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Deacon Jerry Byrd lies prostrate in prayer during the praying of the Litany of the Saints just prior to being ordained a priest on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Also kneeling in prayer are Father Patrick Beidelman, left, archdiocesan director of liturgy; Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator; and priests who minister at parishes in central and southern Indiana.

Deacon Jerry Byrd ordained to the priesthood Photos by Sean Gallagher By Sean Gallagher When Rose was pregnant with her son It was only after he had a powerful 31 years ago, doctors told her that he had experience of Christ’s presence in the “Before I formed you in the womb I Down syndrome and would be very Eucharist in 1998 when he was 17 that he knew you, before you were born I sickly when he was born. They became aware of God calling him into the dedicated you” (Jer 1:5). recommended that she have an abortion, full communion of the Church. Rose Byrd and her son, transitional a choice that she refused to make. Now, 14 years after that life-changing Deacon Jerry Byrd, reached out and “Jerry and I both knew that Mass, Father Jerry Byrd took part for the held each other’s hand when they [the priesthood] was God’s plan for first time in consecrating the bread and heard these words proclaimed during the him, that he was chosen, too,” said wine, and turning them into the Body and first reading of the June 2 Mass at Rose Byrd. “I have no doubt, no Blood of Christ. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in question in my mind, that he’s where “It really proves to me that God had a Indianapolis during which he was the Lord put him and where the Lord’s purpose for my life,” he said. ordained to the priesthood. going to use him.” “The beauty of that is overwhelming,” Father Jerry Byrd, left, gives a blessing to The words had deep meaning for the God’s plan for Deacon Byrd was Father Byrd added. “It’s overwhelming to Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic mother and son. They recalled a even more amazing considering think that it’s been 14 years and, yet, here I administrator, at the end of the June 2 Mass courageous choice for life and of God’s that he was raised in a family that am just beginning. Who knows what the at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in plan for Jerry when his life hung in the belonged to a Baptist congregation in future holds?” Indianapolis during which Father Byrd was balance while still in his mother’s womb. southeastern Indiana. See BYRD, page 7 ordained to the priesthood. Electrical fire damages St. Christopher Church By Mary Ann Garber

Fire, smoke and water damaged St. Christopher Church in Indianapolis on June 2 after a small bulb in

a chandelier overheated and exploded, causing the Photo by Mary Ann Garber ceiling light to melt and fall then ignite hymnals and pews. No one was hurt in the fire because the church was empty except for a woman cleaning another area of the building. Eric Atkins, director of management services for the archdiocese, said a crew from Moore Restoration Inc. began cleaning up the damage in the church’s worship space and lower level rooms shortly after Speedway and Wayne Township firefighters extinguished the 11 a.m. blaze last Saturday. No estimate of the damage is available yet, Atkins said, but the archdiocese will work with the parish to restore the 12-year-old brick church at 5301 W. 16th St. as quickly as possible. More than 600 gallons of water were extracted Eric Atkins, director of management services for the archdiocese, inspects the light bulb from the church by the restoration crew after the fire. and chandelier that caused a fire on June 2 at St. Christopher Church in Indianapolis. No St. Christopher parishioners were stunned by news estimate of the fire, smoke and water damage is available yet. Restoration work began See FIRE, page 2 shortly after firefighters extinguished the blaze. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012

75th anniversary of the parish tabernacle, Blessed Sacrament FIRE this year, and busy preparing for Chapel, sacristy and unique continued from page 1 their huge “Summer Festival” on collection of religious art were July 19-21. Four weddings not damaged, Father Welch said. of the fire, especially those scheduled in coming weeks have “The Eucharist has been removed Photo by Mary Ann Garber people who were members when to be moved to other churches. from the church, and the artwork lightning struck the roof of the “Most of the damage is from is all intact.” then brand new church during a smoke and water,” Father Welch Atkins said the fire burned 6 p.m. Mass on July 8, 2001, and said. “The water came down three pews and melted vinyl tiles caused extensive damage that behind the walls. … I don’t know on the floor. closed the building for three and how many weeks we will have on “Once the fire got hot enough, a half months. the renovation. … The festival it set off the alarm and the For the second time in 11 years, could be scaled down a little.” sprinklers overhead,” he said. parishioners are worshiping in the Both Father Welch and “… The Speedway fire station is former church, which was Father David Lawler, associate across the street, and the converted to a gymnasium for pastor, are thankful that the firefighters extinguished the fire St. Christopher School. electrical fire happened when the quickly. … The majority of the Father Michael Welch, pastor church was empty. water fell down into the nursery, of the Indianapolis West Deanery At 11 a.m. on June 1, some meeting rooms and parish since 1983, said after the Father Welch said, the church corridors on the lower level. Father Michael Welch, pastor, celebrates the noon Mass on June 3 with noon Mass on June 3 that, was filled with students for the “We are working diligently to St. Christopher parishioners in the former church, which now serves as the “We’ve gone through this once end-of-year school Mass and get the church back up and gymnasium for St. Christopher School. Parish staff members and parishioners before. … We just came back awards program. operational as soon as possible,” worked for hours to move the worship space from the fire-damaged church to the better and stronger. We’re a “Then 24 hours later, we had Atkins said. “It’s just one of gymnasium in time for weekend Masses. community that really prays the fire,” he said. “I ask that those bizarre things. We don’t together and sticks together. people keep the community in know why the bulb exploded. with the bulb or maybe a smoke residue was discharged We’re sad once again, but we will prayer. It’s a difficult thing to go “We isolated the chandelier, combination of both that may into the building, and trying to be OK.” through two fires in 11 years’ and are going to have it evaluated have caused the fire,” he said. understand how much smoke St. Christopher parishioners time in a beautiful new church.” to determine if there is a problem “We are in the process of mitigation work will need to are celebrating the historic St. Christopher Parish’s with the chandelier or a problem determining how much occur to clean up the church.” † LCWR board responds to Vatican order for reform of organization WASHINGTON (CNS)—The national board of the about 80 percent of the country’s 57,000 women religious. level and then at the national level. Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) His appointment came the same day the congregation “We need to walk through this one door at a time and to on June 1 said it feels the assessment that led to a announced a major reform. The congregation issued an see how this process unfolds, and to follow that path as Vatican order to reform the organization “was based on eight-page “doctrinal assessment” long as we can respond with integrity,” she said. unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed that cited “serious doctrinal problems Sister Pat said the LCWR leadership was not surprised process that lacked transparency.” which affect many in consecrated by the doctrinal congregation’s report. “The great surprise The LCWR board called the sanctions “disproportionate life.” The problems, it said, were was the severity of it,” she said. to the concerns raised,” and said they “could compromise” revealed in an assessment originally In the weeks since the Vatican order was issued, the the organization’s ability “to fulfill their mission. ordered in April 2008. Franciscan sister from Dubuque, Iowa, said she has found “The report has furthermore caused scandal and pain In an interview with “a lot of strength and comfort in prayer and in other throughout the Church community and created greater Catholic News Service, Sister Pat did members of the LCWR. polarization,” the LCWR said in a statement released the not discuss specifics of the board’s “We have a deep and strong solidarity among us and we morning after the board concluded a special meeting in reaction to the Vatican’s assessment, will move in a way that does not allow this to divide us.” Washington on May 29-31 held to respond to an saying it was “a conversation we She also said she was encouraged by the “immense eight-page doctrinal assessment issued to LCWR by the want to have first with the Vatican.” outpouring of support” for the sisters from around the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Sr. Pat Farrell, O.S.F. She said that when she and country and the world. Citing “serious doctrinal problems which affect many Sister Janet go to Rome they will In his statement, Archbishop Sartain added that the in consecrated life,” the doctrinal congregation on April 18 continue the conversation they had Vatican and U.S. bishops “are deeply proud of the historic announced a major reform of LCWR to ensure its fidelity when the eight-page document was and continuing contribution of women religious—a pride to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, first released to them, presenting their that has been echoed by many in recent weeks. euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality. views after “prayerful reflection.” “Dramatic examples of this can be witnessed in the In response to the LCWR statement, Sister Pat said the LCWR leadership school system and in the network of Catholic hospitals Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, appointed by had not given interviews about the established by sisters across America, which are lasting the Vatican to oversee the reform, said both he and the document since its release more than a contributions to the well-being of our country,” he added. Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “are month ago because they did “not want In an article he wrote for the June 18 issue of wholeheartedly committed to dealing with the important to react in the moment. America magazine, Archbishop Sartain discussed the issues raised by the doctrinal assessment and the “It was important not to respond Vatican reform of LCWR. LCWR board in an atmosphere of openness, honesty, immediately,” she said, “so that “No one expects that such a sensitive task will be Archbishop integrity and fidelity to the Church’s faith. J. Peter Sartain whatever we would say would come accomplished quickly or effortlessly, but by God’s grace “I look forward to our next meeting in Rome in from our best selves.” She also noted and with mutual respect, patience and prayer it can be June as we continue to collaborate in promoting the that the LCWR leadership “couldn’t respond with any indeed accomplished for the good of all,” he said. important work of the LCWR for consecrated life in the substance individually” because the group is a collaborative “Challenges larger than this have been met before with United States,” he said. organization that speaks with one voice. renewal and even deeper faith the outcome. The LCWR board said the organization’s president, “Until we could meet as a group, we weren’t in a position “Through the years,” Archbishop Sartain wrote, “there Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, and its executive director, to respond,” she added. have been inevitable conflicts and misunderstandings St. Joseph Sister Janet Mock, will return to Rome on Sister Pat said the mood at the three-day board meeting between religious congregations and their bishops, June 12 to meet U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, was “pretty serious,” and reflected a range of emotions. between one congregation and another, and among the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “There was a lot of sadness,” she said, “but it was a members of individual congregations. They exist today and Archbishop Sartain “to raise and discuss the comfort for all of us to be together, and process some of our as well. board’s concerns.” candid responses and feelings with one another.” “Disagreements regarding mission, apostolate, The Vatican on April 18 appointed Archbishop Sartain Regarding future discussion of the Vatican report, she discipline, doctrine, style of life and personality have often to provide “review, guidance and approval, where said, “I think, first of all, we have to move slowly, been at the core of such conflicts. Each situation was an necessary, of the work” of LCWR, a Maryland-based prayerfully and reflectively on this.” opportunity to seek reconciliation and collaboration at the umbrella group that claims about 1,500 leaders of She said that as the process unfolds the LCWR leadership heart of the Church in the ‘communion’ that is God’s gift. U.S. women’s communities as members, and represents will have conversations with its members at the regional Such a pivotal opportunity is now before us.” †

