cosa, ‘la vida bienaventurada,’ la vida que vida en sentido pleno, sumergirse paz, banquete de bodas, la casa del Padre, para siempre, eternamente, como la simplemente es vida, simplemente siempre de nuevo en la inmensidad del Jerusalén en el cielo, el paraíso. maldición de la bruja en un cuento de hadas. ‘felicidad.’ A fin de cuentas, en la oración ser, a la vez que estamos desbordados Asimismo, con la certeza de la fe, Esta no es la creencia de los cristianos. no pedimos otra cosa. No nos encaminamos simplemente por la alegría” (“Spe Salvi,” sabemos como no será la vida eterna. ¿Qué es, pues, lo que creemos los hacia nada más, se trata sólo de esto” (“Spe #12). El mismo Señor nos dice: “Volveré Empecemos con los aspectos negativos y cristianos acerca de la vida después de la Salvi,” #11). a veros y se alegrará vuestro corazón y avancemos hasta el significado de las muerte y sobre la esperanza que se nos Creemos que los que mueren en la nadie os quitará vuestra alegría” imágenes positivas que nos ofrecen las prometió en el bautismo? gracia y la amistad de Dios, y están (Jn 16:22). Escrituras. Si examinamos con detenimiento las purificados, viven para siempre con Cristo. Esta es nuestra más profunda esperanza: Los mitos de los pueblos antiguos por lo palabras de nuestro Señor en las Escrituras, Se encuentran en el cielo que no es un lugar estar con Cristo y sentirnos desbordados por general sugieren que la vida después de la podemos comenzar a desarrollar un definido por nuestra capacidad de la alegría. † muerte será simplemente la prolongación de entendimiento de cómo será la vida con entendimiento terrenal. El cielo es el fin la vida terrenal. Es por ello que en las Dios en el cielo. No debemos engañarnos. último y la realización de las aspiraciones tumbas se colocaban instrumentos de caza o La vida eterna con Dios es un misterio e más profundas del hombre, el estado ¿Tiene una intención que desee de cultivo (y en algunas culturas, joyas, infunde también una profunda esperanza. No supremo de felicidad. (Ver el Catecismo de incluir en la lista de oración del muebles e incluso esclavos) que pertenecían lo entenderemos totalmente hasta que lo la Iglesia Católica, #1023-1024) Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar al difunto. La vida después de la muerte es experimentemos al final de los tiempos, En “Spe Salvi,” el papa Benedicto habla su correspondencia a: igual a la vida terrenal, pero mejor, más mediante la gracia de Dios. sobre la dificultad que tenemos para feliz y perdura por toda la eternidad. Esta no Pero a través de la muerte y resurrección imaginarnos cómo será la vida eterna. Lista de oración del Arzobispo es la creencia de los cristianos. de Cristo se nos han dado algunas nociones Comenta que ciertamente no se trata de “un Buechlein En el pensamiento griego y romano fundamentales en relación al verdadero continuo sucederse de días del calendario.” Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis clásico, la vida después de la muerte era significado de la vida después de la muerte. En lugar de ello, nos enseña que el cielo 1400 N. Meridian St. fantasmal, tenebrosa e insustancial. Incluso Lo que nos dicen los Apóstoles, los mártires se asemeja más al “momento pleno de P.O. Box 1410 en el Viejo Testamento, el Sheol, al igual y todos los santos, así como lo que nos ha satisfacción, en el cual la totalidad nos Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 que el Hades de los griegos, era visto como enseñado consecuentemente la Iglesia desde abraza y nosotros abrazamos la totalidad”. un lugar menos vivaz o real que la vida que se nos entregó el Espíritu Santo en Empleando una imagen muy poderosa, terrenal. Pentecostés, nos proporciona algunas el Papa continúa con su disertación: “Sería Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, El alma inmortal se separa del cuerpo, el verdades fundamentales en relación al el momento del sumergirse en el océano del Language Training Center, Indianapolis. cual se descompone y vuelve a ser materia misterio de la vida eterna. elemental. El alma incorpórea permanece en El papa Benedicto XVI aborda este La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en agosto un estado de existencia espiritual misterio en su carta encíclica “Spe Salvi” permanente. Esta no es la creencia de los (“Salvados por la esperanza”). El Papa Conocimiento de la Parroquia: Que cada parroquiano sea consciente de su papel para cristianos. escribe: “¿Qué es realmente la vida? Y ¿qué fomentar todas las vocaciones y anime a nuestros jóvenes a con-siderar la vida Para nuestra forma de pensar común, la significa verdaderamente eternidad? Hay sacerdotal y religiosa. “vida eterna” sugiere que la vida que momentos en que de repente percibimos Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Events Calendar

August 21 August 21-22 6:30 p.m., $25 per person Saint Meinrad Archabbey and August 27-29 August 29 Northside Knights of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, includes dinner, Sun. School of Theology, Church, St. Ann Parish, Immaculate Heart of Mary Columbus Hall, 2100 E. 46th and Illinois streets, 2:30 p.m., $12 includes tea. 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. 6350 Mooresville Road, Parish, 5692 Central Ave., Information: 317-356-7291 or 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Indianapolis. “Sausage Fest,” Organ concert, Hillary Indianapolis. Parish festival, Indianapolis. “Fall Festival,” [email protected]. Sullivan, organist, 3 p.m., Business Exchange, Mass, food, music, Fri., Sat. rides, games, food, food, music, games, 4-11 p.m. 6 p.m.-midnight. Information: no charge. Information: breakfast and program, Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Information: 317-257-2266. 317-253-1461. August 22 800-682-0988 or Dr. Matthew Will, associate St. Monica Church, 6131 N. Fri. and Sat. 5-11 p.m. www.saintmeinrad.edu. Mount Saint Francis, professor of finance, University Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Michigan Road, Indianapolis. Information: 317-244-3750. of Indianapolis, speaker, 25th anniversary of priestly 101 St. Anthony Dr., Christ Parish, 7225 Southeastern MKVS, Divine Mercy and ordination of Father Ben August 28-29 Mt. St. Francis. Silent auction, 6:30-8:30 a.m., follow-up Ave., Indianapolis. Glorious Cross Center, Okonkwo, Mass, 11 a.m., Prince of Peace Parish, 413 E. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Information: workshop, 8:30-9 a.m., online “Augustravaganza,” Rexville, located on 925 South, reception following liturgy. Second St., Madison. 812-923-8817. reservations only by Aug. 19. rides, food, music, .8 mile east of 421 South and entertainment, “Community Festival,” Reservations and information: August 23 12 miles south of Versailles. St. Francis Hospital and Health 4 p.m.-midnight. Father Michael Shawe www.catholicbusiness St. Paul Parish, 9798 N. Mass, noon, on third Sunday Center, 8111 S. Emerson Ave., Information: 317-357-1200. exchange.org. Dearborn Road, Guilford. holy hour and pitch-in, Memorial Jr./Sr. High School, Indianapolis. “Legs for Life,” August 21-23 Ladies Sodality, hot groups of 10 pray the new 201 W. State St., free screening program, St. Anne Parish, 102 N. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, breakfast bar buffet, Marian Way, 1 p.m., Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight., registration required. 19th St., New Castle. 5333 E. Washington St., 7:30 a.m.-noon, free-will Father Elmer Burwinkel, Sat. 5 p.m.-midnight, food, Information or appointment: Pork chop dinner, 4-7 p.m. Indianapolis. Dinner theater, donation. Information: celebrant. Information: carnival rides, games. 317-782-4422 or Information: 765-529-0933. “Nunsense,” Fri. and Sat. 812-487-2096. 812-689-3551. Information: 812-265-4166. 877-888-1777. †

Retreats and Programs 17-236-1448 or 317-402-3330. Benedictine Brother Thomas Gricoski, “Meet Me at The Shack,” Father Jim Farrell, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or presenter, 7-9:30 p.m., $15 per person includes September 3 [email protected]. light dinner. Information: 317-545-7681 or August 21-23 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 56th St., Indianapolis. Silent non-guided September 22 St. Meinrad. “The Book of Revelation: What retreat, “Come Away and Rest Awhile,” Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, It Is and What It Isn’t,” Benedictine Father September 29 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $25 per person includes 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Catholic Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: continental breakfast and lunch. Information: Identity and Doctrine 2009—The Holy 56th St., Indianapolis. Day of Reflection, 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Sacrifice of the Mass,” Benedictine Sister Mildred Wannemuehler, presenter, “What You Are Missing in Your Spiritual August 28-30 September 4-6 Life and How to Get It,” Father Michael Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 6:30-9 p.m., $25 includes dinner. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, McKinney, presenter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., St. Meinrad. “Scriptures and Novels,” Information: 317-788-7581 or St. Meinrad. “For Men Wanting Answers: Benedictine Father Noël Mueller, presenter. [email protected]. $35 per person includes continental breakfast Discerning a Vocation to Priesthood,” and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or Information: 800-581-6905 or September 25-27 [email protected]. Benedictine Father Vincent Tobin, presenter. [email protected]. Information: 800-581-6905 or Our Lady of Grace Monastery, 1402 Southern August 29 [email protected]. Ave., Beech Grove. Come and See Vocation October 6-8 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Retreat, “Finding Purpose in Life.” Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. September 7-13 Information: 317-787-3287, ext. 303 or St. Meinrad. Midweek retreat, “Pray Your Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, “The Journey of Thomas Merton,” [email protected]. Way to Happiness,” Benedictine Brother St. Meinrad. “The Image As a Window to Dr. Paul A. Crow, presenter, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Maurus Zoeller. Information: 800-581-6905 or the Spiritual: An Artist’s Six-Day Hands-on Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, $50 per person. Information: 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. [email protected]. Workshop and Retreat,” Benedictine Brother St. Meinrad. “Praying the Psalms,” Martin Erspamer and Passionist Brother Benedictine Father Harry Hagan, presenter. October 9-11 August 29-30 Michael Moran, presenters. Information: Information: 800-581-6905 or Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. [email protected]. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “SPRED St. Meinrad. “The Peaceable Pope: Blessed retreat, “We Are One Body,” special September 18-20 September 28 John XXIII,” Benedictine Father Noël religious development participants and Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Mueller, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 catechists, $75 per person. Information: St. Meinrad. “Prayer Distractions,” 56th St., Indianapolis. Evening of reflection, or [email protected]. †

