January 23, 2015

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Mission District marchers remember violence victims

Nigerian church ‘on its knees’ as faithful are persecuted

Pope says he will canonize California missions founder

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Orthodox, Catholic parishioners pray for peace VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“Christians are being persecuted and killed in countries from Lebanon to Sudan,” Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos told a gathering of Catholics and Greek Orthodox at a Belmont Catholic church Jan. 18.

Members of neighboring parishes, Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross and Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church continued their tradition of praying together – this time for the beginning of the international Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, praying for Christian unity but especially for persecuted Christians in the Middle East and Africa who are suffering and dying for their faith.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone invited Metropolitan Gerasimos to deliver the SEE VESPERS, PAGE 2

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Above, rain falls as Pope Francis walks past a statue of Mary and the Christ child as he celebrates Mass next to the airport in Tacloban, Philippines, Jan. 17. Below right, police hold back the crowd lining the motorcade route as the pope arrives back in Manila after celebrating the Mass. Below center, during the Mass pilgrims react during a moment of silence for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Above, right, the pope comforts Glyzelle Palomar, 12, after the former street child spoke during a meeting with young people at the University of Santo Tomas Jan. 18.

Pope, at Mass with millions, tells Filipinos to protect the family Warns of the family’s betrayal by ‘ideological colonization’ FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos presided at an ecumenical prayer service Jan. 18 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Belmont, for Christian unity and for the welfare of persecuted Christians.

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MANILA, Philippines – Pope Francis told a crowd of an estimated 6 million gathered in a Manila park to protect the family “against insidious attacks and programs contrary to all that we hold true and sacred, all that is most beautiful and noble in our culture.”

The pope’s homily at the Jan. 18 Mass also reprised several other themes he had sounded during the four-day visit, including environmental problems, poverty and corruption.

Despite continuous rain, the congregation in Rizal Park began to assemble the night before the afternoon celebration. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila canceled other Masses throughout the archdiocese to enhance turnout. The crowd was so dense in spots that people passed hosts to fellow worshippers unable to reach priests distributing Communion.

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The government estimated total crowd size at 6 million-7 million people. According to the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, that would be the largest number of people ever to gather to see a pope. A Mass with St. John Paul II in the same place 20 years earlier is believed to have drawn 4 million-5 million people, often described as the largest live crowd in history.

The Mass was celebrated on Santo Nino Day, or the feast of the Holy Child Jesus, one of the most popular

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VESPERS: Orthodox, Catholic parishioners pray for persecuted Christians FROM PAGE 1

homily at the evening vespers. The two parishes have a tradition of cooperation that goes back decades and this coming Lent will be the ninth year that they have joined together in prayer.

“Fifty years ago it was unthinkable.

Today it is almost routine” to gather to “pray together for the peace of the world,” Metropolitan Gerasimos said.

“We share so much in common,” Archbishop Cordileone said, thanking Metropolitan Gerasimos for “a powerful reminder of the serious situation Christians are facing around the world.”

“Christians need to stand together, most especially Christians in the apostolic churches,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting both churches trace their roots directly to the Apostles.

St. Andrew, the brother of St. Peter, founded the church in Constantinople. The Greek Orthodox Church does not accept the authority of the pope, but the Catholic and Orthodox churches recognize each other’s sacraments, and share a profound devotion to Mary, the mother of God. The jointly celebrated Catholic vespers was the second prayer service in less than a year that featured the leaders of the local Catholic and Orthodox churches. In April, Archbishop Cordileone was invited to give the homily at the Orthodox Service of Salutation to the Holy Cross as all

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“Christians need to stand together, most especially Christians in the apostolic churches,” Archbishop Cordileone said Jan. 16 at a prayer service with Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos. prayed for the upcoming meeting last May in Jerusalem of Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis. The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross has a fragment of the true cross.

Benedictine Father Samuel Weber, director of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Worship, led vespers as cantor, assisted by the Schola Cantorum of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University.

“There is a long history of coop-

eration between these two parishes, going back to when Holy Cross was first coming to our vicinity and needed a place for their Sunday school” temporarily, IHM pastor Father Steve Howell told the gathering, noting when he visits the Greek festival every year he sees “half my parishioners.”

Father Howell and Holy Cross pastor Father Peter G. Salmas also share a warm friendship, cemented by prayer but also by regular chats over

coffee and panettone, Father Salmas said. “Father Howell brings the panettone,” he said.

Archbishop Cordileone thanked Father Salmas and Father Howell for their “great vision and hard work and leadership.”

“We have made it kind of regular to meet this way, and we will not stop meeting this way I hope and pray,” said Metropolitan Gerasimos as he began his homily, calling upon “Orthodox and Catholic brothers and sisters to bear witness to our common faith in Jesus Christ, and to raise our voices, our shared voices, to our most high God.” Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner Nuria Simon said the ecumenical service “just gives me goose bumps. I love it.”

Her daughter Didi Simon, who noted her wedding reception years ago was at the Greek Orthodox hall, said that raising awareness of Christian persecution is imperative. “It is crucial for our kids, our nephews and nieces to get to know what is going on,” Simon said. “Love your enemy, love those around you. This message must be spread.”

Holy Cross parishioner Christos Kolias, who attended last Lent’s service, called the ecumenical prayer “very moving.”

“It is very important for us to join in prayer not only for our local community but for the community at large,” Kolias said.

Prayer walk About 100 people marched through San Francisco’s Bernal Heights and Mission districts Jan. 17 carrying white crosses in solidarity, remembrance and protest for the 47 people who died as a result of violence in 2014. The two-mile Prayer Walk for Peace started at St. Anthony of Padua Church and ended at Mission Dolores, where Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim faith leaders prayed for victims, survivors and perpetrators. The walk is an annual event organized by the archdiocese’s ministry for victims and families of violent crime. It is an outgrowth of the homicide prayer service ministry organized by the archdiocese on the site of each homicide. “God, you are just,” prayed Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice at one of two stops along the route. “Come close to the brokenhearted. Console and join them in their anger.”

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Archbishop announces clergy appointments Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced the following clergy appointments Jan. 17 from the office of Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy. These are called a “first list of appointments and changes in the assignment cycle,” with some already in effect.

Pastors, rectors, administrators

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption: Most Rev. William J. Justice, administrator, Jan. 1-June 30, 2015; Corpus Christi Church: Father Rafael Alfonso H. Saíz, SDB, pastor, Sept. 10, 2014; National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi: Father John DeLaRiva, OFM Cap, rector, Jan. 1, 2015; Old St. Mary’s Church: Father Bartholomew K. Landry, CSP, pastor, Oct. 1, 2014; St. Anselm Church: Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, administrator, Feb. 1-June 30, 2015; St. Emydius Church: Father David M. Pettingill, administrator, Jan. 1-April 5, 2015; St. Matthew Church: Msgr. John J. Talesfore, pastor, Jan. 1, 2015; St. Thomas More Church: Father Bernard B. Poggi, administrator, Oct. 1, 2014-June 30, 2015.

Parochial vicar

St. Anselm Church: Father Mark G. Mazza, Feb. 1, 2015.

Chaplain

Nazareth House: Father Kevin P. Gaffey, Sept. 1, 2014.

Sabbaticals

ICTE (Institute for Continuing Theological Education), North American College, Rome: Father Erick E. Arauz, Jan. 1-April 30, 2015; ICTE, North American College, Rome: Father W. Paul O’Dell, Jan. 1-June 30, 2015.

Students for Life to host conference Jan. 25 at cathedral VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Students for Life of America – which bills itself as the largest pro-life group in the country – is hosting a major conference in San Francisco the day after the Walk for Life West Coast.

More than 300 members of Students for life of America also plan to attend the Walk for Life Jan. 24 and will be up front, walking down Market Street, Students for Life Kristan Hawkins President Kristan Hawkins said.

The organization’s motto is “Abolish abortion in our lifetime.”

“We are bringing the conference to the West Coast so we can mobilize and empower these young people up and down the West Coast,” Hawkins said. An East Coast conference, is held in conjunction with the March for Life in Washington, D.C. For more information about the Students for Life 2015 West Coast National Conference: sflalive.org.

“We are delighted to have these wonderful students who are willing to stand for life with us here in California,” said Walk for Life co-chair Eva Muntean, who noted that in addition to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States, 10 bishops were expected at the 9:30 a.m. Walk for Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 24 and at the subsequent walk.

Last year the Walk for Life drew more than 50,000 participants and this year organizers expect at least the same number. Following a rally at Civic Center at 12:30 p.m., the walk along Market Street begins at 1:30 p.m. This year, the Info Fair at Civic Center will include more than 50 vendors, including one with a portable ultrasound machine, organizers said.

Students for Life of America has 110 pro-life student groups in California alone – most on college campuses, but some at high schools, said Hawkins.

Nationally there are about 830 Students for Life groups, Hawkins said.

The Students for Life East and West Coast Conferences are one-day events that provide education, training, and opportunities with pro-life activists from across America and national leaders “who all know just how vital this pro-life generation is to abolishing abortion in our lifetime,” Students for Life states on its website.

