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Cardinal invites parishes to strengthen marriage, family life Mark Zimmermann Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl has called on all parishes and individual Catholics in the Washington archdiocese to help expand and strengthen the Catholic Church’s marriage and family outreach, guided by Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love.”)

He was joined at a special Mass March 4 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle by families from throughout the archdiocese for the release of his broad and detailed pastoral plan for implementing “Amoris Laetitia” at the parish level.

After Mass, the cardinal personally greeted the families in attendance – they represented the archdiocese’s 139 parishes in Washington and surrounding Maryland – and handed them copies of the plan, titled “Sharing in the Joy of Love in Marriage and Family.”

Cardinal Wuerl in his homily invited local Catholics to join in that work. He said hoped the gesture of handing the plan to the families after Mass “will be a see cardinal, page 8

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Rite of Election

Parish representatives process into St. Mary’s Cathedral on Feb. 18 holding the Book of the Elect from their respective communities, during the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion. The rite, a tradition on the First Sunday of Lent, marks a key step forward for candidates and catechumens preparing to enter the church at the Easter Vigil. Story and more photos on Page 6.

New website promotes Catholic arts to set faithful ‘on fire’ Lidia Wasowicz Catholic San Francisco

Expanding a recent San Francisco archdiocesan initiative to encourage reverent music and enrich liturgical life, a new website celebrates Catholic culture as a means to share and spread the faith.

The online venture of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, founded in 2014 and based at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, offers information and inspiration in its wide-ranging content.

From stage to screen, canvas to cinema, from ballet to biography, photography to poetry, creative enterprises of every genre find the spotlight at http:// benedictinstitute.org.

Bemoaning the decline in “that noble, great and transcendent sense of art that the church has always given us,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone notes in a video welcoming site visitors: “Beauty is important because it’s one of the ways in which we

can be in touch with the divine and draw others to be in touch with the divine.”

The Benedict XVI Institute, he says, aims to ensure that “every liturgy, every Mass is a real encounter with the Lord and sets people on fire for their faith,” as envisioned by the Holy Father whose name graces the organization.

The website, designed with the assistance of the Emmy Award-winning Catholic-oriented production firm Spirit Juice Studios and launched Jan. 23, carries those goals beyond church walls.

“Our mission is to open the door of beauty to God

by providing practical resources for more beautiful liturgies and by energizing a Catholic culture of the arts,” said Maggie Gallagher, the newly appointed executive director of the institute.

A centerpiece of the electronic enterprise, the magazine Catholic Arts Today, provides a platform for Catholic artists and their sacred and secular work, featured in videos, articles, reviews, film clips, poetry readings and photographic displays.

Each entry testifies to the force of faith.

“Art is something that has come from God,” multimedia music composer Sean Beeson attests in the initial issue. “We have a responsibility to nurture … grow … and share it with other people.”

He cites his wife’s advice that kept him going through turbulent and triumphant times: “If you’re going to worry, then don’t pray, but if you pray, then don’t worry.”

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Paulist priest’s online forum helps ‘drifting’ Catholics reclaim their faith

Need to know ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE: “Salutations of the Holy Cross,” March 19, 7 p.m., Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont.

The evening commemorates the 12-year anniversary of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross and the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont joining together in salutations and veneration of the relic of the Holy Cross of our Lord. Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos welcomes Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who will deliver a homily. Reception with refreshments and discussion follow. (650) 5914447; office@goholycross.org.

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Paulist Father Michael Evernden has no problem with Catholics who struggle with questions and doubts about their faith and their church or those who have fallen away from both completely.

“I run into a lot of priests who don’t really know what to do with an inactive Catholic,” he told Catholic San Francisco Feb. 27. “And they don’t really know how to bring a non-Catholic into the church either. “I don’t think they have been trained.”

The 70-year-old priest is a Paulist missionary at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Chinese Mission in Chinatown. He is a recent arrival in San Francisco, moving from Portland in 2016 after the Paulist Fathers ended nearly 100 years of pastoral care there.

Since then, he has created an online extension of a faith-sharing community he started in Portland nine years ago. The missionary effort for people trying to find a way back to the church in a supportive community is called “B-Catholic.”

The symbol “B-” means “B minus,” a somewhat humorous allusion to a school grade suggesting the student needs to work harder to master the material.

The name is “a euphemism for Catholics who admit they don’t know everything” and want to deepen their understanding of the faith, Father Evernden said. That includes Catholics whose faith formation, practice, or both, may be many years in the past. Those with little to no Catholic religious education are also welcome.

“No question is out of bounds,” Father Evernden said, sitting behind the large computer monitor where he loosely moderates each video conferenced forum from 7:15 to about 8 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of every month.

The majority of the regular participants log in from Portland where the physical “B-Catholics” group met, with new participants in the Bay Area joining more slowly, he said, through word-of-mouth.

EWTN HOLY WEEK: Beginning Palm Sunday, March 25, EWTN brings special programming and live Easter Masses and Holy Week rites from Rome and the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C., for those who cannot attend Mass in person. You can view EWTN on Comcast 229, ATT 562, Astound/Wave 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH satellite 261 and DIRECT TV 370. Visit ewtn.com/ radio/ and www.ewtn.com.

Communicators’ conference: Pastors, principals, ministry leaders, bulletin editors, website managers and other church communicators are invited to a Digital Communications Conference, cathedral event center, March 21, 8:30 a.m-2:30 p.m., hosted by the archdiocesan communications department. Learn about digital communication tools and successful communications strategy. Registration required at sfarch.org/DCC or contact pottsj@sfarch.org.

Archbishop cordileone’s schedule March 10: Noon Mass, Catholic Men’s Conference, St. Bartholomew March 14: Chancery meetings March 15: Installation Mass for Bishop Myron Cotta, Modesto March 16: St. Patrick’s luncheon, Hibernian-Newman Club

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Paulist Father Michael Evernden speaks with an online correspondent during a February session of “B- Catholics,” his digital ministry for “drifting” Catholics.

Anyone with a computer, smartphone or tablet and a desire to ask questions and share their faith story is welcome, Father Evernden said.

The Paulist started a program called “Drifting Catholics” 30 years ago in Seattle because “most people don’t really leave the church but just drift away,” he said. It was later developed into “Landings,” an international reconciliation ministry of the Paulist Fathers adopted by parishes to help Catholics return to the faith and parish life.

“Whether it’s inactive Catholics or fallen-away people or people just searching, they are not usually interested in the institution; they are not interested in rules and regulations,” he said. “What they want to know is why Catholics believe what we do and do what we do.”

Portland resident Karen Hopkins had been away from the church for “many, many years” when she came to the B-Catholics group at St. Philip Neri Parish there. She said she “never gave up the feeling that I was still Catholic,” but after going into a few churches and attending Mass, she never went back.

At the time, “I considered myself a “C-Catholic,” she said. “But it seemed so possible for me to be a B- Catholic.”

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Over the last eight years she has returned to the Mass and “my faith has started to deepen,” she said.

For Kathleen Prudence, also of Portland, “getting a voice” is one of the greatest values of her participation in “B-Catholics.”

“In many church groups you look to the priest to be the spokesperson; you look for their wisdom,” she said.

“This forum has really taught me that I have my own voice. My voice is legitimate and I can express myself as an adult. You know, I’m no longer a little kid in catechism class!”

Being offered a place to explore her thoughts and develop that voice has made it much easier for her, she said, to share what she believes with her children who weren’t raised Catholic, or her neighbors who see her going off to church on Sunday morning and wonder why she doesn’t just want to stay home and have brunch with them.

“After so many years it has really developed for me into more areas than following the rules and showing up on Sunday,” she said. “It’s gotten so much deeper than ‘pray, pay and obey.’”

Father Evernden said he guides all see online forum, page 8

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Deacon: Pioneer black priest’s story relevant now Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Father Augustus Tolton (1854-1897), escaped slavery a decade before the Civil War began and eventually became the first publicly recognized black Catholic priest ordained in America. His journey from slave to priest was celebrated Feb. 15 in a presentation by Deacon Chuck McNeil to St. Dominic parishioners and friends beginning with an African spiritual sung by the black cantor of the parish choir.

The St. Dominic Friends in Christ group hosts a lecture once a month and invited Deacon McNeil to do the February event in recognition of Black History Month. The 90-minute event was based on a book called “From Slave to Priest” (Ignatius Press, 2010) and his own research.

After an opening prayer that focused on unity, Deacon McNeil described the hardships and triumphs of Father Tolton’s journey from slavery in Missouri and freedom in Illinois, to a vocation cultivated by a kind and strong-willed Irish priest, his decade-long rejection by Catholic seminaries for being a “Negro” and his eventual ordination and early death.

Deacon McNeil was inspired, he said, by a column he read Feb. 8 in Catholic San Francisco by Father Ron Rolheiser, “Overcoming the divisions that divide us.”

“Tonight we gather as one faithful and united people,” Deacon McNeil said, adding to that he presenting would not be divisive or “about making white people feel guilty.”

“We are one in heart, one in mind, one in soul,” Deacon McNeil said.

St. Dominic cantor Ash Walker, who is AfricanAmerican as is Deacon McNeil, arranged and sang his own rendition of the spiritual “Go Down Moses” in honor of Father Tolton, whose cause for sainthood was declared valid in 2015 by the Vatican Congregation for Causes of Saints.

Father Augustus Tolton was the first publicly recognized African-American priest in the U.S. when he was ordained in 1886.

(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

Deacon Chuck McNeil from St. Dominic Parish reads a prayer on a Mass card for Father Augustus Tolton, the first publicly recognized African-American Catholic priest ordained in America. The inscription reads in part: “His ministry helped lay the foundation for a truly Catholic gathering in faith in our time.”

“But he was not the first man of African-American ancestry born a slave to become a priest, only the first one recognized as such,” Deacon McNeil said. There were three before him.

Brothers James Augustine Healy, Alexander Sherwood Healy and Patrick Francis Healy were the first three U.S. Roman Catholic priests of African-American ancestry to be ordained.

Their father, Michael Morris Healy, was a wealthy plantation owner in Georgia who had escaped the Irish potato famine. The boys’ mother and his common-law-wife was Mary Eliza Smith, a slave.

Because a person’s status as a slave was determined by the mother’s heritage, the Healy brothers were legally considered slaves in Georgia. Morris sent all

of his children north of the Mason Dixon line to be educated and because they passed for white, they were educated in Catholic schools. The Healy brothers were publicly known to their congregations and the rest of contemporary society as Irish Americans.

Father James Augustine Healy was ordained in 1854, Father Alexander Sherwood Healy in 1858 and Father Patrick Healy in 1864. Unlike Father Tolton, they passed as white, but even the smallest hints of African ancestry in their physical appearance impeded them.

Alexander’s features appear to have stalled his advancement to rector of the North American College in Rome in 1859. One bishop noted on his rejection that while he was “by far the best person for the job, he has African blood and it shows distinctly.”

Father “Gus,” as he was sometimes known, was born into slavery on April 1, 1854. His parents were baptized Catholics and married in a Catholic ceremony. The baptismal records in the parish register at St. Peter’s Church in Ralls County stated “Augustus, slave of Stephen Elliott” without any reference to his own parents.

