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Priest exhorts retreat participants to embrace Lent CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Embers of palm leaves burned inside an oversized conch shell during an Ash Wednesday retreat at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Bolinas had scarcely cooled when Dominican Father Bruno Gibson crossed the faithful present with the ash, urging them to “be the fire” at Lent, and always.

“In this season of Lent, it’s like a movie run backward: We start with ashes, we end with fire,” said Father Gibson on Feb. 18. Easter starts with the lighting of fire and that fire builds and builds until Pentecost, he said, when the loving spirit of Jesus is unleashed upon the face of the earth. “We are created to be the fire.”

The half-day retreat started with Mass and the imposition of ashes followed by the sacrament of reconciliation and two talks by Father Gibson. In between were periods of silent prayer and meditation in the historic graveyard.

It ended with a standing soup supper and fellowship outside the doors of the church just A woman who attended an Ash Wednesday retreat at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Bolinas strolls in the historic churchyard overlooking Bolinas Lagoon.

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Teachers’ committee to consult on handbook

Ron Thiesen calls his wife Alice “my milliondollar baby I found at the five-and-ten-cent store,” and 45 years after their wedding Alice still laughs when she recalls that she flirted like mad with Ron because she thought he was on his way out of town, back to college.

“He was leaving so I figured what the heck – but he never left,” said Alice. It turned out that Ron was attending Heald’s College of Engineering in San Francisco, just a few miles away from the Corte Madera Woolworth’s where Alice worked.

The love of a lifetime, including three children and four grandchildren, was thus begun for the parishioners of Our Lady of Loretto in Novato.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is forming a committee of theology teachers from the four archdiocesan high schools to expand and clarify the “Affirm and Believe” statements set to take effect in August in the schools’ faculty handbook, he said in a Feb. 24 letter to teachers.

The committee will recommend a draft, which, “while retaining what is already there, expands on these stateArchbishop ments and adjusts the language to make Cordileone the statements more readily understandable to a wider readership,” he wrote. “I will also leave to their discretion how to include the proper wider context within which to understand these points of doctrine.”

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Alice and Ron Thiesen, married 45 years, share a moment at the archdiocesan anniversary Mass Feb. 22.

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CRS Rice Bowl marks 40th year

Archbishop forms theology teachers’ committee Archbishop Cordileone wrote the following letter to teachers at the four archdiocesan high schools.

February 24, 2015

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Dear Teachers, “The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the Church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars! You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.” Pope Francis pronounced these now famous words, with the provocative image of the Church as a “field hospital,” in the interview published in America magazine in September of 2013.

Our schools, though not field hospitals, provide a different but no less essential role in the mission of the Church.

They are more like a service academy, equipping our young people to be spiritually and morally fit for life, serve faithfully in their parishes, and so carry on the Church’s legacy of service to the poor, sick, marginalized, vulnerable and destitute in any way, as well as to respond to and faithfully persevere in the calling God gives them in their life. You are to be commended for what you do to help our young people attain these goals. In particular, I am grateful for your encouragement to our students to serve in the various “field hospitals” in our Archdiocese and beyond. These are invaluable formational experiences for our young people in their process of becoming ever more ardent and joyful disciples of Jesus Christ.

It was with this vision in mind that I drafted the “Affirm and Believe” statements as declarations of our schools as an institution. In these areas, too, our young people need good, solid formation. As I mentioned to you in the convocation on February 6, I chose these particular points not because the others are not so important (far from it), but because, besides the fact that they are foundational, they are also the areas of Church doctrine where there is the most confusion and resistance in the culture today.

Pondering over what has transpired over the last twoand-a-half weeks, I wish to offer you the following reflections and clarifications.

1. The form of the “Affirm and Believe” statements you received was the result of dialogues with your union negotiators. I presented an original text, and through our discussions different revisions were made and the language adjusted, even though it is true that, as part of the faculty handbook, this addendum is under the sole purview of the Archbishop of San Francisco and not part of the negotiations for the contract. Since these are doctrinal statements, I anticipated the teachers would interpret them as such. In fact, what occurred was an interpretation of the statements as if they were designed to be spoken primarily to students and parents.

2. These statements are, admittedly, not nuanced for students or even for parents, nor are they placed in the proper context within which they need to be interpreted.

For example, one must understand the difference between person and act: an act can be gravely evil, but that does not make the person who does it an evil person. Good people do bad things. When that happens, those people don’t cease being good, but the bad that they do hinders them in their growth toward human perfection and in living up fully to the goodness that they are capable of and to which God

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CORRECTION “ARCHBISHOP’S VISION: Students’ holiness,” Page 1, Feb. 13: The article should have stated that the four archdiocesan high schools, not all Catholic high schools, had the day off. It also should have stated that protests were organized by members of the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory community and others via Facebook and Twitter posts rather than organized by SHCP Facebook and Twitter posts.

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calls them. God, though, certainly gives them the grace to overcome this if they seek it. There is also the distinction between objective evil and subjective culpability. When one does something wrong, even seriously wrong, there are sometimes mitigating circumstances that diminish one’s culpability, such as lack of knowledge, lack of full consent of the will, and immaturity. These distinctions have been part of Catholic teaching for centuries.

3. As I explained in my comments at the Convocation, including material on social justice and Catholic social teaching can make good sense. Since a number of teachers encouraged me subsequently to do precisely this, I am happy to allow my comments to be expanded to include teaching on some components of social justice. The teachers wanted all the statements related to sexual intimacy as well as religious practice to be heard in a broader context that corresponds better to the way in which students positively evaluate various components of the Catholic faith 4. As I also explained at the Convocation, my goal in adding material to the faculty handbook was to clarify. In order to attain further clarity, it makes sense to me that the material to be included in the faculty handbook will benefit from additional explanatory comments as well as statements on important issues in the area of Catholic social teaching.

Therefore, after speaking with your union negotiators, I have decided to form a committee consisting of theology teachers from the four Archdiocesan high schools to recommend to me a draft which, while retaining what is already there, expands on these statements and adjusts the language to make the statements more readily understandable to a wider readership. I will also leave to their discretion how to include the proper wider context within which to understand these points of doctrine, as I indicated above (n. 3). Each of you may approach them with your thoughts, concerns and suggestions which they can then take under consideration as they prepare their draft. It is my hope that this can all be completed prior to the beginning of the next academic year.

After my address to you on February 6, a number of you spoke to me seeking advice on how to effectively present the Church’s teaching in a compassionate and compelling way to your students who may be struggling in these areas and perhaps even feeling rejected or unwelcomed by the Church because of them. I was moved by your sincerity and commitment. Please know that I have already begun to look into resources that we can make available to you to assist you in this most important work.

This has been a very trying time for all of us. I implore your patience, good will, and especially prayers as we continue to work toward a consensus. And as we have just begun this holy season of Lent, I would ask one specific favor from our Catholic teachers: please join me in offering your Lenten fasting for the intention of a happy resolution and calming of tensions. We need God’s help, and all we have to do is ask God for it, for, “The Lord withholds no good thing from those who walk without reproach” (Ps 84:12).

Sincerely yours in our Lord,

Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

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Middle East, Central Asia refugee crises ‘unprecedented in recent times’ RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

More than 6 million people in five war zones in the Middle East and Central Asia have been forced to flee – a humanitarian crisis “certainly unprecedented in recent times,” the regional director for Catholic Relief Services told Catholic San Francisco.

Kevin Hartigan, the Europe, Middle East and Central Asia regional director for the overseas humanitarian arm of the U.S. Catholic Church, Kevin Hartigan said the Syrian civil war is the greatest crisis, with 3 million refugees reaching other countries. At least 3 million more people have been uprooted in crises in Gaza, northern Iraq, Ukraine and Pakistan. The agency also provides humanitarian aid in Afghanistan.

“The Syrian civil war is unprecedented in our lifetime … The extent of the crisis in Iraq is horrible – the speed and severity of what has happened with ISIS is fairly rare,” Hartigan said. “Definitely we have more work in assisting the civilian victims of manmade disasters in the Middle East than we’ve had in many, many years.”

The Minnesota-raised, Stanford-educated Hartigan was in San Francisco Feb. 19 and 20 and shared a panel at Stanford Feb. 21 with Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, a member of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.

CRS has 900 staff in the region, all but 40 of them locals. Working outside refugee camps run by international relief agencies, the Catholic agency provides humanitarian aid to refugees living in host homes or makeshift accommodations.

“The Catholic Church has an advantage in working with people outside the camps,” Hartigan said. “We tend to leave the work in the camps to other organiza-

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Displaced Iraqi Yezidi children greet Catholic Relief Service workers and a delegation of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led by Bishop Oscar Cantu, during a visit to Shariah Collective, Iraq, Jan. 17. CRS is focusing on providing schooling for hundreds of thousands of displaced children in northern Iraq, said Kevin Hartigan, the agency’s regional director. tions and work outside the camps because, working outside the camps, you need volunteers, community members, people who speak the language.”

He said “the local church and CRS has a real advantage in reaching people outside camps with host families.”

Often, those providing humanitarian aid are themselves victims.

“All our staff, and Caritas Iraq staff, in northern

Iraq, are displaced people” from Mosul and surrounding areas, Hartigan said.

In Pakistan, CRS is the only organization providing shelter to refugees fleeing conflict in the nation’s tribal areas.

In Iraq, Hartigan said, while CRS is still focused on relief to get the population through the winter, the agency is making plans with the local church to address the education needs of hundreds of thousands of out-of-school children. The local church is playing a key role in this phase for Christians and non-Christians alike.

“People think of the Iraqi Christians as victims right now, which they are, but the other (side) is the Iraqi church is completely motivated to provide assistance,” Hartigan said.

In Gaza, the humanitarian effort includes a Catholic parish, three schools and the Missionaries of Charity.

Asked what U.S. Catholics can do to support CRS’ work in the region, Hartigan said “donations are extremely needed right now.” He said contributions help the agency support the local church in conflict areas.

He added that people can sign up for the agency’s advocacy network. The website is http://actioncenter. crs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ccgp_signup.

In 2009 CRS and the U.S. bishops created the Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative “to defend the life and dignity of people living in poverty throughout the world, and to urge our nation to act in response to the many faces of poverty through advocacy and action.”

The initiative’s priorities for 2015 are protecting funding for poverty-focused international assistance, including food aid; promoting reforms to U.S. food aid programs to make them more effective and efficient; supporting peace in regions such as Iraq, Syria, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Southern Sudan; and pursuing peace in the Holy Land (Israel/ Palestine).

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‘Always wanted to be a teacher’ 30-year St. Finn Barr teacher says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

This apple did not fall from the tree. Karen O’Reilly is and alumna of St. Finn Barr School and has been teaching kindergarten there since 1984. She is also a graduate of San Francisco’s Presentation High School and San Francisco State University.

“I always wanted to be a teacher, specifically a kindergarten teacher,” Karen told me via email.

A volunteer tutoring program in Karen O’Reilly high school sparked her interest even more. “I decided then that I wanted to make teaching my career. I wanted to become a Catholic school educator so along with teaching academics, I could teach and model Gospel values as I help children grow in our faith and become compassionate children of God.” Karen is very happy in the primary grades. “In kindergarten, I get to see when a child first learns to read a word. They get so excited. I enjoy supporting parents in their role as primary educators as we work together with high expectations for the success of each child.”

Karen’s daughter, Katie O’Reilly is a member of the math faculty at St. Ignatius College Preparatory. She and Karen’s son, Liam, are both St. Finn Barr graduates.

Karen said that the teaching profession has changed for the better since 1984. Knowledge about learning styles and learning differences among other developments in meeting meet each child’s individual needs has improved learning, she said.

“It has been great to see the emphasis on the importance of early childhood education,” she said.

She welcomes technology but not without boundaries. “The challenge is to use it as part of learning while also giving opportunities for problem-solving and learning language skills in other ways. Parents and teachers have an important job in monitoring the use of devices,” she said.