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MILAN (CNS)—As Pope Benedict XVI Despite the jubilant and festive air among closed the World Meeting of Families in participants, the pope and archdiocesan Italy’s capital of finance and fashion, he leaders peppered their speeches with opened the possibility of his heading to the reminders of the thousands of people United States when he named the rendered homeless or destitute by a recent CNS Haringphoto/Paul Archdiocese of Philadelphia the next venue series of earthquakes in northern Italy. of the world gathering. The pope called for concrete aid to those “God willing,” he said that he would in need, assuring victims of his prayers. attend in 2015 as he greeted Archbishop The archdiocese announced that a Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, and “the half-billion euro had been collected during Catholics of that great city,” saying he the papal visit, and would be given in the looked forward to meeting U.S. Catholics pope’s name to those hardest hit. The pope’s and other families from around the own charity recently donated a large sum, world there. and the pope met personally with a couple The surprise announcement came as the who lost their home and were living in tents. 85-year-old pope wrapped up the May 30- Pope Benedict also hosted a lunch for June 3 world meeting, which gathers every 100 poor families—about 300 people— three years to celebrate and help families who live in Milan, but come from a variety live out their Christian values. of countries. About 1 million people from God, who suffered with humanity and for 153 countries braved dawn wake-up calls, humanity, made people capable of sharing shouldered supply-laden backpacks and the suffering of others and of turning that Pope Benedict XVI greets a family as he leads an evening service during the World Meeting of prodded along sleepy kids to descend on pain into love, he said at La Scala on June 1. Families in Milan on June 2. At left are Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan and Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, Milan’s Bresso Park on June 3 to take part He urged faith communities and secular president of the Pontifical Council for the Family. in the event’s closing Mass. governments at events on June 1-2 to work In his homily, the pope called for Church together for the common good by having artists, the pope shared the joys and be responsible for the good of all people, unity, emphasized marriage as between a people of faith live their values in all areas sufferings of the world’s families. he said. man and a woman, urged parents to keep of life. Five couples and families went up on He said one idea for people to help right the transcendent alive in a world that adores The Church offers its teaching and input stage one group at a time to ask the pope a away was for more financially stable the high-tech over high ideals, and urged as a service to society, he said, as he urged personal question or appeal for advice. parishes and families to adopt a struggling children to respect and love their family. governments to be just and guarantee The first, a 7-year-old girl from Vietnam, family or parish akin to the twin cities’ Because the five-day meeting’s theme liberty, based on natural law, for everyone, sat by the pope’s feet, wanting to know what initiative. was how to balance work demands, family “beginning with the right to life of which it was like growing up in his home. A Brazilian couple who work with needs and religious celebration, the pope its deliberate suppression can never Aware of the content of each question divorced and separated Catholics asked how upbraided economic theories that advocate be allowed.” beforehand, the pope spoke off-the-cuff, they could give the people they talk to hope. that the best policies, markets and work Inside Milan’s monumental Gothic saying even though Germany at the time The pope acknowledged the huge sense ethics are those that push the most product cathedral on June 2, the pope met women was suffering from a dictatorship and war, of loss and alienation divorced Catholics and reap the most profit. and men religious, priests, seminarians and his childhood was “unforgettable” and who remarry feel when they can no longer “The one-sided logic of sheer utility and bishops for a prayer service in the joyful as their home was always filled with receive the sacraments. While preventing a maximum profit are not conducive to Ambrosian rite. A religious vocation and music, faith, love and long walks in marriage from breaking up is ideal through harmonious development, to the good of the one’s personal well-being are not at odds, the woods. counseling and accompaniment, parishes family or to building of a more just society, the pope said, but go hand-in-hand since “To tell you the truth, if I could imagine could help divorcees still feel part of the because it brings in its wake ferocious being a good priest or sister and a happy what it will be like in heaven, I always community, experiencing the word of God competition, strong inequalities, degradation person both find its source in drawing closer imagine the time of my youth, of my and getting ongoing spiritual guidance, of the environment, the race for consumer to Christ. childhood,” he said. he said. goods and family tensions,” he said. Later that day in Milan’s San Siro soccer When a Greek family told the pope about While they cannot receive the sacrament Such a “utilitarian mentality” takes a toll stadium, the pope told some 80,000 boys their dire economic situation back home and of the Eucharist, they can experience a on the family and social relationships, and girls who were or would be recently asked how they could go forward in hope, spiritual form of communion by being “reducing them to a fragile convergence of confirmed that they, too, can be saints as the pope said words could never convey his united in the body of Christ as Church, individual interests and undermining the they let the Holy Spirit guide them to use sadness for people hit hard by the global he said. solidity of the social fabric,” he added. their talents for the good of the community. economic crisis and the sadness over feeling The pope ate lunch together with several The pope spent nearly three full days at a “You are called to great things,” he said, unable to help. families after the June 3 Mass. They variety of events—meeting local citizens, telling them to keep their aims high. He told He criticized the current political state of included Allen and Janell Tuncap and their religious, government and business leaders them to study and work hard, obey their affairs, saying all political parties had to five children from Charleston, S.C.; the and Catholic young people and families parents, help others and be selfless “because become more responsible and stop Green family, including their seminarian from around the world. egoism is the enemy of joy.” promising things they couldn’t deliver. son, Jack, from the Diocese of Parramatta, He also was treated to a concert of At an evening vigil marked by Candidates need to see that the votes Australia; and families from Baghdad, Iraq; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 testimonies from families all over the world people invest in them are not votes for the Kinshasa, Congo; Mexico City; Spain at Milan’s famed La Scala opera house. and international music by well-known leaders, but are a call for them to fight and and Milan. †

