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Bishop Justice leads outdoor Stations of the Cross for peace in East Palo Alto VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Several hundred parishioners of St. Francis of Assisi walked their neighborhood March 8 praying the Stations of the Cross for an end to the gang violence that is taking the lives of their young people. Eight of the 16 homicides in San Mateo County last year were in East Palo Alto.

Josue Barbosa Zamora died in a drive-by shooting Jan. 13, 300 feet from his front door, the latest young man to die violently in East Palo Alto. “Every day I ask myself if it was worth it. We escaped from Mexico because of the violence and poverty and now we found this,” said Lorena Zamora, who left her husband behind 10 years ago to bring her three children to the U.S. Zamora spoke in Spanish to Catholic San Francisco photographer Jose Luis Aguirre. Lorena Zamora joined other grieving mothers, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, community members and parishioners and the priests of St. Francis of Assisi to walk her neighborhood for peace, praying the Stations of the Cross March 8. In 2013, there were 16 homicides in San Mateo County, eight of those in East Palo Alto, a city with a population of less than 30,000 people. Several hundred people, many mothers pushing strollers, youngsters from Saturday catechism and their parents, as well as grandmothers and grandfathers, prayed and sang in a SEE STATIONS, PAGE 20

Parishioner campaigns to include Irish famine in state curriculum CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

If John O’Riordan has his way, the Irish famine of 1845-1852 will one day be integrated into an American ethnic studies program in the California public school curriculum. O’Riordan, a parishioner at St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, was part of a local delegation of the California Democratic Party’s Irish American Caucus that met with California State Superintendent of Public Instruc-

tion Tom Torlakson to ask the state to create a more comprehensive course on what the Irish call “The Great Hunger.” He says the famine is central to the history of California, the state with the largest Irish population in the United John O’Riordan States. “There are more people in San Francisco who can trace themselves back to the Irish

famine than to the American Revolution,” said O’Riordan, a County Cork native who left Ireland for San Francisco more than 20 years ago. O’Riordan and others leaders in the city’s Irish community are raising money to have a monument to victims of the famine installed in San Francisco in 2016. Boston, Chicago and New York City all have famine monuments. “There were many repercussions of the famine,” said another leader of the San Francisco effort, Roger

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Gargano, a member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is sure his grandfather, born in 1881, would have experienced some of them. “The full story of the heartbreak of the Irish experience is a lesson that needs to be shared within the school system in California,” O’Riordan said. New York and Massachusetts, both with a large percentage of Irish residents, have Irish famine studies in their public school curriculums. SEE FAMINE, PAGE 20

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All 3 must mark the season of Lent: Prayer, fasting and almsgiving Here is Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s homily during Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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e begin our season of Lent by the blessing and imposition of ashes. Ashes are the outward sign of our repentance. Use of ashes in ancient biblical times was a sign of mourning. For Christians, it means specifically mourning for our sins. That is our repentance. Lent is a time of repentance. These ashes are not meant to be an empty SALVATORE J. symbol, an CORDILEONE empty ritual or an external ritual. These ashes are meant to be an outward sign of our interior purification, our interior resolve to enter into acts of penance to express our repentance to God, our admission that we have sinned and need mercy. In the psalm of today’s Mass asking the Lord’s mercy because we have sinned, as a church – as in the early church – we think about the meaning of the season of Lent. By choosing for Ash Wednesday the teaching of Our Lord in his Gospel passage from St. Matthew’s Gospel, the church encourages us to mark the season by works of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. All three are a necessary part of our observance of Lent; to be true to the sign on our forehead of our repentance by prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Of course prayer is to be part of the Christian’s life all year round, not just during the season of Lent. Prayer receives a special intense focus during this season with added time of prayer; and also with the sort of prayer that we can enter into during Lent. The classic devo-

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In his Ash Wednesday homily at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone urged worshippers to observe prayer and abstinence and frequently go to confession throughout the Lenten season. Easter Sunday falls on April 20. tion of the Stations of the Cross is most appropriate at this time, as is meditating on the readings for the Sunday Masses, which call us to repentance, and so many other ways. Fasting is an expression of bodily mortification, denying our body things and legitimate pleasures in order to make that space for God richer: recognizing and understanding that our body isn’t severed from the rest of who we are, that the human person is an integrated whole – mind, body and spirit. They all affect each other. I sometimes hear it said by people, “During Lent, we shouldn’t give something up. We should do something positive.” The first thing I would say is, “Giving something up is doing something positive!” Bodily mortification, denying ourselves things we would like, is something positive because it helps

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to cleanse our hearts and turn us more toward God. But all three must mark the season of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Almsgiving, giving a portion of our treasure for the poor, is a very biblical notion: a biblical mindset that when one gives a gift to the poor, alms to the poor, one is giving a gift directly to God. By all of this we prepare to celebrate worthily the Lord’s resurrection with gratitude: entering into the season by prayer, fasting, and works of penance and almsgiving. Most especially important to the season of Lent is the sacrament of penance. In addition to penance, in a sense of bodily mortification denying ourselves things, we should most especially mark the season by – ideally – frequenting reception of the sacrament of penance.

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With the sacrament of penance we are admitting again that we are all marked with sin: admitting those sins and receiving the Lord’s forgiveness through the absolution of the priest in the sacrament. Entering into the true spirit of the season, as Our Lord encourages us in his teaching, is not through empty external rituals that make no difference in whether we live our lives in closer adherence to Christ. Our Lord urges each of us to enter into this season of Lent with these works by a truly interior spirit so that we might live more purified; so we might be ever more faithful, ardently, to Christ our life, our Lord. As we begin this season – and all throughout this season – let us make this our prayer: In our minds, hearts and bodies, “Have mercy on us Lord, for we have sinned.”

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Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday 10 a.m. $265. Author, theologian, and spiritual mentor Groves leads an inspirational weekend program through the ancient poetry of the psalms, which Jesus relies on during his own passion, death and resurrection. 2300 Adeline Drive. (650) 340-7474. mercy-center.org.

OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH: “The Eucharist: Being Christ to One Another,” parish retreat, Paulist Father Ricky Manalo, reflecting on the church’s approach to the body of Christ as was understood by the early Christian communities and what implications it might have in our spiritual lives today. April 5. Free program with Mass at 9 a.m ends at 2. Light breakfast and lunch included. 1806 Novato Blvd. (415) 897-2171. www.ollnovato.org.

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SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY ST. DOMINIC PARISH: Soup supper and speaker series, 6:15-7:15 p.m. March 14, “Outreach and Advocacy for the Homeless,” Lisa Marie Alatorre, Coalition on Homelessness; March 28, “Active Justice with Pope Francis: Catholic Social Teaching,” Dominican Sister Colleen McDermotte; April 4, “Feeding the Poor: Everyone’s Responsibility,” Colleen Rivecca, St. Anthony Foundation; “Seder Meal: Commemorating the Lord’s Last Supper,” April 12, 7 p.m. Tickets available from the parish office. 2390 Bush St. (415) 567-7824. info@ stdominics.org. ST. GABRIEL PARISH: Father Robert Barron video and discussion series, parish center, March 24 and April 7, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. 6 p.m. Mass weekdays during Lent. 2559 40th Ave., at Ulloa. (415) 731-6161. ST. JOHN OF GOD PARISH: Friday night Lenten series, focusing on interfaith prayer and practice of compassion in San Francisco and the world; soup supper at 6:30 p.m., program at 7:30; March 14, “A Practicum in Interfaith Spiritual Practice,” Andrea Goodman, president, board of directors, Interfaith Peace Project; March 21, “The Universal Call to Compassion,” Tom Bonacci, executive director, Interfaith Peace Project; March 28, “The Principles of Dynamic Dialogue,” Tom Bonacci; April 4, the San Francisco Organizing Project, Lorena

Melgarejo; April 11, “350.ORG: Building a Global Movement to Solve the Climate Crisis,” Annemarie Donjacour, Ph.D., assistant adjunct professor, University of California, San Francisco. 1290 Fifth Ave. (415) 566-5610. STS. PETER AND PAUL PARISH: “Way of the Cross” by the Mystery Players from Salesian High School, Richmond, March 21, 8 p.m. 666 Filbert St. (415) 421-0809. STAR OF THE SEA PARISH: The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco will have the sacred triduum in the extraordinary form with a priest who will visit particularly from Canada. 4220 Geary Blvd. (415) 751-0450. tlmofsf@gmail.com.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS PARISH, BURLINGAME: Beginning March 10, small faith groups will view and discuss Father Robert Barron’s DVD “3 Paths to Holiness”; retreat, March 24-26, 8:30-9:30 a.m. or 7-8 p.m. in the church, with Capuchin Franciscan Father David Beaumont on “Missionary Paths to Holiness”; “Pizza and Pope Francis,” April 11, 6-8:30 p.m., a discussion of the pope’s call to mission outreach and evangelization. 1721 Hillside Drive at Cabrillo. (650) 347-7768. ST. RAYMOND PARISH, MENLO PARK: Stations of the Cross every Friday at 12:10 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Soup suppers will follow the 6:30 p.m. Stations; reconciliation service, April 9, 7 p.m. 1100 Santa Cruz Ave. (650) 323-1755. ST. ANDREW PARISH, DALY CITY: “I thirst,” an afternoon of prayer and song led by Bradley James, musician and longtime volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity, based on spiritual writings of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. March 22, 1-3 p.m. 1571 Southgate Ave. at Sullivan.

ST. TERESA OF AVILA PARISH: Praying with St. Teresa of Avila: Carmelite Father David Simpson, former Carmelite novice and retreat master, will present a talk followed by a Q&A, March 19, 26, 7 p.m. 1490 19th St. at Connecticut. (415) 285-5272.

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Religious life home run for Millbrae sister TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Sister Gabrielle Vogl will profess perpetual vows as a Sister of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart March 29 in the Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano. Sister Gabrielle is a graduate of St. Dunstan School, Millbrae and Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Now 29, she gave up a college softball scholarship to enter religious life in 2005. Sister Gabrielle Sister Gabrielle said it was not Vogl, SDSH until she moved away to college that religious life came into her sights. “I ended up at Stony Brook University thinking I was there to play softball and completely unaware that God was doing much more by having me there,” Sister Gabrielle told me in an email. The Vogl family was anchored in the church, Sister Gabrielle said, and one of her fears of going to college was how she would stay in touch with her faith. A Catholic teammate invited Sister Gabrielle to go to Mass with her. “I was so grateful. I thanked God for her.” Also at her teammate’s invitation, Sister Gabrielle later spent a week as a counselor at her now-congregation’s Sacred Heart Girls Camp in Big Bear. “During that week of camp I did not have a revelation that God was calling me to religious life, but my relationship with God changed,” Sister Gabrielle said. “At the end of December I drove back to Big Bear for a retreat the sisters gave and this time my relationship with God again deepened to a new level.” Religious life was her conclusion. “I had to respond in love to his personal and infinite love,” she said. Teammates and classmates would miss her. “It was hard,” she said. “My teammates knew how I loved softball and were amazed to see me give that up. My friends and family knew me to finish everything I started and they were shocked. But all along God was holding my hand, leading me. As I have grown the response has not changed, I simply want to give my whole self to God forever.” Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange will be principal celebrant of the March 29 Mass. Ayde and Dan Vogl, Sister Gabrielle’s mom and dad and more than 30 family members will be there. Three other sisters from Sister Gabrielle’s community will also profess perpetual vows.

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CHANGE PLEASE: Four dozen Catholic schools and religious education programs in the archdiocese are taking part in this year’s Lenten giving programs for the Missionary Childhood Association. Money is saved by students in the well known mite boxes and quarter folders. Pictured from left are De Marillac Academy fourth graders Daniel Sandoval, Jose Cruz, Jesus Rangel, and Chris Martinez with signs conveying what is brought to children served by the collection. The money supports missionaries and children around the world.

