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The project has a double purpose according to Julio Escobar, coordinator for the archdiocese’s restorative justice program, which is organizing the program and serves as a liaison between schools and parishes and local prisons. Both students and prisoners are anonymous to each other, but continued correspondence will be possible through the archdiocese. “We are trying to accomplish two things at the same time, said Escobar. “Reaching out to the imprison,” as a corporal act of mercy, and helping young Catholics embrace the concept of restorative justice early in their lives.” Restorative justice is based on an old and communal understanding of wrongdoing and is the way many of our ancestors understood wrongdoing, Escobar said. The basic concerns of restorative justice

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis asked Catholic dioceses around the world to set up a permanent memorial of the Year of Mercy by establishing a hospital, home for the aged or school in an under-served area. Celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday with an evening prayer vigil April 2 and a morning Mass April 3, the pope said the idea Pope Francis came to him during a meeting with a charitable organization and he decided to mention it at the vigil with participants of the European gathering of the World Apostolic Congress of Mercy and followers of the Divine Mercy devotion. “As a reminder, a ‘monument’ let’s say, to this Year of Mercy, how beautiful it would be if in every diocese there were a structural work of mercy: a hospital, a home for the aged or abandoned children, a school where there isn’t one, a home for recovering drug addicts – so many things could be done,” the pope said. “Let’s think about it and speak with the bishops,” the pope told thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet of St. Faustina Kowalska, and also to remember St. John Paul II, who promoted the devotion and died April 2, 2005. Reciting the “Regina Coeli” prayer at the end of Mass the next day, Pope Francis said the Divine Mercy Sunday celebration was “like the heart of the Year of Mercy,” and he announced that Catholic parishes throughout Europe would be asked to take up a special collection April 24 as a sign of closeness and solidarity with people suffering because of the war in Eastern Ukraine. The war has caused thousands of deaths and forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes, he said. Pope Francis prayed that the collection, a sign of solidarity and closeness, “could help, without further delay, promote peace and respect for the law in that harshly tried land.” The more one receives mercy, Pope Francis said at the vigil April 2, “the more we are called

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Inmates at San Quentin State Prison and the San Francisco County Jail will receive cards handmade by students of archdiocesan Catholic schools and religious education programs participating in a Pen Pal Jr. service project for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Prison pen pals offer youth a lesson in mercy and restorative justice CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Hundreds of locally incarcerated men and women will receive a handmade card and message of hope this Mother’s Day and Father’s Day from young Catholics participating this year in a Year of Mercy project coordinated by the archdiocese. “I know it seems impossible to think about being forgiven but it is not,” wrote an unnamed eighth grade student who made his card during Lent. “Leave all the bad things behind and begin a new page, strive for greatness and God will be there too.” The Pen Pal Jr. program launched earlier this year will connect adolescent Catholic school and religious education students to approximately 1,150 prisoners in San Francisco County Jail and 600 prisoners at San Quentin State Prison in an artful religious education project.

St. Paul School celebrates centennial: 12,000 students educated since 1916 TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco’s St. Paul School celebrates its 100th anniversary April 30 and May 1. The elementary school has served approximately 12,000 students during the last century. “Records show the school opened in July 31, 1916, with 529 students. It grew to, at one time, over 1,000 students, and was the largest parochial school west of

the Mississippi,” said Gina Fazio-Siu, school finance and marketing manager. “We are celebrating St. Paul’s School having educated the children of Noe Valley for 100 years, with the emphasis on teaching Catholic tradition, academic excellence, diversity and community.” Father Mario Farana has been pastor of St. Paul Parish since 1993. “After 100 years, the spirit of our school remains, the same spirit of vision and purpose that was given by the school’s founding pastor, Msgr.

Michael Connolly and principal, Sister Conradine Davies, BVM,” Father Farana told Catholic San Francisco. “Despite many changes over the years, structurally and educationally, our parish school lives on in order to feed the minds and nourish the hearts of the young, and in the end, to enable them to live with the values of the Gospel.” Notre Dame Sister Kathryn Camacho is principal

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NEED TO KNOW ‘GREENING THE PARISH’ WORKSHOP: Registration is open for “Caring for our Common Home: A Parish Response,” an archdiocesewide event set for Saturday, April 23, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., St. Anne Parish hall, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. Contact Lorena Melgarejo at melgarejol@sfarch.org. To register, visit sfarch.org/green. In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, the archdiocese is working to strengthen our responsibilities as outlined in the papal encyclical “Laudato Sí.” Parishes are invited to send representatives. GOOD SHEPHERD’S 65TH ANNIVERSARY: Church of the Good Shepherd in Pacifica will celebrate its 65th anniversary on Good Shepherd Sunday, April 17. A 12:15 p.m. Mass will be celebrated by Father Luello Palacpac, followed by a procession of the Good Shepherd statue around the church grounds. A potluck reception is set for 1:30 p.m. REFUGEE ADVOCATE HONORED: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco honors Missionary of Jesus Sister Norma Pimentel with its Loaves and Fishes Award April 16 at its annual dinner of the same name at San Francisco’s St. Regis Hotel. Sister Norma, who heads Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, met with Pope Francis on his recent U.S. visit where he lauded the “ongoing humanitarian aid she provides to refugees and immigrants on the Texas-Mexico border,” Catholic Charities said in a statement. Sister Norma’s Crisis Relief Center has assisted more than 32,000 refugees and immigrants to date, Catholic Charities said. KQED’s Thuy Vu will serve as the evening’s master of ceremonies. Catholic Charities’ dinner and gala will highlight the agency’s services to refugees and immigrants; St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco; (415) 972-1246; http://catholiccharitiessf.org/loavesandfishes.

BAY AREA HIGH SCHOOL GROUP RECEIVES TOP PRO-LIFE AWARD

Students for Life of America named a San Francisco Bay Area group the 2015 High School Group of the Year. The Shield for the Unborn group in the San Francisco Bay Area received the award in January.

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The St. Paul School first grade class of 1930. St. Paul teacher Jackie Curran’s great-aunt Margaret Keane Dolan, “who still lives in the neighborhood,” is in the first row, fifth from left. Curran is a 1995 alumna of St. Paul.

St. Paul School principal Notre Dame Sister Kathy Camacho, left, is pictured with St. Paul pastor Father Mario Farana and first grade teacher Jackie Curran.

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of St. Paul School: “I am proud to be a part of such a rich legacy of Catholic education in San Francisco,” she said. “It is a blessing to be standing on the shoulders of these courageous men and women, especially the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary who worked tirelessly for the families of Noe Valley for so many years.” The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary “joined St. Paul’s right from the beginning,” Fazio-Siu said, noting 15 sisters arrived from Dubuque, Iowa, July 8, 1916 and remained “a continuous presence here.” BVM Sister Ann Cronin, this year celebrating 50 years as a religious, was the school’s last BVM principal, leaving in 2001. Sister Ann remained in other roles at the school for several years after that. St. Paul School has helped form almost 200 vocations to the priesthood

“The Shield for the Unborn has been an incredible witness in their community to the pro-life message of love and compassion,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America. “This group of young homeschoolers have been ambassadors of the pro-life generation as they stand

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and religious life: The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary have welcomed 69 women from St. Paul’s. Other congregations of women religious with St. Paul alumnae in their ranks include Daughters of Charity, Discalced Carmelites, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Dominicans Sisters of San Rafael, Holy Cross Sisters, Holy Family Sisters, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Marist Sisters, Maryknoll Sisters, Sisters of Mercy Sisters, Poor Sisters of Nazareth, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Our Lady of the Way, St. Ann Sisters, and Sisters of St. Joseph. St. Paul alumni entering diocesan priesthood number 48 with four of them becoming bishops. Congregations of men religious who have added to their number from St. Paul’s include Augustinians, Dominican Friars, Franciscans, Jesuits, Maryknoll, Redemptorists, Salesians, Christian Brothers, Jesuits, Marianists and Trappists.

outside Planned Parenthood and pray for the end of abortion.” Shield for the Unborn were recognized for excellence not only for their dedication to delivering the pro-life message in their community but also for mobilizing their group of 25 homeschool students to attend peaceful weekly outreaches at their local

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St. Paul High School which opened in 1917 and closed in 1994 was a long and proud light of St. Paul Parish. In fact, proceeds from the sale of the high school property helped in meeting the cost of building the new elementary school building. “Over 5,000 women graduated from St. Paul’s High School and the alumnae association is still very strong and active today,” FazioSiu said. St. Paul’s future plans? “Continuing to provide quality Catholic education to the families of Noe Valley and beyond,” Fazio-Siu said. St. Paul School, San Francisco, two-day celebration of its first 100 years, with Mass April 30, 4 p.m. with reception following. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Cardinal William J. Levada, principal celebrant. May 1 family Mass at 9:15 a.m. followed by pancake breakfast at $5 per person. www.stpaulschoolsf.org; (415) 648-2055.

Planned Parenthood, in addition to 11 larger-scale protests. “These students are stellar ambassadors of the prolife movement in their community, and the consistency with which they have stood as the last line of defense outside abortion facilities bears witness to their incredible organization and diligence,” said Hawkins.

