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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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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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Parishes meet to form pastoral response to immigrant fears

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hat is the message of Ash Wednesday? What does the Liturgy of the Word for Ash Wednesday say to you about Lent and following Christ? The key word for this day, proclaimed to us by the prophet Joel, is “turn.” Joel has the Lord telling us “return to me with your whole heart” brother john (Joel 2:12). m. samaha, sm How? With prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The intended essential turning is inward. “Rend your hearts, not your clothing” (Joel 2:13). Those who fast, pray, and give alms only to be seen by others turn not to God but to human recognition and acclaim. The reward they seek is the reward they receive. Those who turn to God give without letting the left hand see the right, they allow God to measure the recompense: “Your Father who sees in secret will reward you” (Matthew 6:6). The mystery is this: Integrity cannot be bought. It is gift. Turn to him, Joel counsels, and perhaps he will “leave a blessing behind him” (Joel 2:14). Humans who turn unselfishly hope to meet God’s free turning in blessing. It is characteristic of our gracious and merciful God to relent, to turn, to forgive, to bless. The turning of God is always a surprise, always out of proportion to the gift of the rent heart. God’s people turn in prayer and fasting and almsgiving. God turns with the gift of life. At the climax of his turning, God made his son to be like us that he might turn us to be the very holiness of God. The Son of God turned to take our nature that we, who did not know holiness, might live by his life. We are a new creation, reconciled to God through Jesus Christ. Now the ministry to that gift has been entrusted to us through baptism. We are ambassadors for Christ, envoys of reconciliation. In Christ Jesus God has turned to us that we might turn to each other and all together return to him. Marianist Brother Samaha lives in Cupertino.

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Pastors and deacons representing parishes in all three counties of the Archdiocese of San Francisco gathered Feb. 9 to voice outrage over President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions and “divisive” language on immigration, saying immigrant families are confused and fearful of imminent deportation. The archdiocese’s Office of Human Life and Dignity organized the meeting at the chancery in San Francisco following a Jan. 27 letter sent by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to priests and deacons. The archbishop urged parishes to assure immigrant families that the church “will work arduously to protect them” and “to find ways to create a spirit of welcome and solidarity with immigrants in your respective communities.” The meeting took place on the same day that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco refused to lift a temporary restraining order on the president’s order barring foreign nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days, and all refugees

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Lorena Melgarejo, parish organizer for the archdiocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity, speaks Feb. 9 at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center in San Francisco during a clergy gathering on outreach to immigrants. from Syria indefinitely. The court halted review of the matter Feb. 16, saying the government intends to issue a new executive order. In a wide-ranging Feb. 16 news con-

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Riordan HS names new president South Bend, Indiana, and Beltsville, Maryland. Prior to his leadership in these ethnically diverse communities he taught American literature in high school and served as a coach in another high school. Nina Russo, interim superintendent of schools, said Currier “has a fine academic pedigree and proven ability to attract students and parents who want both good Catholic education and formation. Both these qualities make him an excellent leader for Archbishop Riordan High School.” Currier received his B.A. in English Literature from Grand Valley State University and his M.Ed. in secondary education from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Edu-

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has appointed Andrew T. Currier as president of Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, the archdiocese announced Feb. 15. Currier will Andrew T. Currier assume his duties July 1. Principal Vittorio Anastasio has been acting president since Joseph Conti stepped down as president in January. Andrew Currier comes to Riordan after nine years as principal at Catholic elementary schools in

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post, said he is experiencing “no trepidation, no anxiousness.” He plans to work with seminary consultors but expects to begin visiting bishops to talk with them about sending their seminarians to St. Patrick’s next year. He said the faculty, despite losing six Sulpician faculty and administrators, is already mostly replaced with excellent professors for next year. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly, who led the national search that selected Father Schultze, said he has already committed to sending his seminarians to St. Patrick’s and two are already enrolled. Father Schultze, who is bilingual in Spanish, has served as a spiritual director and adjunct faculty at the seminary since 2005 and prior to that was assistant professor of social ethics at University of San Francisco, 1998-2004. He has a doctorate in social ethics from the Department of Religion at University of Southern California, a masters of divinity in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. He earned an MBA at UC Berkeley, and BS in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. “His simplicity of life is an example of the priestly identity Pope Francis believes is necessary in the forming of priests for the times,” wrote Bishop Daly in a letter to the search committee which included Archbishop emeritus George H. Niederauer, Oakland Bishop Michael Barber and Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Daly, president-rector 2013-14, led the national search. “He is a man with great compassion. He is a gentle soul. He is very humble,” Bishop Daly told Catholic San Francisco, who worked directly with

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Father Schultze during his time as interim president-rector 2013-14. “What the seminary needs now is a strong spiritual father and that’s George.” “I’m so supportive of the archbishop and his work which I think is clearly for the good and the support of the faithful and for those who are searching and looking,” Father Schultze said. “That’s our bottom line here. We want to bring people closer to Our Lord.” Father Schultze has written on Catholic social doctrine and work life, addressing some of those issues in “Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States” (Lexington Press, 2006).

“The life issues and the social issues cannot be separated,” said Father Schultze, who trained as a community organizer and serves as advisor for the faithbased farm cooperative NanoFarms and Catholics for the Common Good, an organization formed to defend marriage between one man and one woman. He noted he prays outside Planned Parenthood’s clinic with 40 Days for Life and attends Walk for Life West Coast. “When we as Catholics only raise up one side of that whole, we are making a mistake. It is both-and. The life issues are fundamental because there is no need for organizing unless a person has life but the organizing is important because life is not simply birth or death, but everything in between,” Father Schultze said. Father Schultze, who grew up in the San Jose area when it was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, was taught religion by a Sulpician while at St. Francis High School, he said. He stressed his good relationship and respect for the Sulpicians. He was raised in a household with a “sensitivity to Hispanic culture” he said, and although his grandmother only spoke Spanish, English is his first language. His parents were both union members. His father was a member of Operating Engineers Local 3 and his mother belonged to General Warehouse and Food Processors Union Local 644 of the Teamsters. “Father Schultze exudes love for the seminarians, rejoices in the quality of men entering the seminary, and expresses great confidence in the future of the church,” said Bill May of Catholics for the Common Good. “He also has a unique appreciation of the importance of church social teaching in priestly formation for the new evangelization. “He is such a good man,” May said.

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Mercy Sister is 96 years old ‘looking forward to 100’ Tom Burke catholic San Francisco

A very happy 96th birthday Nov. 15 to Mercy Sister Mary Edith Hurley and thank you to Mercy Sisters’ communication manager Liz Dossa for these bright words about her. On Nov. 15, Sister Mary Edith Hurley celebrated her 96th birthday. She grew up in San Francisco and attended St. Peter’s Academy in the Mission District. Sister Mary Edith “In school, I observed the joy and work of the sisters and felt drawn Hurley, RSM to join them,” she said. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame and has now been in the Mercy Community 78 years. In love with all things Irish, she was attracted to a community founded by Dublin-born Catherine McAuley and brought to San Francisco by sisters from Kinsale, County Cork, from which her parents had immigrated. Sister Edith taught in elementary schools in the Bay Area and Southern California from 1942 to 1984. The local schools were Holy Name, St. Gabriel, St. Stephen, and St. Peter. Part way through her teaching career Sister Edith took a sabbatical in Sydney, Australia and fell in love with the country and the Sisters of Mercy Community there. She worked as secretary and treasurer of Marymount Mercy Centre, a spiritual center run by the Sisters of Mercy. “I loved the spirit of it all and the people there,” she said looking back. “Those were some of my best moments.” She returned to San Francisco and Holy Name of Jesus School in 1990 where she taught computer science until retiring in 2000. She continued to volunteer at the school until 2005. Sister has always kept up her Irish connections. When she was teen, she took Irish dancing at the just opened Healy School of Irish Dancing in San Francisco. Long a member of the Rebel Cork Ladies Association, Sister recently welcomed her RCLA friends to tea at the Mercy Sisters’ Marian Oaks Life Care Center in thanks for the ladies’ donation of tea cups and a tea pot to Marian Oaks. Sister Edith rides with the RCLA on their float in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. She invented and organizes the indoor Hurley Ladies’ Golf tournament at Marian Oaks and won

