February 13, 2015

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The residents kissed the pope’s hand and clicked photos of him with their cellphones. As they pressed against him, he said, “Let’s pray to our Father in heaven. How many of you speak Spanish?”

“All of us,” they responded, so with the pope they recited the Lord’s Prayer in Spanish.

Amid banner newspaper headlines, and a stream of television stories about Catholic sexual morality clauses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco high school handbooks, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presented his vision of Catholic education Feb. 6.

“In the end, our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his talk to an annual convocation of Catholic high school teachers, articulating that the mission of a Catholic school is to evangelize and to sanctify. He also stressed what he called the foundational virtues of humility and chastity, saying the virtue of humility “grounds us in reality” and combats a prevalent sense of entitlement.

“A humble person approaches God in prayer and asks: ‘Lord, what do you want me to do?’” Archbishop Cordileone said in his address to more

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Latin American immigrants in Rome greet Pope Francis Feb. 8. The pope made an unannounced stop at the immigrants’ settlement.

Pope makes surprise visit to immigrant settlement CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – When Pope Francis walked through the gate surrounding a group of shacks and very humble homes, it took a while for people to notice. In fact, when a couple of people looked out their doors, the pope’s chief security guard motioned them to come over.

“Papa Francisco!” someone shouted in Spanish, and then dozens of people came running Feb. 8. The pope made an unannounced stop at the settlement on his way to the nearby St. Michael the Archangel parish.

The settlement on the northeastern edge of Rome was once a Gypsy or Roma camp, but now is mainly inhabited by Latin American immigrants, who have found no other place to live.

Grandma, 75, reflects on 500-mile walking pilgrimage Mary O’Hara Wyman was a middleaged wife and working mother in San Francisco when she was struck with a sudden yearning to walk El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, the pilgrimage route through northwestern Spain that leads to the reliquary of St. James the Apostle.

She fed her longing privately until one day 20 years later when she came across a quote from St. Francis of Assisi: “The journey is essential to the dream.”

“Reading those words pried open my heart,” she wrote in the first chapter of “Grandma’s on the Camino,” a 358-page book she wrote detailing her 48-day, 500-mile journey.

The book is inspired by the postcards she wrote at the end of each arduous day to her only grandchild, Elena, between April 24 and June 10, 2010. The postcards, together with Wyman’s own journal, helped form each of the book’s 48 chapters.

Wyman talked with Catholic San Francisco on Jan. 30, in the San Francisco home she shares with her husband of 43 years, Larry, and son

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Since “Grandma’s” was published in 2012, Wyman has been invited to speak at dozens of churches, schools, Catholic women’s groups, retreat centers, pilgrim associations, senior centers and monasteries across the U.S. As she showed us her “credencial,” a passport-like document stamped with each stop along her route, and her “compostela,” or certificate of completion, her joy was evident.

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Marin laity suggest ways to energize Mass CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Bolinas church to host Ash Wednesday retreat Dominican Father Bruno Gibson will hold a Lenten retreat Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Mary Magdalene Church in Bolinas.

The retreat will consist of two presentations, each followed by a period of Father Gibson silent prayer, meditation, examination of conscience and the sacrament of reconciliation.

The first presentation is titled “Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust, If the Camels don’t get you, the mosquitos must” (Robert Lloyd, 1918).

The second lecture: “Created to be Fire: I came to cast fire on the Earth, and how I wish it were blazing already” (Luke 12:49).

Ashes will be available during the morning Mass at 9 a.m. or at the end of the retreat.

The morning retreat will culminate with a Lenten soup at noon.

Please RSVP by calling (415) 2721866, or email brunogibsonop@ gmail.com.

Participants may join for any part of the celebration and are asked to respect the silence between presentations.

CORRECTION “APPLYING OUR CATHOLIC FAITH TO OUR ECONOMIC ACTIONS,” LETTER TO THE EDITOR, FATHER JOHN JIMENEZ: St. Charles Borromeo Parish, San Francisco, pastor Father Jimenez was misidentified as parochial vicar.

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Laypersons from seven of Marin County’s 17 parishes told pastors at a deanery meeting Feb. 5 that continuous education on the “nuts and bolts” of the Mass, more face time with priests and even humor could help bring the faithful to Mass and to the eucharistic table.

“Our people don’t understand the Mass as well as they should or as well as we think they do,” said Mike Morison, pastoral associate of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mill Valley.

Unexplained changes in worship since Vatican II have created “no end of confusion for Catholics over the past 45 years,” he said.

Recognizing this, his parish created a four-week series called “The Mass Broken Open” to help parishioners understand what’s happening, why it’s happening and what it means.

The goal is for parishioners to enter more deeply into the celebration of the Mass.

“It’s a catechetical way of opening up the Mass so that people understand and appreciate what is happening on the altar,” he said.

Inviting the laity to speak at the first deanery meeting of the year was the final step in a frank discussion of the Eucharist prompted last year by Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Cecilia in Lagunitas.

Over the course of two meetings last year, parish leaders described the disconnect between parishioners and their understanding and acceptance of the Mass and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. They cited a lack of Catholic faith formation and a “tarnished, aloof church” as possible reasons.

The laity confirmed those reasons and offered several new ones.

In a survey of St. Patrick parishioners presented by liturgical coordinator Cathy Plocki, respondents anonymously suggested the best place to regularly educate both adults and children is at Mass.

“I respectfully suggest that all priests spend more time teaching us parishioners what the Eucharistic sacrament really means, and most important, what actually is taking

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place when the priest administers the host and we receive it. This could be delivered and reinforced with just a few words at each Mass.

“Many of us who have had the luxury of a Catholic education which incorporated teaching about the parts of the Mass have forgotten those lessons. “... The emphasis on Bible readings at Mass is understandable, but that leaves a serious gap in the religious education of the parish.”

Anne-Marie Lee, who attends daily Mass at the Mother of God Carmelite monastery in San Rafael described going to a Catholic retreat center in India and being riveted by lay preachers teaching the most foundational Christian concepts, including the Ten Commandments.

“Who talks about those anymore?” she asked. “It was like the nuts and bolts of our faith.” She watched awestruck as people “in the thousands” lined up to go to confession.

One parishioner asked pastors to be the front-line agents of change.

Karen Carol Mori-Prange of St. Cecilia Parish in Lagunitas expressed “heartbreak” that the Eucharist seems misunderstood or casually regarded.

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other religions,” she said. “It breaks my heart when I go to a wedding or funeral and see people running up to Communion like it was a social event.”

“If the priests could impress people how special it is, it might help,” she said. “It’s such a wonderful thing we have, I don’t think even half of Catholics even appreciate it.”

She said the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is also not talked about enough.

Others suggested that priests could help emphasize the reverence of what happens on the altar and encourage a longer period of meditation after Communion.

Craig Carlson, of St. Mary Parish in Nicasio, on the other hand, said the Mass in general and the Eucharist in particular do not always have to be so “heavy.”

“We don’t go to Mass for comedy, but faith is full of jovial and joyful moments that can be shared,” he said.

He also noted that if possible, pastors should spend more time faceto-face with people because parish bulletins and newspaper articles do not work to move people inside the doors of a church.

“The only reason I came to Mass is because a priest came to see me,” he said.

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Vietnamese ministry moves to St. Thomas the Apostle Parish RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The archdiocesan ministry for Vietnamese Catholics has moved from Holy Name of Jesus Parish in the Sunset District of San Francisco to St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in the Richmond District, nearer to the center of the population it serves.

Ministry director Father Te Van Nguyen said the Vietnamese Catholic population, mostly made Father Te Van up of immigrants who arrived as Nguyen refugees during the Vietnam War and as “boat people” who fled from the war’s end in 1975 to 1995, also has congregations at St. Boniface Parish under the direction of parochial vicar Franciscan Father John Luat Nguyen and at Church of the Visitacion with pastor Father Thuan V. Hoang as shepherd.

The ministry’s services include preparation for marriage and other sacraments, religious education and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

Father Te, who formerly resided at St. Brendan Church and still serves as a part-time chaplain at Laguna Honda Hospital, said he has 200 in his ministry at his parish, including elderly and young children.

St. Thomas the Apostle pastor Father John Sakowski described the parish’s Vietnamese congregants as “extremely vibrant” in worship and service – “very willing to pitch in and help the parish.”

Lately they have been finishing the church’s hardwood steps, repairing the stained-glass windows “and have taken a responsible ownership of the church for the benefit of all,” he said “They’re poor people, work hard, and whatever money they get, they contribute to the church,” he said. “They realize their one hope in life is to do God’s will, contribute to the church (and) serve God and others to achieve their eternal reward.”

Father Sakowski said Father Te has brought in two Vietnamese sisters from their residence to

teach religious education in their native language.

The Vietnamese New Year, like the Chinese New Year, will be celebrated the day after Ash Wednesday.

The feast of Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions, known as the Vietnamese martyrs, is celebrated Nov. 24. Pope John Paul II canonized 117 Vietnamese martyrs June 19, 1988.

The Vatican considers the torture endured by the martyrs among the worst in the history of Christianity.

St. Matthew Nguyen Van Phuong was born in Vietnam in 1801. After his parents died, he was raised by the local priest in Quang-Binh, in the central part of the Southeast Asian nation. Matthew married and became a devoted layman. One of his tasks was finding homes where a priest could say Mass out of sight from government officials. In a country already marked by two centuries of bloody persecution of Catholics, this took pluck. Before Mass one day during Advent, 1860, rumors emerged that authorities were coming for Matthew. He and the priest went into hiding for five months, but guards hunted them down. Captors etched a cross on the ground and demanded that the priest and layman tread on it as a sign of renouncing Christ.

Where many gave in, they refused. They were beheaded on the spot, joining tens of thousands of martyred Vietnamese Christians.

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Rita and William Figari of St. Brendan Parish prayerfully marked their 70th wedding anniversary at the 2014 anniversary Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

ARCHBISHOP TO CELEBRATE MASS FOR MARRIED COUPLES FEB. 21

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will pray with married couples of the archdiocese Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass is especially for couples marking anniversaries of five-year periods (5, 10, 15 and upward).

The Mass, seeking to become a tradition, welcomed dozens of couples last year, also in February, with Archbishop Cordileone again as principal celebrant and homilist.

“We come together with the spirit of gratitude to thank you and honor you for your witness to the sacrament that is so foundational to human flourishing and to that of society as a whole,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at last year’s Mass.

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

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St. Matt’s students put calls on hold TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

I’m a guy who grew up when there were still party lines and the only phone we had was simply “the phone” as opposed to my cell and the many other pieces of communications equipment we have today.

That said, I now consider myself to be fully enlisted in the modern age and break into a sweat when I think I might be without my trusty flip-phone: OK I’m not that enlisted.

In November, 67 seventh and eighth graders at St. Matthew Maggie Bright School volunteered to go without electronic devices of their choice for one and two weeks respectively.

The “Technology-Free Challenge” gave students the chance “to experience the world ‘looking up’ with eyes wide open and not cast down at cellphone screen or computer game,” said Nancy Arnett, St. Matt’s principal, via email.