Father Tolton’s mother Martha Jane decided to escape with her children from their Missouri plantation while her husband was at war. Aided by Union soldiers, family crossed into Quincy, Illinois, which had a large African-American community.

The whole family went to work in a tobacco factory and the children attended St. Boniface Church, where a German Franciscan welcomed them and read the Gospel in English to them. Augustus was enrolled in the parish school, where he studied during the winter when the factory was closed. Parishioners in the allwhite parish school threatened to discontinue their support of the parish if Augustus was allowed to continue at the school and eventually he was removed.

Moving to a new parish, St. Lawrence Church in Quincy, the Tolton family met a kind and strongwilled Irishman, Father Peter McGirr. Father McGirr see Deacon, page 8

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‘Men’s shoulder to lean on is Christ’s and one another’s,’ March 10 conference affirms Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

“Men can speak to other men in a unique way; it’s important for us to get together so we can encourage, support and challenge each Church Goods & Candles Religous Gifts & Books other,” Ed Hopfner, now in his fifth year as director of marriage and family life programs for the Ed Hopfner Archdiocese of San Francisco, told me about 5“Called locationstoin California Lead,” a Catholic men’s conference, Your Local March 10 at St. Bartholomew Church, Store: San Mateo.369 Grand Av, S.San Francisco,650-583-5153 Similar conferences retreats for101 Frwy @ Grand Near SF and Airport - Exit couples and families as well as a number of women’s events are already in cotters@cotters.com www.cotters.com place but gatherings singularly for HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Susan and Gil Eliares, pictured here with Archbishop Salvatore J. men are a growing ministry, Ed said.

Cordileone after the annual anniversary Mass Feb. 3 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated their 35th “It’s important for men to periodiwedding anniversary Jan. 8. The couple was married at St. Elizabeth Church, San Francisco. “The best cally get together with other men, to part of our marriage is that we became one,” Gil said for both of them. “Everything I have is hers as reflect on and deepen their faith.” well as hers mine. After many years, our love never changed and we became much closer to God and Ed said the conference is to educate the Catholic Church.” Susan and Gil were among more than 100 anniversary couples celebrating their and help form men in their Catholic marriages at the Feb. 3 liturgy where Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily that “marriage gives a faith. “As Christians we are called to clearer vision of what love really is.” evangelize the world, beginning of course with ourselves and our famiWELCOME: Sacred Heart Sister lies, yet most of us receive little trainNancy Morris and Sacred Heart Sister ing or formation in our Catholic faith Mary Pat Ryan were special guests of once we finish confirmation, usually eighth grader and student body president around high school age. We wouldn’t Finnan MacRunnels, at the recent expect to do our jobs professionally “Grandparents’ and Special Persons’ with that level of preparation so it’s Day” at St. Raymond School, Menlo Park. important we prepare ourselves as “The day, dedicated to special people in well as possible.” the lives of the students, began with visI asked Ed if it is difficult to be a its to the classrooms and culminated with Catholic man today. “It’s difficult to a beautiful Mass led by the St. Raymond be a Catholic today, especially on the School third grade class,” the school said.

West Coast,” he said. “We are in many end of Mass to go and announce the every man who attends to leave more ways a post-Christian society, and firmly committed to his Catholic faith, good news but how many of us are rewhat people think the church stands for is often a caricature.” and to sharing that with others,” Ed ally prepared for that? The conference will give the men tools to do this.”

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New friendships are also a possible outcome, Ed said. “I hope the men come away with friends who will support and challenge them to be better Catholic men.”

In addition to Mass with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone as principal celebrant, the day is made up of presentations by nationally known speakers including Doug Barry of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock,” and Tim Whitmire, a founder of F3 Nation, with a mission of “fitness, fellowship and faith” and geared “to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership,” its website said. Also included are “exhibits, with resources for the men as they go forward and, of course, a substantial lunch!” Ed said. “It’s a rare opportunity to have a day like this.”

“Called to Lead,” St. Bartholomew Church, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $45; under 20, $20. Ed Hopfner, Hopfnere@sfarch.org, www.SFBayMen.info, (415) 614-5680.

ROSARY: A popular prayer year round and especially in Lent, the rosary is prayed regularly at more than a dozen parishes and other sites throughout the archdiocese including the Porziuncola Nuova Chapel, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m., followed

by Chaplet of Divine Mercy, http:// knightsofsaintfrancis.org/. Find other locations and times in a notice in this issue of CSF. TAIZE: The sung prayer service takes place March 22 at St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 5 p.m., Brian DuSell at bcdusell@usfca.edu. “The sung portion of our prayer will be led by our student liturgical choir, myself, and Vlastimil Dufka, a Jesuit, who is an excellent oboist,” Brian said.

On March 30 at 7:30 p.m., Taize will be prayed at St. Anselm Church, Ross, (415) 453-2342, www.saintanselm. org. Stay in touch with Catholic San Francisco’s Calendar and the archdiocesan website for more Lenten opportunities.

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Crisis pregnancy centers Respect Life Essay Contest theme St. Anselm; Beatrice Pheatt, Joey Giraud, St. Isabella; Christine Nguyen, St. Raphael.

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With the launch of the Respect Life Program’s “Options United for Life: Northern California Pregnancy Grades three-four Resource Collaborative Network” last October, it Grand Prize: Aliyah Pasion, Holy Angels. seemed appropriate to raise awareness about these lifesaving pregnancy centers in schools and parishes.

First Prize: San Francisco, Isabella Soriano, Our So the theme of this year’s 29th Annual ArchdiocLady of the Visitacion; San Mateo, Lucina Gonzalez, esan Respect Life Essay Contest highlighted pro-life All Souls religious education program; Marin, Nick pregnancy centers and clinics in their performance Bishop, Our Lady of Loretto. of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Even young children sense that when a mom is Honorable Mention: Gabriela Martinez, Misexpecting a new baby, she needs extra help. Our first sion Dolores Academy; Bella Toledo, Our Lady of the and second graders wrote about different ways to ofVisitacion; Bella Kwok, James Kitaguchi, St. Thomas fer this special help: When a pregnant mom without the Apostle; Francesca Manalastas, Holy Angels; Ava close family or friends feels alone or afraid, even Leggero, Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Valerie Chu, St. more help and support may be needed. Third and Catherine of Siena; Olivia Evangelista, St. Dunstan; fourth graders wrote about additional ways to help Abby Sharron, Reese Brochol, St. Gregory; Valentino (Courtesy photo) these women in need, maybe with the parish-based Larios, St. Veronica; Niccolo Machotka-Farley, St. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone congratulated winners of the Gabriel Project in mind. Fifth and sixth graders tack- archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest Feb. 25 at St. Mary’s Anselm; Tina Wegner, St. Isabella parish school of led the subject of adoption and how generous it is for religion; Kyla Handley, Mikel Barreneche, St. Isabella.

Cathedral. Pictured with the archbishop are grand prize wina woman who feels she cannot raise her baby to give ners,20 from left, Julienne Rose Cancio, grades nine-12, Immacu13 March, Tuesday 7:00 PM February, Tuesday 7:00 PM the gift of life to the baby, and the gift of the baby to late 20 Conception Academy;Tuesday Aliyah Passion, grades Grades five-six 13 March, Tuesday 7:00 PM February, 7:00three-four, PM adoptive parents yearning for a child. Seventh and Holy Angels; Mia Fuentes, grades one-two; Shylah Doyle, grades Grand Prize: Shylah Doyle, Nativity.

“Changing the Climate: “Catechizing Today’s Adolescents: eighth graders delved deeper into what a crisis pregfive-six, Nativity; Scott Bell, grades seven-eight, St. Isabella.

“Changing Climate: “Catechizing Today’s Adolescents: nancy center or clinic does and how its staff puts the First Prize: San Francisco, Bridget Panina, St. An Ethic of the Limits” Challenge and Opportunity” Ethic of Limits” ourChallenge Catholic schools, religious education programs corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice Gabriel; San An Mateo, Jacinta Semher, Nativity; Marin, and Opportunity” and homeschooling families, are listed below. in very tangible ways. Finally, high school students Elizabeth Hayes, Our Lady of Loretto.

Kenneth Weare, Ph.D. analyzed the Reproductive FACT Act, which forces Cardinal William J. Levada, S.T.D. Kenneth Ph.D. J.one-two Levada, S.T.D. pro-life pregnancy20 centers in California to promote Honorable Mention: Chester Chen, School of Grades Pastor, SaintWeare, Rita Church Archbishop William Emeritus of San Francisco 13 March, Tuesday 7:00 PM February, Tuesday 7:00 PM Cardinal Pastor, Saint Rita Church and refer for abortion, even when the performance of Grand the Epiphany; Amaya Yip, Holy Name of Jesus; KynPrize: Mia Fuentes, St. Veronica.

Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco Adj. Professor of Social Ethics, USF Pastor, Saint Rita Church Archdiocese of San Francisco Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco abortion contradicts the center’s core message about dall Seymore, Luis De Jesus, Mission Dolores AcadAdj. Professor of Social Ethics, USF Archdiocese of San Francisco Adj. Professor of Social Ethics, USF Archdiocese of San Francisco “Changing Climate: “Catechizing Today’s the sanctity of human life. This issue is veryAdolescents: timely emy; Seda Perry, Star of the Sea; Adriel Barrion, Our First Prize: San Francisco, Sophia the Howard, Holy An Ethic of Limits” given that the Supreme Court will be considering the Lady of Perpetual Help; Mariano Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Name of Jesus; San Mateo, Anthony Gonzalez, St. Challenge and Opportunity” constitutionality of California’s law this year. homeschool; Skyler Cayanan, St. Dunstan; CrisCatherine of Siena; Marin, Aiden Leon, St. Isabella.

The ability to offer local, practical and life-affirming tiana Kerrigan, St. Robert; Sidney Karr, St. Veronica; Kenneth Weare,Alyssa Ph.D. Cardinal William J.isLevada, resources to women in crisis pregnancies integral S.T.D. Dempsey Boone, Lily Burke, St. Anselm; Claire CasHonorable Mention: Blake Sturgeon, Saint Rita Church Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco to our pro-life mission of helping one another and of sidy, Natalie Jaworski, St. Isabella; Fiona O’Driscoll, Garcillano, Our Lady of Pastor, the Visitacion; Lyriq Huff, MisAdj. Professor of Social Ethics, USF St. Patrick; Hailey 20 March, Tuesday 7:00 PM Archdiocese San Francisco helping women choose life. Theofability to provide early Sarlatte, Our Lady of Loretto. sion Academy; Kenzeey Ramos, St. Monica; 27Dolores February, Tuesday 7:00 PM 20 March, Tuesday 7:00 PM education to our students on these issues in a thoughtAllyson Lau, St. Thomas the Apostle; Natalia Lopez, 27 February, Tuesday 7:00 PM provoking way, through the Respect Life Essay ConHoly Angels; Cristiano Morrone, Our Lady of Angels; Grades seven-eight “Romero & Grande: A Latin “The Last Religion, test, will indeed pay dividends in time and eternity.

