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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis as well as to eradicate hunger and promote the real development of all the world’s peoples, Pope Benedict XVI said in his new encyclical. The document, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) was dated June 29 and released at the Vatican on July 7. The truth that God is the creator of human life, that every life is sacred, that the Earth was given to humanity to use and protect, and that God has a plan for each person must be respected in development programs and in Pope Benedict XVI economic recovery efforts if they are to have real and lasting benefits, the pope said. Katrina Gossett and Duke, her aid dog, wear their hoods at the University of Chicago Law School graduation ceremonies on June 12. Charity, or love, is not an option for Christians, he said, and “practicing charity in truth helps people understand that Faith is at heart of the law school graduate’s adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful, but essential for building a mission to open doors for people with disabilities good society and for true integral development.” In addressing the global economic crisis By John Shaughnessy Then came her favorite part as a theater likely wouldn’t live past her and the enduring poverty of the world’s major at the University of Notre Dame— third birthday. poorest countries, he said, “the primary She has steered through most of her the role of Betty Blast, the owner of a diner capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, life in a wheelchair, using a combination in the musical Footloose. Keeping the faith the human person in his or her integrity.” of faith and determination—and the help “She’s a very strong female character,” For anyone who is a parent, it’s easy The global dimension of the financial of a dog named Duke—to prepare for a says Gossett, a member of St. Mark the to understand the wealth of emotions crisis is an expression of the moral failure future dedicated to helping others. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. “She is that Thecla and Darrell Gossett of greedy financiers and investors, of the Katrina Gossett has also been an the wise woman who gives advice to the experienced when they watched their lack of oversight by national governments actress. In fact, her two favorite roles teenagers. She straightens them out.” daughter graduate from the University of and of a lack of understanding that the shine a spotlight on the heart of the And there’s the essence of Gossett—a Chicago Law School in June. global economy required internationally 24-year-old Indianapolis woman who tough-minded, kind-hearted, faith-filled As they saw her in her graduation recognized global control, Pope Benedict recently graduated from the University of dreamer who has worked to make the hood—and a matching graduation hood said. Chicago Law School. Church more inclusive for people with for her aid dog, Duke—they “In the face of the unrelenting growth Playing the fairy godmother in disabilities and now wants to do the same remembered when she was diagnosed as of global interdependence, there is a Cinderella in high school connected in the world. a child with spinal muscular atrophy. strongly felt need, even in the midst of a nicely with Gossett’s belief in the power It’s quite an ambition for someone They were told then that the global recession, for a reform of the of dreams. whose parents were once told that she See GOSSETT, page 8 United Nations organization, and likewise See ENCYCLICAL, page 2 Lawmakers adopt school choice tax credit in state budget

Catholic grassroots and encouraged lawmakers for many years to eligibility is based primarily on a family’s pass school choice legislation. income. effort pays off “It is quite In addition, students must be enrolling in amazing, especially kindergarten or enrolled in a public school By Brigid Curtis Ayer during these tough during the preceding school year or have economic times, that received a scholarship in the previous year School choice has come to Indiana. the General from a qualifying scholarship granting For the first time in the state’s history, the Assembly adopted organization to be eligible. Indiana General the scholarship tax Sen. Carlin Yoder (R-Middlebury), Assembly credit,” Tebbe said. original author of the scholarship tax credit passed a school “For the first time, proposal, said, “It was definitely a victory choice option for many low- to middle- getting the scholarship tax credit passed. low- to income families There’s no doubt about it. There are a lot of moderate- Glenn Tebbe statewide will be happy people. income families when the legislators adopted a eligible and awarded “What this is going to do is to open the $2.5 million annual scholarship tax credit in scholarships to send their children to a public door for lower-income families who may be the final hours of a special session as part of or private school of their choice.” in a failing public school,” he said. “Those the state budget, which passed on June 30 with Individuals or corporations can receive a who didn’t have an option before now can bipartisan support. 50 percent tax credit on their adjusted gross look at private schools and now make a “A long hard fight for school choice income tax for charitable gifts made to a decision based on what’s best for their advocates and grassroots lobbying has paid scholarship granting organization. [children] instead of being forced to send off,” said Glenn Tebbe, Indiana Catholic Accredited public and private schools can their [children] where they don’t want to Conference executive director, who educated participate in the program. Scholarship See ICC, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009

to allocate larger portions of their gross domestic product to ENCYCLICAL development aid,” respecting the continued from page 1

obligations they made to the Jeffrey CNS photo/Paul of economic institutions and international U.N. Millennium Development finance, so that the concept of the family Goals aimed at significantly of nations can acquire real teeth,” the reducing poverty by 2015. pope wrote. Pope Benedict said food and “To manage water are the “universal rights of all the global human beings without distinction or economy; to discrimination,” and are part of the revive basic right to life. economies hit He also said that being pro-life by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of means being pro-development, the present crisis and the greater especially given the connection imbalances that would result; to bring between poverty and infant about integral and timely disarmament, mortality, and that the only way to food security and peace; to guarantee the promote the true development of protection of the environment and to people is to promote a culture in regulate migration: for all this, there is which every human life is urgent need of a true world political welcomed and valued. authority,” he said. “The acceptance of life Pope Benedict insisted that the idea of strengthens moral fiber and makes the world’s richest nations scaling back people capable of mutual help,” he development aid while focusing on their said. own economic recovery overlooked the He said the environment, life, A woman cleans up after cooking a meal for her children in Goma, Congo, in this Dec. 10, 2008, file photo. Left long-term economic benefits of solidarity, sexuality, marriage and social homeless by fighting between rebel and government forces, they had taken refuge with other families in a and not simply the human and Christian relations are inextricably united. church and adjacent school. In his latest encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), Pope Benedict XVI moral obligation to help the poor. If society does not respect said the world’s primary capital to protect and value is the human person. “In the search for solutions to the human life from its conception to current economic crisis, development aid its natural end, “if human conception, at heart and limit the recipients’ for poor countries must be considered a gestation and birth are made artificial, if motivation to become actors in their own valid means of creating wealth for all,” human embryos are sacrificed to development and progress, the pope said. the pope said. research, the conscience of society ends In addition, he said, an anti-life The economic growth of poorer up losing the concept of human ecology mentality in the world’s richest countries countries and their citizens’ demands for and, along with it, that of environmental is related to the lack of concern for the Reuters Segar, CNS photo/Mike consumer goods actually benefit ecology,” he said. poor. producers in the world’s wealthier Development programs and offers of “How can we be surprised by the nations, he said. aid that encourage coercive population- indifference shown toward situations of The pope said that “more economically control methods and the promotion of human degradation when such developed nations should do all they can abortion do not have the good of people indifference extends even to our attitude toward what is and is not human?” the pope asked. “While the poor of the world continue Modern Social Encyclicals knocking on the doors of the rich, the world of affluence runs the risk of no 1891 Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) longer hearing those knocks on account Leo XIII on the rights and duties of capital and labor of a conscience that can no longer distinguish what is human,” he said. Pope Benedict also emphasized Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstructing the Social Order) 1931 Church teaching that making money and Pius XI on the 40th anniversary of Rerum Novarum being wealthy are not sins, but that the way the money is made and the way it is 1961 Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) used can be. John XXIII on Christianity and social progress The encyclical condemned Defrauded investors and their supporters hold corruption, the exploitation of workers, signs during a rally in New York on June 29 1963 Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) the destruction of the environment, the following the sentencing hearing for convicted John XXIII on universal rights and relations between states continuing practice of wealthy nations swindler Bernard Madoff. In his latest imposing such high tariffs on imports encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in 1967 Populorum Progressio (The Progress of Peoples) that they shut poor countries out of the Truth”), Pope Benedict XVI said the global Paul VI on human development and social justice international marketplace and, financial crisis is an expression of the moral especially, an “excessive zeal” for failure of greedy financiers and investors and enforcing patents, especially on the lack of oversight by government. 1981 Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) medications that could save the lives of John Paul II on the dignity and rights of workers thousands of poor people if they were significance. available at a reasonable cost. “What should be avoided is a 1987 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concerns) Pope Benedict called for “a profoundly speculative use of financial resources John Paul II on the 20th anniversary of Populorum Progressio new way of understanding business,” that yields to the temptation of seeking which recognizes that investors are not a only short-term profit without regard for 1991 Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) company’s only stakeholders, no matter the long-term sustainability of the John Paul II on Rerum Novarum in light of the collapse of communism how the business is structured and enterprise, its benefit to the real financed. economy and attention to the 1995 Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) Employees, those who produce the raw advancement—in suitable and John Paul II on the sacredness of all human life materials, people who live in the appropriate ways—of further economic communities where the company is based, initiatives in countries in need of 2009 Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) where its products originate and where its development,” he said. Benedict XVI on charity as the heart of the church’s social doctrine products are sold, all have a stake in the business, the pope said. (A link to the text of the pope’s new Source: CNS Stylebook on Religion ©2009 CNS He also said that investing always encyclical can be found online at has a moral as well as an economic www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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By Sean Gallagher encouraging lay Catholics to pray for priests is by offering them partial indulgences On the Solemnity of the throughout the year if they pray an Our Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be which fell on June 19 this year, five times for a priest. Sean Gallagher Photos by Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated On special days throughout the the Year for Priests during a year, plenary indulgences will be Vespers liturgy in St. Peter’s offered. Basilica in Rome. According to Pope Paul VI’s The Holy Father has asked 1967 apostolic constitution, Catholics around the world to Indulgentiarum Doctrina pray for the sanctification of priests (“The Doctrine of Indulgences”), an during this special year, which is the indulgence “is a remission before God of 150th anniversary of the death of St. John the temporal punishment due to sins whose Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests. guilt has already been forgiven.” On that same day, parishes across Depending on the central and southern Indiana began their kind of indulgence, observance of the Year for Priests. it can be a remission Included among them are St. John the of part of that Apostle Parish in Bloomington, Our Lady temporal of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in punishment (a Transitional deacon Sean Danda preaches during a June 19 Mass on the Solemnity of the Most Indianapolis, St. Joseph Parish and partial indulgence) Sacred Heart of Jesus at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis, which began the St. Anne Parish, both in Jennings County, or all of it (a plenary observance of the Year for Priests in that parish. Deacon Danda was ordained a priest on June 27. and St. John the Baptist Parish in Osgood. indulgence). An Father Michael Fritsch, pastor, and indulgence is down [effect] for everybody.” prayers of others.” members of St. John the Apostle Parish in obtained when a Transitional Deacon Sean Danda spoke Just eight days after he preached at Bloomington began the year with a feast Catholic fulfills the about the relevance of the Year for Priests the Mass at Holy Rosary Church, day Mass on June 19. Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel conditions set forth for those not in holy orders during a homily Deacon Danda was ordained a priest by “It’s very humbling for the pope to ask for them by proper he delivered at a special feast day Mass on Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. people to pray for us priests,” he said. “We Church authorities. June 19 at Holy Rosary Church. Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general need prayer. And he’s holding up [St. John] According to Pope Paul, the Church can “This Year of the Priest is meant to and pastor of Holy Rosary Parish, was the Vianney as an example for us to imitate grant indulgences “by virtue of the power of reawaken in our hearts a reminder of the celebrant at the and for the people to pray to so that we can binding and loosing granted her by Christ fatherly love of each one of our pastors, of Mass at his parish, imitate him.” Jesus” and, in doing so, “opens for them the each priest that we encounter, of every which began its One of the ways that the Holy Father is treasury of the merits of Christ and the young man preparing for the priesthood,” he observance of the saints.” said. “Without them, we would be like sheep Year for Priests. Indulgences obtained by the faithful can without a shepherd. And we can get very “A priest is be applied to them or to the dead still in the used to wandering away on our own. always touched process of being “But the priest’s voice calls us back. It when someone For more on purified in calls us to the Father. It calls us to the asks us to pray for indulgence, see Purgatory. infinite love of Jesus.” them and for their page 12. For more In comments made before the June 19 intentions,” he said. information on Mass, Deacon Danda, previously a member “It tells a priest that Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel indulgences, read paragraphs #1471-#1479 of St. Malchy Parish in Brownsburg spoke folks know that— of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. about the importance of the laity’s prayers as the archbishop has always said—our Parishes in the archdiocese that are for him over the eight years of his priestly first duty is to pray. observing the Year for Priests are putting formation. “Even more touching to me is that I know lists of priests in their weekly bulletin and “I don’t think I would be here today full well that people are out there praying for inviting parishioners to pray for those priests if it wasn’t for the prayers of other me and all priests every single day.” in the week to come. people: the faithful at St. Malachy, my At Holy Rosary Parish, worshippers are family and the parishioners I’ve gotten to (For more information on the encouraged to put the names of priests they know over the years around the Year for Priests, log on to would like remembered in prayer at Masses archdiocese,” Deacon Danda said. www.usccb.org/yearforpriests or during the coming year in a basket placed in “Vocations are fostered and nourished by the www.annussacerdotalis.org.) † front of a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the parish’s church. In front of the statue is a special candle that will remain lit during Know a good priest? Share your stories with us. the entire year and a smaller statue of St. John Vianney. On June 19, Pope Benedict XVI or if his life has helped your faith grow, Standing in front of a statue of the Along with several of her fellow parish- inaugurated the Year for Priests. He has please let us know about him. Sacred Heart of Jesus in Our Lady of the Most ioners, Lorraine Rodts, a member of St. invited Catholics around the world in the He may be a priest currently ministering Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis before the John the Apostle Parish, has been praying coming year to pray for the growth in in the archdiocese, one who is retired or is start of a Mass on June 19, Natasha Mader, left, for priests for some time. She is excited holiness of the Church’s priests, and to deceased, a member of a religious order or and Mark Ford, both members of Holy Rosary about the Year for Priests, and the impact it grow in appreciation for their ministry a diocesan priest. Parish, write the names of priests they want to can have on all the faithful. and the witness of their lives. Send your stories to Sean Gallagher by be remembered in prayer during Masses “As the priests become holier, the whole If a particular priest has meant a lot to e-mail at [email protected] or mail celebrated at the church during the Year for body of the Church becomes holier, too,” you, if you have seen him minister well to P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206. † Priests, which began that day. Rodts said. “ … It’s a complete trickle- Travel with Archbishop Buechlein to historic Vincennes on Sept. 12 Criterion staff report The pilrims will depart from the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., in In celebration of the 175th anniversary of Indianapolis promptly at 8 a.m. the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Archbishop Daniel Upon arrival in Vincennes, Mass will be M. Buechlein is leading a second pilgrimage for celebrated in the cathedral at 11 a.m., followed by adults to Vincennes, Ind., on Sept. 12. lunch at a nearby restaurant. Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann This historic city was the original location After lunch, there will be a tour of the of the cathedral and home of Servant of God cathedral library and museum. The group will Simon Bruté, the first bishop of the Diocese of return to Indianapolis between 5 p.m. and Vincennes, which became the Diocese of 6 p.m. Indianapolis and, later, the Archdiocese of The cost is $59 per person and includes Indianapolis. deluxe motor coach transportation, continental In Vincennes, pilgrims will tour St. Francis breakfast, lunch and fees. Xavier Cathedral (the diocese’s original The trip will be filled on a first-come, cathedral), visit the crypt church, venerate the first-serve basis. Pilgrims may register online at remains of Bishop Bruté, celebrate Mass and enjoy www.archindy.org. Click on the 175th anniversary lunch. link, select “pilgrimage to Vincennes,” then “adult” to Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein looks at artifacts that are displayed Archbishop Buechlein said he hopes that this register. behind glass at the Old Cathedral Library in Vincennes, Ind., on pilgrimage will be an opportunity for prayer, conversion You may also register by calling Carolyn Noone, March 18. 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OPINION

