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Available Right Now‘God had other plans’: Couple provide home for five children as they embrace adoption as pro-life callingThe cheery bungalow home on Indianapolis’ near-east side is teeming with energy. The five children who live there, ranging in age from 6-12, sprinkle their happy laughter inside and out: one jumping on a trampoline in the backyard, two playing with dolls in their bedroom, while the oldest indulgently plays the “patient” to a younger sister’s “nurse.” The scene is much as Josh and Cara Bach, both 42 and members of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis, imagined when they started dating as freshmen in college 23 years ago. This is a story of one couple’s journey of opening their home and their hearts through foster parenting and adoption, and their desire to see more couples and expectant mothers embrace this loving, pro-life alternative. (Page 1) Bishop Coyne uses Indiana experience to minister in VermontDuring the national conference of U.S. bishops in Indianapolis in mid-June, The Criterion did one-on-one interviews with Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, and Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vt., prelates who all have strong ties to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The conversations with them are being featured, continuing this week with Bishop Coyne. (Page 1) Bishop’s visit helps Myanmar community feel at homeFor some, the ability to confess their sins and receive forgiveness in their native tongue was a blessing beyond expression. “I’m really, really happy,” Paul Hnin related, struggling to find the English words to express his joy. “We can get confession, we can attend [in] our language … really happy.” Resettled in Indianapolis as refugees, half a dozen families from Myanmar (formerly Burma) have made St. Barnabas Parish their spiritual home. All members of the ethnic group known as the Chin tribe, these families speak a very specific dialect that distinguishes them even from other southeast Asian nation tribes. All of the families at St. Barnabas are internationally recognized refugees who fled Myanmar during a decades-long conflict between its oppressive military junta and rebels opposing the government. (Page 9)
Web-only featuresInstallation Mass will be broadcast on TV, website and Catholic Radio IndyArchbishop Thompson will be formally installed as the seventh archbishop of Indianapolis during a 2 p.m. Mass on Friday, July 28, at the cathedral. Due to the large number of people that need to be accommodated, seating for this Mass will be by invitation only, with the presentation of a ticket necessary in the narthex. Those unable to attend the Mass will be able to watch it live on WHMB-TV40 in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, and on all cable and satellite networks throughout the archdiocese that carry the television station. |
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