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Cardinal warns against being silent, in error about Catholic faith CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Chinese Catholics venerate ancestors in welcoming New Year
Bishop Ignatius Wang, born in Beijing and ordained in Hong Kong before his long service as priest and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, leads the Ancestor Veneration Rite at Chinese New Year Mass Feb. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The veneration prayer asks God “to renew all creation” and in “following the tradition handed down to us, we reverently offer you incense, flowers, fruits and wine.”
VATICAN CITY – To keep silent about the truths of the Catholic faith or to teach the contrary is a form of religious deception that comes from the antiChrist, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller. The purpose of the church and its members, he said, is to lead people to Jesus, so all Catholics, but especially priests and bishops, “have a responsibility to recall these fundamental truths” and to strengthen the faith “by confessing the truth which is Jesus Christ himself.” The German theologian, who was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017, wrote what he called a “Manifesto of SEE CARDINAL, PAGE 16
Conference explores laity’s responsibility for church NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
While lay men and women have taken on more roles in the church, a recent conference in Berkeley took a deeper look at the vocation of the laity and their connection to the mission of the church. At the annual convocation of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology’s College of Fellows Feb. 1 and 2, participants discussed the ways the laity are active in the church today, and how their role could be expanded. The conference’s theme – “The Role of the Laity in the Church Today” – was selected early last year, the school’s communications direc-
‘The parish has always been the place where Catholic community thrives, but this is becoming less and less the case. Faith formation is not happening well from the pulpit, within the parish or in our Catholic schools.’ DOMINICAN FATHER MICHAEL SWEENEY
for the laity, said Father Sweeney. “All agency is in the hands of sacramental ministers, since they control the means of saving souls,” he said. As a result, he said, lay Catholics tend to identify the church with the hierarchy. But significant changes have occurred in parishes, Father Sweeney said. “The parish has always been the place where Catholic community thrives, but this is becoming less and less the case. Faith formation is not happening well from the pulpit, within the parish or in our Catholic schools.” The Second Vatican Council and subsequent papal documents such as Pope John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation
In his opening talk, Dominican tor Heidi McKenna told Catholic Father Michael Sweeney, the school’s San Francisco, but the clergy abuse past president, spoke about two parascandals made the theme “even more digms of the church’s mission: care for timely.” souls and proclamation of the Gospel. The convocation every year brings Care for souls, which focuses on the together Catholic laity to discuss isway to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country. parish as the center of the church’s sues facing the church from a multi-A personal a flag honoring your loved military service it removes anyone's significant roleand would like to donate disciplinary perspective. If you have receivedmission, SEE CONFERENCE, PAGE 20
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NEED TO KNOW NEW WEBSITE FOR CATHEDRAL: Visit SMCSF.org for St. Mary’s Cathedral’s new website. You’ll find photos, information on the cathedral parish and upcoming events, as well as a message from Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Visitors to the old address will be redirected for a short time but soon the old address will be inoperative. CLERICUS BASKETBALL GAME: The now annual Clericus Classic Basketball Game will be played March 22, 6:30 p.m., Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, 1055 Ellis St., San Francisco. Once again, priests of the archdiocese and St. Patrick’s seminarians will lace up their sneakers, take to the hardwood, and dribble their way to glory. The game is in the SHCP gym; parking is available in the Cathedral parking lot, a block from the school. Tickets are $10 adults, $5 students. They will be available at the door, and by calling (415) 614-5517. HELPING HANDS: Volunteers are wanted at St. Anthony’s Dining Room in San Francisco. Shifts are varied and the need is daily. Help the homeless and low-income guests at the historic dining room. The professionally structured volunteer program provides participants with an empowering and educational experience. Service with St. Anthony’s is more than volunteerism; it’s an opportunity to connect with the community through shared moments of compassion, and to experience the fulfillment of creating positive change. Hours are 9:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m., shifts vary in length from 1-4 hours. Contact Marie O’Connor volunteer@stanthonysf.org stanthonysf.org. HOLY GROUND: “Walking on Holy Ground with your Dominican Sisters,” April 28, May 5, 2-4 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. Register by April 19, http://bit. ly/2019HolyGround or (510) 933-6360. Freewill offering. “Dominican Sisters will share their story and lead you through this Holy Ground.”
ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE’S SCHEDULE FEB. 20: Chancery meetings and seminary board meeting; Mass for Candidacy, 5 p.m., seminary FEB. 21: Bishop and vocational directors meeting, seminary FEB. 22: Mass, Cristo Rey, Carmel; priest personnel board meeting FEB. 23: Mass, Nativity Parish, 8 a.m. FEB. 25: Province meeting FEB. 26: Clergy Study Day, cathedral FEB. 28: Mass of the Americas, Tijuana cathedral
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Kenneth Ryan, Evangeline Carlos and Bill Widmer, left to right, are pictured during individual pilgrimage trips to Lourdes, France, following diagnoses of life-threatening illnesses. The three participated in the World Day of the Sick Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 2. Ryan and Widmer are Knights in the Order of Malta, which hosted the Mass.
Sharing the grief and grace of living with an affliction Sacrament and the rosary is helping her cope with the physical, emotional and spiritual distress of her condition. She found herself asking God why she must go Evangeline Carlos of San Mateo learned she had through so much pain until a film on the Shroud of metastatic lung cancer after applying for a nursing Turin shown by her parish humbled her. assistant job that required a chest X-ray as part of the “When I saw how the crown of thorns had been hiring process. pushed down into Christ’s scalp to amplify his pain,” Carlos, a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary she said, “I told him Lord, whatever pain I have is Parish in Belmont, was looking forward to working nothing compared to yours.” with children after caring for a terminally ill cancer Last year, Carlos traveled to Lourdes with the Order patient when she received her diagnosis in March of of Malta, an experience she’s holding in memory as 2017. she waits to get test results about two new nodules “I was so angry at God,” said Carlos, 61, who offered found in her lungs. one of the readings at the World Day of the Sick Mass “When I went to Lourdes I got a gift I cannot repay,” at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 2. “I’d been taking care said Ken Ryan, a Knight of Malta who was diagnosed of people for years including my mother who had in 1999 with Stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. returned to the Philippines. Now I was sick and all Ryan, who is master of properties for the San Franalone.” cisco Ballet, said he doesn’t know if the six cycles of Archdiocese of San Francisco’s World Day of Religious ChurchThe Goods & Candles Gifts & Books chemotherapy, the stem cell transplant, the radiation the Sick Mass has been hosted annually since 2008 or the pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2001 is the reason he is by local members of the Western Association of the cancer-free almost 20 years later. Order of Malta. The lay Catholic order of uniformed “What I tell people is that everyone who goes to Knights and Dames of Malta defend the faith and care Lourdes gets a miracle,” he said. “It may not be the one for the poor and sick in 120 countries. Each year the you want but you’ll get what you need.” order takes a group of the 5afflicted by applicalocationschosen in California Helping the “malade,” a French word for the sick tion to the healing waters of Lourdes. used by the Order of Malta, is “his passion,” he said, Central to the Mass held on or near the feast of Our Your Local Store: Lady of Lourdes on Feb. 11 is the sacrament of the sick despite his “dream job” with the ballet. He is the pri369 Grand Ave., S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 mary organizer of San Francisco’s World Day of the for those suffering from illness, anointing of the hands Neara sprinkled SF Airport - Exitof101 Frwy @ Grand Sick Mass. of caregivers and blessing all in attenBill Widmer, a Church of the Nativity parishioner, dance with holy water from Lourdes. www.cotters.com cotters@cotters.com has been to Lourdes four times. The first three times Catholic San Francisco talked with Carlos and he served sick pilgrims; the fourth time he was one. others about the physical and spiritual challenges of When he was diagnosed with a rare form of a comliving with a chronic or life-threatening illness after mon cancer in 2017, it was Widmer’s turn to be pushed the Mass concelebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. in the traditional wheeled carts for the sick at Lourdes. Cordileone and nearly a dozen local priests. “There are times I get down,” said Widmer, 63, who Her daily dose of oral chemotherapy has comprois a professor of operations management at Menlo Colmised her ability to work, drive or fit into her clothing, lege in Atherton. said Carlos. She couldn’t afford to stay in the home But he said the upside of having a serious illness she shared with her mother and now lives in a single is that you are “happy for every day” and “hear the rented room. Gospel like it was written for you.” Carlos said daily Mass, adoration of the Blessed CHRISTINA GRAY
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Father Peter Zhai, director of Chinese Ministry for the archdiocese, and Father Dominic Savio Lee, parochial vicar at St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo, offer incense for ancestors at a shrine set up especially for the Chinese New Year Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 9. The Veneration Prayer thanks God for “our holy ancestors of generations past, who established the culture and values passed down to us through the ages.” Left, a Dance of Prayer is also a part of the Ancestor Rite expressing “gratitude to God for ancestors and marks the joy of the day,” said Father Zhai.
Chinese Catholics celebrate New Year as ‘family of God’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
With rites special to their culture and rites close to every Catholic’s heart, the Chinese Catholic community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco welcomed the Lunar New Year Feb. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The New Year commenced Feb. 5. Retired Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang was principal celebrant of the day’s Mass that welcomed more than 500 worshippers to the cathedral. Bishop Wang, who was born and ordained in China, also presided over an Ancestors Veneration. Languages used for the day’s prayer and song included English, Mandarin and Cantonese. Concelebrants included Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, retired Auxiliary Bishop William Justice and retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh. Divine Word Father Peter Zhai, director for Chinese ministry in the archdiocese, was homilist. “It is that time of the year again, when we, as a family of God, gather together to celebrate Lunar New Year,” Father Zhai said in the day’s program. “At this special occasion, the richness of Chinese culture is expressed in its fullness with beautiful tra-
ditions and customs. Above all, recognizing that God is the source of everything including our cultural heritage, we, Chinese Catholics celebrate the New Year with much spiritual depth.” The celebration, he said, is “a time of family, the family we share in God” and “a time of faith, which is the assurance of eternal happiness from God.” A New Year Banquet followed the Mass in the cathedral’s downstairs halls.
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“It was a very joyful celebration with performances, such as Lion Dance, Prism Choir and Chinese Zither and many other entertainments,” Father Zhai told Catholic San Francisco. The priest also offered “great gratitude to all who joined the Chinese Community to celebrate the New Year of Pig” and thanked supporters for their “continuous support to our Chinese communities and Chinese ministry.”
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New USCCB council member ‘honored to be a voice for my fellow lay Catholics’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
The adage to give anything you want done to a busy person certainly rings true with Tim Connors of St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park. The husband, dad, philanthropist and venture capitalist has just donned another hat as a member of the National Advisory Council of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. NAC members are recommended for the council by his or her bishop. Tim Connors “I’ve gotten to know Archbishop Cordileone very well from my work on the Finance Council for the archdiocese and on shared pilgrimages to Lourdes with the Order of Malta,” Tim told me via email. “As we were discussing the church and key strategic decisions we face, the archbishop described the NAC to me and inquired about my interest.” Tim is happy to expand on ways he can be of assistance to the church. “I’m excited now to be able to help at the conference level, where many of the key decisions of the church are made,” Tim said. “I can’t imagine a more important time for the U.S. bishops to have advice from laity and I’m honored to be a voice for my fellow lay Catholics.” Tim will serve a four-year term and will be one of 48 members of the NAC that in addition to lay men and women includes bishops, priests, deacons, and men and women religious. “The council works closely with the USCCB Administrative Committee,” Tim said. “We get the documents that will be discussed by the bishops ahead of time and give our feedback and recommendations.” The NAC meets twice a year in anticipation of the spring and fall meetings of the bishops’ Administrative Committee. Tim’s first meeting will begin March 7 in Maryland not far from the bishops’ headquarters in the nation’s capital. “The items on its March and September agendas are reviewed and discussed by the lay, clergy, and religious members of the bishops’ National Advisory Council who make formal, and often specific, recommendations to the Administrative Committee,” says instruction from the NAC bylaws. Tim and his wife, Wendy, have been married for 24 years and have been parishioners of St. Raymond’s for more than 20 years. They have three daughters, Emma, a freshman at University of Notre Dame, Tim’s alma mater, and twins Grace and Gretchen, seniors at Sacred Heart Prep, Atherton. Wendy is an alumna of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and taught fourth grade
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Mercy Sister Edith Hurley celebrated her 98th birthday with family and friends on Nov 10, 2018 at her community’s Marian Oaks in Burlingame where she now resides. Sister Edith’s former students, including retired St. Cecilia pastor Msgr. Michael Harriman whom Sister Edith taught in first grade at St. Catherine of Siena School in Burlingame, gathered around to share memories. Born in San Francisco, Sister Edith is celebrating her 80th jubilee as a religious in August. “She is legendary for her good spirits and positive attitude,” the sisters said. “Proud of her Irish heritage, she is a longstanding member of the Rebel Cork Ladies.” Sister Edith taught in elementary schools in the Bay Area and Southern California for more than 40 years including in addition to St. Catherine’s, San Francisco’s Holy Name, St. Gabriel’s, St. Stephen’s, and St. Peter’s. For a time, Sister Edith took a sabbatical in Sydney, Australia and fell in love with the country and the Sisters of Mercy Community there. “I loved the spirit of it all and the people there,” Sister Edith said. She retired from active ministry in 2005. Pictured from left with Sister Edith at the birthday fete are Joanne Quadt, Peter Stent, Peter Theriot, Mike Horowitz, Msgr. Harriman and Jim Shypertt. before beginning to write content for educational software. After Notre Dame, Tim earned a graduate degree in engineering at Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His firm, PivotNorth Capital, invests in early-stage technology companies. GOOD NEWS: Daly City’s St. Andrew Parish St. Vincent de Paul Conference held its Christmas distribution of non-perishable food, fresh produce, and Safeway gift cards for families in need Dec. 15. In addition, there was a Target gift card for each family member from the generosity of St. Andrew parishioners. “Due to the overwhelming support of parishioners, there was an abundance of gift cards,” the conference said. “These extra gift cards were given to the San Mateo SVdP District Office to distribute to those seeking assistance at SVdP Homeless Help Centers
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St. Jean Vianney relic touring archdiocese The relic of the heart of St. Jean Vianney, patron saint of parish priests, will visit locations around the Archdiocese of San Francisco Feb. 28-March 3 as part of a national tour. The public schedule with note of accompanying rites and times is listed below. The saint died Aug. 4, 1859, and was canonized by Pope Pius XI May 31, 1925, for a life of “heroic penance and prayer to draw people away from sin and closer to God,” the Knights of Columbus said in a description of the tour. Visit kofc. org/vianney.
