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400 preparing to enter Catholic Church Men and women bearing Books of the Elect in procession for Rite of Election ceremonies at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 14. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presided over the prayer service recognizing men and women of the Elect for baptism and candidates for entering full communion with the Catholic Church. This year, 53 parishes participated with 200 catechumens becoming elect (the unbaptized) and 200 candidates for full communion (non-Catholic baptized).

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Speaking from the symbolic platform of the U.S.-Mexico border, Pope Francis pleaded for the plight of immigrants while warning those refusing to offer safe shelter and passage that their actions and inhospitable attitudes were bringing about dishonor and self-destruction as their hearts hardened and they “lost their sensitivity to pain.”

Recalling the story of Jonah and his instructions from God to save the sinful city of Ninevah by telling the residents that “injustice has infected their way of seeing the world,” Pope Francis’ homily called for compassion, change and conversion on migration issues.

He alluded to Mexico and the United States as Ninevah, the city he said was showing symptoms of “self-destruction as a result of oppression, dishonor, violence and injustice.” He also said mercy was a way to win over opponents.

He also preached urgency.

“We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis which in recent years has meant the migration of thousands SEE BORDER, PAGE 8

St. Dominic, Ignatius Press reach out to prisoners in joint service project CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

About 35 young adults gathered in the St. Dominic parish hall Feb. 17 to write letters to and purchase Catholic books for men and women incarcerated in state and federal prisons around the country in a Jubilee Year of Mercy service project partnership with Ignatius Press.

Maureen Dillon, a member of the parish’s young adult group leadership committee, said the group is focusing on a different corporal work of mercy for each of its monthly service projects this year.

During the evening event, participants had the opportunity to write a personal note of support and encouragement to inmates who wrote to the Catholic book publisher seeking Bibles and other spiritual and devotional publications and purchase those books for them (or any others in the catalog).

“I am contacting you because a friend referred you to me, and complimented you on the help you gave him,” wrote one inmate from Ohio. “I have been incarcerated for over 20 years and the Bible I used is beginning to deteriorate.”

Inmate letters often cite a desire to “feed their hunger for deeper connection with God and spiritual nourishment,” said Dillon’s sister and

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Some inmates imply or simply state that they have no one to write them a letter or send them a book.

“The idea of being that alone really hit me,” said Pedrelli. “Most of us have so many people to love us and the idea of not even having anyone to buy you a book really moved me.”

Ignatius Press has no formal process for handling the prisoner requests, according to Pedrelli, who teamed up with her sister Maureen to organize the young adult event that offered the opportunity for individuals to reach a merciful hand to the prisoners.

Participants were matched up with an inmate and given the handwritten letter he or she wrote to Ignatius Press. Each person wrote back a personal note of support that the parish mailed and purchased any books requested, and more, for the publisher to mail to the prison.

“Your letter inspired me to not take the gift of my faith for granted and to read God’s word every day,” wrote one young woman who chose not to offer her name. “Sometimes when I find myself beaten down, sad, or despairing despite all the incredible blessings in my life, the Psalms (23 and 37) comfort me.”

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400 preparing to enter Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil LAURA BERTONE DIRECTOR OF WORSHIP

The Rite of Election is a step in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) which celebrates the acceptance of the archbishop of those who have been preparing to enter the Catholic Church at Easter into the order of the elect – meaning they have his permission to be baptized.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, we actually do a combined rite: The Rite of Election for those who are currently not baptized and will be baptized, confirmed and have first Eucharist at the Easter Vigil, and the Rite of Welcome in which we welcome those people who are already baptized in another Christian religion who want to become Catholic. They will make a profession of faith to the Catholic Church and be confirmed and have first Eucharist, also at the Easter Vigil.

The Rite of Election always takes place at the cathedral on the first Sunday of Lent, this year Feb. 14 at St Mary’s Cathedral. This year, 53 parishes participated with 200 catechumens becoming Elect (the unbaptized) and 200 candidates for full communion (non-Catholic baptized).

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presided at a Liturgy of the Word (not a Mass). More than 1,500 people attended.

The rite was fully bilingual.

Part of the rite is that those who have not been baptized come forward with their godparent and sign the Book of the Elect so they are enrolled in the parish’s book.

It’s really neat that some parishes have books that go back decades and show all the people who have become Catholic through that parish.

The archbishop’s homily stressed the importance of conversion and how this Jubilee Year of Mercy is a wonderful time for everyone to practice mercy and justice.

Next for all those who became elect is that throughout Lent they will go through a series of rituals called scrutinies, in which they evaluate their desire to become Catholic and are prayed over by the pastor and community. They continue their formation classes in a more intense way as they near Easter. Then at the Easter Vigil, both the elect and the candidates for full communion receive the proper sacraments and are fully Catholic.

BERTONE is director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and has a large role in the planning all major liturgical moments in the archdiocese especially at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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Men and women elect with signed Books of the Elect representing their respective parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and its new members, themselves included, come Holy Saturday.

A younger member of the elect signs the Book of the Elect and her older counterpart does the same at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 14.

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Cardinal: Collegiality, synodality ‘twin sisters’ of a prelate’s work MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Collegiality and synodality are “twin sisters” of a bishop’s work, according to Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa, who gave the annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture Feb. 18 at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Cardinal Napier defined collegiality as “a cooperative relationship with colleagues,” as it is with the pope and the bishops.

“The bishops, while loyally respecting the primacy and pre-eminence of their head, exercise their own proper authority for the good of their faithful, indeed, even for the good of the whole church,” Cardinal Napier said, adding that this work is “strengthened by the continued influence of the Holy Spirit.”

He defined synodality as “the participation of the local church in the life and ministry of the universal church,” which has three elements to it: bishops listening to the faithful, bishops listening to each other, and bishops listening to the pope.

The role of the bishop, Cardinal Napier said, is to “act as an authentic custodian, interpreter and witness of the faith of the whole church.”

“This is what I see (Pope) Francis doing. He is calling the bishops together,” Cardinal Napier said.

The cardinal, ordained a priest in 1970 and a bishop just over 10 years later, recalled that in 1979, South Africa’s bishops’ conference was “still working on its true identity as a conference.” But, since “collegiality was the basic strength of the Catholic Church,” they fashioned a program “to enable the church to remove apartheid in their midst – apartheid speaking, apartheid acting – from its day-to-day life.” Within a year, the nation’s Catholic schools were open to enrollment by all children.

From that action, the South African bishops embraced what Cardinal Napier called a “mantra” that remains in effect more than two decades after apartheid was dismantled: “community serving humanity.”

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Each of the suggestions made during the synod, he said, “were firmly in the hands of the bishops,” and there was “transparency to the nth degree.”

