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October 13, 2017 issue

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Local stories:

  • A powerful prayer: Devotion to the rosary offers strength and peace for people on their journey of faith
  • Greencastle couple ‘walks the walk’ with inmates while sharing the Catholic faith in prisons
    • Prison ministry conference set for Oct. 28 in Columbus
  • Black Catholic Ministry to host workshop on Oct. 21
  • Cardinal Burke to celebrate Masses in Indianapolis on Oct. 20 and Oct. 24
  • Archbishop Thompson celebrates first appeal Mass in New Albany
  • Special Mass comforts, unites those affected by mental illness
    • Resources for those affected by mental illness
  • New Albany park evokes both history and Trinity
  • From the Archives: Cardinal Ritter Day
  • Fee waived for Morning with Mary on Oct. 14 at cathedral
  • Official Appointment

Regular local features:

  • Christ the Cornerstone: Mary, gateway to heaven, shows us the way to her Son
    • Cristo, la piedra angular: María, portal al cielo, nos muestra el camino hacia su Hijo
  • Editorial: Make time to ‘Share the Journey’ with our brothers and sisters in Christ
  • From the Editor Emeritus: The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s changed American society
  • Cornucopia: Too bad we can’t blame fate in today’s world for what happens to us
  • Our Works of Charity: Catholic social teaching brings thoughtful guidance on immigration
  • Twenty Something: Harvey and the kayaking priest
  • Be Our Guest: Baby Elijah’s birth, adoption help family fulfill God’s plan
  • Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson
  • Letters to the Editor
    • Adoption an excellent option for children in need of a loving and faith-based home
    • Senators’ anti-Catholicism violates oath to support Constitution, reader says
  • Events Calendar
    • Teens for Life members to speak at St. Susanna on battle with freedom of speech
    • Holiday Boutique on Oct. 21 will benefit St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry
    • 25th Annual Indianapolis Prayer Breakfast on Oct. 24 to feature Tamika Catchings
    • Registration for Archdiocesan Youth Choir for grades 5 through 12 ends on Oct. 20
    • St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus offers piano concert on Oct. 21
    • ‘Annulments: What the Catholic Church Teaches’ to be offered in Indianapolis on Oct. 25
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
  • My Journey to God: A Little Piece of God Trying to Get Home

Catholic News Service:

  • Bishops praise decision to expand exemptions on mandate
  • Bishop Vasquez urges U.S. to help solve expanding Rohingya crisis
  • Building culture of life happens through daily actions, says cardinal
  • Justice Department issues memo on religious liberty to federal agencies
  • Trauma real even when not acknowledged, psychologists say
  • Rev. King’s words on nonviolence need to be lived today, speakers say
  • The Sunday Readings: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • Question Corner: Remain in church until the end of Mass to give thanks to God for the sacrament

FaithAlive!

  • Abortion undermines the dignity of children, mothers
  • Life is celebrated as a great gift from God in the Old and New Testaments

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Devotion to the rosary offers strength and peace for people on their journey of faith

Rosary in hands100 years ago, the Blessed Mother appeared to three children in Fatima, Portugal, instructing them to spread the word about the importance of praying the rosary for peace in the world, for peace in people’s hearts. In honor of the Blessed Mother’s request, and since October is the month of the Holy Rosary, The Criterion has invited readers to share their stories of how praying the rosary has made a difference in their lives. Here are some of their stories. (Page 1)
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Special Mass comforts, unites those affected by mental illness

Lector at Mass“What if blessings come from raindrops?” It’s a good question to ask when searching for goodness among trials. It was a fitting question—asked through a song of the same name—at the beginning of the first-ever Archdiocesan Mass for Those Affected by Mental Illness held on Sept. 24 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Indianapolis. The Mass was a year-and-a-half in the making, and initiated by Kile Stevens of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville. (Page 7)
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Greencastle couple ‘walks the walk’ with inmates while sharing the Catholic faith in prisons

CoupleThe faces of Teresa and Bernie Batto glow, like parents recalling a wondrous moment in the lives of their children. “We have walked with them and grew with them and learned from them, and they learned from us,” says Teresa, beaming with joy and pride. “You do feel like they’re your children in the faith.” As she shares that thought, her mind is focused on the unusual scene that created that feeling. It took place in May when 10 inmates at the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Putnam County were received into the full communion of the Church when they were baptized by Father John Hollowell, pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle and Annunciation Parish in Brazil. (Page 1)
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New Albany park evokes both history and Trinity

ParkAt noon on Sept. 27, an enthusiastic crowd gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate the new Holy Trinity Heritage Park on Market Street in New Albany. As dignitaries offered their opening remarks, the bells of St. Mary Church, one block away, rang the “Angelus.” The event marks the latest phase in the campus development plan of St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities. The park is located on the site of the first Catholic church in the city, the former Holy Trinity Church, which was built in 1852 but burned in 1975. After the destruction of the church, its parishioners became part of St. Mary Parish. The design of the green space incorporates the destroyed church’s heat-cracked steeple bells, four original stained-glass windows and numerous large stones from its walls. (Page 15)
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