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Pope calls for prayers as militants chase Iraqi Christians from Mosul Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

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An Iraqi man carrying a cross and a Quran attends Mass at Mar Girgis Church in Baghdad July 20. Pope Francis called for prayers, dialogue, and peace, as the last Iraqi Christians flee the Iraqi city of Mosul.

VATICAN CITY – As the last Iraqi Christians in Mosul fled the city, Pope Francis urgently called for prayers, dialogue and peace. “Violence isn’t overcome with violence. Violence is conquered with peace,” the pope said before leading thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square in a moment of silent prayer July 20. “Our brothers and sisters are persecuted, they are chased away,” he said, as he assured Christians in all of Iraq and the Middle East of his “constant prayers.” The pope’s plea came as the last Christian families living in Mosul were forced from the city after facing increasing threats, violence and intimidation. The Islamic State group, which has taken control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, was threatening to kill any Christians who did not convert to Islam see Mosul, page 14

With passion for projects, Franciscan works to give Hondurans options David Agren Catholic News Service

JUTICALPA, Honduras – Franciscan Father Alberto Gauci’s field of dreams unfolds in a remote corner of Central America, far from the limelight of the recently concluded World Cup. His soccer stadium sports a full-size pitch, floodlights for night games and covered seating for 20,000 screaming fans. There’s even a parking lot. It is nearing completion, more than five years after the priest first convinced parents, parishioners and local leaders they should construct a stadium in a rugged region marked by emigration, corruption and increasing cocaine shipments touching down as traffickers carry cargo from South America to the United States. Even more improbably, Father Gauci found $40 million Lempiras (US$1.9 million) to fund the stadium – which still lacks a turf and finishing touches and will eventually host youth leagues and the local second-division soccer squad, Juticalpa F.C. “I told parents: We have to do something about drugs,” he said from the stands of the stadium as workers pushed wheelbarrows across the pitch. “It’s hard to tell a kid to stay off of drugs. You have

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Parishioner’s last days spent walking in Jesus’ footsteps

need to know Solidarity with persecuted Iraqis: One of a worldwide series of concurrent protests “to stop the genocide in Iraq” will be held Aug. 2 at 10 a.m. at Justin Herman Plaza, One Market St., San Francisco. For more information visit Twitter at hashtag #WeAreN, Worldwide Protest on Facebook or call Assyrian Church of the East Deacon Ashur DeKelaita at (925) 890-4770. According to a post on the Twitter site, the letter “N” – meaning Nazarene – is being painted on Christians’ homes in Iraq to threaten the occupants with retribution unless they convert to Islam. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, speaking July 27 during a homily at the Chaldean Cathedral of St. Peter in San Diego, said “no religion can accept to kill God’s children in the name of the same God.” Cardinal Sandri, the prefect for the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, was visiting Eastern rite Catholic communities in California. Most of the members of the Chaldean Church come from Iraq, and Cardinal Sandri spoke about the current persecution of Christians in the country, especially at the hands of the Islamist ISIS group that has driven the once-large Catholic community out of the city of Mosul, Vatican Radio reported. The Cardinal said Christians have a vital role to play in the Middle East. “But also the future of mankind is foreseen as a nuptial feast, at which all human beings must take part,” he said, according to Vatican Radio. “As we gaze at such a beautiful future of humanity, we wonder whether there will be a place for Christians of Iraq, Syria and Palestine to celebrate their wedding feasts. Accordingly, there will be no future, no wedding, and no feast in the Middle East without the presence and the contribution of Christians.”

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Longtime St. Hilary parishioner Helen Anne Kelly of Mill Valley spent her last days in Bethlehem where she celebrated Mass at Jesus’ birthplace with other pilgrims, telling them afterward it was “the most amazing experience” of her life. The 83-year-old mother, grandmother, sister, friend and beloved parish community member fell ill and died June 13, the sixth day of a 14-day Holy Land trip cocoordinated by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley and the Salesian Pontifical University of Jerusalem. Kelly was one of 15 pilgrims on the trip attended by parishioners from St. Hilary, Mount Carmel and St. Sebastian parishes. Trip leader and Mount Carmel pastoral associate Mike Morison said Kelly’s unexpected death early in the trip shocked the group which included her best friend Mary Gloria Hunter of St. Sebastian Parish, but “there was a sense of celebration too,” amidst the sadness. They knew the Holy Land trip had been a high point, a culmination of Kelly’s life of faith, family and service, according to Morison, and decided that she would want them to continue the pilgrimage as planned. The morning Mass at the church at Gethsemane was cancelled that day, according to Morison. But the local priest brought a branch he had cut from an olive tree in the Gethsemane garden the morning of Kelly’s death and gave it to the pilgrims who took turns carrying it throughout the day in remembrance. “It allowed us to honor her continued presence with us,” he said. That night, pilgrimage co-leader Father Biju Michael celebrated a memorial Mass for Kelly at an underground chapel near Lazarus’ tomb and the olive branch was placed upon the altar. Kelly had always wanted to come to the Holy Land according to her children Michael, Sean, Kathy and Colleen. They believe it is “spiritually amazing” that their mother

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bring their mother’s cremated remains home and joined the pilgrims in Nazareth during the last few days of their mother’s pilgrimage. A San Francisco native, Kelly earned a degree in nursing and worked throughout her 50-year marriage to the late Neil Joseph Kelly. They raised their family in St. Hilary Parish, where Kelly served on multiple parish committees including prison ministry. Parishioner Walter Mallory cofacilitated a Bible study group discussion with Kelly at San Quentin State Prison on Wednesday nights and joined the inmates every Sunday for Mass at the prison chapel where Kelly often served as a lector or extraordinary minister of holy Communion. “Helen had a remarkable way of connecting with the inmates there,” said Mallory. “She gave of herself socially, spiritually, humanely to the men and they looked forward to her every visit.” St. Hilary is planting an olive tree in the parish courtyard in memory of Kelly and her final visit to the Holy Land. A funeral Mass is planned for Aug. 2 at 11 a.m. at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon.

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Pastor turns parish gossip into pastoral opportunity Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