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“Romero & Grande: Latin “The Last Utopia: Religion, Way of theASt. Cross” This year’s 82 winners and honorable-mention St.American Gregory; Tommy Mijares, Veronica; Anabella Radicalization, and Redemption” American of theChiara Cross” Radicalization, recipients, chosen from the 376 essays submitted by Miles, Our LadyWay of Loretto; Machotka-Farley, 19 Redemption” see contest, pageand

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Parish representatives gathered on the altar at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 18 with the Book of the Elect from their respective communities. Supporting 342 candidates and catechumens, more than 1,100 faithful from 47 parishes, attended the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, held on the First Sunday of Lent.

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Shepherded by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, 342 men, women and children yearning to be Catholic moved toward their soul’s desire Feb. 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

More than 1,100 faithful from 47 parishes, sponsors and supporters gathered for the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, held on the first Sunday of Lent.

The transformative ceremony, rooted in rituals of the ancient Christians of the third to sixth centuries, marked a required step toward full entry into the Catholic fold.

Packed with pomp and pageantry, the one-hour bilingual liturgy readied the newcomers – nearly half of them Spanish-speaking – for their integration at the Easter Vigil.

That holy night, the 173 unbaptized “catechumens” – henceforth designated “the elect” – will receive the initiation sacraments of baptism, first Eucharist and confirmation and the 169 “candidates,” already baptized in a Christian church, will make their first Communion and be confirmed in their individual parishes.

During the celebration, livestreamed by the archdiocese on YouTube, Archbishop Cordileone spoke of Catholicism’s life-affirming significance, particularly at a time as troubled and turbulent as during the cultural collapse of 100 years ago when Our Lady appeared in Fatima.

“In so many ways it seems that the world … has gone haywire,” the archbishop said, noting such modern-day calamities as the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Ash Wednesday.

Relief rests in following the Blessed Mother’s “recipe” of prayer, penance and adoration, especially suitable during Lent, and in uniting with Jesus, who brings order out of chaos, he said.

Assured of their worthiness and willingness, the archbishop invited the catechumens to sign the Book of the Elect, then called the candidates to full communion with the Catholic community.

While individual journeys toward this moment varied as greatly as the ages, nationalities, socioeconomic

Corey and Mary Lesh and their children Theodore, 8, and Kaylin, 9, of St. Brendan Parish wrote their names in the parish’s Book of the Elect. They were among more than 300 candidates and catechumens who participated in the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion on Feb. 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Lenten ritual put them a step closer to entering the church through receiving the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil.

St. Joseph Sister Noreen O’Connor is pictured with Daiwik Palathuruthil as the first grader signs the Book of the Elect and his brother Agastya looks on.

Right, Kelier Irizarry from St. Matthew Parish with sponsors Sarivel and Francisco Irizarry. standings and backgrounds of the travelers, the arrival was met with collective elation.

“Awesome!” beamed Theodore Lesh, 8, after writing his name in the St. Brendan book, signed by rite participants from the parish since 1994.

His sister, Kaylin, 9, could not wait to show off the signature she had been practicing.

“I feel like I just earned something

very important, to be in the family of God,” she said after enrolling and returning to her seat.

Their mom Mary, a Lutheran since infancy, and dad Corey, baptized a Protestant as an adult, experienced a “new beginning” when the archbishop recognized their commitment and declared them ready to continue their spiritual quest.

“In today’s world, you don’t meet

many people searching for God so to see everyone here is a wonderful reminder that God is at work, breaking into people’s lives, speaking to their hearts,” Corey Lesh said.

God spoke gradually to Yuan Chen.

Married in the Catholic Church and attending Mass for years with his wife, the man without a religion finally got one when his oldest son, now six, applied to kindergarten at St. Cecilia School in 2016.

“I wanted to learn what my child would learn,” said Chen, who enrolled in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults in 2017. “What I got out of it was so much more, including a clearer, more positive and purposeful direction in life.”

Hoffmann Joachim’s life took a turn during a weekend baseball tournament in Modesto last year. On Sunday, the unbaptized middle-schooler accepted his Catholic dad’s invitation to Mass.

“The sermon was about Jesus as a shepherd protecting his flock,” recalled Hoffmann, now 13 and in eighth grade at St. Hilary School in Tiburon.

“This made a huge impression on me, that Jesus could help guide me, and I decided then that I wanted to begin my faith journey.”

Back at home he befriended some Marin Catholic High School baseball players on whose field his team practiced and his decision stuck.

“I’ve seen how important their faith is to them,” Hoffmann said, “how faith can help people through tough times.”

That promising power permeated the service.

“In the midst of all the division in our society, it’s great to feel connected with so many people in San Francisco in the unity of Christ,” Mary Lesh said as the last notes of the recessional hymn and echoes of congratulatory applause resounded through the cathedral and the throngs, having received the archbishop’s final blessing, began posing for pictures and pouring out of the stately structure.

“I must say (this) is one of my and the bishops’ favorite rituals each year,” said Laura Bertone, archdiocesan worship director. “I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Rite of Election without shedding a few tears of joy and thanksgiving.”

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Mitchell relates how as “a daughter in Christ,” she recites the Magnificat in front of cast members and strives to “get across to my performer friends that Catholics are real people too.”

Gallagher hopes viewers will enjoy the format and recommend performances, painters, concerts, books and films highlighted in the magazine.

“That’s the way a community of Catholic artists and art lovers grows,” she said.

Alongside the audience, the agenda will be augmenting to include weekly video messages from the archbishop on liturgy and the arts, publicity for the Facebook page, which has attracted more than 2,300 followers from around the globe since its activation in August, a social media campaign to increase traffic to the website, at least four annual lectures by celebrated artists and scholars and concerts or worship services emphasizing music, particularly Gregorian chant.

The calendar is filling fast.

In April, a talk on how and why to watch movies will be presented by Dr. Barbara Nicolosi, a former

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On May 5, the second lecture will feature California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, who chaired the National Endowment for the Arts under President George W. Bush; and Anthony Esolen, a Dante scholar, writer, social commentator, translator of classical poetry and professor of English Renaissance and classical literature at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts.

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On Mother’s Day, May 13, at 4 p.m., the first annual Festival of Marian Hymns at St. Mary’s Cathedral will introduce an innovative “lessons and carols” format that begins with the congregation singing a simple version of hymns to the Blessed Mother, followed by a spiritual reflection and a professional rendition of the same music by a 16-voice choir, dubbed “The Benedict Sixteen.”

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sign of the commitment of each parish to renew its efforts to share the joy of marriage and family life.

He said he also hope it would show the archdiocese’s “dedication to try to be there for all who may be facing difficulties, so that we – as Christ’s church – can accompany them on the journey.”

An archdiocesan statement said the cardinal’s pastoral plan is the first of its kind to implement “Amoris Laetitia” at the parish level.

The cardinal’s plan summarizes teaching on marriage and family life found in “Amoris Laetitia”; examines challenges faced by couples and families in contemporary culture; emphasizes Pope Francis’ call to accompany people where they are; offers specific ways that people at parishes can reach out

to families in many different circumstances; and lists resources to support people in all stages of married and family life.

In his homily, Cardinal Wuerl noted how in that day’s Gospel reading, Jesus offered “gentle and consistent accompaniment” to the Samaritan woman at the well who had been married many times, an encounter that helped her experience Christ’s love and changed her life. The cardinal said Pope Francis uses the story of that woman to illustrate how people who might be distant or detached from God on their life’s journey can experience God’s love when someone offers them patient accompaniment.

When carried out through the church’s pastoral ministry, such accompaniment, he said, “helps move us beyond hearing the Word, to come to

understand it, to appreciate it, to appropriate and live it.”

That reality, he said, underscores the call for Catholics to reach out people where they are and accompany them, and motivated him to issue the pastoral plan to strengthen marriage and family life.

The pastoral plan spells out ways that parish priests, staff and volunteers can support married couples and families. It lists ways they can reach out to engaged and newly married couples; young families; older couples and adults; and families in special circumstances – immigrant families, military families; families with members who have special needs; people in ecumenical and interfaith marriages, single parents and families of divorce, and families with loved ones who identify with same-sex attraction.

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the groups he runs on the principles and traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.

“Politics are out, and I don’t preach,” he said.

And he insists his own faith is fed by a two-way exchange as much as anything he might provide directly.

“It’s incredibly important for me to say that the participants are the ones that feed my own spirituality,” he said. “We really miss the treasure we have in our pews because nothing is coming back.”

Father Evernden said the online community is not intended to be an “electronic church” or a substitute for connection to a faith community.

“I would hope that anyone that spends any time

with us would also be connected to a faith community,” he said.

Login information for “B-Catholics” is available at oldsaintmarys.org, or email Father Evernden at frmike@ paulist.org. Father Evernden also does a short daily podcast called “Moments in Faith, Prayer and Spirituality,” at michaelcsp.podomatic.com.

Deacon: Inspired by pioneer black priest’s perseverance FROM PAGE 3

himself had suffered as a child during his family’s exodus from Ireland because of the potato famine. He took Augustus under his wing and encouraged his education despite threats at St. Lawrence as well.

Father McGirr tutored Augustus and encouraged his growing vocation to the priesthood. However, there were no black priests in the U.S. and all applications to U.S. seminaries were rejected despite 10 years of trying. “We are not ready for a AfricanAmerican student,” the responses invariably read.

Impressed by his personal qualities, Father McGirr continued to help him and enabled his study in Rome.

He was ordained to the priesthood there in 1886 at age 31 and though he expected to serve in an African mission, he was sent back to his hometown to serve the black community at St. Boniface in Quincy.

There he organized St. Joseph Catholic Church and school in Quincy, but ran into a new form of op-

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After reassignment to Chicago, Father Tolton led the development and administration of St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Chicago. He was eventually embraced by the hierarchy of the U.S. church and recognized in a New York Times article in 1889.

Deacon McNeil said Father Tolton’s legacy is perseverance. He did not live to see the fruits of his labor and his life has become popular only in recent years.

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“He wasn’t someone I learned about in childhood or even in high school,” said Deacon McNeil, who grew up in San Francisco.

Deacon McNeil read a prayer on a Mass card for Father Tolton with the inscription: “Oh, God we give you thanks for your servant and priest Father Augustus Tolton, who labored among us in times of contradiction, times that were both beautiful and paradoxical. His ministry helped lay the foundation for a truly Catholic gathering in faith in our time.”

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WASHINGTON – Dozens of Catholics, including men and women religious, were arrested near the U.S. Capitol Feb. 27 in the rotunda of a Senate building in Washington as they called on lawmakers to help young undocumented adults brought to the U.S. as minors obtain some sort of permanent legal status.

Some of them sang and prayed, and many of them – such as Dominican Sister Elise Garcia and Mercy Sister JoAnn Persch – said they had no option but to participate in the act of civil disobedience to speak out against the failure of Congress and the Trump administration to help the young adults.

“I have never been arrested in my life, but with the blessing of my community, I am joining with two dozen other Catholic sisters and Catholic allies to risk arrest today as an act of solidarity with our nation’s wonderful, beautiful Dreamers,” said Sister Garcia. “To our leaders in Congress and in the White House, I say ‘arrest a nun, not a Dreamer.’”

Young adults called “Dreamers” – a reference to the DREAM Act, one of the proposed pieces of legislation that could help them stay in the country legally – have to go through extensive background checks, he said, and they wouldn’t pass those checks if they were troublemakers.

Pastoral draws attention back to ‘God’s design for the human family’

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Catholic bishops of Alaska have released a pastoral letter affirming that all Catholic moral teachings stem from the foundational belief in the dignity and sanctity of every human life.

