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Pope Francis greets people after celebrating Mass March 17 at the Vatican’s St. Anne’s Parish. He greeted every person leaving the small church and then walked over to meet people waiting nearby.

‘God has given us just the pope we need in these troubled times’ “He’s a man of the people, not just symbolically but in a real way. … When he said, ‘Let’s pause and be real quiet and please pray for me for a moment,’ the enormous crowd grew completely silent. Then, he gave the pontifical blessing. That’s a new wrinkle that’s never been done before, at least not in our generation. It shows humility and that he knows we’re in this together and that, ‘I’m not above you.’”

FATHER PAUL PERRY, parochial vicar, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae

“When our 23-year-old daughter called us in tears and said, ‘He’s beautiful; he’s amazing,’ I was astonished. This young woman grabbed onto him right away. This was her pope! This was before she even knew anything about him. She just had a sense through the Holy Spirit this was her pope. When she started doing research on her iPhone, every minute she was falling more and more in love with him. I was witnessing this great, unusual, unexpected grace coming down on my daughter.”

VICKIE LYFORD, St. Sebastian Parish

“I have noticed how so many of the prisoners here have spoken with admiration of his dedication to the poor and to the way he lives his life – not embracing the trappings of power and privilege but instead living simply and close to the poor and working classes in Argentina. … All the men I’ve spoken to see Francis’ authenticity. I believe God has given us just the pope we need in these troubled times.”

JESUIT FATHER GEORGE WILLIAMS, chaplain, San Quentin State Prison

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INDEX On the Street . . . . . . . . .4 National . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Easter Liturgies . . . . .10 Opinion. . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . .34

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

‘That all of us might have the courage, yes, the courage to walk in the Lord’s presence’ MORE POPE FRANCIS COVERAGE IN THIS ISSUE

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Many of Pope Francis’ words and gestures in the first days of his papacy showed his character and approach to the office.

PAGE 14: Pope prays first Angelus with 200,000 faithful.

PAGE 15: Dictatorship claims dismissed.

STANDING, NOT SITTING: In the Sistine Chapel, when his cardinal brothers paid him homage, instead of sitting on the papal throne, he stood as he received them.

PAGE 20: Francis, Ignatius and Jonah PAGE 25: Biography of Jorge Mario Bergoglio

TAKING THE BUS: Then, instead of taking the papal car that had been prepared for him to return to the Domus Sanctae Marthae, he took the same minibus he had arrived in along with the other cardinals. He briefly addressed the cardinals at the festive supper, after thanking them, saying “may God forgive you (for what you have done).”

PAGE 26: Pope pledges to protect human dignity.

PAGE 27: ‘It is in ordinary life that mission work is done.’

PAGE 28: City of St. Francis welcomes Pope Francis. pope’s schedule March 15 was an audience with the world’s cardinals. But shortly before that meeting, he shocked the receptionist at the Jesuit headquarters by telephoning the order’s superior general; he made an evening visit to a Rome clinic to visit 90-year-old Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mejia who had had a heart attack; then he stopped at the replica of the grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens to pray before a statue of Mary.

SIMPLE VESTMENTS: The new pope wore neither the red “mozzetta” (the elbow-length cape worn by high-ranking prelates) nor a stole, and his pectoral cross was the same simple one that he has worn as bishop and cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

PRAYING TO THE VIRGIN: At 8:24 p.m. March 13, after his first public appearance, he stated, “Tomorrow I am going to pray to the Virgin, for the safekeeping of all of Rome.”

BOUQUET FOR MARY: At 8:05 the next morning, he left the Vatican for the first time as pontiff, taking a police service car to the papal basilica of St. Mary Major. He prayed before an icon of Our Lady, leaving the Virgin a bouquet of flowers on the altar and praying silently for about 10 minutes before the main altar that is directly above the crypt containing relics of the crib or manger of the Nativity of Jesus.

PAYING THE BILL: Leaving as he arrived, with a minimal escort and entourage, he surprised everyone by first sending an affectionate greeting to children from a nearby school and then by asking his driver to stop by the hotel where he had stayed before entering the conclave. The pope greeted those working there, gathered his belongings and paid his bill.

UPON THIS ROCK: In his first homily as pope, at Mass in the Sistine Chapel March 14 with the cardinal electors, the pope said, “When we don’t go forward we stop...we go backwards. When we don’t build on rock, what happens? The same thing that happens to children when they build sand castles at the beach. They wind up falling down because they have no solidity.”

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Pope Francis greets a boy after celebrating Mass at St. Anne’s Parish within the Vatican March 17. The new pope greeted every person leaving the small church and then walked over to meet people waiting around St. Anne’s Gate.

APPEAL TO COURAGE: And I wish that all of us … might have the courage, yes, the courage to walk in the Lord’s presence with the cross of the Lord, to build the church on the blood of the Lord that is poured out on the cross and to witness to the sole glory: to the crucified Christ. And thus the church will move forward.”

CALL TO EVANGELIZATION: Speaking to the cardinals March 15 in the Sala Clementina, Pope Francis said, “Stimulated by the Year of Faith, all together, pastors and faithful, we will make an effort to respond faithfully to the eternal mission: to bring Jesus Christ to humanity, and to lead humanity to an encounter with Jesus Christ: the way, the truth and the life, truly present in the church and, at the same time, in every person.”

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NO EARTHLY LOGIC: The church “does not respond to an earthly logic” and can be difficult to communicate effectively because “the nature of the church is spiritual, not political,” the pope told journalists March 16. He said this is the only perspective in which the work of the church can be presented.

WHY FRANCIS?: When he was elected pope in the conclave, Pope Francis said his friend Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes “embraced me and kissed me and said: ‘Don’t forget the poor’… and that struck me … the poor … Immediately I thought of St Francis of Assisi … Francis was a man of peace, a man of poverty, a man who loved and protected creation.” That, Pope Francis told the media, is how the name came to mind. “How I would love a church that is poor and for the poor,” he said.

LAUGHING AND JOKING: As the pope arrived in St. Peter’s Square March 17 for his first Angelus prayer, “he walked along a hastily constructed barrier reaching deep into the crowd, shaking hands, laughing and joking, in dramatic contrast with the reserved style of his predecessors,” www.telegraph. uk reported.

‘ENJOY YOUR LUNCH!’: The pope’s final words to the 200,000 gathered for the Angelus were, “Have a good Sunday and enjoy your lunch!”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Mercy Center cancer prayer group creates deep community MERCY CENTER CANCER PRAYER GROUP

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Jeanine Diaz de Rivera was diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago. “It was a bright sunny day when I left the hospital,” she said. “I didn’t cry when the doctor read the diagnosis. I knew I had a journey ahead, and I didn’t know what to expect. I knew I might end up dying. I didn’t think about that. I said to God, ‘You’ve got to hold my hand tight. I can get through this.’”

One positive factor for Diaz de Rivera was an early diagnosis. Another was the Mercy Center cancer prayer group she discovered. She read about the Burlingame center’s group in a book lying on a table at the Kaiser hospital waiting room. A faithful parishioner at Our Lady of Mercy in Daly City, Diaz de Rivera knew she wanted spiritual support, and the testimony she read in the book featuring a dozen portraits of Bay Area women with cancer gave her hope.

With 30,000 new cancer diagnoses in the Bay Area every year, many support groups exist, offering everything from tai chi to line dancing.

Mercy Center’s group led by Liz Lawhead offers a deep experience of prayer. The group meets on Wednesday morning twice a month and welcomes people of all faiths and those struggling to find faith.

Diaz de Rivera is now a regular in the prayer group. People drift in on this day for the meeting. They talk in twos and threes about a treatment, a diagnosis. There are smiles and laughter.

The group began as a result of Mercy Sister Mary Celeste Rouleau’s diagnosis of lymphoma in 1994. Although she was near death, the Rev. Charles Kaldahl, a Lutheran minister, sat and prayed with her. She survived, and together they began the ecumenical prayer group, which she continued to lead until 2006. Sister Lorita Moffatt led the group for several years. “In meeting with the group, I always felt a deep faith and joy in those who came,” said Sister Lorita.

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Dawn Stanaway, Michelle Hassler and Cyndy Smerdel are members of the cancer prayer group.

Lawhead, spiritual director and adjunct staff at Mercy Center who has led the group for three years, begins the meeting by playing a “Welcome Song.” Eyes closed, hands at rest, the dozen people settle in to the lyrics. Welcome to the circle. Do you need some company? Are you feeling weary? An attentive, prayerful quiet follows.

Lawhead asks the members to talk about why they are here. Bob Anderson came because his wife Barbara was diagnosed with uterine cancer and they both found sustenance in the group.

Barbara died four months ago, but he continues to come.

Others briefly tell their stories. They are all familiar with the awkwardness of telling friends about their diagnosis and hearing the fumbling responses. Here there is instant understanding of chemo’s effects, of pressures on families, of the fear that descends with a diagnosis.

Michelle Hassler stands behind her chair.

She looks vividly alive in the turquoise scarf wrapped around her head. “I’ve just had the 24th of 25 radiation treatments. My insides are irritated, so it hurts to sit down,” she said smiling. “In July 2012, I was diagnosed with uterine cancer, and I stumbled on the group. From the first I felt grateful.”

The group is ecumenical but deeply Christian.

Margi Stone, diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer three-and-a-half years ago, has found the group has changed the way she prays. “I wanted Jesus to come back into my life,” she said, “in a way I could relate to, a way I could live my life by, not just words in an historical sermon.”

Are they healed by prayer and this deep community? The answer isn’t simple. Adele Dunnigan talks about her trip to Lourdes years ago after five kinds of chemo for her fourth-stage breast cancer. Her cancer then disappeared. But more often there is a different kind of healing.

“One of the things that happens is that they are clear about what is real,” Lawhead said. “Dying is real. Do they not want to die? Of course they don’t, or they wouldn’t have treatment.

Their attitude is, I want to live each day I’m given, as fully as I can. I want to be alive. It’s a process of coming to terms with fear and living.”

“It is a healing ministry,” said Lawhead, who finds this group to have the deepest impact on her of all she leads at Mercy Center. “It’s not magic. But healing does take place. People are spiritually, emotionally, physically healed.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Books of learning sometimes include a script TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The sun came out at St. Stephen School for a coupla’ tomorrows as Broadway’s “Annie” hit the stage as “Annie Jr.” featuring the talents of seventh graders directed

by Samantha Sidwell. While my memory of the show goes back to its 1977 beginnings, many revivals and tours have filled the years since then with the latest “Annie” re-do on the Broadway boards now.

No “hard-knock life” for this show of shows. Most of my elementary Samantha and high school out-of-classroom Sidwell activities were in music and theater and I am grateful every day for the push I got in that direction.

TAKES A VILLAGE: Congrats to Sasha Frey, a fourth grader at St. Anselm School! Sasha won the recent “Design an App Contest” sponsored by Catholic Telemedia Network in Menlo Park with “Holy Town,” where people doing good deeds take up residence. Fourth grade teacher Geri Wesolek submitted designs created by her students and noted “they were excited by the Sasha Frey contest and wanted to play each other’s games.” Sasha took home an iPod for her win. Sasha’s proud folks are Tatiana and Anthony.

ON HIS WAY: Father David Ghiorso leaves April 1, – “No foolin’,” he told me – for Camino de Santiago Compostela in Spain. “I’m hoping to visit Lourdes prior to beginning the walk as I have never have been to Lourdes and it is pretty close to where the trip begins,” Father Dave, pastor of St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, said. “The distance is about 500 miles, unless I take a wrong turn and then who knows. I’m just waiting to experience the time away. Maybe I will be inspired on the trip but am simply looking forward to the experience of pilgrimage. I am making a prayer request list for the trip.” The pilgrimage is known as “The Way of St. James” or “The Way” and goes to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Northwestern Spain where it is said St. James the Apostle is buried. “As always the parish is planning some big celebrations when I am gone as they get a lot more work done when I am not around,” Father Dave said noting the number of people who have offered to drive him to the airport are too many to count.

TIME FLIES: St. Pius School marked this year’s 100th school day, Jan. 31, with a food drive that raised more than 1,000 items for distribution to the needy by the parish St. Vincent de Paul Society conference.

University, Notre Dame High School and the NDNU Early Learning Center gathered Feb. 12 to commemorate the life and work of Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered eight years ago in a rain forest of Brazil. It was held on the Notre Dame de Namur campus around a ceiba tree, indigenous to the rain forest and planted five years ago at Notre Dame. “When the tree was first planted it took a little while before it started to thrive,” the school said.

“Now it stands over 12 feet tall.” Sister Dorothy committed her life to helping poor farmers in the Amazon and was killed a week after she had met with local human rights officials about the threat that illegal loggers and ranchers posed for local farmers.

REUNION: St. Matthew School class of 1962 celebrated a 50th reunion in October. The graduates donated $2,800 to their alma mater to benefit tuition assistance. Pictured, from left, with St. Matt’s pastor Father Tony McGuire and school principal Nancy Arnett (holding check) are Ann Connelly, Angela Norton, Patty Hopkins and Jamie Casey.

HANDY MINISTRY: American Sign Language students at Mercy High School, Burlingame have created sign books for young students at the Honolulu School for the Deaf and Blind and St. Mary’s School for the Deaf in Buffalo, N.Y. Alison Bell, sign language instructor, designed the project. One class created ABC books from scratch including kidfriendly words and pictures and the correct sign to use. Another created storybooks about a pirate and a panda that eats every day of the week! About 45 percent of deaf children never reach above a fourth grade reading level. In addition, there are not many books that provide basic signing stories for kids.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

‘This is the time’: Church mobilizes for immigration reform VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Carlos Martinez and his younger sister traveled across the desert from Mexico with a “coyote” to escape an abusive father and be reunited with their mother who had gone ahead two years before.

Today, Martinez, 24, remains undocumented, but the City College of San Francisco student is advocating for immigration reform to provide an earned path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented mostly Central and South American immigrants in this country.

“This is the time,” Martinez said. “If we organize, if we unite as a community of faith, we can pass a path to citizenship so that the 11 million or 12 million undocumented people living in the shadows can rise up and live in dignity and respect.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes “enforcement only” immigration policies and supports comprehensive immigration reform.

“It is an earned path to citizenship. It is not amnesty,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said of the reform package advocated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The core principle of the reform package is the Catholic Church’s No. 1 social teaching principle – “affirmation of human dignity,” the archbishop said.

“Seventy percent of those who would benefit have been in this country for five years. They have been contributing to this country and they deserve legal status,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The archbishop and Martinez spoke at a panel discussion March 16 at the archdiocesan pastoral center. Newly hired archdiocesan immigration reform advocate Lorena Melgarejo and immigration attorney Sister of the Sacred Heart Fran Tobin also spoke. About 100 women religious representing 19 congregations attended.

Melgarejo was hired less than one month ago to focus on immigration reform advocacy in the archdiocese, and said her plans are still in process but

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Carlos Martinez and Lorena Melgarejo are pictured March 16 at a conference on immigration reform at the archdiocesan pastoral center. The meeting was attended by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and 100 women religious representing 19 congregations. will include working with the Hispanic Council, clergy and parishes. An ecumenical faith forum on immigration was held March 17 at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

“We are in a moment of hope now,” said Archbishop Cordileone. Meaningful immigration reform is more possible now than any time in the past five years, he said, noting the bishops’ conference is working hard. Most recently Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez was part of a delegation who met with President Obama March 8 at the White House.

“Keep this cause in your prayers and keep advocating,” said the archbishop, who delineated the Catholic social teaching principles that underlie the U.S. bishops’ immigration reform advocacy, drawing also from “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” a joint pastoral letter issued by the bishops of Mexico and the U.S. in 2003.

Key points include an earned path to citizenship

that does not include undocumented immigrants returning to their home countries, family unification and legalization of entire families, workplace protections and safeguards against displacing U.S. workers, as well as border security and respect for each nation’s sovereignty.

The archbishop said 52 percent of immigrant families are now in “mixed legal status” where some members have legal residency and others are undocumented.

The archbishop also criticized the fence erected on the Mexico-U.S. border, saying. “It has a powerful symbolic value, negative symbolic value. It’s just not neighborly.”

Having immigrants tell their personal stories, such as Martinez, is a way to reach many at the parish level, the archbishop suggested. He noted the successful Bridgebuilders workshops he supported as bishop of Oakland which created dialogue in the parishes.

“People don’t understand the need for comprehensive immigration reform,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “They need to hear the personal stories.”

Martinez is waiting for approval of his application for deferred action as a student under President Obama’s executive order creating a path to temporary legal residency for those brought here as minors. He is scheduled to graduate with two associate degrees from City College of San Francisco this spring and hopes to attend the University of California in the fall.

“Our churches are places where people like Carlos, people like me, find the power to speak up and make change,” said Melgarejo, who is also employed by the San Francisco Organizing Project.

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Archbishop to join Washington marriage march

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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will speak on the importance of marriage, particularly to children, at the March for Marriage in Washington, D.C., March 26, the date of the U.S. Supreme Court hearing on California’s Proposition 8.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent letters to all American dioceses asking them to promote participation in the March for Marriage. The event is organized by the National Organization for Marriage, and is supported by a coalition of 30 organizations including Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, said Thomas Peters, one of the organizers.

“It’s an opportunity to show the positive face of the pro-marriage movement and to call on the Supreme Court to respect the seven million Californians who voted to enact Prop. 8 in 2008,” Peters said.

On consecutive days, the Supreme Court will hear arguments appealing lower court rulings overturning Prop.

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The bishops’ conference filed separate briefs defending marriage in both cases.

