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Archbishop creates institute to ‘reclaim the sense of the sacred’ PAGE 2 ‘ARCHBISHOP WEAR’: Students learn meaning of episcopal miter, crosier PAGE 3

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A woman dressed as a character from a Nativity scene puts a lamb around the neck of Pope Francis as he arrives to visit the Church of St. Alfonso Maria dei Liguori in Rome Jan. 6.

Pope meets baby Jesus, carries lamb during visit to live Nativity scene VATICAN CITY – Surrounded by cheese sellers, shoemakers and bleating, baying animals, Pope Francis immersed himself in a lively re-enactment of a special day in Bethlehem.

He even let a lamb rest on his shoulders and greeted a tiny baby named Francis, who played the part of Jesus, when he visited a live Nativity scene Jan. 6 at the Church of St. Alfonso Maria dei Liguori on the northern outskirts of Rome.

More than 200 people took part in the re-enactment, wearing period costumes and playing the parts of villagers, artisans and street sellers. People

lined the sides of the road leading to the church and watched from rooftops and balconies of surrounding buildings.

According to Vatican Radio, the pope greeted each of the participants and many of the parishioners who attended.

One special guest lay waiting in a small hut: a 2-month-old baby named Francesco, who had been baptized that morning and played the role of Jesus in the pageant.

A group of people playing shepherds placed a small lamb on the pope’s shoulders, according to the Italian Catholic daily, Avvenire. Children sang a Christmas song and gave the pope a bouquet of red roses.

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importance of a new year beginning with Jesus, who stays by everyone’s side to overcome evil. He asked everyone to pray for children who would be born in 2014 and for all grandparents, who he said are the source of wisdom.

The priest who organizes the parish’s live Nativity scene each year said he had invited the pope just a few days earlier and the pope had accepted immediately.

“The pope was so happy. He told me ‘Keep it up.

Don’t get discouraged,’” Father Dario Criscuoli told journalists.

“Surely to put something like this together you have to be crazy, but that’s OK,” the priest said.

“God likes some things that are crazy.”

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Archbishop explains goal of new liturgical institute CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

On the eve of the feast of the Epiphany, more than 200 sacred music lovers from around the archdiocese and beyond filled the parish hall of St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae and practiced Gregorian chant with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in preparation for afternoon vespers.

The event, organized by St. Sebastian pastor Father Mark Taheny and a group of parish volunteers, served as the archbishop’s launch point for publicly introducing the new Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park and its director, Benedictine Father Samuel Weber.

Archbishop Cordileone explained to the assembly that he created the institute to “reclaim the sense of the sacred” in liturgical expression at the parish level and to offer a deeper sense of formation to lay ministers such as lectors, music directors, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion and those who bring Communion to the sick. The institute’s program – still in development while it seeks funding – will offer liturgical education courses toward certification at St. Patrick’s, at parishes and online.

According to the archbishop, a liturgical mindset and a sensitivity to the sacred is critical to the integrity of worship. He said the institute can provide the necessary foundation to parish pastors who choose to use it as a resource.

“It’s not enough to know how to pronounce the words correctly,” said the archbishop using the role of lector as an example. “To proclaim the word of God well, you must know what the words mean in an historical context and what the author is trying to say.” Extraordinary ministers of holy Communion likewise must develop eucharistic piety and devotion he says. “It’s not just a matter of doing a job, it’s a matter of loving the Lord and handling what is most sacred to us.”

Music is at the heart of the institute, the archbishop said as he introduced Father Weber, founder of the Institute for Sacred Music in St. Louis and a highly regarded scholar, composer and practitioner of chant in the English-speaking world.

“We want to reclaim sacred music which is so much at the heart of our celebration of the Mass,” said the archbishop who puts Gregorian chant at

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More than 200 people filled St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae with Gregorian chant and other sacred music on Sunday, Jan. 5, for vespers of Epiphany led by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Benedictine Father Samuel Weber, above left. Father Weber is the new director of the Benedict XVI Institute at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. the first place of the Mass. “It doesn’t replace other forms of music, but those forms must be in harmony with the sacred traditions of chant.”

The archbishop said that he has emphasized to the pastors in the archdiocese that the institute is a resource, not a requirement being imposed on them. He said that all lay ministers and indeed all Catholics benefit from a renewal of traditional forms of worship.

“My experience is that when people are exposed to

the riches of the church’s traditions, when they are properly explained and when a person is properly catechized, they respond and get excited about being Catholic,” said the archbishop. “Formation helps solidify and deepen their own Catholic identity.”

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Archbishop explains ‘archbishop wear’ to St. Veronica school children VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The students of St. Veronica School got a short lesson in “archbishop wear” during Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s weekend visit to the South San Francisco parish.

“I’m going to start out by answering the question you all want to ask me,” the archbishop told the nearly 300 students of St. Veronica School during his homily at the Dec. 20 Mass. “Everyone wants to ask the same question, what’s all the story about the tall hat and the stick?”

In a lively homily, the archbishop demonstrated and explained the meaning and some of the history behind several symbols of his office, which, he said, “really teach us a lot about our faith.”

The miter – the tall pointed white hat – symbolizes the bishop’s role in teaching God’s law, he said. The two sides of the white hat represent the two tablets of the Ten Commandments given by God to Moses, the archbishop said. The miter dates to the Old Testament and was worn by the priests of the Old Testament according to the instructions in one of the earliest books of the Bible, Leviticus, he said.

The miter points upward, symbolizing that the law came from God, not from man, and is worn by the archbishop when he addresses the people during

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Archbishop Cordileone reads the Christmas story to St. Veronica faith formation students during a pastoral visit to the South San Francisco Parish. liturgies but “when he is talking to God, the miter is off,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “When you see the miter coming on and off, it’s always for that reason,” he explained.

The archbishop carries a crosier or shepherd’s staff, with a crook or hook at the top, Archbishop Cordileone said, a symbol of his role as shepherd of the people in his archdiocese.

The crook on the staff symbolizes the bishop’s responsibility to guide people back to God, he said. “Some of God’s people wander off the path, so the shepherd needs to rescue them back – just like the bishop and his priests in our ministry to God’s

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“That is what Pope Francis told us to do, right? Not just to pay attention to ourselves and enjoy our community with each other, but to go out to people far away from the church and bring them back so they can be close to Christ,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The stick can also be used to beat off ferocious animals that attack, Archbishop Cordileone said.

“Because there are a lot of false ideas in the world, we need to protect our people so they can understand God’s truth,” he said, as part of the teaching role of a bishop.

The last piece of ‘archbishop wear’ that Archbishop Cordileone explained was the magenta skull cap or zucchetto, worn by itself and also under the miter to hold it in place. “It’s not to hide my bald head,” Archbishop Cordileone told the elementary school children. “The bishop wears this as a sign of his office.” But when a bishop is in the presence of the exposed Blessed Sacrament, either during the consecration or during eucharistic adoration, he is bareheaded, the archbishop explained.

The archbishop praised the commitment of the teachers and priests at St. Veronica and urged the school children to think and pray about what God wants them to do. “Pray, be strong in your faith, be faithful in school so you can know what God is calling you to do with your life,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “God can work great things through you if you do that.”

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Suspect arrested in Eureka priest’s homicide CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

EUREKA – Eureka police were investigating as murder the death of Father Eric Freed, the pastor of St. Bernard Catholic Church.

Eureka police confirmed for the press at midday Jan. 2 that they had arrested Gary Lee Bullock of Redway, Calif., in connection with the death of Father Eric Freed, pastor since 2011 of St. Bernard and its mission Father Eric Freed church, St. Joseph.

An earlier police statement said the priest, 56, was found badly injured in the parish rectory at about 9 a.m. Jan. 1. Police and a doctor arrived soon after and declared he was dead. The statement said cause of death had not been determined, pending an autopsy scheduled for Jan. 4. “It does appear that there was blunt force trauma to the victim,” the statement said.

Father Freed, who lived in Japan for more than 20 years, also taught in the religious studies department at Humboldt State University and was director of the campus Newman Center.

Father Freed celebrated Mass for the Japanese community of St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing at St. Francis Xavier Church in San Francisco as recently as December.

The Eureka newspaper, the Times-Dispatch, reported that Father Freed was found after he failed to show up for morning Mass on New Year’s Day. Deacon Frank Weber went to look for him and found the priest’s body amid signs of a struggle, the newspaper said.

The police statement said Bullock had been arrested for public intoxication on Dec. 31, transferred briefly to a hospital for evaluation and

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Women mourn outside St. Bernard Church in Eureka Jan. 1, after learning their pastor, Father Eric Freed, had been found dead inside the rectory. Eureka police were investigating his death as a murder. ultimately booked into the Humboldt County Jail for about 12 hours before being released shortly after midnight Jan. 1.

