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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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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:

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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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‘Do you feel called?’

2014 is Year of the Parish with new features, services from CSF

Young adult ministry seeks volunteers ages 18-40

To our readers: As Catholic San Francisco nears its 15th anniversary of service as your archdiocesan newspaper, we’d like to thank our readers, advertisers and especially the more than 650 people who have donated to CSF so far during our 2013-14 campaign – a record that reflects many parishioners’ loyalty to our Catholic media ministry. We’re committed to paying back your continued support with continuous improvement in our content and service, with renewed focus on nurturing and reflecting parish life as a key part of our mission. That’s why we’re calling 2014 the Year of the Parish.

Serving our publisher and shepherd Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in our role in the Department of Communications and Outreach at the Pastoral Center, here’s what we’re working on so far in the new year.

“The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a ‘living stone,’ is needed for the growth and the beauty of God’s holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the church’s life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.”

Pope Francis All of you who are 18-40, single or married, with or without children: Do you feel called to help build community Angela Pollock within our archdiocese? Do you feel called to lead in some way? This could be anything from helping to welcome other young adults to leading faith-sharing groups. Maybe you play guitar and want to lead praise worship. Or maybe you have a WFR certification and want to lead hiking trips?

We are looking for a wide variety of leaders from many different backgrounds to help us build young adult ministry throughout the archdiocese.

If you are interested in leading in some way, please contact Angela Pollock, director of young adult and campus ministry for the archdiocese, at PollockA@ sfarchdiocese.org or call her at (415) 614-5595.

eEdition: Our Jan. 10 issue was our first published online-only in a format that replicates the printed paper. The new technology saves natural and financial resources and gives our award-winning formatted publication a lively online presence and a new way for articles, pictures and ads to circulate on social networks. With desktop and mobile versions and a free iPad app available from the iTunes Store, eEdition lets you access an archive of the last six months of CSF issues. Bookmark http:// eedition.catholic-sf.org/. Android users, bookmark the mobile version: http://eedition.catholic-sf.org/Olive/Tablet/SFArchdiocese/. eDirectory: The 2013-14 archdiocesan Official Directory, completely redesigned, is now online. Bookmark http://edirectory. catholic-sf.org/. Mobile: http://edirectory. catholic-sf.org/Olive/Tablet/DioceanDirectory/. Search it in your browser or download it for quick reference. The online directory will be updated quarterly between annual print issues, in order to reflect the latest clergy appointments, Pastoral Center ministry changes and other high-value information for our readers. eArchive: The next few months will see the start of development of a complete online archive of CSF since the paper’s start in February 1999. When the project is done you’ll able to accurately retrieve articles and pictures in a flash from a library of 15,000 scanned newspaper pages.

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Parish News: People may think it is daunting to contact the newspaper about placing an item or discussing a story. Far from it. I do my best to reply immediately and personally to any contact from a parish, and the staff has the same commitment. For example, when Aimee Lewis Strain, a parent at St. Charles School, San Carlos, phoned the other day to ask if we’d be interested in news about the school, we negotiated on the spot how the school can access the paper on all channels: Datebook for coming events; Community section news for brief items and pictures for our Around the Archdiocese photo display; and more involved items that would entail discussion with staff. Parish representatives, don’t hesitate to contact me directly or go through the staff members listed below.

Email Newsletter: We apologize for the hiatus in our CSF newsletter. We’re back with a new email product under a new service and new leadership here at the paper by Christina M. Gray, Content & Community Development Coordinator.

Our first new issue went out Jan. 10 to our list of 1,100 subscribers. We’ll have an announcement in a future CSF on how you can sign up for the new service, which is designed to alert subscribers when eEditions are posted, announce breaking news and supplement the paper in other ways.

Parish Outreach: A CSF delegation visited a recent Deanery 7 meeting in Marin County as guests of the dean, Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas. We met a number of other pastors and other clergy and parish community members, focusing on improving our integration with parish offices on providing registered parishioners with the free access to home delivery that they are entitled to under the paper’s charter.

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Special Projects: Although we haven’t decided on a format or schedule, we’re planning in-depth print publications highlighting each of our 11 deaneries. These will be high-quality, visually rich magazine-quality publications to help promote all our parishes within the archdiocese and the wider community. The idea is to eventually combine the deanery publications into a biennial yearbook. We can think of no better way than highlighting the many faces of worship, the sacraments, charity, witness and fellowship in our parishes to promote the “authentic culture of encounter” that Pope Francis has chosen as his World Communications Day 2014 theme.

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Archbishop visits St. Dunstan School VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“Do you have anything you want to ask the archbishop?”

At first the St. Dunstan School kindergarten classroom was quiet, as were the fifth graders, somewhat awed by their distinguished visitor, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who was concluding a three-day visit to the Millbrae parish and school Jan. 11-13.

But with just a little prodding, students found their voices, asking Archbishop Cordileone questions ranging from the difference between a bishop and an archbishop, to how chrism oil is made and even what it takes to become a bishop. The archbishop heard about penguins from the kindergarteners while the first graders shared the facts they had gathered on Pope Francis.

“I am really impressed with his down-to-earthness, his listening,” said St. Dunstan principal Bruce Colville, noting the archbishop was at all the weekend Masses, met with the parish council, finance council and other parish groups. “He wants to know our communities.”

The archbishop plans to visit all parishes in the archdiocese over the next three years. He began in the fall with

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Archbishop Cordileone visits the kindergarten class at St. Dunstan School Jan. 13. a visit to St. Hilary in Tiburon, visited St. Mark in Belmont, St. Veronica in South San Francisco and St. Dunstan. He is scheduled to visit another half dozen parishes in the next three months.

The visit “was an occasion, a celebration of what is going on in the parish,” said Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor of St. Dunstan. The archbishop “made it his business to talk to as many people who are making things happen here in the parish and just to encourage them.”

“I saw his visit as an encouragement and affirmation of what we’re doing as a parish here,” Father Casey said.

Colville said he hoped the archbishop came away with “a sense of our community, our faith formation, the quality of the children, the goodness of the children, the goodness of the staff here and the teachers – the commitment of everyone here to embrace Catholic education, to embrace the whole child.”

At the conclusion of his homily at the school Mass, which ranged over topics from what a bishop wears to helping out an isolated fellow student, Archbishop Cordileone told the children, “Share God’s love because that’s what God wants for you, that’s what God wants for all of us.”

DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH SYSTEM SEEKS BUYERS

The Daughters of Charity Health System board of directors announced Jan. 13 that it is soliciting proposals from Catholic, public, nonprofit and for-profit organizations to purchase DCHS hospitals individually or the health system in its entirety.

The announcement said the decision followed careful review of options to preserve DCHS hospitals and access to care.

Spanning the California coast, the Los Altos-based system operates hospitals including Seton Medical Center, Daly City; Seton Coastside, Moss Beach; and O’Connor Hospital, San Jose.

“Like other health systems across the country, we recognize that the way health care is provided today – where it is offered, how it is paid for, how it is measured – is changing dramatically, and we believe that new ownership is in the best interest of the communities we serve,” said Robert Issai, president and chief executive officer.

Board chair Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC, said it was a difficult decision for the Daughters.

“But the realities of modern health care are harsh, and after prayerful discernment, it became clear that the responsible thing to do is to find new ownership, blessed with the resources necessary to thrive,” she said.

Issai said DCHS hopes “that the buyer(s) share our vision to protect the legacy of care the Daughters of Charity have built, preserve jobs, and ensure that all members of the community have access to affordable, high-quality health care for years to come.”

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Stuart Hall painter takes art across ages TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Barely into his teen years artist Duncan McDonnell is painting broad strokes across generations. The Stuart Hall High School sophomore is taking his palate and talent to San Francisco’s Institute on Aging to teach a few classes Duncan for folks much older McDonnell than he is. Duncan will be assisting Jessica McCracken, arts manager and intergenerational program coordinator for Institute on Aging, in visual art classes for seniors at the institute. Duncan will also learn how to work with frail older adults and how to train his peers in doing so. The project culminates in Stuart Hall’s day of service March 14, when Duncan and other Stuart Hall students create art with Institute on Aging participants.

“Duncan comes to Institute on Aging with great passion and initiative,” Jessica told me. “He quite simply wants to make people happy and wants to share his joy for art with others.” Duncan counts drawing and painting among his favorite art modes and he has received $1,000 from the Generations United Youth Jumpstart program for coming up with the young teaching the not-so-young idea. Duncan’s parents are Lisa and Jason McDonnell, and his brother Gavin is a Stuart Hall sixth grader.

“The Institute on Aging is just one of dozens of service sites where Convent and and Stuart Hall students complete community service projects,” Stefani Blair, the schools’ communications director, told me. The Institute on Aging has locations in San Francisco, Marin and Santa Clara and works “to enhance the quality of life for adults as they age by enabling them to maintain their health, well-being, independence

NAPSTERS: Kindergartners at St. Robert School, San Bruno, participated in Scholastic publishing company’s Pajama Drive. Each child brought in a pair of new pajamas that were matched with an age-appropriate book by the publishers and donated to foster care facilities and shelters in the San Mateo County area. “The kids were very excited to be doing something good for other kids in need, especially children in our own area,” said kindergarten teacher Gina Thomson. The kids are pictured at a pancake and pajama party celebrating the successful campaign.

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HONORED ALUM: Franciscan Father Tommy King, pastor, St. Boniface Parish, San Francisco and a 1974 graduate of Junipero Serra High School was recognized with the school’s namesake award in November.

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“Gracious and compassionate, Father Tommy has dedicated his life to helping those in need.”

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Sophie Devincenti, St. Hilary School, Tiburon, won first prize and $500. Eric Der, St. Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco took second place and a prize of $300. Alex Blatt, also of St. Hilary School, won third place and $100. Matching sums went also to the winners’ schools. Sophie, her teacher Suzy Gray of St. Hilary, and her parents James and Deborah Devincenti attended the Dec. 11 awards luncheon with Sophie accepting her prize from society board member Bob Zaletel.

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Mission artifacts pay homage to ‘founding mother of San Francisco’ There are no known images of Juana Briones (1802-1889), one of early California’s most important Hispanic female pioneers and possibly the first non-native resident of San Francisco (when it was a settlement called Yerba Buena).

But she left behind a vivid picture of herself, according to a California Historical Society exhibition that uses maps, paintings, handwritten church records and other historic artifacts to tell her story.

The bilingual exhibition opens Jan. 26 at the society’s San Francisco headquarters and runs through June 8. In partnership with Stanford University and the UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, the exhibition presents Briones as a multidimensional woman – mother, landowner, businesswoman, healer, midwife, humanitarian and faithful Catholic – who was undaunted despite obstacles including illiteracy and marriage to an abusive man.

“She was a humanitarian and folk healer, a woman who cared for sick and needy people regardless of their ethnic, racial or class background or whether they spoke Spanish, English or some other language,” said Stanford University history professor Al Camarillo, guest curator of the exhibition.

Camarillo said Briones lived at a pivotal time when California evolved under three flags, those of Spain, Mexico and the United States. The exhibition, created in collaboration with collections from 13 lenders around the state including those from the Archdiocese of San Francisco archives and Mission Dolores, reveals that transformation.

Briones’ ancestors migrated from what is now Mexico in what have been called the “California Mayflower” expeditions. She moved north from the area now known as Santa Cruz to the Presidio area after the death of her mother and married a soldier. The couple had 11 children, three of whom died in a single month during an epidemic in 1828.

At some point Briones left her abusive husband. She defended and won her land claims at a time when other Spanish-speaking Californians were being cheated out of them by Americans and when a woman’s possession of land came only through her husband. She did this without the ability to read or write.

Later, Briones operated a dairy ranch in what is now Washington Square, selling milk to the crews of visiting ships, housing wayward sailors and nursing sick or orphaned Indian children.

In the absence of doctors in the new settlement, trained local women and even mission

priests filled medical roles. Trained as a “curandero,” or healer, Briones used herbs and other native ingredients that Indians, her mother, other family members taught her to use and was a midwife. She delivered and was provisionally able to baptize many babies before their death.

On a trip to Mission Dolores last week to collect artifacts borrowed for the Briones exhibition, Marie Silva, archivist and manuscripts librarian for the historical society, talked with Catholic San Francisco as curator Andy Galvan used white-gloved hands to turn fragile, handwritten pages in ancient registers to search for Briones’ marriage date and the death dates of her children.

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ship with the Mission,” said Silva, who noted that the mission was where Briones worshipped, where she was married, where her children were baptized and where her 20 or more godchildren were baptized.