In a Feb. 25 letter, Archbishop Cordileone, and Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., Bishop Kevin Roades, the two bishops who chair the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, said, “This is a decisive time for our marriage in our country.”

“Marriage does not discriminate against homosexuals,” Archbishop Cordileone told Catholic San Francisco.

“They have the same right as everyone else. What they don’t have the right to do is define marriage for all of us in a way that contradicts its nature and, especially, disadvantages children because it would establish the principle that children don’t need a mother and a father.”

The archbishop also pointed out the California attorney general and the U.S. attorneys general were both elected to defend the laws they are now working to overturn.

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President Barack Obama declared his Archbishop support of same-sex Cordileone marriage last May. The Justice Department is not defending DOMA and filed a brief challenging its own law on Feb. 22.

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Prop. 8 was declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court and in response to an appeal by Protect Marriage, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Prop. 8 violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

On Feb. 28, the Justice Department also filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Prop. 8 case, urging the high court to strike down that law and laws in other states that have legalized same-sex civil unions, but not same-sex marriage.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Mercy, San Francisco student wins national speech contest TOM BURKE

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Danielle says public speaking helps “communicate my ideas to large groups of people and influencing people with those ideas.�

With regard to differences in the responsibility and technique of orators today and of yesterday, Danielle said. “Yes, orators of today are different from orators of previous generations because times and challenges are different, and so is our entire culture. The American public’s opinions and goals have shifted from what they were back in the 1950s and ‘60s, so orators of today must approach their audiences differently from orators of the past.�

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Danielle, a sophomore at Mercy High school, San Francisco is this year’s national winner of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Voice of Democracy speech contest.

More than 40,000 high school students from across the nation submitted entries on how the U.S. Constitution continues to be relevant today. “I said that the Constitution is relevant today because people all over the country continue to fight for the protection of their constitutional rights, such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom from illegal search and seizure,� Danielle told Catholic San Francisco in an email.

The young wordsmith created the character “Mr. Cons T. Tution� to help tell her story concluding that the Constitution “is definitely alive and relevant and is needed now more than ever.�

Danielle’s mom Jem and stepdad Steve have been very supportive of her speech pursuits. Influence as a public speaker has come primarily from an aunt. “She has been a family lawyer for

She isn’t afraid to talk about anything, and when she speaks it’s as if she’s having a conversation with the viewers.�

Danielle is looking at schools including Stanford University as her next step in education and a career that would include education or sports medicine.

Will public speaking be a help to her later in life? “Definitely!� she said. “So many situations – work, school, special occasions like weddings and funerals– require public speaking. The skills I’ve learned from participating in Mercy SF’s Talking Heads speech team and the Voice of Democracy program are valuable tools that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.�

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

‘Historic’: Maryland House OKs death penalty repeal MARIA WIERING CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation March 15 to repeal the state’s death penalty, an act the Maryland Catholic Conference called “a historic moment.”

The conference advocates for public policy measures on behalf of the state’s Catholic bishops, who are longtime supporters of repealing the death penalty.

The House passed the bill with a vote of 82 to 56. The Senate passed the bill in February. The bill now goes to Gov. Martin J. O’Malley, who has promised to sign it into law. His signature will come after the end of the legislative session, which is April 8.

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The Maryland Catholic Conference is a partner organization of Maryland Citizens Against State Executions, which has led advocacy efforts against capital punishment in Maryland. Maryland is the 18th state to repeal the death penalty, and the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to do so.

During floor discussion before the vote, Delegate William J. Frank told lawmakers that he had been a longtime supporter of the death penalty but changed his mind because of the influence of the Catholic Church.

A Baltimore County Republican and a Catholic, Frank was a member of the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment, which recommended death penalty repeal in 2009 to the Legislature. He stood with the minority vote.

Also on the commission was Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden, a repeal advocate whom Frank said influenced his decision to change his mind.

His newfound position on the death penalty is part of his pro-life view, he said.

“The most important and compelling issue for me is to view the issue from a consistently pro-life perspective,” he said. “Those five men on death row, the worst of the worst, are, believe it or not, created in the image and likeness of God.”

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WASHINGTON – An organization called WorldPriest is offering a pilgrimage for priests and their parishioners and friends from around the world to experience the cultural heritage and spirituality of the Emerald Isle as part of “Gathering Ireland 2013.” The Gathering is a government initiative to encourage people from around the globe with Irish heritage or who are “honorary Irish” to come back to Ireland and celebrate their Irish roots.

“Ireland was the island of saints and scholars (in the church) ... how can we leave our priests out of it?” Marion Mulhall, founder and president of WorldPriest, told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview.

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BISMARCK, N.D. – The North Dakota Catholic Conference applauded the state Senate’s passage March 15 of a bill that would ban abortions for the purpose of sex selection or genetic abnormality and another bill that would ban abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, which could be as early as six weeks. The bills were already approved by the House and now head to the desk of Gov. Jack Dalrymple. The conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, urged the governor to sign the measures. If he does, North Dakota would become the first state to prohibit abortion for reasons of genetic abnormality.

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Bishop: US ‘responsible’ for 2003 Iraq invasion’s aftermath DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Attending the installation of Patriarch Louis Sako as the new leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Bishop Richard E. Pates of Des Moines, Iowa, looked around at the large crowd gathered in St. Joseph Cathedral and what he saw gave him a sense of hope.

Seated in the congregation amid tight security during the March 6 ceremony were Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi. That political leaders would attend was not unexpected.

But Maliki, a Shiite Muslim, and Nujaifi, a Sunni Muslim, are political rivals from different branches of Islam. That they were able to put aside their differences in a show of unity to support the minority Chaldean church and its new patriarch impressed Bishop Pates.

“It’s a definitive expression that minority religions are going to be accepted and protected and encouraged,” said Bishop Pates, who represented the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace.

“The government wanted to make that loud and clear,” he said.

It was a small step in Iraq’s agonizingly slow recovery a decade after what the bishop described as an unnecessary “invasion and occupation” of Iraq by a U.S.-led military coalition.

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Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in late February in Baghdad. A decade after the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led forces, Catholic observers say America has broad responsibilities to the Iraqi people for reparations in the aftermath of war and long occupation.

Bishop Pates told Catholic News Service March 11 that minority Christian leaders expressed the same hope during his two-day whirlwind visit to Baghdad. Joining him on the trip was Syrian Bishop Yousif Habash of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark, N.J. Meeting church leaders from Iraq, Iran, Jordan and Syria, Bishop Pates said the challenges that remain in the aftermath of the war are foremost in their minds as the 10th anniversary of the March 20, 2003, invasion of Iraq approached.

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The religious leaders placed the problems confronting Iraq squarely on the shoulders of the United States, Bishop Pates said. Those leaders, he said, want the U.S. in some way to make reparation for the destroyed infrastructure, collapsed economy, sectarian violence and lack of safety for religious minorities.

“The U.S. invaded and occupied, so

they’re responsible for the situation,” Bishop Pates agreed.

When the case for war was being made in late 2002 and early 2003, the USCCB and Blessed John Paul II warned that an invasion was unwarranted under the long-standing just war criteria. The church compared the difference between preventive and preemptive war, questioning whether the latter was a threshold that should be crossed.

Once the war began, the bishops called repeatedly for an end to hostilities as soon as possible and for a “responsible transition” to Iraqi rule.

Their call today has expanded to the protection of religious minorities, particularly Christians, and care for the millions of Iraqi refugees displaced by the hostilities.

About 2 million people fled Iraq during the war and another 2 million remain displaced within Iraq, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Further, the Christian population, primarily Chaldeans, has dwindled to fewer than 500,000 from 1.5 million at the start of the war as people have come to fear attacks on their homes and in their churches.

“They continue to leave,” Bishop Pates said, “because they wonder ‘What future is there for our children?’”

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Latino Catholics filled with hopes for new pope RHINA GUIDOS

One Latino worshipper hopes the pope’s humility and dialogue will help at a critical time in the history of the church.

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WASHINGTON – Three hours had passed since the Vatican announced the first Latin American pope, but the gathering of mostly immigrants from Central and South America couldn’t stop smiling and couldn’t stop building a mountain of hopes pegged to the papal election of Argentina’s Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

The concerns before his election were many for the Latin American faithful gathered at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington, where they attended a Mass marking the beginning of Pope Francis’ reign.

Their worries included seeing family members and friends leave the Catholic faith for Protestant sects in their native cities and towns in Latin America and the United States.

In interviews with Catholic News Service, they also spoke of the erosion of trust that others have of the church because of the sex abuse crisis and a perception that the church hierarchy excluded Latin Americans at its highest rungs – until now.

Their worries seemed to dissipate in the midst of the joy that came with the historic election of Pope Francis.

Carola Cerezo-Allen said that even though “the pope’s a pope for everyone,” it is natural to be

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A priest wears a sombrero, a traditional Mexican hat, as newly elected Pope Francis leads his first Angelus at the Vatican March 17. excited to have one who comes from her native Argentina.

Even though she had planned to go to Mass the day the announcement of a new pope came, the moment was particularly joyous. Even her U.S.-born son was excited about it, she said. And it couldn’t come at a better time since the church has been going through “a hard time,” she said.

Fredis Hernandez, 32, is originally from El Salvador but lives in Washington. He also marked the moment by attending Mass.

“We deserved a Latin American pope,” he said.

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they haven’t played a role of visible importance at the Vatican, Hernandez told CNS. “This gives us relevance,” he said.

Hernandez said that since Pope Francis understands the landscape of Latin America, his pastoral experience may be able to help stem the loss of faithful. Hernandez said he has seen and felt the pain of having family and friends move away from the Catholic Church. It’s a loss that has spread among Latinos in the United States, too, he said.

Lilibeth Diaz said she held hope that with arrival of Pope Francis something could be done so that, like the prodigal son, those who have left the church could return and be welcomed with happiness.

“Faith is not something we practice alone. It is something we are as a community,” said the 24-year-old from Maryland.

Inspired by the events, her fiance Nelson Bernal, 32, drew a large poster of Pope Francis. He took it to church, where it was displayed near the altar.

Bernal said that as a Latin American, Pope Francis would understand what it’s like to be part of a people who struggle, yet do so with humility.

That humility and dialogue will help at a critical time in the history of the church, Bernal said.

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Good Friday, March 29 12:00 to 2:00pm Three Hours English 2:00pm Solemn Liturgy English 5:00pm The Way of the Cross re-enacted on University Ave. in East Palo Alto 7:00pm Solemn Liturgy Spanish

Holy Saturday, March 30 Confessions 10:30am to 12:00pm and 3:30 to 5:00pm 8:00pm Easter Vigil, Bilingual

Easter Sunday, March 31 7:30am English 9:30am Spanish 12:30pm Bi-Lingual followed by Easter egg hunt

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Knight: Pope will lead era of new evangelization

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption Holy Week and Easter Triduum Schedule 2013

CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – The pontificate of Pope Francis will be one of new evangelization and one that will “reach out in new ways to laymen and laywomen,” said Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus.

Anderson noted that already the pope has given the laity an “urgent call” in his first words, stressing the need for “a more active and intense shouldering of the works of charity.”

Carl Anderson The laity must “stand up and shoulder that responsibility, and I think we have a Holy Father who will lead us in that direction,” he told Catholic News Service March 18.

He said the cardinals’ election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope makes it seem as if they were focusing on retired Pope Benedict’s 2009 encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”).

He said Pope Francis has a “unique solidarity with the poor and those in need” that he hopes will impact the church, especially affluent Catholics in North America, to begin to have solidarity with those in poverty and in need of help.

“Pope Benedict told us in his encyclical that the church is one big family and that no one should lack the necessities of life, so I hope with this new pope, Pope Francis, we will begin to live that out in even greater ways,” he said.

Anderson said he could not help seeing parallels in the election of Pope Francis and the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978. When both were announced on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, he said many people did not know much about them.

He noted that the pope from Eastern Europe, Pope John Paul, was able to have a “tremendous impact from behind the Iron Curtain for a whole continent of people.” In a similar way, he thinks Pope Francis will “usher in a huge renewal of Catholicism in the Western Hemisphere.”

Anderson said that Pope John Paul stood with people against the communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. Similarly, he noted, Pope Francis may show his solidarity with the people of Latin America, especially since he has demonstrated in his pastoral ministry that the church is “not a place of privilege but a place of service.”

EASTER LITURGY Old St. Mary’s Cathedral / Holy Family Chinese Mission 660 California St. San Francisco, CA 94108

2013 Easter Week Schedule Palm Sunday, March 24 5:00 pm Saturday Vigil Mass 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass Holy Thursday, March 28 7:30 am Morning Prayer 12:05 pm Communal Reconciliation Service With The Most Rev. William Justice Auxiliary Bishop in San Francisco 6:15 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8:00 pm Evening Prayer Good Friday, March 29 7:30 am Morning Prayer 12:00-1:30 pm Seven Last Words 1:30-3:00 pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion 6:00 pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in Chinese Holy Saturday, March 30 8:00 pm The Great Vigil of Easter Easter Sunday, March 31 8:30 am Mass of the Lord’s Resurrection 11:00 am Parish Unity Mass followed by Easter Cake in the Church Auditorium

1111 Gough St., San Francisco • Tel: (415) 567-2020 www.stmarycathedralsf.org Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Saturday and Sunday, March 23 & 24 Regular Weekend Schedule of Masses Saturday 5:30 pm Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00am (Gregorian chant), 11:00 am Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant (Cathedral Choir), 1:00pm (en Español)

Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, March 28 7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant Silent Adoration at the Place of Repose (St. Francis Hall) Concludes at Midnight 11:45 pm Night Prayer (NO Confessions and NO 6:45 am, 8:00 am or 12:10 pm Masses on Holy Thursday, March 28)

Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday), March 29 We continue to keep vigil 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Confessions 2:00 pm: Music in the Cathedral 3:00 pm: Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop Cordileone, Celebrant (NO 6:45 am, 8:00am or 12:10 pm Masses on Good Friday, March 29)

Holy Saturday, March 30 Our paschal vigil and fast continues throughout the day and night 9:00 pm The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant (NO Confessions and NO 6:45 am, 8:00am or 5:30 pm Masses on Holy Saturday, March 30) Cathedral Hours: Open 9:00 am-12Noon, then closed until 8:00 pm

Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord, March 31 Regular Sunday Schedule of Masses 7:30 am, 9:00am (Gregorian chant), 11:00 am Archbishop Cordileone, Principal Celebrant (Cathedral Choir) 1:00pm (en Español) 3:00 pm Easter Concert 4:30 pm.

Holy Hour for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty With Easter Vespers

Save the Date: May 5, 2013 – 12:00 Noon All Parish Mass and luncheon

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Pope’s ring designer decorated St. Mary’s Cathedral CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – With his fisherman’s ring and the pallium – the main symbols of the Petrine office – Pope Francis chose styles in continuity with two of his predecessors.

The fisherman’s ring Pope Francis chose is made of gold-plated silver and is based on the same design of a papal ring handed down from Pope Paul VI’s personal secretary. It shows an image of St. Peter holding the two keys – one key represents the power in heaven and the other indicates the spiritual authority of the papacy on earth.

The ring, which represents the pope’s role as a “fisher of men,” was designed by a late-Italian artist,

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Enrico Manfrini, who was very close to Pope Paul and his late secretary, Archbishop Pasquale Macchi.

Pope Francis had about three models of rings to choose from, said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, and the pope chose the design that Manfrini gave Archbishop Macchi for Pope Paul. Pope Francis’ ring was made from the same wax cast of the ring meant for Pope Paul, who never wore it, Father Lombardi said.

Known as the “popes’ sculptor,” Manfrini designed many religious objects for other popes before his death in 2004, the Archdiocese of San Francisco noted in a news release. The artist is also renowned for the bronze sculptures that adorn the interior of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, which holds one of the most important collections of Manfrini’s works worldwide.

The works include a paschal candle stand, a candle ensemble at the bishop’s chair and the bronze entrance doors.

The pallium Pope Francis received from French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran during the Mass was the same one Pope Benedict XVI used – a short woolen band that the retired pope re-introduced in 2008, and similar to the kind worn by Blessed John Paul II. It is worn over the shoulders and has a 12-inch long strip hanging down the front and the back.

The pallium is a woolen stole that signifies the pope’s or the archbishop’s authority over the Christian community. It also represents the shepherd’s mission of placing the lost, sick or weak sheep on his shoulders.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will receive a pallium from Pope Francis June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome. The white woolen band, the connection with the good shepherd implied, is worn by archbishops of the Latin-rite church and signifies the prelate’s authority over the ecclesiastical province and his unity with the pope.

