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Marin parishes seek ‘conscious participation’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

They don’t all agree on the reasons for or the solutions to what they identified earlier this year as “declining interest in and understanding of the Eucharist” at their parishes. But one thing Marin County parish leaders concurred on at their May 22 deanery meeting in Greenbrae was that the church needs to find new ways to cultivate “conscious, active participation” in the Mass and the sacraments, in parishioners, lay ministers and even parish priests.

The meeting was a follow-up to the March 13 meeting that launched the deanery’s yearlong focus on the Eucharist in Marin parishes. At that meeting, parish leaders described their growing awareness of the disconnect between parishioners and their understanding and acceptance of the Mass and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Father Cyril O’Sullivan, dean of the Marin parishes and pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in Lagunitas and St. Mary Parish in Nicasio, opened the May meeting citing a 2008 Georgetown University study in which 1,000 selfidentified Catholics were asked whether they believed Jesus Christ is actually present in the Eucharist. Of the respondents, 81 percent of converts said yes, while only 55 percent of Catholics baptized as infants and educated in the faith as children, shared that belief.

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Pope Francis is embraced by Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka as he leaves after praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem May 26. On the right is Omar Abboud, Muslim leader from Argentina. “We did it,” Rabbi Skorka said he told the pope and Abboud.

Pope invites Israeli, Palestinian leaders to Rome to pray for peace FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JERUSALEM – Pope Francis invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli President Shimon Peres to pray together at the Vatican for peace between their nations.

The pope made the announcement May 25, after praying the “Regina Coeli” at the end of Mass that Abbas attended in Manger Square, in Bethlehem, West Bank.

Later in the day, arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Pope Francis was greeted by Peres and by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There the pope repeated his invitation to Peres using exactly the same words with which he had invited Abbas.

He also urged Israel to stay on the “path of dialogue, reconciliation and peace,” saying “there is simply no other way.”

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San Francisco parish to become Oratory of St. Philip Neri ‘Beautiful and reverent Masses and frequent opportunities for the sacrament of penance are the core’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A form of priestly religious community focused on charity, evangelization and parish life that was founded by St. Philip Neri, a confessor of St. Ignatius Loyola, will take its first step toward establishment Aug. 1 at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco.

The Fraternity of St. Philip Neri will create a stable community with at least two full-time priests at the San Francisco neighborhood parish. An emphasis on outreach to young adults and a focus on offering Mass, hearing confessions and creating a welcoming community are all hallmarks of St. Philip’s

charism, said Father Joseph Illo, the new Star pastor and leader of the fraternity.

Father Patrick Driscoll, who has been released by the archbishop of St. Louis to the San Francisco archdiocese, will join Father Illo at the parish. Father Illo was released to the San Francisco archdiocese

by Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire.

Most recently he was a chaplain for Father two years at Thomas Aquinas ColJoseph Illo lege in Southern California. The two priests hope to be joined by other priests in years to come, Father Illo said.

The fraternity is the first step toward the canonical

establishment of an Oratory of St. Philip Neri. The Oratory is a “Clerical Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical Right,” first begun by St. Philip in Rome in 1575. Its members are secular priests and brothers who live in community without formal vows and carry out pastoral ministry, usually in an urban parish.

For final papal approval, the Oratory – which for now will be known as a fraternity – will need to prove itself stable and in accord with Oratorian charisms for at least three years, Father Illo said. The fledgling community at Star of the Sea will be evaluated by the Oratorian Procurator General in Rome over this probation period.

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Left, seniors Barbara Coleman and Edward Brandon depend on below-poverty-level monthly state payments for the elderly and disabled. They get by as frequent guests at St. Anthony’s Dining Room. Right, Paul McCloskey, a resident at St. Anthony’s Father Alfred Center residential recovery program, spoke at the Hunger Action Day rally in Sacramento May 21 about lifting the ban that prevents convicted drug felons from receiving food stamps.

Hunger advocates represent the face of ‘food insecurity’

CATECHETICAL SUNDAY 2014: Catholics are called to learn more about the practice of going to confession, as Catechetical Sunday 2014 focuses on the theme “Teaching About God’s Gift of Forgiveness,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced May 27. The bishops’ evangelization and catechesis committee offers a range of resources on the sacrament of penance to be used in parishes in conjunction with the Sept. 21 celebration of Catechetical Sunday, an annual spotlight on catechists and all teachers of the Catholic faith. Pope Francis has encouraged Catholics to return to confession at some of his Wednesday general audiences and even modeled the practice during a Lenten penance service this year in St. Peter’s Basilica. Videos produced

by Catholic News Service, capturing these moments, are among the resources for diocesan and parish catechists offered by the bishops.

Resources in English and Spanish are available at www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/ catechesis/catechetical-sunday/ sacramental-forgiveness/index.cfm.

These resources include a guide for clergy, “Preaching About the Gift of God’s Forgiveness,” by Father John Guthrie, USCCB’s associate director of clergy, consecrated life and vocations, a teaching aid by Jesuit Father Peter Ryan, USCCB’s executive director of doctrine, and a catechist in-service by Father Louis Cameli of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Resources can also be purchased at www.usccbpublishing.org.

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Volunteers, supporters, staff and guests of St. Anthony’s Dining Room, which serves almost 3,000 meals a day to homeless or lowincome San Franciscans, boarded a bus at dawn May 21 bound for the state Capitol to speak to state lawmakers about legislation they said would help ease hunger in California.

Over 350 hunger advocates from across the state joined them in Sacramento for Hunger Action Day to promote bills and budget issues that affect the populations most vulnerable to hunger, including low-income seniors and children, the disabled, economically disadvantaged students and the working poor.

“Every day I fight for my existence,” Barbara Coleman, 72, said at a rally attended by other hunger advocates in the state. “In California, we have to fight for everything we have. You can’t be quiet about it.”

Coleman, a retired registered nurse from New Orleans, struggles to live on the $800 Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment she gets each month from the state. By mid-month, she’s often got no money left for food. Budget cuts starting in 2006 reduced SSI/ SSP benefits to more than 1 million

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“We’re here to highlight the problems of hunger in California in general, and to let our legislators hear directly from people who are experiencing poverty and hunger,” Colleen Rivecca, advocacy coordinator for St. Anthony’s, told Catholic San Francisco.

Research has linked food-insecure adults face higher risk of such chronic diseases as diabetes and hypertension, as well as depression and poor mental health. For children, food insecurity is linked to poor academic outcomes.

The St. Anthony’s group included residents of St. Anthony’s Father Alfred Center, a residential recovery drug treatment program. California is one of a few states with a lifetime ban on federal food assistance for drug felons, a law that makes reentry to society difficult. The residents and other advocates want to see passage of Senate Bill 1039, which would lift the ban.

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STAR OF THE SEA: Parish to become Oratory of St. Philip Neri FROM PAGE 1

Blessed John Henry Newman founded the first English Oratory in Birmingham in 1848.

“We will do normal parish work: beautiful and reverent Masses and frequent opportunities for the sacrament of penance are the core,” said Father Illo. Star already offers the extraordinary form of the Latin Mass on Sundays at 11 a.m. and daily at 7:30 a.m., which will continue. The noon daily Mass in English and weekend Masses in English will also continue to be celebrated, Father Illo said.

He would eventually like to offer solemn vespers on Sunday nights.

Father Illo lived and worked in San Francisco for two years before entering the seminary and views his return as a “coming home” to a city he loves, he said.

Father Illo would like to create an interactive website and strong social media, he said, but will wait for direction from Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone regarding specific focuses of the fraternity. “He has said that he wants us to concentrate on young adults,” said Father Illo. Among projects Father Illo would like to consider starting

would be young adult ministries such as Catholic Underground, which has proven very successful in the East Bay and elsewhere.

Father Illo has his own blog, where he raised $285,000 to fund the Oratory in response to Archbishop Cordileone’s requirement for $150,000 in pledges so that it could be self-supporting.

A cyclist and outdoorsman, Father Illo would like to offer activities like parish-sponsored backpacking trips to the Sierras. The Oratory would eventually like find a way to offer concerts, theater productions, open gym, air hockey and pingpong among other cul-

tural and youth activities at the parish.

Offering many opportunities for confessions will be important. St. Philip used to pray on the roof of his Oratory and “he would have a little bell that people would ring and he would rush down. We might have a little pager,” Father Illo said.

Critical to the success of the venture will be the priestly community of prayer and recreation, Father Illo said.

“Priestly fraternity – that is the core of the whole thing. Priests who share their prayer life and the apostolic joy of the priesthood of Jesus Christ – it all flows from that,” he said.

MARIN: Parishes seek ‘conscious participation’ in Mass, sacraments FROM PAGE 1

I’m not those sure those numbers would be accurate in any one of our parishes,” said Father Pat Michaels, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mill Valley. “I do know the belief in the real presence of Jesus has been poorly presented apparently, because it is a shock to many,” he said.

Margaret Conner, head of religious education for St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur, said that as a well-educated Catholic, she recognizes why her participation in the Mass is important, but the average parishioner often has an education gap of several decades if their religious education ended in the eighth grade.

“Full, active and conscious participation in the Mass requires continuous education,” she said. Adults sometimes don’t have the ability to become consciously involved in something they remember only as child, she said.

In preparation for the May meeting,

Our Lady of Mount Carmel pastoral associate Mike Morison asked deanery members to review the Vatican II document “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.”

“It’s valuable to us as we talk about bringing people to the Eucharist that we reflect together upon the church’s own view of the liturgy and what this document is calling us to,” he said.

The document, Morison said, makes clear that the Mass calls the body of Christ into active participation.

