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St. Rita School closing as income, enrollment drop

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St. Rita School will close in June, the parish unable to sustain it financially despite a nine-year effort to boost enrollment and tuition income.

Opened in 1957 with four Daughters of the Holy Spirit and 220 first to fifth graders, the Fairfax parish pre-K-8 school would need $327,000 in subsidies to operate for another term.

The school awarded $158,055 in tuition assistance this year and has only 95 full-fare students in a student body of 133.

The pastor, Father Kenneth Weare, requested and received approval from the archdiocese for the decision, which was announced to parents Feb. 27.

Father Weare said the factors working against the school, which is in a lower-income pocket of the county, include a sagging economy, shifting demographics, lessened interest in faith-based education and an increased number of lay personnel since the sisters’ 1976 exit from St. Rita.

He also cited rising salary and benefit costs, which account for 86 percent of the school’s $1.3 million budget.

Similar factors were behind the last two parish K-8 school closures in the archdiocese: St. Elizabeth and Corpus Christi, both in San Francisco.

Even with additional archdiocesan assistance, marketing and public relations efforts over the past two years, enrollment at St. Rita continued to crumble and parents fell short of fundraising goals and behind in tuition payments, said Maureen Huntington, archdiocesan schools superintendent.

St. Rita will become the first of the eight Catholic elementary schools in Marin and the 10th of the 60 in the three-county archdiocese to shut its doors in 25 years, Huntington said.

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VATICAN CITY – Despite the rain, thousands of people filled St. Peter’s Square after dark March 12, the first evening of the conclave, to witness the black smoke that signaled the Catholic Church’s 115 cardinal electors had failed, as expected, to elect a pope on the first ballot.

The smoke started billowing out of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel at 7:41 p.m.

“You don’t want to be in Rome and miss this,” said Rebecca Thompson, who lives in New York. Her friend Kasia Twarowska, originally from Krakow, Poland, said, “Nothing can stop people from coming here – not even the rain. Everyone is blessed to be in Rome at this time.”

Three hours earlier, invoking the aid of the Holy Spirit and the holy men and women from all over the world recognized as saints, the cardinals processed slowly into the Sistine Chapel to begin the process to elect a pope.

Once in the chapel, the cardinals from 48 countries vowed that, if elected pope, they would faithfully fulfill the ministry of universal pastor of the church and would defend the rights and freedom of the Holy See. They also solemnly swore to scrupulously follow the rules for the election of a pope and keep secret the results of the votes, unless they have express permission from the new pope to reveal details.

After reciting the oath together, each cardinal walked up to the Book of the Gospels, put his right hand on it, said his name and sealed his oath, “So help me God and these holy Gospels that I touch with my hand.”

The portion filmed by Vatican television ended with Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, saying, “Extra omnes,”

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Cardinals from around the world are seen in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel March 12 as they begin the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. Shut off from the outside world, the 115 cardinals will cast ballots to elect a new pontiff. As expected, they failed to elect a pope on the first ballot.

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INDEX On the Street . . . . . . . . .4 National . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Papal transition . . . . 20

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NEED TO KNOW Conclave watchers, here is a sampling of papal election fun facts transmitted by Vatican Radio and provided by Donald Prudlo, associate professor of history at Jacksonville State University, Alabama.

(PHOTO COURTESY MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL)

Benedict XIV

Above, Marin Catholic senior Deanna Smith, a member of the school St. Vincent de Paul Club, is pictured with the Rev. Heidi McGinness. Left, with his jubilant father in the foreground, a Sudanese boy rescued from slavery speaks with John Eibner, the CEO of Christian Solidarity International-USA.

Pius XI

1740, BENEDICT XIV: 51 electors, four died during 181-day conclave, longest in modern history.

Lenten project: Students raising money to ransom Sudanese slaves

1799-1800, PIUS VII: Held in Venice because Rome was occupied; last election outside Rome.

1830-31, GREGORY XVI: Last cardinal not a bishop to be elected.

1878, LEO XII: First non-European cardinal, John McCloskey of New York, arrived too late.

1903, PIUS X: First non-European elector, Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore.

1914, BENEDICT XV: Two Americans and one Quebecer locked out, having arrived late; first Latin American cardinal.

1922, PIUS XI: Two Americans and one Quebecer locked out of Conclave AGAIN; after this conclave, a 15-day rule was instituted to allow all cardinal electors time to arrive.

1939, PIUS XII: First Eastern Rite patriarch participates; fewest ballots (three), shortest conclave (two days).

1958, BLESSED JOHN XXIII: First Chinese, Indian and African cardinals.

1978, JOHN PAUL I: First conclave where over-80 cardinals didn’t participate.

2013: First conclave in Lent since 1829.

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The slogan for Lent at Marin Catholic High School is “Raise $10,000 and free 100 slaves.”

“Freeing slaves in the Sudan is our Lenten focus,” said theology teacher Joe Tassone, moderator of the school St. Vincent de Paul Club, which is the driver for the project.

Two years ago the entire school became aware of the Sudanese government’s policy of ethnic cleansing via slave raids on southern Sudan after learning of the experiences of freed slave Francis Bok, who spoke at the school. Bok’s book “Escape from Slavery” was a school read and inspired the St. Vincent de Paul Club to begin supporting Christian Solidarity International’s work helping Bok and others, said Marin Catholic student and club member Kelli Hughes.

“We found that we would be able to free a slave for $50 and also provide a ‘Sac of Hope’ for another $50. Our club has been fundraising to help CSI ever since,” Hughes said.

Christian Solidarity International, based in Switzerland, joined forces 17 years ago with a North African underground railroad of local Arabs, Africans, Christians and Muslims who travel into north Sudan to ransom the

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Dinka slaves by paying the isolated slave owners and farmers in cattle vaccine. Christian Solidarity says it costs $50 for the bovine vaccine, important because cattle are a source of wealth and barter in the country. The other $50 is for freedom supplies, including a goat, for the freed slaves.

To travel into north Sudan is dangerous for the dark-skinned Dinkas, so often Arab Muslims risk their lives traveling into north Sudan to barter for the slaves’ freedom and then walk them out, said Christian Solidarity International speaker the Rev. Heidi McGinness, who spoke to students March 1.

Marin Catholic will hold a walk-athon April 20 to raise funds which will be attended by one of the freed slaves, Ker Aleu Deng, who was blinded by having his eyes rubbed with chili peppers.

“Slavery is a crime against international law. Slavery is a crime against humanity. Slavery is a crime against God,” McGinness said. “It is mind-numbing suffering.”

McGinnis praised the students at Marin Catholic. “They give me such hope,” she said.

Slavery in Sudan was revived in 1983, when the Arab Muslim government of Sudan began using slave raids as a weapon in its war to put down Southern rebellion against radical Sharia Islamic law. Most of those in southern Sudan

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The government armed Arab Muslim militia groups, and encouraged them to raid Southern villages, steal their property and take their women and children as slaves. Tens of thousands of people were captured and enslaved, CSI states on its website.

While the slave raids ended in 2005 with a treaty between Sudan and South Sudan, and the region voted to become the independent country of South Sudan in 2011, no provision was made for the estimated 35,000 enslaved Sudanese left behind, McGinness said.

“What this is about is getting the 35,000 out of this living hell on earth,” said McGinness.

McGinness, a Presbyterian minister and a Third Order Franciscan, said she is struck by the forgiveness displayed by the freed slaves. She told the students about 9-year-old Peter, who had gangrene in his foot because the master had stuck a spear in it when he lost a goat.

As the group of ransomed slaves was leaving, Peter asked for help for a sick Arab baby.

“I was stopped when the interpreter said to me, ‘Abuna, the little Arab baby you helped, that is the baby of the master who thrust the spear into Peter’s foot,’” McGinness said.

“We ought to be so blessed with the ability to forgive,” McGinness said.

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St. Peter School, San Francisco, eighth grade teacher Amy Ashline led her students on the 2013 Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Walk in order to give them a deeper Lenten experience – an experience of walking in the footsteps of Jesus.

The activity was more than an academic lesson for Ashline, 34, who was diagnosed with MD at age 6 – along with her twin sister – and who works a full schedule even though she has to “fight every day for the simple tasks in life that my muscles find to be too much.”

Her ability to walk and her hand function are somewhat impaired and she is unable to run or climb stairs.

“My students silently recognize this, turn knobs when my hand fails to do so, worry about the dangerous duo, Ms. Ashline and stairs, and will literally walk beside, in front, and behind me in case I stumble,” she said in a reflection on the Lenten walk. “How many school teachers can say they have bodyguards? I could make a list of things they do for me that make everyday, trivial actions in life easier for me. They see my footprints, and walk beside me with open loving hands.”

The idea of the walk started with a classroom discussion about community service.

“The kids and I really wanted to do something together,” Ashline told Catholic San Francisco.

“I showed them what community service meant instead of babysitting and doing something for a neighbor.”

After the walk Feb. 16 in Oakland, Ashline and her class had a pizza lunch together as students shared what the experience meant to them.

“Basically it helped us to understand and walk together with Jesus during Lent,” said Ashline, who taught public school before she converted to Catholicism two years ago. “I think they enjoyed it. I hope that in the future as adults they’ll do more. I was a really very proud of them.”

St. Peter School, San Francisco, eighth grade teacher Amy Ashline, second from left, and her class stopped Feb. 16 in Oakland after completing the 2013 Muscular Dystrophy Association Muscle Walk.

Ashline titled her reflection on the experience “Footprints.”

“The landscape of our footprints, its valleys, ridges, plateaus, and mountains, tell a multitude of stories,” she wrote. “If you look behind you, they will laugh and cry with you, and lovingly tell you where you have been, and may go. Wiggling your toes, remind yourself of where you are, for your footprints led you here.

“Every day,” she wrote, “I challenge my students to not only examine the ‘soul’ of their footprint, but that of others. As my eighth grade students prepare to embrace the challenges of high school, it is not a small feat for them to look beyond thy self, yet the mighty welcome it. For empathy leads us to many beautiful places, great and small.”

Ashline wrote that she considers herself lucky.

“As a teenager, I lost many friends to MD, who never lived to see the tender age of 21 or never knew what it was like to stand on two feet as their lives took place on wheels, dependent upon a motor and joystick,” she wrote. “I shared these summer camp friends and stories with my students as our classroom relationship grew, and their questions became more caringly frequent.

We walk along aside each other, and as of Feb. 16, 2013, they walked in my footprints.”

Ashline thanked five parents who joined in the walk: Audra Sozzi, Rene and Jeimy Arroyo, and Rochelle and Eduardo Thumas.

She also thanked the students, who raised $350 for the walk: Nayeli Rodriguez, Isabella Madrid, Alexis Serrano, Lesley Arroyo, Carmen Santos, Andrew Sozzi, Leo Lenoyr Ortiz, Jacob Thumas, Alvaro Cordoba, Emelly Argueta, Jazmyn Rameriz, Edwin Velasco, Denise Rameriz, Giselle Arroyo, Samaria Pineda, Ashley Arredondo, Ayleen Gonzalez, Alison Mayoral, Ariana Ampie, and Jessica Galarza.

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Jesuit Father Andy Maginnis is an old friend of many here at HQ, including proudly this scribe, where he served as vicar for religious for many years. Father Andy has recently been diagnosed with cancer of the chest and lungs and his prognosis says he will soon be with God. Father Andy is 89 and tiring daily. God bless you, Father Andy. God certainly Father Andy blessed us with knowing you.

Maginnis, SJ Please pray for us. Father Andy is now living at the Jesuits’ retirement facility in Santa Clara County: Father Andrew Maginnis, SJ, Sacred Heart Jesuit Center, P.O. Box 68, Los Gatos 95031-0068.

HARRY THE HORSE: Looking for a full house both in tickets sold and the script was Ryan Traynor who took the stage as Nathan Detroit in “Guys and Dolls” at North Star Academy in February.

Ryan’s folks are Martha and Steve Traynor of St. Pius Parish, Redwood City. Ryan is an eighth grader and his favorite number from the show is “Sit Down Ryan Traynor You’re Rockin’ the Boat.” He really enjoys acting and will attend St. Francis High School, Mountain View or Bellarmine Prep, San Jose in the fall, his mom said.

ANNIVERSARY: Happy 60 years married to Ginger and Mike Loyd, parishioners of Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City for more than 50 years.