Be Our Guest/Fr. Douglas Clark Cooperation is necessary

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 to bring about the good Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher In the aftermath of President Barack To a Christian, an opponent always Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Obama’s commencement address at remains someone whom we are commanded Notre Dame in May, to love, even if that love is not reciprocated many Catholics have and, indeed, even if that opponent should been perplexed by the persecute or even kill us. Editorial “official” Church’s Scott Roeder apparently did not cautious approval of understand this basic point (“hate the sin, many of the president’s love the sinner”) when he allegedly shot remarks. A divide Dr. George Tiller to death in a Lutheran threatens to open up or church in Kansas on May 31. under between some of Tiller’s actions—he performed countless this country’s most late-term abortions—were objectively evil. ardent Catholics and But he was still a creature of God, for whom

File photo by Sean Gallagher File photo by the hierarchy. Such a divide would be a Christ died. What pro-life Christians should great pity. have worked toward was his conversion; Obama’s record on life issues is, by what one of them apparently did was to kill Catholic standards, alarming—hence the him in cold blood. “Killing for life” is an firestorm of disapproval directed at the oxymoron. University of Notre Dame for honoring the In this world, those seeking to achieve new president with an honorary degree and good ends are constrained to cooperate with affording him a platform to express his views others to achieve those ends. Some of these without any possibility of anyone rebutting others may have different agendas. They those views. may support some policies that we cannot Many of the nation’s bishops publicly support. But we can and perhaps must work questioned or even condemned the invitation, with them on specific projects to achieve and many of their diocesan newspapers, good and moral ends. This is not cooperation including The Southern Cross, did likewise. in evil, but cooperation in good. So why, then, were their “postmortem” If the president is sincere in his claim that Students answer a teacher’s question at Central Catholic School in Indianapolis on analyses of the address cautiously positive— he wants to work with Catholics to reduce Aug. 18, 2008. Indiana lawmakers recently included a $2.5 million annual tax credit in the from The Southern Cross to L’Osservatore the demand for abortion—admittedly, a big state’s budget which will encourage donations to organizations that grant scholarships to Romano. “if”—then we would respond positively, families in need of assistance to send their children to Catholic and other private schools. First of all, the Church is very concerned provided that the means employed to achieve about promoting respect for human life at all this end were moral in themselves. its stages from conception to natural death. The principal “olive branch” offered by Finally, school choice in Indiana To do so, she must use all legitimate means Obama at Notre Dame was to offer some and work with anyone who evinces any kind of “reasonable” conscience protection une 30, 2009, is now a day for the representatives and asking for support of willingness to reduce the demand for to health care workers who oppose abortion, Jhistory books. On that day, Indiana the scholarship tax credit proposal. abortions, for example, even when she has cannot in conscience participate in this evil, lawmakers passed a $27.8 billion Sen. Carlin Yoder (R-Middlebury), the grounds for suspicion as to the other party’s and fear for their jobs. two-year budget during a special session. original author of the scholarship tax sincerity. What kind of protection will in fact be But just as important, that day will be credit proposal, said as much. The question has arisen as to whether or offered remains to be seen, but Church remembered as the time when “school “It was also the work of school choice not working with pro-choice politicians in leaders are encouraged that the president choice” became part of the educational advocates like Glenn Tebbe and the many order to reduce the demand for abortion expressed a willingness to keep some sort of landscape in Indiana. people who got involved at the grassroots would in some sense amount to cooperation conscience protection, rather than jettison his While we were among those people level that made this happen,” he said. in evil, which is always morally predecessor’s executive order completely. who wondered whether our legislators Finally, on June 30, Tebbe and other unacceptable. The answer is clearly “no.” There is much in Obama’s record that is would ever work through their budget school choice proponents saw their “Cooperation in evil” refers to working unsettling for those who believe in the differences, we were especially efforts come to fruition. with others in an objectively evil project. To sanctity of human life. They may have good pleased to see the end result include a “For the first time, many low- to do so would be objectively sinful and must reason to be skeptical of the president’s $2.5 million annual tax credit that brings middle-income families statewide will be be avoided. words. What he actually does, how he school choice to our state. eligible and awarded scholarships to send What about “cooperation with evil,” that actually follows up on his statements at Through the program, individuals or their children to a public or private is, working with “evil” people even to Notre Dame, will eventually demonstrate corporations can receive a 50 percent tax school of their choice,” Tebbe said of the achieve a good end? There is no such how sincere he was and the extent to which credit on their adjusted gross income tax newly adopted school choice initiative. category in Catholic moral theology. That is Catholics can work with his administration. for charitable gifts made to a scholarship We, like so many other people, thank primarily because there is no such thing as We will be watching him closely, praying granting organization (SGO). These Tebbe and all people of faith for their an intrinsically evil person. (See the writings that his promised initiatives to reduce the organizations will then provide grants to commitment to school children of St. Thomas Aquinas.) number of abortions will be crafted in such a lower- and middle-income families for throughout our state. While we may judge certain actions to be way that we can support them, and that he school tuition or other related costs at What will the benefits of the tax credit objectively wrong, we cannot judge those will act to protect the consciences of health the public or private school of the that brings school choice to Indiana who do them to be subjectively culpable— care workers who regard the taking of parents’ choice. include? First and foremost, it is about because we cannot know the extent of their innocent human life as a monstrous evil. Currently, there is only one SGO in the opportunity this initiative presents to freedom and knowledge—let alone “evil.” the state—the CHOICE Charitable Trust, families who previously had no other Hence, the Church cannot condone the (Father Douglas Clark is the editor of which provides scholarships to children educational options for their children, “demonizing” of anyone, no matter how The Southern Cross, the newspaper of the attending private elementary and middle including a faith-based curriculum, said wrong we may judge that person to be. Diocese of Savannah, Ga.) † schools in Marion County. New SGOs in Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor and other parts of the state may be executive director of the archdiocesan established in the wake of the passage of Office of Catholic Education and Faith Letters to the Editor this legislation. Formation. Though Catholic Church officials “The scholarship tax credit is needed were quick to praise Senate and House because without support from many Volunteer to help seniors Republican leaders, Gov. Mitch Daniels entities, families cannot make the choice and House Speaker Patrick Bauer, a they want to educate their children in a I noticed how many articles in the July 3 me to listen or hold their hand, I do that, Democrat, for the outcome, one name safe, holy and healthy environment,” she issue of The Criterion were related to the too. I give them the respect of their home, not mentioned in most press releases and said. aging population. Pages 13 through 16 had and the dignity and modesty that they stories throughout the state—but very As has been the case in other parts articles relating to seniors, their needs and deserve. deserving of praise for his hard work in of the U.S. where similar programs changes in their activities of daily living. There are other agencies that provide this endeavor—is Glenn Tebbe. exist, archdiocesan officials hope that There is so much that can be done for our such help as transportation, grooming, light As executive director of the Indiana students who choose Catholic schools seniors that gets overlooked. As seniors age, housework and companionship. Catholic Conference, Tebbe has spent through this newly created school their bodies change. Many times they are not I am a fan of recruiting volunteers to help the last several years lobbying to bring choice initiative will excel in the able to do everything they would like to do, our community. If you can do something the school choice issue to the forefront classroom. We do, too. and there is a sense of fear, frustration and special, whether it’s preparing a meal or of the state legislature’s agenda. He Though people of faith cannot support even a loss of some dignity. taking someone shopping, find a senior worked both sides of the aisle, consis- every piece of legislation with the word Sometimes the littlest thing, like applying home or hospice that could use your help. tently planting and nurturing the seed of “choice” in it, this is one instance where a little lipstick or polishing their nails, can If you need these services, they are there choice where education is concerned. having a “choice” is a good thing. make a big difference in their day and how for the asking, both through volunteers and Tebbe wasn’t the only person of faith And we pray that individuals and they feel. companies that can help to provide you with who brought the issue to lawmakers’ corporations in Indiana embrace the I work with the elderly and the terminally the services you require. What a great gift it attention. People who joined the chance to invest in making a difference in ill on a weekly basis. These two groups of would be for a family or friend to provide Catholic Action Network (through the young people’s lives. people are some of the greatest people I have their senior loved one with a gift of Indiana Catholic Conference) were also met in my life. I give these citizens a sense therapeutic massage or companionship! very active in contacting their —Mike Krokos of TLC with therapeutic massage geared Susan Lallak toward their type of condition. If they need Indianapolis The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Fasting and abstinence can help us grow in holiness oluntary fasting from good things is Gospels that Jesus recommended fasting in were recommended as a replacement. purchasing habits might suggest that there countercultural in our materialistic, his teaching, and in his own practice. Abstinence on Ash Wednesday and are some luxuries we can do without. Vpleasure-centered milieu. Citations can be found in the Gospel Good Friday is required. The same is true It is spiritually valuable to learn to do Of course, there are the myriad varieties according to St. Luke (Lk 4:2), St. Matthew for the Fridays of Lent. without whether this be for reasons of being of dieting that are a constant offering on (Mt 6:16-18) and St. Mark (Mk 2:20). The Besides being a preparation for liturgical environmentally conscious or simply a way television, but their intent is not usually to Acts of the Apostles record that fasting was feasts, fasting and abstinence have other to experience what so many people around enhance one’s spiritual values or to promote observed by the Twelve Apostles (Acts 13:2; spiritual and moral values as well. us experience, often without a choice. holiness. 14:23). In the early Church, there were Saying no to things that are otherwise I admire those people who fast as a way Some people are vegetarian by choice, weekly fast days. The early record in the acceptable is a helpful way to build and of identifying with the poor and the hungry. both for health reasons and sometimes for Didache identifies Wednesday and Friday as strengthen the habit of saying no to what is Some religious communities, such as the spiritual motives. fast days. not acceptable in a faithful moral life. Missionaries of Charity, founded by In fact, voluntary fasting has a spiritual Rigorous fasts identified with the 40 days Sometimes it is useful to look on fasting Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, observe a frugal and moral value while also being of Lent waxed and waned through the from a different point of view; for example, life, including fasting, as an offering to God wholesome physically if pursued with centuries. In the earliest days of the Church, as fasting from a particular sin. and as a way to be with Christ’s poor. moderation and a spiritual motivation. fasting meant entire abstention from food for Fasting and abstinence are effective ways Fasting can serve as an unspoken gift The fourth precept of the Church sets a the whole day or part of the day. to work at curbing selfishness; they can be a offered for particular people. Fast and minimal guide for the spiritual value of In our day, the only two remaining fast helpful antidote to self-centeredness. abstinence intended as gift-offerings add fasting and abstinence. days in our Church are Ash Wednesday and Sometimes moderate fasting can be even more value to them. † The United States Catholic Catechism for Good Friday. Fasting is generally understood viewed as an act of reparation for sins Adults describes the fourth precept of the as having one main meal a day, and having against charity. Church: “You shall observe the prescribed only a light breakfast and lunch or supper. These purposes of fasting and abstinence Do you have an intention for days of fasting and abstinence. Fasting is Abstinence has generally been separated are sometimes referred to as mortification. Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? refraining from food or drink to some from fasting for some time. In an apostolic We don’t hear the word used very much You may mail it to him at: degree. Abstinence is refraining from eating constitution, Paenitemini, of Feb. 17, 1966, lately. One of the dictionary definitions calls meat. The Church identifies specific days the penitential days were reduced to Fridays, it the practice of asceticism by penitential Archbishop Buechlein’s and times of fasting and abstinence to and specifically Ash Wednesday and Good discipline to overcome the desire for sin and Prayer List prepare the faithful for certain special feasts; Friday. Abstinence is required from age 15 to to strengthen the will. Archdiocese of Indianapolis such actions of sacrifice can help us to grow age 59. Food and drink are not the only things to 1400 N. Meridian St. in self-discipline and in holiness” The endorsement and specification of give up. Curbing television time, and P.O. Box 1410 (p. 334-335). practices were left to the local episcopal perhaps Internet time, might be wholesome Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 The history of these sacrificial practices conferences. Almost universally, abstinence spiritually and morally. An evaluation of our of the Church comes to us from the earliest and some form of sacrifice on Fridays were days of Christianity. In fact, fasting was no longer a requirement; rather, they were Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for July rigorously practiced in Judaism. recommended and encouraged, but not We know from the Bible that it was required. Men Religious: that the special gifts their communities bring to the Church may be strictly practiced by John the Baptist and his With the relaxation of the requirement for more widely appreciated and encouraged. followers. We also know from the synoptic ordinary Fridays, acts of charity and piety El ayuno y la abstinencia pueden ayudarnos a desarrollar la santidad l ayuno voluntario en renuncia a él mismo lo practicaba. Viernes Santo es obligatoria, al igual que Resulta espiritualmente valioso alimentos suculentos resulta contrario Pueden encontrarse estas referencias en todos los viernes durante la Cuaresma. aprender a privarse, ya sea por motivos Ea la cultura materialista de nuestro los Evangelios según San Lucas (4:2), San Además de ser una preparación para las de conciencia ambiental o simplemente entorno social que se concentra en el placer. Mateo (6:16-18) y San Marcos (2:20). En celebraciones litúrgicas, el ayuno y la una forma de experimentar lo que viven Por supuesto, existen una miríada de Hechos de los Apóstoles figura que los Doce abstinencia poseen también otros valores muchos de los que nos rodean, dietas que se anuncian constantemente por Apóstoles practicaban el ayuno (13:2; espirituales y morales. generalmente sin opción. televisión, pero su intención no es 14:23). En los comienzos de la Iglesia Decirle “no” a aquellas cosas que en Admiro a aquellas personas que ayunan generalmente reforzar los valores existían días de ayuno semanales. El primer general son aceptables constituye una forma como una forma para identificarse con los espirituales ni promover la santidad. registro en la Didajé identifica al miércoles y provechosa para construir y fortalecer el pobres y los hambrientos. Algunas Algunas personas son vegetarianas por al viernes como días de ayuno. hábito de decirle “no” a aquello que es comunidades religiosas, tales como las elección, ya sea por motivos de salud o, en El ayuno riguroso asociado a los 40 días inaceptable en una vida moral de fe. Misioneras de la Caridad, fundadas por la ocasiones, por razones espirituales. de la Cuaresma ha aumentado y disminuido A veces resulta beneficioso ver el ayuno Beata Teresa de Calcuta llevan una vida En efecto, el ayuno voluntario posee un en el transcurso de los siglos. En los desde un punto de vista distinto; por frugal, incluyendo el ayuno, como una valor espiritual y moral, y además es primeros tiempos de la Iglesia, el ayuno ejemplo, el ayuno por un pecado en ofrenda a Dios y como una forma para estar saludable para el cuerpo si se realiza con significaba abstenerse completamente de particular. junto a los pobres de Cristo. moderación y guiados por una motivación alimentos durante todo el día o parte de éste. El ayuno y la abstinencia son formas El ayuno puede servir como un obsequio espiritual. En la época actual, los únicos dos días de efectivas para doblegar el egoísmo y pueden tácito ofrecido para algunas personas en El cuarto mandamiento de la Iglesia ayuno que quedan en la Iglesia son el ser antídotos eficaces para el egocentrismo. particular. El ayuno y la abstinencia sugiere una guía mínima para el valor Miércoles de Ceniza y el Viernes Santo. En En ocasiones, un ayuno moderado podría practicados expresamente como una ofrenda espiritual del ayuno y la abstinencia. general, el ayuno se entiende como ingerir tomarse como un acto de preparación por cobran aún más valor. † El Catecismo Católico de Estados una comida principal en el día y consumir pecados contra la caridad. Unidos para Adultos describe así el cuarto un desayuno y un almuerzo o cena livianos. La finalidad del ayuno y de la mandamiento de la Iglesia: “Abstenerse de Desde hace ya algún tiempo, abstinencia se conoce a veces como ¿Tiene una intención que desee comer carne y ayunar en los días generalmente se distingue la abstinencia del mortificación. Últimamente no se escucha incluir en la lista de oración del establecidos por la Iglesia. El ayuno ayuno. En la constitución apostólica muy a menudo esa palabra. Una de las Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar significa privarse de alimentos o bebidas Paenitemini, del 17 de febrero de 1966, se definiciones del diccionario la describe su correspondencia a: hasta cierto punto. La abstinencia es redujeron los días de penitencia a los como la práctica del ascetismo mediante la reprimirse de ingerir carne. La Iglesia viernes, y específicamente, al Miércoles de disciplina penitente para superar el deseo de Lista de oración del Arzobispo identifica días y horas específicas para Ceniza y al Viernes Santo. La abstinencia es pecar y fortalecer la voluntad. Buechlein ayunar y practicar la abstinencia, con el fin obligatoria desde los 15 hasta los 59 años de El ayuno de comida y bebida no es la Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis de preparar a los fieles para ciertas edad. única privación que podemos practicar. 1400 N. Meridian St. festividades especiales; tales sacrificios El apoyo a estas prácticas y las Restringir la televisión o quizás el tiempo en P.O. Box 1410 pueden ayudarnos a desarrollar la especificaciones se dejaron a criterio de las Internet puede ser saludable espiritual y Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 autodisciplina y la santidad” (p. 334-335). conferencias episcopales locales. moralmente. Una evaluación de nuestros La historia de estas prácticas expiatorias Prácticamente en todas partes ya no es un hábitos de compra quizás revelaría que hay de la Iglesia proviene de los albores del requisito la abstinencia y alguna forma de algunos lujos de los cuales podríamos Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, cristianismo. De hecho, el ayuno se sacrificio los viernes; en lugar de ello, se prescindir. Language Training Center, Indianapolis. practicaba rigurosamente en el judaísmo. recomiendan y se promueven, pero no son Gracias a la Biblia sabemos que Juan el obligatorios. Bautista y sus seguidores lo practicaban Con la atenuación del requisito de los La intención de vocaciones del Arzobispo Buechlein para julio estrictamente. También sabemos por los viernes ordinarios, se recomiendan las obras Hombres Religiosos: Que los dones especiales que sus comunidades traen a la iglesia Evangelios sinópticos que Jesús de caridad y la devoción como sustitutos. La sean más apreciados y alentados por todas partes. recomendaba el ayuno en sus enseñanzas y abstinencia el Miércoles de Ceniza y el Page 6 The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Events Calendar