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OUT FOR LIFE: Students from Mercy High School, San Francisco attended the Walk for Life Youth Rally Jan. 19 at St. Mary’s Cathedral that included a breakout session focused on “The Feminine Genius.” Pictured from left at the cathedral with Mercy alumna and board member Charlotte Kiesel, are juniors Alma Alvarado and Bailey Burke, seniors Katherine Valencerina, Catalina Gargolio, and Crystal Tobar, and, in front, senior Alenah Brunswick. Unavailable for the picture was junior, Katie Wood.

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St. Charles Borromeo School to close in June Archdiocese of San Francisco

Father John Jimenez, pastor and director of St. Charles Borromeo School in San Francisco, and the Archdiocese of San Francisco notified school parents and faculty last week that the K-8 elementary school will close in June. The archdiocese said that enrollment at the 129-year-old school has declined by almost half over the past three years. “It will take a period of time and much work to build enrollment back up to where it needs to be to provide a solid learning environment for our children,” the archdiocese stated. As well, the 130-year-old school building faces imminent serious construction and seismic challenges. “These include expensive construction and seismic issues which must be planned for now and begin to be addressed in the very near future,” the archdiocese said. Strengthening enrollment at the

parish school and addressing the physical plant challenges are the primary objectives to be met while school operations are suspended. The most immediate task though, beginning next week, is assisting all current K-7 students in registering at nearby Catholic schools for the fall semester. The archdiocese is committing the tuition assistance necessary for students to make the transition and continue in their new Catholic school. St. Charles Borromeo School is one of the six members of the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools. The alliance was formed by the archdiocese in 2005 and provides collaborative planning, marketing, purchasing and development services for the inner-city Mission schools. Two member schools, St. James School and St. Anthony Immaculate Conception School, are the identified destination schools for St. Charles Borromeo students.

Parent meetings are scheduled for Feb. 21 and March 2 at St. Charles Borromeo School. Student options and tuition assistance will be discussed in individual parent meetings on Feb. 21. Parents are asked to schedule these individual meetings through the school principal. At the March 2 meeting, parents can meet with representatives from the two destination schools, St. James and St. Anthony Immaculate Conception, to begin registering their children for the fall semester. Throughout San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties the archdiocese operates 51 Catholic diocesan and parish elementary schools, educating more than 14,200 students.

At a glance The pastor and archdiocese announced St. Charles Borromeo School will close in June. They cited declining enrollment and the cost of seismic upgrades to the school building. They are assisting K-7 students in registering at nearby Catholic schools for the fall. The archdiocese is committing tuition assistance for students continue in their new Catholic school.

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WASHINGTON – Catholic Church leaders in a Feb. 16 statement said they were encouraged that President Donald Trump may be considering an executive order to protect religious freedom and said they would be grateful if he would move forward with the pledge that his administration would “do everything in its power to defend and protect religious liberty.” “As Christians, our goal is to live and serve others as the Gospel asks. President Trump can ensure that we are not forced from the public square,” said the statement from committee chairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The statement was jointly issued by: New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities; Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth; Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty; and Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the Commit-

tee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. The church leaders said an executive order would “implement strong protections for religious freedom across the federal government in many of the areas where it has been eroded by the preceding administration, such as health coverage, adoption, accreditation, tax exemption, and government grants and contracts.” “We ourselves, as well as those we shepherd and serve, would be most grateful if the president would take this positive step toward allowing all Americans to be able to practice their faith without severe penalties from the federal government,” they said. A draft version of the executive order was leaked in late January called “Establishing a GovernmentWide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom.” When it failed to appear on the president’s desk, rumors were circulating that a scaled-back version might appear at his desk but there has been no word about it from the Trump administration. Catholic News Service

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MODESTO – Pope Francis congratulated more than 600 representatives of grass-roots organizations for responding with mercy to society’s hurting people during the opening of the four-day U.S. regional World Meeting of Popular Movements. In a letter to the assembly Feb. 16 read alternately in English and in Spanish, the pope said the work of the organizations and the people involved “make your communities thrive.” Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, read the pope’s message in English. The letter encouraged wide-scale community organizing because it achieves social justice. The pope expressed hope that “such constructive energy would spread to all dioceses because it builds bridges between peoples and individuals. These are bridges that can overcome the walls of exclusion, indifference, racism and intolerance.” The message earned applause at points throughout its delivery, especially when the pope reiterated that “no people is criminal and no religion is terrorist and as he encouraged people to “defend creation” in the face of “disturbing warming of the climatic system.”

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CHICAGO – The organizers of rallies held across the country Feb. 11 to call for defunding Planned Parenthood said their message to Congress is to redirect taxpayer’s money to facilities that “do a better job meeting the real health care needs of women and families without specializing in abortion.” More than 15,000 people attended 229 rallies held in 45 states. Average attendance was around 75, but in some cities, crowds numbered as high as 600, according to a new release issued after the rallies. Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago, was the national organizer of the rallies, or #ProtestPP. “This is a nationwide event, but at the same time, it is a local community

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A delegation from the Archdiocese of San Francisco is pictured Feb. 16 at the U.S. regional World Meeting of Popular Movements in Modesto. “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist. No people is criminal or drug-trafficking or violent,” he said. He encouraged people to confront terror with love in the interest of peace. Pope Francis’ interest in promoting the work of grass-roots organizations can be traced to his time as cardinal in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when he often visited priest friends, struggling families and low-paid workers in poor neighborhoods spread across the city. Since 2014, three international World Meetings of Popular Movements have

been held – two in Rome and one in Bolivia – to give people working to make life better for marginalized communities. The pope’s letter also cited the biblical good Samaritan as an example of someone who responded with mercy to a man, robbed and beaten, in dire need of help when others chose to ignore him. He said the Catholic Church along with “the Christian community, people of compassion and solidarity, social organizations” are those whom Jesus entrusts those who are afflicted in body and spirit.” The work of grass-roots groups com-

concern,” Schiedler said in a statement. In rallying to tell “Congress to quit sending money to an organization that specializes in killing children,” participants also declared “that they do not want Planned Parenthood to continue operating in their neighborhoods.” According to its 2014-15 annual report, Planned Parenthood receives $553.7 million annually in government health service grants and reimbursements, which is 43 percent of its overall revenue. Federal money is allocated to the organization through Medicaid and public family planning services. Planned Parenthood performs 34 percent of U.S. abortions. “The defunding of Planned Parenthood is a matter of moral principle. Not a single cent of American tax dollars should go to an organization that kills innocent human life,” said

Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society.

