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Walk for Life fills streets ahead of Women’s March Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Despite the last-minute scheduling of a large Women’s March less than two hours after the 13th annual Walk for Life West Coast, tens of thousands of pro-life supporters filled Civic Center Plaza and walked the 1.7 miles from City Hall to Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco Jan. 21.

“There so many people, it was crazy,” said Walk co-chair Eva Muntean who had worked closely with police and held conversations with the organizers of the Women’s March to ensure a smooth transition between the two events.

“The police were out in full force and did a great job throughout the day,” said Muntean. Despite days of rain, including heavy rain and wind in the morning, the rain held off until the Walk’s conclusion. “I thought the weather and the Women’s March might have reduced turnout, but that was not the case,” said Muntean.

About 50 pro-abortion protestors gathered on the sidewalk of Market Street adjacent to where a group of anti-abortion protestors unaffiliated with the Walk had set up a Jumbo Tron with graphic images of aborted babies. A wall of balloons from the Walk organizers attempted to block the images from those passing the spot about midway along the Market Street route. A line of police on motorcycles and on foot formed a barrier between the Jumbo Tron organizers, the pro-

(Photos by Jose Aguirre/Walk for Life West Coast).

Most of the 1.7-mile walk along Market Street was filled with people 10 to 15 across for the 13th annual Walk for Life West Coast. The event began at Civic Center, where a family posed for a photo. Bottom right, a little girl gets a chance to help with pro-life chants as a group holding the ubiquitous “We are the pro-life generation” signs walked on Market Street.

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Hundreds turn out to support immigrants on inauguration week Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Two nights before the inauguration of a president that made the swift deportation of undocumented immigrants a campaign promise, hundreds of people met at the St. Raphael School gym in San Rafael on Jan. 18 to pray and prepare together for an uncertain future.

The bilingual public forum was coordinated by the Marin Organizing Committee, a nonpartisan community organization made up of churches, synagogues and nonprofit organizations in Marin County that take collective action on issues of the common good. St. Raphael and St. Anselm parishes are two of MOC’s 16 members.

The gathering was a mix of mostly Hispanic families, many toting sleeping babies and toddlers, members of Marin faith communities, public officials and other concerned citizens who helped prompt the organization of the event.

(Photo by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

Interpreters and electronic translation devices helped some Marin County immigrant families share their struggles and fears of deportation as they spoke in groups during a public forum on Jan. 18 in San Rafael hosted by the Marin Organizing Committee.

Over the course of the 90-minute agenda MOC members and guests shared spiritual reflections, personal stories and practical information with immigrant families in Marin. The latest U.S. Census Bureau figures report that 30 percent of the population of San Rafael, the most populous city in Marin County, is Hispanic.

Deacon Bernie O’Halloran of St. Anselm Parish led the assembly in a prayer for solidarity. “Let us be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, to listen deeply to the stories here tonight and to collaborate with one another and our elected public officials as we go forth.”

MOC co-chairman Rev. Scott Quinn of the Marin Interfaith Council addressed the fear etched into the faces of the crowd.

“We don’t know what the new president will do, but we do know that immigrant families in Marin face many see marin forum, page 3

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Need to know OAKLAND SCHOOLS TO CLOSE: In a statement Jan. 19, Oakland Bishop Michael Barber, SJ, announced “a new vision for Catholic elementary education” in the diocese that will close five K-8 schools and establish “an independent network” from seven existing elementary schools. Attempts to “increase enrollment and reduce diocesan subsidies” at the closing schools have failed, Bishop Barber said.

CONSECRATED LIFE MASS: The annual Mass celebrating men and women religious in the archdiocese will be held Feb. 5 at 11 a.m. St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, with Bishop William J. Justice as principal celebrant. A reception follows in the cathedral’s downstairs halls.

(Photos by Jose Aguirre/Walk for Life West Coast)

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and True Sunshine Episcopal Church rector Rev. Franco C.H. Kwan bow their heads in prayer during the invocation. The Anglican church has been in San Francisco’s Chinatown for more than 100 years. Right, a family along Market Street.

WALK: Pro-life march draws tens of thousands

Diaconate formation: Men interested in discerning a call to the diaconate are invited to attend a presentation at St. Mary’s Cathedral from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2.

The presentation will outline the fiveyear formation program for ordination to the diaconate and the application process. See Page 8 for more information.

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abortion demonstrators and the Walk for Life participants.

The Walk for Life West Coast, founded in 2005, is a non-partisan event held on the Saturday closest to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. This year President Donald Trump’s inauguration sparked a hastily organized nationwide series of Women’s Marches the same day, with San Francisco’s march at 3 p.m., shortly after the Walk rally concluded.

Walk speaker Rev. Clenard Childress has been addressing San Francisco Walk for Life crowds since 2005, and the founder of Black Genocide said he is hopeful for the future. Looking out at a crowd holding signs that declared “We are the pro-life generation” and “Women deserve better than abortion,” the New Jersey Baptist pastor said, “Your light must shine now.”

“This is your time. This is your season,” Childress said.

Childress referred tacitly to Trump’s pledge to appoint pro-life Supreme Court justices, defund Planned Parenthood and block foreign aid to

Taxi blessing: Taxi drivers in San Francisco have been having a tough go of it in the era of Uber and Lyft and Franciscan Father Franklin Fong, pastor of St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin District, is extending an opportunity for a formal blessing.

On Saturday, Feb. 4, from 2-4 p.m., cabbies are invited to arrive at the church at 135 Golden Gate Ave. where Father Fong will offer a short interfaith blessing. The Secular Franciscans of San Francisco will offer participants a small memento, and the St. Vincent de Paul Society will supply sandwiches and snacks.

Chinese New Year: The Catholic Chinese Ministry is inviting all to join Chinese Catholics in celebrating Chinese New Year with a special Mass and banquet Feb. 4. Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Ignatius Wang will celebrate the 2:30 p.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral and the Chinese ministry is hosting a banquet in the cathedral lower hall at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets to the banquet are $50 a person. Catholics and non-Catholics are welcome. Call (415) 6145575 or email zhaip@sfarch.org.

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Two days later, on Jan. 23 Trump made good on his pledge by signing an executive order barring U.S. foreign aid to non-governmental organizations which provide or promote abortion. (See Page 9).

“It is a season where God is moving on behalf of those who have labored for so long,” Childress said. Childress urged prayers for Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington, D.C. The Women’s March in San Francisco took the same route as the Walk for Life but started at 3 p.m. It also drew tens of thousands of supporters, many carrying coat-hanger signs signaling support for abortion. In San Francisco, organizers said they welcomed pro-life supporters but the national Women’s March in Washington expelled a pro-life group and the Women’s Marches were heavily promoted and supported by Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and other abortion rights groups.

Speakers at the Walk for Life were a cross section of pro-life advocates.

Reggie Littlejohn, founder of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers highlighted the abuse of women by China’s forced

Archbishop Cordileone’s schedule Jan.28: Mass for Discernment Weekend, St. Patrick’s Seminary Jan. 29: Parish visit at Our Lady of Fatima Jan. 30: Presbyteral Council executive

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abortion policy where as many as 23 million abortions a year are performed. Littlejohn introduced the two girls, Anni and Ruli, she and her husband are raising in the U.S. because of persecution in China due to the activism of their father Zhang Lin who was just recently released from prison.

Melissa Ohden who survived a saline abortion spoke of her journey and urged Christian love toward women who abort, those who promote abortion, and those in the abortion industry. Pam Tebow, mother of Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow, spoke of carrying her son to term despite doctors’ advice she abort.

The Walk opened with an invocation

by Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and a message of support from the papal nuncio conveying Pope Francis’ support was read by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

Archbishop Cordileone presented the Walk’s St. Gianna Molla Award to Dr. George Delgado of Culture of Life Family Services in San Diego for his pioneering work on a procedure to reverse the abortion pill.

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MARIN FORUM: Hundreds support immigrants on inauguration week FROM PAGE 1

challenges every single day,” said Quinn. “If you want to support immigrants but don’t know how to do so, start tonight by listening.”

Cristina Garcia, a local parent, said the fear and stress in the immigrant community is real, “but not new.”

“We don’t know exactly what the president will do about us, but our community has housing problems too,” said Garcia.

Immigrant families are already stressed to the point of breaking, she said, trying to live in a county where more than 50 percent of their income goes toward rent, and where rent increases and evictions are arbitrary and unpredictable.

Many parents work two or three jobs to make the rent in apartment units with nonfunctioning water, heat or cooking appliances, she said, and immigrants often don’t know their rights.

“I started thinking, what would be more difficult, having no home or to be deported,” she said.

The meeting was in parts, a disaster preparedness session. Rev. Janet Reynolds, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of San Rafael, introduced San Rafael Police Chief Diana Bishop in an effort to assuage fears and increase trust between officers and immigrants in the community.

“Our immigrant neighbors have real fears of police enforcement, so tonight we are taking real steps to reduce those fears,” said Reynolds, who asked Bishop to answer questions on the minds of many in the room: how to avoid arrest.

An MOC Immigration Update handout available in Spanish offered detailed suggestions for what to do and how to act if law enforcement stops you. It

Parish offers sanctuary for undocumented

St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco released a statement on Jan. 18 offering explicit support to undocumented immigrants.