The couple married at St. Thomas the Apostle Church and “blessed with five dear children, Pati, Terrin, Peter, Tim, and Marybeth,” Ginger told me in a note to this column.The kids all went to OLM school and then to Mercy High School, San Francisco; St. Ignatius College Preparatory and St. Rose Academy. “We now have 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild,” Ginger said. “The dear Lord has been very good to us.” The family will commemorate the milestone this summer. Both Ginger and Mike are still on the go. “We don’t look too bad for 86 and 87,” they said.

HOME PLATE: Thanks to Jeff John for his note

ANNIVERSARY: Margaret and John Sellai commemorated their 50th wedding anniversary Feb. 24, with Mass and renewal of vows at San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Church where they have been parishioners for more than 40 years. Father Brian Costello, former pastor at Star and now pastor at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, presided. The Sellais were married at St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco. More than 100 family and friends attended the Mass including their five children and 10 grandchildren. about the upcoming reunion for the class of ’74 from St. Cecilia School, San Francisco. “We have 39 in our class signed up already and it plans to be lots of fun,” Jeff told me. Jeff and his wife Sandy have been married 23 years. Their son Dylan, a graduate of St. Brendan School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory, is a junior at University of Colorado, Boulder. Jeff is a pillar of the San Francisco Parish School Baseball League. The reunion is March 23, at the famed Gold Mirror on Taraval.On the reservations detail are Christine Gigliotti at gigliottiposta@ comcast.net and Jeff at jeffjohn@sfgravel.com.

“Come celebrate our almost 40 years of the finest, the greatest and the best,” Jeff said.

‘WHEN I WAS HUNGRY’: The St Vincent de Paul Society Conference of St. Dunstan Parish recently named their food pantry for Bob Murphy, a longtime active parishioner and Vincentian. Bob is a past president of the conference and recently retired after 15 years of supplying and maintaining the pantry. The food pantry helps more than 40 families a month with food and gift cards through home visits. “I love and I miss it,” Bob told me. “I’ll be glad to go down and help anytime.” Bob and his wife Peggy celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary Feb. 12. Bob is 92 and a graduate of St. Dominic School, St. Ignatius College Preparatory and University of San Francisco. The family business is Murphy Printing, in San Francisco since 1921. Pictured at naming ceremonies are current conference prez DeDee Sammut, Bob and Peggy.

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Dominican school honors 5 sisters with Alemany Award FATHER MICHAEL SWEENEY, OP

Every year, in memory of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, the first archbishop of San Francisco, the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology honors men and women who have distinguished themselves by exemplary service to the church and community. This year the Alemany Award will be presented to five sisters whose work has exemplified the service to the church for which their congregations were founded.

Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC, is provincial of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. On Aug. 18, 1852, at the invitation of Archbishop Alemany, the Daughters of Charity arrived in San Francisco from New York. Immediately they opened an orphanage and school and, later, an infirmary and home for infants.

Always they were drawn to serve the poor and the dispossessed. In her own life, Sister Marjory Ann has lived the charism of her congregation as a nurse, a teacher, a hospital administrator and formation director.

The Dominican Sisters of San Raphael arrived in San Francisco on Dec. 6, 1850, with then-Bishop Alemany. Immediately the sisters opened a school for girls, but soon after entered the medical field as well. Sister Anne Bertain, OP, a well-known and beloved figure in San Francisco, has lived both dimensions of her congregation’s heritage. She began teaching elementary school for more than 20 years before initiating many programs for the homeless and elderly, the homebound and families in need.

Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC

Sister Anne Bertain, OP

In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI conferred on Sister Anne the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (for the church and the pope) Award for her ministry to the people of the archdiocese.

Sixty-two years ago Sister Marguerite Buchanan, RSM, began her religious life in the Sisters of Mercy.

Having served as teacher and principal for almost 30 years in the Sisters of Mercy high schools, Sister Marguerite was called to attend to the spiritual needs of prisoners. Beginning as a chaplain at San Quentin she went on to found Catherine’s Center, a home for women who are transitioning back into society. Her sisters arrived in San Francisco in 1854 at the invitation of Archbishop Alemany in order to educate and to heal, and Sister Marguerite has lived that vocation.

In 1854 five Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary arrived in San Francisco. Their early years were difficult: a cloistered community, they were little understood by the Catholic community that they

Sister Marguerite Buchanan, RSM

Sister Rosina Conrotto, PBVM

had been sent to serve. However, by 1900 they had established convents and schools in San Francisco, Berkeley, Gilroy and Sonoma. Sister Rosina Conrotto, PBVM, began her religious life as a teacher and, having studied in Rome, went on to further establish her congregation, serving as director of novices, as president of the congregation, and in the spiritual formation of the laity. She now serves as the director of the Office for Women Religious for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Religious of the Sacred Heart arrived in San Francisco in 1887, shortly after Archbishop Alemany’s retirement. Since then the congregation has founded schools for boys and girls in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Having taught and served

Sister Nancy Morris, RSCJ

as principal in an elementary school, Sister Nancy Morris, RSCJ, was later appointed president of the San Diego College of Women and supervised its merger with the San Diego Men’s College to become the University of San Diego. Her subsequent work with migrants and with immigrant families in the San Jose diocese led her to learn development work and her congregation has relied upon her ability to secure the support necessary to maintain their schools.

The Alemany Award dinner will be held April 6 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. For more information, visit www.dspt.edu/alemany2013.

DOMINICAN FATHER SWEENEY is president of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley.

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Does ET pray? Deep questions of faith and astrobiology VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Is there life in our solar system? In our universe?

Beyond?

“The question of whether we are alone in the universe – however you care to frame that – is one of the most profound questions science can ask, and, I think, will answer in our lifetimes,” University of Arizona astronomy professor Chris Impey told a Vatican Observatory seminar on astrobiology Feb. 23 in San Francisco.

Human beings have imagined other civilizations inhabiting the night skies nearly from the beginning of time, but, with rapid advances in the ability to remotely probe space 10,000 light years away, that imagining is now fodder for mainstream scientific theorizing.

The National Space and Aeronautics Administration launched the Kepler Mission March 9, 2009, a solar-powered space telescope that trails Earth’s orbit around the sun. It is the first space mission to search for Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of other stars, as part of its mission to explore the structure and diversity of planetary systems in the galaxy.

Already, the Kepler space telescope has found about 3,000 planets in other solar systems, over 300 of which are Earth-sized or smaller. He estimates that this number projects to several hundred million sites in the Milky Way where some form of life is likely.

Water, commonly believed necessary to life, has been found on Jupiter’s moon Europa, and is likely present on many planets and moons, including others in our solar system, he said.

“Most people think there is life out there,” said Margaret Race, a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute ecologist with NASA in Mountain View. But, because other solar systems

Revelation applies to whoever we meet in space.

Jesus became man once for all time at a specific time and place as a Jew in Bethlehem, and that includes any intelligent life that might exist in our galaxy or beyond.

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are light years away, contact with extraterrestrial life is unlikely in our lifetimes, she said.

Race was one of several speakers at a seminar in San Francisco Feb. 23, sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, “Astrobiology: Why is the Vatican interested in the search for life in the universe?”

The Kepler space telescope is designed and located so it has an unobstructed view of a small corner of the Milky Way –a region in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations – so it can track the miniscule drop in the light intensity of stars as orbiting planets pass in front of them.

“About 17 percent of stars have an Earth-sized planet in an orbit closer than Mercury. Since the Milky Way has about 100 billion stars, there are at least 17 billion Earth-sized worlds out there,” according to an extrapolation of Kepler data presented by a Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics team in January. “It looks like practically all Sun-like stars have planets,” the team said at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach.

“One key question for philosophy is, what is life?” said Jesuit Father William R. Stoeger, staff scientist at the Vatican Observatory Research Group at the University of Arizona.

The Observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 in Vatican City, began a close collaboration with the University of Arizona in 1980 when it established the Vatican Observatory Group, hosted

by Steward Observatory. Pope John Paul II dedicated the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., in 1993.

Discovery of microbial life is the most likely scenario, Impey said. If conscious life is discovered, Impey said, “The disconnect is likely to be so profound that communication is an extraordinarily unlikely premise. That’s less comfortable.”

“If we do find intelligent life, even if we can’t really connect with it, that’s going to be extremely significant in a different way,” said Father Stoeger.

“Another intelligent civilization in our galaxy indicates that there are two civilizations in a very small region in our galaxy. That statistically means a lot more.”

Then, Father Stoeger asked, would they be “capable of prayer? Then it would be just like evangelizing another culture.”

“Revelation applies to whoever we meet in space,” said Jesuit Father Jose Gabriel Funes, who Pope Benedict XVI appointed director of the Vatican Observatory in 2006. Jesus became man once for all time at a specific time and place as a Jew in Bethlehem, and that includes any intelligent life that might exist in our galaxy or beyond, he said.

“From our faith, we know we are children of God,” said Father Funes, who is an ex-officio member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. If we find spiritual beings in outer space, “These people would also be beings created by God,” Father Funes said, and they may “help us understand God better.”

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HHS conscience-protection bill introduced in House CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Three Republican members of the House of Representatives March 5 introduced a bill to protect conscience rights for both workers in the health care industry and for employers in light of the federal mandate requiring employers to cover contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing Franciscan drugs.

Sister Jane One of the sponMarie Klein sors, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., said it is possible that the bill, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, could be folded into a continuing resolution being considered by the House to keep the federal government operating beyond March 27.

Two Catholic women who run businesses and who appeared at a March 5 news conference on Capitol Hill said they do not want to be forced to choose between their conscience or their business.

“Nobody should be asked to make that decision,” said Christine Ketterhagen, a co-owner of Hercules Industries, a heating and air conditioning company her father founded in Denver 50 years ago that now has operations in five states with 320 employees.

Sister Jane Marie Klein, a Sister of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration who is chairperson of the board of Franciscan Alliance, a Midwest-

ern hospital group with 13 hospitals and 3,500 beds that provides an estimated $171.5 million in charity care and community outreach, told CNS, “All I can say is that we will not violate our conscience.”

The Health Care Conscience Rights Act would offer a full exemption from the U.S. Department Health and Human Services’ mandate for individuals and health care entities that refuse to provide, pay for, or refer patients to abortion providers because of their religious beliefs. The bill had attracted 50 cosponsors by the time of its introduction.

The bill would have given recourse to one Catholic nurse forced to participate in a 2009 abortion.

Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo was an operating room nurse in a New York hospital. “They threatened my job and my nursing license” if she did not participate in the abortion, she said.

Other nurses have been victimized for their beliefs. “Because of my Christian beliefs, I have been laughed at, marginalized and had loss of employment,” said Susan Elliott, director of the nursing department at Biola University in California, at the press conference.

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, called for the bill’s swift passage into law, saying it is “especially needed in light of new challenges to conscience rights arising from the federal health care reform act.”

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Religious leaders meet with Obama on immigration reform CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – More than a dozen religious leaders sat down with President Barack Obama March 8 to stress their concerns for immigration reform, before ending with a prayer and promising to work with their faith communities on the issue, especially during the rest of Lent and Easter.

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez told reporters after the meeting at the White House that the group emphasized urgency in getting an immigration reform bill through Congress. The group also stressed that legislation should respect the dignity of individuals and focus on family reunification, he said.

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Archbishop Gomez told reporters that the religious leaders and the president seemed to agree on the major issues that are important for immigration reform.

Several other participants in the Archbishop Jose meeting told reporters that they H. Gomez would focus in their congregations on the need to support immigration reform, particularly as the Christian churches observe Lent and move toward Easter.

A “readout” of the meeting provided by the White House said the session, which included senior administration staff, was called to “discuss the need to fix the broken immigration system so that everyone plays by the same rules.”

Obama told the religious leaders that “there is good progress being made by a bipartisan group in the Senate,” the White House release said. But he urged them to continue to work in support of a comprehensive approach to immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, border security and improvements in how the system handles family reunification, and the needs of employers and workers.

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Miguel Diaz, professor of faith and culture at the University of Dayton, Ohio, and the most recent U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, said the Second Vatican Council “Gaudium et Spes” (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) says lay people are not only entitled to offer their guidance to the church’s leaders, “indeed sometimes we are obliged to do so.”

Diaz was part of a roundtable discussion at The Catholic University of America March 1, co-sponsored by Catholic News Service and the the two Catholic universities and filmed for broadcast on the PBS show”Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.”