Nick Escobar No devices, Nancy said, let students be in the moment and enjoy friendships on a deeper level without interference; learn how to face head-on and survive the fear of missing out; do something productive, enriching, they might not have had time to do before.

“An integral part of St. Matthew’s character program has to do with teaching children the value Kristina Stevens of connecting and relating to one another, assisting in the strengthening of one’s relationship with Jesus, with one’s family and with one’s friends and mentors,” Nancy told me.

I spoke on email with seventh grader, Maggie Bright, and eighth graders Nick Escobar and Kristina Stevens about the challenge. Maggie gave up her phone and Kindle; Nick his phone and computer; Kristina her phone, TV, iPad, and computer “except for homework.”

The challenge has led them all to use their devices less.

“I no longer use my phone when I am in a public place especially when I am with my parents,” Maggie said.

“These days I like climbing trees in my yard and going on long bike rides,” Nick said about his new tech-free time.

“My goal during the challenge was to spend more time outside walking dogs and playing with my younger siblings. I ended up walking my dogs every day,” Kristina said. “I loved those walks.”

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SPEECH! More than 100 middle-school orators from nine schools offered soliloquies and such Jan. 24 in a speech tournament at St. Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco. Congratulations to Christopher Carlucci and Chloe Kilroy of San Domenico School, Abby Lam of St. Thomas the Apostle, and Tyler Agualo of St. John’s who all placed first in their divisions. Pictured, from left, are San Domenico School participants Chloe Kilroy, Christopher Carlucci, Charlotte Leane, and Helene de Marcellus.

Nick proposed a mini-challenge at a family dinner.

“We talked to each other a lot at that dinner. It was a great night.”

“Not being able to waste time on my technology, I found myself downstairs a lot more,” Kristina said.

“It was nice being with my family more.”

“What is strikingly similar among most of the students is a shift toward having more quality interactions with their family members,” Nancy said about results of the challenge. “Yes, that’s right: These middle school students are encouraging their family members to put aside their mobile devices and game consoles so that they can participate in more family oriented activities.”

PAX: St. James School recently presented Peacemaker Awards “for exemplary qualities in kindness, compassion and leadership,” Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, principal, said “All three have definitely answered the call to be instruments of peace.” Pictured from left are Kaithlyn Munoz, grade 2; Alejandra Villanueva, grade 4; Yadira Chavez, grade 7. my number one prize possession anymore; my family is,” Nick said. “Now, since several of my friends did the challenge, we are used to being together without our phones. We talk and laugh so much more now,” Kristina said.

“My phone is now just an object; it is not my safety crutch or my life, it is just a device,” Maggie said.

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Father Arturo Albano named cathedral pastor and rector TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced the appointment of Father Arturo L. Albano as pastor and rector of Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco Feb. 4.

Father Albano has served as pastor of Father Albano Mission Dolores Basilica since 2007. His appointment at the cathedral is effective July 1.

Father Albano was ordained June 20, 1974, in the Philippines coming to the United States in 1979. He has served as a parochial vicar at parishes including St. Cecilia, San Francisco; St. Luke, Foster City; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly City; Holy Angels, Colma and Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco.

In addition to Mission Dolores, he has served as pastor of St. Timothy, San Mateo.

“I was already looking forward to retiring after four more years at Mission Dolores, but God has called me to a new turning point in my ministerial life,” Father Albano told Catholic San Francisco. “As the old saying goes: ‘Man proposes but God disposes.’”

There have been five priests in

Father Albano’s family and he is one of the three still in active ministry. “My parents, now deceased, were actively involved in my hometown parish,” he said. “I believe all these factors contributed to my responding to God’s call when I entered the seminary at a young age of 11. Of course, at that age, no one can be so sure whether one will be a priest or not. But as the years rolled on, it became a continual ‘yes’ to God.” “Every priestly ministry that I have fulfilled is a different spiritual experience whether it is celebrating the Eucharist or confessions or visiting the sick or praying with my fellow priests. But I should say that I have been deeply moved when a penitent comes to confession with a troubled look and leaves with a smile in the face reassured that God still loves that person.”

Father Albano said his appointment to the cathedral was a surprise. “I am still in a shock mode but I know that the Holy Spirit will guide me through. I know that it is a big responsibility. I am just a steward. I will do what I can and God will do the rest.”

“I will devote the first six months simply to get to know the people; to listen to them; to hope and to pray with them; to familiarize myself with their vision; to walk with them and to reassure them that

God will always be there for us,” he said.

Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy said: “Father Art is one of the Filipino-American priests in the archdiocese who brings so much pastoral experience from his work in the missions and many parishes.

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Mercy Sisters’ works of mercy transformed San Francisco Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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If San Francisco needed anything during the fading years of California’s gold frenzy, it was not more gold – it was mercy.

Observing conditions in his vast jurisdiction, Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany sent an emissary Ireland, WAKE UP THE WORLD ! to Kinsale, to beg for Sisters of 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Mercy. Under the leadership of 25-year-old Mary Baptist Russell, eight volunteers were chosen. After 8,000 miles and three months’ travel by ship, mule train and Nicaraguan natives’ arms, they arrived in San Francisco on Dec, 8, 1854. One sister wrote of what met them: “You innocent Irish Sisters ... if you only knew ....�

Despite opposition from a misinformed press and even lawless vigilantes, within a week the Sisters of Mercy began visiting the sick in the State Marine and County Hospital, where indigent poor were cared for by crude male orderlies. Mother Russell subsequently took over the hospital completely, naming it St. Mary’s, the ďŹ rst Catholic hospital west of the Rockies. It was the beginning of a series of works of mercy that would characterize the sisters’ approach to unmet needs in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Grass Valley – through orphanages, schools, a women’s employment agency to help ward off trafficking, a home for the aged, visitations to the county jail and San Quentin and to the poor of the waterfront and, years later, a tent hospital for soldiers returning from the Spanish-

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Left, St. Peters Academy, circa 1906. Right, Mercy Sister Marian Rose Power is pictured with students at the current St. Peter School.

American War. Mother Russell became known as Mother of the City.

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Health care, too, expanded throughout the century, incorporating additional hospitals in California and Arizona, and in 1986 forming Catholic Healthcare West, now known as Dignity Health, the ďŹ fth-largest hospital system in the United States. Housing needs and services are provided to thousands throughout the U.S. by another collaborative effort, Mercy Housing.

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Archbishop celebrates Shipwreck centennial Mass CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined more than 300 parishioners and guests on Feb. 8 for a daylong celebration of the 100th anniversary of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish that included a gospel Mass and reception.

The parish in the Bayview-Hunters Point district of San Francisco has served a diverse community including African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and Nigerians since 1915 when it was founded by Maltese Catholics.

The archbishop served as principal celebrant of the two-hour Mass said and sung in English, Spanish, Tagalog and Igbo, the tribal language of Nigeria.

The pastor, Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, said the Mass was one of a yearlong series of events the parish community has planned to mark the history of the church.

“So far for us, the year is turning out to be one of community-building and evangelization as we reach out to former parishioners and alumni,” he told Catholic San Francisco.

The Conventual Franciscans of California, who have run the parish since 1998, will leave the parish on July 1. St. Paul of the Shipwreck will be run by either the archdiocese or another order, Father Gawlowski said.

“A primary focus of the parish will continue to be promoting our black Catholic spirituality as a gift to the greater church,” he said.

(PHOTOS COURTESY ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK PARISH)

St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco marked its centennial Feb. 8 with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordlieone. Lower left, Deacon Larry Chatmon presents the archbishop with a multicultural gift basket from the parish. Top left, young ladies from the Spanish community lead the entrance procession. Center, Mattie Scott, left, and Sandra Valentine meet during the reception following Mass.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Religious believers must speak in the public square, archbishop says MARIE MISCHEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PROVO, Utah – People of faith have both the right and a duty to fight for their convictions, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told students at Brigham Young University.

His Jan. 23 presentation, “Magna Carta at 800: Why It Still Matters, Here and Now” was part of the university’s “Lectures on Faith, Family, and Society” series.

Lessons from the document, crafted in England 800 years ago, while St. Francis of Assisi was founding the Franciscan order in Italy, are pertinent to communities of faith in the United States today, he said.

“The terrain of our lives in the 21st century is very different from the world in 1215. But the power of religious faith to limit the power of a sovereign – whether elected to the White House or a king by divine right – might be very familiar to the men

who gathered at Runnymede” with King John of England to draft the Magna Carta, the archbishop said.

The Magna Carta, a list of 63 royal commitments and concessions, included a demand for recognition of the rights of the Catholic Church, the archbishop said, adding that this has implications in the modern United States because institutions like the family, churches and fraternal organizations are meant to constrain the state.

Archbishop “So protecting these mediating Chaput institutions is vital to our freedoms,” he said at the Mormon university. “The state rarely fears individuals. Alone, individuals have little power. They can be isolated or ignored. But organized communities – including communities of faith – are a different matter. They can resist. They can’t be ignored. And that’s why

they pose a problem for social engineers and an expanding state.”

He called upon the audience to work for good laws that reflect their beliefs.

“Democracies depend for their survival on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square – legally and peacefully, but zealously and without apologies. That includes all of us,” he said.

“Critics often accuse religious believers of pursuing a ‘culture war’ on issues like abortion, sexuality, marriage and the family, and religious liberty,” he continued. “And in a sense, they’re right. We are working hard for what we believe. But of course, so are the people on the other side of all these issues and no one seems to call them ‘culture warriors.’ In any case, neither they nor we should feel bad about fighting for our convictions. Democracy thrives on the struggle of competing ideas. We steal from ourselves and from our fellow citizens if we try to avoid that struggle.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Church leaders dismayed with Canadian ruling on assisted suicide CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian church leaders and advocates for the disabled reacted with dismay when the Supreme Court of Canada struck down laws against physician-assisted suicide.

In a unanimous decision Feb. 6, the court ruled that doctors may help adults with severe and incurable conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban against assisted suicide.

Archbishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Quebec, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, noted that “Catholics are called by their faith to assist all those in need, particularly the poor, the suffering and the dying.”

“Helping someone commit suicide, however, is neither an act of justice or mercy, nor is it part of palliative care. The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada today does not change Catholic teaching,” he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Accountability is key concern for pope’s child protection commission CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Bishops who do not comply with the child protection norms adopted by their bishops’ conferences and approved by the Vatican must face real consequences, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

The commission, he said, “is very, very concerned about this whole area of (bishops’) accountability” and has a working group drawing up recommendations for Pope Francis.

The proposed new norms, the cardinal told reporters at the Vatican Feb. 7, “would allow the church to respond in an expeditious way when a bishop has not fulfilled his obligations.”

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Cardinal O’Malley publicly thanked Pope Francis for a letter, released Feb. 5, insisting that the protection of children – and not the avoidance of scandal or bad publicity – must be the priority for the way all bishops deal with accusations of sex abuse by church personnel.