The archdiocese is also lending the exhibition Briones’ testimony in the canonization proceedings for the first California missionary proposed for canonization, Father Magin Catala of Mission Santa Clara. Silva says it was recorded that tears gushed from her eyes when she spoke of Father Catala’s holiness and virtue.

“Juana Briones y Su California: Pionera, Fundadora, Curandero,” Jan. 26-June 8, 678 Mission St., San Francisco. www.californiahistoricalsociety.org.

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STOCKTON DIOCESE FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY

The Diocese of Stockton is filing for bankruptcy protection to reorganize its finances, Bishop Stephen Blaire announced Jan. 13. “After months of careful consideration and prayer, it has become clear to me that the Diocese of Stockton’s financial difficulties can only be resolved by filing for bankruptcy protection,� he said. “This decision was reached through consultation with experts in finance and law, as well as with priests, parishioners and many others in the community our diocese serves.�

He said diocesan attorneys would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Jan. 15, making Stockton the 10th U.S. diocese to make such filing.

He said the decision will allow the diocese to reach two essential goals. “First, it will provide a process to compensate as fairly as possible the victims of sexual abuse, including those who have not yet come forward or had their day in court,� he said. “At the same time, the process will provide a way for us to continue the ministry and support we provide to the parishes, the poor and the communities located within our diocese.�

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‘About all of our sons’: Echoes of peace resound in the Mission LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATĂ“LICO

The second annual archdiocesan March for Peace and Justice ran the length of Mission Street Jan. 11, starting at St. Anthony of Padua Church and ending at Mission Dolores Basilica with hundreds of people who had lost loved ones to violent crime chanting, “We demand peace and justice!�

During the march, the protesters stopped for a moment at the intersection of 16th and Mission streets, the site of violent crimes in the past.

With a strong voice, one of the marchers, Paulette Brown, invited people to take responsibility for preventing crime and violence in San Francisco. “This is about all of our sons, not just my son – this is something that affects all the people,� said Brown, whose son, Aubrey Abrakasa, 17, was a homicide victim in San Francisco in August 2006. Even though the police offered a reward of $250,000, there have been no arrests. “Make me an instrument of your peace� were the opening lyrics of a prayer that parishioners sang during the closing event at the basilica.

Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice led the march and remembered with sadness the acts of violence that had taken place not only in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties but also throughout the world. Bishop Justice mentioned that in such countries as Syria and Nigeria thousands of Christians have been victims of violent crime.

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According to official figures, 54 people were killed in San Francisco in 2013 – 14 fewer than the previous year. Most of the victims were young. “This march floods our spirits with sadness because we believed that this was not going to happen anymore. And maybe it was less this time, but it did happen again,� Bishop Justice Marchers walked through the said during his homily Mission Jan. 11. at Mass in the basilica.

He added that a ray of hope entered parishioners’ hearts in the words of Pope Francis, who mentioned that “Christ is the messenger of God who gives us peace and lifts us out of darkness.� “When Christ came to this world he illuminated everything, and nobody can ever turn off that light. The darkness can never defeat the light of Christ,� Bishop Justice added.

Bishop Justice encouraged all families who have been victimized by violence not to surrender but rather to shout as Cesar Chavez did, “Si se puede!� (“Yes, we can!�). He noted the words of Pope Francis: “Never feed the idea that you can’t do it, because yes, we can, with the light of Christ and the effort of all of you who came today to claim peace and justice.�

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass at 11 a.m. Feb. 8 at Mary’s Cathedral for World Day of the Sick. The Mass is organized by the Order of Malta and includes a blessing of the sick with Lourdes water at the beginning of Mass, organizer Ken Ryan said.

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‘Great misunderstanding’ seen on church’s teachings on end of life NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BALTIMORE – There is “great misunderstanding” among Catholics and others about the church’s teachings on whether and when life-sustaining medical treatment can be withdrawn when death is near, according to a leading Catholic bioethicist.

Marie T. Hilliard, director of bioethics and public policy and a staff ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, said the Philadelphia-based center conducts about 2,000 consultations a year with “families in distress” who want to talk with an ethicist “about the church’s teaching in light of their (family) situation.”

Staff members hear from people who believe that “dialysis can never be discontinued,” for example, or that a feeding tube is obligatory “even when it is doing more harm than good,” she said.

“Persons who are dealing with crises need to be helped to understand in that situation what is the natural moral law,”

Hilliard said. “The church always deals with the good and trying to reach the good,” even when that means accepting the natural process of dying, she added.

As outlined in the U.S. bishops’ “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services,” the church teaches that patients “may forgo extraordinary or disproportionate means of preserving life,” defined as “those that in the patient’s judgment do not offer a reasonable hope of benefit or entail an excessive burden, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community.”

Survey results recently released by the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project found that 57 percent of Americans would tell their doctors to stop medical treatment if they had a disease with no hope of improvement and were suffering a great deal of pain, while 35 percent said they would tell the doctors to do everything possible to save their lives. Eight percent said it depends or they did not know.

But opinions varied greatly according to religion and ethnic groups.

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Nearly two-thirds of white Catholics (65 percent) said they would stop medical treatment under those circumstances, but only 38 percent of Hispanic Catholics agreed. Most likely to stop medical treatment were white mainline Protestants (72 percent); black Protestants were least likely at 32 percent.

The survey also found that only 37 percent of adult Americans had given “a great deal of thought” to their own wishes for end-of-life medical treatment, while 35 percent had given “some thought” and 27 percent had given “not very much” or no thought to the matter.

Even among those 75 and older, only 47 percent said they had given their endof-life wishes a great deal of thought, while more than half said they’d given some, little or no thought to those decisions.

Hilliard said the recent attention given to the cases of Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl from Oakland, who has been declared brain dead but remains on life support at an undisclosed location, and Marlise Munoz, a 33-year-old pregnant woman who is being kept on life support against her family’s wishes, point up the importance of every person having “a good conversation” with a family member or friend about his or her wishes in a medical crisis.

A simple checklist of possible medical scenarios is no substitute for the designation of a health care proxy and a thorough discussion of one’s beliefs with that person, she added.

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Jesuit who is nationally known peace activist leaves order CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

TOWSON, Md. – Jesuit Father John Dear, a nationally known peace activist who also is a popular author, retreat leader and lecturer on peace and justice issues, is no longer a member of the Society of Jesus after 32 years with the religious order.

Father Dear belonged to the Jesuits’ Maryland province, based in Towson.

Jesuit Father James Shea, provincial, said in a statement that the priest’s “dismissal from the Society of Jesus became effective” Dec. 20, and followed “an extended period of dialogue between the leadership of the Maryland province and John regarding his ministerial assignment and time he requested to discern his vocation.”

“The process was initiated in the fall of 2012 after John declined to return to his province to live in a Jesuit community while continuing his ministry of peace and social justice, including lecturing and writing,” the provincial said.

Catholic News Service received Father Shea’s statement via email Jan. 8.

In a column published Jan. 7 in the National Catholic Reporter, Father Dear wrote: “This week, with a heavy heart, I am officially leaving the Jesuits after 32 years.”

“After three years of discernment,” he said, “I’m leaving because the Society of Jesus in the U.S. has changed so much since I entered in 1982 and because my Jesuit superiors have tried so hard over the decades to stop my work for peace – most recently, when my provincial ordered me to Baltimore but gave me no assignment and, I felt, encouraged me to leave, as many other superiors have done in the past.”

Father Shea’s statement did not address Father Dear’s claim that his superiors did not approve of his peace activism.

He is still a Catholic priest but according to canon law, he must have permission from a local bishop to publicly exercise his priestly faculties.

In his column Father Dear said he doubts any U.S. bishop would give him permission “because most also object to my work against war and injustice, so I’m not sure if I will remain a priest.”

In a Jan 7 story, NCR reported that Father Dear gave the newspaper copies of letters from the Jesuits’ superior general in Rome, Father Adolfo Nicolas, and the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

NCR said both documents stated that Father Dear disobeyed his superiors by refusing to live in a Jesuit community in Baltimore. The decree signed by Father Nicolas said the priest has been “obstinately disobedient to the lawful order of superiors in a grave matter.”

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times and spent “more than a year of his life” in jail, according to his biography.

Father Dear’s newest book is “The Nonviolent Life.” In 2008, he published an autobiography, “A Persistent Peace.” He has been a longtime columnist for NCR, an independent, lay-owned biweekly newspaper based in Kansas City, Mo. In an interview in early 2000 with The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., Father Dear said his quest Father John for nonviolence began in the Dear early 1980s as he visited Israel and was shocked to see war “literally happening before my eyes over the Sea of Galilee where Jesus lived and taught.”

In 1993, Father Dear was arrested at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., for hammering on an F-15 nuclear fighter bomber.

He spent eight months in North Carolina county jails.

In 2010, he received the Pacem in Terris Peace

and Freedom Award in Davenport, Iowa.

In 2011, he and 13 others were found guilty of criminal trespass at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The group was charged in 2009 after walking through an open gate at the base seeking to talk with soldiers piloting unmanned drones over Afghanistan and Pakistan from the military installation. Father Dear and the other protesters spent a night or two in jail after their arrest. When they were found guilty, the judge sentenced them all to time served.

In his NCR column, Father Dear said he has joined the staff of Pace e Bene, a small group based in Long Beach, Calif., that “works to promote Gospel nonviolence.” The priest also is helping to organize Campaign Nonviolence “to protest war, poverty and environmental destruction” by holding demonstrations across the U.S. before elections this fall.

“I think the nonviolent Jesus wants us – all of us – to work as best we can in these critical times for the abolition of war, poverty, nuclear weapons and catastrophic climate change so God’s reign of peace will spread,” he said.

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9 DAYS OF PRAYER PART OF ROE ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

WASHINGTON – For the second year in a row, the U.S. Catholic bishops are sponsoring “Nine Days for Life: Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage,” planned for Jan. 18-26 this year, as part of several events marking the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand in the U.S. “Since that tragic decision, more than 55 million children’s lives have been lost to abortion, and many suffer that loss – often in silence,” says a posting on the website www.9daysforlife. com.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said in a recent letter to his fellow bishops that response to last year’s nine-day observance prompted this year’s event to again “pray for the healing and conversion of our nation and people impacted by the culture of death.”

The 9daysforlife website offers participants several ways to sign up to receive directly a daily simple novena with different intercessions, brief reflections and suggested acts of reparation via email or text message or by using an app for smartphones.

Several resources for prayer and activities – as well as the full reflections for each of the nine days – are available online in the “Pro-Life Activities” section of the U.S. bishops’ website, www.usccb.org.

Watch the March for Life in Washington on EWTN starting Jan. 21 with Mass from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. Watch the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco Jan. 25 live from 11:30 a.m. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80 and 116, San Bruno Cable 143, Dish Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. It airs on Comcast 70 in HMB and Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. House should pass a bipartisan bill that would require the federal government to respect state marriage laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman, a U.S. archbishop said Jan. 10.

Titled the State Marriage Defense Act, the bill “is a necessary piece of legislation that will prevent the federal government from unjustly disregarding, in certain instances, state marriage laws concerning the definition of marriage,” said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

The archbishop, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, made the comments in a letter to U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, who introduced the bill Jan. 9.

Archbishop Cordileone said various federal agencies now use a “place of celebration” rule to determine whether persons are validly married for purposes of federal law.

“The Supreme Court’s decision last year in U.S. v.

Windsor, however, requires the federal government to defer to state marriage law, not disregard it,” he said.

Regarding Windsor, the high court ruled June 26 in a 5-4 opinion that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.

On Aug. 29, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued guidelines regarding the impact of the Windsor decision for federal tax purposes. According to the memo, “spouse” is defined broadly in the ruling to include all samesex marriages that were performed in a domestic or foreign jurisdiction having the legal authority to sanction marriages – the “place of celebration” principle

THE BIPARTISAN STATE MARRIAGE DEFENSE ACT “is a necessary piece of legislation that will prevent the federal government from unjustly disregarding, in certain instances, state marriage laws concerning the definition of marriage,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said.

A UTAH FEDERAL COURT JUDGE, in striking down the state’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, argued it violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process. Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester said some see the ruling “as a joyful moment” while the church and other supporters of traditional marriage “see it as an affront to an institution that is at once sacred and natural.”

– “without regard to the state law where the spouse is domiciled.”

