January 17, 2019

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WALK FOR LIFE: Indulgence, blessing granted for Mass

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ACCOMPANIMENT: Outreach to immigrant minors, families

POPE’S LETTER: Urging nation’s bishops to ‘new ecclesial season’

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Sisters join faith community at border seeking migrant justice CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In a Jan. 10 interview with Catholic San Francisco during National Migration Week Jan. 6-12, Mercy Sister Joan Marie O’Donnell detailed two trips to the border she and other sisters made this winter to “take a stand” for migrants’ justice.

On Dec. 10, she and Mercy Sister Judy Carle joined hundreds of faith leaders from across the country at the San Diego-Tijuana, Mexico, border to present a “moral call” to the Trump administration “to respect the human right to migrate, end militarization of border communities and stop detention and deportation of immigrants.”

“One-hundred members of the group stepped forward to be anointed for engagement in nonviolent resistance at the border wall,” said Sister Joan Marie, who wrote about the experience in a series of blogs for National Migration Week. “We walked in procession to the border, singing and praying for those who had attempted to cross the border and lost their lives.”

Thirty-two members of the group were arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents that day, though Sister Judy and Sister Joan Marie were not among them.

Bishop Christian appointed St. Patrick’s rector-president CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

She said she experienced a deep sense of unity with those she walked as well as with all those still on the other side.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, has been appointed rectorpresident of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, effective Jan. 14, the archdiocese announced.

“I am excited that Bishop Christian, a man of deep love for the church and extensive academic achievement, will be leading the seminary during its next phase of development and growth,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said.

Bishop Christian succeeds rectorpresident Jesuit Father George Schultze, who was appointed to lead the Menlo Park graduate school for priestly formation on June 1, 2017.

The appointment followed the departure of the Society of St. Sulpice, whose priests had served St. Patrick’s in administration and academics since the archdiocesan-owned institution opened in 1898.

“I wish to extend my deep gratitude for Father Schultze’s wonderful service as president-rector for the last year-and-a-half,” Archbishop

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Two San Francisco Mercy Sisters were among the hundreds from faith communities nationwide who convened at the San Diego/Tijuana, Mexico, border Dec. 10 to pray and stand in nonviolent protest to the treatment of migrants by the U.S. government.

Sister Joan Marie said that she was compelled to place herself on the line to experience what it must be like for “almost 7,000 of my brothers and sisters on the ‘other side’ to be dehumanized as they are right now.”

Abuse report’s claim of cover-up, mishandling of cases called ‘misleading’ JULIE ASHER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The conclusion reached by a Pennsylvania grand jury that six of the state’s Catholic dioceses acted “in virtual lockstep” to cover up abuse allegations and dismiss alleged victims over a 70-year period starting in 1947 is “inaccurate,” “unfair” and “misleading,” said a veteran journalist in an in-depth article for Commonweal magazine.

The grand jury report was based on

tual integrity of children and young in the article posted at www.commona months-long investigation into alpeople” are documented in the report, wealmagazine.org. leged abuse by clergy and other church Steinfels said, as well and how “many Its second charge, he said, has had workers in the Pittsburgh, Allentown, of these atrocities could have been Scranton, Erie, Harrisburg and Greens- the “greatest reverberations” and is prevented” by promptly removing not documented by the report: the burg dioceses, and it makes “two credibly suspected perpetrators from distinct charges,” said Peter Steinfels, a explosive claim that church leaders all priestly ministry. It shows that mishandled these abuse claims for former editor of Commonweal, former some church leaders seemed to have religion writer for The New York Times decades, moved around many of the an “overriding concern” for protectaccused abusers to different assignand professor emeritus at Fordham ing the church’s reputation while ments and were dismissive of the University in New York. disregarding children’s safety and The first “concerns predator priests, alleged victims – all reportedly resultwell-being, he said. their many victims and their unspeak- ing in a major cover-up. to honor your loved one’s patriotism to our country.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 17, 2019

Vatican grants indulgence, papal blessing for Mass preceding Walk

NEED TO KNOW WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST: The 15th Walk for Life West Coast commences from Civic Center to Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, preceded by 9:30 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant and homilist. The Mass will be livestreamed at sfarch.org. A series of pro-life related activities follows at sites around San Francisco. Visit www. walkforlifewc.com, sfarch.org/walk-for-life-westcoast.

The Vatican has granted a plenary indulgence and a papal blessing for those who participate in the Mass preceding Walk for Life West Coast, including those who are sick and infirm and praying along with the participants on Jan. 26, the archdiocese announced.

All those present at the Mass will receive a papal blessing, conveyed by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, and with that a plenary indulgence, according to a letter from Vatican. Those who participate in “sacred celebrations” associated with the Walk throughout the dioceses of the area will also receive the plenary indulgence.

“The Apostolic Penitentiary ... graciously grants to His Excellency, the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone ... the faculty to impart the Papal Blessing with the accompanying Plenary Indulgence on the 26th day of January, 2019, the day of the annual event called Walk for Life West Coast, after the Divine Sacrifice has been offered at the Cathedral, to all Christ’s faithful who are present, who are truly penitent and compelled by charity, and who participated in the same sacred rites,” according to a Dec. 21 letter signed by Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Major Penitentiary, of the Apostolic Penitentiary, and received this week in San Francisco.

VIGIL FOR LIFE: St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, Jan. 25, 5-7:30 p.m. www.stdominics.org.

ALL NIGHT ADORATION: Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.-7 a.m. www.salesiansspp.org.

EXTRAORDINARY FORM HIGH MASS: National Shrine of St. Francis, Jan. 26, 5 p.m., 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, with music from the Schola Cantorum. www.shrinesf.org.

ADORATION AND DINNER: Sisters of Life, Knights of Columbus, Jan. 26, 5-8 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco.

Vigil Mass at 4:30 p.m. Evening includes free barbecue dinner sponsored by the Knights and Holy Hour with the Sisters of Life, followed by all-night eucharistic adoration. Free parking. www.starparish.com.

EWTN COVERAGE: EWTN will broadcast live and complete coverage of the Walk for Life West Coast, Jan. 26. EWTN can be found locally on: Comcast 229, ATT 562, Astound/Wave 80, Dish Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. For more information, www.ewtn.com.

PROJECT RACHEL TRAINING: Walk with women seeking healing from abortion. Respect Life Ministry is offering a training for all Project Rachel volunteers Feb. 2. Life Perspectives, a San Diego organization specializing in healing from abortion and reproductive grief, will present the daylong training. Life Perspectives is an organization endorsed by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. The training is a mandatory requirement for all Archdiocese of San Francisco Project Rachel mentors, both experienced and new volunteers.

For information as to time and place, contact Project Rachel coordinator Leslie Low, (415) 614-5567, lowl@sfarch.org, www.sfarchdiocese.org/postabortion-healing-project-rachel.

The Walk for Life, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, draws thousands to San Francisco’s Civic Center. The day officially begins with a Walk for Life Mass at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The rally is at 12:30 p.m. and the walk along Market Street begins at 1:30.

A plenary indulgence is the expiation of temporal punishment for sins already forgiven, and can be applied to souls in Purgatory, to oneself, or to another person still living. It is a free gift of God’s mercy, and theologically demonstrates the church as a communion of those living, as well as those in purgatory and the saints and angels in heaven.

A plenary indulgence removes the temporal punishment of already forgiven sin. The Walk for Life Mass plenary or complete indulgence is granted with the three usual conditions of sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion, and prayer for the intentions of the pope which should be completed within several days of the actual event.

The Vatican granted the plenary indulgence at the request of Archbishop Cordileone. A similar indulgence was bestowed on the March for Life in Washington, D.C., this year. This is the first time a plenary indulgence was given for sacred celebrations related to the Walk for Life West Coast Mass.

interactive presentations cover church history, MARIN PARISHES TO HOST LENTEN ADULT ED SERIES archeology and Scriptures, faith and science, curA Catholic adult education series connecting rent events, marriage and family life, morality and faith to contemporary, real-life issues will be ethics, spirituality and more. offered this Lent at three Marin County parish The Marin County program is an outgrowth of locations including St. Patrick, St. Raphael and St. the University Series founded 17 years ago by FaSylvester, a mission of St. Raphael. ther Dave Heney, the pastor of St. Bruno Church The University Series program will run in in Whittier. Since then the series has been offered 90-minute weekday sessions between March 7 and in 15 parishes and has been attended by more than April 11 according Church Goods & Candlesto Barbara Watson, coordinator Religious Gifts & Books 11,000 people in Ventura and Los Angeles counof the local program. All are welcome and the cost ties. is $8 at the door.

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HEALING RETREATS: “Hope After Abortion” healing retreats, led by Contemplatives of St. Joseph will be held March 9 and 10 and Sept. 14 and 15. The retreat will be offered in Spanish Sept.

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New archdiocesan program will accompany immigrants and build community NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A pilot program in the Archdiocese of San Francisco aims to mobilize the Catholic community to offer accompaniment and build relationships with unaccompanied immigrant minors and their families. The Catholic Accompaniment and Reflection Experience, a national program coordinated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will connect Bay Area Catholic laity and religious with unaccompanied minors who, while settled with their families, need support as they set out on their lives in the U.S. Out of 50,000 unaccompanied minors stopped at the border in 2018, nearly 35,000 were resettled in the U.S., often with family members. The majority of unaccompanied minors come from four countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. Common reasons for leaving include gangs, high violent crime rates, poverty, and desire for family reunification. But after unaccompanied minors reach the U.S. and enter the immigration courts to plead

DOMINICAN CENTER HOSTS TALK ON CLERGY SEX ABUSE

Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman, former president/rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and now adjunct professor for pastoral ministries at Santa Clara University, will speak on “Clergy Sex Abuse: A Crisis in the Catholic Church,” Jan. 26, 9 a.m.-noon, Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont.

“Father Coleman’s presentation will define and differentiate homo-

their case, some “need assistance with family stability,” said Ashley Feasley, director of policy at the USCCB Migration and Refugee Services in Washington, D.C. Sometimes children have not seen their parents or family sponsor for many years, or the parents’ work schedule makes it difficult to organize their child’s new life.

Martin Ford, social action coordinator for the archdiocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity, told Catholic San Francisco that the difficulties unaccompanied youth had “in getting some very basic things, whether a driver’s license, getting to school, or being driven to their [immigration] court date,” demonstrated an opportunity for the local church to “welcome the stranger.”

The pilot project is located in San Mateo County, and is a partnership between Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which handles legal casework for unaccompanied minors, and the archdiocese, which will draw on parishes for volunteers.

Ford said he has introduced the pro-

sexuality from the sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual abuse of children,” organizers said. He will also outline “consequences of the crisis including loss of trust, anger and shame and the ongoing need for pastoral care of gay and lesbian persons who often bear the unwanted burden of being labeled as child molesters.”

Admission is free. Register by Jan. 23, http://bit.ly/2019ClergyCrisis; (510) 9336360.

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gram at deaneries and their next focus is on parish presentations. “We’re trying to connect good Catholic families with unaccompanied minors,” he said.

Ford said their goal is to have at least 15 qualified volunteer candidates by the end of January. Volunteers undertake VIRTUS training and fingerprinting to participate in CARE, in addition to taking a short training course from Catholic Charities.

Ford said the archdiocese also saw the program as a way to connect unaccompanied minors to parish communities. “A lot of these children are Catholic, and Catholic identity is really important. We want them to be integrated into their local communities,” he said.

Feasley said CARE grew out of the supportive responses of Catholics to the difficulties faced by immigrant families, and praised the community focus and volunteerism of the program.

“There’s a perception that if you want to encounter immigrants at this time, you need to go down to the border or write a big check,” she said. But immigrants’ needs can also be local and be answered in simple ways, “whether its driving a family to court so they

For more information about CARE, visit justiceforimmigrants. com and click on the “CARE Program” tab. To start the archdiocesan application to become a volunteer with CARE, visit sfarchdiocese.org/care. can attend their immigration court proceeding or helping a child enroll in school,” Feasley said. “We can all engage at some point and we can all contribute.”

The tasks volunteers can help the unaccompanied minors with, like opening a bank account or applying to community college, are “little things that in the end aren’t so little, because they’re part of daily life,” said Montserrat Ayala, Catholic Charities’ program manager for CARE. Part of her work involves organizing community building events for unaccompanied minors, as well as teaching basic skills, like how to use the Internet. Ayala said unaccompanied minors also need help navigating language barriers, or feelings of exclusion and homesickness.

WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY

Solemn Vespers at the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont All are invited to participate in the celebration of a liturgy of Solemn Vespers at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2019 at the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont, California, 94002. This prayer service is for the parishioners of Immaculate Heart of Mary and for our good neighbors, the parishioners of our Sister Church, the Greek Orthodox of the Church of the Holy Cross. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be the Presider and Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco will be the Homilist. A dessert reception will follow in the Parish Center. This will be the thirteenth year that the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox communities have gathered to pray in Belmont, California.

Shrine of Saint Jude Thaddeus Our Lady of Lourdes Novena February 3 – 11, 2019

Masses: Mon-Sat, 8:00 am & 5:30 pm; Sun, 11:30 am & 5:30 pm Rosary & blessing with the Saint Jude relic.

Prayer, penance and healing were part of the message of Lourdes.

We will explore these profound spiritual realities and others during the course of the nine days.

Novena in Saint Dominicʼs Church, home of the Shrine of Saint Jude, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco Plenty of Parking.

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 17, 2019

Retiring religious education staffer ‘can never be replaced,’ director says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

It is always refreshing to come back to the pastoral center after our long Christmas break which covers the time between Christmas and the New Year. We all arrive the first few days back rubbing the respite from our eyes and bumping into one another in the hallways. Sadly, we were bumping into Delia Herrera, who retired Jan. 15 after 45 years with the archdiocese, for the last Delia Herrera time.

Delia and I spoke via email about her two-score and five years of service. In her reply, she called herself “not good in expressing my thoughts.”

Truth is she was eloquent. Delia has held a number of positions at the pastoral center all in education and for several of her decades in the Office of Faith Formation starting as a bookkeeper/librarian and then administrative assistant. Like many of us long-timers, Delia’s first chair here was in the old chancery on Church Street. “At first, it was convenient because my children went to Mission Dolores School and our building was next door,” Delia said about why she signed up with the local church. “Later, I enjoyed working with catechists in the parish that volunteered their time to teach our youth about our faith.” Delia has served under five different archbishops. Her blessings have been “working with so many wonderful people here in the Pastoral Center and in the parishes with great catechists.” Advice to those thinking about joining the ranks at One Peter Yorke Way: “If you are looking for a high salary, this is the wrong organization.

If you are looking to enhance your faith and give of yourself, then this is the place for you.”

What will retirement bring? “I plan to take care of myself and relax,” Delia said, “but first I plan to celebrate in Vegas with my family. My husband and I will be traveling and just taking it easy.”

Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle is director of religious education for the archdiocese: “Our Office of Faith Formation will never be the same,” Sister Celeste told me. “And rightly so, since Delia cannot be replaced. Her willingness to help, the skills in office management and her support of all of those we minister to has been a true blessing.

Her faithful years of service is a testament to the great woman that she is.”

A BLESSING: Prayers please for Chuck Barberini, a former longtime chancery grunt and now recovering from a very serious car accident. Chuck

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GIFTS OF THE HEART: Kindergartners at Our Lady of Angels School, pictured here, held a pajama drive Dec. 5 to help children served by the Foster Care Department of San Mateo County Social Services. “We collected about 80 pairs of pajamas and our class celebrated by wearing pajamas to school and having our own ‘Pajamas, Pancakes and Polar Express Day,’” kindergarten teacher Gina Thomson told me in a note to this column. “The joy of giving was so apparent when the children brought in the pajamas to donate. They couldn’t wait to show their classmates what they had brought in to give away. It really warmed my heart to see how much the children really enjoyed helping out other kids in need.” was one of my first friends when I signed on in the first days of 1985. Chuck’s job was with what used to be called the building committee. He watched over and knew personally every brick in the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s properties but even more the people serving in each of them. When I needed advice as I wound my way through my new job with the church Chuck was always there with a “try this” or a “you’re doing just fine.” Chuck and his wife, Fran, are forever parishioners of Church of the Visitacion Parish in San Francisco. Their daughter, Carolyn Dame, is a member of the faculty of Our Lady of the Visitacion School. I had the privilege to attend a Western Night at Visitacion a few months ago. Chuck was in the early days of his recuperation and unable to attend but his fellow parishioners with pastor, Father Thuan Hoang, shot a video where all in attendance could wish their beloved friend get-well wishes. Get well, Chuck.

meaning of priesthood. Spokane Bishop Thomas A. Daly, a former priest of the archdiocese as well as vocations director, is among the weekend’s speakers. Site is St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park. Lodging and meals provided, and attendance does not imply further obligation. For complete information and instructions for applying, visit stpsu.edu/is-god-calling-you, or contact Father Patrick Summerhays, (415) 614-5683; summerhays.patrick@sfarch.org. The vocation of marriage is celebrated Feb. 9, 10 a.m., in a Mass for couples celebrating 5-year anniversaries, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Couples who in 2019 will celebrate anniversaries of 5 years, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and all couples married more than 40 years, are invited.

Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, principal celebrant, homilist. Ed Hopfner (415) 614-5547; hopfnere@ sfarch.org.