The pope’s letter also encouraged bishops to meet with and listen to survivors, which is something Cardinal O’Malley said “many bishops have not yet done.”

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The cardinal and members of the commission, which includes survivors of clerical sex abuse, spoke to reporters at the end of their Feb. 6-8 meeting at the Vatican.

Saunders, also a survivor, said, “Bishop accountability is most definitely something that is a concern and central to some of the work that is going to be carried out by the commission.”

“It is not disputed that there have been far too many cover-ups, there have been far too many clergy protected, moved from place to place – this has got to be consigned to history very quickly,” he said.

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a psychologist and member of the commission, said, “as far as we know,” the number of bishops who have not followed their conference’s child-protection norms is not large, “but it is certainly a huge problem in terms of publicity and in terms of the authenticity of the church. If you have bishops who do not comply with the church’s own norms, we have a problem.”

Currently, he said, even though bishops are part of a bishops’ conference, they are accountable only to the pope and there is no procedure for investigating the way a bishop complies with the norms and nothing that spells out the consequences of noncompliance.

“Until now every bishop has been a little pope” in his diocese and “can do whatever he wants” with regard to national guidelines, Father Zollner said.

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Women are not guests, but full participants in church life, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Saying he knows the history of the subjugation of women continues to have a negative impact on how women are treated, Pope Francis called for greater roles for women in the church and for greater assistance and workplace flexibility to ensure they can make the best choices for themselves and their families.

Pope Francis told the Pontifical Council for Culture Feb. 7 that its study of women’s cultures was a topic “close to my heart,” and that he fully recognizes the need “to study new criteria and methods to ensure women feel they are not guests, but full participants in the various spheres of the life of society and the church.”

“This challenge can no longer be postponed,” he said.

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Pope Francis told the council – whose members are all cardinals, bishops, priests and laymen – “I am convinced of the urgency of offering space to women in the life of the church and to welcoming them, taking into account specific and changing cultural and social sensitivities.”

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ARCHBISHOP: Catholic schools exist to help students ‘become saints’ FROM PAGE 1

than 350 teachers gathered at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. “This is the question every young person must ask themselves in order to discern their vocation, and it is incumbent to our Catholic schools to assist them in doing so and in finding the answer.” Chastity is “the constant disposition to love the person as they should be loved which applies equally to married couples as those who are not married,” he said, noting that love is selfless.

Response to cultural change

Archbishop Cordileone explained why he has added “hot button” Catholic teaching from the Catechism of the Catholic Church to the faculty handbooks of the four archdiocesan high schools for the 2015-16 school year.

Those include Catholic teaching on artificial contraception, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, artificial reproduction and abortion.

“The times we live in pose very drastic challenges to us for teaching all of the virtues properly,” he said. “The temptation we all feel is to soft-pedal these issues – better not to go there, or at least don’t insist upon it, less we be judged adversely by others and not ‘fit in.’ But this is a time more than ever that our Catholic schools have to step up to the plate, and be true to what they are called to be – for the good of our young people in this life and in the next.”

The statement of faith in the high school handbooks is specifically by the high school as an institution and no individual will be asked to sign a statement of agreement, Archbishop Cordileone stressed. The four archdiocesan high schools, owned and operated by the archdiocese, are Sacred Heart Cathedral, Archbishop Riordan High School, Junipero Serra High School and Marin Catholic High School. The handbook is separate from the teachers’ contract and clarifies that Catholic school teachers, in their professional and public lives, must not contradict Catholic teaching, Archbishop Cordileone said.

Fear of impact on youth who identify as gay

During the 45-minute question-andanswer period that followed his talk, Archbishop Cordileone also answered questions about the impact on gay students of including teachings from the

(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Archbishop Cordileone addresses high school teachers at the teachers’ annual convocation Feb. 6 at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. catechism in the faculty handbooks as well as recurring fears of teachers that they will be fired for disagreeing with Catholic teaching.

“You are the ones who bring the fullness of church teaching to our youth,” the archbishop said, noting the importance of compassion. “Certainly we do not want our gay youth to be harmed.

We are against bullying.”

He said the handbook is for teachers, not a teaching document. He also read the portion of the handbook which states opposition to unjust discrimination and the clause which states, “We accept homosexual persons do not choose their condition and they must be accepted,” and are “called to fulfill God’s will in their lives.”

Asked about what would constitute a firing offense, Archbishop Cordileone noted that his letter to the teachers clearly said there was no desire to dismiss any teacher. “I do not want to prejudge any situation. Every situation has to be considered in its own proper context. As I said in the letter, mistakes happen and when mistakes happen they can be corrected.” However, he said, some examples that are “pretty extreme” would include serving as an escort at an abortion clinic, handing out contraceptives to students or being a member of a white supremacist group.

Following the question-and-answer period, the archbishop stayed for another 45 minutes to meet informally with teachers during the lunch period that concluded the day.

Pope Francis’ theology of accompaniment’

Archbishop Cordileone began his talk with the theme of Pope Francis’ “theology of accompaniment” and its application to Catholic school teachers.

“The students in our Catholic schools are at the beginning of their journey of life, and it is your privilege, as their teachers, to accompany them at this critical stage of their life’s journey, a stage that for many of them will determine the trajectory of their entire life,” Archbishop Cordileone told the teachers, quoting Pope Francis’ first encyclical, “Lumen fidei” (“The Light of Faith”), reading a longer portion of the encyclical and concluding with these words of Pope Francis: “Those who believe, see; they see with a light that illumines their entire journey, for it comes from the risen Christ, the morning star which never sets.”

Archbishop Cordileone said, “This teaching from so early on in Pope Francis’ Petrine ministry clearly reflects the emphasis he places on the theology of accompaniment; it also, I believe, gives a helpful definition to what our Catholic schools are called to do: journey with our young people out of the darkness into the light of the risen Christ.”

He thanked the teachers, saying “I am grateful to you for all you do to illuminate, order, and sanctify the lives of teenagers entrusted to your care.”

Pro and con reaction

The archbishop’s day with the teachers began with 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

After Mass, teachers walked the block from the cathedral to the meeting hall, past a line of Sacred Heart Cathedral students and parents standing on the cathedral plaza and steps and along the street. The demonstrators held signs opposing the archbishop, many with the “#teach acceptance” hashtag or “Support our teachers,” in a demonstration organized by Sacred

Heart Cathedral Facebook and Twitter posts circulated to students and parents at other high schools.

“We have decided to come together to peacefully gather and hold a vigil on behalf of our teachers,” Sacred Heart Cathedral senior Gino Gresh said. “We don’t want to stand down to any injustice or discrimination. All we want to do to is spread respect, love and positivity.”

Catholic school students did not have class Feb. 6 but few if any students from the other high schools were at the demonstration.

Abi Basch, one of the promoters of the protest and a social studies teacher at Sacred Heart Cathedral, sat at a table near the front during Archbishop Cordileone’s talk. Afterward, she commented, “With the impending Supreme Court case about same sex marriage happening in April, I thought his statement that teachers who were same-sex couples who were married was very interesting and something that parents and students should take note of.”

Marin Catholic High School theology teacher Greg Joseph said the student and parent protests troubled him – because he felt the protesting students and parents did not understand the fullness of Catholic teaching on the human person. “There is this distortion of what the truth is,” Joseph said.

“As a teacher I am still free to love my students and there is no limitation on that. To me, I’m walking, I’m seeing all these people protesting. I feel bad because they don’t really understand what we are doing,” said Joseph, who noted he just completed a unit on the human person in his class for seniors.

“It is about loving people with the truth. Catholicism is truth and love.”

Union hopes to change proposed ‘ministerial exception’ clause VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

At the heart of contract negotiations between the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Catholic archdiocesan teachers union is a clause proposed by the archdiocese that would define teachers as ministers.

Negotiations with the Catholic high school teachers union for a new contract to begin Aug. 1 continue, with the latest session Feb. 9. During his exchange with teachers Feb. 6, Archbishop Cordileone specifically praised the union negotiating team. Likewise, union president Lisa Dole told Catholic San Francisco Feb. 9, “The union leadership remains hopeful that the differences can be worked out with the archbishop.”

Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers Local 2240, American Federation

of Teachers, AFL-CIO, is concerned about a contract clause proposed by the archdiocese which defines teachers as ministers because of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision Hosanna-Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said Paul Hance, a Junipero Serra High School social studies teacher who is a member of the negotiating team. That unanimous high court decision recognized a “ministerial exception” to employment discrimination laws, saying that churches and other religious groups must be free to choose and dismiss without government making judgments about what constitutes particular doctrines of a faith.

“We are teachers, not ministers,” he said. “We are uniformly afraid that if we are defined as ministers” the union will lose some of its negotiated bargaining rights.

In his exchange with the teachers on Feb. 6, the archbishop said those rights would not be abrogated by the new language but also said he was open to different wording. The contract would remain in force, including the grievance procedure and the Supreme Court decision does not grant a right to engage in unfair labor practices to religious institutions, said Jesuit Father John Piderit, vicar for administration/moderator of the curia for the archdiocese.

“The current contract language is very strong,” said Father Piderit, referring to the existing contract which began in 2011. “It requires that teachers support Catholic doctrine and act in accordance with Catholic teachings.”

Unfair labor practices, such as firing someone, for example an older person, for an action such as serving on a

Planned Parenthood board and not firing another younger employee for the same action, would still be an unfair labor practice, Father Piderit said.

“I agree that Catholic schools are not simply private schools, and that we are held to a different standard, specifically the tenets of the church,” said Jim Conolly, a member of the negotiating team from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

“I agree that the archbishop is the leader of the Catholic Church” in the archdiocese, he said. “I disagree with the inclusion of the term ‘minister’ in our collective bargaining agreement.”

The 10 Catholic high schools in the archdiocese owned by religious communities are not part of the ongoing contract negotiations, which only affect the four high schools owned and operated by the archdiocese.

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LETTERS Soul-searching time

remarkably, papal infallibility. Hardly a live issue here, but it reaffirms that authority is not to be questioned.

So, let’s approach this as an effort by the ordinary to teach and mold his flock. I think we have to be grateful to the archbishop for giving us so clear, indeed stark, an example of one model of the church. Let’s call it the militaristic model – there is command at the top, orders are relayed and those below are meant to follow them unquestioningly. Failure to comply has serious consequences. There are many who are comfortable with this model. In an uncertain world, they want a rock to cling to. And we read that some senior clerics prefer a “purer, even if smaller” church.

Yet there is another model of church, with authoritative proponents. The Holy Spirit hovered over the conclave until it gave us Francis, whose first exhortation was entitled “The Joy of the Gospel.” What a concept – joy! Francis has not rescinded any teachings, but his emphasis is that people see holy mother the church as aware of the pain in the “field hospital” and lovingly embracing those who are suffering. And as you hold one struggling, in pain, toward God, there is a risk that you may realize that not everything is blackand-white. And you probably won’t have time to see that everybody is toeing the line.

John W. Weiser Kentfield The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.