Archbishop Cordileone said Weber’s bill, which has bipartisan support, is necessary because it would require the federal government, “consistent with Windsor, to defer to the marriage law of the state in which people actually reside when determining whether they are married for purposes of federal law.”

In other court action on same-sex marriage, the U.S. Supreme Court put a halt to same-sex marriages in Utah while an appeal was pending on a lower court’s decision declaring the state’s ban unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, the Obama administration said it will recognize the marriages of same-sex couples who wed after a federal court lifted the ban Dec. 20 and before the U.S. Supreme Court halted such weddings Jan. 6.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Shelby, in striking down Utah’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, argued it violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process.

Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester, said when Shelby issued his ruling that some see it “as a joyful moment” in the debate on “the definition of marriage in our society,” while the church and other supporters of traditional marriage “see it as an affront to an institution that is at once sacred and natural.”

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Pope: Too many ‘defeated Christians’ in the church CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – There are too many “defeated Christians” in the church who do not fully believe in the faith handed down to them by way of tradition and who do not completely trust in God, Pope Francis said.

If Christians don’t believe and live the faith as a victorious mover of mountains, then “there is only defeat, and the prince of the world conquers the world,” the pope said in his homily Jan. 10 during his morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

The pope focused his homily on a reading from the First Letter of John (5:5-13), in which the apostle reminds Christians that there will be eternal life

for those who believe in the name of the son of God. “Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the son of God?” the apostle asks.

Whoever remains in God and in his love is victorious over the world, the pope said, according to a report by Vatican Radio.

“Our faith can do anything,” he said.

Christians should remind themselves that faith in God is powerful and that faith is what “conquers the world,” because “many times we are defeated Christians,” he said.

“The church is full of defeated Christians who don’t believe in this, that the faith is victorious,” he said.

A strong, victorious faith requires professing the faith with all of one’s

heart and trusting completely in God, the pope said.

“Faith is to profess God,” as is done with the daily recitation of the Nicene Creed, he said.

“I believe in one God, I believe in Jesus, I believe ... But do I believe in what I’m saying,” the pope asked or are people just reciting from memory, repeating what’s being said “like parrots,” or saying it only because it has to be recited?

“Or do I believe just some of it?” he continued.

“Profess the faith! All of it!” he said, and protect the faith in its entirety as it has been passed down by way of tradition.

“We know how to ask things of God, how to thank God, but to worship God,

praise God, that’s something more,” he said.

“Only those who have this strong faith are capable of adoration,” of worship, he said.

Comparing the intensity of people’s ardor in worshipping God to taking someone’s temperature, the pope said, “I dare say that the thermometer of the life of the church is a bit low here.”

There are few people who have the capacity to really worship “because, in professing the faith, we aren’t convinced or we are only partially convinced,” he said.

Just as professing the faith allows people to worship and praise God, putting themselves completely in God’s hands brings people real hope, Pope Francis said.

US bishop visits Gaza, says world must tackle ‘intolerable’ situation CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JERUSALEM – A U.S. bishop who traveled into the Gaza Strip called the situation there “intolerable” and said it must be “addressed by the world community.”

“People are denied their basic rights of movement and the opportunity to experience what we call a Bishop Pates ‘normal life,’” Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, told Catholic News Service Jan. 13 as he and other church leaders arrived in Bethlehem, West Bank.

Bishop Pates, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, was part of the Holy Land Coordination, an annual event in which bishops from the U.S., Canada and Europe travel to the Mideast to show support for churches there.

He called Gaza’s tiny Christian community a “long-suffering people” and said the local Christians were concerned about the lack of educational opportunities for their children. However, he added, parishioners at Holy Family Catholic Church were “extremely grateful” for their visit and their support.

“Typically people do not visit (them

in Gaza),” he said. “They were grateful for the help people give them in the situation and by recognizing the difficulties they are facing. They described a difficult and problematic situation which is really a slap in the face of dignity.”

Israel has imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip since Hamas took control in 2007, although it loosened restrictions in 2010. Egypt opened one border crossing to Gaza in 2011.

Bishop Pates told Catholic News Service that although the church leaders’ entrance into Gaza through Israeli security went smoothly, it took them two hours to cross the border on the way out.

“It really brought home for us how intolerable the security situation is,” said Bishop Pates. “It was very disconcerting.”

In November 2012, Israel launched its Pillar of Defense attack on Gaza, in response to hundreds of rockets being launched into southern Israel from Gaza.

Bishop Pates said the destruction in Gaza remains visible, with destroyed buildings and pockmarked facades.

“You see terrific devastation. Some buildings still have evidence (of the attack),” he said Besides visiting the Catholic parish, the bishops met with members of the local Christian community.

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KERRY, VATICAN COUNTERPART MEET

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal-designate Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, hosted a lengthy meeting with his U.S. counterpart, John Kerry, to discuss ongoing tensions in the Middle East, as well as the U.S. bishops’ concerns about the Obama administration’s health care mandate.

“The meeting was very broad; it lasted about one hour and 40 minutes,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman.

Father Lombardi said the two secretaries of state did not meet alone Jan. 14, but had top aides with them for the discussions. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s foreign minister, participated, as did Victoria Nuland, Kerry’s assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs; Shaun Casey, special adviser to Kerry for faith-based and community initiatives; and Ken Hackett, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. “Various themes were discussed and naturally those regarded the Middle East first of all – the situation in Syria and preparations for the (upcoming peace) conference in Geneva,” Father Lombardi said, referring to the U.N.-sponsored peace talks scheduled for Jan. 22.

Pope says abortion, hunger, environmental damage threaten peace FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said world peace requires the defense of human dignity from violations such as world hunger, human trafficking and abortion.

The pope made his remarks Jan. 13 in his first annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, offering a survey of world conflicts and crises he said were caused by “envy, selfishness, rivalry and the thirst for power and money.”

Speaking in the Apostolic Palace’s Sala Regia, the vast “royal hall” where popes traditionally received Catholic monarchs, Pope Francis spoke of what he has frequently called a “throwaway culture” exemplified by widespread food waste that leaves children starving or malnourished.

“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food or disposable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as if they were unnecessary,” the pope said. “It is horrifying just to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; children turned into merchandise in that terrible form of modern slavery called human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”

The pope also lamented what he called rising numbers of “broken and troubled families,” which he attributed to both moral and material factors: the “weakening sense of belonging so typical of today’s world” as well as the “adverse conditions in which many families are forced to live, even to the point where they lack basic means of subsistence.”

Noting the devastation caused by typhoon Haiyan in November, Pope Francis warned against “greedy exploitation of environmental resources,” and quoted what he said was a popular adage: “God always forgives, we sometimes forgive, but when nature – creation – is mistreated, she never forgives!”

Most of the pope’s speech was devoted, as usual for the occasion, to geopolitical problems in different regions of the world.

The pope called for an end to the almost three-year old civil war in Syria, voicing hope for upcoming peace talks and praising neighboring Lebanon and Jordan for accepting refugees from the conflict.He also noted what he called “significant progress” in ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

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Without specifying countries, the pope noted sectarian tensions in Asia, “where growing attitudes of prejudice, for allegedly religious reasons, are tending to deprive Christians of their liberties and to jeopardize civil coexistence.”

The pope recalled his July visit to the southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, an entry point for immigrants without legal permission to enter Europe, and voiced sympathy with those who, “in the hope of a better life, have undertaken perilous journeys which not infrequently end in tragedy.”

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POPE: CHRISTIAN LOVE IS GENEROUS, CONCRETE – NOT ‘SOAP OPERA LOVE’

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VATICAN CITY – Meeting a leading Italian campaigner for the rights of people with disabilities, Pope Francis promised to encourage greater support for the parents of young people with disabilities and to support efforts to make churches and church buildings accessible.

Ileana Argentin, a member of the Italian Parliament, had written to Pope Francis, asking to speak with him about the problems facing people with disabilities. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the pope responded quickly and the 30-minute meeting Jan. 11 was the result.

One of the key themes of the conversation, Father Lombardi said, was “the support that must be given to the parents of seriously disabled persons,” because the parents live with growing concern about dying and leaving their children without appropriate care and love.

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Argentin said she asked to meet the pope to get his support for her ongoing efforts to defend the rights of people with disabilities.

“I am Catholic and I’ve always believed, but Pope Francis really has made a difference for the handicapped,” she said. When, just a couple weeks after his election, images went around the world of him holding and kissing an 8-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, “the first wall – that of prejudice – fell,” Argentin said.

In addition to securing a papal promise to personally support efforts to make church buildings handicap accessible, Argentin said they spoke “about the mothers of disabled children and the fear they have of dying and leaving their children alone.”

“He told me it is important to talk about this because the more we talk about this the more people will understand that the parents of someone with a disability don’t even have the ‘luxury of dying,’” she said.

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VATICAN CITY – Christians must love through concrete actions, not words, which are just whisked away in the wind, Pope Francis said.

True love knows it’s more important to give – “give things, give life, give oneself to God and others” – than receive, the pope said in his homily Jan. 9 during his morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives.

Christian love is generous and real, it’s not some dreamy romantic notion and “not the love on soap operas,” he said, according to Vatican Radio.

When Jesus spoke of love, “he speaks to us of concrete things: feed the hungry, visit the sick,” and more, the pope said.

“When there isn’t this concreteness, one can be living a Christianity of illusion because the person doesn’t really understand the core of Jesus’ message,” he said.

The pope said there were two things that make Christian love concrete.

“First, love with actions, not with words. The wind whisks words away; today they’re here, tomorrow they’re not,” he said.

The second thing is “for love, it’s more important to give than receive.”

“A person who loves, gives and gives,” he said, while someone who doesn’t love “is self-centered, always tries to receive, always looks to have things, have perks.”

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Pope: Baptism gives strength to forgive enemies, love poor the mercy of evil, sin and death, but in communion with God and our brothers and sisters,” embarking on a whole new life.

The pope reminded his audience that it was very important for Christians to know the date of their baptism because it was “a happy day” of celebration.

Recalling that event is important because there is always the risk people think of it as something that happened in the past or that it was something just their parents wanted, and was “not of our volition.”

Even though chances are people were just infants on that day and can’t remember it firsthand, “We have to reawaken the memory of our baptism” and live it every day as a great gift from the Lord, the pope said.

“If we are able to follow Jesus and remain in the church, even with our limits, frailties and our sins, it is precisely because of the sacrament in which we became new beings and were vested in Christ.”

The power of baptism frees people from original sin, grafts them to God and makes them bearers of “a new hope” that nothing and nobody can destroy, he said.

“Thanks to baptism, we are able to forgive, to love – even those who offend us and hurt us; that we are able to recognize the face of Christ in the least and the poor,” he said.

The fact that baptism is always conferred by a priest in the Lord’s name shows it is a gift that is passed on from person to person “a chain of grace,” he said. It is “an act of fraternity” and becoming a child of the church, who, like a mother, generates new children in Christ through the Holy Spirit.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Baptism isn’t just some formal ritual, it profoundly changes people, giving them unwavering hope and the strength to forgive and love others, Pope Francis said.

“With baptism, we are immersed in that inexhaustible source of life that is Jesus’ death, the greatest act of love in all of history,” he said during his first general audience of 2014.

The pope spent nearly two hours after the audience Jan. 8 greeting people, blessing the sick, speaking with newlyweds and receiving notes, letters and late Christmas gifts from the crowd. He also watched a brief performance by acrobats, jugglers and clowns who were part of an international Golden Circus festival.

During his usual rounds through St. Peter’s Square in the popemobile before the start of the audience, the pope caught sight of a friend in the crowd. The pope had the driver stop the popemobile and gestured for his friend to board the vehicle.

The friend, Father Fabian Baez, sat in the back seat, then walked with the pope to a special seating section for guests.

Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office, said the priest works in a parish in Buenos Aires and that the pope said Father Baez was “a great confessor.”

The pope began the new year of audience talks with a new series of catecheses on the sacraments, starting with baptism – the sacrament that “grafts us as living members in Christ and in his church.”

Baptism isn’t merely “a simple rite, a formal act of the church,” he said.

“It is an act that profoundly touches our existence” and radically changes the person.

“A baptized baby is not the same as a baby who’s not baptized. A baptized person is not the same as a person

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Pope Francis passes a circus performer on stilts as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 8. who’s not baptized,” he said.

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PROGRESS REPORTED IN LEGIONARIES REFORM

ROME – As the Legionaries of Christ started their extraordinary general chapter, the cardinal overseeing the troubled congregation said scandal had taken a toll on its finances, but that members had made progress in overcoming the moral and administrative legacy of their disgraced founder.

Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the papal delegate to the Legionaries, spoke in an interview with Vatican Radio broadcast Jan. 9, the chapter’s first working day.

The chapter, expected to last six weeks, is the culmination of a reform process that began with a Vatican-ordered apostolic visitation in 2009. That investigation was prompted by revelations that the congregation’s founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, had fathered at least one illegitimate child and sexually abused children.

In 2010, the Vatican announced that Father Maciel, who died in 2008, had been guilty of “seriously and objectively immoral behavior” and “real crimes,” and had lived a “life devoid of scruples and of genuine religious meaning.” That same year, Pope Benedict XVI named Cardinal De Paolis to supervise the Legionaries’ reform.

The cardinal said his first task in reform had been confronting the Legionaries’ rank and file with revelations about Father Maciel and their implications for the congregation.

Some members accepted that the “government of the institute was tainted,” he said; but “there was another group that could not grasp the news,” and insisted that the Legionaries’ virtues “had prevented them from falling into the defects of other religious institutes.”

“They had fallen into a trap far more dangerous, that of the founder himself,” the cardinal said.

waters of Christ’s salvation, he said, “we can live a new life, no longer at

The text of the pope’s audience remarks in English is available online at www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/ audiences/2014/documents/papafrancesco_20140108_udienza-generale_ en.html.

Priest: Hitching ride on popemobile was invite to hit road for God CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – When Father Fabian Baez booked his trip to Rome, he didn’t have an appointment to meet with the pope, so he gave himself ample time in the Eternal City to be able to arrange some way to see him.

A week and a half in Rome seemed like plenty of time to meet up with the pope “because I thought I needed to find a ticket, to get a ticket to a general Father Fabian audience. Instead he found me,” Baez the priest told Catholic News Service Jan 9.

Father Baez, a parish priest in the pope’s former Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, arrived in Rome late Jan. 7 but did not manage to get a ticket to the next day’s general audience in St. Peter’s Square.

He said he did not worry about it because he still had another week to try. He still went to hear the catechesis anyway, sending out a message on Twitter saying he was on his way to the square.

Little did he know a short time later he would end up having the best seat in the house: first with the pope on the popemobile, then VIP seating during the audience talk.

Father Baez said: “I had no ticket so I couldn’t really come into the square. I was outside the audience area. But he saw me from a distance.”

The pope yelled to him, “What are you doing here?” the priest said. And he yelled back, “I came to see you!”

The pope had the driver stop the vehicle. He gestured to the priest to come, “And I ran as best I could,” squeezing past the people pressed in front of him, past the large wooden barricades snaking through the square and past a large security detail that is now used to protocol being thrown to the wind.

The pope said, “Come, get on!” and gave the priest an empty seat next to his papal assistant.

The priest said that later, when he thought about it, he felt that phrase “Come, get on” was also meant for the whole world.

“When he invited me, he invited all priests to be near the people,” he said, and the pope was also inviting all people “to stand up, rise up and go,” and lift their hearts and lives up to the Lord.

Father Baez spoke very fondly of his former bishop: “He’s a very good priest, whether he was a bishop, a pope, he is first and foremost a priest.

“He showed all of us priests how to be a priest, how to care for people, to be a pastor with the smell of sheep,” he said.

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US MILITARY ARCHBISHOP MAKES PASTORAL VISIT TO GUANTANAMO

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, visited the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a five-day pastoral visit. He celebrated Sunday Masses Jan. 12 at the base and also administered the sacrament of confirmation to two adults and two teenagers. It was the archbishop’s third visit to Guantanamo since he became the military archbishop in 2008.

“The island’s beauty hides a bit of the frustration experienced by those who serve here, because they are confined to the base, due to the political situation in Cuba.

As always, my desire is to confirm them in their faith and listen to their concerns,” Archbishop Broglio said in a statement issued Jan. 13.

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Venerating the Black Nazarene Pilgrims carry the statue of the Black Nazarene during a procession in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 9. The wooden statue, carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippine capital in the early 17th century, is cherished by Catholics, who believe that touching it can lead to a miracle.

African nation’s Christmas of ‘weeping and mourning’ JONATHAN LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

OXFORD, England – Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic criticized media portrayals of their country’s conflict as religious in nature and listed preconditions for restoring peace and effective governance.

“Our present behavior totally discredits the values of unity, dignity and work on which our Central African nation is founded,” the 10-member bishops’ conference said in a Jan. 8 pastoral message.

“We are offering a deplorable image of both ourselves and our country, as we destroy the few infrastructures still remaining to us. The record is appalling,” they said.

The bishops said Christmas had been marked by “weeping and mourning,” with several towns “particularly traumatized by fratricidal violence.”

They added that clashes between the rebel Seleka alliance, which seized power in March, and a northernbased movement, Anti-Balaka, loyal to ousted President Francois Bozize, had provoked “a cycle of reprisals and counter-reprisals,” but said it was wrong to portray the conflict as pitting Muslims against Christians.

“Not all Anti-Balaka are Christians, and not all Christians are Anti-Balaka – it is the same with Seleka and Muslims,” the bishops said.

“The imprecise terminology which turns Anti-Balaka into a Christian militia must be corrected. This amalgam, propagated by the national and international media, gives a confessional slant to a conflict which is, above all, political and military,” the bishops said.

Central African Republic, population 4.4 million, is about 85 percent Christian and 12 percent Muslim.

JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a controversial figure in Israel and abroad, died Jan. 11 after being in a coma following a stroke eight years ago. He was laid to rest at his Negev farm Jan. 13.

Beloved by many for his humor and warmth and for his strong leadership in forging the nation, he also was disdained by many for his military ruthlessness and the way some of his policies harmed Palestinian Christians and Muslims, including the 1982 massacre of Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.

“We have mixed feelings,” Melkite Archbishop Elias Chacour said. “We can’t remember him as always a good man because (of) some events in his life which hurt Palestinians. We can’t forget Sabra and Shatila and when he went up on the Temple Mount and started the horrible intifada,” the archbishop told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from his Haifa office.

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A French soldier patrols near a house on fire Jan. 3 at a village in Bossangoa, Central African Republic. The country is “on the brink of catastrophe,” the U.N. said Jan. 7.

French paratroopers arrived Dec. 8 under a U.N. mandate to help disarm Seleka and Anti-Balaka militants, after fighting in the capital, Bangui, left approximately 1,000 dead.

The United Nations said Jan. 7 the country is “on the brink of catastrophe,” with 2.2 million people needing assistance and half of Bangui’s inhabitants, or 513,000 people, forced to flee their homes.

In their message, the bishops said they were grateful to French and African peacekeepers attempting, “at the cost of their lives,” to re-establish security and public order.

However, they added that they hoped the participation of troops from neighboring Chad, whose government has been accused of backing Seleka, would be reconsidered, and they said the crisis would not be resolved “without the people of Central Africa.”

The bishops said Seleka had promised to “consolidate national unity, reinforce social cohesion and ensure

good governance through the fair redistribution of national riches.”

However, they added that the movement, “largely sustained by Chadian and Sudanese mercenaries,” had instead “plunged the country into desolation” and turned killing into “a banal and anodyne act.”

All factions should be disarmed, the bishops said, and dialogue promoted among adherents of all religious faiths.

On Jan. 7, Archbishop Nzapalainga was one of several Christian and Muslim leaders from Central African Republic who participated in a conference call hosted by Rashad Hussain, U.S. special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. U.S. religious leaders also participated.

Stephen Hilbert, U.S. bishops’ foreign policy adviser for Africa and global development, said he told those on the call, “Be assured that you are not alone, nor are you abandoned in the suffering that the people of Central Africa are experiencing at this time.”

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis assured mothers that breast-feeding their babies in public, even during a papal Mass in the Sistine Chapel, is OK. No chorus is as wonderful as the squeaks, squeals and banter of children, the pope said during a Mass in which he baptized 32 babies on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Jan. 12. “Some will cry because they are uncomfortable or because they are hungry,” he said during his brief and unscripted homily.

“If they are hungry, mothers, let them eat, no worries, because here they are the main focus,” he said.

One of the mothers, Emer McCarthy, an Irish journalist at Vatican Radio, told Catholic News Service that while most of the other mothers had brought baby bottles for feedings, she did not hesitate to breast-feed her daughter, Polly Rose, discreetly during appropriate moments during the ceremony.

She said she hoped the pope’s encouragement would help overcome social taboos against breastfeeding in public.

“Who would have thought the pope would be this great proponent,” she said.

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Winning friends and souls This unsigned editorial from the Jan. 2 issue of The Tablet, a London-based international Catholic weekly, was redistributed by Catholic News Service as a sample of current commentary in the Catholic press. The views presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of CNS, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or Catholic San Francisco.

A valuable lesson Pope Francis has already taught the Catholic Church is that the imitation of Christ is the one sure way to win souls.

Since he arrived at the helm last spring he has hacked away at the accretions of wealth and power that the papacy had accumulated over centuries, cutting back to the essentials. He seems acutely aware of what it is about Catholicism that attracts and what it is that repels, the simple formula being that the more it points away from itself and toward Christ, the more convincing it is.

He has been named Man of the Year from various directions, but the one award he most deserves would be from

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A lamb sits around the neck of Pope Francis as he visits a Nativity scene at the Church of St. Alfonso Maria dei Liguori in Rome Jan. 6. the public relations industry for showing how to turn what is seen by many as a toxic brand into a winning one almost overnight.

The attraction is not purely to the man himself, but to what he stands for.

So the process of reform he has initiated is not to make the church more Francis-like, but more Christ-like. The Gospel, he understands, cannot be preached by the rich and powerful to the poor and powerless – even if the words are the right ones. The symbol-

Growing inequality – a moral challenge for America JEFF BIALIK

As Catholic Christians, it is a foundational tenet of our faith that each person has been made in the image and likeness of God. We hold true that all life is precious and that each of us is equal in the eyes of God. As children of God and guardians of our fellow man, we should all be concerned about the inequality of earnings, wealth and economic mobility that is growing within our nation. This issue has recently begun to gain traction and as 2013 was drawing to a close, Pope Francis and President Obama both made news calling attention to the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. and around the world.

In his first papal exhortation, ”The Joy of the Gospel,” Pope Francis writes, “Just as the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say ‘Thou shalt not kill’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”

In a December speech at an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, President Obama called inequality “the defining challenge of our time,” adding that “it drives everything I do in this office.”

Economist Paul Krugman, writing in The New York Times, noted that, “On average, Americans remain a lot poorer today than they were before the economic crisis. For the bottom 90 percent of families, this impoverishment reflects both a shrinking economic pie and a declining share of that pie. ... Inequality is rising so fast that over the past six years it has been as big a drag on ordinary

American incomes as poor economic performance ….”

Growing inequality is bad for the economy; it places an ever increasing burden on social services and safety net resources like food stamps and housing vouchers. Inequality also eats away at the very core of what it means to be a member of the human family.

As the overall economy has improved following the Great Recession of 2008-09, economic prosperity has disproportionally benefited a tiny fraction of the population. The resulting disparity in wealth and opportunity has created a fracture that impacts more than just the country’s economic well-being. As the Holy Father reminds us, “Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard, the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades. This is a very real danger for believers too.”

Economic inequality is about both the gap between absolute earnings and the limitations that impede the opportunity to move from the working poor to the middle class. The possibility that anyone who works hard and plays by the rules can migrate up the economic ladder has been a hallmark of the American ideal for more than two centuries. As this promise erodes, the fabric of our society begins to tear.

America has never placed a ceiling on economic opportunity for those fortunate enough to succeed. Our Judeo-Christian values likewise call us to create a floor below which no one is allowed to fall. It is within this context that the church has a key role to play as a moral voice in support of the dignity and worth of each person.

BIALIK is executive director of Catholic Charities CYO in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

ism contradicts them. The Gospel needs integrity between message and messenger. Those whose preferred image of the Vatican is of a glorious Renaissance monarchy surrounded by a deferential Renaissance court are finding the transition back to authentic Christianity somewhat uncomfortable.

Yet he has not shed a single church teaching. His orthodoxy is impeccable. Clearly the church does not need to trim its doctrinal sails to regain respect. Nor did Christ: That is another lesson. It is impossible to label Pope Francis a progressive or a conservative because he is essentially both.

He makes it possible for those two schools to live harmoniously together in the one church. He is not an authoritarian – indeed, he likes to subvert his own authority, telling any Catholics who receive a rebuke from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to stay calm and carry on.

