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Archbishop Lori calls for new focus on MLK’s call to nonviolence Christopher Gunty Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The upcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. prompted Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori to write a pastoral letter on the civil rights leader’s principles of nonviolence. The new document comes almost three years after riots shook the city of Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray Jr. from injuries sustained while in police custody. It also follows on the archbishop’s call in a New Year’s service and in columns and other discussions encouraging people to “change the narrative” about Baltimore. “The Enduring Power of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence: A Pastoral Reflection” was formally issued on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14. In it, the archbishop says, “Now is the time for all of us to reconnect with Dr. King and his teaching.” A pastoral letter is an open letter about Catholic teaching or practice from a bishop to his people. The archbishop’s first pastoral, “A Light Brightly Visible,” laid out his goals for missionary see archbishop, page 10
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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone distributes ashes at Ash Wednesday services Feb. 14 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Meanwhile, in San Francisco’s Financial District, workers flocked to Ash Wednesday services directed by Deacon Simon Tsui and laypersons from Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Chinese Mission. See story on Page 5. In Rome, Pope Francis said Ash Wednesday is a time to get in sync with the heart of Jesus. See story on Page 16.
Vatican astronomer shares religion’s trouble with ‘techies’ Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Most parish priests today are at a disadvantage in sharing matters of faith with scientists and engineers – a group culturally described as ‘techies’ – says the director of the Vatican Observatory. “I’m not sure that today’s pastors know how to talk to these people,” Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno said at a Feb. 10 talk at the University of San Francisco. Brother Consolmagno’s talk, “God’s Mechanics: The Religious Life of Techies,” grew out of his similarly titled 2008 book and his experiences as an astronomer, meteorist and self-described techie. The talk was sponsored by Friends of St. Ignatius, a community cultivated by St. Ignatius Parish and composed of graduates of Jesuit institutions in the Bay Area and others shaped by Jesuit education and ministries.
‘For 1,900 years, the smartest guy in every village was the parish priest. The difficulty is that a lot of the language the church uses, a lot of Brother Guy Consolmagno the symbolism it uses will not only not be understood: It will be misunderstood.’ Brother Guy described a techie as not just someone who is “really, really good at using a cell phone”
or even someone who makes a living in a technical or scientific field. “A techie is someone whose orientation to the universe is pragmatic, logical and functional,” he said. A philosopher will look at the universe and ask “is it true?”An artist will ask “is it beautiful?” “But a techie is going to look at the universe and ask, ‘how does it work?’” Brother Guy said. “That’s how they see things, as processes to be understood, jobs to be done and problems to be solved.” Brother Guy was appointed director of La Specola Vaticana (the Vatican Observatory) by Pope Francis in 2014. He has undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in Planetary Science. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he has co-authored “Turn Left at Orion” (Cambridge University Press,
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Need to know Lent/Easter campaign against human trafficking: The Northern California Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking and the Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking invite potential volunteers to a training and project launch on Sunday, March 4, 1-2:30 p.m., University of San Francisco, Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall (Parker at McAllister). The event is an interfaith effort to raise awareness and work collaboratively toward ending human trafficking. Community members are called to come together for a two-week outreach campaign between March 24 and April 7, associated with the observance of Lent/Easter and Passover. The campaign will focus on ensuring that hotels are informed of public notice posting requirements under state Senate Bill 1193. To attend the training, register at https://sb1193volunteertraining. eventbrite.com. Author talk on women religious: Sister Donna Maria Moses, OP, talks about her book “American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission,” in Celebration of National Catholic Sisters Week, March 14, 7-8:30 p.m., the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality, 43326 Mission Circle (entrance off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Freewill offering. Register by March 12 at bit.ly/2018_MariaMoses or call (510) 633-6360.
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Feb. 22: Bishops vocations meeting, seminary Feb. 23: Chancery meetings Feb. 24: Chinese New Year Mass and Banquet, cathedral 2:30 p.m.; 5:30 p.m. Feb. 25: Mass and reception for Respect Life essay contest winners, cathedral 11 a.m. Feb. 26: Chancery meetings
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Nearly 100 couples renewed their wedding vows on Feb. 3 at the annual wedding anniversary Mass, a February tradition in the archdiocese. Couples celebrated 15 to 64 years of marriage at the St. Mary’s Cathedral ceremony, which was followed by a reception. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presided. Concelebrating were Father Moisés Agudo, archdiocesan vicar for Hispanics and pastor at St. Peter and St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception parishes in the Mission District, and vicar for administration Jesuit Father John Piderit. During the homily Archbishop Cordileone told couples that “marriage gives a clearer vision of what love really is.” He stressed the importance of family, noting that Jesus himself was born into a family and out of love sacrificed himself to death on the cross. The archbishop named the four important pillars of married life as love, obedience, trust and sacrifice.
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Above, in the procession of gifts, parishioners carried signs representing some current social justice issues, including DACA, Black Lives Matter, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Me Too movement. Right, the assembly joins hands in singing “Blessed Assurance” after the proclamation of the Gospel.
Shipwreck celebrates 33rd annual MLK Solidarity Mass St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco celebrated its 33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Solidarity Mass on Jan. 14. Father Donald A. Sterling, pastor at New All Saints Church in Baltimore, was the presider. Father Sterling, a priest since 1974, was the first African-American priest to be ordained in Baltimore. His parish has some 1,000 families and 37 ministries. Left, this year’s recipient of Shipwreck’s Community Service Award was Deborah Estell from Alive & Free in San Francisco. Her work there includes coordinating the Leadership Academy, developing, instructing and coordinating the curriculum, directing and instructing the college prep class, counseling students and providing collegiate support. Pictured are Deacon Larry Chatmon; Deborah Estell; Joseph E. Marshall Jr., executive director and co-founder of Alive & Free; and Loretta Chatmon, MLK Mass coordinator. Right, members of the Igbo Catholic Community led an uplifting version of the Creed.
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On board now for almost two months as executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County, Jim Lonergan has hit the ground running. “I am deeply committed to the mission and work of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul,” Jim, a former CEO of the Chicago archdiocesan council of SVdP, told me via email. “There is much need for our level of Jim Lonergan safety net services in San Mateo County, so I am blessed to be a part of such a well-respected organization that serves those in the margins of our community.” Jim, an Arizona State alumnus, had a long career in publishing before turning his attention to the nonprofit sector volunteering with groups including Special Olympics Orange County, Habitat for Humanity, and the Salvation Army. Jim founded the Serious Air Community Foundation to serve the larger community needs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. Jim is grateful for the legacy of longtime and now retired SVdP head Lorraine Moriarty. He said hers will be “huge shoes to fill” calling Lorraine “the heart and soul of SVdP San Mateo for many years.” Jim sees his new post as one of “many responsibilities” including keeping “our vibrant, active membership growing in the community and, along with our board, volunteers and staff, increase our reach and service those most in need in our county.” How has the job been so far? “I love it,” Jim said. “Certainly, the days are very busy but our board, membership, volunteers and staff have been exceptionally welcoming and have made me feel at home in a short period of time.” Jim is currently attending Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar Church in Half Moon Bay. He is also visiting with SVdP conferences and parishes throughout San Mateo County. “I very much enjoy attending Masses at as many parishes as I can just to get a feel for each unique parish environment,” Jim said. “Along with the board and several committees, we are working on finalizing our strategic plan for the next three to five years which will
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HELPING HANDS: Kathryn Wilson of St. Bartholomew Parish, San Mateo, had a special tug at her heart when she heard of the devastation caused by the North Bay fires of just a few months ago especially at Santa Rosa’s Cardinal Newman High School. Kathryn has helped Newman coach Tony Greco at a summer tennis camp for several years. “I immediately thought of coach Greco and his students.” Kathryn put together a bake sale and raised $225 for the school. Pictured are Kathryn with assistants Lauren Creamer, left, and Penelope Anderson, right.
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Financial District outpost for Ash Wednesday services Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
For workers in San Francisco’s downtown Financial District, the historic Bently Reserve building is where Lent begins. “It’s so convenient and I count on it every year,” Harold Pestana, an executive with PG&E, told Catholic San Francisco as he walked the few blocks back to his office with ash-crossed co-workers Feb. 14 after an Ash Wednesday prayer service at the Bently Reserve. The Bently Reserve, an historic federal reserve building on the corner of Battery and Sacramento streets, has for many years served as a popular outpost for the dispensation of ashes for Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Chinese Mission in Chinatown. Old St.Mary’s, where the Paulist Fathers have ministered to Chinatown and the Financial District for more than 120 years, is a few too many blocks away to comfortably cover on foot and back in one lunch hour. Pestana lives in San Jose and said his long commute could otherwise compete with the ability to take part in the Lenten ritual that is important to him. “It takes me back to the root of who I am,” he said. Pestana was one of several hundred people – at a glance an upbeat mix of young adults dressed in business attire, fleece-wearing hipsters, and older local residents – who streamed into the stately building just before noon for the first of two services led by Deacon Simon Tsui from Old St. Mary’s. For the past four years Deacon Tsui and a handful of lay volunteers from Old St. Mary’s have held the service, which is listed on the parish website but is spread mostly by word of mouth. “We don’t ask who you are or where come from,” said Deacon Tsui. All are welcome, he said, at the brief service which includes a scriptural reading, a reflection and the dispensation of ashes. From start to finish, each of the two services – one at 11:45 and a second at 12:15 – lasts about 20 minutes. While waiting for the service to begin in an elegant conference room, Mary Ann Hewy said she was not Catholic, but she enjoys coming every year with her friend and co-worker, Jennifer Flores. “We used to have to walk all the way up to Old St. Mary’s,” said Flores. The Bently Reserve, formerly the San Francisco Federal Reserve Building, is occupied in part by the San Francisco Bar Association and other prominent tenants. It rents its lower floors out for business meetings and other events. For years the management has offered it to Old St. Mary’s free of charge for its Ash Wednesday service, according to Julie Todd, parish
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Financial District office workers exit the Bently Reserve after Ash Wednesday services hosted by Old St. Mary’s Cathedral.
administrator, who assisted Deacon Tsui with her husband Jim Foster. Both are longtime parishioners.
“Ash Wednesday always floors me,” said Foster, noting that Ash Wednesday is the busiest day of the year at Old St. Mary’s. People come that day on a most willing basis, he said. “They wouldn’t miss it for the world.” Deacon Tsui made a pointed but humorous acknowledgement that the group might not all be regular churchgoers. A preacher standing at the door after church one day grabbed a young man on his way and pulled him aside. “You need to join the army of the Lord,” the priest said. “I already am in the army of the Lord, pastor,” said the young man. The pastor asked why he only saw him at Christmas and Easter and he whispered, “I am in the secret service.” “I am glad you are all here today,’ the deacon said after the laughter subsided. In his reflection, he said Ash Wednesday is about following Jesus on the path that leads through death to resurrection. That journey involves repentance, but not repentance primarily centered on guilt or penance. “Lent means to return to God, to reconnect with God, to have a relationship with God,” he said, as well as the people around you. The ashes are a reminder of our fragility, he said, and “a confrontation with a tendency to live unconsciously.” He did not mention that Lent this year coincided with Valentine’s Day, but his was a direct message about love. “Whatever we do with our Lent, make sure it’s a matter of the heart,” he said.
