April 12, 2013 by Catholic San Francisco

‘MUNI FRANCIS’:

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Artist pictures busriding people’s pope in namesake’s patron city

A homicide victim’s mother’s long grieving and vigil for justice

St. Thomas More performs outdoor Stations of the Cross

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‘May the light of Christ dispel the darkness’ The Easter vigil, the most solemn Vigil in the church year, begins with the service of light: A fire is prepared to signify that the risen Christ is the light of the world. The paschal candle is lit from the fire and the flame passed to members of the congregation. During the vigil March 30 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the fire was prepared by, from left, sacristans Antonios Stefanos and Arturo Macias and volunteer Ed LeClair.

Young adults ask local church for more welcome, interest Archdiocesan young adult task force to present ideas this summer VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Many Catholic young adults say they feel isolated and uncared for by the church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco – at a time in their lives when they are navigating the challenges of the mobile and cosmopolitan Bay Area. Some faithful Catholic young adults started attending Protestant

churches in downtown San Francisco, says St. Agnes parishioner Joe Cussen, 29, “just because they felt welcomed. They feel if they miss a service, they’re missed by the congregants and by the pastor.” “The two things I hear repeatedly is they want to feel welcomed and accepted and they want help discerning their mission and purpose in life,” said Laura Martin-Spencer, director of adult faith formation

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis reaffirmed the importance of responding decisively to the problem of the sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy and called on the Vatican office dealing with suspected cases to continue carrying out its mandate. During an April 5 meeting with Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the pope discussed the office’s various responsibilities. However, he made a particular point of highlighting its work to counter clerical sexual abuse, telling Archbishop Muller he wanted the congregation to continue with the policies of retired Pope Benedict XVI wanted and “to act decisively concerning cases of sexual abuse,” the Vatican said in a written statement released after the meeting. The pope, the statement said, asked the congregation to continue: “promoting measures that protect minors, above all; help for those who have suffered such violence in the past; necessary procedures against those found guilty; (and) the commitment of bishops’ conferences in formulating and implementing the necessary directives in this is area that is so important for the church’s witness and credibility.” The pope also assured victims that SEE ABUSE, PAGE 22

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NEED TO KNOW HOME MISSIONS APPEAL: The 2013 Catholic Home Missions Appeal will be taken up in many dioceses the weekend of April 27-28, helping to bridge the gap for isolated parishes and missions in dioceses and eparchies across the U.S. and in the U.S. territories of the Caribbean and Pacific islands. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the appeal is combined with the annual Black and Indian Missions Collection. The Catholic Home Missions Appeal is the primary source of funding for grants from the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions. In the U.S. 44 percent of all dioceses and eparchies receive support for basic and essential pastoral programs such as evangelization, catechesis, seminary formation and lay leadership training. “Many Catholics in the United States don’t realize how many dioceses are struggling, often right next door,” said Bishop Peter F. Christensen of Superior, Wis., subcommittee chairman. “Grants from the appeal help support 84 struggling dioceses in such sparsely populated, economically struggling areas as East Texas and the Florida Panhandle. For more information, visit www.usccb.org/catholic-giving/opportunities-for-giving/catholichome-missions-appeal/. VATICAN CULTURAL CONFERENCE: Does religion still matter in contemporary society? Are freedom and religion opposites? What gives real meaning to life? A Vatican-sponsored TEDx conference April 19 will attempt to answer some of those existential questions from the points of view of an unusual mix of people, Vatican Radio reported. Eighteen speakers, from artists and NBA basketball players to a pop singer and a cardinal, will examine the impact of religious freedom in their own lives and from a global perspective at the TEDxViaDella Conciliazione conference. TED.com is a global nonprofit organization devoted to “ideas worth spreading.” At TED’s annual conferences in the U.S. and Europe, leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TEDx conferences are independently organized at the local level. Sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture and inspired by its president Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi’s Courtyard of the Gentiles, an international forum for dialogue between believers and non-believers, the TEDx conference has been organized by a group of lay people in Roman academia. It will explore the common ground between people of different faiths and backgrounds and ask if there room for mutual understanding and religious freedom as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948. For more information, visit www.tedxviadellaconciliazione.com and www.ted.com.

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‘MUNI Francis’: Pope of the people inspires Catholic graphic artist RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The election of a pope who took his name after the patron saint of San Francisco inspired Stefan Salinas to compose a visual tribute suitable for a pontiff who lives humbly and is urging the worldwide church to take the Gospel directly to the people. The result was a drawing that might be called “MUNI Francis” – the pope depicted as a passenger on a crowded city bus, holding a book in one hand and a strap to steady himself in the other. Other passengers, including a woman cradling a baby, are minding their own business as if the white zucchetto-wearing successor to St. Peter were just another rider on just another workday. “A friend suggested I make a prototype or two of Pope Francis, and a I felt maybe he should be on a bus of some sort because he’s a man of the people,” said Salinas, who attends St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco and is a graphic artist by avocation. “And I thought, ‘Why not a San Francisco MUNI bus, because it’s San Francisco of all places.’” Salinas’ portrayal may be more true-to-life than he knows. When the pope was archbishop of Buenos Aries and was asked his favorite way to get around, he said the subway because it is fast but “I prefer the bus because that way I can look outside.” Formerly a Unitarian, Salinas, 40, converted to Catholicism two years ago through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at the parish. “I’ve been interested in Christianity,” he said, adding that he was always drawn to the art, architecture and rituals of the Latin church. “It wasn’t until 10 years ago that I started working alongside Catholics with the Blind Vietnamese Children’s Foundation in San Francisco, and there was something about the way the priests I got to know, and other lay people – something about the way that they live their life and walk the walk, not just talk the talk,” he said. “The rest of it was mystical – dreams and one too many coincidences. It fit like a glove, and

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Salinas’ Catholic conversion 2 years ago ‘fit like a glove, and it’s still challenging me and intriguing me like nothing else.’ it’s still challenging me and intriguing me like nothing else.” Salinas has written an illustrated children’s book that he is trying to get published. He is also writing a book inspired by priests he has known. The working title is “The Sacramental Father Dom.” “We’re walking alongside a priest for four months from January to late Easter,” he said, describing the fictional narrative. “He’s having a mini-existential crisis and he’s starting to question why he’s a priest and what his role is, while he’s instructing us as an audience what a priest’s role is.”

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Salinas said he is trying to present a positive portrayal of the priesthood. “It’s time that people get more of an insider’s viewpoint of the priesthood, something to build a more sympathetic portrait than the news always shows,” he said. “There’s a lot of misunderstandings and quick misjudgments I’ve observed in and outside the church, especially people who have left the church. I think it’s time to see that everyone is different.” View Salinas’ books and portfolio at www.stefansalinas.com/index. html.

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400 gather to pay respects to slain college student More than 400 people attended a memorial April 3 for Jacob Valdiviezo, 19, who was slain in a drive-by shooting in front of his home in San Francisco while visiting on spring break from college in Oregon. Led by the archdiocesan Ministry for Victims and Families of Violent Crime, the memorial in the 2600 block of Bryant Street in the Mission District included a prayer service led by Father Michael Quinn, followed by a bilingual rosary and songs. Two busloads of students came from the victim’s alma mater Archbishop Riordan High School, and the victim’s parents and other loved ones sat in the front row. Jacob’s father, Carlos Valdiviezo, briefly spoke, saying he was grateful for the support and had not realized how many friends his son had, said Julio Escobar, coordinator of the archdiocesan ministry. The victim was a sophomore at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, where he played as a wide receiver on the football team. He was interested in pursuing economics and “was considered a good friend and leader by his peers and coaches,” the school said in a message on its website.

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Eva Muntean and Dolores Meehan will be honored with the Cardinal John O’Connor Award by the Sisters of Life in ceremonies April 19 in New York City. Eva and Dolores are founders of the Walk for Life West Coast held each year in January through the streets of San Francisco. The 2013 walk Jan. 26 drew more than 50,000 participants. “As women of faith in Eva Muntean the forefront of a transformative movement, (Eva’s and Dolores’) commitment and vision have inspired new voices in the public square to proclaim that every human life is a sacred gift,” the Sisters of Life said about the honorees. The “dignity and vocation of women can only be realized without violence,t” they said. The Walk for Life West Coast drew Dolores Meehan 7,000 participants in its first year, 2005 with numbers growing every year since. HANDS ON: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County sends out a cheer for the men and women of the Order of Malta who serve at SVdP’s Homeless Help Center in San Mateo and provide dinner at SVdP’s Catherine’s Center, a program for women leaving incarceration. SVdP called the Knights and Dames “ready to serve our homeless brothers and sisters who are in need of the most basic necessities, one of which is food, but more importantly, love, compassion and respect.” The women of Catherine’s Center were guests at a dinner hosted by Notre Dame de Namur University’s Center for Spirituality and served by the Order of Malta. They later attended a talk by Jesuit Father Greg Boyle at the school’s Dorothy Stang Center. Father Boyle’s book “Tattoos on the Heart” is part of the material used in the Catherine’s Center program. Crew members from the Order of Malta included Elyse Barca, Christina Anaya, Bill Regan, Elizabeth Elwood, Richard Elwood, Sheila O’Connor Burns, Mary Jo Anstey and Larry Nejasmich. ART ATTACK: St. Anne’s Home took on a Sotheby’s alias March 14 with “Celebrate HeART,” an auction evening with proceeds going to the Little Sisters of the Poor’s treasured facility on San Francisco’s Lake Street. More than 200 people were on hand to view paintings available for sale. The Little Sisters of the Poor have cared for the

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ORATORS ALL: Congrats to participants and winners of San Mateo Pro-Life’s speech contest, held March 14 at St.Gregory Parish, San Mateo. Hector Garay, sophomore, Capuchino High School, came in first; Nicole Wilczynski, senior, Notre Dame High School, Belmont took second place, and Hayley Goell, sophomore, San Mateo High School came in third. Students spoke on abortion including personal acquaintance with a young, post-abortive student, San Mateo Pro-Life said. Pictured from left are Luke Abellana, sophomore, Burlingame High School; Hector; Nicole and Hayley; Kaitlin Hughes, senior, Notre Dame High School, Belmont, and San Mateo Pro-Life chairwoman Jessica Munn. elderly needy for more than 110 years. Honorary chair of the event was Dede Wilsey assisted by Joanne Murphy, Maria Cunningham and Marisa Mizono, auxiliary president.

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On the 33rd anniversary of the violent death of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a prayerful gathering of reconciliation took place March 23 at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral in San Francisco. The 250 participants at the conference, called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Healing the Wounded Heart,â&#x20AC;? included families and friends of those who have lost a loved one to crime in San Francisco, and those who have committed a violent crime against others. All joined on a journey of reflection of the possibili-

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Lord has truly risen, alleluiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; This lad at Easter Sunday morning Mass at St. Boniface Church, San Francisco, captures the spirit of the day if not the actual gestures of the adult worshippers joining hands during the Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prayer. The Easter season continues through Pentecost Sunday, May 19.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lamb of God,â&#x20AC;? an Easter oratorio by Rob Gardner, will be performed April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, by Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Details of the 2013 Red Cross Interfaith Community Blood Drive, begun in 2011 by the Diocese of Oakland and the Oakland Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be announced at the performance. Comprised of multiple individual blood drives and held annually in July, the month-long interfaith drive is sponsored, promoted and hosted by various faith-based groups in the Bay Area. This year marks the third running of the event. In 2011, the Diocese of Oakland and 14 stakes of the LDS partnered with the American Red Cross Northern California Blood Services Region to hold 24 individual blood drives during the month of July. A total of 1,700 pints of blood were collected. In 2012, more than 70 individual blood drives were hosted by faith-based groups, with 3,827 pints collected. The interfaith drive is the single largest Red Cross blood drive in the Northern California re-

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College presidents discuss promoting Catholic identity on campus JOSEPH AUSTIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The University of Dallas, an independent Catholic university, has a “flavor that you can’t get certainly at secular institutions,” president Thomas Keefe told Catholic News Service. “We are very clear in our specific mission distinctiveness” to promote the Catholic identity of the school, he said. Keefe was one of four presidents of Catholic institutions of higher learning CNS interviewed in Rosalie Mirenda response to the findings of a study conducted by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities on “The Catholic College and University President.” “Catholic presidents need to be intentional” about their school’s Catholic identity and they cannot expect it to just happen on its own, said Rosalie Mirenda, president of Neumann University in Aston Pa., near Philadelphia. “We take as part of our mission to transmit to our students the benefit of the Catholic intellectual tradition and ... to be supportive of the religious development of all students,” said Franciscan Sister