Bullock was spotted several hours later in Eureka and transferred to an emergency shelter, said the press release.

The statement said a man fitting Bullock’s description was seen by a security guard that night around the church and asked to leave the property. Police said the rectory showed signs of

forced entry and a violent struggle.

Father Freed was ordained for the Diocese of Santa Rosa in 1990.

MEMORIAL FOR FATHER FREED A public memeorial for Father Eric Freed is scheduled for Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Church, 150 St. Joseph Way, Cotati.

10th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 25 VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Walk for Life West Coast celebrates 10 years of standing up for life in San Francisco with the Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 25 – and organizers expect more than 50,000 people to crowd Civic Center Plaza and walk down Market Street this year.

“The pro-life spirit is truly alive in San Francisco and the Walk for Life West Coast continues to be a wonderful way for those who care about women and their babies, born and unborn, to show that life is the only choice,” said Eva Muntean, co-chair of the Walk for Life.

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To celebrate and promote this year’s walk, the Walk for Life has released a promotional 2 ½ minute video which can be seen at www. walkforlifewc.com.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone called the walk “a San Francisco tradition,” in his invitation to all priests of the archdiocese.

Archbishop Cordileone will deliver the invocation for the walk at Civic Center Plaza. He has invited the priests and people of all the parishes and schools of the archdiocese to attend.

Archbishop Cordileone will also celebrate the 9:30 a.m. Walk for Life West Coast Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral and has invited all archdiocesan and religious order priests to join him and the other attending West Coast bishops in concelebrating Mass.

“The growth and enthusiasm surrounding the walk proves that our pro-life message continues to resonate with the culture to fill the void secular society creates when it excludes God, virtue and an understanding of the profound dignity of human life,” Archbishop Cordileone wrote in his letters to pastors, priests, Catholic school teachers and students.

“People, especially our young people, are more and more receptive to the message that abortion hurts women, men and families. They understand that it is inherently unfair to generations of their peers who never had the opportunity to experience life. This is why turnout by our students and young people continues to rise,” the archbishop wrote.

The walk began in 2005 when a group of San Francisco Bay Area pro-life supporters planned a public demonstration with the twin goals of proclaiming a witness against abortion and reaching out to women who had abortions. Seven thousand people showed up for the first walk in 2005. The 2013 Walk for Life drew approximately 50,000 people, and included the papal nuncio as well as newly installed Archbishop Cordileone. From the beginning the Archdiocese of San Francisco has been a co-sponsor of the Walk for Life which is generally held on the Saturday closest to the Jan. 22 anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court abortion ruling.

Prior to the rally, beginning at 10:45 a.m., Silent No More Awareness Campaign speakers will testify to the impact of abortion. The InfoFaire, with resources, begins at 11 a.m.

For more information, walkforlifewc.com.

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MEMORIAL SERVICE, PRAYER WALK FOR HOMICIDE VICTIMS JAN. 11

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will lead a Jan. 11 memorial service at Mission Dolores Basilica for homicide victims killed in the three counties of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2013.

The memorial begins with a prayer walk starting at 10 A homicide victim’s a.m. from sister is pictured at St. Anthony last year’s Walk for of Padua Peace.

Church and Immaculate Conception Chapel on Cesar Chavez Boulevard and continues through San Francisco’s Mission District to Mission Dolores.“While walking we will pray in Our Father for each of the victims, and will also have spontaneous prayers throughout the prayer walk,” said Julio Escobar, restorative justice ministry coordinator of the archdiocesan Ministry for Victims and Families of Violent Crime.

During the event, each of the victims will be prayed for by name, Escobar said. Because of violence during 2013, two people died in Marin County, 16 in San Mateo County and 54 in San Francisco, according to Escobar.

(PHOTO COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)

Archdiocese mourns priest’s death Msgr. John T. Foudy died Jan. 4 at Christina’s Care Home, San Bruno. The native San Franciscan was 100 years old and had been a priest since 1940. Msgr.

Foudy is pictured with Msgr. Michael D. Harriman and Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice Oct. 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at the St. John Vianney Luncheon for retired priests as he received a papal blessing and letter of recognition from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. A vigil will take place Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. and a funeral Mass will be celebrated Jan. 10 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Funston at Judah Street, San Francisco. An obituary for the priest will appear in the Jan. 17 issue of Catholic San Francisco.

SF 2nd Annual Memorial Service for 2013 Homicide Victims

The annual event is an outgrowth of the homicide prayer services The Restorative Justice Ministry helps organize each time a person is killed by violence. A group of people visits the site of the death to pray and remember the victim and support the family. The prayer services culminate each year with the memorial service, now in its second year.

Most Reverend Bishop William J. Justice and other clergy will lead the Prayer Walk and Memorial Service. Survivors of violent crimes, family and friends of the victims, ex-offenders, restorative justice ministers, and youth from the community will join. All will help carry crosses to remember the 50 people that died as a result of violence in 2013.

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Concerned parents raise worries about legal pot in Colorado TOM TRACY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – As Colorado allows adults to legally purchase marijuana for recreational and medical use, some parents are voicing concerns about how children may be affected by easy access to pot.

A statewide voter initiative in 2012 legalized recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, the law was to take full effect.

The state is processing hundreds of new applications to sell and grow marijuana. The market is also expected to soon include a wide range of marijuana-infused products – including highly potent food items.

In interviews with Catholic News Service, some Coloradans cautioned that the proliferation of legal pot carries inadequate child protections, while the products especially appeal to youth and young adults. They say young people will encounter the drug more in homes and at schools that are not yet prepared to manage the proliferation of marijuana-laced foods and some disguisable forms of the drug.

Denver Police Chief Robert White said in late December that his staff

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People wait to be among the first to legally buy recreational marijuana at the BotanaCare store in Northglenn, Colo., Jan. 1. will not actively enforce bans on recreational smoking in public, adding to some parents’ fears that the murky situation will become a legal free-forall.

The state’s passage of Amendment 64 legalizing recreational pot conflicts with federal law, which prohibits possession and sale of marijuana.

Denver-based attorney and Catholic parent Rachel O’Bryan, who served on a criminal law working group for the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, doubts most Coloradans are aware of what the new law will

mean for society as a whole and for youngsters especially. O’Bryan pointed to 2013 surveys by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the city of Denver’s Office of Drug Strategy showing marijuana use by eigth graders is at 6.5 percent nationwide but 18 percent in Denver.

“The potency (of THC, marijuana’s active ingredient) is unlimited and that will lead to higher addictions - we can’t even get the government to say there should be no marijuana candy, and that will be bad across the board,” she told Catholic News Service.

A decade ago, California became the first state to allow medical marijuana sales. Although in conflict with a federal ban on marijuana, almost 20 states and the District of Columbia allow some medical marijuana consumption.

In addition to Colorado, Washington state allows small amounts of recreational marijuana use.

There are an estimated 228 medical marijuana retail shops in the Denver area. Another 111 are in the process of licensing to sell recreationally.

“Young people are getting it from other people, not necessarily through the stores, but with a proliferation of it there are marijuana products coming into school,” said Gina Carbone, a Catholic mother of four teen boys and founder of Smart Colorado, a parent group advocating for youth safeguards against legalized marijuana in Colorado. “If you talk to counselors and teachers the kids are showing up stoned.”

Carbone said she has spoken to at least one Denver-area Catholic school principal about the need for a science curriculum on marijuana and the need to better educate teachers, parents and students.

Rochester installation marks first new bishop there in 33 years CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – At 3 p.m. on Jan. 3, with applause ringing through a full Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bishop Salvatore R. Matano took his seat in the cathedra (bishop’s chair), marking the beginning of his ministry as the ninth Bishop of Rochester.

The installation Mass was the first in Rochester since 1979, when Bishop Matthew H. Clark began his 33-year tenure. Bishop Clark, 76, retired in September 2012. Bishop Matano had been bishop of Burlington, Vt., for eight years.

After being installed by apostolic nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Bishop Matano, 67, emphasized in his homily that “I’m not the only Catholic in this diocese. If I have challenges, then we all have challenges. It is the responsibility of every baptized Catholic to fulfill faithfully what Christ asks of us.”

He stressed the importance of regular attendance at Sunday Mass: “All that we do as a people of faith stems from our attachment to the holy Eucharist.”

The ceremony on a frigid, snowy day was attended by bishops and cardinals from across the country. Others were kept away by the harsh conditions, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who had been scheduled to preside.

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In his homily, Bishop Matano alluded to the bitter weather, observing, “I asked, how could I make today memorable? I looked to the heavens and said, ‘Let there be snow.’”

The native of Providence, R.I., thanked people who have supported him through the years, including

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Bishop Matano also paid tribute to the many priests in attendance, saying, “Let us remember that without the priesthood, there is no Eucharist. And without the Eucharist, the Catholic Church loses its identity.”