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Sick or aging people of faith came to St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 10 for a special 26th World Day of the Sick Mass and anointing of the sick with blessed oils. The Mass, hosted by local members of the Order of Malta also included a special blessing for caregivers. “Today especially, we welcome Christ and physician and healer,” said Cardinal Levada, main celebrant for the service.
The afflicted and their caregivers seek hope at cathedral Mass Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
Their yearning for hope and healing was as visible in many cases as their afflictions. Dozens of individuals and their caregivers attended the 26th World Day of the Sick Mass Feb. 10 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, seeking together in prayer and sacrament the mercy of Christ and the intercession of his mother Mary, according to main celebrant Cardinal William J. Levada. The cardinal, who served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1995-2005, greeted those who, slowed by tremors, walkers, prosthetics, age or the malaise of illness were helped to their seats by male and female members of the Order of Malta. Local members of the lay religious order dedicated to the sick host the annual Mass. “Today especially, we welcome Christ as physician and healer,” he said. “We pray that the sick may be restored to health with the gift of his mercy.” The Mass began with the blessing of the entire church with holy water. Five priests who joined the cardinal on the altar walked the aisles of the church sprinkling the congregants with the aspergillum as Cardinal Levada led the blessing. “Renew the living stream of your grace within us and grant that by this water we may be defended from
Cardinal William J. Levada, archbishop of San Francisco from 1995-2005, says a blessing over the congregation after it was sprinkled with holy water at the beginning of the 26th World Day of the Sick Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral Feb. 10. all ills of spirit and body,” he said. Pope John Paul II celebrated the first World Day of the Sick in 1992. He dedicated it as an annual Mass held in commemoration of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes Feb. 11. Millions of pilgrims travel in faith each year for healing to Lourdes, France where an apparition of the Blessed Virgin appeared to a young girl in 1858. At the first Mass, the pope called the day a special time of prayer and 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.” This year at the 26th World Day of the Sick Mass in Rome, Pope Francis said the church “knows that she must bring to the sick the Lord’s own gaze, full of tenderness and compassion.” In his homily, Cardinal Levada
appealed to the faithful to “join our heavenly mother through our prayers, asking for her intercession for the sick and dying” and “for consolation for their families, friends and caregivers.” Before the moving sacrament of the anointing of the sick with a blessed oil at the front of the church, Cardinal Levada said Christ, “binds our suffering and death to his own so that just as he has risen from death on the first Easter, one day that we too shall rise from our tomb with bodies transformed.” The sacrament of the anointing of the sick, he said, gives “the strength, peace and courage to endure in a Christian manner the sufferings of illness or old age; the forgiveness of sins if the sick person was not able to obtain it through the sacrament of penance; the restoration of health, if it is conducive to the salvation of his or her soul, and the preparation for passing over to eternal life.” “In this sacrament we have the assurance that our savior remains with us in a special way in times of sickness even unto our death and into eternity,” he said. The two-hour liturgy also included a blessing of the caregivers’ hands as each stepped forward. “Every person who serves the sick in the name of Christ shares in his healing ministry and healing presence,” the cardinal said. “We who are baptized in his name share his life and vision.”
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2011), and the self-published, “Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?” That book’s tongue-in-cheek name comes from the question Pope Francis famously asked in a sermon on acceptance in 2014. Upon entering the Society of Jesus as a brother in 1989, he was assigned as an astronomer to the Vatican Observatory and curator of the Vatican meterorite collection.An asteroid – 4597 Consolmagno – was named after him in recognition of his work. “There are a lot of technical occupations in our society where a rigid literalism is part of being able to do the job and people are trained to look at the world that way,” Brother Guy said. “These are great people, these people are my friends, these people are making the toys I love to use,” he said. But this literal mindset so common in this part of California, he said, poses a“deeper issue” for the church. The Catholic Church in America 120 years ago was the “church of immigrants,” said Brother Guy. Immigrants would come to America with a certain shared background, in the culture and in the work they did. Pastors also came from that kind of background and knew how to talk to them, he said. “But thanks to those terrible Jesuits who kept building schools like USF, their kids and their
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Workshop on end-of-life care: Deacon Christoph Sandoval and Mercy Sister Elaine Stahl will speak March 18, 3 p.m., at a St. Mary’s Cathedral workshop on end-of-life care. Topics will include church teaching on end-of-life ethics; accessing quality palliative and hospice care; advance health care directives; and pastoral care at end of life. The event is part of the cathedral’s Lenten speaker series. Welcome, opening and closing prayers by Father Arturo Albano, cathedral pastor and rector. Deacon Sandoval, (415) 567-2020, ext. 203. Join ‘Mission Holy Week’: The archdiocesan Youth and Young Adult Ministry office is sponsoring “Mission Holy Week” – a mission trip in our own backyard for high school and college students. Join in on any day, for a different activity each day. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge; do street missions; attend a rally; join in eucharistic adoration; create living Stations of the Cross; worship at the National Shrine of St. Francis; begin and end the week at Mass with Archbishop Cordileone in the cathedral, on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. There are full-week and daylong opportunities to participate. Logistics missionaries are also needed. Visit missionyouthsf. com for more information and to register or support.
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Bishops name three young adults as delegates to pre-synod meeting Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A religious brother, a campus ministry director and a youth minister who is a wife and new mother have been named to represent the United States as young adult delegates at a pre-synod gathering in Rome in March. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Jan. 25 that the delegates are: De La Salle Christian Brother Javier Hansen, who is a religion teacher at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas; Nick Lopez, director of campus ministry for the University of Dallas; and Katie Prejean-McGrady, a wife, new mother, youth minister, and a popular speaker from the Diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Last October, Pope Francis invited Christian and non-Christian young people from around the world to a meeting in preparation for this October’s Synod of Bishops, which will have as its theme: “Young people, faith and vocational discernment.” “Through this journey, the church wants to listen to the voices, the sensibilities, the faith as well as the doubts and criticisms of young people. We must listen to young people,” Pope Francis said in announcing the presynod gathering, set for March 19-25. “We are delighted that Brother Javier, Nick and Katie have accepted the invitation to represent the youth and young adults of the United States at this important gathering in Rome,” Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said in a joint statement. For Brother Javier, this will be the first time he has traveled to Rome.
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“I believe I offer the perspective of many young religious in this country and those who are currently discerning religious life,” he said in a statement. “I not only will represent the people of my generation but also the young people I interact with every day in the classroom.” Born in Northern California and raised on a ranch, he is a Brother of the Christian Schools in the Lasallian District of San Francisco New Orleans. Lopez, who is a guest columnist for the Catholic News Service column “In Light of Faith,” focusing on millennials, sees it as an opportunity to represent the needs of his fellow Hispanic and Latino Americans. “In particular, I hope to be able to offer some successes and viewpoints from my life as a minister, including interfaith relations, integrating popular culture effectively in ministry and the Latino/Hispanic American experience,” he said in a statement. Lopez told Catholic News Service he feels “blessed to be a part of this opportunity” and emphasized what an honor it is.
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“The young people of the church is where my heart has always been for as long as I can remember – which is odd as I’m only 27,” he added. “My appreciation for this invitation is not about me being one of the delegates chosen, but that the invitations themselves undeniably show the Holy Father’s and the bishops’ sincere desire to hear and learn from young people. That is why this invitation is so special.” Prejean-McGrady called it “easily one of the greatest honors of my life.” She said she was “remarkably humbled” and “still a little bit stunned” but praying “daily that I will serve well!” She told CNS she has begun preparing by reading the preparatory document “and gathering the thoughts of youth and young adults in my community about how the church can serve them in their pursuit of a relationship with Jesus.” Added Prejean-McGrady : “I want this gathering to be a chance to not only hear about how other countries are creating opportunities for encountering Christ, but also share how I’ve seen this happen in the United States.”
Young people in today’s world Here are excerpts from the Vatican’s Preparatory Document for October’s Synod of Bishops, titled “Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment.” View the document at http://bit.ly/2oDTwLu. Young people, cautious by nature of those who are outside their circle of personal relationships, oftentimes nourish mistrust, indifference or anger toward institutions. This is not just about society but increasingly affects educational institutions and the church as an institution. They would like the church to be closer to people and more attentive to social issues, but realize that this will not happen immediately. All this takes place in a context where sectarian membership and religious practice more and more characterize young people. Though young people are not in open ‘opposition,’ they learn to live ‘without’ the God presented by the Gospel and ‘without’ the church and to rely on alternative and minimally-institutionalized forms of religion and spirituality or to take refuge in sects or religious experiences with a strong affiliation. In many places, the presence of the church is becoming less widespread and, consequently, more difficult to encounter, while the dominant culture is the bearer of needs oftentimes at odds with Gospel values, whether it be elements of their tradition or the local reality of globalization, which is characterized by consumerism and an overemphasis on the individual.
Young adults want to be heard by the church, study finds Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
LINTHICUM, Md. – It’s no secret that for years, teenagers and young adults have been leaving the Catholic Church, putting aside organized religion for a more personal spirituality, another faith tradition or no faith at all. A new study by St. Mary’s Press looks at the reasons for such religious disaffiliation, asking teenagers and young adults ages 15 to 25 a basic question: Why did you leave the church? The answers reported in the study, titled “Going, Going, Gone: The Dynamics of Disaffiliation of Young Catholics,” vary widely with respondents citing sociological, familial and spiritual reasons as well as opposition to organized religion. What’s key to the study, said John Vitek, CEO and president of St. Mary’s Press, is that the process gave young people a voice, something which has not happened often within the church. He made the comments during the Jan. 16 release of the findings at the Maritime Conference Center near Baltimore. “We wanted to hear in young people’s own words their lived experience and their stories. So we spent time listening to young people throughout the country, to hear their story in their own words, uncensored and unfiltered,” he said. The study’s release coincided with a 90-minute symposium that included two young adults, a priest, a sociologist who studies religious affiliation trends and an audience of about 200 people from parishes and dioceses throughout the country. The discussion occurred on the first day of a three-day invitationonly meeting of 65 Catholic leaders, many of whom work in diocesan and parish youth and young adult ministries. The two-year study found that religious disaffiliation is a process and often begins with questions about faith, doubts and hurts that accumulate over time “until it’s too much,” Vitek said. The process begins at
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The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education & Spirituality presents “Millennials and Faith – Hope for Today and Tomorrow,” a talk by Father Seán Charles Martin, March 3, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle (entrance off Mission Tierra), Fremont. $30 includes lunch. Student discount available. RSVP by Feb. 26. Register at bit.ly/2018_MillennalsFaith or call (510) 933-6360. an early age, sometimes as young as 10 years old. The study also found that the median age for young people to leave the church was 13 even though teenagers may have continued attending Mass with their families because they felt pressured to do so. Vitek added that almost all respondents interviewed said they felt more freedom and were happier after leaving the church. In an interview posted on the St. Mary’s Press website, Vitek was asked how he thinks organized religion and the Catholic Church should respond to those who choose to disaffiliate. “I think organized religion, the Catholic Church in particular, would be well-served by shedding any pessimistic view of the secularization of society or culture it may hold and instead view contemporary society as the new reality in which religion, belief, faith still have an important place and role to play,” he said. “In other words, instead of seeing disaffiliation as a grave threat, the church could view it as a new and vital reality in which its evangelizing mission must function in wholly new ways. Father Edmund Luciano, director of development in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, and a former diocesan director of youth and young adult ministry, said during the Jan. 16 discussion that 13 years old was too young to “be allowed to make a decision like that.”
