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Celebrating lives devoted to God Hundreds of religious gather at cathedral for day honoring consecrated life VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Religious from the archdiocese gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 2 for a day celebrating consecrated life. First row: Sister Dorothea Quinn, CSJ; Father Ronald Clemo, SJ; Sister Noreen O’Connor, CSJ; Sister Paula Tak, SNDdeN; Sister Edith Hurley, RSM; Sister Irene Prieto, RCM; Sister Cindy Kaye, RSM; Sister Jean Evans, RSM; Sister Kathleen O’Hanlon, RSM; Second row: Sister Nancy Usselmann, FSP; Sister Kathleen Kearney, RSM; Sister Patrick Mary Kearney, OP/MSJ; Sister Lorraine Mullins, RSM; Sister Marianne Smith, SHF; Sister Corinne Avila, PBVM; Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone; Sister Rose Chen, RSCJ; Sister Kathleen Dolan, RSCJ; Sister Sally Brady, OP/SR. Third row: Sister Celeste Nuttman, RSM; Sister Ann McGowan, RSCJ. Not pictured: Sister Patricia Desmond, RSCJ; Sister Maire Sullivan, PBVM; Sister Marion Donohue, CSJ.

Dominican Sister Sally Brady was rattling along on the N Judah streetcar, coming home from St. Rose Academy in the early 1950s – when she suddenly realized what she was going to do with her life. “We went by St. Anne’s in the Sunset,” the 79-year-old Dominican of San Rafael recalled after the Feb. 2 Consecrated Life Sunday Mass celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral. “I looked over at the church and when I looked back, I said to myself ‘I’m going to enter.’ I can’t tell you a big story because there isn’t,” said Sister Sally, who after 32 years as an elementary school teacher now volunteers as a chaplain at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and with hospice in Petaluma. “It was a grace.” A vocation to consecrated life is very special, Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily: “No matter where they are or who they are with, their heart is always with their Lord.” “Thank you for your consecration, thank you for your witness. Thank you for the reminder you are for all we are called to be,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Thank you not only for SEE CONSECRATED, PAGE 19

Priest: Pope’s focus on poor brings church tradition to forefront PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON - The focus thus far by Pope Francis on the church’s responsibilities to the poor are certainly not new, and there will continue to be new challenges as his attention encompasses other aspects of Catholic social teaching, suggested Father J. Bryan Hehir in an address to people who work in social ministries. Neither the much-heralded first 100 days of President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration or the renowned 1,000 days of the John F. Kennedy presidency “had the global impact that Pope Francis has had” in the first months of his papacy, said Father Hehir, speaking Feb. 3 at the

Catholic Social Ministries Gathering. Father Hehir is secretary for health care and social services for the Archdiocese of Boston and a professor in religion and public life at Harvard University. The priest told the annual gathering that the focus on the poor and society’s inequities that Pope Francis has made a centerpiece are part of a Catholic tradition that goes back centuries, although the formal Catholic social teaching has a more recent history, only 135 years or so. The pope’s November apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”) carried many echoes of a previous major church document on social teachings, “Gaudium et Spes,” the Second Vati-

can Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, he said. “Gaudium et Spes,” the last document of Vatican II, made it clear that the church has a responsibility to be involved in the world’s social actions, he said. Before that, while there was a clear tradition of such responsibility, “there was a question whether it was a required part of the course or extra credit,” for Catholics, Father Hehir said. Social justice responsibilities were important themes for other popes, too, he observed, but Pope Francis has come at them in new ways, which SEE FOCUS ON POOR, PAGE 19

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Father J. Bryan Hehir, secretary for health care and social services in the Archdiocese of Boston, gestures during a talk Feb. 3 at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual anniversary Mass for married couples is Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The bilingual Mass honors couples anniversaries at five-year intervals: 5, 10, 15 through 50 and over 50. The Mass is a way to affirm and celebrate marriage for couples Ed Hopfner and as a witness to the importance of the sacrament, says Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of Marriage and Family Life, who spoke with Catholic San Francisco.

ARTICLE’S ‘SURPRISING CRUDENESS’: The lengthy cover piece dedicated to Pope Francis in the Feb. 13 edition of Rolling Stone magazine “is a sign of the attention that the novelties of Pope Francis attract from many different quarters,” Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said. “Unfortunately, the article disqualifies itself, falling into the usual mistake of a superficial journalism, which, in order to shed light on the positive aspects of Pope Francis, thinks it needs to describe the pontificate of Pope Benedict in a negative way, and does so with a surprising crudeness,” he said, according to a Vatican Radio report Jan. 31. “This is not the way to do a good service even to Pope Francis, who knows very well what the church owes to his predecessor.”

CSF: Why the anniversary Mass? What is its importance to the couples and to the archdiocese?

Ed Hopfner: Marriage is a public event – that’s why most weddings are community celebrations, including family, friends, etc. Marriages affect not only the couple, but their families, especially any children, their friends, their community, and the church as a whole. St. Paul reminds

Hopfner: At every stage, marriage has unique challenges and opportunities. Couples in the early stages are adjusting to life together in their new state, to changed relationships with their friends and families, and often to children. In the middle stages, life is often particularly busy, again with children, and with career issues. Couples in the later years are dealing with aging issues, ‘empty nests,’ and retirement. At each point, the church needs to support

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CSF: What is the importance of marriage and affirming marriage throughout the stages of life?

this most important vocation. The wedding anniversary Mass is one small way to offer that support and recognition.

CSF: What do you hope couples and those who attend will take away from this event?

Hopfner: I hope couples will have a renewed sense of appreciation for the sacrament of marriage, and for their own marriages in particular. I think it’s also encouraging to see ‘older’ couples, who are still very much in love. Last year my then-boss celebrated 25 years of marriage and attended the wedding anniversary Mass with his family. While they were rightly pleased and proud to celebrate 25 years together, he said that seeing couples celebrating 50 years, 60 years, and more was a real inspiration to them, and a challenge to be a stronger couple, so that one day they might reach the 50 year anniversary mark. Register at www.sfanniversary.info or contact Ed Hopfner at hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org or (415) 614-5680.

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Artist Judith Coates’ quilt represents the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Native American spirituality. The 12th square represents respect for all spiritual traditions.

More than 30 artists from multiple faith traditions in Marin County are part of an art exhibit that opened Jan. 26 featuring works that express sacred words in languages as diverse as English, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Farsi and Chinese. The free exhibit sponsored by the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center in San Rafael is a collaboration between local Jewish, Catholic, Islamic and other faith traditions working together to promote interfaith dialogue and understanding. “It’s pretty funny that I am on this committee as I can’t even draw a stick figure,” said Vicky Otto, pastoral associate and parish manager for St. Raphael Church in San Rafael. Otto is one of the six curators of the exhibit which runs through April 11. Jane Liston, an artist and fellow St. Raphael parishioner was also on the committee.

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Artistically inclined or not, Otto was a natural choice to help coordinate the Osher exhibit titled “Sacred Words: Finding Common Ground.” She helped initiate a deep and lasting connection between Congregation Rodef Sholom in San Rafael and St. Raphael Church that dates back to 2001. She was inspired that year by Pope John Paul II’s message of reconciliation and peace to the Jewish people during his visit to Israel. The two faith communities regularly support and join in each other’s important sacred celebrations. “I think the beauty of the exhibit is that no matter what your faith tradition, we all find that the art transcends our differences,” she said.

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Faith ‘hugely important’ for team captain, tutor motivating factor” for Ricky has been learning to “always think of others rather than worrying about myself.” Ricky has learned by example and hopes he can do the same for others including his younger brothers Alejandro and Daniel. “Whenever I am finding it hard to work my absolute hardest, I remind myself that I need to be the best role model I can be,” Ricky said. “My faith has also taught me to appreciate the wonderful blessings I have in life, and even though I know I will never be able to fully appreciate the amazing life I have been given, I try my best every day to be as appreciative as possible.”