Last year was the first year Students for Life held a West Coast conference and it attracted several hundred. This year about 375 were registered and there was room for more, Hawkins said. Among the presenters at the daylong conference, which begins with 7:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, will be former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and Catholic prolife apologist Stephanie Gray, Hawkins said. Participants are coming from California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado, Hawkins said.

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Retirements

Father Cornelius J. Healy, residence at Our Lady of Loretto Church, Feb. 1, 2015; Father Anthony E. McGuire, residence at St. Patrick Church, San Francisco, Jan. 1, 2015.

Residence changes

Msgr. James P. Keane, Nazareth House, Jan. 1, 2015; Father John J. O’Neill, Nazareth House, Aug. 26, 2014; Father Ray J. Zohlen, Nazareth House, Nov. 1, 2014.

Medical leave

Father Joseph P. Bradley, March 1, 2014; Father William J. Brady, Jan. 1-April 5, 2015; Msgr. Labib Kobti, Oct. 1, 2014.

Additions to the Council of Priests

Dean of Deanery 1: Father Thomas M. Hamilton; Dean of Deanery 3, Father Michael Hurley, OP; Dean of Deanery 4, Father Bartholomew K. Landry, CSP; Dean of Deanery 6, Father Michael F. Quinn; Representing Religious Men, Father Michael Greenwell, OCarm.

Departures from the archdiocese

Father P. Gregory McGivern, returning to Diocese of Dromore, Ireland, Feb. 1, 2015.

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Life textbook, prayer book for NDNU prof TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Gospel comes in many forms according to sources I trust as well as my own experience. Chapter and verse is Thanksgiving Picnic in Golden Gate Park, started 24 years ago by sociologist Cheryl Joseph of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. Cheryl has been at NDNU for 26 years. She holds a doctorate in education and sociolCheryl Joseph ogy from Wayne State University in Detroit.

“The first year of the picnic, I prepared the entire meal in my own kitchen and just eight students participated,” the Michigan-born professor told me. The premier meal drew about 20 homeless men and all stayed for conversation until “well after dark,” Cheryl said. Students’ talk of the experience served as an exhortation answered by increasing numbers of volunteers year after year. Cheryl continued as sole chef for three years when students began to join her in the kitchen.

Faculty, staff, and many community members began donating food and supplies until the Thanksgiving Picnic in Golden Gate Park reached current proportions.

This past Thanksgiving, about 70 students, faculty, staff, friends and family members shared a lunch of turkey sandwiches, pumpkin pie and various accoutrements with approximately 400 homeless individuals who live in the park. The activity is largely organized by students now and the meal is prepared in the university’s cafeteria kitchen.

Experiences like the picnic are critical to students’ education, Cheryl said. “They allow students to remove the blinders of familiarity; question that which seems obvious; to figuratively step inside the shoes of others; and hopefully, experience a sense of compassion,” Cheryl pointed out. “I personally think compassion is missing from Westernized education today and, as a result oftentimes, from individual and global relationships.”

The picnic encourages students to be with the homeless as individuals and listen to their stories, Cheryl said. The food, in addition to its value to those receiving it, provides a connection. “Suddenly, homeless people become more than just statistics and nameless, faceless beings and become human, worthy of respect and social justice.”

Cheryl’s is an “action-oriented, public sociol-

FULL COURSE MEAL: Kai LamCentino, center, a senior at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, and some 70 more volunteers from the school brought Thanksgiving to Golden Gate Park for 400 homeless men and women Nov. 27. ogy.” Students intern with homeless families, jail inmates and their families, at-risk youth; abused and neglected children, the elderly, victims of cancer, and people living with HIV/AIDS. “We can use sociology to navigate corporate politics and to adapt to cultures different from our own.

Maybe most of all, for those who are not content with the status quo or with the study of white mice being made to run through mazes, sociology is fun.

In fact, it can become a passion as it has for me.”

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Cyndi Gonzalez has been teaching at St. Peter’s for 40 years. “Cyndi has a deep commitment to the vision and mission of the school,” principal Gloria Galarsa told me. “She takes great joy in teaching her students about their faith and how to put that into action in service.”

Nina Martinez has been teaching there for two years. “Nina is an energetic and dedicated teacher,” Gloria said. “She is uncompromising in her quest to provide a quality Catholic education to all her students.”

Dustin Waters has been at St. Peter’s for eight years and is a 2014 recipient of a Herbst Foundation for Excellence award. “He is sensitive to the many learning styles of his students,” Gloria said.

Our Lady of the Visitacion School, recently celebrating 50 years, welcomes sixth grade teacher Carolyn Dame, “She is a wonderful teacher, OLV school parent and an OLV alum,” said Hannah Everhart, OLV vice principal of curriculum.

St. James School opened in 1906. Putting her shoulder to the wheel there as kindergarten teacher for the last five years is St. James alumna Cynthia Caputo. She’s also a leader of the school’s new Reading Club addressing needs of English language learners in the primary grades.

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Youth invited to 2nd XLT prayer, faith-sharing event “During the XLT there’s going to be high quality music, they’ll hear an inspiring, but relatively brief talk, and then they’ll have the opportunity to take what they’ve just heard, their fears, worries, joys, challenges, everything they’re going through to prayer during adoration,” Lindsey said. Youth are then sent forth to implement what they’ve experienced from the XLT into their daily lives.

XLT began in Atlanta, Georgia about 15 years ago.

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The church is catching up with the abbreviated language of texting and messaging. A good idea when you’re approaching high school age youth.

Lindsey West, youth minister at St. Denis Parish, Menlo Park, is on the planning team for the second XLT-Mid-Peninsula coming up Jan. 28 at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton. The first XLT MidPeninsula, co-hosted by St. Denis, St. Raymond and Church of the Nativity, again this year’s sponsors, drew 400 youth and chaperones.

“XLT is the cool way of saying ‘exalt,’” Lindsey told me in an email. “It’s an hour and a half event for high school and middle school youth that provides a profound experience of God and community.”

Components of the event include “live, praise and worship music, a dynamic and engaging talk,

Pictured from left at last year’s XLT are youth ministers Linda Basnage, Lindsey West, last year’s featured speaker and then49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, and Christine Augulis. and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament,” Lindsey said.

XLT is Wednesday, Jan. 28th at Sacred Heart School, Atherton. Tickets need to be purchased in advance for $5/program only or $9 /program and dinner. Hospitality starts at 6:15 p.m. The program itself takes place 7-8:30 p.m. Lindsey West, lwest@stdenisparish.org; Christine Augulis, youth minister St. Raymond Parish, caugulis@straymondmp.org; Linda or Mark Basnage, youth ministers Church of the Nativity, tlbasnage@gmail.com.

Tickets can be bought directly at www.eventbrite.com/e/ xlt-mid-peninsula-encounter-tickets-14994513995.

Priory’s Insight Series forum continues Jan. 28 Woodside Priory School’s Insight Series is a forum for learning and discussion for parents, educators, and religious leaders in local Bay Area communities.

The series embraces social, political and spiritual topics with both guest speakers and resident faculty at the Priory. Free and open to the public, events are held in the Father Christopher Room, Founders Hall, Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Valley. Call (650) 851-8221 for general information. For questions on the series or to RSVP, contact Carrie Rehak, crehak@ prioryca.org.

Jan. 28, 7-9 p.m.: “Water: A Sacred Trust,” with Dr. Mary E. McGann, RSCJ. In this presentation, Mary McGann, adjunct associate professor of liturgical studies at the Jesuit School of Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, will explore both the beauty of God’s sacred gift of water and the senseless

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Interweaving cosmological, artistic, and mystical dimensions, Brother Ivan will take us on a contemplative journey, with an evolutionary God. Brother Ivan Nicoletto, a Benedictine Camaldolese monk from the Hermitage of Camaldoli, Italy, has been living at Incarnation Monastery in Berkeley since 2011.

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feast days in the Philippines. Many of those who walked great distances down closed roads to get to Rizal Park held statues of Santo Nino.

For his final scheduled public talk in the country, Pope Francis stuck to his prepared English text and did not improvise in Spanish, as he had done at several emotional points during the visit. Yet his voice rose with emphasis during the passage about protecting the family.

Those words echoed his warning, during a Jan. 16 meeting with Filipino families, against “ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family” through such practices as same-sex marriage and contraception.

In his homily, Pope Francis said Christians “need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished and protected. And we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to life on the streets.”

The pope praised the Philippines, whose population is more than 80 percent Catholic, as the “foremost Catholic country in Asia,” and said its people, millions of whom work abroad, are “called to be outstanding missionaries of the faith in Asia.”

Yet he warned the developing nation, one of Asia’s fastest-growing economies, against temptations of materialism, saying the devil “hides his snares behind the appearance of sophistication, the allure of being modern, like everyone else. He dis-

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The pope is greeted by young people at a home for former street children in Manila Jan. 16. tracts us with the promise of ephemeral pleasures, superficial pastimes.

And so we squander our God-given gifts by tinkering with gadgets; we squander our money on gambling and drink.”

