This week in The Criterion
August 8, 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:
- Lilly Endowment Inc. awards $5 million capital
grant to improve archdiocesan schools
- Countless lives were touched by 12-year-old Anna Molloy’s big heart
- Aug. 16 Mass and event scheduled to defend the
faith against anti-Catholic commentator Bill Maher
- Chastity Mass observes anniversary of ‘Humanae Vitae’
- Oldenburg Franciscans honor 15 senior sisters
- Catholic News Around Indiana
- Going for the gold:
Elwood teenager
to compete in
Beijing Olympics
- Our Lady of Grace teenager to compete in diving at Beijing Olympics
- Serra Club vocations essay: Religious, priests and deacons cast nets to draw people into the Church
- Flood relief funds
are available for archdiocesan parishes
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Jesus identifies with those who fall again and again
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: Jesús se identifica con aquellos que caen una y otra vez
- Editorial: Plenty of reasons to watch
the 2008 Summer Olympics
- From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Henriette Delille
- Cornucopia: Polish up those tarnishing golden years
- Twenty Something: A firm foundation
for trying times
- Be Our Guest: The devil goes upscale with fancy,
suburban Planned Parenthood clinics
- Letters to the Editor
- No letters published this week
- Events Calendar
- Mass on Aug. 14 to celebrate
Catholic radio in Indianapolis
- Knights of Columbus to host
supper for injured policeman
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Marie Consolata
Gallagher taught for 63 years
- Franciscan Sister Francis Ellen
Hannigan taught at high schools
- My Journey to God: The Pool of Life
Catholic News Service:
- Millions of immigrant stories later,
CLINIC celebrates 20 years of serving others
- Pope offers
best wishes
to China and
Olympic
participants
- As Chicago experiences violent summer, Catholic communities respond
- Vatican foundation
looks to expand
its donor base
to North America
- Social action advocates discuss racism, study coalition-building
- Benedictine nuns in Indiana help employees with high cost of gasoline
- Column: The vocation of marriage - It’s holy, but no fairy tale
- The Sunday Readings: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Heresy is obstinate denial or doubt
of truth believed by Catholic faith
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!
Lilly Endowment Inc. awards $5 million capital grant to improve archdiocesan schools
Lilly Endowment Inc. recently made a major commitment of its resources to support archdiocesan schools in the center city of Indianapolis and in two of its urban high schools. The archdiocese has determined to use the $5 million grant the Endowment awarded to make much-needed capital improvements to the Mother Theodore Catholic Academies (MTCA), to Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School and to Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School. (Page 1)
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Serra Club vocations essay: Religious, priests and deacons cast nets to draw people into the Church
This the fourth in a series featuring the winners of the 2008 Indianapolis Serra Club Vocations Essay Contest. Melissa Schopper and her parents, Mark and Mary Schopper, are members of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. Last spring, she completed the 10th grade at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, and is the 10th-grade division winner in the 2008 Indianapolis Serra Club Vocations Essay Contest. (Page 11)
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Chastity Mass observes anniversary of ‘Humanae Vitae’
Forty years to the day after Pope Paul VI promulgated “Humanae Vitae,” Catholics committed to Church teachings on the sanctity of human life prayerfully observed the anniversary of this prophetic papal encyclical during a July 25 Mass in the chapel at St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. Father Brian Dudzinski, pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Fishers, Ind., was the celebrant for the liturgy then presided during exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.. (Page 7)
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Web-only features
Browse our Online Archives by Topic
Beginning with our issues dated January 2008 and later, we have begun to organize listings of our news stories by eight popular or common topics. By going to our online archives, you can now look at collections of stories that are related to: Catholic Education, Family Life, Catholic Charities, Liturgy/Spiritual Life, Youth Ministry, Vocations, Pro-Life and Legislation/Indiana Catholic Conference.
Go to topical archives
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
Wednesday, Aug. 6
The Transfiguration of
the Lord
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9
2 Peter 1:16-19
Matthew 17:1-9
Thursday, Aug. 7
Sixtus II, pope and martyr
and his companions, martyrs
Cajetan, priest
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19
Matthew 16:13-23
Friday, Aug. 8
Dominic, priest
Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7
(Response) Deuteronomy
32:35c-36b, 39, 41
Matthew 16:24-28
Saturday, Aug. 9
Teresa Benedicta of the Cross,
virgin and martyr
Hebrews 1:12-2:4
Psalm 9:8-13
Matthew 17:14-20
Monday, Aug. 11
Clare, virgin
Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c
Psalm 148:1-2, 11-14
Matthew 17:22-27
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Jane Frances de Chantal, religious
Ezekiel 2:8-3:4
Psalm 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131
Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
Wednesday, Aug. 13
Pontian, pope and martyr
Hippolytus, priest and martyr
Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22
Psalm 113:1-6
Matthew 18:15-20
Thursday, Aug. 14
Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
Ezekiel 12:1-12
Psalm 78:56-59, 61-62
Matthew 18:21-19:1
Vigil Mass of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
1 Chronicles 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2
Psalm 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14
1 Corinthians 15:54b-57
Luke 11:27-28
Friday, Aug. 15
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
Psalm 45:10-12, 16
1 Corinthians 15:20-27
Luke 1:39-56
Saturday, Aug. 16
Stephen of Hungary
Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32
Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19
Matthew 19:13-15
Sunday, Aug. 17
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 56:1, 6-7
Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8
Romans 11:13-15, 29-32
Matthew 15:21-28
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