At the end of the synod, the work had not been completed, though, and the participants had indicated they were willing to let (CNS PHOTO/JACLYN LIPPELMANN, CATHOLIC STANDARD) the Vatican put the Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, finishing touches South Africa, delivers the Cardinal on the docuDearden Lecture Feb. 18 at The ment. But thenCatholic University of America in Archbishop Jan Washington.

Schotte, who organized synods at the Vatican, told the synod, “There must not be the slightest suspicion that the secretariat had manipulated the process at any stage.” He told them to choose one English-speaking and one French-speaking bishop to remain in Rome and complete the synod’s work.

Cardinal Napier also spoke about the two-part

synod in 2014 and 2015 on family life, and the “deeper levels of skepticism and distrust” that emanated from some synod participants after the mid-synod report in 2014 that appeared to show a greater Vatican tolerance for homosexual unions. Pope Francis, the cardinal remarked, called on delegates to remain open to the synod process rather than “wanting everything to be changed or wanting nothing to be changed.”

The pope at no time during the synod sessions ever expressed his own preferences. This was a good thing, Cardinal Napier said, adding that had Pope Francis spoken up in that manner, ‘what’s the point of (us) speaking if he’s gong to correct us? We might as well shut up.”

Pope Francis wanted the bishops to “speak openly and speak honestly.”

Changes in church governance may be in the offing, according to Cardinal Napier, but “how are we going to do this? By reforming the church from the top to the bottom, and from the bottom to the top.”

Otherwise, “if we don’t do it together, we split, and our people will be split along the same lines.”

The annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture started in 1982 with an endowment by bishops who had worked with Cardinal John Dearden, by that time the retired archbishop of Detroit, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Cardinal Dearden, known for his social justice work, was a key implementer of the Second Vatican Council’s reforms both in Detroit and at the national level in the late 1960s as the first president of what was then called the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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The deeper his faith, the better public servant Scalia was, says son MARK ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Just as many pilgrims are passing through the Holy Door at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in this Year of Mercy, the casket bearing the body of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia entered through the door Feb. 20.

Father Paul Scalia, the justice’s son and the main celebrant and homilist at his father’s funeral Mass, said the fact that Scalia’s casket was carried through that door of mercy was a great blessing. In his homily, he emphasized that his father was a man of faith, dedicated to his family and service to his country, a man who relied on God’s mercy and was sustained through the sacraments.

“We give thanks that Jesus brought him to new life in baptism, nourished him with the Eucharist and healed him in the confessional,” Father Scalia said in his homily. “God blessed dad with a deep Catholic faith, the conviction that Christ’s presence and power continue in the world today through his body, the church.”

Speaking of his father’s devotion to his Catholic faith, Father Scalia said, “He loved the clarity and coherence of the church’s teachings. He treasured the church’s ceremonies, especially

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Pallbearers carry the casket of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia up the steps at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington for his Feb. 20 funeral Mass. the beauty of her ancient worship. He trusted the power of her sacraments as the means of salvation, as Christ working within him for his salvation.”

Father Scalia, a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, is episcopal vicar for clergy for the diocese, where the late justice lived with his family.

The elder Scalia died Feb. 13 of natural causes while in Texas for a hunting trip. He was 79. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, and by the couple’s nine children and 36 grandchildren.

As bells tolled, family members accompanied his flag-draped casket up the steps into the national shrine and down its main aisle as the congregation sang the hymn “O God Our Help in Ages Past.” The family then sat in a front section as the casket was placed at the base of the steps leading to the main altar.

Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, welcomed Justice Scalia’s family members and friends and the dignitaries to the Mass and acknowledged the presence of Archbishop

Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, and Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde.

The cardinal expressed “our heartfelt sympathy at the loss of your husband, your father, your grandfather and friend, and we once again pledge our prayers that God will grant him eternal rest and grant you comfort and consolation.”

Leonard Leo, a friend of Justice Scalia who is executive vice president of the Federalist Society, read the first reading from the Book of Wisdom, which opened with, “The souls of the just are in the hands of God.” Justice Thomas read the second reading from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, and Father Colin Davis, a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, read the Gospel reading from St. Matthew.

Since his death, Father Scalia said in his homily, the justice had been praised by many for his intellect, his writings and speeches. “But more important to us – and to him – was that he was Dad. He was the father God gave us for the great adventure of family life,” Father Scalia said. “Sure, he forgot our names at times or mixed them up, but there were nine of us!”

Then on a serious note, he added, “He loved us, and sought to show that love, and sought to share the blessing of the faith he treasured.”

Supreme Court without Justice Scalia: Will it lack a tip of the scales?

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WASHINGTON – As the nation looks ahead to upcoming Supreme Court decisions without Justice Antonin Scalia’s input, it may see a lot of tie scores.

That’s because the Feb. 13 death of one of six Catholic members of the court – who was often described as its most conservative voice and known for his strict interpretation of the Constitution’s intent – may lead to many 4-4 decisions.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has been described as a swing vote, a term he is said to despise, but depending on his vote in upcoming cases before a

successor to Scalia steps in, there will either be split decisions or 5-3 votes with the more liberal justices forming the majority.

When the court issues split decisions, the lower court rulings stand and “it will be as if the court did not even take the case,” said Meg Penrose, a law professor at Texas A&M University’s School of Law. “To me, that’s what’s troubling about a 4-4 ruling,” she said, noting that it goes against the court’s decision in the first place to take the case.

“This puts everything of critical importance in a holding pattern,” she added, noting that the court is not operating at its “full strength” when it is

has a crucial role to “help us as nation especially when dealing with federal law.”

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The abortion case before the court March 7, Whole Woman’s Health v.

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Scalia was expected to provide a fifth vote in this case to uphold the requirements. A 4-4 vote will leave in place the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the provisions but it will not set a national precedent.

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UKRAINIAN PRELATE COMMENTS ON PAPAL-ORTHODOX DECLARATION

WASHINGTON – The joint declaration signed Feb. 12 in Cuba between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has met with a tepid reaction from Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, Ukraine, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

“In general it is positive,” he said in a Feb. 12 interview with Ukrainian Father Ihor Yatsiv and translated from Ukrainian. “In it are raised questions, which are of concern to both Catholics and Orthodox, and it opens new perspectives for cooperation. I encourage all to look for these positive elements. However, the points which concern Ukraine in general and specifically the (Ukrainian church) raised more questions than answers.”

One positive is that the Russian Orthodox “no longer seem to object to our right to exist. In reality, in order to exist and to act, we are not obliged to ask permission from anybody,” Archbishop Shevchuk said. The joint declaration says that “the ecclesial communities which emerged in these historical circumstances have the right to exist” and to do what is necessary to minister to their faithful. On the other hand, he added, “this text has caused deep disappointment among many faithful of our church and among conscientious citizens of Ukraine. Today, many contacted me about this and said that they feel betrayed by the Vatican, disappointed by the half-truth nature of this document, and even see it as indirect support by the Apostolic See for Russian aggression against Ukraine. I can certainly understand those feelings.”