Pope Francis, who had urged a group of young people earlier in the day to address the challenge of climate change through dedication to the environment, told Massgoers human sinfulness had “disfigured (the) natural beauty” of creation.

Other consequences of sin, the pope said, were “social structures which perpetuate poverty, ignorance

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and corruption,” problems he had emphasized in his Jan. 16 speech at Manila’s presidential palace.

Aboard the papal flight from Manila to Rome, the pope stressed that, despite church doctrine against contraception, Catholics fail to practice “responsible parenthood” when they have too many children.

He also denounced the teaching of “gender theory” in schools, likening it to indoctrination of children by the Nazis and fascists.

The pope made his remarks Jan. 19 in an hourlong news conference with reporters accompanying him back to Rome from a weeklong trip to Asia.

Pope Francis reaffirmed his rejection of population-control programs as an example of ideological colonization and his praise of Blessed Paul VI for defending Catholic teaching against contraception.

But “this does not mean a Christian must make children one after another,” the pope said, citing the case of a woman who became pregnant an eighth time after giving birth to seven children via cesarean section.

“Does she want to leave seven orphans?” he said. “This is tempting God.” “Some people think – excuse me for saying this – that to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits,” Pope Francis said, yet church teaching provides for “many licit ways” to limit reproduction.

Elaborating on comments he made in Manila Jan. 16 about “ideological colonization that tries to destroy the family,” the pope offered a 20-yearold example of an unnamed government official, apparently in his native Argentina, who was offered a loan to build schools for poor children on the condition she assign students a textbook on “gender theory.”

Catholic leaders often use the term “gender theory” to refer to ideas that question or deny the God-given nature of sex differences and the complementarity of man and woman as the basis of the family.

Pope Francis said African bishops attending the October 2014 Synod on the Family had complained of similar restrictions on funding for projects in their countries, “Why do I say ideological colonization? Because they use a people’s need as an opportunity to come in and impose their will on children.

But this is nothing new. The dictatorships of the last century did the same thing; they came in with their doctrine. Think of the Balilla. Think of the Hitler Youth,” the pope said.

The Balilla was a youth organization instituted by Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.

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Upholding marriage ‘a matter of justice and truth,’ archbishop says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court Jan. 16 agreed to hear four cases over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, tackling the questions of whether the 14th Amendment requires states to allow such marriages and whether it requires them to recognize same-sex marriages licensed in other states.

In brief orders, the court accepted petitions from Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky and Ohio, consolidating them into one hearing that will be held probably in late April, meaning a decision would likely come before the end of the term in late June. The court allotted an unusually lengthy period of time for oral arguments, two and a half hours, compared to a typical 60-minute period.

As of Jan. 16, 36 states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriages, either under court rulings or state laws. In the other 14 states, they are prohibited, but those bans are all under legal challenge.

The Catholic Church upholds marriage as a union between one man and one woman and teaches that any sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful. The church also teaches that homosexual attraction itself is not sinful and that homosexual people “must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.”

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage said that a decision by the Supreme Court on whether a state may define marriage as the union of one man and one woman “may be the most significant court decision since the court’s tragic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision making abortion a constitutional right.”

The cases accepted by the court are all from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit ruled in November that laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are constitutional. That 2-1 ruling came in the case of a lesbian couple in Michigan who sought to jointly adopt the special needs children they are raising together. The state will not allow adoption by couples that are not married and prohibits same-sex marriage.

The opinion said that although it is inevitable that same-sex marriage will be allowed nationwide, it is better to make that change through a political process, rather than a court ruling. The 6th Circuit was the first federal appeals court to find in favor of such bans. Four other federal appellate courts have found same-sex marriage prohibitions to be unconstitutional.

The case was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, appealing directly to the nation’s highest court rather than seeking a ruling from the full Appeals Court. The Supreme Court previously had several

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People listen to Pope Francis speak during a meeting with families at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Philippines, Jan. 16. As the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear four cases on the constitutionality of civil same-sex marriage, the pope warned Philippine society was “tempted by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.” times declined to accept petitions to review rulings that set aside same-sex marriage bans.

The court last delved into the issue with two cases decided in 2013. In one, it overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which had limited the definition of “marriage” to a union of a man and a woman. In the other, it sent back to lower courts the

question of the constitutionality of a California law banning same-sex marriage. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals subsequently allowed same-sex marriages to proceed.

In his Jan. 16 statement on the court’s decision to take the cases, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, the bishops’ subcommittee chairman, said: “It’s hard to imagine how the essential meaning of marriage as between the two sexes, understood in our nation for over 200 years, and consistent with every society throughout all of human history, could be declared illegal.”

Upholding traditional marriage “is not a judgment on anyone,” he said. “It is a matter of justice and truth. The central issue at stake is: What is marriage? The answer is: A bond which unites a man and a woman to each other and to any children who come from their union.”

James Esseks, director of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement that the ACLU was “thrilled the court will finally decide this issue. ... The country is ready for a national solution that treats lesbian and gay couples fairly.” The ACLU is a co-counsel in the Kentucky case.

During his trip to the Philippines, Pope Francis made one of his strongest calls as pope against movements to recognize same-sex unions as marriage.

“The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage,” the pope said Jan. 16, hours after warning that Philippine society was “tempted by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.”

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Nigerian prelate: Church tries to keep Boko Haram victims from despair SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – What do Nigerian church leaders say to a woman who, pregnant and fleeing Boko Haram extremists, realizes that she is not physically capable of escaping with both of her two other children and has to abandon one of them?

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Referring to the pregnant woman and her choice, he said: “Such a woman would be seriously traumatized. Priests try to help in whatever way possible.”

The archbishop said one of the biggest challenges facing the church is to try to stop victims of Boko Haram, a Muslim militant group in northeast Nigeria, from falling into despair.

“The activities of Boko Haram are faith-threatening,” Archbishop Kaigama said. “The people are wounded and full of questions. At this point, there is nothing more than giving them hope. The church identifies with them in their pain and gives them a sense of belonging.

“Through homilies, pastoral letters, visits to refugee camps and one-on-one interactions and prayers, we encourage one another with the understanding that we are in it together,” he said.

“Our faith tells us that as members of Christ’s body, an injury to one part is an injury to all. Now more than ever Scripture, which is the bedrock of our Christian faith, is calming and soothing.”

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In mid-January, President Goodluck Jonathan, who is seeking re-election Feb. 14, met the Nigerian Catholic bishops to discuss “national issues.”

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HOPE: DEACONS ORDAINED IN NORTHERN IRAQ

AINKAWA, Iraq – Despite the pain of recent loss of family and ancestral homes at the hands of Islamist extremists, Iraqi Catholics welcomed four seminarians – three as deacons, one as a subdeacon – in a ceremony meant to encourage renewed hope for the future.

“Of course, we are so pleased for the ordination of these young men who will be priests. It’s a symbol of renewed life for us and the church. Jesus Christ is present among us,” said Sister Marcelle Senat, who was forced to escape Mosul last June when Islamic State militants overran the seat of the Christians’ historic heartland in Iraq.

“This ordination is wonderful. It’s a true sign to the world of the perseverance of our faith in Jesus Christ,” said Sister Marcelle, a member of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who now works with displaced Iraqi children.

About 1,500 Catholic clergy, religious and laity packed St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Cathedral Jan. 16 at the ordination service led by Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil; Baghdad Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni, president of Caritas Iraq; and Duhok Bishop Rabban Al-Qas. Several times, the congregation was encouraged to look to the future and follow Jesus in the midst of violence and destruction. Those in attendance also were urged to celebrate the young men for their dedication to the Lord.

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Church leaders react to announcement of Serra’s sainthood CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – Across California, church leaders greeted with joy the news that Pope Francis intends to canonize in September one of the state’s most wellknown figures, Blessed Junipero Serra, founder of many of the state’s Catholic missions.

The pope said during a news conference Jan. 15 aboard a flight to the Philippines that he would beatify the Spanish Franciscan when he comes to the United States in September. He explained that, just as he done in canonizing St. Joseph Vaz a day earlier in Sri Lanka, he would bypass the usual requirement of a second authenticated miracle attributed to Blessed Serra’s intervention, in an effort to promote and celebrate evangelization.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez was among those celebrating the announcement. In a statement, he said Blessed Serra “is one of my spiritual heroes and a giant figure in the evangelization of the New World.”

The Franciscan friar, who served in California – then a part of New Spain – from 1768 through his death in Carmel in 1784, is credited with directly founding nine missions in the present-day state of California, and one in Baja California in Mexico, and with reinvigorating established missions in central Mexico. Friars under his tutelage founded many other missions across California.

Archbishop Gomez noted that Blessed Serra is associated with the origins of Los Angeles and its original name, El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. Two of the missions he founded are within the archdiocese: San Gabriel Arcangel and San Buenaventura.

“It’s wonderful to think that this new saint once walked the road that is now the Hollywood Freeway and called it El Camino Real, The King’s Highway,” the archbishop said.