Re “Archdiocese: Catholic schools exist to ‘affirm and proclaim’ Gospel of Jesus,” Feb. 6: Is personal morality of no concern at all? Are social-justice issues now entirely the call? Do both matter? The first is being rapidly deconstructed all around us. Time for some deep soul-searching in the church, I think.

Jay Strickwerda San Francisco

Reaction proves archbishop’s point Has it occurred to anyone else that the brouhaha over Archbishop Cordileone’s adding morality clauses to the high schools’ teacher contracts and handbooks is proof that the clauses are, indeed, needed?

If the schools were teaching Catholic morality already, they wouldn’t have to be told to. The fact that students are parading against policies demanding opposition to abortion, contraception, artificial insemination and so-called same-sex marriage implies that their catechesis has not included familiarity with the catechism at very least.

If Catholic schools are teaching English, Spanish, mathematics, science and whatever, but not the Catholic religion, who needs Catholic schools?

E.L. Gelhaar Millbrae

Discussion better than suppression As an alumnus of Marin Catholic and father of children in Catholic school, I read Archbishop Cordileone’s proposed handbook changes and related articles with interest. The archbishop blames divergence from adherence to Catholic teaching on “tremendous pressure” from secular culture. He then uses this as justification for restricting the behavior and expression of school staff, arguing for the need to assert Catholic teachings in the face of these secular forces.

While there certainly are secular messages inconsistent with church teaching, I suggest the church also look within itself for reasons that people diverge. The areas where I diverge from Catholic teaching arise when church guidance appears at odds with Christ’s commandment to love one another, is injurious to the rights of others, or is inconsistent with what we have learned over two millennia about science and human nature.

Such conflicts naturally lead to questioning and discussion among people of conscience, and the church will be better served by acknowledging this than trying to restrain it.

The rejecting attitude toward those not in concordance with Catholic doctrine that pervades the archbishop’s message creates the image of an institution bent on condemning others rather than embracing them as beloved by God. For teachers whose beliefs are not consistent with Catholic dogma, the communication feels similar to the infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the military. The church will tolerate a teacher who is not a perfect Catholic, just don’t let anyone catch you saying or doing anything that shows it.

John R. McQuaid San Francisco The writer is a member of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco.

Setting a higher standard The San Francisco Chronicle is at it, again, criticizing the archdiocese and telling it how to run its business. What’s wrong with the Catholic Church establishing the qualifications for its teachers? Every employer is entitled to do so. The church is in the business of teaching its moral doctrine. It makes perfect sense that teachers be held to a higher standard than the rest of the flock. Young people are constantly monitoring adults to determine if what they preach is consistent with how they behave.

Steve Kasch Larkspur

Welcome return to orthodoxy As a parent of a Catholic high school senior, I was pleased to read about the additional language for the teacher handbook. It’s really just common sense. If you’re a teacher, you should, at a minimum, not overtly contradict church teaching. If you’re a student, or a parent of a student, who seriously objects to the new statement in the handbook, you probably shouldn’t be attending a

Torture is never justified (PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Archbishop Cordileone and a participant at the Feb. 6 convocation for high school teachers speak after the archbishop gave a talk and answered questions at the event at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco.

Catholic high school in the first place. Archdiocesan schools are not merely private schools with a theology requirement and some trappings of Catholic culture.

I’m glad to see a return to orthodoxy, after the abysmal failure of the great liberal experiment of Vatican II. Long overdue. The archbishop has my complete support on this one.

Kathy Callahan San Rafael

A clear model of church – but not the only one Thank you for printing the full text of the archbishop’s letter to the teachers and the full text of the changes to the faculty handbook. Having the authentic source material gives us all a solid grasp on what is being promulgated.

The archbishop has picked his battle cleverly.

He has real leverage on the teachers. And speaking with parents of high school students at a Catholic high school here confirms that there is a real problem of youngsters not behaving as chastely as the church and their parents would like. The letter and the charge are addressed to the high schools and the teachers, but at the end, one assumes that the individuals to be formed are the high school students.

However, reading and reflecting on the materials leads me to believe that this is really an occasion for the archbishop to publicly draw another line in the sand.

It is in fact a litany of what the archbishop calls “hot button” issues that tell you more about his general priorities than about how to get high school kids to behave more chastely.

Will we really get youngsters to be chaste by expounding rules on women priests, on Communion for remarried Catholics and on in vitro fertilization?

I doubt that even the archbishop believes that.

This is rather about church discipline. And if you doubted that, note that the charge begins by reminding its readers about the magisterium and

In response to Mike DeNunzio’s letter (“Principle of proportionality,” Jan. 23) criticizing the United Nations position that no circumstances may justify torture, I suggest followers of Jesus Christ give great weight to Jesus words to treat others as we would have them treat us. I have never met anyone who wanted to be subjected to waterboarding.

Our role model is Jesus, not Torquemada.

Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

Exclusionary edicts I am the father of three girls. I “religiously” go to church every Sunday. The church faces numerous challenges, including dwindling attendance and the priest abuse scandals. So why would Father Illo choose to add to those challenges?

Why would he slam the door in the faces of young girls? Why would he build another sign for the altar stating in big bold letters: “Women not welcome here.”

Father Illo conceded that girls were not only more capable, but they use their God-given ability to do a better job as altar servers. Boys, on the other hand, were generally less capable and often lost interest. If boys lose interest so easily I can only surmise that their “calling” is more of a “whisper.”

Father Illo goes on to conclude, therefore, that the best way to get more boys involved would be to relegate the girls to a lesser stratum of the church. So, rather than encourage those best suited to the role, he says exclude them. Rather than capitalizing where there is both interest and ability, he chose to focus on those that lack both interest and ability. I would posit that it is precisely these types of exclusionary edicts that dampen many boys’ sense of justice. It also must diminish confidence in their church knowing that the church is the source of this injustice.

I try to teach my daughters they are equal to all people (girls and boys), but the church continues to undermine my efforts by preventing women from participating fully in all areas of the church.

Society acknowledges that men and women should be treated equally. I suspect that Father Illo would support that statement as it relates to society.

So what makes the church different?

Kevin Lozaw San Anselmo The writer is a parishioner of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.

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The priest’s role in the Mass is an act of fatherhood

’ve been asked to respond to letters regarding Star of the Sea’s altar server program. I am grateful to Rick DelVecchio and his staff at Catholic San Francisco for providing a fine newspaper in which we can discuss questions with faith in God and respect for each other.

Forty-nine parishes in the city offer girls the opportunity to serve the Mass, and I think there is room for one parish with a boys-only program.

Without making any judgment on other practices, we simply want to provide our boys a more direct participaFATHER tion in the priestly dimension JOSEPH ILLO of the Mass. The priest’s role in the Mass is an act of fatherhood – providing “bread” and sacrificing his life for his children. In his beautiful description of Christian family life, St. Paul describes the man’s role in Ephesians 5:25: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her.”

God wants a father to love wife and children in a manner specific to his masculinity – “as Christ [the groom] loved the church (the bride).” Once boys begin to realize the sacrificial dimension of the Mass, the desire to become men – to defend their loved ones with their lives – awakens within them. Of course, a father, including a priest who shepherds his parish, loves his daughters as well as his sons. Certainly I cherish the girls as much as the boys and the girls at Star of the Sea are being offered opportunities to serve God in ways they find exciting and satisfying.

Twenty-one years ago, the Catholic Church began allowing girls to serve the Mass. In the letter granting that permission (from the Congregation

for Divine Worship, dated March 15, 1994), we find these words: “The Holy See wishes to recall that it will always be very appropriate to follow the noble tradition of having boys serve at the altar. As is well known, this has led to a reassuring development of priestly vocations. Thus the obligation to support such groups of altar boys will always continue.” Why does the church favor altar boys rather than altar girls? Is she sexist, or simply stupidly archaic, or motivated by base paternalism?

I think the church prefers altar boys because the Mass is an action of the High Priest, who represents God as Father. In one sense, we, the church, are all feminine before this great mystery, which means we receive only to give back. While women can serve the Mass, the fatherly dimension of this sacrifice is more clearly represented by men. No doubt many girls can help the priest at Mass better than many boys, but “helping the priest” is not the deeper purpose for altar boys. They enter into the priestly sacrifice of the Mass within the presbyterium, that liturgical area around the altar set aside for the priestly action.

Many will disagree with me, and they have that right. The universal church, and our local archbishop, support pastors who choose both ways. It’s a big church, and she provides different approaches to worship. Many in my parish are grateful for this policy, and many are open to rethinking the question.

I offer some thoughts along with my thanks to those who wrote letters last week. Deacon Michael Murphy writes that “without exception” everyone he talked to was outraged. I will just note that of the 306 emails I received, 67 were negative and 239 were positive. He describes my “vocations argument” as “ludicrous in the extreme,” and Deacon Dana Perrigan states that no facts support the altar boy-vocation connection. But the Congregation for Divine Worship makes that very argument in the document quoted above, and “altar boy only” parishes gener-

ally have abundant priestly vocations. My last parish currently has three men in the seminary, while the Diocese of Lincoln, which has never had altar girls, has more vocations per capita than any other American diocese.

Susanne Reed wonders if females at Star of the Sea will be denied all roles in the parish. Of course, we are not denying the specifically feminine genius but simply affirming that some roles are better served by one sex or the other. Jennie Jue states that no church doctrine “says there can be no girl servers,” but I would refer her to the 1994 document cited above, which states that no bishop is obligated to begin permitting altar girls. Richard Morasci finds it odd that girls, who often do a “better job,” should be denied the right to serve. But my point is not who can help the priest better, but who better represents fatherhood at the altar. Denis Nolan claims that Mary was a priest, but the church has never understood her role as merely that – quite the opposite in the document cited above. Julia Dowd rightly laments the church’s harmful discrimination against women, but I contend that a boys-only program helps both boys and girls, just as scouting programs and single-sex education benefits everyone. And finally Christin Marie-Angela Creighton points out that our ultimate end is to become a saint, and that does not depend on being an altar boy or girl, but rather in trusting Christ and his church.

We live in a time of sexual confusion, especially here in San Francisco. I hope giving girls and boys distinct roles at Star will strengthen their God-given vocations to holiness as young men and young women. May Holy Mary, whom God called to a higher vocation than any priest, help us to rejoice in her Son’s will for each of us.

As Catholic Christians, we should welcome the involvement of men, women, boys and girls in the liturgy and in our church. Although being an altar server may encourage a young man to pursue a priestly vocation, this choice should not be affected by whether girls are altar serving. There are many other ways to be involved in the church other than as a priest. We should encourage anyone who wants to be an active part of the church community to have that opportunity.

During these times of declining Mass attendance, particularly among younger people, we should be looking for ways to encourage people to be active members of the church community. We must focus on strategies that are inclusive, rather than those that discourage participation in our church by any group.

Judith Walsh-Cassidy San Rafael The writer is a member of St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael.

servers in a church that discriminates against their sisters.

Like the Pharisees of Jesus’ time, many clergy cling to past traditions to jealously guard their power and control. I pray that the Holy Spirit can open the doors being shut in the faces of Catholic girls, and that clergy who stand between girls and God’s call to them to serve, please step aside.

