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October 18, 2013 issue

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Local stories:

  • Record $3 million raised to send children to Catholic schools
  • ‘Believe me, I understand’: Former resident and longtime employee exemplifies Holy Family Shelter’s mission of serving those in need
    • Summit Award winners honored for commitment to serving the poor
  • Stewart is intern at The Criterion
  • United Catholic Appeal funds essential to celebrating the sacraments
  • St. Mary Magdalene Parish to celebrate final Mass on Oct. 27
  • What was in the news on Oct. 18, 1963? The Council turns to the role of laity, and the United States will soon see one of its own beatified
  • Archdiocesan staff receive distinguished alumni awards from Marian University
  • Honorees help shape students’ paths to life of generosity, love and service
  • Hoosier Catholics gain admiration, devotion for St. Theodora on her feast day
  • Photo spread: Rosary Day (print edition only)
  • Faith, fellowship are staples of annual New Albany Deanery youth Mass

Regular local features:

  • Editorial: Pastoral care of marriage
  • From the Editor Emeritus: Year of Faith - Abortion and Communion
  • Catholic Education Outreach: Further choice for students with special needs
  • Be Our Guest: Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow
  • Letters to the Editor
    • Loss of religious freedom, erosion of morals will continue unless we stand up for our faith
  • Events Calendar
    • Movie Closure to kick off National Adoption Month on Oct. 30
    • Archdiocese offers German tradition pilgrimage to Ferdinand on Nov. 15-16
    • Retreat for mothers of miscarried, stillborn or early infant loss offered in Indianapolis on Nov. 9
    • 1st Choice for Women to sponsor 5K run/walk in Westfield, Ind.
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
    • Franciscan Sister Catherine Raters ministered in education in Archdiocese of Indianapolis
  • My Journey to God: The Word

Catholic News Service:

  • Venerating Fatima statue, pope entrusts world to Mary
  • Cardinal Dolan, in Rome, lauds pope’s ‘new strategy’ of evangelization
  • Outgoing Vatican secretary of state stresses continuity between popes
  • Pilgrimage, rosary connect Catholics with Mary, one another
  • Faith, harmony, universality make Church ‘catholic,’ pope says
  • Archbishop says synod theme shows importance of family for pope
  • Column: The stranger in our pew
  • Column: Goodbye to a bishop and a friend who looked forward in life
  • The Sunday Readings: Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • Question Corner: Compassion and moral principles guide the Church’s ministry to infertile couples

FaithAlive!

  • Terrorism’s ultimate defeat will only come through love
  • Catholic teaching asserts that war cannot be motivated by revenge

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Record $3 million raised to send children to Catholic schools

Mary McCoy speaking at the Celebrating Catholic Schools Values Awards DinnerIt was a night to celebrate the record $3 million raised in the archdiocese to help children receive a Catholic education. It was a night to also cherish the story of a mother who desperately wanted her child to continue to attend a Catholic school. Both highlights were part of the archdiocese’s 18th annual Celebrating Catholic School Values Awards event on the night of Oct. 8. (Page 1)
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Faith, fellowship are staples of annual New Albany Deanery youth Mass

Life Chain participantsThirty miniature hot air balloons brightened the overcast night sky in rural southern Indiana on Sept. 29—one for each year that Pete and Joan Schickel have hosted the New Albany Deanery’s fall youth Mass at their family farm. Youths and their families from nine parishes came together for the celebration of the Mass. A youth choir from St. Mary Parish in Navilleton led an estimated 300 participants in song. (Page 16)
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