There is no knowing where this journey will lead. If 2013 was the year of papal surprises, perhaps the biggest of all being the resignation through failing health of Pope Benedict XVI, then 2014 may well be no more predict-

LETTERS Blinded by moral superiority

Re “2 bishops dialogue with Catholic peace activists,” Tony Magliano, Dec. 13: In criticizing military chaplains by repeating recycled ‘60s antiwar cliches (“America’s war machine”) Tony Magliano risks being confused with an aging hippie draft protestor. Apparently his overdeveloped sense of moral superiority has blinded him to the reality that you don’t “wage peace” by condemning warriors or protesting against a strong military but by being prepared to violently defend your country against those who would subjugate others.

It takes a rare combination of arrogance and ignorance to criticize better men who unselfishly minister to other good men and women willingly risking their lives to protect our liberty and freedom. That includes the freedom of ivory tower-dwelling academics to naively believe that a fervent desire for peace will prevent war. Shame on him.

Kent M. Grealish Daly City

Birth control and Obamacare

I understand maternity care whether needed or not is included under Obamacare. I am conditionally OK with that. When I was married, my wife and I had a child and I would have been happy to know my coverage helped pay for her care. I also get that as I’m pushing 60, maternity care isn’t something I would choose in a free country to now pay for.

However, just as employers who have opposed providing birth control methods are filing complaints against Obamacare for being forced to provide objectionable coverage, it seems to make sense that individu-

able, maybe even less so. The role of the pope is being redefined. So, as a result of his leadership, are the roles of bishops, clergy and laity.

During 2014 Pope Francis will have to embark on the root-and-branch reform of the Vatican curial machinery that he clearly thinks is necessary, guided by the advice of the eight cardinals he has chosen as his special team of consulters.

Over the centuries the Catholic Church has acquired a vertical and pyramidal power structure, with graduated layers of hierarchical status from top to bottom. Pope Francis’s example makes it possible to say that that might not be right: that far from being the church’s defining characteristic, the very idea of a hierarchy of power is alien to the Gospel, just as is the idea that all that power should be exclusively in the hands of elderly male clerics.

What if collegiality was not only the right principle for the internal structure of the world episcopacy, as Pope Francis clearly believes, but also for organizing each diocese and parish?

What reserves of spiritual energy might thereby be released?

als who also oppose birth control at any level ought to also object to being mandated or then fined for paying for a procedure they religiously, morally and ethically are forbidden to contribute too.

Archdiocesean legal eagles, any class action legal remedies out there?

John McCord San Francisco

Homilies that emulate Jesus

Bless Pope Francis for focusing on a major problem with Sunday sermons.

Unlike Christ who presented his teachings in down-to-earth, human terms, too many priests waste their weekly opportunities to instruct us in our faith by couching his ideas in vague, general, sometimes theological terms that most of us can’t relate to or grasp.

Also, are unenlightening homilies a major reason so many Catholics have stopped attending Sunday Mass?

In summary, our priests need to examine how Jesus preached and why he was the teacher. So many of his teachings were an encouragement and reminder that we can be better people than we are. Can our priests spend more time on emulating his style and, thus, educating us?

The pope’s remarks can also be a commentary on the recent liturgical changes in the Mass: Can you imagine our Lord praying, “Our Father with whom I am consubstantial, hallowed ....” It’s very evident that some theologians decided to tinker with the Creed, even though it had served the faithful well for thousands of years. I assume that church leaders would agree the Lord’s Prayer is the perfect prayer.

Wayne Lee San Francisco

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What popes can and can’t do

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good friend habitually refers to the Wall Street Journal as his “favorite Catholic newspaper”– a bit of whimsy not without foundation, given the openness of the Journal’s op-ed pages to serious Catholic argument on numerous issues. But just as Homer occasionally nods, so does America’s best GEORGE WEIGEL newspaper.

And on Jan. 2, the Journal nodded, big-time, in this description of why Pope Francis was one of the “People to Watch” in 2014: “After raising expectations for shifting views toward homosexuality, divorce, the environment, and society’s obligations to the poor, the pontiff is expected to also undertake bureaucratic reform at the Vatican, as well as the possible expansion of the role of women in the church.”

By my count, and bypassing the unnecessarily split infinitive, there are four errors in that one sentence, plus one grave misconstrual of ecclesiastical “roles.”

Although it is very difficult for those who see Catholicism through political lenses to grasp this, popes are not like presidents or state governors, and doctrine is not like public policy. Which means that a change of papal “administration” does not – indeed cannot – mean a change of Catholic “views.” Doctrine, as the church understands it, is not a matter of anyone’s “views,” but of settled understandings of the truth of things.

The pope is the guardian of an authoritative tradition, of which he is the servant, not the master.

Nor are popes free agents who govern by the seat of their pants, if you‘ll permit the phrase. Prior to the completion of Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Pope Paul VI proposed adding to that seminal document a sentence stating that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone” – an effort, I suspect, to protect papal authority and freedom of action from potential civil or ecclesiastical encroachments. But the council’s Theological Commission rejected Pope Paul’s proposed amendment, noting that “the Roman Pontiff is … bound to revelation itself, to the fundamental structure of the church, to the sacraments, to the definitions of earlier councils, and (to) other obligations too numerous to mention.”

Those “other obligations” include honoring the truth of things built into the world and into us. At an academic conference years ago, a distinguished Catholic philosopher remarked (perhaps hyperbolically) that “If the pope said that ‘2+2 = 5,’ I’d believe him.” An even more distinguished Catholic philosopher gave the correct, and far more Catholic, response: “If the Holy Father said that ‘2+2 = 5,’ I would say publicly, ‘Perhaps I have misunderstood His Holiness’s meaning.’ Privately, I would pray for his sanity.”

Popes, in other words, are not authoritarian figures, who teach what they will and as they will. The pope is the guardian of an authoritative

tradition, of which he is the servant, not the master. Pope Francis knows this as well as anyone, as he has emphasized by repeating that he is a “son of the church” who believes and teaches what the church believes and teaches.

Thus the notion that this pontificate is going to change Catholic teaching on the morality of homosexual acts, or on the effects of divorce-and-remarriage on one’s communion with the church, is a delusion, although the church can surely develop its pastoral approach to homosexuals and the divorced. As for the environment and the poor, Catholic social doctrine has long taught that we are stewards of creation and that the least of the Lord’s brethren have a moral claim on our solidarity and our charity; the social doctrine leaves open to debate the specific, practical means by which people of good will, and governments, exercise that stewardship, and that solidarity and charity.

And “the role of women in the church”? No doubt various church structures would benefit by drawing upon a wider range of talent (irrespective of gender) than the talent pool from which church leaders typically emerge. Still, in an interview with La Stampa before Christmas, Pope Francis made it clear that identifying leadership in the church with ordination is both a form of clericalism and another way of instrumentalizing Catholic women. Flying a Vatican desk, Francis was suggesting, is not the acme of discipleship.

As for curial reform: Oremus, as we used to say.

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

Christianity is a movement, not a monument

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he overwhelmingly positive worldwide response to the person, example and message of Pope Francis serves as a reminder that Christianity is a movement, not a monument.

It all began when a charismatic young man left his home town of Nazareth and started to walk country roads and shorelines FATHER WILLIAM inviting othJ. BYRON, SJ ers to follow him. He asked fishermen to drop their nets and respond to his invitation to become fishers of men and women. He preached good news of salvation and established his credentials by miraculous actions and compassionate care for those in need.

At the beginning of his public ministry, as Luke’s Gospel relates it, Jesus returned “to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.”

Jesus then unrolled the scroll and read these famous words: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring

Over the centuries, the movement hardened into a monument of hierarchical structure, ecclesiastical rules and regulations, and architectural rigidities. glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”

And after reading those words, he said to all present, “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”

And thus the movement began.

Eventually, however, over the centuries, the movement hardened into a monument of hierarchical structure, ecclesiastical rules and regulations, and architectural rigidities.

Not to say that structure isn’t necessary. If anyone reading this did not have a bone structure, he or she would be a puddle of flesh plopped on the floor. Nor can a worldwide community of 1.2 billion believers live without some rules and regulations. And, of course, if believers are expected to remember

their Lord in the breaking of the bread, they have to have a place, some sacred space, where they can assemble and worship.

But rigidities of rank, rule and building construction can cripple the movement and replace it with monumental cathedrals, chancery offices, rectories, a promotion culture and brick-and-mortar barriers to the flow of loving people and liberating ideas that Jesus launched.

By taking the name Francis, our present Holy Father signaled his desire to see the values of Francis of Assisi, the “poverello,” surface as defining characteristics of this movement called Christianity.

By paying his own hotel bill at the end of the conclave that elected him to the chair of Peter and by choosing to live in simple quarters rather than a papal palace, Pope Francis said “no” to privilege and “yes” to the lifestyle adopted by the Son of Man who came, not “to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

His words and actions have caught the attention of a world in need of the simplicity he witnesses to consistently and cheerfully. And the world appears to be saying “amen” to what he has to offer.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@ sju.edu.

In 2014, bringing hope to the despairing

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n 1969, singer Peggy Lee came out with the song, “Is That All There Is?” In it she reflects on major events in her life, and after each one sings, “Is that all there is?” leaving us with the feeling that life can sometimes feel empty.

Life can seem senseFATHER EUGENE less when HEMRICK you hear of millions of people displaced by war, innocent children being slaughtered, corruption everywhere, widespread violation of human rights or when experiencing the death of loved ones.

How do we cope in the midst of hopelessness?

When we read about John the Baptist imprisoned in a dark dungeon, we get the impression that he is wondering, “Is this all there is to life? Is this the way it is supposed to end after all my efforts?”

In his moments of doubt, he asks his companions to go to Christ to learn if he is the promised Messiah. He receives his answer in the form of a man serving the poor and doing works of mercy. Christ, the Messiah, is God showing us how to live a fruitful, hope-filled life.

It is easy to become doubtful and feel helpless under the weight of all that is horrendous around us, to get down on life, to wish we were never born. But we are born, and not only born but for a purpose.

We may not be able to stop wars in Syria, Africa and Afghanistan or quiet the riots in places such as Ukraine, Egypt or Thailand.

But we can live the beatitude, “blessed are the peacemakers,” by generating peace in our homes, workplaces and neighborhoods.

We may not be able to minister personally to the millions displaced by war, but we can support them with needed supplies.

We may not be able to stop the world’s corruption, but we can practice utmost honesty in daily affairs.

We may not be able to rebuild homes destroyed by tornados or hurricanes, but we can help those who are experiencing loneliness feel at home.

Disillusionment and despair create paralysis. A loving heart in action filled with caring and compassion can generate hope.

As Christ got out among the people in order to serve them, so, too, must we in 2014 do the same.

This is what we were born to do: to be bringers of hope, demonstrating that life is not empty but full of goodness.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.’

JOHN 1:29-34 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.

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.

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.

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 ev-

erywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus 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.”

Vocation is a family affair

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onths ago a woman at our parish told me about her grandson’s decision to enter seminary. I knew the young man as a student some years ago at one of our parish schools. Last summer, he graduated with a bachelor’s degree. The only son of his parents, he has a sister. Sharing her feelings, the grandmother asked me to pray for her family. She was echoing the sentiments of her daughter who was both happy and sad about her son’s decision.

The mother too has since talked with me a few times about her son’s decision to become a priest. The family, active in parish life, is delighted about the young man’s decision. At the same time, they are aware of the implicaFATHER CHARLES tions: They cannot keep him PUTHOTA for themselves. They have to set him free and let him go where he is sent. They have to get used to a different set of expectations in the future, something at once joyful and heartbreaking. Having heard the call, he is

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS AUTHORITY IN PREACHING COMES FROM LOVING LIKE JESUS DID, POPE SAYS

Jesus “wanted the people to draw near and seek him, and he was moved when he saw them like sheep without a shepherd,” the pope said Jan. 14 in the homily at his early morning Mass in Vatican City.

The day’s Gospel reading, describing Jesus preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum, said the people were astonished by his preaching, which to them was “a new teaching with authority.” Jesus’ authority came from “the power of holiness” and the novelty of his teaching came from the fact that he transmitted “the love of God for each one of us,” the pope said, according to a summary by Vatican Radio.

Jesus “draws near to the people so they can draw near to him; he is close to sinners,” the pope said. He forgave the adulterer and “talks theology with the Samaritan, who wasn’t a little angel.”