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Events to help observe Lent are taking shape around the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Father David Pettingill will take the faithful through the triduum Gospels with “Reflections on the Gospel,” March 7, 14, 21, and 28, 7-8:30 p.m., St. Emydius Church, San Francisco. A $20 donation includes all talks. Sign-ups with 40 Days for Life are now available at https://40daysforlife. com/sanfrancisco. The campaign begins Ash Wednesday, March 6 and
lan Blvd., South San Francisco, 8:40 a.m. Mass with veneration through Mass at noon, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant. Holy Hour with confessions available 11 a.m.-noon. Contact Father Ray Reyes, vicar for clergy, reyesr@sfarch.org.
March 2
OUR LADY OF LORETTO CHURCH, 1806 Novato Blvd, Novato, vigil Masses at 5 p.m. in English, 7 p.m. in Spanish. Contact Father Brian Costello, pastor, frbrian@ollnovato.org.
March 3
ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7:30, 9, 11 a.m. and 1p.m. Masses with veneration of relic after each Mass. Contact Father Art Albano, pastor, albano.arturo@sfarch.org. continues through Palm Sunday, April 14 from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. More information at (408) 840-3297. St. Mary’s Cathedral will livestream the following Lenten liturgies: Ash Wednesday Mass, March 6, 12:10 p.m.; First Sunday of Lent Mass, March 10, 11 a.m.; Rite of Election March 10, 4 p.m.; Chrism Mass, April 11, 5:30 p.m.; Palm Sunday Mass, April 14, 11 a.m.; Holy Thursday Mass, April 18, 7:30 p.m.; Good Friday liturgy, April 19, 1 p.m.; Easter Vigil, April 20, 9 p.m.; Easter, April 21, 11 a.m.
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Consecrated Life Mass: Religious ‘united in what they do and why they do it’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
One of 65 women and men religious celebrating jubilees in 2019 said in remarks delivered during the Consecrated Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 3 that those who choose religious life can be wholly different in background, ministry and age but are “united in what they do and why they do it.” “First and foremost, we have a very deep life of prayer, one that brings us into an ongoing relationship with God, a relationship that started years ago and continues to feed the work that we do,” said Sister Pauline Borghello, marking 60 years as a Mercy Sister. Sister Pauline was asked by Sister Rosina Conrotto, PBVM, director of the office for consecrated life to deliver a statement at the end of the annual Mass during which jubiliarians marking from 25 to 80 years of religious life renewed their vows. Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, was principal celebrant and homilist. Concelebrants included retired Bishop William J. Justice, Jesuit Father John Piderit and Jesuit Father George Schultze. Sister Pauline described the vast array of educational and geographical backgrounds of men and women religious, their different ages at entrance into consecrated life, disparate living environments and their salaried and just as often, unsalaried work. “They are nurses, they are nursing instructors, they are elementary, secondary and higher education teachers,” she said. “They are administrators of schools and hospitals and CEOs of organizations such as Mercy Housing and Mercy Beyond Borders.” Others are spiritual directors, artists, librarians, lawyers and social workers, she said. Some provide hospice care, attend to the poor and elderly while a few “go to the borders” and the streets of San Francisco to support social justice issues and the common good. “Very few understand how difficult it has been in recent decades, the decades that most of you have spent in religious life, to remain faithful to God in the context of a call to consecrated life,” Bishop Christian said in his homily. At a banquet following the Mass, Mercy Sister Mary Edith Hurley talked cheerily to Catholic San Francisco about her remarkable 80 years of religious life. “I was 18 when I entered and next year I’ll be 100,” she said. She grew up in St. Peter Parish in the Mission District, which she called at the time a “traditional Irish parish,” and was educated by Mercy Sisters. She said she “could see they had a good life” and spent more than 40 years as a teacher in Catholic schools, the last 10 as principal of Holy Name School. “Even before I was in the eighth grade, I used to daydream that the sisters would take me when I graduated from eighth grade,” said Presentation Sister Mary Christina Pizzorno. She taught at Our Lady of Lourdes in East Los Angeles for 29 years. Sister Chistina said she was called to serve but didn’t know how she would. “I didn’t know I was going to be a teacher,” she said. “I just knew that God wanted me and I didn’t know for what.”
(PHOTOS BY DEBRA GREENBLAT/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO).
Jubiliarians and celebrants gathered after the Consecrated Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Feb. 3. First row, left to right: Sister Janet Rozzano, RSM; Sister Edith Hurley, RSM; Sister Mary Bridget Flaherty, RSCJ; Sister Nancy Morris, RSCJ; Sister Fintan Keaveney, CSN; Sister Lucy Calvillo, RSM; Sister Kathleen Dolan, RSCJ. Second row, left to right: Sister Pauline Borghello, RSM; Sister Maria Dina Danos, OP/Phil; Sister Loraine Polacci, CSJC; Sister Maria Concepcion Rangel, OJS; Sister Mary Stella, Sister Anne Bertain, OP/SF; Sister Maggie Glynn, FSP; Sister Judith Cannon, RSM; Sister Christina Pizzorno, PBVM; Sister Sharon Brannen, FdCC. Third row, left to right: Father John Piderit, SJ; Sister Joan Marie O’Donnell, RSM; Sister Anne Dolan, OP/SR; Sister Maximiliana Erickson, MC; Sister John Marie Kischuck, MC; Sister Patricia O’Sullivan, PBVM; Sister Antonio Heaphy, PBVM/U; Sister Patricia Hunter, SNJM; Sister Ann Gilchrist, SNJM. Fourth row, left to right: retired Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP; Jesuit Father George Schultze, Sister Bernardine Sattler, FSP.
80 years: Sister Mary Edith Hurley, RSM
25 years: Sister Sharon Brannen, FdCC
60 years: Sister Pauline Borghello, RSM
70 years: Sister Mary Christina Pizzorno, PBVM
25-year jubilarian Sister Mary Stella, CHF, prays during the Consecrated Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 3.
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Above, four generations of the Garcia family gathered for the reception after the Wedding Anniversary Mass Feb. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Seated are Carmen and Jesus Garcia, who celebrated 72 years of marriage, along with their daughters Carmen and Juanita and great-granddaughter Audrey. Left, Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian incenses the rings of married couples during the Mass. Bishop Christian thanked the couples for “the witness of their love.”
Married couples show archdiocese the reality of love NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Whether they had celebrated their wedding five years ago or 65 years ago, a special archdiocesan Mass honored the witness to love provided by married couples. At the archdiocese’s annual Wedding Anniversary Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 9, couples who had reached a new five-year increment in their marriage, along with any couples married more than 40 years years, renewed their vows and had their rings blessed. About 90 couples participated, with a total attendance of 400. Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian celebrated Mass and delivered the homily. He said the sacramental marriage bond gives an insight into the possibility, reality, and goal of love and makes a couple a witness to those who are not married. “We who are not married, and I think many who are, are grateful for the witness of those married couples who have faced all kinds of difficulties and have done so successfully,” he said. Sitting in the Patrons’ Hall at a reception afterward, Michael Stallman told Catholic San Francisco he and his wife
Megan decided to come because “it’s a nice thing to solemnize and mark significant anniversaries. It’s not just a party or celebration, the sacraments have real power. I don’t think it’s possible to live marriage vows well without those graces.” Celebrating 10 years of marriage, the Stallmans said the “greatest blessing” of their marriage is their five children. Clarence and Annie Bryant, parishioners at St. Emydius in San Francisco, are celebrating 65 years of marriage, and have known each other for 75 years. “We came because we wanted to celebrate the blessings of marriage,” Clarence Bryant said. “Going to church together had a very important part in our relationship. That kind of environment helped a lot through the tough times,” he said. Annie Bryant said churches used to be open more, and she would stop to pray while running errands. “Those few minutes were very important,” she said. After nearly a lifetime spent together, Clarence Bryant said he has learned that “each decade, each day of marriage is different, there is no best. Each day is an adjustment, just as it is in life,
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and our marriage is really a microcosm of life.” Many of the couples spoke of the importance of loyalty and dedication in marriage. Nivardo Martinez, who will celebrate 25 years of marriage with his wife Socorro, said marriage is “a long way to go but you never know what you’re going to find. And it’s up and down. But you realize those problems aren’t going to separate you. You never think about divorce.” The couple celebrating the most time together were Jesus and Carmen Garcia, who were married 72 years ago.
The two raised 13 children to adulthood, and have 26 grandchildren and 47 greatgrandchildren. Carmen Garcia said two important qualities in their long marriage were “respect and faith in God.” Their daughter, Juanita Gurtner, said her parents’ marriage had taught her “patience – patience with all those kids.” Archdiocesan marriage and family life director Ed Hopfner, whose office sponsored the Mass, said it was “inspiring to see all these people. It’s an incredible witness to the beauty of marriage and fidelity - and how often do we recognize this in the church?”
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Theology, history, canon law may figure in lay role in addressing crisis MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – A panel of academics at a Feb. 6 conference on the clergy sex abuse crisis noted that the current crisis is not the first scandal to confront the church, and that the church has had trouble putting those scandals to rest. The clergy has had “the power to correct themselves,” said Carlos Eire, a professor of history and religious studies at Yale University, “but throughout all of this time, that power has been used very unevenly and ineffectively.” Reform is a constant in church history, he added, because “corruption is a constant in human history.” Eire was one of three panelists at the second in a series of programs called “Healing the Breach of Trust” at The Catholic University of America in Washington. The Feb. 6 program was subtitled “The Role of the Laity in Responding to the Crisis: Theological and Historical Foundations.” It was sponsored by the university’s Institute of Human Ecology. Even though Christianity had been given official status by emperors, church leaders still sought a way to “immunize” the church from secular law. There were “Caesars of all sorts, whose intentions conflicted with Christian authority,” Eire said. One negative, he added, was that by immunizing itself from civil authority, it also immunized itself “from all the laity.” “This is like shining a light on a big mess,” he said.
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‘Referring to the church as a monarchy is a mistake’ dating back to the Reformation, as well as references to the laity along the lines of ‘pay, pray and obey’ and that the two rightful positions of the laity are ‘sitting before the pulpit and kneeling before the altar.’ MICHAEL ROOT
Systematic theology professor, Catholic University and children, yet the church “wanted to try priests in their own courts and not those of the crown,” Eire said. “(St. Thomas Becket’s) efforts to impose clerical dress or to have priests foreswear concubines were unsuccessful,” he added, although St. Thomas Becket, who was archbishop of Canterbury, “didn’t try too hard,” either, he noted. On Christmas Day, St. Thomas Becket excommunicated bishops who took King Henry’s position. The king, livid, uttered the long-remembered statement, “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” Four of the king’s knights took that remark as an invitation and murdered the Canterbury archbishop. Despite the context of his martyrdom, the people insisted, Eire said, on “santo subito” – immediate sainthood; he was canonized just three years later, in 1173. Eire said the case resonated so strongly that in 1540, “Henry VIII, who took over the church, ordered Becket’s bones to be destroyed and all mention of his name obliterated.”
