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US bishops: Prayer, local dialogue key to bringing peace Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service

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People carry crosses with names of victims of gun violence during a Dec. 31 march in downtown Chicago. Hundreds of people joined the march organized by Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Parish on the city’s South Side, to remember those who died by gun violence in 2016.

Archdiocese offering parishes a new tool for evangelization Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Pope Francis has said repeatedly over the course of almost four years that a key element of Christian spirituality and evangelization is a “welcoming attitude” toward those outside the church. This month, the Archdiocese of San Francisco will share a successful blueprint for how to do that with parishes during one-day Sister Celeste training in the Alpha course series Arbuckle on Jan. 28 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco. Alpha is an 11-session primer in Christianity de-

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church has a “tremendous responsibility to bring people together in prayer and dialogue, to begin anew the vital work of fostering healing and lasting peace,” said a report by a U.S. bishops’ task force released Jan. 5 in the wake of last year’s incidents of violence and racial tensions. The work to “root out racism and create healthy dynamics in our neighborhoods” is a long-term project, but the scope of it should not cause fear or intimidation, wrote Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta, chairman of the Task Force to Promote Peace in Our Communities, in the report’s introduction. He also said “the church is at her absolute best when she is a bold and prophetic voice for the power of the love upon which our faith is based, the love of Jesus Christ.” see US bishops, page 22

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veloped over 30 years ago by an Anglican priest and now used by other Christian denominations and thousands of Catholic parishes in 70 countries to introduce people to Jesus and his life-changing message. It is not a Bible-study or discipleship program, it is, as its name suggests, a beginning. Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the office of religious education, said the training is open to any Catholic parishioner who might like to form an Alpha team at their parish. She is also encouraging pastors, pastoral staff, youth and outreach ministry leaders and religious education staff to attend. “A lot of our religious education processes go into the catechumenate or the rite of election at Lent,”

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church is “very far” from a situation in which the pope is in need of “fraternal correction” because he has not put the faith and church teaching in danger, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Interviewed Jan. 9 on the Italian all-news channel, TGCom24, Cardinal Muller said Pope Francis’ Cardinal Muller

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Need to know Parish merger: St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Monica parishes in San Francisco merged effective Jan. 1, by a decree of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone signed Dec. 8. Both parishes have seen a significant decline in the number of parishioners in recent years, calling into question the viability of two parishes, according to the decree. The merger, supported by the pastor of both parishes, the parish councils and finance councils and recommended by a majority vote of the archdiocesan presbyteral council, will provide for “stronger evangelization, faith formation and financial stability, as well as effective administration and stewardship of the resources of both parishes,” the decree states. National Migration Week: The U.S. bishops’ National Migration Week is marked Jan. 8-14. Celebrated annually for nearly a half century, the week is an opportunity for the church to reflect on the circumstances confronting migrants, including immigrants, refugees, children and victims and survivors of human trafficking, according to information on the week available at www. justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/NMW-2017-Toolkit_000.pdf. The theme for National Migration Week 2017 draws attention to Pope Francis’ call to create a culture of encounter. CLERGY NIGHT: Knights of Columbus, St. Francis Chapter host the evening honoring bishops, priests and deacons, Jan. 20, 6 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. $30. Contact Rich Dizon, (650) 274-9906; richdizon@gmail.com; pr Jeff Craig, (415) 596-9654; kofcdd22@outlook.com. FILIPINO PRAYER EVENT: Sinulog Festival, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Jan. 14, 11 a.m. Mass by Archbishop Cordileone followed by reception; this event inaugurates the devotion honoring Santo Nino, the Child Jesus, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Contact Edgar Estonina, eestonina@ comcast.net; or Freda Motak, fredamotak@gmail.com. National Federation of Priests’ Councils: The National Federation of Priests’ Councils will hold its 49th Annual Convocation of Priests from April 24-27 at the Majestic Garden Hotel, Anaheim. The convocation, formerly for priest council members, is now open to all Catholic priests, the federation said in an announcement. The theme for the 2017 convocation is “Forging a Future with Pope Francis.” Speakers will present information in light of Pope Francis’ leadership with practical and concrete applications for priestly life. This year’s speakers include Father Ralph O’Donnell reporting on the U.S. bishops’ Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations Committee; Father Ken Simpson of the Archdiocese of Chicago speaking on reaching millennials; Kevin Appleby, who leads the international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies, speaking about immigration; and Bishop Robert McElroy, Diocese of San Diego, speaking about priestly ministry. For more information visit www.nfpc.org or call (312) 442-9700. CSF 2017 schedule: Jan. 12, 26; Feb. 9, 23; March 9, 23; April 6, 13, 27; May 11, 25; June 8, 22; July 13, 27; Aug. 17, 31; Sept. 14, 28; Oct. 12, 26; Nov. 9, 16, 23; Dec. 7, 14.

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she said. But what if that’s not where a person is yet? “If a parish has an inquiry ministry or wants to add one this may help them.” Each Alpha session involves a communal meal followed by a talk or video addressing basic questions such as “Who is Jesus?” “Why did he die?” and “What is the Holy Spirit?” Afterward, small group discussions invite participants to openly inquire or share their faith stories with others. “I didn’t know what to expect,” said Julie Jessmon, a participant in an Alpha group for young adults in Plymouth, Michigan, in a comment posted on the Catholic section of the Alpha website. “That was the first time I’d heard people talk from their heart about their faith.” Different Alpha formats are offered to help a parish connect with different age groups, such as youth, and the course involves one Alpha weekend. “Learning to share one’s faith with others is different from faith formation,” said Sister Celeste. “We Catholics are not particularly good at witnessing our faith,” she said. “We tend to be more private or reserved and as a result, some people might not hear our invitation to faith. Alpha provides a natural context for that.” Sister Celeste said that while Alpha is not intended to bring participants to a full understanding of the Catholic faith, it could be a gateway into the church and a parish’s adult and youth faith formation and religious education programs. While Alpha is a course in the fundamentals of the Christian faith for those who have not yet committed to it, it has also been endorsed by Catholic bishops around the world and recommended by U.S. bishops on the ussccb.org website as a resource for engaging inactive or returning Catholics and a tool for the “new evangelization.” The alphausa.org website offers a section on running Alpha in a Catholic context and in-

Sister Celeste Arbuckle cludes testimonials from Catholic bishops and priests around the world. “We often find people in our pews who have been sacramentalized without ever having been evangelized,” reads a statement. “Such individuals may very well also be part of your initial audience.” St. Anne of the Sunset pastor Father Daniel Nascimiento heard about Alpha from someone who had witnessed its success in his diocese. He decided to offer his parish as a venue for the Jan. 28 training and intends to form an Alpha team afterward. He said his school with a large number of nonCatholic students makes Alpha an opportunity to engage those families. “My view of faith is that it is supposed to enrich your life,” he said. “Alpha is a blessing that can help create the space where adults can have some sort of conversations around that.” A $30 registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and training materials. Discount available for groups of four or more. Visit alphausa.org/sanfranciscojan28 or contact gaylatotaro@alphausa.org or call (714) 840-1553.

Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule Jan. 12: Presbyteral Council, Priest Personnel Board and chancery meetings; Catholic University of America reception

Jan. 20: Executive board, California Catholic Conference

Jan. 14: Santo Nino Mass, 11 a.m., cathedral

Jan. 21: Walk for Life: Cathedral Mass 9:30; rally and walk; dinner

Jan. 17: Installation of auxiliary bishop, Diocese of Orange

Jan. 23: Solemn Vespers with Metropolitan Gerasimos, Immaculate Heart of Mary

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Catholic Charities to honor former 49er Former San Francisco 49er Bill Ring will be honored with Catholic Charities “Loaves & Fishes Award” in ceremonies at San Francisco’s Regis Hotel April 22. Ring has served on Catholic Charities board of directors for Bill Ring 25 years. “We are excited to honor Bill with the 2017 Loaves & Fishes Faith in Action Award for his incredible service to our community and to Catholic Charities,” said Jeff Bialik, Catholic Charities executive director. “His commitment to our mission and passion for bettering the lives of children and youth has made our community a better place to live, learn and grow.” Ring was born in Iowa and moved to the Bay Area with his family as a boy. He attended Carlmont High School and the College of San Mateo finishing his degree at Brigham Young Universi-

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ty where he captained the university’s conference champion football team. He played six seasons as a running back with the San Francisco 49ers and was a member of the 49ers 1981 and the 1984 Super Bowl championship teams. Ring has been inducted into both the San Mateo County Sports Hall of Fame and the College of San Mateo Athletics Hall of Fame. “He currently champions the spring Catholic Charities Campership Campaign appeal to fund scholarships to CYO Camp,” Catholic Charities said. “He personally signs over 100 letters, sends thank you notes or follow-up notecards in order to ensure that at risk kids experience a week among the redwoods.” Ring’s post-football career has been in the financial sector where he is currently regional director of private client services at Capital Group in San Francisco. He and his wife, Connie, live in Portola Valley.