He added that he thinks the canonization will help the church’s current evangelization efforts and “remind us that our state and our country and all the Americas are built on Christian foundations.”

In San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone had a video statement posted on the archdiocesan website in which he thanked Pope Francis for the decision to canonize Blessed Serra.

The archbishop noted that he grew up a short distance away from Blessed Serra’s first mission in what became the state of California, San Diego de Alcala.

He said he’s “hopeful that the blessings that will come from this recognition” will include that others will be encouraged to imitate the heroic virtues Blessed Serra exhibited.

Already in his mid-50s when he arrived in California, the missionary had left behind a career in Spain as a respected professor and well-known preacher to come to the New World. He spent about 20 years evangelizing in central Mexico before taking on the role as president of

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Freshmen at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo learn about Blessed Junipero Serra in their first

the Franciscans’ missionary efforts on the Pacific coast.

Biographies explain that Blessed Serra was known for his ascetic lifestyle, including his insistence on walking great distances, even after sustaining a painful leg injury that plagued him for decades.

In Ventura, the news was welcomed with great joy by Father Tom Elewaut at San Buenaventura, which was founded on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782.

“Considering that we are the ninth and last mission personally founded by Blessed Serra and one of six he personally consecrated, the joy and blessing is personal and extended,” said Father Elewaut, who since 2011 has been pastor of the parish in downtown Ventura.

“Today our parish mission carries on the vision of Junipero Serra as a vibrant parish with daily Mass serving more than 1,800 active parishioners,” the priest said in an interview.

Father Elewaut said that the parish’s eucharistic prayer at Mass already elicits the intercession of Sts. Bonaventure (Buenaventura in Spanish) and Kateri Tekakwitha, in tribute to the Chumash community, the Native Americans who settled the area before the Spanish arrived. St. Kateri, the first Native American saint, was an Algonquin-Mohawk Indian, canonized in 2012.

“Now we also ask Junipero Serra to pray that we be worthy of God’s grace and call to witness the Gospel message to all people,” he said.

Blessed Serra’s beatification in 1988 drew criticism from some Native Americans and others who said he was responsible for extreme brutality toward California Indians.

Among those reacting to the news of the canonization, California newspapers reported mixed reactions from Native Americans, some defending the decision and others complaining.

Blessed Serra is among the best-known figures in California. Fourth-graders in the state study his work in social studies classes. The priest is portrayed in one of the state’s two statues in the U.S. Capitol, intended to portray those who made significant contributions to California history. He is buried at Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, in Carmel.

Pope Francis said his September trip to the U.S. will take him to Philadelphia, New York and Washington – where he intends to canonize Blessed Junipero Serra – but probably no other stops. He made his remarks Jan. 19, in a news conference with reporters accompanying him back to Rome from a trip to Asia.

Asked if would visit the U.S.-Mexico border on the same trip, Pope Francis said “entering the United States by crossing the border from Mexico would be a beautiful thing, as a sign of brotherhood and of help to the immigrants.” But he said making such a visit would raise expectations that he would visit Mexico’s shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and he joked that “war could break out” if he failed to do so.

theology class, from how he established California missions to sayings attributed to him: “Always forward” is a school theme, said Gary Meegan, chairman of the theology department.

The theme took on greater meaning with the pope’s announcement last week that he will canonize Father Serra, the 18th-century Spanish friar who founded a network of missions in California, in September when he visits the United States.

“I thought it was a really cool thing to happen my senior year,” said Glenn

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Mission Dolores curator Andy Galvan and his cousin, assistant curator Vincent Medina, are pictured at Mission Dolores Jan. 16 after the pope’s announcement that he will canonize Blessed Junipero Serra, founder of a network of California missions.

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Above left, “Portrait of Serra; Retrat de fra Juníper Serra,” 1790, by Fra Francesc Caimari Rotge. Above right, “India de Monterrey,” undated, by José Cardero. Both images courtesy the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino. Bottom right, graves of Native Americans at Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo in Carmel are seen in this 2008 file photo. The remains of Blessed Junipero Serra, are entombed in the mission’s basilica. Bottom left, Mission Dolores groundskeeper and sacristan Raju Kumar, 54, bows as he passes the statue of Father Serra at the mission’s cemetery in San Francisco Jan. 16, the day after Pope Francis announced he intends to canonize the Spanish missionary. “This is how I start and end the day,” he said. “There is a feeling of greatness about him.”

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‘Despite the challenges, we are always moving forward and always drawing strength from God and God’s mission for our lives.’

GLENN MCDONELL McDonell, 17, who said the students are speculating whether Serra will change its name to St. Junipero Serra High School. He cited Father Serra’s words “Although I may die on the way, I will

never turn back,” and “always forward” as among the writings of Father Serra that the boys incorporate into their thinking.

The school prayer includes “In the

spirit of Junipero Serra, let us never give up.”

“Despite the challenges, we are always moving forward and always drawing strength from God and God’s mission for our lives,” said Glenn, who works as a student leader in Serra’s campus ministry and helps with student retreats.

“Life is tough,” said Meegan, noting Father Serra’s life of constant pain from an injured foot as he traveled the West Coast is a great example for the boys of persistence and tenacity

with the inspiration of faith. However, because the boys learn so much about Father Serra, they also think of him as “their cool friend,” Meegan said.

Serra president Lars Lund said Father Serra “evangelized in the context of colonization which we now know was very problematic. Father Serra in his time and place had to find his way forward and in his time and place he was able to find holiness. How do we in our time and place answer Christ’s call and find holiness? We use Father Serra as a model for that.”

Twenty-four hours after Pope Francis announced his intention to canonize Franciscan Father Junipero Serra at the end of the year, Mission Dolores curator Andy Galvan told Catholic San Francisco that the news made him feel like he’d won the lottery.

“Father Serra has always been a saint to me, I’ve just been waiting for the pope to announce it,” Galvan said on Jan. 16. For almost 40 years he’s been a board member of the Junipero Serra Cause for Canonization.

Galvan traces his heritage to a pair of native people baptized, ANDY GALVAN married and Mission Dolores curator buried at Mission Dolores during the Spanish mission era (1769-1833). That era was led by Serra, who established nine of California’s 21 missions, including Mission Dolores – formally known as Mision San Francisco de Asis – before his death in 1784.

Since Serra’s beatification in 1988, Galvan and others have worked hard to establish the case for his sainthood through the verification of two miracles, and a life lived in accordance with the cardinal virtues of hope, faith and charity, and the theological virtues of temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude.

A nun cured of lupus in the 1960s was the first miracle attributed to Serra, Galvan said.

“The second miracle Rome is accepting is the miracle of his life,” he said.

In the historic cemetery, a gaggle of fourth graders flock to the oversized statue of Serra looming over the graveyard after their teacher tells them they are looking at the newest saint.

Californians owe much of their

‘It was his methodology at the time to place the padres as guardians of the native people to protect them from the military.’

state history to Father Serra, and he is lauded by Christians for his piety and fierce determination to bring the faith to the native people of California.

But his legacy is not without controversy. He has been denounced by some who say Spanish rule destroyed Indian culture in California and that he mistreated native people in the name of God. Galvan said Serra was actually a defender of Indian rights in the 18th century. He went to Mexico City to get the rights to protect the Indians from the military who viewed the natives as only a labor force.

“It was his methodology at the time to place the padres as guardians of the native people to protect them from the military,” said Galvan. “That was his idea.”

Didn’t Serra also use the Indians to build his missions? Galvan said yes, and no. “He was also attempting to teach them the Spanish lifestyle that was coming upon them, to encourage them to find a way to survive it,” he said.

Galvan said he believes Pope Francis sees Father Serra as a role model for missionary action today. He hopes that will include the native people in California, who he said “don’t feel welcomed” in mission communities, despite their historic link to them.

“The events of the past, you can’t fix them, you can’t change them,” he said.

“But what our missions can do today is reach out to native people.”

Vincent Medina, Galvan’s cousin and assistant curator, agrees.

Medina said that the mission story often fails to acknowledge the native people who built the missions and lost their culture and many of their people in the process. As he gives mission tours, he tries to balance that lost narrative by talking about the richness of the native land and culture the Spaniards found here.

Despite their shared Ohlone ancestry, the cousins diverge on the subject of sainthood for Father Serra.

Medina said Serra was aware of the punishment inflicted on the native Californians even if it wasn’t at his hand.

He is not in support of canonizing him.

“I believe that if you are being canonized, if you are to be called a saint, it should be expected during your life you rose above the limitations of your time period.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

Protecting the unborn in a ‘throwaway culture’

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hat a sight!

Over 25 times from the top of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., I have seen a sea of people marching to proclaim the dignity of unborn human life, and how death-dealing abortion sends the unholy message that some human beings are disposable.

And as I TONY MAGLIANO write, I plan to march with and view that sea of people once again, during the 42nd annual “March for Life” on Jan. 22. It’s always a moral and spiritual shot-in-the-arm for me.

But good as they are, the Washington “March for Life” and the “Walk for Life West Coast” in San Francisco (on Jan. 24), as well as dozens of similar events at state capitols throughout the U.S., are simply not enough.

