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‘I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief. Four or five years. I do not know, or maybe two, three. Well, two have already passed. It’s just a vague feeling.’

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Perhaps, the pope said, it is like the kind of trick a gambler plays on his mind by convincing himself – when he places a bet – that he will lose; when he does, he is not disappointed.

Pope Francis appointed native San Franciscan, San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas A. Daly as the seventh Bishop of Spokane, Washington, March 12. He will be installed May 20, joining a long line of bishops who Bishop Daly began their priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The appointment comes just over a week after the announcement that San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy would head south as ordinary of the Diocese of San Diego. Bishop Daly has served as auxiliary bishop of San Jose, California, since 2011. At the press conference at Bishop White Seminary in Spokane March 12, Bishop Daly described himself as a person of hope, which he defined as “reality grounded in faith.” “It’s not easy to be a believer” sometimes, he said, but reminded those present of Jesus’ promise to be with his people until the end of the age. “We have to be humble, but also a church of joy,” said Bishop Daly. “Jesus is risen from the dead!” The church must also “teach the truth with pastoral charity, and compassion always,” but without compromising that truth, he said. Bishop Daly succeeds Archbishop Blase J. Cupich, who was appointed archbishop of Chicago last Sept. 20. The Diocese of Spokane comprises 24,356 square miles in eastern Washington state and has a total population of 830,641 people, of whom 107,983, or 13 percent, are Catholic. Jesuit Gonzaga University, a popular college choice of San Francisco archdiocesan Catholics, is situated in Spokane, and Bishop Daly said he is a fan of Gonzaga’s basketball team. The apostolic nuncio to the United

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Pope Francis bows his head in prayer during his election night appearance on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica March 13, 2013.

Anniversary interview: Pope talks about his election, papacy, future CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – When Pope Francis went out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, he said he did not prepare what he was going to say, but “I felt deeply that a minister needs the blessing of God, but also of his people.” He did not know if it was right to explicitly ask the thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square to bless him, so instead he asked them to pray that God would bless him, he said. And he bowed for their prayers. Marking the second anniversary of his election March 13, Pope Francis spoke about the conclave that elected him in 2013, about his life the last two years and about the future in an interview with Valentina Alazraki of Mexico’s Televisa. The pope even joked about the reputation Argentines have for being proud or haughty. “You know how an Argentine commits suicide?” he asked Alazraki. “He climbs to the top of his ego and jumps!” And, he said, while he doesn’t hate being pope, he is not a fan of the

POPE ANNOUNCES YEAR OF MERCY

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced an extraordinary jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, to highlight the Catholic Church’s “mission to be a witness of mercy.” “No one can be excluded from God’s mercy,” the pope said March 13, marking the second anniversary of his pontificate by leading a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica. “I frequently have thought about how the church can make more evident its mission to be a witness of mercy,” he said during his homily; that is why he decided to call a special Holy Year, which will be celebrated from Dec. 8, 2015, until Nov. 20, 2016. travel involved and he really would like to go out of the Vatican unrecognized, perhaps “to a pizzeria to eat a pizza.” “I have the feeling that my pontificate will be brief,” he said. “Four or five years. I do not know, or maybe two, three. Well, two have already

The biblical theme of the year, he said, will be “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful,” an admonition that applies “especially to confessors,” the pope said with a smile. The Gospel reading at the penance service was the story of the sinful woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. Every time one goes to confession, the pope said, “we feel the same compassionate gaze of Jesus” that she did. Through Jesus, the pope said, God took the woman’s sins and “threw them over his shoulder, he no longer remembers them.” CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Archbishop Cordileone visited 40 Days for Life volunteers March 7 at their Lenten pro-life vigil in San Mateo, thanking the volunteers, offering a prayer and blessing them.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone visited pro-life volunteers March 7 at the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic in San Mateo. The archbishop greeted each person at the vigil, thanked them, offered a prayer and blessed them. The prayer included a petition for women who are pregnant and feel alone, that they will ﬁnd the help and support they need. Jessica Munn, who has led the Lenten prayer vigil for eight years, said the effort “contains the three aspects of Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.” She noted that participants give time for the ministry, pray at the site, and in many cases choose the discipline of fasting for the sake of the unborn as a Lenten work. She said 300-400 people have been involved in years past and new faces often turn up. “It has been a focus for attempts to save babies and mothers, to draw more people into the pro-life movement, and to educate more people about why they should be prolife,” Munn said. She said the campaign “is clearly driven by the Holy Spirit and is worth every sacriﬁce. The greatest joy is the saving of a baby or the closing of the abortion business, but regardless, there are plenty of good times as we share in praying and swap stories. We also have a closing celebration which is fun.” Contact themunns@yahoo.com; sf40daysforlife@gmail.com; (408) 840-DAYS.

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Council of Priests members, effective January 2015, gathered for a group portrait before their February meeting at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center. The council is the representative body of the archdiocesan presbyterate.

2014-15 Council of Priests Pictured from left: Father Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip; Father Thuan V. Hoang, pastor, Church of the Visitacion, Age Group 2; Msgr. Michael Padazinski, chancellor, judicial vicar, council parliamentarian, administrator, St. Anselm, Age Group 3; Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor, St. Cecilia, Lagunitas, Deanery 7; Father Moises Agudo, pastor, St. Peter, San Francisco, council vice chair; Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor, St. Dunstan, Deanery 9; Father Alex Legaspi, pastor, Holy Angels, council treasurer, Deanery 8; Father Charito Suan, pastor, St. Elizabeth, Deanery 2; Father Michael Quinn, pastor, St. Mary Star of the Sea, Deanery 6; Father Steve Howell, pastor, Immaculate Heart of Mary, council chair, Deanery 10, Age Group 5; Father Dave Ghiorso, pastor, St. Charles, San Carlos, Age Group 4. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone; retired Father David Pettingill, in residence at St. Emydius. Age groups 6 and 7; retired Sulpician Father Michael Strange, in

Bishops note March as Juvenile Justice Month California’s Catholic Bishops have joined in celebrating March as Juvenile Justice Month of Faith and Healing and are encouraging young people from throughout the state who will come to Sacramento March 24 to support sentencing reform for juvenile offenders. California Senate Bill 124 would restrict the use of solitary conﬁnement for juveniles in custody and empower and expand the use of regional juvenile justice commissions to regulate the use of solitary conﬁnement in juvenile detention facilities. “The purpose of California’s juvenile justice system is not to warehouse juvenile offenders until they can be turned over to the prison system, but to intervene and prevent young people from continuing in their downward spiral of crime and violence,” Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia Fresno and Bishop Armando Ochoa, co-chairs of the Restorative Justice Committee of the

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California Catholic Conference said in a statement on behalf of the conference. “Its goal must be rehabilitation and its efforts must be focused on helping young people and their families change the trajectory of their lives. “We are proud to join with the Healing Justice Coalition and people of faith throughout California in bringing attention to California’s juvenile justice system, and reminding policymakers and the public that these young people in their care are often from broken homes and broken families,” the bishops said. “They have no experience with the praise, the love or the family support most of us take for granted. They are all our prodigal sons and daughters; we have a responsibility to embrace them and help bring them back into productive society.” Visit www.restorejustice.com or www.cacatholic.org.

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Iconographer offers students Lenten lesson in ancient art form CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Brushstrokes become a form of prayer in San Francisco native artist Sean Kramer’s icon painting classes at St. Patrick School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. During Lent for the past six years, Kramer has taught middle-school students there the ancient art of Christian iconography, which involves far more than just paint and a paintbrush. “As one works on an icon, one is working on oneself, realizing oneself as a more complete image of God,” Kramer, an iconographer and teacher at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Portsmouth told Catholic San Francisco. “The materials and steps in making an icon are all symbolic of levels of ourselves and the stages of our transformation,” he said. Kramer said that icon painting began with the Egyptians who used to paint portraits of the dead on mummy caskets. The practice and its techniques was later taken up by early Christians, whose icons were an amalgamation of Greco-Roman, Middle Eastern and Egyptian art forms. In the first millennium of the church when the majority of the people were illiterate, stylized portraits of the saints, the Blessed Virgin and Christ provided images of those who had gone before in the faith. Today icons are still considered symbolic windows to the sacred through which the faithful can contemplate holy mysteries and seek blessings in return. “Icons are portraits of those who look back at us, and in their expression and eyes convey to us something of what they see, but which remains to us still, a mystery,” Kramer said. Kramer, who was educated at Catholic schools in San Francisco including St. Cecilia School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Archbishop Riordan High School (and is the nephew of Dominican Father Bruno Gibson), was invited by St. Patrick to teach the class which is funded by the local Knights of Columbus council. The child of artist parents, Kramer discovered his own talent and passion for art while at St. Ignatius, though he gave up art school to study the classics at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. The one-time Maronite monk said he was called to iconography almost by accident. He was living in Colorado as a hermit when a spot in a local class taught by a Russian icon painter opened up. Kramer took it, not expecting to like it. But he did, so much so that he relocated to the East Coast to study iconography from

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Iconographer and San Francisco native Sean Kramer shows students at St. Patrick School in New Hampshire his icon of the Madonna and Child. Right, his icon of St. Anthony of Egypt. a renowned teacher in New Hampshire. “It brings together all my main interests; art, philosophy, theology, spiritual practice, symbolism, connecting with nature and natural materials,” said Kramer. Kramer begins each class with St. Patrick students, a prayer asking God, the saints and angels to “help us make these holy icons images that will remind us and those who see them of God’s presence and love for us.”

Kramer said that one of his teachers painted in much the same way Catholics pray the rosary. Instead of counting a prayer for each bead, she would say “Jesus have mercy on us” with each brushstroke to keep her focused, he said. Students begin by tracing an image of Jesus or Mary onto carbon paper and then on to a wood panel where they will use three layers of paint to create the icon, said Kramer. Traditionally, paints are made with materials that come directly from the earth, and color choice and placement is symbolic. The wooden panel onto which the icon is painted, for example, symbolizes the cross, he said. Color pigments from rocks and minerals are mixed with egg yolk, while white wine is added to preserve the paint. The results, Kramer said, is a painting that has more dimensions and light than the “flat” or “plastic” look of acrylic paints. For the first layer, faces are painted green, because humans are a mix of earth and heaven, Kramer tells his students. “Just as green is made by mixing the heavenly color blue with the earthly color yellow.” Kramer tells students after the icon is finished that the sketch represents God’s idea of each artist. “God had an idea of you and he made you,” said Kramer. As you live your life, he said, you are coloring it and adding more colors. “At the end of your life, you’re going to be a finished painting.”

