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Protesters, Mexico’s bishops decry gender violence

Women raise their hands as they protest against gender violence and femicide in Puebla, Mexico, Feb. 22, 2020. Femicide has occurred with impunity in Mexico for decades, but came to the forefront again with brutal murder Feb. 9 of a Mexico City woman, Ingrid Escamilla, by her husband and the killing of a 7-year-old girl named Fatima, who was taken Feb. 11 from outside her school by a stranger and found abused and murdered. In a Feb. 23 statement, Mexico’s bishops said the crimes “for their brutality have left us perplexed and filled us with pain and sadness. ... We wish to place ourselves, from a place of faith, to offer our presence in words, dialogue and meetings to open ourselves to compassion.”

VATICAN CITY – Lent is a time for deeper dialogue with God through prayer, for renewed gratitude for God’s mercy and for increased compassion for people whose lives are under attack, Pope Francis said.

Also, people must not only show generosity through charitable giving, but they should also work for a real structural change to today’s “economic life,” the pope said in his annual message for Lent, which begins Feb. 26 for Latin-rite Catholics.

The text of the pope’s message was released by the Vatican Feb. 24.

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Sisters shine a light on human trafficking NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

After California passed a law several years ago requiring some industries to display human trafficking awareness posters, anti-trafficking activists like Sister Marilyn Wilson visited businesses to verify that they were following the law. Talking to owners at strip clubs and bars in Sunnyvale showed her over and over how much work there was to do.

“We learned there was no education, no accountability and no enforcement” on existing state antitrafficking legislation, she said, even for something as simple as putting up a poster. “We have to do a lot to support the laws that are already there.”

The St. Vincent de Paul Society chapter at St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City hosted Sister Marilyn and Sister Elizabeth Avalos, members of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for a presentation on human trafficking Feb. 11. In front of about 50 people, the two discussed what human trafficking is, how and where it happens and what people can do to have an effect on it.

from human trafficking place it at about $150 billion per year, Sister Marilyn said. “You can sell a person over and over again, so it’s extremely profitable.”

The Walk Free Initiative estimates that more than 400,000 trafficking victims live in the U.S. In California, 1,656 trafficking cases were reported in 2018, the majority of them involving commercial sexual exploitation.

Sister Elizabeth said nearly 100,000 children are trafficked per year in the U.S. “The thing is, if you’re vulnerable that is when you’re most likely to be trafficked, or if your home is not what you’d like it to be SISTER MARILYN WILSON, Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and you’re recruited online,” she said.

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2 ARCHDIOCESE NEED TO KNOW EWTN HOLY WEEK: Learn more about the faith during the holiest week of the year with EWTN’s movies, documentaries, musicals, children’s programs and more. Join in the celebration of Mass from Rome and Washington, D.C. Program details at www.ewtn.com. Visit EWTN’s special website for Lent ewtn.com/lent. EWTN is broadcast on COMCAST 229, ATT 562, ASTOUND/WAVE 80, DISH SATELLITE 261, and DIRECT TV 370.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE:: The Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign runs Ash Wednesday through Palm Sunday at Planned Parenthood, 2907 El Camino Real, Redwood City, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Sign up for the hours you are available to participate at www40daysforlife/redwoodcity; (650) 918-9119.

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MARCH 1: Mass, cathedral, 11 a.m.; Rite of Election, cathedral 4 p.m.

MARCH 2-6: Bishops’ Lenten Retreat, Valparaiso, Indiana MARCH 7: Reception and lecture, Prof. John Haldane, Star of the Sea, 5:30 p.m.

MARCH 9-12: USCCB Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth meeting, Washington, D.C. MARCH 13: Presbyteral Council, College of Consultors and Priest Personnel Board meetings, chancery

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Handicapables SF is now Breaking Bread with Hope CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Handicapables has a new name, leadership and direction in its 55th year.

The nonprofit organization started by a young North Beach woman with cerebral palsy to give local adults with disabilities a monthly opportunity to come together for Mass, a meal and much-needed fellowship will continue as a Catholic Charities program.

The San Francisco chapter where Nadine Calliguiri, now 81, started the nationwide organization in 1965 was renamed Breaking Bread with Hope earlier this year by Catholic Charities, according to its Patty Clement, director of client services for aging programs.

Other local chapters outside San Francisco will maintain the Handicapables name, Clement said.

Clement told Catholic San Francisco Feb. 19 that Catholic Charities chose the new name as a fitting and more contemporary description of the Mass and meal which offers hope to adults who live with a variety of afflictions.

The name, she said, also pays homage to its foundress; Nadine means “hope” in French.

Clement facilitated the transition between the two organizations after Handicapables board members, many of whom have served the organization for decades, approached Catholic Charities three years ago asking for help finding volunteers for the event held one Saturday a month at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Regular volunteers willing and able to serve at the three- to four-hour event from set up to clean up had been dwindling for years, said Clement, raising the cost of the event to the organization historically funded primarily by private donations and small grants.

Also, many longtime Handicapables board members, led by Calliguiri herself until her retirement six years ago, had aged or were otherwise unable to physically continue their same level of involvement.

“There were just not enough bodies to make this program happen anymore,” said Clement.

Catholic Charities and Clement, who said she is like many people who live with a disability “you can’t see” – hers from a head injury at 22 – felt a great affinity for the program. She knew that without a source of funding and regular volunteers, “I couldn’t promise to take it on and keep it going.”

Clement expects the provisional and partial support she found from San Francisco’s Department of Aging to be approved next month while she seeks new sources of funding and new donors.

At the same time, she said “she has a plan” to extend the reach of Breaking Bread with Hope by connecting with parishes and other faith congregations.

“When someone becomes disabled, whether that’s a physical disability or a mental health disability or cognitive, they tend to draw in and stay home,” she said.

“But a lot of people stay connected to their faith base.”

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Unless otherwise indicated, all recitals begin at 4 pm, and a free will offering will be requested at the door.

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Nadine Calliguiri is pictured at Nazareth House in San Rafael, her home since retiring as founder and director of Handicapables.

Handicapables has always been and will continue to be centered on a Catholic Mass, but the program serves all. Father Kirk Ullery was the San Francisco group’s longtime chaplain; Father Mark Taheny took over as chaplain last summer.

Clement envisions a future for the program, however, as “more of a citywide program” supported financially and physically by faith communities of all stripes.

“It’s not just Catholics who have special needs,” she said.

Through the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the San Francisco Interfaith Council she hopes to connect with parishes, temples or synagogues willing to fully “adopt” one of the monthly events as a regular ministry.

Clement hopes this will help bring a greater awareness of the silent suffering of people with disabilities.

Calliguiri spoke of the loneliness and isolation that people with disabilities know in a message she shared at an early meeting of Handicapables.

“They suffer because of their physical handicap, but probably more because of our lack of understanding, because of our unawareness of the immortal soul that is hidden behind a sometimes deformed being,” she said.

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Lent abounds in prayer, learning ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL HOSTS CONCERTS featuring local and national artists, 4 p.m., most Sundays.

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During Lent, the U.S. Catholic bishops urge the faithful to take inspiration from the words of St. Paul (2 Corinthians 8:9) and contemplate his invitation to live a life of evangelical poverty. Embrace the Lord’s call to being the blessed poor by “sacrificing” material things, including food, superfluous to your basic needs; “offering” charitable gifts directed to helping and caring for others; and “raising up” those in need through praying for them and by participating in devotional practices. In the archdiocese, parishes and organizations are alerting the faithful to Lenten prayer and learning opportunities, including the following.

VOLUNTEERS ARE WELCOME AT 40 DAYS FOR LIFE, a ministry advocating for the unborn. The campaign of peaceful gathering and prayer runs through Palm Sunday at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St., Monday-Saturday, and on Sunday at a pending Planned Parenthood location, 1522 Bush St. Sign up and learn more at 40daysforlife.com/san-francisco; (408) 840-DAYS (3297); sf40daysforlife@gmail.com.

A MORNING REFLECTION led by retired Father David Pettingill, former St. Patrick’s Seminary & University professor and pastor of St. Gabriel Parish, takes place Feb. 29, 10-11:15 a.m., St. Stephen Church, 601 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco. Father Pettingill will speak about full participation in the Eucharist and personal interactions at Mass. Especially recommended for extraordinary ministers of holy Communion and readers. Admission is free, coffee will be provided. Mary Molly Mullaney, (415) 681-2444, ext.

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SAN DAMIANO RETREAT Lenten Renewal Day: My God & My All Fr. Rusty Shaughnessy OFM, 3/17 “Connecting with the Inner Spirit” Christian Meditation Day, 3/21

Feisty Gospel Women Kathy Coffey, 3/27-3/29 The Gospel Passion Narratives Retreat Sr. Dorothy McCormack, 4/3 -4/5 Holy Week Retreat with Fr. Richard Juzix & San Damiano Friars and Staff, 4/9-4/12 More information or to register 710 Highland Dr., Danville 925-837-9141 Visit us at sandamiano.org

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MISSION DOLORES BASILICA, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, Second Sunday Recital series, 4 p.m., $10 donation suggested, (415) 621-8203; music@missiondolores.org missiondolores.org/90.

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A crown of thorns is seen on Ash Wednesday at St. Bonaventure Church in Paterson, N.J., in this March 5, 2014, file photo.

The 2020 Lenten season begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26, for Latin-rite Catholics, with Easter Sunday on April 12.

WINTER SHELTER FOR HOMELESS SUPPORT WALK 2020, MARCH 29, 1:30 p.m., Lake Merced, San Francisco, parking circle at Lake Merced and Sunset boulevards. Contact Cynthia Zamboukos, (415) 474-1321 cynthiaz@sfinterfaithcouncil.org; winterfaithshelterwalk@gmail.com.

ST. MATTHIAS AND ST. CHARLES PARISHES ARE HOSTING A TWO-EVENING MISSION led by Father Dave Pettingill, a well-known and inspiring retreat leader. Each evening, 7-8:30 p.m., song and scriptural readings will frame Father Dave’s presentation: “Being ‘In Christ’ Says It All.” On March 2, Father Dave explores “How did we get to be ‘In Christ?’” On March 3 he describes what being “In Christ” looks like using scriptural references, stories, and real-life experiences.

All are welcome. Refreshments provided. St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City. Contact Deacon Rich Foley, rich@stmatthiasparish.org.

ST. CECILIA PARISH, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, is hosting a Lenten Speaker Series March 3, 10, 24. Doors open at 7:15 p.m., presentation runs 7:30-9 p.m. with a break, refreshments and Q&A time.

Admission is $10 and you may bring a friend for free.

Plenty of parking. www.stcecilia.com; (415) 6648481. March 3: Jesuit Father Felix Just with “Does Jesus Really Expect Us to Be Perfect?” March 10: Salesian Sister Mary Greenan with “Mind the Gap: A Faith Perspective.” March 24: Dr. Margaret Turek with “Spiritual Poverty and the Spirit of Lent.”

ST. ANNE PARISH, 850 Judah St., San Francisco, prays the Stations of the Cross with Benediction each Friday of Lent, 7 p.m. A 6 p.m. soup supper precedes the liturgy. www.stannesf.org; (415) 665-1600.

ST. RAYMOND PARISH, Menlo Park, has announced “Men’s Leap into Lent,” retreat, Feb. 29, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Day includes Mass and lunch. A day of prayer, discussion, and reflection led by Deacon Tom Kelly. Register online at www.straymond.org/donate. The retreat can be found in the Ministries & Events section. $65.

See Catholic San Francisco’s print and online editions and Facebook page for additional listings. Principal Lenten liturgies at St. Mary’s Cathedral will be livestreamed on the archdiocese’s YouTube page.

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Alessandro Baccari: ‘Every picture is a prayer’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“When I’m photographing I’m the happiest character in the world,” Alessandro Baccari told Catholic San Francisco Feb. 21 on the ground floor library of his West Portal home surrounded by stacks of images from a lifetime behind the lens.

Baccari – writer, painter, poet, photographer and unofficial ambassador of North Beach where he grew up – was 91 years old and two days away from the opening of his latest photography exhibit at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley.

“Every Image is a Prayer: Photographic Revelations

by Alessandro Baccari,” runs through May at the school’s Blackfriars Gallery, 2301 Vine St., Berkeley.

“I literally create prayers with images,” said Baccari, who suffered a series of strokes at 89 that seem to have only barely diminished his imagination and productivity. He’s working on a book, writes poetry daily and is lifting weights so he can get strong enough to accept an invitation to travel to New Zealand to teach photography there.

“In the twilight of my life, I have to have purpose every day,” he said. “I raise myself up from this bed to adore my God and to labor for the salvation of my soul, that’s how I’m thinking.”

Baccari said he literally grew up in the craft under the tutelage of his father, Alessandro Baccari Sr., who made his living as an artist. Famed photographers Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Ansel Adams were among his father’s many illustrious friends who also influenced him as a child.

The best lessons from his father, he said, were less about technique than they were about God as the source of imagination and creativity.

Baccari recalled a childhood outing with his father to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.

Afterward the pair went to a promontory point where his father asked his son to tell him what he saw. He said he saw mountains and the ocean, people and dogs, trees and flowers.

“Everything you saw inside the museum is a copy of God’s work,” his father told him. “The master artist is God. Always remember that when you draw, when you paint, when you photograph, you are copying God’s creativity.”

As Baccari describes his large portfolio of favorite photographs – portraits, landscapes, still-life, collage – his prayerful approach is more evident than at first glance.

At its most fundamental, his work reflects Baccari’s talent for visual storytelling and his internal gratitude for the “gifts” God gave him.

Creativity is also a “survival skill,” he said, especially in recovery and old age. He doesn’t take it for granted.

Each morning before he rises he writes and recites aloud a daily prayer of thanksgiving:

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Alessandro Baccari is pictured at his San Francisco home Feb. 21 with an image from his extensive career as a photographer.

An exhibition of his work, “Every Image is a Prayer: Photographic Revelations by Alessandro Baccari,” runs through May at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley.

“Good morning Lord. Thank you for another day of living. Because of you I feel especially blessed.

Each day is filled with a purpose, as imagination directs my curiosity and spirituality.”

Baccari has received numerous awards and grants for his photography, as well as the Benemerenti Medal for service to the Catholic Church in 1997 from St. John Paul II. His photography has been shown in galleries around the world.

Asked what makes a good photo from a technical standpoint, Baccari said composition, “sculpting with light,” and the interrelationship of line and design.

The book he’s writing is provisionally entitled, “The Fathers My Father Gave Me” about Weston, novelist and playwright William Saroyan, playwright Eugene O’Neill and others who influenced him.

And then there are the books he has already written; “The Italian Cathedral of the West,” about his childhood church, Sts. Peter and Paul, “The History of Fisherman’s Wharf,” and “The History of Italians in California.”