Boniface VIII vs. King Philip IV
Another faceoff took place in France between Pope Boniface VIII and King Philip IV, when the king wanted to tax churches. The pope “made a number of pronouncements” to prolong the dispute, Eire said, one of them being, “If the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power. But if the spiritual power errs, it shall be judged only by God.” “Clerical courts worked sometimes, but most of the time they did not,” Eire said. “With this clerical class, resentment kept growing and growing, as there was more literacy and more money, and a growing merchant middle class.” That dynamic helped bring about the Protestant
Reformation, said Michael Root, a systematic theology professor at Catholic University. Martin Luther held, “If the pope and the bishops were not up to the reform of the church, then it was the laity that must do so,” Root said. “By laymen, he meant the rulers. ... You had a church started in many ways by the state.” Root said the worry of “Protestantization,” or lay control of church matters, has surfaced by it “piggybacking on the sex abuse crisis.” He noted it also has antecedents such as angered lay church trustees who establish parishes only to see bishops wrest control from them. Lay influence, though, manifested itself in many ways. “The Hapsburgs could submit names of people they would not want to be pope,” Root said, a practice not revoked until Pope Pius X. “For Luther, every Christian participates in Christ’s three offices (of prophet, priest and king) in much the same fashion,” Root said. “The distinction between clergy and laity are that of functions and roles,” he added, since “for the good of the church, somebody needs to be given the responsibility for leading the church’s worship,” and other duties. “In extreme situations,” Root said, “the laity can remove clerical leaders and replace them and, in extreme cases, even substitute for them.”
Laity’s role post-Reformation
Such is not the case in Catholicism due to a different theological understanding of the priesthood. “The laity cannot substitute for the priest,” Root said. “If you don’t have an ordained priest, you don’t have a Mass.” The church, though, has not handled well its role, Root said. “Referring to the church as a monarchy is a mistake” dating back to the Reformation, he added, as well as references to the laity along the lines of “pay, pray and obey” and that the two rightful positions of the laity are “sitting before the pulpit and kneeling before the altar.” Benedictine Sister Nancy Bauer, a Catholic University theology professor, suggested that Canon 212 “is a powerhouse” when conferring rights upon the laity to take an active role in the abuse crisis. It says, in part: “According to the knowledge, competence and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful without prejudice to the SEE CRISIS, PAGE 20
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PORTLAND ARCHBISHOP CALLS FOR MORE CHANT IN LITURGY
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample in a new pastoral letter said that only sacred music that is characterized by sanctity, beauty and universality “is worthy of the holy Mass.” He explained that ancient or modern music can qualify, but that Gregorian chant is the preferred music for Catholic worship. His 21-page pastoral titled “Sing to the Lord a New Song” seeks more chant at Masses and urges all parishes in the western Oregon archdiocese to get a pipe organ. The Jan. 25 letter emerged while Archbishop Sample was leading a pilgrimage in Panama for World Youth Day. Among the activities was the celebration of Mass in the extraordinary form, known as the Tridentine rite, at which the archbishop preached. He said the ancient rite can “speak very powerfully” to young people. “The beauty, dignity and prayerfulness of the Mass depend to a large extent on the music that accompanies the liturgical action,” the archbishop wrote. He cited many popes, including Pope Francis, who once warned of “mediocrity, superficiality and banality” in liturgy.
HEAD OF US BISHOPS SAYS NEW ‘SEASON’ COULD COME AFTER ABUSE CRISIS
WASHINGTON – The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and “want to move with real force” toward solutions and it could yield a Cardinal Daniel new season for the N. Dinardo church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 6.
Cardinal Daniel N. Dinardo, who is the archbishop of GalvestonHouston, made the comments during a daylong conference to address the problem. The “Healing the Breach of Trust” conference, the second such meeting at The Catholic University of America in Washington, addressed the need of more involvement by lay women and men – one inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council – in building what the cardinal called in the morning part of the conference a new “season” for the church, and one that may not be accidental. “Think about what the Spirit might be doing in all of this,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “In saying this, I am in no way trying to deny or dodge the issues of the episcopal responsibility and accountability that this crisis has raised,” but added it’s worth it to ponder St. Augustine’s principle “that God can bring good even out of evil.” He said he believed that the current revelations – and the crisis they have caused – are being used by the Holy Spirit to open the church “to a fuller understanding of ecclesiology that began over a half century ago,” referring to the Second Vatican Council, convened in Rome from 1962 to 1965, which called for a renewal of the church, one that involved the people in the pews and a less hierarchical church.
ONLINE PORN SEEN AS ENABLING EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
WASHINGTON – The internet facilitates sexual exploitation, a category of child abuse, according to experts in this field interviewed by Catholic News Service. The internet also, they say, enables near universal access to violent pornography, with a range of negative implications, including normalizing sexual aggression and the dramatic
increase in children abusing other children. In a recent report on the role of technology in sex trafficking, as reported by the Justice Department’s Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking studies and based on interviews with 260 survivors, Vanessa Bouche, a political science professor at Texas Christian University, found the internet facilitated prostitution, through online ads, in 75 percent of the cases. The average age of entry was 15. Young victims, under 1 through age 10, were exploited by family members (76 percent), while older minors were exploited by members of their social network or strangers, far more often than by family. According to Mary Anne Layden, director of the sexual trauma and psychopathology program in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychiatry, our society is at the point of “almost universal exposure” of children to pornography, which gives them “massive mis-education about intimacy and sexuality. “Everything pornography says is a lie, but it is a massively effective teaching tool – of toxic learning,” she said. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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Speaker: Church leaders have hurt ‘real people’ MATTHEW GAMBINO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
PHILADELPHIA – “Changes of heart and mind and culture” are needed to move the Catholic Church from anger over the clergy sexual abuse crisis to justice, reform and personal renewal among the faithful. That was the assessment of Kim Daniels, speaking on “From Anger to Renewal: Communications and the Crisis in the Church” Kim Daniels Jan. 28 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood. Daniels, the associate director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, shared her thoughts as part of the Cardinal Foley lecture, an annual talk sponsored by the seminary in honor of the late Cardinal John P. Foley. Rebuilding the credibility and trust in the church also will require careful thought as to how reforms are communicated to both Catholics and non-Catholics, said Daniels, who is one of only three lay members of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication. Throughout the evening, Daniels – who also holds
a law degree from the University of Chicago – applied her extensive background in public communications to assessing the church’s current global crisis, one of the most serious in its long history. Substance drives communications, she said, and not the other way around. “The clerical abuse crisis faced by the church does not spring from poor public relations strategies or a failure of messaging, and it won’t be resolved by slick websites, clever media strategies or just the right turn of phrase,” Daniels said. “Church leaders have hurt real people, and real reform is necessary.” Both abuse victims and rank-and-file Catholics have suffered, she said, adding that another casualty has been the loss of credibility of the church to speak and teach on any topic. Daniels cited a January 2019 poll by Gallup showing “a record-low 31 percent of U.S. Catholics rate the honesty and ethical standards of the clergy” highly. The figure represented “an astounding 18 percentage point drop between 2017 and 2018,” Daniels said. “Similarly, Catholics’ confidence in the church dropped from 52 percent in June 2017 to 44 percent in June 2018.” This decline in confidence follows “steep declines in trust” in the aftermath of earlier waves of
scandal to hit the church in the United States: first publicly in the 1980s; again in the 1990s; then again with the Boston Globe’s spotlight on clergy abuse and the U.S. bishops’ responses in 2002. Last year brought an almost weekly wave of sensational revelations. Those included abuse allegations against former Cardinal E. Theodore McCarrick; a mixed picture on how Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl handled some abuse cases when he was bishop in Pittsburgh; and the Pennsylvania grand jury report on a 70-year span of alleged abuse by 300 some priests and other church workers. In addition there was a series of what Daniels called “tendentious, agenda-driven letters from Archbishop (Carlo Maria) Vigano,” who accused Pope Francis of having known of the McCarrick allegations and blamed the pope for corruption in the church. Daniels also pointed to last November’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which “succeeded in conveying mostly disunity and ineffectiveness,” she said. The bishops were asked by the Vatican to postpone voting on some proposals related to how they address allegations of abuse made against bishops, including proposed standards of episcopal conduct. SEE SPEAKER, PAGE 20
Archbishop Gomez calls for ‘new humanism’ JACOB COMELLO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles told a crowd of priests, women religious and students the story of a Spanish missionary named Montesinos. Witnessing the cruelty of colonialists to Indians, Montesinos did not back down in a 1511 Advent sermon. The missionary declared: “Are these not men? Have they not rational souls? Are you not bound to love them as you love yourself ?” “In many ways, Montesinos’ questions are with us again,” Archbishop Gomez said, opening his address Feb. 6 during The Catholic University of America’s seventh annual Hispanic Innovators of the Faith lecture series. “What does it mean to be human? What are the obligations we have toward our neighbors? Where is God and Jesus Christ in all of this?” Speaking “not as a historian or a scholar, but as a pastor of souls,” Archbishop Gomez addressed what he called “the crisis of man” in his address, explaining that he meant “a crisis of human nature. Men and women. All of us.” “People have been talking about a ‘crisis of man’ since at least the end of the Second World
War,” Archbishop Gomez said. “We forget that in the last century, millions were killed ... in Soviet gulags and Nazi death camps, in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in genocides in nearly every part of the world.” Archbishop Gomez recognized that the crisis persists to this day in the practice of abortion, contraception and euthanasia and even in human trafficking and the “worldwide debates over migrants and refugees.” He questioned how such a crisis started and why it was continuing. “As I see it, this problem is rooted in our society’s broader loss of the awareness of God,” the archbishop said. The crisis might not seem as jarring today, Archbishop Gomez admitted. However, he urged the audience to remain alert, saying that while “atheist humanisms have faded ... the project of the global leadership class to create a world without God and transform the human person according to political and economic dictates ... is still very much alive.” But the archbishop included all people in his indictment: “We think we do not need God to help us run the economy or the government. We think we can rely on politics or science and technology to ... answer every question.” Attempts to cleanse God from society, science
and everyday moral sensibilities inevitably will create a society which “no longer believes in the existence of permanent or universal truths like right and wrong,” Archbishop Gomez said. The harsh result will be, he explained, as it always has been, “the degrading of the human person.” Instead of realizing that people are all formed in the image of God, “we are coming to see, that if we are not made in the image of God, we can be remade in the image of those who appoint themselves as ‘gods,’” he said. Archbishop Gomez continued, showing the audience a bright path out of the pit: “Always in the church, renewal and reform means returning to the source.” Calling for a “new humanism” rooted in Jesus, the archbishop said the full potential of humanity can only be realized by a revival of Christ as a model for life. “We need to proclaim boldly that Jesus Christ reveals the human face of God and that in his face we see reflected the glory that God intends for our lives,” he said. As a counterpoint to the perspective of atheist humanisms, which he described as seeking to “throw off the ‘burden’ of God and create ‘a new man,’” Archbishop Gomez stressed that accepting Jesus also requires a glorious reinvention of humanity. “In Jesus Christ, we discover that we are born to be ‘re-born’ as God’s children, his own beloved sons and daughters.”
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Sisters’ group decries abuse of women religious CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
‘… Current structures must change if the church is to regain its moral credibility and have a viable future.’ LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS
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A woman religious prays Sept. 21, 2018, during the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious thanked Pope Francis Feb. 7 for acknowledging abuse of nuns and sisters by priests and bishops. the protection from abuse of all persons a priority,” it said. Though most of the incidents appear to have taken place in developing countries, “harassment and rape of sisters have been noted in other countries as well, including in the United States,” the statement said. The organization expressed hope that the pope’s upcoming summit on sex abuse, slated for Feb. 21-24 at the Vatican, would propose actions to create “mechanisms for the reporting of abuse in an atmosphere where victims are met with compassion and are offered safety” and also “refashion the leadership structures of the church to address the issue of clericalism and ensure that power and authority are shared with members of the laity.” “The revelations of the extent of
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“Our hope is that this acknowledgement is some comfort for those who have survived abuse and that it hastens the much-needed repair of the systems within the Catholic Church that have allowed abuse to remain unaddressed for years,” LCWR said in its statement. “Catholic sisters who have been sexually abused by priests have not always reported this crime for the same reasons as other abuse victims: a sense of shame, a tendency to blame themselves, fear they will not be believed, anxiety over possible retaliation, a sense of powerlessness, and other factors,” in continued. “We hope that, through the pope’s acknowledgement, sisters and other survivors find strength to come forward, and that his words lead to more welcome and receptive avenues of healing.”