July 10 3603 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis. “Theology of the Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum 1210 E. Main St., Plainfield. “Connersvine,” Hunter Smith, St. Lawrence School, 6950 E. Indianapolis. Single Seniors, Body,” session four, talks for Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Parish festival, Fri. 6 p.m.-11 7 p.m., $7.50 adults, 46th St., Indianapolis. Open meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and adults 18 and older on Indianapolis. Mass, 2 p.m. p.m., pulled pork dinner, Sat. $5 children. Information: house, 4-7 p.m. Information: over. Information: consecutive Mondays, Information: 317-784-4439. 4:30 p.m.-midnight, chicken 317-838-7447 or 317-543-4923 or 317-784-4207. 6:30-8 p.m. Registration: dinner, food, games, music. [email protected]. [email protected]. 317-236-1521 or St. Nicholas Parish, 6461 E. Information: 317-839-3333. Knights of Columbus, 2100 E. [email protected]. St. Nicholas Drive, Sunman. St. Mary Parish, Navilleton, 71st St., Indianapolis. Healing service, confession, July 18 Huber’s Orchard and Winery, July 14 St. Michael the Archangel 7500 Navilleton Road, 19812 Huber Road, Starlight. “Tropical Tribute in memory eucharistic procession, praise St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Floyds Knobs. Chicken fun Providence Jr.-Sr. High of Joe and Barb Krier,” and worship, laying on of 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s run and walk, 8 a.m., School Alumni Association, 7:30 p.m.-midnight, $30 per hands, 6 p.m. Information: Ave Maria Guild, meeting, Precious Infants Pro-Life $15 adults, $7 children. July Fest, 5-8 p.m. family fun person. Information: 812-623-8007. noon, Mass, 11 a.m. Mass, Father Shaun park, 8 p.m.-midnight, food 317-872-5088. Information: 812-923-5419. Information: 317-885-5098. July 16 Whittington, celebrant, and music, $10 per person. July 12 Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, 8:30 a.m., followed by rosary July 19 Information: 812-945-3350. Harrison County Fairgrounds, Archbishop Edward T. Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. outside abortion clinic and St. John the Baptist Parish, July 10-11 341 Capitol Ave., Corydon. O’Meara Catholic Center, Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Benediction at church. 25743 State Road 1, Dover. St. Benedict Parish, 111 S. St. Joseph Parish, parish 1400 N. Meridian St., Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Archdiocesan “Summer Festival,” Ninth St., Terre Haute. picnic, 10:30 a.m., food, Indianapolis. Catholic Adult Information: 317-574-8898 or Office for Pro-Life Ministry, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., fried chicken “Community Festival,” games. Information: 812-738- Fellowship of Indianapolis, www.catholiccemeteries.cc. 317-236-1569 or dinner, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., games. 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. 5 p.m.-midnight, flea market, 2742. United States Catholic Information: 812-576-4302. Catechism for Adults, July 16-18 children’s games, food, music, St. Christopher Parish, 5301 W. MKVS, Divine Mercy and “Chapter 3,” 7-8:30 p.m., Benedict Inn Retreat and $2 admission. Information: 16th St., Indianapolis. St. Mary Parish, Navilleton, Glorious Cross Center, no charge. Information: Conference Center, 812-232-8421. 70th annual “Midsummer Rexville, located on 925 South, 317-295-1697 or 1402 Southern Ave., 7500 Navilleton Road, Festival,” Thurs. 4:30 p.m.- Floyds Knobs. Parish picnic, St. Peter Family Life Center, .8 mile east of 421 South and [email protected]. Beech Grove. ARCH 10:30 p.m., Fri. 4:30 p.m.- Educators Day of Reflection, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., chicken dinner, 6161 Chambersburg Road, 12 miles south of Versailles. 11 p.m., Sat. noon-11 p.m., “The Beatitudes,” 8 a.m.- games. Information: Huber Heights, Ohio. Mass, noon, on third Sunday St. Nicholas Parish, 6461 E. food, games, rides. 8 p.m., $35 per person includes Fifth annual Dayton Catholic holy hour and pitch-in, St. Nicholas Drive, Sunman. 812-923-5419. Information: 317-241-6314. lunch and dinner, reservations Homeschool Conference, groups of 10 pray the Pro-life Mass, 7 p.m., due July 10. Information: parents and high school new Marian Way, 1 p.m., discussion on pro-life matters July 17 Richmond Catholic 317-848-9772 or students. Information: Father Elmer Burwinkel, following Mass. Information: Northside Knights of Community, 701 N. “A” St., [email protected]. www.daytonhomeschool.com. celebrant. Information: 812-623-8007. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Richmond. Charismatic 812-689-3551. 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic prayer group, 7 p.m. July 10-12 July 15 Business Exchange, Mass, Benedict Inn Retreat and July 13 Ironwood Golf Club, 10955 Fall Conference Center, Information: St. Lawrence Parish, breakfast and program, Danny [email protected]. 542 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg. George’s Neighborhood Grill, Road, Fishers, Ind. (Lafayette O’Malia, former president of 1402 Southern Ave., Parish festival, food, music, 6953 Lake Plaza, Indianapolis. Diocese). Little Sisters of the O’Malia’s Food Markets, Beech Grove. “Shop July 19-23 Theology on Tap, summer Poor, 11th annual “Swing Fore INN-Spired,” summer social, rides, Fri. 5:30 p.m.-midnight, speaker, 6:30-8:30 a.m., online St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 E. pork chop dinner, Sat. 2 p.m.- series, “Tough Topics for a Seniors” Golf Tournament, reservations only by June 17. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: Tough Life,” happy hour, Florida scramble, 10:30 a.m., 317-788-7581 or 46th St., Indianapolis. midnight, German dinner, Sun. Reservations and information: Vacation Bible school, Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken dinner. 7 p.m., talk, 8 p.m. registration, $540 foursome, [email protected]. www.catholicbusiness 1-4 p.m., Mon.-Thurs. Information: 812-537-3992. Information: 317-625-7744. $135 single, includes lunch. exchange.org. Information: 317-872-6420 or St. Susanna Parish, 6-8 p.m., $5 per child, July 11 Our Lady of the Most Holy devsindianapolis@ July 17-18 1210 E. Main St., Plainfield. $10 per family. Information: St. Roch Parish, Family Center, Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., littlesistersofthepoor.org. St. Susanna Parish, Summer music concert, 317-546-4065. †

