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Loving God and neighbor must be at foundation of beliefs,St. Thomas More Society members reminded at Red Mass

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Msgr. StephenRossetti is out to correct the myth that the

typical Catholicpriest is “a lonely,dispirited figureliving an unhealthylife that breedssexual deviation,” asa writer for theHartford Courantonce put it.

And he has gotthe data to prove it.

The research is“consistent,replicated many

times and now incontrovertible” that priestsas a group are happy, Msgr. Rossetti told adaylong symposium on the priesthood onOct. 5 at The Catholic University ofAmerica in Washington.

The symposium was built aroundWhy Priests Are Happy: A Study of thePsychological and Spiritual Health ofPriests, a new book by Msgr. Rossetti. Apriest of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., heis a clinical associate professor of pastoralstudies at the university and formerpresident and CEO of St. Luke Institute inSilver Spring, Md., a treatment facility forCatholic clergy and religious.

The book’s conclusions are basedon a survey of 2,482 priests from23 U.S. dioceses in 2009, supplemented bya 2004 survey of 1,242 priests from16 dioceses and other studies.

The research found, among other things,that priests are “no more and no lessdepressed than anyone else in the world,”“a little bit better than the laity” in studiesthat measure human intimacy and “quite abit lower than the general population” in thedegree that they are experiencing emotionalburnout, the priest said.

More than 90 percent of priests said theyreceive the emotional support they need,83 percent said they are able to shareproblems and feelings, and only 22 percentsaid they are lonely. The vast majority of

Evidence is‘incontrovertible’that priestsare happy,research finds

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During a season that showed the essence of sports, the players, coaches and key supporters of the kickball team of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolispause for a photo that reflects the joy of the game.

The spirit of sports soars as teamscombine to create a special season

See PRIESTS, page 2

By Mary Ann Garber

Scripture tells us that the greatest law is to love God and loveyour neighbor, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator,reminded St. Thomas More Society members during the legalorganization’s annual Red Mass on Oct. 3 at St. John the EvangelistChurch in Indianapolis.

Lawyers, judges, other legal professionals and law students haveunique opportunities to do that in daily life, he said during hishomily on the goodness of God, who is truth and justice.

“It’s the basic theology that in all things we seek to love God andlove our fellow human beings,” Bishop Coyne said. “We seek to liftup those around us. We seek to bring everything towards God. …Those things serve as a foundation for us in our life of faith.”

The bishop acknowledged that he “can’t begin to imagine thekind of complexities that you all face in a pluralistic society, tryingto make just laws, trying to make just judgments, trying to live thatcall to love God and to love neighbor.

“Sometimes that involves making hard decisions,” he said.“Sometimes that involves perhaps making choices that, in the grandscheme of things, we wish we didn’t have to make. … But in the

See RED MASS, page 9

By John Shaughnessy

It’s one of those “feel good” storiesin sports.

A team of young players overcomes theodds and a history of losing to have amagical, undefeated regular season thatleads it into the playoffs.

Yet, as good as that story is, it gets evenbetter considering some of the off-the-fieldmoments that occurred during this specialseason—moments that some people wishwould happen more often in youth sports.

The story centers on the kickball team

of fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade girls atHoly Angels Parish on the near west sideof Indianapolis.

The parish has long been a haven ofhope and faith in an area of the city wheremany families struggle economically. Atthe same time, the parish hadn’t fielded ateam in kickball for decades. But thatchanged a few years ago with the arrivalof two young teachers who wanted to givethe girls something to do after school—third-grade teacher Victoria Marshall andfourth-grade teacher Jessica LaRosa.

“For most of them, this was their

first experience of playing an organizedsport,” LaRosa says. “We had to instill thatresponsibility in them, of what it means tobe part of a team.”

During the first three seasons, theHoly Angels team won just three of the22 games that it played. But the coacheswere encouraged because the girls stillwanted to play and get better. And thisseason began the way that all sportsseasons do—with hope. The hope greweven brighter for the Holy Angels playerswhen coaches and teams from other

See HOLY ANGELS, page 8

Msgr. Stephen Rossetti

Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, gives Communionto a member of the St. Thomas More Society during the legal organization’sannual Red Mass on Oct. 3 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis.

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—The bestadvertisement for vocations to thepriesthood, it is often said, is a happy

priest.That’s why

Msgr. RobertPanke, newlyelected president ofthe NationalConference ofDiocesan VocationDirectors, hopesresearch showingthat priests arehappy in their livesgets wide publicity.

“Vocationsdirectors already know that, but it was greatto get some ammunition,” Msgr. Panke saidat an Oct. 5 symposium highlighting theconclusions in Msgr. Stephen Rossetti’snew book, Why Priests Are Happy: A Studyof the Psychological and Spiritual Healthof Priests.

“Now we have to get the news out,”he added. “Too many people think thepriesthood is a sad, lonely life.”

Director of the Office of PriestFormation and Vocations in theArchdiocese of Washington for the pastnine years, Msgr. Panke was named lastyear as rector of the archdiocese’s newBlessed John Paul College Seminary,which is to be formally dedicated onOct. 22.

He was the closing speaker at thedaylong symposium, held on the campus ofThe Catholic University of America inWashington.

Msgr. Panke said one of the biggestobstacles to his vocation work is theopposition of parents.

“They believe the lie that priests are nothappy, and they want their children to behappy,” he said.

Bishops “would be wise to encourage

every one of their priests to look athimself as a recruiter,” he said, notingthat although 80 percent of seminarianssay a priest’s encouragement was aprimary factor in their decision tobecome a priest, only 30 percent ofpriests say they have given such encouragement.

Msgr. Panke also discussed the stateof screening and formation ofseminarians, saying that theU.S. Catholic Church is “doing a muchbetter job in a rapidly changing culture.”

When Jesus, walking by the Sea ofGalilee, recruited Peter, Andrew, Jamesand John to become “fishers of men,”(Mt 4:19) as recounted in thefourth chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel,there was “no interview, no battery oftesting, no psychological interview,”Msgr. Panke said.

“Jesus can do that—we need to do alittle more work,” he added.

But he said vocations directors andbishops also need to know when to turndown a candidate for the priesthood whois not ready.

“There is a lot of brokenness out there,and we have seen the world of harm thata lack of screening can do,” he said.

Msgr. Panke emphasizedMsgr. Rossetti’s conclusions about theimportance of personal prayer in the lifeof every priest.

“Prayer is key to happy and healthypriests,” he said. A priest who prays atleast 30 minutes a day “is less likely tobe emotionally exhausted because Christis feeding him,” he added.

The Washington priest said he waspersonally buoyed by Msgr. Rossetti’sfinding that retired priests are thehappiest of all.

“That gives me great hope that itjust gets better and better and better,”he said. †

Truth about happy priests will aidvocations promotion, priest says

Msgr. Robert Panke

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Although thelife of a parish priest has many rewards, it

can lead some prieststo become “quitenarrow in their visionof the world that liesjust beyond theconfines” ofthat parish,Archbishop WiltonD. Gregory ofAtlanta told asymposium onthe priesthood onOct. 5.

The archbishopdiscussed the challenges and benefits of thediocesan priesthood in a talk at the daylongsymposium on the campus ofThe Catholic University of Americain Washington.

The gathering, which attracted about300 priests, seminarians, faculty membersand students, focused on Why Priests AreHappy, a new book by Msgr. StephenJ. Rossetti, an associate professor of clinicalpastoral studies at the university.

Archbishop Gregory, one of four speakersat the symposium, said parish priests canreceive “immediate and frequently expressedaffirmation” from their parishioners, andbecome “grounded in the very lives of theirpeople.” But they must guard against atendency to “avoid trying to serve a worldthat is beyond their comfort zones,”he added.

“Our Church must be Catholic insofar asit is always open to embrace and call toconversion the world beyond any specificterritory, age, culture or ethnic context,”the archbishop said. “This has been ourcharge since apostolic times when theproclamation of the Gospel constantlyrequired the Church to embrace peoples whowere different than the prevalent or dominantculture or ethnic or language groups.”

Archbishop Gregory—who has headedthe Atlanta Archdiocese since 2005 and was

previously bishop of Belleville, Ill., andan auxiliary bishop in Chicago, each formore than a decade—also offeredrecommendations on how to keep moralehigh among priests, and how to promotefraternity among priests, and betweenpriests and the bishop.

“Each presbyterate that I have had theprivilege of serving and to which I havebeen equally privileged to belong has hadits own unique temperament and history,”he said. “Chicago, Belleville and nowAtlanta each have their own stories, heroesand legends. …

“One cannot become a true part of apresbyterate without listening to its storiesand coming to appreciate its legends,”he added.

The archbishop stressed the importanceof regular priestly gatherings, but said theymust go beyond a merely “casual allianceof religious professionals” to “invite andallow sincere and honest sharing acrossage, cultural, ethnic and ideologicaldifferences.”

He acknowledged that every diocese hasa few priests “who never join their brothersat moments of common life.”

“To command these reluctant brothers toattend priestly gatherings ... only introducessuch a negative energy and toxic attitudeinto the environment that many bishopssimply cease compelling their presence—but we can never forget them,” he said.“They remain a challenge for us as wecontinue to reach out to them and invitethem to rejoin the fraternity of thepresbyterate.”

Archbishop Gregory said a solid prayerlife and reliance on the sacraments must becentral to any priest’s ministry.

“Priests do not impart a mundane serviceor deliver a product that they themselves donot use and in which they do not believe,”he said. “Priests literally market a spiritualjoy that they themselves depend upon, andin which they find spiritual strength in theirlove for the Lord Jesus.” †

Archbishop reflects on challenges,rewards in lives of parish priests

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory

priests cited lay friends as one of their major supports.“That’s what priests do—make relationships,”

Msgr. Rossetti said.He expressed concern,

however, that 42 percent ofpriests in the 2004 survey—“and probably more than50 percent today”—said they“feel overwhelmed by theamount of work they haveto do.”

“We need to do somethingabout that,” he said. “We needto get together with the bishopsand say, ‘Let’s talk about this.’ ”

Msgr. Rossetti said theprimary source of happiness for priests is “a powerfulspiritual life,” and “a connection to God and his people.”

“When you get closer to the Lord, you buildfriendships,” he said. “If you don’t love the God image inthe person next to you, how can you love a God youcannot see?”

Those who said they engage in private prayer for up toan hour each day are “less emotionally exhausted, lessdepressed, less likely to be obese and less likely to belonely,” he said.

He said younger priests are more likely to participatein “traditional prayer practices” such as eucharisticadoration and recitation of the rosary, but not out of adesire to return to a pre-Vatican II Church. They also aremuch more likely than those in the middle years of theirpriesthood to affirm the value of celibacy.

“Mandatory celibacy may be waning as a hot-buttonissue for priests,” Msgr. Rossetti said, citing its supportamong 81 percent of priests ordained less than 10 yearsago, but only 38 percent of priests ordained between30 and 40 years ago.

The priest said he is not sure why there is suchresistance in the media to the idea that priests are happy,despite the evidence.

He said many in the media believe that “religionstifles humanity and personal freedom,” and subscribe towhat he called “eat your peas theology.”

In the same way that children are told to “eat yourpeas” in order to get dessert, some believe that “Godrewards us for doing this miserable thing,” as they seereligion, he said. That viewpoint doesn’t jibe with theidea of happy priests, he added.

The symposium was sponsored byCatholic University’s school of theology andreligious studies, St. Luke Institute, Theological Collegeand the Society of St. Sulpice. †

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PEORIA, Ill. (CNS)—Citing increasing clashesbetween Illinois law and Church teaching, Bishop DanielR. Jenky of Peoria announced on Oct. 6 thatCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria iswithdrawing from all state-funded social servicecontracts.

To prevent disruption to the 1,000 foster carechildren and families now served by Catholic Charitiesof Peoria, plans call for those state-funded contracts tobe transferred by Feb. 1, 2012, to a newly formednonprofit entity called the Center for Youth and FamilySolutions. The Diocese of Peoria and its CatholicCharities will have no connection to the new entity.

Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Joliet, Peoriaand Springfield as well as Catholic Social Services ofSouthern Illinois in Belleville have been involved inlegal proceedings with the state since Illinoisrecognized civil unions on June 1.

At issue is the agencies’ long-standing practice ofreferring prospective adoptive and foster parents whoare cohabiting—regardless of sexual orientation—toother agencies or the Department of Children andFamily Services. The state interprets the policy asdiscriminatory to same-sex couples under the new

Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil UnionAct, and a Sangamon County Circuit Court judgeruled on Sept. 26 that the state could begincanceling its foster care and adoption contracts withCatholic Charities.

Catholic Charities of Peoria’s decision to withdrawfrom ongoing litigation and from all state-fundedsocial service contracts came after months ofdeliberation and prayer, said Bishop Jenky.

“I have a responsibility as bishop to assure thatCatholic Charities operates consistently with theteachings and values of the Church,” he said in theOct. 6 statement. Recalling the agency’s nearly 100-year history of serving the poor and vulnerable,he said it was in keeping with that mission thatCatholic Charities partnered with the state to provideservices to those most in need.

“Public policy and state laws, however, haveincreasingly clashed with Church teachings in such away that we no longer can maintain this partnership asa viable option,” said Bishop Jenky.

Representatives of both Catholic Charities of Peoriaand the Department of Children and Family Servicessaid the solution involving the new nonprofit entity will

ensure the continuity of care for each child.“In the midst of the ongoing debate in the

Legislature, the media and the courts, the primaryconcern for both Catholic Charities and the IllinoisDepartment of Children and Family Services has beento prevent disruption to the services provided to thechildren and families being served by the fostercare system,” said Patricia Gibson, chancellor andgeneral counsel for the Diocese of Peoria and diocesanCatholic Charities. “While I am saddened to seeCatholic Charities withdraw from this valued goodwork, I hope that this transition will provide stabilityfor each client family as well as bring peace of mind tothe committed staff in these programs,” added Gibson.

The foster care contracts total about $15 million andaffect more than 200 Catholic Charities employees,who are invited to transfer with the contracts to thenew, independent Center for Youth and FamilySolutions. It will be overseen by a five-personcommunity board.