Ann Roggenbuck, pastoral associate at St. Anselm Parish in San Anselmo, agreed that participation makes us “an active witness” to Christ’s presence throughout the Mass. “He’s here, and we need to help people understand that,” she said.

“I look out from the altar and I see dormant people,” observed Father O’Sullivan, who has been taking a few minutes during each Mass to explain small but important aspects of the lit-

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David O’Connor, a St. Hilary parishioner and member of the archdiocesan Pastoral Council, said the church doesn’t often speak to people in the pews in a language they can understand or relate to.

“It’s just too easy to leave the Mass and scratch your head asking, ‘what happened?’” he said. “We have to get away from the ethereal stuff and offer a message of a loving, living Christ.”

Sui Mei Wong, pastoral associate for St. Cecilia Parish and a convert to Catholicism, disagreed. “I know what I’m going to say is not going to be popular, but going to Mass should be about more than a great homily,” she said. “If people were coming to Mass receiving

the Eucharist 50 years ago with understanding, maybe we should return to what was working then?”

Father Michaels said clergy and lay ministers also need to be reminded and revitalized about their full participation in the Mass. “Do you understand the eucharistic prayer as a whole, or do you understand it in pieces?” he asked.

“If you understand it in pieces, that’s what you’ll offer parishioners.”

In August when the deanery meets next, Marin parishes will return to the table with not just perceptions or statistics, but with comments from their flock.

“We must go to our parishioners now and ask them what the Eucharist means to them,” said O’Sullivan.

“Is it just an exercise or obligation?”

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Kindness poured freely TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The volunteer work of Presentation Sisters Kathleen Healy and Lucia Lodolo at St. Anthony’s in San Francisco is ever fresh but nothing new. Sister Kathleen has been at our service as a religious for 71 years and Sister Lucia for 56.

Sister Kathleen St. Anthony’s Healy called the sisters “wonderful volunteers” who have been in the helpforce there since 2006. Their ministry includes assisting guests at St. Anthony’s Dining Room with resource inforSister Lucia mation and a mobile Lodolo Coffee Hour that finds its way to residential hotels in the Tenderloin. The java stops provide not only refreshment but serve as a time of social nourishment for many and especially elderly residents of the hotels, St. Anthony’s said.

“I was born of Irish immigrants and grew up learning from them a love for serving others and working for justice,” Sister Kathleen told me in an email both she and Sister Lucia composed. Sister Kathleen served for 24 years in Catholic schools including St. Agnes in the Haight and St. Teresa’s on Potrero Hill both now closed. When St. Teresa School closed Sister Kathleen began 32 years of ministry at St. Teresa Parish as a pastoral associate.

During that time she assisted in community organizing, family life ministry and development of leadership in the parish. She also worked with Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees in cooperation with Catholic Charities and traveled to the two countries.

She said she had “strong involvement in the sanctuary movement when St Teresa’s became a sanctuary and refugees lived” on the church property.

ALMA MATER: New York area graduates of St. Ignatius College Prep gathered for a Manhattan reception in late April. Almost three dozen SI alums attended including from left, Broadway sound designer Abe Jacob ‘62; Signature Theatre Company founder James Houghton ‘76; SandBlast Productions founder Loren Toolajian ‘76; Lincoln Center artistic director Bartlett Sher ‘77, who won a Tony Award in 2008 for his direction of “South Pacific”; and Adam Jacobs ‘97, star of Broadway’s “Aladdin.” Adam and Bart are 2014 Drama Desk Award nominees: Adam for his title portrayal in “Aladdin” and Bart for his direction of the new musical “The Bridges of Madison County.” Winners are announced June 1. Signature Theatre Company will receive the 2014 Tony Award for regional theater in ceremonies June 8.

IMMACULATE MARY: Students at San Francisco’s Our Lady of the Visitacion School brought flowers for Our Lady’s crowning May 5.

Pictured from left are sixth graders Alfred Ugaitafa, Ezmeralda Fierro, Zevion Erfe, and Monzerrad Fierro.

“I was born in Los Angeles of Italian Immigrants,” Sister Lucia told me. Sister Lucia attended elementary and high schools staffed by the Sisters of the Presentation. “There I experienced their love and dedication,” she said. “I feel the seed for my vocation was planted during these formative years through my family and the sisters.”

Sister Lucia, too, was a member of the faculty at St. Teresa School when it closed and also became a pastoral associate at the parish. When pastor Msgr. Peter Sammon died, the sisters’ “wanted to spend more time closer to

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‘Hard work and commitment can take you incredible places’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nathan Praeger likes to read, play golf, spend time with friends and listen to music. He is tenacious and Christ’s example taught him the trait. The Stuart Hall High School senior is a graduate of St. Cecilia School. His parents are Lisa and Robin Praeger.

“My Catholic faith helps me to stay focused on the bigger picture in life and as such stick to my goals and aspirations,” Nathan told Catholic San Francisco via email. “In particular, the story of the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert has helped me come to this realization. The fact that the motivation to reach a particular goal was enough to drive him through the trials he had to go through has helped inspire me to realize that in the long run, the little problems won’t matter when compared to an overarching goal.”

Nathan will attend Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. in the fall. His study track will be a prelim to medical school. Neuroscience will be his specialty. “I want to go into medicine because I think that’s the greatest way I can make a difference in the world around me,” Nathan said. “I chose Wash U because I felt it was the best fit for me of the

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This week’s story is about Nathan Praeger, Class of 2014, Stuart Hall High School. schools I got into, I feel comfortable there, and I feel they have one of the best academic programs in the country.”

Nathan’s activities at Stuart Hall have included tai chi, Model UN, speech and debate, and student government. “I’m a big fan of rock music, especially from artists such as Van Halen, Aerosmith, and Rolling Stones,” Nathan said. A main reason, he said “is my parents would play them fairly often.”

Nathan’s favorite book is Susan Cain’s “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.” The book argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people, something Nathan said he is able to identify with.

Developments in the Ukraine have Nathan’s attention.

“The Ukraine situation rings a bell with me because it seems to me like the most viable threat to peace between Russia and the U.S. since the Cold War,” Nathan said.

“I would hate to see the situation escalated to any higher level, but I would not discount its possibility.”

Stuart Hall has helped Nathan as a student and a person. “At my high school, the best things for a student are surely the relationships a student is able to build, both with his teachers and with his

peers,” Nathan said. “My school spurs my faith by challenging me to believe for a reason and not believe blindly. My school inspires me intellectually through various discussions in classes that are always interesting and thoughtprovoking.”

“At Stuart Hall, Scott Roos has influenced me by showing me to take a holistic perspective of life and to enjoy the little things,” Nathan said. Roos teaches Latin and serves as student council moderator. “Ken Harrington has shown me that despite anything in your past, hard work and commitment can take you incredible places.” Harrington teaches math.

“I feel very confident in my ability to make my way in the world,” Nathan said about future steps as an adult. “I hope that I’ll be able to use my knowledge and experience to make decisions which will help others to improve their lives.”

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Around the archdiocese ST. ANTHONY’S DINING ROOM, SAN FRANCISCO: Members of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition wheeled over to collection barrels on Market Street on May 23 to drop off an estimated 1,000 pairs of socks for St. Anthony’s Dining Room. The coalition, which is also co-hosting a Bike to Worship program this month with the San Francisco Interfaith Council, mobilized quickly to help the Tenderloin nonprofit prepare for its busiest day of the year. More than 3,500 guests are typically fed on Memorial Day when people are low on funds and other meal programs are closed.

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CROSS-COUNTRY PRO-LIFE WALK: Thirty-six college students from around the country are walking across the U.S. and Canada as part of the Crossroads organization, a civil rights group that follows the Catholic doctrine that life should be valued from conception to natural death. The students are wearing T-shirts with “pro-life” written in giant letters and will speak at parishes along the way, with media and

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with those they meet in passing. Other duties include praying and counseling outside abortion clinics. Groups departed May 24 from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles and will converge in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16 for a pro-life rally at the Capitol. Walkers are pictured in San Francisco on the weekend of May 24-25, when they visited and spoke at five parishes, prayed outside Planned Parenthood, walked along the Golden Gate Bridge while praying the rosary, visited the beach and Pier 39 and attended dinners hosted by those from St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae.

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‘The task of protecting life falls to all Catholics’ For 25th year, Respect Life Essay Contest celebrates sanctity of life as our most basic right The students did not disappoint.

High school grand prize winner Brandon Joa from Stuart Hall High School writes, “Popular rhetoric that advocates of abortion are fond of promulgating includes the charge that the pro-life crowd is responsible for a ‘war against women’ ... A closer look reveals that women are at the forefront of the pro-life movement.” The Walk for Life proves his point. Alessia Gatti, fourth grade grand prize winner, advises, “Put yourself in Jesus’ shoes. You are his hands. You are his mind. You are his feet. You live in his heart.”And eighth grade grand prize winner Zena Marie Gonzolez says, “We as Catholics believe that life is a God-given gift. It begins at the moment of conception and should end naturally, when God calls us back to Him. The task of protecting life falls to all Catholics. We are to be the voice for those who cannot speak, the support of those in need of second chances, and the ones who give strength to those with none left to go on.” Amen!

VICKI EVANS

The archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest is 25 years old this year. That means that for a quarter of a century, thousands of our Catholic school students have been thinking and writing about the great value of every single human life from conception until natural death. There is no doubt that the ideas they expressed as students have stayed with them, making them better people and making the world a better place.

This year, students were asked to consider the words of three of our Catholic icons – Blessed Mother Teresa, St. John Paul II and Pope Francis – and write about our responsibility to care for the poor and vulnerable, the unborn and helpless, and all those who have no one to speak for them.

