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VATICAN CITY – In every age and in every culture, people seek God just as the Three Kings did and, in every age, with the help of the Holy Spirit, they find him in the surprising humility of a baby born in a manger, Pope Francis said.

“Led by the Spirit, they come to realize that God’s criteria are quite different from those of men, that God does not manifest himself in the power of this world, but speaks to us in the humbleness of his love,” the pope said Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany.

Before beginning the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis and two families – each with two small children – paid homage to the newborn Lord by kissing a statue of Baby Jesus that had been placed in front of the main altar on Christmas Eve. The journey of the Magi from the East and their discovery of the babe, the pope said in his homily, is a sign that Jesus came to save all peoples, not just his fellow Jews.

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Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates Mass on the feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 6.

Pope names 15 new cardinal electors, most from global South With the list, the pope continues a movement he started with his first batch of appointments a year ago, giving gradually more representation at the highest levels of the church to poorer countries in the global South. According to the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the new cardinals will include the first in history from Cape Verde, Tonga and Myanmar.

The Feb. 14 consistory will bring the total number of cardinals under the age of 80 to 125. Until they reach their 80th birthdays, cardinals are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Blessed Paul VI limited the number of electors to 120, but later popes have occasionally exceeded that limit.

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VATICAN CITY – Underscoring the geographical diversity of his selections, Pope Francis named 15 cardinal electors “from 14 nations of every continent, showing the inseparable link between the church of Rome and the particular churches present in the world.”

In addition to 15 new electors, Pope Francis named five new cardinals who are over the age of 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote in a conclave. Popes have used such nominations to honor churchmen for their scholarship or other contributions.

The pope announced the names Jan. 4, after praying the Angelus with a crowd in St. Peter’s Square,

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‘9 Days for Life’ novena: A period of prayer, penance and pilgrimage Jan. 17-25 will mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. The “9 Days for Life” novena encourages nationwide solidarity in prayer for daily intentions, including for couples experiencing infertility, those mourning the loss of a child through abortion, children in need of adoptive homes, and for an end to abortion and use of the death penalty. The initiative is part of the 2014-15 Respect Life Program of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops with the theme “Each of Us is a Masterpiece of God’s Creation,” which is adapted from the words of Pope Francis’ 2013 Day for Life greeting.

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Archbishop Riordan High School faculty, alumni and members of the Marianist community gathered at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, to honor namesake Archbishop William Patrick Riordan in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the prelate’s death Dec. 27. Archbishop Riordan invited the Marianists to San Francisco in 1884 where they served at St. Joseph Parish, St. James Boys School, St. James High School and Archbishop Riordan High School. Pictured are Riordan principal Vittorio Anastasio; Marianist Brother William Bolts; and school president Joseph Conti. Brother Bolts, a Riordan alumnus and now school historian, was guest speaker at the commemoration.

New mural illustrates St. Brigid School motto: ‘We have heart’ The Parent Teacher Guild of St. Brigid School and Academy of Art University unveiled the “Animal Race,” a mural created by students of the university’s fine art mural painting class, on the St. Brigid campus, 2250 Franklin St., San Francisco, Dec. 18.

A blessing of the art work by St. Mary’s Cathedral pastor and rector Msgr. John Talesfore was followed by a performance by the award-winning St. Brigid Choir.

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A news release about the event said the “Animal Race” serves to illustrate the K-8 school’s motto “We have heart” and the message of how some are quick to compete and excel and others hold back and are more contemplative. “This underlying theme is about children discovering their place in a competitive world and emphasizes the point: Be who you are and go at your own pace,” the press release said.

The mural is dedicated to the memory of Sister Mary Jo Wise, a longtime supporter and teacher at St. Brigid, who died in May 2014.

Pictured Dec. 18 at the unveiling and blessing of the St. Brigid School mural are, from left, Mike Butler, who donated the scaffolding; Msgr. John Talesfore; school parent Lisa Bazinet; Academy of Art University president Elisa Stephens, St. Brigid PTG president Richelle Pozas-O’Donnell; AAU student muralists Juan Ruiz, Pam Marano, Kenneth Malone and Tim Andrews.

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‘Biggest human rights rally’ returns for March for Life Sarah McCarthy

Papal nuncio to bring message from Pope Francis to Walk for Life Jan. 24

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WASHINGTON – “The biggest human rights rally in the world,” as one regular participant described it, will return to the nation’s capital for the annual March for Life Jan. 22.

The 42nd rally on the National Mall and march to Capitol Hill marks the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade that invalidated state and federal restrictions on abortions, legalizing abortion virtually on demand.

Micaiah Bilger, education director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, said she sees the march as an opportunity to move forward from Roe v.

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“The March for Life is, I think, the biggest human rights rally in the world and it’s wonderful to go and be with other people and unite under that cause,” Bilger said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “It’s important for us to stand up in our nation’s capital and say, ‘Abortion is a human rights injustice and we want to see all life protected.’”

The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation usually brings a few hundred participants from around the state, Bilger said. The range of people who attend – from high school students to older men and women who have been going for many years – offers an opportunity for participants to meet others of diverse backgrounds who share the same beliefs about abortion.

“We have a really good, really diverse group of people that go down every year,” she said. “There are so many young people who are going to the March for Life nowadays, so many (pro-life) clubs that are popping up ... in high schools and college campuses, and there are ... just so many people who are stepping up and seeing that (abortion) is an injustice.”

The March for Life also consistently draws many pro-life groups from college campuses each year.

Katie Daniels, a sophomore at Boston College and president of the school’s pro-life club, called the march “the highlight of our year,” and said she expected about 30 students when their bus leaves campus the night before the march.

“It’s a great way to (be) a witness to life outside our campus on a national scale and it’s something we look forward to very much as a club, to kind of participate in this broader national dialogue about what it means to be pro-life,” Daniels said.

Harvard University will also be sending 20 students to the rally. Jim McGlone, a senior at Harvard who has attended six times, said young people are a significant part of the movement.

“I think it shows that this is really the future of our country and our culture,” he said. “The pro-life movement is alive and vibrant and young and joyous and is really a force in our society that can make a really positive change,” he said.

Maggie Bick, a board member of Missouri Right to Life, said she expects about 250 people to join the 72hour round trip to Washington. Bick said she feels it is important to attend because abortion is not only an injustice, but a mortal sin.

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A man holds signs and prays during the 2012 March for Life rally in Washington. “(Since) our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund the abortion of other people who decide to make that fatal decision, I think we are being complicit in their sin,” she said. “That is why it is worth the fight to me to do everything we can to change the laws, diminish the number of abortions and in particular make the drive for not using our tax dollars for abortion.”

Pope Francis will send a message to the participants in the Walk for Life West Coast – and his diplomatic representative to the United States will once again attend the largest pro-life event on the West Coast Jan. 24 in San Francisco.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States, will attend the Walk for Life this year, according to the office of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

Either Archbishop Cordileone or Archbishop Viganò will read Pope Francis greeting, said Karen McLaughlin, executive assistant to Archbishop Cordileone. Pope Francis also sent greetings to the Walk for Life in 2014.