He’s attended the Madonna del Lume Festival in San Francisco every year since he was 6 years old, and to this day acts as the event’s master of ceremonies. The Mass that begins the day is held at the Seaman’s and Fisherman’s Chapel on Pier 45 at Fisherman’s Wharf, which he helped raise the money to build in the late 1970s.

“What have I done Lord?” Baccari asked. “Am I enough to return to you when you call?”

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Mission Dolores Academy teacher Rochelle Reid shows off the letter her first graders received from the Vatican in February. She is joined by proud first graders Darrin Padilla, Nazareth Walker and Kiyoshi Nishimoto.

HIGH MARKS FROM THE VATICAN: Dominican Sister Ann Providence, director of religious education at Mission Dolores Academy in San Francisco, was delighted to report to Catholic San Francisco Feb. 12 that teacher Rochelle Reid’s first grade class had received a letter from the Vatican. Addressed to “the children of the first grade,” the letter written on behalf of Pope Francis, thanked the students for their letters of concern about the destruction of the Amazon. In October the students studied and prayed for the Amazon as part of a two-week immersion project.

The letter said the pope read the students’ letters and “asked that we continue our prayers.”

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Nadine Calliguiri: ‘God worked through me, and he still is’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nadine Calliguiri, 81, living in retirement at Nazareth House in San Rafael, told Catholic San Francisco Feb. 20 that she started Handicapables in 1965 after hearing a priest at a retreat for disabled women, the late Jesuit Father George Twiggs-Porter use the term.

“You are not handicapped,” he told them. “You are handicapable. You are handy on this earth with a mission to perform a service for God. And you are capable of fulfilling that purpose if you will listen when he speaks to you.”

“It was as if the Holy Spirit inspired me right there and then,” said Calliguiri, who was determined to bring adults with disabilities out of isolation and into service to others.

Calliguiri was born with cerebral palsy and raised in North Beach by parents who urged her to focus on her abilities and not her disability. Instead of a special school for the handicapped her mother insisted she attend Sts. Peter and Paul School and, later, Presentation High School. After graduation she attended a vocational training for the handicapped where she heard firsthand from others with afflictions greater than hers about their loneliness.

“They would tell me, ‘I don’t have any friends,’” she said.

She said she prayed, “Dear Lord help me.” But her prayers were not for herself.

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Handicapables held its first meeting at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in January 1965. More than 20 people on crutches, braces, wheelchairs or standing alone or with caregivers attended the Mass and lunch. In 1971, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken presented founder Nadine Calliguiri with a citation by the National Center for Voluntary Action.

“I prayed that God help me overcome my handicap just a little so I could help my brothers and sisters in Christ,” she said.

Her first meeting of Handicapables was held at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in January 1965. More than 20 people on crutches, braces,

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Isolation is “hugely detrimental” to people with disabilities and causes human decline, said Clement. Bringing them back into community with others who share some of their challenges as well as

those who do not, helps break that barrier.

“I’ve worked with challenged populations my whole life,” she said. “To watch people bloom when they reconnect with community and find groups of people who can become friends and support them through life is very rewarding.”

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wheelchairs or standing alone or with caregivers attended the Mass and lunch, launching an organization that was replicated in cities and dioceses across the country.

Calliguiri earned accolades and honors for her work, including the San Francisco Examiner’s Most

Distinguished Bay Area Women in 1967 and the Human Life Award from United for Life. In 1971, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken presented her with a citation by the National Center for Voluntary Action.

“God worked right through me,” Calliguiri said. “And he still is.”

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Parishes offer expanded Lenten hours for confessions 4131; frances@mdssf.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays 5:45-6:45 p.m.; Saturdays 4:15-4:45 p.m.

Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco are taking part in “The Light is On For You,” a Lenten prayer opportunity offering additional times for confessions as Easter approaches. Following is information from parishes with regard to the campaign. Any additional listings sent by parishes will be added to the website version of this article, at catholic-sf. org. An online guide to confession from the archdiocese may be found at sfarch.org/Lent.

Our Lady of Angels Church: 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. (650) 3477768; parishoffice@olaparish.org.

Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 3:30-4:45 p.m.; Tuesdays 6-8 p.m.; April 6, Day of Healing and Reconciliation with confessions noon-9 p.m.

MARIN COUNTY

Church of the Assumption: 26825 Shoreline Highway, Tomales. (707) 878-2208; coatomales@gmail.com.

Confessions during Lent: Friday and Saturday, 5-5:45 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church: Three Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley. (415) 388-4190, officeolmc@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays, 6-8 p.m., Parish Reconciliation Service on the Monday of Holy Week, 7 p.m.

St. Anthony of Padua Church: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato. (415) 883-2177, mary@stanthonynovato. org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.

St. Cecilia Church: 450 West Cintura Ave., Lagunitas. (415) 488-9799; stcecilia.lagunitas@yahoo.com. Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 4-6 p.m.; Feb. 28, Day of Adoration with confessions following 8 a.m. Mass until 5 p.m.

St. Hilary Church: 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon. (415) 435-1122; www.sthilary.org. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays 6 p.m. with exception of Wednesday during Holy Week, April 8, when the parish will have a Communal Penance Service with individual confession and absolution at 7 p.m.; confessions also Fridays 9:30 a.m.; Saturdays 4 p.m.

St. Isabella Church: One Trinity Way, San Rafael. (415) 479-1560, office@ stisabellasparish.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-7 p.m.

St. Mary Church: 4100 Nicasio Valley Road, Nicasio. (See numbers above).

Confessions during Lent: Saturdays after 8 a.m. Mass 8:45-9:15 a.m.

St. Mary Star of the Sea Church: 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito. (415) 332-1765, office@starofthesea.us.

Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

St. Raphael Church: 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael. (415) 454-8141; www. saintraphael.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays with exception of Ash Wednesday 6-8 p.m.

St. Sebastian Church: 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. (415) 4610704; sebastian94904@yahoo.com.

Confessions during Lent: Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m. A priest will be in the confessional from 7:30-8:00 p.m. every Wednesday night and will stay beyond 8 p.m. to hear the confessions of everyone who arrives by 8 p.m.

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Church of the Epiphany: 827 Vienna St., San Francisco. (415) 333-7630; www.EpiphanySF.com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays 5:30-7 p.m.;

communal reconciliation, April 7, 9 a.m.-noon and 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St., San Francisco. (415) 621-8203, parish@missiondolores.org; Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-8 p.m., basilica.

Most Holy Redeemer Church: 100 Diamond St., San Francisco. (415) 863-6259; secretary@mhr.org. Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays with exception of Ash Wednesday 6-7 p.m.

National Shrine of St, Francis of Assisi: 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. (415) 986-4557; info@shrinesf. org. Confessions during Lent: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-noon; Wednesday and Friday 4-5 p.m., 6-7 p.m.

St. Anne of the Sunset Church: 850 Judah St., San Francisco, (415) 665-1600, info@stanne-sf.org. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

St. Benedict Parish for Deaf and Hearing Impaired at St. Francis Xavier Church: 1801 Octavia St., San Francisco. Voice/TTY: (415) 567-9855, stbenz1801@gmail.com.

Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Sundays, 9:30-10:20 a.m., 1-2 p.m.

Confessions are offered in American Sign Language (ASL). Total communication access will be offered to those hearing penitents who are not fluent in ASL. St. Brendan Church: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco. (415) 681-4225; saintbrendanchurchsf@gmail.com.

Confessions during Lent: Wednesday 7:15-8:00 p.m.; Saturdays 4:15-4:45 p.m.; Communal Penance Service, April 8, 7 p.m.

St. Cecilia Church: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 664-8481; stcecilia@stcecilia.com. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays 4-5:30 p.m.; Saturdays 3:30-4:30 p.m.

St. Dominic Church: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. (415) 576-7824; info@ stdominics.org. Confessions during Lent: Saturday 5-6 p.m.; Sunday 7 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m.; 5 p.m.; 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 31 noon-1 p.m.; 7:30-8 p.m.

St. Ignatius Church: 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. (415) 422-2188; gbonfiglio@usfca.edu. Confessions during Lent: Mondays 11:30 a.m.noon; Saturdays, 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Thursdays 7-8:30 p.m.

St. Kevin Church: 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco. (415) 648-5751; StKevins70@aol.com. March 31: Reconciliation service, 7 p.m.

St. Monica Church: 470 24th Ave., San Francisco. (415) 751-5275; monicarectory@sbcglobal.net. Confessions during Lent: Saturday 4-4:45 p.m.; Monday 9:30-10:30 a.m.

St. Patrick Church: 756 Mission St., San Francisco. (415) 421-3730, information@stpatrocksf.org. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m.-noon, 4:30-5 p.m., Fridays, 11 a.m.-noon, 4-5 p.m., Saturdays, 4-5 p.m.

St. Philip the Apostle Church: 725 Diamond St., San Francisco. (415) 282-0141; info@saintphilipparish.org.

Confessions during Lent: Fridays 7-9 p.m.

St. Teresa of Avila Church: 1490 19th St., San Francisco. (415) 2855272; info@stteresasf.org. Eucharistic adoration with confessions March 24, 5-8 p.m. Confession also available by appointment.

St. Thomas the Apostle Church: 3835 Balboa St., San Francisco. (415) 387-5545; stthomasapostlechurchsf@ gmail.com / Confessions during Lent: Saturday 3-3:45 p.m.; Friday 9:15-10 a.m.

St. Thomas More Church: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco.

(415) 452-9634; www.STMchurch. com. Confessions during Lent: Thursdays 7:30-8 p.m.; Fridays 8-10 p.m. with Stations of the Cross, exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight and Benediction; Good Friday and Holy Saturday 3 p.m.; during Masses on Saturday Vigils, 5 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m., 8 p.m.

SAN MATEO COUNTY

All Souls Church: 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco. (650) 871-8944; Secretary@allsoulsparishssf.org. Confessions during Lent: Bilingual confessions Thursdays 5-6 p.m. and Saturdays 4-5 p.m. commencing March 5 through April 4.

Church of the Good Shepherd: 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, (650) 3552593, www.gschurchca.org. Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 6-7 p.m.

Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont. (650) 593-6157; office@ihmbelmont.org. Confessions during Lent: Holy Thursday 4-5 p.m.; Good Friday 3 p.m.; Holy Saturday 3-4 p.m.

Church of the Nativity: 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, (650) 3237914, churchnativity.menlo@gmail. com. Confessions during Lent: Mondays, 7-8 p.m.

Mater Dolorosa Church: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco. (650) 583-

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City. (650) 755-9786; olphrectory@ gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Wednesday 5:30-6 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m. or by appointment.

St. Augustine Church: 3700 Callan Blvd., South San Francisco. (650) 873-2282; Staugustinessf@aol.com.

Confessions during Lent: Fridays 4:305 p.m.; Saturdays 3:30-4 p.m. both days in Confession Room and chapel; March 30, Lenten Communal Reconciliation with individual confession, 7 p.m.

St. Catherine of Siena Church: 1310 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame.

(650) 344-6884; stcsiena@yahoo.com.

Confessions during Lent: Wednesdays with exception of Ash Wednesday 6:30-8 p.m.; April 6 penance service 7 p.m.; Good Friday 3-4 p.m.; Holy Saturday 3-4 p.m.; Saturdays with exception of Holy Saturday 4-4:45 p.m.

St. Dunstan Church: 1133 Broadway Ave., Millbrae. (650) 697-4730; www. stdunstanchurch.org. Prayer reflection and adoration with confessions Wednesdays during Lent with exception of Ash Wednesday 7-8 p.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church: 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto. (650) 322-2152, sfoassisi@sbcglobal.net.

Confessions during Lent: Fridays, 5-7 p.m., Saturdays, 4:30-6 p.m., a retired priest is on call for confessions daily, Sundays, a priest is in confessional during Mass. All priests speak English and Spanish.

St. Luke Church: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. (650) 345-6660; saintukefc@gmail.com. Confessions during Lent: Thursdays 6-8 p.m.

St. Mark Church: 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont. (650) 591-59337; www. saintmarksparish.com. Confessions during Lent: Tuesday 6-8 p.m. with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

St. Matthew Church: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo. (650) 3447622; parish@stmatthewcath.org. Confessions during Lent: Monday – Friday, 5 p.m., adoration chapel confessionals; Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-noon, church confessionals, 4:30- 5 p.m., church confessionals, March 26, 5-9 p.m., adoration chapel confessionals, Good Friday, noon-1:30 p.m., church confessionals, Holy Saturday, 11 a.m.-noon., church confessionals.

St. Timothy Church: 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo, (650) 342-2468. Confessions during Lent: Tuesdays, 6-6:30 p.m., English, 6:30-7 p.m., Spanish, Saturdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Communal Penance Service, April 1, 7 p.m.

St. Veronica Church: 34 Alida Way, South San Francisco. (650) 588-1455; churchoffice@stveronicassf.com.

Confessions during Lent: Mondays 4:30-6:30 p.m. You may enter through the side door of the church. Signs will be posted.

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Annual Appeal raises record $7.4 million The 2019 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal raised $7.4 million, making it the most successful annual appeal ever.

“Thank you to everyone who made a gift,” said archdiocesan development director Rod Linhares. “Your spectacular generosity helped improve many lives.”

Linhares said the archdiocese is “most appreciative of the tremendous efforts of the pastors, parish staffs, and others in bringing the critical message of the AAA to parishioners.

We also thank everyone who was not able to make a gift to the appeal but offered their prayers for the people who need and depend on it.”

The appeal is an annual opportunity for parishioners throughout the archdiocese to unite in ministry. Gifts support retired priests, seminarians, social justice, Catholic schools and other ministries.

Linhares shared two examples of people helped through the 2019 appeal.

Ramon and Patricia Marquez were supported through the archdiocesan restorative justice ministry, which is an outreach to crime victims and their families, crime offenders and their families and the incarcerated.

Ramon and Patricia lost their son, Michael, to a random act of gun violence in San Francisco.

“Through the restorative justice ministry, they were guided and accompanied in their journey of healing,” Linhares said. “They believe that their involvement in this ministry has been integral to their ability to get through such a terrible time. They now serve in the restorative justice ministry, helping others who have experienced tragedies like theirs.” Ramon and

CEMETERY MASS

First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel is offered for those interred at the cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. April 4, 11 a.m., Father Brian Costello, celebrant. 1500 Mission Road, Colma. holycrosscemeteries.com.

PEACE MASS

First Saturday Mass for reparation and peace in the world, April 4, 10 a.m., St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna

Patricia also visit incarcerated youth under 18-years-old at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center.

Various academic programs in the Catholic schools were supported, including the “Maker’s Space Initiative.” The initiative helps bring science to life for middle schoolers through hands-on learning. Students in one class built robots out of plastic cups, motors, batteries and electrical wires.

