This week in The Criterion
August 7, 2009 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:
- 'Common thread of faith': Catholic upbringing shapes
Notre Dame’s athletic director
- Ecumenical prison ministry shares Christ’s love and forgiveness
- ‘Shrine of Christ’s Passion’ is an intense personal journey
- Missions bazaar at Fatima Retreat House features fair-trade artwork
- Marian University receives
record $6 million donation
- Catholic News Around Indiana
- Official Appointments
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Hope in Christ nourishes us as we journey to God
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: La esperanza en Cristo nos sustenta en el camino hacia Dios
- Editorial: Global issues and personal
morality are interconnected
- From the Editor Emeritus: Basic Catholicism - Do I have to go to Mass?
- Faithful Lines: Acknowledging a few special moments in life
- It's All Good: Teenagers’ examples show there is hope in today’s world
- Faith, Hope and Charity: It’s almost
time to SHINE!
- Letters to the Editor
- Better ways to share the message of
human dignity, reader says
- Events Calendar
- Scecina Memorial and
St. Mary Academy
alumni plan reunions
- Mass at Italian
POW chapel is
Aug. 16 at
Camp Atterbury
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Trappist Brother Stephen Batchelor was a
Cardinal Ritter graduate, monk at Gethsemani
- Oldenburg Franciscan Sister Marie Celine Wilhelm
ministered as a teacher and principal for 55 years
- My Journey to God: Stuff
Catholic News Service:
- House panel
accepts then
rejects abortion
ban in health
reform bill
- Common ground on abortion? Opinions differ about dueling bills
- Working paper outlines information being sought from religious orders
- $100 million contract aids Catholic Charities’ natural disaster work
- From stone tablets to Kindle: Is it still the Bible?
- Column: Hope is found in Christ, not in money
- The Sunday Readings: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Tradition refers to core facts and
beliefs in creeds, other documents
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 upbringing shapes
Notre Dame’s athletic director
For more than 25 years, Jack Swarbrick served as an instrumental yet behind-the-scenes leader in connection to the phenomenal emergence of amateur and professional sports in Indiana’s capital city. Then a year ago, the longtime member of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis became the athletic director of the University of Notre Dame. Through it all, Swarbrick sees “a common thread of faith” that has weaved its way through every part of his life. (Page 1)
Read the story
Marian University receives record $6 million donation
The reasons to celebrate continue for Marian University in Indianapolis. After marking its name change from Marian College to Marian University on July 1, the school also recently received a $6 million gift from a former trustee—which represents the single largest gift ever made to the university from an individual. (Page 10)
Read the story
Web-only features
Photo reprints available from the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
See photos of the dramatic, life-size sculptures of Jesus’ journey to Calvary at the “Shrine of Christ’s Passion” in Lake County in northwestern Indiana. Catholic adults and teenagers from the archdiocese recently traveled to the huge outdoor shrine with Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, and Servants of the Gospel of Life Sister Diane Carollo.
Go to the photo gallery
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, Aug. 5
The Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome
Numbers 13:1-2, 25-14:1,
26-29a, 34-35
Psalm 106:6-7, 13-14, 21-23
Matthew 15:21-28
Thursday, Aug. 6
The Transfiguration of the Lord
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9
2 Peter 1:16-19
Mark 9:2-10
Friday, Aug. 7
Sixtus II, pope and martyr
and his companions, martyrs
Cajetan, priest
Deuteronomy 4:32-40
Psalm 77:12-16, 21
Matthew 16:24-28
Saturday, Aug. 8
Dominic, priest
Deuteronomy 6:4-13
Psalm 18:2-4, 47, 51
Matthew 17:14-20
Monday, Aug. 10
Lawrence, deacon and martyr
2 Corinthians 9:6-10
Psalm 112:1-2, 5-9
John 12:24-26
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Clare, virgin
Deuteronomy 31:1-8
(Response) Deuteronomy 32:3-4, 7-9, 12
Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
Wednesday, Aug. 12
Jane Frances de Chantal, religious
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Psalm 66:1-3, 5, 8, 16-17
Matthew 18:15-20
Thursday, Aug. 13
Pontian, pope and martyr
Hippolytus, priest and martyr
Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17
Psalm 114:1-6
Matthew 18:21-19:1
Friday, Aug. 14
Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
Joshua 24:1-13
Psalm 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22, 24
Matthew 19:3-12
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
Saturday, Aug. 15
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
Psalm 45:10bc, 11-12ab, 16
1 Corinthians 15:20-27
Luke 1:39-56
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