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OPINION Making a Difference/Tony Magliano In all things, love must prevail The richness of the ritual, the lovely For their part, the bishops have a duty to Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 music, a challenging homily and the respect the laity. Vatican II clearly teaches Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher enthusiastic that through baptism and confirmation, the GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus prayerfulness of the Lord has given the laity an essential share John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus assembly provided a in the saving mission of the Church. wonderful experience But it is important to realize that there are of Catholic Christian certain things that the bishops simply cannot community. do, and are, therefore, not being disrespectful Editorial The recent toward the desires of some among the laity. installation of A controversial example is same-sex Archbishop William “marriage.” It may be politically correct, but Stewards of religious liberty E. Lori as the it is not morally correct. Sacred Scripture, shepherd of the sacred tradition and natural law strongly y guess is that most Catholics in Archdiocese of Baltimore was for me a taste teach that homosexual activity is not part of Mthe Unites States don’t know of Catholic unity—but only a fleeting taste. God’s plan. what to make of the quarrel between In sad contrast, there is so much hurt, But what the bishops can also do—and the leaders of our Church and the Louis Review St. alienation, distrust, pride, anger and apathy this applies to the laity as well—is to Obama administration. among so many Catholics. prophetically and tirelessly address, in the Especially since this is taking I felt an even stronger sense of our words of Pope Paul VI, the sufferings of place during an election year that wounded Catholic community after people struggling “to overcome everything involves an ever-escalating course of receiving numerous responses from a which condemns them to remain on the accusations and counter-accusations CNS illustration/Lisa Johnston, recent column that I wrote highlighting the margin of life—famine, chronic disease, by representatives of different need of our suffering world for a prophetic illiteracy, poverty, injustices in international political parties and interest groups Catholic Church. relations, and especially in commercial within those parties. Numerous readers expressed strong exchanges, situations of economic and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is sentiments that certain bishops had failed to cultural neo-colonialism sometimes as cruel president of the U.S. Conference of protect children from a small minority of as the old political colonialism. Catholic Bishops, and he doesn’t A bald eagle and U.S. flag are seen in an sexually abusive clerics, and they indicated “The Church … has the duty to proclaim mince words. illustration for religious liberty that was their sense that most of the hierarchy often the liberation of millions of human beings … Speaking as the head of one of created by photographer Lisa Johnston of displays an insensitive use of its power. the duty of assisting the birth of this 43 Catholic organizations that have the St. Louis Review. Therefore, they wrote that the liberation, of giving witness to it, of ensuring filed lawsuits that seek to overturn the Catholic Church is in no position to be that it is complete” (“On Evangelization in Obama administration’s infamous supposedly granted to religious prophetic. the Modern World,” #30). abortifacient, contraceptive and institutions is so narrowly defined Well, yes and no. But this essential duty will not be fulfilled sterilization mandate, Cardinal Dolan that only the most introverted and We imperfect human beings are called by as long as so much disrespect and said, “We have tried negotiation with self-serving organizations can qualify. the Perfect to become saints. It is an unkindness remains unhealed in the Church. the administration and legislation The lawsuits filed by 43 Catholic ongoing process of conversion. In the midst of our hurts, disagreements with Congress—and will keep at it— groups, including the University of However, in all of our weaknesses, we and confusion, we would be wise to consider and there’s still no fix. Time is Notre Dame, seek to prevent the must do our best to speak and act as the these words of good Pope John XXIII: running out, and our precious government from defining who Lord’s disciples on behalf of our hurting “The common saying, expressed in various ministries and fundamental rights qualifies as a religious organization. world. But the holier we become, the more ways and attributed to various authors, must hang in the balance so we have to Cardinal Dolan called the move “a effective our witness will be. be recalled with approval—in essentials, resort to the courts now.” compelling display of the unity of the An essential aspect of holiness is a unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all The New York Times calls the Church in defense of religious liberty.” willingness to show genuine respect to things, charity.” lawsuits “an attack on access to Freedom is a precious gift that can everyone—regardless of status. contraception based on bogus claims never be taken for granted. As The bishops, as successors of the (Tony Magliano is an internationally of religious freedom.” In two fierce Pope Benedict XVI has said, freedom 12 Apostles, deserve our respect. We need to syndicated social justice and peace editorials, The Times dismissed out of is never won once and for all. Every seriously consider their insights as we strive columnist. Send an e-mail to him at hand the Church’s right to defend its generation has to win the battle for to form our consciences in harmony with [email protected].) † religious freedom. The lawsuits are human freedom all over again in the the Gospel. called “bogus” and “a dramatic stunt, circumstances of every place and time. full of indignation, but built on air.” We Americans have received the As has now become common in legacy of religious freedom from our the news media, attention is drawn to ancestors, who established this nation Letter to the Editor the number of American women, as a bastion of religious liberty. We including many Catholics, who use have often failed to live up to these Marian University produces great artificial contraceptives. The issue of ideals, but we have never abandoned religious liberty is set aside as them as fundamental principles. Too students, athletes and future leaders “built on air” while the fundamental many wars have been fought, and too In the May 18 issue of The Criterion, I Even more, as a Catholic and soccer constitutional issues are not even much blood has been spilled, in saw a wonderful article with the headline player, it is wonderful to hear of discussed. defense of Americans’ right to practice “Seminarian is a member of Clericus Cup Rodriquez’s success on and off the The strategy, which has worked in their religious principles without championship team” written by reporter soccer field. the past, appears to be: Accuse the government interference. Sean Gallagher, a member of the Beneath the article about Rodriquez, I Church of being anti-women and of That makes us all stewards of the Marian College Class of 1993. was pleased to see an advertisement for imposing its morality on others, and gift of freedom. And we are called to I also noticed that the Marian University that mentions the people will line up against the nurture, defend and share generously seminarian featured in the article was Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary. bishops with their rigid morality and with others what we have received Martin Rodriquez, a member of the It makes me proud to know that dogmatic teaching. from our fathers and mothers in faith. Marian College Class of 2008 and Marian University prepares great athletes, It’s important that we not let those No matter how many of us disagree graduate of the Bishop Simon Bruté great students and great future leaders for who would belittle or marginalize with, or fail to observe, the precepts of College Seminary, both in Indianapolis. our Church. religion succeed. Too much is at our faith, we are all called to defend The article about Rodriquez was very stake here. them against those who would take well-written, and I am happy to see another Colleen Diemer The lawsuits filed by a away our right to live according to Marian University graduate succeeding in Indianapolis representative number of Catholic our beliefs. whatever he or she chooses to do. It gives Marian University organizations throughout the Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, me hope that I will do the same. Class of 2014 United States argue that it is president of Notre Dame, said it best. unconstitutional for the Obama If we allow one government agency to administration to mandate that the define who we are and what our Church provide services to its legitimate religious practices can be, employees which violate the tenets of what’s to stop other government Letters Policy its faith—such as contraception, agencies from using the same tactics sterilization and abortifacients—or to impose on us equally or even Letters from readers are published in letters from readers as necessary based on The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and otherwise pay heavy financial more reprehensible actions in the commitment to “the responsible exchange of penalties. name of political expediency or the content (including spelling and grammar). 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And tears roll down his face as he It will be a day of pride and remembers last year’s World Refugee celebration—for the struggles that have Day Dinner when he was surprised with Photo by John Shaughnessy been overcome, the dreams that have been the Refugee of the Year honor. followed, and the hope that always guides “The best thing I noticed was that my the refugees who fled political and wife and my two kids were clapping,” religious persecution to make a new home recalls Mohammed Jawad, who now in the United States. works full time helping refugees for And the stories will flow on June 20 Catholic Charities Indianapolis. “When I when World Refugee Day is celebrated was looking at my children’s small during a special dinner hosted by the hands, I was happy.” Refugee and Immigrant Services of Those emotions often overflow Catholic Charities Indianapolis—an event during the World Refugee Day Dinner, at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis says Gabrielle Neal, director of the that will feature the food, culture and archdiocese’s Refugee Resettlement spirit of the refugees who have made Program. central Indiana their new home. “It celebrates the journeys of the The emotions and the stories of the refugees, from their struggles to their refugee experience are always just a triumphs,” Neal says. “So we honor them breath away for Sajjad Mohammed by sharing in their culture, their dress, As World Refugee Day nears on June 20, Gabrielle Neal, director of the archdiocese’s Refugee Jawad, who was named the Refugee of their stories and their journeys.” Resettlement Program, talks with Sajjad Mohammed Jawad, the 2011 Refugee of the Year who now the Year at last year’s event. The dinner will also feature ethnic works for Catholic Charities Indianapolis helping refugees adjust to life in central Indiana. He laughs when he mentions one of food, an auction and the screening of the differences in his two young sons Crossing Salween, a movie that shares “Catholic Charities Indianapolis helps provides so many opportunities for between the time their family arrived in the story of a girl trying to escape from these refugees integrate quickly into our refugees, and that refugees offer special the United States from Iraq in 2010 the Burmese Army after they killed her community by providing them with the gifts for their new country, too. and now. father, took away her mother and burned tools of self-reliance—housing, clothing, “America is the sweetest grape in “The difference in language is always a her family’s home. education, medical attention, job the world,” he says. “I have the honor to barrier for refugees,” he says. “When we The event coincides with the placement, employment skills, English live in the sweetest grape of the world. arrived in the United States, my wife and United Nations observation of language skills and community And the refugees are enrichening the two kids couldn’t speak English. Now World Refugee Day, which recognizes orientation.” blood of America. It’s important to have when I talk in the English language, both the 10 million refugees in the world, Mohammed Jawad is part of that team, this variety.” of my sons are laughing at me when I talk. Neal notes. using his ability to speak four They are correcting my pronunciation.” “Hundreds of refugees are brought to languages—English, Arabic, Persian and (Tickets for the World Refugee Day Dinner, His eyes light up when he recalls the Indianapolis every year because they Kurdish—to help refugees from Iran and which begins at 6 p.m., are $35 a person months that he volunteered to drive other cannot return to their home country, and Afghanistan. or $250 for a table of eight. For tickets, refugees to appointments and stores. they do not enjoy basic rights in the “The rewards I get are in the eyes of call 317-236-1528 or 800-382-9836, “A lot of the refugees want to give me country where they sought refuge,” the refugees,” he says. ext. 1528, or log on to money,” he says. “I tell them, ‘If I wanted she says. He believes that the United States www.catholiccharitiesindpls.org.) † Federal court overturns Defense of Marriage Act; appeal presumed BOSTON (CNS)—With a ruling that on June 1 calling the ruling disappointing. National Organization for Marriage, which recognize a marriage recognized by another acknowledged the final decision will be up “The federal appeals court in Boston did opposes the redefinition of marriage, state or territory. to the Supreme Court, a federal appeals a grave injustice yesterday by striking down accused the judges of inventing the legal The court said the case was difficult court declared the Defense of Marriage Act that part of the Defense of Marriage Act path to the ruling. “because it couples unconstitutional on May 31. that reasonably recognizes the reality that “Liberal federal judges in Massachusetts issues of equal The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marriage is the union of one man and and California have resorted to making up protection and overturned the provision of the 1996 federal one woman,” said the statement from legal standards in order to justify redefining federalism with the law, known as DOMA, that defines marriage Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of marriage,” said a statement from Brown. need to assess the as “a legal union between one man and Oakland, Calif., chairman of the bishops’ “They realize the legal precedent doesn’t rationale for a one woman as husband and wife.” Subcommittee for the Promotion and allow them to redefine marriage so they are congressional The U.S. Conference of Catholic Defense of Marriage. “DOMA is part of our making up new standards to justify statute.” Bishops and the Massachusetts Catholic nation’s long-established body of law imposing their values on the rest of That rationale is Conference, which had urged the court to rooted in the true meaning of marriage.” the nation.” “open to uphold the law, jointly issued a press release Brian Brown, president of the Judge Michael Boudin, who wrote interpretation,” the the opinion, was appointed to the Bishop judges said, adding, 1st Circuit by President George H. W. Bush. Salvatore J. Cordileone “We have done our The other two judges who joined the best to discern the opinion were Judge Sandra Lynch, direction of these precedents, but only the C o n d i t i o appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Supreme Court can finally decide this A i r n e r & H e a t P u m p S a l e Judge Juan Torruella, appointed by unique case.” President Ronald Reagan. In summarizing some of its conclusions, The panel cited previous Supreme Court the court noted, “Many Americans believe 1 2 8 t h A n n i v e r s a r y S a l e rulings that struck down laws determined to that marriage is the union of a man and a be discriminatory against a class of people woman, and most Americans live in states as being among the keys to their ruling. where that is the law today.

Expires 6/18/11 They also stayed their ruling pending review “One virtue of federalism is that it by the Supreme Court. permits this diversity of governance based The case was brought against the federal on local choice, but this applies as well to government by a group of same-sex married the states that have chosen to legalize couples and several widowed spouses, all same-sex marriage. Under current from Massachusetts. They seek access to Supreme Court authority, Congress’ denial federal benefits, such as Social Security, that of federal benefits to same-sex couples would be available to heterosexual married lawfully married in Massachusetts has not couples, but are blocked under DOMA. been adequately supported by any The law was passed soon after Hawaii’s permissible federal interest.” Supreme Court held that it might violate the The ruling noted that under DOMA, state constitution to deny marriage to federal funding to Massachusetts could be same-sex couples. Amid concern that states revoked for programs tied to the law’s 8 t h 8 t h A 2 8 t h A would soon begin to allow same-sex definition of marriage, such as Medicare 1 2 A n n i v e 1 2 n n i v e 1 n n i v e r s a r y S a l e r s a r y S a l e r s a r y S a l e marriages, Congress passed and and Medicaid or burial in a veterans’ Save President Bill Clinton signed the 230-word cemetery as a spouse. $ law, which the appeals court described as In his statement, Bishop Cordileone also ½ Price 89 95 “one of the shortest major enactments in said marriage of a man and a woman “is Service Call recent history.” the cornerstone of society,” and a With Repair Since then, 30 states have passed “foundation of a just society, as it protects constitutional prohibitions on same-sex the most vulnerable segment of the On the Purchase of a new 90% Gas On the Installation of a new High Efficiency Furnace, heat pump or air conditioner marriage while six states and the population, children. Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner. District of Columbia have passed laws “Every child longs for and deserves a permitting it. Another dozen states, mother and a father, and marriage is the including Hawaii, have laws recognizing only institution that ensures that children civil unions between people of the same sex. grow up knowing and being known by Expires 6/23/12 Expires 6/23/12 Expires 6/23/12 The 1st Circuit was reviewing only the their mother and father,” he said. “The provision of DOMA that defines “marriage” public good demands that this truth of and “spouse,” not its provision guaranteeing marriage be respected in law and society, that no state or territory is required to not rejected.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Events Calendar