“In discerning the signs of the times, we are unable to remain silent and believe that as a community, we need to continue to learn how to love our neighbors more fully by declaring our community a sanctuary space for those targeted by hate,” was in part the message signed by Jesuit Father Ray Allender, pastor, and Natalie Terry, director of the Ignatian Spiritual Life Center.

The community has pledged to join the developing San Francisco Rapid Response Network in order to be present during any U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids in homes and workplaces, to create a parish accompaniment team to assist families affected by raids and to offer their space as a safe meeting place or refuge for families as well as lawyers and other community support organizations.

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Eduardo Vasquez, left, a parishioner of St. Raphael Catholic Church and School, sits with a local family during small group discussions that helped identify core issues for immigrant families.

Rev. Thomas Gable of Marin Lutheran Church in Corte Madera, left, listens to a man who attended a public forum in support of immigrants on Jan. 18 in San Rafael.

included six bullet points under the heading: Know Your Rights.

Bishop assured the audience that “we are local law enforcement, not federal immigration.”

She said it was important to carry good identification, a driver’s license or a consular card with a picture. “We just want to know who we are talking with,” she said. “Give the officers what they need and let them do their job.”

Bishop agreed to the MOC’s request to a series of

meetings between the police and immigrant families in coming months.

The MOC co-chair linked the housing crisis to the fears in the immigrant community.

“If we make renting in Marin County more stable, families will have less stress. Families with less stress will have fewer interactions with law enforcement,” said Quinn. “2017 will be unpredictable,” he said. “Now is the time to find leaders, train them and build relationships with other institutions.”

(Photos by Christina Gray/Catholic San Francisco)

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New among us chancery grunts and appropriately welcomed is communication manager, J.A. Gray. John calls himself “the third member of a three-person team” in the Office of Communications that includes Mike Brown, director, and assistant director Jan Potts. John said he has “worked a lot within the Catholic community, particularly in education, but never John Gray before been a diocesan employee.”

He especially appreciates “having Mass available every day at noon” in the chancery chapel. John’s communications experience includes being “an editor at monthly magazines, the New Oxford Review in Berkeley and First Things in New York” He has also been “editor of school magazines at St. Mary’s College of California and De La Salle High School” in Concord. He is a former director of communications at the Christian Brothers’ provincial headquarters in Napa.

Among John’s duties in the office is hosting “Mosaic,” a 30-minute public service program airing on KPIX Channel 5 and broadcast in what some may call the wee hours of Sunday morning, now 5 a.m.

Being asked to host “Mosaic” was a bit of a surprise to John, who admits his television experience at the time added up to “none whatsoever.” He calls himself “a guy who sits at a keyboard and makes words appear on the screen, not a guy who appears on any screens himself.”

John has brought his magazine skills to the table with “Mosaic” saying he’s “always enjoyed interviewing people, drawing them out and finding a story that is important to them and that can touch and instruct.”

Busy sharpening his on-camera skills he spoke of the challenges of the taping experience. “Segments are about seven minutes each, and when the guest is deep into a subject, and the stage manager behind the camera is signaling ‘one minute left,’ I’m thinking, ‘How do I wind this up and get us into the commercial break?’” John said. “We tape it live without retakes.”

“Mosaic” is taped at KPIX on the last Wednesday of the month and airs on the first Sunday of the next month. The archdiocese produces some dozen of the shows per year with the rest filled in by production teams from other Bay Area faith groups.

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SAINTLY SCRIBE: Congratulations to St. Stephen School eighth grader Erin Scheg winner of the $500 first prize in the 2016 St. Thomas More Society eighth grade essay contest. “The contest challenges our parochial students to apply lessons from their Christian formation to timely topics,” Katherine Moser, school development director, told me in a note to this column. The topic of the essay included how politicians today can benefit from the life of St. Thomas More. Erin, pictured here with Dominican Sister Christine Ostrowski of the St. Stephen faculty, was honored at a St. Thomas More Society luncheon Dec. 15. Erin’s parents are Katie and Jim Scheg.

“Mosaic” will continue long term with the archdiocese of itself and as part of the communications mosaic currently under design, according to John. “We plan to continue it, with very interesting guests, to show the richness and depth of local Catholic life,” John said. “It fits with our expanding digital media plan. It serves our mission of evangelization and outreach.”

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Though snubbed by Women’s March, pro-life groups still participate Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – After being removed from a list of partner organizations for the Women’s March on Washington, members of a pro-life group based in Texas decided they still would take to the streets Jan. 21 to take part in the historic and massive event. And they said it was a good decision.

“Overall, it was an amazing experience,” said Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, of New Wave Feminists, one of the groups removed as a march sponsor.

“We were prepared for confrontation and instead were supported by so many women,” Herndon-De La Rosa told Catholic News Service.

The group posted photos on their Facebook and Instagram accounts of their participation, holding signs that read, “I’m a pro-life feminist.” see women’s march, page 18

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Left, participants in the Women’s March on Washington make their way down Independence Avenue Jan. 21. Right, a woman at the Washington march walks past a man wearing a garment with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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Trump presidency receives words of hope, prayers for civility Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – Words of congratulations as well as caution emerged from political and religious leaders as President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated Jan. 20.

Pope Francis sent best wishes and prayers to incoming President Trump shortly after he took the oath of office.

“I offer you my cordial good wishes and the assurance of my prayers that almighty God will grant you wisdom and strength in the exercise of your high office,” the pope’s message said.

Saying that the human family faces “grave humanitarian crises” that demand “farsighted and united political responses,” the pope said he would pray that Trump’s decisions “will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation’s commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.”

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais published Jan. 21, the pope said he wasn’t worried about some statements Trump made before the

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election. “I’m waiting. God waited so long for me, with all my sins,” he said.

“Being afraid or rejoicing beforehand because of something that might happen is, in my view, quite reckless,” the pope said. “We will see. We will see what he does and then we will judge – always on the concrete. Christianity either is concrete or it is not Christianity.

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and immigrant rights groups urged Trump to protect 740,000 people who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. In a Jan. 18 letter to the new president, national, state and local organizations said that DACA had become one of the country’s “most successful immigration policy initiatives ... fostering economic growth and strengthening national security.”

The letter asked Trump to continue DACA despite his promises to immediately end President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

Obama introduced DACA in 2012 as an initiative to provide work permits and relief from deportation to young adults and children who arrived in the U.S. before their 16th birthday. Applicants must undergo background checks, pay a fee and meet certain educational requirements to qualify under DACA. The letter also cited bipartisan support for the Bar Removal of Individuals who Dream and Grow our Economy measure, or BRIDGE Act, which was introduced near the end of the last Congress in December by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina. The bill would allow the young immigrants under DACA to stay in the country for three more years.

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Inauguration: Trump presidency receives prayers for civility The presidents of organizations representing women religious and superiors of congregations of men religious offered to support Trump’s presidency and urged him to join them in promoting the common good.

Sister Mary Pellegrino, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, and Atonement Father Brian F. Terry, president of the Conference of Major Superiors or Men, reminded the incoming president of the gift and responsibility of leadership.

They expressed concern about the “fractures and divisions” that “continue to threaten the well-being and freedom of all Americans and those who have fled in fear to our shores and borders,” writing that America’s diversity has been the country’s strength.

“In order to be ‘one nation under God,’ we believe we are all called to live as true ambassadors of reconcili-

ation, in all places and all times,” the leaders said. “We believe we need a president who transcends party politics and personal agendas in order to heal deep divisions that threaten the stability of our nation. We strongly believe that we all need to be dedicated to respectful and dignified civil discourse with those whose positions are different from our own.”

The letter concluded by inviting Trump to join them in “constant prayer that God might act in our hearts and through our actions as leaders.”

Prior to the inauguration, other faith leaders joined an ecumenical People’s Prayer Service at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington. Participants prayed for justice for marginalized communities throughout the country.

The event offered a “a vision for America that is inclusive and welcoming of all,” said United Church of Christ Bishop Dwayne Royster, political director of People Improving Communities through Organizing,

PICO, National Network, an association of faith-based organizing groups.

Bishop Royster said in a statement announcing the service that people of faith are called “to advocate for the marginalized while serving as a moral compass for the country.” He cited the need to “preserve the Affordable Care Act ... (and) to provide sanctuary to vulnerable communities and resisting inhumane policies” in announcing the service.

The Washington-based organization In Defense of Christians congratulated Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on their inauguration and urged the new administration to make the plight of Christians in the Middle East a policy priority.

The organization said Christian communities in Iraq and Syria particularly are in need of assistance to rebuild their homelands after suffering

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New diaconate formation class to begin

n September we will welcome a new class of aspirants to the permanent diaconate for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Men who are interested in discerning a call to the diaconate are invited to attend a presentation at St. Mary’s Cathedral from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2.

During the presentation we will outline the five-year formation program for ordination to the diaconate and the application process for admission to the program.

At the ordination of a deacon the archbishop places the Book of the Gospels father michael in the hands of the newly sweeney, op ordained and says, “Receive the Gospel of Christ, whose herald you now are. Believe what you read, teach what you believe, and practice what you teach.” Deacons are chosen from among the People of God to be “heralds of the Gospel,” to make the Gospel present in the community through a threefold ministry of service: service of the Gospel, service of the altar, and service of charity.