Both Bishop Jenky and Gibson emphasized that themission of Catholic Charities will continue, and evenexpand in other areas, relying exclusively onprivate funding. †

Peoria Catholic Charities withdraws from state social service contracts

By Sean Gallagher

The teachers at St. Patrick School inTerre Haute work hard to help their studentsgrow in their knowledge of the academicsubjects taught throughout the school year.

But for Amy McClain, who is in her thirdyear as St. Patrick’s principal after havingtaught at public schools for 12 years, there’s a“higher purpose” to her work.

“It isn’t just about the education,” saidMcClain. “Granted, I understand that that’simportant. But to see a child have an ‘ah ha’moment in faith just makes me feel like I’min the right place at the right time.”

In these moments, McClain experienceshow Catholic schools across central andsouthern Indiana play an integral role inone of the Church’s most fundamentalministries—proclaiming the word of God.

“Our motto here is that we’re not raisingkids, we’re raising adults,” she said. “And ifwe want faith-filled adults, then we have toinstill Catholic values and the habit of goingto Mass and being a part of the sacraments inour students.”

Through their participation in the“Christ Our Hope: Compassion inCommunity” annual appeal, Catholics acrosscentral and southern Indiana assist McClain,the faculty and staff of other Catholic schoolsacross the archdiocese as well as parishadministrators of religious education and theirvolunteer catechists to proclaim the word ofGod in their schools and religious educationprograms.

This assistance is given in asignificant way through the appeal’s supportof the ministry of the staff members of thearchdiocese’s Office of Catholic Education(OCE).

“There’s so much that we would miss ifthey weren’t there for professionaldevelopment and updates from the stategovernment,” McClain said of the OCE staffmembers that she works with. “We’re prettyfar away. I’m 57 miles away from Indian-apolis. But their arms stretch that far.”

They stretch far in many cases throughphone calls. Rob Rash, the archdiocese’sassistant school superintendent, prides himselfon his availability to principals throughoutcentral and southern Indiana.

“I was [once] at a Ball State football game,and I was talking to a principal outside of thestadium,” Rash said.

Rash and other OCE staff members alsooffer online seminars, called “webinars,” tofaculty and staff across the archdiocese thathelp them develop their curriculum andprepare for accreditation visits.

And about half the time during his work

days, Rash is out in the archdiocesevisiting schools.

The same goes for Ken Ogorek, thearchdiocese’s director of catechesis, in theassistance he gives to parish administrators ofreligious education across the archdiocese.

“In any given month, I’m in severaldeaneries one way or another,” Ogorek said.

One of the catechetical leaders in thearchdiocese that he has visited and talked withfrequently on the phone is Linda Robertson,director of religious education at St. Vincentde Paul Parish in Shelby County.

“We call them at any time,” Robertsonsaid. “They’re not nine-to-five type of people.It makes me feel so much better.”

Ogorek and other OCE staff memberswho work in faith formation are also involvedin helping parish leaders seek out newadministrators of religious education andtraining catechists.

“I often say to parish administrators ofreligious education that I’m only a phone callor e-mail away,” Ogorek said. “I’m intentlyfocused on getting back to people whenthey’re trying to get hold of me.

“It’s very fulfilling for me to know that, bybeing available to folks within reason, I am byGod’s grace helping them to serve God’speople where they live and breathe and work.”

McClain is glad that Catholics who mightlive several hours away from her school inTerre Haute still share and support theGospel values that she, her faculty and theOCE staff members that she collaborateswith share through their participation inChrist Our Hope.

“The same experience that we have here isreally supported by a universal people, agroup of folks and families that have the sameconcerns and same interests,” McClain said.“At a time when there are so many uncertainthings, it is so nice to be certain that there issomeone out there and that you’re not alone,and that they have the same interests in mindand at heart as you.”

Robertson is impressed by how membersof her own Batesville Deanery parish andother people across the archdiocese supporther ministry and that of the OCE staffmembers through their participation in theChrist Our Hope annual appeal.

“It does show that connectedness, thatwe’re a part of the universal Church,” shesaid. “We do have that mission to supporteverybody, every Catholic in this archdiocese.

“It’s kind of awesome if you thinkabout it.”

(For more information about “Christ OurHope: Compassion in Community,” log on towww.archindy.org/ChristOurHope.) †

By Sean Gallagher

In his first encyclical letter,“Deus Caritas Est” (“God isLove”), Pope Benedict XVI wrotethat proclaiming the word of God,celebrating the sacraments andexercising the ministry of charityare the three essential componentsof the “deepest nature” of theChurch (#25).

The “Christ Our Hope:Compassion in Community” annualappeal helps Catholics acrosscentral and southern Indiana carryout those ministries in theirparishes, and in shared ministriesthat no one parish can accomplishon its own.

These include fosteringCatholic education and faithformation, supporting the formationof future priests and deacons, caringfor retired priests and helping thosein need served by Catholic Charitiesagencies across the archdiocese.

Christ Our Hope gives Catholicsin archdiocesan parishes theopportunity to support thoseministries located in their ownregion, and to learn about ways that

they can volunteer in variousministries in their faith communities.

In the coming weeks, membersof parishes across the archdiocesewill speak at weekend Masses aboutChrist Our Hope, and invite theirfellow parishioners to prayerfullyconsider how they might participatein the annual appeal.

Bishop Christopher J. Coyne,apostolic administrator, recentlyspoke about the importance ofChrist Our Hope and the gratitudethat he has for the contributionsmade to it by Catholics acrosscentral and southern Indiana.

“Thank you for all of theblessings that you are able tobestow on many because of yourcharitable giving,” Bishop Coynesaid. “Thank you for what youhave done, and thank you forwhat you’re continuing to do tosupport the good works of theArchdiocese of Indianapolis throughthe Christ Our Hope annual appeal.”

(For more information about“Christ Our Hope: Compassion inCommunity,” log on towww.archindy.org/ChristOurHope.) †

Christ Our Hope annual appeal supportslocal ministries across archdiocese

Two boys hold up hula hoops during a physical education class on Sept. 26 for third-gradestudents at St. Patrick School in Terre Haute. Standing behind the hula hoops are, from left,Andrew Wilson, Matthew Graham, Dylan Major, Nate Givan and Jorjia Hancock.

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OPINION

As we report in this week’s issue onpage 5, the U.S. bishops are so

concerned about what they consider anassault on religious freedom in thiscountry that they have established anAd Hoc Committee for Religious Libertyto coordinate the Church’s response onthis issue.

There have been a number ofexamples of government interferencewith the way that Catholic organizationshave been serving the public.

But what might be considered the finalstraw was the proposed mandate byHealth and Human Services SecretaryKathleen Sebelius that health insuranceplans offered by Catholic employers mustcover contraception and sterilization.It has been called the Catholic Contraception Clause.

We commented on this issue in oureditorial “Threats to religious freedom”in our Aug. 19 issue. Since then, itappears that Sebelius’s proposal, whichwill become effective next August if notmodified before that, has united Catholicsmore than any other issue recently.

The U.S. bishops have spoken outagainst the proposal, and so haveCatholic Charities and theCatholic Health Association.Eighteen Catholic colleges and universities united to oppose it.

The University of Notre Dame’spresident, Holy Cross Father JohnJenkins, wrote a letter to Sebelius. TheCatholic University of America president,John Garvey, wrote a letter against it thatwas published in The Washington Post.

When he announced the newcommittee, New York ArchbishopTimothy M. Dolan, president of theU.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,mentioned other actions at various levelsof government that pose dangers to thefree exercise of religion. Some of thempertain to requirements in some statesthat Catholic adoption agencies placechildren in same-sex homes.

These restrictions on theCatholic Church have been nibbling atthe Church’s freedom for some time now.It was recognized a year ago by BishopWilliam E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.,who issued “Let Freedom Ring: APastoral Letter on Religious Freedom.” Itwas because of that letter that ArchbishopDolan named Bishop Lori chairman ofthe new committee.

Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki ofSpringfield, Ill., is another bishopwho has experienced governmentinterference in the workings ofCatholic organizations. As we mentioned

in our Aug. 19 editorial, Bishop Paprockiis among those fighting to keep the stateof Illinois from ending contracts withCatholic agencies because they refuse toplace foster children or adopted childrenwith same-sex couples.

Bishop Paprocki, a member of theIllinois Bar Association for 30 years, wasparticularly forceful in an address that hedelivered on Sept. 29 at the dinnerfollowing a Red Mass—a Mass formembers of the legal profession—inHouston, Texas, at the invitation ofCardinal Daniel N. DiNardo ofGalveston-Houston.

Bishop Paprocki quotedCardinal Francis E. George of Chicago,who recently spelled out, in hisarchdiocesan newspaper, the similaritiesbetween communism and contemporarysecularism.

Cardinal George wrote, “The purposeof communism and of contemporarysecularism is the same: to create asociety where God cannot appear inpublic, to erase any evidence of religiousbelief from public life and to prevent theChurch from acting in history, confiningthe Church’s mission to private worship,carrier of a belief system that can haveno influence on society except onsecularist terms.”

Then Bishop Paprocki said, “Theimposition on religious freedom comesin the guise of nondiscrimination lawsand codes. The result is that faith organizations are told whom they mustemploy and what they must assent to orface being shoved off the public square.”

Later in his talk, Bishop Paprockispoke of how Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskiand a young bishop named KarolWojtyla defended religious freedom inPoland.

“But we should note,” he said, “thattheir eventual success was bolstered by afervent and determined laity.”

The Soviets claimed that theypermitted “freedom of religion,” but bythat phrase they meant “freedom ofworship.” The “free exercise of religion”protected by the First Amendment issupposed to cover Catholic educationalinstitutions, hospitals, nursing homes andsocial service agencies. But theirfreedom is now being challenged.

Archbishop Dolan was clear when hesaid, “Never before have we faced thiskind of challenge in our ability to engagein the public square as people of faithand as a service provider. If we do notact now, the consequences will be grave.”

—John F. Fink

Editorial

‘To give or not to give’—that is the marital question

Making Sense Out of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk

In a recent column, David O’Brien,associate director of religious education for lay

ministry in theArchdiocese of Mobile,Ala., recounts the story ofAgnes and Jake, devoutCatholics who conceivedand delivered four childrenduring the first five yearsof their marriage.

Agnes described howJake “wanted to be a goodfather and husband, and he

couldn’t see how that could happen if wecontinued to have more children. In short, hewas getting a vasectomy.”

Agnes had a strong Catholic formation, andunderstood that married couples should notengage in sexual acts that have beenintentionally blocked or “rendered infecund.”

She struggled with Jake’s new stance, anddug her heels in.

She wondered how she could possibly be anauthentic witness to the Gospel “if within mymarriage, I was no longer open to life. Howcould I minister to other women and encouragethem to be bold in their faith if I wasn’t living itmyself? And what do I teach my children aboutmarriage and sex when their father and Iweren’t aligned?”

She went through an emotional rollercoaster. “At first, I cried. Then I yelled. Then Iargued, calmly and intelligently. Then I criedsome more. I shared with my husband excerptsfrom Kippley’s Sex and the Marriage Covenant,and the encyclical ‘Humanae Vitae.’ Welistened to Christopher West and Scott Hahn inthe car.”

Nonetheless, her husband was unchanging.As it became clear that Jake would go ahead

with the vasectomy notwithstanding herprotests, Agnes confronted a question thatmany Catholics have had to contend with intheir marriages.

She wondered whether it would still beallowable for her to engage in marital relationswith her husband after the vasectomy.

When one spouse is involved in this so-called “abuse of matrimony,” the otherspouse is placed in an awkward situation.

A husband can struggle with a similarproblem when his wife refuses to get off the pilland stop contracepting. While the contraceptingspouse is clearly doing something morallywrong, doesn’t the non-contracepting spousealso sin by cooperating in an act that the otherspouse has made infertile?

Pope Pius XI addressed this issue as far backas 1930, but the clearest teaching of the Churchcame in a 1997 Vatican document called the“Vademecum for Confessors.”

It notes that cooperation in the sin ofone’s spouse by continuing to engage in themarital act when the spouse has taken recourseto contraception can be permissible when

“proportionally grave reasons” exist for doingso, and when one is earnestly “seeking tohelp the other spouse to desist from suchsinful conduct [patiently, with prayer, charityand dialogue; although not necessarily in thatmoment, nor on every single occasion].”

The “Vademecum” and sound counselorssay that participation in such an act wouldnot be in and of itself immoral on the part ofthe non-contracepting spouse, but thesecounselors would also say that theone trying to lead the Christian life oughtnot to initiate sexual relations with thecontracepting spouse.

Thus, while Agnes would not be obligedto facilitate her husband’s sin, she couldherself, without sin, engage in maritalrelations with him if she thought refusal to doso might lead to other sins, such astemptations to infidelity or divorce, as long asshe continued to seek and encourage achange of heart and a change of perspectivein him.

While Agnes came to understand thispoint in her head, she hesitated in her heart.

After pleading with Jake for over a year,she found herself burned out and exhausted.

Once, after crying through the night, asudden and unexpected thunderstorm camethrough. As she heard the intense raindropsfalling, she reflected on how the raindropswere like God’s tears. She realized that God,too, is in a kind of broken marriage, adifficult marriage with the humanity thathe loves.

She considered how the Church, whilebeing his spotless mystical bride, hasmembers who are often unfaithful, hurtingthe Lord and blocking his life-giving love.

“And yet,” she reflected, “he never holdsback. He comes to us, over and over again.”

Indeed, God continues to give his body tothe Church on her altars, ever beckoning usto conversion and perfection.

Agnes decided that for the time being, ifher husband sought marital relations, shewould consent, while patiently seeking toconvince him that his unilateral decisionabout the vasectomy was a mistake.

She hoped to bring him to consider areversal of the vasectomy. She sought to keepcommunication on the matter open andactive, entrusting this painful trial in theirmarriage to God. “I lift up our marriage, ourintimacy and our continued conversion toGod, who knows our hearts.”

(Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.,earned his doctorate in neuroscience atYale University and did post-doctoral work atHarvard University. He is a priest of theDiocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves asthe director of education at The NationalCatholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.See www.ncbcenter.org.) †

Bishop WilliamE. Lori ofBridgeport,Conn., deliversthe keynotespeech duringthe NationalCatholic PrayerBreakfast inWashington onApril 27.