June 7-10 June 8-10 St. Paul Parish, 824 Jefferson Information: 812-275-6539 or presenter, shotgun start, Information: 812-282-2290. Our Lady of the Greenwood St. Louis School, St., Tell City. Parish picnic, [email protected]. 8:30 a.m., $125 per person, June 15-17 17 St. Louis Place, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., chicken and includes breakfast and lunch, Parish, 335 S. Meridian St., June 14 St. Lawrence Parish, Batesville. Rummage sale, roast beef dinners, games for reservation deadline Greenwood. Parish festival, La Rosita Grill and Bar, 542 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg. Fri. 8 a.m.-7 p.m., all ages. Information: June 11. Register at Thurs. 5-11 p.m., 336 Pearl St., New Albany. Parish festival, food, music, Sat. 8 a.m.-4 p.m., half-price 812-547-7994. www.catholicradioindy.org. Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, Theology on Tap, “Catholic rides, Fri. 5:30 p.m.-midnight, Sat. 2 p.m.-midnight, sale, noon-4 p.m., by the Numbers–4 Marks of June 15-16 Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Sat. 4 p.m.-midnight, Sun. 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., the Church,” 6 p.m., St. Bernadette Parish, 4838 E. Sun. noon-9 p.m., rides, games, 2322 N. 13½ St., Terre Haute. Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken $1 bag sale. Information: no charge. Information: Fletcher Ave., Indianapolis. children’s games, food. “Sunday with Sinatra,” dinner. Information: 812-934-3204. 812-945-2000 or Yard sale, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Information: 317-888-2861. dinner and silent auction, noon, 812-537-3992. June 9 [email protected]. Information: 317-356-5867. June 8 $25 per person. Information: St. Roch Parish, Family Life June 14-16 June 16 St. Charles Borromeo Parish, 812-466-1231. St. Gabriel the Archangel Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, St. Michael the Archangel 222 E. Third St., Bloomington. Parish, 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis. Single Seniors June 12 535 E. Edgewood Ave., Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Indianapolis. “International St. Vincent de Paul Society meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Indianapolis. Parish festival, Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s Festival,” Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, and St. John Conference, over. Information: 17th Ave., Beech Grove. 4 p.m.-midnight, rides, food, Precious Infants, pro-life Sat. 3 p.m.-midnight, food, hog roast, 4:30-8:30 p.m., 317-784-4207. Ave Maria Guild, guest day music, games. Information: Mass, Father Sean Danda, games, rides. Information: food, music, silent auction. picnic, noon, Information: 317-787-8246. celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed 317-291-7014. Information: 812-825-0634. Slovanian National Home, 317-885-5098. by rosary outside abortion picnic grounds, St. Bernadette Parish, June 13 Johnson County Fairgrounds, clinic and Benediction at 1340 Yates Lane, Avon. 4838 E. Fletcher Ave., Holy Angels Parish, 740 W. Slippery Noodle Inn, 372 S. 250 Fairground St., Franklin. church. Information: Balinca tournament and Indianapolis. Parish festival, 28th St., Indianapolis. Meridian St., Indianapolis. St. Rose of Lima Parish, Archdiocesan Office for country jamboree dance, Thurs. 5-10 p.m., Fri. and Sat. “Music Festival,” music, Theology on Tap, young “St. Rose Festival,” rides, Pro-Life Ministry, 9 a.m.-9 p.m., $5 per person, 5 p.m.-midnight, games, rides, games, Fri. 5-10 p.m., adults ages 21-35, program, games, dinners, Fri. 5-11 p.m., 317-236-1569 or $15 per person with dinner. food. Information: Sat. 3-10 p.m. Information: 7 p.m. Information: Sat. 1-11 p.m. Information: 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. Information: 317-292-3505. 317-356-5867. 317-926-3324. [email protected]. 317-738-3929. June 10 June 15 June 17 June 8-9 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Heartland Crossing Golf Links, St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Richmond Catholic St. Anthony Parish, 337 N. House, 5353 E. 56th St., 1723 I St., Bedford. Catholic 6701 S. Heartland Blvd., 316 N. Sherwood Ave., Community, 701 N. “A” St., Warman Ave., Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Discalced Answers Study, “What the Camby. Catholic Radio and Clarksville. Parish picnic, Richmond. Charismatic “Summer Festival,” food, Carmelites Secular Order Church Teaches about Catholic Business Exchange Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, prayer group, 7 p.m. rides, games, 5:30 p.m.-close. meeting, noon. Information: Eucharistic Adoration,” Golf Outing, Mass, 6:30 a.m., Sat. 2-11 p.m., chicken dinner, Information: Information: 317-636-4828. 317-545-7681. Kevin Lents, presenter, 7 p.m. breakfast, Anthony Castonzo, Sat., food, entertainment. [email protected]. †

Retreats and Programs June 18 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Our Lady of Grace Monastery June 8-10 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pray All Ways,” day of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, reflection, Father James Farrell, presenter, welcomes new novice St. Meinrad. “Forgiven and Forgiving,” $38 per person. Information: 317-545-7681 or Benedictine Sister Susan Elizabeth into the monastic lifestyle of the Benedictine Brother Zachary Wilberding, [email protected]. Rakers entered the novitiate of Our Lady community. Her year of formation presenter. Information: 812-357-6585 or June 18-19 of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove on will center on studying the Rule of [email protected]. June 2. St. Benedict, Scripture, federation and Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, June 11 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Finding Before becoming a postulant with the community documents. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, God in the Garden,” 10th annual garden Sisters of St. Benedict last year, she was a A native of Belleville, Ill., Sister Susan 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. retreat, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $45 per person each member of Holy Spirit Parish in Elizabeth earned a bachelor’s degree in “Pain Management Vitality session includes breakfast and lunch. Fishers, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese. computer science at Southern Illinois Sculpting–Healthy Mind Set,” Information: 317-788-7581 or She began University in 1989. session five of five, 6:30-9 p.m., $25 per [email protected]. discerning her call She later earned a master’s degree in person. Information: 317-788-7581 or to monastic life business administration at Lake Forest [email protected]. after attending a School of Management in Lake Forest, Ill. June 24-30 Triduum Retreat at Prior to becoming a postulant at June 15-21 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, the sisters’ Our Lady of Grace Monastery, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Benedict Inn Retreat Sister Susan Elizabeth volunteered in St. Meinrad. “The Image as a Window to the “A Monastic Retreat–Let Us Set Out on This and Conference youth ministry at her parish. She also Spiritual–An Artist’s Six-Day, Hands-on Way with the Gospel for Our Guide,” Center in served the poor at the Lord’s Pantry and Workshop and Retreat,” Benedictine Brother Benedictine Abbot Jerome Kodell, presenter, Beech Grove. Anna’s House in Indianapolis. Martin Erspamer and Passionist Brother 6:30-9 p.m., $425 per person. As a novice, she For more information about the Michael Moran, presenters. Information: Information: 317-788-7581 or takes the title of Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. [email protected]. † Sr. Susan Elizabeth sister and immerses Grace Monastery, log on to Rakers, O.S.B herself even more www.benedictine.com. †

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Sheila Gilbert, president of the National Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, poses on May 2 with former Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson during the second annual Ozanam Breakfast sponsored by the Indianapolis council of the society at its Pratt-Quigley Center in Indianapolis. Gilbert and Peterson were speakers during the event. Gilbert is a member of St. Therese of the First graduating class Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis, and is Members of the first eighth-grade graduating class of SS. Francis and Clare School in the first woman and Hoosier Greenwood pose in the parish’s church after the graduation Mass on May 30. From left in the to be elected president of the front row are graduates Bethany Rodriguez, Sarah Cavender, Emma Balzer, Joseph Taylor, society’s national council. Jessica Wells, Erica Szczechowski, Annie Richardson, Kelsey Smock and Madison Kristel. The annual breakfast is In the back row, from left, are Rob Richardson, school president; Betty Popp, principal; named after Blessed Father Vincent Lampert, pastor; Father Anto Peterraj, associate pastor; and Deacon Stephen Frederick Ozanam, who Hodges. SS. Francis and Clare School opened in 2006 with 34 students. This year, the founded the Society of Indianapolis South Deanery elementary school has an enrollment of 364 students. St. Vincent de Paul in 1833. The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Page 7 Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Mary Ann Garber

Newly ordained Father Jerry Byrd concelebrates the eucharistic liturgy with Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Photo by Mary Ann Garber

Concelebrating priests of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis stand for prayers during the ordination liturgy for Father Jerry Byrd on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Photo by Sean Gallagher Father Eric Johnson, archdiocesan vocations director, ritually lays hands on Deacon Jerry Byrd Photo by Mary Ann Garber during his June 2 priestly ordination Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis.

next to Rose Byrd in the first row of seats Above, Elizabeth Stange, a member of BYRD in the cathedral. St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrenceburg, continued from page 1 “The journey for him has been proclaims the first reading during the amazing,” Fox said. “I’ve seen him grow so ordination liturgy for Father Jerry The immediate future for Father Byrd much through the process. And I just Byrd on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul will be as associate pastor of St. Barnabas couldn’t be any more proud of him. I was Cathedral in Indianapolis. She is a Parish and Catholic chaplain of the moved to tears every step of the way.” friend of Father Byrd. University of Indianapolis, both in Father Eric Johnson was just beginning Indianapolis. He will begin those ministry his ministry as archdiocesan vocations Right, Deacon Jerry Byrd and his assignments on July 3. director in 2005 when Jerry Byrd came to mother, Rose Byrd, hold hands during At the beginning of his homily, him inquiring about the priesthood. the first reading of the June 2 Mass at Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic “It’s been a wonderful experience to SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in administrator, thanked Father Byrd’s family walk with him from beginning to end,” Indianapolis shortly before for forming him in the Christian faith even Father Johnson said. “It seems like just a Deacon Byrd was ordained to the though they are not in the full communion little while ago that we were just talking priesthood. of the Catholic Church. about the beginnings of discernment and “While his path has taken him to our questions that he had about the communion,” Bishop Coyne said, “it is that priesthood.” path that he first walked with you as a Father Shaun Whittington also family in the way that you nurtured him accompanied Father Byrd on his journey to Photo by Sean Gallagher and cared for him and raised him in the the priesthood from its earliest stages. Photo by Mary Ann Garber faith of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, During the ordination, he helped his friend that has brought him today to service to put on his priestly vestments for the God’s people in a different communion, but first time. in a union of faith that flows from the love “It’s been a journey inward in some of God and the love of Christ.” respects to know yourself more fully and to When Father Byrd stood at the altar have that deepening conversion of heart,” during the eucharistic prayer, the power said Father Whittington, who is pastor of Deacon Jerry Byrd smiles while his friends, family of the change that had just taken place St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Milan, and other members of the congregation in his life a few minutes earlier when St. John the Baptist Parish in Osgood, spontaneously applaud for him during the June 2 Bishop Coyne ordained him a priest was St. Mary Magdalen Parish in New Marion Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis still sinking in. and St. Pius Parish in Ripley County. during which Deacon Byrd was ordained to the “I heard all of the priests whispering the “But then it’s a journey outward,” he priesthood. words and I thought, ‘I’m not a deacon said. “It isn’t about a conversion merely for anymore. I can do this now,’ ” Father Byrd oneself. It’s a conversion to give for the said. “So then I started whispering the sake of the Church.” words as well.” Father Byrd is looking forward to When concelebrating priests whisper joining Father Whittington and the rest of Father Jerry Byrd gives the Eucharist to his certain parts of the eucharistic prayer, they the priests of the archdiocese in their aunt, Therese Byrd of St. Clement Parish in Photo by Mary Ann Garber hold out a hand toward the altar. ministry “to be a good and holy priest, and Cincinnati, Ohio, during his ordination Mass “I was careful with my hands,” to encourage other young men to be good on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Father Byrd said. “And at first, my hand and holy priests.” Indianapolis. “I have eight boys so I’m hoping was twitching a little bit. I was a little that one of them will become a priest nervous. But then I guess grace kicked in, (For more photos from the ordination of someday,” she said after the liturgy. “It’s just and I just moved forward.” Father Jerry Byrd, log on to amazing to know somebody that is related to The journey that Father Byrd took to www.CriterionOnline.com. For more you and is a priest. I’m Catholic and my Father Michael Fritsch, pastor of St. John the stand at the altar in the cathedral on June 2 information about a vocation to the husband isn’t, and here they have a priest Apostle Parish in Bloomington, congratulates newly involved many people in his life. One was priesthood in the archdiocese, log on to coming out of their family. I think it’s ordained Father Jerry Byrd during the June 2 his sister, Sandy Fox of Bright, who sat www.HearGodsCall.com.) † wonderful.” liturgy at the cathedral. Page 8 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Page 9