The younger students wrote about how Jesus helped the poor and disadvantaged and how we can follow Jesus’ ministry in our own lives by caring for the poor and marginalized. The older students wrote more specifically on Blessed Mother Teresa’s words about the unborn being the “poorest of the poor,” and about St. John Paul’s state-

2014 Respect Life Essay Contest high school grand prize winner Brandon Joa from Stuart Hall High School is pictured at the awards ceremony with retired Bishop Ignatius Wang and Brandon’s father David, mother Jilena and sister Amanda. ment that the “right to life” is the most basic and fundamental right, without which no other rights could exist.

Many of our high school students have attended the Walk for Life West Coast

and they were asked to write about whether the walk was an effective way to bring to the public square the messages that “abortion hurts women” and “women deserve better than abortion.”

EVANS is Respect Life Coordinator for the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

2014 RESPECT LIFE ESSAY CONTEST AWARD WINNERS: Grades one and two

Grand prize: Jessica Coco, Holy Name of Jesus. First prize San Francisco: Rachel Kavanagh, St. Philip. First prize San Mateo: Maddison Kahn, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. First prize Marin County: Caitlin Quill, St. Hilary.

Honorable mention: Kedues Habtamu, Mission Dolores Academy; Luis DeJesus, Mission Dolores Academy; Naomi Carassus, St. Thomas the Apostle; Annie Gaffney, St. Monica; Beatriz Dimayuga, Our Lady of Mercy; Sophia Alterio, St. Veronica; Luca Sentlinger, St. Veronica; Joey Isabella Adams, Holy Angels; Princess Jaecee Cantiller, Holy Angels; Anton Carranceja, Holy Angels; Thomas Nelson, St. Anselm; Cameron Dailey, St. Isabella; Lauren Cervantez, St. Isabella.

Grades three and four

Grand prize: Alessia Gatti, St. Isabella. First prize San Francisco: Zameer Maqsood, St. Monica. First prize San Mateo: Halle Angeles, St. Dunstan. First prize Marin, Samantha Carter, St. Anthony of Padua. Honorable mention: Emmanuel Nascimento, Holy Name of Jesus; Arsema Asfaw, Mission Dolores Academy; Emily Yoshii, St. Cecelia; Riley Spahr, St. Anne; Karina Almeida, All Souls; James Dimacali, Holy Angels; Finley Heinzen, Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Auriel Zhou, Immaculate Heart of Mary; Viet Tru-

ong, St. Hilary; Kylie Johnstone; St. Hilary; Enzo Bardoul, St. Raphael; Alexandra Wolfson, Our Lady of Loretto.

Grades five and six

Grand prize: Isabella Reynoso, St. Veronica. First prize San Francisco: Nicholas Quinonez, School of the Epiphany.

First prize San Mateo: Leonardo Hirano, St. Matthew. First prize Marin: Owen Murray, St. Hilary. Honorable mention: Sarah Chang, St. Michael Korean religious education; Nicole Martinez, St. Charles Borromeo; Loraine Trinidad, St. Thomas the Apostle; Skylar Hansen-Raj, Immaculate Heart of Mary; Camden Stuart, Our Lady of Angels; Shane Carolan, St. Dunstan; Nick Patterson, St. Matthew; Ashley Cabrera, Holy Angels; Lindsey Bell, St. Isabella; Inés Lowe, St. Hilary; Ella Crabtree, St. Anselm.

Grades seven and eight

Grand prize: Zena Marie Gonzalez, Holy Angels. First prize San Francisco: Elena Cawthon, St. Monica. First prize San Mateo: Michael Graham, St. Veronica. First prize Marin: Emma Page, Our Lady of Loretto. Honorable mention: Julia Nacario, St. Thomas the Apostle; Dulce Meza, Star of the Sea; Bernadette Biagtan, Mission Dolores Academy; Daniela Michel, St. Charles Borromeo; Nikki Heim, Sts. Peter and Paul religious education; Sean Singh, St. Dunstan;

Maxwell Lainez, St. Dunstan; Tyler Sheppy, St. Pius; Alexis Balocating, Holy Angels; Daniel Ongaro, St. Anselm; Natalie Getsey, San Domenico School; Kira Barnes, St. Hilary; Susan Flores, St. Raphael.

Grades nine-12

Grand prize: Brandon Joa, Stuart Hall High School. First prize San Francisco: Michael Chang, St. Michael Korean religious education. First prize San Mateo: Lauren Uhl, Notre Dame High School. First prize Marin County: Alec Viets, Marin Catholic High School. Honorable mention: Azucena Gonzalez, Notre Dame High School; Kelly Delos Santos, Notre Dame High School; Kaela Chavez, Notre Dame High School; Johanna Miramontes, St. Timothy faith formation.

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BOWIE, Md. – On May 18, 1789, about two dozen priests then serving in the new United States of America met at a chapel in White Marsh and had an election at which they nominated Father John Carroll to be the first Catholic bishop of the United States. That fall, Pope Pius VI appointed Bishop Carroll as the Father John nation’s first Catholic bishop to Carroll lead the new Diocese of Baltimore, which at that time encompassed the Catholic community living in all 13 original states.

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“Because of what happened here 225 years ago, you and I can touch the person of Jesus Christ in his church,” the cardinal said.

The program for the Mass noted that “the Catholic Church in America began in an organized way right here at Sacred Heart with the nomination of John Carroll as the first bishop.

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US URGED TO USE FEDERAL LAW TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS RIGHTS

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called on Congress and the White House to boost defense of religious rights worldwide by stepping up actions designated under federal law.

Robert P. George told a congressional hearing that provisions of the International Religious Freedom Act, including diplomacy, presidential actions and the negotiation of binding agreements, could be better used to protect religious rights.

A bioethicist and Princeton University professor, George told the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations May 22 that the U.S. could raise the profile of religious persecution through its actions against some of the world’s strictest regimes.

“USCIRF recommends that current and future administrations and Congress recommit themselves to the full and robust applications of IRFA’s mechanisms. Interest has faded over the past decade and a half, allowing these structures to atrophy,” George said.

He also called upon President Barack Obama to fill the position of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom and to raise the profile of the position by ensuring the person serving in it has “direct and regular access” to the secretary of state.

RESEARCH DETAILS PORNOGRAPHY’S HARMFUL EFFECTS

VIENNA, Va. – Continued research into pornography show its ill effects on women and all of society, according to speakers May 16 at the Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation 2014 Summit in Vienna, a Washington suburb.

Based on her research, Gail Dines has concluded, “We have basically let the media and the pornographers become the sex educators” and that “the Internet has made boys porn-ready for dating.” Dines is a sociology professor at Wheelock College in Boston and the founding president of Stop Porn Culture.

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AUSTIN, Texas – An execution scheduled for May 13 in Huntsville was stayed by a federal appeals court in New Orleans two hours before Robert James Campbell was set to be put to death.

The court said prosecutors in Campbell’s case did not take into account evidence that he had an intellectual disability.

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Campbell’s attorneys contended Texas had concealed evidence of Campbell’s low IQ scores during his trial.

Karen Clifton, executive director of the Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty, said the coalition will organize a walk in Texas in October to bring attention to the application of capital punishment in Texas, which uses the death penalty more than any other state.

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Dines, who considers herself a feminist, lashed out at how culture has turned gender roles on their head. “Who gets to be clothed and who gets to bare flesh (in posed photography) is an issue of power,” she said. “We take the onus off the perpetrator” – the media – “and put it on the woman.”

In this scenario, “rape is not a form of deviance,” she declared. Instead, “rape is an overconformity to the gender system as currently constructed.”

Dines said, “Black girls are being punished at a high rate, as are black boys ... with all the time they spend in jail” because the media has made boys “hypersexualized.”

Recent studies suggest that children may be getting their first exposure to pornography at age 11 on average. “The younger you get them, the longer you’ve got them,” Dines said of the pornography purveyors. “It’s like handing out cigarettes outside the middle school.”

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Rulings on same-sex marriage called ‘mistake,’ ‘travesty of justice’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PHILADELPHIA – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia called a May 20 decision by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III to strike down Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act “a mistake with long-term, negative consequences.”

Archbishop The 1996 law that Chaput recognizes marriage between one man and one woman is unconstitutional, the judge ruled, clearing the way for samesex marriage in the state.

A day earlier, a federal judge in Oregon repealed that state’s constitutional marriage amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Oregon Catholic Conference called it “a travesty of justice that marriage, as the foundation of society, received no defense in the U.S. District Court.”

With Oregon, 18 states have legalized same-sex marriage. It also is legal in the District of Columbia. Other courts’ decisions have been stayed, pending ap-

peals. That includes Idaho, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas and Michigan.

In Arkansas, the state Supreme Court May 16 stayed a May 9 state court judge’s ruling that struck down a ban on same-sex marriage. Several marriage licenses were issued in the intervening days.

In Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, federal judges have ruled that out-of-state marriages must be recognized in those states.

In Pennsylvania, Archbishop Chaput said state laws that defend traditional marriage “were enacted for sound reasons – namely to defend the rights of children and contribute to the wellbeing of the larger community.”

“Marriage is more than a private arrangement between two people,” he said. “It’s a public commitment of love and fidelity, and it’s ordered not just to companionship but to creating and rearing new life. This is why every child deserves a mother and a father in a loving marriage, and the child is the fruit of that love.

“All men and women are formed in the image of God and deserve our respect. But attempts to redefine the nature of marriage, no matter how

well-intentioned,” he said, “damage a cornerstone of our human interaction and ultimately work against human dignity itself.”