“To those thinking of entering the profession I say ‘Welcome!’ It is a very rewarding career where there is always something new to learn.” A teacher’s backpack should include patience, Karen said. “Be able to problem solve and work closely with parents, administrators and other teachers. My advice to first year teachers is always this: Ask for help when you need it. Luckily, at our Catholic schools, there is always someone willing to help you learn!”

HARMONY: The Dolce Choir of Mercy High School, San Francisco sang Feb. 5 for a San Francisco District Merchants gala at the Olympic Club, Lakeside. “The girls were incredible and their music was enjoyed by all,” the school said. Guests, seen here with the singers, included San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, a Mercy alumna. Laura Flaviani directs the ensemble.

HAIL HOLY QUEEN: I like the rosary. I am not good at saying it alone – my mysteries recall has faded – but I like saying it with others. That said, the Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality has announced the rosary will be prayed Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. at the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue in San Francisco and everyone is invited. Intentions include “world peace and communion among all peoples,” said Elizabeth Dunn, who is coordinating the weekly service with Jack Tipple. Bring your special intentions too. The Divine Mercy Chaplet follows at 3 p.m. The opportunity for pasta and prayer sounds like a very good thing for all of us to have in our pockets when we visit North Beach though methinks my roots would have me at Buster’s for a post-rosary cheese steak.

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ART HELPS LIFE: St. Anne’s Home and its supporters announce “Celebrate HeART” March 5 at St. Anne’s, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco. The evening features the sale of paintings by Marin County artist Susan Schneider as well as music, fine food and complimentary valet parking. Proceeds benefit the work of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Tickets are $125 per person. Visit www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org. Pictured are Little Sister of the Poor and St. Anne’s Home superior, Sister Theresa Roberson and Susan Schneider.

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Holy Names Sisters committed to each person’s full development 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.

SISTER MARCIA FRIDEGER, SNJM

At 1:30 a.m. on May 10, 1868, the steamer Golden Age entered San Francisco Bay bringing six young Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, ďŹ ve in their 20s and one 31 years old, far from their home near Montreal, Canada, in to a request WAKE UP THE WORLD ! response from Archbishop Jo2015 Year of Consecrated Life seph Alemany. One of the sisters wrote: “It is May 10th ‌ Our steamer has stolen in silently, shrouded in midnight gloom. What a glorious vision awaits our waking hour. A large city lies before us and though it is very early, there is a great bustle and confusion ‌ everything is beautiful to our sea-wearied eyes.â€?

At 5 a.m. they were welcomed by the Sisters of Mercy at St. Mary’s Hospital, who provided an afternoon treat of fresh strawberries and cream, a delicacy most unexpected for Canadians in May. The sisters learned they were to live not in San Francisco, but across the bay in Oakland (Peralta Land), where Father Michael King, recently at St. Patrick’s Church, had moved to serve the growing church there. Two weeks later, they began classes at the new Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart on the shores of Lake Merritt with four boarders and 27 day students. Only a few of the streets were paved. Soon they established schools in the ďŹ rst parish in Oakland, St. Mary’s, and in new parishes, Sacred Heart, in 1876 and St. Francis de Sales in 1886.

The ďŹ rst school established in the city of San Francisco was St. Joseph’s, opened Aug. 18, 1871, at 10th and Howard streets, where Holy Names Sisters served for 120 years. The three-story school started with 110 students. The chronicles for April 18, 1906, tell of the terror of surviving the earthquake and moving sisters and boarders to St. Peter Parish, aided by the Marianist Brothers and the Sisters of Mercy. In 1893, their pupils participated in the ďŹ rst Catholic School Exhibition, organized by Father Peter Yorke.

During the 146 years that Holy Names Sisters have served in the archdiocese, they have been committed to education aimed at the full development of each person, including not only intellectual and spiritual development, but an appreciation of the arts and a commitment to creating a more just society. In addition to St. Joseph’s, the Holy Names Sisters have established schools at St. Monica Parish in 1919, administering there until 1994, and St. Cecilia’s from 1930 until the present, (Sister Marilyn Miller, leaving in 2012 as the last SNJM principal). Other schools in the archdiocese included St. Anselm Elementary School staffed by SNJM’s from 1935-1999 and high school.

When Marin Catholic High School opened in 1949, the high school section of St. Anselm’s closed. From 1949 until 1995, Sisters of the Holy Names taught at Marin

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Holy Names Sisters and students are pictured at St. Joseph’s School at 10th and Howard streets in San Francisco. The school opened in 1871.

SISTERS OF THE HOLY NAMES OF JESUS AND MARY FOUNDED: 1843 in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada (near Montreal) ARRIVED: San Francisco in 1868 ORIGINAL MINISTRY: Christian education of youth and young women CURRENT MINISTRIES: Education, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice advocacy, the arts NUMBER OF SISTERS IN THE CONGREGATION: 895 NUMBER OF SISTERS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ARCHDIOCESE: 10 Catholic. In addition to schools, several sisters have served in the archdiocesan school office, most recently Sister Sylvia Bartheld and Sister Marianne Viani.

Holy Names Sister Fran Kearney is pictured at Epiphany Center in San Francisco, where she works with infants of mothers in recovery from drug addiction.

In recent years, sisters have ministered as teachers, pastoral ministers, RCIA directors, religious educators, and teachers’ aides in several parishes and ministries in the archdiocese: in San Francisco at Epiphany Parish, St. Finn Barr’s, Epiphany Center and St. Anthony Foundation; in San Mateo at St. Matthias, St. Pius, St. Charles, Holy Angels, and Our Lady of Angels; and in Marin at St. Raphael’s, St. Isabella’s and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Educational institutions where Sisters of the Holy Names still serve and which were part of the archdiocese until the 1962 division include: Holy Names University moving from Lake Merritt to the hills of Oakland in 1957 and Holy Names High School, Oakland, established in 1931, and St. Mary’s School, Los Gatos.

Current ministries of the sisters in the archdiocese include: counseling, music education, theological education, services for infants at risk, and pastoral accompaniment of our aging sisters.

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Priests, deacons and laity alike describe prison ministry a â&#x20AC;&#x153;callingâ&#x20AC;? that helps them live out the Gospel as Jesus has directly asked them to do.

Ministering to the imprisoned is recognized by the Catholic Church as one of the seven corporal works of mercy. In Matthew 25:36 Jesus himself identiďŹ es with the imprisoned and during his cruciďŹ xion he also ministered to repentant criminals next to him on the cross.

At San Quentin, Father Williams says Mass from inside a locked cage inside death row. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I raise the host I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see heinous murderers standing in front of me, I see human beings,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If his body was not given up for them, too, then what difference would our faith make?â&#x20AC;?

As a modern Catholic prison chaplain, Father Williams represents a minority in the United States and a signiďŹ cant challenge to the church. Only 13 percent of the 1,474 state prison chaplains that responded to the Pew survey in 2012 identiďŹ ed themselves as Catholic.

Nearly three-quarters of them are evangelical Protestants aided by a legion of lay volunteers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wish there were more Catholicbased prison ministries,â&#x20AC;? said Father Williams.

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They may represent a minority among faith-based prison ministry programs, but Catholic priests and parishioners called to minister to the incarcerated say they are inspired by the Gospel to spend time among those Jesus likely considered in his command to love â&#x20AC;&#x153;the least of my brothers.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Matthew 25:36 is a big thing for me,â&#x20AC;?

St. Dominic parishioner Steve Mariccini told Catholic San Francisco on Feb. 12. The verse reads in part, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.â&#x20AC;?

Mariccini, 58, and his wife Sylvia, 57, go from full-time jobs straight to the San Francisco County Jail on Wednesday evenings once a month where they talk, pray and meditate with the women of Pod C, the jailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psychiatric unit.

The Mariccinis are among a dozen carefully-screened and trained parishioners from St. Dominic that serve on its jail outreach ministry, one of two known parish-based jail ministries in the archdiocese, according to restorative justice ministry coordinator Julio Escobar. His office serves as a liaison between the parish and the San Francisco Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department. The other is St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon which assists Jesuit Father George Williams, Catholic chaplain at nearby San Quentin State Prison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I consider the inmates no different than me,â&#x20AC;? said Sylvia, who joined her husband as a volunteer in the county jail after the grade-school sweethearts reconnected and married nine years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are loved equally by God, and I want my presence to show them

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Jesuit Father George Williams enters death row at San Quentin State Prison, where his ministry to condemned inmates includes celebrating Mass. that there is hope and purpose for each and every one of us.â&#x20AC;?

Working in two-person teams, volunteers like the Mariccinis offer prayer services including Lectio Divina to jailed men and women who come from every faith background and sometimes none at all. They integrate prayer from saints who themselves were incarcerated or had major conversions. They sing and pray for each other.

Volunteers bring rosaries sometimes, or reading materials. But the ministry is foremost a ministry of presence said

Deacon Chuck McNeil who started and still manages the St. Dominic team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try not to be religious goods pushers,â&#x20AC;? he said, adding that those best suited to prison ministry are those without an agenda. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some Catholics feel they have to catechize inmates, have to preach morality or teach the rosary,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What gets through here is presence and prayer, not preaching.â&#x20AC;?

People need to talk, especially to someone outside â&#x20AC;&#x153;the system,â&#x20AC;? he said.

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The Chinese New Year Mass and banquet drew hundreds to St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral for a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and a banquet organized by archdiocesan Chinese Ministry. Left, Repentance Prayer Group dancing. Center, Archbishop Cordileone in the veneration of ancestors ceremony after Mass.

Chinese Catholics celebrate with Mass, banquet at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral gift to us,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Cordileone said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let us rejoice that it is in the risen Christ that we are reunited with our departed family.â&#x20AC;?

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The Feb. 21 Chinese New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s celebration began with a Mass celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, joined by auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh and retired auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang as well as numerous priests. More than 500 people attended a banquet held in a lower hall in the cathedral. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Give thanks to Godâ&#x20AC;? and ask for his protection for the new year, Archbishop Cordileone told those attending Mass, noting in his homily that this is the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese lunar calendar and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the church sets before us the consoling

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Survey: Dramatic increase in attacks on religion NATE MADDEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A new report from the Liberty Institute in Plano, Texas, shows that incidents of “religious hostility” have more than doubled in the United States over the past three years.

The report, “Undeniable: The Survey of Hostility to Religion in America, 2014 Edition,” chronicles a series of more than 1,300 court cases recently handled or monitored by the institute, a nonprofit legal group that represents plaintiffs who feel their religious liberty has been violated.

“The freedom to openly exercise your faith is under intolerant, growing, damaging attack,” reads the opening statement. “If this hostility is not identified, defeated and deemed socially unacceptable, then we will forfeit the benefits of religion and freedom. We will risk watching our freedom and our American way of life destroyed.”

The new edition of the report has four main sections: attacks on religious freedom in the public arena, in academic settings, against churches and ministries, and in the military.

“The thing to remember is that not only are these attacks on liberty becoming more numerous, but the types of cases we’re seeing are getting worse,” said Butterfield. “I never would have imagined that a presidential administration would argue in favor of protecting religious belief but not religious action and practice, but that’s exactly what the government did in the Hosanna-Tabor case.”

He was referring to the government’s lawsuit over a Lutheran school’s firing of a teacher. In its 2012 decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, the court unanimously rejected the government’s attempt to more narrowly define who is a religious employee and upheld a “ministerial exception” to federal anti-discrimination laws. The case is included in the “churches and ministries” section.

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Religious leaders urge action to combat climate change MARK PATTISON

‘We have to recognize the interrelatedness of the various social, economic, political or environmental crises that confront the human family today.’

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WASHINGTON – Religious leaders from across the faith spectrum gathered Feb. 20 at the Capitol to seek action to combat climate change and to mitigate its effects, whether it be at the federal level or in local communities.

The ongoing buzz about the forthcoming encyclical from Pope Francis on the environment was addressed

by Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

“This is the first time a pope has addressed the issue of the environment and climate change with an encyclical – and for us Catholics and not only for Catholics, this is a big deal,” Archbishop Wenski said, noting, “Encyclicals are an important way for popes to exercise their teaching office.”

