January 30, 2015

SURVEY:

ARCHIVIST: Deacon Jeffrey Burns

Pastors to gauge sense of faithful on church and family

retires after 31 years

PAGE 2

ALTAR BOYS: Parish adopts new policy to spark vocations

AUSCHWITZ:

PAGE 3

Catholics help mark camp liberation’s 70th

PAGE 5

PAGE 10

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

SERVING SAN FRANCISCO, MARIN & SAN MATEO COUNTIES

www.catholic-sf.org

$1.00 | VOL. 17 NO. 3

JANUARY 30, 2015

Assisted suicide bill introduced in California VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

California legislators have introduced assisted suicide legislation modeled on Oregon’s assisted suicide law, energized by the heartbreaking story of Brittany Maynard, a young woman with brain cancer, who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Oregon to end her own life Nov. 1.

Before her suicide, Maynard, 29, created videos asking for assisted suicide legislation that drew tens of millions of views, and her mother and husband are now campaigning for legalization.

California SB 128 would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide.

Authored by Sen. Bill Monning, D-San Luis Obispo, and Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Napa, the bill has sparked strong opposition.

“Assisted suicide is not a progressive social cause,” said Diane Coleman of Not Dead Yet, an organization of people with disabilities who oppose assisted suicide. “There are a lot of ways to look at this, but the first thing is to look at the deadly mix of the profit-driven health care system and the other is the sad reality of elder abuse.”

If the legislation passes, “some people’s lives will be ended without their consent, through mistakes and abuse,” said Marilyn Golden, Berkeley-based senior policy analyst with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund. “No safeguards have ever been enacted or proposed that can prevent this outcome, which can never be undone.”

Data from Oregon’s 1997 law show the top five reasons people choose assisted suicide are not because they are suffering from a terminal illness, Coleman noted. Feeling like a burden and a fear of loss of control are among the main reasons for choosing assisted suicide, according to the Oregon data, she said.

‘There are a lot of ways to look at this, but the first thing is to look at the deadly mix of the profitdriven health care system and the other is the sad reality of elder abuse.’

SEE ASSISTED SUICIDE, PAGE 9

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Women from Students for Life march in the 11th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 24 in San Francisco.

50,000 fill San Francisco streets in Walk for Life Archbishop Cordileone: ‘Our ideology is pro-life and pro-woman’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Tens of thousands of people walked down Market Street in San Francisco, chanting, “We are the pro-life generation” in the 11th annual Walk for Life West Coast, the largest pro-life demonstration in the Western United States.

Second only in size to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., the Jan. 24 pro-life rally at Civic Center and 1.8-mile walk down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza drew more than 50,000 people and slowed traffic throughout the downtown area for several hours, meriting traffic alerts on local radio stations.

“There is a war on women but we are not declaring war, we have come to set women free!” declared Walk for Life rally speaker Joy Pinto.

“The civil rights movement of this present age

is the pro-life movement and we are nearing our victory and we cannot compromise,” declared walk speaker Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., founder of Blackgenocide.org and a Baptist minister in Montclair, New Jersey.

The walk is held on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

Many began the day at St. Mary’s Cathedral for the 9:30 a.m. Walk for Life Mass where San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told the standing room only crowd of nearly 5,000, “Our goal is not a legal one nor is it a political one. Our goal is a spiritual one: to build a culture of life.”

“My young people, you are the pro-life generation,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting that once again a majority of those present were young,

Duggan’s Serra Catholic Family Mortuaries Duggan’s Serra Mortuary Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary Sullivan’s Funeral Home & Cremation

650/756-4500 415/970-8801 415/621-4567

www.duggansserra.com

SEE WALK, PAGE 12

INDEX On the Street . . . . . . . . .4 National . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 World . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . .22

2 ARCHDIOCESE

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Archdiocese to survey faithful on family and church RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Complete CSF newspaper library now online A complete digital library of Catholic San Francisco is now online at http://archives.catholic-sf.org/Olive/ APA/SFArchdiocese. Access, save and share articles, images, ads and pages that have appeared in print since our inaugural issue Feb. 12, 1999. The archives of the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco includes replicas of more than 600 issues, including the current issue, and more than 15,000 pages. The current issue and recent back issues also are accessible at http://eedition.catholic-sf.org/ Olive/ODE/SFArchdiocese/.

NEED TO KNOW VESPERS: Join Benedictine Father Samuel Weber, director of Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, for evening prayer with music led by choir members from Bay Area parishes under Father Weber’s direction, Feb. 1, 5:30 p.m., at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. The liturgy commemorates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord.

Confession will be available from 4:30-5 p.m. A reception and buffet supper will follow the service. Call (415) 456-7820.

‘THE GREAT DIVORCE’: The acclaimed theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Christian novel “The Great Divorce” will be staged Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Hofmann Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek.

The play is a meditation on good and evil, grace and judgment, showing that the gates of hell really are locked from the inside. Tickets: Special Discounts from the C.S. Lewis Society of California. Call (510) 635-6892 or email info@lewissociety.org.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is planning to survey parishioners to gauge the sense of the faithful on matters that a global bishops’ gathering under Pope Francis will discuss this October on the theme “The Vocation of and Mission of the Family and Church in the Contemporary World.”

The plan calls for offering an easy-to-use questionnaire to pastors as a means for them to consult widely with their parishioners. The form, modeled on one the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is using for the purpose, would include questions to gather objective data and a space to write in comments.

Alternately, pastors could use the lengthy questionnaire sent to the world’s bishops by the secretary of the Oct. 4-25 Rome gathering, which is called the XIV Ordinary Synod of Bishops. Complex and assuming theological expertise, the Rome questionnaire is not suitable for wide distribution but may be helpful in pastors’ consultations with smaller groups.

Either way, the data collected would go to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his summary report to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is due from all bishops March 20 and will be forwarded to Rome along with an executive summary by conference president Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz.

The Rome gathering follows last October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on “The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization.” The gathering’s summary document, which Pope Francis decided to make public, sets the stage for the larger meeting to reflect on “the critical and invaluable reality of the family” founded on the marriage between a man and woman and to go into depth on topics including threats to emotional and sexual health posed by pornogra-

Father David Pettingill

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone

phy and “the commercialization of the body,” mercy toward broken and fragile families, pastoring to those who are divorced, remarried or cohabiting, marriage preparation and “pastoral attention toward persons with homosexual tendencies.”

In a memo to all U.S. bishops Jan. 8, Archbishop Kurtz said “the desire is for broad consultation to engage in a suitable manner all components of the particular church including academic institutions, organizations, lay movements and other ecclesial associations.” He noted that the U.S. bishops decided at their November gathering in Baltimore that the details of local consultations would be left to the individual bishops.

The archdiocesan plan emerged from an archdiocesan priests’ council meeting Jan. 15, where a presentation by the archbishop met with a positive response.

Jesuit Father John Piderit, moderator of the curia and vicar for administration, confirmed the discussion and the archbishop’s desire to gather a manageable amount of responses from the parishes. “All the priests agreed,” Father Piderit told Catholic San Francisco, adding that they want answers to objective questions as well as essay answers.

St. Emydius Parish administrator Father David Pettingill detailed the project in an interview with Catholic San Francisco.

“The consultation the Holy Father is insisting upon is simply living out the church’s teaching and belief in a very practical way, and the consultation is there so the bishops might be aware what

their people believe and represent,” he said.

He called the consultation “a direct reponse” to paragraph 12 in the Vatican II document “Lumen Gentium” (“Dogmatic Constitution of the Church,”) issued by Pope Paul VI Nov. 21, 1964.

The document states, “The entire body of the faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in matters of belief. They manifest this special property by means of the whole peoples’ supernatural discernment in matters of faith when ‘from the Bishops down to the last of the lay faithful’ they show universal agreement in matters of faith and morals.”

Father Pettingill said the council document links the teaching and believing functions of the church.

He said churchwide consultation between the bishops and the faithful to develop the theme “hasn’t been done in our lifetime” and the opening owes much to Pope Francis.

“In hearing the pope speak, he’s talking about understanding people and taking them where they are,” Father Pettingill said.

“Several times in his document ‘Joy of the Gospel’ he talks about ‘the ministry of accompaniment.’

“Part of that process is learning where they really are, what are the things they are facing, how can the church help them,” he said. “He also says the church is like a field hospital.”

Father Pettingill said the goal is not to change church teaching.

“It may articulate it in a different way,” he said. “It also may say some compassionate things about people who don’t fall into our categories.

“I’ve heard people say the church can’t change its teaching,” he said. “Maybe we can be more inclusive and more inviting in what we say.”

Father Pettingill added that the priests’ council meeting delegates also agreed that in addition to a survey, catechesis should be included in pastors’ consultations with parishioners.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Publisher Rick DelVecchio Editor/General Manager EDITORIAL Valerie Schmalz, assistant editor Tom Burke, On the Street/Calendar Christina Gray, reporter

schmalzv@sfarchdiocese.org burket@sfarchdiocese.org grayc@sfarchdiocese.org

ADVERTISING Joseph Peña, director Mary Podesta, account representative Chandra Kirtman, advertising & circulation coordinator PRODUCTION Karessa McCartney-Kavanaugh, manager Joel Carrico, assistant HOW TO REACH US One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Phone: (415) 614-5639 | Fax: (415) 614-5641 Editor: (415) 614-5647 editor.csf@sfarchdiocese.org Advertising: (415) 614-5642 advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org Circulation: (415) 614-5639 circulation.csf@sfarchdiocese.org Letters to the editor: letters.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

ARCHDIOCESE 3

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Deacon Jeffrey Burns, gatherer of church documentary riches, retires RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Jeffrey Burns was a young history scholar researching his doctoral dissertation among the historical records of the Los Angeles archdiocese when the local archivist, Msgr. Francis Weber, then dean of the field in California, asked him a question.

Would he like to become the archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco? Archbishop John R. Quinn had set up the archives in 1978 and the project needed a leader.

The scholar raised in Orange as one of seven children in a Catholic family went on to earn his Ph.D. from Notre Dame, was ordained a permanent deacon in the San Francisco archdiocese, developed his lifelong academic focus on U.S. church history and made the San Francisco archives into more than a repository for bureaucratic records.

Set on creating an institution that would serve the church regionally in California and reflect San Francisco’s status until the 1920s as the dominant church in the West, Deacon Burns went to work with his eye for narrative and his ability to ferret out revealing collections of lasting interest to scholars.

For more than three decades the hunting, gathering and storytelling carved trails through institutional and personal histories and power and cultural shifts – think of Vatican II and, four decades before that, the then-shocking decision of Rome to give a cardinal’s hat to the prelate of burgeoning Los Angeles instead of pioneering San Francisco.

The trail ended this month when Deacon Burns retired to focus on his new job as director of the Francis G. Harpst Center of Catholic Thought and Culture at the University of San Diego.

“We’ve always taken the approach that the archives is not just the archives for the chancery but also the archives for Bay Area Catholics,” Deacon Burns told Catholic San Francisco.

Deacon Burns’ diverse finds, to name only a few, include the papers of Bishop Mark Hurley, who as an archdiocesan priest attended sessions of the Second Vatican Council; the group of farmworker ministry priests called the “Spanish mission band”; the archdiocesan priests’ council and priests’ senate; civil rights activist Father Eugene Boyle; Immaculate Heart Sister Corita Kent, with her inside view of changes to one religious congregation during the turmoil of Vatican II; AIDS ministry priests in San Francisco during the height of the crisis; and Parents for Orthodoxy in Catholic Education, a movement by Catholic school parents concerned the postconciliar church was falling down on the job in teaching the faith.

The archives also holds a number of collections from the Oakland diocese, including the papers of Father Bill O’Donnell, longtime pastor of St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Berkeley.

“If we had not taken Bill O’Donnell’s papers they

LIVING TRUSTS WILLS

PROBATE

MICHAEL T. SWEENEY ATTORNEY AT LAW 782A ULLOA STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127

(415) 664-8810

(PHOTO COURTESY DEACON JEFFREY BURNS)

Deacon Jeffrey Burns enjoys a moment with Cardinal William J. Levada, second of the four San Francisco archbishops he served as archivist. might not have gone anywhere,” Deacon Burns said. “We will press for records we think need to be preserved if they are not going to be preserved by other agencies.”

Some former workers’ rooms at the Holy Cross Cemetery mausoleum in Colma made do for the archives’ first home, when Deacon Burns’ started in 1983. In 1990-91 the archives moved to the big prayer hall on the first floor of St. Patrick’s Seminary. A decade later a building retrofit forced a move to the seminary basement, where the collections grew to occupy four rooms.

Deacon Burns, who continues as director of the Academy of American Franciscan history and teaches U.S. Catholic history at the Franciscan School of Theology at Mission San Luis Rey in

Oceanside, was not trained as an archivist and wryly notes that his numerical classification system started with 00-1.

“The next archivist, we’re looking at someone who’s much more technically expert,” he said. “I was very good at outreach, building collections, building up a reputation and clientele.”

The clientele includes a mailing list of more than 300 people who support the archives.

Asked what historical mysteries he leaves unsolved, he mentioned the gap in the record left by the lack of the papers of Archbishop John Mitty, who died in 1961. Archbishop Mitty’s correspondence was preserved, however.

“The oral tradition is that he wanted them destroyed, didn’t want people focusing on them,” he said. “Very tough, very good businessman, kind of a no-nonsense kind of guy.”

He also would have liked more on famed labor priest Father Peter Yorke.

For years, one collection above all eluded Deacon Burns: the records of the Junipero Serra Bookshop, long a landmark on Maiden Lane in San Francisco and known for its focus on contemporary Catholic art.

But, as the Spirit moved, just a week before his retirement he received an email from someone who had found two boxes of records from the store in the attic of the recently deceased proprietor, Ethel Souza. The finder, a UC Berkeley student, had read an article Deacon Burns had written on the bookshop in 2005 and contacted him.

“It came the last week I’m here. And there it is,” Deacon Burns said. “It was unbelievable when I got the email.”