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POP)t TSPOP)IHJ) TS *Basedsed on the cumulativecuma*B ulativveeac academiccaademmic record rreeccoorrdda att the end of the seventhsev semestersemesterenth A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2012 FaithAlive! by Catholic News Service. Take steps to integrate work and faith in daily life By Daniel S. Mulhall anything else, although that wasn’t always easy to do. Now, if by faith you People in ministry have the good mean our beliefs in how God wants us to fortune—or the misfortune, depending on live, there should be no compromise in Louis Review St. one’s perspective—to work in jobs where how we live our lives just because we are their faith and work are intertwined. at work. I was lucky in that I wasn’t Every day, the lives of religion teachers, asked to compromise my beliefs in my pastoral ministers and hospital work life.” CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, chaplains—laity, priests and religious— Perhaps that is the most that we can are immersed in living out their faith. hope for—that the work we do doesn’t For the last 33 years, I’ve had the good force us to compromise our beliefs and fortune to have worked in jobs where my values. Hopefully, few of us will ever be faith and work have been intertwined. faced with making a workplace decision From teaching high school religion to that would be a major violation of our working in catechetical ministry, to faith. But how many times each day are writing religion textbooks and doing we asked to compromise a basic belief or training sessions for Catholic school principle, to bend the rules, to skirt the teachers, every day of my professional edges? life has been immersed in living out my What would we do if we found faith. ourselves in a situation where we were Sometimes I wonder if this work has asked to lie or cheat for our employer? made me a more or What would we do less faith-filled person. if we knew a product Not everyone has we were asked to make the opportunity to ‘ … integration implies or sell was defective work in a job that that everything we do and could cause harm Deacon Rich Seveska, left, talks with trucker Bernie Czebatul in a booth at a diner in Foristell, Mo. allows them to think in our work should to others or to the Deacon Seveska ministers at the truck stop in Foristell, spending the evening by saying hello to about or live out their environment? truck drivers, identifying himself as a chaplain and asking basic questions. faith. Most employers reflect what we Would we have the frown on employees believe.’ courage to say no, to contribute to the coffee fund when I have want to subscribe to a service that openly talking about walk away from our a cup?” or “Did I take my turn in provides a daily Scripture reading by their faith or sharing jobs, our source of cleaning up the break room?” and then e-mail or as an MP3 download. their faith with other income and health move to the more difficult ones that may One such service is provided by the workers. Some employers forbid the insurance, and for many people the one affect our livelihood. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at wearing or displaying of religious thing in their lives that gives them We can’t expect to make good www.usccb.org/bible/readings-audio.cfm. symbols on the job site. meaning and purpose? decisions in difficult situations unless we Similar services are available with the Such workplace rules don’t necessarily We think we would do the right thing have practiced making the small ones. click of a button. mean that the employer is against faith or and walk away. But none of us know how Sue Von Handorf of Covington, Ky., Another way to integrate our faith into religion. Often, these rules are in place to we would respond. It is easy to be faithful offers a perspective that is helpful. She our work is to practice each day what make sure that differences in faith when there is little temptation. It is a lot says that the question shouldn’t be about Ignatian spirituality refers to as the perspectives don’t interfere with more difficult when we are actually faced balancing faith and work, but about the “Daily Examen.” At the end of your work productivity. with that choice. integration of faith into one’s work. day, take a moment to prayerfully reflect I recently talked to other Catholics about The only way we can learn to make Balancing suggests that we can find a on the events of your day. How was your this topic. One man from Villa Hills, Ky., is decisions during difficult situations is by way to live our faith and work separately, faith tested during the day? Where was retired. He did not want to give his name, making them. That’s why soldiers drill so keeping them as independent parts of our it ignored? Where did you make a but said he wished that he had been able to much and participate in so many war lives, while integration implies that decision or act in a certain way because strike a better balance. games and maneuvers—so they will be everything we do in our work should of your faith? “I’m not sure I balanced faith and able to act without fear or hesitation when reflect what we believe. It’s only by intentionally and honestly work very well,” he said. “My attitude faced with a crisis. What can we do to integrate our faith thinking about these issues that we can was, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are The same is true for learning to make into our work so that our work lives improve the ways in which we integrate Caesar’s and to God the things that are moral decisions. We have to practice reflect our faith? our faith into our work. God’s’ (Mt 22:21, Mk 12:17). I believed making them on a daily basis, starting What would it be like if we began each that you were to work when you were at with simple decisions and questions of day with prayer? (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist and writer work and limit interruptions from ourselves, such as “Do I always If you work on a computer, you may in Laurel, Md.) † Works of mercy can be carried out in various career fields By Allan F. Wright Some of these careers are in the medical field, assisting seek justice. with the healing of the body. While doctors, nurses and Other interesting career choices are law enforcement In today’s secularist climate, discussing faith at work physician assistants come to mind, there are hundreds of and rescue work. These workers often are can sound the professional death knell. similar careers, including radiologists, diagnostic first responders on the scene when human life and safety But Catholics have long held that we can and should technicians, dietitians, organic chemists and respiratory are at risk. express our faith at work by living out the corporal and therapists that assist in healing the body. Jesus’ concern for The fortitude, prudence and compassion that people in spiritual works of mercy, which fit hand in hand with the physical body places these careers alongside the healing these careers can exhibit when tending to those in loving God and neighbor. ministry of Christ. accidents and situations where people are vulnerable The world, thankfully, has many careers directly Following the health care industry as the fastest growing provide opportunities to express faith in the related to the works of mercy without being accused of sector for college graduates are careers in technology and recognition of the dignity of every person— proselytizing in the workplace. communications. an essential Catholic belief. At first glance, these careers may seem to have little to Law enforcement enables instruction of the ignorant, do with faith, yet Blessed John Paul II said, “The Gospel admonishing those who do wrong and comforting those lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds who suffer, which is at the very heart of the spiritual El Pregonero back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. works of mercy. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of These are a few examples. But it’s important to find the communication and information revolution now significance in any honest work performed. taking place.” The Second Vatican Council’s “Decree on the Careers in these fields are vital for the transmission of Apostolate of the Laity” noted that “the Christian laity CNS photo/Rafael CNS Crisostomo, photo/Rafael the Christian faith and promotion of the common good, and exercise their apostolate both in the Church and in the have opportunities to perform works of mercy. world, in both the spiritual and the temporal orders” (#5). The next suggestion may be unexpected. Some careers naturally lend themselves to the Though lawyers get a bad rap in the Gospels, and in “spiritual and temporal” and the works of mercy. But at society, the importance of defending the innocent and the end of the day, we realize that it’s the love and care in pursuing justice is biblically based and close to God’s heart. which we perform our labor that makes all the difference. The New Testament uses the verb “parakaleo” as a title for A police officer plays a trumpet during the annual Blue Mass at the Holy Spirit. This Greek term was commonly used in a (Allan F. Wright is academic dean for evangelization St. Patrick Church in Washington in 2009. Health care, courtroom or juridical context. It means “to call to for the Diocese of Paterson, N.J. His most recent book, law enforcement and communications are a few of the career one’s side.” What a beautiful expression of faith for the The Bible’s Best Love Stories, is published by fields that lend themselves to living out one’s faith at work. attorney—being called to another person’s side to Franciscan Media.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Biblical readings: The Book of Joshua From Mary to Mia: Next week, the 10th week in ambush of Ai and the defeat of five Amorite cities. Their evidence for this belief comes Ordinary Time, the Office of Readings kings are all done miraculously. from the fact that many cities show no The sacred act of selects excerpts from By the end of the book, the Israelites evidence of violent destruction. the Book of Joshua. possess Canaan and God’s promise has There is also a theory that there was a naming children But first, on Sunday, it been fulfilled. peasants’ revolt, with the victorious lower The Social Security Administration recently dips into Chapter 46 of So did it really happen precisely like classes identifying themselves with the released 2011’s most popular baby names the Book of Sirach for that? In all likelihood not. As we will see Israelites. Official correspondence between that they gathered from applications for a hymn of praise for next week, the Book of Judges Egypt and Canaanite city-states show that Social Security numbers, and there’s been a Joshua. demonstrates that the Israelites did not there was considerable turmoil in Canaan at shake-up in the female ranks. Sophia knocked The Book of Joshua possess all of Canaan. But besides that, that time. off Isabella for the No. 1 picks up the story of other events are not historical. Chapters 13 through 22 of the Book of spot. Jacob, meanwhile, the Israelites after the Archeologists tell us, for example, that Joshua describe the distribution of the land held strong, maintaining death of Moses. Its purpose is to show that both Jericho and Ai were already likely in among the Israelite tribes, but the Office of his top standing God was faithful to his covenant with his ruins when Joshua lived. People who visit Readings doesn’t include those chapters. It among