Retreats and Programs “Meet Me at The Shack,” Father Jim Farrell, presenter, 6:30-9:30 p.m., $15 per person Week of prayer for immigration July 10-17 includes light dinner. Information: Monastery Immaculate Conception, 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. reform will be held at cathedral Kordes Center, 841 E. 14th St., Ferdinand, Ind. July 16 A week of prayer for immigration to Hispanic Catholics at St. Bartholomew “Directed Retreat.” (Evansville Diocese). Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 812-367-1411 or reform will be held at SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Columbus, St. Joseph Parish in 56th St., Indianapolis. Day of Reflection, [email protected]. Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in Shelbyville, St. Louis Parish in Batesville “Meet Me at The Shack,” Father Jim Farrell, Indianapolis, starting with a 7 p.m. Mass and St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, said July 12 presenter, 8:30 a.m-2:30 p.m., $35 per person on July 17 and ending with Mass at 7 p.m. the week is a time for people to come Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, includes continental breakfast, lunch and Mass. on July 24. together in prayer “to ask God to intercede 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Woman Information: 317-545-7681 or Eucharistic adoration will occur contin- for immigration reform.” [email protected]. Prayer: A Morning of Grace,” Benedictine uously throughout the week and is open to For more information, contact Sister Rachel Best, presenter, morning prayer the public. Father Thomas at 317-430-6568 or at and Sunday Mass, 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m., $25 per July 18 person includes lunch. Information: Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Franciscan Thomas Fox, who ministers [email protected]. † 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. Summer Celebration and Day of Reflection, “A Way of At-One-Ment,” 9:30 a.m.- July 14 4:30 p.m., $40 per person includes lunch. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 812-933-6437 or 56th St., Indianapolis. Evening of Reflection, [email protected]. † Top Submitted photo Eucharistic fundraiser Submitted photo Daughter of Charity Mary John Tintea is the top fundraiser so far miracle for The Weekend to End Breast This photo of the eucharistic Cancer, a two-day, 60-kilometer miracle of Lanciano, Italy, will be walk scheduled on Sept. 26-27 in on display at St. Mark the Indianapolis, which benefits the Evangelist Parish, 535 E. St. Vincent Foundation. Proceeds Edgewood Ave., in Indianapolis go toward breast cancer research as part of an exhibit of more than and education efforts. Sister Mary 150 large photos from the Vatican John dresses in pink to promote of eucharistic miracles that breast cancer awareness at occurred in 19 countries around St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. the world. St. Mark Parish will She celebrated her 80th birthday on host the photo exhibit from June 20, and has already raised July 23-26. The exhibit will be $7,829 toward her goal of $10,000. displayed in the parish school, All donations will be used for and will take place during the breast cancer awareness efforts in parish’s annual Funfest. It will be Indiana. To help Sister Mary John available for viewing from 5 p.m. reach her goal or to register for the until 9 p.m. on July 23-25, and event, call 317-879-9255 or log on from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on to www.endcancer.org. July 26. The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, call 317-787-8246. The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Page 7 Obama cites influence of Cardinal Bernardin, prepares to meet pope WASHINGTON (CNS)—President clause regulations will result in a contin- such as the reversal of Barack Obama told a round table of uation of protections that have long existed, the Mexico City policy, religion writers on July 2 that he continues allowing people who are morally opposed to which had prohibited to be profoundly influenced by the late abortion or contraceptives to decline to the use of federal Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, provide them in the line of work without family planning funds whom he came to know when he was a repercussions. by organizations that community organizer in a project partially Obama said in some ways that he sees provide abortions or funded by the Catholic Campaign for his first meeting with the pope as the same counsel women to have White House Jackson, CNS photo/Lawrence Human Development. as any contact with a head of state, “but abortions. Obama said his encounters with the obviously this is more than just that. The But Obama said he cardinal continue to influence him, partic- Catholic Church has such a profound is not going to be ularly his “seamless garment” approach to influence worldwide and in our country, and deterred from a multitude of social justice issues. He also the Holy Father is a thought leader and continuing to work with told the group of eight reporters to expect a opinion leader on so many wide-ranging the U.S. Catholic conscience clause protection for health care issues. His religious influence is one that hierarchy, in part workers currently under review by the extends beyond the Catholic Church.” “because I’m president administration that will be no less He said he considers it a great honor to of all Americans, not protective than what existed previously. be meeting with the pope, and that he hopes just Americans who In addition to Catholic News Service, the session will lead to further cooperation happen to agree with the round table included reporters and between the Vatican and the United States in me. editors from other Catholic addressing Middle East peace, worldwide “The American U.S. President Barack Obama holds a round-table briefing with publications—National Catholic Reporter, poverty, climate change, immigration and a bishops have profound journalists from the Catholic press and The Washington Post in the America magazine, Catholic Digest, whole host of other issues. influence in their Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on July 2. The National Catholic Register and Several of the questions addressed the communities, in the briefing was held in advance of the president’s scheduled meeting with Commonweal magazine—and Vatican sometimes contentious relations between the Church and beyond,” Pope Benedict XVI on July 10 at the Vatican. Radio. A religion writer from The Obama administration and some Obama said. “What I Washington Post also participated. U.S. bishops, notably surrounding the would say is that although there have been side of Chicago. It was held in anticipation of Obama’s president’s commencement address at the criticisms leveled at me from some of the “And so I know the potential that the audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Notre Dame in May. The bishops, there have been a number of bishops have to speak out forcefully on Vatican on July 10. The 45-minute session university’s decision to invite Obama and bishops who have been extremely generous issues of social justice,” Obama said. touched on his expectations for that present him with an honorary degree led to a and supportive even if they don’t agree with On conscience clauses, the president meeting as well as aspects of foreign wave of protests at the university and a me on every issue.” said he has consistently believed in them. policy, the public criticism directed at him flurry of criticism by more than 70 bishops, He said part of why he wants to establish As a state legislator, he said, he supported by some Catholic bishops and others in the who said his support for legal abortion made a good working relationship with the “a robust conscience clause in Illinois for Church, and the Obamas’ own search for a him an inappropriate choice by the bishops is because he has fond memories of Catholic hospitals and health care church home in Washington. university. working with Cardinal Bernardin when providers.” Soon after he took office as The president also clarified that he Statements by the U.S. bishops also have Obama was a community organizer, president, the administration reversed what expects an ongoing review of conscience chastised Obama for administrative actions, working with Catholic parishes on the south See BERNARDIN, page 10 Obama: Impasse on abortion legality inevitable, but reduction is possible WASHINGTON (CNS)—There will the abortion issue. ... The best we can do common ground on other areas, he added. needs to be combined with contra- always be solid differences of belief over is suggest that people of good will can “I personally think that combining ception in order to prevent unwanted whether abortion should be legal, but that be on either side, but you can’t wish good sexual ... and/or moral education See ABORTION, page 10 doesn’t mean common ground isn’t those differences away.” possible on how to reduce abortion, He said he has never “been under the President Barack Obama told a round illusion that ... we were going to simply Join Other Catholics, your YMT Chaplain/Priest and witness the original… table of religion reporters on July 2. talk all our differences away on these In a session timed in advance of issues.” Obama’s scheduled July 10 meeting at the A task force he has formed to seek Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, the common ground on reducing abortion is Oberammergau president reiterated that while he still developing recommendations, the continues to seek common ground on president said. reducing the number of abortions, he But he expects agreement on Passion Play recognizes that there will always be firm significant areas, such as “on the idea of Plus Tour Germany, Austria, and Italy including: Verona, Florence, Rome, and the Vatican! differences between people who believe helping young people make smart  abortion should be legal and those who choices so that they are not engaging in  do not. casual sexual activity that can lead to         

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in a legal clinic that helped people facing GOSSETT job discrimination. Duke was also by her side when she volunteered as an intern in Submitted photos continued from page 1 the Chicago mayor’s office that assisted neuromuscular disease progressively people with disabilities. weakens the arms and egs. They were also “I think that was a great way to try to told she wouldn’t live past the age of 3. have an impact,” Gossett says. And there she was graduating with It’s similar to the impact she has tried to honors from one of the country’s top law have at St. Mark Parish, working on the schools—a fitting end to a three-year period inclusiveness committee. when she was in the top 5 percent of her “We do disability awareness events,” class, when she was named to a national she says. “We also worked to do some honor society and when she worked in a physical changes to the church to make legal clinic helping people with disabilities. it accessible. Sometimes it’s just being “She’s pretty amazing,” her mother says. aware of simple things, like making sure “She has more ambition than I dreamed of that a door that’s open doesn’t block the having. She makes me so proud. Her faith is ramp to the church.” strong. She’s always been a very faithful person and a very Christian person. Her Following God’s will religion has always been a part of her life.” As the pastoral associate at St. Mark Katrina Gossett did not let her love of theater take a back seat in college. In this 2003 photo from the Her faith has especially grown as a young Parish, Mary Lynn Cavanaugh knows the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., she sings “Hey Big Spender” in the Pemco Musical woman. difference that Gossett has made to the Revue. “Going to Notre Dame and my time at parish. Chicago has really strengthened my faith,” “I’ve known her for 15 years,” says Saying yes to the possibilities Katrina began Gossett says. “I know to thank God for all Cavanaugh, who is also the director of For Gossett, it’s all part of an her theater the successes I’ve had. To go off to Chicago religious education for the parish. “She approach to life that begins with this career at a and do the things [that] I have been able to liked going to religious education classes principle: “I never let anything stop me young age. She do, it would have been impossible without and sharing her faith. That was very from doing what I think I should be sang “The Sun the help of God and my family. The longer I unusual for a young child to want to do. As doing.” Will Come Out live, the more I realize what an important she grew up, that stayed with her. She That approach has led her to embrace Tomorrow” as part of my life that is.” knew God was working in her. acting throughout most of her young Annie in a grade “She’s just a huge role model for faith in life. school talent Open doors and a dog named Duke so many ways. She lives the fruits of the “I’ve always loved acting,” she says. show at age 5. As Gossett talks, Duke rests by her Holy Spirit. She has courage and fortitude, “I did some acting in children’s theater wheelchair. They have been together for and she shows great reverence to Jesus, the programs when I was young, and I did nearly four years—a relationship that began sacraments and life. She prays to God more than 10 plays in high school. I just from necessity. The older Gossett gets, the about what to do and then she does it.” love being on the stage. It’s a great place more her disease progressively weakens her Right now, Gossett is studying for the to be and a great place to meet really muscles. And Duke has been trained to help bar exam to become a lawyer. She has also interesting people.” her when she needs it by picking up things, accepted a job with an Indianapolis law That approach has also led her to turning on lights, opening doors and moving firm, but the start of the job has been embrace all the joys and challenges of her arms. delayed until next year because of the life. same diagnosis. Seeing us survive and have Now, Gossett is nearly inseparable from current economic crisis. Yet Gossett is still “I’ve used a power wheelchair careers gives hope to them.” Duke, who is a mix of Labrador and golden determined to use her law degree to make a since I was 3, and I’ve never walked,” So while Gossett’s approach to life has been retriever. difference as soon as possible. she says. “I’m part of the first formed by never taking “no” for an answer, it “He spends almost every waking hour “I plan to do pro bono work for generation [of people that have had has been defined by saying “yes”—not only to with me,” she says. “Whenever I leave him disability rights,” she says. “I’ve had a lot the disease] that has lived as long as the possibilities, but also to those who helped home, I feel like I’ve left my right arm at of opportunities that a lot of people with we have because of technology and provide them. home. I got him right before my senior year disabilities haven’t had. There are still a lot medical advances. So we are the “Having faith helps me do what I do,” she at Notre Dame and had him all through law of barriers, and I’d like to help remove pioneers. I don’t mind that. Seeing says. “And having the support of my family school. He’s been through two graduations.” those barriers to show what people with people like myself gives hope to helps me. I try to do the best I can, and help Duke was by her side when she worked disabilities are capable of.” parents of younger children with the others along the way.” †

Commissioner of Higher Education. Indiana Department of Revenue and the option they never had before,” Tebbe said. ICC When asked who the program will Indiana Department of Education will also “For this, we are very excited and grateful.” continued from page 1 benefit the most, need time to promulgate specific rules and Sen. Lubbers said, guidelines which will govern the scholarship (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent send them.” “Because it is granting organizations. for The Criterion. To learn more about the When asked if he was aware of any need-based, I think “There’s still work to be done, but more Indiana Catholic Conference, log on to scholarship granting organizations getting it will primarily families will have access to a school choice www.indianacc.org.) † ready to be created provide options for in his area of the those who may have state, Sen. Yoder had a preference to School choice: What you need to know said, “Yes, I’m exercise choice like planning on getting this, but who didn’t (Editor’s note: The following is a $78,000. Larger families with higher together with have the means to primer on the school choice tax credit. income levels may also be eligible. private schools in do so. This will The information is from the School A student must be enrolling in Sen. Teresa Lubbers northern Indiana to allow scholarship Scholarship Tax Credit—House Bill kindergarten or enrolled in a public school work on coming up granting organizations to be created all 1001a (2009). The fact sheet is provided during the preceding school year to be with a consortium around the state like the CHOICE by the Indiana Catholic Conference.) eligible. or group of schools [Charitable Trust] program in Indian- If a student has received a scholarship Sen. Carlin Yoder to see if we can get apolis.” What is a scholarship granting organi- in the previous year from a qualifying one started. There is Currently, the CHOICE Charitable Trust zation? scholarship granting organization, they a real need in our area.” is the only scholarship granting organi- A scholarship granting organization is may also be eligible. Sen. Yoder said he attributed passage of zation in the state. a 501 (c-3) non-profit organization which the school choice provision to a coming Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor would be created for the purpose of Who can get a scholarship tax credit? together of House and Senate Republicans and executive director of the archdiocesan receiving donations and granting A donor who gives $5,000 to a partici- along with a push from Gov. Mitch Daniels. Office of Catholic scholarships. pating scholarship program would be able “It was also the work of school choice Education and Faith A scholarship granting organization to claim a $2,500 credit against what they advocates like Glenn Tebbe and the many Formation, reacted could be established within a county, city owed in state income tax liability. people who got involved at the grassroots to the good news or diocese, and must provide scholarships The scholarship granting organization level that made this happen,” he said. enthusiastically. to multiple schools. The scholarship program receives $5,000 in the private “The years of work by other lawmakers “It is a major granting organization would provide donation, which would then be used to who laid the groundwork for this also victory for our scholarships to multiple schools, including fund scholarships for lower-income made it possible. Catholic public and private institutions. students. Thus, a $2,500 state tax credit “The most important thing was to get community, which The CHOICE Charitable Trust in helped leverage $5,000 in private this started, and that’s what we were able impacts our Indianapolis is currently the only scholarship donations. to accomplish,” Sen. Yoder said. “When children attending scholarship granting organization in you boil this down, it’s an issue about Annette “Mickey” Lentz Catholic schools as Indiana. Scholarship granting organi- What’s next? kids. There’s no question, this benefits well as affording zations will be created throughout the Glenn Tebbe, ICC executive director, kids and it’s a good thing—that’s the others with the possibility,” she said. state to serve low- to moderate-income and diocesan education officials will bottom line.” “The scholarship tax credit is needed families. be meeting with Catholic and other Sen. Teresa Lubbers (R-Indianapolis), because, without support from many non-public school leaders within their a longtime school choice advocate and entities, families cannot make the choices Who is eligible for a scholarship? dioceses, and begin discussing how to Senate Education Committee chair, said, they want to educate their children in a Scholarship eligibility is based create scholarship granting organizations in “It was a great success of the session. safe, holy and healthy environment.” primarily on a family’s income. their area. “Since this is my last session, it was Exactly when the scholarships will be Income eligibility is based on The Indiana Department of Revenue especially gratifying walking out of there available is not yet clear. 200 percent or twice the income for the and Indiana Department of Education will knowing we had accomplished some kind “It will take some time to set up federal free and reduced lunch program. begin the rule-making process to provide of private school choice. It was a great the scholarship granting organizations, For example, a family of four could specific guidelines for the scholarship victory,” said Sen. Lubbers, who is and for them to raise money and begin have an annual maximum income level of granting organizations that are created. † leaving the Senate to become state awarding scholarships,” Tebbe said. “The The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Page 9 U.S. deacon’s healing Masses of Thanksgiving clears way for Cardinal Newman’s beatification

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI signed the Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann decree recognizing as miraculous the healing of a U.S. deacon, which clears the way for the beatification of British Cardinal John Henry Newman. While the Vatican announced on July 3 that the decree had been signed, it did not provide information about when Cardinal Newman would be beatified or where the liturgy would be held. The decree recognized as a miracle the healing in 2001 of Deacon John Cardinal Sullivan of Marshfield, Mass., who John Henry Newman had a debilitating back injury. Deacon Sullivan had prayed for the intercession of Cardinal Newman, who founded the Oxford movement within the Church of England before becoming a Roman Catholic in 1845. He was a member of the Oratories of St. Philip Neri. A press statement from England’s Birmingham Oratory, founded by the cardinal, quoted Deacon Sullivan as saying, “Upon hearing of the recent developments in Rome regarding Father Sean Danda consecrates the Eucharist during his Mass of Thanksgiving on June 28 at St. Malachy Cardinal Newman’s cause for beatification, I was left with an Church in Brownsburg. Concelebrants include Father Patrick Riffle, left, from the Archdiocese of intense sense of gratitude and thanksgiving. Washington, D.C., who is a friend from the Pontifical North American College in Rome, and Father Stanley “I have dedicated my vocation in praise of Pondo, right, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove. Father Danda is the first son of Cardinal Newman, who even now directs all my efforts,” the St. Malachy Parish to be ordained to the priesthood in 140 years. In October, he will return to Rome to deacon said in the July 3 statement. complete graduate studies. For several months, Father Danda will provide sacramental assistance and The press statement said the date and place of beatification be in residence at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove. had not been decided, but encouraged supporters of Cardinal Newman’s cause to make donations to help pay for the Father Christopher liturgy. Wadelton, right, elevates The pope signed the decree regarding Cardinal Newman’s

