IN -3 50 87 30 6 419 N. Chestnut Seymour (812) 522-2517 www.BurkholderFuneralChapel.com family helping families make the hardest time of their lives just a little Gracious Lord, as we come to church for worship this weekend, remind us that you are fully present in our lives always. You are the truth, the life, and the way. To you be the glory, Amen. IN -3 50 87 36 6 The Tribune tribtown.com The Tribune, Jackson counTy, ind.A5 saTurday, ocTober 30, 2021 Obituary policy The Tribune offers both free death notices and paid custom obituaries for Jackson County area residents, former resi- dents and close relatives of area residents.
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Minger, 73, of Elizabethtown, passed away at 6:17 p.m., on Thursday, October 28, 2021, at the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Survivors include his wife, Linda. Funeral arrangements are currently pending with Sawyer-Pickett Funeral and Cremation Service. LCMS president to preach in Seymour Sunday The president of the Lu- theran Synod, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, will be the guest preacher Sunday at Immanuel Lutheran Church at 605 S.
Walnut St. He is preaching as part of 150th anniversary celebra- tion. Founded in 1870, Immanuel has been a member of the synod since 1879. The synod includes more than 6,000 congregations around the United States, operates two seminaries and eight universities, and does mission work in more than 80 countries around the world. It is also Reformation Sunday, marking how Dr.
Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, an event which gave birth to the Reformation of the church and a restoration of the teaching of the Bible that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ alone. President Harrison will preach during the 9 and 11:15 a.m. services and will hold a question-and-answer ses- sion between them in the fellowship hall. Later that evening at 6 p.m,, he will preach a different sermon for the Reformation Rally at Immanuel sponsored by the Lutheran Mission Federation. The federation is marking its 90th year of establishing mission congregations, sponsoring programs like Know Your Bible aired each morning at 6:55 a.m.
on WZZB AM 1390 and FM 99.3, and airing The Lutheran Hour each Sunday at 11 a.m. All are welcome to attend. The 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. services also will be live-streamed at immanuelseymour.com and broadcast live on WZZB AM 1390 and FM 99.3.
The overall anniversary theme, our Past, Embracing our is based on Psalm 90:1, 16: You have been our dwelling place in all Let your work be shown to your servants, and Your glorious power to their An anniversary committee chaired by Craig and Linda Moore and Mark and Jane Nolting is coordinating the celebration. For information, call the church at 812- 522-3118, email immanuelseymour. com, or go to immanuelseymour.com Staff RepoRtS HarrisON NatiON brief Pence wades into Virgina school debate PURCELLVILLE, Va. Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday hailed activist parents who are decrying school curriculums as un-American, equating instruction on the effects of institutional racism with and warning that such efforts might children. The fight over schools has become a flashpoint in the Virginia race, where polls show a dead heat between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin ahead of Election Day on Tuesday.
In his speech at Patrick Henry College, a Christian university about 50 miles outside Washington in Loudoun County, Pence echoed many of the criticisms Youngkin has made central to his campaign and praised activists in the surrounding suburbs for propelling a spreading all across the eyes of the nation are on Loudoun Pence told a crowd of hundreds in a gymnasium. The former vice president has delivered speeches around the country on other policy matters and is widely thought to be preparing a 2024 presidential run. He did not appear with Youngkin or mention him by name on Thursday but he have to. The GOP nominee has made fighting for a key part of his closing argument, highlighting his support for allowing parents to object to lessons on certain books and his opposition to critical race theory, a way of thinking about history through the lens of racism. biden: Pope told me that i should receiving By JoSh Boak, Zeke MilleR and nicole Winfield The Associated Press rOME Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told him he was a and should keep receiving Communion, although conservatives have called for him to be denied the sacrament because of his support for abortion rights.
The two most prominent Roman Catho- lics ran overtime in their discussions on climate change, poverty and the coronavirus pandemic, a warm conversation that also touched on the loss of adult son and included jokes about aging well. Biden said abortion did not come up in the meeting. just talked about the fact he was happy that I was a good Catholic and I should keep receiving Biden said. The sup- port for abortion rights and same-sex marriage has put him at odds with many U.S. bishops, some of whom have suggested he should be denied Com- munion.
