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November 17, 2017 issue

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Local stories:

  • Sharing the journey: Latest ‘great American story’ highlights mentor’s commitment to refugee family
    • Mentors play a key role in helping refugees and migrants
  • Knights, Ladies of St. Peter Claver celebrate 70 years of faith
  • Corrections Ministry conference promotes collaboration, compassion
  • Free seminar for professional advisors on charitable planning set for Dec. 5 and 6
  • ‘One family’ of God celebrates feast of St. Martin de Porres
  • Benedictine sisters of Ferdinand with ties to archdiocese celebrate jubilees
  • ‘An Evening of Lights’ will honor the lives of loved ones
  • Photo spread: All Souls Day pilgrimage

Regular local features:

  • Christ the Cornerstone: Giving thanks, giving generously transforms us
    • Cristo, la piedra angular: Dar gracias y dar generosamente nos transforman la vida
  • Editorial: We must serve the poor
  • From the Editor Emeritus: Richard John Neuhaus: From radical to liberal to neo-conservative
  • That All May Be One: Volunteer, make time to fulfill the mission of loving your neighbor
  • Worship and Evangelization Outreach: Have a purpose, proclaim the Gospel when breaking bread around the table
  • Investing with Faith: Now is the time to take stock of your year-end tax planning
  • Reflection: 100th anniversary of bishops’ conference urges ‘looking forward’ as well as ‘looking back’
  • Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson
  • Letters to the Editor
    • No letters were printed this week
  • Events Calendar
    • Archdiocesan Black Catholic Ministry to host two events in early December
    • New Albany Deanery to present The Vigil Project tour and performance on Dec. 1
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
    • Conventual Franciscan Father Kenneth Gering served as a hospital chaplain
  • My Journey to God: I’m Praying for You

Catholic News Service:

  • Civility must guide debate on social challenges, bishops’ head says
  • Nuncio: Bishops must focus on youths, evangelization, Jesus
  • Detroit at ‘fever pitch’ over beatification of Father Solanus
  • Pope puts John Paul I on path to sainthood, declares him ‘venerable’
  • Taking smartphone snapshots during Mass ‘is an awful thing,’ Pope Francis says
  • Column: Respecting life means linking all life issues
  • The Sunday Readings: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • Question Corner: Agoraphobia can lessen a person’s obligation to attend Sunday Mass

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  • Devotions help extend Sunday Mass into rest of the week
  • Cultures influence the devotional life of Catholics around the world

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Sharing the journey: Latest ‘great American story’ highlights mentor’s commitment to refugee family

Mother and sonFor nearly an hour, the young man stood anxiously by the exit of Concourse B at Indianapolis International Airport. Holding a bouquet of red roses, he repeatedly strained to see down the long corridor, waiting and hoping for his family to appear. Finally—at last!—he saw them in the distance, and all his anxiety and tension disappeared as his face burst into a smile. For the young man nicknamed “Alo” and his family, it was a long-awaited moment of thanksgiving. Ever since 2001 when their family fled their homeland of Sudan as refugees, they’ve held the dream of coming to the United States to start a new life—one without fear, one with freedom. (Page 1)
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Corrections Ministry conference promotes collaboration, compassion

SpeakersWith a steady, even voice, Misty Wallace related the worst day of her life. On Oct. 18, 1992, at the age of 18, she stopped in a parking lot on the southwest side of Indianapolis to use a pay phone. Moments after hanging up, a stranger shot her in the head, took her purse and left her for dead. Wallace recounted the attack, a miraculous recovery and her struggle for emotional healing to about 100 people gathered at St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus on Oct. 28 during an archdiocesan conference titled “Corrections: A Ministry of Hope & Salvation.” Her audience, previously unaware of her experience, first expressed shock then sympathy. (Page 9)
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Knights, Ladies of St. Peter Claver celebrate 70 years of faith

Knights and Ladies of St. Peter ClaverMembers of the Knights of Peter Claver and its Ladies Auxiliary were encouraged to follow their namesake’s example of displaying conviction as they live out their lives of faith in service to others. Archbishop Charles C. Thompson offered that encouragement in his homily during an Oct. 22 Mass at St. Rita Church in Indianapolis celebrating the 70th anniversary of the parish’s Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary (St. Rita Council #97 and Christ the King Court #97). “St. Peter Claver, referring to himself as the ‘slave of slaves forever’ … displayed incredible conviction in carrying forth his mission to the poor, the vulnerable, the mistreated, and those cast aside by society,” the archbishop said. (Page 3)
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