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January 12, 2018 issue

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Local stories:

  • ‘Our family is complete with him’: Couple reaches across ocean, boundaries to give a child with a disability a home
  • Family influences shape honorees who strive to build community with their Catholic values
    • ‘Jeopardy!’ champion will speak at 22nd annual Celebrating Catholic School Values program
    • Award winner leads outreach embraced by men’s club, parish
    • Honored couple build a life of caring on foundation of faith, family
  • Johnson will speak at inaugural Indiana March for Life on Jan. 22
  • Legislative session is expected to be ‘fast and furious’
  • Sisters of Providence celebrate milestone jubilees
  • Fraternus teaches young men Catholic masculinity
  • From the Archives: Knights of Columbus in Bloomington
  • Official Appointments

Regular local features:

  • Christ the Cornerstone: Nonviolence only way to peace, racial harmony
    • Cristo, la piedra angular: La no violencia es el único camino a la paz y la armonía racial
  • Editorial: We need more immigrants
  • From the Editor Emeritus: Sister Blandina Seagle’s exploits in the Old West
  • It's All Good: The ‘meantime’ is all we’ve got, be thankful to God for it
  • Our Works of Charity: Embrace a journey of service, ring in 2018 with joy, hope and love
  • Twenty Something: On cracked knuckles and self-care: a resolution for 2018
  • Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson
  • Letters to the Editor
    • NCYC attendee says gathering offers inspiration for young Catholics
  • Events Calendar
    • Exhibit of dimensional art on display at Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery
    • Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center to host Girls Night Out on Jan. 26
    • Marian University to host nationally known pro-life speaker on Jan. 17
    • National Federation of Priests’ Council to hold convocation in Chicago in April
  • Obituaries
    • General listing
    • Providence Sister Adelaide Ortegel served in Catholic schools for 45 years
    • Providence Sister Margaret Ann Wilson ministered in Catholic education, health care
  • My Journey to God: Open Our Hearts

Catholic News Service:

  • Pope to diplomats: World peace depends on right to life and disarmament
  • Follow Jesus like Magi, pope urges during Mass on Epiphany
  • Churches are no longer exempt from FEMA disaster assistance
  • Mercy sisters embark on solidarity week with immigrants via social media
  • Catholic program for abandoned babies may have saved Edmonton newborn
  • Catholic groups decry end of immigration protection for Salvadorans
  • Column: To be or not to be: Parsing the implications of suicide
  • The Sunday Readings: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
  • Question Corner: A New Year

FaithAlive!

  • Baptism joins us to the mystical body of Christ, the family of God
  • Scripture suggests infants were baptized in the earliest days of the Church

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Couple reaches across ocean, boundaries to give a child with a disability a home

FamilyKatrina and Russ Kelly can’t keep the excitement out of their voices—they’ve recently returned from Bulgaria, where they finally met their 5-year-old adopted son. “He attached to me way faster, but long game of the week, she became his favorite,” says Russ with a look toward Katrina, who beams with joy. “He got really excited when Russ sat him on my lap,” she says of Gosho (pronounced GO-show). Russ had to place Gosho on Katrina’s lap for two reasons: the child did not have the ability to climb into her lap on his own, nor did Katrina have the ability to pick him up—both Katrina and Gosho have a rare genetic disorder called spinal muscular atrophy. (Page 1)
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‘Jeopardy!’ champion will speak at 22nd annual Celebrating Catholic School Values program

CCSV LogoThe appointment of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson as the seventh archbishop of Indianapolis was voted the top local news story of 2017, followed by the archdiocese’s hosting of the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) and the efforts of the local Church to aid immigrants and refugees. Other stories of note included the spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) held in Indianapolis in June, the ordination of 21 men as permanent deacons and the first graduating class of Marian University’s new medical school. Following the tradition of other news agencies, The Criterion editorial staff votes each year for the top 10 local stories that were published in our newspaper. (Page 10)
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Legislative session is expected to be ‘fast and furious’

“Fast and furious”—these are the words used by Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), to describe what’s ahead for the less than three-month session of the 2018 Indiana General Assembly which reconvened at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Jan. 3. Two aspects of this year’s General Assembly make for a crazy few months of lawmaking, Tebbe said. First, the session is a short, non-budgetary session. Lawmakers do not need to create a biennial budget. They did that in 2017. The short session also requires lawmakers to adjourn by March 15. (Page 7)
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Johnson will speak at inaugural Indiana March for Life on Jan. 22

March for LifeThe Archdiocese of Indianapolis, the Diocese of Lafayette, Ind., and Right to Life of Indianapolis are teaming up to offer the inaugural Indiana March for Life on Jan. 22 in Indianapolis, with multiple events taking place during the day. The event—which is open to all—solemnly recalls the legalization of abortion in the United States 45 years ago through the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions on Jan. 22, 1973. (Page 3)
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Front Page Image Compilations

Front page compilationWe've taken the past 13 years of Criterion issues from our print edition and made separate compilations of front page images. You can look at 2005-17 and see every front page from that year put into one picture -- kind of a birds-eye view of the year in Catholic news in Indiana.
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