The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, said the judge’s ruling “speaks to the confusion and misunderstanding among many today about the fundamental building block of society: the family. Every child has a basic right to a mother and a father united in marriage as a family. Today’s decision does not change that.”

In its statement, the Catholic conference reiterated consistent Catholic teaching that all people are made in the image of God and that everyone has inherent dignity, adding that no one should face discrimination.

“But human experience, considerable social data, as well as our religious convictions, lead us to see clearly that

children thrive best in a stable family grounded on the marital union of one man and one woman,” it said.

“Catholic opposition to same-sex marriage is not a statement about the worth of human beings who experience same-sex attraction, but a statement about the nature of marriage itself.”

The Catholic Church teaches that sex outside of marriage between one man and one woman is sinful.

In other developments concerning same -sex marriage, the Michigan Catholic Conference May 14 filed a friend-of-the court brief with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to defend a 2004 voter-approved amendment to the Michigan constitution that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

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Don’t judge, Polish archbishops say as former communist general dies CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WARSAW, Poland – Retired Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s former military ruler who crushed the Solidarity movement with martial law in 1981 but also presided over the peaceful ending of communist rule in 1989, died May 25 in Warsaw. He was 90.

Archbishop Wojciech Polak, newly named archbishop of Gniezno, told the Catholic information agency KAI he believed no one should “pass Gen. Jaruzelski judgment on a person’s life.”

“The prospect of eternal life can open up in life’s final moments even for those who rejected it,” the archbishop said. “The wounds he inflicted will remain. But we should also remember the only one who can grant forgiveness and healing is God.” Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl, who was president of the bishops’ conference for a decade until

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“It’s exceptionally difficult to evaluate this man,” he said. “When a person crosses the threshold of eternity, we should remember only God knows the true state of his conscience. Sometimes an outward act, done unconsciously with bad results, can be seen differently by God.” Born in 1923 into a devout Catholic family, Jaruzelski was deported with his family to Siberia as a forced laborer by Soviet occupation forces in 1941. Joining the ruling Communist Party, he rose quickly in the ranks and in 1970 was defense minister when Polish troops massacred protesters in Poland’s Baltic ports.

In 1981, when Poland was paralyzed by Solidarity strikes, he was appointed prime minister and Communist Party leader, ordering the internment of thousands after declaring martial law. In 1989, he agreed to talks with the Solidarity-led opposition.

He was charged in 2006 with “committing a communist crime,” but avoided a court sentence due to his poor health.

In a 1991 Catholic News Service interview, the praised the “great work” of the Catholic Church in teaching “noble and beautiful ideals” and preserving Poland’s national identity.

KHARTOUM, Sudan – Churches in Sudan, including the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, have condemned the death sentence handed to a Christian woman who refused to renounce her faith.

Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was convicted of apostasy by a court in Khartoum in mid-May for marrying a Christian.

In a joint statement, the Sudanese churches said the charges against Ibrahim are false. They appealed to the Sudanese government to free her from prison, according to the social communications department of AMECEA, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rights groups and Western governments also have condemned the sentencing of 27-year-old Ibrahim, who gave birth in late May, the BBC reported. It said she would be allowed to nurse her baby girl in prison for two years before the death penalty is carried out.

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Head of congregation for religious says dialogue is always best CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Anytime there are misunderstandings, errors or problems concerning religious orders, dialogue is the best way to deal with the situation, said the head of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders.

“At times there are things that either may not have been understood or are deviations, too, but which we haven’t talked about and we have to talk about again with trust,” said Cardinal Joao Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Braz de Aviz Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

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a member of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, whether the Vatican’s support of the sisters’ initiative was “a sign of coming together, perhaps a healing of the relationship.”

The cardinal said, “The Holy See has a very close relationship” with the vast numbers of religious congregations and orders around the world.

“There are positive aspects and less positive aspects just like in life,” he said. “There have been more sensitive moments in which, let’s say, we have had to clarify positions, but we see that there is complete collaboration, and the desire for dialogue and coming together is very great.”

“This great sensitivity,” Cardinal Aviz said, can also be seen in Pope Francis’ desire that “consecrated life recover all its strength for serving the church” and the world.

Whenever there are difficulties, “we have chosen the path of dialogue because it is the best thing there is,” and it has been producing results that are “always better,” he said.

Sister Sammut said that, as president of the superiors’ group she has “seen a lot of collaboration” with the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

“What is important is that we can dialogue together and that we can walk together,” she said. “Like any other organization we can have differences. But what is important is that we are true to each other.”

Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, recently voiced “increasing concern” with positions being taken by

the officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a Maryland-based umbrella group that claims about 1,500 leaders of U.S. women’s communities as members, representing about 80 percent of the country’s 57,000 women religious.

In an April 30 meeting with LCWR officials, Cardinal Muller rebuked the “concept of conscious evolution” in various LCWR publications and in “directional statements” of some member congregations. He also criticized the group’s plan to honor a Catholic theologian, St. Joseph Sister Elizabeth Johnson, whose work he said has been judged “seriously inadequate.”

In 2012, the Vatican announced a major reform of the LCWR to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.

The group’s leaders said the cardinal’s recent address to them was “constructive in its frankness and lack of ambiguity. It was not an easy discussion, but its openness and spirit of inquiry created a space for authentic dialogue and discernment.”

However, the LCWR leadership also expressed disappointment about how they continue to be perceived by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

“During the meeting, it became evident that despite maximum efforts through the years, communication has broken down and as a result, mistrust has developed,” the LCWR leaders said.

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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM TEL AVIV – Pope Francis will meet with a group of sex abuse victims for the first time in June, he told reporters May 26.

During a wide-ranging inflight news conference on his return to Rome from the Holy Land, the pope also confirmed reports the Vatican is investigating charges its former secretary of state misappropriated 15 million euro from the Vatican bank. And he announced he plans to visit the Philippines and Sri Lanka in January.

The pope described the abuse of children by priests as “such an ugly crime” and a “very grave problem,” the betrayal of a priest’s duty to lead young people to holiness, comparable to performance of a Black Mass.

“We must move ahead, ahead, zero tolerance,” he said.

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As an indication of how seriously he takes the problem, the pope said he would meet soon with a group of six to eight sex abuse victims from various countries, including Germany, the U.K. and Ireland. He also will celebrate a private Mass with the group in the Vatican guesthouse, where he lives. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, a member of the recently established Vatican commission on child protection, will be present at the gathering, the pope said.

Pope Francis said the church cannot have privileged “daddy’s boys,” exempt from punishment when it comes to sex abuse of minors. He revealed

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that three unnamed bishops are currently under investigation by the Vatican for misdeeds related to sex abuse, and another has been found guilty and is awaiting punishment. It was not clear if the bishops in question had been accused of personally abusing children or of mishandling accusations of abuse by priests.

The pope also was asked about reports that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who as Vatican secretary of state was considered the highest Vatican official, mishandled 15 million euro in funds held by the Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank.

“It’s something being studied, it’s not clear,” the pope said. “Maybe it’s the truth, but at this moment it’s not definitive.”

Pope Francis said the Vatican bank was a case study of financial reforms now underway in the Vatican under the new Secretariat for the Economy led by Cardinal George Pell. The bank has closed some 1,600 accounts held by “persons who didn’t have the right,” because they were not church officials or institutions, the pope said.

“But there will still be incongruities, there always will be, because we’re human,” he said. “The reform must be continual.”

Pope Francis said the door is also open to allowing more married priests in the Catholic Church, in the Latin rite as well as the Eastern Catholic churches where the practice is already established.

“Celibacy is not a dogma of faith, it is a rule of life that I appreciate very much and believe to be a gift for the church,” the pope said. “Not being a dogma of faith, the door is always open.”

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PEACE: Pope invites Israeli, Palestinian leaders to Rome to pray FROM PAGE 1

“The right of the state of Israel to exist and to flourish in peace and security within internationally recognized borders must be universally recognized,” the pope said. “At the same time, there must also be a recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to a sovereign homeland and their right to live with dignity and with freedom of movement.”

Pope Francis also echoed Peres’ and Netanyahu’s words, in their speeches of welcome, condemning the previous day’s shootings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, where three people, including two Israeli citizens, were killed.

The pope arrived in Israel on the last leg of a May 24-26 trip to Jordan, the Palestinian territories and the West Bank.

Earlier in the day, en route to the Bethlehem Mass, he made an unscheduled stop to pray before a controversial separation wall, built by Israel over Palestinian protests on West Bank land. The pope unexpectedly stopped the vehicle and alighted, then walked over to the graffiti-covered structure and rested his forehead against it in silence for a few moments.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, later confirmed that the pope had been praying as he stood against the wall.

Father Lombardi told journalists the stop was a very important symbol of the pope’s understanding of the significance of the wall and was a manifestation of his identification with the suffering of the people, even though he made no mention of the wall in his spoken statements.

The spokesman also told journalists no date had been set for the prayer session in Rome, but that he hoped it would be soon. Father Lombardi said as far as he knew no pope had ever issued a similar invitation.

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Asked about his meeting in Jerusalem with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the pope said they discussed what he called the “ridiculous” problem of Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrating Easter on different dates, and the possibility of common efforts by the churches to protect the natural environment.

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Meeting with Palestinian leaders in Bethlehem, Pope Francis voiced his sympathy with “those who suffer most” from the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a situation he called “increasingly unacceptable.”

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“In expressing my closeness to those who suffer most from this conflict, I wish to state my heartfelt conviction that the time has come to put an end to this situation which has become increasingly unacceptable,” he said.

