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VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Pope Benedict XVI called on America’s Catholic colleges and universities to reaffirm their Catholic identity by ensuring orthodoxy in theological studies and accepting the oversight of bishops. The pope made his remarks on May 5 to U.S. bishops from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona Pope Benedict XVI and Wyoming, who were making their periodic ad limina visits to the Vatican. While he acknowledged recent efforts by America’s Catholic institutions of higher education to “reaffirm their distinctive identity in fidelity to their founding ideals and the Church’s mission,” Pope Benedict said that “much remains to be done.” The pope emphasized the need for Saben Fletcher opens the door for Grace Meier at St. Michael School in Greenfield, displaying one of the thoughtful acts that earned him the distinction compliance with canon law in the as the Gentleman of the Year for the school’s Crusaders for Christ Gentlemen’s Club—a club that seeks to develop faith, values and manners in male appointment of theology instructors, who are middle school students. Both Saben and Grace are seventh-grade students at St. Michael School. required to possess a “mandate” from the “competent ecclesiastical authority,” ordinarily the local bishop. Crusaders for Christ club at school teaches The requirement for a mandate was underscored in 1990 by Blessed John Paul II in his apostolic constitution “Ex Corde young men respect, manners and faith Ecclesiae,” but many Catholic theology departments in the U.S. have yet to comply. By John Shaughnessy Christ Gentlemen’s Club at St. Michael Pope Benedict said that the need for a School in Greenfield. mandate was especially clear in light of the GREENFIELD—It’s one of those That’s the pledge that includes these “confusion created by instances of apparent moments that makes even an innocent guy promises: dissidence between some representatives of squirm subconsciously. • I place God and others before myself. Catholic institutions and the Church’s Especially when you’re at the age of 12, • I will, honor, respect and protect pastoral leadership. 13 or 14. all women. “Such discord harms the Church’s witness And especially when your fate is • I will try to do my best as a and, as experience has shown, can easily be suddenly in the hands of the girls in your Christian gentleman in dress, hygiene, exploited to compromise her authority and classroom. grooming, and my treatment of all people. her freedom,” the pope said. Oh sure, the guys look calm, • I am responsible for my actions and there is still sometimes a seed of doubt in U.S. bishops have clashed with the well-groomed and all-grown-up in their will maintain my grades. their minds as the adult moderator of the administrations of Catholic colleges and light blue dress shirts and their gold or • I will obey my parents and teachers club—a retired veteran of the United States universities on a number of occasions in yellow ties. and all those in authority over me in Air Force—gets to the part of the monthly recent years, with some of the most And the odds are high that they really accordance with Christian values. lunch program where he reads notes from prominent cases involving invited speakers have nothing to fear, especially if they have Yet even though the 37 members of the the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls who dissent from Catholic moral teaching. tried to live up to the pledge they have Gentlemen’s Club have tried to uphold about how well or how poorly any of the In March, Anna Maria University in made as members of the Crusaders for those vows for most of the school year, See CRUSADERS, page 5 Worcester, Mass., retracted its invitation to See POPE, page 7 New Catholics’ journeys of faith join the past to the present By Sean Gallagher

Nearly 1,000 people were received into the full communion of the Church Submitted photo in parishes across the archdiocese during Easter Vigils celebrated on April 7. Every one of the 959 individuals could tell a story of how God’s grace led them along Welcome, new their own Catholics, pages 8-10. unique path to embrace the Catholic faith and make it their own. They are stories of people discovering the joy and power of the faith, and seeking to share it with their children. They are stories of long and winding journeys which ended up, in a mysterious way, back where they began. And, in the end, they are stories from the past showing their power to touch Franciscan Father Humbert Moster anoints Samantha Weiler during a Rite of Baptism that took place hearts here and now. during an April 7 Easter Vigil Mass at St. Peter Church in Franklin County. Father Humbert is the See FAITH, page 7 sacramental minister for the Batesville Deanery faith community. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012

Terre Haute, to administrator of St. Joseph Parish in parochial vicar of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Official Appointments Indianapolis and St. Ann Parish in Indianapolis. Parish in Indianapolis with the particular ministry of celebrating the extraordinary form of the Rev. Noah J. Casey, rector of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Holy Eucharist. Effective July 3, 2012 Indianapolis, appointed chaplain of Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School in Indianapolis, including enlisting the Rev. Jeremy M. Gries, administrator of St. Mary Rev. Mr. Jerry L. Byrd, to be ordained to the priesthood help of other Indianapolis East Deanery clergy to assist, and Parish in Rushville, appointed sacramental minister of on June 2, 2012, assigned to associate pastor of continuing as rector of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Rose Parish in Knightstown and continuing as St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis and Catholic chaplain Indianapolis. administrator of St. Mary Parish in Rushville. of the University of Indianapolis in Indianapolis. Rev. Paul M. Shikany, pastor of St. Matthew the Apostle Rev. Barnabas Gillespie, O.S.B., pastor of Rev. Sean R. Danda, associate pastor of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis and part-time vice vicar judicial of the St. Michael Parish in Cannelton and St. Pius V Parish Parish in Indianapolis and Catholic chaplain of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal in Indianapolis, appointed in Troy, returning to Saint Meinrad Archabbey in University of Indianapolis, assigned to administrator of chaplain of Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis, St. Meinrad. St. Michael Parish in Brookville and Holy Guardian including enlisting the help of other Indianapolis North Angels Parish in Cedar Grove. Deanery clergy to assist, and continuing as pastor of Rev. Sengole Thomas, associate pastor of St. Joseph St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis and part-time Parish in St. Leon, St. John the Baptist Parish in Dover, Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, pastor of St. Michael Parish in vice vicar judicial of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal St. Paul Parish in New Alsace and St. Martin Parish in Brookville and administrator of Holy Guardian Angels in Indianapolis. Yorkville, appointed administrator of St. Michael Parish in Cedar Grove, assigned to further studies to Parish in Cannelton and St. Pius V Parish in Troy. complete all necessary requirements to receive a doctorate Rev. Harold W. Rightor II, pastor of Annunciation Parish in degree in moral theology. Brazil and Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville, granted early Rev. Eric (Rick) Nagel, administrator of St. John the retirement. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, Catholic chaplain of Rev. Todd Riebe, pastor of the Richmond Catholic Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Community parishes of Holy Family, St. Andrew and Rev. John J. Hollowell, associate pastor of St. Malachy (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, and archdiocesan director of St. Mary, and chaplain of Seton Catholic High School in Parish in Brownsburg and chaplain of Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. young adult and college campus ministry, appointed Richmond, to administrator of St. Mark the Evangelist High School in Indianapolis, appointed administrator of Catholic campus minister of Indiana University- Parish in Indianapolis. Annunciation Parish in Brazil and Holy Rosary Parish in Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in Indianapolis Seelyville, and sacramental minister of Sacred Heart of Jesus and continuing as administrator of St. John the Rev. Kevin Morris, pastor of St. Susanna Parish in Parish in Terre Haute. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. Plainfield, to administrator of the Richmond Catholic Community parishes of Holy Family, St. Andrew and Rev. Dustin M. Boehm, associate pastor of St. Monica Parish Sister Marjorie Jeanne Niemer, O.S.F., parish life St. Mary, and chaplain of Seton Catholic High School in in Indianapolis, appointed chaplain of Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. coordinator of St. Peter Parish in Franklin County and Richmond. High School in Indianapolis, including enlisting the help of St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in Franklin County, other Indianapolis West Deanery clergy to assist, and leaving to accept a leadership position with her Rev. Glenn L. O’Connor, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in continuing as associate pastor of St. Monica Parish religious order, the Congregation of the Sisters of the Indianapolis and St. Ann Parish in Indianapolis, and in Indianapolis. Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg. Catholic chaplain of the Indianapolis International Airport, to administrator of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield and Rev. Peter A. Marshall, associate pastor of St. Pius X Parish Deacon Robert W. Decker, parish life coordinator of continuing as Catholic chaplain of the Indianapolis in Indianapolis, appointed administrator of Our Lady of the St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis, International Airport. Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis and chaplain of the appointed parish life coordinator of St. Peter Parish in St. Joseph of Aramithea Society of the Anglican Ordinariate, Franklin County and St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in Rev. Robert T. Hausladen, part-time chaplain of and continuing to celebrate Mass in Spanish at St. Gabriel the Franklin County. Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis and Archangel Parish in Indianapolis twice a month. Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School in These appointments are from the office of the Indianapolis, and sacramental minister of Sacred Heart of Rev. Michael W. Magiera, administrator of Our Lady of Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D., apostolic Jesus Parish in Terre Haute and St. Ann Parish in the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, appointed administrator of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. † On ad limina trip, bishops talk about defense of traditional marriage

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—A few hours before voters in In Georgia, voters passed a similar referendum in 2004, “That type of excessive tolerance is destructive not just North Carolina were to go to the polls to vote on a and it was upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2006. of marriage but, ultimately, of society itself” because people referendum defining marriage as a union between one man Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta told no longer follow the laws of nature that protect humanity and one woman, Bishop Peter J. Jugis of Charlotte, N.C., Catholic News Service that the institution of marriage and no longer recognize real aberrations in human behavior. prayed with his brother bishops for the courage always to “predates the Church and predates the state, and now people The problem of separation and divorce also needs defend the Gospel. are saying it’s up for grabs.” pastoral support, he said. Bishop Jugis said on May 8 that he and Young people today are growing up in a world “that easily At the bishops’ morning Mass, Bishop Jugis spoke about Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh had been criticized jettisons things that have ‘lost their relevancy’ ” and, he said, criticism of the bishops’ support for marriage, and he publicly for their support of the they don’t realize there are some things that can never be reminded his fellow bishops of how Blessed John Paul II, amendment to the state constitution, rendered irrelevant or redefined according to current trends or citing the words of late Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski of and for their defense of “something people’s whims. Warsaw, Poland, said being a bishop often involves taking so beautiful and foundational to “Marriage is by God’s design, by human nature, the union up Christ’s cross. society.” of a man and a woman for the procreation of the human race “All of us bishops have experienced the suffering of the He said when he told another and for the sanctification and augmentation of the partners. cross,” he said. bishop about the criticism, “he That doesn’t pass out of vogue,” he said. “We know the lines in the sand are drawn not only on encouraged me by saying, ‘Wear it as The Church needs to address this “cultural attack” more this issue” of marriage, “but also on other issues—religious a badge of honor.’ ” effectively with improved teaching and by listening to the liberty and the defense of the right to life of the unborn,” Bishop Jugis was the principal reasons why people are more accepting of current trends Bishop Jugis said. celebrant and homilist at a morning against the institution of marriage, he said. Saying a bishop must be “a courageous witness,” he led Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica with One of the problems is that people have equated tolerance his fellow bishops in prayer for “the grace to never stop” Bishop Peter J. Jugis Bishop Burbidge and the bishops of toward others with a complete abandonment of moral preaching the truth and teaching the faith. † Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. principles, the archbishop said. In his homily, Bishop Jugis said North Carolina was “the Catholics are called to be compassionate, understanding last state in the South” to consider a referendum on and tolerant, but not at the expense of proclaiming what is Correction defining marriage. right and wrong. While marriage between same-sex couples is already “Tolerance does not always mean that one loses the In the May 4 issue of The Criterion, deacon candidate illegal in North Carolina, supporters of the amendment said capacity to make a judgment based on faith and human Rick Cooper’s wife was misidentified in the “Meet our it would add more protection for traditional marriage. reason,” he said. future deacons” feature. Her name is Diane. †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—Congressional lawmakers Mount St. Vincent in Riverdale, N.Y., said the high cost of STUDENTTS UDE TN LOANLOAN DEBTDE TB h gr twoas a nn al hitionao gh of seem to agree on two things. College student loan debt is a college education is part of the bigger issue of “how we $820 billion.