Priest to celebrate ordination anniversary The public is invited to a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the priestly ordination of Father Ben Okonkwo, a chaplain at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. It will take place at an 11 a.m. Mass on Photo courtesy Archabbey of Saint Meinrad Aug. 22 at St. Monica Church, 6131 N. Michigan Rd., in Indianapolis. A reception at the parish will follow. Father Okonkwo is a priest of the Issele-Uku Diocese in Nigeria. For more information about the anniversary celebration, call 317-437-1553. † Fr. Ben Okonkwo

Unexpected Submitted photo guests Benedictine Brother Thomas Gricoski ritually raises his hands in prayer on Aug. 15 while professing solemn vows as a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad. The solemn Ben Garber, a member of profession of vows took place during a Mass celebrated in the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of the Catholic Youth Organization Einsiedeln. football team at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Benedictine monk professes solemn vows Indianapolis, points at hot air balloons that descended on his Benedictine Brother Thomas Gricoski He earned a bachelor’s degree in parish’s practice field on professed solemn vows as a monk of philosophy from the University of Aug. 15 while the team gathered Saint Meinrad Archabbey on Aug. 15 Scranton in 2002, and a master’s degree for their season’s first practice. during a Mass celebrated at the in philosophy from the Catholic The balloons and their pilots Archabbey Church of Our Lady of University of Louvain in Belgium in were participating in a hot air Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. 2004. He served a pastoral intern year at balloon race sponsored by the He entered the novitiate at Immaculate Conception Parish in Indiana State Fair, held Saint Meinrad in 2005. In professing Scranton, Pa. Aug. 7-23 in Indianapolis. solemn vows of obedience, fidelity to Brother Thomas is currently a the monastic way of life and stability in seminary student at Saint Meinrad School the community at Saint Meinrad, he of Theology in his last year of studies. He becomes a full and permanent member also assists in Saint Meinrad’s Office of of the Benedictine community. Benedictine Oblates. Brother Thomas, 28, is a native of Hyattsville, Md. He grew up in (For more about Saint Meinrad Frackville, Pa., where he was a member Archabbey, log on to of St. Ann Parish. www.saintmeinrad.edu.) † The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 7 Nine Franciscan sisters celebrate 50-year jubilees