While significant progress has been made to lessen the number of abortions, nonetheless, according to the National Right to Life Committee approximately 1 million unborn brothers and sisters are brutally dismembered by abortion each year.

And globally, according to the proabortion Guttmacher Institute, over 40 million unborn babies are killed annually by abortion.

Throughout the entire year believers in the God of life need to pray, educate, peacefully protest, donate and lobby on behalf of the unborn. They can’t do it for themselves.

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n the wake of the horrific jihadist attack on the Paris-based journal Charlie Hebdo, the trope “satirical magazine” was regularly deployed to explain Charlie’s character and content. But that’s not-quite-right.

And what’s wrong about it—when linked to the sentiment expressed on placards reading “We are all Charlie Hebdo” – suggests just how GEORGE WEIGEL much trouble Europe is in, as it confronts this new form of war.

To be sure, French standards of cartooning and “satire” are different than those in other countries, as a brief glance at a Charlie Hebdo cover (and especially those dealing with the Catholic Church, its people, and its beliefs) would demonstrate. Still, I don’t think it’s a matter of American prissiness to suggest that “satire” doesn’t capture the prevailing cast of mind displayed in Charlie Hebdo, which has always struck me as far more nihilistic than satirical.

My venerable Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary defines “satire” as “a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn,” the secondary definition being “trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.” That is not what Charlie Hebdo does. Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many

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Pope Francis greets a child as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican last Sept. 11. Addressing a group of Catholic gynecologists Sept. 20, the pope condemned abortion as the product of a “throwaway culture.”

Therefore, please email and call your two U.S. senators (Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121) urging them to cosponsor and actively support the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” which would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of unborn life.

There is solid medical evidence that unborn babies feel pain by at least 20 weeks after fertilization (www.nrlc.org/abortion/fetalpain).

And abortion is brutally painful.

According to the National Right to Life Committee, the abortion technique known as “dilation and

evacuation,” used to abort unborn children up to 24 weeks, uses forceps with sharp metal jaws to grasp parts of the developing baby, which are then twisted and torn away.

Another abortion technique after 16 weeks of pregnancy known as “saline amniocentesis,” inserts a needle through the mother’s abdomen and withdraws a cup of amniotic fluid and replaces it with a powerful salt solution.

According to the NRLC, the baby swallows the salt solution and is poisoned. Additionally, the chemical solution causes painful burning

and deterioration of the baby’s skin (www.nrlc.org/abortion/medicalfacts/techniques).

In a Sept. 20, 2013, address to a gathering of Catholic gynecologists, Pope Francis affirmed the sacredness of unborn human life, and connected it to the work of social justice.

He said, “In all its phases and at every age, human life is always sacred and always of quality.”

The Holy Father said abortion is a product of a “widespread mentality of profit, the ‘throwaway culture,’ which today enslaves the hearts and intelligences of so many.”

This mindset, he added, “requires eliminating human beings, especially if physically or socially weaker.

Our answer to this mentality is a decisive and unhesitant ‘yes’ to life.”

Taking a consistent ethic of life position, the pope linked together unborn babies, the aged and the poor as among the most vulnerable human beings whom Christians are called to especially love.

“Things have a price and are saleable, but persons have a dignity, they are worth more than things and they have no price. Because of this, attention to human life in its totality has become in recent times a real and proper priority of the magisterium of the church, particularly for life which is largely defenseless, namely, that of the disabled, the sick, the unborn, children, the elderly. …

“They cannot be discarded”!

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

Europe and nothingness

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People hold a placard that reads “I am Muslim, I am Jewish, I am Catholic, I am Charlie” during a Jan. 8 vigil in Paris, following the mass shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. people’s most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions. I won’t describe its cover cartoon lampooning the doctrine of the Trinity after the Catholic bishops of France had opposed so-called “gay marriage”; if that cover was not pornographic, then the word “pornographic” has no meaning.

In the world of Charlie Hebdo, sadly, all religious convictions (indeed all serious convictions about moral truth) are, by definition, fanaticism – and thus susceptible to the mockery of the “enlightened.” But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it’s adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it’s as

corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo’s staff.

The sophomoric nastiness regularly displayed in Charlie Hebdo most certainly does not constitute any sort of warrant for homicide; the incapacity of some Muslims to live in pluralistic societies and the rage to which those incapacities lead is a grave threat to the West. The question is: What do those two truths have to do with each other?

Here’s my suggestion: You can’t beat something with nothing – perhaps better, you can’t beat something with nothingness.

If all that Europe can say in condemning the despicable murders of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonists and

editors is “We are all Charlie Hebdo,” then what Europe is saying is, in effect, “We are all nihilists.” And how, pray, is nihilism – nothingness raised to a first principle, skepticism taken to the last extreme – supposed to defeat conviction, however warped that conviction is? If all that Europe can say to murderous jihadism is “Why can’t we all just get along?” its fecklessness will make it an even softer target for the kind of lethal fanaticism that recently turned Paris into a war zone.

There’s another aspect to this tangled and bloody business that’s worth noting, and that is the high price that Europe, and France in particular, is paying for culturally engrained (and sometimes legally enforced) political correctness. Virtually proscribing public discussion of the threat to European civility and order posed by Islamist maniacs has made dealing with that threat far more difficult: for citizens, for the security services, and for the public authorities. In the years since 9/11, the French public square has been dominated by the jihadists and the xenophobes; and in that volatile social environment, something very bad was going to happen. Now that it has, perhaps steps can be taken to bring the adults – and the real issues – back into the discussion.

“Liberty, equality, fraternity” can be a noble slogan, bespeaking noble aspirations. But freedom, justice and human solidarity cannot be grounded in nihilism. If all Europe is Charlie Hebdo, then Europe is doomed.

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

Consecration made visible

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hen I converted to Catholicism in college, I had never seen a woman religious. “Where are they?” I thought. I fell into the worldly attitude toward consecrated life: “What a waste?” or “Why bother?”

I had no way of understanding these words of John Paul II: “The first duty of the SISTER MARIA consecrated CATHERINE, OP life is to make visible the marvels wrought

by God in the frail humanity of those who are called. They bear witness to these marvels not so much in words as by the eloquent language of a transfigured life, capable of amazing the world.”

As I was drawn more and more into the Catholic faith, I was introduced to flourishing religious communities.

I saw pictures of the Missionaries of Charity and the Sisters of Life, their habits sliced through dizzying urban cityscapes as they went about their apostolic work. They stood out like lightning among the rank and file. Recalling John Paul II’s comments, their visibility drove home the immediate vibrancy of a consecrated woman’s Christian evangelical witness.

When I encountered members of these communities in person, they displayed a clear understanding of their identity as religious women, self-possessed in their call to sacrifice all for Christ their bridegroom. They radiated peace and self-fulfillment. I began to see religious consecration as a joyful gift that allows each sister to blossom, rather than a sacrifice that stifles. Like the Apostles drawn

by Christ’s Transfiguration on Mt. Tabor, I began to “sense with longing the attraction of divine beauty” that religious bring with the public witness of their consecration.

As my prayer life grew, I began to sense restlessness in myself. My colleagues seemed to be content to advance along the upper echelons of corporate America and initiate programs for the laity at the parish level. These are each worthy in their own way, and certainly have a place

Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers

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The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist attend the 2014 Marin Catholic Wildcats homecoming game. in God’s plan, but I couldn’t shake the restlessness I was feeling that I was made to give all. No pilgrimages, prayer groups, or special projects seemed to be enough.

When I formed the habit of making regular visits to the Blessed Sacrament the restlessness slowly dissipated. I had complete peace. This realization illuminated my discernment process. Here God was all mine and I could be all his; here he could lovingly conform me into a perfect image of himself. It was this deepening awareness of God’s transforming love for me in eucharistic adoration that made the Dominicans in Ann Arbor particularly appealing.

I can’t remember when I first heard about the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, but when I visited the motherhouse in Ann Arbor, I was stunned. So many young women were walking up and down the corridors of the convent in quiet recollection, habits swishing around their ankles. It was a dazzling sign of “the splendor before which every other light pales … the infinite beauty

which alone can fully satisfy the human heart.” This radiating glimpse of them made me want what they had.

Likewise, religious themselves have noticed how captivating a visible witness is in the modern world. In recent years consecrated men and women have been discerning new charisms needed in the church. As a result, many religious have been pursuing renewal in their own orders, or initiating new communities like mine.

The foundresses of my community discerned that not only was the world in need of more Dominicans, but that in order to fight the modern heresies of nihilism, materialism, and a growing disregard for the human person, there needed to be a strong Marian (motherly) and eucharistic emphasis in our daily life as religious.

The Dominican Sisters of Mary were founded in response to John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization; to reach out to those who are living in a post-Christian culture and lack knowledge of God’s saving love. We have an emphasis on devotion to the Eucharist and a striking witness of

to speak one’s mind for the sake of some good. But, he said there were limits “You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”

He illustrated his view by saying that if his friend Cardinal Gasparri were to insult his mother, he can expect a punch. Pope Francis said throwing a pretended punch his way.