The pope said lasting peace would require the “acknowledgement by all of the right of two states to live in peace and security within internationally recognized borders.”

“Each side has to make certain sacrifices,” Pope Francis said, calling on Israelis and Palestinians alike to “refrain from initiatives and actions which contradict the stated desire to reach a true agreement.”

The pope also expressed his concern for Palestinian Christians, who he said contributed “significantly to the common good of society” and deserved accordingly to be treated as “full citizens.”

The pope voiced hopes that an eventual agreement between the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority on the status of Catholics would guarantee religious freedom, since “respect for this fundamental human right is, in fact, one of the essential conditions for peace, fraternity and harmony.”

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Our gaze upon the city

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esus, it seems, had mixed feelings toward the world. He loved the world, laid down his life for it, and challenged us to love the world, even as he criticized it harshly and stated clearly that it was opposed to him.

So what’s to be our attitude? How are we to see the world? Is our gaze to be one of judgment or sympathy?

Do we weep over the world in sympathy as Jesus wept over Jerusalem or do we strive to keep ourselves separate from a world that habitually scapegoats its God and crucifies its Christ? Are we too soft or too FATHER RON hard on our world?

ROLHEISER Maybe we need first to ask: What exactly constitutes the world? Is it that part of the world that opposes the churches: strident secularism, militant atheism, and the mass exodus in some parts of the world of people from the churches?

Or, is it that part of our world that seems indifferent to the churches: pop culture, the entertainment industry, the sports industry, mainstream academia, the editorials in most of our major newspapers? Or, given the fact that it was religiously minded people who orchestrated the crucifixion, might the world that opposes Christ be huge parts of religion itself: Christian fundamentalism, extreme Islam, misguided faith of all kinds?

The question isn’t easy. The world that opposes Christ, I suspect, is made up of all of these, the

strident, the indifferent, and the misguided. All are interwoven in our present world and help constitute a darkness that the word is trying to penetrate. But that darkness has its own ambivalence. Inside that stridency, seeming indifference, and misguided religion, we see all kinds of light as well. Darkness, itself, is not pure, and this can leave us in a quandary as to how we should, ideally, gaze upon our world.

Scripture assures us that God is the author of all that is good. Hence everything in our world that radiates life, goodness, health, generosity, faith, intelligence, color, and wit comes from God, irrespective of where it is embedded. Hence when we look at our world we may not superficially and easily divide it into two parts, one good and the other bad. When we do that, we end up often putting God in opposition to God and creating the very thing off of which atheism can feed. Atheism, as Michael Buckley so astutely asserts, is always a parasite that feeds off bad religion. Seeing the God’s presence in the world as either black or white is bad religion.

So how should we view our world, how might we gaze upon the city within which we live? We need to gaze upon our city in the same way as Jesus gazed upon his city, Jerusalem, when he wept over it with equal parts of sympathy and judgment. What do I see when I look upon the city I presently live in and upon the different cities within which I have lived?

First of all, I see everyone I have ever loved living there. Neither the city nor the world is an abstract concept. To speak of either is to speak of our loved ones and that healthily complicates both our sympathy and our judgment. If I believe the world to be a bad place, what am I saying about my loved ones?

And what sets me apart? Still, a certain judgment still needs to be made. Is our world good or bad?

On the one hand, when I look at our world today, I see, in many places, a lot of good, a world bursting with energy, color, zest and with a healthy thirst for life and the transcendent. I see that the majority of people are good-hearted, honest, generous, and desirous of peace. I see wonderful intelligence and wit. I see a healthy pride and a healthy (if at times, overdone) emphasis on the physical and on bodily health. Very importantly too I see a world that, in most places, is growing in tolerance in terms of racism, sexism and religion.

On the other hand, I also see a world that is often shallow, self-absorbed and not given over much to sacrifice. I see a world within which the rich do not care enough about the poor. I see a world that is far too irresponsible in its sexual ethos. I see a world that is becoming addicted to information technology without any critical reaction. I see a world that is unhealthily prone to ideology, hype, and fad, that lives too much in the moment rather than in hope, that finds it difficult to grow up, that finds it difficult to accept aging and death, and that has not moved beyond an adolescent grandiosity in terms of appropriating its own faith heritage.

So what do our cities look like? Are they good or bad? Our own cities, I suspect, look a lot like Jerusalem looked to Jesus as he gazed upon it – mostly good, honest folk, struggling because we won’t let God help us.

bad for the Catholic Church in the present as well as in the future. If future generations do not join the church and discover the word of God, the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith might get neglected, abandoned and stop existing because of low membership and patronage. That would be a real travesty.

What the Catholic Church needs to start doing is to open its doors, start brand-new programs that will attract not only young adults but youth and children as well so that the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith can get reinvigorated with new generations of churchgoers and/or parishioners to keep the word of God strong in the world. The Catholic Church needs to reach out to young adults, youth and children if it wants the Catholic faith to continue to live and survive now and for future generations to come.

Francisco A. Lopez Redwood City

make of it our answer to Pope Francis’ call to evangelization.

To your friend who’s ready to quit the church in anger, say “Look, pal. Quitting only leaves you totally at risk and helpless if the worst happens to your health or to your loved zones. There will come a time when only God can help you, and you’ll need him totally on your side.”

And for the complainer that the music at Mass isn’t catchy, or the homilies aren’t exciting, explain that Mass is not show business, but our chance to give thanks to Jesus Christ for his sacrifice and death on the cross.

Robert Jimenez Burlingame

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

LETTERS The life of Jahi McMath A death certificate was issued on Jahi McMath Dec. 12, 2013, more than four months ago. Since then Jahi’s heart has beat more than 12 million times without any stimulation from medications or devices. Jahi has normal blood pressure and respiration supported by a ventilator. The concentration of oxygen given to Jahi is the same concentration all of us breathe (room air). Jahi digests and absorbs food just like the rest of us. Jahi urinates and has bowel movements. When the blood pressure cuff is inflated, Jahi moves her arm and body to get away from the discomfort. What undertaker would embalm Jahi?

Jahi is a living girl who is not a resurrection. Jahi is the daughter given to her mother by the creator. Yes, it is puzzling to accept that a death certificate was issued on Jahi.

Paul A. Byrne, M.D. Oregon, Ohio The writer is president of the Life Guardian Foundation, clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Toledo, Ohio, and past president of the Catholic Medical Association. His talk on the Jahi McMath case at a United for Life event in San Francisco was featured on Page 6 of the May 9, digital-only issue of Catholic San Francisco, available at http://eedition.catholic-sf.org/Olive/ODE/SFArchdiocese/.

The many guises of a merciful God The original story and its follow-up in the April 11 and May 2 issues about Michael Riddle, one of the many homeless people who find respite and faith at St Boniface in the Tenderloin, were both touching and insightful. The struggle of someone with mental illness and without family support is all too common in our increasingly disconnected culture.

But reading how this man responded to the hand of God was inspiring. It was particularly poignant to see how God used his beautiful black Mama Kitty as an instrument of divine love and mercy. Gratitude to the St. Boniface staff, an anonymous benefactor, Mama Kitty and the merciful love of God who comes to us in so many different guises.

Mary McCurry San Francisco

Reaching out to youth, young adults I was recently reading a past issue of Catholic San Francisco and I saw and noticed some great photographs and articles with wonderful volunteers and church members. The one thing that I noticed about the Catholic Church as well as the Catholic faith is that the majority of the church membership is senior citizens and older adults, not a lot of youth, children or young adults, which in my opinion is very

‘Look, pal’: What to say to friends who have left the church

Thanks for Sister Mary Ann Walsh’s excellent opinion column (“The rise of the ‘nones,’” May 16) pointing to the declining number of practicing Catholics as the non-Catholic new dropouts are influenced by the rise of secularism. While those numbers grow alarmingly, and Mass attendance drops to 15 percent, we ask, “How did this happen?”

The magazine America, in February, already attributed this travesty to the elitist culture of unbelievers “so at odds with Christianity that trends in jurisprudence have shifted away from religious liberty to allow its redefinition as freedom of conscience.”

While reinforcing this disbelief, our would-be gods in government have decreed on us the Affordable Care Act, said to bring to all a form of heavenly healing at little or no cost, except for those sacred items “the woman’s right to choose” abortion, and free birth control to all, no matter the religious rights of church and bedeviled employers. This, partnered with demands for gay marriage in our churches on the basis of “gay civil rights” newly held to be as sacred as racial equality. Congruent with these assaults on the Catholic Church came the legalizing of marijuana, which our president says he has already “toked.”

As offensive as this bad news strikes us, we can

Jackie Kennedy letters I find it extremely upsetting that private letters, never intended for public consumption are not only published but sold at auction (“Letters to Irish

priest reveal Jackie Kennedy’s struggles with faith,” May 16). What does that say about being

able to confide in a priest? It doesn’t matter that they are both dead, it is the principle of the thing.

Does not speak well of whoever authorized this invasion of privacy or Catholic San Francisco for buying into it by publishing excerpts from those letters. Certainly decreases your credibility.

Nancy Mc Mahon San Bruno Editor’s note: According to the website of the Irish Independent newspaper, All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland, called off the auction of the letters amid questions over copyright and ownership and announced May 23 that the college will close because of a funding crisis.

Embrace all of us and our gifts Why do we need a new society for pastoral ministry when we have competent and educated laywomen to handle these duties? I myself have been educated and trained as a pastoral associate. If you wish to have a community for pastoral ministry, let this community be for all, not just for males. It is 2014 – embrace all of us and our gifts.

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SUNDAY READINGS

The Ascension of the Lord

‘Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.’