When he serves at Mass, the deacon prepares

the altar for the eucharistic sacrifice. The whole sacramental ministry of the deacon might seem to be one of preparation: He prepares the People of God to receive their Risen Lord through his preaching and teaching; he baptizes and prepares men and women for baptism and the baptism of their children, whereby they enter into the life of Christ in his church; he witnesses marriage and prepares men and women to receive their Lord as one in a communion of love; he consoles the dying and their families and presides at vigils and interments, helping to prepare the People of God to meet their Lord in death.

In his service to the church the deacon is a sacramental sign of the presence of our Lord in the community, accompanying his people as one who came “to serve and not to be served.” In his service of charity the deacon is one who manifests a concrete and practical solicitude and love for others, visiting the sick and prisoners, assisting those who are in need, comforting those who are alone, advocating for victims of injustice, while always referring them beyond himself to the One who has sent him.

By his ordination the deacon is ordered to a life in which he is conformed to Christ’s urgent love for his “little ones” whereby none should ever be lost.

The first sign of a call to the diaconate is therefore

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Trump executive order reinstates ‘Mexico City Policy’ on abortion Mark Pattison Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order Jan. 23 reinstating the “Mexico City Policy,” which bans all foreign nongovernmental organizations receiving U.S. funds from performing or promoting abortion as a method of family planning in other countries.

The action was hailed by pro-life leaders.

“President Trump is continuing Ronald Reagan’s legacy by taking immediate action on day one to stop the promotion of abortion through our tax dollars overseas.” said a Jan. 23 statement from Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.

“President Trump’s immediate action to promote respect for all human life, including vulnerable unborn children abroad, as well as conscience rights, sends a strong signal about his administration’s pro-life priorities,” she said.

“By redirecting taxpayer dollars away from the international abortion industry, President Trump has reinstituted life-affirming protections for unborn children and their

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump holds up his executive order reinstating the “Mexico City Policy” banning federal funding of abortionproviding groups abroad after he signed it Jan. 23 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

mothers,” said a Jan. 23 statement

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“Now we see pro-life fruits of the election unfolding as President Trump has taken immediate action to reinstitute President Reagan’s Mexico City Policy,” said Father Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life, in a Jan. 23 statement. “Poll after poll shows that Americans do not want their tax money to pay for abortions.

Stopping funding to foreign pro-abortion groups is a powerful first step toward doing the same domestically.”

Named for the city that hosted the U.N. International Conference on Population in 1984 – where Reagan, then in his first term as president, unveiled it – the Mexico City Policy has been the textbook definition of a political football. Adopted by a Republican president, it has been rescinded when Democrats sat in the White House, only to be restored when Republicans claimed the presidency.

In 1993, President Bill Clinton’s revocation of the policy was made so quickly following his inauguration that some participants in the March for Life, conducted two days after the inauguration, carried “Impeach Clinton” signs.

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Court challenges to the policy resulted in rulings in 1987 and 1988 that limited its application to foreign NGOs. The executive order “makes clear that Trump intends to carry out with his promised pro-life agenda. Taxpayer funding for abortions, whether here or overseas, is unpopular with voters and is plain wrong,” said a Jan. 23 statement by Ashley McGuire, a senior fellow with the Catholic Association.

“It amounts to subsidizing the violent victimization of women and children, in particular poor and minority women who feel they have no choice but to have an abortion,” McGuire said. “Redirecting those funds to health centers that offer women real choice and hope is the right policy moving forward.”

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Archbishop Gomez emphasizes dignity of immigrants

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The appointment was announced LOS ANGELES – On the eve of Jan. 10 in WashingDonald Trump’s inauguration as ton by Archbishop U.S. president, Los Angeles ArchChristophe Pierre, bishop Jose H. Gomez renewed the apostolic nuncio to call to recognize the humanity of the United States. immigrants at a Vatican-sponsored At a news confermigration conference at the Univerence at diocesan sity of California in Los Angeles. offices where he was “People do not cease to be human – introduced, Bishop they do not cease to be our brothers Solis said the visit and sisters – just because they have Bishop Solis was only his second an irregular immigration status,” in Utah, but he pledged to quickly the archbishop said in a keynote adlearn about the Catholic community dress closing the “Workshop on Huof 300,000 people. manitarianism and Mass Migration” Bishop Solis’ installation is March Jan. 19. “They are children of God 7 at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in and they are brothers and sisters.

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Bishop Solis earlier told the AngeThe Jan. 18-19 conference – sponlus News, the archdiocesan multimesored by the Pontifical Academy of dia platform, that his appointment is Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of “a recognition of the diversity of the Social Sciences, the Ross Institute of church in America and the univerNew York, and the Graduate School sality of the church.” He added, “I of Education and Information Studknow what it means to be a pastor, a ies at UCLA – brought together shepherd of a particular diocese. It is leading scientists, policymakers and a tremendous blessing and a responphilanthropists. sibility and a privilege to be of ser“Tonight – in this city and in imvice to the local church in the United migrant neighborhoods all across States of America, coming from the this country – there is a lot of fear, P a lot U of uncertainty B L I and C a lot Aof anT I Philippines.”

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At the same time, he said, any replacement measure also must safeguard human life from conception to natural death, protect conscience rights and provide adequate health care for immigrants, the poor and others on society’s margins.

Bishop Dewane made the comments in a letter sent to members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. bishops “supported the general goal of the law to expand medical coverage for many poor and vulnerable people,” but they “ultimately opposed the Affordable Care Act because it expanded the role of the federal government in finding and facilitating abortion and plans that cover abortion,” Bishop Dewane wrote.

“It also failed to provide essential conscience protections and access to health care for immigrants,” he added.

US abortion rate at its lowest since 1973 Supreme Court ruling

WASHINGTON – The U.S. abortion rate is down to its lowest level since the Supreme Court made abortion legal virtually on demand in 1973, and the rate is half of its early-1980s peak.

According to a study issued Jan. 17 by the Guttmacher Institute, the abortion rate for U.S. women ages 15-44 is 14.6 per 1,000 in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available. The figure represents a 14 percent decline from the 2011 numbers, and less than half of the 1981 rate of 29.4 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age.

The percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion is down to 18.8 percent, a decline of nearly two-fifths below is 1983 peak of 30.3 percent.

A statement by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports legal abortion, said the study “did not directly investigate reasons behind the declining abortion rate,” but suggested “the wave of abortion restrictions passed at the state level over the last five years” could have contributed at least in part to the decline.

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WASHINGTON – A former director of development for Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests has charged in a wrongful termination lawsuit that SNAP is more interested in fundraising and taking kickbacks from lawyers suing the Catholic Church than in helping survivors.

Gretchen Rachel Hammond, in her suit filed Jan. 17 in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, further accuses SNAP of being “a commercial organization” and “premised upon farming out abuse survivors as clients for attorneys, who then file lawsuits on behalf of the survivors and collect settlement checks from the Catholic Church.”

Hammond worked for SNAP from July 2011 to February 2013, and is now a journalist for the Windy City Times.

She claims she was fired in retaliation for a series of discoveries she made about the way settlements were being handled, and that the stress caused by SNAP’s treatment of her sent her to the hospital four times and resulted in a series of health problems.

She also asserts that SNAP “is motivated by its directors’ and officers’ personal and ideological animus against the Catholic Church.” In 2011, SNAP helped publicize the attempt in Europe to bring charges against Pope Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court.

“The allegations are not true,” SNAP president Barbara Blaine said in a statement sent to Catholic News Service as well as other news organizations. “This will be proven in court.

SNAP leaders are now, and always have been, devoted to following the SNAP mission: To help victims heal and to prevent further sexual abuse.”

SNAP, founded in 1989 and based in Chicago, is considered the largest and best-known advocacy organization for survivors of clerical abuse.

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Church must accompany couples before, after marriage, pope says

VATICAN CITY – To ensure engaged couples are entering into a fully Catholic marriage and remain committed to their vows for life, they must be prepared properly beforehand and supported afterward, Pope Francis said.

Addressing members of the Roman Rota, a tribunal handling mostly marriage cases, the pope said the church cannot ignore that there is a “widespread mentality” that is convinced eternal truths do not exist and, therefore, that many young people approaching the church for marriage do not understand what the sacrament is and that it is for life.

“Such a context, lacking religious values and faith, cannot help but condition matrimonial consent,” one of the essential conditions for a Catholic marriage to be valid, the pope told the Rota members Jan. 21.

The response of the Catholic Church, he said, must be to provide serious preparation for engaged couples and support that would help newlyweds mature in their vocation.

“The objective of this preparation consists in helping engaged couples to know and live the reality of the marriage they intend to celebrate so that they may do so not only validly and lawfully, but also fruitfully,” he said.

Citing Pope Benedict XVI’s last address to the Roman Rota – in which he highlighted the relationship between love and truth – the pope said some seeking marriage participate actively in the church while others “are guided by a more generic religious sentiment.”

Educating young people so they rediscover marriage and family life according to God’s plan, he said, is a first “remedy” to situations where sufficient preparation is lacking.

“In this spirit, I would like to reiterate the need of a ‘new catechumenate’ for marriage preparation,” he said.