A STITCH IN TIME: The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women held their annual luncheon and fashion show at the Olympic Club, Lakeside, Jan. 26. Pictured from left are event co-chairwomen Josephine Longhitano and Cathy Mibach; Simi Barjesteh, whose clothing designs were part of the day; and Kathryn Parish Reese, ACCW president. WEARIN’ OF THE GREEN: Guest leprechaun for the Hibernian Newman Club’s St. Patrick’s Day lunch March 17 is television’s own Regis Philbin. “The board of the Hibernian Newman Club voted to ask Mr. Philbin to be the speaker at our 50th anniversary lunch,” Hibernian John Ring told me. “I contacted his personal assistant on behalf of the club Regis Philbin and he said ‘yes.’” While it is

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Student journalist aspires to be foreign correspondent TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Natalie Escobar says the world “will always need storytellers” and she plans to be among them. The Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory senior was accepted at Northwestern University on early decision in December. Natalie is a graduate of San Francisco’s St. Cecilia School. She plays the violin. Her parents are Laura and Gilberto Escobar. “I’m going to be majoring in journalism in the university’s Medill School of Journalism, and hopefully will also major or minor in international studies,” Natalie told me in an email interview. “I want to work as a journalist, in some sort of foreign correspondent role.” Northwestern has been among Natalie’s top choices for college since she toured the near-Chicago school in her sophomore year at SHC. “I loved everything – the location, the campus, the people I met, and the level of academic rigor,” the copy editor of SHC’s Emerald school paper said. Attending the Medill-Northwestern High School Journalism Institute last summer sealed the deal. “I spent a month immersed in the Medill world of reporting and writing, and I loved every moment of it,” she said. Natalie said she “grew up with NPR and ‘60 Minutes.’” Her favorite contemporary journalists are public broadcasting’s Ira Glass and CBS’ Scott Pelley. Cable talk’s Rachel Maddow and public television’s Gwen Ifill are “huge inspirations because of their amazing success despite the huge gender gap in the field.” Natalie said her “all time journalism hero” is Ida B. Wells whose writing cap-

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We asked the Catholic high schools of the archdiocese to share profiles of noteworthy seniors. This week’s story is about Natalie Escobar, Class of 2014, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. tured “the effects of virulent racism.” Natalie has revered the late journalist and co-founder of the NAACP since she was in sixth grade. Wells’ career has shown Natalie “how much impact one person’s work can have,” she said. Natalie will stake her claim on the Fourth Estate whatever its configuration. “There’s not really much of a distinction between print and electronic journalism anymore, since so many print publications have also had to grow an online presence,” Natalie said. Her aim is a desk at a publication like The New York Times or The Washington Post. Teachers at SHC have helped Natalie discover her self-worth. They served as models of “how to live life meaningfully and compassionately,” she said. Her favorite classes have been those “that have challenged and warped my understanding of the world and made me question why I think the way I do.” “I’m going to be graduating from SHC as a fine-tuned version of my freshman self. I’m still the same person with the same set of values I entered with, but I’ve become a better learner, identified my passions, and developed a better sense of self.” Being a person of faith has provided

a value system that informs Natalie’s decision making, she said. “Catholicism teaches that loving other people needs to be the bottom line of our actions. That’s something I keep in the back of my head as I develop my worldview and political beliefs.” “As a burgeoning adult getting ready to face the world, I’ve never been so ambivalent about my future,” Natalie admits. She said she’s “terrified about the practicalities of independence and

not being with my family and friends” and, at the same time, knows the experience is all “part of growing up.” “I can’t wait to be able to broaden my opportunities for learning and get a taste of life outside San Francisco,” Natalie said. “I know I have a strong value system and a passion to tell stories, and I can’t wait to combine the two.” Society needs to act on bridging social and economic inequities, “something that we’ve never been able to solve,” Natalie said. “As a decision-making adult, I hope to act conscientiously and compassionately, never placing personal success in front of my obligations to other people,” Natalie said. “We need to remember our connection to everyone and everything on this planet. I hope that I too can do a better job of being aware of problematic social structures and working to eradicate them.”

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Gubbio Project gets share of Rice Bowl alms CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Gubbio Project, a San Francisco day shelter offering homeless men and women a place to rest in the sanctuary of the Tenderloin’s St. Boniface Church, will receive a quarter of the donations collected from archdiocesan participants in this year’s Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl Program. In 2013, CRS raised more than $7 million to support Rice Bowl programs internationally. Traditionally, 75 percent of the donations go toward fighting global hunger and poverty while 25 percent is shared by a handful of local organizations. “This is the first year we have chosen to support the work of a single local organization,� said CRS spokesman Ken Preston, who joined the staff of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns in front of St.

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ing, participants journey through the 40 days of Lent with daily reflections while offering small, sacrificial donations. The Gubbio Project was created in 2004 in partnership with St. Boniface, inspired by St. Francis of Assisi’s solidarity with and love for the poor and society’s outcasts. Up to 100 of the city’s estimated 6,500 homeless find shelter each day in the pews of St. Boniface between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. Funds received in this year’s Rice Bowl collection will be used to offset the cost of running a weekly hot breakfast program that feeds about 35-50 guests. “If $32,000 is raised archdiocese-wide through Rice Bowl, the 25 percent that stays local will pay for the breakfast program for a full year,� said Gubbio Project executive director Laura Slattery.

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Wednesday Evenings 7:30-9:00pm Cowell Hall, Room 106 University of San Francisco (located directly East of St. Ignatius Church on the lower USF campus.) March 19: The Jesuits and Liturgy, with John Baldovin, S.J., Boston College School of Ministry. Jesuits have made important contributions to the study and formation of the liturgy.

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Greg and Julie Alexander were looking for divorce attorneys when a kind priest asked them some questions – and when they found the answers they not only built a great marriage and family life but also found their Catholic faith, they say. “I had no idea that God had a plan for marriage. If you don’t have an idea, you can’t possibly live it out,� said Julie Alexander, who formed Alexander House Apostolate with her husband. The Alexanders are presenting two daylong workshops “Enjoy Your Marriage� (March 29 at St. Bartholomew in San Mateo and April 5 at St. Raymond in Dublin) and numerous evening talks, which they call “The Great Marriage Challenge,� March 21-April 5 in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Oakland. Find a complete list of locations at www.marriageonfire.info. Their philosophy and program of promoting the Catholic joy of marriage is central to a new focus on encouraging and supporting married couples – at all stages of marriage– in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said archdiocesan marriage and family life director Ed Hopfner. “Most Catholics would agree that marriage is the most important of all vocations, yet there is surprisingly little offered by the Catholic Church for married couples at the parish level,� Hopfner said. Marriage Encounter is a great program, supported

by the archdiocese, he said, but many couples cannot do the required weekend. The Alexanders’ program for lifelong support of marriage, Covenant of Love, is a parish-based ministry that Hopfner hopes will be adopted by some pastors and couples. “I’m hoping the Alexanders will be the catalyst for our parishioners, with the support of their pastors, to start this program in their own parishes for ongoing support, Greg and Julie education and formation for Alexander their own marriages and those of others, particularly newlyweds,� Hopfner said. �The culture is just relentlessly catechizing us about love and a lot of it is wrong, wrong, wrong– or at least very incomplete. We are told love is a feeling – but it is so much more, and offers so much more. That’s what all our couples need to know,� he said. The Alexanders will share their story of a marriage on the rocks revived by “living marriage as God intended.� They will also provide “practical opportunities for marital education for couples in all stages of their relationships,� according to the Alexander House Apostolate. Last year they visited more than 40 parishes around the country.

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Atheists oppose cross-shaped beams in 9/11 museum CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – A 17-foot-tall cross-shaped steel beam that was found in the wreckage two days after 9/11 became an indelible image in the months

following the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001. That cross is to be displayed as a historical artifact in a permanent exhibit in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, scheduled to open in May near the site of the former World Trade Center. But a group called American Atheists has sued in federal court to have the cross taken out of the exhibit and replaced with a plaque that would say “atheists died here, too,� according to a Religion News Service story. American Atheists Inc. first sued the museum and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 2011, arguing that displaying the cross would offend them as citizens and taxpayers and was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. A federal District Court judge ruled in favor of the cross, saying that “it helps tell the 9/11 story.� In August 2013, the American Atheists then filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

Oral arguments were heard in the case March 6. Arguing for the American Atheists, attorney Edwin Kagan said that calling the crossed beams a religious symbol only gives one story of the people who suffered in the attacks and has no place on government-owned land. The museum, a private foundation, is leasing land in lower Manhattan owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Feb. 7. As a historical artifact, “the cross rightfully belongs in a historical museum,� the organization said in a statement. “Separating church and state does not mean separating religion from public life,� the organization said. By removing the cross from the museum, the American Atheists “want to deny to future generations what was spiritually significant to many Americans during those terrible days.�

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Ingrid McIntyre embraces volunteer Kyle Lincoln after distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, March 5, in Nashville, Tenn. About 30 people gathered as a community to share in the liturgy and to raise awareness of those suffering from homelessness and poverty. “In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ,� Pope Francis said in his 2014 Lenten message. Almsgiving, one of the three pillars of Lenten practice, is “a witness to fraternal charity� and “a work of justice pleasing to God,� according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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Lenten Fast for Families highlights immigration reform PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The traditional Lenten practice of fasting is being paired this year with the latest round of an ongoing campaign called Fast for Families, intended to bring attention to the campaign for immigration reform. On Ash Wednesday, March 5, more than two dozen presidents of Catholic colleges and universities pledged to fast for 24 hours in support of the effort. Their effort is one piece of the latest iteration of Fast for Families, which also includes weekly commitments to fasting, local ongoing fasts and cross-country stops at in-state congressional offices by national leaders of the campaign that last fall was based in a tent on the National Mall. In a letter announcing their fast, the college presidents said their 24-hour act of solidarity and prayer “for those who still suffer because of cruel and impractical immigration policies” was a symbolic way of opening the season of Lent by remembering “Christ’s journey of suffering in the desert wilderness” by praying for immigrants who hunger and thirst for justice. The presidents said they “draw encouragement from students on our campuses who work tirelessly to turn this vision into a reality. Brave DREAMers are inspiring their peers to join them in the struggle for justice and dignity. Catholic students are praying and mobilizing and calling on Congress to act.” The presidents invited students, faculty and fellow administrators to join them in “this communal act of prayer. Pope Francis’ powerful witness to the dignity of migrants and call for everyone to confront our ‘culture of indifference’ inspires us to act.” They noted that many of them wrote to Catholic members of Congress last summer urging them to

College presidents pledge to fast ‘for those who still suffer because of cruel and impractical immigration policies,’ opening the Lenten season by remembering ‘Christ’s journey of suffering in the desert wilderness.’

immigration “is primarily about human beings, not economic or social issues.” He said those who have died or who are deported daily have the same value and God-given dignity as all people, “yet we ignore their suffering and their deaths.”

use their positions of influence to “put the common good and families before partisan politics. As our political leaders delay, immigrant families are torn apart. More migrants die in the desert. We pray that by joining others across the country in this small act of sacrifice, the hearts of elected officials will be touched and leaders will be moved to act.” Meanwhile, the national leaders of the Fast for Families continued making stops on two crosscountry routes to events held at the district offices of members of Congress. Typical was the stop in Phoenix by Eliseo Medina of the Service Employees International Union, who fasted last fall for 22 days in the tent on the National Mall, before ending his fast in November during an ecumenical prayer service. An event sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will bring several bishops to the Mexican border at Nogales, Ariz., at the end of March. There, they will tour the border area and visit some of the church-supported programs to aid migrants. They’ll celebrate a Mass on the border April 1, said a USCCB press release. Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio L. Elizondo of Seattle, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Migration, said the point of the trip is to help highlight that

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POPE’S APPEAL NOT MEASURABLE YET IN PEWS

WASHINGTON – A Pew Research Center poll released March 6, reiterates what most people likely realize: Pope Francis is immensely popular among U.S. Catholics – so much so that eight in 10 have a favorable view of him. But according to the poll’s results, the pope’s popularity has not brought more people to Mass or the sacraments. The polling – conducted Feb. 14-23 among 1,821 adults nationwide that included 351 Catholics – found no change in the number of Americans – 22 percent – who identify themselves as Catholic now and those who did prior to the election of Pope Francis. The data also found no change in self-reported rates of weekly Mass attendance among Catholics, which the report said remains at 40 percent. The survey, “Catholics View Pope Francis as a Change for the Better,” also did not find evidence that Catholics are volunteering or going to confession more often now than in the previous year but it did find that seven in 10 U.S. Catholics see Pope Francis representing a major change in direction for the church. It also showed that during the past year 26 percent of Catholics have become “more excited” about their Catholic faith and 40 percent of Catholics have been praying more often.

