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Consecrated Life Mass honors 32 religious
The Consecrated Life Mass at St. Matthew Church in San Mateo Feb. 2 honored 32 women and men religious celebrating jubilees this year in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone are, from left, Sister Margarita Ramirez Palacios, OJS; Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, RSM, Sister Bernadette Hart, RSM; Sister Carol Njoku, DMMM; Sister Mary Aloysita, MC; Sister Kathleen Powers, DC; Sister Angeles Marin, RCM; Sister Paulina Simms, RSM; Sister Rosann Fraher, RSM; Sister Maria Mathew, CHF. See Page 3 for more.
VATICAN CITY – Talking about debates, differences and discernment, Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that people focused on the possibility of ordaining some married men and women deacons for service in the Amazon will be disappointed in his apostolic exhortation. The Vatican will release “Querida Amazonia” (Beloved Amazonia), the pope’s postsynodal document, Feb. 12. The document came up Feb. 10 in the two-and-ahalf-hour discussion Pope Francis had with bishops from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, two of the bishops said. The bishops were making their “ad limina” visits to Rome to report on the status of their dioceses. As is his normal practice, Pope Francis told the bishops they could talk about whatever issues they wanted to raise, offering him information, asking him questions or even critiquing him, as long as the critique remained in the room. Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, told Catholic News Service the pope told the bishops: “I want to hear what you have to say. Criticisms, complaints and questions are welcome. That’s how the SEE BISHOPS, PAGE 11
Clergy abuse crisis gets a fresh reading in parish study group NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
A year-and-a-half after the Catholic Church in the U.S. suffered devastating and disheartening revelations of systematic abuse, have Catholics moved on? Months after the coverage of sexual abuse has died down, a group of parishioners convened at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo to discuss it again and how Catholics should respond. Cindy Gherini, a parishioner at St. Gregory, said after now-laicized Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was accused of sexual abuse and a grand jury in Pennsylvania published a report on how state dioceses handled clergy abuse, her parish held a community discussion about what was going on. During that meeting, Gherini said, there was an outpouring of grief and anger. “And then it died after that, so to speak. Nobody led
“He (Bishop Barron) really calls those who read it to take action, do something and be part of the solution. We need to be responsible, too.” SUSAN ARMS, St. Gregory parishioner us forward,” she said. “How much longer can we stay in those emotions and not move forward?” What gave her direction was a short pamphlet written by Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron and published by Word on Fire Catholic Ministries,
“Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis.” According to its preface, Bishop Barron wrote the booklet to support Catholics who are “demoralized, scandalized, angry beyond words and ready to quit.” He gives a spiritual and historical overview of the abuse crisis and urges people to stay and work for a holier church. Gherini said after reading it she decided to form a study group around it at St. Gregory. “I was really amazed how it was written, that it would take us step by step through thoughts and feelings and emotions and lead us in a direction,” she said. The parish handed out free copies of the book to parishioners and a group met for three weeks, during which the half-dozen attendees discussed the text and SEE ABUSE, PAGE 14
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Archbishop Cordileone’s gift of Marian unity to Pope Francis
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Just a year after its premiere, the newly composed Mass setting “Mass of the Americas” has reached the hands of Pope Francis, as Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presented him with a hand-bound copy of the score on Jan. 27 at the Vatican. Archbishop Cordileone said Pope Francis “reacted with a smile and his eyes lit up,” as he received the gift. In a phone interview from Rome, the archbishop explained to him that the Mass setting, which unites popular devotional music from Mexico with sacred polyphony, was being celebrated in cities in the U.S. and Mexico “with the vision of promoting unity among the people on the entire American continent.” Archbishop Cordileone, who was in Rome as part of a delegation of regional (PHOTO BY SERVIZIO FOTOGRAFICO VATICANO) bishops meeting with the pope and Vati- Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presents a hand-bound copy of the score of “Mass of the can officials, said he presented the score Americas” to Pope Francis Jan. 27 at the Vatican. to Pope Francis as a tribute to Our Lady was able to cut across divisions inside to honor Mary along with the church’s of Guadalupe, to whom the pope has a tradition of sacred liturgical music, and the church and society. For the nondevotion, as well as a sign of the imporreligious, she said, “it’s a shared experibridging the two, was another goal of tance of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the ence of beauty which by itself lifts us the setting. history of the church in the Americas. Gallagher said the Mass setting found up and reminds us the sordid ordinary The exquisite, Marian-blue leather world is not all that there is – and that’s a “powerful response” at its premiere book was accompanied by a custom multiplied for people of faith.” and gave them an early inkling of the silk book cover that was modeled after In November, the “Mass of the appeal it held. the vestments made for “Mass of the Americas” accompanied the extraor“We became aware this really had the Americas.” A gold band down the dinary form of Mass at the Basilica of makings of a really interesting center hasChurch diagonal lines&suggestive Goods Candles ReligiouspheGifts & Books the National Shrine of the Immaculate nomenon,” she said. of the pyramids built by indigenous Conception in Washington, D.C. The After its San Francisco premiere Mexicans, and teal trim against the gold event brought together the Latin Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral in December calls to mind the mantle worn by Mary community with Guadalupe devotees, in traditional representations of her mi- 2018, the setting was invited to Tijuana, college students and Catholics from all Mexico and then Houston, Texas, and raculous appearances to St. Juan Diego walks of life. Washington, D.C., where it accompain December 1531 outside what is now 5 locations in California “People came together to experience nied Mass in the extraordinary form. Mexico City. the divine presence of God without who said she had not been Both Archbishop Cordileone and Your Gallagher, Local Store: ideological boxes,” Gallagher said. “particularly a sacred music person” Maggie Gallagher, executive director of 369 Grand Ave.,when S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 she first came to the Benedict XVI “This music reminds us of what the the Benedict XVI Institute, which comNear SF to Airport - Exitsaid 101she Frwy Grand Mass actually is, the miracle of Christ’s Institute, has@ found the music missioned composer Frank La Rocca coming, the enjoyment of communion “very personally powerful.” write “Mass of the Americas,” emphawww.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com with him.” “Every Mass is a miracle and should sized their hope for the Mass setting as “Mass of the Americas” will be bind us together, and there’s something an agent of unity and healing. performed for the first time in Canada very powerful about experiencing this Archbishop Cordileone said the score at Easter. The Basilica of Our Lady of beauty together,” she said. was originally commissioned as a way Guadalupe in Mexico City, the home of “At each stop, we have had the same to bring together the Marian feasts of St. Juan Diego’s tilma or cloak legendexperience of an incredible outpouring the Immaculate Conception and the arily bearing Mary’s image, will host of enthusiasm and unity in this form of Virgin of Guadalupe. the Mass setting on Aug. 15, the feast of prayer, which is always the gift of the “We all love Our Lady and she’s the the Assumption. Holy Spirit but partly a gift of really one who unites us in the one family of great music,” Gallagher added. God,” Archbishop Cordileone said. The beautiful setting, Gallagher said, Incorporating popular Mexican songs RICK DELVECCHIO CONTRIBUTED.
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Vocations led by ‘extravagant love,’ archbishop says CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone framed consecrated life as a love story in his homily at a Feb. 2 Mass marking milestone anniversaries of men and women religious in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “It’s love in the true and deepest sense; love of God and of neighbor, taking the two great commandments with the utmost seriousness,” the archbishop said as celebrant of the World Day of Consecrated Life Mass at St. Matthew Church in San Mateo. The event specially honored religious who have achieved their 25-, 40-, 50-, 60-, 70- and 80-year jubilees since entering consecrated life. Holding lit candles, the parish community filled the pews of St. Matthew, where the annual Mass was held for the first time. Mgsr. John Talesfore, pastor, concelebrated the Mass. Pope John Paul II instituted the World Day of Consecrated Life in 1997. It is held in conjunction with the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas Day. The candles symbolize the light of Christ in the world, what consecrated men and women are called to spread through their “unique witness of selfless service,” according to the U.S. bishops’ website. Ten of 2020’s 31 archdiocesan jubilarians were present at the Mass and publicly renewed their vows before friends and family who gathered at a reception afterward. The archbishop lauded the “heroic sacrifices” of men and women religious who left “everything dear to them” to come to San Francisco to start the city’s first Catholic schools, colleges, hospitals and orphanages. This kind of “extravagant love” is a hallmark of those who embrace consecrated life, he said. “Love follows its own logic, pays no heed to what is practical, easy, or conducive to one’s own comfort and convenience.” “Their act of self-oblation of their whole life bears the fruit of eternal salvation for their brothers and sisters for whom, moved by the Spirit, they lay down their lives in union with Christ,” he said, and thanked them. “What a completely different, and much sadder, place would our archdiocese be without you,” he said. Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, celebrating her 60th jubilee year, offered a reflection on
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Archbishop Cordileone speaks with Sister Daughter of Mary Mother of Mercy Sister Carol I. Ngoku at the reception following the World Day of Consecrated Life Mass Feb. 2 at St. Matthew Church in San Mateo. Sister Ngoku was born in Nigeria and is currently studying law with an interest in human rights and women in conflict. Also pictured is Sister Maria Mathew, who entered the Congregation of the Holy Family 25 years ago and is a registered nurse at the Sisters of the Presentation motherhouse.
how she saw the love described by the archbishop modeled by the Mercy Sisters, who taught her as a child at Holy Name School and later at Mercy High School in San Francisco. By the fourth grade she knew she wanted to be one of them. “The joy of living the Gospel and reaching out very creatively to those in need claimed me at an early age,” she said. Sister Gallagher, currently the bereavement coordinator for the archdiocese’s grief and consolation ministry, said she and other consecrated women are “always on the lookout” for opportunities to meet the challenges of the day.