From this starting point flows the church’s emphasis on the importance of upholding marriage as between one man and one woman, the rationale behind robust religious freedom, the role of chastity in human relationships, and the church’s teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.

The 5,000-word letter is titled “Living in the Image and Likeness of God: Human Dignity and Divine Designs.” It is signed by Anchorage Archbishop Paul

D. Etienne, Fairbanks Bishop Chad W. Zielinski, Juneau Bishop Andrew E. Bellisario and retired Anchorage Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz. It was released Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14.

Archbishop Etienne said the letter came about as part of the Alaska bishops’ discussions on how to best exercise their roles as teachers.

“There are a growing number of social issues today that need to be addressed from a faith perspective, and yet require more than a sound bite to adequately outline the theological principles which underpin our beliefs and teachings,” Archbishop Etienne wrote on his blog the day of the letter’s release.

He noted that the bishops desired to address a number of issues and “realized that what is fundamentally at the heart of each of the issues is the need for a proper understanding of the human person.”

“If we wish to make a serious contribution to the numerous social conver-

Bishop Pepe of Las Vegas retires; Bishop Thomas to succeed him

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 75-year-old Bishop Joseph A. Pepe of Las Vegas and has named Bishop George L. Thomas of Helena, Montana, to succeed him.

The resignation of Bishop Pepe and the appointment of Bishop Thomas were announced in Washington Feb. 28 by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Bishop Pepe had led the Diocese of Las Vegas since 2001. Bishop Thomas, 67, was named bishop of the western Montana diocese in 2004. He will be installed in Las Vegas May 15.

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Palliative care is pro-life response to euthanasia, panelists say Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

ROME – Intentionally causing a patient’s death is different from accepting that a patient is dying, then providing emotional and spiritual support and pain relief, said a doctor who practices and promotes palliative care.

Dr. Eduardo Bruera, medical director of the Department of Supportive Care Center at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, was one of the speakers at a Feb. 28-March 1 international congress on palliative care sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life.

“The reality is that, in medicine, we have focused much more on disease than on patients,” Bruera said. For example, he said, patients who report a “high-symptom burden” may be suffering from their cancer or from the toxicity of their treatment, but their situation also may be approaching the unbearable because they lost their job or are worrying about the impact of their illness on their families.

Palliative care, Bruera said, asks the medical team, the patient and the family to work together to

alleviate suffering, whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual.

In a message to the conference at Rome’s Augustinian Patristic Institute, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said palliative care involves “a rediscover of the most profound vocation of medicine, which consists first of all in taking care of the patient. The doctor’s task always is to care, even when it is not possible to heal.”

“When all the resources of ‘doing’ seem to be exhausted,” he said, “then comes the most important aspect of human relations, that of ‘being’: being present, being near, being accepting.”

For Christians, he said, that means “sharing the impotence of those reaching the end of life,” and making sure that the final phase of a person’s life on earth “is no longer a place of separation and solitude, but an occasion of encounter and communion.”

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Academy for Life, said palliative care’s focus on communication among caregivers, patients and family members is essential for overcoming the confusion and debate about “therapeutic obstinacy,” which is using “an excess of treatments that lead to useless suffering.”

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“In other words,” he said, “doing everything possible – when understood in the sense of always using every means available – can mean doing too much. Doing more does not always mean doing better.”

Archbishop Paglia told the conference that experience has shown that people who support or request euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide focus on “two fears: that of being abandoned and that of pain.”

Palliative care, he said, is an attempt to respond to and allay such fears and, as such, “is a fundamental part of our pro-life work.”

Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Orange attended the meeting on behalf of the California Catholic Conference, which is working closely with the Alliance of Catholic Health Care to educate people about palliative care and offer it in every Catholic hospital in California, which made physician-assisted suicide legal in 2016.

The Catholic program is called “Whole Person Care” and has the mission of showing every person they are “loved, wanted and worthy and will be prepared for and supported in health and serious illness through the end of life,” according to the project outline.

Bishop Vann told Catholic News Service the project offers “an alternative to physician-assisted suicide” by “improving all of our pastoral care and outreach.”

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Mariana and Carlos: One couple’s unexpected path into the Catholic Church Mariana Lopez and Carlos de la Torre have been married for eight years. As part of their marriage preparation, they came to learn about church teaching on marriage and natural family planning. This article, the second in a Catholic San Francisco series on the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” is adapted from a talk they now give to engaged and newly married couples about their experiences and the effect NFP has had on them and their marriage.

Carlos: “I will call off the wedding” – was the first thought that came to my mind when I realized how serious Mariana was about using NFP. The wedding date was three weeks away. She had mentioned earlier in our relationship that when she got married she wanted to use NFP. I always thought she would later change her mind. We had already taken our NFP class as part of the marriage prep, and as we were reviewing Mariana’s charts prior to the wedding, I realized there would be many days of abstinence.

Mariana: Carlos and I came from very different religious backgrounds. I was a cradle Catholic and he was raised in a Protestant family. Both of us were very passionate about our faiths. We believed marriage was a lifelong commitment, so we knew we needed to find a solution to the differences that separated our faiths.

Carlos was OK with us getting married in the Catholic Church. Little by little we tackled each of the differences that separated us without converting either one of us to each other’s religion. But I never thought contraception would be a deal-breaker for him.

Carlos: When I met Mariana I was very attracted by her beauty and by her strong convictions. And I also wanted to “save her” from Catholicism. Growing up I never heard anything against contraception, not even in the evangelical churches I attended. My mom had a bad experience with the pill. She would always complain about bad headaches. For this reason, I didn’t want my wife to take the pill. I thought probably a barrier method was the way.

Mariana: Growing up, I always knew contraception was wrong. It was very clear to me that abortifacient methods were seriously wrong, but I never understood why other methods were wrong.

Carlos thought this was something I could give in on, but even though I didn’t have all the arguments to explain it, I could not go against my conscience.

Our relationship was on the rocks, I prayed to God to help me understand the church’s teaching. I started looking for resources on the Internet, but couldn’t find anything compelling.

Carlos: A few days after the biggest argument we have ever had in our relationship, I decided to accept NFP and move forward with the wedding.

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Why? Because I loved her, I wanted to marry her and I didn’t want Mariana to do anything to her body. Barrier methods were the only option left for me, but they didn’t fully convince me. It seemed wrong to have a barrier with my wife.

NFP after all seemed the option left for us, but once I had all the children I decided I wanted to have, then I would convince Mariana to let me get the vasectomy, even though I knew the church also was opposed to it.

Mariana: When Carlos had this change of heart, I felt so happy to realize he was willing to sacrifice on this for me. During the first years of our marriage, using NFP was very challenging. I felt very lonely, I wanted to prove to Carlos that the method worked. It was hard to make the case for NFP when most of the NFP teaching couples or the families portrayed in the Family Foundations magazine, always had so many kids – I thought this method must not work. But slowly we started to experience some changes in our perception of NFP. Carlos: I love Mariana and I always try to treat her in a loving way, but I wasn’t convinced about NFP, so I didn’t get much involved with it.

Deep inside I was waiting for the method to fail, to prove my point and to be able to tell her so. But to my surprise, the method never failed and it was working perfectly to space our kids. Slowly my thoughts about NFP started to change, the arguments about NFP disappeared and I began to see the benefits of using it. Abstinence periods enabled me to know Mariana better. NFP was helping keep the flame of physical attraction between us, which I think is very important to keep the marriage united.

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‘HV 50’ series: Monthly schedule March 8: “One couple’s path into the Catholic Church,” reverse Mariana Lopez and Carlos de la Torre March: “The great good of NFP for marriage,” Deacon Bill Turrentine April: “Family planning in the 21st century,” Dr. Elisa Yao “Integral human ecology,” Dr. Lynn Keenan Additional articles are scheduled monthly from May through July.

Mariana: Four years into our marriage we came across great Catholic reading resources and podcasts. Our passion and love for God started to move higher in our priorities. This gave us a better understanding about God’s plan for marriage. We read a book based on St. John Paul II writings about marriage and love. I was amazed by his wisdom. Everything about NFP started to make sense. We began to see God work in our marriage in a new and exciting way. Carlos and I would talk for hours about everything we were learning.

Carlos: I was specially blown away by the teachings behind theology of the body, I never thought so deeply about how valuable a person is.

We are created in the image and likeness of God and NFP truly respects the value of a person – soul and body. Ironically, now contraception seemed so wrong to me.

My perception about family and children changed as well. Now I could see why there would be families using NFP with a large number of kids, not because the method didn’t work, but because they had understood the precious gift a life is!

Today I can say that NFP has been one of the most important factors for the happiness and healthiness of our marriage.

Mariana: Looking back I think my perception of NFP early in our marriage was also wrong. I was following it by obedience to the church, but deep down I thought of it as another contraceptive method. Now I understand with NFP I am not in control of my body, and we allow God to act in our marriage and through prayer discern the best time to have children. I can say that our marriage would be so different if it wasn’t for NFP. We have been blessed with three handsome boys, and we are excited to keep discovering what God has in store for us.

Carlos: I want to finish with what probably is the biggest impact NFP has had in my life: I feel that I’m on my way to becoming Catholic. NFP has been one of the hardest things for me to understand from the Catholic Church, but now after six years, I believe. I just need a little more time to understand some of the church’s teachings, but in my heart I feel that they will also be right.

On Jan. 7, Carlos received his first Communion. He was confirmed in the Catholic Church on Feb. 10.

Catholics urged to affirm beauty, ‘liberating truth’ of ‘Humanae Vitae’ Julie Asher Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – The “liberating truth” of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae” is as relevant today 50 years after its promulgation, and maybe even more so, said Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila in his new pastoral, “The Splendor of Love.”

“The 50th anniversary of ‘Humanae Vitae’ is an occasion to celebrate the gift of Blessed Paul VI’s teaching and an opportunity to renew our commitment to sharing this liberating truth with a world that is increasingly confused about sexuality,” Archbishop Aquila wrote.

He said he wrote the pastoral “to affirm the great beauty of the church’s consistent teaching through the centuries on married love, a love that is so desperately needed today.”

“Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life’’) reaffirmed the church’s teaching against the use of artificial birth control and contraceptive sterilization.

Promulgated July 25, 1968, the encyclical was Blessed Paul’s last.

“He prophetically defended the integrity of married love and warned us against the danger of reducing sexuality to a source of pleasure alone,” Archbishop Aquila wrote. “Married love reflects the love of Christ, the love which caused him to become human to save us and to give his life for his church. Married love, ‘from the beginning’ is also by nature fruitful, bringing new life into the world so we can participate in the gift of God’s own creation.”

Defending this love in today’s culture “requires a strong commitment,” the archbishop said. He noted that one of the Fatima visionaries, Carmelite Sister Lucia dos Santos, related that “a

Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver is pictured in a 2013 photo. Archbishop Aquila says that Blessed Paul VI’s encylical “Humanae Vitae” at 50 is more relevant than ever.

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decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and Satan will be over marriage and family.”

“The family is the foundation of society, and when it is undermined, society itself is threatened with collapse,” he added.

Archbishop Aquila said that the 50 years since “Humanae Vitae” have brought “both goodness and the distortions of the truth about sexuality.”