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Women religious openly discuss abuse by clergy GAIL DEGEORGE
POPE: CHURCH WORKING TO END ABUSE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS
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Editors: This is an edited version of a story originally published in Global Sisters Report, a project of National Catholic Reporter. The website is http:// globalsistersreport.org. Galvanized by the #MeToo movement and the sex abuse crisis commanding the attention of the Vatican, women religious are now openly discussing a subject that was once taboo – sexual harassment, abuse and rape of sisters by clergy – in congregational motherhouses and national conference offices. Slowly, an era is ending in which Catholic women religious were silent victims of sexual abuse by priests and bishops. Consider these developments in the past year: In Chile, the Vatican is investigating a congregation’s complaints of sexual abuse by priests and mistreatment by superiors. In India, Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar has been arrested on charges of raping a former superior of a congregation – multiple times. He is the first bishop in India to be arrested for sexual abuse of a nun. He has denied the charges. More than 80 sisters were among 167 signers of a letter in July asking that he be relieved of his pastoral duties. Five sisters of the congregation and other supporters engaged in a highly unusual public demonstration supporting the former superior and protesting initial inaction by church and state authorities. Statements encouraging sisters to report abuse and religious women to believe and support victims were issued by the International Union of Superiors General, the largest worldwide representation of Catholic women religious leadership; and by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in the U.S. The Associated Press published a story in July about sex abuse of sisters, drawing upon an article by National Catholic Reporter in 2001. In January, AP published a separate story focusing on India. Other media reports have surfaced about abuse in Myanmar. In more than a dozen interviews for this Global Sisters Report article, some patterns across countries and continents emerged on how to help prevent abuse and support victims if it does occur. “Individual sisters have to risk telling the truth if it is happening to them,” said Sister Esther Fangman, prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas, who, in 2000, delivered an address about the sexual abuse of sisters to a Rome congress of 250 Benedictine abbots.
Unequal power relationships
“Others around them have to listen and believe them and not discount it as making it up – which is the same problem we’ve had in all society of sex abuse of women – that somehow it’s the woman’s fault,” said Sister Fangman, who holds a doctorate in counseling and has worked with victims of sexual abuse. “If the power relationship is unequal, pay attention to the person telling the story, because they are at a disadvantage and probably are telling the truth.” Protocols by dioceses and the Vatican must be established, disseminated and followed regarding abuse allegations by women religious, congregational leaders said. But real change regarding abuse of sisters, many said, requires a fundamental shift in the church hierarchy and attitude about women. While not
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A woman religious is consoled during a Sept. 13, 2018, protest in Cochin, India, demanding justice after a nun accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar of raping her. downplaying the pain of sexual abuse, feminist theologian Mary Hunt said the problem is symptomatic of a deeper and more widespread “spiritual abuse” perpetrated upon women by the maledominated church. “We have been told things that are not true,” she said. “Women have been relegated to second-class citizens” in the church. A dismantling of clericalism and elevation of women to positions of leadership is also critical, according to those interviewed. That would send a message to bishops worldwide about the status of women, particularly in developing countries. “If the church can accept women as women – not as instrument or tools to be used – that would be my joy,” said Sister Eneless Chimbali, a Servant of the Blessed Virgin Mary who has served as the secretary general of the Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa since 2015. “Look at the Curia in the Vatican,” she said regarding the male-dominated church. “Women and laity are always at the receiving end – they are not included in the decision-making forums.” The National Catholic Reporter article in 2001 cited several reports, some dating back to the mid-1990s, about abuse of sisters by clergy. While cases were found in 23 countries across five continents, one report said, the problem at the time was particularly acute in Africa because of the AIDS crisis. Sisters were seen as safe sexual partners by priests and bishops. It’s not clear what the response of the Vatican was to the reports or to current revelations of sexual abuse of women religious. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has not responded to several inquiries made since September. The Vatican press office did not respond to inquiries made in January. Years after her address became public, Sister Fangman laments that “there are still no solutions – what is happening is that people are talking about it.”
‘It attacks their soul’
If she were to write the report today, Sister Fangman said, she would use even stronger language. In her work counseling victims, it’s become much clearer how deep the wounds of sexual abuse are, particularly abuse by clergy. “It doesn’t just attack their spirit,” she said. “It attacks their soul also because it is the image of Christ through the priest doing this to them.”
She and other sisters interviewed for this article stressed that sexual abuse of sisters is not limited to a particular geography. “It is not an Africa problem, it is a church problem,” Sister Fangman said. “It is a power issue – the difference between males and females and those in the church who have power.” The interplay of power and church authority has been unfolding in the case in India. The former superior of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation filed a case in June against Bishop Mulakkal that he had sexually abused her multiple times at her convent in Kerala, a southern state. She has said she filed the case after complaints to church authorities brought no action. Months passed without action by civil authorities or response by church authorities. Five members of the congregation and other supporters of the nun engaged in a public protest in September. Bishop Mulakkal was arrested Sept. 21, questioned and released. He has denied the charges and characterized the case as retaliation by the nun for his disciplinary actions against her. The delay in action against the bishop made people skeptical about the church’s claim of zero tolerance toward clergy abuse, Sister Jessy Kurian, a Supreme Court lawyer in India, told Global Sisters Report before his arrest. She was among the 167 signers of the letter in July to Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai and Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, apostolic nuncio to India, to advise Pope Francis to relieve Bishop Mulakkal of his pastoral duties. “Unless (the bishop) is relieved of his pastoral duties, no impartial probe can take place,” said Sister Kurian, a member of St. Ann’s Providence of Secunderabad who conducts training courses in human rights and Indian laws for various groups around India, including nuns.
No uniform training
There is no uniform training about sexual abuse or harassment – each congregation has its own formation training program, said Benedictine Sister Mary John Mananzan, cochair of the Office of Women and Gender Concerns of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines. The Office of Women and Gender Concerns offers women consciousness and empowerment seminars which include all gender SEE WOMEN RELIGIOUS, PAGE 18
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis said he is aware that mistreatment and abuse of religious women by clerics is still a problem, and that it is something the church is working to end. “It’s true, within the Church there have been clerics who have done this,” the pope said Feb. 5. “Must something more be done? Yes. Do we have the will? Yes.” He spoke aboard the papal plane returning to Rome after a two-day trip to the United Arab Emirates, responding to a question about sexual abuse of women religious by priests, a recent subject in the women’s section of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Recent reports have suggested that abuse of women religious by clerics is more prevalent in Africa and Asia. The most prominent instance of alleged abuse of a woman religious by a cleric is the case of a nun of the Missionaries of Jesus, in the Indian state of Kerala. She has accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jullunder of sexually assaulting her 13 times between 2014 and 2016. Mulakkal was arrested Sept. 21, 2018, but was released on bail. A police investigation is ongoing, and the bishop has been temporarily removed from his responsibilities as Bishop of Jullundur. Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, has been accused of receiving the nun’s complaint against Bishop Mulakkal in March 2018, and failing to report it to the police. The pope said he believes the problem is more common in some cultures than others but acknowledged that “there have been priests and also bishops who have done that. And I believe it may still be being done.” The Church has “been working on this for a long time,” including through the suspension of clerics and the dissolution of some congregations involved in “corruption.” “It’s a problem. The mistreatment of women is a problem,” the pope said. Asking for prayers, he added that he wants to go forward. “There are cases, yes,” he said, adding: “We are working.” “I would dare to say that humanity still hasn’t matured” regarding the full equality of women, he said. Francis also underlined the work of Benedict XVI, who he called “a strong man, a consistent man,” who acted courageously to combat “sexual and economic corruption” both before and during his years as pope. “About Pope Benedict I would like to underscore that he is a man that had the courage to do many things on this theme,” Francis said. CNA/EWTN NEWS
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time JEREMIAH 17:5-8 Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, but stands in a lava waste, a salt and empty earth. Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose hope is the Lord. He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream: It fears not the heat when it comes; its leaves stay green; in the year of drought it shows no distress, but still bears fruit. PSALM 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. He is like a tree planted near running water, that
yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:12, 16-20 Brothers and sisters: If Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Giving our all to God
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n a deep, crackling voiceover, Bryan Cranston recites Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” for a trailer of one of the last episodes of “Breaking Bad.” The startling words of the poem are set against the backdrop of time-lapsed images of busy cities, the movement of the sun, and the timelessness of the desert. The poem describes a traveler coming upon the ruins of an ancient king who believed that his fame and reputation would live forever through the stone monuments he had built for himself. But instead the traveler sees only rubble and the sands of the desert. Jeremiah’s words in the first reading speak of people who traverse the same path as the ancient king, OzySISTER MARIA mandias. Their decadence CATHERINE leaves them empty, like a TOON, OP tumbleweed blowing across a barren, dry wasteland. Their moral decay will be the only hallmark when their lives are over. Perhaps you have seen bushes like the ones Jeremiah mentions that have been scorched by the sun, or what remains from the wildfires? Their overexposure to heat means that water can no longer help them. They are brittle and easily fall to pieces at the first touch. Running your hands over a dead bush means scratches, pain, and the disintegration of the bush itself.
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Have you met people like this? Their accomplishments or intelligence gives them confidence in earthly things that will be gone soon after they are dead. Those who seek the bottom line above all else, those who mock people who acknowledge God and seek his will, those who seek to define sin on their own terms, those who accept what is unacceptable to God, those who persecute those who stand up for God’s laws and God’s way, that end up wailing and gnashing their teeth. Just a brief encounter with them leaves one frustrated, angry, broken, and in pain. Because these folks seek their comfort in finite things, whether possessions, popularity, or honor, they cannot be satisfied or refreshed. When God says to the prophet Isaiah, “I will open rivers on the bare height, and springs in the midst of the valleys,” (Isaiah 41:18) these find themselves unable to respond. In contrast, Jeremiah and Jesus point the way to where true refreshment is in the Lord: utter dependence, and abandonment to him. The prophet claims those who do this find peace, and contentment. When the world crumbles around this group of people, they remain fresh, happy, and unfettered. They have all they need. Jesus builds on this in the Gospel today: It is the poor, dependent, just and persecuted who are happy and holy. God is a demanding lover. He wants all of you. Period. The only way to truly follow Jesus is to detach oneself from all that does not lead you to him. So ... where will you start? SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
POPE FRANCIS WORLD NEEDS TO BE HEALED, NOT CONDEMNED
Taking their cue from Christ, moral theologians can see that people need to be liberated and healed, not condemned, Pope Francis said. But the earth – humanity’s common home – is also in great need of care, he added, asking that moral theology expand to include an “ecological dimension.” The pope held an audience at the Vatican Feb. 9 with professors and students of the Alphonsian Academy in Rome, a graduate school specializing in moral theology. The school was founded by the Redemptorists 70 years ago, inspired by the teachings of St. Alphonsus Liguori. The pope said St. Alphonsus knew what was needed was not defending oneself from the world or condemning it, but working “to heal and liberate, in imitation of Christ’s action.” The church must give attention to people who are subjected to the many “forms of the power
LUKE 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with the Twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven. For their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.”
of sin that continue to condemn them to insecurity, poverty and marginalization,” he said. Moral theologians also should be inspired to face with “great willingness the new, serious challenges stemming from the speed with which our society evolves” and which in turn fosters attitudes of competition, the law of “survival of the fittest” and the “throwaway culture.” The same attentive response is needed “for the cries of the earth – violated and harmed in numerous ways by selfish exploitation,” he said. People are missing a sense of their responsibility and their nation’s duty to care for the earth, the pope said. In all the years he has heard confession, he said, “rarely has anyone blamed themselves for doing violence to nature, to the earth, to creation. We are not aware of this sin.” CATHOLIC NEW SERVICE
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 4:1-15, 25. PS 50:1 and 8, 16bc-17, 20-21. JN 14:6. MK 8:11-13. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10. PS 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10. JN 14:23. MK 8:14-21. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Sts. Francisco & Jacinta Marto. GN 8:6-13, 20-22. PS 116:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. SEE EPH 1:17-18. MK 8:22-26. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21: Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor. GN 9:1-13. PS 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. MK 8:27-33. FRIDAY, 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. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23: Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr. HEB 11:1-7. PS 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11. SEE MK 9:6. MK 9:2-13. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24: Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1 SM 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13. 1 COR 15:45-49. JN 13:34. LK 6:27-38. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25: Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 1:1-10. PS 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 9:14-29. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26: Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 2:1-11. PS 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40. GAL 6:14. MK 9:30-37. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27: Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 4:1119. PS 119:165, 168, 171, 172, 174, 175. JN 14:6. MK 9:38-40. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28: Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 5:1-8. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6. SEE 1 THES 2:13. MK 9:4150. FRIDAY, MARCH 1: Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 6:5-17. PS 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35. SEE JN 17:17b, 17a. MK 10:1-12. SATURDAY, MARCH 2: Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. SIR 17:1-15. PS 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18. SEE MT 11:25. MK 10:13-16.