RECONCILIATION BEGINS BY RECOGNIZING HUMAN DIGNITY, CARDINAL NAPIER SAYS

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis’ practice of going to people on the margins of society shows the world how reconciliation can occur when people respect each other as equals and uphold human dignity, said Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa.

Whether overcoming racial differences, economic inequality or interpretations of gender roles, Cardinal Napier said reconciliation comes only out of respect for the human person. “If I see you as a human being, if I see you as equal in dignity and in work, then I have to deal with you in a different way. It doesn’t matter if you’re white, black, colored or whatever ideology you hold. If I see you as a human being, it has to make a difference,” Cardinal

Napier told Catholic News Service Feb. 17 after a talk at The Catholic University of America.

“I think Pope Francis has hit on something. He’s saying if we go and make sure we look after the people on the margins and treat them well, we are already empowering ourselves,” he said. The cardinal, one of the presidents of last year’s Synod of Bishops on the family, pointed to the pope’s example during his 50-minute presentation and recalled his experiences as vice president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference as South Africa transitioned from its apartheid system in the 1990s.

BISHOP URGES CATHOLICS TO WALK ‘BEYOND PARISH BOUNDARIES’

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts – Springfield Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski issued an invitation and a challenge in his new pastoral letter, “The Wideness of God’s Mercy,” released Feb. 10, Ash Wednesday.

In it he offers words of welcome and notes that the letter was inspired by the Jubilee Year of Mercy declared by Pope Francis. He also said it was a direct response to the people of the Diocese of Springfield.

“When we began this process of looking at our evangelization, one of the suggestions was to reach out to people – both those who are in the pews and those who are Catholics but not practicing their faith,” he said. “We wanted to ask them different questions about their perceptions of the faith or perhaps why they don’t practice.” More than 3,000 people took the diocese’s online survey and many wrote comments.

Bishop Rozanski said he wanted to assure those people that they had been heard. “There are many people hurting in our Catholic community from the pain caused by our past failings as a diocese, as well as the grievous actions of some who ministered in our church,” he wrote in his pastoral letter.

“The reality of that pain is that it still echoes many years later.”

COLLEGE STUDENTS SPREAD ABSTINENCE MESSAGE DURING TRUE LOVE WEEK

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The student groups sponsored events around that theme during the week-and-a-half leading up to Valentine’s Day, dubbed True Love Week.

Franciscan Sister Laura Zelten, campus minister at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, said the goal of the True Love Week was to spread the message that students have choices when it comes to dating.

She said the week was organized to offset Sex Week on campus to be held the week of Valentine’s Day. The university’s Student Health Office offers programs on safe sex during that week.

APPEALS COURT RULES AGAINST EWTN, OTHER CATHOLIC ENTITIES ON MANDATE

ATLANTA – The head of the Eternal Word Television Network said Feb. 18 that a federal appeals court ruling handed down earlier that day “in effect” orders the Catholic global network “to violate its religious beliefs and comply” with the federal contraceptive mandate or “pay massive fines to the IRS. We are extremely disappointed that the court has refused to protect our religious freedom,” Michael P. Warsaw, EWTN chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld the Health and Human Services mandate that is part of the federal health care law. In one decision, the panel ruled on two cases. One was filed by EWTN, based in Irondale, Alabama, and the other was filed

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Synods should get more input from lay faithful, church experts say

POPE: DON’T LOSE HEART, GOD WILL FORGIVE

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VATICAN CITY – An assembly of bishops at the Vatican should have more input from the lay faithful, said church experts attending a seminar hosted by the head of the Synod of Bishops.

A renewed understanding of the role of the people of God and their bishops “warrants considering not just the bishop of Rome (the pope) and the episcopate in the synodal process, but also the lay faithful,” said a communique issued by the synod’s secretary general, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri.

The communique, released by the Vatican press office Feb. 17, provided a brief summary of the conclusions reached by a seminar held Feb. 6-9 at the Vatican. Sponsored by the synod’s secretary-general, the gathering looked at the Synod of Bishops as being at the service of a “synodal church.”

Participants, who included professors and experts in ecclesiology and canon law from all over the world, reflected on Pope Francis’ call “to overcome selfreferentiality in the ordained ministries in order to go back to seeing bishops as those” who each represent their local diocese and together represent the entire church, the statement said.

This rediscovery of the bishop’s relationship to the local and universal church and the role of the lay faithful requires rethinking ways lay Catholics

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In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, cardinals gather in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. Church experts say synods should get more input from lay faithful. can play a bigger part in the entire synodal process – in preparing for a synod, in the actual gathering and in implementing final decisions, it said.

Based on the past two synod gatherings on the family, which consulted with the lay faithful beforehand through questionnaires and other methods of input, this kind of consultation with “the people of God” must become a permanent feature in preparing for a synod, it said.

A number of participants at the seminar said they hoped there would be “greater listening to and involvement of

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the faithful who take part in a synodal assembly,” specifically by taking greater advantage of the presence and input of lay experts and observers, it said.

“Even though they cannot vote, they can carry out a role that is important, in any case, in the discernment and decision-making process,” it said.

The communique repeated Pope Francis’ call for a more “listening church.”

Listening involves more than just hearing, it said, in that “each one has something to learn – the faithful, the episcopal college, the bishop of Rome.

Each one listening to the other and everyone listening to the Holy Spirit.”

VATICAN CITY – Jesus welcomed sinners in his day and continues to do so today, opening their hearts to recognize their errors and bringing God’s mercy and pardon, Pope Francis said.

“All of us are sinners, all of us!” the pope said Feb. 20 during one of his special jubilee general audiences. “Before God, we all have some fault. Yet we should not lose heart: He is close to us to give us comfort, mercy, forgiveness.”

God is committed to humanity, the pope said. His commitment is seen in “creating the world and, despite our attempts to ruin it – and there have been many – his commitment to keeping it alive.”

But the greatest sign of God’s commitment – his “extreme commitment” to humanity – is his decision to send his son to save us, Pope Francis said. “In Jesus, God make a complete commitment to restoring hope to the poor, to those deprived of their dignity, to the foreigner, the sick, prisoners and to sinners, whom he welcomed with goodness.”

Christians, he said, must make a commitment to ensuring others experience that closeness, mercy and forgiveness of God. “This is especially true in situations of greatest need, where there is more of a thirst for hope,” he said. “For example, I am thinking of our commitment to people who are abandoned, those who have severe handicapping conditions, the seriously ill (and) the dying.”

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Pope calls for jubilee moratorium on death penalty JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called for a moratorium on executions during the Year of Mercy and said the fifth commandment, “Thou shalt not kill,” applies not only to the innocent but to the guilty as well.