St. Monica Parish

ST. ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH

Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Easter 2013 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday, March 24

Saturday Evening Vigil - 5pm Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses)

Holy Thursday, March 28

Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30pm (Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10pm)

Good Friday, March 29

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion - 12 noon Confessions - 1:30pm to 3pm Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30pm

1571 Southgate Avenue, Daly City, CA 94015 (650) 756-3223

2013 Holy Week Schedule March 28, Thursday HOLY THURSDAY 9:00 am – 4:00 pm "P A B A S A" (Passion) 8:00 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper 9:30-11:00 pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Chapel) March 29, Friday GOOD FRIDAY 10:00 am – 12:00 noon "P A B A S A" (Passion) 1:00 pm Stations of the Cross (Around the Neighborhood)

3:00 pm

Holy Saturday, March 30

No 5pm Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30pm Including Saint Thomas Apostle Church Community

Easter Sunday, March 31 Sunday - 8am, 9am (Cantonese) 10:30am (Choir) No Evening Mass

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Easter 2013

2013 LENTEN SCHEDULE Stations of the Cross March 22, 2013 Passion (Palm) Sunday Saturday and Sunday, March 23rd & 24th, 2013 Saturday vigil at 5:30pm Sunday Masses at 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish), 1:00pm and 5:30pm

Parish Missions Monday, March 25th thru Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 Each evening at 7:00pm except on Tuesday it will begin at 7:30pm Confessions on Tuesday, March 26th at 10:00am & 6:00pm

Holy Thursday (Mass of the Lord’s Supper) Thursday, March 28th, 2013 Mass at 7:30pm

Good Friday (Celebration of the Lord’s Passion) Friday, March 29th, 2013 Children’s Liturgy from Noon to 1:00pm (Nano Nagle Hall Gym) Stations of the Cross at - 12:00pm The Seven Last Words at 1:00pm English Reflection at 2:00pm Spanish Reflection at 7:30pm

Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil) Saturday, March 30th, 2013 Mass at 8:00pm

Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday) Sunday, March 31st, 2013: Masses at 5:00am (Salubong), 6:30am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 11:30am (Spanish) and 1:00pm, no 5:30pm Mass

If you have any questions, please call the Parish Office 415.333.7630

(Inside the Main Church)

March 30, Saturday HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 pm EASTER VIGIL MASS March 31, Sunday EASTER SUNDAY 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 am & 12:30 pm MASSES After all Masses Easter Egg Hunt

Mater Dolorosa

EPIPHANY

827 Vienna Street San Francisco, CA 94112

Friday 22nd,2013 Every Friday after the 8:00am Mass and at 7:00pm

5:00 pm

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross and Communion Stations of the Cross

2013 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013 Masses: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

Procession prior to 9:30 a.m. Mass Gather in the Parish Center at 9:15 a.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 6:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013 No Morning Masses 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. – Stations of the Cross 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. – Adult Choir Performance 1: 15 – 1:30 p.m. – Meditation 1:30 p.m. – Good Friday Liturgy HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2013 No 8:30 a.m. Mass 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Morning Prayer Confessions: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

No 5:00 p.m. Mass Easter Vigil Mass – 8:00 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013 Masses: 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

March 24, Palm Sunday: Vigil Mass: Saturday, March 23rd at 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., & 12 Noon Palms will be blessed at all the Masses March 25, Holy Monday: Seder Meal at 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall March 28, Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Hall until 11:00 p.m.

March 29, Good Friday: Reflections on the Seven Last Words of Jesus

by Father Jose Arong, OMI from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross at 1:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 2:00 p.m.

Soup Supper at 6:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross at 7:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion with Father Vito Perrone at 7:45 p.m.

March 30, Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil Mass at 8:00 p.m.

March 31, Easter Sunday: Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 Noon April 7th, Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday: Mass at 8:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 Noon Light refreshments and movie on Divine Mercy at 1:00 p.m.

Confessions and Rosary 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy 3:00 p.m. followed by Special Divine Mercy Mass at 3:15 p.m.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Choosing a Jesuit as reformer – on many levels FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The church has turned to religious orders for popes at various times over the centuries, often when in need of a reformer, and such may have been the cardinals’ thinking again when they elected Pope Francis.

He is the world’s first Jesuit pope, and the cardinal electors knew that the Jesuits are historically a missionary order, whose first generation in the 16th century not only carried the faith to non-Christian lands around the world, but marched in the front ranks of the Catholic Reformation, facing the challenge of Protestantism in Europe. That heritage may have been a factor in the choice of Pope Francis, at a moment when the church has placed a priority on the new evangelization – the effort to revive the faith in increasingly secular societies.

During their official pre-conclave meetings, the cardinals extensively discussed the corruption and mismanagement sensationally documented in the 2012 “VatiLeaks” of confidential correspondence from within the Holy See. The new pope’s history of austere living, exemplified by his modest apartment and practice of riding city buses – not to mention his decision to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi,

a great reformer known as the “poor little one” – must have seemed especially appealing in that context.

Yet many of the cardinals who elected the new pope are also known to believe that one aspect of the church urgently in need in reform is none other than religious life. The last half-century has witPope Francis nessed a steep decline in vocations, along with well-publicized disputes over doctrine and discipline between members of religious orders and their bishops, including the bishop of Rome, the pope.

As the largest of the orders, with more than 17,000 members, the Jesuits exhibit these tensions in an especially prominent way. Some Jesuits enjoy the confidence of the Vatican at the highest levels; Pope Benedict XVI appointed one member, Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

But in 2008, Pope Benedict found it necessary to ask the order to affirm its “total adhesion to Catholic doctrine, in particular on those neuralgic points which today are strongly attacked by secular culture,” including “the relationship between Christ and religions,

some aspects of the theology of liberation,” divorce and homosexuality.

There is no doubt where Pope Francis stands on those points. If any cardinals had qualms about the future pope’s membership in an order often accused of tolerating dissent, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s well-known fidelity to church teaching would have dispelled them. But is it possible that the controversies associated with the Jesuits and other religious orders actually played a positive role in his election?

A frequently heard comment during the run-up to the conclave was that the man best qualified to reform the Vatican would be an Italian, since he would know the local culture best.

Evidently the cardinal electors did not find that argument strong enough to determine their choice. Yet they may have used a similar logic with regard to a different agenda.

Throughout the history of the church, its hierarchical and charismatic sides, traditionally represented by the bishops and the religious orders, have existed in tension with each other.

At times that tension has been debilitating, at other times explosively creative. In choosing a Jesuit and longtime bishop to serve as the church’s head on earth, the cardinals may have set in motion a process of renewal that will be felt far beyond the Vatican’s walls.

1000 Cambridge St., Novato 415.883.2177 Palm Sunday – March 24, 2013 Vigil - Saturday at 5:00pm Masses at 7:00am, 9:00am, 11am Palms distributed at each Mass

Holy Thursday – March 28, 2013 Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 7:00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00pm in the Hall

Good Friday – March 29, 2013 Confessions - 10:00am to 10:45am Youth Group Stations of the Cross - 12 noon Good Friday Service - 1:00pm Stations of the Cross - 7:00pm

“I’m overjoyed,” Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, founder of San Francisco-based Ignatius Press, told Catholic San Francisco in response to the election of Pope Francis.

“He is a great Jesuit, a traditional one. He’s ‘progressive’ in the sense that Father Fessio he loves the poor, and – more importantly – lives a life of simplicity. But he is completely faithful to the church’s teaching. So he really is a ‘pontifex maximus,’ which is Latin for ‘the greatest bridge builder.’ He bridges the old world and the new, doctrinal orthodoxy and service to the poor.

“And what a great new name for a pope, ‘Francis’: Francis of Assisi, the great lover of creation and the poor, who was told by Our Lord to ‘rebuild my church’; Francis Xavier, fellow Jesuit and the greatest missionary of the church; Francis Borgia, another fellow Jesuit, a saint who was a vigorous general of the Jesuits.”

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St. Anthony of Padua 2013 HOLY WEEK & EASTER SCHEDULE

JESUIT FATHER FESSIO: POPE FRANCIS BRIDGES OLD WORLD AND NEW

MOST REVEREND ROBERT W. McELROY REFLECTIONS ON THE SEVEN LAST WORDS

Holy Saturday – March 30, 2013 Blessing of Easter Eggs and Food 12 noon Confessions - 12:15pm to 1:00pm and 4:00pm to 5:00pm Easter Vigil - 8:00pm

Easter Sunday – March 31, 2013 Masses at 7:00am, 9:00am & 11:00am 9:00am & 11:00am in the Hall also Easter Egg Hunt for children following the 9:00am Mass.

Divine Mercy Sunday April 7, 2013 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm – Confessions 3:00 pm – Recitation of the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet 3:30 pm – Veneration and Benediction

Palm Sunday, March 24 Masses: 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Vigil Mass); 7:30 a.m. (Quiet Mass); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m.; 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight) Sacrament of Reconciliation, Wednesday, March 27 12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.

March 29, 2013 12 Noon to 1 PM: StaƟons of the Cross 1:00 PM—2:00 PM: Re ecƟons on the Seven Last Words 2:00 to 3:00 PM: CelebraƟon of the Lord’s Passion

Holy Thursday, March 28 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae; 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper Good Friday, March 29 7:30 a.m. – Tenebrae ; 12:15 – Stations of the Cross; 1:00 – Seven Last Words; 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. – Reconciliation; 7:30 p.m. – The Passion of the Lord Holy Saturday, March 30 8:00 a.m. – Tenebrae ; 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Reconciliation; 8:00 p.m. – The EASTER VIGIL Easter Sunday, March 31 7:30 a.m. (Mass with Easter Hymns); 9:30 a.m. (Family Mass); 11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass); 1:30 p.m. (St. Jude Pilgrim Mass in Spanish); 5:30 p.m. (Contemporary Choir); 9:00 p.m. (Taizé music by candlelight). No Reconciliation on Easter Sunday 2390 BUSH STREET (AT STEINER), SAN FRANCISCO (PARKING (415) 567-7824; WWW.STDOMINICS.ORG

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HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH 39th Avenue & Lawton St. San Francisco, CA 94122

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

At first Angelus, pope says God never tires of forgiving FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

(CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO)

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the window of his private apartment as he leads his first Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 17.

VATICAN CITY – Citing a distinguished German theologian and an anonymous elderly penitent from Argentina, Pope Francis told an overflow crowd in St. Peter’s Square never to despair of God’s mercy to sinners. “The Lord never tires of forgiving,� the pope said March 17, before leading his listeners in praying the midday Angelus. “It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.�

Pope Francis, who was elected March 13, spoke from his window in the Apostolic Palace for the first time.

Despite gray skies, a crowd easily numbering 150,000 turned out to see the pope for his first scheduled appearance in St. Peter’s Square since the night of his election.

He opened with an expression of what has already become his trademark informality, greeting listeners with a simple “buongiorno!�

Commenting on the day’s Gospel reading (John 8:1-11), Pope Francis noted that Jesus addresses a woman caught in adultery, not with words of scorn or condemnation, “but only words of love, of mercy, which

‘It is not easy to trust in the mercy of God. But we must do it.’ POPE FRANCIS invite her to conversion: ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.’�

Pope Francis referred to a book on the subject of mercy by German Cardinal Walter Kasper, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, whom he described as a “superb theologian.� “But don’t think I’m advertising my cardinals’ books. That’s not it,� the pope said in the sort of spontaneous aside that listeners have already to come expect from him. “This book has done me so much good,� Pope Francis said, apparently referring to a work published in 2012 under the German title “Barmherzigkeit� (Mercy). “Cardinal Kasper said that to feel mercy, this word changes everything,� the pope said. “A little mercy makes the world less cold and more just.�

The Argentine pope also recalled an encounter more than 20 years ago with an elderly woman in Buenos Aires, who told him: “If the Lord did not forgive all, the world would not exist.�

Pope Francis said he had wanted to ask her if she had studied at Rome’s prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University, because her words reflected the “wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit: interior wisdom regarding the mercy of God.�

Following the Angelus, the pope offered a particular greeting to Romans and other Italians, noting that he had chosen for his papal name that of St. Francis of Assisi, which he said “reinforces my spiritual tie with this land, where – as you know – my family origins lie.�

Earlier that morning, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Church of St. Anne inside Vatican City, where his homily also treated the subject of divine mercy. “It is not easy to trust in the mercy of God, because that is an incomprehensible abyss,� he said. “But we must do it.�

Jesus likes us to tell him even our worst sins, the pope said. “He forgets; he has a special ability to forget.�

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2013 H OLY W EEK S CHEDULE Reconciliation (Confessions): March 20 (Wed.) 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Holy Thursday March 28 7:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper Exposition & Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament follows

Good Friday March 29

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12:00 pm - Stations of the Cross

St. Paul of the Shipwreck We cordially invite you to celebrate Holy Week and Easter with us

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12:30 pm - Reections by Archbishop George Niederauer, Emeritus 1:30 p.m. Veneration of the Cross 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Confession 7:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross

Holy Saturday March 30 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer (Journey With Our Lady of Sorrows) 8:00 p.m. Easter Vigil

Easter Sunday March 31 Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.

Easter Egg Hunt follows after the 9:30 a.m. Mass

EASTER LITURGY Saint Philip the Apostle Church 725 Diamond Street San Francisco, CA 94114 - (415) 282-0141

Holy Week Services 2013

Palm Sunday, March 24: The blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday: 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.)

Palms distributed at all Masses.

Holy Thursday, March 28: Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m.

Concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m. (in the daily Mass chapel).

Good Friday, March 29- 12:00 Noon: A presentation on the Stations of the Cross by our choir and speakers followed at 1:30 by the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, which includes the reading of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion.

7:15 p.m. - The traditional Stations of the Cross Holy Saturday, March 30 Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of the Easter Candle.

Easter Sunday, March 31: Masses: 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.

The Priests and Parish Community of Saint Philip the Apostle Parish wish you a Happy and Blessed Easter!

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Vatican dismisses claims against Pope Francis during dictatorship FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican dismissed claims that Pope Francis played a direct role in the kidnappings of two Jesuit priests during Argentina’s murderous military dictatorship and described them as part of a campaign by “left-wing anti-clerical elements to attack the church.�

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, read a statement to journalists March 15 in response to renewed allegations that the future pope failed to protect two young Jesuit priests – Fathers Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics – from kidnapping by Argentina’s military junta in 1976. “This was never a concrete or credible accusation in his regard,� Father Lombardi said. “He was questioned by an Argentine court as someone aware of the situation but never as a defendant. He has, in documented form, denied any accusations. “Instead, there have been many declarations demonstrating how much (the future Pope Francis) did to protect many persons at the time of the military dictatorship,� the spokesman said.

Father Lombardi also drew attention to recent statements by a leading Argentine human rights activist that the pope “was not directly complicit� with the regime. “He did not have ties with the dictatorship,� said the statement from Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on human rights during Argentina’s “dirty war� from 1976 to 1983. But the activist added that the future pope had “lacked the courage to stand with us in our struggle for human rights.�

The Vatican spokesman called the statement a “declaration to be given much attention, because Perez Esquivel is not traditionally favorable to the church.�

Then-Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future pope,

‘There have been many declarations demonstrating how much (the future Pope Francis) did to protect many persons at the time of the military dictatorship.’ JESUIT FATHER FEDERICO LOMBARDI Vatican spokesman

was head of the Jesuit province in the country from 1973 to 1979, the height of the clandestine war that saw as many as 30,000 Argentines kidnapped, tortured, murdered or disappeared, never to be seen again.

Horacio Verbitsky, author of “El Silencio,� a book about the church’s role in the country at the time, claims that Cardinal Bergoglio did not endorse the work of the two priests in question, providing a tacit go-ahead for the military to abduct them.

Military officials held and tortured the men before eventually releasing them.

Speaking at the Vatican, Father Lombardi also referred to a news report that one of the two priests, now living in Germany, had said that he and the other kidnap victim had eventually reconciled with the future Pope Francis. “The campaign against Bergoglio is well-known and dates back to many years ago,� Father Lombardi said. “The accusations pertain to a use of historicalsociological analysis of the dictatorship period made years ago by left-wing anti-clerical elements to attack the church. They must be firmly rejected.�

The Vatican spokesman said that the future pope, in his years as a bishop, was involved in publicly asking forgiveness on behalf of the church in Ar-

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gentina “for not having done enough at the time of the dictatorship.�

Bergoglio twice refused to testify on the kidnapping incident before taking the stand in 2010. Prosecutors said his testimony failed to answer the allegations.

In an authorized biography, written by Argentine journalist Sergio Rubin, then-Cardinal Bergoglio said he had advised the priests to stop their work. “I warned them to be very careful,� he said, in excerpts quoted by the Associated Press. “They were too exposed to the paranoia of the witch hunt. Because they stayed in the barrio, Yorio and Jalics were kidnapped.�

The Association of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which advocates for justice in the name of their children who were disappeared during the war, said the silence of the church during the period was harmful. “We listed 150 priests who were assassinated by the dictatorship; the official church was silent and never made a claim for them,� said a statement by Hebe de Bonafini, the group’s president.

In 1996, Argentina’s bishops said they “deeply regret� that they did not do enough during the period. “At that time, the bishops thought they should combine firm denunciation of such violations with frequent appeals to government authorities,� they said in a statement. “We must confess that, unfortunately, this approach came up against unyielding stances on the part of many government authorities who erected an almost impenetrable wall.�

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Pope asks Argentines to give to poor instead of traveling to Rome CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The night of his election, Pope Francis phoned the Vatican ambassador in Argentina and asked him to tell the country’s bishops and faithful not to feel obliged to come to Rome for his installation, but instead give the money to the poor, the Vatican spokesman confirmed.

“Pope Francis did not forbid them to come,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman, but he said he would prefer their continued prayers and acts of charity.

The nuncio to Argentina, Archbishop Emil Tscherrig, wrote to all the bishops March 14 conveying the Argentine pope’s sentiments.

“The Holy Father Francis asked me to convey to all the bishops, priests, religious and all God’s people, his gratitude for your prayers and expressions of love, affection and charity,” the archbishop wrote.

However, he said, Pope Francis asked that “instead of going to Rome

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Angela Espinola holds up a photograph of herself and her sister, Eliza, as they pose with Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio outside Our Lady of Caacupe Chapel where Cardinal Bergoglio once celebrated Mass in a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. for the start of his pontificate March 19, you would continue with that spiritual closeness he so appreciates, accompanying him with some act of charity toward those in need.”

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On Pope Francis’ second full day in office, Father Lombardi said, he celebrated Mass at 7 a.m. in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the cardinals lived during the conclave and where the pope will remain until the papal apartments are ready for him.