Criterion staff report as congregational minister for the Oldenburg Franciscan community. Nine Sisters of the Congregation of the She is currently the vice president for Third Order of St. Francis, based in mission effectiveness at Marian University in Oldenburg, are celebrating 50 years of Indianapolis. religious life as Franciscans. Sister Ruth Eggering, formerly The 50-year jubilarians are Sisters Janet Sister Monica, ministered at the former Born, Mary Lynne Calkins, Jean Marie St. Francis de Sales Parish in Indianapolis, Cleveland, Ruth Eggering, Rose Lima Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove, Frerick, Dianne Kaimann, Barbara Piller, St. Mary (Immaculate Conception) Parish in Donna Rohman and Rita Thomas. Rushville and St. Francis Hall at the Sister Janet Born, formerly Sister Mary motherhouse. Joy, ministered at St. Bernadette Parish in She also served at St. Mary Parish in Sr. Janet Born, O.S.F. Sr. Mary Lynne Sr. Jean Marie Indianapolis, the Oldenburg Academy of the Evansville, Ind., as well as at parishes in Ohio Calkins, O.S.F. Cleveland, O.S.F. Immaculate Conception, St. Mary and New Mexico. (Immaculate Conception) Parish in Sister Ruth is currently on the nursing staff Rushville, St. Paul Parish in Tell City, at Cardinal Ritter Senior Services as well as La Claire in Oldenburg and Michaela Farm Mary Queen and Mother Center in St. Louis. in Oldenburg. Sister Rose Lima Frerick ministered at She also served at the former St. Vincent St. Bernadette Parish in Indianapolis, St. Mark Orphanage in Vincennes, Ind., as well as in the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis and parish ministry in Ohio. Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in From 2002-08, she ministered as director Indianapolis. of programs and marketing at the Oldenburg She also served at St. Mary Parish in Franciscan Center. Evansville, Ind., and Reitz Memorial High Sister Janet is currently on sabbatical at School in Evansville as well as the former Berakah in Pittsfield, N.H. St. Vincent’s Orphanage in Vincennes, Ind., Sr. Ruth Eggering, O.S.F. Sr. Rose Lima Sr. Dianne Kaimann, O.S.F. Sister Mary Lynne Calkins, formerly and in parish ministry in Ohio. Frerick, O.S.F. Sister Mary Magdalen, ministered at She also ministered as director of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) communication for the Oldenburg Franciscan Parish in Indianapolis, St. Bernadette Parish community. in Indianapolis, Father Thomas Scecina Sister Rose Lima is currently an Memorial High School in Indianapolis, administrative assistant and technical writer Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New at Imstar Enterprises Inc. in Cincinnati. Albany and the Oldenburg Academy of the Sister Dianne Kaimann, formerly Immaculate Conception. Sister Marie Vincent, ministered at She also served at parishes in Ohio, St. Michael Parish in Brookville, Michigan, Missouri and Arkansas. St. Bernadette Parish in Indianapolis, From 1985-91, she was director of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) communication for the Oldenburg Franciscan Parish in Indianapolis, Health Link in community. Indianapolis and at the motherhouse. Sr. Barbara Piller, O.S.F. Sr. Donna Rohman, O.S.F. Sr. Rita Thomas, O.S.F. Sister Mary Lynne is currently an She also served at parishes in Ohio and outpatient therapist at Centerpoint Health in Missouri. Cincinnati. Sister Dianne is currently the bookkeeper Sister Jean Marie Cleveland, formerly at St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in council member from 1994 to 2000, director in Ohio. Sister Joseph Marie, is a native of Franklin County as well as the secretary of life development from 2001-06 and Sister Donna is currently the secretary to Indianapolis. for membership and on-going formation at the member of the motherhouse the general council for the Oldenburg She ministered at St. Monica Parish in motherhouse. co-ordinating team from 2001-06. Franciscan community and also ministers as a Indianapolis, Holy Trinity Parish in Sister Barbara Piller, formerly Sister Mary In 2006, Sister Barbara was elected tutor. Indianapolis, Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High Linus, ministered at the Oldenburg Academy congregational minister and a council Sister Rita Thomas, formerly Sister Esther School in Indianapolis, Our Lady of the Most of the Immaculate Conception, St. Mary member for the Oldenburg Franciscan Marie, ministered at St. Mark the Evangelist Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, (Immaculate Conception) Parish in Rushville, community. She will serve in those Parish in Indianapolis, Holy Name of Jesus St. Patrick Parish in Indianapolis, St. Mary St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) leadership positions until 2012. Parish in Beech Grove and St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis, the Oldenburg Parish in Indianapolis, Shalom House in Sister Donna Rohman, formerly Parish in Lawrenceburg. Academy of the Immaculate Conception, Indianapolis and Sister Demaris, ministered at St. Mark the She also served at parishes in Missouri and St. John the Baptist Parish in Dover and St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis and Illinois. St. Peter Parish in Franklin County. She also served in parish ministry in Ohio. St. Louis Parish in Batesville. Sister Rita currently teaches at the Shalom She also served in parish ministry in Ohio. At the motherhouse, Sister Barbara was co- She also served at St. Agnes Parish in Preschool and Child Development Center in From 2000-06, Sister Jean Marie served director of asssociates from 1993-94, a Evansville, Ind., and in parish ministry Florissant, Mo. † New Catholic-Muslim expert at USCCB is man of many hats, many firsts WASHINGTON (CNS)—Father Leo Walsh might be His parents and the eight Walsh children were one of competitions. After a six-month course of instruction, the first Alaskan to work at the U.S. bishops’ headquarters the founding families of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Father Walsh passed the three-hour exam that he said was in Washington. He also might be Spenard in 1972. among the hardest he’s ever taken—second only to the first licensed rugby referee and In 1987, he earned a degree in business administration, defending his doctoral dissertation. the first nationally certified beer with a concentration in organizational behavior and labor Father Walsh also has had a private pilot’s license for judge. relations, from the University of Notre Dame in northern 20 years and, when in Alaska, flies a float-equipped bush Father Walsh brings a variety of Indiana. After working in the private sector for a few years, plane “to many secret fishing holes,” he said. skills to his new post as associate he began seminary studies in Rome and was ordained a Many challenges lie ahead in his work on Catholic- director of the Secretariat of priest of the Anchorage Archdiocese in 1994. Muslim relations, which he said is primarily about Ecumenical and Interreligious Soon after ordination, Father Walsh returned to “relationships and dialogues.” Three regional dialogue Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Rome to earn a licentiate in ecumenical theology at the groups have been meeting since as far back as 1993. Catholic Bishops, specializing in University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks did not deter Catholic-Muslim relations. He also Angelicum. Twelve years later, he went back to earn Catholic-Muslim dialogue but rather intensified it, Fr. Leo Walsh brings a lifelong interest in things his doctorate in ecumenical studies from the Father Walsh said. ecumenical and interreligious, Angelicum with a dissertation called “Encounter in “Because of our prior relationships, we were able to prompted first by the large number of Orthodox Christians Magadan—A Critical Historical Analysis of Issues respond more effectively together,” he said. “It showed in Alaska. Related to Proselytism as They Manifested Themselves the need for dialogue on a national level, and that it’s a “They were there first,” he said of the Orthodox. in the Russian Far East, 1989-1992.” blessing to be in dialogue.” Eight Russian Orthodox monks brought Christianity to Frequently cited in that dissertation, he noted in the Father Walsh, who lives at the USCCB staff house with Alaska’s Kodiak Island more than 200 years ago. interview, was Paulist Father Ron Roberson, who now other priests working at the bishops’ headquarters, plans In an interview with Catholic News Service on occupies the office next to Father Walsh’s as the other to take some time to decide where and how he’ll be Aug. 10, just two weeks into his new job, Father Walsh associate director of the USCCB ecumenical and involved in pastoral ministry in the Washington area. talked about other influences on what has become his interreligious secretariat. “A priest’s first calling is to the people, of course,” he life’s work—among them his friendships in Rome with In Anchorage, Father Walsh wore many hats. He was said. “But it’s easy to let that eclipse the work here. I’m fellow seminarians at the Pontifical Ukrainian College vicar general, vicar for clergy, vocations director, going to give myself a month.” next door to the Pontifical North American College and ecumenical/interfaith officer and pastor of St. Andrew Father Walsh said he also has been asked how a 1993 visit to the Holy Land, where all three of the Parish in Eagle River. He also served at various times as Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz of Anchorage was able to Abrahamic religions coexist side by side, not always chairman of the board of Catholic Social Services of release him for the USCCB work when the archdiocese without conflict. Alaska, president of the local interfaith council and only has 12 diocesan priests. “Their interactions were very poignant, the conflicts treasurer of the national group now known as the Catholic Calling Anchorage a “stewardship diocese,” he said, very stark,” he said of the Christian-Jewish-Muslim Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious “It’s important to remember that we are part of a much interactions in Jerusalem. Officers. larger body of believers. Now 44, Father Walsh was born and raised in Then there was the fun stuff. He home-brews his own “There are very few people in the country who do Anchorage, a city he described as the third most diverse in beer, and the local home-brew club that was meeting at his what we do,” Father Walsh added. “We all give a little the United States, with 70 languages spoken in its schools. parish convinced him to become certified to judge beer part of who we are to the larger body.” † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 VINCENNES continued from page 1 concrete,” he said. “We need something that Gallagher Sean by Photos we can touch that helps to make that [history] more real and causes us to reflect a little more deeply on who it is that we are and what it is that we’re called to.” This was especially true for seminarian Scott Lutgring, a member of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, who is a first-year theology student at Saint Meinrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad. Lutgring had previously been a seminarian for the Lafayette Diocese and had been in formation at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., where Bishop Bruté had ministered before being appointed the first bishop of Vincennes. “Being there for two years and seeing the history and the tradition and then coming here, it just seems to me like I’m blessed to go the way Simon Bruté went,” Lutgring said. “I’m following in his footsteps.” Seminarian Michael Keucher, a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington who is a first-year philosophy student at Saint Meinrad, said Bishop Bruté Above, archdiocesan seminarians walk on Aug. 12 was an important part of his life of faith. toward the Old Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis “Archbishop Daniel [M. Buechlein] has Xavier in Vincennes, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese. done such a great job focusing our attention Their pilgrimage to Vincennes was the culmination on Bishop Bruté and his rightful place in our of a three-day retreat that began on Aug. 10 at Our prayers,” Keucher said. “As a seminarian, I Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. pray to him frequently for his intercession.” But the seminarians weren’t just focused Left, seminarian Scott Lutgring prays on Aug. 12 in on the past during the pilgrimage. It was the the Old Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in conclusion of a three-day retreat for them at Vincennes during an archdiocesan seminarians’ the start of their academic year. They spent pilgrimage prior to the start of the academic year. the first two days at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. “Being on this retreat with the guys, New seminarians seeing the bond they have with each other, it seems very natural,” Lutgring said. “I’ve come from a gotten to know the guys. They’re great. It’s been a great first experience in the variety of parishes archdiocese.” By Sean Gallagher Seminarian Phillip Rahman, a member of St. Boniface Parish in Fulda and a VINCENNES—Nine of the sophomore at Bishop Simon Bruté College archdiocese’s 27 seminarians at the start Seminary in Indianapolis, spoke about the of this academic year are new importance of spending time with his brother seminarians. seminarians. “It’s a pretty good year for us,” said “They’re going to be instrumental in my Father Eric Johnson, archdiocesan formation,” Rahman said. “The community vocations director. and love we have for each other will help But he is not just pleased with the [us] build each other up.” relatively large number of new seminarians this year. Father Johnson also (To learn more about the archdiocese’s noted that some of them are coming from seminarians, log on to parishes that have not had seminarians for www.HearGodsCall.com.) † a long time, such as St. Joseph Parish in the Indianapolis West Deanery and St. Boniface Parish in Fulda in the Tell City Deanery. “The guys around the archdiocese are starting to buy into a culture that encourages vocations,” Father Johnson said. He hopes that having more parishes with seminarians might spur more men to discern a possible call to the priesthood. “I honestly think that part of our Seminarians Daniel Bedel, left, Gregory Lorenz, Benjamin Syberg and Andrew Proctor sing on Aug. 12 in success at, for instance, St. Barnabas or a schola during a Mass at the Old Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes during a Our Lady of the Greenwood [parishes seminarian pilgrimage to the southern Indiana town where the Church in Indiana began 175 years ago. that have multiple seminarians] is rooted in the fact that there are seminarians there and have been for a while,” Father Johnson said. “That encourages and perpetuates that [culture].” The seminarians come from 17 parishes across eight of the 11 deaneries in central and southern Seminarians Charles Penalosa, left, and Michael Indiana. Three parishes—Our Lady of the Keucher chat next to a statue of Bishop Bruté Greenwood Parish in Greenwood and in the Old Cathedral Library during their St. Mary and St. Barnabas parishes, both Aug. 12 pilgrimage to Vincennes. in Indianapolis—have multiple seminarians. Seminarian Michael Keucher, a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington, said having seminarians from more parishes across the archdiocese encourages him. “It certainly is a testament to the times we’re in because we have so many more guys who want to go out and to spread the faith and to do what they feel is their part in the Church,” he said. “I find it very refreshing.” Father Eric Johnson, archdiocesan vocations director, preaches a homily on Aug. 12 during a (To learn more about the archdiocese’s Mass celebrated in the Old Cathedral Basilica of Seminarians Phillip Rahman, left, and David Proctor peer into a display case in the Old Cathedral seminarians, log on to St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes. Twenty-five of the Library in Vincennes that houses many of the books of Bishop Bruté and early documents of the www.HearGodsCall.com.) † 27 seminarians participated in the pilgrimage. Diocese of Vincennes, which later became the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 9 Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Mary by Photo Ann Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Mary by Photo Ann

Holy Name School sixth-grader McKenzie Beeson of Beech Grove decorates a picture frame on Aug. 14 for her school photo during religion class. The frame looks like a treasure box to Newly ordained Father Sean Danda answers questions in the kindergarten class on Aug. 14 at Holy Name of Jesus School in Beech Grove. symbolize how every person is loved and treasured by God. Father Danda assisted with various ministries for six weeks at Holy Name of Jesus Parish after his June 27 ordination. Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Mary by Photo Ann Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Mary by Photo Ann

Holy Name School third-grader John Pasyanos of Beech Grove works on a class assignment on Aug. 14 at the Indianapolis Holy Name School pre-kindergarten student Allison Rinks of Beech Grove South Deanery grade school. puts together a puzzle on Aug. 14, her fourth birthday.

Thanks to the generosity of members of Holy Family Parish in Submitted photo New Albany and

Photo by Katherine L. Sears Katherine L. Photo by Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Jeffersonville, backpacks and school supplies were recently donated to Hispanic children in the New Albany Deanery. The program was begun a few years ago, said Franciscan Father Tom Smith, coordinator of Hispanic Ministry in the New Albany Deanery, because many of the children’s parents were Freshmen student Taylor Marshall, right, smiles as she attempts to recent immigrants who solve a math problem in teacher Mary Alice Knott’s algebra class at didn’t know what their Our Lady of Providence Jr.-Sr. High School in Clarksville on Aug. 17. children needed in school Also pictured is classmate T.J. Hutt. or couldn’t afford it. Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 LCWR says Vatican has not fully disclosed reasons for U.S. visitation

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Leaders told Catholic News Service on Aug. 17. Consecrated Life and Societies of representing 59,000 women religious are “We’re in the middle of it now. We don’t Apostolic Life is ultimately responsible questioning what they say is a lack of know what the next steps are going to for paying for the study, individual full disclosure about what is motivating be [like]. congregations being visited will be the Vatican’s apostolic visitation that “They don’t want to judge ahead of asked to cover the cost of lodging and will study the contemporary practices of time. But certainly there’s some transportation for the visitation team.