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Ecumenism: The path forward
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was very blessed during my theological formation to have had the privilege of taking classes from two very renowned Catholic scholars, Avery Dulles and Raymond E. Brown. The former was an ecclesiologist whose books often became textbooks which were prescribed reading in seminaries and theology FATHER RON schools. The ROLHEISER latter was a Scripture scholar whose scholarship stands out, almost singularly, nearly 30 years after his death.
Nobody questions the scholarship, the personal integrity, or the faith commitment of these men. They were in different theological disciplines but what they shared, beyond the high respect of scholars and church persons everywhere, was a passion for ecumenism and a capacity to form deep friendships and invite warm dialogue across every kind of denominational and interreligious line. Their books are studied not just in Roman Catholic circles, but in theological schools and seminaries in Protestant, Evangelical, Mormon and Jewish seminaries as well. Both were deeply respected for their openness, friendship, and graciousness toward those who held religious views different than their own. Indeed, Raymond Brown spent of his most productive years teaching at Union Theological
Seminary in New York, even as he, a Sulpician priest, more than anything else cherished his Roman Catholic identity and priesthood. After losing his own father and mother, he spoke of the Roman Catholic Church and his Sulpician community as “the family that still remains for me.” And what these two shared in their vision for ecumenism was this: The path toward Christian unity, the road that will eventually bring all sincere Christians together into one community, around one altar, is not the way of somehow winning the other over to our own particular denomination, of getting others to admit that they are wrong and that we are right and of them returning to the true flock, namely, our particular denomination. In their view, that’s not the route forward, practically or theologically.
The path forward needs to be, as Avery Dulles puts it, the path of “progressive convergence.” What is this path? It begins with the honest admission by each of us that none of us, no one denomination, has the full truth, incarnates the full expression of church, and is fully faithful to the Gospel. We are all deficient in some ways and each of us in some ways is selective in terms of which parts of the Gospels we value and incarnate and which parts we ignore. And so the path forward is the path of conversion, personal and ecclesial, of admitting our selectiveness, of recognizing and valuing what other churches have incarnated, of reading scripture more deeply in search of what we have ignored and absented ourselves from, and of
societies from the violent depravations of the organized crime gangs that are out of control. Pragmatic solutions can be moral ones, too. Nancy Pelosi, who is not competent to play moral arbiter for our country, tells us that the border wall is immoral. If we are to believe her, then we are to close our eyes to the horrific and heinous human trafficking (for forced prostitution) of thousands of women and children each year through the porous southern border. Such trafficking is made much more difficult, and many victims are rescued, when it has to flow through secure ports of entry. Let us avoid the temptation to recast Jesus in our minds as being like a San Francisco “progressive.” Larry Z. Burdoin San Francisco
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man when he talks about “Now and then”? Or is he hoping for better mirror (and other) future technology? 4. Jesus sees prophets going to feed and heal outlanders in preference to Jews. Why does he on purpose antagonize his own people? Is this an example of love? Perhaps Shakespeare had it right: “Love is not love that falters When it alteration finds.” Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos
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LETTERS Welcoming the stranger
Goodness. I can’t help but respond to the letter of Catherine Hart (“Yes on strong border control,” Jan. 31). Both Scripture and the history and policies of our country speak quite a lot about the treatment of the refugee, the immigrant, the asylum-seeker. When a person approaches our border seeking asylum, our laws say they are to be honored and listened to, not thrown into cages and/or deported without a hearing, and certainly without the evil of family separations. No one is “cutting in line” because they are desperately looking for safety. Then, just when you thought that was enough, the writer shifts gears rather dramatically and starts railing against Senators Harris and Feinstein for “antiCatholic bias.” Wow ... who knew? The truth is that some of the judicial nominees have made it clear by their writings and their affiliation with certain groups that they are not likely to be unbiased in their judgments. It is the job of senators to ask questions. I grow very nervous when someone hauls out Satan’s machinations to bolster their case. Oh, and please, do not buy into our president’s “thousands of criminals crossing the border” hysteria. So, since Christ specifically commands us to love all our brothers and sisters, I think I’ll stick with that, and pray that those who are terribly upset by certain groups’ presence among us will have a change of heart. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco
Pragmatic solutions can be moral ones, too
Re Illegal immigration into U.S. through southern border: Is it permissible in Catholic thinking to consider addressing root causes of problems? Concerning the continuing tide of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. through our southern border, if we only treat the symptoms, then these symptoms will likely persist far into the future. I am all in favor of the corporal works of mercy, but there is a need to put forth solutions that address the root cause of the continuing problem of illegal immigration. These countries of origin, which are effectively exporting their citizens, need to make reforms so that there can be economic growth and opportunity for their citizens. Barriers to growth and corruption must be remedied. As well, there needs to be an effective government approach to securing these
Speaking for the silent Catholics
Hooray for Catherine Hart! Her letter makes perfect sense. Finally someone is speaking for the silent Catholics. Barbara Boccaleoni South San Francisco
Waste of paper?
Every year in October a census of how many people attend Saturday evening and Sunday Masses is taken. It seems that even if our numbers go down, the Annual Archdiocesan Appeal goes up. A few Sundays back while attending Mass, I was struck by a large stack of booklets sitting at the entrances to the church. The [2019 Official Directory of the Archdiocese of San Francisco] had arrived. This to me is a big waste of our dollars. The church teaches to protect our planet and nurture it. Are we doing that by using all that paper? Put the directory online and cut out the waste. If someone doesn’t have a computer let them call the chancery if they want to locate a particular priest. If a priest is a friend of mine, I’ll know where he is stationed. I don’t need a book to tell me where he and every other priest in the diocese is located. I sure hope our Archdiocesan Appeal monies are not being used to produce this. What a waste of resources and funds! Joseph Koman San Francisco Editor’s note: A free, paperback directory is provided to parishes annually. Catholic San Francisco surveyed all parishes to determine the print run for the new edition: 13,000, plus a reserve of 500. Delivery of parishes’ requested allotments was
Exploring difficult Scripture readings
A comment about the Scripture commentary by Father Charles Puthota (“Love is the supreme gift,” Jan. 31: It is the easy way out to extract love from a difficult set of Scriptures and to ignore the rest. This column and the weekly homily are the only teaching opportunities on our Scriptures in the archdiocese. If neither one touches and teaches on the difficult readings, then people in the pews (PIP) remain uninformed. The USCCB in its last key statement on preaching urges us to explain the Scriptures. Indeed, it spends the last of four chapters on the mode of catechesis on the Scriptures. To show what I mean, let me ask a few questions PIP would ask, arising from the same readings of the same week. 1. Is God telling Jeremiah to speak the message to kings and priests even if that message contradicts these authorities? Prophets find God’s message in the signs of the times. Who are today’s prophets? Should today’s priests listen to them? 2. Does love of all God’s children today include helping overcome overpopulation in developing countries? Or should we love them while we watch them die of starvation? 3. St. Paul’s analogy of seeing indistinctly in a mirror works if we remember that in those days mirror technology was imperfect, made of polished metal. What are the childish things that St. Paul put aside when he became a man? Does St. Paul mean child and
Dignity of life for all creatures
The recent well-attended and inspiring Walk for Life (“Peaceful, positive and personal pro-life messages mark 15th Walk for Life,” Jan. 31) must further lead us to contemplate how all life is worthy and we cannot pick and choose whose is and whose isn’t. Take for example the parish crab fest. Crustaceans are considered so lowly, not being warm, soft and fuzzy and living in an aquatic realm far removed from our terrestrial one, and considered far outside the moral arena. No one cares about them but everyone should. Imagine throwing a living, feeling being into boiling water and then gluttonously dining on its flesh for a few moments of gustatory pleasure. What would Jesus say at the spectacle of us defiling his creation when he so emphasized the marginalized? The end to make a profit can never justify the means. These animals are so at our mercy, not unlike the mentally indigent, seniors with Alzheimer’s, and indeed the unborn and newly born child. We as moral agents owe them extra special protection. Each and every animal has its own right to life and its unique pursuit of happiness. Anthropocentrism and utilitarianism have no place in God’s plan, and this leads us further to realizing a meatless diet is the purest obedience to the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” Jesus did not sacrifice animals so to truly walk in his ways of peace and love, we must sanctify all his creation by forsaking the violence on our dinner plates. Patricia and Sharon Briggs San Francisco
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The moral depravity of Andrew Cuomo and friends
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riting recently on women seeking the presidency and the “likability” factor in our politics, Peggy Noonan made a tart observation: “There are a lot of male candidates with likability problems. Some, such as Andrew Cuomo, a threeterm governor of a large state, are so unlikable they aren’t even mentioned as GEORGE WEIGEL contenders.” Without contesting Miss Noonan’s point, I’d like to offer an addendum: Andrew Cuomo is too morally depraved to be the President of the United States – or the Governor of New York, for that matter. Of all the obscenities surrounding Gov. Cuomo’s Jan. 22 signing of a bill whose title (“The Reproductive Health Act”) would make George Orwell gag, the most cringe-inducing was the signing ceremony itself. You can watch it on YouTube, if you’ve the stomach for it: The ceremony is replete with the self-congratulatory political blather to which many of us have become inured. What is truly sickening is the unholy
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glee with which Cuomo signed this sordid bill — a demonic mirth shared by the other miscreants on the platform with him. Just what are these people celebrating? The New York RHA declares abortion on demand, at any moment in a pregnancy, up to birth, a fundamental right. A healthy infant born in New York state today could have been legally killed yesterday, according to the RHA. And the killing would not be pretty. For third-trimester abortions involve either poisoning the unborn child or collapsing its skull by the grotesque procedure known as “dilation and extraction”; the mother then gives “birth” to a dead baby who’s been executed in a manner that would revolt anyone with an iota of feeling were similar violence perpetrated on a dog or cat. I recently met a young man who was born at 24 weeks of gestation, when he weighed a little over a pound. My young friend was considered a child, a living member of the human community, when he spent months in the neonatal intensive care unit of his local hospital. The New York RHA permits children of the exact same gestational age to be surgically chopped up in the womb (“dilation and curettage”) – and its sponsors imagine this legal license
to dismember a helpless human being while inflicting excruciating pain to be a civilizational advance, rather than the reversion to barbarism it is. The gory-body-parts school of prolife activism has never appealed to me, because women caught in the dilemma of unplanned pregnancy are looking for friends who will offer them compassion and assistance, not force them to watch the obstetrical equivalent of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.” But the unprecedented nature of the New York RHA demands that Andrew Cuomo and friends be confronted with the reality of what they wrought and what they celebrate – which is the legal butchery of innocent children. There are over 3,300 crisis pregnancy centers in the United States. They embody the virtue of solidarity by offering women in crisis the life-affirming care of real medicine, not the death-dealing witchcraft of the abortionist. With humane alternatives readily available, it is ludicrous to claim, as Cuomo and friends do, that access to abortion up until birth is an imperative of justice. Indeed, any such claim makes a mockery of any rational concept of justice, for the New York RHA legalizes the brutal exercise of raw power over an innocent human life.