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‘Curtain up, light the lights’ vocation for Mercy, San Francisco teacher TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Liz McAninch came to Mercy High School, San Francisco with the fog – or at least with a show about the staple haze – in 1976. She is the school’s drama director and also teaches English. Her first show at Mercy was a musical she personally penned called “If the Fog Hadn’t Risen,” a program commemorating Mercy’s 25th anniversary. Liz grew up in Texas, holds unElizabeth dergraduate and graduate degrees McAninch in English and education and had a stint in show business. “I was a company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, traveled for a year with the New Shakespeare Company, and acted and directed in various theatres here in the city,” Liz told me in an email. Liz directs two shows a year at Mercy, a play in the fall and a musical in the spring. The mix gives the young women at Mercy a varied experience of the stage, she said. Also on the marquee are a visual and performing arts festival featuring work done in acting, dance, art and music classes as well student directors, choreographers and filmmakers. Liz has done the musical “Gypsy” twice and places it among her favorites. “Dead Man Walking” is among recent productions of plays at Mercy. “We got permission to adapt the script to change the role of the death row murderer to a woman,” Liz said. “The Dead Man Walking Project published my adaptation because of demand from other single-gender schools.” Liz has also brought new scripts for students to read much as new shows are work-shopped in professional theater around the country. The shows stories “provided fodder for teaching moments about social justice, racial inequality, poverty, women’s roles and mental illness,” Liz said. Liz has also enjoyed directing murder mysteries and Shakespeare. Liz’ favorite times at Mercy have included “intersession trips with students to the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland or traveling with students to Los Angeles cultural events. I also love being a part of the Senior Overnight Retreat. I have enjoyed an extraordinary collegiality with other teachers at Mercy and have never ceased to enjoy the unexpected and unlooked for joys of being in the classroom with our students.” From the beginning Liz has been at home at Mercy. “I felt immediately embraced by the Sisters of Mercy and their dedication to social justice. At my first faculty meeting, the principal, Sister Mar-

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States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, is scheduled to be present for Bishop Daly’s installation. Bishop Daly was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1987. He served as president of Marin Catholic High School from 2003-2011 and vocations director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco under Archbishop George Niederauer and Cardinal William J. Levada 2002-2001. As auxiliary in San Jose, he also was appointed interim rector of St. Patrick Seminary & University. Bishop Daly earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco in 1982, a master of divinity from St. Patrick’s in 1987 and a master of education degree from Boston College in 1996. After ordination, he served as parochial vicar of Our Lady of Loretto Parish, 1987-1992; teacher and campus minister, Marin Catholic, 1992-2003; part-time chaplain, San Francisco Police Department, 1995-2003; and parochial vicar, St. Cecilia Parish, 1995-1999. He attended Sacred Heart High School, now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, graduating in 1978. With the appointment, Bishop Daly, 54, becomes the latest bishop ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to be appointed to head a Western United States diocese. In addition to Bishop Daly and Bishop McElroy, the ordinaries of Western dioceses who were ordained priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester, Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia; Reno,

These priests ordained in the Archdiocese of San Francisco were elevated by Rome to lead dioceses. Thomas C. Daly, newly appointed bishop of Spokane Robert W. McElroy, newly appointed bishop of San Diego Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia Reno, Nevada, Bishop Randolph Roque Calvo San Jose Bishop Patrick Joseph McGrath Bishop Daniel Walsh, bishop of Santa Rosa and of Las Vegas, retired Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla, SJ, formerly bishop of Yakima, Washington, retired Bishop John Cummins, bishop of Oakland, retired Bishop Francis Quinn, bishop of Sacramento, retired

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Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Thomas A. Daly of San Jose to be the new bishop of Spokane, Washington. Nevada Bishop Randolph Roque Calvo; and San Jose Bishop Patrick Joseph McGrath. Retired bishops who were ordained

priests in the archdiocese include Bishop Daniel Walsh, formerly bishop of Santa Rosa and of Las Vegas, now in residence in his home parish of St. Anne of the Sunset; Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla, SJ, formerly bishop of Yakima, Washington; Bishop John Cummins, retired bishop of Oakland; and Bishop Francis Quinn, who was bishop of Sacramento from 1979 to 1993. Currently serving San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice grew up in San Mateo and was ordained a priest in the archdiocese in 1968. He was appointed auxiliary bishop in 2008. Deceased ordinaries who were ordained priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco include the first archbishop and fifth bishop of Seattle, Thomas Arthur Connolly, who served as Seattle’s ordinary 1950-1975,and died in 1991; Bishop Hugh Aloysius Donohoe, a labor activist who attended all four sessions of Vatican II and served as bishop of Stockton from 1962-1969 and of Fresno from 1969-1980, and died in 1987; Bishop Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle, co-founder of the St. Thomas More Society, who served as an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco from 1950-1969 and bishop of Stockton from 1969-1979, dying in 1981. Eric Meisfjord of the Diocese of Spokane contributed.

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who are called to a contemplative life living in a cloister and devoting themselves to lives of prayer; there are those who are called to the apostolic life giving witness to their lives of prayer by direct service through ministries of education, health care, social work, parish ministry and works of peace and justice. All serve others in the spirit of Jesus. Other forms of consecrated life include those called to be hermits to live in seclusion from the world, in solitude, prayer, and penance, in praise of God and for the salvation of others. Another form is that of consecrated virgins who dedicate their lives to God while continuing to live in the world. They continue with their career and ordinarily live independently. Here are the women religious communities serving in the archdiocese: Congregation of the Holy Family of Kerala Quinhon Missionary Sisters; Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth; Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Daughters of Carmel; Religious of the Virgin Mary; Daughters of Charity of Canossa; Sacro Costato Missionary Sisters; Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Salesian Sisters; Daughters of Mary and Joseph; Sisters of Charity of Blessed Virgin Mary; Daughters of St.

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Bishops urge Californians to contact lawmakers to oppose assisted-suicide bill VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

California bishops are urging citizens to contact lawmakers to oppose a bill that would legalize assisted suicide. Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, and Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, are among its authors. “Assisted suicide represents misguided public policy, which would have numerous detrimental implications for vulnerable people and impact our society negatively,” the California Catholic Conference said in a legislative alert asking Californians to contact their lawmakers to oppose Senate Bill 128. SB 128 would allow doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to terminally ill patients who want to commit suicide. Committing suicide is not illegal in California but it is illegal for a doctor to prescribe drugs to help someone kill themselves. The bill is just the latest attempt to legalized assisted suicide in California and is largely financed by Compassion & Choices, said Archdiocese of San Francisco respect life coordinator Vicki Evans. In 2006 and 2007, similar legislation

The California Catholic Conference website has a special section on end-of-life decisions, “Embracing Our Dying.” In 2011, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops issued a statement entitled “To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide.” was defeated in California, said Tim Rosales of Californians Against Assisted Suicide. The bill was introduced in the California State Legislature in January by 2 Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, and Sen. Bill Monning, DCarmel. At its date of introduction, 13 additional legislators were listed as co-authors. “Many think the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is inevitable, given its recent introduction into state legislatures across the country. It is not,” said Evans. While there have been more than 100 attempts to legalize assisted suicide in the past 20 years, only three states have legalized it through legislative or voter action, Californians Against Assisted Suicide notes on its website. Those are

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Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. In Montana and New Mexico, judges have sided with assisted suicide. “This is a social experiment being advanced by a small number of massively well-funded individuals – a group called Compassion & Choices. A lethal medication is being promoted to vulnerable individuals without Federal Drug Administration approval and without the support of the medical community,” Evans said. “The opportunity for abuse is alarming. And the message to our sick, elderly and disabled is ‘you are a burden,’” Evans said. “Once more, this legislation will be vigorously opposed by a diverse group of organizations representing doctors, people with disabilities, faith-based organizations, hospitals, hospice, minorities, the poor and the uninsured,” the California Catholic Conference said in its message to voters. The California Catholic

Conference is the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. Other legislation co-authors include Sens. Hannah Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara; Marty Block, D-San Diego; Isadore Hall, D-Inglewood; Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley; Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina; Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg; and Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont; as well as Assembly Members Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens; Bill Quirk, DHayward; and Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley. “Catholic social teaching tells us that we are created in the image of God; therefore, we hold life to be sacred from conception to natural death. We believe that we are stewards – not owners – of our lives,” the Catholic Conference said in its message. “As such, the California Catholic Conference remains steadfast in our opposition to assisted suicide and any attempts to legalize it, and therefore, strongly opposes SB 128.”

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Catholic to nancially support its clinics. Cross Catholic Outreach has even helped the network of clinics expand into previously unreached areas. The ministry has also helped a sister clinic increase its services in downtown Cochabamba, where homeless street dwellers can receive quality medical care. According to Cavnar, Catholic medical ministries like the San Lucas Foundation are worthy of support because they vastly improve the lives of impoverished families around the world. “In developing countries, children are dying because they aren’t receiving immunizations or basic care. Adults are succumbing to preventable diseases or dying from minor injuries because they are left untreated. Poor mothers run a tremendous risk of infection or death because they’re forced to give birth at home. Our goal is to keep these preventable tragedies from happening, and we believe the most effective way to do that is to support

misery on the streets of Cochabamba. The San Lucas Foundation regularly sends its volunteers to search for street dwellers needing medical care. When the ministry discovered John, who is unable to walk and was supporting himself only through begging, they immediately brought him to their downtown clinic where they treated his wounds, bathed him and admitted him into their physical therapy facility. All the while, Cavnar says, the doctors and staff of the San Lucas Foundation treated John as they would have treated Christ: with respect, dignity and love. “John was literally lying in the streets — he can’t stand or walk on his own — and people were passing him by as if he wasn’t there. He was hungry, sick and in great need of Christ. There was no one to help him, but these compassionate Catholics stepped in as Christ would have,” Cavnar said. “That’s the type of

Poor Bolivian families in rural mountain areas lack access to health facilities. could accomplish,” Cavnar said. Cavnar says he’s con dent American Catholics will continue to stand for what is right. “In 1 John 3:18 it says, ‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.’ Being a Catholic myself, I know American Catholics understand what this means when it comes to helping their poor brothers and sisters in Christ. I know they will continue to bring life-saving care to the poor — it’s what they do,” Cavnar said. It is what they did for Donata and her sons. The rural clinic in Sapanani Alto has helped Donata in many ways: staff there provided prenatal care, they delivered both of her children, they monitored the children’s health, they immunized them, and they provided psychological counseling when her husband passed away. “It has helped my children be healthy — and helped me be healthy too. That means more than I can say,” Donata said.

John was suffering in the streets until the San Lucas Foundation stepped in to help. hand to mouth. They worry if there will be enough money for food, clothing or adequate shelter. Despite having to live this dirt-poor existence, mothers like Donata now have an extremely important resource available to them thanks to the help of American Catholics. For some, it is the rst time they have access to adequate medical care. Prenatal care and medically-supervised childbirth. Basic immunizations against childhood diseases. Regular check-ups from caring doctors. These are just a few of the services families in Sapanani Alto and other rural Bolivian communities enjoy now through a network of Catholic clinics operated by the San Lucas Foundation. “These clinics are having a tremendous impact on the health of the poor, especially children like Jose Angel,” said Jim Cavnar, president of Cross Catholic Outreach. The San Lucas Foundation relies heavily on Cross

Catholic medical ministries already in place, working hard on behalf of the poor,” Cavnar said. Cross Catholic Outreach also ships desperately-needed supplies, such as medicines and hospital equipment, to Catholic medical ministries overseas. From providing orthopedic surgeries in the Dominican Republic to supporting a far- ung clinic in rural Ethiopia, Cavnar says Cross Catholic’s support for medical projects is not only far-reaching, but also in line with Catholic teachings. “Christ’s life serves as a prime example of how we should treat the poor,” Cavnar said. “He healed them, he restored them and he uplifted them. We aspire to the same approach in our work. We want to serve the poor in a way that preserves their dignity.” As an example, Cavnar told the story of John, a partially paralyzed street dweller who lived a life of

medical ministry God is calling all of us to support.” Based on the response Cross Catholic has gotten to medical appeals, American Catholics seem to agree. “I thank God every day for the ‘army’ of American Catholics who give generously to our medical projects. Because of them, we’ve been able to help our ministry partners save thousands of lives all over the world. That’s a feat only Christ and his faith- lled followers

Living in deep poverty, Donata Juarez and her son, Jose Angel, are at constant risk of disease.

