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May 12, 2017 issue

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Local stories:

  • A special transformation sets the stage for schoolchildren to join the Catholic faith
  • Meet our future deacons
    • Anthony Lewis
    • Jerome Matthews
  • Former ‘A Promise to Keep’ mentor starts program in Iowa
    • ‘A Promise to Keep’ mentors offer testimonies at luncheon
  • Online survey for pastoral needs assessment available through May 19
  • Graduations set for Catholic high schools in the archdiocese
  • Students, young entrepreneurs invited to Economy of Communion summer school
  • High school students invited to Bishop Bruté Days on June 20-22
  • Paintings commemorate anchoress’ dedication to angels, adoration

Regular local features:

  • The Face of Mercy: We are Catholic atheists if our hearts are hardened to God’s word
    • Somos católicos ateos si nuestros corazones se han endurecido a la Palabra de Dios
  • Editorial: Mary, virgin mother of Jesus Christ
  • From the Editor Emeritus: How I learned about Islam and Arab family life
  • Cornucopia: All great men and women are not dead, they’re all around us
  • Twenty Something: A big win for the little guy
  • Reflection: More work needed to strengthen religious liberty and health care
  • Reflection: Capuchin Father Solanus Casey has a connection to Indiana
  • Letters to the Editor
    • No letters were printed this week
  • Events Calendar
    • Catholic marriage therapist to hold book signings on May 21 and June 3
    • Providence Associate applications due by May 31 to the Sisters of Providence
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
    • Franciscan Sister Carol Lee Royston ministered in Catholic education, including in Indiana
  • My Journey to God: My First Communion

Catholic News Service:

  • Long-awaited executive order on religion has unclear path ahead
  • U.S. bishops’ committee chairman: Fix flaws in American Health Care Act passed by House
  • Collection set for Mother’s Day to support national shrine’s dome project
  • Priests should ease, not add to faithful’s burdens, Pope Francis says
  • Panel: When community tensions erupt, faith can help diffuse violence
  • President’s first foreign trip to include meeting with Pope Francis on May 24
  • Pope Francis advances sainthood causes of U.S. priest, Vietnamese cardinal
  • ‘Pedaling priests’ complete 340-mile bicycle trek for vocation prayers
  • Column: The wisdom of old age, and a fond farewell to my readers
  • The Sunday Readings: Fifth Sunday of Easter
  • Question Corner: Jewish, Roman reaction to the resurrection could not stop proclamation of Gospel

FaithAlive!

  • Motherhood extends the love that flows from marriage
  • The Scriptures share the stories of many heroic and virtuous mothers

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A special transformation sets the stage for schoolchildren to join the Catholic faith

BaptismIt’s another Thursday, and Ruth Hittel is once again immersed in a dramatic transformation that reflects one of the main principles that guides her life: “Never give up.” It’s an attitude that she wants the 240 children at Holy Cross Central School in Indianapolis to embrace—students whose lives are touched by many challenges, including the reality that most of them live at or below the poverty level. (Page 1)
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Former ‘A Promise to Keep’ mentor starts program in Iowa

SpeakerDeviney Benson looked at the roughly 170 high school students who sat where she sat just five years prior. “Looking out at all of you, I’m feeling really sentimental because this is like looking back into my past and my journey in A Promise to Keep,” said Benson, 23. She stood before the crowd as the keynote speaker for the annual A Promise to Keep (APTK) chastity program luncheon on April 20 at the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis. For more than 20 years, the APTK program has helped more than 10,000 archdiocesan teenagers not just keep their promises to live chaste lives, but it’s been helping those same teens mentor more than 100,000 junior high students to do the same. (Page 3)
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Graduations set for Catholic high schools in the archdiocese

High school graduatesAs another school year comes to a close, 1,357 students are preparing to graduate this spring at Catholic high schools across the archdiocese. For the graduates and their families, it will be a time of looking back—and looking forward—with a mixture of pride, relief, nostalgia and celebration. It will also be a time to consider the blessings of a Catholic education, and to thank the people who have made a difference in a high school senior’s life, says Gina Fleming, superintendent of Catholic schools for the archdiocese. (Page 5)
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Web-only features

Online survey for pastoral needs assessment available in English, Spanish and Burmese on May 1

Beginning on May 1, Catholics across central and southern Indiana can complete an online survey to help provide whoever is appointed the new shepherd of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis a clear picture of the local Church. The survey, which will be available in Burmese, English and Spanish, is part of the archdiocesan pastoral needs assessment that Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin commissioned shortly before his ministry in the archdiocese ended and he was installed as the archbishop of Newark, N.J.
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