out of control, and something should be done about it. as a nation will ensure that higher education is available GRADUAATTES WITH STUDENTS Where they disagree is how to for students of every background. BACHELOR’S DEGREE FROM BORROWING AVERAGE DEBT solve the problem. Currently they are “There is a common good here. We as society will public school 61% $20,000 looking at one piece of this puzzle— thrive when students receive a college education,” he said. how to keep a lower interest rate on This ideal currently seems unattainable, especially private non-profit school 71% $27,500 federally subsidized undergraduate when, as he put it, “graduates have to pay twice what I do if fihl 6% $32,900 student loans for low- and middle- on my mortgage” on their monthly loan payments. ALL 66%6% $23,200 income students which is set to “There is a lot at stake here,” he said pointing out that double to 6.8 percent this June. student debt is a significant burden for students who want Percentages rounded to whole percent. Isaiah Toney, a senior at to attend graduate school, and is also a major factor in Debt amount rounded to nearest $100. Source: FinAid George Washington University in Washington, said he is students even finishing their degrees. ©2012 CNS “extraordinarily happy” this issue is being raised, but he Flynn said Mount St. Vincent makes financial aid a thinks the discussion has been too narrow. top priority, and has significantly increased its financial “The big fight has been over possible increase in interest aid packages to students since he became president this measure because its funding would be taken from a rates for Stafford loans, which is very important, but there is 12 years ago. preventive care program in the new health care law. also the huge issue of private loans which have interest rates He thinks Congress should particularly look at loans The Senate plan—unveiled on April 25 and not up for at 10 percent or more,” he told Catholic News Service on they are providing to for-profit colleges that have high vote until mid May—also looks to lower the loans’ interest May 2 in between exams. student loan default rates, saying the government should rates and find funding by imposing new payroll taxes on When Toney graduates this summer, he will owe “use its resources more wisely.” high-earning owners of private corporations. $85,000 in student loans—a staggering amount that has Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington Congress is also considering a Student Loan made him rethink the type of job he wants. University in Washington, told CNS that the university’s Forgiveness Act introduced by U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke, Instead of a career in public service, he now realizes—in financial aid counseling staff has grown in recent years not D-Mich., which would forgive the loan debt of those the midst of an already intense job search—that he couldn’t only to advise students in the initial enrollment process, who have paid 10 percent of their discretionary income live on that salary while paying off his college loans. but throughout their college years and in searching for a toward their loans for 10 years. At the same time, the He’s hardly alone. Today’s college graduates are often job after graduation. House Budget Committee is looking to cut funding and underemployed just to pay off debts. Some default on their “Part of our responsibility from day one is to make sure eligibility for Pell grants—need-based grants for loans, which could prevent them from future borrowing or students understand that loans are borrowed money that undergraduate students that do not have to be repaid. make it difficult to get a job. must be paid back. Students should not borrow more than President Barack Obama touted the need for lower The crisis has even had an impact on vocations. they think they can handle,” she said. interest rates on student loans in visits to colleges in late A study this year by the Center for Applied Research in If Congress extends the lower interest rates on the April. The presumptive Republican nominee for president, the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University found that federally subsidized Stafford loans for one year it will save Mitt Romney, similarly endorsed this idea. 69 percent of religious orders “turned away at least one more than 7 million students $1,000 each on their total Two years ago, student loan debt in the United States person because of student loans,” and many religious loan payments. The extension comes with a $6 billion exceeded total outstanding credit card debt. Currently, the communities have had to ask young people to delay their price tag, which is keeping it at a standstill. average balance college graduates owe on student loans is applications because of unpaid student loans. On April 27, the House approved extending these lower $25,000, according to the Project on Student Debt, a Charles Flynn, president of the College of interest rates, but the White House has promised to veto nonprofit group based in Oakland, Calif. † Faith and practicality should guide aspirants with debt, religious superior says By Sean Gallagher www.CriterionOnline.com to read more about her.) going to put you in a huge amount of debt,” She is currently a novice in her order. If she and her Mother Wendy said. “You don’t have to go to an As Congress is set to debate keeping low interest community discern that God is truly calling her to Ivy League school. You don’t have to go to a big school rates on federally-backed student loans, religious orders religious life, she expects to profess vows in and get $60,000 in debt.” across the country are feeling the effects of the large September 2013. Young adults could then investigate religious amount of educational debt that many young adults are “I will always be eternally grateful for my benefactor,” orders while taking classes. And if after a few years carrying when they finish their college years. Sister Mary Joseph said in a recent telephone interview of classes they feel ready to apply for entrance to an The Georgetown University-based Center for with The Criterion. “I remember that person in my daily order and are accepted, then they can continue their Applied Research in the Apostolate recently released the prayers and at daily Mass.” education. results of a study it conducted on the effects of student She said that she also prays often for young adults “Once you enter a community, you dialogue with the loan debt on religious vocations in the U.S. who, like her, believe that God is calling them to superior about what talents you have and what the The study collected data from 477 religious orders religious life, but are held back from responding to that community needs,” Mother Wendy said. “You put it all that represents approximately two-thirds of men and call due to student loan debt. together. And you put a plan forward.” women religious in the U.S. “Waiting upon the Lord and upon his will is very For individuals who have incurred a lot of student The findings of the study include the fact that nearly challenging,” Sister Mary Joseph said. “But I also loan debt, Mother Wendy recommended leaving no 70 percent of the orders that participated turned away at recognize the great joy that comes from waiting upon the stone unturned to look for ways to retire that debt. least some serious inquirers in the past decade due to Lord and receiving the good gifts that he has for us.” Members of her community in that situation worked student loan debt. It also determined that slightly more Mother Mary Wendy McMenamy, superior of the at jobs, hosted fundraising dinners, sponsored raffles and than half of applicants with Sisters of Reparation, said the received financial support from their home parishes and educational debt ended up not resolution of the difficult cases of organizations like the Mater Ecclesiae Fund for entering the communities. aspirants to religious life who have Vocations (www.fundforvocations.org), which awards When Sister Mary Joseph student loan debt will be brought grants to help pay off the student loan debt of young Prickel applied for entrance into about through faith. adults who have discerned a call to the priesthood or the Steubenville, Ohio-based “The Lord Jesus is the way, the religious life. Sisters of Reparation to the truth and the life,” she said. “He is Sister Mary Joseph learned through her own story Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, she the one who provides, like he that people often need help from others to do the will of was more than $50,000 in debt provided for Sister Mary Joseph.” God in their lives. because of student loans she Mother Wendy, however, had She hopes that everyone will be generous, whether had incurred. some practical advice for youths they are called to religious life or called to help others Formerly a member of who are approaching their college respond to a vocation. Sr. Mary Joseph St. Anthony Parish in Morris and Mother Mary Wendy years and think that God might be “I pray that all people will be open to the voice of Prickel, S.R.S.H.J. McMenamy, S.R.S.H.J. teacher at St. Nicholas School in calling them to religious life—make God and respond to whatever way he’s asking them to Ripley County, Sister Mary Joseph had her entire debt educational choices that won’t result in tens of thousands be generous and to give of themselves to him,” paid off by an anonymous benefactor after her story was of dollars of debt. Sister Mary Joseph said. “That’s ultimately how recounted in The Criterion in May 2010. (Log on to “Go to a community college, something that’s not fulfillment occurs.” †

Father Myles Smith was longtime pastor of St. John the Apostle Parish in Bloomington Criterion staff report Louvain, Belgium. Catholic University of America in Washington. Archbishop George J. Biskup ordained Father Smith to Father Smith was appointed a notary in the archdiocesan Father Myles Smith, a retired diocesan priest, died on the priesthood on July 25, 1970, at Immaculate Heart of Metropolitan Tribunal in 1976. May 2 at IU Health-Bloomington Hospital. He was 67. Mary Parish in Indianapolis. In 1977, he was appointed chaplain of the The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at 11 a.m. at Father Smith’s first pastoral assignment was as assistant Catholic Student Center at Indiana University- St. John the Apostle Church in Bloomington. Burial followed pastor of St. Michael the Archangel Purdue University Indianapolis while continuing as a notary. at the Priests’ Circle at Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis. Parish in Indianapolis. In 1980, Father Smith was assigned as associate pastor of Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, was In 1972, he was appointed St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. the principal celebrant. Father Joseph Moriarty was the assistant pastor of Our Lady of He was appointed pastor of St. John the Apostle Parish in homilist. Perpetual Help Parish in Bloomington in 1982, a post he held until 1995. Myles H. Smith was born on Nov. 6, 1944, to Delmore New Albany. The following year, In addition to his duties at St. John, Father Smith was also and Kathleen (Behrmann) Smith, and grew up in he became the assistant pastor of appointed in 1993 to serve as the deputy defender of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Thomas Aquinas parishes, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus bond in the Metropolitan Tribunal. both in Indianapolis. (Little Flower) Parish in In 1998, Father Smith was again appointed as deputy He attended the grade schools of both parishes and Indianapolis. defender of the bond. received priestly formation at the former Latin School in In 1974, he was granted In 2007, he was granted early retirement. Indianapolis, the former Saint Meinrad College in permission to pursue graduate Surviving are two brothers, Dennis and Neil Smith of St. Meinrad and the Catholic University of Louvain in Fr. Myles Smith studies in canon law at the Indianapolis and several nieces and nephews. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012

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Intellect and Virtue/John Garvey Catholic education helps us to think about God’s constant presence Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s God’s constant presence pops up in every GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus secretary of state, recently wrote to mark discipline. It colors our understanding of John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus our 125th anniversary at The Catholic literature and art. It helps learners resist the University of America. His letter conveyed disturbing contemporary trend of some Pope Benedict XVI’s best wishes. It also sciences trespassing on questions outside offered a reminder of our obligations as a their area of competence, attempting, in Editorial Catholic university, Pope Benedict’s words, “to drive the which the pope question concerning God into the subjective spelled out four years realm, as being unscientific.” Pope Benedict XVI ago this month when In a 2008 conference on the changing lights the paschal he visited our campus. identity of the person, Pope Benedict candle before the start “The Holy Father,” cautioned wisely that “no science can say of the Easter Vigil Mass Cardinal Bertone who man is, where he comes from or where CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica at wrote, “wished to he is going.” the Vatican on April 7. reaffirm the unique By the same principle of divine role played by friendship, Catholic education must also Catholic educational cultivate personal virtue, holiness and love of institutions in that ‘diaconia of truth’ which neighbor, lest it forget who we are and for the Church exercises in her proclamation of whom we are made. God’s revealed word. … The sacraments cannot be compulsory— “It is [Pope Benedict’s] hope that, in God “did not will to save us without us,” as fidelity to its founding vision, [your] St. Augustine put it—but Catholic university will continue to bring the universities should keep them visible and Church’s rich intellectual and spiritual encourage students to frequent them. patrimony to bear upon the critical issues Blessed John Paul II issued the apostolic of our time and thus contribute to the constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” in 1990 as authentic renewal of the social fabric in a response to the ongoing problem of accordance with the truth of the Gospel.” waning Catholic identity in higher education, The writings and homilies of and the increasing lack of interest in the Pope Benedict’s papacy offer a contributions of faith to intellectual life. The robust conception of just what late pope reminded Catholic schools that “it Catholic education is, and what makes it is in the context of the impartial search for unique. At its center, as at the center of truth that the relationship between faith and Not enough new Catholics Catholicism, is a friendship between God reason is brought to light and meaning.” e welcome all the new Catholics grew considerably after World War II as and man, mediated through the tradition of He would later offer the more famous Wwho became members of the Catholics began to participate more the Church. phrase, “Faith and reason are like two wings Church on Holy Saturday in the thoroughly in society as a result of being “Only in this friendship,” Pope Benedict on which the human spirit rises to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis—the able to go to college because of the said in the inaugural homily of his papacy, contemplation of truth.” 470 former catechumens who had not G.I. Bill. The ignorance about the “are the doors of life opened wide. Only in Pope Benedict builds on this idea with a yet been baptized, and the 489 former Catholic Church, and prejudice against it, this friendship is the great potential of more subtle and profound point. Faith and candidates who were already baptized that existed up to that time were slowly human existence truly revealed.” reason are not just two ingredients in a Christians. They are usually eroded as Catholics talked about their This friendship begins with the idea that Catholic education, as meat and potatoes are called converts. faith to non-Catholics. nothing we do, no matter how intellectually parts of a healthy meal. Faith actually On Easter Sunday, our churches also Things improved so much that a rigorous or scientific, happens outside of transforms reason, imbuing it with the power welcomed those who are sometimes Catholic, John F. Kennedy, was even our relationship with God. From there, it to contemplate the highest truths. called inactive Catholics, those who elected president. forms everything about us. If we are doing what we should, faith return on major holy days, often just We don’t seem to have that kind of Through the study of theology and likewise transforms education, enriching Christmas and Easter, to the Church into religious fervor today. Despite all those Church history, Catholic education instills both the intellectual and moral pursuits of which they received the sacraments of new Catholics, the number of Catholics this basic habit of thought in its recipient. It the university. initiation. is barely staying even. The Church is no plays the same role as the old canon of the Throughout the country, churches longer growing as it once was. liberal arts education, which once forced (John Garvey is president of were full on Easter. Perhaps our In fact, according to the every university student to ask again and The Catholic University of America in first thought was: Where are all these National Council of Churches again the age-old questions that shaped Washington and an expert on constitutional people the rest of the year? 2012 Yearbook of American & Canadian Western thought. law, religious liberty and the Pope Benedict XVI probably Churches, last year the Catholic Church This Catholic habit of thought about First Amendment.) † wondered the same thing when he had a 0.44 percent decrease in decided it was time to stress “the new membership. It is still the largest Church, Reflection/Melissa Lecher evangelization.” We will be hearing with 68.2 million people. The Southern much about that this year since a Baptist Convention, with 16.1 million, is worldwide synod of bishops will in second place. Thanks, Mom—and Dad—for your meet on Oct. 7-28 to discuss One reason that the Church isn’t “New Evangelization for the growing is because so many Catholics unwavering love and dedication Transmission of the Christian Faith.” have dropped out. They may be inactive This past week, I received a letter from important thing that I knew I could But why don’t we get started now, Catholics, have joined other Christian my mom in the mail just like I had for the always count on was love, support, while the full churches of Easter are still traditions, or have become completely past four years, but this letter was a compassion, and prayers from both my fresh in our memories? secularized and no longer practice little different. mother and my father. There have been other periods in the any faith. In this simple note, Mom and Dad, words cannot describe history of the Catholic Church in the We believe that we could all do a she said this would be my appreciation for the little reminders United States when evangelization was better job of evangelization. As we the last time she would you both sent me while at college. I deemed important and brought in many welcome those new Catholics, we should write the address attribute my college achievements to your converts. In the 1950s, Bishop Fulton also realize that there should have been 3200 Cold Spring never-ending storming of heaven with J. Sheen (later Archbishop) was many more of them. How many of us Road in Indianapolis prayers for health, success and safety. responsible for thousands of converts, actually did something to bring someone on a letter to her child. I am so blessed to have such especially as a result of his Emmy-award into the Church? The more I thought wonderful and caring parents as you. winning TV show. Surely, many of us know good people about it, I realized she Knowing I had you for an incredible This was a time, too, when who might be great Catholics. Often, all has been writing to this support system back at home was such Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton was it takes is for someone to invite them to address all of my life. an unbelievable feeling. conducting Rosary Crusades throughout accompany them to Mass. They might Twenty-two years ago, my oldest sister It amazes me to think you have been the country and, later, throughout the even have thought about Catholicism, but graduated from high school and began sending these letters for 22 years. What world, attracting millions of people. were hesitant to go to Mass by attending Marian College, now love and dedication you have for your There was a similar evangelization themselves. Marian University. Since then, my mom children! effort several decades earlier, although it Perhaps a neighbor has asked has been dropping notes in the mail to her You might have thought the letters happened in England. This was an questions about Catholic beliefs. Maybe 11 children who were away at college, were boring or dumb, but they brought so intellectual revival that resulted in the it is about our devotion to Mary, or our 10 of whom attended Marian, just to say much joy and inspiration at times when it conversion of such great writers as belief in the real presence of Christ in the she was thinking about us. was needed the most. G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Eucharist, or any number of other things. The letters were never lengthy or You truly are an example of devotion Graham Greene, Ronald Knox, The best response might be to invite him in-depth, only to say what she had done and love. Hilaire Belloc, T.S. Eliot and or her to the RCIA classes when they throughout the week, where she had been, For this, I can never thank you Dorothy Sayers. C.S. Lewis should be in resume this fall. and who she had seen. enough! that group because he converted from Next year, let us have many more new Occasionally, there was a newspaper Love always, atheism to Christianity, but he never Catholics to welcome. snippet about someone that we knew. I Melissa quite made it to the Catholic Church. could always count on greeting cards The Catholic Church in this country —John F. Fink when my birthday, holidays or special (Melissa Lecher is a member of St. John feast days came around. The most the Evangelist Parish in Enochsburg.) † The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Page 5

‘This club is a wonderful opportunity to be Submitted photo reminded that being a Catholic calls them to a certain way of life and a certain way of treating people. It’s also reminding them that part of our faith is being open to God’s will.’