Archbishop Viganò first attended the walk in 2013.

The Walk for Life West Coast begins at 12:30 p.m. at Civic Center with the walk along Market Street scheduled for 1:30 p.m. More than 50,000 people are expected for the annual event. This year a young woman Rebekah Buell who saved her baby by using a technique to reverse RU486 will be a featured speaker. Buell now has a healthy baby boy, Zechariah, as well as an older son and is a junior in college pursuing a degree in English.

Founded in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, the Walk for Life West Coast’s mission is to change the perceptions of a society that thinks abortion is an answer. Walk participants are expected from throughout the Bay Area and across the United States and Canada.

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Demographic changes affecting church now an emerging reality for nation Mark Pattison

A majority of Americans in all races and ethnic groups now live in the suburbs, not in the central cities. This was true of Asians by the 1990 census, Hispanics in 2000 and AfricanAmericans in 2010.

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WASHINGTON – Catholics in the United States have been told frequently over the past decade or more about the demographic changes coming to the makeup of their church – especially with the growing number of Hispanics now living in the U.S. Now, however, it’s the United States’ turn to recognize and deal with the emerging reality of demographic change.

In a Dec. 15 program at the Brookings Institution, Brookings senior fellow William Frey, a demographer and trend-spotting expert, outlined some of the truths that can be gleaned from U.S. Census data that appear in his new book “Diversity Explosion.”

For one thing, a majority of Americans in all races and ethnic groups now live in the suburbs, not in the central cities. This was true of Asians by the 1990 census, and of Hispanics in the 2000 census. The 2010 census showed that 51 percent of all African-Americans now live in suburban jurisdictions.

Among African-Americans, after generations of South-to-North migration, the pattern is now North-to-South. An illustration of this is in metropolitan Chicago and Atlanta. Fifty years ago, there were 1.2 million African-Americans in the Chicago area – three times that of Atlanta. Today, both metropolitan areas have more than 1.6 million African-Americans, and metro Atlanta has the edge over the Windy City.

More telling details lie in the migration of Hispanics within the United States. Frey identified 145 U.S. communities that show a large influx of Hispanics where previously there had been relatively few. He also found another 44 communities where Hispanics already having a significant presence, but large numbers are headed there, and 43 more where Hispanics are a considerable portion of the population but where growth is more modest.

Many of these communities were in the coastal and southeastern portions of the United States. Very few regions were exempt from this growth in Hispanic population; New England was one part of the country that was host to none of these Hispanic population trends.

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In this Aug. 6, 2006, file photo, Msgr. Felipe Estevez blesses the altar with incense during a vigil for Cuba at the Santuario Nacional Ermita de la Caridad in Miami, Florida. The demographic changes affecting Catholics in the United States have become a reality for the nation, with the growing number of Hispanics. sociology department at The Catholic University of America, Washington, and a fellow at its Institute on Policy Research & Catholic Studies, told Catholic News Service that Frey failed to mention “racial tensions that initially erupt in many areas that were traditionally dominated by one group, and we have newcomers who are moving there, and they don’t know quite well what to make of it.”

He cited Greensboro as just one of many cities throughout North Carolina now undergoing these tensions, and suggested that post-Katrina New Orleans could be such a site in the future.

Ronald Brownstein, political coverage coordinator for Atlantic Media, noted a more current trend: “This is the first school year where a majority of the K (kindergarten) through 12 (12th grade) population is not white,” he said at the Brookings briefing.

How the country responds to these demographic changes, both in policy and in politics, will determine the direction of the United States in the generations to come.

Frey said he is optimistic about the ability of Americans to adapt to these changes, adding that Americans’ selfinterest will guide the nation.

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“Older Americans need to have the young generation succeed,” he added, noting that the younger generation is increasingly nonwhite and the older generation is predominantly white; 85 percent of all Americans age 85 and up are white, while only 51 percent of today’s children under age 5 are white.

Brownstein sees the potential for trouble ahead. He points to the current deadlocks in Congress.

“This generation doesn’t want to invest in the younger generation,” he said, even though the younger generation’s taxes would help pay for the older generation’s entitlements like Social Security.

Brownstein said the dividing lines are clear in the political arena. Republicans have become the party of whites; 90 percent of Mitt Romney’s votes in his 2012 presidential bid came from whites.

On the other hand, the last Democrat to win the White House with a majority of white support was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although a majority of workingclass whites supported Democratic candidates through Walter Mondale’s unsuccessful bid in 1984. By the same token, President Barack Obama is the first president to win the presidency while losing among whites by 10 per-

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“Republicans don’t have enough white votes to win the White House consistently,” Brownstein said. “On the other hand, Democrats don’t have enough white votes to win the House or the Senate consistently,” noting that, with the exception of a four-year span, the GOP has been in control of the lower chamber since 1995. This accounts for much of the gridlock in Washington, he added.

Pumar subscribes to the notion that all politics is local.

“Realignment depends a lot on local conditions,” he said. “Hispanics and minorities don’t tend to vote. They don’t think to register. If they do, they don’t come out and vote to their full potential.”

Given Obama’s executive orders in November on immigration policy, “to what extent there is political realignment, a lot depends on the local population dynamics,” Pumar told CNS. “It tends to favor the Democratic Party, but the Democrats shouldn’t take this vote for granted.”

And how Americans treat their neighbors, “that really is the $10 million question when we talk about race and ethnic relations,” Pumar said. “These tensions are resolved very easily in some cases. In other cases, the tensions are not resolved that easily.”

“For instance, in this area of D.C., you have an area like Arlington County (Virginia), where they actually pride themselves on being multiracial. Then you have a city like Manassas (Virginia), which was very supportive of kicking Hispanics out and them moving to other cities. It’s very difficult to generalize, to be honest with you.”

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Maryland governor commutes sentences of last 4 men on death row Catholic News Service

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland’s outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Dec. 31 he would commute the death sentences of the last four inmates on the state’s death row to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

In 2013, Maryland’s General Assembly repealed capital punishment, but that did not affect the sentences of what at the time were five inmates on death row. One of those inmates, John Booth-El, died of natural causes earlier in 2014.

The state’s last execution was in 2005.

The action was lauded by the Maryland Catholic Conference, which has long advocated for the end of capital punishment.

O’Malley, a Catholic whose second term as governor ends Jan. 21, said in

a statement that recent appeals and an opinion by outgoing Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler have called into question the legality of carrying out those earlier death sentences.

“I have now met or spoken with many of the survivors of Maryland Gov. the victims of these Martin O’Malley brutal murders,” said O’Malley’s statement. “They are all good and decent people who have generously granted me the courtesy of discussing the cases of their individual family members.”