He’s up against reality television, tell-all tabloids and social media that make name-dropping, stolen privacy and over-sharing an acceptable form of entertainment. But one Marin County pastor is turning parish gossip into a teaching moment. When St. Hilary Parish pastor Father William Brown got wind this spring of rumors spread about the “personal virtue” of other parish families in a series of text messages, emails, and phone calls, “I was horriFather Brown fied!” he said. The false accusations going back at least a year came to light in May when the injured parties finally came forward. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco at the church rectory in Tiburon on July 18, Father Brown said he was inspired by Pope Francis to talk to his community about the destructiveness of gossip, talebearing, detraction, backbiting, intrigue and what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls “calumny.” The pope has repeatedly addressed the harm gossip can cause the gossiper, the victims of gossip and the church itself in his Vatican homilies. “It’s so rotten, gossip,” the pope said on Feb. 16 in his Sunday Angelus message. “At the beginning, it seems to be something enjoyable and fun, like a piece of candy. But at the end it fills the heart with bitterness and poisons us.” He has also called rumors “the devil’s weapon” to undermine the community of the church. Brown sent an email letter to parishioners, school families and faculty on May 16, asking them to reflect on Francis’ words likening gossip to a “form of murder.” He made no mention of the parish gossip that prompted his letter. “Our community is going through a number of changes, and this always leads to some anxiety, anger, confusion, curiosity – and, unfortunately, gossip,” wrote Father Brown. As human beings, he said, we are all tempted by this sin. “If you are like me, and thus tempted to gossip at times, please reflect on the pope’s recent commentary to help you avoid this very toxic temptation, which can destroy people’s lives and make community life miserable.” The Ninth Commandment exhorts us not to “bear false witness against thy neighbor” and “thou shalt not lie” speaks for itself. Father Brown met privately with the alleged rumormonger to facilitate a reconciliation among the parties. The alleged gossiper, who claimed to have only repeated but not made up the rumors, “couldn’t see the harm,” said an incredulous Father Brown. He told the person: “If you slammed into people with a car you’d be in prison. You’ve slammed into them with your words and these people could sue you!” That’s the

legal problem you could have, he said. “The spiritual problem you have is that once you do this kind of thing, it’s almost impossible to take it back.” He related the story of St. Philip Neri (15151595), who gave this penance to a novice found guilty of spreading malicious gossip. He told him to take a feather pillow to the top of a church tower and release all the feathers to the wind. Then he was to come down and collect all the feathers dispersed over the countryside, and put them back into the pillow. “Slander and calumny have a way of spreading to the four winds,” Father Brown says on the parish website where a picture of the saint and the same story is now posted. “Once released, it can never be completely recalled. Even when accusations are firmly nailed as false, the reputations of those falsely accused bear a lingering taint.” A few parishioners took umbrage with Father Brown’s email. “One of the school dads angrily asked me if I was telling people that they had no right to discuss the changes in our school and parish,” said Father Brown. He clarified in a second email a day later that he was not talking about harmless parking-lot chatter. “When the parish gets a new pastor, when the school gets a new principal, people will talk about the changes, their hopes for the future. This is healthy,” he wrote. “Making up stories about other people’s marriages is another matter entirely.” Bad rumors can start when someone feels it is their duty to expose what they believe is a sinner in their midst, said Father Brown, who offered a humorous example. “When I was a new priest, I lived in a rectory across the street from a parishioner who called the church office reporting that she had seen me come out of the rectory early one morning with a woman carrying a suitcase. “Brazen as brass, with people arriving for church at the same time,” she said to the pastor, who replied: “Mrs. O’Brian, that was a seminarian, not a woman. He’s bald and he has a mustache. You need to get your eyes checked!”

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Msgr. Joseph Sullivan retired director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco died July 24 at Nazareth House in San Rafael. He was 87 years old and a priest for 61 years. Msgr. Sullivan was born in San Francisco and attended St. Paul School and St. Agnes School later entering St. Joseph Msgr. Sullivan Seminary in Mountain View and ordained from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park by Archbishop John J. Mitty Jan. 24, 1953. Msgr. Sullivan is a former pastor of St. Patrick Parish, San Francisco; St. Rita, Fairfax, and Good Shepherd, Pacifica. He also served at Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; St. Brigid, San Francisco; and St. Matthew, San Mateo. Given the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s larger makeup before 1962, Msgr. Sullivan also served at parishes in Oakland, Napa, Modesto, Palo Alto, Saratoga and San Jose. In 1989, Msgr. Sullivan was named a prelate of honor by Pope John Paul II with the title of monsignor, recognizing his efforts in helping organize the visit of the pope to San Francisco in 1987. In 1994, Msgr. Sullivan was appointed director of cemeteries. He retired July 1, 1997, and in 2006 was assigned to serve as chaplain in residence at Nazareth House, a position he held until his death. “While at Nazareth House, he expressed his sincere gratitude for the opportunity to continue his priestly ministry by tending to the spiritual well-being of the residents, the staff, and the Sisters of Nazareth,” Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy, said in a statement. A funeral Mass was celebrated July 29 at St. Isabella Church, San Rafael, with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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Father Poggi 1st Latin Patriarchate priest ordained in US Catholic San Francisco

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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone process July 19 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church during the ordination Mass for Father Bernard B. Poggi, right, who has has been assigned as parochial vicar at St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco.

Father Bernard B. Poggi was ordained July 19 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone present. Father Poggi, 33,was educated as a priest at the seminary in Jerusalem but returned to the Archdiocese of San Francisco where he has been assigned as parochial vicar at St. Thomas More Church. He grew up in San Mateo. “Dear parishioners, you gave us a few years ago a young man named Bernard, who crossed the seas, leaving behind his mother and sister, to acquire knowledge at the Latin Patriarchate,” Patriarch Twal said in his homily, according to a post on the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem website. “We give him back as a priest who serves you with the holy sacraments,” the patriarch said.

Former St. Mary’s College president named interim president at SHCP Catholic San Francisco

Former St. Mary’s College president Christian Brother Ronald Gallagher will serve as president of archdiocesan Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory during the upcoming school year while a national search for a permanent replacement is underway. Brother Ronald served as president of St. Mary’s College from 2002 to 2013 and had just returned from a sabbatical year with plans to return to teaching at St. Mary’s when he was tapped for the archdiocesan high school

leadership post. He starts Aug. 1. Brother Ronald will fill the post held by SHC’s president for 15 years, John Scudder Jr. Scudder, who graduated from then Sacred Heart High School in 1973, will Brother Ronald assist Brother Ronald Gallagher with fundraising and outreach to alumni and other supporters during the transition, the school said in an announcement.

“Everything I’ve heard and seen from people is the school is in great shape,” Brother Ronald said in an interview. “Their enrollment’s up and I think the community spirit is very, very good. In that sense it’s going to be easy to come into a place that’s humming.” The two sponsoring orders, the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers, said in an announcement that, “Brother Ronald serving in this role will preserve and reinforce the Lasallian Vincentian character of the school as the school transitions to a new permanent president.”

Born in Oakland, Brother Ronald graduated from St. Mary’s with a bachelor’s in English in 1969. He received a Master of Arts in comparative literature from San Francisco State University in 1975, receiving a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington in 1990. He was elected in January 2011 to the board of directors of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, a nationwide organization whose purpose is to strengthen the mission and character of Catholic higher education in the United States.

Salesian Boys and Girls Club to remodel, expand The Salesian Boys and Girls Club of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco’s North Beach has announced a remodeling of the facility that includes the addition of more than 7,000 square feet to the now 20,000 – square – foot structure. The club has welcomed neighborhood children since 1917. The club said the new design is “a complete overhaul of the existing structure.” The building will now be

fully compliant with federal guidelines for the disabled as well as seismically reinforced. All mechanical, electrical and plumbing services will be upgraded and made more energy efficient, the club said. New classrooms, office space and meeting space are also in the blueprints. Plans to open an afterschool day care program are expected to increase current club membership of 1,000 by 15 percent.