Margaret Melady, vice chair of the board of trustees of the Catholic Distance University, said she’d like to see a new pope who brings joy and energy to the job and is “willing to take risks sometimes.”

Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at Catholic University, said in addition to those characteristics, he’d like to see the cardinals choose a pope who is a skillful mediator.

“Right now, the church in the world, and in the United States, is a complex church,” he said. “It’s divided north and south, it’s divided east and west, it’s divided in its political wings.”

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Cleveland priest leading breakaway group excommunicated DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A Cleveland priest who leads a faith community formed after its parish was closed in 2010 has been excommunicated for schism.

Bishop Richard G. Lennon of Cleveland said in a March 4 decree that Father Robert Marrone, who is identified as pastor and administrator of the Community of St. Peter, incurred the excommunication “latae sententiae” (automatically) for failing to reconcile with the Catholic Church.

Canon 751 of the Code of Canon Law defines schism as “the refusal of submission to the supreme pontiff or of communion with the members of the church subject to him.”

Father Marrone has celebrated weekly Mass and the sacraments for the 300-member community since August 2010.

The priest could not be reached for comment.

Frank Titas, a Community of St. Peter board member, told Catholic News Service March 6 that members were saddened and disappointed

by Bishop Lennon’s action.

“He characterizes it as an attempt to bring about unity,” Titas said. “It seems it’s a step in really the opposite direction.”

The Community of St. Peter includes former parishioners of Cleveland’s St. Peter Parish,

which closed in April 2010 under a diocesanwide downsizing plan. Father Marrone was the pastor of the parish.

Parishioners upset with the parish’s closing formed a nonprofit corporation and rented space in a former factory to stay together as a Catholic worship community and continue various ministries in Cleveland’s inner city. Father Marrone decided to join the community after seeking a leave of absence from the Cleveland diocese soon after the parish closed.

St. Peter Parish reopened in September with another pastor under a Vatican decree that said Bishop Lennon violated canon law in closing it and 10 other parishes. For the most part, community members declined to rejoin the parish.

Diocesan spokesman Robert Tayek told CNS March 6 that Bishop Lennon is willing to meet with community members “over this serous matter.”

“It’s kind of in their court,” he said. “We’re leaving it up to them.”

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Bishops unable to support rewritten gender violence law CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Five bishops who lead committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a joint statement they could not support the rewritten reauthorization of the Violence Against Women

Act, which President Barack Obama signed into law March 7.

The stumbling blocks for the bishops were the references to “sexual orientation� and “gender identity.� “These two classifications are unnecessary to establish the just protections due to all persons. They

undermine the meaning and importance of sexual difference,� the five bishops said in their March 6 statement, calling the language “problematic.� “They are unjustly exploited for purposes of marriage redefinition, and marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and with any children born from their union.�

The bishops said the USCCB had supported past versions of the Violence Against Women Act, noting that in its pastoral statement “When I Call for Help,� the U.S. bishops had written, “Violence in any form – ‘physical, sexual, psychological or verbal’ – is sinful.�

The five bishops who issued the statement and the committees they chair are: Archbishops Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage; Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, Committee on Migration; and William E. Lori of Baltimore, Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty; and Bishops Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development; and Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

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The action came in a friend-of-the-court brief in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2008 ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage.

The government â&#x20AC;&#x153;seeks to vindicate the defining constitutional ideal of equal treatment under the law,â&#x20AC;? Attorney General Eric Holder said Feb. 28.

In a Feb. 22 Supreme Court brief, the Justice Department said the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that defines marriage as between one man and a woman, denying financial benefits to legally wed same-sex couples, is unconstitutional. The brief was filed in United States v. Windsor, a case set for oral arguments March 27, a day after oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry.

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Rights struggles of Selma continue today, say nuns JENNIFER BRINKER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ST. LOUIS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Two women religious from St. Louis who took part in the 1965 voting rights marches in Selma, Ala., say the struggles to sustain civil and human rights continue today.

Sister Barbara Moore, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet who is a member of Ascension Health Ministries, sees this most urgently in the disparity in health care. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This includes many people who do not have access. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to promote 100 percent access,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen many people in different parts of the world who experience this. Who is going to care for these people?â&#x20AC;?

Sister Antona Ebo, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, sees parallels with Selma today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a concerted effort to suppress the votes of the poor and blacks,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The effort was made during the last election to make sure we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have people standing all the way around the block, just to get the right to vote, but it is still happening in individual states.â&#x20AC;?

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Roneisha Simpson, a junior at Cardinal Ritter High School in St. Louis, speaks with Franciscan Sister Antona Ebo after the nun spoke to students at the school Feb. 14.

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She was part of a group of 51 marchers from St. Louis who responded to a request from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., for religious leaders to march on March 10, 1965, three days after â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bloody Sunday,â&#x20AC;? when Alabama state troopers attacked blacks hoping to

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Sister Moore, marched the following weekend as part of a group of 22 from the city. She was one of two blacks in her group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember the billy clubs and the helmets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I remember being face to face with the police. They looked as nervous as we were,â&#x20AC;? she told the St. Louis Review, archdiocesan newspaper. â&#x20AC;&#x153; Sister Ebo recalled the discrimination she experienced growing up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Segregation for us was like going to Woolworthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and ordering a hamburger.

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New Iraqi patriarch pledges dialogue, warns against emigration CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BAGHDAD – The new patriarch of Chaldean Catholics pledged to foster coexistence and dialogue and urged Christian Iraqis not to leave their homeland, warning that if emigration continues, “there will be no more Christians in the Middle East.”

Ululating and applause nearly drowned out the choir as Patriarch Louis Sako approached the altar at St. Joseph Cathedral for his installation March 6 amid tight security.

The 64-year-old patriarch, who had served as archbishop of Kirkuk, Iraq, since 2003, replaces Cardinal Emmanuel-Karim Delly, 85.

“I open my heart and mind to you all carrying my motto: ‘Authenticity, Unity and Renewal,’” Patriarch Sako told church officials, religious, laypeople, imans and senior Iraqi officials gathered in the cathedral. Eastern Catholic leaders, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sunni parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi were among those who attended the installation.

Of the challenges and risks facing him in his new mission, the patriarch said, “I refuse to put a black cloth over my eyes.

“My responsibility is huge, and the inheritance is very heavy, but I have a great hope ... to face the reality objectively and clearly.”

The new patriarch pledged to work toward coexistence and dialogue, as he did in his previous assignments in Mosul and Kirkuk.

“I want to stimulate dialogue with my brothers, the Muslim imams, both Shiite and Sunni,” he said, thanking God that “I was always close to Patriarch Louis them in Mosul and Sako Kirkuk.”

“We have a common message and we have to spread a culture of peace, harmony, brotherhood and mutual respect and make our churches and mosques luminous centers of spiritual and humane values,” Patriarch Sako said. “In this way, we can glorify God and become what Jesus called ‘blessed peacemakers.’”

“In the name of humanity and nationality, I urge everyone, governors and politicians, to dialogue calmly and to find consensus and appropriate solutions and to avoid all forms of intolerance, fanaticism, hatred and violence,” the patriarch said.

More than 72 churches have been attacked or bombed in Iraq since June 2004.

“These past years have been full of events and dangers, and still the shadow of fear, anxiety and death is hanging over our people. This can only end when we love each other and work together for the benefit of our homeland.

Enough blood and destruction,” he said.

“True greatness is achieved not by domination, but by service and sacrifice to consolidate what is good, righteous and honest,” he added.

“Our prayer and hope is that peace, security and stability may soon return to our homeland so that it advances and prospers spiritually, scientifically, economically, and socially.”

Iraq’s Christian population, believed to number up to 1.4 million in the late 1990s, now is believed to be significantly fewer than 500,000. Almost two-thirds of Iraqi Christians belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Addressing Iraqi Christians in particular, the Chaldean patriarch said: “I know your concern and fears. Overcome your fears, and face the reality with faith and hope.”

“You are not a minority in this country,” he said, reminding them that Christians have been there for more than 2,000 years, an important presence and witness.

“If emigration continues, God forbid, there will be no more Christians in the Middle East,” he warned. “It will be no more than a distant memory.”

Patriarch Sako thanked God and his brother bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern rite, for choosing him as patriarch, a title that he stressed means “father of all.”

Noting that “the world around us has changed and we must change,” the new patriarch said “the church should change.”

PAKISTANI CHURCH CONDEMNS ARSON ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN COLONY

into a tragedy in the heart of provincial capital,” the statement said.

Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, commission director, lamented that “the political leadership in the country also did not find courage to address the sufferings of religious minorities especially those related to abuse of blasphemy laws.”

The statement said “the government is responsible ... because it paid no heed to recommendations made by the judicial inquiry into the Gojra (incident) in 2009.”

That incident, involving an allegation of blasphemy against a Christian, resulted in the deaths of 10 Catholics as 140 homes were destroyed in antiChristian mob violence. Two Muslims apologized in 2011 for the rampage.

NEW DELHI – The Catholic Church in Pakistan condemned a March 9 attack by an estimated 3,000 Muslims on a Christian colony in Lahore that left more than 175 buildings, including two churches and dozens of homes, torched and hundreds of people homeless.

The attack came after a Christian sanitary worker allegedly criticized Mohammed three days earlier.

The church’s National Commission for Justice and Peace in a March 10 statement also criticized police for charging the worker, Sawan Masih, who is Catholic, with blasphemy.

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ARMED REBELS TARGET CHRISTIANS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, PRIEST SAYS

OXFORD, England – Christians in the Central African Republic are being systematically targeted by armed rebels, a missionary priest in the country said.

Comboni Father Leo Tibenda told Catholic News Service March 7 that rebels seeking to overthrow the government of President Francois Bozize arrived at his mission in early January promising not to harm anything belonging to churches or mosques.

“But they started victimizing local Christians, telling them their cattle, many given by the church via Caritas, now belonged to the state.

Most wear turbans, which isn’t the custom here, and are much better armed than the government’s soldiers. Their presence is fueling serious tension between local Christians and Muslims,” the Ugandan-born priest said.

The Catholic Church’s nine dioceses account for about 30 percent of the Central African Republic’s 4.4 million inhabitants while Muslims are about 10 percent of the population.

The country is one of the world’s poorest, with high child mortality and malnutrition rates, and has experienced numerous rebellions since gaining independence from France in 1960.

Insurgent groups calling themselves Seleka launched an offensive against the government in early December, seizing most major towns within weeks but holding back from attacking the capital.

A peace agreement was reached Jan. 11 but the nation’s bishops said it was not being full realized. They urged the government to take steps to “save the Central African people from asphyxiation.”

Turkey’s Muslims differ on dialogue JAMES MARTONE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ISTANBUL – Huseyin Etyemez’s carpet shop sits around the corner from Istanbul’s grandiose Sultan Ahmet Mosque, or the Blue Mosque, as tourists often call it for the turquoise ceramic tiles that adorn the 400-year-old structure’s interior.

The mosque was only one of the places former Pope Benedict XVI visited while in Turkey nearly seven years ago, but it is the stop that many practicing Muslims remember most, said Etyemez, who was living and studying in Los Angeles at the time.

He said the pope’s open interest and concern for Islam were considered positive signs of respect for Muslims in Turkey and beyond, something he said he thought contributed to peaceful coexistence in a world often fraught with ethnic and religious tensions.

“Because of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Muslims were thinking there were problems between Muslims and Christians. So it was very positive ... a good sign when Benedict visited the mosque,” said Etyemez, now 35 and newly married.

“Different religious leaders can visit sites” revered by other faiths as a way of furthering ties between different religious groups, Etyemez told Catholic News Service from the mosque’s spacious courtyard.

“These activities help and are good things,” he said.

Inside the mosque in late February, the tone was a bit different. Imam Ishak Kizilaslan had just finished a 10-minute sermon in English for a few curious foreign tourists. His remarks focused on Islam’s numerous prophets, including Jesus, whom Muslims believe was a messenger of God, but not God’s son.

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Pope Benedict XVI and Mustafa Cagrici, the grand mufti of Istanbul, pray in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul in this 2006 file photo. The pope saw Muslims and Jews as natural allies.

After the sermon, Kizilaslan told CNS he welcomed all religions into Sultan Ahmet and claimed that as many as 50 people of other faiths were converting to Islam at the mosque every year. But he said he regarded visits from high-profile church leaders, including Pope Benedict in 2006, as suspicious.