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Why is the scholarship so important? The answer is simple. Without this support, children would simply go unschooled. scholarships to lift up the neediest children in Kenya.” In addition to helping hundreds of young children gain a primary education, Cross Catholic’s efforts will have an important second bene t. It will encourage and empower the priests and nuns behind two of the nation’s most exciting outreaches — the Brother Beausang Catholic School and St. Andrew Nkaimurunya School. Both are located near the city of Nairobi. “The priests and nuns who established these Catholic schools have made tremendous personal sacri ces to extend Christ’s love in

the communities they serve. When American Catholics step forward and fund a $110 scholarship to their schools, it will be incredibly encouraging to them. It will show them that we American Catholics are grateful for their work and want to help them in their noble cause of educating the poorest of the poor.” Why is the scholarship so important? The answer is simple. Without this support, children would simply go unschooled. Families subsisting on only a few dollars a week can’t afford the luxury of sending a child to school. “Those who establish a scholarship are helping put a child in school for a full year and the daily classroom experience also includes a meal — sometimes the only meal that child eats all day,” Cavnar said. “And what is the alternative? Leaving a child illiterate and without hope? Is that really an option? I doubt Pope Francis would see it that way.” Some will ask if there is a way to support the goal without funding a full $110 scholarship for a school year. The answer, Cavnar emphatically said was “yes!” Donors who contribute to the scholarship fund in any amount are helping to build the general scholarship pool which will also fund students in need. “Every gift, large or small, will make a difference,” Cavnar said. “As we collect up to $110, another scholarship will be funded. As a newspaper reader responding to this need, you can have a profound impact on the poor with any and every gift they make toward this cause.” Proceeds from this campaign will

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for the poor, use the ministry brochure enclosed in this issue of the paper or mail your donation to Cross Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC01109, PO Box 9558, Wilton, NH 03086-9558. Please write “SCHOLARSHIP” in the comment line of the brochure to ensure your gift is routed to the proper fund.

Visit the website of Cross Catholic Outreach (www.CrossCatholic.org) and you will notice three indisputable strengths of the organization — its cost effectiveness, its impressive Catholic leadership and its emphasis on funding projects that have speci c and tangible bene ts for the poor. Cross Catholic Outreach is clearly having an impact both overseas and here in the U.S. “Donors most often notice our

Cross Catholic Outreach has the endorsement of some 60 U.S. dioceses and the list has been growing steadily through the years. effectiveness. They want their donations to be used wisely and to have impact, so they appreciate the fact that nearly 95 percent of donations are used for program services and that so little of our expenses are allocated to fundraising and administration,” explains Cross

Catholic Outreach’s president, Jim Cavnar. “The second thing they look for is integrity in our leadership, and they nd that in the seven bishops and archbishops who serve on our board of directors. It shows we aren’t just a charity fundraising from Catholics. We are a Catholic outreach, and we promote Catholic teachings and values through our work.” This fact has been noticed by Catholic bishops and archbishops in the U.S. and they have endorsed the charity as a result. As of this moment, Cross Catholic Outreach has the endorsement of some 70 U.S. dioceses and the list has been growing steadily through the years. Results are one reason for this attention. Cross Catholic Outreach has a history of effectively supporting existing Catholic parishes and programs overseas, and thereby empowering the Catholic Church worldwide. “When we dig wells, build homes or launch medical clinics, the people in the community associate those things to the Catholic Church. Selfpromotion isn’t our goal. Our goal

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Catherine Center, a Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County program that supports women leaving incarceration, has appointed Vivian Clausing as program director. Clausing is an attorney and well known in the social justice corridors of the archdiocese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m blessed that this ministry includes both

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Pictured are Vivian Clausing, SVdPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catherine Center program director, and Susan Swope, SVdP Restorative Justice Committee. direct relationship with the women that we serve and interaction with volunteers, donors, and special friends,â&#x20AC;? Clausing told Catholic San Francisco via email. Clausing said she will â&#x20AC;&#x153;manage the day to day life of the community.â&#x20AC;? Catherine Center helps formerly incarcerated women develop new behaviors, reconnect with children and family and prepare for a productive life in society. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love to nurture people,â&#x20AC;? Clausing said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serving women on the margins has been close to my heart for some time.â&#x20AC;? Clausing is a former director of youth ministry for the archdiocese and during that time volunteered in San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tenderloin District regularly. The experience stays with her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was struck by the unique challenges faced by women, teenage girls and

elderly women living in shelters and on the streets,â&#x20AC;? she said. Clausing said the focus of her new post, one she calls ministry, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;presence and love.â&#x20AC;? Her spiritual formation and training as a spiritual director as well as her life experience as a parent and her law degree will accompany her at Catherine Center. Clausing said she is walking into an already wellrun organization. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SVdPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of a person-to-person approach is alive in the individual way that we serve each resident according to her needs. The Sisters of Mercy gave us a good spiritual foundation. Mercy Center has been supportive of us. After our women leave us, SVdP is there for ongoing homelessness prevention and other help, as are we at Catherine Center.â&#x20AC;? Clausing said the center â&#x20AC;&#x153;offers a place of healing and transformationâ&#x20AC;? for an underserved population. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are blessed to witness miracles every day as women turn their lives around, reunite with their families, ďŹ nd jobs, learn new skills and learn to love themselves,â&#x20AC;? she said. Clausing is only in a rush to â&#x20AC;&#x153;be a good steward of the ministry; to grow resources to build the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skills and program support possibly through a social enterprise option.â&#x20AC;? Catherine Center receives noÂ government funding and relies entirely on the generosity of the community for support. Catherine Center opened in 2003 in alliance with the Sisters of Mercy. As of February 2015, it has welcomed 88 women, all from detention facilities mainly in the Bay Area, Of the women the center has helped, 86 graduated from, attended or are attending an intensive addiction recovery program; 55 are mothers or grandmothers of 109 minor children and 52 adult children; 43 are attending or have completed college courses or training programs during their stay. The center will continue to support up to 10 women in its 12-month residency program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moreover, Catherine Center will continue community outreach to share our important mission and courageous stories to help break down stereotypes and heal the community,â&#x20AC;? the organization said.

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Imelda Adel, a 25-year Our Lady of Perpetual Help parishioner, was very pleased to get a selfie with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone during the archbishop’s visit to the parish March 11.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was the main celebrant at a Mass March 11 marking the 90th anniversary of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Daly City – a Catholic community born in 1925 as St. Maximus Church and reborn four years later when Rome granted parishioners’ petition to rename their church in honor of the Blessed Mother. The church, which serves 700 families and 200 students at the parish K-8 school, was filled for the weekday celebration. The archbishop paused at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help icon in the church before the recessional and greeted parishioners after Mass. The liturgy was followed by a motorcade around the parish boundaries and a free lunch in the school hall, said pastor Father Augusto Villote, who is in his fourth year at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and was ordained to the priesthood in the archdiocese in 2003.

Daly City Councilman David Canepa read and delivered a proclamation for the church on behalf of the mayor and members of the City Council. Anniversary events will continue throughout the year, including a Festival of Flowers in May; family sports festival in June; International Fair in August; and a vocation campaign in October with representatives of religious communities speaking during homilies at Sunday Masses during the month. Parishioners will sojourn to Italy in November on a “Retracing Our Roots Pilgrimage,” starting at the St. Maximus Shrine in Turin and concluding at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Shrine in Rome. The anniversary year winds up with a dinner dance honoring parishioners on Dec. 4 and Mass on Sunday Dec. 8, the feast of Immaculate Conception, at 6:30 p.m., with Archbishop Rolando Tirona of the Archdiocese of Caceres (Nueva Caceres), Philippines, celebrating.

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RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION ‘CRISIS WITHIN WIDER CRISIS’

WASHINGTON – A U.S. bishop who recently visited with refugees in Iraq told a Senate subcommittee March 11 that a multi-pronged approach is needed to combat a wide range of humanitarian problems including religious persecution. “Grim statistics are only part of the story,” Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, told the Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on State, Foreign Bishop Cantu Operations and Related Programs. Although religious persecution is part of the story, he said, “the weakening of the rule of law, and the corresponding rise of extremist groups, many associated with (the Islamic State), created the conditions where religious persecution could grow malignantly, like a cancer unchecked.” Bishop Cantu traveled to Iraq and spoke at the hearing in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He noted that the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that in February there were close to 2.5 million people in Iraq who were internally displaced from their homes. Through 2014 at least 11,600 people had been killed in Iraq and another 22,000 were wounded. Also in February, Bishop Cantu said, Syria had more than 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, including 4 million who have ﬂed the country. Syria’s ﬁve-year civil war has killed 220,000 people, he added. In those two countries especially, the bishop said, “religious persecution is a distinct crisis within a wider crisis.”

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Cardinal Egan mourned Relatives of Cardinal Edward M. Egan pray during a vigil Mass for the cardinal at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City March 9. Cardinal Egan, who was New York’s archbishop from 2000 until his retirement in 2009, died March 5 of cardiac arrest. He was 82.

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WASHINGTON – A recent study released by the Brookings Institution in Washington ﬁnds that single women whose income is 400 percent of the federal poverty line or higher are nearly four times as likely to opt for an abortion when faced with an unplanned pregnancy. The ﬁndings contradict earlier statements by the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, saying that women with family incomes at or above 200 percent of the poverty line “have a rate of nine abortions per 1,000, which is about half the national rate.” In 2015, the federal poverty rate ranges from $11,770

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for a single individual to $24,250 for a family of four. The Brookings paper, released in February, indicates that while there is no difference in rates of sexual activity across different income groups, single women who make four times the federal poverty level have an abortion rate of 31.9 percent while those at or below the line have a rate of only 8.6 percent. This means that a single woman making over $47,000 is over 370 percent more likely to abort her unplanned child than the 91.4 percent of single women making less than $11,770 per year, who, statistically, will carry the child to term. While the study goes on to prescribe policy suggestions, including expanding the federal health care contraceptive mandate and removing federal policies that prohibit Medicaid from covering abortions, the authors do cite a sociological study that states that “a baby – even when unplanned – is a great source of fulﬁllment in low-income communities.”

4 NATIONAL CATHOLIC PUBLICATIONS CALL FOR ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY

WASHINGTON – Four nationally circulated Catholic publications called for abolishing the death penalty in the United States in a jointly published editorial. America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our Sunday Visitor urged their readers, the U.S. Catholic community and people of faith to “stand with us and say, ‘Capital punishment must end,’” the March 5 online editorial stated. Dennis Coday, editor of National Catholic Reporter, said the effort evolved after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in January to hear arguments in an Oklahoma death penalty case. “There’s been a growing consensus among the public and especially among Catholics of the need to bring an abolition, or at least a moratorium, to the death penalty in the country,” Coday told Catholic News Service. “I think that’s perfectly clear from public opinion surveys, especially in the last year that execution after execution has failed or been botched.”

