This week in The Criterion
March 19, 2010 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:
- Breaking down walls, building faith: Priest and
Protestant minister
nurture special
friendship as
hospital chaplains
- Church relationship between archdiocese and Cuba is subject of lecture
- ‘Novice priest’ reflects on joy during 40 Hours devotion
- Cardinal Ritter sponsors Tenebrae
service on Good Friday night
- Father Peter Marshall appointed vice postulator to promote Bruté cause
- Father David Lawler says Second Vatican Council defines his ministry
- Building a team:
Indiana Pacers coach Jim O’Brien shares game plan
for life and sports at ‘Coaching for Christ’ program
- Providence sisters celebrate 80 and 75 years in congregation
- Archdiocesan parishes schedule Lenten penance services
- Lenten activities available online
- Catholics may eat
meat on March 19,
the Solemnity of
St. Joseph
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: By joining our crosses to Christ’s, we can ‘stay glad’
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: Al unir nuestras cruces a la de Cristo podemos ‘mantenernos contentos’
- Editorial: Catholicism and Islam
- From the Editor Emeritus: What to do about the cursing in the psalms
- Faithful Lines: Contemplating tomorrow during the Lenten season
- The Joyful Catholic: Living with joy and gratitude in today’s world
- Catholic Evangelization Outreach: The evangelizing
ministry of the
greeter at Mass
- Letters to the Editor
- Former student’s cancer reflection is a testament to a faith-filled life, teacher says
- Events Calendar
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Benedictine Sister Jennifer Dippel ministered at St. Paul Hermitage as rehabilitation director
- Providence Sister Mary Jane Newman served as a teacher for 51 years, volunteered in Terre Haute
- My Journey to God: Stretch Out Your Hand
Catholic News Service:
- Bishops reiterate
objection to
abortion wording
of health care bill
- Vatican defends efforts by pope, Church to curb sex abuse
- Court’s ruling on ‘under God’ in pledge seen as ‘breath of fresh air’
- There’s an ‘app’ for that—iPhone applications devised for Catholics
- Priests must promote confession and show people God’s mercy, pope says
- Chicago Archdiocese begins sainthood process for first black U.S. priest
- Rome conference examines growing religious role in public life around the world
- Relief partners’ outreach includes moving Haitian Catholic hospital to new location
- Model for policymakers seen in encyclical’s focus on truth and justice
- Mexicans want politicians to stop campaigning and fix infrastructure
- Catholic Church in U.S. and Canada among religious bodies gaining members
- Pope urges young people to follow their dreams, grow in love and faith
- Column: Facing death in solidarity and hope
- The Sunday Readings: Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Question Corner: Consulting a medium or Ouija board about deceased loved ones is spiritually harmful
FaithAlive!
- Gospel stories reveal the authorities’ plot to murder Jesus
- Discussion Point: Prayer leads to forgiveness, healing
Items of Interest
Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
‘Novice priest’ reflects on joy during 40 Hours devotion
Father John Hollowell was ordained a priest on June 6, 2009, just prior to the start of the Year for Priests. He reflected on his joyful experience as a newly ordained priest in a series of reflections given during an annual 40 Hours devotion on March 8-10 at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis. (Page 3)
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Father Peter Marshall appointed vice postulator to promote Bruté cause
t was his love of history that, in part, led Father Peter Marshall, raised as an evangelical Christian, into the full communion of the Catholic Church. Ordained last June, the priest is now delving into history as the vice postulator of the beatification and canonization cause of the Servant of God Simon Bruté, the first bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes, which later became the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. (Page 3)
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Building a team: Indiana Pacers coach Jim O’Brien shares game plan for life and sports at ‘Coaching for Christ’ program
Indiana Pacers head coach Jim O’Brien recently shared one of the defining moments of his career during a “Coaching for Christ” talk to Catholic high school coaches and Catholic Youth Organization coaches at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. For O’Brien, a member of St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis, that defining moment came 28 years ago—after he decided to take the head coaching position at Wheeling Jesuit University, a small Catholic college in West Virginia. (Page 15)
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Web-only features
Listen to Archbishop Buechlein read his weekly column
Every week, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein records his column and that recording is featured on Saturdays and Sundays on Catholic Radio 89.1 FM in Indianapolis. These radio versions of "Seeking the Face of the Lord" are posted on our archdiocesan website for download or listening. They are also feature on our podcast.
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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 18
Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop and doctor of the Church
Exodus 32:7-14
Psalm 106:19-23
John 5:31-47
Friday, 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
Saturday, March 20
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12
John 7:40-53
Monday, March 22
Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30,
33-62
or Daniel 13:41c-62
Psalm 23:1-6
John 8:12-20
Tuesday, March 23
Toribio de Mogrovejo, bishop
Numbers 21:4-9
Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21
John 8:21-30
Wednesday, March 24
Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95
(Response) Daniel 3:52-56
John 8:31-42
Thursday, 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
Friday, March 26
Jeremiah 20:10-13
Psalm 18:2-7
John 10:31-42
Saturday, March 27
Ezekiel 37:21-28
(Response) Jeremiah 31:10-13
John 11:45-56
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