—Msgr. William Stumpf, administrator of St. Michael Parish in Greenfield

lieutenant colonel after 24 years of serving his country. “I liked the idea, but I made it CRUSADERS focus on Christ instead of secular things. We continued from page 1 beefed it up for God.” Five members of the Crusaders for Christ Gentlemen’s Club at St. Michael School in Greenfield show guys have lived up to that pledge. He also kept the emphasis on manners their smiles and their style after their April meeting at the American Legion Hall in Greenfield. From After pausing for dramatic effect, club and social graces. Club members learn how left, Tyler Mundell, Westyn Wood, Owen Smith, Luke Tuttle and Joshua Mundell display their school moderator Richard Duncan announces that to make a toast, place their napkin on their colors through their blue shirts and their gold or yellow ties. there are no negative reports from the girls right knee, to stand up when a female leaves about the guys this month. the table, and to keep their arms and elbows “I think this is the first month we haven’t off the tables when they eat. had any negatives, so I guess we’re The students also learn from guest improving,” Duncan tells the group. speakers at their monthly luncheons. As a collective sigh of relief spreads “The speakers talk about their secrets to through the American Legion Hall in success, their Christian backgrounds and Greenfield, Duncan reads several notes from how faith helps them out,” Duncan says. unnamed girls who offer compliments about “We’ve had doctors, lawyers, business the courtesy and chivalry of certain guys — owners, and a plumber.” guys who smile or blush as they receive a The speaker at the April meeting of the round of cheers from their fellow Gentlemen’s Club was Brad Arthur, a club members. member of St. Michael Parish who owns businesses in commercial real estate and A plan for other Catholic schools? residential and commercial remodeling. That scene seems from a different world Arthur talked about the importance of and a different time when viewed against a education, honesty and respect—in his work current culture that places an increasing and his life. emphasis on promoting one’s self and The club also puts a priority on how its tearing down other people, says members treat females. Msgr. William Stumpf, administrator of St. Michael Parish. ‘Girls come up with notes all the time’ notice the difference in themselves and their out of school once a month for a lunch that Indeed, Msgr. Stumpf believes that every “One of the things that we do is we have friends. features hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, male student in middle schools across the the middle school girls voluntarily submit in “Since I started in the sixth grade, I desserts and unlimited refills of soft drinks. archdiocese could benefit from trying to live writing a good comment or a negative think I’ve changed,” says Owen Smith, an Yet it’s also true that members can be their lives according to the pledge of the comment about the boys,” Duncan says. eighth-grade student. “In sixth grade, I suspended or even removed from the club Crusaders for Christ Gentlemen’s Club. “The girls need to sign the note, but I don’t might not have picked up a book for a girl. if they don’t live up to the pledge that “This club is a wonderful opportunity to read their names when I read the note at the Now, I pick up books for the ladies.” they make. be reminded that being a Catholic calls them luncheon. The girls come up to me with Eighth-grade student Westyn Wood Duncan says that teachers have noticed to a certain way of life and a certain way of notes all the time. ‘Somebody opened the noted, “My mom said just the other day that improvements in the way the members treat treating people,” he says. “It’s also reminding door for me.’ ‘Somebody picked up my my manners have picked up, and I’m really their female classmates, and positive them that part of our faith is being open to books for me.’ being a gentleman.” changes in their attitudes at school. God’s will. I was just enthralled when I went “But we don’t just bask in the good “Some boys who weren’t in the club for Members insist that they embrace the to one of their meetings. It would be neat if things we do. We also want to hear the a couple of years didn’t make smart standards and try to live up to them. other schools and parishes would take it on negative things and the things we have to decisions and got in trouble,” says Luke “I like what we’re being taught—the as a project for their boys.” work on.” Tuttle, a seventh-grade student. “Then they values,” Tyler says. “I like what the That’s how the program started five years Well, the negative things are not exactly got in this club, and they liked it and wanted guest speakers have to say—that to be ago at St. Michael School. A teacher of what the guys want to hear when the notes to stay in it so they make right decisions.” successful we need self-discipline, sixth grade social sciences, Duncan was from the girls are read. scruples and faith.” intrigued when he saw a local newspaper “A lot of sixth graders get really ‘All of us are in it together’ “It’s good we’re all part of this,” says article about a similar club at Greenfield nervous,” says Tyler Mundell, a 14-year-old, The club is voluntary, but all the male Joshua Mundell, a seventh-grade student. Middle School. eighth-grade student who is president of students in the middle school belong to it. “To be in this club is a big thing, and you “They were trying to get their kids to the club. Duncan and club members acknowledge can get kicked out of it. All of us are in it behave correctly,” recalls Duncan, who Still, the students who have been in the that one of the reasons the club has together. We do good things, and we make retired from the Air Force in 2001 as a Gentlemen’s Club for two or three years universal appeal is that it gets the students a difference.” † Helen Alvare receives Notre Dame’s Evangelium Vitae Medal NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)—Pro-life champion movement alive, and cited the large number of young Catholic University of America, and now is on the Helen Alvare was honored on April 25 as winner of the people who are pro-life as a sign of tremendous success. faculty of School of Law at George Mason University. 2012 Notre Dame Evangelium She described the pro-life movement not as a cause or Her scholarly work is in the areas of abortion’s impact Vitae Medal. Inaugurated in an issue, but a way of life, God’s way of trying to on women, marriage, parenting, and new reproductive 2011, the medal is given annually transform the activists personally as they do good for the technologies. Alvare is also a consultor to the by the University of Notre Dame world. The Catholic Church is the best at pursuing the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Laity. Fund to Protect Human Life to an truth about the human person and thus does pro-life better In his homily at the Mass preceding the award individual who “steadfastly” than anyone, she added. banquet and ceremony, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of affirms and defends the sanctity Alvare said the pro-life movement has won the Fort Wayne-South Bend noted that the Gospel for that of human life. argument about the humanity of the unborn child, though day reminds us the Church is an “evangelizing “From the television studio, to formidable challenges remain because of the culture’s community” with the obligation to spread the Gospel the radio airwaves, congressional distorted view of human sexuality—challenges that she because God wants all people to know the truth and be hearing rooms, university said she went into academia to address. saved. However, evangelization faces many challenges campuses and forums beyond, In his introduction of Alvare, David Solomon, in today’s increasingly secularized culture, where Helen Alvare you have spoken and acted with Notre Dame philosophy professor and chairman of the relativism is rampant, religious liberty has come under ‘courage on behalf of those who Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life, explained that assault, and the sacredness of human life has been have no voice,’ ” read the citation for the award. the fund had been created by several Notre Dame faculty discarded, he said. The medal citation praised Alvare for more than and staff members to support pro-life initiatives on the Bishop Rhoades quoted the first words of 20 years of service defending and promoting human campus and to put in place a comprehensive pro-life “Evangelium Vitae”: “The Gospel of life is at the heart life. With quotes from Blessed John Paul II’s 1995 educational effort at Notre Dame. of Jesus’ message. Lovingly received day after day by encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), The 2011 inaugural medal winner, the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity for which the medal was named, the citation stated, “In Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the as ‘good news’ to the people of every age and culture.” an age when the sanctity of life from its earliest to its U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, was Therefore, the bishop explained, “The new final days is assaulted, you have boldly and present for the 2012 event that honored Alvare, who was evangelization requires ‘dauntless fidelity,’ courage, unremittingly worked to build and sustain the his former colleague. creativity, zeal and commitment” to “defend human life ‘unconditional respect for the right to life of every Alvare worked for three years in the Office of the against the many threats from the culture of death in innocent person,’ ‘one of the pillars on which every civil General Counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic which we live.” society stands.’ ” Bishops and then became spokeswoman for the And he described Alvare as a wonderful example of In her remarks after the medal was conferred, Alvare USCCB pro-life secretariat for the next 10 years. She then the role of the laity in “wisely and courageously” thanked all the people who had kept the pro-life joined the faculty of the Columbus School of Law at The proclaiming and serving that “Gospel of life.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Events Calendar

May 12 May 14 [email protected]. Tickets available through by rosary outside abortion breakfast bar buffet, St. Roch Parish, Family Life St. Pius X Parish, parish youth groups. clinic and Benediction at 7:30 a.m.-noon, free-will Our Lady of Mount Carmel church. Information: Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., 7200 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis. May 18 donation: Information: Indianapolis. Single Seniors Our Lady of Fatima Church, 14598 Oak Ridge Archdiocesan Office for 812-623-2349. Northside Knights of meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and Retreat House program, Road, Carmel, Ind. Pro-Life Ministry, Columbus Hall, 2100 E. over. Information: “Exorcism–It’s Relevance for (Diocese of Lafayette). 317-236-1569 or Richmond Catholic 317-784-4207. Today,” Father Vincent “Raising Pure Teens–A Talk 71st St., Indianapolis. 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. Catholic Business Exchange, Community, 701 N. “A” St., Lampert, presenter, 7-9 p.m., for Parents,” Jason Evert, Richmond. Charismatic presenter, 7 p.m. Information: Mass, breakfast and program, May 19-20 Our Lady of Perpetual Help $15 per person if registered by prayer group, 7 p.m. Parish, 1752 Scheller Lane, May 13, $20 per person at the 317-810-9228. “Fighting the Good Fight,” Kokomo High School, Information: New Albany. New Albany door. Information: Joyce Johnson, executive 2501 S. Berkley, Kokomo, Ind. Deanery coaches, football 317-545-7681 or May 16 director of Rock Steady (Diocese of Lafayette). [email protected]. camp for kindergartners to www.archindy.org/fatima. Calvary Cemetery, Boxing, 6:30-8:30 a.m., Sixth annual Indiana Holy fifth-graders, $15 per player. Mausoleum Chapel, 435 W. $14 members, Family Catholic Conference, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Church, Information: 812-945-2000 or Crooked Stick Golf Course, Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Mass, $20 non-members. “Defend Your Family, Your 3033 Martin Road, [email protected]. 1964 Burning Tree Lane, 2 p.m. Information: Reservations and information: Marriage and Your Faith,” Floyds Knobs. New Albany Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of 317-784-4439 or www.catholicbusiness national speakers and activities Deanery, high school Mass, May 13 Lafayette). Archdiocesan www.catholiccemeteries.cc. exchange.org. for children of all ages, 6 p.m., followed by “build a Our Lady of the $135 per family, $115 married Office of Catholic Education, May 17 burger” and games. Most Holy Rosary Church, “Golf Fore Faith,” St. Augustine Home for the couple, $70 single adult. Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Information: 812-945-2000 or 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aged Chapel, 2345 W. 86th Information: 765-865-9964 or Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. [email protected]. Knights of Columbus, registration, $1,800 per St., Indianapolis. Charismatic www.holyfamily Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. “Eucharistic Rosary Rally,” foursome. Information: Mass, praise and worship, conference.org. May 30 Mass, 2 p.m. Information: 1:30 p.m. Information: 317-441-8956 or 7 p.m., Mass, 7:30 p.m. St. Joan of Arc Parish, 317-636-4478. [email protected]. 317-574-8898 or Information: 317-846-0705. May 20 www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Holy Trinity Parish, Bockhold Doyle Hall, 4217 Central Ave., Indianapolis. Ministry Saint Meinrad Archabbey, May 15 May 19 Hall, 902 N. Holmes Ave., St. Meinrad. Monte Cassino Marian University, Southland Skate Center, St. Michael the Archangel Indianapolis. Euchre party, Through the Arts Project pilgrimage, “Madonna and Ruth Lilly Student Center, 6611 Bluff Road, Indianapolis. Church, 3354 W. 30th St., 1:30 p.m., $4 per person. Inc., feast day of St. Joan of Child–Imagining the Mother 3200 Cold Spring Road, Concert for the Great Lakes Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s Arc, 600th anniversary of her of God,” Benedictine Father Indianapolis. Adult Programs, Gabriel Project, “Angels Precious Infants, pro-life St. Paul Parish, Parish Hall, birth, The Passion of Joan of Harry Hagan, presenter, 2 p.m. information meeting, 6 p.m. Rock for Life,” 6-8 p.m., Mass, Father Eric Johnson, 9788 N. Dearborn Road, Arc, 6 p.m. Information: Information: 812-357-6501. Registration: 317-955-6271 or $4 pre-sale, $6 at the door. celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed Guilford. Ladies Sodality, 317-283-5508. †

Retreats and Programs Kordes Center, Ferdinand, Ind. (Evansville Diocese). “Rest and Reflection Day,” Sisters of St. Benedict, presenters, Submitted photo May 12 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., no cost, lunch available for Kordes Center, Ferdinand, Ind. $9.10 or bring your own lunch. Information: (Evansville Diocese). “The Rosary– 812-367-1411, ext. 2636, or www.thedome.org. The Glorious Mysteries,” Benedictine Sister Madonna Helmer, presenter, May 20 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., $40 per person includes Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. lunch. Information: 812-367-1411, ext. 2915, 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana Conference, or www.thedome.org/programs. marriage preparation program, 1:15-6 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681 or May 14 [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Woman Talk: Happiness–Be Happy in “Praying with Teresa of Avila,” Spite of Yourself,” session four of five, Franciscan Sister Kathleen Mulso, presenter, Betsy Robbins, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., 1-3 p.m., $25 per person. $25 per person includes dinner. Information: 812-933-6437 or Information: 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. [email protected]. May 22-24 May 16 Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. St. Meinrad. “Revisiting the Rosary,” 56th St., Indianapolis. “Divine Wine and Art mid-week retreat, Benedictine Brother Zachary with Heart,” Katie Sahm, presenter, Wilberding, presenter. 6:30-9:30 p.m., $35 per person includes Information: 812-357-6585 or refreshments and supplies. [email protected]. Information: 317-545-7681 or May 23 [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Speech contest winner Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, “Thomas Merton Seminar–Bridges to 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Contemplative Living,” Benedictine Sister “Thomas Merton Seminar–Bridges to Julie Sewell, presenter, session four of four, Devarrio Wilkins, left, a freshman at Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis, poses on Contemplative Living,” workshop on Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m. Mass, April 26 with Helen Burke, a volunteer at the school, after winning a speech contest Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, presenter, 6 p.m. simple supper, $85.95 includes book and co-sponsored by POWERTalk International, formerly International Training in Communication, and the session three of four, workshop on supper. Information: 317-788-7581 or Indianapolis chapter of BIG (Blacks in Government). The contest was held at the Lawrence Public Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m. Mass, [email protected]. Assembly Center in Lawrence. Devarrio will compete at the POWERTalk regional conference in 6 p.m. simple supper, $85.95 includes book Indianapolis in June and at BIG’s 34th annual National Training Conference in Detroit this summer. and supper. Information: 317-788-7581 or May 24 [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Care of Creation #3–Energy Savings,” May 17 Robert White, Rural Economic Development, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. presenter, 6:30-8 p.m., $15 per person. 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana Conference, Information: 812-933-6437 or marriage preparation program, session [email protected]. Submitted photo three of three, 6:15-9 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681 or May 31 [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Care of Creation #4–Herbs and Healing Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. with Hildegard,” Franciscan Sisters Olga “Care of Creation #2–Birds and Witteking and Myra Peine, presenters, Butterflies,” Wayne Wauligman, 6:30-8 p.m., $15 per person. Information: Audubon Society speaker, presenter, 812-933-6437 or center@oldenburgfranciscan 6:30-8 p.m., $15 per person. center.org. Information: 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. June 1-3 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. May 18-20 56th St., Indianapolis. Tobit Weekend, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, marriage preparation program. Information: St. Meinrad. “Reading the Book of 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Deuteronomy,” Benedictine Father Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. St. Meinrad. “Prayer–What Is It Really?” May 19 Benedictine Father Adrian Burke, presenter. Brain Game runners-up Information: 812-357-6585 or Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. [email protected]. “Women’s Day–Women of Life,” Members of the Brain Game team at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis pose on Franciscan Sisters Olga Wittekind, June 3 April 18 on the set of the annual academic team competition hosted by WTHR Channel 13 in Norma Rocklage and Patty Campbell, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Indianapolis. Cardinal Ritter’s team was the runner-up in this year’s 48-team competition. Posing presenters, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $45 per person 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana Conference, are, from left, Clare Harshey, Joseph Sweeney, Joey Kurucz, competition host Chris Wright and includes breakfast and lunch. marriage preparation program, 1:15-6 p.m. Brian Malone. Westfield Insurance, which sponsors the Brain Game competition, awarded Information: 812-933-6437 or Information: 317-545-7681 or Cardinal Ritter $5,000 for its team’s runner-up finish. [email protected]. [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Page 7