Margaret Carney, who is president of St. Bonaventure University in New York. While it is evident that this explicit identity “adds a layer of complexity,” Jesuit Father Michael Garanzini, president of Loyola University Chicago, told CNS, “I don’t think it makes it more difficult ... (because) the church’s expectations are more clear and more precise.” Father Garanzini was referring to “Ex Corde Ecclesiae”(“From the Heart of the Church”), an apostolic constitution issued in 1990 by Blessed John Paul II that outlines the identity and mission of Catholic colleges and universities and provides universal norms to ensure colleges maintain these standards. “Lay people (are) increasingly replacing religious (presidents),” said the association’s study, whose results were released earlier this year. “Of the Catholic college presidents in the data set, 65.1 percent were lay persons and 34.9 percent were members of a religious community,” it explained. “Like every other profession, things are becoming specialized,” said Keefe. Universities are becoming corporations, and it is important to hire presidents who know how to manage people and funds successfully, in addition to being able to stand up for the faith, he explained. “We should not see it (laity) as ‘Christmas help,’

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WASHINGTON – An April 5 decision by a New York federal judge to lift age limits on purchases of over-the-counter emergency contraceptives should be “appealed and overturned,” said Deirdre McQuade, spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro Life Activities. “No public health consideration justifies the unregulated distribution of such drugs to children,” she said in a statement. “Many studies have shown that wider access to ‘emergency contraception’ among young people does not reduce pregnancy or abortion rates, but can contribute to higher rates of sexually transmitted disease.” The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn, N.Y., said that within 30 days, the Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to women of all ages. Korman said the case wasn’t about the potential misuse by 11-year-olds of the contraceptive called the morning-after pill or “Plan B.” He said the number of girls that age likely to use the drugs was miniscule. Plan B, known generically as levonorgestrel, uses large doses of birth-control pills to prevent conception up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.

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ARCHBISHOP: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;IMPORTANT FOR THE SOCIAL GOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Pope Francis embraces 8-year-old Dominic Gondreau, who has cerebral palsy, in St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square March 31.

Mom calls popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embrace of son, 8, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;kiss from heavenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Christiana Gondreau could not have imagined that a chance encounter she and her 8-year-old son, Dominic, had with Pope Francis in the middle of St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square following his first Easter Mass would touch the hearts of so many around the globe. While making his way in the popemobile through a sea of faithful estimated at 250,000, the newly elected pontiff smiled and waved as he offered Easter greetings to those gathered. At one point he stopped and reached over to greet Dominic after a Vatican usher

had repositioned mother and son at a corner of the path so the pontiff could better see them. He lifted Dominic, who has cerebral palsy, while embracing and kissing him. He also spoke to the boy before gently placing the child back into his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pope definitely was whispering to him, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way of knowing what he said. Is it a secret?â&#x20AC;? Gondreau said in a telephone interview from Rome with the Rhode Island Catholic, newspaper of the Providence diocese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do believe that it was a kiss from heaven, to say this child is loved and I know him,â&#x20AC;? Gondreau said.

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Traditional marriage is really about the good of children and families, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;good of familiesâ&#x20AC;? is about â&#x20AC;&#x153;the good of society,â&#x20AC;? said the chairman of the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the natural order, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way marriage exists in nature, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why marriage is important for the social good,â&#x20AC;? said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nature promotes a child having a father and a mother. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way a child could come into the world other than with a father and a mother.â&#x20AC;? The Catholic Church opposes same-sex marriage â&#x20AC;&#x153;because we favor preserving the definition of marriage in the law as it exists naturally,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really opposed to is marriage redefinition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our opponents in the debate ... favor not expanding the right of marriage but redefining it to be something different from what it is to include the union of two people of the same sex,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One could ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well why should it stop

there, why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it include other types of unions, such as multiple partners?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Cordileone spoke to Catholic News Service March 26, the day he addressed the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; March for Marriage rally on the National Mall. The assault on the institution of marriage has its roots in â&#x20AC;&#x153;the social revolutionary movements of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;70s, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No-fault divorce was a huge blow to marriageâ&#x20AC;? and artificial birth control and â&#x20AC;&#x153;socalled open marriages and swingingâ&#x20AC;? also have undermined how the church and all societies through history have defined marriage, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vastly different human societies ... have basically understood that (marriage) is to bring men and women together in a public sexual union for the sake of the procreation of children and upbringing of children,â&#x20AC;? he said. If marriage is redefined in the law, people of faith who hold to the belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;treated as bigots,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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New Mexico’s bishops: Marriage change would be ‘regrettable’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SANTA FE, N.M. – Marriage is “a lifelong bond between one man and one woman,” said the three bishops of New Mexico in a statement issued March 27, the date the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. “If the biblical definition of marriage is changed to include same-sex couples, the effects on our society would be regrettable for many reasons. Jesus teaches that marriage is between a man and a woman,” the bishops said.

Quoting from the Gospel of St. Matthew, the bishops added, “Jesus said, ‘From the beginning the Creator “made them male and female,” and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” The bishops issuing the statement were Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, and Bishops James S. Wall of Gallup and Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces. “The effort to include same-sex unions within the institution of marriage has been presented as a civil right,” they said. “However, the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples cannot be classified as a civil right as it would infringe upon other important rights such as the right of children to a mother and father as well as the right to religious freedom. “The millions of persons who believe that marriage must be between one man and one woman will be compelled to accept the redefinition.” The bishops added, “The change in society to accept

the marriage of interracial couples is qualitatively different from the present effort. Racial difference or sameness was never an essential factor for marriage; on the other hand, sexual difference is an essential component of marriage. This is spoken to not only by religion, but by nature – for only does the sexual union of a man and a woman bring forth children.” They acknowledged in the statement, though, the violations of civil rights that have occurred against gays. “There have been tragic instances of discrimination, hatred and even violence against people with same-sex attraction. We call for peace, tolerance, and understanding in these cases,” the bishops said. “We recall the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Homosexual persons ‘must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.’ Indeed, civil rights in these instances are transgressed, namely, the right to live in peace and tranquility, without fearing violence.”

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As Californian ages, Holy Land visit helps rediscover faith prepared to find the large crowds at the holy sites, he said. “Easter is people celebrating Christ. If you come to Jerusalem (at Easter) you have to expect crowds and for it to be intensive,” he said.

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JERUSALEM – Art Negrette, 66, of Carmichael, near Sacramento, stood patiently near the Edicule of the Tomb in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The three-hour Easter Vigil was celebrated in Latin by Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, but Negrette said the opportunity to receive Communion during Holy Week within feet of the traditional sites where Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected was another step in his quest to strengthen his faith. “It was an incredible experience, one of those which I will probably continue to appreciate and value throughout my life, maybe more than I do at this moment,” said Negrette, a member of the Our Lady of Assumption Parish, following the Mass. “I didn’t understand a lot of what was said (in the Mass) but I used the time to reflect ... to understand Christ’s calling and where he wants to take me and ask him to give me the strength and courage to follow.” A lifelong Catholic who served as an altar boy in his childhood as his family moved to different military bases following his father’s military career, Negrette regularly attended Sunday Mass. However, he reflected just before the Easter Vigil began, he did not really know why he was religious.

Chance encounter

It was not until a chance encounter with a young newlywed couple as he walked the Way of St. James in Spain in 2010 that he began to really search for ways to strengthen his faith and become closer to God, seeking a more central spiritual focus to his life. He had begun the walk as a physical challenge, but was struck by the couples’ faith-based pilgrimage. “I thought that young couple really had it right. They were not there to look at monuments or for a physical challenge or to experience a different culture,” said Negrette, a separated father of two adult children. “Instead of going to Waikiki beach or Disneyland or another common honeymoon desti-

Benefits of a solo pilgrimage

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Art Negrette, 66, of Carmichael, near Sacramento, attends the Easter Vigil Mass in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City March 30. nation, they wanted to strengthen their faith and devotion together.” When he returned home the words of the young couple resonated with Negrette, an aviation attorney and consultant, and he began to pray to Jesus for help to strengthen his own faith and devotion. He set aside time each day for spiritual contemplation and learning. He decided to prepare himself for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, spending more than six months reading and studying religious texts and literature. “This pilgrimage is more a manifestation of my faith, more penitence,” he said. “It is saying I am content.” He said he might be contemplating his connection to his faith more now as he feels he is entering the final stage of his life. When he was younger he was more focused on his work, raising a family and even a little on accumulating possessions in a materialistic sense. Now he has become more attuned to growing spiritually. “This is the time when you start taking account of where you have been, where you are and where you are going to go,” he said. “You still want to understand your faith and beliefs and you want to focus on God’s will and how you can pursue it.” Although he normally tries to avoid crowds, he was

Despite a natural inclination to travel alone, Negrette said he chose to make part of his pilgrimage with a group led by a knowledgeable religious guide with whom he would be able to carry on a dialogue. He allowed himself some private time before and after the group pilgrimage so he could have a more personal experience. While traveling on his own as a pilgrim in a strange land makes him more vulnerable, it also allows him to be more open to different experiences, Negrette said. “It is exposing yourself to situations ... it is saying my faith will get me through,” he said. Coming on a pilgrimage to such a religiously significant site can be like a double-edged sword, he said. “On one hand you look at a place like (the Church of the Holy Sepulcher) and it doesn’t really fit the image of what you expect,” he said standing in the expansive rotunda of the basilica first constructed in the fourth century by Roman Emperor Constantine and his mother, St. Helena. “Christ was laid in a tomb and you expect it to be outside with a traditional tombstone on it, but you don’t find anything like that. You are inside a cathedral. “At the same time it makes you feel very humble to be in the presence of so much Catholic history,” he continued. “You come here with your beliefs and it takes some strength (to realize) that everything I have pictured for 50 years is not right. ... This place was destroyed three times, and it is not the same way it was when Christ was here.” This is when, he said, it comes down to faith and core beliefs. “At this point you realize you do not need to see it like it was 2,000 years ago. It is enough to say you are here on holy ground. It is enough to say the Christ walked on this ground,” he said.

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; In response to journalists questions, the Vatican spokesman explained why Pope Francis doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sing or chant at Mass or speak foreign languages in public. The spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, recently joked that there was a saying about Jesuits, that a Jesuit â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nec rubricat, nec cantat,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; meaning Jesuits are famed for not being enthusiastic about liturgical song or experts in detailed liturgical rubrics.â&#x20AC;? Pope Francis, a fellow Jesuit, may share some of those traits, he said. Father Lombardi said he believes

A â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;very tone deafâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pope Francis has always had â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;big problemsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with English, especially its pronunciation. the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of singing is due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;a certain hoarsenessâ&#x20AC;? or huskiness in his voice. He reads aloud very well and effectively, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but it is not the voice of Pope John Paul II, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the resonant voice of an actor.â&#x20AC;? The pope himself gave the explanation a few years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hidden away in one line in a book that was recently

republished under a new title after his election March 13. Currently unavailable in English, the book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglioâ&#x20AC;? by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti, was originally published in 2010 under the title â&#x20AC;&#x153;El Jesuitaâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jesuitâ&#x20AC;?). â&#x20AC;&#x153;The one language that always

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Complaining frequently and stewing over disappointments can easily become an obsession that blocks oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; presence, Pope Francis said. Celebrating morning Mass April 3, Pope Francis preached about the Gospel story from St. Luke about the two disappointed disciples on the road to Emmaus after the death of Jesus. The disciples had had such high hopes that Jesus would be the one who would redeem Israel, but they thought their hopes were destroyed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And they stewed, so to speak, their lives in the juice of their complaints,â&#x20AC;? he said. Complaining seems safer because it is certain, but the Gospel story shows how very patient Jesus is with the disciples, first listening to them and then explaining things step by step, until they see him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus does this with us, too,â&#x20AC;? the pope said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even in the darkest moments, he is always with us, walking with us.â&#x20AC;?

