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Tens of thousands rally at Walk for Life VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
The Walk for Life West Coast participants walked down Market Street behind a 30-foot banner held by Marin Catholic High School and other area high school students, and Thomas Aquinas College students. Archdiocesan high schools who organized groups to come to the walk were Junipero Serra High School, Archbishop Riordan High School, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Notre Dame-Belmont, Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall.
Tens of thousands of people rallied in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza and then walked down Market Street in the 12th Annual Walk for Life West Coast, undaunted by intermittent rain, pro-abortion protesters who briefly disrupted one of the speakers, or by traffic congestion due to the upcoming Super Bowl. “They tell us the lie that women – in order to have opportunities and in order for us be successful – we must have abortion rights,” said Obianuju Ekeocha, Nigerian founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, at the rally. Culture of Life Africa’s philosophy is consistent with St. John Paul II’s “theology of the body.” It rejects international aid tied to abortion, sterilization and other anti-life initiatives. “I stand here before you not just as a black person or an African person. I stand here before you as a woman to say we should never have to buy success with the blood of our babies,” Ekeocha said. David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, whose undercover videos recorded Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of parts of aborted babies, was the first speaker at the one-hour rally SEE WALK, PAGE 6
First bishop of Anglican ordinariate a St. Pius, USF alum VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
On Feb. 2, Msgr. Steven Lopes will be ordained a bishop at the Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral in Houston, Texas – the first bishop to head the North American ordinariate for Episcopalians who have converted to CatholiBishop-elect cism. Lopes Msgr. Lopes is a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, born and
raised a Roman Catholic – and thus unlike most members of the ordinariate, priests and people alike, was not originally a member of the Episcopal Church. But because of his unique background Pope Francis selected him to lead the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a diocese-like canonical structure that is the home of the 40-plus parishes in the United States and Canada comprised of Anglican converts to Catholicism. A bishop of the Roman Catholic Church must be a celibate priest and the Anglican Catholic converts who are priests are generally married clergy
who were ordained into the priesthood of the Catholic Church under a special dispensation created by St. John Paul in 1982. Msgr. Lopes has been closely associated with the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter since Pope Benedict XVI created it on Jan. 1, 2012. He served as secretary of the Vatican’s “Anglicanae Traditiones” commission, which was responsible for developing “Divine Worship: The Missal,” a definitive book of liturgical texts promulgated by the Vatican in Advent 2015. The liturgy is from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, “nurtured in the traditions of English
Catholicism for the last 500 years” and dates to medieval England, Msgr. Lopes said. Msgr. Lopes succeeds Rev. Jeffrey N. Steenson, a married priest, who has been the ordinary since 2012. Msgr. Lopes is the first bishop appointed to an ordinariate. There are two other ordinariates in Great Britain and Australia. Msgr. Lopes says history is marked by “waves” of conversion from the Episcopal Church. He describes those in the ordinariate as “joyful and eager to share their faith. They put a lot on
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