This week in The Criterion
October 24, 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:
- Full-court faith: Catholic upbringing is
at the heart of Pacers’
coach Jim O’Brien’s life
- St. Mary’s pastor says coach and his wife are ‘authentic’ people
- World Mission Sunday Mass has multicultural flavor
- Oct. 31 marks 100th anniversary
of first healing attributed to the
intercession of St. Theodora Guérin
- Senior citizen, teens connect through community service project
- Making history:
Thomas Day is first director of religious education to take sabbatical
- Growth and expansion grants are now available
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Catholic faith is a stable and unchanging support for us
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La fe católica resulta un apoyo estable e inmutable para nosotros
- Editorial: The art of making decisions
in a presidential election year
- From the Editor Emeritus: Possible saints - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
- Cornucupia: Reckoning what is important on All Souls Day
- Emmaus Walk: Is God’s power perfected in our weaknesses?
- Letters to the Editor
- One party has a
plan to protect
unborn children
- Abortion is one
of many issues
for voters to
consider
- Without
conception,
there is no life
- Right-to-life
issues include
more than
abortion
- The critical
issue when
casting your
ballot
- Pray for the
wisdom to
change what we
can change
- Voting our
conscience
in this election
- Sister’s
statement in line
with ‘Faithful
Citizenship’
- Don’t lose sight
of strengths in
U.S. health care
- Events Calendar
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Mary Joanita
Walsh taught school for 34 years
- My Journey to God: Expectations
Catholic News Service:
- Synod on Bible
can ‘change
Catholic culture,’
says archbishop
- Court’s ruling on embryos raises ethical problems
- Latinos seen as voting group key to outcome of presidential election
- Archbishop Chaput criticizes Obama for his stand on ‘abortion rights’
- Pope urges doctors to
respect patients’ value
and human dignity
- Vatican prepares three alternative endings for dismissal at Mass
- Campaign for Human Development ends ACORN funding over financial irregularities
- Gay marriage: Locating the question for the common good
- Bishops establish new ad hoc committee to promote, protect marriage
- Vatican: Stop pressuring pope on Pope Pius XII’s beatification
- Column: Author heralds
the pope who ‘revolutionized’
the Church
- The Sunday Readings: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Catholics must observe moral
obligation to vote responsibly
FaithAlive!
- We are called to listen attentively to the word of God
- Discussion Point: Bible study group helps deepen faith
Items of Interest
Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Full-court faith: Catholic upbringing is at the heart of Pacers’ coach Jim O’Brien’s life
The story of his father’s influence on him is one of the insights that the 56-year-old Jim O’Brien, head coach of the Indiana Pacers, shared in a recent interview with The Criterion. O’Brien also talked about his faith, his Catholic education, his marriage, his efforts to change the make-up of the Pacers, and the way that his youngest child, who has Down syndrome, has touched and changed his family’s life. Read an edited version of the conversation with O’Brien, who is starting his second season as the head coach of the Pacers. (Page 1)
Read the story
Senior citizen, teens connect through community service project
Pansy Mitchell smiled as she watched 15 members of Roncalli High School’s varsity volleyball team scrape and then paint the peeling wood siding on her old garage. Mitchell, who is 89, has lived in her modest Victorian house on Regent Street south of downtown Indianapolis for 62 years. This painting project on Sept. 27 marked the first time that Angels from the Heart volunteers from throughout the city had helped her with home maintenance during Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish’s annual community service program for low-income neighborhood residents. (Page 12)
Read the story
Web-only features
Photo Gallery: World Mission Sunday Mass has multicultural flavor
Catholics from Vietnam, Myanmar, India, the Philippines, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, France, Mexico and the United States offered prayers of thanksgiving for the evangelizing efforts of missionaries abroad and in Indiana during the archdiocesan World Mission Sunday Mass on Oct. 19 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis.
See the photo gallery | Read the related story
Follow the 2008 World Synod of Bishops on the Bible
See our page of links, resources and bulletins from the Vatican Information Service related to the 2008 World Synod of Bishops on the Bible.
Go to the webpage
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. 22
Ephesians 3:2-12
(Response) Isaiah 12:2-3, 4c-6
Luke 12:39-48
Thursday, Oct. 23
John of Capistrano, priest
Ephesians 3:14-21
Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19
Luke 12:49-53
Friday, Oct. 24
Anthony Mary Claret, bishop
Ephesians 4:1-6
Psalm 24:1-4b, 5-6
Luke 12:54-59
Saturday, Oct. 25
Ephesians 4:7-16
Psalm 122:1-5
Luke 13:1-9
Monday, Oct. 27
Ephesians 4:32-5:8
Psalm 1:1-4, 6
Luke 13:10-17
Tuesday, Oct. 28
Simon and Jude, Apostles
Ephesians 2:19-22
Psalm 19:2-5
Luke 6:12-16
Wednesday, Oct. 29
Ephesians 6:1-9
Psalm 145:10-14
Luke 13:22-30
Thursday, Oct. 30
Ephesians 6:10-20
Psalm 144:1b, 2, 9-10
Luke 13:31-35
Friday, Oct. 31
Philippians 1:1-11
Psalm 111:1-6
Luke 14:1-6
Saturday, Nov. 1
All Saints
Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14
Psalm 24:1b-4b, 5-6
1 John 3:1-3
Matthew 5:1-12a
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