Those challenges have changed decade by decade, she said, with sisters today working in ministries in the areas of grief and consolation, divorce and separation, incarceration, immigration, human trafficking, homelessness, elder care, HIV response and climate change. “Education and personal presence has been our gift to the world,” she said. “The reflection that comes with jubilee is that with all the opportunities that have come our way, we never had to raise our hand,” said Sister Gallagher. “We were just there, as God’s hands and God’s heart.” Daughter of Charity Sister Kathleen Powers, celebrating 50 years of religious life, was joined by her 94-year old mother Margaret Powers, who resides at St. Anne’s Home in San Francisco, a ministry of the Little Sisters of the Poor. “It’s been such an enriching life to me and very fulfilling,” said Sister Powers, who works with fourth graders at DeMarillac Academy in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Sister Maria Mathew entered the Congregation of the Holy Family 25 years ago, telling Catholic San Francisco, “Jesus called me.” She is a registered nurse at the Sisters of the Presentation motherhouse. Daughter of Mary Mother of Mercy Sister Carol I. Ngoku was born in Nigeria and said she is currently studying law with an interest in human rights and women in conflict. Mercy Sister Paulina Simms took her vows 70 years ago and worked as a teacher for 29 years. She said she expected to leave after a two-week stay with the order but changed her mind. “I felt like this is where I belonged,” she said. SEE CONSECRATED, PAGE 11
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Catholic artist Stefan Salinas was commissioned by Father Anthony La Torre, pastor of St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco, to paint a mural of Jesus’ baptism in the church’s unused baptistery. The mural depicts Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River by St. John the Baptist.
Abandoned baptistery reclaimed with mural of Christ’s baptism CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The pastor of St. Stephen Church reclaimed the San Francisco parish’s defunct baptistery room by commissioning a floor-toceiling mural awash with scenes of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River. Father Anthony La Torre chose Catholic artist Stefan Salinas last year to “awaken the space’s true nature.” Stefan Salinas and Father Anthony La Torre He completed the work just before Christmas and well in advance of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord Jan. 12. Father La Torre told Salinas his goal was to make the baptistery functional again after baptisms were moved in recent years to the sanctuary. When cabinets were installed in the underused room, he said it made the room where the baptismal font sat “look like a storage room.” Salinas conceived and hand-sketched the mural with the intention of timelessly connecting Jesus’ baptism by St. John the Baptist with all baptisms, past, present and future. One way he accomplished this was to merge vi-
sual elements of Christ’s life with those of the Bay Area’s natural world. Friends and family are seen gathered at the river’s edge looking on at Jesus and John in the river, but they are surrounded by coastal scenes of the Pacific Ocean and local flora and fauna. “We are standing in the Holy Land, and at the same time we are right here in San Francisco,” Salinas said. The mural also includes visual allusions to Scripture, such as the fishermen seen dragging a net, a nod to Christ’s call in Matthew 4:19 to, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” “Standing in the room, it is as if we are also standing in the water,” said Salinas, who converted to Catholicism in 2014. “Another reminder of our baptism.” There is a little white dog seen in the mural that is significant too, though perhaps only to Father La Torre, who requested it be included. Vito is the pastor’s terrier and omnipresent companion. The baptistery is not Salinas’ first project with Father La Torre and may not be his last. He designed a stained glass window of “St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio” for the chapel at St. Philip the Apostle Parish in San Francisco when Father La Torre was pastor there, and also did a mural for St. Philip School. He has also been commissioned by Church of the Visitacion, Most Holy Redeemer and St. Agnes parishes.
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ST. ANDREW SANTO NIÑO: St. Andrew Parish hosted the 14th year celebration of the Santo Niño Feast Day Mass on Jan. 19, officiated by Father Elpidio Geneta. Hundreds attended wearing their native costumes brought their own Santo Niño statues and images that were blessed and incensed and placed on the altar. Led by Chris Redada and Blas Lozano, the church roared with joyous songs to Santo Niño. After Mass, attendees joined together in a “karakul” processional dance. This joyous day allowed parishioners and visitors to celebrate this important Filipino tradition outside of their homeland.
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Photographer’s art captures ‘otherworldliness’ of Fatima NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
A recent art exhibition by a Santa Rosa-based photographer tried to capture the experience of witnessing Fatima’s “miracle of the sun.” “Visions of Fatima” debuted at Oakland’s Pancakes and Booze Art Show Jan. 19. The series of eight photographs of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima were taken through a light prism, bringing out bright colors and a new perspective from which to see the Blessed Virgin. “My goal in this project was to artistically depict or interpret what the witnesses saw at the miracle of the sun. I like how the light prism creates a sense of otherworldliness and the unseen,” photographer Gina Lopez said. Lopez credited Our Lady of Fatima for guiding her work. She had previously experimented with prism photography after seeing it on Instagram. Driving by St. Eugene Cathedral in Santa Rosa
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Santa Rosa photographer Gina Lopez recently showed “Visions of Fatima,” a series of prism photographs that capture the “otherworldliness” of the miracle of the sun.
one morning when a rainbow was out inspired her to grab her camera and photograph the cathedral’s grounds, including the Fatima grotto there. “When I made these photos it came to me that this is what the witnesses saw, the pilgrims that gathered to see the miracle,” she said. The miracle of the sun occurred in Fatima on Oct. 13, 1917. A 2011 Zenit News story said that according to the Fatima visionaries, Mary had said there would be a miracle that day so that people would come to believe. “Thousands had gathered at the site of the visions, and the sun ‘danced,’ reportedly drying instantaneously the rain-soaked land and spectators,” the article said. Lopez said she has carried a camera on her since she was 10 years old. Photography has been a way to “be present in the moment and capture what was happening,” she said. SEE FATIMA, PAGE 18
New archdiocesan partnership offers emotional support for infertility NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
After trying and failing to conceive a child for years, Marc and Erin Sherman began to wonder what they had done wrong. Was it the cleaning products they used, raw fish from their weekly date night sushi, or was God punishing them? “The word ‘struggling’ is such an understatement. I don’t know an adjective for what it means Marc Sherman when your entire life is lived in 30-
day windows,” Marc Sherman said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco. “You go from hopeful to complete despair. It doesn’t take many cycles for everything you do in your life to be called into question, and what should be the most exciting chapter in your life has this dark cloud hanging over it.” After four years of not being able to conceive, the Shermans resigned themselves to not having children and decided to focus on repairing the strains in their relationship. A few months later, Erin found out she was pregnant with their first child. The same thing happened years later before their second child was born, as they anxiously hoped for another child, concluded it wouldn’t happen and then conceived.
The Shermans’ journey to build their family led them to found a company, Organic Conceptions, focused on helping strengthen and support couples when they experience infertility. Based on his family’s experience and research conducted by a psychologist they partnered with, Kate Webster, Sherman saw the psychological toll of failing to conceive a child exacerbates infertility and built a program to address the emotional and psychological needs of couples trying to conceive. Organic Conceptions recently entered into a partnership with the Archdiocese of San Francisco to SEE INFERTILITY, PAGE 14
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Right, retired Bishop Ignatius Wang, born in China, feigns good-faith fear for the dancing dragon that was so much a part of the celebration of Lunar New Year 2020, Feb. 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop Wang was principal celebrant for the Mass. Retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, at Bishop Wang’s right, was among the concelebrants as was Father Dominic Savio Lee at his left. Above, Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese ministry for the archdiocese, offers incense in commemoration of ancestors at a shrine constructed in descendants’ names.
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Exhorting the more than 400 people, mostly Chinese Catholics, assembled for the 2020 Lunar New Year Mass Feb. 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral to be “joyful and cheerful,” Divine Word Father Peter Zhai also said to “let us become blessings to the victims of the coronavirus by offering our prayers and whatever way we can to help them.” Father Zhai noted that “it is very meaningful and proper that we celebrate Chinese New Year by remembering God’s mercy and love toward us and offer the sacrifice and prayers for God’s delivering our people from the outbreak of the coronavirus.” Retired Bishop Ignatius Wang, who was born and ordained to the priesthood in China, was prinFATHER PETER ZHAI cipal celebrant of Archdiocesan director of the Mass joined Chinese ministry by concelebrants including retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh and Father Zhai. The Beatitudes from the day’s Gospel make clear that “Jesus came among us as a blessing,” Father Zhai said, pointing out that God’s love comes to the sinner, the poor, the oppressed, and peacemakers. “They are blessed because they are God’s children and the kingdom of God belongs to them,” said Father Zhai, who is director of Chinese ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Therefore, let us remember that God is with us with his blessings even in the most difficult. Let us become blessings to the victims of the coronavirus by offering our prayers and whatever way we can to help them.” Father Zhai called the day “a great success.” He added, “Please keep the victims of the virus in your prayers and pray for the crisis to come to an end.” After Mass, many of the assembly continued to the cathedral’s downstairs halls to dine on foods special to the day and the Chinese heritage.
‘Let us remember that God is with us with his blessings even in the most difficult time.’
Retired Bishop Ignatius Wang, retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, left, and concelebrants are pictured during the eucharistic prayer at Mass for Lunar New Year 2020 Feb. 1 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
The assembly prayed in Chinese and English, with music led by Agatha Lee, the cathedral’s Chinese choir director, and cathedral music director Christoph Tietze. Right, group of dancing women take part in the ancestor commemoration rites.
Special red vestments worn by Bishop Ignatius Wang show stitching and design special to Chinese artisanship. The red color symbolizes happiness in the Chinese culture. Left, an older woman prays devotedly at the Mass. Right, a younger woman was among the ensemble assisting at the Mass.