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Ricky Grau’s plate is full. In addition to studies, the Sacred Heart Prep senior is captain of the school football team and helps tutor younger less fortunate kids in getting ready for their own high school studies. Over the summer he took university level classes in algebra and calculus. Downtime is often given to reading. “I love reading,” Ricky told Catholic San Francisco in an email interview, “and I try to find as much time to read as possible.” Ricky is a graduate of St. Joseph School, Atherton. His parents are Sheila and Juan Grau. Though college plans are still being set, Ricky’s convinced his curriculum will be numbers based. “Math has always been my favorite class,” he said. Engineering has been the career path for Ricky’s dad, grandfather and other family members. Though Ricky could go that way too he just might “forge my own path and study something completely different.” Ricky’s sister, who also attended Sacred Heart and is now a sophomore at Stanford University, is Rachel Grau. The two have been close from their earliest years. “I have tried to emulate her for basically my entire life,” Ricky said, remembering his sister’s being the relief to any boredom the two would find themselves in as kids. “She would always come up with projects for us to do, like making our own board games, or drawing a racetrack out of chalk in our garage so we could race our little toy cars around, or building a spaceship out of cardboard boxes.” His deep respect for her grows as they get older and he admires Rachel for what he calls her incredible work ethic and motivation. “She is intelligent,

SENIOR STORIES We asked the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese to share profiles of noteworthy seniors. This week’s story is about Ricky Grau, Class of 2014, Sacred Heart Prep, Atherton. caring, ambitious, disciplined and creative, and I know that the more I try to follow in her footsteps, the more successful I will become.” Sports at Sacred Heart have been a faith connection for Ricky thanks to football coach Pete Lavorato. “Our coach cares a lot more about us becoming men built for others than actually being a successful football team,” Ricky said. “He has taught me numerous lessons on humility, friendship, and faith.” “My school also gave me the push I needed to start doing community service, which has probably been the most rewarding experience of my life,” Ricky said. “For the past two summers I have been blessed with the opportunity to coach and tutor wonderful kids at the Siena Youth Center.” Siena Youth Center is part of the St. Francis Center, a nonprofit organization in Redwood City providing services for the poor including housing, food and education. “My Catholic faith has been hugely important in my growth as a human being,” Ricky said. A “huge

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Immaculate Conception Academy senior Celia Marcia is this year’s Youth of the Year for the Mission Boys & Girls Club. It is the highest honor a club member can receive. The title recognizes outstanding contributions to family, school, comCelia Marcia munity and the club. It also recognizes the recipient’s moral character and ability to set goals. “I am really honored and proud to have gotten youth of the year for my clubhouse,” Celia, who has been a club member for 11 years, told Catholic San Francisco in an email. “With the club I have had a lot of different opportunities to volunteer at different places and do community service. I like volunteering because it’s a way to give back to my community and it just feels good to know that what you do is helping someone or helping your community.” Celia plans to be the first in her family to attend a four-year university. She’ll pursue studies in nursing or engineering. Celia’s parents are Juana Ines Rodriguez and Mauricio Marcia. Students at ICA are on a Cristo Rey curriculum where part of their school day experience is spent working in mainstream companies in entry level positions. Celia is currently working at Bare Fruit, an organic snack company. ALL HATS OFF: Father Joe Gordon, retired pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto let Catholic San Francisco know of the death of Sister Mary Drew, a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange, who taught kindergarten at San Francisco’s Sister Mary St. Mary’s Chinese Drew CSJ Day School more than 50 years ago.

PROUD MOMENT: Archbishop Riordan High School honored Marianist Brother William Bolts, a 1953 graduate of the school, with its Chaminade Award, the school’s highest honor, Jan. 24. Brother Bolts taught at Riordan for eight years over two assignments and today lives at his congregation’s retirement facility in Cupertino. His presence and care for Riordan has gone well beyond his faculty time there serving as a member of the board currently and earlier from 1978-1991. Riordan President Joe Conti said: “Brother Bolts takes as many trips on 280 as a Google shuttle bus because he is always at Riordan for board meetings, football and basketball games, alumni events, open houses and otherwise supporting the school.” Brother Bolts is author of a 50-year history of Riordan titled “Young Men Dream Dreams.” Pictured from left are fellow Marianists who helped honor Brother Bolts at Riordan Jan. 24: Brother John Samaha, SM, Father Christopher Conlon, SM, Brother Bolts, Brother David Betz, SM, Father Steve Tutas, SM, Brother Tom Redmond, SM, and Brother John Haster, SM, a 1957 Riordan graduate. Father Gordon attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help School where the sisters also taught and has stayed in touch with the order through the years. He remembered the late Sister Mary Drew: “After her years in a ‘typical’ classroom setting she transitioned to what became her mission for over 40 years,” Father Gordon said. Sister Mary was a founder of the Sisters’ Children’s Cultural Awareness Center on the premises of the congregation’s motherhouse in Orange. Father Gordon quoted what Sister Mary Drew said about the work: “It was my conviction that children needed to be encouraged to recognize their own self-worth,” she said, especially noting needs among children from low-income Mexican immigrant families. “She died of pancreatic cancer,” Father Gordon said, “and to the end she was a devoted Sister of St Joseph of Orange and a loving daughter of

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Complications in executions bring new death penalty discussions CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – International law, the risk of using inhumane methods of execution and opposition to capital punishment by the survivors of murder victims are among issues that are bringing fresh energy to debate about the death penalty. In mid-January, Father Lawrence Hummer, of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Chillicothe, Ohio, witnessed the execution of Dennis McGuire for the 1989 rape and murder of 22-year-old Joy Stewart, who was 30 weeks pregnant. A week later, publications around the world were printing the priest’s account of watching what he called an inhumane pro-

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Caritas head stresses need for accompaniment with poor MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Accompaniment, a concept voiced repeatedly by Pope Francis, is needed for an authentic walk with the poor, said Michel Roy, secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis. Such accompaniment can take many forms, as Caritas Michel Roy workers in 164 nations have shown, Roy said. In India, women are changing “from passivity to pro-active,” Roy said. “They haven’t become Catholic, but they have become better people.” In the Philippines, the church is organizing base Christian communities. In Roy’s native France, homeless men have been organized into soccer teams “to give them a better chance to find out who they are.” Roy made his comments during the Feb. 3 morning plenary session of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, sponsored by 15 Catholic organizations and six agencies of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “How do we learn, one from the other?” Roy asked. “Our neighbors are not only those you can see and touch, but everyone in this globalized world.” He said Caritas’ goal is to give each person the chance to “be what God has called him or her to be. Dignity is the goal. ... People must have opportunities to build their lives.”

Social ministers who see themselves as “service providers” have missed the mark, he said, seeing the poor as “bellies to be filled and pain to be relieved.” If “you just serve, it’s an emergency situation,” Roy added. Building relationships, though, is for the long term. “You start it, you can’t stop it,” he said. The relationship, Roy noted, is “not one way, it’s both ways.” “I have a son with Down syndrome,” Roy said. “This kind of accompaniment makes you change the whole way of what you think life is.” All Christians are called to accompaniment, “to do the same at our respective levels of engagement,” Roy said. One domestic application of this concept was illustrated by Michael Naughton, director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Naughton, another speaker during the Feb. 3 plenary, also serves on the board of a manufacturing company in St. Paul, Minn., which had been paying its assemblers $7 an hour. The company determined that a living wage for these workers would be $11 an hour. But it was a cost the company’s customers “would not be willing to pay,” he said. The employer saw itself as a “distributor of justice,” Naughton added, but had to ask itself what would be necessary to pay that wage without losing customers. The answer came in part from redesigning the work and the equipment, as well as “trust”

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from both employer and employee that the redesign would work. As a result, “they were able to reduce their labor costs while raising their labor rates,” Naughton said. “Work can never be reduced to or exhausted by the wage given,” he said. He cited three connections of justice: need, contribution and order. Need, he said, was the minimum amount directed by the mere fact that he – the worker – is a human being with a life to maintain and a personality to develop. The contribution aspect, Naughton added, recognizes that a worker contributes value that cannot be reduced simply to the rate of pay. Order is important in that the employer has to be able to afford the pay for the work. “If I go out of business,” Naughton said, “that’s not a just wage, that’s a stupid wage.” In response to a question, Naughton mentioned an academic colleague who invented a word that, from its Greek roots, means “disordering of goals.” “It’s a common problem for all of us,” he said. “It’s a sickness all of us face, because we’re all trying to get the work done.” In academia, teaching is thought of as the main goal, but for new faculty, he said, it quickly becomes “publishing, and then publishing in the most prestigious journals.” Narrowing focus in that way, Naughton said, is “doing great harm to the major institutions of our society.”

