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Available Right NowUnited in the Eucharist: Perpetual adoration chapel gives life to parish once marked by ‘heavy hearts’Three years ago, many members of All Saints Parish in Dearborn County in southeastern Indiana had heavy hearts as they continued to struggle with the merger a few months earlier of four parishes in the area into All Saints. On the evening of March 1, Ash Wednesday, many of those same hearts were filled with faith and hope. (Page 1) Scifres tapped to replace retiring Tinder, lead CYOAs Bruce Scifres prepares to become the new executive director of the archdiocese’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), it means he will no longer lead the Roncalli High School football team that he has guided to seven state championships, including the 2016 team that finished its season with a perfect 15-0 record. Still, Scifres doesn’t view his new position as an end to his 30 years of teaching and coaching at the high school in the Indianapolis South Deanery. Instead, the 60-year-old father of four sees the move as a continuation of his commitment to help shape the lives and faith of young people through sports. (Page 1) ‘Listen, learn, think, pray and act’ to overcome racial divide, bishop saysBishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Ill., is one of eight active black Catholic bishops in the United States. With black men making up less than 3 percent of the 269 active U.S. bishops, one might call them a “minority.” Such a word is precisely the type of language that perpetuates the racial divide in the U.S. and in the Church, Bishop Braxton said in a talk titled “The Catholic Church and the Racial Divide in the United States” at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Indianapolis on Feb. 18. (Page 9)
Web-only featuresLenten resources Each year, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis provides special Lenten resources – the daily readings, archived columns , Stations of the Cross and links of interest – on our special site (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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