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Lourdes is the ‘true icon’ of Christian love, archbishop says at Mass for those with special needs CLARE DEIGNAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Lourdes is the “quintessential true icon” of Christian love, where Christ appears in the faces of those the world would ignore and discard, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said during his homily on Feb. 8 at a special Mass dedicated to special needs children and adults. The liturgy at St. Mary’s Cathedral was the first “Celebration of God’s Special People” Mass in honor of World Day of the Sick. It was hosted by the Order of Malta. The significance of Lourdes is not “simply in the sense of the geographical place but in the sense of the spiritual place when we bring Lourdes into our everyday life,” the archbishop said. Celebrated on the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11, St. John Paul II instituted World Day of the Sick in 1992, one year after he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Special needs children and adults, members of the Order of Malta and Catholics from all over the Bay Area joined in the cathedral celebration. Catholic students in uniform and heads of school from Marin Catholic, Mercy Burlingame and Archbishop Riordan high schools were also in attendance. This Mass was a new take on past World Day of the Sick celebrations at the cathedral. “We are still celebrating the World Day of the Sick but we wanted to broaden our net to include disabled people,” said Anne Ryan, president of the Order of Malta in San Francisco. As one of the driving forces behind the Mass, Ryan pointed to Pope Francis’ call for Catholic communities to welcome and include the disabled and those with special needs. But the inspiration for this expansion on World Day of the Sick is the Handicapped Children’s Pilgrimage Trust,
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Jimmy Alvarado, Archbishop Cordileone and Liam McInerney are pictured Feb. 8 at St. Mary’s Cathedral during a special World Day of the Sick celebration dedicated to special needs children and adults. Jimmy and Liam served on the altar at Mass alongside the archbishop and concelebrants. a U.K. organization that brings disabled and special needs children from all over Europe to the healing water of the Marian shrine at Lourdes, France. Order of Malta member Charlotte Kiesel, who has been traveling to Lourdes annually since 1987, described her experience of the pilgrimage. “In Lourdes, there’s the love that’s shown to these children, it’s contagious and the children are happy,” she said. “There is a sense of joy that permeates the week.” During the pilgrimage in the underground basilica at Lourdes, 25,000 pilgrims, including thousands of special needs children, hundreds of priests and dozens of bishops gather for a week of Masses and celebrations. “It’s the most magnificent, inclu-
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alongside Archbishop Cordileone and concelebrants. With his family to cheer him on and his mother as one of the cantors, Liam McInerney under the tutelage of Father Cameron Faller served Mass for the first time. An Oakland Technical High School student and one of six children, Liam said one of his favorite things to do besides eating pizza and playing video games is “to be an awesome man for this church.” Liam’s father, Tim McInerney, said, “It’s exciting for our family. It means a lot that Liam can be part of the Mass.” Soon Liam will be learning to serve at the McInerneys’ parish, St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus in Oakland. Also serving at the Mass was graduate of Sequoia High School, Jimmy Alvarado, who is the sacristan at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto and a paid employee for five years. “He is in charge of the sacristy but then his responsibilities have been getting bigger and bigger,” St. Francis pastor Father Larry Goode said. Some of Jimmy’s duties at St. Francis include caring for the parish’s soccer field and parking lot, acting in the Stations of the Cross and managing the sign-up for the Walk for Life West Coast. Mercy Burlingame head of school Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan read the first reading at Mass, accompanied by her aunt Michelle Cirigliano. SEE SPECIAL NEEDS, PAGE 14
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Carrying signs and accompanied by the Riordan High School marching band and the San Francisco Fire Department, St. Finn Barr students marched through San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood Jan. 30 in the K-8 parochial school’s eighth annual Peace March. The march, which celebrates Catholic Schools Week, culminated an academic and service project. The event “is an opportunity for our students to study their own peace organization and march through the Sunnyside neigbhorhood and celebrate peace throughout the community,” principal Mele Mortonson said in a Facebook video. The video included interviews with three students about their projects for the day. “We walked together sharing the Gospel message of love, compassion and peace,” one student said. Another found the march an opportunity for “raising awareness to make change and make the world a better place.” A third student simply said: “Our responsibility is to help others in need.” Each year neighbors, shopkeepers and preschoolers come out to wave and support the parade, Mortonson told Catholic San Francisco earlier this month. “We would love to make this a tradition for all Catholic schools in the archdiocese during (Catholic Schools Week), maybe even together,” she said. St. Finn Barr School was founded as a parish school in 1962. It was originally administered by the Irish
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St. Finn Barr students marched through San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood Jan. 30 in the parochial school’s eighth annual Peace March. These students carry hand-drawn signs with an ecological message: “Garden for the environment.”
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Left, Sister Kathleen Powers, DC, celebrated her 50th jubilee with her 94-year-old mother Margaret Powers, pictured talking with St. Matthew pastor Msgr. John Talesfore at a reception following the Consecrated Life Mass Feb. 2. Center, Sister Bernadette Hart, RSM, carried a candle with others into the Mass held in conjunction with The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas Day. Right, a woman greets Sister Mary Aloysita, MC, center, before the Mass. Historically held at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the annual Mass will now take place in different parishes throughout the archdiocese to give the local faithful an opportunity to witness the life and ministry of religious.
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Holy Spirit works. The Holy Spirit can’t work if we’re all walking on eggshells and afraid to say anything.” The clerical sexual abuse crisis, immigration, polarization in society and in the church, training seminarians, the ministry of bishops and the role of women in the church were among the topics discussed, several bishops said. Bishop Oscar A. Solis of Salt Lake City said Pope Francis did not go into detail about “Querida Amazonia,” but he did give the bishops the impression that the issues of ordaining married men and women deacons for ministry in far-flung communities would still be a matter for future discussion and discernment. “He said he didn’t actually believe in the ordination of married men, but what are you going to do with all those people who are deprived of the Eucharist,” the bishop said. There are communities where a priest arrives only once a year for Mass. Pope Francis did warn the bishops that many in the media and the general public will be focusing on those two issues – married priests and women deacons – while he wanted to focus on the social, pastoral, ecological and cultural challenges facing the Amazon region. Archbishop Wester said, “A lot of the media sometimes will glom on to something because it fits a particular agenda, or it sparks a particular controversy that they know is going to kind of bring a lot of future business.” The archbishop told CNS that Pope Francis was asked for “a clarification” about the synod. “The pope, very gently and very calmly, said, ‘You know, this point was really not a big point,” although it did come up, the archbishop said, without saying whether the issue was married priests, women deacons or something else. The gist of the pope’s response, the archbishop continued, was “I
Pope Francis ‘would like to see a more generous society, a more giving society, a society that’s attentive to those who are in need.’ RETIRED BISHOP GERALD F. KICANAS OF TUCSON, ARIZONZ don’t even think at this point that it’s something we’re going to move on because I haven’t sensed that the Holy Spirit is at work in that right now.” Summarizing his take on the discussion about the Amazon synod document, Archbishop Wester told CNS, “It’s what’s not going to be said that people will notice.” Retired Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Arizona, said having met almost all the U.S. bishops for “ad limina” conversations since November, “I’m sure he’s gotten an earful.” The bishop said he believes the pope has specific hopes for the church in the United States. “I think he senses that there’s a kind of, his phrase would be, a spiritual worldliness that has taken over and not having the sense of living my life in a sacrificial way, in a serving kind of way, in a giving kind of way, in a generous way,” Bishop Kicanas said. “My impression is that he sees the United States is very blessed, but perhaps needing to learn how to share those blessings and how to be bring those blessings to the service of others,” he said. One example of that, the bishop said, is immigration. “He would love to see countries do their part, not everybody can do everything and there are limits to what any country can do. But we do our part.” Highlight how “all of us are immigrants,” Pope Francis told the bishops, “As I look around the room and lis-
ten to your names, none of you are Native Americans so we need to realize that most of us have come from elsewhere,” Bishop Kicanas said. The pope “would like to see a more generous society, a more giving society, a society that’s attentive to those who are in need.” Archbishop Wester said the pope “was very strong on” the importance of lay leadership, especially the participation of women in the life of the church. “The gifts that women bring – it’s so important not to exclude that, but to include that in our various schools and parishes, etc.,” the archbishop said. The pope also discussed the sexual abuse crisis and the need for the church to not only help survivors heal, but to heal itself. “A wound has been opened, and in some cases, reopened” – for example, because of grand jury reports – “but we see that as providential in that Christ can help us now to heal,” Archbishop Wester said. “You have to open the wound in order for the healing to take place.” While it is painful to look back at the abuse that occurred in the church, Archbishop Wester said the bishops “need to look so we can learn from history, to learn from our mistakes.” And in a world marked by “polarization, that division,” Bishop Solis said, Pope Francis emphasized the role of the bishop as a builder of unity, a person who must be willing to listen to a diversity of opinions, pray about decisions and trust the Holy Spirit will guide the discernment. “He values differences of opinion,” the bishop said. “I think he must have heard about the lack of civility” that seems to be afflicting public discourse in the United States. “People don’t discuss anymore” but move immediately to “looking at each other with hatred.” Pope Francis encouraged the bishops to be close to one another and to discuss their differences calmly and openly, Bishop Solis said. “You could see that he’s concerned about it like a typical father when siblings are not in sync with one another.”
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SUNDAY READINGS
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time SIRACH 15:15-20 If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; he has set before you fire and water to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him. Immense is the wisdom of the Lord; he is mighty in power, and all-seeing. The eyes of God are on those who fear him; he understands man’s every deed. No one does he command to act unjustly, to none does he give license to sin. PSALM 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! You have commanded that your precepts be diligently kept. Oh, that I might be firm in the ways of keeping your statutes!
Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Be good to your servant, that I may live and keep your words. Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Instruct me, O Lord, in the way of your statutes, that I may exactly observe them. Give me discernment, that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6-10 Brothers and sisters: We speak a wisdom to those who are mature, not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written: What eye has
not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him, this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. MATTHEW 5:17-37 OR 5:20-22A, 27-28, 33-34A, 37 Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. “You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. But I say to you, whoever is angry with brother will be liable to judgment. “You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. “Again you have heard that it was said to your ancestors, Do not take a false oath, but make good to the Lord all that you vow. But I say to you, do not swear at all. Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one.”