families that had connections to the FAITH Catholic Church. Although John’s father was Catholic, John Submitted photos continued from page 1 was not baptized as an infant. When his A story generations in the making father died when he was 5, John was not Seven generations of the Weiler family subsequently raised in any faith community. have worshipped at St. Peter Parish in Janis’ parents had been raised as Franklin County. Conrad Weiler was a Catholics, but stopped practicing their faith charter member of the Batesville Deanery when they became adults. As a result, she faith community that was founded in 1833. wasn’t raised in any faith community either. He helped build its current church in As he grew up, John felt that something 1853. Since that time, members of every was missing in his life, and embarked on generation of Weilers have gone to the a wide-ranging spiritual journey. At church to be baptized, confess their sins for different times, he looked into Buddhism the first time, receive their first Communion, and Judaism. be confirmed, profess vows of marriage and His journey took on greater intensity a be buried from it. couple of years ago after he suffered two Samantha Weiler was welcomed into this heart attacks at age 39. long line of Catholics in her husband Last year, his quest took a turn that Jacob’s family when she was baptized, surprised him when he and Janis looked into confirmed and received her first enrolling their son, Blake, at St. Anthony Communion during St. Peter’s Easter Vigil School in Clarksville as a second grader. on April 7. At first, he said that the fact that the “It gives me some meaning about what school was rooted in the Catholic faith was family is and how God is the center of our unimportant to him. He and Janis simply saw lives,” said Samantha about the Weiler it as a place for Blake to receive a family’s roots in the parish. “I feel more good education. connected with them and the Church.” “It was just a really nice school,” John Samantha was born into a family whose said. “I wanted him to have a better story differed in many ways from the education, and I thought that a Weilers. She wasn’t raised in any faith Catholic education [would be good]. It felt community. And when she was 9, she and right from the minute that we got there.” her younger sister had to be raised by an Since Blake would learn about the uncle and aunt after her parents were unable Catholic faith at St. Anthony, John and Janis to care for them. decided that it was also important for them to “I’ve made a lot of sacrifices through learn about it. life,” Samantha said. “I know I’m only 31, “We took an educational approach to it,” but it was rough. It’s made me grow up John said. “We tried to learn what it was alot.” [about the faith] that our son was going to She has appreciated sharing the life of learn in this school. And in doing so, we her husband’s family during the 10 years ended up finding our spiritual home.” since their wedding. He and Janis participated in the “They’re always there for you,” Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program Samantha said. “They’d give you the shirt at St. Anthony of Padua Parish. While in it, off their back if you needed it. We always John began reading Scripture regularly, help each other out.” including the readings for daily Mass. Jacob’s work schedule makes it difficult He believes that his journey of faith is, for him to volunteer in the religious “without a doubt,” like the parable of the Conventual Franciscan Father John West, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Clarksville, gives education program at St. Peter in which Prodigal Son (Lk 15:11-32). Like the Communion to John Bishop during an April 7 Easter Vigil Mass celebrated at the New Albany Deanery their children participate. So he has been younger son in that story, John went far faith community’s church. Bishop and his family were received into the full communion of the Church thankful for the efforts that she has made away from the faith tradition of his father, during the liturgy. through the years to pass on the Catholic only to return to it when he was in need faith to them, even before she was received of help. into the Church. “It’s all so mind-blowing, you know,” “She’s been a big help for me,” he said. John said. “It really is.” “I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.” Janis said that her family’s encounter with He is also grateful for Samantha’s choice the Catholic faith, when John’s health has to join him and their children in the Catholic been so fragile, has been a great gift. faith that he received from his ancestors. “I find peace in it,” she said. “I think that “I do believe that it’s brought us a lot is the only way to explain it. Since our closer,” Jacob said. “It helps her to family has started this journey, it has taken understand why our family is so close. It’s stresses away from me, and I know it has another way for us to be together as a family from him as well.” and to do things as a family.” For his part, Blake, who said he was When it came time for her to be baptized “happy and glad” to see his family baptized, during the Easter Vigil at St. Peter, likes being a student at St. Anthony School. Samantha was a little nervous. “It has a lot of good things,” he said. “I “It was fun, but it was kind of get to learn new things every day.” nerve-racking at the same time,” she said. John is happy to be a member of the Above, members of the Weiler family pose in St. Peter “Everyone was staring at me.” Catholic Church. And although his health Church on April 7 after the celebration of an Easter But she was glad to be received into the condition prevents him from taking part in Vigil Mass there during which Samantha Weiler was Church, knowing that it would help her pass the life of the Church as much as he would received into the full communion of the Church. They on the gift of faith to her children. like, he still has plans to put his faith into are, from left, Jacob, Eliza, Samantha, Wyatt, Hazel and “I think it will help them to be better action by trying to help maintain St. Anthony Jacob Weiler. people,” Samantha said. “That’s what I want Parish’s cemetery. for them. I think every parent wants a better “It’s caring for those who have passed,” Left, the Bishop family pose on April 7 in St. Anthony life for their children. And I think the John said. “Their souls are being cared for of Padua Church in Clarksville after being received Church … [makes] families stronger.” by God. And I’d like to take care of their into the full communion of the Church during the physical remains. They were loyal followers New Albany Deanery faith community’s Easter Vigil Renewing a Catholic connection of Christ. And they deserve to be well taken Mass. They are, from left, Blake, Janis, Evelyn and John and Janis Bishop were born into care of.” † John Bishop.

with U.S. bishops over the pursuit of knowledge and virtue,” the the Gospel.” POPE Obama administration’s plan to require pope said. Although his remarks principally continued from page 1 that the private health insurance plans of The pope contrasted the Catholic ideal of concerned higher education, the pope most Catholic institutions cover education with a current trend toward also praised the “generous commitment, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of the late contraception, sterilization and academic overspecialization. often accompanied by personal Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., to speak at abortifacients. Chieko Noguchi, “Faith’s recognition of the essential unity sacrifice,” of teachers and administrators the university’s commencement, after director of communications for of all knowledge provides a bulwark against in America’s Catholic elementary and Bishop Robert J. McManus objected to Washington’s Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, the alienation and fragmentation which high schools. Victoria Kennedy’s support for legalized said the cardinal had no comment on occurs when the use of reason is detached Pope Benedict acknowledged the abortion, contraception and same-sex Georgetown’s announcement. from the pursuit of truth and virtue,” he schools’ efforts to ensure that Catholic marriage. In his speech to U.S. bishops, said. “In this sense, Catholic institutions education “remains within the reach of all On May 4, Jesuit-run Pope Benedict said that preservation of a have a specific role to play in helping to families, whatever their financial status.” Georgetown University announced that university’s Catholic identity “entails much overcome the crisis of universities today.” In a possible reference to proposals for Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the more than the teaching of religion or the Pope Benedict said that reaffirming greater public funding of religious Department of Health and Human Services, mere presence of a chaplaincy on campus. Catholic identity in education is part of a education, the pope said that Catholic will give the commencement speech at the “In every aspect of their education, broader effort to build a distinctively schools’ “significant contribution … to university’s public policy institute on students need to be encouraged to Catholic “intellectual culture” in the U.S., American society as a whole ought to May 18. articulate a vision of the harmony of faith and a “society ever more solidly grounded be better appreciated and more Sebelius, a Catholic, is currently at odds and reason capable of guiding a life-long in an authentic humanism inspired by generously supported.” † ` Page 8 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Page 9

We welcome the new Catholics who have become full participants in the first Eucharist. Church since last Easter. Most of the people listed here received initiation The 489 candidates listed were baptized in other Christian traditions and sacraments during the Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 7. The names listed were were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church with a profession provided by religious education leaders at local parishes. of faith, confirmation and first Eucharist during the past year. The 470 catechumens listed are people who have never been baptized and— Most people are listed in the parishes where they received their religious Welcome, new Catholics within the past year—were baptized, confirmed and received their formation and the sacraments of initiation. †