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tion program in the archdiocese for five years. Father Dave was ordained June 9, 1962. His birthday is Feb. 7. Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester will be principal celebrant and homilist at the 10:30 a.m. Mass Feb. 12. Father Bill Brady is pastor. DIRECTIONS: There is still time to connect with Landings, a Paulist program helping Catholics back to the church beginning Jan. 18 at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. “All the meetings will be held at OLA, but anyone in the area is welcome to participate,” coordinator Darlene Wigler told me. Contact Darlene at landings@olaparish.org; (650) 787-2598. Pre-registration is required. Landings website is http://landingsintl.org/.

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Coby Sobrepeña has his sights set on becoming an Eagle Scout and his plan to attain the rank is just as firm. The St. Ignatius College Prep freshman coordinated a backpack drive that filled more than 120 of the bags with items including blankets, personal items, handcrafted ornaments and letters to thank homeless men and women formerly of the armed forces for their service and bravery. “When I discovered that over 30 percent of the homeless are veterans, I wanted to help them,” Coby told me via email. “They have sacrificed so much for our freedom. This also hits close to home because I have relatives who are veterans.” Coby had a chance to speak with a veteran who received one of the backpacks made available with the help of veterans assistance group Swords to Plowshares. “It was a very touching moment,” Coby said. “While I was speaking with one of the veterans, he thanked me and said, ‘People don’t know how difficult it is for veterans to settle back into society.’” Coby started scouting in 2013. “I became a scout because I enjoyed camping and wanted to learn the skills of being a Boy Scout like rifle and shotgun marksmanship, rock climbing, wilderness survival, and kayaking,” he said. His march to Eagle Scout began last year after achieving “the other ranks of the Boy Scouts such as Star Scout and Life Scout while earning merit badges such as Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, First Aid, Salesmanship, Lifesaving, and Personal Management,” he said. Coby will receive the rank of Eagle Scout at a court of honor in May. About his future, the service oriented scout said: “A career aspiration of mine is to be able to help people who are in need.”

PROUD MOM: Lani Meneses leads a hats off to her daughter Christina Meneses Casillas, a graduate of St. Anne School, San Francisco later earning degrees including a doctorate in educational leadership at San Diego State University. Christina is currently principal of a San Diego middle school and was invited to the Global Principals Summit in Chengdu China in October. The conference “explores global collaboration, and invites principals, senior management, district school boards and supporting organizations to share best practices and discuss the challenges and network with peers from across the globe,” her mom said. PITCHIN’ IN: More than 150 parishioners of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame filled backpacks for homeless veterans Dec. 11. Pictured from left are some of the helpers: Lisa Della Santina, Rob Della Santina, Catherine Hughes, Susan Cooper, and Girl Scouts, from left, Clara Brunello, Sofia Della Santina and Caitlyn Hughes. Coby’s parents are Joanne Sotto and Victor Sobrepena

TRADITION: Coby Sobrepeña and his Eagle Scout dad, Victor Sobrepena. “My dad encouraged me to join scouting to learn about leadership skills while having fun,” Coby said. “Along the way, I’ve been able to be part of service projects that help the less fortunate. I wanted to follow in his footsteps.”

CENTURY PLUS: Father David Pettingill will be honored Feb. 12 at San Francisco’s St. Emydius Church in rites and celebration commemorating his 80th birthday and his service at the parish for the last 20 years. Father Dave, Father Pettingill who grew up in St. Emydius, is a former pastor of St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco. He also served at Marin Catholic High School for 22 years, eight as principal; taught homiletics, liturgy and Scripture at St. Patrick’s Seminary for 9 years, and was director of the diaconate forma-

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Melissa Ohden survived her mother’s abortion – and that’s just the beginning of the story ently she was in danger of dying. “My aunt was saying to my birth mom – do you want this? And she was saying, no, gosh, no,” said Ohden, for whom the whole story is still fresh because she met her birth mother less than a year ago. “My aunt tried to break her out of the hospital and the nurses told her it is too late and you will kill her too,” Ohden said. Ohden has written a book, “You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir” (The Plough Publishing House, Jan. 9, 2017). Her birth father died before she could contact him. “I not only share my survival and my search for my biological family, I ultimately get to share how

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Melissa Ohden was delivered during a saline infusion abortion, a 2-pound, 14-ounce baby suffering jaundice and respiratory distress after undergoing five days of inhaling toxic salt and Pitocin laced amniotic fluid. An adopted child, she did not learn the facts of her birth until she was 14 during a childhood argument with her sister. Not until last year did she meet her birth mother and learn that her birth mother was forced to abort her – and that her twin sister – and Melissa’s aunt – tried to help the pregnant 19-yearold escape from the hospital during the abortion procedure in Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 29, 1977. “It was literally forced upon her. She was given no other choice. We know that is representative of so many women,” said Ohden, who will speak at the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on Jan. 21. Ohden, who is now based in Kansas City, founded the Abortion Survivors Network, theabortionsurvivors.com. She counts 210 people who were born alive during an abortion. She says there may be many more – those are only the ones who have contacted her. “I appeared to have a bleak future, but I was alive,” Ohden wrote in an account in 2007 for The American Feminist. She was adopted by parents who knew “full well that as they opened their hearts and their home to me, they took a chance on raising a child who would quite probably not live past her infancy. If I did survive, I would more than likely be disabled.” For years, Ohden said she “struggled with strong feelings of guilt for being physically, mentally and emotionally able; I know full well that millions of babies each year are not as lucky as I was.” Today, Ohden told Catholic San Francisco, both her and her birth mother’s experiences highlight another often disregarded aspect of abortion. “As a woman we often hear about abortion being a right. As a woman who survived an abortion, where is my right in that? Certainly the other piece of that is the rights of my biological mother. I spent years thinking she chose to abort me,” Ohden said. “It was literally forced upon her, she was given no other choice.” For 39 years her birth mother believed Melissa had died in the abortion, as Melissa’s adoption was arranged without her knowledge, Ohden said. To learn her child was alive, married, with two children, and a successful career, was like a dream. “It’s like a fantasy and it’s also a horror story. Her own sister tried to break her out of the hospital,” said Ohden who said her birth grandmother was a nurse and was responsible for arranging and was present for the abortion. The 19-yearold’s sister was brought to see her because appar-

Saturday, January 21, 2017 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA • San Francisco SPEAKERS:

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Mercy Sister Ana Marie Pineda looks at the ministry and lives of late San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero and late Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande in the Saturday Series in January: book “Romero and Grande: ComCreating Authentic Relationships panions on the Journey.” Archwith Barbara Gordon Kaleva (1/7, 1/14, 1/21 & 1/28) bishop Romero died in 1980 and Father Grande in 1977, both victims To register, please call or go to our website. of assassination in El Salvador. 710 Highland Dr.; Danville, CA 925-837-9141 The book’s perspective is nuVisit us at www.sandamiano.org and on Facebook Sister Ana Marie anced by the author’s Salvadoran heritage and presents the two Pineda, RSM men, who died speaking out for Franciscan Missionary Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows the poor, as flawed human beings who nevertheSisters of Our Lady of Sorrows St Clare’s Retreat less strove to do God’s will, said Liz Dossa, Mercy St. Clare’s Retreat 2381 Laurel Glen Road, Soquel, CA. 95073Sisters communication director, in a statement. 2381 Laurel Glen Road, Soquel, CA. 95073 Tel (831) 423-8093 Brought to San Francisco at age 2, the author TelE-mail: (831) 423-8093 stclaresretreatcenter@gmail.com E-mail: stclaresretreatcenter@gmail.com Website: www.stclaresretreatcenter.com prizes her parents’ determination to keep the lan-

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guage and culture of their homeland alive for her and her four siblings, Dossa said. Sister Ana Marie is currently an associate professor of theology at Santa Clara University. “I wanted to write about their humanity,” Sister Ana Marie said in the statement about the subjects of the book. Said Dossa: “Sister Ana Marie reveals Father Grande’s fragility, his struggle with depression and yet eventually his powerful effectiveness as a seminary teacher and pastoral priest. She describes Archbishop Romero’s personality as that of an introvert, a scholar and an aloof theologian who was often intolerant of other’s weaknesses. Romero’s more traditional view of the church changed slowly.” The author met Archbishop Romero a year before his death saying his “quiet, self-possessed spirit” impressed her deeply. Mercy Sister Ana Marie Pineda will discuss the background on her book and why she wrote it Feb. 11, 2-3:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, admission free, mercy-center.org.

