This week in The Criterion
October 3, 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:
- A special place in history: Freshmen at
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
have ties to
St. Theodora
Guérin
- Archdiocese honors pro-life supporters for their work
- Blessed Mother played key role in priest’s conversion
- Two Batesville Deanery parishes celebrate 175 years
- Wanted: Readers’ memories to help celebrate the
175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Respect Life Supplement
- With God’s help, we can transform our nation
and build a culture of life and hope for all
- Adult stem-cell therapies offer hope for many patients
- Pornography harms individuals, families and society
- Male grief and trauma follow abortion experience
- Project Rachel offers hope and
help for women and men
- Abortion has decimated African-American population
- Advance directives should indicate a will for living
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Forming our consciences as we prepare to vote is a challenge
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La formación de conciencia es un reto que enfrentamos en preparación para el sufragio
- Editorial: Economic crisis is a failure of
responsible stewardship
- From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Father Stephen Eckert
- It's All Good: Never doubt that God is only a breath away
- Faithful Lines: Cooking tensions lead to blessed sense of humor
- Faith, Hope and Charity: A bottomless
well of love
- Letters to the Editor
- Reader: All innocent in society
should receive equal regard
- Events Calendar
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Paul Hoppe, father of monk, died in Findlay, Ohio
- My Journey to God: Day of Silence
Catholic News Service:
- ‘Spiritual
nourishment’ of
Bible to be a
synod focus,
says cardinal
- Catholics say impact of ‘Faithful Citizenship goes beyond Nov. 4
- Vatican official: Death penalty
support denies basic Christian belief
- Voice of the poor is missing in the climate change debate
- Hurricane Katrina exposed ‘two Americas,’ Bishop Sullivan says
- Column: Money management and the parish
- The Sunday Readings: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Scripture study requires reflection
about what author intended to say
FaithAlive!
- 47 million people live without health insurance in U.S.
- Discussion Point: Medical insurance is top priority
Items of Interest
Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Men's Conference: Blessed Mother played key role in priest’s conversion
Donald Calloway’s life of pornography, sexual promiscuity and drug use led him to run away from home as a teenager in the late 1980s. Now-Father Donald said though the Blessed Virgin Mary played a key role in helping him turn his life around and leading to his vocation, the biggest part of his conversion was looking at women as daughters of God. (Page 3)
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Wanted: Readers’ memories to help celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis
The help of our readers is needed to mark the celebration of the 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. As part of the anniversary observance, The Criterion is inviting archdiocesan Catholics to share the stories of how Catholicism has shaped their life, their faith and their family. (Page 3)
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Two Batesville Deanery parishes celebrate 175 years
In this year before the archdiocese celebrates its 175th anniversary, St. Paul and St. Peter parishes are celebrating their own special milestone. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein was the primary celebrant on Sept. 7 of a special anniversary Mass at St. Paul Church, which was dedicated in 1838 by the Servant of God Bishop Simon Bruté, the founding bishop of the Vincennes Diocese. (Page 17)
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Web-only features
See photos from the Holy Land pilgrimage via our online blog
Though the archdiocesan pilgrimage to the Holy Land is over, you can still see loads of photos taken during the Sept. 17-27 event that kicked off the 175th anniversary of the archdiocese. Photos and updates were provided during the trip by young adults on the pilgrimage at www.archindy.org/holyland.
Go to the blog
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, Oct. 1
Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
virgin and doctor
Job 9:1-12, 14-16
Psalm 88:10-15
Luke 9:57-62
Thursday, Oct. 2
Guardian Angels
Job 19:21-27
Psalm 27:7-9c, 13-14
Matthew 18:1-5, 10
Friday, Oct. 3
Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5
Psalm 139:1-3, 7-10, 13-14b
Luke 10:13-16
Saturday, Oct. 4
Francis of Assisi, religious
Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17
Psalm 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125,
130
Luke 10:17-24
Monday, Oct. 6
Bruno, priest
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, virgin
Galatians 1:6-12
Psalm 111:1b-2, 7-9, 10c
Luke 10:25-37
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Our Lady of the Rosary
Galatians 1:13-24
Psalm 139:1b-3, 13-15
Luke 10:38-42
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14
Psalm 117:1bc, 2
Luke 11:1-4
Thursday, Oct. 9
Denis, bishop and martyr
and his companions, martyrs
John Leonardi, priest
Galatians 3:1-5
(Response) Luke 1:69-75
Luke 11:5-13
Friday, Oct. 10
Galatians 3:7-14
Psalm 111:1b-6
Luke 11:15-26
Saturday, Oct. 11
Galatians 3:22-29
Psalm 105:2-7
Luke 11:27-28
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