Archbishop Wenski added, “Although I am not privy to what the pope will say, I think he will insist that the ‘natural ecology’ is inseparably linked to ‘human ecology.’ In other words, we have to recognize the interrelatedness of the various social, economic, political or environmental crises that confront the human family today.”

ARCHBISHOP THOMAS G. WENSKI OF MIAMI The archbishop made the comments as part of a panel sponsored by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment and held in a meeting room at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.

Given what Pope Francis has said in the past on the environment, “I think that he will call us to prudent action that promotes the common good for present and future generations and respects human life and dignity while always giving priority to the poor and vulnerable,” Archbishop Wenski said.

“Care for creation should engage us all – and thus I also think that the pope will tell us also to be mindful of and heed the voices of poor who are impacted most by climate change and certainly will be impacted either for good or ill by the policies proposed to address climate change.”

At their essence, the archbishop said, “these all are moral crises

which require new rules and forms of engagement – in other words, a rethinking of the path that we are traveling down together.”

Bishops are not scientists, Archbishop Wenski cautioned, “but we are pastors – and insofar as climate change affects concrete human beings, it is a moral issue; and, pastors in exercising their care of their flocks do weigh in – and appropriately so – on moral issues. Also, as Catholics, we firmly believe that the poor have a first claim on our consciences in matters pertaining to the common good.”

Archbishop Wenski alluded to past statements on the environ-

ment by Pope Benedict XVI and the U.S. bishops’ own 2001 statement, “Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good,” in which “we expressed our concern that disproportionate and unfair burdens not be placed on poor, developing nations. We called for collective action for the common good.”

The Rev. Emilio Marrero, vice president of national programs at Esperanza, an umbrella group for Hispanic evangelicals, said evangelicals “believe that salvation bears fruit,” and that God wants to see “evidence” of faith “through our actions.”

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Pope: Don’t let meatless Fridays be selfish, soulless, seafood splurge CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Real fasting isn’t just restricting food choices, it must also include cleansing the heart of all selfishness and making room in one’s life for those in need and those who have sinned and need healing, Pope Francis said.

Faith without concrete acts of charity is not only hypocritical, “it is dead; what good is it?” he said, criticizing those who hide behind a veil of piety while unjustly treating others, such as denying workers fair wages, a pension and health care.

Being generous toward the church, but selfish and unjust toward others “is a very serious sin: It is using God to cover up injustice,” he said Feb. 20 during his homily in a morning Mass celebrated in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives.

The pope’s homily was based on the day’s reading from the Book of Isaiah in which God tells his people he does not care for those who observe penance passively – bowed “like a reed,” lying quietly in a “sackcloth and ashes.”

Instead, God says he desires to see his people crying out “full-throated and unsparingly” against injustice and sin, “setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; sharing your bread with the hungry,

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A child kisses Pope Francis on his cheek as he arrives to lead a special audience for the Diocese of Cassano all’Jonio at the Vatican Feb. 21. sheltering the oppressed and the homeless.” In the reading, God also points out the hypocrisy of the faithful who fast, but treat their workers badly and fight and quarrel with others.

Pope Francis said Lent is about fulfilling all commandments both toward God and others, according to reports from Vatican Radio and the Vatican newspaper.

Lent is not about the formal observance of “doing a little whatever” and not eating meat on Fridays, while giving oneself free reign to “grow in selfishness, exploit others and ignore the poor,” he said.

There might be someone who thinks, “Today is Friday, I can’t eat meat, but I’m going to have a nice

plate of seafood, a real banquet,” which, while appearing to be an abstinence from meat, is the sin of gluttony, the pope said.

Another person might say: “I am a great Catholic, Father, I like it a lot. I always go to Mass every Sunday, I receive Communion,” to which, the pope said he would reply, “Great, and how is your relationship with your workers? Do you pay them under the table? Do you give them a fair wage? Do you contribute toward their pension? To their health insurance and social services?”

People cannot “make offerings to the church on the back of injustice,” he said. “It is not a good Christian who doesn’t do justice to the people who depend on him” and who does not “deprive himself of something essential for him in order to give it to another who is in need.”

“This is the distinction between formal and real,” he said, which Jesus underlined, too, when he condemned the Pharisees and doctors of the law, who adhered to “many external observances but without the truth of the heart.”

Unfortunately, he said, many “men and women have faith but they separate the tablets of law,” that is, they obey the first commandments and obligations to God while ignoring or being selective about the rest of the commandments concerning others.

“They are united: love toward God and love to your neighbor are one, and if you want to practice real, not formal, penance, you have to do it before God and also with your brother and sister, your neighbor,” he said.

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Papal palates: Swiss Guard cookbook to hit shelves by summer LAURA IERACI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - A cookbook featuring favorite dishes of the three most-recent popes and their elite military corps will be available this summer in English.

“Buon Appetito, Swiss Guard” was written by 24-year-old David Geisser, who had worked as a chef and published two popular cookbooks in his native Switzerland before joining the Swiss Guard nearly two years ago.

“Many people do not know about the Swiss Guard,” said Geisser, whose commander conceived of the coffee-table-size book as a means to make the Guard better known.

The book serves as a fascinating and unlikely point of entry into the daily life, history and tradition of one of the world’s most enigmatic military corps.

Sgt. Erwin Niederberger, 36, wrote the accompanying account of this history and tradition. He, too, was a pastry chef before joining the Guard 15 years ago.

The book’s more than 70 recipes are organized into nine main sections, including everyday meals, holiday dishes and desserts, recipes from the guards’ two favorite Roman restaurants, and dishes from three towns on the outskirts of Rome where the guards often go on days off. A section on the traditional menu served at swearing-in ceremonies lets readers into a key moment of a guard’s life.

The truth of the old adage, when in Rome do as the Romans do, comes to life in the section on everyday meals. The soldiers are all Swiss, but the Polish sisters who run the kitchen cook mostly Italian cuisine, said Geisser. Daily meals tend to the richer side, with lots of cheese, creams and butter, and include pastas, soups, meat and fish. While the Swiss Guard keeps the traditional practice of Friday abstinence from meat, soldiers are not required to fast, even during Lent.

“Fasting is optional because of the needs of the work,” Geisser said.

None of the guards, mostly young men in their 20s, worry about calories, the author said, and there are no restrictions on their diet, as they burn lots of energy in training and on the job.

The Guard is a military corps that shares a life of faith, and the book includes guards’ mealtime prayers. Another section features recipes that pay tribute to the Swiss Guards’ three patron saints, all of whom were soldiers.

The roasted goose dish in honor of St. Martin of Tours is the traditional dish for his feast day in Switzerland. With no set traditional meal for St. Sebastian, Geisser chose a breaded veal and saffron risotto,

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Perhaps the book’s biggest draw is the section of regional menus based on the tastes of the three mostrecent pontiffs. The menu inspired by Pope Francis consists of Argentine classics: “empanadas” (dough pockets stuffed with meat, cheese or vegetables), a beef dish called “colita de cuadril” and the milkbased “dulce de leche” for dessert. German sausage salad, a roast pork dish called “schweinsbraten” and baked cherries with whipped cream are on the menu inspired by retired Pope Benedict XVI. And Polish “pierogi” (stuffed potato dumplings), a stuffed beef roll and beets, and apple tart are included as having been among St. John Paul II’s favorites.

The book also includes foods that please the palates of three of the pope’s closest collaborators. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, likes “gnocchi” (Italian potato dumplings). A favorite

for Swiss-born Cardinal Kurt Koch, who heads the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is the traditional German “wiener schnitzel” (deepfried breaded veal) with fries. And German-born Archbishop Georg Ganswein, prefect of the papal household, is the only one to veer from his native cuisine to tag “saltimbocca” (veal cooked with cured Italian ham in a wine sauce) as his preferred dish.

The Swiss Guard’s commanding officers get a section to themselves, with their favorite recipes, a portrait photo and a short biography.

A cookbook would not be complete without fullcolor and glossy images, and Vatican photographer Katarzyna Artymiak delivers with larger-than-life, mouth-watering photos. Geisser cautioned, however, that the elegant presentation of the dishes should not mislead readers into thinking the guards enjoy fine dining. Meals are self-served cafeteria style in their refectory, which is only accessible to guards; no outside guests are allowed.

“Good food is important” for an army to stay “motivated and ready,” said Geisser, whose term with the Swiss Guard was due to end at the end of February.

He will return to Switzerland, where he said he has a few projects simmering, including plans for a new cookbook.

An extensive book tour for “Buon Appetito, Swiss Guard” will take him to Philadelphia during the World Meeting of Families in September.

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Ukrainian Catholic leader invites pope, says visit could bring peace

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church invited Pope Francis to visit the war-torn nation, saying it would help bring peace. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be a prophetic gesture that would show the power of prayer and Christian solidarity, give us courage and hope and build a better future for everyone,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kiev-Halych, told Archbishop journalists Feb. 23. He said that Shevchuk such a visit would â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring peace to that part of Eastern Europe soaked with the blood of so many martyrs for the unity of the church.â&#x20AC;?

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A four-page letter to voters, which will be distributed throughout churches, lists â&#x20AC;&#x153;important issuesâ&#x20AC;? the bishops invite Catholics to raise with candidates in the election for the House of Commons May 7.

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inaâ&#x20AC;? visit Feb. 16-21 in which bishops from Ukraineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eastern- and Latin-rite traditions reported to the pope and the Vatican on the state of their dioceses.

He said the pope â&#x20AC;&#x153;truly listened to us with a paternal heart,â&#x20AC;? asking to hear about how the Ukrainian people, including their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Orthodox brothers and sisters,â&#x20AC;? were facing the current conďŹ&#x201A;ict and crisis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ukraine is the victimâ&#x20AC;? in this war with Russia, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;often Ukrainians feel abandoned, betrayed by politicians, big diplomats by the powerful of this world.â&#x20AC;?

But he said their meeting with the pope left them feeling that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Holy Father is with us, he gives witness to us that God is always on the side of those who suffer,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go home full of hope.â&#x20AC;?

In a written address that was handed out to the bishops, the pope asked them to focus on the social and human tragedies unfolding in their country and avoid politicizing their role as church leaders.

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‘God has saved me,’ says Indian Jesuit ANTO AKKARA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI – A Jesuit priest kidnapped in Afghanistan and held for eight months told reporters “God has saved me,” but he said he did not want to discuss details of his captivity.

Jesuit Father Alexis Prem Kumar, 47, Jesuit Father kidnapped June 2 in Alexis Prem Afghanistan’s Herat Kumar province, was flown to New Delhi from Kabul Feb. 22 with the intervention of the Indian government.

“First of all, I thank God almighty. I thought I would never be safe. God has saved me,” Father Kumar told Catholic News Service in an interview at the Ashoka Hotel, where he met with family and friends.

He thanked everyone for their prayers: “the Vatican, the Jesuits, the (Jesuit Refugee Service) and all. God has heard our prayers.”

Father Kumar said when Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to him: “I felt that the whole of India was welcoming me. I am grateful and thankful to the Jesuits and all others who have worked for my release.”

When media asked the priest to speak about his captivity, he replied, “I want to forget everything for some time.”

“Anything about Afghanistan or what happened, I am not ready to share now. Please pardon me,” Father Kumar told reporters when the question was repeated.

“I have plenty of stories, but I feel it is not the right time to share all those about the time (in captivity),” he reiterated.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India welcomed Father Kumar’s release and thanked Modi “for the efforts taken by him personally and for the many steps adopted by the various agencies of the government of India to secure the safe release of Father Alexis Prem.”

Modi tweeted as Father Kumar was being flown to New Delhi: “Delighted at securing the release of Indian Jesuit priest Father Alexis Prem Kumar from captivity in Afghanistan.”

Earlier, Modi called the priest’s family members in Chennai and broke the news of his release.

“I could not believe when the prime minister told me that Father Alexis has been released and that he is coming,” said Sister Elizabeth Rani of the Congregation of Foyer de Charite, elder sister of Father Kumar.