MONTANA DIOCESE FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY OVER ABUSE CLAIMS

HELENA, Mont. – The Diocese of Helena filed Jan. 31 for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana over sexual abuse claims dating back 60 years. The diocese said in a statement it took the action to resolve 362 claims of abuse of minors by diocesan priests, religious community priests, women religious and lay workers that have been filed. Under the terms of the bankruptcy protection sought by the diocese, there will be a settlement of $15 million to pay out to those victims that have already been identified, and a fund of $2.5 million to pay ongoing court costs and future bankruptcy proceedings as well as compensation to any victims who come forward.

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WASHINGTON – Dangerous conditions in their homelands are leading tens of thousands more families in Central America and Mexico to send their children by themselves to cross the U.S. border illegally, according to a Jan. 30 report by the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration. Citing data from two U.S. federal agencies, the report estimates that, based on the dramatic increase in unaccompanied minors apprehended at the border over the past 10 years, as many as 60,000 children traveling without relatives could enter the country this fiscal year. The report was drawn from a trip to Mexico and Central America in November by a Catholic delegation.

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Archbishop Gomez unveils mobile app to help pregnant women CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS ANGELES – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles has launched a digital app intended to offer resources, support and prayers for women and girls facing crisis pregnancies. The unveiling took place Jan. 22, the 41st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that legalized abortion nationwide. “Today we are taking a big step to expand our circle of care and concern for unborn children and their mothers,” said Archbishop Gomez in a statement. “Through this app we are launching today, we are creating a network of prayer and practical support to help women facing crisis pregnancies.” He added, “This app will also engage Catholics and others, especially our young people, in the great spiritual

CARDINAL: BILL STOPS ‘SUBSIDIZING VIOLENCE’ OF ABORTION

WASHINGTON – Passage of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act “will help save lives and will reduce abortions,” U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, RN.J., said Jan. 28. H.R. 7, approved 227 to 188, applies the principles of the Hyde amendment to federal health programs, including the Affordable Care Act. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has prohibited the

work of praying and building a true culture of life here in Los Angeles and throughout our nation.” The app’s creation was prompted by statistics from the Alan Guttmacher Institute that report about 1.2 million abortions per year. In Southern California, that translates to about Archbishop 220 abortions daily. Gomez The Southern California region covered by the app includes 78 pregnancy centers in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and neighboring dioceses that include Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties. People, pregnancy centers and pro-life resources nationwide are invited to register to be included in the database. use of taxpayer dollars to fund federal subsidies to any part of a benefits package that includes elective abortions. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, chairman of the Committee on ProLife Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised the legislation. “The federal government should not use its funding power to support elective abortion, and should not force taxpayers to subsidize this violence,” he said in a Jan. 28 statement.

The app is available for smartphones and iPads by visiting www.optionsunited.org. At the rollout of the app, Archbishop Gomez was joined by two women who had abortions only to regret them later. “I did not have my abortion because of freedom of choice,” said Irene Beltran. “I had my abortion because I felt I had no freedom, no choice. I have suffered from depression, anxiety and an eating disorder. Abortion is not a quick fix, but instead a lifetime of

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Cardinal: Haiyan recovery can show world a united church DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANILA, Philippines – An emotional Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila welcomed U.S. Catholic leaders reviewing Typhoon Haiyan recovery efforts, saying that the work to rebuild devastated communities can show the world a church united in the service of people in need. With tears welling up as he described the utter destruction he saw during a visit to Tacloban soon after the Nov. 8 typhoon swept in from the sea with 195-mph winds and a tsunami-like storm surge, Cardinal Tagle reminded the international delegation Feb. 3 that storm survivors can teach visitors about the importance of perseverance and maintaining faith in God. “I don’t know how we could make the whole world realize how much we could help. For a few days (during my visit) we knew it was possible for humankind to be together, to be one, to feel for one another and to transcend the barriers, all the baggage, the history that religion, that politics, the financial economy has imposed on everyone,” Cardinal Tagle said in a meeting at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. “In that regard we saw the response and demand here,” he told a delegation of more than a dozen representatives of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services and Caritas Australia. “There is so much hope for the world. We just prayed that this will be sustained and will not become sporadic, only occasional. We hope it becomes a lifestyle to be spearheaded by Christians.” Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., USCCB president, who was leading the delegation on its weeklong visit to the Philippines, told the cardinal that the U.S. church wanted to work side-by-side with Filipinos in the long recovery process. “We know there is one church and we want to be partners with you,” he said. U.S. parishes still are collecting funds, most of which have been designated for humanitarian needs. USCCB officials project that about $9 million will be raised in parish special collections for the recovery effort. Meanwhile, CRS has raised about $48 million, including $28 million from private donors and $20 million from public sources, reported Joe Curry, the agency’s country representative in the Philippines. All of the funds are being used for humanitarian needs, he told CNS. Cardinal Tagle acknowledged that recovery and rebuilding is likely to take years because the devastation was so great, reaching across 12 dioceses in the central part of the country with the Palo archdiocese and Borongon diocese experiencing the most serious damage. In some locales, 90 percent of buildings and homes – more than 550,000 in all – were smashed. As of Jan. 29, more than 6,200 people had died and more than 28,600 were injured in the storm while nearly 1,800 remained missing, according to the Philippines’ National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. More than 4 million people were displaced by the storm. Compounding the challenges, Cardinal Tagle added, is the trauma experienced by priests, women religious and lay leaders at parishes, who are struggling with their own losses of family, possessions and secure housing. “The church structure is in a state of shock,” Cardinal Tagle said. “We have been offering emotional and psychological first aid.”

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Catholic identity must be clear, undiluted, pope tells university CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Catholic universities must give “uncompromising” and “unambiguous” witness to church teaching and defend themselves from all efforts to dilute their Catholic identity, Pope Francis said. Catholic universities, “by their very nature, are committed to demonstrating the harmony of faith and reason and the relevance of the Christian message for a full and authentically human life,” he said in an audience with members of the Pope Francis board of trustees of the University of Notre Dame and other officials. The pope met Jan. 30 with some 130 people representing the Indiana-based Catholic university, who were in Rome for the inauguration of the university’s new Rome center. Speaking in Italian, Pope Francis praised the university, saying it “has made an outstanding contribution to the church in your country through its commitment to the religious education of the young and to serious scholarship inspired by confidence in the harmony of faith and reason in the pursuit of truth and virtue.” He said the institution’s original vision, guided by its religious founders of the Congregation of Holy Cross, “remains, in the changed circumstances of the 21st century, central to the university’s distinctive identity and its service to the church and American society.”

Catholic identity and missionary discipleship are critical, the pope said, and need to be evident in the way Catholics live and in the workings of all Catholic institutions. Catholic universities play a special role in being faithful missionaries of the Gospel because of their commitment to showing the compatibility of faith and reason, and showing how the Christian message offers people a fuller, more authentic human life, he said. “Essential in this regard is the uncompromising witness of Catholic universities to the church’s moral teaching, and the defense of her freedom, precisely in and through her institutions, to uphold that teaching as authoritatively proclaimed by the magisterium of her pastors,” he said. “It is my hope that the University of Notre Dame will continue to offer unambiguous testimony to this aspect of its foundational Catholic identity, especially in the face of efforts, from whatever quarter, to dilute that indispensable witness,” he said. The pope then looked up from his prepared text and told his audience in Italian, “This is important: Your own identity – as it was intended from the beginning – to defend it, preserve it, carry it forward,” he said. Though the pope made no references to any controversies, the University of Notre Dame had reignited a heated debate about maintaining the Catholic identity of U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education when it invited President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary law degree in 2009. Several U.S. bishops and other critics said Obama’s support of legal abortion and embryonic stem-cell research made him an inappropriate choice to be com-

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Surveys: German, Swiss Catholics reject many church teachings on family CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Reports from bishops’ conferences in Germany and Switzerland show a clear divergence between what the church teaches on marriage, sexuality and family life and what Catholics – even those active in parish life – personally believe. The differences are seen “above all when it comes to pre-marital cohabitation, (the status of the) divorced and remarried, birth control and Cardinal-desighomosexuality,” said the German nate Muller bishops’ report, posted Feb. 3 on their conference website in German, Italian and English. The text is a summary of the official responses from all of Germany’s 27 dioceses and about 20 German Catholic organizations and institutions to a Vatican questionnaire published in preparation for October’s extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family. The Swiss bishops’ conference published an initial report Feb. 4 based on 25,000 responses, similar in most cases to those received by the German bishops. “Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,” the German survey found.