Submitted photo the Eucharist as Society cause along with 11 other decrees, including the recognition of St. John Father Mary of the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Juana David Hoyt, left, raises Josefa Cipitria Barriola of Spain. The nun, who died in 1912, the chalice during is the founder of the Daughters of Jesus. Father Wadelton’s Mass Two other decrees recognized the miracles needed for the of Thanksgiving on beatification of Italian Carmelite Father Francesco Paoli, who June 28 at Immaculate died in Rome in 1720, and of Sister Soultaneh Maria Ghattas, Heart of Mary Church in co-founder of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary of Indianapolis. Both Jerusalem. She died near Jerusalem in 1927. priests are sons of the Four decrees declared eight individuals martyrs, which parish. On July 1, means they can be beatified without the need of a miracle Father Wadelton began attributed to their intercession. The decrees involved his first ministry six priests killed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War; assignment as associate German Father Georg Hafner, who was killed by the Nazis in pastor of Holy Spirit 1942 in the Dachau prison camp; and Auxiliary Bishop Parish in Indianapolis. Zoltan Meszlenyi of Esztergom, Hungary, killed by communists in 1951. Other decrees declared that four candidates for sainthood heroically lived the Christian virtues, a recognition marking the initial stage in their causes. One was another Dachau victim, Marianhill Missionary Father Engelmar Unzeitig, who died in the camp in 1945. The other three involve women: Sister Anna Maria Janer Anglarill, the Spanish founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Urgell; Sister Clotilde Micheli, the Italian founder of the Sisters of the Angels; and Teresa Manganiello, an Italian laywoman who died in 1876 at the age of 27. † Pope urges G-8 leaders to listen to poor, continue development aid

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI asked (“Charity in Truth”), which was released on July 7, For a time, he said, many developing nations enjoyed a leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries to “listen to the would discuss the importance of “the values of human period of economic growth, “which allowed many of them voice of Africa” and poor countries during their summit solidarity and of love in truth” in development programs to hope” that the U.N. Millennium Development Goals for in Italy. and international cooperation. eliminating extreme poverty by 2015 would succeed. The global economic crisis threatens not only to derail In order to function, the technical solutions adopted by “Unfortunately, the financial and economic crisis, which efforts to end extreme poverty in the world, but also could the G-8 must keep in mind certain ethical values because has enveloped the entire planet since the beginning of 2008, plunge other countries into ruin as well, the pope said in a real people are involved and will be impacted, he said. has changed the panorama so that there is a real risk not July 4 letter to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, “One must keep in mind concrete human and familial only of extinguishing hopes for ending extreme poverty, but host of the Group of Eight summit. needs. I am referring, for example, to the creation of jobs also that populations that have benefited from a minimum The only way to find solutions that will match the global for everyone to allow working men and women to provide of material well-being may fall into poverty,” the pope said. dimensions of the crisis and have long-term positive effects for the needs of their families in a dignified way, and Pope Benedict said there is an urgent need to put “an for all peoples is to “listen to the voice of Africa and the permit them to fulfill their primary responsibility to educate equitable international trade system” into action to promote countries least-developed economically,” the pope said in their children and to be active in the communities to which development. his letter. they belong,” he said. And, he said, “it is necessary to reform the architecture The G-8 summit on July 8-10 in L’Aquila, Italy, was to Pope Benedict also pleaded with the G-8 leaders not to of international finance to assure the effective coordination bring together the heads of governments of Canada, France, cut their development aid to the world’s poor as they of national policies” to avoid risky financial speculation, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the struggle to rebuild their own economies. and to provide credit to businesses and projects that will United States. “I appeal to the member nations of the G-8, the other create employment, especially in the poorest countries. Italy also invited the leaders of Brazil, China, India, national representatives and to governments around the The pope also asked the G-8 leaders to be farsighted in Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, Australia, Indonesia and world to ensure that development aid, particularly aid that their discussions and to pay particular attention to the need South Korea to participate in some of the summit sessions. gives priority to ‘human resources,’ is maintained and to ensure basic education for all the world’s children. Pope Benedict said the invitations were important for increased, not only despite the crisis, but precisely because “If it is true that one must invest in people, the objective ensuring the success of the summit’s decisions on matters this is one of the principal ways of solving it,” he said. of providing basic education for everyone without exclusion dealing with the economy, peace and international security. Before the year 2000, Pope John Paul II called the by the year 2015 not only must be maintained, but it must Wise discernment and new ideas “to ‘convert’ the model G-8’s attention to the poorest countries’ crushing burden of be generously reinforced,” he said. of global development” are needed to address the economic foreign debt and to the wealthier nations’ responsibility to “Education is indispensable for the functioning of a crisis as well as “the worrying data regarding the act in solidarity with them, he said. democracy, for the battle against corruption, for the exercise phenomenon of climate change,” the pope said. “This responsibility has not weakened, but rather has of political, economic and social rights, and for the effective Pope Benedict said his encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” become more pressing,” he said. recovery of all nations, rich and poor,” the pope said. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Diocese hails decision to end state probe of Church lobbying efforts BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CNS)—The Diocese of Catholics, but with all citizens of the state whose Blumenthal wrote. Bridgeport praised the July 1 decision by state ethics fundamental civil liberties were placed in jeopardy” by He urged the state Legislature to “clarify or revise officials to stop investigating application of the lobbying laws in this case. those laws to ensure that they continue to serve their whether the diocese violated The controversy centered on whether the diocese important purposes—avoidance of corruption or the state lobbying laws with its violated laws governing lobbying groups by organizing a appearance of corruption arising from paid lobbying— efforts to rally Catholics against March 11 rally at the Connecticut Capitol in Hartford to while also preserving and encouraging legally protected legislation that would have given oppose a bill that would have changed how parishes political expression.” laypeople financial control of were governed in the state. But Blumenthal affirmed that “the Church’s free their parishes. The legislation had been withdrawn on March 10, but expression activities—communicating with its members “This is welcome news, not the rally “proceeded as an expression of protest against on legislative issues of paramount importance and only for the diocese but for all what the Church perceived as an unconstitutional and holding a rally at the seat of the Legislature to protest citizens who cherish the unacceptable intrusion on its internal affairs,” government action—are clearly and unquestionably fundamental rights guaranteed Blumenthal noted in his opinion. protected by the First Amendment. Bishop William E. Lori by the First Amendment,” said The diocese filed suit on May 29 in U.S. District “There are no opinions, rulings or regulations that Joseph McAleer, diocesan Court in Hartford, seeking a court order to stop state would have fairly alerted the Church that its conduct spokesman, in a July 1 statement. officials from what it called “an unconstitutional under these specific factual circumstances required it to The diocese also has since withdrawn a lawsuit application of state lobbying laws” to Church activities. either register with the [Office of State Ethics] or face seeking a court order to stop the investigation. On July 2, after receiving written confirmation the enforcement action,” he added. The decision by the Office of State Ethics came a Office of State Ethics had ended its investigation, the The ethics office “should abandon its investigation or day after Connecticut Attorney General Richard diocese announced that it would drop its lawsuit. enforcement as to Church activity regarding [the Blumenthal had urged the action. “Serious constitutional and other legal concerns raised legislation] or similar future conduct—and halt such Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport had called the by this lawsuit compel me to conclude that Connecticut’s future investigative or enforcement efforts—unless and attorney general’s opinion “a truly significant lobbying registration laws cannot and should not be until the Legislature clarifies or revises the statute to announcement that stands not just with our state’s enforced in this factual situation against the Church,” address such constitutional concerns,” Blumenthal said. †