Laurie Joyce San Anselmo The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.

FATHER ILLO is administrator of Star of the Sea Parish, San Francisco.

LETTERS More boys in the priesthood Re “Star of the Sea pastor trains only altar boys as servers,” Jan. 30: Kudos to Father Illo for having the guts to do what he thinks will get more boys into the priesthood.

I tend to agree, but not wholeheartedly, with Father Illo. The introduction of female altar servers is the result of Vatican II, which opened the window of the church to modernity. Unfortunately it also let in the ultra-liberal thinkers who decry male dominance, a non-married priesthood, etc., which of course led to the schism of Archbishop Lefebvre and the spread of liberation theology in South America. So, although Vatican II was certainly an inspired event, it allowed theological discourse which in turn created the traditional and progressive camps. I feel this is natural and a phenomenon to be expected in a group that comprises over a billion-and-a-half people.

Father Illo does have a valid argument because altar serving does provide one not only with an aura of sanctity but also plays an important part in our liturgical celebrations. This may spiritually and sometimes hubristically influence the person to consider the priesthood, which of course we are very much in need of.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

Call to holiness for everyone I am writing to express my disappointment about Father Joseph Illo’s decision not to allow girls to altar serve at Star of the Sea Parish.

I am an active participating Catholic, a lector and a extraordinary minister of holy Communion.

I am the mother of four children, two boys and two girls. My two sons and my older daughter are altar servers. They appreciate the opportunity to be involved and feel that they have a fuller experience of the Mass when they are altar serving. My youngest daughter is not old enough to altar serve, however, when I am the commentator at Mass, she reads some of the prayers of the faithful and the announcements. She, too, appreciates the opportunity to be involved and will begin to altar serve next year.

The Second Vatican Council emphasized the “call to holiness for everyone including the laity.”

Decades of redemption About Father Illo’s policy eliminating girls from altar service and his rationale for doing so, I would like to point out to him and his ilk that the decrease in priestly vocations can be directly attributed to the global clergy sex scandal and the collusion of the ecclesiastical hierarchy which perpetuated the horror. A young man of faith and integrity might balk at dedicating his life to an earthly institution so corrupted by mendacity and self-interest that it will take decades to redeem itself. Father Illo might want to re-read “Evangelii Gaudium” as a refresher course on the real task of the church in promulgating the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our primary focus as Roman Catholics should be on economic inequality, a challenge Pope Francis urges us to embrace.

Antoinette Doyle San Rafael

Deeply pained As the mother of three daughters, I was deeply pained to hear of the decision to ban girls from being altar servers at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. It is difficult enough to raise children in the Catholic Church today and this latest move throws yet another obstacle in front of parents.

Perhaps many boys won’t even want to be altar

Boys need Catholic values without confusion I read with interest the letters in the Feb. 6 Catholic San Francisco as well as the archbishop’s “Affirm and Proclaim.” As the father of three boys completing Catholic educations, I know teenage boys need Catholic values and guidance without confusion more than ever.

While the press pays attention to the elite battles in the boardroom for female equality, it is boys across society who are suffering. Boys are more likely than girls to drop out of high school and are now far less likely to start or complete college. As recently as 1992 boys and girls were on par, but now 33 percent more girls will get a college degree than boys. Teen boys and young men abuse alcohol in greater numbers and use marijuana more. It gets worse for jail and suicide. Young males kill themselves at a rate five times greater than young females, and the rate of incarceration for males is an astounding 11 to 15 times greater than females depending on age. Need I go on?

In many ways, the traditional male ways of growing up – being an altar server, getting a paper route and then a part-time job, establishing a sports team with friends – have been abandoned for a system that clearly is not working out great for a lot of boys. So I keep this in mind when I hear of a parish plan to return to all-male servers and think, if that brings boys and young men closer to the church, that may be good. Likewise, the idea that boys learn in school not some sort of muted Catholic values statement, but one that is reinforced as “we are Catholic and this is our faith” is a very good thing for developing the fathers of tomorrow, and I thank the archbishop for that.

Jeffrey Weidell San Carlos The writer is a member of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos.

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The excitement around the Chinese New Year

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he celebration of each Chinese New Year was always very special for me as I grew up in China.

My family, like many other families in our small town, was poor, but we were rich also in that we had many children, six of us in our family.

At New Year’s, dad and mom always made FATHER sure that we PETER ZHAI had special food to eat and new clothes to wear. On New Year’s Eve, mom always washed us clean before we went to bed. Before we got into bed, she placed the new clothes to be worn the following day folded at the side of our beds. With a smile on my face and my hands lying on my new clothes, I longed for the New Year as I fell asleep.

New Year’s morning was the only morning when mom did not have to wake me up. Up early, I eagerly put on my new clothes and new shoes.

Then I went running through the streets to bring New Year’s greetings to each house in our village.

When I returned home, I basked in the compliments of my grandparents, uncles and aunts saying how handsome I was and how beautiful my clothes were. For me, New Year’s was sheer joy and excitement.

As we children grew older, my parents added more emphasis on how to prepare ourselves spiritually for New Year celebrations. On New Year’s Eve, we gathered as a family in our prayer room to pray. It was a time of reflection on the past

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The Chinese Catholic community in San Francisco will gather to celebrate the New Year Mass of 2015 at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. year. We asked God’s forgiveness for our offenses; we expressed our gratitude to God for his blessings to our family. It was also a time to pray to God for blessings and graces for the coming year. In the prayer of repentance, I felt cleansed. In the prayer of thanksgiving, my heart was touched by God’s enduring love; in the prayer for the New Year, I was motivated with renewed hope. In such a joyful and prayerful moment, I learned to put on a different new set of clothes, as St. Paul states: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ” (Galatians 3:27).

he phrase “Lenten journey” has become ubiquitous in contemporary Catholicism, but for once, AmChurchSpeak makes an important point: Lent is a journey – a journey to Calvary with the Lord and an opportunity to reflect on how well we’ve each picked up the cross daily (as instructed in Luke 9: 23) and followed him.

The day-by-day quality of the 40 days hit home during the best Lent I ever spent: Lent 2011, when I made the Lenten station church pilgrimage in Rome with GEORGE WEIGEL the Pontifical North American College. Every morning, I’d be up at 5:15 a.m. and off in the dawn’s early light to participate in Mass at the “station” appointed for that Lenten day – a tradition dating back to the mid-first millennium, when the Bishop of Rome led a daily procession through the city and celebrated Mass at a particular “station” church honoring the city’s martyrs.

But as splendid as that experience of Rome was, those daily walks – which often take the pilgrim to great churches far from the beaten tourist track – weren’t the heart of the Lenten journey for me. The deeper experience came later, when I returned to the North American College and wrote a commentary on each day’s liturgical texts: the readings from Mass and those in the breviary’s Office of Readings. Three and a half decades of scribbling have taught me that I best get inside a text and plumb its meaning when I write about it. That’s true of novels;

Each year as I matured I could feel the spiritual excitement more fully in my heart. Each of us is a new creation in Jesus Christ and there are always reasons for us to be enthusiastic about our faith and to celebrate our life in Christ.

The first day of lunar New Year falls this year on Feb. 19. The Chinese Catholic community in San Francisco will gather to celebrate New Year Mass of 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Feb. 21 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. Following Mass, there will be a New Year’s banquet in Patrons Hall, located on the lower level of the cathedral. Accord-

ing to the Chinese zodiac, this is the year of “Yang,” which refers to goats, rams or sheep. Since we are the sheep belonging to Christ the Good Shepherd, calling this year the year of the sheep is appropriate.

Our eternal shepherd is Christ; the shepherd for the whole church is Pope Francis; and we are delighted with our local shepherd, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone who will celebrate the Mass in the cathedral with retired Bishop Ignatius Wang and other bishops and priests.

Respecting elders and being grateful to ancestors are deeply rooted in Chinese culture. Through the Mass we will show our respect and venerate in a special way our beloved who have gone before us. Immediately after the Mass, we will celebrate the rite for the veneration of ancestors in which we pray for them, respect them, recall their goodness to us, and seek their intercession for us before God. Our church has recognized the meaning and value of this special prayer associated with Chinese New Year. This new rite has been adapted as a form of prayer in accordance with our belief in the communion of saints.

Every Catholic celebration is centered in Christ. Through our New Year celebration this year, we hope to renew among Chinese Catholics in San Francisco the determination to bring the Gospel to all and to spread the good news to Chinese in the city who have not had a chance to know Jesus. This renewal constitutes the new clothes which the Chinese community puts on, and my joy is just as intense as when I was 7 or 8 years old.

DIVINE WORD Father Peter Zhai is director of Chinese ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Lent, day by day

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The three traditional pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. In the Latin-rite church, Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 this year. it’s true of history and biography; and it’s most certainly true of those readings from the Bible and the fathers of the church that fill each day of Lent with riches that are best mined slowly.

The unfolding of those riches is another dayby-day thing and becomes most intense during the latter part of Lent, when the first selection in the Office of Readings is from the Letter to the Hebrews and the second Mass reading is from the Gospel of John.

For two weeks, the Letter to the Hebrews draws on images from the Old Testament to introduce us to that “great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God:” a mediator between God and humanity who “has been tempted as we are” and with whom we can “with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4: 14-16). Here, the biblical author writes, we find that “great

cloud of witnesses” in whose company we are enabled to “run with perseverance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12: 1) Here is “Mt. Zion … the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” to which we are brought through the mediation of Jesus, and where we join “innumerable angels in festive gathering” (Heb 12: 22).

Complementing this extraordinary vision of our Christian destiny are the Lenten daily Mass readings from the Gospel of John, in which Jesus is sovereign even on earth. Throughout his Passion – indeed, in setting in motion the dynamics that lead to the Passion – it is Jesus who is in charge of events, Jesus who drives the drama forward, Jesus who tells Pilate who is really in charge of history. To walk this journey day by day is to experience the fullness of what it means to meet the Lamb of God who, by taking the sins of the world on himself in obedience to the Father’s will, empowers each of his brethren to pick up their daily cross and follow him without fear.

With the help of art historian Elizabeth Lev and my photographer-son, Stephen, I’ve tried to share what I learned and wrote during that “best Lent” of my life in “Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches” (Basic Books). “Roman Pilgrimage” is meant to be read a day at a time (the eBook edition is especially conducive to reflection, as its all-color photo format makes a visually stunning complement to the text and “puts” the reader in Rome). Whatever the format, though, may “Roman Pilgrimage” be a fitting companion on many Lenten journeys.

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

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SUNDAY READINGS

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, ‘If you wish, you can make me clean.’ Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, ‘I do will it. Be made clean.’

MARK 1:40-45 LEVITICUS 13:1-2, 44-46 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man is leprous and unclean, the priest shall declare him unclean by reason of the sore on his head. “The one who bears the sore of leprosy shall keep his garments rent and his head bare, and shall muffle his beard; he shall cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ As long as the sore is on him he shall declare himself unclean, since he is in fact unclean. He shall dwell apart, making his abode outside the camp.”