America Media in ‘greatest transformation’ since 1960s

WASHINGTON – America magazine, the Jesuit journal, and its affiliated website, www.americamedia.org, are in the midst of their “greatest transformation” since the 1960s, according to Jesuit Father Matt Malone, who was named editor-in-chief of America in 2012. The changes, including a website redesign, cutting the publication schedule from 39 issues yearly to 26, are the culmination of a strategic plan that started shortly after Father Malone assumed his current post. “We decided at that point that we were going to not so much transition from print to digital, but transition in mindset and operations from an organization that was producing con-

ing together is vital to helping people overcome social injuries brought on by an “economic system that has the god of money at its center,” the pope’s letter said. “Globalized society frequently looks the other way with the pretense of innocence,” the pope wrote. “Under the guise of what is politically correct or ideologically fashionable, one looks at those who suffer without touching them. But they are televised live; they are talked about in euphemisms and with apparent tolerance, but nothing is done systematically to heal the social wounds or to confront the structures that leave so many brothers and sisters by the wayside. This hypocritical attitude, so different from that of the Samaritan, manifests an absence of true commitment to humanity.” Jesus encouraged people not to “classify others in order to see who is a neighbor and who is not,” Pope Francis continued. “You can become neighbor to whomever you meet in need and you will do so if you have compassion in your heart. That is to say, if you have that capacity to suffer with someone else. You must become a Samaritan.” Topics related to housing, labor, land and the environment, migration and racism were on the agenda for the meeting sponsored by the dicastery, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and the PICO National Network of faith-based organizing groups. tent exclusively for print as one that was producing content across all platforms, one of which was print,” he said. Father Malone had hinted at the coming changes in a Dec. 1 letter to subscribers, in which he called the changes “the greatest transformation of this ministry since the 1960s.” Father Malone, in the letter and in a Feb. 15 interview with CNS, said the cut in the number of issues was not the result of financial pressures, and initial feedback indicated subscribers are happy. “Given the demands of modern life, some people found it hard to keep up with a weekly publication,” he said. Catholic News Service

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Council of Cardinals publicly expresses support of pope

the end, he got rid of his brother,” he said. Looking at the murder of Abel by his brother Cain, the pope said Cain allowed his jealousy to “simmer” and grow, thus destroying “the bonds of fellowship and brotherhood. That is how enmity between us grows: It starts with one small thing, a jealousy, envy.”

VATICAN CITY – After a handful of public challenges to Pope Francis’ teaching and authority, the members of the pope’s international Council of Cardinals began their February meeting expressing their “full support” for his work. Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, coordinator of the council, began the meeting Feb. 13 assuring the pope of the cardinals’ “full support for his person and his magisterium,” according to a statement published by the Vatican press office. The statement said the cardinals’ support was offered “in relation to recent events.” No specific events were mentioned, but the statement came just a few days after a fake version of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, was emailed to Vatican officials and a week after posters were put up around Rome questioning the pope’s mercy in dealing with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and other groups over which the pope had placed special delegates.

Cardinal Burke presides over trial investigating Guam archbishop

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a church law expert and former head of the Vatican’s highest court, arrived in Guam Feb. 15 as the presiding judge in a church trial investigating allegations of sexual abuse leveled against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana. The Vatican press office confirmed a “tribunal of the first instance” was constituted by the Cardinal Vatican Oct. 5 and its presiding Raymond L. judge is Cardinal Burke. Four Burke other judges, all of whom are bishops, also were appointed, the press office said.

Pope: Jealousy threatens fellowship in families, among clergy

Pope praises survivor for breaking silence

VATICAN CITY – Envy and jealousy create division and destroy fellowship and brotherhood among people, especially within families and among members of the clergy, Pope Francis said. The biblical story of Cain murdering his brother Abel is a cautionary tale on the consequences of allowing bitterness to persist in one’s life, the pope said Feb. 13 during Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “That is how people destroy themselves; that is how enmity destroys families, peoples, everyone!” he said. “That gnawing (feeling) in your gut, always obsessed with that. This happened to Cain and in

VATICAN CITY – The sexual abuse of children by those who have vowed to serve Christ and the church is a horrendous monstrosity that represents “a diabolical sacrifice” of innocent, defenseless lives, Pope Francis said. The church, which must protect the weakest, has a duty “to act with extreme severity with priests who betray their mission and with the hierarchy – bishops and cardinals – who protect them,” the pope wrote in the preface to a new book written by a man raped as a child by a Capuchin priest.

The book, “My Father, I Forgive You” (“Mon Pere, Je Vous Pardonne”), was written by Daniel Pittet, 57, in an effort to describe how he fell victim to a predator abuser when he was 8 years old growing up in Fribourg, Switzerland, and the challenges he faced when he came forward two decades later with the accusations. The book, currently published only in French, was to be released Feb. 16. News outlets released the text of the pope’s preface Feb. 13. “His suffering moved me. I saw once again the frightful damage caused by sexual abuse and the long and painful journey that awaits the victim,” the pope wrote.

Church leaders hope Trump does not repeal conflict-minerals provisions

OXFORD, England – Church leaders and organizations in Africa, Europe and the United States said it would be disastrous if U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order telling companies they no longer had to disclose whether their firms use “conflict minerals” from Congo. Western firms have been accused of working with violent gangs in Congo to obtain minerals used for producing mobile phones, laptops and other consumer objects, and of allowing trade in resources to perpetuate human rights violations. In the United States, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ International Policy Committee wrote the acting head of the National Security Council urging Trump not to suspend the rules related to Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act. “Congolese die every day in the illegal mines and at the hands of the armed groups that destroy communities in order to expel them from potential mining sites,” wrote Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, committee chairman. Catholic News Service

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Peru’s pop-star nuns juggle social ministry, musical passion Jane Chambers Catholic News Service

LIMA, Peru – For the 12 women religious in the pop band Siervas – The Servants in English – it’s a delicate balance of juggling their social ministry and their musical passion. “Monday and Friday afternoons are for group rehearsals and most of the nuns practice every day as well. But we also visit three different jails one morning a week, work in schools, with the homeless and people with physical handicaps, as well as with a children’s home for young people who have parents in prison or who can’t look after them,” Sister Monica, a Peruvian, told Catholic News Service. That social ministry is what attracted many of the sisters to the order. “Many of the nuns come to us through the social work we do,” Sister Monica explained. “They realize how much they love helping people and how happy it makes them. We do things like provide clothes and shoes for the people living high up in the Andes where they can sometimes literally freeze to death. They (poten-

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Members of the pop band Siervas pose for a photo Jan. 22 in their music room in Lima, Peru. The 12 women, who are members of the Servants of the Plan of God, have taken their inspirational music to other countries but also do social service work in Peru. tial sisters) find God through volunteering and want to get involved more deeply and become nuns. That is what happened to me.” The group’s hit single “Confia en Dios” (“Trust in God”) introduced Siervas to an international audience

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ROME – Addressing the fear of immigrants, dissatisfaction with a “fluid economy” and the impatience and vitriol seen in politics and society, Pope Francis told Rome university students to practice a kind of “intellectual charity” that promotes dialogue and sees value in diversity. “There are lots of remedies against violence,” but they must start first with one’s heart being open to hearing other people’s opinions and then talking things out with patience, he said in a 45-minute offthe-cuff talk. “It is necessary to tone it down a bit, to talk less and listen more,” he told hundreds of students, staff and their family members and friends during a visit Feb. 17 to Roma Tre University. Seated on a platform facing an open courtyard, the pope listened to questions from four students, including Nour Essa, who was one of the 12 Syrian refugees the pope had brought to Rome on a papal flight from Lesbos, Greece, in 2016. The pope said he had received the questions