He also noted the importance of other vocations, including religious and married life. He said all Catholics play a key role in strengthening the church.

Bishop Matano said the current culture is often marked by indifference and even anger toward the church – a drastic change from the 1950s, when Catholicism in the United States thrived on many levels.

For those who are estranged from the church, Bishop Matano implored, “Please come home. This is not the plea of Bishop Matano – this is only his voice echoing the voice of Jesus.”

He concluded his homily by asking Catholics to practice evangelization – “because we are called to love another, we must tell them the truth of our Catholic faith” – and to defend life and “the dignity of every human person from the moment of conception until natural death.”

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Courts give lastminute relief from HHS mandate TOM TRACY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – In the midst of their New Year’s Eve celebration with low-income elderly residents, the Baltimore-based Little Sisters of the Poor learned that the Supreme Court issued an injunction temporarily protecting them from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.

The order by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, issued within hours of the mandate taking effect at midnight Justice Jan. 1, applies to the ColoradoSotomayor based Little Sisters of the Poor and their co-plaintiffs – Christian Brothers Services and Christian Brothers Employee Benefits Trust – in a lawsuit against the federal government.

The same evening, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an emergency stay for Catholic organizations in a lawsuit filed by the Archdiocese of Washington, including The Catholic University of America, Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington; Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School in Takoma Park, Md.; and Mary of Nazareth Roman Catholic Elementary School in Darnestown, Md. The 2-1 ruling in the circuit court included a comment from Judge David S. Tatel explaining why he voted to deny the injunction.

“Because I believe that appellants are unlikely to prevail on their claim that the challenged provision imposes a ‘substantial burden’ under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, I would deny their application for an injunction pending appeal,” Tatel said, according to The Associated Press.

The Archdiocese of Washington issued a statement saying the stay vindicates “the pledge of the U.S. Catholic bishops to stand in resolute defense of the first and most sacred freedom – religious liberty.”

Sotomayor’s order came in her capacity as the justice assigned to hear emergency applications from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Denver. Her two-sentence order also instructed the federal government to file its response by 10 a.m. Jan. 3.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 10, 2014

Culture wars moving ahead by looking to the past MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON –- The culture wars show no sign of abating in 2014. Not only is there likely to be sharp disagreement on many of the hot-button social issues as the midterm election cycle approaches, Americans are also increasingly unable to agree on the past.

Specifically, how we got here.

A Pew Research Center study issued Dec. 30 showed a deepening partisan divide about whether humans existed in their – our – present form since the beginning of time or whether they evolved. And, if they did evolve, whether God guided the process along.

The results of Pew’s survey, taken by phone in March and covering 1,983 adults, found that 60 percent of all Americans believe humans evolved over time, while 33 percent said humans have existed in their present form from the beginning.

Parsed by party affiliation, though, the survey shows a deepening rift.

Democrats, by a 67 percent to 27 percent margin, support the evolution stance.

This is an increase of three percentage points from 2009, when the percentages were 64-30.

Political independents were 67-27 in favor of the evolution argument in 2009, although those numbers nudged gently away from that direction in the 2013 survey, to a 65-28 margin. Neither the Democrats’ or independents’ shift is statistically significant.

Republicans, though, show the biggest difference. In 2009, there was a marked preference for the evolution position, 54-39. Today, though, only 43 percent identify with the evolution stance, while 48 percent are in the from-the-beginning camp.

What brought about this shift? Some clues may be detected from other demographic data collected by Pew.

PHILLY PRIEST RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER CONVICTION REVERSED

PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia archdiocesan priest was released from a Pennsylvania state prison Jan. 2 after an appeals court reversed his conviction for endangering child welfare by his handling of a sex abuse case.

After leaving the prison in Waymart, where he had served 18 months of his sentence, Msgr. William Lynn, former secretary for clergy for the Philadelphia archdiocese, was fitted with an elec-

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Older Americans tend to identify more with the Republican Party than do other age groups. In the telephone survey – which had an error rate of plus or minus three percentage points for the entire sample – Americans age 65 and older were the least likely to support the evolution theory, although a plurality of 49 percent backed it, as opposed to 35 percent who rejected it.

White evangelical Protestants, who are more closely aligned with the GOP, overwhelmingly supported the position that humans have existed from the beginning of time, with 64 percent holding that view, while 27 percent back evolution. Black Protestants were the only other faith group to hew to that belief, although the numbers were not nearly as dramatic, 50-44.

But here’s the catch: “Differences in the racial and ethnic composition of Democrats and Republicans or differences in their levels of religious commitment do not wholly explain partisan

differences in beliefs about evolution,” the survey report said. “Indeed, the partisan differences remain even when taking these other characteristics into account.”

Where do Catholics come down on the question? Sixty-eight percent of white non-Hispanic Catholics are on the evolution side. As for Hispanic Catholics, 53 percent said humans have evolved over time, while 31 percent reject that idea.

“We knew from 2009 there was a strong affiliation between religious beliefs and views on evolution, so we wanted to see where things stood today,” said Cary Funk, a senior researcher for the Pew Research Center.

In an interview with Catholic News Service, Funk used the word “evolve” to describe the change in public opinion on the question. “The views among all Catholics regardless of race or ethnicity have evolved over time,” she said.

Catholic teaching on evolution does not make belief in evolution a require-

ment of faith, but neither is it considered sinful to do so.

“New knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis,” said Blessed John Paul II in a 1996 message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The convergence of evidence from independent scientific research “is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory,” he added.

Without taking sides, the International Theological Commission discussed in a 2004 document whether “intelligent design” – which holds that science can prove that there is a design and purpose inherent in life forms – is a scientific alternative to evolution. It notes that science, not theology, needs to resolve this debate but that neither position is incompatible with faith. The commission was headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who in 2005 became Pope Benedict XVI. Both statements have their roots in Pope Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical “Humani Generis,” which said that evolution was worthy of scientific study and could be compatible with the Catholic faith.

But back to the upsurge in Republican belief that humans have been here all along. “It’s certainly an interesting pattern,” Funk said. “It certainly seems to be one, given the increased politicization of some of these science topics.

We see similar patterns on some of the climate change and environmental issues.”

She added, “We don’t have much other data to look at polarization on some of these other science topics. We’d like to look at this a little further down the road.”

The issue has been roiling in one form or another since at least the 1925 trial of John Scopes for breaking a Tennessee state law forbidding the teaching of evolution, so any look ahead will also require a look behind.

tronic monitoring device. One of his lawyers, who told The Associated Press that the priest would likely be released to the custody of a family member, declined to say where Msgr. Lynn would live while prosecutors appealed the Superior Court ruling.

Bond was set at $250,000 for Msgr.

Lynn Dec. 30, four days after an appeals court reversed his conviction. The priest was told by Common Pleas Court Judge Teresa Sarmina to surrender his passport and submit to electronic

monitoring and weekly reporting while out on bail.

On Dec. 26, a panel of judges for a Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed the priest’s conviction in handling a clerical abuse case and ordered his release from prison. Sarmina told the courtroom Dec. 30 that she had been grappling with how to respond and that she considered simply affirming her original ruling and continuing to deny bail.

Sarmina had rejected Msgr. Lynn’s requests for bail during his 2012 trial and while his case was on appeal. But because the higher court ruled she had erred in applying the law under which Msgr. Lynn was convicted, she said Dec. 30 that she had to acknowledge that if the conviction was in question, the punishment also would be in question.

Msgr. Lynn has served 18 months of a 2012 prison sentence of three to

six years after he was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child.

Prosecutors had argued that the priest had reassigned abusive priests to new parishes in the Philadelphia archdiocese in his diocesan role as clergy secretary. However, Msgr. Lynn’s attorneys argued that Pennsylvania’s child-endangerment law at the time applied only to parents and caregivers, not to supervisors, which was Msgr. Lynn’s role.

The Superior Court’s 43-page opinion described Msgr. Lynn’s conviction under the state’s original child endangerment law of 1972 as “fundamentally flawed.”

It noted that the original meaning of the statute, revised in 2007, required a person who was not a parent or guardian of the endangered child to “at least be engaged in the supervision, or be responsible for the supervision” of the child.

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‘Citizen-scholar’ and former Ambassador to Vatican Thomas Melady dies PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas P. Melady, who served in several diplomatic posts and continued to play a role as “citizen-scholar” long past the age when most people would have retired, died Jan. 6. He was 86.

Melady died at his Washington home of a brain tumor, which doctors only recently diagnosed.

Melady was an ambassador under three presidents: to Burundi (1969) and Uganda (1972) under President Richard Nixon, and then as the ambassador to the Holy See under President George H.W. Bush (1989) and in the first year of the administration of President Bill Clinton. Melady left the post in early 1993. He also was named by Nixon as senior adviser to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly.