PSALM 32:1-2, 5, 11 I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. Blessed the man to whom the Lord

imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you just; exult, all you upright of heart.

I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation.

1 CORINTHIANS10:31-11:1 Brothers and sisters, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. Avoid giving offense, whether to the Jews or Greeks or the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in every way, not seeking my own benefit

but that of the many, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

MARK 1:40-45 A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once. He said to him, “See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to him from everywhere.

The gift of touch

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e are fascinated with our skin. We’ll do anything to enhance its appearance. We use makeup to cover its imperfections. We obsess over its wrinkles, scars, or blemishes. The human skin is the surface of our contact with the world. Did you know that human skin has more than three miles of blood vessels coiled up within it? And more remarkable than that, the skin of each of us also contains over thirtysix miles of nerves and nerve endings. Those nerves carry signals for pain, heat, cold, pressure, and touch.

Imagine what it would be like if your nerve endings did not work? What if your entire nerve system shut down?

You would feel no heat, no cold, no pain, no pressure, DEACON no touch. You would feel FAIVA PO’OI nothing at all. Imagine how terrible that would be!

Such was the plight of the leper in the days of Jesus. Leprosy was an illness that infected the nervous system, effectively shutting it

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down. As a result, the person afflicted with leprosy was unable to feel the pain of a stumped toe or a cut finger. In time, the leper’s deformed features made him look grotesque. In addition to this physical suffering, the lepers of Jesus’ time also experienced great emotional and spiritual suffering. Fearing the spread of the disease, “healthy” people would not associate with lepers. They believed that lepers had been cursed

by God and treated them as outcasts. No one felt more cut-off from society, and from God, than lepers.

As the leper in our Gospel story approached Jesus, these were likely the thoughts with which he was grappling. He believed himself to be one cursed by God. This is what the religious leaders had taught him! And yet the leper said to Jesus: “If you will, you can make me clean.” It was not the Lord’s ability to heal him that he questioned but rather Jesus’ willingness to show him mercy and love. The leper believed that God could heal him.

He just was not so sure that he would. The story tells us that Jesus looked on the man with compassion, and subsequently stretched out his hand, touched and healed him.

Throughout the Gospel of Mark, we will see Jesus extending his hands and embracing those who come to him. In time, people approached him just to touch his garments or to be touched by him. Even healthy

children were brought to Jesus for his embrace. It is as though Jesus wanted to portray God as one who loves to touch his creation. Isn’t this the way Michelangelo painted God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel – as a God reaching out to give life by the gift of touch?

A year ago, a photo came on the internet of Pope Francis embracing and kissing a 52 year old man who was afflicted with very disfiguring tumors all over his body, including his head. Pope Francis shows great compassion as he prays over this man.

His actions call to mind another Francis–St. Francis of Assisi – who about 800 years ago encountered a leper on the road. St. Francis’ compassion was stronger than his dread of leprosy. He kissed the man. Afterward, the man was gone. It was then that Francis realized that he had embraced Christ.

Who is the leper in our society, our community, and our family? Do we regard the poor, the homeless, and the marginalized as lepers? Do we avoid making contact with them?

May the Holy Eucharist enable us to recognize the lepers in our families, our communities and our society and to accept them as brothers and sisters.

And may the Holy Eucharist enable us to be for each of them, the extended, the healing hands of Jesus.

DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

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Be neighborhood apostles, pope urges laity CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Cities can be chaotic and cold, but people need God in a metropolis as much as they need him anywhere, Pope Francis said.

Lay Catholics especially are called “to go out without fear,” offering a human touch and God’s love to people they work with or live near, the pope said Feb. 7 during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

With a smile and the example of a joyful Christian life, he said, laypeople “can break the wall of anonymity or indifference that often reigns in a city.”

While big cities can offer “magnificent spaces of freedom” and accomplishment, he said, they also can hide “terrible spaces of dehumanization and unhappiness.”

“It seems that every city, even the most prosper-

ous and well organized, has the ability to generate a dark ‘anti-city.’ It seems that along with citizens, there are non-citizens,” the pope said. “They are individuals no one looks at, no one pays attention to or takes an interest in.”

“In the face of these sad scenes, we must always remember that God has not abandoned the city,” he said.

Anywhere there are human beings, he said, God is present and at work.

One of the most beautiful and surprising things about sharing the Gospel with others, he said, is that one discovers that “there are many hearts the Holy Spirit has already prepared to accept their witness, closeness and attention.”

Lay Catholics need the help of the church in preparing for their mission as civic evangelizers, he said, and must be helped to see that they must live the Gospel in their own lives.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16: Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. GN 4:1-15, 25. PS 50:1 and 8, 16bc-17, 20-21. JN 14:6. MK 8:11-13.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17: Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Seven Founders of the Order of Servites. GN 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10. PS 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10. JN 14:23. MK 8:14-21.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18: Ash Wednesday. JL 2:12-18. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17. 2 COR 5:20-6:2. See PS 95:8. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. DT 30:15-20. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. MT 4:17. LK 9:22-25.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20: Friday after Ash Wednesday.

Bls. Francisco and Jacinta Marto (Portugal). IS 58:1-9a.

PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. SEE AMOS 5:14. MT 9:14-15.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor. IS 58:9b-14. PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6.

EZ 33:11. LK 5:27-32.

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St. Mary’s School science fair winners to compete for new prize CHRISTINA GRAY

Ryan Cheung’s exhibit presented a case for his theory that San Francisco fog can be turned into a water source.

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A science fair at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in Chinatown on Jan. 23-25 showcased the result of its school’s new science, technology, engineering and mathematics program and produced seven middle school winners who will compete again this month at the Randall Museum’s annual science fair.

The nationwide program known as STEM emphasizes critical, creative and independent thinking and utilizes technology to help prepare students to compete in an increasingly global economy. It was launched at St. Mary’s School in 2013, making it the first school in the archdiocese to adopt the educational model.

At the St. Mary’s science fair, judges from some of the city’s most prestigious scientific institutions including the Academy of Sciences, the Exploratorium, Golden Gate Recreational Area, the National Park Service and the California Department of Consumer Affairs evaluated more than 45 student projects based on critical thinking, research, design and testing.

Ryan Cheung’s exhibit presented a

The winners of the St. Mary’s School STEM Project Fair on Jan. 23-25 will compete in the Randall Museum’s San Francisco Middle School Science Fair later this month: Left to right, Calvin Ng, Ace Savage, Oscar Luo, Ryan Quock, Jacqueline Yu, Michaela Wong, Lucia Huang.

Not pictured is Kyle Pruden. case for his theory that San Francisco fog can be turned into a water source.

Project team Kyle Pruden and Oscar Luo shared their “oxidation station” for preventing metals from rusting, while Ryan Quock tried to convince judges that robots can climb stairs.

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Younger grades also competed in the fair, with kindergarteners presenting projects that created and captured gingerbread men, first and second graders exploring the principles of buoyancy, and fifth graders explaining the relationship between music and stress relief.

“Judges and students became collaborators on the exhibits during the competition,” said STEM director Beverly Dobrus.

Winners from that fair will go on to compete in the San Francisco Bay Area Science Fair.

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Our daydreams

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good part of our lives are taken up with daydreams, though few of us admit that and even fewer of us would own up to the contents of those fantasies.

We’re ashamed to admit how much we escape into fantasy FATHER RON and we’re ROLHEISER even more ashamed to reveal the content of those fantasies. But, whether we admit it or not, we’re all pathological daydreamers; except this isn’t necessarily a pathology.

Our hearts and minds, chronically frustrated by the limits of our lives, naturally seek solace in daydreaming. It’s an almost irresistible temptation.

Indeed the more sensitive you are, perhaps the stronger will be the propensity to escape into daydreams. Sensitivity triggers restlessness and restlessness doesn’t easily find quiet inside ordinary life. Hence, the escape into daydreams.

And what about the contents of those daydreams?

We tend to have two kinds of daydreams: The first kind are triggered more by the immediate hurts and temptations within our lives; for example, a lingering hurt or anger has you fantasizing about revenge and you play out various scenes of retaliation over and over again in your mind. Or an emotional or sexual obsession has you fantasying about various kinds of consummation.

The other kind of daydream we escape into is not so much triggered by the hurts and obsessions of the present moment but takes its root in something deeper, something classically expressed by St. Augustine in the opening lines of his Confessions (a hermeneutical key for his life and our own): You have made us for yourself Lord and our hearts are restless until they rest in you. Simply put, we are overcharged for our lives, given infinite spirits and infinite appetites and put into this world wherein everything is finite. That’s a formula for chronic dissatisfaction. What’s our escape? Daydreams.

However these second kind of daydreams are somewhat different from the first. They aren’t so much focused on the immediate angers and temptations in our lives but rather are the habitual imaginary lives that we have interiorly fashioned for ourselves, fantasy lives that we play over and over again in our minds the way we might play and replay a favorite movie. But there’s something interesting and important to note here. In these daydreams we are never petty or small, rather we are always noble and grand, the hero or the heroine, generous, bighearted, immune from faults,

drawing perfect respect, and making perfect love. In these daydreams we, in fact, intuit the vision of Isaiah where he foresees a perfect world, the lamb the lion lying down together, the sick being healed, the hungry being fed, all restlessness being brought to calm, and God, himself, drying away every tear. Isaiah too fantasied about perfect consummation.

His fantasy was a prophecy. In our earthy fantasies we might not prophesize but we do intuit the kingdom of God. With that being said, we still need to ask ourselves: How good or bad is it to escape into daydreams?

At one level, daydreams are not just harmless but can be a positive form of relaxation and a way to steady us inside the frustrations of our lives. Sitting back in an easy chair and sinking into a daydream can be little different than sitting back and turning on your favorite piece of music. It can be an escape that takes the edge off of the frustrations within your life.

But there’s a potential downside to this: Since in our daydreams we are always the hero or the heroine and the center of attention and admiration, our daydreams can easily stoke our natural narcissism.

Since we are the center of everything in our daydreams we can easily become overfrustrated with a world within which we are not much the center of anything. And there’s more: Etty Hillesum, reflecting on her own experience, suggests another negative consequence from habitually escaping into daydreams. She affirms that because we make ourselves the center of the universe inside our daydreams we often end up not being able to give anything or anybody the simple gaze of admiration.

Rather, in her strong words, in our daydreams we take in what we should be admiring and, instead, masturbate with it.

For this reason, among others, daydreams help block us from mindfulness, from being in the present moment. When we are all wrapped-up in fantasy it’s hard to see what’s in front of us.

So where should we go with all of this? Given both the good and bad within our daydreams and given our near-incurable propensity to escape into fantasy, we need to be patient with ourselves. Henri Nouwen suggests that the struggle to turn our fantasies into prayer is one of the great congenital struggles within our spiritual lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin shares in his journals that when he was young he struggled a lot with fantasy but, as he grew older, he was able more and more to stand in the present moment without the need to escape into daydreams.

