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Available Right NowMen at conference challenged, encouraged to go forth, transform others through faithA challenge rang out in the cavernous auditorium of East Central High School in St. Leon on Feb. 24. The more than 1,200 men who filled it on that day were told to be “men who have been transformed, who are willing to go forth and transform the lives of other men.” Father Jonathan Meyer, pastor of All Saints Parish in Dearborn County, gave this parting message to the men who attended the third annual E6 Catholic Men’s Conference, organized by the Batesville Deanery faith community. “E6” refers to the sixth chapter of St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians in which the Apostle calls his audience to “put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil” (Eph 6:11). (Page 1) Dreamers in Indianapolis relay wish to help ‘whole country’ on ‘Catholic Day of Action’Like all mothers, Zahrya Aremas, 29, wants what’s best for her two children, ages 4 and 2. It was the same desire for a better life that led Aremas’ own mother to move the family to America from Mexico when Zahrya was 6. Obviously, Aremas had no say in the move. But “after almost 24 years living here, this [country] is pretty much what I call home,” said the member of St. Patrick Parish in Indianapolis. “I know [my children] will have better choices and better opportunities if we keep fighting for them right now.” That fight recently gained new urgency for Aremas and nearly 800,000 others like her. They are called “Dreamers”—undocumented immigrants brought into the United States beyond their control as children. And March 5 loomed as the potential end date of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program allowing Dreamers to request deferral from deportation, renewable every two years. (Page 1) ‘Hidden jewel’ Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is now a national landmarkWhen Katie Spanuello Rahman recalls the campus of her alma mater Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, she paints an idyllic picture. “It was like living in a fairy-tale setting, with a marble staircase to ascend to my room” in Le Fer Residence Hall, says the 1993 alumna. “I always took great pride in the castle-like buildings and the surrounding natural beauty of the trees and the religious shrines on campus.” Providence Sister Dawn Tomaszewski, a 1974 alumna, agrees. She is now general superior of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, who founded the college almost 180 years ago. “One of the things people say all the time is, ‘This [property] is a hidden jewel,’ ” she notes of both the campus and the sisters’ grounds. Now that jewel is being held up for all to see—on a national level. (Page 7)
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