“What is it going to change? It is not clear. For the interfaith dialogue, I have always doubts about what is happening. I don’t think everyone is honest and open,” he said.

He would not elaborate, other than to say “the ones who try to be in the Islamic way are going to have the pleasure of Allah,” the Arabic word for God.

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MEN OF FAITH Space race astronauts who lived the Gospel still inspire, says Marin pastoral associate who befriended moon crews DANA PERRIGAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Resplendent in a royal blue flight suit sporting a NASA patch above the heart, Michael Morison looked as though he might be getting ready to board a space shuttle for a journey into what Star Trek creators referred to as “the final frontier.”

But on this particular Saturday morning, Morison – a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Mill Valley and a chaplain with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary’s Civil Air Patrol Squadron 157 in Santa Rosa – had a far different journey in mind.

For the next hour-and-a-half, Morison took the 25-or-so people gathered in the church’s O’Brien Room on a tour into the spiritual lives of America’s pioneering astronauts – those stalwart souls who competed in the mid-to-late 20th century space race with the Soviet Union.

“They were men of faith,” Morison, who has a master’s of divinity degree and is finishing his doctoral work in ministry at San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, told the group.

“But because of the so-called separation of church and state, this is a dimension of their lives that we were not exposed to. That story didn’t get told – and it needs to be told.”

Hoping to inspire ‘flight through life’

With decades of experience and study devoted to aerospace and religion, it is a story that Morison is uniquely qualified to tell. He does so in the

hopes that it will inspire and challenge those who hear it to explore where they are in their “flight through life.”

During his multimedia presentation titled “The Astronauts: Untold Stories of Exploration and Faith,” Morison reveals a host of religious events that occurred in space. From astronaut Alan Shepard’s urgent “Dear God, please don’t let me mess up” prayer during countdown on Project Mercury in 1961, to carrying a relic of St. Therese of Lisieux aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 2008, these events provide a rare glimpse into the role that faith played among men of science whose achievements were dependent upon the latest technology.

Many Americans don’t know, said Morison, that the first meal on the moon was bread and wine consumed by astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969.

Astronaut Edward White, the first American to walk in space on Project Gemini in 1964, carried a Christian cross, Star of David and crescent of Islam in his spacesuit pocket to honor those who subscribed to the three major faiths on Earth.

Apollo 14 lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell carried a microfiche copy of the Bible to the lunar surface.

“To look up at this kind of creation and not believe in God is, to me, impossible,” said astronautturned U.S. senator John Glenn. “It just strengthens my faith.”

When asked – in the event disaster struck during his mission –what he wanted said at his funeral service, astronaut Rick Husband said to “Tell them about Jesus – that he is real to me.”

“These wonderful things were going on,” said Morison, “but we didn’t hear about it.”

EPIPHANIES IN SPACE (PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

NAVY CAPT. EDGAR MITCHELL’S website describes his return trip on Apollo 14, NASA’s third successful moon landing mission, in 1971: “As he hurtled earthward through the abyss between the two worlds, Mitchell became engulfed by a profound sensation ‘a sense of universal connectedness.’ He intuitively sensed that his presence, that of his fellow Edgar Mitchell astronauts, and that of the planet in the window were all part of a deliberate, universal process and that the glittering cosmos itself was in some way conscious. The experience was so overwhelming Mitchell knew his life would never be the same.’

Yuri Gagarin

RUSSIAN COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, said while orbiting Earth in Vostok I in April 1961, “I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

Reading Genesis in lunar orbit

Shortly after astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders took turns reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968, avowed atheist Madelyn Murray O’Hair sued NASA to prevent further public expressions of Christianity during space flights.

Although O’Hair lost her suit when the Supreme Court decided that the case was out of its jurisdic-

(PHOTO COURTESY MICHAEL MORISON)

Left, Michael Morison looks up a Scripture reference during his multimedia presentation titled “The Astronauts: Untold Stories of Exploration and Faith.” Above, Morison holds open a King James Bible inscribed by Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin. Below, an inspirational autograph by Irwin holds a place of honor in Morison’s collection of memorabilia on astronauts and spirituality.

Reading astronaut Jim Irwin’s autobiography ‘just raised the bar in terms of understanding what it means to me to live with God in my life.’

MICHAEL MORISON tion, NASA administrators cautioned astronauts not to flaunt their faith.

Expression of faith, as well as flights, continued.

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was largely focused on demonstrating technological – as well as ideological – supremacy.

The finish line, as defined in a speech by President John F. Kennedy on April 20, 1961, was to land a man on the moon and bring him safely home again. Although America lagged behind the Soviet Union during much of the race, it was the first to cross the finish line on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon.

Like many people around the world, Morison and his family gathered around the television to watch the landing and Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” on the moon.”

Moved by astronaut’s biography

It would be a pivotal moment for Morison. Several years later, he came across a copy of Apollo astronaut James Irwin’s autobiography “To Rule the Night.”

“It just raised the bar in terms of understanding what it means to me to live with God in my life,” said Morison.

Morison was also impressed by the spiritual impact Irwin’s space flight had on his life.

“During his walk on the moon,” said Morison, “he said that he most clearly felt God’s presence in his life. He felt that God wanted him to do more.”

Eighteen months after completing his mission, Irwin quit NASA and founded the High Flight Foundation ministry to share “the good news of Jesus Christ.”

Morison, who was teaching religion in a Catholic high school in Chicago, started using the book in his classes. He was intrigued by the perspective Irwin had attained as a member of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971.

“Irwin said that he believed that Jesus Christ

walking on the Earth was more important than man walking on the moon,” said Morison. “He said that if you understand this, you can put all of our human achievements into a proper perspective.”

Soon after that, Morison arranged to meet Irwin at his offices in Colorado Springs. It was the beginning of a friendship that would alter the course of Morison’s life. Encouraged by the former astronaut, Morison attended the Adult Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. He read a lot of books and spoke with other astronauts. Later, he developed a retreat program for youth, “The Highest Flight Academy – Spiritual Flight Training,” using the excitement of space exploration as a means of exploring faith.

Morison’s presentation at Our Lady of Mount Carmel on Saturday was modeled after part of a retreat he hosts, as chaplain, for U.S. Air Force Auxiliary cadets.

“I was blown away,” said Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner Jane Mraz, following the presentation. “Not only was it very informative, it was very emotional. I had no idea that faith was such a big part of the astronaut’s lives.”

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LETTERS ‘Amazing and patronizing article’ Re “Why not women priests? The papal theologian explains,” Feb. 22: By what standards does a theologian become a theologian, especially a papal theologian? My, what an amazing and patronizing article on women in the church. My mind slipped back to 1960. This type of explication may have been held then. It is now 2013! In 1965 I received a master’s in theology at The Catholic University of America. I served the church in Malawi, Africa, for eight wonderful years. Learning the language of the Achewa people taught me enough about humility to last a lifetime. You may ask, why speak now? A few thoughts ...

A Vatican congregation took on the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious for not being “theologically correct”? Why U.S. and not Canadian, Mexican, European, Asian, Indian or African sisters? I believe it was because the U.S. sisters are so well educated in the university, rubbing elbows with the world. This as opposed to seminary education, even in a university situation, where there is not one female nor non-clerical-directed student. Segregated education is not universal. U.S. history shows this over and over.

Why has not a Vatican congregation taken on the enormous problems of its own priests, bishops and cardinals? Is it the clerical mindset? Do what I say, not what I do? Can the fox guard the henhouse? And no discussion is “allowed,” according to the Vatican?

Where is the leadership? Challenge us to love and grow with confidence in the Jesus who showed us how. Think of our young people, our leaders of tomorrow: Is an article of this caliber giving them their due? Do not tell them how to live their lives. Experience is the best teacher after all. Give them love and show them trust. The choice may be standing still or moving forward. Moving to the past is not even an option.

Allanah Cleary Beh Menlo Park Editor’s note: In an April 2012 statement on the doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Council of Women Religious by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Cardinal William J. Levada, then prefect of the congregation, said, “The overarching aim of the doctrinal assessment is … to assist the LCWR in the United States in implementing an ecclesiology of communion, confident that “the joyous rediscovery of faith can also contribute to consolidate the unity and communion among the different bodies that make up the wider family of the church.”

Would Christ choose women today?

I can’t help but think that if Christ were choosing his apostles here and now, he would definitely choose some women. Why wouldn’t he?

I’m sure there are many capable women who have felt called to the priesthood. I cannot understand why it has not come about.

Max D. Maraffio San Bruno

Jesuit article regrettable Lent is a time full of graces. Let us then pray for the graces of humility and obedience to the apostolic see for Father (Paul) Crowley and his Jesuit order (“Jesuit: Transition a chance to address church at ‘impasse,’” March 1).

Unfortunately when the Vatican ceased accepting the Jesuits’ (misguided) theological advice, it did not deter them from teaching it in their high schools and universities.

Sadly, Father Crowley will spread the “factionalism” at Stanford that he blames on the last two popes. He is the one who drives out fear. May I remind him that love drives out fear.

May he come to the understanding that Jesus established the papacy, not a democracy, for a reason – so that, guided by the Holy Spirit, it can teach God’s truth, not human ideologies.

Regrettably, Catholic San Francisco provided yet another platform for discord to be spread.

Nancy Nakai Santa Rosa

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On April 19, 2005, cardinals gather on a balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to await the public introduction of the 265th pope, who would choose the name Benedict XVI.

A great day for the church The final event of Pope Benedict’s reign was a great day for the Catholic Church. Everything was working: the loud and affectionate crowd in St. Peter’s Square, the bright sunshine, the cardinals with their black cassocks and red sashes and the humble and saintly Holy Father. And then, to top it off, there was the exciting helicopter flight over Rome and its landmarks and the beautiful gardens and countryside along the way to Castel Gandolfo.

All the while, the major networks were televising the warm and wonderful scene back to the U.S. Afterward my thought was: Where are the long lines of people waiting to enter such an attractive and inspiring church? But I guess that’s where the new evangelization will come in, nudging folks to embrace the church and the papacy, both of which were founded by Our Lord himself.

James Quinn Burlingame

Young, energetic pope essential Princes of the church will soon elect the next pope.

The new pope will face a church and the people drifting apart, and will be under pressure from growing dissent and challenges to its basic dogma and teachings.

In today’s materialistic world, we seem to have forgotten many of our religious traditions and perhaps unwittingly traded God for mammon. We have put earthly pleasures, before spiritual obligations and needs. Many young Catholics want change. The church and the people were drifting apart and that is the reason Pope John XXIII called Vatican II. It is therefore essential that the new pope be young and energetic, to restore traditional Catholic practice and worship, and get the church and people to work effectively again. The new pope will have to reawaken Catholicism in Europe and rekindle faith in the world.

To many people it appears that the universality of the church does not seem to extend beyond the Eastern ends of Europe. Little do they know that the church in the East has always been strong. The same Catholic Church is continuing to grow in Latin America and Africa, and a new pope could be called from these areas.

A recent report indicates that the number of Catholics in the African continent has risen from 55 million to more than 145 million in the last 30 years. The new pope will have to create an awareness and bring the people and church closer to each other, by comprising many of the differences that hold them apart.

The Benedictines have a saying to their abbotts: “Ne numis sapiens, ne nimis sanctus, et ne nimis sanus” (“Not too healthy, not too wise, not too holy”).

Lenny Barretto Daly City

Time for lay cardinals of both genders?

As the conclave in Rome begins to select our new pontiff, my thoughts turn to what potential this conclave could have. The crises in the church are manifest: scandal; a Vatican bureaucracy atrophied by corruption, inbreeding and politics; priestly vocations in decline; women wanting empowerment; everyone feeling powerless to change.

The next pope could make a beginning by changing the College of Cardinals. There are sound theological obstacles to women priests, but there are no such obstacles for lady cardinals and, by implication, lay cardinals of both genders. There were lay cardinals in the past but not for several hundred years.

Jesuit a breath of fresh air Jesuit Father Paul Crowley is a breath of fresh air.

His article says all that many Catholics long to hear.

Too bad he is not a cardinal and therefore would be able to attend the conclave and be eligible to be pope!