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“I see a breakdown in this in the home and in the parents,” Father Luciano said. “They are the primary teachers of the faith. They are the role models and the examples. I don’t think the kids are doing anything wrong. I look to the parents wondering why they’re not supporting the growth of their kids.” The priest and others suggested that the church must better equip parents, teachers and ministry leaders to not shy away from questions young people have about faith. Panelist Father Joseph Muth, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in Baltimore, said teenagers often have many questions about life and that personal religious life was no exception. “It’s the normal process of growing up. In that moment we need someone to trust the questions being asked and to be equipped to give an answer,” he said. Many in the audience nodded in agreement. Christina Hannon, young adult engagement officer with the Coalition with Young Adults in Northeast Ohio, who was in the audience, said she has learned that young adults are looking for a place to be welcomed. If a parish is not welcoming, she suggested, a young person may decide to abandon the church altogether. Panelist Beatriz Mendivil came to the U.S. from Mexico at age 12 with her family and grew up Catholic but left the church at age 20 to explore other options. She said she began wondering about church practices, particularly confessing sins as a 10-year-old. “I was so ashamed I had to sit there and talk to a complete stranger,” she said, adding, “I felt ... just awful and this person was just sitting there telling me that I was not good. As a 10-year-old I think that’s not fair. I think that creates a trauma for a young child.”
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Archbishop: Calls for new focus on MLK’s call to nonviolence FROM PAGE 1
discipleship and evangelization in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Archbishop Lori noted in this pastoral letter – his second – that the archdiocese will mark the anniversary of Rev. King’s April 4, 1968, assassination with an interfaith prayer service at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore The Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, spiritual home of Rev. King, is scheduled to preach at the evening event April 12. In the pastoral, Archbishop Lori said Rev. King’s principles do not apply “only to troubled urban neighborhoods or solely to our African-American brothers and sisters.” “Violence, racism and a host of social problems exist in different forms and degrees throughout our suburban and rural areas as well,” he wrote, noting
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori are pictured in a combination photo. The upcoming 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. King prompted Archbishop Lori to write a pastoral letter on the civil rights leader’s principles of nonviolence.
that every community experiences domestic violence, drug abuse and other social ills, and that immigrants face discrimination, hatred, denied opportunities and unjust deportation. “Think of how vitriolic and coarse public rhetoric has become in politics and the media, a coarseness that often spills over into private conversation,” the archbishop said. “Instead of trying peacefully to reach the common ground of understanding, people far too often and far too quickly resort to abusive language. They may not kill their neighbors with bullets, but they do ‘kill’ them with words and gestures of disrespect.” In an interview for a video produced by the archdiocese to accompany the pastoral, Archbishop Lori reflected that when he was a seminarian, he realized he did not have any experience in either the inner city or a rural area, experience that would allow him to serve wherever he was assigned. He asked then-Archbishop William Baum of Wash-
ington to assign him, while he was a seminarian, to an inner-city parish. He was assigned to St. Vincent de Paul Parish in the District of Columbia’s Anacostia neighborhood. “I learned, and that was a great experience for me,” he said about an area that historically has been a majority black neighborhood. More times than he could count, the archbishop said, he has gone to visit parishioners where he has encountered people in a very poor situation. “I carry back so much more than I brought. … It’s humbling, it’s beautiful, it’s ennobling. “And that’s why I say at the end (of the pastoral) I said that you get out to the peripheries and find (the people) are not peripheral,” he said. “We just thought they were a periphery. Once they become real people with a real story and God-given gifts, you know that’s not the case.” In the letter, Archbishop Lori said: “If we truly allow Dr. King’s principles of nonviolence to guide us to conversion, we will not be content to camouflage our problems but rather be spurred into action; we will be moved to address and resist injustice in our community. Ultimately, however, it is only a change of mind and heart on the part of many that will lead to a new beginning for us and our beloved community.” The pastoral letter includes discussion questions intended for all – families, parish groups and pastoral councils, as well as clergy and religious – to pray, reflect and discuss. Archbishop Lori’s pastoral letter, supporting videos and other information are available on the web at www.archbalt. org/kingpastoral. Requests for a printed copy of the pastoral letter should be sent by email to communications@archbalt.org (with subject line “Request copy of MLK Pastoral”).
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
La Civilta Cattolica editor describes pope’s ‘diplomacy of mercy’ Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the influential Rome-based magazine La Civilta Cattolica and a close associate of Pope Francis, outlined the pope’s “diplomacy of mercy” that he has used with both political leaders and their citizens throughout his papacy during a Feb. 13 talk at Georgetown University. Pope Francis, according to Father Spadaro, spoke of his diplomatic aims during his 2016 World Communications Day message: “Our political and diplomatic language would do well to be inspired by mercy, which never loses hope.” “This is precisely the meaning of ‘mercy’ in politics: Do not consider anyone or anything as definitively lost in relations between nations, peoples and states,” the priest said in his talk, “The Francis Factor at Five Years: Pope Francis’ Global Vision and His Work for a More Just and Peaceful World.” It was sponsored by Georgetown’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. Father Spadaro outlined five aspects of Pope Francis’ diplomatic ministry, and dwelt at length on the ongoing talks between the Vatican and the Chinese government over the appointment and recognition of bishops there. The five aspects, Father Spadaro said, are: “a geopolitics that dissolves fundamentalisms and fear of chaos”; “a geopolitics that does not see Catholicism as a political guarantor of power”; “field-hospital diplomacy”; “an ‘incomplete’ and ‘open’ diplomacy”; and “a diplomacy of solidarity.” It was under the “incomplete and open” diplomacy aspect that Father Spadaro addressed China. “Francis is walking the same path of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, trying to find a way to dialogue effectively with the Chinese authorities,” he said. “For decades, bishops were elected locally throughout the country in open churches operating with government approval. In countless instances, these were not episcopal candidates approved by Rome. As
Pope Francis ‘strongly resists’ the notion of the church as a ‘pillar against the decline seen in the crisis of global leadership in the Western world’ by dismissing ‘liberal democracy in favor of a post-modern Middle Ages in which the church would still guard the legitimacy of politics.’ Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro Editor, La Civilta Cattolica
bishops appointed irregularly and often ordained by other bishops who were similarly appointed without Vatican approval they were – formally speaking – automatically excommunicated,” the priest continued. “But later, and across the country and across the decades, agreements between these bishops and Rome were reached. But no great issue was made of this, and these bishops and the Vatican reached solutions to realize appointments and just get on with redeveloping dioceses and the church’s life.” Father Spadaro put the number of bishops appointed by the Chinese government and later “legitimated” by either St. John Paul or Pope Benedict at 45, with 70 bishops now considered legitimate by the church and “official” by the state. “Maybe the time has come to move forward,” he said. “Some are asking if it is acceptable to give the authority to ordain bishops to (the) China government,” which Father Spadaro said was a “completely wrong ... mischaracterization.” “The church doesn’t want to give away the author-
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ity to ordain bishops. The history of the church is the history of finding agreements with the political authorities about the appointments of bishops,” he added, noting there are about a dozen countries where civil authorities have consultation or “presentation” rights on bishops, and when a Vatican-Vietnam accord was reached on episcopal appointments, it “raised no noise.” While “it is certain that there will still be misunderstandings, fatigue and suffering to be faced,” Father Spadaro said, the desired outcome is “realistic pastoral solutions that allow Catholics to live their faith and to continue the work of evangelization in the specific Chinese context.” The pope “never gives in to the temptation to identify religion with fundamentalism,” Father Spadaro said. “The pope is light years away from the theorists of a ‘clash of civilizations.’ Francis seeks to dissolve this double narrative of a toxic final clash of religions that nourishes the fear of chaos.” Pope Francis “strongly resists also” the notion of the church as a “pillar against the decline seen in the crisis of global leadership in the Western world” by dismissing “liberal democracy in favor of a postmodern Middle Ages in which the church would still guard the legitimacy of politics,” he added. The pope’s style of “field-hospital diplomacy” allows him, according to Father Spadaro, to “touch open wounds with his own hands, carrying out a therapeutic gesture. In fact, Francis touches barriers as if they were the head of a sick person.” “He wants to touch the injured lands one by one,” the priest said, citing, among others, Bethlehem, Cairo, Sarajevo, Albania, Sri Lanka, the islands of Lampedusa and Lesbos, and Bangui, Central African Republic. Pope Francis’ diplomacy of solidarity “means acting on the most delicate areas of international politics in the name of the outcast and the weak,” Father Spadaro said. Peace initiatives “must always be connected to the two great social themes that concern the pope: social peace and social inclusion of the poor.”
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Notre Dame’s contraceptive coverage change questioned Catholic News Service
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – An Indiana bishop said he supports the University of Notre Dame’s Feb. 7 decision to stop coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and add natural family planning services to the school’s health plan, but he said coverage of artificial birth control by a Catholic institution is unacceptable. “The Catholic Church clearly teaches that contraception is an immoral action that contradicts the truth of marital love,” said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, whose diocese includes Notre Dame. “I strongly support the decision of the University of Notre Dame to stop the government-funded provision, through its third-party administrator, of abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures,” Bishop Rhoades said in a statement provided to Catholic News Service Feb. 8. “I am also happy that the university will provide natural family planning services in its insurance plans. “At the same time, I strongly disagree with Notre Dame’s decision to provide funding for contraception in its health insurance plans which involves it even more directly in contributing to immoral activity,” he added. Bishop Rhoades made the comments in reaction to the announcement by Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, that the university had once again made changes on coverage of contraceptives in its health plans. In October, Father Jenkins joined other Catholic leaders in praising a decision by the Trump administration to expand the religious exemption to an Obama-era mandate that all employers cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortifacients even if an employer was morally opposed to such coverage. The priest in a university email to employees stated that the previously mandated coverage would end Dec. 31. In reaction to that decision, a small campus protest took place, organized by the Notre Dame
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that range of drugs and services include abortioninducing drugs and sterilization, which is against church teaching. “Stopping any access to contraceptives through our health care plan would allow the university to be free of involvement with drugs that are morally objectionable in Catholic teaching,” Father Jenkins said, however that decision “would burden those who have made conscientious decisions about the use of such drugs and rely on the university for health care benefits.” Therefore, he said the university “will provide coverage under the university insurance plans for simple contraceptives (i.e., drugs designed to prevent conception). The university will also provide in its plans funding for natural family planning options – options that do not use artificial contraceptives but employ natural methods for preventing conception.” “The situation is one that demands discernment – something to which Pope Francis has called the church in his various writings and addresses,” Father Jenkins said. “Discernment, which has a long history in the Catholic spiritual tradition, is, of course, a process of weighing thoughtfully considerations for and against various courses of action. Yet it also demands prayerful attention to God’s guidance through the prompting of the Holy Spirit.” In his statement, Bishop Rhoades said, “I hope and pray that the university will reconsider its decision.” As the bishop of the diocese of which Notre Dame is a part, “I wish to remind all the faithful of the diocese, including the faithful who are part of the Notre Dame community,” he said, “of the church’s definitive teaching that ‘every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil.’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church No. 2370).”
Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
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School shooting victims mourned Joe Zevuloni weeps Feb. 16 in front of a cross placed in a park to commemorate the victims of the Feb. 16 shooting that killed at least 17 people at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “May God heal the brokenhearted and comfort the sorrowing as we once again face as a nation another act of senseless violence and horrifying evil,” Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said in a statement.
WASHINGTON – If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014. “We experienced this not for the last four years, but 1,400 years,” Archbishop Warda said during a Feb. 15 speech at Georgetown University in Washington, sponsored by the Religious Freedom Research Project of the university’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Christians are partly to blame, too, in the dialogue, according to Archbishop Warda. “We did not push back against the recurring periods of terrorism that inflicted cruel pain upon our ancestors,” he said. He added that Christianity also needs to return to a “preConstantine vision” of the church, recalling Jesus’ words shortly before his crucifixion: “My kingdom is not of this world.” Given the scope of the Islamic State’s campaign to erase Christians and all non-Muslims from the territories it had controlled prior to a counteroffensive that decimated its ranks and holdings, “there is nothing left but to speak plainly,” he said. “When there is nothing left to lose, it is very liberating.” Archbishop Warda added, “We object that one faith has now the right to kill another. There needs to be a change and a correction within Islam.” He said Christians in the region “have moved from fear to terror to horror. Where next? ... Hundreds of
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
San Franciscan Dr. Victoria Sweet’s passion to reclaim the ‘magical,’ often spiritual doctor-patient relationship at the heart of true healing
excerpts from ‘slow medicine’ Here are excerpts from “Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing” by Victoria Sweet, M.D. Riverhead Books (New York, 2017). 304 pp., $27.
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hen Dr. Victoria Sweet arrived at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco one day in 2007 and saw trucks and equipment preparing to bring down the site where she had practiced medicine for more than 20 years, she knew that the project to demolish the old building and put up a new hospital would change her life. She decided it was time to tell the story of the old, almost monastery-like Laguna Honda and the lessons learned about what it takes to truly care for human beings. “I realized that once the hospital was closed and torn down, nobody would believe what had happened there,” she said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco. “No one would understand it.” Sweet, now an associate clinical professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, decided to write a book “and capture what I learned so other people could experience what I experienced.” Five years later, in 2012, she published “God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine” (Riverhead, 2012). Her second book, “Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing” (Riverhead, 2017), came out last October and earned her national reviews as a “visionary” and “subversive” naming the economic and human costs of an efficiencycentered health care status quo. Reviewing the book for Catholic News Service, Rachelle Linner said “Slow Medicine” “is imbued with a vocational sense of medicine, of the spiritual ground of being a healer. More than once Sweet reminds us that, in the Middle Ages, ‘nursing and doctoring were done by nuns and monks as a calling.’” Although not Catholic, Sweet is inspired by Catholic ideas of beauty and spirituality.
Catholic inspiration
“For some reason, Catholicism has always touched, moved and inspired me,” she said. “In particular, medieval Catholicism, and even more particularly, the medieval Catholicism of 12th-century France. There’s something about its clarity, its beauty: Anselm’s ‘God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere,’ for instance. “Which is why, doubtless, that Hildegard intrigued me from the beginning, and why, when I found out that
– relationship between doctors and patients in an era of high-tech medicine and soaring health care costs. The demolition of the old Laguna Honda, a throwback to a far slower and simpler time when “God’s house” with its promise of care for body, soul and spirit was synonymous with hospital, symbolized that change for Sweet. Sweet tells some of the most meaningful stories she experienced with her patients. She also narrates the transformation that Laguna Honda underwent over the years in its administration and medical practice. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Sweet majored in mathematics at Stanford and minored in classics. Her academic interests, which informed her later vision of what a good doctor can be, balance science and the humanities. She started on a doctorate in psychology at Harvard but realized that medicine was her calling. While working at Laguna Honda, she completed a Ph.D. in the history of medicine, discovering what would become the title of her first book when she learned that “God’s hotel” or “God’s house” used to be what a hospital was called in France. The old Laguna Honda, with its space for relational, humanistic medicine, was such a place of healing when Sweet worked there. “‘God’s Hotel’ reminds us of the kind of doctors that we do not see much anymore,” Sweet said. “We used to have very human doctors, those who went to see sick patients at home. Why is the reason we no longer have this type of doctor? Is it the economy? Budget problems? Changes on public policies?” The change has not come about by accident, she said with passion.
‘Deliberately engineered’
“It was deliberately engineered in the 1970s,” Sweet said. “Before 1975, a doctor had a code of ethics. It goes all the way back to Hippocrates when the main thing for a doctor was to put the patient first. And when you went to medical school, you would swear that code. And there was a code of ethics that the American Medical Association had. In 1975, the Federal Trade Commission sued the American Medical Association and said that was actually illegal to put patients first. The American Medical Association went to the Supreme Court, and in 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that medicine was just an industry, a business, not a profession. The AMA lost in 1982, and by 1983, the fast-food industry, all those kinds of industries, were buying hospitals and urgent care
‘I would sit on their bed and they just got better and better; and I got better in some fundamental way about my relationship with the world. I started seeing we were all in this together and when you have that, something magical happens. Its just sweet, beautiful and meaningful.’ Dr. Victoria Sweet I could walk the medieval pilgrimage route through France to Santiago, I just had to do it,” Sweet said, referring to the 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, composer, visionary and doctor Hildegard of Bingen. “And it was worth every step, spiritually and morally.” If modern medicine fragments the body into parts, Hildegard saw the body holistically. Her vision led Sweet on a search for the contemplative roots of what she would call “slow medicine.” “Could it be the missing piece of Western medicine?” she writes. “The one that explains what I had been seeing all these years that didn’t fit?” Sweet could not have imagined that her first book, “God’s Hotel,” would have a national impact, contributing to a debate on the changing – and not for the better
clinics and basically taking control of medicine. And that’s why we’re in a big mess. It’s not about the budget. Before that decision, health care took 10 percent of the gross domestic product. Today it almost takes 20 percent, so it has not saved money. It costs a huge amount of money. It is a huge way to make money.” Anyone who wants to make money in health care today should become a manager, not a doctor, she said. How can medicine recover some of its spirit of humanism? Sweet said many doctors who don’t want to work in the health care industry are opening offices and visiting patients. “There are many doctors who have found a solvent way to do it,” Sweet said. “In the last five years, I have
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Dr. Victoria Sweet is pictured outside Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, where she practiced medicine for 20 years and was inspired to write a book about her insight that it is not technology or efficiency but rather the doctor-patient relationship, including unhurried time for observation and for both people to get to know one another, that is the key to quality health care. known doctors who are doing this very successfully and charge patients by the hour and drive to see the patient at home.” Such personal care is relatively expensive, but much less expensive than if the patient has to go to an emergency room. “Some doctors have started a concierge practice where the patients pay a monthly amount of money, sometimes $100, sometimes $500 a month. But with that, the doctor doesn’t have to work for anybody else.” Sweet said she has a doctor that has her own practice and makes home visits. “The last two times I got sick, she came to my house. And I didn’t have to go to the emergency room. That was the end of that. So I did end up saving money in the long term.” For Sweet, most doctors are fundamentally compassionate and many are quite spiritual because they see people die, nearly die, get sick and recover. They see miracles and disasters. She believes that doctors could become spiritual and more compassionate if they had the time.
‘Just horrible’
She said most people in health care now spend most of their time on their computer, rushed and harassed. This “just horrible” environment is one reason she is not practicing medicine now. “After writing my first book, I looked around to find a different kind of place to practice and every single one just showed me that I will be spending my time in a computer,” she said. “I didn’t want to be in that position.” At Laguna Honda, much of her medical learning was through observing patients. Observation combined with the doctor-patient relationship is key to healing, she states in “God’s Hotel.” That was how medicine was practiced during her years at the old Laguna Honda. “I worked in a place that looked like a medieval hospital, a very old-fashioned hospital, like a monastery and a church,” she said. “Most of the time, we had almost 1,200 patients. Sometimes they stayed for months and years.” Sweet had enough time to talk with her patients and get to know them. “It was not just talking to them but, even more important, to examine them myself,” she said. “Not in five
minutes but really it takes about an hour to really examine a patient. The exam alone tells you a huge amount about what’s going on. It’s just crucial to do that. And then after that, I had the time to know the family, get the old records, talk to the old doctors that they have to take care of. And I had the time to try different things.” The right diagnosis is not always obvious, Sweet said. Sometimes she found that patients did not need all the medicines they were taking. “I had the time to try things, to stop others,” she said. “And what impressed me was how efficient it was and how much money I saved by having that extra time. And I will give an example. Most of the patients I met for the first time were very sick for a long time, and most of them, on average where on between 15 and 26 medications. Most of them only needed three or four of these medicines but no other doctor had the time to go through and find out, try this or take them off. It was just amazing because most of the patients only needed a few medications. And the amount of money saved when you take someone out of 10 or 15 medications is enormous. The patient gets better.” She also realized that there was a kind of magic involved in the process.
‘Something magical’
“I would sit on their bed and they just got better and better; and I got better in some fundamental way about my relationship with the world,” she said. “I started seeing we were all in this together and when you have that, something magical happens. It’s just sweet, beautiful and meaningful.” Medicine works best, Sweet said, with the best possible diagnosis and treatment for the least amount of money, when it is personal and face-to-face, and when the doctor has enough time to do a good job and pays attention not only to the patient but to what is around her. Sweet, who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 to work on her second book, calls this approach “slow medicine” and believes that putting this into a wider practice would be beneficial and satisfying for patient and doctor, and less expensive for everyone. The New York Times called her ideas “hard-core subversion.” Vanity Fair noted her “radical and compassionate alternative to modern health care.” Health Af-
fairs has described Sweet as a “visionary” and “subversive in all the best ways.” Sweet described her second book as a slow-medicine manifesto disguised as a memoir. “After writing ‘God’s Hotel,’ I’ve been going around speaking all over the world for the last five years. I got emails from people from everywhere who told me that this idea we are talking on about what a doctor really should be, it’s disappearing. In ‘Slow Medicine’ I decided to tell the story that really influenced me and affected me and created me as the doctor I am today. “These stories I tell in ‘Slow Medicine’ are not the same as those of ‘God’s Hotel.’ ‘Slow Medicine’ is very much about before I got to ‘God’s Hotel’ but it is also a little bit during ‘God’s Hotel’ and afterward,” she said. “It’s kind of like a prequel and a sequel to ‘God’s Hotel.’ You will find out in a more explicit way about the relationship between doctor and patient. Examining the patient, listening to the patient, having the time to be a human being.” Asked in an email what health care consumers can do to ensure better care, Sweet bridled at the label.
