This week in The Criterion
March 28, 2008 issue
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The contents of this newsletter are:
- A listing of the full contents of the print edition
- Items of Interest
- Web-only Features
- National and World News you may have missed
- Links to the daily readings
Full Contents
Local stories:
- Carolyn's children: ‘Second mom’
lives her faith by
helping others
- Chrism Mass renews the
Church in its mission
- Catholic educators descend on Indianapolis (photos)
- Meet our future deacons
- Donald Dearman
- Dr. Arthur Alunday
- Legislators pass adult stem cell, anti-pornography bills
- Speaker: Bring gifts to your tasks and honor God in doing them
- A woman’s greatest treasures are the love and life she gives, speakers say
- Two monks transfer vows to Saint Meinrad
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Confirmation brings an increase of baptismal grace
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La Confirmación ofrece un crecimiento de la gracia bautismal
- Editorial: Building on Easter
- From the Editor Emeritus: Biblical women - Herodias and Salome
- Cornucopia: Behaving like the Easter people we are
- Faithful Lines: A memoir - Good neighbors even in bad times
- Faith and Family: Family homes -
Outposts of
God’s kingdom
- Letters to the Editor
- No letters published this week
- Events Calendar
- SPRED to host eighth annual dinner dance
- Priest to be soloist
for April 6 concert
- April 4 events to
commemorate
Kennedy and King
- ‘Black Marriage Day’ is April 5 in Indianapolis
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Joseph Huber Jr. helped Catholic ministries in southern Indiana
- My Journey to God: The Lesson
Catholic News Service:
- Pope says risen Christ vanquished darkness of sin, death
- Office promoting
John Paul II’s
sainthood cause
seeks testimonies
in English
- Protesters charged with felony for disrupting Easter Mass in Chicago
- Column: Honoring our faith so people
can die a happy death
- The Sunday Readings: Second Sunday of Easter
- Question Corner: Church has considered fixed
date for celebration of Easter
FaithAlive!
- 265 popes have led the Roman Catholic Church
- Papacy affects history
- Discussion Point: The pope is our shepherd
Items of Interest
Here are a couple of items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Meet our future deacons
On June 28, history will be made at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis when 25 men from central and southern Indiana become the first permanent deacons ordained for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. This week’s issue of The Criterion continues a series of profiles of these men that will be published in the weeks leading up to that important day. (Page 2)
Read the introduction | Donald Dearman | Dr. Arthur Alunday | Deacon website
Women's Conferences:
Speaker: Bring gifts to your tasks and honor God in doing them
Internationally known author and inspirational speaker Kathy Coffey of Denver discussed ways to live an artful and faithful life in her keynote address during the sixth annual Catholic Women’s Convocation on March 8 at St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis. (Page 8)
Read the story
A woman’s greatest treasures are the love and life she gives, speakers say
Erika Bachiochi focused on how true feminism requires self-sacrifice and the gift of love.
Patricia Pitkus Bainbridge emphasized the importance of praying for God’s help to build a society dedicated to life.
The two Catholic women made those points during their keynote addresses at the fifth annual “Treasuring Womanhood” Indiana Catholic Women’s Conference on March 15 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
Get a glimpse into each of their talks. (Page 15)
Get the story
Web-only features
Photo gallery from the Archdiocesan Chrism Mass
Laity, religious, deacon candidates and seminarians, deacons and priests from all corners of the archdiocese filled SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis to overflowing on March 18 for the annual celebration of the chrism Mass during Holy Week.
It was a liturgy marked by long processions of more than 110 priests, the renewal of their commitment to priestly service, the blessing of oils to be used in several sacraments and distribution of the oils to representatives of parishes from all 11 archdiocesan deaneries.
See the photo gallery | Read the story
Photo gallery from the opening Mass of the NCEA Convention
Get a jump start on our coverage of the National Catholic Educational Association Convention, taking place this week in Indianapolis, by seeing some of the photos taken during the opening Mass by our reporter, Sean Gallagher. Much more coverage of the NCEA Convention will be in the April 4 issue of The Criterion.
See the photo gallery
National and world news you may have missed...
Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed. Click the headline to see the story:
Daily Readings
Thursday, March 27
Acts 3:11-26
Psalm 8:2ab, 5-9
Luke 24:35-48
Friday, March 28
Acts 4:1-12
Psalm 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a
John 21:1-14
Saturday, March 29
Acts 4:13-21
Psalm 118:1, 14-15b, 16-21
Mark 16:9-15
Monday, March 31
The Annunciation of the Lord
Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Psalm 40:7-11
Hebrews 10:4-10
Luke 1:26-38
Tuesday, April 1
Acts 4:32-37
Psalm 93:1-2, 5
John 3:7b-15
Wednesday, April 2
Francis of Paoli, hermit
Acts 5:17-26
Psalm 34:2-9
John 3:16-21
Thursday, April 3
Acts 5:27-33
Psalm 34:2, 9, 17-20
John 3:31-36
Friday, April 4
Isidore, bishop and doctor
Acts 5:34-42
Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14
John 6:1-15
Saturday, April 5
Vincent Ferrer, priest
Acts 6:1-7
Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19
John 6:16-21
Sunday, April 6
Third Sunday of Easter
Acts 2:14, 22-33
Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11
1 Peter 1:17-21
Luke 24:13-35
Readings homepage | Podcast (audio files)
