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Pope condemns Capitol ‘siege’

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VATICAN CITY – Recognizing “the gifts of each baptized person” – women and men – Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes.

“A consolidated practice in the Latin church has confirmed, in fact, that such lay ministries, being based on the sacrament of baptism, can be entrusted to all the faithful who are suitable, whether male or female,” the pope wrote in his order changing canon law.

The document, issued “motu proprio” (on his own accord), was published by the Vatican Jan. 11. It changes the wording of Canon 230, paragraph 1.

The canon used to say, “Lay men who possess the age and qualifications (CNS PHOTO/TYLER ORSBURN) established by decree of the conference A National Guard soldier talks with a U.S. Capitol police officer near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 9, 2021. of bishops can be admitted on a stable spoke about the COVID-19 vaccine. common good; and may she do so with basis through the prescribed liturgiCINDY WOODEN From an ethical point of view, he all who live in that land.” cal rite to the ministries of lector and CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE said, “I think everyone must take the Pope Francis’ remarks came one day acolyte.” vaccine; it’s the ethical option because after the release of clips of an interview The updated canon will say, “Laity VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis you are playing with your health, life, in which he said he was “astonished” who possess the age and qualifications offered prayers for the people of the by the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, but you also are playing with the lives established by decree of the conference United States “shaken by the recent of others.” especially because the people of the of bishops can be admitted on a stable siege on Congress” and prayed for the Sometime in the week beginning Jan. United States are “so disciplined in basis through the prescribed liturgifive people who lost their lives “in those 11 the Vatican expects to begin vaccinatdemocracy.” cal rite to the ministries of lector and dramatic moments” when protesters ing residents and employees who have The interview with Italy’s Canale 5 acolyte.” stormed the Capitol Jan. 6. was scheduled for broadcast Jan. 10, but asked to be vaccinated, “and I signed “The decision to confer also on womRemarking on the events after recitup; it must be done.” some clips were aired Jan. 9. en these offices, which involve stability, ing the Angelus prayer Jan. 10, the Pope Francis recalled that when he Violence, he told the interviewer, public recognition and a mandate from pope insisted that “violence is always was a child, polio was a real threat, must always be condemned, but it also the bishop, will make the participation self-destructive. Nothing is gained by “and many children were left paralyzed is true that in even the most “mature” of all in the work of evangelization violence and so much is lost.” and people were desperate for a vaccine. societies, there are violent minorities, more effective in the church,” the pope The pope urged government leaders When the vaccine came out, they gave it “people taking a path against the comsaid in a letter to Cardinal Luis Ladar“and the entire population to mainto you with a bit of sugar.” munity, against democracy, against the ia, prefect of the Congregation for the tain a high sense of responsibility “I don’t know why some people say, common good.”

Doctrine of the Faith. in order to soothe tempers, promote ‘No, the vaccine is dangerous,’ but if “But thank God this erupted and In most dioceses around the world national reconciliation and protect the physicians present it to you as somepeople could see it well. That way it can – and at the Vatican as well – women democratic values rooted in American thing that will do good, that doesn’t be remedied,” he said. and girls have been lectors at Mass and society.” carry particular dangers, why not take “No nation can brag about never havhave served at the altar for decades.

And he prayed that “Mary Immacuit?” he said. ing a case of violence – it happens,” he That service was possible, not as a late, patroness of the United States of A personal way to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country.

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ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE ON PUBLIC MASSES: On Dec. 18, 2020, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone sent a letter to the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco updating his instructions for public liturgies in light of the recent rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court which, he writes, “established the principle that religious worship may not be treated less favorably than the most favored classes of business, meaning at a minimum the rules for indoor retail, for example, must also apply to indoor worship.” His letter supplies detailed guidance for public services – including indoor attendance equivalent to retail (currently 20%) when outdoor services are contraindicated by outside conditions. The archbishop reminded the priests, “I want to emphasize once again how absolutely important it is to follow the safety protocols to the last detail.” To read the full letter, and to download a PDF in English or Spanish, visit www.sfarch.org/letters-and-statements.

MEN CONSIDERING A VOCATION: “Saints, not Superheroes” is the latest reflection on the blog devoted to priestly vocations in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. It examines what holiness is and how it is achieved. “We become holy not despite our weakness, but because of it. Only when we confess our sinfulness can we truly open ourselves to God’s all-powerful grace. Holiness does not mean you will never sin. It means you throw yourself on God’s mercy when you do. It means never giving up on God’s limitless love.” To read the message in full visit www.sfpriest.org/ saints-not-superheroes. Vocation Discernment articles are archived at www. sfpriest.org/discernment-articles/ with other resources.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is asking the faithful to join him in praying and doing penance on Jan. 22, the day that the U.S. bishops have designated the “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.”

“The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 373, states: In all the dioceses of the United States of America, Jan. 22 (or Jan. 23, when Jan. 22 falls on a Sunday) shall be observed as a particular day of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion.

“The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is a harsh marker of the throwaway culture that Pope Francis decries. There have been more than 56 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. It is unimaginable that so many little human lives have been lost or to envision the tremendous damage inflicted upon the children’s mothers, fathers and families.

“In Scripture, God calls us over and over again to pray and repeatedly reminds us that he will answer our prayers,” the archbishop said. “On this day, we call on him particularly to remedy this great evil.

The archbishop will offer the Mass at noon at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Jan. 22.

The Mass will also be livestreamed at https://sfarchdiocese.org/livestreams.

The archbishop said each parish is encouraged to offer a noon Mass or the regular weekday Mass for that intention, using the liturgy recommended by the U.S. bishops in designating this special day.

“By offering Mass in our parishes on this day for this particular intention, we will pray together but in safer smaller and separate gatherings for the restoration of the right to life for all, from conception to natural death,” he said.

ARCHBISHOP DENOUNCES CAPITOL VIOLENCE

Archbishop Cordlieone issued the following Jan. 6, 2021: To attack the U.S. Capitol to express your fear that democracy has been denied is wrong, and also counterproductive. Doubts about free and fair

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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone with pro-life pilgrims Jan. 9, 2021 at the site of a new Planned Parenthood clinic on San Francisco’s Bush Street. The walk to the site, which is scheduled to open in January 2021, followed a Mass and rosary for an end to abortion at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

In opening remarks, Archbishop Cordileone christened the liturgy as a way “to pray for and witness to the sanctity of human life.” In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone spoke of an “increasing darkness in our world today” and “the culture of death all around us.” He thanked those at the Mass “for being a light in this darkness” and confirmed the Mass for an end to abortion would be celebrated each first Saturday of the month at the cathedral with an accompanying rosary.

The archbishop exhorted all to “ramp up the power of prayer to defeat the power of darkness.”

He asked those who are not able to attend Mass to pray particularly for this intention in some other way.

Later that afternoon, the archbishop will join three pro-life leaders for a webinar on the direction of the pro-life movement in 2021.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List, which focuses on policy and electing pro-life politicians, will speak, along with Charles C. Camosy, associate professor of social and theological ethics at Fordham University and a frequent writer on the consistent life ethic and Brian Duggan, executive director of Human Life Action.

Human Life Action is part of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life advocacy organization, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, and a co-sponsor of the webinar along with the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Human Life & Dignity.

elections cannot be redressed by violence against democratic institutions.

To the deaths from a pandemic, and destruction wreaked on people’s livelihoods, we do not need to add an attempted civil war. I called for an end to violence in the streets when it happened this summer. I call on every

American of good will to denounce this violence against our nation’s Capitol now.

May the Prince of Peace put an end to this strife, and bring healing and constructive criticism in the place of mob rule. And may God bless America.

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Kindergarten students from St. Dunstan School holding stuffed animal versions of new “class pets” the class has sponsored through the “World Wildlife Fund.” From left: Vaquita porpoise; giant panda; African elephant calf; Przewalski horse.

Kindergarteners support endangered wildlife Kindergarten students at St. Dunstan School virtually added a few new animals to the Nativity stable for Advent 2020.

“This year, kindergarten wanted to focus on global issues and world animals, animal conservation, and helping to end harm to animals across the board,” Annamarie Pacheco, kindergarten teacher, told Catholic San Francisco.

Following the students’ new interest and her own love of animals, Pacheco did research on the “World Wildlife Fund.” Before the pandemic kindergartners nurtured “live class pets,” Pacheco said. “This year, it’s a bit different so we sought out wildlife animals we could help.”

The kindergarten class raised $400

The kindergarten class st St. Dunstan School raised $400 to sponsor four endangered animals. The children will get updates on each animal type and how the animals are doing throughout the school year. to sponsor four endangered animals.

The children will get updates on each animal type and how the animals are doing throughout the school year, Pacheco said.

The wildlife sponsored are the Przewalski wild horse faced with habitat loss in Mongolia; the giant panda facing habitat loss in the forests of China; African elephant calf facing poaching threats in sub-Saharan Africa, and the

vaquita porpoise facing illegal fishing practices in Mexico’s Gulf of California.

The school has adapted to the rigors of the pandemic, Pacheco said. Kindergartners number 27 this year.

“We have nine students online and 18 students in person on location at St Dunstan,” Pacheco said. “We are in the gym because we are the biggest in person class. Some other grades are here

with smaller ratios but all teachers are teaching some type of hybrid online and in person.”

Pacheco said she is proud of the archdiocese and St. Dunstan for meeting the pandemic challenges head-on. Pacheco has been a Catholic school teacher for 14 years the last four at St. Dunstan.

Pacheco said school families and parents are supportive and generous helping to ease the crunch of the coronavirus. Pacheco called St. Dunstan’s James Spray “an awesome principal” who is “great to us and our families.”

“This is definitely a different year in teaching,” she said, “but our Catholic values in helping and supporting global issues are still alive and present daily.

I am so happy to be back with all kids both in person and online!”

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the terms of Canon 230, paragraph 2, which allowed for women or men to carry out the functions “by temporary designation.”

In his letter to Cardinal Ladaria, published with the document changing canon law, the pope said that since the Second Vatican Council the church has made “a clearer distinction between the attributes of what today are called ‘nonordained (or lay) ministries’ and ‘ordained ministries,’” such as deacon, priest and bishop.

Those distinctions, he said, make it “possible to dissolve the reservation of the former to men alone.”

Pope Francis repeated St. John Paul II’s teaching that the Catholic Church “in no way has the faculty to confer priestly ordination on women” since Jesus chose only men as his apostles.

But with “nonordained ministries it is possible, and today it seems opportune, to overcome this reservation” of allowing only men to be formally and permanently instituted as lectors and acolytes.

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A lector delivers a reading during Mass at a church in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2014.

Pope Francis ordered a change to the Code of Canon Law so that women may be formally instituted as lectors and acolytes.

The pope’s letter also said the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments would oversee the implementation of the change and would need to modify parts

of the Roman Missal and the rite instituting lectors and acolytes.

The “General Instruction of the Roman Missal” says: “The acolyte is instituted for service at the altar and to assist the priest and deacon. It is his place principally to prepare the altar and the sacred vessels and, if necessary, to distribute the Eucharist to the faithful as an extraordinary minister.”

“The lector is instituted to proclaim the readings from sacred Scripture, with the exception of the Gospel. He may also announce the intentions for the universal prayer and, in the absence of a psalmist, recite the Psalm between the readings,” the instruction says.

The instruction also says that in the absence of persons formally instituted for those roles, any qualified lay person may be assigned those roles.

Pope Francis’ document and his letter to Cardinal Ladaria frame the question in the context of the gifts and talents given by the Holy Spirit “through the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist” to all members of the church so that they can contribute

“to the building up of the church and to the proclamation of the Gospel to every creature.”

And, he said, quoting his 2020 apostolic exhortation, “Querida Amazonia,” a formal, public installation of women in those ministries “would also allow women to have a real and effective impact on the organization, the most important decisions and the direction of communities, while continuing to do so in a way that reflects their womanhood.”

“The priesthood of the baptized and service to the community represent the two pillars on which the institution of ministries is based,” the pope said.

The change, he said, recognizes the service already carried out by many women, but will also emphasize for men preparing for priesthood – who also are formally instituted as lectors and acolytes – that those ministries “are rooted in the sacrament of baptism and confirmation” that they all share and that the ordained priesthood and the priesthood of the baptized always should work together for the good of the entire church community.

Archdiocese shines spotlight on human trafficking CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Did you know that California is one of the top four states in the nation for human trafficking according to the FBI? The Bay Area is in fact, a national hotspot for the crime.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is hoping to open the eyes and hearts of Catholics to signs of this insidious crime with a four-part Zoom discussion series starting Jan. 27. Susan Patterson, author of “How You Can Fight Human Trafficking; Over 100 Ways To Make a Difference” will offer an overview of human trafficking in this first session and explain how faith communities can work to eradicate this form of human suffering.

“It’s a clear respect life issue,” Maria Martinez-Mont, respect life coordinator for the archdiocese’s Office of Human Life & Dignity told Catholic San Francisco.

A member of the national Coalition of Catholic Organizations Against Human Trafficking, the office organized the

local educational series to dovetail with National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month in January, she said.

The full series will include a Zoom rosary prayer meeting on Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita and the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking. St. Josephine is believed to have been a child victim of human trafficking herself.

On Feb. 25, speakers Lisa Lungren and Grace Williams will address the fight against child sex trafficking. Lungren represents the U.S. bishops and Williams is the founder of Children of the Immaculate Heart, a San Diego-based housing and rehabilitation center for sex trafficking survivors and their children. On March 9, Lungren will focus on how parishes can play a key role within dioceses in the fight against human trafficking.

Human trafficking is among the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprises and is estimated to be a $150 billion-a-year global industry, according to the California Dept. of Justice.

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The crime involves controlling a person or group through force, fraud, or coercion into forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both. The International Labor Organization estimates that there are more than 24.9 million human trafficking victims worldwide at any time.

This includes 16 million victims of labor exploitation, 4.8 million victims of sexual exploitation, and 4.1 million victims of state imposed forced labor. The victims of human trafficking are often young girls and women. Young girls and women are 57.6% of forced labor victims and 99.4% of sex trafficking victims.

In recent years, transnational criminal organizations and affiliated domestic gangs have expanded from drug and firearm trafficking to the trafficking of human beings. California – a populous border state with a significant immigrant population and the world’s fifth largest economy – is one of the nation’s top destination states for trafficking human beings.

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“When children are trafficked, their right to develop in a nurturing and loving environment is stolen from them,” it reads.

The page also offers a bounty of educational resources including indicators of child trafficking, California human trafficking legislation, an anti-trafficking toolkit for parishes from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and a National Human Trafficking Hotline.

Throughout the month of January, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, an international Christian nonprofit dedicated to bringing an end to sex trafficking is holding a “30 Days of Prayer” campaign. Participants can join Shared Hope International’s prayer campaign any time throughout the month at sharedhope.org and will receive by email a daily focused prayer, scripture and an action item. The campaign culiminates on the National Day of Prayer to End Child Sex Trafficking on Jan. 31.

