This week in The Criterion
November 4, 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:
- Celebrating Catholic School Values: Superintendent says educational experience helped shape his support of school vouchers in Indiana
- Awards honor people who use Catholic school values to make a difference
- Archbishop Emeritus Buechlein honored for his support of Catholic education
- Christ Our Hope appeal has goal of $5.7 million
- Father James Arneson served in Jennings County for 20 years
- Operation Rescue president committed to ending abortion in U.S.
- What was in the news on Nov. 3, 1961? Words of praise for Pope John, and an update on the number of Catholics worldwide
- Father Gerald Burkert celebrates 50 years of priestly ministry
Regular local features:
- Editorial: A world political authority to manage the world economy
- From the Editor Emeritus: Biblical readings - The Book of Daniel
- Faithful Lines: Class reunions are memorable and blessed events
- It's All Good: A standing invitation to life’s most important meal
- Faith, Hope and Charity: Providing pathways out of poverty
- Letters to the Editor
- What the poor do with your donation of money doesn’t take away from the gesture
- Events Calendar
- Volunteer recruitment dinner for Black Catholic Congress is Nov. 7
- Saint Meinrad Seminary concert will have international flavor
- Obituaries
- General listing
- St. Joseph Sister Mary Julia Wagner ministered in education, social work and evangelization
- My Journey to God: Twelve Seed Packs
Catholic News Service:
- Among Assisi
participants, there
was a sense of
deeper crisis
in modern society
- Congolese Catholic leaders visit U.S. to lobby for country’s ‘suffering’ people
- Vatican document calls for global authority to regulate markets
- Bishops’ agenda more devoted to internal matters than to societal ills
- All Saints’ Day calls for focus on holy vocation of Church, pope says
- Accusation that Catholic University mistreats Muslim students ‘without foundation’
- Bishop addresses House panel on ‘grave threats to religious liberty’
- Column: The Better Angels of Our Nature
- The Sunday Readings: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Go Ask Your Father: Religious artwork in churches should include images of Jesus, Mary and saints
FaithAlive!
- Look beyond worries to the reality of God active in our midst
- Seek the lasting treasure of loving God and your neighbor in your life of 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!
Superintendent says educational experience helped shape his support of school vouchers in Indiana
Two unsettling scenes from his childhood have never been forgotten by Tony Bennett, Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction. Indeed, the two scenes from his days as a student at St. Anthony of Padua School in Clarksville guided Bennett earlier this year as he worked and fought to turn the proposed Indiana voucher program into law—a program which now offers financial assistance to families of certain income levels to help them select a school of their choice for their children. Bennett shared those scenes in his keynote speech during the Celebrating Catholic School Values: 2011 Scholarship and Career Achievement Awards Dinner on Oct. 26. (Page 1)
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Christ Our Hope appeal has goal of $5.7 million
Nov. 5-6 is intention weekend for the archdiocese’s “Christ Our Hope: Compassion in Community” annual appeal. Catholics across central and southern Indiana will be invited at Masses celebrated in their parishes this weekend to prayerfully consider how they will contribute from their time, talent and treasure to the ministries of their parish and archdiocesan community. The goal for Christ Our Hope is $5.7 million. (Page 1)
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National and world news you may have missed...
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