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Last Chinese Mass celebrated at San Francisco parish

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Pope, bishops talk about divisions in society, church CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Catholics need to be on guard against allowing the angry rhetoric that comes from a polarized society, especially in an election year, to seep into discussions about the life of the church, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops.

Thirty-three bishops, auxiliary bishops and retired bishops from California, Nevada and Hawaii met Pope Francis for more than twoand-a-half hours Jan. 27.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco said the topics included: youth and young adult ministry, Marian devotion, the clerical sexual abuse crisis, marriage and family life, migration, how to be a good bishop, SEE POPE, PAGE 11

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Walk for Life marks pro-life progress, promise

Thousands of pro-life activists from throughout the state and beyond flooded the streets of San Francisco Jan. 25 for the annual Walk for Life West Coast, buoyed with fresh hope that next year’s event will be a celebration of the end of legalized abortion instead of a protest. “Wouldn’t it be great if next year we didn’t have to be here?” Walk for Life co-founder Eva Muntean asked from the event’s main stage in Civic Center Plaza. Story on Page 6.

New Olema pastor fights to keep rural parish open LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Since his appointment as pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Olema last July, Father Erick Arauz has been working to motivate the community with faith and optimism to stand up and join him to put the parish back on its feet.

Some 18 parishioners, including children, attended the 7 p.m. vigil Mass on Jan. 4 and a similar number of parishioners were seen the next day at the other Spanish Mass, while some 30 parishioners usually go the English Mass each Sunday.

Despite low Mass attendance and without the necessary funding for the upkeep of the rural Marin County parish, Father Arauz is not giving up and is knocking on doors around the neighborhood.

“I’m visiting families to invite them to church, to make them feel like church and to let them know that I’m here, that I’m present,” he said.

When he first arrived he found some discouragement among the faithful and parish staff, “as if waiting for the closure.”

‘I’m visiting families to invite them to church, to make them feel like church and to let them know that I’m here, that I’m present.’

FATHER ERICK ARAUZ

Pastor, Sacred Heart Parish, Olema He remains positive, however, and has a plan in mind and plenty of energy and enthusiasm to bring it to fruition with the help of the community.

Some people who serve at the parish are still waiting for a response from the archdiocese. “I am the answer,” said Father Arauz, who is a well-known priest in the Hispanic community in the archdiocese and celebrates his 35th anniversary as a priest Sept. 13.

Father Arauz is “very good with his parishioners,”

said Father Andrew Spyrow, associate vicar for clergy for the archdiocese. “He’s outgoing and he has a great sense of humor.”

Father Arauz faced his first challenge when payments were due and the coffers were empty. He managed to come up with a raffle to get started.

The second hurdle was that nobody really knew exactly how many people belong to Sacred Heart Parish. He has begun distributing enrollment forms for a census to get a sense of the parish tally.

Father Arauz also wants to reorganize the pastoral council, which “used to meet sporadically” but is now meeting more regularly, he said.

Father Arauz also hopes to build a Hispanic committee with representation on the parish council that will work together with both the English- and Spanish-speaking communities.

As for pastoral work, Father Arauz has opened the church doors in the evenings on the first Friday of the month for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament between 6 and 7, in addition to the regular celebration

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2020

Last Chinese Mass held at Holy Name Parish

NEED TO KNOW MOSAIC TV SHOW ON DIACONATE: Join host J.A. Gray and Deacon Michael Ghiorso, director, Diaconate Ministry and Life for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, on the lives and ministries of permanent deacons, Feb. 2, 5:30 a.m., KPIX television Channel 5. Visit sfarchdiocese.org/events/mosaic-deacons.

Past episodes of Mosaic are archived and viewable at sfarch.org/mosaic-tv.

WORLD DAY OF THE SICK MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant at a special Healing Mass celebrating World Day of the Sick, Feb. 8, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Anointing of the Sick will take place. All are invited. Sponsored and hosted by the Order of Malta. Visit sfarchdiocese.org/events/healingmass.

FIRST SATURDAY MASS: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Feb. 1, 11 a.m., Holy Cross Cemetery, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Monica Williams (650) 756-2060; holycrosscemeteries.com.

TV MASS: The TV Mass is broadcast each Sunday on the following stations at the times shown: Channel 26 in San Francisco, 6 a.m.; KOFY Channel 20 in San Francisco, 6 a.m.; Fox 40 in the Sacramento area, 5:30 a.m. Celebrant and homilist is Msgr. Harry Schlitt.

Seasonal and athletic broadcasts can sometimes preempt the Mass.

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE FEB. 2: Jubilarian Mass, St. Matthew, 10:45 a.m.

FEB. 3-5: National Catholic Bioethics Center bishops’ workshop, Dallas FEB. 6: Chancery meetings FEB. 7: Cabinet and Presbyteral Council executive committee meetings FEB. 8: World Day of the Sick Mass, cathedral, 11 a.m.

FEB. 9: Respect Life Mass, cathedral, 11 a.m.

FEB. 12: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep board meeting; chancery meetings FEB. 13: Presbyteral Council, College of Consultors, Priest Personnel Board, Catholic Charities board meetings

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Worshippers gathered Dec. 28 for the last Mass in Chinese at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco. The Mass had been a regular part of the liturgy schedule at Holy Name each Saturday at 3 p.m. with Father Simon Jin as celebrant. Father Jin is a diocesan priest of China and recently transferred to the Diocese of Oakland to minister to Chinese Catholics in the East Bay. The Chinese Mass has been a tradition at Holy Name since 1984 and some 40 people attended the liturgy regularly, Holy Name parishioner Louis Chan told Catholic San Francisco. The Mass assembly is “mostly seniors,” Chan said but people “in their 20s and 30s also attend.” Along the way, the assembly has welcomed “a young family from China, plus visitors from the Far East now and then,” Chan said.

While it is unlikely that a new celebrant will come forward, Chan said the Chinese assembly “is still praying” one will.

The Chinese Mass is important for several reasons including sharing “our faith in a familiar language,” Chan said. “The fellowship after Mass was a wonderful time for conversation and refreshment.”

The Mass ending at Holy Name will, perhaps, encourage Chinese Catholics there to start attending Chinese Masses at other sites, some nearby.

Chan said the archdiocese’s aim to consolidate various Chinese Catholic communities may seem logical but it “ignores the sentiment and the sense of belonging built up in Holy Name over threeand-a-half decades.”

Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said that the Mass in Chinese is important to Chinese Catholics and that additional Masses in Chinese remain available at the following churches:

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The assembly of the Chinese Mass at Holy Name of Jesus Parish after the final prayer of the liturgy’s last installment Dec. 28, 2019. Second row center from left are Holy Name pastor Father Arnold Zamora, retired Bishop Ignatius Wang and Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

St. Monica Church, San Francisco, 9 a.m., Sunday; St. Anne Church, San Francisco, noon, Sunday; St. Gregory Church, San Mateo, 3 p.m., Sunday; St. Matthew Church, San Mateo, 3 p.m., second, fourth and fifth Sundays; St. Dunstan Church, Millbrae, 2 p.m., first Sundays. Celebrants include Father Zhai and Father Dominic Savio Lee of St. Matthew.

“The Chinese Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco extends a warm invitation to all priests of the Archdiocese and their parishioners to join Bishop Justice, Bishop Wang, Bishop Walsh, and the Chinese community for the celebration of Chinese New Year with the New Year Eucharistic Celebration and Ancestors Veneration Ceremony at St. Mary’s Cathedral,” Father Zhai said in a flyer announcing the event.

In a conversation with Catholic San Francisco, Father Zhai said the New Year celebration offers an opportunity for families to gather in a cultural and religious experience that is singular to them.

“Chinese people desire to be with one another,” he said. “It is a day of prayer. We are Catholic. We are God’s family.”

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Holy Name will be represented at the banquet by “at least two tables of parishioners, plus usually a table sponsored by Holy Name Parish,” Louis Chan said.

Ministry to Chinese Catholics dates to the early decades of the archdiocese, which was established in 1850 in post-gold rush San Francisco, according to “A History of Chinese Catholics in San Francisco” by Paulist Father Ricky Manalo, a chapter in “The 2008 Report: The Bay Area Chinese Churches, Research Project, Phase II,” edited by James Chuck and Timothy Tseng.

The Paulist Fathers arrived in 1875 and established their West Coast missionary post at Old St. Mary’s, serving Chinese Catholics who had come to America to find gold or work on the transcontinental railroad, Father Manalo writes.

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Vietnamese New Year emphasizes gratitude toward family NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A banging drum and snapping firecrackers announced the start of Church of the Visitacion’s celebration of the second day of Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday that marks the traditional start of spring.

Lion dancers and their grinning handler, traditional elements of Vietnamese celebrations, led the procession into the church as symbols of good luck and blessings for the coming new year.

“Today is so special because it reminds us of the special things in our lives,” Church of the Visitacion pastor Father Thuan Hoang said in his homily at Mass. “The Gospel reminds us we need to be grateful to our families and pay respect to our parents. And if they’re gone, pray for them, and if they’re still alive, show our respect to them. That’s what the church wants to remind us on the second day of Tet.” The Vietnamese celebration of Lunar

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Father Thuan Hoang, pastor of Church of the Visitacion in San Francisco, hands out lucky money, or “lì xì,” to children Jan. 26 during the parish’s celebration of Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday.

New Year, which began this year on Jan. 25, is traditionally a multi-day celebration. In rural Vietnam, Father Hoang explained, Tet can be celebrated for nearly a month, while cities more often celebrate it for a week. In the United States, Vietnamese New Year is typically celebrated for three days and each day has a customary intention.

The first day, he said, is for “thanking God, who created, saved and sanctified us.” The second day is devoted to appreciating one’s ancestors by thanking them, praying for them and learning from their example. On the third day, people ask God to bless the work each person does in the upcoming year.

