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March 14, 2014 issue
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Local stories:
- ‘Having a blast’: New sports program for young adult Catholics strives to deepen their connection to faith
- Bishop’s talk, father’s love highlight annual Sanctity of Life Dinner in Indianapolis
- Catholic Community Foundation: 27 years of building funds ‘critical to the legacy of the Catholic Church’
- Editor emeritus John F. ‘Jack’ Fink creates endowment for The Criterion
- Pro-life bills in Statehouse close to becoming law in Indiana
- Archdiocese offers one-day pilgrimage to Shrine of Christ’s Passion
- New Albany Deanery parish sponsors bustling basketball league
- What was in the news on March 13, 1964? A new schema on ecumenism is prepared for the council, and a look at poverty in Indianapolis
- Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes
Regular local features:
- Editorial: This Lent, take care of and share all of God’s gifts
- From the Editor Emeritus: Old Testament - Joseph confronts his brothers in Egypt
- Cornucopia: It seems that life is an endless cycle of cycles
- Twenty Something: Let’s hear it for the nuns!
- Letters to the Editor
- Reader encouraged by New Orleans archbishop’s public stand against new abortion facility
- Events Calendar
- Benedict Inn offers ‘A Biblical Journey with Christ’ on March 20 and 27
- Former ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant to speak on fashion, modesty and faith on April 6 and 7
- Obituaries
- General listing
- My Journey to God: My Lord and My God
Catholic News Service:
- Archbishop says 2015 meeting can help transform families, communities
- Catholic officials: Release of kidnapped nuns was an answer to prayers
- Pope Francis says religious must be witnesses to Gospel even in use of money
- Chicago’s Cardinal George to undergo new round of chemotherapy
- Vatican medical experts OK reported miracle attributed to Archbishop Sheen
- Column: Obamacare’s religious winners and losers
- Column: A pope who speaks to the good, and the pain, in reality
- The Sunday Readings: Second Sunday of Lent
- Question Corner: Making the sign of the cross passing a church is a long-standing custom
FaithAlive!
- Life’s surprises are opportunities to deepen faith in God
- Journeys of faith begin with an invitation from God to his people
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New sports program for young adult Catholics strives to deepen their connection to faith
For anyone who loves sports, there’s great joy in being part of a team or watching a team when everything clicks—when all the preparation and effort lead to a magical moment of fulfillment. Matt Faley has experienced that feeling every Tuesday evening for the past several weeks. That’s when young adult Catholics pour into the K of C building at 13th & Delaware streets in Indianapolis for a groundbreaking program in the archdiocese that uses sports and friendly competition to create a sense of community and a connection to the Catholic faith for young adults. (Page 1)
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New Albany Deanery parish sponsors bustling basketball league
Five years ago, members of St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish in Floyd County didn’t work to build the Geis Activity Center in response to a mysterious voice. Instead, it was a part of the vision that they and their former pastor, now-retired Father John Geis, had to help grow their community & open it up to the wider community. Since the activity center was completed in late 2010, hundreds of children and their families have come to it for an annual six-week youth basketball league. (Page 9)
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Web-only features
Audio: Listen to Bishop Christopher J. Coyne's presentation at the Sanctity of Life Dinner
Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, vicar general, wove an interesting, historical and powerful pro-life message to complement the cause of the Sanctity of Life Dinner held in Indianapolis on March 6. The annual event celebrates and supports the works of the Office of Pro-Life and Family Life.
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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.
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- For Pope Francis, a year of reform and evangelization
- Catholic organization files class-action lawsuit to block HHS mandate
- Lenten observance becoming more widespread in Protestant churches
- Cardinal calls to maintain, yet reinterpret, doctrine to help families
- Green Bay's mayor invites Pope Francis to visit Wisconsin city in 2015
- Catholic officials: Release of kidnapped nuns was answer to prayers
- U.N. official lauds church support of migrants, asks for continued help
- Archbishop says 2015 meeting can help transform families, communities
- Concerns raised about pace of U.S. response to global religious rights
- Chicago's Cardinal George to undergo new round of chemotherapy
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