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Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., take part in a joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 election results at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021.

Pelosi cites Epiphany, St. Francis as House confirms Biden win MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referenced the Epiphany, St. Francis of Assisi, and also uttered a prayer as the House of Representatives reconvened the night of Jan. 6 to confirm the Electoral College win of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the November presidential election.

The count had been interrupted by hundreds of marauders who breached the Capitol that afternoon, bringing the count to a halt.

“Today, Jan. 6, is the feast of the Epiphany,” when the Christ Child was first revealed as a human beyond Mary and St. Joseph, Pelosi, D-California, said. “On this day of revelation, let us pray that this instigation to violence will provide an epiphany for our country to heal.”

“In that spirit of healing, I evoke the song of St. Francis. I usually do.

St. Francis is the patron saint of my city of San Francisco, and song of St. Francis is our anthem: ‘Lord, make me a channel of thy peace. Where there is darkness, may you bring light. Where

there is hatred, let us bring love. Where there is despair, let us bring hope.’”

Later, near the end of her remarks, Pelosi, who is Catholic, said: “So on this holy day of Epiphany, let us pray.

I’m a big believer in prayer. Let us pray that there will be peace on earth and that it will begin with us. Let us pray that God will continue to bless America with that.”

Reaction by Catholic leaders to the Capitol breach – the most serious since the British burned down the building in 1814 during the War of 1812 – was swift.

“I join my brother U.S. bishops in condemning the violence we witnessed today in our nation’s capital and condemning the events and rhetoric leading to the mob violence,” said a Jan. 6 tweet from Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis that was posted on the Twitter feed of the St. Louis Review, the archdiocesan newspaper.

“The Gospel itself is a full-throated and stern warning against mob action,” said a Jan. 6 tweet from Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas.

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Left, U.S. Capitol and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police officers salute the hearse of fallen Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick Jan. 10, 2021. The U.S. Air Force veteran died Jan. 7 after being injured the day before during the breach on Capitol Hill by President Donald Trump supporters. Right, a U.S. Capitol police officer reacts as President Donald Trump protesters storm into the Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021, after a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

Historians: Trump incitement unprecedented TOM TRACY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – There is no example in American history of a U.S. president inciting violence against American institutions or fellow citizens in the manner that President Donald Trump seemingly did on Jan. 6 when an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, according to a historian at The Catholic University of America.

There is, of course, the War of 1812 when British troops burned the White House and attacked the capitol building, but that isn’t an equal comparison for Michael Kimmage, a professor of history who served on the U.S. Department of State Policy Planning staff as a Franklin Fellow from 2014 to 2016.

Kimmage told Catholic News Service that three public speeches on Jan. 6 – from Trump legal adviser Rudy Guliani, Donald Trump Jr. and Trump himself during a rally while the presidential election results were being certified in Congress – seemed to prompt action at the Capitol.

“At least my interpretation of it is that it is fair and in fact necessary to say that the president was inciting violence, but I can’t read his mind. He may have had somewhat different intentions, but it seems very difficult to review the statements made between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and not see some aspect of incitement,” Kimmage said.

The Capitol Hill mob breach resulted in five deaths and dozens of arrests of protesters and trespassers. Police were forced to lock down the Capitol and

evacuate lawmakers and staff as protesters entered and ransacked the property.

Later that day, Trump issued a video statement with a relatively mild admonition calling for peaceable conduct among the demonstrators who stormed Congress, “but there was no forthright call to exit the building or to cease the violent actions that were ongoing, and of course later statements modified that position, but when it was all happening in real time, there wasn’t a genuine call to cease and desist,” Kimmage said.

The professor stressed that there is a “big need to review what happened and to take it all extremely seriously.”

Calls have already been made for Trump’s impeachment amid questions of his fitness to remain in office for another two weeks along with larger questions about the future of the Republican Party and where Trump’s base of most ardent supporters go in 2021 and beyond.

As Kimmage put it: “I think we still don’t know how the story ends.”

He said what happened echoed longstanding features of Trump’s political rhetoric and sensibility, so it was “not a total surprise.” And he added that Trump has a strong base of which he doesn’t expect to “disappear anytime soon regardless of what happens in the next two weeks.”

One thing is certain: “Those images (from the day) are going to attach themselves and become an iconic symbol of the Trump presidency and that will be stomach-turning for many Americans,” he said, adding that what occurred inflicted historic wounds to the mystique

and aura of American democracy and stability around the world.

“That mystique was sort of undermined in the way the Capitol building was sort of easy to penetrate,” Kimmage said. “It was sort of like the curtain was drawn back and what you see is something much smaller, much weaker and more fragile than what you thought a day or two ago, and that is a very damaging thing in politics.”

The post-presidential Trump presents a very perplexing situation as with many aspects of the Trump presidency that are unconventional, unusual, novel,” Kimmage added.

“This too will be a very novel postpresidency, a very strange and unusual moment. “It is difficult for me to imagine Trump would be invited or that he would want to appear on a stage, podium or in a church with other former presidents who anathematized him.”

Another historian, John Spurlock, a professor at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, told CNS that the Jan. 6 events showed that Trump has freely ignored and violated norms of democratic leadership “and as he has continually done so with no real repercussions, he has become bolder.”

He said the physical violence that happened goes along with the larger violence Trump “has committed by not exercising real leadership and conceding his election had lost, and then pushing his claim that the election was stolen by fraud. None of his legal challenges produced any evidence of fraud because there was none,” Spurlock said.

He also pointed out that 2020 was

not the first time the nation has faced election chaos, noting the 1876 election in which voter fraud was rampant in both the North and South, and states sent competing slates of electors to the Congress.

“The final decision, the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, came from a compromise in Congress more than from adjudication of the legitimacy of votes,” he said. “This led to the Electoral Act of 1877 that set procedures for finalizing vote tallies.”

And in the 19th century, violence often took place around elections. During the Reconstruction after the Civil War, this could have led to armed conflict, he said. “In the South, this only receded with the disenfranchisement of Black voters in many southern states late in the century. But the vote tallies and election of electors has always been a prerogative of state legislatures and today states assign electors by the popular vote in the various states.”

Both Kimmage and Spurlock believe the Trump movement isn’t destined to go away completely, but it is bound to diminish without Trump’s access to the bully pulpit and the presidency.

Moreover, without Trump, the movement would probably lack much of its energy and many Trump voters just won’t turn out to vote if Trump is not on the ballot, according to Spurlock.

“And, likely if he is on the ballot, many people who voted against him in 2020 will vote against him again.

So, short takes: Trumpism won’t win nationally without Trump. And maybe it will not even win with him.”

Impeachment article cites Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment, charging President Donald Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in a riot at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.

The introduction Jan. 11 sets the stage for a vote from the House of Representatives in the coming days.

If passed, Trump would be the first president to be impeached twice.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said a vote would be taken if Vice President Mike Pence does not seek to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment

by Jan. 13.

The introduction occurred during a brief pro-forma session. Pelosi and other Democrats have said the move was necessary to hold Trump accountable for his actions and to prevent the possibility of further damage to democracy.

“Sadly, the person who’s running the executive branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States,” Pelosi said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Jan. 10. She added that “he has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him.”

During the morning session, Democrats also attempted to pass by unanimous consent a second resolution urging Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to relieve Trump of his duties until his term ends Jan. 20. However, Rep. Alex Mooney, R-West Virginia, objected to the measure, ending such a step.

The resolution to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment said the attack on the Capitol by proTrump demonstrators was the work of an “insurrectionary mob.” The rioters threatened the safety and lives of Pence, Pelosi and the president pro tempore of the Senate, the first three individuals in the line of succession to the presidency. The rioters were recorded chanting ‘‘Hang Mike Pence’’ and ‘‘Where’s Nancy’’

when President Donald J. Trump tweeted to his supporters that ‘‘Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country’’ after the Capitol had been overrun and the vice president was in hiding, the resolution states.

The mob attacked police, terrorized members, their families and staff, occupied the Senate chamber and the speaker’s office, vandalized and pilfered government property and interfered with the counting of electoral votes in the joint session of Congress. The disruption was “a dangerous and destabilizing impairment of the peaceful transfer of power that these insurrectionary riots were explicitly designed to cause,” the resolution states.

Five people died in the attack, including Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Phillips. More SEE IMPEACHMENT, PAGE 12

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What Democrats’ Georgia wins mean for Senate’s future, Biden agenda MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The wins by Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, both Democrats, in the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia will give Democrats the White House and both houses of Congress.

But precisely how that will play out is far less clear, noted three professors at different Catholic universities in Washington.

Joe Biden’s Electoral College win and popular vote over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump was the most clear-cut, despite two months of baseless complaints by Trump and his allies claiming the election was rigged. But Democrats’ advantage in the House dwindled by double digits to their current 11seat advantage, 222-211, with two vacancies.

And while the Democrats picked up seats in the Senate, it took the Ossoff and Rev. Warnock wins for the party just to reach a 50-50 split with the GOP – which includes two independents who caucus with the Democrats. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, in her role as Senate president, can cast a 51st vote in case of party-line splits on bills.

“Here and now, I think it means a lot, even though people would discount that in terms of saying, ‘Well, you’re still going to have the filibuster. You’re still in all likelihood going to need 60 votes to pass legislation,’” said John K. White, professor of politics at The Catholic University of America.

White noted the filibuster today is actually the threat of a filibuster. “Now, we assume the filibuster is there for anything. Maybe one reform is to say if there’s a filibuster, you have to use it. You have to actually filibuster, you have to talk to block legislation and to assume that every single vote is subject to a filibuster,” he said. That change in Senate rules – if adopted, he added – could result in more bills being passed.

“It’ll be different, because it’ll be different people” running the Senate and wielding committee-chair

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Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen in this combination photo.

gavels, said Hans Noel, an associate professor in Georgetown University’s Department of Government.

“I think (soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader Mitch) McConnell has been particularly difficult to make things move forward. Other leaders have not been as resistant to having things reach the floor. The speaker is always doing what they think the caucus wants him to do. The Democrats want to see things get voted on that the Republicans don’t want to see voted on,” Noel said.

But there will be “more power-sharing in general” due to the 50-50 split between the parties – the first time that’s happened since 2001, he added.

James Stocker, assistant professor of international affairs and director of the Trinity Global Leadership Initiative at Trinity Washington University, pointed to a wild card of across-the-aisle comity. “A big unknown factor is the attack on the Capitol” Jan. 6, he said.

The rampage following a pro-Trump rally earlier that day saw senators from both parties being hustled away to secure locations by overwhelmed security details. “It had a unifying effect. That has the potential

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to have some interparty cooperation in the first month of the new administration,” Stocker said. “But it’s not certain how likely it will last.”

How that plays out in terms of the Senate going along with the agenda Biden laid out during the campaign remains to be seen.

White said voters want to see bipartisanship. “The kind of behavior that the (Republican) Party exhibited – the outright opposition to anything that Barack Obama proposed – is not what voters want right now.

It cost the party in Georgia significantly in the suburbs.”

He added, “Voters do want to see results” on such issues as the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, rural broadband, education and climate. “I think it has more impact than making McConnell the minority leader and (Sen. Chuck) Schumer (D-New York) the majority leader,” White said.

“There will still be obstruction on things,” Noel said, so the prospects, for example, of the District of Columbia becoming the 51st state are small.

He added that there will be “a number of issues where moderate Republicans will work with Democrats and you’ll have Democrats willing to bring those to the floor,” although Noel did not specify any issue.

He said many speculate that Sen. Joe Manchin, (DWest Virginia), could be a thorn in his party’s side, as he wants to maintain the filibuster and leans moderate to conservative on many issues. “But that’s true only to the extent that there are no swing Republicans,” naming Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine as two who “could make up for a Manchin or some other moderate defection.”

Stocker said much will depend on what the Biden administration decides are priorities: “There are lot of things the Biden administration would like to accomplish. Take for instance health care – creating a public option, I think that is a priority for the administration.

I would be very surprised if there weren’t some proposal on that forthcoming. How far will it get? That’s a big question.”

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Nine Sisters of St. Joseph die in COVID-19 outbreak in New York MIKE MATVEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ALBANY, N.Y. – As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise in the United States, the pandemic has taken a terrible toll on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Latham. In December, nine sisters there died of COVID-19 as nearly half of the residents became infected during an outbreak at the provincial house that has affected 47 sisters and 26 employees since October.

“Like all members of our global community, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet have been struggling with the tragic consequences of COVID-19. We are mourning the loss of nine beloved sisters to this awful disease,” said St Joseph Sister Joan Mary Hartigan, director of the order’s Albany Province.

In a statement to The Evangelist, diocesan newspaper of Albany, Sister Joan Mary said of the 47 sisters, most have recovered, but three sisters at the provincial house are being treated by their personal physicians for the virus. The nine sisters who died ranged in age from 84 to 98. Twenty-one employees who tested positive have recovered while five staff members are quarantining at home.

She said the home is following all guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New York State Department of Health “to limit the spread of the virus to the greatest extent possible, including using appropriate personal protective equipment, quarantining sisters who are COVID-19 positive and prohibiting all public access.”

She added: “We pray the increasing number of cases across our country is temporary, and we mourn the loss not only of our nine sisters but also

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The front entrance to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet’s provincial house in Latham, New York, is seen Jan. 4, 2021.

the loss of all life during this pandemic. We look forward to the vaccine and the end of this worldwide health crisis.”

The Albany Times Union first reported the sisters’ deaths Dec 30.

The order’s provincial house in Latham, seven miles from Albany, is the headquarters of the Albany Province and home to 114 sisters; many are retired and in need of long-term care.

Since Thanksgiving, cases have skyrocketed across the country and in upstate New York. And with the recently celebrated Christmas and New Year’s holidays, many fear the worst is yet to come

in January. The positivity rate, based on a seven-day average, which has been as high as 12.4% in Albany County, currently is 10.5% and 10.8% in Schenectady County, according to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard.

“All of us at the Diocese of Albany are praying for the sisters during this challenging time,” said Mary DeTurris Poust, director of communications for the Diocese of Albany. “In addition to the loss of so many beloved sisters who served others so selflessly for decades, there is the added difficulty of not being able to celebrate their lives as a community due to COVID restrictions. As for so many people who have lost loved ones in recent months, the already difficult task of grieving is made even more difficult by isolation and lack of closure.”

The recent rise in infections and deaths is all the more unsettling when you take into account the stringent procedures the sisters have had in place since the pandemic started such as ending public access and visits to the provincial house, including from other sisters, and canceling events, meetings and programs.

The sisters’ deaths follow the COVID-19 deaths of eight sisters in mid-December in Milwaukee who had been living at the facility Notre Dame of Elm Grove.