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LENT: Dominican priest leading retreat urges believers to ‘be the fire’ FROM PAGE 1

as the sun began to break through the coastal mist.

All but a handful of the two-dozen retreat participants including Father Gibson traveled 30-plus miles over winding country roads through redwood groves and past green hills dotted with cows and wildflowers to spend the first day of Lent in silence, prayer and penance at the tiny 153-year-old church.

Most were St. Hilary parishioners who know Father Gibson from his “View from the Ridge” day retreats in Tiburon where the former St. Dominic pastor currently lives on sabbatical.

“This is an unbelievably gorgeous setting,” said a beaming Father Gibson. “And here we are people DOMINICAN FATHER of God coming BRUNO GIBSON together to know the gift of God which is ultimately of himself.”

Whether coming from near or far, the simplicity of the white clapboard chapel and the picturesque parcel of land once known as “Gospel Flat” was clearly a draw to retreat participants.

But no more so it seemed, than the joyful Father Gibson himself.

“The sweetness of Father Bruno and the sweetness of this church goes straight to your heart,” said Susanna Henderson of Sacred Heart Parish in nearby Olema.

“He is like God’s love – unsuppressible,” said John Bryant, a Tiburon lawyer who has made St. Mary Magdalene his home parish. Despite his sabbatical and an ongoing fight with cancer, Father Gibson volunteered to serve as unofficial pastor for the past two years.

St. Mary Magdalene has historically been a mission church of Sacred Heart without a pastor of its own. Father Manual Igrobay, the pastor of Sacred Heart, is the sole priest for Marin County’s four rural parishes which include Sacred Heart and St. Mary

‘In this season of Lent, it’s like a movie run backward: We start with ashes, we end with fire.’

(PHOTOS BY CHRISTINA GRAY/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Participants of an Ash Wednesday retreat at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Bolinas spend time in prayer and penance.

A lone woman and a pair of friends sit in reflection on moss-covered benches in the old church graveyard while a man bows his head in prayer.

Magdalene as well as the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Tomales and its mission church, St. Helen, in Marshall.

Father Gibson said his essential message for the day was that “Lent is nothing else than finding out who we are and what God created us to be.”

The book of Genesis tells us we are made from the soil of the earth, he said, and God breathed his own

spirit into us. “And what do we do?” he asked, referring to the fall of Adam and Eve. “We revolted because we didn’t want to find out who we really are and we want to make ourselves into someone else.”

Father Gibson said that Lent is not really just giving up things, it’s “giving up that which doesn’t let our heart break open to find out who God really created us to be.”

God loves us so much, he said, that he wants to empower us to do that so that we don’t have to be creatures who believe what the world tells us we need.

Bryant said Father Gibson’s simple and practical words came to life as he watched a purposeful bee hover over blue flowers in the spring clover.

“I thought, ‘you know exactly what God created you to be,’” he said.

Lent a time for ‘formation of the heart’ “I would invite everyone to live this Lent as an opportunity for engaging in what Benedict XVI called a formation of the heart,” he said, citing his predecessor’s encyclical “Deus Caritas Est.” “A merciful heart does not mean a weak heart,” Pope Francis said.

“Anyone who wishes to be merciful must have a strong and steadfast heart, closed to the tempter but open to God. A heart which lets itself be pierced by the Spirit so as to bring love along the roads that lead to our brothers and sisters. And, ultimately, a poor heart, one which realizes its own poverty and gives itself freely for others.”

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“Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart “which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference,” Pope Francis said in his Lenten message.

The pope called upon individual Catholics to pray, especially noting the 24 Hours for the Lord Initiative throughout the church March 13-14. He also said individual believers should be charitable, with Lent as “a favorable time for showing this concern for others by small yet concrete signs of our belonging to the one human family.”

The pope added the suffering of others is a call to conversion, “since their need reminds me of the uncertainty of my own life and my dependence on

(PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Patricia Hernandez, a cathedral docent and parishioner, is pictured with other parish members after Mass Ash Wednesday, which marked the beginning of Lent for Latin-rite Catholics.

God and my brothers and sisters.”

The pope offered a way to “overcom-

ing indifference and our pretensions to self-sufficiency.”

The full text of the pope’s message, along with additional Lenten resources from the U.S. bishops, can be accessed at www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/ liturgical-year/lent/index.cfm.

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Nearly 100 couples gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 22 to celebrate their anniversaries and the sacrament of marriage. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the annual archdiocesan anniversary Mass and posed with couples for portraits afterward. “There is a simple yet eloquent word that expresses the total gift of yourself that you made of yourselves on your wedding day: sacrifice,” the archbishop said in his homily.

MARRIAGE: Anniversary Mass celebrates sacrament, lifetimes of love FROM PAGE 1

wedding anniversary Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 22 drew about 100 couples, and some of their friends and family, to celebrate Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and attend a reception following.

In his opening remarks at the Mass, Archbishop Cordileone called it “my pleasure, my privilege” to welcome the couples, saying “We give thanks for the love manifested between a man and a wife.”

Married love is spiritual and physical, finding “unique expression” in the marital embrace, the archbishop pointed out in his homily: “So important is the bodily aspect of marriage that Jesus quoted the line that follows when he spoke of God’s intention of marriage from the beginning of creation: ‘That is why a man leaves his mother and his father and clings to his wife and the two of them become one body.’”

Marriage and faith are expressed in “romantic

ardor but also … the day to day working of taking care of a house and raising a family,” continuing through the aches and pains of aging together, Archbishop Cordileone said. “There is a simple yet eloquent word that expresses the total gift of yourself that you made of yourselves on your wedding day: sacrifice.”

Quoting a former rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Msgr. Charles Ramm, Archbishop Cordileone said of the sacrifices of marriage: “Only love can make it easy, and perfect love can make it a joy.”

Joel Reynoso and his wife Ana came with a group of friends and children from St. Bruno Parish.

Married for 17 years, Joel said, “It is important for us to celebrate our anniversary every year. It is important to be a unit.” Standing in line at the reception to have a memento portrait of themselves photographed, Reynoldo said this was their first time participating in the anniversary Mass, “and we love it.”

Married for 27 years, Joseph and Maria Silmaro

came from St. Edward Parish in Newark in the Oakland diocese, with their eighth child, 10-yearold Joannes, who was decked out in a tie and jacket for the day. Their children, all musicians, range from 27 to 10, Maria said. “We love Archbishop Cordileone and we want to support him,” she said.

“We need a leader like him. We’ve been waiting for him.”

Church of the Epiphany parishioners Vince Brogan and his wife Erma were the longest-married couple at the event. They met in 1941 when they were 20, at a teen club at Epiphany Parish. They raised five children – three born to them and two foster children they consider their own.

Vince said he and an Irish buddy were going to a local Jewish girls club to meet girls and his Irish friend’s mother wanted her son to marry a Catholic and persuaded the Catholic pastor at Epiphany to start a teen club. Vince met his wife at that teen club, he recalled: “She came walking in and I said to my buddy, ‘that’s the girl I’m going to marry.’”

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Thoughts on physician-assisted suicide

n college I wrote a medical ethics paper on a play titled “Whose Life Is It Anyway?” That old paper came to mind recently when I learned that the campaign for physician assisted suicide has been gaining momentum. The renewed push to legalize “aid in dying,” or “death with dignity,” as various groups euphemistically call it, is the result of positive media coverage in the wake of a young terminally ill woman’s decision to end her life on her own terms and at the precise moment of her choosing.

Whose life is it anyway? I can’t get this question out of SISTER my mind as I come to grips CONSTANCE with the fact that assisted VEIT, LSP suicide legislation is currently being introduced in a dozen states and the District of Columbia. While some persons faced with serious illness consider taking their lives because they fear they will be a burden to others or have no one to care for them, for others this choice is a declaration of personal autonomy. To the question, “Whose life is it anyway?” they answer, “It is mine to do with what I want.”

The claim that each of us is master of our own life, with the power to do with it whatever we choose, just doesn’t make sense. After all, which of us chose the date, time or conditions of our birth? Who of us ultimately gets to choose the path that will lead to our death – will it be an accident, a random act of violence, a sudden heart attack or a prolonged illness? Human logic would tell us that we are never completely in control of our lives. God’s word should convince us of this as well.

(CNS PHOTO/LISA JOHNSTON, ST. LOUIS REVIEW)

In this 2014 file photo, Sister Jean Dwyan laughs with Martah Spurgeon in the hallway of the St. Louis Residence of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Sacred Scripture reminds us that we are God’s creatures – made in his image and likeness – and that our lives are in his hands at every moment, writes Sister Constance Veit, LSP. Sacred Scripture reminds us that we are God’s creatures – made in his image and likeness – and that our lives are in his hands at every moment. From the psalmist’s confession that “every one of my days was decreed before one of them came into being” (Psalm 139:16), to St. Paul’s proclamation that “in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), it is clear that God is the author of our existence. Each of us is a steward – not the master – of our own life.

But God is a loving master, and that makes all the difference. In his landmark encyclical “The Gospel of Life,” St. John Paul II wrote, “If it is true that human life is in the hands of God, it is no less true that these are loving hands, like those of a mother who accepts,

nurtures and takes care of her child.” Pope Francis shared similar sentiments in his 2015 Lenten message: God “is not aloof from us. Each one of us has a place in his heart. He knows us by name, he cares for us and he seeks us out whenever we turn away from him.”

In our sophisticated, materialistic society we easily turn away from God, denying him and his providence over us. Modern man, St. John Paul II wrote, has “lost the sense of God,” and with it, the sense of the human person and his dignity as “mysteriously different” from the rest of creation. In this context we can easily succumb to the temptation to manipulate and dominate our lives rather than cherishing them as a gift.

Suffering is seen as a useless burden to be eliminated at all cost, even if this means suppressing life itself.

There is another path, however. Even as the media focused their attention on a dying woman from California late last year, a similarly ill college freshman in Ohio vowed never to give up. Despite the seeming hopelessness of her situation, she professed her belief that God has the last say. This young woman has found a purpose in her suffering and insists that she still loves life. She keeps on giving of herself and is an inspiration to many.

I pray for this young woman and for all the elderly, disabled and those with terminal illnesses, that they may find peace and courage in the conviction that God knows them by name and holds them close to his heart. Strengthened by the sacraments and assisted

by Our Lady and all the angels and saints, may they serenely abandon their lives into his hands.

Whose life is it anyway? God has given us this life as a gift and he expects us to cherish it as his good stewards.

SISTER CONSTANCE VEIT is director of vocations for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

LETTERS Moral stance encouraging Thank you for your moral clause in the San Francisco high school handbooks. I wanted to be one of the voices that encourage you, even though I know the only good praise comes from God for doing his will and not from man.

How can any organization teach or operate by the beliefs of the organization, if the employees or those representing the organization do not believe in the organization’s beliefs? Today we have ungodly rules or laws that state organizations must hire representatives of their organization that do not believe in the organization’s beliefs.

I am not a Roman Catholic but I am a Christian.

Running a small business by biblical principles has been challenging.

Joseph H. Hart Richmond, Virginia

Schools off course Archbishop Cordileone should be roundly applauded for removing the apparent ambiguity in the guidelines governing the Catholic schools operation under his governance. The guiding principles stated have always been there in the catechism, but their application in many Catholic schools seemed to veer off course in the last decade or two or three.

In any organization, guidelines, assuming they exist, should be as clear as possible.

I had an illustration of this problem myself several years ago when I arranged for a well-known pro-life priest to speak at my old Catholic high school here. After he spoke, the head of the school’s campus ministries program let me know on no uncertain terms that she didn’t support the priest’s views. I asked her if there were any on the school staff that she thought would support the pro-life position. She said “none.”

I pray the good archbishop’s clarifications will enlighten the current staff.

G. P. Heckert San Mateo

Sacred duty to teach I want to voice my support and deep appreciation for Archbishop Cordileone as he seeks to work with our Catholic high schools to make sure that they are providing an accurate and unified teaching of Catholic doctrine. Students have a right to the truth, even difficult ones, and the church has a sacred duty to teach it.