Both the German and the Swiss reports said Catholics in their countries accept the church’s vision of marriage as a life-long union of a man and a woman open to having children, and hope to realize that vision in their own family. However, the German dioceses reported that “’pre-marital unions’ are not only a relevant pastoral reality, but one which is almost universal,” since between 90 percent and 100 percent of couples who seek a Catholic wedding are already living together, despite church teaching that sex outside of marriage is sinful. “Many, in fact, consider it irresponsible to marry without living together beforehand,” the report said. Much of the German summary was dedicated to questions concerning divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, who the report said account for a significant share of Catholic couples, including those actively involved in parish life and church activities. The bishops’ conference said one-third of all marriages in Germany end in divorce, and while “Catholics’ marriages are somewhat more stable than average,” the difference is not great. The summary said many of the respondents supported a 2013 initiative of the Archdiocese of Freiburg to encourage divorced and remarried couples to speak to a local priest about their situation, suggesting that their status could be resolved as a matter of personal conscience. Cardinal-designate Gerhard Muller, prefect of

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Canada, Brazil likely to have new saints before year’s end CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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POPE CALLS FOR THE PROMOTION OF LIFE AT EVERY STAGE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called on all Catholics to welcome, serve and respect life, whether still unborn or approaching its natural end. He asked that everyone, each in his or her own “particular role and sphere, feel called to love and serve life, to welcome it, respect it and promote it, especially when it is fragile and needs attention and care, from the mother’s womb to its end on this earth.” The pope’s remarks came after reciting the Sunday Angelus with people gathered in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 2, which was designated in Italy as the Day for Life. The pope encouraged all associations and movements involved in “the defense and promotion of life” to continue their work. He also quoted a statement by Italian bishops that “every child has the face of the Lord, lover of life, a gift for families and society.” He thanked those in the Diocese of Rome who organized the annual Day for Life celebration, as well as university professors who organized seminars and conferences on “current difficulties linked to childbirth.”

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‘Defending Human Life and Dignity, from Generation to Generation’ Here is Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s homily on the occasion of the Walk for Life West Coast, at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 25 on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

INTRODUCTION

As has happened every year now for a very long time at these events, the gathering of all of you here today bears witness to the youthfulness of the pro-life movement. Yes, the pro-life movement is young, vibrant and growing SALVATORE J. in strength. CORDILEONE Thank you, young people, for your witness and your presence here today!

FROM THE ARCHBISHOP

THE FIRST GENERATION

I would invite you, though, to look around and notice those who are your elders here in this church. Yes, those who are older than you – shall I say, those who are more well-seasoned in life? They are the first generation of pro-lifers. It is no understatement to say to you, our beloved young people, that you are here today because of them. Not all of them share the same story as to how they have arrived at this point in their lives; their lives have taken different paths, but converge here on the truth of the sanctity of human life. Some have gotten here by way of conversion. We celebrate today the story of a famous conversion, indeed, the most famous conversion in the history of the Church: that of St. Paul. St. Paul, of course, is the ideal example of the literal meaning of the word “conversion.” He turned around, did a 180, and so used his extraordinary gifts of learning, rhetoric, and physical and spiritual stamina to proclaim the Gospel and build up the Church rather than tear it down. Like him, those of you who have come to the pro-life movement by way of conversion provide an indispensable service to Christ that no one else can. You champion the cause of human life simply by sharing your stories of how you have been harmed by the culture of death, even participating in it yourself while you still had the scales over your eyes duping you into believing that you were doing good. Others of you in the more seasoned generation of pro-lifers have remained steadfast in staying the course from the beginning. My young people, I want you to reflect on what it was like for these elders of yours in those early years of the pro-life movement, those years around the time of the infamous Roe decision. Those of you who were around and

involved then will remember what it was like. You were told that abortion was inevitable, that while, yes, there are some people who still don’t like it, in a few years it will be calmly accepted by all Americans as just a part of life. You were told that you were interfering with a woman’s right to privacy, that Church and state should stay out of the way. But you knew that that was just a deception technique, to deflect attention away from the rights of that baby growing in her womb. And you were smart enough not to be fooled. Most of all, you were told that you were anti-woman, that you were standing in the way of women’s progress and full equality in society. Forty-plus years and nearly 60 million abortions later, the very painful truth has come to light: Yes, abortion does hurt women. And yet, there are those who wish to silence any talk about the harm that abortion does to women; there are a few who would even go so far as to call it hate speech.The words “astonished” and “perplexed” do not begin to describe my reaction, and I’m sure that of many of you, to those who still believe, and purport, that abortion helps women. What they keep overlooking is actually talking to the women who have been harmed by it, letting women who have gone through that experience tell their story without making any judgments in advance on them or on how they think these women should feel about it. All too often these women are shamed into silence, intimidated – even if implicitly – not to share their true feelings for fear of rejection, of being shut down and marginalized, or just not trusting that there is anyone who would really understand and listen compassionately. Instead, they get the message that they are not supposed to have these feelings, because this is something that was supposed to be good for them.

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A family is pictured at the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco Jan. 25. In his homily during for the day, Archbishop Cordileone said that a new generation will one day look toward today’s young people “for inspiration in defending human life and dignity.”

experience and cannot rid herself of those feelings of guilt and anguish, and desires the relief of healing, where does she turn? She does not turn to those who claim to be “pro-woman” and advocate for this so-called “choice,” which so often is no choice at all. No, she turns to those who stand for life, for they are the ones who will welcome her with open arms, love her for who she is, and go to all lengths to give her the support she needs. My dear young people, I want you to realize that back in those early years of the pro-life movement, these things that I have just said could not be spoken in polite company. To be known as pro-life, or even to defend the pro-life position when the topic would come up in conversation, would often mean banishment from the ranks of those deemed socially acceptable. Now, thankfully, that has changed. Yes, it is still harder in our society today to be pro-life than an abortion rights advocate; yes, for example, once again this year we here in San Francisco and our brothers and sisters who marched in Washington, D.C., last Wednesday will not get the media coverage we deserve based on our sheer numbers alone. Still, though, it’s not like it was before. It’s okay now to be known as pro-life; most people who disagree with you will still respect you and treat you with dignity. This is thanks to the elders in the pro-life movement, who have been steady stalwarts standing for life all of these decades.

