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August 5, 2016 issue

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Local stories:

  • A life-changing journey of faith: Pilgrims experience ‘spirit of peace and joy’ during World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland
  • High school seniors advise incoming freshmen on how to make the most of their experience
    • Message to freshmen: High school is a time to get involved, strive to improve
    • Parents: Make time for prayer, Sunday Mass a priority for your family
    • Tips to parents will help children make the most of the school year
  • Benedictine Archabbot Kurt Stasiak solemnly blessed in liturgy celebrated on July 26
  • Seymour parish welcomes former members of Brownstown faith community
  • Benedictine monks celebrate jubilees at Saint Meinrad
  • Celebrations, ministries highlight St. Lawrence Parish’s upcoming 175th anniversary
    • Facts about St. Lawrence Parish
  • Reminder of Holy Year of Mercy plenary indulgence
  • Vicar general to lead pilgrimage to the Holy Land
  • What was in the news on August 5, 1966? Church opposition to prayer in public school, and clergy helping quell race violence

Regular local features:

  • Rejoice in the Lord: Love heals old wounds, prevents new ones
    • Alégrense en el Señor: El amor cura viejas heridas y previene las nuevas
  • Editorial: What do I own, and what owns me?
  • From the Editor Emeritus: 20th-century Church - ‘The unknown pope,’ Benedict XV
  • It's All Good: A prayer to God to embrace change, new beginnings in life
  • Reflection: Slain French priest can inspire us all to be witnesses to the Gospel
  • Letters to the Editor
    • No letters were published this week
  • Events Calendar
    • Aug. 22 is deadline to get T-shirt with registration for Sept. 10 run/walk
    • Aug. 23 is deadline to register for National Council of Catholic Women gathering in Indy
    • Project Rachel Retreat for grief over abortion to be held on Aug. 26-27 in the greater Bloomington area
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
  • My Journey to God: Where He Will . . .

Catholic News Service:

  • Don’t tuck life away, take risks, pope tells young people
  • Pope pays tribute to Holocaust victims in silence, prayer
  • Pope Francis prays for peace, protection from violence, terrorism
  • It’s not right to equate Islam with violence, Pope Francis tells reporters
  • Catholics urged not to give in to hatred after French priest’s death
  • Catholics urged to fast, pray for peace; group plans novena for nation
  • Under motto ‘Unity and Charity,’ Catholic Daughters holds convention
  • Pope Francis names six women, six men to panel to study women deacons
  • Column: Lessons for countering today’s malaise with simplicity
  • Column: Recognizing the stages of caregiving and your new role
  • Column: The need for witnesses like Edith Stein
  • The Sunday Readings: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • Question Corner: Most parishes set up territorially, but OK to go to Mass elsewhere

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Pilgrims experience ‘spirit of peace and joy’ during World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland

World Youth Day local participantsFollowing the closing Mass of World Youth Day in Poland with Pope Francis on July 31, some young people from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis walked more than eight miles—in the rain—to get back to their buses. When they arrived at the airport in Prague to begin their return flight to Indianapolis, 35 young adults from the archdiocese learned that their connecting flight to Paris had been canceled. Yet despite such setbacks and struggles, the enduring memories of World Youth Day for the 104 youths and 64 young adults from the archdiocese are marked by the “spirit of peace and joy” that prevailed during the seven days at the end of July. (Page 1)
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High school seniors advise incoming freshmen on how to make the most of their experience

High school studentsAt 17, high school senior Jack Lockrem doesn’t hesitate when he begins to share his advice for helping an incoming freshman make the most of her or his high school experience: “One of the best ways to make the most of your high school experience is to try, at least once, something completely out of your comfort zone—whether it’s an extracurricular activity, a challenging class or a class you normally wouldn’t think of taking.” That’s exactly what Jack did at the beginning of his junior year at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis. (Page 1)
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Web-only features

Sign up for the Holy Year of Mercy Marian Jubilee

On October 8 at St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus, the archdiocese will be having a special Marian Jubilee from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to celebrate the Holy Year of Mercy. The event will include a Marian procession, rosary, a welcome from Archbishop Tobin, religious items and books for purchase, and a keynote address by Scott Hahn.
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