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Together, We Are Catholic Charities: A staff perspective Catholic Charities, the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, serves more than 37,000 people locally. This is the first of a three-part series focusing on the work of Catholic Charities through the lens of staff, clients, volunteers and donors. Those who give also receive, and those who receive, also give. It is through this exchange that we share the gift of dignity and recall that we are in this together. We are Catholic Charities. Together we serve. Catholic parishes annually support this work during the second collection on Catholic Charities Sunday, this year May 7, 8, 2016.

have worked for Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services for more than 20 years since I first arrived to this country by way of Sweden in 1995, seeking refuge from my native Cuba where I had been a lawyer. I remember how difficult it was for me here without a helping hand to gain asylum and navigate the legal immigration system. If I faced that kind of difficulty with my legal background and fluent English, I wondered, think of all the hurdles encountered by those who struggle with English as a second language and know nothing about the legal system! My job now as

Catholic Charities director of Refugee and Immigrant Services has given me the opportunity to be that helping hand for people seeking legal guidance through the immigration process. I have been in the shoes of my clients. This work is highly significant for me. It reaches my heart. Let me tell you about one of our clients named Luis, as an example of the kind of case our staff represents in immigration court. When Luis came to Catholic Charities this past year, he had quite a story to tell. For Luis, living in Honduras was difficult and dangerous. When Luis was 12 years old, his father was killed by gunmen who wanted to extort money from him. In despera-

tion, Luis’ mother had to leave Honduras for Spain so she could provide for Luis and his younger brother. But the boys, who were left in the care of their grandparents, were still living in fear. In addition to being physically abused by his grandfather, Luis was constantly threatened and beaten up by violent gangs as he walked to and from school. Recognizing this danger, Luis’ grandmother implored him and his brother to leave Honduras. The two terrified boys, age 12 and 6, boarded a cargo train alone, bound for the United States. When they finally made it to the U.S., they surrendered to the immigration authorities and eventually

found their way to Catholic Charities. Staff members worked diligently to find them a home and to prepare a complete statement for their application for political asylum. The asylum claim was approved and the boys are no longer under the threat of getting deported to Honduras. For the first time in their lives they are secure and, equally important, they have hope for a safe and promising future. This past year, Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services offices in San Francisco and San Mateo handled 2,000 new cases and individual consultations. We reached 6,500 people through local immigration citizenship workshops and events last year. Our staff is accredited by the Board of Immigration Appeals to provide a broad range of immigration counseling and representation to immigrants and their families. The impact Catholic Charities has in profoundly changing the lives of our clients for the better is beautiful to witness. It is what motivates me every day. For more information, contact Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services: San Francisco office, (415) 972 1200; San Mateo office, (650) 295-2160, ext. 2.

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Every year mercy year at Riordan, per alum now campus minister TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“The spirit of the Year of Mercy has always been present at Archbishop Riordan High School following Catholic tradition and Marianist education,” Leonardo Magnaye, campus ministry assistant and community service coordinator at the San Francisco school, told me. For the record, Leo should know: He is a 2005 Riordan alumnus and was very active in Riordan ministry activities as a student there. Leonardo A. He is also a graduate of St. Anthony Magnaye Immaculate Conception School. “I went on all the retreats, and was part of the leadership teams,” the UC Davis graduate said. “I felt the strongest in my faith my senior year after our KAIROS retreat, and I still feel the effects of my journey of discovery and spirituality until today. I am returning to campus ministry to continue my calling as a Crusader brother to mentor and guide the new generation into faith, fellowship, and the Catholic-Marianist spirit.” The Year of Mercy has given a spark to the underlying current of care at Riordan. “Broadly, our goal is to create gentlemen of society that feel the spiritual hunger to serve others and reflect as Pope Francis encourages that, ‘No one can be excluded from God’s mercy,’” Leo said. “The school has already planned to increase student body and community exposure to experience God’s mercy and perform works of mercy.” In addition, campus ministry and the Theology Department are collaborating on curriculum integration emphasizing the importance of Christian community service throughout all four years of theology courses. “The integration will encompass personal reflection, empathy and compassion, altruism in outreach and service, and a spiritual need to continue community service after high school and into the world,” Leo said. The school has made confession more available and regular celebration of the Mass has helped build community and fellowship. Pope Francis is on the radar with Riordan students. “Pope Francis has been a new voice for our traditional Catholic teaching, and the students have been very aware of the role that he is playing in shaping how our traditions are being perceived in the world,” Leo said. The school has a strong base in saintly example. “We often refer to the founder of the Marianist

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy 100th birthday April 20 to Norma Frances Tealdi long of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish and its Italian Catholic Federation in North Beach. Joining Norma April 16 for a party in her honor at the Basque Cultural Center will be her children Judy Fontana and Fred Tealdi with his wife Sue, Norma’s sisters Charlotte and Dorothy, plus her four grandchildren and four great grandchildren. The soon-to-be-centenarian is pictured with her daughter Judy Fontana and her son Fred Tealdi.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Mass Feb. 17 at All Souls Church was cornerstone of celebration of 100th birthday of Ignacio Pineda, pictured here behind his cake with his brother Rafael. All Souls pastor, Divine Word Father Briccio Tamoro, presided. A reception at South San Francisco Elks Club was filled with family and friends including Ignacio’s five children. Order, Blessed William Joseph Chaminade. He saw the incredible needs of our world and called on all people, not just vowed religious, but also the lay community, to be voices of change.” NICE WORK: Nick Jaeger, a senior at Woodside Priory in Portola Valley, has been named a top runner-up in The 2016 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. The recognition honors young Americans for outstanding community service. Nick has been involved with “Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse” since the age of 13. With the help of

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CONSECRATED LIFE MASS: Annual Mass to celebrate consecrated life and those celebrating milestone jubilees as religious, April 17, 4 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone principal celebrant and homilist. Religious celebrating jubilees will renew their vows at the Mass, and religious will serve as ministers of the Mass including readers and gift bearers. A general reception follows the Mass in the cathedral’s lower halls with a special dinner for jubilarians later in the evening, (415) 614-5535; conrottor@sfarchdiocese.org. MISSED STEP: My apologies to Sister Anne Cronin, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for not including Sister Ann’s 10 years as principal of San Francisco’s St. Paul School in the item March 24 in this column thanking her for her long service as a religious. Sister Ann is celebrating her 50th year as a BVM sister in 2016. Email items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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Speaker: With rents spiking, Marin housing crisis ‘isn’t going away’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The once-homeless deputy director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County told local Catholics April 1 that a lack of affordable housing in Marin has exponentially increased rental prices and created a rising population of “working homeless” and others on the brink of homelessness. “The housing crisis in Marin is real and it isn’t going away,” said Suzanne Walker, guest speaker at the April meeting of the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, a lay fraternal group that meets monthly in Greenbrae at St. Sebastian parish hall. She said homeless people can be found in Marin “behind the counter at Starbucks, working at Target, or at the local gas station.” They, and nonworking residents unable to find housing on social security income live in cars, live outside or go from shelter to shelter. Walker’s talk focused on the link between the lack of affordable housing and homelessness in a county where rents have jumped 20 to 50 percent in the last two years. In Marin, which has a less-than-1 percent vacancy rate, 17,000 households spend more than half of their monthly income on housing, Walker said. “It’s essentially a matter of supply-and-demand,” she said. “Homelessness prevention” is the primary work of the local St. Vin-

When one apartment-complex tenant received notice that their $1,600 rent was spiking to $2,800, ‘they thought it was a typo.’ SUZANNE WALKER

St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County cent de Paul Society, Walker said. The society helps county residents find or keep housing by offering financial assistance with rental payments and deposits, transportation, blankets, clothing and other essentials. It also offers a free dining room and manages the Rotating Emergency Shelter Team, a partnership with 40 local faith communities that provide food, shelter and fellowship to homeless men and women. “The bottom line is with so little housing available, property owners can charge what they want and prices keep going up,” said Walker, who said she spends 65 percent of her own salary on her two-bedroom apartment in Novato. In the last month, she said, three tenants from one apartment complex came to the Vincentian society’s help desk after receiving a notice that suggested their rent had almost doubled. The $1,600 rent was going up to $2,800. “They thought it was a typo,” Walker said. The median price for a two-bed-

room apartment in Marin is $3,110 a month, well outside the pay grade for an hourly service sector worker and a struggle for many salaried workers too. More than 60,000 people make long commutes to jobs in Marin where they can’t afford to live and another 40,000 commute out of the county to higher paying jobs so they can. It’s a perilous situation for 20,000 Marin seniors living below the poverty line, and others such as the disabled, whose monthly social security checks are less than the lowest possible rents in Marin, $1,000 for a studio apartment or $800 to share a room in someone’s home. Walker leads a weekly support group for a group of homeless men who struggle not just with the rigors of homelessness but with the stigma that follows it. They are sober and employed, but are perceived as most homeless are as “troublemakers and alcoholics.”

“When we describe someone as homeless, we don’t say anything about them except for what they don’t have,” she said. “There are many other people that I have sat across the desk from, who are more holy than I, more educated than I and even more compassionate than I, who are homeless on the streets of this county.” Walker’s talk took a personal turn when she recounted a conversation with a Marin County parishioner after a Mass during which she pitched funding for SVdP programs. The man said that as a person of faith he got it why we should help people who are down on their luck. But he said he “couldn’t get his heart around” why we should be offering services to drug addicts and alcoholics. “It was a profound moment for me because I had to tell this gentleman he was talking about me,” said Walker, a former drug addict who survived with the help of free meals in the SVdP dining room. The mission of the SVdP, she said, is to see the face of Christ in all who struggle. “So, was I worthy to receive help?” she said. “I don’t know the answer to that question. But I do know that if I had not received that help I would not be here today.”