“The effects of the Maker’s Space are very significant,” Linhares said.

“In fact, one teacher has witnessed a substantial increase in the number of students, especially girls, who want to pursue a career in science or math because of the initiative. Through the appeal, you are helping change the trajectory of young lives.”

Linhares said the AAA “is integral to the mission of our archdiocese as well as our personal mission as Catholics. As stated by Richard and Linda Kosta, parishioners of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame, ‘We support the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal because of the ministries that it supports, and the good that it does for the people who need it.”’

“On behalf of everyone who needs and depends on the annual appeal, we thank you very much for your generosity,” Linhares concluded. “Whether it was financial and/or through your prayers, it is greatly appreciated and very beneficial. We also thank you for your support, in so many ways, of your own parish communities.”

For more information, please contact Rod Linhares, director of development, (415) 614-5581; linharesr@sfarch.org.

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School of Pastoral Leadership: An opportunity to deepen faith ARACELI MARTÍNEZ SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

The School of Pastoral Leadership for Hispanics is an opportunity for the faithful, leaders and catechists to deepen their faith and learn more about their church.

“This preparation helps to form leaders who, by getting to know the church, will defend it,” said Father Moisés Agudo, vicar for Hispanics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Our church has to be defended because history – since the time of Jesus – shows us that it has always been persecuted. And when this happens it means that it is doing well. Something good is being done,” He explained that although persecution in ages past forced the faithful to renounce their faith and resulted in martyrdom, it is now more serious.

“They are not asking you to renounce the church but they want to question the faith of the church,” Father Agudo said. “You need to be formed to respond to these attacks that want to sow doubt.”

The school was born four years ago with the advocacy of Father Agudo and the support of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

The curriculum is taught over a five-year period by a seven-member teaching staff.

During the first year, students study introductory courses in ecclesiology, the sacraments and sacred Scripture. More theological studies are added every year including Mariology, Christology, eschatology, and fundamental, moral and pastoral theology.

The school operates in six centers twice a week. Four of them are located at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Francisco, one at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo and

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Students of the School of Pastoral Leadership for Hispanics are pictured with their course instructor, Deacon Mario Zuniga. Applications are open for the fall term and interested parishioners should speak to their pastors for more information.

encyclicals, understand words she the other one at All Souls Parish in did not previously understand and South San Francisco. know the context of the readings.

Currently there are 164 students The school “has made me feel enrolled. The most advanced stumore confident in preparing childents are in their fourth year. The dren for their first Communion,” school is closed in July, August and said Román, who is a catechist.

December.

She encouraged the Catholic comSchool secretary Socorro Aragon munity to make the time and welsaid the school’s first graduating come the opportunity to enroll. class will complete its training in “I am going to graduate next year, June 2021 with about 92 students from the hubs at St. Anthony and All but I would like to continue with a specialization because you never Souls. stop studying and learning,” she One of the students, Violeta said.

Román, said that throughout the After four years of basic formafour years of her formation, she has tion the school offers students the learned to appreciate and recognize opportunity to choose a specialty in the richness of the Catholic Church. spirituality, catechesis or canonical “It never ceases to amaze me,” she studies. said.

“It’s like going back to school. You It was precisely her desire to know have to make group and individual and deepen her faith in order to be Visualin & FaPerforming Arts training presentations and do homework. able to “give reason to hope,” ther Agudo’s own words, that led her But I’m doing this because I love my Academic preparedness classes community and my Catholic Church to enter the school. and it’s afield commitment Román’s experience has Weekly helped educational trips to and for our Lord,” she said. her to be able to enjoy reading the Román is pleased that her newly acquired knowledge enables her to dialogue with people from other religious denominations.

“Without fighting, you can reply to them with facts and fundamentals when you have the preparation and knowledge,” she said.

Father Agudo said the school is designed to be a formation program with a defined structure. ”The study plan and the structure is something we did with the archbishop,” he said. “The schedule, the search for professors – that was something I had to do. They are excellent people of high quality. They all have degrees and doctorates.”

The faculty includes Carlos Ayala, an expert in St. Oscar Romero, and priests like Father Rafael Bemúdez and Father Jorge Arias, who not only bring their own priestly experience to the school but also have worked as professors in their home countries.

Father Agudo thinks that any age is right to “receive the formation and knowledge of the church, everything we can learn is always welcome,” and invites the faithful at large to enroll but begs parish leaders to take advantage of it.

Father Agudo recently spoke with a parishioner from Mission Dolores who is over 70 years old and is a student at the school.

“He told me about his experience, and I was impressed when he said that in spite of his age, he was learning to know his church, something he had always wanted,” Father Agudo said.

Father Agudo is asking pastors to help promote the school.

“It is essential that they do so,” he said. “The parish priest is the gatekeeper of the parish, and has the responsibility to form parishioners.”

He said the archdiocese, through the school, “offers an instrument for its parishioners to be formed and to be the next leaders of the parishes and of the church.”

Those wishing to enroll should talk with their parish priest. Registration is now open at St. Anthony and St. Matthew for classes beginning in September. Anyone 18 and older can enroll.

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TRAFFICKING: Sisters shine a light on modern-day slavery FROM PAGE 1

that human trafficking happens in their own communities and cuts across all class and income divides.

“For so long, it was considered something over there, or out there, but California is the biggest state for human trafficking,” Sister Marilyn said.

California law enforcement agencies annually conduct Operation Reclaim and Rebuild, a statewide antitrafficking action that each year rescues several dozen people from exploitation and arrests hundreds for solicitation. During the most recent operation Jan. 26Feb. 1, more than 500 people were arrested statewide.

Trafficking occurs all over the Bay Area, Sister Marilyn said, but it can be difficult for law enforcement to bring criminal cases if a victim is over 18 and refuses to testify. In response to that, she said, “what they are trying to do now is get them on wage theft or fraud in cases where victims refuse to testify to sex or labor trafficking.”

Jurisdictional issues can also complicate building and successfully prosecuting a case, she added.

Sister Elizabeth acknowledged it could be “overwhelming” to start engaging in anti-trafficking work and encouraged her audience to start by adding the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline to their phones, to call or text in suspected trafficking incidents.

She also encouraged buying ethically produced and traded items, changing consumption habits, supporting anti-trafficking legislation and learning more about the effect of consumer choices on trafficking by visiting slaveryfootprint.org.

“Where do you buy your chocolate? Where does it come from? Do you buy fair trade coffee?” she asked people.

As part of the evening, attendees participated in an exercise to visualize the relationships a victim of trafficking might have with others, and how often he or she can be encountered. Taking on a fictional story of Miguel, a migrant who is forced to work in a restaurant, participants stood in for the friends,

(PHOTO BY NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

During a Feb. 11 presentation on human trafficking, parishioners at St. Matthias Parish in Redwood City held strings of yarn to visualize the connections a single trafficking victim has to people in a community. acquaintances, advocates, and exploiters who are bound up in the story of a single trafficking victim, holding strings that centered on a single victim.

“One trafficked person touches so many lives,” Sister Marilyn said. “And everyone has an opportunity to help if they see something.”

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FEDERAL APPEALS COURT NOW SAYS FLORIDA LATIN CROSS CAN STAY

FLORIDA DIOCESE DECLARES SAFE HAVEN SUNDAY TO FOCUS ON HARMS OF PORNOGRAPHY

WASHINGTON – Reversing its previous decision, a federal appeals court ruled Feb. 19 that a World War II-era cross can remain standing in a park in Pensacola, Florida, based on the Supreme Court’s decision last year about a similar cross on public property in Maryland.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Florida’s 34-foot Latin cross does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Circuit Judge Kevin Newsom, writing for the three-judge panel, said the cross “has evolved into a neutral” symbol.

Becket, a nonprofit religious liberty law firm that represented Pensacola in this case, argued that the cross, built in 1941, had become “a significant symbol for the Pensacola community.”

In 2018, the same appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that said the cross in the city’s Bayview Park had to be removed because it violated the Establishment Clause.

The city took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which was considering a similar dispute involving a peace cross in Bladensburg, Maryland. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Maryland cross did not violate the Establishment Clause. After that ruling, it vacated the appeals-court ruling in the Pensacola case and sent it back for reconsideration.

“The Supreme Court has now made clear that religious symbols are an important part of our nation’s history and culture,” Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, said in a statement.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Bishop Gregory L. Parkes of St. Petersburg declared Feb. 23 as Safe Haven Sunday, a day when parishes in the diocese set aside time to address “the pervasive problem of pornography and its devastating effects Bishop Gregory on marriages and L. Parkes families.”

According to a Feb. 19 news release, the special Sunday designation is part of Freedom From Pornography, an initiative tthe Diocese of St. Petersburg launched in 2016 to combat the growing problem of pornography.

This is the diocese’s second Safe Haven Sunday, and the goal is to make each home “a safe haven” from pornography. Under an overall theme of “Equipping the Family, Safeguarding Children,” this year’s observance will focus on “Helping Parents Navigate Online Exposure.”

“Pornography is detrimental to both the physical and spiritual life of each individual and the greater community,” Bishop Parkes said in a statement.

“The use of pornography by anyone in the home deprives the home of its role as a safe haven and has negative effects throughout a family’s life and across generations.”

In February 2018, the Florida House approved a measure declaring pornography a public health risk and called for education, research and policy changes that would protect Floridians, especially teenagers, from pornography. The bill said pornography “can ex-

acerbate mental and physical illnesses and promote deviant, problematic or dangerous behaviors.”

With its pastoral initiative, “the Catholic Church in west central Florida is responding to this crisis that dehumanizes women and children and normalizes violence,” the St. Petersburg diocesan news release said. Statistics show that about 30% of people are exposed to pornography before age 12, it noted.

JUDGE SAYS ABUSE VICTIMS’ ATTORNEY CAN QUESTION RETIRED ROCHESTER BISHOP

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that – with specific limitations – an attorney for victims of sexual abuse may question retired Bishop Matthew H. Clark of Rochester under oath about his knowledge of sexual abuse during his years as head of the diocese.

The ruling was issued during a Feb. 11 hearing in the diocese’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.

In January, victims’ attorneys had filed a motion requesting the right to interrogate the 82-year-old prelate about the extent of his knowledge of abuse taking place during his 33-year tenure as Rochester’s Catholic bishop, which concluded with his retirement in 2012.

Bishop Clark’s attorney, Mary Jo S. Korona, argued during the hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that the bishop is not competent to give a deposition, having been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s disease in July 2019. The bishop made his diagnosis public approximately one month later.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Paul R. Warren ruled Bishop Clark could be questioned by an attorney representing the unsecured creditors’ committee in the bankruptcy case.

Acknowledging the possibility that the bishop’s medical condition could cause him to become forgetful or confused, Warren said the deposition must take place within 30 days of his ruling; be conducted in a single day; last no more than three hours and include breaks; and take place with only one attorney each representing the diocese and the unsecured creditors’ committee, plus Bishop Clark’s attorney. No attorneys representing insurers are allowed to take part.

‘LAUDATO SI’’ AT FIVE: PROJECT SEEKS TO FOSTER PRAYERFUL CLIMATE ACTION

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment set the path five years ago and now a new effort by the Catholic Climate Covenant seeks to shape an intergenerational movement to respond through action and prayer to the challenges posed by climate change.

Called the Catholic Climate Project, the effort is set to build on what parishioners and organizations already are doing while inviting more people to deepen the Catholic commitment to protect creation. “We’re activating across the entire Catholic community, not just those who are already acting,” Jose Aguto, associate director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, told Catholic News Service Feb. 18.

Resources have been developed to guide participants through prayer services and liturgies, service projects, intergenerational encounters, healing and bridge-building, public demonstrations, classroom lessons, and advocacy and conversation with church and political leaders. The website is: https:// catholicclimatecovenant.org/program/ catholic-climate-project.

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Evangelization efforts bring more sisters to Diocese of Charleston, S.C. that formerly housed the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

In the Beaufort area, three new sisters from the Disciples of Christ the Good Shepherd will arrive in March.

Sisters from the order based in Mexico first came to the diocese in 2014 and have played a big role in helping parishes with the growing Latino community.

All of the women had to go through a long application process before arriving in South Carolina. Women religious must obtain an R-1 visa, which is for religious workers.

Sister Pyreddy said she misses

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Three new communities of women religious are bringing their missions of evangelization through helping others to the Diocese of Charleston.

The Daughters of St. Anne, an order based in India, arrived in South Carolina in September 2019 and now serve at three parishes. Founded in 1857, their order’s charism is “evangelization through loving service.”

Sister Deepa Kuppala is the parish coordinator of liturgical ministers at St. Andrew Church in Myrtle Beach. Sister Paulina Vijaya teaches at Holy Trinity School in North Myrtle Beach. Sister Amala Pyreddy is the director of religious education at St. Michael Church in Murrells Inlet.

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her family in India but has been overwhelmed by the welcome she’s received. She also learned about the impact sisters can have just by their presence.

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High court to review religious liberty, foster care by same-sex couples CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court announced Feb. 24 that in its next term it will examine if the city of Philadelphia can exclude a Catholic social services agency from the city’s foster care program because the agency will not accept samesex couples as foster parents.

In 2018, Philadelphia stopped using the foster program of Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese over the agency’s policy of not placing children with same-sex couples because such unions go against church teaching on traditional marriage.

A year later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit sided with the city, calling the agency’s policies discriminatory.

“The city stands on firm ground in requiring its contractors to abide by its nondiscrimination policies when administering public services,” the ruling said. “Placing vulnerable children with foster families is without question a vital public service. ...

Deterring discrimination in that effort is a paramount public interest,” it added.

Catholic Social Services has contracted with the city on foster care since the late 1990s. Foster parents with the agency joined in the lawsuit against the city initially to seek an injunction to stop the city’s policy.

The case, Fulton v. Philadelphia, takes its name from Sharonell Fulton, a foster parent who joined in the lawsuit against the city along with another foster parent, Toni Simms-Busch.

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2020 CENSUS ASKS RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO PROMOTE PARTICIPATION

WASHINGTON – Realizing that many people are hesitant to fill out the upcoming census, the U.S. Census Bureau is calling on religious leaders to help promote it.

“You are your community’s most trusted voice,” Steven Dillingham, Census Bureau director, told a group of interfaith leaders at the Washington National Cathedral Feb. 18, saying his agency depends on them to “to tell your people this is their census” and that an accurate count will provide them with critical public services.

Census forms will be mailed in late March and the count officially begins April 1. Respondents can call, email or mail their responses.

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Sharonell Fulton, a foster parent in Philadelphia, is pictured with a young woman and children in a May 23, 2018, photo.

my core beliefs and cares for my children accordingly,” said Simms-Busch in a Feb. 24 statement.

“We are so grateful that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear our case and sort out the mess that Philadelphia has created for so many vulnerable foster children,” she added.