“Despite these lies, the church has continued to illuminate the world with the good news that human love finds its ultimate meaning and splendor in God’s own particular love for every human being,” he wrote.

Among positive developments, he listed St. John Paul’s theology of the body; Pope Benedict XVI’s writings that show “the astonishing truth” that “human love and sexuality teach us about God’s own love”; and Pope Francis’ emphasis on fostering “a culture

of encounter within the family so the deeply social character of marriage is supported and spreads to society at large.”

In addition, the archbishop said, there have been “great advancements” in natural family planning “as couples have embraced God’s beautiful and sometimes challenging plan for their married life.”

He listed several “disturbing” negative developments of the past 50 years resulting from “widespread contraceptive use.” The pope, he noted, had warned contraception would “open wide the way for conjugal infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards.”

“The effects of the sexual revolution have devastated our culture,” Archbishop Aquila said, noting the large numbers of abortion, the rise in sexually transmitted diseases, the nearly 50 percent divorce rate, the fall of

birthrates and a decline in the number of people getting married.

He also pointed to “widespread use of pornography,” which he said has trivialized love and made sex “cheap.”

He noted how the “predominant use” use of the birth control pill is flooding water supplies with synthetic estrogen and “endocrine-disrupting” chemicals, leading to, among other things, infertility and an increased risk of cancer.

It’s commonplace now for children to be born out of wedlock, Archbishop Aquila continued, and “the greatest tragedy today facing the family may be the unwillingness of many to enter married love and to experience the joys of family life,” he said.

Changing views of marriage and sex – as a means of personal fulfillment and pleasure, not a source of life and family – have led to the redefinition of marriage, he said. At the heart of Blessed Paul’s encyclical is that the unitive and procreative aspects of sex are “inseparable,” the archbishop added.

The truth about the dignity of human person “applies to our sexuality well, he noted.

“Humanae Vitae,” Archbishop Aquila said, explains “the truth about married love” and lists its “four essential qualities: It needs to be fully human, total, faithful and fruitful.”

He acknowledged that “the 1968 reception of ‘Humanae Vitae’ was mixed,” but he said “the fulfillment, of Blessed Paul’s prophetic wisdom is undeniable. … Those communities of faith which have gone the way of the world in their teaching on human sexuality have not filled their churches but only emptied them.”

“This requires courage to stand against the prevailing cultural winds, but Jesus calls us to do nothing less,” he said.

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Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 CHRONICLES 36:14-16, 19-23 In those days, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added infidelity to infidelity, practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. Early and often did the Lord, the God of their fathers, send his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the anger of the Lord against his people was so inflamed that there was no remedy. Their enemies burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, set all its palaces afire, and destroyed all its precious objects. Those who escaped the sword were carried captive to Babylon, where they became servants of the king of the Chaldeans and his sons until the kingdom of the Persians came to power. All this was to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah: “Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have

rest while 70 years are fulfilled.”

In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this proclamation throughout his kingdom, both by word of mouth and in writing: “Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me, and he has also charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!”

PSALM 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. On the aspens of that land we hung up our harps.

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

For there our captors asked of us the lyrics of our songs, and our despoilers urged us to be joyous: “Sing for us the songs of Zion!”

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten!

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

May my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not, If I place not Jerusalem ahead of my joy.

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

EPHESIANS 2:4-10 Brothers and sisters: God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ – by grace you have been saved – raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the

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John’s Gospel features a remarkable anointing with dust that restores a man’s power of sight – physically and spiritually – which is why this story is part of the catechumens’ preparation for baptism at the Easter Vigil. After Jesus fends off any suspicion that the man’s disability is punishment for sin, Jesus leans down toward the ground, spits on the dust near his feet, rolls the dirt between his index finger and thumb, makes a grimy dark paste, maybe spitting on it again once it’s between his fingers so it’s malleable. Then

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he smears his dirty thumb first across one of the blind man’s closed eyes, then across the other eye.

Jesus tells him to go bathe in the Pool of Siloam. His companions have to lead him there. In remarkable narrative economy, John says: “He went and washed, and came back able to see.” At what moment did he realize he could see his reflection in the water – see himself – and see his companions?

What was the reaction of his companions at realizing he could now see them?

At the time of Jesus, according to 2005 archeological excavations, the Gihon spring outside the walls of Jerusalem flowed into the sprawling holding pool of Siloam.

It was 225 feet across, with five stairs on three sides going down into the pool so a person could stay at ankle level, or descend deeper into the water. So how deep did the blind man go? It would have been a public gathering place for both city residents and pilgrims on their way to worship at the Temple.

The blind man’s recovery was thus a public “coming out” – and it must have been an overwhelming sensory and intellectual ecstasy.

After he bathed and washed the dirt off his face, he could see his world and everyone in it. It’s his own Genesis re-creation – he can separate light and dark, see the ground and water he has only known by touch, see the animals and birds he’s only known by hearing their sounds and feeling their shapes. The most significant vision is recognizing himself, his parents, his companions—and Jesus. But all these implications

involve only seven verses of a 41-verse story.

Verses eight to 41 describe the hard facts of personal change, what happens when Jesus opens your eyes. The man’s healing does not make his life easy. Everyone who knew him as their blind neighbor is not convinced this is the same person. He has to explain himself, insist that’s he’s been healed, and hold to the truth of who he was then, and who he is now. There’s no way for him to escape public scrutiny and return to a private, dependent life of begging. He keeps telling the story of what Jesus did for him, but the story provokes different effects he can’t control.

His healing triggers a dispute among the lay religious leaders about whether Jesus is a good or bad person. His story puts both him and his parents at risk. He has to explain himself without index-card notes, without the silent, safe submission of younger child to older relative, or student deferring to teacher. Instead, he’s been healed into adulthood. “Ask him. He is of age. He can speak for himself.” It’s the hour for him to live his own story, account for his own experience, speak for himself, formulate his own position, speak his own mind, and work out his own future.

If people knew that this would be the effect of Ash Wednesday ashes on your forehead – or on your eyes – would there be such a crowd lining up?

Eloise Rosenblatt, RSM is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian, and a family law attorney and litigator in private practice. She lives in San Jose.

good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.

JOHN 3:14-21 Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, March 12: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Is 65:17-21. PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b. Am 5:14. Jn 4:43-54.

Tuesday, March 13: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Ez 47:1-9, 12. Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. Ps 51:12a, 14a. Jn 5:1-16.

Wednesday, March 14: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Is 49:8-15. Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18. Jn 11:25a, 26.

Jn 5:17-30.

Thursday, March 15: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Ex 32:7-14. Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23. Jn 3:16. Jn 5:3147.

Friday, March 16: Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Wis 2:1a, 12-22. Ps 34:1718, 19-20, 21 and 23. Mt 4:4b. Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30.

Saturday, March 17: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor. Jer 11:18-20. Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12. See Lk 8:15. Jn 7:40-53.

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Faith and religion are not a “show” but a way of converting our thoughts to the ways of Christ, Pope Francis said March 5 during Mass at his Vatican residence. He said the church wants us to reflect on the conversion of our thoughts as well as our actions and feeling in conformity with Christ. The church urges us to convert our actions through fasting, almsgiving and penance, and our actions must be like Christ, in the spirit of the Beatitudes, he said.

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riting in the first person is always a risk, but the subject matter of this column is best done, I feel, through personal testimony. In a world where chastity and celibacy are seen as naïve and to be pitied and where there’s a general skepticism that anyone is actually living them out, personal testimony FATHER ron is perhaps the most effective rolheiser protest.

What’s to be said for celibacy and chastity, whether these are lived out in a vowed religious context or are simply the given situation of anyone who is going through life celibate? Here’s my story: At the age of 17, I made the decision to become a priest and enter a religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. That decision involved committing myself to celibacy for life.

Strange as this may sound, since I was only 17, I didn’t make that decision naively or out of some passing fancy.

I intuited pretty accurately the cost, so much so that I virtually everything

inside me strongly resisted the call.

Anything but that! While I was drawn to ministry the accompanying vow of celibacy was a massive stumbling block.

I didn’t want to live as a celibate. Who does? Indeed nobody should. But the inner call was so strong that, despite its downside, when I finished high school I gave a reluctant but solid assent and entered a religious congregation. Now, looking back on it more than 50 years later, I see it still as the purest, most unselfish decision I’ve ever made.

I’ve been in religious life now for more than 50 years and have served as a priest for more than 45 of those years and, all told, celibacy has served me well, just as I can honestly say that I have served it in essential fidelity. Celibacy has its upside: Beyond the inner work it forced me to do in terms of my relationship to God, to others, and to myself (often painful work done in restless and prayer and on occasion with the help of a counselor) celibacy also afforded me a privileged availability for the ministry. If you move through this life as a priest and missionary, celibacy can be a friend.

But it isn’t always a friend. For me, celibacy has always been the hardest struggle within religious life and ministry, a habitual emotional crucifixion, as it should be. There have been seasons – days, weeks, months and sometimes many months – when most

Rethinking ‘mission territory’

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n his June 1908 apostolic constitution, “Sapienti Consilio,” Pope Pius X decreed that, as of Nov. 3 that year, the Catholic Church in the United States would no longer be supervised by the Vatican’s missionary agency, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith george weigel (Propaganda Fide).

American Catholicism had grown up. The U.S. church would now be a mission-sending church, not “mission territory.”

This pattern has long characterized the organization of the world church. Young local churches begin as “mission territory” and their bishops are chosen in consultation with what’s now called the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (but which everyone in Rome still refers to by its old name, “Propaganda,” or simply “Prop”).

After these young churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being mission territory and relate to the Roman Curia like the older local churches; the bishops of these newly “graduated” local churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

The rapid de-Christianization of Europe, however, prompts a thought-experiment: What should the church do when this process of ecclesial maturation slips into reverse? Where do venerable but collapsing local churches “fit” in their see weigel, page 19

I am dismayed to see in my local parish bulletin, that the group 40 Days for Life chooses to hold a prayer vigil outside a local Planned Parenthood office during Lent, and that this action has the endorsement of the archdiocese.

This action is not an appropriate way to protest abortion. The vast majority of people using the services of Planned Parenthood are not seeking abortions.

Rather, the majority is made up of women and low-income people who for a variety of reasons do not have access to basic health care through traditional medical insurance. Planned Parenthood is a provider of a variety of health services to people, many of whom have nowhere else to receive such services.

This “vigil” serves only to intimidate and harass people trying to access health services. The group brags about shutting down Planned Parenthood sites. This action cannot be seen as anti-abortion, rather anti-woman, and against the rights of the poor to be empowered to seek health care. This is not what the church stands for. We should be supporting the poor, the immigrants, women and men who seek to access health care services for themselves and their families.