THE NEXT GENERATION

Dear young people, I want you to reflect on this and take it to heart. The pro-life movement is about more than saving the life of the baby. It’s about giving that baby all the care, love and nurturing he or she needs to grow up happy and healthy and to achieve his or her total potential in life. It’s about the mother and a whole network of relationships around that baby that the

‘Forty-plus years and nearly 60 million abortions later, the very painful truth has come to light: Yes, abortion does hurt women.’ pro-life movement have understood this, too. You especially did not buy that lie about abortion being good for women. The pro-life movement is about more than saving the life of the baby, although that already is a very great thing and enough to justify all that we do on behalf of life. But the movement is also about the mother, and providing her the emotional, spiritual and material support she needs to make a happy and truly human choice – indeed, so that she can truly have a choice at all. When a woman in a crisis pregnancy feels she has no choice but really wants to choose life, where does she turn? When a woman has gone through the

baby needs in such a vulnerable stage of life. It’s especially about connecting that baby to where he or she came from: the mother and the father. And that, my friends, is the whole point of marriage: to connect husbands and wives to each other and to any children they bring into the world. There is no other institution that does that, that connects children to their mother and father. Marriage is primarily about the children, not the adults, such that you cannot be consistently pro-life without being pro-marriage: The two go together. You could say that it’s a package deal. You see, in God’s design, it all fits perfectly to-

(COURTESY OF JAMES MCKENZIE/WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST)

gether. When you tinker with it, even one small part of it, it all starts to unravel. That’s the big picture. My young people: Your elders in the pro-life movement have stayed the course during some very hostile and dark times, and now the pro-life movement is stronger than it ever has been. Now it is your turn. It is this wider picture of the pro-life movement that is now the critical issue of the moment and, yes, I won’t hesitate to say it: It is under attack. Yes, marriage is under attack, but not just recently; this has been going on in our society for a very long time now, actually, for at least as long as the abortion-rights movement has been in existence. And it stands to reason, as both are manifestations of what Pope Francis so often refers to as the “throw away” culture. A baby in the womb is thrown away because at least one of the two people who brought that baby into the world has thrown the other away, has rejected the other as someone worthy of commitment, self-surrender,

and unconditional love. This is what marriage is and is for: not a privileged social status, not a government recognition of people’s love life, not a special relationship one stays in as long as one is deriving some immediate benefit from it, but a self-surrender of husband and wife to each other for the sake of the children they bring into the world – just like Christ and the Church, as St. Paul teaches us. Now the same contempt, accusations and name-calling are being hurled at those who stand for the truth of marriage as were hurled against those who stood for life a generation and two ago. But we cannot allow ourselves to be shamed into silence. The truth needs a voice, and you, my dear young people, are that voice for the next generation.And your voice must be heard so that – just as you now understand the harm that abortion does to women despite the lies perpetrated by the abortion industry – so future generations will understand that the natural truth

of marriage benefits everyone and discriminates against no one; no one is harmed and everyone benefits when government enshrines in the law the right of everyone to have a mother and a father.But prepare yourselves: It will require heroic virtue, for there is a lot of reverse bullying going on these days. Yes, there is still a lot of the standard kind, too, and we must deplore that and work to eradicate it as well. But there is also plenty of reverse bullying, punishing those who would dare to dissent from the secular orthodoxy on this issue. But, at the same time, take heart: heroic virtue is the recipe for holiness, and holiness is nothing other than the true, deep, abiding happiness that God wants us to have with Him.

ROOTED IN JESUS CHRIST

I know this may seem like a lot, too daunting a task, maybe even impossible.But think back, not to your elders in the pro-life movement, but to our elders in the Christian faith,

that first generation of believers: the apostles. Think about what they were up against going out into a hostile world to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill his commission to them to make disciples of all nations. We are all here today thanks to them. And look at the promises he makes to them at the end of St. Mark’s Gospel which we just heard proclaimed at this Mass. They may seem fanciful, all this talk about handling serpents and drinking deadly things without being harmed.But what he is telling them is that, with him, all things are possible. And so it was: not in their lifetime, not after a few generations, but after many centuries they and their successors succeeded in evangelizing the whole known world of the time. So, my dear young people, stay firmly rooted in Jesus Christ. Stay close to him, and close to his Church. Cling to him, for he loves you, he wants what is best for you. He died for you so that you might live with him forever; he will not let any harm come

to you, no matter what you have to suffer for him.

CONCLUSION

We don’t know what the next critical issue threatening human life and dignity will be for the generation that will come after you.One thing, though, we do know: They will look to you as the ones who bore the brunt of the battle in your generation, as you look to your elders now in the pro-life movement. Don’t let them down. Actually, you are already not letting them down, for more of them will be born than would have otherwise thanks to you. But eventually they will be your age, and will look to you for inspiration in defending human life and dignity. So know and love Jesus Christ: He will give you the strength, wisdom and virtue you need; be faithful to him, and you will grow in his grace and, yes, grow into holiness yourself, and show others the way there as well. Then you will attain all that he wants for you: life, peace and happiness with him now, and forever in heaven. Amen.

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Saving South Sudan This unsigned editorial titled “Saving South Sudan” from the Feb. 3 issue of America, a national Catholic weekly magazine run by the Jesuits, was redistributed by Catholic News Service as an example of current commentary in the Catholic press. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic San Francisco, Catholic News Service or of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. From Juba, the capital city of South Sudan, the Catholic bishops of that republic proclaimed on Nov. 15 a pastoral message of “hope and encouragement,” marking the conclusion of the church’s Year of Faith and celebrating this young state’s independence from Sudan in 2011. The civil war in Sudan from 1983 to 2005 had cost an estimated 2 million lives. Independence was a special joy for Christians, who had suffered greatly under the regime of President Omar al-Bashir. But the bishops offered this reminder: “Building a new nation is not a quick nor easy task.” Many citizens had never experienced democracy, peace, religious freedom and ecumenical cooperation. There were causes for concern and a “widespread feeling that something is not right,” the bishops acknowledged. Two months ago the internecine tensions broke out into open conflict when President Salva Kiir accused Riek Machar, the vice president he had dismissed in July, of attempting a coup on Dec. 16. Fighting erupted between their personal militias and spread throughout the country. To some this was an extension of ancient ethnic conflicts: Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group versus Machar’s Nuer group. To others it was a struggle for control of the oil fields and the pipeline that links South Sudan with its divorced neighbor to the north. To political analysts it was the failure of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, negotiators of the 2011 split, to deal with deeper problems like the inequitable distribution of wealth and resources,

The UN humanitarian official has ‘absolutely no doubt’ that thousands have been killed in internecine violence.

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Sixteen body bags are lined up outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, in Bor, South Sudan, Jan. 27. government corruption and the lack of a unified national military. As of this writing, 400,000 South Sudanese have fled their homes in search of safety. Two hundred of these, mostly women and children, died when their boat sank in the Nile River. Reports of mass graves, dozens of dead, mangled and bloated bodies lining the roadside from the airport to the recently recaptured city of Bentiu, plus the looted shops and burnedout homes, cars and buses, testify to hatred run wild. Toby Lanzer, the U.N. humanitarian official in South Sudan, has “absolutely no doubt” that thousands have been killed. The U.N. Security Council has voted to send 12,500 troops and 1,323 civilian police, though U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon insists, “This is a political crisis which requires a peaceful, political solution.” The United States has deployed small contingents of Marines in Uganda, South Sudan and Djibouti. A small but robust contingent of the police defense forces of Uganda have arrived to secure the Juba International Airport, evacuate Ugandan citizens, deliver medical supplies and help end the killing, looting and bloodletting. Delegates from all

sides recently assembled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to begin negotiations. Amir Idris, a professor of African history and politics at Fordham University, wrote in The Sudan Tribune Jan. 12 that the rebuilding of South Sudan requires an intellectual endeavor to replace the colonial state of mind, which explains societal events by the underlying blood ties. A more inclusive approach that cultivates new capabilities for citizenship builds on three premises: The conflict is neither ethnic nor cultural but political; ethnic identities are not static and can be peaceful if restructured in a way that makes coexistence with overlapping identities possible; and political violence calls for a political solution, which requires that the people reinvent themselves by redefining their identities to democratize the state. The people of South Sudan should seek an inclusive citizenship and an equal distribution of power and wealth for all. Above all, South Sudan must address the history of violence in the region as well as the absence of law and order and the weak sense of national identity. In response to the ineffectual justice system, David Deng and Elizabeth Deng, lawyers based in South Sudan

and Kenya, respectively, have proposed a hybrid court – similar to those in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Cambodia – within the judiciary of South Sudan. Meanwhile, the United States needs to repair its relationship with President Kiir and maintain its credibility as an unbiased mediator in the conflict by avoiding the temptation to throw its support to one side or another. Rather, the United States should increase the level of humanitarian aid to the region and do everything possible to encourage a negotiated peaceful resolution. The negotiations present an opportunity to work with China, which is reportedly playing a constructive role in the peace process. If the meetings in Ethiopia bear fruit and if the leadership of South Sudan can be convinced to rethink the organization of the new country, the joy expressed in the bishops’ statement will be validated and the open letter released by church leaders in South Sudan under the auspices of the World Council of Churches on Dec. 18, 2013, will ring true: We “identify ourselves not as representatives of tribes or denominations but as leaders and representatives of one church and one body of Christ.”