That’s the task we need to set before ourselves.

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

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“This was a rewarding experience,” she said, but no piece of cake.

El Camino de Santiago de Compostela, also known as The Way of St. James, is a network of five main routes through Spain, all of which lead to the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela. Wyman chose to do the longest one, alone, and with only a backpack but no phone, watch or camera.

“I wanted to experience the Camino with open eyes and open heart, processing the experiences in private without constant commentary and chatter,” she said.

Some suggested she “just take a nice escorted pilgrim tour with other seniors.” But her husband nurtured his wife’s call and was with her when she took her first steps away from him into the Pyrenees.

“No doubt there is a connection to being born into a deeply religious Catholic family and the fact that at the age of 70, I chose to walk out my front door to complete this journey,” she said.

Wyman was raised on a farm in Illinois where her devout parents led the family in the rosary every night.

She went to a convent school and a Jesuit university.

A longtime contemplative prayer practice also pushed her toward the Camino, she said, and helped her cope with its rigors.

“Daily meditation never failed to be a source of calmness for me in difficulty,” said Wyman, who leads the centering prayer group at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco.

Difficulties included a foot injury that hobbled her every step and unseasonable cold that forced her to pile on all the clothing in her backpack including her pajamas to stay warm.

Her postcards became a comforting nightly ritual. Wyman would find a table in a village tavern and “put out my little altar” – her father’s rosary, Larry’s picture, her mother’s wedding ring and her granddaughter’s picture – while she wrote.

Wyman said that as she merged with the Camino over many miles, she found herself in a near-constant state of prayer. Hers were not the prayers of her childhood, nor were they petitions.

“They were pure and unadulterated prayers of adoration for all of creation as I observed it along the way,” she said.

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POPE: Holy Father makes surprise visit to immigrant settlement FROM PAGE 1

He gave them a formal blessing, and then told them he had to be going since he had promised to spend the afternoon at the parish.

At the parish, the pope delivered 100 sleeping bags for the homeless assisted by the parish and the Sant’Egidio Community. He met with a group of children and with the parents of babies baptized in the past year. He also heard the confessions of a few parishioners, the Vatican said.

In his homily during the evening Mass, Pope Francis told parishioners that Jesus’ public ministry was all about preaching and healing.

The pope said people should ask themselves, “Do I let Jesus preach to me or do I know everything?

Do I listen to Jesus or do I prefer to listen to almost anything else, maybe people’s gossip or stories?”

Jesus speaks to people through the Scriptures, he said. Although carrying a Bible or a small book of the Gospels is not something Catholics are known for, it is something they should do.

“We must make this a habit,” he said. “Listen to the word of Jesus, listen to the words of Jesus in the Gospel. Read a passage, think about what it says.”

People also must be willing to let Jesus heal them, he said. “We all have wounds, all of us: spiritual wounds, sins, hard feelings, jealousies,” people that we have decided never to speak to again. “This needs to be healed!”

“It is sad when in a family brothers or sisters no longer speak to each other over something silly,” he said. “The devil takes something silly and makes a world out of it.”

But Jesus can defeat the devil and bring healing, restoring harmony, the pope said. “Let yourselves be healed by Jesus.”

Earlier in the day, Pope Francis recited the Angelus with thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square. He told them, too, that Jesus’ public life was mainly about preaching and healing.

“It’s true,” he said, “Jesus saves, Jesus cures, Jesus heals.”

The healing ministry of Jesus continues in the church, through the sacraments and through the loving care Christians give to the sick, he said. “To care for a sick person, to welcome him or her, serve him or her, is to serve Christ.”

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DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the Wounds, a divorced and separated Catholics support group, second Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8 p.m., professional childcare available, $10 per child. Karen Beale, (415) 250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120; Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 4351122.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing.

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

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

YOUNG ADULT PRAYER: Young Adult Lenten Day of Prayer: Conversion – a Lifelong Journey, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

For women and men ages 18-40, at the Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont. Registration fee: $20 for lunch, refreshments and materials. Facilitators: Sister Ingrid Clemmensen and Young Adult Retreat Team. Day will include prayer, reflection, sharing, listening to God in Scripture. Register on-line at www.msjdominicans. org or www.bit.ly/YAretreat.org. (510) 933-6335.

ASTRONOMER TALK: Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, 3 p.m., Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. Sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center of Palo Alto. No fee to attend. Limited parking is available at the site and its vicinity.

Visit www.arts4all.org. Kay Williams, (650) 270-4188, kaywill@pacbell.net.

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

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

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

SUNDAY, FEB. 22 ORGAN CONCERT: Father Paul Perry plays compositions of Mozart, Grieg, Elgar and others, St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, 12:30 p.m. Admission is free.

FORGIVENESS SUNDAY: Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 23rd Avenue at Geary next to St. Monica Church, San Francisco, begins Great Lent in the Byzantine Rite with Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m., an Agape meal at noon to which everyone is welcome and vespers at 2:30 p.m.

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

Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@ usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. Feb. 22: “The European social market economy in light of the experience of Catholic Social Thought?” with Jesuit Father

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TUESDAY, FEB. 24 DON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group meets 7 p.m., Parish Center, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square Park, San Francisco. We will continue to hear an historical narrative of the saint’s life with time for small group discussions.

The group has met quarterly for the past several years in celebration of the great saint’s birth bicentenary. All are welcome. Frank Lavin, (415) 310-8551; franklavin@comcast.net.

LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish, Donworth Hall, 401 Eucalyptus Drive next to Stonestown YMCA, soup supper and talk, Feb. 24, March 3, 10 with Taize prayer service March 17, 6:30 p.m., Franciscan Brother Michael Minton speaks on the season and Islam, the religion; Veronica Wong, (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.

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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples talks through March 27 at sites throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m., freewill offering, www.marriageonfire. info; Ed Hopfner, HopfnerE@SFArchdiocese.org.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on grief process, and tips on coping with loss of a loved one.

Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the group. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 5672020, ext. 218.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 PRIORY TALKS: “God, Grace of the World,” with Benedictine Brother Ivan Nicoletto. In a world in which humanity can create and destroy life, what grace may God have for our lives and our commuBrother Ivan nities? 7-9 p.m., Nicoletto Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall, admission is free, refreshments provided, Carrie Rehak, crehak@prioryca.org, (650) 851-8221. www.prioryca.org/life/ campus-spiritual-life/insight-speakers-series/.

FRIDAY, FEB. 27

THURSDAY, FEB. 26

EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, Mercy Chapel: Feb. 27, Serving with Jesus; March 27, Remaining with Jesus; April 24,Walking Joyfully in the Spirit. RSVP to Mercy Sister Jean Evans, (650) 373-4508; Jevans@ mercywmw.org.

SATURDAY, FEB. 28 CRAB BASH: Crab bash benefiting St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave., San Francisco, 6-9 p.m., $50 by Jan. 30, $55 by Feb. 13, $60 at door includes dinner, one glass wine or beer and raffle ticket; on-site parking. Evening includes cracked crab dinner, music, dancing, raffle, silent and live auctions.

Constance Dalton, cdalton@saicsf.org, (415) 642-6130.

ICA LUNCH: Celebrating Women in Business, a lunch and program hosted by Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco, Julia Morgan Ballroom, Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California Luanne Tierney St., San Francis-

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

TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 13, 201 2015

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of January HOLY CROSS, COLMA Dorothy M. Adams Barbara Agricola Primo J. Astesano Frances Barulich Shirley Ann Bechelli Daniel J. Beckman Ralph P. Belluomini Lawrence A. Blake Helen Bofinger Edward G. Bouc Betty A. Braun Savnik Josephine E. Brosnan Marie Ida Broussard Margaret Flanagan Butler Rev. Leonard J. Calegari Danila Pena Canonizado Raymond M. Capella George E. Cawley Sara Cortes Hugo Davila Sr. Maria De La Imaculada, O.C.D Margaret A. Doherty William Dennis Dumont Dorothy Ann Esparza Feliciana Francisco Grace Marie Frontin James J. Galvin Lorraine C. Garban Mercedes G. Garcia Raymond A. Garibaldi Joseph A. Gavidia Marlene L. Gazzano Angelo J. Giannarini Manuela Gómez Mercedes Centeno Gonzalez Conception E. Griffiths Agaton C. Gualberto, Jr. Edward Alfonso Guerrero, Sr. Florencio V. Halili Richard Hannon Robert J. Harrington Nanette “Nancy” Hart Carol L. Hary Epetacia Hathaway Frances Mae Haug Michael J. Holland, Sr. Donald W. Holsten Virginia M. Hooke George Cordero Ison, Sr. Helen M. (Farry) Jankowski Jack W. Jear

Lucy Karic Julia Kavanagh Margaret Mary Kellogg Rosemarie A. Kemp Lavirn Kenne George J. Knight Peggy Ann Lambert Lucia Ledon Jeannette Lestrade Paul F. Malcewicz Segundina Reyes Mallari John Mancini Rev. Richard Mandoli, OCD Vivienne Marie Matias Geri Bracken Matkovich Lee Ann McCurdy Edith K. McEntee Maureen Susan McFadden Garry Hale McGrew Margaret M. McMackin Marjorie R. McSweeney Ricardo U. Menendez, Jr. Guillermo Cadena Mercado Carrie W. Miguel Joan Valerie Mitchell Linda T. Mizzi Gerald R. Moller Robert Morales Hermosito M. Moreno Dorothy M. Myers Henry L. Naupoto Nazzal H. Nazzal Joseph Bernard Nebeling Dan Nguyen Rosalina P. Ofalsa Genoveva T. Ordonia Asuncion Palacios Elisa Partida Matthew Robert Paulo Marie F. Pellizzon Thomas Allen Percell Raymond M. Phillips Patricia Pinnick Chung Powers Lena Ragni Jesus Diaz Raya Joseph John Re Roxana Marina Reyes Bellone Ann Marie Ritter Helen Mendez Rodrigues George V. Rodriguez Marie Rossi Romano Juanita L. Sagun Mary Jane Saidy Felipe T. Santos

Lita Sarmiento Elena Schaub Silvio L. “Sil” Scocca Daniel J. Shannon Louis C.F. Silvas Harry Joseph Simon Bernard (Barney) Smetzer Joseph Anthony Smith Teofilo L. Soriano Souhaila B. Soudah Donald C. Stibich Narcisa F. Sunga Michael J. Susko, Jr. Loretta Sweeney Albert Tabarez Mary Arrighi Thompson Norma Torrano Marion D. Tosetti Naim Salim Turk Vivian Tyrell Robert J. Valdez Jose Alberto Vega Cuadra Anthony Zolezzi Elizabeth L. Zut

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February 13, 2015 Dear Friends in Christ: It is once again time to ask you to participate in our Archdiocesan Annual Appeal. This year our theme is, “As I have done for you, you should also do.”

These were Christ’s words at the Last Supper, exhorting his disciples to aspire to be servants, not masters, of their fellow human beings.