“He seeks people’s hearts and draws near to people’s wounded hearts,” Pope Francis said.

now rearranging the family ties in relation to Christ.

He has dared to follow Jesus.

Isn’t it true that God continues to call us in our present world? His son Jesus Christ keeps challenging us to follow him and become his disciples. In the Old Testament, God calls Adam and Eve into life for a glorious state of love and grace. We are familiar with the call of Abraham, Moses, David and the prophets.

The first reading from the second servant song of Isaiah exemplifies vocation when God calls the servant nation of Israel, their sufferings in Babylonian exile notwithstanding. The servant could also be an individual, called, anointed from the womb, and sent out to be light to the nations. This individual is often interpreted as referring to Jesus, the future Messiah.

The theme of vocation is demonstrated in the life of Paul who is “called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God.” The church in Corinth too is “called to be holy” because they “have been sanctified in Christ Jesus.”

John the Baptist’s vocation is to fulfill a specific mission: to prepare the way of the Lord and point him out as “the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” He recognizes Jesus as anointed by the Spirit and testifies that “he is the son of God.” In the 21st century, in the technology-based, sportsand-entertainment driven, consumer-oriented world

of ours, Jesus desperately needs us to heed his call.

Much of the world is still in need of food, shelter, clothing, education and health. Millions are without the basic blessings of safety, security, stability, hope, and peace. There is more sadness in the world than joy. There is abundance of wealth, but it does not reach those in abject poverty. Pope Francis has been speaking out about this situation.

Vocation galvanizes us to address these needs. We need more young men and women responding to service in the church as deacons, priests, and nuns.

We need to do more to inspire, promote, nourish and cherish vocations.

In the larger sense though, vocation is universal, challenging every woman, man, and child to respond to the baptismal call to be holy and to follow Jesus.

It’s the call to forget self and serve others, as Jesus did. This call, as Pope Francis has rightly said, is extended to all communities, organizations, religions, and even to atheists. Governments and nations are anointed and missioned to make this world a better place. In this new year of 2014, guided by the Christmas star, we need to sow the seeds of vocation for recreating a world filled with God’s blessings for all.

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

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JANUARY 20: Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Fabian, pope and martyr; St. Sebastian, martyr. 1 SM 15:16-23. PS 50:8-9, 16BC-17, 21 and 23. MK 2:18-22.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21: Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr. 1 SM 16:1-13. PS 89:20, 21-22, 2728. MK 2:23-28.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. 1 SM 17:32-33, 37, 40-51. PS 144:1B, 2, 9-10. MK 3:1-6.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23: Thursday of the Second week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon & martyr. 1 SM 18:6-9;19:1-7. PS 56:2-3, 9-10A, 10B-11, 12-13. MK 3:7-12.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24: Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor; Optional memorial of Our Lady of Peace. 1 SM 24:3-21. PS 57:2, 3-4, 6 and 11.

MK 3:13-19.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25: Feast of the Conversion

CONVERSION OF PAUL THE APOSTLE first century January 25 When the Jewish Pharisee Saul set out from Jerusalem to Damascus, his aim was to persecute the fledgling Christian community. The dramatic story of St. Paul’s miraculous conversion is told several times in the Acts of the Apostles and New Testament letters. Paul became the Apostle to the Gentiles and carried Christ’s message around the Roman Empire. He shares a feast with St. Peter on June 29.

The January feast was known as the “translation” in the martyrology of St. Jerome; it may originally have commemorated the moving of Paul’s relics.

Now, it appropriately closes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Paul is the patron saint of Greece, Malta and the Cursillo movement.

of St. Paul, Apostle. Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22. PS 117:1BC, 2. MK 16:15-18.A

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The nonviolence of God

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n his deeply insightful book “Violence Unveiled,” Gil Bailie takes us through a remarkable section of the diaries of Capt. James Cook, the famed British scientist and explorer. Visiting the Island of Tahiti in 1777, Cook was taken one day by a local tribal chief to witness a ritual where a man was sacFATHER RON rificed as an ROLHEISER offering to the god Eatooa.

The man was being sacrificed in hope that this particular god would give the tribe some assistance in an upcoming war. Cook, though friendly to the local peoples, could not conceal his detestation for what he considered both a barbaric and superstitious act. In a conversation with the tribal chief afterward, Cook told the chief, through an interpreter, that in England they would hang a man for doing that.

Cook found the idea of killing someone to appease God to be abhorrent. Yet, as the great irony inside this story makes clear, we have never stopped killing people in God’s name, we have only changed the nomenclature. They called it human sacrifice; we call it capital punishment. In either case, someone dies because we feel that God needs and wants this death for some divine reason.

All peoples, right up to this day, have always done violence in God’s name, believing that the violence is not only justified but is in fact necessitated by God. God, it is argued, needs us to do this violence in his name. For this reason, ancient cul-

tures often offered human sacrifice.

During the medieval ages, as a Christian church, we had the Inquisition believing that God wanted us to kill people who were in doctrinal error.

Today we see a new form of this in a number of extremist Islamic groups who believe that God wants infidels of all kinds put to death for the sake of religious purity.

We have forever justified killing and other forms of violence in God’s name, often pointing to texts in scripture, which seemingly, show God as ordering violence in his name. But, in this, we have been wrong. Despite a number of texts which, on the surface, seem to indicate that God is ordering violence (but which are really archetypal and anthropomorphic in nature and do not justify that interpretation) we see, if we read the Bible from beginning to end, a progressive revelation (or at least a progressive realization on our part) of the nonviolence of God, a revelation that ends in Jesus who reveals a God of radical nonviolence. Our faulty idea of the God of the Old Testament who seemingly orders the extermination of whole peoples is indeed primitive and superstitious when placed beside the concept of the father of Jesus who sends his son into the world as a helpless infant and then lets him die helpless before a mocking crowd. The God whom Jesus reveals is devoid of all violence and asks that we no longer do violence in God’s name.

To offer just one example: In John’s Gospel (8, 2-11), we see the story of the woman who has been caught in adultery. As John tells the story: A crowd of pious persons bring her to Jesus and tell him that they have caught her in the very act of committing adultery and that Moses (their primary interpreter of God’s will) has ordered that, for this offense, she needs to be

put to death. Jesus, for his part, says nothing, instead he bends down and begins to write on the ground with his finger. Then, looking up, he tells them: “Let the person among you without sin cast the first stone!” Then he bends down and writes for a second time with his finger. Unbelievably they get the message and lay down their stones and go away.

What has happened here? The key for interpretation is Jesus’ gesture of writing on the ground with his finger. Who writes with his finger?

Who writes twice? God does. And what God writes with his finger and writes twice are the Ten Commandments, and he had to write them twice because Moses “broke” them the first time. Coming down the mountain, carrying the tablets of the commandments, Moses caught the people in the very act of committing idolatry and he, gripped in a fever of religious and moral fervor, broke the tables of stone on the golden calf and on peoples’ heads. Moses was the first person to break the commandments and he broke them physically, thinking violence needed to be done for God’s cause. Then, having broken them, he needed to go up the mountain a second time and have them rewritten by God; but before rewriting them, God gave Moses a stern message: Don’t stone people with the commandments! Don’t do violence in my name! The people who wanted to stone the woman caught in adultery understood Jesus’ gesture. Their divine interpreter, Moses, had it wrong.

Too often, though, we are still, in a variety of forms, stoning people with the commandments, falsely believing that God wants this violence.

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

Completing Christ’s sufferings; reluctance on handshake

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When I was reading evening prayer recently, I came across a quote about our filling up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ.

For a few years in the early 1950s I was a Trappist monk at Gethsemani, and I have read a fair number of spiritual books since then. But now I am 80 years old and can’t seem to remember what that sentence means. What FATHER could possibly KENNETH DOYLE be lacking in the suffering of Christ? (Audubon, N.J.) The passage to which you refer is taken from Paul’s Letter to the Colossians 1:24 and is translated in the Bible as follows: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church.”

This does not mean that the sacrifice of Jesus was incomplete. In fact, the Letter to the Hebrews says in 10:14: “For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are

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being consecrated.”

What it means is that, for whatever reason, God has chosen to involve us, as followers of Jesus, in the work of redemption. Pope Pius XII said in his 1943 encyclical “Mystici Corporis Christi” (in No. 44): “This is a deep mystery ... that the salvation of many depends on the prayers and voluntary penances which the members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ offer for this intention.”

Paul was writing to the people of Colossae while he was in prison, one of his several forced confinements for the sake of the Gospel. Except for the night between Holy Thursday and Good Friday, Jesus never suffered that same indignity.

So in a real sense, Paul was adding his particular sacrifice to that of Christ. By accepting our sufferings and setbacks willingly, the mystery of Christ’s passion continues in us and our own lives become redemptive.

Q. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable exchanging a handshake when it is time for the sign of peace, or I might have a cold and I don’t want to chance spreading germs. How do I – politely – not shake someone’s hand? (City of origin withheld) A. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which is the church’s official guide to the celebration of Mass, has this to say about the sign of peace in No. 82: “There follows the rite of peace by which ... the faithful express to each other their ecclesial

communion and mutual charity before communicating in the sacrament.”

It goes on to explain that the particular manner of the exchange is left to the discretion of national conferences of bishops “in accordance with the culture and customs of the people.”

That guideline is worth quoting, not only in that it denotes the purpose of the gesture, but because it shows that the sign of peace is an ordinary and expected part of the Mass. In the U.S., the gesture most commonly used is a handshake (which is far less expressive than in the early days of the church, when the custom in the western Mediterranean world was to “greet one another with a holy kiss”).

If you are under the weather and concerned about spreading germs, it would certainly be acceptable for you to greet others simply with a word of peace, perhaps with a whispered explanation, “Sorry, I have a cold.”

It sounds to me, though, that in your case, you may feel uncomfortable shaking hands with a stranger even when you’re not sick. You should not feel compelled to do so. I would suggest, so that you’re not misunderstood, that you take care to greet those surrounding you with a warm smile and a wave.

Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.

A journey from resistance to surrender

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early 50 years ago I had an outof-body experience. I was lifted out of my own skin and actually looked down on myself sitting in the church pew below. The experience was awesome, and it changed my life.

At the time my faith was weak, my soul was restless. As a draftee in the Army during FATHER JOHN the Korean War, CATOIR I was troubled about my future. What was I going to do with the rest of my life? Even though I attended Mass and received holy Communion almost daily, my level of commitment to Jesus was clouded with doubt because I did not understand the challenge of the Gospels.

I thought that all I needed to do in order to be a good Catholic was to try to stay in the state of grace and go to church. I learned there was more to it than that. I began to sense God calling me to the priesthood. For me, accepting my vocation was a life-or-death decision.

It meant accepting Jesus as Lord, as someone for whom I would be willing to die (I thought I was willing to die for Jesus at the time, but I smile now because it was only a theoretical martyrdom that I considered).

What was more certain was my resistance. I did not want to lay aside my personal happiness for a faith fantasy.

I wanted a wife and family. If Jesus was calling me to the priesthood, I was certainly not convinced of it. This struggle went on for a few years.

My thinking had been heavily influenced by the climate of rationalism and skepticism all around me. Many of my contemporaries saw the Gospels as nothing more than a collection of religious fables, but for me, giving up marriage for a book of fables was too much to ask.

Gradually I began to realize that the Gospels are meant to be read as though Jesus actually did and said what the sacred authors claimed.

They give us accounts of events that they had personally witnessed, such as Jesus in the town of Jericho restoring sight to Bartimaeus, a blind beggar who was the son of Timaeus.

Granted, there are such things as parables, like the stories of the good Samaritan and the prodigal son, which were more teaching devices than historical events, but in all instances Jesus speaks to us directly through the sacred authors.

Knowing this made all the difference in my eventual decision to be a priest.

If martyrdom was reasonable, then celibacy was, too. The act of accepting my calling to the priesthood became easier when I rejected the errors of the skeptics.

The Gospels teach us that the way of Jesus is the way of the cross and that Christian joy is the byproduct of self-surrender.

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CARDINALS: Pope highlights humility, service FROM PAGE 1

turn 80 in March, bringing the number of electors back to the limit of 120 set by Pope Paul VI. (Other popes have occasionally exceeded that limit for short periods of time.)

Some observers had predicted that Pope Francis, the first pope from Latin America, would use his first selections to make major changes in the composition of the cardinal electors, perhaps by boosting the presence of residential bishops from the global South and reducing that of Vatican officials or prelates from rich Western countries.