Rose Marie Sicoli-Ostler San Francisco

However, Pope Paul VI considered giving a red hat to Jacques Maritain, a lay philosopher, but Maritain’s death precluded it. Cardinals are not ordained, they are merely entitled. Currently canon law requires cardinals to be bishops but canon law, unlike theology, is easily changed. A College of Cardinals composed of half laity and half clerics would go a long way to renewing the church and making elected popes more representative. Cardinals are already free to vote outside their number, they just haven’t done it for a very long time. And what is this ageist prejudice against octogenarians? Any cardinal who is compos mentis should be allowed to vote.

There are no theological reasons why priests have to staff the Roman Curia. It is a holdover from a time when priests were the only literates in society. Lay persons, especially women, heading the various departments of the Curia would bring an end to the turgidity and inertia that comes from the good old boy network.

There are many ways that women could influence the church at every level – papal, diocesan, parochial – without changing theological principles. Creative solutions are required for dire situations.

Lest you think that this is a liberal Catholic ranting, let me share my fantasy of being able to negotiate all of the above in return for Mass in Latin everywhere always, the return of our beautiful high altars now so frequently desecrated, the reconstruction of altar rails and the distribution of Communion on the tongue, kneeling.

Dennis Halac San Francisco

Much to admire in popes of past 65 years I guess there are no job descriptions for popes and no employment agencies specializing in former popes.

That said, I think we can safely say that the past 65 years have given us some remarkable personal examples of the potential and possibilities of the position.

The world wars brought sweeping social change in Europe and prompted examination of various forms of social organization. Totalitarianism was a big disappointment and democracy is not without its problems. The search for a one-size-fits-all governing system goes on.

As a Catholic over these past 75 years I have found much to admire in the way that individuals have contributed to a redefinition of our church. Pope John XXIII with his experience as a diplomat and his Italian no-nonsense earthiness gave us the kickoff that was needed to get going and Vatican II was his “baby” that needed others to bring it to maturity. When Pope John Paul II picked up the challenge he saw the world as his oyster and cracked open his Vatican shell to find people where they lived rather than waiting for them to come to him. His outreach to the Jews was unprecedented and long overdue by our church and a healing of historic proportions. His athletic energy made him our quarterback carrying the ball over wide stretches of the globe. His collaboration and friendship with German Joseph Ratzinger was a personal example of forgiveness that was a light to the two nations that so recently had risen painfully from their ashes. As Pope Benedict XVI has given so generously of himself and weathered the storms of change in the face of criticism and controversy let us all remember that he is still with us and just passing the ball along to have it carried further.

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

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LETTERS Needed: Pope who is funny, Giants fan When the first thing they say about a front-runner for pope is that he is “very much the Roman,” I grow nervous. Isn’t that at the root of the whole problem? Why do we keep getting people who have lived in ivory towers? The operative word should be “pastoral.” Why don’t we get someone who has sat with parents grieving the loss of their child or counseled couples in their 30s when the wife has been told a pregnancy will kill her? Why don’t we get someone who has heard the confessions of suffering people with their laundry bags of little sins and the cancerous burdens of the big ones? Why can’t we have someone who loves musicals and who’s excruciatingly funny, and at the same time preaches incredible homilies and makes people really want to be Catholic? Why can’t we have someone who sits with a parishioner for three hours at the ER after her husband’s accident, whose homilies really matter to him, and who is still a committed Giants fan? Why don’t we get someone who says it’s time to admit that the institutional church is sick unto death under the burdens of lies and cover-ups and powerbrokering? How about someone who refuses to play politics but just says “Vatican II will be implemented fully and without delay?” Why can’t we have a human being who loves his priesthood, lives it faithfully and really doesn’t care for power or “trappings,” someone who will stand unashamedly before the church and say, “My soul has been illumined by a great idea”... I think we have a lot of praying to do.”

Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco

Bishops rediscovering their voices There are hopeful signs these days.

In the March 1 issue (“Vatican official: German bishops’ rule on ‘Plan B’ for rape acceptable,”) you point out that the Vatican has given approval to the German bishops’ proposed “Plan B” that hinders conception after rape. This plan reflects an “ ‘unassailable rule’ that has been proposed by the Catholic Church the past 50 years, said Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. ‘To consider the possibility of using a drug whose active ingredient is a contraceptive in the case of a woman who has been raped seems acceptable to me.’”

In the same issue it was mentioned that, “In his new book, (George) Weigel (no liberal, he!) lays out recommendations for restructuring the Curia to make it more representative of the faith and more effective in advancing the church’s mission.”

Cardinal Cormac MurphyO’Connor, retired archbishop of Westminster, said the successor to Benedict XVI would need to be able to tackle reform of the Roman Curia.

And two British bishops (Tom Burns of Menevia (Wales) and Kieran Conroy (Brighton and Arundel) have publicly called for a more collegial approach to church government including a call for decentralization in and the Curia, echoing the 2004 call of late Cardinal Carlo Martini, to do the same.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna recently told the Austrian weekly Profil that there is “scope for reform as far as the administration of the Vatican was concerned.”

The papacy is over-centralized, and the principle of collegiality, one of the most important ideas to emerge

from the Second Vatican Council, has been effectively shorn of any force.

The laity also have to be brought fully on board and more than one apparatus created for their voices to be heard – particularly the voices of women.

For whatever reason, many church officials have appeared to be reluctant up until now to “go against the grain” as they saw it being promoted in Rome. Now they are apparently beginning to rediscover their voices.

One can only hope that the U.S. episcopal leaders will follow suit sooner rather than later.

Jim McCrea Piedmont

Writer neglected to mention NFP I’m responding to John McCord’s letter from the March 1 issue titled “A papal teaching moment” to dispel some of the myths he brings up about contraception. He mentions how the rhythm method for pregnancy prevention is antiquated and like a “roll-of-the-dice.” He is correct that it is antiquated, but his implication that the church’s promotion of natural family planning revolves only around the rhythm method is a straw man argument. I know many NFP teachers and none of them teach the rhythm method. Catholics have many choices of scientifically sound NFP techniques such as the Billings Ovulation Method and the Creighton Method just to name a few. These are safe, natural, and effective methods of family planning that many studies have shown to be 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancies when followed correctly which is a much higher percentage than the many types of artificial contraceptive methods.

If we are going to discuss the church’s teachings on birth control and family planning, it’s important to discuss what the church actually teaches as well as the medical and scientific facts of different family planning methods, not myths and misconceptions.

Brent Villalobos San Bruno

Accountability on abuse still lacking Thanks to Father Gerald Coleman for “Clergy sex abuse: The darkness continues” (March 1).

Excuses such as “I didn’t know the impact ...” only serve to remind us of the astounding lack of empathy for victims of abuse revealed in the documents finally released in Los Angeles.

Would that this were the only situation in which the safety of children was sacrificed to protect the reputation of the clergy, but in diocese after diocese the same pattern emerges, not only here but in Ireland, Australia and much of Europe. Often perpetrators were sent to other dioceses and even other countries to avoid prosecution, thus further damaging survivors who were thereby denied justice.

Church leaders protest that the cardinal and other bishops have apologized for their “errors in judgment.”

Taking the wrong offramp from the freeway is an error in judgment. The enabling and facilitation of multiple child rape is not. It is a crime against humanity. Until that fact is acknowledged by the entire church, the reputation of the Roman Catholic hierarchy will continue its downward spiral. It is fine to speak of “tools for the accountability of bishops,” but in 2013 none exist.

Robert M. Rowden San Rafael

Honoring an abundant and prodigal God

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here’s a disturbing trend within our churches today. Simply put, we are seeing the embrace of our churches become less and less inclusive. More and more, our churches are demanding a purity and exclusivity not demanded

by Jesus in Gospels.

Indeed the very word “inclusivity” FATHER RON is often glibly ROLHEISER dismissed as being part of the “I am spiritual but not religious” ethos, as if being inclusive were some kind of lightweight, New Age thing rather than a central demand within Christian discipleship itself.

What does it mean to be inclusive?

We can begin with the word “Catholic”: The opposite of being “Catholic” is not being “Protestant.” The opposite of “Catholic” is being narrow, exclusive, and overly selective in our embrace. The opposite of being “Catholic” is to define our faith family too narrowly.

“Catholic” means wide, universal.

It means incarnating the embrace of an abundant and prodigal God whose sun shines on all indiscriminately, the bad as well as the good.

Jesus once defined this by saying: “In my father’s house there are many rooms.” God’s heart is wide, abundant, prodigal, and universally embracing, a heart that takes care to pray for those “other sheep who are not of this fold.” To be “Catholic” is to imitate that.

In the Gospels we see that Jesus’ passion for inclusivity virtually always trumps his concern for purity and worthiness. He associates and dines with sinners without setting any prior moral conditions that have to be met before those sinners are deemed worthy of his presence. His disciples, much like many good sincere church people today, were forever trying to keep certain people away from him because they deemed them unworthy; but Jesus always protested that he didn’t need that kind of protection and that, indeed, he wanted them all to come to him: Let them come to me! Indeed, that is still Jesus’ call: Let them come to me, all of them!

Only Jesus and Mary were fully practicing Catholics.

Everyone else, without a single exception, falls short. We are all cafeteria Catholics.

‘Secretly gleeful’ about exclusivity

We need to be more inclusive. I highlight this because today our faith families are shrinking and instead of us weeping empathically about this loss of wholeness we are more prone to be secretly gleeful about it: Good riddance: They weren’t real Christians anyway!

Or, in the words of some Catholic commentators, they were “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Gospel they like and turning a meaty Catholicism into Catholic lite.

Such a judgment, however sincere and well intentioned, needs to operate under two huge caution flags: First, such a judgment leaves the person making it rather vulnerable. Who is a true, fully practicing Catholic? Several years ago, I was asked by a Roman Catholic school board to write a definition of what it means to be a “practicing Catholic.”

I agonized over the task, examined the classical working definitions for that, and eventually produced a bit of a formula. But I prefaced the definition with this preamble: Only Jesus and Mary were fully practicing Catholics. Everyone else, without a single exception, falls short. We are all cafeteria Catholics. We all fall short; all have shortcomings, and all live the Gospel somewhat selectively.

To cite the most salient example: Many of us bear down more on churchgoing and private morality, to the neglect of the nonnegotiable Gospel demand apposite justice; others simply reverse this. Who’s closer to Jesus? Who’s more of a cafeteria Catholic?

The answer to that question lies inside the secret realm of conscience.

But what we do know is that none of us gets it fully right. All of us stand in need of God’s forgiveness and all of us stand in need of the patience of our ecclesial communities.

Jesus reveals God’s infinite abundance

The second caution flag is this: The God that Jesus reveals to us is a God of infinite abundance. Inside God there is no scarcity, no stinginess, no sparing of mercy. As the parable of the sower makes clear, this God scatters his seed indiscriminately on every kind of soil – bad soil, mediocre soil, good soil, excellent soil.

God can do this because God’s love and mercy are limitlessness. God, it seems, never worries about someone receiving cheap, undeserved grace.

As well, Jesus assures us that God is prodigal: Like the father of the prodigal son and his older brother, God embraces both the missteps of our immaturity as well as the bitterness and resentment within our maturity.

Good religion needs to honor that.

Today, on both sides of the ideological divide, conservative or liberal alike, we need to remind ourselves of what it means to live under an abundant, prodigal, universally embracing and “Catholic” God. What it means, among other things of course, is a constant stretching of the heart to an ever-wider inclusivity. How wide are our hearts?

Exclusivity can mask itself as depth and as passion for truth; but it invariably reveals itself, in its inability to handle ambiguity and otherness, as rigidity and fear, as if God and Jesus needed our protection.

More important, it often too reveals itself as lacking genuine empathy for those outside its own circle; and, in that, it fails to honor its own abundant and prodigal God. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.a

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifth Sunday of Lent Then Jesus said, ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.’

JOHN 8:1-11 ISAIAH 43:16-21 Thus says the Lord, who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick. Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not; see, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? In the desert I make a way, in the wasteland, rivers. Wild beasts honor me, jackals and ostriches, for I put water in the desert and rivers in the wasteland for my chosen people to drink, the people whom I formed for myself, that they might announce my praise.

PSALM 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion, we were like men dreaming. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing.

The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”

The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad indeed.

The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the torrents in the southern desert. Those that sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

Although they go forth weeping, carrying the seed to be sown, they shall come back rejoicing, carrying their sheaves.