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Clergy and laity invited to Marian Movement events Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

The successor to the founder of the Marian Movement of Priests will hold separate Cenacles and Mass for clergy and laity on Jan. 22 at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, said Father Larry Goode, pastor. Father Laurent Larroque, director general of the worldwide Marian Movement of Priests will be holding the Cenacle as part of an American tour. The program includes exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Cenacle, followed by Mass. Father Larroque succeeds Father Stefano Gobbi, who was inspired to start the Marian Movement of Priests in 1972. Truly a “movement” and not an organized association with officers and by-laws, the Marian Movement of Priests is intimately connected with Fatima and its message. This May 13, 2017, will be the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to the children of Fatima.

Father Gobbi died, June 29, 2011, at the age of 81 after bringing Our Lady’s message to the farthest corners of the world. He is the author of “To the Priest, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons,” which documented the messages Father Gobbi received from Our Blessed Mother since 1973. Copies of the book will be available at the Jan. 22 event. The annual Rosary Rally which is held in San Francisco in October will focus on the Consecration to the Heart of Mary which Our Lady asked for at Fatima. Consecration to the Heart of Mary is part of every Cenacle; just as the Apostles gathered around Mary on Pentecost so priests and lay people gather around Mary awaiting the new Pentecost, the triumph of the Immaculate heart.

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Dominican sisters, Archbishop Wester host talk on mission ofDelivering laity on the Powe Christina Gray

‘There are legitimate ways of talking about how lay ministers are formed and authorized and commissioned and missioned. But ultimately, it is Jesus Christ who does that.’

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About 100 people ventured out in a downpour on Jan. 6 to hear Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester talk about the vocation and mission of the laity as a guest of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael. The free, 90-minute event was a part of the Dominican Sisters’ regular “Gather at Grand” Friday evening event series at their Marin County convent. Archbishop Wester was on the subcommittee of U.S. bishops that produced “Coworkers in the Vineyard of the Lord” in 2005, a resource for the development of the lay ecclesial ministry. In his 90-minute presentation, he presented some observations about the role of the laity, the progress that has been made in lay ministry and continuing challenges. “Very often the laity find their roles very challenging,” he said. There are practical, financial and sociological challenges, he said, as well as theological ones, such as the lingering view by some clergy that the laity is not defined by a sense of vocation. “When I was first ordained, I can still distinctly remember being told not to refer to the laity as ministers,” the archbishop said. “We’ve come a

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Federal judge blocks HHS transgender regulation Catholic News Service

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge in Texas Dec. 31 blocked a regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring Catholic hospitals and health care providers to perform or provide gender transition services, saying it would place “substantial pressure” on the plaintiffs – a coalition of religious medical organizations who said the ruling was contrary to their religious beliefs. “Plaintiffs will be forced to either violate their religious beliefs or maintain their current policies, which seem to be in direct conflict with the rule and risk the severe consequences of enforcement,” U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor wrote. The injunction comes four months after the same judge blocked a federal directive requiring public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services requires that Catholic hospitals and health care providers perform or provide gender transition services, hormonal treatments and counseling as well as a host of surgeries that would remove or transform the sexual organs of men or women transitioning to the other gender. The HHS regulation requires group health plans to cover these procedures and services. In the suit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Wichita Falls, the

Washington-based Becket Fund represented two groups against the new government regulation: Franciscan Alliance, a religious hospital network sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration and the Christian Medical and Dental Association. The states of Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin also joined in the suit. “This court ruling is an across-the-board victory that will ensure that deeply personal medical decisions, such as gender transition procedures, remain between families and their doctor,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at Becket Law. She also said the judge’s decision was “a commonsense ruling” noting that the government “has no business forcing private doctors to perform procedures that the government itself recognizes can be harmful, particularly to children, and that the government exempts its own doctors from performing.” A similar lawsuit was filed against the HHS ruling Dec. 28 by the Catholic Benefits Association, the Diocese of Fargo and Catholic Charities North Dakota in U.S. District Court in North Dakota. “We ask only for the freedom to serve consistent with our conscience and our Catholic faith,” Bishop John T. Folda of Fargo said in a statement, released by the Catholic Benefits Association. “While we do not discriminate against individuals because of their orientation, our Catholic values will not permit us to pay for or facilitate actions that are contrary to our faith.”

Catholic organizations, faith groups glad to see end of Muslim registry

WASHINGTON – Catholic organizations and other faith groups say they are happy with the Obama administration’s last-minute decision to end a type of national Muslim registry. The National Security Exit-Entry Registration System, known as NSEERS, began under the George W. Bush administration following the 9/11 attacks and asked that men from some countries in the Middle East register with the U.S. government when they arrived in the U.S. It continued during President Barack Obama’s two terms in office even as organizations, including Catholic groups, have long called for its demise. “I’m glad the president took action to end a program that by all accounts wasn’t effective and undermined core American values,” said John Gehring, the Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, an advocacy group in Washington. Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known by the acronym CLINIC and based in Silver Spring, Maryland, said the decision was a victory. “Not only was it discriminatory” and failed to lead to the capture of terrorists, said CLINIC Executive Director Jeanne Atkinson in a Dec. 22 news release, but also it broke apart families as people were deported, some for causes such as being a day late after having to tend to an emergency. While the program asked that immigrants from North Korea also register, NSEERS “in effect targeted immigrant Muslims,” said Jordan Denari Duffner, a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative. Catholic News Service

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NY cardinal to participate in Trump inauguration

WASHINGTON – New York’s Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan will take part in the upcoming presidential inauguration of Republican Donald Trump. “I am honored to have been asked to offer a reading from Scripture at the upcoming presidential inauguration, and look forward to asking almighty God to inspire and guide our new president and to continue to bless our great nation,” Cardinal Dolan said in an email to Catholic News Service. Trump, a lifelong New Yorker, will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Jan. 20. According to the president-elect’s inaugural committee, other faith leaders who are scheduled to be present include the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership

Conference; Paula White of New Destiny Christian Center; Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; the Rev. Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association; and Bishop Wayne T. Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International. The Washington Post reported in a Dec. 21 story that Trump is scheduled to attend “a private family church service at St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House,” where many previous presidents have worshipped just before being sworn-in. A day after the inauguration, Trump is expected to attend the 58th Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service, an interfaith service at Washington’s National Cathedral. Catholic News Service

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Cardinal Tobin looks to bridge chasm between faith, life Beth Griffin Catholic News Service

NEWARK, N.J. – The chasm between faith and life is the greatest challenge facing the Catholic Church today, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin said at his installation Mass, and he urged the church to be salt for the earth so that the presence of Christ does not become “a comforting, nostalgic memory.” Delivering the homily during the liturgy Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany, Cardinal Tobin said he wanted to head off “a growing trend that seems to isolate us, convincing us to neatly compartmentalize our lives” as people attend Mass on Sunday and then doing “whatever we think we need to do to get by” the rest of the week. Cardinal Tobin said his appointment reminded him “that stakes are incredibly high” as he assumes leadership of the richly diverse Archdiocese of Newark.

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Nun organizes national preinauguration event to foster peace

she told Catholic News Service Jan. 3. “There would be a lot of unrest, division and hatred.” But she couldn’t just sit without doing anything about it and decided to find a way to counter all those bad feelings she was seeing and hearing. Sister Petruziello, a member of the Sisters of the Congregation St. Joseph in Cleveland,

WASHINGTON – Sister Rita Petruziello said she could feel the “contention and nastiness” in the air during the presidential election campaign of the last year. Instead of getting better as the process went along, it kept getting worse. “It didn’t matter who won,”

has since put together Circle the City with Love, an event that seeks to gather people across cities in the United States on Jan. 15 at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, have them join hands in their respective cities and, in silence, meditate together as a means to foster peace. The intention behind the event is to reduce the acrimony around the country during and after the election.

Aleppo friar: keep open mind on Syria

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WASHINGTON – Syrians don’t want to leave their homeland, they want a safe place to live in peace, said a Franciscan friar from Aleppo, Syria, who spoke on Jan. 5 with the Archdiocese of Washington’s Holy Land Committee. Franciscan Brother George Jamal, who is originally from Aleppo, said even though the situation in his homeland is complicated, it is important to learn about it and if people feel inclined to do something, they can learn about the different aid groups in the region to see how to best help. “My family, too, wants to be back after the war is finished,” he said, during the informal meeting, aimed at learning more about region. “It is home.” Recently, the Syrian government retook control of Aleppo after months of heavy fighting with rebel groups. It had been the largest city in the country before the conflict. Last year, Staffan de Mistura, United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, said the conflict has left 400,000 deaths in its wake and millions of people displaced as they have left to find safety in other countries.