In addition to starting their year with gratitude for what God has given and praying for his blessings on their new year, Father Hoang encouraged parishioners to renew their faith as well. God had saved humanity so it could become like him and each person should use his or her intelligence and free will as an “offering to God,” he said.

Guatemalan feast shows richness of church NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Marimba music filled the parish hall at Church of the Epiphany as the San Francisco parish gathered Jan. 19 to celebrate the feast of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a centuries-old devotion from Guatemala. Epiphany parishioners carried a flower decked statue of El Señor de Esquipulas, accompanied by traditional dancers.

In the feast, “it’s Christ himself that we’re celebrating,” organizer Wendy Reyes said. “This is just another form of seeing Jesus, but in a specific place and culture that has a lot of richness. It’s important to know about the culture and devotion to Christ there.”

The feast of El Señor de Esquipulas, the Black Christ of Esquipulas, centers on a dark-colored statue of Christ that has been venerated for centuries in the eastern Guatemalan city of Esquipulas.

The statue dates back to 1594, when it was commissioned for a church in Esquipulas. The cause of the dark color of the statue has been debated: According to some, the sculptor used dark wood to represent the people of Esquipulas, while long-term exposure to

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Church of the Epiphany parishioners celebrated the Black Christ of Esquipulas Jan. 19.

smoke from candles has also been suggested.

Retired Auxiliary Bishop William Justice celebrated the 11:30 Mass in Spanish.

Reyes explained this is the fifth year the parish has celebrated the feast, which has seen increasing numbers of Guatemalans attending Mass there. It

was first proposed by the Latino youth choir, who are majority Guatemalan. A committee later formed and received approval from Epiphany pastor Father Eugene Tungol to add the feast to the parish calendar. This year, about 200 people attended the party afterward at the parish hall.

“We were very happy about it, to know more people are coming to celebrate with us,” Reyes said.

The parish’s Esquipulas committee fundraises throughout the year to make food and drinks free during the celebration, she added, so everyone can “have a good time and celebrate our traditions.”

Epiphany’s celebration used the marimba, a traditional Guatemalan percussion instrument, to accompany the choir during Mass. After Mass, a procession carried a statue of the Black Christ into the parish, accompanied by incense and traditional dancers. Dancers also performed the traditional Guatemalan “Moors dance,” which symbolizes the struggle between Moorish and Spanish kingdoms during the Reconquista, the 800-year reconquest of Spain by Christian kingdoms.

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Speaker shares pro-life stage, story with son adopted out as infant CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Kathy Folan had many dreams as a young philosophy student at the University of San Francisco in the 1990s. Sharing a stage one day with the child she conceived in a sexual assault and telling their story to a crowd of thousands was surely not one of them.

“Now it seems, we’ve been called to share this story,” said Folan, 49, in a promotional video for San Francisco’s Walk for Life West Coast, where on Jan. 25 she was one of three featured speakers. “It’s not easy, for sure. But the Holy Spirit is with us and I feel like now is the time to share it. To give other people hope Church Candles Religious Gifts & Books andGoods to see & a good story, what can become of it if you let it.”

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San Rafael Dominican Sister Carla Kovak, prioress general, left, lights a candle to remember homicide victims Jan. 14 with Dominican Sister Mary Kieffer on the community’s campus.

A LIGHT FOR VICTIMS: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and members of their community gathered at the order’s Lourdes Chapel Jan. 14 where the first of four archdiocesan memorial Masses for victims of homicide organized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco was held. Dominican University campus ministry chaplain Father Robert Haberman presided.

Julio Escobar, coordinator of the archdiocese’s office of restorative justice ministry, and his associate, Melissa Vlach, who hold public prayer services for victims of crime in the archdiocese, spoke about the importance of prayers of remembrance.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2020

Bernal Heights parish gearing up for 2022 centennial More recently, a band of St. Kevin folk went to visit retired Father Jack O’Neill who served at St. Kevin as a parochial vicar and is now living in San Rafael. “It was a fantastic visit sharing many, many fond memories,” Echiverri, who was on the mission, said.

Father O’Neill celebrates his 53rd year as a priest in 2020.

Good news for holders of relevant St. Kevin footage in dated formats: “We can digitize Super 8 movies and VHS or other analog records,” Echiverri said. “Digitizing can be pricey, but we do it for free if they let us use a copy for the archives.

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It might be two years away but San Francisco’s St. Kevin Parish has already started getting ready for its 100th anniversary in 2022.

“No date has been set but it looks like it will be in November the month in 1922 when Father Holohan received his letter of appointment as first pastor,” Catalino Echiverri, chairman of the St. Kevin Pastoral Council, told Catholic San Francisco. Father Thomas W. Holohan would serve until 1926 and be succeeded by 13 priests as pastor up until the present day.

The current pastor is Divine Word Father Henry Noga, who came to the small neighborhood parish in the Bernal Heights district in 2016 and has joined in with the centennial planning.

“When Father Noga heard about the centennial he gave us a room at the parish to serve as a centennial archives,” Echiverri said. “We are using it to gather pictures and other memorabilia for the celebration.”

The preserve was blessed by Father Noga in ceremonies June 10, 2017 Much of the video and pictures already on hand were collected for the funeral and other rites that marked the death of Msgr. James E. O’Malley, pastor of St. Kevin from 1967-93. Father O’Malley died May 28, 2012.

“After Father O’Malley died, we had a good collection of material gathered that should be preserved,” Echiverri said.

Visit www.facebook.com/stkevin2022. Pictures and memories of St. Kevin are welcome, email stkevins2022@gmail.com.

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Divine Word Father Henry Noga, pastor, blessing the St. Kevin Archives in ceremonies June 10, 2017, at St. Kevin Parish.

Another celebration bringing pictures and footage to the centennial roll is from the 90th birthday of Marie Annuzzi who served as St. Kevin parish secretary for more than 50 years retiring in 2017.

Both Marie Annuzzi and Catalino Echiverri are lifelong St. Kevin parishioners.

St. Kevin today is a community of 140 households. “Back in the day we had about 600,” Echiverri said.

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Thousands of people in solidarity with the rights of the unborn gathered at Civic Center Plaza Jan. 25 before marching down Market Street in the 2020 Walk for Life West Coast. Upper left: Joseph McHardy of Murphys in Calaveras County traveled by bus to San Francisco with niece Augustina McHardy. The 8-year-old holds a sign with photos of her twin cousins, Abigail and Madeleine. Their mother ignored her doctor’s advice to abort one of them, and the girls are now 6 years old. The pro-life event was a multicultural celebration with a musical and dance performance by a group bearing a crucifix and a flag of Our Lady of Guadalupe, lower left, and young families joining in the two-mile march.

Walk for Life marks pro-life progress in hopeful political moment CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Thousands of pro-life activists from throughout the state and beyond flooded the streets of San Francisco Jan. 25 for the annual Walk for Life West Coast, buoyed with fresh hope that next year’s event will be a celebration of the end of legalized abortion instead of a protest.

“Wouldn’t it be great if next year we didn’t have to be here?” Walk for Life West Coast co-founder and organizer Eva Muntean asked from the event’s main stage in Civic Center Plaza where the rally and walk began.

Now in its 16th year in San Francisco, the event is an affirmation of the right to life of the unborn and a perennial protest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

This year’s hopeful tone reflected recent victories for the pro-life movement. A day earlier, President Donald Trump addressed the March for Life in Washington, D.C., the first sitting U.S. president to do so, and told the gathering that “unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House.”

The same day, the Trump administration said that California state policies violate federal law for requiring abortion coverage in religious groups’ health insurance plans – a mandate that Catholic leaders had charged “directly targeted” Catholic universities that had stopped paying for employees’ elective abortions. California has 30 days to comply with federal law, and failure to comply could threaten its federal funding, Roger Severino, director of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, said in a Jan. 24 conference call with reporters.

“Momentum is on our side,” said Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, a national family of pro-life ministries for clergy and laity, and one of the main speakers at the Walk for Life West Coast.

Father Pavone did not shy away from politics, saying it is the only way to move the pro-life agenda forward in the coming election year. Red “Keep America Great” hats topped the heads of many in the crowd in front of San Francisco’s City Hall.

“If God’s people vote pro-life, we could see one year from today, Planned Parenthood completely defunded,” Father Pavone said.

“You are the generation that is going to do it,” said Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., an African American Baptist minister, who first spoke at the Walk in 2005.

“Abortion and Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered.”

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Patricia Borba of Stockton holds a sign she made with a Dr. Suess-inspired pro-life message.

Portland, Oregon, Archbishop Alexander Sample, standing in for Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who was in Rome with a regional bishops’ delegation meeting Vatican officials and Pope Francis, gave the invocation at the start of the rally. “We pray the day would come soon that we would not have to gather together like this,” he said.

Muntean spoke about the “fruits” of the Walk for Life West Coast, which she acknowledged have not always been obvious.

A highlight of the event was Kathy Folan’s story about placing her baby boy with adoptive parents after she became pregnant after a sexual assault when she was a college student (see story Page 4).

“Why should he be put to death for someone else’s crime?” Folan asked.

Some in the crowd dabbed eyes as Folan, who is family and youth ministries director at St. Dominic Parish, talked about her decision. Some openly sobbed when her 28-year-old son, Nathan Sullivan, joined her on stage.

“How I was conceived doesn’t define who I am,” Sullivan said. “What has formed me is the courageous choice of my birth mother and my adoptive parents.”

Sullivan said that “every blessing I’ve had” flows from his birth mother’s choice for life.

“In the face of darkness and difficult circumstances, adoption chooses life,” he said, “I’m living proof of this.”

Four babies who were introduced prenatally at the 2019 Walk for Life West Coast made a repeat performance, this time in their mothers’ arms.

Ron Konopaski received the St. Gianna Molla Award for Pro-Life Heroism. Konopaski made national news in 2019 when he was knocked down and kicked by an assailant who tried to rip a 40 Days for Life banner from his hands outside a San Francisco Planned Parenthood clinic.