consideration, I think that’s a good thing. But again, that’s ABORTION my view.” BERNARDIN continued from page 7 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged continued from page 7 Obama to oppose any expansion of access to abortion, pregnancies,” he said. whether through loosening of legal restrictions or Obama described as “eleventh-hour change(s) in “I recognize that contradicts Catholic Church doctrine, measures such as legislation passed by Congress that conscience clause provisions that were pushed forward so I would not expect someone who feels very strongly would allow the District of Columbia to resume paying by the previous administration.” about this issue as a matter of religious faith to be able to for abortions for poor women using local tax funds. According to Obama, the Bush administration agree with me on that, but that’s my personal view,” he When Obama reversed the Mexico City policy, change, which took effect two days before the new said. “We may not be able to arrive at perfectly Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the president was sworn in, hadn’t been “properly reviewed compatible language on that front.” U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, called it and thought through,” and he added that there were The Catholic Church teaches that artificial contraception “very disappointing.” The policy had prohibited the use of some concerns about how broad it might be and what is immoral and that abortion is the killing of innocent federal family planning funds by organizations that its manifestations would be once implemented. human life. Representatives of many Churches, including provide abortions or counsel women to have abortions. In general, that change codified longtime federal Catholics, are among those who have been participating in “An administration that wants to reduce abortions statutes that prohibit discrimination against health the administration’s common ground efforts. should not divert U.S. funds to groups that promote professionals who decline to participate in abortions or On the other hand, Obama said, “I would be surprised abortions,” the cardinal said. other medical procedures because of religious or moral if those who believe abortion should be legal would In a speech to a convention of Louisiana priests in objections. object to language that says we should try to reduce the April, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president In his speech at Notre Dame, Obama called for a circumstances in which women feel compelled to obtain of the bishops’ conference, reported on his private “sensible conscience clause,” and said he wished to an abortion. meeting with Obama in March, criticizing the president’s “honor the conscience of those who disagree with “If they took that position, I would disagree with position on abortion. abortion.” them,” he continued. “I don’t know any circumstance in The cardinal said he told the president, “ ‘You’ve given The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, which abortion is a happy circumstance or decision, and us nothing but the wrong signals on this issue.’ So, we’ll Cardinal Francis E. 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woman who was As Archbishop Robert J. Reuters Gentile, CNS photo/Tony metropolitan archbishop, at St. Peter’s afflicted with a Carlson of St. Louis told the Basilica on June 29, Pope Benedict XVI disease that many pilgrims who accompanied invited him to reflect prayerfully on the doctors could not him to Rome from Saginaw, meaning of this ancient symbol. cure (Mk 5:25-34). Mich.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and “The pallium is worn by archbishops as a “If I but touch St. Louis, on this solemn symbol of their hierarchical communion with his clothes,” the occasion the person doing the the successor of Peter in the governance of woman said to touching was Jesus himself. God’s people,” the pope said. herself, “I shall be “Wherever two or three The pallium is a band that is worn over cured” (Mk 5:28). are gathered,” the archbishop the shoulders when a metropolitan St. Mark tells us said, “and wherever archbishop is wearing a chasuble. Daniel Conway that this woman thousands [or millions] of As Pope Benedict described it, “It is was just one of people come together to made of sheep’s wool as a symbol of Jesus hundreds of people who jostled Jesus in an worship the Lord with the Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the attempt to get close to him. Holy Father and his brother sins of the world, and the Good Shepherd But when she managed to force her way bishops, Jesus is present. He who keeps vigilant watch over his beloved through the crowd, and succeeded in is not present in a remote or flock.” touching him, “Jesus, aware at once that passive way. He reaches out The pallium is also said to be a symbolic power had gone out from him, turned to us—especially in the yoke or burden placed over the archbishop’s around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who Eucharist and in the prayer of shoulders as a reminder that he is called to touched me?’ ” (Mk 5:30). the Church.” unite others to Christ, whose yoke is easy The disciples were incredulous. How The Lord touches us and and whose burden is light. could he possibly expect an answer to that power goes out from him Only the pope and metropolitan question with so many people pushing, once again. The power of his archbishops wear the pallium because they shoving and touching him? touch reaches out to heal us, alone have a formal responsibility to As happens so often in the Gospels, to comfort us, to challenge Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass marking the feast of promote the Church’s unity beyond diocesan healing is connected to faith. Thus, when us, to forgive us and to give Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on boundaries. the woman identifies herself, and tells Jesus us hope. If our faith is strong June 29. During the Mass the pope bestowed the pallium on The Holy Father said, “This vestment she has been cured as the result of touching enough, we can feel his 34 archbishops from 20 countries. The woolen band worn reminds bishops, as vicars of Christ in their him, Jesus tells her, his disciples and us, palpable presence touching around the shoulders is a sign of the archbishops’ authority and local Churches, that they are called to be “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in our hearts, our minds and our responsibility as shepherds. shepherds after the Heart of Jesus.” peace and be cured of your affliction” bodies with the power of his The Lord invites all his disciples to be (Mk 5:34). love. Beyond his diocese, the bishop joins one with him—as he is one with his Father On June 28, the day before the feast of Among the archbishops who received his diocese (the local Church) with the and the Holy Spirit. Sts. Peter and Paul, during solemn vespers the pallium from the Holy Father were Church of Rome and with all other As the Holy Father placed the pallium on at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the five American shepherds: Archbishops dioceses throughout the world. Most the shoulders of each new archbishop, he Walls, Pope Benedict XVI formally Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, Catholics don’t realize how much of their imposed on them the burden of being a concluded the Year of St. Paul. Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis, Timothy M. bishop’s time and attention has to be source of unity, and of hope, in the provinces Pilgrims from dioceses around the world Dolan of New York, George J. Lucas of directed to matters that concern the needs they serve and in a global, worldwide were in Rome to witness the conferral of Omaha and Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit. of the Church beyond diocesan Church that is faced with many divisions and the “pallium,” an ancient sign of unity, on As the readings and prayers of the boundaries, but this is a critically is frequently tempted to despair. 34 newly appointed archbishops from feast day Mass made clear, these new important part of the bishop’s ministry. But the pope, as Vicar of Christ, also five continents. archbishops are called to be a sign of unity As Archbishop Carlson said, “The role touched them with the power of Jesus, and All of the pilgrims had tickets for the within their new archdioceses, but also of metropolitan is a charism. It is a gift he assured them that, if they have faith liturgy. After waiting in long lines to enter among the provinces where each now that exists for the sake of pastoral unity enough to preach the Gospel boldly and with St. Paul’s, they quickly learned that there serves as “metropolitan.” (Archbishop among neighboring dioceses and with the love, the Lord will strengthen them with his were more people than there were seats to Daniel M. Buechlein is the metropolitan of Bishop of Rome.” courage and sustain them with his love. accommodate them. The result was lots of the Indianapolis Province, which includes Archbishop Carlson added that “Christ Promoting unity in diversity. Joining pushing, shoving and touching. the five dioceses in Indiana.) is the real source of our unity, not the others to Christ in love and in truth. Being a “Who touched me?” Every bishop is called to promote unity, bishop. But joining others to Christ in model of wisdom and grace with humility, Anyone asking that question there that but an archbishop who serves as love and in truth is what the ministry of a humor and deep pastoral sensitivity to the evening, or in St. Peter’s Basilica the next “metropolitan” receives a distinctive call to bishop is all about.” needs of their people morning, would receive the same answer be a sign of unity over and above his These are the charisms that have been that the disciples gave Jesus. ordinary duties as the bishop of a diocese. (Daniel Conway is a member of given to the new archbishops, under the Even the new archbishops experienced According to Pope Benedict, every The Criterion’s editorial board, and symbol of the pallium, to help them carry the press of the crowd as well as the heat bishop is called to be a sign of unity. In his president and chief executive officer of out their distinctive ministry as a sign of and confusion of thousands of people diocese, the bishop’s ministry unites him Mission Advancement Services for unity in their archdiocese, in the provinces eager to get as close as possible to the with the entire Catholic community in each O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan and Conway, they serve and in the universal Church. † Holy Father and to them. parish. formerly RSI Catholic Services.) † Serra Club vocations essay Ordination ritual offers young people insight into vocations (Editor’s note: Following is the fifth in a series featuring the a testimony to God’s love and grace. example. By following their model of selflessness, we winners of the 2009 Indianapolis Serra Club Vocations One of the goals of priests, deacons, and religious brothers realize the importance of service to the Church, to the poor, Essay Contest.) and sisters is to aid us in discerning what God’s plan is for us. and to all those in need. Through both their words and their deeds, they help us to Through this service to others, we draw closer to God. By Kevin Zander perceive what God wills. This will aid us in discovering God’s mission for us and the Special to The Criterion role we are called to play in his world. Teach what you believe “For your part, you will exercise the sacred duty of In order to hear God’s call, we must first learn to be still so Believe what you read teaching in the name of Christ the Teacher… . Meditating on that we can listen to what he is saying. Priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters learn to the law of the Lord, see that you Priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters verbally nurture their belief in God through studying our faith and the believe what you read, that you teach us about God and how to listen to him. Through Church and her mission to all of humanity. teach what you believe, and that you listening to their words and examining their meaning, we learn In a similar way, we must come to fully understand our practice what you teach.” to listen to God and develop a closer relationship with him. faith so that we can realize our call from God. This quotation, taken from the As we nurture this relationship by receiving the Priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters are ordination rite of priests, clearly sacraments and through daily prayer, we develop a better equipped to teach us so that we come to know that in living represents their vocation to be a understanding of what our vocation is and how to live it God’s call we will find true happiness. living example of Jesus Christ in out throughout our life. everything they do. (Kevin and his parents, Tony and Jean Zander, are Just as priests, deacons, and Practice what you teach members of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. religious brothers and sisters are While forming our relationship with God through hearing He completed the 11th grade at Bishop Chatard High called to do God’s will, each person his word is important, performing acts of charity is another School in Indianapolis last spring, and is the 11th-grade Kevin Zander is called by him to a unique major part of the Catholic faith. division winner in the 2009 Indianapolis Serra Club vocation through which he or she will spend his or her life as Priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters lead by Vocations Essay Contest.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Basic Catholicism: Belief in indulgences God’s grace is (Twenty-second in a series) depending on whether it does away with punishment. either part or all of the punishment due for The Catholic Church also teaches that Readers might be surprised that I’m sins. One gains indulgences through prayers, indulgences can be gained both for oneself sufficient when including a column about indulgences in this penance and good works in atonement, or and for those who have died and might still series. I can imagine reparation, for the sins that were forgiven. be in a state of purification before they can dollars are short some people thinking, The American legal system has something enter heaven. This is part of the doctrine of Baited by the prospect of $1 million, she “Indulgences? I thought similar. Sometimes a judge will sentence the Communion of Saints that Christians turned down $172,000 then wound up the Catholic Church someone who has committed a crime to so profess to believe when they recite the with $5. ended them a long time many hours of community service. The good Creed. Of course, the actual disposition of “You know, Howie, ago.” work the criminal does helps atone for the indulgences applied to the dead rests with money doesn’t make me It’s true that many evil that he or she committed. God. happy,” the defeated Catholics haven’t heard Of course, for indulgences to make sense, How can the Church decide that a certain contestant told the host much about indulgences you have to accept the Catholic concept of practice—say, a visit to a church and prayers of NBC’s “Deal or No in recent decades, sin. The Catholic Church teaches that sin has for the intentions of the pope—will remit Deal.” The audience although they do come up at times. And it’s a double consequence: an eternal punishment temporal punishments due to sin? The cringed and clapped. also true that Martin Luther started his that, for grave sin, deprives us of communion Church believes that it can do that by virtue Whenever I catch a reformation because of them. Perhaps I with God, and a temporal punishment that of its power of binding and loosing granted rerun of this retired should have just ignored them for this series must be purified either here on Earth or after by Jesus. It can open for Christians what is reality show, I cannot because they’re too divisive. But at least I death in the state of purification known as known as the Church’s treasury—not flip the switch until the final briefcase is can explain what the Catholic Church still purgatory. material goods, but the infinite value which opened and the verdict revealed. teaches about them. The forgiveness of sin in the sacrament of Christ’s merits have before God. I am fascinated by the quick calculus of An indulgence is not the forgiveness of penance, or confession, remits the eternal Speaking of treasure and material goods, risk and reward. Does the chance of luxury sins, either past or future. In the simplest punishment and restores our communion indulgences cannot be bought. No one can override the certainty of comfort? Does the terms, an indulgence is the remission of the with God, but the temporal punishment buy his or her, or a departed loved one’s, possibility of a mansion trump the elimination temporal punishment due for sins whose remains. Indulgences, which the Church way into heaven. That is what was of a mortgage? For many contestants, yes. guilt has already been forgiven. attaches to works of mercy and various happening during Martin Luther’s time, and They are prodded by the deafening chorus, It can be either partial or plenary, forms of penance, remit the temporal he was correct in calling it an abuse. † “No deal!” Even the parents and spouses— the ones you expect to inject a little common Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes sense, the ones who actually will be affected by the outcome—join the mob. “I’m the most conservative person As time passes, life is still one big learning experience when it comes to this game,” a husband They say there is nothing new under the the money that I earned. Baby-sitting was always marked progress, but now we’re not wearing khakis and an argyle sweater tells sun. This would imply that, if we’re attentive more enjoyable, but money was still the so sure. his pregnant wife, given the final offer of and persevering, we driving factor. Medicine also offers something every $561,000. “But I have to agree with your might actually discover Parenting handicapped children furnished minute that seems new, including ailments. mom on this rare occasion and say ‘no everything there is to me with experience to use in special education. Who had heard of high cholesterol or deal.’ ” know about our world This was something entirely unexpected, but swine flu in the days when “hardening of the When the queasy contestant cooperates, and our life in it. useful and gratifying, not motivated by earning arteries” and polio were the big medical the audience voices its approval, cheering on Well, think again. I’ve money. And being an only child, and a glib deals? the audacity and the lunacy. been at it personally for one at that, I found that using words came easy There was a “that’s life” (or death) Money has a way of making us all a little many (many!) years, and for me so writing became my joy, not to attitude about illness in our culture, which crazy—our money, our neighbor’s, a I’ve barely scratched the mention my therapy. has since become a “why not?” desire to stranger’s. The gain, the loss, the sheer idea of surface of possibilities. We all know that kids offer endless learning remain alive as long, or longer, than it. We imagine the power it would wield, the Luckily, I find this experiences, mostly for their parents. Before I possible. And the meds! Watch TV and learn delights it would invite and the problems it energizing rather than depressing. had any myself, I knew everything necessary more than you ever wanted or needed to would solve. Relationships, for example, offer a great to raise healthy, reverent, virtuous children. know about how to treat conditions you “Money doesn’t buy you happiness,” actor variety of opportunities to learn. They begin You know what happened after that if you’re a never knew existed. Johnny Depp recently told Vanity Fair. “But it with experiencing total attachment to our parent or even acquainted with one. We learn that governments fall and even buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up moms and, later, dads. We’ve learned as parents that accidents the heirs of Greatest Generations may falter to it.” And they continue through surprising happen, that good kids do bad things down the line. We learn that as General I caught that quote on Twitter, and it made disillusionments and joys shared with occasionally, and that too much attention can Motors goes so goes the country. We learn me think of my penny-pinching, job-hunting families, friends and strangers until we are be as bad for them as too little. that change is almost more persistent than friends trying to keep their heads up in a once again on the receiving end of loving care We’ve also learned that we’re human and death and taxes. down economy. Here we are, twenty from all of the above. need to depend upon advice from our heavenly Maybe the best not-new thing under the something and saddled in debt, toting As time passes, we may learn either from parent as well as from our human ones. sun that we learn is that people are master’s degrees our alma maters called personal experience or from observing others The inventiveness of the mind that God has inherently good because they are made in valuable in a market that doesn’t seem to that some relationships can be toxic, sad, even given us constantly reveals new things. If they God’s image. And if we’re lucky, we may care. life-threatening. We learn whom to trust and aren’t new under the sun, they sure seem like learn how to nurture and dwell in that The headlines make us dizzy and doubtful. whom to avoid, still always hoping to find it, as in technology. goodness as well. As we negotiate risk and reward, we can hear Christ in others. In my lifetime alone, we’ve graduated from the public chanting, “No deal!” Work morphs into surprising forms transistor radios to twittering, from machine (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the It’s easy to relate to this month’s readings throughout life. While I hated picking guns to weapons of mass destruction, whatever Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular from St. Paul. Early in his ministry, he is strawberries for the neighbors as a kid, I liked they are. We used to think such invention columnist for The Criterion.) † feeling discouraged, comparing himself with other “superapostles”—such a modern term The Bottom Line/ and temptation! Antoinette Bosco “Three times I begged the Lord,” St. Paul writes, “but he said to me, ‘My grace is The surprising origin of the prayer of St. Francis sufficient for you, for power is made perfect Several years ago, my late son, Peter, known much at all until it appeared figure of St. Francis holding in one hand in weakness.’ Therefore, I am content with wrote a book on World War I, published by in the official Vatican newspaper the rule of the lay third order and in the weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions and Facts on File for their L’Osservatore Romano on Jan. 20, 1916. other the prayer for peace with this constraints for the sake of Christ; for when I America at War books. A week later, it was picked up by the reference: ‘This prayer sums up Franciscan am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:8-10). When the publisher well-known French Catholic daily paper, ideals and also represents a response to the We, too, are early in our ministries and decided to reprint the La Croix, published on Jan. 28, 1916. This urgent needs of our age.’ ” feeling a bit uneasy, which is OK—good, books, they invited me was practically the midpoint of And so, we now have the prayer of even, if it helps us recognize the sufficiency to update Peter’s book, World War I, and people living in European St. Francis, thanks be to God: of God’s grace. which I gratefully did. countries were so devastated by the war “Lord, make me an instrument of your This recession can be a refiner, an overdue One of the that they had only one recourse: prayer. peace; prompt to readjust our priorities, to launch surprising discoveries People were praying for an end to the “where there is hatred, let me sow love; careers for love, not money, and to seek that I found was most war’s devastation, especially in Europe. It “where there is injury, pardon; simple pleasures: Redbox movies, root beer uplifting to me as a is not known exactly how the prayer of “where there is discord, union; floats, Catchphrase. We can help each other Catholic. It had to do with the wonderful St. Francis became the prayer for peace “where there is doubt, faith; find the hilarity and the hope. We can prayer of St. Francis that most of us that so quickly circulated among the “where there is error, truth; discover that profound paradox: weakness Catholics have prayed for decades. people. “where there is despair, hope; clearing space for power, humbling and If anyone had asked me about the origins What is known is that the Marquis “where there is sadness, joy; honing us to better serve Christ. of that prayer, I probably would have said de la Rochetulon, founder of the Catholic “where there is darkness, light. The early Apostles also made tough that it dated back to St. Francis. But that is weekly Souvenir Normand, sent “O Divine Master, calculations, sizing up the crowd of 5,000 and not the case. Pope Benedict XV several prayers for “grant that I may not so much seek to be their sparse resources. “Two hundred days’ The prayer for peace first appeared in peace. The St. Francis prayer was one of consoled, as to console; wages worth of food would not be enough for 1913 in a small local magazine in them. “to be understood, as to understand; each of them to have a little,” Philip says Normandy, France. The question that is asked is how this “to be loved, as to love; (Jn 6:7). “It was unsigned and had been copied prayer for peace came to be called the “for it is in giving that we receive, Then Jesus perfects power in weakness, from another magazine that was so prayer of St. Francis. “it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and everyone is fed. insignificant that it left no sign in history According to Father Leonardo, it did so “and it is in dying that we are born to So are we. for it has not been found in any archive in by “a simple historical coincidence.” It eternal life. Amen.” France,” wrote Brazilian theologian seems that shortly after the prayer for peace (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff. was published in Rome, “a Franciscan (Antoinette Bosco writes for Catholic News Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her at In fact, the prayer of St. Francis was not from France had a poster printed with the Service.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009 Page 13