To contact the archives email aasf@stpatricksseminary.org.

SAINT RITA LENTEN LECTURE SERIES 2015

“We are the Church” Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Gaudium et Spes 17 February, Tuesday 7:00 PM

17 March, Tuesday

7:00 PM

“Discerning Right from Wrong: Moral Decision-Making in the 21st Century”

“From African Cry to a Gospel Joy Rooted in Hope: Reading Pope Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium with African Eyes”

Rev. Kenneth Weare, Ph.D.

Teresia Hinga, Ph.D.

Pastor, Saint Rita Church Adjunct Professor of Social Ethics, USF

Associate Professor, Dept. Religious Studies Santa Clara University

24 February, Tuesday 7:00 PM

24 March, Tuesday

“Gaudium et Spes at Fifty: Still Charting a Course for Catholic Social Thought”

“Pilgrimage, Presence, and Place: Art and the Sacred Journey in the 21st Century”

Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J., Ph.D.

Kathryn R. Barush, D. Phil.

Dean and Professor of Moral Theology Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara U.

7:00 PM

Assistant Professor of Art History & Religion Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara U.

www.mtslaw.info FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION

3 March, Tuesday

7:00 PM

“A New Edition of the Catholic Tradition: The Theology of Conscience in Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae Personae”

Jan Jans, S.T.D. Associate Professor of Ethics Tilburg University, the Netherlands

10 March, Tuesday

7:00 PM

“Classical Music and Quiet Reflection in Lent” Michael McCarty, grand piano Peter Chase, violin

The evenings begin with a Lenten Soup Supper at 6:15 PM in the Parish Hall, followed by the Lenten Lecture.

Location:

Saint Rita Catholic Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax CA 94930

All are invited. For further information and Soup Supper reservations please call: 415-456-4815

4 ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

No better place to be, St. Pat’s teacher says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“You buried the lead” is about my favorite expression learned from the great news and newspaper people I’ve worked with these many years. It refers to putting the most important facts too far down in the story. The phrase seems never more applicable than here.

“I don’t know where I’d be without Catholic Schools!” Suzanne Suzanne Burr Hendriks said at the end of her bio Hendriks to be included in this column. “I am a product of Catholic schools!

It is where I began my educational path and where I have journeyed professionally for the last 35 years.”

The buried lead did not stay buried for long. It came right to the top of my email conversation with Suzanne, a teacher at St. Patrick School in Larkspur, where she has been a member of the faculty for 28 years helping students every day to have the same good memories as she.

Suzanne grew up in San Francisco and is a graduate of St. Stephen School and the now closed St. Rose Academy. Higher education meant higher up the map attending Gonzaga University in Spokane at least for a while.

“This city girl needed to be closer to SF. so I finished by bachelor’s at Dominican College in San Rafael. It is also where I did my graduate work and earned my California Teaching Credential. The program was rigorous!”

Hitting the ground running is another adage I’d say applies to Suzanne. “My career in Catholic schools began the Monday after earning my credential in 1979 as I completed the last three weeks of the kindergarten class at St. Paul of the Shipwreck whose teacher had to take a leave of absence.”

Next she taught second grade at Our Lady of Mercy School in Daly City. “I loved teaching second grade there especially leading the kids through the process of receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and first Communion.”

The birth of her son took her to a post closer to home in the North Bay teaching three years at St. Anselm School in San Anselmo. After the birth of her daughter she was welcomed as sixth then seventh grade teacher at St. Patrick’s in Larkspur.

“I am currently teaching my 28th year at St. Pat’s!

I cannot believe it has been so long.” Suzanne is seventh grade homeroom teacher. She also teaches

Donate Your Car 800-YES-SVDP (800-937-7837)

• FREE FREE AND PICKUP sameFAST day pickup • MAXIMUM TAX • Maximum Tax DEDUCTION Deduction • WE •DO PAPERWORK WeTHE do DMV paperwork • RUNNING OR NOT, • Running or not,NO noRESTRICTIONS restrictions • DONATION COMMUNITY • 100%HELPS helps YOUR your community Serving the poor since 1845

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

www.yes-svdp.org www.yes-svdp.com

Serving the poor since 1860

FOOTPRINTS: Mercy High School, Burlingame welcomed Mothers of Mercy Alum Dec. 15. More than 45 women whose daughters have graduated from the school attended. “We will be doing this event yearly to encourage Mercy moms to stay in touch with Mercy and each other,” the school said. Pictured from left are Marie Woodland, daughters Michelle ‘01 and Justine ‘03; Dee Dee Koulakis, daughters Caitlin ‘06 and Anastasia ‘09; Hera Kestekkyan, daughter Carmen ‘06; Judith Calderoni, daughter Michelle ‘06; and Leanne Chapman, daughter Lisa ‘06. religion, social studies, and literature and serves as vice principal.

“Being a part of the San Francisco archdiocese and the Catholic community has always been a huge part of my life. I have taught amazing kids and enjoy watching them progress through the grades. I have worked with incredible colleagues and principals. I have made lifelong friends.”

‘9 DAYS OF GRACE’: On the heels of a successful retreat by the same name last year, St. Agnes and St. Ignatius parishes are offering “Hearts of Fire” by the ministries of the Society of Jesus in San Francisco Feb. 9-17. Visit ninedaysofgrace@ gmail.com for information on the talks at both sites.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: William J. Armento was 100 years old, half of which he’s spent as parishioner and usher at St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, Jan. 4. On hand for the big day that included birthday good wishes during the 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Greg’s where Bill usually ushers were his wife Elvina and daughters Valerie, Anne, Janice and Lisa. Father Paul Arnoult, pastor, presented Bill with a gift basket and papal blessing secured by the family from the Vatican. “Family members and friends from throughout the country were present for the celebration,” said Bill’s daughter Valerie in a note to this column.

1-800-767-0660 www.cotters.com

Candles, Hosts, Wine, Bibles, Books, Religious/Devotional Gifts, Church Goods

Our new South San Francisco Location!

369 Grand Avenue

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE: I have been a Kaiser patient for decades and have never had a bad moment there. That said, on my way to pick up a prescription in Redwood City I saw the big “New Hospital Now Open” sign on the reworked Veteran’s Boulevard facility. So happy was the welcome I thought a banner below saying “Go break that leg!” might fit in.

Email items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free.

My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Catholic San Francisco (ISSN 15255298) is published (three times per month) September through May, except in the following months: June, July, August (twice a month) and four times in October by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, 1500 Mission Rd., P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014. Periodical postage paid at South San Francisco, CA. Postmaster: Send address changes to Catholic San Francisco, 1500 Mission Rd., P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS $24 within California $36 outside California

HELPLINES FOR CLERGY/CHURCH SEXUAL ABUSE VICTIMS 415-614-5506

This number is answered by Renee Duffey, Victim Assistance Coordinator.

This is a secured line and is answered only

by Renee Duffey.

415-614-5503

If you wish to speak to a non-archdiocesan employee please call this number. This is also a secured line and is answered only by a victim survivor.

ADDRESS CHANGE? Please clip old label and mail with new address to: Circulation Department One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Easy freeway access. Call for directions.

DELIVERY PROBLEMS? Please call us at (415) 614-5639 or email circulation.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

ARCHDIOCESE 5

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Star of the Sea pastor trains only boys as altar servers VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco still has girl altar servers but it is gradually returning to the Catholic Church’s 19-century tradition of only male altar servers – and the decision is provoking some controversy.

The decision, made by new parish administrator Father Joseph Illo in November, has led to stories in the past two weeks in local and national news media.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone supports Father Illo’s decision but he also supports those pastors who choose to have both girls and boys as altar servers, said Karen McLaughlin, executive assistant to the archbishop. It is a pastor’s decision. Under canon law, a bishop can decide whether or not girls can serve as altar servers and most U.S. dioceses allow girls as altar servers.

Father Illo said the most important reason for the change is that serving as an altar boy is a proven way to encourage vocations to the priesthood and there is no pathway to the priesthood for women in the Catholic Church.

The parish is also encouraging leadership among girls and for the first time girls from Star of the Sea are reading scripture at the daily noon Mass, said parochial vicar Father Patrick Driscoll, who is responsible for a new group for girls, the Daughters of Mary.

“Altar service is intrinsically tied to the priesthood,” Father Illo said. “If the Catholic Church ordained women, altar girls would make sense, but the Catholic priesthood is a male charism.

Nothing awakens a desire for the priesthood like service at the altar among the brotherhood of young men.”

The Archdiocese of San Francisco has received comments both pro and con about the change, split about 2-to-1 in favor of Father Illo’s decision.

A half dozen comments had come in by dead-

Donate Your Vehicle TAX DEDUCTION FOR YOUR CAR, TRUCK or SUV D O N AT E O N L I N E

vehiclesforcharity.com

1.800.574.0888

‘If the Catholic Church ordained women, altar girls would make sense, but the Catholic priesthood is a male charism. Nothing Father Joseph Illo awakens a desire for the priesthood like service at the altar among the brotherhood of young men.’ line Tuesday, ranging from “How shameful …

How will this increase priestly vocations or church attendance?” to praise from a convert who wrote: “It seemed obvious to me that boys would respond to the innovation of female altar servers by feeling that serving at the altar had suddenly become a ‘girl thing,’ and would psychologically withdraw from openness to the idea of becoming a priest. I believe this has done terrible harm to our once-vibrant church.”

Today, the Star of the Sea altar server program has 15 altar servers and three are girls. All are scheduled to serve Mass, Father Illo said.

The parish itself is experiencing a small-scale revival in the six months since the two priests arrived to found an Oratory of St. Philip Neri

Aug. 1. Mass attendance seems to be up but there are no hard numbers yet and the weekly collections have increased by 33 percent in the past three months, Father Illo said.

The 1994 “Vatican Communication on Female Altar Servers“ by the Congregation for Divine Worship states that it is the bishop’s prerogative to decide whether girls may serve as altar servers and supports Father Illo’s contention that a boys only altar serving program leads to increased vocations to the priesthood, notes Rob Graffio, vice chancellor for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “… the Holy See wishes to recall that it will always be appropriate to follow the noble tradition of having boys serve at the altar. As is well known, this had led to a reassuring development of priestly vocations. Thus the obligation to support such groups of altar boys will always continue,” the document states.

Father Driscoll and Father Illo offer confessions for at least 15 minutes before every Sunday and daily Mass. The parish opened the church all day beginning in the fall so people could stop in and pray. A chapel is being refurbished and the parish hopes to be open 24 hours a day for eucharistic adoration within the year, Father Illo said.

In general, with just six months under their belts, they are seeing positive if incremental results, Father Illo said. “I believe that strengthening the link between altar service and the priesthood will strengthen our parish community in the long run,” Father Illo said.

Please join us for a “special time of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who, by suffering, dying and rising, achieved the salvation of mankind.”

John Paul II

World Day of the Sick 2015 ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE CORDILEONE Principal Celebrant

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2015 11:00 AM CATHEDRAL of SAINT MARY of the ASSUMPTION

Prices starting at $2,699 ~ with Airfare Included in this price Prices are ALL-INCLUSIVE w/Airfare from anywhere in the continental USA Several trips to different destinations: the Holy Land; Italy; France, Portugal, & Spain; Poland; Medjugorje, Lourdes, & Fatima; Ireland & Scotland; England; Austria, Germany, & Switzerland; Greece & Turkey; El Camino de Santiago; Viking Cruises; Caribbean Cruises; Budapest; Prague; Our Lady of Guadalupe; Domestic Destinations; etc...

1111 Gough Street at Geary, San Francisco

Sapientia Cordis - wisdom of the heart – “means being with our brothers and sisters. Time spent with the sick is holy time. It is a way of praising God who conforms us to the image of his Son, who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mt 20:28)” Francis

We also specialize in custom trips for Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

Call us 24/7 www.proximotravel.com anthony@proximotravel.com carmela@proximotravel.com

508-340-9370 855-842-8001 Carmela Manago Executive Director

CSF CONTENT IN YOUR INBOX: Visit catholic-sf.org to sign up for our e-newsletter.

Please offer to bring a loved one, a friend, a fellow parishioner who is struggling and would be unable to come on their own

6 ARCHDIOCESE

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Presentation Sisters: Called to education and works of justice Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column, “Wake Up the World!” marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

This is the challenge Pope Francis has given to consecrated persons: to wake up the world by living, praying and ministering in a way that reflects how Jesus lived on this earth: with compassion, mercy, gentleness, forgiveness, justice and concern for those who are poor or marginalized in any way.

SISTER STEPHANIE STILL, PBVM

On Sunday, Nov. 16, the Sisters of the Presentation celebrated the 160th anniversary of their founding in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 1854. Sisters, associates, staff, co-ministers, friends, and many alumnae of our schools joined in the celebration.

As we celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life, we also celebrate the decades of ministry contributed by our sisters to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Two areas of contribution which are central to our lives as Presentation Sisters are education and work for justice. Indeed, the two are inseparable in our approach to ministry and immersion in the lives of the people with whom and for whom we minister.

The ministry of our Irish foundress, the Venerable Nano Nagle, who defied the penal laws imposed on the Irish people by the English, linked education and justice. Our founding sisters and succeeding generations of sisters continued that consciousness that education is one means to bring about

(PHOTOS COURTESY PRESENTATION SISTERS)

Left, Sister Mary Agnes Berchmans Carroll, PBVM, is seen with her class at Presentation Convent School, Powell Street, San Francisco, in 1899.

Right, current sisters take part in the School of the Americas Watch at Fort Benning, Georgia.

SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY FOUNDED: Cork, Ireland, on Christmas Eve, 1775

WAKE UP THE WORLD !

2015 Year of Consecrated Life

justice by changing the systems of each time period.