“I have a dream and all of you are in this dream,” Konopaski told the crowd. “Just imagine, we could be here next year celebrating the end of abortion.

We’ll turn this city upside down.”

John Mark Porter, a student at the University of South Carolina received the 40 Days for Life 40/40 scholarship for pro-life heroism.

Catholic San Francisco met up with some of the walkers this year along the route leading to Justin Herman Plaza.

Eight-year-old Augustina “Gigi” McHardy said she rode a Greyhound bus that morning from Murphys in Calaveras County with her uncle, Joseph McHardy. They belong to St. Patrick Parish in nearby Angels Camp.

Gigi held a handmade sign with a photo of her twin cousins, Abigail and Madeleine, as babies. Joseph’s brother and and sister-in-law, refused to follow their doctor’s advice to abort one of the babies who shared one embryonic sac. The now six-yearold twins survived the high-risk pregnancy and the family lives in Oakdale.

Joseph is one of five children his mother adopted. “This is all of us,” he said pointing to a sign with photos of himself, Josh, Angela, Monica and Jessie. “All we need is God’s grace.”

Leah Guadagnini said that being part of the walk “means more than I can really express.”

She, her husband Kevin, their four children and seven others from the parish traveled from the Central Valley.

“Losing a child hurts more than the fear,” she said, quietly saying they’ve had six miscarriages.

The couple were only college students when they first found out she was pregnant.

Deacon Lane Menezes of the Diocese of Stockton came with his wife and daughter and her two children. His granddaughter Patricia Borba read the words of a sign she made with the words of children’s book author Dr. Suess.

“A person’s a person no matter how small,” she said.

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All-boys Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco is considering the possibility of enrolling girls, many from the pending closing of Mercy High School, San Francisco.

School president Andrew Currier discussed the possibility in a Jan. 19 announcement posted on the school’s website.

“The ARHS administration, with the support of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, considered possible ways of assisting Mercy SF students and fami-

lies and exploring whether or not this development would be an opportunity to move Riordan toward a different school model that would include the education of girls,” Currier said.

The announcement is available online in the Looking Ahead section of the Archbishop Riordan High School website.

“We continue to pray for guidance from the Holy Spirit during this important time of discernment for our school community,” Currier said in a statement for Catholic San Francisco. “Currently we are still collecting information and input from various stakeholder groups, but we project that a decision

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Left, Father Alvin Yu, St. Matthew Parish, is pictured with St. Matthew School eighth grader JaKeenan Williams-Choa, who won the evening’s free-throw contest at the annual Clericus Classic basketball game Jan. 18 at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. Center, Father Larry Goode, pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto, shakes hands with the seminarian team before the game. Right, Father Mike Liliedahl, St. Catherine of Siena Parish, is pursued by Deacon Dino Ornido from St. Dominic Parish.

Clericus Classic: Seminarians outscore priests 54-51 in OT TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone got things started with the tipoff of the annual Clericus Classic bringing priests and seminarians together in a full-court basketball game Jan. 18 at Serra High School in San Mateo. The seminarian team won the game in overtime, 54-51.

“The archbishop was present throughout the event and it looked like he was pleased by how the event went,” Father Cameron Faller, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, told Catholic San Francisco. “It was definitely nice to have his presence and support.”

Father Faller said many hands had a part in the evening including those in the game, those who cheered the game on and those who coordinated the event.

“We were pleased with how the evening turned out,” Father Faller said. “There was good energy among the fans and probably the best attendance we have had in five years. We appreciated the support of the priests who attended and

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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is pictured with competing priests, deacons, seminarians and laymen at the Clericus Classic priests vs. seminarians basketball game Jan. 18 at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo. The group includes Fathers Mark Reburiano, Alvin Yu, Martin Njoalu, Dominic Savio Lee, Manuel Igrobay, Larry Goode, Michael Liliedahl, Alner Nambatac, Francis Garbo, John Jimenez, Cameron Faller, Brian Shininger, George Schultze, Narcis Kabipi; laymen Derek Gaskin, Rod Linhares; Deacon Dino Ornido; seminarians John Hwang, Dominic Borchers, Rene Vargas, Paul Park, Jerrick Rea, Alvaro Santamaria, Victor Goranov, Brother Mikael Mihic, David Mees. those who played. It was also great

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Eighth graders from St. Gregory won a halftime competition against the seminarians with a prize of a barbecue at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. St. Matthew eighth grader JaKeenan Williams-Choa won the evening’s free-throw contest. Each of the schools had fans in the stands.

Proceeds from the evening are being tallied but the money’s use has been set, Father Faller said.

“The fundraising money will help support vocation initiatives,” he said. “I am particularly hopeful to use the proceeds for an upcoming vocation workshop we are hosting for some priests and parishioners.”

Helping swell the evening’s purse was sale of homemade chili by Derek Gaskin, director of the safe and emergency procedures office of the archdiocese. Father Faller called the dish “famous” and “a crowdpleaser.”

Also taking part from the Pastoral Center was Rod Linhares, director of development. Linhares is a University of Notre Dame alumnus.

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CARDINAL: SOCIAL MINISTRY MORE THAN ‘SINGLE SET’ OF ISSUES

WASHINGTON – Drawing from the teaching of Pope Francis and the documents of the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago called on attendees at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering to remember that the work of the church is rooted in Christ’s invitation to encounter poor and marginalized people.

Such ministry requires having a “deep and loving respect for the poor, uniting with them, accompanying them, not to tell them what to do, but with an appreciation for the creative capacity to pursue the life

God has always intended for them,” Cardinal Cupich said in an address Jan. 25 opening the largest regular church-sponsored assembly of social justice advocates.

The cardinal described the task of a Christian as working “with everyone in building a more human world.”

Cardinal Cupich said “neither our spiritual lives nor religion can be understood without social commitment” and called for an “integrated and consistent approach” wherever human dignity is threatened.

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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced Jan. 24 it is taking steps to enforce the Weldon Amendment, a federal law that prohibits discrimination by states against health insurance plans that do not cover abortion.

The move “is extraordinarily good news for the right to life, conscientious objection, religious freedom and the rule of law,” said a statement from Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee and Bishop George V. Murry, chairman of the religious liberty committee.

In their statement, they noted that since 2014, the California Department of Managed Health Care has forced all employers – even churches – to “fund and facilitate” elective abortions in their health plans “in direct violation” of the Weldon Amendment.

Calling the “coercive” California policy “abhorrent, unjust and illegal,” Archbishop Naumann and Bishop Murry said: “We strongly commend the Trump administration for taking this critical action to enforce federal law and correct this supreme injustice to the people and employers of California.”

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CALABASAS – As the world mourned the loss of basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others killed in a tragic helicopter crash Jan. 26, many recalled how Bryant gave much credit to his Catholic faith for seeing him through the bad times and strengthening his marriage and family.

A shooting guard, Bryant was drafted into the NBA at age 17 and played his entire 20-season career with the Los Angeles Lakers. He entered the NBA directly from high school and won five NBA championships.

He retired at the end of the 2015-2016 season.

News of Bryant’s death quickly prompted tributes on social media. On Twitter, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said “he was sad to hear the news” and offered prayers for him and his family.

In Rome for his region’s “ad limina” visit with Pope Francis, Archbishop Gomez told Catholic News Service Jan. 27 that Bryant “was a very good Catholic, a faithful Catholic” and recalled meeting the famed basketball player on several occasions.

“I remember one time going to the Lakers’ practice, and I had a good conversation with him,” Archbishop Gomez told CNS. “We are praying for the eternal repose of his soul, his daughter who also died and for the family. It must be a very challenging time for his family. So, let’s pray for him and pray for his family.”

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Retired NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, 13, were among nine people killed Jan. 26, 2020, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. The two Catholics are pictured during a recent game in Las Vegas.

in Italy. He and his wife, Vanessa, married at St. Edward Catholic Church in Dana Point, California, and raised their children Catholic. Bryant is survived by his wife and three other daughters. Gianna, also known as “GiGi,” was the couple’s second oldest daughter.

One of the darkest periods in his personal life happened in 2003 – when he was accused of raping a young woman while he was staying at a mountain resort hotel in Colorado; he was in the state for knee surgery and was staying near Vail in Eagle, Colorado.

He was arrested on a rape charge.

He denied he had raped her but admitted that the two had consensual sex. The charges were eventually dropped. In 2004, his accuser filed a civil suit against him and in 2005 Bryant settled with her out of court for an undisclosed sum.

His marriage almost ended over it. In a GQ interview in 2015, he said he relied on his Catholic faith to get him through – and talking to a priest was “the turning point.”

“The one thing that really helped me during that process – I’m Catholic, I grew up Catholic, my kids are Catholic – was talking to a priest. It was actually kind of funny: He looks at me and says, ‘Did you do

it?’ And I say, ‘Of course not.’ Then he asks, ‘Do you have a good lawyer?’ And I’m like, ‘Uh, yeah, he’s phenomenal.’ So then he just said, ‘Let it go. Move on.

God’s not going to give you anything you can’t handle, and it’s in his hands now. This is something you can’t control. So let it go.’ And that was the turning point.”

Law enforcement officials identified the other passengers on the helicopter, who also perished: the pilot, Ara Zobayan; John Altobelli, head baseball coach at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, his wife, Keri, and their daughter Alyssa; Christina Mauser, a basketball coach at Harbor Day School in Newport Beach, California, where Gianna Kobe attended school; Sarah Chester and her daughter Payton, who was of middle school age.

USA Today reported the group was traveling in Bryant’s private helicopter to the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, California, for a girls basketball game. Bryant was expected to coach and Gianna was expected to play. The crash occurred around 10 a.m. local time; law enforcement officials said there were foggy conditions in the hills overlooking Calabasas, which is in Los Angeles County.

Among tributes to Bryant flooding the internet was a remembrance by Instagram user Cristina Ballestero, who described seeing Bryant at a weekday Mass at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange, California.