Recently the Vatican and four prominent French imams issued a joint statement that denounced the attacks but also urged the media to treat religion with respect. Muslims expect respect for the prophet the same way as they value the prophets of Judaism and Christianity. Attack on the prophet was intended to humiliate Muslims, but violence is no answer to this – dialogue is.

Religion has always been a sensitive issue as history as shown over and over again. We do not go around ridiculing other peoples’ religion or

beliefs and not expect some reaction.

We should be concentrating on mutual respect and good will and not alienation.

We should live together in peace and with respect for each other.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

Our Lady’s receptivity to God’s mysterious and providential care. Each day the sisters pray the DeMonfort Marian consecration and make a eucharistic Holy Hour. In these particular devotions I am reminded that I am specifically Dominican, eucharistic and Marian.

In my apostolic life, Our Lady’s motherly love for all gives me strength to sacrifice my own desires for those of my students and my sisters. I find my students often relate to me as a mother who will keep their concerns confidential and provide them with the sympathetic support needed from someone outside their families. Sometimes this means sacrificing valuable preparation time for my classes to meet with a student about personal concerns, or to help my sisters with needs around the convent.

The faculty, students, and parents that surround my community assure me that the witness of consecrated religious has been sorely lacking and is deeply meaningful. Now seven years into religious formation, I’m giving Jesus a personal and visible “yes” to all the ways he desires to transform the world through me. The centrality of the Eucharist and Our Lady give me a clear motive for my gift, my “holocaust” for Jesus, my bridegroom. I want to give him all! When I encounter people who cannot comprehend the value of religious consecration, I hope that my witness and that of my sisters will clearly communicate that poverty, chastity, and obedience are not, in fact, a waste, but rather “a transfigured life, capable of amazing the world.”

As we embark on the Year of Consecrated Life, the church reminds us of the searing witness of the Apostles when St. John says, “This life became visible; we have seen and bear witness to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life that was present to the Father and became visible to us.” The question going forward is: after not being visible for decades, how is the Holy Spirit calling the church’s consecrated to be a stronger visible witness to the “infinite beauty which alone can fully satisfy the human heart?”

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a Dominican Sister of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist and a member of the faculty at Marin Catholic High School.

LETTERS Limits to free speech

The massacre in Paris on Jan. 7 at the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo rightfully deserved universal condemnation. No matter what the provocation settling through violence is never justified, although Charlie Hebdo cartoons were hurtful and racist and should not have been published. Many Muslims have said “Nothing is more immoral, offensive and insulting against our beloved prophet than such a callous act of murder.” But I do stand for freedom of speech. There should be no limits on free speech, unless it directly incites violence – the cartoons did incite violence – so should not have been published.

Pope Francis en route to the Philippines said that there are limits to freedom of speech especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith.

Defending free speech he said is the fundamental human right, but a duty

Principle of proportionality

The 1987 U.N. Convention on Torture ratified by the U.S. recognizes torture is inhumane, immoral, and produces lies, truths and half-truths. The fatal flaw in the U.N. position is the errant absolutism of unrestricted power that dares

say that “no circumstances may justify torture; no state of war, no political instability, no public emergency.”

Civilized societies wisely use the time-honored legal ethical principle of proportionality to determine punishment for a current or future illegal act. Surely no government or religion can have absolute unrestricted legal or moral power to prohibit any means that could stop the nuclear incineration of millions. Such an opponent would be insane, or a rational accomplice to mass murder.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jesus said to them, ‘Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ Then they abandoned their nets and followed him.

MARK 1:14-20 JONAH 3:1-5, 10 The word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the Lord’s bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it took three days to go through it. Jonah began his journey through the city, and had gone but a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed, “when the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.

When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

PSALM 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Your ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my savior.

Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Remember that your compassion, O Lord, and your love are from of old. In your kindness remember me, because of your goodness, O Lord.

Teach me your ways, O Lord.

Good and upright is the Lord; thus he shows sinners the way. He guides the humble to justice and teaches the humble his way.

Teach me your ways, O Lord.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:29-31 I tell you, brothers and sisters, the time is running out. From now on, let those having wives act as not having them, those weeping as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using the world as not using

it fully. For the world in its present form is passing away.

MARK 1:14-20 After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Then they abandoned their nets and followed him. He walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets.

Then he called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.

With the Apostles on Galilee’s shore

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t is a beautiful nuance among the fourfold Gospel of Jesus Christ that Matthew, Mark, and Luke, after the Lord’s Baptism, relate only events from the final year of Our Lord’s earthly life, whereas John relates many events and teachings between the Baptism of the Lord and the imprisonment of John the baptist related here.

St. Bede the Venerable, the great English father and doctor of the church, reports that “when John read the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, he approved indeed the text of the history, and affirmed that they had spoken truth, but said that they had composed the history only of the one year after John was cast in prison, FATHER JOSEPH in which year also [Jesus] PREVITALI suffered.” Therefore, Bede explains, “(John) related the events of the former period, before John was cast into prison.”

We surely notice the differences between last week’s (John’s) and this week’s (Mark’s) narratives of the vocation of the Apostles. Last Sunday, we

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saw John’s account of the calling of the Apostles, in which St. Andrew receives the honor of being the “protokletos” (“first-called”) and that he brings his brother, Simon, to Jesus, after spending the whole day being taught by Our Lord (with the “other disciple,” likely St. John the Evangelist).

Thus, John related the first calling of the Apostles, who were disciples of John the Baptist and then attached themselves to Jesus. Theophylact of Ohrid, who is a great source of the teaching of St. John Chrysostom, tells us that “(after joining themselves to Christ), grieving that John had been cast into prison, they returned to their trade.”

St. Bede explains further that the calling of Peter after the miraculous catch of fish in Luke 5:1-11 (“Lord, depart from me, for I am a sinful man”) was a second calling of these same Apostles, who “as their custom was, had returned to their fishing.” Luke relates, in fact, that they drew their boats to shore before following Jesus. Here with St. Mark “they followed the Lord, without drawing their boats ashore, (which they would have done had they meant to return), and followed him, as one calling them, and ordering them to follow.” St. Mark is relating to us this Sunday the definitive and final calling of these Apostles out of the world and into the mission of Jesus Christ.

The church thrills at the calling of these four Apostles! The scholiast in St. Jerome sings in

MANILA, Philippines – The Gospel has the power to transform society, ensuring justice and care for the poor, but that can happen only if Christians – beginning with the church’s ministers – allow the Gospel to transform them, Pope Francis said.

At the beginning of a Mass Jan. 16 with Philippine bishops, priests and religious in Manila’s Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Pope Francis led the congregation in a special penitential rite to ask forgiveness for ways they have failed to live up to the high ideals of their promises of poverty, chastity and obedience.

Pope Francis introduced the rite with a prayer: “Unworthy though we are, God loves us and has given us a share in his Son’s mission as members of his body, the church.

“Let us thank and glorify God for his great love and infinite compassion,” the pope prayed.

FATHER PREVITALI is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.

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praise of these pillars of the church, by whom “we are mystically carried away to heaven, like Elias, by this chariot, drawn by these fishers, as by four horses.” These are the “four cornerstones” upon which the church is first built, and they inspire us to leave all earthly cares and concerns, to cease living for ourselves, and to “hear the voice of the Lord,” being “clothed with those skins of Solomon, with which the bride rejoices that she has been made beautiful.”

The same scholiast teaches us: “Simon” means “obedient;” “Andrew,” “manly;” “James,” “usurper;” and “John,” “grace.” Through Simon Peter, we listen to God; through Andrew, we do battle with evil; through James, we conquer and persevere; and through John we are preserved. Here we have the four cardinal virtues personified: prudence, by which we obey God; justice, which is “righteousness” and “virtue” so called; temperance, by which we conquer the devil; and fortitude, whereby we are preserved in the grace of God. You and I are at the shores of the Sea of Galilee right now, every day. Will we listen to Jesus, with rectitude of life, conquering and persevering?

Through the intercession of these four Apostles, may we always leave everything and follow Him!

“Let us beg for his forgiveness for failing to be faithful to his love. And let us ask for the strength to be true to our calling: to be God’s faithful witnesses in the world.”

To the delight of the congregation, Pope Francis demonstrated that he was not simply reading English, but understood it. The prepared text of his homily began with Jesus’ words to St. Peter, “Do you love me?”

Someone close to the front of the cathedral responded yes. The pope, laughing, responded, “Thank you,” then explained, “I was reading the words of Jesus.”

Starting again, the pope said Jesus’ words to the Apostle, “Do you love me? ... Tend my sheep,” are a reminder of “something essential: All pastoral ministry is born of love. All consecrated life is a sign of Christ’s reconciling love.”

“Each of us is called, in some way, to be love in the heart of the church,” the pope said.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 26: Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops. 2 TM 1:1-8 or TI 1:1-5. PS 96:12a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 3:22-30.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27: Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin. HEB 10:1-10. PS 40:2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11. SEE MT 11:25. MK 3:31-35.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28: Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor. HEB 10:11-18.

PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4. MK 4:1-20.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29: Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 10:19-25. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. PS 119:105. MK 4:21-25.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30: Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 10:32-39. PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40. SEE MT 11:25. MK 4:26-34.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31: Memorial of St. John Bosco, priest. HEB 11:1-2, 8-19. LK 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75. JN 3:16. MK 4:35-41.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

God inside our divisions

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hristian de Cherge, the Trappist abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, was fond of sharing this story: He had a very close Muslim friend, Mohammed, and the two of them used to pray together, even as they remained aware of their differences, as Muslim and Christian.

Aware too that FATHER RON certain schools ROLHEISER of thought, both Muslim and Christian, warn against this type of prayer, fearing that the various faiths are not praying to the same God, the two of them didn’t call their sessions together prayer. Rather they imagined themselves as “digging a well together.” One day Christian asked Mohammed: “When we get to the bottom of our well, what will we find; Muslim water or Christian water?”

Mohammed, half-amused but still deadly serious, replied: “Come on now, we’ve spent all this time walking together, and you’re still asking me this question. You know well that

at the bottom of that well, what we’ll find is God’s water.”

There are important religious truths couched inside that story.

First off, all religions worthy of the name believe that the first thing we need to affirm about God is that God is ineffable, that is, God is beyond all human imagination, conceptualization, and language. Everything we think and say about God, even within scripture and our defined dogmas, is more inadequate than adequate. It reveals some truth, but, this side of eternity, never the complete truth.

No dogma and no religion ever provide an adequate expression of God. If this is true, and it is, then all religious truth is always partial and limited in its historical expression and cannot claim adequacy. All religions, all dogmas, and all expressions of theology, irrespective of denomination or religion, must humbly acknowledge their incompleteness.

Only God is absolute, and an absolute knowledge of God lies at the bottom of the well, at the end of our religious journey.

That fact radically changes the way we need to conceive of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue. Since no one, us included, has the full truth, the way of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue should not be conceived, as has

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been so much the case up to the present, of one side winning the other side over: We, alone, have the truth and you must join us! Rather the way has to be conceived of precisely “digging a well together,” namely, as each of us, with an open heart, longing for those others who are not at our table, refusing all proselytizing, becoming engaged through our own religious tradition in the search for deeper conversion. That search is precisely the search to get to the bottom of the well, knowing that, once there, we, as all other sincere, authentic religious searchers, will find both God’s water and unity with everyone else who is there.

The late renowned ecumenist, Jesuit and Cardinal Avery Dulles, called this the path of “progressive convergence.” Eventual unity among the various churches and various faiths will not come about by everyone in the world converting to one denomination or one religion. Rather it will come about, and can only come about, by each of us converting more deeply inside our own tradition. As each of us and each faith moves more deeply into the mystery of God we will progressively draw closer and closer to each other. Christian de

Cherge’s story illustrates this wonderfully.

And this path, when correctly taken, does not lead us into relativism and the naïve belief that all religions are equal. But it does mean that we must humbly accept that, while we have the truth, the truth is not ours alone. God desires the salvation of those in other denominations and in other religious traditions just surely as he desires our own. Hence, as Jesus teaches us, God has “other sheep.” God’s love and revelation embrace everyone.

The path to unity among Christians of different denominations and the path to unity among world religions is not one tradition, Christianity included, claiming absolute truth for itself . Rather it lies in “digging a well together” and converting more deeply into the mystery of God and into all that asks of us. As we move deeper into the mystery of God we will find ourselves more and more as brothers and sisters in faith.

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Saturday, May 9- Day 2- MILAN/TURIN Upon arrival in Milan, we are greeted by our full time tour manager, board our motor coach, and drive to Milan. We will visit the beautiful church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, home of the famous Last Supper paintingif permitted we will view the masterpiece. We continue to the Duomo- Milan’s jewel, where we will celebrate Mass, before our ride to Turin for dinner and overnight.

Sunday, May 10- Day 3- TURIN/FLORENCE This morning we visit Turin Cathedral, and celebrate Mass. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and the major church of Turin, It was built during 1491-1498, and it is adjacent to an earlier campanile (1470). In the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, the current resting place of the Shroud of Turin, we will view The Shroud a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man; a man millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. We will also honor St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians, as we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth. This afternoon, we depart Turin on our scenic journey ride to Florence. We will transfer to our hotel in the nearby Montecatini area for dinner and overnight.

Monday, May 11- Day 4- FLORENCE/MONTECATINI This morning, we see the highlights of Florence, the jewel of the Renaissance. We first proceed to Piazzale Michelangelo for a panoramic view of the city. Next we visit the Duomo, where we celebrate Mass, in the heart of the city with its cupola by Brunelleschi, completed in 1240, and its Campanile by Giotto and Baptistry with incomparable bronze doors by Ghiberti.

Next, we visit the Medici Chapel in the church of San Lorenzo, to see the tombs designed and executed by Michelangelo. Afterwards, we set out to the Piazza della Signoria, dominated by the Palazzo Vecchio and its embattlement crowned tower. Across from the Palace, we visit the Loggia dei Lanzi with the statues of the Perseus

by Cellini; Giambologna's the “Rape of the Sabines” and “Hercules”. After free time for lunch on our own, we visit the Basilica of Santa Croce. Among the most famous interred here, lie Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. This is followed

by free time for shopping on the Ponte Vecchio and personal adventure. We return to Montecatini for dinner and overnight.

May 12, MONTECATINI/SIENA/ROME Today we journey through the Italian countryside stopping in the magnificent city of Siena, which invites us to stroll through its Gothic streets converging on the famous Piazza del Campo. We celebrate Mass at the Dominican Church that commemorates St. Catherine. We continue south through Umbria and proceed to Rome. Driving by the Roman Fora, passing the Arch of Constantine, the Coliseum, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. We stop at the Church of St. Peter in Chains to view Michelangelo's possibly most celebrated sculpture, the "Moses.

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Wednesday, May 13- Day 6- ROME We make our way to St. Peter's for an audience with the Holy Father if he is in residence.

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Thursday, May 14- Ascension of Jesus- Day 7 -ROME This morning, we visit Vatican City, where we celebrate Mass below St. Peters. Afterwards, we see the treasures of the Vatican Museum. We marvel at Michelangelo’s restored frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and the wonders of St. Peter’s. This afternoon/evening we will enjoy a reception with the Vatican Press. Tonight, we enjoy our farewell dinner with wine and music followed by a Rome by Night tour with a stop at the Trevi Fountain.

Friday, May 15- Day 8- ROME Free day in Rome – or optional excursion to Assisi. Dinner on your own tonight- enjoy the culinary delights of Rome. Overnight Rome.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

Executive Administrative Assistant

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Regular Full-time (37.5 hours/week), Non-Exempt 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include: • Assists the Chief Financial Officer by acting as a major participant in various activities with outside business and financial institutions such as, but not limited to, stock brokerage transactions and insurance and banking arrangements. • This position also has responsibility for assisting the CFO with major projects as directed. • Among some of the projects in which this individual would participate are: coordinate events for various public presentations/seminars, maintain the financial policy and procedure manuals, develop and coordinate various surveys for financial programs, and coordinate the Annual Parish/School Financial Reporting Program. • This position has responsibility for the maintenance of accurate and complete records/files for all of the CFO’s financial documents as well as for coordinating meeting arrangements for various financial groups.

Minimum Qualifications: • Ability to interact professionally, especially in dealing with committees and financial vendors. • Excellent PC skills with experience in Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Access. • Good working knowledge of finance and accounting concepts. (Must have experience working in an accounting office &/or financial institution with sound knowledge of banking and investment operations.) • Ability to multitask while working fairly independently with a minimum of detailed supervision or guidance. • Excellent time management and organizational skills. • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Desired Education: BS/BA or relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications: • Experience and working knowledge of finance and accounting concepts – experience working in an accounting office and/or financial institution with sound knowledge of banking and investment. • A general understanding of the Catholic Church and the workings of parishes and schools.

PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME AND COVER LETTER: Attn: Patrick Schmidt, Acting Director – Human Resources Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 E-mail: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

Senior Staff Accountant ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO Cathedral Hill/Pacific Heights 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. We have over 4,000 employees, 90 Parishes, 65 Elementary Schools and 4 High Schools.