VOCATIONS: The archdiocesan Office of Vocations offers its annual weekend discernment retreat, Jan. 18-20, for men who want to know more about the vocation of priesthood. Open to single men, 21 years or older, to spend some time with like-minded men and to explore in fellowship the

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Wuerl wrote nuncio of McCarrick claims in 2004 CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Church officials confirmed that Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, retired archbishop of Washington, had forwarded an allegation of sexual misconduct against his predecessor, former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, to the papal nuncio in Washington in 2004.

In a Jan. 10 statement, the Archdiocese of Washington Cardinal Donald said Cardinal Wuerl, who at the Wuerl time was bishop of Pittsburgh, “received no further information regarding the matter” involving the former cardinal.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh in a statement emailed to Catholic News Service Jan. 11 confirmed that then-Bishop Wuerl informed the papal

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nuncio, Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, in 2004 of the allegation against the former cardinal.

Then-Bishop Wuerl’s action came after Robert Ciolek, a former priest of the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, filed a complaint with the Pittsburgh diocese saying he had been abused as a seminarian by a Pittsburgh priest. The abuse was alleged to have occurred by the priest assigned to the faculty of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where Ciolek was studying at the time, the Washington archdiocese said.

During a November 2004 appearance before the Independent Review Board of the Pittsburgh diocese to discuss the incident involving the priest, Ciolek also addressed his alleged abuse by Archbishop McCarrick in New Jersey, according to the diocese’s statement. “This was the first time the Diocese of Pittsburgh learned of this allegation,” the statement said.

Ciolek sought confidentiality at the time, both the Washington archdiocese and Pittsburgh diocese said.

After notifying Archbishop Montalvo, thenBishop Wuerl “adhered to Mr. Ciolek’s request for confidentiality,” the Washington archdiocese’s statement said.

Archbishop McCarrick resigned as a cardinal in July 2018 after public reports of alleged sexual misconduct involving seminarians and a minor.

Ciolek asked the Pittsburgh diocese for permission to review the file containing his complaint and during his review in December he discovered the file shows that Cardinal Wuerl knew of his allegations against Archbishop McCarrick, The Washington Post reported Jan. 10.

He subsequently approached the newspaper with his findings.

During the summer as the reports of Archbishop McCarrick’s alleged misconduct became public, Cardinal Wuerl denied knowing of any complaints against the former archbishop of Washington.

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SISTERS: Witnessing for migrant justice at border FROM PAGE 1

“I read the next day’s Scripture very differently,” she said. “Comfort, give comfort to my people. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem. Go up onto a high mountain and cry out at the top of your voice.”

Sister Joan Marie also said that four local women religious – two Mercy sisters and two Presentation sisters – were spending the first two weeks of the new year ministering to migrants at a border shelter run

by Catholic Charities, Jewish Family Services and the Rapid Response Network.

Mercy Sister Martha Larsen and Kathleen Kearney joined Presentation Sisters Maire Sullivan and

Lucia Lodolo at the shelter where up to 100 immigrants a day find a place to sleep, eat, take showers and find health care.

According to Sister Joan Marie, the San Francisco sisters did intake work, sorted clothes, provided child care and organized other items for families.

In a message to Sister Joan Marie, Sister Kathleen talked about listening to a man relive his on-foot journey over the mountains of Mexico with his wife and children during which they didn’t eat for long periods of time.

“It was as if he was feeling that pain all over again,” Sister Kathleen said.

The sisters also spent a day in Ti-

juana with Border Angels, an organization that assists border shelters with food and offers skills training to immigrants.

Sister Martha told her about a young pregnant Guatemalan woman who had spent two months in Tijuana with new 2-year old after her husband and brother were refused entry.

“They cried and we cried with them,” Sister Martha relayed.

Sister Joan Marie said the sisters were grateful to contribute “their bit” to help suffering people.

“As Sisters of Mercy we are guided to act in solidarity with migrants, immigrants, refugees and victims of human trafficking, seeking with them a more just and inclusive world,” she said.

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Presentation Sister Lucia Lodolo holds an infant at a shelter that serves immigrants in San Diego. Sister Lucia was one of four women religious from the Archdiocese of San Francisco who spent the first two weeks of the year working at the shelter and others at the border.

Sister Pimentel disappointed about not being able to address president CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MCALLEN, Texas – Sister Norma Pimentel was “truly disappointed” after not being given an opportunity to speak during a roundtable discussion with President Donald Trump during his Jan. 10 visit to McAllen.

The president traveled to the Rio Grande Valley to make his case for a southern border wall and other security measures amid a partial government shutdown that began over funding for the wall.

Calling the president’s visit “quite an important moment,” Sister Pimentel, executive director of

Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Diocese of Brownsville, lamented that representatives of local agencies working with migrant people and local elected officials were not invited to speak during the discussion.

“I was looking forward to this roundtable discussion, but there was no discussion unfortunately,” Sister Pimentel told The Valley Catholic, newspaper of the Brownsville diocese. “There were certain people selected to speak, people who support the president’s agenda,” she added.

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Trump arrived about 12:45 p.m. local time and was taken to a nearby U.S. Border Patrol Station for what was billed as a roundtable discussion with U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, local officials and key players of the immigration story such as Sister Pimentel, who has spearheaded efforts to assist about more than 100,000 immigrants since June 2014.

When asked what she would have said to the president if she had been recognized, Sister Pimentel said, “I would definitely say that I appreciate and understand the importance of border security and keeping our border safe – that’s so important. We must support our Border Patrol and

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Bishops describe their retreat as inspiring, Spirit-filled CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Although the weeklong retreat for U.S. Catholic bishops emphasized quiet reflection, several bishops spoke out on social media during the retreat and after it wrapped up Jan. 8 with positive Father Raniero reaction about it and Cantalamessa to give shoutouts to the retreat leader, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, who has preached to popes and

OPUS DEI SETTLES SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CLAIM AGAINST PROMINENT US PRIEST

WASHINGTON – Opus Dei, a wellknown international Catholic organization, paid $977,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim in 2005 against a one-time high-profile priest in the nation’s capital.

The payment was made to an adult woman who said Father C. John McCloskey groped her several times while she was undergoing pastoral counseling because of a troubled marriage and serious depression, The Washington Post reported.

The incidents were described as occurring in meetings between Father McCloskey and the unnamed woman at the Catholic Information Center in downtown Washington.

The newspaper said it does not name the victims of sexual assault without their consent.

Msgr. Thomas Bohlin, U.S. vicar of Opus Dei, said in a Jan. 7 statement that the settlement was reached in 2005. He described the priest’s actions as “deeply painful for the woman and we are very sorry for all she suffered.”

Opus Dei learned of the sexual misconduct from the woman in November 2002, according to the statement.

Father McCloskey was removed from his role at the center 13 months later after the complaint was found to be credible, Msgr. Bohlin said.

The woman, who is now in her mid-50s and was 40 when she met

top officials of the Roman Curia for nearly 40 years.

Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Anchorage, Alaska, tweeted that the retreat leader was a “true instrument of the Lord” and that the Holy Spirit was at work during the retreat.

Pope Francis suggested the bishops hold the retreat and offered the services of the 84-year-old Father Cantalamessa, who has served as preacher of the papal household since 1980.

The time of prayer Jan. 2-8 at Mundelein Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake near Chicago was planned largely in response to last summer’s revelations of allegations

of sex abuse that reached the highest levels of the U.S. church.

Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Connecticut, wrote a few blog posts about the retreat with some reflection about the retreat leader’s message. He said Father Cantalamessa emphasized the need to root out “love of money” and all that it implies, including material possessions, honor or power.

“If this pursuit for ‘money’ needs to be rooted out from our Christian lives, then we need to embrace a true spirit of detachment,” the bishop wrote.

In an email to Catholic News Ser-

vice weeks before the retreat, Father Cantalamessa said he would “not talk about pedophilia and will not give advice about eventual solutions; that is not my task and I would not have the competence to do so.”

“The Holy Father asked for my availability to lead a series of spiritual exercises for the episcopal conference so that the bishops, far from their daily commitments, in a climate of prayer and silence and in a personal encounter with the Lord, can receive the strength and light of the Holy Spirit to find the right solutions for the problems that afflict the U.S. church today,” he added.

with Father McCloskey, has remained involved in Opus Dei spiritual activities since.

Msgr. Bohlin said Father McCloskey’s “priestly activities with women have been very limited” since his reassignment from the Catholic Information Center and the restrictions placed upon him.

Sister Anne Victory, a member of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, told Catholic News Service Jan. 9.

chairman, said in a Jan. 11 statement that more than 118,000 people had already signed up to pray this novena, which began Jan. 14, and he invited more to join at www.9daysforlife.com.

“Together, we will seek the Lord’s help in building a culture of life, where the most vulnerable are respected – starting in the womb,” he said.

The overarching intention of the novena is that all human life will be respected. Each day of the “9 Days for Life” novena highlights a different intention and is accompanied by a short reflection, suggested actions and related information.

The 9daysforlife.com website provides ways for Catholics to join the novena and to access resources.

TRUMP SIGNS LAW TO BOOST ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING EFFORTS

WASHINGTON – Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal expenditures for prevention and assistance programs across the federal government.

The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act allows $430 million in federal funds for trafficking prevention and education, victim protection and stronger government prosecution of traffickers through 2022.

The president of the U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking welcomed the Jan. 8 signing of the law, for which it had advocated with members of Congress.

“This comprehensive bill allocates funding for a number of projects that address the acute need for increasing awareness across a variety of sectors, prevention efforts and services for victims of both commercial sex and forced labor trafficking,” said

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ST. PATRICK’S: Bishop Christian named rector-president FROM PAGE 1

Cordileone said. “He has done outstanding work in building up the spiritual life of the seminary and in his leadership in stabilizing and strengthening it during this time of transition. He is and always has been a man of integrity, faithful to his Christian and priestly calling in his personal and ministerial life.”

The archbishop said Father Schultze “was also the right man to shepherd the seminary at this critical moment of its history. In collaboration with the excellent Bishop Robert staff around him, he has assemF. Christian, OP bled an exemplary teaching faculty and has positioned the seminary for continued future growth in excellence in priestly formation. I will forever be grateful to him for his willingness to take on this assignment.”

The announcement of the seminary’s new leadership described Bishop Christian as a highly respected theologian and professor, holding teaching and administrative positions at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome over the past 35 years.

From 1997-1999, Bishop Christian served as vicar provincial of the Western Dominican Province headquartered in Oakland, and in 1990 was a participant in the preparation for the Synod of Bishops on “The Formation of Priests in the Circumstances of the Present Day” and served as a peritus (expert) at that same synod.

For the last several years Bishop Christian, a

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St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park has been forming priests since 1898.

San Francisco native who was appointed by Pope Francis as an auxiliary bishop in March 2018 and ordained the following June, has served the church as a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission and as a consultor to the Pontifical Commission for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

During the three years before his ordination as a bishop, he served the Western Dominican Province as student master and as adjunct professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. He will continue to serve the archdiocese as auxiliary bishop, but with responsibilities accommodated to his role as seminary rector.

Father Schultze, prior to his term as presidentrector, served on the seminary faculty for 11 years in various roles: an adjunct faculty member of moral theology and social ethics, director of the pastoral year formation of the seminarians, collaborator with many and varied administrative tasks and a highly sought-out spiritual director.

“With selfless generosity he has provided pastoral care to staff and students at the seminary as well as to religious and parish communities in the area,” the archdiocese said. “He has also always been responsive to the many requests he receives to offer days of recollection to priests and other groups of the faithful throughout the Bay Area.”

After taking some time for prayer, study and personal enrichment, Father Schultze will return to his vocational calling of spiritual direction, providing critical assistance especially to priests.

“I thank God for what we have accomplished at St. Patrick’s during this last year-and-a-half that I have served as rector, and I am delighted with the choice of Bishop Christian for the next rector,”

Father Schultze said. “I am looking forward to returning to my work in spiritual direction so that I can continue serving the church as best I can in keeping with the abilities that God has entrusted to me – all for the salvation of souls and the greater glory of God.” The seminary has been actively working since 2014 to address concerns noted in audits by the WASC Senior College and University Commission, a regional accrediting agency. The concerns focus on strategic planning, educational effectiveness and organizational structure, the commission said in a report on a March 20-23 visit to the seminary.

The report is available on the commission’s website at www.wscuc.org/institutions/st-patricks-seminary-and-university.

The seminary’s board adopted new vision and mission statements in 2015 followed by a faculty and staff analysis focusing on high-priority areas to be addressed in strategic planning, including low enrollment; renovating the physical plant; upgrading technology; limiting faculty turnover; and achieving financial stability.

Enrollment at 53 is low historically, although this past year the entering class increased significantly from 12 to 22, the commission said. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco published in the July 13, 2017, issue, Father Schultze said 80 is a longterm enrollment goal.

Recruiting bishops to send seminarians to St. Patrick’s is a key challenge, the commission said, adding that the president-rector’s role is crucial.

Seven recent visits to bishops resulted in additional enrollment as well as pledges to send students from dioceses that had previously withdrawn, the commission said.

Jesuit Father John Piderit, archdiocesan vicar for administration and moderator of the curia and a St. Patrick’s trustee, provided additional details in response to email questions from Catholic San Francisco.

“Bishop Christian will pick up where Father Schultze left off,” Father Piderit said. “The two strategies are, first, to promote vocations in the Bay Area and, second, to meet with potential sending bishops and let them know how we have strengthened the academic side of the seminary (stronger faculty), the spiritual side (more spiritual advisers), and the pastoral side (providing seminarians with varied experiences in parishes that differ greatly in their socioeconomic and racial composition.”

Father Schultze made important gains in development, Father Piderit said.

“In particular, he has commitments of $500,000 to renovate the refectory and Riordan Hall. One of Bishop Christian’s early tasks will be to identify a development director whom he admires and with whom he works well,” he said.

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Abuse summit will underline need to end cover-up CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The aim of Pope Francis’ February meeting on abuse and safeguarding is to clarify and underline what must and must not be done with allegations and make sure no more cases are ever covered up, said Andrea Tornielli, editorial director for the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.

“The presence of bishops from Jesuit Father all over the world, called together Hans Zollner for the first time to address this painful plague which has been, and is, a source of enormous suffering for victims and of counter-witness to the Gospel, will help to increase everyone’s awareness of the seriousness of the crisis,” he said.

The abuse of minors and vulnerable adults, “the horrific experiences of the victims, the procedures to be applied in the face of accusations and the indications to ensure a safe environment for children and young people will thus be examined from a perspective that is not solely European or American,” Tornielli said about the Feb. 21-24 meeting, which will bring presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences, the heads of the Eastern Catholic churches and leaders of religious orders to the Vatican.

“The purpose of the meeting is very specific: to ensure that everyone taking part in it can return to

their own country being absolutely clear about what must – and must not – be done with regard to addressing these cases,” he said in an editorial published Jan. 10 on Vatican News and on the front page of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

The bishops will discuss “what steps must be taken to protect the victims, with respect for the truth and the people involved, in order to ensure that no more cases are stonewalled or covered up.”

Many “significant and concrete steps have been taken” the past 16 years, he wrote, and “rules on how to respond have been established and strengthened by the will of recent popes.”

“But norms, laws, codes and procedures that are increasingly perfected and precise are not enough; they can never be enough if the mentality and the hearts of those who are called to apply them do not change,” he said.

That is why Pope Francis continues to emphasize the need for conversion and why “it is important that each of the participants in the meeting listen to the testimonies of surviving victims,” just as Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have done. “Both of them, in the last 10 years and in various parts of the world, have met with victims, listened to them, and wept with them, sharing their suffering,” Tornielli said.

Pope Francis, he noted, has said the February meeting will seek “to make past mistakes opportunities for eliminating” the scourge of abuse “not only from the body of the church but also from that of society.”

While Catholic leaders in some countries might not abuse as a global issue, Vatican offices that receive

abuse allegations have a “clear idea about what is the situation now because allegations come from all parts of the world,” said Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, president of the Center for the Protection of Minors at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a member of the organizing committee for the February meeting.

Because the Catholic Church mandates that all credible allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy must be sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, “we have one office that has to deal with all of this so, for the time being, we know what are the allegations that come from different parts of the world,” he said.

Allegations coming in from the English- and German-speaking countries that have been the center of the abuse scandal for decades “have diminished considerably” because of the safeguarding measures that have been put in place, he told Catholic News Service in early January.

But in those countries where abuse has not been talked about in society and in the church until recently, he said, allegations are just beginning to surface.

What is not known, however, is the actual extent of abuse throughout society, Father Zollner said.

“There are no clear and no scientifically verified statistics for the prevalence of sexual abuse in societies worldwide. There are only estimates that range from 7 percent to 25 percent of all young people in a given society and, in some countries, it may be even much worse,” he said.

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Letter of the Holy Father Pope Francis to the Bishops of the United States of America

‘A new ecclesial season’

To the Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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ear Brothers, During my meeting on 13 September last with the officers of your Conference of Bishops, I suggested that together you make a retreat, a time of seclusion, prayer and discernment, as a necessary step toward responding in the spirit of the Gospel to the crisis of credibility that you are experiencing as a Church. We see this in the Gospel: at critical moments in his mission, the Lord withdrew and spent the whole night in prayer, inviting his disciples to do the same (cf. Mk 14:38). We know that, given the seriousness of the situation, no response or approach seems adequate; nonetheless, we as pastors must have the ability, and above all the wisdom, to speak a word born of heartfelt, prayerful and collective listening to the Word of God and to the pain of our people. A word born of the prayer of shepherds who, like Moses, fight and intercede for their people (cf. Ex 32:30-32).