boys for the people when he gave the Israelites the land Jericho today are disappointed to learn that skips to Chapter 24, when Joshua gathered 13th consecutive year. that he promised them. nobody has been able to discover those all the tribes together at Shechem, where This news goes largely Although it is Joshua who leads the walls that collapsed when the Israelites he lived. unnoticed, but I find it a people across the Jordan River and in blew their horns. He recounted all that God had done for fascinating cultural battles with the people who were So how did the Israelites come into the them from the time of Abraham up to that statement. And I love how occupying the land of Canaan, the book Promised Land? Scholars have studied that day, and he urged the people to renew their precise the results tries to make it clear that it was really God question for a long time. There’s no doubt covenant with the Lord. He told them to are—that something so personal and sprawling who enabled the Israelites to conquer the that some cities were conquered through “put away the strange gods that are among can be roundly quantified. Promised Land. military activity, but archaeologists can’t you and turn your hearts to the Lord, the Mary, the most common name chosen in the The miracles occur from the time the definitively identify the conquerors. God of Israel” (Jos 24:23). past 100 years, given to more than 3.6 million Israelites begin to cross the Jordan, the Many scholars believe that settlement by The people agreed. “So Joshua made a babies during that period, has fallen to No. 112, waters parting just as they did 40 years Israelites in Canaan was done peacefully, covenant with the people that day and made outranked by Morgan (No. 75), Mackenzie earlier in the Red Sea. The fall of Jericho, the semi-nomadic tribes first infiltrating the statutes and ordinances for them at (No. 68), Mia (No. 9) and Madison (No. 8). when its walls came tumbling down, the countryside and eventually moving into the Shechem” (Jos 24:25). † The 2011 list contains a spate of ethereal names—Nevaeh (No. 35), heaven spelled Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes backward; Serenity (No. 66); Trinity (No. 77); Destiny (No. 91); and Genesis (No. 82), which Is Anyone out there, somewhere over the rainbow, way up high? sprang out of Old Testament obscurity. Spiritual themes are less popular for boys, where parents There seems to be a movement afoot pile of cloth. Dedicated unbelievers seem determined get more traditional. these days to deny the existence of God—or Now, that explanation seems a lot more to reject the gift of faith. They include Saint names have not disappeared, at least the possibility of a divine presence. contrived to me than believing that Christ Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century with classics like Christopher (No. 21), Of course, there have could rise from the dead! It’s one more German thinker, who wrote: “We are the Joseph (No. 22) and Thomas (No. 63) winning always been doubters, example of how hard it is not to believe. In assassins of God. … We are at war against hearts alongside the spicier alternatives of atheists, agnostics and addition, if we read the Scriptures from the Christian ideal, against the doctrine that Sebastian (No. 68), Dominic (No. 76) and well-intentioned which this story is taken, we find not only the makes beatitudes and salvation the aim Xavier (No. 77). people with limited discovery of the empty shroud, but also of life.” One of the most persistent trends of imaginations. But angels announcing the Resurrection, and Really? Does anyone actually want to do 2011 is babies whose names were dusted off sadly, the trend toward several later appearances by the risen Christ! away with virtues and hope, the very things from their great-grandmothers’ era. unbelief seems to be The expert failed to take all that into which are the results of the beatitudes and Witness Grace (No. 16), Vivian (No. 154) and growing. account. It makes me wonder why such the desire for salvation? Not if they want to Alice (No. 142) alongside William (No. 3) and On Easter Sunday, people try so hard to objectify what is share the qualities that make life worth Henry (No. 57). I expect a lot more Lucys, we watched a segment essentially subjective. The only reason I can living, they don’t. which cracked the double digits in 2010, a of CBS’s “Sunday Morning” TV program come up with is that it’s because some of us If we think about the alternatives to faith status it last enjoyed in 1924. about a scientific expert who recently can understand reality only with our physical in God, we’re left with the idea that Some of their Roaring ’20s counterparts examined the Shroud of Turin to establish its senses. Literalists need to prove everything by (wo)man is the ultimate authority in his or have slunk into oblivion, like Mildred and authenticity or lack thereof. He concluded sight, sound, touch, etc., or from evidence her own life, and that there is no Other who Myrtle, Gladys and Gertrude. But these names that the shroud is indeed the burial cloth of presented by other literalists. supports them in life, or from whom they are not exempt from a comeback, no matter the historical Jesus because it fits the criteria But I think that the realities that exist can seek comfort. They’re on their own. how they may sound to the modern ear. My for the age, chemistry and materials of the supernaturally are so hard for such folks to Here again, the question is, do we really money’s on the toothy ones like Thelma, time when Jesus died. accept that they dismiss them. If they can’t want to be responsible for everything, Ethel and Edith, which appears to have turned a OK. So far, so good. Then the expert prove from their own experience that God including the results of human error, and the corner. She has been on a steady decline since ruined our satisfaction with his findings by exists, then God doesn’t exist to them. It vagaries of human and physical nature? I 1919, when she was No. 29, but Edith is robust, going a step beyond his scientific expertise seems to me the very fact that they are don’t think so. making a two-year climb from No. 842 to to speculate about the shroud’s meaning. He concerned with abstract questions like this is But then, I guess I’m just a No. 771. Celebrities are helping make the old announced that Mary Magdalene did not because all of us, doubters or not, share a simple-minded believer. new. Last month, Bruce Willis named his find an empty burial cloth, meaning that sense of incompleteness of a kind of longing daughter Mabel, and Katherine Heigl’s new girl Christ had miraculously disappeared. Rather, for verification. Philosophers and theologians (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the is Adalaide. she mistook the stained folds of the shroud have been trying to address such big issues Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Whether you fall in the trendy or the rare, covering a shrinking dead body for an empty since time began. columnist for The Criterion.) † it is supremely satisfying to be called by name—to hear it spoken, to see it written. The Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. body responds. And there is no quicker way to create distance than to get a name wrong. I routinely Taking another look at the Sunday Mass obligation field Christiana and Christine, which sound Over the past year or so, I have been penalty that he, as a catechized Catholic, thanksgiving. worlds apart from Christina. studying the decline in Sunday Mass had been taught was attached to willful We give thanks for the gift of our My thoughts have evolved as I read the attendance in the Catholic community. omission of that obligation. It was a salvation through the death, resurrection bestseller One Thousand Gifts written by An old friend who knew what I was up capital crime, a mortal sin. Hence, the and ascension of Jesus. Not to meet this Ann Voskamp, the 38-year-old wife of a to recently sent me a need today to consider “with urgency” obligation—not to offer praise and Canadian hog farmer and homeschooling letter indicating that what is at stake. thanks—is to be an ingrate. mother of six. The book’s premise—to cultivate he had read an article In responding to my friend, I reminded Moreover, we do this in community, gratitude by counting the blessings in daily I wrote based on him that when we were boys we often not as isolated individuals, because that is life—has awakened housewives and executives, “exit interviews” with heard the cowboys in the Saturday how we have been ransomed, that is how bridging bloggers and believers. nonchurchgoing afternoon movies say “much obliged” we have been saved—in community. And I uncapped my yellow highlighter when I Catholics in the when they wanted to express their finally, we do it in the eucharistic arrived at this passage. “Naming is Edenic. Diocese of gratitude. It was a way of saying community because the Eucharist, a …When I name moments—string out laundry Trenton, N.J. “thank you” in the old American thanksgiving ritual, forms us into the and name-pray, ‘Thank you, Lord, for bed My friend vernacular. We mimicked the cowhands one body of Christ. sheets in billowing winds…’—I am Adam and mentioned that one of later at supper by saying, “Much obliged, Who wants to be seen as an ingrate in I discover my meaning and God’s, and to name his philosophy professors years ago at the ma’am” when our mothers put the mashed the eyes of the Lord? Some who are no is to learn the language of paradise.” University of Notre Dame used to say that potatoes on the table. longer going to Mass on Sundays may be An 84-year-old Trappist monk that I met this “Catholics have lost the sense of what is In searching now for a persuasive willing to admit that they are sinners. month brought the concept to life, asking me, at stake in life,” and my friend interpreted nonthreatening way to explain how the Nobody’s perfect. But ingrates? There is a “Now, do you know your trees?” Scotch pine, his professor to be saying that “maybe a Church—which, by the way, opposes question that deserves a bit of thought. he explained, have short needles in clusters of large number of Catholics may not be capital punishment—wants us to As the weekend approaches, ask two. Red pine have long needles in clusters of spending eternity in God’s presence.” understand the Sunday obligation, it yourself: Am I an ingrate? Or do I really two. White pine have long clusters of five. My correspondent then added, “Father, might be good to recall the old American consider myself to be much obliged? If Those simple numbers and names—red, as you surely know, fire and brimstone vernacular. so, get to Mass on Sunday and express white; two, five—are a toddler’s building might not only not be effective, but can “Much obliged” is an expression of your gratitude. blocks and, yes, just as surely, the language of become counterproductive. Yet, what is at gratitude. And what the Church expects of paradise. stake for souls must be conveyed its members on Sunday—resurrection day, (Jesuit Father William J. Byron is with urgency.” the first day of the week—is a formal university professor of Church and society (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from He was obviously thinking of the liturgical expression of thanks. Eucharist at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached Sunday Mass obligation and the heavy means thanks-doing, thanks-saying, E-mail him at [email protected].) † at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Page 13

Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings

Monday, June 11 Friday, June 15 The Sunday Readings St. Barnabas, Apostle The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Sunday, June 10, 2012 Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3 Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9 The reading recalls the Last Supper. Psalm 98:1-6 (Response) Isaiah 12:2-6 • Exodus 24:3-8 This supper, which is so beloved among Matthew 5:1-12 Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 • Hebrews 9:11-15 Christians, was itself a Passover meal. John 19:31-37 • Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 The Gospels tell us about this aspect of Tuesday, June 12 the supper, not in the sense that it 1 Kings 17:7-16 Saturday, June 16 The Book of Exodus is the source of coincided with Passover or that it just Psalm 4:2-5, 7-8 The Immaculate Heart of the this first reading for the feast of the happened to be Passover, but that this Most Holy Body and Last Supper actually brought to fruition Matthew 5:13-16 Blessed Virgin Mary Blood of Christ, or and perfection God’s rescue of humanity 1 Kings 19:19-21 Corpus Christi, the from misery and eternal death. It was Wednesday, June 13 Psalm 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-10 feast on which the the supreme Passover. St. Anthony of Padua, priest Luke 2:41-51 Church concentrates Jesus offers bread and wine, which is and doctor its attention upon the miraculously transformed into his own Holy Eucharist. Body and Blood by his own divine 1 Kings 18:20-39 Sunday, June 17 This reading power, as food for the Apostles. Such a Psalm 16:1-2, 4-5, 8, 11 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary describes an early gesture would not have been as unusual Matthew 5:17-19 Time ritual sacrifice among at the time of Jesus as it might appear to Ezekiel 17:22-24 the Hebrews as be today. Thursday, June 14 Psalm 92:2-3, 13-16 ordered by Moses. The Jews would have known ritual 1 Kings 18:41-46 2 Corinthians 5:6-10 The victims in this sacrifice were sacrifice very well. The meat provided young bulls, which represent creation by the flesh of the sacrificed victims Psalm 65:10-13 Mark 4:26-34 because they are part of creation. They was offered to believers. By consuming Matthew 5:20-26 were strong animals, and could be led to this meat, made holy by the sacrifice perform many useful tasks that are itself, believers were drawn closer to difficult for humans with less physical God. Indeed, they bonded with him. strength. They were not threatening as Body, of course, meant a person. they were not predators. They ate Jewish philosophy had no sense of Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle vegetation so providing them with feed “body” and “soul,” or at least no truly was not a difficult undertaking unless it developed sense, as this distinction was was a time of drought or other natural Greek. Blood was the very matter of Divorce and remarriage can affect disaster. life. If a person suffered a hemorrhage Bulls were needed to reproduce the then the person died. If the person’s eligibility to receive holy Communion herd. So offering such animals to God circulation stopped as a result of cardiac If a Catholic gets married by a priest, that possibility. not only recognized God as the Creator, arrest, for example, the person died. Qlater gets divorced then gets married It should also be noted that too often but also offered a possession of some It is easy to see why the ancient Jews by a judge, can that Catholics who are separated or divorced, value to the glory of God. saw life itself in blood—and especially person still receive the but have never remarried refrain from Interesting in this ritual was that the in living blood. holy Eucharist? taking Communion because they feel that blood of the sacrificed bulls was they have “broken a big rule” and are sprinkled on the people. By today’s Reflection The short answer is therefore ineligible to receive the Eucharist. standards, it is not an appealing thought. The Church calls us today to A“no,” but there is so The truth is this: The Church believes The symbolism was that the blood of the celebrate its most marvelous of much more to it that, in fidelity to the teaching of Jesus, bulls was made holy because of the treasure—the Holy Eucharist. than that. marriage is forever, and that spouses sacrifice itself. Anything touched by this In these readings, the Church First, to explain the should always enter a marriage with this holy blood in turn became holy. proclaims Jesus as Lord and Savior. He rule: The Church is a understanding and do their best to make For the second reading, the Church was the perfect and sublime high priest, communion of persons the marriage last. provides the Epistle to the Hebrews. accomplishing salvation for us all by the linked by a shared set of religious beliefs and However, there are some situations— Many of the first Christians were voluntary sacrifice of himself on practices. domestic abuse is a clear-cut one, but converts from Judaism and ethnically Calvary in the Crucifixion. Reception of the sacraments, particularly there are also others—where, for the good were Jews. He is the true leader, the new Moses, the Eucharist, is an indication that an of everyone involved, separation is In this reading, Jesus is described as who leads humanity away from the individual accepts the beliefs of the Church advisable. the high priest. In this role, the Lord slavery of sin and death. With Jesus, we and the guidelines of its teaching. When the rift is irreparable, divorce is supplants the high priests of old. Also, experience our own Passover. He leads One of those guidelines is that a Catholic often a necessary consequence so that Jesus is the victim of the new and us from the slavery and misery of our is to marry in a Catholic ceremony or, at legal obligations—such as alimony, perfect sacrifice. His blood, shed on sins. No sinner is free. No sinner is at least, with the permission of the Church. child custody or child support—can be Calvary and freely offered to God as peace. No sinner possesses eternal life. Assuming, as seems to be indicated, that clarified and assigned. satisfaction for human sin, makes Sin starves us of life. It renders us the person in question has not obtained an Sometimes this sad result happens even Christians holy. weak and even helpless. Jesus nourishes annulment from the first marriage, that though the marriage partners have done St. Mark’s Gospel supplies us with us, offering us the very Body and Blood marriage is still considered by the Church as everything reasonably possible to make the last reading. of Christ. valid. As such, the second marriage would the marriage work. It recalls Passover, the most important In the Holy Eucharist, in not be recognized by the Church. Divorce itself, without remarriage, of ancient Jewish feasts, and still a Communion, we bring into our very I don’t think this rule should be seen as does not always disqualify a Catholic major Jewish religious feast today. selves, literally, the eternal, risen body the Church’s presuming to render a judgment from the sacraments. The feast commemorates the rescue by of Christ. We live and are strong. For the on the state of a person’s soul before God— The best advice in any situation like God of the Hebrew people from precious gift of the Eucharist, we give for only God can safely do that. this is for the people involved to seek the Egyptian slavery. thanks to God. † It should be seen simply as an indication guidance of a priest so that they can that the Church, like any organization of assess fairly their own personal human beings, has rules that govern responsibility for the marital breakup then My Journey to God membership and regulate behavior. seek the grace of confession, if necessary, I would suggest that you continue to and be assured that they continue to be attend Mass regularly. welcome in the Church and are eligible to Too often, people in a situation like this participate fully. Meditation Surely, he knows that’s taboo! I’ll call conclude that Mass attendance is pointless his attention to this! since they have rendered themselves (Questions for Father Kenneth Doyle may What? He says he can give me ineligible for full participation through be sent to [email protected] or with the water and that I will never thirst again! holy Communion. 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.) † Wow! That would be grand not to have That is unfortunate because usually the Samaritan to sneak out here and get water person still shares in the core beliefs of the anymore. Church, and would derive spiritual benefits Readers may submit prose Woman What? He tells me to go get my and helpful guidance by continuing to attend husband? What for? I’ve had so many, Mass. or poetry for faith column I came to the well at noon when no I can’t keep track! I would also urge that you sit down with a The Criterion invites readers one else would be there in the heat of He must be a seer or something! I priest of your choosing and discuss the to submit original prose or poetry the day. must hear more! I must go home and circumstances of the first marriage and the relating to faith or experiences of What is this Jew doing here in such tell everyone about this man. He is reasons for its breakup. prayer for possible publication in the heat? most unusual. It could well be that, even if that marriage “My Journey to God” column. What? Is he speaking to me, a What? You now believe he is the lasted several years, there might be grounds Seasonal reflections also are woman? A Samaritan? In public, even if Messiah because you’ve heard him, for the Church to consider an annulment— appreciated. Please include name, there is no one else around? too! serious immaturity, for example, or address, parish and telephone number What? He is asking me for a drink. emotional instability on the part of one with submissions. Surely, he knows I’m a Samaritan. By Sister Norma Gettelfinger, O.S.B. marriage partner or both going back to the Send material for consideration to time of the marriage. “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, (Benedictine Sister Norma Gettelfinger is a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of It seems obvious that reception of the Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 or e-mail Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove.) Eucharist is important to you so it would to [email protected]. † certainly be worth the effort to open Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012

Quinlivan Jr. Brother of John and Timothy Quinlivan. SCHAFER, Agnes A., 84, Remembering fallen soldiers Sacred Heart of Jesus, Rest in peace Indianapolis, May 19. Mother of A member of the Jean Ezell, Barbara Young, U.S. Army Old Guard Please submit in writing to our KONECHNIK, Dolores, 82, Charles, James, John and Thomas places a flag at office by 10 a.m. Thursday Holy Trinity, Indianapolis, May 5. Schafer. Sister of Ann Gibson. before the week of publication; Mother of Linda Dalton, Nancy Grandmother of 16. Great- one of the more than 220,000 graves of fallen

be sure to state date of death. Kronoshek and Frank Konechnik. grandmother of 15. CNS photo/Jason Reed, Reuters Obituaries of archdiocesan Grandmother of six. Great-grand - U.S. military service SCHICK, William Louis, 83, priests serving our archdiocese mother of 14. members buried at St. Charles Borromeo, are listed elsewhere in Arlington National KRININGER, Kevin A., 54, Bloomington, May 15. Father of The Criterion. Order priests Cemetery in Virginia on Holy Family, New Albany, Anne Rogers, Ray and Tony and religious sisters and May 23. Father of Jessica Stenger, Schick. May 24 in preparation for brothers are included here, Dawn and Dalton Krininger. Son the annual observance unless they are natives of the of Jack and Janet (Dallmann) SHOWALTER, Barbara of Memorial Day that was archdiocese or have other Krininger. Brother of Kelly (Drook), 64, Holy Family, held on May 28. The connec tions to it; those are Richmond, May 7. Wife of Diedrich, Keith, Kerry and Kirk national day of separate obituaries on this Ronald Showalter. Mother of Krininger. Grandfather of five. remembrance honors page. Amy Aughe and Lori Curts. Sister LEISNER, Shawn M., 59, of Dana Bradshaw, Carol members of the BOSWELL, Rosemary T., 85, St. Isidore the Farmer, Bristow, U.S. armed forces who St. Gabriel the Archangel, Newberry, Phyllis Sneed, Jim and May 22. Husband of Betty Jean Mike Drook. Grandmother of died in service to Indianapolis, May 24. Mother of Leisner. Father of Heather four. Great-grandmother of one. their country. Patricia Crawford, Maureen Leisner-Herr and Courtney Morefield, Beverly Price, Mary, Leisner. Son of Olivia Leisner. STEPHENS, Nina B., 72, Charles, James, Michael and Brother of Jan Douglass, Carmen St. Rita, Indianapolis, May 4. Richard Boswell Jr. Sister of Kreider, Pam Marshall and Marty Mother of Stephanie Woodruff, Providence Sister Frances Alma McManus Maureen Flanagan. Grandmother Leisner. Grandfather of three. Cortland and Darren Stephens. of 14. Great-grandmother of 12. ministered as a teacher and principal NAVILLE, Mary Grace STOUT, Gertrude, 98, Providence Sister Frances Alma McManus DOHERTY, Elizabeth, 86, (Puckett), 80, St. Mary, St. Andrew, Richmond, May 18. For 18 of those years, Sister Frances Alma died on May 16 at Mother Theodore Hall at served as a Catholic school principal. St. Mary, Richmond, May 18. Navilleton, May 28. Wife of Mother of William MacAdams. Mother of Therese Miller, Mary Eugene Naville. Mother of Donna Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 101. Under her leadership, Mother Theodore Guérin WEISENBACH, Megan Ann, Ellen Perez, Hank, Mike and Campbell, Connie Crites, Jackie The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated High School in River Grove, Ill., opened in 1962. 12, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Patrick Doherty. Sister of three. Lattis, Cathy Koetter, Theresa on May 19 at the Church of the Immaculate In the archdiocese, Sister Frances Alma May 25. Daughter of Tom and Grandmother of several. Lehring, Debbie Roberts, Joyce, Conception at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Burial ministered at the former Holy Trinity School in Raymond, Ron and Ted Naville. Theresa (Redmond) Weisenbach. followed at the sisters’ cemetery. New Albany from 1932-35, the former St. Agnes HOOTEN, Margaret Ann, 89, Sister of Abbey and Kayla Mary Agnes McManus was born on Feb. 23, Academy in Indianapolis from 1945-48 and the St. Louis, Batesville, May 21. Grandmother of 26. Great-grand - mother of 18. Weisenbach. Granddaughter of 1911, in Quincy, Ill. former Ladywood Academy in Indianapolis from Mother of Peggy Engelke, Jack and Rita Jolley and Paul and She entered the congregation of the Sisters of 1961-62. Carolyn Griffin, Debbie Kramer, OLIVER, Helen M. Carol Redmond. Providence on June 7, 1928, and professed her After retiring from education, Sister Frances Patti Wuestefeld, John, Larry and (Marketich), 86, Nativity of WEISS, Leo, 85, St. Andrew, first vows on Feb. 24, 1931, and final vows on Alma served as director of the Guérin High Ronald Hooten. Sister of Elverna Our Lord Jesus Christ, Jan. 23, 1936. School Alumnae from 1978-88. Richmond, May 14. Father of Lea Comer and Gloria Ferkenhoff. Indianapolis, May 14. Wife of Sister Frances Alma earned a bachelor’s degree Sister Frances Alma ministered at the Crabtree, Christopher, Eric and Grandmother of 15. Great-grand - Herbert Oliver. Mother of Kristina in English at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, a Guérin Convent in Chicago until 1993 when she Frederick Weiss. Brother of Janet mother of 16. Great-great-grand - Wilcher and Norman Oliver. Sister master’s degree in Latin at Indiana University in returned to the motherhouse. Carnes. Grandfather of three. mother of two. of Patty Boyd, Charlotte Pitzer, Bloomington, and a master’s degree in education In 1996, she dedicated herself to the ministry Step-grandfather of three. Step- JAMES, Bernard, 81, St. Roch, Edwin, Eugene, Rudy and Stanley and secondary administration at Indiana State of prayer full-time with the senior sisters. great-grandfather of four. Indianapolis, May 7. Father of Marketich. Grandmother of four. University in Terre Haute. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. Rebecca Jaffe, Teresa King, Carol QUINLIVAN, Stephen, 57, WILKERSON, Tangalia S., 53, During 83 years as a Sister of Providence, she Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of McKinney and Michael James. St. Mary, Richmond, May 17. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, ministered in education for 47 years at Catholic Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence, Grandfather of five. Great-grand - Husband of Karen Quinlivan. Son Indianapolis, May 19. Aunt of schools in Indiana, Illinois, New Hampshire, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of- father of three. of Kathleen and James several. † Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. the-Woods, IN 47876. †