What patients can do
“I believe, for starters, that this metaphor is pernicious, and we should avoid using it,” she said. “I make this point very strongly in my new book. Patients are not consumers, but sick, scared, vulnerable. Doctors and nurses are practicing a calling, a vocation, a craft and an art. What can patients do in the current climate? I wish I knew. I see medical care being run over by the steamroller called corporate profit, and the media being remarkably complacent until they themselves get sick. Even as I write this, there are several enormous hedge-fund led mergers of the health care system taking place, with no one noting. Patients should expect more from their doctors than sitting in front of the computer. Patients should expect and demand that at the very least their doctors look at them, examine them, think about them.” Although she wrote her second book as a medical memoir, she pointed out that it is not only about medicine. “It’s about where the whole world is going with writing, education, with almost every facet,” she said. “We are forgetting that there is something so important in this personal relationship between people.”
“And just as Dr. Greg taught me to know what I didn’t know, and Marcela that sometimes I wouldn’t even know what I didn’t know, Joey taught me there was more to be known in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in our philosophies. Such as prayer. Prayer worked, at least that once and maybe sometimes and maybe always. How it works, who knows? It changes the tempo somehow, bends space-time perhaps, so that instead of things going one way, they go another. Or it makes people more attentive, starts a basso continuo in the background that tunes our seventh sense of awareness – even if you’re not the one doing the praying, simply a bystander, two people removed.”
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“The door of the elevator opened and he [Dr. Greg] stepped in. But he held it open for a moment.” “’We doctors think we’re so important,” he told me, “but the way it works is that in any disease about a third of the patients get better, a third get worse, and a third stay the same – and all we do is change who does what.’ “Then he let go of the elevator door and it closed and I never saw him again. But his words would resonate with me for the rest of my life.”
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Lent is time to notice God’s work, receive God’s mercy, pope says Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
ROME – Lent is a time for Christians to get their hearts in sync with the heart of Jesus, Pope Francis said. “Let the Lord heal the wounds of sin and fulfill the prophecy made to our fathers: ‘A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh,’” the pope said Feb. 14, celebrating Mass and distributing ashes at the beginning of Lent. After a brief prayer at the Benedictine’s Monastery of St. Anselm, Pope Francis made the traditional Ash Wednesday procession to the Dominican-run Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome’s Aventine Hill for the Mass. He received ashes on his head from 93-year-old Cardinal Jozef Tomko, titular cardinal of the basilica, and
he distributed ashes to the cardinals present, three Benedictines, three Dominicans, an Italian couple with two children and members of the Pontifical Academy for Martyrs, which promotes the traditional Lenten “station church” pilgrimage in Rome. In his homily, he said the church gives Christians the 40 days of Lent as a time to reflect on “anything that could dampen or even corrode our believing heart.” Everyone experiences temptation, the pope said. Lent is a time to pause and step back from situations that lead to sin, a time to see how God is at work in others and in the world and, especially, a time to return to the Lord, knowing that his mercy is boundless. Lent, he said, is a time “to allow our hearts to beat once more in tune with the vibrant heart of Jesus.” Hitting the reset button, the pope said, requires taking a pause from
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contemplate,” he suggested. Christians can learn from seeing the gestures others make that “keep the flame of faith and hope alive.” “Look at faces alive with God’s tenderness and goodness working in our midst,” the pope said, pointing to the faces of families who struggle to survive yet continue to love, the wrinkled faces of the elderly “that reflect God’s wisdom at work” and the faces of the sick and their caregivers who “remind us that the value of each person can never be reduced to a question of calculation or utility.” “See the remorseful faces of so many who try to repair their errors and mistakes, and who from their misfortune and suffering, fight to transform their situations and move forward,” Pope Francis said. But most of all, he said, “see and contemplate the real face of Christ crucified out of love for everyone, without exception. For everyone? Yes, for everyone. To see his face is an invitation filled with hope for this Lenten time, in order to defeat the demons of distrust, apathy and resignation. The invitation, he said, is to “return without fear to those outstretched, eager arms of your Father, who is rich in mercy, who awaits you.”
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Pope: People have right to receive God’s word, so preach it well Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Everyone who goes to Mass has the right to hear the word of God in all its fullness, which means it must be read well and explained well with “fervor,” Pope Francis said. People have the right to hear God’s word in a way that “knocks at the heart and changes hearts,” he said at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square Feb. 14. Before beginning his prepared talk, the pope greeted some 10,000 people braving a cold drizzle under umbrellas or raincoats by saying, “Good morning! It’s a little bad out today, but if the soul is joyful, then it is always a good day. So, good morning!” The pope continued his series of audience talks on the Mass, underlining the importance of receiving “abundantly from the treasury of God’s word” present in the Mass readings and the homily. “Each one of us, when we go to Mass, we have the right to receive abundantly God’s word, read well, well-spoken and then explained well in the homily,” he said. “It is a right.” If the word is not “preached with fervor,” that, too, represents depriving the faithful of their spiritual right to receive the word, he added. “The Lord speaks to everyone, pastors and the faithful,” the pope said. “He knocks on the heart of all those who attend Mass, each one with their circumstances in life, age, situation. The Lord consoles, calls and draws forth buds of new and reconciled life.” After a period of silence, he said, the whole assembly comes together in reciting the creed, which shows the response of the community to what they have heard and received.
“There is a vital connection between listening and faith. They are united,” he said. “Faith, in fact, does not come from the imagination of human minds,” but comes from listening to Christ’s word, he said. “Faith is nourished then by listening and leads to the sacrament” of the Eucharist. The creed is followed by the prayers of the faithful, formally called the “universal prayer” because “it embraces the needs of the church and the world,” he said. Prayers are offered for the church, for those who govern, for those in need, for all of humanity and for the salvation of the entire world, the pope said. People must remember “what the Lord Jesus told us: ‘If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.’ But we don’t believe this because we have little faith,” the pope said. The assembly at Mass must use the moment to ask for difficult or really important things because for those who truly believe, it will be done in one way or another, he said. “Everything is possible to one who has faith,” the pope said, citing Jesus’ words to the father of a boy who had spent his whole childhood possessed by an evil spirit. Remember how the father responded, the pope said, “I do believe, help my unbelief !” “We, too, can tell the Lord, ‘I believe but help my unbelief,’” he added. The assembly must offer prayers and give voice to “concrete needs of the church community and the world” and avoid relying on formulaic or boilerplate and “short-sighted” requests, he said. Worldy pretensions and selfish requests, the pope added, fail to reach heaven and will go unheard.
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Report: Pope said he regularly meets survivors Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis told a group of Jesuits in Peru that he often meets on Fridays with survivors of sex abuse. The meetings, which he said do not always become public knowledge, make it clear that the survivors’ process of recovery “is very hard. They remain annihilated. Annihilated,” the pope had told the Jesuits Jan. 19 in Lima. The scandal of clerical sexual abuse shows not only the “fragility” of the Catholic Church, he said, “but also – let us speak clearly – our level of hypocrisy.” The director of the Vatican press office Feb. 15 confirmed that the pope’s meetings with abuse survivors is regular and ongoing. “I can confirm that several times a month, the Holy Father meets victims of sexual abuse both individu-
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ally and in groups,” said Greg Burke, the director. “Pope Francis listens to the victims and tries to help them heal the serious wounds caused by the abuse they’ve suffered. The meetings take place with maximum reserve out of respect for the victims and their suffering.” On his trips abroad, Pope Francis usually spends time with local Jesuit communities and holds a question-and-answer session with them. Weeks later, a transcript of the exchange is published by Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit journal in Rome. The transcribed and translated texts from Pope Francis’ conversations with Jesuits in Chile Jan. 16 and in Peru three days later were released in Italian and English by Civilta Cattolica Feb. 15 with the pope’s approval, the journal said. The Jesuits in Chile had not asked the pope about the abuse scandal, even though the scandal was in the news, particularly because of ongoing controversy over the pope’s appointment in 2015 of Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, who had been accused of covering up the abuse committed by his mentor, Father Fernando Karadima. Pope Francis met with the Jesuits in Santiago at the end of his first full day in Chile. Earlier that day he had met with “a small group” of people who had been abused by Chilean priests, according to the Vatican press office.
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Head of Catholic physicians’ group warns of threats to conscientious objection Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – No physician should be forced to choose between violating his or her conscience and facing professional sanctions when defending human life, said the president of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations. Dr. John Lee, the federation president, wrote a letter in early February to the World Medical Association protesting proposed changes in the WMA’s ethical policy statements on abortion and on euthanasia. The changes apparently will be discussed at the WMA council meeting in Latvia in April. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported on Lee’s letter on its front page Feb. 16 under the headline, “Conscientious objection in danger.” The two proposals, Lee said, would “facilitate worldwide abortion and euthanasia by curtailing doctors’ conscientious objection” by using “deceptive language, pressure on doctors by national regulatory bodies and legal force to weaken national laws protecting human life.”
Vatican denies report Pope Benedict has degenerative disease
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican denied that retired Pope Benedict XVI has a degenerative neurological disease or paralyzing condition after his brother, 94-year-old Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, told a magazine that Pope Benedict had a debilitating disease. In an interview published Feb. 13 in the German weekly entertainment magazine, Neue Post, Msgr. Ratzinger said Pope Benedict Pope suffered from a nerve disease that Benedict XVI was slowly paralyzing him. “The greatest concern is that the paralysis could eventually reach his heart and then everything could end quickly,” Msgr. Ratzinger was quoted as
The WMA’s Declaration of Oslo on Therapeutic Abortion, most recently updated in 2006, said the association “requires the physician to maintain respect for human life,” but “where the law allows therapeutic abortion to be performed, the procedure should be performed by a physician competent to do so in premises approved by the appropriate authority.” “If the physician’s convictions do not allow him or her to advise or perform an abortion, he or she may withdraw while ensuring the continuity of medical care by a qualified colleague,” the 2006 declaration said. Apparently, Lee said, the proposed revision removes any distinction between “a therapeutic abortion” and “an elective abortion,” and affirms that “the physician who objects must nevertheless provide ‘safe abortion’ in some circumstances.” In addition, he said, the proposal apparently removes the 2006 declaration’s reference to the “unborn child” and refers instead to the “fetus.” On the issue of euthanasia, Lee said he has been told that Canada and the Netherlands have proposed changes that would state the “WMA
does not condemn physicians who follow their own conscience in deciding whether or not to participate in these activities” in jurisdictions where euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are legal. “By saying that the WMA does not condemn physicians who perform euthanasia where it is legal, the WMA is saying that euthanasia can be ethical if it is legal,” Lee wrote. In addition, he said, “based on the Canadian experience, acceptance of the ethical neutrality of medically assisted death has resulted in almost immediate challenges for physicians who are unable to refer (patients to other doctors) because of moral, religious or ethical concerns. It is a serious problem, with physicians put in the impossible position of having to choose between their conscience and being allowed to continue to care for their patients.” “Doctors who exercise their right of conscientious objection to abortion and euthanasia will find themselves victims of coercion by their professional societies and the state,” Lee wrote. “This oppression of the silent majority by the vocal minority cannot end well.”
saying. “I pray every day to ask God for the grace of a good death, at a good moment, for my brother and me. We both have this great wish,” he added. Although news about the interview also was published on the German edition of the Vatican News website, the Holy See press office said in a statement Feb. 15 that “the alleged news reports of a paralyzing or degenerative illness are false.”
accuse you of being a heretic,” the pope told a group of Jesuits during a meeting Jan. 16 in Santiago, Chile. “When I cannot see spiritual goodness in what these people say or write, I simply pray for them,” Pope Francis said in response to a question about the “resistance” he has encountered as pope. The exchange was part of the usual question-and-answer session Pope Francis has with Jesuit communities during his papal trips abroad. With the pope’s approval, the Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica publishes a transcript of the conversation several weeks later. The text from the January trip was released Feb. 15.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said he tries to dialogue with those who disagree with him in the hope that he will learn something; but he just prays for those who call him a heretic. “When I perceive resistance, I seek dialogue whenever it is possible; but some resistance comes from people who believe they possess the true doctrine and
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Sunday readings
Second Sunday of Lent 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 en-
emies, 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.