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CARDINAL: MARRIAGE TRUTH IS CHURCH’S KEY CAUSE

POPE: KIDS NEED VALUES, HOPE FROM TEACHERS

CHESTER, England – The new evangelization of Western societies will fail unless the church succeeds in transmitting its teachings on marriage and the family to Catholics, said a U.S. cardinal. The success of efforts to convincingly preach anew the Gospel in secularized societies rests on the ability of Catholics to faithfully abide by the church’s teachings, said Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, patron of the Knights of Malta. He said the obedient Christian witness of faithful married couples was critical to the renewal of the church and society and said Catholics must be willing to suffer in their efforts to uphold the truth of marriage. “The challenge which confronts the whole church confronts particularly the church in the ﬁrst cell of her life, which is the family,” he said in a March 6 speech, “Remaining in the Truth of Christ on Holy Matrimony.” “If we can’t get it straight with regard to the truth about marriage and the family, we really don’t have much to say about anything else,” Cardinal Burke told more than 150 people at a meeting organized by Voice of the Family, an initiative of Catholic laity in support of the 2014-2015 Synods of Bishops on the family.

MAY 23 MASS SET FOR ROMERO BEATIFICATION

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatiﬁed in San Salvador May 23, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator or chief promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood cause. The ceremony, which moves the murdered archbishop a step closer to sainthood, will be in Plaza Divino Salvador del Mundo. The archbishop said Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, would celebrate the Mass. “Romero, from heaven, wants every Salvadoran to walk the path of peace and justice,” Archbishop Paglia said March 11 at a news conference in San Salvador. Pope Francis formally recognized Feb. 3 that the slain Salvadoran archbishop was killed “in hatred of the faith” – and not for purely political reasons.

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Comic book on life of John XXIII This is a page from the comic book “The Story of Pope John XXIII.” The book is a reissue of a profile written and drawn by Joe Sinnott, an artist known for inking “The Fantastic Four” and other memorable Marvel titles from the Golden Age of comics. The book is a straightforward account of the pontiff’s life. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born into a family of Italian sharecroppers Nov. 25, 1881. After a career in the papal diplomatic corps, he was elected pope in 1958.

VATICAN CITY – Teaching is about giving young people, especially troublemakers, values and hope, and it is “an injustice” that today’s educators are paid so poorly, Pope Francis said. In a world where it is already difficult for kids to ﬁnd a decent point of reference, they must ﬁnd positive guidance from teachers, who “are able to give meaning to school, studying and culture, without reducing it all just to passing on practical knowledge,” he said March 14. “You have to teach not just about a subject, but also life’s values and habits” because when it comes to learning about a subject, “a computer is sufficient, but to understand how to love, to understand what the values and habits are that create harmony in the world, you need a good teacher,” he said. The pope’s remarks came during a meeting with members of an Italian association of Catholic teachers, educators and school administrators. Addressing those in the audience as “colleagues,” the pope recalled his own experience as a teacher, saying teaching “is a really beautiful job” because it lets educators see their students “grow day after day.” However, he said, it was “an injustice” and a “shame that teachers are poorly paid.” “Teaching is a serious commitment that only a mature and well-balanced” person should take on, he added. Young people expect a teacher to be “a guide, a compass, an answer” as well as someone who asks them “good questions,” he said. The pope called on teachers to reach out to and “love with greater intensity” the kids on “the peripheries” of their school: those who do not like studying, who are labeled as “difficult,” who have disabilities, come other countries or face other problems and disadvantages. “Jesus would say: If you love only those who study or who are well-educated, what merit does that have? There are those who try your patience, but we have to love them even more,” the pope said. In addition to teaching “the contents” of a particular subject, teachers need to build an edifying relationship with all students, “who must feel welcomed and loved for who they are, with all their limits and potential.” – CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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INTERVIEW: At 2-year mark, pope talks about his election, future FROM PAGE 1

“I do not know what it is, but I have the feeling that the Lord put me here for a brief time.... But it is just a feeling. So I keep the possibility open.” Pope Benedict XVI’s discernment that he no longer had the energy to carry out the office and his decision to resign to a life of prayer was courageous, Pope Francis said, and it opened the door for popes in the future to do so with greater ease. But, the pope said, he is opposed to setting an age limit, for example, 80, for a pope’s ministry. While for some theologians “the papacy is a sacrament,” he said he would not go that far, but “it is something special.” Asked about reports that he received about 40 votes during the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict, Pope Francis refused to answer, “although I could tell because now I have the authority to speak.” As for the 2013 conclave, he said he had no inkling until the lunch break March 13 “when something happened,” cardinals started coming up to him and asking about his health. “When we returned in the evening, the cake was cooked. Everything happened with just two ballots. It was a surprise for me as well.” During the voting, he said, he was praying the rosary, which was his normal practice and brings him a great sense of peace. “The same thing occurred then, which for me was a sign that it was

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Pope Francis greets people in wheelchairs during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 11. God’s will. Peace. And even today I have not lost that sense.” The cardinals at the conclave interrupted his rosary when he had reached the two-thirds vote necessary to be elected. “They asked me if I accepted. I said yes. I don’t know if they made me take an oath, I don’t remember.” Questioned about the 2014 extraordinary synod and the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the family, particularly regarding the acceptance of homosexual persons and Communion for divorced and civilly remarried couples, Pope Francis said some people have “unrealistic expectations,” but he is convinced God wants the church to focus on better serving families. “The family is in crisis,” he said, and it is not the

age-old crisis of inﬁdelity, but the future of marriage itself. “I think the Lord wants us to face this,” Pope Francis said, including through improved “marriage preparation; accompanying cohabitating couples; accompanying those who do marry and are raising a family; supporting those whose marriages have failed and are in a new union; preparing them for the sacrament of marriage, (because) not everyone is ready.” As for the reform of the Roman Curia, which Pope Francis said really was the “last (royal) court” existing in Europe, he said, “the appearance of a court can be maintained,” but the Curia must be a group of people and structures “at the service of the church, at the service of the bishops.”

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A compelling cathedral

magine three medieval workers standing around a large vat, vigorously mixing its contents. Though they are all engaged in the same task, each has a different answer when asked just what they are doing. One responds, “I’m mixing clay”; the second says, “I’m making bricks”; but the third boasts, “I’m building a MSGR. JOHN cathedral.” TALESFORE No human endeavor matches the building of a cathedral as the very pinnacle of what we recognize to be noble, beautiful and outstanding in all of human activity and accomplishment. How sad it is then that locals, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, often fail to appreciate what is so evident to pilgrims and tourists, architects, artists and builders the world over: That in the construction of a worthy mother church for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop McGucken, his engineers and contractors were keenly aware that they were building a great cathedral and nothing less! While he may not have set out with something so great in mind, the archbishop took to heart the critique of those who were disappointed by early designs that missed the unique opportunity for this to be the ﬁrst cathedral to embody the liturgical vision of the Second Vatican Council. Particularly

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‘The Cathedral must belong to its own people and place, but also to the world. It must express the oneness of things, as well as their ineffable mystery.’ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, JUNE 1963 compelling were the words of Allan Temko, Pulitzer prize-winning architectural critic for the San Francisco Chronicle: “The Cathedral should, and can be a great building in every sense of greatness, if only the church and the city together make the best of this tremendous opportunity … the Cathedral must belong to its own people and place, but also to the world. It must express the oneness of things, as well as their ineffable mystery” (San Francisco Chronicle, June 1963). And so, like the great cathedrals of the past, St. Mary’s Cathedral has drawn upon the artistic and engineering genius of its time to shape a worthy gathering place for the great events in the life our local church and where

countless visitors can ﬁnd a spiritual oasis in the midst of San Francisco. Ancient faith and modern technology combine to create a monument to the praise of God that draws our eyes both upward to heaven in the graceful sweep of the cupola and outward to the four corners of our beloved city and the world to which we are sent in eager service. Perhaps because locals have heard that a once popular newspaper colum-

nist ﬂippantly compared it to a common household appliance, they have never really taken the time to honestly assess this cathedral which the American Institute of Architects counts among the 25 most important buildings in the San Francisco region. Much like many Romans who have never set foot inside St. Peter’s Basilica or Parisians who have never been inside Notre Dame, San Franciscans seem content to drive right by St. Mary’s Cathedral and never wonder why so many tour buses are always lined up there on Gough Street or on Geary Boulevard. Why not stop in and see what thousands and thousands of tourists and pilgrims marvel at year in and year out? Arrange a docent tour and catch up with a generation of Catholic school students, who for more than 25 years have taken advantage of this most popular ﬁeld trip, and learn about our great Catholic traditions in church architecture, sacred art and music. Why not make a Lenten pilgrimage to pray along the path of meditations that accompany the monumental bronze sculptures of the Blessed Virgin Mary as our role model of discipleship? There’s no better time to appreciate St. Mary’s Cathedral than when we, the faithful of the archdiocese for whom SEE CATHEDRAL, PAGE 22

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Be compassionate

e have a loving and compassionate God and Jesus calls us to practice these virtues in our lives. This is our mission as Christians. Here are some practical ways to be more holy and compassionate so as to fulﬁll Christ’s command. When I was growing up we learned about the corporal and spiritual works SISTER MARGIE of mercy. They LAVONIS were tools for living a good Christian life. They show us how to be loving and compassionate. Jesus tells us about the corporal works of mercy in chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew. He challenges us to feed the hungry; to give drink to the thirsty; to clothe the naked; to visit the imprisoned; to shelter the homeless; to visit the sick and to bury the dead. We will be judged by how we do these things. At ﬁrst glance we might think that we are rarely presented with opportunities to exercise many of these good works. But, if we look a little closer, we might be surprised how often we are presented with ways to do some of these actions. For instance, feeding the hungry and the thirsty does not have to be limited to literal food and water. People have all kinds of hungers and often thirst for many things. A common hunger that we all share is the hunger for love. We can help satisfy that hunger by reaching out to people, especially the lonely and being kind and generous to others when

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The three traditional pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. it would be easier not to be involved. Maybe there is someone at work or at a place I volunteer who needs my time or friendship. It could even be a family member who I tend to neglect or overlook. Another hunger that we all share is the hunger to be listened to, to have people really care about what we say. This hunger is often so great that some people resort to paying for this service in therapy when all they might really need is a listening ear. Begin by giving your whole attention to people who are speaking to you. There are also people who thirst for affirmation. How many times are you presented with opportunities to affirm the gifts of others, to let them know that you notice the good that they do, but never get around to it? We can also clothe the naked. It might be as easy as opening my closet and deciding I don’t need 20 pairs of slacks and several dresses that I haven’t worn

for years. A priest told me that he has a ritual he does every Good Friday. He goes through his clothes and gives away everything he hasn’t worn for the past two years. The next question is how do we visit the imprisoned? We don’t have to literally go to prisons or jails. That is good, if the opportunity arises, but there are other ways people can be imprisoned. Maybe I could confront those who are imprisoned by drugs or alcohol or other addictions and encourage them to get help. Another group of “imprisoned” persons are the elderly or disabled who could use a visit, call, or email. To shelter the homeless might mean volunteering at a shelter. Sometimes you may have opportunities to visit the sick but something holds you back. I may not like hospitals and funeral homes? If so, maybe we can at least send get well or sympathy cards. Even more challenging are the spiritual works of mercy. They call us

to admonish the sinner; to instruct the ignorant; to counsel the doubtful; to comfort the sorrowful; to bear wrongs patiently; to forgive all injuries and to pray for the living and the dead! At ﬁrst glance these seem very overwhelming. You may feel hypocritical admonishing a person when I do many things that are not great. One way might be to point out another’s destructive behavior – not in a righteous way but out of true care or by saying something or at least changing the subject when we ﬁnd ourselves in a negative conversation. To instruct the ignorant might mean sharing my beliefs with people who have little or no knowledge of Christianity. And one way to comfort the sorrowful is to acknowledge their pain and to be there for them. To bear wrongs patiently is not easy. It takes much strength not to lash out against those who treat us unjustly. Jesus’ command to turn the other cheek is downright hard and takes a lot of practice. A suggestion is to pray for them. A related spiritual work of mercy is to forgive all injuries, even if we have been hurt deeply. There are times when I have felt this to be impossible. I try to remember what one of my spiritual directors said. Sometimes we are so hurt that we have to pray for the desire to forgive. Finally, compassionate people express their concern for others in prayer. During these days of Lent it might be helpful to focus on one or two works that need to be strengthened in our lives. HOLY CROSS SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS is a freelance writer living in Notre Dame, Indiana.