One of the great blessings of my ministry in San Francisco is the opportunity to visit the parishes, to celebrate the Eucharist with our priests, and to enjoy conversations with parishioners after Mass. Happily, my visits are usually occasions for some celebration, and it is a joy to visit with you, to hear your stories, and to see your dedication in faith and love.

I am so deeply grateful for all that you do to bring life to others, in your families, in your local communities, in your local parishes. As the Archdiocese embarks on this Annual Appeal, I urge you to be as generous as you can be in support of our ministries.

With my gratitude for your continued support of our Archdiocese, and with my prayerful best wishes, I am, Sincerely yours in our Lord,

Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

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“...as I have done for you, you should also do.”- John 13:15 CHANCERY BUDGET FOR 2015 SOURCES OF INCOME $13,700,000

WHAT YOUR AAA GIFTS SUPPORT NOTE: The amounts shown represent the anticipated contribution of Archbishop’s Annual Appeal funds to the ministries listed during the coming fiscal year.

Archdiocesan Direct Ministries $1,600,000 Ethnic Ministries celebrates the rich diversity of cultures, languages and races through programs and gatherings that promote intercultural education, dialogue, communication

$8,000,000 58%

AAA 2015 PROJECT SUPPORT $5,700,000

UNIVERSAL CHURCH 19% $1,100,000

CLERGY SUPPORT 21% $1,200,000

and understanding. Ethnic Ministries provides support for 22 different ethnic communities including African-American, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Spanish-speaking and others.

Ethnic Ministries also sponsors multicultural celebrations and collaborates with other archdiocesan offices to develop multicultural program components in order to integrate different communities into the church of the archdiocese.

AAA 2015 42% $5,700,000

Student volunteers from Riordan High School with Archbishop Cordileone at the Rosary Rally held at the UN Plaza, SF

Parish/School Ministry $1,800,000 The Department of Catholic Schools prepares students for a Christian life by providing policies and programs for religious and general education in preschool, elementary and secondary schools. The department supports 22 preschools, 60 elementary and middle schools, 14 high schools, and more than 2,100 full-time and part-time teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, and support personnel.

PARISH & SCHOOL MINISTRIES 32% $1,800,000

ARCHDIOCESAN DIRECT MINISTRIES 28% $1,600,000

The purpose of the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is to assist in funding the overall budget of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and to maintai maintain awareness off needs d in i the th church h h beyond b d eachh parish. i h Along Al with ith other th funding sources, the Annual Appeal enables the archbishop to provide ministries, programs and services that benefit all parishes and people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is the method used to help fund these expenditures for ministries and services. The Archbishop’s Stewardship Council, which includes 11 pastors of the archdiocese - one from each of the 11 deaneries, oversees the process and recommends individual parish assessments for the Annual Appeal. The pastors of the archdiocese have agreed that 16.85 percent of the aggregate ordinary income of the parishes will be provided to fund ministries and programs that support the work of all the parishes. The assessment process takes a wide range of factors into consideration, and assessments for individual parishes may be above or below the aggregate average. The process also includes the approval of the Archbishop and an opportunity for appeal.

The Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns embodies the teachings found within the parable of the Good Samaritan by seeing injustice as a personal call to action, and making a commitment to address the needs of the suffering person. The office provides education and advocacy on behalf of the unborn, the poor, the elderly, the imprisoned, the homeless, the disabled and the marginalized in our society. Its programs include Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Advocacy Training and Parish Organizing. The office also collaborates with the California Catholic Conference and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide representation to local and national government officials and civic leaders on legislative issues that are of great importance to all Catholics due to their moral implications.

The Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry serves parishes in connecting adults in their twenties and thirties, (married, single, divorced, with or without children), to Jesus and to parish communities throughout the Archdiocese. The office seeks to help increase a welcoming spirit that seeks out young adults and affirms their gifts and needs. This office also serves as the liaison between the Archdiocese and the Campus Ministry programs of local colleges and universities.

The Office of the Metropolitan Tribunal and Canonical Affairs serves as a resource to the archbishop and the Catholic community in order to maintain and uphold the universal “Simbang Gabi” is a Catholic Filipino tradition celebrated in the Archdiocese and particular laws of the church. The Tribunal assists individuals seeking to reconcile with the church by evaluating the status of individual marriages, as the church understands that bond. It also seeks to protect the rights of the faithful, including the right to a good reputation, while mindful of the obligations inherent with being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Office of Ecumenical and Intereligious Affairs represents the Archbishop and the Archdiocese in our relationships with approximately 70 other spiritual communities within the Christian church (Episcopal, Evangelicals and others) and outside Christianity (Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and others). The influence and work of the office extend beyond the boundaries of the Archdiocese – regional in California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii; national in Washington D.C.; and international in Rome.

The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry nurtures the lifelong faith formation of people by animating leadership training to ensure a holistic approach to their ministry. The office provides Catechist and Youth Ministry formation, enrichment and guidance, catechist certifications, Sacramental preparation classes and Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) classes. The office also provides adult faith and youth leadership formation and classes in sacraments and catechesis for persons with special needs.

The Ministry to the Spanish Speaking works with the Archbishop and the Vicar for Spanish Speaking to be effective instruments of evangelization for the Spanish-speaking community. The office supports small Christian communities, ecclesial movements and the Archdiocesan Spanish Speaking Pastoral Council to affirm and empower the laity in their baptismal vocation of service. The office provides adult faith formation programs to develop leadership and enrich spiritual life and seeks to empower Spanish-speaking youth and young adults to serve others by supporting the Archdiocesan Spanish Speaking Young Adult Pastoral Team. The office also cultivates teamwork and support among other ministry offices such as Worship, Family Life, Respect Life/ Restorative Justice, Vicar for Spanish Speaking and others, in order to support parish pastoral needs.

The Office of Worship provides liturgical resources for worthy celebration of the Roman Rite. The office prepares special liturgies for major celebrations; gives presentations on liturgical spirituality, theology and ministries; trains extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and lectors, provides catechesis on the Roman Rites and assists parishes to place qualified liturgical personnel. With the Archdiocesan Worship Commission, the office also consults on church art and architecture, the formation and work of liturgy committees, and related liturgical activities.

The Office for Consecrated Life. The Director of the Office for Consecrated Life serves as a liaison between the Archbishop and the Religious of the Archdiocese. The office director represents the Archbishop at congregation functions, visits religious houses, is available to individual Religious and local communities and provides guidance to new religious communities. The office is assisted by the members of the Council of Religious who help arrange for annual gatherings with the Archbishop and Auxiliary Bishops.

The Office of Marriage and Family Life supports Catholic families through marriage preparation retreats and training of marriage preparation leaders, instruction in Natural Family Planning and by offering programs for enrichment of married couples. The office oversees the FOCCUS program, a marriage compatibility inventory administered as part of the marriage preparation process. The office also liaises with Marriage Encounter, Retrouvaille, ecclesisal movements such as Couples for Christ and Movimiento Familiar Cristiano Catolico and other Catholic family oriented support programs, including grief ministry and infertility support groups. Finally, the office supports marriage through education and through events such as the Wedding Anniversary Mass and the Archdiocesan Day for Marriage and Families.

Students from St. Charles Borromeo-San Francisco attend a Spanish Mass celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral

Wedding Anniversary Mass

Clergy $1,200,000 The Office of the Vicar for the Clergy assists and supports priests, deacons, and seminarians in their ministry to the people of the Archdiocese. The Vicar for Clergy oversees the work of the Priest Personnel Board, the Retirement Board, the Ongoing Formation of Priests Board and works with the Director of Vocations, the Director of Ongoing Formation of Priests, the Director of Diaconate Formation, the Director of Permanent Diaconate, the Vicar for Spanish speaking, and the Vicar for the Filipino Community. The Annual Appeal assists in this work by funding for clergy formation and ongoing studies, clergy retreats and days of recollection, clergy sabbaticals, and supplemental retirement needs.

The Office of Vocations fosters and supports a Vocations Culture in the parishes, Catholic schools and religious education programs of the Archdiocese. Responding to Jesus’ mandate: “The harvest is rich, but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his field”, (MT. 9:37), the office places special emphasis on prayer resources and discernment materials that help candidates discover their individual calling in life.

In addition to the promotion of vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life, the office collaborates with the various seminaries and houses of formation that educate the priestly candidates of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Retired priest Rev. Kirk Ullery is welcomed at the annual St. John Vianney luncheon where all retired priests who served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are honored.

The Office of Permanent Diaconate supports the ministry and lives of the deacons and their wives who serve the Archdiocese. The office addresses concerns that relate to ministry assignments, the ongoing education of deacons, and the spiritual, financial and health concerns of the deacons and their families. The office supports 19 parishes in San Francisco with 28 deacons, 25 parishes in San Mateo with 45 deacons and 8 parishes in Marin with 13 deacons. The office also arranges annual retreats and social events, and assists to screen and admit candidates for the five-year deacon formation program.

The ordination of Rev. Roger Gustafson held at St. Mary’s Cathedral in June 2014.

Universal Church $1,100,000 Universal Church - In addition to the ministries and services provided by the Archdiocese, the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal also contributes to the larger work of the California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Vatican.

The Department of Communications & Outreach manages internal communications to pastors, clergy, religious and laity, and external communications such as media relations, public relations, public information and special projects handling. The office publishes Catholic San Francisco, San Francisco Catolico, the official Archdiocesan Directory and produces television and radio programs including “Mosaic” on KPIXChannel 5, and “The Archbishop’s Hour” on Immaculate Heart Radio/1260 AM. The office also manages the archdiocese’s external and internal websites and controls the content of digital media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and YouTube.

Archbishop Cordileone and Pope Francis

“Mosaic” on KPIX-Channel KPIX Channel 5 features Archbishop Cordileone

Wa y s To G i v e Pledge Your Gift - Only you can decide what gift is right for you in light of your circumstance and in light of the blessings God has given you. The ideal way to give is to select a gift that you can manage on a monthly basis rather than a one-time gift. Pledging a monthly gift enables you to give more generously in balance with other important economic responsibilities. Thank you for your consideration!

OnLine Giving - the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal offers the convenience of making your gift and pledge payments online by credit card or direct debit from your bank account. To make an online gift, please go to

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Donate Stocks, Bonds or Mutual Funds - Donations of stock offer a way to make a charitable gift without having to utilize cash funds. In addition, a stock donor may be able to benefit from capital gains tax savings.

Please contact your parish office for more information on how to donate stocks, bonds or mutual funds.

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Matching Gifts - Many employers have matching gifts programs which provide employees with the opportunity to enhance their charitable contributions. Please contact your company’s Human Resource professional to determine if your company participates in the Matching Gift Program.

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www.sfarchdiocese.orgg One Time Gift : If you would like to make a one-time donation to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, please contact the Office of Development or your local parish to receive an AAA donation brochure and return the donation form completed with all required information to your local parish.

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To watch Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s 2015 Annual Appeal message, go to www.sfarchdiocese.org For more information, please contact your parish or the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email at development@sfarchdiocese.org.

A self addressed AAA donation brochure is enclosed for your convenience.

Photos courtesy of Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco