March 10, 2023

Scouts honored during annual ceremony at cathedral

Shown are award winners of 2023 Scout Religious Emblems. (Submitted photo by Pamela Johns)

Shown are award winners of 2023 Scout Religious Emblems. (Submitted photo by Pamela Johns)

Criterion staff report

The Archdiocesan Catholic Scouting Awards ceremony was held on Feb. 5 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral with Archbishop Charles C. Thompson presiding.

Scouts from throughout the archdiocese were honored for earning age-specific Catholic Scouting awards.

Awards for younger Scouts included the Light of Christ emblem and the Paravuli Dei emblem. The Boy Scouts of America Scouts usually earn the Ad Altare Dei Emblem in middle school and then the Pope Pius XII Award in high school. The Marian Award is one of the emblems for middle school to high school-age Girl Scouts.

Jack Winn Mansfield of St. Monica Parish and St. Athanasius the Great Byzantine Parish (an Eastern Catholic parish), both in Indianapolis, was awarded the Bronze Pelican Medal, a diocesan award whose purpose is to recognize the recipient’s outstanding contribution to the development of Catholic youths in the program of the Boy Scouts of America.

Father Aaron Jenkins is succeeding Father Thomas Schliessmann as the diocesan chaplain for the Indianapolis Catholic Committee on Scouting. Father Thomas Schliessmann served in that position for more than 26 years.

More information about Catholic Scouting awards can be found at the Indianapolis Catholic Committee on Scouting at www.ccsindy.net. †

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