In that meeting, I told Cardinal DiNardo and the other bishops present of my desire to accompany you personally for several days on that retreat, and this offer was met with joy and anticipation. As the Successor of Peter, I wanted to join all of you in imploring the Lord to send forth his Spirit who “makes all things new” (cf. Rev 21:5) and to point out the paths of life that, as Church, we are called to follow for the good of all those entrusted to our care. Despite my best efforts, I will not be able, for logistical reasons, to be physically present with you. This letter is meant in some way to make up for that journey which could not take place. I am also pleased that you have accepted my offer to have the Preacher of the Papal Household direct this retreat and to share his deep spiritual wisdom.

With these few lines, I would like to draw near to you as a brother and to reflect with you on some aspects that I consider important, while at the same time encouraging your prayer and the steps you are taking to combat the “culture of abuse” and to deal with the crisis of credibility.

“It cannot be like that with you. Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all” (Mk 10:43-45). With these words, Jesus intervenes and acknowledges the indignation felt by the disciples who heard James and John asking to sit at the right and left of the Master (cf.

Mk 10:37). His words will help guide us in our shared reflection.

The Gospel is not afraid to mention certain tensions, conflicts and disputes present in the life of the first community of disciples; it would even appear to want to do so. It speaks of seeking places of honor, and of jealousy, envy and machinations. To say nothing of the intrigues and the plots that, whether secretly or openly, were hatched around the message and person of Jesus by the political and religious leaders and the merchants of the time (cf. Mk 11:15- 18). These conflicts increased with the approach of the hour of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, as the prince of this world, and sin and corruption, appeared to have the last word, poisoning everything with bitterness, mistrust and resentment.

As the elderly Simeon had prophesied, difficult and critical moments can bring to light the deepest thoughts, tensions and contradictions present in the disciples individually and as a group (cf. Lk 2:35). No one can consider himself exempt from this; we are asked as a community to take care that at those times our decisions, choices, actions and intentions are not tainted by these inner conflicts and tensions, but are instead a response to the Lord who is life for the world. At times of great confusion and uncertainty, we need to be attentive and discerning, to free our hearts of compromises and false certainties, in order to hear what the Lord asks of us in the mission he has given us. Many actions can be helpful, good and necessary, and may even seem correct, but not all of them have the “flavor” of the Gospel. To put it colloqui-

ally, we have to be careful that “the cure does not become worse than the disease”. And this requires of us wisdom, prayer, much listening and fraternal communion.

1. “It cannot be like that with you” In recent years, the Church in the United States has been shaken by various scandals that have gravely affected its credibility. These have been times of turbulence in the lives of all those victims who suffered in their flesh the abuse of power and conscience and sexual abuse on the part of ordained ministers, male and female religious and lay faithful. But times of turbulence and suffering also for their families and for the entire People of God. The Church’s credibility has been seriously undercut and diminished by these sins and crimes, but even more by the efforts made to deny or conceal them. This has led to a growing sense of uncertainty, distrust and vulnerability among the faithful. As we know, the mentality that would cover things up, far from helping to resolve conflicts, enabled them to fester and cause even greater harm to the network of relationships that today we are called to heal and restore.

We know that the sins and crimes that were committed, and their repercussions on the ecclesial, social and cultural levels, have deeply affected the faithful. They have caused great perplexity, upset and confusion; and this can often serve as an excuse for some to discredit and call into question the selfless lives of all those many Christians who show “an immense love for humanity inspired by the God who became man.”1 Whenever the Gospel message proves inconvenient or disturbing, many voices are raised in an attempt to silence that message by pointing to the sins and inconsistencies of the members of the Church and, even more, of her pastors.

The hurt caused by these sins and crimes has also deeply affected the communion of bishops, and generated not the sort of healthy and necessary disagreements and tensions found in any living body, but rather division and dispersion (cf. Mt 26:31). The latter are certainly not fruits and promptings of the Holy Spirit, but rather of “the enemy of human nature.”2 who takes greater advantage of division and dispersion than of the tensions and disagreements reasonably to be expected in the lives of Christ’s disciples.

Combatting the culture of abuse, the loss of credibility, the resulting bewilderment and confusion, and the discrediting of our mission urgently demands of us a renewed and decisive approach to resolving conflicts. Jesus would tell us: “You know how among the Gentiles those who seem to exercise authority lord it over them; their great ones make their importance felt. It cannot be like that with you” (Mk 10:42-43). Loss of credibility calls for a specific approach, since it cannot be regained by issuing stern decrees or by simply creating new committees or improving flow charts, as if we were in charge of a department of human resources. That kind of vision ends up reducing the mission of the bishop

and that of the Church to a mere administrative or organizational function in the “evangelization business.” Let us be clear: many of those things are necessary yet insufficient, since they cannot grasp and deal with reality in its complexity; ultimately, they risk reducing everything to an organizational problem.

The loss of credibility also raises painful questions about the way we relate to one another. Clearly, a living fabric has come undone, and we, like weavers, are called to repair it. This involves our ability, or inability, as a community to forge bonds and create spaces that are healthy, mature and respectful of the integrity and privacy of each person. It involves our ability to bring people together

ing hope and feeling spiritually abandoned.

This will enable us to be fully immersed in reality, seeking to appreciate and hear it from within, without being held hostage to it.

We know that times of trial and tribulation can threaten our fraternal communion. Yet we also know that they can become times of grace sustaining our commitment to Christ and making it credible. This credibility will not be grounded in ourselves, our statements, our merits or our personal or collective good name. All these are signs of our attempt – nearly always subconscious – to justify ourselves on the basis of our own strengths and abilities (or of someone else’s misfortune).

Credibility will be the fruit of a united body

Clearly, a living fabric has come undone, and we, like weavers, are called to repair it.

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and to get them enthused and confident about a broad, shared project that is at once unassuming, solid, sober and transparent. This requires not only a new approach to management, but also a change in our mind-set (metanoia), our way of praying, our handling of power and money, our exercise of authority and our way of relating to one another and to the world around us. Changes in the Church are always aimed at encouraging a constant state of missionary and pastoral conversion capable of opening up new ecclesial paths ever more in keeping with the Gospel and, as such, respectful of human dignity. The programmatic aspect of our activity should be joined to a paradigmatic aspect that brings out its underlying spirit and meaning. The two are necessarily linked. Without this clear and decisive focus, everything we do risks being tainted by self-referentiality, self-preservation and defensiveness, and thus doomed from the start. Our efforts may be well-structured and organized, but will lack evangelical power, for they will not help us to be a Church that bears credible witness, but instead “a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal” (1 Cor 13:1).

In a word, a new ecclesial season needs bishops who can teach others how to discern God’s presence in the history of his people, and not mere administrators. Ideas can be discussed but vital situations have to be discerned. Consequently, amid the upset and confusion experienced by our communities, our primary duty is to foster a shared spirit of discernment, rather than to seek the relative calm resulting from compromise or from a democratic vote where some emerge as “winners” and others not. No! It is about finding a collegial and paternal way of embracing the present situation, one that, most importantly, can protect those in our care from los-

Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski prays during a service in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mundelein Seminary Jan. 2 at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Illinois, near Chicago. The U.S. bishops began their Jan. 2-8 retreat at the seminary, suggested by Pope Francis in September amid questions around their handling of clergy sex abuse.

that, while acknowledging its sinfulness and limitations, is at the same time capable of preaching the need for conversion. For we do not want to preach ourselves but rather Christ who died for us (cf. 2 Cor 4:5). We want to testify that at the darkest moments of our history the Lord makes himself present, opens new paths and anoints our faltering faith, our wavering hope and our tepid charity.

A personal and collective awareness of our limitations reminds us, as Saint John XXIII said, that “it must not be imagined that authority knows no bounds.” It cannot be aloof in its discernment and in its efforts to pursue the common good. A faith and consciousness lacking reference to the community would be like a “Kantian transcendental”: It will end up proclaiming “a God without Christ, a Christ without the Church, a Church without its people.” It will set up a false and dangerous opposition between personal and ecclesial life, between a God of pure love and the suffering flesh of Christ. Worse, it could risk turning God into an “idol” for one particular group.

Constant reference to universal communion, as also to the magisterium and age-old tradition of the Church, saves believers from absolutizing any one group, historical period or culture within the Church. Our catholicity is at stake also in our ability as pastors to learn how to listen to one another, to give and receive help from one another, to work together and to receive the enrichment that other churches can contribute to our following of Christ. The catholicity of the Church cannot be reduced merely to a question of doctrine or law; rather, it reminds us that we are not solitary pilgrims: “If one member suffers, all suffer together” (1 Cor 12:26).

This collegial awareness of our being sinners in need of constant conversion, albeit deeply

distressed and pained by all that that has happened, allows us to enter into affective communion with our people. It will liberate us from the quest of false, facile and futile forms of triumphalism that would defend spaces rather than initiate processes. It will keep us from turning to reassuring certainties that keep us from approaching and appreciating the extent and implications of what has happened. It will also aid in the search for suitable measures free of false premises or rigid formulations no longer capable of speaking to or stirring the hearts of men and women in our time.

Affective communion with the feelings of our people, with their disheartenment, urges us to exercise a collegial spiritual fatherhood that does not offer banal responses or act defensively, but instead seeks to learn - like the prophet Elijah amid his own troubles – to listen to the voice of the Lord. That voice is not to be found in the tempest or the earthquake, but in the calm born of acknowledging our hurt before the present situation and letting ourselves together be summoned anew

by God’s word (cf. 1 Kg 19:9-18).

This approach demands of us the decision to abandon a modus operandi of disparaging, discrediting, playing the victim or the scold in our relationships, and instead to make room for the gentle breeze that the Gospel alone can offer. Let us not forget that “the collegial lack of a heartfelt and prayerful acknowledgment of our limitations prevents grace from working more effectively within us, for no room is left for bringing about the potential good that is part of a sincere and genuine journey of growth.” Let us try to break the vicious circle of recrimination, undercutting and discrediting, by avoiding gossip and slander in the pursuit of a path of prayerful and contrite acceptance of our limitations and sins, and the promotion of dialogue, discussion and discernment. This will dispose us to finding evangelical paths that can awaken and encourage the reconciliation and credibility that our people and our mission require of us. We will do this if we can stop projecting onto others our own confusion and discontent, which are obstacles to unity, and dare to come together, on our knees, before the Lord and let ourselves be challenged by his wounds, in which we will be able to see the wounds of the world. Jesus tells us: “You know how among the Gentiles those who seem to exercise authority lord it over them; their great ones make their importance felt. It cannot be like that with you.”

2. “Anyone among you who aspires to greatness must serve the rest; whoever wants to rank first among you must serve the needs of all” God’s faithful people and the Church’s mission continue to suffer greatly as a result of abuses of power and conscience and sexual abuse, and the poor way that they were handled, as well as the pain of seeing an episcopate lacking in unity and concentrated more on pointing fingers than on seeking paths of reconciliation. This situation forces us to look to what is essential and to rid ourselves of all that stands in the way of a clear witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

What is being asked of us today is a new presence in the world, conformed to the cross of Christ, one that takes concrete shape in service to the men and women of our time. I think of the words of Saint Paul VI at the beginning of his pontificate: “If we want to be pastors, fathers and teachers, we must also act as brothers. Dialogue thrives on friendship, and most especially on service. All this we must remember and strive to put into practice on the example and precept of Christ (Jn 13:14-17).”

This attitude is not concerned with respect or success and garnering applause for our actions; instead, it requires that we as pas-

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Pope Francis holds the Book of the Gospels as he celebrates Mass marking the feast of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 1. tors really decide to be a seed that will grow whenever and however the Lord best determines. That decision will save us from falling into the trap of measuring the value of our efforts by the standards of functionalism and efficiency that govern the business world. The path to be taken is rather one of openness to the efficacy and transformative power of God’s Kingdom, which, like a mustard seed, the smallest and most insignificant of seeds, becomes a tree in which the birds of the air make their nests (cf. Mt 13:32-33). Amid the tempest, we must never lose faith in the quiet, daily and effective power of the Holy Spirit at work in human hearts and in all of history.

Credibility is born of trust, and trust is born of sincere, daily, humble and generous service to all, but especially to those dearest to the Lord’s heart (cf. Mt 25:31-46). It will be a service offered not out of concern with marketing or strategizing to reclaim lost prestige or to seek accolades, but rather – as I insisted in the recent Apostolic Exhortation “Gaudete et Exsultate” – because it belongs to “the beating heart of the Gospel.”

The call to holiness keeps us from falling into false dichotomies and reductive ways of thinking, and from remaining silent in the face of a climate prone to hatred and rejection, disunity and violence between brothers and sisters. The Church, as the “sign and instrument of communion with God and of the unity of the entire human race” (“Lumen Gentium,” 1), bears in her heart and soul the sacred mission of being a place of encounter and welcome not only for her members but for all humanity.

It is part of her identity and mission to work tirelessly for all that can contribute to unity between individuals and peoples as a symbol and sacrament of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for all men and women, without distinction. For “there does not exist among you Jew or Greek, slave or freeman, male or female.

All are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal 3:28). This is the greatest service she offers, all the more so today, when we are witnessing a resurgence of inflammatory rhetoric and prejudices old and new. Our communities today must testify in a concrete and creative way that God is the Father of all, and that in his eyes we are all his sons and daughters. Our credibility also depends on the extent to which, side by side with others, we help to strengthen a social and cultural fabric that is not only in danger of unravelling, but also of harboring and facilitating new forms of hatred. As a Church, we cannot be held hostage by this side or that, but must be attentive always to start from those who are most vulnerable. With the words of the Eucharistic Prayer, let us ask the Lord that, “in a world torn by strife, your people may shine forth as a prophetic sign of unity and concord” (“Masses for Various Needs,” I)

How sublime is the task at hand, brothers; we cannot keep silent about it or downplay it because of our own limitations and faults!

I recall the wise words of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, that we can repeat, both as individuals and together: “Yes, I have many human faults and failures... But God bends down and uses us, you and me, to be his love and his compassion in the world; he bears our sins, our troubles and our faults. He depends on us to love the world and to show how much he loves it. If we are too concerned with ourselves, we will have no time left for others.”

Dear brothers, the Lord was well aware that, at the hour of the cross, lack of unity, division and dispersion, as well as attempts to flee from that hour, would be the greatest temptations faced by his disciples – attitudes that would distort and hinder their mission.

That is why he asked the Father to watch over them, so that at those times they would be one, even as he and the Father are one, and that none of them would be lost (cf. Jn 17:1112). Entering with trust into Jesus’ prayer to the Father, we want to learn from him and, with firm resolve, to begin this time of prayer, silence and reflection, of dialogue and communion, of listening and discernment. In this way, we will allow him to conform our hearts to his image and help us discover his will.v On this path we are not alone. From the beginning, Mary accompanied and sustained the community of the disciples. By her maternal presence she helped the community not to lose its bearings by breaking up into closed groups or by thinking that it could save itself.

She protected the community of the disciples from the spiritual isolation that leads to selfcenteredness. By her faith, she helped them to persevere amid perplexity, trusting that God’s light would come. We ask her to keep us united and persevering as on the day of Pentecost, so that the Spirit will be poured forth into our hearts and help us in every time and place to bear witness to the Resurrection.

Dear brothers, with these thoughts I am one with you during these days of spiritual retreat. I am praying for you; please do the same for me. May the Lord bless you and Our Lady watch over you.

Fraternally, (Francis) Vatican City, 1 January 2019 Editor’s note: The U.S. bishops received this letter from Pope Francis on Jan. 1 before their weekly spiritual retreat at Mundelein Seminary near Chicago. The retreat took place at the pope’s invitation amid questions about the bishops’ handling of clergy sex abuse. This is the official translation of the letter, retrieved from www.usccb.org/news/2019/19-001.cfm.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 62:1-5 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her vindication shines forth like the dawn and her victory like a burning torch. Nations shall behold your vindication, and all the kings your glory; you shall be called by a new name pronounced by the mouth of the Lord. You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem held by your God. No more shall people call you “Forsaken, “ or your land “Desolate, “ but you shall be called “My Delight, “ and your land “Espoused.”

For the Lord delights in you and makes your land his spouse. As a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.

PSALM 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 9-10 Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all you lands. Sing to the Lord; bless his name.

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

Announce his salvation, day after day. Tell his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and praise; give to the Lord the glory due his name!

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

Worship the Lord in holy attire. Tremble before him, all the earth; Say among the nations: The Lord is king. He governs the peoples with equity.

Proclaim his marvelous deeds to all the nations.

1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-11 Brothers and sisters: There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another, the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another, mighty deeds; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, varieties of tongues; to another, interpretation of

tongues. But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes.

JOHN 2:1-11 There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from— although the servers who had drawn the water knew —,the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.

The passion at Cana

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f the four Gospels, John has the most elevated, mystical presentation of the mystery of Jesus. As such, some have proposed a number of places where the Gospel can in fact end, having presented the true efficacy of the life and death of Christ in symbolic or theological language or stories.

Many suggest that the beginning of John, called the “Prologue” (John 1:1-18) is a dense, concentrated summary of the Gospel that follows. If read on its own, the passage serves as a powerful theological summary of the dynamic effect of Christ’s life, ministry, death and resurrection.

Another possible “concluFATHER WILLIAM sion” could be the story we NICHOLAS have come to know simply as “The Wedding at Cana.”