Maureen Laney Hillsborough Editor’s note: Vicki Evans, coordinator of pro-life activities for the archdiocese, provided the paper with the following response. “Perhaps there has not been enough publicity about ‘federally qualified health centers,’ which are required to provide care to everyone, regardless of ability to pay. They serve a larger and more diverse patient population than Planned Parenthood because they offer more comprehensive services, without also providing abortions. There are about 650 Planned Parenthood facilities in the U.S. However, there are more than 9,800 health center delivery sites in the Federal Health Center Program and another 4,100 in the Rural Health Clinic Program. Under these programs, outpatient primary care clinics get reimbursed through Medicare and Medicaid for helping medically underserved populations. They are a vastly larger net-

everything inside of me screamed against it, when because of falling in love, or dealing with an obsession, or dealing with the one-sided energy within a male congregation, or when I was overcome with the fact I will never have children, or, when the simple, raw physical and emotional power of sexuality left me restlessness and frustrated enough that the man inside of me wanted to take back what the priest inside of me had once vowed. Celibacy will have you sweating blood in the Garden of Gethsemane sometimes. It goes against some of the deepest, innate, God-given instincts and energies within you and so it doesn’t allow itself to be dealt with lightly.

That being said though, something else also needs to be said, something too little understood today: Celibacy can also be very generative because sexuality is about more than having sex. Just before creating the sexes, God said: It is not good for the man to be alone!

That’s true for every person who will ever walk this earth. Sexuality is given to us to take us beyond our aloneness; but many things do that for us and full sexual intimacy is only one of them.

Perhaps the single, biggest misunderstanding about sex today is the belief that deep friendship, warm companionship, faith community, and non-genital forms of intimacy are only a substi-

tute, some second-best compensation, for sex rather than a rich, generative modality of sex itself. These aren’t a consolation prize for missing the real thing. They are, just as is having sex, one rich aspect of the real thing.

Recently, I phoned a priest on the 60th anniversary of his ordination. Eightyfive years old now, he had this to say: “There were some rough times, all of my classmates left the ministry and I had my temptations too. But I stayed and, now, looking back, I am pretty happy with the way my life turned out.”

Looking back on own life and my commitment to celibacy I can say something similar. Celibacy has made for some tough seasons and remains, as Merton once put it, the deep anguish within chastity. But celibacy has also provided me with a life rich in friendship, rich in community, rich in companionship, rich in family of every kind, and rich in opportunity to be present to others.

I will die without children, my life, like everyone’s, an incomplete, never-fullyconsummate symphony. But looking back on it all, I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. Celibacy can be a very life-giving way of being sexual, of creating family, and of being happy.

work. Planned Parenthood’s 2016-17 annual report was just released. It shows that, although the number of abortions remained virtually stable at about 320,000, abortion accounts for 96 percent of its pregnancyrelated services. Over the past five years, total services are down 13 percent, unique patients declined 20 percent, prenatal services dropped 60 percent and cancer screenings are down by over 41 percent.

Like it or not, Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and 40 Days for Life is the nation’s largest group of pro-life activists whose Lenten observance is a commitment to prayer, fasting, community outreach and peaceful vigil outside locations where abortions are performed.”

dren asked or to guide them to teachers and books where the answers could be found. Today I am not the answer man at home. Today it is more efficient and credible for youth to simply pull out their “phones” and ask Mr. Google for the answer to any question. And what this Internet of information says is the “gospel” of today, end of question.

Our church uses technological advancements in communication to deliver the church’s message at large.

Asking Google the question “What is the meaning of life on Earth?” will yield a long list of links to Christian churches and sources where the topic is discussed, each with its tiresome metaphysics, theologies and biased views. Radio programming, television presentations and discussions and films on Catholic subjects are among the platforms available today; but we still fail to reach our children. Why? The intelligence tentacles of human society are reaching for Mars and cancer cures, yet we seem unable to reach into the rich spiritual and supernatural realm of creation. Why? Tragic signs of spiritual mis-formation surround us, often leading adolescents to deeper despair and death. We know that God will win in the end, right?

What is the language of love I must learn to reach our youth today?

Carlos Morales Fairfax

A “Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet” by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops may be viewed at www.usccb.org/issuesand-action/human-life-and-dignity/abortion/planned-parenthood.cfm.

New garments for youth catechesis

These comments offer a general summary of perhaps a long overdue and much needed approach to catechesis and evangelization to our Catholic youth … and to our lost adults. If we are to reach our Catholic population of today and refresh the road map to salvation, we must not hesitate to set aside our worn out methodology, retire our threadbare garments to a museum and learn the language of the times, namely “Google-speak.”

Our Catholic youth is a vastly more educated population than those of us that were formed in the last century.

These same adolescents are also integrated into a social milieu whose experience of freedom, intellectual curiosity and communication network is more than often incomprehensible to older generations. As a parent I struggled to answer the many questions our chil-

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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The role of imagination in violence

nce again, school children have been subjected to a most terrible ordeal, an experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. In a calculated attack on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a 19-year-old disgruntled former student killed 17 people – students, teachers, two coaches, and wounded many others.

Each time there is domestic violence in a school or public place, politicians and journalists look for a reason to explain the attack. The Sister jean president identified mental evans, rsm health as both a cause and a solution to the problem.

Lack of good mental health is the cause of gun violence incidents. The solution to the problem is better mental health.

Parents and friends of gun violence victims may agree that poor mental health is one cause of the massacres we have seen, but they will also declare with no equivocation that the current lack of reasonable laws regarding the sale and use of guns is also responsible for the carnage

in our American society. With nearly 20 cases of gun violence and deaths reported since Jan. 1, 2018 – and we’re only in February – what will the rest of the year bring?

Things could change if the gun lobby were not so powerful, but that is wishful-thinking. Things could change if good people could stop regarding the Second Amendment as one of the Ten Commandments.

I happen to think that in this tragic lack of national will to enforce gun control, the National Rifle Association is not the only culprit.

Centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle expressed his understanding of the nature of the human person. He spoke of the will, the intellect, and even the imagination. “Imagination,” he wrote, “is the storehouse of the senses.” This is perhaps more relevant to our discussion of gun violence than we might think.

What shapes the images in a child’s mind? Who or what do we allow our children to see and hear?

The imagination is the store house of the senses.

So how can we allow companies to produce toys and computer games with images of gun battles, galactic warfare, of fighting, of sexual violence?

If a child or youth has constant access to violent video games, what will be stored in her/ his imagination? Unless good people get serious

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about what their children see, the violence will continue.

Even more important, in the light of successive incidents of shootings, shouldn’t we demand that the entertainment industry, filmmakers – including video-game creators – take responsibility for their contribution to the creation of our violent society? In the end, it’s not just poor mental health that causes violence, nor the ubiquitous presence of guns, seen and unseen, that causes violence. It’s not just films or Netflix originals with aggressive and/or sexually explicit behavior that cause violence.

Often what happens in our homes, on TV, in social media, or on video games, plants seeds of violence, rewards aggressive behavior, reinforces stereotypes, turns people into objects, introduces disturbing images into the imagination. We need to take a critical look at what we allow to shape our minds and hearts and those of our children, and we need to hold accountable those who corrupt them.

“Woe to those who call what is bad, good and what is good, bad, who substitute darkness for light …” (Isaiah 5:20).

Mercy Sister Jean Evans is vocation minister for the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community, Burlingame.

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America magazine’s survey of women in the church

n January, America magazine published a fascinating survey regarding the attitudes of women in the Church. They were kind enough to publish a few of my reactions to the study, but I would like, in this article, to offer a fuller response to their findings.

One of the most disturbing conclusions from the survey is that women are increasingly disengaging from the life of the church. The America editors themselves observed that this does not bode well for evangelization, for women have traditionally played a crucial role in BISHOP Robert the passing on of the faith.

Barro I couldn’t agree more. Hans Urs von Balthasar famously opined that Jesus’ own faith and sense of identity (at the level of his human nature) was awakened by the smile of his mother and by her relaying of the story of Israel. I have always taken this as emblematic of the indispensable contribution of mothers to the religious formation of their children. That said, I am equally concerned about the massive attrition of men from the practice of the faith, for study after study have indicated that the fidelity of fathers and grandfathers has a disproportionately significant impact on the faith development of children, both male and female.

A second finding of the study is that women feel the church should do more to welcome unmarried

parents, the divorced, the widowed and singles.

Once again, I strongly concur. I’m a great devotee of the Catholic Action model that was so prevalent in the period prior to Vatican II but which has largely fallen into desuetude in the last 40 or 50 years. In line with Catholic Action instincts, we ought to gather people of similar backgrounds, experiences, and formation and teach them the method of “see, judge, and act.” So, yes, parishes could bring together single mothers, widows, etc., and invite them to look at their lives in light of the Gospel and to determine, on that basis, what ought to be done. It is indeed true that, too often, parish life revolves almost exclusively around the concerns and interests of married people and their families. This can and should change.

A third conclusion of the survey I will admit I find a bit puzzling. Only 18 percent of the women questioned feel that they are “very much involved in decision-making.” Now I fully understand that, given the hierarchical structure of the church, the final call in most matters belongs to the pastor or the bishop; nevertheless, in my experience in two major archdioceses, Chicago and Los Angeles, women are rather massively involved in the process of decision-making. Parish staffs and leadership teams are predominantly female, and increasingly, chancery offices and pastoral centers have ample female representation. And this is not simply my subjective impression. I distinctly recall a study by the theologian Catharine LaCugna, which appeared 25 years ago in the pages of America.

She reported that 80 percent of religious education

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instructors and sponsors for the catechumenate are women; that 75 percent of Bible study leaders and participants are female; that percent of those who join prayer groups are women; and that 70 percent of those who are active in parish renewal programs are female. I can’t help but speculate that those numbers have only increased in the last quarter century. And mind you, I enthusiastically applaud this development, which has only enriched the life of the church.

An intriguing finding of the survey is that most Catholic women consider the care for the poor and the Eucharist as the two most essential elements of Catholic life. Well, Pope Benedict XVI said that the church has three essential tasks: It worships God, it evangelizes and it cares for the poor. So my first response to this statistical finding is, “two out of three ain’t bad.” The Eucharist is indeed the central act of worship, the “source and summit of the Christian life,” and serving the poor is the moral commitment that flows most directly from rightly ordered worship. However, I must say that I do worry that the women surveyed didn’t seem to put evangelization on an equal footing, especially now when so many are drifting into the ranks of the “nones.” I also remark a certain cognitive dissonance. On the one hand large numbers of women say that the Eucharist is central to one’s identity as a Catholic, and yet 75 percent of women stay away from the Mass on a regular basis. The Fathers of Vatican II wanted “full, conscious, and active” participation in the liturgy. This survey confirms what a thousand other surveys over the past five decades have indicated, namely, that we are a long, long way from realizing that conciliar aspiration.

I must say that what both surprised and heartened me the most was the discovery that fully 90 percent of the women surveyed say that they have not experienced sexism in the Catholic Church.

Obviously, any type of sexism at any time is bad, but I wonder whether any other organization could put up numbers as good as these. Would 90 percent of women in the corporate world, in Hollywood, in government, or in education say that they never experienced sexism? I sincerely doubt it. I think that these numbers indicate that, though we still have a lot to do to address the problems of sexism and misogyny in the church, we have indeed made a good deal of progress.

Bishop Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

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The journey toward a new way of being church Father Amado Picardal La Croix International

Focusing on the clergy and consecrated persons, the so-called religious, does not mean forgetting church themes of previous years, like the Basic Ecclesial Communities, the family and the Eucharist, the poor, the laity and integral faith formation.

All these previous themes should be linked with the clergy and the religious as we in the Philippines celebrate the “Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons” this year.