She recalled looking up to see the basketball star sitting in her pew, but she managed to “stay focused on Jesus, not this insanely talented basketball player my whole family has looked up to and watched our whole lives.”

“As we went up to Communion, he waited for me to go,” she recalled, adding that he complimented her on having a “beautiful voice” in singing the Mass hymns.

“His most inspiring trait was his decision to turn to his faith in God and receive God’s mercy and to be a better man after a regretful decision,” Ballestero wrote, referring to the GQ article. “I am heartbroken at the news of his death alongside his daughter Gianna. My prayers go out to his family, friends and loved ones.”

She also noted all the good works Kobe and his wife have done through their foundation and several other charities they are involved in and donate money to.

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POPE: Francis, US bishops talk about polarization infecting the church FROM PAGE 1

political divisions within the United States and how some of that divisive rhetoric is seen within the church as well.

Some bishops “brought up the polarization in society and how this is affecting the church,” he said. One bishop described for the pope “how as a society, you know, we’re more and more divided, and people attack each other.”

Pope Francis said something similar is “sometimes happening in the church when different factions try to find something to attack people on personally, and so the Holy Father spoke about this politicization of pastoral life,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

“We are constantly challenged to get the message across that we’re not a political party and we don’t follow a political platform with the issues,” the archbishop said. “On some issues, one party is more favorable to what we understand is for the common good and, on other issues, another party might be more favorable.”

Pope Francis told the bishops “that in a political system where there are only two parties, there’s more of a tendency to be this way,” the archbishop said. “He wasn’t picking on us because as, he said, it’s the same thing in Argentina, where they have a two-party system, and he sees it happening in his country.”

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said the issue of migration was among the topics discussed with the pope, who told them “how it’s important for all of us in the church to be open and welcome immigrants.”

The pope, he said, “gave us some ideas on how to continue helping people to understand the reality of immigration,” but also spoke about how increasing polarization on the issue is found not only in the United States but in many parts of the world.

“He insisted to us that it is important to see the need for dialogue between people and to understand that we all are children of God,” Archbishop Gomez told Catholic News Service.

Pope Francis also spoke to the bishops about the importance of youth ministry in the church and the need for bishops “to understand the reality of this new generation” that is “interested in action, in helping other people” as part of their participation in the life of the church, the archbishop said.

In a phone interview with Catholic San Francisco Archbishop Cordileone said he had attended previous “ad limina” meetings with Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. John Paul II met with each bishop one-on-one, and Benedict had a short group meeting.

With Pope Francis, “It was very extended,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “He just opened for anyone to ask anything we wanted to, and when anyone said something he had a rather lengthy reflection.”

At one point during the dialogue, the pope mentioned the theme of Our Lady of Guadalupe, echoing the gift the archbishop had presented to the Holy Father from the archdiocese: A hand-bound, leather volume of the score of Frank LaRocca’s recently composed “Mass of the Americas” in honor of Mexico’s patron saint.

“We all love Our Lady and she’s the one who unites us in the family of God,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

Archbishop Gomez told CNS that the pope also “insisted that young people have an attraction to the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.”

“We need to have places where they can come and be in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and, at the same time, understand that what they want is to be active in taking care of the homeless, serving people in different situations and going out and making a difference,” the archbishop said.

The pastoral care of LGBT Catholics was another topic Pope Francis spoke about, Archbishop Cordileone said. “He spoke about the pastoral care that we have to give” and the need to understand the suffering many of them have endured, including being shunned by their families.

“He made important distinctions between the (sexual) orientation and the question of marriage,” for example saying it was important to ensure gay couples have access to public benefits, but insisting gay couples cannot marry, the archbishop said.

“Marriage is unique; marriage, by its nature, is complementarity between man and woman. And he spoke about the danger of the gender ideology and

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Pope Francis meets with bishops from California, Hawaii and Nevada during their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican Jan. 27, 2020.

The bishops were making their “ad limina” visits to report on the status of their dioceses to the pope and Vatican officials.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and bishops from California, Hawaii and Nevada , including retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, concelebrate Mass in the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica during their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican Jan. 27, 2020. how it denies difference,” the diversity with which God created human beings male and female.

Bishop Larry Silva of Honolulu told CNS he took advantage of the pope’s invitation to ask for clarifications about things he has said.

The bishop said he asked the pope to talk more about what he means when he says Catholics must evangelize, but not proselytize.

“We’re closing parishes, we’re merging parishes, and so the problem is that we are not really good as Catholics about evangelization,” he said he told the pope.

“I said, ‘You’ve said many things about evangelization and how it is the essence of the church’s mission, but you have also talked ... against proselytizing, and I am a little confused about the distinction,” the bishop explained.

While the pope answered in Italian through a translator, the bishop said: “I have to say I am still a little confused about his distinction. I don’t know if he answered it directly.”

However, he said what he gathered from the exchange is that the pope does not see evangelization as merely getting people to sign up. “Signing up isn’t the point, it’s knowing Jesus and serving Jesus and his people, and I think those are the key issues.”

Bishop Silva told Catholic News Service the distinction is important because his experience has shown that “when you say, don’t proselytize, it almost discourages evangelization,” because most Catholics think evangelization is bringing people to

church, “opening the doors, being hospitable, having good liturgies, having good programs for them.”

“I think the Holy Father emphasizes, yes, those things are important, but they are not evangelization,” the bishop said. “We need to let Jesus out of the church so that he can touch people’s lives who wouldn’t be touched by the church.”

The Catholic Church has programs for people of all ages, but only “if people come to us,” he said. “If they don’t come to us, then we have really nothing for them.”

Catholics could be creative and think of nonchurch venues for catechetical events, he said.

“For example, you could reserve a room in the parish to hold (Bible study) in or you could have it at Starbucks or Denny’s or wherever so that you make people curious about what you are doing and maybe attract some others who might not otherwise find themselves in the parish,” he said.

Pope Francis, he said, “absolutely” wants the church to grow, “but he thinks that growing the church means getting out” and sharing the Gospel by example and by word.

Bishop Silva said some bishops also asked the pope about increasing incidents of suicide and the need to give needed attention to people with mental health issues.

One bishop “even suggested to the Holy Father that he might write a pastoral letter about that issue because it’s an epidemic in many places. And the pope said, ‘I will give that some thought and it could very well be a helpful thing for me to write about.’”

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SUNDAY READINGS

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord MALACHI 3:1-4 Thus says the Lord God: Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; and suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek, and the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts. But who will endure the day of his coming?

And who can stand when he appears? For he is like the refiner’s fire, or like the fuller’s lye. He will sit refining and purifying silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, Refining them like gold or like silver that they may offer due sacrifice to the Lord. Then the sacrifice of Judah and Jerusalem will please the Lord, as in the days of old, as in years gone by.

PSALM 24:7, 8, 9, 10 Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

Lift up, O gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals that the king of glory may come in!

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

Who is this king of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle.

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

Lift up, O gates, your lintels; reach up, you ancient portals that the king of glory may come in!

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

Who is this king of glory? The Lord of hosts; he is the king of glory.

Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!

HEBREWS 2:14-18 Since the children share in blood and flesh, Jesus likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life.

Surely he did not help angels but rather the descendants of Abraham; therefore, he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every way, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest before God to expiate the sins of the people. Because he himself was tested through what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

LUKE 2:22-32 When the days were completed for their purifi-

cation according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord, and to offer the sacrifice of a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons, in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord. Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.

This man was righteous and devout, awaiting the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord. He came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to perform the custom of the law in regard to him, he took him into his arms and blessed God, saying: “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in the sight of all the peoples: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.”

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consumed a daily supply of food and water -- their horses and donkeys as well. Soldiers plundered the locals’ flocks of sheep and goats, pillaged fruit trees and vegetable gardens, hewed trees for firewood, seized grain supplies, and commandeered wells, streams and aqueducts. After their victory, the Roman troops withdrew, but left an irreversible devastation of forests and farmland, uninhabitable for miles around Jerusalem. Ravines littered with trash stank of animal carcasses.

Luke writes his Gospel about 15 years after this disaster. The memory of the trauma was still as fresh as 9/11 for New Yorkers. The gentile-majority Christian communities for whom Luke wrote his Gospel included Jewish-born survivors of the Jerusalem cataclysm, their children, as well as relatives and neighbors of Judeans who’d lost everything.

By dramatic contrast, Luke physically associates Jesus with a serene, holy ritual in the then-standing Temple at Jerusalem. The evangelist revives a scene 70 years before the Roman cataclysm. Simeon and Anna, observant elders, stand for the righteous and devout Jewish community into which Jesus was born, and the holy, noble religious tradition in which he was raised.

Simeon “awaits the consolation of Israel.” It’s actually a political statement -- he hopes for the deliverance of Israel from decades of Roman oppression so Jews as a free nation can practice their religion without fear. Simeon embodies a believer who holds onto his spiritual vision despite political oppression and religious scandals. The Holy Spirit moves Simeon to place confidence in God that a holy destiny lies ahead. He surrenders his life to his master. He praises God’s salvation as “a light

for the revelation of the Gentiles” -- a redemption also for non-Jews, who include those very Romans who are the enemies and oppressors. Simeon’s “Nunc Dimittis” (“Now you can dismiss me”) prayer sums up Luke’s vision of God’s mercy and unstoppable power to rewrite the story of people who have lost everything. The child Jesus embodies this divine love lighting up the whole world.

Simeon’s blessing of Mary does not protect her from pain. Rather, out of women’s suffering will be worked God’s redemption -- relief of emotional burdens carried by people with painful memories, healing their minds -- “so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Anna the prophetess had lived in the Temple for a life-time. She knew firsthand the secret abuses and cover ups by Temple staff, the corruption and scandalous behavior of priests, along with their graft and theft of funds for personal gain. She witnessed the infighting, theo-political schisms, and revolt of a large group of priests who exited the Temple in protest against the connivers and compromisers with Roman authorities. She would have known the anguish and shame of families of priests who resigned their service, who’d retreated to the desert at Qumran. “But she never left the Temple.” She lives in a spirit of gratitude, hope for deliverance and confidence that God is redeeming the faithful and their nation.