He said they “have borne their grief bravely along with the additional torment of an unending legal process. If

endless death penalty appeals were to continue, these family members would, no doubt, persevere through that process with continued courage and fortitude.”

O’Malley added that the question at hand is “whether any public good is served by allowing these essentially unexecutable sentences to stand. In my judgment, leaving these death sentences in place does not serve the public good of the people of Maryland – present or future.”

Leaving the sentences in place would, he added, “needlessly and callously subject survivors, and the people of Maryland, to the ordeal of an endless appeals process, with unpredictable twists and turns, and without any hope of finality or closure.”

He said “there is one truth that stands between and before all of us ...

few of us would ever wish for our children or grandchildren to kill another human being or to take part in the killing of another human being.”

O’Malley added that he hopes the commutations “might bring about a greater degree of closure for all of the survivors and their families.”

Mary Ellen Russell of the Maryland Catholic Conference told Catholic News Service that O’Malley’s announcement was not unexpected after Gansler’s November opinion said that, under current law, there was no way to issue regulations for how to execute the remaining inmates.

“It’s a wonderful way to start the new year,” she said, adding that it brings an end to “a lengthy and heart-rending” process of reviewing and ending capital punishment in the state.

Reflection on US ‘racial divide’ is personal for Illinois bishop Catholic News Service

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – In a 19-page reflection on the “racial divide” in the United States, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, who is African-American, said he twice had been the victim of what he considered to be unjust police attitudes.

The episodes “made me very conscious of the fact that simply by being me, I could be the cause of suspicion and concern without doing anything wrong,” wrote Bishop Braxton in “The Racial Divide in the United States: A Reflection for the World Day of Peace 2015,” issued Jan. 1.

Florida bishops disappointed with court rulings

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida’s Catholic bishops said they were disappointed by a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s ban of same-sex marriage as well as with higher courts that denied a stay of the decision.

“Marriage based on the complementarity of the sexes is the lifeblood of family, and family is the

In the first episode, when Bishop Braxton was a priest, “I was simply walking down a street in an apparently all-white neighborhood. A police car drove up beside me and the officer asked, ‘What are you doing in this area?

Do you live around here? Where is your car? You should not be wandering about neighborhoods where you do not live.’”

In the second episode, Bishop Braxton was “driving in my car in an apparently all-white neighborhood with two small chairs in the back seat and a table in the partially open trunk tied with a rope.

A police car with flashing lights pulled me over. The officer asked, ‘Where are you going with that table and those

foundation of our society,” the bishops said Jan. 5. “The crisis that sadly the family is experiencing today will only by aggravated by imposing this redefinition of marriage.

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The bishops said the redefinition of marriage “will have implications not yet fully understood.”

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I wondered what I was doing to make someone suspicious. Many years would pass before I would hear the expression ‘racial profiling.’”

In neither case was Bishop Braxton wearing clerical garb. Even so, “I am not a completely impartial outside observer in the face of these events.”

In his “call to Christian dialogue,” Bishop Braxton alluded to Pope Francis’ choice of theme for the 2015 World Day of Peace: “No Longer Slaves, but Broth-

ers and Sisters.” In addition to physical bondage, the bishop said, “there are also forms of social, emotional and psychological slavery: slavery to prejudice, racism, bias, anger, frustration, rage, violence and bitterness in the face of systemic injustices. Regrettably, these forms of slavery endure in the United States and they are born from the tragedy of the European ‘slave trade.’”

Bishop Braxton wrote, “Many young students of history are surprised, even shocked, to learn that Catholic institutions and religious communities ‘owned’ human beings from West Africa as enslaved workers on their plantations.”

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Pope expected Papal visit a ‘healing balm’ to to visit long-suffering Filipinos, says Canadian New York, Washington

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TORONTO – Faith is second nature “to most, if not all Filipinos,” especially those who were raised in the Philippines and grew up in a Catholic home, said Faye Arellano.

“When we immigrate to Canada or elsewhere, faith is the one important thing that we bring with us, because we believe that it the one constant realization of the things that we hope for,” she told the Catholic Register, Canada’s national Catholic newspaper.

“Even if the road may be difficult at times, we can be assured that with faith there is nothing that we cannot overcome. The suffering takes on a whole new meaning, and by faith we believe that the journey with God is always good for us. As I always tell my friends, (CNS photo/Harley Palangchao, Reuters) ‘Faith is great,’” she said.

British artist Peter Pinder paints a miniature statue of Pope Francis, which he sculpted with Arellano, a Toronto legal assistant, fiberglass and cold cast bronze materials, at his house near Manila, Philippines, Jan. 5. was among a number of Catholic Filipinos in Canada and elsewhere who spoke Filipinos, especially for those who have especially, in prayer about a seemingly been directly and deeply affected by the about their strong faith, deep devotion unsolvable problem, “I receive a clear ravages of the natural calamities,” she to Mary and a focus on family as well answer... guiding me.” said. “It’s almost that Filipinos are being as the highly anticipated pastoral visit Lim, 60, is involved with his parvisited by the light to cast out the darkof Pope Francis to their homeland Jan. ish council, teaches Rite of Christian ness of the devastation. ... Viva il papa!”

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Initiation of Adults classes, is a lector, More than 500,000 Filipinos live in Many also are looking beyond the pabelongs to the Knights of Columbus and Canada. Of that number, more than pal trip to the International Eucharistic serves on the Vancouver Archdiocesan 200,000 reside in the greater Toronto Congress to be held in the Philippines Pastoral Council. Most importantly, he area, more than in any other city in in 2016. said, he is an extraordinary minister of Canada. Vancouver, British Columbia, “The pope will be like a healing balm holy Communion. is home to the second-largest Filipino to a long-suffering people needing just Filipinos’ faith is “passed on from community in Canada, with nearly that,” said Arellano, former head of one generation to another ... because 94,000 Filipinos residing there. the Live-in Caregiver’s Ministry at Our of strong family,” he said. “It does not “My faith is what makes me,” said Lady of the Assumption Church in disappear even when young people go to Arcie Lim, an accountant and comptrol- college, to other countries – the link is Toronto. ler, who belongs to St. Joseph Parish in The Philippines is still recovering always there.”

Vancouver. “It is my central source of from Typhoon Haiyan, which killed As for Filipinos’ devotion to Mary, it strength, inspiration. It’s like a beacon more than 6,000 people and destroyed “cannot be put in words,” he said. of light for me, makes me want to strive countless homes and buildings in NoNorma and Nick Borja, members of for the best, to love. Without my faith I vember 2013.

St. Paul Parish in the Vancouver suburb can’t (do anything). It keeps me ground“The pope’s visit is dubbed as a of Richmond, were accountants before ed, gives me spiritual nourishment.” ‘mercy and compassion visit,’ because going to work full-time for Couples His faith is “an ongoing process,” he he is primarily lending support and solifor Christ Canada. The international said, but told Catholic News Service he darity with those in the southern region Catholic lay ecclesial movement has small miracles after of the Philippines,” said Arellano. groups for children, young adults and Calling St. Anne’s of thas he “experienced Sunset Alumni prayer.” After turning to God, and Mary singles, marriage enrichment programs “I couldn’t be more excited for and outreach to the divorced.