In the initial lawsuit against Catholic Social Services, the city’s Department of Human Services investigated if the agency refused to place foster children in LGBT households, even though over the course of its decades-long partnership with the city, neither the agency nor the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission ever received a complaint that Dillingham was essentially preaching to the choir of panelists at the “2020 Census Interfaith Summit” in the cathedral’s auditorium. Members of this diverse group emphasized individual dignity and also the need to be responsible neighbors looking out for their communities through taking part in the census.

Sister Judith Ann Karam, a Sister of Charity of St. Augustine, who is immediate past president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity Health System, based in Cleveland, said census participation reflected “that every person has the utmost dignity and respect” not just in Christianity but in other faith traditions.

She said an accurate count is not only necessary for communities’ federal and state funding and congressional representation, but it also will directly impact health care by determining Medicaid funds.

Other panelists spoke of how they have talked up the census with members of their faith groups and tried to calm potential fears about it.

LGBT individuals were denied placement of a foster child due to the Catholic agency’s actions.

Becket, a religious liberty law firm, is representing the foster women defending the Catholic Social Services policy.

“I’m relieved to hear that the Supreme Court will weigh in on faith-based adoption and foster care,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket. “Over the last few years, agencies have been closing their doors across the country, and all the while children are pouring into the system. We are confident that the court will realize that the best solution is the one that has worked in Philadelphia for a century – all hands on deck for foster kids.”

A lawyer representing Philadelphia also issued a statement after the Supreme Court’s announcement, saying the city would demonstrate to the nation’s highest court that the appeals court ruling “affirming the city’s ability to uphold nondiscrimination policies was correct.”

“Allowing foster care agencies to exclude qualified families based on religious requirements that have nothing to do with the ability to care for a child such as their sexual orientation or faith would make it even worse,” she added.

Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, legal adviser for the Catholic Association, a group that defends the church and religious liberty, conversely said: “Faith-based groups shouldn’t be forced to abandon their deeply held religious and moral convictions in order to serve children in desperate need.”

She said the court’s decision to review Philadelphia’s “intolerant and discriminatory action against the Catholic Social Services foster care program is a welcome first step toward reopening doors to loving and stable foster homes.”

Rabbi Menachem Creditor, a scholar in residence with the United Jewish Appeal Federation, said some in the Hasidic Jewish community are resisting the use of technology and therefore hesitant to fill out the forms.

“For many, it’s hard to feel safe,” he said, which he counters by telling them they won’t receive support if they don’t step forward. “It’s in your selfinterest to be brave,” he has said.

The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, said even though the census does not have a citizenship question included – something advocated by Trump administration officials and blocked by the Supreme Court – many Latinos who are not U.S. citizens fear their participation in the census could cause them to be deported.

“We need to assure people it’s OK,” he said, stressing the count will ultimately benefit them.

The census is “safe, secure and confidential,” Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, says in a video posted on the Census Bureau’s website. “The information cannot be used against someone; it’s to benefit our communities.”

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Bishop Flores sees vital link between charity and church’s credibility PABLO KAY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – The church’s credibility depends on how the institution as a whole and Catholics individually respond “with love that gives without asking for payment in return,” Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, said in advance of his participation in the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

“This kind of love is the response to the human need, a call to alleviate, to the extent we can, the distress of another,” Bishop Flores told Angelus, the online media platform of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

“It’s our response to Christ, who speaks to us from the cross and through the resurrection so that our hearts are touched by the mystery of love. That’s evangelizing,” he said.

The congress takes place Feb. 20-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Bishop Flores is scheduled to preside at an English language Mass for the evangelization of all people Feb. 21 and to deliver an address in Spanish on the theme of mercy Feb. 22.

He has been the bishop of Brownsville for a decade, working in one of the poorest U.S. dioceses. In addition to serving U.S. residents, he has been a leader in ministering to migrant people from Mexico and Central America, emerging as an outspoken advocate for immigrants, the unborn and the poor.

That experience has shaped how he views the importance of Catholics evangelizing and responding with mercy to people in need every day of their lives.

“Christ says, ‘Love one another even as I have loved you.’ And it’s that responsiveness to Christ and to the distress around us that are inseparable,” Bishop Flores explained.

Unfortunately, he said, the importance of love often is overlooked in order to adhere to political views to the detriment of human suffering. Instead, Bishop Flores urged people to remember the Gospel.

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Pope Francis greets Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, during a Jan. 20, 2020, meeting with U.S. bishops from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas during their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican.

“Our challenge is to let the teaching of the church, our faith, the Gospel, the person of Christ himself, to be the light by which we organize our politics and our involvement in the political field, and in the political world,” the bishop said.

“We have to be involved in society, but the Gospel has to be the principal lens through which we judge things. But sometimes – and we aren’t even always conscious of it – we allow our politics to be the lens by which we judge the Gospel. And I think that’s one of the sources of the division within the body of the church.”

When it comes to “hot-button” issues such as immigration, abortion or the death penalty, Bishop Flores invited people to “look at these issues first in terms of the basic responsibility of a Christian to respond to the human being in front of you with mercy and compassion.”

“That doesn’t mean that there’s no law or order when it comes to these things,” he continued, “but rather that when it comes to the person we’re looking

at, especially the person in distress, that our response should be as to Christ himself. And then we can figure out how to make the policies in a way that expresses that sense of concern and mercy.”

Bishop Flores called people to respond to “human reality first” with mercy and love “and then craft the laws that respond to those things in a compassionate way in which the suffering of the human person does not get eclipsed in our conversation.”

At the same time, he added, people within the church are responsible for treating each other “calmly and without rancor,” something he admitted is difficult “when political tensions get very, very high.”

Throughout his years of ministry, Bishop Flores has found hope in seeing people in his diocese and elsewhere responding generously to each other, citing volunteers who help families, wash clothes for migrant children or mop floors in a shelter.

“I see a lot of people who are inspirations to me, who just do what they can to help others,” he said.

“Yes, there is suffering and distress. But in Spanish we say, ‘Los pobres son los mas generosos’ – that the poor are often the most generous in terms of responding to the situation of somebody else who’s in an even worse condition. That’s what I see, and to me, that’s a sign of how God’s grace can change our response.

“We can have hardened hearts, or we can have fleshy hearts – that’s the kind of option that the Scriptures give us,” he said. “If we want fleshy hearts, we have the Holy Spirit to give us that, and then can we do something. That’s what gives me hope.”

The bishop reminded the church that Jesus urged his followers “to do good to those who can’t repay you.”

“I think that’s at the heart of the credibility of the church’s witness, the witness of grace in the world,” he said.

“There’s a great need in the church for us to recover our own sense that there’s something new in the world called the grace of Christ crucified and risen from the dead, and we have to make that visible by our own generosity.”

Almsgiving: An overshadowed Lenten pillar has something to say CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – When it comes to the three pillars of Lent, almsgiving is a little bit like the middle child, not always getting the attention that prayer and fasting do.

The word hardly rolls off the tongue and people don’t talk about it as they might discuss what they are giving up for Lent or how they might be praying more or reading spiritual books during the 40 days before Easter.

A February editorial in America magazine described almsgiving as the “under-practiced, underencouraged Lenten discipline” and pointed out that in the magazine’s 110-year-old archives, a search for prayer and fasting in article titles had thousands of examples but a similar search for almsgiving yielded just two results.

Almsgiving is defined as donating money or goods to the poor and performing other acts of charity. The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes it as “a witness to fraternal charity” and “a work of justice pleasing to God.” The practice of giving to help those in need runs through all the major faith traditions.

Christians might have good reason not to talk about their almsgiving practices since biblical warnings are pretty clear on guidelines of keeping this practice quiet.

For example, in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus has this to say: “When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others.”

But out of sight in this case should not mean out of mind.

The Old Testament is full of reminders about the need to give alms and a passage from the Book of Tobit goes a step further by saying “almsgiving saves from death and purges all sin.”

So, if believers know that they should give, why isn’t this discipline more of a Lenten topic of conversation?

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A grandmother who has been part of a Catholic Relief Services’ program for family nutrition shares her lunch with her youngest of seven grandchildren in the kitchen of the family home in Konjiko, Kenya, May 1, 2019.

Jesuit Father Bruce Morrill, the Edward A. Malloy professor of Catholic studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, said one possibility is that so much of the religious practice of Lent is shaped by images that represent what people are trying to do with their faith – ashes, for example, or fish on Fridays.

“Almsgiving is not easily recognizable,” nor does it necessarily demonstrate religious devotion as prayer and fasting do with their focus on personal holiness, he said.

He pointed out that the practice of giving to those in need was not recognized for its spiritual value even in the New Testament. Jesus spoke about being asked: “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?” and his response was if they did this for “the least of these” they also did it for him.

Since the Second Vatican Council, Father Morrill said, the church has made more of an effort to connect worship and prayer to moral activity, and many Catholics have made the connection that fasting is not just to be pious but should have practical measures: taking the money that would have been spent

on food or drink, for example, and setting that aside to give to the poor.

That is the whole idea behind Catholic Relief Services’ Rice Bowl, the small cardboard box for collecting donations to help those supported around the world by CRS, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency. Since its inception in 1975, CRS Rice Bowl has raised nearly $300 million. Last year, nearly 14,000 Catholic parishes and schools across the U.S. participated in the program.

One of the suggestions on the website is to follow meatless recipes it provides from around the world and to put the money saved from not buying meat into the Rice Bowl.

Deacon Nicholas Szilagye, writing in a 2018 issue of Horizons, the online newsletter of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, linked almsgiving to the other Lenten disciplines by describing it as “fasting from our income and material possessions” and saying it translates “prayers into love for each other by giving to the needy in the name of Christ.”

He stressed the practice is not an optional one, but one that is required of believers, but he also lamented that it “seems to get the least attention among the three” Lenten disciplines.

The deacon suggested that people create an almsgiving plan that doesn’t necessarily need to be about giving money but also could be a donation of time, energy or talents to those in need.

“Let’s make almsgiving an encounter with God during Lent through the face of the poor,” he wrote.

Similarly, Father Morrill stressed that when rooted in faith, the practice of caring and providing for those in need is a way of “knowing this is how you encounter and know God.” Alms might not get their due, so to speak, because Christians are hesitant to say their efforts to help others somehow earns them something, the priest said. But really, he said, they should recognize the practice is “a way to join in the generosity of God” and show the love of God for all, which is “truest when given to the least.”

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SUNDAY READINGS

First Sunday of Lent GENESIS 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.

So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

PSALM 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my

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ROMANS 5:12-19 OR 5:12, 17-19 Brothers and sisters: Through one man sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned—for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin after the pattern of the trespass of Adam, who is the type of the one who was to come. But the gift is not like the transgression.

For if by the transgression of the one, the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ overflow for the many. And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned. For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation; but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal. For if, by the transgression of the one, death came to reign

‘Graced sinners’

he great American novelist John Steinbeck, a Nobel laureate in 1962 for literature, wrote novels about the plight of the working class, labor unions, migrant farmworkers – all victims of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

In his masterpiece, “East of Eden,” he paints a haunting picture of the conflict between good and evil. In the novel, a character named Samuel Hamilton, an early settler in the Salinas Valley, says: “Two stories have haunted us and followed us from our beginning. We carry them along like invisible tails – the story of original sin and the story of Cain and Abel. And I don’t understand either of them. I don’t understand them at all, but I feel them.”

FATHER CHARLES Steinbeck’s poetic sentiment PUTHOTA has been part of the Catholic imagination and belief for a long time. It is eloquently expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “How did the sin of Adam become the sin of all his descendants? The whole human race is in Adam ‘as one body of one man.’ By this ‘unity of the human race’ all men are implicated in Adam’s sin, as all are implicated in Christ’s justice. Still, the transmission of original sin is a mystery that we cannot fully understand. But we do know by revelation that Adam had received original holiness and justice not for himself alone, but for all human nature. By yielding to the tempter, Adam and Eve committed a personal sin, but this sin affected the human nature that they would then transmit in a fallen state. It is a sin which will be transmitted by propagation to all mankind, that is, by the transmission of a human nature deprived of original holiness and justice. And that is why original sin is called ‘sin’ only in an analogical sense: It is a sin ‘contracted’ and not ‘committed’ – a state and not an act” (n. 404).

What the catechism teaches and Steinbeck expresses, we feel deeply in us. It is something innate, an integral part of human existence. We feel strongly within us the pull toward sin on the one hand and grace on the other. Sin is at work in us while grace is all the time beckoning to us. A true definition of the

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offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always: “Against you only have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight.”

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

human person would be that we are graced sinners.

Not once for all in the past but in a continuous way through a lifetime. We are sinful and saved at the same time. This is the tension that goes on in our lives all the time. Our souls are in a sense a battleground of good and evil. While we know we are inclined toward sin, we have no doubt that the grace of God is shining in our lives. To say that we are sinners is not to beat ourselves up with guilt but to be uplifted

by God’s only son whose death and resurrection have freed us from sin and death.

On the First Sunday of Lent, having begun the season with the powerful message and ritual of Ash Wednesday, we are invited to reflect on sin and the effects of it, not in a morbid way, but as a means of the journey with Jesus toward the Paschal mysteries.

Paul in the letter to the Romans makes the connection between the story of the fall of old Adam in the first reading and the grace brought by the new Adam in the Gospel reading. Through the disobedience and transgression of Adam, sin and death entered the world, but through the obedience and righteousness of Jesus, grace and life abounded. The old Adam is in us, but so is the new Adam.

In contrast to the old Adam, the new Adam in the Gospel story does not succumb to sin even though he is tempted. The temptations of Jesus remind us of the extent of Jesus’ participation in the human condition.

He is like us in everything except sin. He is tempted like us but unlike Adam and us, he is able to resist temptations. He understands our struggles, temptations and sufferings. That is why we can approach him with freedom and confidence, which is the theme of the Letter to the Hebrews.

In the first temptation, by refusing to turn stones into bread, Jesus resists the temptation to deviate from the path of asceticism he had set for himself and to use everything as means for selfish and willful ways. In the second temptation, Jesus rejects the glamorous path of falling from the parapet and the desire to impress others by doing extraordinary things as a show rather than for service of others. In the third temptation, Jesus rejects idolizing anything or anyone and insists on the worship of God alone.

Amazingly, Jesus uses the word of God as a guard against temptations. God’s word can guide and lead us to make good choices and battle temptations.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. In conclusion, just as through one transgression condemnation came upon all, so, through one righteous act, acquittal and life came to all. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so, through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

MATTHEW 4:1-11 At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, and afterward he was hungry.

The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you and with their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.” At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.” Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 2: Monday of the First Week of Lent. LV 19:1-2, 11-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 2 COR 6:2b. MT 25:31-46.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin. IS 55:10-11. PS 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19.