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, July 13 Friday, July 17 Sunday, July 12, 2009 the Christian commitment of the followers of Exodus 1:8-14, 22 Exodus 11:10-12:14 Christ in the city. He did this by reminding the Psalm 124:1-8 Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18 • Amos 7:12-15 Christians in Ephesus that Jesus died for them, Matthew 10:34-11:1 Matthew 12:1-8 • Ephesians 1:3-14 and that in faith they are one with the Lord. • Mark 6:7-13 St. Mark’s Gospel furnishes the last reading. Tuesday, July 14 Saturday, July 18 In this reading, Jesus summons the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Camillus de Lellis, priest The Book of Amos is the source of this “Twelve,” the Apostles whom the Lord called virgin Exodus 12:37-42 weekend’s first reading. by name. Jesus sends them out into the Exodus 2:1-15a Psalm 136:1, 10-15, 23-24 Amos is one of the highways and byways. He tells them not to Psalm 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34 Matthew 12:14-21 relatively few prophets burden themselves with supplies or provisions of whom something is because God will supply what they need. Matthew 11:20-24 known. Many prophets They obediently went out into the Sunday, July 19 give some details about countryside and preached what Jesus had Wednesday, July 15 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary themselves, but not taught them. They possessed the Lord’s power. Bonaventure, bishop and Time many give more than a They drove devils away. They anointed the doctor of the Church Jeremiah 23:1-6 few personal details. sick, using that ancient gesture of healing and By contrast, it is strengthening mentioned elsewhere in the Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12 Psalm 23:1-6 known that Amos was Bible, and they cured the sick. Psalm 103:1-4, 6-7 Ephesians 2:13-18 from Tekoa, a small Matthew 11:25-27 Mark 6:30-34 village about 10 miles south of Jerusalem in Reflection Judea. He herded sheep and tended fig trees. The reading from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Thursday, July 16 He obviously was intelligent, and knew the Ephesians is the centerpiece of this weekend’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel traditions of his ancestors. Liturgy of the Word. He wrote during the reign of King Uzziah Originally, it was written for a group of Exodus 3:13-20 of Judah, or between the years 783 and believers surrounded on all sides by paganism Psalm 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-27 742 B.C. It was a time of prosperity and and hostility. Matthew 11:28-30 national security. St. Paul reassured them, and this weekend Even so, as often has been the case in the reading reassures us. We have been history, the poor still were in want. The gap redeemed. Our knowledge of Christ is neither Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen between the rich and the less fortunate was accidental nor coincidental. God has chosen evident. us. Christ is with us. Amos saw himself as an authentic Still, we need nourishment and guidance as Diocesan tribunal staff can clarify prophet. The other prophets of his time, he we continue to live on Earth. God did not thought, were hired by the king ultimately to abandon the Chosen People in ancient times. eligible grounds for annulment strengthen the king’s rule over the people. He sent prophets to them. Under such arrangements, the other prophets This divine concern endures today. God Our father died a few years after our I have thought and prayed about this could not be trusted to preach the undefiled sends us messengers, in the person of the Qparents were married. Until we were for over a year. My heart tells me I’m word of God. Twelve, and in the persons of the bishops in all practically young headed in the right direction. (Illinois) This weekend’s reading reports a clash the Church who bring us the words of the adults, our mother between Amos and a priest in the Jerusalem Gospels even now. raised us alone. Your letter was a cool breeze on a temple. Amos reasserts his role, insisting that Through the Apostles and their She then married Awarm day. As a Catholic who loves he was called by God to be a prophet. successors, God heals us in Christ. Healed another Catholic man, our Church and our faith a great deal, I’m St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians and renewed, we move forward to eternal who later left the always pleased when someone like you provides the second reading. life. We will not die. † Church and joined wants to share it. And I’m happy for you. In the first century A.D., Ephesus was a another congregation. Obviously, you even now feel God major commercial center in the The problem is that working in your heart through the Roman Empire and an important port on the Readers may submit prose now he always contacts and experiences you have with Mediterranean Sea.Shifts in the soil and humiliates her about the Catholic faith. collections of sediment have left the ruins of or poetry for faith column her Catholic faith. My first advice is that you talk with a Ephesus in present-day Turkey a distance The Criterion invites readers to Is her situation considered grounds for priest or perhaps to a Catholic friend who from the seashore. submit original prose or poetry relating annulment? might lead you to a parish program for Ephesus was a center for the vices and fast to faith or experiences of prayer for I hate to see her in this situation. someone like yourself. business usually associated with such ports. possible publication in the “My We’ve talked with other priests, but they While we are always happy that In addition, it was one of the most popular Journey to God” column. differ on the answer. someone wishes to join our faith, we are religious shrines in the empire. Its great Seasonal reflections also are What can we do to help? (Michigan) concerned, as you are, that this decision temple, dedicated to Diana, the Greek appreciated. Please include name, is made with sufficient understanding of goddess of the moon, was one of the marvels address, parish and telephone number Going only on what you tell me, the what it means to be a Catholic. of the ancient world. with submissions. Abest thing you can do is stay out of Our faith is not simply a list of Pilgrims came from everywhere in the Send material for consideration to it. doctrines we accept. It is a way of life empire to venerate the goddess. Accommo- “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, Is your mother as disturbed about all based on friendship and intimacy with dating these pilgrims was itself a big business P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 this as you are? It’s her marriage and her Jesus. This relationship is enlightened in Ephesus. or e-mail to [email protected]. † decision about what at least you see as a and supported by the Scriptures, and by St. Paul sought in the epistle to reinforce big problem in their lives. our shared life of prayer, worship and They’ve apparently been married a service. long time. The fact that your mother Every Catholic parish has some My Journey to God talks to you or even complains about her process to help people know when, as husband’s behavior doesn’t mean that you say, they can be sure they are ready. she is looking to you to facilitate a For most parishes today, that journey divorce. of faith involves what is called the God’s Gift of Summer Apparently, they have worked out a Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults way to live with their differences. Maybe (RCIA). Over a period of several months, All of nature acknowledges the advent the leaves on trees— in spite of all you describe, she still loves you will pray and learn, share your faith of summer. The constant reminders of God’s him. and doubts and questions with others, and God has awakened everything and presence and love. If I were you, I would just do a lot of have plenty of time, guidance and growth is eminent— Summer is a time when God patient listening, tell her that you love her companionship as you weigh the The warmth of the sun and warm proclaims the work of His hands. and respect her enough not to try to make decisions you will need to make. summer rains. God is as close as the wind that her decisions for her. In the meantime, keep going to Mass Summer has placed a magic hand on caresses a face. Regarding your annulment question, every Sunday. Listen and participate God’s creation. no annulment process is begun until a attentively. You may stand, kneel, join the Summer is a season of quiet couple’s divorce is final. prayers and do whatever everyone else How can one not lie back and gaze at development and growth. Unless there’s a lot more that you does, except receive Communion. the azure summer sky, Flowers bloom in their fragrance from haven’t told me, grounds for an That needs to wait until you finally Trace the billowy clouds as they the hand of the giver. annulment in this instance would be at become a Catholic. Please talk to constantly change? Summer is just another room in the best extremely shaky. someone about your desires soon, if you The earth begins to dry out from temple of God. have not already done so, and get moving incessant spring rains. Each seasonal room is a place for I am a 17-year-old Protestant. with your plans. Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain as silent prayer. QHowever, I feel that I belong in the a gift of God’s love. Catholic Church. (A free brochure answering questions By Thomas J. Rillo I have been reading about the Church that Catholics ask about Mary, the The sky and stars, dew on the grass and and going to Mass. Should I recite the mother of Jesus, is available by sending a creeds and prayer along with the Church stamped, self-addressed envelope to (Thomas J. Rillo is a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington, and is members? Father John Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, a Benedictine oblate of Saint Meinrad Archabbey. Inspiration for this poem came from How can I be sure that I am ready to IL 61612. Questions may be sent to the crossing of the threshold between spring and summer.) become a Catholic and how do I go about Father Dietzen at the same address or by joining the Church? e-mail to [email protected].) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, July 10, 2009

Diane Dauby. Father of Phyllis Grandmother of five. Great- LaGrange, Brad, Jeff and Todd grandmother of seven. Dauby. Brother of Margie Peter, HOTCHKISS, Mary Jo Sts. Peter Darryl, Dennis, Gene, Gerald, (Welch), 91, St. Mary, Jay, Randy and Steve Dauby. New Albany, June 19. Sister of Rest in peace Duran CNS photo/Octavio Grandfather of 12. William Welch. and Paul Please submit in writing to our Koons, Mathilda Lamb and DeCLUE, Leonard R., 86, KOPITZKE, Erich K., 68, office by 10 a.m. Thursday David Besse. Grandfather of St. Bartholomew, Columbus, St. Mary, North Vernon, June 23. A Peruvian relief sculpture depicts before the week of publication; seven. Great-grandfather of four. June 22. Husband of Martha Jane Father of Chris, David and Matt Sts. Peter and Paul. The Catholic be sure to state date of death. (Dahn) DeClue. Father of Kopitzke. Brother of Christine BONE, Irene A., 87, Holy Spirit, Dorothy Lore, Kathy Schubel, Church commemorates the Obituaries of archdiocesan Hobbs, David and Frederick Indianapolis, June 15. Mother of Carey McBride, Amy Powell, martyrdoms of both Apostles with priests serving our archdiocese Barbara Grannis, Donna Kopitzke III. Grandfather of six. are listed elsewhere in Kim, Linda, Sue and Curt a June 29 feast. Scheumann, Marilyn Tentler, DeClue. Brother of Doreen KRETZER, Marianne, 82, The Criterion. Order priests Cynthia Bone-Heithoff and and religious sisters and Crump, Mildred Klaus, Ann St. Michael the Archangel, Ronald Bone. Grandmother of Short and Ed DeClue. Grand - Indianapolis, June 21. Sister of brothers are included here, nine. Great-grandmother of one. unless they are natives of the father of 16. Great-grandfather of Sid Luckett. Aunt of several. of Judith Rosner. Father of Rose May 21. Father of Richard and archdiocese or have other BOSLER, Richard Carl, Sr., five. KREUTZJANS, Sylvester H., Marie Aust, Roberta Baker, Ryan Strothman. Brother of Kathy Bauman. Grandfather of connec tions to it; those are 83, St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis, DRZEWIECKI, Kathy L., 51, 86, St. Anne, Jennings County, Joanne Dowling, Mary Ann three. separate obituaries on this June 12. Father of Ann Barnett, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, June 23. Brother of Marcella Flanary-Schenk, Jennie Gerard, page. Jody, Laura, Sue and Richard June 23. Wife of Daniel Magateaux, Aloysius, Edward, Judith Krebs, Ruth Morby, SULLIVAN, Madeline M., 86, Bosler Jr. Brother of Lucy Sandra Smith, Jeanne Saferight, ANDRES, Philip L., 96, Drzewiecki. Mother of Randall George and Joseph Kreutzjans. St. Gabriel, Connersville, Collier, Martha Federspiel, Clare James, John, Michael and Robert St. Paul, Sellersburg, June 23. Morning. Sister of Cynthia LUNDY, Margo Marie, 70, June 24. Mother of Anne Hart, and Paul Bosler. Grandfather of Rosner. Grandfather of 20. Great- Father of Dorothy Bertrand, Bowman. Grandmother of two. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Kathleen Riggs, Margaret 10. Great-grandfather of two. grandfather of 11. Wesche, Dennis, John, Joseph Donna Whiteley and Ronald FLISPART, Margaret A., 73, (Little Flower), Indianapolis, and Patrick Sullivan. Sister of Andres. Brother of Wilhelmina BUCHANAN, James A., 78, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, June 16. Mother of Laura SANSOUCY, Barbara, 85, Katherine Austin, Anne Lynch Beavin and Florence Renn. American Martyrs, Scottsburg, New Albany, June 21. Sister of Foshee, David and John Lundy. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, and Joseph Speiser. Grandmother Grandfather of six. Great- June 4. Husband of Margaret John and William Flispart. Grandmother of seven. Jan. 16. Mother of Noreen Mann, grandfather of 11. (Nalley) Buchanan. Father of Kim Melton and De Robitaille. of 26. Great-grandmother of 13. GARNER, Billy J., 56, MASTIN, Herbert Dewey, Jr., Janie Alexander, J.D., Jerry and Grandmother of 10. Great-grand - WAIZ, Charles J., 91, St. Paul, ATON, Juanita Elizabeth St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, 84, St. Anne, New Castle, Tom Buchanan. Brother of mother of five. Sellerburg, June 17. Father of (Kirschner), 89, Good Shepherd, June 15. Husband of Lorraine June 24. Husband of Elsie Jonell, Mary, Father Don Peggy Craig, Daniel and David Indianapolis, June 29. Mother of Garner. Father of Tara Tillberry Mastin. Father of Mark and SAVOY, Christopher Joseph Buchanan and Hubert Buchanan. Waiz. Brother of Dolores Don Jr. and John Aton. Grand- and Zachary Garner. Stepfather Richard Mastin. Brother of Earl, 28, St. Gabriel, Grandfather of six. Gehlbach, Bill, Bob and Joe mother of five. Great-grand- of Andrew, Steven, Thomas and Norma Dishman, Josephine Connersville, June 20. Father of Waiz Jr. Grandfather of six. mother of nine. CAMPBELL, Joyce, 72, Timothy Kottlowski. Brother of Walters, Clifford, Jerry, John and Shaylee and Logan Savoy. Son of Great-grandfather of one. St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, Larry Mastin. Grandfather of six. Bill Savoy and Teresa Sergent. BAKER, Paula Enid, 90, Laurie Fields and Joe Mauk. June 21. Wife of Milton Great-grandfather of two. Brother of Kayla Staples, Kendra WARNOCK, Angela M., 38, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Grandfather of two. Campbell. Mother of Angela Sergent, Andrew and Scott St. Malachy, Brownsburg, June GERLACH, Joan C., 79, MELLING, James P., 83, May 24. Mother of Linda Savoy. Grandson of Doris Savoy. 22. Wife of Joseph L. Warnock. Kendall, Michelle Kerrick, St. Luke the Evangelist, Indian- Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Dennemann and Tony Baker. Mother of Alexis and Autumn Christopher, Michael and Tony apolis, June 12. Mother of Jeffersonville, June 9. Father of SHRADER, Robert F., 61, Sister of Elizabeth Hines, Charles Warnock. Daughter of Larry Campbell. Sister of Rosella Lawrence Gerlach. James II and Larry Melling. St. Anthony, Indianapolis, and Paul Moates. Grandmother Miller and JoAnne McGrath. Hayes. 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WASHINGTON (CNS)—Sometimes, 7-2 majority rejected Roe’s “rigid trimester it wants to and ignores when the Supreme Court framework” and—upholding it when it wants to,” reverses itself on an earlier most provisions of a she told CNS in a decision—in some cases, Pennsylvania law—said a June 30 telephone CNS photo/Bob Roller decades earlier—there is a state may enact abortion interview. “It’s very great to-do over what it means. regulations that do not pose convenient when it In truth, though, the high an “undue burden” on the serves your purposes.” court reverses itself once a pregnant woman. The justices have year on average. Not every “I’m not sure I agree that the been reluctant to reversal is a full reversal, and court in Casey really reversed narrow the scope of not every reversal is stated as Roe even in part, but that’s a rights granted to such in the majority opinion. quibble,” said Richard W. citizens. In But scholars and other experts Garnett, a professor at the Roe v. Wade, she said, understand the impact of those decisions. University of Notre Dame School of Law “broader societal Only a relative handful of cases in in South Bend, Ind., in a July 1 e-mail to reliance” likely colored which the Supreme Court reversed Catholic News Service. the court’s judgment. itself could be considered blockbusters. The question remains as to what it Whatever the merits of One is Brown v. Board of Education, the would take for the Supreme Court to Planned Parenthood v. 1954 decision which ruled that the reverse Roe v. Wade. Casey, Papandrea said, The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington is pictured in a 2008 file photo. “separate but equal” provisions of state law “You’d have to write a book to answer “society had come to as it was applied to public accommodations what societal shifts would have to take rely on the availability of abortions and it The justices could flex those muscles were unconstitutional. The case dealt with place. I can’t answer that question,” said became a bigger women’s rights issue.” again after it ordered a rehearing in racial segregation in Kansas schools. Jeffrey M. Shaman, the Vincent de Paul Both Papandrea and Shaman cited the September on the McCain-Feingold In that case, the justices reversed a professor of law at De Paul University Supreme Court’s reversal of itself in the campaign finance law on some of its decision which by that time was 58 years College of Law in Chicago. 2003 Bowers v. Hardwick case, which First Amendment principles, also the old: Plessy v. Ferguson, in which Homer “Regardless of societal shifts, there are overturned a 1986 high court decision subject of a 2003 high court ruling. Plessy, a black man, intentionally boarded some members of the court, who have been ruling that states could pass laws “There really is no hard-and-fast rule the “white” car of a Louisiana train to test on the court for a while, who have always forbidding certain kinds of sexual acts regarding the court’s ability to reverse, the state’s segregation law. thought Roe v. Wade was an incorrect between consenting adults, as an expansion abandon, narrow or expand its precedents,” John Ferguson was the state judge who decision, and, societal shifts aside, were of individual rights. Garnett said. “We are stuck with the court’s denied Plessy’s claim for relief, ruling that willing to overrule it. But there have always Both professors noted how the Supreme various explanations for why they do, or do Louisiana had the right to regulate railroad been at least five justices who ... have Court most often overturns itself on cases not, do so in particular cases.” companies as long as they operated within always voted to adhere to Roe v. Wade,” he related to business regulation. One business “The court can overrule itself by a state boundaries. Ferguson’s decision was said. case Shaman cited bore hallmarks of 5-4 vote,” Shaman said, adding that the upheld by both the Louisiana Supreme “I do know Roe v. Wade, and Casey in societal shifts: United States v. Darby in justices may feel more comfortable about Court and, in 1896, by the U.S. Supreme which the court affirmed Roe v. Wade and 1941, in which case the justices reversed reversing an earlier ruling if the majority Court. invoked ‘stare decisis,’ ” or “the decision their 23-year-old decision in Hammer v. were larger. “I imagine that they would try In 1992, the high court in a 5-4 decision stands,” said Mary-Rose Papandrea, an Dagenhart, which permitted child labor. to convince some of the other justices to go refused to overrule Roe v. Wade in the assistant professor at the Boston College The number of adults thrown out of work along with it, or some justices may decide Planned Parenthood v. Casey case, Law School. by the Depression and a decade-long not to vote for a ruling if it’s only going to reaffirming its “central holding,” but a The court “invokes ‘stare decisis’when economic downturn prompted the reversal. be by a 5-to-4 decision.” † Pew Research poll finds growing ‘religion gap’ between old, young Americans WASHINGTON (CNS)—There is a growing “religion Because an estimated 5 percent of Americans older gender across all age groups. By 63 percent to 48 percent, gap” between older Americans and those under 30, than 65 are in nursing homes and would not be reachable women were more likely to say religion was very according to a new Pew Research Center Social and through normal telephone interviewing, Pew also important to them. Blacks of all ages (80 percent) also Demographic Trends survey. interviewed more than 800 adults with parents 65 or older were more likely than whites (50 percent) to say religion The study released on June 29 found that one-fourth of and included their responses in a separate section of the was very important in their lives. Americans ages 18-29 said they were atheists, agnostics or study. Pew Research Center found widespread agreement had no religion, while only 7 percent of those 65 and over The older the respondent, the more likely he or she was when it asked participants in its survey whether they saw described themselves that way. Eighteen percent of those to say that religion was very important. Seventy percent of “a major difference in the point of view of younger people ages 30-49 and 13 percent of those 50-64 fell into the those 75 and older said religion was very important in and older people today.” About four-fifths of no religion/atheist/agnostic category. their lives, while only 44 percent of the youngest group of respondents—79 percent across all age groups—said yes, At 7 percent, the under-30s also were more than twice adults said so. with little difference among young, middle-age or older as likely as those 65 and over (3 percent) to say they Sixty-two percent of those between 65 and 74, Americans. belonged to a religion other than Protestant, Catholic or 61 percent of Americans ages 50-64 and 54 percent of In response to an open-ended question about the Jewish. those 30-49 said religion was very important to them. differences between generations, nearly half of those Catholics made up 24 percent of the 65 and over group Pew also found differences in the importance of polled gave an answer that fell into the broad category of and the 30-49 group, 23 percent of those aged 50-64 and religion based on gender and race, especially for older “values,” while about a quarter said the generations 20 percent of those between 18 and 29. Americans. Seventy-six percent of women 65 and over but differed in their general outlook on life. The 152-page study, called “Growing Old in America: only 53 percent of men in that age group said religion was “Within the broad category of values, the top Expectations vs. Reality,” addressed a variety of issues very important to them. volunteered responses are morality, ethics and beliefs related to aging. The margin of error was plus or minus Eighty-seven percent of black Americans older than [12 percent] and a sense of entitlement [12 percent],” the 2.6 percentage points for the survey, which involved 64 said religion was very important in their lives, survey report said. “Young, middle-aged and older telephone interviews with 2,969 adult Americans between compared to 63 percent of older white Americans. respondents cite morality and ethics in roughly equal Feb. 23 and March 23 this year. The survey found similar differences by race and proportions,” it added. †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Work on the Antonio Paolucci, director of the modification to the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace Vatican Museums. Pauline Chapel. via Reuters was not so much a restoration as a Traditionally, the private chapel has The modifications, restitution of the pope’s prayer space, said been reserved for the pope’s celebration he said, show just how the director of the Vatican Museums. of early morning Mass with special guests personally connected Containing the last two murals that and for the adoration of the Eucharist each pope felt to the L'Osservatore Romano Michelangelo ever painted, the private during the day by people who work in the chapel, but they