Russ Gumina, the club’s executive director since 1988, a staffer since 1969 and a member of the club as a youngster, said the club will be open during construction. “It will be like old times,” Gumina said. “We will be cramped, but we’ll make it work.” The club operates year round. “The club has had a profound impact on my life,” Gumina said, calling it “a

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SANTA ANA – A federal judge ruled July 16 that California’s “dysfunctional administration” of the state’s death penalty system has resulted in “inordinate and unpredictable” delays, rendering the system cruel and unusual punishment, and as such it is unconstitutional. Judge Cormac J. Carney of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued the decision in an appeal by Ernest Dewayne Jones, who has been on death row in San Quentin State Prison for nearly two decades. He was convicted of raping and killing his girlfriend’s mother and sentenced to death in 1995. Carney overturned Jones’ death sentence, saying the inmate faced “complete uncertainty as to when, or even whether” he will be executed. The judge noted that since 1978, when California’s current death penalty sys-

Obama’s order bans discrimination based on workers’ sexual orientation

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s executive order of July 21 has installed workplace rules forbidding the firing of employees based on sexual orientation and gender identity by the federal government and federal contractors – a key provision in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act languishing in Congress. The U.S. bishops have opposed the bill, known as ENDA, which was passed by the Senate last November but was never scheduled for a vote in the House. The bill, aimed at protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers, has been introduced in almost every Congress since 1994. “Today’s executive order is unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed,” said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the

tem was adopted by voters, more than 900 people have been sentenced to death for their crimes, but only 13 of them have been executed. “For the rest, the dysfunctional administration of California’s death penalty system has resulted, and will continue to result, in an inordinate and unpredictable period of delay preceding their actual execution,” Carney wrote. “Indeed, for most, systemic delay has made their execution so unlikely,” he said, “that the death sentence carefully and deliberately imposed by the jury has been quietly transformed into one no rational jury or legislature could ever impose: life in prison, with the remote possibility of death.” The Catholic Church teaches that while the death penalty might be allowed if it were the only way to protect society against an aggressor, those cases, according to the Catechism of

the Catholic Church, are “very rare if practically nonexistent.” In his ruling, Carney said, “The simplest explanation for the size of California’s death row is that in each year since 1978, more individuals have been sentenced to death than have been removed from death row. ... As the size of California’s death row grows larger and larger, so too do the delays associated with it.” Currently, there are 748 death-row inmates, and more than 40 percent, including Jones, have been there longer than 19 years, the judge noted. “Nearly all of them are still litigating the merits of their death sentence, either before the California Supreme Court or the federal courts,” he said. When someone is condemned to death in California, “the sentence carries with it an implicit promise from the state that it will actually be carried out,” the judge said.

It’s a promise, he continued, to citizens, “who are investing significant resources” in a punishment “they believe is necessary to achieving justice”; to jurors “who ... are asked to hear about and see evidence of undeniably horrific crimes, and then participate in the agonizing deliberations” over the sentencing; and to victims and their loved ones, “for whom just punishment might provide some semblance of moral and emotional closure from an otherwise unimaginable loss.” That promise also is made “to the hundreds of individuals on death row, as a statement their crimes are so heinous they have forfeited their right to life,” he said. “But for too long now, the promise has been an empty one,” said Carney, whose ruling can be appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, and Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo, New York, chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth. “In the name of forbidding discrimination, this order implements discrimination,” they said in a joint statement. “With the stroke of a pen, it lends the economic power of the federal government to a deeply flawed understanding of human sexuality, to which faithful Catholics and many other people of faith will not assent. As a result, the order will exclude federal contractors precisely on the basis of their religious beliefs.”

the ‘culture wars’ that ultimately seek to redefine the institution of marriage as solely for adult gratification,” said Miami’s archbishop. Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski praised Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for her decision to appeal the July 17 ruling by Judge Luis M. Garcia of Monroe County Circuit Court. The announcement an appeal will be filed automatically stayed the ruling. Across the country a day later, a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld rulings that struck down Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban. Garcia’s decision came in a lawsuit brought by same-sex couples in the

Florida Keys who challenged a voterapproved state constitution defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman. The judge said the amendment, passed in 2008, violates the right of homosexual couples to marry. His ruling in Huntsman v. Heavilin applies only to Monroe County. “While Judge Garcia spoke of ‘rights,’ the Catholic Church speaks of ‘right,’” Archbishop Wenski said in a July 18 statement. “Marriage, a union between one man and one woman and any children that arise from that union, is an institution that precedes church and state; therefore neither church nor state has any authority to change the nature of marriage.”

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AIDS official warns against stigma against gays in Africa “As the largest nongovernmental provider of health care services in the world, the Catholic Church has led these efforts,” she said. While recent scientific advances suggest that the possibility of controlling the pandemic is finally within reach, Birx warned that new obstacles have emerged, particularly in Africa. “At this very time when we could do so much together, the clouds of discrimination and judgment are gathering across the continent that needs the most support,” she said. In what she later told Catholic News Service was a reference to anti-gay legislation in Uganda, Nigeria, and several other sub-Saharan countries, Birx said there has been “an alarming rise in legally and religiously sanctioned stigma and discrimination in recent months. ... This return to finger-pointing and lack of acceptance puts us all at risk because if one of us isn’t welcome, then all of us feel unwelcome.” Birx challenged the religious leaders, saying, “It is imperative that faith-based communities engage in renouncing and reducing the stigma and discrimination, hatred and violence that hamper our ability to reach and care for those in the society that are disenfranchised.”

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MELBOURNE, Australia – The U.S. government global AIDS coordinator praised faith-based groups for their action to combat AIDS but warned against an increase in stigma and discrimination against gays, especially in Africa. “Many of us in the United States can remember the early scenes from St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City in the 1980s of desperate and dying young men being cared for by extraordinary and compassionate medical professionals and tireless nuns, when we didn’t know how to treat or what to do,” the official, Deborah Birx, told Catholic and interfaith groups that had gathered separately before the July 20-25 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne. “What began as an awkward relationship between the gay community and the Catholic health care system became a story of acceptance, partnership, compassion, and service that became a model for communities around the country and around the world.” Although the pandemic spread to all corners of the globe, “your compassion and passion for this work continue to be the heartbeat of the response to HIV,” Birx told the religious leaders July 19.

Changes in synod process designed to increase discussion, cardinal says

VATICAN CITY – The extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family will be shorter than a usual synod and will include new rules aimed at helping the bishops really grapple with the issues together, said the general secretary of the synod. “We want a frank, open, civilized discussion,” Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri told Catholic News Service July 25. The extraordinary synod will meet at the Vatican Oct. 5-19, bringing together the presidents of national bishops’ conferences, the heads of Eastern Catholic churches and Vatican officials. The world Synod of Bishops, which will include more bishops – many elected by their peers – will meet at the Vatican Oct. 4-25, 2015, to continue the discussion on pastoral approaches to the challenges facing families today. Although the number of participants in the extraordinary synod is smaller, it will include a dozen or more voting members named by the pope, three priests chosen by the Union of Superiors General, a dozen or more expert advisers, about a dozen representatives of other Christian churches and up to 30 observers, more than half comprised of married couples – who will be

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She said that faith-based groups today provide 30-60 percent of the health care in countries where the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief operates, and much of that work is carried out by Catholics. encouraged to address the assembly, the cardinal said. The synod is a gathering of bishops, he said, but the preparatory questionnaire distributed in October 2013 and summarized in the synod working document that was published in June demonstrated a desire to hear from the grass roots. The topics raised in the questionnaire included contraception, divorce and remarriage, same-sex marriage, premarital sex and in vitro fertilization.