Pope: Conversion means changing your way of thinking, not just living

VATICAN CITY – True conversion means Christians must not only change their way of living, but also transform their way of thinking in order to respond to Christ’s call to proclaim the Gospel, Pope Francis said.

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“It is a transformation of thought. It is not about changing garments but habits!” the pope said Jan. 22 during his Angelus address.

The pope reflected on the Sunday Gospel reading (Mt. 4, 12-23), which describes Jesus beginning his ministry in Galilee, a place that was a not only a geographic “periphery,” but also considered religiously impure because it was “full of pagans.”

“Great things for the history of salvation were certainly not expected from Galilee,” the pope said.

Yet, “the light of Christ is spread precisely from the periphery.”

Jesus’ “style and method” was going out to encounter people rather than waiting for them to come to him, the pope said. Like his call to the fishermen to follow him, Jesus calls each person not in “an extraordinary or sensational way but in our everyday lives. And there – in this dialogue with him in our everyday lives – our heart changes.”

Vatican opens doors wider with mobile-friendly website

VATICAN CITY – In an effort to share its masterpieces with even more people around the world, the Vatican Museums has established a YouTube channel and revamped its website to offer high-resolution images and mobile-friendly information.

The “Musei Vaticani” YouTube channel lists short visual “tours” of some of its collections along with a handful of promotional videos highlighting specially tailored tours and services offered on-site, including signing guides for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Its website, museivaticani.va, has been completely revamped to be compatible with all platforms and devices in order to extend its reach to even “remote corners of the earth,” said Barbara Jatta, the museums’ new director, at a Vatican news conference Jan. 23.

The site, offered in five languages, features a

sleeker design, simpler texts and faster navigation, Jatta said. Links to pages can also be shared via Twitter, Facebook or email.

The website provides information about booking visits and purchasing tickets to the museums, the Vatican Gardens, the “Via Triumphalis” necropolis under the Vatican hill and the pontifical villas at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.

For now, the site showcases a little more than 3,000 high-resolution photographs of masterpieces in its collections. The “ideal” plan, Jatta said, is to complete within one year the addition of photographs of all 20,000 objects currently on public display and then begin working on adding images of all art objects in storage, for a total of more than 200,000 works of art.

Small acts of kindness work wonders in euthanasia battle, clergy told

OTTAWA, Ontario – Helping someone contemplating death through euthanasia can be a simple as saying “hello.”

It’s the little things that can make a difference, Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes told an audience of clergy at a Jan. 17 information session, where they also discussed abortion.

“Stop to say hello,” to the elderly, Hughes said. “Give them your time, your ear, and try to listen.”

Small acts of kindness, he said, like visiting the sick in nursing homes, taking a shut-in to a ballgame, making a phone call or sending a card to a lonely elderly person, can help prevent euthanasia.

Hughes told the luncheon gathering that volunteering to become a power of attorney for medical care, taking time to greet the “chorus of people” who congregate near the elevators or the front door at nursing homes, “are just little things that can make a tremendous difference,” Hughes said.

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Sunday readings

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ZEPHANIAH 2:3; 3:12-13 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger. But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord: the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; they shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.

PSALM 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The Lord keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free.

Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises up those who were bowed down. The Lord loves the just; the Lord protects strangers.

Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The fatherless and the widow the Lord sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.

Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

1 CORINTHIANS 1:26-31 Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters.

Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God. It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so

Jesus shows the way

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hat is morality? Why does God give us commandments? Why should I care about doing good and avoiding evil? Why should I care about right and wrong? Why does it matter what I do or how I act?

In our Gospel this Sunday, we have the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7): “Whoever will take the trouble to examine with a pious and sober spirit, will find in this sermon a perfect code of the Christian life as far as relates to the conduct of daily life,” St. Augustine tells us. The Sermon on the Mount is Jesus’ morality, His teaching on how we are to live. In these three chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel, we have the basic Father Joseph plan of Christian living.

Previtali How does Jesus begin in His moral teaching?

“Blessed…” This word “blessed” means “happy,” “fulfilled,” “flourishing.”

Thus the Sermon on the Mount begins with what we call the “Beatitudes,” these teachings of Jesus Christ that promise blessedness – happiness, fulfillment, perfect joy, perfect flourishing – to those who live in accord with His Law. In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is the New Moses, ascending to the top of a mountain – where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God – to legislate the precepts of the New Law in the Holy Spirit. Jesus here is connecting the Commandments with our happiness: He invites us to blessedness. “The chief good is the only motive of philosophical enquiry; but whatever confers blessedness, that is the chief good; therefore He begins, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit,’” St. Augustine explains.

The New Moses wants us to be happy. This is His starting point in teaching us the morality of the New Law. Jesus wants us to find blessedness, to

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flourish, to find peace and joy and the fulfillment of all our desires. This is what He promises to those who live in accord with His teachings. His happiness that He gives is the perfect happiness of the Vision of God in Heaven. This Vision is “Beatific.”

It makes us blessed, happy, fulfilled. To live for this perfect happiness brings us a kind of imperfect happiness already here on Earth. Do I trust that Jesus wants to make me happy and that He has the power to make me happy? Do I trust that Jesus knows what is best for me?

This is where so many of us go wrong. We don’t understand that morality is about happiness. We see the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Church as a simple list of “do’s” and “don’ts” (usually “don’ts”!), imposed upon us arbitrarily from without, having no real connection to our interior desire for happiness and fulfillment. We see the commandments of God as limitations on our freedom, as limits that God puts into place to keep us from enjoying life too much or having too much fun.

This dreary view of morality is not Christian. It does not presuppose a loving God, Who teaches us His Law in order to lead us to happiness. It does not have faith in God’s Goodness and trust in His Mercy. It is a deeply cynical and despairing view of morality, which ultimately leads to resentment and sin.

The Catholic Church is the Bride and Body of Jesus Christ. She is the faithful repository of all grace and truth. The teaching of the Catholic Church on morality, then, is the teaching of Jesus Christ. He guides His Church through His Holy Spirit, by which He lives in the Church always until the consummation of the world. Therefore, the moral teaching of the Catholic Church is also for our happiness. It is not an arbitrary limit on human freedom imposed from without. The teaching of the Church is a merciful GPS from Jesus Christ, as He guides us through the treacherous journey of human life to perfect happiness in Heaven. Do I trust Jesus?

Father Previtali is administrator of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.

Pope: Prayer brings light of hope in dark times Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Prayer has the power to awaken hope in men and women, even in the face of death and destruction, Pope Francis said.

People often feel unworthy to turn to God when they are in need “as if it were a self-interested prayer and, thus, imperfect,” the pope said Jan. 18 during his weekly general audience.

“But God knows our weakness; he knows that we

remember him to ask for help and, with the indulgent smile of a father, he responds graciously,” he said.

Greeting thousands of people in the Paul VI audience hall, the pope seemed to lose his balance several times as pilgrims clasped his hand and tried pulling him toward them, hoping for a hug or a blessing.

Still, the pope took time to greet people, stopping to bless a pregnant woman’s belly and embracing a see pope, page 19

that, as it is written, “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.”

MATTHEW 5:1-12A When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, January 30: Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 11:3240. Ps 31:20, 21, 22, 23, 24. Lk 7:16. Mk 5:1-20.

Tuesday, January 31: Memorial of St. John Bosco, priest. Heb 12:1-4. Ps 22:26b27, 28 and 30, 31-32. Mt 8:17. Mk 5:21-43.

Wednesday, February 1: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Feast of St. Brigid, Virgin (Ireland). Heb 12:4-7, 11-15. Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a. Jn 10:27.

Mk 6:1-6.

Thursday, February 2: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Mal 3:1-4. Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10. Heb 2:14-18. Lk 2:32. Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22-32.

Friday, February 3: Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; St. Ansgar, bishop. Heb 13:1-8. Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9abc.

Lk 8:15. Mk 6:14-29.

Saturday, February 4: Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 13:1517, 20-21. Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Jn 10:27.

Mk 6:30-34.

Sunday, February 5: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 58:7-10. Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. 1 Cor 2:1-5. Jn 8:12. Mt 5:13-16.

Monday, February 6: Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs. Gn 1:119. Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10 and 12, 24 and 35c.

Mt 4:23. Mk 6:53-56.

Tuesday, February 7: Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Jerome Emiliani, priest; St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin. Gn 1:20–2:4a. Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. Ps 119:36, 29b. Mk 7:1-13.

Wednesday, February 8: Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17. Ps 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30. SEE Jn 17:17b, 17a. Mk 7:14-23.

Thursday, February 9: Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Gn 2:18-25. Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. Jas 1:21bc. Mk 7:24-30.

Friday, February 10: Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin. Gn 3:1-8. Ps 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7. Acts 16:14b. Mk 7:31-37.

Saturday, February 11: Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. Gn 3:924. Ps 90:2, 3-4abc, 5-6, 12-13. Mt 4:4b.

Mk 8:1-10.

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Taking our wounds to the Eucharist

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ecently a man came to me, asking for help. He carried some deep wounds, not physical wounds, but emotional wounds to his soul. What surprised me initially was that, while he was deeply wounded, he had not been severely traumatized either in childhood or adulthood.