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As a Sister of Mercy and a resident services coordinator at Mercy Housing who has helped people with low incomes in the San Francisco area for more than 25 years, Sister Patsy Harney has a lot of stories to tell. At Mercy Housing, an affordable housing nonprofit founded by the Sisters of Mercy, she runs an afterschool program, a small community center, and a computer center in Visitacion Valley, a neighborhood known for its high rates of gang activity, poverty and violence. In honor of the Year of Mercy, Patsy answered questions about her work and how she makes mercy real in her community.

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A few weeks ago I gave a tour of Mission Creek, one of the Mercy Housing communities in San Francisco, to Mercy Associates and a group of students from Mercy High School in Burlingame. The first stop on our tour was a visit to David, a resident. Years ago, David lost his job due to a medi-

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Iconography student: ‘Artistic ability is irrelevant’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The holy cards she received from nuns as a reward for “doing something good” at her Catholic grade school sparked a lifelong interest in religious icons, San Francisco artist Pat Preble told Catholic San Francisco March 31. “I have always loved icons but only recently began painting them,” Preble said during a visit to her home studio filled with her paintings, photography, ceramics and prints, some of which has been displayed at galleries in New York. She was drawn to traditional iconography after researching the history of portraiture and painting techniques from early Rome. Last year she took a weeklong workshop hosted by local Episcopal church featuring a master of Byzantine iconography, Theodore Papadopoulos. It was there she produced her first traditional icon of Jesus Christ which will be a gift to her cousin, the pastor of a Catholic church in Los Angeles. The technical methods used to paint Russian icons are different than those used in traditional Byzantine iconography, she said, the oldest form of the art, but the prayer and spirituality is the same. “Icons aren’t really something that modern artists focus on,” where the desire to make a ‘statement,’ create an interesting composition or “express themselves” is the focus, Preble said. Being in prayer and communion with the saints during the creation of an icon is the point.

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Planned Parenthood v. Center for Medical Progress set for 2017 trial VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A federal judge has set a court date of Dec. 4, 2017, for Planned Parenthood’s federal civil lawsuit asking for damages and claiming federal racketeering violations against the Center for Medical Progress, founder David Daleiden, and others for videos that purport to show California representatives of the organization discussing the sale of parts of aborted fetuses. The videos, first released in July 2015, have led to a number of states defunding Planned Parenthood and have raised defunding Planned Parenthood to a presidential campaign issue for both Republicans and Democrats. Federal law prohibits the sale or purchase of aborted fetal tissue but allows limited reimbursement for specific costs of donating fetal tissue. The Center for Medical Progress investigation claims Planned Parenthood engaged in trafficking fetal body parts for profit and Planned Parenthood claims it only charged for costs. Forty-one percent or $528 million of Planned Parenthood’s $1.3 billion budget nationally in fiscal year 2013-14 came from government funds. In the Bay Area, more than 80 percent of Planned Parent-

hood affiliates’ funds came from the government, with more than 50 percent from the state of California, according to Planned Parenthood’s annual reports. Planned Parenthood performs about 1 in 3 of all abortions in the United States. During a hearing March 29 in San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick set the trial date for Dec. 4, 2017, for Planned Parenthood v. the Center for Medical Progress, Daleiden and others. Life Legal Defense Foundation attorney Katie Short, lead attorney for Daleiden, said Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit is an attempt to stifle Daleiden and the center’s First Amendment rights and she will file to dismiss the case by the end of April and the hearing for dismissal is likely to be held in July. The suit seeks a permanent injunction to prevent Daleiden from ever launching another undercover investigation into Planned Parenthood’s activities which in legal terms is an unconstitutional “prior restraint” on speech, Life Legal said in a statement. “Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress have exposed Planned Parenthood’s willingness to engage in unethical and criminal conduct and now the organization is doing everything in its power to silence the messenger,” Life Legal executive director Alexandra Snyder said in a statement.

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FUNERAL MARKS MOTHER ANGELICA’S LIFE AS A ‘FAITHFUL BRIDE’ TO JESUS

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Mother Angelica’s life must be viewed in reference to Jesus, the homilist at her April 1 funeral Mass said. “We cannot understand Mother Angelica without reference the One that she loved with the passion of a bride, Jesus, the Eternal Word Who became man and dwelt among us,” said Fr. Joseph Mary Wolfe, MVFA, in his homily at the funeral Mass for Mother Angelica, foundress of EWTN and Abbess Emerita at Our Lady of the Angels monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. “Her legacy is a legacy of His work in her,” Father Joseph Mary added. An estimated 2,000 mourners attended Mother Angelica’s funeral Mass at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, 45 miles north of Birmingham. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said the Mass, joined by the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, as well as Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Bishop Robert Baker of Birmingham, and his predecessor, Bishop David Foley, Mother’s longtime bishop.

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LONDON – In a recent interview with British daily The Guardian, renowned actor Jeremy Irons voiced his opposition to easy divorce and to abortion, which he said is a sin and “harms a woman.” “Take abortion,” he told The Guardian’s Catherine Shoard in an interview

thing goes and it will become terrible – and you usually get into trouble.” From there he spoke of adultery, saying that while it “might be very nice” it is finally socially destructive. He affirmed the value of marriage, saying that “yes, you can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually marriage does give us a strength, because it’s quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy – which it sort of has – then we don’t have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.”

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Mother Angelica lies in repose March 29 at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama.

Archbishop Vigano read aloud a message from Pope Francis at the end of the Mass. “His Holiness Pope Francis was saddened to learn of the death of Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, and extends heartfelt condolences to the Poor Clares of the Perpetual Adoration of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, and to the EWTN community,” he said.

published March 24. “I believe women should be allowed to make the decision, but I also think the church is right to say it’s a sin. Because sin is actions that harm us. Lying harms us. Abortion harms a woman – it’s a tremendous mental attack, and physical, sometimes. But we seem to get that muddled. In a way, thank God the Catholic Church does say we won’t allow it, because otherwise nobody’s saying that it’s a sin.” Irons, 67, has been acting on the stage and in film and television since 1969. His breakout role was as Charles Ryder in the 1981 miniseries “Brideshead Revisited,” and he voiced Scar in “The Lion King.” “Our society is based on a Christian structure,” he told Shoard. “If you take those religious tenets away, then any-

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ highly anticipated post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the gifts and challenges of family life will be published April 8, the Vatican announced. Titled “Amoris Laetitia” (“On Love in the Family,”) the document will officially be presented to journalists in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Speakers presenting the exhortation will include Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops and Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, OP, Archbishop of Vienna. Additionally, married couple Francesco Miano, a lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of Rome at Tor Vergata, and his wife Giuseppina De Simone in Miano, a lecturer in philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy in Naples, will also be among the panelists presenting the document. The apostolic exhortation is the conclusion of a two-year synod process discussing both the beauty and challenges of family life today. Rumors have consistently circulated as to what the pope will say regarding the issues of Communion and homosexuality. However, in a recent booklength interview with Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli titled “The Name of God is Mercy,” Francis dropped a few hints that there will be nothing dramatic in his exhortation and that not much will change in terms of church teaching and current pastoral practice. CNA/EWTN

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to share it with others; it cannot be kept hidden or kept only for ourselves.” God’s mercy should drive people to love others, “recognizing the face of Jesus Christ above all in those who are most distant, weak, alone, confused and marginalized,” he said. “It pains the heart” when people talk about refugees and say, “Let’s throw them out,” or speak about the poor and say, “Let them sleep on the street,” the pope said. “Is this of Jesus?” Reflecting on the Gospel account of Thomas, who came to faith in the risen Lord when he was able to put his hands in Jesus’ wounds, Pope Francis said, “a faith incapable of entering the wounds of the Lord is not faith. A faith unable to be merciful as a sign of the merciful wounds of the Lord, is not faith. It’s an idea, an ideology.” “If we want truly want to believe and have faith,” he said, “we must draw near and touch those wounds, caress those wounds, but also lower

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Pilgrims participate in a prayer service led by Pope Francis on the eve of the feast of Divine Mercy in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 2. our heads and let others touch our wounds.” Celebrating the Divine Mercy

Sunday Mass the next morning, Pope Francis said the Gospel story of God’s mercy “remains an open book” to

which people can add good news by being heralds of the Gospel and engaging in works of mercy, “which are the hallmarks of the Christian life.” Just as the disciples were afraid but nevertheless set out as the risen Lord commanded, he said, many times Christians today experience “an interior struggle between a closed heart and the call of love to open doors closed by sin.” “Christ, who for love entered through doors barred by sin, death and the powers of hell, wants to enter into each one of us to break open the locked doors of our hearts,” the pope said. Where people are wounded, fearful and uncertain, Christians are called to reach out with Jesus’ peace, mercy and healing power. “In Christ, we are born to be instruments of reconciliation, to bring the Father’s forgiveness to everyone, to reveal his loving face through concrete gestures of mercy,” Pope Francis said. “Truly, God’s mercy is forever; it never ends, it never runs out, it never gives up when faced with closed doors, and it never tires.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Easter ACTS 5:27-32, 40B-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, the high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. PSALM 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you brought me up from the netherworld; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Sing praise to the Lord, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Hear, O Lord, and have pity on me; O Lord, be my helper. You changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

hat was the difference between Peter and Judas? They could have ended up the same. They both committed horrible sins against Our Lord in His Passion: Peter denied Him and Judas betrayed Him. They both saw the horror of their sins after the fact. Yet only one of them is called by Our Lord the “son of perdition.” In our Gospel this Sunday, St. Peter is on the shores of the Sea of Tiberias, several weeks after having committed the denial he would mourn for the rest of his life. The Risen Lord Jesus has just worked a miracle of a great catch of fish for the Apostles. The first time He worked a miracle like that, Peter knelt before Him and begged Him, FATHER JOSEPH “Depart from me for I am PREVITALI a sinful man!” Little did he know how sinful he was; He hadn’t denied His Savior yet! But Peter has no such histrionics for the Lord now. He has stared down the abyss of the horror of his sin. He truly knows now what a sinful man he is.

