This week in The Criterion

August 15, 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

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Full Contents

Local stories:

• 'A place of hope': Father Terry Charlton embraces role at world’s first high school for AIDS orphans
• DVD or CD of World Youth Day photos are available for purchase
• Four-session program to focus on Catholic identity and doctrine
• Batesville craftsmen proud of work on Our Lady of America statue
• Serra Club vocations essay: Diocesan priests can have great influence on youths
• Benedictine sister professes first vows

Regular local features:

• Seeking the Face of the Lord: Humility of Jesus urges us to imitate him
• Buscando la Cara del Señor: La humildad de Jesús nos insta a imitarle
• Editorial: Did Mary die?
• From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Father Samuel Mazzuchelli
• The Joyful Catholic: No matter the age, spiritual exercise is good for your soul
• Faithful Lines: Volunteers needed to organize 3,000 rosary rallies
• Be Our Guest: The devil goes upscale with fancy, suburban Planned Parenthood clinics
• Letters to the Editor
  • If we are to turn America around, we must change our wicked ways
  • Thank you for your support of the Retirement Fund for Religious appeal
• Events Calendar
  • Blue Mass to be celebrated on Sept. 11
  • Bella co-executive producer is ‘Celebrate Life’ speaker
• Obituaries
  • General listing
• My Journey to God: O Mary, Blessed Mother

Catholic News Service:

• Bishops vote to revise U.S. catechism on Jewish covenant with God
• Athlete’s story shines light on Church’s resettlement efforts
• Pope Benedict is in comfort zone in dialogue with priests
• British government permits Church to exhume Cardinal Newman’s body
• Florida official praises ruling allowing vote on faith-based programs
• Pope calls for immediate end to military action in Georgia
• Rising cost of back-to-school supplies is testing parents
• No ‘Yahweh’ in songs, prayers at Catholic liturgies, Vatican rules
• Pope impressed by ‘authentic joy’ of WYD pilgrims
• Catholic philanthropies give post-Katrina aid to women religious
• Supreme Knight reiterates call to end abortion, support marriage
• Column: Forty years after ‘Humanae Vitae’
• Column: When we see true forgiveness
• The Sunday Readings: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
• Question Corner: Ringing bells for consecration dates back to the Middle Ages

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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!

Father Terry Charlton embraces role at world’s first high school for AIDS orphans
In this story, learn more about St. Aloysius Gonzaga High School in Nairobi, Kenya, which is believed to be the world’s first high school for AIDS orphans. The school was co-founded by Jesuit Father Terry Charlton, a 1966 graduate of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis. (Page 1)
Read the story

Serra Club vocations essay: Diocesan priests can have great influence on youths
This the fifth in a series featuring the winners of the 2008 Indianapolis Serra Club Vocations Essay Contest. The author, Zach Hartley, and his mother, Teresa Hartley, are members of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. Last spring, he completed the 11th grade at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis and is the 11th-grade division winner in the 2008 Indianapolis Serra Club Vocations Essay Contest. (Page 13)
Read the essay

Batesville craftsmen proud of work on Our Lady of America statue
Restored to radiance by craftsmen at Weberding Carving Shop Inc. in Batesville, a statue of Our Lady of America has a new, temporary home in the rotunda of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. The Marian statue is displayed “on the very location where his holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, sat on his throne and greeted the faithful during his recent visit” on April 17, according to information posted on the cultural center’s Web site. (Page 12)
Read the story | See a prayer to Our Lady of America

 

Web-only features

DVD or CD of World Youth Day photos are available for purchase
Katie Berger, who traveled to Syndey, Australia, with archdiocesan youths to celebrate World Youth Day, took hundreds of photographs during the pilgrimage, and Criterion Press, Inc. has made both a DVD and CD of those photos available for purchase.The cost of the DVD is $5.
Go to our WYD blog to learn more or purchase a disc

 

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:

• No 'Yahweh' in songs, prayers at Catholic Masses, Vatican rules
• Bishops vote to revise U.S. catechism on Jewish covenant with God
• Chicago Archdiocese to pay $12.6 million to 16 sex abuse survivors
• Pope calls for immediate end to military action in Georgia
• Pilgrimage bus crashes en route to Marian Days; 17 dead
• Latin patriarch seeks 'new mentality' to bring Middle East peace
• Comfort zone: Pope's dialogues with priests flow freely
• Vatican official: Dialogue with Anglicans will continue after Lambeth
• Court asked to throw out resolution criticizing church adoption stand
• As Olympian, 'lost boy' looks to raise awareness about Darfur genocide
• Pope says as China's influence grows it should open itself to Gospel
• Supreme Knight reiterates call to end abortion, support marriage
• Kerala bishops oppose state family planning bill

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Daily Readings

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, August 17, 2008 | Reflection from Msgr. Owen Campion
• Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
• Isaiah 56:1, 6-7
• Romans 11:13-15, 29-32
• Matthew 15:21-28

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

Monday, Aug. 18
Ezekiel 24:15-24
(Response) Deuteronomy 32:18-21
Matthew 19:16-22

Tuesday, Aug. 19
John Eudes, priest
Ezekiel 28:1-10
(Response) Deuteronomy 32:26-
28, 30, 35c-36b
Matthew 19:23-30

Wednesday, Aug. 20
Bernard, abbot and doctor of
the Church
Ezekiel 34:1-11
Psalm 23:1-6
Matthew 20:1-16

Thursday, Aug. 21
Pius X, pope
Ezekiel 36:23-28
Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19
Matthew 22:1-14

Friday, Aug. 22
The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Psalm 107:2-9
Matthew 22:34-40

Saturday, Aug. 23
Rose of Lima, virgin
Exodus 43:1-7ab
Psalm 85:9ab, 10-14
Matthew 23:1-12

Sunday, Aug. 24
Twenty-first Sunday in
Ordinary Time
Isaiah 22:19-23
Psalm 138:1-3, 6-8
Romans 11:33-36
Matthew 16:13-20

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