The darkest day of the human experience First of two parts.

he darkest day in the life of a human being is the death of a loved one – be it a parent, grandparent, sibling, child, family member, close friend, signiﬁcant other or even a family pet. Grief is the human suffering caused by that death. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who DEACON mourn, for they CHRISTOPH shall be comSANDOVAL forted” (Matthew 5:4). The word mourn that Jesus used is the most severe of all nine Greek words used for grief in Scripture. It is reserved for mourning of the dead. And this word choice certainly applies to the human experience of all who grieve. Jesus experienced profound and unbearable grief and is our model and guide for moving through the sorrow of separation. Losing someone we love causes painful spiritual, emotional and physical suffering. Losing a family member or a friend is an intensely personal and emotional experience. Following a death, one feels empty and numb, as one enters into a state of shock. Every pore in our body wants to produce an endless ﬂow of tears. Spiritual doubts

Psalm 46:10 reminds us to ‘be still’ and rest in the knowledge that he is God. He is our refuge (Psalm 91:1-2). ‘He works all things together for the good of those he has called’ (Romans 8:28). and questions may arise when a loved one dies. Some may notice severe emotional changes such as feelings of helplessness and powerlessness, feelings of deep sadness and sorrow and a sudden fearful awareness that we too are destined to die. Physically many experience headaches and body aches, severe fatigue and digestive problems and trouble sleeping and eating. Jesus himself experienced the same gamut of symptoms that come with losing a loved one. When Jesus’ friend Lazarus dies, he weeps. Even though he knew he would raise Lazarus back to life, he was still overwhelmed with emotion as he experiences the loss of his beloved friend. Jesus teaches us that it is OK to grieve, it is OK to cry, and it is OK to mourn. Jesus not only lost his good friend Lazarus to death, he also lost his dear cousin, John the Baptist. John the Baptist, whom Jesus called the greatest born of men, died by a barbaric brutal beheading. When Jesus heard the news about John, he got on a boat and went to a desolate place. Jesus enters into a time of bereavement mourning his loss and seeking the comfort and consolation of the eternal father. Scripture tells us that perhaps the

greatest expression of anticipatory grief is when Jesus wept for Jerusalem. It is here where Jesus cried aloud in sorrow over the future of the city. That future was less than 40 years in the future in 70 A.D. when more than 1 million residents of Jerusalem died in one of the most grisly sieges in recorded history. Like Jesus many of us today may experience anticipatory grief and the fear of losing our loved ones in the future. What does Jesus tell us about how to handle grief ? Jesus deﬁnes the course we must follow from our dying into the rising in the Stations of the Cross. Here he teaches us to be eternity minded – that in death life is changed, not ended. This Lenten journey points to Easter Sunday of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the promise that we are on the same journey. In Psalm 30:5 we receive the consolation that “Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.” There is an end to mourning. Grief has its purpose, but it also has its limit. Through it all, God is faithful. God is with us in the darkest day of our life when we lose a loved one. There are many Scriptures that remind us of God’s faithfulness in times of mourning. He is with us even in the valley of

the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4). When David sorrowed, he prayed this in Psalm 56:8: “You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?” The touching image of God catching our tears is full of meaning. He sees our grief and does not condemn it. In Bethany Jesus entered into the grief of the mourners, and in our personal losses past, present and to come Jesus enters into our grief. At the same time, he reassures us that all is not lost. Psalm 46:10 reminds us to “be still” and rest in the knowledge that he is God. He is our refuge (Psalm 91:1-2). “He works all things together for the good of those he has called” (Romans 8:28). In St. Mary’s Cathedral Grief Support Group Jesus becomes present to offer comfort, consolation and compassion when two or more are gathered in his name. The group experience offers the gift of witness and presence healing the isolation and the loneliness that often results from loss. This is not a therapy or discussion group. It is a place for spiritual care that provides a time for listening, a time for sharing and a time for prayer and healing. DEACON SANDOVAL is the facilitator of the drop-in Cathedral Grief Support Group. Open to all parishes, the group meets on the third Wednesdays of each month from 10:30 a.m.-noon in the Msgr. Bowe Room at the cathedral. Contact Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. For a list of parish grief support groups please see www.sfarchdiocese.org/home/ministries/grief-consolation.

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Keeping Catholic schools Catholic

here seems to be some dispute as to whether the original Trotskyite – that would be, um, Leon Trotsky – ever said, “You may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you.” One quotation-archaeologist, digging deeply, claims to have found the origins of Trotsky’s alleged bon mot in that unforgettable treatise, “Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party”; but, while this is Lent, excavating such rocky soil and further would transform penance into masochism. So let’s just assume that GEORGE WEIGEL Trotsky, as a good dialectical materialist, believed that there was no escape from history as it was being driven by “the dialectic.” Or, to put it less dialectically-materialistically, you can’t duck some fights, try as you may. Like, for example, the intensification of the culture war that will follow the Supreme Court’s anticipated discovery that the 39th Congress, passing the 14th amendment to the Constitution in 1866, included within the amendment’s guarantees a “right” to so-called “same-sex marriage.” Pressures flowing from that judicial fantasy will make it clear, save to the willfully blind, that while you might not be interested in the culture war, the culture war is interested in you – and it isn’t going to leave you in peace until you surrender, or until America regains

its senses and rejects what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger dubbed the “dictatorship of relativism.” This has been the issue in the U.S. bishops’ contest with the Obama administration over the HHS contraceptive/abortifacient mandate in Obamacare: Will Catholic institutions and Catholic employers be able to conduct their affairs according to the church’s settled convictions, protected by the robust deﬁnition of religious freedom contained in the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act? Or will the government attempt to coerce those institutions and businesses into becoming de facto extensions of the state insofar as the delivery of certain “reproductive health services” is concerned? That question of identity, or integrity-in-mission, will be the issue in other culture-war assaults on Catholic life; one of the next lines of battle involves employment practices in Catholic schools. Will the Church be allowed to staff its schools with teachers who teach and live what the Catholic Church believes and teaches, hiring those who meet those criteria and declining to employ those who don’t? Or will the state try to coerce Catholic schools to employ teaching staff according to other criteria? This is going to be a nasty ﬁght, given that “tolerance” has become the all-purpose bludgeon with which the sexual revolution, in all its manifestations, beats its adversaries into submission or drives them into catacombs. All the more reason, then, to be grateful for the courageous leadership shown by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, whose San Francisco archdiocese is arguably ground zero of the culture war that cannot be avoided – and that

must be fought if Catholic institutions are to remain free to be themselves. You can read Archbishop Cordileone’s extraordinary address to a convocation of Catholic high schools teachers Feb. 6 by going to the San Francisco archdiocesan website (www.sfarchdiocese.org) and navigating from the home page to the archbishop’s speeches via the “archbishop” tab. There, in Archbishop Cordileone’s convocation remarks, you will ﬁnd a magniﬁcent explanation of what Catholic schools do – and why what Catholic schools do is important for the young people they serve and for society. The address is a basic lesson in virtue ethics, a moving testimony to growth in virtue as the true index of human accomplishment, and a powerful compliment to teachers as animators of virtue. Animating virtue is tough work and it requires everyone staying on-mission. Thus Archbishop Cordileone is asking that those who teach in the archdiocesan high schools not speak against settled teachings of the Catholic Church in their classrooms, and not act publicly in ways that contradict the church’s settled convictions. Such a requirement would have been thought unexceptionable in the past. Stating it today puts Archbishop Cordileone squarely in the crosshairs of the increasingly intolerant Tolerance Police. More power to him for understanding that, like it or not, the culture war is interested in you – and responding is an evangelical imperative.

God’s.” Catholic schools are not Caesar’s. As Catholics, it is our duty to God that comes before all else. Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

At a time when our holy mother church is being attacked on all fronts what value if any do our local priests or pastors see in publicly criticizing their bishop, their superior and fellow pastors. When Ignatius of Loyola wrote in the constitution for the new order he stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to pope and the superiors. That applies as much today as it did in 1540. God’s glory and beauty go beyond the magniﬁcent structures and artistry of church buildings. His beauty can be seen in the order and harmony of his very body the church on earth. As consecrated vicars of Christ the bishops “take the place of Christ himself, teacher, shepherd and priest, and act as his representatives (in Eius persona agant)” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1558). To lead people in deﬁance of the archbishop is to lead them away from Christ. Let us pray more earnestly for our priests, our archbishop and ourselves as we seek together to live in the truth and love that is Jesus Christ. Mary McCurry San Francisco

WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

LETTERS Teaching in a diocesan school is a privilege I write to you as a parent of a past and present student in the San Francisco archdiocesan schools, as a Catholic, and as an individual. I applaud the archbishop not only for his initial actions with regard to the teachings at our archdiocesan schools, but also for his open mindedness as this discussion continues. In my opinion, there seems to be confusion when some of the archbishop’s critics cannot separate individual rights from the Catholic Church’s teachings. The archdiocese has every right to expect its civilian teachers to conform to the teachings of the church. If a teacher has an alternate view then they must yield to the church’s teachings. My wife and I do not pay tuition to have individuals teach contrary to the church. Teaching in a diocesan school is a privilege. Those who cannot or will not adhere to the church’s teachings should not be in our schools carrying out their own personal, moral agenda. When those opposed to Archbishop Cordileone’s position spew the old line of “being sensitive,” “respecting alternate lifestyles,” etc., they once again conveniently confuse loving one another with respecting and adhering to historic church teachings. Nobody is asking for any student to be removed from any school. Why is it so difficult for some to respect the church? Each parent with children in Catholic schools must ask themselves, “Am I sending my child to their particular school because I don’t want my child to embrace the Catholic Church and its teachings?” If the answer to that question is “yes” then those parents should opt out and send their children elsewhere. We have become a society – especially in San Francisco – that for years has looked the other way when it comes to moral conduct. Rightfully, we as Catholics have been outraged by the reprehensible conduct of some of our priests. Those opposed to the church are at the ready to bring that up at every opportunity. However, where has the moral outrage been from us as Catholics when Catholic after Catholic elected ofﬁcial supports such immoral teachings of “marriage” between any two consenting adults, the legalization of drugs, or children in homes not knowing who their biological parents are and being brought up with two parents of the same gender? Archbishop Cordileone has been a beacon of light. We have been in the dark far too long. It has been a darkness spurred on by indifference, lack of backbone, no fortitude, and a “what the heck” attitude to continuing moral decay. We ﬁnd in Luke, 20:25, when the Jews brought the coin of Caesar to Jesus, He said to them: “Then give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is