Another facet of this awfulness demands attention: Andrew Cuomo, and all pro-“choice” politicians who selfidentify as Catholics, bespeak a massive failure of catechesis and Christian formation in the church in the United States. In the face of that failure, the people of the church, ordained and lay, are called to a stringent examination of conscience. When bishops fail to declare, in the strongest and clearest terms, that support for immoral bills such as the New York RHA puts the legislator or executive in a gravely impaired position within the communion of the church, their dereliction of duty compounds that catechetical failure. When lay Catholics dodge the abortion issue in conversation because it’s too uncomfortable or might make them look “conservative” or “anti-feminist,” they betray the Gospel and amplify the catechetical failures of the past and present. Moral depravity stalks the land. Calling it such is deemed “extremist” by United States senators. We all have work to do. And we all must summon the courage to do it. GEORGE WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
Join us on the journey through Lent
ent reminds us that we are pilgrims on the path of discipleship, living out the paschal mystery in our lives, each according to our own vocation. I think it is helpful to have a resolution or personal intention to help focus our spiritual efforts during this period of prayer and penance. This year I’ve chosen to travel through Lent SISTER in the company CONSTANCE of Mary, the VEIT, LSP mother of Jesus and his first and most faithful disciple. I invite you to do the same, and to join me, as well, in offering prayers and sacrifices for young people during this holy season. Last year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, together with January’s celebration of World Youth Day in Panama, has drawn our attention to the situation of young adults in society and the church. These events challenged us to accompany young adults in their faith journey and vocational discernment. “Being present, supporting and accompanying the journey toward authentic choices is one way for the church to exercise her maternal function,” the synod Fathers wrote. “Service of this kind is simply the continuation of the way in which the God of Jesus Christ acts toward his people: through constant and heartfelt presence, dedicated and loving closeness and tenderness without limits.” Our Lady embodies these qualities, for she knew how to ponder events in her heart and she proved herself attentive to others’ needs. Generations have called her Our Lady of Tenderness, Mother of Mercy and Virgin Most Faithful. A number of traditional Catholic devotions such as the rosary
and the Stations of the Cross lead us to ponder Mary’s experiences and her role in her Son’s saving mission. The seven sorrows rosary is a very old but little known devotion focused on seven particularly challenging events in Mary’s life. These events include Simeon’s prophecy in the Temple, the flight into Egypt, the loss of Jesus in the Temple, the encounter with Jesus on the way of the cross, Mary standing at the foot of the cross, the reception of her Son’s body after his death and his placement in the tomb. Trusting in the power of her intercession, this Lent I’ve decided to offer the seven sorrows rosary for the needs and intentions of young people. It’s not that I want to give young people the impression that following Jesus is nothing but a long road of suffering. However, prayerfully reflecting on Mary’s sorrows helps us to understand what it means to persevere through life’s inevitable difficulties. In Panama Pope Francis encouraged young people to look to Mary as a model of great strength and faithfulness. During the celebration of the Stations of the Cross, the pope said, “From her let us learn how to stand beneath the cross with her same determination and courage, without evasions or illusions. She accompanied the suffering of her Son … yet was not overwhelmed by it. She was the woman of strength who uttered her ‘yes,’ who supports and accompanies, protects and embraces. She is the great guardian of hope.” The next evening, during the prayer vigil, Pope Francis proposed Mary’s “yes” to God in the Annunciation as a model worth following. “She knew what was at stake and said ‘yes’ … It was the ‘yes’ of someone prepared to be committed, someone willing to take a risk, ready to stake everything she had, with no more security than the certainty of knowing that she was the bearer of a promise ... The ‘yes’ and the desire to serve were stronger than any doubts and difficulties.” During this Lenten season, I’d like to
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CARDINAL: Warns against being silent, in error about Catholic faith FROM PAGE 1
Faith.” Subtitled with a verse from John 14:1, “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” the five-page manifesto was released to several Catholic news sites Feb. 8. “In the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the faith, many bishops, priests, religious and laypeople of the Catholic Church have requested that I make a public testimony about the truth of revelation,” he wrote. While Cardinal Muller did not mention Pope Francis in his document, many people read it as a challenge to the pope; for example, LifesiteNews, one of the outlets that originally published the text, labeled it “a quasi correction of Pope Francis’ pontificate.” St. John Paul II emphasized that “a sure norm for teaching the faith” is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the cardinal said, but that teaching has been put to the test by what Pope Benedict XVI called the “dictatorship of relativism.” Quoting extensively from the catechism, Cardinal Muller summarized five key tenets of Catholic doctrine: belief in the Trinity; the nature and authority of the church; Christ’s presence in the sacraments; the “liberating truth” of moral law; and the reality of hell and promise of eternal life. “Many wonder today what purpose the church still has in its existence, when even bishops prefer to be politicians rather than to proclaim the Gospel as teachers of the faith,” he wrote. “The role of the church must not be watered down by trivialities, but its proper place must be addressed,” he wrote in his summary of the immortal nature of the soul and the judgment each
‘In the face of growing confusion about the doctrine of the faith, many bishops, priests, religious and laypeople of the Catholic Church have requested that I make a public testimony about the truth of revelation.’ CARDINAL GERHARD MULLER person will face immediately after death. “Either a purification” is still necessary or the person enters into the blessedness of heaven, he wrote. However, “there is also the dreadful possibility that a person will remain opposed to God to the very end, and by definitely refusing his love, condemns himself immediately and forever.” “The eternity of the punishment of hell is a terrible reality,” he wrote, and it is the place where the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend. Speaking about the sacraments of the church, the cardinal said the truth revealed in Jesus is the point of reference, not the opinion “of the majority or the spirit of the times.” “The task of the magisterium of the church is to ‘preserve God’s people from deviations and defections’” so that they may profess “the true
faith without error,” particularly concerning the church’s seven sacraments, he said. “Anyone conscious of a grave sin must receive the sacrament of reconciliation before coming to Communion.” Cardinal Muller said that means that divorced and civilly remarried persons, whose sacramental marriage is considered valid before God, Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic faith, and those who are not “properly disposed” must not receive Communion. When it comes to priestly ordination, it is not possible to ordain women, he wrote. “To imply that this impossibility is somehow a form of discrimination against women shows only the lack of understanding for this sacrament, which is not about earthly power but the representation of Christ, the bridegroom of the church,” he wrote. “To keep silent about these and the other truths of the faith” and to teach people what is contrary to the faith “is the greatest deception against which the catechism vigorously warns,” he wrote. It leads people to “a religious delusion” and is “the fraud of anti-Christ,” who seeks to deceive those who are lost and those who have not accepted the love of the truth by which they would be saved. In a final appeal, the cardinal quotes St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy (4:1-5): “Proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching. “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths,” the passage continued.
ROLHEISER: Humility on the path toward Christian unity FROM PAGE 14
individually and collectively trying to live lives that are truer to Jesus Christ. By doing this, by each of us and each church living the Gospel more fully, we will “progressively converge,” that is, as we grow closer to Christ we will grow closer to each other and thus “progressively converge” around Christ and, as we do that, we will eventually find ourselves around one common altar and will see each other as part of the same community. The path to unity then lies not in converting each other over, but in each of us living the Gospel more faithfully so as to grow closer to each other in Christ. This doesn’t mean that we do not take our divisions seriously, that we simplistically assert that
all denominations are equal, or that we justify our divisions today by pointing to divisions that already existed in the New Testament churches. Rather we must all begin by each of us admitting that we do not possess the full truth and that we are in fact far from being fully faithful. Given that starting point, Raymond E. Brown then gives this challenge to all the churches: “Recognition of the range of New Testament ecclesiological diversity makes the claim of any church to be absolutely faithful to the Scriptures much more complex. We are faithful but in our own specific way; and both ecumenics and biblical studies should make us aware that there are other ways of being faithful to which we do not do justice. … In short, a frank study of the New Testament ecclesiologies should convince every
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PROTECT ‘CARDINAL VIRTUE’ OF JUSTICE, POPE TELLS JUDGES
VATICAN CITY – Justice, along with prudence, fortitude and temperance, is a virtue that must be defended for the good of society, Pope Francis told a group of Italian judges. A world without justice risks weakening the very fabric of society and can transform it into “a breeding ground for illegality,” the pope said Feb. 9 during a meeting with the Italian National Association of Judges. “Without justice, all social life remains jammed, like a door that can no longer open or ends up screeching and creaking in a cumbersome movement,” he said. According to its website, the association, which was founded in 1909, is comprised of more than 8,300 Italian judges and is dedicated to protecting “the constitutional values, independence and autonomy of the judiciary.” Francesco Minisci, president of the association, praised the pope for his defense of “justice, solidarity, the fight against corruption, the mission and the exercise of mercy.” Commemorating the organization’s 100th anniversary, Minisci emphasized its commitment to defending the Italian judiciary despite difficulties and tragedies, including the deaths of 28 Italian judges “who were killed by criminals while performing their duty.” “In this context, we not only must fight the mafias and the forms of organized crime, which are among the most aggressive in the world, but also the malpractice and corruption of the public administration which are among the major evils within Italian society,” Minisci said. In his speech, the pope emphasized the need for judges to continue to “affirm the superiority of reality over the idea” at a time when “truth is so often falsified and we are almost overwhelmed by a vortex of fleeting information.”
CARDINAL: CONSUMERISM FEEDS MODERN SLAVERY
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An English cardinal said people have become unwittingly reliant on modern slavery for cheap goods and illicit pleasures. Warning of a return to slave-driven economies, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster said slav-
ery was again becoming “one of the most profitable criminal activities in the world.” He said that although it was an evil comparable in enormity to child abuse, ordinary people often failed to realize how they were sometimes “part of the chain of supply and demand” that has led to an estimated 40 million people – a third of whom are believed to be children – trapped in slavery around the world. “Their fate is not distant from Cardinal Vincent us,” the cardinal said in a Feb. 8 homily at the Metropolitan CatheNichols dral in Buenos Aires on the feast of St Josephine Bakhita, patron saint of the victims of human trafficking. “We have to recognize how we, too, are part of the dynamics of life which lead to their captivity,” said Cardinal Nichols, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. “In one way or another, we are part of the chain of supply and demand that results in their enslavement,” he continued. “We want cheaper goods, illegal or immoral pleasure, cheap services for our bodies or for our cars,” he said. “We are part of the demand met by modernday slaves, part of the processes by which this slavery is one of the most profitable criminal activities in the world.”
POPE: HELP INMATES FIND HOPE
VATICAN CITY – A prison sentence without hope serves no purpose other than to stir feelings of revenge and anger in inmates who are looking for a second chance in life, Pope Francis said. Speaking to staff members of Rome’s Regina Coeli prison Feb. 7, the pope said that both prison staff and inmates always must look forward to the inmate’s reintegration in society, including prisoners serving life sentences who can still make positive contributions from within the prison walls. “A punishment without hope does not serve a purpose, it does not help, it arouses in one’s heart feelings of resentment, many times of revenge, and the person leaves worse than he entered,” the pope said.
Located less than two miles from the Vatican, Regina Coeli prison has hosted visits from four pontiffs, including Pope Francis who celebrated the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the prison and washed the feet of a dozen inmates in 2018. Meeting prison administrators, chaplains, doctors and volunteers, Pope Francis praised them for their inner strength and perseverance in the “difficult task of healing the wounds of those who through their mistakes, find themselves deprived of their personal freedom.”