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caused me big problems was English,â&#x20AC;? the future pope said, especially its pronunciation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because I am very tone-deaf.â&#x20AC;? He said he understands the Italian dialect of his father and maternal grandparents who came from the Piedmont region. Elsewhere in the book, the future pope said he understands a little dialect from the Genoa region, but that almost all of it is â&#x20AC;&#x153;off-color.â&#x20AC;? One of his uncles on his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a shameless old man who taught us obscene folk songs in Genovese dialect. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why none of the words of the little Genovese I know is repeatable,â&#x20AC;? he said. Apostolic Life, which is led by Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz. Archbishop-designate Rodriguezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s appointment comes as the congregation is wrapping up an apostolic visitation of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious orders in the United States. Begun in 2009, its aim was to study the community, prayer and apostolic life of the orders to learn why the number of religious women in the United States had declined so sharply since the 1960s.

CANADAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISHOPS ISSUE ENVIRONMENTAL â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;CALL TO ACTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

OTTAWA, Ontario â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Canadian Catholic bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; justice and peace commission is encouraging reflection and action on recent church teaching on the environment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having an overarching vision of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose in creation and the rightful place of human beings in creation allows us to see the interconnectedness between different moral questions,â&#x20AC;? said Bishop Donald Bolen of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. That vision, presented in an April 8 document, encompasses â&#x20AC;&#x153;serving the dignity of human life at all stages and working toward the common goodâ&#x20AC;? and shows how justice implications are intrinsically connected with protecting the environment, he said in an interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are encouraging our communities and our faithful to engage in dialogue with governmental policies and giving them the principles from which they should do that,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not shying away from party policy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a call to action.â&#x20AC;?

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Self-absorption is root of evils within church, future pope said CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Evils within the church are caused by a self-centeredness and “theological narcissism” that forget to share Christ with people outside of the church, Pope Francis said in the days before his election. “When the church is self-referential, inadvertently, she believes she has her own light,” he said in a summary of a speech he gave to the College of Cardinals before the start of the conclave that ended in his election. When the church ceases to be “the mysterium lunae,” that is, to depend on Christ for receiving and reflecting his – not its own – light, the church then “gives way to that very serious evil, spiritual worldliness, which according to (Jesuit Cardinal Henri-Marie) De Lubac, is the worst evil that can befall the church,” said then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The church then “lives to give glory only to one another” and not the rest of the world, he said. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, and Vatican Radio published March 27 the future pope’s comments, which were in the handwritten outline of the speech he gave during the pre-conclave meetings, called general congregations. The meetings, which ran March

‘The evils that, over time, happen in ecclesial institutions have their root in self-referentiality and a kind of theological narcissism.’ CARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO The future Pope Francis

4-11, gave the cardinals a chance to discuss the main challenges facing the church. Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana “had been so impressed” by then-Cardinal Bergoglio’s speech that he asked for a copy of it, according to Vatican Radio. The radio said Cardinal Ortega received the pope’s permission to share the contents of the speech’s outline. The outline said evangelization presupposes that the church does not want to be locked up inside herself, but wants to go “to the peripheries, not only geographically, but also the existential peripheries: the mystery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance and indifference to religion, of intellectual currents, and of all misery.” “When the church does not come out of herself to evangelize, she becomes self-referential and then gets sick,” he wrote, adding a note of reference to St. Luke’s Gospel account of Jesus curing the crippled woman on the Sabbath. In the passage, Jesus is criticized for healing on the Sabbath, the day dedicated to rest. Jesus calls his

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critics hypocrites, asking why they can interpret the law to allow them to untie and release their animals on the Sabbath and not let a woman be unleashed from the binds of the devil who caused her illness. The future pope wrote, “The evils that, over time, happen in ecclesial institutions have their root in selfreferentiality and a kind of theological narcissism.” “In Revelation, Jesus says that he is at the door and knocks. Obviously, the text refers to his knocking from the outside in order to enter, but I think about the times in which Jesus knocks from within so that we will let him come out,” he wrote. “The self-referential church keeps

Jesus Christ within herself and does not let him out,” he added. The pope wrote, “Put simply, there are two images of the church: a church which evangelizes and comes out of herself ” by hearing the word of God with reverence and proclaiming it with faith; and “the worldly church, living within herself, of herself, for herself.” “This should shed light on the possible changes and reforms which must be done for the salvation of souls,” he wrote. Then-Cardinal Bergoglio told the College of Cardinals that the next pope “must be a man who, from the contemplation and adoration of Jesus Christ, helps the church to go out to the existential peripheries, that helps her to be the fruitful mother, who gains life from ‘the sweet and comforting joy of evangelizing.’” The College of Cardinals elected Pope Francis, reportedly beyond the two-thirds required, on March 13, on the fifth round of conclave voting.

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UK Catholic lawmakers ask pope to relax celibacy rule SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – Twenty-one Catholic members of Parliament have written to Pope Francis to ask him to relax the rule on priestly celibacy for Latin-rite priests. The members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords said in a March 25 letter to the pope that the rule should be changed to allow married men to be ordained priests where pastoral needs required it. They suggested that it was unfair to allow married former Anglican ministers to be ordained as Catholic priests in England, Wales and Scotland while the church insisted on the celibacy rule for Catholic candidates in those countries. The letter did not suggest that serving priests

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life activist, and Baroness (Patricia) Scotland, the attorney general for England and Wales under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It was also signed by Paul Murphy, a Labor Party member of Parliament who served in former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Cabinet as secretary of state for Northern Ireland, then as secretary of state for Wales. The letter said: “We recognize that the church is serious about the new evangelization and the need to renew the Christian faith in our secular societies. “As such, one of our priorities must be to ensure that parishes have priests to administer the sacraments; therefore, we believe that allowing married priests is desirable and imperative,” it added. The letter concluded: “In the first instance, based on the Anglican precedent and the desirability of subsidiarity, it would be logical and greatly welcomed by the faithful if you were to consider permitting our bishops in England and Wales and in Scotland to ordain married men where they believe it would meet the pastoral needs of the local church.” Priestly celibacy is a tradition that developed in the church in the first millennium before it was codified in the Lateran councils of the 12th century. It is a discipline of the Latin church, not a doctrine.

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In Easter messages, Mideast church leaders call for peace in Syria CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BEIRUT – In Easter messages, Catholic patriarchs in the Middle East highlighted the need for an end to the war in Syria, now entering its third year. Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, appealed “to the disputants in Syria, who are so intent in demolishing the homes of peaceful citizens, (the country’s) institutions and history, and the killing of dozens of innocent people a day ... we appeal to them to put away their arms and refuse the money given to them from the outside world, whose interest is only to demolish Syria and other Arab countries.” Cardinal Rai urged Syrians “to draw closer to God and to sit at the negotiation table with courage.” The cardinal also called on countries that border Syria to coordinate the reception of and aid for refugees and warned Lebanon not to be used as a passage for weapons. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman said March 14 that the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon had reached 1 million, equal to one-quarter of the country’s population, and that Lebanon lacked the “physical, human or geographical capabilities to provide the appropriate assistance.” Syriac Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, who was born in Hassake, Syria, condemned violence in the region and the use of arms “under the pretext of spreading democracy and the reforming of ideas.” “Our hearts and thoughts are on Syria,” which is “dominated by destruction and fragmentation,” he said. He urged all parties involved in the conflict to rely

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A man mourns the death of relatives while people search for casualties under the rubble at a site hit by what activists said was an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, March 30. on dialogue, understanding and reconciliation, instead of violence and extremism, “which would only lead to more death and destruction and fragmentation.” Syrian-born Melkite Patriarch Gregoire III Laham reiterated his appeal to the world “to work to stop the outpouring of Syrian blood.” “There has been enough suffering,” he said. “There have been enough tragedies, pain, violence, terrorism, arms trafficking, fundamentalism and business at the expense of human life, dignity, daily bread and security. “Therefore, the world needs evangelization, the Gospel of the Resurrection and life,” he added.

POPE: CHRISTIANS MUST RESIST GOSSIP’S ‘DARK JOY’

VATICAN CITY – Gossiping about someone is a “dark joy” that Christians must resist because it is a betrayal like Judas’ betrayal of Jesus, Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass March 27 in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the pope offered a brief homily on the Gospel, which included Jesus’ prediction that Judas would betray him. The pope said that for Judas, who negotiated a price for handing Jesus over to the authorities, “Jesus is like merchandise: He’s sold.” “In the market of history, in the market of our own lives, when we choose 30 pieces of silver and cast Jesus aside, the Lord has been sold,” Pope Francis said. But people also do the same to each other, including “when we gossip about each other,” he said. “I don’t know why, but there is a dark joy in gossiping,” he said. Sometimes we begin by saying nice things about another, but then we slip into gossip, making the object of our chatter merchandise to be bartered. “Let us ask forgiveness because when we do this to a friend, we do it to Jesus, because Jesus is in this friend,” he said. If one notices a defect in another, Pope Francis said, the Christian response is pray that God will help him or her.

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Richard Fowler Jr., the youngest of Lucy Martinez’ four children, was baptized at St. Paul Church.

Richard attended St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School in seventh and eighth grades.

Richard receives first Communion in Tacoma, Wash., where his family lived at the time.

Richard attended Independent High School and was studying to be a refrigeration technician.

‘I’m always crying, thinking of him’ A mother’s prolonged grief and long vigil for justice show the impact of gun violence in San Francisco ARACELI MARTÍNEZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Lucy Martinez drew up her strength to talk about her son and how he died. “His name was Richard Fowler Jr. He was called Richie. I lost him on October 3, 2011,” she said. “Richard was at home with some friends playing video games.” She said one of them left and returned later with a gun. “The other boys told him to put it away,” she said. “Richard had gone to the garage. When he went back and entered the room, the man rushed him, pushed him against the wall of the hallway and shot him in the head.” A penetrating, cold wind blew outside St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Francisco when Martinez was interviewed Jan. 12, but she seemed not to feel it. Her slow voice showed no emotion when she recalled this version of the tragedy that his son’s friends gave her. Her face expressionless, she sounded as if she has lost all illusion in life. Her eyes had no gleam at all: It is as if a light has been turned off in this mother. “We were watching TV when we heard bang, bang (a crash). When my husband (Richard Fowler Sr.) went to see what it was happening, the man who shot my son walked out through the front door,” said Martinez, who wore a small picture of her deceased son on her coat lapel. “He managed to ask him what had

happened. ‘He wanted to rob me,’ he said as he fled. “When the father turned to Richard’s room he saw him lying on the floor. I called 911 right away. The other two friends took fright and ran away.” When the ambulance arrived, 28-year-old Fowler Jr. was pronounced dead by the paramedics. The tragedy occurred inside the victim’s home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, usually a quiet district.

Suspect in custody

Police arrested Anthony J. Wright, 34, of San Francisco on suspicion of having shot Richard Fowler Jr. He has been in custody in the San Francisco County Jail on a felony complaint that accuses him of deliberate and premeditated murder, using a .20-gauge shotgun as the weapon. The complaint lists other charges related to three prior felony convictions. A preliminary hearing set for March was delayed until May 3, in part because the defendant is awaiting more information on the case from prosecutors. Tamara Barak Aparton, spokeswoman for the San Francisco public defender’s office, said Wright is facing charges of first-degree murder with a firearm enhancement. “The police did not recover a gun. He has pleaded not guilty,” she said, declining to discuss the case further. Born in Puerto Rico Lucy Martinez came to the U.S. when she was

3, and all four of her children were born here. Richard Fowler Jr. was the youngest. Martinez is waiting for justice to take its course in a violent encounter that she struggles to understand. “My son had many friends,” she said. “Before he was killed, we did not hear any argument at home. Until today, I do not know why he was killed.” The case illustrates how deeply and for how long violent crime can affect the lives of survivors. The Catholic Church, through the archdiocesan restorative justice ministry, has begun reaching out to help the grieving and their communities heal as well as achieve justice, a project that has included a Walk for Peace through the Mission District and prayers by priests and deacons at locations where homicides have occurred. The homicide victims were disproportionately Latino and AfricanAmerican. Martinez took part in the walk in January, carrying a cross symbolizing the life of her son. Martinez, her voice cut with tears, said she feels “very sad.” The serenity she had shown during the interview disappeared. “It is an injustice!” she cried out. And questions: Why would a person have to come to kill another? Even if he had reason to be angry, no one should take the life of anyone. That’s why we are in a country of justice. And if you do not have it, you go to the authorities.”