MT 4:4b. MT 6:7-15.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Casimir.

Jon 3:1-10. PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19. Jl 2:12-13.

Lk 11:29-32.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5: Thursday of the First Week in Lent. EST C:12, 14-16, 23-25. PS 138:12ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8. PS 51:12a, 14a. MT 7:7-12.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6: Friday of the First Week of Lent. EZ 18:21-28. PS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8.

EZ 18:31. MT 5:20-26.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7: Saturday of the First Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. Dt 26:16-19. PS 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8. 2 Cor 6:2b. Mt 5:43-48.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8: Second Sunday of Lent. Gn 12:1-4a. Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22. 2 Tm 1:8b-10.

Mt 17:5. Mt 17:1-9.

MONDAY, MARCH 9: Monday of the Second Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious. DN 9:4b-10. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. JN 6:63c, 68c. LK 6:36-38.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. IS 1:10, 16-20. PS 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. EZ 18:31. MT 23:1-12.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11: Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent. JER 18:18-20. PS 31:5-6, 14, 15-16. JN 8:12. MT 20:17-28.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. JER 17:5-10. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6.

LK 8:15. LK 16:19-31.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13: Friday of the Second Week of Lent. GN 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a. PS 105:1617, 18-19, 20-21. JN 3:16. MT 21:33-43, 45-46.

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On hallowing our diminishments

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hirty years ago, John Jungblut wrote a short pamphlet entitled, “On Hallowing Our Diminishments.” It’s a treatise suggesting ways we might frame the humiliations and diminishments that beset us through circumstance, age, and accidents so that, despite the humiliation they bring, we can place them FATHER RON under a certain ROLHEISER canopy so as to take away their shame and restore to us some lost dignity.

And we all suffer diminishments.

Certain things are dealt to us by genetics, history, circumstance, the society we live in, or by the ravages of aging or accidents that, seen from almost every angle, are not only bitterly unfair but can also seemingly strip us of our dignity and leave us humiliated.

For example, how does one deal with a bodily defect that society deems unsightly? How does one deal with being discriminated against?

How does one deal with an accident leaving one partially or wholly paralyzed? How does one deal with the debilitations that come with old age?

How does one deal with a loved one who was violated or killed simply because of the color of his or her skin?

How does one deal with the suicide of a loved one? How do we set these things under some canopy of dignity and meaning so that what is an awful unfairness is not a permanent source of indignity and shame? How does someone hallow his or her diminishments?

Soren Kierkegaard offers this ad-

vice. He, who was sometimes publicly ridiculed during his lifetime, including newspaper cartoons that made sport of his physical appearance (his “spindly legs”), offers this counsel: In the face of something like this, he says, it’s not a question of denying it, covering it up, or trying various distractions and tonics to deaden it or keep its sharpness at bay. Rather we must make ourselves genuinely aware of it, “by bringing it to complete clarity.” By doing this, we hallow it. We bring it out of the realm of shame and give it a certain dignity.

How is this done?

Imagine this as a paradigmatic example: A young woman is walking alone along a deserted road and is forcibly picked up by a group of drunken men who rape and kill her and leave her body in a ditch.

Her shocked and horrified family and community do as Kierkegaard counsels. They don’t try to deny what happened, cover it up, or try various distractions and tonics to deaden their pain. Instead, they bring it to “complete clarity.” How? They pick up her body, wash it, clothe her in her best clothing, and then have a three-day wake that culminates in a huge funeral attended by hundreds of persons. And their ritual honoring of her doesn’t stop there. After the funeral they gather in a park near where she lived and after some hours of testimony that honors who she was, they rename the park after her.

What they do, of course, does not bring her back to life, does not erase in any way the horrible unfairness of her death, does not bring her killers to justice, and it does not fundamentally change the societal conditions that helped cause her violent death.

But it does, in an important way, restore to her some of the dignity that was so horribly ripped away from her.

Both she and her death are hallowed.

Her name and her life now will forever speak of something beyond the unfairness and tragedy of her death.

We see examples of this on the macro level in the way the world has handled the deaths of people like Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X, Jamal Khashoggi, and others who were killed by hatred. We have found ways to hallow them so that their lives and their persons are now remembered in ways that eclipse the manner of their deaths. And we see this too in how some communities handle the deaths of loved ones who have been senselessly shot by gang members or by police, where their manner of death belies everything that’s good.

The same is true for how some families handle the diminishments of their loved ones who die by drug overdose, suicide, or dementia. The indignity of their death is eclipsed by proper clarity around the very diminishment that brought about their death. Their memory is redeemed.

In short, that’s the function of any proper wake and any proper funeral.

In bringing to clarity the very indignity that befalls someone we restore her dignity.

This is true not only for those who die unfairly or in ways that leave those they left behind grasping for ways to give them back some dignity.

It’s also true for every kind of humiliation and indignity we, ourselves, suffer in life, from the wounds of our childhood which can forever haunt us, to the many humiliations we suffer in adulthood. We cannot change what has happened to us, but we can hallow it by “bringing it to clarity” so that the indignity is eclipsed.

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

Beyond Amazonia

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he post-synodal apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia” (“Dear Amazonia”) did not accept or endorse the 2019 Amazonian synod’s proposal that “viri probati” – mature married men – be ordained priests in that region. So until the German church’s “synodal path” comes up with a similar proGEORGE WEIGEL posal (which seems more than likely), a period of pause has been created in which some non-hysterical reflection on the priesthood and celibacy can take place throughout the world church. Several points might be usefully pondered in the course of that conversation.

The first involves celibacy and the kingdom.

Christians live, or ought to live, in a different time-zone because the kingdom of God is among us, by the Lord’s own declaration in the Gospels. Different vocations in the church bear radical witness to that truth and remind the rest of us of it.

The vocations that live the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and

obedience in a consecrated way do that. So should the celibate priesthood.

It was said openly during the Amazonian synod, and it’s often muttered in other contexts, that celibacy makes no sense to many people. Which is quite true – if those people are living in pagan societies that haven’t heard the Gospel or post-Christian societies that have abandoned the Gospel and haven’t been re-evangelized. Celibacy, a total gift of self to God, only makes sense in a kingdom context. So if celibacy doesn’t make sense in Amazonia or Dusseldorf or Hamburg, that likely has something to do with a failure to preach the Gospel of the in breaking kingdom of God in Amazonia, Dusseldorf, and Hamburg.

All of which is to say that the failures of Catholic lite and Catholic zero aren’t going to be addressed by lighter Catholic lite or less-than-zero Catholic zero.

The second point to ponder involves celibacy and the broader reform of the priesthood.

The brutal assault on retired Pope Benedict and Cardinal Robert Sarah over their book “From the Depths of Our Hearts” obscured one of the crucial points these two eminent churchmen were trying to make: namely, that the priesthood is in

crisis throughout the world because priesthood is too often reduced to a set of functions, rather than being understood and lived as a unique vocational configuration to Jesus Christ, the eternal high priest of the New Covenant.

There were hints of this functionthink at the Amazonian synod, where some bishops seemed to imagine ordained “viri probati” as a kind of Catholic variant on the local shaman: an elder who does magical things in the spirit world. But the dumbing down of priesthood – the reduction of priestly ministry to what was sometimes called in the 1970s “priestcraft” – is a problem throughout the world church.

It is a problem in seminaries that are boot camps for a clerical caste system. It is a problem where priesthood is thought to be a step up the social ladder in poorer countries.

And it can be a problem in pastoral settings where the priest is so overwhelmed by the many things he must do that he can be tempted to forget just what he is: an icon of the priesthood of Jesus Christ.

So any serious discussion about the reform of the priesthood must begin with a deep dive into the church’s theology of holy orders, SEE WEIGEL, PAGE 16

LETTERS A call to personal renewal

It’s clear Mr. Mandell’s 325-plus word latest missive (“Responding to ‘the gentleman from Texas,’” Letters, Feb. 13) is yet another polemic against Catholic moral teaching with the expected sprinkling of environmental alarms thrown in and also with a gratuitous mention of Trump. Couldn’t we at least agree we all need to renew ourselves from the inside, then act justly?

Abortion is intrinsically unjust and evil, taking a human life, full stop.

(As a matter of fact, yes, we have adopted.) Neither are condoms the answer; chastity and monogamy are for the good of our souls (which is the only part of us that is eternal). Catholics should remember, don’t lose sight of our potential destiny in heaven, only made possible through Christ’s redemptive suffering and resurrection. If instead Mr. Mandell buys into what sounds something like the Green Party’s platform, perhaps he’s actually abandoned the Catholic faith and is looking to establish a utopia on Earth. Better idea: Let’s do what we can to address climate change and each of us go to confession, receive frequently the Eucharist, pray and do works of charity and mercy daily, and finally, let the Almighty do what we cannot. Are you with me on that?

JR Hermann San Mateo

Dignity of life

It is nice the Walk for Life event in San Francisco was most successful.

However, I thought right to life encompasses from conception to natural death. I saw anti-abortion signs but no signs for health care for all.

If a person or family cannot afford health insurance and/or prescriptions, doesn’t this lead to an unnecessary premature death as in abortion? I saw no signs for sane gun safety laws. If people are mowed down in church by a rifle converted to a machine gun, surely those lives lost met an unnecessary and premature death. If our government treats people at the southern border inhumanely and little children die and/or are malnourished, their parents living in fear of being sent back to Guatemala and upon arrival killed, aren’t those deaths unnecessary and premature? The border is a hemispheric problem, and the U.S. government needs to work with all the countries in North, Central and South America to solve as after a war when refugee camps are established and countries agree to accept a number of refugees. Are we culturally blind? Have we limited just what right to life means? All people need to be treated, no matter their age, ethnicity, or country of origin, with respect and dignity, or are we a nation of racists?

Hennie Wisniewski San Francisco

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Christian girls and abortion

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hen Mother Teresa visited New Bedford, Massachusetts, in June 1995, she told those of us gathered at St. Lawrence Martyr Church: “Abortion is the greatest evil of today.” Never one to mince words, Mother Teresa’s courage, truthfulness and charity were palpable. Parents today need similar fortitude, honesty and love to be able to discuss the hard topic of unplanned pregnancies and abortion FATHER TADEUSZ with their chilPACHOLCZYK dren.

Parental input and advice are critical when these situations arise. Even as children profess independence, parents exercise influence over them, whether for good or for ill. If a mother says to her daughter, for example, “You can’t have a kid now, because you’ve got your studies, your career and your whole future ahead of you, so I’ll give you money for an abortion” she is not merely offering advice, but being coercive and taking

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away any real choice her daughter might have had.

Likewise, when a boyfriend learns that his girlfriend is pregnant and informs her he doesn’t want to be a father right now, and will drive her to the abortion clinic, he abandons both his child and the mother of his child in their moment of greatest need.

To read testimonies of young women who have had abortions is heartwrenching. Many times they seem to have less responsibility for the abortion than their parents or others close to them.

One woman described being only 12-years-old when she had an abortion: “When Saturday came my mom drove me back across town, walked me in, paid for the abortion with money my boyfriend gave her, and left the building.

I didn’t know it then, but they wouldn’t allow her to stay. The nurse told her I would be ready about three, so I was there alone ... It’s been 35 years since my baby was aborted and I still think about it every day. It wasn’t a quick fix and it wasn’t a solution to my pregnancy. It was a panicked response to our fears.”

Fear often stands behind the decision to abort. Young women are understandably frightened when they discover they are pregnant: “I’m afraid I’m not ready and I won’t be a good mother.”

“I’m fearful my boyfriend won’t stand by me and support me – he’s just a kid himself.” “What will mom and dad

think of the fact I’ve been having sex?”

“My friends are people of faith and I’m afraid they’ll look down on me for this if they find out.”

Whenever we let fear direct our moral thinking, we tend to make bad judgments and poor choices that can haunt us long afterward. Even good people who believe in love, life and family can make panicked choices when they feel cornered by shame and guilt. Major decisions are better made when emotions have calmed and the order of reason can once again fill our minds. This happens most readily when a person is surrounded by an abundance of loving support.

Wendy Bonano serves as the director of several pregnancy support centers in North Carolina. She regularly works with students from area universities and colleges, and in a recent article in the Family NC magazine, challenged parents to reflect on what their own sons and daughters are really up against in today’s society: “I imagine you are thinking, ‘This would never be my daughter.’ I beg you to think again. More often than not, ‘good’ Christian girls in relationships are determined to abstain from intercourse and therefore are not actively using contraception. Therefore, it takes just one poor decision by either your son or daughter to create an unplanned pregnancy, regardless of all you’ve taught them.”

Following our one true shepherd

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heep respond to only one voice: their shepherd’s. When strangers call out to them, they ignore the illegitimate voices. When their own shepherd calls, they follow.

Extending this metaphor to today’s Catholic Church, the sheep (us lay people) are hearing multiple legitimate shepherds’ voices, but they are asking us to go in disparate directions.

VERONICA This divisiveness SZCZYGIEL in church leadership can be summarized and simplified as traditionalists vs. progressives.

The traditionalists emphasize church teaching and doctrine, especially in the sanctity of life at conception. The progressives, alternatively, have a prerogative to loosen some strictures and welcome all peoples.

Two legitimate shepherds; two very different voices. What these shepherds don’t seem to recognize is that polarity is damaging to the church.

They are simultaneously calling out to the flock, but how are we to follow when they lead us down seemingly different paths?

This problem is not new. St. Paul also experienced divisiveness in the early church. He begged the Corinthians to work together: “I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose” (1 Corinthians 1:10).

The lack of a singular voice and purpose in our leaders will only beget further divisions. Unity is of utmost importance in today’s highly secularized world but can only happen through the deeper realization that what may seem disparate are actually two parts of a whole. Progressives embrace the marginalized; traditionalists concentrate on message. But in order to enact authentic evangelization – one of the missions of the church – actions and message must be intertwined. Because action without clear, value-based teaching is aimless, and teaching without doing is pointless.

We only need to look to our one true shepherd to recognize the falseness of the dichotomy that some have embraced. Jesus welcomed societal outcasts, but not without a strong message: “Love one another” (John 13:34) and “unless you repent, you too will all perish” (Luke 13:3).

He taught a way of life that was virtuous and worthy in God’s eyes.

He was both a teacher and a fisher of men; a preacher and a healer. In Christ, one cannot exist without the other. Jesus led with conviction and clear message: We are children of God and must act as such to enact the kingdom of God on earth. This is one strong voice. It’s not always an easy voice to follow, as it is difficult to love your enemy, to live righteously, to forgive, to act in mercy. But that is the challenge Jesus our shepherd calls us to, and we must follow if we call ourselves Christians.

The church must return to this figure of Jesus. It serves no one’s interests to be at odds, least of all God’s.

It is only when traditionalists and progressives acknowledge that they need each other – and that they love each other – that the church can once

more have necessary and authentic conversations to be “united in the same mind and in the same purpose.”