He was remembered by one of his successors to the Holy See post as “a perpetual ambassador.”

University of Dayton professor Miguel Diaz, who was ambassador from 2009 to 2012, told Catholic News Service that Melady was the first former ambassador to reach out to him when Diaz was nominated and that he continued to be a welcome adviser and mentor.

“Once my nomination was made public, he immediately took me out to lunch and we had a tete-a-tete on Vatican diplomacy,” Diaz said, with Melady offering helpful advice about what challenges Diaz might face.

Across differences of political party and generation, “it grew into a collegial friendship,” Diaz said.

In the very small group of former U.S. ambassadors to the Holy See, Melady “was the leader of the club,” said Diaz. He observed that despite their activism with different political parties – Diaz with the Democrats and Melady with the Republicans – the two wound up as co-signatories of an assortment of letters and statements on public policy.

Melady’s death is “truly a loss, not just for the Melady family but for all

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Thomas Melady, who died Jan. 6 at age 86, is pictured in a 2009 photo. of us,” Diaz said. “We don’t have many people like him left.”

In addition to his ambassadorial posts, Melady was a prolific writer, with 17 books, including “Profiles of African Leaders, Idi Amin Dada: Hitler in Africa,” “The Ambassador’s Story” and “Ten African Heroes,” and more than 180 articles to his credit. He most recently had been senior diplomat in residence and a professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, teaching a course on the art of diplomacy; mentoring students and helping develop the institute’s policy and philanthropic circles, said a post on the organization’s website.

“Tom was the epitome of the citizenscholar and diplomat, dedicated to serving his country and the cause of peace in the world,” said a comment from John Lenczowski, founder and president of the institute. “He exposed our students to a rare diplomatic professionalism that was perfect for our students’ study of this critical art of statecraft.”

Besides his expertise in diplomacy and politics, Melady wrote and taught

on Afro-Asian and Central European issues.

The institute post observed that Melady’s service at the Vatican came at a pivotal point, when the Soviet Union was collapsing and Pope John Paul II was playing a role in reshaping Eastern Europe.

“He was such a great soul,” said Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute on Policy Research and Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America, who counted Melady as a friend.

“In Washington he was about the only person I know who could truly and easily speak to people on both sides of the (political) aisle,” Schneck told CNS. “And he was a great friend to the church.”

“To a whole generation of us he was a mentor and exceedingly generous,” Schneck added. “He would take people like me under his wing and talk about things like the realities of government service. The same with education. He would often work with young scholars and try to prepare them for their work in education.”

In 2010, the university’s institute awarded Melady the Bishop John Joseph Keane Medallion for lifetime service to church, country and academia. A statement from Schneck called Melady “a brilliant scholar, a renowned diplomat, a distinguished educator, a compassionate Catholic leader, a generous confidant to bishops and presidents, professors and politicians.”

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said in an email forwarded to CNS: “I’ll miss Tom as a friend, a teacher, and a statesman.”

Cardinal Dolan said that as ambassador to the Holy See, “Tom perceptively appreciated both America’s global duties and the Vatican’s moral and supernatural influence. We’ll miss his wisdom and his unfailingly insightful read on international affairs.”

Melady was born March 4, 1927, in Norwich, Conn., and served in the U.S. Army at the close of World War II. He earned degrees from Duquesne

University and The Catholic University of America and taught at St. John’s University. As an early proponent of African studies, he served from 1959 to 1967 as the president of the Africa Service Institute, which brought leaders of newly independent African nations to the United States. He was an adjunct professor at Fordham University from 1966 to 1969, when he began his diplomatic service.

He later went on to serve as chairman of Seton Hall University and as a consultant to the National Urban League. After his diplomatic service, he taught at George Washington University and was president of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., from 1976 to 1986.

In a letter to the Sacred Heart University community on the school’s website Jan. 7, President John J. Petillo said Melady’s service came during a time of great change for the university, as it grew from “a startup college to an acclaimed regional university.”

“His vision played an important role in Sacred Heart becoming not only the nationally known university it is today, but also in our reputation as a special place where members of the community are treated with respect and dignity,” Petillo said.

Melady is survived by his wife of 52 years, Margaret, with whom he co-wrote several books; daughters Christina Melady and Monica Melady Micklos; and seven grandchildren.

Among his many honors and awards, he was a Knight of Malta and recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Malta; was a recipient of the Order of Pius IX and the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He was the recipient of 30 honorary doctorates and was honored by the leaders of Senegal, Liberia, Cameroon, Madagascar and Croatia.

A funeral Mass with Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl presiding was scheduled for Jan. 13 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. Sacred Heart University scheduled a memorial Mass for the following day.

Senate vote clears way for resumption of unemployment benefits CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Senate rounded up 60 votes Jan. 7 to ward off a potential filibuster on a bill that would resume the federal payment of emergency unemployment benefits.

The Senate has yet to vote on the bill, and leaders in the Republicancontrolled House have said they would not consider it until savings were found elsewhere in the budget to offset its expected $6.4 billion cost over three months.

Restoring aid for the jobless has been a priority of the U.S. bishops.

“According to the Department of Labor, the average length of unemployment remains over nine months, and there are still about three job seekers for every available opening,” said a joint letter Nov. 12 to members of the joint House-Senate panel that developed a sequestration- and shutdown-avoiding budget plan from Bishops Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., then chairman of the U.S.

bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, and Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.

“In light of this prolonged economic pain, extending emergency unemployment benefits for those out of work the longest is the just and decent thing to do,” the bishops said. “The Catechism of the Catholic Church unambiguously states it is the proper role of government to ‘make accessible to each what is needed to lead a truly human life: food, clothing, health, work, education and culture, suitable information, the right to establish a family, and so on.’”

The budget panel, though, did not include unemployment benefits in its deal.

Bishop Blaire’s successor as committee chairman, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, said in a Dec. 13 statement, “The recent welcome decline in unemployment levels hides

the reality that millions of long-term unemployed workers continue to suffer from an economy that does not produce enough decent work.

“For most of these families, jobless benefits are the only source of support. I am disappointed that vital unemployment support for this population was not extended, and I hope Congress will do the just and decent thing by protecting these jobless workers as they search for new work.”

Extending unemployment benefits “should be the first order of business in 2014,” said President Barack Obama in remarks from the White House shortly after the Senate vote.

“This is not an abstraction. These are not statistics. These are your neighbors, your friends, your family members. It could at some point be any of us,” Obama said. “That’s why we set up a system of unemployment insurance. The notion was everybody is making a contribution because you don’t know when the business cycle

or an economic crisis might make any of us vulnerable.”

About 1.4 million Americans were cut off from the benefits when they ended Dec. 28. “If this doesn’t get fixed, it will hurt about 14 million Americans over the course of this year: 5 million workers along with 9 million of their family members – their spouses, their children.” But for the three months of the Senate bill, only about 1.4 million jobless would get aid.

There are about 10.3 million unemployed, according to the Department of Labor, and nearly half of them have been without work for more than six months.

The Senate bill has no provision to offset the expense for extending the jobless benefits; offsets were first used in 2008. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., proposed using savings expected in the farm bill to pay for the extension before Congress left for its holiday break in December, but Republicans blocked that idea.

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Pope orders new rules on relations between bishops, religious orders FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said he has ordered a revision of what he called outdated Vatican norms on the relations between religious orders and local bishops, in order to promote greater appreciation of the orders’ distinctive missions.

The pope’s words were published Jan. 3 in the Italian Jesuit magazine La Civilta Cattolica. He made the comments Nov. 29 at a closed-door meeting with 120 superiors general of religious orders from around the world.

Pope Francis referred to “Mutuae Relationes,” a set of directives issued jointly by the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for Religious in 1978. The document said that religious orders are part of the local church, though with their own internal organization, and that their “right to autonomy” should never be considered as independence from the local church.

“That document was useful at the time but is now outdated,” the pope said. “The charisms of the various institutes need to be respected and fostered because they are needed in dioceses.”

The pope, who until his election in March 2013 served as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and formerly

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Pope Francis gestures as he arrives for a meeting with superiors of men’s religious orders at the Vatican Nov. 29. served as a Jesuit provincial, said he knew “by experience the problems that can arise between a bishop and religious communities.” For example, he said, “If the religious decide one day to withdraw from one of their works due to a lack of manpower the bishop often finds himself suddenly left with a hot potato in his hand.

“I also know that the bishops are not

always acquainted with the charisms and works of religious,” he said. “We bishops need to understand that consecrated persons are not functionaries but gifts that enrich dioceses.