The presentation scene inspires believers who live their faith today without blinders.

Ordinary Time. SIR 47:2-11. PS 18:31, 47 and 50, 51.

LK 8:15. MK 6:14-29.

Lady of Lourdes. 1 KGS 8:22-23, 27-30. PS 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11. PS 119:36, 29b. MK 7:1-13.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4: Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. 2 SM 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30–19:3. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. MT 8:17. MK 5:21-43.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8: Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Jerome Emiliani, priest; St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin.

1 KGS 3:4-13. PS 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. JN 10:27.

MK 6:30-34.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12: Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 10:1-10. PS 37:56, 30-31, 39-40. JN 17:17b, 17a. MK 7:14-23.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5: Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr. 2 SM 24:2, 9-17. PS 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7. JN 10:27. MK 6:1-6.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. IS 58:7-10. PS 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 1 COR 2:1-5.

JN 8:12. MT 5:13-16.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6: Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs. 1 KGS 2:1-4, 10-12.

1 CHRONICLES 29:10, 11ab, 11d-12a, 12bcd. MK 1:15. MK 6:7-13.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10: Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin. 1 KGS 8:1-7, 9-13. PS 132:6-7, 8-10. MT 4:23. MK 6:53-56.

was on a transcontinental flight in 2003, two years after 9/11. A man seated next to me worked at the Federal Bank in Kansas. Two of his colleagues had died in the terrorist attack that brought down the Twin Towers in New York, killed 3,000, wounded thousands more, devastated the city, and shocked the world. The national trauma had touched him personally, even though he lived a half-continent away.

Years after the Roman military’s destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D., almost every Jew living in the Levant knew a family or neighbor whose relatives had perished in the four-month siege of JerusaSISTER ELOISE lem by an estimated 48,000 ROSENBLATT, RSM Roman troops. The Temple had been razed, retaining walls dismantled, priests sworded in cold blood, the treasury robbed, liturgical life upended. Deliberately set fires consumed multiple banks of housing. Once the city walls were breached, terrorized inhabitants could not escape -- the aged, sick and disabled, parents with infants and children, pregnant women. The ablebodied who escaped death or capture fled to the north, east or south as war refugees. The siege left the entire Judean countryside an ecological wasteland. Thousands of encamped troops had

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a theologian and attorney in private practice in family law. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3: Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; St. Ansgar, bishop. 2 SM 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13. PS 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. LK 7:16. MK 5:1-20.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7: Friday of the Fourth Week in

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11: Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13: Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 11:4-13. PS 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40. JAS 1:21bc. MK 7:24-30.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14: Memorial of Sts. Cyril, monk and St. Methodius, bishop. 1 KGS 11:29-32; 12:19. PS 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15. ACTS 16:14b.

MK 7:31-37.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15: Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 12:26-32; 13:33-34.

PS 106:6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22. MT 4:4b. MK 8:1-10.

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Inadequacy, hurt and reconciliation

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ven with the best intentions, even with no malice inside us, even when we are faithful, we sometimes cannot not hurt each other. Our human situation is simply too complex at times for us not to wound each other.

Here’s an example: Soren Kierkegaard, who spent his whole life FATHER RON trying to be ROLHEISER scrupulously faithful to what God was calling him to, once hurt a woman very deeply. As a young man, he had fallen in love with a woman, Regine, who, in return, loved him deeply. But as their marriage date approached, Kierkegaard was beset with an internal crisis, one both psychological and moral, within which he discerned that their marriage would, long range, be the cause for deep unhappiness for both of them and he called off the engagement. That decision hurt Regine, deeply and permanently. She never forgave him and he, for his part, was haunted for the rest of his life by the fact that he had hurt her so badly. Initially, he wrote her a number of letters trying to explain his decision and apologizing for hurting her, hoping for her understanding and forgiveness.

Eventually, he gave up, even as he wrote page after page in his private journals second-guessing himself,

We sometimes hurt each other as deeply through being faithful as through being unfaithful, albeit in a different way.

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castigating himself, and then, conversely, trying to justify himself again and again in his decision not to marry her.

Nearly 10 years after that fateful decision, with Regine now married to someone else, he spent weeks trying to draft the right letter to her – asking for forgiveness, offering new explanations for his actions, and begging for another chance to talk with her. He struggled to find the right words, something that might bring about an understanding. He finally settled on this letter: Cruel I was, that is true. Why? Indeed, you do not know that.

Silent I have been, that is certain.

Only God knows what I have suffered – may God grant that I do not, even now, speak too soon after all!

Marry I could not. Even if you were still free, I could not.

However, you have loved me, as I have you. I owe you much – and now you are married. All right, I offer you for the second time what I can and dare and ought to offer you: reconciliation.

I do this in writing in order not to surprise or overwhelm you. Perhaps my personality did once have too strong an effect; that must not happen again. But for the sake of God in heaven, please give serious consideration to whether you dare become involved in this, and if so, whether you prefer to speak with me at once or would rather exchange some letters first.

If the answer is ‘No’ – would you then please remember for the sake of a better world that I took this step as well.

In any case, as in the beginning so until now, sincerely and completely devotedly, your S.K. (Clare Carlisle, “The Heart of a Philosopher,” Penguin, 2019, p. 215) Well, the answer was ‘no’. He had enclosed his letter in another letter which he sent to her husband, asking him to decide whether or not to give it to his wife. It was returned unopened, accompanied by an angry note, his offer of reconciliation was bitterly rejected.

What’s the moral here? Simply this: We hurt each other; sometimes through selfishness, sometimes through carelessness, sometimes through infidelity, sometimes through cruel intention, but sometimes too when there is no selfishness, no carelessness, no betrayal, no cruelty of intention – but only the cruelty of circumstance, inadequacy, and human limit. We sometimes hurt each other as deeply through being faithful as through being unfaithful, albeit in a different way. But irrespective of whether there’s moral fault, betrayal, or an intended cruelty, there’s still deep hurt, sometimes so deep that, this side of eternity, no healing will take place.

Would that it be otherwise. Would that Kierkegaard could have explained himself so fully that Regine would have understood and forgiven him, would that each of us could explain ourselves so fully that we would be always understood and forgiven, and would that all of our lives could end like a warm-hearted movie where, before the closing credits, everything is understood and reconciled.

But that’s not the way it always ends; indeed, that’s not even the way it ended for Jesus. He died being looked at as a criminal, as a religious blasphemer, as someone who had done wrong. His offer of reconciliation was also returned unopened, accompanied by a bitter note.

I once visited a young man who was dying of cancer at age 56.

Already bedridden and in hospice care, but with his mind still clear, he shared this: “I am dying with this consolation: If I have an enemy in this world, I don’t know who it is.

I can’t think of a single person that I need to be reconciled with.”

Few of us are that lucky. Most of us are still looking at some envelopes that have been returned unopened.

Like many educators associated with Mercy High School, San Francisco, I was beyond sad to hear of its closing. I was a counselor there, and before I worked at Mercy, I had no idea about working in a school environment of all girls.

How amazed I was at what a single gender environment, free of male influence, could do for the girls’ identity, confidence and all around well-being. I was most impressed by the girls saying what needed to be said, without pressure or anxiety at what someone would think. What freedom of thought filled those classrooms.

Mercy Sisters set that example.

No makeup needed to fit in, no trendy clothes to be bought. Just girls being real and who they were in the moment. Admittedly, they could take or leave the uniforms, but by the end of their senior year, they were glad not to have had to think about what to wear each day and had connected deeply to lifelong friends.

I told who ever would listen, that in my 30-plus years of being an educator in multiple schools, and a mother who raised boys, that Mercy was my absolute favorite because of what they provided young women in areas of leadership, spirituality, academics, the arts and theater, technology, sports and so much more. Go Skippers!

I traveled from Novato to San Francisco every day, rain or shine, just to work there. It was my choice. When I left, I called regularly to say how much I missed everyone, intelligent faculty, administration, staff, and, most especially, the girls.

I never really got over that remarkable experience. Never. How I will miss this awesome place. A place just for girls.

Margaret Franz-Costello Novato

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

Thank you for the wonderful article in this week’s Catholic San Francisco Catholic Schools Week insert (Jan. 16) on how schoolparish partnerships promote faith.

I was proud to see St. Hilary Parish included so positively. We were quite happy with the article and how our school-parish partnership was well positioned. I love how Father Andrew Ginter was quoted both for Marin Catholic and for St. Hilary. We have proudly displayed our copy at the reception desk of the school for all to see. I also shared it with Paula Pitcher, our school family quoted in the article. These types of articles are important for all parishes to value their relationship with their parish schools and vice versa.

Lidiette Ratiani Tiburon

The bullies and that book

mmediately after news broke on Jan. 12 that retired Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had written a book on the crisis of the priesthood in the 21st-century church, online hysteria erupted –– which rather underscored the prudence of a New Year’s resolution I had GEORGE WEIGEL recommended to concerned Catholics in a Jan. 1 column: “Resolve to limit your exposure to the Catholic blogosphere.”

The extraordinary venom spewed at the pope emeritus and the cardinal by more than a few commentators did not advance the church’s discussion of the reform of the priesthood one jot or tittle.

It actually retarded that urgent discussion, diverting attention from

some urgent issues (including the deep roots of the abuse crisis and the meaning of clerical celibacy) by treating a serious book as if it were a partisan political tract.

Yet the cacophony over the Benedict/Sarah book, “From the Depths of Our Hearts,” did serve two useful purposes: it spoke volumes about the character of the venomous, and it clarified some of the dynamics roiling the church as the pontificate of Pope Francis approaches its seventh anniversary on March 13.