U.S. women’s religious orders. apprehension right now,” she said. The outgoing LCWR president, Sister Clarion Herald Methe, J photo/Frank CNS In an Aug. 17 press statement, the The Vatican-ordered visitation is J. Lora Dambroski, a member of the Leadership Conference of Women looking at the broad realm of religious Sisters of St. Francis of the Providence Religious also said the leaders “object to life of 341 U.S. congregations of women of God, urged the leaders gathered in the fact that their orders will not be religious. New Orleans to move forward together permitted to see the investigative reports A working document—known as an as the study evolves. about them” when they are submitted in “instrumentum laboris”—outlining the Citing passages from the Gospel of 2011 to the Vatican’s Congregation for areas the visitation will cover was sent Luke, Sister Lora urged the women to Institutes of Consecrated Life and to superiors general in early August. continue their efforts to build a new Societies of Apostolic Life and its Members of the orders were being asked world despite its increasing chaos and prefect, Cardinal Franc Rode. to reflect on the working document. It disorder. In addition, the women religious serves as a prelude to a separate She called for the women to expressed concern about secrecy they questionnaire that will be sent to the understand that what they may have say is surrounding the funding of the superiors on Sept. 1, marking the start held on to tightly in the past should be study, said Sister Annmarie Sanders, of the study’s second phase. reassessed so that new patterns of life director of communications for LCWR. The questionnaire will cover each and new practices can emerge while No details on funding the study have order’s life and operation, identity, they adhere to core beliefs. been released by the office of the governance, vocation promotion, “Simply put, we are no longer as we A member of the Leadership Conference of Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of admission requirements and formation once were. We can’t be,” she said. Women Religious displays a sign while Women Religious in the United States. policies, spiritual life and common life, “We are in the midst of a unique time marching with others through Woldenberg “Part of the conversation revolved mission and ministry, and finances. of Spirit-filled chaos and unique Riverside Park in New Orleans for a prayer around the fact that at a time when The questionnaires are due on Nov. 1 at invitation to ongoing creativity in the service to preserve the wetlands. The walk was congregations of religious women are the apostolic visitation office in Hamden, living of Gospel commitment,” she said. part of the LCWR’s Aug. 11-14 gathering in the financially strapped they are concerned Conn. Once the questionnaires are “This is another defining moment in our city. During the meeting, the women religious about being asked to pay for an investi- analyzed, individual congregations will be conference and our collective histories also discussed their concerns surrounding the gation they did not ask for,” Sister selected for a visit by a visitation team and future.” Vatican’s apostolic visitation that will study the Annmarie said. starting in January. Not all religious She asked the leaders to consider contemporary practices of U.S. women’s The concerns emerged on Aug. 14 as congregations will be visited. ways to “positively grasp this time as religious orders. 800 members of the LCWR concluded a After the working document was sent [an] opportunity to tell our present four-day meeting in New Orleans. to the superiors, Mother Mary Clare stories, of how we still are faithful questions, issues and trends affecting Sister Annmarie, a member of the Millea, superior general of the Apostles vowed Gospel women.” vowed religious life. Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the The leaders also approved what was A committee, chaired by the Heart of Mary, declined to be more apostolic visitator charged by the described as a “call” that includes a LCWR executive director, and with specific about what the leaders Vatican with directing the study, series of steps to carry the organization members from the board, at-large discussed privately regarding the declined to identify how the study was through a five-year period ending in representatives and the national office visitation. being funded. 2015. Among them is the development staff, will oversee the process. “We’re waiting to see how it [the She told CNS on July 31 that, while and implementation each year of a study LCWR represents 95 percent of visitation] plays out,” Sister Annmarie the Congregation for Institutes of to review and reflect on emerging U.S. women religious. †

Four of the 41 deacons are retired. “We also need to reform the insurance rules to create Catholic News Around Indiana The number of diocesan priests has dwindled in recent shared obligation and responsibility for coverage.” decades while interest in the permanent diaconate has Flesch said that a proposal to eliminate pre-existing • Diocese of Gary blossomed. conditions as a reason to deny insurance coverage would • Diocese of Evansville “I think they are a great gift from God,” Father Vogler be one of the ways to support this principle. • Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana said. “The Holy Spirit is guiding the Church and, at this • Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend time in history, the Holy Spirit is providing deacons to get (For these stories and more news from the Diocese of the work done.” Evansville, log on to the Web site of The Message at Compiled by Brandon A. Evans The Church is experiencing a time when many Catholic www.themessageonline.org.) † lay men are willing to take the time to prepare for ministry, DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE he said. The Catholic Church is a sacramental Church, and DIOCESE OF GARY having deacons who can administer some of the sacraments 12 deacons ordained for “certainly will help,” Father Vogler said. † Since second grade, he knew diocese on Aug. 15 St. Mary’s Medical Center he wanted to be a priest EVANSVILLE—Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger ordained CEO takes stand on WANATAH —Ask and Father Gerald Schweitzer can 12 new permanent deacons for the Diocese of Evansville at tell you the exact moment he knew he would become a St. Benedict Cathedral on Aug. 15. health care reform priest. “They are a great group of men,” said Father Jean He was in the second grade and his class was Vogler, director of the diocesan permanent diaconate EVANSVILLE—In response to a request from preparing to receive first holy Communion. program. 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WASHINGTON (CNS)—With an unflappable trust in “spokes on wheels.” The God, six Franciscan friars set out on foot one morning from friars also slept on picnic Roanoke, Va., on a trek that would take them 300 miles benches during their through the Virginia countryside to Washington. pilgrimage. Carrying few belongings, the friars depended upon the During another generosity of the people they met along the way for food and experience, a shelter during their six-week journey. Native American healer The friars chose as their pilgrimage site the named “Healing Bear” Mount St. Sepulcher Franciscan Monastery and took the friars to his Crisostomo Standard Catholic photo/Rafael CNS Commissariat of the Holy Land in Washington. one-room schoolhouse in The monastery is a popular stop for pilgrims who want a the mountains. There, the glimpse of the Holy Land. The grounds of the monastery friars told him Bible feature dozens of replicas of significant Christian sites from stories. that part of the world and from Europe. Van Cleef said the Dressed in their brown habits and sandals, leaving the most interesting thing details of their trip up to God, the friars set out on their about the journey was journey on June 16, following the spirit of their wandering that God never stopped founder, St. Francis of Assisi. They arrived at the monastery “surprising” them. He on July 28. said the friars learned to They called their 300-mile journey “Walking With Hope, live in the moment. a Journey of Faith and Discovery,” and set up a Web site Father Mark said the about it at www.friarwalk.com. purpose of the The trip was the idea of four young friars who were just pilgrimage was to finishing their initial formation as Franciscans. These young “experience [the] early A group of Franciscan friars who walked 300 miles from Virginia to the Franciscan Monastery of the friars had recently completed their novitiate in Cedar Lake, life of the Franciscan Holy Land in Washington are pictured outside the monastery on July 31. Pictured from left to right are Ind., and took their simple vows before they set out. renewal.” Father Mark Soehner, 51, from Dayton, Ohio, Joshua Van Cleef, 24, from Detroit, Roger Lopez, 30, from They are Joshua Van Cleef, 24, from Detroit; Roger He noted that the Pensacola, Fla., Richard Goodin, 25, from Lebanon, Ky., and Clifford Hennings, 23, from Houston. Lopez, 30, from Pensacola, Fla.; Richard Goodin, 25, from Franciscan movement is Lebanon, Ky.; and Clifford Hennings, 23, from Houston. 800 years old. But with each age, there has been a different Goodin said then God would start “to work.” The friars Two Franciscan priests served as their mentors on the way of being Franciscan, he said. Taking journeys was the often went from having nothing to having more than they journey: Father Mark Soehner, 51, from Dayton, Ohio; and friars’ tradition from long ago, and the six friars decided to needed, and the help would come from different people. Father Ed Shea, 52, from Chicago. take their journey “to become pilgrims.” But it started with one person taking a “step in faith” to In an interview with The Catholic Standard, newspaper of Along the way, people mistook them for the Amish, help them. the Washington Archdiocese, Father Mark said the hardest Jedi knights from Star Wars, ninjas and monks. People One day, the friars once found themselves on top of a part of the journey was to put himself “out there.” talked to them about their own struggles in life and how mountain without food, water or shelter. As evening neared, He said it was hard “letting go [of your] own God was working in their lives. a Mennonite gave them directions, a Catholic also offered expectations” and trusting God. “Almost all the way along,” Father Mark said, “[we] help, they caught a ride with a Jew and they ended up The friars depended on God to take care of them during experienced nothing but generosity and people’s kindness.” sleeping in the home of a Hindu—all within a short space the journey. Their first night, they found themselves at a fire The two priests heard confessions along the way, but of time. station, covered in ticks from their walk. Behind the station, mostly the friars were there to listen. They continued their “God has done miracles in our midst,” Father Mark said. there was a picnic table and a large trampoline in the woods. prayer life with morning and evening prayers. Shea said he was “changed by people’s generosity” Father Mark said the friars decided to spend the night on Around 8 p.m. each night, anxiety would set in about during the journey, a sojourn that he said demonstrated that the trampoline. They slept with their toes pointed inward like how the friars would meet their basic needs that night. St. Francis has universal appeal. † Catholic school students help create new bullying-prevention Web site

ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS)—“Guess who just signed on?” well as how to respond if they fall victim to a bully. and a professional videographer to write scripts, rehearse and a teenage girl says to a couple of her friends huddled around The videos produced by the students can be viewed on the film the videos. a computer monitor. “Sarah. You know, Sarah—sits in the Web site by clicking on “Respond” and then “Acting Up.” “I think that every kid has some experience [with back of science [class], never talks to anybody. You know, “We realized quickly that to make an impact we were bullying]. It’s been something that I’ve dealt with most of Miss Science Fair.” going to need to really engage all kids to care about bullying my life,” said Sarah Busch, a recent Convent of the Visitation The girls all laugh. and that it was going to be the peers themselves who could graduate who worked on the project. “It was a really “I hear that she has a thing for Dylan.” really make a difference in how children look at bullying incredible experience to be able to take these feelings I have “Wait, Dylan the quarterback? Like that’s going to situations,” said Julie Hertzog, the center’s bullying- about bullying and my experiences and put them into a happen.” prevention project coordinator. medium to help other people.” “You guys, I think we should help her out,” one girl says “We started by asking their opinions about things—[from] Busch, who plans to attend St. Olaf College in Northfield with a smirk. “You in?” everything about bullying to current teen culture to how they in the fall, said working with PACER employees stirred in her The girls proceed to set Sarah up, embarrassing her in use technology—because we wanted to make a product that a passion for social work. front of her friends and Dylan while they are all attending a was very relevant, very edgy and that definitely appealed to “It was really inspiring to see people who actually basketball game. Sarah is devastated. the teen audience,” Hertzog told The Catholic Spirit, made a career out of helping kids and who have put so This fictional scenario is one of several videos students newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. much time and energy into doing it, which is what I from Convent of the Visitation School and St. Thomas “It’s very much about teen power, teen voice and teens want to do,” she said. † Academy in Mendota Heights produced for the new making a difference.” Web site www.TeensAgainstBullying.org. Wendy Short-Hays, head of VISTA Productions, the The Web site was created by the Minnesota Parent combined theater department of Visitation and St. Thomas, Training and Information Center, called the PACER Center. said she took on the project as a way to give students The Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, which serves experience with video production as well as an opportunity to Given the families of children with disabilities, seeks to educate teens perform community service. about the damaging effects of bullying in all its forms as Over the past year, the students worked with Short-Hays Choice our clients would rather not be here

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Holy orders and matrimony are contrition and a firm purpose of Young adult and sacraments at the service of communion. amendment on the part of the sinner, Besides the Eucharist, which I wrote Baptism is necessary for salvation. Jesus confession to a priest, absolution by the college campus about last week, the Catholic Church has six told Nicodemus, “No one can enter the priest in the name of Jesus, and an act of other sacraments. Kingdom of God without being born of penance as a way to make satisfaction for ministry is up Sacraments, by the water and Spirit” (Jn 3:5). There was a time the sins confessed. way, are defined as when babies were baptized shortly after their Jesus healed the sick, and the Church and running “efficacious signs of birth because of high infant mortality. The continues his ministry of healing through grace, instituted by Church still wants babies to be baptized the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein’s love for Christ and entrusted to early, but not before parents are properly In this sacrament, the primary effect is and dedication to our young adults is evident, the Church, by which prepared to raise them as Catholics. spiritual healing, the sick person’s sins and this has proved very divine life is dispensed Confirmation is usually for children in forgiven if he or she is unable to confess his fruitful over this past year. to us” (Catechism of the their early teens. Adults are also frequently or her sins in the sacrament of penance. On July 1, 2008, the Catholic Church, confirmed, especially those who enter the This sacrament was once called extreme archbishop asked Father #1131). Church on Holy Saturday. This sacrament is unction, or the last rites, and was Rick Nagel to take charge By “efficacious signs,” we mean that they sometimes called the sacrament of the Holy administered to someone who was dying. of the challenging and are effective. Each of the sacraments brings Spirit because the third person of the Trinity Today the Church’s last rites include three exciting ministry to our some particular grace special to that comes upon the person to strengthen him or sacraments: penance, anointing of the sick, young people by sacrament. We believe that Christ instituted her for an adult service to the Church. We and the Eucharist as viaticum, or food for appointing him director of every one of the sacraments at some point believe that Christ instituted this sacrament the journey. what is now Young Adult during his life and gave them to the Church on the night of his resurrection when he Holy orders is the sacrament that ordains and College Campus that he founded. Through the sacraments, breathed on the Apostles and said, “Receive men for service to the Church. The word Ministry in the archdiocesan Office of Catholic we receive divine life, or holiness. the Holy Spirit” (Jn 20:22). “order” came from the Roman Empire, Education. The Church groups the seven sacraments Jesus instituted the sacrament of penance where it referred to a governing group. Father Nagel, along with me as program into three categories. Baptism, confirmation, during that same appearance to the Apostles There are three “orders” of ordination— coordinator, set out seeking to understand the and the Eucharist are called the sacraments when he said, “Whose sins you forgive are bishops, priests and deacons. young people of our archdiocese, visiting with of initiation. Penance (or reconciliation), and forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are I’ll discuss the sacrament of matrimony them on college campuses as well as at many anointing of the sick are sacraments of retained” (Jn 20:23). This sacrament requires next week. † young adult gatherings. We spent time being present among them, getting to know them, and The Joyful Catholic/Rick Hermann listening to their needs and desires as young adult Catholics. As the year progressed, the young people God wants you to trust in him each day participated in many activities. They gathered in A mother was preparing pancakes for her God to be spared crucifixion; “My Father, if hard teaching to understand, and many of prayer at young adult Masses, traveled by plane two young sons. it is possible, may this cup be taken from me them departed as a result. to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., The boys began to …” (Mt 26:39). But the disciples who stayed with Jesus thanks to the generosity of a benefactor, and ran argue over who would Jesus was so afraid of his destiny that he discovered “the peace of God that transcends the good race for vocations at the One America get the first pancake. sweated drops of blood. Have you ever been all understanding” (Phil 4:7). 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in May in Indian- Their mother saw this anxious? Perhaps you are right now. They discovered that Jesus truly had their apolis, just to mention a few things. the opportunity for a Still in the same breath, Jesus quickly best interests at heart. Most of all, our young adults warmed the moral lesson. opened himself to his Father’s will, trusting Then Jesus sent them out into the world hearts of the many people who were present “If Jesus was sitting his Father to give him only what was most to spread the Good News of eternal life. In along the way, including Archbishop Buechlein, here, He would say loving, most good, and most perfect; “… yet effect, he said to his disciples, “Now, you be who was present to our young people at many ‘Let my brother have not as I will, but as you will” (Mt 26:39). Jesus.” of these events. the first pancake, I can By imitating Jesus, we can find peace in So enjoy the peace and power of the Our young adults are an energetic group, wait.’ ” the midst of any trial or storm. Eucharist, in which we share the life of God. who bring much joy and hope to the people they Immediately, one brother turned to his When we are afraid or worried about the Pray something like this; “Jesus, I gratefully encounter and the parish communities to which sibling and said, “OK, you be Jesus!” future, we can find a quiet moment to ask accept whatever you give me today.” they belong. They have a natural spirit of We can all recognize a little bit of that God for exactly what we want then gracefully Open yourself to Jesus and let him come generosity and a deep love of their Catholic desire in ourselves, can’t we? release everything to his perfect will. into your life more deeply every day. faith, particularly as it relates to the Eucharist We all want to be first in line, first to You may say, “That’s impossible! Jesus is As you develop your trust in Jesus, you and their personal relationship with Jesus Christ. choose, first to decide what we want. God but I’m only human. You don’t know the will find yourself giving more joyfully to They strive to take to heart the words that While we know Jesus is generous and trouble I’m in!” others. Pope Benedict XVI shared on his visit to the promises to give us what is best for us, we You are correct. In our fallen state, we all As you gain confidence that God will United States in 2008 when he said, “Your still want to choose. find it difficult to trust God. On our own, we give you everything you need, you will personal prayer, your times of silent contem- We are afraid Jesus will give us a smaller grasp at pancakes. discover a secret delight in allowing others to plation and your participation in the Church’s slice of life than we want, or a distasteful You need God’s help to learn to trust him. go first, seeking what is best for them, and liturgy bring you closer to God and also prepare portion, so we rush ahead of others to To increase our trust in God, we have giving them what they need. you to serve others.” choose our own destiny. many prayers to help us. “O God, come to Then in quiet prayer, you may well Our young adults have many good things to In our reluctance to trust God, we often my assistance, make haste to help me.” imagine Jesus smiling upon you and saying; offer in service to our Church that flow out of disregard others and bypass our own best Our most powerful aid in trust-building is “OK, you be Jesus now!” their worship and personal relationship with interests. the Eucharist. Jesus said, “Whoever eats my God. But we should not condemn ourselves for flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life” (Rick Hermann of St. Louis is a Catholic Looking to the future, the archbishop distrusting God’s plans. Let us remember (Jn 6:54). columnist and speaker. His e-mail address is recently appointed Father Nagel as the chaplain that Jesus, in his humanity, pleaded with His disciples complained that this was a [email protected].) † at Indiana University–Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) to minister to and be Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister present as Church on this growing campus of more than 30,000 students. Father Nagel will also be assisting Father Fighting cancer: Continuing hope for the future Stephen Giannini, pastor of St. John the I smiled when I saw a photo of 80-year- Dallas, Texas, has published fiction, non- experiences, also promote a better future for Evangelist Parish in downtown Indianapolis, old Sister Mary John Tintea, a Daughter of fiction and other poetry. others. which will become a central gathering point for Charity who ministers In 2006, she was surprised to be One of the many poems that I treasure in our young adults seeking a spiritual home. at St. Vincent Hospital diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer. her book is titled “lookatme.com” and reads Every Sunday, young adults of the in Indianapolis, in Having already agreed to teach some as follows: archdiocese are invited to attend the 7 p.m. the July 10 issue of college classes that fall—and having already “The nurse asked/if they might/put one Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church to be The Criterion. accepted the presidency for the Poetry of my poems/on their Web site/with other with other young adults and spend time Sister Mary John is Society of Texas—she chose to move ahead patients’/creative work./Why not?/If I’m socializing afterward. raising funds for The in those roles. represented/on an oncologist’s site,/better Father Nagel and I have also spent time Weekend to End “I wanted to have other things to think with a poem/than as a statistic.” visiting with the priests of the various deaneries, Breast Cancer, a two- about,” she said. I wish I could share more of her poems listening to their thoughts and ideas for how to day, 60-kilometer walk After surgeries, chemotherapy and as well as the practical advice she gives on better invite our young people into parish life. on Sept. 26-27 in radiation, she began exercising then playing the bottom of many pages in her book. From this and other information gathered, a Indianapolis that benefits the St. Vincent basketball with friends. I recommend that readers contact her at vision can be laid out to welcome our young Foundation. Proceeds go toward breast Her husband, Dean, and their five http://marilynstacy.com/BookStore.aspx to people with open arms, nourish them within the cancer research and education. children, two grandchildren, two great- order her inexpensive, 84-page book. eucharistic life of the parish, and evangelize our Shortly thereafter, I received a book in grandchildren—and her friends—bolstered My husband, Paul, and I recommend communities with their unique gifts and talents. the mail titled Sometimes You Have to her during 11 months of treatments. Sometimes You Have to Laugh. His Archbishop Buechlein recently set a date in Laugh: A Poet’s Look at Cancer by Marilyn Whenever I read anything about breast comment after reading it was a sincere, September for an “Archbishop’s Bash,” inviting Stacy. cancer, I think about the many friends I “This is great!” young adults to his residence to celebrate Mass, We are graduates of the Academy of have who suffered through the same As a reminder, to help Sister Mary John learn of some of the various charisms in our Notre Dame, once operated by the School treatments that she had—and also Tintea surpass her $10,000 goal toward archdiocese that they can be involved in, share a Sisters of Notre Dame in Belleville, Ill. survived. This could not have happened fighting cancer or to register for the meal and simply enjoy their company. How long ago that seems, but how very without the ongoing research and September walk, call 317-879-9255 or log His joy and love of this generation of much present it is, because this month is new treatments discovered in the last on to www.endcancer.org. Catholics is evident—and contagious! our 55th class reunion at the Shrine of 25 years. Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville. Each breast cancer survivor is testimony (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of (Mary Schaffner is program coordinator for Stacy, a professor emeritus and to the possibility of a cure someday. Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is young adult and college campus ministry in the psychotherapist in private practice in Those like Stacy, who share their a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education.) † The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 13