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he first reading tells us that Abraham’s faith and trust in the one God became the goal of a new experience and relationship between Abraham and God. In the second reading, St. Paul helps us see that the resurrection of Christ proved once and for all that God has the power to snatch victory from defeat, to bring life out of death. In the Gospel, the apostles Peter, James and John experienced just such a moment. On the Mount of the Transfiguration, they witnessed a transformation in the appearance of Jesus, an otherworldly glow that became so intensely white that they had to shield their eyes. And Jesus was flanked by the Old Testament prophets Deacon Elijah and Moses. Talk about faiva Po’oi a mountaintop experience! This was a moment they would recall and talk about for the rest of their lives. At the moment of this transfiguration, Peter, James and John did not know what to say. Imagine that – Peter, the man who never seemed to be at a loss for words, was actually speechless!
scripture reflection
Turn down the noise outside, and more important: Turn down the noise that roars inside our heads. What can we learn from this Scripture lesson that will help transform us during this season of Lent? All of us will experience moments in our lives when we fall silent – the death of a friend, being in the presence of grandeur, at times of surprise, shock or grief. This is normal. Let it be. Be silent. For Peter, James and John, the transfiguration was not a test to determine if they could come up with a brilliant response, as though it were a riddle to be solved, or a mystery to be explained. During this Lenten season, we would all do well to practice some silence. Turn down the noise outside, and more importantly: Turn down the noise that roars inside our heads. Resist the temptation to fill the air with more words. As the psalmist said, “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Peter was not able to let this special moment of glory – the Transfiguration – just go by without spoiling it with words. “It’s great to be here, Jesus. Let us make three tents: one for you , one for Moses and one for Elijah.” Sounds innocent enough, doesn’t it? But Peter’s failing, in addition to his inability to remain silent in the presence of God, was his determination to hold onto the moment
as though to freeze it in time: To camp out on that mountaintop and, in a sense, create a museum of the Transfiguration. To want to cling to the glory of the moment was a very understandable sentiment, but it was one that clearly missed the call of Jesus. Jesus was challenging the apostles and each of us to climb another hill, a more difficult hill, the hill of Calvary. Peter, like so many of us during Lent, wanted to bypass Calvary’s suffering and its call to self-denial. Like Peter, so many of us would prefer a path in life that ends in glory, surrounded by saints, to a journey that ends in death on a cross, flanked by thieves. Wouldn’t we all? But God had a better plan for Peter and all of us today. It was after Peter’s bungled attempt to speak that God’s voice spoke. His command was clear and simple. The voice of the Father simply said, “This is my beloved Son, listen to him.” That’s it. Do not try to explain or diminish the mystery. Do not try to figure God out. Just listen. Listen. For on that day, on that mountain, that was all God wanted. Be silent and listen. Perhaps the greatest act of obedience we can give to Jesus during this Lenten journey is to learn to be better listeners, to Jesus and to each other. It is a small, silent beginning to our own personal transformation. Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Saturday, March 3: Saturday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin. 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.
Wednesday, March 7: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. Dt 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20. See Jn 6:63c, 68c. Mt 5:17-19.
Wednesday, February 28: Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent. Jer 18:18-20. Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16. Jn 8:12. Mt 20:17-28.
Sunday, March 4: Third Sunday of Lent – Year A Readings. Ex 17:3-7. Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. Rom 5:1-2, 5-8. Cf. Jn 4:42, 15. Jn 4:5-42 or Jn 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42. Third Sunday of Lent. – Year B Reading. Ex 20:1-17 or Ex 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11. 1 Cor 1:22-25. Jn 3:16. Jn 2:13-25.
Thursday, March 8: Thursday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. John of God, religious. Jer 7:23-28. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. Jl 2:12-13. Lk 11:14-23.
Thursday, March 1: 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.
Monday, March 5: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. See Ps 130:5, 7. Lk 4:24-30.
Friday, March 2: Friday of the Second Week of Lent. Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a. Ps 105:16-17, 1819, 20-21. Jn 3:16. Mt 21:33-43, 45-46.
Tuesday, March 6: Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent. Dn 3:25, 34-43. PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9. Jl 2:12-13. Mt 18:21-35.
Monday, February 26: 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. Tuesday, February 27: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. Is 1:10, 16-20. Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Ez 18:31. Mt 23:1-12.
Friday, March 9: Friday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious. Hos 14:2-10. PS 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17. Mt 4:17. Mk 12:28-34. Saturday, March 10: Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. Feast of St. John Ogilvie, priest and martyr. Hos 6:1-6. PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab. Ps 95:8. Lk 18:9-14.
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
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Faith and superstition
he power of a subordinate clause, one nuance within a sentence and everything takes on a different meaning. That’s the case in a recent brilliant, but provocative, novel, “The Ninth Hour,” by Nina McDermott. She tells a story which, among other things, focuses on a group of nuns in Brooklyn who work with the poor. Times are FATHER ron hard, people are rolheiser needy, and the nuns, who work mostly in home care for the poor, appear utterly selfless in their dedication. Nothing, it seems, can deflect them from their mission to give their all, their every ounce of energy, to help the poor. And on this score, McDermott gives them their due. As well, for anyone familiar with what goes on inside of a religious community, McDermott’s portrayal of these nuns is both nuanced and accurate. Nuns aren’t all of a kind. Each has her own unique history, temperament, and personality. Some are wonderfully warm and gracious, others nurse their own wounds and aren’t always evident paradigms of God’s love and mercy. And that’s case with the nuns that McDermott describes here. But, quirks of individual personality aside, as a community, the nuns she describes serve the poor and their overall witness is beyond reproach. But then, after telling this story of faith and dedication and reflecting on how today there are few groups of nuns who still live so radical a commitment, McDermott, through the voice of her
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narrator, introduces the subversive subordinate clause: “The holy nuns who sailed through the house when we were young were a dying breed even then. … The call to sanctity and self-sacrifice, the delusion and superstition it required, faded from the world even then.” Wow! The delusion and the superstition it required. As if this kind of radical selfsacrifice can only be the product of false fear. As if whole generations of Christian self-sacrifice, vowed celibacy, and singleminded dedication can be dismissed, post-factum, as ultimately predicated on delusion and superstition. How true is that? I grew up in the world McDermott is describing, where nuns were like that, and where a powerful Catholic ethos supported them and declared what they were doing was anything but delusion and superstition. Admittedly that was another time and much of that ethos has not stood the test of time and has, indeed, to a large part succumbed to the raw power of secularity. And so McDermott is right, partially. Some of that selflessness was based upon an unhealthy fear of hellfire and God’s anger. To an extent too it was based on a notion of faith that believed that God does not really want us to flourish much here on earth but that our lives are meant to be mostly a somber preparation for the next world. Perhaps this isn’t exactly delusion and superstition, but it is bad theology and it did help underwrite some of the religious life in the world McDermott describes and in the Catholic world of my youth. But there was also something else undergirding this ethos, and I inhaled it deeply in my youth and in a way that branded my soul for good, like nothing else I have ever breathed in in this world. Notwithstanding some false fears, there was inside of that a biblical faith,
a raw mandate, that taught that your own comfort, your own desires, and even your own legitimate longings for human flourishing, sexuality, marriage, children, freedom and having what everyone else has, are subject to a higher purpose, and you may be asked to sacrifice them all, your legitimate longings, to serve God and others. It was a faith that believed you were born with a God-given vocation and that your life was not your own. I saw this first in my own parents who believed that faith made those demands upon them, who accepted that, and who consequently had the moral authority to ask this of others. I saw it too in the Ursuline nuns who taught me in school, women with full red blood flowing through their veins but who sacrificed these longings to come into the public schools in our remote rural areas and teach us. I saw it too in the little prairie community that nurtured me in my youth, a whole community who, by and large, lived out this selflessness. Today I live in a world that prizes sophistication above all else, but where as a whole society we’re no longer sure what’s “fake news” as opposed to what we can believe in and trust. In this unsteady world the faith of my youth, of my parents, of the nuns who sacrificed their dreams to teach me, and of the nuns whom Nina McDermott describes in “The Ninth Hour,” can look very much like delusion and superstition. Sometimes it is delusion, admittedly; but sometimes it isn’t, and in my case the faith my parents gave me, with its belief that your life and your sexuality are not your own, is, I believe, the truest, most non-superstitious thing of all. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
he Scriptures of Lent in the church’s daily liturgy invite two related reflections. The weeks immediately preceding Easter call us to walk to Jerusalem in imitation of Christ, so that, at Easter, we, too might be blessed with baptismal water and sent into the world on mission. The preceding weeks, those immediately following Ash Wednesday, george weigel propose a serious examination of conscience: What is there in me that’s broken? What’s impeding my being the missionary disciple I was baptized to be? This Lent, that examination of conscience might well include some serious thinking about what “conscience” means. That often-contentious subject has returned to the center of the world Catholic conversation, thanks to the forthcoming 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae,” Blessed Paul VI’s prophetic encyclical on the morally appropriate means of family planning, and the ongoing discussion generated by Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on marriage, “Amoris Laetitia.” In that conversation, voices have been heard urging a view of conscience that is curious, even dangerous: Under certain circumstances, conscience may permit or even require that a person choose acts that the church has consistently taught are intrinsically wrong – such as using artificial means of contraception, or receiving holy Communion
while living the married life in a union that’s not been blessed by the church. Those propounding this idea of “conscience” urge us to recognize three things: That the spiritual and moral life is a journey; that when the church teaches that some things are just wrong and no combination of intentions and consequences can make them right, the church is proposing an “ideal” to which the most “generous” response may not always be possible; and that confessors and spiritual directors should be compassionate and discerning guides along the often rocky pathways of the moral life. No reasonable person will contest the last claim. I’m grateful that I’ve been the beneficiary of such thoughtful guidance, and more than once. But the other two claims seem problematic, to put it gently. If, for example, “conscience” can command me to use artificial means of contraception because of my lifecircumstances, why couldn’t conscience permit, or even require, that I continue to defraud customers if my business is in debt and my family would suffer from its failure, even as I work my way into a better, more honest financial situation? Why couldn’t “conscience” permit me, on my journey toward the “ideal,” to continue to indulge in extracurricular sex while my spouse and I work out the kinks in our marriage? Inside the idea that “conscience” can permit or even require us to do something long understood to be wrong, period, where’s the circuit breaker that would stop a couple from “discerning” that an abortion is the best resolution of the difficulties involved in carrying this unborn child to term, although under future circumstances they would embrace the “ideal” and welcome
a child into their family? The further claim being made here – that God can ask me, through my conscience, to do things that do not cohere with the teaching of the church – fractures the bonds between God, the church’s teaching authority, and conscience in perilous ways. Christ promised to maintain his church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? The Council of Trent taught that it’s always possible, with the help of God’s grace, to obey the commandments – that God wills our transformation and helps us along the way to holiness. Has that teaching been rescinded? Replaced by a “paradigm shift” into the radical subjectivism that’s emptied most of liberal Protestantism of spiritual and moral ballast? Vatican II taught that within my conscience is “a law inscribed by God?” Is God now telling me that I can violate the truth he has written into my heart? To suggest that the church teaches “ideals” that are impossible to live undervalues the power of grace and empties the moral life of the drama built into it by God himself. Lent does not call us to confess that we’ve failed to live up to an unachievable “ideal”; Lent does not call us to be self-exculpatory like the Pharisee in Luke 18.10-14, who went away unjustified. Lent calls us to embrace the humility of the Gospel publican and confess that we have sinned, knowing that God’s mercy can heal what is broken in us if we cooperate with his grace. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington. D.C.