A church capable of bringing warmth and stirring hearts Here is an excerpt from “Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter,” Pope Francis’ message for World Communications Day, issued Jan. 23 at the Vatican. View the full message at www.news.va/en/news/popes-messagefor-the-48th-world-day-of-social-com. … It is not enough to be passersby on the digital highways, simply “connected”; connections need to grow into true encounters. We cannot live apart, closed in on ourselves. We need to love and to be loved. We need tenderness. Media strategies do not ensure beauty, goodness and truth in communication. Pope Francis The world of media also has to be concerned with humanity, it too is called to show tenderness. The digital world can be an environment rich in humanity; a network not of wires but of people. The impartiality of media is merely an appearance; only those who go out of themselves in their communication can become a true point of reference for others. Per-

sonal engagement is the basis of the trustworthiness of a communicator. Christian witness, thanks to the Internet, can thereby reach the peripheries of human existence. As I have frequently observed, if a choice has to be made between a bruised church which goes out to the streets and a church suffering from self-absorption, I certainly prefer the first. Those “streets” are the world where people live and where they can be reached, both effectively and affectively. The digital highway is one of them, a street teeming with people who are often hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope. By means of the Internet, the Christian message can reach “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Keeping the doors of our churches open also means keeping them open in the digital environment so that people, whatever their situation in life, can enter, and so that the Gospel can go out to reach everyone. We are called to show that the church is the home of all. Are we capable of communicating the image of such a church? Communication is a means of expressing the missionary vocation of the entire

church; today the social networks are one way to experience this call to discover the beauty of faith, the beauty of encountering Christ. In the area of communications too, we need a church capable of bringing warmth and of stirring hearts. Effective Christian witness is not about bombarding people with religious messages, but about our willingness to be available to others “by patiently and respectfully engaging their questions and their doubts as they advance in their search for the truth and the meaning of human existence” (Benedict XVI, “Message for the 47th World Communications Day,” 2013). We need but recall the story of the disciples on the way to Emmaus. We have to be able to dialogue with the men and women of today, to understand their expectations, doubts and hopes, and to bring them the Gospel, Jesus Christ himself, God incarnate, who died and rose to free us from sin and death. We are challenged to be people of depth, attentive to what is happening around us and spiritually alert. To dialogue means to believe that the “other” has something worthwhile to say, and to entertain his or her point of view and

perspective. Engaging in dialogue does not mean renouncing our own ideas and traditions, but the claim that they alone are valid or absolute. May the image of the Good Samaritan who tended to the wounds of the injured man by pouring oil and wine over them be our inspiration. Let our communication be a balm which relieves pain and a fine wine which gladdens hearts. May the light we bring to others not be the result of cosmetics or special effects, but rather of our being loving and merciful “neighbors” to those wounded and left on the side of the road. Let us boldly become citizens of the digital world. The church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ. She needs to be a church at the side of others, capable of accompanying everyone along the way. The revolution taking place in communications media and in information technologies represents a great and thrilling challenge; may we respond to that challenge with fresh energy and imagination as we seek to share with others the beauty of God.

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A date to remember

apal approbation being no bad thing, I was delighted to learn that Pope Francis, in a homily a few weeks ago, had suggested that his congregants learn the date of their baptisms and celebrate it - which is precisely what I have been proposing to audiences around the country this past year, GEORGE WEIGEL when discussing my book “Evangelical Catholicism.” I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn’t really occurred to me until a quarter-century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on prolife and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting. Whereas the normal American way of breaking the ice is to say, “I’m John Doe and I work at Boeing” or “I’m Jane

Smith and I’m an attorney,” these folks would begin rather differently: “I’m John Doe/Jane Smith and I was born again on such-and-sucha-date,” usually in the past 10 or 15 years. Contrarian that I can be on occasion, when things got around the table to me, I’d say, “I’m George Weigel and I was born again on April 29, 1951 … at which point I was 12 days old.” Which got a few interesting conversations going about sacramental regeneration, etc. Then, when I was working on the biography of John Paul II and was reminded that the first thing he had done on returning to his home parish in Wadowice as pope was to kneel and kiss the baptismal font, memories of those men and women who remembered the day of their rebirth in Christ as a crucial way of identifying themselves came back to me. And I started taking April 29 much more seriously (shocking an usher when, on the 50th anniversary of my baptism, I went to the church where the deed had been done - amidst great caterwauling on my part, I’m reliably informed - and asked him to help me find the baptis-

mal font, which had been moved in a postconciliar wreckovation, so that I could kiss it). As I explain to my audiences after I ask how many of them know the date of their baptism (average “yes” response: 3 percent of any group), baptism and the new evangelization, baptism and mission, go together. We are baptized into mission and for mission. Indeed, viewed through the prism of the new evangelization, the day of our baptism is the day of our being commissioned as missionary disciples. This link between baptism and mission is made explicit in the biblical readings at Mass for the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In the A cycle, which we are using this liturgical year, the Old Testament reading is from one of the servant songs in Isaiah, establishing the link between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the servant of the Lord: “Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations ….” Then, in the reading from Acts, Peter tells Cornelius about “the word

Our struggle for empathy and generativity

n our normal, daily lives we are invariably so self-preoccupied that we find it difficult to be able to accord others the same reality and value we give to ourselves. In brief, it’s difficult for us to live in true empathy because we are forever consumed with our own heartaches FATHER RON and headROLHEISER aches. From two famous intellectuals, one speaking philosophically and the other psychologically, we get that same insight. Rene Descartes, as we know, famously suggests that all true thinking must begin with our own reality: I think, therefore I am. His logic works this way: What’s the only thing you can know that’s real, beyond all doubt? His answer: Your own mind. You know that your own mind is real because you are inside of it. You are real, you can be sure that, but you might be imagining or dreaming everything else. Sigmund Freud, centuries later, coming from another angle, reaches basically the same conclusion. For Freud, we are forever so excessively self-preoccupied that we are unable to see other peoples’ lives as being just as real as ours. If that’s true, and certainly there’s truth there, then it’s not surprising that real empathy and genuine generativity are a struggle for us since both are predicated precisely on being able to accord to other peoples’ heartaches and headaches the same reality and importance that we give to our own. But it’s hard to do this: It’s hard to give to others without some level of self-interest being

involved. It’s hard to have wholly pure motives in serving others. It’s hard to know other people’s heartaches in the same way as we know our own. It’s hard to be purely altruistic. And ... especially it’s hard to overcome this! Why? Don’t sympathy and empathy come naturally to us? Sympathy and empathy do come naturally to us, but, like everything else, they come mixed with a lot of other things. What things? First, sympathy and empathy come mixed with our more-primal instincts for survival. We aren’t born generous and empathic, we’re born needy, hungry, and instinctually driven for survival. As newborns, we are so consumed with our own survival that we have to grow into an awareness of the reality of others. Nature brings us into this world this way in order to ensure that we do what it takes to survive and this greatly mitigates our empathy. Moreover, beyond how nature has built us, our early experiences soon do further damage to our empathic capacities. Simply put, none of us gets loved purely and wholly and, long before we reach our adulthood, all of us have lost our wholeness. As adults, we are, all of us, to some degree, wounded, fearful, and given over to habits of self-preservation which weaken our empathy. It works this way: We come into this world with great adaptability. As babies, every instinct inside us works toward life and because of this, unconsciously, we do whatever it takes to stay alive and we adapt to whatever (food, shelter, clothing, language, environment) we need to adapt to in order to stay alive. The adaptations we make as young children help ensure our survival but then leave us wounded in ways that make genuine empathy difficult later in life.