Half of the new cardinal electors hail from statistically underrepresented regions in the southern hemisphere, including three of the world’s poorest countries: Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Haiti.

Yet Pope Francis did not substantially reduce the representation of groups with a traditionally strong presence.

Five of the new electors are from Latin America, an increase by one-third of the current number from the region. Latin America, home to about 40 percent of the world’s Catholics, will account for about 16 percent of the group eligible to choose the next pope.

The archbishops of Westminster and Quebec are also on the list of those to receive red hats; the latter is the only cardinal-designate from North America.

Four of the new cardinal electors are from Italy, leaving that nation’s share practically unchanged at nearly a quarter. However, the pope passed over the archbishop of Venice and the archbishop of Turin, both dioceses that traditionally come with a red hat.

HERE ARE THE NAMES OF THE NEW CARDINALS:

Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, who will turn 59 Jan. 17; Italian Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, 73; German Archbishop Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 66; Italian Archbishop Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, 72.

English Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster, 68; Nicaraguan Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes Solorzano of Managua, 64; Canadian Archbishop Gerald Lacroix of Quebec, 56; Ivorian Archbishop Jean-Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 68; Brazilian Archbishop Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro, 63; Italian Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti of Perguia-Citta della Pieve, 71; Argentine Archbishop Mario Poli of Buenos Aires, 66; Korean Archbishop Andrew Yeom Soo-jung of Seoul, 70.

Chilean Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello of Santiago, 72; Burkina Faso Archbishop Philippe Ouedraogo of

WALK: 50 banners proclaim pro-life march

‘IT WILL BE A LONG STORY’

This is an excerpt from a Jan. 20, 2010, Catholic San Francisco article written following that month’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. It included comments from editor Rick DelVecchio and other journalists’ interview with now-cardinal designate Bishop Chibly Langlois, then of the Diocese of Port-Liberte, Haiti, during a Catholic Relief Services trip to Haiti in 2009. It included comments from a later interview with Suzette Bertrand of Oakland, a member of the small Haitian community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Haitian people started in misery, Bishop Chibly Langlois told journalists in October. We reached Bishop Langlois after driving across the northern plains. Bertrand, a student of Haitian history, told me that the French who colonized Haiti and populated it with African slaves made their riches here. She said sugar cane spread from the road to the foothills, in fields strikingly lacking in life today. The slaves revolted and Haiti won its independence in 1803.

But Haiti, a republic formed by Africans in an overwhelmingly European hemisphere, was feared and shunned.

“A high percentage of people are not educated,” Bishop Langlois said, “and if you know the history of Haiti you probably will understand why we are like that. Especially how we were treated after our independence in international relations, is one of the reasons for this misery.”

Farid Moise, a member of the Catholic Relief Services staff in Haiti, elaborated. “Nobody (wanted) to deal with Haiti,” he said.

“France made us pay for our independence.

We were indentured, the entire island. This entire island was set up with slaves.”

Bishop Langlois brought the conversation to a close. “When we start talking about the story, it will be a long story,” he said. “We are not responsible for the situation that we’re in, and yet at the same time we are responsible.”

Ouagadougou, 68; Philippine Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato, 74; Haitian Bishop Chibly Langlois of Les Cayes, 55; Italian Archbishop Capovilla, 98; Spanish Archbishop Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, retired, of Pamplona, 84; Saint Lucian Archbishop Kelvin Felix, retired, of Castries, who will be 81 Feb. 11.

A 9:30 a.m. Walk for Life Mass, celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral with many other bishops and priests concelebrating, precedes the rally.

Walk speakers include actress Shari Rigby, who played Hannah’s birth mother in the film “October Baby” and was herself a teenage mom at 17 and later had an abortion; Grace Dulaney, a founder of a home for women who are choosing to place their unborn children with adoptive parents; Monica Snyder, a representative of Secular Pro-Life; and the Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., an African-American Baptist preacher and activist.

This year’s walk is the centerpiece of a weekend of pro-life activities, including two new events geared to youth and young adults.

Archbishop Cordileone and archdiocesan schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington have sent a letter to all Catholic schools inviting students from seventh to 12th grades to a youth event Jan. 24, hosted by Sisters of Life.

The sisters serve women who are pregnant and in crisis and will present video clips and real life stories to inspire the youth, organizers said. Attendees do not register but may just show up, said archdiocesan respect life coordinator Vicki Evans. The event concludes by noon. For more information, contact vevans1438@gmail.com.

On Jan. 26 in the meeting rooms at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Students for Life of America is hosting its first West Coast event for high school and college students.

“We have over 80 student groups in California alone,” said Casey Tesauro, West Coast coordinator for Students for Life, noting that the group will hand out stickers at the end of the Walk for Life that say “I walked for life, now I’m ready to abolish abortion.”

The Jan. 26 conference has high school, college and adult tracks, Tesauro said. “It’s not a boring time; it’s very fun, very energetic,” she said. For more information, contact info@ studentsforlife.org.

There are more events, seminars, prayer vigils and Masses. Visit walkforlifewc.com.

RAIN: California’s bishops ask for prayers to end state’s prolonged dry spell FROM PAGE 1

a year. San Francisco averages 20.78 inches. Sacramento, the state capital, averages 21.17 inches. San Jose and Stockton average between 14-15 inches.

The state’s wettest locale is the Smith River basin, which averages 84.36. inches of rain; the driest spots are Anza and Holtville, which average 2.85 inches.

“If current trends continue, the 38 million residents of California could face many economic, health, safety and quality of life challenges from the current water shortage,” the California Catholic Conference website posting said. “Some of the highest unemployment in the nation, for instance, is already in California’s rural farming communities. Water shortages could make matters worse in these devastated communities.”

It added, “Annually, wildfires threaten homes and livelihoods as well as the safety of the men and women who must fight the fires. Workers in the water-, outdoor- and snow-recreation industries face loss of income. Water is vital for food production, sanitation, power generation, environmental protection and transportation. In a severe drought people could also face increased respiratory ailments, heat-related emergencies, and mental stress.”

The website quoted passages from “The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” to underscore the need for “careful stewardship.”

“By its very nature water cannot be treated as just another commodity among many, and it must

PRAYING FOR ‘THE LIVING BLESSING OF SOFT RAIN’ We realize now, looking up into the clear, blue sky, what a marvel even the least drop of rain really is. To think that so much water can really fall out of the sky, which now is empty and clear! We place our trust in You. We are sure that You know our needs. But You want us to ask you anyway, to show You that we know we are dependent on you. Look to our dry hills and fields, dear God, and bless them with the living blessing of soft rain. Then the land will rejoice and rivers will sing Your praises, and the hearts of all will be made glad. Amen.”

PRAYER FOR RAIN FROM THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC RURAL LIFECONFERENCE-RURAL LIFE PRAYER BOOK (PHOTO BY CHRISTINA M. GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

be used rationally and in solidarity with others.

The distribution of water is traditionally among the responsibilities that fall to public agencies, since water is considered a public good. If water distribution is entrusted to the private sector it should still be considered a public good,” one passage says.

“The right to water, as all human rights, finds its basis in human dignity and not in any kind of merely quantitative assessment that considers water as a merely economic good. Without water, life is threatened. Therefore, the right to safe drinking water is a universal and inalienable right.”

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St. Brendan: Smiles and prayer for a glass of water St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco has a thriving Scouts ministry – and the second grade Brownies are no exception.

This year as the Brownies are making their water journey, they are learning how to love, save and share this precious commodity that many of us take for granted.

The Brownies took on a service project to provide an irrigation pump in an impoverished community in a developing country – a community where many homes lack running water and some families do not have a well nearby. They spend each day carrying water, sometimes for miles. This leaves little time for school, let alone for play.

The girls developed their own plan to raise the money – piggy bank donations along with collecting recycled plastic water bottles.

St. Brendan Parish Brownies make a homemade water filter at a troop meeting.

St. Brendan’s associate pastor, Father Theophilus Hwande, who is from Nigeria, spoke to the Brownies at their meeting and shared his personal experience, including pictures of water collection in his home country. His stories and explanation really brought the issue of water scarcity to a level the children could understand. He even shared personal stories about his teenage years of collecting water, and the kids were captivated.

He stirred thought with, “Imagine waiting in line hours to collect clean water that might make you sick anyway?

Imagine not being able to go to school because it is your job as an 8-year-old to collect water for your family?”

Father Hwande helped the girls to understand that their service project would make a real impact and how

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The troop also made a water filter to show how difficult it can be to filter dirty water.

Along with the gift of an irrigation pump to the community the girls wrote letters to their recipient. Brownie Stephanie said it best, “I hope you get the clean water you deserve. Merry Christmas.”

The group chose the global charity Heifer International to distribute the aid. Heifer International’s mission is to work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the Earth.

“We could have designated the monies to a particular project in a particular developing country but we designated ‘where the need is greatest,’” said Elizabeth Gamarra, St. Brendan volunteer and Brownie troop mom.

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Msgr Foudy attended Mission Dolores School beginning study for the priesthood after eighth grade at St. Joseph College in Mountain View, and was ordained from St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seminary & University in Menlo Park by Archbishop John J. Mitty at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue May 18, 1940.

Following a two-year first assignment as parochial vicar at St. James Parish, San Francisco, Msgr. Foudy proceeded to The Catholic University of America, where he earned a doctorate in education in 1945. He then began a more than 20 year tenure in the Department of Catholic Schools as assistant and then superintendent. He was named a domestic prelate with the title of monsignor by Pope John XXIII on Sept. 8, 1962. In 1964, Msgr.

Foudy was named pastor of St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco and in 1970 pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish where he served until his retirement in 1990.

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OBITUARIES BROTHER EDWARD ENGLUND, OSB, 71

Benedictine Brother Edward Englund, 71, died Jan. 2 at Woodside Priory where he has served for 25 years. At the time of his death, Brother Edward was director of student assessment and data analysis at the PorBrother Edward tola Valley school.

Englund, OSB Born in Connecticut, Brother Edward received an undergraduate degree in sociology from the Benedictine’s St. Anselm College, a master’s degree in counseling from Duquesne University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from the University of San Francisco.

He entered the Benedictines in 1962 making solemn vows in 1967.

At Woodside Priory School he served as a member of the faculty, director of the boarding program, guesthouse master, testing coordinator, personal counselor and director of counseling and guidance. He was a member of the International Commission on Benedictine Education, an organization of the more than 200 Benedictine and Cistercian schools and colleges in the world, and was instrumental in developing a program for Priory administrators and faculty on Benedictine identity, mission and spirituality.

In “Being Benedictine,” a 2011 documentary on Priory monks, Brother Edward said: “You join a community not for the work that they do, but for the lifestyle they share. (Benedictines) challenge the society in which they live to look at the meaning of life.

There is something deeper to life, and it’s a balance … of living together, working together and praying together.”

Brother Edward is survived by family in New Jersey and North Carolina.

Funeral rites were held at the Priory and at St. Anselm Abbey in New Hampshire with burial in the Benedictine’s cemetery there.

Remembrances may be sent to Order of St. Benedict, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, 94028.

SISTER HARRIET PADBERG, RSCJ, 91

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Harriet Padberg died Jan. 2 at Oakwood, the congregation’s elder care center in Atherton. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Jan. 23, 10 a.m., at Oakwood, 140 Valparaiso Ave. with burial in St. Louis, Sister Harriet Mo., where Sister Padberg, RSCJ Harriet was born.

She was 91 years old and a Sister of

Mercy Sister honored Jan. 26 A Mass commemorating 50 years of religious life of Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal. St. Gabriel School, San Francisco, will be celebrated Jan. 26 at 10 a.m., St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco. Father Tom Hamilton, St. Gabriel pastor and pictured here with Sister Pauline, will be principal celebrant. A reception in the parish’s Bedford Hall follows. Everyone is welcome, the school said. Email sgs@ stgabrielsf.com. Call (415) 566-0314.

the Sacred Heart for 71 years. Sister Harriet held graduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics as well as a graduate degree in music and spent decades teaching in Sacred Heart schools around the nation including 25 years at the college level.

Her congregation called her “a pioneer in computer-composed music” noting she organized computer conferences and trained organists for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. In 1992, Sister Harriet began a music ministry with disabled children at Emmaus Homes just outside St. Louis and “deeply affected the lives of both residents and staff,” the sisters said. She moved to the Atherton facility in 2012.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.