The “Year of the Parish as Communion of Communities” focused on building up the parish into a network of small communities, of Basic Ecclesial Communities or BECs. There have been lots of efforts made in forming BECs as agents of communion, participation and mission. This should continue. The Greek word “paroikia” from which “parish” is derived is associated with “sojourner” or journeying together. Thus, the parish and the BECs within it may be regarded as a “journeying community,” a pilgrim community. This is what the church is, and the journey toward a new way of being church continues.

The sub-theme for this year’s celebration of the “Year of Clergy and Consecrated Persons” is “Renewed Servant-Leaders of New Evangelization.”

This is apparently drawn from documents of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines where discussions on the clergy and religious can be found titled “Agents of Renewed Evangelization.”

The section on the clergy in the plenary council documents provides a holistic vision of the ordained ministry based on the Second Vatican Council. It states that the clergy are servant-leaders of the Christian community, which by nature and mission are prophetic and evangelizing communities, priestly and eucharistic communities, and kingly, servant communities.

This can be correlated with another part of the Philippine plenary council documents that affirm that renewed integral evangelization has three components: renewed catechesis, renewed worship and a renewed social apostolate.

The vision of the ordained ministry based on the ecclesiology of Vatican II and Philippine plenary council has five constitutive dimensions: A ministry of pastoral leadership and communion, that is, building up the parish as a communion of communities and BECs; a prophetic ministry, meaning a ministry of evangelization, integral faith formation, of denunciation of evil and formation of conscience; a liturgical/sacramental ministry that presides over the priestly, worshipping community, promoting active participation in liturgical celebration; a ministry of service, of social action, and working for integral development and liberation, justice and peace, promotion of human rights, and environmental advocacy; and a ministry to the poor in the church of the poor.

To a certain degree, these five dimensions can be applied to the religious and consecrated life.

Pope John Paul II in “Vita Consecrata” affirmed that religious life has often been the bearer of the communion model of the church and that the religious are experts at communion and should be engaged in the promotion of communion.

The apostolic, missionary character of the religious life should be constantly emphasized.

Religious communities are called to be prophetic communities and must take the lead in the work of evangelization, integral faith formation, formation of conscience, of denouncing and resisting evil in society.

The religious should take the lead in promoting active participation in liturgical celebration, in prayer and contemplation as an integral part of the Christian life. They should take the lead in social action, in works of charity, development, in justice and peace, in the defense of the environment and in the promotion of human rights. The religious must take the lead in making the church of the poor a reality as they embrace evangelical poverty and a simple lifestyle, in their love and option for the poor, and in enabling the poor to actively participate in the church’s liberating mission.

As the clergy and religious exercise their role as

servant leaders in the church that is called to be a community of missionary disciples, they must do this in active collaboration with the lay faithful who share in the church’s mission by virtue of their baptism.

The coming year provides an opportunity for the clergy and religious to reflect on their life and ministry and assess how they have lived up to the holistic and mission-oriented vision of the ordained ministry and religious life provided by the Second Vatican Council and the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines.

It is high time to go beyond a narrow, cultic and exclusively spiritualist view of the ordained ministry and religious life characterized by a maintenance mode and lacking in missionary dynamism.

Father Amado Picardal, CSsR, is known for his activism and advocacy for human rights. He is executive secretary of the Committee on Basic Ecclesial Communities of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

This article appeared on La Croix International, the English language publication of the European independent Catholic daily La Croix. Visit https://international. la-croix.com.

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St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8:35 a.m.

Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday 3:20 p.m.; second Sundays 3:15 p.m. for priests and vocations; Holy Rosary Society third Sundays 1 p.m., St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 2,000 Hail Mary Devotion, second Saturday after 8:30 a.m. Mass; Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the church. (415) 751-0450; www.starparish.com admin@starparish.com Facebook: starparishsf.

St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass.

St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/.

Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m.

Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m.

St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152.

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

St Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass.

St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net.

St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m. Mass.

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

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An actor’s prayer to the Holy Spirit Tony Rossi

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ith his role as Frasier Crane’s father Martin on the hit TV series “Frasier,” John Mahoney entered the pantheon of lovable and comical curmudgeons that viewers welcomed into their living rooms week after week. The down-to-earth, Ballantine beer-loving Martin served as the perfect foil to Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles’ (David Hyde Pierce) more upper crusty tastes. For 11 seasons, Mahoney was the “everyman” in that cast, and he played it to perfection.

What you may not know about the actor, who passed away due to cancer on Feb. 4 at age 77, is that his Catholic faith was a key factor in his life. During an extensive interview he did with award-winning religion journalist and author Cathleen Falsani for her book “The God Factor,” Mahoney said, “I’m more spiritual than anything else, and Christianity is probably the most important facet of my life.”

Falsani, who knew Mahoney from their Oak Park, Illinois, neighborhood, describes him as “truly the kindest man I know.” That kindness likely stemmed from his background and the wisdom he learned over the years. Mahoney was born in Manchester, England, the sixth of eight children. After coming to the U.S. at age 19, he served in the Army and became a citizen. During college, he worked as a hospital orderly, which shaped his views on life.

Mahoney said, “Being around all that sickness and illness, yet seeing people’s resilience and faith, I

Mahoney didn’t pursue an acting career until age 37, and admitted that he was selfabsorbed in those early days. But he experienced a major change when he went to Mass at Chicago’s St. Peter’s Church one day, an experience he described as ‘the intercession of the Holy Ghost.’ noticed that the people to emulate were the people who loved, and loved God, and loved their fellow man, and weren’t selfish.”

Despite that lesson, it didn’t actually take right away. Mahoney didn’t pursue an acting career until age 37, and admitted that he was self-absorbed in those early days. But he experienced a major change when he went to Mass at Chicago’s St. Peter’s Church one day, an experience he described as “the intercession of the Holy Ghost.”

Mahoney recalled, “I don’t know where it came from, I just had a little breakdown of some sort, and after that, made a conscious effort to be a better person … and to try to revolve around everyone else in the world instead of expecting them to revolve around me … I’ve always prayed to the Holy Ghost

for wisdom and for understanding and knowledge.

I think he answered my prayers when I stopped in the church that day. My life was totally different from that day on. I saw myself as I was, and I saw into the future and saw what I wanted to be. And I sort of rededicated myself to God and begged him to make me a better person … And I think I am now. I like myself.”

Part of that devotion to God played out in his career. Before every performance, Mahoney would say this prayer: “Most glorious blessed spirit, I thank you for all the gifts and talents that you’ve given me.

Please help me to use all these gifts and talents to their fullest. And please accept this performance as a prayer of praise and thanks to you.”

Mahoney also told Falsani that prayer is the first thing he does when he wakes up in the morning and the last thing he does at night. And about 20 to 30 times a day, he would simply pray, “Dear God, please help me to treat everybody – including myself – with love, respect, and dignity.”

John Mahoney has now met the God he prayed to for all those years. May his devotion grant him eternal reward.

Tony Rossi is director of communications, The Christophers.

For free copies of the Christopher News Note “Confidence in Prayer,” write: The Christophers, 5 Hanover Square, New York, NY 10004; or e-mail: mail@christophers.org.

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Weigel: Rethinking ‘mission territory’ FROM PAGE 14

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First Prize: San Francisco, Cynthia Ortiz, Mission Dolores Academy; San Mateo: Katie Lau, St. Catherine of Siena; Marin: Gracie Hodges, St. Isabella.

Honorable Mention: Lezaiah Porchia-Gray, Our Lady of the Visitacion; Madeline Danaher, St. Finn Barr; Jamie Jew, St. Monica; Johnny Lin, St. Thomas the Apostle; Gabriel Elepaño, Jayden Ramos, Holy Angels; Jackie Eng, Immaculate Heart of Mary; Iain Semler, Nativity; Alexander Robinson, Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Rylie Coleman,.Isabella Solano, St. Dunstan; Dominic Jay, St. Robert; Jasmine Panlasiqui, St.Veronica; Nina Verhoeff, Grace Pennyman, Our Lady of Loretto; Ella Velyuis, St. Isabella; Cristina Godinez, St. Raphael.

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Grand Prize: Julienne Rose Cancio, Immaculate Conception Academy.

First Prize: San Francisco, Jolie Radunich, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory; San Mateo, Marcelino Gonzalez, Gonzalez Homeschool.

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relationship to the Curia, the central government of the Catholic Church? If there can be a (sometimes lengthy) period of ecclesiastical apprenticeship during which a young, growing local church is supervised by Propaganda Fide, might there be a parallel arrangement for decaying older local churches, in which they’re taken into a form of ecclesiastical trusteeship aimed at rebuilding their evangelical, catechetical, and pastoral strength? And if we can imagine that (admittedly bold) move, which Roman agency should be the trustee?

For purposes of this thought-experiment, my nominee would be the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization. It seems the logical place. For John Paul II’s 1990 encyclical “Redemptoris Missio,” the Magna Carta of the new evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or who had been poorly catechized, or who had, more likely, suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

That seems to describe most of the church in Western Europe. So perhaps the church’s central administration should stop relating to dying European local churches as if they weren’t dying, and recognize that they are, in fact, mission territory. But rather than putting such local churches back under the supervision of “Prop,” put them into trusteeship under the supervision of a reconstituted and re-staffed Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization – just like a failed company that goes into Chapter 11 bankruptcy is supervised by a trustee until such time as the company can stand on its own feet again.

What would happen under this “trusteeship”?

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bishops and nominees for empty sees, drawing candidates from around the world who had demonstrated success in enlivening a sclerotic or corrupt local church. Pastoral life in the moribund local church and the structures of its national bureaucracy would be examined by Catholics who are expert in making organization serve evangelization; those consulters would then make recommendations to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization for mandated reforms. There would be apostolic visitations of seminaries and houses of religious formation, led by seminary rectors and religious men and women from living and growing communities, who would recommend needed changes; the trustee agency would then mandate their implementation.

Where might this form of trusteeship be tested?

How about Germany? The practice of the faith is dying there. Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different than what’s in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism. And what could be more appropriate on the quincentenary of the Reformation than to call German Catholicism to a thoroughgoing Catholic reform?

Perhaps this thought-experiment – putting the German church into ecclesiastical trusteeship – isn’t the answer to the church’s German problem. But recognizing that Germany is mission territory is the beginning of any serious analysis of a grave situation, and any serious thinking about how it might be addressed.

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Sorting through ‘solutions’ to the HIV/AIDS pandemic

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and bisexual men to have casual, anonymous sex. He’s called it a ‘public health disaster in the making,’ as his oft-repeated argument is that the most at-risk people will not adhere to taking a pill each day.”

These compliance concerns have led some researchers and clinicians to look into the possibility of one-time “disco dosing,” where an individual would take the medication, in a high dose, prior to each anticipated “risky weekend.”

There are other problems with PrEP as well.

Some researchers have noted that once people start on the drug, their risk compensation changes, meaning they engage in more sex with “non-primary partners.” Even if PrEP reduces rates of HIV infection, as studies have suggested, the incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases may rise due to risk-compensation behaviors. PrEP can provide a false sense of security and encourage the lowering of inhibitions.

These kinds of approaches directed toward certain “at-risk populations” clearly raise concerns about sanctioning or supporting immoral behaviors. Medical professionals have raised objections of conscience when it comes to prescribing PrEP to HIV-negative men who indicate they are, or will be, sexually active with other men.