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican secretary of state said he expects Pope Francis to visit New York City and Washington, D.C., during his September trip to the United States.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who as secretary of state is considered the highest Vatican official under the pope, spoke to reporters Jan. 6, following a ceremony to dedicate a new building at the Pontifical North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome.

Asked if Pope Francis would visit the United Nations in New York in September, Cardinal Parolin replied: “I think so, I think so, but no official announcement has been done. But everybody is speaking of that.”

Asked if the same trip would include a visit to Washington, the cardinal replied: “Of course,” then added with a laugh, “but no official confirmation has been given.”

In November, Pope Francis confirmed reports that he would attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia in September. So far, that is the only confirmed stop on what is expected to be a more extensive papal visit to North America.

Cardinal Parolin was also asked about the pope’s decision not to create any U.S. cardinals at a consistory Feb. 14, where most of the 15 new cardinal electors will hail from developing countries in the global South, including several that have never been represented in the College of Cardinals.

“The Holy Father wanted to give this broader sense of the universality of the church,” and so looked to dioceses that normally do not have a cardinal, he said. “It’s nothing against anybody, that is for sure.”

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New Zealand cardinal-designate asked for pastoral approach on Eucharist Peter Grace Catholic News Service

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Cardinal-designate John Dew of Wellington has appealed for a more pastoral approach for some of the family issues facing New Zealand Catholics.

At the 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, he called on church leaders to discuss a “pastoral approach” to ending “the scandal of hunger for eucharistic food.”

He said the church would be enriched if dedicated Catholics excluded from the Eucharist because of church rules could return to the Lord’s table.

He also spoke of an increasing number of marriages between Catholics and members of other Christian faiths, in which the couple could not receive Communion together.

During last October’s Synod of Bishops on the family, he told Salt and Light Television that the New Zealand bishops want “to see language in church documents changed so that it’s something that gives people hope and support and encouragement, rather than being something that appears to many people” as basically saying “they can’t meet the mark, they can’t live up to the standards the church is asking of them.”

When the bishops were preparing for the synod, they had a “huge” response, he said: “twenty-five

percent of the people responding were nonpracticing Catholics and the message was that ‘It’s impossible when we’re told that because we’re using contraceptives we’re intrinsically evil or that we’re living in an irregular situation – the language is so negative that it New Zealand doesn’t help us.’

Archbishop “So, my intervenJohn Dew tion was: Let’s not be concentrating on rules, but looking for language that helps people and encourages people in their journey toward God.” Pope Francis announced Jan. 4 that the Wellington archbishop would be one of 20 new cardinals elevated at a consistory at the Vatican Feb. 14.

In a statement, Cardinal-designate Dew said his appointment is recognition of the Catholic Church in Aotearoa, the Maori word for New Zealand, and the contribution it makes to the global Catholic family.

He also said he was delighted to hear that Bishop Soane Mafi of Tonga also had been named.

“Together it is not only great news for New Zealand and Tonga, but for the Oceania region,” he said.

“Although we are geographically far from much of the world, Pope

Francis has gone to the periphery of the world to name new cardinals.”

New Zealand last had a cardinal eligible to vote at a papal conclave five years ago, until Cardinal Thomas Williams, retired archbishop of Wellington, turned 80.

John Dew was born in Waipawa, a small settlement on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, May 5, 1948. He attended Catholic schools through high school. He studied philosophy at Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch and theology at Holy Cross Seminary in Dunedin.

He was ordained a priest in May 1976 and became auxiliary bishop of Wellington in May 1995. He was appointed coadjutor archbishop in 2004 and succeeded Cardinal Williams as archbishop the following year.

He is president of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and heads the Military Ordinariate of New Zealand.

In a 2013 interview with the Auckland-based NZ Catholic newspaper, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, president of Caritas Internationalis, said that during the March 2013 conclave there was a common feeling among the cardinals that the Vatican needed “internationalization.”

“We need more Oceania cardinals,” he said in Wellington during a press conference with Catholic media.

Pope: True charity is ‘wisdom of the heart’

VATICAN CITY – “Quality of life” proponents who think the gravely ill lead lives not worth living are peddling a great lie, Pope Francis said in a message for the 2015 World Day of the Sick.

Criticizing approaches that devalue human lives, especially the lives of those who suffer from serious illness, Pope Francis highlighted the importance of offering increased care and concern instead, urging people to demonstrate a compassion that does not judge and that “does not demand conversion.”

The World Day of the Sick is celebrated annually Feb. 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Vatican released the text of the papal message Dec. 30.

Pope Francis invited people to see the world and those who are sick or in need of care with “the wisdom of the heart,” which is pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, merciful, certain and sincere.

“It is a way of seeing things infused by the Holy Spirit in the minds and the hearts of those who are sensitive to the sufferings of their brothers and sisters and who can see in them the image of God,” he wrote.

Having “wisdom of the heart” means going out of oneself and serving others with compassion and without judgment – unlike those who, in the biblical story of Job, who thought Job’s misfortune “was a punishment from God for his sins,” the pope said in his message

SF Annual Memorial Service for 2014 Homicide Victims

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Survivors of violent crimes, family and friends of the victims, ex-offenders, restorative justice ministers, and youth from the community will join. All will help carry crosses to remember the people that died as a result of violence in 2014.

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Understanding our differences

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t’s common for us to see God’s grace and blessing in what unites us. We naturally sense the presence of grace when, at our core, we feel a strong moral bond with certain other persons, churches, and faiths.

That, biblically, is what defines family.

But what if what separates us, what if what makes other persons, churches, and faiths seem foreign and strange is also a grace, a difference intended by God? Can we think of our difFATHER ron ferences, as we think of our unity, as a gift from rolheiser God? Most religions, including Christianity, would answer affirmatively.

Thus in both the Jewish and the Christian scriptures there is the strong, recurring motif that God’s message to us generally comes through the stranger, the foreigner, from the one who is different from us, from a source from which we would never expect to hear God’s voice. Added to this is the notion that when God speaks to us we generally experience it as a surprise, as something unexpected, and as something that does not easily square with our normal expectations as to how God should work and how we should learn. There’s a reason for this. Simply put, when we think we are hearing God’s voice in what’s familiar, comfortable, and secure, the temptation is always to reshape the message according to our own image and likeness, and so God often comes to us through the unfamiliar.

