This week in The Criterion

October 10, 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:

• Standing up for life: Archbishop Buechlein - Responsible citizenship requires respect for sanctity of all human life
• Education awards honor people who make a difference
  • Awards dinner raises tuition assistance for families in need
• Legacy for Our Mission cabinet celebrates campaign’s success
  • Cabinet members who led campaign came from throughout archdiocese
• Films can deepen and challenge our faith, priest says
• Speakers implore men to recommit their lives to faith and family
• Holy Land Pilgrimage (photo essay)
• New president-rector inaugurated at Saint Meinrad School of Theology
• St. Mary Parish is a pillar in the Greensburg community
• Vocations cross initiative helps families pray for vocations
• Planting a seed: Archdiocesan vocations office launches new Web site
• Growth and expansion grants are now available

Family Finance Supplement

• Charting a course: Lost in retirement planning? Stop and get directions
• Catholic agencies cautiously prepare for economic future
• Placing profit before values ensures failure, says Vatican official
• Economic crisis makes voters take harder look at presidential race
• Tighten the family budget in tough economic times

Regular local features:

• Seeking the Face of the Lord: Vocation of every baptized Christian is to love and say yes to God’s grace
• Buscando la Cara del Señor: La vocación de cada cristiano bautizado es amar y decirle sí a la gracia de Dios
• Editorial: Abortion and politics
• From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Fathers James Walsh and Thomas Price
• Cornucopia: Trying to understand the Middle East conflict
• Faithful Lines: Cooking tensions lead to blessed sense of humor
• Twenty Something: Forgiving yourself is hard to do
• Letters to the Editor
  • A big ‘thank you’ to all who supported Society of St. Vincent de Paul walk
• Events Calendar
• Obituaries
  • General listing
  • Father James Brune of Evansville was ordained in archdiocese
• My Journey to God: We Also Walk With Him

Catholic News Service:

• Pope says Scripture is vital to Church’s evangelizing mission
• Moral questions regarding Iraq in an election year
• Preaching should change lives, inspire, U.S. bishop tells synod
• Indian-American Christians urge end to violence in homeland
• Column: Fear not! Faith calls us to totally trust the Lord with our lives
• Column: Cyberbullying - The truth about Internet harassment
• The Sunday Readings: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
• Question Corner: Marriage of divorced Catholics requires approval by Church tribunal

FaithAlive!

• Health care reform requires public conscience work
• Discussion Point: Health care must be affordable

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Items of Interest

Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!

Vocations cross initiative helps families pray for vocations
Throughout the upcoming year, one of the ways that parishes across central and southern Indiana will observe the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis will be by encouraging their families to pray for vocations. The archdiocesan Office of Priestly and Religious Vocations is sponsoring a Parish Vocations Cross Initiative in which different families will receive a crucifix and a packet of prayers during their parish’s weekend Masses that they will pray together in their home each day in the coming week. (Page 24)
Read the story

Celebrating Catholic School Values: Education awards honor people who make a difference
On Nov. 5, J. Terrence Cody, Ronald Jones, Richard “Dick” Powell, Providence Sister Marie Kevin Tighe and Anthony "Tony" Watt will be honored during the archdiocese’s Celebrating Catholic School Values: Scholarship and Career Achievement Awards dinner. The 13th annual event—which has raised nearly $4 million to support need-based education scholarships—honors individuals who have used the foundation of their Catholic education to make a difference in the world. Get a glimpse into the lives of this year’s winners. (Page 1)
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Men's Conference: Speakers implore men to recommit their lives to faith and family
900 men attended the third annual Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference on Sept. 27 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Sponsored by the Marian Center in Indianapolis, the title of the conference was “Lions Breathing Fire: Christ Our Hope.” Taken from a homily of St. John Chrysostom, it describes what people should be like after receiving Communion. The event included Mass and the opportunity for confession as well as exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction. (Page 11)
Read the story

 

Web-only features

Archdiocesan vocations office launches new Web site
The archdiocesan Office of Vocations has totally revamped the archdiocese’s vocations Web site, which is now located at www.heargodscall.com. Visitors to the new site, which is linked to the archdiocese’s Web site, can watch interviews with many archdiocesan seminarians and priests, have frequently asked questions about discernment answered and learn about upcoming archdiocesan-sponsored vocations events.
Go to the website

 

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:

• Catholic disabilities group calls for defeat of suicide initiative
• As term opens, court declines to take four abortion-related cases
• Calm, consistency seen as key to strong church ties for mentally ill
• U.S. bishops urge Catholics to study candidates' views on life issues
• Cardinal Rode calls for 'authentic renewal' of U.S. religious life
• Synod head says it was logical to invite rabbi to biblical synod
• Tiny nun takes on tall task of defending Pope Pius XII
• Summaries of Old Testament books in Catholic editions of Bible
• Southeast Texas residents still coping with traumatic effects of Ike
• Vatican official urges governments to rid world of nuclear weapons
• Spain's Supreme Court rules church can keep baptism records unchanged
• New book, report assess status of abortion at state level
• Freedom means imitating Christ, especially serving poor, pope says

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Daily Readings

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

• Sunday, October 12, 2008 | Reflection from Msgr. Owen Campion
• Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
• Isaiah 25:6-10a
• Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20
• Matthew 22:1-14

Monday, Oct. 13
Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27,
31-5:1
Psalm 113:1b-5a, 6-7
Luke 11:29-32

Tuesday, Oct. 14
Callistus I, pope and martyr
Galatians 5:1-6
Psalm 119:41, 43-45, 47-48
Luke 11:37-41

Wednesday, Oct. 15
Teresa of Jesus, virgin and
doctor of the Church
Galatians 5:18-25
Psalm 1:1-4, 6
Luke 11:42-46

Thursday, Oct. 16
Hedwig, religious
Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin
Ephesians 1:1-10
Psalm 98:1-6
Luke 11:47-54

Friday, Oct. 17
Ignatius of Antioch, bishop
and martyr
Ephesians 1:11-14
Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13
Luke 12:1-7

Saturday, Oct. 18
Luke, Evangelist
2 Timothy 4:10-17b
Psalm 145:10-13, 17-18
Luke 10:1-9

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