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beforehand and wrote a prepared text, but he preferred to answer “from the heart” and be “more spontaneous because I like it better that way.” Asked what “remedy” could counteract the world’s violence and how to live well in such a fast-paced, globalized world of “social networks,” the pope said today’s frenetic pace “makes us violent at home.” Family members don’t bother saying “good morning” to each other, they absentmindedly say “hi” or eat together in silence, each absorbed with a smartphone, he said.

and, of course, Peru, and a variety of musical backgrounds. The group recently released its second CD, “Hoy Despierto” (“Wake up Today”). They started playing as a way to express their faith and love of God about three years ago. Sister Andrea, from Argentina, writes the lyrics and Sister Yvonne, from Chile, composes the melody. Once they have a rough version, the other sisters provide feedback and make small changes. Many people are drawn to the sisters because of their music. A donation from an anonymous donor funded a music video and the second CD. Sister Monica laughed at the suggestion that the group had gone “rock ‘n’ roll” because of the video, which was filmed atop a helipad overlooking Lima. All of the sisters were dressed in religious habits, which they wear every day and see as an important symbol of their faith. “We weren’t always nuns,” she said. “We were brought up in the 21st century as well, listening to different types of music and using Facebook and YouTube. Why shouldn’t music come from God in a pop format?”

The faster the pace in life, the more people become “nameless” because no one takes the time to get to know the other, ending up with a situation where “I greet you as if you were an object.” The tendency to de-personalize others, which starts in one’s own heart, at home and with relationships, “grows and grows and it will become violence worldwide,” he said. Catholic News Service

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Grand prize, above, and first prize winners display their certificates Feb. 12 at St. Mary’s Cathedral during the awards ceremony for the archdiocese’s 28th annual Respect Life Essay Contest. This year’s contest focused on end-of-life issues, including the importance of the sacrament of the sick and the Catholic response to physicianassisted suicide. The names of contestants who received prizes and honorable mentions are listed on Page 22.

Respect Life Essay Contest: Assisted suicide devalues life Vicki Evans

Elderly people are a gift from God and they teach us a lot. We should bring love and joy to people in pain to make them happier. The sacrament of the sick is what the old and sick need to help them at the end of their life. Suffering is easier to deal with when it’s offered up to Jesus. So said our archdiocesan students in the 28th annual Respect Life Essay Contest dealing with end-of-life issues. Contrast that with what the purveyors of assisted suicide offer the sick and suffering: The terminally ill are a burden to their loved ones and owe it to society to end their lives. Suffering must be avoided at all cost, even if it means committing suicide. Life is not worth living once you’ve lost your independence. To comprehend how countercultural our stu-

dents are and how much wisdom they brought to their essays, consider these excerpts from our 2017 grand prize winners. Second grader Olivia Philip from Our Lady of Angels School, spoke to her grandfather in her essay: “I want to tell you what I learned when I saw you were sick and went to heaven. I learned that it is important to be patient. I saw how you were getting so sick every day. You never complained and you were patient with God and his plan for you.” Baylie Ruiz, a fourth grader at Holy Angels, wrote that we must “Remember that we are the hands, feet and voice of Jesus. It is important to bring blessings to our elders because some are lonely or in pain. I pray Jesus will bring blessings to the elders who are in pain and lonely by believing God is with them.” St. Patrick sixth grader Meredith Foster titled her es-

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Bishop Daniel Walsh incensed the rings of the couples renewing their marriage vows. Upper right, Delbert and Alicia Sagasy are celebrating 50 years of marriage.

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“One thing I want you to know – we never dated.” Fifty years later Alicia and Delbert Sagasy’s account of their courtship and marriage makes them both laugh, and they are a little fuzzy on the details. The couple met in college but never dated, says Alicia Sagasy. Her future husband Delbert immigrated at 21 to the United States, where he joined the Army for three years. After he got out, he started wondering “Is this lady married or not? I wrote my cousin,” Delbert Sagasy said. “I tried to date her (in college) but we were in Manila and the Filipino tradition is very strict.” “Then he started writing me, and that was that,” Alicia Sagasy said. Now the Our Lady of Mercy parishioners have two grown children and six grandchildren. “It somehow worked out.” “There must have been some kind of connection. And of course prayer. I really prayed hard,” Alicia Sagasy said. “I prayed a lot for the right person in my life. I did not ask for him.” “Fifty years later …,” added Delbert Sagasy, with a grin. The Marriage Anniversary Mass celebrates couples’ special anniversaries, beginning with five years, although the archdiocesan Marriage and

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Family Life Ministry welcomes any couple who wants to renew their vows and celebrate their marriage at the annual event at St. Mary’s Cathedral. This year, retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh

celebrated the Mass and cathedral rector Father Arturo Albano delivered the homily. “God surely smiles on you today,” the cathedral rector said, speaking in English and then Spanish. “We live in a world where love, for many couples, for many people, has become a disposable item, like disposable plates and cups. “We live in a culture of the temporary. We live in a culture of the provisional. For a lot of couples, love has become a disposable item.” see marriage, page 14

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They are now parishioners at Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay. “I think if not for Marriage Encounter and what it has taught us, we might not be here.” In fact, Claire Simonich said her father told her right before she walked down the aisle: “You don’t have to do this.” “What amazes us, and I think it is a testament to Marriage Encounter-her parents and my parents figured we would make maybe two years,” Dean Simonich said. But, he said, gesturing at the cathedral where the couple had just renewed their vows during the anniversary Mass. “We’re here. We’re happy.” For more information about Worldwide Marriage Encounter, visit wwme.org.

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Newlyweds look to pope for blessings, strength Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

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salves, assistant coordinator of the Bishops’ Office for U.S. Visitors to the Vatican, told CNS that between 20142016, there were about “1,000 individuals who requested newlywed/’sposi novelli’ tickets through our office.” St. John Paul II made a point of addressing a special greeting to married couples during the weekly general audiences in the first months of his pontificate. Since then, his successors have continued the tradition of greeting and blessing newlywed couples after delivering their catechesis. Addressing the newlywed couples Feb. 8, Pope Francis encouraged them to “trust in the help of providence and not just in your own abilities.” “A marriage without the help of God cannot go forward; we must ask for it every day,” the pope said. Pope Francis “is very close to young people just like St. John Paul II was. When he speaks, it’s in a simple manner that everyone understands. Today, he encouraged us to always ask for the Lord’s help,” said Marco Damiani. Married to Stefania Dec. 8, Marco said that meeting the pope was a crowning moment after months of marriage preparation in their parish. Stefania told CNS the papal audience was a sign of a new beginning in their lives together with the support of the church. Catholic marriage is important “because there is a strength that is given to us. Doing it alone through your own strength isn’t enough; you won’t be able to go anywhere. It’s like having another” helping hand, Stefania said. When they met the pope at the end of the general audience, they told him the joyful news that they were expecting their first child. “We asked him to bless us and the new child we are expecting, and he wanted to know when the baby will be born. We told him in September and then he gave us his blessing,” Marco said. Stefania added that Pope Francis also “told us to dream about the baby first,” advice that ties into an image the pope often uses to describe how God cares for his children. “We, each one of us, has been dreamed of by (God) like a father and a mother dream of the child they are expecting. And this gives us great reassurance,” the pope said Oct. 13, 2016.