The wedding at Cana wraps up a seven-day period in which much happens to reflect the action of God’s plan for salvation, culminating in the revelation of Christ’s glory in the miracle itself. Specific events are described during the course of these seven days that some scholars refer to as a “symbolic week.”

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

On the first day, John the Baptist gives his first testimony (John 1:19-28).

On the second day, John points Jesus out as the “Lamb of God …” (John 1:29-34).

On the third day, John instructs Andrew to follow Jesus. Andrew later brings Peter (John 1:35-42).

On the fourth day, Jesus calls Philip, who brings Nathaniel (John 1:43-51).

Three days later, Jesus attends the wedding at Cana and reveals his glory (John 2:1-11).

In John the Baptist we see the prophetic herald of the new creation. Jesus, as savior, as the author of the new creation then gathers the nucleus of his church. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus, and his disciples with “the mother of Jesus” (who is never named in John’s Gospel) participate in an event where Christ’s glory is revealed and the vivification of the church is symbolized.

The characters and elements in this Gospel story are: Jesus, his disciples, “the mother,” the water, the wine, and the context of a wedding.

The presence of the disciples suggests the presence of the church. The prayers of God’s holy people for salvation can be seen in the request of “the mother.” The new wine, better than the old, represents the graces poured forth in Christ’s redemption, won through his death on the cross when blood and water flowed from his side. The reference to Christ’s “hour” indicates the ulti-

mate plan, set forth and carried out according to the will of God. In Isaiah 62:1-5 the prophet compares the vindication of God’s people to “a young man [marrying] a virgin” and “a bridegroom [rejoicing] in his bride.” In the Gospel of John the wedding serves as the setting when Jesus comes to his “hour,” reveals his glory and pours forth the wine of messianic graces at the request of his “mother.”

The wedding at Cana can, therefore, be seen as a metaphor-of-sorts of Christ’s very passion and death (the only other scene in John’s Gospel in which the “mother” is present). After, seven “days,” following the Baptist’s prophetic heraldry, and his recognition of “the Lamb of God,” Jesus draws disciples to himself. At the proper hour, Jesus pours forth the grace or “wine” of messianic salvation at the request and prayerful intervention of his most ardent believers.

This is only one example of the rich symbolism contained in this story of the wedding at Cana.

Others – including the blind faith of “the mother” who knew Jesus would respond to her petitions, the stewards who followed his instructions, and the sanctification of the marriage covenant – would be appropriate subject matter for future reflections on one of the most multifaceted stories of Christ’s ministry.

FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS is administrator of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JANUARY 21: Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr. HEB 5:1-10. PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4. HEB 4:12. MK 2:18-22.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle. ACTS 22:3-16 or ACTS 9:1-22. PS 117:1bc, 2. SEE JN 15:16. MK 16:15-18.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. HEB 6:10-20. PS 111:12, 4-5, 9 and 10c. SEE EPH 1:17-18. MK 2:23-28.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26: Memorial of Sts. Timothy and Titus, bishops. 2 TM 1:1-8316 or TI 1:1-5. PS 96:12a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10. SEE ACTS 16:14b. MK 3:20-21.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23: Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Vincent of Saragossa, deacon & martyr; St. Marianne Cope. HEB 7:1-3, 15-17. PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4.

SEE MT 4:23. MK 3:1-6.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. NEH 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 1 COR 12:12-30 or 1 COR 12:12-14, 27. CF. LK 4:18.

LK 1:1-4; 4:14-21.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24: Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor. Optional memorial of Our Lady of Peace. HEB 7:25—8:6. PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 3:7-12.

MONDAY, JANUARY 28: Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor. HEB 9:15, 24-28. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. SEE 2 TM 1:10. MK 3:22-30.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 29: Tuesday of the Third Week

in Ordinary Time. HEB 10:1-10. PS 40:2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11. SEE MT 11:25. MK 3:31-35.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30: Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 10:11-18. PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4. MK 4:1-20.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31: Memorial of St. John Bosco, priest. HEB 10:19-25. PS 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6.

PS 119:105. MK 4:21-25.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1: Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time. HEB 10:32-39. PS 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40. SEE MT 11:25. MK 4:26-34.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2: Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. MAL 3:1-4. PS 24:7, 8, 9, 10. HEB 2:1418. LK 2:32. LK 2:22-40 or LK 2:22-32.

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Struggling for sustenance

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e all struggle to not give in to coldness and hatred. This was even a struggle for Jesus. Like the rest of us he had to struggle, mightily at times, to remain warm and loving.

It’s interesting to trace this out in the Gospel of Luke. This is the Gospel of prayer. Luke shows Jesus praying more than all the other Gospels combined.

Moreover, in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus’ disciples were intrigued by his prayer.

They sensed something extraordinary about Jesus, not because he could walk FATHER RON on water and do miracles, but because, unlike the rest ROLHEISER of us, he could in fact turn the cheek. He was strong enough not to give into coldness in the face of hatred, so strong that it threatened his very life.

In every situation, no matter how bitter, he could be understanding and forgiving and never doubt that love and grace are what’s most real.

His disciples sensed that he drew this strength from a hidden source, some deep well of sustenance which he called his Father and which he accessed through prayer. For this reason, in Luke’s Gospel, the disciples ask Jesus to teach them how to pray. They too want to draw sustenance from this source.

But we see too in Luke’s Gospel that this doesn’t always come without struggle. Sometimes things seem easy for Jesus; he meets love and understanding, and his ministry is joyous and easy. But when things begin to collapse, when the forces of hatred begin to encircle him, when a majority of his followers abandon and betray him, and when his own death becomes imminent, then like the rest of us, fear and paranoia threaten to overwhelm him. This is in fact the essence of his

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struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane, his socalled “agonia.”

Simply put, it’s easy enough to be understanding, loving, and forgiving when you are bathed in them. It’s quite another thing when your very adherence to them is making you the object of misunderstanding, hatred, and murder. And so, in Gethsemane, we see Jesus prostrate, humanly devastated, on the ground, struggling mightily to cling to a cord of sustenance that had always sustained him in trust, love, and forgiveness and had kept paranoia, hatred, and despair at bay. And the answer doesn’t come easy for him. He has to pray repeatedly and, in Luke’s words, “sweat blood” before he can regain his balance and root himself again in that grace that sustained him throughout his ministry. Love and forgiveness are not easy.

Not giving in to anger, bitterness, self-pity, hatred and the desire for vengeance didn’t come easy for Jesus either.

And that’s our ultimate moral struggle: To not give in to to our natural reaction whenever we are not respected, slighted, ignored, misunderstood, hated, or in small or large ways victimized. In the face of these, paranoia automatically takes over and most everything inside us conspires to create an obsessive pressure toward giving back in kind, slight for slight, disrespect for disrespect, ugliness for ugliness, hatred for hatred, violence for violence.

But there’s another possibility: Like Jesus, who himself had to struggle mightily to not give in to coldness and hatred, we too can draw strength through the same umbilical cord that nurtured him. His Father, God’s grace and strength, can nurture us too.

In his famous movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” Mel Gibson focuses on the physical suffering Jesus had to endure during his passion and death. Partly this has some merit since Jesus’ sufferings were SEE ROLHEISER, PAGE 16

Sometimes I read something that makes little sense to me but just let it go. The column of “his excellency” George Weigel (“Why 42 had to be impeached 20 years ago,” Dec. 13) can’t be let go.

After weeks of daily reporting about corruption in Washington, the president of the United States being surrounded by crooks, and the special counsel breathing down on the lawlessness in the White House, corruption in the presidential campaign, turning blind eyes against an alleged brutal murder by the Saudi Prince only for financial reasons, what does the good George Weigel reach for in his morality bag? Monica Lewinsky. Not a word about our current situation. Not a word about the cruelty to immigrant children. And this guy offers himself as a Catholic expert on political morality. And he’s so smug about it.

Charles Leyes San Francisco

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Re “Disaffiliation: Session explores church’s woe in handing on faith,” Dec 6: In determining factors of why the church pews are becoming empty, let me tell you why I no longer attend. Pedophilia has been a source hushed, yet the leaders were aware and to find that it is not a recent but a decades-long “thing.” The guilty party was not sent to jail as should have taken place but sent to another parish.

On recent events the Catholic Church has not said one word on immigration. Children being separated from their mothers.

Personal matter: When I was a child a list of movies that Catholics could see was listed. Perhaps people no longer need to be told how to live.

I know there are guidelines that my parents have passed down so I have given the guidelines to my children. Guidelines are common sense that you learn from education and your upbringing.

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Lay collaboration and episcopal authority

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he Vatican is a hotbed of rumor, gossip and speculation at the best of times – and these times are not those times. The Roman atmosphere at the beginning of 2019 is typically fetid and sometimes poisonous, with a lot of misinformation and disinformation floating around. That smog of fallacy and fiction could damage February’s global gathering of bishops, called by the pope to address the abuse crisis that is impeding the church’s evangelical mission virtually everywhere.

GEORGE WEIGEL Great expectations surround that meeting; those expectations should be lowered. The presidents of over 100 bishops conferences and the leaders of a dysfunctional Roman Curia are not going to devise a universal template for the reform of the priesthood and the episcopate. What the February meeting can do is set a broad agenda for reform, beginning with a ringing affirmation of the church’s perennial teaching on chastity as the integrity of love. In a diverse world church, that teaching applies in every ecclesial situation. And it is the baseline of any authentically Catholic response to the abuse crisis.

What the February meeting must not do is make matters worse by swallowing, and then propagating, some of the fairy tales circulating in Rome about the church in the United States:

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Like the noxious fiction that the U.S. bishops have overreacted to what is essentially a mediacreated crisis.

To be sure, inept or hostile journalists too often fail to report the significant reform measures the U.S. bishops have implemented since 2002 and the positive effects of those reforms.

But there is still much reform work to be done in the American Church; most U.S. bishops know that; and for Rome to blame the church’s current crisis of confidence on the media is a reflexive dodge and an obstacle to genuine reform.

Then there’s the “Protestantization” fairy tale. In Roman circles, it’s said that panicky U.S. bishops cobbled together reform proposals that would gravely diminish episcopal authority by handing great chunks of that authority to lay people – a “Protestantizing” move, as it’s called along the Tiber. To make matters worse, some in Rome blame this alleged “Protestantizing” on what are deemed “too many” converts in the U.S. church today.

How to begin unraveling this nonsense?

First, it is beyond bizarre for anyone to complain about too many converts in a church called by the pope to live “permanently in mission,” radiating “the joy of the Gospel.” In real-world 2019, American adults are baptized or enter into full communion with the Catholic Church because they believe the Catholic Church knows what it is, teaches the truth, and offers them Christ himself in the sacraments. They don’t “convert” to change the church’s self-understanding.

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What the U.S. bishops were prepared to do in November, before an inappropriate Vatican intervention prevented it, was to create a national body of competent lay people to receive allegations of episcopal malfeasance, assess them by a carefully crafted set of standards and report credible allegations to the appropriate church authorities. Period. Such a process would not only preserve the bishops’ authority; it would enhance it.

In any effective organization, the leader with ultimate responsibility engages the expertise of others in order to do what only he or she can do: Make good final decisions. Not a jot or tittle of episcopal authority will be damaged by the American bishops collaborating with expert lay people who understand the boundaries of lay competence. On the contrary, that collaboration is essential if the bishops – and the Vatican – are going to recover the credibility necessary to do the jobs that only bishops and the Vatican can do in reforming the priesthood and the episcopate.

These points must be made forcefully in Rome in February. Fictions about American Catholic life and American attempts to impose a universal solution to the abuse crisis on the world church must be firmly rejected. An appropriate pastoral response to a genuine crisis, well-suited to the ecclesial situation of the U.S., should be vigorously defended. And the Roman voices saying there are too many converts in the U.S. should be invited to read Matthew 28:19-20.

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SISTER: Missed chance to meet President Trump at border FROM PAGE 6

Trump said the wall, whose lack of funding triggered the ongoing partial government shutdown that began at midnight Dec. 22, was necessary to stop drugs and violent immigrants from coming into the country, which he called a “humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border.”

“Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we don’t act right now,” he said.

On drugs, he said: “Our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs, including meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. Every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone, 90 percent of which floods across from our southern border.”

Fact checkers from various news organizations quickly pointed out research, including a study from the journal Criminology, that showed “undocumented immigration does not increase violence,” that most drugs come to the U.S. at already existing border crossings, so more wall- or barrier-building wouldn’t stop their transport.

The Center for Migration Studies, a think tank in New York connected to the Congregation of the

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Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, is seen along a border wall in February.

Missionaries of St. Charles, known popularly as the Scalabrinians, disseminated information from one of its studies in 2016 that showed the number of “undocumented in the nation had dropped to 10.8 million, a new low.”

In a Jan. 10 statement, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration said the country can both secure borders and humanely treat migrants fleeing persecution and seeking a better life.

These “are not mutually exclusive,” said Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas.

“The United States can ensure both and must do so without instilling fear or sowing hatred,” he said, urging the president and congressional leaders to work together to come up with just such a solution.

On Twitter Jan. 8, the Sisters of Mercy quickly responded to Trump’s speech, calling it “another, in a long list of speeches, rooted in untruths, fear and division.”

They noted that the speech came as the U.S. Catholic Church marked National Migration Week, Jan. 6-12, to support and pray for immigrants, refugees, victims and survivors of human trafficking.

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ROLHEISER: ‘MISLEADING’: PA abuse report debunked Struggling for sustenance FROM PAGE 1

A third or more of the crimes documented in the report, he said, “only came to the knowledge of church authorities in 2002 or after.” In 2002, the U.S. FROM PAGE 13 bishops approved their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” which mandated in fact pretty horrific. But mostly it misses the automatic removal from ministry when a priest or point, as we see from the Gospels. They make it a church worker is accused of abuse. point to minimize any focus on the physical sufBut Steinfels said that if one reads the full report ferings of Jesus. For the Gospels, Jesus’ passion carefully, “it is clear” that it “does not document is not a physical drama but a moral one, indeed the sensational charges contained in its introducthe ultimate moral drama. The real struggle for tion – namely, that over seven decades Catholic Jesus as he sweated blood in Gethsemane was authorities, in virtual lockstep, supposedly brushed not whether he would allow himself to die or inaside all victims and did absolutely nothing in the voke divine power and escape. The question was face of terrible crimes against boys and girls – exonly about how he was going to die: In bitterness cept to conceal them.” or love? In hatred or forgiveness?

The grand jury says “’all’ of these victims ... were That’s also our ultimate moral struggle, one brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church which won’t just confront us at the moment of leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and death but one which confronts us daily, hourly. their institutions above all,” he wrote. “Or as the In every situation in our lives, small or large, introduction to the report sums it up, ‘Priests were where we are unfairly ignored, slighted, inraping little boys and girls, and the men of God sulted, hated, or victimized in any way, we face a who were responsible for them not only did nothchoice of how to respond: Bitterness or undering; they hid it all.’” standing? Hatred or love? Vengeance or forgive“This ugly, indiscriminate and inflammatory ness? charge, unsubstantiated by the report’s own eviAnd, like Jesus struggling in Gethsemane, we dence, to say nothing of the evidence the report igwill have to struggle to continue to cling onto nores, is truly unworthy of a judicial body responsomething beyond our natural instincts, beyond sible for impartial justice,” he said. common sense, beyond our cultural dictates.

This charge “is contradicted by testimony Doing what comes naturally will not serve us submitted to the grand jury but ignored – and, I well. Something beyond our DNA needs to be believe, by evidence that the grand jury never puraccessed. sued,” noted Steinfels.

The first word out of Jesus’ mouth in the syn“The report’s conclusions about abuse and optic Gospels is the word metanoia. Among its cover-up are stated in timeless fashion,” he said. other meanings, it’s the opposite of paranoia. It “Whenever change is acknowledged, the language means to trust even in the face of distrust. Parais begrudging.” noia is natural to us, metanoia isn’t; it requires Steinfels said his conclusions about the report do struggling to draw sustenance from a deeper not “acquit the Catholic hierarchy of all sins, past source. or present” regarding the abuse crisis. “Personally, The Most Requested Funeral Directors in Archdiocese ofadded.

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He said the grand jury could have reached accurate and “hard-hitting findings about what different church leaders did and did not do,” but chose “a tack more suited” to society’s current “hyperbolic, bumper-sticker, post-truth environment.”

Released Aug. 14, the grand jury report was based on an investigation initiated by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office. It linked more than 300 priests and other church workers to abuse claims during the 70-year period it covered and said alleged victims numbered over 1,000.

The day after its release was the feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation, Steinfels noted, and millions of Catholics that day “went to church sick at heart” because of the report. “I was among them,” he added.

The report made international headlines, he noted, prompting the Vatican – along with the Pennsylvania dioceses’ bishops and the U.S. church’s national leadership – to express sorrow and shame.

It has prompted attorneys general in other states to pledge the same kind of investigation; Illinois for one has begun a similar probe.

Steinfels acknowledged his conclusions about the report “are dramatically at odds with the public perception and reception” of it, so to substantiate them, it was “essential to examine, step by step, how this report was produced, organized and presented; what it omits as well as includes; and finally, whether a careful sampling of its contents supports its conclusions.”

With many Catholics “angry and dismayed” over abuse in the church, raising questions about the report “flies in the face of almost overpowering headwinds,” Steinfels said. “To question let alone challenge the report is unthinkable. It borders on excusing the crimes that bishops and other church leaders are accused of committing.”