“The involvement of religious communities in dioceses is important,” the pope said. “Dialogue between the bishop and religious must be rescued so that, due to a lack of understanding

Holy Land prelate hopes pope’s May visit is ‘cry for peace’ DALE GAVLAK CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

AMMAN, Jordan – Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem welcomed the announcement of Pope Francis’ May visit to the Holy Land and said he hopes the pilgrimage will be a “cry for peace,” particularly for Palestinians, Israelis, Syrians and others beset by conflict.

Pope Francis announced his first trip as pontiff to the Holy Land, May 24-26, during his weekly blessing in Vatican City Jan. 5. His visit to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories is planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic visit by Pope Paul VI to the Holy Land in 1964.

Pope Francis is expected to celebrate Masses in the West Bank towns of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the Jordanian capital, Amman, where he will begin his trip.

Speaking to reporters in Amman Jan. 5, Patriarch Twal underscored that Arab Christians are badly in need of the pope’s encouragement as their numbers continue to decrease due to violence and economic hardship.

“How great is his concern for us.

And our presence, I think is one of the aspects he will mention in his speech to ask us to be courageous and to stay,” the Jordanian-born patriarch said.

“To stay in this land, to live in this land, to die in this land: the Holy Land is worthy to stay, to suffer and to die for,” he said.

Christians throughout the Middle East represent the oldest such community in the world. But in their ancient homelands of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, they have increasingly become targets of intimidation and killing in the midst of civil unrest and war.

“The visit is intended to consoli-

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Rabbi Michael Melchior watches as Pope John Paul II prays at Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem in March 2000. Pope Francis will visit the Holy Land May 24-26. date the good relations that bind the Muslims and Christians of these Arab countries since ancient times, as well as contribute to intensifying calls for mutual respect and redoubling efforts to respect for religious pluralism in an atmosphere of love and cooperation,” the patriarch said.

“We need the pope to bring peace to Jerusalem,” Mary Yadi, a Jerusalem native and parishioner at St. Joseph’s Church in Amman, expressed as her hope for the visit.

“Our world is engulfed in war and it desperately needs peace. More prayers must be offered to see something positive happen,” she said.

Fellow parishioner, Sameh Girguis, an Egyptian Orthodox, said he wants the pope to “bring God’s love and stability to Arab countries,” writhing in the aftermath of the Arab Spring upheavals that saw long-time rulers toppled.

Another aspect of the papal pilgrimage aims to strengthen efforts initiated

by Pope Paul VI to encourage greater unity between the Western and Eastern churches. Pope Francis will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, considered first

among equals by Orthodox bishops, and the three Catholic patriarchs of Jerusalem.

He is expected as well to build on reconciliation efforts by moderate Muslims, such as Jordan’s King Abdullah II, to foster better relations between Muslims and Christians. Immediately after his arrival in Jordan May 24, Pope Francis will meet privately with the king, who visited the pontiff with his wife, Queen Rania, in August at the Vatican.

Pope Francis also will hold talks with Jordanian religious and political leaders and celebrate an open-air Mass in an Amman stadium.

Later that evening, the pontiff will travel to the site where it is believed that Jesus was baptized and the “place chosen by Jesus to begin his mission,” Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, apostolic nuncio to Jordan and Iraq, told the news conference.

The place has been “significantly chosen for the pope to share dinner with the ‘least,’ that is, with those living in peculiar conditions of suffering and uncertainty,” he said.

Pope Francis, who is well-known for his simplicity and humility in the vein of his namesake, St. Francis, will dine with Syrian refugees, the handicapped and the impoverished at the sacred site along the banks of the Jordan River.

Archbishop Lingua said the pontiff, much like Pope Paul, wanted to visit Damascus, Syria, to walk in the footsteps of St. Paul, but he, too, will be able “only in spirit, by heart and mind, to share the suffering of that country.”

Father Rifat Bader of the Catholic Media Center in Amman said Pope Francis will travel to Bethlehem by helicopter from Amman May 25. He will celebrate Mass in Bethlehem’s Manger Square and will meet Israeli President Shimon Peres.

of their charisms, bishops do not view religious simply as useful instruments.”

During his three-hour meeting with the religious superiors, as quoted in the 15-page La Civilta Cattolica article, the pope also discussed a variety of other topics, including sex abuse and the challenges of evangelization in different cultures.

POPE LIMITS ‘MONSIGNOR’ HONOR FOR DIOCESAN PRIESTS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decided to limit the honor of “monsignor” among diocesan priests and grant it from now on only to those at least 65 years of age.

The change, which is not retroactive and does not affect Vatican officials or members of religious orders, was announced in a letter from the Vatican Secretariat of State to nunciatures around the world, along with instructions to inform local bishops.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, informed U.S. bishops of the new policy in a letter dated Dec. 30. Msgr.

Ronny E. Jenkins, general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, forwarded the letter to the bishops Jan. 3.

Of the three grades of monsignor – apostolic protonotary, honorary prelate of His Holiness and chaplain of His Holiness – only the last will be available to diocesan priests who meet the new age requirement.

Bishops must resubmit any pending requests for papal honors in accordance with the new rules.

Archbishop Vigano’s letter did not give a reason for the change, but Pope Francis has often warned clergy against the temptations of careerism and personal ambition.

The archbishop noted that there had been no change regarding the granting of ecclesiastical honors to laypeople.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, noted Jan. 6 that Pope Paul VI had reformed the system of ecclesiastical honors in 1968, reducing the number of titles to three.

“Pope Francis’ decision thus follows in the same line, with further simplification,” Father Lombardi said.

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Bishop: Both sides in South Sudan must forgive, forget Editor’s Note: Journalist Paul Jeffrey has spent months in South Sudan reporting on the situation there. He telephoned Bishop Taban for this story.

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YAKIMA, Wash. – A Catholic bishop says recent violence in South Sudan is the result of a political struggle between people fighting over power and material gain.

“This is a political conflict, a power struggle between two movements within the SPLA (South Sudan People’s Liberation Army), that has now turned into a tribal conflict between the Dinka and the Nuer,” Bishop Paride Taban told Catholic News Service in a Jan. 6 telephone interview from Juba, the nation’s capital.

South Sudan became independent in 2011, yet church leaders have continually warned the country’s leaders, many of them Catholics, that corruption and tribal rivalries were undermining the new nation’s democratic foundations.

“In the period since independence, there has been a lot of corruption. Everyone wants to have power, because then you can have material things.

As we’ve become more materialistic, God has become secondary. This is a time to tell our people to turn to God,” said Bishop Taban, the retired bishop of Torit.

“Instead of making war, everyone should say, ‘I’m sorry, my brother, I am wrong. Let us forgive each other and forget the past and start a new page.’ Yet nobody has a sense of repentance,” he said.

In 1983, Bishop Taban was named to head the diocese of Torit, the capital of Eastern Equatoria state and one of the harshest battlegrounds in the decades-long war between southern rebels and Sudanese government forces. He retired in 2004, a year before the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that brought an end to the civil war.

Since then he has been involved in reconciliation efforts, including the founding of the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, which seeks to break the cycle of cattle-raiding and retaliation that has long troubled relations among the country’s ethnic groups.

With Kuron becoming an example of peace in a country still torn by tribalism and cattle-raiding, in 2013 the United Nations awarded him the Sergio Vieira de Mello Prize in recognition for his efforts in promoting peace. Vieira de Mello, a former U.N. human rights chief, died in a bombing in Iraq in 2003.

In recent months, Bishop Taban has been mediating between the government and forces loyal to

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A displaced man being treating for injuries is seen Jan. 7 at Tomping camp, where thousands of displaced people who fled their homes are sheltered by the United Nations near Juba, South Sudan. A bishop from South Sudan says the recent violence in the country is the result of a power struggle within the ruling party.

David Yau, a dissident general in restive Jonglei state. Yau has led an armed rebellion of ethnic Murle since 2012.

“Since we got involved in negotiating in August, there has been no fighting, and on Monday (Jan. 6) we agreed to a cease-fire with this group. It is now one of the safe havens in the region, with no more fighting. We will remain involved until we finish the peace process with that group of rebels,” Bishop Taban said.

The bishop said the conflict in Jonglei has been exacerbated by the failure of the new government to provide services in remote areas.

“The people didn’t get the services that with independence they were expecting. As Dr. John said, ‘Carry the town to the people. Don’t bring the people to the town,’” said Bishop Taban, referring to independence leader John Garang, who was killed in a 2005 helicopter crash.

Bishop Taban said he was encouraged by the peace talks that began Jan. 6 in Addis Ababa, the capital of neighboring Ethiopia. He said he was particularly pleased that some regional church

leaders were participating, including the Rev. Samuel Kobia, a Methodist minister and former general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

In 2010, Rev. Kobia was appointed an ecumenical special envoy to Sudan by the All Africa Conference of Churches.

Bishop Taban said the New Sudan Council of Churches also would send a representative to the talks.