Today that is continued in our educational ministries at Presentation High School, San Jose, the Learning and Loving Education Center for immigrant women in Morgan Hill, in El Proyecto de las Rosas in the Central Valley, and The Lantern, in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Since our founding in San Fran-

Lenten journey starts here your

ARRIVED: San Francisco on Nov. 13, 1854 ORIGINAL MINISTRY: Education CURRENT MINISTRIES: Education with Catholic schools and immigrant centers, retreat opportunities, hospital ministries, justice issues actions NUMBER OF SISTERS IN THE ARCHDIOCESE: 48 cisco, the laity has been central to our ministry and service. In the early days, the sisters could literally not have survived without the support of benefactors. That support over the decades has continued with benefactors and widened as the laity became important co-ministers and partners in our justice endeavors.

Our sisters learned important les-

sons about adapting to each era with the devastation of the earthquake and fire. The changes they needed to make in their community life and ministries as a result of losses they endured after that event are the foundational learnings that have readied our sisters to change with the times especially during the many social changes of the 1950s and 1960s, the response to Vatican II, and more recent developments in technology and social organization. Our sisters are truly lifelong learners.

What a privilege it has been for us to help develop and serve in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for our 160 years. As the city has grown and changed, and as we have watched the church adapt to those changing times, we are very grateful to have been part of the progress and systemic change that has improved the lives of the people of San Francisco and beyond. We stand ready to continue our service and to continue our ministerial calls to education and works of justice.

SISTER STEPHANIE is president of the Presentation Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Pray as a family Fast in solidarity Give to change lives

Bring YOUR Lent to life. Start today.

Download the CRS Rice Bowl app!

And visit crsricebowl.org or contact your CRS Diocesan Director to get involved!

Local Diocesan Contact Carolina Parrales • parralesc@sfarchdiocese.org • 415.614.5570

6th & 7th Grade Day Monday, March 30, 2015 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Apply online!

www.ndhsb.org

ARCHDIOCESE 7

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Archbishop makes pastoral visit to St. Charles parish and school CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

It’s been decades since an archbishop last made a pastoral visit to St. Charles parish and school in San Carlos. So, when the parish learned last year that Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone would visit Jan. 16-18 as part of a three-year plan to visit all archdiocesan parish communities, preparations were planned down to the letter, parishioner and school parent Rich Kizer said.

“I heard many of our students rehearsing the proper pronunciation of the archbishop’s name,” Kizer told Catholic San Francisco.

The archbishop’s visit began with an all-school Mass where the stvudents, who had recently learned more about church hierarchy, “sang their little hearts out,” school principal Maureen Grazioli said.

Grazioli said that after Mass, the archbishop visited each classroom and fielded student questions, including: Who besides God most influenced you to be a priest? Were you nervous when you were ordained? When you’re not busy being an archbishop, what do you like to do?

“He was most engaging and engaged with the students,” Grazioli said. “And his responses to their questions were very human.”

Religious education coordinator Michelle Baeza said the next day the archbishop met with the parish vi-

(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone fielded questions from third grade students in teacher Theresa Wills’ class at St. Charles School in San Carlos during classroom visits Jan. 16. The archbishop spent three days with the parish community as part of his long-term plan to visit all parishes and schools in the archdiocese. sion council, the finance committee and the endowment fund committee to understand “the nuts and bolts of how our parish is run.”

The archbishop presented his goals for the archdiocese and its challenges and asked the parish to share theirs.

“He wanted to know how he could support us,” Baeza said. All parishes have similar challenges, she said, such as finding volunteers to “bring our faith to our children as catechists” and simply getting families to Mass each Sunday.

The group discussed new strategies for building and strengthening community, including the use of social media and new communication technologies.

The archbishop was supportive, said Kizer, who sits on the endowment fund committee. “But he told us at the end of the day, there is no substitute for face-to-face human communication.”

The archbishop returned on Jan. 18 for Sunday Mass and a homily centered on stewardship.

MERCY SISTER NAMED 49TH CHAPLAIN OF STATE SENATE

Mercy Sister Michelle Gorman, the first woman religious to hold the post of chaplain to the California State Senate, opened the body’s first session Jan. 5 with prayer.

“For over 157 Sister Michelle years the SisGorman, RSM ters of Mercy have offered spiritual guidance and devoted service to members of the Sacramento community and the State of California,” said California Senate president pro tempore Kevin de León who named Sister Michelle as chaplain. He said her “lifelong service to education and the needs of the poor and infirm, as well as her leadership in her religious community has deeply inspired me.”

The Mercy Sisters said Sister Michelle “is grateful for the opportunity to minister at the Capitol as chaplain to the Senate” looking to “facilitate the senators’ connection with their God so that their work on behalf of the people of California and the larger world can proceed from a spirit of humility and gratitude in the face of so many unresolved issues.”

When the Sisters of Mercy of Burlingame and Auburn joined the new West Midwest Mercy Community, Sister Michelle served on the first leadership team from 2008 to 2013. She has also served on the faculty at Sacramento diocese schools including Holy Spirit School, Bishop Manogue High School and Christian Brothers School.

6(55$ +,*+ 6&+22/ 4LU VM -HP[O >PZKVT HUK :LY]PJL

Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo is much more than an outstanding Catholic college preparatory school for young men. It is a place where classmates become brothers, teachers become mentors and ordinary moments become extraordinary experiences. Located in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Serra students take advantage of all that the Bay Area has to offer.

At Serra, you will be known and you will belong.

451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 650.345.8207 A Catholic College Preparatory

www.serrahs.com

8 NATIONAL

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Polls reveal declining support for abortion NATE MADDEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A Jan. 21 report from the National Right to Life Committee and new poll results show that abortion is increasingly unpopular in the United States, but also that the number of abortions performed in the United States is at its lowest point since 1975.

The day after the State of the Union Address, the right-to-life organization held a news conference on its second annual “The State of Abortion in the United States” report.

The report showed that the number of abortions in the United States, currently at 1.06 million per year, is at its lowest point since 1975, when the number was 1.03 million and is also down from the 1.6 million high seen in 1990.

A new Knights of Columbus-Marist poll shows 84 percent of Americans want significant restrictions on abortion and would limit it to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy.

At the National Right to Life news conference, Carol Tobias, the organization’s president, was asked about President Barack Obama’s claim in the State of the Union address that the drop is a result of actions taken by his administration.

She said “the president is on record supporting abortion at any time, for any reason; he is not for any limit or restriction on abortion, but naturally,

BETTER HEALTH CARE

In-Home Care for Seniors nior Personal Care * Companionship * Housekeeping * Lic. Insured Rates start at $10/hr. Live-In $170/day depending on level of care

415.283.6953 | 650.580.6334 925.330.4760 | 408.917.9501

WASHINGTON PRIEST ON ROAD TO SAINTHOOD

he is going to put that statistic in the best light he possibly can.”

Tobias believes that the decline in the abortion rate is rather the result of pro-life activism in public discourse and popular culture because “yes, the numbers are going down, but the rates and ratios are also going down, and that’s due to the pro-life movement keeping this issue alive in the public debate.”

“Pro-life education and legislation are helping to make an impact on our culture and in the lives of women with unborn children,” she continued, and as a result “many women have shown that they want their babies to live.”

Randall O’Bannon, National Right to Life’s director of education and research, added that “though the numbers on the whole are going down, there is one group that has remained steady and that group is Planned Parenthood.” The group, which “performs one in three abortions in the United States,” has repeatedly “turned opposition into fundraising fodder” to expand its “taxpayer-subsidized abortion empire.” “That,” argued O’Bannon, “is why they spend millions on elections.”

In its report for fiscal year 2013, Planned Parenthood said it had received $540.6 million provided by taxpayer-funded government health services grants including Title X family planning funds for low-income people.

Federal regulations require abortion services be kept separate from Title X-funded family planning services, but critics of Planned Parenthood say that receiving funding for nonabortion services frees up its resources for providing abortions.

Not only is the number of abortions declining in the United States, but it is publicly unpopular, according to a recent Knights of Columbus/Marist-poll.

A press release issued by the Knights said the poll showed that 84 percent of Americans “want significant restrictions on abortions” and that “60 percent of Americans say abortion is morally wrong.”

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis signed a decree Jan. 22 recognizing that Msgr.

Aloysius Schwartz lived a life of “heroic virtue,” meaning that he has been declared “venerable,” making him the first native Washingtonian to achieve that title. The priest’s cause for canonization has been promoted by the Archdiocese of Manila, PhilipMsgr. Schwartz pines, where the priest known as “Father Al” died and is buried.

Realizing a boyhood dream of becoming a missionary priest and serving the poor, Aloysius Schwartz founded an order of religious sisters, the Sisters of Mary, who joined him in ministry in South Korea, the Philippines and later Mexico before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in 1992 at age 61.

The priest’s example “is a beautiful invitation to all young people to know God has something in store for every one of us,” Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl said.

FATHER RICHARD MCBRIEN, PROLIFIC THEOLOGIAN AND ESSAYIST, DIES AT 78

WASHINGTON – Father Richard P. McBrien, a retired professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and who was chair of the university’s theology department for 11 years, died Jan. 25 at age 78 in his native Connecticut.

A Jan. 25 announcement by the university said Father McBrien had died after a long illness, but did not specify the cause of death.

In addition to his teaching, Father McBrien wrote 25 books as Father McBrien well as a weekly syndicated column, “Essays in Theology,” for the Catholic press for nearly 50 years.

His writings often raised hackles among Catholics from the pews all the way to Rome.

“While often controversial, his work came from a deep love of and hope for the church,” said a Jan. 25 statement from Holy Cross Father John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president.

SENIOR LIVING Free Initial Consultation & Case Evaluation

Your peace of mind is our goal…

* Assisted Living * 24 Hour Monitoring * Comfortable Private or Semi-Private Suites * Beautiful San Francisco Views * Enchanting Garden

David R. Wall – Director W W W . B U E N AV I S TA M A N O R H O U S E . C O M

Ronald J. Shingler

Have you been diagnosed with • Mesothelioma?

• Asbestosis?

• Lung Cancer?

We care about the people we represent.

Ronald J. Shingler, Attorney at Law 3220 Lone Tree Way, Suite 100 • Antioch 94509

(925) 757-7020 email: info@shinglerlaw.com • www.shinglerlaw.com

v

Our Legacies Memory Care program provides those with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia with the care, support and respect your loved ones deserve.

Irish Help at Home

We provide stimulation, education, social interactions, person space, and a supportive community.

We’re designed to meet the daily needs of our residents.

Call to learn about our wonderful memory community.

650-756-1995 PACIFICA SENIOR LIVING - MISSION VILLA MEMORY CARE 995 EAST MARKET STREET, DALY CITY, CA 94014

High Quality Home Care Since 1996 Home Care Attendants • Companions • CNA’s Hospice • Respite Care • Insured and Bonded San Mateo 650.347.6903

San Francisco 415.759.0520

Marin 415.721.7380

www.irishhelpathome.com

FROM THE FRONT 9

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

ASSISTED SUICIDE: Bill introduced in California FROM PAGE 1

The assisted suicide campaign is heavily funded by Compassion & Choices a national assisted suicide advocacy organization that has received millions in funding from billionaire George Soros. Committing suicide is not illegal in California but it is illegal for a doctor to prescribe drugs to help someone kill themselves.

In 2006 and 2007, similar legislation was defeated after a hard-fought battle in California, said Tim Rosales of Californians Against Assisted Suicide.

“The coalition that is formed against it is really one of the most diverse and ideologically diverse coalitions that you are going to see on an issue in California. I think that lends to the credibility of the opposition,” Rosales said.

Among the many organizations that have joined Californians Against Assisted Suicide are the American Medical Association, American College of Pediatricians, American Geriatrics

Society, American Nursing Association, California Catholic Conference, California Disability Alliance, Not Dead Yet, Berkeley Commission on Disability, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, and Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund.

While there have been more than 100 attempts to legalize assisted suicide in the past 20 years, only three states have legalized it through legislative or voter action, Californians Against Assisted Suicide notes on its website. Those are Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. In Montana and New Mexico, judges have sided with assisted suicide.

The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide because of its respect for the sanctity of life from conception to natural death. In 2011, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops issued a statement entitled “To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on PhysicianAssisted Suicide.”

The California Catholic Conference website has a special section on end-oflife decisions, “Embracing Our Dying.”

We take your care personally.

Personal, Supportive and Engaging. It’s all here

SENIOR LIVING

for you, in a beautifully crafted, comfortable community set in the heart of the Peninsula. From

TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

basic assistance with activities of daily living to personalized care tailored to meet your specific

CALL

needs, you’ll find the well-appointed, spacious

(415) 614-5642

residences to be the perfect fit. Come see how

VISIT

rewarding life can be at Peninsula Del Rey.

www.catholic-sf.org

EMAIL

advertising.csf @sfarchdiocese.org

Call today to schedule lunch and a personal tour!

650.264.9050 Accessible Home Lift Company (510) 521-9526 or (800) 606-1115

CSF CONTENT IN YOUR INBOX: Visit catholic-sf.org to sign up for our e-newsletter.

Call us for: * Free in-home consultations and stair lift demonstrations * Fully licensed and bonded CA contractor’s lic. # 822635 * 10-plus years experience * Expert service and maintenance for the life of your lift * Custom curved and outdoor applications * Rentals

“The Most Compassionate Care In Town”

“The Most Compassionate Care In Town”

INDEPENDENT & ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCES

165 Pierce Street • Daly City, CA 94015 Conveniently located between San Francisco and the Peninsula with easy access to Highway 280 & 101.

PeninsulaDelRey.com

Irish Owned And Operated Licensed • Bonded • Insured

Supple Senior Care

We Provide Qualified Staff Quality-Care In Your Home Full Time Or Part Time Full Payroll Service www.suppleseniorcare.com

415-573-5141 415-573-5141• •650-993-8036 650-993-8036 650-993-8036

Ask how you can benefit from a CARF accredited retirement community!