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Aug. 24 Friday, Aug. 28 Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 Bartholomew, Apostle Augustine, bishop and doctor Revelation 21:9b-14 of the Church • Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b different style of marriage. Using lofty Psalm 145:10-13b, 17-18 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 • Ephesians 5:21-32 examples to describe marriage, it speaks of John 1:45-51 Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 10-12 • John 6:60-69 the union between Christ and the Church. Christ, of course, is the perfect, caring Matthew 25:1-13 and generous Redeemer. The Church Tuesday, Aug. 25 The Book of Joshua, the source for this responds in praise. He is the Son of God, Louis of France Saturday, Aug. 29 weekend’s first reading, features the period and the source of love and respect for Joseph Calasanz, priest The Martyrdom of John the in the history of God’s others. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 Baptist people when Joshua Wives should be in accord with their led them. It was after husbands, who in the culture of the time Psalm 139:1-3, 4-6 1 Thessalonians 4:9-11 the death of Moses. were responsible for their families. Matthew 23:23-26 Psalm 98:1, 7-9 Even though these Husbands, most importantly, should love Mark 6:17-29 connections may seem their wives. Indeed, they should love their Wednesday, Aug. 26 to be clear, biblical wives as Christ loves the Church. 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 Sunday, Aug. 30 scholars disagree about St. John’s Gospel furnishes the last the exact date of this reading. Psalm 139:7-12 Twenty-second Sunday in period as well as the In the preceding verses, Jesus spoke Matthew 23:27-32 Ordinary Time time of this book’s about the “bread of life.” Jesus is the bread Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8 composition. of life. After Jesus spoke these words, Thursday, Aug. 27 Psalm 15:2-5 However, this much is clear. Hebrew many disciples walked away. Even today, Monica James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27 history was not written as much to people find this comment to be at least a 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 chronicle events and happenings as to chart puzzling statement. the people’s religious response to God’s The Lord then asked the Twelve, the Psalm 90:3-4, 12-14, 17 revelation. Apostles, about their intention, calling them Matthew 24:42-51 In this reading, Joshua gathers all the to look deeply at their faith. Would they people at Shechem along with the leaders also walk away? Critical to the story is the of the people, senior members, judges and fact that the Twelve did not desert Jesus. warriors. He puts before this assembly a Instead, in the Apostles’ name, Peter blunt and fundamental question. Do they testifies. It is a magnificent expression of wish to follow God and divine revelation or faith. Peter, saluting Jesus as “God’s holy not? one,” the Messiah, says, “Lord, you have Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen The people cry out that they wish to the words of eternal life.” follow God. He brought them out of Egypt, and protected them as they made their Reflection Eucharistic liturgy is primary weary and dangerous way across the Sinai The Church for weeks has called us to Peninsula. realize our limitations as human beings, source of basic faith education For its second reading, this weekend’s and also has reassured us that God’s mercy, liturgy turns to the Epistle to the Ephesians. love and power lavishly assists us. We will Will you explain what kind of Mass spirit of the solemn liturgical moments Not uncommonly these days, it is cited not be left helplessly to face our needs. Qthis is? Recently, with a retired in a manner that does not distract from as a conflict between traditional For instance, we risk starvation, visiting priest as the prayerful continuity of the Christianity and the cause for women’s spiritually as well as physically. We cannot celebrant, our deacon celebration. rights since wives are admonished to obey produce food on our own. God comes to us said he would give Second, and perhaps more important, their husbands. with the bread of everlasting life. Jesus is some instructional the instructional potential of the Mass texts Knowing the context is essential to the bread of life. narrations during themselves should be prominent and understanding the lesson of this reading. Now we must decide ourselves either to Mass. utilized in any “explanations,” whether Marriage among pagans during the time of accept this bread or to reject it. Many When the priest inside or outside a liturgical celebration. the Roman Empire was quite removed from people have rejected it. Many people also made the sign of the Through the centuries, the Scripture modern ideals for marriage. Wives were rejected it at the time of Jesus, as this cross, our deacon texts, responses and prayers, especially little more than glorified slaves, virtually Gospel describes so well. said, “This is the start the eucharistic prayers, have been honed going to the highest bidder. They had no The Apostles are our examples. Peter of the Mass, and now marvelously so their meaning and rights. speaks for the Apostles. They recognize the priest will say the antiphon, which is application become as clear as possible Understandably, many marriages were their need for the Lord, the sole source of the opening prayer.” when they are proclaimed at Mass. very troubled. Often, spouses detested each genuine life. And so on until the final blessing, It is worth remembering that our other. Often, wives were abused. We can trust them and their trust in followed by the narration, “That is the Sunday eucharistic celebrations have This epistle, a classic of Christian Jesus. They understood. They knew. They end of the Mass.” been traditionally, and still remain, the behavior about human living, calls for a were truly wise. Are we as wise? † The school children and parents primary source of basic faith education applauded. for the vast majority of Catholic Later, the priest told me—I am the Christians. The more we can direct My Journey to God sacristan—that he will never participate peoples’ attention and openness to these in a Mass like this again. words and actions, the Church assures I’ve seen religious educators explain us, the better we will be able to form the parts of the liturgy at a “pretend” parishioners in the Christian life. Mass, but never during a genuine Mass. The Vatican II constitution expresses College Bound Do I put this down as an “instruc- beautifully this vital truth about the tional Mass”? (Virginia) liturgy: “Although the sacred liturgy is If only they could stay like this forever— above all things the worship of the Dad on one side, Mom on the other, Several points need to be made divine Majesty, it likewise contains Each holding their child’s hand Aabout what you describe. abundant instruction for the faithful. For As they pray the Our Father. First, the 2003 General Instruction of in the liturgy God speaks to his people They seem strong and indestructible the Roman Missal (GIRM) explicitly and Christ is still proclaiming his As they stand, hands together, provides for interjecting “certain Gospel. And the people reply to God A solid unit, forged by years explanations during the sacred rites” of both by song and prayer” (#33). Of patience, sacrifice, faith, trials. the Mass (#13). The bottom line is that the Mass is She is protected now as she never will be Interestingly, the Council of Trent itself a goldmine of enlightenment about again, suggested the same thing 500 years ago. the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, and This daughter about to fly away. The priest or someone else may, during our relationship with them. A few On the verge of all God has for her, Mass, enlighten the faithful by carefully judicious, brief and well- She looks eagerly ahead. clarifying the texts being read (Session placed remarks can sometimes help to Her parents can’t go with her, XXII, Chapter 8). break that treasure open. But they have done their job, More immediately, the GIRM faculty The fact that this Mass was