Meanwhile, he said the church was heavily involved in lowering local tensions.

“If there is calm now in Juba, it is because of the struggle of the church,” he said.

Bishop Taban celebrated Mass Jan. 6 in Juba, in one of the U.N. camps that have become home for thousands of families displaced by the fighting.

“It’s very difficult when you see children and women agonizing in the camp. Some of them don’t know if their fathers or husbands have been killed,” he said. “It gives you pity when you go there and see people in the camp. If the people who are fighting would look at this, they would stop their fighting forever.”

True faith is driven by zeal to change world with God’s love, pope says CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – True faith is marked by the daring desire to change the world with the loving heart of Jesus, Pope Francis said.

The zealous proclamation of the Gospel must never be coupled with “inquisitional clobbering, with condemnation. No, the Gospel is proclaimed with kindness, fraternity and love,” he told more than 300 of his fellow Jesuits Jan. 3.

The pope celebrated the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus at the Church of the Gesu, the Jesuits’ main church in Rome. It was the first Jesuit pope’s third visit as pontiff to the church where St. Ignatius of Loyola and other Jesuit leaders are buried.

The Mass was also a celebration of thanksgiving for the recent canonization of St. Peter Faber, who, with St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier, was a founding member of the Society of Jesus and the first of the Jesuits to be ordained a priest.

In his homily, Pope Francis said that one of things that stood out with St. Faber was his desire to “empty himself ” and let Christ fill his heart and life.

The 16th-century priest possessed a restlessness for God, an understanding of his dreams and desires, and the ability to act with determination, the pope said.

“An authentic faith always entails a deep desire to change the world. This is the question we must ask ourselves: Do we, too, have a great vision and impulse? Are we audacious? Does our dream soar high? Does our zeal consume us?” the pope asked.

“Or are we mediocre and we content ourselves with our laboratory of apostolic programs?”

Instead, people need to remember “the strength of the church does not reside in itself and its organizational abilities, but hides in the deep waters of God,” the pope said.

These “deep waters stir up our desires and these yearnings widen the heart,” he said, citing St. Augustine, who saw prayer as a way to fuel the desire to widen one’s heart to God. St. “Faber was consumed by the intense desire to convey the Lord” to others and “if we don’t have the same yearning, then we need to stop and pray and, with silent fervor, ask the Lord for the intercession of our brother Peter (the apostle) to return to fascinate us – that appeal of the Lord that led Peter to all that apostolic madness.”

Only with Christ at the center of one’s life can people go to the ends of the earth for God, he said.

The Jesuits must be willing to empty themselves and feel, think, love, see and walk like Christ, the pope said.

“This means doing what he did with the same feelings of his heart,” he said.

The Society of Jesus must be centered on Christ

and his church and on always being open and searching the horizon for “God who always surprises us.”

“If the God of surprises is not at the heart, the Society gets disoriented.”

Though he did not mention it in his homily, 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus by Pope Pius VII after it had been suppressed for 41 years starting in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV. To avoid losing his way, the pope said, a Jesuit must be “a person whose thinking is incomplete, whose thinking is open, so that he always thinks looking at the horizon that is the always greater glory of God who endlessly surprises us,” he said.

At the end of the Mass, Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Jesuits worldwide, thanked the pope for celebrating Mass with them and for the canonization of St. Faber, saying “each time a Jesuit becomes a saint is an opportunity for all of us to deepen our vocation.”

Father Nicolas also recalled the joy he felt when Pope Francis called him immediately to say “I just signed the decree” declaring Faber a saint.

The decree, signed on the pope’s birthday, Dec. 17, was an “equivalent canonization,” in which the pope inserts the name of the new saint in the universal calendar of saints without verifying a miracle performed through his intercession and without holding a formal canonization ceremony.

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On the dangers of defining ourselves

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iven the speed and change in our world today, the oceans of information being given us by the new technologies, the speed with which knowledge now passes through our lives, the increasing specialization and fragmentation inside higher education, and the everincreasing complexity of our lives, you occasionally hear someone say, usually just after offering an opinion on something: But what do I know anyway? Good question: What do we know anyway?

On the surface this may FATHER RON sound humble and, if sinROLHEISER cere, does depict a certain humility; but this kind of admission has a sad underside: What do I know anyway? Indeed, what can we know among all the complexity and sophistication of our world?

Well, we can know our own light, our own moral center, our own heart, our own mystical center.

Ultimately we can know what’s most real and most precious to us and this is the most important knowledge of all. We can know what’s ultimately important. Next to the inchoate knowledge we have of God, knowledge of our own light, of our own moral center, is the most important thing we will ever know. Indeed knowing our own center is intimately intertwined with knowing God. This is something we need to highlight today because so many forces around us and inside us conspire to deflect us from being awake to and attentive to our own deepest center, that is, from

being in touch with who we really are. When we’re honest we admit how difficult it is to be genuinely sincere and how difficult it is for us to act out of our real center rather than acting out of ideology, popular opinion, fashion, fad, or out of some prefabricated concept of ourselves that we’ve ingested from others around us. Often our attitudes and actions do not really reflect who we are. Rather they reflect who our friends are, the newspapers and websites we’ve read recently, and what newscasts and talk shows draw our attention. Likewise we often understand ourselves more by a persona that was handed to us by our family, our classmates, our colleagues, or our friends than by the reality that’s deepest inside us. Beginning from infancy on we ingest various notions of who we are: “You’re the bright one! You’re the stupid one!

You’re a rebel! You’re timid! You’re selfish! You’re afraid? You’re slow! You’ve got a quick mind.

You’re a loser! You’re bad! You’re good! You’re destined for higher things! You’ll be a failure!”

And so the challenge is to be more attuned to our own light, to our own moral center, to be more in touch with what’s ultimately most real and most precious to us. No small part of that is the challenge to resist self-definition, to not picture ourselves and act out of an image we’ve ingested of ourselves as a the bright one, the stupid one, the rebel, the timid one, the selfish one, the generous one, the bad one, the good one, the successful one, the failure, the one who needs to say: “But what do I know anyway?” What’s the price we pay for doing that?

First, both our compassion and our indignation then become prescribed and selective. We will praise certain people and things and be incensed by other people and other things not because these

speak to or speak against what’s most precious inside us, but because they speak to or against our image of ourselves. When that happens we not only lose our real selves we also lose our individuality. Ideology, popular opinion, fashion, fad, group-think, and hype, ironically, bury us into a sea of anonymity. In Rene Girard’s words: In our desire to be different we all inevitably end up in the same ditch! One needs only to look at any popular fad, such as wearing a baseball cap backward, to see the truth of this.

How might we healthily define ourselves in a way that doesn’t deflect us from being awake to our own light? What kind of self-definition might help free us from ideology? How might we think of ourselves in a way so that image of ourselves that we ingested in childhood might no longer hold us captive in adulthood so that we are strong and healthy enough to not let, as William Stafford says, a simple shrug or a small betrayal break our fragile health and send the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dykes?

There’s no easy answer, but here’s a suggestion: Early on in his ministry, when people were still trying to figure out who he was, they came to John the Baptist and asked him to define himself: “Who are you?” They asked: “Are you the Christ? Are you Elijah? Are you a prophet?” John replied that he was none of these. “Who are you then?” they persisted. John’s answer: I am a voice crying out in the wilderness! Just that, no more!

Now that’s a healthy self-image and a true humility, with no sad underside.

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

The ‘traps’ holding down the poorest of the poor

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ope Francis has ignited a useful and necessary conversation about our responsibilities to the poorest of the poor – those who some may be tempted to write out of the script of history as hopeless cases. That conversation would be enhanced if participants in it took a close look at Paul Collier’s suggestive book “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It” (Oxford University Press).

Collier shares the Holy Father’s passion for the well-being of the poorest GEORGE WEIGEL of the poor. As he wrote, “I have a little boy who is 6. I do not want him to grow up in a world with a vast running sore – a billion people stuck in desperate conditions alongside unprecedented prosperity.”

The poorest of the poor – the “bottom billion,” in Collier’s trenchant phrase – should be a challenge to everyone’s conscience.

Meeting that challenge means getting the facts straight, both about our current circumstances and the best means of fostering prosperity.

As for our current circumstances, Collier’s book was published in 2007, before financial dislocations shook the world economy, but the basic picture he drew remains valid: There are some 7 billion people on planet Earth; 1 billion or more of us enjoy unprecedented material prosperity; another 5 billion or so are en route to prosperity, although at different rates and to different degrees; and then there are Pope Francis’s “peripheries,” the “bottom billion,” who live in the 21st century as a matter of chronology but whose reality, Collier wrote, is “the 14th century: civil war, plague, ignorance.” On Collier’s reading of the data, most of the world’s poor are in fact getting not-poor (think of China and India), but the poorest of the poor (think large swaths of Africa) are sliding down a slippery slope to whatever lies beyond destitution.