He seemed to FATHER ron have just had rolheiser to absorb the normal bumps and bruises that everyone has to absorb: some belittling, some bullying, never being the favorite, dissatisfaction with his own body, unfairness within his family and siblings, career frustration, unfairness in his workplace, the sense of being chronically ignored, the sense of never being understood and appreciated, and the self-pity and lack of self-confidence that results from this.

But he was a sensitive man and the combination of all these seemingly little things left him, now in late midlife, unable to be the gracious, happy elder he wanted to be. Instead, by his own admission, he was chronically caught up in a certain wounded self-absorption, namely, in a self-centered anxiety that brought with it the sense that life had not been fair to him. Consequently he was forever somewhat focused on self-protection and was resentful of those who could step forward openly in self-confidence and love. “I hate it,” he shared, “when I see persons like Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul speak so with such easy self-confidence about how big their hearts are. I always fill with resentment and think: ‘Lucky you!’ You haven’t had to put

up with what I’ve had to put up with in life!”

This man had been through some professional therapy that had helped bring him to a deeper self-understanding, but still left him paralyzed in terms of moving beyond his wounds. “What can I do with these wounds?” he asked.

My answer to him, as for all of us who are wounded, is: Take those wounds to the Eucharist. Every time you go to a Eucharist, stand by an altar, and receive Communion, bring your helplessness and paralysis to God, ask him to touch your body, your heart, your memory, your bitterness, your lack of selfconfidence, your self-absorption, your weaknesses, your impotence.

Bring your aching body and heart to God. Express your helplessness in simple, humble words: Touch me. Take my wounds. Take my paranoia. Make me whole. Give me forgiveness. Warm my heart. Give me the strength that I cannot give myself.

Pray this prayer, not just when you are receiving Communion and being physically touched by the body of Christ, but especially during the eucharistic prayer because it is there that we are not just being touched and healed by a person, Jesus, but we are also being touched and healed by a sacred event. This is the part of the Eucharist we generally do not understand, but it is the part of the Eucharist that celebrates transformation and healing from wound and sin. In the Eucharist prayer we commemorate the “sacrifice” of Jesus, that is, that event where, as Christian tradition so enigmatically puts it, Jesus was made sin for us. There is a lot in that cryptic phrase. In essence, in his suffering and death, Jesus took on our wounds, our weaknesses, our infidelities, and our sins, died in them, and then through love and trust brought them to wholeness.

Every time we go to Eucharist we are meant to let that transforming event touch us, touch our wounds, our weaknesses, our infidelities, our sin, and our emotional paralysis and bring us to a transformation in wholeness, energy, joy, and love.

The Eucharist is the ultimate healer. There is, I believe, a lot of value in various kinds of physical and emotional therapies, just as there is immeasurable value in 12-step programs and in simply honestly sharing our wounded selves with people we trust. There is too, I believe, value in a certain willful self-effort, in the challenge contained in Jesus’ admonition to a paralyzed man: Take up your couch and walk! We should not allow ourselves to be paralyzed by hyper-sensitivity and self-pity. God has given us skin to cover our rawest nerves.

But, with that being admitted, we still cannot heal ourselves. Therapy, self-understanding, loving friends, and disciplined self-effort can take us only so far, and it is not into full healing. Full healing comes from touching and being touched by the sacred. More particularly, as Christians, we believe that this touching involves a touching of the sacred at that place where it has most particularly touched our own wounds, helplessness, weaknesses, and sin, that place, where God “was made sin for us.” That place is the event of the death and rising of Jesus and that event is made available to us, to touch and enter into, in the eucharistic prayer and in receiving the body of Christ in Communion.

We need to bring our wounds to the Eucharist because it is there that the sacred love and energy that lie at the ground of all that breathes can cauterize and heal all that is not whole within us.

Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas; www.ronrolheiser.com.

March for Life The following editorial from the Jan. 10 issue of The Compass, newspaper of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was redistributed by Catholic News Service.

On Jan. 27, thousands of young Americans – including nearly 200 from the Diocese of Green Bay – will fill the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, holding signs and chanting slogans that proclaim a pro-life message. From the iconic monument they will begin a 2.1-mile procession along Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Supreme Court building in what is known as the March for Life.

Billed as the largest pro-life event in the world, the March for Life marks the Jan. 22, 1973, Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that legalized abortion.

The first march took place Jan. 22, 1974.

This year’s March for Life comes one week after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, whose election last November was made possible by Americans who oppose legalized abortion. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, campaigned for continued support of abortion rights and the 2016 Democratic platform even called for a repeal of the Hyde

Amendment, a legislative provision barring the use of certain federal funds to pay for most abortions.

Election observers have offered a variety of reasons why Trump defeated Clinton, but it is hard to deny that one issue, the right to life of unborn children, helped lead not only to Clinton’s defeat, but to the overall rout of Democrats in Congress. Over the next four years, as leaders of the Democratic National Committee do some soul-searching while trying to regroup for the 2020 presidential elections, they must reconsider their extreme stand on abortion rights and reopen their doors to pro-life Democrats.

All the DNC needs to do is review the facts.

While public opinion on abortion rights has held steady for two decades (about 56 percent of U.S. adults say it should remain legal, according to the Pew Research Center), 49 percent say abortion is morally wrong. In addition, the actual number of abortions in the U.S. has dropped significantly.

National Right to Life reported that abortions in the U.S. peaked at 1.6 million in 1990 and fell to around 1.06 million in 2011. A November 2015 report from the U.S. Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention showed a drop of 4.2 percent, or 31,000 fewer abortions, in 2012.

Finally, a 2009 Gallup poll found that 23 percent of young adults, 18 to 29, believe abortion should be “illegal in all circumstances,” a jump from 14 percent in the 1975. “This is a sharp change from the late 1970s, when seniors (65 and older) were substantially more likely than younger age groups to want abortion to be illegal,” stated the Gallup report, “Generational Differences on Abortion Narrow.”

The DNC’s hard line on abortion rights, which increasingly contradicts public opinion, forces candidates for political office to either fall in line with a position that they morally oppose or to switch political parties. This dilemma was the subject of a recent column titled “In order to compete nationally, Democrats must embrace pro-life candidates,” by author Stephen Markley in the online arts and lifestyle magazine Paste.

Markley, who is pro-abortion, concludes his column with a challenge.

“If the Democratic Party wants to be a big tent, it has to be big enough to see march for life, page 19

Letters Surviving communism as a Catholic in Cuba

As a Cuban Catholic, I was surprised not to read in Father Kenneth Weare’s article on the relations between the Catholic Church and the Cuban dictatorship (Dec. 15, 2016) about the ship “Covadonga,” where hundreds of “problematic” priests, nuns, monks, and religious on the island were shipped off to Europe (mostly to Spain) after being rounded up by the Communist military soon after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. I also did not read about the importation of non-Cuban, foreign priests to repopulate the parishes because these foreign priests could be more easily monitored, controlled, and did not express the indignation of the Cuban-born clergy. I also did not read in father’s article about the confiscation of all Catholic orphanages, hospitals, clinics, schools (including my own elementary school with the Salesian Brothers in Camaguey), universities, and other social institutions at the time of the clerical deportations.

I did not read in his article about the decades-long absolute prohibition against the repair or new construction of any Catholic buildings on the island. I also did not read about the abortion of future higher studies and professional careers of any young people who during the first 30 years of the Cuban Communist dictatorship declared openly that they would continue practicing their faith, in essence, the systematic annihilation of promising educational and professional futures because of a paranoid political tyranny and the hatred for the Catholic Church in the country.

I also did not read about the fresh hell that Communist neighbors would put one through with the full approval of the Communist block captain (yes, every block still has one who gets in all your business with impunity) whenever one was suspected of sympathizing or, worse yet, of practicing one’s Catholic faith. I also did not read in father’s article about my own first Communion and confirmation which in 1962 had to be held at night, in a practically darkened church, with the bishop entering through the back door of the temple, while angry Communist sympathizers marched up the street chanting and promising us a bloody death for being such Catholic “worms” (gusanos).

I did not read about my cousin’s and others’ homes being stoned by neighbors because they were known to attend Mass and were active in the church. I did not read about the execrable profanations that the Communists perpetrated inside the priest-less churches, without enough time to even hide or consume the consecrated hosts at the altar before the revolutionary military commandeered them and committed unspeakable atrocities against Christ.

If we want to speak of history, we must speak of the entire history, not just selected moments that suit an ideological narrative. One thing is visiting a country for an international congress; it is much different having to survive there.

Oscar Ramirez San Francisco The writer lived in Cuba from 1955 to 1966. He has a doctorate in Romance Linguistics and Literature from UCLA in 1984 and is the author of various collections of literary short stories on Cuba and its history, including “The Tower of Ojai and Other Cuban Tales” (Outskirts Press, 2015).

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Thinking through the temptation of cohabitation

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en and women clearly need each other and naturally gravitate toward arrangements of mutual support and lives of shared intimacy. Because women are frequently the immediate guardians of the next generation, they have a particular need to ascertain if there will be steady support from a man prior to giving themselves sexually to him. The bond of marriage is ordered toward securing this critical element of ongoing commitment and support. Cohabitation, where a man and woman decide to live together and engage in sexual relations without marriage, raises a host of issues and concerns.