Much like with the Sisters of St. Joseph, the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, who are based in St. Louis and care for the sisters in the Wisconsin health facility learned of a positive case within the community around Thanksgiving. The first death reportedly happened Dec. 9, but the deadliest day came Dec. 14 when four sisters died. Many of these sisters had been teachers.

Fired EWTN host: ‘I will never, ever, ever have regrets’ talking about race MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Gloria Purvis, who was told after the Dec. 30 broadcast of the EWTN radio show “Morning Glory” that the show was canceled effective immediately, said she has no regrets using the show to discuss racial matters following the police killing of George Floyd last May. “I will never, ever, ever have regrets for shining the light of the Gospel on a situation that was surrounded by darkness,” Purvis told Catholic News Service in a Dec. 31 phone interview.

Purvis, along with her co-host, Deacon Harold BurkeSivers, are Black.

In late June, EWTN’s largest affiliate, the Guadalupe Radio Network, pulled “Morning Glory” from its stations, and the show never returned.

“If I say that I believe in the Gospel, I just don’t feel I can regret being faithful to him by spreading his truth in something that’s a national conversation that seems to be rooted in the Gospel,” Purvis said, “and they always are made as mere political issues when we as believers should be turning to the dignity of the human person and teach what the church says about racism.”

Purvis said when she was given word of the cancella-

tion by Jack Williams, EWTN Radio’s general manager, she was given no reason – nor, she added, had she ever been given any indication that things were amiss or that the show’s performance was not up to expectations.

In fact, according to Purvis, “that was the first time I talked to Jack – or Jack talked to me – in months.”

EWTN had pulled down all material pertaining to “Morning Glory” from its website, but restored it after other contributors – including comedy writer Jeannie Gaffigan – told EWTN to pull their own content as well unless “Morning Glory” content was restored.

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Jesuit priest will deliver invocation at Biden’s presidential inauguration CAROL ZIMMERMAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Leo O’Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden Jan. 20.

The priest, a friend of the Biden family, was the main celebrant at the funeral Mass for Biden’s son Beau in 2015 at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Wilmington, Delaware.

He confirmed with National Catholic Reporter Jan. 6 that he would be delivering the invocation, saying Biden had personally called him and invited him, which he accepted.

This year’s scaled-back public inauguration ceremony, due to the pandemic, will take place on the west side of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, a site taken over Jan. 6 by rioters contesting the certification of the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump announced Jan. 8 that he would not attend the ceremony.

In leading the prayer of blessing, Father O’Donovan, who is currently director of mission for Jesuit Refugee Service, will follow the footsteps of his predecessor at Georgetown, Jesuit Father Timothy Healy, who offered a prayer during the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

The tradition of invocations at presidential inaugurations goes back to 1937 and Catholic leaders have been in this role for several presidents. The Southern Baptist minister, Rev. Billy Graham, offered this prayer for presidents Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

In 1961, when John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the first Catholic president,

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President-elect Joe Biden receives his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, Jan. 11, 2021.

Boston Cardinal Richard J. Cushing delivered the invocation, which said in part: “Strengthen our resolve, oh Lord, to transform this recognition of others into a principle of cooperation. Inspire us to practice this principle of cooperation both in ideal and action in these most dangerous, but soul-stretching times.”

Four years later, Archbishop Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio gave the invocation at President Lyndon B. Johnson’s inauguration.

His prayer included a description of the time saying: “In these days of tragedy and crisis all that we hold dear is challenged – belief in God, respect for human responsibility, honor, integrity,

BISHOPS CALL FOR AN END TO THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY

WASHINGTON – A joint statement from two U.S. bishops who head different committees of the U.S. bishops called for an end to the federal use of the death penalty as “long past time. We renew our constant call to President (Donald) Trump and Acting Attorney General (Jeffrey) Rosen: Stop these executions,” said the Jan. 11 statement from Archbishops Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

“Following a year where the federal government, for the first time, executed more people than all 50 states combined, there are three more federal executions scheduled this week,” the two archbishops said.

Federal executions resumed last year after a 17-year reprieve. Archbishops Coakley and Naumann also called on President-elect Joe Biden and Congress to “make

and every freedom of the human spirit.

All these are at stake and our country, champion of truth and justice, must lead the nations of the world to the dawn of a brighter hope.”

He also prayed that God would “make clear to our president the path of honor and of peace, the path of freedom and justice, the path of brotherhood and truth.”

Twenty years later, in 1985, Father Healy who was then Georgetown University’s president, delivered the invocation at Reagan’s inauguration, urging the crowd to join him in saying the Our Father.

A Catholic leader didn’t lead say a prayer at another presidential inau-

this a priority. One vehicle to accomplish this in federal law is the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act. In addition, we ask President-elect Biden to declare a moratorium on federal executions and to commute current federal death sentences to terms of imprisonment. It is long past time to abolish the death penalty from our state and federal laws,” they said.

In a Jan. 11 letter to federal lawmakers, the bishops \ noted that when Pope Francis addressed a Joint Meeting of Congress in 2015, he called for a global abolition of the death penalty.

Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI also called for an end to the death penalty in the United States and around the world, the bishops added.

More than 170 people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death only later to be exonerated, the bishops said.

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guration until 2017 when New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan was one of several religious leaders at Trump’s inauguration ceremony. The cardinal read a brief passage from the Book of Wisdom which said: “Give us wisdom, for we are your servants, weak and short lived, lacking in comprehension of judgment and of laws ... Indeed, though one might be perfect among mortals, if wisdom, which comes from you, be lacking, we count for nothing.”

Most of the details for this year’s inauguration ceremony have not yet been announced, except for changes to the usual routine. Instead of a traditional parade and inaugural balls, the inaugural committee will host a virtual parade, which is expected to be similar to the virtual Democratic National Convention featuring Americans across the country along with musical acts and poets paying tribute to frontline workers during the pandemic.

The ceremony also will not include an inaugural luncheon at Statuary Hall in the Capitol, a tradition that dates back to 1897.

The inauguration committee plans to host a memorial tribute to those who lost their lives to COVID-19 in a lighting ceremony around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool the day before the inauguration ceremony and members of the inauguration committee will take part in the National Day of Service on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Invitations to the inauguration will only be given to members of Congress and one guest. Former presidents and vice presidents, governors, Supreme Court justices and other high-ranking government officials also will be allowed to attend, according to the congressional committee.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time 1 SAMUEL 3:3B-10, 19 Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.” “I did not call you,” Eli said. “Go back to sleep.”

So he went back to sleep. Again, the Lord called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said.

“You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep.” At that time Samuel was not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am. You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the Lord came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!”

Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.

PSALM 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me.

Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:13C-15A, 17-20 Brothers and sisters: The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one Spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the

‘Here I am, Lord. I come to do your will’

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n the first reading, we read about Samuel. He was only a child when he first heard God calling him, and he did not understand who was calling his name. It was the elderly priest, Eli, who realized the Lord was calling Samuel and instructed the young Samuel on how to answer the call from God. In the Gospel, we hear about the first apostles called by Jesus to follow him. Just as Eli helped Samuel respond to God’s call, John the Baptist helped John and Andrew respond to Jesus’ invitation.

Although Andrew is certainly not the least-known of the apostles, our knowledge of him is very scant. His name appears in the New Testament only 12 times, and most of those accounts do not tell us anything DEACON that Andrew said or did – just FAIVA PO’OI that he was one of the 12. From this Gospel account, however, we learn that Andrew was originally a disciple of John the Baptist. We also learn that when John the Baptist pointed Jesus out to his disciples and said, “Look. There is the Lamb of God,” Andrew immediately followed Jesus. As far as we know, Andrew was the first of the 12 apostles. Jesus began his public ministry by calling to himself a very ordinary man.

To most of us, that should be an encouraging insight.

Andrew was not a giant or a genius. He was not a brilliant theologian nor was he an eloquent orator. He was just a fisherman, a very ordinary man. Yet Jesus had a primary place for Andrew among his followers and chose to begin his public ministry by making Andrew his disciple.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

Wherever did we get the notion that in order to serve Christ and meet the needs of people we must do the big and impressive thing? Perhaps our sense of values is a little confused. Perhaps our sense of values is completely off-balance!

If we could look into the Lord’s storehouse of valuables, we would probably be surprised at the insignificance of the things we would see. There, for example, we would find two pennies, once belonging to a poor widow. Those coins were all that she had, but she gave them away – to the poor! And Jesus held her up as an eternal example of stewardship. He said, “She has given more than all the rest.” We would also find a peasant boy’s lunch, consisting of five barley cakes and two small fish. Finally, there would be a cup of water, and underneath would be inscribed these words: “Even a cup of cold water given in my name will not lose its reward.” Jesus always seemed to glory in ordinary things and ordinary people.

Three times in the New Testament we see Andrew in action, and each time he is helping someone. In this Gospel we read about the first time: Andrew brings his brother, Simon, to meet Jesus. The second time will be when Andrew befriends a boy with barley loaves and two fish and brings him to meet Jesus. The third time will be when Andrew reaches across racial boundaries to help a group of Greeks see Jesus. This was Andrew – always doing the simple and seemingly insignificant task but always with an extraordinary spirit.

As we enter into the season of Ordinary Time, we, too, are invited by the Lord Jesus. He invites us to “come and see” and to follow in his footsteps. May the holy Eucharist and the grace of God help each of us to hear God’s call and to respond – as did young Samuel – with the words, “Here I am, Lord. I come to do your will.”

DEACON FAIVA PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

POPE FRANCIS POPE: LIKE THE MAGI, LOOK TO THE HEAVENS FOR HOPE

VATICAN CITY – In times of doubt and suffering, Christians must not focus on their problems, but instead lift up their eyes to God, who leads them toward the hopeful promise of great things to come, Pope Francis said on the feast of the Epiphany.

“This does not mean denying reality, or deluding ourselves into thinking that all is well. Rather, it is a matter of viewing problems and anxieties in a new way, knowing that the Lord is aware of our troubles, attentive to our prayers and not indifferent to the tears we shed,” the pope said.

The pope celebrated Mass with a little over 100

people, all wearing masks and seated socially distanced from each other, at the Altar of the Chair St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 6. In accordance with an ancient tradition, after the proclamation of the Gospel on Epiphany, a singer from the Sistine Choir chanted the announcement of the date of Easter 2021 (April 4) and the dates of other feasts on the church calendar that are calculated according to the date of Easter. After celebrating Mass, the pope prayed the Angelus in the library of the Apostolic Palace.

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body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.

JOHN 1:35-42 John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” – which translated means Teacher –, “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So, they went and saw where Jesus was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” – which is translated Christ –.

Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” – which is translated Peter.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JANUARY 18: Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 5:1-10. Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4. Heb 4:12. Mk 2:18-22.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19: Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 6:10-20. PS 111:1-2, 4-5, 9 and 10c. See Eph 1:17-18. Mk 2:23-28.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20: Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Fabian, pope and martyr; St. Sebastian, martyr. Heb 7:1-3, 15-17. PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4. See Mt 4:23. Mk 3:1-6.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21: Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr. Heb 7:25—8:6. PS 40:78a, 8b-9, 10, 17. See 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 3:7-12.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. Heb 8:6-13.

PS 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14. Mk 3:13-19.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23: Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon & martyr; St. Marianne Cope. Heb 9:2-3, 11-14. PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. See Acts 16:14b. Mk 3:20-21.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 24: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jon 3:1-5, 10. Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 1 Cor 7:29-31. Mk 1:15. Mk 1:14-20.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. See Jn 15:16. Mk 16:1518.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26: Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops. 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:15. PS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10. See Mt 11:25. Mk 3:31-35.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27: Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin. Heb 10:11-18. PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4. Mk 4:1-20.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28: Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor. Heb 10:1925. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Ps 119:105. Mk 4:2125.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29: Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 10:32-39. Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40. See Mt 11:25. Mk 4:26-34.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30: Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 11:1-2, 8-19. Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. Jn 3:16. Mk 4:35-41.

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What is your practice?

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oday, the common question in spiritual circles is not, “What is your church or your religion?” But “what is your practice?”

What is your practice? What is your particular explicit prayer practice? Is it Christian? Buddhist? Islamic?

Secular? Do you meditate? Do you do centering prayer? Do you practice mindfulness? For how long do you do this each day?

These are good questions and the prayer practices they refer to are good practices; but I take issue with one thing. The tendency here is to identify the FATHER RON essence of one’s discipleship ROLHEISER and religious observance with a single explicit prayer practice, and that can be reductionist and simplistic. Discipleship is about more than one prayer practice.

A friend of mine shares this story. He was at a spirituality gathering where the question most asked of everyone was this: What is your practice? One woman replied, “My practice is raising my kids!” She may have meant it in jest, but her quip contains an insight that can serve as an important corrective to the tendency to identify the essence of one’s discipleship with a single explicit prayer practice.

Monks have secrets worth knowing. One of these is the truth that for any single prayer practice to be transformative it must be embedded in a larger set of practices, a much larger “monastic routine,” which commits one to a lot more than a single prayer prac-

tice. For a monk, each prayer practice is embedded inside a monastic routine and that routine, rather than any one single prayer practice, becomes the monk’s practice. Further still, that monastic routine, to have real value, must be itself predicated on fidelity to one’s vows.

Hence, the question “what is your practice?” is a good one if it refers to more than just a single explicit prayer practice. It must also ask whether you are keeping the commandments. Are you faithful to your vows and commitments? Are you raising your kids well? Are you staying within Christian community?

Do you reach out to the poor? And, yes, do you have some regular, explicit, habitual prayer practice?

What is my own practice?

I lean heavily on regularity and ritual, on a “monastic routine.” Here is my normal routine: Each morning I pray the Liturgy of the Hours (usually in community). Then, before going to my office, I read a spiritual book for at least 20 minutes. At noon, I participate in the Eucharist, and sometime during the day, I go for a long walk and pray for an hour (mostly using the rosary as a mantra and praying for a lot of people by name). On days when I do not take a walk, I sit in meditation or centering prayer for about 15 minutes. Each evening, I pray vespers (again, usually in community). Once a week, I spend the evening writing a column on some aspect of spirituality. Once a month I celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation, always with the same confessor; and, when possible, I try to carve out a week each year to do a retreat.

My practice survives on routine, rhythm, and ritual.

These hold me and keep me inside my discipleship and my vows. They hold me more than I hold them.

No matter how busy I am, no matter how distracted I

am, and no matter whether or not I feel like praying on any given day, these rituals draw me into prayer and fidelity.

To be a disciple is to put yourself under a discipline.

Thus, the bigger part of my practice is my ministry and the chronic discipline this demands of me. Full disclosure, ministry is often more stimulating than prayer; but it also demands more of you and, if done in fidelity, can be powerfully transformative in terms of bringing you to maturity and altruism.