VATICAN EXPERTS OK REPORTED SHEEN MIRACLE

PEORIA, Ill. – A seven-member team of medical experts convoked by the Vatican reported there is no natural explanation for the survival of a child delivered stillborn and whose heart did not start beating until 61 minutes after his birth. The survival of the child, James Fulton Engstrom, now 3 years old and developing normally,

was credited by his parents to a miracle attributable to the intercession of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a Peoria diocesan priest who gained fame for his 1950s television show “Life Is Worth Living” and his 16 years at the helm of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. The medical experts’ report was announced March 6 in Peoria by the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, which is headed by Archbishop Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria. Sheen “Today is a significant step in the cause for the beatification and canonization of our beloved Fulton Sheen,” Bishop Jenky said in a statement. “There are many more steps ahead and more prayers are needed. But today is a good reason to rejoice.”

will visit Philadelphia for the event Sept. 22-27, 2015, and vowed to personally convince him to make his first pastoral visit in North America to the city for the conclusion of the eighth World Meeting of Families. Pope Francis has not confirmed he will attend the last day of the meeting, which past popes have done. Keeping the focus on family life, Archbishop Chaput said the World Meeting of Families “has the power to transform in deeply positive ways not just the spirit of Catholic life in our region but our entire community,” he said. The meeting will include three days of family gatherings, including discussion of economic, psychological and spiritual issues facing families, among others, the archbishop said.

ARCHBISHOP SAYS 2015 MEETING CAN HELP TRANSFORM FAMILIES

WASHINGTON – The role of an ambassadorlevel position in bringing attention to abuses of religious freedom internationally is being emphasized by those who want a vacancy filled quickly or another position created to focus on specific regions – or both. Katrina Lantos Swett, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said at a Feb. 25 conference that “Washington has failed to make religious freedom a central aspect of U.S. foreign policy.” At the National Prayer Breakfast in February, President Barack Obama voiced his support for protecting religious freedom abroad, but critics point out he has yet to nominate a new ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, four months after the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook stepped down. In the meantime, a bill on hold in the Senate would create a special envoy specifically to focus on the rights of religious minorities of the Near East and South Central Asia.

PHILADELPHIA – A team of religious, civic and business leaders will travel to Rome to plan for the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia next year. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput led a news conference with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter on March 7 at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center to announce they will lead a delegation March 24-26 to meet with Vatican officials to plan the international event. They also will have an audience with Pope Francis. Speakers told of their confidence that the pope

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Synod reports point to poor knowledge of family teachings PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A handful of U.S. bishops have released some results of public responses to a survey for the Vatican in preparation for the upcoming synod on the family. Several U.S. bishops wrote short reports for the public giving a general sense of the responses. The material was to be submitted to the Vatican by the end of January. Among the comments in common with many of the brief reports was that Catholics admit to a poor understanding of the church’s teachings on the family. Father Dennis Gill, director of the Philadelphia archdiocese’s Office for Divine Worship and coordinator of the project, told CatholicPhilly.com, the archdiocesan news website, that the church has its educational work cut out for it. He said the nearly 900 responses to the survey showed poor knowledge of Catholic teaching. “One thing we did learn was that we have to be much more proactive,” he said. “We cannot just depend on church teaching filtering through the cracks. We need to have an evangelical (aggressiveness) to putting on the table just what we believe on all these issues.” What is needed, Father Gill said, is not simply a renewed effort to present church teaching in the same ways. “Somehow the Gospel has to be presented in a way that is compelling, engaging, insisting on a response,” he said. In one of the more thorough reports, Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., posted a detailed blog with highlights and put on his diocesan Web page an 18-page summary of the results of more than 6,800 responses from the public. Among Bishop Lynch’s observations in his blog were that it “is impossible to share in a medium such as this is all of the ‘free-form’ comments which I would characterize as serious, lacking in polemics, sincere, and reflecting little of the polarity which exists in the church today. I am very proud of what was said, how it was said and who said it.” Even before the October extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family, Bishop Lynch said, “there are pastoral results from the survey which we can attend to and I hope we will.”

‘I think all representatives of the church’s many ministries can be kinder, gentler, more welcoming and less judgmental of those who find our praxis and preaching on marriage and family life to be at odds with their experiences.’ BISHOP ROBERT N. LYNCH Diocese of St. Petersburg, Fla.

For instance, he said, “I have made it known that I will not tolerate any discrimination or anything which smacks of the punitive to children of same-sex couples. I think all representatives of the church’s many ministries can be kinder, gentler, more welcoming and less judgmental of those who find our praxis and preaching on marriage and family life to be at odds with their experiences.” Bishop Lynch said that it’s clear the church needs to help people understand “that divorce itself is not something which bans a person from reception of the sacraments and that annulments do not ‘illegitimize’ children born of previous marriages.” Addressing such issues can help the process of healing for many within the church, he said. All bishops around the world were asked to complete the 39-item questionnaire and encouraged to seek input from the people of their dioceses about the responses. In some dioceses, that resulted in the survey itself or a reworked version of the key questions being posted online for public response. The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales, for example, put the whole questionnaire up for public participation, using the online SurveyMonkey site. While many dioceses in the U.S. encouraged the public to weigh in on the questionnaire, fewer have released more than limited explanations of the results. Bishop Lynch’s posts and a similar-

sized report by Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik were among the most detailed. Some individual bishops and some entire bishops conferences said they would not be releasing details at the request of the Vatican. In both the Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg dioceses, the largest number of responses came from people who are over age 50, married and who attend Mass weekly or more often. In his introduction to the report published online and in the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper, Bishop Zubik said the bottom line he took away from about 3,000 responses was “we must throw open the doors, windows, websites and all means of modern communication to connect with all families and truly listen to their hopes and hurts. It is important that we, with greater intensity and intentionality, support families in these challenging times. God created the family. He loves every member of every family. We must do no less as the church.”

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Pope talks to priests about mercy, hearing confession CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Because his cassock doesn’t have a breast pocket, Pope Francis said he wears a cloth pouch under his white robes to carry the crucifix he took from a deceased priest. Meeting March 6 with pastors of Rome parishes, Pope Francis said that while he was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires he went to pay his last respects to a Blessed Sacrament priest, an extremely popular confessor, who had died in his 90s. In the crypt of the church, the priest’s body was lying there, but there were no flowers, he said. “I thought, this man forgave the sins of all the clergy of Buenos Aires, including mine, and not a single flower. So I went out to the florist’s.” Then, the pope “confessed” that he “started preparing the coffin with the flowers and I looked at the rosary in his hand. Immediately that robber that is in each of us came out and while I arranged the flowers, I picked up the cross of the rosary and with a little effort, I pulled it off. I looked at him and said, ‘Give me half of your mercy.’” He put the crucifix in his breast pocket and carried it there until his election as pope March 13, 2013. “But a pope’s shirts don’t have pockets,” so now he carries it in a cloth pouch under his cassock. “And when I start having a bad thought about someone, I always put my hand here,” he said, showing the priests where the crucifix is. The pope’s annual Lenten meeting with Rome pastors focused on the priest’s call to be a minister of mercy. While he followed a prepared text, he added comments and anecdotes from his own life and ministry. Repeating his frequent call to go out into the world and meet people where they are, Pope Francis told the priests that their ministry of mercy, which reaches its highest point in the sacrament

‘Aseptic priests – those who seem like they are working in a laboratory and are all clean and perfect – don’t help the church,’ Pope Francis said, noting that the world is messy and filled with people who have been bloodied by the battles of life. ‘We priests have to be there, close to the people.’ of penance, is especially needed by “people who have left the church because they don’t want anyone to see their wounds.” “There are many wounded people, people wounded by material problems, by scandals, including scandals within the church,” he said. Pope Francis urged the pastors to devote time to hearing confessions and to avoid being either very lax or very strict. “It’s normal that different confessors have different styles, but these differences cannot be ones of substance, that is, involving healthy moral doctrine and mercy,” he said. Neither the very lax nor the very strict priest witnesses to Christ, because “neither takes seriously the person in front of him,” he said. “The rigorist, in fact, nails the person to the law as understood in a cold and rigid way; the indulgent, on the other hand, only appears merciful, but does not take seriously the problems of that person’s conscience, minimizing the sin.” Pope Francis said he has some standard questions he asks priests who come to him for coun-

seling, questions he asks himself “when I am alone with the Lord.” The first, he said, is “Do you cry?” Jesus was moved by people who seemed like “sheep without a shepherd,” and those in spiritual or physical pain, he said. A priest must be a “man of mercy, compassion, close to his people and the servant of all.” “Aseptic priests – those who seem like they are working in a laboratory and are all clean and perfect – don’t help the church,” he said. The world is messy and filled with people who have been bloodied by the battles of life. “We priests have to be there, close to the people.” The sick, the aged and children, he said, help priests learn to be merciful. “Do you know how to touch them? Or are you embarrassed,” the pope asked. “At the end of time, those who will be allowed to contemplate the glorified flesh of Christ are only those who were not embarrassed to touch the flesh of their injured and excluded brothers and sisters,” he said. Priests, he said, must have the compassion and the strength to “suffer for and with people, like a father and a mother suffer for their children and worry about them.” Pope Francis spoke about another Buenos Aires priest, one who is a little younger than he is and a very popular confessor, who said that whenever he had scruples about forgiving too many people, “I go into the chapel and I tell (Jesus in) the tabernacle, ‘Sorry, it’s all your fault because I’m just following your example.’” “That’s a beautiful prayer,” the pope said. The pope also asked the priests if they prayed for their people in front of the tabernacle and pleaded with God to spare their parishioners just like Moses and Abraham argued with God to spare their people. Using the Italian word “pantaloni” – trousers – Pope Francis said the two Old Testament patriarchs “had guts,” and today’s priests must as well.