Other cardinals still at the residence heard the pope was to celebrate the Mass and went down to join him, Father Lombardi said.

The Vatican spokesman said he spoke to the director of the residence who said that Pope Francis continues to go down to the dining hall for

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Sacred Triduum Holy Thursday-Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7 p.m.

Good Friday Service 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Holy Saturday 8 p.m.

Easter Sunday 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.

meals. He usually arrives after most of the cardinals “and just goes to the first table he finds with an empty seat.” No special table has been set up for the pope, and he does not sit alone at an empty table.

Father Lombardi also told reporters it was unlikely that Pope Francis, the bishop of Rome, would be able to take possession of his cathedral – the Basilica of St. John Lateran – before Easter, given that his installation is only five days before Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week.

With journalists from around the world reporting on the new pope and with a long, complicated list of all the popes since St. Peter, Father Lombardi made a special clarification: “We say Pope Francis is the 266th pope, the 265th successor of Peter.”

As he has said in recent days, Father Lombardi said he expects Pope Francis to travel to Brazil in July for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro.

As soon as the pope officially confirms the trip, it will be announced, he said.

A Polish journalist said Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland, had said he invited Pope Francis to Poland for World Youth Day 2016.

Father Lombardi said: “World Youth Day 2016 in Poland? That’s news. We expect the next World Youth Day to be announced at the end of the celebrations in Rio.”2

EASTER LITURGY Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You! Reconciliation Service, Saturday, March 23rd, 11:00am

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Holy Thursday, March 28th Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with strings, woodwinds & liturgical dance

Good Friday, March 29th

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Saturday, March 30th Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass, woodwinds & strings

Easter Sunday, March 31st Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass, woodwinds & strings

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Some in Buenos Aires shocked their humble prelate is pope DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Lawyer Diego Morales often walks past the Metropolitan Cathedral in this South American capital. He recently popped in, however, taking a moment for prayer and reflection and to give thanks for what was previously unthinkable: that local Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio would be elected pope.

Many Argentines expressed emotions of shock, surprise and pride that the church would elect one of their own as pontiff, especially as they remember Pope Francis more as a humble servant, who made the poor his priority, rather than as someone seeking status and power.

His origins in South America made it seem even more improbable that he would become leader of the universal church.

“He came from the end of the world,” the daily La Nacion announced in a headline.

Pope Francis became perhaps the best-known Argentine since soccer strikers Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona. The latter led Argentina to the 1986 World Cup title with a goal against England known as “the hand of God.” Pope Francis is different from the larger-thanlife Maradona, whose battles with drugs are well

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People celebrate election of Pope Francis outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13. documented. People interviewed near the cathedral recall Pope Francis as being personable, with a common touch – someone who took time for ordinary people.

“He’s the same person now as he was then,” said hardware store owner Antonio Franco, who was taught catechism classes by a young Father Bergoglio. “He’s a very humble person.”

“Even for some Jesuits, he was excessively modest,” said Jose Maria Poirier, director the

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GOOD FRIDAY March 29th

The Passion of the Lord Vigil Mass on Saturday, 4:30 pm Sunday Masses: 8,9:30,11 am (Chinese), and 12:15 Blessing & distribution of Palms at all Masses

Three Hour Devotion: 12 Noon Stations of the Cross with meditations

by St. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer 1:30 PM Celebration of the Passion of the Lord, Liturgy of the Word, Adoration of the Cross and Eucharist 7 pm: Stations of the Cross (St. Alphonsus de Liguori)

CONFESSIONS • HOLY WEEK Monday, March 25th & Wednesday, March 27th 4 - 5 PM Good Friday 3 PM Holy Saturday 1-2 PM

HOLY THURSDAY March 28th 7 PM Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper Followed by procession & Adoration in chapel until 10 pm

HOLY SATURDAY March 30th Easter Vigil in the Holy Night: 8 PM Liturgy of the Word, Blessing of Holy Water, celebration of the Holy Eucharist (There will be no 4:30 pm Mass on Holy Saturday)

EASTER SUNDAY March 31st Masses 8, 9:30,11 am. (Chinese) and 12:15 p.m.

Catholic magazine El Criterio. “But he’s authentically that way.”

Pope Francis endeared himself to many by acting like a common man, Poirier told Catholic News Service. He lived in a room next to the archdiocesan headquarters and cooked for himself. He had been preparing to move into a home for retired and sick priests, where he planned to celebrate Mass daily and help care for older prelates.

Poirier said the pope never went out to eat – except in archdiocesan missions in poor neighborhoods or to speak with a priest needing attention; rejected all invitations to society-style gatherings; and rode public transit.

“He never had a car,” Poirier added. With public transit, “He said that I lose less time and meet the people.”

The desire to not lose time describes Pope Francis’ abilities in administration, he added.

He built parishes, promoted the priesthood to potential seminarians coming from poor barrios and overhauled archdiocesan ministries during his 15 years at the helm of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Mostly, though, the then-archbishop wanted the church to be closer to the people – regardless of income, Poirier said.

Holy Week Schedule Saint Robert’s Church 1380 Crystal Springs Road San Bruno, CA 94066 (650) 589-2800 Confessions

Saturday, March 23 3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

Passion (Palm) Sunday - Masses March 24 Saturday evening Vigil Mass, 4:30 p.m.

7:30 am., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Good Friday—March 29 No Morning Mass Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, 12 noon – 1:30 p.m.

Children’s Liturgy, 12 noon - 1:30 p.m. in the Hall Confessions 1:30 pm - 3 p.m.

Youth Passion Play, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Saturday- March 30 No Morning Mass Confessions 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

No 4:30 pm Mass The whole community gathers for our one Celebration of the Great Vigil of Easter 7:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday—March 31 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

No 5 p.m. Mass

2013 Easter Week Liturgies

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion - March 24th

Masses: 5 p.m. (Sat. Vig.), 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 12 noon (Span.)

Blessing of Palms and Procession from Auditorium to Basilica at 10 a.m. & 12 noon Masses 6:00 p.m. - Movie about the life of Christ and reflection

Holy Thursday - March 28th

6:30 p.m. - Seder Supper (tickets required - $5) 8:00 p.m. - Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper [Bilingual] followed by procession and adoration until 11 p.m.

Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion - March 29th

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12:00 noon - Stations of the Cross and Passion Play 6:30 p.m. - Liturgy of Good Friday [Bilingual] followed by Santo Entierro Procession

Holy Saturday - March 30th

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. - Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Liturgy [Bilingual]

Easter Sunday - March 31st

8:00 a.m. - Mass [cantor and organ] 10:00 a.m. - Mass [Basilica Choir, brass and organ] 12:00 noon - Mass [Spanish] [Coro y organo]

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Pope’s home church counters drugs

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March 23rd - Palm Sunday Vigil Masses

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4:00 p.m. & 5:30 p.m. - Blessing of Palms/Mass

March 24th - Palm Sunday 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.

Blessing of Palms/Mass

March 28th - Holy Thursday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer 7-30 p.m. Mass of the Last Supper (washing of the feet, presentation of holy oils, procession to altar of repose) 11:00 p.m. - end of vigil at the chapel of repose

March 29th - Good Friday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayers 12:30 p.m. - Via Crucis 1:30 pm - Good Friday Liturgy (Reading of the Passion, Universal Prayers, Veneration of the Cross, Communion) 7:30 p.m. - Evening Good Friday Liturgy

March 30 - Holy Saturday 9:00 a.m. - Morning Prayer

March 30 - Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m. - Blessing of fire, Paschal Candle, Candle Procession, Proclamation of Easter Message, Readings, Sacraments of Christian iniation of RCIA candidates: Baptisim promises.

March 31 - Easter Sunday 5-30 am. - Easter Sunrise Service/Salubong at OLM School with Mass 6:00 a.m. Then regular Sunday Mass schedule follows: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 12:00 a.m.

7:30 a.m, 9a.m., Mass 10:30 am. (Children’s Choir) 12 noon (Parish Choir)

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Mass at the Christ the Worker Parish is celebrated on a cement soccer pitch.

There, parishioners sit on portable pews and relax on the embankment of an overpass; shipping containers soar over the fence behind the altar.

The service starts as the sun sets, with children and local youth beating drums and dancers dressed in blue and white costumes – similar to the national patroness, Our Lady of Lujan – circling the pitch.

The Mass unfolds like any other: readings, homily, consecration, handshakes and Communion.

The chapel near the soccer pitch is part church, part community center and serves Villa 31, one of the more than 500 shanties surrounding the Argentine capital, places the authorities are often absent and drug dealing is rife. Christ the Worker Parish has six chapels in Villa 31 and adjacent areas.

It’s an example of the outreach to outcasts and the poor employed by Pope Francis during his 15 years as archbishop of Buenos Aires, where he wanted the church brought closer to the people and sent seminarians and priests to serve them.

“The outskirts of Buenos Aires” – where many “villas de emergencia,” or shanties, are located – “were the center for him, not the downtown,” said Father Jose Maria di Paola, perhaps the best-known of the priests who live and work in the villas.

“The orientation of the archdiocese has been directed toward the most needy,” Father di Paola said, adding that the church at times has provided more social assistance in the villas than the state has provided.

The villas were such a priority for Pope Francis that he established chapels and missions, providing education, serving hot meals and organizing youth groups and drug rehabilitation programs.

(CNS PHOTO/DAVID AGREN)

Father Jose Maria di Paola, poses prior to Mass in the Villa 31 shanty of Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 17.

He also denounced drug use, drug decriminalization and drug dealing – especially paco, a form of crack cocaine processed with sulfuric acid and kerosene and sold in the villas. In 2009, the pope’s denouncements forced Father di Paola, 50, to temporarily leave the villas after he received death threats.

None of that slowed down the mission work, which Father di Paola suspected has been successful because priests live and work in the villas and become part of the community. Their numbers grew to more than 20 under Pope Francis, an effort that “has stopped evangelicals” from moving in, he said.

Pope Francis frequently visited the villas – places polite society members, and some taxi drivers, avoid. He arrived on the bus or collective transport, walked the rutted roads and baptized and confirmed the children of the residents.

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Saints Peter and Paul Church 2013 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday Masses (March 24): English: Saturday Vigil 5:00PM, Sunday 7:30 & 8:45AM, 1 & 5:00PM. Cantonese: 10:15AM. Italian: 11:45AM. Lenten Weekday Masses: 7:30 AM, 9:00AM & 12:15PM. Holy Thursday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM; Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:30PM. Good Friday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM. Stations of the Cross: In Italian: 12:00PM; In English: 1:00PM. Liturgy of the Word & Communion: In English: 2:00PM In Cantonese: 6:30PM. Holy Saturday: Morning Prayer: 8:00AM; Solemn Easter Vigil: 8:30PM.

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www.starofthesea.us We invite you to join us as we celebrate Holy Week & Easter Palm Sunday - 5:00 pm Vigil (Sat) 7:30 & 9:30 am Sunday. Mass, Blessing & distribution of Palms, Reading of the Passion Holy Thursday - celebrating the institution of the Eucharist.

7:00 pm Mass followed by Exposition until 9:30 pm Good Friday - 11:30 am The Stations of the Cross 12:00 - 2:00 pm The Last Seven Words of Jesus on the Cross.

2:00 pm - Reading of the Passion, Adoration of the Cross & Holy Communion Holy Saturday - 8:00 pm The Ceremonies of the Easter Vigil & Lighting of the Paschal Candle Easter Sunday - 7:30 & 9:30 am Mass - The Faith Community joins as one in celebrating Our Lord’s Resurrection.

Live Church Broadcast: www.stcecilia.com Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 24th Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. with the Solemn Procession Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.

Holy Thursday, March 28th 7:30 p.m. - Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until Midnight Good Friday, March 29th 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - Children’s Stations of the Cross in the Lower Church with Sean Farrell 12:00—1:30 p.m. - Reflections on “Benedict XVI: Way of the Cross”

by Monsignor Michael Harriman with our Adult Choir 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. - Solemn Liturgy - (The eighth graders will act out the chanted Passion; General Intercessions; Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross) - Fr. Felix Lim Holy Saturday, March 30th 8:00 p.m. - Easter Vigil Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra) Easter Sunday, March 31st 7:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim 9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass with Cecilia Cardenas) 11:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim (with Choir & Orchestra)

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

‘He spontaneously rejected the kingship of the papacy’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – For the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, “authenticity and simplicity” characterize the man who mentored him as a young bishop and who has just been elected Pope Francis.

Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Pope Francis’ simplicity and commitment to a new form of evangelization was exemplified when he came out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time March 13 and bowed as he asked people to pray for him and ask God to bless him.

“He spontaneously rejected the kingship of the papacy,” the archbishop said.

“This is the way of the very ancient church,” Archbishop Shevchuk said, and it is something still seen today in the Byzantine ordinations of priests and bishops. The candidate is first presented to the people who must proclaim him “axios” or “worthy.”

The gesture, he said, was vintage Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Some people were surprised when the pope said March 16 that he wanted a church that was poor and was with the poor.

“I can assure you, that was not simply PR (public relations). That is how he is – as a person, as a pastor, as a celebrant, as a bishop, as the pope,” the archbishop said.

The archbishop was present at many

Masses in Argentina where then-Cardinal Bergoglio was the chief celebrant.

His homilies “were always very short, but very sweet,” he said.

In fact, he said, at the solemn Mass celebrating Argentina’s 200th anniversary of independence in 2010, “he said just six sentences, but there was a silence in the cathedral for almost 10 minutes” when Archbishop he finished as people Shevchuk thought about what he had said.

“As a celebrant, he tried to be really simple in his relationships with the people and with God. That is why, sometimes, he will break some protocols,” the archbishop said, particularly by sharing the sign of peace with as many people as he can reach.

“That way of creating simple, but authentic and profound relationships between God and people is a special gift of Pope Francis.”

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Bergoglio also served as the ordinary for Eastern Catholics who did not have their own bishops in Argentina. As ordinary, he was responsible for ensuring Eastern Catholics had their own priests and for guaranteeing their pastoral care.

The new pope, whether at a Divine

Liturgy or a Mass, “seeks full union with Christ, especially with the eucharistic Christ who is present,” he said.

The Ukrainian archbishop expects Pope Francis to be an “ecumenical pope,” primarily because of his ability to create authentic, profound relationships with others.

As a bishop in Argentina until his 2011 election as the major archbishop of Kiev-Halych and head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Archbishop Shevchuk watched the then-Cardinal Bergoglio in action in the public arena on issues of public policy and morality.

“It was an interesting time to see how the church defended the dignity of the human person, the dignity of the family and the dignity of human sexuality. The approach of Cardinal Bergoglio to those issues was the approach of a father and pastor. He wasn’t a judge. He was defending not abstract rules, but the dignity of the human person. That was his way,” he said.

“He was very tolerant to persons,” he said. But “he wasn’t tolerant to wrong ideas or aggressive ideas” presented in legislation.

“But even when he was taking the strongest positions, he was doing that with humility, kindness, in love,” the archbishop said. Pope Francis believes what he said March 17 in his Angelus, that God forgives always, “and he tries to imitate his God,” the archbishop added.

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis held an informal, private meeting and lunch with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner March 18.

The closed-door meeting with Fernandez was held in the Vatican’s Domus Sanctae Marthae residence March 18. The meeting lasted about 15-20 minutes, said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

Pope Francis and “Los Kirchner” – Fernandez and her late husband, former President Nestor Kirchner – occasionally clashed over social issues such as gay marriage and abortion. During one Mass for public officials, Pope Francis criticized perceived corruption, and the presidential couple reportedly began attending Mass outside the city. Nestor Kirchner, who died in 2010, served as president 2003-2007, when he was succeeded by Fernandez.

However, Pope Francis also spoke out against corruption in governments prior to the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, said Sergio Berensztein, an independent political analyst in Buenos Aires.

“Cristina never tolerated that (Cardinal Jorge Mario) Bergoglio was a person so prestigious, influential and critical of them,” Berensztein said.

“They never tolerated limits being put on their power, and Bergoglio represented a significant limit.”

He said he expected the relationship to change as Pope Francis assumes his new position. “Bergoglio is a very generous person, and I’m sure that his meeting Cristina is a manifestation of his ... new role,” he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

Francis, Ignatius and Jonah SANDRO MAGISTER

In addition to Francis of Assisi and St. Ignatius, in the “heaven” of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, there also shines the prophet Jonah.

In a 2007 interview with the international magazine 30 Days, highly revealing on how he sees his mission as pastor of the church, the then-archbishop of Buenos Aires suddenly asked the interviewer, Stefania Falasca: “Do you know the biblical episode of the prophet Jonah?”

“I don’t remember it. Tell us,” the interviewer replied.

And Bergoglio: “Jonah had everything clear. He had clear ideas about God, very clear ideas about good and evil. On what God does and on what he wants, on who was faithful to the covenant and who instead was outside the covenant. He had the recipe for being a good prophet. God broke into his life like a torrent. He sent him to Nineveh. Nineveh was the symbol of all the separated, the lost, of all the peripheries of humanity. Of all those who are outside, forlorn. Jonah saw that the task set on him was only to tell all those people that the arms of God were still open, that the patience of God was there and waiting, to heal them with his forgiveness and nourish them with his tenderness. Only for that had God sent him. He sent him to Nineveh, but he instead ran off in the opposite direction, toward Tarshish.”

“Running away from a difficult mission …,” said the interviewer.

Bergoglio: “No. What he was fleeing was not so much Nineveh as the boundless love of God for those people. It was that that didn’t come into his plans.