Letters Conciliar paradigm shifts?
George Weigel’s column “The Catholic Church doesn’t do paradigm shifts” (Feb. 8) flies in the face of history and reality. How do you describe the teachings of the Second Vatican Council other than as a shift of several paradigms? Gone was the idea of the church as a “perfect society” and in its place we have “the People of God.” Gone was the idea that error has no rights, and in its place was previously silenced John Courtney Murray’s commitment to religious freedom. Gone was the neo-scholasticism that preceded the council and in its place was the rich, complex “new theology” and its many offshoots. In his biography of St. Pope John Paul II, “Witness to Hope,” Weigel thinks that Paul VI’s understanding of human ambivalence was problematic and detrimental to the authority of the church, but in fact it was the “how dare you question!” attitude of John Paul II and his dedicated followers that truly undermined the authority of the church. John Paul II’s idealization of human sexuality and of priestly life contributed to his greatest failing, his unwillingness to confront the clergy sex abuse crisis, and it is that crisis, not the fallout from “Humanae Vitae,” that truly crippled the church in the U.S. Jim McCrea Piedmont
Shutting off discourse denies truth
George Weigel’s column of Feb. 8 claims the church makes no paradigm shifts. Thankfully, this view is mistaken, as evidenced by changed position on slavery, usury, evolution and the Galileo affair. Otherwise there may be loss of hope. Living with a condition that in the conscience of many deserves change is made bearable with hope of a shift, someday. Weigel’s opposite view is therefore harmful and may have serious consequences. Weigel’s statement is intended to shut off discourse. But shutting off discourse in the presence of any uncertainty is denial of truth. Truth, rather than fear of paradigm shifts, must be the way of the church. Alex M. Saunders, M.D. San Carlos
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Deaf Catholics gather in Rome in spirit of Marian grace
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uring my participation in the National Convention for Italian Deaf Catholics in Rome last Nov. 2-5, I was impressed by the way Italian deaf Catholics recited the ending-session community rosary. It was for me a time to experience a new rosary recitation method. I hope that there might be many around the world only known to each part or area of the planet. The style of Italian deaf Catholics, in either large or small groups, is to arrange themselves into a closed circle. Depending on the number of deaf recitants, FATHER they will be broken into GHISLAIN symbolic “beads” marked by BAZIKILA candles. Someone (deaf faithful) may get one candle bead – that means that he/she will be the start or the end of a bead. If he/she gets two beads, that signifies he/she will be the start or the end of two rosary beads. Everyone in the rosary recitation circle individu-
ally sang the “Ave Maria,” and then the entire circle responded to complete the second part (“Our Father” and “Hail Mary”). In the midst of the circle, a person holds a candle and moves it in the front of each recitant. At the end of the rosary recitation, the National Italian Convention for Deaf Catholics in Rome, under the leadership of the “Movimento Apostolico dei Sordomuti” (“Apostolic Movement of Deaf,” ) announced that the first worldwide pilgrimage for all deaf Catholics will be held in Lourdes, Frances, from Sept. 10-14. I was offered an inspiring book titled “Le Apparirizioni della Beata Vergine ai Sordomuti” (“The Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin to the Deaf,”) published in 2008 by Proja Battista in Rome. Battista wrote it for the unique purpose of accessing and encouraging Marian devotion to deaf families and deaf Catholics. Indeed, the story of the apparitions, manifestations and miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary altogether has been a marvelous large epoch for 2,000 years. It has infinite wisdom of God for us, the world, the church and the family of humankind. The Blessed Virgin, our spiritual mother, has always done her best to vary her apparitions to all with
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preference to the humble (little ones), poor, simple, disabled and marginalized persons that St. Paul calls “the infirm world” and who are the preferred by God and Mary, worthy of salvation and sanctification. In this climate, God has extended his divine methods to deaf people, too. We may no longer think that deaf faithful have no characteristics, human or spiritual, that can attract Mary. May families with deaf children cultivate inner docility to God and Mary, give passion and time for deaf children’s faith education and foster daily luminous hope. Marian apparitions to deaf and hearing people are equal, but they may have a sober variation. They are intended not only for healing but to be and build the world and the church together. Families of disabled members and families with deaf children who cannot attend the pilgrimage in September may send prayer petitions that we can bring to Lourdes. Father Ghislain Bazikila is in residence at St. Benedict Parish at St. Francis Xavier Parish for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. He may be reached by writing St. Benedict Parish, 1801 Octavia St., San Francisco CA 94109.
On sadness: Feelings are not facts
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hen I was little, I was sad because my parents wouldn’t buy me a pony. (We lived in an apartment.) When I was a teen, I was sad because I had pimples. As an adult, I became sad when I started losing my hair. You might say, sadness is part of the human condition. However, there are more serious kinds of sadness. The ones that have to do with our spirituality. I recently received this letter from a reader: “Father, why is it that lately, when I pray, I feel like it’s very rote and flat. Although my prayers come from the FATHER JOHN heart, and I have a strong CATOIR faith, it’s not the same as it once was. It makes me feel very sad. I never have serious doubts, but I feel I can never measure up.” I understand this kind of sadness very well. I’ve had my share of it over the years. It’s a nostalgia over the loss of something or someone dear to you. Feeling down or unhappy because of grief or disappointment is very human. When I was in the seminary, I prayed so hard that my mother would live to see me ordained. She suffered for years from many ailments. I trusted God, and prayed that she’d make it, but alas, she died a year before my ordination. The normal grief period was compounded by my doubts about God’s love. I believed I was called to be see catoir, page 24
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Catholic san francisco | February 22, 2018
Freedom from the tyranny of doing
prey to terrible feelings of loneliness and flatness. But eventually freed from what he termed the “automatic drains” of talk, movement and nervous expression, he found a unique and reome years ago, I was asked to mind a house storative freedom that enabled him to work and in inner Melbourne, so for weeks I rattled eventually produce “A Time To Keep Silence.” around in a boom-period mansion of 11 large Life was simpler then. Now, as well as other rooms. Nervous at night, I took myself in hand: “They’ve got to find me first,” I told myself when sources of noise, we have what British-American writer and self-confessed web freak Andrew thinking of would-be intruders. Sullivan calls “online clamor” to contend with. The other reason for nerves was the noise In 2016, fearing a breakdown as a result of what level: In the Greek village house I had been withhe terms living in the web, and apparently doing out a phone for 10 years, and the most common little else in the way of living, Sullivan booked sounds were those of donkeys sobbing in the olhimself into a retreat, which involved separation ive groves and tractors grinding along the street. from his iPhone, and the subsequent withdrawal In the Melbourne house there were numerpangs. ous phones, so that I never knew which one to But like Fermor decades before, Sullivan soon answer. There were also machines that I was began to appreciate the experience. He contends ignorant of, but which emitted noise very reguthat his obsession had been leading him to lose larly: the air conditioner, various exhaust fans, his humanity. Freeing himself from the web was the enormous freezer, the fax machine, the interhard work, but very much worth the effort: He com, the house alarm. The whole building gave began to draw closer to the natural world, and out a constant hum, even in the days before the had no mediating iPhone to capture the images computer ping of email. of light on leaves or the birds whose songs he I realized then that I had spent a quiet childwas genuinely listening to at last. He, too, began hood: in the country township we had no car, no to see the positive in the deepening silence that refrigerator, little background noise apart from birdsong. When we listened to the wireless it was enveloped him during this restorative time, and felt freed from the tyranny of “doing.” with a purpose, for a particular program. As for Sullivan is a practicing Catholic, and began other noise, we made our own when the spirit to think rather more about the place of silence moved us: piano, violin, our singing voices. 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attempts to disprove the unprovable for the diminution of faith in our culture. Faith, he maintains, needs stillness and silence in order to endure or be reborn. But today that stillness and silence is being constantly challenged by “the white noise of secularism.” I suppose the moral of Sullivan’s story is that we all need to slow down and use all our senses, since the irony is that the urge to be continually connected actually disconnects us from ‘real’ life. Sometimes we need to stop and smell the roses. And switch off our phones. Gillian Bouras is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, stories and articles, many of them dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece. This article was first published on La Croix International, the English language edition of the European independent Catholic daily La Croix. Visit https://international.la-croix.com.