What can we do about all of this? There aren’t any easy answers, psychologically or spiritually, and to suggest that there are isn’t helpful. We are dealing with deeply engrained instincts that don’t sway just because they are intellectually understood and with wounds that need to be healed through the heart. At the end of the day, what would cure us and open our hearts to empathy and real generativity is the experience of genuine, non-exploitive love. But we can’t make others love us in this way and we struggle mightily to feel God’s love for us when others don’t love us in this way. Moreover we are caught up in vicious circle: The very wounds that need to be healed through love are the very things that are making it difficult for others to love us. Love is the answer. It would make us whole, but we cannot will this love upon ourselves. So what can we do? First, we can admit the problem, admit our lack of wholeness, admit our wounds, admit our excessive self-preoccupation, and admit our lack of empathy. That’s a start. Second, we can humbly seek help from others, from family, friends, recovery groups, therapists. An honest, request for help, usually brings some help. Coupled with this, we can expose ourselves more regularly to the poor (of every kind) and their needs and this will help baptize us into empathy and generativity. Few things have the power to draw us out beyond our own wounds and help us to be self-forgetful as standing before the needy. Finally, we need to seek God’s help by throwing ourselves, in prayer, upon God’s wholeness, asking God to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, namely, see others as being as real as we are. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; and God was with him.” The very next verse - “And we are witnesses to all that he did” - points out our responsibilities as missionary disciples: we, too, are to “do good” and to help heal “all those who (are) oppressed by the devil.” As Pope Francis reminds us, we are to be like medical workers in a battlefield hospital after a terrible battle. We are to offer others the possibility of encountering the mercy of God, and the possibility of learning the truths about right living that the encounter with the divine mercy affords us. Baptism is baptism-into-mission. Thus a papally endorsed suggestion from your scribe: Learn the date of your baptism, celebrate it each year – and be re-energized for mission because of that celebration. WEIGEL is a Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

LETTERS The nature of representational government Christopher Nantista (Jan. 31) took issue to what I said in my Jan. 24 letter, which this paper titled “A government of laws, not of men.” Mr. Nantista said: “What we object to is exactly the ‘imposition by the government’ of the administration’s moral judgment.” However, government makes moral judgments regularly, either by passing laws, court decisions or administrative policies. Some of these judgments are positive and some are negative. That is the nature of representational elected government. He also stated: “The current (Affordable Care Act) law was declared constitutional only by the unfortunate and erroneous allowance of what are clearly coercive fines under the government’s power to ‘tax.’” The power to tax does not render a law constitutional; judicial decisions do. He does admit, however, that the law was declared constitutional. Therefore it remains legal and enforceable until overturned, redrawn or superseded. That, too, is the nature of representational elected government. Jim McCrea Piedmont

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘ … your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.’ MATTHEW 5:13-16 ISAIAH 58:7-10 Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; if you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday.

right; he is gracious and merciful and just. Well for the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright. He shall never be moved; the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance. An evil report he shall not fear; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright. His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear. Lavishly he gives to the poor; His justice shall endure forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

PSALM 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 The just man is a light in darkness to the upright. Light shines through the darkness for the up-

1 CORINTHIANS 2:1-5 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. For I resolved to

know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of Spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. MATTHEW 5:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”

You are the light of the world

he San Jose Symphonic Choir is rehearsing for a performance of Haydn’s “The Creation.” Leroy Kromm, our charismatic music director, rehearsed us at least 15 times in succession to render the single line, “And the Spirit of God mov’d upon the face of the waters; and God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”He wants the sopranos to sustain a quiet moving breath of sound, touching the notes softly staccato. But then, to re-enact the moment God’s word is fulfilled, let it out, fortissimo, Light!!!The effect is quite moving. You feel yourself bursting with energy. The experience of singing Haydn’s “Let there be light,” SISTER ELOISE attunes me phrase, “You ROSENBLATT, RSM are the lighttoofthe the world” in today’s Gospel. The Alleluia recalls Jesus in John’s gospel who says, “I am the light of the world.” It’s a bold identification by Jesus with the

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS TEMPTATION IS A FACT OF LIFE – NO ONE IS IMMUNE

VATICAN CITY – Temptation is a normal part of life’s struggle, and anyone who claims to be immune from it is either a little angel visiting from heaven or “a bit of an idiot,” Pope Francis said. The biggest problem in the world, in fact, isn’t temptation or sin, rather it is people deluding themselves that they’re not sinners and losing any sense of sin, he said Jan. 31 during his early morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives. “All of us are sinners and all of us are tempted; temptation is our daily bread,” he said, according to Vatican Radio. “If someone tells us, ‘Well, I have never been tempted,’” that person is either “a cherub or a bit of an idiot, right?” he said. The battle against sin and temptation “is normal in life,” he said, because the devil is always up to something “and he wants victory.”

light created by God on the first day of creation in Genesis. Or should we understand the light to be the fourth day of creation?On that day, the sun rules the day, the moon and stars shine by night, and all the lights mark the seasons for days and years. It is a dynamic expression of the relation of time and light. On the first day of creation, God’s voice moves upon the waters, and the creation of light distinguishes day from night. When Jesus says, “I am the light of the world,” is he speaking of himself as light of the first day, the fourth day, or both? And the same question applies to us, addressed by Jesus, when he says, “You are the light of the world.” I wonder what the effect was on Jesus’ audience when they heard, “You are the light of the world.”Jesus might, on one level, be perceived as a motivational speaker, trying to get his hearers to tune into their highest and best selves. Jesus speaks a very different language from John the Baptist earlier in Matthew,who is known for his summons, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near” (3:2). By contrast, the hearers of Jesus must have been transfixed at hearing, “You are the light of the world.” Surely there were temple officials, teachers, priests, military officers, rich businessmen, successful artisans, famous writers, well-known patrons of public

works,owners of flourishing vineyards, who, when they heard Jesus’ words, said to themselves, “He’s absolutely right. I am the light of the world.I’m so happy that Jesus can acknowledge who I am!” But I wonder what was the effect on all the rest – unpartnered women, widows, harried mothers with little children,women afflicted with diseases and disabilities, servant girls trafficked from the east, who didn’t speak Aramaic and only very bad Greek. What new thought did they have about themselves when they heard Jesus say, “You are the light of the world”? And the men freed from demons, the tax collectors, the men who had indentured themselves to military service, the fishermen at the Sea of Galilee, the traveling tinkers and leather workers, the meat sellers at the market, the men taking care of aging mothers? Jesus doesn’t say what kind of light you are – big blast, sun, moon or stars. Only that you are the light of the world. Is it a summons of Jesus? His blessing?His invitation that you imagine your life as something radiant, warming and life-giving? Or is it simply your realization that when God says on the first day, “Let there be light,” God is speaking about you? MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10: Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin. 1 KGS 8:1-7, 9-13. PS 132:6-7, 8-10. MK 6:53-56.

SCHOLASTICA c. 480-547 February 10

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11: Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. 1 KGS 8:22-23, 27-30. PS 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11. MK 7:1-13.

Scholastica and her brother, St. Benedict, were born to a wealthy Christian family in Nursia, Italy. Details of their lives come from the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great. After Benedict established his monastery at Monte Cassino, she founded a convent at Plombariola, and was its abbess for many years. The siblings met once a year outside Monte Cassino. At their final meeting, Scholastica begged Benedict to stay the night and, when he wouldn’t, she asked God for help. A violent storm ensued and Benedict had to stay. They spent the night discussing the joys of heaven, and she died three days later. Scholastica is the patron saint of Benedictine nuns and convulsive children.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12: Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 10:1-10. PS 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40. MK 7:14-23. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13: Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 11:4-13. PS 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40. MK 7:24-30. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14: Memorial of Sts. Cyril, monk and St. Methodius, bishop. 1 KGS 11:2932; 12:19. PS 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15. MK 7:31-37. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15: Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 12:26-32;

13:33-34. PS 106:6-7AB, 19-20, 21-22. MK 8:110.