Sex, of course, has a certain power all its own, and both sides may be tempted to father tadeusz play with it in ways that pacholczyk are potentially damaging, all the more so when they decide to cohabit.

One concern is that cohabitation can often become a rehearsal for various selfish patterns of behavior. It perpetuates an arrangement of convenience, popularly phrased as, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” Even as many women try to tell themselves they are “pre-

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Cohabitation, in fact, is a relationship that is defined by a holding back of commitment. paring” for marriage by cohabiting with their partner, they may sense the trap of the “never ending audition” to be his wife, and become intuitively aware of how they are being used.

Cohabitation also invites the woman to focus on lesser concerns like saving on rent or garnering transient emotional attention from her partner by moving in with him and becoming sexually available.

Even as a woman becomes attuned to the power of sex from an early age, she can eventually fall prey to an easy mistake. Aware that sexual intimacy is also about bonding, she may suppose that by surrendering this deeply personal part of herself through cohabitation, she now has a “hook” into a man and his heart. While such an arrangement can trigger various platitudes, (that he “cares for her,” “loves her,” etc.), experience shows it doesn’t typically help him reach the commitment reflected in those all-important words, “Will you marry me?”

Cohabitation, in fact, is a relationship that is defined by a holding back of commitment. The notion that it somehow allows both parties to “try out” a marriage beforehand is conveniently make-believe, a kind of “playing house,” mostly because it’s impossible to try out something

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permanent and irrevocable through something temporary and revocable. As Jennifer Roback Morse has described it, “Cohabiting couples are likely to have one foot out the door, throughout the relationship. The members of a cohabiting couple practice holding back on one another.

They rehearse not trusting.” They don’t develop the elements crucial to a successful marriage, but instead keep their options open so they can always beat a hasty retreat to the exit. Or as Chuck Colson has put it: “Cohabitation – it’s training for divorce.” Many studies confirm that the divorce rate among those who cohabit prior to marriage is nearly double the rate of those who marry without prior cohabitation.

Some researchers believe that individuals who cohabit are more unconventional to begin with, being less committed to the institution of marriage overall and more open to the possibility of divorce. Others suspect something more insidious – that living together slowly erodes people’s ability to make a commitment by setting them up into patterns of behavior that work against succeeding in a long-term relationship. Both may actually be true.

Various risks correlate strongly with cohabitation. Compared with a married woman, a cohabiting woman is roughly three times as likely to experience physical abuse, and about nine times more likely to be murdered. Children also tend to fare poorly when it comes to these livein arrangements. Rates of serious child abuse have been found to be lowest in intact families; six times higher in step families; 20 times higher in cohabiting biological-parent families; and 33 times higher when the mother is cohabiting with a boyfriend who is not the biological father.

Cohabiting homes see significantly more drug and alcohol abuse, and bring in less income than their married peers. Cohabitation is clearly bad for men, worse for women, and terrible for children.

“Marriage,” as Glenn Stanton notes, “is actually a very pro-woman institution. People don’t fully realize what a raw deal for women cohabitation is. Women tend to bring more goods to the relationship – more work, more effort in tending to the relationship – but they get less satisfaction in terms of relational commitment and security.”

While marriage doesn’t automatically solve every problem, it clearly offers a different and vastly better set of dynamics than cohabitation for all the parties involved.

Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves as the director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia; www.ncbcenter.org.

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Theology isn’t math; but it is theology

uring the heyday of the solidarity movement, a famous Polish slogan had it that, “For Poland to be Poland, 2 + 2 Must Always = 4.” It was a quirky but pointed way of challenging the communist culture of the lie, which befogged public life and warped relationships between parents and children, husbands and wives, colleagues and neighbors.

For Poland to be something other than the claustrophobic Soviet puppet-state it had been since 1945 – for Poland to be itself, true to its character and history George – Poland had to live in the Weigel truth: It had to be a country in which 2 + 2 always equaled 4.

That solidarity slogan harkened back to George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” In Orwell’s dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called “newspeak” and doublethink” to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false. Thus one of the more odious of the characters in the novel, a regime stooge whose job is to break the will of “thought criminals,” explains that if Big Brother and the omnipotent party say so, two plus two doesn’t necessarily equal four: “Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.”

Which brings us to a tweet earlier this month from Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, a prominent figure on the current Roman scene.

I don’t use Twitter, so its syntactical wonderland

is a bit foreign to me. And having had previous experience of Father Spadaro’s capacity for provocation-via-Twitter, I’m prepared to think that, in this case, he may have been trying to say something other than what he seemed to be saying. But as his tweet rang ominous bells for anyone familiar with Orwell or solidarity, it’s worth reflecting upon.

Here’s what Father Spadaro tweeted (in linear, rather than Twitter, format): “Theology is not mathematics. 2 + 2 in theology can make 5.

Because it has to do with God and real life of people.”

Now that was not, so to speak, a tweet in a vacuum. It was a message projected into an already overheated Catholic conversation about the proper interpretation of the apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia.” In that context, the charitable reading of the tweet is that Father Spadaro was reminding us of the obvious – that pastoral care is an art, and that the priest dealing with complicated and messy human situations is not like a first-grade teacher drilling 6-year olds in addition.

But then the question inevitably arises, what is the relationship of truth to pastoral care? And why suggest, even in Twitter-world, that there are multiple “truths” – a convention of the postmodern academic playpen that leads by a short road to the chaos of “your truth” and “my truth” and nothing properly describable as the truth?

As for theology, the word means speaking-ofGod, which in Christian terms speaking of the one who is truth – the truth who makes us free in the deepest meaning of human liberation. There are many ways of doing theology, and not all of them are strictly syllogistic; St. Ephrem the see weigel, page 16

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pend a day in a surgery waiting room and you’ll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy.

Strangers gather for a host of reasons with a common cause: To sit beneath the slowest clock and wait it out. They make calls, utter prayers and flip through magazines, and in their anxiety, they extend morsels of compassion: smiles and small talk, directions to the cafeteria and tips on its offerings. One person shown the way by someone slightly less new, flashes of humanity while loved ones down the hall are put under.

Christina The mercy at one MinneCappecchi apolis hospital, where I spent a recent Thursday as my husband’s elbow was reassembled, began with this text: “Surgery started.

Everything going well.” Five words to make you feel oriented and relieved, the optional last three abounding in kindness.

A 60-something couple across from me hunkered down for their daughter’s four-hour surgery, a double mastectomy. A toddler behind them sprawled across her grandpa, staring at the fish tank. A camouflage-clad college student wanted to know see capecchi, page 16

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Weigel: Theology isn’t math FROM PAGE 15

Syrian and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, doctors of the church, were not logicians. But if theology decays into illogical forms of newspeak, it is false to itself.

It was providential that Christianity had its first “inculturation” in a milieu – Greco-Roman antiquity – where the principle of non-contradiction was well-established and something couldn’t “be” and “not be” simultaneously. That cultural environment was where Christianity found the conceptual tools to turn confession and proclamation – “Jesus is Lord” – into catechesis and creed. Suppose the first “inculturation” had been in a setting

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where it made perfect sense to say “Jesus is Lord” and “Jesus is not Lord” at the same time – like the culture of India two millennia ago?

It made a great deal of difference that the first formative centuries of Christianity took place in a culture where 2 + 2 always equaled 4.

Applying the truths of the faith to the complexities of life is not a matter of logic alone. But if attempts to do so are illogical, in that they stretch truth to the breaking point, they’re unlikely to be pastorally effective. Because the soul needs truth to be free.

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

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where his dad would be recovering overnight. A collared 40-something paced and repeatedly checked on his wife’s status.

We were told we would be notified as soon as any information became available, but people could not wait.

The women behind the front desk responded with grace, promising to look into each query and let them know as soon as they learned more. Surgeons periodically popped in, shaking hands and sitting down to explain an outcome in the most simple and encouraging language they could.

As we settle into a new year already shadowed by political tensions, I’m focusing on the acts of kindness playing out in my midst. A neighbor shoveling for us late at night. Casseroles and cards. A well-oiled prayer chain.

I’m reveling in gratitude and trying to seize entry points for compassion.

A trip to the grocery store brings opportunities at every aisle: carts stuck together in the entrance, crowded corners, broken bags in parking lots.

It feels so good to help in the smallest of ways or pay a sincere compliment to a weary cashier.

I learned about mercy from an 85-year-old priest – a retired English professor who quotes Samuel Taylor Coleridge and hears confessions twice a week. He donates every month to a free-of-cost hospice founded by

Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne and explained to me his reasoning: “Spiritual and corporal works of mercy happen there. We can’t personally do much of that work, and so we have proxies.”

The same organization sends two nurses every month to his retirement home for priests to trim their toenails. “As I get older, my feet get farther and farther away from me,” he said. “That’s the trouble.”

What a beautiful way to serve the church’s servants, the kind of assistance most would never think to provide. “Old folks appreciate the power of touch,” he said.

One of this month’s Scripture readings brings it all home with words from Isaiah: “Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless…and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed.”

Acts of mercy aren’t just to be performed when you’re in perfect condition and your to-do list is complete.

They’re done when you are wounded – that’s how you arrive at healing.

“Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!”

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and editor of SisterStory.org.