The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

PHILIPPIANS 3:8-14 Brothers and sisters: I consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having any righteousness of my own based on the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God, depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead. It is not that I have already taken hold of it or have already attained perfect maturity, but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it, since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ Jesus. Brothers and sisters, I for my part do not consider myself to

have taken possession. Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind but straining forward to what lies ahead, I continue my pursuit toward the goal, the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

JOHN 8:1-11 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”

They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders.

So he was left alone with the woman before him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

She replied, “No one, sir.” Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”

‘Go, and sin no more’: The judgment of love

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n the Gospel, a group of men came to Jesus, elbowing their way through the crowd. Along with them was a woman, whom they were obviously holding captive. According to them, she had been apprehended in the act of adultery.

Apparently, the accusation was true. The woman made no attempt to deny it, and Jesus did not dispute it. She stood guilty as charged, a crime punishable by death.

Jewish law was clear on this point. The woman should die. But Roman law decreed that only Roman officials had the authority to administer capital punishment. What should these men do? Should they obey the law of Moses or the law of Caesar? They decided to put the question to DEACON Jesus. They hoped to put JeFAIVA PO’OI sus in a position where whatever he said could be used against him. If he said not to stone her, he would be rejecting the law of Moses. If

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he agreed that she should die, he would be violating the law of Rome. The scribes and the Pharisees had Jesus exactly where they wanted him to be, and kept demanding his answer.

We, of course, know what he did. His answer has become famous the world over. He responded in a way that caught the scribes and the Pharisees completely off guard. Their question was: “Do we stone this woman or not?” His reply was: “Let the one among you who has no sin be the first to cast a stone at her.” Jesus did not dispute any of the laws.

On the contrary, he cared greatly about the woman’s behavior. His message to them on that occasion is the same as his message to us today: No person has the right to condemn any other person. It is always our responsibility to care for another, yet we never have the right to condemn.

When you and I discuss the problems of society, what is typically the focus of our conversations?

Without exception, we always talk about “them.” If the topic is dishonesty, we focus on politicians. If the topic is greed, we focus on big business and major corporations. If the topic is crime, we focus on robbers and drug dealers. If the topic is immorality, we focus on pornographers and prostitutes. How easy it is for us to see the sins of others, but never acknowl-

edge our own. One wonders how the conversation might go, if we talked about the problems of society as they relate to us. That would be a much more difficult discussion to pursue.

This Fifth Sunday of Lent reminds us that Lent is a season calling us to self-examination and personal penance. How are we doing with that? Whose sin is most on our minds? Our own sins or the failings of others? All the spiritual giants have been keenly aware of their own faults and failures. Paul wrote to young Timothy: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these, I am the worst.”

Following his unexpected response to the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus was left alone with the sad and humiliated woman. All of her accusers had slipped away. He said to her, “Where did they all go? Has no one condemned you?” She answered, “No one, sir.”

His reply? “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more.” Jesus exercised judgment, but it was the judgment of love. The difference between condemnation and a judgment of love is the difference between the Pharisees with rocks in their hands and Jesus with a heart full of compassion.

May the Eucharist help us to grow in compassion!

DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

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SPIRITUAL REFLECTION FROM A SERMON BY ST. LEO THE GREAT, POPE: “In the Gospel of John the Lord says: In this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for each other. Any time is the right time for works of charity, but these days of Lent provide a special encouragement.

Those who want to be present at the Lord’s Passover in holiness of mind and body should seek above all to win this grace let us first of all make ready the sacrificial offerings of works of mercy. In this way we shall give to those who have sinned against us what God in his goodness has already given us. … The giver of alms should be free from anxiety and full of joy.”

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MONDAY, MARCH 18: Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or Dn 13:41c-62. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Jn 8:12-20.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19: Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband 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.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95. Dn 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. Jn 8:31-42.

THURSDAY, MARCH 21: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Gn 17:3-9. PS 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. Jn 8:51-59.

CUTHBERT c. 634-687 March 20 feast Cuthbert was a holy, patient, practical leader, a miracle worker beloved by all.

He is a patron of sailors and of Northumbria, England.

FRIDAY, MARCH 22: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent.

Jer 20:10-13. PS 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7. Jn 10:31-42.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop. Ez 37:21-28. Jer 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13. Jn 11:45-56.

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CONCLAVE: Cardinals meet as world awaits who the Spirit will send FROM PAGE 1

HISTORIAN: FOCUS ON POPE’S PERSONALITY CAN BE UNHEALTHY

ordering out everyone not authorized to remain.

Meditation on church problems

Among those staying behind was 87-year-old Maltese Cardinal Prosper Grech, an Augustinian priest and expert on the fathers of the early church. The cardinals had chosen him to give a meditation “on the problems facing the church” and “on the need for careful discernment in choosing the new pope.”

The afternoon events began in the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, not far from the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals were dressed for prayer in what is described as “choir dress.” The 111 cardinals from the Latin-rite church wore red cassocks topped with the white, lace-trimmed rochet and the red mozzetta (a short cape). The four cardinals from Eastern Catholic churches wore the equivalent choir dress of their churches.

The average age of the cardinals entering the conclave was close to 72 years. Forty-eight of the 115 cardinals previously voted in the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI; for the other 67 cardinals, this was their first conclave.

Invoking the grace of the Spirit

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the top-ranking cardinal elector, led the others in prayer, beginning, “May the Lord who guides our hearts in the love and patience of Christ be with you all.”

He told them, “The whole church, united with us in prayer, insistently invokes the grace of the Holy Spirit so that a worthy pastor for the whole flock of Christ would be elected by us.”

“May the Lord direct our steps in the path of truth so that, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the holy apostles Peter and Paul and all the saints, we would always do what is pleasing to him,” the cardinal prayed.

Chanting the Litany of the Saints, the cardinal electors began their walk to the Sistine Chapel, led by U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul

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Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York signs a cardinal electors poster after being asked for his autograph by a young man March 12 at the Vatican. Looking on is Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. The U.S. prelates were among the 115 cardinals that entered the conclave later that day.

Outside the Walls and the lowest in the church’s internal cardinal ranking.

Appealing to the saints and angels

They chanted requests that God would have pity on them, they asked the saints, archangels and ancient biblical prophets to pray for them.

They invoked the aid of Christ, asking for his mercy and protection. They also prayed for the needs of those who have died and those threatened by hunger and war.

The cardinals asked God to give the world peace, to “comfort and enlighten” the church, help Christians reconcile with each other and to lead all people to the truth of the Gospel.

When they reached the chapel, the cardinals sang the ancient invocation of the Holy Spirit, “Veni, Creator Spiritus.”

The English version of the first verse usually is sung as: “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, and in our hearts take up thy rest; come with

thy grace and heavenly aid, to fill the hearts which thou hast made.”

Cardinal Re prayed that God would give the cardinals “the spirit of intelligence, truth and peace” so that they would know his will and serve it.

Hours before the start of the conclave, the dean of the College of Cardinals celebrated the papacy as a source of unity among Catholics and of evangelization and charitable service to the world.

Christ “has established his apostles and among them Peter, who takes the lead, as the visible foundation of the unity of the church,” Cardinal Angelo Sodano said in his homily at St. Peter’s Basilica. “Each of us is therefore called to cooperate with the successor of Peter, the visible foundation of such an ecclesial unity.”

Italian press speculation

Once the conclave started and cardinal electors disappeared from the media spotlight, rumors and theories mutated and multiplied.

VATICAN CITY – Jesuit Father Norman Tanner, dean of church history at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, told reporters March 11 that the papal candidates from all over the world reveal the globalization of the church while the “preoccupation with the personality of popes” can often be unhealthy in choosing a new pontiff.

Personality has played a part in the papacy, particularly with Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, but retired Pope Benedict XVI “tried to deemphasize” it, Father Tanner said.

Popes need to get out of their office but also “need to be careful that (their personality) doesn’t dominate,” he said.

Public presence is “just one of many characteristics,” he said. “Popes come with mixed gifts and deficiencies.”

The most frequent storyline put Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan as the clear front-runner, even surmising he would have from 30 to 40 supporters in the first round of voting the afternoon of March 12.

The cardinal most often cited as the Italian cardinal’s main contender was Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo.

And many Italian papers, which like to see the world through the lens of their national obsession – soccer, predicted it would come down to being “a match between Italy and Brazil.”

Those reportedly expected to garner a significant number of votes in the first round included: Cardinals Marc Ouellet, the Canadian prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Timothy M. Dolan of New York; and Sean P. O’Malley of Boston.

Contributing to this story were Carol Glatz and Francis X. Rocca at the Vatican.

ST. RITA: Marin school closing as enrollment, tuition income drop FROM PAGE 1

families the closure would displace, the archdiocese sponsored two meetings March 4: a presentation on job opportunities for teachers facing layoffs and a session with principals from all Marin Catholic schools for families desiring information and registration assistance.

After the closure was announced, supporters rallied to keep the school open.

Teachers volunteered to take pay cuts. Students proposed to sell lemonade and homemade jewelry.

Neighbors offered to sponsor children unable to afford the average annual tuition of $7,615.

Parents began to draw up plans for options ranging from combining classes or retaining only the higher-enrollment junior-high grades to converting to a charter school or keeping the seventh graders together through their 2014 graduation.

Hundreds of people packed the parish hall for brainstorming sessions on how to reverse the enrollment and revenue drop.

“I hope we can collaborate and develop terms with the archdiocese to keep the school open,”

(PHOTOS COURTESY BRENNA GUBBINS)

St. Rita School seventh graders are pictured on a trip to Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. said Michael Pon of Fairfax, a longtime parishioner, school board member and father of first, fifth and seventh graders.

Brenna Gubbins, a veteran school board member, volunteer and mother of three present and past St. Rita students, said school supporters “will do whatever we can to find ways to keep St. Rita open and come together as a community.”

Father Weare said that although he respects and thanks the parents for their ideas, “The question is what do those ideas say for sustaining the future of the school and not just for one year.”

With only two new applications received for next year, the decision is unlikely to be reversed, he pastor said.

“With regard to the decision to close St. Rita, the culprit was not the principal, nor the pastor, and not the archbishop,” Father Weare said, noting that the main concern was the economic impact from unpaid tuition bills and parents who decide to not send their children to Catholic schools.

Huntington said that by the time a pastor requests to close a school, “all avenues have been investigated and considered. These decisions are serious and not something anyone takes lightly.”

Father William Brown, pastor of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, said “a lot of the parents expressed gratitude for a church that rallies together. The good news is the children are not going to go without a Catholic school for there are plenty of good ones around them from which to choose.”

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Its marble floor is covered with wood. The windows and doors are shut as the Master of Papal Liturgical Ceremonies exclaims, “Extra omnes!” (“Everybody else, out!”)

A sweep is performed for electronic devices.

The cardinal electors process into the chapel chanting “Come, Holy Spirit,” invoking divine help with their decision.

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Any communication with people outside is forbidden. They may not receive messages or news.

During the conclave, cardinals stay in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a hospitality residence on the edge of Vatican City.

They take short bus rides or walk to their twicedaily voting sessions.

Cardinals under the age of 80 may vote in the conclave. There are 117 eligible cardinals this time.

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If balloting is not successful, the smoke burns black with the help of an added chemical.

If balloting is successful, a chemical is added to produce the celebratory white smoke – the signal that the church has a new pope.

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The elected cardinal is asked if he accepts the election as pope.

If he accepts, he chooses the name he will take.

From the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the senior cardinal deacon proclaims, “Habemus papam!” (”We have a pope!”), and announces his name.

The new pontiff appears on the balcony and imparts his first papal blessing.

In digital age, Vatican sticks with smoke, bells to announce results CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Though the Vatican has become increasingly savvy with more modern forms of communication, it’s still sticking with more primitive methods – swirling smoke and tolling bells – to announce whether a new pope has been elected.

In a similar vein, the Vatican press hall will not immediately issue an official bulletin, email alert, SMS or tweet to tell the 5,000 accredited journalists and other observers whether “Habemus papam.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman and head of the press office, said he would prefer people “live the moment” and try to figure out on their own what color the smoke is “rather than have a communique from the press hall.”

“Therefore, I won’t be spending time sending SMSs at that moment; I believe we should be living it,” he said to a round of applause from journalists during a news briefing March 9.