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CONSECRATED: Hundreds gather for day honoring religious life

POPE: CHURCH WITHOUT SISTERS IS ‘UNTHINKABLE’

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what you do, but for who you are. You so enrich our little church.” Among the several hundred archdiocesan religious attending the Mass were nine sisters celebrating 50 years, seven sisters and one priest celebrating 60, three sisters celebrating 70 years of life in religious community and one celebrating 75 years as a sister. Schools of the Sacred Heart Sister Rose Chen, 60 years a religious, entered the order in Japan, after escaping from Shanghai in Communist China with a Vatican passport in 1951. She returned to her homeland in 1983 with a doctorate in English literature and taught at 13 different universities including Beijing University. Sister of the Immaculate Conception Irene Prieto knew she wanted to be a sister from the time she was a little girl, despite her family’s initial opposition, and entered the order shortly before her 18th birthday in Navarre, Spain, 50 years ago. Today she teaches second grade at St. Brigid School in San Francisco. St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Noreen O’Connor, 78, attended Star of the Sea grammar school and high school before entering in 1954. After years as a teacher and principal, she is pastoral associate for the new combined St. Monica-St. Thomas the Apostle parishes, and says she has “loved every minute” of the past 60 years. Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sister Corinne Avila taught first grade for 40 years after entering the Presentation order in 1944, 70 years ago. “It was lovely,” Sister Corinne, 90, said. She, like the others who celebrated decades of vowed religious life, lived through the 1960s and `70s, when religious life was in upheaval and many left their orders. Sister Corinne

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Several hundred religious attended Consecrated Life Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 2 on the feast of the Lord’s Presentation. Top from left, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone chats with Little Sisters of the Poor; Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, archdiocesan director of the Office of Consecrated Life, with Presentation Sister Corinne Avila. Bottom from left, Society of the Sacred Heart Sister Rose Chen; Dominican of San Rafael Sister Sally Brady, shown with friend Elizabeth Ambrosi; Sister of the Immaculate Conception Irene Prieto. said that was not an issue for her: “As long as you have a vocation, it’s within you and so no matter what happens you still have it.” The day to honor the vocation to consecrated life was instituted by Blessed John Paul II in 1997 and is celebrated on the Sunday closest to the Feb. 2 feast of the Presentation of the Lord. This feast is also known as Candlemas Day; the day candles are blessed,

symbolizing Christ who is the light of the world. The vocation of those called to consecrated life is particularly Christ-like, Archbishop Cordileone said. “Their consecration is not an abstraction, something sort of part-time, added on to their identity,” the archbishop said. “No, they consume themselves for him, in order to be his light in the world.”

VATICAN CITY – A church without religious sisters would be “unthinkable,” Pope Francis said, honoring the contributions consecrated men and women make to the church and society. “Every consecrated person is a gift to the people of God on pilgrimage,” he said Feb. 2, reciting the Angelus with visitors in St. Peter’s Square. The pope had just finished celebrating Mass for the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, which the church marks as the World Day for Consecrated Life. “There is such a great need for their presence, which reinforces and renews the commitment to spreading the Gospel, Christian education, charity for the neediest, contemplative prayer, the human and spiritual formation of the young and families, and the commitment to justice and peace in the human family,” the pope said. Straying from his prepared text, Pope Francis told people gathered in the square: “Think what would happen if there weren’t any sisters, if there weren’t any sisters in the hospitals, no sisters in the missions, no sisters in the schools. Think what the church would be like without sisters – no, that’s unthinkable.” Consecrated life is a gift that moves the church forward, he said. “These women who consecrate their lives to carrying forward the message of Jesus – they’re great,” he added. Pope Francis asked all Catholics to pray “that many young people would respond ‘yes’ to the Lord when he calls them to consecrate themselves totally to him.”

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have caught the attention of the world. Father Hehir, quoted the late Jesuit theologian Father John Courtney Murray, who said Catholic teaching has to have a center – grounded in tradition and Scripture – as well as a ‘”growing edge,” that brings the teaching out into the world. “Francis stands on the growing edge of Catholic social tradition,” he said. The pope’s role at that growing edge will be shaped by several characteristics he brings to the papacy, Father Hehir predicted. Among them is his status as a Latin American, particularly one who lived through Argentina’s “dirty war,” which took place from 1976 to 1983, and the social and political upheavals experienced throughout the continent, he said. And having “come of age” in the Vatican II era, being ordained in 1969, after the council ended, but having grown up in the pre-conciliar Catholic Church, also will shape Pope Francis’ approaches, he said. Thus far, that has meant talking about the poor “as participants,” in improving their own situations, not merely as recipients of efforts on their behalf. Like Blessed John Paul II before him, but in stronger terms, Pope Francis also has hit upon inequality in the world, he

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A blind boy stands outside his makeshift shelter in Islamabad Jan. 23. said. This “is not surprising from a Latin American bishop,” said Father Hehir. Like Blessed John Paul, Pope Francis recognizes that while globalization has its problems for social inequality, “it’s not going away,” and therefore needs direction, which the church can provide. Father Hehir said when Pope Francis visits the Holy Land in May – Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories –

he will address different directions of Catholic social teaching: human rights, world peace and global institutions. Father Hehir said the conference participants are of course well-versed in the church’s social teaching, and have at times, felt like they are at the far edge of the church’s work, as attention focused on other matters. “With the leadership of this pope, you are now at the center of the church’s work,” Father Hehir said.

VATICAN CITY – Courageously follow Jesus in seeking out the poor and sinners, and in making difficult sacrifices in order to help and heal others, Pope Francis said. Christians are called to confront the material, spiritual and moral destitution of “our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it,” the pope said in his first message for Lent, which begins March 5 for Latin-rite Catholics. Saving the world will not come about “with the right kind of human resources” and token alms, but only “through the poverty of Christ,” who emptied himself of the worldly and made the world rich with God’s love and mercy, he said. Released by the Vatican Feb. 4, the text of the pope’s message focused on the theme of Christ’s poverty, with the title: “He became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich,” which is from a verse from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians. There are many forms of poverty, the pope said, like the material destitution that disfigures the face of humanity and the moral destitution of being a slave to vice and sin. But “there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ,” he said.

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MORNING MASS: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Hall, Greenbrae, 7 a.m. Mass with talk following. Jesuit Father Joe Eagan will tell how Jesuit spirituality will further impact the pontificate of Pope Francis. Members breakfast $8, others $10, (415) 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Sugaremy@aol.com. Guest speaker March 7 is Philip Grant, consul general of Ireland to Western U.S.; April 4, historian Kevin Starr.

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ZYDECO: Zydeco dance at St. Paul of the Shipwreck gym, Third and Jamestown, San Francisco with great food, raffles, photo contest for best dressed couple and best dancers. Free dance lessons at 7 p.m., 21 years of age and older, music by André Thierry and Zydeco Magic. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Warren Semien, (415) 374-6698; Benetta Gipson, (415) 822-5188.

SUNDAY, FEB. 9 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Ryan Enright, organist; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door; www.stmarycathedralsf.org; ample free parking. INTERFAITH ART: “Sacred Words: Finding Common Ground” at Marin Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael through April 11. Exhibit showcases artists from multiple faith traditions. Sponsors include St. Raphael Parish and Mission, San Rafael. Visit www.MarinJCC.org/CJP. (415) 444-8000.

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WORLD DAY OF SICK MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist, 11 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Archbishop “A special time of Salvatore J. prayer and sharing, Cordileone of offering one’s suffering for the good of the church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who, by suffering, dying and rising, achieved the salvation of mankind,” as stated by Blessed John Paul II. Mass is hosted by men and women of the Order of Malta. Kenneth Ryan, kenmryan@aol.com; (415) 613-0395.

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HIGH TEA: High tea in Novato hosted by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Our Lady of the Miracle, #1707, 2-4 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto parish hall, 1811 Virginia Ave.; $15 adults and children over 10. Daughters and granddaughters welcome. Reservations required. Paula Caldwell, 892-3834. Deadline for reservations is Feb. 15. Proceeds benefit CDA Scholarship Fund. BUBBLY BINGO: Lunch, champagne and bingo, 11:30 a.m., 1630 Stockton St. in North Beach; $35 tickets include,

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Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of English/Spanish bi-lingual Mass marking “Five-year” anniversaries – 5, 10, 15 through 50 years and over 50 years - of married Catholic couples in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Reception follows. To register and more information visit www.sfanniversary.info; email hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org; call Betty Reichmann, (415) 614-5680.

MARCH 19 SUNDAY, APRIL 6 CHURCH ANNIVERSARY: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass commemorating 50th anniversary of the dedication of Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue and Lawton, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, is among concelebrants. Reception following in Ryan Hall. (415) 664-8590; email hnchurch50th@gmail.com; visit www.holynamesf.org.

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