Report cites ‘waste and abuse’ in family-planning programs

WASHINGTON – Audits showing Planned Parenthood’s alleged misuse of federal funds are further proof that

the organization should be barred from receiving federal money, pro-life advocates say. “The extent of waste and abuse in the nation’s family planning programs, and specifically in those operated by Planned Parenthood, is beyond disturbing,” Charlotte Lozier Institute president Chuck Donovan stated upon the release of a joint report by the institute and the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom on abortion clinics overbilling taxpayer-funded health programs. The report, titled “Profit. No Matter What,” is based on dozens of external audits and reviews of Planned Parenthood affiliates. Released Jan. 4, it was authored by Catherine Glenn Foster, a senior fellow in legal policy at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Death penalty declined in US in 2016, report says

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The year 2016 marked a major decline in the number of executions and sentences to capital punishment in the United States, a new report says. Last year there were 20 executions in the U.S., the lowest level in 25 years. The peak was in 1999, when 98 persons were executed. Thirty death sentences were imposed in 2016, the lowest since the death penalty was reinstated in 1973. In 1996, death penalty sentences peaked at 315. “America is in the midst of a major climate change concerning capital punishment. While there may be fits and starts and occasional steps backward, the long-term trend remains clear,” Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Dec. 16. Catholic News Service/CNA-EWTN News

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Homeless need urgent prayers during cold winter months, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced that his “urgent” prayer for the month of January is for all those who live on the streets with no shelter, expecially during the cold winter weather. “During these very cold days, I think of and I invite you to think of all the people who live on the streets, affected by the cold and many times by indifference,” he said Jan. 8. “Unfortunately some didn’t make it. Let us pray for them, and let us ask the Lord to warm our hearts so as to be able to help them.” The pope made his appeal looking out over frozen St. Peter’s Square and the thousands of pilgrims bundled up below the window to the Apostolic Palace. Last week the Vatican announced that the pope would be making some changes to his monthly prayer intentions in 2017, adding an “urgent” prayer intention himself each month, alongside the usual monthly intention, in order to garner rapid support for a cause. His attention to the homeless isn’t surprising, as it has been a consistent concern for Francis since the beginning of his pontificate. Not only did he have showers and a barber service installed in the bathrooms in St. Peter’s Square to help the homeless stay clean and tidy, he has invited them to several events in the Vatican, including concerts and tours of the museums, and they have consistently been his special guests for breakfast on his birthday.

Church needs new ‘vocational culture,’ pope says

VATICAN CITY – A fresh and courageous perspective is needed when it comes to helping youth discern and discover their vocation, Pope Francis said Thursday, emphasizing the importance of personal holiness and the commitment to serving others. “(Today) there is the urgency to bring into the Christian community a new ‘vocational culture,’” the pope said in his prepared Jan. 5 remarks. He said a vocational pastoral outreach “with broad horizons” and which comes from “the breath of communion,” is needed. This outreach, he said, must also be capable “of reading with courage the reality as it is” with the hardships and resistance included, while at the same time “recognizing the signs of generosity and beauty in the human heart.” Francis spoke to participants in a Jan. 3-5 convention organized by the Italian Bishops Conference’s office for vocations, titled “Rise, go and do not fear. Vocation and Holiness: I am on a mission.”

When a mother loses a child, reach out with tears, not words, pope says

VATICAN CITY – In the depths of despair, when no words or gestures will help, then cry with those who suffer, because tears are the seeds of hope, Pope Francis said. When people are hurting, “it is necessary to share in their desperation. In order to dry the tears from the face of those who suffer, we must join our weeping with theirs. This is the only way our words may truly be able to offer a bit of hope,” he said Jan. 4 during his weekly general audience. “And if I can’t offer words like this, with tears, with sorrow, then silence is better, a caress, a gesture and no words,” he said. In his first general audience of the new year, the pope continued his series of talks on Christian hope by reflecting on Rachel’s inconsolable sorrow and

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Guard and grow the faith, pope tells parents at baptism

Pope Francis baptizes one of 28 babies in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 8. Parents are charged with guarding the faith given to their children at baptism and helping them become true witnesses by example rather than just rules, the pope said.

mourning for her children who “are no more,” as written by the prophet Jeremiah. Rachel’s refusal to be consoled “expresses the depth of her pain and the bitterness of her weep-

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Sunday readings

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 49:3, 5-6 The Lord said to me: You are my servant, Israel, through whom I show my glory. Now the Lord has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord, and my God is now my strength! It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.” Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. “In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!” Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will. I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

PSALM 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will. I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:1-3 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus

King servant our Lord

ypically kings possess an entourage of personal staff that proves to be as functional as it is impressive. But there is always one who races ahead of the pack to broadcast the king’s movements to the people. Even this announcer, his words, and personality give the people an indication of what kind of a ruler the king is. Each subject wants the assurance that the king will truly have the good of his subjects at heart. John the Baptist is the voice, the announcer for the Messiah’s entrance onto the world stage. The fact that Christ has a prophet to make the way for his coming is a signal of his royal dignity. What is the announcer like? What clues does he give to sigsister maria nal the advent of the savior? catherine The most important piece toon, op of information that John the Baptist reveals is that Christ is the “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” The Jews were anticipating a virtuous political leader, or in other words, a really good man. But they were not expecting God in the flesh. John’s statement is a radical one. The early church father Athanasius keenly addresses the dilemma and paradox of Christ’s entrance into the world in his groundbreaking essay,

scripture reflection

“On the Incarnation.” He poses this dilemma to his interlocutors (people who were arguing that Christ was not equal to the father but secondary to him): Man was created to participate in the life of God, but through sin partakes of corruption and destruction. Should God allow the goodness of his creation to sink back into nothingness? God had warned that man would die if he took the fruit in the garden. Can he go back on his word, and look like a liar? Or should he administer the punishment and be ruthless in judgment? Athanasius gave this answer: In Christ’s incarnation God takes on human flesh, and dies. By doing so he fulfills the punishment prescribed for sin, yet he can save humanity at the same time because of his divinity’s union with the flesh. This is what the church calls the hypostatic union. So, John the Baptist sends a clear signal that the king will sacrifice himself against the onslaught of his people’s enemy - sin. His sacrifice will be so effective as to cleanly wipe out any trace of sin for the entire human race. But who is the king? John’s more important mission is to make Christ (the king who sacrifices himself) known. Christ is the one person who, while fully possessing the weakness of human nature, can eradicate sin in us, but he also simultaneously elevates our nature to friendship with God. He sent a prophet ahead whose voice resounds through generations to assure us of our loving God’s presence. He is Emmanuel (God with us) and the lamb who dies for us. Sister Maria is a perpetually professed member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, January 16: Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Heb5:1-10. Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4. Heb 4:12. Mk 2:18-22. Tuesday, January 17: Memorial of Saint Anthony, abbot. Heb 6:10-20. Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9 and 10c. Eph 1:17-18. Mk 2:23-28. Wednesday, January 18: Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 7:1-3, 15-17. Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4. Mt 4:23. Mk 3:1-6. Thursday, January 19: Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 7:25-8:6. Ps 40:7-8a, 8b9, 10, 17. 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 3:7-12. Friday, January 20: Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Fabian, pope and martyr; St. Sebastian, martyr. Heb 8:6-13. Ps 85:8 and 10, 11-12, 13-14. Mk 3:13-19. Saturday, January 21: Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr. Heb 9:2-3, 11-14. Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. Acts 16:14b. Mk 3:20-21. Sunday, January 22: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 8:23-9:3. Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14. 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17. Mt 4:23. MT 4:12-23 or Mt 4:12-17.

Monday, January 23: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. Optional Memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon & martyr. Heb 9:15, 2428. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. 2 Tm 1:10. Mk 3:22-30. Tuesday, January 24: Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor; Optional memorial of Our Lady of Peace. Heb 10:1-10. Ps 40:2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11. Mt 11:25. Mk 3:31-35. Wednesday, January 25: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22. Ps 117:1bc, 2. Jn 15:16. Mk 16:15-18. Thursday, January 26: Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops. 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5. Ps 96:12a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10. Ps 119:105. Mk 4:21-25. Friday, January 27: Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin. Heb 10:32-39. Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40. Mt 11:25. Mk 4:26-34. Saturday, January 28: Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor. Heb 11:1-2, 8-19. Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. Jn 3:16. Mk 4:35-41. Sunday, January 29: Zep 2:3; 3:12-13. Ps 146:67, 8-9, 9-10. 1 Cor 1:26-31. Mt 5:12a. Mt 5:1-12a.

Christ, their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. JOHN 1:29-34 John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”

Pope: Magi’s journey reflects people’s longing for God Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The Magi had the courage to set out on a journey in the hope of finding something new, unlike Herod who was full of himself and unwilling to change his ways, Pope Francis said. The Wise Men who set out from the East in search of Jesus personify all those who long for God and reflect “all those who in their lives have let their hearts be anesthetized,” the pope said Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany. “The Magi experienced longing; they were tired of the usual fare. They were all too familiar with, and weary of, the Herods of their own day. But there, in Bethlehem, was a promise of newness, of gratuity,” he said. Thousands of people were gathered in St. Peter’s Basilica as the pope entered to the sounds of the choir singing “Angels we have heard on high” in Latin. Before taking his place in front of the altar, the pope stood in front of a statue of baby Jesus, spending several minutes in veneration before kissing it. The pope said that the Magi adoring the newborn king highlight two specific actions: seeing and worshipping. Seeing the star of Bethlehem did not prompt them to embark on their journey but rather, “they saw the star because they had already set out,” he said. “Their hearts were open to the horizon and they could see what the heavens were showing them, for they were guided by an inner restlessness. They were open to something new,” the pope said. This restlessness, he continued, awakens a longing for God that exists in the hearts of all believers who know “that the Gospel is not an event of the past but of the present.” It is holy longing for God “that helps us keep alert in the face of every attempt to reduce and impoverish our life. A holy longing for God is the memory of faith, which rebels before all prophets of doom,” the pope said. Recalling the biblical figures of Simeon, the prodigal son, and Mary Magdalene, the pope said this longing for God “draws us out of our iron-clad isolation, which makes us think that nothing can change,” and helps us seek Christ. However, the figure of King Herod presents a different attitude of bewilderment and fear that, when confronted with something new, “closes in on itself and its own achievements, its knowledge, its successes.” The quest of the Magi led them first to Herod’s palace that, although it befits the birth of king, is only a sign of “power, outward appearances and superiority. Idols that promise only sorrow and enslavement,” he said.

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Letters Abstinence and spirituality

Re Elizabeth Travers’ comments in “Focus on charity, not sexuality,” (Letters, Dec. 15), I find that her perspective is quite common in the church. This begs the question: “Is this perspective really a practical approach to spirituality?” It’s interesting to examine the other side of the issue. Using Ghandi as an extreme example, he gave up sex, asserting that when the spirit controls the body, rather than the body controlling the spirit, it leads to spiritual insights which are far more pleasurable than physical pleasures and guides your life along a heightened spiritual path. His wife affirms that it was a great struggle for him to overcome, but he finally succeeded. This is not to say that we should all be saints, but consider for a moment the down side of contraception. Chemicals which interfere with the body’s natural rhythms have proven to lead to harmful and in some cases lethal results, as well as cause infertility. But what does it and other forms of contraception do to romance? It’s a known fact that anything that is readily available inevitably loses its appeal, while some are led to addictive behavior and pornography. Since the advent of contraception, divorce has become rampant, as was warned by an archbishop whose name I don’t recall. It turns out that he was right. Surely, we should “focus on charity,” but this isn’t to say that sexual behavior isn’t an important part of our spiritual makeup and, as G. K. Chesterton has said, “It needs to be controlled by the will.” Mary Pecci San Francisco

The church in Cuba

Re “The church in Cuba today,” Father Kenneth Weare, Dec. 15, 2016: It appears in this article that Fidel Castro and his now ruling brother were Catholic. If they were, did they attend church regularly and was Fidel’s death observed in a Cuban Catholic church? I am sure that if one asked the question: Is there religious freedom in Cuba? 90 percent of Americans would have said “No.” Gerald Studier San Rafael The writer is a member of St. Isabella Parish.

Castro and Catholicism

Father Kenneth Weare’s essay was very good. I was glad the true state of the church in Cuba was confirmed. Indeed, Fidel Castro did not prevent religious freedom. He was Jesuit schooled and many of his ideals were from his education. Jean Balibrera San Francisco

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Orthodoxy, sin and heresy

ecently, while on the road giving a workshop, I took the opportunity to go the cathedral in that city for a Sunday Eucharist. I was taken aback by the homily. The priest used the Gospel text where Jesus says, I am the vine and you are the branches, to tell the congregation that what Jesus is teaching here is that the RoFATHER ron man Catholic rolheiser Church constitutes what is referred to as the branches and the way we link to those branches is through the Mass and if we miss Mass on a Sunday we are committing a mortal sin and should we die in that state we will go to hell. Then, aware that what he was saying would be unpopular, he protested that the truth is often unpopular, but that what he just said is orthodox Catholic teaching and that anyone denying this is in heresy. It’s sad that this kind of thing is still being said in our churches. Does the Catholic Church really teach that missing Mass is a mortal sin and that if you die in that state you will go to hell? No, that’s not Catholic orthodoxy, though popular preaching and catechesis often suppose that it is, even as neither accepts the full consequences. Here’s an example: Some years ago, I presided at the funeral of a young man, in his 20s, who had been killed in a car accident. In the months before his death he had for all practical purposes ceased practicing his Catholi-

cism: He had stopped going to church, was living with his girlfriend outside of marriage, and had not been sober when he died. However his family and the congregation who surrounded him at his burial knew him, and they knew despite his ecclesial and moral carelessness he had a good heart, that he brought sunshine into a room and was a generous young man. At the reception after the funeral one of his aunts, who believed that missing Mass was a mortal sin that could condemn you to hell, approached me and said: “He had such a great heart and such a wonderful energy; if I were running the gates of heaven, I would let him in.” Her comment wonderfully betrayed something deeper inside of her, namely, her belief that a good heart will trump ecclesial rules in terms of who gets to go to heaven and the belief that God has wider criteria for judgment than those formulated in external church rules. She believed that it was a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday but, for all the right reasons, could not accept the full consequences of that, namely, that her nephew was going to hell. Deep down, she knew that God reads the heart, understands human carelessness, welcomes sinners into his bosom, and does not exclude goodness from heaven. But that still leaves the question: Is it orthodox Roman Catholic teaching to say that it is a mortal sin to not go to church on a Sunday and that such an ecclesial lapse can send you to hell? No, to teach that categorically would itself be bordering on heresy. Simply stated, Catholic moral theology has always taught that sin is a subjective thing that can never be read from the outside. We can never look at an action from the outside

and say: “That’s a sin!” We can look at an action from the outside and say: “That’s wrong!” But that’s a different judgment. From the outside we can judge an action as objectively wrong, but we can never make the judgment that it’s a sin. Moreover this isn’t new, liberal teaching, it is already found in our traditional catechisms. Nobody can look at the action of someone else and say: “That’s a sin!” To teach that we can make such a judgment goes against Catholic orthodoxy. We can, and must, affirm that certain things are wrong, objectively wrong, but sin is something else. Probably the most quoted line from Pope Francis is his famous response to a moral question where he simply responded: “Who am I to judge?” He’s in good company. In the Gospel of John, Jesus says: “You judge by appearances; I judge no one.” That, of course, does not mean that there isn’t any judgment. There is, it’s real, and it can condemn someone to hell. But it works this way: God’s love, life, truth, and light come into the world and we judge ourselves apposite them. God condemns no one, but we can condemn ourselves. It is God’s love, life, truth, and light against which we weigh ourselves and these determine who goes where, already here on earth and in eternity. In our catechesis and our popular preaching we must be more careful in our use of the term “mortal sin” and in our judgments as to who goes to heaven and who goes to hell, fully aware that there wasn’t any group that Jesus was harsher on than on those who were making those kinds of judgments. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

New Year’s wishes for some Catholic brethren

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promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s wishes: I wish Catholic progressives a calmer 2017 than they managed in 2016. The last months of the year now fading into the rear-view mirror were marked by an extraordinary number of george weigel bilious attacks on those raising questions about Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” from the party of dialogue, collegiality, and pluralism. The biliousness was, to be sure, replicated in spades on traditionalist websites; I’ll get to that momentarily. Still, the gang that regularly declares itself the cutting edge of a Catholicism that has “turned the page” and “moved on” displayed an astonishing amount of defensiveness (often couched in cheesy psychologizing) in 2016. That behavior hardly suggests people confident of their position and the future of their project. I wish Catholic traditionalists a 2017 in which they take comfort from the fact that the living parts of the world church are those that have embraced all-in Catholicism, more formally known as the symphony of Catholic truth. The parallel fact, of course, is that Catholic lite characterizes the dying parts of the church in Europe and elsewhere; but I

hope no one, wherever they’re located on the Catholic map, takes any satisfaction from that meltdown. Facts are facts, though, and if the progressive “narrative” of a great contemporary Catholic renaissance under the banner of mercy is ill-supported by the data, so is the traditionalist lament that the end is at hand. Thirty-five years of building the church of the new evangelization cannot be deconstructed in a relative blink of the eye. It just isn’t happening. I wish for all those involved in the “Amoris Laetitia” debate in 2017 a serious wrestling with the bottom-line issue in this argument, which is the reality of revelation. Does Vatican II’s teaching that divine revelation judges history, including this historical moment and its sociological realities, still guide the church? Does the plain meaning of the words of Jesus and Paul on the character of marriage, and on worthy, life-giving reception of holy Communion, bind us as it has bound Christians for millennia? If not, why not? (And let’s discuss this without the red herring of “fundamentalism,” please.) Might those committed to an interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia” that yields an “internal forum” solution to difficult marital situations explain how that approach will not lead to an Anglican-like unraveling of doctrine? Might those who interpret “Amoris Laetitia” in light of the full teaching of John Paul II’s “Familiaris Consortio” show us examples of how this approach has proven pastorally effective? I wish for all 2017 “Amoris Laetitia” debaters a recognition that the confusions of “the faithful” about pastoral

care for the divorced and remarried have less to do with sacramental discipline, the doctrine of grace, or the reality of revelation than with the nature of marriage itself. Contemporary western culture has dumbed marriage down to a mere contract of mutual convenience, perhaps marked by some measure of affection. That debasement is one facet of a general crisis caused by our culture’s defective idea of the human person: we’re all just twitching bundles of desires, and actualizing those desires through willfulness is the full meaning of freedom. What do all of us involved in the “Amoris Laetitia” debate have to say to that? What is each of us doing to heal the brokenness that inevitably results from freedom’s decay into license? I wish for Pope Francis the tenacity and courage in 2017 to finish the job of Vatican financial reform he was elected to effect, without fear or favor, without calculation or temporizing. I wish the church a new year in which the new evangelization is no longer impaired or threatened by Italianate corruption, a year in which norms of honesty and transparency are hard-wired into the Roman Curia – a year in which the people of the church are reassured that their gifts are directed to the evangelical purposes for which they’re intended. Finally, I wish for all Catholics an effective solidarity with the persecuted church throughout the world. These are our brothers and sisters, and we owe them. Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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Go in haste! Be amazed! Treasure!

y now most of you are probably aware of the depressing statistics regarding the “nones,” that is to say, those in this country who claim no religious affiliation. The most recent survey showed that now fully one fourth of Americans belong to no religion at all – that’s approximately 80,000,000 people. And among those in the 18-29 age group, the percentage of nones goes up to 40! This increase has been alarmingly precipitous. Fifty years ago, only a fraction of the country would have identified as unreligious, and BISHOP Robert even a decade ago, the numBarron ber was only at 14 percent. What makes this situation even more distressing is that fully 64 percent of young-adult nones were indeed

raised religious but have taken the conscious and active decision to abandon their churches. Houston, we definitely have a problem. I have written frequently regarding practical steps that religious leaders ought to be taking to confront this rising tide of secularist ideology, and I will continue to do so. But for the moment, I would like to reflect on a passage from the Gospel of Luke, which was featured on the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, and which sheds considerable light on this issue. It has to do with the visit of the shepherds to Mary and the Christ Child in the stable at Bethlehem, and it hinges on three words: haste, astonished, and treasured. We hear that, upon receiving the angel’s message, the shepherds “went in haste” to visit the holy family. This echoes a passage from a bit earlier in Luke’s Gospel: having heard the news of her own pregnancy and that of Elizabeth, Mary, we are told, “went in haste” to the hill country of Judah to help her cousin. The spiritual truth that both of these pericopes disclose is that energy, verve, enthusiasm, and a sense of mission come precisely from a good that is perceived to be both objective and transcendent to the ego. If I might

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The pursuit of happiness this new year

on Currey was a 30-year-old graduate student when he cut down the world’s oldest tree. A brown-eyed, suntanned geography student at the University of North Carolina, Don was striking in his looks and his ambitions: To better understand ice-age glaciology by examining bristlecone trees. And so he found himself in Nevada in the summer of 1964 amid a grove of bristlecones on Wheeler Peak Mountain when his tree corer got stuck in a tree. Since it would not come out, a park ranger helped him remove his instrument Christina by cutting down the tree. Don Cappecchi began to count its rings and eventually realized, much to his dismay, that he had felled a tree that was 4,844 years old – what was then considered the oldest tree on the planet. The tragic mistake advanced geographers’ understanding of longevity, which had been correlated with size of tree, like the Redwoods of California. Ice-burnished bristlecone pines, with their storybook swirls on gnarled limbs – trees that peak at just 20 feet – are,

it turns out, some of the oldest trees in the world. They’re able to live so long because, even if a large portion of a bristlecone is damaged by erosion or fire, small strips of living bark, which one researcher dubbed “life lines,” can function and keep the tree alive. A strip of bark that might be only two inches wide can support all of the tree’s foliage. Adversity begets longevity, analysis suggested: The severe conditions the bristlecone endured over time actually helped extend its lifespan. As I look ahead to 2017 and that which has never been, I’ve been thinking of all the history that has come before me – both as a Catholic and a member of my family. The communion of saints feels more alive to me than ever before – almost hauntingly so, yet comforting – the canonized ones and my ancestors, stories of resilience and grace and the lifelines that sustained. I’m resolving to study them this year and glean their stories and songs. I want to capture oral histories of those still living – the kind where I get out of the way and let them talk – and to read up on those no longer here. Young adulthood may bring a sense of invincibility, throbbing with novelty and thrill, but lately, I’m feeling blessed and strengthened by my history. I want to dig deeper.

To begin, I’m reading Robert Ellsberg’s book “The Saints’ Guide To Happiness,” which frames that secular pursuit, an unalienable American right, in spiritual terms, showing how the saints’ capacity for goodness and love, ultimately, made them happy. My biggest takeaway is the book’s message about learning to see and learning to love. “Our whole business in this life,” St. Augustine wrote, “is to restore to health the eyes of the heart, whereby God may be seen.” That’s what happened to Thomas Merton, Ellsberg recounts, when he was on an errand in the shopping district of Louisville, Kentucky, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut. “I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs…,” Merton wrote. “It was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts, where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes.” I tear up when I read this passage. What more could we hope for in the new year than to share in that vision? Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota and editor of SisterStory.org.

Barron: Go in haste! Be amazed! Treasure! FROM PAGE 16

The King James Version renders this as “they wondered at” the message. Wonder, amazement, and astonishment happen when the properly transcendent power breaks into our ordinary experience. The findings of the sciences delight and inform us, but they don’t astonish us, and the reason for this is that we are finally in control of the deliverances of the scientific method. We observe, we form hypotheses, we make experiments, and we draw conclusions. Again, this is all to the good, but it doesn’t produce amazement. Dorothy Day witnessed to the astonishing when she said, upon the birth of her first child, that she felt a gratitude so enormous that it would correspond to nothing or no one in this world. Mother Teresa was properly amazed when, on a lengthy train journey to Darjeeling, she heard a voice calling her to minister to the poorest of the poor. The apostles of Jesus fell into wonder when they saw, alive again, their master who had been crucified and buried. These are the most precious kinds of experiences that we can have, and if St. Augustine is right, they alone can satisfy the deepest longing of the heart. A secularist ideology

– the worldview embraced by the “nones” – produces the clean, well-lighted space of what we can know and control. But it precludes true astonishment, and this leaves the soul impoverished. The final word from Luke upon which I’d like to reflect is “treasured.” The evangelist tells us that Mary “treasured these things, pondering upon them in her heart.” Newman said that Mary, precisely in this contemplative, ruminative frame of mind, is the model of all theology. I’d press it further. She is the real symbol of the church in its entire function as the custodian of revelation. What is the Sistine Chapel? What is Notre Dame Cathedral? What is “The Divine Comedy of Dante?” What is the “Summa Contra Gentiles” of Thomas Aquinas? What are the sermons of John Chrysostom? What are the teachings of the great ecumenical councils? What is the liturgy in all of its complexity and beauty? These are all means by which the church stubbornly, century in and century out, treasures the astonishing events of God’s self-manifestation. Up and down the ages, the church ponders what God has done so that the memory of these mighty deeds might never be lost. As such, she performs an indispensable service on behalf of the world – though the world might not