Church’s role in healing, justice

Julio Escobar, coordinator of the restorative justice ministry, said “the church is taking sides for the families to call a halt to violence, because it is one of the biggest problems we’re seeing.” “God made us free but at the same time, he said, you’re not alone in this world. You are a social being and have to get along with others, and live as a society with certain laws and principles that must be respected. Then all we do to thwart and change the mentality of this culture of violence and death, is very positive,” he said. Richard Fowler Jr. was the 45th homicide in San Francisco in 2011. In total there were 50 that year, followed by 68 in 2012. Escobar said most have had to do with street gangs but also about selling and using drugs. Others resulted from assaults and robberies. Martinez agreed that we are in an era of intense violence. “There are programs to help after the tragedies but we don’t even have one for preventing,” she said. “The police find out after homicides happened. What can society do to prevent these deaths?” What would she say to the authorities to stop the violence? “Look at the reasons for violence,” she responded. “Why do we have so many drugs? They should create programs so the young people have a place to go to spend their spare time. If they have nowhere to go, where are they going to spend it?”

Does she believe that walks against violence in San Francisco can help to stop it?

Anger feeds violence

“Violence will be always anywhere,” she said. “It’s in the minds of people. If they are angry, if they are missing something in their lives, they turn to violence. And if there are people who brainwash the youth, there will be violence, because we are humans. We have anger at a time, and we do what we believe. But at least I hope this walk helps to create awareness. As a society, we have to admit that there are problems and there are many people with mental illnesses.” Baptized at St. Paul Church in San Francisco, Richard Fowler Jr. attended St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School near his home in seventh and eighth grades. He finished his schooling at Independent High School. At the time of his death, he was studying to be a refrigeration technician at a vocational school. “He was very nice. He liked to have a good time. All the boys loved and looked for him,” Martinez said, smiling at the same time her face lights up for a few seconds as she described her son. While waiting for the walk to begin Martinez confessed her deepest feelings at the loss. “I’m torn,” she said. “I’m always crying, thinking of him. I do not see the light behind me because I have so much sadness.”

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Lucy Martinez cradles a boyhood portrait of her son Richard Fowler Jr., who was fatally shot in the family’s home Oct. 3, 2011. A suspect is in custody, awaiting trial on murder and other charges.

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LETTERS Pastor fully supports school, teachers Since you have published several negative opinion letters in response to Father Kenneth Weare’s interview with Catholic San Francisco about the closing of St Rita School in Fairfax, I wanted to write a rebuttal to them. My wife has been in Catholic education for over 35 years starting as a second grade teacher in the East Bay for a Catholic school. She has worked for six pastors over that time span and there has not been one that even comes close to Father Weare in how he supports the school, the principal, the teachers, the families and the students, morally, financially and as a friend. Your other negative opinion letters stated two things that have no merit. First, Father Weare was only referring to the fact that there are very few religious orders in the elementary schools and not blaming the lay teachers for their high salaries as a cause of the school closing. The exact opposite is true: He supports every teacher at St. Rita and knows that they are some of the best in Marin County. Just look at the middle school’s test scores and it is very evident that the students who graduate from eighth grade at St. Rita are some of the best-prepared students entering high school in Marin or San Francisco counties. Donald L. Arritola Nicasio

Blessed to have Father Weare as pastor I was surprised to read that you have published not only one but two negative opinion letters in response to Father Kenneth Weare’s interview with Catholic San Francisco ( March 5) about the closing of St. Rita School, Fairfax, where Father Weare is pastor. Father Weare is one of the finest pastors in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. It is because of his totally dedicated efforts working side by side with the parish lay school board that St. Rita School received a reprieve (“St. Rita parents raise funds in effort to save school,” March 29). For nine long years Father Weare has kept our challenged school up and running. I have been a parishioner at St. Rita Church since 1965. I am blessed to have Father Weare as our pastor, a priest who is an educator, university professor and Catholic moral theologian. Father Weare also is a member of the archdiocesan board of education and board of directors of Catholic Charities CYO. Most importantly he has excellent pastoral skills and leads the parish under the Vatican II motto “We are church,” empowering lay ministers every day. Father Weare manifests the highest respect for the laity and especially the teachers of St. Rita School. Dolores Stoll Fairfax

Father Rolheiser’s articles are inspirational Thank you for my weekly newspaper. I enjoy the many articles, especially about Marin County Catholic activities. I want to say how much I look forward to Father Ron Rolheiser’s articles. They are always inspirational and right on! Again, thank you for my Catholic San Francisco. Maureen Hayes San Rafael

Should these babies die without our prayers?

In response to the article on the proposal by Supervisor Campos to protect the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic at 1650 Valencia St. (“SF supervisor proposes buffer at abortion clinics,” March 29) during the times that I have been there praying, the only picture taken was of us praying. We have also received unkind hand gestures and negative verbal comments, to which we do not respond. Most of us praying there are of the generation when our laws were moral and did not allow the killing of babies in the womb. The most special and protected place for a child is in its mother’s womb. We who pray with 40 Days for Life, offer up our prayers for these children being destroyed and for their parents that they will seek our father’s mercy and ask for forgiveness. We are not unlike any family member who would sit at the bedside of their dying relative, praying that God will receive their soul into eternal life. Should these babies die without our prayers? Whether from eight feet or 25 feet, or within our churches or homes, God will hear our prayers and give comfort and peace to these precious souls. We pray the mothers choose life. Please pray for the protection of these pre-born babies. Dolores Tulkoff San Francisco

A skeptic’s conversion to church teaching on contraception Re ‘A papal teaching moment,” Letters, March 1: In his letter, Mr. McCord probes the “why” behind the church’s teaching against the use of artificial contraception. He asks, “Why are a wife and husband practicing prevention ... in violation of traditional teaching?” Mr. McCord’s question is legitimate; it is one I grappled with during my conversion to Catholicism. Like Mr. McCord, I saw nothing wrong with a married couple using artificial means to prevent conception, so long as the means used could not potentially cause the abortion of an already conceived child. As I studied this matter, and prayerfully reflected on it, I realized that I was laboring under some misunderstandings about what the church really teaches. Ultimately, I had to agree with the church’s traditional teaching. In a nutshell, here’s what I learned. First, the church teaches that having children is one of the two main purposes of marriage, but not the only purpose. The other, equally important purpose is to provide for the spouse’s help and companionship, a proper outlet for the natural sexual drive and a means for them to grow in their relationship with God (Genesis 2:18, 21-24; 1 Corinthians 7:2-5; Proverbs 5: 15-19; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 7:12-16). The church also teaches that it is entirely appropriate for a couple to use prudence in determining the number, and spacing, of the children they may have. Mr. McCord and the church are in agreement that a couple may do this “in the best interest of their family.” So, the question is, how may a couple properly prevent or postpone pregnancy? The only moral method a couple may use is in choosing when to temporarily abstain from sexual relations. Natural family planning is such a method. NFP is a scientifically developed, church-approved method which can be used to avoid pregnancy, or to facilitate conception if a couple desires a pregnancy. NFP is not the “rhythm method.” NFP is based on a very refined understanding of both female and male reproductive biology, and it works naturally, in harmony with God’s design of the body. Not surprisingly, then, it is absolutely safe (vs. artificial methods of contraception, in-vitro fertilization, and the use of “fertility drugs”). There are a couple of different NFP methods commonly used, and they both work amazingly well. The empirical research clearly shows these NFP systems perform better than any artificial methods of family planning at preventing pregnancy. Another reason the church does not approve of artificial contraception is that some methods are known to act, at least potentially, by aborting the conceived child. This is not limited to “morning after” pills; regular birth control pills may do so, and the intrauterine device (IUD) routinely does so. The Physicians’ Desk Reference, a universally used medical text, confirms this, as does the drug makers’ own literature. Mr. McCord is mistaken when he says that temporary abstinence will “deny intimacy.” On the contrary, temporary periods of abstinence can enhance intimacy. In one sense, the couple better learn other, non-sexual ways to express and enjoy their love for one another. These periods of abstinence also make the times when the couple enjoy sexual relations all the more enjoyable. Finally, by being sensitive to how the wife’s body works, and by timing their sexual intimacy in a natural way to prevent or facilitate conception, the couple learn to communicate more openly. They may also grow in self-control, and in their mutual respect for one another, not as a means of sexual pleasure to be used, but as full and equal partners, both made in the image of God. Myles Kelley Pacifica

Re ‘Why not women priests?’ In the March 21 opinion pages of the New York Times, laicized priest (Maryknoll Father) Roy Bourgeois describes the call of his conscience to stand up against the exclusion of women to the priesthood. Bourgeois says that the exclusion of women reminds him of the segregation he witnessed growing up in Louisiana

where African-Americans were only permitted to sit in the last five rows of the church. In the article, “Why not women priests?” (Catholic San Francisco, Feb. 22, 2013), Father Wojciech Giertych’s explanation reminds me of the plantation owner explaining to the slave why picking cotton is the slave’s God-given station. Father Giertych (retired Pope

Benedict XVI’s personal theologian) suggests that men are “especially suited to the priesthood” and that women are more apt to draw from the mystery of Christ “by the quality of their prayer life.” The global revelations of clerical abuse of children and consequent clerical cover-ups make any claim of superior suitability of males to the priesthood absurd. The insistence that women be excluded from the priesthood because Jesus chose only male apostles makes no more sense than to exclude non-Jews from the priesthood because Jesus chose only Jews. Jesus explains throughout his ministry that he is the fulfillment of Scripture. His selection of 12 Jewish males fulfills the promise that God will send a savior to the Jewish people (the 12 tribes of Israel). Ordination to the priesthood today does not involve the fulfillment of Scripture. Jesus was that fulfillment. On one point, however, I agree with Father Giertych: The mission of our church’s women is “to convince the male that power is not most important in the church.” Amen. Laurie Joyce San Anselmo

Kingship deserves a place of honor Ukranian Catholic Archbishop (Sviatoslav) Shevchuk is wrong, God love him. His quote in large print in the March 22 issue grabbed my attention: “He spontaneously rejected the kingship of the papacy,” and I knew I had to respond. Pope Francis has not rejected his kingship but has embraced it. Kingship is not evil, something to be disdained by one – our pope – who is humble. Kingship is not arrogant or haughty, although some who reign are indeed that way. On the contrary, Jesus who is king of kings – and who calls us to share in his prophetic, priestly and kingly nature – did not reject kingship but shows how it is to be done: with service. I suspect the good archbishop was trying to say that Pope Francis was rejecting the high royal expression of kingship, not rejecting it altogether. It’s important as Catholics that we understand, honor and embrace the goodness of “kingship” – the authority that comes with it – and that we also appreciate the times where rings, crowns, pomp and circumstance and other highholy expressions, in their proper place and time, are also valued. Let’s give all dimensions of kingship, high and low, due honor, respect and thanksgiving. Rose Sweet San Anselmo

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Cleaning up the Vatican’s engine room

f the conclave of 2005 was about continuity – extending the legacy of John Paul II by electing his closest theological advisor as his successor – the conclave of 2013 was about governance. The College of Cardinals came to Rome convinced that the incapacities of the Roman Curia over the previous eight years had become a serious obstacle to the church’s evangelical mission; their experience in the general congregations prior to the conclave hardened that view. So the cardinals elected a proven reformer whose age on assuming GEORGE WEIGEL the papacy meant that he wouldn’t have to play a long game, but could move swiftly to repair what needs repairing in what Blessed John Henry Newman allegedly referred to as the “engine room” of the barque of Peter. What needs repairing, down there below decks? It’s not only a question of structure and personnel, in my view, but of institutional culture. The cast of mind in the Roman Curia must be changed, so that the entire Curia thinks of itself as its many good people now do: as servants of the new evangelization, not as the 21st-century version of a papal court. That means that those curialists who think of themselves as courtiers must either be converted to a different self-understanding or replaced. Thus a first, specific suggestion for curial personnel reform: strict term limits, by which men and women of proven ability from all over the world would come to Rome to serve the universal church for a maximum of 10 years before returning to their local churches. Service in the Roman Curia would cease being a way to punch one’s ticket for higher ecclesiastical office; it would be a sacrifice. Then there is language. It’s sometimes assumed that the majority of curialists will always be Italian, which means that Italian-language competence is essential to effective curial service. But why must the majority of curial workers be Italians? The U.N. draws its personnel in New York, Geneva,

