This week in The Criterion
July 22, 2011 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
Full Contents
Local stories:
- Plan to energize Terre Haute Deanery includes closing four parishes and creating new faith ties
- What was in the news on July 21, 1961? A new papal encyclical, Mater et Magistra, is released and the threat of communism in Poland increases
- Principal’s new book stresses importance of faith and family
- What’s important in life? Excerpts on marriage, children and death
- Serra Club vocations essay: Annual vocation field trips at St. Luke help youths be open to God’s call
- Two Sisters of Providence profess vows during June 26 Mass
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Becoming ministers of hope for others in need of hope
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: Debemos convertirnos en ministros de esperanza para quienes lo necesiten
- Editorial: Suicide is not dignified death
- From the Editor Emeritus: The wisdom of the saints - St. Lawrence of Brindisi
- Cornucopia: Embracing something different as an expression of love
- Emmaus Walk: Revelations of a summer vacation, and this adventure we call life
- Letters to the Editor
- Father Pacholczyk’s views on brain death worthy of respect, reader says
- Events Calendar
- St. Joan of Arc Parish celebrating 90th anniversary after Masses this weekend
- Theology on Tap plans three upcoming events
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Rosemary Kluesner served as an educator for 37 years
- Providence Sister Florence Marie Maxwell ministered in education
- Providence Sister David Ellen Van Dyke dedicated life to education
- My Journey to God: Receiving God
Catholic News Service:
- Easing the suffering: Priority on pain relief nothing new for Catholic palliative care teams
- Cardinal Rigali
retires; pope names
Archbishop Chaput
to succeed him
- Lebanon’s new Melkite leader brings experience working with Muslims
- Ongoing debate over debt limit brings calls for preserving safety net
- New law says California schools must highlight gays’ contributions
- Pope urges international aid for drought-stricken eastern Africa
- Report finds fewer priests celebrating more Masses at fewer parishes
- Vatican: Latest illicitly ordained Chinese bishop is excommunicated
- Vatican newspaper says Harry Potter film champions values
- Two Benedictine monks celebrate 50 years of priestly ministry
- Irish priests reject suggestion that they break seal of confession
- Catholics make presence felt at Lifest Christian music festival
- Bishops praise injunction continuing Catholic foster care in Illinois
- Iraqi nun says her faith blossomed amid death, devastation of war
- Blogging for clarity: Fides launches new blog site for Chinese Catholics
- Column: ‘Gay genes,’ sexual attractions and the call to chastity
- Column: Lessons learned among the world’s increasingly mobile inhabitants
- The Sunday Readings: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: The ‘beatific vision’ means ‘seeing God face to face’ in heaven
Items of Interest
Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Plan to energize Terre Haute Deanery includes closing four parishes and creating new faith ties
The “agonizing” decision to close four parishes in the Terre Haute Deanery came after more than two years of “much prayerful work, research and reflection by the Terre Haute Deanery Pastoral Leadership Team and the Deanery Planning Team,” according to archdiocesan officials. In a letter to Catholics in the Terre Haute Deanery on July 13, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein announced his approval of a new strategic plan for the deanery. (Page 1)
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Principal’s new book stresses importance of faith and family
Rick Wagner shares a piece of himself in his recently released book that has an appropriate title—Remember What’s Important. It’s a thoughtful collection that includes essays and reflections about marriage, children, parenting, faith and God’s grace. Some of the selections were written while Wagner served as the director of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. Many others are from the weekly letters he writes in his current role as the principal of St. Theodore Guérin High School in Noblesville, Ind. (Page 9)
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Web-only features
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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:
