January 17, 2014

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ARE YOU CALLED?: Young adult ministry seeks volunteers

‘ALL OUR SONS’:

EQUAL ACCESS:

Peace marchers in Mission District call for end to violence

Pope supports efforts to help parents of disabled children

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Pope stresses service, humility in globe-spanning cardinal picks FRANCIS X. ROCCA

Banners herald 10th annual Walk for Life

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VATICAN CITY – Stressing that their role would be one of service rather than honor, Pope Francis named 19 new cardinals, including six men from his home region of Latin America. The pope announced the nominations Jan. 12 after praying the Angelus and said he would formally induct the men into the College of Cardinals Feb. 22. Although cardinals are traditionally known as “princes of the church,” Pope Francis, who has pointedly refused many of the trappings of his office, characteristically dismissed any element of pomp in the distinction he had decided to bestow. In a letter to the new cardinals, released by the Vatican Jan. 13, the pope wrote that a red hat “does not signify a promotion, an honor or a decoration; it is simply a form of service that requires expanding your vision and enlarging your heart.” Pope Francis instructed the cardinals-designate to “receive this new

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designation with a simple and humble heart. And while you should do so with joy and happiness, do it in a way that this feeling may be far from any expression of worldliness, or any form of celebration alien to the evangelical spirit of austerity, sobriety and poverty.” The consistory will bring the total

number of cardinals to 218 and the number of cardinals under age 80 to 122. Until they reach their 80th birthdays, cardinals are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Two current cardinal electors will

The 10th annual Walk for Life West Coast is Jan. 25 in San Francisco and this year the walk is advertised all along the Market Street walk route—with 50 six-foot tall banners declaring “abortion hurts women” hanging from city light poles. “Walk for Life exists to raise awareness that abortion hurts women. We hope these banners reach out to the people of San Francisco with this important message,” said event co-chair Eva Muntean. The walk begins at 12:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza with a rally, and the walk from Civic Center to Justin Herman Plaza begins at 1:30. In recent years more than 50,000 people have attended the event, filling Market Street. About 7,000 attended the first walk in 2005.

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‘May God open the heavens and let his mercy rain down’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

A parched hillside is seen Jan. 12 under a cloudless sky above Oakland’s Lake Temescal. The longrange forecast called for no rain and radar showed not a speck of clouds along the Pacific Coast. Bishop Soto offered a prayer all could say to ask for rain:

“May God open the heavens and let his mercy rain down upon our fields

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SACRAMENTO – California’s Catholic bishops are asking Catholics and all people of faith to pray for rain as lower-than-normal rainfall in the state enters its third year. “Water is essential to who we are as human beings,” said Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, president of the California Catholic Conference of Bishops, in a Jan. 6 posting on the conference’s website. “Our reliance on water reveals how much we are part of creation and creation is a part of us.” Drought has not been officially declared in the state, but the shrinking levels of groundwater and reservoirs and a reduced snowpack are becoming increasingly evident.

and mountains. Let us especially pray for those most impacted by water shortages and for the wisdom and charity to be good stewards of this precious gift. May our political leaders seek the common good as we learn to care and share God’s gift of water for the good of all.” The state Catholic conference’s website also includes prayers taken from the Roman Missal and Catholic Rural Life’s “Rural Life Prayer Book” as well as sample prayer intentions to use during the general intercessions at Mass. Los Angeles averages 14.93 inches of rainfall a year; the average for its suburbs can range from just under that amount and up to 22 inches or so

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