Batesville Deanery Darrell Allen, Gabrielle Allen, Hope Allen, Jason Prendergast, Robin Prendergast and and Olivia Zedrick (candidates) Brandi Cook, Adrian Gallegos, Jacqueline Sutton (candidates) St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Aurora Miguel de Jesús Gallegos, Anthony Miles, William Bruns III (candidate) Submitted photo Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood Indianapolis West Deanery Pamela Murray, Jennifer Smedberg and Anna Sorto Heather Bland, Brianna Boerner, Corbin Boerner, St. Malachy, Brownsburg St. Louis, Batesville (catechumens) Linda Diaz and Michelle Webb (catechumens); Alivia Brown, Cari Brown, Claire Brown, Gabe Brown, Amy Bixler, Kobe Britton, Lindsay Dakin, Virginia Adams and Gregory Webb (candidates) St. Rita Morgan Brown, Raeann Fraser, Ronald Graham, Scott Dunwoody, Marti Elliott, Kelsey Price, Haylee Hayden and Kennedy Phillips (catechumens); Joshua Kelly, Graysen King, Jessie Klene, Lindy Olding, Michael Shipp, Ricky Snyder, Breyana Suhre, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Bright May Bixler, Deadria Olarewaju and Samson Olarewaju Robin Piscitelli, James Smith and Brian Wood Kacie Suhre, Skylar Volz and Stephanie Williams Cybil Lachenman (catechumen); Beverly Grawin, (candidates) (catechumens); Michael Boerner, Jaime Coffman, (catechumens); Diego Babcock, Raymond Engelman, Scott Kallmeyer, Kimberly McCord and St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Jeff Drake, Tyler Droste, Amanda Ferguson, Jared Farmer, Mark Hinshaw, Megan Hobaugh, Mary-Alice Whitney (candidates) Wallace Alexander, Crystal Barcenas, Cassandra Cecil, Michelle Haddix, Ruth Hansen, Debra Hendricks, Jacob Kodrick, Kaeli Kodrick, Anthony Komlanc, St. John the Baptist, Dover Sharon Cecil, Aaron Cunningham, James Dunbar, Huynh Hai, Ly Tran, Ashley Keith, Steve Kennedy, Cedrick Marco, Drishna Marco, Kassandra Marco, Rebecca Grace (catechumen); Bruce Lippard (candidate) James Olmsted, Danny Smith and Todd Weinbrecht Amanda Larmour, Ashley Neeson, Dawn O’Bryan and Kyle Means, Miranda Minnick, Farai Mukona, St. Peter, Franklin County (catechumens); Tiffani Boles, Verna Ford, Nicholas Wright (candidates) Alyssa Orlando, Toby Pritchard, Kelly Steele, Judy Todd, Ruth Geis and Samantha Weiler (catechumens); Joseph Jacobs and Julienne Tuterow (candidates) SS. Frances and Clare, Greenwood Jonathan Torres, Greg Waltman and Robin Weidenbener Leo House (candidate) St. Michael, Greenfield Nikki Case, Joe Higginson, Megan Howe, Jeffrey Laug, (candidates) St. Mary, Greensburg Sean Curry, James Hahn, Abby Herbert, Adam Herbert, Laura Martin, Noah Raber and Larna Smith Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville Eric Capper, Heather Hirt, Paula Hubbard, Kelly Land, Brad Herbert, Madysen Herbert, Chris Kintner, (catechumens); Randy Baker, Danielle Chrysler, Michael Birchman, Lee Clark, Morgan Clark, Dianna Lowe, Michael Manus, Nyree Morgan, Shane Odum and Elizabeth Schurger (catechumens) Angela Doerr, Rosemary El-Bakri, Elaine Gregory, Peggy Lynch, Caitlyn Simon, Joseph Simon, Jay Schofield, Tricia Stephens and Keri Wisniowski Cheryl Hardy, Keesha McCue, J.D. Neiswanger, Joshua Simon and Christopher Thompson (catechumens); (candidates) Indianapolis North Deanery Kenneth Ralph, Steve Roberts, Corey Small and Karen DeJarlais, Matthew Higdon and Jack Williams St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg Christ the King Iver Small (candidates) (candidates) Kimberly Elliott, Conor Geary, Lauren Hetzer, Kirk Meyers, Kayla Reece, Dianea Seehase, Good Shepherd Holy Angels Kelly Huddleston, Sara Sitterle and Del Weldon Tammy Shirley, Emily Steele and Zach Steele John Bauerle and Logan Collins (catechumens); Kimberly Cowart and Rachelle Frink (catechumens); (catechumens); Andrea Golden, Ronald Kuhn, (catechumens); Kameron Cullina, Rachel Cullina, Eric Madsen, Rebecca Norris and Michael Walterman Latrés Bell, Donovan Jones and Sherman Laster Mary Ellen Schneider and Nancy Weldon (candidates) Sheila Cullina, Margaret Hermanek, Brooke Huber, (candidates) (candidates) Elena Lopez, Jennifer Priser, Shannen Priser, St. Charles Borromeo, Milan Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ St. Anthony Dennis Watson (catechumen) Shellie Redelman, Brian Scott, Terri Scott, Treva Caster, Dawn Coles, Bryan Dilk, Michael Horne, Ashley Seehase and Lauren Stevenson (candidates) Juan Castillo, Maritza Castillo, Valerio Flores, St. Paul, New Alsace Melinda Kennedy and Bridgett Melloh (catechumens); Irene Hernández, Chris Kreiger, Edith Muñiz, Roxanne Boyd (candidate) Immaculate Heart of Mary Jason Fitzgerald and Chad Wiekert (candidates) Lauren McHugh, Roberto Mejía, Wagner Melgar, David Diercks, Donna Diercks, Lauren Diercks, Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Alfonso Puebla, Francisco Puebla, Tisha Ramirez and Holy Family, Oldenburg Tyler Diercks, Katie McGovern, Grayson McKinney, Matilda Granger, Destinee Nunlist and Kayla Pinckley Walter Crislip (catechumen); Elizabeth Gomes, Israel Vargas (catechumens) Betsy Norton, Emerson Lee, Foster Lee, Given Lee and (catechumens); Amanda Lamping, Charla Westerfeld and Kenneth Gomes, Lisa Gomes, Tanya Hoover and Trigg Lee (catechumen); Julie Brenton, Jason Burkman, St. Christopher Lisa White (candidates) Ashley Wells (candidates) Anne Collins, Marc Collins, Kristina Dunlap, Aidan Cunningham, Michelle Cunningham, St. John the Baptist, Osgood Kyla Griese, Corey Martinez, Alicia McKinney, Sacred Heart of Jesus William Cunningham, Reece Davis, Billy Gill, Matt Hartman, David Rice and Katie Roth (catechumens); Sean Murphy, Doug Perry and Sarah Rossier (candidates) Larry Grooms, Christine Hook and Michael Oliver Christina Gill, Melissa Hedge, Summer Kegeris, Bobby Hubbard, Tracy Rice and Austin Pez (candidates) (catechumens); Jerod Alford, Andrew Benett, Jacob Klemann, Jessica Martinez, Gary Moran, St. Joan of Arc Sue Prewitt, Elizabeth Tinsley and Robert Tinsley Trevor Nibbs, Tyreese Nibbs and Kristin Winters St. Pius, Ripley County Alicia Hamadanchi, Liz Koon, Kathy Laderach, Savannah Wagner (catechumen); Abigal Hornberger, (candidates) (catechumens); Jay Adams, Heather Butler, Deborah Magga and Travis Robinson (catechumens); Melissa Grabowski, Stephen Kesler and Timothy Parnell Jeff Lewis, Jim Red Elk and Stan Sporleder Nikki Brown, Carissa Hendrickson, Neal Keith, St. Barnabas (candidates) (candidates) Joann Perkins and Ryan Sanford (candidates) Brittney Borszem, Gregory Graue, Brianne McClelland, St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County Wally Speer and Kelly Weis (catechumens); St. Gabriel the Archangel St. Lawrence Jessica Haddix, Robert Lane Jr., Monica Murray, Lesvia Mendez, Jocelyn Perez, Luz Perez and Brianna Wettrick (catechumen); Barbara Harcourt and Michelle Benavides-Arias, Diago Derosas-Cardova, Kevin Harry (candidates) Bradley Piatt, Dustin Pierson and Kendra Pierson Ricardo Perez (catechumens); Victor Carillo-Sanchez, Maria Hernandez, Parien Highbaugh, Aleena Lewis, (candidates) Robert Evans, Nancy Larson, Romeo Leonardo and St. Joseph, Shelbyville Jared Lewis, Payton Lewis, Azucena Martinez-Pineda, Mayra Lopez (candidates) Jennifer Harden (catechumen); Carolyn Disser, Savannah Moman, Maria Ochoa-Sanchez, St. John the Evangelist Dana Ewing and Lisa Myers (candidates) George Schott, Jonathan Smith, Maria Tello-Cuenca, Young Eun Kim, Joshua Miller, Jake Parker, St. Michael the Archangel Melissa Teles and Erika Telex-Hernandez (catechumens); Daniel Sonnenburg and Aaron Sweet (catechumens); Eric Beck and Jessica Niehaus (catechumens); St. Joseph, St. Leon Andrew Ellis, Jerry Mitchell and Steven Mniszewski Brandy Bittner and Michelle Williams (candidates) Jose Bello, Katherine Curles, Octaviano-De los Santes, Crystal Friedl, Jordan Johnson, David Paterson, Michelle Kolosso, Nicolas Martinez-Fuentes, Jeffrey Platz, Beth Reynolds and Laura Wall (candidates) St. Martin, Yorkville (candidates) Ashley Hastings and Lloyd Kimball (candidates) Sandra Neely and Robert Root (candidates) St. Monica St. Luke the Evangelist St. Jude Nancy Amado, Bryan Amado, Chelsea Aparicio, Bloomington Deanery Este Fania Hernandez, Jakoby Hogan, Brooklyn Bass, Jennifer Bass, Catherine Bucci, Julio Cesar Escobedo, Malik Falana, Melanie Flores, Caelan Kendall-Hahn, Jessica Myers, Julianne Myers, Dalton Jones, Melissa Jones, Chris Stimac, Robin Tignor Kevin Perez Gonzalez, Kimberly Perez Gonzalez, St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford and Gary Young (catechumens); Melissa Carman, Bryan Meza, Jorge Meza, Jennifer Orona Rodriguez, Chad Biddle and Darren Fortner (candidates) Madison Paschal, Stuart Scott and Alex Tabor (catechumens); Julie Christensen, Roy Jones, Kassie Carman, Matthew Neuenschwander, Leslie Peters, Erick Orona Rodriguez, Jessica Sanchez-Alvarez, St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington Jennifer Baker, William Baker, Margaret Rezek and Robert Walker and Margie Young (candidates) Henry Sanchez, Jimena Sanchez, Rosaisela Sanchez, Mariah Shu, Joshua Wagner and Kara Winkler Patrick Rezek (candidates) St. Mark the Evangelist Carlos Villeda-Ayala, Felipe Villeda-Ayala, (catechumens); Jennifer Bailey, Rebekah Bloss, Nicholas Kratzer is baptized by Father Dennis Duvelius during an Easter Vigil Mass on April 7 at St. Paul Church in Tell City. Casey Gribble, Ethan Johnson, Delia Jimenez, Tammy Brown, Terry Bailey, David Harper, Travis Cooper, Amy Duncan, Samuel Karpen, St. Matthew the Apostle Giovani Lopez, Fernando Pliego and Luis Serrano Hayden Harper, Max Harper, David Price, Colten Mitchell, Erin Rasche and Whitney Williamson St. Jude the Apostle, Spencer Indianapolis East Deanery Ryan Cole and Lynn Mattingly (catechumens); (catechumens); Manuela Amegan, Sheila Amegan, Chad Crosby (candidate) Peyton Price and Taylor Price (catechumens); (candidates) Melanie Allen, Maria Corbito, Adam Hunter and Christian Arciniega, Jorge Arciniega, Brena Arellano, Holy Spirit Heather Briggeman, Rachel Brown, Don Cloud, Mark Black, Ruth Ann Black, Sidny Escobar, Kurt Och (candidates) Josefina Flores, Nareny Flores, Tyler Frounfelter, St. John the Apostle, Bloomington Jamie Harper, Katrina Kinder, Jo Ann McClellan, Connersville Deanery Karen Guillon, Jade Harlin, Emily Hess, Jason Hill, Monica Gribble, Brenda Hernandez, James Johnson, Ryan Herndon (catechumen) St. Pius X Kenneth Pinkiston, Kara Price and Ryan Quillinan St. Michael, Brookville Anastasia Kurtz, Bradley Kurtz, Colton Kurtz, Josshellin Juarez, Christian Lopez, Senorina Lopez, Enoch Ayeh and Julie Brown (catechumens); Tim Bacsa, (candidates) St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington Brittany Fugate, Jerry Short and Ashley Tebbe Lou Ann Lake, Luis Angel Leyba, Angel Lopez, Ryan Adams, Brittney Aragon, Bryton Hiatt, Molly Fugate, Stephen Knoll and Ruth Mercer Reyna Morales, Adrian Nieves, Hatisri Nieves, (catechumens); Justin Boggs and Chris Brychell Tyrus Moorman, Devon Newhart, Carter Rukaj, St. Patrick Jesus Alfredo Ornelas, Alfredo Orona, Blake Hollins, Vivian Hopkins, David McAvoy, (candidates) (candidates) Sarah Rukaj, Hayley Sloan, Nick Sloan, Vanessa Escobar, Ana Moreno, Yuridi Moreno, Yoceli Yolanda Palafox, Irene Palmero, Maria Perez, Andrea Richardson and Rigobarto Ventura St. Simon the Apostle Deangelo Williams and Eric Wolski (catechumens); Maria Patiño and Mariela Sanchez (catechumens); Rolando Perez, Patricia Rodriguez, Sergio Rodriguez, (catechumens); Sean Armie, Aaron Burkhart, St. Gabriel, Connersville Samuel Lawson, William Lawson and David Pehlman Linda Conn, Imani Elzy-Yales, Lori Gutierrez, Virginia Sims-Aguirre, Reyes Cuazitl, Alfredo Cuhuizo, Jovani Sanchez-Alvarez, Katherine Sanchez, Aaron Mobley, Jennifer Mobley, David Simonetti, Meghan Keal, Elisabeth Martin and Zachariah Martin (catechumens); David Anderson, Rafael Bahamonde, Rosa Marie Gutierrez, Brooke Johnson, Sonia Esteban, Juan Garcia, Guillermo Hernandez, Martin Santos, Abilene Soto, Alejandra Soto, Pedro Soto, Brian Sowder, Jason Szostek, Rachel Szostek, (catechumens); Michelle Creech, Jeff Martin and Matthew Goins, Thomas Harper, Jennifer Flight Hawk, Rachel Johnson, Fred Nieske and Terry Vail Jennifer Limon, Elizabeth Ocelotl, Jorge Olmos, David Torres, Sasha Torres, Tabitha Torres, Daniel Terrell, Chelsea Whitlow, Kristi Martin (candidates) Barbara Hicks, Jonathan Houck and Angela Kneebone (candidates) Edgardo Perez, Freddy Perez, Tosa Perez, Yahaira Perez, Darling Treminio, Hernan Treminio and Ryan Whitley Annabelle Wilkinson and Scott Windell (candidates) (candidates) Richmond Catholic Community, Richmond Gil Ramirez, Maribel Ramirez, Carmina Ramos, (candidates) Jack Bodiker, Patty Dargie, Paula Fox, Our Lady of Lourdes St. Thomas Aquinas St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville Tosca Marin and Tracy Wilburn (catechumens) Noe Ramos, Maria Rodriguez, Juan Sanchez, Ashley Janneck and Andrea Rafferty (catechumens); Amanda Julian, Heidi Klemann, Linda Langley, Rick Burgess, Chelsea Durnil, Robert King, Rosario Sandoval, Angel Soto, Ricky Soto, St. Thomas More, Mooresville Victoria Doll and Kevin Reeves (candidates) David Lindsey, Steve Poindexter and Jeffrey Skinner SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral David O’Connor, Ellie Sinsko and Rick Thomas Jr. Gustavo Tello, Julio Tello, Sandra Torrijos and Belinda Colletti, Charles Dotson and Gary Franklin Elmer Chowning and Mark Metz (candidates) (catechumens) St. Mary of the Assumption, Mitchell (catechumens); Tim Armstrong, Holly Baird, (candidates) Alejandro Vargas (candidates) Callison Blais and Deysy Blais (catechumens); Christina Falcone, David Gaddis, Bailey Hall, St. Bernadette St. Roch St. Susanna, Plainfield A.J. Abplanalp, Emma Abplanalp, Tessa Abplanalp, Melanie Holthouse, Alfredo Julian, Emily Keesling, Jean Harrison and Kelly Monroe (catechumens) Indianapolis South Deanery Laurie Allman, Adrian Brunner, Dillion Brunner, Mark Buis, Ashley Burgess, Cassie Cunningham, Travis Butcher, Amanda Finney and Scott Reeves Chasey Blais, Justin Blais, Kyle Edrington, Kyle King, Shann Newton and Kaelan Poindexter St. Mary Holy Name of Jesus, Beech Grove Scot Dawson, Sara Hawk, Dawn Hernly, Libby Roberts, (catechumens); Chelsee Ehrhardt, Caleb Moore, Stacey Edrington and Seth Ross (candidates) (candidates) Elba Arellano, Michelle Montgomery, Jason Spilbeler Dane Clouse, Drew Clouse, Alyssa Collins, Trent Smith, Tyler Smith and Rex Taulman David Oliphant, Cynthia Seybert and Elissa Van Leer and Davin Testerman (catechumens); Mark Bagwell and Mark Lincoln, Kelcie Lincoln, Kenzie Lincoln, (catechumens); Sarah Barna, Emily Brunner, St. Agnes, Nashville St. Mary, Rushville (candidates) Melissa Richey and Gene Waltman (catechumens); Issac Nigh and Kenny Nigh (catechumens); Leslie Purcell (candidates) Jameson Prendergast, Vincent Prendergast, Deidra Colvin, Gloria Condon, Amber Crist, Diana Akles, Raina Billington and Marilyn Grove Shane Hanley, Ron Jarman and Dusti Woodard St. Philip Neri Courtney Van Winkle and Naomi Wolf (catechumens); Megan Hawk, Brenda Hernly, Josh Justice, Alex Moguel, Abigail Allen, Angela Allen, Brittney Allen, Chari Burke, Dominic Clouse, Jennifer Coffman, Bonnie Smith, Jenny Smith, Ron Smith, Betsy Strader (candidates) (candidates) See CATHOLICS, page 10 Page 10 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 CATHOLICS continued from page 9