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Walk for Life to be followed within hours by Women’s March Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The Walk for Life West Coast expects to once again draw more than 50,000 pro-woman, pro-life advocates to its rally in front of City Hall and then for the mile-long walk down Market Street in San Francisco Jan. 21. This year, the logistics will get more complicated for Walk for Life organizers and for the city and county of San Francisco because the Women’s March is organizing a rally the same day, a few hours later, which also expects to draw thousands and to take largely the same route, also beginning near Civic Center. Renee McKenna, the San Francisco lead organizer of the Women’s March, says the march is not specifically anti-Trump although nationally and even in other countries the 131 rallies are planned for the day after president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The goal of the Women’s March is “to reach out especially to the disadvantaged and minority groups that were verbally targeted in the election campaign; to let them know they have friends. That we are standing with them to defend the constitution.” Nationally the marches are in reaction to Trump’s election, and the Women’s March in San Francisco has been endorsed by a variety of groups including pro-abortion NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood. The only confirmed

‘There is no agenda for the Women’s March. My position is this is a women-led march that is about human rights. What human rights means is very different for different people.’ Renee McKenna speaker was San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who is a Democrat and also very pro-abortion. McKenna, a St. Gabriel parishioner who has a daughter in the parish school, said she hopes to attract some of those who are participating in the Walk for Life to join the Women’s March later in the day. What the Women’s March will be the day after the March is still unknown, she said. “There is no agenda for the Women’s March. My position is this is a women-led march that is about human rights. What human rights means is very different for different people.” Although the Women’s March did not have their city permit approved at press time while the Walk for Life’s permit was approved months ago, McKenna is optimistic that it will be approved. Recent feedback from the San Francisco mayor’s office has moved the

rally to 3 p.m. in the plaza and parking lot next to the Main Library and the Asian Arts Museum, with their march down Market Street to occur at 5 p.m., McKenna said. That is at the behest of police to make less likely any turns toward violence among participants that could be more likely after dark, McKenna said. Walk for Life organizers did not comment on the march that follows theirs. Walk co-chair Eva Muntean said, “We’re so happy to have our wonderful Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone with us once again. He has been a big supporter of the walk right from the start and he is 100 percent behind us today. This year, His Excellency will present the St. Gianna Molla Award for Pro-Life heroism to Dr. George Delgado, medical director of Abortion Pill Reversal and Culture of Life Family Services of San Diego. Dr. Delgado has pioneered the use of the Abortion Pill Reversal treatment, which has saved many, many lives and opened a window of hope for women who have regretted taking the abortion pill.” Other Walk for Life speakers will be abortion survivor Melissa Ohden; Pam Tebow, prolife advocate and mother of Heisman Trophy winner, Tim Tebow; Reggie Littlejohn, founder and president, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers; and Rev. Childress, founder of Black Genocide.org. The Walk for Life rally begins at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at Civic Center with the walk down Market Street at 1:30 p.m. Visit walkforlifewc.com. The Walk for Life Mass is 9:30 a.m. at the cathedral.

Surviving abortion: Melissa Ohden to speak at Walk for Life FROM PAGE 5

I’ve been united with her. It is honestly like nothing I could ever imagine,” Ohden said. “I met her face to face for the first time just late last spring. What I love about the book is that it not only shares my story, but her story.” “I was scared to write the book because I wanted

to protect her. When I finally sent it off to her, her response was she loved it,” said Ohden, who first met her mother in person at a zoo with her half-sister and her children – where the little cousins immediately took each other’s hands. “It is the way God wanted the story to end. Who could have imagined 39 years ago? A forced abortion. The baby was meant to die and no one would ever know,” said Ohden.

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Presentation Sisters elect leadership team The Sisters of the Presentation from San Francisco have elected a leadership team who will serve 2016-2022. They are Sister Michele Anne Murphy, PBVM, president; Sister Pam Chiesa, PBVM, vicepresident; Sister Paula Baker, PBVM, councilor; Sister Giovanna Campanella, PBVM, councilor. The sisters’ work for the next six years will be in their new roles. “Yes, it is full time work for the next six years,” Rosana Madrigal, the sisters’ director of communications, told Catholic San Francisco. The four women religious oversee the sisters’ corporate offices, the alumnae association for their three closed high schools in Los Angeles, Berkeley and San Francisco as well as the motherhouse and the Lantern Program in San Francisco. They also are responsible for the sisters’ sponsored ministries that include Presentation High School, San Jose, Presentation Retreat and Conference Center, Los Gatos and Learning and Loving Education Center, Morgan Hill. There 69 members in the community with most living in San Francisco, 29 at the Turk Street motherhouse. The Presentation Sisters’ Visionary Directional Statement says: Led by the Spirit and inspired by the life and charism of Nano Nagle, we are Presentation women filled with hope, rooted in contemplative consciousness, and committed to the primacy of relationship. We acknowledge the challenge of our reality as a smaller, older community with limited resources and commit to addressing our challenges with a sense of urgency. We continue our commitment to participate in the universal mission of Jesus Christ and to follow

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“The history of Catholicism in America is not simply Catholic history. It is American history …” That statement from California state librarian emeritus Kevin Starr sets the direction of “Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America: The Colonial Experience” (Ignatius Press, 2016). “Previous studies have emphasized Catholic immigrants’ struggle for acceptance,” Starr writes in the preface of this first volume. Starr said it is time to reboot our perspective of Catholicism. Catholics have lost sight of the historical fact that Catholics of many different ethnicities and nationalities played significant roles from the beginning, and were present on this continent well before any other group, with the exception of the Native Americans, Starr said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco. A native San Franciscan who attended the now-shuttered St. Boniface School and is professor emeritus at University of Southern California, the 76-year-old Starr brings professional gravitas and faith to this latest book.

Kevin Starr “I think you will find a lot of new things. We don’t think of the Catholic origins of Texas. I open up all of this because history is worth an end in itself,” Starr said, but also, “I think it is very important for us Catholics today in the United States as we face certain challenges to religious freedom, to faith – it is important for us to know we are not Johnny come latelies. We are part of a founding of Catholic culture. We need not apologize to anyone.” Spanish explorers founded St. Augustine in 1565 in Florida a half century before the English landed at Jamestown, and before them the Viking explorers were Catholics, as were many of the Irish sailors on their boats, Starr said. French Catholics founded St. Louis and New Orleans,

the Spaniards California and the Southwest. Lord Calvert was granted a charter to the colony of Maryland from the English king with equal rights for Anglicans and Catholics, while German Catholics settled southern Pennsylvania. All before 1776. “This volume is intended to be the first part of a larger narrative written at a time of crisis and renewal,” Starr wrote. “… there can be no understanding of American culture and history without an understanding of the role played by Catholic peoples in the unfolding drama of the American experience,” writes Starr. “Behind this book is some 20 years of intermittent research while I was doing other books,” Starr said in the interview with Catholic San Fran-

cisco. “This is not a booster book. It’s a history book. Sometimes Catholic civilization did well, sometimes not so well,” Starr said. The project was inspired by John Gilmary Shea, a “pioneering” and “great Catholic historian” who wrote a four volume work in the 19th century, Starr said. “The Catholic Church is the oldest organization in the United States, and the only one that has retained the same life and polity and forms through each succeeding age. Her history is interwoven in the whole fabric of the country’s annals,” Shea wrote in the first volume, published in 1886, “The Catholic History in Colonial Days,” Starr notes in the preface to his first volume. “Few, if any contemporary historians of American Catholicism would open a similar history with the same confidence,” Starr writes in the preface. “Still, everything that Shea claimed of the Catholic Church in her American context remains true.” “We are an immigrant church and we glory in that,” Starr said in the interview, “but the immigration began a thousand years ago.”