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Pope suggests church could tolerate some civil unions FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis suggested the Catholic Church could tolerate some types of nonmarital civil unions as a practical measure to guarantee property rights and health care. He also said the church would not change its teaching against artificial birth control but should take care to apply it with “much mercy.” Pope Francis’ words appeared in an interview published March 5 in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera. In the wide-ranging conversation with the paper’s editor-in-chief, Ferruccio de Bortoli, the pope defended the church’s response to clerical sex abuse and lamented that popular mythology has turned him into a kind of papal superhero. He also addressed the role of retired Pope Benedict XVI and the church’s relations with China. “Matrimony is between a man and a woman,” the pope said, but moves to “regulate diverse situations of cohabitation (are) driven by the need to regulate economic aspects among persons, as for instance to assure medical care.” Asked to what extent the church could understand this trend, he replied: “It is necessary to look at the diverse cases and evaluate them in their variety.” Bishops around the world have differed in their responses to civil recognition of nonmarital unions. The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family said in February 2013 that some legal arrangements are justifiable to protect the inheritance rights of nonmarried couples. But until now, no pope has indicated even tentative acceptance of civil unions. In the interview, Pope Francis praised Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” which prohibited the use of contraception. In contradicting contemporary pressures for population control, Pope Paul’s “genius was prophetic, he had the courage to side against the majority, defend moral discipline, put a brake on the culture, oppose neo-Malthusianism, present and future,” Pope Francis said. But he also noted that Pope Paul had instructed confessors to interpret his encyclical with “much mercy, attention to concrete situations.” “The question is not whether to change the doctrine, but to go deeper and make sure that pastoral care takes account of situations and of what each person is able to do,” Pope Francis said. The pope said birth control, like the predicament of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, would be a topic of discussion at the Vatican in October at an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family. He said the synod would approach all such problems “in the light of profound reflection,” rather than casuistry, which he described as a superficial, pharisaical theology focused exclusively on particular cases. The pope said he had welcomed the “intense discussion” at a February gathering of cardinals, where German Cardinal Walter Kasper gave a talk suggesting divorced and civilly remarried Catho-

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AT A GLANCE In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis: SUGGESTED THE CHURCH could tolerate some types of nonmarital civil unions as a practical measure to guarantee property rights and health care. PRAISED POPE PAUL VI’S 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae,” which prohibited the use of contraception. NOTED THAT POPE PAUL had instructed confessors to interpret his encyclical with “much mercy, attention to concrete situations.” CRITICIZED “A CERTAIN MYTHOLOGY of Pope Francis. … To portray the pope as a kind of superman, a type of star, strikes me as offensive. The pope is a man who laughs, weeps, sleeps soundly and has friends like everybody else. A normal person.” lics might sometimes be allowed to receive Communion even without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriages. “Fraternal and open confrontations foster the growth of theological and pastoral thought,” he said. “I’m not afraid of this; on the contrary, I seek it.” Asked if the church’s teachings on sexual and medical ethics represented “non-negotiable values,” a formulation used by Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis said he had “never understood the expression ‘non-negotiable values.’” “Values are values, period,” he said. “I cannot say that, among the fingers of a hand, there is one less useful than another. That is why I cannot understand in what sense there could be negotiable values.” Pope Francis said cases of sex abuse by priests had left “very profound wounds,” but that, starting with the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, the church has done “perhaps more than anyone” to solve the problem. “Statistics on the phenomenon of violence against children are shocking, but they also clearly show the great majority of abuses occur in family and neighborhood settings,” Pope Francis said. CASA FUGAZI 678 GREEN STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133 TEL: 415.362.6423 FAX: 415.362.3565 INFO@ITALIANCS.COM WWW.ITALIANCS.COM

“The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No one else has done more. And yet the church is the only one attacked.” Reflecting on his own colossal popularity, the pope criticized “ideological interpretations, a certain mythology of Pope Francis. When it is said, for instance, that he leaves the Vatican at night to go feed the tramps on Via Ottaviano. That never even occurred to me.” “To portray the pope as a kind of superman, a type of star, strikes me as offensive,” he said. “The pope is a man who laughs, weeps, sleeps soundly and has friends like everybody else. A normal person.” He acknowledged that he has continued his longtime practice of phoning people who write to him with their problems, including an 80-year old widow who lost her son, whom he calls once a month. Pope Francis said he has sought out his predecessor Pope Benedict for advice and encouraged him to “go out and participate in the life of the church,” most recently by appearing at a Feb. 22 ceremony with the College of Cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica. “The pope emeritus is not a statue in a museum,” Pope Francis said. Noting that bishops never retired until after the Second Vatican Council, but that the practice has since become the norm, Pope Francis said the “same thing should happen with the pope emeritus. Benedict is the first and maybe there will be others. We don’t know.” Asked about the Vatican’s lack of diplomatic relations with China, whose government requires Catholics to register with a state-controlled Catholic Patriotic Association and punishes members of the clandestine “underground” church, Pope Francis said he had written to Chinese President Xi Jinping “when he was elected, three days after me. And he answered me. There are some relations.”

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Pope: Religious must be witnesses to living simply CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The world doesn’t need a lesson in “theoretical poverty” from Catholic priests, brothers and nuns, but it needs a living example of how to be careful with money, live simply and share with others, Pope Francis said. Every Christian is called to be a wise steward of resources and generous in helping others, but with their vow of poverty and their pledge to put God and their brothers and sisters first, members of religious orders must be especially attentive to what they do with money, the pope said in a message to the treasurers of religious orders. The goods of a religious order must be “administered with care and transparency,” and religious “cannot tolerate waste,” he said in the message to religious attending a symposium organized by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life March 8-9. Religious orders “always have been a prophetic voice and a vivacious witness of the newness found in Christ and of conformity to him who made himself poor to enrich us with his poverty,” the pope said. “This loving poverty is solidarity, sharing and charity,” Pope Francis told the religious. The vow of poverty must be “expressed in simplicity, in the search for justice” and in being happy with just the essentials in order “to guard against the material idols that obscure the authentic meaning of life.” “There is no need for a theoretical poverty, but for the poverty one learns from touching the flesh of the poor Christ in the humble, the poor, the sick and children,” he said.

On first Friday of Lent, pope speaks on nature of true fasting CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis criticized those who practice fasting as a mere ritual, rather than as a sacrifice representative of a religion of love. The pope made his remarks March 7, the first Friday of Lent, in his homily at morning Mass in the Vatican guesthouse, where he lives. “These hypocritical people are good persons,” he said, referring to the Pharisees who criticized Jesus and his followers for not fasting as required by Jewish law. “They do all they should do. They seem good. But they are ethicists without goodness because they have lost the sense of belonging to a people.” True fasting entails sharing goods with the needy, Pope Francis said, according to a report by Vatican Radio. “This is the charity or fasting that our Lord wants,” he said. “This is the mystery of the body and blood of Christ. It means sharing our bread with the hungry, taking care of the sick, the elderly, those who can’t give us anything in return: This is not being ashamed of the flesh.” The pope called on Christians to follow the example of the good Samaritan, drawing close to the beneficiaries of their charity in an act of true fraternity.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will travel to South Korea in August for Asian Youth Day and to preside over the beatification of a large group of Korean martyrs, the Vatican spokesman said. The pope will leave Rome Aug. 13 and fly to South Korea, staying in the country Aug. 14-18, according to Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. He said no other countries would be on the itinerary. The main point of the trip, Father Lombardi said, is to participate in the youth gathering Aug. 13-17 in Daejeon, South Korea. The theme of Asian Youth Day is “Asian youth, wake up! The glory of the martyrs shines on you.” Sponsored by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, the gathering is expected to draw delegates from 30 countries. Father Lombardi said Pope Francis also will visit South Korea’s capital, Seoul, and meet President Park Geun-hye. According to the Korean Herald, Park’s office issued a statement saying, “The upcoming visit by Pope Francis, a symbolic figure of (someone who has lived) a poor but honest life and (upheld) neighborliness, will be an opportunity to deliver the message of love and peace to the northeast Asian region.” In February, Pope Francis signed a decree recognizing the martyrdom of Paul Yun Ji-Chung and 123 companions, clearing the way for their beatification. The martyrs were among an estimated 10,000 Catholics in Korea killed for their faith between 1785 and 1888. The Korean news agency Yonhap quoted Bishop Peter Kang U-il of Cheju, president of the bishops’ conference, as saying the pope’s decision to visit “the divided Korean Peninsula as the destination of his first Asian trip” was motivated in part by a desire to pray for peace and reconciliation.

“When I give alms, do I look into the eyes of my brother, my sister?” he asked. “Am I capable of giving a caress or a hug to the sick, the elderly, the children, or have I lost sight of the meaning of a caress? “These hypocrites were unable to give a caress,” the pope said. “We will be judged by the way we behave toward this brother, this sister.”

Pope names cardinals, lay experts to new Council for the Economy CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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A woman waits for food in 2013 outside a soup kitchen in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Pope Francis says the best way of fasting is caring for the needy.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appointed an international group of eight cardinals – including U.S. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvestonHouston – and seven lay experts in the fields of business, management and finance to be the first members of the Vatican’s new Council for the Economy. The new Council for the Economy was established Feb. 24 by Cardinal DiNardo Pope Francis to consider the policies and practices of the Holy See and devise appropriate policies and best practices. The members were announced March 8. The council is an independent “authority for policy decisions and not merely an advisory organ” to the new Secretariat for the Economy, which will have authorCardinal Marx ity over all economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and Vatican City State, the Vatican announcement said. The secretariat, headed by Australian Cardinal George Pell, implements the policies determined by the council and answers directly to the Holy Father. The pope established the council and the secretariat as part of efforts to simplify, consolidate coordinate and oversee management structures throughout the Vatican and to improve the governance, control and reporting of the financial activities of the Vatican’s different offices and bodies. The head of the new council – with the title of coordinator – is 60-year-old German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany. Cardinal Marx is also a member of the pope’s Council of Cardinals, an eight-member group advising him on the reform of the Roman Curia and the governance of the church. The changes came after recommendations by the Council of Cardinals for the Study of the Organizational and Economic Problems of the Holy See, which regularly reviewed the Vatican budgets. While the council for the study of organizational and economic problems was dissolved upon the creation of the Secretariat and the Council for the Economy, all but two of the cardinals on the new council were drawn from the now-defunct commis-

sion. The two who were not on the study council are Cardinals DiNardo and Marx. The other cardinals named March 8 are: – South African Cardinal Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, 73. – Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City, 71. – Peruvian Cardinal Juan Cipriani Thorne of Lima, 70. – French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, 69. – Cardinal John Tong Hon of Hong Kong, 74. – Italian Cardinal Agostino Vallini, papal vicar for Rome, 73. Of the seven lay members named, five are members of the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See, an eight-person commission of lay experts the pope established in July 2013 to study accounting practices among all Vatican offices and devise new strategies for greater fiscal responsibility and transparency. The lay members of the Council for the Economy are: – Joseph Zahra, a Maltese business consultant and former director of the Central Bank of Malta, who helped clients “improve corporate performance,” according to a Vatican press release. – Jean-Baptiste de Franssu, a French expert in business administration and asset management. – John F. Kyle, who holds both U.S. and Canadian citizenship, is a retired vice-president and treasurer of Exxon-Mobil’s Imperial Oil company in Canada. He taught economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and New York University, and worked on various audit committees and finance councils in Canada, including for the Archdiocese of Toronto. – Enrique Llano Cueto, a Spanish economist, accountant and business consultant. – Jochen Messemer, a German manager with experience in the health care, insurance and financial service industries. He has also served since 2009 as an international auditor of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See – the Vatican’s budget management office. – Francesco Vermiglio, an Italian expert in accounting and corporate finance. – George Yeo, former finance minister of Singapore, former chief-of-staff of the Singapore armed forces and director of joint operations and planning in the defense ministry.