“Before examining more closely what is in the report, it is important to ask what isn’t” in the report, Steinfels said. “Beyond those references to more than 300 predator priests – actually 301 – and more than 1,000 child victims, to dozens of witnesses and half-a-million subpoenaed church documents, there are almost no numerical markers.

“There is, for example, no calculation of how many ordained men served in those six dioceses since (the mid-1940s), a figure that might either verify or challenge previous estimates of the prevalence of sexual abuse among the clergy. There are no efforts to discern statistical patterns in the ages of abusers, the rates of abuse over time, the actions of law enforcement, or changes in responses by church officials.

Steinfels said it is true “that disturbing instances of apparent failures by church officials continue to come to light – and will no doubt continue to do so, especially as the line between past cases and current ones is regularly blurred, and as cases from all around the world are increasingly blended with a few American ones into a single narrative.”

“Church leaders must remove persistent doubts that these failures are being thoroughly investigated, with consequences for those found responsible,” he said.

Regarding Pennsylvania, “whether one looks at the handling of old allegations or the prevention of new ones, the conclusion that a careful, unbiased reading of the Pennsylvania report compels is this: The Dallas charter has worked,” he said.

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To accompany the youth actively and creatively in their faith journey by way of spiritual, liturgical, scriptural, sacramental events.

To be engaged in target-based, result-oriented invigoration of Youth Ministry in parishes and deaneries in terms of increasing number of youth, number of parish ministries, and various events organized, including at least one countylevel event per county and one Archdiocesewide event annually.

6. Help prepare youth for the Sacrament of Confirmation and organize Archdiocesan Confirmation retreats in collaboration with the Youth Council.

7. Develop and maintain database of addresses and contact information for youth and young adult ministry members of the Archdiocese and the progress of this ministry.

8. Facilitate “Theology on Tap” program.

9. Organize World Youth Day participation and maintain informational and financial database of participants.

10. In order to bring focus and dedication to this parish-based work, the coordinator will be exclusively working within the boundaries of parishes and deaneries within our Archdiocese and NOT outside of the Archdiocese for events, seminars, and conferences, except with prior approval of the Director of Pastoral Ministry.

OLA, Burlingame, CA

We are looking for a dynamic full-time Catholic Identity Parish Director and part-time Catholic Identity Tri-School Liaison to continue the Franciscan movement begun by St. Francis of Assisi — to help a new generation of families reclaim our Catholic faith from strong cultural forces to keep family life centered around God. “The Capuchin Franciscan Way” is a Eucharist centered lifestyle that inspires all to walk the simple, joyful path of St. Francis in order to live the Gospel. Candidates should have strong leadership, organizational and collaboration skills to sustain innovative new programs aimed at Keeping Sunday Holy and Getting to Know Francis through active parish and tri-school participation in the liturgy, faith formation, and outreach initiatives.

Contact 650.347.7768 or theresawebbola@gmail.com for information.

BUSINESS MANAGER, Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption Reports to: Pastor FLSA Status: Full Time Exempt

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Cathedral Business Manager serves as a key resource in support of the pastor, fulfilling administrative needs in managing finances, overseeing buildings, grounds, property maintenance and personnel. Works independently while advising the Pastor and collaborating with the Chancery offices. Responsible for developing and managing to the annual operating and capital budgets.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages operations of offices, event center, gift shop and team of five employees • Administers cash flow management system and is responsible for recording and depositing of all Cathedral Revenue • Purchasing and inventory • Monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reporting • Prepares and presents financial and operational performance reports for Pastor, Finance Council and ADSF Finance Department • Negotiates contracts with suppliers, vendors and construction firms in coordination with Archdiocesan Finance Department.

• Maintains the premises and anticipates needed repairs and replacements as part of facility maintenance and capital Improvements plans • Develop and update a three-five year Capital improvement and maintenance plans for the Cathedral. These should be prepared in collaboration with the Archdiocesan Real Property Support Corporation (RPSC), Pastor and Moderator of the Curia • Maintenance of Cathedral membership and sacramental records • Administers archdiocesan salary, hiring and benefit policies as directed by the pastor in coordination with the Archdiocesan Human Resources Department.

QUALIFICATIONS:

QUALITIES & QUALIFICATIONS: • Strong interpersonal and problem resolution skills.

• Excellent English verbal, written and communication skills (Spanish Language helpful) • Organized, reliable, flexible, pleasant, affable, timely; and with effective planning skills • Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and Excel • Practicing Catholic in good standing with a deep love for the Church • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree

Full and Part-Time Catholic Identity Leadership Positions

• Experience in youth/young adult ministry, faith formation or related fields • 4-6 years of experience in parish and diocesan ministry • Valid California driver’s license with clean driving record and car for work • Able to work evenings/nights and weekends • Able to work collaboratively with the pastors, deans, and other parish-based organizations in helping start new youth and young adult ministry groups in parishes and deaneries.

Send cover letter, resume and three references to Christine Escobar escobarc@sfarch.org at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor’s degree; two to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Must be a practicing Roman Catholic who upholds and understands the teaching and traditions of the Catholic Church.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial statements, generalv business periodicals or governmental regulations.

• At least three years of management experience and strong knowledge of finance and budgeting and should have knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Outlook. Proficiency with QuickBooks Desktop and On-line sotware PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME AND COVER LETTER TO: Attn: Christine Escobar-Human Resources Manager Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 E-mail: escobarc@sfarch.org Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified candidates with criminal histories considered.

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STAR OF THE SEA SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Third graders are pictured wearing “shopping bag tilmas” in celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 12. Father Joseph Illo, pastor, holds the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Star principal David Gallagher is pictured above him. Third grade teacher, Michaela Ruiz, is at right, parish staff member, Mariella Zevallos is at left. On ground level with the guest Mariachi band are Jacqueline Paras, preschool director, left and Ersie Arban, preschool teacher, right.

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Billings’ mother is the late Sugako Berne, a native of Japan. She and her family were St. Francis Xavier parishioners when the two communities became entwined. “I remember my mother ended up taking American Sign Language classes so she could properly lead St. Benedict parishioners in the choir,” said Billings. At the Mass which preceded the party, Father Zirimenya welcomed Billings publicly and noted the significance of her mother to the parish. “This community is not rich materially but is very wealthy in community,” she said.

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ST. RITA PARISH, FAIRFAX: Parishioners donated $23,000 to St. Thomas More Church in the Butte County town of Paradise, where most of the 733 parish families lost their homes and possessions in the recent Camp Fire. Two parishioners died in the fires. “Seeing such horrific devastation, our parishioners immediately offered to help,” Father Kenneth Weare, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. “They are motivated by Pope Francis and wanted to put their faith into action.” The St. Rita conference of the St. Vincent De Paul Society sponsored a large shipment of clothes, food, and household supplies for the St. Thomas More parishioners. Pictured are Father Weare and St. Thomas More pastor Father Godwin Xavier, with the St. Rita donation among parish buildings destroyed by the fire.

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PRIESTHOOD DISCERNMENT RETREAT: The archdiocesan Office of Vocations offers its annual weekend discernment retreat, Jan. 18-20, for men who want to know more about the vocation of a Catholic priest.

Open to single men, 21 years or older, 15TH ANNUAL to spend some time with like-minded men and to explore in fellowship the meaning of priesthood, with conferences given by Spokane Bishop Thomas A. Daly, a former priest of the archdiocese as well as vocations director. Site is St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park. Lodging and meals provided, and attendance does not imply further obligation. For complete information and instructions for applying, visit stpsu.edu/is-godcalling-you; contact Father Patrick Summerhays, (415) 614-5683; summerhays.patrick@sfarch.org.

SATURDAY, JAN. 19 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled Saturday, January people, caregivers invited.

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ZYDECO DANCE: St. Finn Barr Church, Goode Hall, 415 Edna St., San Francisco, 8 p.m.-midnight, $20 advance or $25 at the door, free dance lesson 7-8 p.m. Food will be available for purchase. Alice Guidry, (415) 760-1454.

SUNDAY, JAN. 27 ‘CARNIVAL’: San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women Annual Luncheon, fashion show and silent auction, Olympic Club, Lakeside. Fashions by Simi’s, 11 a.m., no-host cocktails, silent auction, 12:30 p.m. lunch. Tickets $85. Reservations required by Jan. 16. Cathy Mibach, (415) 753-0234; dcmibac@ aol.com.

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his week we celebrate the mission of Catholic schools and their cherished legacy. We also recommit ourselves to assuring their future because they are critical to the life of the Church. Catholics schools are privileged places for young people to encounter Jesus Christ through CathARCHBISHOP olic faith, SALVATORE J. Catholic CORDILEONE culture, and the Catholic intellectual tradition on a daily basis as they learn and grow and develop. Because Catholic schools are called to be, as Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, of Vancouver states, “inspired by a supernatural vision, founded on Christian anthropology, animated by communion and community, imbued with a Catholic worldview throughout the curriculum, and sustained by Gospel witness,“ they are the ideal and obvious institutions to help address a growing problem facing the Catholic Church.

In a May, 2004 article for Commonweal Dr. John Cavadini of Notre Dame calls out and laments the religious illiteracy of so many otherwise well-educated young Catholics. According to Dr. Cavadini, “This vast ignorance is not

just a question of missing bits of information, retinal holes marring an otherwise excellent field of vision. It is something more like a retinal detachment, a whole field of vision pulling inexorably away toward blindness. Not only are the words gone, the bits of information, but the system in which the words made sense is fading.”

The pathway out of the kind of ignorance Cavadini sites requires, as he says, a “renewed pedagogy” that focuses on the fundamental doctrines of the faith – what Catholics believe. It also requires a pedagogy that invites and leads young people to a moment of epiphany when they can see the faith with new eyes. This is exactly what Catholic education is all about.

Catholic schools convey knowledge of what the faith teaches, but they also offer a culture in which students can’t help but bump into the faith again and again across the disciplines, in their co-curricular activities, and in the witness of their teachers. In such an environment they become aware that the faith offers a world view that is neither naive nor limiting. Rather, it is coherent, sophisticated and expansive. This realization, according to Cavadini, “has a unique power to reconnect students to the church’s faith. When it is combined with an awakening to the sense of the sheer beauty, richness, and sophistication of Catholicism’s twothousand-year-old tradition, there is no substitute for the impact it has on students.”

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have always felt that the greatest gift a parent can give their child is the gift of a strong faith. A faith that lies at the core of a person’s life. A faith that serves as a lens where all other experiences, relationships and intellectual pursuits are viewed and examined. This is a tall task indeed given the very secular world in which PAMELA LYONS we live. It is our goal in the 22 preschools, 55 elementary schools, and 13 high schools that comprise the Archdiocese of San Francisco to partner with parents, the primary educators of their children, in cultivating this strong faith in each child we encounter.

When a child enters a Catholic school, they are treated as one of God’s beloved children, created in His image and likeness, and as such are inherently good.

In other words, all of our students are beloved because they are created by God. Catholic schools create educational opportunities that not only address the intellect, but of equal importance, the spiritual, moral, and social aspects of every child. We recognize the

importance of academic excellence, and are diligent about ensuring that our students are receiving an education on par with, and in most cases, an education that greatly surpasses other local public and private institutions. The difference lies in our pursuit of academic excellence as a pathway to a greater good. Our curriculum is rooted in the Gospels that inspire a love of learning and the intellectual pursuit of the truth.

I always tell our teachers that we are educating our students to change the world, by contributing to the Kingdom on earth, with their ultimate goal being entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

This school year, more than 23,232 students attend Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. We welcome those members of our community who are not currently attending a school in the Archdiocese to visit a Catholic school and experience for yourself all they have to offer. We are dedicated in our mission to grow our students’ understanding that they are God’s beloved so they may fully realize God’s plan for them. Come partner with us in bestowing upon your child a gift that will be invaluable throughout their lives; the gift of faith.

PAMELA LYONS is superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Editor’s note: Sponsored by the National Catholic Educational Association, Catholic Schools Weeks is an annual celebration of Catholic education in the U.S. Schools typically observe the week – Jan. 27-Feb. 2 this year – with Masses, open houses and such for students and supporters. Schools focus on the value Catholic education provides to young people and its contributions to church, local communities and the nation. This year’s theme is “Catholic Schools: Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.” Visit https://ncea.org/CSW.

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In an era of shifting enrollments and expectations, Catholic school principals, parents and pupils stand firm in their support of faith-based instruction.

While their respective perspectives may part ways on issues such as required attire, they converge on one important insight: Christian education excels at nurturing the growth and development of the whole child, physical, intellectual, social and spiritual.

“A Catholic education offers young students a rich environment from which to explore all areas of academics – the humanities, sciences and arts – while simultaneously immersed in the sacred discovery of their faith, values, direction and way of being in this world,” said Deborah Farrington, principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a pre-K-8 institution in Redwood City established in 1885.

That cerebral-celestial combination clicked for Melanie Albano Valdez, a graduate of St. Veronica in South San Francisco and Mercy High in Burlingame, when her two sons reached school age.

“We selected Catholic education for its high academic standards with dedicated teachers, focus on Catholic values and emphasis on community building with outreach to the underprivileged,” she recalled.

Nine years later, they know they made the right choice.

“I am happy to be in a Catholic school so I can practice my faith and be a better person,” said Jake Valdez, a fourth grader at OLMC. Asked about any drawbacks, he answered with a single word: “Uniforms!”

Finding no faults, his older brother Nate entered Junipero Serra in San Mateo, a boys high school founded in 1944, following graduation from OLMC. “The connections my teachers make back to our Catholic faith keep me engaged and active in class,” the freshman said. “Another main CHRIS VALDEZ advantage of going to Principal, Marin Catholic High School Catholic school is that I get to meet people who have similar moral standards and share many values with me.”

The insights typify those expressed to Catholic San Francisco by 22 elementary and secondary school principals, parents and students in the three counties of the San Francisco archdiocese.

“While it would be unfair to suggest that public and independent schools eschew the teaching of values, Catholic schools provide a unique opportunity for students to learn ethical principles through the teachings of Jesus Christ,” said Timothy Reardon, principal of Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, in operation since 1949.

“Campus ministry celebrations, religious studies courses and service projects allow Catholic school kids to experience the Gospel every day and bring those lessons back to their families and their communities.”

The need for such lessons has escalated during this divisive period of social upheaval and societal unrest, said Chris Valdez, principal of Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, where record applications and acceptances buck trends that have seen countrywide enrollment plunge from a high of more than 5.2 million in the 1960s to just under 1.9 million in 2018, according to the National Catholic Educational Association.

“Catholic schools are close communities at a time when most communities are fragmented,” Valdez said. “We’re so polarized and divided as a country and world, people are longing for consistency and cooperation.”

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Marin Catholic principal Chris Valdez, parent Maryanna Chmielewski and senior Elise Chmielewski discuss their perspectives on Catholic education.

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Father Cameron Faller, one of three new assistant directors in the archdiocese’s revamped Office of Vocations, shared tales of his personal journey of vocational discovery with sixth graders at Epiphany School in San Francisco. The presentation was part of an overhauled program to discuss vocations with Catholic school students in the San Francisco archdiocese. Pictured at right, front row from left, are Lizmary Rodriguez, 12, sixth grade; Angelo Coletti, 11, sixth; Alyssa Ibarra, 11, sixth; Jack Navarrete, 12, sixth. Back, sixth grade teacher Mary Ann Barbero with Father Faller, who also serves as associate pastor of Church of the Epiphany.

Pilot project introduces students to vocations LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A pilot project its organizers hope will expand to all Catholic schools in the San Francisco archdiocese introduces students to the God-driven purpose, planning and power behind vocations, sacred and secular.

During the 2018-2019 academic year, a newly formed team of priests has been visiting classrooms to examine and explain the road signs the Almighty provides for choosing life’s path to heaven.

In some cases, as in theirs, the journey takes a religious route. For others, it may meander into marriage, parenthood and careers that can serve the divine in other ways.

“As the secular culture will not encourage our youth to pray to know God’s unique design for their lives, it is imperative that we share the message of discovering God’s vocation for their lives,” said Father Patrick Summerhays, director of the Office of Vocations.

Sharing the message must start early, with studies identifying middle school as a prime time to

‘I never could have imagined doing this with my life, and now I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.’

FATHER CAMERON FALLER consider one’s future options, including religious ones, he said.

To spread the word more widely, his revamped office has expanded to include one assistant director for each of the three counties in the archdiocese.

Father Andrew Ginter has visited sixth, seventh, eighth and a few fifth grades in all six parochial schools in Marin. Father Cameron Faller has presented to the same age groups at 20 of San Francisco’s 28 Catholic grammar schools. In San Mateo, Father Tom Martin has had to curtail his tour of the 22 elementary schools due to new pastoral duties but is available upon request.

Among secondary schools, Marin Catholic, Archbishop Riordan and St. Ignatius have hosted vocations speakers this year.

“Our hope is to visit all the Catholic high schools on an annual basis,” Father Summerhays said.

With the year-old restructured team format, he anticipates further enlargement of the program initiated in 2010.

“My goal is to create a culture that religious life is wonderful, not dead, and can bring someone joy if that is what God is calling them to do,” said Father Ginter, parochial vicar at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. “The archbishop (Salvatore Cordileone) wants us to speak to each school.”

If the recent reaction of 41 sixth graders at the School of the Epiphany is any indication, the priests’ stripping of soul and sharing of spirit will provide a welcome addition to the curriculum.

