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March 11, 2016 issue
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Local stories:
- ‘Prepare it with love’: Cathedral Soup Kitchen volunteer’s recipe for life helps nourish the body and the soul
- The Criterion announces change to Events Calendar and event submission policy
- Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes
- Lenten activities available online
- What was in the news on March 11, 1966? Ecumenism in Great Britain, a new birth control commission, and the value of Catholic schools
- Lawmakers pass bill to expand Individual Development Accounts
Regular local features:
- Rejoice in the Lord: Making mercy visible through spiritual works of mercy
- Alégrense en el Señor: Las obras piadosas como manifestaciones espirituales de la misericordia
- Editorial: Christian optimism springs from a realistic faith
- From the Editor Emeritus: Renaissance Church - Start of the Protestant Reformation
- Corncopia: Hey, are you paying attention, are you listening?
- Twenty Something: The nun who kissed Elvis, ditched Hollywood and found her home
- Reflection: Christian optimism springs from a realistic faith
- Letters to the Editor
- No letters were printed this week
- Events Calendar
- Divorce and Beyond six-meeting session to run April 12-May 17
- Annunciation Parish will offer Good Friday Tenebrae service
- Iraqi ambassador to speak on the future of Iraq at Marian University on March 31
- Sisters of Providence offer ‘Come and See’ weekend on April 8-10
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Benedictine Abbot Alan Berndt led former Blue Cloud Abbey in South Dakota for 16 years
- Providence Sister Marilyn Rose Ginder served in mental health care for 25 years
- My Journey to God: Where do I stand? How close do I get?
Catholic News Service:
- Divided court examines ‘undue burden’ test in abortion case
- Pope Francis: Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen are ‘martyrs of charity’
- Vatican announces consistory to approve canonization of Mother Teresa
- Notre Dame to honor Biden and Boehner with 2016 Laetare Medal
- Ability to ‘see’ can dissolve racism, must begin in hearts, Cardinal Turkson says
- Little Sisters of the Poor are the public face of fight against HHS mandate
- Committee calls attacks on Christians, others in Middle East ‘genocide’
- Massgoers urged to be open to Lord’s mercy, ‘be instruments of it’
- Get thee to a confessional: Pope Francis goes, and wants you to as well
- Pope Francis tells corrupt benefactors that Church doesn’t need ‘dirty money’
- Thousands celebrate God’s ‘boundless mercy’ at Religious Ed Congress
- Catholic Navy SEAL given Medal of Honor for heroic action
- Column: Fondness for a former first lady
- Column: Using a timeline to better understand your place in history
- The Sunday Readings: Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Question Corner: Those who fast on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday are united with Christ, his suffering
FaithAlive!
- Growth of deserts in the soul leads to harm of the Earth
- Ponder the tie between sin and environmental abuse during Lent
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Cathedral Soup Kitchen volunteer’s recipe for life helps nourish the body and the soul
Dee Morley is asked to share a defining story from her 20 years of extraordinary volunteering at the Cathedral Soup Kitchen—one story that will explain why the 82-year-old great-grandmother kept returning to make and serve her delicious soups to the homeless people who lined up, hoping to get a hot meal and a warm smile from her. Morley considers the question, and soon begins a story about one of the frequent visitors to the soup kitchen. (Page 1)
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Lawmakers pass bill to expand Individual Development Accounts
Indiana lawmakers passed legislation to assist low-income families by expanding a savings plan program called Individual Development Accounts or IDAs. The Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC) supports the legislation. Senate Bill 325, the IDA enhancement bill, passed unanimously on third reading in the Indiana House of Representatives on Feb. 23, and is headed to Gov. Mike Pence’s desk for approval. (Page 10)
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Web-only features
Lenten resources
Each year, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis provides special Lenten resources – the daily readings, columns from Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, Stations of the Cross and links of interest – on a site located on our server (www.archindy.org/lent). We encourage you to share this link with others, most particularly because it also includes the full listing of penance schedules from around the archdiocese.
Go to the site | See our listing of parish penance services
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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- Crisis compounded: Migrants stranded in Greece as EU nations say 'no'
- Report shows U.S. Catholic schools not doing enough for Latino Catholics
- Open letter in National Review urges Catholics to reject Trump candidacy
- Pope: Missionaries of Charity killed in Yemen are 'martyrs of charity'
- God leaves us free, even to make mistakes, pope says at Angelus
- Vatican statistics report increase in baptized Catholics worldwide
- Divided court examines 'undue burden' test in abortion case
- Committee calls attacks on Christians, others in Middle East 'genocide'
- Georgetown forum ponders rise of anti-Semitism, fate of Europe's Jews
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