God had come once … ‘and I’ll see to the rest’: That’s what Jonah told himself. He wanted to do things his way, he wanted to steer it all. His stubbornness shut him in his own structures of evaluation, in his pre-ordained methods, in his righteous opinions. He had fenced his soul off with the barbed wire of those certainties that instead of giving freedom with God and opening horizons of greater service to others had finished by deafening his heart. How the isolated conscience hardens the heart! Jonah no longer knew that God leads his people with the heart of a father.”

“A great many of us can identify with Jonah,” the interviewer remarked.

Bergoglio: “Our certainties can become a wall, a jail that imprisons the Holy Spirit. Those who isolate their conscience from the path of the people of God don’t know the joy of the Holy Spirit that sustains hope. That is the risk run by the isolated conscience.

Of those who from the closed world of their Tarshish

A gnostic and self-referential church is a great danger; mercy and apostolic courage are great needs, the archbishop of Buenos Aires said. complain about everything or, feeling their identity threatened, launch themselves into battles only in the end to be still more self-concerned and self-referential.”

“What should one do?”

Bergoglio: “Look at our people not for what they should be but for what they are and see what is necessary. Without preconceptions and recipes but with generous openness. For the wounds and the frailty God have spoken. Allowing the Lord to speak… In a world that we can’t manage to interest with the words we say, only his presence that loves us, saves us, can be of interest. Apostolic fervor renews itself in order to testify to him who has loved us from the beginning.”

Last question: “For you, then, what is the worst thing that can happen in the church?”

Bergoglio: “It is what De Lubac calls ‘spiritual worldliness.’ It is the greatest danger for the church, for us, who are in the church. ‘It is worse’, says De Lubac, ‘more disastrous than the infamous leprosy that disfigured the dearly beloved bride at the time of the libertine popes.’ Spiritual worldliness is putting oneself at the center. It is what Jesus saw going on among the Pharisees: ‘You who glorify yourselves.

Who give glory to yourselves, the ones to the others.’”

The word “worldliness” was used several times, as a danger also for “priests, bishops, cardinals, popes,” in the first homily delivered by Bergoglio after his election as pope, in the Sistine Chapel.

But in the interview cited above there is also another passage in which the then-archbishop of Buenos Aires delineated the mission of the church and denounced its “gnostic and self-referential” threats.

To the question about what Bergoglio would have said to the pope and the cardinals at the consistory of Nov. 24, 2007, in which he was unable to participate, the interviewee continued as follows: A: I would have spoken about two things of which there is need in this moment, there is more need: mercy and apostolic courage.

Q: What do they mean to you?

A: To me apostolic courage is disseminating. Disseminating the word. Giving it to that man and to that woman for whom it was bestowed. Giving them the beauty of the Gospel, the amazement of the en-

counter with Jesus… and leaving it to the Holy Spirit to do the rest. It is the Lord, says the Gospel, who makes the seed sprout and bear fruit.

Q: In short, it is the Holy Spirit who performs the mission.

A: The early theologians said: The soul is a kind of sailing boat, the Holy Spirit is the wind that blows in the sail, to send it on its way, the impulses and the force of the wind are the gifts of the Spirit. Without his drive, without his grace, we don’t move forward.

The Holy Spirit lets us enter the mystery of God and saves us from the danger of a gnostic church and from the danger of a self-referential church, leading us to mission.

Q: That means also overthrowing all your functionalist solutions, your consolidated plans and pastoral systems …

A: I didn’t say that pastoral systems are useless.

On the contrary. In itself everything that leads by the paths of God is good. I have told my priests: ‘Do everything you should, you know your duties as ministers, take your responsibilities and then leave the door open.’ Our sociologists of religion tell us that the influence of a parish has a radius of 600 meters. In Buenos Aires there are about 2,000 meters between one parish and the next. So I then told the priests: ‘If you can, rent a garage and, if you find some willing layman, let him go there! Let him be with those people a bit, do a little catechesis and even give Communion if they ask him.’

A parish priest said to me: ‘But father, if we do this the people then won’t come to church.’ ‘But why?’ I asked him: ‘Do they come to Mass now?’ ‘No,’ he answered.

And so! Coming out of oneself is also coming out from the fenced garden of one’s own convictions, considered irremovable, if they risk becoming an obstacle, if they close the horizon that is also of God. Q: This is valid also for lay people …

A: Their clericalization is a problem. The priests clericalize the laity and the laity beg us to be clericalized … It really is sinful abetment. And to think that baptism alone could suffice. I’m thinking of those Christian communities in Japan that remained without priests for more than 200 years. When the missionaries returned they found them all baptized, all validly married for the church and all their dead had had a Catholic funeral. The faith had remained intact through the gifts of grace that had gladdened the life of a laity who had received only baptism and had also lived their apostolic mission by virtue of baptism alone. One must not be afraid of depending only on his tenderness.

MAGISTER is a Rome-based journalist. This article first appeared on his website www.chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it.

Pope Francis a man of ‘true evangelical humility’

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hen Pope Francis stepped out onto the central loggia of St. Peter’s on the night of March 13, I thought of the man I had met in his Buenos Aires office 10 months before: Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, who was looking forward to laying down the burden of leadership and devoting himself to prayer, reflection and study. Now, because Benedict XVI decided to renounce the chair of Peter and do what Cardinal Bergoglio wanted to do, the old-school ArgenGEORGE WEIGEL tine Jesuit is Benedict’s successor. His acceptance of the cross that is the papacy was an act of humble obedience by a man who had bent his will to the divine will for over a half-century.

What kind of man is he? Some impressions from an hour’s conversation last May: A man of God. The new pope struck me then as someone who lived from the inside out: a man whose rich interior life was the basis of his public life; a leader whose decisions grew from prayer and discernment, not calculation.

A man of profound humility. I had long been interested in getting to know then-Cardinal Bergoglio, but I had the hardest time getting him to talk about his own life and experiences. I didn’t detect shyness in

this, or false modesty, but a true evangelical humility. Pope Francis will not have the effervescence of a John Paul II; but like the Polish pope who created him cardinal, Jorge Bergoglio has spent his life saying, not “Look at me,” but rather, “Look to Jesus Christ.”

A man of keen and realistic intelligence. Pope Francis is not the university professor that John Paul II and Benedict XVI had been in their pre-papal lives.

And while that model of preparing-for-the-papacy served the church well for 35 years, it’s not the only possible model. Now, rather than a professor who learned how to be a pastor, the church has been given a pastor who has long experience of being a pastor.

Nonetheless, I was struck last May by Bergoglio’s sharp mind, his familiarity with issues throughout the world church, and his prudence in judging people and situations. He was, for example, completely realistic and lucid about the church’s situation in Latin America. Rather than complaining about evangelical Protestant “sheep-rustling,” as more than a few Latin American churchmen do, the archbishop spoke with insight and conviction about the imperative of Catholicism rediscovering the power of the Gospel through personal conversion to Jesus Christ.

A man of the New Evangelization. The new pope played a significant role in shaping the Latin American bishops’ 2007 “Aparecida Document,” which embraced the new evangelization and put it at the center of the church’s life. In our conversation, the man who would become pope made clear his understanding that a kept church – “kept” in the sense of legal

establishment, cultural habit, or both –had no future in the 21st-century West, given the acids of secularism. Pope Francis is a man, I conclude, who intends to go on evangelical offense: it will be all Gospel, all proposal, all evangelism, all the time.

A man of reform. We spoke of the Latin American edition of my book, “The Courage To Be Catholic,” for which he thanked me. And in discussing Vatican affairs, then-Cardinal Bergoglio displayed a shrewd, but not cynical, grasp of just what was wrong with the church’s central bureaucratic machinery, and why. Thus I think we can expect the new pope to lead the church in a purification and renewal of the episcopate, the priesthood, the religious life, and the curia, because he understands that scandal, corruption, and incompetence are impediments to the Gospel-centered mission I describe in “Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st Century Church” (Basic Books).

A man of freedom rightly understood. In addition to Pope Francis’ lifetime commitment to the poor I’d also note his commitment to human rights and democracy, both of which are under severe pressure in Argentina. The new pope knows the fragility of democratic self-governance, and will work to shore up democracy’s eroding moral-cultural foundations throughout the West.

Habemus papam. Thanks be to God. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

‘Francis, rebuild this church’

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had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the world, for I was doing commentary for NBC News from a perch above St. Peter’s Square. I will confess that my initial impression was negative, not because he was a relative surprise or because he wasn’t from the United States, but because, for more than a minute, he stood ramrod straight, hands at his side, and not smiling. I remember saying to his image on the TV monitor: “Do something!” Then – praise God – the new Pope spoke, and he immediately won me over.

FATHER ROBERT Asking the people to bless BARRON him, bowing low to receive that blessing, promising to work for the evangelization of the city of Rome, pledging to beg the Mother of God to watch over his papacy, leading the people in the Hail Mary and Our Father, and yes even managing to smile a little – the new pope didn’t make a false move.

But what most impressed me was his first truly significant gesture, the choice of his papal name.

Francis of Assisi (and it was confirmed that the pope was honoring the founder of the Franciscans and not his fellow Jesuit, Francis Xavier) was a friend of the poor. So close was his identification with “Lady Poverty” that he was referred to in his own time as “il poverello” (the little poor man). By all accounts, Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, has a similar feel for the spiritual value of poverty, taking the subway to work rather than a limousine, eschewing the trappings of power, living in a simple apartment rather than the episcopal palace, happily flying coach class to Rome, and passionately advocating for social justice on behalf of the underprivileged.

Voice from the crucifix

But there is another dimension to this identification with the poor man of Assisi. When Francis was just beginning his spiritual pilgrimage, he had an extraordinary encounter with Christ. While praying in the little church of San Damiano, the

the man from his dream and resolved, on the spot, to sanction the Franciscan order.

Living nightmare

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Adorning the walls of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi are a series of 28 frescoes painted by the famed Florentine Renaissance artist Giotto. They tell the story of a man’s extraordinary journey of faith. In this fresco, St. Francis holds up the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the episcopal seat of the pontiff. It illustrates the dream of Pope Innocent III, who moved by this vision, endorses the religious order of St. Francis and his followers. young man heard a voice coming from the crucifix: “Francis, rebuild my church.” At first, he thought that the Lord was indicating that some work needed to be done on a local church structure that had fallen into disrepair. But what became clear soon enough, both to Francis and others, was that this command of the Lord had a far wider valence.

Precisely through his recovery of the radical heart of the Gospel, Francis would help to revitalize a church that had been compromised by worldliness, ambition and clerical corruption. This interpretation of the Lord’s words was most dramatically confirmed by a dream that Pope Innocent III had on the eve of meeting il poverello. The pope dreamt that a small man, dressed in a brown habit, was holding up the church, which was about to collapse. When he saw Francis, he recognized him as

For the past couple of decades, the Catholic Church has been living through not so much a dream as a nightmare. The first wave of the clerical sex abuse scandal broke in the early 1990s, shocking us with story after story of priests violating their vow of celibacy in the most egregious ways, and of bishops who, far too often, turned a blind eye to the outrages or covered them up. The second and even more devastating wave hit in the early 2000s, beginning in Boston and then spreading, it seemed, all across the country.

There were thousands of victims, hundreds of guilty priests and negligent bishops, and over $1 billion of church money paid out in settlements. And just when the American crisis began to calm, the same awful pattern revealed itself in Europe, most terribly in intensely Catholic Ireland. And on top of all of this, the Vatican itself seems under a cloud of scandal.

Charges of corruption, financial mismanagement, careerism, and serious personal misbehavior are coming at the Roman Curia from all sides.

It seems to me impossible to deny that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was thinking of il poverello’s “church rebuilding” project when he took the name of the saint of Assisi. And the program of this new Francis remains fundamentally the same as that of his spiritual forebear, namely, to re-energize the church through a recovery of the radical Gospel. If you want to be my follower, said the Lord, then sell everything and give it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. That means that the true disciple has to become detached from his career, his own projects and plans, his will, his pleasure, his need to be first – in order to become a vehicle of God’s will, God’s purpose, God’s projects, God’s pleasure.

I believe that this new pope wants to put the winsome face of Francis of Assisi on the church, and he wants to unleash the same reforming energy that il poverello unleashed eight centuries ago.

FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

LETTERS Let us pray for the pope Our new pope has a difficult task ahead of him. The church is going through difficult times and is facing many challenging issues, such as divorce, contraception, abortion, same-sex marriage and sexual abuse by priests. Pope Francis has been praised for his devotion to the poor, and as a humble man has lived a modest life. He wants the Catholic Church to serve the poor and he said, “I would like a ‘poor church for the poor.’”

There is much hope that he will steer the church which has gone “off course” in the right direction. He cannot be an absolute traditionalist nor can he be too liberal. He will have to make efforts to repair the reputation of the church, and bring back those who have left. Catholicism is decreasing at an alarming rate in Europe; in Latin America also many have left to join other denominations. It appears he will get rid of the luxury, pomp and ceremony associated with the papal office, and bring the church closer to the Gospel and focus on pastoral care, and walk in the footsteps of St. Peter and our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray for Pope Francis, and trust God will always help him with good health and patience. so he can succeed to the work God entrusted him to do for all of us.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

The morality of common sense I am a survivor of clergy sexual abuse. There is no shortage of voices

clamoring to vilify men in a positions of power. I’ve been there. I understand.

Let me be contrary to those voices.

The best that can happen in this Catholic family is for our cardinals, bishops and priests be guided and then encouraged to choose a path leading them to regain their individual and collective integrity. Without it, there is no basis for wandering Catholics to return, no avenue for injured individuals to risk trusting them again. There is no justification for generous individuals to donate resources to a critical Catholic charity. Why should parents entrust their children in the educational, spiritual or moral care of anyone lacking moral integrity? What inducement is there for bitterness and cynicism to melt away?

Integrity is the key. Church leaders need to rise to our intellectually spiritual challenge. After all, you know us. Many of you taught us to question at some point in our many years of Catholic education.

Cultural blindness, institutional malfeasance and multi-individual denial are hell to overcome. I’ve been there. I understand.

John McCord San Francisco

could in the public sector? They sacrifice much because of their dedication to the children, who, I might add, are not all Catholic. Without lay teachers there wouldn’t be any Catholic schools to close. They all would have been gone years ago. Maybe some of the money spent in lawsuits trying to protect abusive priests would have been better spent on schools and teachers.

Rose Marie Ostler San Francisco

Saddened, disgusted, angry As one of the “factors working against the school,” and consequently cause for St. Rita to be closed, Father Weare lists “an increased number of lay personnel since the sisters’ 1976 exit.” Absent from his list is any mention of the sexual abuse scandals rocking our church that surely have had a damaging effect on the enrollment in our schools. The “lay personnel” that he blames are men, and for the most part, women of faith who have devoted their lives to the vocation of teaching and to living Christ’s message daily, the people I’ve been blessed to work with as a Catholic school teacher for the past 34 years.

I am deeply saddened, disgusted

and most of all angry that “lay” teachers have now been added to the list of reasons that our church and our schools are in trouble.

The saddest part of all is I’m not surprised.

Kathleen Kelly South San Francisco

Pope embodies ‘a real, wonderful peace’ Dear Holy Father, Pope Francis, I wish to tell you that I noticed and feel a real, wonderful peace about you, which is a great attribute in a spiritual leader. Perhaps, surely it is, the peace with which Jesus blessed the apostles while visiting them after his Resurrection.

I wish you great success in your new “assignment” as pope and that you will be safe from any evil. You are touching upon many important values with which many lost people would not agree and are becoming troublesome to those who oppose them.

I am praying for you and all your supporters that no harm will come upon them. I know from what I read that you are a brave and courageous man.

Zofia Rzadca-Vavrousek San Bruno

Dedication of lay teachers Father (Kenneth) Weare (“St. Rita School closing as income, enrollment drop,” March 15) lists as one reason for the closing “an increased number of lay personnel.” Where would the Catholic schools be without the lay teachers who make much less than they

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

The pope at the service of communion in the church

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atican II has helped the church to deepen the faithful’s understanding of their participation in Christ’s threefold mission. This greater awareness of an ecclesiology of communion calls the faithful to live their faith more deeply through study, prayer, sacramental life and the virtuous exercise of their professions.

In an interview with Catholic San Francisco (March 1), Jesuit Father Paul Crowley speaks of a “new look at the church and its governance” and of an unfortunate impasse of which one result has been “the develFATHER JUAN opment of strong ideological R. VÉLEZ factions in the church.” He argues for the greater use of pastoral councils and parish councils and a decentralization of the church.

A problem with Father Crowley’s comments is his emphasis on participation without the corresponding emphasis on the requisite spiritual and doctrinal formation necessary for a meaningful and prudent participation. Without this, the clergy and lay faithful run the risk of changing the church according to the trends and interests of the world rather than transforming the world with the values of the Gospel. This was an idea that St. Josemaría Escrivá conveyed to some bishops participating as council fathers in Vatican II.

Reading ‘Lumen Gentium’

As we, the church, grow in our understanding of ecclesial communion, it would be well for each one of us to read and study Vatican II’s constitution “Lumen Gentium” and to consider again how each one of us can better participate in the ecclesial communion, beginning with a sincere effort to strive for holiness in our daily lives.

Retired Archbishop of San Francisco John R. Quinn has suggested regional decision-making synods to decentralize the administration of the church. These synods would have authority for the appointment of bishops, the creation of dioceses, questions of liturgy and other matters of Catholic practices. Even though reforms of the Roman curia are needed, and “patri-

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archal structures” and “deliberative synods” may contribute to a better exercise of the Petrine office of the pope, others would like to go further, permitting changes to doctrinal truths.