papal chapel had been under scaffolding Apostolic Palace. complicated the CNS photo/ for more than five years. It was presented “The body of Christ is at the center, restoration work. to reporters on June 30. and it is surrounded by the story of the An international Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the princes of the Apostles”—St. Peter, to commission composed chapel on July 4 with an evening prayer whom the popes trace their spiritual of 13 experts on liturgy in the presence of four dozen responsibility for the Church, and Michelangelo or on members of the Patrons of the Arts in the St. Paul, from whom they inherit the the theory and Vatican Museums. The patrons— mission of preaching the Gospel to all practice of restoration laypeople from the United States, England peoples and preserving the unity of was formed to advise and Ireland—fully covered the almost Christ’s disciples, Paolucci said. the Vatican on how far $4.6 million it took to clean and restore Michelangelo began work on the to go not only in the chapel’s artwork, refurnish it and two murals in 1542 after he had finished cleaning the works, install a sophisticated new LED lighting “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel. but also in deciding system. He completed his contribution to the which of the later The chapel—named after Pope Paul III, Pauline Chapel in 1550 at the age of 75. additions to remove or who commissioned its construction in “It is a kind of spiritual testament preserve. 1537—has side walls that feature marked by a vast sadness and deep In addition, Michelangelo’s paintings of the pessimism,” Paolucci said. “One has the U.S. Archbishop crucifixion of St. Peter and the conversion impression that the mystery of grace James Harvey, prefect of St. Paul. offered to an unworthy humanity causes of the papal Access to the chapel is from the anguish for the soul of the artist, a household, and “Sala Regia,” the “royal room” where Christian, who lived through and Msgr. Guido Marini, popes once met visiting Catholic kings witnessed the religious crisis of his era, master of papal and queens. which was divided and lacerated by the liturgical ceremonies, While the room’s murals focus on the Reformation.” were involved in Church’s influence and power in the The chapel walls feature other deciding what temporal world, “as soon as you cross the episodes from the lives of the furnishings to use and threshold [into the Pauline Chapel], you two Apostles by Lorenzo Sabbatini and where to place them. pass into the Church that lives in the Federico Zuccari, Italians who began their Bishop Paolo dimension of eternity,” said work on the chapel about 25 years after De Nicolo, regent of Michelangelo finished his. the papal household, Restoration of the art was not the only said that, in the end,

via Reuters concern of those who worked on the it was Pope Benedict chapel over the past five years, said who decided to Arnold Nesselrath, the Vatican Museums remove the altar Pope Benedict XVI attends a liturgy inaugurating the newly restored official who oversaw the effort. placed in the chapel Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on July 4. The L'Osservatore Romano “The Pauline Chapel is still one of the by Pope Paul VI after chapel contains murals by Renaissance artist Michelangelo, including three papal chapels in the Apostolic the Second Vatican one depicting the conversion of St. Paul, shown above. CNS photo/ Palace, and has a traditional liturgical Council. function so we had to return the space Pope Benedict chose to restore the reach the tabernacle,” which is flush intact” without making modifications for original marble altar, but not to place it against the wall, Bishop De Nicolo said. St. Peter’s crucifixion is shown in this detail from purely educational or documentary completely against the wall where it stood He said the pope also wanted to be one of Michelangelo’s murals in the newly restored purpose, he said. for 400 years. able to cense the entire altar—front and Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace at the Paolucci told reporters that almost “The chapel is meant for eucharistic back—during liturgies, and he wanted the Vatican on June 30. The chapel underwent a every pope who has served the Church in adoration, and if the altar were against the option of celebrating Mass facing the $4.5 million, five-year restoration funded by donors. the last four centuries made some kind of wall it would have been very difficult to people or facing the cross with them. † Four Benedictine monks celebrate golden jubilees of priesthood

Criterion staff report July 31, 1954, and was ordained on May 11, 1959. rights movement, and founded the Martin Center in Indian- He earned a bachelor’s degree at the former Saint apolis. Later, he The Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Meinrad College in 1955 and a co-founded the Indianapolis Sickle Cell Center and St. Meinrad celebrated the 50-year priesthood jubilees of master’s degree in industrial arts at Human Relations Consortium. Archabbot Lambert Reilly, Father Augustine Davis, Indiana State University in 1966. In 1977, Father Boniface founded what is now Father Boniface Hardin and Father Vincent Tobin on Father Augustine taught Martin University in Indianapolis, a liberal arts institution May 31. religion, mathematics and designed to educate older and minority students. He served Archabbot Lambert was born on April 18, 1933, in industrial arts courses while as its president until 2007, and continues to serve as Pittsburgh. He made his profession serving as assistant director of president emeritus. of vows on Aug. 15, 1956, and was St. Placid Hall from 1959-66. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees ordained on He served in various capacities in recognition for his many contributions to education, Sept. 20, 1959. at San Benito Priory and Seminary community service, public health and global understanding. He earned a bachelor’s degree at in Huarez, Peru, from 1967-79. Father Vincent was born on Jan. 28, 1933, in Pittsburgh. St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., Fr. Augustine Davis, O.S.B. Following the Peru earthquake of He professed his vows on July 31, 1954, and was ordained and a master’s degree at 1970, he oversaw the construction on May 11, 1959. Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. of the priory’s physical plant. From 1979-86, he was the He earned a bachelor’s degree in He completed his theological physical plant director at Saint Meinrad. history at the former Saint Meinrad training at Saint Meinrad School of Father Augustine served as pastor of Our Lady of College in 1956 and a master of Theology. Lourdes Parish in South Pittsburgh, Tenn., from 1986-96. divinity degree at Saint Meinrad Archabbot Lambert taught Latin The following year, he ministered at a priory in Morelia, School of Theology. He also earned a Archbabbot Lambert Reilly, O.S.B in the seminary at Saint Meinrad Michoacan, Mexico. master’s degree in Latin at St. Louis following his ordination. He also From 1997 until 2005, he was in charge of mail University, and a Sacred Theology taught at Penn State University and Mount Sacred Heart delivery for Saint Meinrad. He currently helps in the Licentiate at Gregorian University in College in Connecticut. archabbey’s Physical Facilities Department, and celebrates Rome in 1979. At the monastery, he held a number of ministry positions, Mass and provides pastoral assistance for local Hispanic From 1960-64, Father Vincent and also served as assistant pastor of St. Mary Parish in communities. taught Latin and English at the Fr. Vincent Tobin, O.S.B. Huntingburg, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese. Father Boniface was born on Nov. 18, 1933, in former Saint Meinrad High School. Archabbot Lambert was also engaged in retreat work and Louisville. He professed his vows on July 31, 1954, and He joined the former Saint Meinrad College faculty in 1965, parish missions for more than 30 years. He was a frequent was ordained on May 11, 1959. and taught Latin and Greek until 1991. He was appointed retreat master for Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s Missionaries He earned a bachelor’s degree assistant dean of students in 1964 then was named vice- of Charity in the United States and India. at the former Saint Meinrad rector and dean of students in 1966. In 1971, he was He was elected archabbot of the Benedictine monastic College in 1955 and a master of appointed spiritual director. community in 1995, and served in that leadership position divinity degree at Saint Meinrad Father Vincent was the first director of the until he resigned in 2004. School of Theology in 1959. Midwest Association of Spiritual Directors in 1971, and the Since his resignation, he has resumed his retreat work From 1959-65, Father Boniface first president of the National Federation of Spiritual across the United States and in several foreign countries. He served as assistant treasurer at Directors in 1973. did parish work for several years in the Diocese of Saint Meinrad Archabbey. From 1996 to 2006, he held various teaching and Pittsburgh. He currently resides at a Carmelite monastery in In 1965, he was named administrative positions at Sant’ Anselmo and the Pontifical Des Plaines, Ill. associate pastor of Holy Angels North American College, both in Rome. He is currently the Father Augustine was born on Sept. 21, 1930, Parish in Indianapolis. director of Saint Meinrad’s Archabbey Guest House and Fr. Boniface Hardin, O.S.B. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He professed his vows on He became involved in the civil Retreat Center. †