“Even a criminal has the inviolable right to life, a gift of God,” he said Feb. 21 after reciting the Angelus with visitors gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Marking the beginning of an international conference “For a world without the death penalty,” sponsored by the Community of Sant’Egidio, the pope expressed hope that it will strengthen efforts to abolish the death penalty.

Increasing opposition worldwide to the death penalty as “an instru-

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The shackled feet of a bombing suspect in Bangkok, Thailand, are seen as he is escorted by officers and prison personnel to Military Court Feb. 16. Pope Francis asks world leaders for a Jubilee Year moratorium on the death penalty.

ment of legitimate social defense” is “a sign of hope,” he said.

“This issue has to be considered within the perspective of a penal justice, which is more and more in compliance with human dignity and God’s plan for humanity and society,” the pope said.

The pope appealed to world leaders to reach an international consensus on the abolition of the death penalty. He also proposed Catholic government leaders “make a courageous and exemplary gesture by seeking a moratorium on executions during this Holy Year of Mercy.”

“All Christians and people of goodwill are called today to work not only for the abolition of the death penalty, but also to improve the conditions of life in prison, in the respect of human dignity of people deprived of freedom,” he said.

Holy Land church commission calls Palestinian situation ‘inhuman’ JUDITH SUDILOVSKY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JERUSALEM – The Commission for Justice and Peace of the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to work for a change in the current violent situation, but it chastised Israel as responsible for its creation.

“The present situation for the Palestinians is inhuman,” it said in its statement released to the press Feb. 18. “It is settlers who occupy, day by day, Palestinian land. It is the siege of Gaza for years already ... It is also a siege for the rest of Palestine and diverse hardships, political, economical and social.”

Calling the situation in the Holy Land “stagnant and lifeless” with no “light of hope” either for the Israelis or Palestinians, it said Israelis need “security and tranquility” while Palestinians are waiting for an end to occupation and for an independent state.

But the situation has become one of an intifada, it said. Palestinians who carry out stabbings and

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other violent acts against Israelis “plunge to their death out of despair caused by a life full of frustration, humiliation and insecurity, with no hope at all,” it added.

“Is Israeli society satisfied with this situation? Is it satisfied with this life in the shadow of continuing hostility with the Palestinian people?” it asked.

Enumerating a list of hardships and humiliations – including home demolitions, military checkpoints, the “Judaization” of Jerusalem by “sending away” its Palestinian residents, and accusations of terrorism against all Palestinians and the collec-

tive punishments that includes – it called on Israeli leaders to “enlarge your vision and hearts.”

“Change the situation. Shake it out of its mobility. There is enough space in the land for all of us,” it said. “Let all have the same dignity and equality.

No occupation and no discrimination. Two peoples living together and loving each other according to the way they choose.”

Such an inhuman situation cannot be one which either the Israelis or Palestinians would choose, it said. It urged Israelis to see Palestinians not as terrorists but as people who want to live normal lives but find themselves “oppressed, frustrated and deprived of the freedom God has given them.”

“We say to the leaders: Act for the sake of the human being, the Israeli and the Palestinian. Do not leave the situation as it is, because it is a situation that leads to death,” it said.

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“Redeem the land again and begin a new history.

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Stop every self-interested vision and all corruption,” it said.

Once again it emphasized the important role education plays and called for the re-education of the younger generation, which has grown up in an atmosphere where Palestinians are viewed as terrorists and Israelis as the enemy.

“Let us begin, all of us, a new history,” it said.

“Our land is holy, and the place of our daily living together. Let the two peoples live in peace.”

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BORDER: No more death, exploitation of immigrants, pope says FROM PAGE 1

of people, whether by train or highway or on foot, crossing hundreds of kilometers through mountains, deserts and inhospitable areas,” Pope Francis said Feb. 17 to hundreds of thousands of people from both sides of the border.

“The human tragedy that is forced migration is a global phenomenon today. This crisis, which can be measured in numbers and statistics, we want to measure instead with names, stories and families.”

The Mass capped a six-day trip to Mexico in which Pope Francis traveled to the northern and southern borders and denounced the indignities of discrimination, corruption and violence. During the trip he also asked oft-oppressed indigenous peoples for their forgiveness and chastised the privileged political and business classes – saying their exclusionary actions were creating “fertile ground” for children to fall into organized crime and drug cartels.

Pope Francis delivered his homily a stone’s throw from the Rio Grande, which has swallowed so many migrants over the years as they vainly tried to enter the United States in search of bettering their lot in life and, more recently, escaping violence enveloping Central America.

The Mass was celebrated as a binational event with thousands watching across the Rio Grande in El Paso and in a college football stadium.

Pope Francis saluted the crowds watching at the Sun Bowl stadium and Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso for providing technological connections that allowed them to “pray, sing and celebrate together” and “make us feel like a single family and the same Christian community.”

The pope focused on migration, along with the dangers migrants encounter en route to their destinations and the difficulties of surviving on the margins of society without protections.

“Being faced with so many legal vacuums, they get caught up in a web

Pope Francis waves to people gathered in El Paso, Texas, after praying at a cross on the Mexican side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 17.

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that ensnares and always destroys the poorest,” Pope Francis said.

Migration has marked Mexico for generations, though the number of Mexicans leaving the country is now surpassed by those returning – involuntarily or otherwise – as poor job prospects, an increasingly fortified border and anti-immigration initiatives prompt most to stay put.

Ironically, Mexico has assumed an unlikely role over the past several years: enforcer as it detains and deports record numbers of Central Americans trying to transit the country – while many more of those migrants are preyed upon by criminals and corrupt public officials and suffer crimes such as kidnap, robbery and

rape. The Mexican crackdown came after thousands of Central American children streamed through Mexico in 2014, seeking to escape forced enlistment in gangs and hoping to reunite with parents living in the shadows of American society, working minimumwage jobs to support children left with relatives they hadn’t seen in years.

“Each step, a journey laden with grave injustices. … They are brothers and sisters of those excluded as a result of poverty and violence, drug trafficking and criminal organizations,” Pope Francis said, while lauding the priests, religious and lay Catholics who accompany and protect migrants as they move through Mex-

ico – acts of compassion not always popular with the authorities.

“They are on the front lines, often risking their own lives,” he said. “By their very lives they are prophets of mercy. They are the beating heart and accompanying feet of the church that opens its arms and sustains.”

“They are brothers and sisters of those excluded as a result of poverty and violence, drug trafficking and criminal organizations,” Pope Francis said. “Injustice is radicalized in the young. They are ‘cannon fodder,’ persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and hell of drugs. Then there are the women unjustly robbed of their lives.”

Woman’s situation points to reality that fewer Mexicans migrate to US WALLICE J. DE LA VEGA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

EL PASO, Texas – Mexican immigration rates have been down for a while, for a time even reversing.