VATICAN CITY – One of the dangers of a “sterile” form of celibacy is bitterness and gossip, Pope Francis told a group of priests and bishops in Caserta. “A man who is alone ends up bitter, not fruitful, and he gossips about others,” the pope said July 26 during a meeting with 123 priests working in the Diocese of Caserta and 19 bishops from Italy’s Campania region. When a priest disagrees with his bishop or when bishops disagree with each other, they must air their differences – even loudly – but never talk behind each other’s backs, Pope Francis told the group of bishops and priests. “Say it to his face,” the pope recommended. “You’re a man, so if you have something against your bishop, go and tell him. There may be consequences, but pick up your cross, be a man!” Not for the first time, the pope admitted that he, too, has been tempted to gossip. “I’ve wondered if this isn’t the consequence of a celibate life lived as sterility, not fruitfulness.” A priest in Rome, he said, once told him that he was worried that so many priests and bishops are bitter and angry with each other. Pope Francis told the priests it is normal and even “healthy” to get angry, but wallowing in that, not getting it off his chest, not airing differences directly, but talking behind someone’s back causes more damage.

VATICAN CITY – It’s time to stop war, fighting and conflicts, which do nothing but kill and maim, leaving children unexploded ordnance for toys and lives without happiness, Pope Francis said. “Never war! Never war! I think most of all about children, whose hopes for a dignified life, a future are dashed, dead children, wounded children, mutilated children, orphans, children who have the leftovers of war for toys, children who don’t know how to smile. Stop it, please! I beg you with all my heart! It’s time to stop!” The pope made his appeal after praying the noon Angelus with people gathered in St. Peter’s Square July 27. The pope’s plea came as he recalled the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, which, with more than 37 million causalities, was one of the deadliest conflicts in history. Beginning July 28, 1914, the “Great War” left “millions of victims and immense destruction,” Pope Francis said. The reigning pontiff at the time, Pope Benedict XV called it a “useless massacre,” which ended after four years in a fragile peace, Pope Francis said. He said July 28 would be “a day of mourning”

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Pope heads to Vatican cafeteria for Friday fish menu Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Taking the chef completely by surprise, Pope Francis unexpectedly showed up to eat with the Vatican’s blue collar workers at their cafeteria in the tiny city-state’s “industrial park.” “He showed up, got his tray, silverware, he stood in line and we served him,” the cafeteria’s chef, Franco Paini, ncisco/Madrid told Vatican Radio July 25. via ContinenHe acted “normally, like the humblest minimum/21of the workers,” Paini said, his voice o participation still trembling from the thrill. “Please on is effected forgive me, I’m still excited, you know?”

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Father Hugh P. Gallagher: A story of miles, miners & mules Msgr. Francis A. Carbine

The village of Killygordon, County Donegal, Ireland, today has a population of 600 persons. St. Patrick Church, Crossroads, is a half-mile away. The village has no post office, and only one pub, McBride’s. The Gaelic name Killygordon means “the woods of the parsnips.” However, from Killygordon came Hugh P. Gallagher, a priest who would achieve the stature of a giant in the American Catholic Church. He was born in 1815 and died in San Francisco in 1882. He sailed from Ireland in 1837, and entered St. Charles Seminary, Philadelphia, where he was promptly assigned to teach Latin and Greek. Ordained in 1840 in St. John the Evangelist Church, Philadelphia, Father Hugh, as he preferred to be called, began a commitment that spanned 42 years. He left behind him churches, missions, newspapers, orphanages, schools, hospitals and a hospice for women. It has been said “when it came to God’s glory, for him there was no such word as ‘fail.’” His first assignment was St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville, Pa. Here, with great success, he encouraged parishioners to “take the pledge” against alcohol. The following year he was appointed a circuit rider in Western Pennsylvania where he traveled “trackless roads over snow-covered hills.” In 1844, the bishop of the newly founded Diocese of Pittsburgh (1842) opened a theological seminary. Who better to serve as rector, professor and administrator than busy Father Gallagher? In the 1840s, the influx of Irish Catholics into Pennsylvania triggered the bigotry of nativists who liked nothing better than witnessing “flames of burning Catholic churches.” Who better to publicly defend the church than father Gallagher? To defend the church he initiated a newspaper, the Pittsburgh Catholic. In 2014, this paper is in its 170th year of publication. Later, he founded the Crusader in Cambria County, Pa., and the Catholic Standard in San Francisco.

Hugh Gallagher’s name is engraved on the marker at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, memorializing pioneer priests buried at Calvary Cemetery in San Francisco and moved to Holy Cross in 1939. In the hamlet of Loretto, Pa., he expanded St. Michael’s church and founded two schools. Today’s St. Francis University developed from a school for boys founded by Father Hugh in 1847. A school that he founded in 1853 for “young ladies” is today Mount Aloysius College. He also obtained Franciscans and Sisters of Mercy from Ireland to staff these schools. In 2014, the combined enrollment of these schools is approximately 5,000 students. While seeing to these endeavors, he served as pastor of St. Augustine Church in Dysart (formerly Gallitzin), in Cambria County, Pa. He was succeeded by his brother, Father Joseph Gallagher, 1848-1852, who had also emigrated from Killygordon. The First Plenary Council of Baltimore, which sought to standardize the practice of the faith in the United States, opened in 1852. The bishops needed theological advisors. Who better to advise than Father Hugh? His participation caught the eye of Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, bishop of Monterey. With permission of Bishop O’Connor of Pittsburgh, Father Gallagher was given “temporary release” to work in California. He arrived in 1852. “Temporary” translated into 30 years.

One year later, the Archdiocese of San Francisco was established. The Gold Rush had begun in 1848. The population of San Francisco expanded from 469 in 1847 to 40,000 in 1853. Who better to assist with this pastoral crisis than Father Hugh from Killygordon? He chaired the committee to build the first cathedral of the diocese. In 2014, this proto-cathedral is a parish church known as Old St. Mary’s. In the mid19th century, the original St. Mary’s was the tallest building in California. This cathedral was located in San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, an area of brothels that exploded with the influx of gold miners. However, the Cathedral of St Mary stood as “imperishable testimony to the zeal and energy of Hugh Gallagher!” During these years, “Killygordon’s finest” founded churches and missions in Benicia, Shasta, Weaverville, Oakland, Sacramento, Yreka, Carson, Virginia City and Genoa. He also founded the Magdalen Hospice for “fallen women.” In the mining town of Yreka, while on sick leave, he celebrated Mass in a loft above a stable where mules were being auctioned off. The cacophony made by the miners, mules, and