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I would like to comment on the column inthe Oct. 7 issue of The Criterion titled“Holding onto ideals in a broken world is achallenge” by John Garvey.

Garvey said that his daughter would giveher last $5 to a panhandler then not haveenough money for the ride home.

I, too, give a dollar or two to many of thepanhandlers that I see because at least theyare out there trying to do something abouttheir situation.

Unfortunately, a lot of the time the moneythat is donated is used for cigarettes, alcoholand sometimes drugs. I’ve actually hadpanhandlers turn down food because whatthey really wanted was the money.

Jesus said to feed the hungry, and everyworking person in America does that throughtheir taxes. There are many organizations,especially within the Catholic Church, thatexist solely to feed the hungry.

But what many people do not feel is right

is the fact that a large percentage of peoplewho receive food stamps, medical care,government housing and an educationmanage to smoke cigarettes at $40 to $50 acarton, have access to the Internet, a cellphone, cable TV, and sometimes drugs andalcohol that they do not pay for. The healthcare costs alone for smokers on Medicaid isastronomical.

The poor who receive governmentassistance should, at a minimum, berequired to take a drug test and not smoke.

It is a lot more complicated in this dayand age than giving a couple of dollars tothe poor. That’s why the poor who needassistance should be referred to the agenciesthat are equipped to handle their needs.

What would Jesus do? I do agree that itis no longer as simple as giving a fewdollars to the poor. It might actually beenabling the poor to continue in the lifestylethey have already become dependent on,and that is not good for them in the long runeither.

Laura KazlasBrownsburg

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Notonly are millions of lives at risk inthe Horn of Africa due to hungerand drought, those who escape thefamine then risk becoming a lostgeneration due to a severe lack ofstability, education and resources,said a top Vatican official.

“The millions of displacedpeople on the move now in aneffort to survive will tomorrowbecome refugees, illegalimmigrants, without a nation,without a home, work and acommunity,” said GuineanCardinal Robert Sarah, president ofthe Pontifical Council Cor Unum.

“A whole generation risks beinglost,” he said during a Vatican newsconference on Oct. 7.

The only way to guarantee afuture after the humanitarian crisisabates, he said, is to create schoolswhere skills, communities andfutures are built.

The cardinal launched an appealfor a school to be built in everyvillage. “Where there is aneducation, there is a possiblefuture, there will be work fortomorrow and families will form,”he said.

The Church has a long traditionof education and forming moralconsciences so Catholics should beespecially dedicated to thisinitiative, he said.

Cardinal Sarah led a panelof speakers presenting ideas thatcame out of a Vatican-sponsoredmeeting with major Catholic

charitable organizations on thesituation in the Horn of Africa.

Pope Benedict XVI, whoappealed on Oct. 5 for increasedaid, wanted the meeting soCatholic agencies could review thecurrent situation and look at waysthe Church is responding to thehumanitarian emergency, thecardinal said.

“It’s the first time thatCor Unum has thought of gatheringCaritas [agencies] to reflect andrespond to the concerns of theHoly Father,” he said.

Cor Unum also invited arepresentative of the AnglicanArchbishop of Canterbury for themeeting.

Cardinal Sarah said the popehad received a letter fromAnglican ArchbishopRowan Williams expressing hisconcern over the situation unfoldingin the Horn of Africa. Cor Unumwas then contacted “to see what wecould do with other Christiancommunities,” and join forces inresponding to the crisis, CardinalSarah said.

“Faith communities have adistinctive role to play” inaddressing crises because they arealready a part of the localcommunities and help with long-term development, whichin turn helps communitiesbecome more resilient to futurecatastrophes, Archbishop Williamswrote in a separate message toCardinal Sarah.

According to theUnited Nations, 13 millionpeople in the Horn of Africa are inurgent need of emergency aid,particularly in Somalia, wherethousands of people risk death.

Caritas Internationalis, theVatican-based confederation of165 national Catholic charitiesagencies, has helped 1.1 millionpeople in the region, especially themost vulnerable like the elderly,women, children and the disabled,said Michel Roy, the confed-eration’s general secretary.

Through its appeal campaign,Caritas Internationalis hasraised 31 million euros—about$41.7 million. It expects to raise atotal of 60 million euros—$80.7 million—to provideemergency food aid, clean water,sanitation, drought-resistant seeds,and develop water conservationsystems, he said.

Ken Hackett, outgoingpresident of the U.S. bishops’Catholic Relief Services, said theagency’s short-term and long-termprojects have made a real differencein people’s lives. Thosecommunities that were helped inpast crises are much better off thanpeople in areas CRS was unable toreach, he said.

“Our contributions, while verysignificant over the years, are onlya small part of what needs to bedone” because the scope ofproblem is so great, he added.

Roy called on the international

on building schools, sayingCatholic schools “are the bestcombatants against terrorism”because people from diverseethnicities, religions, nations andbackgrounds come together inCatholic institutions where theylearn “to live together and respectone another.”

(To contribute to the Church’srelief efforts in the Horn of Africa,log on to www.crs.org and clickon “Horn of Africa Famine:Help Now.”) †

community to step up donationsand help Somalis with nationbuilding since, he said, one of theroot causes of the instability andhunger is the lack of a centralgovernment.

Bishop Giorgio Bertin ofDjibouti, who also is apostolicadministrator of Mogadishu,Somalia, said the Church mustalso find ways to collaborate withMuslim organizations that provideaid for those affected by thefood crisis.

He also supported the emphasis

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Saying they are increasinglydistressed over government policies that promote contraception, abortion and same-sex marriage and amountto an assault on religious freedom, the U.S. bishops haveestablished a committee to shape public policy andcoordinate the Church’s response on the issue.

The Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty wasannounced on Sept. 30 by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolanof New York, president of the U.S. Conference ofCatholic Bishops.

Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., wasnamed chairman of the new committee.

“There is a common and factually grounded perceptionthat religious liberty is increasinglyunder assault at the state and federallevel in the United States, whetherthrough unfriendly legislation orthrough rules and regulations thatimpede or tend to impede the workof the Church,” Bishop Lori toldCatholic News Service on Sept. 30,explaining the motivation forforming the committee.

“Hopefully, we will raise up theissue for the entire Catholiccommunity in the United States,” hesaid. “We will help educate about

the issue, and hopefully there will be good and effectiveaction.”

Bishop Lori has been a public defender of religiousliberty over the last year. In October2010, he issued “Let Freedom Ring:A Pastoral Letter on ReligiousFreedom,” which carefully laid outan argument that some legislativeefforts in the government seemedto be aimed solely at theCatholic Church.

He also addressed the topic at theNational Catholic Prayer Breakfastin April.

Bishop Lori said the USCCB hasdiscussed its concerns aboutrestrictions on religious freedom

repeatedly, most recently at its June meeting in suburbanSeattle, and again when the administrative committee met inWashington in mid-September.

In his announcement, Archbishop Dolan said thatcommittee members will work with a variety of nationalorganizations, ecumenical and interreligious partners,charities and scholars to “form a united and forceful front indefense of religious freedom in our nation.

“Never before have we faced this kind of challenge in ourability to engage in the public square as people of faith and

as a service provider,” the archbishop said in a statement.“If we do not act now, the consequence will be grave.”

Archbishop Dolan cited a series of actions at variouslevels of government that pose dangers to the free exerciseof religion.

Specifically, he pointed to the narrow religiousexemption in New York in regard to same-sex marriage, theJustice Department’s recent argument that the support oftraditional marriage as defined in the Defense of MarriageAct amounted to bigotry, and the requirement by theDepartment of Health and Human Services that theUSCCB’s Migration and Refugee Services provide the “fullrange of reproductive service”—including abortion andcontraception—to trafficking victims in its cooperativeagreements and government contracts.

He also repeated the U.S. bishops’ concern about Healthand Human Services regulations that would mandate thecoverage of contraception and sterilization in all privatehealth insurance plans while failing to protect insurers andindividuals with religious or moral objections tothe mandate.

“As shepherds of over 70 million U.S. citizens, we sharea common and compelling responsibility to proclaim thetruth of religious freedom for all and so to protect ourpeople from this assault which now appears to grow at anever-accelerating pace in ways most us could never haveimagined,” Archbishop Dolan said. †

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Retreats and Programs

Events CalendarOctober 15St. Michael the ArchangelChurch, 3354 W. 30th St.,Indianapolis. Helpers of God’sPrecious Infants, pro-lifeMass, Father Eric Johnson,celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followedby rosary outside abortionclinic and Benediction atchurch. Information:Archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Ministry, 317-236-1569 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1569.

St. Augustine Home for theAged, 2345 W. 86th St.,Indianapolis.Catholic Adult Fellowship,“The Positive Side of the20 Commandments!” day ofreflection, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,registration deadline Oct. 10,free-will offering. Information:317-410-4870 ornshoefer@themoreiknow.info.

Holy Trinity Parish, 902 N.Holmes Ave., Indianapolis.Dinner dance, 5:30 p.m.,$20 per person includes dinner.Information: 317-727-4802 orbarbaricp@aol.com.

St. Philip Neri Parish,Msgr. Busald Hall, 545 EasternAve., Indianapolis. All-ClassAlumni Reunion, Mass,4 p.m. reception and dinner,5 p.m., Hall of Fame

recognition, 7:30 p.m., $25 perperson, reservations due Oct. 8.Information: 317-631-8746.

SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral,1347 N. Meridian St., Indian-apolis. The Knights and Ladiesof Peter Claver #191,Spaghetti dinner, 6-8 p.m., $5adults, $3 children.

St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 E.46th St., Indianapolis.Fall retreat for Cub Scouts,Boy Scouts and Girl Scoutsof all ages, “Mary, OurMother,” 1-6 p.m., $5 perperson. Information:indyccs@comcast.net.

Knights of Columbus Hall, 511 E. Thompson Road,Indianapolis. “Shop for aCure,” 1-4 p.m. Information:317-888-7249.

Indiana Roof Ballroom, 140 W.Washington St., Indianapolis.St. Elizabeth/ColemanPregnancy and AdoptionServices, “Elizabella Ball,”6 p.m., $125 per person.Information: 317-592-4072 orvsperka@archindy.org.

St. Mary of the ImmaculateConception Parish, 203 Fourth St., Aurora.Oktoberfest 2011, Germanpork dinner, 4-7 p.m., food,

music, children’s area, 3-10 p.m. Information: 812-926-0060 orwww.mystmarys.com.

St. Charles Borromeo Parish,213 Ripley St., Milan.“Harvest Dinner,” 4-7 p.m. $8 adults, $4 children 5-12,children 4 and under free.Information: 812-654-2009.

St. Thomas More Parish, 1200 N. Indiana St.,Mooresville. Chili supper,6 p.m. Information: 317-831-4142 or mshea@stm-church.org.

Richmond CatholicCommunity, 701 N. “A” St.,Richmond. Charismaticprayer group, 7 p.m.Information:dicksoncorp@parallax.ws.

St. Mary Parish, 415 E. Eighth St., New Albany.“America Needs Fatima,”rosary rally, noon.Information: 812-944-0417 orruthsmc@sbcglobal.net.

Rama Car Wash, State Road560 and 135, Greenwood.“America Needs Fatima,”rosary rally, noon.Information: 317-985-1950 ormevans@maryannevantravel.com.

East Central High School, 1 Trojan Place, St. Leon. Word of God PrayerMinistry, “Freedom andHealing throughForgiveness,” ImmaculeeIlibagiza, presenter, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $40 per person,$20 students from seventhgrade to full-time collegestudents. Information: www.healingthroughthepowerofJesusChrist.org.

October 16St. Isidore the Farmer Parish,6501 St. Isidore Road, Bristow.“Fall Festival,”10:30 a.m.-6 p.m., food,games, shooting match.Information: 812-843-5713.

Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad.Monte Cassino pilgrimage,“Mary, the Peacemaker,”Benedictine Father NoëlMueller, presenter, 2 p.m.Information: 812-357-6501.

October 17Our Lady of Lourdes Church,5333 E. Washington St.,Indianapolis. Third annual“Living Rosary,” 7 p.m.Information: 317-356-6050.

October 18Sacred Heart of Jesus ParishHall, 1125 S. Meridian St.,Indianapolis. Catholic Faith

Update, “Perspectives onCatholic Practice–CatholicIdentity,” session two of five,Franciscan Father LarryJanezic and Franciscan BrotherGary Jeriha, presenters, 7 p.m.Information: 317-638-5551.

Marian University, Ruth LillyStudent Center, communityroom, 3200 Cold Spring Road,Indianapolis. Marian AdultPrograms, informationmeeting, 6 p.m. Information:317-955-6271 orkwebb@marian.edu.

October 19Columbus Bar, 322 Fourth St.,Columbus. “Theology on Tap”series, “A Night with theExorcist,” Father VincentLampert, presenter, 7 p.m.Information: www.indytot.com or indytheologyontap@gmail.com.

Calvary Cemetery, MausoleumChapel, 435 W. Troy Ave.,Indianapolis. Mass, 2 p.m.Information: 317-784-4439.

October 20Our Lady of Peace Cemetery,Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N.Haverstick Road, Indianapolis.Mass, 2 p.m. Information: 317-574-8898 orwww.catholiccemeteries.cc.

October 21Northside Knights ofColumbus Hall, 2100 E. 71st St., Indianapolis. CatholicBusiness Exchange, Mass,breakfast and program,“Following Faith, Family andFast Breaks,” Chris Denari,WXIN Channel 59 sportsdirector, presenter, 6:30-8:30 a.m., $14 members,$20 non-members.Reservations and information:www.catholicbusinessexchange.org.

Oct. 21-23Saint Mary-of-the-Woods,St. Mary-of-the-Woods. St. Mother Theodore GuérinFest, “Living the LegacyNow!” Information: 812-535-2925 or www.SistersofProvidence.org.

October 22Flaget Center, 1935 LewistonDrive, Louisville, Ky.Catholic CharismaticConference, “The Role of theHoly Spirit in the Life of theChurch,” Father Bob Hogan,keynote speaker, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.Information: 502-228-9642 orROTR@insightbb.com. †

October 14-16Our Lady of Grace Monastery, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Come andSee Weekend,” vocations discernment retreatfor women, 7 p.m. Fri.-1 p.m. Sun.Information: 317-787-3287, ext. 3032, orvocations@benedictine.com.