Eyes riveted on the podium, ears raised in attention, the preteens sat on the edge of their seats, soaking up the lesson.

Writing key words – “uneasiness,” “door closed,” “listen,” “inspiration,” “fear,” “restless,” “leap of faith,” “peace” – on the blackboard for emphasis and elucidation, Father Faller engaged his listeners with true confessions turned teaching moments.

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New SHC president shares views on Catholic education On her vision for SHC:

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It’s my hope that within a short period we will create a campus inside this beautiful city, block by block, soul by soul, and I hope that we’re not stepping over people to get to it.

I’m very, very, very intentional about what … we are called to do in a city that has people lying on sidewalks.

We’re called to create a community campus that’s based in these tenets of our faith system not only to serve but also to lead.

I’ve met with different people from different sectors of society and the church and the missions.

I spoke to Gavin Newsom about it to find out (where to start).

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While many Catholic schools are closing throughout the country, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory – owned by the San Francisco archdiocese and operated by the Daughters of Charity and De La Salle Christian Brothers –received so many applications for the 2018-19 school year that even though it expanded its freshman class to a record 386 students, it could not accommodate any of the 100 hopefuls on the wait list.

Confident she will build on the success, the school has placed Melinda Lawlor Skrade at its helm, citing her exceptionally “broad spectrum of educational and leadership experiences” and “passion for Catholic education.”

Catholic San Francisco talked with SHC’s first lay woman president, the oldest of six children of Irish Catholic parents, a “rebel without a cause” or calling until she entered a Catholic high school and found both, a teacher, administrator and former head of Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

On her chief concerns:

I believe that education is a right, and I worry that Catholic education is going to get outpriced.

On solutions:

Always know your market and pull new people to the table. We can’t just rely on alums or the Daughters and the Brothers.

Here are excerpts of the views she shared during the one-hour interview.

On retaining Catholic tenets in an increasingly secular society:

It’s the very foundation of Catholic education.

It exists to protect the mission of the church, intentional, purposeful and in a way that’s sacramental.

On accommodating non-Catholic families with various belief systems: I come from a state where we take public dollars (and) you can option not to take a single sacramental, no retreats, no campus ministry, no theology. Not one student took that option. No one misses Mass, and it’s not because we’re hardnosed; it’s because no one wants to miss Mass.

The children and their families are hungry for what we’ve got.

Today, it’s become even more important with lay formation and lay leadership to explain and frame because you’re not going to see a Daughter of Charity … in every class, and you’re not going to see a Christian Brother in every class, but you’re going to hear a prayer, and one of the prayers I’d like to introduce into this community this year is the Examen.

(She anticipates the St. Ignatius-inspired daily spiritual reflection, review and redirection toward God will prove as much a hit at SHC as it did with the highly diverse, religiously mixed Pius XI student body.)

On what her vocation means to her:

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The new president of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Melinda Lawlor Skrade, is the first lay woman to lead the high school, owned by the San Francisco archdiocese and operated by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers.

I can’t even picture doing any other work.

I was a very restless teenager, got in a lot of trouble in public school. High school was my first experience with Catholic education, and it changed me.

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On reasons for selecting a Catholic school:

Many parents want excellence in private education, but why they choose Catholic education … is because they know we’re in the business of souls, that we are building a future life that’s going to be grounded morally. It’s going to be grounded as a whole person, and it’s going to lead to serve others. That is invaluable.

Whenever you look around this city and other cities, you’ll find that Catholics are in every public sector. They become excellent public servants.

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On defining 21st-century Catholic education:

I (think) of 21st-century skill sets, what does it mean to have online options for students who want to attend summer camp or AP biology from this school but they’re unable to get transportation, what does it mean to provide an international classroom so that we can get involved in different parts of the world.

Twenty-first century Catholic education may mean how do you move from traditional sage on the stage.

When I was teaching advanced placement high school classes, I would be the person who would be speaking for 80 percent of the time. That’s not the way we do it any more.

I’m of the opinion that the Catholic social teachings are of a global worldview. If we respected them and carried them out as carefully as we think about technology and where we put our phone each day, it would be a worldwide revolution. I very much admire that this pope has called us out on this.

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VOCATIONS: Pilot project introduces students FROM PAGE CSW4

“When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be an NBA star, then a teacher, a businessman, a lawyer,” he revealed. “I never even considered being a priest.”

Yet, as he achieved his athletic and academic aims, he wrestled with uneasiness.

A nagging call to service prompted his application to a military academy. As that door closed, his rejection left him dejected and on a plane to Lourdes, France, with a community service group, a trip that forever changed his life.

“Cocky and arrogant,” his adolescent self left a required lecture he deemed “boring, stupid and a waste of time” for more pleasurable pursuits.

As he bragged of his escapades and mocked those who had stayed behind, the group leader called him aside.

“He looked at me and said, ‘You always do what you want, and you never listen to what God wants you to do,’” Father Faller recalled.

The observation shocked him into silence.

“For the first time in my life, I had this deep inspiration from my heart to be a priest,” he shared.

Even so, he fought the inevitable, feigning fear of failure. He returned to engineering studies, but remained restless until he gave in to God’s persistent whispers to take a leap of faith. At last, in the seminary, he found the longed-for peace.

“I never could have imagined doing this with my life, and now I can’t

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imagine doing anything else with my life,” he confided in the hushed room.

“That’s the idea of God’s call, that there’s something beyond us that moves us in a particular direction in our life that ends up bringing us greater peace and joy than we had planned for ourselves.”

Virtually every hand shot up when he asked for questions.

“It is hard to know how any of my presentations affect the students in the long run,” said Father Faller, associate pastor of Church of the Epiphany.

“I just hope it plays some small part in the kids having a deeper appreciation for Catholicism, a greater

understanding of the concept of vocation and a greater willingness to be open to a call to religious life.”

On this day at least, his mission appeared accomplished.

“Like Father Cameron at my age, I want to be an athlete, but you never know,” Angelo Coletti, 11, said. “Like with father, a lot could change, and his words about being a priest or a deacon might actually come true for me.”

Lizmary Rodriguez, 12, remained reflective an hour after the talk.

“God is always with you, no matter what you do,” she mused, “and he wants you to make your own path with his guidance.”

God’s guidance of Father Faller made a lasting impression on Jack Navarrete, 12.

“My favorite part was the closed doors, how the only open door for him was priesthood and how when he went to the priest college he finally had this kind of peacefulness,” he said. “That was creative, cool, something to think about.”

Alyssa Ibarra, 11, found much to think about.

“Before, I thought a vocation was just a job, but now I see this is a calling from God,” a realization that will alter how she decides her future, she said.

“Catholic education can teach the faith by underscoring the importance of fostering a personal relationship with God whose will for our lives always leads to a true and lasting peace and fulfillment that the secular world’s glitz and glitter can only attempt to counterfeit,” Father Summerhays concluded.

SHC: President shares views on Catholic education FROM PAGE CSW5

person that I was on the path to becoming.

I was a leader of nothing, a rebel without a cause.

My father had to get another job (to afford a Catholic school). I was their guinea pig, their test pancake.

Because of how deeply transformed I was, all of the other five children (transferred to Catholic elementary schools). All six of us went to Marquette University in Milwaukee.

On traits responsible for her success:

I have a strong unapologetic belief about Catholic education and count myself as a cheerleader. When I don’t believe in something, I can’t fake it.

On any other thoughts:

Please stop me and tell me who you are.

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Catholic offers such programs as an immersion trip to Cuba where students mingle with the locals, observing and reflecting on the industriousness, generosity and other virtues displayed all around them.

“Catholic education allows us to see the world through the eyes of God, in all its beauty and splendor,” Valdez said.

Parents can get an eyeful of both by visiting a local campus, said Kathleen Kraft, principal of Our Lady of Loretto in Novato, which opened in 1958 as the first parochial school in northern Marin County.

“When prospective parents see a day in the life of OLL, they’re blown away by the politeness of students who are actually listening to adults and to each other,” she said.

Catholic schools instruct, impart and inspire such virtuous conduct, said Elise Chmielewski, an MC senior who attended St. Isabella School in San Rafael for nine years.

“There is a level of respect between everyone in our community that I haven’t seen anywhere else,” she said.

Her mother Maryanna praised the schools for meeting the family’s expectations “in all regards.”

She detailed those as “to provide a foundation in faith, a rigorous academic environment and excellent athletic opportunities, plus, through service to the community, an appreciation of how fortunate we are and how we can help others not similarly situated.”

Adam Plumpton, who grew up Protestant, and his Catholic wife were so “dominantly pleased” with their son’s experience at OLMC, they enrolled their daughter as well.

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Dominican Sister Leonarda Montealto, principal at Holy Angels School in Colma, gathered students for a lunchtime group photo.

“I started because I liked the school and because of their band, but then I was exposed to Christianity, and I got baptized and confirmed and received initiation sacraments,” said Zach Phillips, a ninth grader at Riordan. “I would not prefer a public school.”

Neither would his Lutheran mother, Julie.

“Before Riordan, Zachary was not practicing religion,” she said. “Riordan has given him the gift of faith and spirituality.”

The unexpected development did not surprise Serra principal Barry Thornton, a Catholic school teacher and administrator for 23 years.

“An educational system infused with a worldview grounded in faith can transform lives,” he said.

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It did for Sandra Jimenez, an alumna of the School of the Epiphany and University of San Francisco and principal of the 140-year-old St. Peter School in San Francisco.

“Growing up with daily prayers and learning about the example of Jesus has helped me to understand that I am a part of a community where I have a responsibility to serve others and make a positive impact,” she said.

Confidence in that impact led Isabel Diaz to enroll her son and daughter at St. Peter.

“I feel that having my kids in Catholic school has had a huge impact on helping me teach them about faith, something I feel I couldn’t have done on my own,” she said.

Victoria Colvin was imbued with faith lessons during her nine years at St. Peter’s.

“I have learned to forgive, to move on, to love,” the eighth grader said. “My education has taught me that anytime things go wrong, you have God to lean on.”

For the message to stick, institutions must adapt to needs changing with the times, Reardon said.

“Because there are so many families that have abandoned traditional worship, Catholic schools are challenged to evangelize to students and families who … consider themselves Catholics but are unfamiliar with the more nuanced elements of the faith,” he said.

To make the faith relevant, Serra, as one example, has created a student-led plan that focuses on such timely topics as gender respect, anti-bullying, racism, dating and healthy relationships.

“The integrated program helps our students to put faith into action in a practical way,” Thornton said.

The system has worked for Shawn DeLuna’s three sons.

“Serra provided our boys with exceptional experiences spiritually, academically, socially and athletically,” said the school’s 1986 graduate and board of regents president. “It provided a sense of brotherhood that cannot be found anywhere else.”

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Catholic schools place service at the forefront LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Embracing service as a fundamental core of Christian education, Catholic schools offer an array of opportunities to reach out and touch someone, near and far, in meaningful, Christ-inspired ways.

In the San Francisco archdiocese, academic and extracurricular programs provide seemingly endless possibilities to practice the corporal works of mercy in and out of the classroom.

They aim to feed the hungry, provide drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, give alms to the poor.

They strive to comfort the lonely, cheer the depressed, engage the ostracized, stir a sense of community among the disenfranchised.

“Our faith links our outreach to the example Jesus, the ultimate servant, has given us,” said Greg Schmitz, director of community life at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, whose motto proclaims that all who “enter to learn” will “leave to serve.”

Students get plenty of practice before graduation.

In the fall, they man tables piled with gently used jackets, skirts, pants, shoes and other attire they collected, sorted and arranged by size and style for easy selection.

To ensure word gets out to those most likely to benefit, volunteers walk to the heart of the nearby impoverished Tenderloin district, issuing personal invitations and offering directions to the one-day giveaway.

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Students use the dining hall at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory for their annual clothing drive that offers complimentary, gently used attire to those in need. It is one of myriad service programs at the school whose motto reads: “Enter to learn, leave to serve.”

They return regularly to hand out 100 to 150 lunch boxes they packed with peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, power bars, water or juice and dessert.

In the spring, they host an on-campus barbecue for the entire neighborhood.

The first Friday of every month, they help bring a bit of respite from life on the streets at the Tenderloin block party.

The two-hour community builder provides passersby with food and entertainment that ranges from musical performances and card games to meditation or healing sessions and, on one occasion with a chemistry professor present, science experiments.

“We want to start reclaiming the humanity and relationships of this com-

munity,” explained Kathleen Cooney, instructor of religious studies.

The teens also work with, at and for a variety of charity organizations, visit the elderly, participate in cancer walks, renovate nonprofit facilities and schools, repair homes of the disadvantaged and disabled, raise funds for underserved communities in San Francisco, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Eritrea and other areas in need.

They organize proms for autistic children and distribute tampons and hygiene products to homeless women.

Members of Lasallian Vincentian Youth and similar groups lead retreats, develop plans for spiritual enrichment, knit with seniors and donate their handiwork to the downtrodden, sew hats for babies in intensive care, hold service fairs and blood drives, mentor

peers, tutor youngsters, teach English as a second language, take part in immersion service-learning activities locally and abroad, including a migrant worker camp in Napa, an orphanage in Santiago, Chile, a sustainable farm in Oregon and a shelter for families along the border in El Paso.

“Seeing some of the situations in our society and educating themselves about the suffering around them is transformative,” Schmitz said.

“You never know how the Holy Spirit will work in anyone so it’s important to provide a wide range of opportunities and be open to suggestions from students,” he said.

Such suggestions drive athletic teams to create and carry out a field of assistive programs.

In the classroom, the service-seeped curriculum provides grade-specific occasions for outreach.

Senior math courses, for example, incorporate study of the worldwide Kiva financial system, an online platform that links lenders with lowincome entrepreneurs and students in 82 countries.

Preferring purer motives than a graduation requirement, the school imposes no minimum service-hour mandates.

“We aim to create a culture of generosity, social justice, kindness and action that teaches, inspires and encourages our students to respond to the world using their brains, hearts and souls,” said Julia Rinaldi, associate director of service and community.

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Star of the Sea School to become archdiocese’s first classical academy CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Guided by a new principal with support from the pastor and the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools, Star of the Sea School in San Francisco will become the first Catholic school in the archdiocese to offer students from kindergarten through eighth grade a classical education beginning fall 2019.

Classical education is a traditional educational model that seeks truth, goodness and beauty through the study of the liberal arts and literature’s “great books.” It typically teaches subjects including the study of Latin in ways that are developmentally appropriate for children at different ages.

The merits of a classical school education in both public and private schools have been largely “pushed aside” by progressive education programs championed by philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952), Star principal David Gallagher said.

(PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) Gallagher, a teacher at the Richmond Principal David Gallagher talks with students at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco Jan. 7.

District parish school for almost two Gallagher is leading the school in a transition to a classical curriculum beginning this fall. decades, was hired last summer after beneficiary of what he called “a clasalways done that and we will always the death of longtime principal Tersical eduation” at St. Stephen School continue to do that. “Where a classical rence Hanley in 2017. He told Catholic in San Francisco, described classical education differs is that we are trying San Francisco Jan. 7 that a classical education as the “handing down of education prepares students not simply to create virtue in our students. We are something that was given to us,” such not just trying to point students toward for a particular career path, but for a as the works of Homer, Plato, Aristotle a career but providing them with a virtuous life. and Socrates. knowledge base where they can go on “Catholic schools, all of them, do a “What Western civilization is based to any career area they want.” great job with reading, writing and Catholic SF Ad Half-page English FINAL 2018-19.pdf 1 12/18/18 10:13 AM on is a legacy that we no longer really Gallagher, who said he was the mathematics,” he said. I think we’ve

teach in the schools, at least in the elementary schools,” Gallagher said.

“As a literature teacher I’ve seen in the anthologies that are put out by textbook publishers, fewer and fewer classical works,” he said. “Less Shakespeare, less Steinbeck, less Robert Louis Stevenson.”

Star of the Sea pastor Father Joseph Illo told Catholic San Francisco that he was approached this time last year by Catholic schools superintendent Pam Lyons, who believed the school to be a good fit for a classical curriculum. He had worked as chaplain for two years in Ventura County at Thomas Aquinas College, which has an integrated classical curriculum.

“I became impressed by its efficacy in teaching critical thinking skills,” he said.

Soon after, he and Lyons traveled to St. Jerome Classical Academy outside Washington, D.C., for a workshop on how to develop a classical curriculum.

Gallagher’s first year as principal of Star of the Sea School will include professional development and curriculum design. The majority of the faculty spent a week together this summer at St. Jerome Institute in Washington, D.C. Eighth grade homeroom and religion and English teacher Debra Dharmer “fell in love” with classical education in the process of converting to Catholicism a few years ago.

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‘Made for Mercy’: The case for Catholic education NICHOLAS WOLFRAM SMITH CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catholic schools face a challenging landscape today. Nationwide, Catholic schools have closed due to declining enrollment, higher tuition costs, and increased competition from public and private schools.

The stiff competition offered to Catholic schools by public and other private institutions provides a new opportunity to explain the distinctive nature of Catholic education to prospective parents. “Why Choose Catholic Education,” written by Sandy Flaherty, the director of Catholic identity at Mercy High School in Burlingame, makes a strong case for the theological foundations of Catholic education as the unique reason for its advantages over other options.

The book will soon be published by the National Catholic Educational Association.

Flaherty told Catholic San Francisco that she wanted to communicate an overview of Catholicism to prospective parents, because “that’s what makes Catholic education really unique, its theological underpinnings and its vision of life and how we interact with the world.”