New Albany Deanery Crit Fisher Submitted photo by St. Michael, Bradford Anna Shipley and Kristy Thevenot (candidates) St. Michael, Charlestown Matthew Stromblad (catechumen); Wanda Lindenmayer, Azalee Sheehan, Benjamin Sheehan and Brenda Sheehan (candidates) St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville Adrea Beyerle, Blake Bishop, Evelyn Bishop, Janis Bishop, John Bishop, David Crum, Landon Hadley, Cristina Hansford, Drake Hansford, Noah Liter, Kara Merchant, Michelle Merchant and Jacob Stacey (catechumens); William Liter (candidate) St. Joseph, Corydon Randall Stroud (catechumen); Kenneth Shanks (candidate) St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyds Knobs Andrew Flint, Candace Hyde and Justin Martin (candidates) Father Eric Augenstein, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany, processes into the church at the beginning of the Sacred Heart and St. Augustine, Jeffersonville Easter Vigil on April 7. Lanette Brown, Meredith Elston and Steven Pierce (candidates) Kathryn Conrad, Jessica Coomes, Judy Droddy, St. Paul, Tell City Mary Ann Frederick, Owen Gall, Stephanie Gapsiewicz, Stephanie Mayfield, Darlene Richey, Johnny Rogers, St. Mary, Lanesville Derek Gross, Marsha Mayes, Brenda Palomino, Joshua Blackman and April Smith (catechumens); Kristina Rogers and Beth Smith (catechumens); Karthika Vattakavil, Karun Vattakavil and Clarence White Christina Carter (candidate) Michelle Newby (candidate) (candidates) St. Mary, Navilleton St. Pius V, Troy Andrew Dukes and John Miller (catechumens) Holy Trinity, Edinburgh Rick Knable and Morgan Simon (catechumens); Mary Shelley (catechumen) Holy Family, New Albany Lisa Motteler (candidate) St. Rose of Lima, Franklin Devon Gummer, Emma Kerr and Paige Killebrew Christina Blackwell, Eric Blackwell and (catechumens); Janet Taylor (candidate) Terre Haute Deanery Isabelle Blackwell (catechumens); Nicholas Galloway, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Albany Sacred Heart, Clinton Alicia Louden, Tifani Wathen and Kyle Zajac (candidates) Curt J. Gruner and Meghan Slaven (catechumens); Emma Davidson, Melissa Hertweck, Paul Hertweck St. Ann, Jennings County and Dustin Howard (catechumens); Brandon Bekkering, Curt D. Gruner, John Jukes and Erica Schneider (catechumen); Jordan Davers (candidate) Rebecca Bennett-Howard, Stephen Bradley, John Kanizer (candidates) Brad Dwyer, Chris Haulter, Matthew Hudson, St. Joseph, Jennings County St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle Samantha Lopez, Jason Orr, Rosalind Segoviano, Mitzie Halcomb (catechumen); Jeff Andrew and Brayden Bryant and Darrel Underwood Joshua Shoffner, Jessica Smith, Steven Stark and Armorelle Cook (candidates) (catechumens); Josh Nally and Marin Nally William Watson (candidates) Prince of Peace, Madison (candidates) St. Mary, New Albany Laura Hinton, Robert Hinton, Jamie Singer, Shane Singer St. Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the-Woods Hunter Baumberger, Carrie Bonfer, and Deisy Zavala (catechumens); Kelly Banta, Jacob Kelley (catechumen) Matthew Bonfer II, Kassandra Caldwell, Camille Fife and Barbara Wheeler (candidates) Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute Charlotte Davis, Alejandro Diaz, Andrew Goodman, St. Mary, North Vernon Zachary Perry, Kenna Pikey, Kent Pikey and Julie Stratman (catechumen); Jason Gretencord and Hayley Allen, David Mull, Kyrianna Moore, Jeffrey Kennedy (candidates) Susan Topping (catechumens); Brittnie Courtney, Abigail Sabelhaus, Carissa Sabelhaus, Emily Sabelhaus, Betty Domalewski, Gigi East, Jared Martinez, Braden Ray, Tyler Ray, Amanda Smallwood, St. Benedict, Terre Haute Jessica Martinez and Emily Watts (candidates) Chris Whipple and Annabelle Woods (catechumens); Cheyenne Herring, Michelle Herring and St. Joseph, Sellersburg Kelly Sabelhaus (candidate) Madison Hughes (catechumens); Christina Bauer, Kaethe Pfeiffer, Jon Romas, Marcus Tuttle and Brittney Cobb, Rachael Collard, Justin Collard and St. Ambrose, Seymour Ashley Stephens (catechumens); Lynell Chamberlain Connor Dobbins, Riley Dobbins, Karissa East, Danny Watters (candidates) and Jennifer Henderson (candidates) David Eggers, Amber Fugate, Calleigh Fugate, St. Joseph University, Terre Haute St. Paul, Sellersburg Landon Fugate, Rita Holverson, Aidan Langford, Bobbie Joe Monahan (catechumen); Evan Cornel, Ethan Gullion and Wayne Gullion (catechumens); Natasha Langford, Carson Malone, Raymond Minton, Timothy Crooks, Brenda Ketner, Richard La Fleur and Carolyn Lanham, Cheryl Sauffer, James Schepers and Joey Napier, Amber Salvador and Ian Wheeler Dakota Ladd (candidates) Stephanie Schneider (candidates) (catechumens); Chloe Baker, Tiffany Baker, St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute Darius Hurdle and Deb Thomes (candidates) Seymour Deanery Jessica Sherertz, Marissa Smith and Amy Walter Tell City Deanery (catechumens); Michael Freeman, Kelly Miller, St. Bartholomew, Columbus Kari Smith and Roy Smith III (candidates) Alondra Castro Lopez, Brandon Conrad, St. Augustine, Leopold Mykah Conrad, Paige Conrad, Jaidyn Dyette, Rick Kratzer (catechumen) St. Patrick, Terre Haute Maleah Dyette, Tristen Dyette, Lee Fields, Jeffrey Barton, Jordan Bedella, Paul Beel, Evan Frederick, Lauren Frederick, Holy Cross, St. Croix Kaden Boyer and Khanrad Wilson (catechumens); Preston Gapsiewicz, Caitlyn Gross, Lucero Huerta, Brooke Mullis (candidate) Barbara Beel, Mary Brackin, Meredith Brown, Mayra Palomino, Rick Stark and David Weber St. Mark, Tell City Monica Calahan, Misty Harvey, Paula Harvey, (catechumens); Brandon Burton, Chad Chaney, Lucas Bryant (catechumen) Katherine Poff and Marilyn Warden (candidates) † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. 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By Dolores R. Leckey pilgrimage with us. One of the older marriage rites had these words. “Not There is a line in an Andrew Marvell knowing what is before you, you take each

poem that can be applied to marital love in other for better or worse.” CNS photo/Bob Roller the early years, the middle years and, with Now is the time for understanding the particular poignancy, the later years. It power of those words. There is the inner reads: “At my back I always hear/Time’s knowledge that comes from memory and winged chariot hurrying near.” experience—wisdom perhaps?—that we The point? Do not put off the gestures are still capable of change, of making and signs of love, thinking there will be creative choices. time. It is the present, the now, that is It is a false assumption that creativity is pulsing with grace. This is not to say that reserved for the young or that it dries up in when we reach the biblical age of 70 or midlife. We need only look at a sampling 80—Psalm 90:10 says “70 is the sum of of elders to see that falsehood. our years, or 80, if we are strong”—the The great pianist Vladimir Horowitz, past is irrelevant. who had in effect been exiled from The choices we have made along the communist Russia, was 83 when he way, as individuals and spouses, are the returned to his homeland for a concert. The building blocks of our lives. concert hall was sold out. But people Jesuit philosopher Father Frederick gathered outside and opened windows, sat Crowe wrote that the on curbs and sidewalks, life we have been and wept as they constructing over the listened to the music. A couple and their dog relax in their residence at the Riderwood retirement community in years is the life we The American Silver Spring, Md., on April 22. Couples who remain married into old age can find room within their bring beyond death into ‘What awaits us in the painter known as relationship to be creative together and as individuals. the new order, “the Grandma Moses risen state.” late years of marriage didn’t begin producing generation after generation as God has the lost beloved can become ever Our new is the opportunity to her distinctive always promised. more present. consciousness derived explore new aspects of New England scenes The experience of on-going community The realization grows that he or she from the vision of God until well into her 70s allows for spouses to explore their own lives within you. The doctrine of the does not destroy our creativity, alone and when severe arthritis interiority, what has been called “the silent communion of saints is no longer just an earthly consciousness, together.’ prevented her from land,” the dwelling place of God. The poet intellectual concept, but a known reality. but is incorporated into pursuing her first art Rainer Maria Rilke described this as The words of St. Paul in his First Letter to the new order. Nothing form—needlework. two solitudes side by side, looking out the the Corinthians that “love never dies” of what “is” is lost to Poet Anne Porter, window, seeing what? Perhaps the overflow with meaning (1 Cor 13:8). God, nor to us. What who recently died, distant land. The late psychiatrist Gerald May wrote Crowe emphasized is the challenge we all published her first book of poetry in her What awaits us in the late years of extensively about “willingness,” the face to accept ourselves, our situation and early 80s. The book was nominated for the marriage is the opportunity to explore new opposite of being ego-driven. our involvement in the universe. National Book Award. Porter continued to aspects of creativity, alone and together. “Willingness,” he said, “is saying yes to As we enter the biblical decades, our write for many years. These choices, joined with others made the mystery of being alive each moment.” 70s and 80s, the issue of acceptance can be These examples highlight the long life along the way, point us to new adventures It is not unlike Marvell’s poetic cry. not only challenging, but sometimes heroic. expectancy of individuals engaged in in grace. But then the inevitable happens. “At my back I always hear/Time’s winged We become aware of losing so much— creative endeavors. Something similar can One spouse dies. chariot hurrying near.” robust health, mobility, perhaps our happen in long marriages. From experience, I know the loss feels Are May and Marvell suggesting that autonomy, friends who have died. The ease of intimacy and the gestures of like an amputation. Where before there those in the later years of marriage pay But if we are still living with a spouse of love that connect spouses are life-giving were two solitudes together, now there is attention to the present moment? many years, we are aware that we are not and renewing. Without losing a sense of one. It is almost too much to bear. But suffering the losses alone. One who has autonomy, there is the shared experience of slowly, if one continues to enter the silent (Dolores R. Leckey is a senior fellow at the known us in good times and in bad, in enjoying the fruits of solidarity—a wider land of prayer and meditation, and if Woodstock Theological Center at sickness and in health, is walking this circle of children and their children, rituals of solitude are created, the life of Georgetown University in Washington.) † Kindness can carry a marriage through life’s journey By Mary Eileen Andreasen distraction. It’s just us. I’ve already vacuumed three empty Knowing the hardships and the triumphs that my bedrooms and shut the doors. Our baby is graduating from husband has faced helps increase my respect for him. I Older couples must have a secret. Their marriages defy high school this spring, and the house is falling silent. have witnessed the ups and downs of his life, and he has the odds, and they are often examples of generosity and How does a long marriage survive and improve with witnessed mine. kindness for several generations. What do they know that time? There must be a way to avoid that irritation when you This doesn’t happen with all marriages. They can be a we don’t? anticipate the next sentence your spouse will say and know stormy sea, and often it is not a faithful partnership. But I watch older couples with fascination, hoping for every maddening idiosyncrasy. for caring couples, I think this is the secret. insight. I need to learn from them. I have been married I know a good marriage is the union of two good givers In stable marriages, couples grow in kindness and more than 30 years, and empty nesting is upon us. and forgivers. And I’ve learned that marriage is so much respect through the passage of time. They desire the good Kids have a way of distracting you from your marriage more than glamour and sexuality. The older couples that I of the other because they alone know the deepest secrets by their wild, noisy chaos. These days, there is no know have talked about the need to stay active, try new of their spouse. I love Thomas Merton’s description of things and meet new people. They have not lost their zest the Christian life as the “school of charity.” It is also a for living, and willingly embrace a quiet but meaningful life. good image for marriage. But there is something more. There’s a quote attributed to Jewish philosopher As newlyweds, we had no idea what our struggles would Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel that says, “When I was be. We had no thought for the future even though everyone young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I