Vienna and other locales from all over the world; English is the working language; why should the Roman Curia be different? Because it’s in Rome? Well, no, not really. The Vicariate of Rome runs the Diocese of Rome for the pope, and of course, its personnel should be of local origin. But the Roman Curia exists to support the Bishop of Rome in his mission as universal pastor of the church and its personnel should reflect that global mission, as should its working language. It will take some time to change this, to be sure. But the first head of a curial department who insists on conducting the department’s business in the world language – English – will be doing the entire church a big favor by modeling a different, more universalist approach to running the engine room. As for structure, the first order of business is getting the proliferation of “pontifical councils” under control, merging some, eliminating others, and reducing many of these entities to the in-house think tanks they were originally intended to be, rather than the document-producing bureaucratic machines they’ve become. There will be exceptions: the Pontifical Council for the Laity would still run World Youth Day and be the Roman contact-point for renewal movements and new Catholic communities; Cor Unum would continue to oversee the Vatican’s international development work. But departments like the pontifical councils for the family, for justice and peace, and for culture would become research centers in their fields, not mini-cabinet departments – and in that new configuration, there is no reason why (with appropriate changes in church law) they couldn’t be run by lay people. And then there is integrity. When members of the Roman Curia do not live the lives expected of deeply converted and mature Christian disciples, they must be replaced: not as a matter of retribution in the wake of financial or sexual misbehavior but as a matter of safeguarding the mission. The church’s ability to preach the Gospel is severely compromised when churchmen lead dishonest lives. Integrity is one key to mission-effectiveness in the evangelical Catholicism of the 21st century. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

LETTERS Parishes should renew efforts to serve poor Re “A church of the poor,” George Wesolek, March 29: Here are a few thoughts related to how we can become a local church of the poor. First, Father Paul Rossi has said many times, “If I were to begin a new parish, the first thing I would do is invite the St. Vincent de Paul Society to start a conference there.” Father Paul and so many other pastors lay the groundwork for parishioners to live our faith by direct service to the poor. These pastors are servant-leaders in their efforts for the poor. They offer spiritual direction to the members and they allow “fifth Sunday” collections so there are resources for society members to serve people in need. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, most of our parishes have a conference, but not all. Any pastor wishing a conference will get an immediate positive response from the local St Vincent de Paul council. I would urge all pastors in the archdiocese and all leaders of the society to come together in their parish and focus on the needs in the parish community and how service to the poor can be achieved. Traditionally the members go two by two to visit families in their homes. Visits consist of friends visiting friends in a confidential way and working with them to find solutions. Members also pray with those they visit and they always aim to see the face of Jesus in each person. Second, the reflection of St. Ambrose comes to mind as he commended St Lawrence, the deacon, as an example to his clergy. According to the testimony of St. Ambrose, the leader of Rome asked Lawrence to reveal the whereabouts of the treasures of the church. So, Lawrence brought together the poor and the sick and said, “these are the treasures of the church.” I urge every deacon in the archdiocese to refocus on our twofold ministry, proclaiming the Gospel and service to the poor.

In reflecting on the vision of Pope Francis, may all the clergy and laity of the Archdiocese of San Francisco reflect on the words taken from the liturgy for the ordination of deacons: Receive the Gospel of Christ whose herald you now are. Believe what you read, Teach what you believe, Practice what you teach. May the risen Christ bless us in our efforts to take up the invitation of our pope to turn his spirit-filled words into action. Deacon Eugene Smith San Rafael Editor’s note: George Wesolek, archdiocesan communications director, invites responses to his column on how the archdiocese can implement Pope Francis’ call to better serve the poor. His email is wesolekg@ sfarchdiocese.org.

Appreciating Manfrini’s cathedral art Thank you for “Pope’s ring designer decorated St. Mary’s Cathedral” (March 22). I found it very interesting but want to name the cathedral’s Enrico Manfrini art not mentioned in the story. It includes the patronal shrine of the Assumption, “The Flight into Egypt,” shrines of the Visitation and Pentecost, and the burning bush frame around the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine. Manfrini also did a plaque commemorating the visit of Pope John Paul II to San Francisco and the cathedral in 1987. Enrico Manfrini is a good candidate for a story. His granddaughter, Alessia, was a model for the angel on the Assumption piece as well as a model for an angel on the Pentecost piece. She visited the cathedral in 2012. Thank you for all you do to make Catholic San Francisco interesting to read. Anne Desler San Mateo

With different pro-life views, can our country be called united?

erhaps you, too, enjoy travel books about places and people. Books such as John Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charlie” and “Blue Highways” by William Least Heat-Moon are classics of this genre. These essays about off-road places provide a flavor of the unique character that distinguishes a place. With this in mind, one wonders how to understand the United States (with the emphasis on the adjective “united.” The 50 states have different understandings of life STEPHEN KENT and of the protection of life. Maryland recently repealed its death penalty law. Oregon allows capital punishment. But in a current case, the governor of Oregon refused to impose the death penalty even though the subject desires it. And Oregon is one of the few states in the nation that allows assisted suicide. So why isn’t the convict in question seeking refuge under the state’s Death with Dignity Act? South Dakota became the first state in the nation to enact a law explicitly authorizing school employees to carry guns on the job. The morning after the head of the Colorado Department of Corrections was shot to death at his home, the governor signed a new gun control law to extend background checks on gun buyers to private firearms sales. He also signed legislation limiting the size of ammunition magazines that may be sold in the state, which also was where the Aurora movie theater massacre took place as well as the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. A proposed national assault weapons ban backed by President Barack Obama ran into trouble when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid removed it from a broader Democrat-backed gun control package for a lack of votes. A bill in the Washington Legislature to expand background checks to private gun sales failed to get a single vote, even from its sponsor. “I have really come to realize that no legislation will ever address the criminal element as far as guns are concerned,” said State Rep. Maureen Walsh. Her realization may have resulted from the 1,000 calls and emails sent into her district by the National Rifle Association. Just weeks after Arkansas passed a first-in-thenation ban on abortion past 12 weeks, North Dakota followed with banning abortions if a heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks. “I’m from the group who hates voting on abortion issues and who don’t like to play God,” said North Dakota State Sen. John Andrist, who describes himself as “moderately pro-life” and has voted for some but not all of the restrictions North Dakota has taken up this year. Maryland became the 18th state in the country to repeal the death penalty. Delegate William J. Frank told lawmakers that he had been a longtime supporter of the death penalty but changed his mind because of the influence of the Catholic Church. “The most important and compelling issue for me is to view the issue from a consistently pro-life perspective,” he said. “Those five men on death row, the worst of the worst, are, believe it or not, created in the image and likeness of God.” How are these dichotomies to be viewed by someone trying to understand the United States? Consistently pro-life vs. moderately pro-life. What makes life different in Washington and Oregon, in Maryland, which repealed the death penalty, and in California, where voters did not repeal it? As the books say, the United States is marked by distinctions in food, language, customs and music. But it cannot be distinct in regard to moral issues and still deserve to be called “united.” KENT is the retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. Email considersk@gmail.com.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Easter Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. JOHN 21:1-19 ACTS 5:27-32, 40B-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, the high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.” The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. PSALM 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. O Lord, you brought me up from the netherworld; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Sing praise to the Lord, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Hear, O Lord, and have pity on me; O Lord, be my helper. You changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

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

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

Time to ‘tuck in our garments’ and get going

At that moment, even stone-cold, lifelong atheists were converted as the ball swished through the net. Jeff and Kevin, two grizzled old refs who’d seen it all, tried not to grin as they both raised their hands, signaling that the basket was worth three points. The buzzer sounded, and to our amazement, we had won the game. Yet the score was quickly forgotten. Instead, people charged the court and swarmed all over John. He had a huge smile on his face before disappearing in the middle of that crowd. Pandemonium reigned. Everyone was absolutely thrilled for John and the positive energy in that gym was unbelievable. Parents, kids, scorekeepers, even total strangers who just poked their heads in the door – all were overwhelmed with emotions of joy and happiness and satisfaction. It was absolutely incredible and I’ll never forget it. As we approach this Third Sunday of Easter, I thought of that wonderful game as I was struck by one particular line in this week’s Gospel. When Peter realizes it’s the Lord who’s been speaking to the disciples and directing them where to put their nets, he’s so excited and overcome with joy that he literally can’t wait to be with Jesus once again. He “tucks in his garment,” jumps in the water, and swims furiously to shore. Peter, who so often gets it wrong, gets it absolutely right in this instance. Just as was true

of everyone after that basketball game all those years ago, Peter simply opened his heart and soul to the moment and let himself be carried away by the overwhelming gratitude, joy, and happiness that he found there. His love for Jesus must have been very great. Peter has much to teach us! All too often, especially in our relationship with God, we unfortunately allow ourselves to get caught up in the details. We spend far too much energy worrying about rules and regulations. We condemn this while avoiding that. It can all be very dreary, frustrating and nerve-wracking. In our desire to grow closer to the Lord, we find ourselves far away, feeling distant, lonely, alienated. This Easter season, let’s put all that behind us for a moment and follow Peter’s lead instead! The Lord is risen! Light and goodness have triumphed! Close your eyes, let it wash over you and fill you with joy, the same joy that overwhelmed Peter 2,000 years ago. Can you feel the excitement? Time to “tuck in our garments” and get going! Jesus, a huge grin on his face, His arms wide open, is on the shore and waiting for us! Let the celebration begin!

MONDAY, APRIL 15: Monday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 6:8-15. PS 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30. Jn 6:22-29.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17: Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 8:1b-8. Acts 8:1b-8. Jn 6:3540.

FRIDAY, APRIL 19: Friday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 9:1-20. PS 117:1bc, 2. Jn 6:52-59.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 7:51—8:1a. PS 31:3cd-4, 6 and 7b and 8a, 17 and 21ab. Jn 6:30-35.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18: Thursday of the Third Week of Easter. Acts 8:26-40. PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20. Jn 6:44-51.

’ve been a middle school basketball coach for nearly 20 years. It’s been my privilege over that time to work with many very talented players. However, one young man, whom I’ll call John, was challenged in nearly every phase of the game. My coaching, which is suspect at the best of times, did little to help him. His teammates were kind and wanted very much for him to succeed, but no matter what we tried, he always struggled. During our last game of the year, we were down by two points with only a few seconds left. Somehow, John was still on the court, and to everyone’s surprise he DEACON MICHAEL found himself with the ball in his hands. He was standMURPHY ing behind the three-point arc, with looks of terror and confusion alternating across his face. The whole team, realizing we were out of time, yelled for him to shoot. Desperately, John heaved the ball in the direction of the basket.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS

SATURDAY, APRIL 20: Saturday of the Third Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Beuno in Wales. Acts 9:31-42. PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17. Jn 6:60-69.

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Between hope and fear: Struggling with secularity

e live in a highly secularized culture. Generally this draws one of three reactions from Christians struggling to live out faith in this context: First, a growing number of Christians of all denominations see secularity more as an enemy of faith and the churches than FATHER RON as an ally. In ROLHEISER their view, secularity is a threat to religion and morality and is, in the name of freedom and open-mindedness, slowly suffocating Christian freedom. For them, secularity contains within itself a certain tyranny of relativism that can aptly be labeled “post-Christian” and “a culture of death.” A second group simply accommodates itself to the culture without a lot of critical reflection either way. They adjust the faith to the culture and the culture to the faith as suits their situation. For them, faith becomes largely a cultural heritage, an ethos more than a religion, though this is not as much of a blind sell-out as it first appears. Deeper struggles go on beneath, prompted not just by the soul’s perennial questions but also by the JudeoChristian genes inside the DNA of both the culture and the individual. So these individuals selectively take values from both the JudeoChristian tradition and the secular culture and blend them into a new marriage, seemingly without a lot of religious anxiety. A third group has a more nuanced approach: Persons such as Charles Taylor, Louis Dupre, Kathleen Norris, and, a generation earlier, Karl Rahner, see secularity as a culture

of both life and death, a culture that in some ways is a progression in and a purification of moral and religious values, even as it is losing ground morally and religiously in other ways. Of major importance in this view is the idea that secular culture is the child of Judaism and Christianity. Judeo-Christianity, at least for the most part, gave birth to Rene Descartes, the principles of the Enlightenment and the French, Scottish and American revolutions. This led to democracy, the separation of church and state, and the principle that so much undergirds secularity: that we agree to organize public life on the principle of rational consensus rather than on the basis of divine authority (allowing, of course, for divine authority to influence rational consensus). In this view, the opposite of secularity is not the church but the Taliban or any view that holds that public life should be governed by divine authority irrespective of rational consensus. Secularity then is more our child than our enemy. However, if that is true, then why is secularity often so bitter and overly critical in its attitude towards the Christian churches? This can seem like a contradiction, but secularity can be anti-Christian for the same reason that adolescents can be bitter and overly critical toward their own parents, namely, adolescence is often immature and grandiose. But an immature, grandiose adolescent isn’t a bad person, just an unfinished one. Viewing secularity from this perspective, it is equally important to highlight both the moral and religious ground that has been lost in secularity as well as the moral and religious ground that has been gained. Both can be seen, for example, by looking a highly secularized culture like the Netherlands: On the hand, it is very weak in church attendance and in explicit Christian practice. Along with this there is the tolerance and legalization of abor-