AN S R G SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY

Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

RCFE# 415600867

10 WORLD

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Catholics join in Auschwitz memorials JONATHAN LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WARSAW, Poland – Catholic leaders joined in commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.2 million mostly Jewish prisoners were killed by the Nazis during World War II. “When we ask how God was present in the hell of Auschwitz, we must remember God’s last word is one of peace,� said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland. “Peace is a gift from God, for which we have to ask him. This is why we gather today to pray before taking the next step – and we must take that step, drawing conclusions from the past and from the witness of history.�

The cardinal preached at a Jan. 27 Mass in Auschwitz’s church-run ecumenical Center for Dialogue and Prayer. The Mass was concelebrated by the Vatican’s nuncio to Poland, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, and attended by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and around 150 former camp inmates.

Cardinal Dziwisz said questions still needed to be asked about human responsibility for Auschwitz atrocities, but added that the camp’s liberation was also a reminder that peace could be achieved by human effort.

He said numerous great initiatives had been launched to ensure future generations remembered the past while “responsibly building the future,� helped by survivors who recalled “the cry of the victims falling silent as they were brutally suffocated.�

Besides Jewish inmates, who made up 90 percent of victims, approximately 100,000 mostly Catholic Poles

POPE: DOING GOD’S WILL ISN’T EASY, BUT IT’S ESSENTIAL

VATICAN CITY – People today have so many options about how they will spend their time, their lives and their money that discovering and doing God’s will really is as difficult as most people claim, Pope Francis said. “Every day we are presented with a tray full of options,� the pope said Jan. 27 during the homily at his early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lives.

The pope spoke of the importance of seeking God’s will and responding. “The opposite began in paradise with Adam’s failure to obey,� he said, adding that Jesus taught humanity that obedience is the only path to happiness and salvation. “It’s not easy,� the pope said, but it was not easy for Mary to accept God’s will that she bear God’s son or for Jesus to accept dying on the cross or for some of the initial disciples to follow Jesus, so they ran away.

BECOME ISLANDS OF MERCY, SAYS POPE

(CNS PHOTO/CARLO ALLEGRI, REUTERS)

Holocaust survivor Hy Abrams, 90, poses for a portrait Jan. 15 in the Brooklyn borough of New York with a book that documents all the different concentration camps he was held in during World War II. were killed by German occupiers in Auschwitz’s gas chambers and execution sites. The Nazis also killed Roma, Russian POWs and prisoners of other nationalities at the camp, located in Oswiecim, Poland.

VATICAN CITY – Christians are called to overcome apathy, discouragement and pretentions of self-sufficiency by letting God enter into their hearts, making them joyful, merciful and strong, Pope Francis said.

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart “which is ďŹ rm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference,â€? the pope said in his message for Lent, which begins Feb. 18 for Latin-rite Catholics.

Released by the Vatican Jan. 27, the text of the pope’s Lenten message focused on the need for inner conversion and renewal, with the title, “Make your hearts ďŹ rm,â€? which is from the Letter of James. A ďŹ rm heart is strong and steadfast against temptation and evil, but it is also open to God, capable of being “pierced by the Spirit,â€? he said.

St. Paul of the Shipwreck cordially invites you to our

Feast Day Mass

Commemorating our 100th Anniversary 4VOEBZ 'FCSVBSZ t ".

3FDFQUJPO GPMMPXJOH .BTT Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Presider 3FW 1BVM (BXMPXTLJ 0'. $POW 1BTUPS 3FW .S -BSSZ $IBUNPO %FBDPO On Jamestown Ave. between 3rd St. and Jennings Parking Lot accessible from Jennings Street 4BO 'SBODJTDP t www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org

WORLD 11

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Pope urges new cardinals not to let title go to their heads CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Writing to the 20 new cardinals he will create in February, Pope Francis said they should graciously accept that their friends, family and faithful will want to celebrate, but they also should ensure that the celebrations are not exaggerated.

“As good Christians, they will celebrate because Christians rejoice and know how to celebrate,” the pope wrote. “Accept it with humility. Only do so in a way that in these celebrations there does not creep in a spirit of worldliness that intoxicates more than grappa on an empty stomach, disorienting and separating one from the cross of Christ.”

The letter, signed by the pope Jan. 4, the day he announced the names of the new cardinals, was published Jan. 23 in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper. Pope Francis had written a similar letter, also requesting restrained celebrations, when he created new cardinals in 2014.

Pope Francis also told the 20 cardinals he will create Feb. 14 that their new role in the church is a call to greater service – helping, supporting and being particularly close to the pope.

“It will do your heart good to repeat in prayer the expression Jesus himself suggested to his disciples to help them remain humble: ‘We are worthless slaves,’” the pope said.

“Maintaining humility in service is not easy when people consider becoming a cardinal a prize, the culmination of a career” or a sign of power, he said.

Cardinals must not fall prey to such ideas, but rather remember that they are called to give greater witness to Christ, “to the point of shedding blood if necessary.”

(CNS PHOTO/TONY GENTILE, REUTERS)

A woman holding her daughter takes a selfie with Pope Francis during his weekly audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 21.

The pope closed saying he would see them Feb. 14.

“Prepare with prayer and some penitence,” he said.

“Be at peace and be happy. And, please, I ask you not to forget to pray for me.”

CONFESSION IS TIME TO ENCOUNTER GOD, IT’S NOT A DRY CLEANERS, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – While people must be honest and specific about their sins when they go to confession, they will miss the sacrament’s key grace if they are “completely mechanical” about listing their sins, Pope Francis said.

Confession is not a time for judgment, but for an encounter with the merciful God who is always ready to forgive those who seek pardon, the pope said Jan. 23 during Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

“So many times, confessions seem like routine, a formality,” he said. “Blah, blah, blah. Completely mechanical!”

“Where is the encounter” in that kind of confession, the pope asked, “the encounter with the Lord who reconciles, embraces you and celebrates? That is our good God.” According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis said parents, priests and catechists need to teach people how to “confess well, because going to confession is not like going to the dry cleaners to have a stain removed. No! It is going to meet the Father, who reconciles, forgives and celebrates” the return of the sinner.

When considering the sacrament, he said, the first thing to remember is that “God always forgives. He never tires of forgiving.”

ACCOUNTING AND TAX GUY Enrolled Agent Tax Accountant Generous discount on Tax Preparation

Individuals, Corporation, Partnership, Investment

ITALIAN IMPORTS, GIFTS & RELIGIOUS ITEMS Around the National Shrine of St. Francis

Unblemished Professional Record

Phone: 415-983-0213

363 El Camino Real, Suite 220-D, South San Francisco, CA 94080

Between Vallejo & Green Street

650.589.4935 • 415.622.6455

1351 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133 Hours: Now open 7 days, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com

Email: joeguevara88@yahoo.com WWW.ACCOUNTINGANDTAXGUY.COM

The Archdiocese of San Francisco Restorative Justice Ministry

A Retreat for Survivors Interfaith, Interdenominational, English & Spanish

2300 Adeline Dr Burlingame CA 94010

of Violent Crimes

Sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns

Guided by Sr. Diane Clyne, RSM and Sr. Norberta Villasenor, OSF FREE for family members affected by violence (continental breakfast and lunch included) required Registration is required!

To register call Julio Escobar @ 415 614-5572 or write to escobarj@sfarchdiocese.org

12

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

13

WALK: 50,000 fill San Francisco streets in 11th annual Walk for Life West Coast

(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)

An image of homilist Father Mario Majano of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Takoma Park, Maryland, is projected on the main scoreboard at the Verizon Center in Washington during a pro-life youth Mass Jan. 22. Thousands of young people gathered at the arena to rally and pray before participating in the annual March for Life.

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

“The civil rights movement of this present age is the pro-life movement,” said speaker Rev. Clenard Childress, founder of Blackgenocide.org.

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Marchers carry a banner at the head of a crowd of more than 50,000 filling Market Street from Civic Center to the Embarcadero.

FROM PAGE 1

adding “Let us be clear. Our ideology is pro-life and prowoman. The two go together.”

The apostolic nuncio, the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò told the tens of thousands gathered at Civic Center “your presence here at the Walk for Life West Coast is a very powerful sign of your faith.”

“It is possible the only one without freedom of speech is the unborn,” Archbishop Viganò said, saying of those in the womb: “They have no right to see the light.”

Archbishop Viganò read “warm greetings and closeness in prayer” from Pope Francis to the crowd at Civic Center.

The Vatican message of support concluded “For truly as the theme of this year’s walk makes clear, life is the choice and the protection of this fundamental human right together with the firm rejection of all violations of human dignity are essential conditions of the building of a just and inclusive society.”

“We come because we want to end abortion and we think abortion is a tragedy that affects everyone,” said Margaret Koehler, a mechanical engineering major, who spoke for the 20 Stanford Pro-Life students at Civic Center. “And we think by demonstrating today we can help to open people’s hearts and minds to stop abortion.”

In addition to Childress and Pinto, speakers included Julia Holcomb, who told the story of her abortion during a relationship as a teenager with Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, and Rebekah Buell who shared how a new technique allowed her to save her unborn baby even after taking the first RU486 pill. Joy Pinto and her husband Jim are hosts of EWTN shows and work with Her Choice Birmingham Women’s Center in Alabama.

Among those rallying for life were 60 students from

NATE MADDEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

‘Let us be clear. Our ideology is pro-life and pro-woman. The two go together.’

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE Wyoming Catholic College clad in blue shirts emblazoned with a cowboy boot and the motto “Cowboys for Life,” 120 students from Thomas Aquinas College, thousands of high school students from throughout Northern California and members of numerous Bay Area and California Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and other denominations.

Founded in 2005 by a group of Bay Area residents with the mission of changing the perception that abortion is the answer, the Walk for Life West Coast is the largest pro-life demonstration on the West Coast.

(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Stanford pro-life students marched in the Walk for Life West Coast. “We think by demonstrating today we can help to open people’s hearts and minds to stop abortion,” said Margaret Koehler, a mechanical engineering major.

Walk for Life honors George Wesolek Archdiocese of San Francisco director of public policy and social concerns George Wesolek was honored posthumously with the St. Gianna Molla Award at the Jan. 24 pro-life rally at Civic Center in San Francisco.

His wife Geri, daughter Brienne, and grandchildren Georgia and Xavier accepted the award presented by archdiocesan respect life coordinator Vicki George Wesolek Evans. Coincidentally, Wesolek died of cancer April 28, the same date that St. Gianna died in 1962.

“When he came to this position over 20 years ago, the landscape in San Francisco was very different from what

New alliance aims to create culture of life across all walks of life

it is today with respect to pro-life issues. Roe v. Wade was settled law in the Bay Area,” Evans told the crowd.

“I would venture to say that the Walk for Life would not exist in its present form had George not stood with its organizers from day one, convincing the powers that be that it was all right to be involved in such a radical march,” Evans said, referring to the institutional skepticism toward grass-roots organizers of the walk. “George participated in this vision and wanted to take a chance on it. His instincts were correct. And today, we thank him.”

Each year the walk honors someone it considers a prolife hero with the award. St. Gianna prayed that if the choice was between her and her child, that she be taken, and the Italian wife, mother and physician died at age 39.

She was canonized in 2004.

(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Top, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States, read “warm greetings and closeness in prayer” from Pope Francis. Bottom, Walk co-chair Eva Muntean speaks to the crowd at Civic Center.

WASHINGTON – All of the usually expected groups were in attendance at this year’s March for Life in Washington Jan. 22, the 42nd anniversary of the Roe v.

Wade decision.

There were busloads of students from Catholic schools and Catholic universities, evangelical churches, conservative action groups and more.

However, one group gathered beside the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall touting nose rings and fluorescent hair was far from the typical pro-life crowd.

The Pro-Life Alliance, a coalition of “nontraditional” organizations that have banded together for the protection of the unborn, held its first news conference an hour before the March for Life rally began.

Aimee Murphy, the group’s founder and spokeswoman, addressed the media, stating the alliance’s mission is to bring all of its groups together to “abolish abortion regardless of religious stance, political affiliation ... economics, that sort of thing” and to show that there are nontraditional pro-lifers “in the movement.”

According to Murphy, alliance members “will all work together to abolish abortion.”

Upon starting the news conference, Murphy reiterated the group’s stance to unite “atheists, pagans, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews” on the issue of the sanctity of human life and dignity. “Being pro-life does not have to be a Catholic thing, an evangelical thing or even a conservative thing; we at the Pro-Life Alliance coalition intend to show unity in the pro-life issue in light of and despite of our diversity.”

Murphy went on to say that “alienation of nontraditional groups in the pro-life movement has made them inactive and apathetic” and that the pro-life movement is better served by “remaining united in diversity, rather than creating division by infighting.”

The groups in the alliance include Life Matters Journal, Feminists for Nonviolent Choices, New Wave Feminists, Secular Pro-Life, And Then There Were None – Pro-Life Outreach, Democrats for Life of America and Consistent Life, with more groups “who will be signing on in the days and months to come.”

According to Murphy, “you could outlaw abortion with Republicans alone or with Christians alone, but you cannot create a culture of life without the support of every human being; peace cannot be attained by mere factions.”

Other speakers from groups such as New Wave Feminists and the Democrats for Life of America followed Murphy in stating their desire to create a culture of life across all walks of life.

14 OPINION

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Secular culture, ice cream and institutional identity

I

ndividual institutions, whether public or private, exist within the larger framework of public or secular culture. Clubs, schools, business corporations, banks, hospitals, stores, churches, and dioceses – all these operate in the broad secular culture.

Culture is just the assembly of common or widely shared FATHER JOHN understandPIDERIT, SJ ings about how society works and how human beings best operate in society. What families do on Sundays, what role sports play in a child’s growth and development, what counts as a palatial home, what clothes one should wear to a funeral, what constitutes a treat for a family, etc. As is evident from these examples, “shared understandings” include hopes, goals, and what counts as honorable performance and success.

“Shared understandings” does not mean that a very high percentage of people have the same understandings about the way the world works or the way people should comport themselves in the world. There will always be individuals or groups with distinctly different views from the dominant culture.

The Amish in Pennsylvania and Ohio reject much of modern secular culture and adhere to their own ways. In addition, many Asian groups living in the United States have decidedly different perspectives on authority. In particular, families in these groups often engender in their children high respect for teachers in the classroom. These families not only tell their children always to obey the teacher but also persuade their children to behave that way.