It was a surprising response from media whose 24/7 schedules and digital demands have long clashed with the Vatican, which still uses faxes, conducts almost all news conferences in Italian and most often closes shop between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Perhaps those applauding the more romantic notion of “Carpe diem” were unaware that, with

Telling whether the smoke is white (a successful election) or black (unsuccessful) has never been easy, even during the 2005 conclave, when the Vatican started using chemical packets to enhance the color of the smoke. smoke colors high in the Roman sky, it’s always been “Hard to see ‘em.”

Telling whether the smoke is white (a successful election) or black (unsuccessful) has never been easy, even during the 2005 conclave, when the Vatican started using chemical packets to enhance the color of the smoke.

Even Father Lombardi said he was not sure what color the smoke was when gray puffs curled out of the Sistine Chapel chimney after a successful round of voting that chose now-retired Pope Benedict XVI. In addition to the packets of chemicals, which are concocted by Vatican workers, the Vatican had also decided it would toll the bells of St. Peter’s

Basilica with a successful vote in order to remove any doubt about the results. However, in 2005, the bells did not start ringing until about 10 minutes after the smoke had been wafting out.

Father Lombardi said Vatican television will be broadcasting the “fumate” (smoke) live with a camera positioned about 10 yards away from the chapel chimney, giving people a shot that’s “right in front of your nose.”

People unable to make it to St. Peter’s Square can tune in online at http://player.rv.va/.

Or they can get on social media like Twitter and follow the many handles offering “on-the-roof ” coverage and alerts such as @PapalSmokeStack, @ ConclaveChimney, @ConclaveStove and @PopeAlarm and PopeAlarm.com.

After a white smoke signal, it takes about 40-45 minutes before the announcement of the name of the candidate who won. He must accept the office and change to white vestments, and the cardinals must pledge their obedience and pray again before he comes out on the balcony.

At the end of the day, the old-fashioned way may be the most reliable. Emails can end up in a spam filter, servers can crash, cell phones run out of battery power, bandwidth at huge events gets saturated, making sending or receiving calls or messages impossible.

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Next pope faces global challenges erosion of Christian culture in its former bastions.

A pope from Asia or Africa may give relatively great emphasis to the church’s rapid growth on those continents, while frankly acknowledging tensions with non-Christian communities, particularly Islam.

Defense of religious freedom is bound to be another priority for the next pope, who will certainly continue to draw attention to religiously inspired violence and legal restrictions on worship and evangelization around the world. A European or American is also likely to highlight problems increasingly common in developed countries, such as threats to the right of conscientious objection in fields such as medical care and social services.

FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Like the rest of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, including the 5,100 bishops and 412,000 priests, the pope exercises what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls his “baptismal priesthood” by participating in “Christ’s mission as priest, prophet and king.”

The bishop of Rome exercises his ministry in a unique way, of course, as pastor of the universal church. In practically everything he does, he has special responsibility for preserving and building unity among members of the largest, most widespread and ethnically diverse organization on earth. That responsibility is crucial to defining the particular challenges that await the man whom 115 cardinal electors will choose in the conclave starting March 12.

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In his almost eight-year pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI worked to emphasize the liturgy’s continuity with the church’s millennial traditions. He encouraged a revival of eucharistic adoration and the use of Gregorian chant. Most significantly, he lifted almost all restrictions on celebration of the Tridentine Mass, which had fallen practically out of use amid the modernizing reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council.

At the same time, Pope Benedict condoned a kind of liturgical pluralism within the church, and even contributed to it by establishing personal ordinariates for former Anglicans, making it possible for Catholic communities around the world to worship in a form influenced by the 16th-century Protestant reformation.

The next pope will be taking the helm of a church with ever more various forms of worship. Like his predecessor, he must be sensitive to the needs of Catholics devoted to the revived Tridentine liturgy, but also to those who practice charismatic faith healing and speaking in tongues. He must help preserve the ancient rites of the Eastern Catholic churches while setting a reverent example for the vast majority of the faithful who attend Mass in the form established under Pope Paul VI. In carrying out this aspect of his mission, the new pope may draw particular inspiration from the two men who preceded him. In the spirit of Pope Benedict’s avowed hope that the older and newer liturgies might enrich each other, he may encourage a

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A detail of the hand and key from the statue of St. Peter is seen in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Feb. 28. synthesis of various forms of worship embraced by his global flock. In practical terms, he may follow the example of Blessed John Paul II by incorporating elements of the church’s liturgical diversity into papal Masses, especially during international gatherings such as World Youth Day.

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Pope Benedict made it a major project of his pontificate to shape the church’s understanding of Vatican II, emphasizing that the council’s doctrines did not represent a radical break with the past but followed in continuity with tradition.

The next pope may decide that this magisterial task has been largely accomplished, but he is almost certain to maintain Pope Benedict’s emphasis on the new evangelization, the effort to revive the faith in increasingly secular societies.

How he pursues this effort may depend on where he comes from. A European or American – whether from the North or the South – may continue to highlight the

The most obvious challenge that the next pope will face in regard to governance is the one closest to home: the need for reform of the Roman Curia, the church’s central administration.

In their preparatory meetings over the week prior to the papal election, the cardinals discussed the corruption and mismanagement sensationally documented in the 2012 “VatiLeaks” release of confidential correspondence to the Italian press. Serious reform would almost certainly require national diversification of the Italian-dominated curia, a job that some observers think an Italian pope would be best positioned to accomplish, given the will to do so.

On a global level, no issue of governance is more urgent than that of clergy sexual abuse. A zero-tolerance policy, leading to the exclusion of child abusers from any public ministry, is now in principle the universal norm of the church. However, the application of that norm remains highly inconsistent at the local level.

Financial governance at the Vatican has been the object of heightened media attention in recent years, and the next pope will presumably follow up on Pope Benedict’s moves to make the Vatican bank’s activities more transparent and in conformity with international norms.

In the coming years, the church’s management of money and property around the world is bound to come under ever greater scrutiny from governments, media and Catholic laity. In order to prevent scandals that could undermine the church’s credibility, especially in its pronouncements on matters of economic justice, the next pope may have to call on local churches to develop more rigorous and uniform policies on their own financial activities.

Mission leader: African, Asian pope would attract people to Gospel CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – An African or Asian pope would send an important message to the world and help promote the Gospel to those outside the church, said the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States.

“It would be great to see a black face again smiling from the Chair of St. Peter. It would be great to see a Chinese face,” said Oblate Father Andrew Small, whose office works to help Catholics better understand the church’s universal mission and to gather support, prayers and donations for evangelization efforts in the world’s lesser developed countries.

The cardinal electors “might elect a perfect internal candidate who’s going to be very good for the church and for the people who know the church,” he told Catholic News Service March 8.

“But that might not be the way that we can really position the church in the world,” he said, which might be better achieved “if the cardinals were to elect somebody who speaks to those outside of the church in a very robust way like an African like an Asian.”

Spiritual, pastoral qualities important

The spiritual and pastoral qualities of the man elected pope are “obviously hugely important for us in the church,” he said.

“But I think given that the whole world is now looking at the Sistine Chapel, you wouldn’t be doing it justice if you just think about what do we as leaders want, instead of saying, ‘What does the world need to see?’” he said.

Many cardinal electors have said a new pope’s nationality doesn’t matter, that the most important qualities are his holiness and concern for the universal church.

While this is true, Father Small said, giving a qualified person from a marginalized nation or ethnicity a position of authority “does matter” and relays an important message, especially about the authentic universality of the church.

“When they’re appointing leaders on a day-to-day basis, bishops, cardinals and others are always conscious of such things,” he said. And it has been “a high priority” of the church to make sure mission lands have bishops from the local culture or tribes appointed to the dioceses, he said.

Naming Mexican-born Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles to head the largest archdiocese in the United States “is no small thing,” the priest said.

But there’s still more to be done, including in the choice of pontiff, who, for the last 13 centuries, has always been European, he said.

Mission lands’ constant struggle

So while “everywhere is mission land,” bishops and religious in poorer countries are faced with the constant struggle “to make ends meet and provide for their people,” Father Small said.

Their parishioners don’t have the resources to support their own local dioceses, schools, seminaries and clinics, and the church there must turn to richer nations for help.

While the help is greatly appreciated, these bishops “lament that nothing changes for them” and their people continue to live in poverty, Father Small said.

“There’s nothing they’d like more than to stand on their own two feet” and to stop being labeled as “being incompetent and inefficient,” he added.

Highlighting injustice of inequalities

Pope Benedict XVI often highlighted the injustice of lingering inequalities in the world, Father Small said; however, many often see the problem as being

“peripheral” to the church’s other concerns.

“The fair distribution of natural resources, economic equality” and other roots causes of poverty are “just as pressing as the reform of the liturgy and the training of seminarians,” the priest said. Father Small once worked as policy adviser on international economic development for the U.S. bishops before serving as director of the Office for the Church in Latin America at the USCCB from 2009 to 2011.

Pope Benedict said “if the church focuses too much on her own place and presence and prestige, then she loses sight of those whom she has come to serve and save,” the priest said.

He said that during this pre-conclave period, there is a feeling of expectant change among many leaders and members of the church.

“It’s clear that the cardinals, in a sort of a shockingly explicit way, are saying it cannot be business as usual,” he said.

“I don’t think any of us should be surprised if the word coming from the apostolic palace (after a papal election) is not ‘Steady as she goes.’

“The good thing for the new pontiff is he has a mandate for reform. That mandate wasn’t there eight years ago. It was a mandate of continuity and they picked (Pope Benedict), the man who could continue most clearly the legacy since he was one of the principle architects of that legacy,” he said.

There is a desire for change, he said.

“We need someone who will use the platform to bring change to the whole (of the church) and not just tinker with the parts,” meaning problems that are local or regional in nature like sects in Latin America or secularism in Europe, Father Small said.

The pontiff needs to be, like the title suggests, a bridge builder and someone who has the energy and dynamism to transcend local issues and promote a larger vision, he said.

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Popes on screen: Some filmmakers show they’re fallible JOHN MULDERIG

The highlights of papal history have been used to inspire, while the scandalous patches have been employed for less edifying ends.

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – The Vatican often makes headlines, never more so than at a time of transition such as that which Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Feb. 11 with the surprise announcement of his resignation.

In addition to its frequently prominent place in the news, though, the papacy has, over the years, drawn the occasional attention of the entertainment industry as well.

Pontiffs, both real and fictional, have been portrayed – sometimes accurately, sometimes in caricature – on stage, in movies and via television.

The highlights of papal history have been used to inspire audiences, while the scandalous patches in that long chronicle have been employed for less edifying ends.

As long ago as 1935, for example, French director Abel Gance – perhaps best remembered today for his epic, multiscreen biopic “Napoleon” (1927) – focused on the decadent Renaissance-era reign of Pope Alexander VI in “Lucrezia Borgia.” Gance left sufficiently little to viewers’ imagination for his film to draw a “Condemned” classification from the National Legion of Decency.

Nor, it seems, have Alexander’s lusty cavorting gone out of style: Beginning in 2011, Jeremy Irons has been re-enacting them with gusto on Showtime’s lurid series “The Borgias.”

The same network’s earlier, more church-friendly (though hardly less carnal) series “The Tudors,” featured Peter O’Toole as one of Alexander’s successors, the worldly wise but not unsympathetic Paul III. In the 1965 film “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” adapted from Irving Stone’s historical novel, Rex Harrison played another bishop of Rome whose record jars modern sensibilities: Julius II. As directed by Carol Reed, the picture mainly concerns Michelangelo’s (Charlton Heston) exhausting work – undertaken at Julius’ behest, and with his often-impatient encouragement – to

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The pontiffs of the modern era have – fortunately – deserved, and generally received, more reverential treatment. Thus the 2002 Italian made-fortelevision film “Papa Giovanni – Joannes XXIII” (available on DVD, dubbed in English, as “John XXIII: The Pope of Peace”) saw Ed Asner portraying the initiator of the Second Vatican Council.

Bob Hoskins took on the same role in the following year’s “The Good Pope: John XXIII.” The eventful life of Karol Wojtyla – both before and after he became Pope John Paul II in 1978 – has been the subject of at least one big-screen docudrama and numerous TV specials. Three years after his distinguished countryman’s election, Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi’s film “From a Far Country” profiled Wojtyla’s youth, with Cezary Morawski playing the future pontiff.