October 16Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg.“Youth Night at the ‘Burg,” jam session, high school students and older, 6:30-8 p.m.Information: 812-933-6437 orcenter@oldenburgosf.com.

October 18Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center,1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “CatholicIdentity and Doctrine–The History andTheology of the Mass,” session three,Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, presenter,6:30-9 p.m., $25 per person. Information: 317-788-7581 or www.benedictinn.org.

October 21-23Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “Tools of the Trade from theHoly Rule of St. Benedict,” Benedictine FatherColumba Kelly, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or MZoeller@saintmeinrad.edu.

October 22-23Mount St. Francis Center for Spirituality, Mount St. Francis. New Albany DeaneryCatholic Youth Ministries, “Catholic 101 Retreat.” Information: 812-945-2000 or leah@nadyouth.org.

October 24-28Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Priests’ retreat, “Reflections onthe Life and Ministry of Jesus and the

Challenges of Contemporary PriestlyMinistry.” Information: 800-581-6905 orMZoeller@saintmeinrad.edu.

October 28-30Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “From Our Hands to Our Hearts–Praying the Rosary,”Benedictine Brother Zachary Wilberding,presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 orMZoeller@saintmeinrad.edu.

October 29Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg.“Good Medicine–A Healing Approach toLiving,” Franciscan Sister Karla Barker,presenter, 9-11:30 a.m., $25 per person.Information: 812-933-6437 orcenter@oldenburgosf.com.

October 30Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E.56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana Program,”1:30-6 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681, ext. 15,or cmcsweeney@archindy.org.

November 4-6Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “Good Grief–A MusicalApproach to Healthy Grieving,”Father Noël Mueller, presenter. Information:800-581-6905 or MZoeller@saintmeinrad.edu.

November 8Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg.“Caring for Our Home, Planet Earth,”Franciscan Sister Janet Born, presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., $15 per person or $25 for two.Information: 812-933-6437 orcenter@oldenburgosf.com. †

Dominican Sister Imelda Grace Lee,formerly a member of Christ the KingParish in Indianapolis, professed

temporary vowson July 28 as amember of theDominican Sistersof St. CeciliaCongregationbased inNashville, Tenn.

A graduate ofBishop ChatardHigh School inIndianapolis,Sister Imelda

Grace is the daughter of James andDebra Lee, also members of Christ theKing Parish.

She attended Indiana University inBloomington and is currently enrolled atAquinas College in Nashville inpreparation to become a teacher.

During the July 28 Mass, 14 othermembers of the order professed theirtemporary vows with Sister ImeldaGrace. Seven sisters professed theirperpetual vows.

For more information on theDominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation, log on to nashvilledominican.org. †

Former Christ the King parishionerprofesses vows with Dominicans

Sr. Imelda Grace Lee, O.P.

Sister Karen Van De Wallerecently celebrated the50th anniversary of her entranceinto the Congregation ofSt. Joseph, based in Tipton, Ind.,in the Lafayette Diocese.

In addition to teaching art atCatholic schools in theLafayette Diocese, Sister Karenhas taught at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in St. Mary-of-

the-Woods and Cathedral HighSchool in Indianapolis.

Since 1981, Sister Karenhas blended her love of potterywith spiritual direction atThe Potter’s House, a studioshe maintains in Indianapolis,where she meets people fromall over the world who shareher passion for the spiritualityof art. †

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seventh-gradestudent atSt. CharlesBorromeo School inBloomington, holdsa trophy on Oct. 1following the Walkfor Life, a pro-lifefundraising event inBloomington. Zaryaearned the trophy byraising $1,128, themost in themiddle school andhigh school divisionof the event. Seatednext to Zarya is hermother, Kelly DeSouza, St. CharlesBorromeo Parish’scoordinator for theWalk for Life. Allproceeds from theevent benefited theCrisis PregnancyCenter andHannah HouseMaternity Home inBloomington.

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—During aMass marked by a joyful homecoming offaith, Washington Cardinal DonaldW. Wuerl welcomed 71 members of aformer Episcopal parish into fullcommunion in the Catholic Church withthe rite of reception on Oct. 9 at theBasilica of the National Shrine of theImmaculate Conception in Washington.

“Today is a day of rejoicing for all ofus,” Cardinal Wuerl said in welcoming theSt. Luke community from the Marylandsuburb of Bladensburg at the beginning ofthe Mass in the Crypt Church of theBasilica of the National Shrine of theImmaculate Conception.

He noted that during that Mass, thenew Catholics from St. Luke, and theother Catholics in attendance, could cometogether “to the altar of the Lord, filledwith joy and gratitude.

“The Church is thebody of Christ, thebeginning of thekingdom, the family ofGod, and the way tosalvation,” the cardinalsaid in his homily.“Today, as part of yourfaith journey, you cometo the Church tocomplete your initiationinto the body of Christ.

“The heart of ourcommunion, ourbonding, our spirituallife, is this altar,” Cardinal Wuerl said,adding, “Today, we will invite everyone[here] to that table of the Lord, to receivethat Communion that bonds us withChrist and with one another.”

Mark Lewis, former rector of theSt. Luke community, who as anEpiscopal priest shepherded his parishioners through the process ofjoining the Catholic Church, said afterthe Mass, “I’m so glad to be home.”

Row by row, the members of theSt. Luke community filed up to beconfirmed as new Catholics byCardinal Wuerl, who made the sign of thecross with sacred chrism on each person’sforehead, saying his or her name and thewords “Be sealed with the gift of theHoly Spirit.”

After his former parishioners hadreceived the sacraments of initiation duringthe Mass, Lewis—who hopes to beginstudying for the Catholic priesthood next

year—walked up to be confirmed, and laterto receive his first Communion as a newCatholic, following his parents, his wife,Vickey, their daughter and grandson.

“I was brought to tears several times,”Lewis said afterward. “As I watchedmy people come forward for theirfirst Communion [as Catholics], I waspraying and thanking God. They’re soopen to what God is doing in their lives.I’ve been honored to be their pastor.”

Under “Anglicanorum coetibus,”an apostolic constitution issued byPope Benedict XVI in November 2009,the Church has provided a way for entireAnglican parishes or groups to becomeCatholic while retaining some of theirAnglican heritage and liturgy.

“This is the first former Episcopalparish [in the United States] to be

formally received intothe Catholic Churchsince theannouncement ofAnglicanorumcoetibus,’ ” saidFather Scott Hurd, apriest of theArchdiocese ofWashington andformer Episcopalpriest now serving aschaplain of theSt. Luke community.

Cardinal Wuerl,the Vatican’s

representative for implementation of“Anglicanorum coetibus” in theUnited States, is being assisted byFather Hurd in that effort.

The Vatican is expected to announcethe formation of an ordinariate for formerAnglican parishes seeking to enter theCatholic Church as a congregation. Anordinariate is a geographic region similarto a diocese, though typically national inscope. Until the U.S. ordinariate isestablished, the St. Luke community willbe under the care of the Archdiocese ofWashington.

At the Oct. 9 Mass, 58 members ofSt. Luke were confirmed and receivedCommunion for the first time asCatholics. Another 10 members alreadyconfirmed in the Catholic Churchrenewed their commitment to Christ asCatholics, and three younger membersreceived their first Communion asnew Catholics.

Another 10 to 15 St. Luke membersare expected to be confirmed at alater date.

In his homily, Cardinal Wuerlemphasized how the gifts of the Holy Spiritpoured out on the Apostles at thefirst Pentecost continue to be poured outonto the faithful today. Today’s followers ofJesus, he said, are invited to walk withChrist through life, not just as individuals,“but as members of his family, his Church.”

From that day forward, he said, theSt. Luke community members will standas part of a faith community who look tothe pope as their chief shepherd and thetouchstone of their faith.

After the Mass, members of theSt. Luke community spoke of their beliefthat the Holy Spirit had guided them tounity with the Catholic Church, and theydescribed how their journey of faith wasonly beginning.

Susan Mathis of Laurel, Md., ahomemaker who entered theCatholic Church with her husband, James,

and their daughter, Maggie, said afterreceiving first Communion as a Catholicthat she was moved to watch her fellowCatholics come to the altar.

“I thought, these are our family[members], these are our brothers andsisters, come to welcome us home.That’s when I got emotional. Thatmeant the world to me,” she told theCatholic Standard, newspaper of theWashington Archdiocese.

Then-Rev. Mark Lewis had announcedin early June that the St. Luke’scommunity, after several years ofprayerful discernment, felt called to jointhe Catholic Church. Under terms of anagreement with the Episcopal Diocese ofWashington, the St. Luke congregationwill continue to worship in its currentchurch in Bladensburg. The agreement isa lease with a purchase option.

Lewis has praised the support offered tothe St. Luke community by Cardinal Wuerland Bishop John Bryson Chane of theEpiscopal Diocese of Washington. †

Washington cardinal confirms members of former Episcopal community

Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl confirms Mark Lewis during an Oct. 9 Mass at the Basilica ofthe National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Lewis, a former Episcopal priestwho served as rector of the former St. Luke Episcopal Parish in Bladensburg, Md., and 70 othermembers of the parish were received as full members of the Catholic Church during the Mass.

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NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS)—Helen Alvare, associate professor oflaw at George Mason University inArlington, Va., is the second winner ofthe Evangelium Vitae Medal from theNotre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life.

The award, which will be presented atan April 25 banquet, was announced on

Oct. 2 to coincidewith Respect LifeSunday.

In announcingthe 2012 awardwinner,David Solomon,who chairs thefund’s governingcommittee, saidAlvare “hascourageously andpowerfullydefended the cause

of life against all comers for two decades.“In some of the darkest hours for the

pro-life cause in this country, her voicewas heard clearly,” said Solomon, directorof the university’s Center for Ethics andCulture. “With a public presence in thepopular debate, a foot in the scholarlyworld that bolsters and sustains thedeep arguments on life issues, and herextraordinary ability to connect withpeople, she has been a hero to us all.”

The Evangelium Vitae Medal,which includes a $10,000 prize, wasfirst presented earlier this year to

Richard Doerflinger, associate directorof the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

Alvare, who earned a law degreefrom Cornell University and a master’sdegree in systematic theology fromThe Catholic University of America, beganher career with the Philadelphia law firm ofStradley, Ronon, Stevens and Young,specializing in commercial litigation andfree exercise of religion matters.

She joined the U.S. bishops’ Office ofGeneral Counsel in 1987, serving as astaff attorney for three years beforemoving to the Secretariat for Pro-LifeActivities as director of planning andinformation. In that role, she testifiedbefore congressional committees, lecturednationwide, and spoke on numeroustelevision and radio programs for theU.S. bishops.

She also assisted the Vatican onmatters concerning women, marriage andthe family, and respect for human life.Since 2008, she has served as a consultoron the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Alvare became an associate professorof law at Catholic University in 2000,teaching courses in property, family law,Catholic social thought and legislation,until she joined George Mason’s lawschool faculty in 2008.

Her current academic concerns arerelated to abortion’s impact on women,marriage, parenting and new reproductivetechnologies. †

George Mason law professor to receiveNotre Dame’s Evangelium Vitae Medal

Helen Alvare

‘I thought, these are ourfamily [members], theseare our brothers andsisters, come to welcomeus home. That’s when Igot emotional. Thatmeant the world to me.’

—Susan Mathis

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HOLY ANGELScontinued from page 1

Considering everything that happened during theseason, it seemed appropriate that the playoff gamematched the Holy Angels girls with one of the teams thathad supported and encouraged them—the team fromSt. Barnabas. And it seemed even more fitting that afterthe playoff game ended—with a St. Barnabas victory—the two teams posed for a group photo together.

Still, the disappointment was etched in the faces ofmany of the Holy Angels players as that photo was taken.

“They were heartbroken. There were tears,” saysMarshall, one of their head coaches.

The disappointment stayed with the Holy Angels teammembers when they arrived at school the followingmorning with the trophy from the Catholic Youth

Organization for their division championship. Theheartbreak lingered until the principal of Holy AngelsSchool, Sherlynn Pillow, saluted the team in a school-wide announcement. Pillow told the schoolchildren that the kickball team had earned the school itsfirst trophy in a sport since 1995.

The other students cheered for the players and congratulated them.

“That cheered them up,” Marshall says.It was a season of support, sportsmanship and success

that the Holy Angels girls will never forget.“One of the best parts was coming out and being part

of a school sport and having fun with my friends,”Kumba says. “It was just a rush of excitement.” †

schools offered help in different ways.Before the season, coaches of the kickball teams at

St. Matthew the Apostle Parish and St. Therese of theInfant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish, both in Indianapolis, letthe Holy Angels team practice on their kickball diamondsbecause Holy Angels School doesn’t have a playgroundthat’s big enough to practice the sport.

The cheerleaders at St. Matthew also donated new shoesand shorts for the Holy Angels kickball players. The playersat St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg supplied team socksfor the Holy Angels girls, while the team at St. BarnabasParish in Indianapolis bought kickballs, made bracelets andwrote letters of encouragement for the Holy Angels players.

“Holy Angels isn’t a needy school, but they neededhelp from other schools to get the program started,” saysAntoinette Burford, an assistant coach for theHoly Angels team. “Kickball is so competitive, but ourgirls saw the other teams wanted to help them get better.And that was a big deal to them. The girls have pride, andyou can see it.”

That sense of pride shined through as the Holy Angelsteam won its seven regular season games—a dramaticchange from previous seasons when the girls didn’tunderstand the game and felt intimidated by some of theother teams, according to Kumba Songor, a sixth-gradestudent in her third year on the team.

“This season has just been exciting,” Kumba says.“Before our first game, I didn’t have a lot of confidence.Then I saw how many runs we were scoring. It’s justbeen amazing for the whole team.”

So was the continuing support of other teams duringthe season. After Holy Angels played Little Flower, thetwo teams enjoyed a cookout together, feasting onhot dogs, chips, drinks and desserts.

“All the kids hung out together,” says Ann Sutton,the coach of Little Flower’s kickball team. “They hadsuch a great time together that they didn’t want to leave.It made it meaningful for the kids. It would be nice if thissort of outreach happened more often. The girls reallyenjoyed it.”

Other teams made signs and came to cheer for theHoly Angels players during the season. The team atSS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish in Greenwoodrescheduled a game when the Holy Angels team hadtransportation problems.