auctioneers convinced both priest and congregation that a mule market was no place for Sunday Mass. Then, in 1853, he sailed to Europe to encourage seminarians, priests and sisters to come to California. He sought funding from many sources including a former emperor of Austria. Back in San Francisco in 1855, he witnessed the failure of a major bank and consequent panic. Upon whom could the miners rely to safely hold their money? Who more reliable than the priest from Killygordon? He served as banker without any staff and took no salary. “Millions passed through his hands and every dime was accounted for.” He founded St. Joseph Church in 1861 – “the banner church of San Francisco” – where he served as pastor for many years and from which he retired. The initial congregation was Irish. The oldest continuously serving hospital in San Francisco, today’s St. Mary’s Medical Center, was opened by Father Gallagher in 1854. Eight Sisters of Mercy came from Ireland as staff. Their journey took three months. At age 67, Father Hugh died in St. Mary’s Hospital. Initially interred in the city’s Calvary Cemetery, he and his priest brother were disinterred and buried in the Priest Plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. The priest burials face a central carving of the Last Supper. In 2013, in St. Patrick Parish, Crossroads, where Hugh Gallagher was baptized, I asked at Mass if there was any memory of him or his family. There was none. Famine, emigration and time had done their work. However, “Killygordon’s finest” crossed 6,000 miles of ocean and continent to serve the Lord and his people. A tribute is provided by Father Hugh’s fellow Ulsterman, Seamus Heaney: “There is one among us who never swerved from all his instincts told him was right action.” Msgr. Francis A. Carbine of Darby, Pa., is a retired pastor and a frequent contributor to The Irish Edition, Philadelphia. His email is fcarbine514@comcast.net.

Shipwreck and mission

he post-Vatican II Lectionary for Mass has many fine features, one of which is the continuous reading of the Acts of the Apostles during weekday Masses in the Easter season. As the church celebrates the Resurrection for 50 days, the church also ponders the first evangelization: The primitive Christian george weigel community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history-shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been raised from the dead, has been constituted Lord and savior for the forgiveness of sins. These serial readings from Acts end with Paul established in Rome (probably in today’s Trastevere district), speaking with the Roman Jewish community about the fulfillment of their ancient, covenantal hopes in the risen Christ. There’s one omission from this

early Christian history that I regret, however; the Lectionary omits the 27th chapter of Acts, which tells the dramatic story of Paul’s shipwreck and his brief stay on Malta, where the apostle is miraculously saved from the poisonous grasp of a poisonous viper, and from which he eventually takes another ship to Rome. Now here is something to ponder: There have been innumerable books of church history written over two millennia. But the only inspired book of church history, the Acts of the Apostles, ends with the story of a shipwreck – a seeming disaster that becomes, in divine providence, the occasion to extend the church’s mission. The imagery continues in Acts 28. Paul is not living in optimum circumstances in Rome; he’s under a form of house arrest. Yet he turns his lodgings into a center of evangelization, calling the Roman Jewish community to consider Jesus anew and to reconsider the criticisms of the new Christian “sect” they had heard, while explaining how God, in the Spirit, had extended lifegiving salvation to the Gentiles. The inconvenience and indignity of house arrest lead to intense evangelical

activity: “And he lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unhindered” (Acts 28:30). Shipwreck and mission, it seems, are intertwined strands in the church’s historical DNA. This is not to suggest that the church should willfully seek shipwreck. Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades – by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-20th century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life – is a matter of self-imposed wounds, which church authorities have an obligation to address. The wider cultural assault on the church, however, is another matter. Some may consider it “shipwreck” that the cultural Catholicism that transmitted and sustained the faith in these United States as recently as

two generations ago is on life support. What should we expect, however, when the ambient public culture becomes toxic, anti-biblical, Christophobic (to use the sharp term most recently made prominent by an Orthodox Jewish legal scholar, Joseph Weiler)? Perhaps the demise of cultural Catholicism – Catholicism offered to the next generation without great effort, Catholicism-by-osmosis – is a kind of shipwreck. But why not take a lesson from the last chapters of Acts and see in that hard fact the providential invitation to become, once again, a church in permanent mission? A church in which every Catholic knows that he or she has been baptized into a missionary vocation? A church in which Catholics know that the quality of their discipleship is measured by the power of their witness to Christ. To borrow again from genetics, shipwreck and mission are the double-helix of church history. The challenge is to discern the possibilities for mission that God always encodes in what seems to us, at first blush, to be utter shipwreck. Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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Searching for the right fuel

ometimes everything can seem right on the surface while, deep down, nothing is right at all. We see this, for example, in the famous parable in the Gospels about the prodigal son and his older brother. By every outward appearance the older brother is doing everything right: He’s perfectly obedient to his father, is at home, and is doing everything his father asks of him. And, unlike his younger brother, he’s not wasting his father’s property on prostitutes and partying. He seems a model of generosity and morality. FATHER ron However, as soon becomes rolheiser obvious in the story, things are far from right. While his life looks so good on the outside, he is full of resentment and bitter moralizing inside and is, in fact, envious of his brother’s amorality. What’s happening? In essence, his actions are right, but his energy is wrong. But, lest we judge him too harshly, we need to have the honesty to acknowledge that we all struggle in this way, at least if we are moral and generous. What is played out in the bitterness of the older brother is, in the astute words of Alice Miller, “the drama of the gifted child,” namely, the resentment, self-pity and propensity for bitter moralizing that inevitably besets those of us who don’t stray from our duties, who do stay home, and who carry the brunt of the load for our families, churches and communities. Sadly, often, the feel-

ing we are left with when we give our lives over in sacrifice is not joy and gratitude for having been given the grace, opportunity and good sense to stay home and serve but rather resentment that the load fell on our shoulders, that so many others dodged it and that so many in the world are having a fling while we are on the straight and narrow. Too often, among us, good and honest people who are fighting for truth and God’s cause, we find a spirit of bitter moralizing that colors and compromises both our generosity and our sacrifice. But I say this with sympathy: It’s not easy to give oneself over, to forego one’s dreams, ambitions, comfort and pleasure for the sake of God, truth, duty, family and community. How might we do it? How might we imitate the fidelity of the older brother without falling into his envy, self-pity and bitterness? Where can we access the right fuel to live out the Gospel? As Christians, of course, we need to look at Jesus. He lived a life of radical generosity and self-surrender and yet never fell into the kind of self-pity that emanates from the sense of having missed out on something. He was never disappointed or bitter that he had given his life over. Nor indeed did he, like Hamlet, turn his renunciation into an existential tragedy, that of the lonely, alienated hero who is outwardly intriguing but not generative. Jesus remained always free, warm, forgiving, non-judgmental and generative. Moreover, throughout this entire life of self-sacrifice, he always radiated a joy that shocked his contemporaries. What was his secret? The answer, the Gospels tell us, lies in the parable of the man who is plowing a field and finds a buried treasure and in the parable of the mer-

chant who after years of searching finds the pearl of great price. In each case, the man gives away everything he owns so that he can buy the treasure or the pearl. And what must be highlighted in each of these parables is that neither man regrets for a second what he had to give up but instead each acts out of the unspeakable joy of what he has discovered and what riches this is now going to bring into his life. Each man is so fueled by the joy of what he has discovered that he is not focused on what he has given up. Only in this kind of context can self-sacrifice make sense and be truly generative. If the pain of what is sacrificed overshadows the joy of what is discovered, that is, if the focus is more on what we have lost and given up rather than on what we have found, we will end up doing the right actions but with the wrong energy, carrying other people’s crosses and sending them the bill. And we will be unable to stop ourselves from being judgmental, bitter and secretly envious of the amoral. To the very extent that we die to ourselves in order to live for others, we run the perennial risk of falling into the kind of bitterness that besets us whenever we feel we have missed out on something. That’s an occupational hazard, a very serious one, inside Christian discipleship and the spiritual life in general. And so, our focus must always be on the treasure, the pearl of great price, the rich meaning, the self-authenticating joy that is the natural fruit of any real self-sacrifice. And that joyful energy will take us beyond self-pity and envy of the amoral. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters 2 timely Catholic history lessons