SISTER MARY DAMIEN O’CONNOR, PBVM, 96

Presentation Sister Mary Damien O’Connor died Dec. 24 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco on Christmas Day 1917, she was 96 years old and a Sister of the Presentation 78 years. Sister Sister Mary Damien ministered Damien in Catholic education O’Connor, PBVM for 54 years at schools including the sisters’ Presentation High School in San Francisco and San Francisco’s St. Anne School, St. Agnes School, and Sts. Peter and Paul School. In 1981, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Department of Catholic Schools presented her with a certificate recognizing her dedicated service.

Sister Damien is survived by her sister Betty O’Connor Hughes.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 3 at the motherhouse with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.

SISTER MARY LEONARD WELCER, PBVM, 89

Presentation Sister Mary Leonard Welcer died Jan. 5 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco, Sister Leonard was 89 years old and a Sister of the Presentation for 70 years. She taught and served as Sister Mary principal at schools Leonard Welcer, including St. Anne PBVM School and for 20 years at the sisters’ Presentation High School, San Francisco.

Sister Leonard is also a former superintendent of Catholic schools for the state of Nevada. In recent years, Sister Leonard was engaged in the ministry of prayer for Presentation missionaries.

She is survived by cousins Sophie and Mary Welcer.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 9 at the motherhouse with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.

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San Francisco RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MINISTER Looking to make a difference?

We, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, pledge ourselves to be a dynamic and collaborative community of faith known for its quality of leadership; richness of diversity of culture and peoples and united in faith, hope and love.

The Archdiocese Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns is seeking an individual for the position of “Restorative Justice Minister” to coordinate and support Restorative Justice activities that include working with offenders and survivors of violent crimes, the intervention, prevention and elimination of violence in the three counties of the Archdiocese with a focus in San Mateo. This is a fulltime, exempt at will, position but in no case longer than two years unless further funding is available. This position reports to the Restorative Justice Coordinator based in the Pastoral Center. Working within a religious, not-for-profit environment, we offer a competitive salary with excellent benefits.

Job Description: • Responsible for Restorative Justice Ministry duties including: working to build relationships with members of our community i.e. churches, educational institutions, community leaders, police departments, city officials, survivors of violent crimes and offenders.

• Promoting activities and services through various forms of media. Engaging the stakeholders in the development of a comprehensive and unified strategy to address the root causes of violence in our communities.

• Supporting Areas of Need in a Ministry of Presence o Lead Catholic worship and prayer services for the incarcerated o Spiritually supporting those who are incarcerated and/or on probation or parolees and their families. o Providing support for those who come out of jail with housing, education and employment assistance (by aligning existing resources in the community). o Providing spiritual support for survivors of violent crimes and their families. o Must be available to work weekends and evenings as required. o Local travel involved. Valid California driver license required.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patrick Schmidt Archdiocese of San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 E-mail to: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org

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NOVENAS Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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HELP WANTED

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SOUGHT The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20132014 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

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

Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

P.R.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

P.R.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

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Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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HELP WANTED Full Time Administrative Assistant St. Timothy’s Parish Office St. Timothy’s Catholic Church in San Mateo is looking for an enthusiastic, detail oriented person with office administration skills. St. Timothy’s is a dynamic and diverse parish located in the North Shoreview area.

Job duties to include: Management of facilities, accounts payable and receivable.

Excellent communication skills, general computer knowledge and the ability to multi-task a must. Spanish speaking a plus. Familiarity with the Catholic Church highly desirable.

Assistant Administrator School Year 2014-2015 St. Gabriel School, San Francisco, is seeking an assistant administrator to work in partnership with the administrator.

St. Gabriel School is a double grade K – 8 school located in the Sunset District. For more information, you may visit our website: www.stgabrielsf.com.

Desired Qualifications: • A practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church • A valid teaching credential • Teaching experience at different K – 8 levels preferred • Strong understanding of the elementary curriculum • Administrative experience preferred • Good relational skills Resume may be sent to: smpauline@stgabrielsf.com

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

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1555 39th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122 Position Title: Director of Music Experience: Previous Pastoral Experience Salary: Commensurate with Experience with benefits Starting Date: February 1, 2014 Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco is seeking a dynamic person for a part-time Director of Music position. The Director of Music will oversee the overall music program of the parish. The candidate must demonstrate a solid understanding of Catholic liturgy promoting a conscious, active and full participation of the congregation. He or she must have the ability to play the organ and piano, direct the parish choir and develop other vocalists and instrumentalists for the liturgy.

Specific Requirements include: Provides music for Saturday, 5PM Vigil Mass, and Sunday, 7:30 AM (if needed) , 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM Masses.

Directs Holy Name Choir at the 11:30 AM Mass and rehearses with them once a week or as needed.

Attends and works together with the Liturgy Committee to prepare community celebrations.

Provides incidental music, preludes and postludes, as necessary for all the Masses.

Oversees maintenance of all music instruments and organizes the music library.

Recruits new members for music ministry.

Provides liturgical aides (eg. Lyrics of songs) to be projected on the screen.

(Occasionally available for weddings and funerals when necessary – additional stipend.)

Leads and accompanies the community as the principal Music Minister for liturgies that may fall outside the regular weekend Masses: Paschal Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday Solemn Liturgical Services, Easter Vigil), Christmas Midnight Mass, and all Christmas Day Masses (7:30 AM; 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM) Ash Wednesday Masses on the Holy Days of Obligation (Assumption, Immaculate Conception, Mary, Mother of God (New Year’s Day), All Saints Day Morning Mass on the National Holidays of Memorial Day and Labor Day. Thanksgiving Day whenever the school music director is unavailable.

Desired Characteristics: A person of faith with a worshipping attitude Able to work with and supervise others Skilled in church organ and piano Skilled in choral conducting and direction Well-rounded musically, with knowledge of all styles of music from Traditional Gregorian Music to Contemporary Ability to train others in Choral Singing and Cantoring Ability to work with ipad/Mac/projector/ screen Strong organizational skills with great attention to detail Perform other duties assigned by the Pastor Able to work collaboratively as part of a team with various age groups.

Requirements: Music degree Previous successful experience in planning liturgy and music in the Roman Catholic Rite Previous supervised Pastoral experience in Parish Ministry Excellent communication and organizational skills Available for weekend work Job opened date: December 30, 2013 Job closed date: January 31, 2014 Job type: part time with benefits Special Instructions: Applicants must submit a letter of interest along with resume and send to: Rev. Arnold E. Zamora, Pastor

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FRIDAY, JAN. 17

TUESDAY, JAN. 21

PRO-LIFE: Volunteers to peacefully witness the message of life at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, Fridays, 2-4 p.m.

Group prays and offers help with accurate information verbally or with pamphlets. Jessica, (650) 572-1468.

SUNDAY, JAN. 19 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring Anthony Williams, Fisk University, organist, playing works by African American composers. Recital is with the SF Chapter American Guild of Organists. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door.

Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22 JESUIT LEGACY: “The Legacy of the Jesuits in Spirituality, Art, Science, Theology and History,” a 12 part lecture series by St. Ignatius Parish and the University of San Francisco, free and open to the public. Series helps commemorate 100th anniversary, 1914 2014, of the first Mass at the current St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and 200th anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus after it had been suppressed in the 18th century.

Wednesdays 7:30-9 p.m., Accolti Room, Fromm Hall, University of San Francisco, Parker Avenue and Golden Gate Avenue. Jan. 22: “Jesuit Spirituality: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and What They can Mean for our Everyday Life,” Jesuit Father John A. Coleman. www.stignatiussf.org; email faloon@usfca.edu.

SATURDAY, JAN. 25 LIFE AND DEATH: “The Gift of Life: Death and Dying, Life and Giving,”

BIBLE STUDY: Explore the Kingdom of God with Mercy Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher. Group meets weekly on Tuesdays through March 4, 9 a.m., Marian Room Sister Toni Lynn inside St. SteGallagher, RSM phen Church, 451 Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Avenue by Stonestown Mall, San Francisco. Peggy Teshara, (415) 334-0653; Veronica Wong, (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.

with Father Thomas Keating at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. with registration and refreshments at 9:30 a.m. Freewill donations welcome. Email secretary@mhr.org. (415) 863-6259.

NEWMAN TALK: Paulist Father Terry Ryan on the spirituality of 19th-century Cardinal John Henry Newman at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon, admission free.

(415) 288-3845.

MARDI GRAS: Mardi Gras Zydeco dance, St. Finn Barr Church, Goode Hall,415 Edna Street, San Francisco, 8 p.m.-midnight, $19 in advance; $24 at the door. (415) 333-3627; (415) 760-1454.

THURSDAY, JAN. 23

SUNDAY, JAN. 26

THEOLOGY CAFE: Theology Cafe series, Bishop Robert W. McElroy expands on the social teaching of the Catholic Church with regard to human and civil rights, 7 p.m., St. Pius Bishop Robert Parish, Homer W. McElroy Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. (650) 361-1411.

Email srnorberta@pius.org.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29 POST-ABORTION SUPPORT: 10-week post abortive support and Scripture study group in San Mateo for men and women. Christine Watkins, Christine Watkins (415) 2604406; christine4faith@gmail.com.

THANK YOU: Mass commemorating 50 years of religious life of Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal.

St. Gabriel School, San Francisco, 10 a.m., St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco.

Father Tom Hamilton, St. Gabriel pastor, principal celebrant. A reception in parish Bedford Hall follows.

Everyone welcome especially parish members and families and those who have known Sister Pauline through her 32 years as principal at St. Gabriel School as students, parents or friends and her life as a religious. Email sgs@stgabrielsf. com; (415) 566-0314.

INTERFAITH ART: “Sacred Words: Finding Common Ground” at Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael, through April 11. Exhibit showcases artists from multiple faith traditions.

Sponsors include St. Raphael Parish and Mission, San Rafael. www.

MarinJCC.org/CJP; (415) 444-8000.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring Lyle Sheffler, classical guitar. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering ac-

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CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 28 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a dropin support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

THURSDAY, JAN. 30 SPIRITUALITY TALKS: The School of Applied Theology, 5890 Birch Court, Oakland, is offering programs for renewal. Jan. 30: “Our Circles of Support and Relationship: Discovering Our Spiritual Center,” with Christian Brother Jim Zullo, 9 a.m.3:30 p.m. Additional information about content, presenters, cost at www.satgtu.org/sabbathbreak; (510) 652-1651. Programs open to laity, priests, deacons and religious.

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SATURDAY, FEB. 1

SATURDAY, JAN. 25

BYZANTINE TALKS: “Looking East” series on Eastern Christianity by pastor, Father Kevin Kennedy, Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy with fellowship at noon and talk at 1 p.m. Series continues first Saturdays of the month.

All welcome throughout the day; www.byzantinecatholic.org; www. facebook.com/byzantinecatholicsf; (415) 752-2052.

PEACE MASS: Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco, 9 a.m., Father Brian Costello, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST: Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, 12:30 p.m., Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone delivers invocation. Walk down Market Street begins 1:30 p.m. Day begins Archbishop with Mass, 9:30 Salvatore J. a.m., St. Mary’s Cordileone Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant. www.walkforlifewc.com.

SATURDAY, FEB. 8

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

All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door.

Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Ryan Enright, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door. Ample free parking; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

WORLD DAY OF SICK MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. “A special time of

THURSDAY, FEB. 13 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Parish Worner Center, 138 28th Ave., San Mateo at Hacienda. Jessica, (650) 572 -1468.

SUNDAY, FEB. 16 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral,

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SUNDAY, FEB. 23 SATURDAY, FEB. 22 ANNIVERSARY MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of English/Spanish bilingual Mass marking Five-year anniversaries – five, 10, 15 through 50 years and over 50 years - of married Catholic couples in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Reception follows.

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

SUNDAY, MARCH 2 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Sarah Wanamaker, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door. Ample free parking. www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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CAHALAN CONSTRUCTION Painting & Waterproofing Remodels & Repairs Window & Siding

415.279.1266

Lic#582766

mikecahalan@gmail.com

O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION Kitchen/Bath Remodel Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs Plumbing Repair/Replacement Lic. # 505353B-C36

Lic.#942181

eoin_lehane@yahoo.com

Interior-Exterior Residential – Commercial Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates

650.322.9288 Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy

Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

Call: 650.580.2769

415.368.8589

M.K. Painting

ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE

(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227

FENCES & DECKS

DINING Italian American Social Club of San Francisco

John Spillane

Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions

• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates

www.iasf.com

• Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts

License# 974682

25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO

Tel: (650) 630-1835

415-585-8059

650.291.4303

Lic. #742961

Bonded & Insured

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