New detention center in our diocese? The Catholic Moment Page 2 Serving the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana Volume 74, Number 29 August 19, 2018 Back to school 2018 Pope revises catechism: Death penalty ‘inadmissible’ By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — BuildingCopyright on the Material develop- ment of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment,Please see Pope weekly Francis print editionhas for full content.ordered a revision of the Cate- chism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death Catholic school students from across the Lafayette diocese headed back to the classroom in recent weeks. Above penalty is are Principal Vince Barnes and some of the students at St. Maria Goretti School in Westfield. Pope Francis inadmissi- Inside this edition: Back-to-school news on Pages 4-7. ble because it is an attack on the inviola- Schools of the Lafayette diocese bility and dignity of the per- son” and to commit the St. Mary School Sacred Heart School St. Boniface School St. Lawrence School St. Theodore Guerin Church to working toward Alexandria Fowler Lafayette Muncie High School its abolition worldwide. Noblesville The catechism’s para- Holy Cross School Sts. Joan of Arc and St. Lawrence School St. Mary Elementary/ graph on capital punish- Anderson Patrick School Lafayette Pope John Paul II St. Augustine ment, 2267, already had Kokomo Middle School School been updated by St. John Our Lady of Paul II in 1997 to strengthen St. Mary Cathedral Muncie Rensselaer Mt. Carmel School Central Catholic School its skepticism about the Carmel need to use the death penal- Junior-Senior Lafayette Our Lady of Grace St. Maria Goretti ty in the modern world and, High School School School St. Louis de Lafayette particularly, to affirm the St. Paul School Noblesville Westfield Montfort School Marion importance of protecting all Fishers human life. (Continued on Page 15) Priests and seminarians of the Lafayette diocese competed in the third annual Serra Series softball game on Aug. 4 in Kokomo. The priests’ team won for the third year in a row, with a final score of 26 to 16. An estimated 700 fans and support- ers attended this year’s game. Spon- sored by the Serra Club of Kokomo, pro- ceeds from the event benefit the Seminarian Fund. (Photo by Chuck Jansen) More photos, Page 11. Page 2 The Catholic Moment August 19, 2018 New detention center in our diocese? ur diocese includes Newton many people into a corner with few another way, it is about the people County in its northwest cor- ways to regularize their presence in coming here and about the people we O ner, just south of Lake County, the United States. empower to protect us. This has been Indiana. Some weeks ago, I learned While a large percentage of people the tough part, to look at how current August 19 that a for-profit company may lacking papers are Hispanic, history is affecting all these people, 20th Sunday in they are not the whole story. their dignity, safety and well-being. So be looking there to build an Ordinary Time 800-bed detention center to There are people from every this is not an either-or situation, nor a Cycle B Readings: hold people for Immigration continent who are caught here take-sides situation. But right now, as and Customs Enforcement in the same difficulties. we look only at the huge expense of (ICE). As reported in the Post- The immigration challenges for-profit general detention centers, I 1) Proverbs 9:1-6 Tribune on Aug. 11, there was a facing governments are pretty am leaning away from them as a reme- 2) Ephesians 5:15-20 community meeting about this much global. If the past 100 dy. 3) Gospel: John 6:51-58 possibility, and some of our years are any indication, there The third thing we might think laity and clergy attended. At will be no simple solutions. about is this, and I can speak for Monday, Aug. 20 this writing, facts are in short And those who promote com- myself. I do not shed my U.S. citizen- 1) Ezekiel 24:15-24 supply and county officials say promises, a fact of any legisla- ship when I walk into a church, and I Bishop 2) Gospel: Matthew 19:16- there is no plan for such a cen- tive progress, means that do not shed my Catholic Christian self 22 ter at this time. Timothy L. everyone will get something (my immortal soul!) when I walk out How does this involve this Doherty they don’t want in addition to of one into the community where I live Tuesday, Aug. 21 bishop? Catholic people con- things that they do. Doing and work. So I cannot close my eyes to 1) Ezekiel 28:1-10 tacted me because there is a nothing, or relegating respon- challenges that face us, Catholic or not. 2) Gospel: Matthew 19:23- fear factor among many people living sibility solely to the executive or judi- And I respect others who, with eyes 30 and working in our state. We worship cial branches, will not produce sus- open, can disagree about the best way alongside people who are directly tainable and just situations. forward; as long as we also try to see Wednesday, Aug. 22 affected by the separation of parents So I write to ask you to keep a few with our hearts the real men, women 1) Ezekiel 34:1-11 from children, by deportations, by the things in mind. The first is that U.S. and children who are affected by our 2) Gospel: Matthew 20:1- uncertainty among people who have bishops do not promote open borders, action or inaction. 16 lived in the United States from the yet we are accused of that. A workable Were the solutions simply about jus- time they learned to talk and who and enforceable policy for refugees tice, they might offer a clear path. Thursday, Aug. 23 know no other country. and immigrants is always going to be Were the solutions only about mercy, 1) Ezekiel 36:23-28 By the way, being in the United necessary. then wise heads could ease the way. 2) Gospel: Matthew 22:1- States without papers is not itself a The second is that, in a representa- But faithful people, friends of Jesus, 14 crime. It is a federal administrative tive republic like ours, we each bear know that we are called to apply both concern. There is no doubt that some some responsibility for the actions of justice and mercy and other virtues as Friday, Aug. 24 undocumented people commit actual our government. We should not abdi- well. These are not opposites, but com- 1) Revelation 21:9b-14 crimes and should be detained and, if cate the freedom that allows us, man- plements that should serve everyone, 2) Gospel: John 1:45-51 found guilty, imprisoned or deported. dates us, to be interested. And so the living and breathing people who are But it seems that a large detention sys- immigration situation belongs to us all more than statistics. It is worth our Saturday, Aug. 25 tem may be just one symptom of unre- insofar as we can be better informed discomfort to struggle to establish 1) Ezekiel 43:1-7ab formed and out-of-date immigration both about the needs of those coming humane responses to difficulties that 2) Gospel: Matthew 23:1- laws. And so the passage of time and to our country and also the responsi- transcend national boundaries. 12 legislative indecision have backed bilities of governmental agencies. Said The texts of Scripture readings for the Mass for Saint Meinrad Archabbey every day of the week are Library Gallery in St. PEOPLE & linked to the diocesan Web Meinrad is hosting an PLACES site at www.dol-in.org. exhibit by two New Har- mony, Ind., friends and artists, Curt Schmitt and The Catholic Moment Griffin Norman. 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