At the core of that vision is the theological understanding of the dignity of the person, created in the image of God, and everything that follows from that: transcendence, the unique value of the person, the divinization of humanity and the holiness of the world through the Incarnation.

While many parents traditionally

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Sandy Flaherty, freshman religion teacher and director of Catholic identity at Mercy High School in Burlingame, talks with Mercy students Bianca Deranieri and Alexa Almes. Flaherty recently wrote a resource for parents on the importance of Catholic education. have chosen Catholic schools for values and the safe environment they provide, Catholic schools have to do more to distinguish themselves from their new competition in the 21st century. According to the National Catholic Educational Association, between 2008 and 2018 more than a thousand Catholic schools across the country closed, while enrollment nationally dropped by 435,000.

Flaherty believes the key for Catholic education’s distinctiveness lies in realizing “we belong to a beautiful, extraordinary religion.” By recommitting to their Catholic identity,

Flaherty said, schools can distinguish themselves powerfully from other educational competitors.

“Why Choose Catholic Education” is a book that Flaherty wrote to make the case for Catholic education to parents. She wanted them to know “what we do at Mercy,” but present it in a way “to people who aren’t theologically trained.”

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, the all-girls high school has 397 students and expresses the Mercy Sisters’ commitment to Catholicism and social justice.

Because of the Catholic Church’s

troubles and scandals, Flaherty said, “people think it’s going to affect admissions if you push forward your Catholic identity. It’s actually been the opposite.”

Mercy High’s unequivocal identity as “Catholic, steeped in the Mercy tradition,” lets parents know clearly what values their children will receive, both inside and outside the classroom, by choosing a Catholic education.

Diving into the school’s Catholic identity has had benefits for the Mercy faculty and staff as well, Flaherty said, with internal discussions about balancing academic rigor with the need to educate the whole person, or on Catholic teaching about the transcendent aspect of human beings.

“We’ve had a lot of important conversations come out of it,” she said.

In the school, liturgical celebrations like the opening day Mass mark significant days for the school community, and a popular monthly chapel visit program for silent prayer helps show the permeation of everyday life by the divine.

Mercy also emphasizes that the divine life can also be recognized outside liturgies.

“All of our arts teachers are very interested in how the arts expand the human spirit and can be a vehicle for the divine,” she said.

Catholic education can also challenge the culture, and form students for more than a race to build resumes and get into competitive colleges.

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SERVICE: Catholic schools place outreach at the forefront FROM PAGE CSW9

Students approve the move.

Voluntary rather than requisite participation encourages greater involvement, which can prove as enriching as her encounter with a homeless man at the annual barbecue, said Jennifer Kazaryan, co-leader of LVY, student council member and volunteer in numerous organizations.

“He actually ended up playing the piano for all of us,” she recalled. “I feel as if he made a difference in my life and made me realize that so many of the homeless people are wonderful and talented people, that everyone is unique.”

Fellow senior and LVY co-captain Chloe Jenniches underwent a similar transformation while passing out food in the Tenderloin.

“The best part of LVY is that moment when you give someone a lunch, and their eyes light up, and they thank you,” said Jenniches, who tutors peers, teaches children to read and helps out at the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

“At this point I know I have made their day far better than it would have been, and that is one of the greatest feelings in the world.”

Such exhilarating moments signal the Holy Spirit at work, said Peter Diaz, service learning coordinator at Mercy High School in Burlingame.

“Service is an integral component to the Sisters of Mercy’s charism, following (foundress) Catherine McAuley’s

‘You never know how the Holy Spirit will work in anyone so it’s important to provide a wide range of opportunities and be open to suggestions from students.’

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Director of community life, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory mission to reach out to those who are poor, sick and uneducated, focusing on those who live on the margins of society,” he said.

It is equally central to the educational experience at Marin County’s only Catholic high school.

“The focus is on social justice and Catholic social teaching and the responsibility each of us has to the greater world around us while living out the Gospel values,” said Linda Siler, Christian service coordinator at Marin Catholic.

Therein lies an essential element that sets Catholic schools apart from the rest, said Nicole Florin, Marin Catholic campus ministry director.

“Catholic identity enhances service programs by recognizing Christ in the people and places served,” she said.

“The prayer life that can proceed and continue after the service helps to make the experience holy.”

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MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTFIELD: The school’s junior class wrapped up its junior retreat “Anchored in the hope of Christ” last Dec. 4. The overnight sessions helped students “find a strong and peaceful comfort in their relationships

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with God in the midst of struggles,” the school said.

“The students had time to share their own faith journey in small group discussions. The 24-hour retreat is composed of faith witness talks, moments of deep prayer, small group discussion, eucharistic adoration and the summit of our faith celebrated in the Eucharist at Mass.” Theology teacher Greg Joseph and campus minister Michelle Vollert facilitated the event.

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ST. PHILIP THE APOSTLE SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Students made signs for a March

Catholic Elementary Principals Sought for Archdiocesan Schools The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is seeking elementary principal candidates for the 2019-2020 school year. Candidates must be a practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a Valid California Standard Teaching Credential or the equivalent from another State, a Master’s Degree in an educational field and/or California administrative credential or the Certificate in Catholic School Administration from Loyola Marymount University *, be certified as a catechist at the basic level** and have five years of experience in teaching and/or in administration with Catholic school experience. *Principals who are not in possession of both educational qualifications, must complete the requirement within a three year period of time from date of hire. ** Principals who are not in possession of basic certification in religion at the time of hire, must complete the process before they start their position.

Application materials may be downloaded from the official DCS website by clicking on the following link: www.sfarchdiocese.org/employment The requested material plus a letter of interest should be submitted before February 15 to:

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ST. BRIGID SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Fifth graders are pictured June 5, 2018, with principal Immaculate Conception Sister Angeles Marin and Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Christian, OP, after his episcopal ordination Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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Christine Escobar, Human Resources Manager Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602

Salary will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental, and retirement benefits are included.

ARCHDIOCESAN STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION

The Archdiocese of San Francisco adheres to the following policy: “All school staff of Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco shall be employed without regard to race, color, sex, ethnic or national origin and will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories.” (Administrative Handbook #4111.4)

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2018 prayer service memorializing the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

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ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Students gathered for year-opening Holy Spirit Mass in August 2018. Young men serve each other as ministers of the Mass.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Students crown Mary in May 2018.

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Catholic Elementary Schools of North San Mateo County All Souls Catholic School

479 Miller Avenue So. San Francisco 94080 Preschool - 8th Grade (650) 583-3562 • Fax: (650) 952-1167 www.ssfallsoulsschool.org e-mail: info@ssfallsoulsschool.org Sunday, January 27th 9:00 am Mass followed by Open House / Science Fair 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School (TK-8)

80 Wellington Avenue, Daly City www.olphdc.org email: info@olphdc.org (650) 755-4438 * Fax: (650) 755-7366 CALL SCHOOL FOR PRIVATE TOUR OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, Jan. 27th Mass at 10:00am School Open from 11:00-2:00 **Scholastic Book Fair ** **Science Fair**

St. Robert Catholic School

345 Oak Avenue San Bruno 94066 (650) 583-5065 Fax: (650) 583-1418 www.saintrobert-school.org e-mail: strobertsoffice@gmail.com Open House: Thursday, January 31st 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm School tours by appointment

Holy Angels School

20 Reiner Street, Colma 94014 (650) 755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 www.holyangelscolma.com Email: office@holyangelscolma.org Open House: January 27th 11am – 2pm School tours by appointment

Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School

7 Elmwood Drive, Daly City 94015 (650) 756-3395 Fax: (650) 756-5872 www.olmbulldogs.org e-mail: office@olmbulldogs.com Book your “Behind the Scenes” Tour now!

Open House: Sun. January 27th 12:00 – 2:00

St. Dunstan Catholic School (K-8)

1150 Magnolia Avenue Millbrae, CA 94030 (650) 697-8119 Applications now being accepted for 2019! www.st-dunstan.org Open House: Sunday January 27th Mass at 10:00 am New Families and Alumni Welcome.

Open House and Tour, 11:00 am

St. Veronica Catholic School

434 Alida Way South San Francisco, CA 94080 www.saintveronicassf.org (650) 589-3909

We welcome you to attend 10:00am Mass Sunday, January 27th, 2019 followed by our Open House Applications are now being accepted Call for school tours and visit dates Many thanks to the faculties, parents, and students in all of our schools for making our Catholic schools institutions of excellence, faith, and family.

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STAR OF THE SEA SCHOOL: Archdiocese’s first classical academy FROM PAGE CSW11

Classical education “respects the intelligence of the student and the teacher,” she said.

“Classical education integrates knowledge into a larger whole,” Dharmer said. “There is actually a heritage that precedes every great work.”

Dharmer believes that a classical education might relieve the sense of fragmentation, depression and anxiety that afflicts some young people.

“You can make a leap here, but as someone who’s been working with middle school kids for a long time, I’ve seen a lot of mental health issues in terms of anxiety and depression,” she said. “Young people today feel really disconnected. I feel that in many ways a classical education can mitigate that by connecting them to a larger story.”

First grade teacher Erin Skoblick said that a classical education in a Catholic school helps students “understand the Creator.”

“You can see how math and science are related to God,” she said. “Even if you are not a religious kid, it gives you a place in human history so they don’t feel so lost.”

A presentation on the benefits of a classical education will be held Jan. 28, 6 p.m., at Star of the Sea Parish Auditorium, 360 Ninth Ave., San Francisco. Michael

Eighth grade teacher Debra Dharmer believes a classical education “connects students to a larger story.”

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First grade teacher Erin Skoblick, pictured with a student, said the integration of academic subjects helps students “understand the Creator.”

Ortner, chairman of a nonprofit that helps humanities educators teach the classics, will discuss a classical

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“All that’s really important, but that’s not the totality of what a human being is,” she said.

Students also are encouraged to put their education into practice by serving the poor and marginalized

in their communities. Before graduation, students need to complete 88 hours of service, which includes direct service encounters to the marginalized, along with attending lectures on an issue the Sisters of Mercy have identified as a critical concern, such as anti-racism, non-

violence, immigration and women’s equality.

By learning about these issues, Flaherty writes, students understand the Catholic perspective on current events and can “understand the root causes of social injustice and how to work toward change.”

An education that focuses only on

how well children can perform “can be disheartening and disillusioning” for young people. By promoting a vision of the person as someone who possesses inherent dignity, independent of her achievements, Flaherty said, Catholic schools can “show they were created for more than society dictates to them.”

APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS

long-term academic, economic and social success for thousands of the Bay Area’s most underserved children.

BASIC Fund scholarships made possible by private sector donors help increase enrollment in private schools including Catholic schools and in many cases have kept them open.

“Our schools receive a significant amount from the BASIC Fund,” said Gustavo Torres, scholarship programs coordinator for the Department of Catholic Schools. Last year, 932 students received scholarships to private schools through the BASIC Fund.

“Our Family Grants Program together with the BASIC Fund Scholarship allow us to offer generous tuition assistance that makes it possible for some students to attend our schools.”

A private school education could be in reach for low-income students who apply for a scholarship now through the Bay Area Scholarships for InnerCity Children (BASIC) Fund.

Scholarships for the 2019-2020 school year will be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis from Jan. 1-March 15.

Applications may be filed through the organization’s website, basicfund.org.

The BASIC Fund is a privately funded nonprofit whose mission is to broaden the educational opportunities for inner-city children by helping low-income families afford the cost of tuition at private schools in the Bay Area. The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Department of Catholic Schools partners with the BASIC Fund to help K-8 student families afford a private school education.

The BASIC Fund was created by private sector leaders to help ensure

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2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo tel 650-593-1629 fax 650-593-9723 telSt. 650-593-1629 fax 650-593-9723 Gregory School www.stgregs-sanmateo.org www.stcharlesschoolsc.org Open House: January 23,School 10:00 am –12:30pm St. Gregory Open House: January 23, 10:00 am –12:30pm www.stgregs-sanmateo.org 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo Open House: January 23, 10:00 am –12:30pm teltel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 St. Charles School 650-593-1629 fax 650-593-9723 www.stgregs-sanmateo.org 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org St. Charles School 850 Tamarack Avenue, San 23, Carlos K-8 Open House: January 10:00 am –12:30pm lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org St. Gregory School www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Open House: February 6, 10:00 850 Tamarack San Carlosam www.stcharlesschoolsc.org St. Gregory School tel 650-573-0111 •Avenue, fax 650-573-6548 St. Gregory School Open House: February 6,Mateo 10:00 am 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 Sunday, January 27, 2019 www.stcharlesschoolsc.org tel 650-593-1629 fax 650-593-9723 2701 Hacienda Street, San 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo www.stgregs-sanmateo.org St. Gregory School Catholic Schools Week 9:00 am am –12:30pm tel 650-593-1629 faxMass 650-593-9723 Open House: January 23, 10:00 www.stgregs-sanmateo.org St. Pius School lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Open House and Science Fair 10:00 am-12:00 pm tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 St. Pius School 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo Open House: January 23,February 10:00 am –12:30pm tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 Woodside Road, Redwood City tel 1100 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 Open House: 6, 10:00 am lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org www.stgregs-sanmateo.org www.stpiusschool.org lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org St. Gregory School Open House: February 6,10:00 10:00 am www.stpiusschool.org Open House: February 6, tel 650-368-8327 faxfax 650-368-7031 tel 650 573-0111 650-573-6548 Open House: February 6, 10:00 am am St. Gregory School 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo St. Pius fax School tel 650-368-8327 650-368-7031 office@stpiusschool.org lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo www.stgregs-sanmateo.org office@stpiusschool.org 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm St. Pius School St. Pius School Open House: February 6, 10:00 am St. Pius St. Pius School www.stgregs-sanmateo.org tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm www.stpiusschool.org 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood CityCity tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org www.stpiusschool.org • office@stpiusschool.org www.stpiusschool.org www.stpiusschool.org St. Matthew Catholic School tel 650-368-8327 www.stpiusschool.org lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org Open February 6, 10:00fax am650-368-7031 Pre-School - 8 School St.House: Pius tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo St. Matthew Catholic School tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 teltel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 650-368-8327 • fax 650-368-7031 Open House: February 6, 10:00 am City office@stpiusschool.org 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood office@stpiusschool.org www.stmatthewcath.org Sunday, January 27, 2019 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo office@stpiusschool.org office@stpiusschool.org St.www.stpiusschool.org Pius School Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm Mass 9:30 am Open House: January 30, tel 650-343-1373 fax30, 650-343-2046 www.stmatthewcath.org Open House: January 10:30am–12:00pm Open House: January 30,10:30am–12:00pm 10:30am–12:00pm St. Pius School 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 Open House, Tours, bviotti@stmatthewcath.org tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City www.stpiusschool.org office@stpiusschool.org Science Fair & Book Fair 10:30 am-Noon Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm St. Matthew Catholic School bviotti@stmatthewcath.org St. Matthew Catholic School St. Matthew Catholic School www.stpiusschool.org tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 St. Matthew School Open House: Catholic January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm 910 S.Camino El Camino San Mateo 910 S.Real, ElReal, Camino Real, San Mateo St. Matthew Catholic School 910 S. 650-368-8327 El San Mateo tel fax 650-368-7031 office@stpiusschool.org 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo www.stmatthewcath.org St. Raymond www.stmatthewcath.org www.stmatthewcath.org office@stpiusschool.org Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm www.stmatthewcath.org www.stmatthewcath.org St. Matthew Catholic School tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park teltel 650-343-1373 fax Open House: 30, 10:30am–12:00pm St. Raymond tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 tel650-343-1373 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 •January fax 650-343-2046 650-343-2046 910 S. El Camino Real, San bviotti@stmatthewcath.org www.straymond.org bviotti@stmatthewcath.org 1211 Arbor Road, MenloSchool ParkMateo bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Sunday, January 27, 2019 St. Matthew Catholic bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm www.stmatthewcath.org tel 650-322-2312 fax30, 650-322-2910 Open House: January 11:45am–1:30pm www.straymond.org Family Mass 10:45 am St. Matthew Catholic School 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm tel650-322-2312 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 Open House 11:45 am-1:00 pm tel fax 650-322-2910 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo www.stmatthewcath.org