REVELATION 5:11-14 I, John, looked and heard the voices of many angels who surrounded the throne and the living creatures and the elders. They were countless in number, and they cried out in a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and blessing.” Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.” The four living creatures answered, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped. JOHN 21:1-19 At that time, Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way. Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of his disciples. Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We also will come with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.” So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.” So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish. So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea. The other disciples

came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish. When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you just caught.” So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of 153 large fish. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come, have breakfast.” And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they realized it was the Lord. Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead. When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He then said to Simon Peter a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” Jesus said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that Jesus had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Pride and humility You and I have had that experience. We have seen our wretched sinfulness, just like Peter (and just like Judas). The One he had denied is now with him on the shore of Genessareth, asking the Prince of the Apostles if he loves Him more than the others love Him, asking him three times to profess his love. There is more to this encounter than meets the eye, though, because, after Our Lord asks Peter a third time, Peter becomes upset and troubled. Clearly, the third questioning reminds him of the three denials. St. Augustine tells us, “He was grieved because he was asked so often by Him Who knew what He asked, and gave the answer. He replies therefore from his inmost heart; you know that I love You. He says no more, He only replies what he knew himself; he knew he loved Him.” By asking him three times for his love, Jesus is healing Peter, allowing him to make up for his threefold denial with his threefold profession of love. This love is ultimately the great difference between Peter and Judas. Judas, when faced with the guilt of his sin against the Lord, was consumed by shame and punished himself with suicide. This was a response of pride. Peter, rather, is filled with humility, which makes love possible. He weeps bitterly fruitful tears of repentance and his response is to make up for his denial with love. “While our Lord was being condemned to death, [Peter] feared, and denied

Him,” says St. Augustine. “But by His resurrection Christ implanted love in his heart, and drove away fear. Peter denied, because he feared to die: but when our Lord was risen from the dead, and by His death destroyed death, what should he fear?” Thus set free from fear by Jesus’ Love for him, Peter was given love for Jesus as the ultimate solution to the problem of the horror of his sin. You and I are faced with this same choice in our lives. In response to the sins we have committed, we can either respond with the pride of Judas, which leads to self-punishment and perdition, or we can respond with the humility of Peter, which leads to love and salvation. Love is the way forward. This healing love of Peter for Jesus (and Jesus for Peter) became the foundation of his ministry as the first Supreme Pontiff (“Feed My lambs…My sheep”). This love of Peter for Jesus (and Jesus for Peter) would eventually lead to Peter’s glorious martyrdom, which is prophesied by Jesus at the end of this passage. “He who denied and loved, died in perfect love for Him, for Whom he had promised to die with wrong haste,” St. Augustine tells us. “It was necessary that Christ should first die for Peter’s salvation, and then Peter die for Christ’s Gospel.” What will you and I do?

MONDAY, APRIL 11: Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr. ACTS 6:8-15. PS 119:2324, 26-27, 29-30. MT 4:4b. JN 6:22-29.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16: Saturday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 9:31-42. PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. JN 6:60-69.

Week of Easter. ACTS 12:24—13:5a. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 8. JN 8:12. JN 12:44-50.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 7:51-8:1a. PS 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab. JN 6:35ab. JN 6:30-35.

SUNDAY, APRIL 17: Fourth Sunday of Easter. ACTS 13:14, 43-52. PS 100:1-2, 3, 5. REV 7:9, 14b-17. JN 10:14. JN 10:27-30.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Anselm, bishop and doctor. ACTS 13:13-25. PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. SEE REV 1:5ab. JN 13:16-20.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13: Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Martin I. ACTS 8:1b-8. PS 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a. SEE JN 6:40. JN 6:35-40.

MONDAY, APRIL 18: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 11:1-18. PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. JN 10:14. JN 10:1-10.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 13:26-33. PS 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab. JN 14:6. JN 14:1-6.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 8:26-40. PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20. JN 6:51.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. ACTS 11:19-26. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. JN 10:27. JN 10:22-30.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. George, martyr and St. Adalbert, bishop and martyr. ACTS 13:44-52. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. JN 8:31b-32. JN 14:7-14.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

FATHER PREVITALI is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

FRIDAY, APRIL 15: Friday of the Third Week of Easter. ACTS 9:1-20. PS 117:1bc, 2. JN 6:56. JN 6:52-59.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20: Wednesday of the Fourth

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The power of prayer and ritual

n the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel “Sense and Sensibility” there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed hovering between life and death. A young man, very much in love with her, is pacing back and forth, highly agitated, frustrated by his helplessness to do anything of use, and literally jumping out of his skin. Unable to contain his agitation any longer, he goes to the girl’s mother and asks what he might do to be helpful. She FATHER RON replies that there’s nothing ROLHEISER he can do, the situation is beyond them. Unable to live with that response her says to her: “Give me some task to do, or I shall go mad!” We’ve all had the feeling at times when in the face of a dire situation we need to do something, but there’s nothing we can do, no magic wand we can wave to make things better. But there is something we can do. I recall an event in my own life several years ago: I was teaching summer school in Belgium when, late one evening, just as I was getting ready for bed, I received an email that two friends of mine, a man and a woman recently engaged, had been involved that day in a fatal car accident. He was killed instantly and she was in serious condition in hospital. I was living by myself in a university dorm, thousands of miles from where this all happened, and thousands of miles from anyone with whom I could share this sorrow. Alone, agitated, panicked and desperately needing to do something but being absolutely helpless to do anything, I was literally driven to my knees. Not being able to do anything

Sadly, today, we are a culture that for the most part is ritually tone-deaf. We don’t understand ritual and therefore mostly don’t know what to do when we need to be doing something but we don’t know what to do. That’s a fault, a painful poverty, in our understanding. else, I picked up the prayer book that contains the office of the church and prayed, by myself, the vespers prayer for the dead. When I’d finished, my sorrow hadn’t gone away, my friend was still dead, but my panic had subsided, as had my desperate need to do something (when there was nothing I could do). My prayer that night gave me some sense that the young man who’d died that day was all right, safe somewhere in a place beyond us, and it also relieved me of the agitation and panicked pressure of needing to do something in the face of agitated helplessness. I’d done the only thing I could do, the thing that’s been done in the face of helplessness and death since the beginning of time; I’d given myself over to prayer and to the rituals of the community and the faith of the community. It’s these, prayer and ritual, which we have at our disposal at those times when, like the man in “Sense and Sensibility” we need to do something or we will go mad. That’s not only true for heavy, sorrowful times when loved ones are sick or dying or killed in accidents and we need to do something but there’s nothing we can do. We also need ritual to help us celebrate happy times properly. What

should we do when our own children are getting married? Among other things, we need to celebrate the ritual of marriage because no wedding planner in the world can do for us what the ritual, especially the church ritual of marriage can do. Weddings, just like funerals, are a prime example of where we need ritual to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Sadly, today, we are a culture that for the most part is ritually tone-deaf. We don’t understand ritual and therefore mostly don’t know what to do when we need to be doing something but we don’t know what to do. That’s a fault, a painful poverty, in our understanding. The Trappist monks who were martyred in Algeria in 1996 were first visited by the Islamic extremists who would later kidnap and kill them, on Christmas Eve, just as they were preparing to celebrate Christmas Mass. After some initial threats, their eventual murderers left. The monks were badly shaken. They huddled together as a group for a time to digest what had just happened. Then, not knowing what else to do in the face of this threat and their fear, they sang the Christmas Mass. In the words of their abbott: “It’s what we had to do. It’s all we could do! It was the right thing.” He shared too, as did a number of the other monks (in their diaries) that they found this, celebrating the ritual of Mass in the face of their fear and panic, something that calmed their fear and brought some steadiness and regularity back into their lives. There’s a lesson to be learned here, one that can bring steadiness and calm into our lives at those times when we desperately need to do something, but there’s nothing to do. Ritual: It’s what we have to do. It’s all we can do! It’s the right thing. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Pope: Annunciation is feast of saying ‘yes’ to God VATICAN CITY – When people do not want to say “yes” to God, they usually do not say “no,” they just hide like Adam and Eve did after they sinned, Pope Francis said. “Today is the feast of ‘yes,’” the pope said during his early morning Mass April 4, the transferred feast of the Annunciation. The Latin-rite church usually celebrates the Angel Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary March 25, but transfers the feast when it occurs during Holy Week. A group of priests celebrating the 50th anniversary of their ordinations and a group of Vincentian Sisters who are called to renew their vows