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‘Amoris’ rules explained Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The provisions of “Amoris Laetitia” allow people in irregular marriage situations access to the sacraments only if they recognize their situation is sinful and desire to change it, according to the cardinal who heads the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. The fact that such a couple also believes changing the situation immediately by splitting up would cause more harm and forgoing sexual relations would threaten their current relationship does not rule out the possibility of receiving sacramental absolution and Communion, said Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the pontifical council that is charged with interpreting canon law. The intention to change, even if the couple cannot do so immediately, “is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as – I repeat – there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin,” the cardinal wrote. Cardinal Coccopalmerio’s short booklet, “The Eighth Chapter of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia,” was published in Italian by the Vatican publishing house and presented to journalists Feb. 14. It includes material compiled from articles and speeches the cardinal has given about the pope’s document on marriage and family life. The cardinal was unable to attend the presentation because of a meeting at the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Salesian Father Giuseppe Costa, director of the Vatican publishing house.

“To whom can the church absolutely not concede penance and the Eucharist (because) it would be a glaring contradiction?” the cardinal asked in the book. “To one who, knowing he or she is in a state of serious sin and having the ability to change, has no sincere intention of carrying it out.” Cardinal Coccopalmerio quoted “Amoris Laetitia” to make his point: “Naturally, if someone flaunts an objective sin as if it were part of the Christian ideal, or wants to impose something other than what the church teaches ... such a person needs to listen once more to the Gospel message and its call to conversion.” Father Maurizio Gronchi, a theologian and consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told reporters Feb. 14 that Cardinal Coccopalmerio’s reading of “Amoris Laetitia” is the same as the bishops of Malta, Germany and the church region of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Those bishops have issued guidelines that include the possibility of eventually allowing divorced and civilly remarried Catholics access to the sacraments without first requiring an annulment of their sacramental marriage or a firm commitment to abstaining from sexual relations. Dozens of other bishops around the world, including Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, head of the U.S. bishops’ ad hoc committee for implementing “Amoris Laetitia,” have insisted church teaching prohibits persons in an objective state of mortal sin from receiving the Eucharist and those who, in the eyes of the church, are not married to a person they are having sex with are in such a state of sin.

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Sunday readings

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time ISAIAH 49:14-15 Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. PSALM 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Rest in God alone, my soul. Only in God is my soul at rest; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed at all. Rest in God alone, my soul. Only in God be at rest, my soul, for from him comes my hope. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed. Rest in God alone, my soul. With God is my safety and my glory, he is the rock of my strength; my refuge is in God. Trust in him at all times, O my people! Pour out your hearts before him. Rest in God alone, my soul.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5 Brothers and sisters: Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord. Therefore do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. MATTHEW 6:24-34 Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat

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Separating the things of this world from the things of eternity Father Greg Friedman, OFM

Today’s Gospel contains one of the most realistic statements in Scripture: “Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your lifespan?” Jesus tells his disciples how to set their priorities with regard to material possessions, inviting them to learn dependence on God from the birds in the sky, the flowers in the field. To be honest I find this Gospel text one of the most challenging of Jesus’ sayings. Even with a vow of poverty, I’ve accumulated a lot of possessions in my time as a friar. And I worry about what to eat, what to wear. Learning dependence on God isn’t easy in a consumer society like ours. What helped for me, and perhaps for you, has come from two saints. In 1981 Mother Teresa of Kolkata came to visit the Franciscans in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, to help us celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of St. Francis of Assisi. I recall the story very well.

When she spoke at the Mass she recalled for us the famous story of Francis meeting the leper. At first he drew back. But then Francis embraced the leper. Mother Teresa said this: “From that day, Francis was born as a lover of Christ.” And she went on to say, “It seems to me, when you read his life, it’s as if he had a competition with Christ.” Who will be more poor, who will be free? For poverty, if it is understood properly, is a freedom. She went on, “To be able to love Christ with undivided love and chastity, we need the freedom of poverty.” Having less, living simply and above all setting priorities about the things of this world versus the things of eternity. Such a life becomes possible with the teaching and the help of the Lord Jesus, assisted by St. Francis and St. Teresa of Kolkata. Transcribed from Franciscan Father Friedman’s video Scripture reflection for Sunday, Feb. 26, retrieved from http://usccb.org/bible/reflections/index.cfm.

Even in dark times, never lose hope in God’s love, pope says Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Christians must never lose hope and should remind themselves that God loves them even at their worst, Pope Francis said. God’s love provides “security” both in difficult moments and even when “I have done something terrible and evil,” the pope said Feb. 15 during his weekly general audience. “No one can take this security from us. We must repeat it like a prayer: God loves me. I am sure that God loves me!” he said. Among the thousands of pilgrims present at the Paul VI audience hall were numerous student groups from Europe, including several children’s choirs from Italy and Spain. When greeting the Italian-speaking pilgrims, the pope was interrupted by each choir who broke out in song to greet him. Despite several applauses, one choir continued singing to the amusement of Pope Francis. He laughed heartily while praising them for their persistence in finishing the entire song. “When you want something, that’s how you do it. That’s what we should do with prayer; when asking something from the Lord: Insist, insist, insist. That is a beautiful example, a beautiful

or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

example of prayer,” the pope said off-the-cuff, following his praise of the determined choir group. Continuing a series of talks on Christian hope, the pope reflected on a passage from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans in which the apostle says Christians “should boast in hope of the glory of God.” “Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,” St. Paul writes. The pope said boasting is “surprising” since from a young age, people are taught that boasting reflects “a certain pride” and reveals “a lack of respect for others, especially toward those less fortunate than us.” “How is it possible to do this without offending, without excluding anyone?” the pope asked. He explained that Christians are called first to “boast of the abundance of grace we have received in Jesus Christ” by “learning to read everything with the light of the Holy Spirit.” “If we pay attention, acting – in our history, in our lives – we are not alone, but above all with God. It is he who is the absolute protagonist, who creates everything as a gift of love, who weaves the storyline of his plan of salvation and who fulfills it in us through his son,” the pope said. By seeing one’s life illuminated by the Holy Spirit, he added, “we are at peace with God and experience freedom.”

Monday, February 27: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 17:20-24. Ps 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7. 2 Cor 8:9. Mk 10:17-27. Tuesday, February 28: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 35:1-12. Ps 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and 23. see mt 11:25. Mk 10:28-31. Wednesday, March 1: 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 6:16, 16-18. Thursday, March 2: Thursday after Ash Wednesday. Dt 30:15-20. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. Mt 4:17. Lk 9:22-25. Friday, March 3: Friday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin. Is 58:1-9a. Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19. see am 5:14. mt 9:14-15. Saturday, March 4: Saturday after Ash Wednesday. Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland. Is 58:9b-14. Ps 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. Ez 33:11. Lk 5:27-32. Sunday, March 5: First Sunday of Lent. Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7. Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17. Rom 5:12-19 or Rom 5:12, 17-19. Mt 4:4b. Mt 4:1-11. Monday, March 6: Monday of the First Week of Lent. Lv 19:1-2, 11-18. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15. 2 Cor 6:2b. Mt 25:31-46. Tuesday, March 7: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. Is 55:10-11. Ps 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19. Mt 4:4b. Mt 6:7-15. Wednesday, March 8: Wednesday of the First Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. John of God, religious. Jon 3:1-10. Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19. Jl 2:12-13. Lk 11:2932. Thursday, March 9: Thursday of the First Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious. Est C:12, 1416, 23-25. Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8. Ps 51:12a, 14a. Mt 7:7-12. Friday, March 10: Friday of the First Week of Lent. Feast of St. John Ogilvie, priest and martyr. Ez 18:21-28. Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8. Ez 18:31. Mt 5:20-26. Saturday, March 11: Saturday of the First Week of Lent. Dt 26:16-19. Ps 119:12, 4-5, 7-8. 2 Cor 6:2b. Mt 5:43-48.