That reality seems to be absent from political circles and the perception of the general American population. But Diana Martinez is proof of it.

“I am from Chiapas, and just got deported,” Martinez told Catholic News Service in an interview midway on the Paso del Norte border-crossing bridge in the western Texas city of El Paso. “I don’t want to try anymore, just want to go home.”

Although Martinez did not have a specific plan, she was begging for money to afford transportation back to her hometown. “I don’t know how I’ll get there ... praying to God is what I can only think of,” said the petite, slender young woman.

Asked if she adhered to a certain religion, she said no, answering, “I only believe in God.” She knew Pope Francis was coming to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, but that seemed to have little value for her situation.

Martinez was brief in telling CNS about the months it took her to make it across Mexico and into the U.S., and about the several times she has been deported.

In the heat of another U.S. election year, immigration has been a theme for candidates, who

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A woman hold a religious statue on the U.S. side of the border in El Paso, Texas, Feb. 17 as she attends Mass being celebrated by Pope Francis on the other side of the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

have promised to fix the situation, but their words on the issue do not seem to reflect the reality being experienced by immigrants like Martinez.

They are the face of a little-mentioned trend originally reported last November by Washington-based Pew Research Center.

The report, titled “More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S.,” has a subtitle that summarizes the whole document: “Net loss of 140,000 between 2009 and 2014; family reunification top reason for leaving.”

Some of the Pew data from the period studied includes: – One million Mexicans, including U.S.-born children, left the U.S. for Mexico, while an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the U.S. – Sixty-one percent of Mexicans who left the U.S. did so voluntarily; 14 percent of those who left were deported.

– Possible reasons for the decline in Mexican immigration include effects of the U.S. economic recession, resulting in immigrants losing jobs; and a desire to reunite families.

– The number of Mexicans entering the U.S. illegally who were apprehended by authorities fell to 230,000 in 2014, “a level not seen since 1971,” says the report.

– Among adults in Mexico, 48 percent say life is better in the U.S. Thirty-three percent say life in the U.S. and in Mexico is equivalent; that figure is 10 percent higher than it was in 2007.

“This shift in immigration is noteworthy. Since 1965, Mexico has sent more immigrants (16.2 million) to the United States than any other country, in what has been the largest wave of immigration in U.S history,” concluded the report.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Lent He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’

LUKE 13:1-9 EXODUS 3:1-8A, 13-15 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed. So Moses decided, “I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

He answered, “Here I am.” God said, “Come no nearer!

Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your fathers,” he continued, “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. But the Lord said, “I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” Moses said to God, “But when I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”

God replied, “I am who am.” Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.”

God spoke further to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. “This is my name forever; thus am I to be remembered through all generations.”

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PSALM 103: 1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11 The Lord is kind and merciful.

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

The Lord is kind and merciful.

He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills, He redeems your life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion.

The Lord is kind and merciful.

The Lord secures justice and the rights of all the oppressed. He has made known his ways to Moses, and his deeds to the children of Israel.

The Lord is kind and merciful.

Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him.

The Lord is kind and merciful.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-6, 10-12 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. All ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert. These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did. Do not grumble as some of them did, and suffered death by the destroyer.

These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.

LUKE 13:1-9 Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. Jesus said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans?

By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those 18 people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means!

But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!” And he told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down.

Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’”

The readings here are as scheduled for the week according to Year C. Some may hear different readings from Year A that will be proclaimed to accommodate Lenten RCIA rituals.

God’s inexhaustibility

any of us, I am sure, have been inspired by the movie “Of Gods and Men,” which tells the story of a group of Trappist monks who, after making a painful decision not to flee from the violence in Algeria in the 1990s, are eventually martyred by Islamic extremists in 1996. Recently, I was much inspired by reading the diaries of one of those monks, Christophe Lebreton. Published under the title “Born from the Gaze of God, The Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk,” his diaries chronicle the last three years of his life and give us an insight into his, FATHER RON and his community’s, decision ROLHEISER to remain in Algeria in the face almost certain death.

In one of his journal entries, Christophe shares how in this situation of hatred and threat, caught between Islamic extremists on one side and a corrupt government on the other, in seeking ground for hope, he draws upon a poem, “The Well,” by a French poet, Jean-Claude Renard: But how can we affirm it’s already too late to fulfill the desireso patient does the gift remain; and when always, perhaps, something or someone says, from the depth of silence and nakedness, that an ineffable fire continues to dig in us beneath wastelands peopled by thorns a well that nothing exhausts.

A well that nothing exhausts. Perhaps that is the real basis for hope.

For all of us there are times in life when we seem to lose hope, when we look at the world or at ourselves and, consciously or unconsciously, think: “It’s too late! This has gone too far! Nothing can redeem this! All the chances to change this have been used up! It’s hopeless!”

But is this natural, depressive feeling in fact a loss of hope? Not necessarily. Indeed it is precisely when we feel this way, when we have succumbed to the feeling that we have exhausted all of our chances, it’s then that hope can arrive and replace its counterfeits, wishful thinking and natural optimism. What is hope?

We generally confuse hope with either wishful thinking or with natural optimism, both of which have little to do with hope. Wishful thinking has no foundation. We can wish to win a lottery or to have the body of a world-class athlete, but that wish has no reality upon which to draw. It’s pure fantasy. Optimism, for its part, is based upon natural temperament and also has little to do with hope. Terry Eagleton, in a recent book, “Hope without Optimism,” suggests rather cynically that optimism is simply a natural temperament and an enslaving one at that: “The optimist is chained to cheerfulness.” Moreover, he asserts, that the optimist’s monochrome glaze over the world differs from pessimism only by being monochromatically rosy instead of monochromatically gray. Hope isn’t a wish or a mood; it is a perspective on life that needs to be grounded on a sufficient reality. What is that sufficient reality?

Jim Wallis, a salient figure of Christian hope in our time, says that our hope should not be grounded on what we see on the news of the world each night because that news constantly changes and, on any given night, can be so negative so as to give us little ground for hope. He’s right. Whether the world seems better

or worse on a given evening is hardly sufficient cause for us to trust that in the end all will be well. Things might change drastically the next night.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who perennially protested that he was a man of hope rather than of optimism, in an answer to a question, once suggested that there are two sufficient reasons for hope. Asked what would happen if we blew up the world with an atomic bomb, he replied: That would set things back a few million years, but God’s plan for the earth would still come about. Why? Because Christ promised it and, in the Resurrection, God shows that God has the power to deliver on that promise. Hope is based on God’s promise and God’s power.

But there is still another reason for our hope, something else that grounds our hope and gives us sufficient reason to live in trust that eventually all will be well, namely, God’s inexhaustibility. Underneath and beneath, beneath us and beneath our universe, there is a well that nothing exhausts.