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In Argentina, pope’s impact has moved beyond spiritual realm DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Maria Delamonica spoke somewhat sourly of the state of affairs in Argentina, where the economy is teetering and politics are polarized. But her voice brightened when the topic turned to Pope Francis and the changes in the country since he was unexpectedly elected one year ago. “There’s been a revolution,” said Delamonica, a 20-something Catholic who works as a quality control manager in a food processing plant. She cited changes such as friends showing an interest in their faith, once-fierce church critics keeping their comments in check and people acting a little less ostentatiously – copying, in some way, the pope’s austere example. “Even my parents started going to church again,” she said. Revolution may overstate the reality in Argentina, and the size and scope of any changes remain relative. The lasting impact also remains uncertain. But Argentines have embraced the election of Pope Francis – to the point that parents began naming babies “Francisco” in large numbers, priests report increased parish attendance and the previously antagonistic president and her supporters act as if he were an ally. Opinions are split on whether enthusiasm is as much about patriotism and pride as it is spiritual renewal and people re-embracing religion, but its impact has gone beyond the spiritual realm. “He brought a lot of hope to Argentina because he was elected during a time of great pessimism,” said Jose Maria Poirier, publisher of the Catholic magazine Criterio. The pope has brought people back into church pews, priests said, while thousands of Argentines signed up for trips to World Youth Day last year in Brazil. Participation in pilgrimages celebrating Our Lady of Lujan, the national patroness, also increased. “People now want to return to the church,” said Guillermo Galeano, spokesman for the Diocese of Lomas de Zamora in suburban Buenos Aires.

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Father Juan Issamendi, who works in the shanties of Buenos Aires, Argentina, poses for a photo March 8. Father Issamendi said Pope Francis’ effect on Argentina will be measured in the streets, not by how many people receive the sacraments. “There are many more people confessing,” said Father Jose Maria Ruiz Diaz, who hears confessions at the St. Benedict the Abbot Parish in the upscale Belgrano neighborhood. Others see signs the surge in church interest was short-lived. “After the election ... many people took an interest in the church, and the perception (of the church) also perhaps changed,” said Father Carlos “Charly” Olivero, one of the 23 priests working in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. “This was the tendency at the time, not now,” he added. Exact figures on attendance are unavailable. Father Juan Issamendi, who works with Father Olivero in Our Lady of Caacupe Parish, said the pope’s preference for a poor church and embrace of the informal – he always showed support for popular religious expressions such as pilgrimages and patron saint celebrations – makes the matter moot. “The measure is not going to be by sacraments ... how many people are confessing,” he said. “It’s in the street,”

where Pope Francis wants priests to take their ministries. When Pope Francis was archbishop of Buenos Aires, his relationship with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her late-husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, was seen in some circles as acrimonious. That, too has changed; Catholics in general are no longer considered opposition. “It’s now more popular to be Catholic,” said George Hill, 30, a local government employee and volunteer in the shantytowns, known locally as “villas de miseria.” Pope Francis’ papacy “broke this cold image of the church,” said Martin Videla Dorna, 26, an agronomist who also volunteers in the shanties. Criticism of the church has quieted, but discontent with the country’s economic and political situation persists. The dollar was devalued 20 percent earlier this year, and perceptions are that inflation – the real rate of which the government refuses to recognize – continues climbing.

“Having an Argentine pope at this moment has helped,” said Juan Navarro Floria, a lawyer and member of the Argentine bishops’ justice and peace commission. “Everyone is looking to the church and what it can do as a mediator in the case of social conflict,” Navarro added. “Behind this ... is the figure of the pope.” A February poll of Catholics for broadcaster Univision found 96 percent of Argentine respondents rated his work “excellent,” or “good.” Posters of the pope are commonly spotted. People wear Pope Francis medals. Newspapers now prominently publish papal photos almost daily, along with articles on the pope’s messages to the masses. Tours take visitors to sites such as the kiosk where Pope Francis bought newspapers – and famously phoned to cancel his subscription – and the soccer stadium for Club San Lorenzo, which put the pope’s picture on commemorative jerseys. San Lorenzo improbably won the Argentine soccer title last season. “He’s the Maradona of priests,” said Mario Polazzo, a taxi driver, whose twin daughters were confirmed by Pope Francis. He referred to Diego Maradona, the striker considered a demigod in Argentina and beyond. Cynics see some bandwagon jumping as Argentines embrace individuals overachieving internationally or gaining worldwide fame – figures such as Maradona, soccer star Lionel Messi and the Argentine-born Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. “If the world’s most important Jew were Argentine, we would all be Jews,” said David Beltran, a psychologist in Buenos Aires. Poirier warned that the excitement “could be something circumstantial.” “A phenomenon that produces great expectations could lead to disillusionment,” he said. Delamonica expressed fewer doubts. “It think that (the impact) is going to last,” she said. “People hear the pope’s message and it feeds their devotion.”

Cardinal calls to maintain, yet reinterpret, doctrine to help families CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – In its approach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, the Catholic Church needs to find a middle ground that does not destroy or abandon doctrine, but offers a “renewed” interpretation of church teaching in order to help those whose marriages have failed, Cardinal Walter Kasper said. “I propose a path that goes beyond strictness and leniency,” the German cardinal and theologian told Vatican Radio March 10. An approach that avoids the two extremes “isn’t against morality, it isn’t against doctrine, but rather, (is meant) to support a realistic application of doctrine to the current situation of the great majority of people and to contribute to people’s happiness,” he said, speaking in Italian. The cardinal was referring to a lengthy talk he had given to introduce a Feb. 20-21 discussion by the College of Cardinals on family life. The talk, titled “Gospel of the Family,” was to be published in March in German and Italian by private publishing houses. Cardinal Kasper told Vatican Radio that the responses to a widely distributed Vatican questionnaire about Catholics’ family life – drawn up in preparation for October’s Synod of Bishops on the family – showed “there is a difficulty, an abyss” between church teaching and the actual situation of many people. “The church has to bridge this abyss,” he said, speaking in English; but that “does not mean pure appeasement policies, but the church must explain in a new way what family and matrimony are in order to

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German Cardinal Walter Kasper arrives at Rome’s Church of St. Anselm in this March 5 file photo. In March 10 remarks, Cardinal Kasper said the Catholic Church needs to find a middle ground that does not destroy or abandon doctrine in order to help those whose marriages have failed. help people and at the same time remain faithful to the Gospel.” The cardinal said a similar process might be seen in how the church developed its current approach to ecumenism. “There were doctrines of the Holy Office (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) before the (Second Vatican) Council against ecumenism, yet the council found a way not to destroy or negate the doctrine but found ways to interpret it in an adequate way,” he said.

He said he wouldn’t call such changes “a revolution, as much as a deepening and a development because the doctrine of the church is a river that develops and also the doctrine of matrimony has developed like this.” “It’s not about something new as much as a renewal of church practice, which is always necessary and possible,” he said. The primary purpose of his speech to the cardinals, he said, “was not to speak about divorced and remarried people, but to speak about the Gospel of the family” and to foster “a new, better, more deep understanding of family life” as God intended – built on a faithful, exclusive and lifelong union between one man and one woman. “I think the majority of young people want stable relationships, want to live in a family... and therefore, the church has to help them,” he said. “We have to once again strengthen” the sacramental and indissoluble bond of marriage, especially as families today are facing a number of crises, including severe economic difficulties. The church must also take into account the many situations of Catholics who have failed marriages, he said, adding that “the church has to be close to them, to help, support and encourage them.” “I maintain the full teaching of the church, but the teaching has to be applied to concrete situations, as Jesus did it and as Pope Francis does very often,” he said. “The doctrine of the church is not an ideology in the clouds, but God wants to be present, close to his people,” he said.

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What is our fundamental problem?

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he first reading for Mass on the first Sunday of Lent this year, taken from Genesis 3, deals with the creation of human beings and their subsequent fall from friendship with God. Like a baseball coach who compels even his veterans to re-learn the basics of the game every spring, the church invites us, during the spring training of Lent, to revisit the spiritual fundamentals. And they are on no clearer display than in this great archetypal story. We hear that “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew FATHER ROBERT into his nostrils the breath BARRON of life.” The God of the Bible never despises matter, for he created it, and everything that he made is good. Our bodies are indeed made from the earth, from the lowly stuff of atoms, molecules and minerals. It is of singular importance to realize that sin is not a function of matter, not the consequence of our embodied nature. God exults in our physicality, and so should we. But we are more than mere matter, for God blew into us a life akin to his own and ordered to him: Minds that seek absolute truth, and wills that desire goodness itself, and souls that will not rest until they come into the presence of the fullness of beauty. The tragedy of the secularist ideology is that it denies this properly spiritual dimension of human existence, reducing everything in us to matter alone and construing the deepest aspirations of the heart as psychological quirks or wish-fulfilling delusions. Thomas Aquinas said that the human being is a sort of microcosm, for he contains within himself both the physical and the spiritual. To know and honor both dimensions of our humanity is the path of joyful integration, and to overstress one or the other is a principal source of mischief. Genesis tells us that God placed his human creatures in the midst of a garden and gave them free rein to eat of practically all of the trees found there. Unlike the gods of classical mythology, the God of the Bible is not in a rivalrous relationship to human beings. On the contrary, his glory is that we be fully alive, for he made us solely for the purpose of sharing his joy with us. This is why the church fathers consistently interpreted the trees in the gar-

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Fearful of their own freedom, Adam and Eve covered themselves more from selfconsciousness than from shame. den as evocative of philosophy, science, politics, art, stimulating conversation, friendship, sexuality – all the things that make human life rich and full. And it is why puritanical fussiness about pleasures both intellectual and sensual is simply not biblical. The original couple was told to refrain from eating the fruit of only one tree – and thereupon hangs a rather important tale. The tree in question is identified as the tree of “the knowledge of good and evil,” which is to say, a form of knowing that is the unique prerogative of God. Since God is himself the unconditioned good, he alone is the criterion of what is morally right and wrong. According to the semeiotics of this story, therefore, the eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree is the act of arrogating to

oneself what belongs in a privileged way to God. It is to make of the human will itself the criterion of good and evil, and from this subtle move, on the biblical reading, misery has followed as surely as night follows the day. Notice how wickedly and cunningly the serpent tempted Eve: “God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The basic sin, the original sin, is precisely this self-deification, this apotheosizing of the will. Lest you think all of this is just abstract theological musing, remember the 1992 Supreme Court decision in the matter of Casey v. Planned Parenthood. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Kennedy opined that “at the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, of the mystery of human life.” Frankly, I can’t imagine a more perfect description of what it means to grasp at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If Justice Kennedy is right, individual freedom completely trumps objective value and becomes the indisputable criterion of right and wrong. And if the book of Genesis is right, such a move is the elemental dysfunction, the primordial mistake, the original calamity. Of course, the Supreme Court simply gave formal expression to what is generally accepted throughout much of contemporary Western culture. How many people – especially young people – today would casually hold that the determination of ethical rectitude is largely if not exclusively the prerogative of the individual? That’s the fruit of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Just after the fall, the first humans realized that they were naked and sought to cover themselves. I would interpret this, not so much as shame, but as deep and preoccupying self-consciousness. When we acknowledge that goodness and value lie outside of ourselves, in the objective order, we look outward, forgetting the self; but when we are convinced that our own freedom is the source of value, we tend to turn inward, protectively and fearfully. What is fundamentally the problem, spiritually speaking? Why, deep down, are so many of us so unhappy? There is no better guide to answering these questions than Chapter 3 of the book of Genesis. FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

LETTERS Welcome comments on marriage I was pleased to read the archbishop’s comments that marriage ought to be preserved, not redefined (March 7 eEdition, Page 14). The message of Prop. 8 was all about the redefinition of marriage and how certain people should not be allowed to enjoy the benefit of this great spiritual and human union. Now, in this Franciscan age of serving rather than dictating, can we move to a place where preservation of marriage also means challenging divorce, shotgun weddings and single parenthood in all communities, and focusing more on the spiritual rather than physical needs and production expectations of two people committing themselves to each other? John McCord San Francisco Editor’s note: The March 7 issue was digital-only. Access it at eedition.catholic-sf.org. iPad users, download the free app from the iTunes store. Go to catholic-sf.org to sign up for an email alert when a new issue of CSF, print or digital, is posted.

