In the upcoming print issue of The Criterion

The latest edition of The Criterion has been printed and is on its way to subscribers. Below is a list of stories that will be appearing in the issue, along with regular features like Archbishop Tobin's column, the editorial page and our events calendar.

Front pageOur February 12, 2016 issue

Local stories:

  • Archbishop Tobin announces changes for three deaneries; two parishes to be merged
    • Archbishop: Connected in the Spirit will help Church adapt to changing world
    • Parishioners, pastoral leaders reflect on challenges to merging parishes
    • Connected in the Spirit Official Decrees: Bloomington, Connersville and Seymour deaneries
  • Indianapolis parish to host 16th annual Lenten speaker series
  • Women’s conference offers speakers on ‘Mercy for All’
  • Religious liberty, LGBT rights legislation fails to advance
  • Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes
  • Biannual grants awarded to parishes, schools and archdiocesan agencies

Regular local features:

  • Rejoice in the Lord: Use Lent to celebrate, experience God’s mercy
    • Alégrense en el Señor: Aprovechemos la Cuaresma para celebrar y vivir la misericordia de Dios
  • Editorial: Observing Lent in the Holy Year of Mercy
  • From the Editor Emeritus: Renaissance Church - Three less than saintly popes
  • Cornucopia: What is love? Can anyone really define it?
  • Twenty Something: Oh, what a tangled web: rising above Instagram envy
  • Letters to the Editor
    • No letters were printed this week
  • Events Calendar
    • Christopher West to speak at E6 Catholic Men’s Conference in St. Leon on March 5
    • Statewide family conference set for March 12-13 in Kokomo
    • Grief seminar focusing on family members to take place on March 14
    • Struggling couples invited to Retrouvaille weekend on Feb. 26-28 in Indianapolis
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
  • My Journey to God: Lent is the Time

Catholic News Service:

  • Pope, Russian Orthodox patriarch to meet in Cuba, sign joint declaration, Vatican announces
  • New Catholic-Muslim dialogue formed; Chicago archbishop named co-chair
  • Column: You shall not oppress an alien
  • Column: Our duty to those who doubt
  • Column: Reflecting on new meanings for the March for Life
  • The Sunday Readings: First Sunday of Lent
  • Question Corner: The Church advocates balance between national security and care for refugees

FaithAlive!

  • Lenten acts of mercy draw Catholics out of indifference
  • Scriptures filled with examples of God’s mercy that can be imitated during Lent

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