There is so much confusion in the church today

and our archdiocese is no exception. The church is persecuted from without and within; by the world and by our own people, many of whom hold positions of authority and power in our institutions.

Such people say it is hateful to uphold the ancient and unchanging teachings given to us by our Lord and maintained faithfully through the protection of the Holy Spirit in the area of faith and morals.

They say the church has to come into the modern age and change like the hundreds of thousands of Protestant churches who get to vote on doctrine and so change. I converted to Catholicism from Lutheranism 30 years ago precisely because I could see that the Lutheran Church had lost important truths necessary for happiness and human flourishing. I could see that the contraceptive mentality led absolutely to promiscuity, divorce, abortion, and the devaluing of all human beings. My Lutheran church said it was good. The Catholic Church on the other hand stood firm, not changing in spite of the fact that even many clergy wanted this to change. It stood firm, not because it is a club run by a bunch of women-hating men, but because it is protected by the power of the Holy Spirit to not teach error in the area of faith and morals. It can never change.

Archbishop Cordileone and all our priests have generously given a total gift of themselves to share the good news of the Gospel and the way of salvation revealed to us by our Lord himself and safeguarded for all time by the church He established. I pray that the Lord will be His strength and consolation and the strength and consolation of all our beloved priests as they work to make sure that the light of truth shines brightly for those of good will who truly seek it.

Cheryl Amalu Belmont

Appalled at protests I’m appalled at the protests on the cathedral steps against Archbishop Cordileone. For the protests to occur during Mass is scandalous. Lest we forget, the Mass is a reenactment of Calvary. Christ is present on the altar. Yet people who say they are

Catholic stand with protest placards during the sacred ceremony.

The archbishop is upholding the moral teachings of the church. He is asking teachers to do likewise.

His concern is Catholic identity which is a growing problem in high schools.

Many students don’t know the faith and in later years abandon the church. Some become agnostics or join other religions. Jesuit Father Tom Reese has said two-thirds of ex-Catholics become evangelicals. This falling away is occurring because students are not being taught.

I applaud the actions of Archbishop Cordileone. I hope our priests take notice. We need to hear more of God’s justice – not just his mercy. This includes the terrible consequences of mortal sin. At Fatima, Jacinta, who is said to have had a vision of hell said, “if only men knew what awaited them in eternity they would do everything to change their lives.”

I think the archbishop is heeding this advice. He is doing everything he can to save our immortal souls. Catholics throughout the Bay Area should support him.

Cathal Gallagher San Jose

Face of God I am finding it increasingly difficult to be a practicing Catholic. While I find hope and comfort in the Gospel and the sacraments along with the words and deeds of Pope Francis, I fail to see the Gospel lived out in our diocese all too frequently. I am saddened by the lack of inclusion at both Star of the Sea and (now) at our high schools. But then again, who am I to judge. All I know is that when I look up at the altar at my parish, I see the face of God in the men, women and children who serve; and I see the face of God in the faculty who taught me and who teach my children. My Lenten hope is that, to paraphrase St. Francis, we preach the Gospel at all times, and, only if necessary, we use words.

Dr. Mark Delucchi San Francisco

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Many people have already benefited from these kinds of surgical interventions, enabling them to shed a great deal of weight, improve their health and get a new lease on life.

At the same time, however, it’s important for us to examine such interventions from an ethical point of view. It’s not simply a matter of weight loss, achieved by any means whatsoever, but a rational decision made after carefully weighing the risks, benefits FATHER TADEUSZ and alternatives.

PACHOLCZYK Bjorn Hofmann, a medical ethicist who writes about the ethical issues surrounding obesity-correction techniques notes, “Bariatric surgery is particularly interesting because it uses surgical methods to modify healthy organs, is not curative, but offers symptom relief for a condition that is considered to result from lack of self-control and is subject to significant prejudice.”

The healthy organ that is modified is the stomach, which may be either banded or surgically modified with staples to create a small stomach pouch. This causes food to be retained in the small pouch for a longer period of time, creating a feeling of fullness, with the effect of reducing how much a person ingests at a single meal.

Like any surgical technique, bariatric surgery has

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risks associated with it: Mortality from the surgery itself is less than 1 percent, but post-surgical leakage into the abdomen or malfunction of the outlet from the stomach pouch can require further surgeries.

Nearly 20 percent of patients experience chronic gastrointestinal symptoms. Wound infections, clot formation, vitamin deficiencies, cardio-respiratory failure, and other complications like gallstones and osteoporosis can also occasionally arise.

A new device, sometimes described as a “pacemaker for the stomach,” was recently approved by regulators at the Food and Drug Administration.

This rechargeable and implantable device blocks electrical nerve signals between the stomach and the brain and helps to diminish the feeling of being hungry. The cost for the small machine, along with its surgical implantation, is expected to run between $30,000 and $40,000, making it competitive with various forms of bariatric surgery.

Because the stomach pacemaker does not modify the stomach or the intestines as organs, but instead reduces appetite by blocking electrical signals in the abdominal vagus nerve, some of the surgery-related complications associated with modifying or stapling the stomach are eliminated. Other surgical complications related to the insertion of the device into the abdomen have sometimes been observed, however, as well as adverse events associated with its use, like pain, nausea and vomiting.

Bariatric surgery, it should be noted, is not universally successful in terms of the underlying goal of losing weight and some patients ultimately regain the weight they lose either through enlargement of the stomach pouch or a return to compulsive eating patterns or both. Results have been similarly mixed for patients receiving the stomach pacemaker: some lose and keep off significant amounts of weight; others show only negligible improvements when they are unable to adhere to the needed lifelong changes in eating habits.

Among the ethical questions that need to be con-

sidered with regard to surgically-based approaches are: Should an expensive, invasive and potentially risky surgery be routinely used for an anomaly that might be addressed by modifications in diet and eating habits? What criteria should be met before such surgery is seriously considered?

It is also of ethical importance that physicians and surgeons not be unduly influenced by device manufacturers to utilize their various stomach banding apparatuses or their pacemaker devices.

In 1991, the National Institutes of Health developed a consensus statement on “Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity” that offers guidance for clinical decision making. The statement notes that, beyond having a serious weight problem, patients seeking therapy for the first time for their obesity should “generally be encouraged to try nonsurgical treatment approaches including dietary counseling, exercise, behavior modification and support.”

These broad guidelines are intended to spark discussion on the part of patients and their medical team: How much support has an individual really received prior to looking into weight reduction surgery or stomach pacemaker insertion? Some patients may have tried diligently for years to lose weight, while others may have made only cursory, poorly-supported efforts. The need for support is also likely to continue following bariatric surgery or after the implantation of a stomach pacemaker.

In sum, there are notable differences between such surgical interventions and traditional weight loss techniques involving exercise and diet. With the surgical techniques, due diligence will be required both prior to and following such interventions, particularly in light of the ongoing discussions about the cost-effectiveness, safety, risks and outcomes of interventional surgery for the overweight patient.

Sincere but flawed defense

unfortunate. One of the great blessings in my life has been to live with three fine women, my wife of 40-plus years and our two daughters. To a person, they are all strong, intelligent, thoughtful and giving people who have been engaged in God’s work on earth … teaching young children at our parish school, counseling deeply troubled teenagers and adults, providing healing medical services, working with mentally challenged adults and helping in underserved communities. Events like this make it all the more difficult for women such as they are to relate to a church, with all-male senior leadership, that seems to continuously tell women that they are not quite equal and to “be quiet, sit down and do what your are told.” It’s all so sad.

John Mikulsky San Carlos The writer is a member of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos.

FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and serves at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. Visit www.ncbcenter.org.

LETTERS All one in Christ Jesus

Re “The priest’s role in the Mass is an act of fatherhood,” Father Joseph Illo, Feb. 13: I would quote Galatians 3:26-29: “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourself with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heir according to the promise.”

I think the Scripture is very specific on this point.

Once we have clothed ourselves in Christ Jesus, there is no division of male nor female for we are all one in Christ Jesus. It is not dependent on who can represent God more clearly but what God has accomplished in his love for us, and his stating that we are all one in Christ Jesus.

Mary-Alice Eldon Redwood City

What would Mary say?

I write concerning Father Illo’s effort to exclude girls as altar servers at his parish. I also write as a father of two daughters and a grandfather of three granddaughters. I find that decision appalling and dispiriting and its ramifications go far beyond Star of the Sea Parish.

It is asserted that Father Illo has the right to do this.

That may be so, but it doesn’t make it right.

In fact, it is wrongheaded and hearted. And that is not a good place for a pastor to be. The holy family was rebuffed with “there is no room at the inn.” Is the modern version, by a parish no less, to be “there is no room at the altar for one half of the congregation”?

Father Illo may have never bounced a little girl on his knee, or heard a daughter tell him of her dreams, or seen her hurt by the still inherent discrimination in our society. But surely, empathy would lead him to reconsider this decision. I urge him to do so.

Girls are beautiful and spiritual and gifted and their desire to serve the Lord should not be shunted or shortchanged. What would Mary say? I urge the archbishop to help Father Illo to modify this policy.

If not, there is a risk of losing not only a generation of girls, but their grandparents as well.

Robert J. O’Donnell Pacifica The writer is a member of St Peter Parish, Pacifica.

Father Illo makes what is undoubtedly a sincere but also a very flawed defense of his decision to ban altar girls. His remarks appear on Page 14. Three pages earlier there is a Catholic News Service article reporting Pope Francis’ statement that he fully recognizes the need “to ensure women they are not guests but full participants in the various spheres of the life of society and the church, a more widespread and incisive female presence in the community is hoped for.”

Father Illo appears to contradict himself when he says “the church prefers altar boys” after only two paragraphs earlier admitting that 49 of the 50 parishes in the city accept altar girls. A vote of 49-to-1 against him hardly indicates that he is speaking for the church.

Something of the same criticism could be made of his reference to the Diocese of Lincoln where he suggests a cause-and-effect relationship between the diocesan ban on altar girls and a vocation rate which is higher than other dioceses. That may or may not be a valid inference but what is true is that the Diocese of Lincoln is the only diocese in the country which does not participate in the U.S. bishops’ annual compliance audits of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People refuses to allow an audit of clergy sexual abuse. Coincidentally, four pages earlier Catholic San Francisco reports that Cardinal Sean O’Malley says that dioceses which do not comply with rules adopted by their bishops’ conference “must face real consequences.”

Ted Weber Jr. The writer is a parishioner at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Difficult for women to relate

The recent decisions, and the articulated rationale at Star of the Sea Parish regarding female altar servers, have been upsetting to many. However, what I believe is even more upsetting is that archdiocesan leadership, which, given other recent developments, seems to have no difficulty with “command and control” approaches in guiding diocesan affairs, has simply said, “It’s up to the pastor.” One can only draw from this that there is no dispute at the diocesan level with the policies at Star of the Sea, and it almost appears as tacit approval and support of those policies. That is truly

God calls all to serve him

Who among us would say, in light of the growing gap between female and male college graduates, that women should stop going to college? Who among us would say, in light of the growing disparity between the number of men and women in professional occupations, that women should stop entering these occupations?

God calls all of us to serve him. We serve best when we use the specific spiritual gifts he has given us. If children, regardless of whether they are boys or girls, have been called to serve God in our church, should we dissuade them from following the call God has put into their hearts? Some would cite increases in weekly attendance as a positive effect of doing just that.

What are the negative effects tomorrow for dissuading girls from service in the church today? Our church has survived innumerable wars and countless crises for the past 2,000 years. Although the heart and message of our church has remained constant, the structures and procedures of the church are not as they were 2,000 years, 1,000 years, or even 50 years ago.

Are they?

May we reflect upon what the heart of the church and its teachings entail. May God then push us as one body to make any changes on this and other issues facing us ... for our good and the good of all of his church.