each year joined Pope Francis for the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. Even after the sin of Adam and Eve, the pope said, God continually reached out to holy men and women – from Abraham to Moses to the prophets – asking them to cooperate in his plan of salvation. “Today the Gospel speaks to us of the end of that ‘yes’ chain Pope Francis and the beginning of another” with Mary’s willingness to carry God’s son, he

said. “With this ‘yes’ God not only watches how humanity is proceeding, he not only walks with his people, but he becomes one of us and takes on our flesh.” Jesus himself is God’s “yes,” the pope said. The feast of the Annunciation, he said, is a perfect occasion to think about one’s life and whether or not “we always say ‘yes’ or often hide, with our heads down, like Adam and Eve,” not exactly saying “no,” but pretending not to know what God is asking. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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The St. Mary Star of the Sea Men’s Club wants to thank Christina Gray for the very good article she wrote concerning the visit of the archbishop to our parish (“Archbishop takes questions from Marin parishioners,” March 17). She covered all of the major points associated with the event. Dick DeNezza Men’s Club VP St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish Sausalito

For or against Trump

Re “Resisting the demagogue,” George Weigel, March 17: Why is everyone telling us Trump is bad for us? What qualifications did Hillary, Obama or Ted Kennedy have to run for office? Gov. Brown, Rep. Pelosi – pro-abortion, no comment from the church. I could go on and on, but I won’t. God made this country great. Yes, we made mistakes but always tried to amend them. If we go down, so be it. Better to go down with a new plan instead of the one we have now. This country is spoiled and no one’s responsible because of the ultra-liberal thinking. Jesus said take care of the widow and orphan, not every man on Earth, that will be up to him. Faith in God, not man. Joe Delorio Lincoln

Legacy of St. Patrick

Re “The authentic St. Patrick,” Brother John Samaha, March 17: What an interesting and informative piece. I enjoy Brother John’s articles that appear frequently in the Catholic. He is well versed and enjoyable to read. Knowing many Irish Americans, I found humorous a particular passage in Brother John’s article as he stated of St. Patrick’s legacy, “ ... the Irish people abandoned the slave trade, and, although they had not stopped warring with each other. ...” From my experiences, the Irish take no back seat to inner-warring. St. Patrick’s work continues!! Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

Never too late for change

Cardinal (Bernard) Law and Cardinal (George) Pell were both effectually granted diplomatic immunity by the Vatican at a time when they would have had to face civil authority in their own diocesan jurisdictions. This was seen by both the secular

press and by the majority of the general public and victims organizations as an abdication of responsibility and lack of accountability, and also an admission of guilt in the court of public opinion and as an embarrassment to clergy and laity who were not part of the problem. This message has apparently still not been fully evaluated in the 14 years since, The Boston Globe reports. Personal responsibility still matters indeed. In Cardinal Pell’s case, he was allowed to respond in a video interview to avoid having to return to Australia to face the charges there. The victims who came to Rome were very brave to challenge the status quo and demand a personal meeting. Pope Francis, in addition to surveying diocesan bishops and getting input from laity, might be well advised to heed the message that the people of God do not want to be told they are not as important to the future of our church as the magisterium is to it. It’s never too late to change, and the time is now. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

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After the ‘G-word’ has been spoken

n the early church, witnesses to the faith who had been persecuted and tortured but not killed were known as “martyr-confessors.” It’s been one of the great privileges of my life to have known such men and women: Czech priests who spent years as slave laborers in uranium mines; Lithuanian priests GEORGE WEIGEL and nuns condemned to Perm Camp 36 in the Gulag; a Ukrainian Greek Catholic scholar who knew the bone-chilling bite of the Siberian winter because of his fidelity to Christ and to the Bishop of Rome. These modern martyr-confessors are part of that “great cloud of witnesses” who form a living link between the church here and now and “the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven” (Hebrews 12. 1, 23). I treasure the memory and the friendship of these great souls. All their stories are remarkable; so was the equanimity they exhibited as I got to know them – the sense they conveyed, quite naturally, that it was a privilege to suffer for the faith. Comparative martyrology is out of place in such a company of heroes. Still, none of the martyr-confessors I have met had a story quite like that of Father Douglas Bazi, of the Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Erbil, whom I met three weeks ago. Simply because he was a Christian and a Catholic priest, Father Bazi had had his teeth knocked out, his nose smashed, and his back broken with a hammer. And that was before ISIS turned large parts of Iraq into a killing zone in which Christian lives

were automatically forfeit. Today, Father Bazi lives with his exiled people in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of crumbling Iraq. The ISIS assault on his people, he told me, was but the latest of eight different assaults on Chaldean Catholics over the last century, which have reduced what was once a population of three million to about 180,000. In the brutal politics of a region where the withdrawal of American power has led to seven demons worse than the first, Chaldean Catholics are especially at risk because, as Father Bazi put it, they “can’t play the game the way the others do” – they can’t indulge in revenge killings because their faith forbids them to do so. Father Bazi was in Washington to bear witness for his people in the U.S. House of Representatives, which, a few hours after we spoke, voted unanimously to declare that what ISIS is doing to Christians in Iraq is “genocide.” Three days after that, Secretary of State John Kerry met a congressionally mandated deadline by actually using the “G-word” – “genocide” – to describe ISIS’s assault on Christians, Yazidis, and Shiites in the areas of Iraq and Syria under its control. The new thing, and the welcome thing, in Kerry’s statement was the mention of Christians as targets of genocide. That statement would not have happened without the relentless, persistent work of human rights campaigner Nina Shea, who has lobbied for redress for persecuted Christians in the Middle East with a tenacity that deserves the highest respect. It wouldn’t have happened without the leadership of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, who introduced the House resolution that passed on March 14 while Father Bazi looked on from the House gallery. And the Kerry statement wouldn’t have happened without the prod of a

report, “Genocide against Christians in the Middle East,” prepared by the Knights of Columbus and the organization “In Defense of Christians:” a remarkably detailed account of antiChristian persecution, destruction, and slaughter that was addressed to the secretary of state and contained a legal brief arguing that the “G-word” should be invoked and the matter referred to the Criminal Division of the Justice Department and the Security Council of the United Nations. Father Bazi was aware that merely saying the “G-word” would change

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OBITUARIES SISTER VERONICA DONLON, SH

Sister Veronica Donlon of the Society of Helpers died March 2 at Resurrection Center in Chicago, four days before her 90th birthday. She had been a religious for 52 years. Sister Veronica was born in Glasgow, Scotland and moved to California in the 1950s. There she volunteered at the convent of the Society of Helpers and BE CELEBRATED DAILY heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After Sister Veronica later entered proher death, when her he bodycommunity was examined, she was found to have had a first perforation of the in heart. It was in this way Donlon, SH nouncing vows 1963. ber 9, 2016, USA / LISBON that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical exlcomed this evening at an internaSister Veronica thenas went periences. Our journey continues we travelto through departing flight to Lisbon, arriving theserved picturesquein countryside to the lovely 12th century Chicago where she the community walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proand the house of studies. From ceed to the hotel to checkthe in for 1970s dinner anduntil an overnight. 0, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA rival in Lisbon,her we visit the birthretirement to [B,D] Homer Glen, Illinois in 2005, of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, Day 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS astery, and Belem Fromthe San sheTower. served Francisco community as This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnantarem to visit the Church of St. treasurer and superior. She also as Protion and the convent of served St. Teresa, where the saint he 13th century a Eucharistic Mirexperienced her remarkableCouncilor vision of the angel. This afen a woman attempted to steal a vincial Secretary and Provincial and ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St m Mass, the host turned into flesh John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor was anrelic active member of St. Anne of the Sunset To this day the precious reof St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expeto see. The church has since been Parish. riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s foreof the Holy Miracle. We continue most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We celebrated March 7 in ma to check in atA ourfuneral hotel for a Mass was visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed overnight. [D] the chapel of Marian Village inthe Homer Glen. by the Templars, where mortal remains of Saint John of thebe Cross are buried. city walls we Remembrances may made toInside thethe Society ofalso see the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman Empire. Ave.,San In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old Helpers, 414 Chestnut Bruno 94066. engi-

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Trinity in Grimes. She professed first vows invites you March 19, 1948, and final vows Aug. 15, 1953. In the Archdiocese of San to join in the following pilgrimages Francisco, Sister taught first and second grade at St. Paul School in San Francisco and also taught at schools in states including Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado and Iowa. Survivors include her brother Daniel and her sister Jeanne by a statue depicting the saint with a leg bandaged, prayer. The rosary and Candlelight Procession occur Sistered both Iowa. aMary book in one handPhelan and the other hand of outstretched, every evening for those who wish to participate again. while the face is turned heavenward. From there, we Dinner and overnight in Lourdes. [B,D] John Agnes Memorials may be given to the continue to Pamplona to check in at our hotel for dinner Smith,and BVM Sisters of Charity, BVM SupDay 9: Monday 10/17, LOURDES / train to Paris / an overnight. [B,D] MASSLISIEUX WILL BE CELEBRATED DAILY heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After port Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, her Our journey from Lourdes to Paris will be traveled by raildeath, when her body was examined, she was found Day 7: Saturday 10/15, PAMPLONA / SANGUESA / have had a perforation of the heart. It was in this way Day 1: Sunday, 2016, USAtrain / LISBON LOURDESIowa 52003. onOctober the TGV 9, high speed (non-stop, first class).toWe Dubuque, that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical ex-