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Welcoming the stranger

n the Hebrew Scriptures, that part of the Bible we call the Old Testament, we find a strong religious challenge to always welcome the stranger, the foreigner. This was emphasized for two reasons: First, because the Jewish people themselves had once been foreigners and immigrants. Their scriptures kept reminding them not to forget that. Second, they believed that God’s revelation, most often, comes to us through the stranger, in what’s foreign to us. That belief was integral to their faith. The great prophets deFATHER ron veloped this much further. rolheiser They taught that God favors the poor preferentially and that consequently we will be judged, judged religiously, by how we treat the poor. The prophets coined this mantra (still worth memorizing): The quality of your faith will be judged by the quality of justice in the land; and the quality of justice in the land will always be judged by how orphans, widows, and strangers fare while you are alive. Orphans, widows, and strangers! That’s scriptural code for who, at any given time, are the three most vulnerable groups in society. And the prophets’ message didn’t go down easy. Rather it was a religious affront to many of the pious at the time who strongly believed that we will be judged religiously and morally by the rigor and strictness of our religious observance. Then, like now, social justice was often religiously marginalized.

But Jesus sides with the Hebrew prophets. For him, God not only makes a preferential option for the poor, but God is in the poor. How we treat the poor is how we treat God. Moreover the prophets’ mantra, that we will be judged religiously by how we treat the poor, is given a normative expression in Jesus’ discourse on the final judgment in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25. We are all familiar, perhaps too familiar, with that text. Jesus, in effect, was answering a question: What will the last judgment be like? What will be the test? How will we be judged? His answer is stunning and, taken baldly, is perhaps the most challenging text in the Gospels. He tells us that we will be judged, seemingly solely, on the basis of how we treated the poor, that is, on how we have treated the most vulnerable among us. Moreover at one point, he singles out “the stranger,” the foreigner, the refugee: “I was a stranger and you made me welcome … or … you never made me welcome.” We end up on the right or wrong side of God on the basis of how we treat the stranger. What also needs to be highlighted in this text about the Last Judgment is that neither group, those who got it right and those who got it wrong, knew what they were doing. Both initially protest: The first by saying: “We didn’t know it was you we were serving” and the second by saying: “Had we known it was you we would have responded.” Both protests, it would seem, are beside the point. In Matthew’s Gospel, mature discipleship doesn’t depend upon us believing that we have it right, it depends only upon us doing it right. These scriptural principles, I believe, are very apropos today in the face of the refugee and immigrant issues we are facing in the Western world. Today, without doubt, we are facing the biggest humanitarian

crisis since the end of the second world war. Millions upon millions of people, under unjust persecution and the threat of death, are being driven from their homes and homelands with no place to go and no country or community to receive them. As Christians we may not turn our backs on them or turn them away. If Jesus is to be believed, we will be judged religiously more by how we treat refugees than by whether or not we are going to church. When we stand before God in judgment and say in protest: “When did I see you a stranger and not welcome you?” Our generation is likely to hear: “I was a Syrian refugee, and you did not welcome me.” This, no doubt, might sound naïve, over-idealistic, and fundamentalist. The issue of refugees and immigrants is both highly sensitive and very complex. Countries have borders that need to be respected and defended, just as its citizens have a right to be protected. Admittedly, there are very real political, social, economic and security issues that have to be addressed. But, as we, our churches, and our governments, address them we must remain clear on what the Scriptures, Jesus, and the social teachings of the church uncompromisingly teach: We are to welcome the stranger, irrespective of inconvenience and even if there are some dangers. For all sorts of pragmatic reasons of political, social, economic and security, we can perhaps justify not welcoming the stranger; but we can never justify this on Christian grounds. Not welcoming stranger is antithetical to the very heart of Jesus’ message and makes us too easily forget that we too once were the outsider. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters Take a deep breath and pray

While reading the online letters column from the Feb. 6 issue, I thought for a minute that my connection had accidentally switched me to Facebook! The two letters excoriating CSF for publishing “all the pro-Trump articles” in the Jan. 26 edition are similar to the buzzword-filled memes that are still clogging my Facebook feed! Our newly elected president had just been inaugurated. Isn’t that news? When I reread the two articles I saw that one contained “words of congratulations as well as caution” for the new president from political and religious leaders, and the other noted the reinstatement of the ban on U.S. tax money going to fund abortions in other countries. One writer found the articles “not in keeping with our Catholic Christian values nor ... in keeping with the teachings from our pope.” The other writer brought up the “doomsday clock,” which I don’t see mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church or even on the Vatican website, though I suppose it could be a part of church teaching ... somewhere. People need to take a deep breath and devote even more time to prayer. Attend adoration. Fast and do penance. Pray for your elected officials, your countrymen, your church. And be glad you can still express your opinion and that your local Catholic newspaper will print it! Before the election I was seriously beginning to worry those rights might be taken away! Mary Bordi La Honda

Trump is standing against culture of death

Re Richard Morasci’s letter, “Church should step in on President Trump,” Feb. 9: He stated “the church is willing to put up with anything that Trump was willing to throw at the nation as long as he was firmly against abortion.” Does Mr. Morasci not realize that babies are daily being brutally murdered and dismembered and their body parts distributed to various agencies? Is he not aware that this issue of “life vs. death” is the most important issue our church and our nation are facing? The church has a grave moral responsibility to counteract this evil. This is the teaching of our Roman Catholic Church. President Trump in his leadership is addressing this moral evil and bravely doing all that he can to reverse this culture of death. Catherine Conway Mary Murphy San Francisco

Writer’s opinion widely shared

To Richard Morasci of San Francisco, bravo on your wonderfully written letter for the opinion page. My sentiments, and that of so many others on your evaluation of our current “leadership”? I could not have expressed myself any better! Thank you for your thoughtful words, and thank you too Catholic San Francisco for publishing these remarks that so many of us share. Claire Rovegno Burlingame

Praising Trump and disruptive change

Unfortunately, Clara McKennett (Letters, Feb. 9) won’t see this incredible source of religious inspiration anymore because she un-subscribed possibly over the president’s decision not to send federal funds anymore to foreign countries for abortions, or was it appointing a pro-choice Supreme Court judge? Or vouchers for Catholic schools with the new education secretary? His decision to keep Carrier jobs in America preserved my cousin’s job. She works for Carrier and supports her family. She is very grateful to the president for keeping her job. The terrorist who shot 14 innocent Americans in San Bernardino County was not properly vetted before coming to America to kill us. Did Ms. McKennett object to proper vetting of aliens? We will never know because she has stopped her subscription. As my Jewish friends say “what’s not to like?” in disruptive change in the land we love (and the paper we love). Tom C. Johnson San Francisco Editor’s note: To clarify, the writer of the Feb. 9 letter did not say she dropped the paper but indicated that she may do so. Second, as the letters on this page indicate, the paper welcomes and has a duty to share a range of views reflecting the honest differences that exist among the faithful of the archdiocese.