Inspiring articles – and a wrong note Thanks for your uplifting coverage (Feb. 28) of Archbishop Cordileone’s Mass to “thank and honor” married couples, the opinion pieces by Father Ron Rolheiser and Father Charles Puthota, and that engaging opening of the series on Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany. Unfortunately, an out-of-place letter, stuck on the long-gone issue of stem cell research, twists good sense to detail an attack on Father Robert Barron for something he wrote in a past issue. The letter does disservice to a valuable priest who provides needed nourishment to our Catholic faith in his frequent articles. He is greatly respected for his televi-

sion series’ on EWTN “Catholicism,” “Eucharist”and his most recent series addressing our Lenten needs,”Untold Blessing: Three Paths to Holiness.” Robert Jimenez Burlingame

Walking with God every step of the way I have been reading articles lately about the church as it is envisioned by our Papa Francesco and then some by people who disagree with our new pope. Even more specifically, I wonder at those who seem to feel that we must “bring back” a sense of the sacred, and that we can do that by restoring Gregorian chant and a sense of God as mysterious. Of course God is a mystery, but the word, spoken into human history, Jesus, was one of us and who comes to us, to paraphrase Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, in the “distressing guise” of the persons seated next to us at eucharistic liturgy. If anyone’s feet are firmly planted in the 12th century, that’s not much help now. Why is sacred what happened in the past, which none of us lived through, when God is the God of the living? And shouldn’t we be impelled to create our sense of the sacred based on how we live in the now? Why do people want to shut God out of our lived reality of daily encounters with folks in the hardware store or riding on BART? I believe in a

God who enlivens and is present in every part of my life, not just some time I choose to carve out on Sunday (or some other “time for devotion.”) From where I sit, I don’t want a God that I only call on when it suits me; I believe in one who is with me every step of the way and to whom I may speak freely. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco

Blessed be the troublemakers? Re Mercy Sister Estelle Small’s letter (Feb. 28) on use of “troublemaker” in a headline: What’s irresponsible about referring to our Holy Father as a troublemaker? Haven’t we canonized a number of troublemakers? Isn’t troublemaking part of the job? Pope Francis by his acts, way of life and words invites us to take the trouble to look in our hearts and at our lives and ask: Are we the leaven, the light, the salt we’re meant to be? If our troubled answer is “no” he offers suggestions inviting us to live the Gospel more fully and follow Jesus more truly, which might mean our making trouble, and could mean getting into trouble. For such troublemakers, thanks be to God. Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

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Let’s hear it for the nuns!

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hen Mary Margaret Gefre’s boyfriend drove her to the train station in their small North Dakota town, the 19-year-old farm girl didn’t tell him where she was headed on that brisk December day, clutching a small bag containing a rosary, her childhood prayer book, a few dresses and a pair of shoes. She was CHRISTINA bound for a CAPPECCHI cloistered convent in St. Paul, Minn. She was going to become a nun. Today, at age 84, she marks the passage of that heart-wrenching winter by three feast days. It was on Dec. 28, the feast of the Holy Innocents, that her boyfriend Baltzer took her to the train station, giving her a peck on the cheek before driving away. The dark-haired young man had won her over with his deep faith and gentle ways. “I was sure he was going to be my husband,” she told me. “I could envision a happy life with him, babies.” It was on Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation, that Mary Margaret officially entered the Sisters of St. Joseph’s community, a bundle of hopes

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St. Joseph Sister Rosalind Gefre, 84, was called to religious life at age 19. She is pictured at Holy Spirit Church, St. Paul, Minn. and fears. In the open fields back home, she could see for miles: every sunrise engulfed her, every cloud floated overhead, every star pierced the midnight sky. But in the city, trees crowded in on her. “I felt imprisoned,” she said. “It was sort of like the end of world.” It was on Feb. 14, the feast of St. Valentine, that Mary Margaret received a love letter from Baltzer. Her superior, Sister Sara Claire, had already read it and handed it to Mary Margaret soberly. The sight of his neat cursive and urgent plea to come home opened a floodgate of emotion. “It all came back to me. I had to do lots of thinking. It

was very hard to give him up, but I just knew my call by then. In my heart I felt that this was my home.” To modern ears, this may sound like a tragedy, but Mary Margaret – who for 65 years now has been Sister Rosalind – describes it as a happily ever after that keeps getting sweeter. Her life has been wildly, richly full: working as a nurse and witnessing childbirth, establishing an esteemed massage school to bring the healing touch to people in pain, fielding teary confessions and appeals for prayer at every turn. She is a short, wrinkled woman with stardust in her eyes and a mile of joy

Just war revisited and revitalized

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very once in a while, a truly special book comes down the theological pike: a book both scholarly and well-written, a book that stretches the imagination, a book that changes the state of a discussion, if it’s taken with the seriousness it deserves. The late Servais Pinckaers’ “Sources of Christian Ethics” was GEORGE WEIGEL such a book. So was N.T. Wright’s “The Resurrection of the Son of God.” Now comes Nigel Biggar’s “In Defense of War” (Oxford University Press). Biggar’s careful moral reasoning offers a model that, if followed, would deepen and mature the Christian discussion of the ethics of war and peace. And, if I may say, his book ought especially to be read by those who, at first blush, will be shocked or even appalled by its title. Nigel Biggar, Regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at Oxford and director, there, of the McDonald Center for Theology, Ethics and Public Life, is not well-known to American readers, save among that shrinking band of Catholic and evangelical thinkers who take the classic just war theory seriously and work to develop it in light of the realities of 21stcentury politics and technology. He is no ivory tower don, however, and in the bracing introduction to his book, he lays his cards squarely on the table: “This is the dilemma: on the one hand going to war causes terrible

Biggar’s careful moral reasoning offers a model that, if followed, would deepen and mature the Christian discussion of the ethics of war and peace. evils, but on the other hand not going to war permits them. Whichever horn one chooses to sit on, the sitting should not be comfortable. Allowing evils to happen is not necessarily innocent, any more than causing them is necessarily culpable. Omission and commission are equally obliged to give an account of themselves. Both stand in need of moral justification.” Throughout his book, Biggar, a close student of both military history and the just war way of thinking, inveighs “against the virus of wishful thinking.” And while he is appropriately critical of the wishful thinking of those prepared to give political and military leaders a moral blank check in times of war, Biggar understands that that form of moral irresponsibility is not a major problem in the Christian churches today (as it was, say, during World War I). No, the prevalent Christian wishful thinking today is that which imagines there to be just solutions to the evils caused by murderous men like Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, and the Iranian mullahs without the effective threat, or the effective use, of proportionate and discriminate armed force. That wishful thinking is the result of several bad ideas that Nigel Biggar confronts with Christian

intellectual vigor: the bad idea that radical pacifism is implicit in the Gospel and was normative in the early church; the bad idea that moral authority to wage war today is held by the United Nations alone; the bad idea that contemporary international law adequately reflects the moral reasoning of the just war tradition; the bad idea that the prudential norms within the just war tradition (like “last resort”) trump other considerations. And while he doesn’t say it in so many words, his able and detailed review of the moral arguments for and against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 makes clear that bad political ideas can combine with bad theological ideas to produce morally incoherent and politically irresponsible judgments and policy prescriptions. Prominent among those bad political ideas is the reflexive anti-western and anti-Israel bias that was palpable among many churchmen in the debate before the second Iraq War – a kind of gag reflex that warps too much churchbased commentary on the Middle East today. Biggar shares my longstanding concern that much of the Christian leadership of the West is functionally pacifist today. Many churchmen affirm what they understand to be the moral criteria of the just war tradition, but as a practical matter they cannot imagine a just use of armed force –which tends to subtract religious thinkers and their insights from the debates where policy is actually devised. If Nigel Biggar’s book gets churchmen thinking seriously about war and peace again, that might change. WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

coiled in her body, compelling her to hug repairmen in the elevator and hold your hand as you walk to lunch. “I am so glad I chose the sisterhood!” she said. “I would not exchange it for anything in the world.” I believe her. Many sisters have told me that religious life enabled them to do more than they ever could’ve hoped, opening up new avenues and awakening new desires. For 20-something women facing big decisions, sisters have surprising wisdom to offer. They’ve been there, they get it. And for those of us who feel frustrated by times when the urgent-but-not-important manages to trump the important-but-not-urgent, as Stephen Covey puts it, sisters model an integration – daily actions that perfectly correspond with their dearest values. Walking the walk, seldom needing to talk the talk. Their profound impact is being recognized this March through Women’s History Month. National Catholic Sisters Week is a worthy addition to a month that celebrates movers and shakers, sisters who lead by serving, who show up with great faith and open hearts, seeing God in each stranger on the street. I can’t imagine our country, our church or my life without them. CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and editor of SisterStory.org, the official website of National Catholic Sisters Week.

Bishops: Pope has ‘added new life’ to office he holds CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In his first year as the 265th successor of Peter, Pope Francis “has brought to light new dimensions of the Petrine ministry and added new life to the office he holds,” the U.S. bishops’ Administrative Committee said March 11. He has done this in many ways, the committee said, including by consistently calling on Catholics “to look again at the fundamental values of the Gospel” and encouraging “us to be a church of the poor and for the poor, reaching out to the marginalized and being present to those on the periphery of society.” The Administrative Committee is the highest ranking body of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when the bishops are not in their plenary session. During a March 11-12 meeting in Washington, the committee issued the statement to congratulate the pope on his first anniversary. Pope Francis “has set an example by choosing a personal simplicity of life, by washing the feet of prisoners, and by taking into his hands and kissing the badly disfigured,” the committee said. “His Holiness has also set in motion a process that will lead to the reshaping of the Roman Curia in a way that will enhance the effectiveness of his ministry and better serve the needs of the church in our present day.” The Administrative Committee also noted the impact that Pope Francis’ leadership and simple lifestyle have had on the world. “His constant outreach to the alienated, his emphasis on mercy and his sheer humanity have served as an inspiration not only to Catholics but also to other Christians and people of good will around the globe,” the statement said.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Second Sunday of Lent From the cloud came a voice that said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.’ MATTHEW 17:1-9 GENESIS 12:1-4A The Lord said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” Abram went as the Lord directed him.

him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

PSALM 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear

2 TIMOTHY 1:8B-10 Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God. He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began, but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel.

MATTHEW 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised their eyes, they saw no one else but Jesus alone. As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, “Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

Transfiguration: Ascent into darkness

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ent is a time in which we are called to grow in prayer.The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC #2700-2724) describes three levels, or expressions, of prayer – vocal, meditation and contemplation. Vocal prayer is perhaps the most commonly known form. It is described as the physical engagement in which the body is associated with the interior prayer of the heart (#2700-2704, 2722). Meditation is primarily a quest, with the assistance of Scriptures, liturgical texts and holy images, to help make our own that upon which we are meditating, passing from our thoughts to reality as our will is strengthened to follow Christ (#2705-2708, 2723). FATHER WILLIAM The third of these expresNICHOLAS sions, contemplation, is described as “a gaze of faith, fixed on Jesus … His gaze purifies our heart … illumines the eyes of our heart and teaches us to see everything in the light of his truth and his compassion for all men” (CCC #2725). Contemplation is also “a gift, a grace; it can

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS BEWARE THE ‘GHOST OF HYPOCRISY’

The “ghost of hypocrisy” makes us we forget to take care of a patient, a child or an old person and quickly withdraw our hand, as if to keep it clean, from a person at whom we quickly throw change, the pope said March 7 at morning Mass at his Vatican City residence. He warned those present “never to be ashamed” of “their brother’s flesh.” “Behind the readings today,” he said on the Friday following Ash Wednesday, “there is the ghost of hypocrisy, of formality in fulfilling the commandments, in this case, of fasting.” Therefore, he said, “Jesus frequently returns to the subject of hypocrisy when he sees (that) the doctors of the law think they are perfect: They fulfill everything written in the commandments as if it were a formality.”

be accepted only in humility and poverty” (CCC #2713). It is not an experience that we can actively seek. As Teresa of Avila writes: “It shows a lack of humility to ask to be given what you have never deserved.” Rather, it is a gift of God, granted in the midst of deep and disciplined prayer, in which we seek, and take time to be alone with him, who loves us. In both Scripture and the language of spiritual theology, while darkness is more often used to connote an absence of God, darkness is also used to illustrate how God is far beyond our comprehension; how a mystical encounter of his presence, in the midst of deep, intense prayer, puts us into a state that is beyond our five senses, making sight, sound, smell, touch and taste completely irrelevant. In short, we enter into a state of all-encompassing darkness. This is consistent with other encounters with God throughout the holy Scriptures. When Abraham entered into covenant with God, in a sacrificial rite that would seal that covenant, “a deep, terrifying darkness enveloped him” (Genesis 15:12). Following the Exodus from Egypt as the people of Israel entered into a covenant with God, the mountain “was enveloped in a dense black cloud” (Deuteronomy 4:11) and they “heard (God’s) voice from the midst of the darkness” (Deuteronomy 5:23) while Moses “drew near to the thick darkness where God was” (Exodus 20:21).