CHURCH LEADERS: CLERGY ABUSE ALSO AFFLICTS AFRICA
NAIROBI, Kenya – When child sexual abuse scandals involving Catholic priests emerge in Africa, they do not draw a frenzied reaction similar to that witnessed in developed countries, but the continent’s church is affected, said Catholic leaders. While there is a general view that the scandals are a challenge of the church in Europe and America, African officials confirm the incidents, amid reports of some provinces expelling or defrocking priests. In Africa, clerics view the issue as too delicate and sensitive for the public, and many remained tightlipped on the subject. At the same time, the church leaders said they were concerned about the abuses and closely follow any such reports, both locally and globally. “Africa is also affected like any other continent, but to what extent, I am not sure,” Precious Blood Sister Hermenegild Makoro, general secretary of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, told Catholic News Service. In October, the South African church defrocked three priests over sexual abuse of children in the parishes. Since 2003, 35 cases of abuse involving priests have been reported to the church in South Africa. Sister Makoro said out of the 35 cases, only seven were being investigated by the police, and one has led to a life sentence. In Kenya, Father Joachim Omolo Ouko, an Apostle of Jesus priest in the Archdiocese of Kisumu, agreed that cases of sexual abuse had also occurred in Africa, but few were reported. “I think the cover-up is very strong,” he said. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico – Gangs in Honduras first threatened Denia Garcia’s husband six months ago, telling him to join with them or die. Her husband, a police officer, fled to the United States, arriving successfully. In his absence, the gangs threatened Garcia, sending her on the migrant path with her children, ages 2 and 5. Garcia, who recently arrived in this city across the U.S.-Mexico border from Eagle Pass, Texas, wants to apply for asylum in the United States, but it’s a slow process. U.S. officials process only a small fraction of the migrants seeking asylum on a daily basis, forcing them to stay in Mexico until their names are called from long waiting lists. Some asylum-seekers also now are being returned to Mexico – under a plan known as Remain in Mexico – as their claims are adjudicated. As she waits for her name to be called, Garcia said she had hoped to stay in the diocesan-run Dignified Border shelter in Piedras Negras, but found it unable to accommodate long stays. “We don’t know if we can stay here because supposedly it’s only (a few days) here and we were hoping for
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Denia Garcia poses with her daughter Diana, 2, Feb. 6, 2019, at the Catholic-run Dignified Border shelter in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Garcia wants to apply for asylum in the United States, but faces a weeks-long wait. The Dignified Border shelter is also short on space. more,” she said at the shelter. “We don’t have anywhere to sleep after that.” Asylum-seekers like Garcia arrive at
legal ports of entries the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, but increasingly face long waits to lodge their petitions with U.S. officials, forcing them
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MEXICAN SHELTERS: Straining with arrival of asylum-seekers at border
CLINIC, PARTNERS WANT END TO ‘REMAIN IN MEXICO’ POLICY FOR ASYLUM-SEEKERS
WASHINGTON – Immigrant advocates called on the Department of Homeland Security to rescind the so-called “remain in Mexico” policy that finds the United States returning migrants across the southern border to await their U.S. court hearings. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network and the Dilley Pro Bono Project said in a Feb. 6 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that the Migrant Protection Protocols developed by the federal agency infringes on the due process rights and well-being of migrants. “The MPP represents a unilateral decision by the U.S. government that threatens to jeopardize meaningful access to asylum and other humanitarian protections under our immigration laws,” the letter said. The 30-page letter includes testimony from 10 families describing the violence they have experienced in Mexico, including rape, kidnappings, beatings and ransom. Mexican authorities have stated they do not support the program but would not block efforts to return migrant people across the border. CLINIC said the letter includes additional data from surveys conducted with 500 women detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, that detail the dangers asylum-seekers face in Mexico. The surveys reveal that 90.3 percent of respondents said that they did not feel safe in Mexico; 46 percent reported that they or their child experienced at least one type of harm while in Mexico; and 38.1 percent said Mexican police mistreated them. “Quite simply, Mexican border towns are not safe places for asylum-seekers – much less vulnerable unaccompanied children and families – to wait for a U.S. immigration court hearing. U.S. law has adopted the international legal principle of non-refoulement, which requires that governments do not return individuals to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened,” the letter said.
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them. We have no space,” said Father Fernando Jimenez, shelter director in Piedras Negras. Father Jimenez said the 80-bed shelter mostly serves migrants making a final push to the border. He said the composition of migrants started changing last summer, when asylum-seekers from as far away as Congo and Cameroon arrived in Piedras Negras. They thought it might be a safer and lesscrowded alternative to border cities such as Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa to the east, where drug cartels commit crimes against migrants. The shelter in Piedras Negras is helping to house 40 families from Africa as they wait their turn to cross. The focus remains on short-term stays and emergency situations, however, such as a pair of Hondurans rescued from the Rio Grande. Deron Puerto, 25, spent three nights sleeping along the Rio Grande, hoping to find the right time to cross over – but the heavy security on the U.S. side kept thwarting his attempts to swim across. Puerto, an Afro-Honduran and lobsterman from the Bay Islands, says he came to Piedras Negras after attempting to cross into Arizona from Sonora state, where he was kidnapped. “They told me, ‘We need $5,000 so that you’re still alive tomorrow,’” he told Catholic News Service after being dropped at the shelter. “I cried all night, but thanks to God, the federal police raided” the safe house. Caravans are thought to offer migrants increased safety as they travel through Mexico. Officials in some Mexican states have provided travelers with shelter, food and medical attention. In the border state of Coahuila, the state government provided buses for more than 1,700 caravan travelers to reach Piedras Negras, where they were immediately housed in an abandoned factory and not allowed to leave until immigration officials processed them and issued humanitarian visas. Rows of federal police and soldiers guarded the shelter, prompting complaints from some migrants, who spoke through a chain-link fence with reporters as rows of police in riot gear and soldiers in fatigues kept a watchful eye on the installations. “Why are so many police here if we’re not criminals?” asked Arnold Salinas, 25, a barber from Honduras, who admitted not wanting to wait for Mexican officials to issue him a humanitarian visa as he entered the country from Guatemala. Like most migrants in Piedras Negras, Salinas showed no interest in staying in Mexico, saying, “They’ll never take away our American dream.” Others seemed unaware of the wait that they confronted or cited false information on what is required to request asylum. Brother Obed Cuellar, a Dominican missionary managing the Piedras Negras shelter, said many caravan travelers arrive at the border thinking they can enter the United States. “When they’re told of a process that could take three, four or five months, they get upset,” Brother Cuellar said, explaining the migrants’ reaction is often, “They told me that at the border they will give us permission to work in the United States.” Juan Andrade, coordinator of a collective of
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Catholic-run shelters, said the caravans prompt U.S. officials to fortify the border, which drives up the price of hiring a smuggler. In Eagle Pass, U.S. border patrol agents block pedestrian lanes on the bridges to the ports of entry, have recently installed gates with concertina wire and parked patrol vehicles along their side of the river. “Families of these migrants often don’t send money (for hiring a human smuggler) as promised (and) they often end up living in the street,” where they’re exposed to criminals, Andrade said. Local residents also voice suspicions, because caravans have been portrayed negatively in the Mexican media. “Many people in Piedras Negras feel upset by this,” said Elizabeth Cardenas, a migrant advocate in the city. “They think that (the government) is The Most Requested Funeral Directors in The Most Requested Funeral in the the Archdiocese Archdiocese of of San San Francisco Francisco putting more importance on foreigners thanDirectors the residents of Piedras Negras.” CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Duggan's SerraRequested Mortuary, Daly City andDirectors Sullivan's & in Duggan's Serra Funeral Services, Francisco The Most Funeral the Archdiocese of San San Francisco
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CONFERENCE: Expand lay role in church’s mission FROM PAGE 1
“Christifideles Laici” have laid out an alternative vision of the church’s mission that focuses on shared responsibility among laity, religious and clergy “to bring the Gospel to the world,” said Father Sweeney. He laid out three features distinguishing co-responsibility: equal responsibility among clergy, religious and laity in the church’s mission; equal voice in discerning that mission; and real accountability. The participation of laity in the church was a persistent theme of the 20th century, from Pope Pius X’s discussion of “active participation” and Pope Pius XII’s instruction that laity be conscious “not only of belonging to the church, but of being the church,” to the reflections on the laity in the Second Vatican Council. One challenge to any long-lasting change has been how laity imagine the church, said Father Sweeney, because that influences what they feel they can do. “The imagination of the church has been dominated by the care of souls,” he said, leading to a church where “essentially the laity are to be cared for.” Rather than canonical or institutional
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Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento talks during a panel at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley on Feb 1. Bishop Soto said the relation between clergy and laity is “at the heart of ministry.” changes, he said drawing out the lay vocation first requires formation. “To change a paradigm, it’s necessary to change relationships,” said Father Sweeney. “We need lay men and women formed who are capable of partnering with pastors for the church’s mission.” Father Sweeney is also the executive director of the Lay Mission Project, which has partnered with the Dio-
cese of Sacramento on a three-year project to form laity to participate in the church’s mission. Father Sweeney said the diocese aims to have 300-500 people in formation next year. Other speakers discussed the ways lay men and women contributed to the work of the church. Anna B. Moreland, theology professor at Villanova University, spoke about the creativity laity can bring to faith formation
and the response they can offer to the secularism of the world, and contrasted it with the failure of pastors to welcome laity in helping run the business affairs of a parish. J.D. Flynn, editor-in-chief of Catholic News Agency, said Catholic media can help the church’s renewal by “denouncing evil,” including in its temporal affairs, but go too far when they “disrupt ecclesial communion.” “Catholic media must be willing to challenge misgovernment without calling into question the validity or legitimacy of authority,” he said. Other speakers discussed the divide between artists and the church, contemporary lay movements and the historical factors that created the current divide between clergy and laity. Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto said he was encouraged by the enthusiasm at the discussion, since “the role of the laity is still one of the unfinished tasks of the Vatican Council.” Bishop Soto said that while tension between the clergy and laity had been discussed, “it doesn’t have to be negative,” he said. “It can be a creative endeavor, but for that to happen clergy and laity have to stay at the table and resolve how to make that tension serve the church.”
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Reports of scandal in the church emerged in at least eight other countries. The way to strengthen confidence in church leadership, according to Daniels, is to study Pope Francis’ prescriptions in his Jan. 1 letter to the American bishops. The pope called for “a commitment to mission, to unity, to human dignity, to service, and above all a recognition that we’re all in this together,” and this awareness should “root our prayer, our practical response, and our communication about the clerical abuse crisis,” Daniels said. Daniels directly quoted Pope Francis, who wrote that “credibility is born of trust, and trust is born of sincere, daily, humble and generous service to all, but especially to those dearest to the Lord’s heart.
“The catholicity of the church cannot be reduced merely to a question of doctrine or law; rather, it reminds us that we are not solitary pilgrims: If one member suffers, all suffer together.” The victims of sexual abuse must be the top priority as the church formulates its responses to the crisis, Daniels said. She sees signs that will be the case at the upcoming global Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church. Scheduled to take place at the Vatican from Feb. 21-24, the gathering will include the heads of the world’s national bishops’ conferences and other church leaders with child protection experience. Daniels regards improvements in bishop accountability and increased transparency as “necessary elements of a path forward.” She said that lay people, who have
“no time for passivity,” do play a role in ensuring reform. However, she stressed that “real accountability for bishops will only take hold when we take steps to end the culture of clericalism that has too often led clerics to cover up grave moral failures.” “Clericalism simply has no place in the church,” Daniels said. Bishops themselves must demonstrate “real leadership,” showing through their words and actions “that they understand the harm that has been done, the trust that has been lost, and the changes that are needed,” she said. A commitment to transparency is critical to reform. “We need honesty and candor from our bishops,” Daniels said, citing Catholic commentator Russell Shaw’s observation that “openness and candor would not have pre-
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integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.” Reverence is key part of that canon, Sister Bauer said: “Outrage may generate a reaction but not necessarily reform.” Canon 215, which give the faithful the right to form associations – even without the blessing of the bishop – is important as well. The right of association “is a human right,” Sister Bauer said. While not offering an endorsement of the group, she said Voice of
the Faithful, which started in 2002 in response to the sex abuse crisis in the Archdiocese of Boston and now claims 30,000 members, is an example of how the laity can utilize Canon 215. While synods and pastoral councils give an opportunity for the laity to make their opinion known to bishops, and laypeople filling parish and diocesan leadership roles also are helpful, Sister Bauer said, “the most powerful person is the person who answers the phone for the bishop and decides who talks and doesn’t talk to him, and manages the schedule and determines who gets to see him and who does not.”
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Archdiocese honors religious jubiliarians 80 years
Sister Mary Edith Hurley, RSM
75 years
Sister Marion Donohue, CSJC
70 years
Sister Aileen Birmingham, SNDdeN Sister Mary Jane Floyd, PBVM Sister Michele O’Connell, PBVM Sister Merie Louise Sandstrom, PBVM Sister Barbara Cavanaugh, RSM Sister Marion Irvine, OP/SR Sister Mary Christina Pizzorno, PBVM Sister Celicia Wallace, SNDdeN
65 years
Sister Michele Mangan, OSF
60 years
Sister Anne Bertain, OP/SR Sister Lucy Calvillo, RSM Sister Georgianna Coonis, SNDdeN Sister Ruth Droege, OP/SR Sister Maggie Glynn, FSP Sister Antonio Heaphy, PBVM/U Sister Marcia Kinces, RSM Sister Pauline Borghello, RSM Sister Judith Cannon, RSM Sister Anne Dolan, OP/SR Sister Mary Bridget Flaherty, RSCJ Sister Maureen Hally, RSM Sister Fintan Keaveney, CSN Sister Nancy Morris, RSCJ Sister Carolyn Mouton, RSCJ Sister Joan Marie O’Donnell, RSM
Sister Loraine Polacci, CSJC Sister Janet Rozzano, RSM Sister Jean Stoner, SNDdeN Sister Lillian Murphy, RSM Sister Patria O’Sullivan, PBVM/U Sister Anne Rooney, RSM Sister Patricia Simpson, OP/SR Sister Ann Gilchrist, SNJM
50 years
Joining Msgr. Edward McTaggart and his John brother for a 90th birthday party picture were, from left, Father Senic Cirera, Father Tom Parenti, Deacon Steve Fox, Msgr. John Talesfore, Father Tony McGuire, Father Ray Reyes, Father Rufino Gepiga, Archbishop Cordileone, Sulpician Father Michael Strange, Father Paul Arnoult, Jesuit Father George Schultze, Father Mike Healy, Father Bill McCain and Deacon Bob Leathers.