Those who think history is dusty and irrelevant should read two timely history lessons in Catholic San Francisco’s July 18 edition. Brother Larry Scrivani’s story on how Archbishop Alemany handled anti-Catholic prejudices more than 100 years ago was aptly headlined “Countering ‘anti-popery’ with grace.” One needs grace rather than fulminations to meet the Cathophobia of today. Alemany “insisted that ‘anti-popery’ would pass away as the social witness of lay Catholics defeated the expectations of the critics,” the Marianist brother wrote. Bill Issel, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University, clearly took a step in that direction with his “What really happened in the 1934 waterfront strike in San Francisco?” He charged that the San Francisco Chronicle’s July 5, 2014, story on the strike’s 80th anniversary was “deeply flawed” for failing to acknowledge the part played by Catholic social justice activists allied with the strikers as well as the Catholic Action stalwarts who helped negotiate an end to the bloody strike. Issel’s offering was timely for me because I had read “Season of the Witch” by David Talbot. I needed some grace to get through it. In recounting the strike, the book had nothing about Catholic Action’s key role in the dispute other than to say “Catholic officials condemned extremism on both sides of the bloody conflict and moved aggressively to mediate an end to it.” A page earlier Talbot called the church “a mighty cross of gold that bent the shoulders and buckled the knees of San Francisco’s immigrant working families.” More and more history is becoming some of the facts rather than the sum of the facts. Issel’s article initially caught my eye because it mentioned the role of attorney John Neylan, a Catholic Action member who helped return peace to the docks. Neylan was the keynote speaker when the brand new Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Redwood City was dedicated in 1932. In his speech, Neylan, who would grace the cover of Time magazine in 1935, stressed the importance of patriotism. I learned of Neylan when I wrote a story in 2010 about Our Lady of Mount Carmel for The Journal of Local History, a magazine published by the archives committee of the Redwood City public library. I am currently researching one of San Francisco’s best kept secrets: That it was once admired from coast to coast for having Laguna Honda Hospital, a string of emergency hospitals throughout the city, an ambulance service and a health farm on the Pen-

insula – all “free,” which is the word spinner’s way of saying tax-supported. I can only speculate as to why so little is known about a health system that at one time was the pride of the “city that knows how.” Perhaps it’s because some credit would have to be given to the “mighty cross of gold.” Again, truth is the sum of the facts, not some of the facts. James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

More praise for writer Follett

Thank you for the letter (“Commending writer Follett,” July 18) from Rosemary K. Ring about writer Ken Follett and his magnificent historical epic. For the third time I am listening to “Fall of the Giants” and discovering events I missed the first and second times. It is informative and very interesting. I am looking forward eagerly to the publication of the third book of the trilogy. Nora Bland Redwood City

Animal pro-life ‘nonsense’

Your “Catholic Case for humane treatment of animals” (July 18) wastes valuable space needed for real Catholic concerns as a supposed professor of Christian ethics at Fordham argues that “Catholic ethics on the dignity of life” extends to “a broad acceptance of pro-life values” that extends to animals. Nonsense. Pro-life means protecting unborn babies and their God-given human souls. Our church has taught for centuries that God, as Christ, lovingly suffered death on a cross for the salvation of all humanity, not for animals. His sacrifice becomes the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, which we celebrate at the holy Mass every Sunday. It should stun every one of us to realize that our almighty God went to the earth-shaking extent of his passion, death and resurrection for the sake of saving men’s souls. Thus, the Catholic defense of babies’ lives demands our untrammeled work to continue God’s love for humanity. Cute and friendly dogs and cats have nothing to do with it. Is it coincidence that this professor’s piece appears when our federal leaders scramble to distract us from the trouble they’re in? Or is it just a clear message to avoid buying his book? Robert Jimenez Burlingame

Speaking out on child immigration

Welcoming the stranger nearly 50 years ago, Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, on trial for burning draft records, testified that he had to speak “of the land of burning children” (Vietnam, where we were dropping napalm on civilians). In 2014, tragically, children go on “burning,” still voiceless, still powerless, victims of adults’ lust for wealth and domination. Loud weeping comes from Gaza, mothers mourning their dead children, as the Israelis rain death and destruction from the sky. From Gaza to Honduras, mothers’ hearts are joined with others, mothers desperate to rescue their children from the streets which run with blood from the actions of the drug cartels which feed wealthy Americans’ drug habits. These mothers will send their beloved children off on a perilous unaccompanied journey of hundreds of miles, hoping against hope that they will reach “the golden door,” America, and be welcomed in. What actually happens is that these young victims are met by our own citizens with faces twisted with rejection and hate, and a xenophobia that is palpable. With cold and deliberate repudiation of everything we “say” we stand for, these children may be easily dismissed, thrown away, sent back to die while Americans revel in their smart phones, fast food and reality shows, “not our fault and not our problem.” We cannot do much about what the Israelis do to the Palestinians, but we can speak out on the issue of the child immigrants. As Catholics, we have heard our Papa Francesco and the USCCB weigh in forcefully on the immorality of treating these children as yesterday’s garbage. The Gospel tells us what our stance must be. “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” Anything less speaks volumes about us and how we treat the most vulnerable among us. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco

Stop exploiting immigrants

Silence is assent. The parable that criticized the Pharisee who exalted his concern for the poor (Luke 18) included today’s religious leaders who exalt their concern for the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border but are silent about the moral imperative to end it: The prompt care and return of unaccompanied minors to their families and effective border security to stop the political, economic and social exploitation of all illegal immigrants. Mike DeNunzio Walnut Creek

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Wisdom from the doorstep of death

ather John Barrett, my friend and mentor, died July 16. When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he told the doctor that he was choosing quality time over quantity time and wanted no extraordinary means to prolong his life. He said he found comfort in imagining that he’d FATHER EUGENE be looking down HEMRICK at his funeral. John was very dear to me. I would never had made it through the

seminary had it not been for him. Even after he retired, his love for the diocese never retired. On our last day together, John spoke of his deep concern over losing priests faster than they were being ordained. Looking back on our last moments together, I realize I received the greatest gift a friend can give to another and that’s to truthfully talk about facing death. In choosing quality time, John echoed the spiritual writer Jean-Pierre de Caussade, who emphasized living the “sacrament of the present moment.” It is easy to become obsessed with death’s dark side and to fight it to the detriment of joyfully living the moment. Christ says as much in Matthew 13:16: “But blessed are your eyes, because they

see, and your ears, because they hear.” He implores us to see God’s life on earth, to let it touch us and give us life, to experience the experience of life. In not wanting to prolong his life, John echoed the wisdom of spiritual writers: to avoid the temptation of having a death grip on life. Prolonging life at all costs and staying young is a societal obsession. Realizing, however, that we are on a journey and life can’t be bottled up and kept forever leads to peace of mind. It frees us from living a fictitious life. To imagine looking down on our funeral reflects a beautiful act of faith.