And it is this which we so often forget or slim down to the limited size of our own hearts and imaginations: God is a prodigal God, almost unimaginable in the scope of physical creation, a God who has created and is still creating billions upon billions of universes. Moreover, this prodigal God, so beyond our imagination in creativity, is, as has been revealed to us by Jesus, equally unimaginable in patience and mercy. There is never an end to our number of chances. There is no limit to God’s patience. There is nothing that can ever exhaust the divine well.

It’s never too late! God’s creativity and mercy are inexhaustible.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. See Ps 130:5, 7. Lk 4:24-30.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. Dt 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 1920. See Jn 6:63c, 68c. Mt 5:17-19.

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

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4.

See Ps 130:5, 7. Lk 4:24-30.

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The Way of the Cross

n his strong identification with the poor and vulnerable, Jesus makes it perfectly clear that when we meet the needs of these least brothers and sisters, we are ultimately serving him. And when we – as individuals, churches, states and nations – do not adequately meet the needs of the downtrodden, we have failed to do good to Jesus (Matthew 25:31-46).

With so many countless fellow human beings needlessly TONY MAGLIANO suffering, Jesus’ own suffering continues on to this very day – in them and with them.

The First Station of the Cross: Jesus is homeless. Hundreds of thousands of women, men and children in the U.S. have no place to call home. Often exposed to the harsh elements, they are literally living on our streets. We often see them, and yet we fail to see Jesus in them.

The Second Station of the Cross: Jesus is a stranger and not welcomed. Tens of thousands of children fleeing to the U.S. from Central American drug gangs are being deported back to the violence. Millions of undocumented U.S. workers denied legal protection are forced to live in the shadows of society. And millions of other human beings running for their lives from terrorists’ death threats are often confined to inhumane refugee camps. We fail to see Jesus in them.

The Third Station of the Cross: Jesus is poor. Over 895 million fellow human beings throughout the world barely exist in extreme poverty, struggling to survive without adequate and safe water, food, sanitation, health care, education, employment and housing. We are not fully committed to quickly meeting their needs. We fail to see Jesus in them.

The Fourth Station of the Cross: Jesus is aborted. Millions of unborn human beings erroneously classified by abortion proponents as “parts of a woman’s body,” or “blobs of protoplasm,” or simply “products of conception” are murdered by means of legalized abortion in many countries throughout the world. Like other vulnerable people, the unborn are often victims of what Pope Francis calls a “throwaway culture.” We fail to see Jesus in them.

The Fifth Station: Jesus is euthanized.

Growing numbers of people who are cruelly seen as a burden – often due to serious illness – are persuaded to take their own lives with the assistance of a physician (physician-assisted suicide). Instead of providing adequate psychiatric, palliative and hospice care, society is increasingly choosing this more subtle form of euthanasia to kill various people who are hurting. We fail to see Jesus in them.

The Sixth Station: Jesus is brutalized by war. In over two dozen countries wars and armed conflicts are destroying virtually everyone and everything in their path. So called developed nations like the U.S., the U.K. and Israel are fueling these bloody conflicts through arms sales and weapon grants. Countless war-torn innocent children, women and men continue to be maimed and murdered. We fail to see Jesus in them.

In Catholic tradition there are 14 Stations of the Cross. I have listed here several modern versions of them. But sadly, many more could easily be added. For suffering throughout our endangered fragile planet is monumental.

Jesus is urgently calling us to see him in our suffering brothers and sisters.

Lent is the perfect time for individuals and nations to begin fasting from what Pope Francis calls a “globalization of indifference,” and to begin feasting in the ways of Jesus: nonviolence, forgiveness, solidarity, social justice, and active compassionate love for all those who suffer.

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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After Justice Scalia

he death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13 – unexpected and, for many reasons, tragic – draws a curtain on the life and public service of one of the most important Catholic figures in America over the past half-century. Justice Scalia was regarded, by admirers and detractors alike, as the most consequential jurist of his time.

He brought a remarkable intellect, a clear concept of judging, a distinguished literary style, and a biting wit to his work on the U.S. Supreme Court. His utter demolition of the majority opinion in Obergefell vs. Hodges, the decision that invented a GEORGE WEIGEL constitutional right for people of the same sex to “marry,” is a masterpiece of devastation – as was Scalia’s dissent from Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion saving Obamacare by reinventing it as a kind-of-tax.

But it would be a grave mistake to think of Justice Scalia’s jurisprudence as essentially negative. Rather, his judging was based on convictions about who should make the laws and how judges should function in a system of judicial review. In a democracy, he believed, legislators, chosen by the people, are free to craft laws within the bounds set by the Constitution. The judge’s task is to interpret both Constitution and statutes according to their text, and according to the text’s meaning as that meaning was understood when the text was adopted. Any other method of judging, he thought, inevitably turned the Supreme Court into a Super-Congress, in which nine unelected lawyers who were not subject to periodic elections ruled the country. That seemed to him a very bad idea. More to the point, it was not the idea of governance inscribed in the Constitution.

Justice Scalia was not only a distinguished jurist; he was a wonderful man, full of vitality and humor.

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WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Human organs from pigs

uman beings can have a visceral reaction to the thought of growing human kidneys or livers inside the bodies of pigs or cows. A participant in a recent online forum on human/animal chimeras described it this way: “Unbelievable!!! … If there was anything that was more anti-God it is the genetic formation of chimeras which is nothing more than Frankenstein monster creation.”

Although the idea of a chimeric animal is indeed unusual, several factors need to be considered in evaluating the practice of growing human organs within animals. Despite our initial hesitations, certain kinds of human/ animal chimeras are likely to be justifiable and reasonable. This comes into focus when we recognize, for example, how thousands of patients who have received reFATHER TADEUSZ placement heart valves made out of pig or cow tissues are already PACHOLCZYK themselves a type of human/ animal chimera. For many years, moreover, scientists have worked with chimeric mice that possess a human immune system, enabling them to study the way that HIV and other viruses are able to infect cells.

We routinely use animals to address important human needs. We eat them and make clothing out of them. We keep them in zoos. Utilizing them for legitimate and important medical purposes like organ generation and transplantation should not, broadly speaking, be a cause for alarm. As another online participant noted, only half in jest: “Think of it – a pig provides a human heart, lungs and liver then the rest is eaten for dinner! … Plus the pig will likely be chemical free, well-fed, and humanely treated.”

If a pig were in fact able to grow a human kidney in place of its own kidney, and if it could be used for transplantation, it could provide a major new source of organs in the face of the critical shortage that currently exists. Many patients today are on waiting lists for a kidney, and a significant percentage die before an organ ever becomes available.

Yet significant technical and ethical hurdles remain before growing organs in pigs is likely to be feasible.