In fact, some church leaders are already striving toward this singularity. In 2019, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops agreed, after some contentious debate, to approve a new Introductory Letter to their document “Forming Consciences For Faithful Citizenship,” where they aim to prioritize all issues of life, from conception to natural death, including abortion, immigration, racism, euthanasia, etc. They state that this approach is “first and foremost rooted in our identity as followers of Christ and as brothers and sisters to all who are made in God’s image.” Additionally, U.S. bishops have been meeting Pope Francis in 2020 during their “ad limina” visits to Rome, and they are returning energized and ready to be “builder[s] of unity” (Catholic News Service). This gives us great hope, but there is still much work to be done.

In the meantime, how do we as the lay flock cope in our daily lives? We should pray for our church leaders, so they may be reinvigorated with St. Paul’s call to unity. We should read the Bible, especially the New Testament, to know Jesus more closely through Scripture. This closeness will give us clarity and the strength to remain steadfast in our beliefs. In these ways, we will act as examples of Christ. In this way, we can remind the shepherds that we, their sheep, can only heed one voice.

VERONICA SZCZYGIEL, PH.D., is the assistant director of online learning at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and a contributor to The Tablet, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn. www.veronicaszczygiel.com.

So why are good Christian girls getting abortions? Those who should be at their side in a moment of crisis may not be present. Mothers and fathers may not have fostered close relationships with their daughters. They may have never discussed the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy to let them know ahead of time that, even if they act contrary to their advice and conceive a child, they will still be there for them.

After more than 10 years of helping single mothers at her clinics, Bonano makes precisely this point: “Quite often there’s a piece missing from the ‘talks’ parents have with their daughters and sons. Without knowing it, we are leaving no doors open for our children to come back to us should they stray. We are making good, strong cases for purity until marriage and yet neglecting to communicate the message of grace: That we are there for them no matter what, and should they make a mistake – in this case, get pregnant – it is safe for them to come to us for help and support.”

Today more than ever, Christian children need to hear those supportive and reassuring words from their Christian parents.

FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

WEIGEL: Beyond Amazonia FROM PAGE 15

rather than with debates about how to “make things work better.” Those debates are important. But they are secondary to the authentic Catholic reform of priestly ministry.

Then there is the question of celibacy and clerical sexual abuse. It’s been said many times but evidently it needs saying again: A married clergy is not the silver-bullet answer to clerical sexual abuse because marriage is not a crime-prevention program. That is an obvious sociological truth, in that most sexual abuse takes place within family settings, and denominations with a married clergy have their own serious problems of clerical sexual misbehavior and abuse. In a Catholic context, it should also be an obvious theological truth, given the Catholic understanding of the sacramentality of marriage. Thus it would help facilitate a real conversation about the reform of the priesthood in the Catholic Church if the nonsensical notion that abandoning celibacy would solve the crisis of clerical sexual abuse were taken off the board, permanently.

The reform of the priesthood, including a deepening of the church’s commitment to the value of celibacy as a radical witness to the kingdom, begins, as does all authentic Catholic reform, with deeper conversion to Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

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

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Archivists: Full look at Vatican wartime role will take patience CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – When the Vatican’s wartime archives open to researchers March 2, it will be just the start of what should be a long, slow process of studying, analyzing and publishing findings, said the Vatican’s archivist and librarian.

“We have to have the patience to wait and listen to the results” dozens of scholars are expected to produce over the coming years from what is known to be “inevitably slow and complex” work, Cardinal Jose Tolentino Calaca de Mendonca told reporters Feb. 20.

Only by expecting and letting scholars take the time to do their job thoroughly can the examination and discussion of this controversial wartime period have “certain” and document-based evidence, he said.

The true task of a historian, he said, is to understand and submit to the truth, untangling the reasons behind historical events.

“The church is not afraid of history and faces the assessment of historians and researchers with trusting certainty” that the meaning and spirit of what was done will be understood, Cardinal de Mendonca said.

The cardinal was one of a number of Vatican archivists who spoke with re-

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After decades of anticipation, the Vatican is opening its archives on the World War II pontificate of Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958.

porters at the Vatican press hall about the upcoming opening of the archives related to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII. A vast amount of materials from the period of 1939 to 1958 will be available for consultation and study by qualified scholars or academics. The materials come from not just the Vatican Apostolic Archives, but also multiple other archives, such as from the Vatican Secretariat of State, which include documents regarding internal church

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governance and the Holy See’s relations with states, nongovernmental organizations and the international community.

Johan Ickx, director of the archive of the section for relations with states, told reporters staffers have digitized almost their entire archive, starting with 1939 and reaching just shy of 1958, since they only “started doing it nine years ago.”

“We are now past 1.3 million documents” already scanned and available online for study or to request printed copies, he said.

To offer an example of what one could find, he said, “There are documents of ambassadors coming to the Holy See,” meeting with Vatican officials and staff, expressing their opinions, concerns and plans, and documents or correspondence related to other diplomatic contacts and activity.

There also will “certainly be documents” related to a hypothetical or “presumed” plan by the Nazi regime to kidnap Pope Pius, he added in response to a question.

Ickx said, “I think the researchers that come will be astonished when they see” all that is in their archive.

Much is already known from the extensive research carried out in other archives around the world, but the opening at the Vatican “will still change something, that is, for understanding the truth better. I am certain of this,” he said.

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Australian inquiry: People with Down syndrome mistreated CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

SYDNEY, Australia – Parents of persons with Down syndrome are pressed to procure abortion, and their health care is negatively affected throughout their life, Australia’s disability royal commission has heard.

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability began a hearing in Sydney Feb. 18. The two week hearing will listen to persons with cognitive disability and their loved ones, medical professionals, and advocacy groups about their experience with the health system in Australia.

Toni Mitchell told the commission Feb. 19 that when an ultrasound showed that her son, Joshua, would likely have Down syndrome and had a heart condition and was likely to miscarry, a doctor told her, “here’s your appointment for a termination,” handing her a piece of paper.

“In that moment they completely disallowed his life. They said he wasn’t worth living,” she reflected.

Joshua is now 19. He has Down syndrome, autism, and Hirschsprung’s disease.

Toni told the commission that she tossed the paper indicating the abortion appointment, and, “that was the moment I had to start justifying my son’s right to live and to be treated and I had to start justifying his value to be alive … They kept just judging us based on my decision to give him a chance at life.”

The commission’s chair, Ronald Sackville, told the inquiry during his Feb. 18 opening address that

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Rebecca Kelly, whose son Ryan has Down syndrome, said that in the model of Australia’s health system “if you can’t cure it … then you eradicate it.”

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She added that the problems don’t end with pressure to procure abortion.

“If you have a doctor (who) thinks that possibly your life’s going to be a little bit better if your child doesn’t make it because they’re taking that burden away from you, that has horrible implications for the level of care that you don’t get.”

The disability royal commission was established in April 2019. It is to provide an interim report by October, and a final report by April 2022.

Such inquiries are provided for under the Royal Commissions Act 1902. They serve as independent public inquiries, initiated by the government, and can make recommendations on reforms to policy or legislation.

A 2013-17 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse urged a program to compensate the victims of institutional child sex abuse, which the Church in Australia established in July 2018.

It also proposed that priests be legally obligated to disclose sexual abuse sins which have been admitted in the confessional, or face criminal charges.

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One year after abuse summit, church reviews progress, additional needs CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Since Pope Francis convened a historic summit at the Vatican one year ago to address clergy sex abuse and accountability, much has been done, but advocates say more is needed.

Dozens of experts, abuse survivors and their advocates came to Rome the same week as the summit’s anniversary to emphatically reiterate the need to never let ignorance, complacency or denial ever take hold again and to make the church safe for everyone.

The advocacy groups held media events and worked on talking to as many Vatican officials and religious leaders as possible to highlight still unaddressed concerns such as abuse by women religious, transparency in past and current Vatican investigations of known abusers and the likelihood of ever seeing “zero tolerance” for known predators.

However, significant measures have been rolled out piecemeal over the year.

Here is a rundown of the most major changes: – Pope Francis approved a sweeping new law and set of safeguarding guidelines for Vatican City State and the Roman Curia in March, just a month after the Feb. 21-24 Vatican summit.

The new law “On the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Persons,” beefed up existing criminal laws for Vatican City State and mandates quick reporting of suspected or known abuse to the Vatican tribunal. It covers all forms of physical and emotional abuse – not just sexual violence through coercion – as well as serious forms of mistreatment, neglect, abandonment and exploitation against minors, who are below the age of 18, and vulnerable adults. Any Vatican employee around the world can be tried by the Vatican court for violations.

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Pope Francis prays Feb. 22, 2019, the second day of the Vatican meeting on the protection of minors. After the pope convened the historic summit one year ago to address abuse and accountability, much has been done but advocates say more is needed.

This new law on child protection was meant to better comply with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocol, since legal amendments made in 2013 brought Vatican law into detailed compliance with several international treaties the Vatican had signed over the past decades.

While Vatican City State is a tiny country with few residents, the move was also meant to be a role model for the rest of the church and those places or institutions still lacking concrete, clear guidelines and procedures.

– In May, Pope Francis issued “Vos estis lux mundi” (“You are the light of the world”) for the universal church.

The papal mandate revised and clarified norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse.

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It insists leaders will be held accountable not only with suspected cases of committing abuse themselves, but also accusations of interfering with, covering up or failing to address abuse accusations of which they were aware.

No matter what local or national cultures or laws say, for the universal church, the document defined a minor as anyone under the age of 18 and included those who can be defined “a vulnerable person” and what is considered to be child pornography. It also established that bishops and religious superiors are accountable not just for protecting minors but also for protecting seminarians, novices and members

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The document was a follow-up to Pope Francis’ 2016 document, “As a Loving Mother,” and together, the two documents are meant to correct what had been a lack of or unclear procedures for investigating the way a bishop, and now religious superiors, comply with already established norms against abuse and clearly expressing the consequences of noncompliance or cover-ups.

– The latest, most recent change was in December, when Pope Francis waived the obligation of secrecy for those who report having been sexually abused by a priest and for those who testify in a church trial or process having to do with clerical sexual abuse.

Abuse survivors had long called for lifting the obligation, saying it had been abused or used in ways to cover up misconduct and crimes.

Now, not only are victims and witnesses free to discuss their case, the amended law specifies that the still-ineffect obligation of Vatican officials to maintain confidentiality shall not prevent complying with civil laws, including mandatory reporting and following legal court orders.

– The same day he released the instruction in December, the pope issued a number of amendments to “Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela” (“Safeguarding the Sanctity of the Sacraments”) from 2001.

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Deaf survivors call on Vatican to release documents on abusers JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – Three former students at a school for the deaf in Argentina traveled to Rome to demand Pope Francis and Vatican officials release records on priests who abused them and other students.

Speaking to journalists at a news conference in Rome Feb. 20, Daniel Sgardelis, who was abused at the Provolo Institute for the Deaf in La Plata, Argentina, said he wants an international law that would force “the Vatican to stop covering up, to definitively change the situation.”

“We need this to change. Enough!” Sgardelis said through an interpreter. “It’s been a long time – 50 years – and it’s still the same. We are victims and there is still a long way for this to change. We need for them to give us evidence.”

Sgardelis was accompanied by Ezequiel Villalonga and Claudia Labeguerie, two survivors of the institute’s sister school in Mendoza. Their interpreter, Erica Labeguerie, is Claudia’s sister.

The survivors were in Rome after a recent visit to U.N. headquarters in Geneva, where they informed the U.N. Committee Against Torture about their sufferings at the schools.

They also told the U.N. committee that although Pope Francis and the Vatican had been informed of abuses that occurred at the institute’s schools in Italy and Argentina, no concrete action has been taken to release the names of abusers.

“I went to the United Nations to denounce the abuses and tortures I suffered, and I need the pope to end this,” Villalonga said. “And I also need him to give the evidence and the photos (of the abusers), because in Argentina we have not received justice.”

Lucas Lecour, an attorney for the survivors, told

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Catholic News Service Feb. 20 that members of the U.N. committee assured him they would investigate and would respond “very soon.”

“I have understood that there will be good resolutions against the Holy See, above all, calling for an end to covering up and an adequate reparation for the victims,” Lecour told CNS. The first Institute for the Deaf was founded in Verona, Italy, in 1830 by Venerable Antonio Provolo, a priest who developed a method of teaching deaf people to communicate by mimicking words through lip reading and vibrations of the throat and chest.

He also founded the Society of Mary for the Education of the Deaf-Mute as well as the Sisters of the Society of Mary for the Education of the Deaf-Mute.

Both religious congregations established schools in other parts of the world, including Argentina.

The female congregation arrived in Argentina

and established the first institute in La Plata in 1924.

Several decades later, in 1995, another institute was established by Italian Father Nicola Corradi in the western province of Mendoza.

Although Father Corradi is now imprisoned for the abuses at the school in Mendoza, allegations against the priest date back to 1970, when he taught at the Provolo Institute in Verona.

Despite the allegations, the Society of Mary transferred him to teach at their school in La Plata, Argentina, along with several other priests accused of abuse in Verona.

While the visual and vibrational method pioneered

by Venerable Provolo was meant to help deaf people talk, survivors said it was used instead to silence victims at the institute’s schools in Verona and Argentina.

Students were prohibited and even physically abused if they attempted to use sign language, which left many unable to communicate the sexual abuse they encountered to their families or authorities.

According to The Washington Post, survivors said there was only one hand gesture they were taught by the abusive priests at the institute: an index finger to the lips to demand their silence.

Sergio Salinas, another attorney for the survivors, explained to journalists in Rome that the method taught by the schools was based on the belief that “deaf people are abnormal, while those who could hear are normal.”

Many survivors, he said, learned sign language after leaving the school. However, it is still challenging to learn to communicate and thus difficult to describe the abuse or identify their abusers.

“Sign language must be respected as a human right, and the deaf community must be respected,” Salinas said.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager who the pope has said is a role model for young men and women today.

In a meeting Feb. 22 with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the pope advanced the sainthood causes of Acutis, as well as one Carlo Acutis woman and seven men, including Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and his two companions who were murdered in El Salvador in 1977.

The Vatican announced Feb. 23 that the pope had signed the decrees.

Antonia Salzano, Acutis’ mother, told Catholic News Service Feb. 24 that the news of the pope’s approval made her “really, really happy.”

“Pope Francis has always been close to Carlo; he quoted him in ‘Christus Vivit,’ and this was a great privilege in that he cited him as an example for young people in the whole world,” Salzano said.

In “Christus Vivit” (“Christ Lives”), Pope Francis’ exhortation on young people, he said the teen was a role model for young people today who are often tempted by the traps of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure.”

“Yet he knew how to use the new communications technology to transmit the Gospel, to communicate values and beauty,” he said.