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Tour membersdepart are welcomed this evening at an We depart Pamplona this morning and travel to Javier at 10:30AM and arrive in internaParis at 4:30PM. Upon periences. Our journey continues as we travel through tional airport for departing to Lisbon, arriving in the region of Navarra to visit the family castle and ourour arrival in Paris,flight we board our motor coach for Lisieux, the picturesque countryside to the lovely 12th century the next day. birthplace of St Francis Xavier. As a close personwhere we check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. Da walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proal friend of St Ignatius and one of the original seven [B,D] LO ceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. Day 2: Monday 10/10, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA Religious the Sacred Sister Felisa members of of the Society of Jesus, St Heart Francis performed We [B,D] Upon our morning arrival in Lisbon, we visit the birthmany miracles, was granted the gift of tongues, foretold in Garcia Gonzalez died March 27 place of St. Anthony of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, the future, healed countless people, and baptized over bir Day 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS St Jeronimo’s Monastery, and Belem Tower. From 10,000 people in justat oneher month’s time. St Francis Xavier congregation’s retirement al This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnathere, we stop in Santarem to visit the Church of St. is regarded as one of the most zealous missionaries of me tion and the convent of St. Teresa, where the saint Stephen, where in the 13th century a Eucharistic Mirfacility, in Atherton. all times. From there, we cross theOakwood, spectacular Pyrenees ma experienced her remarkable vision of the angel. This afacle took place. When a woman attempted to steal a Mountains and continue to Lourdes, where the Blessed the ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St She was a religious consecrated for 63 years host from Mass, the host turned into flesh Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette in 1858. Upon John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor 10, and began to bleed. To this day the precious relic rewould haveAfter been 90 years our arrival, we checkand in at the hotel for dinner. dinis r of St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expemains incorrupt for all to see. The church has since been riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s foreall ner, we participate in the Candlelight Procession and renamed the Church of the Holy Miracle. We continue Scenes from the historical events in Normandy old April 8. Mo most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We rosary with pilgrims from all over the world. Overnight our journey into Fatima to check in at our hotel for a visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed Vir in Lourdes. [B,D] Sister Felisa served many years welcome dinner and overnight. [D] Day 10: Tuesday 10/18, LISIEUX / NORMANDY / ou by the Templars, where the mortal remains of Saint John neering marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the LISIEUX in the sisters’ East Coast schools of the Cross are buried. Inside the city walls we also see ner Spanish gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; We take a day trip to the Normandy area to spend Fatima ros the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for moving to California and Sacred time at the Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Omaha Empire. In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old engiin L Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Museum and other sites associated with World War II. neering marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the Sister Mary John Agnes Smith died March 25 Sister Felisa Heart Schools, Atherton in 1983. continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Our journey today concludes as we return to our hotel in gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; Spanish at the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Garcia Gonzalez, Sister Felisa retired to Oakwood Lisieux for dinner and overnight. [B,D] we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for Basilica in Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Mary Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Burial was RSCJ in 2009. A funeral Mass willDay be11: Wednesday 10/19, LISIEUX / PARIS Walt Loyola continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] of today held April 9 at the OakwoodMost Cha11, FATIMA in Mount Carmel cemetery there. Sister John will be spent tima. One of the greatest events Basilica in Agnes wasof89 years old and a religious for 70 pel with burial at the sisters’ Oakwood Cemetery. in Lisieux, e in the village of Fatima, Portugal, Loyola home of St. years. Memorial contributions may be made to the f God appeared to three shepherd Day 3: Tuesday 10/11, Therese of FATIMA the hem to bring the message of the We spend today in Fatima. One of the greatest events of Born in Iowa, she entered the BVM congregaSociety of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Child Jesus. ld that was slipping away from it. this century took the village of Fatima, Portugal, Sheplace is theinone “I desire that a tion chapel be built here Grotto of Massabielle 63108. Sept. 8, 1945, from her home parish Holy Ave., St. Louis, Missouri in 1917. The Mother appeared to three shepherd whomof God Pope e Lady of the Rosary. I have come children, instructing them to bring the message of the Pius X called amend their lives and to ask parGospel back to a world that “the greatest was slipping away from it. ple must pray the rosary every day Day 8: Sunday 10/16, LOURDES She told the children, desire that a chapel be built here saint of“I moderings that God sends them.” We Between February 11, 1858 and July 16, 1858, Our Lady in my honor. Iern amtimes. the Lady Weof the Rosary. I have come a Iria, where we visit the Chapel to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask parappeared 18 times to a 14-year-old girl named BernavisitPeople Les Buihe Basilica that houses the tombs don for their sins. must pray the rosary every day dette Soubirous. The young saint described Our Lady as Da Day 6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA in Lisieux sonnets, thethat God sends them.”Basilica nta, and the Perpetual Adoration and bear all the sufferings We a “girl in white, the same height as myself, who greeted Bet Our first stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one familyda home e to Aljustrel, where we visit the begin in the Cova Iria, where we visit the Chapel me with a nod of her head. This girl was beautiful beyond app of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. where Therese spent the early years of her life before of the Apparitions, the Basilica that houses the tombs family (the birthplace of Jacinta det description. She had a blue sash around her white dress Day 6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA Then, we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace entering Carmelite Convent at the age of fifteen. We of Francisco and Jacinta,the and the Perpetual Adoration en the home of Lucia. In Aljustrel a“ and yellow roses on her shoes. A long rosary hung from Ouroffirst stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). next visit the convent which houses the sacred relic Chapel. We continue to Aljustrel, where we visit the of the apparitions of St Michael me her arm, and she seemed to invite me to pray with her.” of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. There, we will see the magnificent 17th century basilica body. From there, we spend time at the beautiful home of theher Marto family (the birthplace of Jacinta iew Valinhos, the site of Our Lady’s des Then, we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace Our Lady gave Bernadette secret messages for herself dedicated to the saint. Behind the sanctuary is the Santa basilica and the giftofshop. Next, we make our way to and Francisco) and then the home Lucia. In Aljustrel and s evening we take part in the Canof St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). and other messages for the world to hear. She described Casa, the three story 14th century family home of St IgParis enjoy a bus of the sites that make we also see the sitewhere of thewe apparitions oftour St Michael her Dinner and overnight at our hotel There, we will see the magnificent 17th century basilica herself as the “Immaculate Conception”, revealed a minatius. Pilgrims are invited to tour the rooms and visit the Paris so famous, including: The Eiffel Tour, Arc d’Trito the children. We view Valinhos, the site of Our Lady’s Ou dedicated to the saint. Behind the sanctuary is the Santa raculous spring, and asked that a chapel be built as a chamber where the saint was born. The most venerated omphe, and thewe Champs-Elysées. We check in atCasa, our the three story 14th century family home of St Igfourth apparition. This evening take part in the Canand site for pilgrimage. During our stay in Lourdes, we celplace in this building is the room where Ignatius, at the hotel forDinner dinnerand andovernight overnight. [B,D] dlelight Procession. at our hotel her 10/12, FATIMA / ALBA DE natius. Pilgrims are invited to tour the rooms and visit the ebrate Mass at the Grotto of Massabielle. We visit age of 30, was brought following his serious wounding in Fatima. [B,D] rac chamber where the saint was born. The most venerated the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the Boly at the Battle of Pamplona. To pass the time as his leg Day 12: Thursday, October 20, 2016, PARIS / USA site place in this building is the room where Ignatius, at the ma for Alba de Tormes and the $heavenly WILLand BE CELEBRATED DAILY Mill where St BernadetteMASS was born, the “Cachot,” of aFATIMA The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St healed, he read the lives of the saints and a book on the Day 4: Wednesday 10/12, /apparition. ALBA DE Today, we transfer to the airport to$begin our journey ebr age of 30, was brought following his serious wounding o see the preserved body of St Tean abandoned prison where Bernadette’s family lived in John States. the Evangelist, and anus altar with a Lamb upon it were life of Christ. At this time a great conversion took place TORMES / AVILA back to the United We take with new friendMASS WILL BE CELEBRATED DAILY thesilent; Battleno of mesPamplona. To pass the time as his leg ofUSA a heavenly apparition. The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St The saints at Day 9:theW the Church’s greatest mystics. We poverty. We haveDay an opportunity bathe in18, the miracseen by 15 townspeople. were 1: Tuesday,to October 2016, / DUBLIN in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the Today we depart Fatima Alba de Tormes and thethe love forhealed, ships and afor firm resolution to emulate ourand OUGHMi /D John the Evangelist, and an altar with a Lamb upon it were he read the lives of the saints and a book on the t heart. In her autobiography, St * Estimated airline taxes final surcharges subject ulous waters at Pilgrims the Grotto, spend at time in personal sage was given to the people, only an[B] example of prayer are and welcomed an international airport forGod our shown Society of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicat- Day 1: Tuesday, Carmelite convent to see the body St Teuspreserved through the holiness of the saints. Glendalou an seen by 15 townspeople. Theto saints were silent; noofmesOctober 18, 2016, USA / DUBLIN life of Christ. At this ngel who thrust an arrow into her andan agreatest rich symbolism in We visit thetime a great conversion took place flight to the Isle aboard a wide-bodresawas of Avila, ofpeople, the Church’s mystics. Wetheir appearances. mile drive po sage given one to the only example ofto prayer Pilgrims are welcomed at andeparting international airport for Emerald our in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the increase/decrease at 30 days prior location of We the visit apparition, of Our Lady, and ied Isle jet, aboard arrivingathe next morning. Meals on in their also seeserved her incorrupt heart. In her autobiography, tlement and a are rich symbolism appearances. the St the Basilica uloe departing flight to the Emerald wide-bodSociety of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicathave theofan opportunity toher explore the grounds. From there, board the aircraft. Teresa of spoke of the angelthe who thrust arrow into was born location the apparition, Basilica Our Lady, and ied jet, arriving the next morning. Meals are served on westFrom intothere, Westport to check in at our hotel for privilege t have the opportunity to explore we the head grounds. board the aircraft. Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN /we DOWNPATRICK and [B,D] the mona head west into /Westport to dinner check in at overnight. our hotel for BELFAST Gad learning Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN / DOWNPATRICK / dinner and overnight. [B,D] Upon our arrival in Dublin, we BELFAST Day 5: Saturday 10/22, WESTPORT / CROAGH PATing and ill Gallarus Oratory Downpatrick RICK //KYLEMORE / CONNEMARA / WESTPORT Upon our arrival in Dublin, we meet our full-time tour escort, Day 5: Saturday 10/22, WESTPORT CROAGH PATcan feel th Downpatrick Day 7: Monday 10/24, LIMERICK G RICK / KYLEMORE WESTPORT meet our full-time tour escort, After /breakfast we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s Holy return/to board our private coach, and/ CONNEMARA Day 7:forty Monday 10/24, LIMERICK /RY GALLARUS ORATO/ SLEA HEAD / DINGLE /es LIMERIC After we drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s board our private coach, and combin Mountain. Here St.Holy Patrick spent the days of Lent in proceed north tobreakfast Downpatrick. RY / SLEA HEAD / DINGLE / LIMERICK Our day begins with the journey sous Mountain. theyear forty441 days ofin Lent in and fasting. proceed north to Downpatrick. Elegant AD prayer journey We stop in for a visit atHere the St. St.Patrick spentthe Our day Our begins with conthe journey southwest to the which Din- thrusts stunning gle Peninsula out intov the year where 441 AD in We stop in for a visit at the St. tinues toOur thejourney shoresconof Kylemoregle Lough to visit which Kylemore, Patrick's Centre, Dr.prayer and fasting. Peninsula thrusts out into the Atlantic Ocean to claim Ireland’s most westerly point. tinues to the shores of Kylemore Lough to visit Kylemore, Patrick's Centre, where Dr. every stree a gothic castle, now a Benedictine We enjoy Tim Campbell will speak on to Abbey. claim Ireland’s mosttime westerly point. majestic hills and purple gothic castle, Abbey. the We Abbey, enjoy time soarHere, in hues of green Tim Campbell will speak on whereove we exploring gardens, and theinwalk the lake St. Patrick's aexploring vision. Then,now wea Benedictine soar huesalong of green and purple over vast valleys. bowls of Mountain unthe Abbey, gardens, and the along thechapel. lake St. Patrick's vision. Then, we spoiled streams tum Squares, P to walk the beautiful We spoiled enjoy sites of the Conne-streams tumble visit the Down thechapel. We up valleys. Mountain down to lakes, up toCathedral, the beautiful enjoy sites of the Connevisit the Down Cathedral, the Dublin' hedgerows blaze with fuchiasof and gold mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint hedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden beaches stretch mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint will beplac ou for miles. The Dingle Peninsula is a countryside thatfor is home a great miles. to The Dinglevariety Peninsula is a place of intense, shifting Patrick and terrain visit his grave. We and lush countryside thatterrain is homeand to alush great variety Patrick and visit his grave. We ing that ais Wedry visit Gallarus Oratory, beauty. Gallarus Oratory,beauty. an ancient stone of wildlife. Weremainder return to Westport whereWe thevisit remainder continue to Belfast andWe proceed of wildlife. return to Westport where the continue to Belfast and proceed natural ba whose to construction whose longevity testifiesconstruction to the skill of its build-longevity testifies of the day isThis free to explore independently. This evening, to Mass atofSaint Malachy's the day is free to explore independently. evening, to Mass at Saint Malachy's Heldoftogether completelytemporary by the w ers. sample Held together completely weight stones (no wander theauthentic streets ofIrish Westport and authentic Irish by theers. Church (subject wandertotheconfirmastreets of Westport and sample Church (subject to confirmachandise p mortar) the building has withstood win the building has withstood wind and rain for more the restaurant your choice as dinner is tion), the 3rd Catholic or pub of fare fare oldest at the restaurant youratchoice as dinner or is pub ofmortar) tion), the 3rd oldest Catholic i thanof1000 years. It is typical ofevening, the type than from 1000 the years. It is typical church in which on your Afteropdinner, choose endless op- of the type oncity your own. After from own. the endless Church in the of Belfast. It's dinner, choose Church in the city of Belfast. It's pub or res St. Patrick himselfand worshipped. Then,St.we wind around Patrick himselfthe worshipped.own. Then, tions of pubs occupying every other and enjoy every other tionsstorefront of pubs occupying storefront enjoy ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but Ovew coast Slea Head and Dingle, returning to Limpicturesque coast Slea Head and Ding a glass ofadaptation Guinness or a mug ofaIrish ale.of The city boasts its fan vaulted ceilings are its an fan architectural adaptation glass Guinness or a mug ofpicturesque Irish ale. The city boasts vaulted ceilings are an architectural for dinner and overnight. [B,D]erick for dinner and overnight.Day [B,D] one of the most well-known and one visited around, Matt 10: T from the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster The in Westminster of pubs the most well-known anderick visited pubs around, Matt from the HenryAbbey. VII Chapel Abbey. The Malloy's. of at the pubs, including MattMany Malloy's, have Dublin is church boasts the largest bell in Belfast which Malloy's. of the pubs, including Malloy's, have church boasts thesounds largestatbell in Belfast which Many sounds Day 8:Matt Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK /Day ROCK CASHEL / 8: OF Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK as well. Trinity/ R least three times daily. After Mass, we times check daily. in at our traditional IrishOvernight music and/or dancing as well. Overnight least three After Mass, traditional we check Irish in atmusic our and/or dancing KILKENNY / DUBLIN KILKENNY / DUBLIN in Westport. [B] which ho hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] in Westport. [B] hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] The Rock of Cashel is an impressive Themedieval Rock ofcomplex Cashel is an impressive 9th-centu called “The Acropolis of called “The Acropolis of Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEof Kells”. Ancient Ireland" and is one Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEWAY / BELFAST Ancient Ireland" and is one it there a WAY / BELFAST of the most spectacular Our morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see to see St of the most spectacular archeological sites in the morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see the see Giant’s Causeway,Our a unique geological landC archeological sites in the Pro country. Dating from the theplace see else Giant’s Causeway, scape that is truly unlike any on earth. The a unique geological landThe re country. Dating from the 4th century, it was originally scape that is trulyresulting unlike any place else on earth. The causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, 4th century, it was originally of the da used as a fortress. Mighty causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, resulting from the basaltic lava of an ancient volcanic eruption used as a fortress. Mighty to explo stone walls encircle a comthe basaltic of an ancient volcanic eruption 6 million years ago, foreverfrom changed County lava Antrim’s stone walls encircle a com- pendently plete round tower, a roofmillion years forever changed County Antrim’s northern coast, earning it 6the prestige of ago, a “Unesco less abbey, a 12th century plete round tower, a roof- interested World Heritage Site” title. northern Reading and hearing aboutit the prestige of a “Unesco coast, earning s Romanesque chapel, and less abbey, a 12th century venir the causeway does not begin offer any realistic WorldtoHeritage Site” title. Reading and hearing about should ch numerous other buildings Romanesque chapel, and Carroll's glimpse into this natural phenomenon. Only seeing the causeway does notis begin to offer any realistic Kylemore Abbey and high crosses. Northnumerous other buildings stores off believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. into Then,this we natural return tophenomenon. Only seeing is glimpse east ofKylemore the Rock ofAbbey Cashel is and high crosses. North- selection Belfast for a city tour and time at the Titanic Museum. believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. Then, we return to Kilkenny, a charming inland east of the Rock of Cashel is chandise The museum was master-planned over 185 acres of the 6: Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Belfast for a city tour and time at theDay Titanic Museum. city. Overlooking the River heritage site where the Titanic designed built. Kilkenny, ADARE / BUNRATTY Rock of Cashel a charming inland reasonabl Thewas museum wasand master-planned over 185 acres of the / LIMERICK Nore is a famous fortress, Dayfor6:the Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Our day concludes as we return to the hotel for dinner This morning we depart Westport incredible and city. Overlooking the River This even heritage site where the Titanic was designed and built. BUNRATTY Kilkenny Castle, which was and overnight. [B,D] dramatic Cliffs of Moher, whereADARE nearly 5/miles of layered/ LIMERICK Nore a famous fortress, Rock meet of in Our day concludes as we return to the hotel dinner occupied upincredible until 1935 and when the exorbitantiscost of upkeep Thisdefiantly morning we almost depart Westport for the black shalefor and sandstone cliff rock soars Kilkenny Castle, resulted in the 1967 donation of the castlewhich to was tel lobby and overnight. dramatic ofOcean. Moher, whereeventually nearly 5 miles of layered Day 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO /[B,D] KNOCK / 700 feet above the aggressive might of theCliffs Atlantic transporta occupied up until 1935 when the exorb the country Ireland. We visit the castle and also one of WESTPORT black shalephenomenon and sandstone cliff rock defiantlyofsoars almost The grandeur of this natural Thedonat Merr resulted in the 1967 Day 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO / KNOCK / breathtaking the country's medieval treasures, St.eventually Canice’s Cathedral, We bid farewell to and Belfastair andincluded) drive southwest to Sli700 country feet above the aggressive might of the Atlantic Ocean. makes it a "must see" for locals and guests. The nerthe to the (Airline taxes/fuel surcharges includedland countrywe of spend Ireland. We visit ca that natural dominates the city skyline. Timethe permitting, go, birthplace of WB Yeats,WESTPORT Ireland’s best known poet. The grandeur this breathtaking phenomenon best vantage point (weather permitting) is fromofO’Briens in Dublin. the country's treasures, St. C time at guests. the Kilkenny which has medieval boastWe bid farewell to Belfast southwest Sligo is best known for its spectacular countryside and and drive it atravel "must see" for locals some and country TheDesign Center Tower locatedto on Slithe highest cliff.makes Next, we to Adare, that dominates the city skyline. Time ing rights to some of the most magnificent retail goods, go, birthplace ofSligo WB Yeats, knownmanicured poet. the town’s only surviving medieval structure, Ab- Ireland’sa best vantage point (weather permitting) is from O’Briens beautifully village best of thatch-roof cottages. Day 11:pF china, crystal, knitwear, Irish jewelry, timepottery at theand Kilkenny Design Cent bey. 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Motherhouse Administrator and Facility Manager The Sisters of the Presentation seeks a highly motivated, experienced individual to be Administrator and Facility Manager for its Motherhouse. This individual’s responsibilities will include administrative, property, finance and technological duties for the maintenance and safety of the facility. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor degree; excellent verbal and written communication skills; an understanding of religious life; the ability to work with a variety of people; leadership skills and at least 3 years of experience in facilities operations and building safety; budgeting, planning and scheduling; and supervision. This is a full time, benefited position. Salary is commensurate with experience.