The attack on Pope Benedict was exceptionally nasty –– and deeply ill-informed. One prominent partisan of the current pontificate opined that Benedict is “conscious barely half an hour at a time;” another wizard from the left field bleachers had it that Benedict was “incapacitated.” Neither man has the faintest idea of what he’s talking about. I spent a full 45 minutes with Pope Benedict this past Oct. 19, discussing a broad range of issues. He was quite frail physically,

LETTERS Memories of Mercy SF, ‘this awesome place’

but in the early evening of what I assume had been a normal day, he was completely lucid, quite well-informed, eager for new information, full of good humor, and able to recall themes and personalities from conversations we had had decades earlier. The pope emeritus seemed clear as a bell, intellectually, at age 92; can the same be said for those who, relying on “reports,” dismiss him as a senile old man, out of touch with events and perhaps even reality?

The attack on Cardinal Sarah was equally vicious and just as ill-informed. I have had the honor of knowing the Guinean cardinal for several years and, like anyone who has spent significant time with him, I have found him a man of profound holiness: a truly converted disciple of Jesus Christ whose ministry flows from his radical fidelity to the Lord. Despite the caricatures perpetrated by those who evidently fear his present and SEE WEIGEL, PAGE 14

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What I learned on the pond: Reckoning with winter

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he snow has begun. It is expected to last 18 hours, piling nine inches high and crippling weekend plans. The streets are emptying, the collective dash to the grocery store completed.

But here in our cul-de-sac, the party is about to begin.

One of the dads will start shoveling, another will join in, and soon the pond will be packed. Kids will skate.

Adults will hover around the fire pit. And our neighborhood will hum, knit together in a timeless winter scene.

By virtue of being a CHRISTINA journalist in Minnesota, I’ve CAPECCHI picked up the cold-weather beat. It’s a simple story that never gets old. Year after year, on the most frigid days, editors call from New York asking how people here are coping.

How are the mail carriers? The homeless shelters? The commuters waiting at the bus stop? The babies shuttled off to day care?

I bundle up and head out, removing my mittens just long enough to scribble in my legal pad. I look for new angles: the priest who still celebrated morning Mass at the cathedral, the frozen holy water.

I cover the cold for parenting magazines, offering “25 winter activities for toddlers” and “5 mama-tested hats.” Reviews of outdoor gear

There is a metaphor here for Christian fellowship. God introduces us to others when we are in the greatest need.

We bond in places we do not want to be: a long line at the DMV, a hospital waiting room, a support group. (hand warmers, neck gaiters, Yaktrax, Gore-tex) are interspersed with survival tips for weary parents (the easiest boots for preschoolers, mittens connected by a string).

There is, however, a winter story I’ve never before written, and it’s my favorite one: the tale of our neighborhood pond.

Most of the year, the small pond at the foot of our cul-de-sac goes unnoticed. Rimmed by poplars and coated by algae, it is unremarkable, beyond our scope. Turtles sun bathe on the edge. Mallards dive down the middle. We drive on by, distracted, to get the mail, to get home, to get on with the day.

But when the winter arrives and the temperature plunges, the pond freezes over, creating a communal gathering space. Tending to our hockey rink becomes a joint endeavor. Matt hooks up the lights, and Curt, in the closest house, covers the tab. John carries down his hose, spraying hot water to smooth the ice. We all take turns shoveling.

Hockey nets, benches and a fire pit emerge. It is shared property, with hockey sticks and shovels left on the snow, at the ready. Multiple toddlers have learned to skate in the same pair of size 6 skates. They climb snow mounds, making potions out of berries.

As the sun drops, it casts long purple shadows through barren branches. Some nights we turn on a movie projector and cook hot dogs. Once a sled turned into a platter for Cheetos, gobbled up by young skaters.

The pond smells like bonfire and sounds like Nick Drake’s song “Northern Sky,” and it feels good. Together, we have learned to not just endure the winter but embrace it. We have discovered what happens when everyone comes out to pitch in, that the sum is greater than the parts.

Our rink operates only on the darkest, coldest days, when we most need community. We gather not in spite of the chill but because of it. The ice connects us.

There is a metaphor here for Christian fellowship. God introduces us to others when we are in the greatest need. We bond in places we do not want to be: a long line at the DMV, a hospital waiting room, a support group.

Together we find a way to make do, to keep moving while others freeze. And we trust that winter has its purpose, that beneath the snow, God is doing big and mighty things.

CHRISTINA CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.

The assassination of General Soleimani

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he U.S. government, the U.S. Central Command, the United Nations, and the European Union certified that Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps supported the civil war engineered by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and for killing more than 500 U.S. service members in Iraq between 2005 and 2011.

U.S. intelligence also linked him to the 2011 assassination attempt of Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. Evidence is clear that FATHER GERALD Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands D. COLEMAN, PSS of Americans over an extended period and plotting to kill many more. The White House unambiguously says that he was the mastermind behind attacks on Americans during the past two decades. The U.S. charges Soleimani for killing at least 603 American service members in Iraq, in addition to thousands of others in the region.

On Dec. 27, 2019, a barrage of rockets killed an American contractor and wounded four service

members on a base in northwestern Iraq. According to U.S. intelligence, this attack was led

by Soleimani. U.S. forces responded on Dec. 29 with strikes on five targets in Iraq and Syria.

On Dec. 31, 2019, Iraqi forces began storming the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, with militia members attempting to enter the embassy, starting fires, and damaging a reception area.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that Iran was planning additional attacks which demand “preemptive action” to protect American forces and American lives. The Pentagon confirmed these assertions and stated that Soleimani was “actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.”

Senior administration officials reported that President Trump endorsed the killing of Soleimani seven months ago considering his increased aggression against Americans.

Subsequently, President Trump authorized the assassination of Soleimani on Jan. 3, 2020. He was killed by a U.S. Reaper drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport.

Soleimani‘s assassination sharply escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Five days after the killing, Iran launched a series of missile attacks on U.S. forces based in Iraq.

The assassination of Soleimani seems defensible considering the violence, killing and terror he masterminded. However, we must raise certain moral concerns. The Catholic just war doctrine holds that the use of military force is justifiable only in response to an active, ongoing attack causing significant and immediate harm, or in response to a dangerous threat that is certain and imminent. A military response must also have the probability of successfully advancing peace. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani have vowed to take revenge by “harsh retaliation.”

The assassination is interpreted by some as an act of war. However, Congressional authorization was not sought, and this violates the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, Washington made no appeal to the United Nations Security Council which countries normally do when embassies are under attack. There are too many serious concerns surrounding this assassination to simply jump to the conclusion that it was morally justified.

SULPICIAN FATHER GERALD D. COLEMAN is adjunct professor, Graduate Department of Pastoral Ministries, Santa Clara University.

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future influence in the church, Cardinal Sarah has also struck me as a man of Christian joy, still amazed at the grace of God that has been at work in his life, and therefore able to laugh (in that robust way that only Africans can) at the human foibles of the moment. Cardinal Sarah was not laughing, however, at the claim that he had lied about the origin and nature of From the depths of our hearts –– and his righteous, if controlled, anger confirmed what those who actually know him understand: This is an honest man.

These calumnies against Benedict and Sarah were amplified by another absurd charge: That

by discharging their minds and consciences on what is necessary for an authentic reform of the priesthood, the pope emeritus and the cardinal were somehow interfering with Pope Francis’ “discernment” after the Amazonian synod of this past October. So it has now come down (and I do mean down) to this: The partisans of openness and dialogue are now telling two of Catholicism’s most distinguished sons that their views are unwelcome; that the theological and pastoral defense of clerical celibacy is an act of disloyalty to Pope Francis; and that they should just shut up.

These are not the tactics of advocates convinced that they have won the substantive argument and are likely to continue winning. These

are the tactics of those who, fearful that time is running out, imagine that their only recourse is to resort to bullying.

There is nothing of churchmanship in this, nor is there anything of Christian charity. The reform of the priesthood is essential for the evangelizing mission of the church. Those who dismissed a serious proposal for such reform, in large part by vilifying its authors, branded themselves as less interested in reforming the priesthood of the New Covenant than in ecclesiastical power-games.

GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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Abuse happens within women’s orders, too, cardinal says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Sexual abuse and the abuse of authority have occurred and are occurring within religious orders of women and must be addressed with transparency and boldness, said Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

In addition to cases of priests abusing women religious, “there are starting to appear cases of sexual abuse among sisters,” for example, Cardinal Joao a sister in charge of formation abusBraz de Aviz ing novices, he told “Chiesa Donna Mondo,” the Vatican newspaper’s monthly women’s magazine.

“In one congregation, there have been reports of nine cases,” he said in an interview for the magazine’s February edition. “This phenomenon that touches the world of women has remained more hidden, but it’s coming out; it must come out.”

Cardinal Braz de Aviz said that in investigating cases it appears that the level of “affective and sexual” maturity of some of the women “is weak, is relative.

If accusations are made, we accept them and begin to discern. Many things are true, many not, but we cannot hide any problem. The pope asks us for total transparency.”

The Brazilian cardinal also told the magazine that there is a Vatican-supported home in Rome for foreign women who have been dismissed from religious congregations and have nowhere else to turn.

The issue came up in the context of questions to the cardinal about the abuse of power within some orders of women religious.

While being told to leave an order always is difficult, he said, sometimes the women “are completely abandoned. But things are changing. The most significant thing is the pope’s decision to open a home in Rome to take in from the streets some sisters sent away by us or by their superiors.”

The cardinal said he has visited the home, staffed by the Scalabrinian sisters. “I found there a world of wounds, but also hope. There are many difficult cases in which the superiors kept the documents (passports) of the sisters who wanted to leave the convent or who were sent away,” making it difficult or impossible for them to return home or access social services.

“There even was a case of prostitution by one trying to support herself. A former nun!” he said.

The cardinal praised the Scalabrinian sisters who “have assumed care of this little group. Some of the cases are truly difficult because we are dealing with wounded people with whom one must rebuild trust.”