CNS photo/The New Vision CNS photo/The New tried to warn us about the gloom and doom of “difficult admire kind people.” times ahead.” We didn’t pay attention. Kindness and respect are the small stones that can Hard times hit soon enough and came with unrelenting slay Goliath. They allow the Holy Spirit lots of room wavelike fury. The unexpected pregnancies, the seriously ill to work in daily life. child, the surgeries, the moves and the job changes I want to be around when my husband is elderly to overwhelmed us. There also was the moodiness and the know that he receives good care. He has been a good restlessness we both fought to push aside. father and husband, but I know his life has not been easy. Over the past 30 years, we have buried our parents and We have both been tested in the fire over and again. some siblings, paid thousands of dollars in tuition and We know what our journey has been, and respect how walked three of our five children down the aisle. hard we have worked and the trials we have endured. Our life has unfolded day by day, side by side. We have That is the secret, I think. As the ancient Gregorian chant felt the years zoom by like spectators at a NASCAR race. So hymn says, “Where charity and love prevail, there God is Marie and Carl Stapleman of Most Holy Trinity Parish in far, we have survived. ever found.” Tucson, Ariz., renewed their marriage vows of 70 years during a But after the years and tears of raising a pack of children, Sept. 23, 2007, ceremony at St. Augustine Cathedral in Tucson. something maturing is happening to us. We know so (Mary Eileen Andreasen has worked in a variety of Young married couples can learn much from the experience of intimately about the life of the other that compassion and ministry settings for 20 years. She lives in Omaha, Neb., couples married for several decades. charity have taken deep, deep roots. with her husband and five children.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Biblical readings: The First Letter of St. John Studio as sanctuary: The biblical readings in the Office of or treatise, is repetitious in parts. It also seems The exception is in Chapter 2:18-23, where Readings next week, for the Sixth Week of inconsistent in places, saying something at John says that it must be the “last hour,” A place of ‘delight Easter, are the first three chapters in the one point and then seemingly denying it later. just before Christ’s second coming, because First Letter of St. John. The letter probably was written near “many antichrists have appeared.” These and rest’ There have been the end of the first century, perhaps as people had deserted the community. Brother Mickey O’Neill McGrath can’t divisions in the part of a debate over the interpretation of “Who is the liar?” he asks. “Whoever help but grin when he talks about his art Christian Church from John’s Gospel. Its style, vocabulary and ideas denies that Jesus is the Christ” because studio. It’s been a long its beginning. are similar to those in that Gospel. It starts some in the community had done that. And time coming for the Today, we have similarly. “What was from the beginning” who are the antichrists? “Whoever denies 55-year-old Oblate of people who call (1 Jn 1:1), and “In the beginning” (Jn 1:1). the Father and the Son, this is the St. Frances de Sales, themselves liberal Both the letter and the Gospel also begin antichrist” (1 Jn 2:18). who grew up drawing Catholics, conservative with a poetic prologue, with the letter We get the heart of the message of but wasn’t able to Catholics, progressive stressing the community’s experience of the his letter in Chapter 3. “We should love commit to a full-time art Catholics and orthodox Catholics. God Word of God in Jesus. The writer testifies to one another” (1 Jn 3:11). Just as Jesus laid career until 1994. created humans as individuals with widely “what we have heard, what we have seen with down his life for us, John says, so we ought When the differing opinions. our eyes, what we have looked upon and to lay down our lives for our brothers. It award-winning painter It shouldn’t be surprising that the same touched with our hands” (1 Jn 1:1). further admonishes, “Children, let us love first visited the row was true in the early Church. St. Paul had to Light and truth were important to the not in word or speech, but in deed and house beside Sacred Heart Church in write to the communities that he established Christians tied to John. They considered those truth” (1 Jn 3:18). South Camden, N.J., three years ago, it was to try to settle disputes. who did not follow Jesus to be in darkness We show our love of God, John says, if gutted. But Brother Mickey had a vision for The First Letter of John, although not and falsehood. Therefore, the letter tells them, we keep God’s commandments. “And his what it could become, and so did the pastor really a letter but more like a theological “God is light; in him there is no darkness” commandment is this: we should believe in of Sacred Heart. Soon, lumber was delivered treatise, was written to try to combat some (1 Jn 1:5), and if they claim to be free of sin the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love and electricians were installing wiring. false ideas, especially about Jesus, that they do not tell the truth. However, our sins one another just as he commanded us” “From day one,” Brother Mickey said, cropped up in the communities that were can be forgiven. (1 Jn 3:23). “it felt like home.” part of the Church influenced by John. Although the letter concerns divisions in We will examine the last two chapters in Now, the first level is his gallery and the Readers should be aware that this letter, the community, it is nearly always positive. the letter next week. † second level is his beloved studio. The tiled floor is checkered, black and white, and the Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes wallshelves are stacked with baskets of acrylic paint and buckets of paintbrushes. His desk is arranged around the window Mama, Mom, Mother, Mutti, whatever you call her, she rules! where northern sunlight streams in, My mother was a pistol. That’s an working as a cook at some of the wealthy Dad would drive down for visits, and we illuminating his canvas. He paints in the old-fashioned expression for an explosive estates in our area. would spend vacations with them. But as our morning, standing up, working in silence or personality, and it sure suits her. In this Her specialty, much in demand at family family grew, they thoughtfully came for all to the hum of NPR. From his perch, he can sentimental Mother’s Day season, when we gatherings, was angel food cake made with the holidays as well. see Sacred Heart—watch the comings and seem to honor mothers 13 eggs. She would whip it up by hand to an Even though she only had one child, my goings of parish life, admire the bronze for their sweet amazing volume with a wire whisk, bake it mom was soon provided with six wonderful Our Lady of Camden statue and enjoy the passivity, my mom just and frost it with a delicate white icing. As a grandbabies to love. She would take them wide-eyed bloom of hyacinth. doesn’t fit the image. final flourish, she would decorate it with a separately for a week in the summer and, “It’s my perfect little place,” For one thing, she few artfully placed African violet blossoms. apparently, the visits were memorable Brother Mickey told me. “This is like a “had a mouth on My relatives still brag about her cakes. because they still discuss their adventures little piece of heaven on Earth for me. It’s a her”—another old Mama had an identical twin sister, with her. studio—it’s a sanctuary.” expression. She could Auntie Carolyn, who was equally funny and As is usual with grandparents, she was a Part of the perfection comes from the destroy you with her talented, although her musical specialty was lot less strict with them than I remembered absence of Internet. “A lot of people are tongue if she was the violin. They weren’t easy people to be her being with me. One son said he once afraid of silence,” Brother Mickey said. “We angry, but she could married to, though. Auntie Carolyn and admired Granny’s miniature cast iron skillet, can’t hear the voice of God unless we’re also make you feel entirely loved, even Uncle Wally were married and remarried which was an ashtray. He wanted her to silent. With all our texting and e-mail and cherished. And she could make you laugh three times and divorced twice. I’ve always cook his breakfast egg in it, and she did! blah blah blah, we’re constantly doing and because she was witty, though never mean said I learned how not to be married She asked another son, who wasn’t fond fussing. I find it’s such a blessing anymore if or funny at the expense of others. from them! of vegetables, how many peas he wanted on I leave my house and realize I’ve forgotten I called her “Mama” because that is what The twins would write letters constantly his plate. He said, “One,” and that is just my cell phone. It’s, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’ ” she had called her mother, and it was the because long distance phone calls were an what she gave him. Mama surely loved the The images that flow from custom in our family. She was talented in unaffordable luxury during the 1930s. boys, but I think her secret favorite “grand” Brother Mickey’s paintbrush are full of many things. She played the piano well, and Although they lived in Minnesota and was our only daughter. Maybe she could whimsy and joy—mysteries of the rosary, was a good artist. Her lovely watercolors Florida, and the separation was painful to relate better to having a little girl. scenes with saints, dark-skinned Marys. and charcoal drawings are displayed on my them, their “twin telepathy” was always at Happy Mother’s Day, dear Mama. You “All the big saints prayed before walls today. work so they would sense when the other were the best, and I will love you always. black Madonnas,” he explained to me, Mama was also an excellent cook, having needed help or—gasp!—a phone call. “including St. Francis de Sales. They’ve learned to make delicious family meals from Since I was an only child, my departure (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the always been associated with healing and new another superb cook, her mother. She also for Indiana as a bride must have made Mama Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular life … the blackness of conception, creativity, learned to make fancier things from her days sad, but she never laid guilt on me. She and columnist for The Criterion.) † fertile soil, seeds growing underground.” For centuries, he said, images of For the Journey/Effie Caldarola black Madonnas have offered special solace to those struggling to conceive and those in need of a fresh start. A journey toward sainthood for Boys Town founder Brother Mickey’s first black Madonna Growing up in rural Nebraska, our family house in Omaha for five boys. He had have in common. They often come from remains his favorite—a rendition of the would sometimes make the long drive to worked with homeless men, but he became humble, unassuming backgrounds, and Visitation, the second joyful mystery of the Omaha. From the backseat convinced that the place to start saving men they retain that humility while finding rosary, whose feast we mark on May 31. In it, of the car, we kids would was in their youth. Orphans, hooligans, uncompromising optimism and confidence we see young, pregnant Mary embrace her announce “we’re getting runaways, wanderers, ruffians—he believed along the way. pregnant older cousin, Elizabeth, their arms close to Omaha” when we he could change their lives, and thousands of If you visit the museum and study the intertwined and bellies touching. could see the familiar them later attested that he changed them. long, resolutely Irish face of the young To their left, Brother Mickey painted a buildings and farm fields Eventually, he moved to the large farm Father Flanagan, you can’t help but sense quote from St. Jane de Chantal, who of Boys Town rising in that became his famous “town.” Although it that simple, uncluttered will to do the co-founded the Visitation order of nuns with the east. was rural, it was along Dodge Street—then, right thing. St. Francis de Sales. “This is the place of our Omaha has as now, the main drag through town. He And saints are usually ahead of their time. delight and rest.” grown around and beyond wanted to be where boys could find him. Father Flanagan was an early advocate of The painting, titled “The Windsock Boys Town, but the rolling When they found him, they were given a racial equality. He believed every boy should Visitation,” hangs above the mantel in a north grounds and buildings remain the same—a simple cot, good food, an education, a pray, “but how he prays is up to him.” Minneapolis home occupied by Visitation Nebraska landmark and a tribute to a chance to elect a mayor and run their “town,” Just like his simple rectory, many things sisters. They hang a windsock on their front young Irish immigrant priest who believed and a home where people cared about them. about Father Flanagan speak to another era, porch to invite neighborhood kids over, a “there are no bad boys. There is only bad Father Flanagan’s profile was enlarged a time before labels like “attention deficit” refuge in an impoverished area uprooted by a environment, bad training, bad example, [and] immensely in 1938 when Spencer Tracy and “oppositional deviant disorder” got tornado last May. bad thinking.” starred as Father Flanagan in the movie placed on children barely big enough to What is your “perfect little place,” your Earlier this year, Archbishop George Boys Town with Mickey Rooney as a shoulder them. go-to getaway? A screened-in porch? An J. Lucas of Omaha posted a notice on the doors challenging young resident. Tracy won an He labored in a field largely free of open balcony? The corner of a coffee shop? of St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha noting the Oscar—now at the Boys Town museum— pharmacology, and would no doubt be One of the gifts of my 20s has been an opening of a cause for sainthood for and the public’s imagination was captured by amazed to see the paperwork involved in appreciation for solitude and the spaces that Father Edward Flanagan, founder of this priest who had a new approach to dealing with a child in the social services nurture it. Each of us needs a place to pray Boys Town. homeless youths. profession today. and play, to design and dream. A place to It was a sunny, crisp morning, and a large If you visit Boys Town, you will find a Father Flanagan’s life attests to the things recite ancient prayers or utter something crowd—including plenty of media—along with thriving program—which now includes that remain the same—the ability to see a spontaneous. A place to think deeply or let a contingent of the Ancient Order of Hibernians girls—and a memorial to Father Flanagan. great need and the willingness to heroically your mind go blank. Delight and rest. in America, gathered to see the simple You can visit his lovely old rectory, which meet it. announcement. volunteers decorate in typical Irish country (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer In 1917, Father Flanagan, a native of style at Christmas. (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be County Roscommon in Ireland, first rented a It seems there are some things most saints Service.) † reached at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012 Page 13

Sixth Sunday of Easter/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, May 14 Friday, May 18 The Sunday Readings St. Matthias, Apostle St. John I, pope and martyr Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 Acts 18:9-18 Sunday, May 13, 2012 the most eloquent language. Psalm 113:1-8 Psalm 47:2-7 The reading’s message is frank and • Acts of the Apostles 10:25-26, direct. If anyone truly loves God, then this John 15:9-17 John 16:20-23a 34-35, 44-48 person will keep his Commandments. • 1 John 4:7-10 By observing the Commandments, Tuesday, May 15 Saturday, May 19 • John 15:9-17 people live in God’s love. Living in God’s St. Isidore Acts 18:23-28 love produces joy. It imitates Christ. It Acts 16:22-34 Psalm 47:2-3, 8-10 The Acts of the Apostles once more creates union with God in Christ. Psalm 138:1-3, 7c-8 John 16:23b-28 provides an Easter season liturgy with its As the reading concludes, Jesus declares first reading. that no love exceeds the love that impels a John 16:5-11 In this reading, person to surrender life itself so that a Sunday, May 20 St. Peter goes to the friend may live. Wednesday, May 16 The Ascension of the Lord house of Cornelius, “You are my friends,” Jesus says. Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 Acts 1:1-11 who attempts to pay In the sequence of John’s Gospel, this Psalm 148:1-2, 11-14 Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9 homage to him. passage is not post-Resurrection. Its Peter stops him, reference to the Crucifixion is clear. For us, John 16:12-15 Ephesians 1:17-23 protesting that he is Jesus willingly submitted to death on the or Ephesians 4:1-13 only human, not God. cross. Through Jesus, God chose to die for Thursday, May 17 or Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 However, Peter us that we might live eternally because the Acts 18:1-8 Mark 16:15-20 obviously represented Lord has made us the friends of God. Psalm 98:1-4 Christ. The Lord had commissioned him. Then, as the reading’s last remark, Jesus John 16:16-20 The Holy Spirit empowered him. instructs us “to love one another.” Cornelius is a Gentile. His name suggests that he may have been a Roman. Reflection In all likelihood, the relatives and guests of The second reading makes quite clear Cornelius present in the house were the theological fact that loving is not Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle Gentiles. Probably some of the people or simply an activity of God—rather, that God even many of them were Romans. is love. What does this mean? It means that For devout, loyal Jews, if anything was selfishness is wholly absent from God, and Parish priest’s schedule is very busy, worse than being a Gentile, and of pagan that everything in creation is ultimately stock, it was being a Roman. After all, Jews focused toward God, the beloved. but rewarding in its varied ministries at the time were living under the crushing When Christians are called to love each addition to our parish’s regularly scheduled heel of Rome. Representatives of the other, they are asked to be what they should What does a priest do all week? You daily and weekend Masses. Roman occupation were despised. be were the circumstances not upset by the Qsaid in one of your columns that there On any given day, there are sick people Yet, Peter went into the home of effects of original sin. is a shortage of priests, and that one priest is to visit or an emergency call to minister to Cornelius, and these Gentiles understood Created by God, redeemed by God, they often assigned now to a parish which, a someone that is near death. This week, what he was saying. They became part of properly should mirror God. God is our generation ago, had one such call took me to a nursing home the Christian community, the Church. They Father, and therefore we should resemble two or three priests. 20 miles away and another emergency to a became brothers and sisters of Christ, heirs God, just as children bear the genetic But when I went to hospital 15 miles away. to eternal life. imprint of their natural parents. school, our priest did A fair number of priests these days have Through Peter, God reached out to We are humans because our parents everything—visit the parish and diocesan responsibilities. As Gentiles. Through Peter, the Lord were humans. This is our species. We are sick, both at home and one of our two diocesan chancellors, I am encountered them. God’s children, and the species of God’s at the hospital, and even often required to attend various meetings. The First Epistle of St. John is the children is to be like God. God is love. give out report cards at This week, we had the regular weekly source of the second reading. Love is much more than the parish grade meeting with our bishop to discuss This epistle has given Christians warm-heartedness or kind gestures. The school—along with evangelization strategies and other topics as several of the best-known passages of the Lord is direct in the Gospel reading. It celebrating Masses, well as an early morning, two-hour meeting New Testament. It calls upon followers of requires keeping the Commandments. hearing confessions and much more. with the lay advisers on our diocesan Jesus to love each other. It states that God How can we approach Jesus? How can Today, when we have laypeople doing so finance council. is love. we learn the Commandments since we all much of their ministry work, what is left for A number of other meetings, at various God’s love for humanity revealed itself are limited? Where can we find the strength a priest to do? (Cape May, N.J.) locations throughout the city, also took in the gift of Jesus, and in the salvation to keep the Commandments? time—the board of a regional hospital, achieved by Jesus for all who turn to God. Christ comes to us through and in the Some 30 years ago, when I was which is working its way through a St. John’s majestic, compelling Gospel Church, which offers us the sacraments Aserving as a school chaplain, a complex merger of religious and secular furnishes the last reading. and God’s Word. Peter still lives. Jesus third-grade boy told his parents one night health care facilities; a joint committee of It is a reservoir of theology presented in still lives. † that when he grew up he wanted to be a city leaders and officials of nonprofit priest like Father Doyle. institutions on shared financial concerns; His mother said, “That would be and a discussion requested by officials at My Journey to God wonderful, Christopher. Why do you think a large child care facility seeking help that you’d like that?” in meeting the religious needs of The boy said, “Because Father Doyle their clients. only has to work one day a week.” Several evening appointments each I must confess that lately, with my week find me meeting with engaged 72-year-old body sore from 13- or couples preparing for marriage as well as 14-hour work days, there have been plenty with young parents preparing to have their