The science is still in its infancy, and researchers have yet to figure out how to make human cells coexist in a

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

He made no secret of his intense Catholicism, bred in him in his youth. (Nor did he hesitate to express his concerns when the church seemed to him to be coming unmoored from the Great Tradition on which it was grounded.) He was a devoted husband and father, and his friendships extended far beyond the range of those who agreed with his jurisprudence. A man of honor and a dedicated public servant, he was, with Henry Hyde, one of the two most influential Catholics in national affairs during his years in Washington. He will be sorely missed, not only by those of us privileged to know him, but by anyone who cares about intelligence and integrity in public life.

There will be an enormous political struggle over filling his seat on the court. It is far too early to know how that struggle will resolve itself. But it’s not too early to do Justice Scalia one last honor and ask the question, why is that struggle so crucial? Why has the Supreme Court become such a Leviathan in our national public life?

Something is wrong here. Last June, one man, Justice Anthony Kennedy, decided on behalf of 322 million Americans that the Constitution included a “right” for people of the same sex to “marry” each other. Put aside the fact that his reasoning was so specious (indeed vacuous) that the keener proponents of “same-sex marriage” were dismayed by it, and are trying to find another case that would put their “right” on firmer constitutional ground. The real question was, is, and ought to be this: Why was one man deciding this for the entire country?

Why was a deeply controverted issue being removed from the deliberation of the people and their legislators and decided by unelected and unaccountable judges?

(Yes, I know, Supreme Court justices can be impeached; but if you believe that a remedy for Obergefell – or in just about any other imaginable instance – I have a nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.)

stable fashion with animal tissues. There are abundant concerns about the possibility of transmitting animal viruses to humans especially considering how readily other viruses like avian flu have been able to jump from birds to humans.

Even assuming these kinds of risks are able to be minimized, and pig/human chimeras could be safely produced, there would still be several ethical issues to consider. One concern involves using stem cells from human embryos as part of the process of making pig/ human chimeras. Typically scientists try to generate chimeras by adding human embryonic stem cells to animal embryos, which then grow up and develop into chimeric animals. Destroying young humans in their embryonic stages for their stem cells is gravely objectionable, so creating chimeras could be ethical only if alternative, non-embryonic sources of stem cells (like adult stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells) were utilized for the procedure.

The technology might also lend itself to other unethical practices, like trying to create a pig that could produce human sperm or eggs in its genitalia. Similarly, if human nerve cells were incorporated into a developing pig brain in such a way that the animal developed what appeared to be human brain structures, some have noted there could be questions about the occurrence of intelligence or self-consciousness or other facets of human identity in the animal. Although such concerns seem farfetched, given the dearth of knowledge about the “scaffolding of consciousness,” it seems reasonable to limit this kind of experimentation. Some scientific agencies like the National Institutes of Health have restricted the availability of research funds for the study of human/animal chimeras because of these and other considerations, seeking to levy pressure so that the needed ethical discernment and discussion occurs before researchers proceed further.

We tend to view modern scientific progress as a powerful “engine of good” for the well-being of mankind, and therefore we view most scientific research with hope.

This is proper and fitting, and to reinforce and reinvigorate that hope, we should continue to insist that cutting edge biomedical research remain in active dialogue and interaction with sound ethics. The expanding study of human/animal chimeras challenges us to reflect carefully on the morally appropriate use of these novel and powerful technologies, so that human dignity will not be harmed, subjugated, or misappropriated in any way.

FATHER PACHOLCZYK is the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY: The board of the United Irish Societies, sponsors of this year’s “165th San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade” March 12, has been gathering to discuss the celebration. Additional events sponsored by UIS include Palm Sunday Mass, 10 a.m., for the late Father Peter C. Yorke at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma: www. uissf.org.

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TRIDENTINE MASS: St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater, Burlingame, 5:30 p.m., choir rehearses 4 p.m., rosary in Latin 5 p.m., Divine Mercy chaplet follows Mass at 6:30 p.m., (650) 513-0696; mdpentim@ gmail.com.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext.

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BREAKFAST TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, Mass, 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and talk from Philip Grant, Irish Consul General, breakfast $10 members, $15 others, (415) 461-0704, 9- 3p.m. or Sugaremy@aol.com.

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Pomerantz, president, Charles Schwab Foundation, is featured speaker at luncheon benefiting work of St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco, 11:30 a.m., Four Seasons Hotel. 757 Market St., San Francisco, (415) 977-1270, ext. 104; ljones@svdp-sf.org.

MERCY SERIES: “To visit the imprisoned,” Lorraine Moriarty, executive director, St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County, Deacon Martin Lorraine Schurr, chapMoriarty lain to inmates of San Mateo County jails: The archdiocesan Office for Consecrated Life hosts a series of Sunday afternoon talks commemoratDeacon Schurr ing the Year of Mercy, Presentation Sisters’ convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535, no fee for these events but a freewill offering is accepted and later will be donated to St. Anthony’s Dining Room, Catherine’s Place, Mercy Housing and St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 12 FASHION SHOW: Marin Catholic High School, “Havana Nights,” Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall in San Rafael; luncheon event, $75, 10 a.m.; evening event $165, 5 p.m., with cocktails, fashion show and dancing; (415) 464.3800; www.marincatholic. org.

GRIEF SUPORT: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m., for anyone who is experiencing grief of the loss of a loved one, free, Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads, Sister Elaine at (415) 567-2020, ex. 218.

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HIBERNIAN LUNCH: Hibernian Newman Club, St. Patrick’s Day lunch.

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EDRS specialist. The staff also includes Desiree Samora and Jason Bacigalupi, EDRS specialists and Arrangement Counselors, and Kathy Jacobson and Joyce Van Horn, Arrangement Counselors. Christine also certified as a Bereavement Facilitator is Family Services Manager at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery but is involved in the family business with accounting and the on-line store.

“We nurture each other through our journeys here,” Stinson said.

Colma Cremation and Funeral Services is a grief-based practice, though that service, grief support, is free. All of the following are offered – green burials, pre-planning, memorial service planning, transportation from place of death, funeral coach (hearse), caskets, urns, form explanation and processing, cremation and burial options.

Since day one, the company’s goal has been to offer affordable solutions for funerals and cremation. There is no embalming.

“Embalming is not required by California law, but you do have to have refrigeration,” Stinson said.

Embalming is expensive. It requires an embalming room and it must be in compliance with OSHA guidelines. No state or province in North America requires the routine embalming of bodies. (As needed, CCFS can hold someone in refrigeration for a month.)

“Today we are seeing more processes of a natural death,” Stinson said. “Less people are in an ICU. Many people are dying natural deaths at home or in nursing homes. So it doesn’t make a lot of sense to take a person who has just experienced a very natural process, that we are designed to do, to die, like we are designed to be born, and then proceed with embalming, a horribly invasive procedure which when done, leaves the deceased not looking anything like they did in life. “ “Many funeral homes will tell loved ones that they have to have that,” Stinson continued. “But that is misinformation. And I am saying that out loud to the entire world. Embalming has nothing to do with anything.”