The maturity that faith demands
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oth the first and second reading this Sunday wax eloquent about the wisdom that God offers his people. It eludes the power-hungry and even those who govern us (1 Corinthians 2:6). God offers wisdom to the spiritually “mature.” By Paul’s definition mature means those who put on the mind of Christ to see the world through the lens of his Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10). Throughout church history God asks saints and prophets to do strange things that seem ludicrous to the rest of the world. He gives commands like the following: Leave your famSISTER MARIA ily and everything you have CATHERINE ever known and emigrate TOON, OP to another country where you will be utterly different from everyone else, but I will provide for you (Abraham); dig in the
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dirt and drink the water even though there is no stream (St. Bernadette); or go tell your religious superior that even though the community offered Masses and prayers for a deceased sister, those graces have not been applied to her and other prayers and sacrifices need to be made (St. Faustina). In his relationships with the prophets and the saints, God claims repeatedly, that “my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways” (Isaiah 55:8). He calls us to “trust in the Lord” with all our hearts and not to “lean on your own understanding. In all [our] ways acknowledge him, and he will make [our] paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6). This is the path of spiritual maturity – to trust in God’s ways, rather than our own. With radical and total trust, God offers the saints (and us) a knowledge that requires a mature faith. Referencing the catechism and Scripture, Sister Athanasius writes in “Echoing the Mystery” that, “faith is more certain than all human knowledge” (108). Exercising faith is what matures us in seeing the world through Jesus’ eyes. He sets a high bar in the Beatitudes to sharpen and purify the faith of his listeners. In the Gospel reading for today, he makes it clear
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Seven Founders of the Order of Servites. JAS 1:1-11. PS 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76. JN 14:6. MK 8:11-13. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 1:12-18. PS 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19. JN 14:23. MK 8:14-21. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19: Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 1:19-27. PS 15:23a, 3bc-4ab, 5. EPH 1:17-18. MK 8:22-26. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 2:1-9. PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. JN 6:63c, 68c. MK 8:27-33. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21: Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor. JAS 2:14-24, 26. PS 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. JN 15:15b. MK 8:34– 9:1. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22: Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, apostle. 1 PT 5:1-4. PS 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6. MT 16:18. MT 16:13-19.
that Christians must excel in virtue beyond the letter of the law. Christ calls us to purify our intentions in serving him and in examining our actions. Considering recent scandalizing headlines about officials within the church, Christians are called to be above reproach all the more. Our example matters. God’s wisdom takes us further into our own hearts and the hearts of our neighbors. Obeying the commandments is not just about refraining from sin, like killing others, but also deep, interior self-reflection – what is behind my sin? When God is displeased with our actions and the way we make decisions, he often does not clarify our discernment. Consider: Do I need to ask forgiveness from God for anything, before I make this major decision? Is this a way he is calling me to deeper maturity in faith? It is in the face of the nitty-gritty self-examination that God shows us his will for us, which may not be what we want. But acknowledging his will and following it is what brings us to greater clarity and the maturity that faith demands. SISTER MARIA is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
POPE FRANCIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. LV 19:1-2, 17-18. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13. 1 COR 3:16-23. 1 JN 2:5. MT 5:38-48. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24: Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. JAS 3:13-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 2 TM 1:10. MK 9:14-29. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time. JAS 4:1-10. PS 55:7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11a, 23. GAL 6:14. MK 9:30-3. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26: Ash Wednesday. JL 2:12-18. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR 5:20—6:2. PS 95:8. MT 6:1-6, 16-18. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. DT 30:15-20. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT 4:17. LK 9:22-25. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28: Friday after Ash Wednesday. IS 58:1-9a. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. AM 5:14. MT 9:14-15. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. EZ 33:11. LK 5:27-32.
STAY CLOSE TO THE LORD
VATICAN CITY – There are always things which seem hopeless if seen with the eyes of the world, which is why those in religious life must stay close to the Lord every day, Pope Francis said Feb. 1. “Here is the secret: never to alienate oneself from the Lord, who is the source of hope,” the pope said Feb. 1 in St. Peter’s Basilica. “We become blind if we do not look to the Lord every day, if we do not adore him.” Speaking at a vigil Mass for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, he said, “the gaze of consecrated men and women can only be one of hope. Knowing how to hope.” “Looking around, it is easy to lose hope: things that don’t work, the decline in vocations… There is always the temptation to have a worldly gaze, one devoid of hope,” Francis stated. Francis reflected on hope and leaving behind worldly possessions during Mass for the 24th World Day of Consecrated Life, which is celebrated every year on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
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Magnanimity
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hat does it mean to be bighearted, magnanimous? Once during a baseball game in high school an umpire made a very unfair call against our team. Our whole team was indignant and all of us began to shout angrily at the umpire, swearing at him, calling FATHER RON him names, ROLHEISER loudly venting our anger. But one of our teammates didn’t follow suit. Instead of shouting at the umpire he kept trying to stop the rest of us from doing so. “Let it go!” he kept telling us, “Let it go – we’re bigger than this!” Bigger than what? He wasn’t referring to the umpire’s immaturity, but to our own. And we weren’t “bigger than this,” at least not then. Certainly I wasn’t. I couldn’t swallow an injustice. I wasn’t big enough. But something stayed with me from that incident, the challenge to “be bigger” inside the things that slight us. I don’t always succeed, but I’m a better person when I do, more big-hearted, just as I am more petty and smaller of heart when I don’t. But just as our teammate challenged us all those years ago, we remain challenged to “be bigger”
than the pettiness within a moment. That invitation lies at the very heart of Jesus’ moral challenge in the Sermon on the Mount, There he invites us to have “a virtue that’s deeper than that of the scribes and the Pharisees.” And there’s more hidden in that statement than first meets the eye because the scribes and Pharisees were very virtuous people. They strove hard always to be faithful to all the precepts of their faith and were people who believed in and practiced strict justice. They didn’t make unfair calls as umpires! But inside of all of that goodness they still lacked something that the Sermon on the Mount invites us to, a certain magnanimity, to have big enough hearts and minds that can rise above being slighted so as to be bigger than a given moment. Let me offer this example of what that can mean: John Paul II was the first pope in history to speak out unequivocally against capital punishment. It’s important to note that he didn’t say that capital punishment was wrong. Biblically we do have the right to practice it. John Paul conceded that. However, and this is the lesson, he went on to say that, while we may in justice practice capital punishment, we shouldn’t do it because Jesus calls us to something higher, namely, to forgive sinners and not execute them. That’s magnanimity, that’s being bigger than the moment we’re caught up within. Thomas Aquinas, in his moral astuteness, makes a distinction
LETTERS Power of words
that one doesn’t often hear either in church teachings or in common sense. Thomas says that a certain thing can be sin for one person and yet not for another. In essence, something can be a sin for someone who is big-hearted, even as it is not a sin for someone who is petty and small of heart. Here’s an example: In a wonderfully challenging comment, Thomas once wrote that it is a sin to withhold a compliment from someone who genuinely deserves it because in doing so we are withholding from that person some of the food upon which he or she needs to live. But in teaching this, Thomas is clear that this is a sin only for someone who is big-hearted, magnanimous, and at a certain level of maturity. Someone who is immature, self-centered, and petty of heart is not held to the same moral and spiritual standard. How is this possible, isn’t a sin a sin, irrespective of person? Not always. Whether or not something is a sin or not and the seriousness of a sin depends upon the depth and maturity within a relationship. Imagine this: A man and his wife have such a deep, sensitive, caring, respectful and intimate relationship so that the tiniest expressions of affection or neglect speak loudly to each other. For example, as they part to go their separate ways each morning they always exchange an expression of affection, as a parting ritual. Now, should either of them neglect that expression of SEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 16
A task for the New Year: Find your Gospel identity
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or some years, I was part of a team of spiritual directors, psychotherapists and lecturers offering a nine-month renewal program to groups of missionary priests and brothers. The men were ordained or had professed vows for 10 years. They had labored for the Lord in some very SISTER JEAN difficult EVANS, RSM and dangerous mission stations in Africa and Latin America. Many of them were traumatized and, like so many veterans of war, needed help to regain physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. On the last night of the program we were welcomed to a Mass of thanksgiving and a festive dinner. As part of the Mass, each of the program staff introduced him/herself to the guests joining us at the Mass. One of the psychotherapists went to the mic and said very simply, “I am the innkeeper.” At that moment the words of the good Samaritan parable became real for me. I’m sure you remember the story: A Samaritan traveler who came upon a man wounded by robbers was moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them … The next day
he took out two denarii and handed them to the innkeeper and said, “Look after him, and on my way back I will make good any extra expense you have” (Luke 10: 33-35). The innkeeper received the wounded victim. He cared for the traumatized man and helped him regain his strength. Within the context of that renewal course, “I am the innkeeper” summed it all up. The psychotherapist received the wounded missionaries with compassion and assisted them to regain strength and confidence. He helped his counselees to discover healthy ways to deal with the damaging effects of violence and trauma in their mission experience – to find balance, healing and in some cases, their faith in God restored. This simple statement, “I am the innkeeper” got me thinking: Are there other figures in the Gospels with whom we could identify? Other Gospel personalities whose “job description” might fit us? Offhand, I’d suggest taking some time with the Gospels. Luke 1-3 gives us the early life of Jesus and stories of his mercy. Mark 1 introduces us to 24 hours in Jesus’ busy life. In the first chapter of John’s Gospel we meet John the Baptist and Jesus’ disciples. Am I Peter’s mother-in-law cured of a fever by Jesus? Am I one of the sick and lame, one possessed by troubling thoughts? Do I accompany Jesus as he gets up before dawn to go to a lonely place for prayer? Am I the one who shouts at Jesus, “Everybody is looking for you!”?
Take your own tour of the villages with Jesus and discover the mission that he has chosen especially for you. Are you the teen who comes along with five barley loaves and two fish? Put on “new glasses” to read the Gospel stories that are so familiar to you. Then look for your own personal niche, your own Gospel identity. The Holy Spirit will help. Are you Mary, listening at Jesus’ feet? Martha, her busy sister? Lazarus, Jesus’ good friend? Are you one of the lost sheep? Do you need a good shepherd to pick you up and set you upright again? Remember this, your Gospel identity isn’t a static one. It grows and changes as you grow and change. I may have been an innkeeper for a number of years or a John the Baptist preparing the way for the Lord, or an Elizabeth counseling and supporting her young cousin. Now, I could be the widow of Nain or a friend who supports her. What will you discover as you pray over the Gospels this year? With whom will you identify? As for me, I am a Gospel child. I’m one of a dozen or more scruffylooking kids sitting on the ground as close as I can to Jesus. Just sitting near him – without a care in the world. MERCY SISTER JEAN EVANS ministers at Mercy Center, Burlingame, on the Development Team and assists Mercy Suzanne Toolan with music at Mercy Center’s first Friday “Prayer Around the Cross.”