Elsa Isaacs, on behalf of the Women of MHR Ministry Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco

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LETTERS Role of boys and men at Mass I agree with Father Illo’s stance regarding training only boys to serve at Mass. Whenever I attend services with only altar girls, I feel uncomfortable and wonder what happened to the altar boys and can’t imagine that boys really want to follow in the girls’ footsteps.

In fact, when I attend my aunt’s church not only are there only altar girls but women seem to do everything except actually say Mass. Undoubtedly these are all good women but it certainly seems odd to have men mostly removed from the picture.

As stated in “Today’s Catholic woman” by Shannon Cronan in Catholic San Francisco’s Feb. 6 issue: “Women don’t have to act like men in order to shine in the world.”

Virginia Hayes San Francisco

Who are the saints?

Letters in Catholic San Francisco’s Feb. 6 issue largely support girl altar servers. Who are the saints in our Catholic Church? The word saint in the church is used in a restricted sense as referring to extremely holy men and women who share in God’s holiness to an extraordinary degree. The saints are the product of the 1,000 years of the Roman Catholic Latin-rite Mass.

Altar servers during that long period of Catholic history were young males.

The first Mass of our church was celebrated by Jesus at the Last Sup-

per. His Twelve Apostles assisted Jesus at the first Mass. Jesus’ mother was not present at the Mass.

Roy Petri Sonoma

Women in the church Catholic San Francisco posted on Pope Francis saying, “I am convinced at the urgency of offering space to women in the life of the church ...”

(Feb. 13, Page 11).

On his recent arrival at Star of the Sea, Father Illo was to receive national attention by his urgent denial of a few young women to serve on the altar. He and his supporters must be missing Pope Francis’ memos. A few young girls are excluded at Star of the Sea while, nationally, millions of young women are leaving church identity.

Ed and Peg Gleason The writers are parishioners of St Boniface Parish, San Francisco and former directors of Family Life Ministries in the archdiocese.

Courage of Irena Sendler I was happy to read your newspaper article on Irena Sendler (“How one young Catholic saved 2,500 kids,” Christina Capecchi column, Jan. 28).

It took a lot of courage to save the kids from certain death. She was in constant danger from being caught if the Nazis found out her network in hiding and saving these innocent kids.

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ow do we make church a welcoming place? There are many strategies: introductions, nametags, friendly ushers, donuts after Mass.

And yet the real work of welcoming isn’t something we can delegate to the parish staff.

It’s something that has to start with the people in the pews.

People like, say, you and me.

GINNY KUBITZ Let me take MOYER you back in time, to a noon Mass at a nearby parish. My husband was sick, so it was just me and my two young boys. I missed most of the Liturgy of the Word because I was trying to keep my younger son from narrating his picture books in a loud voice; I missed the homily because of my boys’ sudden urgent need to use the bathroom. We all filed out of the pew, leaving the books scattered on the seats, and joined the line for the restroom.

Once business was concluded, we headed back to the pews. And as we drew closer, my heart sank to find that a man was now sitting in our seats.

There was still room for the three of us to squeeze in, so we did. The man obligingly moved over, but I was still miffed. As if Mass with kids isn’t hard enough already, I thought to myself, now we have hardly any room. And with all these books, isn’t it obvious someone was sitting here? The Mass went on, and so did the pity party in my head.

And though I didn’t vocalize these thoughts, I’m sure they were discernible. My posture, my expression, the waves of disapproval emanating from me: It was probably pretty obvious that I didn’t want that man there.

But after Mass, I realized I hadn’t been fair. This was not a personal slight; it was simply someone taking a seemingly

empty seat so he didn’t have to stand at the back.

And really, what did I know about this man? Perhaps he was a Catholic returning to his faith, attending Mass for the first time in years. If so, would his strongest impression of it be the young mom who was subtly but unmistakably peeved at him for taking a seat he’d thought was empty?

And even if he was a regular parishioner, didn’t I still have a role to play in making him feel welcome? Wasn’t there something I could have done to reflect God’s generosity and love?

Yes, there was, and I hadn’t done it. I resolved to do better next time.

Because here’s what I keep realizing: Mass is not about reserving a space for my own private worship. It’s about sharing a space with others. We go to Mass because even if we don’t know each other, even if we never see each other again, for a brief but powerful hour we recognize that we have a shared identity as children of God. And though Mass is about encountering Jesus in the Eucharist, we also find Jesus in the families squeezing past us in the pews. We find him in the woman who comes in late and trips over our feet. We even find him in the man who takes our seat when we’re taking our kids to the bathroom, and if we give that person the cold shoulder because he’s keeping us from the Mass experience we want, we’re missing the forest for the trees.

But if we’re genuinely kind to the people around us, if we smile and make eye contact and willingly share our space, we’re edging a little closer to the kind of church we’re capable of being: a church that welcomes everyone, just as Jesus does.

And I like knowing that every Sunday is a new chance to get it right.

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Vaccination ethics

measles outbreak, the safety of childhood vaccinations, and the role of parental rights in choosing to vaccinate or not to vaccinate is all over the news. Incredibly, families on both the left and right ends of the political spectrum are dubious about vaccinating their children from childhood diseases for a variety of reasons. While we’re on the subject of vaccines, this may be a good time to review some moral objections that parents may have about vaccines and what the Vatican has to say about it.

The vaccine created for VICKI EVANS chickenpox, as well as the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR), were all cultured on human cell strains derived from fetuses that were electively aborted in the 1960’s. These fetal cells were not actual ingredients in the vaccines. They were the medium in which the vaccines were cultured or grown. But their origin in aborted fetal tissue would seem to render them illicit. The question many are asking today is, how illicit? Is it ethical for parents to vaccinate their children because of the vaccines’ genesis in abortion? Or does the risk to public health outweigh the fact that these vaccines are morally tainted?

In 2005 the Pontifical Academy for Life published

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Zen Orion-Orchard, 10, kisses his younger brother, Jackson, Feb. 4 while their mother Melissa Orion looks on. The Ashland, Oregon, mom has declined to vaccinate her children. Measles cases in the U.S. in 2015 have already reached record numbers, putting a spotlight on the debate over some parents’ reasons for rejecting immunizations for their children.

“Moral Reflections on Vaccines Prepared from Cells Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses.” This reflection explores the moral culpability of the parties who participated in preparing, marketing and using them. As you might expect, the further away you get from the historical abortion itself and the production of the vaccines by pharmaceutical companies, the more moral culpability decreases. Add to the equation the fact that there are no available vaccines in the U.S. that were produced free of these fetal cell strains.

There is a grave duty to use alternative vaccines if they exist and to conscientiously object to those having moral problems. There is also a moral duty to fight and employ every lawful means to change unscrupulous and unethical actions of the pharmaceutical industry with regard to tainted vaccines. If, however, there are no alternate vaccines available and ethically acceptable, and if these vaccines cannot be abstained from without causing harm to the children and indirectly to the population as a whole, the vaccines may be used.

The reason is that the risk to public health, if one chooses not to vaccinate, outweighs the legitimate concern about the origins of the vaccine. This is especially important for parents who have a moral obligation to protect the life and health of their children and those around them.

EVANS is respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Finding peace of mind during Lent

Fidelity learning labs

ociety is awash in infidelity! Lies, cheating and broken promises are the stuff of media headlines and these infidelities grab our attention and rouse our ire. Cheating goes on in high-stakes exams, in sports, on Wall Street, inside and outside welfare offices, in both back and front offices of government, in parishes, and especially in relationships.

We decry and denounce it and call it scandal. But we are also attracted by it, as the popularity of many cable and TV shows and films underscores. While many MELANIE MOREY people denounce infidelity, somehow it persists with all of its corrosive effects on society and individuals.

Infidelities – large and small – chip away at trust and faith, idealism and confidence and they fuel bitterness, resentment, and cynicism. With no upside, infidelity still fascinates American society.

Among fidelity’s many forms, one of the most pernicious is marital infidelity. Studies indicate that the vast majority of Americans believe that marital infidelity is morally wrong but it is on the rise in the United States. That is true in general and for newlyweds and couples over the age of 60, as well.

The temptation to cheat comes early and it seems to last a long time. American culture is seduced by infidelity.

The problem of infidelity is widespread and ways to combat it are many and varied. Surely Catholic high schools should be in the forefront of both promoting fidelity as an ideal and also offering practice in the habit of fidelity. One obvious way for Catholic high schools to develop and nourish the virtue of fidelity in general is to cultivate fidelity to the Church in particular.

Fidelity is a virtue, not a notion. Wanting to be faithful is not enough. Virtues must be learned, practiced, and cultivated over time. It takes discipline, repetition, and guidance by mentors who are themselves deeply faithful.

Conventional wisdom suggests that urging religious fidelity on adolescents is developmentally out of sync. Teenage years are years of experimentation, according to secular wisdom. Students have to step back and challenge beliefs and traditions. It is a time of questioning, rejecting, and innovating and resisting this natural developmental process is counterproductive at best and futile at worst.

A sliver of this secular wisdom is correct. Young people do resist and question authority and try to sort out what they believe or even if they believe. It is only natural. But where and how they do their ques-

In living out this commitment and calling their students to cultivate it, Catholic schools can be fidelity learning labs. tioning and resisting can shape how they understand and prepare themselves to be faithful people in marriage and in all the other dimensions of their lives.

In a Catholic high school, students wrestle with their faith within a religious culture in the school that values, encourages, and witnesses to the virtue of fidelity. In sports and extracurricular activities students learn how to be faithful to their drills, their practices, their rehearsals, their coaches, advisers and teammates. In all of these situations there are consequences for their infidelity and students learn that. The real challenge comes, however, when bad consequences are not readily apparent. It is at these moments it becomes so easy to cheat. And it is precisely here that the church and its teaching have something powerful to offer. Catholic faith asks people to conduct themselves always as if they are present to God who both loves and cares for them because, of course, they are.

If the religious culture in a school is pervasive, students’ confusion, questions, and doubts are focused in the direction of acquiring deeper faith, not letting it go. Catholic schools teach students how to stick with the faith when it seems difficult and no longer as appealing as it once was. They encourage them to dig deeper into the richness of the tradition and be willing to be challenged by it. In so doing, Catholic schools help their students come to a deeper and more profound understanding of the faith. They also equip them with the skills necessary to be more faithful for a lifetime.

Marriage in today’s society is difficult and when it fails or falters because of infidelity, children suffer terrbily. Catholic schools are places that should prepare students to be faithful so they truly can be successful in marriage and in life. The virtue of fidelity, however, is only acquired through discipline and practice. Being faithful to the church helps Catholic high school students come closer to Jesus Christ and deepen their faith. Fidelity to the church also is a way to practice the very skills required to remain true and constant in other areas of life.

In claiming a religious identity and mission, Catholic schools affirm their commitment to the Catholic faith and to living it out with integrity. In living out this commitment and calling their students to cultivate it, Catholic schools can be fidelity learning labs.

MOREY is director of the Office of Catholic Identity Assessment for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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ach time I see a baby sleeping peacefully, it reminds me of peace of mind at its best. Unfortunately, as that child grows, he or she will experience a life filled with anxieties that are forever disrupting its serenity.

Thanks to Lent, we have the opportunity to reflect on peace of mind and how to best maintain it. Throughout the Gospels, Christ repeatedly says the heart is the primary place for finding peace. He is forever asking, “Is your heart in the right place and do you listen to it when it isn’t?”

Unfortunately, listening FATHER EUGENE to the heart is usually not HEMRICK the first place we go to when disturbed. Why is this? It is because we tend to look “out there” for the disturbance. That disturbance may be coming from a spouse, job, neighbor or some other aspect of our anxious world.

Christ, however, reminds us to look inward, to call our soul, even as it finds itself stretched among desires, plans and intentions. Often, however, we find ourselves in a world that has lost its ability to contemplate, to employ the power of meditation to sort through and gain control over life’s anxieties.

We live in a world of heightened distractions that hinder us from shutting off the things that disrupt us.

What might be the vices that most sicken the heart?

Christ gives us the answer in Mark 7:21-23: “From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile.”