It is hard to imagine how the unity of faith and communion in the church would be maintained with regional synods deciding differently on Christological, moral and liturgical matters. We can see the serious difficulties and divisions that this has produced in the Anglican communion, where theological differences have naturally led to divisions. With the suggested reconfiguration of the church, one fails to see the distinction between the Catholic Church and international Protestant bodies or the national Baptist convention. Furthermore, once these changes were instituted what would be left of episcopal government in the local church? Would the lay faithful vote on changes in doctrine and on episcopal appointments? It sounds like the Protestant Reformation all over again.

Need for doctrinal unity

Some of those who advocate a decentralization of church government and reduced episcopal authority may in fact not be worried about a doctrinal unity, but precisely this unity has been the concern of countless faithful, church fathers and authors, especially in the first Christian millennia. The difficulties inherent to a central church government and abuses of the same do not contradict the necessity of such a government.

More important, Christ deliberately conferred the keys of the kingdom to the apostle Peter. As Jesus told Peter, his role is to confirm his brothers in the faith.

The pope maintains the unity of the faith. It is wishful thinking that without his authority this unity would be safeguarded. The collegiality of the bishops is fostered at the hierarchical level through the synod of bishops and the work of episcopal conferences, and at the diocesan level through the presbyteral and parish councils.

Blessed John Henry Newman’s conversion to Catholicism in 1845 was related to his understanding of true development of doctrine in the Catholic Church.

One such development was the role of papal authority in the church in the fourth and fifth centuries. Examining the question of church reform and referring to Newman, and Pope Benedict’s ecclesiology, professor of systematic theology in Durham, England, Paul D. Murray, speaks in a more nuanced manner of the

Reflection and rediscovery in the Year of Faith

hen the Year of Faith opened last October, Pope Benedict XVI invited the whole church into “a time of particular reflection and rediscovery of the faith.”

He later decided to vacate the chair of Peter and now pursues his own journey of reflection and rediscovery.

The prayers of the entire Catholic world are with him on that journey. His prayers are undoubtedly with the rest of us as we follow the faith and move into our own unknown future.

Father Adolfo Nicolas, FATHER WILLIAM the superior general of the J. BYRON, SJ Jesuits, has, in response to Pope Benedict’s invitation to a Year of Faith, asked Jesuits worldwide this question: “What lights, shadows, challenges and opportunities do we see in our environment with regard to faith?”

And he followed that question with another: “What operative role does faith actually play in my life: for example, in my work; in the way I deal with difficulties; in the way I use time, resources, energy?” And he then extended that question by asking: “What do I experience as challenges or obstacles to faith, and what sustains and deepens my faith?”

Those questions are worthy of consideration by all Catholics and I’d like to provide some impetus for that reflection.

I think of religious faith as the act, the attitude, the mindset by which we entrust ourselves to God. In my view, faith and trust are twins. There is content to faith, of course. We make statements about

who God is and what God has done in creation and throughout human history.

But propositional faith and attitudinal faith are different realities. There is no truth at all to that sing-song childhood chant, “seeing is believing; seeing is believing.”

You do not believe what you see; you know it. You have sensible experience of it and you just know.

What you do not or cannot see, you can still believe (and thus know) on evidence given to you by another – a trustworthy other. In this case, you do not see, but you surely know.

For me, faith is indeed the act by which I entrust myself to God. I don’t have “faith in the future,” for example; my faith is in God. One of the challenges to my faith is not classic atheism but what Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray many years ago identified as “atheism by distraction.” Given the achievements of science, technology and engineering that meet my needs for water, food, health care and national security, I am distracted away from a sense of my dependence on God. Hence, I become an atheist by distraction.

For me, the remedy for this is an abiding sense of gratitude. Building a spirituality based on gratitude is one way, by God’s grace, of deepening my faith.

So all of us can take an inventory of that for which we should be grateful and then let an attitude of gratitude – the awareness of being indebted to God who is the giver of all we possess – get to work within us to quietly deepen our faith.

Not a bad way to spend what’s left of this Year of Faith.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.

Email wbyron@sju.edu.

ARCHBISHOP QUINN’S ARTICLE The article referenced in Father Vélez’ commentary, “Governance in the Legacy of Vatican II,” was published March 11 on the National Catholic Reporter’s website at http://ncronline.org/news/governance-legacy-vatican-council-ii-0. Archbishop Quinn spoke March 9 at a Stanford University symposium on Vatican II, focusing on ways to improve collegiality in the church. need for a greater ecclesiology of communion while maintaining the necessary hierarchy: “It might be regarded as a call to a more radical and fulfilled communion ecclesiology: one that at every level of Catholic life (whether pope in relation to the college of bishops; or bishops in relation to dioceses; or priests in relation to congregations) finds the confidence to move with integrity from a habitual and structurally embedded default of unilateral, top-down, authoritarian modes of decision-making and toward appropriate modes of mutual – even if still necessarily asymmetric – accountability and genuinely shared decision-making. At each level this development would need to preserve the appropriate executive role of pope relative to college, of bishop relative to diocese, and of parish priest relative to parish, while resituating this within habits, practices, processes, procedures and structures of appropriate mutual accountability and genuinely shared decision-making.”

Murray suggests a re-appropriation of the category of sacramentality central to an adequate reform. He speaks of an “integrated theology of vocation and ministry within Catholicism focused around sacramentality.” Together with this, a renewed sense of evangelical Christianity and holiness, like that of the first Christians and the saints, is necessary for a deeper understanding of the church as a communion. This communion that, as Pope Benedict XVI taught, derives from the communion of the three divine persons must be rooted in a eucharistic theology.

FATHER VÉLEZ, author of “Passion for Truth, the Life of John Henry Newman,” is chaplain at Garber House, Berkeley, a center of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church with 86,000 members worldwide. He earned a doctorate in theology at the University of Navarre, Spain, and was ordained a Catholic priest the same year.

Confession of one nun SISTER DOLORES BARLING, SNJM

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write this following the First Sunday of Lent and, like Jesus, I am tempted. My temptation is to give up, to throw in the towel on our sisters’ campaign to end human trafficking in hotels.

After eight months of meticulous planning, research and letter writing, we, the STOP SLAVERY Northern California Coalition of Catholic Sisters, have been phoning hotel managers in an attempt to persuade them to train their employees to recognize and report incidents of human trafficking, the sexual exploitation of young girls and women, that accompanies major sporting events like the America’s Cup Race.

As I said, I am tempted to quit trying to end this evil. Do these hotel managers return my calls? Not yet – after weeks of our trying to reach them. If by chance or by going through the human resources director, I do get a response, it is, “We’re considering our options.” Maybe yes, maybe no. Am I being too pessimistic? When I pointed out to another hotel manager that their corporate level has an anti-trafficking policy that requires them to train their employees in 2013, I got the response, “Never heard of it.” Resistance, resistance … and I feel defeated in my efforts to help these battered, abused women.

All of Lent, all of life is a journey. Like Jesus we head to Jerusalem, the heavenly Jerusalem where all will be well and God will wipe all tears. I remember Jesus’ words: “Did you not know that Christ had to suffer and thus enter into his glory?” I reflect on Jim Wallis’s words (or was he quoting Mother Teresa?): “We are called not to be successful, but to be faithful.”

So I continue trying to be faithful, to liberate victims of human trafficking. Contemplating new approaches, I ask myself “What would Jesus do?” Well, one thing is for sure: He wouldn’t quit!

May you, our readers, join me in finding ways to end the horror of human trafficking in the hotel industry.

HOLY NAMES SISTER DOLORES BARLING lives in Daly City.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

SUNDAY READINGS

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord At the procession of palms: They crucified him and the criminals, one on his right, the other on his left.

Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.’

LUKE 19:28-40 Jesus proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem. As he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples. He said, “Go into the village opposite you, and as you enter it you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. And if anyone should ask you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you will answer, ‘The Master has need of it.’”So those who had been sent went off and found everything just as he had told them. And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying this colt?”They answered, “The Master has need of it.” So they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks over the colt, and helped Jesus to mount. As he rode along, the people were spreading their cloaks on the road; and now as he was approaching the slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of his disciples began to praise God aloud with joy for all the mighty deeds they had seen. They proclaimed: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest.”Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”He said in reply, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!”

ISAIAH 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

PSALM 22: 8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.”

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; they have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!”

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

LUKE 23:1-49 The elders of the people, chief priests and scribes, arose and brought Jesus before Pilate.

They brought charges against him, saying, “We found this man misleading our people; he opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar and maintains that he is the Christ, a king.” Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He said to him in reply, “You say so.” Pilate then addressed the chief priests and the crowds, “I find this man not guilty.” But they were adamant and said, “He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to here.” On hearing this Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean; and upon learning that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod who was in Jerusalem at that time. Herod was very glad to see Jesus; he had been wanting to see him for a long time, for he had heard about him and had been hoping to see him perform some sign.

He questioned him at length, but he gave him no answer. The chief priests and scribes, meanwhile, stood by accusing him harshly. Herod and his soldiers treated him contemptuously and mocked him, and after clothing him in resplendent garb, he sent him back to Pilate. Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, even though they had been enemies formerly. Pilate then summoned the chief priests, the rulers, and the people and said to them, “You brought this man to me and accused him of inciting the people to revolt. I have conducted my investigation in your presence and have not found this man guilty of the charges you have brought against him, nor did Herod, for he sent him back to us.So no capital crime has been committed by him. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.”But all together they shouted out, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us.” Now Barabbas had been imprisoned for a rebellion that had taken place in the city and for murder. Again Pilate addressed them, still wishing to release Jesus,but they continued their shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate addressed them a third time, “What evil has this man done? I found him guilty of no capital crime. Therefore I shall have him flogged and then release him.” With loud

shouts, however, they persisted in calling for his crucifixion, and their voices prevailed. The verdict of Pilate was that their demand should be granted.

So he released the man who had been imprisoned for rebellion and murder, for whom they asked, and he handed Jesus over to them to deal with as they wished. As they led him away they took hold of a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming in from the country; and after laying the cross on him, they made him carry it behind Jesus. A large crowd of people followed Jesus, including many women who mourned and lamented him.

Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’ At that time people will say to the mountains, ‘Fall upon us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!’ for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?” Now two others, both criminals, were led away with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left. Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.” They divided his garments by casting lots. The people stood by and watched; the rulers, meanwhile, sneered at him and said, “He saved others, let him save himself if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God.” Even the soldiers jeered at him. As they approached to offer him wine they called out, “If you are King of the Jews, save yourself.” Above him there was an inscription that read, “This is the King of the Jews.” Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying,“Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us.” The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply, “Have you no fear of God, for you are subject to the same condemnation? And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, but this man has done nothing criminal.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” It was now about noon and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon because of an eclipse of the sun. Then the veil of the temple was torn down the middle. Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit”; and when he had said this he breathed his last. Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

The centurion who witnessed what had happened glorified God and said, “This man was innocent beyond doubt.” When all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts ;but all his acquaintances stood at a distance, including the women who had followed him from Galilee and saw these events.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 25: Monday of Holy Week. Is 42:1-7. PS 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14. Jn 12:1-11.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26: Tuesday of Holy Week. Is 49:1-6. PS 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17. Jn 13:21-33, 36-38.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27: Wednesday of Holy Week. Is 50:4-9a. PS 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 3334. Mt 26:14-25.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28: Holy Thursday: Chrism Mass. Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9. PS 89:21-22, 25 and 27. Rv 1:5-8. Lk 4:16-21. Holy Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Ex 12:1-8, 11-14. PS 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18. 1 Cor 11:23-26. Jn 13:1-15.

BERTHOLD died c. 1195 March 29 feast Not much is known about this hermit who is considered by some historians to be the founder of the order of Carmelite friars. Various legends had him born in Limoges, France, educated at the University of Paris, and participating in the Crusades in Turkey.

What is known is that he directed a group of Frankish hermits living on Mount Carmel in Palestine in the second half of the 12th century. The existence on Mount Carmel of a church and hermitage in the spiritual tradition of the prophet Elijah is documented from 1163 on. After Berthold’s death, the hermits were led by another Frenchman, St. Brocard.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29: Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday). Is 52:13-53:12. PS 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25. Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9. Jn 18:1-19:42.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30: Holy Saturday – Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter. Gn 1:1-2:2 or Gn 1:1, 26-31a. PS 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35 or PS 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20 and 22. Gn 22:1-18 or GN 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18. PS 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11. Ex 14:15—15:1. Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18. Is 54:5-14. PS 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13. Is 55:1-11. Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6. Bar 3:9-15, 32-4:4. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28. PS 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4. Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or PS 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19.

Rom 6:3-11. PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23. Lk 24:112.

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Jesus shows us a way through suffering Why is confession O necessary?

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My son, who is 20 years old, has left the Catholic religion for a Bible-based faith. We have had many lively discussions which we both enjoy, and it has actually helped to reinvigorate my own Catholic beliefs. There is one of his questions, though, which I’m not sure how to answer. He wants to know if the death of Jesus paid in full for the sins of all believers past, present FATHER and future, why KENNETH DOYLE would God punish someone if they fail to go to confession? (Chesapeake, Va.) I was caught short by your first sentence. You seem to concede that your own Catholic religion is not a “Bible-based faith.” There’s no need to do that. Instead, explain to your son that Catholicism is built on twin pillars (called technically, “sources of revelation”), namely Scripture and tradition.

A Catholic does believe in the Bible and is guided by the teachings of Jesus found therein. But Catholics also believe that authentic teaching from God did not end with the death of Jesus; it continued through the apostles and even now through their successors, in whom the Spirit works to preserve, expound upon and spread the message of Christ.

As to your specific question about confession, Catholics believe, in reliance on John’s Gospel (20:22-23), that on the first Easter Sunday evening, the risen Jesus appeared to the apostles and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them; whose sins you retain are retained.” That is the biblical foundation for the confession of sins to a priest, a practice that took root early in the history of the church.

So, while it is true that the pardon for our sins is based on the merits of Christ’s death and resurrection, that pardon is transmitted to individual Catholics through the sacrament of penance, or reconciliation.

The church holds that one must seek absolution from a priest for any mortal sins (i.e., grievous actions or omissions done with knowledge and full consent) and encourages us to go to confession for lesser offenses also, as a means of making steady progress on the way to holiness.

For a non-Catholic who does not have the sacrament of penance available, I would be quite certain that God has figured out a way to forgive that person, too, presuming the proper dispositions of sorrow and purpose of amendment.

But I sure think that it’s a real plus to be a Catholic and to have the comfort of hearing the priest say on behalf of Christ, “It’s OK, you’re forgiven. That’s all behind you, and now you can start over.”

QUESTION CORNER

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Send questions to Father Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com or 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

n a piece of paper found on a dead child in the Ravensbruck concentration camp was this prayer: “O Lord, remember not only the men and women of good will, but also those of ill will. But do not remember all the suffering they have inflicted on us; remember the fruits we have borne, thanks to this suffering – our comradeship, our loyalty, our humility, our courage, our FATHER CHARLES generosity, the PUTHOTA greatness of heart – which have grown out of all this. And when they come to judgment, let all the fruits that we have borne be their forgiveness.”

This Christlike prayer captures the sentiment and spirituality of the Palm Sunday, as Jesus makes his “triumphal” entry into Jerusalem. His entry, however, will spell disaster for him. He will be opposed, betrayed, humiliated, abandoned, disillusioned, and killed.

But there would be another triumphal entry: Jesus would enter glorious and

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

everlasting life – on account of which we would all make our own triumphal entry into new life, now and in the life to come.

As we begin the Holy Week, we enter the shrine of suffering. We could use other expressions like pain, sorrow, sadness, rejection, disease, war, death, exploitation, violence, diminishment, evil, heartbreak. Suffering is so prevalent and varied that we might use hundreds of expressions and still not cover all its various manifestations.

As we meditate on Luke’s narrative of Jesus’ passion, we walk with Jesus, glance at his disappointed face, look into his sad eyes, feel his feelings of rejection, hurt and fear, and think his thoughts of courage and determination both to fulfill his father’s desire and to bring new life to the world. The suffering servant in the reading from Isaiah captures Jesus who will bear suffering without resistance or retaliation.

In the Christian worldview, our suffering cannot be separated from that of Jesus; our suffering is not meaningless; it draws us intensely close to Jesus because he has undergone ultimate suffering and sacrifice. In his suffering, he comforts and upholds us in all our sorrow and pain.

Jesus’ suffering and death are not to take away our suffering but to give us a vision and a way through suffering so that we can find new life. He has shown

us the way. When we align our suffering with that of Jesus, we realize that our suffering has a positive value; it is redemptive; it bears the seeds of new life. The sunshine of the Resurrection pierces the darkness of the cross.

Much suffering has to be fought and eliminated, but there are forms of suffering that have to be accepted and borne in a redemptive way. It is Jesus’ way. Through suffering much love can be expressed and generated. Those who are capable of great love are the ones who are able to suffer in a lifegiving way. Those who bear suffering well are those who are truly capable of much love.

On the cross, suffering and love meet. We are in good company with a God in Jesus who suffers, a God who has a wound in his heart. Why do people have to suffer? Why do we face evil in the world? The best answer is given by posing another question: Why did Jesus have to suffer and die on the cross?

The Holy Week can sensitize us to the suffering of the world. Jesus’ suffering will inspire us to strive to eliminate the world’s suffering through our deeds of compassion. When we see suffering that goes beyond people’s control, we need to walk with them like Jesus in love and service.

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

The major imperatives within mature discipleship

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n his autobiography, Morris West suggests that at a certain age our lives simplify and we need have only three phrases left in our spiritual vocabulary: Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you! He is right, if we understand fully what is implied in living out gratitude.