They may raise similar objections to providing prescriptions for “disco dosing.” Writing such prescriptions means cooperating in, or facilitating, the evil actions of others.

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ach year human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects about 50,000 people in the United States, and more than 2 million worldwide.

Reducing the number of infections with this virus, which causes AIDS, is a high priority for public health officials. Some strategies to reach this goal, however, raise significant moral concerns.

These concerns arise when experts seek to reduce infection rates by assuming that men and women lack the freedom to change their sexual behaviors or exercise selfcontrol, when they fail to acknowledge that self-restraint is possible and morally required, especially in the face of life-threatening disease. father tadeusz One strategy for trying pacholczyk to control the pandemic includes “pre-exposure prophylaxis,” or PrEP, which involves an uninfected person taking a daily dose of the drug Truvada,

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Many activists in the gay movement have argued that PrEP should be widely available and promoted, though other activists strongly disagree. AIDS Healthcare Foundation founder Michael Weinstein has stressed, for example, that there are likely to be compliance issues. When someone is required to take a regimen of drugs every day in order to be protected, he argues, it is reasonable to expect that some will fail to do so. A 2014 article in The Advocate, a gay news outlet, notes: “When asked why so few people have started PrEP, experts give plenty of reasons – cost, worries about long-term effects, and lack of awareness about the regimen itself among both doctors and patients are chief among them.

But one top reason is the stigma of using PrEP. Weinstein’s name and the name of his organization, AHF, have become synonymous with the stigma surrounding PrEP use. In an April Associated Press article, Weinstein declared that PrEP is ‘a party drug,’ giving license to gay

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Sister Karen Stern, SHF, died peacefully at the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family in Fremont on Feb. 18 at the age of 86.

Born Jacqueline Frances Stern on May 29, 1930, in Spokane, Washington, Sister Karen entered the Sisters of the Holy Family from St. Francis of Assisi Parish there on Jan. 6, 1956, at the age of 25.

Sister Karen served in catechetical Sister M. Karen ministry and day homes in the dioStern, SHF ceses of Oakland, San Francisco and Nevada until she was called by her sisters to serve in congregational leadership. She served as councilor from 1979-83 and was elected president of the congregation in 1983, a position she held until 1991.

After a sabbatical, Sister Karen went to Park City, Utah, in 1992, where she served as pastoral associate until 2002. She returned to California that year, and in 2004 moved to the motherhouse in Fremont, where she was active in Pax Christi, the international Catholic peace movement, and also worked tirelessly as a volunteer at Washington Hospital in Fremont.

The funeral mass was celebrated Feb. 26 at St. Joseph Parish in Fremont, with interment Feb. 27 at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: Celebrate the more than 165 years of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in California, March 10. Discover the sculptured windows at Cunningham Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Sculptured window tours begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m. A special prayer service will be held at 3 p.m. followed by Mass at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy, (650) 867-3647; roseanne.murphy@sndden.org.

HIBERNIAN LUNCH: St. Patrick’s Day celebration, March 16, Westin St. Francis, 333 Powell St., San Francisco, 11 a.m. no-host reception, lunch at noon, $100 per person, traditional Irish music and entertainment mark the occasion, sponsored by Hibernian Newman Club. www.hiberniannewman.com.

ST. PATRICK: Folk tales of St. Patrick and the Irish, March 17, gathered over years of listening and telling, now told by the gifted teacher and storyteller Don Leach, 2 p.m., refreshments, St. Anselm Centennial Hall, Ross. (415) 453-2342, www.saintanselm.org.

Sister Donna Johnson, OP

Dominican Sister Donna Johnson, formerly Sister Elizabeth Louise and Sister Elise, died Feb. 15 at the Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont. Sister Donna was 86 years old and a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose for 58 years. She held a graduate degree in nonprofit financial management from the University of Notre Dame.

Sister Donna taught at St. Elizabeth High School in Oakland, and Sister Donna later served as corporation treaJohnson, OP surer of the sisters’ congregational owned schools in San Francisco and Anaheim. From 1986 to 2000 she served as congregational treasurer.

In 2001 she began to work with Vision of Hope, the congregation’s Office of School Development. For 11 years she managed the finance office and then served as Vision of Hope finance director until her retirement in 2016.

Survivors include nieces Elizabeth Gregerson, Alexis Johnson, and nephew Scott Johnson.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 24 at the motherhouse with interment in the sisters’ cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the Sister Donna Johnson Scholarship at Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope, 1555 35th Ave., Oakland 94601.

Sister Barbara Geib, SNDdeN

Notre Dame Sister Barbara (James Marie) Geib, died Feb. 4 in Monroe, Washington. A Sister of Notre Dame for 65 years, Sister Barbara was 85 years old. Born in San Francisco, she was a graduate of Notre Dame High School, Belmont.

For 21 years, Sister Barbara taught in Notre Dame elementary schools in Marysville, SaliSister Barbara nas, Honolulu, Santa Clara and Geib, SNDdeN Saratoga, as well as Iowa and Washington.

In 1967, she responded to a need for a parish sister in what was then a small rural parish in Monroe, Washington. “Father Philip Bloom, pastor, St. Mary of the Valley Parish, described the energy, enthusiasm, support and deep involvement in the community’ that ‘Sister B’ brought to the parish and to everyone she encountered,” the sisters said in a statement.

A memorial Mass was celebrated Feb. 22 at the Notre Dame Province Center in Belmont. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002.

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Rare snowfall in Rome: It was more than flurries in Rome Feb. 26, reports Father David Schunk, pictured in St. Peter’s Square with San Francisco seminarian Nick Case, a student at the Pontifical North American College. The six inches of snow “shut down most of the city of Rome for the day,” Father Schunk said in an email. “It rarely snows here especially this amount. Maybe once every 10 years.” Snow fun included seminarians throwing snowballs at one another and making a “snow-pope.” Father Schunk, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is assistant vice rector of the Pontifical North American College, serving as a formation adviser to seminarians. Matthew Duclos, a seminarian from Albany, New York, took the photo.

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Irish Consulate Honors Father P. Gerard O’Rourke: Father O’Rourke was honored Feb. 16 by the Irish Consulate General in San Francisco and the Mastery Foundation for his contributions to peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Some 30 friends and colleagues were part of the evening. Father O’Rourke, born and ordained in Ireland and retired director of the ecumenical and interreligious affairs office for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, was a founder of the interfaith foundation, which was established in 1983. Father O’Rourke, who was ordained in 1950 and has been a priest of the archdiocese since 1993, said his greatest contribution to helping end the unrest in Northern Ireland was “convincing people of the gift of forgiveness.” A speaker at the event recalled one of Father O’Rourke’s exhortations that has stayed with him through the years: “If you feel you can’t forgive now, think sometimes about whether you would ever be prepared to forgive. The process itself will change you.”

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Parkland memorial at cathedral: This remembrance for the 17 students and teachers killed Ash Wednesday in Parkland, Florida, will stand at St. Mary’s Cathedral until March 12. “I created the memorial a few days after the tragedy,” Doug Benbow, cathedral liturgy, RCIA

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and events director, told Catholic San Francisco.

“It consists of a handmade willow branch wreath to which I attached the names and photos of the victims,” Benbow said. “Also, I draped the memorial in silver fabric, silver being one of the school’s colors. Included also are 17 candles, each representing one of the victims. I placed a prayer in front of the wreath, so that those who visit the memorial might take a moment to pray.”

The memorial is located on the west wall of the cathedral, next to the Shrine of the Flight into Egypt. Benbow said he has been creating special memorials in the cathedral for 20 years. “I believe it is important for us to join in thought, action, if possible, and prayer with our brothers and sisters in other parts of the area, country and world, when tragedies occur. My hope is that these simple reminders will help us recognize that we are one body in Christ.”

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SATURDAY, MARCH 10 SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: Celebrate the more than 165 years of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in California. Discover the sculptured windows at Cunningham Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Sculptured Window tours begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m. A special prayer service will be held at 3 p.m. followed by Mass at 4 p.m. For more information, contact Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy (650) 867-3647; roseanne.murphy@sndden.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 11 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 CRS RICE BOWL: This longstanding Catholic Relief Services Lenten program takes place in dioceses around the country March 14-April 1. In a letter circulated to parishes and schools, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said the Rice Bowl effort helps us connect “with our brothers and sisters in need around the world.”

Rice Bowl provides funding for CRS food security projects which support agriculture, nutrition, education, and self-sufficiency in communities worldwide. Contact Carolina Parrales, Archdiocese of San Francisco CRS Rice Bowl coordinator, parralesc@ sfarch.org.

MEET THE AUTHOR: Dominican Sister Donna Maria Moses, “American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission,” marking National Catholic Sisters Week, 7-8:30 p.m.,

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 LENTEN RETREAT: “Building bridges of faith,” with Father David Pettingill, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m., St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito, $25 Father Pettingill fee includes snack, drinks, lunch. The day is also sponsored by St. Anne of the Sunset Parish. Information on carpools and the retreat available at office@starofthesea.us; (415) 332-1765.

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 MEN’S CONFERENCE: “Called to Lead,” Bay Area Catholic Men’s Conference.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate the day’s Mass.

Archbishop Featured Cordileone speaker is Doug Barry, founder of Catholic ministry RADIX and former co-host of EWTN’s “Life on the Rock.” St. Bartholomew Church, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $45, under 20, $20, Ed Hopfner, Hopfnere@sfarch.org, www.SFBayMen.info, (415) 614-5680.

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HIBERNIAN LUNCH: St. Patrick’s Day celebration, Westin St. Francis, 333 Powell St., San Francisco, 11 a.m. no host reception, lunch at noon, $100 per person, traditional Irish music and entertainment mark the occasion, sponsored by Hibernian Newman Club, www.hiberniannewman.com.

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DON BOSCO STUDIES: Sts. Peter and Paul, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, 7 p.m., with clip from Bishop Robert Barron’s “7 Deadly Sins, 7 Lively Virtues.” All are welcome, refreshments, Frank Lavin (415) 310.8551, franklavin@comcast.net.

ST. PATRICK: Folk tales of St. Patrick and the Irish, gathered over years of listening and telling, now told by the gifted teacher and storyteller, Don Leach, 2 p.m., refreshments, St. Anselm Centennial Hall, Ross, (415) 453-2342, www.saintanselm.org.

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CONCERT: Martin Valverde performs at St. Matthew Church, Ninth Avenue at El Camino Real, San Mateo, 7:30 p.m. Adult tickets $40, children $30, (650) 344-7622, (650) 773-5418, www. stmatthew-parish.org.

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON: The well-known theologian and auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles with “Looking at the world through the Catholic lens: Principal themes in the Catholic intellectual tradition,” 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s College, main chapel, 1928 St. Mary’s Road, Moraga, Father David GentryAkin , dgentry@stmarys-ca.edu.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18 CATHEDRAL TALK: Lenten series, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3 p.m., Deacon Christoph Sandoval and Mercy Sister Elaine Stahl with caring for the sick and dying. Cathedral pastor, Father Arturo Albano, leads opening and closing prayers. (415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 22 TAIZE: Taize Lenten prayer, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 5 p.m., Brian DuSell at bcdusell@ usfca.edu.

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