Those examples of sportsmanship made an impact onthe Holy Angels players.

Sixth-grader Karrington Abstone says she enjoyedthe opportunities to socialize with players from thedifferent teams.

“It was fun,” she says.It was almost as much fun as finishing the regular

season undefeated, winning a division championship,making it into the playoffs for the city championship andbeing invited to Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School inIndianapolis, where the students held a pep rally forthe Holy Angels girls on Sept. 21, the day of theirplayoff game.

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Left, Father Robert Gilday presents adivision championship trophy to thekickball players of Holy Angels Parish inIndianapolis. It’s the first trophy theparish has earned in a sport since 1995.A playoff game between the teams ofHoly Angels Parish and St. BarnabasParish was played on Sept. 21 atSt. Therese of the Infant Jesus(Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis,where Father Gilday is the pastor.

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CAIRO (CNS)—Orthodox Pope Shenouda III declaredthree days of mourning, fasting and prayer for victims ofpeaceful protests that turned violent, and Church andgovernment leaders called for Egypt to reaffirm itscommitment to religious freedom.

At least 26 people—mostly Christians—were killed andnearly 500 were injured on Oct. 9 as gangs armed withfirebombs, sticks, swords and rocks attacked about1,000 people staging a peaceful sit-in outside a statetelevision building. As the violence escalated, a speedingmilitary vehicle mounted a sidewalk and rammed into agroup of protesters, killing a number of them.

Witnesses said headless bodies lay in the street in theworst sectarian violence since the ousting of PresidentHosni Mubarak in the “Arab Spring” revolt earlier this year.

But several Catholic leaders said the problem had movedbeyond sectarianism.

“The army and the police are confronting the Copts.This is the problem,” Father Rafic Greiche, officialspokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in astatement to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church inNeed. “It is not a Christian-Muslim problem anymore. …People—not just Christians but many Muslims, too—arefrightened for the future of our country.

“We are accusing the army and the police who usedvagabonds, a rabble force of street fighters, to attack thedemonstrators,” the priest said.

“They were armed with swords, sticks and stones—some of them had rifles, it seems,” he said. “They did nothave to use force. It was a peaceful demonstration.”

Hardline Salafi Muslims have initiated violent protestsagainst the construction of two churches in southern Egypton the grounds that the building projects were illegal.Four churches have been subjected to arson attacks in asmany months.

The Christian demonstrators were protesting one suchattack on a Coptic Orthodox church, and were seekinggreater protection from the authorities.

Catholic Bishop Antonios Aziz Mina of Giza toldVatican Radio that Christians were asking to be able to livepeacefully in their own country.

“If they [the police] had taken a position of beingagainst those who destroyed the churches, we would neverhave gotten to this point,” he said.

Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic patriarchof Alexandria, told Vatican Radio the situation wasprovoked by outsiders, and added that it was complex.

He said even the armed forces have a dilemma: Dothey “face the people creating conflict by [using] forceor act very cautiously, giving the impression they areslow and lack resolve?”

Under Mubarak, any permit to do with a churchbuilding—even repainting it—had to be signed by theformer president. At least one priest recalled waiting

Pope Shenouda declares days of mourning after protest turns violent

An Egyptian Christian woman shows a picture of her son duringa funeral at Abassaiya Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo on Oct. 10.At least 26 people, mostly Christians, were killed on Oct. 9 whentroops broke up a peaceful protest against an earlier attack on achurch in southern Egypt.

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more than 21 years for a permit and said that, even after apermit was granted, state or local officials could stopconstruction for “security issues.”

Cardinal Naguib told the Italian bishops’ news agency,SIR, that the “attacks by Islamists against Christianinstitutions continue always under the pretext thatchurches are being built without explicit officialauthorization, which still remains very difficult to get.”

He said it was hard to tell how Egypt’s leaders viewedthe treatment of Christians because Shariah, or Islamiclaw, seemed to conflict with some previous declarationsof intent.

He said Egyptian Christians have lived through similarsituations.

“We will continue to do all we can, sustained by prayerand trust in God, and the spiritual and moral support of allCatholics, Christians and people of good will,” he said.

Skirmishes in Cairo continued through Oct. 10, withseveral hundred Christians pelting police officers withrocks outside the hospital where many of the victimswere taken.

In a televised address on Oct. 10, Egyptian PrimeMinister Essam Sharaf blamed the violence on foreignintervention, and warned Egyptians that such actionswould delay the country’s transition to civilian rule.

Government leaders also weighed in on the violence.The White House said U.S. President Barack Obama

was deeply concerned by the Oct. 9 incident.“As the Egyptian people shape their future, the

United States continues to believe that the rights ofminorities—including Copts—must be respected, and thatall people have the universal rights of peaceful protest andreligious freedom,” said an Oct. 10 White Housestatement.

The European Union and British Foreign SecretaryWilliam Hague also condemned the violence, and urgedEgyptian authorities to reaffirm freedom of worship. †

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end, each of us, in our own ways, seeks tolove God and to love neighbor.”

If we make that Scripture passage thefoundation of our beliefs, Bishop Coynesaid, “starting with the way in which welive our lives, it seems to me that even whenit is most difficult for us to find our way, wecan be helped, we are helped—by theSpirit, by the teachings of the Church, byall the things that God gives us—to find ourpath” amidst the complexities of life.

“Thanks be to God,” he said, “we havethe teachings of the Church, the sacramentsthat we share and the Eucharist that we areable to receive to strengthen us … in ourdaily life and our lives of prayer.”

Marion County Superior Court JudgeDavid Certo of Indianapolis welcomedsociety members and guests to the annualdinner following the liturgy.

“When we treat people with dignity andcompassion and respect,” he said, “we servethem and Christ in them.”

St. Thomas More, while facingmartyrdom, described himself as “the king’sgood servant, but God’s first,” Certo said.“That is a lesson to all of us, particularlywhen we’re confronted by the little choicesthat lead us off in the wrong way.Confronted by the greatest of choices, hegave us a model to follow.”

Abigail Kuzma, director andchief counsel of the Consumer ProtectionDivision of the Indiana Attorney General’sOffice, received the organization’s2011 Woman for All Seasons Award for herdistinguished legal service to the poor.

Kuzma served on U.S. Sen. RichardLugar’s staff in Washington before movingto Indianapolis to raise four children.

In 1994, she co-founded theNeighborhood Christian Legal Clinic thenserved as its executive director for 15 years.

“While I was there, the St. Thomas MoreSociety was very much a partner to us,”Kuzma said. “From my perspective, I feellike service is something that they reallyknow how to do well.”

She said several Scripture passagesinspired her and other clinic staff members.

“They really are, I think, still to mepart of why I do what I do,” Kuzma said,“and why I think most of us do whatwe do.”

Psalm 82 speaks of the need to “defendthe cause of the weak and fatherless,maintain the rights of the poor andoppressed, rescue the weak and the needy,and deliver them from the hands of thewicked,” she said, quoting from Ps 82:3-4.

“What a privilege to be able to feel likeyou’re part of that Scripture [passage],”Kuzma said, and to be able to continue thatkind of compassionate service for theIndiana Attorney General’s Office.

“We’re absolutely seeking to serve thosewho cannot defend themselves,” she said.

“… We’re doing a big initiative with respectto … protecting victims of humantrafficking.”

As a legal professional and stateemployee, Kuzma said, “I just feel sograteful to have that opportunity to representthose folks who need help, maybe the lowestof our population.”

Kuzma also assists Attorney GeneralGreg Zoeller with efforts to protect peoplefacing foreclosure of their homes as well asassist enlisted men and women strugglingwith financial, legal and family challengeswhile serving their country at times half aworld away.

“It’s very meaningful and rewarding,” shesaid. “This is something we need to beinvolved in. The Neighborhood ChristianLegal Clinic is a partner in this endeavor aswell so I’m very grateful for that.”

Kuzma also cited Scripture passages fromthe Letter of St. James about the need tocombine faith and action (Jas 2:14-17) aswell as a verse from St. Paul’s Letter to theEphesians, which speaks of how Godprepared us to do good works (Eph 2:10).

“I felt the Lord leading me to take thatrisk and to be involved” in 1994 in theNeighborhood Christian Legal Clinic, shesaid, which started small and was only openon Saturday mornings.

Last year, Kuzma said, the faith-based,nonprofit, neighborhood legal clinic servedabout 12,000 people in need with a budget of

more than $1 million.“Only the Lord can do that,” she said.

“We’re all grateful to go along for the rideand be a little bit of a part of it. It was verymuch a blessing. … We are created to dogood works. He has figured out what it isthat we need to do to serve him, and all wehave to do is find that work that he wants

us to do.”Before his closing prayer at the dinner,

Bishop Coyne reminded the legal professionals that, “This, more than anythingelse, is a time when we need to be people ofhope and joy. We need to say to people thatwe’re all in God’s hands always, and thatGod’s hands are my hands and your hands.” †

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BEIRUT (CNS)—Pressure being put on theSyrian government could have very bad consequences,especially for Christians, warned the patriarch of the

Syrian Catholic Church.Attempts to collapse the

government “will very probablylead to chaos,” Patriarch IgnatiusJoseph III Younan toldCatholic News Service.

“This chaos, surely—with nomeans to implement security—willlead to civil war,” said the patriarch,who stressed that a civil war inSyria would not merely be astruggle among political parties tocontrol the power. “It will beconfessional [religious], and war in

the name of God is far worse than a political struggle. Andthis is what we fear.”

Patriarch Younan was one of several Christian leaderswho spoke with Catholic News Service about the situationfacing Syrian Christians, who make up about 10 percent ofthe nation’s population.

He told CNS that Syria needs a lot of reforms, amultiparty system of government and freedom of speech.He said the Church “is all for reforms,” and does notsupport a particular regime.

“But those reforms have to be executed or accomplishedthrough dialogue,” he said, expressing a need for a neutral

third party “that could unite those who are in conflict,” thegovernment and the opposition.

The patriarch said the West should push for truedemocratic reforms rather than just trying to changepolitical systems, which they believe are dictatorial, “into anunknown system where the very, very respect of civil rightsis absent.

“By civil rights, we mean not only the freedom ofspeech, … but civil rights to implement the religiousfreedom for all,” Patriarch Younan said. “That means toimplement a civil society that respects the charter of humanrights as already stipulated by the U.N. in 1948,” he added,referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The patriarch said a society that respects all is“absolutely vital,” and the civilized world should upholdthis, not just take the position that the majority should rulethe country. This is especially the case if the majority is ofthe conviction that there is no separation between religionand state, he added.

“This would surely result in discrimination against thosewho do not share their religion,” he said.

“The Church has always defended, and it stands for, thecivil rights of all human beings,” Patriarch Younan said.

While it would take time to make the needed reforms inthe case of Syria, those seeking change for the good of theircountry “have to be kind of patient and find a way to makethose needed reforms.

“However, it doesn’t look feasible that these reforms willcome out of violence,” he said.

Maronite Catholic leaders also have called for dialogueon the situation in Syria.

“We’re neither for nor against a regime,” saidArchbishop Paul Sayah, vicar general of theMaronite Patriarchate in Beirut and former archbishop ofHaifa. “We judge a regime on its merits and how it dealswith the values of freedom, democracy and rights.”

He explained that Syria’s small, minority-representedgovernment, the Alawites who have been running thecountry for 40 years, are not going to let go easily becausethey know if the Sunnis take over, “it’s going to be verydangerous for them [Alawites], to put it very mildly.”

The bishop pointed to the slogans used near thebeginning of the Syrian uprising in March: “Christians toBeirut; Alawites to the coffin.” Those might be onlyslogans, he warned, “but they are significant.”

If change is not brought about peacefully, “there is a riskthat it may go from an oppressive regime to a more brutalone, especially now that the atmosphere tends to be ratherfundamentalist in the region,” Archbishop Sayah said. Healso expressed concern about a potential civil war.

“Everyone knows what kind of disaster civil war is.Iraq is a very loud example,” he told CNS. “In Iraq, theChristian minority paid a huge price. Two-thirds ofChristians had to leave Iraq.”

“Since we know enough about the situation in Iraq,” saidPatriarch Younan, “we fear that the kind of pressure put onrequiring the fall of the government in Syria will have verybad consequences, even worse than in Iraq.” †

Patriach IgnatiusJoseph III Younan

Mideast Church leaders worried about Christians if Syria has civil war

Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator and principal celebrant for the annual Red Mass on Oct. 3, elevates the Body of Christ at St. John theEvangelist Church in Indianapolis. Concelebrating the St. Thomas More Society’s annual liturgy were, from left, Msgr. William Stumpf, moderator of thearchdiocesan curia; Father James Bonke, defender of the bond for the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal; Father Stanley Pondo, adjunct judicial vicar forthe archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal; and Father William Munshower, a retired priest and chaplain of Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. Anotherconcelebrant, Msgr. Frederick Easton, not shown, a canon lawyer who recently retired as vicar judicial of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal, receivedextended applause at the start of the Mass for his many years of service to the Church.

Marion County Superior CourtJudge David Certo of Indianapolis welcomes membersof the St. Thomas More Societyto the legal organization’s annualRed Mass on Oct. 3 at St. Johnthe Evangelist Church in Indianapolis.

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By Patricia CornwellSpecial to The Criterion

GEORGETOWN—Blue skies prevailedas some 300 people gathered on a cool,windy afternoon for the dedication of theProvidence Self Sufficiency Ministries(PSSM) campus in Floyd County.

Providence Sister Barbara Ann Zeller,president and CEO of PSSM, greeted thecrowd before the Oct. 1 outdoor Mass.

“We celebrate this liturgy and dedicatethis campus in memory of the legacy of ourfounder, St. Mother Theodore Guérin,”Sister Barbara Ann said. “She was a CEO, acaregiver, a nurturer of souls, but mostly aservant of God.”

Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor ofSt. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, was the principal celebrant ofthe Mass. Retired Father Gerald Burkert,Father Juan Valdes, and Franciscan FathersJohn Elmer and Donald Halpin concelebrated the liturgy. Roy McClain,retired pastor of Georgetown ChristianChurch, was the lector.