Carlo Carretto, the renowned spiritual writer, spent much of his adult life in the Sahara Desert, living in solitude as a monk, spending many hours in formal prayer. However, after years of solitude and prayer in the desert, he went to visit his aging mother who had dedicated many years of her life to raising children, leaving little time for formal prayer. Visiting her, he realized something, namely, his mother was more of a contemplative than he was! To his credit, Carretto drew the right lesson: There was nothing wrong with what he had been doing in the solitude of the desert for all those years, but there was something very right in what his mother had been doing in the busy bustle of raising children for so many years. Her life was its own monastery. Her practice was “raising kids.”

I have always loved this line from Robert Lax: “The task in life is not so much finding a path in the woods as of finding a rhythm to walk in.” Perhaps your rhythm is “monastic,” perhaps “domestic.” An explicit prayer practice is very important as a religious practice, but so too are our duties of state.

OBLATE FATHER RON ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

A final requiem for an extraordinary nun

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020 was a year of monumental losses for the nation’s community of women religious.

Among them was the passing of 88-year-old Oblate Sister of Providence, Mary Reginald Gerdes.

On Sept. 7, Sister Gerdes, a former leader of Baltimore’s St. Frances Academy, the nation’s oldest historically Black Catholic school, and longestserving archivist of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, died of heart failure at her order’s motherhouse in Arbutus, Maryland.

In a racially and economically tumultuous year that SHANNEN saw a significant rise in calls DEE WILLIAMS for the church to acknowledge and make reparations for its largely unreconciled practices of slavery and segregation, the loss of Sister Gerdes, and her expertise in African American Catholic history, was especially wrenching.

That is, of course, for those who knew Sister Gerdes’ story and all that she did to recover, preserve and disseminate the history of the church’s Black faithful and their widely overlooked roles in the making of U.S. Catholicism.

Born Althea Mary Gerdes on Sept. 3, 1932, Sister Mary Reginald was a proud member of New Orleans’ longstanding Afro-Creole and Black Catholic communities. Her mother, Elmira (née Raymond) Gerdes was a homemaker, and her father Louis Gerdes owned a roofing company that served Black and white households and businesses in the Crescent City’s famed French Quarter.

As a member of one of New Orleans’ largest Black Catholic parishes, Corpus Christi, and a pupil of historically white Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for elementary and high school, Sister Gerdes grew up in a vibrant community of faithfulness and was shielded from the most dehumanizing humiliations forced upon Black faithful in their racially segregated church for much of her childhood.

Nonetheless, her journey, like most Black Catholics who came of age during the civil rights and Black power eras, would not be free from struggle against segregation and exclusion.

In 1952, Sister Gerdes opted to leave New Orleans

As we move into the new year confronted with the enduring challenges of racism buttressed by miseducation and misinformation, I cannot help but to consider how much more difficult the fight ahead would be without the intellectual and archival activism of Sister Gerdes. and enter the historically Black Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore. Three decades earlier, her aunt, Mother Martin (Cecile) Lalonier, in response to the exclusionary admissions policies of local white sisterhoods and deep South segregation had done the same.

Over the next 30 years, Sister Gerdes, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Marillac College and master’s degree in education from Duke University, became a well-respected biology teacher, school leader and champion of Black freedom and educational excellence.

During the civil rights movement, she participated in local desegregation campaigns while stationed at her order’s Immaculate Conception School in Charleston, South Carolina.

In the 1970s, Sister Gerdes with the support of a diversity of sisters, OSP alumni and state officials played a leading role in helping to reopen and secure the financial future of Baltimore’s St. Frances Academy, her order’s first school, which had closed in 1972 due to desegregation and lack of archdiocesan support.

After retiring from teaching and school administration in the 1980s, Sister Gerdes began her “second career” as her order’s full-time archivist, where she undertook a monumental campaign to organize the OSP’s invaluable repository of records, collect oral histories and research the life of her community’s foundress, Mother Mary Lange, in support of her canonization cause.

In 1988, Sister Gerdes published a seminal article in the “U.S. Catholic Historian,” documenting her order’s pioneering role in founding Black Catholic

schools during slavery and in the immediate decades following emancipation when much of the former slaveholding church abandoned the Black Catholic community.

Sister Gerdes also taught African American heritage at the Community College of Baltimore County, wrote a regular Black history column for The Catholic Review, and joined the Maryland Humanities Speaker’s Bureau, offering dynamic lectures on the experiences of Black nuns in the U.S. slave society across the state.

While Sister Gerdes’s name may not be as recognizable as that of the late Father Cyprian Davis, the church’s most prolific historian of the Black Catholic experience, or the late Father Peter Hogan, the longtime administrator of the Josephite Archives in Baltimore, she was undoubtedly one of the church’s most important archivists and chroniclers of the American Catholic experience in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Like so many members of her congregation, who pioneered the teaching of Black and Black Catholic history in the U.S. church, Sister Gerdes understood that the history of Black nuns and the larger Black Catholic community fundamentally mattered. Moreover, her herculean efforts in organizing and safeguarding her congregation’s archive made it possible for scores of academic and independent researchers to unlock countless secrets about the American Catholic past documented in their records.

As we move into the new year confronted with the enduring challenges of racism buttressed by miseducation and misinformation, I cannot help but to consider how much more difficult the fight ahead would be without the intellectual and archival activism of Sister Gerdes.

In the face of scholarly silence, erasure and outright lies about her order and the wider African American Catholic community, she chose to fight back with historical truth telling, education and unwavering grace.

And for that and so much more, the church should be forever grateful.

SHANNEN DEE WILLIAMS is the Albert Lepage assistant professor of history at Villanova University and author of the Catholic News Service column, “The Griot’s Cross.” She is completing her first book, “Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle.” Follow her on Twitter at @Blknunhistorian.

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Assault on Capitol shocks world CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – The breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 sent shock waves around the world.

As Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops’ conference tweeted: “I didn’t realize just how much the integrity of and respect for the democratic institutions of the U.S. matter to the rest of the world until this pandemonium erupted in D.C. From the other side of the world, I find myself shaken and disbelieving.”

“Washington: Democracy wounded” read the large headline on the front page of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 7. In smaller type, it explained that Congress reconvened to certify the presidential election of Joe Biden “after the violent assault committed by supporters of Trump and during which four people died.”

Under the headline, “A fragile good,” the newspaper’s assistant director, Giuseppe Fiorentino, wrote that the assault on the Capitol shows that “politics cannot ignore individual responsibility, especially on the part of the person who is in power and is able – through a polarizing narrative – to mobilize thousands of people. ‘He who sows the wind reaps the storm’ and at this point it is easy to tie the events in Washington to the accusations of fraud launched by Trump after the voting Nov. 3, accusations that never found objective confirmation.”

But the key lesson, Fiorentino wrote, is what Joe Biden said when he addressed the nation during the siege: “Democracy is a fragile commodity that must

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A sign in Italian reads, “Donald Tramp, you are an embarrassment to democracy,” near the Ponte Sisto bridge in Rome Jan. 7, 2021. always be defended, even in countries, just like the United States, where democracy itself seems a largely acquired commodity.”

“The first step in defending democracy lies in accepting its rules,” he wrote, especially the rule of a peaceful transfer of power.

“Democracy under siege” read the banner headline on the front page of Avvenire, the daily newspaper owned by the Italian bishops’ conference.

In a video commentary, Andrea Lavazza, the paper’s editor-in-chief, said that whether outgoing President Donald Trump stays in office until the Jan. 20 inauguration of Joe Biden or is subjected to a “lightning

impeachment,” the United States will have to grapple with “the heavy, negative heritage Donald Trump will leave behind. He has poisoned the wells of democracy, calling into doubt the results of an election that absolutely does not appear to have been compromised by fraud or conspiracies.”

Vatican News described what occurred as an “assault on Congress.”

Carlos Herrera, a famous morning show host on COPE, the radio network owned by the Spanish bishops’ conference, told his listeners Jan. 7 that he had “to chronicle the unheard of.”

“Who would have thought that one would speak of a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol to try to prevent the ratification of the winner of the presidential election in that country?” he said, calling the breach of the building and the deaths and injuries there “a grotesque end to the era of Donald Trump.”

At the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Romanian Orthodox Father Ioan Sauca, interim general secretary, issued a statement Jan. 6 saying, “The divisive populist politics of recent years have unleashed forces that threaten the foundations of democracy in the United States and – to the extent that it represents an example to other countries – in the wider world.”

“These developments have implications far beyond domestic American politics and are of serious international concern,” he said.

Father Sauca prayed that “the churches of America be empowered with wisdom and strength to provide leadership through this crisis, and on the path of peace, reconciliation and justice.”

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than 50 police officers were seriously injured, including 15 officers who had to be hospitalized, by violent assaults, “and there could easily have been dozens or hundreds more wounded and killed.”

“These insurrectionary protests were widely advertised and broadly encouraged by President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly urged his millions of followers on Twitter and other social media outlets to come to Washington on January 6 to ‘Stop the Steal’ of the 2020 Presidential election and promised his activist followers that the protest on the Electoral College counting day would be ‘wild,’” the resolution says.

Democratic representatives David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Ted Lieu of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland introduced the impeachment article. As of late Jan. 10, more than 200 House members had signed on as co-sponsors.

It cited Trump’s repeated false and unbacked claims that he won the November election. It also referenced his speech to supporters during a Jan. 6 rally near the White House after which participants marched to the Capitol. A large contingent breached security, disrupting the constitutionally directed action to affirm Joe Biden as president and causing members of Congress to go into lockdown.

The impeachment article also described Trump’s Jan. 2 call with the Georgia Republican secretary of state urging the official to “find” enough votes for the president to win the state.

“In all this, President Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of Government,” the resolution says. “He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of Government.

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Pelosi said in a letter to the Democratic caucus Jan. 10 that a vote on the impeachment resolution would be taken if Pence did not invoke the 25th Amendment, indicating a timeline for action in the House.

“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy, we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both,” Pelosi wrote.

“As the days go by, the horror of the ongoing assault on our democracy perpetrated by this President is intensified and so is the immediate need for action.”

A provision of the 25th Amendment allows the vice president to convene the Cabinet to determine the president’s suitability to remain in office. A majority of the Cabinet would be needed to write to Congress stating that the president was unable to carry out the duties of the office. The vice president would then become acting president.

The sitting president can refute the assessment and return to power unless the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet again make another declaration to Congress. Representatives and senators then have 21 days to determine whether to remove the president.

Two-thirds of members of both chambers must agree to the actual removal from office of a sitting president.

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Rome university to honor controversial priest’s pro-life work CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – The Legionaries of Christ university in Rome plans to honor Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, with its “A Life for Life” award.

The bioethics department of the Pontifical Athenaeum Father Frank Regina Apostolorum Pavone announced the award Jan. 7 on the university’s website and said the Switzerlandbased Associazione Sant’Elena Imperatrice (Association of St. Helen the Empress) would provide a monetary prize “to recognize and support Father Pavone’s mission.”

The announcement said Father Pavone, a priest of the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, will receive the award Jan. 25 during an online event.

The award recognizes the priest’s “decades of service in the promotion of a culture of life,” the announcement said. “The event will highlight Father Pavone’s role as founder and director of the Priests for Life organization. In addition, it will recognize his activism in speaking in defense of the unborn.”

In addition to his role at Priests for Life and with the Rachel’s Vineyard

program of retreats for women who regret having had an abortion, Father Pavone has engaged in very public, very controversial election support for President Donald Trump.

Legionaries of Christ Father Gonzalo Miranda, dean of the faculty of bioethics, told Catholic News Service Jan. 11 that members of the faculty considered possible objections to honoring Father Pavone, including the “political questions where people can have different opinions, but that is not what we are rewarding.”

The faculty decided to move ahead because “the award honors a person who has dedicated his life to defending the sacredness of human life,” he said.

As recently as Jan. 8, Father Pavone’s “End Abortion” podcast included a prayer in which he said, “Lord, we acknowledge the blessings you have given us – you are still giving us – through President Donald Trump. We thank you for all the accomplishments. Lord, we pray for our fellow citizens who are so very blind – blind with a capital b – so blind that they do not see the greatest political leader that we’ve ever had.”

“Lord, we pray their eyes would be opened and their hearts will repent.

Lord, we pray for those who embrace the Democrat Party, that they may repent,” he continued. “We pray in reparation for all the damage done to our country, to our values, to our

church, to our faith, to our freedom, to our economy, to our military by those who vote Democrat. Lord God, cleanse their hands of blood because they are ruining our nation.”

“This Democrat Party is sunk deep in evil,” he said.

He had already caused controversy before the November presidential election by using profanity on Twitter and claiming that it would be sinful to vote for Democratic candidates and even appearing to threaten that Democrats who do not repent of their political choice could not receive sacramental absolution.

He tweeted Aug. 15: “I’ll be ready to hear the confessions of those who vote #Democrat, but we are trained that in the absence of repentance, absolution has to be withheld.”

In response, the Diocese of Amarillo posted a statement Sept. 16 saying both his remarks about confession “and the use of scandalous words not becoming of a Catholic priest” are “not consistent with Catholic Church teachings.

Neither the Catholic Church nor the Diocese of Amarillo condone any of these messages. Please disregard them and pray for Father Pavone.”

Before the 2016 election, Father Pavone broadcast live on Facebook an appeal to voters to support Trump over Hillary Clinton. He did so by placing on the altar what he told viewers was the

body of “a baby killed by abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy.”

After sharp criticism, including from his bishop, Father Pavone apologized.

In 2014, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan cut ties with Father Pavone and Priests for Life, saying the priest refused to allow an audit of the group’s finances. At the time, Priests for Life was based in Staten Island, New York.

It has since moved its headquarters to Titusville, Florida.

Father Pavone was ordained a priest of the New York Archdiocese in 1988 but was incardinated into the Amarillo Diocese in 2005 by Bishop John W. Yanta, then head of the diocese, who served on the board of advisers of Priests for Life. In 2011, Bishop Zurek, who succeeded Bishop Yanta, told Father Pavone he was “suspended” from ministry outside the diocese; in 2012, the Vatican Congregation for Clergy upheld Father Pavone’s appeal of the suspension, but said the priest must obtain specific permission from his bishop, Bishop Zurek, to minister outside the diocese.

An official at the Congregation for Catholic Education told Catholic News Service Jan. 11 that while pontifical universities and institutes must check with the Vatican before awarding an honorary doctorate degree, there is no such requirement for the granting of other awards.

Christians lift others up by listening, sharing God’s love, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Christians are called to lead and lift people up by being close to them and sharing God’s love, not by judging them, Pope Francis said.