Transmitting the faith As a teacher of long experience in this archdiocese I rejoice that we have an archbishop willing to confront the problems of the proper teaching of Catholic doctrine, which cannot exclude the genuine witness of those of us entrusted to teach it. In a public administration class I learned that no one has a right to dissent from the inside, that those who direct an institution have a right to expect that their polices (in this case the teaching of the faith) are carried out. The honorable dissenter resigns and will not take money while undermining the institution for which he works. Our personal witness is important, too. As a former colleague told me, long after the kids have forgotten the speciﬁcs of what you taught them, they will remember you. As C.S. Lewis noted, reviewing a survey on the teaching of catechism in the Church of England, the faith is best passed on when it is taught by those who genuinely practice it. That means both in and beyond the classroom. I will pray for the success of the archbishop’s initiative and for an end to the confusion among so many of my colleagues. Tom Byrne Daly City

Defiance leads away from Christ Like so many readers of Catholic San Francisco I was saddened but not surprised by the clamor of voices attacking our archbishop for doing exactly what a bishop is called to do: Teach and defend the Catholic faith and protect his ﬂock from the tentacles of the evil one. From the local politicians to the secular press we have sadly come to expect this anti-Catholic/Christian/religion from a mindset that confuses freedom with unbridled license, diversity with indiscreet boundaries a liberal openness to intellectual pursuit that demonizes dissenters. But far worse than what we see coming from our secularized society is what is now appearing from within the mystical body of Christ, his church.

God’s laws have not changed While students at King’s College London have taken the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, to task for speaking out against same-sex marriage, San Francisco is now up in arms that its archbishop is defending church teaching in its four Catholic high schools. As San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone told The New York Times, “his concern was that teachers, in their public life, ‘don’t do anything to compromise the mission of our schools.’” The San Francisco Chronicle has joined the fray against the church, accusing it of “telling them their lives are gravely evil.” While it is true that the culture has changed remarkably over the past generation, God’s laws have not changed since the beginning of time. There is a notion in the air that the ancient biblical laws have fallen into obsolescence since they were written thousands of years ago, and that church teachings must reﬂect the culture of the current age. Yet critics of the church cannot explain why the physical laws remain constant. Perhaps it is they, not the church, which have it wrong. Brian Stuckey Denver, Colorado

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The spiritual meaning of suffering and death

nyone can commit suicide. It’s done all the time. But recently we have seen a movement toward legalization of assisted suicide. It seems that the right to die soon becomes the duty to die. Given medical expenses in today’s world, some are tempted FATHER JOHN to say that CATOIR it costs too much money to stay alive. The physical suffering of the patient isn’t the only worry. There’s the added worry of the medical costs, which can make the patient feel guilty about receiving care. Society is moving from the ideal of valuing life as a sacred gift into a slipshod vision of it as a dispensable burden. Can you see yourself on a sickbed hearing that your cancer treatments are too expensive? I, for one, as a prostate cancer survivor can tell you how glad I was to have enough insurance to pay for my surgery and follow-up treatment. The nobility of the medical profession rests entirely on the commitment of its practitioners to do no harm, to care for all patients equally, rich or poor, young or old, famous or insignificant. The confidence with which a patient turns to his physicians depends on this ideal. It also spurs physicians to find innovative ways of helping the sick. The pleas of sick people, who are weary of suffering and have nothing to look forward to, are deeply distressing. As a priest visiting the sick and dying for more than 50 years, I readily admit that at times I have wished I could have put some patients who were suffering out of their misery. So I can easily understand the doctors who face these painful decisions every day. However, physicians long have been upholding the rule to do no harm. They may be weeping on the inside, but they know that killing patients will lead to a sentimental kind of medicine where patients and families dictate the treatment. Catholics and other Christians have a theological understanding of suffering and death that gives rich spiritual meaning to a complete life well lived and one in which no one can take away the life of another person. We can look for guidance at the passion of Jesus Christ, the coin that purchased our redemption. Our suffering, like the suffering of our Savior, transcends the hospital bed. Our suffering, united with the suffering of Christ on the cross, can have value if offered as a sacrifice for the salvation of souls. The suffering of Jesus on the cross is a sacrifice of love worth imitating.

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LETTERS Supporting church teaching I completely support the archbishop’s statement regarding teachers and other staff at Catholic schools. Why would parents enroll their children in Catholic schools if they do not support the teachings of the church? Or at least support those teachings being taught in Catholic schools? The archbishop acknowledges that some may struggle with the teachings; he is simply asking that they do not openly and publicly oppose the teachings of the church and foster confusion among students. There is enough dissent in the church based in politics. I hope the archbishop can maintain his position and not succumb to the pressure of those who are not faithful to the church. Nicole Rochelle Santa Rosa

Shining a bright light The leadership of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone shined a bright light on controversial yet traditional beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. While I disagree with his pastoral stance regarding our gay brothers and sisters, civil marriage and his recent efforts to intrude into the private lives of some Catholic high school personnel, we practicing Catholics owe him a debt of gratitude. The church of the last 2,000 years has changed. Dogma of the past has been modiﬁed, set aside or simply ignored but only as a result of controversy. This is not a time for Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to passively accept the leadership of the archbishop; rather it is our duty to dialogue with the clergy and stand together to insist that the archbishop’s rhetoric be more representative of Pope Francis’ leadership. Irvin G. Rollins Jr. Redwood City The writer is a parishioner at St. Pius Church, Redwood City.

Moral hazards of physician-assisted suicide

“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life ...” (Deuteronomy 30). Senate Bill 128, sponsored by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, is dubbed “Death with Dignity” in memory of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old cancer patient from California who moved to Oregon, which permits physicianassisted suicide for terminal illness. Physician-assisted suicide is opposed by the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization and many others. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., director of medical ethics at UC Irvine School of Medicine, and Paul McHugh, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, pose a profound question about physician-assisted suicide in the Orange County Register of Feb, 12. They ask if assisted suicide becomes a “right” for sufferers of a terminal illness should it also be a right for a non-terminal condition, i.e., an aged person with a costly lengthy illness; a depressed young adult facing a lifelong incurable condition, mental or physical. In the United States and the European Union, advocates of physicianassisted suicide shun research that discloses hospice and palliative care offer medically sound alternatives. Kheriaty and McHugh report although a vast majority of suicides are associated with clinical depression or other treatable disorders, in

Oregon only 43 of 752 individuals who chose assisted suicide were referred for psychiatric evaluation. There also is a social contagion to suicide when portrayed “courageous” as with Brittany Maynard. Both doctors worry that her death will “inspire” others who do have a terminal illness. Social acceptance of physician-assisted suicide will put many at risk. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults in the U.S. Also, nothing in SB 128 protects patients from family pressures, ﬁnancial or emotional, No safeguard can protect against coercion in this era of managed care. Mike DeNunzio San Francisco Editor’s note: California’s Catholic bishops are urging citizens to contact lawmakers to oppose SB 128. See story on Page 7.

US strategy against ISIS In Tony Magliano’s article opposing any military action by the U.S. against ISIS (“Beating swords into plowshares,” March 6), he misquotes President Obama. According to Magliano, Obama is asking Congress to approve “enduring offensive ground combat operations” for “at least three years.” The actual wording of the joint resolution contains an explicit limitation which provides that “the authority granted ... does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces in enduring offensive ground combat operations.” (The word “not” is a small word, but it can change the meaning). Even the limited authorization contained in the resolution would have to be reviewed by Congress every six months and would sunset at the end of three years. There are many good arguments to be made against the United States getting embroiled in another conﬂict. I would rather have those arguments made without blatantly misquoting the president of the United States. It is unseemly, unbecoming and unnecessary. Jim Hargarten San Francisco Tony Magliano replies: “Mr. Hargarten is splitting hairs here. In light of recent U.S. war history the vague, broad language of President Obama’s draft resolution (“Authorization for use of Military Force”) to Congress, along with his accompanying letter, can easily be interpreted by the president to order U.S. troops to engage in combat with the “Islamic State” – known also as ISIL. And that’s exactly what ISIL is hoping the president will do. We are dangerously close to once again allowing a president and Congress to drag us into war. The resolution states that the president is authorized to use military forces as he deems “necessary and appropriate against ISIL or associated persons or forces.” According to the military think tank “Defense One,” the White House defines “associated persons or forces” as “individuals and organizations fighting for, on behalf of, or alongside ISIL or any closely-related successor entity in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners.” It is similar language to that used in the 2001 AUMF, passed just after Sept. 11, which has served as the authorization for virtually every U.S. counterterrorism action in the more than 13 years since — including the Islamic State fight. If passed by Congress, the “Authorization for use of Military Force” will help keep the U.S. in a state of perpetual war. The president, many members of Congress, the military-industrial-complex and ISIL are all hoping for its passage. But I’m convinced the Prince of Peace is not.”

Climate change and Catholic thought Re “Religious leaders urge action to combat climate change,” Feb. 27: Climate change is a fraud, but much worse than being a fraud it is a heresy. It places people at the service of nature, not nature at the service of man. It turns the Catholic view that people are not a burden but a blessing upside-down. The Catholic view is that people are not the problem but the solution. And now we have some Catholic bishops pledging allegiance to those who are diametrically opposed to the Catholic worldview, men like George Soros and his ilk. Climate change is not about global warming but about people control, and making sure there are less of them. When Lenin said the capitalists would gladly sell the rope that the communists would use to hang them with even he never dreamed how easy it would be to con some bishops into a pact with the devil. Stephen Firenze San Mateo

Environmental, moral crises related In reading this article I was reminded of questions I’ve had over the years about why so many people are poor and can’t dig themselves out of the pit of poverty, particularly in Mexico. Why doesn’t Mexico’s leadership put energy and effort into solving problems of poverty, lack of resources, education, health care and so on? The people of Mexico and other poor countries surely have the intelligence and capability to solve their own problems if given the tools to do so mainly education. Cannot their own governments supply them? Climate change is one factor in the equation that can bring a country into the category of being poor. I believe Archbishop Wenski has hit the nail on the head saying the social, economic, political and environmental crises in the world today need to be addressed adding moral and spiritual crises to the list. Until the human family gets back to their creator, God, and follows his way we will always be in crisis. Where do we start? Pray! God knows the answers and the means. Trust in God! Every day needs to be a world day of prayer to heal our deteriorating world. Is this too big an order for God? Nothing is impossible for God. Juanita Douglass Redwood City

Blessings to Mercy Sisters Re “Sisters of Mercy travel to Peru to remember and celebrated,” Feb. 27: Fifty-one years ago when I was a newly arrived college seminarian at St Joseph’s College, our beloved professor and music director, Father John Olivier, taught us something recently composed by Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan, “The Mission Hymn.” Powerful verses set to majestic music, refraining, “Great is the Lord, worthy of praise, tell all the nations God is king; spread the news of his love!” Thirty years after that, retired Mercy Sister Sylvia Grandsaert explained to me that Suzanne composed and titled her hymn to joyfully send forth her sisters to Peru in 1964: To the Sisters of Mercy, to Suzanne, and to their beloved people in Peru, thanks and many blessings to you all. Father Joe Gordon Father Gordon is retired pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto.