Re (“Taking liberties with language,” Letters, Dec. 19, 2019): It got me to thinking about the power of words. Of course, it is true that infanticide is illegal in the United States. That is because it is the murder of a baby or infant. What then of killing a baby in the womb, which is abortion, or outside the womb by deliberately denying medical care? It may seem as if the Catholic Church harps on certain practices and lifestyles and condemns them. It is not just being unreasonable; it is doing its job by reminding us good cannot be accomplished by the use of sinful means. Mary Louise Zgraggen San Francisco
Responding to ‘the gentleman from Texas’
Re: “Politics and church moral teachings, (Letters, Jan 16, 2020): Mr. Burdoin of Texas shows his true colors – bright red. He seeks to dismiss my views over the years with the typical right-wing, “red meat”/red state fallback rant, calling me a Nancy Pelosi-type Catholic. First off Mr. Burdoin, no one I know is pro-abortion; that’s the inflammatory fallback for the pro-birth (aka pro-life) zealots. And yes, a woman’s right to her own medical decisions was rightly created 200 years after the Constitution was written. That doesn’t make it any less just. Or would the gentleman from Texas also dismiss the 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) created almost 100 years after the original dreamers handiwork, or perhaps the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote (150 years). I guess I would rather be a Nancy Pelosi-type Christian – open-minded, less judgmental and willing to accept science and medical advances – rather than Mr. Burdoin’s pray, pay and obey style Catholicism. A very Trump-like, head-in-the-sand hypocritical style Christianity, claiming the pro-life mantle while doing his best to reverse all environmental advances and through his ignorance-based, science-denying arrogance, putting all life on Earth at risk through his denial of the science of climate change. Mr. Burdoin also seems to deny that Reagan’s refusal to accept the facts behind the epidemic of AIDS (for whatever various causes) and denying the role of condoms to prevent the spread of the disease did indeed cause untold number of deaths. His good state of Texas has done its best to make abortion, or even legitimate family planning (including the use of condoms) illegal in the state, in violation of the Constitution. Yet Texas still continues to rank among the states with the highest number of unwanted pregnancies, children living in poverty and illiteracy. His claims regarding harvesting of organs for medical research are so baseless and befitting McCarthy-like inflammatory rhetoric, they don’t merit a response. Welcome to the 21st century, time to leave the dark ages behind. Peter Mandell San Francisco
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ABUSE: Crisis gets a fresh reading in parish study group FROM PAGE 1
what they thought about it. St. Gregory associate pastor Father Oliver Ortese attended some of the meetings to offer his perspective as a Nigerian priest. Larry Garvey, one of the meeting participants, said reading Bishop Barron’s pamphlet helped address some of the anger he still felt over clergy abuse. He appreciated the way the pamphlet placed the church’s failures in a historical context, showing that after great periods of sin came great reformers. “For Barron, this is a reform moment and we as laity have work ahead of us,” he said. He added that Bishop Barron also helped him clear up his misconceptions about the church’s response. “Without a book like this, it’s easy to make assumptions – the book adds real enlightenment about what happened and what might have allowed it to persist,” he said. Bishop Barron in his book lays out the direction the church has been heading in on clergy abuse. Procedurally, the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, established by the U.S. bishops in 2002, has helped decrease the number of cases of recently committed abuse. Pope Francis’ document “Vos estis lux mundi” (“You are the light of the world,”)
published shortly after the book came out, lays out additional canonical penalties for abuse of a minor and for covering up such crimes. More than processes, though, Bishop Barron called for a “deep and abiding spiritual reform.” Criticizing a culture in which numerous priests lacked any sexual restraint and bishops felt free to shuffle criminal offenders between parishes, Bishop Barron called for a renewal of the priesthood. Because abusive priests grew up in Catholic homes and within a Catholic culture, Bishop Barron encouraged a lay renewal as well. “We are the culture and some of this is our responsibility, so we need to clean our own house,” Garvey said. “If we want better priests we need better laity.” Evangelizing, doing corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and helping to promote catechesis were some of the solutions that appealed to the group, although they felt evangelization was a particular challenge. Gherini endorsed adult faith formation classes, like RCIA, for Catholics to learn more about what the church teaches. “How do you inspire more people to come and learn instead of checking in and checking out,” she said. She added that Bishop Barron’s emphasis on empowering the laity “really stood out to me” and was “healing” to read. Parishioner Susan Arms said she took away from
it a greater desire to affirm priests in their vocation. “What I want to do is support our priests and say you’re doing a great job, you gave a great homily. They have a difficult life, so what can I do to support our priests and encourage them,” she said. For all the good that came out of the study group, Garvey said he found the “depressingly low number” of people interested in meeting to discuss it disheartening. “I don’t know if people just don’t care or don’t want to figure it out,” he said. Arms suggested that many of those deeply disturbed by the abuse may have left, while the ones who stayed may “be ready to just move on.” Those who left the church over abuse are another important group Catholics need to pay attention to, Garvey said. “I think part of what we need to do is convince people who have left that it’s not the same. We’ll never be perfect, but this won’t be what it was,” he said, adding that reading the book had given him more confidence in the church’s response to the abuse crisis than he held at the beginning of the study group. Arms said reading the book “gives us hope the church is going to prevail. He really calls those who read it to take action, do something and be part of the solution. We need to be responsible, too.”
INFERTILITY: New archdiocesan partnership offers emotional support FROM PAGE 5
offer three months of their online course at no cost to archdiocesan couples. Ed Hopfner, director of the archdiocesan office of marriage and family life, praised the program and looked forward to couples taking advantage of it. “It really strengthens the couple’s relationship and that’s what we’re about in the archdiocese, we want couples to have good, healthy relationships,” he said. The online program helps couples navigate different psychological and emotional stages in living with infertility, Sherman said, and helps “optimize couples’ health and emotional well-being and put them in a better position for success.” Sherman stressed going through their program will not automatically result in a conception. “We want to help women and help couples understand what they are going through and how they
are processing,” he said. “The program helps people open their eyes to where their journey is taking them and helps them emotionally, so they don’t feel damaged, broken or not able to cope.” Organic Conceptions’ program gives couples a cognitive approach to understand what they are going through and re-emphasize their own importance and dignity, offering a psychological approach to understanding infertility and helping people deal with their “raw emotions.” The self-paced modules teach people to recognize how what they are going through affects the decisions they make and include time for self-reflection and ways to put into words how they are feeling, along with a workbook to help apply the concepts they learn. “A lot of people think emotional health is for the depressed and for those struggling for years. Even a few months of infertility can decrease your emotional health – mind racing, doubt, feeling broken – those
negative emotions happen very quickly,” he said. The delays can lead people to assume they are damaged or defective in some way, he added. “We’re a planned society, when we see delays we can’t help but leap to different scenarios in our minds.” Infertility can leave a “lasting trauma” in a couple’s relationship, Sherman said, making it even more important to make sure a husband and wife feel strengthened and supported as they try to conceive. Sherman said he was excited by the partnership with the archdiocese, and looked forward to it as an important first step for couples to take advantage of when they encounter infertility. “We want to show that people matter and there’s more than just biology at work, it’s physical, spiritual, emotional and it’s about bringing everything into alignment,” he said. “I want to get to people early and the church is a perfect place for us to be.”
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Michelle Cirigliano, Mercy Burlingame head of school Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan, Archbishop Cordileone and Genevieve Curran are pictured Feb. 8 at St. Mary’s Cathedral during a special World Day of the Sick celebration dedicated to special needs children and adults. Right, members of the assembly at the Mass, where the archbishop said the power of Lourdes exists anywhere we can see the face of Christ for those the world would ignore and discard.
SPECIAL NEEDS: Lourdes is the ‘true icon’ of Christian love FROM PAGE 7
The youngest of 10 children, Michelle has Down syndrome. “It was so much more special than I could have imagined,” Natalie said after Mass. “I don’t think I realized how much special people have been ignored. I’ve always been a firm believer that if every family had an Auntie Michelle the world would be a better place.”
During the offertory, Joey and Lisa Nevin carried their 6-month-old baby Grace, who has Down syndrome, to the altar. Grace received a blessing from Archbishop Cordileone. “I was clearly asked (by) God to be more and do more,” said Grace’s mother, Lisa Nevin. “For my husband and I to welcome Grace and make sure she is cared for just as every other child.” In concluding his homily, Archbishop Cordileone
captured the spirit of the Mass while addressing the Order of Malta. “You bring Lourdes here,” he said. “It’s not just a physical place over in Europe. It exists when we make room for it putting the love of Christ into action where we can actually see his face for those whom the world would ignore and discard. Thank you for your love of God’s special people. Thank you for helping us to see the face of His Son.”
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VILLANOVA, Pa. – Excessive deference to leadership and a presumption of their moral superiority combined with neglect of victims and survivors are global similarities in a church where trust has dropped “below zero,” said Jesuit Father Hans Jesuit Father Zollner, a leading Hans Zollner Vatican official dealing with clergy sexual abuse in the church. Almost 200 people filled the Driscoll Hall Auditorium on Villanova University’s campus Jan. 29 looking to deepen their understanding about global perspectives on the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. “Much damage has been done to the church” due to clergy sexual abuse, said Father Zollner, “but more damage has been done to human beings.” In responding to this crisis, “many people are engaged in the same mission: a safer church and a safer world,” said Father Zollner, a licensed German psychologist and psychotherapist with a doctorate in theology and one of the church’s leading experts in the area of safeguarding minors. The crisis is one of “institutional traumatization” in which wrongdoings have been perpetrated by an institution upon individuals dependent on that institution, according to Father Zollner, who said “steps forward” to address it globally are being made in Rome. He described the crisis as marked by similarities regardless of country or continent, including the presence of clericalism, in which clergy are shown excessive deference and a presumption of moral superiority. It as an attitude of being “above the law” and “no one can tell me what to do; I can take whatever I want,” Father Zollner said. Another global similarity is the “neglect, denial and rejection of survivors” who feel great discomfort and fear. All of the church must re-
member that the majority of victims “are still members of the church whether they go to church or not,” he said. “There are members of this church who hurt.”