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The abuse of authority in women’s orders can be a problem, he said, as can the abuse of financial resources. The congregation has been working with religious orders to promote a healthy sense of obedience and exercise of authority as well as to educate the religious about the proper use of money and other resources.

In some women’s orders, the leaders have “extraordinary power,” he said. “We’ve had cases – fortunately only a few – where superiors general, once elected, refused to give up their place. They bypassed all the rules. One even changed the (order’s) constitution to remain superior general until her death.”

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school in San Francisco, we must also consider the long-term market demand for single-gender education,” Currier’s announcement said. “Please know, there is zero chance of Archbishop Riordan High School closing its doors. Riordan is in a position of spiritual, financial, and academic strength. We have had continued dialogue over the past week to explore the possibility with our community, and will continue to seek input from all.”

Though it might be inferred that the coeducational

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“Our board of trustees voted unanimously in support of finding more information and pursuing the possibility further, after many hours of deliberation,” the announcement said. “Our students and teachers were given an opportunity to discuss topics related to coeducation. We also held a meeting with our Parent Board and held a general session on the topics.”

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GOD’S WORD BRINGS LIGHT TO LIFE’S DARK CORNERS, POPE SAYS AT MASS

VATICAN CITY – God’s saving word doesn’t seek pristine and safe places to reside but instead goes in search of the dark corners of people’s lives that it can brighten, Pope Francis said.

By taking his ministry to the “periphery” of Galilee, Jesus proves that God “wants to visit the very places we think he will never go,” the pope said in his homily Jan. 26 during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Jesus “is not afraid to explore the terrain of our hearts and to enter the roughest and most difficult corners of our lives. He knows that his mercy alone can heal us, his presence alone can transform us and his word alone can renew us,” he said.

The Mass marked the first Sunday of the Word of God, an annual celebration Pope Francis has set for the third Sunday in Ordinary Time. In his Sept.

30 declaration of the day, the pope said it would be devoted “to the celebration, study and dissemination of the word of God,” which will help the church “experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world.”

World often ignores migrant workers’ plight, Catholic advocates say People who cross international borders to work often face appalling exploitation, yet this is mostly shrugged off by citizens in host countries, said a U.S. bishops’ conference participant at a global migration meeting in Quito, Ecuador.

“Labor trafficking is common and people tend to underestimate the damage this causes,” said Hilary Chester, associate director for anti-trafficking programs in the bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services.

“Migrants and their families invest in jobs,” she said, noting that with fees paid to labor contractors, migrant laborers “start their jobs in debt and, with their visas tied to that job, they can’t quit.”

Unscrupulous employers take advantage of migrants’ vulnerability, “yet we find people saying, ‘at least they’re better off than they would be in their own countries,’” Chester told Catholic News Service.

She was one of more than 250 civil society leaders from around the world who attended the Jan. 21-24

Global Forum on Migration and Development. The theme of this annual meeting – for governments, local authorities, businesses and faith and civil society organizations – was “Sustainable approaches to human mobility: upholding rights, strengthening state agency and advancing development through partnerships and collective action.”

AS CORONAVIRUS SPREADS, CHURCHES OUTSIDE CHINA TAKE PREVENTIVE MEASURES

HONG KONG – The Chinese respiratory coronavirus has spread to almost every province in mainland China, which extended its Spring Festival holiday by three days to delay travel by up to 500 million people.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and Thailand are the worst affected outside the mainland, and the Diocese of Hong Kong issued guidelines that included all priests and eucharistic ministers wearing surgical masks while distributing Communion.

In a Jan. 23 statement, the diocese noted the epidemic was only considered “serious.”

“In the event that the epidemic is raised to the ‘emergency’ category, our pastoral guidelines will be revised accordingly,” the statement said.

The diocese noted that hospitals had suspended dayto-day visits and said eucharistic ministers and visitors should abstain from visiting or giving Communion to sick people in hospitals. If a priest is needed for the sacrament of the sick, “he should comply with the directions of the hospital, consult the matron of the ward concerned, and wear a surgical mask. Before leaving the ward, he must wash his hands.”

Diocesan guidelines included cleaning directions – including microphones used by lectors – and instructed people to bow their heads instead of shaking hands during the sign of peace.

POPE, PENCE MEET AT THE VATICAN

VATICAN CITY – After Pope Francis and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met privately for nearly an hour at the Vatican, Pence told the pope that his Roman Catholic mother will be pleased with the visit.

“Thank you, Your Holiness. You have made me a hero,” said Pence, who was raised Catholic but became an evangelical Christian. The vice president, along with his wife Karen and daughter-in-law

Sarah, arrived 10 minutes early for the meeting with the pope Jan. 24. They were welcomed by Msgr.

Leonardo Sapienza, regent of the papal household.

As the pope and Pence sat down in the papal library of the Apostolic Palace, the vice president relayed greetings from U.S. President Donald Trump, who met with the pope in 2017.

“I wanted to extend the warmest greeting on behalf of President Donald Trump who so enjoyed his visit here,” Pence told the pope before reporters were ushered from the room. After speaking with Pence for 59 minutes, with interpreters present, the pope greeted those accompanying the vice president on his visit, including Callista Gingrich, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See; her husband, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; and Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser.

NEW MARTYRS INCLUDE RELIGIOUS PRIESTS, LAITY MARTYRED IN 20TH CENTURY

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis recognized the martyrdom of six religious priests and brothers and seven laypeople who were killed in the 20th century “in hatred of the faith,” clearing the way for their beatification.

The pope approved the decrees during an audience Jan. 23 with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Among the soon-tobe blesseds are three Spanish priests of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and seven laymen who were killed in Guatemala between 1980 and 1991.

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Remembering Holocaust is ‘a duty,’ pope says JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said remembering the millions of men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust is a call for the world today to reflect and commit to not repeating the atrocities of the past.

Speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square Jan. 26, the pope said that “in the face of this immense tragedy, this atrocity, indifference is inadmissible, and remembering is a duty.”

“We are all called to have a moment of prayer and reflection, each one saying in his or her own heart, ‘Never again, never again!’” the pope said.

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The pope has also denounced anti-Semitism and violence against Jewish people, including in November when reports surfaced of an escalation in anti-Semitic violence and vandalism across Europe.

During his weekly general audience Nov. 13, the pope said that the world has “seen so many brutalities done against the Jewish people, and we were convinced that this was over.”

“But today the habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn,” he said. “Brothers and sisters: this is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters and must not be persecuted! Understood?”

Two organizations representing the bishops of Europe also issued a joint statement to mark the anniversary of the liberation of the death camp.

The Council of European Bishops’ Conferences and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union said “Auschwitz has become a symbol of all German concentration camps, and even of all such extermination sites.”

“Here, the Nazis took the power to decide who is human and who is not. Here, euthanasia met with eugenics,” they said. “Auschwitz-Birkenau is a result of the system based on the ideology of national socialism, which meant trampling the dignity of man who is made in the image of God. Another totalitarianism, namely communism, acted quite similarly, also reaching a death toll of millions.”

The bishops said they wished to “appeal to the modern world for reconciliation and peace, for respect for each nation’s right to exist and to freedom, to independence, to maintain its own culture.”

“We cannot allow the truth to be ignored or manipulated for immediate political needs,” said the Jan. 26 statement. “This appeal is extremely important now, for – despite the dramatic experience of the past – the world in which we live is still exposed to new threats and new manifestations of violence.”

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Father Erick Arauz is pictured with parishioners at Sacred Heart Parish in Olema, where he was appointed pastor last July. Some 18 parishioners, including children, attended the 7 p.m. vigil Mass on Jan. 4 and a similar number of parishioners were seen the next day at the other Spanish Mass, while some 30 parishioners usually go to the English Mass each Sunday.

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of Masses in English and Spanish and making the sacraments available.

What happened at Sacred Heart?

Dating to 1891, Sacred Heart Parish is located in one of the most beautiful regions of Marin County, the town of Olema, a rural place surrounded by cattle ranches and a few miles away from tourist spots on the coast.

The silence and the scenic beauty are ideal for a day of prayer, a retreat for clergy, couples or young people and for all kinds of pastoral activities where peace and quiet are an invaluable commodity.

Despite all of this, the constant change of priests in recent years prevented “the establishment of a pastoral and administrative system to build community and raise funds,” said Father Arauz.

Collaboration from other parishes

Father Arauz is also welcoming the support from parishioners in neighboring parishes to launch events that will enable him to raise much needed funds.

Three big events programmed for this year alone will hopefully generate the resources to keep the parish viable and cover the costs of salaries, maintenance and contribute to the annual Archdiocesan Appeal.

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Alma Pech, a parishioner of Our Lady of Loretto in Novato and V Encuentro delegate along with a group of faithful from her parish are lending a hand in the endeavor to serve the pastoral needs of the community in Olema.

“We helped him to organize the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe in December; we helped him financially and with food so he can keep the parish alive,” she said.

Pech is pleased with the help that the Hispanic community of Our Lady of Loretto has been able to provide so far. “Although we have our own parish, we help him (Father Arauz) so that he can keep the parish open and people can have Mass,” she said.

The Our Lady of Loretto community is looking forward to rent space at Sacred Heart for their retreats.

Moreover all quinceañera and wedding celebrations that cannot be accommodated at Our Lady of Loretto are being referred to Olema.

“The place is good for receiving the sacraments and for retreats, it’s an authentic place to meet God on a retreat,” said Pech.

Were it not for Sacred Heart she would not be able to attend Mass at all. The nearest churches are in Tomales and Petaluma – both about 20 minutes from her home. “Sacred Heart is the only parish nearby,” she said.

Although aware that Mass attendance is low it has not always been the case.

She remembers that during the time when Father Jack O’Neill was pastor, the church was full with both members of the Spanish- and English-speaking community. “Since Father O’Neill left, attendance has dropped,” Hernández said.

She also believes that there are still Hispanic Catholics living around Olema, noting that during the festivities for the Virgin of Guadalupe on Dec. 12 the church was full.