In his homily on the Gospel reading ofthe Sermon on the Mount, Msgr. Schaedelsaid, “Like Jesus’ original listeners, wehave our own list of what would make ushappy. ‘… Blessed are the poor in spirit.’The poor in spirit are those who are notproud, who know they need God. Wecannot save ourselves. … A place like this[campus] teaches us that we all need God.Mother Theodore, the saint of Indiana,teaches us that we need God. Blessed arethose who know they need [God’s]Providence.”

After Mass, Msgr. Schaedel blessed thenewly arrived, six-foot bronze statue ofSt. Theodora Guérin, foundress of theSisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Several members of the order linedup afterward to sprinkle the statue withholy water.

Members of the choir from St. JosephParish in Corydon provided prelude andliturgical music for the liturgy. Mass wasfollowed by a meal, and music performedby Gina Emerson and the Back CountryRock Band.

St. Theodora was canonized byPope Benedict XVI in 2006. She is theeighth U.S. saint and first saint from Indiana.

The French nun came to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 1840 to establish the congregation in order to educate the childrenof pioneers.

In 1994, the Sisters of Providenceestablished PSSM, and opened a group homefor abused and neglected children in theformer convent at Holy Family Parish inNew Albany.

In 1999, the Archdiocese of Indianapolisgave PSSM 12.5 acres for its originalcampus. The property on Unruh Drive inGeorgetown now extends to 28 acres, and ishome to ministries that serve people ofall ages.

In 2000, PSSM foundedProvidence House for Children, providinglicensed group homes for abused andneglected children, furnished apartments andcase management services for familiesreuniting with children in foster care, or forfamilies at risk of separation due tohomelessness or substandard housing.

In 2005, Guerin Woods, a multifacetedhousing development for senior citizens,opened adjacent to Providence House. Thecomplex includes apartments for peopleage 62 and older on limited incomes, asenior citizens center, assisted livingand skilled nursing facilities, and ahealth clinic.

Since 1994, PSSM has served more than

17,000 individuals and families insoutheastern Indiana and Terre Haute, anda total of 112,031 people in Indiana andother states.

(For more information aboutProvidence Self Sufficiency Ministries,log on to www.spsmw.org/pssm/home------pssm.aspx.) †

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Change in the Sanctus conveys the holiness of GodBy Fr. Herbert Weber

At a staff meeting, our parishmusic director played the musicalsettings of the Mass acclamationsthat he chose for the newtranslation of the Roman Missal.It was fine music that theassembly would likely learnand sing.

I asked him, however, to playagain the new Sanctus. Myconcern was whether the musicfits the words and moodconveyed at this pivotalacclamation that concludes thepreface and introduces theeucharistic prayer.

In short, I asked if the musicconveys a sense ofawe and wonder.

In the newRoman Missal,there is onlyone change in theSanctus. In theopening line, thenew line is “Holy,holy, holy Lord,God of hosts”instead of “Holy,holy, holy Lord,God of power andmight.”

Both are translations ofIsaiah 6:3, where Isaiah tells of avision in which he sees theLord God enthroned above,surrounded by seraphim:“One cried to the other: ‘Holy,holy, holy is the Lord of hosts! Allthe earth is filled with his glory!’ ”

The seraphim’s triplerepetition of the word “holy”brings it to the superlative, that isto say, the most holy of all.

Meanwhile, Isaiah isoverwhelmed by the event andfearful that he may die for seeingthe Lord.

Instead, God chooses Isaiah tobe his prophet and spokesperson.

This mere mortal has entered aholy experience, and comes outempowered and cleansed.

It is truly what is called anexperience of the “holy.”

Chapter 6 of Isaiah presentshis call to be a prophet in anaccount that introduces theEmmanuel prophecies that wehear during the Advent andChristmas liturgies.

The word “hosts” is closer tothe way most Bibles translate theaforementioned passage in Isaiah.In the Old Testament, the term“hosts” usually means a greatnumber of warriors. This isconveyed in the previoustranslation by the words “power

and might.”It is the very

power of thesource of theSanctus that ledme to reconsiderthe music that wewere reviewingfor the parish.

The second oftwo significantScripturereferencesincluded in the

Sanctus is from Matthew 21:9,which presents the narrative ofthe Palm Sunday entrance intoJerusalem: “The crowdspreceding [Jesus] and thosefollowing kept crying out andsaying: ‘Hosanna to the Son ofDavid; blessed is he who comesin the name of the Lord; hosannain the highest.’ ”

I will focus, however, on thewords of Isaiah.

Our use of “Holy, holy, holy,Lord God of hosts” as we enterthe eucharistic prayer is a way ofremembering that we are alsoentering a holy experience. Assuch, the acclamation invitesworshipers to experience the

“holy.” It may be sufficient as wesing the Sanctus to reflect that weare being joined by a heavenlyhost of saints and angels inpraising God.

Think, perhaps, of those whoare committed to doing theLord’s bidding and carrying outhis will. As believers in thecommunion of saints, we alsofind ourselves surrounded atthat very moment by saintlymen and women even from ourown families.

Because people use the word“holy” so often, some of itspower in reference to God as “theHoly One” has been diminished.

To be invited into the holymystery of God, therefore, is soprofound that it is almost toomuch to bear. One canunderstand Isaiah’s sense of“woe is me” (Is 6:5).

God the Holy One, the Lord ofhosts, can only be experienced in alimited way in this life.

Sometimes standing in a greatcathedral or participating in apapal celebration of the Eucharist,people experience a taste of thesublime. But in truth, God isbeyond human understanding evenas he opens up the mystery of theEucharist for humans to join in.

Singing the Sanctus bothreflects people’s desire to be in thepresence of the awesome Godwhile at the same time helpingpeople to experience that veryholiness.

One must remember, too,that the experience of the holyis not found just in greatcathedrals or with thousands ofpeople. The holiness of Godcan also be experienced in thelove of a mother for a newbornbaby or in the reconciliationbetween friends.

While visiting Haiti a few yearsago, I was blessed to celebrate

Instead of stained glass or greatpaintings, our church hadinnocent children. Our a cappellasinging was from the heart and atrue song of praise.

Even Isaiah, who hadexperienced the “holy,” wasprobably smiling at our encounterwith holiness.

(Father Herbert Weber isthe founding pastor ofBlessed John XXIII Parish inPerrysburg, Ohio.) †

Mass in the backyard of a homefor abandoned children. All of thechildren had profound physicaland intellectual disabilities. Nonecould walk or talk. One child,David, literally had been foundlaying on a pile of trash.

Even so, love was present inthe way these children werebeing treated. All of them werereverenced as gifts from God.

I celebrated Mass there for thededicated staff and some fellowvisitors. The liturgy was simple.

A stained-glass window portrays the prophet Isaiah. In the new Roman Missal, theSanctus will see one change. Both translations, the original and the new, comefrom Isaiah 6:3.

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“Life is not static; it changes,” said Bishop ArthurSerratelli, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee onDivine Worship, in comments on the changes in the newRoman Missal to be implemented on the weekend ofNov. 26-27, the first Sunday of Advent.

“To be alive is to change,” he explained. “Ourinstitutions, people and languages change. Liturgy is life,therefore liturgy changes.”

Liturgy, which is rooted in biblical tradition, conveysmeaning to participants. And when liturgical texts areprecisely translated from the original Latin and understoodthrough poetic biblical imagery, liturgy facilitates activeparticipation at Mass.

Faithful translations inspire the soul and make God’svoice more accessible.

One noteworthy change takes place directly following theconsecration.

Presently, the priest says, “Let us proclaim the mystery offaith.” But in the new translation, he will simply announce,“The mystery of faith” (“Mysterium fidei”).

This formulation accomplishes two things.• First, it acclaims the mystery of Christ’s sacrifice

already present on the altar, in which “is contained thewhole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christhimself, our Pasch” (Catechism of the Catholic Church,#1324). It is a declarative statement about the Eucharistnow present.

Blessed Pope John Paul II reflected on these words in hisencyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church comesfrom the Eucharist”). The very thought of the mysteriousgift of the Holy Eucharist, he said, should fill us with“profound amazement and gratitude” (#5).

• Second, it invites the faithful to acclaim the sacramentalmystery. In response, the people will make one of threerevised acclamations that are rooted in Scripture.

Each employs the second person “you/your,” addressingChrist directly.

Each includes the phrase “we proclaim” and “save us.”

Both options A and B are derived from1 Corinthians 11:26: “For as often as you eat thisbread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of theLord until he comes.”

Christ’s title in option C is found in John 4:42, wherethe woman who met Jesus at the well is told by herfellow Samaritans: “We know that this is truly the Saviorof the world.”

All three acclamations incorporate familiarelements, although some of the phrases, whencompared to our present text, have been rearranged.

The acclamation used now in option B—“Dying youdestroyed our death, rising you restored our life”—hasbeen substantially amended to shift the emphasis moreupon Christ’s own death and resurrection and not onours: “When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, weproclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.”

The familiar acclamation “Christ has died, Christ isrisen, Christ will come again” that is present in thecurrent option A is dropped in the new translation. Thisis because it does not directly address Christ, who ismade present in the Eucharist, nor does it speak of ourrelationship with him.

In all, the new translations speak of a love that is toogreat for words.

(Allan F. Wright is academic dean of evangelizationat St. Paul Inside the Walls: The Catholic Centerfor Evangelization at Bayley-Ellard in theDiocese of Paterson, N.J.) †

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Next week, the 29th week in OrdinaryTime, the Old Testament books of Esther and

Baruch are included inthe Office of Readings.Most of Esther is readon Sunday throughThursday and parts ofBaruch on Friday andSaturday.

The Book of Estheris historical fiction, anovella about God’s

Providence. It’s the story of a youngJewish girl who is chosen queen of thePersian Empire by King Ahasuerus—Hebrew for King Xerxes, 485-464 B.C. Sheis queen when the king’s powerful vizier,Haman, plots to destroy, in a single day, allthe Jews living in the empire because of hishatred for Mordecai, who happens to beEsther’s uncle and foster father.

Esther uses her charms with the king toavert the pogrom against the Jews. Shemanages to reverse the royal decree ofextermination so that Haman is hanged onthe gibbet he built for Mordecai.

The Jews celebrate their deliverance withthe annual feast of Purim.

The story has three major sections: howEsther is selected to become queen;Mordecai’s conflict with Haman and Esther’sintervention to save the Jews; and the revengethe Jews take against their enemies.

This book was originally written, inHebrew, toward the end of the Persian Empirein the fourth century B.C. However, it hadno reference to God anyplace in it. In thesecond century B.C., a Greek version wasproduced with the addition of 107 versesinserted in appropriate places. The additionsinclude prayers by Mordecai and Esther.

Since the additions were in Greek, the Jewsdid not accept them in their canon, but theCatholic Church did, including Esther’s prayerbefore she went to meet the king.

The only New Testament reference to theBook of Esther occurs when King HerodAntipas says to the daughter of Herodias,“I will give you anything you ask, even halfmy kingdom” (Mk 6:23). That’s an echo ofKing Ahasuerus, who said to Esther, “What isyour request? Even if it is half of my kingdom,

From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink

Across the country, young married coupleshave settled on the perfect preparation for

parenthood—a puppy.It is a trial run that

delivers many of thesame tussles anddelights—a tiny, big-eyedcreature who is namedand measured and pottytrained, who interruptsNetflix and upends thebudget, protractingSaturday mornings and

contracting Saturday nights. Someone to worryabout and brag about, to snuggle and scold.Someone to put in the Christmas card photo.

It may seem silly, but the multi-vitamin dogtreats and rhinestone-encrusted collars comewith the immediate miracle of getting outsideyourself—committing to that pup and feelingyour heart rise and fall with its every whimper.

Puppy training is, indeed, parent training.Three in four Catholic households report

having a pet, according to the AmericanNational Election Studies.

This month, we saluted their patron saint,St. Francis of Assisi, and all the motley pets wehave loved. We gathered under the slanted sunfor animal blessings, a reminder of thecatholicity of Catholicism, that the stuff ofhome life has a place in the Church—even thecritters that shed.

Jackie, 48, a curly-haired Catholic who hasnever married, cherishes her Shih Tzu. Withouther, the New Jersey native says, “this housewould be really lonely.”

Jackie lost her male Shih Tzu in May, “after15 and a half years of happiness and love.”

Hallmark introduced pet sympathy cards in1984 and, over the years, sales have steadilyincreased. “Your pet was part of the family,”reads one card, picturing an empty soft chair.“That’s what makes saying goodbye so hard.”

The more hours I log in my office, the moreI appreciate even passing animal encounters,like the four raccoons that cautiouslydescended our oak tree after a thunderstorm,crawling in pairs and leaning against eachother. Or the tree frog that landed on the frontdoor one August evening, mystifying with itsbulging yellow eyes.

Sit too long at a computer and you canforget everything outside the inbox.

That’s why my family packedthree binoculars and a 16-gigabytememory card on our recent Alaskan cruise.We yearned to see some hulking mammalliving among the woodland and waterfalls.Goats and moose and bears—oh, my!

Bald eagles flew overhead, salmon swambelow us. And I couldn’t pass up theopportunity for whale watching. Two and ahalf hours and a guarantee of a whalespotting or your money back. I handed overmy credit card and signed up.

Two and a half hours later, the outlook wasbleak: gray sky, gray water, biting wind andpelting rain.

No whale.“This is when they toss out the

battery-operated rubber whale,”someone joked.

And finally, a humpback. On our side of theboat. Not far.

The dorsal fin made a smooth arc, slidingfrom right to left. I snapped my camerarepeatedly, pointing it at the whale andlowering it to my chin so I could observedirectly, without any filter.

Here was a 40-ton beast in an endless oceanchoosing that very moment to dip above thewater. Witnessing that spontaneous act in thatnatural environment felt like peering behindthe curtain into a secret world. You only get afew seconds, but you memorize the sight.

“All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all thesebrother and sister creatures,” St. Francis wrotein his “Canticle of the Creatures.”

We echo his words today, craning our necksto take it all in. The world is big, and weare small.

(Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer inInver Grove Heights, Minn. She can bereached at ReadChristina.com.) †

Biblical readings: The books of Esther and Baruchit shall be granted you” (Est 5:3).

The Office of Readings has onlytwo passages from Baruch, a bookascribed to Jeremiah’s scribe but actuallycomposed by four writers centuries afterBaruch’s death. The first passage is apenitential prayer, which consists of aconfession of guilt speaking of God in thethird person, and then a plea for mercyaddressing God directly in thesecond person.