Here Christ connects defilement with our conscience.

When we are in sync with the conscience, a wholesome, peaceful order follows. When we are at odds with it, it defiles us with shame, guilt and sleepless nights.

But why do these feelings arise? It is because we haven’t been true to the person we truly are. We aren’t the person we desire to be. We don’t truly have love of self because we have forfeited God’s love in us. In telling us to love “your neighbor as yourself,” Christ tells us that we must first truly love what we stand for in order to love another person. This love puts the mind at peace.

Lent is often pictured as a time to “get in shape,” or to fast and abstain as a means for improving the spiritual life. But it’s also equally true that it is an opportunity to work on and improve peace of mind.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Second Sunday of Lent

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.

MARK 9:2-10 GENESIS 22:1-2, 9A, 10-13, 15-18 God put Abraham to the test. He called to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” he replied. Then God said: “Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you.” When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Then he reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. But the Lord’s messenger called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. “Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the messenger. “Do not do the least thing to him. I know now how devoted you are to God, since you did not withhold from me your own beloved son.”

As Abraham looked about, he spied a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So he went and took the ram and offered it up as a holocaust in place of his son. Again the Lord’s messenger called to Abraham from heaven and said: “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your beloved son, I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies, and in

your descendants all the nations of the earth shall find blessing-all this because you obeyed my command.”

PSALM 116:10, 15, 16-17, 18-19 I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

I believed, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.” Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds.

To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

My vows to the Lord I will pay in the presence of all his people, In the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

ROMANS 8:31B-34 Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but

handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us, who will condemn? Christ Jesus it is who died—or, rather, was raised— who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.

MARK 9:2-10 Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.

Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.” Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.

A quick, staggering glimpse of heaven

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s I reread Mark’s account of the Transfiguration, I’m reminded of the multiple times God reveals himself so intimately to select individuals in Scripture. These episodes typically follow the same pattern (Revelation 1:10-18, Daniel 10:5-8, etc.): The Lord reveals himself in glory in such a way that the observer can hardly stand it and usually is shocked he’s lived through the experience, “I have seen the face of the Lord (and lived)” (Genesis 32:30).

By speaking intently about his own passion prior to the Transfiguration, Jesus prepares his Apostles to receive a similar epiphany.

They will only be able to SISTER MARIA understand this occurrence CATHERINE, OP after he dies and rises. This glimpse of Christ in glory, although puzzling and stunning, serves to strengthen them for the trials ahead: Christ’s rejection by religious authorities, his bloody scourging and way of the cross, and finally his humiliating death by crucifixion.

With a theology so dependent upon personal

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POPE FRANCIS LENT: TIME FOR SPIRITUAL BATTLE AGAINST EVIL

Lent, the liturgical time that refers to the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert after his baptism in the Jordan, was the subject of the pope’s reflection before his Feb. 21 Angelus prayer with the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Jesus “faces Satan ‘body to body,’ he unmasks his temptations and is victorious. It is up to us to protect this victory in our daily life.”

Christian life is about my participation in that deep, awe-filled, exchange of love, a love that carries a splendor that cannot compare to any other earthly thing. experience and understanding, Jesus creates this touchstone moment for his most intimate friends.

This flash of the celestial is meant to be a brief slice of what heaven is like. The whole point of life is to participate fully in the eternal exchange of love in the Trinity, a love so sweeping and consuming as to stun and stagger us. We lose sight of this in the muck of sin, however, and lose our field of reference. The Transfiguration is a sign of hope that is both terrible and exhilarating, so much so that Peter wants to build tents and stay there to keep the experience alive. He can think of nothing else in his confused grappling. The Transfiguration is a quick, staggering glimpse of heaven – gas for the journey, something to keep us going, so that when times get rough we remember what it’s all for.

I can think of touchstone moments like this in my own life when I received a glimpse of the communion of love that God possesses (and is)

and wants me to possess. For example, I remember the night when I entered a perpetual eucharistic adoration chapel for the first time. A friend had explained to me Christ’s presence in the Eucharist, speaking with such conviction and absolute certainty that the little host was really God. I had to see for myself. I was in awe as much with the realization that God was waiting for me there in that chapel as I was with the majesty of the monstrance that held him.

Christian life is about my participation in that deep, awe-filled, exchange of love, a love that carries a splendor that cannot compare to any other earthly thing, a love that makes me want to grasp a hold of those moments and do anything to make them last forever. Alas, like Peter, James and John, I also have to descend from the mountain of these experiences. The key for me is that I’m descending with Jesus, and enjoying this experience of him that keeps me wanting more.

These special moments with him, his Father, and the Holy Spirit are meant to draw me closer during the times when I cannot feel his presence, when he doesn’t seem close by. These are what give my prayer the lifeblood and encouragement that I need for the journey: Heaven is not far off.

SISTER MARIA CATHERINE is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, and teaches English at Marin Catholic High School.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 2: Monday of the Second Week in Lent. DN 9:4b-10. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. LK 6:36-38.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. JER 17:5-10. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. SEE LK 8:15. LK 16:19-31.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin. IS 1:10, 16-20. PS 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. EZ 18:31. MT 23:1-12.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6: Friday of the Second Week of Lent. GN 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a.

PS 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21. JN 3:16. MT 21:33-43, 45-46.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4: Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland. JER 18:18-20. PS 31:5-6, 14, 15-16. JN 8:12. MT 20:17-28.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7: Saturday of the Second Week of Lent. Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. MI 7:14-15, 18-20. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. LK 15:18. LK 15:1-3, 11-32.

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or the past six months, while undergoing treatment for cancer, I was working on a reduced schedule. The medical treatments, while somewhat debilitating, left me still enough health and energy to carry on the administrative duties in my present ministry, but they didn’t allow me any extra energy to teach classes or to offer any lectures, workshops, or retreats at outside venues. I joked with my family and friends that I was “under house arrest”; but I was so grateful for the energy that I still had. I was focused on staying healthy, and the health FATHER RON that I was given was appreciROLHEISER ated as a great grace.

A month ago, the medical treatments ended and, soon after, most of my normal energies returned and I resumed a normal schedule that included again teaching inside a classroom. Having been on the sidelines for a half year left me a little nervous as I entered the classroom for my first three-hour session. My nervousness passed quickly as the class robustly engaged the topic and, after the three hours, I walked out of the class feeling a wonderful energy that I hadn’t felt for six months. Teaching (which I consider both my profession and my vocation) lifted both my heart and my body in a way that it hadn’t been lifted in months.

At first, I felt some anxiety and guilt about this.

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mixed as our motives will always be, something else, something much more positive, needs to be factored into this, namely, the fact that God gave us our various talents and that God feels good about us using them.

Eric Liddell, the Olympic runner, whose story is featured in the Oscar-winning movie “Chariots of Fire,” once made this comment: “When I run, I feel God’s pleasure.” He didn’t make this comment lightly. As his biography and “Chariots of Fire” make clear, Eric Liddell, in his quest to win an Olympic gold medal, was motivated more by his faith than by his own ego.

His faith had him believe that, since God gave him this unique talent, God, not unlike any proud parent, took a genuine delight in seeing him use that gift. Moreover, that inner sense that God was happy with his use of his talent filled him, Eric, with a wonderful energy whenever he ran.

Seen from that perspective, we see that the root and source of his motivation and pleasure in running was, ultimately, not his desire to win gold medals and popular adulation. He was motivated by an inner sense that God had given him a special gift and wanted him to use that gift. Like everyone else who is human, he, no doubt, enjoyed the adulation he received for his suc-

cesses, but he knew too that the deepest joy he felt in using his gift had its ultimate source in God. And this, I believe, is true for everybody of us. When anyone uses properly the gifts that God gave him or her, God will take pleasure in that.

Not long after I felt that burst of pleasure and energy from again teaching inside a classroom, I was talking to a very gifted young teacher. He shared about how much he enjoys teaching but how he worries too that the pleasure he derives from it is somehow too much connected to his ego. I gave him the Liddell quote, assuring him that, whenever he teaches well, God takes pleasure in it. He much appreciated Liddell’s comment.

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Most Holy Redeemer pre-Lenten breakfast raises $800 for charity For the past several years, Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco has celebrated the start of Lent with a “Fat Sunday” pancake breakfast. For the past five years, the parish has made the event a fundraiser for Peter Claver Community, an archdiocesan Catholic Charities program that cares for people who are HIV positive or who have AIDS. Each parishioner is asked to bring three canned goods or donate $5.

The offerings are given to Peter Claver Community for their food pantry. This year, seven boxes of canned goods and $800 were delivered to the community.

According to Catholic Charities’ website, Peter Claver Community is a licensed care facility for the chronically ill. The residents are previously homeless adults living with disabling HIV or AIDS. Opened in 1985, the program marked one of the earliest attempts by any organization to aggressively serve those sick and dying from HIV/AIDS. Peter Claver Community provides permanent placement and comprehensive care to 32 San Francisco residents that are very low-income, who have disabling HIV/AIDS, with co-occurring major psychiatric disorders and/or substance abuse disorders.

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Deacon Steve Michaelson, 70, – served at St. Pius Deacon Steve Michaelson, ordained Feb. 25, 1995, by Archbishop John R. Quinn, died Feb. 11 in Paso Robles, where he and his family had made their home in recent years. He was Deacon Steve 70 years old.

Michaelson Deacon Michaelson served at St. Pius Church in Redwood City for more than 10 years before retiring to Paso Robles in the Diocese of Monterey. He continued service as a deacon at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Paso Robles.

Deacon Michaelson was an accredited sommelier and worked for almost 20 years at Woodside’s Bella Vista Restaurant.

Deacon Michaelson is survived by his wife Cherie and their children.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 21 at St. Rose of Lima Church in Paso Robles. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Pius Church, March 13 at 11 a.m.

Remembrances may be made to Sandwiches on Sunday c/o St Rose Church, 820 Creston Road, Paso Robles 93446.

From left, Toby Dilorenzo, Precious Blood Father Matthew Link, Jina Tanner-Klingele and Michael Williams are pictured at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco Feb. 15 at the annual parish pre-Lenten “Fat Sunday” pancake breakfast.

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Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community traveled to Acora, Peru, this past December to celebrate a vital Mercy link established in 1964. Sister Biviana Chique Espezua made final vows and Sister Carmen Rosa Ccallomamani celebrated her 25th jubilee in the Church of San Juan Evangelista in Acora on Dec 13. Thirty-nine sisters of Mercy came from areas of Peru and the U.S. to recognize the 50th anniversary of a community begun in hope as a mission from Burlingame.

The group traveling from Burlingame included many who had ministered there: Sisters Gloria Avila, Judy Carle, Patsy Harney, Phyllis Hughes, Martha Larsen, Anne Marie Miller, Gloria Miller and Mary Waskowiak, Associate Regina Bailey and Lenore Greene.

Fifty years ago, four Mercy sisters from the Burlingame Region boarded a plane in San Francisco to respond to the call of Pope Pius XII to spread the Gospel to Latin America. The sisters chose for their mission Peru’s Altiplano, at an altitude of 12,500 feet, a region the United Nations had declared a permanent

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Sister Judy Carle, Associate Regina Bayley, and Sisters Phyllis Hughes, Mary Waskowiak, Patsy Harney, Martha Larsen, Marlene Parrott, Gloria Miller, Deborah Watson, Carmen Rosa Ccallomamani and Julie Matthews at the Mass celebrating Sister Biviana Chique Espezua final vows and Sister Carmen’s 25th jubilee. Each sign lists the year and names of sisters missioned in that year. The last sign for 2009 shows when the sisters there formed CCASA – Caribbean, Central America, South America Community – a community of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. disaster area because of its inadequacy to sustain life. The region was attractive because in addition to the profound need, the help of more experienced Maryknollers who had served there for years was available to the sisters.

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Their work has had rich rewards.

Peruvian women began to be attracted to the Mercy community. In 1989, Sister Carmen Rosa entered the community and several others have followed.