But now that fewer parishioners are coming to Mass, it’s difficult to raise funds when food is prepared for sale after Mass. “There’s no one to buy it,” she said.

She is optimistic about the fundraisers Father Arauz has planned for the year. “It can work because people like to party,” Hernández said.

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VATICAN CITY – If many Catholics marry today without fully understanding the permanence of their bond and the grace of the sacrament, it partly is the fault of bishops and priests who did not give them the best teachers – committed married couples filled with the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis said.

In his annual meeting with judges and staff of the Roman Rota, a church marriage tribunal, Pope Francis Jan. 25 said he marveled at the fact that for centuries, the church ignored the example of Aquila and Priscilla, the married couple described in several parts of the New Testament as evangelizing with St. Paul.

“Evangelizing spouses,” the pope said, is “what our parishes need, especially in urban areas where

the pastor and his priest collaborators will never have the time and energy to reach all the faithful who, while calling themselves Christian, do not frequent the sacraments and lack – or almost lack – knowledge of Christ.”

In reforming the process for judging the validity or the nullity of a marriage, the pope said, he insisted on the procedure being marked by pastoral “closeness and gratuity,” which are essential elements of evangelization that St. Paul found Aquila and Priscilla particularly capable of showing. They hosted the Christian communities in their own homes, reached out to draw others in and cared for those in need.

“Christian spouses,” Pope Francis said, “should learn from Aquila and Priscilla how to fall in love with Christ and become neighbors to families deprived of the light of faith, not through their own fault but because they were left at the margins

of our pastoral work – a pastoral work for the elite that forgets people.”

“How I long for this message not to remain just a symphony of words, but to push priests, bishops and pastors to try, like the Apostle Paul did, to love married couples as humble missionaries ready to reach those squares and buildings of our cities where the light of the Gospel and the voice of Jesus don’t reach and don’t penetrate,” the pope said.

In addition, he said, they obviously are the best suited to lead marriage preparation courses.

Catholic married couples, he said, need to step up like Aquila and Priscilla and offer to work with their pastors, “not in an autonomous way, but certainly filled with the courage necessary to wake from lethargy and sleep their pastors who are perhaps too still or blocked by the philosophy of the little circle of the perfect. The Lord came to seek sinners, not the perfect.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 1, at St. Raphael Church, San Rafael with interment Feb. 3, at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Hayward.

Remembrances may be made to Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos 95031-0907.

Church, Ukiah, Old Mission Santa Ines, Solvang, and Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame from where he retired in 2014. He also taught Franciscan History at San Lorenzo Novitiate in Santa Ynez, served as chaplain to several constituencies, and served in Capuchin administrative positions.

“Father Michael James was a man of great intellect who did very humble tasks like cleaning toilets, hanging clothes to dry, mowing lawns and washing dishes,” the Capuchin Friars said in a statement.

“He had a wonderful sense of humor and was very childlike.” Father Michael James was dedicated to the Blessed Mother and prayed the rosary daily, the friars said. “He truly loved his priesthood, his Capuchin Order and the church.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Angels Church Jan. 29 with interment Jan. 30 in the Capuchins’ cemetery at San Lorenzo Friary, Santa Ynez.

Remembrances may be made to the Capuchin Franciscan Order, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame 94010.

OBITUARIES SISTER COLLEEN KERNS, SNJM

Holy Names Sister Colleen Kerns (Sister Miriam Patrice) died Dec. 29, 2019. Sister Colleen was a Sister of the Holy Names for 71 years and 90 years old.

Sister Colleen taught at schools including St. Cecilia, San Francisco; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, and is a former principal of St. Anselm School, San Anselmo. After leaving teaching full-time, Sister Colleen tutored Sister Colleen at Marin Catholic High School for Kerns, SNJM 17 years, and taught music at San Rafael’s St. Raphael and St. Isabella schools.

“From her birth in San Rafael, Sister Colleen’s heart and ministerial life was in Marin County,” the Holy Names Sisters said in a statement. “Her fidelity to her SNJM community, family, friends, and the many organizations to which Sister Colleen belonged was deeply rooted in her love and joy in people, life and music.”

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CEMETERY MASS: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery at 11 a.m. in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel is offered for all those interred at the cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Father Mike Quinn, celebrant. 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Visit holycrosscemeteries.com.

Archdiocese of San Francisco celebrates the women and men religious celebrating jubilees of consecrated life. 10:45 a.m., St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo.

Reception to follow. conrottor@ sfarch.org.

MOSAIC TV: DEACONS: Who and what are permanent deacons? The office of deacon has its roots in the earliest days of Christianity. At 5:30 a.m. on KPIX-Channel 5, CBS Bay Area, Mosaic host John Gray talks with Deacon Michael Ghiorso, director of diaconate ministry and life for the archdiocese, about the roots of and reasons for this unique vocation of service. sfarchdiocese.org/events/ mosaic-deacons.

GRACECENTER BINGO: Good Shepherd Gracenter, a residential recovery center for women at 1310 Bacon St., San Francisco, is looking for volunteers to help host a Feb. 1 bingo lunch, donate bingo prizes and play bingo. (415) 387-9365 to sign up, or visit gsgracenter.org.

‘LAUDATO SI’’ TALK: St. Ignatius Parish hosts a panel discussion and presentation on “Laudato Si’,” an encyclical by Pope Francis that calls all people of the world to take “swift and unified action” against environmental degradation. 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Visit stignatiussf.org or call (415) 422-2188.

OLA CRABFEST: A beloved annual fundraiser for the Our Lady of Angels sports program. No-host cocktails, crab dinner, dancing, party games and more. $75. Our Lady of Angels school gymnasium, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. (650) 347-7768.

PEACE MASS: First Saturday Mass for reparation peace in the world.

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LUNAR NEW YEAR MASS: Join San Francisco’s auxiliary bishops and the Chinese community to celebrate Lunar New Year with Mass and the Ancestors Veneration Ceremony. Following the Mass, a fundraising banquet will be served in Patron’s Hall. 2:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. For banquet tickets, contact Father Peter Zhai, (415) 6145575, zhaip@sfarch.org

ANNIVERSARY MASS: Special Mass celebrating 100 years since the founding of St. Anne School. 11 a.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. Reception and open house to follow. Visit stanne-sf.org or stanne.com.

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HEALING MASS: The Order of Malta’s annual Mass for the World Day of the Sick. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate the Mass and anoint the sick. 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. sfarchdiocese.org/events/ healingmass.

MENTAL HEALTH MINISTRY Informational meetings will be scheduled throughout the archdiocese over the next few months for those interested in learning about the new parishbased Mental Health Ministry Network currently being established. Presenters will answer questions about mental health in general, what kind of ministry opportunities are available and how individual parishes will participate. 7-8:30 p.m. in all locations.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 RESPECT LIFE MASS: Respect Life Essay Contest Awards Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. Valerie Schmalz, (415) 614-5571, schmalzv@ sfarch.org.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS, COLMA Bienvenida “Benie” Abordo Maria Elizabeth Paraino Adorable Pauline Andreoli Rodolfo Arguello George V. Attard Jose Guadalupe Barron Phyllis Baumann Edward R. Bonnett Winifred C. Buckley Richard Cabrera Pio Serito Cano Christine V. Cavazos Stephen Chan Grace Barbara Cinti Claude L. Cochran Margaret “Peggy” Collins Ely Ventura Cornell Mary Rose Coronado Maria Anita Martin Cruz Joseph N. Datu AKA Joe Hank E. Della Wilma Delucchi Joseph Francis Demartini Carol F. Denehy Winifred Dias Manuel M. Dominguez James Francisco EagletonCarballido Jason Matthew Exmeyer Frank P. Fernandez Alzira G. Fisher Charles Floyd James L. Heaney James P. Hendry Concepcion L. Hernandez John G. Hitchcock, Jr. Jose Ivan Ibarra Rosita T. Ilidan Josefina A Iñiguez

Dahlia Suliguin Johnson Shawqi H. Khalaf John A. Kilkeary Genara L. Mandac Alice M. McDevitt Robert Michael McWalters Agnes McWalters Cesar G. Aldana Menjivar Ivan O. Metzgar Fay M. Mingoa Francisco Mingoa Boris A. Miron Laurice I. Mogannam Francisco Crisostomo Montoya Augusta Morgan Clara Mossi Morrissey Manuel Castro Munoz Jesus M. Navarro Norma Garrido O’Keefe Rupert Palacios Joshua Arthur Truth Patricio Christina L. Petteruti Duane I Pickett Gilbert R. Presto Sr. Mary Dorothea Quinn, CSJ Louis E. Ravano, Sr. Salvador Reyes, Sr. Ronald Ricossa Lorraine Rinaldi William A. Robles Rosa E. Rubio Arleen M. Russi William Lee Saltz Maureen Schaefer Dora Schiel Stanley M. Shaw John Michael Shea Felicia Slaviero Mikola Sorokolit Barbara A. Stewart Oliver Storti John N. Sudano

Terence J. Sullivan Nancy Elizabeth Thompson Evelyn Ann Tournahu Anthony P. Tsao John Van Perre George Van Perre Jacqueline Van Perre Gregory Gene Vranizan Kathleen Walker Teresa M. Walsh Leola Paula Weaver Dorene Shannon Will Walter E. Williams Evelyn Wyatt Zeidan Zeidan Homer P. Zuraek

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Louis A. Buehlmann Frances Dorothy Dias Jessica Madrigal Carlos Martinez Patty Murphy Esperanza H. Ortez James L. Schultz

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Steven John Barnes Dennis Bregante Robert Chalmers Henry Darryl Hoffman Stanley Paul Johnson Barnard “Barney” C. Lindemann Sanh Canh Truong

TOMALES John Thomas Collins

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS Saturday, February 1, 2020 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel - 11:00 am Rev. Michael F. Quinn, Celebrant – St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma CA | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA | 650-712-1675 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA | 650-712-1679 St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas, CA | 415-479-9021

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