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March 28, 2014 issue

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Local stories:

• ‘I am so grateful to God’: Christ the King students raise $13,000 for Missionary Childhood Association
• Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter: ‘A man of humility, a man of courage,’ visiting prelate says at lecture
• Foundation fundraising dinner supports Church in Holy Land
• Rice Bowl effort offers way to give and show love in Lent
• What was in the news on March 27, 1964? Archbishop Schulte to meet with a U.S. Orthodox leader, and a mountain is gifted to a religious order
• Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes
• Background analysis of Christianity in Ukraine reveals religious persecution

Regular local features:

• Editorial: Hope for Catholics civilly remarried after being divorced
• From the Editor Emeritus: Old Testament - God tells Moses to lead his people out of Egypt
• Cornucopia: Lent is for all of us because nobody’s perfect
• Emmaus Walk: What is the sum of our efforts? A divine exchange
• Faith and Family: Find peace and quiet in Jesus
• Letters to the Editor
  • The Church must use its resources to inform, educate the faithful, reader says
• Events Calendar
  • Editor Janet Sahm to speak at St. Luke Lenten Soup Supper series on April 9
  • Divorce and Beyond sessions offered at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis
  • St. Simon the Apostle Parish to offer support group for those grieving
  • Benedict Inn kickoff ceremony for Peace and Nature Garden is April 5
• Obituaries
  • General listing
  • Franciscan Sister Laurita Kroger ministered in education and administration in Indiana
  • Providence Sister Marie Agatha Vonderheide taught in Catholic schools for 31 years in several states
• My Journey to God: Jesus Lead Us into the Desert

Catholic News Service:

• Boston cardinal, abuse survivor among members of Vatican commission
• High court hears oral arguments in companies’ challenge to HHS mandate
• National shrine ‘fitting tribute’ to late pope, says USCCB president
• Ukrainians in U.S. feel ‘great sadness and worry,’ says archbishop
• Column: For the sake of his sorrowful Passion
• The Sunday Readings: Fourth Sunday of Lent
• Question Corner: Reform of liturgical calendar in 1969 removed feast day for St. Valentine

FaithAlive!

• Grace of conversion can slowly bring about transformation
• Giving up bad habits during Lent can bring about lasting change

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‘I am so grateful to God’: Christ the King students raise $13,000 for Missionary Childhood Association

The students of Christ the King School in Indianapolis made Sister Loretto Emenogu cry—tears of joy, that is—at the $13,000 the children helped raise for the Missionary Childhood Association (MCA). “Is this for real?” said Sister Loretto, looking at the check with wide, teary eyes. She raised her eyes to the children assembled on the gym floor, held up the check and said, “This is the first time I have ever received a check this big!” (Page 1)
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Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter: ‘A man of humility, a man of courage,’ visiting prelate says at lecture

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville characterized New Albany native Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter as “a man of humility and a man of courage” in a March 13 lecture delivered at the birthplace of Indiana’s only cardinal. The occasion was the second annual Irish Coffee Night at the Cardinal Ritter House at 1218 Elm St. in New Albany, where the 1874 structure is home to several nonprofit organizations, including Home of the Innocents, New Directions Housing Corp., ElderServe, and InfoLink of Southern Indiana. (Page 1)
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Web-only features

Lenten resources

Each year, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis provides special Lenten resources – the daily readings, archived columns from Archbishop Emeritus Daniel M. Buechlein, Stations of the Cross and links of interest – on a site located on our server (www.archindy.org/lent). We encourage you to share this link with others, most particularly because it also includes the full listing of penance schedules from around the archdiocese.
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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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• High court hears oral arguments in companies' challenge to HHS mandate
• Priest: Ukrainian Catholics flee Crimea to escape threats of arrest
• British government bans burning of fetuses to heat hospitals
• Abuse survivor says new Vatican commission must achieve real change
• Jokes, quips, wisecracks: John XXIII lived with keen sense of humor
• Pope to Mafiosi: Turn away now from the road to hell
• Religious rights concerns being raised over beards and turbans
• Many of today's papal 'traditions' were Blessed John Paul's innovations
• Vatican, Rome gear up for canonizations of John XXIII, John Paul II
• Salvadoran bishop says he expects Romero beatification in three years

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