The question, as ever, is: Why? The poor who are getting not-poor have, in the main, been incorporated into global systems of production and exchange: Sometimes roughly, to be sure, and often unevenly, but where economic

growth lifts large numbers of people out of poverty, that growth comes from being part of a global market, not from any other source. By contrast, the poorest of the poor, the outliers of the “bottom billion,” are disconnected: disconnected from the global economy and disconnected from the skills and habits necessary to participate in what has become a world market.

And why is that? Collier, who studied the varying impacts of development assistance at the World Bank before teaching economics at Oxford, lists four “traps” that hold the “bottom billion” down.

There is the “natural resource trap,” in which oil, minerals, or other marketable resources make a few oligarchs and politicians rich but deflect a country’s attention from pursuing the human and material infrastructure of genuine economic development. There is the “conflict trap,” in which countries are destroyed, economically, by civil wars and/or genocides. There is the “bad governance trap,” in which corruption and misgovernance waste development aid and make it impossible for investment to flourish (given what amounts to endemic lawlessness). And there is the curse of geography, by which landlocked countries in a bad neighborhood find their commerce and communications strangled.

All of which suggests that John Paul II was right when he proposed that the poorest of the poor suffered most from marginalization: from being trapped outside the networks where human economic creativity flourishes, wealth is created, and the poor become not-poor.

Providing effective assistance to the “bottom billion” is neither simple nor easy, but it is morally imperative. If getting countries not-poor were just a matter of money, the vast sums that have been spent on development assistance since the era of de-colonization would have done the job. But the job has manifestly not been done. That is no reason to abandon development aid. The challenge is to deploy development aid, and other instruments of foreign policy, more intelligently and strategically, providing immediate assistance to the desperate while helping build public cultures that can sustain productivity, exchange, and prosperity.

WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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The feast of the Baptism of the Lord Christ’s baptism by John the Baptist at the Jordan River is depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Greenlawn, N.Y. The feast of the Baptism of the Lord, celebrated Jan. 12 this year, marks the end of the Christmas season.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him.

MATTHEW 3:13-17 ISAIAH 42:1-4, 6-7 Thus says the Lord: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. a bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

PSALM 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Give to the Lord, you sons of God, give to the Lord glory and praise, Give to the Lord the glory due his name; adore the Lord in holy attire.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

The voice of the Lord is over the waters, the Lord, over vast waters.

The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

The God of glory thunders, and in his temple all say, “Glory!” The Lord is enthroned above the flood; the Lord is enthroned as king forever.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.”

ACTS 10:34-38 Peter proceeded to speak to those gathered in the house of Cornelius, saying: “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. You know the word that he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all, what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all

MATTHEW 3:13-17 Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?” Jesus said to him in reply, “Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

Then he allowed him. After Jesus was baptized, he came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

God’s royal children, clothed in purple JEFF HENSLEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The images of the Messiah offered in Isaiah and Matthew emphasize the gentle yet powerful nature of Jesus.

The Isaiah passage is a study in contrasts, and we humans have a hard time wrapping our minds around this very thing. It’s such a contrast that it seems an oxymoron: “He shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching.”

We’ve heard all this said so many times that we likely no longer hear it at all. This is not the way we think of rulers making their way in the world.

But it is the way that Jesus came to us to bring his kingdom.

Perhaps many would fault our new pope, Pope Francis, because he fits this model, but many are attracted to this approach of gentle strength. But popes are not the only ones who can act with a gentleness that attracts or with a seem-

POPE FRANCIS ‘TEST THE SPIRITS’

The Christian knows to guard his heart to distinguish what comes from the false prophets, the pope said in his homily at Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican Jan. 7.

He said the way of Jesus is that of service and humility, Vatican Radio reported.

The pope cited the Apostle John’s exbortation “not to trust every spirit but test the spirits” to “remain in the Lord.” What is the test?

Recognizing the path of Jesus, and “the abasement, humility and humiliation” of his death on the cross.

“And a voice came from the heavens, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.’”

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ing contrast of strength and meekness.

A few nights ago, I dreamed of an old friend, Ralph, who was strong and

meek, a man who spoke seldom and smiled often. In my dream I approached him and his wife Gilberte. When I

QUESTIONS: Who do you know who shows contrasting gentleness, meekness and strength? How can you learn from them?

turned and hugged my friend, I noted that he was wearing a new purple winter jacket – finer than any off-therack product I’d seen, but of a style that seemed fitting to this man who had retired from a career as a meat inspector before his death only a few years ago.

It was a delightful moment, but I didn’t realize his purple coat represented his royal status as a child of the King of Kings until a day or two later.

God – Ralph’s Father and Our Father – doesn’t see as we see. When he sees his children who have taken on his nature he doesn’t see a meat inspector and a mechanic or an engineer and an administrative assistant. He sees his royal children, clothed in purple, full of gentleness and goodness and power.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JANUARY 13: Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hilary of Poitiers, bishop and doctor; Memorial of St. Kentigern, bishop (Scotland). 1 SM 1:1-8. PS 116:12-13, 14-17, 18-19. MK 1:14-20.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14: Tuesday of the First week in Ordinary Time. 1 SM 1:9-20. 1 SM 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd. MK 1:21-28.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15: Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. 1 SM 3:1-10, 19-20. PS 40:2 and 5, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10. MK 1:29-39.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16: Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. 1 SM 4:1-11. PS 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25.

MK 1:40-45.

MARGUERITE BOURGEOYS 1620-1700 January 12 Growing up in Troyes, France, Marguerite formed a special relationship with Our Lady. She was turned away by two religious communities, but met the founder of Montreal, Canada, when he returned to France to visit his sister. He invited Marguerite to open a school in the New World; she went, despite misgivings, after praying to Mary. From that first school in an abandoned stable, her ministry grew to include teaching women crafts and founding the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame. She managed to keep her sisters uncloistered, despite opposition from the bishop, and served as superior for many years. When Pope John Paul II canonized her in 1982, she became Canada’s first woman saint.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17: Memorial of St. Anthony, abbot. 1 SM 8:4-7, 10-22a. PS 89:16-17, 18-19. MK 2:1-12.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18: Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. 1 SM 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1. PS 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. MK 2:13-17.

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Catholic filmmaker makes movie about Roberto Clemente, his boyhood idol MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – When he was a young boy, Richard Rossi insisted that his dad get general-admission tickets behind right field at old Forbes Field in Pittsburgh so he could be as close as possible to his boyhood idol, Roberto Clemente.

The Hall of Fame outfielder’s passion for baseball, and Rossi’s passion for Clemente, continued as the Pirates moved to Three Rivers Stadium, where Pittsburgh won the World Series in 1971.

But on Dec. 31, 1972, fans everywhere were thunderstruck to learn that Clemente, who was collecting relief supplies for Nicaraguan earthquake victims, was killed when the overloaded plane carrying the supplies plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

Rossi was no different.

“I just cried for days and days and days. I was devastated,” he told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview.

Clemente, even in death, remained young Rossi’s hero.

“At St. Athanasius grade school in Pittsburgh, the nuns would give us writing assignments, and every story I wrote was on Roberto Clemente,” he said.

Rossi’s admiration of Clemente never diminished, and he spent

time over the last five years making a movie about his life, “Baseball’s Last Hero: 21 Clemente Stories.”

Numerologists will appreciate the fact that there are 21 letters in the Baseball Hall of Famer’s full name – Roberto Clemente Walker – and that 21 was the jersey number he wore during his career with the Pirates.

That Clemente’s Pirates had a winning season and went to the playoffs in 2013 after 20 losing sea-

sons in a row is not lost on Rossi.

The prevailing attitude among diehard Pirates fans, he said, was, “Clemente’s not going to let us have 21 bad years.”

Hispanics have long pushed for Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig to retire the number 21 from use by all teams, just as he had in 1997 for the numeral 42 worn

by Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who was the first AfricanAmerican in 60 years to play in the majors.

Rossi is a bit ambivalent about retiring the number: yes, because it would honor Clemente. But perhaps no, because “he gave an example of living out his faith and living out the Gospel,” he said.

The film examines 21 episodes that took place in Clemente’s life during his big-league career.

The most difficult part might have been in casting Clemente. Rossi needed someone who could not only act, but resembled the Puerto Rican superstar and have athletic ability on top of that.

His choice: Olympic high jumper Jamie Nieto, 37, a native of California who is of Mexican heritage.

“He was in the last Olympics while he was shooting this film,” Rossi said. “He finished fourth in the high jump the first time (the 2008 Summer Olympics). He didn’t medal this time. He was the oldest

guy at the Olympics in his sport.”

Rossi said the dramatic fulcrum of “Baseball’s Last Hero” is a conversation Clemente has with a nun.