MATTHEW 28:16-20 ACTS 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has

been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”

PSALM 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness, For the Lord, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the Lord, amid trumpet blasts. Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise. God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

EPHESIANS 1:17-23 Brothers and sisters: May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge

of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

MATTHEW 28:16-20 The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.

Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

Challenge and consolation

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ne morning, 7-year-old Jenny was sitting at the kitchen table eating her cereal. Just then, her father entered the kitchen. He rushed right by her to get something. Jenny got up, went over to him, grabbed his arm, and said, “Daddy, you forgot to say ’good morning’ to me.” He gave her a hug, and said, “Sorry, Jenny, I was thinking about a problem at work.” Jenny said, “Daddy, did you say your prayers yet this morning?” “No,” he confessed rather sheepishly. “Come with me,” she said. She led him out of the kitchen into her own room. Walking him over to her prayer corner, she said, “Close your eyes, Daddy.”

DEACON He obeyed. Then closing FAIVA PO’OI her own eyes, she said in a soft voice, “Jesus said, ‘Do not be afraid. I am with you always.’” Then she paused, opened her eyes, and said, “Daddy, just think about that for a minute, and you’ll be better.”

When difficulties arise, we, too, need to recall

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS CARE FOR CREATION

Polluting or destroying the environment is like telling God one does not like what he created and proclaimed to be good, Pope Francis said May 21 at his weekly general audience at the Vatican. “To destroy creation is to say to God, ‘I don’t like it.’” On the other hand, he said, safeguarding creation is safeguarding a gift of God: “ … if we destroy creation, creation will destroy us. Don’t forget that!”

Jesus’ promise. The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven, is one of the most important feasts of the liturgical year. There are two significant points of this feast of the Ascension: Jesus entering into his eternal glory and we, his disciples, taking up his special mission through our baptismal and confirmation call.

The Ascension is the fulfillment of the divine plan of salvation for all people. Jesus continues to be present in the world; however, his ascension into heaven changes the way he is present.

He is now present through us, his followers. The Ascension also marks a change in Jesus’ activity in the world. He no longer acts by using his own human voice to address people, his own human heart to love people, his own hands to reach out and touch others. Now he acts through us, his disciples, using our voice to proclaim the Gospel to all people, our hearts to love our neighbor and others in need, our hands to reach out to people, our patience when others annoy us, our forgiveness when others wrong us, and our perseverance when we feel like giving up. We are now the body of Christ.

This change does not mean that we are on our own. We cannot preach in Jesus’ name only. Instead, we preach with Jesus’ power and life, and we always look to Jesus to live, to minister and to preach effectively.

In the second reading, Ephesians 4:1-13, St. Paul states that the virtues necessary for a disciple to “preach the gospel” effectively are humility, gentleness, patience, and love. He also provides us with the signs of effective preaching in a community: unity, peace, and hope – all of which contribute to the building up the body of Christ.

On this feast of the Ascension, we celebrate the enthronement of Jesus in glory in heaven, but we also celebrate his continued presence among us as head of his body, the church. This is the mystery that we celebrate in this feast.

This is the challenge that the Scripture holds out to us today. And so, the feast of the Ascension is both a challenge and consolation. Jesus challenges us to follow his commandments and directions for journeying to our eternal destination. As a consolation, Jesus reminds us he is with us every step of the way. This is the message of today’s feast. This is the assurance we celebrate on this feast. This is the good news of the Ascension.

May the Eucharist give us a new spirit to be what we are: The new body by which the risen Lord speaks, loves, and reaches out to people in today’s world.

DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 2: Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs. ACTS 19:1-8. PS 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab. JN 16:29-33.

THURSDAY, JUNE 5: Memorial of St. Boniface, bishop and martyr. ACTS 22:30; 23:6-11. PS 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. JN 17:20-26.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3: Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, martyrs. ACTS 20:17-27. PS 68:10-11, 20-21. JN 17:1-11a.

FRIDAY, JUNE 6: Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, bishop.

ACTS 25:13b-21. PS 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab. JN 21:15-19.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4: Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. ACTS 20:28-38. PS 68:29-30, 3335a, 35bc-36ab. JN 17:11b-19.

SATURDAY, JUNE 7: Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter. ACTS 28:16-20, 30-31. PS 11:4, 5 and 7.

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Archbishop to ordain 4 to priesthood Meet the transitional deacons to be ordained as the archdiocese’s newest priests by Archbishop Cordileone June 7 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Rev. Mr. Mark Doherty

Born Aug. 28, 1980, Deacon Doherty is the third of Patrick and MarieAnnick Doherty’s four sons. The brothers grew up in the Richmond district of San Francisco and attended the Lycée Francais, St. Monica School and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. Deacon Doherty attended UC Davis for two years and had planned a career in the foreign service, withdrawing to enter the Jesuit novitiate in Culver City. In his 10 years as a Jesuit, he earned his Bachelor of Arts in history from St. Louis University in 2003; studied philosophy and theology in Paris for a year; was an intern for the Holy See mission to the U.N. in the summer of 2004; earned a Master of Arts in philosophy from Fordham University in 2006; taught and coached soccer at a Jesuit high school in Sacramento from 2006-09; and was chaplain resident at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics in 2009-10.

After being transitioned out of the Jesuits in 2010, he taught U.S. history at Marin Catholic High School for one year, entering St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in 2011.

Who most inspired your vocation and why?

There are a number of people who inspired me to service of God and his church. At the top of that list is Pope John Paul II, a saintly, fully alive man.

What do you most look ahead to as a priest?

It rests at the intersection of a vertical beam and a horizontal beam.

On the vertical axis I look forward to the opportunity to represent our Lord and serve his church. But there is also the horizontal axis. I find people interesting, very interesting, and I enjoy being of help to people. I enjoy being a father to people, accompanying them, supporting them, encouraging them, guiding them, coming to their aid when they need it, etc.

What do you like to do in your free time?

From a very young age I have been enchanted by music, by classical music in particular, and by Mozart above all. In my opinion, he is the greatest artistic genius to have ever walked the earth. In my free time I also make a point of exercising, reading and being outdoors, in nature.

What is one of your favorite Bible passages?

On the back of the holy card I’ve had printed for the occasion of my ordination the verse from John 5: 17: “My Father is working still; and I am working.” As I noted above, a key aspect of man’s nature is an orientation to participate in some work greater than himself. The grace of my vocation includes a sensitivity to the ongoing work of the Father and the Son, who are still laboring to build the kingdom, laboring to draw all men and women home to the house of the Father. I perceive the majesty, the nobility of this work, and feel a deep desire to be part of it.

Rev. Mr. Roger Gustafson

Deacon Gustafson was born and raised in a suburban neighborhood of Atlanta, Ga. Although raised a Lutheran because of his Scandinavian background, he was confirmed and brought into the Catholic Church in 1989 at age 24. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Biological Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University. He worked as a health care administrator after college, managing four kidney dialysis centers in the Atlanta area. He became interested in theology and religious studies, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in Religion and Social Ethics in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Chicago in 2002. He was an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in San Francisco and later for Hunton & Williams LLP in Atlanta, practicing employment discrimination law. In 2004, Deacon Gustafson began discerning a call to the diocesan priesthood and was accepted to study at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in 2009. He was ordained to the transitional diaconate in 2013.

Who most inspired your vocation and why?

A priest friend of mine in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, whom I have known for over 15 years, most inspired my vocation. He is a model for me because of how he interacts with his parishioners and people in general. He makes them feel so comfortable and loved and truly communicates the love of Christ to all people that he meets.

What do you most look ahead to as a priest?

I most look forward to celebrating Mass and the sacrament of reconciliation, as well as pastoral counseling and preaching the word of God. I am excited about starting a new parish assignment and getting to know the parishioners.

What do you like to do in your free time?

Going to the movies and hiking.

There are so many beautiful places in the Bay Area for hiking. I have climbed Mount Diablo and Mount Tamalpais, for instance, and I look forward to exploring many more local spots in the coming years.

What is one of your favorite Bible passages?

One of my favorite passages from Scripture is the post-resurrection story in John 21, of Jesus meeting the disciples after a long night of unproductive fishing and cooking them breakfast. Of course, I love breakfast! It is my favorite meal of the day. But the story also reminds me of how dependent we are on the Lord for everything and how he comforts us even in our failures and disappointments.

Rev. Mr. Andrew Spyrow

Deacon Spyrow was born in Concord on Dec. 21, 1959, the fourth of five boys and the eldest of two fraternal twins. He attended Queen of All Saints School in Concord with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and says “to this day I still know all my teachers by name.” He attended De La Salle High School in Concord and Diablo Valley Community College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in business administration and religious education from St. Mary’s College in Moraga.

Deacon Spyrow volunteered and was employed in religious education and with high school youth most of his life. He worked professionally in banking, and as a funeral director, managing five locations and serving 700 families at a local funeral home at the time he entered St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. He has served as a lector, extraordinary minister of holy Communion. He has taught religious education, led retreats for teens and served as a director for retreat programs for the De La Salle Christian Brothers in St. Helena. He lived in community with the brothers in Fresno and was a teacher, director of student activities and high school campus minister. When he was accepted to the seminary, Deacon Spyrow was a member of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, where he led RCIA and religious education and co-chaired the stewardship committee.

Who most inspired your vocation and why?

I would say it was the De La Salle Christian Brothers. These are a group of men who are truly dedicated to the mission of St. John Baptist de la Salle and are very serious about their faith. Having the opportunity to be educated, work and live with these brothers left a deep impression on how I should spend my life in the service of others especially those less fortunate, all in the name of Jesus Christ.

What do you most look ahead to as a priest?

