This week in The Criterion
March 20, 2009 issue
The latest edition of The Criterion has been printed and is on its way to subscribers! But with this e-newsletter, you'll get a preview of that issue -- and access to certain stories right now.
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:
- Catholic couples use faith and science
in their struggle to overcome infertility
- Terre Haute Deanery Catholics to participate in planning process
- Physician ethicist highlights ethical problems with in vitro fertilization
- Presidential order imposes immorality on science, priest says
- Church successfully voices opposition to death-row proposal
- Abbott receives 40-year sentence for setting St. Anne fire
- The bond of Catholic education:
Scholarships make schooling possible for children in need
- Multicultural ministry programs
are scheduled in three deaneries
- Archdiocesan parishes schedule annual Lenten penance services
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Separating morality from science is destructive to social culture
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La separación entre la moralidad y la ciencia resulta destructiva para la cultura social
- Editorial: Stewards of hope -
An image for our time
- From the Editor Emeritus: Basic Catholicism - Mystery of the Incarnation
- Faithful Lines: Pithy canine philosopher has unique personality
- The Joyful Catholic: The story of the son who broke his mother’s heart
- Be Our Guest: Drawing a line in the sand when it
comes to our beliefs as people of faith
- Letters to the Editor
- Immigration story fails to answer
relevant questions, reader says
- Events Calendar
- Free course offered on mental illness
- Catholic
radio
dinner
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Jean Karier
helped start St. Mary’s Child Center
- My Journey to God: The Gift
Catholic News Service:
- Cardinal warns
of despotism if
conscience rights
aren’t protected
- Pope, on plane, says Church can help Africa address
its problems, including poverty, AIDS and tribalism
- Holy Father declares year of the priest to inspire spiritual perfection
- Papal letter: Pointed, personal and from the heart
- Freedom of religion helps prevent hate speech, says Vatican official
- Column: Why the
rosary is the
perfect prayer
- The Sunday Readings: Fourth Sunday of Lent
- Question Corner: Pope John Paul II said purgatory
is a ‘condition’ of purification
FaithAlive!
- Mercy is a quality of God believers are called to embody
- Discussion Point: Understanding Scripture is key to living our 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!
Catholic couples use faith and science in their struggle to overcome infertility
Bioethical issues related to the treatment of infertility have been making big news recently. Scientific developments over the past few decades have offered many treatments and procedures to couples to overcome their condition and thus be able to bring a child into the world. But as tempting and ubiquitous as they may be, some Catholic couples have chosen to forgo them because they are convinced of the truth of the Church’s teachings on bioethical matters. (Page 1)
Read the story
Presidential order imposes immorality on science, priest says
Two days after President Barack Obama signed an executive order allowing the federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk spoke on March 11 on this and related topics to a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 350 people at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis as part of its Lenten “Spaghetti and Spirituality” speaker series. (Page 9)
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The bond of Catholic education:
Scholarships make schooling possible for children in need
All four individuals in this story are connected by the bond of Catholic education. The four people are also connected by their desire to make Catholic education a key part of life for children in need. Here are their stories, stories that are similar to the hundreds of other people in the archdiocese who have created endowments and scholarships for Catholic education. (Page 16)
Read the story
Web-only features
Lenten resources
Each year, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis provides special Lenten resources – the daily readings, archbishop’s columns, Stations of the Cross and links of interest – on a site located on our server (www.archindy.org/lent). We encourage you to share this link with your parish, most particularly because it also includes the full listing of penance schedules from around the archdiocese.
Go to the site | See our listing of parish penance services
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
Thursday, March 19
Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29
Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22
Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a
or Luke 2:41-51a
Friday, March 20
Hosea 14:2-10
Psalm 81:6c-11b, 14, 17
Mark 12:28-34
Saturday, March 21
Hosea 6:1-6
Psalm 51:3-4, 18-21b
Luke 18:9-14
Monday, March 23
Toribio de Mogrovejo, bishop
Isaiah 65:17-21
Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b
John 4:43-54
Tuesday, March 24
Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12
Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
John 5:1-16
Wednesday, March 25
The Annunciation of the Lord
Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Psalm 40:7-11
Hebrews 10:4-10
Luke 1:26-38
Thursday, March 26
Exodus 32:7-14
Psalm 106:19-23
John 5:31-47
Friday, March 27
Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Psalm 34:17-21, 23
John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Saturday, March 28
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12
John 7:40-53
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