Some mystical theologians call this state of contemplation a “ray of darkness.” St. John of the Cross describes it as a dark night of the soul, when God, who is beyond our senses, overwhelms them and envelops the soul in darkness. “When this divine light of contemplation assails the soul which is not yet wholly enlightened, it causes spiritual darkness in it…overwhelms it and darkens the act if it’s natural intelligence” (“Dark Night of the Soul,” II, V). In a number of places, the four Gospels tell us that Jesus went off by himself to pray. On only one occasion does the Gospel tell us of Jesus taking anyone with him. The Transfiguration of Jesus is perhaps a glimpse of just what it may be like to join Jesus in prayer – not a joyful, peaceful experience, but, for the three apostles who joined him, one beyond all comprehension, of overwhelming awe as a “bright” cloud cast a “shadow” upon them as they encountered the presence of the almighty father. It may well have been for Peter, James and John the experience of contemplative prayer – frightening, overwhelming, tumultuous and beyond words – written of so eloquently by such great mystics as Sts. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. FATHER NICHOLAS, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is on temporary assignment as parochial vicar at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Simi Valley. His website is frwcnicholas.com.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 17: Monday of the Second Week in Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor (Solemnity Aus, Ire, Feast New Zeal, Scot, Wales). DN 9:4b-10. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. LK 6:36-38. TUESDAY, MARCH 18: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. IS 1:10, 16-20. PS 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. MT 23:1-12. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 SM 7:4-5a, 1214a, 16. PS 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. ROM 4:13, 16-18, 22. MT 1:16, 18-21, 24a or LK 2:41-51a. THURSDAY, MARCH 20: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. JER 17:5-10. PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. LK 16:19-31. FRIDAY, MARCH 21: Friday of the Second Week of

JOSEPH first century March 19 The husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the legal father of Jesus according to Jewish law, Joseph is a model of humility and obedience to God’s will. Pope Pius IX named Joseph patron of the universal church in 1870; he is also the patron saint of carpenters, the dying and workers.

Lent. GN 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a. PS 105:16-17, 1819, 20-21. MT 21:33-43, 45-46. SATURDAY, MARCH 22: Saturday of the Second Week of Lent. MI 7:14-15, 18-20. PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. LK 15:1-3, 11-32.

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Facing our maker

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ome day you will have to face your maker! We’ve all heard that phrase. The hour will come when we will stand alone before God with no place to hide, no room to rationalize, and no excuses to offer for our weaknesses and sin. We will stand in a searing light, naked and exposed, FATHER RON and all we ever did, good ROLHEISER and bad, will stand with us in that light. That prospect, however vaguely felt, makes for a dark corner in every person’s mind. But we can go through our daily lives with that prospect mostly consigned to the back of our minds. We know that someday we will have to face it all, but that day is a long ways off and, for now, we can peacefully accommodate ourselves to our procrastinations and weaknesses. The time to radically face ourselves and our maker, to stand in the searing light of full judgment, will only come at the time of death. But, why wait until death? Why live with so much unnecessary fear? Why hide from God’s judgment? Why delay throwing ourselves into God’s mercy and peace? Searing judgment of our souls is meant to be a daily occurrence, not a single traumatic moment at the end of our lives. We are meant to bring ourselves, with all our complexities and weaknesses, into God’s full light every day. How? There are many ways to do this, though all of them are predicated on the same thing, namely, on bringing ourselves before God in searing honesty. In essence, we face the light

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of God’s full judgment every time we pray in real honesty. Genuine prayer brings us into that searing light. And, in the great prayer traditions, one particular form of prayer, contemplative prayer, is singled out as being most helpful in doing this, that is, prayer without words, without images, the prayer of quiet, centering prayer. There are various methods for praying in this way. From the desert fathers, through the author of “The Cloud of Unknowing,” through Thomas Merton, through John Main, through Thomas Keating, through Laurence Freeman, among others, we have been invited to supplement our other methods of prayer with contemplative prayer, that is, prayer without images, without words, without concentrating on holy thoughts, and without looking for effective, faith-filled feelings in our prayer. How do we pray in this way? We pray in this way by wordlessly bringing ourselves into God’s presence in a way that we hide nothing of ourselves. Perhaps a description of how this kind of prayer differs from other kinds of prayer might best serve us here. Normal, meditative types of prayer essentially work this way: You set off to pray, find a quiet place, sit or kneel down, make a conscious act to center yourself in prayer, focus on an inspiring text or thought, begin to meditate on those words, try to hear what is being said inside you, articulate the challenge or insight that is making itself heard there, and then connect this all to your relationship to God, through gratitude, love, praise, or petition. In this kind of prayer, your focus is on an inspiring word or insight, the response this creates in you, and your own response to God in the light of that. But, and this is its shortcoming, the words, images, and

feelings in that kind of prayer, for all their goodness, can still act as a camouflage that protects you from being fully exposed and naked before God, akin to what we can do in a conversation with another person when we can talk about all kinds of things, good things, but avoid talking about what is really at issue. Contemplative prayer, by way of contrast, is prayer without words or images. It works this way: You set off to pray, find a quiet place, sit or kneel, and make a conscious act to simply place yourself before God. Then you simply stay there, naked and unprotected by any words, images, conversations, rationalizations, or even by any holy feelings about Jesus, his mother, some saint, some icon, or inspirational idea. All of these, good as they are, can help you avoid having to be there naked before God. Contemplative prayer brings you into God’s presence without protection, with no possibility of hiding anything. The silence and absence of prayerful conversation is what leaves you naked and exposed, like a plant sitting in the sun, silently drinking in its rays. We are meant to face God like this every day of our lives, not just at the moment of our death. So, each day, we should set aside some time to put ourselves into God’s presence without words and without images, where, naked, stripped of everything, silent, exposed, hiding nothing, completely vulnerable, we simply sit, full face, before God’s judgment and mercy. By doing this, we will preempt any traumatic encounter at the time of our death and, more importantly, we will begin, already here and now, to enjoy more fully God’s empathic embrace. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

As we forgive …

here are some common prayers that I pray by heart, such as the Hail Mary, the Lord’s Prayer and the Glory Be. They come to my mind automatically because I have prayed them so many times and I have them memorized. This is probably true for most Catholics. Recently, at Mass we heard SISTER MARGIE the Gospel acLAVONIS count of Jesus teaching the Lord’s Prayer to his disciples and other followers. Because I usually prepare for the liturgy by praying the daily scripture readings, “Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us,” really jumped out at me. The last part of the sentence is something to check ourselves on. For some of us these words merely flow off our tongues and we often don’t always think about what we are saying. Can we forgive those who have hurt us or do we hold grudges or have resentments against oth-

ers? Lent is a good time to examine ourselves and reflect on those people in our lives who may be in that category. Really forgiving someone who has betrayed us or hurt us in any way is not easy, but this is a big part of being a follower of Jesus, and we cannot take it lightly. To love is to forgive and have right relationships with everyone who touches our lives. We all know people (maybe ourselves) who hold deep resentments or hurts that need God’s healing. Sometimes people nurse their grudges and anger toward someone else for years. Some might not even remember what originally happened to cause the problem. Every time we pray the Our Father we are asking God to forgive us as we forgive others. He didn’t say to forgive only those who ask for pardon, but everyone. At times we must initiate the conversation and take the first step toward reconciliation. To ask for pardon or to say, “I forgive you,” and really mean it, is difficult. Often our pride gets in the way or we fear the reaction of the other person. Even so, the act of being reconciled with another can free us. This is my personal experience: Once I lived with a sister and we became friends, but our friendship

didn’t last. I won’t bore you with details, but there was a lot of friction and competition in our jobs. When she got a ministry that I felt called to do it took me years to be able to face her. I would turn the other way when I saw her coming. Then one year during my annual retreat I wrote her a letter asking her to make peace with me and that I was sorry for anything I did to cause the problem. It was not easy, but it was one of the most freeing exercises in my life. Now we are not best friends, but we at least can talk with each other. Reconciliation is needed, not only in our individual lives, but in our countries, churches and other organizations. There can be no lasting peace unless people are willing to ask for and to give forgiveness. I truly believe that if we can make right our individual relationships that there will be less war and violence in our world. God’s forgiveness for us will be measured by how we offer forgiveness in our lives. The next time you pray the Lord’s Prayer slow down and think about what you are really saying. As followers of Christ we must take those words seriously. HOLY CROSS SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS is a freelance writer in Notre Dame, Ind.

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STATIONS: Bishop Justice leads Lenten walk for peace in East Palo Alto FROM PAGE 1

procession to the street-side shrine near where 19-year-old Josue Zamora died. Several men parishioners took turns carrying the heavy wooden cross, in imitation of Christ’s journey to Calvary. Bishop Justice led the group in praying the 14 Stations of the Cross. A group of Tongan men, the St. Francis Boys who play at two Sunday Masses, improvised an original song, “I cry for peace,” their equipment set up in a driveway next to the flowers, pictures, candles and Buzz Lightyear plastic plate that comprised Zamora’s shrine. “In a moment of silence, let us remember those who have died, the youth of our city,” prayed Bishop Justice, as the midmorning sun beat down. Parishioners of St. Francis of Assisi traditionally enact the outdoor Stations of the Cross each Friday in Lent. This year, in collaboration with the archdiocesan restorative justice ministry led by Julio Escobar, St. Francis began Stations of the Cross on a Saturday, March 8, with a peace walk. “We are here because we don’t want to be going to another funeral,” said Escobar during a short rally in front of the Spanish-style white stucco church. “Gang members, drug dealers, God loves you. There is a different way to live your life,” Escobar said. “Lent is a time of joining with Christ in his suffering and death,” said Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi. For the 10 years he has been pastor, Father Goode has also been praying with

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Lorena Zamora (standing) mourns her son Josue, 19, at the street shrine near where he died. Parishioners of St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto walked the streets March 8, praying the Stations of the Cross for peace in their East Palo Alto neighborhood. the San Mateo St. Vincent de Paul Society many times a year, as the St. Vincent de Paul Society holds a prayer vigil at each murder site. Preteens and teens as well as adults carried 75 small white wooden crosses with the names of East Palo Alto homicide victims, while others held yellow signs on wooden sticks “Peace and Justice” and “Pax and Justicia” and red signs that declared

“Alto a la Valencia” and “Stop the Violence.” East Palo Alto is plagued by gang violence stemming from the drug trade, and Father Goode said there is so much fear that the perpetrators rarely are punished, and innocent victims and the “foot soldiers” not the drug users or big dealers are the ones incarcerated or shot. East Palo Alto Police Sgt. Jeff Liu, speaking at the

rally, urged people to use the anonymous tip line to help police, but Father Goode said people are even afraid to give information anonymously. Bettye Wilson, whose son was killed in East Palo Alto, at age 25 in 2012, said the death of a child is “the most indescribable pain you can ever experience. All I could do was scream and fall to the ground.” “It is time to stand up,” Wilson said.