“6

0 Minutes,” the CBS News “magazine” that helped redefine television journalism, prides itself on challenging conventional wisdom, discomfiting the comfortable, kicking shibboleths in the shins, and opening new arguments.

No such challenge, alas, was evident in the program’s GEORGE WEIGEL recent segment on Pope Francis, which aired last Dec. 28.

One of the principal interviewees in that piece was Robert Mickens, formerly of the London-based Tablet and currently of the National Catholic Reporter. Here’s a part of what Mickens had to say about the “Francis Effect”: “What he has done is he’s opened up discussion in the church. There had been no discussion on issues like birth control, about premarital sex, about divorced and remarried Catholics. None whatsoever. There’s been no discussion for the last probably 35 years on that …”

Now, truth to tell, that’s been a longstanding (and endlessly repeated) complaint on the port side of the Catholic Church. The question is whether it’s true. “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley gave Mickens a pass, as if

Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers So, secular culture is the dominant culture, but there are groups – large and small – that distance themselves from various aspects of secular culture. One of those groups ought to be Christians and Catholics in particular.

This is especially true in modern society since there are so many features of modern society that are contrary to Christian convictions.

One of the attractive features of modern American society is that, although the dominant culture has a significant impact on many people and families, people are free to choose the group with which they wish to associate.

Parents often select groups (or avoid groups) because they have particular ways in which they choose to raise their children and lead their lives.

Frequently, smaller interest or ethnic groups form institutions that allow them to pursue common goals or foster common activities among parents and children. We have Catholic schools and parishes, but many ethnic groups also have financial institutions that specialize in providing services to particular groups; there are social clubs, professional societies for doctors and lawyers, specialty stores, and many other institutions that offer services that appeal to many people. While many people may find them attractive, the institutions can be quite small, with only a

few hundred people or a few thousand people associated with it.

Most institutions change over time.

They can do this in an intentional way if they amend their charter or they formally announce some new policy. But the change may also occur gradually and without fanfare. Because people in smaller institutions are part of the larger secular culture that has an impact on people, institutions may change simply because secular culture gradually induces behavioral changes in people belonging to institutions. That is, changes occur in secular society – for example, everyone now uses cellphones – and that impacts the way people in a particular institution interact.

Sometimes it is difficult to figure out whether the change occurred primarily because of secular culture or because of the institution. Consider an example involving ice-cream shops.

Over the past 30 or 40 years, most ice-cream shops offer a great array of toppings for ice cream. In addition, some offer gelato, cookies, brownies and other sweet things. Suppose a particular small chain of ice-cream shops never went the route of offering more variety. They simply continued to offer excellent ice cream, with no toppings or other goodies. Because they now perceive people once again are appreciating excellent ice cream, they choose

a new name for their chain, “Nothing But Ice Cream.”

When people hear about “Nothing But Ice Cream” stores, they may think this is a wonderful innovation. In fact, this small chain of ice cream stores has only changed its name; otherwise it remains the same as it has been for the past 40 years. It is still offering substantially the same products it has always offered. The reason people think the approach is new is because the broader offerings in most other ice cream shops changed. This chain stuck to its original vision and now it is taking advantage of the “new way” secular society views ice cream: A lot of people just want good ice cream.

Although every analogy limps, something similar has happened in the dynamic between secular culture and Catholic schools. Secular culture has changed dramatically. What until five or 10 years ago were considered “shared understandings” in secular culture have been reversed. A shared understanding used to be that a family consisted of a mother and father. That has now changed. Another common understanding used to be that most Catholics should attend Mass on Sunday. Now only a quarter of Catholics attend Mass on Sunday.

It is important to make clear that our Catholic institutions – especially our Catholic schools – have not changed.

Rather, they still teach and proclaim traditional Catholic doctrine. However, there have been major changes in secular society. In order to provide guidance to parents and teachers, the church has to make clear that Catholic schools have not adjusted their beliefs to secular culture. They have not changed; they still teach what the church teaches.

JESUIT FATHER PIDERIT is vicar for administration/moderator of the curia for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Nonsense on ‘60 Minutes’ What journalist Robert Mickens and similarly situated Catholics are really complaining about when they say there’s been ’no discussion’ on issues like birth control and premarital sex is that they’ve lost the argument: They don’t like the fact that the church has declined to repeal Catholic settled moral understandings. the truth of Mickens’ assertion were self-evident. But if there’s anything self-evident about Mickens’ claim, it’s that it’s self-evidently not true.

For far longer than 35 years, there has been intense “discussion” in the Catholic Church on the issues Mickens cited.

Moreover, intense dissent from Catholic teaching on these questions has been central to that discussion: dissent in virtually every theology department in every prestigious Catholic university in North America and Western Europe; in professional theological societies and Catholic publications; in certain episcopates. What Robert Mickens and similarly situated Catholics are really complaining about when they say there’s been “no discussion” on these issues is that they’ve lost the argument: They don’t like the fact that the teaching authority of the church has declined to repeal Catholic settled moral understandings about the morally appropriate means of family planning, the nature of human love, and the indissolubility of marriage by taking

the counsel of those who have different (and defective) ideas on those matters.

Constant harping on all this by the self-identified “progressive” wing of the Catholic Church strikes me as a tacit confession of intellectual impoverishment. Pope Francis is trying to put serious questions on the church’s agenda: How does the church more effectively proclaim the “yes” that underwrites the “no” Catholicism must say on occasion? How does the church teach the truth about marriage and the family in a culture which imagines that everything in the human condition can be changed by human willfulness? How does the church offer those wounded by the sexual revolution the medicine of the divine mercy, so that those healed by mercy can come to know the truth about love? How can the church call the men and women of the developed world beyond a “throwaway culture” that disrespects and devalues vulnerable human life, whether that life is unborn, poor, unemployed, handicapped, elderly or otherwise “other”? How does

Catholicism reclaim its essentially evangelical character, so that it’s once again a “church in permanent mission,” as the pope often puts it?

Those are Francis’ issues and those are the questions at the center of this pontificate. Yet those are the issues and questions that often go unexplored when Catholic “progressives” scratch those ‘60s itches again and again and again. How does such scratching advance the missionary and pastoral agenda the pope laid out in “Evangelii Gaudium”?

“60 Minutes” would have had a much livelier program if Scott Pelley had questioned Robert Mickens’ claim that there’s been “no discussion” of contraception, divorce and premarital sex in the Catholic Church for 35 years. He could easily have done so by showing Mr. Mickens the fare regularly on tap in the newspaper for which Mickens writes. But that didn’t happen: the shibboleth stood, and a potentially fascinating discussion of how Catholic progressives are responding to Pope Francis’ most urgent challenges to the church was stillborn.

And viewers were left, at the end of the day, with a cartoon pope and a cartoon church: not exactly the kind of groundbreaking journalism of which “60 Minutes” boasts.

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

OPINION 15

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Peanuts, emeralds and family values

H

ere’s a story to assist your preparation for the September 2015 World Meeting of Families, which will welcome Pope Francis to Philadelphia and stimulate worldwide discussion of Catholic family values.

This is not a religious story nor were its principals, both Catholics, religious professionals. In fact, one was a playwright; the other an actress.

When the young newspaperman and aspiring playwright Charles MacArthur was courting (we would now call it “dating”) the young acFATHER WILLIAM tress, later to become known J. BYRON, SJ as the first lady of the American theater, Helen Hayes, he bought a bag of peanuts from a street vendor and, with a great flourish, handed the bag to her saying, “I wish they were emeralds.”

Many years later, as he was dying, she came to his bedside one day and he surprised her with an emerald bracelet saying, “I wish they were peanuts.”

Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur enjoyed a long and happy married life together, despite difficulties. And through it all, they managed to keep their values and valuables in perspective. They had their peanut days and their emerald days as they built a lasting marriage.

When I first heard that story, I thought it was just a beautiful legend, but I later had the opportunity to meet Helen Hayes personally and asked her if the story was true. She assured me that it was.

It says it all so neatly and well: How important it

I

Pope Francis exchanges a kiss as he greets newly married couples during his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Jan. 7.

there is also sufficient material abundance to constitute a threat to all families, even those of modest means, of becoming possessed by their possessions.

The virus of materialism can strike any marriage. Awareness of that possibility can function as protection of the marriage. And the experience of peanut days, not just during courtship and the early days of marriage, but later as well, can help strengthen the bonds of love between husband and wife, and between spouses and their children.

Even without the benefit of a deathbed perspective, the believing Catholic, the man or woman of the Beatitudes, can figure out what is really important in life and act accordingly.

In anticipation of the 2015 World Meeting of Families, a “preparatory catechesis” has been published under the title “Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.” It is hoped that all of us will read it and reflect on its lessons. It purports to explain “what Catholics believe about human purpose, marriage and the family,” and it relates this belief in 10 chapters under the titles: “Created for Joy,” “The Mission of Love,” “The Meaning of Human Sexuality,” “Two Become One,” “Creating the Future,” “All Love Bears Fruit,” “Light in a Dark World,” “A Home for the Wounded Heart,” “Mother, Teacher, Family: The Nature and Role of the Church,” and “Choosing Life.”

It would be great if the discussion this document hopes to stimulate will generate a few more peanuts-and-emeralds stories that can inspire an outlook that will strengthen contemporary family life.

is to keep family values free of corrosive materialism. In our advanced, technologically sophisticated and affluent society, there is poverty, of course, but

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

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

How one young Catholic saved 2,500 kids

rena Sendler was 29-years-old when Nazi tanks slithered into Warsaw, casting a shadow of fear over the town and slicing it apart with a walled-off ghetto for the Jewish residents.

There was no way she could sit back and watch. The social worker with the shy eyes and round baby face stood CHRISTINA 4 feet 11 inches CAPPECCHI and possessed an unblinking courage.

She had two guiding stars in life: Her Catholic faith and her late father, a physician who had died of typhus contracted from low-income patients.

So Irena took action, pretending to be a nurse in order to gain access into the Warsaw ghetto and deliver food and medicine. The grimness of their fate became clearer with every passing day, as clusters were rounded up, marched to the freight yard and shipped an hour away to Treblinka death camp. The sight of the youngest among them, toddlers carrying their dolls, haunted Irena.

She enlisted her closest friends and colleagues, mostly young women, to form a secret network for the imprisoned Jews, sneaking aid in and smuggling children out. Irena bundled babies in garbage wagons and gave them sleeping potions to keep them quiet on the way out. Kids were directed through secret passageways into sewers, following whispers and flashlights.

Parents were forced to make heartrending calculations, and Irena could not guarantee that their children

(CNS PHOTO/KATARINA STOLTZ, REUTERS)

Irena Sendler poses at her home in Warsaw, Poland, in 2007. would survive if they fled through her network. “I still have nightmares about it,” she said in a 2011 PBS documentary, tapping her left index finger to her temple.

“You’re going on a wonderful adventure,” one Jewish mother explained to her son, with whom she was later reunited. “You’re going to be a good boy.”

“You’re a big girl now,” a father, who would later die, told his 10-year-old.

“Tomorrow you must escape from the ghetto. I can no longer protect you.”

Irena embraced the wartime orphans as she routed them to safe houses and then permanent homes. “We had to give them a lot of love and attention to help them adapt to their new lives.”

Beyond the sheer bravery required of the endeavor – perhaps a byproduct of Irena’s youth – it was an act of organizational might. She coordinated each stop with pinpoint precision.

The greatest help came from Irena’s Catholic connections. She called on priests, who created fake baptismal certificates for the Jewish children.

They were taught Catholic prayers so they could demonstrate non-Jewish heritage under possible Nazi interrogation.

Despite the grave risk, some 200 Polish convents opened their doors to the kids.

The sights, sounds and smells of Mass comforted Piotr Zettinger, who was 4 when he left his parents in the ghetto. “For this hungry, bedraggled boy,” he told PBS, “taking part in these beautiful and uplifting ceremonies was quite wonderful.”

The nuns were always on guard for German inspections. Given their cue, Piotr would run to the attic and hide in a cupboard.

Miraculously, the system worked.

All the Jewish kids placed in convents through Irena’s network survived the war. In total, Irena saved the lives of about 2,500 children.

She lived to be 98 and never considered herself a hero. “It was simple,” she said. “I remember what my father had taught me: ‘When someone is drowning, give him your hand.’”

The Holy Father issues the same challenge again and again, beginning with his inaugural homily when he called us to be “protectors of one another.” We can do so, Pope Francis said, by being “constantly attentive to God.” This month would mark Irena’s 105th birthday. Our worlds may be vastly different, but we can honor her memory by treating our neighbors with the same compassion.

It is simple.

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and the editor of NationalCatholicSistersWeek.org.

LETTERS Building a community of disciples We were so pleased at the archbishop’s pastoral visit to our parish (St. Charles, San Carlos).

His homily covered all three readings with the theme of building a community of committed disciples in the archdiocese. Christian community includes everybody. So we were especially pleased when, at the reception, the archbishop said he intended to ask all the pastors to set up some mechanism for all the laity to have input into the questions we have about marriage, family life and sexuality. This would be a response to the pope’s request that the bishops listen to their flock before their October synod. Input from both conservative and “Cafeteria Catholics” would reveal life issues beyond doctrine. Then the bishops could suggest doctrinal redefinitions that are both acceptable to the church and meaningful to our lived experience. Some changes in doctrine and practice might be feasible. We would hope that everyone would attend these sessions and contribute with respect and honesty.

Peggy G. Saunders San Carlos Editor’s note: See related article on Page 2 of this issue.

LETTERS POLICY EMAIL letters.csf@sfarchdiocese.org WRITE Letters to the Editor, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 NAME, address and daytime phone number for verification required SHORT letters preferred: 250 words or fewer

y

16 FAITH

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

SUNDAY READINGS

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, ‘What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.’

MARK 1:21-28 DEUTERONOMY 18:15-20 Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen.