The Senior Staff Accountant performs various accounting duties; fund maintenance; completion of accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting for the Pastoral Center Office. The Senior Staff Accountant also works closely with the 4 high schools within the Archdiocese of San Francisco to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of student accounts for monthly billing purposes.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Pastoral Center Office • Perform account analysis and reconciliation on various general ledger accounts, including necessary follow up and adjustments • Perform reconciliation and analysis of various bank accounts, including necessary follow up and adjustments • Assist with update of pooled investment schedules, valued at $100 million, on a quarterly basis • Maintain Institutional Archdiocesan Deposit and Loan fund, including interest calculations, additions, withdrawals and monthly statements to all participants • Assist with preparation of various supporting schedules for annual financial audit and other reports, as needed • Analyze various accounts including ad hoc analysis

High Schools • Resolve student account billing issues through communication with high school accounting personnel • Perform general ledger and sub-ledger account analysis and reconciliations in connection with student billing balances • Perform reconciliation and analysis of payroll bank account, including necessary follow up and adjustments • Generate student bills for the 4 Archdiocesan High Schools, serving 3,300 students, in a timely manner for their monthly distribution

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Required Qualifications: • 5+ years of general accounting experience • BS degree in Accounting or related field • Working knowledge of accounting principles and practices • Expert level with Excel

• Proactive, ability to prioritize multiple projects and work collaboratively • Excellent organizational and time management skills • Proven ability to work independently • Strong verbal and written communication skills • Attention to detail • Blackbaud, Serenic experience • Practicing Catholic

COMPANY DESCRIPTION • Compensation: Competitive, Non-Profit, Excellent Benefits Package • This is at a non-profit organization.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SOUGHT The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20152016 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 April 1st, 2015 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

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DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS The Archdiocese of San Francisco seeks a well-qualified Director of Communications. The Director develops and executes a pro-active media strategy for the Archdiocese. This strategy is nuanced to embrace three spheres of influence: the Archdiocese, covering the three counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin; a national audience; and an international audience focused on the Vatican. Located in the Archdiocese are over 400,000 Catholics, with over 300 priests and 700 religious. Among the Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese are 75 elementary and high schools, 3 colleges/universities, one seminary, and seven Catholic cemeteries.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

SATURDAY, JAN. 24 WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST: 11th year for this pro-life effort that has been attracting crowds of as many as 50,000 people. Visit www.walkforlifewc.com.

SUNDAY, JAN. 25 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring various artists; freewill offerings accepted at door. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7 MASS FOR SICK: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating World Day of the Sick, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Archbishop Geary Boulevard, Salvatore J. San Francisco Cordileone sponsored by the Order of Malta. kenmryan@aol.com; (415) 8656718.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28

SUNDAY, FEB. 8

‘XLT-MID-PENINSULA’: 90-minute event for high school and middle school youth that provides a profound experience of God and community with live, praise and worship music, a dynamic and engaging talk, and opportunity for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; Sacred Heart School, Atherton. Tickets need to be purchased in advance for $5/program only or $9 /program and dinner. Tickets can be bought directly at www. eventbrite.com/e/xlt-mid-peninsulaencounter-tickets-14994513995.

Hospitality starts at 6:15 p.m., program 7-8:30 p.m. Lindsey West, youth minister St. Denis Parish, lwest@stdenisparish.org; Christine Augulis, youth minister St. Raymond Parish, caugulis@straymondmp.org; Linda or Mark Basnage, youth ministers Church of the Nativity, tlbasnage@gmail.com.

PRIORY TALKS: “Water: A Sacred Trust,” explore both the beauty of God’s sacred gift of water and the senseless degradation of this precious resource in today’s world with Dr. Mary E. McGann, RSCJ, 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road,

100TH YEAR: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of 100th anniversary Mass at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, Jamestown Avenue between Third Street and Jennings, San Francisco, 10 a.m.. Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, concelebrates; www. stpauloftheshipwreck.org. (415) 468-3434.

SATURDAY, FEB. 21 WEDDING MASS: Married couples celebrating anniversaries marking five-year periods (5, 10 and upward) are invited to a commemora-

Portola Valley, Founders Hall. Admission is free, refreshments provided, Carrie Rehak, crehak@prioryca.org; (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca.org/life/ campus-spiritual-life/insight-speakersseries/.

tive anniversary Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant and homilist, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Register at www.sfanniversary.net or (415) 614-5680 by Feb. 12. Registration is required. A $20 donation from each couple is asked.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 11 a.m. followed by parish procession and reception. (650) 755-9786; olphrectory@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 FESTIVAL MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Northern California Choral Festival Mass, 5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Student singers from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and around the Bay Area lead song under the direction of Richard Robbins of the music faculty at University of Wisconsin-Superior.

A choral prelude will precede the liturgy. Visit www.pcchoirs.org.

FRIDAY, JAN. 30 EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300

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SATURDAY, JAN. 31 ZYDECO DANCE: Mardi Gras Zydeco Dance, St. Finn Barr Church, Goode Hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst, San Francisco, 8 p.m.. $20 in advance, $25 at door. (415) 333-3627, (415) 760-1454; free dance lesson from 7 p.m. Mardi Gras grub available for purchase.

CRAB FEED: Archbishop Riordan Crab Feed, tickets at $60 per person include a full crab dinner, chicken entrees also available. Tables of 8 available. www.riordanhs.org; (415) 586-8200 ext 217.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4 ‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., Feb. 4, Mar. 11, Apr. 15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate. www.msjdominicans.org.

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

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FRIDAY, FEB. 6 FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan since 1983. (650) 3407452.

SATURDAY, FEB. 7 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

SUNDAY, FEB. 8 VOCATIONS: Open House celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael invite you to St. Rose Convent, 2515 Pine St., San Francisco, 3-4:30 p.m.

Join us in a prayer for peace in our chapel, followed by visiting and refreshments in the convent. In Marin County, you are invited to join us

at Dominican Convent, 1540 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 3-4:30 p.m. We will share a prayer for peace, followed by visiting and refreshments. Please RSVP for either location by calling (415) 453-8303 or email crbush@ sanrafaelop.org. The Sisters of Mercy invite you to Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. All are welcome to join us from 9:30-11 a.m. and to stay for Sunday liturgy at 11:15 in our main chapel. Come visit our home, learn about our rich heritage, and meet our sisters who serve in a variety of ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please RSVP by calling (650) 340-7400.

BUBBLY & BINGO: SF Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. in North Beach, 11:30 a.m. $40 per person advance ticket sales only, includes lunch, champagne, two bingo cards.

Antonette, (415) 509-4810.

MONDAY, FEB. 9 ‘9 DAYS OF GRACE’: “Hearts of Fire,” a preached retreat Feb. 9-17 offered by the ministries of the Society of Jesus in San Francisco; presented twice daily on weekdays, 12:05 p.m. at St. Ignatius Church, Fulton Street and Parker Avenue, San Francisco, with Mass; 7 p.m. at St Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic Ave. at Oak Street, San Francisco with Mass. One talk each day on weekend, Feb. 14, 12:05 p.m. at St. Ignatius Church with Mass; Feb 15, 6 p.m. at St. Agnes Church with Mass. ninedaysofgrace@ gmail.com.

THURSDAY, FEB. 12

SATURDAY, FEB. 21

PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New Members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: The first 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with monthly Mass and lunch at noon in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin; (415) 239-4865.

MUSIC TRIBUTE: “Angel of the Amazon,” a concert performance of opera dedicated to the memory of Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang on the 10th anniversary of her death at the hands of murderous landowners in the rain forests of Brazil with composer Evan Mack conducting. The evening features the voices of baritone Jeffrey Williams and mezzo soprano Caitlin Mathes with the Viva la Musica chorus, Shulamit Hoffman, director; Jim McGarry, jmmcgarry@ndnu.edu; (650) 508-4120.

Cunningham Memorial Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, 7 p.m. Admission is free. Donations to the Sister Dorothy Stang Scholarship Fund welcome.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25

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

PRIORY TALKS: “God, Grace of the World,” with Camaldolese Benedictine Brother Ivan Nicoletto. What grace may God have for our lives and our communities? 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall, admission is free, refreshments provided. Carrie Rehak crehak@prioryca. org; (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca.org/ life/campus-spiritual-life/insight-speakersseries/.

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10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners Serving the Residential Bay Area for Commercial over 30 Years

IRISH Eoin PAINTING Lehane Discount to CSF Readers

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M.K. Painting Interior-Exterior Residential – Commercial Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates License# 974682

Tel: (650) 630-1835

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FENCES & DECKS

CONSTRUCTION O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION

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• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates • Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts

Lic. #742961

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GRIEF SUPPORT: St. Pius Grief Ministry is offering a facilitated nine-week support group session, Feb. 23-April 20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. If you are in the early stages of your loss, or have not previously attended a grief support group, this program may benefit you. (650) 361-0655; griefministry@pius.org. Walk-ins are welcome.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 23, 2015

Our ER offers an unexpected treatment: compassion.

When you check in to the emergency room, you expect a few things: rapid treatment for your injury or illness.

Advanced medical technology. And expert doctors.

At St. Mary’s Medical Center, the only Catholic hospital in San Francisco, we believe in something else you might not expect: doctors and nurses who embody humankindness.

Maybe it’s simply someone to hold your hand so you don’t feel alone. Or a comforting hug after a trying experience. Our staff knows the healing potential of simple human gestures.

And they’re found in every Dignity Health emergency room.

Because we know treating your injuries helps you recover.

But treating you with humanity helps you heal.

St. Mary’s Medical Center 450 Stanyan Street (Across from Golden Gate Park) 415.668.1000 stmarysmedicalcenter.org