The Catholic vote and Trump

Well, that’s what happens when so many antichoice, pro-birth, single-issue Catholics vote for a reality show hack and hate-mongering, racist authoritarian. Some people get exactly the government they deserve. Want to know how this happened and how we ended up with so much anger, even more divided and with a man in charge who doesn’t believe in the three branches of government? Look in the mirror! Peter Mandell San Francisco

Article omitted significant facts

Re ‘Presidential travel ban prompts Catholic outrage,’ Feb. 9: There are three significant facts omitted from the article: 1. 193-plus other nations continue to send immigrants and refugees to this country and we welcome them. 2. The implication that this discriminates against Muslims ignores the fact that 85 percent of Muslims live in the other 193-plus countries and continue to be welcome in the U.S. 3. Dominican Sister Donna Markham of Catholic Charities said in part, “While I certainly appreciate the importance of vetting to ensure the safety of our country. ...” That’s the point of this action. President Obama identified these seven countries as being the most likely to include terrorists among the innocent seeking refugee status. This action doesn’t prevent immigration; it delays it so that procedures can be put in place to separate legitimate refugees from those intent on doing us harm. Jim Dempsey Redwood City Editor’s note: The complete sentence containing the above excerpt from Dominican Sister Donna Markham in the Feb. 9 article is, “While I certainly appreciate the importance of vetting to ensure the safety of our country, I also believe we must treat those who are most vulnerable with compassion and mercy and with hearts willing to be opened wide in the face of dire human need.”

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How does the Catholic Church resolve new bioethical questions?

number of years ago, I participated in a debate at Harvard on embryonic stem cell research which also included a Jewish rabbi, an Episcopalian clergyman, and a Muslim imam. The debate went smoothly and cordially, although I was the only voice in the group who defended the human rights of individuals who happen still to be embryos. After the debate, the Episcopalian clergyman pulled me aside and told me how he thought Catholics should consider themselves fortunate to have such an authoritative reference point in the church and the Vatican, particularly when it comes to resolving new bioethical questions. With surprising candor, he shared how he had sat on various committees with others from his own father tadeusz faith tradition where they pacholczyk had tried to sort through the ethics of embryonic stem cells, and he lamented, “We just ended up discussing feelings and opinions, without any good way to arrive at conclusions.” Many people, indeed, appreciate that the Catholic

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serious moral concerns raised by the procedure had already been spelled out 22 years earlier, by Pope Pius XII, in his 1956 Allocution to the Second World Congress on Fertility and Human Sterility wherein he concluded: “As regards experiments of human artificial fecundation ‘in vitro,’ let it be sufficient to observe that they must be rejected as immoral and absolutely unlawful.” Whenever definitive conclusions about medical ethics are reached or otherwise clarified by the church, they are normally promulgated through official church documents, like papal encyclicals and addresses, or, with the approval of the pope, documents and commentaries from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the Vatican office responsible for preserving and interpreting Catholic doctrine), or other congregations, councils or dicasteries of the church. Even today, certain bioethical controversies remain under active discussion within the church, such as the question of whether it would be allowable to “adopt” abandoned frozen embryos by implanting and gestating them in volunteer mothers. While a 2007 CDF document expressed some reservations and concerns about the proposal, debate continues inside and outside the Vatican. New medical discoveries and technological developments challenge us to careful moral reflection and discernment. These scientific developments can either be an opportunity for genuine human advancement or can lead to activities and policies that undermine human dignity. The U.S. Bishops in a recent document summed it up this way: “In consultation with medical professionals, church leaders review these developments, judge them according to the principles of right reason and the ultimate standard of revealed truth, and offer authoritative teaching and guidance about the moral and pastoral responsibilities entailed by the Christian faith. While the church cannot furnish a ready answer to every moral dilemma, there are many questions about which she provides normative guidance and direction.”

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Father John Cloherty, retired pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, died Feb. 8 at St. Anne’s Home, San Francisco where he had lived for the last six years. Father Cloherty grew up in St. Anne Father John of the Sunset Parish Cloherty where he attended elementary school before entering studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by Bishop Hugh Donohoe June 11, 1960, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Father Cloherty served as a parochial vicar at parishes including St. Brigid and St. Michael in San Francisco, St. Anselm in Ross and St. Isabella in San Rafael. Father Cloherty was named pastor of St. Andrew Parish in Daly City in 1978 with later appointments as pastor of St. Paul Parish, San Francisco and Holy Angels in Colma before his appointment as pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2001. He retired in 2007. A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb.14 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

Sister Mary Claude Power, PBVM

Presentation Sister Mary Claude Power, (baptismal name Virginia) died Jan. 29 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Born in San Francisco, Sister Claude was 90 years old and a Sister of the Presentation for 72 years. Sister Mary Sister Claude is a Claude Power, former member of PBVM the faculty at schools including San Francisco’s St. Anne, St. Agnes, St. Elizabeth, Epiphany, and St. Teresa. She held an undergraduate degree in English and a graduate degree in theology from the University of San Francisco. Sister Claude served in the Department of Education with the Archdiocese of San Francisco, now Department of Catholic Schools, for 17 years, and in 1977 was the first woman to be named Associate Superintendent of Schools for the archdiocese. In 1981, Sister Claude became the first Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of San Jose and served in this position until 1999. She also served on the leadership team of the Sisters of the Presentation as well as the California Catholic Conference of Superintendents and

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Sister Diane Erbacher, OP

Dominican Sister Diane Erbacher, formerly known as Sister Carlanne, died Jan. 31 at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan. She was 87 years old and an Adrian Dominican Sister for 66 years. Born in San Jose, Sister Diane held a Sister Diane graduate degree in Erbacher, OP music education from the University of Southern California. Sister Diane was principal of San Francisco’s St. Brendan School for 40 years, retiring in 2005. Funeral rites were celebrated in Michigan. A memorial Mass was celebrated for Sister Diane at St. Brendan Feb. 18. Remembrances may be made to St. Brendan School, 940 Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco 94127.

Sister Sylvia Hamilton, PBVM

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a “nationwide effort to remove criminal aliens” had begun, and that he had ordered an end to the “catch and release policy” that allowed unauthorized immigrants caught by officials to go free while they await a hearing. He also announced the creation of “a new office in Homeland Security dedicated to the forgotten American victims of illegal immigrant violence, of which there are many,” he said, according to Catholic News Service. Many of the 50 or so participants that packed the room spoke passionately against the broadly worded order as well as President Trump’s campaign promises to immediately deport undocumented immigrants. Several noted the obvious emotional toll it has taken on immigrants both documented and undocumented within parishes. Franciscan Father Franklin Fong, pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, said that tension is thick in his parish where more than half of his parishioners are newly arrived Hispanic immigrants with young children. Like others, he felt said he felt helpless – and angry. “I am just shocked at what we are trying to do as a nation,” said Father Fong, who believes “the Holy Spirit is presenting a silver platter to us. Ok, you say are Catholic? You say you follow Jesus Christ? What does that mean given the reality of the world today that none of us ever thought would exist?” Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice said the goal of this first meeting to listen to each other and to put together a formal pastoral plan. “The whole sense is that we are part of the body of Christ and because of that, those who walk with Jesus are our brothers and sisters,” he said. Lorena Melgarejo, parish organizer for the archdiocese, said the “divisive” language of the Trump campaign and administration has turned “fear into panic” in immigrant families. She said that a source at San Francisco General Hospital told her that for every 10 medical appointments made for a member of an immigrant family, two show up. Children are living in terror that their parents will not be there when they get home from school. “There is no minimizing the impact” and anxiety, said Father Ulysses D’Aquila of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, adding that 50 percent of his parish is Hispanic. “I was very heartened by the letter from the archbishop.” Father Daniel Nascimento, pastor of St. Anne Parish in San Francisco, said, “We’re a comfortable, middle-class church” without a large immigrant population “but we want to find ways we can stand with those in need.” Guest speaker Adam Kruggel, organizing director of PICO California, a Sacramento faith-based community-organizing network, called the archdiocese’s turnout an “incredible sign of hope for the future.” Kruggel projected a close-up image of President Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order titled “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.”