BISHOP: SINGLE-ISSUE VOTING ‘DISTORTS’ DISCIPLESHIP
SAN DIEGO – Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in a Feb. 6 speech at the University of San Diego, said “the drive to label a single issue preeminent” in the 2020 election “distorts the call to authentic discipleship in voting rather than advancing it.” Bishop McElroy called both abortion and the environment “core life issues in Catholic teaching.” “The death toll from abortion is more immediate,” he said, “but the long-term death toll from unchecked climate change is larger and threatens the very future of humanity.” He added, “There is no mandate in universal Catholic social teaching that gives a categorical priority to either of these issues as uniquely determinative of the common good.” Yet “the designation of either of these issues as the preeminent question in Catholic social teaching at this time in the United States,” Bishop McElroy said, “will inevitably be hijacked by partisan forces to propose that Catholics have an overriding duty to vote for candidates that espouse that position. Recent electoral history shows this to be a certainty.” At their fall general meeting in November, when the U.S. bishops approved a series of videos to augment their “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizens” document, Bishop McElroy voiced his concern over a supplementary letter to their quadrennial guidance for voters that stated abortion is the preeminent teaching of the church. So doing, he argued, would open the door for people to ignore Pope Francis’ call to consider other concerns as equally important. He made the comments during a brief debate over Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago’s proposed amendment to include in the letter
a paragraph from Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Gaudete et Exultate” (“Rejoice and Be Glad”) encompassing the church’s concern for the unborn, but also describing as “equally sacred” the lives of the poor and elderly people, human trafficking victims and others who are struggling to survive. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput disagreed, saying the church’s pro-life teaching remains its preeminent concern. Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez responded that part of the paragraph was included but that the full paragraph was referenced in a footnote. The amendment to include the full paragraph was not approved. In his Feb. 6 address, “Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting,” Bishop McElroy cited 10 issues he said Catholics should scrutinize. Beyond abortion and the environment, he listed immigration and refugees, euthanasia and assisted suicide, racism, work and workers’ rights, poverty and inequality, the promotion of marriage and family, nuclear disarmament, and the protection of religious liberty.
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MARIN COUNTY Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass (includes chaplet of Divine Mercy); Mon-Thurs, 5:30 p.m.; Fri, 5:00 p.m., Sun, 3:00 p.m. 415.897.2171. St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Mon-Sat after 9 a.m. Mass. (650)366.4692. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Mon, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560. St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur, Tues-Fri at 7:30 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. (415) 924 0600.
SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave., Mon-Fri: 7:30 a.m., Sat: 8:00 a.m., 415.494.5517. Corpus Christi Church, 62 Santa Rosa Ave., After the 8:00 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. Masses (Mon-Sat) 415.585.2991. Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Avenue, weekdays and Sat, 8:35 a.m. before the 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel; (415) 664-8590. National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, Porziuncola Chapel, Sat, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy; www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557. St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia Street, rosary in sign language, all Sundays except June/July /August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@gmail.com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. 415.350.9527. St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Avenue, 11:30 a.m. weekdays, Sundays 7 a.m. (English); Thursdays 5:30 p.m. (Spanish) & Sundays before 10:30 a.m. (Spanish) Mass. (415) 863-7515. St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, Mon-Sat, 8:35 a.m., 415.664.8481. St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., Mon-Sat after 8 a.m. Mass; (415) 468-0820, www.stelizabethsf.org. St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., Mon-Fri after 8:00 a.m. Mass (w/Divine Mercy Chaplet), 415.333.3627. St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, Mon-Fri after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, 415.731.6161. St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., Mon-Fri, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Sat, before the 8 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188. St. John the Evangelist Church, 19 St. Mary’s Ave., (415) 334-4646; every day after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. www. saintjohnevangelist.org. St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., Fridays after 9 a.m. Mass, (415) 648-5751. St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Blvd., Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass. 415.751.5275 Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/. St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond, Mon-Sat after 8 a.m. Mass, Sunday after 10:30 a.m. Mass. (415) 282.0141 St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue, Mon-Sat following the 8 a.m. Mass. info@SaintStephenSF. org (415) 681.2444. Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. (between 8th & 9th Aves); 1.415.751.0450, www.starparish.com; Tuesdays at Holy Hour (7-8 p.m.); Sats after the 8:30 a.m. Mass (9 a.m.); Sats at 3:20 p.m.; Sundays after the 8 a.m. Mass (9 a.m.); every second Sunday for Priests and Vocations at 3:00 p.m., all rosary prayers in church. St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., 415.452.9634. Sat at 4:30 p.m. before 5 p.m. Vigil Mass; Sundays at 7:30 p.m. before 8:00 p.m. Mass. First Fridays at 7:00 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament. 415.452.9634.
SAN MATEO COUNTY Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Mon-Fri following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Saturday following 8:00 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m. 650.323.7914 Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Mon-Sat approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass, (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, 285 Alvarado St., Brisbane, Every Tues: 5:30 p.m. 415.467.9727. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City, Mon-Sat, 7:50 a.m. before 8:15 a.m. Mass; (650) 366-3802; www.mountcarmel.org. St. Bartholomew Church, 600 Columbia Dr., San Mateo, Mon-Fri 7:30 a.m. preceding the 8:00 a.m. Mass (chapel). (650) 347.0701. St. Charles Church, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, Mon-Sat at 8:00 a.m. St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Mon-Sat, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass (650) 697.4730. St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152. St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Mon-Sat following the 8:30 a.m. Mass 650.345.6660 St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont, Mon/Tue/Wed, 7:30 p.m.; (650) 591-5937; www.saintmarksparish.com. St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, Rosary for Peace in the Merry Room of Fr. Lacey Hall, Friday mornings at 9:15 am. www.stmatthiasparish. org 650.366.9544 St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Mon-Sat 7:30 a.m., Mon and Wed 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net, 650.361.1411 St. Timothy Church, 1515 Dolan Way, San Mateo; Mon-Sat 7:30 a.m. preceding 8:00 a.m. Mass (main church), 650.342.2468. St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco. Mon-Sat 7:50 a.m. (650) 588.1455.
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ROLHEISER: Magnanimity FROM PAGE 13
affection on an ordinary morning where there’s no special circumstance, it would be no small, incidental matter. Something large would be being said. Conversely, consider another couple whose relationship is not close, where there is little care, little affection, little respect, and no habit of expressing affection upon parting. Such neglect would mean nothing. No slight, no intent, no harm, no sin, just lack of care as usual. Yes, some things can be a sin for one person and not for another. We’re invited both by Jesus and by what’s best inside us to become big enough of heart and mind to know that it’s a sin not to give a compliment, to know that even though biblically we may do capital punishment we still shouldn’t do it, and to know that we’re better women and men when we are bigger than any slight we experience within a given moment. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
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POPE NAMES CRITIC OF WAR ON DRUGS TO ADMINISTER MANILA ARCHDIOCESE
MANILA, Philippines – Pope Francis has appointed a new administrator of the Manila archdiocese following the Feb. 9 departure of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to assume a new post at the Vatican. Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo, a vocal critic of the Philippines’ “war on drugs,” has been named apostolic administrator of the archdiocese, reported Bishop Broderucanews.com. ick Pabillo The Vatican usually appoints an apostolic administrator to temporarily head a diocese when it becomes vacant. Bishop Pabillo, 64, was ordained a priest of the Salesian order in 1982 and has served as auxiliary bishop of Manila since May 2006. Ucanews.com reported the bishop has criticized President Rodrigo Duterte on several occasions. In 2018, Bishop Pabillo called Duterte’s remarks labeling God “stupid” as “blasphemous.” He also accused the president of making “irresponsible statements” when Duterte said he was wishing death on bishops whom he called useless. In 2017, Bishop Pabillo rejected an invitation from police for priests to observe anti-drug operations, saying it was “propaganda.” Cardinal Tagle left for the Vatican Feb. 9 to assume the leadership of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
led to the emigration of Christians and the need to follow the faithful pastorally in their adopted Western countries. They also presented the pope with a more detailed memorandum at the Feb. 8 meeting at the Vatican. The Vatican did not comment on the meeting, but, in a statement, Lebonese Cardinal Bechara Rai said he was “very happy” about the Holy Father’s awareness and concern regarding the churches’ affairs in the Middle East and the issues they face as well as “the importance of the presence of Christians, their role and mission” in coexisting with Muslims. Cardinal Rai said the meeting “was an occasion to emphasize the importance of the word and stance” of the pope “to our Christian peoples and our region, which live a model of coexistence with Muslims to build our homelands and preserve their rich heritage” as well as to stress the role of the Holy See “and its diplomatic relations with the international family in order to put an end to the wars and conflicts that our Arab world suffers from.” Syriac Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan noted that “in an atmosphere of frankness, respect, and appreciation,” Pope Francis reassured the patriarchs “that he was closely concerned with the situation in the Middle East, and he endeavored with all his strength to stop the powerful of this world from interfering in the affairs of the Middle East region.”
LIKE ST. PETER, BISHOPS MUST PROMOTE UNITY, ARCHBISHOP WESTER SAYS
VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Mass at the tomb of St. Peter and professing the Creed there reminds bishops of the importance of God’s love and mercy and the need always to promote the unity of the church, said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Presiding at Mass with his fellow bishops from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, the archbishop also gave thanks that all the bishops arrived on time for the start of their “ad limina” visits Feb. 10 after many of them were on flights rerouted because of storms over Ireland and England.