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The way of the cross

riting a column on social justice and peace offers me plenty of timely issues to choose from. And I always truly sense from God the exact issue he desires that I write on. I’m not claiming here any special revelation. God’s active, guiding presence is available to everyone. All we need to do is deeply trust, quietly listen and patiently wait. Now in my case, God knows I’m on a deadline. And almost always his Spirit graciously gives me plenty of lead time. But regarding this TONY MAGLIANO particular column, the Spirit seemed to be silent, that is, until I visited a parishioner at the Little Sisters of the Poor’s home for the elderly in Baltimore. On their grounds, amidst a lovely wooded area, stand 14 Stations of the Cross depicting Jesus’ grueling walk to Calvary. At each station stands a rough, life-size wooden cross with a stone craving revealing a different scene along the Lord’s painful route to his cruciﬁxion. On that day several inches of snow covered the path along the stations. But I decided that a little snow down my shoes was a small price to pay for the deep spiritual reward that awaited me. And so I made my way to the ﬁrst station of the cross: “Jesus is condemned to death.” There I meditated on the stone carving depicting our innocent Lord standing humbly before Pontius Pilate. Washing his hands as though that empty gesture could clean him of guilt, Pilate cowardly turned Jesus over to those who would kill him. How often do we in our lack courage, in our comfortableness, in our self-centeredness, in our silence, wash our hands of our responsibility to do the right thing – for peace, for the war-torn, for

Authentic discipleship also demands that we earnestly help carry the cross of our suffering brothers and sisters near and far; knowing that in the process we are also mystically helping to carry our Lord’s cross.

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Jesus dies on the cross in this image from a Stations of the Cross booklet used at Rome’s Colosseum last year. the unborn, for the poor and hungry, for the sick, for the homeless, for the undocumented, for the prisoner, for the earth? Next stop, the second station: “Jesus takes up his cross.” He, who was without sin, took on all the ugly sins of the world, nonviolently puriﬁed them, and gave them back to us as unconditional love. Here we are starkly reminded of Jesus’ words: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” When all else has failed, our suffering, our cross,

can lead us out of selfishness to selfless love – the essential virtue needed to experience the salvation won by Christ. Therefore, carry our cross we must! There’s no way around it. The late, highly esteemed theologian Father Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote, “It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.” Authentic discipleship also demands that we earnestly help carry the cross of our suffering brothers and sisters near and far; knowing that in the process we are also mystically helping to carry our Lord’s cross. Next, I prayed at the third station, the fourth station, and onward until I reached the 12th station: “Jesus dies on the cross.” Looking back I saw the path my steps in the snow had made, and deeply felt that to a certain degree I had made the way of the cross with Christ. And, more fully, I realized that his journey did not end in death, but of course in the awesome joy of the resurrection! But also, I understood more deeply that in our Christian journey toward the resurrection, the cross must always come first. MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

Ricci Institute promotes study of Christianity in China

his is one in a series of articles on the mission church in China, highlighting historic and current work by clergy, religious and laity from the San Francisco area. Passionist Father Robert Carbonneau, who is executive director, of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau in Berkeley and resides with the De LaSalle Christian Brothers at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, suggested the series “to encourage San Francisco Catholics to learn about and respect the contribution of Chinese Catholic identity.” FATHER ROBERT It is no coincidence that one CARBONNEAU, CP has to climb 106 steps from Turk Street to get atop the Lone Mountain campus at the University of San Francisco in order to visit the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural history, founded in 1984 by Jesuit Father Edward Malatesta. Naming the Institute after Italian-born Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) manifested respect for the discerning spiritual and intellectual process of innovative crosscultural dialogue undertaken by the missionary to China. Father Malatesta envisioned Ricci’s approach as a viable model to appreciate that the dynamics surrounding changes in Chinese society, world relations and academic inquiry of the late-1980s and offer insights on the life and faith of Chinese Catholics past and present. Access to the Ricci Institute requires walking through the Del Santo Reading Room. Previously home to the Religious of the Sacred Heart San Francisco College for Women Library and now known colloquially by USF students as the Harry Potter Room, in truth reﬂective and perceptive students studying or visitors perusing on campus tours can ponder a subtle yet key component linking Father Ricci and late-1500s Chinese culture. The paneled bookcases in this reading room hold some 85,000 volumes written in Chinese, English and other languages available for use by appointment.

(IMAGE COURTESY THE RICCI INSTITUTE FOR CHINESE-WESTERN CULTURAL HISTORY, USF)

This portrait of Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci was made at the Jesuit orphanage of Zikawei, China, for the 1915 PanamaPacific International Exposition. It is displayed at the Ricci Institute in the Del Santo Reading Room at the Lone Mountain campus of the University of San Francisco. After the untimely death of Father Malatesta in 1998, Dr. Wu Xiaoxin and a small, dedicated staff continued to arrange institute events, conferences and oversee publications that enabled the Ricci

Institute to attain international prestige. Wu’s eyes light up when he speaks of contemporary scholarly inquiry pertaining to Jesuit-Chinese dynastic relations or modern discourse on 20th-century Catholicism and Christianity. Abundant archival sources include a digital copy of the Canton Catholic Diocese records – an historic link to Cantonese-speaking Catholics. Jesuit Father Antoni Ucerler, appointed as Ricci director in 2014, now supported by associate director Wu, jointly work to insure the institute retains Jesuit and Catholic identity. Father Ucerler, a member of the Japan Province of the Society of Jesus, passionately teaches the Ricci notion that the pursuit of genuine friendship and mutual respect was the foundation that fostered China’s historic rapport with the West. Likewise, his lived awareness of Pan-Asian learning in Japan and Europe informs his commitment to ensuring that the Ricci Institute foster rigor, imagination, respect for tradition and embrace digital technology. Indeed San Francisco is the perfect location. With the assistance of USF as well generous benefactors, Father Ucerler asserts that Father Ricci’s paradigm is still relevant, humbling, genuine and applicable for scholars or students who wish to use the Ricci Institute collection. One current scholar inspired by Ricci’s principle of friendship as a means of cross-cultural understanding is Ariel Janesh, who entered the the M.A program in Asia Paciﬁc Studies at USF and now has a Ricci Institute Fellowship. Her decision was a quest to understand Ricci because his principles of friendship are timeless. Classes and the fellowship have solidiﬁed her experience of living in Italy and years of study and employment in China. Next time you walk up the Lone Mountain steps consider visiting the Ricci Institute. Discern how the spiritual and intellectual process of innovative crosscultural dialogue undertaken by Matteo Ricci speaks to the ongoing legacy of San Francisco and the Chinese community. Visit the U.S. Catholic China Bureau at www.uscatholicchina.org. Email Father Carbonneau at director@uscatholicchina.org.

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Seeing in a deeper way

ometimes you can see a whole lot of things just by looking. That’s one of Yogi Berra’s infamous aphorisms. It’s a clever expression of course, but, sadly, perhaps mostly, the opposite is truer. Mostly we do a whole lot of looking without really seeing much. Seeing implies more than having good eyesight. Our eyes can be wide open and we can be seeing very little. I’ve always been intrigued by how scripture describes Paul immediately after his conversion. We always assume that it tells us that FATHER RON Paul was struck blind by his ROLHEISER vision, but, I think, the text implies more. It tells us that Paul got up off the ground with his eyes wide open, seeing nothing. That doesn’t necessarily equate with physical blindness. He may well have been seeing physically, but he wasn’t seeing the meaning of what he was getting himself into. Someone had to come and open his eyes, not just so that he could see again physically but especially that he could see more deeply into the mystery of Christ. Seeing, truly seeing, implies more than having eyes that are physically healthy and open. We all see the outer surface of things, but what’s beneath isn’t as automatically seen. We see this, for instance, in what’s contained inside the healing miracles of Jesus. In the Gospels, we see Jesus perform a number of healings. He heals lame people, deaf people, mute people, people with leprosy, and two women who for different reasons are unable to become pregnant. What’s important to see in these various miracles is that, almost always, there’s more at issue than mere physical healing. Jesus is healing people in a deeper way, that is, he is healing the lame so that they can walk in freedom and in service of God. He is healing the deaf so that they can hear the good

Nothing taints our eyesight as much as anger. It’s the most debilitating of all cataracts. And nothing cleanses our vision as much as forgiveness. Nobody holding a grudge sees straight. news. He is healing the mute so that they can open their mouths in praise. And he is healing those who are hemorrhaging interiorly so that they can bring new life to birth. We see this most clearly at those times when Jesus heals people who are blind. He’s giving them more than just physical sight; he’s opening their eyes so that that can see more deeply. But that’s only an image. How might it be unpackaged? How can the grace and teachings of Jesus help us to see in a deeper way? Here are some suggestions: By shifting our eyes from seeing through familiarity to seeing through wonder. G.K. Chesterton once affirmed that familiarity is the greatest of all illusions and that the secret to life is to learn to look at things familiar until they look unfamiliar again. We open our eyes to depth when we open ourselves to wonder. By shifting our eyes from seeing through paranoia and self-protection to seeing through metanoia and nurture. It is not incidental that the ﬁrst word out of Jesus’ mouth in the synoptic Gospels is the word “metanoia”, a word that opposes itself to “paranoia”. We open our eyes to depth with we shift from a posture of self-protection to a posture of nurture. By shifting our eyes from seeing through jealousy to seeing through admiration. Our perception becomes distorted whenever we move from the happy state of admiration to the unhappy state of envy. Our eyesight is clear when we delight in admiration.

By shifting our eyes from seeing through bitterness to seeing through eyes puriﬁed and softened by grief. The root of bitterness is wound and the way out of bitterness is grieving. Tears clear our eyesight because they soften a heart hardened by wound. By shifting our eyes from seeing through fantasy and auto-eroticism to seeing through appreciation and prayer. One of the key movements within our spiritual lives is the movement from fantasy to prayer, a movement that ultimately frees us from wanting to press to ourselves all that’s beautiful to appreciating beauty for its own sake. We can only really see and appreciate beauty when we stop lusting for it. By shifting our eyes from seeing through relevance to seeing through contemplation. Our longing for relevance makes us look out at the world with restless, dissatisﬁed eyes. We practice mindfulness and see the richness of the present moment only when our disquiet is stilled by solitude. By shifting our eyes from seeing through anger to seeing through forgiveness. Nothing taints our eyesight as much as anger. It’s the most debilitating of all cataracts. And nothing cleanses our vision as much as forgiveness. Nobody holding a grudge sees straight. By shifting our eyes from seeing through longing and hunger to seeing through gratitude. Longing and hunger distort our vision. Gratitude restores it. It enables insight. The most grateful person you know has the best eyesight of all the people you know. Love is the eye! So say the medieval mystics, in wisdom that needs to be added to the medical vocabulary of contemporary optometry. Seeing straight has more dimensions than we normally imagine. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Archdiocese of San Francisco

High School

Teacher Job Fair Saturday, March 21, 2015 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue San Francisco (Parking is available on-site and on neighborhood streets.)