Gratitude is the ultiFATHER RON mate virtue, ROLHEISER undergirding everything else, even love.

It is synonymous with holiness.

Gratitude not only defines sanctity, it also defines maturity. We are mature to the degree that we are grateful. But what brings us there? What makes for a deeper human maturity? I would like to suggest 10 major demands that reside inside both human and Christian maturity: 1. Be willing to carry more and more of life’s complexities with empathy: Few things in life, including our own hearts and motives, are black or white, either-or, simply good or simply bad. Maturity invites us to see, understand, and accept this complexity with empathy so that, like Jesus, we cry tears of understanding over our own troubled cities and our own complex hearts.

2. Transform jealousy, anger, bitterness and hatred rather than give them back in kind: Any pain or tension that we do not transform we will retransmit. In the face of jealousy, anger, bitterness and hatred we must be like water purifiers, holding the poisons and toxins inside of us and giving back just the pure water, rather than being like electrical cords that simply

pass on the energy that flows through them.

3. Let suffering soften rather than harden our souls: Suffering and humiliation find us all, in full measure, but how we respond to them, with forgiveness or bitterness, will determine the level of our maturity and the color of our person. This is perhaps our ultimate moral test: Will my humiliations soften or harden my soul?

4. Forgive: In the end there is only one condition for entering heaven (and living inside human community), namely, forgiveness. Perhaps the greatest struggle we have in the second half of our lives is to forgive: forgive those who have hurt us, forgive ourselves for our own shortcomings, and forgive God for seemingly hanging us out unfairly to dry in this world. The greatest moral imperative of all is not to die with a bitter, unforgiving heart.

5. Live in gratitude: To be a saint is to be fueled by gratitude, nothing more and nothing less. Let no one deceive you with the notion that a passion for truth, for church or even for God can trump or bracket the nonnegotiable imperative to be gracious always. Holiness is gratitude. Outside of gratitude we find ourselves doing many of the right things for the wrong reasons.

6. Bless more and curse less: We are mature when we define ourselves by what we are for rather than by what we are against and especially when, like Jesus, we are looking out at others and seeing them as blessed (“Blessed are you!”) rather than as cursed (“Who do you think you are!”).

The capacity to praise more than to criticize defines maturity.

7. Live in an ever-greater transparency and honesty: We are as sick as our sickest secret, but we are also as healthy as we are honest. We need, as Martin Luther once put it, “to sin bravely and honestly.” Maturity does

not mean that we are perfect or faultless, but that we are honest.

8. Pray both affectively and liturgically: The fuel we need to resource ourselves for gratitude and forgiveness does not lie in the strength of our own willpower, but in grace and community. We access that through prayer. We are mature to the degree that we open our own helplessness and invite in God’s strength and to the degree that we pray with others that the whole world will do the same thing.

9. Become ever wider in your embrace: We grow in maturity to the degree that we define family (Who is my brother or sister?) in way that is ever more ecumenical, interfaith, post-ideological and nondiscriminatory. We are mature only when we are compassionate as God is compassionate, namely, when our sun too shines on those we like and those we do not.

There comes a time when it is time to turn in our cherished moral placards for a basin and a towel.

10. Stand where you stand and let God protect you: In the end, we are all vulnerable, contingent, and helpless both to protect our loved ones and ourselves. We cannot guarantee life, safety, salvation, or forgiveness for ourselves or for those we love. Maturity depends upon accepting this with trust rather than anxiety. We can only do our best, whatever our place in life, wherever we stand, whatever our limits, whatever our shortcoming, and trust that this is enough, that if we die at our post, honest, doing our duty, God will do the rest.

God is a prodigiously loving, fully understanding, completely empathic parent. We are mature and free of false anxiety to the degree that we grasp that and trust that truth.

OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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A brief bio of ‘Father Jorge,’ Latin America’s first pope

Pope Franciss Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Is the first pope…

CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

j From the Americas j From Jesuit order j To take name Francis

Is known to…

j Take the bus and subway j Cook his meals j Have strong devotion to Mary j Visit the poor j Be very spiritual j Have low-key style j Love soccer and tangos

Speaks

j Spanish, Italian, English, French and German

“Now let's begin this journey, bishop and people… a journey of brotherhood, love and trust among us.”

Then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio poses with young soccer players from the San Lorenzo soccer club, of which he is known to be a fan.

Dec. 17, 1936

1957

March 11, 1958

March 12, 1960

1960

1961-1963

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Italian immigrant parents

Takes first vows as Jesuit

1964-1965

Teaches high school literature and psychology at Jesuit secondary school in Santa Fe

At age 21, falls gravely ill; eventually severe pneumonia is diagnosed, right lung partially removed

Studies humanities in Padre Hurtado, Chile

Studies philosophy at San Miguel Seminary, Buenos Aires

1966

1967-1970

Teaches at prestigious Colegio del Salvador secondary school in Buenos Aires

Studies theology at San Miguel seminary

Dec. 13, 1969

1970-1971

Is ordained priest

Spends “tertianship,” or Third Probation period of Jesuit formation in Spain

1971-1973

Serves as master of novices and vice chancellor, San Miguel seminary

1973-1979

Serves as superior of Jesuit province of Argentina and Uruguay

1979-1985

Enters novitiate of the Society of Jesus

Serves as rector of Colegio Maximo and theology teacher

1973

Takes perpetual profession as Jesuit

1986

Goes to Germany to finish doctoral thesis

VATICAN CITY – Here is a brief bio of Pope Francis, the first pope from Latin America: Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires. He grew up in Barrio de Flores, a working-class neighborhood. His father was a railway A boyhood worker, his mother portrait a homemaker. As a youth, the pope studied in public schools and in high school obtained a technical certification as a chemist.

From a young age, he knew he would become a priest. Amalia Damonte, who grew up in the pope’s neighborhood, reportedly was briefly the object of his affections. Damonte, who still lives in the same neighborhood, has said in interviews that when they were 12, Pope Francis said that, if he could not marry her, he would become a priest.

When the pope was 21, he became gravely ill with severe pneumonia and had his right lung partially removed. The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, has confirmed this, noting that it is “not a handicap” in the pope’s life.

In 1958, Pope Francis entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, and two years later he took his first vows as a Jesuit. In 1963, on returning to Buenos Aires, he studied philosophy at San Miguel Seminary.

Between 1964 and 1965, he taught literature and psychology at a Jesuit secondary school in Santa Fe, Argentina, and in 1966, he taught at the prestigious Colegio del Salvador secondary school in Buenos Aires.

In 1967, he returned to his theological studies and was ordained a priest Dec. 13, 1969. After his perpetual profession as a Jesuit in 1973, he became master of novices at San Miguel. Later that same year, he was elected superior of the Jesuit province of Argentina and Uruguay.

Some controversy had arisen over the position taken by Pope Francis during Argentina’s 19761983 military dictatorship, which cracked down brutally on political

June 3, 1997

2001

Feb. 21, 2001

Is ordained auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires

Co-presides over Synod of Bishops

2005-2011

Serves as president, Argentine Bishops Conference

Is named coadjutor archbishop

Is elevated to cardinal

Feb. 28, 1998

Is installed as archbishop of Buenos Aires

2005

Receives second-highest number of votes in conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope

March 13, 2013 Is elected pope by conclave of 115 cardinals

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Contributing to this report were David Agren in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Francis X. Rocca in Rome; and Patricia Zapor in Washington.

Pope’s motto symbolizes mercy CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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opponents. Estimates of the number of people killed and forcibly disappeared during those years range from about 13,000 to more than 30,000.

Citing a case in which two young Jesuits were detained by the military regime, critics say that the Jesuit provincial did not do enough to support church workers against the military dictatorship.

The Vatican has dismissed claims that Pope Francis played a direct role in the kidnappings of the two Jesuits and described them as part of a campaign by “left-wing anti-clerical elements to attack the church.”

From 1979 to 1985, Pope Francis served as rector and theology teacher at Colegio Maximo, before heading to Germany to finalize his doctoral thesis.

In May 1992, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires.

He was one of three auxiliaries and he kept a low profile, spending most of his time caring for the Catholic university, counseling priests and preaching and hearing confessions.

On June 3, 1997, he was named coadjutor archbishop. He was installed as the new archbishop of Buenos Aires Feb. 28, 1998.

As archbishop, he was known simply as “Father Jorge,” and he adopted the attitude that the church belongs in the street. He built chapels and missions in poor areas and sent seminarians to serve them.

He spoke out often against injustice, such as the treatment of migrant workers from neighboring countries and those lured into the sex trade, and against social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.

In 2001, he was elevated to cardinal, and later that year he served as an official of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican.

Press reports indicate that in the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Bergoglio received the second-highest number of votes.

That same year, he began a sixyear term as head of the Argentine bishops’ conference.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ papal motto is based on the Gospel account of “The Call of St. Matthew,” the tax collector, in a homily given by St. Bede the Venerable.

The papal motto, like his episcopal one, is the Latin phrase “Miserando atque eligendo,” which means “because he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him” or more simply, “having mercy, he called him.”

The phrase comes from a homily

by St. Bede – an English eighth-century Christian writer and doctor of the church.

St. Bede’s homily looks at Matthew 9:9-13 in which Jesus saw the tax collector, Matthew, sitting at a customs post and said to him, “Follow me.” St. Bede explained in his homily, “Jesus

saw Matthew, not merely in the usual sense, but more significantly with his merciful understanding of men.”

“He saw the tax collector and, because he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him, he said to him: ‘Follow me.’ This following meant imitating the pattern of his life – not just walking after him.

St. John tells us: ‘Whoever says he abides in Christ ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.’”

St. Bede continued: “This conversion of one tax collector gave many men, those from his own profession and other sinners, an example of repentance and pardon. Notice also the happy and true anticipation of his future status as apostle and teacher of the nations. No sooner was he converted than Matthew drew after him a whole crowd of sinners along the same road to salvation.”

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Francis pledges to protect church, human dignity CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis formally began his ministry as bishop of Rome and as pope by pledging to protect the Catholic Church, the dignity of each person and the beauty of creation, just like St. Joseph protected Mary and Jesus.

“To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope,” he told between 150,000 and 200,000 people gathered under sunny skies in St. Peter’s Square and the nearby streets.

With representatives of other Christian churches and communities, delegations from 132 countries, Jewish and Muslim leaders as well as Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs and Jains present, Pope Francis preached the Gospel, but insisted the values it espouses are essentially human, “involving everyone.”

While the rites and rituals of the inauguration of his ministry as pope took place immediately before the Mass, the liturgy itself was a celebration of the feast of St. Joseph, patron of the universal church and “also the name day of my venerable predecessor,” Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Ratzinger.

The retired pope was not present at the liturgy, but the crowds applauded enthusiastically when Pope Francis said, “We are close to him with our prayers, full of affection and gratitude.”

The new pope stood at a lectern to read his homily, sticking to the text he had prepared in advance. At times his voice was extremely soft and other times it was quite loud; he punctuated with clenched fists his remarks about the strength required to be tender and compassionate to others.

“In the Gospels,” he said, “St. Joseph appears as a strong and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak, but rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love.”

“We must not be afraid of goodness, of tenderness,” Pope Francis said.

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Pope Francis waves to people in St. Peter’s Square as he arrives for his inaugural Mass at the Vatican March 19.

The new pope said exercising the role of protector as St. Joseph did means doing so “discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.”

The Gospels present St. Joseph as a husband to Mary, “at her side in good times and bad,” and as a father who watched over Jesus, worried about him and taught him a trade, the pope said.

St. Joseph responded to his called to be a protector “by being constantly attentive to God, open to the signs of God’s presence and receptive to God’s plans, and not simply his own,” the pope said.

Fidelity to God’s word and God’s plan for individuals and for all of creation makes the difference, he said, calling on everyone to be sensitive and loving toward those in their care, especially toward children, the aged, the poor and the sick.

“In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it,” he said. “Be protectors of God’s gifts.”

When people fail to respect creation, when they ignore “God’s plan inscribed in nature,” or when they treat each other with disrespect, he said, “the way is opened to destruction, and hearts are hardened.”

“Tragically, in every period of history there are ‘Herods’ who plot death, wreak havoc and mar the countenance of men and women,” he said.

Pope Francis asked the government leaders present and all those with responsibility in the field of economics, politics and social life to stand firm when destruction and death threaten human dignity, human life and the environment.

He met with the heads of the government delegations after the Mass.

Caring for others, he said in his homily, must begin with watching over one’s own heart, mind and actions, resisting “hatred, envy and pride” and emotions that can tear others down.

Pope Francis told the people he realized his new ministry included “a certain power,” but it is the same power Jesus conferred on St. Peter, which was the “power of service” seen in Jesus’ charge to St. Peter: “Feed my lambs. Feed my sheep.”

“Let us never forget that authentic power is service and that the pope, too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the cross,” he said.

“He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which marked St. Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important,” Pope Francis said.

“Only those who serve with love are able to protect,” he said.

Pope begins ministry with biblical symbols, signs of universal ministry CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Although attempts were made to simplify the ceremony, Pope Francis officially inaugurated his ministry as pope and bishop of Rome in a liturgy filled with biblical symbolism and signs of the universality of his mission.

But before the solemn rites began March 19, Pope Francis – known for choosing public transport over chauffeur-driven limousines – took his first spin in the popemobile, blessing the tens of thousands of people who arrived in St. Peter’s Square as early as 4 a.m. to pray with him. He waved and, at one point, gave a thumbs up to the faithful. He also kissed three babies held up to him by the chief of Vatican security, Domenico Gianni, and other officers.

But he climbed out of the open jeep used as a popemobile to kiss a severely disabled man.

‘Put aside envy and don’t gossip’

Before entering St. Peter’s Square, he addressed by satellite thousands of his fellow Argentines gathered in Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, where he had been archbishop before his election as pope.

He thanked the people for their prayers and told them: “I have a favor to ask. I want to ask that we all walk together, caring for one another ... caring for life. Care for the family, care for nature, care for children, care for the aged. Let there be no hatred, no fighting, put aside envy and don’t gossip about anyone.”

As the Mass began, tens of thousands of pilgrims, faithful and tourists continued to arrive, filling St. Peter’s Square and crowding around the large video screens placed along the boulevard leading to the square. By the time of Communion, the Vatican said there were between 150,000 and 200,000 people present.

In his homily, Pope Francis asked prayers that he

would be able to protect the church like St. Joseph protected Mary and Jesus, “discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.”

Example of St. Joseph

He said in the Gospels, St. Joseph “can look at things realistically, he is in touch with his surroundings, he can make truly wise decisions.”

But more than anything, he said, the church’s patron saint teaches Christians that the core concern of their lives must be Christ.

“Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation,” Pope Francis said.

He called for special efforts to protect “God’s plan inscribed in nature” and to protect one another, especially children, the aged, the poor and the sick.

With members of the College of Cardinals dressed in gold gathered before the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica and brass players sounding a fanfare, the rites began at the tomb of St. Peter.

Pope Francis venerated the mortal remains of his predecessor as head of the church and was joined there by the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

Processing behind the Eastern church leaders and the cardinals, Pope Francis – wearing a simple, mostly white chasuble and his black shoes – came out into St. Peter’s Square while the choir chanted a special litany to Christ the King.

Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, presented Pope Francis with the fisherman’s ring, a gold-plated silver band featuring St. Peter holding keys, a reminder that Jesus told St. Peter: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Giving the pope “the ring, the seal of Peter the

fisherman,” Cardinal Sodano told the pope he was called, as bishop of Rome, to preside over the church with charity. He prayed the pope would have “the gentleness and strength to preserve, through your ministry, all those who believe in Christ in unity and fellowship.”

While many Christians acknowledge the special role of the bishop of Rome as the one who presides over the entire Christian community in love, the way the papacy has been exercised over the centuries is one of the key factors in the ongoing division of Christians.

Place of honor for Eastern Orthodox prelate

For the first time since the Great Schism of 1054 split the main Christian community into East and West, the ecumenical patriarch attended the installation Mass. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, first among equals of the Eastern Orthodox, sat in a place of honor near the papal altar.

Catholicos Karekin II of Etchmiadzin, patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, also attended the Mass along with delegations from 12 other Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, 10 Anglican and Protestant communities and three international Christian organizations, including the World Council of Churches.

After the Lord’s prayer, Pope Francis exchanged a sign of peace with Patriarch Bartholomew and with Catholicos Karekin.

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Jewish community of Rome and several international Jewish organizations sent representatives to the ceremony, as did Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Hindu communities and organizations.

Also present were representatives of 132 governments, led by the presidents of Italy and Argentina, the reigning royals of six countries – including Belgium’s king and queen – and 31 heads of state.

Vice President Joe Biden led the U.S. delegation.

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Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes and kisses the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Top right, he presides over a 2012 confirmation service at Our Lady of Caacupe Chapel in a poor section of the city. Center right, people celebrate the election of a new pope at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral, March 13. Lower right, the cardinal holds the hands of a woman and girl during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008.

‘It is in ordinary life that mission work is done’ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis March 13, was known for his ministry of bringing the sacraments and the Gospel directly to the poor. In a 2009 interview with the magazine 30 Days, he noted the influence of the conference of Latin American and Caribbean bishops who met in Aparecida, Brazil, and produced a document that urged

the church “to proclaim the Gospel by going to meet the people, not by waiting for the people to come to us.

Missionary fervor does not require extraordinary events. It is in ordinary life that mission work is done.”

“And baptism, in this, is paradigmatic,” Cardinal Bergoglio added. “The sacraments are for the life of men and women as they are. They may not make big speeches, but their ‘sensus fidei’ grasps the reality of the sacra-

ments with more clarity than many specialists do.”