FAMINE: Parishioner fights to include Irish famine in state curriculum FROM PAGE 1

One million people died of starvation in the famine, almost all of them Roman Catholic; another millionand-a-half fled to the U.S. to escape certain death. They faced anti-Irish bigotry here but helped establish America’s largest cities. An estimated 100,000 died in squalid conditions on what became known as “coffin ships” on the journey to a better life in this country. Whether out of a sense of cultural shame or shock, the Irish didn’t talk much about the famine over the last 150 years, O’Riordan said. Nor did the schools. “The current public school curriculum mentions the famine but nowhere near how it should” given the scope and impact of the catastrophe, he said. The widespread failure of Ireland’s potato crop was compounded, and some say overshadowed, by the British response to the crisis. “You have to be careful in the Irish community with your words,” said O’Riordan. “But the words I use to describe what happened are ‘criminal negligence.’” In 1997, British Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed regret for Britain’s role in the famine, saying those who governed “failed their people through standing by while a crop failure turned into a massive human tragedy.” Records show that food was plentiful in Ireland at the time of the

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St. Dominic parishioner John O’Riordan lives in San Francisco with his wife Paola and their daughters Sofia and Eliana. “Like many parents, the wish my wife and I have for our two girls is that they will grow to be respectful, responsible and tolerant citizens with a broad understanding of a shared American history,” O’Riordan said. famine. Huge quantities of livestock and grain crops were being exported to Britain. According to a press release by promoters for the curriculum change, Catholic discrimination was pervasive in Ireland in the period before the famine. Irish farmers were barred from jobs in public office, the legal profession and schools among other restrictions. With no other opportunities for work they were forced to continually subdivide their land holdings until they were forced to rely on one crop for survival. When that crop failed, disaster followed. “The parallel I use is Hurricane Katrina,” O’Riordan said. Many critics

of the government response said that if the hurricane had hit Connecticut instead it would have been a much different response than what happened in Louisiana. “The British landowners in Ireland saw what was happening but didn’t intervene,” O’Riordan said. O’Riordan said the famine did include touching tales of compassionate action. The Choctaw nation, for example, gathered funds for the starving people in Ireland. The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, raised funds in the U.S. and distributed them in Ireland, creating a template for relief efforts throughout the world ever since.

This 1849 Harper’s Weekly political cartoon depicts the “coffin ships” that carried Irish immigrants fleeing famine in their homeland. Since meeting with Torlakson, the Irish caucus has been invited to meet with Tom Adams, director of curriculum frameworks and instructional resources for the California Department of Education. It will recommend the famine become part of an American ethnic studies program that examines, for instance, the role of racism in times of crisis, the rights of a people to access to food in their own country and the impact of free market economic policies. “The Irish don’t want special treatment in the curriculum,” O’Riordan said. “We just want equal treatment.”

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Carmelite’s journey has much to say about postconciliar church REVIEWED BY FRANK MONAHAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“BEEN THERE ALL ALONG” BY TRACY O’SULLIVAN, O.CARM. EDITED BY WILLIAM JOSEPH HARRY. Carmelite Media (Darien, Ill., 2013). 196 pp., $16.99. Carmelite Father Tracy O’Sullivan is a man whom I have known since his days as a college seminary student in the 1950s. In “Been There All Along,” he is writing his life’s story but in reality it is the story of all of us who seek for meaning in our lives. He is a member of the Carmelite order, which is important to understand his intense search for the spiritual basis of his work. He summed it up this way: “Over time, I would learn that the Carmelite calling, to search for the face of the living God, was at the center of my being.” He has essentially spent his life as a Carmelite priest working to alleviate poverty and discrimination in the African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods of his native South Side of Chicago and South Central Los Angeles. Yet this is fundamentally a story about his long struggle to avoid the trap of being an activist unconnected to a deeper spirituality. O’Sullivan was an outstanding athlete, quarterbacking the high school city championship football team in his junior year. After high school he chose a different path and entered the seminary to study to become a Carmelite priest. Two years after ordination, he returned in 1964 to that same Chicago neighborhood where he had attended Mount Carmel High School to work in the local parish. This area, known as Woodlawn, was located just south of the main campus of the University of Chicago. In the 1960s it became the home of one of the most notorious black gangs of the city, called the Black Stone Rangers. For the next six years, Father O’Sullivan made a name for himself as an outspoken advocate for alleviating the conditions of poverty and remedying discriminatory practices in housing, health care and policing in the neighborhood. He joined forces with the religious leaders of other faiths to move the gang leadership away from violence and toward more constructive activities in the community.

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He completed his 25-year tenure in Chicago as pastor of the parish where he had lived and worked for the previous two decades. He was constantly struggling with overcoming his personal demons related to alcohol and celibacy. In the process he was gaining a new and deeper understanding of his own spiritual life and how God was in much more control of his destiny than he knew. He finally summoned the strength to overcome his drinking problems just before assuming the role of director of formation and superior of the Carmelite House of Studies in Washington. This together with his experience in the African-American community of Chicago prepared him well for his last major ministry – that of the pastor of a very poor multiracial and ethnic parish is South Central LA. Here the liturgy imbued with the spirit of Vatican II together with education become central to his ministry. He had begun to appreciate that the elements that made up the narrative of his life “reveal the mystery of God working in our lives.” Put another way, he had learned that throughout his journey that God had “been there all along.” MONAHAN is retired director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Government Liaiso

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FRIDAY, MARCH 14 MUSICAL: “West Side Story,” Convent of the Sacred Heart/Stuart Hall high schools, 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, SYUFY Theatre, Friday, Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m.; $10 at the door. Pamela Rickard, director, pamela. rickard@sacredsf.org; (415) 292-3122.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 FASHION SHOWS: “Beyond the Blue,” lunch and dinner fashion shows and auctions benefiting Marin Catholic High School, Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall, San Rafael. Both events feature Marin Catholic students modeling clothes from local boutiques and stores. Lunch event begins at 10 a.m. and dinner event at 5 p.m. with meals by Il Fornaio. Tickets for lunch are $70-140; dinner show tickets are $150300. www.marincatholic.org; (415) 464-3800. CRAB FEED: St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. 6 p.m. no-host social, 6:45 dinner. Music by Dino, menu includes all-you-can-eat crab or chicken and accompaniments. $45. (650) 345-6660.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Lisa Wallace, harp. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. www. stmarycathedralsf.org. Ample free parking.

MONDAY, MARCH 17 HIBERNIAN LUNCH: St. Patrick’s Day Lunch benefiting campus ministry work of the Hibernian Newman Club, Westin St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St., San Francisco. 11 a.m. no-host reception

Hopfner, director, Office of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Admission is free. hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org.

LENT OPPORTUNITIES SATURDAY, MARCH 15 SF 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St., San Francisco, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily through Palm Sunday. Ron, (415) 668-9800; (360) 460-9194; konopaski@yahoo. com. Visit www.40daysforlife.com/ sanfrancisco to reserve times to pray at the site. SAN MATEO 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily through Palm Sunday. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; email themunns@yahoo.com to reserve times to pray at the site.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from Kristin Heyer, “Immigration and Family Values: Catholic Moral Perspectives.” (415) 456-4815.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 LENTEN EVENING: Carmelite Father David Simpson leads “Praying with St. Teresa of Avila,” 7 p.m., St.

with lunch at noon. Television’s Regis Philbin is guest speaker. Sponsored tables at $1,000 include pre-event to meet Philbin and his wife, Joy, who is joining him on the trip. Traditional Irish music also part of the day. Tickets are $100 per person. www.hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415) 386-3434; jring@ siprep.org.

Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco (415) 285-5272; info@stteresasf. org; www.stteresasf.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 ‘ART OF DYING’: Catholic teaching, tradition and spirituality; pastoral and moral dimensions of the church’s care for the dying to help Catholics approach this sacred process with greater peace and ease, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, near Rock Hill Drive, Tiburon. Catholics understand death is an inevitable part of life and transition to eternal life. Yet, we struggle with making difficult medical decisions, often unaware of the church’s ethical and religious directives, which offer much needed guidance and comfort. We may also be unaware of the church’s rich tradition of sacraments, prayers, and pastoral care for the dying, whose purpose is to help us or our loved ones spiritually and emotionally prepare for our final journey. Hospice and palliative care, advance healthcare directives, and communicating wishes to loved ones will also be addressed. Diana Rittenhouse, (415) 435-1122, ext. 110; DianaR@ StHilary.org. All are welcome but organizers need to know how many are coming to prepare materials.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates, 6 p.m., Gold Mirror Restaurant on Taraval. Christine Gigliotti, gigliottiposta@ comcast.net, (650) 513-1065; (415) 860-9071. WORKSHOP: Filipino Ministry Consultative Board hosts day of recollection with Oblate Father Jose Arong, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, lunch will be provided; RSVP required to bcnicolas59@gmail.com; (650) 3030308.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. March 27: Brian Cahill, retired executive director, Catholic Charities CYO, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Norberta (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 29 MARRIAGE WORKSHOP: Day features talks by Julie and Greg Alexander at St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. and is sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The couple says they have changed their own “lackluster marriage into a vibrant, happy and healthy union.” Cost of $65 per couple includes morning hospitality and lunch. Register at www.marriageonfire.info. Email hopfnere@sfarchdiocese.org for more information.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 LUNCHEON: Mission Dolores Academy Benefit Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco; tickets start at $200. Sponsor packages are also available. Slanted Door chef and owner Charles Phan teams up with other top San Francisco chefs for the event. (415) 638-6212; development@ mdasf.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 FASHION PREVIEW: Discarded to Divine, de Young Museum, a complimentary 5:30-8:30 p.m. sneak peek at more than 50 one-of-a kind items up-cycled from donated clothing to St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco. Open to the public. Meet designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, view fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned to benefit the SVdP-SF’s Wellness Center. http://www.discardedtodivine.org. Margi English, menglish@ svdp-sf.org; (415) 977-1270.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 22 HANDICAPABLES MASS: All disabled people and their caregivers are invited to a Marin County chapter Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, Marin Catholic High Father Mark School, Bon Air Taheny Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Kentfield. Father Mark Taheny, pastor, St. Sebastian Church, principal celebrant and homilist. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Randy Devoto, Knights of Malta, (415) 321-1100.

FASHION SHOW: “Pretty in Pink,” 11 a.m., Olympic Club Lakeside benefiting St. Stephen School, San Francisco; sylviaflores@me.com.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12 CRUSADER COUNTRY: Archbishop Riordan High School’s annual event to support the school’s tuition assistance programs. Western attire or country casual encouraged. Tickets start at $150 per person, and event sponsorships are available. Reservations requested by April 1. www.riordanhs.org; call (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

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BOCCE BALL: Bocce tournament and silent auction benefiting God Squad Productions and the Catholic TV Mass, Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B St., San Rafael. Gates open 8:30 a.m. for breakfast and practice. Jan Schachern, janschachern@gmail.com; (415) 244-0771.

CHURCH ANNIVERSARY: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass commemorating 50th anniversary of the dedication of Holy Name of Archbishop Jesus Church, Salvatore J. 39th Avenue Cordileone and Lawton, San Francisco, 10:30 a.m. with reception following in Ryan Hall. (415) 664-8590; hnchurch50th@ gmail.com; www.holynamesf.org.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. April 23: Retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn. Sister Norberta

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