This is exactly what you requested of the Lord, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let us not again hear the voice of the Lord, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.’ And the Lord said to me, ‘This was well said. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him. Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it. But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.’”

PSALM 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the rock of our salvation. Let us come into

his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:32-35 Brothers and sisters: I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may

be holy in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence to the Lord without distraction.

MARK 1:21-28 Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught.

The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!”

The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.

Home to heaven

I

n his story “The Great Divorce” 20th-century English scholar and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis vividly describes the struggle we face in accepting the invitation into heaven. The gates of heaven are open to all; God bars the way to no one, but he cannot compel us to accept heavenly beatitude.

Why is there a struggle?

What does this struggle look like?

Lewis’ story begins with a group of recently deceased individuals getting onto a bus that takes them up to the entrance of heaven.

Upon arriving, the passengers are struck by how “real” heaven is. The colors are brighter and sharper than anything they’ve seen, FATHER MARK the air is richer, and even DOHERTY the blades of grass under their feet feel like so many sharp needles pricking the underside of their feet. There is more “there” there in heaven than on Earth.

Their bus having arrived, the passengers are greeted by heavenly inhabitants come to encourage them to accept the invitation to enter heaven.

Here is where the drama begins. The passengers, each in their own way, begin to feel a point of resistance urging them to reject the invitation.

As the blessed greeters encourage, a malevolent

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS MARY GAVE US JESUS; WOMEN HAND ON FAITH

Why is it that mostly women are the ones who hand down the faith generation after generation? Pope Francis asked.

“Quite simply because it was a woman who brought us Jesus. It’s the path Jesus chose. He wanted to have a mother” and chose to come to the world through Mary, the pope said Jan. 26 during Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

Anyone who has sought to draw closer to God has felt this struggle. There is a correlation between the effort to invite God more deeply into one’s life and the pull to turn back, to quit. spirit discourages. The evil spirit takes a different shape for each of the passengers, but the strategy is always the same: doubt, leading to anxious fear, leading to discouragement and dejection.

The Gospel reading for today presents a striking confrontation between Jesus and the evil spirit.

That this confrontation comes at the beginning of Mark’s narrative tells us that the battle between Jesus and the demons will be a central theme.

Jesus, like Lewis’ heavenly greeters, has come to invite everyone into his Father’s house, to partake of eternal life, and the demons will do everything they can to mount a resistance. The demon in today’s Gospel is agitated by Jesus’ presence.

The description provided makes it clear that the demons are no friend of Jesus’. They sense that Jesus is encroaching on their territory, and they want him gone.

Anyone who has sought to draw closer to God has felt this struggle. There is a correlation between the effort to invite God more deeply into one’s life and the pull to turn back, to quit. This is because while we remain comfortably where

we are the evil spirit is content to let us “rest.”

He consoles us, reassuring us that there is no “higher” life to be had. But if and when we begin to listen to the voice of Jesus calling us to a more “real” life where the colors are more vibrant and the air is richer, the evil spirit rouses himself to pounce on his escaping prey.

The evil spirit sews doubt as he suggests that the life to which Jesus invites us is not as good as the life we’ve had. He then sows fear by pointing out how much it will cost us to accept Jesus’ invitation: You will have to surrender your treasures, your jealousies and grudges, your lusts and pride, your dreams and life plans. It isn’t worth it, he tells us. And look how poor and miserable you will end up at the end, stripped bare of all treasure.

If we do not resist these temptations we will end up discouraged and dejected. To resist I must do two things: First, figure out what vulnerability the evil spirit is attacking within me and resist his advance there. How does he seek to sow doubt and fear in me? Second, I must seek to focus less on the evil spirit’s voice and more on Jesus’ encouraging tone. Jesus extends the invitation to the Father’s house to you and to me. Life in the Father’s house is better than anything we can make for ourselves or what the evil spirit can provide. Let us resist the attacks of the bitter demons and welcome more fully the presence of Jesus.

FATHER DOHERTY is a parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and a member of the faculty at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, 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 LK 2:22-32.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5: Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr. HEB 12:18-19, 21-24. PS 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 9, 10-11. MK 1:15. MK 6:7-13.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3: Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; St. Ansgar, bishop. HEB 12:1-4. PS 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32. MT 8:17.

MK 5:21-43.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6: Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs. HEB 13:1-8. PS 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9abc. SEE LK 8:15. MK 6:14-29.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4: Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 12:4-7, 11-15. PS 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a. JN 10:27. MK 6:1-6.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7: Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 13:15-17, 20-21. PS 23:13a, 3b-4, 5, 6. JN 10:27. MK 6:30-34.

St. Paul Miki and Companions

FAITH 17

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

The positive side of melancholy

N

ormally none of us like feeling sad, heavy, or depressed. Generally we prefer sunshine to darkness, lightheartedness to melancholy.

That’s why, most of the time, we do everything we can to distract ourselves from melancholy, to keep heaviness and sadness at bay. We tend to run from those feelings inside us that sadden or frighten us.

That’s why, for the most part, we think of melancholy and her children (sadness, gloomy nostalgia, loneliness, depression and the rest) as negative. But FATHER RON these feelings have their ROLHEISER positive sides. Simply put, they help keep us in touch with those parts of our soul to which we are normally not attentive. Our souls are deep and complex, and trying to hear what they are saying involves listening to them inside of every mood within our lives, including, and sometimes especially, when we feel sad and out of sorts. In sadness, melancholy and fear, the soul tells us things that we normally refuse to hear.

Unfortunately, today it is common to see sadness and heaviness of soul as a loss of health, as a deficiency in our vibrancy. That’s both unfortunate and shortsighted. For instance, in many medieval and renaissance medical books melancholy was seen as a gift to the soul, something that one needed to pass through, at certain points in his or her life, in order to come to deeper health and wholeness. This, of course, doesn’t refer to clinical depression, a true loss of health, but to all those other depressions that draw us inward and downward. Why do we need

to pass through melancholy in order to come to wholeness?

Thomas Moore, who writes with deep insight on how we need to learn to listen more carefully to the impulses and needs of our souls, offers this insight: “Depression gives us valuable qualities that we need in order to be fully human.

It gives us weight, when we are too light about our lives. It offers a degree of gravitas. It was associated with the metal lead and was said to be heavy. It also ages us so that we grow appropriately and don’t pretend to be younger than we are. It grows us up and gives us the range of human emotion and character that we need in order to deal with the seriousness of life.”

Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, in his classic novel, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” echoes what Moore says. His heroine, Teresa, struggles to be at peace with life when it’s not heavy, when it’s too much lightness, sunshine, and, seemingly, non-mindful; when it’s devoid of the type of anxieties that hint at darkness and mortality. Thus, she feels always the need for gravitas, for some heaviness that signals that life is more than simply the present flourishing of health and comfort.

In many cultures, and indeed in all of the great world religions, periods of melancholy and sadness are considered as the necessary path one must travel in order to sustain one’s health and come to wholeness. Indeed, isn’t that part of the very essence of undergoing the paschal mystery within Christianity? Jesus, himself, when preparing to make the ultimate sacrifice for love, had to, painfully accept that there was no path to Easter Sunday that didn’t involve the darkness of Good Friday.

So how might we look at periods of sadness and heaviness in our lives? How might we deal with melancholy and her children?

First off, it’s important to see melancholy as something normal and healthy within our lives.

Heaviness of soul is not necessarily an indication that there is something wrong inside us.

Rather, normally, it’s the soul itself signaling for our attention, asking to be heard, trying to ground us in some deeper way, and trying, as Moore puts it, to age us appropriately. But, for this to happen, we need to resist two opposite temptations, namely, to distract ourselves from the sadness or to indulge in it. How do we do that? James Hillman gives us this advice: What to do with heaviness of soul? “Put it into a suitcase and carry it with you.” Keep it close, but contained; make sure it stays available, but don’t let it take you over.

That’s secular wording for Jesus’ challenge: If you wish to be my disciple, take up your cross every day and follow me.

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

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for February 1, 2015 Mark 1:21-28 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B: events when Jesus preaches in Capernaum.

The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.

CAPERNAUM PEOPLE AS ONE SPIRIT NAZARETH HOLY (one) FAME

JESUS TEACHING AUTHORITY CRIED OUT DESTROY US AMAZED SPREAD

SYNAGOGUE TAUGHT A MAN WITH US I KNOW OBEY REGION

OVER SPIRITS

Catholic Action at St. Peter’s

C

H

O

S

U

Y

O

R

T

S

E

D

A

S

Y

T

I

R

O

H

T

U

A

E

P

U

Y

D

T

N

O

I

G

E

R

Z

E

H

A

N

E

M

A

F

R

L

L

A

Pope Francis waves from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square as he is flanked by young members of “Azione Cattolica” (Catholic Action movement), during his Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 25.

R

T

T

N

A

M

A

P

K

W

L

M

N

I

U

A

C

G

S

U

S

E

J

A

A

W

O

Z

H

P

O

T

O

M

K

T

U

Z

D

A

I

E

N

G

Z

A

I

A

M

J

E

R

N

O

E

D

U

N

K

U

A

D

I

E

G

P

B

F

B

E

N

G

R

T

R

T

F

L

K

E

Y

L

O

H

K

Z

C

H

M

E

L

V

Y

P

W

T

© 2015 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com

(CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA REUTERS)

Important Announcement!

You Might NOT Qualify for a Reverse Mortgage after March 2, 2015!

Starting March 2, 2015, HUD, the governmental body that regulates Reverse Mortgage insured loans, will require a Financial Assessment of all applicants. This will include a review and analysis of your income and credit status. This Financial Assessment could result in less cash available at closing or possibly not qualifying at all.

Qualify for a Reverse Mortgage before March 2, 2015

Dan Casagrande Local Reverse Mortgage Expert

Call Me! 650.523.9997 www.ReverseManDan.com Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act #4131074

Sponsored by DUGGAN’S SERRA MORTUARY 500 Westlake Avenue, Daly City 650-756-4500 ● www.duggansserra.com

18

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Catholic San Francisco and Pentecost Tours, Inc. invite you to join in the following pilgrimages

NORTHERN & CENTRAL ITALY

11 DAY PILGRIMAGE

GREECE & TURKEY (4 seats left) May 08 – 24, 2015

$3799 rt SFO

with Rev Fr Angel Quitalig, JCL 17 days, almost all inclusive Roundtrip Airfare from SFO, Domestic fare to Cappadocia, Border Crossing Fees, Entrance fees and Luggage handling, Group Arrival & Departure Transfers, First Class Hotels, Local Taxes, Port fees, and service charges, Daily Breakfast and Dinner, 2 Night Greek Isle Cruise / w/ Shore Excursions in Patmos / Crete /Santorini, Sightseeing with Licensed Tour Guides, Tour Escort throughout the tour, Deluxe Motorcoaches, Additional baggage and optional airline fees may apply, Fuel Surcharges & Government Taxes subject to change.

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, MEXICO June 22 – 27, 2015 Book Now.

including a rare viewing of the

/

/

$1799 rt SFO

First Come First Serve

For Individual and Group Inquiries,

Estela Nolasco

650.867.1422

"We specialize in cruises, land and resort vacations, pilgrimages, reunions, conferences, lectures, seminars, weddings ..."

SHROUD OF TURIN with Fr. Vincent Lampert

$3,549 + $659 per person* from San Francisco

$3,649 + $659 per person* after Jan. 8, 2015

FRANCISCAN FR. MARIO’S 2015 PILGRIMAGES In conjunction with Santours: CST#2092786-40

* Estimated airline taxes and final surcharges

Holy Land

May 23-June 3

April 13-23, 2015

|

September 5-16

Turkey: Following the Footsteps of

VISIT: Rome (Papal audience), Tivoli, Subiaco, Siena, Florence, Pisa, Milan

St. Paul and Visiting the 7 Churches of the Book of Revelation (with Mass at the home of the Blessed Mother in Ephesus) October 6-20 Fr. Mario, a Franciscan who holds a PhD in New Testament, has lived in the Holy Land and has been leading pilgrims to the Holy Places continuously for the past 39 years. The Franciscans have been official custodians of the Holy Places for over 700 years.

Write, call or email for free brochure: Fr. Mario DiCicco, O.F.M. Tour 50519 Tour 50511

Catholic San Francisco Catholic San Francisco

invite you to join

invites you to join Fr. Barry Windholtz

and Patrick O’Mahony

May 11-19, 2015

May 19-29, 2015

on a 9-day pilgrimage to England • London • Cambridge • Walsingham • Sudbury Aylesford • Maidstone • Canterbury

Early registration price $3,299 + $759* per person from San Francisco if deposit is paid by 1-31-15 Base price $3,399 + $759* per person after 1-31-15 *Estimated Airline Taxes & Fuel Surcharges subject to increase/decrease at 30 days prior

St. Peter’s Church, 110 West Madison St., Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 853-2411, cell: (312) 888-1331 mmdicicco@gmail.com | FrMarioTours.weebly.com

Fr. Al DeGiacomo

on an 11-day pilgrimage to

IREL AND

Base price $3,399 + $579* per person from San Francisco if deposit is paid by 2-8-15 Base price $3,499 + $579* per person after 2-8-15 *Estimated Airline Taxes & Fuel Surcharges subject to increase/decrease at 30 days prior

For a FREE brochure on this pilgrimage contact: Catholic San Francisco (415) 614-5640 Please leave your name, mailing address and your phone number California Registered Seller of Travel Registration Number CST-2037190-40 (Registration as a Seller of Travel does not constitute approval by the State of California)

Catholic Press Association Shroud of Turin Pilgrimage May 8 - 16, 2015 - 9 Days $3799 from Newark For Information and Reservations, Contact Tim Walter

Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada , 205 W Monroe St (Ste 470), Chicago, IL Telephone: 312-380-6789 email: twalter@catholicpress.org Friday, May 8- Day 1- Depart USA Today we depart Newark to connect with our overnight flight to Rome aboard a wide-bodied jet.

We enjoy in-flight movies, dinner and breakfast aloft.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dinner/Overnight Rome.