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By Brandon A. Evans Council, expressed his belief that there may be a majority here on behalf of His Holiness, Pope John XXIII, to of delegates who may favor the use of modern languages St. Clare’s Church by the Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland, This week, we continue to examine what was going on in portions of the Mass.” Archbishop Alfredo Pacini. ‘Council candles’—20 in all— in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through • No Russ to attend Council are being sent to the 12 cities where the Church’s the pages of The Criterion. • Evansville bishop hits grade dropping first 20 ecumenical councils were held. Basel was host to Here are some of the items found in the June 8, 1962, • Benedictine investiture: Clothing a Bride of Christ the 17th council in the 15th century. The candles will be issue of The Criterion: • Weigh 1,100 pounds: New doors being made for lighted on the opening day of the Second Vatican Council, • Parochial school bus St. Peter’s Basilica October 11, and on subsequent days of special significance rides banned by state • Appeals for Latin America volunteers while the council is in session. The candles will emphasize High Court • Lay teacher ratio will be enforced the bond which unites these great Church assemblies over a • ‘Shared-time’ working in • Seeking social justice in Dominican Republic space of 17 centuries.” Minnesota schools • Asks end to ‘suspicion’ of the laity • Three faiths represented: Canadian scholars hold • Peace Corps head lashes out at colleges • Plan office to aid American bishops attending ‘unity’ meeting • Warm response noted to fund drive appeal Council • Social tenets of pontiff are lauded by Goldberg • Vernacular seen as topic of Council • Former Moscow chaplain sees new religion • Christian unity seen vital in nuclear age “CHICAGO—The prefect of the Sacred Congregation crackdown • Paper raps intolerance of Spanish of Rites predicted here that the October ecumenical • Pope lauds youth’s maturity council will consider whether vernacular should be used • ‘Glacier Priest’ dies at age of 73 (Read all of these stories from our June 8, 1962, in parts of the Mass. … The cardinal, a member of the • Pope presents ‘council candle’ issue by logging on to our archives at central preparatory commission for the Second Vatican “BASEL, Switzerland—A ‘council candle’ was presented www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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Employment COORDINATOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION— CHILDREN’S MINISTRY 3T"ARTHOLOMEW2OMAN#ATHOLIC0ARISHIN#OLUMBUS )NDIANAIS CURRENTLYACCEPTINGAPPLICATIONSFORTHE#OORDINATOROF2ELIGIOUS Director %DUCATIONˆ#HILDRENS-INISTRY4HISISAFULLTIMEPOSITIONINA Religious Education PARISHOFOVERFAMILIES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR — St. Pius X — Development 4HIS PERSONWILLBERESPONSIBLEFORTHEADMINISTRATIONAND Indianapolis CATECHESISOFALLCHILDRENSFAITHFORMATIONFROMPRESCHOOLTHROUGH Bishop Chatard High School is seeking to fill the position of Executive GRADESIX4HISPOSITIONREQUIRESA3UNDAYPRESENCEANDFLE XIBLE Director of Development. The Executive Director of Development for St. Pius X Parish on the north side of Indianapolis seeks a visionary person WORKINGHOURSINCLUDINGEVENINGSANDWEEKENDS4HE#2%MUST Bishop Chatard High School is directly responsible to the President for of faith who will contribute to the ongoing development of the parish as a BEABLETOWORKONTHE0ASTORAL4EAMASASTAFFMEMBERANDWILL the development and maintenance of the ongoing, comprehensive creative, evangelizing/ catechizing community. Candidates should possess SUPERVISEVOLUNTEERPARISHIONERS4HEIDEALCANDIDATEMUSTBEA program of fund raising and the coordination of the efforts of the offices a Master’s degree in Theology or a related field, strong communication, PRACTICING2OMAN#ATHOLICWHOISRECOMMENDEDBYHISORHER of Alumni Affairs, Communications and Marketing, Enrollment organizational, and leadership skills. Prior experience with ministry to Management and Special Events These efforts are designed to promote ethnic and cultural minorities, in particular, refugees a plus. CURRENTPARISHPRIESTORSUPERVISOR understanding, acceptance and support among the various publics (alumni, parents, alumni parents, prospective students, parishes, For more information about responsibilities of the position and !TLEASTABACHELORSDEGREEISREQUIREDANDSOMECATECHETICAL businesses, foundations and friends) for the mission of Bishop Chatard prerequisites for candidates please see our parish website EXPERIENCE ISPREFERRED)NADDITION ACANDIDATENEEDSTOBE High School. The ideal candidate for this position must possess a strong www.spxparish.org CERTIFIEDORELIGIBLETOBECERTIF IEDASA0ARISH!DMINISTRATOROF commitment to his or her Catholic faith and the mission of Bishop 2ELIGIOUS%DUCATION Chatard High School. A background in fund raising and communications Please send resumés to: and marketing is preferred. 3ENDRESUMÏANDCOVERLETTERBY*UNE TO St. Pius X Parish #2%SEARCHCOMMITTEE?STB YAHOOCOMORSENDTO A position description may be found on the school website at BishopChatard.org/aboutUs/Employment. All resumés should be sent to Attn: Ken Ogorek 3EARCH#OMMITTEECO-IKE3HELTON Margaret Ruffing at [email protected]. The deadline for 1400 North Meridian Street 3T"ARTHOLOMEW0ARISH TH3T #OLUMBUS ). submission of an application is June 15, 2012. Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Page 16 The Criterion Friday, June 8, 2012 Meet our future deacons On June 23, the second class of permanent deacons for the and southern Indiana who will be ordained. This week’s issue of Archdiocese of Indianapolis will be ordained at SS. Peter and Paul The Criterion continues a series of profiles of these men that will Cathedral in Indianapolis. There are 16 men from across central be published in the weeks leading up to that important day.

Age: 72 Age: 63 Frank Wife: Joyce Michael Wife: Paula Home Parish: St. Andrew Parish in the Home Parish: Holy Spirit Parish in Richmond Catholic Community Indianapolis Roberts Occupation: Retired Slinger Occupation: Engineer

Who are the important role models in mostly to the folks in assisted living and Who are the important role models in your ones. Sometimes I share information about your life of faith? nursing home facilities that we visit life of faith? the Church or Catholic beliefs in response The many priests and sisters who taught and regularly. I hope to broaden my Some are saints like St. Augustine and to their questions or offer a faith-based guided me through my formative years at involvement in the ministry of charity, St. Damien of Molokai. Others include the late viewpoint in a discussion. In the future, I St. Andrew School. The monks of word and liturgy in my home parishes in Father Larry Volker, who endured severe expect I will continue to do much the same. Saint Meinrad in the time that I spent there in Richmond and in St. Bridget of Ireland health issues, battled his human limitations, the minor seminary as a youth. Father Todd Parish in Liberty, where I am assigned for and still dedicated himself to serving the poor Why do you feel that God is calling you Riebe, my pastor for the last 17 years, who my training. and promoting social justice. And the many to become a deacon? has encouraged me and been so very Holy Spirit parishioners who unselfishly give When I considered the reasons that I supportive of my efforts, a man I truly Why do you feel that God is calling you large portions of their time, talent and treasure should not pursue becoming a deacon, I consider to be a saint. My wonderful wife— to become a deacon? to the Church. heard God saying, “I don’t care about those she gives so much and asks for so little. I don’t know why. I just know that there things. The problems from the past are in was, and continues to be, an unrelenting What are your favorite Scripture verses, the past. The present problems will be What are your favorite Scripture verses, urge in my soul to pursue this calling. I saints, prayers and devotions? managed. The future is mine to give you.” saints, prayers and devotions? know that God has a plan for me. I just My favorite Scripture verses are John 13:3-17 I am certain that he has a plan for me that My favorite Scripture verse is Luke 24:13-25. don’t fully know what it is. But I do know and Luke 24:13-25. Among my favorite saints will unfold as my life continues. My favorite saint is St. Paul. Among my that he will make it very clear and are St. Vincent de Paul and St. Peter. My favorite prayers are the Liturgy of the Hours very soon. favorite prayers are the Anima Christi and the How will being ordained a deacon have and the rosary. And I value meeting Jesus Lord’s Prayer. My favorite devotions are the an impact on your life and family? face to face in the sacrifice of the Mass and How will being ordained a deacon have Way of the Cross and the rosary. Throughout the formation process, our in Benediction. an impact on your life and family? marriage has been strengthened, and I There is no doubt that there will be a Deacons often minister to others in the expect the grace responsible for that will Deacons often minister to others in the major impact on our home life. There will workplace. How have you experienced that continue to increase after ordination. There workplace. How have you experienced that be times when our schedules will have to already, and what do you anticipate doing will likely be times that ministerial already, and what do you anticipate doing be adjusted to meet the needs of this in the future? obligations will interfere with family in the future? calling. My wife and I accept that fact, My ministry in the workplace has been gatherings, but these will just as likely be As I am retired, I don’t have a formal and we will try our very best to meet the informal. Sometimes it is listening and letting offset by ministerial opportunities within workplace any longer so my ministry is demands of the ministry. † people know that I pray for them or their loved the family. †

Vatican newspaper’s new monthly insert puts focus on women VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican newspaper, of every month. whose contribution “is still hidden,” the paper said. L’Osservatore Romano, has launched a monthly insert dedicated The idea was proposed by female journalists at the In particular, L’Osservatore editors said that highlighting to women, aiming to bring greater attention to their important Vatican paper as a way to “widen the coverage of the the work of about 740,000 women religious around the but sometimes neglected role in the Church. newspaper of the Holy See” by including more articles world—compared with only 460,000 priests and men The glossy four-page color supplement, which debuted on on women and the Church, the newspaper said. religious—“will also help amend prejudices and May 31 to mark the end of the month dedicated to Mary, is The front page will be dedicated to religious or preconceived notions about the Catholic Church and its called “Women, church, world,” and will run the last Thursday laywomen who play a critical role in the Church, yet attitude toward women.” †

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