Moreover, what’s familiar is comfortable and offers us security; but, as we know, real transformative growth mostly happens when, like the aged Sarah and Abraham, we are forced to set off to a place that’s foreign and frightening and that strips us of all that is comfortable and secure. “Go,” God told Sarah and Abraham, to a land where you don’t know where you’re going. Real growth happens and real grace breaks in when we have to deal with what is other, foreign, different. Learn to understand, writes John of the Cross, more by not understanding than by understanding. What’s dark, unfamiliar, frightening, and uninvited will stretch us in ways that the familiar and secure cannot.

God sends his word to the earth through angels and they’re not exactly something we’re familiar with.

If this is true, then our differences are also a grace. Accordingly, seeing things differently does not mean that we are not seeing the same things. Accordingly, different notions about God and different ways of speaking

about God do not mean that we’re speaking of a different God. The same holds true for our churches, having difference concepts of what it means to be church does not necessarily mean that there isn’t some deeper underlying unity inside our diversity. Similarly for how we conceive of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, how we imagine Christ as being really present inside of bread and wine, can take many forms and can be spoken of in different ways, without it meaning that we’re speaking of a different reality.

John Paul II, addressing an interfaith gathering, once commented that “there are differences in which are reflected the genius and spiritual riches of God to the nations.” Christian de Cherge, after a lifetime of dialogue with Islam, suggests that our differences have a “quasi-sacramental function,” that is, they help to give real flesh in this world to the riches of God, who is ineffable and can never be captured in any one expression.

Our differences then are part of the mystery of our unity. Real unity, which needs to reflect the richness of God, does not exist in uniformity and homogenization, but only in bringing into harmony many different gifts and richness, like a beautiful bouquet brings together a variety of different flowers inside one vase. Our legitimate differences are rooted inside of the same God. This has implications for every area of our lives, from how we receive immigrants in our countries, to how we deal with different personalities inside our families and places of work, to how we deal with other Christian denominations and other religions. Without endorsing a naive syncretism and without denying the rightful place for discernment, it must still be affirmed that our differences, conceived as an expression of a deeper unity that we cannot yet conceive, open us up more fully to the deep unfathomable, ineffable mystery of God and, at the same time, prevent us from making an idol of our own ideas, our own religious traditions, our own ways of understanding faith, and our own theologies and ideologies. Moreover, accepting differences as being intended by God and as the presence of grace in our lives should prevent us from constructing our identity, particularly our religious identity, on the basis of opposition to others and the unhealthy need to forever protest our own uniqueness and truth against what’s other.

God loves us all equally. Difference, then, understood as part of the mystery of unity, should help keep us humble and honest enough to let others take their proper place before God. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Unequal justice

Re “Police officer leans on Catholic faith during Ferguson crisis,” Dec. 5: To write an article about an honest police officer in the Ferguson Police Department is to ignore the issues and once again highlights how out of touch you are.

The issues are: one, the alarming number of police killings of unarmed black men, with total impunity for the police officers involved, as if black lives don’t matter; and two, the militarization of police and the violence they perpetrate on people. Every day since Michael Brown was killed, people in every major city in the country have come out to protest. By ignoring protesters you ignore the cry of the people and echo the sentiment that black lives don’t matter.

There is nothing heroic about a militarized police department replete with tanks, MRAMs, pistols, shotguns, and automatic rifles tear gassing demonstrators and shooting rubber bullets at them as if they were a war zone. Aside from an episode of looting, Ferguson police weren’t dealing with any particular danger. Nonetheless, police treated protesters as a population to occupy, and not as citizens to protect. The violence in these demonstrations is perpetrated by the police, not the protesters. Any You Tube video of the events confirms this.

It is good that Sgt. John Wall finds it in his heart to forgive. It would be even better if he had the humility and fortitude to ask to be forgiven for the sins of his fellow officers. That would be heroic. For black lives do matter.

Cecilia Meza San Francisco

Police lives matter, too

Re “Hear the cries of injustice,” letter to the editor, Dec. 19: Yes, black lives matter, but so do the lives of our police. Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski and parishioners of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish should be mindful of the grand jury outcome of Michael Brown’s killing. Witnesses testified he charged the cop, not with his arms up saying don’t shoot, but in a manner that would have harmed the policeman.

Our leaders, President Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Father Gawlowski and others are charged to bring the races together and not ignite divisions between the people of the United States. This type of behavior drives Catholics away from the church they love and does not pass on the word of God. Donna Owen Redwood City

Memories of Jesuit high-school education

Re “New focus on Catholic identity in high schools,” Dec. 12: After reading the article, of the many memories that came to mind, none is more vivid than the wonderful days at my alma mater, St. Patrick’s High School, Karachi, at the time British India. The school was founded and opened by the Jesuits in 1861 and admitted students from all quarters and religious leanings. The Jesuits with their immense skills, experience, zeal and spirit of dedication, gave themselves wholeheartedly to educate the boys. They were very small in number, but what they lacked in quantity they had in quality. Not only in education, but they put special emphasis in sports programs and had the skill and ability to have the students participate in other cultural activities.

It was the Jesuits who were mainly responsible for the unusual number of vocations to the priesthood – the school produced two cardinals and impressive number of bishops – 9 in number and 14 to the Jesuit priesthood. Can this be matched? The Jesuits also used their deep knowledge, liberal and broad-minded attitude to guide persons in the civic and national direction and it was their guidance that St. Patrick’s School provided an impressive list of persons who had risen to prominence from Army generals, high court judges, mayors and others.

It was Jesuits who had the gift to deepen our knowledge of religion and strengthen our faith. Working in a strange country, they had no support system and relied on their own strength, skill and dedication and Jesuit training.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

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Reflecting on Pope Francis’ 2015 World Day of Peace message

ragically, the growing scourge of man’s exploitation by man gravely damages the life of communion and our calling to forge interpersonal relations marked by respect, justice and love,” writes Pope Francis in his Jan. 1 World Day of Peace tony magliano Message.

But as the message’s title – “No Longer Slaves, but Brothers and Sisters” – indicates, the pope is reminding us of the good news that Jesus has freed us from the slavery of personal sin and the structures of societal sin, and invites us to accept this divine freedom, to live it out in our lives, and to share it with all people.

However, instead of offering freedom and fraternity, the exploitation of countless human beings by many who hold power, “leads to contempt for the fundamental rights of others and to the suppression of their freedom and dignity,” laments the pope.

He writes that millions of people today – children, women and men of all ages – are forced to live in slave-like conditions.

“I think of the many men and women laborers, including minors, subjugated in different sectors, whether formally or informally, in domestic or agricultural workplaces, or in the manufacturing or mining industry.”

The 2010 West Virginia Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion, which killed 29 Massey Energy miners, is a clear example of what Pope Fran-

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Pope Francis pulls much of his message together in this one powerful sentence: ‘Every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act.’

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A sub-Saharan migrant gestures after the arrival of a Spanish rescue boat, at Tarifa, Spain, in this October 2014 file photo. In his 2015 World Day of Peace message, Pope Francis condemned labor exploitation. cis is talking about here.