tion, drugs, prostitution and pornography. On the other hand, they are a society that takes care of its poor better than any other society in the world and one that is recognized for its emphasis on generosity, peace and the equality of women. These are not minor religious and moral achievements. Where do I stand? Mostly with this third group and its belief that secularity is not our enemy but our child and that it carries inside itself both highly generative streams of life and asphyxiating rivulets of death. On the one hand, I draw a lot of my life and joy from its creativity, color, exuberance and generative energy, often times against my own Germanic-propensity for greyness and acedia. I am also uplifted on a regular basis by the real generosity and genuine goodness that I find in most people I meet. Importantly, I reap its stunning benefits – freedom, protection of my rights, privacy, opportunity for education, wonderful medical care, information technology, wide cultural and recreational opportunities, clean water, plentiful food, and, not least, the freedom to practice my faith and religion. On the negative side, I recognize its elements of death: The tolerance of abortion, the marginalization of the poor, the itch for euthanasia, lingering racism, widespread sexual irresponsibility, a growing addiction to pornography and an ever-growing trivialization and superficiality. As reality television becomes more indicative of our culture, I begin to despair more for its depth. As an adult child of Rene Descartes, I breathe in secularity, a very mixed air, pure and polluted. And I find myself torn between hope and fear, comfortable but uneasy, defending secularity even as I am critical of it. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Incense every Sunday, or just special times?

How often is a priest supposed to use incense at Mass – every Sunday or just at special times? Our priest uses a pungent form of incense at each Sunday Mass. A lot of people are allergic to the incense he uses; we have approached him about it, but he seems to ignore the fact that people start coughing and sneezing – and FATHER some even KENNETH DOYLE walk out of church. Then he tells us that it is sin to leave early. (A “distressed and allergic parishioner” from Indiana.) The use of incense has long held a place of honor in the history of religious worship. In the Book of Exodus (30:1-8), the Lord instructed Moses to build an altar for the burning of incense at the entrance to the meeting tent

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where the Ark of the covenant was kept, and Jews Continued to use incense regularly in their temple worship. Incense serves a twofold purpose: The visual imagery of the rising smoke is symbolic of the prayers of the congregation being lifted toward the Lord, and the act of incensing pays honor to the object to which it is directed – to the just-consecrated bread and wine at their elevation, for example, or the remains of the deceased at a funeral Mass. It also helps to create the ambience of heaven, for as we are told in the Book of Revelation (8:3), “Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne.” Wide discretion is granted to the priest as to how frequently to use incense. Theoretically, it may be used at any Mass, although most parishes limit its use to Masses of particular solemnity, funerals, and eucharistic adoration and processions. At Mass, according to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, in No. 276, incense may be used during the entrance procession, at the

beginning of Mass, to incense the cross and the altar, at the procession and proclamation of the Gospel, at the offertory, to incense the offerings, the altar, priest and congregation, and at the elevation of the host and the chalice after the consecration. The use of incense calls for a reasonable balance of the liturgical ideal with practicality. If it is bothersome to a significant number within the congregation, perhaps an accommodation could be worked out. Different types of incense vary in the strengths of their aroma, and more moderate brands are available. Perhaps certain seats could be reserved for those who find incense troublesome, away from the areas of the church where it is most frequently used. You indicate that you have raised your concerns with your pastor directly to little avail. Might it be more effective if you were to try again through an intermediary, perhaps a sympathetic member of your parish’s pastoral council? Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.

A new day begins when we see what’s important

s I listened to the stories of students working with those who suffer, I wondered why they said they wanted to continue in this work. The students were part of the Service Learning and Community Outreach program at St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pa. Their community outreach had taken them FATHER EUGENE to their local HEMRICK community, Africa and Kolkata in India. Although the college helps pay for some of their expenses, the students pay a substantial part of the bill. One student spoke of witnessing entire families sleeping in the streets, horrendous traffic and pollution everywhere. As she spoke, I remembered being in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru, and witnessing people living in shacks high up on the side of arid, dusty mountains that lacked any form of vegetation. Coming from a garden atmosphere surrounding the U.S. Capitol where I live, my first encounter with San Juan was culture shock. No doubt the St. Vincent students experienced something similar, and yet they desired to return. What touches those who sacrifice the comforts of life in order to serve the destitute in difficult situations? One answer might be wanderlust or being youthful. No doubt this is part of the reason. When, however, the students spoke from the heart about their experiences, something deeper surfaced. A student who worked in Kolkata spoke of a developmentally challenged girl who never looked up or smiled. One day she put the girl on a swing and began pushing her. As the girl swung back and forth, the student sang to her. Little by little the girl began looking up and then smiled. From that moment on, the two became one. Humanity had touched humanity. As she related this incident, it struck me: The difficulty of a job doesn’t matter when two human beings share their humanity with each other. A story told by a rabbi takes us to depths of this experience. The rabbi asks his students what signs they use to determine that night has ended. “When there was enough light to tell a goat from a sheep,” answers one student. Another student answers, “When you can distinguish an apple tree from a fig tree.” Then the rabbi answers: “A new day has arrived when you can look at a human face and see a brother or sister. If you are unable to see a brother or sister in every human face, you are still in the darkness of night.” When humanity touches humanity, we see each other as brothers and sisters. Although we may be surrounded by the darkness of poverty and destitution, night has ended, and the light of a new day has begun.

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YOUNG ADULTS: ‘Looking for a faith that matters’ FROM PAGE 1

consulting with the archdiocese’s administrators about ways to draw young adults into active life in the church. The task force process is tapping into “the enormous energy of the young adults,” said Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy. “Last month 47 young adults met at St. Agnes to launch the individual comMaura Lafferty mittees for a daylong session that was brimming with faith, energy, hopefulness and collaboration,” he said. Catholics are most likely to leave their faith as teens and young adults. “The median age at which former Catholics stopped considering themselves as Catholic is 21,” according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in a 2008 analysis. The archdiocese does not collect data specifically on young adult Catholics, but the rate of Catholic marriages has plummeted in the archdiocese as well as nationwide, prompting the archdiocese to form a marriage task force. “It’s a huge challenge reaching Catholic young adults,” said Christina Capecchi, author of the nationally syndicated column “Twenty-Something.” “Among 20-somethings, one in four of us is not affiliated with any religion,” she said, referring to a 2010 Pew Research Center study. Particularly in the Bay Area, young adults are transient, and once they marry often move away to raise children. Young adults also tend to parish hop or attend sporadically, Capecchi said. “We are not really in the pews. A lot of well-intentioned efforts aren’t reaching us because we are not there.” Facebook and other social media, connecting with parents of young adults, and even flyers at health clubs and coffee bars are all good ways to reach young adults, she said. “Young adults are looking for faith that matters and if it doesn’t matter, why waste your time on it. I meet a lot of young adults who are very cynical about faith,” said Samuel Vasquez, a young adult himself, and coordinator of Catechesis and Adult Faith Formation in the Diocese of Oakland. Meaningful service opportunities matter, noted many young adults who are involved in their parish and other outreach. “Young adults tend to be very oriented toward service projects. Service projects very clearly make a difference,” noted Vasquez, who said it all comes back to a relationship with Jesus. “Faith must become culture. What I mean is: Culture is where it really colors your life. It makes a complete difference. It surrounds you. It completely characterizes you as a person and the people you touch and affect.” Archdiocese of San Francisco officials were confronted with the archdiocese’s disconnect when a specially created online version of the adult faith formation classes, Forward in Faith, failed to enroll even a handful of young adults, said Deacon John Norris, director of the archdiocesan Department of Pastoral Ministry. Twothirds of the email invitations were unopened because email is passe for young adults, he said. In response, then-Archbishop George Niederauer asked Bishop McElroy last year to assemble a young adult task

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Members of the St. Pius Parish young adult group are pictured on a recent hike. Young adult Catholics in general stress that “they want to feel welcomed and accepted and they want help discerning their mission and purpose in life,” said Laura Martin-Spencer, director of adult faith formation and youth minister at the Redwood City parish.

GOALS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE’S YOUNG ADULT TASK FORCE CULTURE: Create an archdiocesan and parish culture where young adults are valued and invited. LEADERSHIP: Provide a leadership formation program that forms, energizes and equips young adult leaders to form peer communities.

adults and connect them to one another and the church. MISSION: Assist the diverse young adults of our archdiocese to discern their mission in the world and integrate that mission in their work, family and community life.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Maximize the potential CONVERSION: Invite young adults into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. of social media to reach out to young force, chaired by Martin-Spencer. A young adult council had already been formed at Norris’ initiative in 2011. Outreach to young adults is ongoing at a number of parishes, including at St. Dominic just west of downtown where a large young adult group has been active for more than two decades and at St. Gregory in San Mateo where Father David Schunk, himself in his 30s, formed a group last year. St. Pius in Redwood City has a core young adult group. St. Matthew has a Hispanic group and St. Timothy has a Tongan young adult group. St. Thomas More, St. Ignatius and St. Vincent de Paul in San Francisco are among those with clubs. St. Thomas More is the sponsoring church for the Newman Club campus ministry at San Francisco State University. Marin County has a Spanish-language young adult group but nothing for English speakers. But without a central office, transfer of knowledge and sometimes accumulating a “critical mass” of young adult is harder to accomplish, observers say. A new office for young adult ministry is a likely recommendation of the task force, said Deacon Norris. A few years ago the archdiocese, struggling with budget issues and feeling the ministry lacked effectiveness and focus, shut down the central young adult ministry. “The basic thing is that there’s a lot of broken trust for the young adults,” said Maura Lafferty, 26. Young adult groups are often unappealing to those in their 20s, said Lafferty, who fondly recalls special retreats, Masses, service projects and eucharistic adoration when she attended the University of Maryland. Lafferty chairs the young adult council formed in 2011. “I think part of the plan is to make really sure there’s an outreach to the college community, but also for the

people who aren’t going to college,” said Ansha Saunders, 37, a member of the St. Pius young adult group and a member of the task force’s spirituality committee who volunteers at a home for adults with disabilities. “There’s such a change there at 21.” Saunders is involved in the parish as well as in the young adult group, and that fits with the philosophy of Marist Father Rene Iturbe pastor at Notre Dame des Victoires in downtown San Francisco. The parish sponsors a young adult get-together after the 5:30 p.m. Mass on the last Sunday of the month, but he said young adults are involved in pastoral council, working with the homeless, as lectors and as eucharistic ministers, and hosting at the Sunday morning after Mass receptions each week. Kevin Coles, 33, was appointed to the Notre Dames des Victoires pastoral council in December. He and his fiance met at work after he moved to San Francisco in 2010 and both were looking for a parish to attend. They settled on the parish because they liked the small, friendly feel, and Father Iturbe’s homilies struck home on important issues they were grappling with, he said. “You’re forming a faith community,” said Father Iturbe of his approach of including young adults in all aspects of parish life. Young adults work in the Tenderloin, cooking breakfast and eating with the down and out as part of the Gubbio Project, help the school kids gather toiletries for those living in residency hotels, serve as eucharistic ministers, lectors, and on the parish council, he said. “They’re not separate – they’re part of it.” “It’s just kind of welcoming,” said Liz Anne Ronan, 29, who will be married at the church later this year. “I grew up Catholic and it took a long time to find a parish here. It’s a great parish.”

they had a special place in his heart and prayers. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the future pope had said his archdiocese had been very attentive to the problem and “rigorous” in its screening and selection of candidates for the priesthood and religious life. Sex abusers suffer from a “perversion of a psychological kind” that is not caused by or directly linked to celibacy, he said in a book-length series of interviews. “If a priest is a pedophile, he is so because he brought that perversion with him from before his ordination,” and not even priestly celibacy would be able to “cure it,” the future pope said in the book, “Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio” by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti. Because such a perversion already would be present in a candidate, he said, “it’s necessary to pay lots of attention to the choice of candidates to the priesthood.” He said the archdiocese of Buenos Aires had been very “rigorous for many years already,” noting how only about 40 percent of candidates were actually admitted into the priesthood. He said candidates undergo in-depth psychiatric tests to look for different forms of deviant tendencies. In “On Heaven and Earth,” a 2010 book of conversations with a Buenos Aires rabbi, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio said, when it is discovered that a priest has engaged in such behavior, it is imperative that no one “look the other way.” “One cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person,” he said. The proper action to take against an abuser, he said, would be to prohibit him from exercising his ministry and begin a canonical process in the diocese. “I don’t believe in those positions that propose supporting a kind of ‘corporate’ spirit in order to avoid damaging the image of the institution,” he told the rabbi, Abraham Skorka. The future Pope Francis said moving an abusive priest to another parish in an effort to protect the image of the church had appeared as a “solution” at times in the United States but was “foolishness” because the abusive priest only takes his problem with him to a new parish. He said he admired “the courage and honesty of Benedict XVI” in confronting the problem, calling for “zero tolerance” and enacting stricter measures to protect children and to punish abusers.