The second passage, the book’scenterpiece, is a poem that extols wisdom asthe great gift God has given to Israel. Itdemonstrates that two scriptural traditions,that of Job and that of Sirach, are notincompatible. Job illustrated that wisdom isunfathomable (Job 28:1-28), whileSirach stated that it is accessible in the law(Sir 24:1-34).

Baruch says that only God knowswisdom, but he has revealed it to Israel inthe Torah: Wisdom “is the book of theprecepts of God, the law that enduresforever; all who cling to her will live, butthose will die who forsake her” (Bar 4:1). †

PerspectivesTwenty Something/Christina Capecchi

Puppy love,whale watchingand St. Francis

Did you ever notice how personally most ofus take catastrophes in our lives? We’reoffended when bad things happen to us goodpeople, especially when we had no controlover what happened.

For example, we’ve listened to the peoplearound New Orleans saying, “Why me?” onthe TV when Hurricane Katrina hit the

Gulf Coast and destroyedtheir homes orbusinesses.

I’m sure people inmany states are saying itagain now in light of allthe floods and othernatural disasters whichhave happened so oftenlately throughout the U.S.

Most of us are miffedto discover all the ailments that accompanyaging. What’s worse, they’re happening to me!And we often don’t have much patience withothers who are experiencing the same thing.

When our spouse graduates from selectivehearing to actual deafness, we take itpersonally. We pout if he or she doesn’t hearwhat we say or gets it wrong. We make scenesover missed appointments or obligations evenwhen they were really just misheard, notcarelessly forgotten. Aging presents a variety

of problems over which we have little control.But it’s another thing to make a bad decision

and have to endure the consequences. If wedecide to cheat just a little and get caught, wefigure we deserve it. If we hastily marry anuntrustworthy person, we’re not exactlysurprised if the marriage fails. Or if we abuse orignore our kids, despite all our rationalizations,we have no valid excuses when they act out.

At one point in time, people thought the sunrevolved around the Earth. After all, peoplelived on Earth, and wasn’t it obvious thateverything centered on them and their world?Even the Church fought scientific evidence tothe contrary for a while. It was just too hard tobelieve that the natural order did not obeyhuman self-centeredness.

Maybe we should never have learned thatwe’re made in the image of God because it suremade some of us feel important. Think of theChristian believers in predestination who wereconvinced that they must be the Elect incontrast to all those other poor slobs who werenot. Or think of all the religious warsthroughout history between faiths claiming tobe the only one favored by God.

Also, we often took the imperative to bestewards of the Earth to mean that we couldtreat the rest of God’s creation however wepleased. We could abuse the soil, make animals

We think ‘I’ is the most important word in any languagesuffer or waste natural resources justbecause we wanted to be comfortable orbecause it was convenient. After all,hadn’t God entrusted them to us as themasters of the universe?

Sometimes this attitude extended to“me first” in human relationships as well.Our perceived “needs” came first.Sometimes we even went to war asnations because of selfish human desires.

Christ startled everyone by insistinginstead that we must always put the otherguy first. We must forgive 70 times sevenor treat our neighbor as we would like tobe treated. Our human obligation is tolove and to serve others, and to do sowithout whining.

Babies come into this world needingeverything and thus being the naturalcenters of attention. Then they learn theword “I”—or “me” in toddler talk—andcontinue expecting to be the king orqueen of the family. But when theyfinally grow up, some later than sooner,they learn to use “I” sparingly. And,hopefully, the egotism that goes with it.

(Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul theApostle Parish in Greencastle, is aregular columnist for The Criterion.) †

Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes

“God finds us again and again, when weleast expect him. He finds us because he

never left us.”These comforting

words, found inWhy Stay Catholic?Unexpected Answers toa Life-ChangingQuestion (Loyola Press),stay with me because ofthe power containedin them.

The book’s author,Michael Leach, is publisher emeritus andeditor-at-large of Orbis Books.

In Why Stay Catholic, he confronts areality that we all live with—knowing people,often our relatives, who were once goodCatholics, but now never go to Mass.

Leach honestly acknowledges that manyCatholics have left the Church because ofscandals or something as mundane as “simpleboredom” that led them to question theirfaith. But then he gives remarkable reasonsfor celebrating our Catholic faith despite ouroftentimes great disappointments.

While the book is significant, the manbehind the book is even more so.

Leach has edited and published more than2,000 books by such authors as Nobel Prizeand prestigious book award winners. He is theformer president of the Catholic BookPublishers Association, the ecumenical

Religion Publishers Group andCrossroad Publishing Company.

In 2007, Leach, who is dubbed “the deanof Catholic book publishing,” was honoredwith a Lifetime Achievement Award from theCatholic Book Publishers Association.

I have known him for more than 40 years.But it was in April of 2001 that he took me bysurprise with a special request.

He called me, saying that he had readan editorial that I had written for theHartford Courant, expressing how appalled Iwas that Montana had brought back the deathpenalty, which I had opposed all of my life.And I continued opposing it even though myson, John, and his wife, Nancy, had beenmurdered in Montana not long before thestate resumed executions.

Leach then asked if I would write abook on the death penalty for him to publishat Orbis.

I asked him, “When do you want it?”He said on Aug. 1, and I agreed.But when I hung up, I thought, “You crazy

lady! You just said you’d write a book in three-and-a-half months!”

I did manage to write Choosing Mercy,A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to Endthe Death Penalty, but mainly because Leachpolished it well and titled it.

In Why Stay Catholic, he shares hispersonal story of how he had become a priest,thinking he could “make things right for

A question that those of us who ar e Catholic are often askedeveryone, but was learning the hard way” thathe could not. He then “began to wonder whatit would be like to love just one person withall [his] heart, and have a family and do justthat one thing right.”

He tells how he met “stunning Vickie,”whom he married a year later.

That was more than 40 years ago, and nowVickie has early stages of Alzheimer’sdisease, but praises God, Leach writes, forthe “miracles” in her life—her “sweetheart”and “wonderful boys.”

The book is full of love stories.Leach also reminds Catholics that

“Catholic social teaching is founded on theprinciple of solidarity—a spiritual awarenessthat each of us is responsible for the good ofall of us. It is knowing that when a family inChicago gets food stamps, a city is richer;when a family in Maine receives health care,a state is healthier; when taxes from acorporation in Manhattan help provide shelterfor a homeless family on the Gulf Coast, acountry is stronger; and when a wealthycountry sends AIDS medicine to families inNigeria, the entire world is blessed.”

We Catholics should respect, he said, our“deposit of faith [that] is not a limitedchecking account. It’s a trust fund thatincreases and multiplies.”

(Antoinette Bosco writes for Catholic NewsService.) †

The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco

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The Sunday ReadingsSunday, Oct. 16, 2011• Isaiah 45:1, 4-6• 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b• Matthew 22:15-21

The second part of the Book of Isaiahprovides this weekend’s first reading.

Much happenedafter the first sectionof Isaiah was written.

The mightyBabylonian Empirehad overwhelmedGod’s people, literallydestroying the lastremaining kingdom ofthe Hebrews, thekingdom of Judah.

The reigning dynasty there wasextinguished. Many people were killed.

The Babylonians took a number ofcaptives to Babylon, the imperial capital.There, these exiles and their descendants,were to languish for four generations.

However, during those four generationsthe Babylonians lost power. Eventually,they too were overtaken by a strongeradversary, Persia.

The Persian king, Cyrus, conqueredBabylon. He had no interest in the exilesfrom the kingdom of Judah so he allowedthem to return home. For the exiles, it wasa day of unequalled joy.

An unusual turn of phrase was theprophet’s designation of King Cyrus as aninstrument of God. The reason that thiswas a novelty was because Cyrus was apagan. He was not in any sense a son ofAbraham. His ancestors never followedMoses across the Sinai Desert inthe Exodus.

Yet, God used Cyrus to accomplish thedivine will. The divine will was to effectthe survival—and the return to peace andsecurity—of the children of Abraham.

For the second reading, the Churchpresents a passage from St. Paul’sFirst Epistle to the Thessalonians.

Thessalonica was a Greek city locatedon the Greek mainland of the Balkans. Itexists today as a living community, theGreek city of Saloniki.

The epistle comes from Paul, alongwith his disciples, Silvanus and Timothy.

As Christians were at that timeeverywhere throughout the nearbyAsia Minor, the Christians of Thessalonica were living in the midst of ahostile culture. Virtually every convention

in the Roman Empire, which covered allof Asia Minor and Greece, stood in utteropposition to the Gospel of Jesus.

Paul, therefore, had to reassure,encourage and strengthen this community.He also had to assert his own credentials.He was an Apostle, specially chosen byChrist. His authority came from the Lord,and he spoke as a most devout believer inthe message of Jesus.

St. Matthew’s Gospel supplies thelast reading.

It is one of the best known passages inthe New Testament. Again and again, thistext has been used to defend a verydraconian view of separation of Churchand state, almost as if it is that there aretwo reservoirs of divine authority inhuman life—one dealing with religionand the other with government—andnever the twain shall meet.

The Gospel clearly exposes an attemptto ensnare Jesus. If the Lord spoke againstpaying taxes, then Roman law would bedefied, and the Romans were unforgivingin the face of defiance. Yet, by approvingpayment of taxes, the Lord would be seenas endorsing the hated Roman conquestand occupation.

Jesus fell into neither trap. The basicfinal point was that the more importantreality is the kingdom of God in whichGod reigns. Everything is subject toGod’s moral law.

ReflectionIt is a great pity that this magnificent

lesson from St. Matthew’s Gospel sooften is diverted to—and indeedincorrectly presumed as—the teaching ofChrist about the relationship betweenChurch and state.

The lesson is much, much moreprofound. It is about reality. Church-staterelations, of course, are real with quiteserious implications. However, themessage is much broader. All thediscussion of Church-state relations aside,Christians must make every decision inlight of the Gospel.

“Render to God” is the standard.“Render to Caesar,” yes, but mostimportantly render all obedience to God.Base all judgments on God’s law.

Life cannot be compartmentalized,either for individuals or for states.Everything is subject—first, last andalways—to God’s law. †

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. CampionDaily ReadingsMonday, Oct. 17Ignatius of Antioch, bishop

and martyrRomans 4:20-25(Response) Luke 1:69-75Luke 12:13-21

Tuesday, Oct. 18Luke, evangelist2 Timothy 4:10-17bPsalm 145:10-13, 17-18Luke 10:1-9

Wednesday, Oct. 19John de Brebeuf, priest and

martyrIsaac Jogues, priest and martyrand their companions, martyrsRomans 6:12-18Psalm 124:1-8Luke 12:39-48

Thursday, Oct. 20Paul of the Cross, priestRomans 6:19-23Psalm 1:1-4, 6Luke 12:49-53

Friday, Oct. 21Romans 7:18-25aPsalm 119:60, 68, 76-77, 93-94Luke 12:54-59

Saturday, Oct. 22Romans 8:1-11Psalm 24:1-6Luke 13:1-9

Sunday, Oct. 23Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary

TimeExodus 22:20-26Psalm 18:2-4, 47, 511 Thessalonians 1:5c-10Matthew 22:34-40

My Journey to God

God bless the geeseAnd winged thingsThat soar the skiesOn gracious wings.

They sing their praises to Our Lord,Day by day, near and far.They don’t pretend, they don’t conspire,They don’t ask “Why?” They simply are.

God Bless the Geese

QI was told once by a friend that, in theCatholic Church, declaring bankruptcy is

morally wrong and that,even though a courtrelieves you of a debt, youmust pay back the amountyou owed or else you cannever receive absolution inconfession.

I know someone whowas forced intobankruptcy through nofault of his own.

His company went bankrupt, his stockoptions evaporated and his brokermishandled his accounts, leaving him withan Internal Revenue Service tax bill of$40,000 and no way to pay it.

Does the Church really require this personto pay back all of the debts that were canceled,and before he can ever receive absolution?(Solon, Iowa)

ASince the economic downturn began in theUnited States in 2008, petitions for

bankruptcy have increased meteorically.The surprising thing is that so little

theological writing has been done on themorality issues involved in declaringbankruptcy.

Just about anything written today refers thereader to the original Catholic Encyclopedia,published in the early 1900s, which says thatlawyers and theologians agree that the effect ofa discharge in bankruptcy is simply to bar anylegal proceedings by creditors against thebankrupt, and that “his moral obligation to payall his debts in full when he is ablestill remains.”

Sound morality dictates that a person whoborrows money incurs a moral obligation aswell as a monetary one, and that there is animplied and binding promise to repay it.

In the early years of the United States, aperson who was unable to satisfy creditors wasthrown into a “debtor’s prison” until his familyor friends could come up with the money todischarge his debts.

The bankruptcy laws that developedsubsequently are a humane hallmark of socialprogress and actually have their roots in theOld Testament concept of a “jubilee year,”where every half-century debts wouldbe forgiven.

Bankruptcy laws enable a debtor to re-enterthe mainstream of society and begin anew tofunction productively.

People arrive at bankruptcy by differentroutes, and there is clearly an element ofmorality involved in that.

Sometimes a catastrophic illness can bury afamily in medical bills or a natural disaster can

wipe out all their resources. But there are alsothose who simply live beyond their means orare negligent or imprudent in the conduct ofbusiness.

In the case of the person you mentioned inthe question, you indicate that he arrived atbankruptcy through no fault of his own—so itwould seem to me that he incurred no moralfault, needs no absolution and, all other thingsbeing equal, is fully qualified to share in thesacraments of the Church.

Most likely, he has little discretionaryincome right now and is struggling to get hislife back in economic balance.

I would say that, down the road, if it evercame to be that he had resources beyond whatwas needed to maintain his family reasonably,he should endeavor to repay the debts that thebankruptcy court discharged legally.

QI often witness adults chewing gumduring Sunday Mass and then going

right up to receive holy Communion.Am I wrong in thinking that chewing gum

breaks the one-hour fast that Catholics arerequired to observe before receiving theprecious body and blood of Christ?(Galloway, N.J.)

AThe governing canon (#919 in theChurch’s Code of Canon Law) says that

“one who is to receive the most holyEucharist is to abstain from any food ordrink, with the exception only of water andmedicine, for at least the period of one hourbefore holy Communion.”