It says that as Christ died and rose from the dead, we, too, expect life after death. Honestly speaking, no matter how we look at the death of a friend, death still haunts us. How do we reduce that haunting feeling? How about reflecting on our birth and asking where did we reside before being born? Did we come from nowhere? Where did the seed that produced life in the first place come from? Questions such as these reveal the world of mysteries in which we live, the world in which John lived. These mysteries cause us to further wonder: What other mysteries await us?

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. MATTHEW 13:24-43 ISAIAH 55:1-3 Thus says the Lord: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare. Come to me heedfully, listen, that you may have life. I will renew with you the everlasting covenant, the benefits assured to David. PSALM 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18 The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all

and compassionate toward all his works. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs. ROMANS 8:35, 37-39 Brothers and sisters: What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or perse-

cution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. MATTHEW 14:13-21 When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick. When it was evening, the

disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already late; dismiss the crowds so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” Jesus said to them, “There is no need for them to go away; give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have here.” Then he said, “Bring them here to me,” and he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over—12 wicker baskets full. Those who ate were about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.

By this food, God draws us near to himself Sharon K. Perkins

‘The Lord is near to all who call upon him.’

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I enjoy watching little children at petting zoos as they try to get close enough to an animal to actually pet it. When our own children were small, our neighborhood walks ended at a pasture with a lone horse. Although the kids desperately wanted to pet him, he was perfectly content to graze at a distance. So they developed a strategy with a couple of carrots thrust through the fence. They tried to entice him by calling and waving the bait but the suspicious horse wasn’t buying it. Finally, as they held still and waited quietly, the horse inched close enough to sniff at the carrots and then try a bite before skittering away. The children were ecstatic. Thereafter, we visited the pasture often, more carrots in hand, until the day when the horse (who now had learned that carrots were far tastier than grass) would hurry over to the fence as soon as he saw us. The three youngsters could now pet his velvety nose as he nibbled trustingly, satisfying both horse and humans and building a new friendship. In today’s reading from Isaiah, the Lord invites his people to come closer by enticing them with the “rich fare” of a covenant relationship – anything short of that fails to satisfy. Even with the psalmist’s assurance that God opens his hand and satisfies

Psalm 145:8

reflection QUESTIONs: Can you think of a time when you hungered and thirsted for something that ultimately didn’t satisfy? How is Jesus enticing you to draw closer to him?

“the desire of every living thing,” we know from Israel’s history that their trust in God did not come easily and required frequent renewal. In the Gospel, Jesus attracted large crowds of people who sought healing for their diseases but who also were hungry for something more. Recognizing both their physical and spiritual hungers and, unwilling to send them elsewhere, he provided an abundance of bread and fish. There was “no need for them to go away,” Matthew notes. “They all ate and were satisfied.” The miracle of the loaves foreshadowed a far greater gift of food – Jesus’ own body and blood, bought at great price to himself but given without price for the life of the world. By this food, God draws us near to himself, satisfies our deepest hungers and strengthens the bond of love from which nothing can separate us, according to St. Paul. We need only come, trustingly, to his outstretched hand.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, August 4: Memorial of St. John Vianney, priest. jer 28:1-17. ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102. mt 14:22-36. Tuesday, August 5: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major. jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22.

ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. mt 14:22-36. Wednesday, August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. dn 7:9-10, 13-14. ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9. 2 pt 1:16-19. mt 17:1-9. Thursday, August 7: Thursday

of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Sixtus II, pope and martyr and companions, martyrs and Optional Memorial of St. Cajetan, priest. jer 31:31-34. ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. mt 16:13-23. Friday, August 8: Memorial of St. Dominic, priest. na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7.

dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41. mt 16:24-28. Saturday, August 9: Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr. hb 1:12-2:4. ps 9:8-9, 10-11, 12-13. mt 17:14-20.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 2 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father John Ryan, pastor, St. Father John Catherine of Ryan Siena Parish, Burlingame, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Gabriel Dessauer of Germany, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

SATURDAY, AUG. 2 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Come to Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco for Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m.; luncheon at noon and a talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot. Visit www.byzantinecatholic.org; call (415) 752-2052; email OLFatimaSF@gmail.com. PEACE MASS: St. Andrew Church, 1571 Southgate Ave., 9 a.m., Father Piers Lahey, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniaP fasquelle@gmail.com.

SUNDAY AUG. 3 ART: Mixed media works by Jesuit Father Bob Gilroy at Mercy Center Art Gallery, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame through Aug. 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. The artist has ministered to the homeless, hospital patients and staff, children with physical and emotional handicaps, people with addictions, and Native Americans in South Dakota. Most of his life as a Jesuit has been to

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‘FRANCIS OF ASSISI’: Dominican Father Augustine Thompson at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco on his new book “Francis: The Man and the Myth,” 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by St. Dominic Church and the Dominican community and is part of the Dominican Speakers Series, bringing leading Catholic thinkers, celebrated authors and theologians to the Bay area. Dominican Father Michael Hurley, frmichael@stdominics.org.

SARLATTE SERENADE: Comedian and SF 49er’s voice Bob Sarlatte with “Bobby Joe Russell and the All-Star Band,” 1-4 p.m., Ozumo, Bob Sarlatte 161 Steuart St., San Francisco. Bob Sarlatte is San Francisco’s own – a 1968 graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep – and has appeared nationally with David Letterman. He coaches CYO sports at St. Stephen Parish, San Francisco. KTVU sportscaster Joe Fonzi is also in the band. Tickets are $15-$40 and include appetizers from 1-2 p.m. Portion of proceeds benefits scholarships, School of Multimedia Communication, Academy of Art University. All guests must be 21 or older. Visit www.eventbrite. com.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Christoph Tietze, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

