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Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper
Cathedral dedication Mass The youth of the Archdiocese of San Francisco were the focus of a May 5 Mass marking the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. The Mass was attended by 2,000 students from archdiocesan schools. Archbishop George Niederauer celebrated the liturgy, with bishops from many dioceses throughout California concelebrating, in the presence of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, emeritus archbishop of Los Angeles. Also present was Father Aris Metrakos of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in San Francisco. For more photos see catholic-sf.org.
‘Signs of grace’ in abuse crisis (CNS PHOTO/BOB ROLLER)
A priest-psychologist said he sees problem of abuse in the church will only “signs of grace” in the darkness of the end when the church fully advocates for clergy abuse crisis. victims, Catholic News Service reported. The U.S. church’s response “We must lean down and has resulted in plummeting strain to hear their voices,” he rates of child sexual abuse said. “Then we stand up and tell over the past 20-plus years, the world what they have said.” but more remains to be done As he sees it, the ongoing to deal with perpetrators and work to eradicate abuse is to help victims recover, said “not simply about changing a Msgr. Stephen Rossetti. few policies here and there” Msgr. Rossetti, clinical Msgr. Stephen but instead “about changing a associate professor of pasculture and a mindset.” Rossetti toral studies at The Catholic See catholic-sf.org for more University of America, also said the on Msgr. Rossetti’s remarks.
Focus on deportations in new move on immigration reform By George Raine Pressing up against daunting odds in Congress, advocates for immigration reform, including Catholic bishops and laypeople, continue to make a case for what they argue are more just laws while turning their attention to staunching the flow of deportations. There are developments on several fronts, notwithstanding conservative leadership in the House Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration. These include: -- A high-profile immigration case involving a mother and her two children
– parishioners of Mission Dolores in San Francisco – fighting the threat of deportation to Peru. -- A rising tide of opposition to the requirement that fingerprints of everyone booked into a county jail be conveyed to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, thus adding to the ranks of the vulnerable for deportation even if the alleged offense is minor. -- President Obama’s enlisting the help of Bishop John Wester, bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City and immediate IMMIGRATION REFORM, page 3
YouTube series bares reality of one man answering Christ’s call By George Raine Radmar Jao was a logical choice for the Jesuits’ online video series that launched on YouTube last month. He’s got the gift of gab, he’s an actor and knows how to hold your attention and he’s the face of Everyman, even as his ordination nears. The series is called “Path to Priesthood,” meant to be a conversation-starter about potential vocations, featuring 44-year-old Jao, in his third year of theological studies at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at Berkeley. He will be ordained in Spokane in June and, it happens, he will become a vocations administrator for the Jesuits in California.
The weekly series is little more than Jao’s org, and YouTube on April 4. “I would talking head, looking into a camera mounted love to say that it’s been nine years of in his room. But his pure bliss, but I’d more than nine-year be lying. Because journey to become a there’s real struggle priest in the Society in this life, but you of Jesus is one of pray through it and ups and downs we you pray with it.” can all relate to — a Jao, who is also reality show about serving as a deacon one man’s calling. at St. Agnes Parish “This is a time A screen shot from “Path to the Priest- in San Francisco, hood,” the Jesuits’ online video series. of real grace, real tells a story of disstruggle, real joy, cernment the seeds real frustration — it just runs the gamut,” of which were likely planted when he was Jao says in the introduction video that only three years old, when his great-grandwent up on the Jesuits’ website, Jesuit. mother taught him to pray in Spanish in his
home in the Philippines. It progressed through his schooling and continued deep into his career in Los Angeles, where, he said, acting was “satisfying to the wallet but not satisfying to the soul.” It’s a snapshot of a Jesuit in the last few months of formation, and the series will also show the ordination ceremony on June 11. The last episode, on Sept. 26, will be a visit with Jao before he departs for his first assignment as a Jesuit priest. The Jesuits’ hope is to trigger a response in other men who may be discerning a calling to the priesthood and invite them to connect with a Jesuit vocations specialist in a way that, as the Jesuit Conference puts it, YOUTUBE, page 10
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 14 Archbishop Quinn’s homily . 15 Fatima’s historical context . 18 Bin Laden and forgiveness . 16 Distraction and prayer . . . . 17
Cairo church mourns sectarian violence ~ Page 5 ~ May 13, 2011
Prayer’s key role in discerning vocation ~ Page 12 ~
Opus Dei film counters ‘Da Vinci Code’ fiction ~ Page 20 ~
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