To say Mass daily for the people of God and to bring Jesus Christ to those who may be skeptical, angry, lost and broken.

What do you like to do in your free time?

Free time? What’s that? No, I enjoy going crabbing, fishing, visiting my family and friends. Now that I have free time prior to ordination I plan to spend time with my parents who will be celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary this year.

What is one of your favorite Bible passages?

John 15:13. “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” To spend my life for others and not for myself has always brought me closest to Jesus Christ and the joy in that compares to nothing else.

Rev. Mr. Tony Vallecillo

Deacon Vallecillo was born in Managua, Nicaragua, but his family moved to San Francisco when he was 1 year old and he grew up in various San Francisco neighborhoods – the Mission, Noe Valley and the Outer Sunset.

He graduated from Lowell High School in 1979. From early childhood his major interest has been movies and literature and he has seen “The Godfather” at least 25 times and read Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” nine times.

His desire growing up was to be a film director and later a fiction writer, and he worked on writing and film projects throughout his 20s and 30s, working office jobs to support himself. He was baptized and confirmed at 2 weeks old, but said that growing up he was not interested in his Catholic faith and left the church for 13 years.

However, strong personal encounters with God led him back in his early 30s, where he joined “an active, spirit-filled parish,” St. Dominic in San Francisco, and through the young adults group he strengthened and deepened his faith. “It was through people in that group that I heard God’s call for me to the priesthood at age 41!” said Deacon Vallecillo, who was in formation from 20052014.

Who most inspired your vocation and why?

A friend of mine, Christine Watkins. She is a prayerful and mystical Christian. In July 2003 she had a vision of me as priest while at Mass which she shared with me later. This vision was the catalyst of my priesthood call.

What do you most look ahead to as a priest?

Being of service to people and bringing God to them.

What do you like to do in your free time?

Watch movies and read books.

The best movie I have seen recently is “American Hustle” with Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence.

The best book: “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination” by Philip Shenon.

What is one of your favorite Bible passages?

Exodus 3:14 when in response to Moses’ question about his name, God responds, “’I AM WHO I AM.’ And he said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” It is one of my favorite passages because out of his great love for us God reveals that he is existence itself. He has now come to form a personal and intimate relationship with his chosen people. Through Jesus, God forms an even more intimate relationship with all of us.

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Around the archdiocese ST. PIUS SCHOOL, REDWOOD CITY: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited the school May 19. Students enjoyed meeting the archbishop in their classrooms and spending a little time asking questions, the school said. When asked what was the best part of his job Archbishop Cordileone “assured the students that working with all of them and the people in the archdiocese was his favorite part.” Pictured are Archbishop Cordileone, pastor Father Paul Rossi and fourth graders.

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ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s orchestra and chamber singers performed at New York City’s Carnegie Hall over Easter break. They were invited to perform, along with the best school groups in the nation, April 23 and 27.

Chad Zullinger is choral director.

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ST. DOMINIC PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: The Bay to Breakers had a corresponding “Run with Jesus” at San Francisco’s St. Dominic Church May 18.

After the parish family Mass about 70 parishioners dressed up in costumes and followed Jesus around the block, said Michael Smith, youth director. Runners included Big Bird, several angels and numerous biblical figures. Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor, joined the group for the walk. Parishioner Brendan Folan, shown with hands raised, portrayed Jesus. “Everyone gave Jesus a high-five at the finish line,” Smith said.

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ST. CHARLES PARISH, SAN CARLOS: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is surrounded by members of the St. Charles Men’s Club May 8 after singing “Happy Birthday.” Bishop Justice lectured, on his birthday, on “The Times

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They Are A-Changing: As Catholics How Do We Respond?” He is hiding a can of Diet Coke under his jacket, causing laughter among the members. Pictured from left: Bill Farkas, Mike McDevitt, Brian Earley, Joe Keegan, Bishop Justice, Bill Hollywood, Fred Bucher, Chris Guslani, Greg Celotti, Larry Bragato.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: St. Vincent de Paul School was one of four schools in the city that earned an Environmental Excellence Award from the San Francisco Department of the Environment for outstanding student composting and recycling programs. Spanish teacher Petrina Grube and the fourth, fifth and seventh graders that make up the school’s new Eco Committee were on hand at City Hall for presentation of the award May 13.

During the 2013-14 school year, the committee expanded the number of student “compost monitors” and developed their annual “Walk and Roll to School Week” into a monthly activity. Now on the first Friday of each month, more than 60 students walk, bike, scooter or carpool to school.

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EPIPHANY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO: The Epiphany League and other supporters of Epiphany Center raised over $13,000 at the Celebrating Mothers Luncheon on May 7 at the St. Francis Yacht Club. The funds will help women in the center’s residential recovery program restore their smiles through with dental procedures paid for by the Funda-Smile program. Epiphany Center is a nonprofit organization operated by the Daughters of Charity. Its residential drug treatment and family program, which supports 50-70 women each year, is entirely self-supporting. The Celebrating Mothers Luncheon, one of two annual fundrais-

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ing events for Epiphany Center, was co-chaired this year by Epiphany League members Betsy Jacques and Ann Peterson. Epiphany League members are volunteer ambassadors and advocates for Epiphany Center, raising funds to ensure service to the most vulnerable women, children, and families in San Francisco.

Epiphany Center has evolved since 1852 when it was founded as Mount St. Joseph to care for San Francisco orphans, later merging with St. Elizabeth’s, a maternity home for unwed mothers. The two agencies merged in 1976 as Epiphany Center to meet the changing needs of the city. Call (415) 567-8370 or visit www.

TheEpiphanyCenter.org.

ST. CHARLES BORROMEO PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: First communicants received the body and blood of Christ at Mass at the church May 14. Pastor Father Moises Agudo had a unique and touching way of leading the first communicants closer to Jesus, the church said, adding that the children received the two pieces of the Eucharist. “It was remarkable and solemn,” the church said. “We hope and pray that these communicants and the parents will continue to receive Jesus Christ by attending Sunday Masses consistently.”

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TRANSITIONAL DEACONS: Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarians

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Pat Summerhays, left, and Cameron Faller are pictured with San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University at their ordination as transitional deacons May 19. The seminarians, who are scheduled to be ordained to the priesthood next year, were parishioners at Our Lady of Loretto in Novato, Bishop Daly’s first parish assignment as a priest in the archdiocese.

SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: Sister Rita Marie Jovick, PBVM (60 years), Sister Corinne Avila, PBVM, (70 years) and Sister Máire Sullivan, PBVM, (60 years), celebrated their jubilees April 27 with Mass and a luncheon at the motherhouse in San Francisco. Sister Rita Marie ministered as vice principal and then principal at Epiphany School, San Francisco. In 1998, Sister Rita became development director for Capacitar, a nonprofit promoting healing practices for those who have suffered trauma. Sister Corinne taught first grade for 33 years at schools including St. Teresa School, San Francisco. Sister Máire is a former principal of St. Agnes School, San Francisco, and later served as a parish sister at St. Agnes for more than a dozen years. In 2006, she was the founding director of The Lantern Center for Hospitality and Education, a literacy center for immigrants sponsored by the sisters in the Mission District.

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OBITUARY SISTER LESLIE HAYS, BVM, 92 – TEACHER, ADMINISTRATOR

Sister Leslie Hays, 92, died May 9 at the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa.

Interment was in the congregation’s Mount Carmel Cemetery there.

Sister Leslie entered religious life from Our Sister Leslie Lady of Lourdes ParHays, BVM ish, Chicago on Sept.

8, 1940. She professed first vows March

19, 1943 and final vows March 19, 1949.

Locally, Sister Leslie taught second grade at San Francisco’s St. Brigid School with additional service in schools in San Jose, Omaha, Neb., Butte, Mont., and Des Moines, Iowa.

She is a former associate superintendent for diocesan schools in Nashville, Tenn.

Sister Leslie is survived by a sister-in-law Patty Hays of Illinois and nieces and nephews.

Remembrances may be sent to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

CHEFS RAISE $600,000 FOR MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY

Mission Dolores Academy with the help of some of the country’s finest chefs raised $600,000 for the scholarship’s for low-income students attending the school.

The event took place April 2 at San Francisco’s Julia Morgan Ballroom.

Chef Charles Phan owner of San Francisco’s Slanted Door restaurant led the list of prominent chefs lending themselves to the day. The Slanted Door is this year’s winner of the national James Beard Award for culinary excellence.

Phan was assisted in preparing the menu by area chefs including Craig Stoll, Mourad Lahlou and Anne Walker.

More than 300 guests sat down for the feast. The idea of bringing many well-known cooks to the preparation table is “the brainchild of Phan who grew up in the Mission and is a longtime supporter of Mission Dolores Academy,” the school said.

“I feel it is my duty to help our innercity youth become successful, contributing members of our community,” Phan said.

More than 80 percent of the academy’s students receive tuition assistance and 75 percent of its students come from surrounding San Francisco neighborhoods including the Mission District, Western Addition and the Tenderloin.

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LOOKING EAST

Blessed John Paul II called for the Church to “breathe with both lungs,” incorporating the rich traditions of both the Christian East and West. But how?

Join Rev. Father Kevin Kennedy, Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, for a catechetical lecture on the First Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. to learn more.

Our next First Saturday Lecture will be on Saturday, June 7, at 1:00 p.m., at 5920 Geary Blvd. (at 23rd Ave., the former St. Monica's convent), in San Francisco, CA 94121 10:00 a.m. Divine Liturgy 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Fellowship luncheon 1:00 p.m. Lecture All are welcome throughout the day Parking is available in the St. Monica’s Parking Lot www.ByzantineCatholic.org

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❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin

❑ Prayer to St. Jude

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St. Jude Novena May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us.