Before his death from leukemia in 2006, Acutis was an average teen with an above-average knack for computers. He put that knowledge to use by creating an online database of eucharistic miracles around the world.

GOSPEL CHALLENGES BELIEVERS TO LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – The only acceptable form of extremism for a Christian is an “extremism of love,” Pope Francis said, concelebrating Mass with bishops from throughout the Mediterranean basin. “’Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’ This is the Christian innovation. It is the Christian difference,” the pope said Feb. 23 as he celebrated an outdoor Mass in central Bari, a city on

the southern Italian coast.

The Mass, concelebrated by 60 bishops from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, marked the conclusion of a five-day meeting to address common concerns, including the need for peace, the care of migrants and refugees, the defense of religious freedom and the promotion of interreligious and ecumenical dialogue.

Pope Francis’ homily did not directly address the themes of the meeting but focused on the day’s Gospel reading from St. Matthew in which Jesus tells his followers not to retaliate against those who harm them and to love and pray for their enemies.

“Pray and love: this is what we must do,” Pope Francis said. “The love of Jesus knows no boundaries or barriers. The Lord demands of us the courage to have a love that does not count the cost, because the measure of Jesus is love without measure.”

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MONTREAL – Jean Vanier, founder of the ecumenical L’Arche communities that provide group homes and spiritual support for people with intellectual disabilities, used his status to have “manipulative” sexual relationships with at least six women, concludes an internal investigation commissioned by the organization.

The investigation reports “sincere and consistent testimony covering the period 1970-2005” from six adults, none of whom had disabilities.

These women report Vanier initiated sexual relations with them, the report says. Vanier, who died in 2019, asked the women to keep their relations secret.

The report says the women reported similar facts, although they did not know each other or about their parallel histories.

L’Arche International promised “a thorough and independent investigation” in order “to better understand our history, to improve our work in preventing abuse and thus to improve our own current policies and practices.” In particular, the organization wanted to shed light on the environment surrounding Father Thomas Philippe, Vanier’s spiritual director, who had sexually abused adult women who were not disabled; the organization learned about it in 2015, 22 years after the priest’s death. In a church trial in the 1950s, the priest was banned from exercising any public or private ministry.

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The Vatican announced Feb. 22 that Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a fellow Jesuit, Salvadoran Father Rutilio Grande, and two companions who were murdered en route to a novena in 1977 in El Salvador.

Papal recognition of their martyrdom clears the way for their beatification, although the Vatican did not announce a date for the ceremony.

“The announcement of the beatification of Father Rutilio Grande has been expected for many years,” said Mercy Sister Ana Maria Pineda, a relative of the slain priest, in an email to Catholic News Service.

“Today the news is received with jubilee and joy.

That a man of such humble origins be recognized for his surrender to God, his love for the poor, and his efforts to achieve justice, is an example.”

Father Grande died March 12, 1977, near his hometown of El Paisnal in rural El Salvador after being shot a dozen times or more along with elderly parishioner Manuel Solorzano and teenager Nelson Rutilio Lemus, who were accompanying him to a novena for the feast of St. Joseph. Their bodies were found lifeless in an overturned Jeep the priest was driving.

Though born in the Salvadoran countryside, Father Grande was educated as a member of the Society of Jesus, mostly in Spain and Belgium and other parts of Latin America, but later returned as to work among his native country’s poor and rural masses.

The mission teams he organized taught peasants to read using the Bible, but also helped rural workers to organize so they could speak against a rich and powerful minority that paid them meager salaries and confront the social maladies that befell them because they were poor.

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POPE: Reconciling with God leads to healing FROM PAGE 1

Contemplating the great mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus and putting it at the center of one’s life “means feeling compassion toward the wounds of the crucified Christ present in the many innocent victims of wars, in attacks on life from that of the unborn to that of the elderly, and various forms of violence,” the pope said in his message.

These wounds are “likewise present in environmental disasters, the unequal distribution of the earth’s goods, human trafficking in all its forms and the unbridled thirst for profit, which is a form of idolatry,” he said.

Not only are Christians called to generously share the richness of the Gospel and gifts from God, “today, too, there is a need to appeal to men and women of good will to share, by almsgiving, their goods with those most in need, as a means of personally participating in the building of a better world,” he said.

“Charitable giving makes us more human, whereas hoarding risks making us less human, imprisoned by our own selfishness,” he said.

“We can and must go even further, and consider the structural aspects of our economic life,” he said.

That is why, the pope said, he called for a meeting during Lent with “young economists, entrepreneurs and change-makers with the aim of shaping a more just and inclusive economy.” The meeting was set to take place in Assisi March 26-28.

The theme of the pope’s message, “We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God,” was taken from the Second Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (5:20), which reflects the invitation to return to God through constant conversion and rec-

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Pope Francis hears the confession of a priest March 7, 2019, at Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran. Reconciling oneself to God leads to healing, the pope said in his annual Lenten message, released by the Vatican Feb. 24, 2020.

onciliation, and experience new life in Christ.

“Life is born of the love of God our father, from his desire to grant us life in abundance,” Pope Francis wrote.

“If we listen instead to the tempting voice of the ‘father of lies,’ we risk sinking into the abyss of absurdity, and experiencing hell here on earth, as all too many tragic events in the personal and collective human experience sadly bear witness,” he said.

“Despite the sometimes tragic presence of evil in our lives and in the life of the church and the world,” he wrote, “this opportunity to change our

course expresses God’s unwavering will not to interrupt his dialogue of salvation with us” and his desire that people also engage in fruitful dialogue with each other.

God’s dialogue with humanity “has nothing to do with empty chatter,” which “characterizes worldliness in every age; in our own day, it can also result in improper use of the media,” he said.

At a news conference to present the message, Cardinal Peter Turkson further elaborated on what an improper use of media would look like.

The head of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development told reporters that different forms of communication can either promote content that is “empty” or “rich” in that it helps build up human character and society or fosters new ideas.

For example, he said, when media outlets cover certain tragic events, like the coronavirus or wars and conflict, they might actually be setting up a kind of “barrier” between the event and the people hearing about it.

“You see something is happening but at the same time you can see that you are not involved,” as if the person is above it all and untouched by others’ circumstances, the cardinal said.

Instead what is needed is a situation where after seeing and hearing about such events, people feel inspired or driven to try to get involved or do something useful to help the situation, he said.

Pope Francis asked in his message that the Lenten season lead to people opening their hearts “to hear God’s call to be reconciled to himself, to fix our gaze on the paschal mystery, and to be converted to an open and sincere dialogue with him” so that everyone become “what Christ asks his disciples to be: the salt of the earth and the light of the world.”

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Priest’s memoir explores his ministry from S. Korea to San Francisco NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“The Life of a Priest Buried in Time,” a twovolume memoir by retired Archdiocese of San Francisco priest Father Anthony Chung, brings out unforgettable moments gathered from a lifetime of ministry and travel.

Through personal anecdotes and thoughtful observations, Father Chung, a priest since 1971 and a former associate pastor of St. Pius Parish in Redwood City, now living at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo, describes his life in sparkling prose and brings out themes of gratitude, repayment and trust in God. Father Chung’s memoirs were approved by the Archdiocese of Seoul and published in Korean in 2013. The English edition was first printed in October 2019.

Father Chung was born in 1937 to a well-to-dofamily in Korea, a nation that was on the cusp of far-reaching changes. The Japanese annexation of Korea, which had been a source of national humiliation for about three decades, ended in 1945. The division of the country along the 38th Parallel followed, creating a communist North Korea and a democratic South Korea.

Growing up amid these national changes, the most influential event in Father Chung’s childhood was his father’s death when he was 11 years old. For the first time in his life, he had to face death. As he stayed awake at night grieving his father, he realized “everyone has to die someday.”

Only two years after his father’s death, Father Chung’s family was again thrown into chaos as they fled from the advance of North Korean troops during the Korean War. One day on the road south, he saw a column of American tanks and soldiers heading northward.

“I had never seen a tank before and didn’t know who they were,” he said. When a fellow refugee explained the troops were from the United States and had arrived to help, he said he felt a deep sense of gratitude.

“Without their help, Korea would have been completely overwhelmed. So how can I repay such a debt? I’ve kept that thanksgiving throughout my whole life.”

Years later, he found repayment would take the form of ministry in the United States, in Sacramento and then in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Shortly before his mandatory military service,

Father Anthony Chung’s memoir, ‘The Life of a Priest Buried in Time,’ follows the retired priest’s life from his boyhood in Korea to his ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Father Chung was baptized as a Catholic. He found his family’s Buddhism spiritually unsatisfying and unable to answer his questions about the meaning of life and death. The first Mass he experienced captivated him: In one of the many lyrical moments in the memoir, he describes walking into Mass that first time as “a sweet rain which dampened the earth after a long drought.”

After being discharged from the military, Father Chung said he “agonized” over whether he should choose marriage, priesthood or emigrate from Korea.

Although he hoped he would be a priest, the decision tore at him. “I couldn’t (choose) – I prayed every day in front of the tabernacle but God didn’t give me, ‘Anthony you do this one.’”

One day after Mass, he approached a priest who counseled him to weigh his possible vocations and “choose the one that has more weight than the other two. So I gave up everything and entered the seminary,” he said.

After his ordination in the Archdiocese of Daegu in 1971, his priestly ministry took him from Korea, where he turned around struggling parishes, to Rome for theological studies and then to Canada and the U.S. to help strengthen Korean Catholic communities.

Immigrant parishes like those he ministered to, he said, have unique challenges that can make parish life contentious.

While immigrants come to the U.S. to lead a better life, “after arriving to another country, their life is not easy. They work very hard, there is a language barrier, culture is different, so they have a lot of stress and they bring the stress to the community and fight each other.”

For Father Chung, writing has always been

closely connected to his ministry as a priest. At his first parish assignment, he wrote a catechism to help instruct parishioners about their faith.

When he was a prison chaplain, the story of an infamous murderer’s conversion and his serenity at his execution, gained national attention in Korea, and he serialized the story in a newspaper in weekly installments for two years.

His newspaper experience helped him realize “I have some ability to write – before that I didn’t know that and it gave me self-confidence,” he said.

Father Chung went on to write books on spirituality and his travels, along with poetry and then his two-volume memoir. While he had published some books before his retirement, his pace has quickened in his later years, and he has authored a total of 15 books.

As a practical matter, he said, writing gives a direction to his retirement. “Without doing such a thing what would I do?” he asked. But more than that, he continued, “Without doing such a thing, I cannot survive.”

Father Chung said he has always been averse to wasting time, focusing instead on how to serve God. “I think that’s the best way to keep a good relationship with God, always thinking about him, how I can glorify him through my talent and writing.”

Talent is a gift from God, the priest continued.

“Before I die, I will repay the talent he gave. So I can give everything before I die.”

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OBITUARY FATHER PATRICK J. CAHALAN, SJ

Jesuit Father Patrick J. Cahalan, retired chancellor of Loyola Marymount University and a graduate of his order’s Bellarmine High School in San Jose, died Feb. 14 at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, Los Gatos. He was 86 years old.

Father Cahalan entered the Jesuits in 1952 going on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Jesuits’ Gonzaga, Santa Father Patrick J. Clara and Loyola universities.

“Father Cahalan’s bold vision Cahalan, SJ was formed by his devotion to education and his deep faith,” the Jesuits said in a statement. “Historian, educator, administrator, and above all, Jesuit priest, Father Cahalan left an indelible impact on generations of high school and university students and their families.”

Father Cahalan served for 27 years at Loyola High School in Los Angeles and was appointed chancellor at Loyola Marymount in 2002.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated March 7, 11 a.m., Sacred Heart Chapel, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, with interment in Santa Clara Mission Cemetery March 9, 10 a.m.

Remembrances may be made to Society of Jesus, Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, 300 College Ave., Los Gatos, CA 95030.

SISTER MADONNA MARIE BLACK, OP

Dominican Sister Madonna Marie Black died Feb. 15 at her community’s Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 93 years of age and in the 74th year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation.

Sister Madonna Marie held undergraduate and graduate degrees in music education and spent

more than 28 years ministering in education in the areas of church music, art and liturgy. Sister Madonna Marie served as principal of San Francisco’s St. Brendan School from 1959-65 having taught at the school from 1948-59. Sister Madonna Marie became a resident of the Dominican Life Center in 2013.

Survivors include Sister Madonna Marie’s three sisters, Fran Madole, Helen Tapp, and Mai E. Sister Madonna Gray, all of Arizona.

Marie Black, OP A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 20 in the sisters’ St. Catherine Chapel with interment in the Congregation Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 East Siena Heights Drive, Adrian, Michigan 49221.

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MARIN COUNTY Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato. (415) 897-2171.

Mon.-Sat. after 9 a.m. Mass (includes chaplet of Divine Mercy); Mon.-Thurs.

5:30 p.m.; Fri. 5 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato. (650) 3664692. Mon.-Sat. after 9 a.m. Mass.

St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael. (415) 479-1560. Mon. 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration.

St. Patrick Church, 114 King St., Larkspur. (415) 924-0600. Tues.-Fri. 7:30 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave.(415) 494-5517. Mon.-Fri.: 7:30 a.m., Sat.: 8 a.m.

Corpus Christi Church, 62 Santa Rosa Ave. (415) 585-2991. After 8 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. Masses (Mon.-Sat.) Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave. (415) 664-8590. Mon.-Sat. 8:35 a.m. before 9 a.m. Mass in the chapel.

Sundays except June, July, August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.

St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave. (415) 863-7515. Weekdays 11:30 a.m., Sundays 7 a.m. (English); Thurs.

5:30 p.m. (Spanish) & Sundays before 10:30 a.m. (Spanish) Mass.

St. Cecilia Church, 2555 - 17th Ave. (415) 664-8481. Mon.-Sat., 8:35 a.m.

St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., (415) 567.7824. Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. (after 8:00 a.m. Mass).

St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St. (415) 468-0820. www.stelizabethsf.org.

Mon.-Sat. after 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St. (415) 333-3627. Mon.-Fri. after 8 a.m. Mass (with Divine Mercy Chaplet).

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Ave. (415) 7316161. Mon.-Fri. after 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave. (415) 422-2188. Mon.-Fri., following 12:05 p.m. Mass; Sat. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. John the Evangelist Church, 19 St. Mary’s Ave. (415) 334-4646. www. saintjohnevangelist.org. Every day after 9 a.m. Mass.

St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave. (415) 648-5751. Fri. after 9 a.m. Mass.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St., Porziuncola Chapel. www.ShrineSF.org, info@shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557. Sat., 2:30 p.m. followed

by Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

St. Monica Church, 24th Ave. (415) 7515275. Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m.

Mass.