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‘The Young Pope’: Controversial HBO miniseries Catholic News Service

NEW YORK – Behind the opening credits of “The Young Pope,” a naked baby boy crawls over a sea of infant mannequins, and a man dressed as the Roman pontiff emerges at the other end.

As bizarre as that may sound, the controversial, provocative new miniseries from pay-cable channel HBO only gets stranger from there.

The 10-episode program premiered Sunday, Jan. 15, and will air Sundays and Mondays through Feb. 13, 9-10 p.m.

EST each night.

As viewers might expect from an HBO presentation, “The Young Pope” contains strong, often gratuitous sexual content, nudity and profanity.

As such, it’s exclusively suitable for a restricted adult audience – all the more so since these elements are mixed in with subject matter sacred to Catholics.

Perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning 2013 film, “The Great Beauty,” Italian director Paolo Sorrentino helms the series – for which he was also the principal writer.

In the opening episode, a papal

Saddled with a cartoonish view of the church, and driven by the urge to be edgy, ‘The Young Pope’ repels more than it engages. conclave delivers a surprising outcome as the 47-year-old archbishop of New York, Cardinal Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) becomes Pope Pius XIII, the first American pontiff. Mistakenly believing he would be able to dictate policy to this inexperienced newcomer, Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando), the Vatican’s secretary of state, manipulated the vote in Belardo’s favor.

Pius immediately signals that he’s going to be his own man, however – and a different kind of pope as well. He does so most dramatically by his choice of a nun to serve as his chief adviser.

Having lost his parents at age 7, Lenny grew up in an orphanage run

by Sister Mary (Diane Keaton). She raised him and another boy, the future Cardinal Dussolier (Scott Shepherd), as her sons. Now, Pius helicopters her into the Vatican so he can rely on her for guidance.

This back story is implausible in two respects. American children grow-

ing up without parents in the 1970s wouldn’t be sent to orphanages; they would be placed in foster care. Sister Mary’s religious order, moreover, wouldn’t have permitted her to raise children as though they were her own.

Pius also signals a new direction when he delivers his first address to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

Visible only in silhouette, he declares, “I am closer to God than I am to you, and, if you want to see me, go see God first.” When someone shines a green laser light in his face, he snaps, “How dare you shine a light in your pope’s face?”

Playing on the fact that many younger Catholics, including priests, tend to be conservative, idealizing the church before Vatican II, Sorrentino has crafted a simplistic caricature of them, a stick figure wholly lacking in subtlety. Pius is the anti-Francis, yearning for the restoration of items like the papal tiara and the “sedia gestatoria,”

a portable throne on a platform carried by a group of attendants that was last used in 1978.

Pius’ theology is equally unsympathetic. Evangelization? “Been there.

Done that,” he remarks.

“And reaching out to others? Time for that to stop.”

This is also a pope who can’t function without Diet Cherry Coke Zero, coffee and cigarettes. Petulant and vindictive, he makes a mockery of confession by declaring, “I don’t have any sins to confess… My conscience doesn’t accuse me of anything.” The protagonist of “The Young Pope” is, in brief, a jerk.

As irksome as many Catholics will find all of the foregoing, Sorrentino ups the ante to the level of outrage with a dream sequence in which Pius urges an adulating throng to have abortions, promote euthanasia and enjoy free love. If that’s somehow meant to be thought-provoking, it registers instead as patently – and pointlessly – offensive.

Saddled with a cartoonish view of the church, and driven by the urge to be edgy, “The Young Pope” repels more than it engages.

obituaries Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy, SNJM

Holy Names Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy (Helene Patricia Murphy), died Nov. 29. Born in San Francisco, she was a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary for 70 years and 91 years of age.

“Sister Miriam Jeanne is remembered for her love of San Francisco, her lifelong commitment to St. Monica School and parish starting with her baptism to her many years of ministry, to her Sister Miriam creative song parodies for many Jeanne Murphy, events and to the pipe organ at St. SNJM Monica Church named for her,” the Sisters of the Holy Names said.

Sister Miriam Jeanne’s service included 29 years at St. Monica’s. She taught music, led children’s and adult choirs and played the organ and piano.

She also served on archdiocesan commissions for liturgy and worship.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 11 at Marie Rose Chapel in Campbell with interment at Holy Sepulcher Cemetery in Hayward.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos 95031.

Sister Bernice Clifford, PBVM

Presentation Sister Bernice Clifford (Sister Mary Edward Joseph) died Jan. 5, at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco, Sister Bernice was a Sister of the Presentation for 72 years and 91 years old.

She held undergraduate and graduate degrees in education from the University of San Francisco.

Sister Bernice is a former principal Sister Bernice of San Francisco’s St. Anne School, Clifford, PBVM where she also taught, and Nativity School in Menlo Park. She served in Catholic schools for 53 years.

“When she retired, she continued in that ministry of education by volunteering as an instructor for two years at the Learning and Loving Center in Morgan Hill, a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of the Presentation.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 12 at the motherhouse with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.

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

Kevin Starr

Historian Kevin Starr died Jan. 14 in San Francisco. Starr served as California state librarian for a decade and was a member of the history faculty at the University of Southern California for more than 20 years, published information about the late teacher said.

In a statement on the archdiocesan website, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said Starr’s “Catholic faith Kevin Starr was the bedrock of his life and all of his magnificent scholarly pursuits.”

Starr lent his knowledge and onscreen personality to a video produced to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2003.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Jan. 27, at St. Ignatius Church, Parker Avenue at Fulton, San Francisco, at 10:30 a.m.

Starr’s latest book is “Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America: The Colonial Experience,” publisher Ignatius Press, 2016.

The historian spoke with host John Gray on “Mosaic” on KPIX Channel 5, Jan. 1. Archived episodes of “Mosaic” are available at www.sfarch.org/mosaictv.

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Women’s March: Though snubbed, pro-life groups still participate FROM PAGE 5

“They kept coming up and telling us how glad they were that we were there and how, even though they didn’t necessarily agree on the abortion issue, they thought it wrong that we were removed as partners,” said Herndon-De La Rosa. “It was very cool.”

Women like Herndon-De La Rosa marched for a cause. In her group’s case, they are concerned about President Donald J. Trump’s changing position on abortion and say they wanted him to know they’d be watching what he does on pro-life issues such as abortion, the death penalty and violence.

Others marched to voice disapproval of the new president. Many came from places near and far and after filing past the streets near Washington’s most important institutions, they filled the area near the White House where its newest residents have a direct line of view toward the Washington Monument.

They were hoping the newly minted president would hear or see them and consider what they had to say.

Margie Legowski, a parishioner at Washington’s Holy Trinity Catholic Church, said she took to the streets “in support of values that I don’t see in this administration.” Those values include equality for women and also caring about immigrants who need help.

“I want to take a stand. I don’t want to be passive about it,” she said. “In our faith we’re called to solidarity.”

That means standing up against wealth inequality and defending the vulnerable, she said. It’s a means of building the kingdom of God on earth and she doesn’t see that as a priority for the new president.

Like a lot of women attending the march, she hosted other female friends, nieces and a sister-in-law who lives in Germany, all of whom felt enough conviction to travel to Washington and lend their presence to the numbers of participants.

Jean Johnson, another Holy Trinity parishioner, attended the march with 11 nieces and four grandnieces. They arrived in Washington

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As a citizen, “what (Trump) stands for is not what our participatory democracy stands for,” Hogan said, adding that he could not celebrate his inauguration. Ever since Trump was elected, Hogan said he has participated in various protests and prayer events with other organizations because he worries about what will happen to the vulnerable in society. The Women’s March was one of those instances, he said.

While organizers said the event was to “promote women’s equality and defend other marginalized groups,” some pro-life groups that wanted to be partners in the march were either removed as official sponsors days before the march – or their application to be a sponsor was ignored.

In an interview before the march, Herndon-De La Rosa told CNS no one contacted her group to give them the news they were taken off a roster of sponsors, but they found out after a flurry of stories about it. The groups And Then There Were None and Students for Life of America also were denied or taken off the Women’s March roster.

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She wasn’t marching against a cause or person, but rather marching for women’s dignity, she said.

“I went to a Catholic school where the nuns told me I’m a temple,” she told CNS. “The march is for that dignity.”

And she was excited to share that moment with a new generation in her family, she said.

Some women who attended said they didn’t feel President Trump valued that dignity, particularly after a leaked recording was aired during the campaign in which he was heard making lewd comments about women to an entertainment reporter.

Jack Hogan, who once worked for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty program, said he was attending the march with neighbors and friends because he feels that what Trump has said goes against Catholic social teaching. He said he was hoping other Catholics, as organizations and groups, as well as church leaders, would speak up more forcefully for the poor and vulnerable at this time.

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support and elect pro-life candidates.

That is political reality,” he writes.

During the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Gov. Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania, a Catholic and

Democrat, was not allowed to address the convention delegates. The reason: He wanted to defend the dignity of the unborn and voice opposition to his party’s stance on abortion. Since that time, anti-abortion Democrats have become anathema to the party.

It is time for the DNC to welcome candidates with a consistent ethic of life platform. (Just as it is for the GOP on other life issues.) It could be a boon to election results and it also might bring political diversity to future March for Life processions.