Sister Patricia Boss, OP/SR Father Geofrey Dillon, SJ Sister Hildegard Heukamp, RSCJ Sister Carolyn Krohn, RSM Sister Gloria Marie Miller, RSM Sister Magdalena Posada, RSCJ Father Joseph Specht, SJ Sister Irene Cullen, RSCJ Sister Kathleen Dolan RSCJ Sister Patricia Hunter, SNJM Sister Marilyn Lacey, RSM Sister Anne Murphy, RSM Sister Bernardine Sattler, FSP Sister Mary Waskowiak, RSM
Msgr. McTaggart celebrates 90th birthday Msgr. Edward McTaggart, retired pastor of St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco, celebrated his 90th birthday with more than 100 family and friends Feb. 2 at St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo. The day began with Mass at noon followed by the party. His birthday is Feb. 6. He was ordained in 1955. “During lunch, several guests shared memories of Msgr. McTaggart, including the current and former vicars for clergy, a post Msgr. McTaggart held, and his former parochial vicars,” said Rachel Alvelais, coordinator of retired priests’ care. “Many more took time to chat with him
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THURSDAY, FEB. 14 NEW WEBSITE FOR CATHEDRAL: Visit SMCSF.org for St. Mary’s Cathedral’s new website. You’ll find gorgeous photos, information on the Cathedral parish and upcoming events, as well as a message from Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Visitors to the old address will be redirected for a short time but soon the old address will be inoperative. HELPING HANDS: Volunteers are wanted at St. Anthony’s Dining Room in San Francisco. Shifts are varied and the need is daily. Help the homeless and low-income guests at the historic dining room. The professionally structured volunteer program provides participants with an empowering and educational experience. Service with St. Anthony’s is more than volunteerism; it’s an opportunity to connect with the community through shared moments of compassion, and to experience the fulfillment of creating positive change. Hours are 9:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m., shifts vary in length from 1-4 hours. Contact Marie O’Connor volunteer@stanthonysf.org stanthonysf.org.
FRIDAY, FEB. 15 GRIEF SUPPORT: Monthly Grief Support Program, 10:30 a.m.-noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe room. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. No charge. Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the talks. Sister Elaine, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16 HEALING MASS: Healing Mass with the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, Sisters from the Daughters of Carmel and the Benedict XVI Institute Schola, 5 p.m., St. Brendan Church, 290 Rockaway Ave, San Francisco. Lourdes Scheerer, (415) 333-6769; mljsmd@aol.com.
SUNDAY, FEB. 17 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and interna-
tional artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
Beverly Terlep, facilitator, helps explore changes to make to live a life of grace in God by praying through art. www.msjdominicans.org. Register at http://bit. ly/2019PathsToGrace or (510) 933-6360.
SATURDAY, FEB. 23 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.Handicapables.com. Dates are subject to change.
SUNDAY, FEB. 24 ABUSE CRISIS DISCUSSION: St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, 1-3 p.m., with Thomas Plante, Ph.D. of Santa Clara University. Eileen Barsi (650) 438-7877; www.stpeterpacifica.org. Admission is free.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2 PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com. CRAB BASH: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School Crab Bash dinner and auction, 5-9 p.m. in school auditorium. The menu includes all-you-caneat crab, pasta and salad, garlic bread and dessert or chicken parmesan. Tickets $40 chicken, and $50 crab in advance, $50/$60 at the door. Parking available in school lot off Shotwell Street. Constance Dalton (415) 6426130; dalton_constance@yahoo.com.
THURSDAY, MARCH 7 ‘REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPELS’: Lenten series with Father David Pettingill on Gospels of the triduum, the period of Holy Thursday through Easter, St. Emydius Church, Ashton Avenue at De Montfort Avenue, San Francisco, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 7-8:30 p.m., $20 donation includes all talks. March 7: “The Hour of Jesus and Disciples’ Feet”; March 14: “The Triumph of God’s Great Love”; March 21: “Why seek the living among the dead?” March 28: “He saw and he believed, burning hearts and breaking of bread.”
FRIDAY, MARCH 8 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Our Lady of the Visitacion Mother’s Club, March 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., March 9, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., parish hall, 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco, (415) 494-5517.
SATURDAY, MARCH 9 ‘HOPE AFTER ABORTION’: Healing retreats led by Contemplatives of St. Joseph for those impacted by abortion. March 9, 10, Sept. 14, 15 and in Spanish Sept. 7, 8. RSVP to (415) 6145567 or projectrachel@sfarch.org. All inquiries are confidential. Sponsored by Project Rachel of the Archdiocese.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.Handicapables.com. Dates are subject to change. ‘SOMETHING ABOUT NONES’: Exploring the spirituality of unaffiliated young adults, 9 a.m.-noon - $30, scholarships available. Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. Register by March 10. http://bit. ly/2019AboutNones or (510) 933-6360.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of January HOLY CROSS, COLMA Joyce Nancy Acheson Delfina Aleman Amalia M. Altamirano Jeannette M. Arguello Brian Michael Austria Barbara L. Balopoulos Justina Barela Grace Barragan Leonard A. Barretto Joseph B. Bechelli Anna L. Bernadicou Alan Zapanta Bernardino Anna M. Bianculli Amado “Ding” L. Bituin Imeldine P. Blair Maureen Patricia Bogdan Anna K. Bonal Ronal L. Bonal Marie R. Bonetta Howard J. Boteilho Leonor Brenner Antonio B. Briones Fermin Caballero Kenneth Joel Campagna Sr. Eileen Canelo, PBVM Romeo Cantiller Mei Kwei Chan John A. Chartz, Jr. Moon K. Chin Jose Raul Colindres Orellana Myrtle Cook Ramon Coronado Richard J. Cotter Sister M. Timothy Cronin, SHF Ernesto M. Dacanay Herminio Bautista De Vera Gary Emil Deang Beto DeSantiago Refulo F. Dominia John Doohan Helen N. Drecsler Willa Duggan Mary Dykes Carlos A. Espinoza, Sr. Valerio M. Esta Angela C. Estrella Richard Faria Lillian C. Fields
Mary Roselee Foley Mary M. Galea Soledad Ganduxe Baltazar Garcia Dolores Helen Garcia Fred R. Giusto David W. Gonzalez Laurentino Gonzalez Dorothy E. Graham Marie J. Guardino Elsa Gloria Guarneri Fely Marie Tadena Guerrero Oliver Gutierrez Aggie V. Hanchey Sammy Lark Hanchey George Joseph Jasinski Joseph Johnson Sr. Reynaldo L. Jorge Frank J. Kane Marie A. Kirk Eleanor S. Kochuba Rosemary Lapuyade Betty M. Leahy Darren Ngwan Wain Lee Joan Agnes Leonard Beatriz Valenzuela Lucas Katica Lucin Trinidad Macalisang Jean E. Marsh Donna Antoinette Mason Maria Dolores Matthews Patricia Marie McAuliffe Joyce Veit McHugh Raymunda Q. Medina Jose Mercado Catherine Ann Miholovich Kathleen Mulligan Nancy Natividad Laurence D. Nelson Sau Chun Ng Mauricio Garcia Oropeza Vattell Henry Overbay, Sr. James B. Page Ryan Gordon Partee Eugene Charles Payne III Mira Margaret Mitchell Pereira Msgr. John R. Pernia Phillip T. Ragona Jr. Gaetano Ramaci William L. Ramirez Terry L. Roman
Gloria A. Romani Hugo L. Romani Francisco D. Roque, Jr. Victor G. Rosario Flora Salazar Lily W. Santoso Joselito C. Sapinoso John J. Savant Nathalie T. Schatzle Joan M. Shader Alzira Stewart Marie Ternullo Stone Consuelo Torres Carole Anne Turner Pedro S. Untalan, Jr. Elisa Vetari Chun Chin Wang Elvira Marie Weiler Georgia A. Wilton Joseph Dominic Zuffi
HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Christine B. Diskon Robert Fontana Gloria Kneubuhl Erna Koch Andrew G. Sifuentes
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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday March 2, 2019 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Michael Liliedahl, Celebrant – Parochial Vicar, St. Cecilia Church
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“I will show you my faith by my works.” JAMES 2:18
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ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL 2019 GOAL $6,865,000 “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.”
Universal Church & Communications 26%
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone
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CHANCERY BUDGET FOR 2019 SOURCES OF INCOME $16,000,000
Parish Ministry & Schools 20%
Social Ministry 24%
AAA 2019 43% $6,865,000
Other Sources 57% $9,135,000
Clergy Support 30%
Your gift to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal allows us to provide ministries, programs, and services that benefit all parishes and people in 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.
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Clergy Support Clergy Support helps care for those who care for us through contributions to the priests retirement fund, enriching seminarian formation and more. It provides an ongoing source of support for priests, deacons, and seminarians to assist them in their ministry to the people of the Archdiocese.
100 Deacons 79 Retired Priests 188 Active Priests Continuing Education 17 Seminarians in Formation
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, Restorative Justice, 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
Universal Church & Communications
The Archdiocese provides additional funding for its parish schools, varied educational programs, and financial aid. Supported offices and ministries include: Department of Pastoral Ministry, Office of Faith Formation, Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, Office of Worship, Marriage and Family Life, Teacher Incentive Grants, the Maker’s Space Initiative, and Alliance for Mission District Schools.
The Universal Church supports the larger work of the California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Holy See. The Office of Communications provides internal constituent communications and external communications that fund media relations, public information, and special projects.
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2019 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal
Dear Friends in Christ: The Archdiocesan Annual Appeal (AAA) provides Catholics in our Archdiocese a unique opportunity to come together. Through the AAA, the over ninety parishes in our Archdiocese unite as one body in mission and ministry. As Catholics, we unite in using our gifts and talents to serve others. Together, we are able to demonstrate our faith through the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal by advancing important programs for youth and young adults, social ministries, school students, our retired priests, ecumenical efforts, and the greater Church, as well as supporting central office activities such as faith formation, human resources, and communications. The following are just a couple of the ways that we help change lives through the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal: • The Restorative Justice program assists crime victims and their families, former offenders, the incarcerated and their families. It does so via its own outreach and through partnerships with community groups. The family of one young man killed in San Francisco said that without the Restorative Justice ministry, they “…would not have been able to meet other families already supported by this ministry, and through this support group … find comfort in the journey of … healing.” • Our generosity funds the Maker’s Space Initiative, a program that brings science and technology to life for 4th and 5th graders at some of our Archdiocesan schools. In addition to the learning and enjoyment the students derive from the program, one teacher has witnessed a marked increase in the number of students expressing a desire to pursue a career in science because of the Maker’s Space Initiative. The theme for this year’s Annual Appeal is James 2:18, “I will show you my faith by my works.” The vivid illustrations of faith that I witness as I visit our parishes are a source of inspiration to me and my ministry, as I see this faith demonstrated in so many ways - through devotion to mission, through support of the ministries of the Annual Appeal, and in countless other manners. Your support of the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal makes a tremendous difference. Imagine, just for a moment, how much more difficult the lives of the family of the young man killed in San Francisco would be without the Restorative Justice ministry. Their already unimaginable loss would be compounded by having no mechanism through which they could share their pain with others who truly understand, thus helping enable the process of healing to begin. On behalf of individuals and families who find comfort and support in the Restorative Justice ministry, the students in our Catholic schools, our retired priests, and many others who benefit from the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, I thank you for your faith, your deeds, and your generosity. Since our mission continues and the needs are ongoing, I ask you to prayerfully consider supporting this year’s Appeal. Your generosity makes a tangible difference in people’s lives. It is greatly appreciated, and it will be very beneficial. I thank you for your demonstrations of faith that continue to inspire me, your support of your own parish, and your commitment to the greater Church. With my prayerful best wishes, I am,
Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco
WAYS TO GIVE All gifts to the 2019 Annual Appeal, regardless of amount, are tremendously beneficial and greatly appreciated. Please see the table to the right for suggested gift plans. • Online (by credit card or checking account): SFArch.org/AAA. • Using the enclosed brochure (by credit card, check, or cash): Please make checks payable to “Archdiocesan Annual Appeal 2019.” 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 that 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 Gift
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.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma | 650-756-2060 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park | 650-323-6375 Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales | 415-479-9021 St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero | 650-752-1679 Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael | 415-479-9020 Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay | 650-712-1679 St Mary Magdalene Cemetery 16 Horseshoe Hill Road, Bolinas | 415-479-9021