According to National Public Radio, the Governor’s Independent Investigation Panel charged that “Massey exhibited a corporate mentality that placed the drive to produce coal above worker safety.”

Expressing his deep sympathy for the hardships faced by migrants Francis writes, “In a particular way, I think of those among them who, upon arriving at their destination after a grueling journey marked by fear and insecurity, are detained in at times inhumane conditions.”

Consider how the pope’s words accurately apply to the thousands of unaccompanied children who have taken the dangerous journey to the U.S. to escape drug and gang violence in parts of Central America.

Many of these children are detained for weeks in large cage-like conditions, while they face the threat of being deported back to the dangerous conditions they fled.

Pope Francis adds, “States must ensure that their own legislation truly respects the dignity of the human person in the areas of migration, employment, adoption, the movement of businesses offshore and the sale of items produced by slave labor.”

Many corporations like Walmart reap huge financial benefits from merchandise made for them by desperately poor people laboring long hours, in unhealthy work conditions, for pennies an hour.

There is an excellent remedy for this use of what the pope calls “slave labor.”

Please email and call (Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121) your U.S. senators and representative urging them to reintroduce and actively support the “Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act,” which according to the highly reputable “Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights” (www.globallabourrights.org/), would provide transparent corporate disclosure – enabling labor rights organizations to inspect factories producing products for wealthy retailers.

If reintroduced and passed by Congress, this bill would also prohibit the import, export or sale of products that violate the International Labor Organization’s standards – which prohibit child labor, and guarantee workers’ rights to safe working conditions, to collective bargaining and protection against forced labor.

Pope Francis pulls much of his message together in this one powerful sentence: “Every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act.”

Magliano is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

The wisdom of Pope Francis

nity in necessary things, freedom in doubtful things and charity in all things”: This is a time-honored principle of moral theology that will help you to understand the thinking of Pope Francis, who is very wise.

A relatively small number of Catholics have taken issue with Pope Francis in his attempt to bring more compassion and less legalism to the church and its members.

Most Catholics find him refreshing and in perfect harmony with the Gospel of FATHER JOHN Jesus Christ.

CATOIR There are always those who claim to be more Catholic than the pope; they instinctively conclude that mercy is a sign of weakness and not something to be practiced. They live by a moral rigidity that borders on self-righteousness, which Pope Francis says leads to “hostile inflexibility.” Their opinions are inspired more by shortsightedness than the mercy the Gospel calls us to.

God’s love is his mercy. Legalism was the sin of the Pharisees; they applied the letter of the law, not the spirit. The teachings of Jesus Christ are filled with the spirit of compassion. Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites because of their insensitivity and rigidity.

Stop and think about this: Did Jesus come to save

Did Jesus come to save only the morally upright? Or, as in the parable of the lost sheep, did he leave the 99 to find the one lost sheep?

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Pope Francis kisses a child during a meeting with an Italian association for large families to mark the feast of the Holy Family in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 28.

only the morally upright? Or, as in the parable of the lost sheep, did he leave the 99 to find the one lost sheep? I hesitate to call all of the lost sheep sinners because some of them are holy, living in good conscience.

Yet some of our brothers and sisters who are “lost sheep” feel rejected by the church and its people and are negatively affected by the snap judgment of others who may not know the particular circumstances of the position they find themselves in. Only God knows who the real sinners are. We do not.

Yet have we, at one time or another, been in a rush to judgment that often does others more harm than good?

Pope Francis is a true Christ figure among us.

At the end of the recent synod on the family, he warned that a few of the cardinals who were opposed to some of what he proposed should be careful not to succumb to “inflexibility.”

Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and known for her lifelong service to the poor, once said that what she loved about the Catholic Church is the freedom it allows the people of God.

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The Baptism of the Lord

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Crosiers ISAIAH 42:1-4, 6-7 Thus says the Lord: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my choeter. According to Greek sen one with whom I am pleased, was the first to bring the upon whom I have put my spirit; he nd the first bishop of shall bring forth justice to the nan of Egypt and of tions, Venice, not crying out, not shouting, n in the ninthnot century. making his voice heard in the street. a bruised reed he shall not y break, and a smoldering wick he © 2001 CNS shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and

from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.

PSALM 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10 The Lord will bless his people with peace.

Give to the Lord, you sons of God, give to the Lord glory and praise, Give to the Lord the glory due his name; adore the Lord in holy attire.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

The voice of the Lord is over the waters, the Lord, over vast waters.

The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is majestic.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

The God of glory thunders, and in his temple all say, “Glory!” The Lord

is enthroned above the flood; the Lord is enthroned as king forever.

The Lord will bless his people with peace.

ACTS 10:34-38 Peter proceeded to speak to those gathered in the house of Cornelius, saying: “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him. You know the word that he sent to the Israelites as he proclaimed peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all, what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and

healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.”

MARK 1:7-11 This is what John the Baptist proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me.

I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.

On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the heavens, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”

In baptism we are joined to Christ Jean Denton Catholic News Service

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t age 16, Carlos had a hard time articulating what he felt inside.

He was trying to explain what inspired him to become the lead teacher of the fifth-grade class in his parish’s Christian formation program.

Shortly after he was confirmed last spring, Carlos said, he volunteered to help teach vacation Bible school to the young children at his church.

The experience made him desire more of the same.

“I feel like I was put in this ministry because of something I have,” he explained, earnestly pointing to his heart and looking for the right words. “It’s something I have – wanting to teach, wanting people to know what I know. It’s kind of being a leader.”

He grinned sheepishly as he gave up the attempt to say what he meant.

His friends teased him playfully.

“Yes, the leader of the flock,” one laughed. But it was obvious they admired and listened to him. Clearly, they believed Carlos’ “something I have” was a gift in their community.

Indeed, the Christian formation director of his parish affirmed that Carlos was a conscientious, diligent teacher and that the children in his class looked up to him.

reflection QUESTION

‘Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my spirit.’

When have you felt “called” to a specific task or action by your life joined to the Spirit of Jesus? How have you witnessed someone’s conversion through baptism?

– Isaiah 42:1

In the words Carlos couldn’t find, he “was called.” He sensed a fire

in his spirit insisting that he share with others something he cared

deeply about: his faith and love of God. It was amazing to hear a person his age say that he wanted to explain his Catholic faith to others not to show that it was right, but so others could “know what I know” and realize God’s goodness.

This weekend’s Gospel tells about Jesus’ baptism. When Jesus emerged from the baptismal waters, the Spirit descended on him and his life took on new meaning. That life of love would have the power to save us all.

Our Catholic faith teaches that in our own baptism we are joined to Christ, dying to earthly life and emerging with him, resurrected to new life, to be inspired by the Holy Spirit.

As it happened with Carlos after his confirmation, this new life excites us and calls us to share what we know: the incredible love of God.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, January 12: Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, virgin and founder (Canada). Heb 1:1-6. PS 97:1 and 2b, 6 and 7c, 9. Mk 1:15. Mk 1:14-20.

Tuesday, January 13: Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Hilary of Poitiers, bishop and doctor; Memorial of St. Kentigern, bishop (Scotland). Heb 2:5-12.

Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9. See 1 Thes 2:13. Mk 1:21-28.

Wednesday, January 14: Wednesday of

Sulpice died c. 647 January 17 Sulpice was born to wealthy parents in France and began aiding the poor in his youth. When he became bishop of Bourges in Aquitaine in 624, he defended the rights of his people. Sulpice was beloved in Bourges for his generosity and was said to have converted many to Christianity through his personal witness. Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, and a famous French seminary are named for him.

the First Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 2:14-18. Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9. Jn 10:27. Mk 1:29-39.

Thursday, January 15: Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 3:7-14. Ps 95:6-7c, 8-9, 10-11. See Mt 4:23. Mk 1:40-45.

Friday, January 16: Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. Heb 4:1-5, 11. Ps 78:3 and 4bc, 6c-7, 8. Lk 7:16. Mk 2:1-12.

Saturday, January 17: Memorial of St. Anthony, abbot. Heb 4:12-16. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15. Lk 4:18. Mk 2:13-17.

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Mercy and compassion compel pope’s visit to the Philippines

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hen I first heard about Pope Francis’ coming to the Philippines this month, I thought, “That couldn’t be. He has already been invited to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress set to be held in Cebu, the Philippines in January next year.” My curiosity grew as Father to what really prompted the RAYmund Reyes Holy Father’s visit making him the third pope to visit the largest Christian country in Asia. Pope Paul VI visited the Philippines in November 1970 and St. Pope John Paul II in February 1981 and January 1995.

It was not actually a great surprise after learning what compelled him to come. Pope Francis greatly desired to visit the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda, that killed more than 6,000 people in November 2013. Pope Francis, who has been outspoken on God’s mercy and compassion from day one of his papacy, brings his good heart to the Philippines especially to the families who are still suffering and rebuilding their lives. His coming has mobilized the whole country to work with him in unison with Christ’s mercy and compassion.

The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines has launched its focus for 2015 as the “Year of the Poor.”

In his pastoral letter, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, CBCP president, has urged the Filipino people to prepare spiritually for the coming of Pope Francis by becoming a people rich in mercy and making mercy their national identity and a gift to the Holy Father. Also, Cardinal Luis Tagle, the Archbishop of Manila, has assured the blessing of the pope’s visit to the whole country, particularly the poor, the survivors of calamities and victims of injustice. He spoke clearly on the pope’s challenge to reach out with love to the neglected and abandoned and to establish in society a culture of mercy and compassion.

Furthermore, Bishop Mylo Vergara, chair of CBCP communication and media, has considered Pope Francis’ pastoral visit as God’s visitation to the Filipino people in need of his love, mercy and salvation.

Pope Francis himself has already initiated something concrete by paving the way for the construction of the Pope Francis Center for the Poor in the Archdiocese of Palo, Leyte, a city that was greatly damaged by Yolanda. The center will provide homes for the elderly and orphans, as well as a clinic and a chapel. Pope Francis will bless the center when he visits Leyte on Jan. 17. There he is also scheduled to celebrate the Eucharist and share a meal with poor children, orphans and survivors of Yolanda.

The pastoral visit of Pope Francis includes a special celebration of the Eucharist with clergy and religious representatives at the Manila Cathedral and a meeting with the Filipino youth at the University of Santo Tomas, the royal and only

Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers

Truly, Pope Francis’ pastoral visit has drawn the church in the Philippines to its basic identity as ‘a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.’ pontifical Catholic university in Asia. As people endowed with great regard for family values, the Holy Father has included in his itinerary a meeting with Filipino families on the spacious grounds of Manila Bay’s Mall of Asia.

Here in our archdiocese, Filipinos are overjoyed, blessed and proud of the Holy Father’s visit to the Philippines. Blesilda Almacen and her children, parishioners of St. Boniface Church in San Francisco, already flew to the Philippines to spend Christmas with relatives and to join them to see Pope Francis in person. A faithful devotee herself to Santo Niño, meaning “Holy Child” in Spanish, she said she’d greet the pope with the miraculous image of Santo Niño in her hands.

“It wouldn’t surprise me,” she added, “if thousands would also carry their images of Santo Niño and have them blessed by the Holy Father himself.”

Nellie Hizon, a St. Stephen parishioner and a great advocate of Simbang Gabi in the archdiocese, is elated by the pope’s visit to the Philippines. She said “Pope Francis’ visit is truly God’s marvelous blessing that brings further fervor to the practice of faith he gifted us.” Freda Motak, a St. Anne of the Sunset parishioner, has marveled at Pope Francis’ desire to travel a long distance. She said, “The Holy Father was being true to his words to share in the burdens of others and offer the Filipino people his personal message of hope, love and healing.”

Estelle Oloresisimo, president of the Filipino-American Friendship Network, hopes that Pope Francis’ call for mercy reaches out to government officials on behalf of the thousands of overseas foreign workers by creating more local jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities.

She said “Fifty percent of migrants are women, mostly mothers who left their own children to take care of other people’s children in foreign lands as nannies and domestic helpers just to secure a future for their families.”

Truly, Pope Francis’ pastoral visit has drawn the church in the Philippines to its basic identity as “a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel” (“Evangelii Gaudium” 114). It has opened many opportunities to value the poor, the victims of disasters and injustice, to renew society and to care for creation. With the Holy Father’s pastoral visit, may mercy and compassion embrace not just Filipinos but all of us.

(CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters)

A worker holds up necklaces with portraits of Pope Francis on sale at a store in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 5.

Father Reyes is vicar for priests for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: San Francisco public defender Vilaska Nguyen discusses the topic at 6:30 p.m., St. Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco as part of social justice Vilaska Nguyen series. Learn about the local practices of criminal justice system, consequences related to criminal convictions and the benefits and limitations of court remedies. Speaker will provide insight in relation to poverty alleviation, civil rights, and social action; (415) 567-7824; socialjustice@ stdominics.org.

HANDICAPABLES 50th ANNIVERSARY: Father Kirk Ullery, retired pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, San Francisco is principal celebrant and homilist at Handicapables Mass and lunch commemorating the group’s 50th Father Kirk anniversary, noon, Ullery 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.

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Cardinal electorS: Pope names 15, most from global south FROM PAGE 1

Three of the new cardinal electors hail from Asia, three from Latin America, two from Africa and two from Oceania.

Of the five Europeans on the list, three lead dioceses in Italy and Spain that have not traditionally had cardinals as bishops – another sign of Pope Francis’ willingness to break precedent.

While giving red hats to the archbishops of Ancona-Osimo and Agrigento, Italy, the pope will once again pass over the leaders of Venice and Turin, both historically more prestigious dioceses.

None of the new cardinals hails from the U.S. or Canada. Father Lombardi noted that the numbers of cardinals from those countries have remained stable since February 2014, when Pope Francis elevated the archbishop of Quebec.