The following high schools will be participating: Archbishop Riordan High School Convent of the Sacred Heart Immaculate Conception Academy Junípero Serra High School Marin Catholic High School Mercy High School, Burlingame

Mercy High School, San Francisco Notre Dame High School, Belmont Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory St. Ignatius College Preparatory Stuart Hall High School Woodside Priory School

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Fifth Sunday of Lent ‘Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be.’ JOHN 12:20-33 JEREMIAH 31:31-34 The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, and I had to show myself their master, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives how to know the Lord. All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the Lord, for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more. PSALM 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15 Create a clean heart in me, O God. Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me. Create a clean heart in me, O God.

A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me. Create a clean heart in me, O God. Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me. I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall return to you. Create a clean heart in me, O God. HEBREWS 5:7-9 In the days when Christ Jesus was in the ﬂesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. JOHN 12:20-33 Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would

like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be gloriﬁed. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me. “I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have gloriﬁed it and will glorify it again.” The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.” He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.

God’s dreams for us far exceed our own

he West has not lost religion; it has just changed religions, progressively eschewing Christianity as it embraces what University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith has termed Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. Smith is not the ﬁrst scholar to draw attention to this sea change in religious perspectives. Already back in 1966 Philip Rieff published a landmark book, “The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud,” that explores the 20th-century origins of the therapeutic mindset. In brief, Rieff suggests that Freud’s strictly atheistic, materialistic psychology was deemed unacceptable by some of the Austrian psychoanalyst’s FATHER MARK greatest students, especially DOHERTY Carl Jung. Jung and others couldn’t bear the crushing fatalism inherent in Freud’s atheistic materialism. Mankind cannot live without transcendence, they maintained, so they made a pivot and shifted heaven’s horizon, moving it from an external reality to a merely internal, psychological reality. They did what the 19th-century phi-

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God’s dreams for his people are the dreams of a lover for his beloved; they are dreams of building a future together ﬁlled with joy. “Have you ever thought this? ‘The Lord dreams about me. He thinks of me. I am in the mind and heart of the Lord,’” Pope Francis said March 16 during his morning Mass at the Domus Sanctae Marthae in Vatican City. The Lord does not just dream about his creatures, the pope said. “He makes plans: ‘We’ll build homes, plant vineyards, eat together.’” God’s plans, he said, are those that “only someone in love would make.”

losopher Ludwig Feuerbach claimed all religions do: They turned God into a mere auto-therapeutic construct of the psyche. Therapeutic Deism maintains that self-actualization and the pursuit of wellness – which stresses the avoidance of psychological and emotional suffering as well as unwanted physical pain – is the key to happiness. The need for transcendence is met by getting in touch with one’s dreams and setting out to realize them. An absolute premium is placed on “experiences.” The more “experiences” I have the “richer” my life will be. Suffering is the great sin of Therapeutic Deism, while being nice to others – affirming others’ life choices – is its great commandment. What a striking, jarring contrast abides between the therapeutic model and the plan of life given to us in the life and words of the Lord Jesus. While Therapeutic Deism expounds the conviction that to save one’s life one must focus on self-actualization, the Lord Jesus exhorts us to lose our lives and give ourselves over to service of God and the kingdom. While Therapeutic Deism insists that suffering is to be avoided, the author of the Letter to the Hebrews teaches us that Christ became perfect and the source of eternal salvation precisely because he accepted to suffer in order to fulﬁll the Father’s will. Therapeutic Deism commands us to affirm others’ life choices while the Lord Jesus commands us to affirm – and thus glorify – the Father’s will for our lives.

Aristotle is right in asserting at the beginning of his “Nicomachean Ethics” that all men and women want to be happy. The even deeper truth is that God wants us to be happy. Many Americans and Westerners today, inﬂuenced as they are by the gnostic gospel of Therapeutic Deism, believe that Christianity underestimates and underappreciates the heart’s desire for happiness. The truth is the reverse. Therapeutic Deism settles for a strictly psychological and, ultimately, merely materialistic and paltry horizon. The Lord Jesus makes the audacious claim that in fact there exists a very real, truly transcendent horizon that opens up onto an eternally deep relationship with God. Parents want their children to dream big dreams. Right they are to do so. What the Lord Jesus came into this world to tell us is that God the Father’s dreams for us far exceed our own dreams. God the Father’s plans for our life are more expansive than our own plans. All this because God loves us more than we love ourselves, and he therefore wants more for us in the way of life than we want for ourselves. He would give it to us, if only we would hate our lives in this world for the sake of embracing his glorious will. FATHER DOHERTY is a parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and a member of the faculty at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 23: Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop. DN 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or DN 13:41c-62. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. EZ 33:11. JN 8:1-11.

PS 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11. HEB 10:4-10. JN 1:14ab. LK 1:26-38. THURSDAY, MARCH 26: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent. GN 17:3-9. PS 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. PS 95:8. JN 8:51-59. FRIDAY, MARCH 27: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent. JER 20:1013. PS 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. JN 10:31-42.

TUESDAY, MARCH 24: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. NM 21:4-9. PS 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21. JN 8:21-30. WEDNESDAY MARCH 25: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. IS 7:10-14; 8:10.

Annunciation of the Lord, when the angel Gabriel tells Mary she has been chosen to be the mother of God, the Son, is the exact moment of the Incarnation.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent. EZ 37:21-28. JER 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13. EZ 18:31. JN 11:45-56.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21 COUPLES RETREAT: Marriage on Fire; Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame, 3-9 p.m., dinner included, $65/couple, register at www.marriageonfire.info. HopfnerE@ SFArchdiocese.org. ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com. YOUNG ADULTS: “Making Choices/ Dealing with Transitions,” 10 a.m.-4 p.m., women and men ages 18-40, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. with entrance on Mission Tierra Place; Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Mary Yun facilitate the day. Suggested donation of $15 includes lunch, refreshments and materials and is payable at the door. Register online at www. msjdominicans.org or www.bit.ly/YAretreatreg. (510) 933-6335. HANDICAPABLES LUNCH: Marin Catholic High School, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Kentfield, noon, Father Mark Taheny, pastor, St. Sebastian Church, principal celebrant and homilist. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Randy DeVoto, (415) 321-1100.

SUNDAY, MARCH 22 FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the public. Free parking in all USF lots.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 PRIORY TALKS: “Restorative Justice: An Alternative Path,” with Jack Dison, Ph.D., presenting on restorative justice as a way to move from brokenness to at least some degree of healing and wholeness, even in very difficult situations Jack Dison such as violent crime. 7-9 p.m., Woodside Priory School, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, Founders Hall. Admission is free, refreshments provided. Carrie Rehak crehak@prioryca.org, (650) 851-8221; www.prioryca.org/life/campus-spiritual-life/insight-speakers-series/.

Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195; faloon@ usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. March 22: “How to talk to your teenage children about sex?” with therapist Terry Lewis. www. stignatiuscff.org/adult-faith-formation/.

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, Father Ed followed by Harris, SJ breakfast and talk from Jesuit Father Ed Harris, president, St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Members breakfast $8; visitors $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.

Lent Mass will be celebrated at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach, at 12:15 and 6:30 p.m. with confession available 11-noon and 5-6:15 p.m. (415) 986-4557; www.shrinesf.org; info@shrinesf.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 23 GRIEF SUPPORT: St. Pius Grief Ministry is offering a facilitated nine-week support group session through April 20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. If you are in the early stages of your loss, or have not previously attended a grief support group, this program may benefit you. (650) 3610655; griefministry@pius.org. Walk-ins are welcome.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 SHRINE MASSES: Wednesdays during

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, Mercy Chapel: March 27, “Remaining with Jesus”; April 24,”Walking Joyfully in the Spirit.” RSVP to Mercy Sister Jean Evans, (650) 373-4508; Jevans@mercywmw. org. LENTEN SERIES: Father Joe Bradley on the triduum, St. Gregory Parish, Vanos Gym, Hacienda at 28th Avenue, San Mateo, with meal at 6 p.m. and talk at 7 p.m. (650) 345-8506.

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HANDICAPABLES MASS: The 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with noon Mass, Bishop William J. Justice principal celebrant and homilist, followed by lunch, in lower halls Bishop William of St. Mary’s CatheJ. Justice dral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

FOOD FUNDRAISER: A part of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael’s Gather@Grand series this Cooking for a Cause food festival, 4:40-6:30 p.m. to help support students traveling to do service in Uganda in 2016. Enjoy tastes of internationally inspired food prepared by Dominican University professors and learn about a variety of projects earlier trips have put in place including water filtration, e-readers and a maternity wing for the local clinic. $10 at the door. (415) 453-8303; CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 SHRINE MASSES: Wednesdays during Lent Mass will be celebrated at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach at 12:15 and 6:30 p.m. with confession available 11-noon and 5-6:15 p.m. (415) 986-4557; www.shrinesf.org; info@shrinesf.org.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 20, 2015

SATURDAY, APRIL 4 ‘LOOKING EAST’: Come to Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, for Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m.; luncheon at noon and a talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1 p.m. and vespers at 4 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month. Parking is in St. Monica Church lot. Visit www.byzantinecatholic.org; (415) 752-2052; email OLFatimaSF@gmail. com.

THURSDAY, APRIL 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

FRIDAY, APRIL 10 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the Wounds, a divorced and separated Catholics support group, second Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8 p.m. Professional childcare available at $10 per child. Karen Beale, (415) 250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120; Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 435-1122. MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery

in their marriage. Program consists of a weekend and post sessions. For confidential inquiry or register for the weekend. (415) 893-1005; SF@Retrouvaille.org; www.Retrouvaille.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 11 FASHION SHOW: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” fashion show and lunch benefiting St. Stephen School, San Francisco, Olympic Club, Lakeside. Tina Gullotta, breakfastattif@hotmail.com. REUNION: San Francisco Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae Mass and luncheon at Mission Dolores Basilica, 10:30 a.m. honoring classes of 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965, and 1975 with lunch following at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. “Never Stopped Believing!” is theme so Giants attire is welcome. Tickets are $40. Katie O’Leary nuttydames@aol.com; (415) 282-6588.

SUNDAY, APRIL 12 DIVINE MERCY: St. Catherine Church, 1310 Bayswater, Burlingame, beginning at 2:30 p.m. with opportunity for confession and chaplet of Divine Mercy prayer; 3 p.m. Mass; 4 p.m. veneration and Benediction. Judy Miller, (650) 342–1988.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15 ‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during

SATURDAY, APRIL 11 ‘GOD SQUAD’ BOCCE: Father Harry’s God Squad Bocce Ball Tournament and Picnic, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Marin Bocce Federation, Albert Park, Msgr. Harry 550 B St., San Schlitt Rafael. Jan Schachern, (415) 244-0771; janschachern@ gmail.com. Breakfast, snacks, beverages included with paid registration. Players must be 18 or older.

presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., Apr. 15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate; www.msjdominicans. org.

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REUNION: St John Ursuline Alumnae Luncheon and Golden Diploma Presentation honoring 1965 graduates, 9:30 a.m. Mass, St John Evangelist Church, San Francisco followed by a luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco. (415) 661-2700; 1965 graduates contact Margie Van Dyke Silva, ricsil@prodigy.net.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 20, 2015

Hope for the Bereaved As we come to the end of our Lenten journey, please join us for a morning of prayer and reflection on our own grief journey and our hope in the promise of Easter. Holy Saturday Reflection and Prayer Service led by Sr. Toni Lynn Gallagher, RSM.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery invites you to attend a prayer service on

Holy Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

This year, First Saturday falls on Holy Saturday. Mass will not be offered.