“She talks to him about the cross.

‘Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends,’ is what the nun quotes to him from Scripture, talking about ‘sacrificial love and Christ’s sacrificial love,’” he said. “This is the theme I wanted to point out – an allegory of Christ on the cross.”

Rossi said he had gotten pressure to delete the scene from the movie for being “too preachy and too Catholic.” As it turns out, he added, it’s “one of the most popular things in the film.”

The movie has had screenings in Pittsburgh, where Clemente played for 18 years, as well as Chicago and New York. Rossi is working on staging screenings in San Francisco and Hollywood as well as a big rollout to coincide with the availability of the move on Amazon.com. The retail price? $21.21.

Rossi, now 50, added, “I think the little boy in me wanted to make this film.”

As for his old Clemente stories of his school days, “my mother might have them packed away. She’s a pack rat,” Rossi said. “The last time I was there I saw a bunch of papers. I saw a note to Jesus in them that I had written.”

Books discuss link between religion, violence from varied viewpoints REVIEWED BY BRIAN WELTER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“SHAKING HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE INTERSECTION OF TERRORISM AND THEOLOGY” BY WILLIAM J. ABRAHAM. Highland Loch Press (Dallas, 2013). 180 pp., $19.95.

“THE GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANS: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF ANTI-CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION” BY JOHN L. ALLEN JR. Image Books (New York, 2013). 336 pp., $25.

Like it or not, religion has always taken a central place in the world’s violence. While William Abraham’s “Shaking Hands with the Devil” and John Allen’s “The Global War on Christians” discuss very different issues, the authors share the same aim of reducing the stereotyping about religion and the religious that seems a constant in our secularized world.

Having grown up in Northern Ireland and witnessed the violence firsthand, Abraham points out many common fallacies, such as the assumption that the violence in Northern Ireland is religiously based, when in fact it is an ethnic issue.

This sectarianism divides “Protestants,” mostly atheists who identify with the United Kingdom, from “Catholics,” who dream of a united Irish Republic.

Abraham is more philosophical and theological than political. He avoids taking sides, and sees the

people as caught up in a process that is beyond them. Readers won’t be confronted by moralizing of any sort. Rather, he muses about the nature of violence, religion and human behavior.

While Abraham only touches on the just war theory made famous by St. Augustine, he offers much more balance to this important topic than Christian pacifists, whom he rejects as parasites living under the peace provided by those willing to fight for justice and defend the weak.

He writes scornfully of the famous American Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas: “His reductionist and simplistic descriptions of war are so obviously false that they undercut his claim to possess an exclusively privileged access to the truth about war through the church.”

Abraham’s treatment of Islamic terrorists echoes the entirety of the book in searching for nuance and honesty rather than platitudes. He does ask if Islam itself is the problem, something that the mainstream media and the governments of the West shy away from doing. He notes how devout the 9/11 terrorists were, including the religious preparations that they likely undertook just before they acted.

Readers who are used to weakkneed Christian leaders will be satisfied with the author’s frankness.

“The Global War on Christians” offers a stark assessment of the facts gathered by Allen. The book is a wake-up call to comfortable Christians who have no idea how bad things are, even in the United

Kingdom or North America. He quotes Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George’s chilling words: “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square.”

All areas of the world, including the Catholic countries Mexico and Brazil, have seen Christian martyrdom in recent years. Christians following the dictates of their conscience have often run afoul of local ranchers and government officials in the Amazon area, for instance.

Often such believers are putting into action the teachings of Catholic social justice by fighting for the dispossessed.

Filling the book with anecdotes puts a human face on the suffering of so many. We read of a Honduran pastor who was shot while walking his dogs, two days after the daughter of another pastor had been killed.

While discussing these sad episodes, Allen outlines a more precise definition of martyrdom than we commonly imagine: “Observers believe the pastors were not tar-

geted because they were Christian, but were victims of robberies. Their choice to remain accessible in the environment, however, reflected a determination to live the gospels despite obvious risks.”

An optimist, Allen adopts Tertullian’s famous phrase, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” meaning that martyrdom leads to church growth. Yet this is a weak argument: Centuries of Christian martyrdom in Muslim countries have only brought a numerical and cultural decline of Christians in that area, however dedicated the small minorities remain. Likewise, formerly religious countries that fell under communism, such as the Czech Republic or Bulgaria, are largely atheist after decades of church persecution.

It is also an unconvincing argument because Allen fails to discuss the possibility that rapid church growth precedes and in some way provokes increased martyrdom, rather than the opposite. A swelling number of Christians invites persecution because believers are more visible than previously and are perhaps seen as a menace by political authorities who have often based their power on traditional social structures.

In any case, while both books are worth the effort, Allen’s is the one people will read to the last page, principally because of how timely it is and because of his references to real people.

WELTER has degrees in history and theology, and teaches English in Taiwan.

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Please send resume and a letter of interest by March 28th, 2014 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

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Minimum Qualifications: • Excellent communications skills • Bi-lingual English and Spanish speaker • An understanding and willingness to learn Restorative Justice Principles, core values, and benefits.

• High integrity, flexibility and openness to establish credibility and relationships.

• Ability to facilitate discussions and decisions is also essential quality.

• The candidate must be a practicing Catholic in good standing.

• Strong knowledge of or insight into the local community, or be capable of quickly and effectively developing this understanding.

• An educational background or professional experience in human services, social services, probation, criminal justice, crime and gang prevention. The minimum education and experience requirements consist of a bachelor’s degree in a related field, and or combination of five years of increasingly responsible administrative duty.

If you are qualified and interested in applying for this challenging, and personally rewarding employment opportunity, forward a letter of interest highlighting your qualifications and including your resume and compensation expectations, and mail to:

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SUNDAY, JAN. 12 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring Gail Archer, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext.

213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14 FERTILITY SUPPORT: San Francisco Catholic Infertility Fellowship meets monthly to provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to married individuals and couples who have been struggling to conceive a child for six months or more. Meetings are second Tuesdays, 7 p.m., Siena Room, St Dominic Parish, Bush Street at Steiner, San Francisco. Visit http://sfcatholicif. blogspot.com/.

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m.

Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JAN 15 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@ usfca.edu.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of

SATURDAY, JAN. 25

SATURDAY, JAN. 11 HANDICAPABLES ANNIVERSARY: Handicapables celebrates its 49th anniversary with Mass and lunch at noon at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Father Father Kirk Kirk Ullery is Ullery principal celebrant and homilist. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Call Randy Devoto of the Knights of Malta at (415) 321-1100.

TUESDAY, JAN. 14 THEOLOGY OF POPE FRANCIS: Bishop McElroy is among presenters including Archbishop John R. Quinn at “Forward in Faith” series beginning Jan. 14 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Hilary

the Cathedral. These sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Call Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

SATURDAY, JAN. 18 CRAB FEED: Archbishop Riordan High School “Crab Feed Dinner” benefiting Crusader Athletics. Enjoy delicious fresh crab, good fun, and good company, $60 per person. More information: www.riordanhs.org; Sharon Udovich, (415) 586-8200, ext. 217. Event will sell out–book early!

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Group meets weekly on Tuesdays through March 4, 9 a.m., Marian Room tinside St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive Sister Toni Lynn at 23rd Avenue by Gallagher, RSM Stonestown Mall, San Francisco. Call Peggy Teshara at (415) 334-0653; Veronica Wong at (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 23 HUMAN RIGHTS: Theology Café series, Bishop Robet W. McElroy expands on the social teaching of the Catholic Church with regard to human and civil rights, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. Call (650) 361-1411. Email srnorberta@ pius.org.

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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29 POST-ABORTION SUPPORT: 10week post abortive support and scripture study group in San Mateo for men and women. Contact Christine Watkins, (415) 260-4406; christine4faith@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, FEB. 1 PEACE MASS: Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Brian Costello, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist.

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WORLD DAY OF SICK MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Archbishop Street at Geary Salvatore J. Boulevard, San Cordileone Francisco. “A special time of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who, by suffering, dying and rising, achieved the salvation of mankind,” as stated by Blessed John Paul II. Mass is hosted by men and women of the Order of Malta. Contact Kenneth Ryan, kenmryan@aol.com; (415) 6130395.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring Hans Uwe Hielscher, organist. (415) 5672020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Sarah Wanamaker, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

SUNDAY, FEB. 23 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Angela Kraft, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 27 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. Feb. 27: Michael Neri, professor, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, Menlo Park. Sister Norberta (650) 3611411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

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SUNDAY, FEB. 2 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Xiyan Wang, piano, with Shan Huang, trumpet; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Ryan Enright, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 1 PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, 9 a.m., Msgr. Labib Kobti, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Lisa Wallace, harp; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www. stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today.

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