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia St. stbenz1801@gmail.com. www.sfdeafcatholics.org. (415) 3509527. Rosary in sign language, all

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. (415) 421-0809. http://salesiansspp. org. Second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m., English.

St. Philip the Apostle Church, 725 Diamond St. (415) 282-0141. Mon.-Sat. after 8 a.m. Mass, Sunday after 10:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Dr. (415) 681-2444. info@SaintStephenSF. org. Mon.-Sat. following 8 a.m. Mass.

Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd.

(415) 751-0450. www.starparish.com.

Tues. 7-8 p.m. Holy Hour. Sat. 9 a.m. after 8:30 a.m. Mass. Sat. 3:20 p.m.

Sundays 9 a.m. after 8 a.m. Mass. Every second Sunday 3 p.m. for Priests and Vocations. All rosary prayers in church.

St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. (415) 452-9634. Sat. 4:30 p.m. before 5 p.m. Vigil Mass; Sundays 7:30 p.m. before 8 p.m. Mass. First Fri. 7 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament.

SAN MATEO COUNTY Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont (650) 593.6157. Mon-Sat, 8:45 a.m.

Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. (650) 323-7914.

Mon.-Fri. following 7:30 a.m. Mass; Sat. following 8 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma. (650) 755-0478. Mon.Sat. approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, 285 Alvarado St., Brisbane. (415) 467-9727.

Every Tues: 5:30 p.m.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 300 Fulton St., Redwood City. (650) 366-

3802; www.mountcarmel.org. Mon.Sat., 7:50 a.m. before 8:15 a.m. Mass.

St. Bartholomew Church, 600 Columbia Dr., San Mateo. (650) 347-0701. Mon.-Fri. 7:30 a.m. preceding 8 a.m. Mass (chapel).

St. Charles Church, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos. Mon.-Sat. at 8 a.m.

St. Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. (650) 697-4730. Mon.-Sat., 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto. (650) 322-2152.

Rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. (650) 345-6660. Mon.-Sat. following 8:30 a.m. Mass St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont. (650) 591-5937; www. saintmarksparish.com. Mon., Tue., Wed. 7:30 p.m.

St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City. (650) 366-9544. www.stmatthiasparish.org. Rosary for Peace in the Merry Room of Fr. Lacey Hall, Fri. mornings at 9:15 am.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Rd. Redwood City. (650) 361-1411. mary246barry@sbcglobal.net. Mon.Sat. 7:30 a.m., Mon. and Wed. 4:40 p.m.

St. Timothy Church, 1515 Dolan Way, San Mateo. (650) 342-2468. Mon.-Sat. 7:30 a.m. preceding 8 a.m. Mass (main church).

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco. (650) 588-1455. Mon.Sat. 7:50 a.m.

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Director of Music (Part-time 19 hours/week | Report to Pastor)

St. John of God, San Francisco

Job Summary The Director of Music is responsible for the liturgical music needs of the parish community, and for the coordination of a comprehensive musical program for a full liturgical cycle, including special events during major seasons. The Director of Music shall seek to involve the assembly in active and reverent participation in the liturgy. The Director of Music shall also grow the music ministry presence of the parish both within the parish and in outreach efforts in the neighborhood and community.

St. John of God Parish in San Francisco is looking for a part-time Principal Musician with keyboard and vocal skills. Responsible for leading and/ or accompanying the community for weekend services (Saturday evening and Sunday morning), Holy Days of Obligation, and other services. Required are the ability to work independently in a self-motivated and self-directed manner, working collaboratively with the Director of Parish Music.

Please send resume to: Fr. Kabipi, akabipi@yahoo.com All employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered.

Key Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to)

• Plan music for all Masses, with special emphasis on the seasons and holidays of the Church calendar.

• Play at 3 weekend Masses (three Sunday morning) as well as holy days, special Masses, and other liturgical celebrations throughout the year.

• Conduct weekly choir rehearsals for adult volunteer choir • Oversee maintenance for the Schanz pipe organ and three pianos (Steinway grand, Baldwin grand, spinet).

Key Requirements

• Excellent organ proficiency, solid piano proficiency.

• Solid choral conducting ability, experience building a choral program preferred.

• Knowledge of music and liturgy in the Roman Catholic tradition preferred.

• Degree in music preferred

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Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2020-2021 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26-APRIL 5

‘SCREENAGERS’: The children’s faith formation programs of St. Agnes and St. Ignatius parishes invite families to attend a screening and discussion of the documentary “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age.” Pizza dinner included. 5:30 p.m., St. Ignatius Parish Fromm Hall-Maier Room, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco. Visit screenagersmovie.com, or contact ttcarino@ usfca.edu.

40 DAYS4LIFE: The 40 Days for Life spring campaign in Redwood City runs from Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday. Planned Parenthood, 2907 El Camino Real, Redwood City. 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Sign up at 40daysforlife/redwoodcity or call (650) 918-9119.

LENT FOR LAWYERS: 37th Annual Retreat for lawyers and other members of the legal profession led by Father Eddie Fernandez, SJ, at El Retiro Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos, 300 Manresa Way, Los Altos.

Registration and event details at jrclosaltos.org.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 28-MARCH 1 RETROUVAILLE: Tens of thousands of couples experiencing marital difficulty have attended this program.

The next local program will be held Feb. 28-March 1 in north San Jose.

Register at HelpOurMarriage.com or get more information at (415) 8931005 or SF@RetroCA.com.

FRIDAY, FEB. 28-FRIDAY, APRIL 3 STATIONS OF THE CROSS: Each Friday of Lent, 7 p.m., St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. 6 p.m. soup supper with Benediction after Mass. stannesf.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 29 MEN’S RETREAT: St. Raymond Parish hosts a “Men’s Leap into Lent” retreat from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Includes Mass and lunch.

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RITE OF ELECTION: Please join Archbishop Cordileone in receiving and enrolling this year’s catechumens and welcoming candidates moving toward full communion in the church at the Easter Vigil. 4 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco.

(415) 614-5586 or (415) 614-5505.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY, FEB. 29-MARCH 1 COUPLES RETREAT: Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend, St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. Register at: email applications@sanjosewwme.org. For more information contact (408) 782-1413 or sanjosewwme.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 29 WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MASS: Archbishop Cordileone celebrates Mass for married couples celebrating anniversaries from five years up in five-year increments. 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. Register at sfarchdiocese.org/wedding-anniversarymass-misa-de-aniversario-de-bodas, or call (415) 614-5547.

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 CHASTITY PRESENTATION: “Purified” is an event about chastity for families for ages 13 and up. The event includes a presentation by international speaker and author Jason Evert about dating relationships and God’s plan for human love. 7-9 p.m. at St. Vincent-St. Patrick High School, 1500 Benicia Road, Vallejo. $20. Registration at chastity.com/purified, or call (707) 280-0717.

MOSAIC TV-BIOETHICS: 5:30 a.m., KPIX Channel 5, CBS Bay Area. Guest Jennifer Lahl, founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, discusses the bioethical issues that

ST. CECILIA PARISH LENTEN LECTURE SERIES For three Tuesdays in March, the parish will host lecturers on topics for reflection during Lent.

7:30-9 p.m., St. Cecilia Parish, 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco. $10. Visit stcecilia.com.

MARCH 3: “Does Jesus Really Expect Us to Be Perfect?”

Father Felix Just, SJ, will explore what Jesus actually said in some commonly misinterpreted passages of Matthew’s Gospel.

MARCH 10: “Mind the Gap: A Faith Perspective” Sister Mary Greenan will focus on how to bridge the gap of separation and division in the social, ethical and political climate of today.

MARCH 24: “Spiritual Poverty and the Spirit of Lent” Dr. Margaret Turek will reflect on the salvific meaning of spiritual poverty as modeled

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MONDAY DISCERNMENT: Dinner and discussion for men considering the priesthood. 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. RSVP Father Tom Martin, martin.thomas@sfarch.org.

MONDAY-TUESDAY, MARCH 2-3 MISSION RETREAT: St. Matthias and St. Charles parishes co-host a parish mission event led by Father Dave Pettingill. 7-8:30 p.m., St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City. Deacon Rich Foley, rich@ stmatthiasparish.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 LENTEN SPEAKERS: Tuesday night Lenten lecture series March 3-April 7 at St. Rita Parish, Fairfax begins with a soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by speaker at this year’s series celebrating the fifth anniversary of the papal encyclical, “Laudato Si.’” saintritachurch. org. 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax.

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Francisco’s Epiphany Center. $250. 6 p.m., The Family, 545 Powell St., San Francisco. Visit TheEpiphanyCenter.org or call (415) 351-4055.

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: Free spiritual support group for people who have experienced a loss. Third Friday of every month, 10:30-noon, Msgr.

Bowe room, St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Facilitated by Deacon Chris Sandoval.

(415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

SAT.-SUN., MARCH 7 & 8

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

POST-ABORTION RETREAT: A weekend retreat for women led by Father Vito Perrone, Contemplatives of St. Joseph with the Daughters of Carmel at a confidential location. Donation of $50 is suggested but can be waived.

Call (415) 614-5567, email projectrachel@sfarch.org, or register online at sfarchdiocese.org/rachel.

TWO PADRES: Dominican Father Donald Osuna and Msgr.

Antonio Valdivia, OP, shares memories of their 50 years of travel experiences as friends, classmates and priests. Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. http://bit.ly/2020TwoPadres, or call (510) 933-6360.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 PEACE MASS: First Saturday Mass for reparation and peace in the world. 8:30 a.m., St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco.

Father Marvin Felipe, pastor and celebrant. (650) 269-2121, or zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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

PADRE PIO GROUP: First Saturday of every month, 10:15 a.m. at the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco. Includes relic veneration, adoration, confession, the rosary, Benediction and Mass at 12:15. (415) 986-4557, or email info@shrinesf.org

LENTEN RENEWAL: St. Peter Catholic Church, “Choosing Hope” Lenten morning of renewal facilitated by Father Rusty Shaugnessy, OFM. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., lunch to follow. 700 Oddstad Boulevard, Pacifica. RSVP (650) 359-6313 by March 11.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 13-15 RUMMAGE SALE: Choose among clothes, furniture, books, and a new items booth at the Church of the Visitacion Mother’s Club Rummage Sale.

March 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Mar. 14, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; March 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the parish hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland, San Francisco. (415)494-5517.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 15

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 FREE MISSION CONCERT: Recital series 2020, 4 p.m., at Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, with Angela Kraft Cross, piano, Jerome Lenk, organ. Free admission, $10 donation suggested. (415) 621-8203, or music@missiondolores.org.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 16-22 ONLINE RETREAT: “Surrendering to Love,” an online Lenten retreat March 16-22 with Colette Lafia. Registration and other details at mercy-center.org, mc@mercywmw.org, or (650) 340-7474.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 MEN’S CONFERENCE: “Called to Lead,” San Francisco Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference, will be held 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City. $45, $20 under 20 years of age. Mass with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. Register at sfarch. org/sfbaymen, or call (415) 614-5680 with questions.

BREAKING BREAD: Formerly known as Handicapables, Breaking Bread with Hope is a monthly opportunity for adults with disabilities to participate in Mass, lunch and general fellowship with others. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral. RSVP (415) 452-3500 or DPrell@CatholicCharitiessf.org.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of January HOLY CROSS, COLMA George K. Ado Carlos E. Aguilar Patrick Aherne Delfin A. Ang Anita C. Barber Eduviges B. Belamide Francisco D. Betonio Jose P. Biscarra Gloria E. Monina Bloté Michelina Bosso Georgia K. Bregante William James Britton, Jr. Marilyn Elizabeth Burns Dominador Caballero Alice M. Campillo Robert Carlevaris Casamera Castillo Roberto N. Castillo Flor T. Castueras Mark Edward Corollo Ana I. Cox Ann Healy Curtin Ursula P. De La Cruz Edward V. De La Torre Luis P. DeLa Cruz Jose Maria Delgadillo George Isa Dudum Thomas W. Dunn Laverne S. Dunn Robert E. Fioresi Carmen H. Franco Louise A. Boehle Frechette Rosita Galang Marianita G. Gallardo Paul Allen Gallegos Francis Gaughran Donald J. Gazzano Evelyn T. Girlich Lillian M. Giusto Barbara Glynn Allen J. Gobert Sr. Irene Gomez

Lucy S. Gonzalez Candice Jang Gray Jeanette Marie Greer Angeles N. Gutelius Paula L. Gutierrez Stuart A. Harmon Genevieve Harrison Maureen E. Hartman John Holmes Julia B. Jacobs Jeffrey Jensen Robert B. Johnson Sr. Kathleen Kearney Patricia Rose Keiter Charlotte M. Kelly Florine A. Konkle Gloria Acosta Labogin Edmond Lahlouh Adriana L. Landucci Margaret Lansche Gloria Ann (Fontana) Lavezzo Ernest J. Lubbe Jeanne Lynch June D. Maffei Sister M. Diane Maguire Alofaki Mahe Marylyn L. Maher James Martin Mary Ann Martinez Danilo Gonzales Mata Mary Louise Matzen Michael McGrath Stella Cecilia Mogannam Una Moloney Anne Monetini Mary Virginia Montoya Sheila Moynihan Ardelia C. Murray

Josefa Mapa Norona James C. O’Mahoney Theresa M. Passalaqua Janet C. Patch Judith A. Peebles Adan Perez Barbara Ruth Pinelli Norma M. Popovitch Joseph John Quadt Jack G. Ramage Robert Ramoni Robert F. Richard Elisa Lagrosas Rocas Cesar Vytingco Rodriguez Arturo S. Rodriguez Sophie Tupaz Rojo Arturo Romero Dorothy L. Santiago Elma S. Santos Melanie Anne Sattui Tosca A. Scatena Herman P. Scholz, Jr. Harry Siewert Michael Siewert Marylin A. Squeri Norma L. Torchia Francis John U’Ren Gloria Marie Valmassy Emanuel Vassallo Joseph P. Vella Peter Vigh Arthur Patrick Villamor Kathleen D. Walt Mirta Dora Wanderkauven Margaret Ward

Isabel M. Wilson Elizabeth C. Wong

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Hector Aburto Kamal Zaki Abusief, M.D. Emma Babb Cunningham Daniel Curl Lillian “Lily” Duzanica Margarita C. Lazcano Donald Leo Lucas Carol Mateus Sally J. Moretti Helen G. Pflaum Thomas Chester Stapleton Fidelina Zavala

Clista Emma Quilici Nancy Schwabe Towslee Barbara A. Wilson

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Carol Ann Floyd Joan C. White

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Silvester H. Cervantes, Jr. Stephanie L. Cincotta Colleen Fogarty Kip Fogarty Rosemary Goggins Michael J. Goggins James C. Hudson Nevaeh Murillo

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2020 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel - 11:00 am Rev. J. Michael Strange – St. Vincent de Paul Parish

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