MIDEAST PATRIARCHS TELL POPE THEY’RE CONCERNED ABOUT CHRISTIAN SURVIVAL
BEIRUT – In a private meeting with Pope Francis, Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East had an opportunity to sound the alarm regarding the survival of Christians in the region as a result of persecution, extremism, economic insecurity and immigration to the West. They provided Pope Francis with an overview of the general conditions of their countries and regions – Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Egypt and the Holy Land – particularly wars and crises that have
Gathering before the tomb of the apostle highlights “the sense of unity we have as brothers in Christ,” said Archbishop Wester, the homilist and principal celebrant of the group’s Mass in the grotto of the Basilica of St. Peter. “As bishops, this is a great grace: to be able to pray together and to be able to express our unity with Francis,” the archbishop said. Archbishop Wester said he and his group had Mass the day before at the Shrine of Divine Mercy in the Church of the Holy Spirit near the Vatican, and that power of divine mercy is seen clearly in the life of St. Peter, who denied Jesus and yet was forgiven and entrusted with the leadership of the church. “Peter saw the look of love in the face of Jesus; he saw the imprint of grace deep within his eyes. This was the look of mercy,” the archbishop said. At the Last Supper, according to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus foretold the denial by St. Peter and his subsequent repentance. He told Peter: “Once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” “Peter took this encounter with the merciful Lord, and he used it to be strengthened so that he could be a source of unity in the church,” the archbishop said. “Peter knew the importance of unity.”
POPE TO CELEBRATE PENTECOST IN MALTA
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will celebrate Pentecost in Malta, the Mediterranean islandnation where St. Paul was shipwrecked and where thousands of migrants and refugees continue to seek welcome and shelter. The Vatican announced Feb. 10 that the pope would visit the islands of Malta and Gozo May 31, Pentecost. It is the first papal trip confirmed for 2020. A schedule for the trip was not released immediately, but the Vatican said the theme of the visit would be taken from the Acts of the Apostles’ description of how the Maltese people treated St. Paul and the 275 others aboard the storm-tossed boat: “They showed us unusual kindness.” CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Report: Deportees killed after return to El Salvador DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
MORELIA, Mexico – At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being sent back to their violent Central American country from the United States, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. The report, released Feb. 5, also documented “more than 70 others, who were beaten, sexually assaulted, extorted or assaulted” by perpetrators ranging from gangsters to intimate partners to police and security personnel. None of the findings surprised Catholic officials in the country, long a source of migrants because of civil war and later gang-driven violence and poverty. Church workers say deportees return to the same dangerous situations that forced them to flee in the first place. “We know this is very real, and I knew of cases,” said Rick Jones, adviser on migration for Catholic Relief Services in El Salvador. “It is sending a lot of people back
(CNS PHOTO/ANDRES MARTINEZ CASARES, REUTERS)
Migrants from Central America trying to reach the United States react as police approach them near Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2020. into harm’s way,” he said of deportations to El Salvador. “We still have a homicide rate of 32 for every 100,000. So people are still at risk.”
The report comes as migration to the United States via Mexico becomes more difficult and the Trump administration applies pressure on countries
to keep migrants from reaching the U.S. border. U.S. officials are forcing asylumseekers to await the outcomes of their claims in dangerous Mexican border cities. Some Hondurans and Salvadorans are now being returned to Guatemala, a country Catholic officials say cannot protect or provide for its own citizens and has little infrastructure for processing asylum claims. Between 2014 and 2018, just 18.2% of asylum claims by Salvadorans were recognized by U.S. courts, according to Human Rights Watch. An estimated 1.2 million Salvadorans – of a population of 6.45 million – live in the United States. Gangs originally founded in the United States made their way to El Salvador with deportees and grew powerful to the point they now control neighborhoods and run extortion rackets. Jones says the gangs have nationwide networks able to track down people not paying, making it almost impossible to relocate internally and forcing some to instead flee the country.
Jesuit provincials demand end to Nicaraguan harassment DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
MEXICO CITY – Jesuit provincials have demanded that Nicaraguan authorities end a “campaign of slander and aggressions” against the Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua and its rector, Jesuit Father Jose Alberto Idiaquez, “as well as other institutions and people linked to the Society of Jesus in Nicaragua.” A Feb. 7 statement published by the conference of Jesuit provincials of Latin America and the Caribbean and signed by more than 90 supporters – including many affiliated with Jesuit institutions – said it would “hold responsible” the president for any harm affecting staff or students at the school. “We deeply regret that the political crisis in Nicaragua continues to worsen and the possibility of dialogue between the government and the opposition has been interrupted, with the result being an increase in the suffering of the Nicaraguan people,” the statement said. “We denounce in the most firm and ample way possible ... the constant financial, economic and
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INTERFAITH COUNCIL EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY AFTER CATHEDRAL VANDALISM
There have been no arrests in the case so far. Pappas told Catholic San Francisco the attack shocked him when he heard about it. “Father Art (Albano) is on our board and St. Mary’s is one of our shelter sites, and we have historically very close connections to the cathedral. It felt like a violation of a very close partner in our interfaith work,” he said. In the aftermath of several terrorist attacks against religious congregations in the past year, the SFIC has placed an increasing emphasis on security in houses of worship. St. Mary’s Cathedral held a security workshop in September attended by more than 300.
Father Vincent Musaby’Imana, a priest of the Diocese of Kabale, Uganda, died Jan. 20. He was 52 years of age. Father Vincent had been in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to assist at St. Veronica Father Vincent Church, South San Musaby’Imana Francisco, while Father Charles Puthota, pastor, was on vacation. Father Vincent was known to many for his ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco between 2011 and 2019. He had served as a chaplain at California Pacific Medical Center and at UCSF Medical Center while
The San Francisco Interfaith Council, representing 800 faith communities and religious institutions, issued a statement of solidarity with the Archdiocese of San Francisco after a vandal left nine windows smashed at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Jan. 31. “Horrific incidents, as the vandalism suffered by the Cathedral, are a stark reminder that San Francisco is not exempt from the destructive behavior of those who seek to damage houses of worship,” Michael G. Pappas, the council’s executive director, wrote. “If anything, this costly incident has strengthened our collective resolve to address the issue in a united manner.”
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parish community, and for the coordination of a comprehensive musical program for a full liturgical cycle, including special events during major seasons. The Director of Music shall seek to involve the assembly in active and reverent participation in the liturgy. The Director of Music shall also grow the music ministry presence of the parish both within the parish and in outreach efforts in the neighborhood and community.
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• Plan music for all Masses, with special emphasis on the seasons and holidays of the Church calendar. • Play at 3 weekend Masses (three Sunday morning) as well as holy days, special Masses, and other liturgical celebrations throughout the year. • Conduct weekly choir rehearsals for adult volunteer choir • Oversee maintenance for the Schanz pipe organ and three pianos (Steinway grand, Baldwin grand, spinet).
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• Excellent organ proficiency, solid piano proficiency. • Solid choral conducting ability, experience building a choral program preferred. • Knowledge of music and liturgy in the Roman Catholic tradition preferred. • Degree in music preferred
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Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2020-2021 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position. Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to: Christine Escobar Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included. ARCHDIOCESAN STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION
The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)
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FRIDAY, FEB. 14
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HOLY LONGING: Weekend, silent retreat for men. An exploration of our holy longing and authentic desire for God through the lens of St. Ignatius’ spiritual exercises. Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. Information and registration at jrclosaltos.org.
SATURDAY, FEB. 22 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Monthly opportunity for the disabled and their caregivers to enjoy Mass, lunch and fellowship. 12-3 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. (415) 452-3500, or handicapables. com. Dates subject to change.
TUESDAY, FEB. 18 SUNDAY CATHEDRAL CONCERTS
MEDIEVAL MUSIC: An exploration of the rich beginnings of song and polyphony in Europe, from the splendid chants of the Notre Dame in Paris or Las Huelgas Monastery in Spain, to the evolving songs and poetry of the troubadours in France. 7:30 p.m. St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Visit stdominics.org.
St. Mary’s Cathedral at 1111 Gough St., San Francisco presents its free afternoon concert series each Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. Freewill donations. The concert series is longest continuously running weekly organ recital series in San Francisco led by cathedral organist and longtime musical director, Christoph Tietze, DSM. Enjoy the 4,951-pipe Ruffatti organ, built in Padua, Italy.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19 DIVORCE MINISTRY: A drop-in support group for separated or divorced Catholics meets the first and third Wednesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish’s O’Reilly Center, 451 Eucalyptus Dr., San Francisco. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 4226698 or grosskopf@usfca.edu.
FEB. 16: Clare Ghigo, soprano, with Luis Sanchez, piano FEB. 23: Iris Lan, organ
SACRED GAZE II: The second part of “The Sacred Gaze” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan will examine our encounters with God. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Most Holy Redeemer Church, Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco. Bill Osuna, bill3osuna@yahoo.com.
SUNDAY, FEB. 23 NOTES FOR NOURISHMENT: Interfaith Refugee Welcome hosts a free concert benefiting “Unaccompanied Minors,” a new program of Catholic Charities’ Center for Immigration, Legal and Support Services. Donations gratefully accepted. 4 p.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco (510) 540-8136 missiondolores.org/90.
MARCH 8: Gail Archer, organ
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MARCH 15: Mathew Fish and David Gonzalez, guitar duo
DISCERNMENT RETREAT: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University’s annual discernment retreat for men 21 years and above. Attendance does not imply any further obligation. 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. Father Cameron Faller, (415) 614-5683, or faller.cameron@sfarch.org stpsu.edu/is-godcalling-you.
MARCH 22: Jin Kyung Lim, organ MARCH 29: Brian Swager, harp APRIL 5: Benedict XVI Institute event
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: The 40 Days for Life spring campaign in San Francisco runs from February 26 to April 5 at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St. (Mondays through Saturdays) and Sundays at the upcoming Planned Parenthood location at 1522 Bush St. 40daysforlife.com/san-francisco or call (408) 840-DAYS (3297).
