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May 18, 2012 issue
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Local stories:
- A remarkable heart for others: 10-year-old competes in Mini-Marathon to raise money for cancer-stricken friend
- Graduations set for 11 Catholic high schools in archdiocese
- Peer mentor program helps youths respect themselves and others
- What was in the news on May 18, 1962? A proposal to radically alter the calendar and bring an end to movable feasts like Easter
- Meet our future deacons
- Thomas Horn
- Steven House
- Seminarian is a member of Clericus Cup championship team
Evangelization Supplement:
- Column: Our marching orders from Jesus
- Good communication in parishes fosters evangelization
- Modest goals can help parishes carry out a big mission
- WANTED: Parish Evangelization Team Member
- Hospitality and faith formation aid in evangelization
Regular local features:
- Editorial: Pope Benedict XVI - Great teacher, good steward
- From the Editor Emeritus: Biblical readings - The three letters of St. John
- Faithful Lines: A view of a pro-life ministry from World War II
- Catholic Evangelization Outreach: Our vocation gives flesh to the faith
- Letters to the Editor
- We must always remember the one non-negotiable issue
- A heartfelt ‘thank you’ to all of our Church’s wonderful shepherds
- Events Calendar
- Six parishes change Mass times due to holiday and race
- Franciscan brother to perform organ recital at Indianapolis parish
- Obituaries
- General listing
- My Journey to God: The Ordinary
Catholic News Service:
- Racial differences matter less, but minorities still feel disadvantages
- Church leaders reject Obama’s support for same-sex marriage
- New Arizona law cuts off all state funds to abortion providers
- Interreligious dialogue is crucial for humanity, pope tells Jewish group
- Column: Read the contract before complaining about your employer
- The Sunday Readings: Feast of the Ascension of the Lord
- Go Ask Your Father: Children should be baptized only with parents’ consent
FaithAlive!
- Christ is at the heart of all that happens in a church
- Church architecture can lead to a rich encounter with God
Available Right Now
10-year-old competes in Mini-Marathon to raise money for cancer-stricken friend
On the morning of May 5, Abby Allen, a fifth-grade student at St. Charles Borromeo School in Bloomington, waited among 35,000 people to start the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis—the event where she hoped to complete her special, nearly yearlong plan to show her love and support for a family friend fighting for her life against cancer. Ever since she came up with the idea last summer, Abby wanted to run in the 13.1-mile race to raise funds to help pay for the uninsured, alternative cancer treatments for Michelle Combs, a wife and mother of two girls near Abby’s age. (Page 1)
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Peer mentor program helps youths respect themselves and others
Chastity and prayer exemplify the “heart and soul” of the Christian life, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, told several hundred Catholic high school students during the archdiocesan A Promise to Keep: God’s Gift of Human Sexuality peer mentor luncheon on April 23 at the Catholic Center in Indianapolis. Practicing chastity is “the right use of the gift of sexuality that God has given us,” Bishop Coyne told the teenagers who present abstinence education programs to Catholic middle school and parish religious education students. (Page 5)
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Web-only features
Prayer for a New Archbishop
As we continue to wait for Pope Benedict XVI to appoint a new archbishop for Indianapolis, the archdiocese has released a special "Prayer for a New Archbishop." You can view the prayer or download the prayer card by clicking the link below.
See the prayer card
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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- We are family: Pope to give Catholic families hope in troubled times
- Obama 'accommodation' offers no fundamental change, USCCB attorneys say
- USCCB joins in petition asking US to change 'outdated' nuclear policy
- Traditionalists and Rome strike contrasting notes on Jews
- South Sudan's church leaders want peace accord implemented quickly
- Traditionalist leader says group could divide over unity with Rome
- Bishop Lynch says LCWR reform is not 'Armageddon' for group
- Pope recognizes Hildegard as saint, advances causes of US bishop, nun
- Catholic leaders reject Obama's support for same-sex marriage
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