CNS file photo/Bob Roller of evenings when I have wished that first child baptized. Christopher had been right. Our parish has a school that serves Laypeople now do much apostolic work about 200 pre-kindergartners through in the Church, and thank God for that. In eighth-graders. Although I don’t pass out our parish, more than a dozen parishioners report cards, I see the students frequently, take Communion to shut-ins and people at offer Mass with them, meet with them nursing homes. A host of other volunteers individually as needed or requested and staff our parish food pantry. But it still attend school functions. This week is the leaves a few things for a priest to do. I can monthly school board meeting and annual best answer your question anecdotally, parish gala to raise funds. using my experience. Often, as happened twice this week, I get up each day at 5:30 a.m. to ensure a there are requests to intervene in a family quiet half-hour to pray. After that, the pace crisis. Each week brings a range of phone picks up quickly. I am one of six parish calls with questions or concerns—job loss, priests who serve a city of 94,000, which is family financial problems, availability of Morning Prayer predominantly Catholic. A generation ago, nursing home slots, etc.—as well as the there were 22 priests in this city. daily business matters of the parish, which It’s morning, Lord, and as I rise, Touch my hands that they may do Your question arrived during a week include signing checks, approving repair I ask you please to touch my eyes. Only work that honors you. when I have had five funerals. Each funeral work, writing letters of recommendations requires several hours of a priest’s for colleges or employment, etc. Let me only see the love Help me, Lord, through all the day, attention—the funeral Mass together with This account of a week in the life of a That you send me from above. That from you I will not stray. the preparation of a homily, a prayer service priest is starting to sound, I’m afraid, like a at the wake and committal prayers at the plea for sympathy. I don’t mean it as such. Touch my lips that I may say By Alma Blake cemetery as well as whatever pastoral I’m completely happy doing what I’m Only words of praise this day. outreach seems helpful to the doing, and would choose the priesthood bereaved family. again in a heartbeat. It’s more of a plea for (Alma Blake is a member of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Indianapolis. A mother Fortunately, a compassionate religious prayer so that more young men might step holds her children during Mass in 2011 at Jesus the Divine Word Church in sister on our parish staff meets with the forward to take up the priestly ministry. Huntingtown, Md. All mothers are honored in special ways on Mother’s Day, which is family to help them select the Scripture Seminary enrollment is beginning to celebrated on May 13 this year.) readings, readers and hymns for the Mass. inch up in the United States so it seems that These funeral Masses, of course, are in the Holy Spirit is at work. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, May 11, 2012

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Wife of Charles Brown Sr. Mother of Indianapolis, April 19. Husband of April 24. Mother of Fraya Moore, She was born on July 31, 1924, in Louisville, Ky. Emily Brown, Marian Culp, Carolyn Patricia Nelis. Father of Julie Burns Nancy Perdue and Robert Schroeder. On Aug. 15, 1946, Sister Claretta professed her final vows as a Wills and C. Matthew Brown Jr. and Steven Nelis. Grandfather of four. Sister of Donald Moorman. Grand - member of the former Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena, now the Grandmother of eight. Great-grandfather of one. mother of several. Dominican Sisters of Peace. CORNELIUS, Cecilia, 71, St. Joan PeGAN, John Frederick, 64, SCHROEDER, Patricia, 77, She began her ministry in education in 1943 at St. Brendan School in of Arc, Indianapolis, April 26. Mother St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, April 29. St. Mary, Rushville, April 24. Wife of Elkins, W.Va., then ministered at St. Teresa School in Lincoln, Neb., of Cynthia Schassberger, Alice Husband of Nicki PeGan. Father of Ed Schroeder. Mother of Wendy Hoff from 1945 to 1953. Shelton, Edward and Ted Sherfick. Courtney and Mitchell PeGan. Brother and Darin Schroeder. Grandmother Sister of Carol Hutton, Melissa Mates, From 1954 to 1968, she taught at Catholic schools in Nebraska, of Mary Buhler, Susan Jaeger, of four. Sondra Wellman, David and John Margaret Hibschweiler, Rita Maloney, Massachusetts and Indiana. Cornelius. Grandmother of eight. Peter, Raymond and Samuel PeGan. SCHOETTMER, Clara, 96, In 1957, Sister Claretta earned a bachelor’s degree in education, Great-grandmother of two. Immaculate Conception, Millhousen, chemistry and math at Siena College in Memphis, Tenn. POWELL, Richard Joseph, 69, In 1964, she earned a master’s degree in chemistry, biology and FLANNERY, Ethel Catherine, 97, April 30. Mother of Sue Buening, Christ the King, Indianapolis, education at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, April 27. Husband of Norma (Knapp) Mary Jane Roberts, Dorothy Snyder, New Albany, April 26. Mother of Powell. Father of Eileen Countryman, Helen Wagener, Carolyn, Norbert and She was also the assistant to the treasurer at Holy Rosary Academy Patricia Breeden, Colleen Richardson Gregory and Jerry Powell. Brother of William Schoettmer. Sister of in Louisville. and Jerry Flannery. Grand mother of Dorothy Manka, Edward and John Rosemary Berkemeier and Frieda In 1988, Sister Claretta began ministering to the elderly at SS. Simon 14. Great-grand mother of 28. Great- Powell. Grandfather of three. Muckerheide. Grand mother of 19. and Jude Parish in Louisville. She extended her ministry to the elderly at Great-grand mother of 34. great-grandmother of 15. RENN, Mary Jean (Marsh), 77, St. Louis Bertrand Parish in Louisville in 1989. GOEBES, Mary Helen, 64, St. Joseph, Clark County, April 27. 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Age: 64 Age: 52 Timothy Wife: Brenda Thomas Wife: Judy Home Parish: St. Martin of Home Parish: St. Bartholomew Tours Parish in Martinsville Parish in Columbus Harte Occupation: Retired from Hill Occupation: Inside Sales Manager Indiana State Police for M A Metal in Edinburgh

Who are the important role models in your others, I will continue to be available to Who are the important role models in I don’t “advertise” my journey to life of faith? provide whatever ministering and referring that your life of faith? ordination in my workplace. But My devout Catholic dad and my equally devout may arise. Judy, my wife, inspires me through her somehow, people learn of my Protestant mom, both of whom lived saintly daily living as a Christian witness. “becoming a minister.” Their interest has lives and provided the environment to know Why do you feel that God is calling you to Carol, my mother, is the epitome of involved me in some very interesting right from wrong. The Benedictine Sisters of become a deacon? persistent faith. Fathers Joseph McNally, conversations, primarily with the Immaculate Conception Monastery in As I approached my retirement in 2006, I Robert Sims, Clement Davis and Aaron non-Catholics. Ferdinand, Ind., where I attended college for starting reviewing my career and realized that I Pfaff are men of special influence. three years. And finally, my equally devout owed God so much for allowing me that 34-year Benedictine Sisters Rachel Best and Why do you feel that God is calling Protestant wife, who’s knowledge of the Bible career as a public servant. I wanted to repay— Sharon Bierman were key influences for you to become a deacon? challenged me and my beliefs. not a good word as one can never repay God— me when I was a grade school student. God calls all of us to work in his for his love and graces, and felt that being a kingdom. I don’t know why God calls What are your favorite Scripture verses, servant was my call. What better way could I be What are your favorite Scripture me to the permanent diaconate. But I do saints, prayers, and devotions? that than through the Church as a deacon? verses, saints, prayers, and devotions? know that since I have surrendered to his My favorite Scripture verses are Mt 10:8, My favorite Scripture verses are 1 Cor persistence, I have gained a tremendous Wis 3:1-6, 9 and Jn 6:22 ff. My favorite saint is How will being ordained a deacon have an 10:13 and Ps 46:11. I’ve gained a great peace and have received affirmation at St. Michael the Archangel. I wore his likeness impact on your life and family? appreciation through deacon formation the most coincidental moments. around my neck for 34 years as a police officer. for St. Augustine. My favorite prayers I also admire St. Francis of Assisi. All three of my grown children have been are the Serenity Prayer and the Prayer of How will being ordained a deacon supportive of me, and understanding when I’ve St. Francis. The Stations of the Cross is have an impact on your life and Deacons often minister to others in the missed a birthday party or had to change the my favorite devotion. family? workplace. How have you experienced that date of a get-together [because of the deacon Ordination will call my family, my already, and what do you anticipate doing in program]. My wife has been totally supportive Deacons often minister to others in wife, and me to surrender portions of the future? from day one. In fact, she keeps reminding me the workplace. How have you our current lives to serve God’s family. Prior to my retirement in 2006, I had occasions “Now when you become a deacon you will experienced that already, and what But we also know that we can’t to minister informally to others. As a servant to have to … .” † do you anticipate doing in the future? outgive God. †

Cardinals’ dinner in Chicago raises $1 million for CUA scholarships CHICAGO (CNS)—Six U.S. cardinals were in Chicago nuncio to the United States, and John Garvey, president of understand what that means, how that is true, outside the on April 27 to celebrate a national institution that is Catholic University, which is located in Washington. community that is shaped by his actions—the school of 125 years old—The Catholic University of America. Before the dinner, the cardinals and archbishop love that makes my faith alive.” Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago hosted celebrated a public Mass at Holy Name Cathedral. Cardinal George also reflected upon the “dialogue Cardinals Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, Daniel Several dozen priests concelebrated along with retired between intellect and virtue,” which he said Garvey has N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Timothy M. Dolan of Chicago Auxiliary Bishops Timothy J. Lyne and focused on during his first years in leadership. New York, Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Raymond E. Goedert. “Each [intellect and virtue] is fully alive only in dialogue Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, at During his homily, Cardinal George asked, “Are you with one another. Truth should not be cold. Love should not the annual American Cardinals Dinner, held at the saved?” and recalled the first time he was asked that be blind. Truth and love, mind and heart, faith and Hilton Chicago. question by a fellow Christian. He answered yes to that charity—each of us lives in their intersection in different More than 400 people attended the black-tie dinner, question, but with an explanation. ways. Some lead with the mind. Some lead with the heart. which raised $1 million for student scholarships. Also in “Yes, Jesus has certainly done his work. We are But everyone ends doing the truth in love as St. Paul attendance was Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic objectively saved. I know that Jesus is Lord, but I cannot reminds us.” †

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WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS)— “I found it interesting to be in worse.” On June 2, she told Nuns who experienced the miracle the same room with someone who Sister Thomas she needed to be that led to Blessed John Paul II’s has experienced a miraculous cure, replaced in the maternity ward, beatification brought a message of and the one who lived through it and that she accepted eventual hope and victory through with her,” said Pauline Ludwig wheelchair confinement. surrender to the Catholics of after the sisters spoke at the health Sister Simon-Pierre said Worcester. care conference. She is pastoral she could no longer write, and

Sister Marie Simon-Pierre associate at Sacred Heart of Jesus Sister Thomas, without Press Catholic Free Connor, CNS photo/Tanya Normand, healed of Parish in Webster and a nurse in reflecting on it, asked her to Parkinson’s disease in 2005, and Catholic Charities’ home care write John Paul II’s name. Sister Marie Thomas Fabre, then program. “Unconsciously, I wanted to her superior and now mother “I underlined this,” Ludwig said verify that she could still write, it general of the Little Sisters of of something Sister Thomas said of was not the end, and that she Catholic Maternity in France, were Sister Simon-Pierre. She embraced should not give up,” she said. “I visiting the United States for the “her sickness and did not run away remember praying and thinking at first time. from it. The disease may evolve this moment that we had tried They came at the invitation of and advance, but the person has the everything and that we had Father Kazimierz Chwalek, capability to recover interiorly. The reached the end. ‘Lord, the only provincial for the Marian Fathers periods of desolation can thing left is a miracle!’ That’s how of the Immaculate Conception in mysteriously become the I expressed my thoughts before the U.S. and Argentina, and beginning of inner joy.” she left: ‘John Paul II has not said Marie Romagnano, founder of Sister Thomas said she his last word.’ ” Healthcare Professionals for believed this healing grace was That night, Sister Simon-Pierre Divine Mercy, to speak at a Sister Simon-Pierre’s first victory, said, she felt compelled to write, May 1-2 conference on medicine, before her physical healing. and wrote legibly. The next bioethics and spirituality at the Sister Simon-Pierre was morning, she was not stiff. She College of the Holy Cross. diagnosed with Parkinson’s went to the chapel to thank God. The sisters, who speak only in disease in June 2001 when she was She told Sister Thomas that French, also gave talks at the 40. It was hard for her to watch afternoon that she was healed Divine Mercy Shrine in Pope John Paul on television through Pope John Paul II’s Stockbridge, St. Paul Cathedral in because his Parkinson’s revealed intercession and showed her her Caroline Villa, a first-grader at St. Stephen Elementary School in Worcester, Mass., Worcester, St. Joseph Elementary her future. handwriting. gives flowers to Sister Marie Simon-Pierre Normand, a member of the Little School in Webster and St. Stephen After the pope’s death on “It was really hers, but I Sisters of Catholic Motherhood, during an April 30 visit. The French nun’s cure Elementary School in Worcester. April 2, 2005, Sister Simon- had not seen it in years,” from Parkinson's disease was accepted as the miracle that paved the way for Among children crowding Pierre’s symptoms worsened. Sister Thomas said. Later, she Blessed John Paul II’s beatification. around them at St. Stephen’s When Pope Benedict XVI opened surprised the sisters by was first-grader Caroline Villa, the way, on May 13, 2005, for his spontaneously invoking “St. John Pope Benedict recognized her mercy in your heart, as you are named for Karol Wojtyla predecessor’s beatification, the Paul II” as they prayed the rosary. healing as a miracle. doing, is already within itself, in (Pope John Paul II), who showed superior general asked the After the neurologist was “I am aware that this our dehumanized society, a miracle off her statue of the pontiff. congregation to seek his shocked to find no more signs of unexplained healing... is a pure of faith, hope, and charity.” “I think that it was an amazing intercession so their sick sister Parkinson’s on June 7, the merciful grace, and that miracles Sister Simon-Pierre said she experience because I don’t know could continue her nursing work. congregation began a novena of are not daily occurrences,” happily continues nursing. how many people get to meet or “On June 1st, I had reached the thanksgiving to Pope John Paul II. Sister Thomas told the medical “Nothing is the same anymore,” listen to somebody that’s received end,” Sister Simon-Pierre said. A letter was sent to the postulator professionals. But she added, she said. “A friend has gone far a miracle,” said enthusiastic “The pain was unbearable, and the for his cause and the investigation “I sincerely believe that away from this earth while eighth-grader Michaela Lavoie. tremors were growing much began. On Jan. 14, 2011, accompanying a patient with remaining so close to my heart.” †

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