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Pamela Lyons named to lead archdiocesan Catholic schools Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has appointed Pamela Lyons, associate superintendent of archdiocesan schools, as the Catholic school superintendent for the archdiocesan Catholic schools, following a national search led by a Boston-based consultant. The appointment is effective July 1. She replaces Nina Russo, who served as interim superintendent Pamela Lyons for the past two years and is retiring after seven years in archdiocesan leadership and a 36-year career in education. At the announcement of her appointment Feb. 17, Lyons said she was “humbled” by her selection, adding “I’ve been in the archdiocese for two-and-a-half years and I’ve really fallen in love. “Those who know me, know Catholic education is my passion,” said Lyons, who started as a see superintendent, page 6
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Demanding an end to violence against women
Students from a Catholic school in Manila, Philippines, make the heart sign with their hands Feb. 14 during the “One Billion Rising” campaign. The global campaign, marked annually on Valentine’s Day in more than 200 countries, demands an end to all forms of violence against women worldwide.
Jesuit Father George Schultze to lead seminary at ‘major turning point’ Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has appointed a bilingual and eclectic Jesuit theologian and social ethicist who is well respected as a spiritual director of seminarians as the new president rector of St. Patrick Seminary & University at what is a critical juncture for the 118-year-old West Coast seminary. The appointment of Father George Father George E. Schultze, SJ, announced by Schultze, SJ the archdiocese Feb. 16 and effec-
tive July 1, marks a “major turning point” for the seminary as the Sulpicians, who held a teaching and administrative role at the seminary since its founding in 1898, will depart at the end of this school year, said Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman, who was president rector from 1988-2004. “I was very happy to hear about the choice of Father Schultze as rector,” Father Coleman said. “He’s well respected, not just in the seminary but outside the seminary,” Father Coleman said. “As the seminary moves forward it is obviously going to have to develop its own traditions,” Father Coleman said. “Having been there, he knows that tradition and he knows the positive points about the Sulpicians’ traditions: how one relates to students, to faculty.”
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The archbishop also appointed a diocesan priest, Father Daniel Donohoo, as vice rector. Father Donohoo is graduate of the seminary and has been on its faculty since 2013. He is currently dean of men. The seminary is experiencing low enrollment, a situation exacerbated by San Jose Bishop Patrick McGrath’s announcement in a Feb. 10 letter to his priests announcing he had decided to transfer current and future seminarians to the University of Saint Mary of the Lake Mundelein Seminary of the Archdiocese of Chicago in the next school year. About nine seminarians will be affected. Father Schultze, who did not formally apply for the see seminary, page 3
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