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July 21, 2017 issue
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Local stories:
- ‘God had other plans’: Couple provide home for five children as they embrace adoption as pro-life calling
- St. Joan of Arc couple offers support group for adoption and fostering parents
- Bishop Coyne uses Indiana experience to minister in Vermont
- Installation Mass will be broadcast on TV, website and Catholic Radio Indy
- Bishop selection process is prayerful, consultative and confidential
- Bishop’s visit helps Myanmar community feel at home
- Wisconsin shrine draws people for its peace, healing
- We are the champions!: Scecina, Ritter and Cathedral all bring home state titles
- Serra Club Vocations Essay: Clergy show student that Catholicism isn’t an ‘armchair religion’
- Ordinariate bishop visits community in Indianapolis
- Two Benedictine sisters in Ferdinand with archdiocesan ties to celebrate jubilee
- Official Appointment
Regular local features:
- The Face of Mercy: Reality, dialogue, commitment needed to address migrants’ needs
- Diálogo, compromiso y realidad como elementos necesarios para abordar las necesidades de los inmigrantes
- Editorial: Laughter and humor: Good companions on our journey of faith
- From the Editor Emeritus: Father Kino was one of our country’s greatest missionaries
- Cornucopia: There are very good reasons for staying in an organized religion
- Evangelization Outreach: Who are these ‘people of good will?’ They acknowledge much for us
- Investing with Faith: The ideal endowment fund for you may already exist
- Letters to the Editor
- The brave who serve our country are also following their conscience, reader says
- Events Calendar
- All Saints Parish to host art exhibit featuring Blessed Virgin Mary
- Catholic Radio Indy Mass and luncheon to be held on Aug. 14
- Retrouvaille weekend for marriages in crisis set for Aug. 11-13 in Indianapolis
- Providence Sisters schedule annual used book sale at St. Mary-of-the-Woods
- Well-known speakers to present at free Fatima conference in Iowa on Oct. 12
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Providence Sister Mary Michael Lager served as a teacher and pharmacist
- My Journey to God: Crosses
Catholic News Service:
- Border bishop denounces hateful words, militarization of border
- Pro-life groups welcome ruling to let U.S. doctor examine baby
- Aspiring religious delay entry to pay off debt; Laboure Society offers help
- Amid polarization, nation urged to reclaim civility through dialogue
- Column: Considering the options for infertile couples
- Column: Questions for vocational discernment
- The Sunday Readings: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Church is still waiting for Vatican’s formal pronouncement on Medjugorje
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‘God had other plans’: Couple provide home for five children as they embrace adoption as pro-life calling
The cheery bungalow home on Indianapolis’ near-east side is teeming with energy. The five children who live there, ranging in age from 6-12, sprinkle their happy laughter inside and out: one jumping on a trampoline in the backyard, two playing with dolls in their bedroom, while the oldest indulgently plays the “patient” to a younger sister’s “nurse.” The scene is much as Josh and Cara Bach, both 42 and members of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis, imagined when they started dating as freshmen in college 23 years ago. This is a story of one couple’s journey of opening their home and their hearts through foster parenting and adoption, and their desire to see more couples and expectant mothers embrace this loving, pro-life alternative. (Page 1)
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Bishop Coyne uses Indiana experience to minister in Vermont
During the national conference of U.S. bishops in Indianapolis in mid-June, The Criterion did one-on-one interviews with Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, and Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vt., prelates who all have strong ties to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The conversations with them are being featured, continuing this week with Bishop Coyne. (Page 1)
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Bishop’s visit helps Myanmar community feel at home
For some, the ability to confess their sins and receive forgiveness in their native tongue was a blessing beyond expression. “I’m really, really happy,” Paul Hnin related, struggling to find the English words to express his joy. “We can get confession, we can attend [in] our language … really happy.” Resettled in Indianapolis as refugees, half a dozen families from Myanmar (formerly Burma) have made St. Barnabas Parish their spiritual home. All members of the ethnic group known as the Chin tribe, these families speak a very specific dialect that distinguishes them even from other southeast Asian nation tribes. All of the families at St. Barnabas are internationally recognized refugees who fled Myanmar during a decades-long conflict between its oppressive military junta and rebels opposing the government. (Page 9)
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Web-only features
Installation Mass will be broadcast on TV, website and Catholic Radio Indy
Archbishop Thompson will be formally installed as the seventh archbishop of Indianapolis during a 2 p.m. Mass on Friday, July 28, at the cathedral. Due to the large number of people that need to be accommodated, seating for this Mass will be by invitation only, with the presentation of a ticket necessary in the narthex. Those unable to attend the Mass will be able to watch it live on WHMB-TV40 in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, and on all cable and satellite networks throughout the archdiocese that carry the television station.
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