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

This afternoon, we visit the Holy Stairs and Basilica of St. John Lateran We continue to St. Paul Outside the Walls where we celebrate Mass. The huge, imposing Basilica is second only to St. Peter’s and one of the largest churches in the Christian world. It contains an unusual gallery of papal portraits: 265 tablets portraying the popes of the past. Also we enjoy a visit to the Basilica of St. Mary Major. We conclude our day at one of the Catacombs, burial place of early Christians, where we view the 2nd and 3rd century fresco paintings. Dinner and overnight Rome.

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

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

Saturday, May 16- Day 9- Return to the USA We make our way home today with a lifetime of memories!

COMMUNITY 19

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

OBITUARIES

Sister Ellen Hoffman, RSCJ – religious for 79 years Sister Ellen was among the first teachers at the sisters’ Stuart Hall Academy in San Francisco and later taught for almost 30 years at San Francisco’s Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School where a library is named for her.

“During these three decades, she variously taught in the elementary school, served briefly as principal, supervised new teachers, served as director of the learning center, oversaw curriculum, worked with children with special learning needs and worked in the library,” the sisters said.

Survivors include family in Nebraska and Illinois. A funeral Mass will be celebrated Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. at Oakwood, 140 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton.

Burial will follow in the Sacred Heart cemetery there.

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

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Ellen Hoffman died Jan. 19, at Oakwood, her congregation’s retirement facility in Atherton. She was 98 years old and a religious for 79 years.

Born in Missouri, she attended Sacred Sister Ellen Heart schools and enHoffman, RSCJ tered the community in 1935 making first vows March 15, 1938, and final profession Aug. 2, 1943.

Sister Ellen held a graduate degree in education psychology from San Francisco College for Women formerly a school of her congregation and now part of the University of San Francisco.

“A natural teacher, she touched countless lives not only through her own work in the classroom, but through her service as teacher trainer and mentor,” the sisters said in a statement.

Sister Sally Furay, RSCJ – university educator Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Sally Furay died Jan. 10 following a stroke. She entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1944 making first vows in 1947 and final profession in 1952. She was 88 years old.

Known for her Sister Sally tireless work in Furay, RSCJ the area of higher education, Sister Sally served at the University of San Diego for more than 40 years. Sister Sally held a graduate degree in English from San Francisco College for Women formerly a school

of her community and now part of the University of San Francisco, a doctorate in English and American literature from Stanford as well as a law degree from the University of San Diego.

Her tenure at the University of San Diego began in 1954 serving as academic vice president and Provost for 25 years.

Sister Sally was a current and active member of the Convent & Stuart Hall Board of Trustees in San Francisco.

She is survived by family in San Diego and Missouri.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 16 at the University of San Diego.

Interment will be in Atherton at the Society of the Sacred Heart Cemetery.

The Leading Catholic Funeral Directors of the San Francisco Archdiocese

Pre-planning “My Funeral, My Cremation, My Way”

FUNERAL SERVICES TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CALL (415) 614-5642 | FAX (415) 614-5641

www.duggansserra.com

“Here’s wishing happiness and wellbeing to all the families of the Archdiocese. If you ever need our guidance please call at any time. Sincerely, Paul Larson ~ President.”

The Peninsula’s Local Catholic Directors…

Chapel of the Highlands Funeral & Cremation Care Professionals

www.driscollsmortuary.com

588-5116

www.sullivanfuneralandcremation.com

Celebrating 90 years!

x Highly Recommended / Family Owned x Please call us at (650)

Duggan’s Serra Catholic Family Mortuaries

El Camino Real at 194 Millwood Dr., Millbrae

www.chapelofthehighlands.com

CA License FD 915

Duggan’s Serra Mortuary 500 Westlake Ave., Daly City FD 1098 Driscoll’s Valencia St. Serra Mortuary 1465 Valencia St., SF FD 1665 Sullivan’s Funeral Home & Cremation 2254 Market St., SF FD 228 www.duggansserra.com

650/756-4500 415/970-8801 415/621-4567

The Catholic Cemeteries ◆ Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com H OLY C ROSS HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY CEMETERY CATHOLIC CEMETERY

TOMALES CATHOLIC CEMETERY

1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 94971 415-479-9021

Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue,

Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

A TRADITION

OF

270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY

Stage Road Miramontes St. Pescadero, CA 94060 Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 650-712-1679 415-712-1679

FAITH THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES. 7747 El Camino Real Colma, CA 94014 | FD 1522

McAVOY O’HARA Co. &

SERV I N G W IT H T R U S T A N D CO NFIDENC E S IN CE 1 8 5 0

111 Industrial Road suite. 5 Belmont, CA 94002 | FD 1923

Affordable Catholic Funeral & Cremation Services E vergreen Mortuary 45 4 5 GEARY B OULE VARD at TE N T H AV E N U E For information prearrangements, and assistance, call day or night (415) 668-0077 FD 523

Specializing in Chapel Services & interments at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery We provide on-line arrangements Nationally Certified Bereavement Facilitators 5 Star Yelp Reviews 650.757.1300 |

fax 650.757.7901

|

toll free 888.757.7888

| www.colmacremation.com

20 COMMUNITY

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

St. Paul of the Shipwreck celebrates MLK with annual gospel Mass organizations that epitomize the spirit of the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968.

“St. Paul of the Shipwreck has felt that it is very important for us as black Catholics to maintain the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in our worship service,” Deacon Larry Chatmon told Catholic San Francisco. “Not only was Dr. King a man of faith who loved all peoples, he represents their struggles to ensure the respect and dignity of all people.”

CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The St. Paul of the Shipwreck parish community celebrated the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a Solidarity Mass attended by more than 300 parishioners and guests on Sunday, Jan. 18.

Initiated by former pastor Franciscan Father Jim Goode, the event has been a highlight at the Bayview District parish for 30 years. Distinguished by high-profile guests such as the Rev. Bernice King, Dr. King’s daughter, and an outstanding musical program, the event also recognizes individuals and

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

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

SH

PUBLISH A NOVENA New! Personal prayer option added Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $26

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call (415) 614-5640

(PHOTO COURTESY DEBRA GREENBLAT/ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK)

Choir director Diane Crowther leads the Shipwreck Gospel Choir during St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s 30th annual gospel Mass and celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 18.

CENTENNIAL MASS FEB. 8 ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK PARISH, 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco, will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a feast day Mass on Feb. 8 celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. The 10 a.m. Mass will reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the parish community and will be followed by a reception. Visitors are welcome. Visit www. stpauloftheshipwreck.org/. Call (415) 468-3434.

Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

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

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

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

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

Say prayers 3 days.

T&L

Name Address Phone MC/VISA # Exp. SELECT ONE PRAYER:

❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to St. Jude ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit ❑ Personal Prayer, 50 words or less Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

CHIMNEY CLEANING AND REPAIR

Estate Planning Seminar Come to a FREE Seminar and learn about the recent changes in estate planning and how to best provide for your loved ones.

Estate planning attorney Colin Kelley will discuss and answer your questions.

Saturday, January 31st 10:00-noon Tarantino Hall- St. Hilary Parish 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon Refreshments & Snacks provided

$75 HELP WANTED WEEKEND CUSTODIAN – Mercy High School, San Francisco POSITION: Weekend Custodian HOURS: 8-16 hours, Saturday & Sunday, (8 hrs minimum, 16 hrs maximum) Generally, Saturday and Sunday shifts are performed during afternoon and evening time period; Flexible. However, some weekend events dictate late night and/or morning work hours.

DESCRIPTION: Person is needed to clean up areas of Mercy High School used during the weekend, and ensure that school is ready for regular school operation on Mondays. Work includes emptying garbage and recycling, vacuuming classrooms, dust mopping and wet mopping floors, and cleaning bathrooms. Successful candidate will be expected to perform occasional room setups and breakdowns, and thus should be able to do a certain amount of lifting. Position involves minimal supervision, so Weekend Custodian needs to be able to work on his or her own most of the time.

Interested applicants please send your resume and/or work history to Ms. Lorelei Zermani, c/o Mercy High School, 3250 19th Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94132, or lzermani@mercyhs.org.

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

CLASSIFIEDS TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CALL (415) 614-5642 | FAX (415) 614-5641 VISIT www.catholic-sf.org EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

HELP WANTED

Presented by Colin Kelly Estate Planning Attorney.

Sponsored by Saint Hilary Church Parish Council and the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Duggan’s Serra Mortuary, Daly City

Questions call 415-435-1122 No RSVP required, bring a friend or two

Duggan’s Serra Mortuary is looking for a Part-time to Full-time Receptionist.

HELP WANTED

Chimney Sweep & Inspection

Redemptorist Father Maurice Nutt, director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, and Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, St. Paul of the Shipwreck pastor, were among the celebrants.

Fran Sullivan, a member of the parish gospel choir, coordinated the liturgy.

“We included historical church hymns, anthems, black spirituals and contemporary gospel,” she said. A saxophone solo of “Amazing Grace” and a rendition of the Negro National Anthem written by James Weldon Johnson, a civil rights activist best known for his leadership of the NAACP, were also featured.

The Mass had special significance to St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioners this year as the parish prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary on Feb. 8.

“As we look back over the past 100 years, we’re proud of our contributions to social justice,” said Pat Coleman, coordinator of St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s health ministry. “Our commitment to programs that break the cycle of poverty has opened doors to a better life for many in the Bayview.”

RECEPTIONIST Position Candidate must be a team-player with a positive attitude. This candidate will answer telephones with a smile in your voice and route calls promptly and correctly to staff persons, take messages or voicemail; greet visitors; possess excellent computer skills, good speller and medical terminology helpful. Work every other weekend and some holidays.

Other duties assigned by supervisor as needed.

Job Description, Duties and Requirements: Clear communication is very important in our business. Excellent phone skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks and work under pressure. Be able to work well with public and co-workers in a kind, respectful and compassionate manner. Intermediate computer skills (WORD, EXCEL), some billing experience is a plus, attention to detail a must.

Required Qualifications & Special Skills: Minimum of two years of office/customer service experience. We are searching for someone who is extremely kind, efficient, detail oriented, works well with others, enjoys working with the public.

Education:

Some college, A.A. or B.A. College graduate a plus.

Please send cover letter and resume to: Duggan’s Serra Mortuary 500 Westlake Avenue Daly City, CA 94014 ATTN: Receptionist Position

21

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

Executive Administrative Assistant

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Regular Full-time (37.5 hours/week), Non-Exempt Looking to make a difference?

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

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

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

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

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

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

CLASSIFIEDS TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CALL (415) 614-5642 | VISIT www.catholic-sf.org

Archdiocese of SAN FRANCISCO

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

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES R55 ( ! 5." 5 /&&5, (! 5) 5*/ &# 5, & .#)(-5 /.# -65#( &/ #(!5." 5*)-#.#)(#(!5) 5." 5 , " #-")*5#(5." 5 print, audio, visual and social media.

R55 ( , . 5-., . !# -5 ( 5*& (-5 ),5 ,#-#-5 )''/(# .#)(-5)(5 &&5% 35#--/ R55 ( & 5 &&5 -* .-5) 5' # 5, & .#)(-65#( &/ #(!5, *, - (.#(!5." 5 , " #) - 5#(5." 5' # 5 -51 &&5 -5 Catholic institutions moments of crisis, and preparing other Archdiocese representatives for media appearances R55 /* ,0#- 5." 5 #.),5) 5 .")&# 5 (5 , ( #- )651"# "5#-5." 5 , " #) - (5( 1-51 %&3

QUALIFICATIONS R55Äť),)/!"5%()1& ! 5) 5 "/, "5),! (#4 .#)(65 ( 5%()1& ! 5) 5." 5)* , .#)(-65*,) /, -65. "#(!-65 and theological beliefs of the Catholic Church R55 ,)0 (5 2* ,# ( 5#(5 ,.# /& .#(!5 Äż .#0 &35, &#!#)/-5*)&# # -5#(5 &&5' # R55 #&#.35.)5#(. , .51 &&51#."5 50 ,# .35) 5 #, .),-5#(5." 5 " ( ,365' ( ! 5. '-51 &&65 ( 5 )), #( . 5 ' -- !#(!5.",)/!")/.5 5& ,! 5),! (#4 .#)(5 R55 /-.5 5 /&&35-/**),.#0 5) 5." 5 !#-. ,#/'5) 5." 5 .")&# 5 "/, " R55 /-.5 5 5*, .# #(!5 .")&# 65#(5!)) 5-. ( #(!51#."5." 5 .")&# 5 "/, "5 ( 5 5 )''#.. 5.)5." 5 full range of Catholic Social Teaching R55 )'*/. ,5*,)Ĺ€ # ( 35#(5 65 (. ,( .65 7 #&5 ( 5 '#&# ,#.351#."5-) # &5' # 5-/ "5 -5 1#.. ,65 (-. !, '65 ))%65 . 8

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Senior Staff Accountant ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO Cathedral Hill/Pacific Heights Looking to make a difference?

We, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, pledge ourselves to be a dynamic and collaborative community of faith known for its quality of leadership; richness of diversity of culture and peoples and united in faith, hope and love. We have over 4,000 employees, 90 Parishes, 65 Elementary Schools and 4 High Schools.