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or pay a tax, Syriac Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan told Vatican Radio. The militants in Mosul also burned to the ground the building housing the Syriac bishop’s office, residence and library, and everything inside, he said July 19. Islamic State fighters “have already threatened that if they don’t convert to Islam, all Christians will be murdered. It’s terrible! This is a disgrace for the whole international community,” he told the radio. The international community must immediately halt all aid to the Islamic State group, he said. “Whom are they getting their weapons from? From these extremist nations in the (Persian) Gulf, with the approval of Western political leaders because they need their oil.” The patriarch said the world community must uphold human rights and the freedom of religion. “We are in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon: We Christians weren’t imported, we’ve been here for millennia and, therefore, we have the right to be treated as human beings and citizens of these countries,” he said. Patriarch Younan spoke with Pope Francis by telephone July 20 while visiting Rome and told him of the “disastrous” situation in Mosul. The pope said “he was following closely and with anxiety the plight of Christians” in Mosul, the patriarch told Catholic News Service. During their nine-minute phone conversation, the patriarch begged the pope “to continue intensifying efforts with the powerful of this world” and to warn them “that it is a mass purification based on religion which is underway in the province of Ninevah,” whose capital is Mosul. “What a shame for the silence of the so-called ‘civilized world’” in response to the tragedy, the patriarch told CNS via email. The Syriac patriarch was in Rome with Syriac Archbishop Basile Georg-

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An Iraqi Christian family fleeing the violence in Mosul sleeps inside Sacred Heart of Jesus Chaldean Church in Telkaif, Iraq, July 20. Pope Francis called for prayers, dialogue, and peace as the last Iraqi Christians flee Mosul. es Casmoussa of Mosul and Syriac Catholic Archbishop Ephrem Yousif Mansoor Abba of Baghdad, to meet with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s foreign minister, and explain the plight of Christians in Mosul and surrounding areas. The patriarch proposed that the Vatican call on its diplomatic corps members to urge their respective governments to take “appropriate measures in order to prevent further killing and abusing of Christians and other minorities in the name of a religion.” Syriac Catholic Archbishop Yohanna Moshe of Mosul told the Vatican’s Fides news agency that Islamic State fighters took possession of a Syrian Catholic monastery outside of Mosul, near Qaraqosh, July 20. Earlier, militants occupied Mosul’s Chaldean Catholic and Syriac Orthodox cathedrals, removed the crosses at the front of the buildings and replaced them with the Islamic state’s black flag. Tombs and other places of worship were reported to have been desecrated, too.

Militants singled out homes belonging to Christians and marked them in red paint with the letter “N,” for “Nazarat,” which means Christian, as well as “Property of ISIS,” – the Islamic State group, said Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Saad Sirop of Baghdad. “Our worst fears have come true and we don’t know what to do,” he told Aid to the Church in Need. Those who fled their homes with whatever possessions they could carry were then stripped of everything they owned by the militants at the city’s checkpoints, said Archbishop Jean Sleiman, the Latin-rite bishop of Baghdad. The militants took people’s belongings, money, personal items “even their cars, leaving them with nothing and forcing them to walk miles under the sun to get to the first Christian villages outside the city where they’re welcomed,” he told SIR, the Italian bishops’ news agency. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako told AsiaNews that any dialogue with the extremists seemed impossible.

The militants are like “a wall” as they only repeat: “Between us there is nothing but a sword,” the patriarch said. He added that “there is no one of authority to face,” so people “don’t know where they come from and what they really want.” Patriarch Sako said that as late as the end of June, 35,000 Christians had lived in Mosul, and more than 60,000 lived there before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. But now, “for the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.” “Iraq is heading toward a humanitarian, cultural and historical disaster,” he said in an open letter to Iraqis and the world July 17. “It is shameful that Christians are being rejected, expelled and diminished” from a land they have shared together with their Muslim fellow citizens for 1,400 years, the patriarch wrote. He urged Muslims who support the Islamic State “to reconsider their strategy and respect the unarmed innocent people of all ethnicities, religions and sects.” He asked Iraqi Christians to be rational, “calculate their options well,” to come together in solidarity and be patient as they prayed “until the storm passes.” Syriac Catholic Father Nizar Semaan of Mosul told Fides that world leaders must do something concrete, like “include these groups in the list of terrorist organizations” as well as “make public the names of the countries and forces that finance them.” He said intelligence agencies and some governments “know where certain weapons and money that keep these groups going come from. It would be enough to stop the flow for a month, and these groups would not have any more force.” Also, Sunni leaders and followers must help isolate the jihadist groups and declare a religious ruling against them, which “would certainly have a significant effect,” the priest said.

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He attributes his powers of persuasion to persistence, keeping promises and fidelity to his Franciscan values, along with finishing the projects he starts. He also sees the church in Olancho – an area of 500,000 residents the size of Massachusetts, but with only 20 priests – carrying out social commitments “the government really should be doing” and gaining credibility in the community. “We have a strong social ministry. That’s what we’re known for,” he said. “We share and we live (people’s) poverty. I sleep on the floor like them.” Elderly women are known to drop off donations, despite their modest means. The more projects he completes, the more people and politicians contribute – along with Hondurans abroad, eager to support the small towns they left long ago. “He’s an icon of honesty in a corrupt community,” said seminarian Hector Adolfo Juarez, 31, whom Father Gauci baptized. “He’s like a version of God, only in person.”

Father Gauci was born into a fishing family in Malta; he fell in love with St. Francis of Assisi through the novel, “God’s Pauper,” by Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis. Yet he also professes fondness for rock music: Jethro Tull was an early favorite and he has attended concerts such as the Rolling Stones and Radiohead on trips outside Honduras. “It keeps me sane,” he said of the music, which he has finally figured out how to download on the Internet. Father Gauci left Malta in the early 1970s, moving to Toronto to serve the Maltese immigrant community as a youth pastor; he took them on trips to Yonge Street, known for its nightlife. After only a year in Toronto – where he returns annually to visit family – he was transferred to Honduras, although he did not speak Spanish. He served in Comayagua for a decade before moving to Olancho. He worked in remote areas, places with no running water or electricity for listening to rock records which, he said, “I didn’t miss.” “I came here to teach these

people. They’ve been teaching (me) more for the past 40 years,” he said. “What they taught me (was) how to be happy with the small things in life: a roof over their heads, family, a small plot.” “Our happiness comes from having things,” he said of Europeans and North Americans. “Their happiness comes from living.” People’s poverty bothered him, though. He saw seniors sleeping and dying in the streets, which prompted one of his first projects: a home for the elderly. He later set up a nutrition center to feed children. Needing to finance his works, he built a bakery to provide an income. Father Gauci also established an orphanage, which he called “the best thing we ever did.” Franciscan sisters oversee the operations of the home for the elderly and orphanage, although Father Gauci often visits. Older residents call him, “Joven,” or “young man.” Children chide him for smoking – but also take to him like a father figure. Father Gauci also tried to help prisoners, who were stuffed into an

overcrowded lockup. He proposed building a proper prison, but found little favor. He even went to evangelical pastors, who quoted Scripture, saying prisoners should pay for crimes. The priest went on the diocesan radio station with his own modified citation of Scripture. “I was in prison and you did something for me,” he said. The prison got built. Father Gauci said he sees hope in Honduras. When he arrived in Olancho in 1983, most of the priests in the Diocese of Juticalpa were foreigners. Now the number is reversed with local priests – some of whom he baptized – becoming the majority. He said he sees something similar with young politicians, who were influenced by Catholic youth groups. The mayor of Juticalpa, a product of Catholic youth groups, has already asked Father Gauci to begin a home-building program. Father Gauci said he is eager to but will wait until his stadium is finished. “It’s common in Latin America to see so many things (get started) and never finished,” he said.

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