I don’t think you’ll find any official rulebook that details what is food and what is not.So we should simply use our heads as Godand the Church expect us to do in a lot ofthings.

I have heard one opinion that, if gum issugar-free, it does not break the fast since ithas no nutritional value.

To me, such reasoning is silly andartificial.

Let’s look at the reason for the rule andthen seek to apply it.

The Eucharist is special food, nourishingnot only our bodies for a day but also oursouls for eternity. To remind us of just howspecial this gift is, the Church requires that noother food enter our mouths for an hourbefore receiving it so as not to mix theprofane with the sacred.

Gum, whether you chew it or swallow it,whether it has sugar or not, profanes themouth and makes it less worthy as a receptorfor the body of Christ.

So yes, gum is food, and people shouldnot chew it during the hour before theyreceive Communion. †

(Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis. A skein ofpink-footed geese fly past the moon as they prepare to land at the Vane Farm naturereserve near Loch Leven in Fife, Scotland, in October 2009. Around 20,000 pink-footed geese stop off at the nature reserve each year as they migrate south fromIceland before the winter season.)

Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle

Declaring bankruptcy does not absolveperson of moral need to repay debts

I love their very goosiness—Their clamorous calls and waddling

walks.Though loathed by many, grace

unseen—Our Lord’s life, too, was paradox.

By Linda Abner

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BIERLY, Roberta K., 60,St. Peter, Harrison County,Sept. 16. Wife of Roger Bierly.Mother of John Bierly Jr. Sisterof Janie Whittaker.

COTTERMAN, Lynn, 86,St. Luke the Evangelist, Indianapolis, Sept. 29. Motherof Bill Cotterman. Sister ofVance Cotterman. Grandmotherof three.

ECKRICH, Matthew John,84, St. Therese of the InfantJesus (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Sept. 19. Husbandof Mary Helen Eckrich. Fatherof Betsy Glowinski, ChristinaTebbe, Cathy Walter, KevinKlaiber, Theresa, Mark,Matthew III and Tom Eckrich.Brother of Franciscan SisterHelen Eckrich and Tom Eckrich.Grandfather of 18. Great-grandfather of eight.

GRANNAN, Julieanne M., 74,Our Lady of the Greenwood,Greenwood, Sept. 30. Wife ofAnthony Grannan. Mother ofBryan, Curtis and MarkGrannan. Grandmother of two.

HUESMAN, Ruth L., 87,St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Sept. 30.Mother of Donna Daub, JaneKuhn, Teresa Muldoon, James,Jerry, John, Pat and SamHuesman. Sister of Ruby Woods,Donald and Willard Stohry.Grandmother of 18. Great-grand -mother of 17.

HUSER, Martha Jean, 92,St. Mary, Greensburg, Oct. 1.Mother of Grace and Fred Huser.Grandmother of two. Great-grand mother of one.

KUHN, Andrew Dale, 36,St. Joseph, Shelbyville, July 16.Son of Stephan Kuhn and SandraKuhn. Brother of KathleenBolengo, Julia Weintraut andMichele Vicen.

RAJA, Vincent A., 76,St. Barnabas, Indianapolis,Sept. 24. Husband of Ann Raja.Father of Julie Flickinger,Kathleen Pugh and Vincent Raia.Grand father of nine. Great-grand father of three.

RIALL, Lucille C., 86,St. Joseph, Sellersburg, Sept. 1.Wife of Bob Riall. Mother ofRon Riall. Stepmother ofRhonda Harris and Randy Riall.Sister of Ruth Deitsch, BettyHutchinson, Mary Loftus andDorothy Patton. Grandmother ofsix.

RICHMER, Forrest G., 81,St. Mary, Lanesville, Sept. 28.Husband of Agnes (Receveur)Richmer. Father of LindaPoliskie, Jean Wills, Carol, Alan,Dale, Dennis and Larry Richmer.Brother of Mary Rita Smith andWilliam Richmer. Grandfather of18. Great-grandfather of 15.

RISSELMAN, Kenneth, 85,St. Gabriel, Connersville,Sept. 17. Husband of JaniceRisselman. Father of James andJoseph Risselman. Brother ofCharles Risselman. Grandfatherof five.

RITTER, Gemma Elizabeth,infant, St. Louis, Batesville,Sept. 30. Daughter of Jade andElizabeth Ritter. Sister ofAllysan, Meg, George, Hank andPaul Ritter. Grandddaughter ofAlbert and Ellie Amberger andGene and Joan Ritter.

SCHEELE, Charles H., 76,Holy Family, Oldenburg,Sept. 30. Husband of BeverlyScheele. Father of Natalie andNicholas Scheele. Stepfather ofKim Caramela, Deborah Davis,Cindy Schmidt and GregoryBusch. Brother of Clara Becker,Alice Stenger, Irene Tebbe, Maryand Lambert Scheele. Grand -father of three. Step-grandfatherof 10.

SCHRODER, Mary C., 91,St. Joseph, Sellersburg, Sept. 14.Mother of Angela Hayes,Bernard, James and MarkSchroder. Grandmother of 13.Great-grandmother of 25.

SHIRLEY, James, 68, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd County,Sept. 30. Husband of Linda(Flanigan) Paulley Shirley. Fatherof Laura Arthur, Justin Flanigan,Vivian and Christopher Paulley.Brother of Jean Loftus, Alvin,Jerry, Ray and Rob Shirley.Grand father of nine. Great-grand -father of four.

YOUNG, Martin D., 96,SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral,Indianapolis, Oct. 1. Uncleof several. †

Franciscan Sister Sue Bradshaw, formerlySister Catherine Marie, died on Sept. 30 atSt. Clare Hall, the health care facility for theSisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, inOldenburg. She was 76.

The Mass of Christian Burial was celebratedon Oct. 4 at the motherhouse chapel in Oldenburg.Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery.

Sister Sue was born on April 24, 1936, inIndianapolis. She entered the OldenburgFranciscan community on Sept. 8, 1954, andprofessed her final vows on Aug. 12, 1960.

She earned a master’s degree atXavier University in Cincinnati and a doctorate inAsian studies at Georgetown University inWashington, D.C.

Sister Sue served as a grade school teacher,high school teacher and college professor as well

as in parish ministry in Indiana and Ohio.In the archdiocese, she taught at

St. Louis School in Batesville, St. Joan of ArcSchool in Indianapolis and St. Christopher Schoolin Indianapolis.

Sister Sue also served on the faculty atMarian University in Indianapolis from 1974until she retired to St. Clare Hall at themotherhouse in 2008.

She also ministered on the pastoral staff atSt. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis andSt. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis, and assistedwith the formation program for Franciscan friars.

Surviving are a brother, John Bradshaw, andseveral nieces and nephews.

Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters ofSt. Francis, P.O. Box 100, Oldenburg, IN 47036. †

Rest in peace

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A monument dedicated to the women religious who ministered to wounded and dying soldiersfrom the North and South during the American Civil War is located across the street from theCathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C.

Tribute to women religious

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Endless news, noise and crowdshave made people afraid of silenceand solitude, which are essentialfor finding God’s love and love forothers, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Progress in communicationsand transportation has made lifemore comfortable, as well as more“agitated, sometimes frantic,” hesaid, especially in cities, wherethere is a constant din, even all

night.Young

peopleseem towant to filleverymomentwith musicand video,and thereis agrowingrisk that

people are more immersed in avirtual world rather than in realitybecause of the constant stream of“audiovisual messages that

accompany their lives frommorning to night,” he said during avisit to an Italian monasteryon Oct. 9.

“Some people are no longerable to bear silence and solitudefor very long,” he said during avespers service at a Carthusianmonastery in Serra San Brunoin Calabria.

Monasteries remind people ofthe need for silent reflection,which lets people delve into theapparent emptiness of solitude andexperience real fullness, that is,God’s presence and true reality,he said.

By spending time alone in quietprayer, people find life’s essentialsand unity with others, he said.

The pope spent one day in theDiocese of Lamezia Terme insouthwest Italy—a region stillstruggling with organized crime,corruption and highunemployment.

During an outdoor Mass, thepope called the region a“seismic territory, not just from a

geological point of view,” but alsobecause of the upheaval caused bynegative social and behavioralpatterns.

“It’s a land whereunemployment is worrisome,where often ferocious criminalitytears the social fabric, [a] land inwhich there is a constant feelingof being in a state of emergency,”he said in his homily.

“Don’t ever give in to thetemptation of pessimism andturning inward,” he said, urgingthose gathered to use their faithin God to foster collaboration,help others and promote thecommon good.

Monasteries are indispensablefor society because they remindpeople of the need to put Godand the common good beforeself-interest, he said after theMass.

Today’s societies are nothealthy, the pope said. The air“is polluted by a mentality that isun-Christian and inhumanebecause it is dominated by

place in society, he said.“Rather, the monastery is a

model of a society that puts Godand fraternal relations at thecenter,” something “we reallyneed in our day, too,” he said. †

economic interests, concernedonly with earthly things andlacking a spiritual dimension.”

Not only is there no room forGod, but other people and thecommon good no longer have a

By Brandon A. Evans

This week, we continue to examinewhat was going on in the Church and theworld 50 years ago as seen through thepages of The Criterion, which iscelebrating its 50th anniversary.

Here are some of the items found in theOct. 13, 1961, issue of The Criterion:

• Fresh wave of persecution facesCatholics in Hungary

• ‘It can be done’: Won’t leave mixedneighborhood

“CINCINNATI—When Jim andEvelyn Byrne moved into suburbanNorth Avondale four years ago, some oftheir friends raised their eyebrows.‘How come you moved into a Jewishneighborhood?’ they asked. Since lastspring, however, the next-door neighbors ofthe Byrne family on both sides have beenNegro families. Now the question has

changed to: ‘Do you mean you’re reallystaying there?’ ‘Why not?’ retorts Byrne, atall, rangy young salesman. ‘If people onlywould stop to realize that Negroes arepeople like anybody else,’ says his wife.”

• Though the wall: Finds life inE. Germany oppressive tobelievers

• Request use of Englishin the Mass

• North Vernon parishto observe centennial

• Use of vernaculargranted to Poland

• Half million attend‘Rosary Crusade’

“SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—What wasdescribed as the ‘largest religiousgathering ever to take place in theUnited States’—a throng of more than500,000 persons—jammed San Francisco’sGold Gate Park for a rally of the

Family Rosary Crusade.”• Praises good will of non-Catholics• Exclusive interview: Sen. Morse

defends his school aid stand• Labor backs Kennedy on school

aid issue• Awakened

Christendom calledReds’ biggest fear

“EVANSTON, Ill.—Communists the worldover fear that the followersof Christ will wake up intime to dedicate themselvesto solving world problems,

Father James Keller, M.M., director of theChristophers, said here. ‘Once thathappens,’ the priest said, ‘the march ofcommunism across the globe will falter andfail. But not till then!’ While there shouldbe reasonable efforts to check subversion,he declared in a special talk sponsored by

the Guild of St. Athanasius parish [Oct. 8]that Catholics should pay far moreattention to bring the principles of Christ tobear on the basic needs of our day.”

• Family Clinic: The battle of thesexes will never be settled

• Year’s sacrifices by laity bringmission windfall

• Feel free to criticize, Delegate tellsthe laity

• Seek change in laws on immigration• Avoid backing extremists, Catholic

press advised• 4,000 Third Order members attend

interracial rally• Reject priest’s offer to teach

Bible course• Canadian laymen plan publication

(Read all of these stories from our Oct. 13,1961, issue by logging on to our archivesat www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

Pope: Silence, solitude needed in ‘agitated, sometimes frantic’ world

Cloistered monks listen as Pope Benedict XVI leads a prayer at the Carthusianmonastery in Serra San Bruno, Italy, on Oct. 9. The pope spent one day in theregion of southwestern Italy still struggling with organized crime, corruption andhigh unemployment.

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What was in the news on Oct. 13, 1961? Mixed neighborhoods, a Rosar yCrusade, the Reds’ biggest fear and the continuing battle of the sexes

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Archdiocesan pilgrimage to California

This view of the San Francisco skyline taken on Sept. 26 includesSt. Ignatius Church, a Jesuit parish near the Bay. The first parish church wasestablished by Jesuit priests in 1855, six years after they arrived asmissionaries from Italy. The present church was dedicated on Aug. 2, 1914.

Above, Msgr. William Stumpf, moderator of the curia, celebrates Masson Sept. 27 at the historic Mission San Francisco Solano Church inSonoma, Calif. It is the only mission founded in California after Mexico’sindependence from Spain. It was founded by Father Jose Altimira onJuly 4, 1823, and is named for St. Francis Solano, a missionary to thePeruvian Indians.

Left, archdiocesan pilgrims visited historic Mission San Francisco de Asis,also known as Mission Dolores, in San Francisco on Sept. 25 during a six-day pilgrimage to churches and other holy sites in California led byMsgr. William Stumpf, moderator of the curia for the archdiocese. Themission, originally located on San Francisco Bay, served as an importantnaval base for the Spaniards to protect their colony from outside invaders. Itis now located in downtown San Francisco. It was founded on June 29, 1776,under the direction of Blessed Junipero Serra. It is the oldest original intactmission in California as well as the oldest building in San Francisco.Mission Dolores Parish now comprises the basilica and old mission.

Above, archdiocesan pilgrims, front row, from left, Rogelio Mahor ofSt. Margaret Mary Parish in Terre Haute, pilgrimage directorOthmar Grueninger of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis,Susan Lindeman of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood andWilliam Uber of St. Paul Catholic Center in Bloomington pray during Masson Sept. 27 at Mission San Francisco Solano Church in Sonoma, Calif.

Above, Old Mission San Juan Bautista was foundedby Franciscan Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen,the successor to Blessed Juniper Serra, on June 24,1797, near what is now Monterey Bay in California.The pilgrims visited the historic church on Sept. 29.

Left, giant redwood trees grace the summit ofBear Mountain near Santa Cruz, Calif. The pilgrimsvisited Bear Mountain on Sept. 29 via a scenicnarrow-gauge railroad train route.

Right, a historical marker at Old Mission San JuanBautista identifies the church and mission as animportant site in the history of the Catholic faith inCalifornia.

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