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United States and those who overstay or otherwise violate the terms of their visas present a significant threat to national security and public safety. This is particularly so for aliens who engage in criminal conduct in the United States.” It adds that sanctuary jurisdictions “willfully violate federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States ... have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our republic.” Kruggel highlighted a provision in the order that that those who “facilitate” the presence of an undocumented immigrant could also be in violation. “As a Catholic, the way I interpret this is that you may be punished for practicing the Gospel,” he said. He characterized the climate as “desperate” for immigrants and their supporters, but said “things are changing every day” and “we are struggling to still interpret” the order. The meeting ended with a promise for continuing meetings at the deanery level. “Active leadership and engagement of laity and clergy is the only way in

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Elementary School Principals Sought The Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 2017-2018 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco recently trained a number of employees at the Pastoral Center in San Francisco in cardiopulmonary, stressing the value for all in the Catholic community of becoming certified in the life-saving technique. “It is important to have this certification that could help in our parishes, schools and homes,” said Derek Gaskin, director of director of safety and security for the archdiocese. “First aid can be invaluable when someone is in serious medical distress. The techniques that are learned can be helpful to someone’s life who may suffer from a heart attack, a near-drowning accident or any number of other emergency situations.” Gaskin said CPR is not a method of restarting the heart, as is commonly believed by many people. Rather, CPR is used to return the flow of blood and oxygen throughout the body to delay tissue death and brain damage. “In the case of an emergency – known as a Code Blue, everyone should know to call 911 in an emergency, but when it comes to cardiac arrest, minutes count,” Gaskin said. “Starting chest compressions as you wait for an ambulance can not only save a life, but it can prevent lasting brain injury from occurring due to a lack of oxygenated blood flow to the brain.” He said it can take as little as six minutes for the brain to die when it is not being supplied by oxygenated blood. “Once again,” Gaskin said, “administering CPR can prevent serious brain injury.” He said the archdiocese is encouraging parishioners, teachers and staff members to seek and complete CPR – First Aid training.

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Presentation Sisters and Associates in California joined the Women’s March in Bay Area locations on Jan. 21. Sister Pam Chiesa, PBVM, vice president, Sisters of the Presentation, said: “I was proud to stand with our Sisters and Associates behind a banner which proclaims our commitment to justice. More than ever, our voices and bodies are needed to join with others in witnessing to Jesus’ message of love and justice; the dignity of all people and the importance of caring for Earth. In this time of political unrest and hostility, it is important for religious women and men to find ways to witness and dialogue about meaningful issues in nonviolent ways.” In San Francisco, participating, from left, were Sister Máire Sullivan, PBVM; Sister Denise Bourdet, PBVM; Presentation Associate Tina Panelli; Presentation Associate May Barisone; Sister Pam Chiesa, PBVM; Sister Kathy Sickly, PBVM; Sister Anita Torres, PBVM; Sister Sylvia Llerena, PBVM; Sister Giovanna Campanella, PBVM, councilor, Sisters of the Presentation. San Francisco participants not pictured were Sister Lucia Lodolo, PBVM; Sister Kathleen Healy; PBVM, Presentation Associate Betty Canton-Self; and Presentation Associate May Barisone’s daughter Angela. In Pacifica, Presentation Associates Kay Sweeney and Pat Hageman took part in the march. Sister Marilyn Medau, PBVM, represented Oakland. Sister Michele Anne Murphy, PBVM, president, Sisters of the Presentation, joined the peaceful demonstrations in San Jose.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 23 HOPEFUL EVENING: Veronica Fruiht and Jeff Bialik with “Hope: A Practice and a Gift,” Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7-8:30 p.m. All are welcome, light refreshments; RSVP CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303; www. sanrafaelop.org. ABOUT ANGELS: Dominican Father Michael Hurley at St Mary, Star of the Sea Church, 180 Harrison St., Sausalito, 6:30 p.m., with part two of his presentation on the angels, admission free; (415) 332-1765, office@starofthesea.us.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, U B 7:30Lp.m.,Ifeaturing C local A T and international artists. Free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org. ORGAN RECITAL: St. Cecilia Church, Centennial Concert Series, 18th Avenue at Vicente, San Francisco, 4 p.m. Katya Kolesnikova performs, free admission, (415) 664-8481.

TUESDAY, FEB. 28 IRISH STORIES: Listen to Irish tales with presenter and expert storyteller

ECONOMICS: Jesuit Father Thomas Massaro on economic inequality in the era of Pope Francis, Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, all are welcome, light refreshments, RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 453-8303; www.sanrafaelop.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 4 PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way, San Francisco, 9 a.m., San Francisco, Father MarvinPaul R. Felipe, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com. CRAB FEED: St. Luke Parish all you can eat crab feed, 6 p.m. no-host cocktails, 6:45 p.m. dinner followed by raffle Center, I and O dancing, N Community S 1111 Beach Park Blvd. Foster City; $50 per person, tickets must be purchased in advance, (650) 345-6660; John Bernat, (650) 678-5840. ST. IGNATIUS FILM: Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 6 p.m. This epic new motion picture is based on true events in the life of the founder of the Jesuits, St. Ignatius of Loyola. Although not rated by the Motion Picture Association of America, Ignatius Press rates the film PG 13. The $15 admission includes popcorn and a drink. For more information or to purchase tickets, www.starparish.com; (415) 751-0450.

SATURDAY, MARCH 4 CATHEDRAL LENT TALKS: “At the foot of the cross – the ultimate vantage point for seeing God’s love,” with Dr. Margaret Turek, director, Department of Faith FormaDr. Margaret tion & EvanTurek gelization, Diocese of Oakland, 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 11 CATHEDRAL LENT TALKS: “Zacchaeus, the publican and the prodigal son; conversion stories from the New Testament,” with Father Kevin Kennedy, pasFather Kevin tor, Our Lady Kennedy of Fatima, Russian Byzantine Church, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 567-2020; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 5 BINGO LUNCH: Doelger Senior Center Café, 101 Lake Merced Blvd., Daly City sponsored by Bay Area Knights of Columbus benefiting Pomeroy Center. Lunch and 10 bingo games $30. Doors open at noon, lunch at 12:30 p.m. with bingo after; RSVP by Feb. 25, Marian Mann, mann98@aol.com, (415) 8102957.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 11 MERCY SF GALA: Mercy High School, San Francisco, “Get Ready to Set Sail” Gala; silent and live auction, elegant dinner and dancing; www.mercyhs. org/gala; Bekah Paige (415) 334-7941, bpaige@mercyhs.org. HEALING MORNING: Mass, breakfast and encouragement at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., San Francisco, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Franciscan Father William Lauriola, principal celebrant, $10 donation requested; Vilma Merlos, (415) 525-6434, (415) 860-5637.

SATURDAY, MARCH 18 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com. CATHEDRAL LENT TALKS: “Grace and the Lenten Season,” with Dominican Father Robert Christian, master of students, Western Dominican Province; adjunct professor of sacramental theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley; 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco; (415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY We are pleased to announce the opening of our newest cremation niche complex in San Rafael.

Set against the background of Mt. Tamalpais and the surrounding area, these beautiful niches provide a peaceful place of prayer and remembrance. Available in three sizes: single, companion, and family, these solid granite niches are designed to stand the test of time. Planning ahead is a gift of love to your family. Please contact us to schedule an appointment to select a niche or to request a free Catholic planning guide.

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

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

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

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