telA 650-325-7304 fax 650-325-3841 Open House, Tours &ministry Science/Art Fair 11:00 am am-1:00 sponsored of the 1250 Laurel Street, Menlo Park tel 650-325-7304 fax 650-325-3841 Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur tel 650-325-7304 fax 650-325-3841 PreK-8 Open House: Jan 30, 10:30 –1:30pm pm Middle School Information Session 12:00 pm Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont www.nativityschool.com Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm Nativity School Notre Dame Elementary 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont www.nde.org tel 650-325-7304 650-325-3841 Nativity 1250 Laurel School Street,fax Menlo Park Awww.nativityschool.com sponsored ministry of 11:00 the www.nde.org tel 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Notre Dame Elementary Open House: January 30, Notre Dame Elementary Notre Dame Elementary Notre Dame Elementary 1250 Laurel Street, Menlo Park am –1:00 pm tel 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Open House: January 22, am–12:00pm AnA educational ministry in the tradition Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur A sponsored ministry of the A sponsored ministry of the sponsored ministryfax of 650-325-3841 the 9:00 www.nativityschool.com tel 650-325-7304 of Sisters theOpen Sisters of Notre Dame dede Namur House: January 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm Sisters of Notre Dame Namur of Notre Dame de Namur 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur tel 650-325-7304 fax 650-325-3841 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm Notre Dame Elementary 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont Our Lady of Angels 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm www.nde.org www.nde.org • tel 650-591-2209 •Belmont fax 650-591-4798 A sponsored ministry of the www.nde.org 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame Our Lady of Angels www.nde.org Preschool K 8 www.nde.org tel 650-591-2209 faxde650-591-4798 Notre Elementary Sisters of Dame Notre Dame Namur tel 650-591-2209 650-591-4798 Open House www.olaschoolk8.org Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame tel 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 telA1328 650-591-2209 faxfax 650-591-4798 Notre Dame Elementary sponsored ministry of the 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont Open House: 22, 9:00 am –12:00 pm Saturday, January 26,January 2019, 9:30-11:30 am Open House: January 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm tel 650-343-9200 fax22, 650-343-5620 www.olaschoolk8.org Open House: January am–12:00pm Open House: January 22, 9:00 am –12:00 pm A sponsored ministry of 9:00 the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur www.nde.org Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Sisters of Notre Dame de Belmont Namur Notre Dame Avenue, tel1200 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Open House: January 27, 6:00 –8:00 pm Our Lady of Angels Our Lady of Angels Our Lady Angels 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont www.nde.org Our Lady ofof Angels Our Lady of Angels Open House: January 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame Our Lady of Mount Carmel School 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame telwww.nde.org 650-591-2209 faxBurlingame 650-591-4798 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame www.ola.community www.olaschoolk8.org 301 Grand Street, Redwood City www.olaschoolk8.org tel 650-591-2209 fax 22, 650-591-4798 Open House: 9:00 am–12:00pm Our Lady ofJanuary Mount Carmel School www.olaschoolk8.org www.olaschoolk8.org telOur 650-343-9200 • fax 650-343-5620 Lady of Angels tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 www.mountcarmel.org tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Open House: January 22, 9:00 Grand Street, Cityam–12:00pm tel 650-343-9200 faxRedwood 650-343-5620 tel301 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Sunday, January 27, 2019 Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm www.mountcarmel.org OurSchools Lady of Angels Open House: January 27, 6:00 –8:00 pm pm Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 Catholic Week Mass 10:00 am info@mountcarmel.org www.olaschoolk8.org tel 650-366-8817 fax Burlingame 650-366-0902 Our Lady of Angels 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Open House-Science Fair & Art Fair, am-1 pm K Info Night: January 18, 7:0011 –8:00 pm tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School info@mountcarmel.org bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Our Lady of Mount Carmel School St. Raymond 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame www.olaschoolk8.org Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm St. Raymond www.stmatthewcath.org tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 Our Lady ofStreet, Mount Carmel School St. Raymond PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm Open House: January 27, 6:00 –8:00 pm 301 Grand Redwood City Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Kwww.olaschoolk8.org Info Night: January 18, City 7:00 – 8:00 pm 301 Grand Street, Redwood Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 St. Timothy School St. Raymond 1211 Road, Menlo ParkPark telArbor 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 bviotti@stmatthewcath.org 301 Grand Street, Redwood City 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park www.mountcarmel.org Our Lady of Mount Carmel School St. Raymond Catholic JK-8 School PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm www.mountcarmel.org www.straymond.org telGrand 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Open House: January 27, 6:00 City – 8:00 pm 301 Street, Redwood 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo www.straymond.org bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park St.Arbor Timothy School www.mountcarmel.org www.straymond.org 301 Grand Street, Redwood City 1211 Road, Menlo Park tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 St. Catherine of Siena School tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 Open House: January 27, 6:00 – 8:00 pm www.sttimothyschool.org tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Open House: JanuarySan 30,Mateo 11:45am–1:30pm www.mountcarmel.org St. Raymond 1515 Dolan Avenue, www.straymond.org School.mountcarmel.org www.straymond.org tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 info@mountcarmel.org 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame info@mountcarmel.org Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm pm St. Catherine of Siena School Tel301 650-366-6127 Pre-K 8 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Grand Street, Redwood City tel K650-366-8817 fax 18, 650-366-0902 www.sttimothyschool.org St. Raymond 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park info@mountcarmel.org tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm Info Night: January 7:00 –8:00 pm www.stcos.com K 301 Info Night: January 18, 7:00 –8:00 pm Pre-School-Transitional Kindergarten-Grades K-8 tel 650-322-2312 • fax 650-322-2910 KSt. Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Grand Street, Redwood City 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame www.mountcarmel.org Raymond 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 www.straymond.org info@mountcarmel.org K Info Night: January 18, 7:00 –8:00 pm Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 PreK-7 Open Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm Sunday, January 27, 2019, 3:30 – 4:45 pm Sunday, January 27, 2019 K-8 Open House: February 1, 7:00 pm St. Timothy School 301 GrandHouse: Street, Redwood City www.mountcarmel.org www.stcos.com St. Timothy School tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park www.straymond.org K Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 K Open Info Night: January 18, 7:00&am–1:00pm –Tours 8:00 pm House: January Community Open House with30, Art10:00 Fair K-8 Open House 11:00 San am-1:00 pm St. Timothy School 1515 Dolan Avenue, Mateo www.mountcarmel.org tel 650-366-8817 tel 650-344-7176 fax fax650-366-0902 650-344-7426 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo www.straymond.org tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 info@mountcarmel.org K-8 Open House: February 1, 7:00am–1:00 pm Open House: January 30, 11:00 pm Mass immediately following at 5pm Family Mass 10:00 am PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30,School 10:00am–12:00pm St. Catherine offaxSiena 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo St. Catherine of Siena School www.sttimothyschool.org tel 650-366-8817 650-366-0902 info@mountcarmel.org Open House: January 30, 10:00 am–1:00pm St. Timothy School www.sttimothyschool.org tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm K Info Night: January 18, 7:00 – 8:00 pm St. Catherine ofAvenue, Siena School 1300 Bayswater Burlingame 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame tel 650-342-6567 650-342-5913 Kinfo@mountcarmel.org Info Night: January 18, 7:00 –8:00 pm tel www.sttimothyschool.org 650-342-6567 fax fax 650-342-5913 Open House: 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm 1515 January Dolan Avenue, San Mateo PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame www.stcos.com St. Timothy School All schools are fully accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 www.stcos.com K Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm K Info Night: January 18, 7:00 –8:00 pm PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm St. Catherine of Siena School St. Timothy School K Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm St. Catherine of Siena School St.1515 Timothy School www.sttimothyschool.org www.stcos.com tel 650-344-7176 faxJan 650-344-7426 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo KK-8 Open House: January 19, tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 Open House: February 1,7:00 7:00 pm PreK-7 Open House: 30, 10:00am–12:00pm K-8 Open House: February 1, 7:00 pmpm All schools are fully1300 accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

St. Dolan Timothy School Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame 1515 San Mateo telAvenue, 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 www.stcos.com www.sttimothyschool.org St. Catherine of Siena School tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 Open House: January 30, 10:00 am–1:00pm Open House: January 30, 10:00 am–1:00pm www.sttimothyschool.org K-8 Open House: February 1, 7:00 pm St. Catherine of Siena School 1515 High Dolan Avenue, San Mateo www.sttimothyschool.org tel1300 650-344-7176 650-344-7426 Junior – Open Elementary – Kindergarten www.stcos.com K House: January 19, 7:00 pm Open House:• fax January 30,Burlingame 10:00 am–1:00pm Bayswater Avenue, tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 St.January Catherine of Siena School 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame tel 650-342-6567 • fax 650-342-5913 www.sttimothyschool.org Sunday, 27, 2019 tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 www.stcos.com K-8 Open House: February K 650-342-6567 Open House: January 19, 7:00am-Noon pm 1, 7:00 pm 1300 House: Sunday, January 27, 10:00 www.stcos.com Family MassBayswater 9:00 am Avenue, Burlingame tel fax 650-342-5913 KOpen Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm Open House: January 30, 10:00 am–1:00pm tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 All schools are Open fully accredited

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CSW18 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JANUARY 17, 2019

ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

Elementary & Preschool Directory SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY Holy Name Preschool 1560 40th Ave., 94122 (415) 664-4753 Ages: 2.6-6 years

www.holynamesf.com

St. Brendan Elementary School 940 Laguna Honda Blvd., 94127 (415) 731-2665 www.stbrendansf.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

Laura Vicuña Pre-Kindergarten 660 Filbert St., 94133 (415) 296-8549 www.sspeterpaulsf.org/prek/ Ages: 3-5 years

St. Brigid Elementary School 2250 Franklin St., 94109 (415) 673-4523 www.saintbrigidsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Anne Preschool 1362 A 14th Ave., 94122 (415) 731-2355 Ages: 3-5 years

St. Cecilia Elementary School 660 Vicente St., 94116 (415) 731-8400 www.stceciliaschool.org Grades: K-8, Day/Extended Care

www.stanneps.com

MARIN COUNTY St. Raphael Preschool 1100 Fifth Ave., San Rafael 94901 (415) 456-1702 www.saintraphaelpreschool.com Ages: 2.9-5 years

St. Isabella Elementary School 1 Trinity Way, P.O. Box 6188, San Rafael 94903 (415) 479-3727 www.stisabellaschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School 1811 Virginia Ave., Novato 94945 (415) 892-8621 www.ollnovato.org/school Grades: TK-8, Extended Care

St. Patrick Elementary School 120 King St., Larkspur 94939 (415) 924-0501 www.stpatricksmarin.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Anselm Elementary School 40 Belle Ave., San Anselmo 94960 1-415) 454-8667 www.stanselmschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Raphael Elementary School 1100 Fifth Ave., San Rafael 94901 (415) 454-4455 www.straphaelschool.com Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

St. Hilary Elementary School 765 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920 (415) 435-2224 www.SaintHilaryschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

SAN MATEO COUNTY

St. Mary’s Preschool 838 Kearny St., 94108 (415) 981-9138 www.stmaryschoolsf.org Ages: 2-6 years

St. Finn Barr Elementary School 419 Hearst Ave., 94112 (415) 333-1800 www.stfinnbarr.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

All Souls Preschool 479 Miller Ave., South San Francisco 94080 (650) 871-1751 www.ssfallsoulsschool.org Ages: 3-5 years

Notre Dame Elementary School 1200 Notre Dame Ave., Belmont 94002 (650) 591-2209 www.nde.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Paul Littlest Angel Preschool 221 Valley St., Ste. X, 94131 (415) 824-5437 www.LittlestAngelPreschool.com Ages: 2.9-5 years

St. Gabriel Elementary School 2550 41st Ave., 94116 (415) 566-0314 www.stgabrielsf.com Grades: K-8, Day/Extended Care

Holy Angels Preschool 20 Reiner St., Colma 94014 (650) 325-7304 www.holyangelscolma.com Ages: 2.9 years

Our Lady of Angels Elementary School 1328 Cabrillo Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 343-9200 www.ola.community Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

St. Philip Preschool 725 Diamond St., 94114 (415) 282-0143 www.saintphilippreschool.org Ages: 3-5 years

St. James Elementary School 321 Fair Oaks St., 94110 (415) 647-8972 www.saintjamessf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School 7 Elmwood Dr., Daly City 94015 (650) 756-3395 www.olmbulldogs.org Grades: Pre K-8, Day/Extended Care

St. Thomas the Apostle Preschool & Prekindergarten Learning Center 710 40th Ave., 94121 (415) 387-5511 www.sfsta.org Ages: 2.9-5 years

St. John Elementary School 925 Chenery St., 94131 (415) 584-8383 www.stjohnseagles.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Immaculate Heart of Mary Preschool 1000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont 94002 (650) 593-2344 www.ihmschoolbelmont.org/preschool Ages: 3-5 years

Star of the Sea Preschool 360 9th Ave., 94118 (415) 221-7449 www.staroftheseasf.com Ages: 3-5 years Tiny Knights 2550 41st Ave., 94116 (415) 566-8955 www.stgabrielsf.com/preschool Ages: 2.5-5 years Utopia Preschool 50 Thomas More Way, 94132 (415) 317-6269 www.stthomasmoreschool.org/preschool Ages: 3-5 years Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School 2222 Broadway St., 94115 (415-563-2900 www.sacredsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care De Marillac Academy 175 Golden Gate Ave., 94102 (415-552-5220 www.demarillac.org Grades: 4-8 Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School 659 Pine St., 94108 (415) 421-0069 www.ndvsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Holy Name School 1560 40th Ave., 94122 (415) 731-4077 www.holynamesf.com Grades: K-8, Day/Extended Care Mission Dolores Academy 3371 16th St., 94114 (415) 346-9500 Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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Our Lady of the Visitacion Elementary School 785 Sunnydale Ave., 94134 (415) 239-7840 www.olvsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care School of the Epiphany Elementary School 600 Italy Ave., 94112 (415) 337-4030 www.sfepiphany.org Grades: K-8, Day/Extended Care St. Anne Elementary School 1320 14th Ave., 94122 (415) 664-7977 www.stanne.com Grades: Preschool-8, Day/Extended Care St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception Elementary School 299 Precita Ave., 94110 (415) 648-2008 www.saicsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Mary’s Chinese Language School 838 Kearny St., 94108 (415) 929-4690 www.stmaryschoolsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care K-8 Suspended and not accepting students at this time. Preschool is open.

St. Monica Elementary School 5950 Geary Blvd., 94121 (415) 751-9564 www.stmonicasf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Paul Elementary School 1690 Church St., 94131 (415) 648-2055 www.stpaulschoolsf.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

Nativity Preschool 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 325-7304 www.nativityschool.com Ages: 3-5 years Our Lady of Angels Preschool 1341 Cortez Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 343-3115 www.ola.community Ages: 3-5 years Our Lady of Mercy Preschool 7 Elmwood Dr., Daly City 94015 (650) 756-4916 www.olmbulldogs.org Ages: 24 months-5 years Our Lady of Mount Carmel Preschool 601 Katherine Ave., Redwood City 94062 (650) 366-6587 www.mountcarmel.org Ages: 3-5 years

St. Peter Elementary School 1266 Florida St., 94110 (415) 647-8662 www.sanpedro.org Grades: K-8, Day/Extended Care

Sacred Heart School Preschool & Kindergarten 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton 94027 (650) 322-0176 www.shschools.org Ages: 3-5 years

St. Philip Elementary School 665 Elizabeth St., 94114 (415) 824-8467 www.saintphilipschool.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

St. Matthias Preschool 533 Canyon Rd., Redwood City 94062 (650) 367-1320 www.stmatthiasparish.org Ages: 2.6-5 years

St. Stephen 40l Eucalyptus Dr., 94132 (415) 664-8331 www.ststephenschoolsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

St. Pius Preschool 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061 (650) 361-1411 www.stpiusschool.org Ages: 3-5 years

St. Thomas More Elementary School 50 Thomas More Way, 94132 (415) 337-0100 www.stthomasmoreschool.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

St. Raymond Preschool 1211 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 322-2312 www.straymond.org Ages: 4-5 years

St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School 3801 Balboa St., 94121 (415) 221-2711 www.sfsta.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

All Souls Elementary School 479 Miller Ave., South San Francisco 94080 (650) 583-3562 www.ssfallsoulsschool.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School 2350 Green St., 94123 (415) 346-5505 www.svdpsf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Good Shepherd Elementary School 909 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044 (650) 359-4544 www.goodshepherdschool.us Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Star of the Sea Elementary School 360 Ninth Ave., 94118 (415) 221-8558 www.staroftheseasf.com Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

Holy Angels Elementary School 20 Reiner St., Colma 94014 (650) 755-0220 www.holyangelscolma.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary School 660 Filbert St., 94133 (415) 421-5219 www.sspeterpaulsf.org Grades: Pre K-8, Extended Care

Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School 1000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont 94002 (650) 593-4265 www.ihmschoolbelmont.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care

Stuart Hall for Boys 2222 Broadway St., 94115 (415) 563-2900 Grades: K-8, Extended Care

Nativity Elementary School 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 325-7304 www.nativityschool.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School 30l Grand St., Redwood City 94062 (650) 366-6127 www.mountcarmel.org Grades: Preschool-PreK, TK-8, Extended Care Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School 80 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014 (650) 755-4438 www.olphdc.org Grades: TK-8, Extended Care Sacred Heart Schools - Lower and Middle 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton 94027 (650) 322-1866 www.shschools.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care St. Catherine of Siena Elementary School 1300 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 344-7176 www.stcos.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Charles Elementary School 850 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070 (650) 593-1629 www.stcharlesschoolsc.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Dunstan Elementary School 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030 (650) 697-8119 www.st-dunstan.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Gregory Elementary School 270l Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403 (650) 573-0111 www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Matthew Elementary School 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo 94402 (650) 343-1373 www.stmatthewcath.org Grades: K-8, Day St. Pius Elementary School 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061 (650) 368-8327 www.stpiusschool.org Grades: Preschool-8, Extended Care St. Raymond Elementary School 1211 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 322-2312 www.straymond.org Grades: PK-8, Extended Care St. Robert Elementary School 345 Oak Ave., San Bruno 94066 (650) 583-5065 wwwsaintrobert-school.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Timothy Elementary School 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo 94401 (650) 342-6567 www.sttimothyschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care St. Veronica Elementary School 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080 (650) 589-3909 www.saintveronicassf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley 94028 (650) 851-8221 www.prioryca.org Grades: 6-8 (Boarding for Boys) (Day-Coed)

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