And done it well, with God’s help. World Catholic New CNS photo/Karen Callaway, is based on the Second Vatican celebrated with children and perhaps This sweet moment of grace Council’s Constitution on the their parents in mind is, of course, Is a visible sign of invisible, limitless Promise Sacred Liturgy, which says explicitly significant. A level of instruction might power. And ageless love. that liturgical instruction should “be be called for there that would not be Where she goes, God goes. imparted in a variety of ways; if appropriate in other circumstances. She is borne on the wings of prayer, By Linda Abner necessary, short directives to be spoken by the priest or proper minister should (Catholic Q&A: Answers to the Most (Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis. Loyola be provided within the rites themselves. Common Questions about Catholicism is University students Daniel Zundel and Melissa Otter pray during a Feb. 15, 2008, But they should occur only at the more a 530-page collection of columns by Mass at the university’s Madonna della Strada Chapel in Chicago. Cardinal Francis suitable moments, and be in prescribed Father John Dietzen published by E. George of Chicago and Bishop J. Peter Sartain of Joliet, Ill., celebrated the ninth words or their equivalent” (#35.3). Crossroad Publishing Company in New annual Mass for college students living and studying at campuses in the Chicago and In other words, these explanations York. Questions may be sent to Father Joliet dioceses.) should be brief, kept to a minimum for Dietzen at Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612 their purpose, and be provided in the or by e-mail to [email protected].) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009

Aug. 3. Husband of Joyce Providence Sister Mary Jo (Kaufer) Logsdon. Father of Piccione, Cathy, John, Michael Angela Cronin, Terry Bowling, and Thomas Piccione. Grand - Laura Payne, James, Joseph and mother of 12. Great-grandmother William Logsdon Jr. Brother of Rest in peace of 20.

Rosada Wohner. Grandfather of Duran photo/Octavio CNS 15. Great-grandfather of six. STEFFEY, Lois Ruth, 93, Please submit in writing to our Mother of Kaysie Jolliff, David, office by 10 a.m. Thursday Mike and Tim Frensemeier. MARIETTA, Eugene, 78, Holy Name of Jesus, before the week of publication; Sister of Agnes Smith. Grand - Sacred Heart, Clinton, Aug. 9. Beech Grove, Aug. 1. Mother of be sure to state date of death. mother of 14. Great-grandmother Husband of Barbara Marietta. Jo Ann Baber, Edith Ringer, Obituaries of archdiocesan of 12. Father of Toni Gilman, Debra Kathleen Shaw, Mary Rita Granger, Terri Price and Kevin priests serving our archdiocese GAINES, Sandra K. (Morrow), Wilder and Dan Steffey. Grand - Marietta. Brother of Paul are listed elsewhere in 57, St. Michael the Archangel, mother of six. Great-grandmother The Criterion. Order priests Indianapolis, Aug. 7. Mother of Marietta. Grandfather of nine. of nine. Great-great-grandmother and religious sisters and Great-grandfather of three. Joseph Gaines. Daughter of of 20. brothers are included here, Dolores Phillips and David McLINN, Patricia A., 76, unless they are natives of the Morrow. Sister of Carlita Gipson, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Indian- STRACK, Raymond Joseph, archdiocese or have other Jeffrey and Stephen Morrow. apolis, Aug. 6. Wife of Forrest Jr., 82, St. Barnabas, connec tions to it; those are Indianapolis, Aug. 5. Husband of HODGSON, Evangeline, 92, McLinn. Mother of Margaret separate obituaries on this Zell, Kelly, Phyllis and Frederick Marge (Markham) Strack. Father page. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower), Indianapolis, McLinn. Sister of Doris Luers of Sue Vargo, Ray and Steve BLAKE, Richard, 78, July 26. Mother of Mary Reever, and Robert Goldman. Grand - Strack. Brother of Theresa, St. Thomas Aquinas, Indian- Charles, Michael, Ralph, mother of eight. Great-grand - Frank and John Strack. Grand - mother of seven. apolis, Aug. 4. Husband of Dean Richard, Stephen and William father of six. Blake. Father of seven. Hodgson. Grandmother of 12. MONTAG, Gertrude M., 76, Grandfather of 18. Great-grand - Great-grandmother of 12. Holy Name of Jesus, TAGGART, Thomas R., 57, father of five. St. Simon the Apostle, JENKINS, Charli Catherine, Beech Grove, July 14. Indianapolis, Aug. 1. Husband of BROWNING, John R., 83, infant, St. Mary, Rushville, NEARY, Walter J. Sr., 95, St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Aug. 6. Daughter of Brandon and St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Jenny (Young) Taggart. Father of July 31. Husband of Betty Sarah (Shuppert) Jenkins. Aug. 8. Father of Walter Neary Mary Katherine and William Browning. Father of Linda Granddaughter of Chuck and Jr. Grandfather of two. Taggart. Brother of Tricia Bosley, Sullivan and Bob Browning. Gina Jenkins and Tim and Mary PATTON, Betty Jean (Smith), Julia Jordan, Lois Zakowicz, Brother of Wilma Champion. Shuppert. Mary Anne, Ruth, Arthur, David, Grandfather of five. Great-grand - 79, St. Monica, Indianapolis, KELLEY, John D., 57, James and Jesse Taggart. father of two. Aug. 4. Mother of Regina Carter, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Brenda Hill, Katherine Johnson, WHEELER, Mossie Helen, 77, DIEBOLT, Dorine (Hansen), Indianapolis, Aug. 12. Husband Madonna and Paula Rhodes, St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, 77, St. Bartholomew, Columbus, of Elizabeth (Lannan) Kelley. Corina Thompson, Betty Jean, Aug. 7. Wife of David Diebolt. Father of Colleen, Kathleen, Ladonna, Stephen and Vincent Aug. 6. Mother of Patty Smith, Mother of Maribeth, Dan and Mary, Daniel and John Kelley. Patton. Sister of Bernadette C. Phil, Mark and Todd Wheeler. Steve Diebolt. Sister of Ginger Brother of David, James and Easton, Rosetta Graham, Grandmother of eight. Camerrela, John and Ralph Garrett Kelley. Archiemae Green, Carrie Kemp, Hansen. Grandmother of four. YOUNG, Frances C., 78, LEIDOLF, Phyllis E. (Fessel), Doris Peck, Nellie Simpson, Great-grandmother of 11. Great- St. Michael, Bradford, Aug. 4. 80, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Missionary Sister of Our Lady of great-grandmother of one. Mother of Linda Barylski, Floyds Knobs, Aug. 10. Wife of Africa Demetria Smith, Joseph St. Clare of Assisi ELLARS, Amy, 39, St. Thomas Alvin Leidolf. Mother of Elaine and Holy Cross Brother Roy Joyce Berg, Martha Kays, Aquinas, Indianapolis, July 19. Davis, Suzan Didat, Jill Fischer, Smith. Grandmother of 19. Patricia Scwartz, Jill, Jeff and This mosaic in Rome depicts St. Clare of Assisi holding a palm Wife of Kyle Ellars. Mother of Emily Lundy, John and Roger Great-grandmother of 19. Randy Blessinger. Sister of Julia frond, a symbol for her entrance into religious life. She founded Zoe and Tommy Ellars. Sister of Leidolf. Sister of Frances Henley. PICCIONE, Mary (Welsh), Booth, Patricia Jones, Freda a religious order of women called the Poor Clares, and was Julie Pearson. Grandmother of 11. 88, Holy Name of Jesus, Wermuth, Anthony and Frank closely associated with St. Francis of Assisi. St. Clare FRENSEMEIER, Mary A., 94, LOGSDON, William T., 70, Beech Grove, July 28. Mother of Young. Grandmother of 12. maintained a life of poverty. Her feast day is on Aug. 11. St. Louis, Batesville, Aug. 10. Holy Family, New Albany, Donna Anderson, Lois Reeder, Great-grandmother of six. † The Criterion Friday, August 21, 2009 Page 15 Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a hero to her children, says daughter HYANNIS, Mass. (CNS)—Since her unable to attend her funeral. He was death, Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been diagnosed in May 2008 with a cancerous called “everything from a saint, to a brain tumor. pioneer, to a trailblazer, to a true original, Maria Shriver said her father was to a civil rights advocate of legendary totally devoted to her mother “in every