Stinson said that death is also life affirming. “When a person dies, you have had them in your life, and you want to keep them in your life,” Stinson said. “And there is an understood promise that you make to your loved one – that you will take care of yourself. And when you take care of your health, by taking care of your grief, you will continue to get the messages that they are sending you.

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It happened more than 40 years ago in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, a small city near the center of Westmoreland County and about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh. 14-year-old Joe Stinson and his two buddies from junior high school, left school at 1 p.m. to go up to the Catholic church for their weekly instruction.

“I was running a little ahead of them and we had to cross the four big tracks that went through town,” Stinson said. His friends decided they were going to play hooky but Joe couldn’t and continued on to catechism.

“We are up there in that class for about 45 minutes and when we all came out, we headed to the bridge a little further down that crossed the tracks,” Stinson recalled. “Then we all see it. This big train is stopped and everybody is talking about how two kids got killed by the train. And then it hit. I knew.”

Joe’s friends had followed the steel rails a good way down, long past the spot where a bridge serves as a safety guide over land which curve downs. Eventually they turned around and came back into an area called “Dead Man’s Cut,” where two hillsides grow at such a degree, that one cannot hear a loud train coming. They were hit from behind.

“Back then, what to do about grief didn’t exist,” Stinson said. “And at that age, you go through what you go through. I went to the funerals and it was horrible. When you are 14, these are your brothers. We were extremely close.”

“After their deaths, one family was a little distant to me,” Stinson said, “because I was the one that lived. But the other family brought me in.”

It wasn’t until after high school, that the young man from Jeannette was really able to move on from what happened and start to see a need. Now a grief counselor, funeral director and the CEO of Colma Cremation and Funeral Services, Stinson said, “It was because of this lifechanging event, that I took up the baton of funeral work.”

Joe started in the funeral business with part-time work at a local funeral home while attending Robert Morris University. (With special thanks, he wants to note here, to his dear and recently departed friend John Dobrinick.)

Following college and his subsequent graduation from the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, Stinson began his internship in Pennsylvania. But when the girl of his dreams moved to Southern California with her parents, Joe flew out West and he and Christine were married in Vegas. “That was in 1967, the Summer of Love!”

Stinson went to work for Gates, Kingsley & Gates (Funeral Directors) in Santa Monica, Culver City and Westwood. The couple stayed a year; then returned to their hometown when Christine became pregnant with their first daughter. (They have two “wonderful” daughters and two “fabulous” grandsons.) In 1969, Stinson received his Funeral Director and Embalmer license.

In 1975, through the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Organ Donor Team, he became certified in eye enucleation surgery for cornea transplant. While working full time as a funeral director, he donated his time to transplant teams at three area hospitals. For this work he received the Distinguished Service Award. He was additionally an Associate in Hospital Pathology, as well as a Deputy Coroner and an Associate in Forensic Pathology.

In 1978, he pursued courses in the field of grief and bereavement counseling and became nationally certified as a Bereavement Facilitator.

“When I originally entered the funeral business, the

type of work I did was traditional,” Stinson said. “But one day a family came in that I knew like my own family. I greeted them the way I greeted others, but I got a very, very different reaction and that’s because I wasn’t educated on grief. When individuals go to school to get their license in medicine, psychology, health care, ministry, sociology, funeral service – if they want to specialize in end of life care or grief work, they have to add the study of grief as part of their discipline, because it is not naturally taught as part of their discipline.”

“In this country, we really learned about grief from the family members of Vietnam Vets missing in action,” Stinson continued. “These family members were really getting sick because they could never grieve. And grieving is about health.”

But before Stinson really learned about “grief,” he said he did what many professionals do in the various fields which deal with illness and/or heartache – he did everything he could to be liked by the person experiencing grief.

“Once you understand how grief works, you know that you are not there for these people so they can watch your performance and your hope is that they like you,” Stinson said. “People are going to talk to you about things they can’t talk to any other human being about. When you are not a grief counselor, you don’t want to ask them how they are, because if they tell you, you won’t know what to say. In the understanding of grief, we have taken it from a psychological issue to a physiological issue and so it becomes about wellness and health and this puts us on the ‘Kübler-Ross ‘ side of things.”

Swiss-born psychiatrist Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a pioneer in “near-death” studies. In her 1969 book “On Death and Dying,” she examined the five stages of grief, as it relates to the news of one’s impending death – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These five stages have also since been recognized as applying to the survivors of a loved one’s death.

“When one goes through grief and trauma, it changes the way the hormones are produced in the body,” Stinson said, “and you are going to have these symptoms. One is loss of memory, way more than is comfortable, regardless of age. Children have it too. You are going to have a hard time following a thought process and completing it, whether you are talking or thinking. Your five senses are actually diminished, so things are not getting to you.

That’s where you hear people say they are numb. Your immune system drops, so you are more susceptible to disease and you have feelings of being overwhelmed.

When someone comes in, I am going to talk to them about this. Because the more that person grieving knows this, the more they know there is nothing wrong with them. What they are going through is a normal process. A big part of what we do here, is give individuals all kinds of coping skills.”

Since being educated on grief, Stinson has fully embraced teaching what he knows. He taught in Hospice for fifteen years. He teaches “grief ” in certified continuing education courses for health providers. He designed a course, “Death, Dying, Loss and Survival,” which he teaches to elementary school students through university students. He is a frequent guest on Kelly Howell’s “Theatre of the Mind” podcast. At one point he created and was the host of “Good Grief Radio,” where his guests included Frank Ostaseski, the creator and founding director of Zen Hospice Project, and Father Miles Riley, PhD, a wellness speaker known for his radio ministry.

In 1987, with their daughters in or about to enter college, Joe and Christine headed back to California, this time to the Bay Area.

“Among our top reasons for moving here is that ‘here’ is where (American rock band) the Grateful Dead lived and we’re huge fans,” Stinson laughed, adding that he wasn’t kidding. Also, Joe needed some new challenges.

Having grown up in Jeannette, and having been at one time a well-known school athlete, he felt things were too often handed to him. The family moved and Joe’s sister and brother-in-law made the move as well.

Stinson worked in various funeral homes, then bought Colma Cremation and Funeral Services in the early 90s.

He partnered with Pam Taylor, a licensed funeral director, whose background included caregiver responsibilities with Mission, Pathway and Kara Hospice. Like Stinson, she received her National Certification as a Bereavement Facilitator. Joe and Christine’s daughter Amy Stinson, also nationally certified as a Bereavement Facilitator, is the company’s manager, Associate Funeral Director and

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