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“higher power,” whether it is in nature, her family or even her pets. The conversation returned repeatedly to the question of whether young people are heard by church leaders or others who can guide them through the questions they have. Vitek said respondents thanked those conducting the study for the opportunity to speak because they had not been given such an opportunity before. Often, the questions young people have challenge religious institutions, said panelist Josh Packard, associate professor of sociology at the University of Northern Colorado, whose work includes studies on how religion drives people away from church but not from God. He said the challenge facing religious institutions is not to change tenets but to make sure that they adhere to core values “about who we serve and what we’re here for” so that young people do not feel ignored. The study began in 2015 when St. Mary’s Press, based in Winona, Minnesota, contracted with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington to conduct a survey of young people from 15 to 25 years old who left the Catholic Church. It started with a pool of 3,450 randomly selected young people of which 1,435 completed the screening process. The full report resulted from interviews with 204 young people – 20 teenagers and 184 young adults – who once self-identified as Catholic but now do not. From the sample, the study estimated that 12.8 percent of U.S. young adults between 18 and 25 years old and 6.8 percent of teenagers 15 to 17 years old are former Catholics. In the larger pool, 20 percent said they were no
longer Catholic because they stopped believing in God or religion; 16 percent cited an issue with family or parents leading to their decision to leave; 15 percent changed faiths on their own while their family remained Catholic and 11 percent said they left Catholicism because of growing opposition to the church or religious institutions in general. The study also found that 74 percent of the sample said that they no longer identified themselves as Catholic between the ages of 10 and 20 with the median age being 13. More than one-third, 35 percent, have no religious affiliation, 46 percent joined another religion and 14 percent said they were atheists or agnostics. The margin of error is plus or minus 6.9 percentage points. The study broadly categorized respondents into three categories – the injured, the drifters and the dissenters – based on the reasons given for leaving the church. It also outlined a series of reasons respondents gave for their religious disaffiliation including family disruption; hypocrisy within the church; disconnection between belief and practice of the faith; lack of companions on a spiritual journey; disagreement with church teachings, particularly same-sex marriage, abortion and contraception; issues with teachings about the Bible including salvation, heaven and life after death; and disillusionment and frustration that their questions about faith were never answered or that they never had the opportunity to ask them in the first place. The study follows a Pew Research Center study released in 2015 that outlined the religious landscape in the country and uncovered the rapid increase in people without any religious affiliation, who are sometimes referred to as the “nones.” Pew estimated overall that about 56 million U.S. adults had no religious affiliation.
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a priest, but new doubts flooded my mind. What if my vocation was a creation of my imagination? If God really loved me, why didn’t he answer my prayers? What if I fail as a priest? It was my dark night of the soul. I lived through it by sheer willpower. The pious feelings that brought me from the Army to the seminary had evaporated. Nevertheless, I persevered. Despite that painful year, I recovered, and was ordained On May 28, 1960. It was a joyful day, but the grief was still lingering. My dad and I had a good cry, and then life went on. I never looked back, and I never doubted my vocation again. What if I had given in to those fears and dropped out. As a priest over the years, I’ve touched many lives through my work in the parish, through the written word (writing is a vocation within a vocation), and through my nationally syndicated TV show, “Christopher Close-up.” I’m happy now that I didn’t allow my sadness to deter me from enjoying my life as a priest. To all of you who are suffering from one nagging sadness or another, if it has caused you to believe that God has withdrawn his consolation from you, let me tell you emphatically: THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE! Feelings are not facts. Only faith can give you the facts about your relationship with God. God is unchanging love. He loves you on good days and bad, during good seasons and sad. Carry on with courage! Know that the merits of your actions increase when you’re not doing it for emotional gratification. But for the love of God. Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey.
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LADIES ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS: The women celebrated St. Brigid of Ireland Feb. 11 at the United Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. St. Brigid’s feast day is Feb. 1. The LAOH was formed to provide financial support to the Columban Fathers serving in missions worldwide. On Palm Sunday the LAOH sponsors its annual Mass at the grave of Father Peter Yorke at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Their annual fundraiser benefiting the Columban Fathers is April 22 at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco, 1:30 p.m. Contact Kathleen Manning, (415) 203-1027.
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SACRED HEART SCHOOLS, ATHERTON: Catholic Schools Week featured an elementary school assembly and prayer service and presentation of students’ religious studies projects Jan. 31. “Students presented a collaborative video project in which they interviewed classmates who practice different religions, and explored the importance of interfaith dialogue,” the school said. “The assembly, featuring prayer and song, highlighted the value of a Catholic education and developing an appreciation for the faith given by their parents.” The video was filmed, edited and produced by students. Pictured are student musicians who performed at the assembly.
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morning of Feb. 8, causing damage to the gym, seen here, and other points on campus, Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, told Catholic San Francisco. The school was closed both Feb. 8 and 9 but reopened Feb. 12. The church was open for the weekend vigil Mass Feb. 10. While the gym is now out of commission due to the flood, a new floor has already been ordered and the hope is sneakers will be up and running on it within two months, Msgr. Talesfore said. Damage also came to a priest suite in the rectory. “The church and rectory are slab foundation and the walls of the church are stone so easier to clean up,” Msgr. Talesfore said. California Water Service has taken “full responsibility for the damage,” Msgr. Talesfore said.
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Obituaries Sister Helen Clare Howatt, SNJM
Holy Names Sister Helen Clare Howatt (Barbara Helen Howatt) died Jan. 10. She was 90 years old and a professed Sister of the Holy Names for 70 years. Sister was a native of San Francisco and attended St. Cecilia School and Presentation High School. Following graduation, she was the first to enter the Holy Names order from her parish. Her teaching years included asSister Helen Clare signments to both St. Monica and Howatt, SNJM St. Cecilia and schools in Oakland and Los Angeles. Her second career took her to Holy Names University in Oakland where she was the library director for 17 years. “Students from her elementary days remember her choral and music classes while HNU students remember her for providing coins necessary for the copy machine,” the sisters said in a statement. “Senior citizens delighted in her sewing and knitting classes in her retirement years.” A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 21 at Holy Spirit Chapel in Campbell. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Names, P.O. Box 907, Los Gatos 95031.
Sister Madeleine Desloge, RSCJ
Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Madeleine Desloge died Jan. 30 at her congregation’s Oakwood in Atherton. She was 101 years old and a religious for 80 years. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she attended Sacred Heart schools there and entered the Sacred Heart Sisters in 1938. Assignments over the next 40 years took her Sister Madeleine home to St. Louis as well as Ohio, New York, Louisiana and Texas. Desloge, RSCJ She also earned a graduate degree in library science from Louisiana State University. In 1982 she began service to a large community of migrant farmworkers in Florida. For the next 21 years, she became parish visitor, director of religious education, hospice volunteer, sacristan and a representative on the sisters council of the diocese. In 2006, she joined her sisters at Oakwood and was able to participate in the celebration of her
100th birthday in August 2016, and the most recent celebration of her 101st birthday. Both occasions were enjoyed by the whole community and staff as well as family members. Madeleine is survived by her sister-in-law, Marian Desloge, of St. Louis. A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 10 in the Oakwood Chapel with burial in the Oakwood cemetery. Remembrances may be made to Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.
Sister Joan Clarke, RSM
Mercy Sister Joan Clarke died in Oakland Jan. 20 at the age of 79. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame and professed vows in March 1959, and began many years of ministry in both education and health care. Sister Joan spent 20 years teaching at school’s including St. Peter, San Francisco and St. Anthony, Oakland. “She was a gifted teacher and well-beloved by her pupils,” Sister Joan the sisters said in a statement. Clarke, RSM “She loved to teach, loved students, listened with her heart.” Sister Joan retired in 2005 to the sisters Marian Oaks Life Center in Burlingame following some 15 years in hospital chaplaincy and administrative roles. A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 2 at Mercy Convent Chapel in Burlingame with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame 94010.
Sister Rosemary Sullivan, RSM
Mercy Sister Rosemary Sullivan died in Burlingame Jan. 21 at the age of 90. Born in San Francisco, she attended St. Peter High School, staffed by the Sisters of Mercy. Upon graduation from high school in 1945, she entered the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame and professed vows in 1948. Sister Rosemary taught at Sister Rosemary schools including St Catherine of Siena, Burlingame and St. Peter, Sullivan, RSM San Francisco. Sister Rosemary also taught science at Mercy High School, Burlin-
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EASING PAIN: Dale Biron, “Fierce and Enduring Gratitude: How Poetry Supports Us in Good Times and Bad,” 7 p.m., Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Explore poems as wise and timeless tools that can support us on our path back to gratitude, happiness and joy. All are welcome! RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org; (415) 4538303.
SUNDAY, FEB. 25 RESPECT LIFE MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be principal celebrant and homilist of a Respect Life Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Awards to winners of the annual Respect Life Essay Contest will be presented with the archbishop’s assistance in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall. Vicki Evans (415) 614-5533; vevans1438@att.net; sfarchdiocese. org/essay-contest.
THURSDAY, MARCH 1 TAIZE: Taize Lenten prayer, St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, 5 p.m., Brian DuSell at bcdusell@ usfca.edu.
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‘THE GRACE OF YES’: A women’s retreat based on Mary’s fiat with Lisa Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Lisa Hendey Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, $50 fee includes breakfast and lunch. Register at stdominics. org by March 4.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14 SATURDAY, MARCH 3 PEACE MASS: St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, 8:30 a.m., Father Marvin-Paul R. Felipe, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.
CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough Street, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www. stmarycathedralsf.org.
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NOONTIME MUSIC: Free classical concert 12:30 p.m., Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, www.noontimeconcerts.org, (415) 777-3211. Freewill donations accepted. CHRISTIAN JAPAN: Jesuit Father Antoni Ucerler with “The Samurai and the Cross, Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650,” 5 p.m., Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall on the USF campus. Following the lecture a tour of the exhibition in Manresa Gallery, free admission, info@manresagallery.org
‘MILLENNIALS AND FAITH’: Father Seán Charles Martin, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Dominican Center, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, $30 includes lunch, student RSVP by I Odiscount N available. S Feb. 26, bit.ly/2018_MillennalsFaith; (510) 933-6360.
ALEMANY AWARDS: Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology honors retired San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street Chief Suhr at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. Mass, 6:30 p.m. dinner. Tickets $200, table of 10, $1900. Sponsorship opportunities available. www.dspt. edu/alemany2018.
SUNDAY, MARCH 4 END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Volunteer training to raise awareness and work toward ending human trafficking. 1-2:30 p.m., University of San Francisco, Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall, corner of Parker and McAllister streets, San Francisco. To attend the training, register at https://sb1193volunteertraining.eventbrite. com.
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CATHEDRAL TALK: Lenten series, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3 p.m., Father Vito Perrone with uniting into the mystery of Jesus in the desert. Cathedral pastor, Father Arturo Albano, leads opening and closing prayers. (415) 567-2020; www. stmarycathedralsf.org.
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CRS RICE BOWL: This longstanding Catholic Relief Services Lenten program takes place in dioceses around the country March 14-April 1. In a letter circulated to parishes and schools, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said the Rice Bowl effort helps us connect “with our brothers and sisters in need around the world.” Rice Bowl provides funding for CRS food security projects which support agriculture, nutrition, education, and self-sufficiency in communities worldwide. Contact Carolina Parrales, Archdiocese of San Francisco CRS Rice Bowl coordinator, parralesc@ sfarch.org. MEET THE AUTHOR: Dominican Sister Donna Maria Moses, “American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission,” marking National Catholic Sisters Week, 7-8:30 p.m., 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont. Freewill offering. Register by March 12, bit.ly/2018_MariaMoses; (510) 633-6360.
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