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PERU: Sisters of Mercy travel to remember and celebrate FROM PAGE 23

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She was happy to note the use of the Aymara language in the ceremony.

“The parents of Nidia Huanacuni Quispe, another of our Aymara sisters, offered the traditional penitential rite with lots of incense,” said Sister Judy Carle.

As the North American sisters returned to what was once their mission and is now an independent community of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, they found memories but also growth.

“An image of the days of celebration that stays with me is that of a huge tapestry, “said Sister Deborah Watson, who is now in Argentina.

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Mercy Sister Biviana Chique Espezua made final vows in Acora, Peru, accompanied by members of Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community who celebrated a vital Mercy link established in 1964.

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ST. ANNE SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Catholic Schools Week at the school saw students “focus on service and outreach to the needy and lonely,” the school said. A sock drive helped the homeless, Valentine cards were created and delivered to veterans, student chefs cooked up 350 sandwiches for distribution at Martin de Porres – House of Hospitality and what was called “souper bowl Friday” brought in cans of soup for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. “Allin-all, our students collected over 900 pairs of socks and 560 cans of soup,” the school said.

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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PRAYER SERVICE: Franciscan Father Tommy King, pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, led a public prayer service at the corner of Mission and 11th streets Feb.

13 to honor the life of a San Francisco man whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase at the same location Jan. 28. Those present at the vigil left a candle in memory of the victim, 58-year-old Omar Shahwan, and in the spirit of healing for the man’s family, the community and the perpetrator.

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The tour will end in Rome after a one day visit to Orvieto, the Etruscan gem of Umbria.

The cost of $5,198 per person covers accommodations in 4- star hotels, two meals daily, including wine, in special restaurants, admission to museums and sites, plus bus and boat transfers. Arrangements are being organized by Little World Travel of Belmont.

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Sights of Scotland Tour Hosted by Father Jose Chacko

10 days from $1549* Departs September 9, 2015. Start in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland with a panoramic tour where you’ll visit the medieval Edinburgh Castle that is visible for miles and see the Scottish Crown Jewels.

Travel to The Highlands, with a stop at the iconic Scone Palace along the way and enjoy a scenic drive through Cairngorms National Park. Witness the stunning views of Inverness and Loch Ness where you’ll take a short scenic cruise. Continue to the Isle of Skye and Fort William, near the UK’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Head South along Scotland’s shoreline into Argyll with a visit to Inveraray Castle.

Complete your vacation in Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland for a city tour where you’ll visit the popular park - Glasgow Green and George Square.

Mass will be celebrated some days on tour and includes eight breakfasts and four dinners. Your Chaplain is Father Jose, from Travel Gadsden, AL. He is the Pastor with other at St. James Catholic Church.

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Turkey: Following the Footsteps of

St. Paul and Visiting the 7 Churches of the Book of Revelation (with Mass at the home of the Blessed Mother in Ephesus) October 6-20 Fr. Mario, a Franciscan who holds a PhD in New Testament, has lived in the Holy Land and has been leading pilgrims to the Holy Places continuously for the past 39 years. The Franciscans have been official custodians of the Holy Places for over 700 years.

Write, call or email for free brochure: Fr. Mario DiCicco, O.F.M. St. Peter’s Church, 110 West Madison St., Chicago, IL 60602 (312) 853-2411, cell: (312) 888-1331 mmdicicco@gmail.com | FrMarioTours.weebly.com

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FRIDAY, FEB. 27 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) 3734508; 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.

ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome; www.knightsofsaintfrancis. com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 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. March 1: “Helping Couples to Communicate and Engage Their Hearts,” with family

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center Sister Suzanne with Mercy Sister Toolan Suzanne Toolan since 1983. (650) 340-7452.

therapist Terry Peterson; www.stignatiuscff.org/adult-faith-formation/.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish, Donworth Hall, 401 Eucalyptus Drive next to Stonestown YMCA, soup supper and talk 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) 6812444, ext. 27.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 UNITED FOR LIFE: United for Life dinner, Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. Guest Dana Cody of the Life Legal Foundation speaks on euthanasia. (415) Dana Cody 567-2293. Please make reservations by Feb. 28. uflsf.com. uflsf@yahoo.com.

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SHRINE MASSES: Wednesdays during Lent Mass will be celebrated at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach at

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CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

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.

HOLOCAUST PLAY: “Etty,” an internationally acclaimed play of a young woman’s struggle to sustain humanity in the face of the brutality of the Holocaust, 3 p.m., Mercy High School, San Francisco, with overview from Holocaust survivor Jacob Boas. Reception follows in theatre lobby. Free admission. Please RSVP by March 2 tabney@mercyhs.org, www.mercyhs. org; (415) 334-7941.

2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Church of the Visitacion, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland, San Francisco; Friday 9 a.m.-5

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ART SALE: “Celebrate Heart,” St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco, 6 p.m. featuring the sale of paintings by Susan Schneider and other Bay Area artists. Tickets $125 with proceeds benefiting work of the Little Sisters of the Poor, www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

THE PROFESSIONALS

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MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bob Air Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast and talk from Consul General of Ireland Philip Grant; members breakfast $8, visitors $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.

NURSES: Join the National Association of Catholic Nurses and become a part of the Catholic nurses’ voice.

Acquaint yourself with the organization at a “Meet & Greet” event 10-noon, Alma Via Retirement Center, One Thomas More Drive, San Francisco.

Vicki Evans, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is guest speaker. Mary Ann Haeuser, (415) 454-0979; haeuser@comcast.net; www.naacn-usa.org.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4 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.

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MONDAY, MARCH 9 GRIEF SUPPORT: St. Pius Grief Ministry is offering a facilitated nine-week support group session through April 20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. If you are in the early stages of your loss or have not previously attended a grief support group, this program may benefit you. (650) 361-0655; griefministry@pius.org. Walk-ins are welcome.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 ‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., March 11, Apr. 15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate. www.msjdominicans.org.

OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 9 a.m. followed by parish procession and reception. (650) 755-9786; olphrectory@gmail.com.

LENTEN TALK: The Challenge of an Interior Life with Carmelite Father Jack Welch, 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A, St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco. The Carmelite tradition encourages an interior life of availability to God. It challenges today’s pilgrim to live beneath the surface of life. info@stteresasf.org; www.stteresasf.org; (415) 285-5272.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

ST. PATRICK LUNCH: The Hibernian Newman Club crosses its 50th year with this event benefiting campus ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 11 a.m. Westin St. Father Paul Francis Hotel, 333 Fitzgerald, SJ Powell St., San Francisco. Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco is keynote speaker. Tickets $100.

Event includes traditional Irish music and entertainment. www. hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415) 386-3434.

PRIORY TALKS: “Restorative Justice: An Alternative Path,” with Jack Dison, Ph.D. presenting on restorative justice as a way to move from brokenness to at least some degree of healing and wholeness, even in Jack Dison very difficult situations such as violent crime, 7-9 p.m., 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-spirituallife/insight-speakers-series/.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New Members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 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 at $10

per child. Karen Beale, (415) 250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120; Father Roger Gustafson (415) 435-1122.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 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 at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. 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 WisconsinSuperior. A choral prelude will precede the liturgy. Visit www.pcchoirs.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 ANNIVERSARY: St. James School, 321 Fair Oaks St., San Francisco, celebrates its 90th anniversary with 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. James Catholic Church, 1086 Guerrero St., followed by tours and refreshments at the school, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Constance Dalton, cdalton@saintjamessf.org, (415) 647-8972.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 LENTEN SERIES: Reawakening your discipleship with Father John Hurley, 7 p.m., St. Gregory Parish, Vanos gym, Hacienda at 28th Avenue, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Coffee and dessert follow. (650) 345-8506.

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ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: Men’s Club at St. Anne of the Sunset St. Patrick Dinner and Dance in Moriarty Hall, 6p.m. with special appearance by Bushmill’s Irish Piper Band of San Francisco plus traditional IrishAmerican dinner, Irish entertainment from the Whelan-Kennelly Academy and dancing to music of The Spinheads; $30 adults/$10 children 12 and under. Patty Diner, (415)5667500.

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HOME SERVICES

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YMI MASS: Young Men’s Institute celebrates 132 years, St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, 4:30 p.m. with barbecue dinner following in parish hall, $20 per person. All are welcome to attend, reservations required. Mike Dimech, (650) 922-2667; mdimech7@ gmail.com.

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HELP WANTED Full-Time Kindergarten Teaching Position

Saint Philip the Apostle School San Francisco Noe Valley Location Qualifications: i Must have a valid, California teaching credential i Experience Preferred i Practicing Catholic preferred, all inquiries will be considered. i Available - August, 2015

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Send cover le er and resume to: Mrs. Remy Evere Saint Philip the Apostle School 665 Elizabeth Street San Francisco, CA 94114 (415)824-8467 FAX (415)282-5746 Email: remy.evere @saintphilipschool.org

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The Archdiocese of San Francisco will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109

The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20152016 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.

Please send resume and a letter of interest by April 1st, 2015 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT The COSJ Administrative Assistant provides office systems and operations support to the members of the Contemplatives of Saint Joseph community.

Part-time position (non-exempt), 4-weekdays per week. Salary commensurate with skills and experience.

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Director of Pastoral Ministry

California MENTOR is seeking loving families with a spare bedroom in the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin to support adults with special needs. Receive a competitive monthly stipend and ongoing support. For information on how you can become a Mentor call 650-389-5787 ext. 2

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Catholic Charities is currently accepting applications for the position of Volunteer Manager of the agency. Are you a highly organized, detail-oriented, energetic person who loves the administrative side of managing volunteers from churches, schools and corporations to serve children, families, and individuals in need? Are you interested in working full-time in a fast-paced, faith-based, social services environment at one of the largest nonprofits in the Bay Area? Are you enthusiastic about maintaining Catholic Charities national certification as a Service Enterprise for its excellent use of skilled volunteers at all levels of the agency? If you answered yes to ALL of these questions, take the next step and review the full position description for Volunteer Manager at Catholic Charities by visiting our website at http://catholiccharitiessf.org/careers/

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a Director of Pastoral Ministries. This is a full-time position and is classified as Exempt. The Archdiocese encompasses San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin. Located in the Archdiocese are over 400,000 Catholics, with over 300 priests and 700 religious. Among the Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese are 75 elementary and high schools, 3 colleges/universities, one seminary, and seven Catholic cemeteries.

The Director of the Department of Pastoral Ministry, as a member of the Archbishop’s Cabinet, has the responsibility to manage the Pastoral Ministries Offices including Religious Education, Child and Youth Protection, Marriage and Family Life and Young Adult Ministry.

Key Responsibilities and Duties • In work situation and dealing with co-workers and public, adhere to the Mission Statement of the Pastoral Center and follow policies and procedures of the Archdiocese and the Pastoral Center.

• Religious Education • Serves as the delegate of the Archbishop on catechetical matters and youth ministry.

• Directs the development and administration of training and certification policies for the catechist according to the guidelines established by the Bishops of the California Catholic Conference.

• Child and Youth Protection • Directs the development and implementation of systems for tracking compliance by adults with the Safe Environment Program.

• Works with the Legal Office in publishing, revising, and maintaining the “Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines on Child Abuse.

• Marriage and Family Life • Directs the development and implementation of programs on Marriage Preparation and Natural Family Planning.

• Young Adult Ministry • Directs the implementation of Young Adult-centered goals in concert with parishes

Academic Qualifications, Work Experience and Skills • • • •

MA in Theology/Religious Studies or related field or the equivalent in study and/or experience is preferred Five years administrative and supervisory experience in parish or Archdiocesan position is preferred A working knowledge of the various aspects of ministry, spirituality, and cultural diversity found in the Archdiocese Demonstrated oral and written skills

To Apply: Qualified applicants should e-mail resume and cover letter to:

schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org Patrick Schmidt, Associate Director of Human Resources Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, Ca 94109-6602 Compensation: Competitive, Non-Profit, Excellent Benefits Package.

Equal Opportunity Employer; qualified candidates with criminal histories are considered.