It is the same way Jesus saves, not with “a supreme decision or a show of force, a decree, no. He saves us by coming to meet us and taking our sins upon himself,” the pope said before praying his Sunday Angelus address Jan. 10, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

Traditionally, the pope would have held his annual celebration of infant baptisms in the Sistine Chapel on the feast day. However, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the children were to be baptized in their home parishes.

The pope tweeted on his @Pontifex account that although he could not

lead the celebration, “I am praying for all the children who at this time are receiving baptism, the Christian identity, the grace of forgiveness and of redemption.”

In his Angelus address, which was livestreamed from the library of the Apostolic Palace, the pope talked about Jesus’ baptism.

Why would Jesus insist on being baptized, which, for St. John the Baptist, had been a penitential rite, an expression of the desire for conversion and the forgiveness of sins, the pope asked. “Jesus surely did not need it,” he added.

“Because he wants to be with the sinners: for this reason he gets in line with them and does the same thing they do” with bare feet and a bare soul – leaving nothing hidden, “to immerse himself in the same condition we are in,” the pope said.

On the first day of his public ministry, Jesus shows his “manifesto” with his baptism, the pope said.

“He tells us that he does not save us from on high, with a supreme decision or a show of force, a decree,” he said.

God conquers the evil of the world “by humbling himself and taking charge of it,” Pope Francis said. “It is also the way that we can lift up others: not by judging, not by suggesting what to do, but by being close, empathizing, sharing God’s love.”

Being close is God’s way, and he is there wherever there is mercy and compassion, he added.

“Jesus becomes the servant of sinners and is proclaimed the Son; he

lowers himself” to be with humanity and the Holy Spirit descends upon him showing that love brings more love, he said.

“It also applies to us: in each act of service, in every work of mercy we perform, God manifests himself and sets his gaze upon the world.”

“Salvation is free. It is a freely given gesture of God’s mercy” and while this is conferred sacramentally through baptism, it is also true that “those who are not baptized always receive God’s mercy because God is there, he waits and waits so they might open the door of their heart.”

God comes close to people and “caresses us with his mercy.”

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To care for the sheep, confront the wolf, says retired Mexican bishop DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SALTILLO, Mexico – In a homily during Advent, retired Bishop Raúl Vera López of Saltillo brought up the burgeoning local wine industry – something of a local success story in his diocese.

“There are people with money, (who) made their riches in politics, and now they’re asking for permits to create wine businesses, and this will require water,” Bishop Vera said. That water would come at the expense of poor farmers, who “need our voice,” the bishop said.

Certain “injustices we cannot accept,” Bishop Vera continued. He also urged “not being lukewarm Christians. Who is lukewarm? Those who are unable to raise their voices in the face of injustices, lies and barbarities.”

The homily was vintage Bishop Vera, who seldom pulls his punches or shies from controversy: not locally, in a state rife with political corruption, nor nationally as he wades into many of Mexico’s thorniest issues.

Bishop Vera turned 75 in June and submitted his resignation to Pope Francis as required by canon law. In November, the pope accepted his resignation. His successor, Bishop Hilario González García of Linares, will be installed in mid-January.

In a socially distanced interview from his parish residence – he contracted COVID-19 in the fall, but has fully recovered – Bishop Vera reflected on his 33 years as a bishop, the pastoral shortcomings of Mexico’s church hierarchy and his willingness to be so outspoken.

“The church teaches, from the Gospel, how we see politics, how we see the economy,” Bishop Vera said when asked of his outspokenness.

“If you propose living the Gospel, you have to attend to everything and you can’t live it partially. I always confronted things. When I had to speak out against violence, I spoke out. And against corruption, I spoke out,” Bishop Vera continued. “The pastor has to care for his sheep and (this) implies confronting the wolf.”

Bishop Vera’s comments have long angered local politicians and elites, who attack him in the media and do not donate to the diocese, according to church officials. In 2014, a displeased group hung a banner in front of the cathedral in Saltillo. It said, “We want a Catholic bishop.”

Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City even came to Saltillo to baptize the child of a former governor at odds with Bishop Vera. A neighboring bishop once banned Bishop Vera from

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Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, a prominent Peruvian liberation theologian, attended the 2012 celebration for Bishop Vera’s 25th anniversary as a bishop. No Mexican bishop attended.

But Bishop Vera’s passionate rants on controversial topics such as corruption, human rights or Mexican violence make national news and offer a rare rebuke from senior clergy, who have tended to stay silent, speak softly or attempt to get along with local leaders.

Observers say Bishop Vera’s departure marks the end of an era in Mexico, that he was the last in a line of socially minded bishops, including Bishops Samuel Ruiz Garcia and Arturo Lona in southern Chiapas and Oaxaca states, respectively. Those bishops focused on Indigenous issues, inequality and poverty.

“He’s the last Mexican bishop of this tradition,” said journalist Emiliano Ruiz Parra, who profiled Bishop Vera in his book “Ovejas Negras” (“Black Sheep”) on rebels in the Mexican church.

Speaking to Catholic News Service, Bishop Vera expressed some sorrow with the postures taken by the bishops’ conference as it shifted to a more conservative direction and sought to get along with the government, especially as the Vatican and Mexico reestablished relations in 1992 after decades of estrangement.

“They started to control the social ministry from the (conference) president’s council,” Bishop Vera told CNS. “There was a lot of collaboration ... because we received many favors from the government. And that led us to keep our mouths shut,” he said. “I’m not speaking of all bishops. I’m speaking of the structure at the time.”

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The council occurred as Bishop Vera was pursuing a degree in chemical engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He was drawn to the priesthood by the Dominicans, who operated an outreach center near the university. His first job in the private sector with a U.S.-owned candy company also influenced him.

He said he saw the company flouting foreign-ownership laws and not sharing profits with workers as required by law. He saw a union not doing its job to protect members.

“I was going to start working with cheating and immoral people,” he recalled.

After joining the Dominicans, Bishop Vera went to work with students and preached on weekends at a Dominican center outside Mexico City. There, he worked with poor farmers, who, he said, “evangelized me.”

“They saw the Gospel in such a clean and clear way, and that surprised me,” he said.

His work took him into some of Mexico’s poorest dioceses: Ciudad Altamirano in Guerrero state and later San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas, where he was coadjutor under Bishop Ruiz.

While Bishop Vera was serving in Chiapas in the 1990s, the Zapatista uprising occurred and Bishop Ruiz – long unpopular with the landowning elites for his promotion of Indigenous causes and establishing an autochthonous church – was a key player in the peace process.

When Bishop Ruiz submitted his resignation in 1999, Bishop Vera was supposed to succeed him. But St. John Paul II sent him to Saltillo, a move interpreted as an attempt to placate local elites and the Mexican government. Bishop Vera petitioned the pope to reconsider, but moved north in March 2000.

“The pope can perfectly say, ‘You are the successor, but I’m going to send you to another place,’” he said.

In Saltillo, Bishop Vera focused on diocesan social ministries and designed a pastoral plan, inspired by his engineering background, he said.

He cared for oft-exploited coal miners and factory workers in a city expanding with free trade. He opened a migrant shelter, expanded prison ministries and blessed the formation of church groups for LGBTQ Catholics.

As violence exploded in Mexico, Bishop Vera founded human rights centers that supported some of the first collectives of families, who formed search brigades for their missing loved ones in the face of government inaction.

“We cannot stay silent in the face of victims’ pain,” Bishop Vera said.

“What we have achieved here, we achieved because there is pain, because there is victimization,” Bishop Vera said. “A reading of these evils shows they are created by a structure ... the political structure and the economic structure that exists in Mexico. That, too, has to change, and we have to be agents of that change.”

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“If institutions of order and lawful transitions of authority are systematically deconstructed and trampled upon by factional self-interests, it leads to just that, a mob. Let the elected govern.”

“Let’s pray for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris as they prepare to serve our nation in their elected offices,” said a Jan. 7 tweet from Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth, Texas. “Let us ask the Lord for peace and the order of right reason during this transition.”

In praying for those engulfed in the violence at the Capitol, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington – in whose archdiocese the Capitol is located – said: “There are injuries and tremendous harm, including reports about the loss of life.” A woman shot inside the Capitol during the melee later died at a hospital. A second woman and two men died from what Metropolitan Police Dept. Chief Robert Contee called “medical emergencies,” without specifying their nature.”

“Together, we must intentionally pause and pray for peace in this critical moment,” Cardinal Gregory said.

“The divisive tone that has recently so dominated our national conversations must change. Those who resort to inflammatory rhetoric must accept some responsibility for inciting the increasing violence in our nation.”

“I join people of good will in condemning the violence today at the United States Capitol. This is not who we are as Americans,” said a Jan. 6 statement by Archbish-

op José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of this great nation. In this troubling moment, we must recommit ourselves to the values and principles of our democracy and come together as one nation under God.” The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception issued a short tweet Jan. 6: “Let us pray for peace in our nation. Mary Immaculate, pray for us!”

“There are few words that can describe the shock I feel to see our Capitol building occupied by violent rioters,” said a Jan. 6 tweet by Bishop Frank T. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut. “As Americans, we should be deeply disturbed to see an important symbol of freedom and liberty in our nation violated in such a way. Our nation is better than that.”

“The political violence witnessed today at our nation’s Capitol underscores the urgency for a total recalibration of American politics centered on the dignity and flourishing of the human person,” said a Jan. 6 statement from Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of Americans United for Life. “Our country’s season of unrest and violence must come to an end.”

“Let us be clear. The events unfolding today at the U.S. Capitol are the result of the demagoguery of one man, President (Donald) Trump, and the failure of all those – politicians, media, family and more – who excused, overlooked, dismissed or otherwise encouraged the hateful and divisive rhetoric that have defined this president’s

term in office,” said a Jan. 6 statement from Johnny Zokovitch, executive director of Pax Christi USA. “Those who could have and should have held this president accountable did just the opposite for the past four years – often with designs on advancing their own agendas – and today’s ugly, shameful incidents at the U.S. Capitol were the sad, predictable outcome of this abdication of responsibility,” Zokovitch said.

“The words and actions of our president have directly led his supporters to sedition and insurrection,” said a Jan. 6 statement from Sister Simone Campbell, a member of the Sisters of Social Service and executive director of Network, the Catholic social justice lobby.

“We the people are for the common good. Our nation is better than this, and I expect all of our elected officials to denounce these crimes.”

“We are witnessing one of the greatest assaults on our democracy since the Civil War,” said a Jan. 6 statement from Richard Trumka, a Catholic who is president of the AFL-CIO. “Today’s attempted coup has been years in the making as Donald Trump consistently spews venom, conspiracies, hate and lies to his supporters. They are carrying out his wishes.”

“Today’s scene of rioting at the U.S. Capitol as Congress sought to affirm the Electoral College results is anathema to who we are as Americans and to our Judeo-Christian values,” said a Jan. 6 statement by the New York State Catholic Conference. “We have already seen loss of human life. This must end. This is not who we are.”

EWTN: Fired host ‘I will never, ever, ever have regrets’ talking about race love them. There’s a lot of things we do for people we love that people don’t feel good about. But love transforms things that aren’t likable into something that can The “Morning Glory” cancellation was part of a be likable. Or bearable at the very least.” year-end spate of changes at EWTN. In the CNS interview, Purvis elaborated on the role Webpages featuring Father George Rutler was pulled faith has in racial matters. after the longtime EWTN program host, a priest of “What does it mean to have human dignity? What the Archdiocese of New York, stepped aside as pastor does it look like in policing? What does human dignity of his New York City parish following allegations of look like in trying to repair?” she asked. “These are all sexual misdeeds, including sexual assault, by a parish the questions where we can turn to our faith in God. It security guard. also tends to move the conversation away from mere EWTN also canceled another radio show, “Open politics because we as Catholics value the dignity of Line,” hosted by Father Larry Richards. Two top edieach and every human person.” tors at EWTN-owned Catholic News Agency, editor “That means something!” Purvis added. “We all are in chief J.D. Flynn and Washington bureau chief Ed members of the human family. We all have a certain Condon, announced their departures – both of which dignity. When you see such brutalization of a human they said were of their own volition – in the last days of person and the murder of a human person ... it should December. bring questions to us. We should be turning to our faith Purvis said she had not given much thought to the for answers rather than just letting political talk frame “circular firing squad” of EWTN fans targeting one the conversation. of their own. But “when you get slapped in the face or “We are willing to diminish the humanity of the stabbed in the back, it doesn’t feel good,” she added. person who’s been brutalized. And I’m not just talking “When you follow Jesus, you can expect to carry a The Most Requested Funeral Directors in the Archdiocese San Francisco about George Floyd. There’sof also something broken cross. Carrying a cross doesn’t always feel good.

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“As normative as it is to brutalize a human person like that,” she continued, “and it was surprising to me to hear Catholics not even be moved by it: ‘I was moved by it until he was’ – insert x, y, z unfavorable characteristics. That is not who we are as believers.”

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She still has speaking and writing commitments made well before the show was canceled.

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MANCHESTER, England – The U.K. should “forsake” its nuclear arsenal and spend the money it saves on helping the poorest people of society, Catholic bishops said. In a Jan. 11 statement, Scottish and English bishops said the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons offered an opportunity to build peace through dialogue rather than the threat of mutual destruction. They said that the treaty, which was signed by 122 countries in 2017 and will come into legal force Jan. 22, was a “historic milestone on the path to nuclear disarmament.” The treaty creates a legally binding instrument for the prohibition of nuclear weapons with a view to their total eradication. Britain has not signed the treaty. Other countries with nuclear arsenals – Russia, the U.S., China, France, Israel, India, North Korea and Pakistan – also have not signed. The bishops said in their joint statement that the treaty could serve to help countries “refocus on genuine peacebuilding rooted in dialogue, justice, respect for human dignity, and care for our planet.”

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VATICAN CITY – Through baptism and the sacrament of marriage, Catholic families have a special grace and are a gift to the church even if, too often, that grace and gift have not been recognized, said Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.

Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the cardinal welcomed Pope Francis’ announcement Dec. 27 that in March the Catholic Church would begin a special year dedicated to the family and to deeper reflection on “Amoris Laetitia,” the pope’s 2016 apostolic exhortation on family life.

During the COVID-19 pandemic with its “very serious social, health, relational and spiritual difficulties,” he said, “the family has shown itself to be the fundamental and original ‘glue’ that each of us needs and that must be taken care of with love, with solicitude and determination.”

At the same time, in many places, the pandemic shined a light on “the weaknesses and the most urgent needs of families” and on situations that are “pastoral emergencies” calling for a response by the church, he said. They include crises in marriages, violence in relationships, confusion about how to educate children at home, “a sense of loneliness, fear of entering marriage, poor understanding of the salvific meaning of the sacraments and, above all, an unperceived radical fracture between faith and practical life.”

Not surprisingly, Cardinal Farrell wrote, those issues already had been common topics of conversation when bishops from around the world make their “ad limina” visits to Rome and meet with officials of the dicastery.