‘One cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.’

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(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Mary and John at the foot of the cross and Christ about to die there in the enacted Good Friday Stations of the Cross at St. Thomas More Church, San Francisco. The large cast included soldiers that rolled dice for the Lord’s clothing.

Parish performs outdoor stations St. Thomas More Parish, San Francisco, held its fourth annual outdoor Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, March 29. Spectators attended from as far away as Fresno as parish members staged the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus. Special guests included two San Francisco Police Department mounted police officers – Wayne Sato with horse Gunny and Wade Bailey riding Sonny – who attended at the request of pastor Msgr. Labib Kobti and were part of the pageant at the first and last Stations. “It was marvelous,” said Msgr. Kobti. “Every year we have more people.” The parish on Brotherhood Way has a large number of members with Middle Eastern roots, especially Palestinians and Jordanians but also Lebanese, Syrians and Iraqis.

St. Thomas More pastor Msgr. Labib Kobti is pictured with San Francisco Police Department mounted officers Wayne Sato with horse Gunny and Wade Bailey with Sonny, part of the Good Friday pageant. Right, the outdoor prayer attracted young families.

A soldier yells to Jesus to continue on his way to Calvary.

St. Thomas More pastor Msgr. Labib Kobti, left, and Father Andrew Johnson lead the Stations of the Cross.

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CYO Athletics inducts Lopez, Dillon, Sewell into Hall of Fame Catholic Charities CYO Athletics Hall of Fame celebrated the induction of its newest members, Joann Dillon, Dave Lopez and Bud Sewell. Nearly 300 people gathered in the transformed Father O’Reilly Catholic Charities CYO Center in the St. Emydius Church gym March 23 to show their support for the CYO Athletics community at the sixth annual Hall of Fame dinner. This year, the event even went high-tech and national as one of Sewell’s sons Skyped in from Tennessee and one of Lopez’ sons used Facetime to watch his dad be honored from his Army base in Texas. More than 20 schools were represented as more funds were raised to support the program than at any previous Hall of Fame event. The three inductees have dedicated more than 100 years combined to help build opportunities for healthy growth and development for children and youth. Lopez served as an athletic director, coach, gym director and board member with CYO Athletics for more than 45 years and counting. His leadership has created a flourishing CYO soccer program, as well as the St. Brendan athletics program that boasts upwards of 20 teams a year. “When I started, I said ‘at least I won’t be here as long as Chip York,’ when he had been here for 11 years. Here I am, all these years later, still enjoying myself,” Lopez said. Dillon, a former CYO San Francisco Athletics manager, athletic director, gym director and board member, smiled as she told the crowd how much she enjoyed working with the kids. “Thank you for the opportunity to see so many

Bud Sewell, Joann Dillon and Dave Lopez are the newest members of the CYO Athletics Hall of Fame. They were inducted March 23 at a ceremony attended by nearly 300 people representing 20 schools. kids learn how much more they could achieve,” Dillon said. “I also want to thank my fellow nominee, Bud Sewell. He has been a special person in my life since I was 11 years old. Anyone involved in his tenure knows what a great person he is.” Sewell was a St. Emydius athletic director, coach, gym director and board member. He was well known for always had having the gym open for families, kids and the community. As he approached the podium, Sewell told the audience,

SI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TO PLAY CARNEGIE HALL

The St. Ignatius College Preparatory Chamber Orchestra has been invited to perform in the April 2014 New York International Music Festival in the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The orchestra submitted a recording of their work as an audition and was accepted for the series in early March. The ball started rolling when a scout from concert organizers was in the audience of an SI performance and heard the orchestra. “She introduced herself after the concert and then followed up with an email asking us to submit an application and recording,” said Gillian Clements, orchestra director. Only six high schools are asked to take part in the April concerts. “SI’s chamber orchestra (the strings) was specifically invited to play the majority of the 20-minute concert, and the whole orchestra was invited to join in for the last piece,” Clements said. About 50 student musicians will make the trip. The tour includes sightseeing and additional public performances likely in Central Park. Gillian Clements holds a doctorate in music education from Boston University and is in her fifth year at SI. In addition to conducting the orchestra, she teaches music appreciation, jazz band and chamber music. Her performance expertise is violin. In July 2011 Clements arranged the first-ever “SI-

“I don’t recognize this gym from this angle!” The 80-year-old also joked that he didn’t recognize his former players in attendance, “because they have all aged, too.” Prior inductees include Steve Phelps and Paul Watters (2012); Roger Bross, Randy DeMartini and Jenifer Spinale (2011); Joanne Fitzpatrick, Maureen Moriarty and Pete Murray (2010); Tim Curran, Frank Finnegan, and Barbara Foy (2009); and Bob Drucker, Joanne Hayes-White and Ben Legere (2008). Starting a new tradition, CYO Athletics also recognized four current “Coaches in the Spotlight” this year. Coaches were nominated for serving as a model for other coaches to emulate, exhibiting concern for players outside of the game and promoting the values of CYO Athletics. The inaugural honorees included Curtis Mallegni, St. Cecilia, girls and boys basketball; Kevin Murphy, St. Thomas the Apostle, soccer, girls and boys basketball; Mike Slade, St. Thomas More/Star of the Sea, boys and girls basketball; and Louise Winterstein, Our Lady of Visitacion, volleyball. Each of them was given an engraved whistle and a banner to be displayed at their school commemorating their honor. CCCYO also thanked the following programs for attending and supporting the Hall of Fame: Epiphany, Good Shepherd, Notre Dame des Victoires, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Brendan, St. Brigid, St. Elizabeth, St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Stephen, St. Thomas More and Star of the Sea, St. Cecilia, Our Lady of Visitacion, St. Emydius, St. Peter Pacifica, St. Paul and St. Vincent de Paul. For more information, visit www.cyo.cccyo.org.

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OBITUARIES

Salesian Father John J. Malloy, 91

SISTER VIRGINIA MCMONAGLE, RSCJ, 91

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Virginia McMonagle died March 31 in Palo Alto. She was 91 years old and a religious for 72 years. A memorial Mass will be celebrated April 27, 1:30 p.m. at Oakwood, the community’s retirement facility in Atherton. Sister Virginia holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from San Francisco College for Women, Lone Mountain. In addition to school and developSister Virginia ment work, Sister Virginia served McMonagle, in Haiti at an orphanage in PortRSCJ au-Prince. “She declared herself ‘totally hooked’ from the day she arrived,” the Sacred Heart Sisters said. In 2003, Sister McMonagle joined the retirement community of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Atherton and continued to raise funds for her beloved Haiti mission. Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.

Salesian Father John J. Malloy, 91, died March 27 at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco. Father Malloy was a religious for 72 years and a priest for almost 62 years. He is retired pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in North Beach where he served from 2001-07. Born in Berkeley, Father Malloy made first vows with the Salesians of Don Bosco Sept. 8, 1940, and was ordained priest July 2, 1950, in Italy. He held a graduate degree in theology. His first assignments were in Salesian schools in California serving as principal in Bellflower and Los Angeles. In the 1960s he worked in leadership in the Salesian Province of San Francisco. In 1965 he was appointed Provincial of the Western Salesian Province. In 2001, he was named pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco. “In this multi-cultural parish, he called the parishioners to a greater sense of unity and cooperation,” the Salesians said. Father Malloy was especially active in pro-life work and his name was known in that area throughout the United States.

Father John J. Malloy, SDB

Father Malloy was especially active in pro-life work and his name was known in that field throughout the United States.

He lived in retirement at Salesian High School, Richmond. A funeral Mass was celebrated April 1, at Sts. Peter and Paul Church with interment at the Salesian Cemetery in Richmond. Donations in memory of Father John Malloy may be made to the Salesian Province, 1100 Franklin St., San Francisco, 94109.

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Local chefs to create fundraising meal for Mission Dolores Academy San Francisco chefs including Charles Phan will be whipping up a midday meal benefiting Mission Dolores Academy May 9 at the city’s Julia Morgan Ballroom. Phan is the owner operator of the Slanted Door Charles Phan restaurant. “This year we’re raising the bar,” the school said, noting

that the team of cooks will be filled out by Laurence Jossel of NOPA, Mourad Lahlou of Aziza, Anne Walker and Kris Hoogerhyde of Bi-Rite Creamery, Craig Stoll of Delfina and Thad Vogler of Bar Agricole. The chef collaboration is Phan’s idea. He grew up in the Mission and is a longtime supporter of Mission Dolores Academy. “I feel it is my duty to help our inner-city youth become successful, contributing members of their community,” Phan said. “Mission

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FASHION: “Discarded to Divine” preview, 5:30-8:30 p.m., de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park. Meet established and emerging designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, and view fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned April 16. Proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul Wellness Center, San Francisco. www.discardedtodivine.org. srosen@svdp-sf.org. (415) 552-5561, ext. 301. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794. CONCERT: The Singing Girls of Texas perform at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. The teen choir has an eclectic repertoire. The concert is open and free to all, but free-will offerings are appreciated. (415) 421-0809.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Simon Berry, organist; Scott Macomber, trumpet. All recitals open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, a free-will offering will be requested at the door. Free parking. (415) 5672020, ext 213.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13 CCCYO GALA: Catholic Charities CYO Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner & Gala, St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco honoring the women religious of the Archdiocese of Sister Lillian San Francisco Murphy, RSM for “Faith in Action.” Mercy Sister Lillian Murphy, CEO, Mercy Housing Inc., is guest speaker. www. cccyo.org/loavesandfishes.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16 FASHION SALON: “Discarded to Divine” and silent auction, 6-9 p.m., Gensler, San Francisco, 2 Harrison St. $75 tickets include appetizer and wine reception and auction of more than 75 items by established and emerging designers. Proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul Wellness Center, San Francisco serving people with mental health and addiction issues. www.discardedtodivine.org. srosen@svdp-sf.org. (415) 552-5561, ext. 301.

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EVENING ON THE GREEN: Archbishop Riordan High School Spring Gala with proceeds benefiting the school’s tuition assistance program. Dine and enjoy live and silent auctions on items including vacation homes, theme baskets, wines. Lake Merced Golf Club, 2300 Junipero Serra Blvd., Daly City. $125. Ticket and sponsorship information at www.riordanhs.org. Sharon GhilardiUdovich, (415) 586-8200, ext.*217. sudovich@riordanhs.org.

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REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy Alumnae Luncheon and Reunion, 11 a.m., Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. $40. Patty Cavagnaro, (415) 824-2052, ext. 31, or pcavagnaro@icacademy. org.

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GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support session, St. Mary’s Cathedral, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads. Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

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PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21 FAITH SHELTER WALK: Sponsored by the San Francisco Interfaith Council benefiting program hosting up to 100 men who are homeless at an inner-city religious community for dinner, a comfortable place to sleep, and breakfast, during the four wettest and coldest months of the year. All monies collected will go to support this program. Visit www.winterfaithwalk.dojiggycom to donate or get more information. Walk is around Lake Merced. CONCERT: St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., John Cannon, organist. All recitals open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, a free-will offering will be requested at the door. Free parking. (415) 5672020, ext 213.

Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu. GOOD SHEPHERD GALA: The Good Shepherd Guild presents a fashion show and luncheon at Lake Merced Golf Club, Daly City, 11:30 a.m. Tickets at $65 include a three-course lunch with entree choices. Contact Diana Bacigalupi for reservations, (415) 731-2537. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Gracenter.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 25 VATICAN II TALKS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scriptureâ&#x20AC;? with Ruth Ohm at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 WEEKEND REUNION: Archbishop Riordan High School, class of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;63, with dinners both days and Golden Diploma Mass April 27. Riordan alum Tom Sweeney, Beefeater doorman at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, will be in attendance Friday. Visit www. riordanhs.org/1963reunion or contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, (415) 586-8200, ext.*217 or sudovich@ riordanhs.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23 ADVANCE DIRECTIVES: Panel with Connie Borden, Carol Bayley, Father Pablo Iwaszewicz and Dr. John H. Fullerton, 2-3:30 p.m., Morrissey Hall 2250 Hayes St., C level, St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, San Francisco. (415) 750-5790 or stmarysfoundation@dignityhealth.org. SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit

FOOD FAIR: St. Ignatius College Preparatory International Food Faire â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rock the Block,â&#x20AC;? 4-8 p.m., SI Commons, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco with 10 different food booths, three food trucks, multicultural entertainment and a dance party from 6-8 p.m. Purchase tickets online at www. siprep.org/foodfaire at $16 adults, $12 students. Children 5 and under are free. Email sifoodfaire@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 DOMINICAN DAY: Dominican Father Michael Fones speaks on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The New Evangelizationâ&#x20AC;? at St. Albert Priory, 5890 Birch Court, Oakland, a block from Rockridge BART, 8:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Donation of $25 includes lunch, snacks, and chance at prizes. Anne Regan, (510) 655-4046; Susanna Krch, susannakrcharkin@att. net. SABBATH: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sacred Time,â&#x20AC;? a workshop with Paulist Father Terry Ryan, 9 a.m.-noon, Old St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Free-will donations welcome. (415) 288-3845.

ST. DUNSTAN ANNIVERSARY: 60th anniversary Mass and reception, 10 a.m., St. Dunstan Parish and school, Millbrae. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presides. Open to the community with a special welcome to all alumni, parishioners, alumni parents, school parents, teachers and staff past and present. Visit http://st-dunstan.org or call (650) 697-8119. CONCERT: St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Massimo Nosetti, organist. All recitals open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, a free-will offering will be requested at the door. Free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext 213. DAILY 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. WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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Mercy High School – Burlingame, an all-girls Catholic college preparatory secondary school seeks a dynamic, faith filled leader committed to academic excellence and the empowerment of young women for lives of discipleship, compassionate service, and to serve as Principal for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Principal serves as academic leader of the school and exercises overall responsibility for the daily school operations. In collaboration with the President, the Principal shares responsibility for the integration of spirituality and learning within the school through successful academic and student-life programs. Guided by the school’s mission and its governing board the Principal works collaboratively with all members of the administrative team to implement strategic learning initiatives, long range planning and curricular/co curricular offerings to ensure a vibrant program for students as well as a culture of professional and leadership development for faculty and staff. Requirements: • Current CA Teaching Credential • Administrative Services Credential highly recommended • Masters Degree in Educational Administration or a related field • Minimum three years experience in secondary teaching and/or administration • Active participant in the Catholic Church preferred • Exceptional interpersonal skills including direct and open communication and effective public speaking Position is year-round with some evening/weekend meetings and events required during the academic school year. Salary commensurate with experience and education of applicant.

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Vice-Principal St. Peter’s Elementary School, San Francisco, was founded in 1878 by Mother M. Baptist Russell, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy in California, for the children of immigrants drawn to California by the economic development that followed the Gold Rush. From that day to this, St. Peter’s has served successive waves of immigrants in one of the oldest neighborhoods of San Francisco, the Mission District. In the beginning, it was Irish and Italian. Today, we educate a mainly Hispanic population and have 325 boys and girls, 98% Hispanic and Catholic. St. Peter’s School includes Grades K-8, is WCEA accredited, offers an extended day care program, and offers an after school Computer Lab program. Also, there is an after school sports program for boys and girls and a tutoring program on Wednesday, supervised by St. Ignatius students and a faculty member. The University of San Francisco supervised a Counseling program for the school and there is a federally funded Catapult Reading and Math program to support low achievers. For additional information, please visit the school’s website at www.sanpedro.org. St. Peter’s School seeks an outstanding educator to serve as Vice Principal for the 2013-2014 school year.

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A top candidate for of faith and prayer the next pope will be a man with skill in major and a record of languages leadership in a major archdioce se or Vatican ofďŹ ce â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ideally both, Cardinal William J. Levada said Feb. 25 as he prepared to leave for Rome to join as many cardinals in a conclaveas 116 other to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Levada, during a press conference at St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seminary & Universit y in Cardinal Levada said that in a church Menlo Park, (PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHO that has beLIC SAN FRANCISCO) come thoroughl y globalized in the past 50 to 60 years the inďŹ&#x201A;uence of Cecilia Carrier, left, a around the world cardinals from candidate for full communion â&#x20AC;&#x153;will have great archdioceseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual impact.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In regard to the Rite of Election celebrated in the Catholic Church, is pictured with needs to the church, and McLaughlin are her sponsor Karen McLaughlin by Archbishop Salvatore ent cultural situations from St. Hilary Parish, the Tiburon. Typically performed J. Cordileone Feb. 17 at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral. at the gathering with their sponsors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Africa, America, differthe Middle East, on the ďŹ rst Sunday of and families, the ancient those historic churches Asia, Lent are the ďŹ nal period Lent with those called Carrier ceremony of the rite up from the time of puriďŹ cation and enlightenmen coming to the church is a step of Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own parishes participated t leading up to the Easter in the process of Christian initiation. The generation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; each has its own in the Mass, with 159 days of Vigil series of problems, and full initiation into catechumens and 255 of these things the church. Forty-nine â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All candidates. More photos will on Page 2. son weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re consideri play a part in this. Is the perng knowledgeable needs? Is he sensitive about those to them?â&#x20AC;? Cardinal Levada did not speculate ground of any cardinal on the he thinks may makebackpick but played a top down the possibilit can pope. y of an AmeriCINDY WOODEN â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what red shoes, Father CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE the Las Vegas odds Lombardi said. Instead, are saying today wear brown shoes, makers but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think VATICAN CITY beginning with loafers he will itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely that we will see an American â&#x20AC;&#x201C; given as a gift last he was tinue to be known Pope Benedict XVI will conMarch during a visit pope,â&#x20AC;? said Cardinal Levada, who served as Pope Benedict Mexico. The Jesuit and addressed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;His Holiness,â&#x20AC;? said the pope has to Leon, co from 1995-2005. as archbishop of San Francisbut zapatos to be very found the â&#x20AC;&#x153;And add the title â&#x20AC;&#x153;emeritusafter his resignation, he will comfortable. would be an additiona I say that for this reason: It The safety of the â&#x20AC;? in one of two acceptable forms, either â&#x20AC;&#x153;pope l complexity for pope emeritus will can pope to have an Ameriby the Vatican police, emeritusâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roman be ensured to deal with the emeritus.â&#x20AC;? pontiff perception that some of his decisions Three hours before Father Lombardi said. might Jesuit his pontiďŹ cate ends, be Father Federico perceived to be dictated by American Benedict Pope Lombardi, Vatican man, said decisions governmental policy.â&#x20AC;? spokes- summer intends to ďŹ&#x201A;y by helicopter to the He said that perceptio papal villa at Castel Gandolfo. addressed and what about how the pope would be n could be a problem the church in the At 8 p.m. Feb. 28 for rest consultation with he would wear were made in â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the other hand, of the world. Pope Benedict and dict has said he will the exact moment Pope BeneTarcisio Bertone, if an American with Cardinal cease being pope elected â&#x20AC;&#x201C; provided pope is the chamberlain Guards stationed itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of the church, along with others. at the main doors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Swiss obedience and supportnot me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I will give him my of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo any way I can,â&#x20AC;? After Feb. 28, Pope Levada said. Cardinal doors, Father Lombardi will withdraw and close the Benedict will continue a white cassock, said. The Vatican to wear Cardinal Levada, but it will be a simpliďŹ darmes will take genwho said the prospect of the papal vestment, over. ed version Pope Benedict also of the mainly without the white cape piece little on nals his â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ shermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;swill give the College of CardiSEE CARDINAL, PAGE 21 told reporters Feb. the shoulders, Father Lombardi ringâ&#x20AC;? and seal to as is usually done 26. be broken, upon the death of Pope Benedict will spokesman said. a pope, the leave behind his The pope will go emblematic back an episcopal ring he wore as a cardinal.to wearing

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA Lorenzo Aguirre Fred J. Aiello Milagros Antonio Joseph Erfe Arce Jose D. Arcega Gloria Armenta June McAsey Atkinson Giovanni Balistreri Roderick “Ricky” Balleza Robert John Barbieri Osvaldo “Ozzie” Bartoli Francisco V. Beltran Anne P. Bern Leonor I. Bonilla De Cortez Gloria E. Brady Cecilia Ellen Brown Eusebio Calixton Jose Oscar Gutierrez Caos Luz Capistrano Father Juan Carranco John J. Casey, Jr. Velta P. Caughman Catherine P. Censi Diana Cichor Josephine M. Clima Adrian J. Daansen Felicitas DeLeon Florence DeMare Charles G. Dondero Elsa N. Dougherty Alfred Espino Sadie M. Fenley Loma Agnes Follett Leno Freschet Paul Galea Harriet L. Gelinas Melania L. Gomez Roderick U. Gomez

Lugarda Gonzalez Rita V. Graham Mark Edward Gray Guido E. Guinasso James F. Jones Janet Kamnik Helen L. Kilmurry David R. Krow Cornelia Flores Lagazon John Lawton, III Maio Yin Young Lee James G. Leishman Tanina Liberati-Young Loy E. Linebarger, Jr. Maria C. Lopez Clare C. Lowe Gladys C. Lugo Salim Madback James Walter Malloy Carmel Gallagher Marble Gabriele F. Mariotti Ann Nicolai Markland Lydia R. Marquez Dorothy C. Mayer Betty A. McMahon Lee Merolla Pablo L. Mesina Joanne Monks Elisabeth Morrissey Susan M. Mulvihill Thomas J. Murphy Baltazar Nicolas Patrick J. O’Hara Mary Aurora Ortega Noemi “Mimi” Osorio Acevedo Joshua F. Osorio Acevedo Amado R. Osorio Acevedo Anita Otuhiva Maria R. Palacios Mercedita Parungao Dolores Pastrana Gladys M. Paxton

Irene M. Petrini Catherine Ann Pinelli-Spalding Florence A. Posedel Josephine S. Powers Mary A. Pujolar Anthony William Quill Robert A. Quinn Agueda Malvar Rael Leticia Palacios Ramos Victorine Raugi Jose L. Razon Nancy L. Renstrom George Louis Riccomi Isabel A. Rosales Jean (Cain) Russell Gertrude (Trude) Rutherford George A. Sandwell Jeanne T. Scanlon Marjorie F. Silver Adrian Smith Domingo H. Soliman John Philip Souza Eleanore M. Strawn Norma D. Suares Laurence B. Sullivan Felicia The Corita Thomas Rita T. Torpey Anna Toth Kelematina Pogai Tuimavave Rose C. Uy Eugene J. Vaccarezza Marie V. Van Iderstine Maria Antonia Varona Nicholas G. Vidak Alice I. Walsh Rick E. Watson Yin Kwai Wong Siu Yee Wong Catherine Yeung

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK George Joseph Biocini Ronald R. Ferrando Bulmaro A. Mora Juan Carlos Quinonez Raul Lopez Barbara Ann Row

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Kathleen L. Leonardi Maria Da Concacao Silva Simas

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL John James (Sean) Hannan William C. Campbell Marie M. Campbell Woodrow Capurro Florence E. Cook Joshua Alberto Guzmán Leonila G. Hover Marjorie M. Matthew Christine Chourre McNamee Virginia Ruth O’Brien Charlotte W. O’Dell Frank A. Pariani Robert F. Pariani Thomas Francis Spillane Mary Rose Trizuto Miriam Velcich

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, May 4, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am

MEMORIAL DAY MASS – Monday, May 27, 2013 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Service – 11:00 am. Rev. Msgr. James T. Tarantino, Celebrant Vicar for Administration and Moderator of the Curia

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.