Despite flaws, book has much to offer parishes dealing with diversity will be written by how these groups are received in the coming years. John Francis Burke in his book “Building Bridges, Not Walls” offers “Building Bridges, Not Walls: Nourpastoral suggestions for how parishes ishing Diverse Cultures in Faith” can build inclusive communities (“Construyamos puentes, no muros: where everyone is welcome and all Alimentar a las diversas culturas en gifts can be used. la fe”), by John Francis Burke, transBurke, who specializes in multilated into Spanish by Marco Batta. cultural and multilingual church Liturgical Press (Collegeville, Minnechoirs, also teaches political science sota, 2016). 216 pp., $24.95. and religious studies in Texas. His Much of the story of the Catholic Church in the United States can be told focus is mainly on Spanish-speaking immigrants and the problems that by focusing on how immigrant groups occur between them and the Englishhave been received by the church – speaking Catholic community. whether well or poorly – and how He begins each chapter with a these groups have changed the church. pastoral scenario focusing on one of This story continues today with the the many problems that can occur continual influx of immigrants from in a parish when people from differSpanish-speaking countries, Africa, AD_REVDEC2016_650.ai 1 11/30/2016 ent 10:26:47 AM cultural groups come together to Asia and valley the catholic Pacific Islands. worship and live. He then lays out a The story of the church’s future Daniel S. Mulhall

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the problems in culturally diverse parishes are caused by the failure of the English-speaking community to recognize and respect the gifts and culture of the Spanish-speaking. While this can be (and often is) the reality there also has to be an understanding of what is taking place in the English-speaking community as well. In reality, no specific person or group is responsible for the tensions; they just are. This is where a longer book with a more detailed presentation on the issues would have been beneficial. “Building Bridges” is a welcome addition to the literature on this topic. People working in culturally diverse communities will find here a wealth of valuable information and insight to help them address the underlying issues that they experience working across cultures. Mulhall previously served as the assistant secretary for catechesis and inculturation at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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The task force is taking on a broad issue, but in its report, it breaks down what needs to be done into a few recommendations to the U.S. bishops, urging them to focus on: – Prayer: Masses, rosaries, prayer services during the year. – Local dialogues: conversations on race and dialogues hosted by parishes or dioceses. – Parish and diocesan training: intercultural competence training for staff and parishioners. – Opportunities for encounter: providing forums for people to examine local challenges firsthand. – Support of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which funds group that address concerns about race, poverty and violence. The group also recommended that the National Day of Prayer for Peace in our Communities be an annual observance, urged U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop committees to provide resources for racial healing and stressed that a statement on racism from the bishops was “more important than ever.” A summary of the findings of the task force – convened last year by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, then president of the USCCB – was presented to the U.S. bishops in November at their fall assembly in Baltimore.

The full report – online at http:// bit.ly/2iMX8rS – highlights some of the activities promoted by the task force last year, including the nationwide celebration of a Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities Sept. 9 and listening sessions and interviews between members of the task force and community members. In describing some of the discussions that took place among task force members – both bishops and lay leaders – the report notes that there is not a one-time solution for overcoming racism and violence. In stressing the work ahead, the task force praised previous bishops’ statements on racism, but said they were “not sufficient to address the difficulties of the moment.” It also urged Catholics to look at where they might be contributing to race issues “from hiring practices to parish and school closures.” The group stressed that the church should continue to pray for the challenges facing communities not just “in the heat of a tragic moment” but throughout the year. It also summarized some interviews that took place with individuals on the topic of building peaceful communities. In discussions with police officers, for example, one person said he had started a program where each church in his area was responsible for what happened within a one-mile radius of their church building.

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document on the family, “Amoris Laetitia,” was “very clear” in its teaching. In the document, the cardinal said, Pope Francis asks priests “to discern the situation of these persons living in an irregular union – that is, not in accordance with the doctrine of the church on marriage – and asks for help for these people to find a path for a new integration into the church according to the condition of the sacraments (and) the Christian message on matrimony.” In the document, he said, “I do not see any opposition: On one side we have the clear doctrine on matrimony, and on the other the obligation of the church to care for these people in difficulty.” The cardinal was interviewed about a formal request to Pope Francis for clarification about “Amoris Laetitia” and particularly its call for the pastoral accompaniment of people who are divorced and civilly remarried or who are living together without marriage. The request, called a “dubia,” was written in September by U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, patron of the Knights of Malta, and three other cardinals. They published the letter in November after Pope Francis did not respond. In an interview later, Cardinal Burke said the pope must respond to the “dubia” because they directly impact the faith and the teaching of the church. If there is no response, he said, a formal “correction of the pope” would be in

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SATURDAY, JAN. 14 FILIPINO PRAYER EVENT: Sinulog Festival, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Mass followed by reception; this event inaugurates the devotion honoring Santo Nino, the Child Jesus, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Edgar Estonina, eestonina@comcast.net; Freda Motak, fredamotak@gmail.com.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS, COLMA

Gustavo Dominguez Louise M. Dominguez Maxine C. Driscoll John Dupré Isidra Devera Abrenilla Erich K. Eberle Elvira Alcala Irma Escorcia Betty Lopina Alcantara Robert L. Eserini Peter Aldrete Joanne Muriel Evars Ray Allgood Carmelita Finkelstein Catherine “Kay” (Loftus) Barbara Ann Finnegan Archbold Patrick Foley Theodore A. Arditi Rene M. Fontenot Phyllis L. Arditi Valerie Stanners Franklin Ana Paola Arriaga Rodrigo Ramirez Galamay Eric R. Avila Joan P. Gallicano Epefania A. Ayers Mary Clara Graf Jerry Bagnani Lauro S. Guajardo Marybeth Barrett Delia A. Hamblin Roberta Bauccio William “Bill” Helmer Delia Bermudez Reyes Hercules Claudio “Jun” Bermudez Monabarrie Hofmann Victoriano R. Bermudez Richard D. Holl Jean Berryhill Paravicini Marcia L. Hooper Lubina Anita Biasotti Rosa Isabel Bonilla De Valle Pamela Jackson Benjamin L. Jose Ramona L. Bordin Jennie C. Jue Norman Edgar Bray Desmond L. Kilmurry Maybelle Mary Brown Bill Lawrence Lillian E. Buckley David A. Loescher Michael D. Buckley Robert F. Ludlow Cecilia Buenaventura Hilda May Ludlow Grace Cabuco Constante Macabeo Donald Bangs Campbell Bruna H. Maffei Clotilde Carcamo Doris May Magee Aldonna J. Carico Virginia M. Mamaril Mildred F. Cash Luzviminda B. Mangabat Maria Hilda Castro Augustus D. Manulat Arlene A. Cavallero Albert David Martin Emil Peter Chao Iole Matteucig Bruce Collins Adele McEvoy Jesus R. Covita Eugene G. McGreevy Carl L. Dalessio Marion J. McInerney Atanasio Danao Sr. Mary Peter McKusker Roy Frank De Natale Clara T. Delgado Rosa V. Demartini Eduvigis Devera Lucille J. Di Piano Mcadoo Dixon

Dorothy Marie Medlin Jennifer Ann Mendiola Arthur C. Mendoza Patricia G. Mertens Mary Assunta Mifsud Maria Lidia Miranda Thomas Mitchell Olga Montafi Vilma S. Murillo Mary C. Nano Antonio C. Navarro Trong Van Nguyen Nicholas Novich Marcelina Nuevo Thomas O’Brien Marilyn Jean Love Oberti Carlos J. Paredes Maria De Jesus Torres Perez Franklin (Ted) Peyton Frank Pignati Amado S. Pinlac, Jr. Calvin D. Pitcher Rose Ann Prendiville Ishaq N. Qaqish Patricia C. Quinn Frances Ramos Mary Elizabeth Rapp Louis Frank Renner Federico D. Revilla Mary M. Rielly Baby Emily Guadalupe Rivas Jesus G. Roman George David Ryan Gloria Rose Ryan Maria E. Salcedo Jose Antonio Salgado, Sr. Sr. Madeleine Santerre, LSP Raymond Schenone Leonard M. Scott Michael J. Shanahan

Bernard J.C. Smith Jose Sergio Soriano Dolores Gloria Soules Elaine H. Strazzarino John William Tobin . Hana Saleem Totah Thanh Duy Tran A.J. (Ricky) Traversaro David Paul Traverso Theresa C. Varni Alex Benjamin Vega Berenice Velarde Margaret L. Viglizzo Gil Escobal Villarojo Adolph N. Visperas Rina A. Vitug Konrad H. Von Emster Maureen Wadel Georgette M. Walsh Goodwyn Kwok-Chiu Wong Maria Lai Y.J. Wong Helen Zahra Edwin Zamudio Rosa Zarate Luis Emilio Zavala

HOLY CROSS, menlo Park Evodia Arteaga Joshua Barajas-Reyes Philip Adrian Mc Donnell Mary Joyce

Mt. olivet, san rafael Elizabeth T. Benz Perla Soto Gomez Sybil A. Macia Francis W. Rowley Barbara E. Ryan Fernando M. Soares Silva James Soldavini

HOLY CROSS Catholic Cemetery, Colma First SATURDAY Mass – Saturday, February 4, 2017 All Saints Mausoleum – 11:00 am Rev. Anthony P. LaTorre, Pastor – St. Stephen Church

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.