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

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

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

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

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

Preferred Qualifications: • 3 years of not-for-profit accounting experience • Proficient level of MS Office Suite

• Blackbaud, Serenic experience • Practicing Catholic

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

• Principals only. Recruiters please don’t contact this job poster. • Please, no phone calls about this job! • Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

TO APPLY: Qualified applicants should e-mail resume and cover letter to: schmidtp@sfrchdiocese.org Patrick Schmidt, Acting Director Human Resources Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, Ca 94109-6602 Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

R55 5 " &),]-5 !, 5B -. ,]-5 !, 5*, ,, C5#(5"/' (#.# -65 )''/(# .#)(-65$)/,( &#-'65*/ &# 5 policy or public relations R55 #(#'/'5) 5Ĺ€0 53 ,-5),5'), 5#(5' # 5, & .#)(-5*&/-5.1)53 ,-5) 5' ( !#(!5 5' # 5/(#.5#(5 5 frequently fast paced environment R55 * #Ĺ€ 5 2* ,# ( 5#(5 "/, "5),! (#4 .#)( &5 ( 5)* , .#)(-5*,) /, -5),5 5 )'*& 265'/&.#7/(#.5 ),! (#4 .#)(5B*, , &35()(*,)Ĺ€.C51#."5- ,0# 5),# (. .#)(855 R5 #&#(!/ &5#(5 * (#-"5*, ,,

Please submit resume and cover letter to: Attn: Patrick Schmidt, Acting Director of Human Resources

Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way R San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Fax: (415) 614-5536 / E-mail: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org +/ &5 **),./(#.35 '*&)3 ,:5+/ &#Ĺ€ 5 ( # . -51#."5 ,#'#( &5"#-.),# -5 , 5 )(-# , 8

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SOUGHT The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20152016 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

Please send resume and a letter of interest by April 1st, 2015 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

22 CALENDAR

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

FRIDAY, JAN. 30 EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, Mercy Chapel: Jan. 30, “Climbing the Mountain with Jesus”; Feb. 27, “Serving with Jesus”; March 27, “Remaining with Jesus”; April 24, “Walking Joyfully in the Spirit.” RSVP to Mercy Sister Jean Evans, (650) 3734508; Jevans@mercywmw.org.

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

Free dance lesson from 7 p.m. Mardi Gras grub available for purchase.

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

LENT PREP: Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park presents “A Day of Spiritual Renewal and Preparation for Lent” with composer Dan Schutte known for his works including “Here I am Lord” 9- 2 p.m. $50 per person includes lunch. The workshop is designed for liturgy committees, liturgical ministers, music ministers, catechists, RCIA teams.

The day will explore themes of Lent with time for personal spiritual renewal. Music will be an important component during the workshop with many selections from Dan’s repertoire. www.vallombrosa.org; (650) 325-5614.

SUNDAY, FEB. 1 FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits and

SATURDAY, FEB. 7 MASS FOR SICK: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating World Day of the Sick, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Archbishop Geary Boulevard, Salvatore J. San Francisco Cordileone sponsored by the Order of Malta. kenmryan@aol.com; (415) 865-6718.

SUNDAY, FEB. 8 100TH YEAR: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of 100th anniversary Mass at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, Jamestown Avenue between Third Street and Jennings, San Francisco, 10 a.m.. Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, concelebrates; www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org. (415) 468-3434.

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

Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the public. Free parking in all USF lots. Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. Feb 1, “Pastoral Out-

anniversary Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant and homilist, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

Register at www.sfanniversary.net or (415) 614-5680 by Feb. 12. Registration is required. A $20 donation from each couple is asked.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 9 a.m. followed by parish procession and reception. (650) 7559786; olphrectory@gmail.com.

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

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

reach and Ministry to Gays, Lesbians, Trans-genders and their Families” with Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey, University Ministry at USF; www.stignatiuscff.org/ adult-faith-formation/.

VESPERS: Evening prayer with music led by choir members from Bay

FINANCIAL ADVISOR

“The most compassionate care in town”

415-573-5141 or 650-993-8036 *Irish owned & operated *Serving from San Francisco to North San Mateo

HOME HEALTH CARE

Retirement planning College savings plans Comprehensive financial planning Kevin Tarrant Financial Advisor 750 Lindaro Street, Suite 300 San Rafael, CA 94901 415-482-2737 © 2013 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC. NY CS 7181378 BC008 07/12

Irish Help at Home

Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?

Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended.

Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling: ❖ 30 years experience with individuals, . couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented

“The Clifford Mollison Team”

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

DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing.

It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

COUNSELING

GP10-01506P-N06/10

REAL ESTATE

ART EXHIBIT: “Reformations: Dürer and the New Age of Print” through Feb. 22 noon to 6 p.m. daily, Thacher Gallery in Gleeson Library, Geschke Center, Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Ave.nue on USF campus; (415) 422-5178; www. usfca.edu/library/thacher; admission free. This is a collaborative, studentcurated exhibition on the earliest moments of print and printed book culture in Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO VISIT www.catholic-sf.org | CALL (415) 614-5642 EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

THE PROFESSIONALS HEALTH CARE AGENCY SUPPLE SENIOR CARE

Area parishes under the direction of Benedictine Father Samuel Weber, director of Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park; St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, 5:30 p.m.

Liturgy commemorates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, confession available 4:30-5 p.m.; reception and buffet supper follow the service.

(415) 456-7820.

When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk • Family • Work • Relationships • Depression • Anxiety • Addictions

Dr. Daniel J. Kugler Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 25 years experience

Confidential • Compassionate • Practical

(415) 921-1619 • Insurance Accepted 1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109

SALON

❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step

High Quality Home Care Since 1996 Home Care Attendants • Companions • CNA’s Hospice • Respite Care • Insured and Bonded San Mateo 650.347.6903

San Francisco 415.759.0520

Marin 415.721.7380

www.irishhelpathome.com

Real Estate

❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation

Born in Marin, Raised in Marin, Serving Marin.

30 years experience

❖ Free Counseling for Iraqi/Afghanistani Vets

Ask about our $1,000 Charity Donation Program Michael J. Clifford Broker Associate 415.209.9036

Peter C. Mollison Realtor® 415.254.8776

MCliffordSellsRealEstate.com MClifford@ BradleyRealEstate.com BRE# 00905577

MarinLuxuryHome.com PMollison@ BradleyRealEstate.com BRE# 01914782

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation

www.InnerChildHealing.com

Children, Men Women (by: Henry)

Hair Care Services: Clipper Cut - Scissor Cut Highlight Hair Treatment - Perm Waxing - Tinting - Roler Set

Mon - Sat: 9:30 am - 5 pm Sunday: 10:30 am - 3:30pm Appt. & Walk-Ins Welcome

1414 Sutter Street (Franklin St & Gough St) San Francisco, CA 94109 Tel: 415.972.9995

www.qlotussalon.com

CALENDAR 23

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

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

TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan since 1983. (650) 340-7452.

ETHICS: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club Mass and meeting, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae, 7 a.m. liturgy followed by breakfast and talk on making ethical decisions by Jesuit Father John Koeplin, rector, Loyola House Jesuit Community, San Francisco. Members $8, visitors $10. (415) 461-0704 between 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.

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

SUNDAY, FEB. 8 VOCATIONS: Open House celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life: The Do-

minican Sisters of San Rafael invite you to St. Rose Convent, 2515 Pine St., San Francisco, 3-4:30 p.m. Join us in a prayer for peace in our chapel, followed by visiting and refreshments in the convent. In Marin County, you are invited to join us at Dominican Convent, 1540 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 3-4:30 p.m. We will share a prayer for peace, followed by visiting and refreshments. Please RSVP for either location by calling (415) 453-8303 or emailing crbush@sanrafaelop.org. The Sisters of Mercy invite you to Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. All are welcome to join us from 9:30-11 a.m. and to stay for Sunday liturgy at 11:15 in our main chapel.

Come visit our home, learn about our rich heritage, and meet our sisters who serve in a variety of ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please RSVP by calling (650) 340-7400.

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

Antonette, (415) 509-4810.

FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the public. Free parking in all USF lots.

Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@ usfca.edu. Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. Feb. 8, “Seeing God in All Things: What it Means and How to Do It,” with Jesuit Father Rob Scholla, University of Santa Clara. www.stignatiuscff.org/adultfaith-formation/.

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

THURSDAY, FEB. 12 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

MUSIC TRIBUTE: “Angel of the Amazon,” a concert performance of opera dedicated to the memory of Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang on the 10th anniversary of her death at the hands of murderous landowners in the rain forests of Brazil with composer Evan Mack conducting. The evening features the voices of baritone Jeffrey Williams and mezzo soprano Caitlin Mathes with the Viva la Musica chorus, Shulamit Hoffman, director; Jim McGarry, jmmcgarry@ndnu.edu; (650) 508-4120; Cunningham Memorial Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, Ralston Avenue, Belmont, 7

Lic. #742961

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

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

SATURDAY, FEB. 21 HANDICAPABLES MASS: The first 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with monthly Mass and lunch at noon in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

PAINTING

CONSTRUCTION CAHALAN CONSTRUCTION

John Spillane

p.m. Admission is free. Donations to the Sister Dorothy Stang Scholarship Fund welcome.

TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO VISIT www.catholic-sf.org | CALL (415) 614-5642 EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

HOME SERVICES FENCES & DECKS

PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

650.291.4303

ELECTRICAL

ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE 650.322.9288 Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

HANDYMAN

Painting • Carpentry • Tile Sliding • Stucco • Dryrot Additions • Remodels • Repairs

415.279.1266

Lic#582766

mikecahalan@gmail.com

O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION Kitchen/Bath Remodel Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs Plumbing Repair/Replacement

Call: 650.580.2769

Cell (415) 517-5977 Grant (650) 757-1946 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

CA License #965268

• Design - Build • Retail - Fixtures • Industrial • Service/Maintenance • Casework Installation

Lic. # 505353B-C36

ROOFING

(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227

Serving Marin, San Francisco & San Mateo Counties

Support CSF

If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109

IRISH Eoin PAINTING Lehane Discount to CSF Readers

415.368.8589 Lic.#942181

eoin_lehane@yahoo.com

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

Tel: (650) 630-1835

S.O.S. PAINTING CO. Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal Lic # 526818 • Senior Discount

John V. Rissanen Cell: (916) 517-7952 Office: (916) 408-2102 Fax: (916) 408-2086 john@newmarketsinc.com 2190 Mt. Errigal Lane Lincoln, CA 95648

DINING

Quality interior and exterior painting, demolition , fence (repairs), roof repairs, cutter (cleaning and repairs), landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding

All Purpose

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

Italian American Social Club of San Francisco Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions 25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO

www.iasf.com

415-585-8059

415-269-0446 • 650-738-9295 www.sospainting.net F REE E STIMATES

Bill Hefferon Painting

Bonded & Insured

CA License 819191

Cell 415-710-0584 BHEFFPAINTING@sbcglobal.net Office 415-731-8065

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

PLUMBING

HOLLAND

Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND

CA LIC #817607

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235

24

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 30, 2015

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS COLMA Des Arce Abadilla Emilia Rapisura Agcaoili Giovanna Julia Aicardi Esther Alcantar Enrique V. Altamirano, Sr. Oris Apostle Rosario Aquino Mary Armas Rudolfo Austria Francisco Avendano Louis Bacigalupi, Jr. Vincent H. Baldocchi Gloria J. Barsocchini Frederick Edward Bello Constancio A. Bernaldez Mary Anne Bertken Katherine Buckley Vincent R. Budesa Alvin Joseph Bullentini Anne T. Burke Marion Laura Busby Silvia Bustos Margaret M. Callahan Rosalina Dela Cruz Camacho Frank J. Camilleri Josephine A. Camozzi Edna C. Carniglia Marguerite Allen Carpenter Cobb Jane M. Cashman Nubia Castellon Jose Raul Castro Eileen M. Cavellini Charlotte R. Clements Ernesto Vidal Cordero Lois L. Cordo Richard Tadashi Cuaresma Patricia Frances Cummings Joseph J. Curran Deogracias Garcia Cusi Burton S. De Martini Mercedes Delgado Mary Di Guiseppi Edith Duarte Lourdes Estiqueta Jennie M. Farro Brandon J. Fitzgerald Angelo Foppiano Helen Ann Forencich Elvira “Dolly” Francesconi Margaret Patricia Frey

Emilia M. Garcia Estanislao Garfil Romeo H. Goto Victoria Grech Tamara L. Grigg Charlotte L. Grippi Timothy Harrington Maria Luisa Hecht Clara Luz Henriquez Marilouise Hughes Wayne A. Ingebretsen Pavel P. Ionko Louise Marie Isola Jose Santos Jimenez Lawrence A. Johnson Willie Johnson, Jr. (aka William Johnson III) Claudio J. Juarez Peter Ignatius Kenmore Pauline Gregorich Kuchan Eugene L. Lagomarsino Julia Lawler Paul Bryant Lawrence Josephine Lombardi Catalina Lopez Dorothy Losinsky William Losinsky Angela Lovergine Leticia Managbanag Fausta S. Mangundayao Aida Manion Michael Raymond Marquez Rosa Martinez Grace R. Mazzaferri Gwen E. McGovern Winefredo Mendoza Dora Miranda Danilo Joe Navas Betty (Mary) O’Connell Joseph S. O’Neill William H. O’Neill Guadalupe Valencia Ochoa Ronald R. Orge Gloria Rose Oross Rina Pacini Ramon K. Pagan Marta “Yula” Pallares Ellen Pepi Socorro Pineda Robert Thomas Pisoni Aloisio Pita Doris C. Pizza Aurora G. Poblador Gabina Morales Pritchard

Teodolfo A. Quijano Millie E. Quijano William J. Rayo Joann C. Rayo Barry Rayo Rene Martinez Recio, II Marie L. Reichart Paul E. Renzi Lea Ann Reynolds Thomas Florentino Rosas Guadalupe Rosillo Christopher S. Salvi Judith Ann Saunders (Judy Gluck) Horacio Seaward Claire G. Showers Lillie M. Simms Jennie Tong Ramon Rodriguez Torres Josephine Justa Torres Ralph Turner Peter Uzeta Manuel P. Uzeta Raul Velez Jose Trinidad Vigil Venancio A. Villanueva Virginia P. Walden Tat On Wong Jerry S.P. Yee Susanna Yee

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Henry George Brandon, Jr. Caroline M. DeSouza Mary Ellen Fradelizio Michael Manick Alfred “Al” Massagli Lt. Col. Robert S. Urban Angeline Annie Woodall

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Sandy Cuen Sokopeti Langi Margarita Santos Lara Yeltsin Mendoza Henry Moras Marcelino B. Pacheco Omid Sharif

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, February 7, 2015 All Saints Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Tony P. LaTorre, Celebrant – Pastor St. Phillip the Apostle

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.