St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

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St. Labre Indian School Senior Major Gift Officer

St. Labre Indian School, one of the nation’s leading institutions of its type is embarking on a new phase of its mission. They seek a Senior Major Gift Officer to be a significant part of this initiative. Candidates need to have verifiable track records and 10 years of work in the development field and be supportive of the Mission of St. Labre.

Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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CATECHETICAL LECTURE

2013-2014 is the 75th Anniversary of Saint Philip the Apostle School!

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ROSARY: Prayer for conversion of hearts, United Nations Plaza at Hyde and Market streets, San Francisco, 12:30 p.m. Juanita Agcaoili, zenyl8@ yahoo.com; (415) 647-7229.

CONCERT: Festival of Choirs, 7:30 p.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, with Mission Dolores Basilica Choir, First Presbyterian Church of Livermore Choir, and Mission Peak Chamber Singers. Choirs perform individual repertoires and a combined Haydn Te Deum. Tickets at $15 are available at the door or http:// festival-mission.brownpapertickets. com.

SUNDAY, JUNE 1 CHAMPAGNE BINGO: Italian Catholic Federation lunch, St. Elizabeth Branch 258, 12:30 p.m., St. Elizabeth Parish Cantrell Hall, Goettingen Street at Wayland. Parking in school yard on Somerset. $25 includes lunch and bingo packet. Mary Perata, (415) 468-1764.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 GOLF: Italian Community Services and Immaculate Conception Academy Golf Tournament, Harding Park Golf Course, 11 a.m., check-in and lunch, 12:30 shotgun start, 6 p.m. no-host cocktails followed by dinner. $250 fee includes cart, green fee, lunch and dinner. Hole sponsorship

SATURDAY, MAY 31 CONCERT: Renee Bondi, herself a quadriplegic and known for her work on behalf of the handicapped, is the featured singer and speaker at “Igniting Hope” an evening benefiting Renee Bondi Paralyzed Veterans of America, Petaluma Community Center, 7:30 p.m. Renée Bondi is a nationallyknown Christian recording artist, speaker and author. An accident at age 29 left her paralyzed from the chest down. She later founded Bondi Ministries in an attempt to inspire “all to persevere in a lifelong, personal journey of faith,” concert organizers said.

Bondi has appeared on EWTN’s “Life on the Rock.” Tickets are $20. (707) 324-9601; email StreetsOfRomeBand@gmail.com.

opportunities available. Register at www.italiancs.com; Anna Maria Pierini, ampierini@italiancs.com, (415) 362-6423, ext. 11; Patricia Cavagnaro, ICA pcavagnaro@icacademy.org, (415) 824-2052, ext. 31.

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 STUDY GROUP: Sts. Peter and Paul

SUNDAY, JUNE 1

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

GOSPEL MASS: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish prays for those with cancer in recognition of National Cancer Survivor Day, 10:45 a.m., Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, presides at Mass and blessing.

Deacon Larry Chatmon is homilist. Parish gospel choir leads song. Discussions follow in Eunice

Don Bosco Study Group, 7- 8:45 p.m.in the church auditorium across from Washington Square, San Francisco, Salesian Father Joe Boenzi shares insights on St. Francis de Sales. No reading is necessary for attendance and participation. Group meets quarterly to study Salesian history and spirituality in anticipation of Don Bosco’s 200th birthday in 2015. Frank Lavin, (415) 310-8551; franklavin@comcast.net.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 6 3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, Friday 6-10 p.m.; Saturday 1-10 p.m.; Sunday 1-8 p.m.

Come experience the “All Across America” festival during three days of food, games, carnival rides and live entertainment. Admission and live entertainment are free. www.pius.org/ festival2014.html; (650) 361-1411.

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‘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 Father Kevin Kennedy, pasKennedy tor, at 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day.

Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking in St. Monica Church lot. www.byzantinecatholic. org; (415) 752-2052; OLFatimaSF@ gmail.com.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 7 REUNION: St. Stephen School, San Francisco, 1964 graduates, Mass in St. Stephen Church 4:30 p.m., followed by tour and refreshments with dinner 6:30-10 p.m., Gold Mirror Restaurant, 18th Avenue and Taraval. Katherine Moser, development@ststephenschoolsf.org; Thom McCue and Jim Lynch, ststephens1964@aol.com.

ANNIVERSARY: St. Raphael School celebrates its 125th anniversary with school tours from 3-4:45 p.m., Mass at 5 p.m. in honor of generations of alumni followed by a reception in the Louis G. Freitas Memorial Gym. (415) 454-4455; email alumni@straphaelschool.com; visit St. Raphael Alumni Facebook page.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Christoph Tietze, organist. All recitals open to the public.

Freewill offering accepted at the door.

Ample free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County.

CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. (415) 614-5643; janschachern@aol.com.

door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www. stmarycathedralsf.org. Ample free parking.

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m.

Father Brian Costello, pastor, Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Father Brian San Francisco, Costello principal celebrant. (650) 756-2060; www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

PEACE MASS: Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton Street, San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 12 MANSION PICNIC: “Picnic at the Mansion” is a fashion show fundraiser at Burlingame’s Kohl Mansion benefiting the women and mission of SVdP’s Catherines’ Center, a program helping women reclaim their lives after incarceration, noon. SVdP’s Catherines’ Center models will be on runway with fashions from SVdP stores, $45. Jodie Penner, (650) 373-0622; jpenner@ svdpsm.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 22

YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING: One-day archdiocesan training for high school aged youth including incoming freshmen who have received the sacrament of confirmation at Mercy High School, 3250 39th Ave., San Francisco, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., $30 per person, breakfast, lunch and snacks included as well as materials for the day. Participants will be shown about leadership in areas including activities, discussions, prayer services, music.

Please RSVP to Ynez Lizarraga at lizarragay@sfarchdiocese.org. Visit http://sforeym.org/sites/default/files/ insert/Youth%20Leadership%20 Training%202014%20word.pdf.

and homilist. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

‘WHALE OF A SALE’: St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. Spaces are available for vendors at $50 each.

Vendors supply their own tables and chairs, (415) 461-0704; whalesale94904@yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, JUNE 15 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., David Hatt, organist. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the

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3-DAY GARAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 19, Colma, to benefit charities, scholarships, seminarians and more, June 27, 28, 29, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. all days. 225 Wildwood Drive, South San Francisco, wide variety of items including clothes, furniture, housewares, dishes, books.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Victor Xie, viola, with Xiyan Wang, piano. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org. Ample free parking.

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THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today, Larry Purcell, Catholic Worker House. Sister Norberta, (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@ pius.org.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 29

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

Father Kirk Ullery is principal celebrant

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 30, 2014

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April HOLY CROSS COLMA Martha Abela Kieran Allen Dorothy E. Alley Vicente Artuz Mary Rosaria Axiak Ernesto C. Azucena Sr. Judy Bara Lorraine M. Barsotti Theodore R. Berrum Anita S. Binalinbing Bertha Mary Blake Laurence Blanchard Edward J. Borg Jeffrey Eric Stephen Borrero Jean Brown Kathleen Ann Burkart Miles Ivan Butcher Cristeta P. Cachapero Julita Calub Rosalina Caragan Tomasa Carranza Mark Joseph Casey William J. Cavallero Virginia J. Colombo Alma Marie Cozzolino Livio L. Cristanelli Charles E. Cullen Josie Davidson Roland W. Demarais Angela J. Denike Sr. Mary Guadalupe Dominguez, RSM Isabel Duran Maureen L. Fitzgerald Patrick Flannery Stephen J. Ford Carol Brugioni Francois Alicia Garduno Maria Gialdini Frank Gilfether Patrick E. Gillis Rosa Amelia Gomez-Marin

Silvano Garcia Gonzalez Arkady M. Gorelik Michael Edward Haggerty Joseph M. Hession Lillian Angela Hill Maria Estela Huete Il Sun Im Connie J. Jagles Barbara Ann Jamison Lorraine F. Hallendorf Jones Elsie E. Lagomarsino Ching Lau Salomon Asen Lee Charles H. Lee Elizabeth A. Lenzini Roberta Lindner Elaina Theresa Lindner Concepcion Isabel Lobregat Jose Mari Ramon Lobregat Joseph Lucchetti Encarnacion Balanon Madayag Rev. Joseph J. Marini Nada F. McFarland Donald R. Miller John S. Molinelli Sam P. Morello Thomas P. Mullarkey Alejandro Nieto Victor Ordonez Ariana Y. Ortega Richard J. Ortiz Virginia Pagan Lia Paladini Anne C. Pariani Victor Peccolo Gregorio Peralta Beatrice M. Pfaff Corene Christine Piccolotti Abraham Ernest Preciado Robert Ramirez Lena M. Re Catherine L. Regacho Ione C. Remedios Cathalina Rodriguez Jose L. Rodriguez

Arturo M. Rosario Terry R. Sandin Dennis Jose Sandoval Rose C. Santora Sidney Schonfeld Dolores A. Schumann Andrew Skirra Anthony Spiteri Carlos C. Tejuco Karen Thorn Maria Rosaura Tovar Mercedes Trejos Benjamin Ybarra

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Andrew Jonas Charlotte M. Lebeau Allyn M. Silva

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Joyce A. Alioto Mary Ann Amaral Eva Ghilotti Marvin Pugh Jules P. Vallée

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Victoria Pantoja

TOMALES CATHOLIC CEMETERY LeRoy Lindo Cerini

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, June 7, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Brian Costello, Celebrant Most Holy Redeemer Church

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.