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St. Ignatius parishes invite families to attend a screening and discussion of the documentary “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age.” Pizza dinner included. 5:30 p.m., St. Ignatius Parish Fromm Hall-Maier Room, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Visit screenagersmovie.com, or contact ttcarino@ usfca.edu.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 28-MARCH 1 RETROUVAILLE: Tens of thousands of couples experiencing marital difficulty have attended this program. The next local program will be held Feb. 28-Mar. 1 in north San Jose. Register at HelpOurMarriage.com or get more information at (415) 893-1005 or SF@ RetroCA.com. RETREAT FOR LAWYERS: 37th Annual Retreat for lawyers and other members of the legal profession led by Father Eddie Fernandez, SJ, at El Retiro Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. Registration and event details at jrclosaltos.org.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 29-MARCH 1 COUPLES RETREAT: Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend, St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. To register, email applications@ sanjosewwme.org. For more information contact (408) 782-1413 or sanjosewwme.org.
SATURDAY, FEB. 29 WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MASS: Archbishop Cordileone celebrating Mass for all married couples celebrating anniversaries from five years up in five-year increments. 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. Register at sfarchdiocese.org/wedding-anniversary-massmisa-de-aniversario-de-bodas, or call (415) 614-5547.
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CHASTITY PRESENTATION: “Purified” is an event is about chastity for families for ages 13 and up. The event includes a presentation by international speaker and author Jason Evert about dating relationships and God’s plan for human love. 7-9 p.m. at St. VincentSt. Patrick High School, 1500 Benicia Road, Vallejo. $20. Registration at chastity.com/purified, or call (707)280-0717.
CRAB BASH: A fundraiser for St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco. $55 per person. 5 p.m. no-host bar and reception with 6 p.m. crab dinner. Purchase tickets at saicsf.org/events.html, or contact Rose Stanfel at (415) 648-2008.
RITE OF ELECTION: Please join Archbishop Cordileone in receiving and enrolling this year’s catechumens and welcoming our candidates moving toward full communion in the church at the Easter Vigil. 4 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. (415) 614-5586 or (415) 614-5505.
CEMETERY MASS: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel is offered for all those interred at the cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 11 a.m. Father Michael Strange, vcelebrant. 1500 Mission Road, Colma. holycrosscemeteries.com.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Free spiritual support group for people who have experienced a loss. Third Friday of every month, 10:30-noon, Msgr. Bowe room, St. Mary’s Cathedral. Facilitated by Deacon Chris Sandoval. (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
SAT.-SUN., MARCH 7 & 8 POST-ABORTION RETREAT: A weekend retreat for women led by Father Vito Perrone, Contemplative of St. Joseph with the Daughters of Carmel at a confidential location. Donation of $50 is suggested but can be waived. Call (415) 614-5567, email projectrachel@sfarch.org, or register online at sfarchdiocese.org/rachel.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7 PEACE MASS: First Saturday Mass for reparation and peace in the world. 8:30 a.m., St. Thomas More Church, 1300
PADRE PIO GROUP: First Saturday of every month, 10:15 a.m. at the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. Includes relic veneration, adoration, confession, the rosary, Benediction and Mass at 12:15. (415) 986-4557, or email info@shrinesf.org
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 FREE MISSION CONCERT: Recital series 2020, 4 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco with Angela Kraft Cross, piano, Jerome Lenk, organ. Free admission, $10 donation suggested. (415) 621-8203, or music@missiondolores.org.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12 EPIPHANY BENEFIT: A party and musical comedy show hosted by the Epiphany League benefiting vulnerable women and children served by San Francisco’s Epiphany Center. $250. 6 p.m., The Family, 545 Powell St. San Francisco. Visit TheEpiphanyCenter.org or call (415) 351-4055.
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FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 20-22 IGNATIUS FOR WOMEN: A weekend, non-silent retreat on Ignatian Spirituality for Women led by Mary da Silva Abinante and Rita Dollard O’Malley. El Retiro Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. Registration and event details at jrclosaltos.org.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 MEN’S CONFERENCE: “Called to Lead,” San Francisco Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference, will be held 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. $45, $20 under 20 years of age. Mass with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. Register at sfarch.org/sfbaymen, or call 415-614-5680 with questions.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20 GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Free spiritual support group for people who have experienced a loss. Third Friday of every month, 10:30-noon, Msgr.
AMAZON SYNOD: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose’s Center for Education & Spirituality presents a talk on the Amazon synod by San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy. $20. From 2-5 p.m. at the Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. Register before Feb. 25 at http://bit. ly/2020McElroyAmSnd or call (510) 933-6360. SEND CALENDAR INFORMATION TO CSF@SFARCH.ORG. Please include event dates and times; full address of venue and sponsoring organization; relevant costs; contact information (email/phone/website).
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“Use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace.” 1 Peter 4:10
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ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL 2020 GOAL $6,820,000
“For almost a quarter of a millennium, the Church in San Francisco has been a beacon of hope, spreading the light of Christ to all in our community. I ask you to be generous with your prayers and with your material support for the mission of the Church here in our Archdiocese.”
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
Universal Church & Communications 26% $1,751,000
YOUR GIFTS CHANGE LIVES Clergy Support 30% $2,070,000
Your gift to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal allows us to provide ministries, programs and services that benefit parishes and people throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Annual Appeal is an opportunity for all in the Archdiocese to come together as one community to support one another and all whom we serve.
Parish Ministry & Schools 19% $1,280,000
Social Ministry 25% $1,719,000
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CHANCERY BUDGET FOR 2020 SOURCES OF INCOME $ 15,800,000
AAA 2020 43 % $6,820,000
Other Sources 57% $ 8,980,000
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Clergy Support helps those who care for us. It supports priests, deacons, and seminarians in their ministry to the people of the Archdiocese. This ministry includes: Council of Priests, Vicar General, Vicar for Clergy, Clergy Education, Priests Education Fund, Permanent Diaconate, Diaconate Formation, Office of Consecrated Life, Office of Vocations, Priests Retirement Fund, Serra Clergy House and Priests Elder Care.
Diaconate Formation Priests Retirement Fund Active Priests Support Seminarian Formation Priests Education Fund
Social Ministry
Through its variety of social ministries, the Archdiocese is able to thoughtfully engage with its diverse communities. Supported offices and ministries include: Hospital Chaplains, the Tribunal, Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Public Policy, Justice and Peace, Respect Life, Prison Ministry, Ethnic Ministry, Chinese Ministry, Ministry for the Spanish Speaking, Filipino Ministry, Ecumenical and Interreligious Programs.
Hospital & Prison Chaplains Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministries Respect Life Justice & Peace Ecumenical & Interreligious Programs Ministry Support in 22 Languages
Parish Ministry & Schools
The Archdiocese provides additional funding for its parish schools, varied educational programs and financial aid. Supported offices and ministries include: Department of Pastoral Ministry, Faith Formation Youth & Young Adult, Office of Worship, Marriage and Family Life, Teacher Incentive Grants, Alliance for Mission District Schools and Child and Youth Protection.
22,950 Catholic School Students 2,890 Teachers & Staff 68 Teacher Grants Premarital & Marriage Support Office of Faith Formation Office of Worship
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Watch Archbishop Cordileone’s 2020 Annual Appeal video message: SFArch.org/AAA February 13, 2020 Dear Friends in Christ: On behalf of all who need and depend on the ministries and services of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, I thank you for your commitment to our faith and your support of our mission. As Catholics, we use our gifts and talents to serve others. The Archdiocesan Annual Appeal (AAA) provides a unique opportunity to do so by enabling us to unite with parishioners throughout the ninety-one parishes in the three counties of our Archdiocese - San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin - and serve our greater community. The theme for this year’s Archdiocesan Annual Appeal is “Use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace.” (1 Peter 4:10). By responding to God’s call to stewardship and grace and participating in the Annual Appeal, we are collectively able to support such varied and critical needs as parish ministries, youth and young adults, our schools, priestly formation, ministering to the poor, social ministries, and the greater Church, among others. As the result of your generosity and that of thousands of your fellow members of our Archdiocese, we provide critical assistance and resources to people in need – and do so in a way that our individual parishes would not be able to on their own. Our mission as a Church and people of the Catholic faith continue, and the needs are ongoing, so I ask you to participate in this year’s Annual Appeal. Your contribution is a tangible expression of your commitment to bring Christ to others. It reinforces the vital nature of our greater mission, enhances our ability to teach, spread, and celebrate the faith, and makes a tangible difference in the lives of countless individuals. All gifts to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, regardless of amount, are greatly appreciated and will be very beneficial. I thank you for your demonstrations of faith that continue to inspire me, for your support of your own parish, and for your commitment to the greater Church. With my gratitude for your continued support of our Archdiocese, and with my prayerful best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours in our Lord,
Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco
Ways to Give Only you can decide what gift amount is right for you in light of your circumstances and the blessings God has given you. For your convenience you may make your contribution over time. Please see the table to the right for budgeting purposes. • Online (by credit card or checking account): Please note that you can take full advantage of the benefits offered by your credit card, such as bonus points and airline miles. • Using the enclosed brochure (by credit card, check, or cash): Please make checks payable to “Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2020.” You may send your completed donation brochure directly to the Archdiocese (the address is pre-printed on the form). • Stocks, Bonds or Mutual Funds: Donations of stock offer a way to make a charitable gift without having to utilize cash funds. In addition, a stock donor may be able to benefit from capital gains tax savings. For more information on how to donate stocks, bonds or mutual funds, please contact the Office of Development: (415) 614-5580, development@sfarch.org. • Matching Gifts: Many employers have matching gift programs which provide employees with the opportunity to enhance their charitable contributions. Please contact your company’s Human Resource professional to find out whether your company has a matching gift program.
Suggested Gift Plans Total Gifts
1st Payment
10 Monthly Payments
$5,000
$500
$450
$2,000
$200
$180
$1,000
$100
$90
$800
$80
$72
$500
$50
$45
$300
$30
$27
$200
$20
$18
$150
$15
$13.50
$100
$10
$9
For more information, please contact your parish or the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email: development@sfarch.org A self-addressed AAA donation brochure is enclosed for your convenience.