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Lawsuit set for 2017 trial abortion care in the United States.” The suit asks that videos taken at NAF conferences be barred from release and asks for damages. Judge Orrick granted a temporary restraining order blocking release of videos which NAF says will place those videotaped in danger. Life Legal Defense Foundation attorney Short said they’ve appealed the preliminary injunction blocking the videos to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court should hear the case in the next couple of months and issue a decision by September or October, she said. A third civil suit involving the videos was filed by StemExpress of Placerville against the Center for Medical Progress for damages and to block release of the video where StemExpress officials discussed procurement of fetal tissue. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge first granted the preliminary injunction but then ruled in August that the Center for Medical Progress could release the video. Trial is set for January 2017, said Jeffrey Trissell, attorney for the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund which is leading the StemExpress litigation defense team for Daleiden, Center for Medical Progress, Merritt and BioMax.

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fetal parts. The citizen journalists created a fake company, BioMax Procurement Services, which presented itself as a buyer of aborted fetal body parts in meetings, lunches and at Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation conferences. In its lawsuit, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the California affiliates asked for damages and attorney fees as well as an injunction to bar further investigations. The suit charges that the center, its leaders and co-conspirators engaged in “illegal conduct that includes violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act and engaging in wire fraud, mail fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal secret recording and trespassing.” Life Legal said two more Planned Parenthood affiliates joined the suit: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operates clinics in Texas and Louisiana; and Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains which operates clinics in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nevada. The National Abortion Federation lawsuit claims the center is a “front for dangerous extremists whose sole aim is to end safe and legal access to

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‘CHICAGO’: Bannan Theatre, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco. April 21, 22, 28, 29 at 7 p.m.; April 23, 30 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. $10 students (18 and younger) and $15 general. Online tickets at siprep.org. ‘ARISTOPHANES’ THE FROGS’: Archbishop Riordan High School, Lindland Theatre, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco. April 8, 9, 15, 16, 8 p.m.; April 17, 2 p.m. $7 students/ seniors, $10 adults, $4 children 12 and under. Tickets at the door or riordanhs.org.

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2-DAY FLEA SALE: All Souls Women’s Club Flea Market April 9, 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. both days; vendors are needed as well, email All Souls Women’s Club at allsoulswomensclub@yahoo.com.

PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

BOCCE BALL: Father Harry Schlitt’s God Squad Bocce Tournament, Marin Bocce Federation, Albert Park, 550 B St. San Rafael, warm-up and practice 8:30 a.m., games begin 9:30 a.m., barbecue lunch at noon, snacks, beverages all day; $350 for teams of four includes food and drinks; janschachern@ gmail.com; (415) 244-0771. Proceeds benefit TV Mass reaching more than 40,000 homebound people a week.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 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. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

CONSECRATED LIFE MASS: Annual Mass to celebrate consecrated life and recognizing 37 men and women religious marking milestone jubilees, St. Sister Catherine Mary’s CatheBrowne, OP dral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco 4 p.m. with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone principal celebrant and homilist. ReliBrother Artie gious in attenLee, SJ dance celebrating jubilees will renew their vows at the Mass, and religious will serve as ministers of the Mass including readers and gift bearers. A general reception follows the Mass in the cathedral’s lower halls with a special dinner for jubilarians later in the evening. Among those celebrating jubilees are San Rafael Dominican Sister Catherine Browne, 75 years; and Jesuit Brother Artie Lee, 50 years; (415) 614-5535; conrottor@sfarchdiocese.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 15 3-DAY MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille weekend, Hilton Garden Inn, Mountain View, $100 registration fee is all that is needed for hotel and all meals and no one is ever turned away for financial reasons, Joel and Sharon Walter. Retrouvaille of San Francisco, SF@RetroCA.com; www. HelpOurMarriage.com; (415) 893-1005.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 ‘LOAVES & FISHES’: Catholic Charities’ Dinner and Gala will highlight the agency’s services to refugees and immigrants. Sister Norma Pimentel will be honored; St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco; (415) 972-1246; http://catholiccharitiessf.org/loavesandfishes.

MIRACLE DISPLAY: Vatican approved Eucharist Miracle Display, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Nativity Church, 210 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park, presentations after each Mass, available for viewing all day; Deacon Dominick Peloso (650) 269-6279.

FIESTA: Our Lady of Manaoag in the Bay Area at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. at Miller,, South San Francisco, noon rosary, Mass and procession, bring Our Lady of Manaoag statues for blessing and procession, (650) 952-8238.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 DON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group, 7 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Parish Center, North Beach, with look at work of Catholic author, Matthew Kelly (415) 310-8551, franklavin@comcast.net; information on Kelly’s works www. DynamicCatholic.com.

REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy Alumnae/ Mothers’ Reunion, 11 a.m., Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco, $65, Patricia Cavagnaro ‘60 (415) 824-2052 ext. 31. pcavagnaro@icacademy.org.

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REUNION: St. John Ursuline High School, San Francisco alumnae luncheon honoring 1966 graduates with Golden Diplomas, 11 a.m., United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco, $40, sjualumnae@gmail.com; Theresa Keane (415) 867-3575.

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MINDFULNESS: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 2016 Mindfulness Meditation for Healing and Wholeness, 10:30 a.m.-noon; registration 10 a.m., 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, http:// bit.ly/CESMindfulness2, (510) 933-6360.

suit Stephen Pitts, 10:50 a.m., Fromm Hall by St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Fulton, San Francisco, free and open to the public, free parking all USF lots, jacoleman@usfca.edu, Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195.

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DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu. SVDP LUNCH: Annual Spring Luncheon, benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County, $45, Marin Country Club, Novato; (415) 883-3055; haleyannf@yahoo.com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 21 GRIEF SUPPORT: Drop-in grief support group, Most Holy Redeemer Church, Parish Library, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, meets third Thursdays, 7:30-8:45 p.m.; inclusive, nondenominational, and not restricted to type of loss; email gcm@mhr.org with any questions.

SATURDAY, APRIL 23 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com.

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April 13, 9:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. ~ Contemplative Day of Prayer, “Resurrection People”, led by Marietta Fahey, SHF. Presentation, personal reflection, sharing, concluding with Eucharist. No reservations required. Suggested offering, $20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, 415-457-7727 info@santasabinacenter.org

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