proportions, to a force of human nature,” sense of the word. He marveled at Reuters Hunger, photo/Adam CNS said her daughter, Maria Shriver. everything she said and everything she The founder of the Special Olympics did. ... He didn’t mind ... if she beat him “was indeed a transformative figure. But to in tennis or challenged his ideas. He let her five children ... she was simply her rip and he let her roar and he loved ‘Mummy,’ ” she said in a eulogy at her everything about her. mother’s funeral Mass on Aug. 14 at “Add to that five kids who adored her St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis. and loved to be with her, and you have the Besides the many members of the ultimate role model,” she said, adding that Kennedy clan, those attending the private her mother was all of her children’s best Mass included Vice President Joseph friend. “It was an honor for all of us to be Biden, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, her children, and a special privilege for me talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and to be her daughter.” musician Stevie Wonder. She said it wasn’t always easy “being Eunice Shriver’s five children, her kid,” as she was an unconventional 19 grandchildren and numerous nieces and mother, someone who wore men’s pants, nephews all played a role in her funeral as “smoked Cuban cigars and ... played tackle lectors, gift bearers, altar servers, ushers or football.” pallbearers. “She often would pick her children up at “Mummy was our hero. She was scary school wearing a sweater to which she had smart and not afraid to show it,” Maria pinned little notes “to remind her of what Pallbearers Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Maria Kennedy Shriver, Shriver said. “She was tough, but also she needed to do when she got home,” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Shriver Jr., Mark Kennedy Shriver and Tim Kennedy Shriver compassionate. Driven, but also really fun Maria Shriver said. carry the casket of Eunice Kennedy Shriver in a procession for her funeral Mass at St. Francis Xavier and funny. Competitive, but also She said her mother was a trailblazer Church in Hyannis, Mass., on Aug. 14. Eunice Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics and was a empathetic. Restless and patient. Curious who “took adversity and turned it into member of one of the most prominent American Catholic political families of the 20th century, died on and prayerful.” advantage.” Aug. 11 at age 88 at a hospital on Cape Cod. Eunice Shriver, a member of one of the “Inspired by the rejection she saw many most prominent American Catholic women face, especially her sister Rosemary Eunice Shriver’s heroes were Mary, friends and what they have accomplished, political families of the 20th century and and her mother, and other mothers of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, Catholic and she would ask each and every one of the sister of the late President John F. special children, she turned that into her Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, you to join her in making this world a more Kennedy, died on Aug. 11 at age 88. She is life’s focus and her life’s passion and Rosemary Kennedy and her mother, tolerant, just and compassionate place.” survived by her husband, R. Sargent mission, her own brand of what I’d call Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Maria Shriver said her mother will Shriver, and the couple’s five children, maternal feminism,” Maria Shriver said. If she were speaking at her own funeral, “become a new torchbearer for women of daughter Maria and sons Timothy, Her mother, she said, “believed she would “pound the podium … and ask our time sending a new message, that over Anthony, Robert and Mark. 100 percent in the power and the gifts of each of you what you have done today to your life you can have a full, complete Her only surviving brother, women to change the language, the tempo better the world.” spiritual life—a life that is about others and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., was and the character of this world.” She would tell stories about “her special a life that is about family.” † Vatican newspaper says Allied governments did little to stop Holocaust

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In a lengthy article, the extermination plans. reports on Nazi atrocities from reaching the public, which Vatican newspaper said the U.S. and British governments The article quotes heavily from the diary of Henry would have increased pressure on the administration for had detailed information about the Morgenthau Jr., U.S. secretary of the treasury during the action. Nazi plan to exterminate European war, who said that as early as August 1942 administration When the U.S. government was finally convinced to Jews during World War II, but officials “knew that the Nazis were planning to begin some efforts to rescue and relocate European Jews, failed to act for many months and exterminate all the Jews of Europe.” the British government stalled, the article said. It cited a even suppressed reports about the Morgenthau cited a telegram dated Aug. 24, 1942, and British Foreign Office cable that warned of “the difficulties extent of the Holocaust. passed on to the State Department, that relayed a report of of disposing of any considerable number of Jews should The newspaper, L’Osservatore Hitler’s plan to kill between 3.5 million and 4 million they be rescued from enemy occupied territory” and Romano, contrasted Allied inaction Jews, possibly using cyanide poison. The Vatican advised against allocating any funds for the project. with the quiet efforts undertaken newspaper reproduced a copy of the telegram. Morgenthau described this message as “a satanic by Pope Pius XII to save as many Eventually, in early 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. combination of British chill and diplomatic double talk, Jews as possible through Roosevelt set up the War Refugee Board that was credited cold and correct and adding up to a sentence of death.” clandestine assistance. with saving tens of thousands of Jewish lives. But for The Vatican newspaper said that, while all this was Pope Pius XII The article, published on 18 months before then, despite increasingly alarming going on, in Nazi-occupied Rome Pope Pius was carrying Aug. 13, reviewed historical information in support of an reports, U.S. officials “dodged their grim responsibility, out “the only plausible and practical form of defense of the argument frequently made by Vatican experts: While procrastinated when concrete rescue schemes were placed Jews and other persecuted people”—hiding them in critics have focused on Pope Pius’ supposed “silence” on before them, and even suppressed information about various Church-run institutions. the Holocaust, little attention has been given to atrocities,” Morgenthau wrote. In the end, although more than 2,000 Jews were documented evidence that the U.S. and British The Vatican newspaper article also cited a series of deported from Rome and killed, about 10,000 Jews of governments ignored or minimized reports of State Department orders apparently aimed at preventing Rome were saved, it said. †

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Two journeys touched by God For years, Weisenbach has longed to travel to Italy to follow in the footsteps of the man whose name graces the archdiocesan high school on the south side of Indianapolis. The dream became a reality this summer thanks to an $8,000 creativity grant that Lilly Endowment Inc. provides for teachers and school administrators. Weisenbach applied for the grant in 2008, 50 years after Cardinal Roncalli became pope in 1958. “I had always been impressed when I read about his life,” Weisenbach says. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be neat to go to the places where he lived and try to find out Roncalli High School principal Chuck Weisenbach visits Pope John XXIII’s private chapel from the Vatican, which was moved in its entirety to its present location as much as we could about the man?’ ” in Sotte il Monte, Italy, the hometown of Pope John XXIII. The trip into Pope John XXIII’s past led Weisenbach and his wife back to the Roncalli was assigned to Venice. He also told us that Roncalli beginning, to the small Italian village of had selected Msgr. [Loris] Capovilla as his secretary, and that Sotto il Monte where he was born in Msgr. Capovilla ended up being the instructor for this gentleman’s 1881, the third of 13 children in a family confirmation class. of sharecroppers. “Once a month, Roncalli would come over and teach the class. He The couple visited the home where said that even as a teen, he was awestruck by Roncalli’s faith and Angelo Roncalli lived, and the church how well he connected with teenagers. He said, ‘I was just a typical where he was baptized, became an altar teenager, and I would have run through a wall for my faith after boy and first thought of becoming a knowing him.’ ” priest. Weisenbach’s journey would also lead to a meeting with “The simplicity of his life comes now-Archbishop Capovilla, who also served as secretary for through in that church,” Weisenbach says. Pope John XXIII from 1958 to his death in 1963. “If you read about him, all he wanted to “He is in his 90s but is still full of zest, life and love,” Weisenbach be was a simple country priest. That’s the notes. “He was thrilled to know of our travels, and was touched that way he defined himself. But God had a high school would have been named in honor of him.” different plans for him. “I am fascinated that God put his hand A legacy of love for God’s children on a little boy from a small, remote From his journey and his readings, Weisenbach knows that village who came from a peasant family Pope John XXII’s most lasting impact on the Church—the to become one of the most revered, loved Second Vatican Council—is viewed by many Catholics as a and respected persons of his time and in beautiful legacy and other Catholics as a misguided effort. our Church’s entire modern history.” Weisenbach focuses on how Pope John XXIII strived to make the While Weisenbach believes that Church more universal, and how he reached out to people of all faiths. Pope John’s life was touched by God, he “He named the first African-American cardinal, the first Mexican had the same feeling about his journey, cardinal and the first Filipino cardinal,” he says. “He allowed the especially when he and his wife traveled College of Cardinals to reflect the universal Church.” to Venice where then-Cardinal Roncalli For Roncalli’s principal, the journey from June 24 to July 16 Chuck Weisenbach clasps the hands of Archbishop Loris Capovilla, who served as cardinal-patriarch. confirmed the special bond that he believes connects an Indianapolis served as the secretary to Pope John Paul XXIII from 1958 to 1963. Now “We were in Venice on a Saturday school and the man for whom it is named. in his 90s, Archbishop Capovilla was thrilled when Weisenbach told him night and we stopped to visit St. Stefano “I have always felt our school has been divinely touched by God in that Roncalli High School in Indianapolis was named in honor of Church,” Weisenbach recalls. “Mass had that it seems to permeate the love, care and spirit that were so much a Pope John XXIII. just ended. There were just three or four part of Angelo Roncalli’s life,” Weisenbach says. “”I believe he would people in the church. We went up to the be thrilled with our school, our ministry and the way we represent his priest and his English was pretty good. name.” He recalled that Roncalli enjoyed coming He hopes to make the values and wisdom of Blessed John XXIII an to St. Stefano. I told him what we were even greater emphasis at Roncalli. doing, and he was fascinated. He shares a message from his school’s namesake that he plans to “The next day, we were deciding give to his teachers. where to go to Mass. We ended up back “Love one another, my dear children! at St. Stefano. After Mass, I left a book in Seek rather what unites, the church and went back to get it. I came Not what may separate you from one another. out and my wife is talking to this fellow As I take leave, or better still, as I say, ‘Till we meet again,’ let me in English. He grew up there. He said he remind you of the most important thing in life: was a freshman in high school when Our blessed Savior Jesus Christ, His good news, his holy Church, Truth and kindness. I shall remember you all, And pray for you.” “What I will continue to keep in front of the kids is how much he loved people,” Weisenbach says. “I think he converted people to Christianity because he always welcomed people of non-Christian faith. He would constantly use the statement, ‘These, too, are children of God.’ “That’s a message that I’ll try to help our folks at Roncalli remember. Our country is so divisive today. His theme was to celebrate what unites us as children of God. I think it was his desire to build up Holy Mary Church in Sotte il Monte, Italy, is the Church to represent that approach.” located across the street from the humble home where Angelo Roncalli—who later became (Weisenbach will make presentations on his journey, “Walking in the Chuck and Jane Weisenbach pose in front of a statue of Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII—was born. A peasant boy, the Footsteps of Pope John XXIII,” at Roncalli High School on Sept. 15 at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. The couple celebrated their young Roncalli was baptized and served as an and Sept. 28. Both presentations will begin at 7 p.m. and are 25th wedding anniversary during their trip to Italy to learn more about altar boy in the church. scheduled to end at 8:30 p.m.) † the life of Angelo Roncalli, who later became Pope John XXIII.