The U.S. currently has 11 cardinal electors and Canada three.

The continuing geographic shift is incremental in nature. With the new appointments, cardinals from Europe and North America will make up 56.8 percent of those eligible to elect the next pope, down from 60 percent on Jan. 4.

The shift reflects the pope’s emphasis on Africa and Asia, where the church is growing fastest, and on his native region of Latin America, home to about 40 percent of the world’s Catholics.

A number of the selections also reflect Pope Francis’ emphasis on social justice. The new Mexican cardinal leads a diocese that has been hard hit by the current wave of drug-related violence in his country.

And one of the Italian cardinals-designate, the archbishop of Agrigento in Sicily, leads the Italian bishops’ commission on migration, an issue on which Pope Francis has placed particular importance. In July 2013, the pope visited the

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Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon of Hanoi, Vietnam, waves in front of St. Joseph Cathedral after Pentecost Mass in this May 23, 2010, file photo. Archbishop Van Nhon, 76, was among the 20 new cardinals named by Pope Francis Jan. 4.

southern Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a major entry point for undocumented immigrants to Europe, and mourned the many who had died attempting to cross the sea.

Only one of the new cardinals, the head of the Vatican’s highest court, is a member of the church’s central administration, the Roman Curia, which currently accounts for about a quarter of all cardinal electors.

Announcing the appointments, Pope Francis noted that the ceremony to induct the new cardinals will follow a two-day meeting of the entire college, Feb. 12 and 13, “to reflect on guidelines and proposals for reform of the Roman Curia.”

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with the same pastoral solicitude, have given testimony of love for Christ and the people of God, whether in particular churches, the Roman Curia or the diplomatic service of the Holy See.” The five new honorary cardinals hail from Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Italy and Mozambique.

Here is the list of the new cardinals: – French Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, prefect of the Apostolic Signature, 62.

– Portuguese Patriarch Manuel Jose Macario do Nascimento Clemente of Lisbon, 66.

– Ethiopian Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel of Addis Ababa, 66.

– New Zealand Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, 66.

– Italian Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of Ancona-Osimo, 75.

– Vietnamese Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon of Hanoi, 76.

– Mexican Archbishop Alberto Suarez Inda of Morelia, who turns 76 Jan. 30.

– Myanmar Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon, 66.

– Thai Archbishop Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij of Bangkok, 65.

– Italian Archbishop Francesco Montenegro of Agrigento, 68.

– Uruguayan Archbishop Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet of Montevideo, 55.

– Spanish Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, 72.

– Spanish-born Panamanian Bishop Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan of David, 70.

– Cape Verdean Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado of Santiago de Cabo Verde, 65.

– Tongan Bishop Soane Mafi, 53.

– Colombian Archbishop Jose de Jesus Pimiento Rodriguez, retired, of Manizales, who turns 96 Feb. 18.

– Italian Archbishop Luigi De Magistris, 88, retired pro-major penitentiary at the Vatican.

– German Archbishop Karl-Joseph Rauber, 80, a former nuncio.

– Argentine Archbishop Luis Hector Villalba, retired, of Tucuman, 80.

– Mozambican Bishop Julio Duarte Langa, retired, of Xai-Xai, 87.

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New books offer valuable guidance in understanding the Mass Reviewed by Mitch Finley

‘Mass 101’ is clearly written, informative, and complete. It’s the best book on the Mass for Catholic readers this reviewer has come across in quite a while.

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“Behold the Mystery: A Deeper Understanding of the Catholic Mass” by Mark Hart. Word Among Us Press (Frederick, Maryland). 186 pp., $12.95.

“Mass 101: Liturgy and Life “ by Emily Strand, Liguori Publications (Liguori, Missouri). 144 pp., $11.99.

If it has been a long time since you read a book about the Mass, “Behold the Mystery” is a good one to read.

Author Mark Hart is a young adult, husband and father of four who is also executive vice president of Life Teen International, a “Catholic youth ministry leading teens closer to Christ.” His book is a fine one for older teens, to be sure, but it will make ideal reading for anyone who wants to refresh his or her understanding of and appreciation for the Mass.

You’re the rare Catholic if you have never grown at least a little weary of Mass, or if you have never nodded off during a homily that didn’t capture your attention. Hart suggests that the problem isn’t with the Mass, the problem is with your understanding of the Mass. Also, he asks, when was the last time you prayed for the priest or priests who preside at your parish’s Masses? Are we laity doing our part to make the Mass all that it can be for everyone concerned?

The heart of “Behold the Mystery” may be the section in which the author discusses the meaning of each part of the Mass. Perhaps the one weak point of the book is Hart’s decision to simply repeat the traditional language about the bread and wine becoming “the very body and blood of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ.” This section might have been improved had the author addressed the fact that, according to various surveys, a significant percentage of Catholics don’t accept this as literally true.

It can be hugely helpful to explain that “body and blood” is a Semitic phrase for “the whole person.”

It can also be helpful to add that it is the “whole person”/”body and blood” of the risen Christ that we receive in holy Communion. To accentuate this can magnify one’s sense of the overwhelming mystery of the Eucharist. Catholics frequently find these insights helpful to renewing their understanding of and faith in the Real Presence.

Here, however, is the bottom line: “Behold the Mystery” is a lively and informative book, one that this reviewer would not hesitate to recommend to all.

“Mass 101” is a first-rate book on the Mass, one written in language that is both theological and accessible to most adult readers. The author, Emily Strand, is a former campus minister and teacher at the University of Dayton who is now a full-time mother and member of the Worship Commission for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

In her Introduction, Strand declares: “Perhaps the most valuable notion about the Mass to take away from this volume is an idea of its profundity – its endless wealth of significance that no one book has or will

ever capture.” To that end, following the first chapter titled “Why Learn About the Mass?” Strand offers gripping discussions of the history of the Mass and what Vatican II taught about the Mass.

In a section titled “The Paschal Mystery and the Ministers of the Mass,” Strand makes it clear that while the priest “has the principal role” in the Mass, he isn’t the only “minister.” She explains the roles of others including the ministers of music, lectors, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion, servers, ushers and others. Thus, Strand illustrates the

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important fact that not only the priest, but the entire assembly, celebrates the Mass.

The remaining four chapters examine the parts of the Mass, “unpacking” the meaning and purpose of each. More than a few readers may be particularly interested in the appendix, “The Third Edition of the Roman Missal and the New Translation of the Mass.”

Here Strand explains extraordinarily well the new translation of the Mass prayers that English-speaking Catholics began using a couple of years ago.

“Mass 101” is clearly written, informative, and complete. It’s the best book on the Mass for Catholic readers this reviewer has come across in quite a while.

Finley is the author of more than 30 books for Catholics including two used widely in parishes, “The Joy of Being a Eucharistic Minister” and “The Joy of Being a Lector” (Resurrection Press).

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