The bishops, he said, “explicitly ask for

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help in the face of societies that are changing faster and faster – the ‘rapidacion’ of which Pope Francis speaks – and where values have been radically challenged and family ministry must be completely reset.”

The key, Cardinal Farrell said, is not to devise new courses or launch new groups.

Rather, the focus must be to help “people perceive the grace inherent in the Christian family, that grace which flows from baptism and the sacrament of matrimony and which, if accepted, permeates the whole of family life.”

As “Amoris Laetitia,” and St. John Paul II’s “Familiaris Consortio” before it, taught, the first step in pastoral ministry with, for and by families must be listening to families describe their real-life joys and challenges, he said. But priests and other pastoral workers also must be educated and encouraged to learn to listen.

And, he said, they must learn to support Catholic families in their role as leaders of the church’s outreach to families, recognizing not only the grace imparted to them through the sacraments, but also the power of their witness.

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And, the cardinal said, to help families overcome the temptation to separate their faith from their daily lives and decisions, they need help in learning to read “the events of life in the light of the Holy Spirit.”

“Giving families a listening ear, time and – ultimately – an attitude of tenderness and spiritual paternity on the part of priests is necessary in order to bring together all those verbs that, in ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ the pope has set as the basis of pastoral action: welcome, accompany, safeguard, discern and integrate, in the light of mercy and truth.”

The aim of the “Amoris Laetitia Family Year” is not primarily to help people reread and deepen their understanding of a document, he said. Rather it is “to discover in the postsynodal document all the pastoral richness that is necessary to walk concretely together with families and support them in the most complex challenges.”

“It is necessary to help them discover that they have a gift and that they are a gift for the church and for society,” Cardinal Farrell wrote.

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WEEKLY: C. S. Lewis Society Book and Film Club of the Bay Area: Meetings are held bi-weekly at 7:30 p.m. to read and discuss books by scholar and Christian writer, C. S. Lewis. Visit lewissociety.org/book-film-club.

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LITURGY FRIDAY, JAN. 22: Cathedral Mass on Day of Prayer for Legal Protection of the Unborn: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate a noon Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of abortion. Join in praying for the restoration of the right to life for all from conception to natural death. Visit sfarch.org/legal-protectionunborn.

SATURDAY, JAN. 23: Walk for Life West Coast Mass: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass for Walk for Life West Coast at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 10:30 a.m. All are invited to join this liturgy which will require observance of all standard COVID-19 safety protocols and take place on St. Mary’s Cathedral plaza, weather permitting. Inclement weather moves the Mass indoors. sfarch.org/walk-for-life-west-coast.

MUSIC & ART SUNDAY, JAN. 17 & 31: St. Mary’s Cathedral Musical Meditations: Afternoon concert livestreamed at 4 p.m. from the cathedral. Jan. 17: Justin Foster, organ; Jan. 31 Cavatina Music Society. Visit smcsf.org/events for more information and to make a freewill donation.

FORMATION MONDAY, JAN.18: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: Third Monday of each month, currently on Zoom led by Father Cameron Faller. Register at sfpriest. org/events.

MONDAY, FEB. 1: Meetings for men discerning priesthood: First Monday of each month, 6:15-8:30 p.m. Currently on Zoom led by Father Thomas Martin.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15: Through the Darkness Into New Light: Grief and loss support ministry of St. Mary’s Cathedral currently via Zoom or telephone. 10 p.m.12:30 p.m. This is an opportunity to mourn in a safe, private and confidential setting. Contact Deacon Christoph Sandoval at Rcs7777@comcast.net.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27: Human Trafficking Talk Series: The Office of Human Life & Dignity is offering a series of free Zoom talks and prayer on human trafficking beginning in January, National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month. National anti-trafficking leader Susan Patterson will speak to what the faith community can do to prevent human trafficking.

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Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” for spiritual content and enjoyment as well as a short discussion on the first few chapters of “Catching Fire, Becoming Flame,” a guide for spiritual transformation by Father Albert Haase, OFM. 4 p.m. Contact Frank Lavin (415) 310-8551, or frank-lavin@comcast.net.

TUESDAY, JAN. 19: Free Zoom film discussion on the PBS documentary, ‘Reconstruction-America After the Civil War’: Linda Carter Pete provides a study guide to all registrants in order to facilitate study, reflection, and conversation. 7:15-8 p.m. Hosted by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. Visit sanrafaelop.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 22: Where does the Pro-life Movement go from here?: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and three pro-life thought leaders will help answer this question in a free webinar at 1:30 p.m. Visit sfarch.org/ legal-protection-unborn.

TUESDAY, FEB. 2: Catholic Faith and Modern Science: In a series of five Zoom lectures, Dr. Stephen Barr, physicist and president of the Society of Catholic Scientists will explore the widespread idea that faith and science are opposed to each other. 7-8:30 p.m. https:// sfarch.org/science.

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BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY: Zoom Grief Support Group: St. Dominic Parish’s long-running 12-week grief support group will begin again on Zoom in early February. Led by Deacon Chuck McNeil and Sister Maggie Glynn FSP. Set up a pre-group conversation before the group begins by contacting Deacon Chuck at (415) 5677824 or deaconchuck@stdominics.org.

RETREATS & REFLECTION FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JAN. 22-24: Introduction to Ignition Spirituality Workshop: A non-silent Zoom workshop offered by the Jesuit Center of Los Altos. Led by Jesuit Father Kevin Leidich, and Jesuit Father Chi Ngo. Visit jrclosaltos.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 30: Praying and Living the Serenity Prayer: Jesuit Father Andrew Rodriguez will lead a virtual talk from 10-11 a.m. where we will examine the grace received from being able to better accept the things we cannot change, having the courage to change the things we can, and possessing the wisdom to know the difference. Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos. $15.

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La escuela St. James avanza fuerte sobre la pandemia tableta en su casa. Mientras tanto su papá escucha a los maestros enseñando las clases y eso le facilita para ayudarle al niño con las tareas.

“En nuestro caso, él y yo todos los días hacemos trabajo extra ya sea de matemáticas, lectura u otros temas. Él tiene una rutina diaria que incluye el tiempo de las clases, los descansos, las horas para comer, las tareas y el trabajo extra. Como padre lo que cuenta es estar con el hijo y ayudarle y eso hace la diferencia”, comparte este papá.

La familia Romero Cruz recibe una beca para el pago de una parte de la colegiatura de su hijo, quien además es uno de los dos estudiantes ganadores de una segunda beca que ofrece la escuela.

“Tenemos que buscar la forma de educar a los hijos porque ellos son el futuro de este país” aseguró Romero.

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Marco Romero y Marlene Cruz tienen a su hijo Ethan Romero de 6 años en la escuela St. James en San Francisco cursando el primer grado, decidieron inscribirlo en una escuela católica porque encontraron en ella, además de la excelencia académica, una educación integral que refuerza los valores que le enseñan en la casa.

El día que fueron al evento de puertas abiertas, en el 2019 cuando Ethan tenía la edad para ingresar al kínder, los Romero dijeron “esta va a ser la escuela de nuestro hijo”.

Para estos papás originarios, él de México y ella de El Salvador, cuenta mucho que su hijo sea educado en un ambiente donde también le enseñen a saludar, despedirse, a tratar con respeto a los compañeros y otras personas y recibir educación religiosa.

“El primer día que fuimos a la escuela vimos como los estudiantes de los grados superiores se relacionan con los más pequeños y el respeto para con los visitantes”, dijo Romero.

Agregó que “antes de la pandemia en la escuela llevaban a los estudiantes a misa una vez por semana y ahora que están aprendiendo desde las casas, una de las primeras cosas que hacen cada mañana es rezar. Igual, en la casa también rezamos en familia todas las noches”, compartió Romero.

“Para nosotros también es muy importantes el nivel educativo, nos gustó el plan de enseñanza que nos ofreció la escuela. En nuestro caso fue la mejor decisión mandar al niño a St. James”, dijo.

Romero describe el método Blended Learning de enseñanza-aprendizaje que usa St. James como un modelo que ayuda a los estudiantes a reforzar las áreas que más necesitan, pero a la vez los enseña a trabajar en grupo.

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Arriba, a Marco Romero y su esposa Marlene Cruz les interesa mucho la calidad de la educación académica que le enseñan en St. James a su hijo Ethan, pero también la enseñanza de buenos valores.

Abajo, los estudiantes de St. James no han perdido ni un día lectivo durante la pandemia, gracias a que los maestros comenzaron rápido un programa de educación a distancia.

en los grupos, así cada niño avanza de acuerdo a su posibilidad de aprendizaje”, explica este papá.

Ethan ingresó al kínder antes de la pandemia y continuó el primer grado con las adecuaciones que ha hecho la escuela debido al COVID-19, así que los Romero valoran la enseñanza en St. James tanto por las clases en el salón como las clases a distancia.

“Cuando llegó la pandemia y se dio la orden de quedarse en casa, la escuela se adaptó rápido para darle a los estudiantes las clases a distancia, entregarles paquetes de material impreso y suplir con tabletas a los estudiantes que no tenían una”, explicó Romero.

“Los niños no han parado de aprender (durante la pandemia), la escuela ofrece programas extras para que los estudiantes vayan tan lejos como deseen y los maestros están disponibles para ayudar después de clases. Yo siempre lo motivo para que haga actividades extras”, dijo.

Romero está desempleado, desde antes de la pandemia su negocio en el Mercado de las Pulgas de Oakland no estaba muy bueno, por lo que decidió dejarlo para dedicarle más tiempo a su hijo mientras su esposa trabaja.

Ahora con el programa de enseñanza a distancia, Ethan recibe las clases viendo la pantalla de una

La escuela St. James enseña a sus estudiantes con la filosofía de la las hermanas Dominicas de Misión San José. Aunque las monjas ya no están directamente dirigiendo la escuela, continúan apoyándola con programas como Visión of Hope, una fundación que provee ayuda financiera a las familias que quieren educar a sus hijos en esta escuela católica pero no tiene recursos económicos suficientes, como es el caso de la familia Romero Cruz.

Con los recursos de Visión Hope la escuela ayuda a muchas familias con el pago de la colegiatura, pero requieren de más donantes para ofrecer becas a otras familias y poder inscribir a más estudiantes, dijo Alex Endo, actual y primer director laico de St. James.

Endo agregó que la escuela ha pasado este tiempo de la pandemia con gran fortaleza, sin haber dejado a los estudiantes ni un día del tiempo lectivo sin clases. Él destaca el trabajo extra que han hecho los profesores preparando un programa a distancia que ni se imaginaban que tendrían que hacer algo así.

El director de St. James reconoce el trabajo que hacen los maestros en la relación con las familias. “Ellos se comunican con los papás para ayudarles con el programa a distancia cuando tienen preguntas”. Dijo que una vez al mes los papás recogen un paquete con material de apoyo ya sea para ciencias, matemáticas u otras materias.

St. James está trabajando duro durante la pandemia para acomodar los pagos a las familias que están pasando una situación económica difícil por la pérdida de sus trabajos.

“Nuestra meta es la educación de los niños”, dijo Endo.

Hasta la clase de cocina se les ha comenzado a ofrecer de nuevo a los estudiantes a partir del mes de septiembre.

Todas las familias recibieron una bolsa con melones, granola y otros ingredientes para preparar en la casa una ensalada de frutas, y a través de un video el instructor de cocina les enseñó paso a paso la receta. Este y otros cursos extracurriculares como arte y español ayudan a que la familia agregue más felicidad a sus vidas en momentos difíciles.

“La pandemia ha sido un reto, pero estoy muy orgulloso de los maestros que han trabajado tanto y se han ayudado mutuamente para enseñar en esta nueva realidad, para que la educación de los 145 alumnos de St. James no se vean afectada por esta situación, dijo Endo.

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A 200 personas les tomaron muestras después de las misas en el estacionamiento de la escuela de la iglesia San Pedro en las calles 24 y Alabama en San Francisco, el domingo 20 de diciembre.

“Los números de casos son alarmantes y la comunidad latina es la más impactada por eso hemos hecho este esfuerzo en el distrito de la Misión para que todas las personas tengan acceso rápido y gratuito a la pruebas de detección del virus del COVID-19”, dijo Diana Ponce De León, trabajadora del Centro de Operaciones de COVID-19, de la municipalidad de San Francisco.

Ella reconoció la gran ayuda de la Iglesia Católica, y en este caso particular del padre Moisés Agudo, párroco de las iglesias San Carlos, San Pedro y San Antonio para prevenir el aumento de contagios. Dijo que el padre Agudo además de facilitar las instalaciones, también

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Diana Ponce De León, trabajadora de la Municipalidad de San Francisco se ve mientras le toman una muestra para el examen de COVID-19 el 20 de diciembre en el estacionamiento de la escuela San Pedro en la Misión.

motivó a los fieles que asistieron a las misas para que se hicieran la prueba.

El padre Agudo ha insistido que no tengan miedo, pero que sean responsables siguiendo las medidas de seguridad tal como las recomiendan las autoridades de salud.

Ponce de León fue la última de 200 personas a quien le tomaron la muestra en San Pedro.

Nubia Mendoza del departamento de Comunicación y Prensa del Centro de Operaciones de COVID-19 de la Municipalidad de San Francisco, dijo que a todas las personas que se hicieron la prueba les entregaron un folleto en español con información sobre cuándo y cómo ponerse en cuarentena, qué hacer si han estado en contacto con alguien que tuvo COVID-19 y sobre las medias preventivas.

El folleto también incluye información sobre los derechos laborales relacionados a COVID-19, derechos de los inquilinos en este momento y recursos de alimentación para las personas afectadas por la pandemia.

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Catholic education is essential

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o, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20a). With these words, Our Lord Jesus Christ, about to ascend into Heaven, established His Church as an essentially teaching organization, giving her the mission to teach the whole world the truth that He came to reveal.

The Church exists to teach, to spread the truth of the Gospel to the whole world, so that all might find the path back to God through Jesus Christ unto ARCHBISHOP eternal life.

And so it is that the Church SALVATORE J. has committed herself to the CORDILEONE enterprise of teaching from day one down to the present time. Catholic schools are a natural extension of this teaching mission. From earliest times schools grew up as a part of the Church’s life, even in times of persecution. At first, catechetical schools sprang up in major dioceses in order to teach adults the truths of the faith. Christians were living in a culture dominated by anti-Christian philosophies, so they needed support in the understanding of the faith.

After the legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, the development of monasteries greatly enhanced the quality of Catholic education. St. John Chrysostom, writing in the fourth century, lamented that the quality of children’s education in the faith had diminished in his time due to the complacency of Catholics no longer chastened by persecution.

The monasteries stepped in to fill this void, providing intense experiences of Christian formation for boys and girls from the youngest ages. After the fall of Rome, the monasteries became even more impor-

It is the responsibility of the entire Catholic community — bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and laity — to continue to strive towards the goal of making our Catholic elementary and secondary schools available, accessible, and affordable to all Catholic parents and their children, including those who are poor and middle class. tant as centers of learning and culture, and they continued their work, free of charge, for hundreds of years.

Later in the Middle Ages, alongside monasteries, cathedrals and parishes also started schools. Everyone in the Catholic community supported the work of education in accordance with what they were in a position to give. Thanks to the generous sharing of time, talent and treasure, no one was turned away and Catholic education was able to operate according to a simple maxim: “Freely you have received; freely give” (Matthew 10:8). The crowning achievement of Catholic education was the invention of universities – Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, and Paris in the twelfth century, Cambridge and Padua in the thirteenth. By the middle of the 13th century, every resident of Catholic Europe, rich or poor, had access to a superb tuition-free education centered on the truth revealed by Jesus Christ. Wherever there was a Catholic monastery or church, there was a Catholic school.

More recently, the legacy of Catholic education here in the United States is one we can be rightly proud of, thanks to countless unsung heroic nuns,

brothers and priests, along with their benefactors who built it up. With the new challenges our Catholic schools now face, the U.S. bishops are calling upon the entire Catholic community to continue what we have inherited: everyone in the Church rallying together in support of the mission of education. This call is all the more urgent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Our schools have done an admirable job pivoting to accommodate education in this new reality, but as always, the poor are more adversely affected, and to them we must give the preferential option.

We do this from a firm conviction that Catholic education is essential to the life of the Church, now as always. Like the first centuries of the Church, we live in a culture dominated by anti-Christian philosophies. Every Catholic must understand that the quality of our Catholic schools is of utmost importance for the whole Church and society. Every member of the Church has a role in this endeavor, whether to teach, donate, or contribute in other ways. This, in fact, is how the U.S. bishops open their 2005 pastoral letter, Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium: “Young people are a valued treasure and the future leaders of our Church. It is the responsibility of the entire Catholic community—bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and laity—to continue to strive towards the goal of making our Catholic elementary and secondary schools available, accessible, and affordable to all Catholic parents and their children, including those who are poor and middle class.”

As the monks knew so well, even the humblest mathematics or grammar lesson can be integrated into the broader purpose of teaching the truth about Jesus Christ. And this is the renewed vision and objective of our own schools in the Archdiocese: integration of the Catholic intellectual and faith tradition all throughout the life of the school. This is the genius of Catholic education, aimed at the flourishing of the whole person.

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St. James School moves forward during pandemic LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Marco Romero and Marlene Cruz have their 6-year-old son Ethan Romero at St. James School in San Francisco in the first grade. They decided to enroll him in a Catholic school because they found in it, in addition to academic excellence, a comprehensive education that reinforces the values that they teach him at home.

The day they went to the open house, in 2019 when Ethan was of age to enter kindergarten, the Romero-Cruz parents said, “This is going to be our son’s school.”

For these parents, dad being from Mexico and mom from El Salvador, it is very important that their son be educated in an environment where he is also taught to say hello, say goodbye, treat fellow students and other people with respect and receive religious education.

“The first day we went to school, we saw how the students in the upper grades relate to the little ones and saw the respect with which they approached visitors,” Romero said.

He added that “before the pandemic the school took the students to Mass once a week. Now that they are learning from home. One of the first things they do every morning is pray. At home we also pray as a family every night.

“The educational level is also very important to us,” he added. “We liked the teaching plan that the school offered us. We made the best decision enrolling our child at St. James.”

Romero describes the blended learning method of teach-learn that St. James uses as a model that helps students to reinforce

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Marco Romero and his wife Marlene Cruz enrolled their son Ethan in San Francisco’s St. James School, impressed with the school’s approach to academics and the values the family shares at home. the areas they need most, but at the same time teaches them to work in groups.

“They bring the students together in small groups, each group studies a different subject, and they rotate in other groups,” he said.

Ethan started kindergarten before the pandemic and continued the first grade

with changes that the school has made due to COVID-19, so the spouses RomeroCruz value the teaching at St. James for both the classroom and distance classes.

“When the pandemic arrived and the order of shelter-in-place was implemented, the school quickly adapted to give to the students distance classes, they

deliver packages of printed material and supply tablets to students who did not have one,” Romero said.

“Children haven’t stopped learning (during the pandemic), the school offers extra programs for students to go as far as they want, and teachers are available to help after school,” he said.

Romero lost his job before the pandemic. His business in the Oakland Flea Market was not good, so he decided to leave it and spend more time with his son while his wife works.

Now, with the distance learning program, Ethan takes classes by watching a tablet screen at home. Meanwhile, his dad listens to the teachers teaching the classes and that makes it easier for him to help his son with homework.

“In our case, he and I do extra work every day, sometimes math, other days reading or other subjects,” he said. “He has a daily routine that includes class time, breaks, mealtimes, homework, and extra courses. As a father, what counts is being with the son and helping him and that makes a difference.”

Due to Romero not having a job, paying the tuition has been a challenge for the family, so they applied for financial aid at school. The Romero-Cruz family receives a scholarship to pay a portion of their son’s tuition. His son is also one of the two students who won a second scholarship offered by the school.

“We have to find a way to educate our children because they are the future of this country,” Romero said.

St. James School teaches its students with the philosophy of the Dominican SEE ST. JAMES SCHOOL, PAGE CSW14

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• Students who are willing to work hard and be a positive presence at school.

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Salute to schools’ ‘superheroes’

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n 1850, California became a state, and the first Catholic school was opened in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Catholic schools have been part of the fabric of the Archdiocese since before such landmarks as Golden Gate Park, Ghirardelli Chocolate, Levi Strauss and Co. and Wells Fargo Bank. Catholic schools served the children and families of San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin counties during the 1906 earthquake and fire, the Spanish Flu epidemic and both World Wars. When COVID-19 hit our archdiocese, our school system was more than ready PAMELA LYONS to take on the challenge of following the Catholic educators’ footsteps who went before us in serving our families and educating our students through this pandemic.

Beginning on the first day of the COVID-19 shelter in place order in March, the archdiocese schools of San Francisco provided a robust and rigorous Catholic distance learning program to the over 23,000 students in our archdiocesan schools. Over the summer, our schools worked tirelessly on their plans for reopening school in the fall so that as soon as the opportunity to apply for a waiver to reopen to in-person learning became available, we were ready. In mid-September, elementary schools began to offer in-person and hybrid models to our students, while most schools in the Bay Area were still only offering Distance Learning. Two months later, the vast majority of our Catholic elementary and high schools were back in their school buildings offering in-person instruction.

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I truly believe that the best place for our students’ emotional, social, educational and spiritual health is in their school buildings, and that would not have been possible without the courageous work of school administrators, teachers and staff. They are on the front lines of this pandemic, and I could not be prouder of the faith, dedication, professionalism and love that they bring to their vital roles every day. They are real superheroes!

Never have our schools been clearer in their purpose of serving the students and families of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, by ensuring that our schools are truly grounded in the Catholic faith, and committed to academic excellence, cultivating the virtuous life, nurturing a Christian community and nourishing a Catholic

worldview. As we celebrate Catholic Schools Week, I am grateful for the effort, patience, and grace that has been shown by our students and families during the past 10 months. School, as we once knew it, has undergone many changes, and you continue to adapt as needed. We welcome those members of our community who are not currently attending a school in the Archdiocese to visit a Catholic school and experience for yourself all they have to offer. I also invite you to visit our website at schools. sfarch.org. For the past 150 years we have been here to educate and support you and your children, and we are dedicated to continue this mission for years to come.

PAMELA LYONS is superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Mission Dolores Academy celebrates family cultures with Heritage Week CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

With a student body that is 48% Latino/Hispanic, 22% African-American, 18% Filipino-American, 16% Multiethnic and 2% other ethnicities, Mission Dolores Academy’s Heritage Day has been a longstanding, schoolwide celebration.

Timed in November just ahead of the Thanksgiving holidays, the much anticipated tradition has always included a multicultural luncheon featuring homemade cuisine from different continents and study about other cultures.

With COVID-19 restrictions and ongoing distance learning still in place this year, Heritage Day might have been cancelled entirely. Instead, school leaders and teachers at the K-8 school leaned in to the current reality and turned Heritage Day into a full week of online, intercultural learning opportunities.

From Nov. 16-20, students were invited, day-by-day, to share their family’s cultural dress, traditions, languages, foods, song and dance with others each day over Zoom.

On Monday, students wore culturally-significant dress to their online lessons. Traditional family recipes and cooking videos were shared on Tuesday. Wednesday, classrooms researched and reported on a different continent, and on Thursday students shared video clips of their family’s musical and dance traditions.

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Left, a student modeled native African-American dress and shared it with his class in his Heritage Week journal. Right, a third-grade student at Mission Dolores Academy as seen in a photo shared with other students for Heritage Week in November. The week invites students to share the dress, food, music and other traditions from their family’s ethnic heritage in the intercultural learning experience.

Third-grade teacher Maureen McConnell said the owner of Buko Bakes, a Filipino-inspired bakery in San Francisco, talked to her class about starting a business as a Filipino-American woman.

“She showed the class how to make “Magical Ube Rice Krispie Treats,” said McConnell. Ube is a purple yam found in the Philippines.

Catholic San Francisco was invited to join her third-grade Zoom class Nov. 20 when each student shared one page from their Heritage Week journals which presented their heritage and showcased a family tradition.

We are using only their first names in this story.

Max talked about his Filipino family’s tradition of putting up a ‘parol’ at

Christmas time. His slide showed an array of the brightly colored, star-shaped lanterns he said represented the stars the three Wise Men followed to the Christ Child. Parols are hung throughout the Philippines during Christmas.

“You see them all over the streets or in people’s windows,” he said. They are sold in markets or you can make them yourself. “Our parol at home is white and is made of seashells.”

Chase showed a photo of his 90-yearold great grandmother in sharing a weekly tradition of his African American family.

“My whole family goes to great grandmother’s house every Sunday to eat dinner,” he said. “The grownups tell stories and jokes and the children play outdoors. We have so much fun.”

Daniel, whose family is Nicaraguan and Salvadoran shared a recipe for chicken tamales cooked per their tradition, in a banana leaf.

“When you eat it, it tastes super good,” he said.

Elsabet, Yeab and Mary said their families came from Ethiopia and said they spoke a combination of different languages at home: Ethiopian, Eritrean, Amharic and English.

Tyler showed an example of the colorful dashiki, a native tunic worn by West African ancestors and today for special occasions. She explained the significance of the colors worn.

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School of the Epiphany 600 Italy Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 415-337-4030 www.sfepiphany.org Accepting applications for grades TK-8 Virtual Open House January 31, 2021 at 10 a.m.

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Vocation at the heart of Marin Catholic’s new ‘principled entrepreneurship’ program CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

This fall, 23 Marin Catholic juniors entered a pioneering business program the Kentfield high school has launched to shape a new generation of entrepreneurs guided by Catholic values.

Marin Catholic president Tim Navone told Catholic San Francisco Nov. 17 that the Principled Entrepreneurship Institute is a unique, two-year certificate program that asks these prospective business leaders to approach entrepreneurship from a “sense of vocation.”

“We do not start with how to make money,” said Navone, of the program, which he said was many years and people in the making. “We start by asking ourselves, ’who do I want to serve?’

Then, do I have gifts to serve that community? If I do, am I passionate about it? If I’m passionate, then, can I make money?”

PEI is a partnership between Marin Catholic, a 16-member board of nationally-recognized business leaders, and eight colleges and universities with values-based entrepreneurship programs including six Catholic schools – Catholic University of America, Notre Dame University, the University of San Francisco, Seton Hall, Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University.

Navone said current culture is enamored of entrepreneurial thinkers. The reality series “Shark Tank” reflects that fascination, he said.

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David Friend, founding director of Marin Catholic High School’s new Principled Entrepreneurship Institute, facilitates a Zoom class discussion with Greg Delk of Firehouse Subs Dec. 7. Firehouse Subs is a national franchise founded by two former firefighters whose financial profits also support the needs of first responders in local communities.

Greed, self-seeking and excess are sometimes associated with entrepreneurs.

“How can we make that Catholic?,” he said. He and other school leaders didn’t want to put a “Catholic varnish” on a typical entrepreneurship program.

“We wanted to design a principled entrepreneurship program that was Catholic in every way and could change the way people think,” he said.

Principled entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean starting a nonprofit, said Navone. “Absolutely not,” he said.

“Principled entrepreneurs can and do make money, sometimes lots of it, but

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the difference is that money isn’t the driving force.”

Students accepted to the program will have the opportunity to participate in weekly workshops facilitated by local business leaders and university professors. In their senior year after a full year of discernment, students are matched to a mentor as they “ideate,” eventually creating what they hope is a solid business plan that will be pitched to the entire PEI board.

Scholarships to college entrepreneurship programs are at stake, said Navone.

Students must be prepared to have their business plans “chewed up” by board members.

“It’s real life, there will be winners and there will be losers,” he said.

Navone said he is unaware of any other high school in the nation, Catholic or otherwise, with a business program based on ‘entrepreneurial virtue.’

PEI director David Friend, a retired AT&T executive and former MC parent, said the discernment year is a defining aspect of the program.

In the first semester, students took what’s called MCORE, a self-discovery test used by Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Center for Leadership to unearth one’s unique motivations.

“You have a fingerprint that is unique,” said Friend. “You also have a soul code that is the same thing. If you don’t figure that out, what God intends for you, that will be lost to the world forever.”

CLASSICAL ACADEMY TO OPEN AT STAR OF THE SEA

rissf.org describes its mission as one of “cultivating wonder and wisdom in pursuit of excellence” through an integrated classical curriculum.

Stella Maris (“Star of the Sea” in Latin) Academy is a revival of the Richmond District parish’s ambition to open a classical K-8 academy in 2019. In a parish blog post in April of that year, pastor Father Joseph Illo announced that the school would close at the end of the 2018/2019 school year to refine and “reboot” the concept for a relaunch at a future date.

Colvert said the curriculum will include languages, science and music as well as an integration with theology at the center of them all.

“We believe that a Catholic school where our faith is an organizing principle at the center of curriculum will help serve their development as young people.”

Star of the Sea Parish has announced the reopening of the parish elementary school as Stella Maris Academy in fall 2021.

“We are currently in the process of marketing the school and recruiting prospective families,” the academy’s head of school, San Francisco native Gavin Colvert, told Catholic San Francisco.

The academy will start with early childhood education and the primary grades, Colvert said. It will be a parochial school of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s school system in partnership with the Catholic Institute for Liberal Education.

Almost 100 people registered to learn more about the new school and the classical education movement during a Zoom information night in December 2020, he said.