Pope: Prayer brings light of hope in dark times FROM PAGE 12

young boy in tears, who was overcome with emotion at meeting him.

The audience took place at the beginning of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which for 2017 had the theme: “Reconciliation: The love of Christ compels us.”

Addressing the different language groups, the pope prayed that all Christian communities would “be open more to reconciliation” and communion.

“In this same spirit of hope and with gratitude for the progress already made in the ecumenical movement, I ask your prayers for this important intention,” the pope told the Englishspeaking pilgrims.

During the audience, the pope reflected on the prophet Jonah, a man who first tried to run away from God’s call and initially refused “to place himself at the service of the divine plan of salvation.”

Nevertheless, the story of Jonah is a “great lesson about the mercy of God who forgives,” the pope said.

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Mission: The Mission of Mercy High School, San Francisco, a Catholic high school, is to educate young women for their expanding roles in society. This education must be formative, not only imparting fundamental skills and knowledge, but also encouraging the development of values that will guide them in their lives. We strive to provide a Christian environment where the following values can be nurtured: love of God, self-esteem, intellectual integrity, independent thought, respect for human rights, compassion for others, dedication to teach, courage to act, and respect for the goods of the Earth. Mercy San Francisco has been sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy since 1952.

Summary: The Assistant Head of School for Mission (AHoSfM) is responsible for the integration of the Sisters of Mercy charism and mission in collaboration with the Head of School and other administrators to foster the mission of the school. The AHoSfM has the following direct reports: Directors of Campus Ministry, Community Service, Athletics, Student Life and Counseling. The AHoSfM is an ex officio member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Academic Council and Head’s Advisory Council.

Major Responsibilities: Oversight and coordination • Campus ministry • Community Service • Diversity & Inclusion • Discipline • Student Activities • School-wide mission integration and vision alignment • External Relations: Work to create sound working relationships with outside communities and organizations especially other Mercy organizations, the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Schools, Mercy initiatives and other Catholic schools and ministries.

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Description Under limited supervision, the Maintenance II performs work in connection with the operation, maintenance, and security of building, grounds, and facilities in order to ensure efficient plant operation. Plans, schedules, and participates in, and inspects the work of outside contractors engaged in the operation, maintenance, repair, and safeguarding of buildings and Community. Team member may be on call in case of an emergency. As a representative and team member of the company, this position is expected to present oneself in a manner that reflects professionalism and ensures resident satisfaction.

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Beacon Communities is looking for a Janitor for Frederick Douglas Hayes located in San Francisco.

Description Under general supervision, the Janitor performs a variety of janitorial custodial duties in the community. Work involves sweeping, mopping and using vacuum cleaners to clean floors; dusting, cleaning bathroom fixtures and floors and policing building to empty trash receptacle and picking debris. Performs duties per established policies, procedures, Company standards of quality, cleanliness, resident satisfaction, safety and security and regulatory agency requirements. Demonstrates and promotes service excellence and patient confidentiality at all times. As a representative and team member of the company, this position is expected to present oneself in a manner that reflects professionalism and ensures resident satisfaction.

Qualifications Education – • High School Diploma or equivalent. Experience/Training – • Minimum of one year previous janitorial/custodial or housekeeping experience preferred. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations Primary Location California-San Francisco-Frederick Douglas Haynes Qualified candidates can apply at the following website: https://abhow.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl?job=17006 Requisition Number: 17006 Beacon Communities will consider for employment in San Francisco, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance.

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Shipwreck Parish celebrates MLK

The life and work of the civil rights icon were commemorated Jan. 15 at the 32nd Martin Luther King Jr. Solidarity Mass at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco.

The Mass filled the church and welcomed Knights of St. Peter Claver Councils #120 from Shipwreck and #296 from St. Boniface Parish as special guests. The parish service award service named for late parishioner Gertrude Morris was presented to Doug Benbow, liturgy director, St. Mary’s Cathedral and Pat Mann, parish director of Religious Education. Left: Soloist Joe Haywood and the Shipwreck Gospel Choir sing “Oh Happy Day,” director Diane Crowther. Right: At the altar from left are Deacon John Meyer, Father Arturo Albano, pastor, St. Mary’s Cathedral; Deacon Larry Chatmon; Shipwreck pastor, Father Manuel Ogrobay, Paulist Father Bart Landry, pastor, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco; former Shipwreck pastor, Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, and Redemptorist Father Rey Culaba.

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ST. THOMAS MORE SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Students banded together to help the poor in December with a peanut butter drive for the St. Vincent de Paul Society and collecting toys for children assisted by the San Francisco Fire Department and its annual toy effort.

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EPIPHANY SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school celebrated its patronal feast of the Epiphany with a school Mass. Father Eugene Tungol, pastor, was principal celebrant and homilist. Pictured from left as the Wise Men are kindergartners Anthony Marquez, Ricky Machado and Isaac Valencia; angel with star is third grader Diego Jauregui.

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SATURDAY, JAN. 28 REFLECTION TALK: Benedictine Father Michael Fish on reflection and prayer, Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond St. at 18th Street, San Francisco, with coffee at 9:30 a.m. and talk at 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m.; Mary Wyman (415) 431-9590.

KNIGHTS ANNIVERSARY: Knights of Columbus San Francisco Council #615 115th year anniversary luncheon, St. John’s School gymnasium, 925 Chenery St., San Francisco, Mass at noon with Bishop William Justice followed by ticketed-event lunch, $30; Merlin Cayabyab (415) 586-0812,

SUNDAY, JAN. 29 ST. DUNSTAN ALUMNI: Mass and reception commemorating school’s 65 years, beginning with 10 a.m. liturgy, St. Dunstan Church, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae, RSVP lcoustier.stdunstan@gmail.com; (650) 697-8119.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

MONDAY, JAN. 30 POPE FRANCIS: Jesuit Father Joe Ea-

Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf (415) 4226698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

THURSDAY, FEB. 2 CANDLEMAS MASS: Extraordinary rite liturgy, 7 p.m., Our Lady of the Pillar Church, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay with blessing of assembly’s candles and Gregorian chant; Jessica, (650) 572-1468.

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 MALTESE DINNER: St. Elizabeth Maltese Society commemorates feast of St Paul of the Shipwreck’s crash on Malta with Mass at 4:30 p.m., St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St., San Francisco followed by ticketed dinner, $30 adults, $15 children 5-10 years, in Cantwell Hall; Josie Ghiglieri (415) 3335290; josieg5@earthlink.net.

ANNIVERSARY MASS: Archdiocese of San Francisco annual Wedding Anniversary Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 10 a.m., honoring wedding anniversaries for those celebrating sacramental marriages reaching 5-year’ milestones (5, 10, 15…. 35, 40, 40 or more) in 2017, retired Yakima Bishop Carlos Sevilla, SJ, principal celebrant, donation of $20 required, registration; www.anniversarymass. info, HopfnerE@SFArch.org, Betty (415) 614-5680.

FREE THROW CONTEST: Drake High

“Four T School, P gan U withBa lookLat Pope I Francis C A I OSan Anselmo, N S open to adults years and counting,” St. Anselm Church, Bolinas and Shady Lane, Ross, 7:30 p.m., (415) 453-2342, info@saintanselm.org.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 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, Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, drop-in support group.

and children alike, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., cost $5 if under 13, others $10, sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul conference from St. Rita Parish, Fairfax, johnkeane@comcast.net.

TUESDAY, FEB. 7 ‘DON BOSCO STUDY’: Don Bosco study group, 7 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, Filbert Street on Washington Square, San Francisco, topics include Matthew Kelly’s “Resisting Happiness,” copies available for pur-

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 CHINESE NEW YEAR: Mass and banquet, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 2:30 p.m. with banquet, a ticketed event at $50 per Bishop Wang person, at 5:30 p.m., Bishop Ignatius Wang, principal celebrant, Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Chinese Ministry, (415) 614-5575.

SUNDAY, FEB. 5 CONSECRATED LIFE: A Mass commemorating consecrated life will be celebrated Feb. 5, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, Bishop Justice San Francisco. The liturgy will especially pray for 38 women and men religious celebrating jubilees representing 2,125 years of service and all religious serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Bishop William Justice is principal celebrant. A reception follows in the cathedral’s downstairs halls.

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‘DAY OF THE 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 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. The logistics of the day are generously handled by men and women of the Order of Malta, Kenneth Ryan, (415) 613-0395; kenmryan@aol. com.

SUNDAY, FEB. 26 ORGAN RECITAL: St. Cecilia Church, 100th anniversary, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Katya Kolensnikova performs, (415) 6648481.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 19 IRISH MUSIC: St. Cecilia Church, 100th anniversary, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m.; (415) 664-8481.

CHAMBER MUSIC: St. Cecilia Church, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m., (415) 664-8481.

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THE CATHOLIC CEMETERIES

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY We are pleased to announce the opening of our newest cremation niche complex in San Rafael.

Set against the background of Mt. Tamalpais and the surrounding area, these beautiful niches provide a peaceful place of prayer and remembrance. Available in three sizes: single, companion, and family, these solid granite niches are designed to stand the test of time.

Planning ahead is a gift of love to your family. Please contact us to schedule an appointment to select a niche or to request a free Catholic planning guide.

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