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October 7, 2016 issue

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Local stories:

• Respect Life Sunday: ‘Be positive’ in the respect for life battle, transform hearts, says Msgr. Stumpf
  • Catholics in central and southern Indiana join area Life Chain events on Respect Life Sunday
  • Pro-Life Youth Award winner Camille Woods ‘has a heart of service’
  • Recasners ‘work behind the scenes tirelessly’ for respect for life
• Bishop Etienne appointed archbishop of Anchorage
  • Bishop Etienne seeks to follow in footsteps of pioneer bishops, priests
• New Albany couple’s commitment to Catholic education leads to national honor
• Young adult award winners find faith and fulfillment in community
• Marian Jubilee event on Oct. 8 with Archbishop Tobin, Hahn to be live streamed
• Medical association takes stance against physician-assisted suicide
• Photos: Catholic radio dinner (print-edition only)
• Court strikes down decision to refuse state help for Syrian refugees

Regular local features:

• Rejoice in the Lord: Welcoming our sisters and brothers in Christ
  • Alégrense en el Señor: Recibamos con los brazos abiertos a nuestros hermanos en Cristo
• Editorial: Be ‘Moved by Mercy’ during Respect Life Month and beyond
• From the Editor Emeritus: 20th-century Church - Declaration on Religious Liberty
• It's All Good: God, family can help children weather the storms in life
• Letters to the Editor
  • St. John Paul II and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Events Calendar
  • Benedict Inn offers morning of reflection on mercy with Father Farrell on Oct. 22
  • Pro-life biotech researcher to speak at St. Paul Church in Sellersburg on Oct. 22
  • Charismatic Renewal Retreat set for Oct. 22 at St. Lawrence in Indianapolis
  • St. Vincent de Paul Holiday Boutique will be on Oct. 22 at The Riviera Club
• Obituaries
  • General listing
• My Journey to God: Peace

Catholic News Service:

• Logic of weapons, self-interest wreak havoc on Mideast, Pope Francis says
• Shimon Peres, known for efforts to achieve peace, dies at 93
• Pope sees ‘global war’ against marriage, urges Church to offer help for couples
• When political choice is tough, pray and vote your conscience, Pope Francis says
• Column: Shedding labels and moving forward
• Column: A twist on being a good Samaritan to a stranger in need
• Column: Little choices make a big difference
• The Sunday Readings: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
• Question Corner: The Church teaches that heaven is not a place so much as a ‘way of being’

FaithAlive!

• The Church uses caution in approving Marian apparitions
• Christians have fostered devotion to Mary throughout Church history

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Bishop Etienne appointed archbishop of Anchorage

Pope Francis has named Bishop Paul D. Etienne, leader of the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo., since 2009, the fourth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to being installed as a bishop in Cheyenne, he served as a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for 17 years. On the day of the announcement, Archbishop-designate Etienne was introduced at a press conference in Anchorage where he had traveled to meet with the archdiocese’s outgoing shepherd, Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz. (Page 1)
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Respect Life Sunday: ‘Be positive’ in the respect for life battle, transform hearts, says Msgr. Stumpf

"How long O Lord I cry for help, and you will not hear? I cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ yet you do not save” (Hb 1:2). These words in Habakkuk from the first reading on Oct. 2—Respect Life Sunday—seemed to continue to ring true that same day as Catholics and fellow Christians throughout central and southern Indiana and the United States lined streets as part of Life Chain events to peacefully, prayerfully raise awareness of the sin of abortion. But in his homily during the archdiocesan Respect Life Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, Msgr. William F. Stumpf, archdiocesan vicar general, called for Catholics to “be positive.” (Page 1)
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Court strikes down decision to refuse state help for Syrian refugees

On Oct. 3, a three-judge panel of the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Gov. Mike Pence’s policy to prevent state agencies from providing assistance to Syrian refugees resettled in Indiana. Pence made the declaration in early November of last year, just prior to the resettling of a Syrian family to Indianapolis by the archdiocesan Catholic Charities Indianapolis’ Refugee and Immigrant Services. Despite Pence’s announcement, the archdiocese moved forward with the resettlement of the family, which consisted of a young married couple with two small children. (Page 1)
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Web-only features

Marian Jubilee event on Oct. 8 with Archbishop Tobin, Hahn to be live streamed

While the Holy Year of Mercy Marian Jubilee event, featuring talks by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and evangelist Dr. Scott Hahn, is filled, all are invited to watch the live-streamed event from 9 a.m.-noon on Oct. 8. The livestream can be viewed by logging onto www.archindy.org/streaming. The event marks a special day during the Holy Year of Mercy to focus on the Blessed Virgin Mary, as called for by Pope Francis. It will include a Marian procession, praying the rosary, a witness talk by Archbishop Tobin, and a keynote address by Hahn.
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National and world news you may have missed...

Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed.

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• Philippine bishops' leader 'in endless grief' over drug war
• Pope: Church's mission is to attract people to Christ, not proselytize
• Supreme Court examines if racial bias played role in death sentence
• Pope visits towns in central Italy devastated by earthquake
• Hurricane Matthew tears through Haiti as aid workers prepare to respond
• Pope names successors to retiring Alaska archbishop, Arlington bishop

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