The school’s new website at stellama-

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Mercy Media Club members share their distance learning home study spaces. Kailey Sao, senior; Coco Faillace, freshman; Gabrielle Jison, freshman

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Distance learning success at Mercy High School Burlingame CAROLINE OCAMPO

It goes without saying that this year is one unlike any other in education, and Mercy High School’s students and teachers have risen to the occasion in so many ways.

While there is no underestimating the challenges in education during a pandemic, the Mercy community has shown itself to be resilient, creative, and compassionate since that week in March when our world changed.

The Mercy High School community transitioned from traditional school to distance learning in what seemed like only one day. When they decided to move to what they thought would be a two-week distance learning experience in March, they took off that Friday for professional development, and returned on the following Monday to continue their rigorous and engaging curriculum in all classes. It truly was an amazing turnaround from the traditional classroom to Zoom classrooms.

In November, all of Mercy’s freshman biology students, who are taught by science teacher Lindsay Stewart, created video presentations that demonstrated their understanding of biodiversity, after researching and interviewing professionals in the field.

In their newly rebooted Paschal Ministry class, Angie Simonetti’s students took what they learned from reading “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End� by Atul Gawande. They then created proposals

Joanne Bland has been active in the civil rights movement for more than 50 years including taking part in the historic March 21, 1965 Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery. Mercy students had the opportunity to hear about her experiences via a Zoom presentation from Selma on Oct. 6, 2020. for assisted living facilities. Students created their own proposals, pulling on their skills in research, writing, critical thinking, design, and communication.

Robotics, Engineering, and Design Thinking, a new class, has been building a robot for the FIRST Tech Challenge. Students work in teams with their coaches and teachers Dr. Pat Bradley and Jen Lambdin. Math teacher Yu-Loung Chang, library coordinator Sarah Murphy, and parent Stephanie Menner assist.

Students in Visual and Performing Arts classes haven’t missed a beat! Teachers have reinvented the VPA classroom in incredible ways. Chorale teacher Victor Cervantes now edits together the voices of all of our chorale students into acapella versions of their performances of songs like “The Rose� and “Carol of the Bells.� Visual Arts teachers Shardie Ezell and Nadine Baroudi have put new skills to work creating video demonstrations and engaging students with drawing, photography, and ceramics projects that are easily adapted to the home.

This is in addition to Mercy’s 39 clubs, including their newest, Mercy Media, where students produce announcements and videos to connect their community.

Each day provides more evidence of the flexibility and innovation of Mercy High School’s learning community.

Mercy is thriving and will continue to thrive as they navigate these difficult times together.

CAROLINE OCAMPO is Mercy’s director of strategic communications.

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‘New protocols’ but same ‘energy’ at Archbishop Riordan VICTORIA TERHEYDEN

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

When Riordan welcomed students back to campus on Nov. 9, 2020, for in-person learning (the first high school in San Francisco to be approved for reopening by the San Francisco Department of Public Health), it felt wonderfully the same and yet very different.

Students and their teachers brought their typical energy and enthusiasm to previously quiet hallways, while health and safety signage covered almost every surface. There are new protocols for just about every-

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thing from morning check-in to desk cleaning.

But especially noteworthy this year was the start of coeducation at Riordan after 70 years as an all-boys institution. The school welcomed 196 young women across all grade levels with a current student body of 860 students, making it the second largest high school in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This spring and summer the school also renovated the locker rooms, weight room and athletic training facilities in preparation for this new school model.

Like any resilient institution, we are making the best of the circumstances of our world. This fall, key programs moved to virtual offerings, including student retreats, rallies, and the fall play and spring musical (which still delighted audiences via Zoom).

The Admissions Team quickly launched a virtual campus tour to bring the Riordan experience home to future Crusaders and recruited a great crew of student ambassadors to engage prospective students.

Co-student body presidents, seniors GiGi DiGiulio and J.T. Torrea, continue to do a great job of bringing creativity and inclusion to their leadership roles.

Some things remained unchanged, including robust athletic workouts (meeting all safety requirements) on Mayer Family Field at the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Athletic Complex, and the awardwinning newspaper team producing two solid print issues. The Athletics Department also relaunched their stellar sports podcast on Instagram (Thursdays at 6 p.m. @riordan_sports).

We are proud of our students, families, and faculty and staff for their perseverance and flexibility. Our alumni and Crusader fans keep cheering us on from afar, too, and we appreciate their support. We don’t know what will come next, but the Crusader community is ready for anything!

VICTORIA TERHEYDEN is Riordan’s director of communications.

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Catholic Elementary Schools of North San Mateo County All Souls Catholic School (Preschool, K-8th)

479 Miller Avenue So. San Francisco 94080 Phone: (650) 583-3562 Fax: (650) 952-1167 www.ssfallsoulsschool.org e-mail: info@ssfallsoulsschool.org Monday, February 1st Informational ZOOM Morning or Evening (contact office for the link) 10:00am OR 7:00pm

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St. Robert Catholic School (K-8th)

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Holy Angels School (Preschool, TK-8th)

20 Reiner Street, Colma 94014 (650)755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 www.holyangelscolma.com Email: office@holyangelscolma.org Open House: Sunday, January 31st from 11 am-2pm after 10 am Mass.

Visit our website for a virtual tour Applications are now being accepted Welcome New Families and Alumni!!!

Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School (Pre-School, TK - 8th)

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St. Dunstan Catholic School (K-8th) 1150 Magnolia Avenue Millbrae, CA 94030 (650) 697-8119 www.st-dunstan.org

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Virtual Mass at 8:00 am New Families and Alumni welcome to join our tour at 10:00am. Please contact the office for more information.

St. Veronica Catholic School (K-8th)

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ST. JAMES SCHOOL: Moving forward during pandemic FROM PAGE CSW4

Sisters of Mission San Jose. Although the nuns are no longer directly running the school, they continue supporting it with programs such as Vision of Hope, a foundation that provides financial aid to families who want to educate their children in this Catholic school but do not have enough financial resources, as is the case of the Romero-Cruz family.

With the resources of Vision of Hope, the school helps many families to pay the tuition, but they need more donors to be able to offer scholarships to other families and enroll more students, said the current and first lay director of St. James, Alex Endo.

Endo added that the school has passed this time of the pandemic with great fortitude, without leaving the students even a day of school time without classes.

He highlights the extra work that teachers have done preparing a distance program. They did not imagine they would have to do something like that.

The principal at St. James recognizes the extraordinary work of the teachers with the families.

“They contact parents to help them with the remote program when they have questions,” he said, adding that once a month parents collect a packet of materials for science, math or other subjects.

St. James is working hard during the pandemic to accommodate payments to those families struggling financially due to the loss of their jobs.

“Our goal is the education of our children,” the principal said.

Even the cooking class has begun again since September.

All families received a bag with cantaloupes, granola and other ingredients to prepare a healthy fruit salad at home. The chef gave them a video he recorded with the preparation of the recipe step by step. This and other co-curriculum courses like art,

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Max, a third grader at Mission Dolores Academy, shared his Filipino family’s Christmas tradition of hanging star-shaped lanterns called parol during Heritage Week in November. The lanterns symbolize the stars the Three Wise Men followed to the Christ Child.

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Ethan Romero, 6, is seen working on a Thanksgiving project in his remote class. His parents enrolled him in St. James School in San Francisco in 2019. They were impressed with the school’s academic excellence and comprehensive education that reinforces the values that they teach Ethan at home.

Spanish and technology help the families add more happiness to their lives in difficult times.

“The pandemic has been a challenge, but I am very proud of the teachers who have worked so hard and helped each other adapt to teach in this new reality, so the education of the 145 students at St. James is not affected by this situation,” Endo said.

He announced the possibility of returning to the classroom soon with new guidance and in accordance with San Francisco Department of Public Health recommendations.

HERITAGE: Mission school celebrates cultures FROM PAGE CSW6

“Purple is the color of royalty and blue is the color of love, peace and harmony.”

Catholic San Francisco asked the students at the end of their presentations what they might have learned about their classmates that they did not know before.

Nicole said she learned that Leah, Elsabet and Yeab “don’t just speak Ethiopian, they speak other languages too.”

“I didn’t know that where you come from they wear dashiki too,” said Tyler.

Sofia was surprised to hear that Maylanie’s mother sometimes listened to Mexican banda music, too.

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(PHOTOS COURTESY NOTRE DAME BELMONT)

Freshmen Riley Raff and Ashley Turner take part in their new school’s Becoming Notre Dame rite “intended to ground the freshmen in the NDB experience,” the school said.

Notre Dame Belmont moves to hybrid model Freshmen from Notre Dame Belmont were on campus recently for an outdoor event in which they glazed the ceramic bowls made while distance learning in their Becoming Notre Dame class. Becoming Notre Dame is a new class for all first semester freshman students, intended to ground the freshmen in the NDB experience. Topics such as leadership, health and wellness practices,

brain science and mind/body/soul connection are explored. Students created a bowl as a symbol of their Notre Dame journey. NDB students have been on campus for social emotional learning activities since November, while distance learning for academic instruction. “We are excited to welcome our students to campus in a hybrid model in January 2021,” the school said.

(PHOTOS COURTESY ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP)

St. Ignatius College Prep welcomes 2021 St. Ignatius senior Erika Morris and junior Beth Binyam are pictured on campus at the San Francisco school.

Above, SI Wildcats safely welcome the school’s freshmen, Class of 2024, on Nov. 9, 2020.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 14, 2021

– Notice of Non Discriminatory Policy as to Students – All Souls School, So. San Francisco; Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco; Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School, San Francisco; Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco; De Marillac Academy, San Francisco; Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, San Francisco; Good Shepherd School, Pacifica: Holy Angels School, Colma, Holy Name School, San Francisco; ICA Cristo Rey, San Francisco; Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont; Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo; Marin Catholic High School Kentfield; Mercy High School, Burlingame; Mission Dolores Academy, San Francisco; Nativity School Menlo Park; Notre Dame Elementary, Belmont; Notre Dame High School, Belmont; Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame; Our Lady of Loretto School, Novato; Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City; Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Redwood City; Our Lady of Perpetual Help School Daly City; Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton; Saint Anne School, San Francisco; Saint AnseIm School San AnseImo; Saint Anthony-IC School, San Francisco; Saint Brendan School, San Francisco; Saint Brigid School, San Francisco; Saint Catherine of Siena School, Burlingame Saint Cecilia School, San Francisco; Saint Charles School, San Carlos; Saint Dunstan School, Millbrae; Saint Finn Barr School, San Francisco; Saint Gabriel School, San Francisco; Saint Gregory School. San Mateo; Saint Hilary School, Tiburon; Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco; Saint Isabella School, San Rafael; Saint James School, San Francisco; Saint John School, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Lower and Middle Schools, Atherton; Saint Matthew School, San Mateo; Saint Monica School, San Francisco; Saint Patrick School, Larkspur; Saint Paul School, San Francisco; Saint Peter School, San Francisco; Saint Philip School, San Francisco; Saint Pius School, Redwood City; Saint Raphael School, San Rafael; Saint Raymond School Menlo Park; Saint Robert School, San Bruno; Saint Stephen School, San Francisco; Saint Thomas More School, San Francisco; Saint Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco; Saint Timothy School, San Mateo; Saint Veronica School, So. San Francisco; Saint Vincent de Paul School, San Francisco; Saints Peter & Paul School, San Francisco; School of the Epiphany, San Francisco; Stella Maris Academy, San Francisco; Stuart Hall for Boys, San Francisco; Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco; Woodside Priory, Portola Valley; Woodside Priory Middle School, Portola Valley: admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administrated programs.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK CSW17 Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2021-2022 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

ARCHDIOCESAN STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION

The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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650-591-4798 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont www.olaschoolk8.org Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont Open House: January 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm www.nde.org telwww.nde.org 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 www.olaschoolk8.org Our Lady of Angels Our Lady Angels Our Lady of Angels telLady 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Our ofof Angels 650-343-9200 650-343-5620 Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm tel 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Our Lady ofJanuary Mount Carmel School 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame Open House: 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm Our Lady of Angels 27, 9:00 6:00 – 8:00 pm Open House: January 22, 301 Grand Street, Redwood City am–12:00pm www.ola.community www.olaschoolk8.org www.olaschoolk8.org www.olaschoolk8.org 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame teltel 650-343-9200 • faxMount 650-343-5620 www.mountcarmel.org 650-343-9200 fax 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fax 650-343-5620 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School 301 Grand Street, Redwood City info@mountcarmel.org Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm 301 Grand Street, Redwood City info@mountcarmel.org Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 www.mountcarmel.org Our Lady Mount Carmel School Our Lady ofof Mount Carmel 301 Grand Street, Redwood City K Info Night: January 18, 7:00School –8:00 pmpm www.mountcarmel.org K Info Night: January 18, 7:00 –8:00 pm 301 Grand Street, Redwood City St. Catherine of Siena School tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 301 Grand Street, Redwood City PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm www.mountcarmel.org tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School School.mountcarmel.org PreK-7 Openof House: Jan Carmel 30, 10:00am–12:00pm 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame info@mountcarmel.org Our Lady Mount School tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 Telwww.mountcarmel.org 650-366-6127 info@mountcarmel.org 301 Grand Street, Redwood City www.stcos.com K Info Night: 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El Camino Real, San Mateo tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 office@stpiusschool.org www.stpiusschool.org Sunday, January 31, 2021 - Virtual Open House 10:30 am St. Pius School St. Matthew Catholic School www.stmatthewcath.org office@stpiusschool.org office@stpiusschool.org St. Pius School tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 Virtual Family Mass 9:30 am | www.pius.org/stream Open House: January 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City30, 10:30am–12:00pm 910 S. El January Camino Real, Mateo tel 650-343-1373 faxthe 650-343-2046 St. Matthew Catholic School Open House: 30, 10:30am–12:00pm Open House: January 30,San 10:30am–12:00pm 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City School Presentation, Meet Teachers, See the Students in Action office@stpiusschool.org www.stpiusschool.org www.stmatthewcath.org bviotti@stmatthewcath.org 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo www.stpiusschool.org Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 tel 650-343-1373 650-343-2046 Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm St. Catholic Matthew Catholic www.stmatthewcath.org tel 650-368-8327 faxfax 650-368-7031 St. Matthew School St. Matthew Catholic School School office@stpiusschool.org St. Matthew Catholic School bviotti@stmatthewcath.org tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 office@stpiusschool.org 910 S.Real, ElReal, Camino Real, San Mateo 910 S. El Camino San Mateo 910 El Camino Mateo Open House: January 30,San 10:30am–12:00pm 910 S.S. ElMatthew Camino Real, San Mateo St. Catholic School bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm St. Raymond www.stmatthewcath.org www.stmatthewcath.org www.stmatthewcath.org www.stmatthewcath.org 910Arbor S. 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