At the other end of the reign, 2005, the year of Blessed John Paul’s death, brought three smallscreen tributes: The four-hour CBS miniseries “Pope John Paul II” starred Jon Voight in the title

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World War II-era Pope Pius XII has had a more mixed representation. In fact, it was a stage piece, German playwright Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 drama “The Deputy: A Christian Tragedy,” that first initiated the controversy over Pius’ supposed silence in the face of the Holocaust. Nonetheless, another Italian made-for-TV movie, 2010’s “Pius XII,” starring James Cromwell, shows how strenuously, if unobtrusively, Pius opposed the Nazi’s treatment of Jews.

Probably the most famous fictional pope in cinematic history hailed, like the real-life John Paul II, from Eastern Europe. In 1968’s “The Shoes of the Fisherman,” director Michael Anderson’s screen version of Morris L. West’s novel, Anthony Quinn played Kiril Lakota, a former political prisoner-turned-pope who resolves to give away the Vatican’s wealth.

Other made-up pontiffs have found adventure by going on the lam. In “Saving Grace,” a 1985 feature helmed by Robert M. Young, Tom Conti’s unusually young Pope Leo XIV turns the accident of being locked out of the Vatican to pastoral advantage by ministering to everyday people.

Italian director Nanni Moretti’s 2011 screen fable “We Have a Pope” (“Habemus Papam”) involves a similar journey undertaken in very different circumstances: After suffering an emotional meltdown shortly after his election, the film’s newly minted and as-yet-unnamed bishop of Rome, played

by Michel Piccoli, escapes from the Vatican and takes to the streets of the Eternal City in search of spiritual bolstering.

Unlike at least some of his historical counterparts, alas, he fails to find it.

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OBITUARY SACRED HEART SISTER ROSE GUIDROZ, 95

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Rose Guidroz, 95, died Feb. 25, at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. Sister Rose served for 25 years at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, La. A memorial Mass was celebrated March 9 at Oakwood. Interment was in Grand Coteau.

Sister Rose Born in Louisiana, Guidroz, RSCJ Sister Rose became acquainted with the Society of the Sacred Heart while teaching physical education at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau. She entered the society on Oct. 20, 1944, in St. Charles, Mo., where St. Rose Philippine Duchesne first founded the Society of the Sacred Heart in the United States making first vows April 28, 1947, and final vows in 1952, both in St. Charles.

In1968, following years of service to her then-cloistered community, Sister Rose began her teaching ministry in religion and science. The following year, she went to Grand Coteau, where she would remain for the rest of her active ministry. She taught biology at the Academy of the Sacred Heart until 1994.

At age 75, Sister Rose began working at St. Joseph’s Diner, a diocesansupported program in Lafayette, La., and Thensted Center in Grand Coteau, where she tutored school children. In 2010, Sister Guidroz entered a ministry of prayer and community service at Oakwood.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.

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‘HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING’: St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Bannan Theatre, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco, April 24-27, May 1-4, 7 p.m. $11 students/children, $16 adults.

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‘ROMEO AND HARRIET’: Archbishop Riordan High School, The Lindland Theatre, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco, April 12, 13, 19, 20, 8 p.m., April 21, 2 p.m. $7 students and seniors, $10 adults, $4 children under 12, at the door, online at riordanhs.org or (415) 587-5866.

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FIRST-SATURDAY MASS AT HOLY CROSS: Father Brian Costello, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer, San Francisco, celebrated Mass in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, March 2. Every first Saturday the archdiocesan cemetery invites a priest from the archdiocese to celebrate Mass for all those interred. Father Tony LaTorre from St. Philip, San Francisco, celebrated the Mass in January and Father Charles Puthota from St. Veronica, South San Francisco, celebrated in February. Father Paul Rossi from St. Pius, Redwood City, is scheduled in April. The tradition of a monthly Mass at the archdiocesan cemetery goes back to Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany riding his horse out to Calvary in San Francisco once a month to celebrate Mass there, said cemeteries director Monica Williams.

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Father Larry Goode, pastor, and members of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto, prayed with 40 Days for Life outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Mateo March 3. The 40 Days campaign is a national pro-life effort that includes prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach. In a letter to Catholic San Francisco, 40 Days organizer Jessica Munn said many passersby have indicated their support by words and gestures and even gifts of food, water and flowers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those

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FRIDAY, MARCH 15 HIBERNIAN LUNCH: San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane will be honored as Hibernian of the Year, 11 a.m., Westin St. Francis, 333 Powell St., San Francisco beginning at 11 a.m. with nohost reception. Day includes traditional Irish music and eats. Lunch is at noon.

Keynote speaker is Peter Casey, Emmy winning producer. $90. Proceeds benefit campus ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Visit www.hiberniannewmanclub.com. (415) 386-3434.

SOCIAL JUSTICE: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Empowered for Life,â&#x20AC;? with Thomas Awiapo of Catholic Relief Services, Ghana and his inspiring story of overcoming poverty, St. Dominic Church, parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, 6 p.m. Parking available. Simple meal begins the evening. Stations of the Cross follow. Michael, dre@stdominics.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 16 DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Marin Catholic High Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fashion show for 2013. More information, as well as online tickets for both luncheon and dinner shows at www.marincatholic.org.

ST. PATRICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY MASS: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant at St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St., San Francisco, 9 a.m. followed by reception in parish hall. www. uissf.org. (415) 334-7212.

ST. PATRICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY PARADE: Parade begins 11:30 a.m. at Second and Market streets. The parade route ends at Civic Center. An Irish Festival takes place 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Civic Center. www.uissf.org. (415) 334-7212.

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LENTEN SERIES: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Spirituality of Peaceâ&#x20AC;? with Archbishop George Niederauer, St. Rita Church, 100 Miranda Drive, Fairfax.

Evening begins with soup Archbishop supper at 6:15 Niederauer p.m. Talk follows at 7 p.m. (415) 456-4815.

CRAB FEED: St. Luke Church Community Center, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Doors open 6 p.m., dinner 7 p.m.All you can eat crab or preorder chicken, plus salad, pasta, dessert.

Music by Dino. Tickets $40. Call the parish at (650) 345-6660 or John Bernat, (650) 341-4045.

VATICAN II TALKS: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Role of Women,â&#x20AC;? with Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, Sister Eloise 7 p.m. (650) Rosenblatt 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19 LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish Lenten soup supper and Taize prayer, 6:30-8 p.m., Donworth Hall, 451 Eucalyptus Drive, San Francisco.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 17 BARBECUE: St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day chicken barbecue, Dance Palace Community and Cultural Center, 503 B St., Point Reyes Station, benefiting Sacred Heart Parish, Olema. Games, raffle, silent auction. $12 adults, $6 children. (415) 6631139. sacredheart@horizoncable.com.

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YORKE MASS: Palm Sunday Mass honoring Father Peter Yorke, Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 10 a.m. (650) 756-2060.

SATURDAY, MARCH 23 RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: “Healing the Wounded Heart,” 8 a.m.-6 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Day includes Mass Archbishop at 9 a.m. with Salvatore J. Archbishop Cordileone Salvatore J. Cordileone, principal celebrant, and Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and priests from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, religious orders and surrounding dioceses concelebrants.

Workshop topics will inform and encourage in the area of restorative justice as well as crime and violence in the Bay Area. Speakers include Fathers John Jimenez, Juan Lopez, Jose Corral and Moises Agudo.

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PALM SUNDAY BRUNCH: St. Mary’s of Nicasio, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Druid’s Hall, Nicasio. Farm fresh eggs, hash brown potatoes, ham, muffins, pastries, fresh fruit, coffee and tea with no-host bar, raffle, silent auction. $15 adults, $5 children 5-12. Proceeds benefit the preservation of St. Mary’s Church, a Marin historic landmark.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., James Warren, organist. All recitals open to the public.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 SENIOR CARE: “Moving to a Community: Options and Benefits” with Cathy Murphy and Dr. Jane Mahakian, 2-3:30 p.m., Morrissey Hall 2250 Hayes St., C level, St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco. (415) 750-5790 or email stmarysfoundation@dignityhealth.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Paul Rossi, pastor, St. Pius Parish, celebrant and Father Paul homilist. (650) Rossi 756-2060.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 REUNION: Notre Dame de Namur alumnae of San Francisco Mass and luncheon, 10:30 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Boulevard. Honorees are classes of ‘63, ‘38, ‘43, ‘53, and ‘73.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 24 VALLOMBROSA CHOIR: A Lenten prayer service of music, prayer and reflection at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 2 p.m. featuring the singing and song leading of the Vallombrosa Choir. Free admission. All are welcome. www.vallombrosa.org. (650) 325-5614.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

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A top candidate for of faith and prayer the next pope will be a man with skill in major and a record of languages leadership in a major archdioce se or Vatican office – ideally both, Cardinal William J. Levada said Feb. 25 as he prepared to leave for Rome to join as many cardinals in a conclaveas 116 other to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Levada, during a press conference at St. Patrick’s Seminary & Universit y in Cardinal Levada said that in a church Menlo Park, (PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHO that has beLIC SAN FRANCISCO) come thoroughl y globalized in the past 50 to 60 years the influence of Cecilia Carrier, left, a around the world cardinals from candidate for full communion “will have great archdiocese’s annual impact.”

“In regard to the Rite of Election celebrated in the Catholic Church, is pictured with needs to the church, and McLaughlin are her sponsor Karen McLaughlin

by Archbishop Salvatore ent cultural situations from St. Hilary Parish, the Tiburon. Typically performed J. Cordileone Feb. 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. at the gathering with their sponsors – Africa, America, differthe Middle East, on the first Sunday of and families, the ancient those historic churches Asia, Lent are the final period Lent with those called Carrier ceremony of the rite up from the time of purification and enlightenmen coming to the church is a step of Christ’s own parishes participated t leading up to the Easter in the process of Christian initiation. The generation – each has its own in the Mass, with 159 days of Vigil series of problems, and full initiation into catechumens and 255 of these things the church. Forty-nine ” he said. “All candidates. More photos will on Page 2. son we’re consideri play a part in this. Is the perng knowledgeable needs? Is he sensitive about those to them?”

Cardinal Levada did not speculate ground of any cardinal on the he thinks may makebackpick but played a top down the possibilit can pope. y of an AmeriCINDY WOODEN “I don’t know what red shoes, Father CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE the Las Vegas odds Lombardi said. Instead, are saying today wear brown shoes, makers but I don’t think VATICAN CITY beginning with loafers he will it’s likely that we will see an American – given as a gift last he was tinue to be known Pope Benedict XVI will conMarch during a visit pope,” said Cardinal Levada, who served as Pope Benedict Mexico. The Jesuit and addressed as “His Holiness,” said the pope has to Leon, co from 1995-2005. as archbishop of San Francisbut zapatos to be very found the “And add the title “emeritusafter his resignation, he will comfortable. would be an additiona I say that for this reason: It The safety of the ” in one of two acceptable forms, either “pope l complexity for pope emeritus will can pope to have an Ameriby the Vatican police, emeritus” or “Roman be ensured to deal with the emeritus.” pontiff perception that some of his decisions Three hours before Father Lombardi said. might Jesuit his pontificate ends, be Father Federico perceived to be dictated by American Benedict Pope Lombardi, Vatican man, said decisions governmental policy.” spokes- summer intends to fly by helicopter to the He said that perceptio papal villa at Castel Gandolfo. addressed and what about how the pope would be n could be a problem the church in the At 8 p.m. Feb. 28 for rest consultation with he would wear were made in – “On the other hand, of the world.

Pope Benedict and dict has said he will the exact moment Pope BeneTarcisio Bertone, if an American with Cardinal cease being pope elected – provided pope is the chamberlain Guards stationed it’s of the church, along with others. at the main doors – the Swiss obedience and supportnot me – I will give him my of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo any way I can,” After Feb. 28, Pope Levada said.

Cardinal doors, Father Lombardi will withdraw and close the Benedict will continue a white cassock, said. The Vatican to wear Cardinal Levada, but it will be a simplifi darmes will take genwho said the prospect of the papal vestment, over. ed version Pope Benedict also of the mainly without the white cape piece little on nals his “fisherman’swill give the College of CardiSEE CARDINAL, PAGE 21 told reporters Feb. the shoulders, Father Lombardi ring” and seal to as is usually done 26. be broken, upon the death of Pope Benedict will spokesman said. a pope, the leave behind his The pope will go emblematic back an episcopal ring he wore as a cardinal.to wearing

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