American bishops are due to meet in their annual fall conference in mid-November, and will find themselves debating a possible rebuke of a U.S. president just weeks after their boss spent so much time with Biden that all their subsequent meet- ings were thrown off by an hour. Video released by the Vatican showed several warm, relaxed moments between Francis and Biden as they repeatedly shook hands and smiled. Francis often sports a dour look, especially in official photos, but he seemed in good spirits Friday. The private meeting lasted about 75 minutes, according to the Vatican, more than double the normal length of an audience with the pontiff, The pair sat across from each other at a desk in the papal library, accom- panied by a translator.
They then proceeded to an exchange of gifts and a broader meeting including the first lady and top officials. thanked His Holi- ness for his advocacy for the poor and those suffering from hunger, conflict, and the White House said. lauded Pope leadership in fighting the climate crisis, as well as his advocacy to ensure the pandemic ends for everyone through vaccine sharing and an equitable global economic Biden takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as a moral guidepost to shape his social and economic policies. He wears a rosary and attends Mass weekly. After leaving the Vatican, Biden said that he had a meeting and that the pope prayed for him and blessed his rosary beads.
He said the prayer was about A dozen Swiss Guards in their blue and gold striped uniforms and red-plumed halberds stood at attention in the San Damaso court- yard as Biden and his wife, Jill, arrived. They were received by Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, who runs the papal household, and then greeted one by one the papal ushers, or papal gentlemen, who lined up in the courtyard. good to be Biden said as he shook the hand of one of them. he told another before he was ushered into the frescoed Apostolic Palace and taken upstairs to the pri- vate library. According to the Vatican, Biden presented Francis with a woven chasuble, or liturgical vestment, made in 1930 by the famed papal tailor Gammarelli and used by the Jesuit order in the U.S., where it was held in the archives of Holy Trinity Church, regular parish in Washington.
The White House said it would make a donation to charity in the name. Biden also slipped known as a chal- lenge coin into the palm during a handshake, and hailed Francis as most significant warrior for peace ever The personalized coin depicts home state of Delaware and a reference to his late son military unit, the 261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade. Biden told Francis that Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, would have wanted him to present the coin to the pope. tradition is, and only kidding about this, but next time I see you, if you have it, you have to buy the Biden said, refer- ring to the coin. He added: the only Irishman ever met never had a Francis laughed and responded: Irish brought Biden, 78, also relayed the story of American baseball player Satchel Paige, a Black pitcher who played late into his fifties, in a parable about aging.
old would you be if you know how old you Biden quoted Paige as saying. 65, Biden added, as Francis, 84, pointed to his head and laughed. Francis presented Biden with a ceramic tile depicting the iconography of the pilgrim, as well as a collection of the main teaching documents, the Vatican said. In the Vatican video, he could be heard asking Jill Biden to for The warm encounter stood in stark contrast to Donald 2017 meeting with Francis, with whom the former president had a prickly relationship. Photos from that 30-minute meeting showed a stone-faced Francis standing beside a grinning Trump.
meeting also was longer than the 52 minutes Barack Obama spent with Francis in 2014. Biden is visiting Rome and then Glasgow for back-to-back summits, first a gathering for leaders of the Group of 20 leading and developing nations and then a global climate conference. Biden and Francis have previously met three times, but encounter was their first since Biden became president. Biden also met sepa- rately Friday with G-20 summit hosts Italian President Sergio Mat- tarella and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. He ended the day with French President Emmanuel Macron, trying anew to smooth relations after the U.S.
and U.K. decided to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, scotching a lucrative French contract in the process. faCe-tO-faCe Pictured: US President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Pope Francis walk Oct. 29 as they meet at the Vatican. President Joe Biden is set to meet with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty.
The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. The AssociATed Press.