The Latin American bishops said “that all human beings exist purely and simply by the love of God who created them, and by the love of God who preserves them at every moment. They decried “the dominant impact of the idols of power, wealth and fleeting pleasure” and proclaimed “the supreme value of every man and every woman.”

Millions of Latin American men and

women cannot lead a life that responds to this dignity, the bishops said, noting that the preferential option for the poor is a distinguishing feature of the Latin American church.

The bishops also stated that “we absolutely must recognize that human life must always be defended from the very moment of conception. Otherwise, the circumstances and conveniences of the powerful will always find excuses for abusing persons.”

Rock bands, vendors, big screens, prayer: Hometown celebrates pope DAVID AGREN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The celebrating started late March 18. Outside the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the expansive Plaza de Mayo, rock bands played. Vendors in the area peddled pictures and posters of Pope Francis, as well as pope-themed cushions, calendars and key rings.

Seminarians and youth groups began praying for the new pope. Trucks came to accept donations for the poor; Pope Francis had asked Argentines not to spend money traveling to Rome for his inauguration.

Instead, they rose early and watched the hometown resident elevated to head of the world’s Catholic Church.

“We never dreamed that this would be him,” said Juana Lucia Paz, a social worker dressed in a wig of blue and white, Argentina’s national colors.

She arrived outside the Metropolitan Cathedral at 2:30 a.m. from outlying Buenos Aires province. “This is a blessing for this country, an enormous sense of pride – for the whole world.”

Even in a country with significant non-Catholic and non-practicing Catholic populations, Pope Francis – until

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People hold Argentine flags and images of Pope Francis as they watch the televised broadcast of the inaugural Mass of the pontiff on a giant screen outside of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 19.

March 13, Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio – is seen as a religious person raising the country’s profile.

The Buenos Aires government closed public schools March 19, and church bells were to be rung at noon for 10 minutes. Mass was to be celebrated later at all parishes in the archdiocese for the feast of St. Joseph – instructions given by Pope Francis.

“The election of Pope Francis is one of the most important events that have

been produced in Argentine history and greatly exceeds its religious nature,” the city said in a statement.

Thousands watched as their former archbishop addressed them by satellite in the predawn hours. He thanked them for their prayers and told them: “Care for the family, care for nature, care for children, care for the aged.

Let there be no hatred, no fighting, put aside envy and don’t gossip about anyone.”

The crowd applauded and prayed as the pope’s inaugural Mass was broadcast on big screens. Many in the crowd clutched Vatican and Argentine flags. Others waved signs saying, “He arrived from the end of the world.”

“For Argentina, it’s important,” said university student Nicolas Sivina, 18.

“He’s the first pope from Argentina, the first from Latin America.”

“I believe there are going to be changes for the better. ... With more people like him, humble and simple,” said Catalina Ibanez, who works in a cloister and recalled serving Pope Francis coffee.

Special education teacher Gabriela Juarez, 37, recalled sometimes attending Mass celebrated by Pope Francis while he was still a priest.

“He was then the way he is now,” said Juarez, who participated in a theater production for the crowd before the installation.

“He was concerned for young people,” she added. “He had simple words, that teenagers could relate to.”

Juarez said she recently returned to the church after falling away for nearly 20 years.

“People change their way of thinking,” she said.

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CITY OF ST. FRANCIS INTERVIEWS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ

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PHOTOS BY DENNIS CALLAHAN

Stained-glass portrait, Mission Dolores Basilica

St. Charles principal Sister Nelia Pernica turned on the school’s TVs when the white smoke was seen.

Enrique Landa

Sophie Jones

“I was really excited, not only excited but so amazed that we have a pope.”

ST. CHARLES PRINCIPAL SISTER NELIA PERNICA, who went to all the classrooms and turned on the TVs when the white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel chimney.

“I like it a lot. It is a change. We need change. It is very important. Being from Argentina is going to cover many things. We are losing Latin America to the evangelists – we are losing a lot. We have to recover the whole thing. Also, this centralized Vatican needs to spread more. It’s going to be a good thing. I think we are going to be in good shape.”

ENRIQUE LANDA, sacristan, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral. He is originally from Peru.

“I think it’s very cool. It’s never happened before. It’s the first time in my life I’ve seen another pope.”

NICK SHADIX, seventh grade, Notre Dame des Victoires.

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de Victoires. He followed the process with all his students, beginning with Pope Benedict XVI’s announced resignation.

“I think they needed a change desperately so hopefully this will get them back on track.”

SUSAN COOK, a non-practicing Catholic, from Philadelphia, interviewed outside Old St. Mary’s Cathedral.

“Our Holy Father is aware of all the needs of the Western Hemisphere and is also aware of how to combine that with holy mother church, and I look forward to seeing how that works out over the next quarter-century. The fact that he chose Francis as his papal name is a dedication to the poverty of the office.”

PETER POLING, eighth grade teacher, St. Charles.

“It is kind of interesting. He seems a lot different than the popes I know, that I’ve learned about. He seems kind of just sort of different, kind of cool.”

“I was really excited. Everybody was like really excited. I was so excited I didn’t know what to do the whole thing. I was looking at the TV the whole time and I was so proud my face was red.”

“I’m so happy because he is the first pope from Latin America. We have to pray for him. Everything is going to be good.”

“It’s a start of a new generation of religion so the Catholic faith might strengthen up with a new pope.”

“I have an affection for the Jesuits. They’re very highly educated and they are interested in social justice.”

“I think it doesn’t really matter where the pope is from but it depends how good he is as a pope.”

SOPHIE JONES, seventh grade, Notre Dames des Victoires.

MARCIA RUIZ, secretary, St. Charles Borromeo School.

KEITH MARTIN, middle school science teacher and seventh grade religion teacher at Notre Dame

JONATHAN RODRIGUEZ, fifth grade, St. Charles.

BEA BURGOS, eighth grade, St. Charles.

ALEC BAKSHANDEH, seventh grade, Notre Dames des Victoires.

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Notre Dame des Victoires teacher Keith Martin followed the papal transition with all his students.

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‘I’m excited because it is the first Latin American pope and also I look at the way that he lives. He is very humble. I hope he has a lot of energy for us, for our children, for all the young people.

I like our old pope too but I understand he is sick so I think he is very smart to stay and pray for the church and give another chance to a younger one.

I’m so glad he can speak Spanish so we can understand him. We can see how the world is changing, all cultures; we are all getting together in the world. That is nice.’

MAUREEN ALVAREZ

St. Charles School, mother of third and fifth grade girls, Trazu and Sofia.

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Archbishop admires pope’s ‘simplicity, purity of spirit’ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Pope Francis is a man of a great intellect with a great love for the poor and “a simplicity and purity of spirit” that came through in his first appearance at St. Peter’s Square March 13, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said.

He said the pope’s first appearance was “indicative of his love for the faith and his life as a Jesuit,” adding that we may see more of the unexpected from the successor to Pope Benedict XVI. “When he bowed down and asked people to pray for him, I was very moved by that,” Archbishop Cordileone said at a news conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral. “It was a sign of great hope.”

“Like so many others, I was immediately captivated by his gentle demeanor and prayerful spirit as he looked out on the vast throng gathered in St. Peter’s Square,” the archbishop said in a statement. “Here, I sensed, was a true son of St. Ignatius, formed to be ‘a contemplative in action’ in the school of the Spiritual Exercises.”

The election of the Argentine cardinal is “a great day certainly for all people in Latin America and for all Catholics,” the archbishop said at the

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Archbishop Cordileone speaks to Spanish media representatives March 13 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The election of Pope Francis is “a great day certainly for all people in Latin America and for all Catholics,” he said. news conference. He noted that the church is “looking to where we have sources of renewal.”

“We’re not going to betray our core principles; those can’t be changed,” Archbishop Cordileone said, adding that church governance and laity involvement could be areas of growth.

The archbishop said the pope’s decision to take the name Francis “stirs the imagination.”

“Francis of Assisi, the ‘poverello,’ is one of the most beloved of saints,

whose veneration extends well beyond the Catholic Church,” he said in the statement. “As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis was renowned for his authentic simplicity of life and eagerness to not only serve the poor, but befriend them.

“Situated as we are in the City of St. Francis, we feel a special connection to our new Holy Father, and we ask the intercession of our patron, St. Francis, for him and for us, that we may follow his example of humility,

‘Situated as we are in the City of St. Francis, we feel a special connection to our new Holy Father, and we ask the intercession of our patron, St. Francis, for him and for us, that we may follow his example of humility, simplicity and love for all creation.’

ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE simplicity and love for all creation,” the archbishop said.

In the homily at a special Mass he celebrated at the cathedral March 14, the archbishop noted that there is much talk of reform in the church but true reform is “the reform that happens inside – the reform of our hearts.”

“We must at all times and always seek to please God,” the archbishop said, warning against “an image of a God we can manipulate.”

Marin clergy, faithful react: ‘This man is something special’ “My reaction was I was very happy, elated and hopeful that he is going to bring people into the church. I heard he was a very humble person and that should appeal to all people, apathetic Catholics, fallen-away Catholics and non-Catholics. I was struck by his asking the people to bless him before he blessed them. A lot of people were taken aback by this gesture of humility and were taken with him because of it. I am hopeful he will bring more people into the fold, those who left and those who had never entered.”

MARY CHAPMAN, administrative assistant, St. Rita School, Fairfax

“I immediately started emailing my many Jesuit friends, congratulating them that one of their brethren was chosen for this important ministry.

I also did some Internet research, which enabled me to post something about Pope Francis on our parish website and Facebook page. Too, reading about his life’s story made me feel inspired that someone who takes the bus around Buenos Aires and is known to his people as “Padre Jorge” had become our new pope. For the cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires to be so humble is a nice lesson for us all!”

FATHER WILLIAM E. BROWN, pastor, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon

“Our entire school followed the selection process intently and watched this inaugural speech in all our classrooms through the Vatican website. Our students were very excited to witness this historical moment of the selection of the first pope of the Americas and first to be named after St. Francis.”

CHARLEY HAYES, principal, St. Hilary School

“He’s a man of the people, not just symbolically but in a real way. That doesn’t say other popes were not effective. John Paul II was especially so. But this man is something special. When he said, ‘Let’s pause and be real quiet and please pray for me for a moment,’ the enormous crowd grew completely

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silent. Then, he gave the pontifical blessing. That’s a new wrinkle that’s never been done before, at least not in our generation. It shows humility and that he knows we’re in this together and that, ‘I’m not above you.’

“There won’t be a huge change in the church in my lifetime (I’ll be retiring in a couple of years), but I think he’ll make incremental headway toward what Jesus had in mind when he established his church – to be united with the people instead of being above them. Popes like Pius XII and Paul VI were good, good people but they were almost aloof, in a separate category from the “common” people. One who broke through that was John XXIII, who used to walk around the Vatican gardens and talk to everyone. We never knew John Paul I for he died shortly after taking office, but John Paul II also was very much a people’s pope.

“The pope who retired did the best he could, but he was more of a theological genius at home in the professorial world, and he knew it.

So, it was a bumpy ride for him. He had the wisdom to say, ‘I can’t do this any more; I’ve got to step down,’ and I’m glad he did.”

FATHER PAUL PERRY, parochial vicar, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae

“When he said, ‘Let us take a moment to pray for me because I need your prayers,’ I was deeply moved by this extraordinary humility that recognized he can’t do this alone. The fact that he said that was amazing. It was a hair-rising-on-the-back-of-your-neck

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moment. You felt, even watching on TV, like the whole world for a moment stopped to pray. That was extraordinary, a hopeful sign of what’s to come.”

VICKY OTTO, pastoral associate and parish manager, St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael

“My hopes are (1) that the Holy Father can bring about resolution, accountability and healing with regard to the clergy sex abuse scandal and any other scandals (Vatileaks and the like) the church faces at all levels; (2) that the Holy Father be blessed with good health to carry out his duties; (3) that he can be an inspirational and effective leader to help bring about a renewal and growth of the faith in areas that have declining Mass attendance and active (practicing) Catholics, world peace and social justice; (4) that the Holy Father ensures that the precepts of Vatican II be carried out at all levels throughout the Catholic Church; (5) that the Holy Father, as a Jesuit, will ensure that Catholic Jesuit colleges and universities (and all colleges and universities that call themselves Catholic!) follow the church’s moral and social teaching.”

CELESTE LINDEMANN CHAPMAN, Tiburon

“I hope he challenges and encourages the whole church to focus more on the needs of the poor and marginalized (especially prisoners in our country). I also hope that by focusing on the Gospel, we can learn to be more compassionate with others with whom we disagree on politics or social issues. Working with prisoners

shows me that people who are living lives of hardship don’t have the luxury of fighting over doctrines. I hope that Pope Francis continues to model for us the one doctrine (teaching) that is most important: ‘Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.’

“We’ll have a Mass of Thanksgiving here at San Quentin this Sunday to celebrate the election of Pope Francis. I have noticed how so many of the prisoners here have spoken with admiration of his dedication to the poor and to the way he lives his life – not embracing the trappings of power and privilege but instead living simply and close to the poor and working classes in Argentina. This example clearly touches the hearts of many of the men here at SQ. Prisoners are really good at reading people – they know when someone is authentic or phony. All the men I’ve spoken to see Francis’ authenticity.

“I believe God has given us just the pope we need in these troubled times.”

JESUIT FATHER GEORGE WILLIAMS, chaplain, San Quentin State Prison

“When our 23-year-old daughter called us in tears and said, ‘He’s beautiful; he’s amazing,’ I was astonished. This young woman grabbed onto him right away. This was her pope! This was before she even knew anything about him. She just had a sense through the Holy Spirit this was her pope. When she started doing research on her iPhone, every minute she was falling more and more in love with him. I was witnessing this great, unusual, unexpected grace coming down on my daughter. While she’s been a good Catholic, I’ve never seen this passion come out of her. John Paul II was our pope as our daughter was born and growing up during his papacy. This is her personal pope. This is the pope of the new generation.”

VICKIE LYFORD, St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae

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IN ST. PETER’S SQUARE, MOVED BY POPE’S GESTURE OF HUMILITY

Students ring church bells for Pope Francis

Connor Claros, a student at Sts. Peter and Paul School, San Francisco, was in the sixth grade and had always been bugging the church sacristan, David Burbank, to let him ring the church bells. Mr. Burbank would always say “not now.” But one day when Connor asked him, Mr. Burbank told him, “only on a special day.” Two years later, March 13, the special day arrived when the cardinal electors in Rome picked a new pope. Connor, now in the eighth grade, and two of his friends went to Mr. Burbank and told the teacher that the day had come to let them ring the bells. So Mr. Burbank let the three eighth graders do the honors of announcing “we have a pope” to the people of North Beach. Pictured pulling the church bell rope, from left, are Cole Williams, Christopher Fong and Connor Claros.

Father Francis Garbo, pastor at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo, is on sabbatical at Pontifical North American College in Rome and was in St. Peter’s Square for the first appearance of Pope Francis. Here is part of an email he sent to Catholic San Francisco.

“Francis’ first gesture of asking the people to pray to God for him may signal the Father Garbo beginning of a more authentic and humble recognition of the priesthood of the people of God and the responsibility we all bear for the church of God in the world. “(His) first word to a cheering crowd in an overflowing St. Peter’s Square was ‘buonasera,’ Italian for ‘good evening.’ ‘You know the task of the conclave was to give Rome a bishop,’ the new pope continued, speaking Italian with a slight Spanish accent. ‘My brothers went to the end of the earth to get him.’

“What struck me and many of us was what he said: Gratitude, prayer and humility, asking the people to pray for him; charity, brotherhood and trust, praying for one another and the world; and the Blessed Mother, entrusting us to our Blessed Mother. He asked the people (us) to pray to the Lord to bless him, bowing his head and clasping his hands. Wow! What a gesture of a leader, with prayer and humility. “‘Brothers and sisters, thanks for the welcome,’ the pope said before heading back into the basilica. ‘Tomorrow I will pray that Mary safeguard Rome. Good night. Good rest.’ We all cheered again. As we moved along, people were talking, with cheerful and joyful disposition. I believed that all of us who were there felt blessed.”

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Balanced look at pope whose wartime policies are under scrutiny REVIEWED BY EUGENE J. FISHER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“SOLDIER OF CHRIST: THE LIFE OF POPE PIUS XII” BY ROBERT A. VENTRESCA. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2013). 414 pp., $35.

Robert Ventresca presents in “Soldier of Christ” a scholarly yet readable life of Pope Pius XII, from his youth as a scion of the “black nobility” of papal Rome in the late 19th century to his death in 1958 in the midst of the Cold War which he waged as a “soldier of Christ” against communism.

Pius died on the verge of the Second Vatican Council, which his many writings as pope over the years presaged and in a real sense made possible.

During his pontificate, the years 1939 to 1946 saw the outbreak of the most devastating war in human history and the previously unimaginable evil of the Holocaust. Most of the books about Pius judge him, positively or negatively, based upon his policies during that period. Ventrasca sets Pius’

decisions within the larger context of his life and achievements, bringing a fresh perspective to what has aptly been described as “the Pius war.”

This balanced account takes seriously both the criticisms of Pius’ policy of “impartiality” and his use of official neutrality as a cover to save the lives of Jews and others. The narrative is a complex one.

Ventresca cites and agrees with both Pius’ critics and his defenders. He concludes that Pius’ approach of public neutrality and behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity was, in the end, ineffective.

He argues as well that it was not lack of concern or compassion for the plight of the victims of the war that motivated this very spiritual and caring leader, thrust into the center of a maelstrom arguably beyond the control of any single human being, but faithfulness to the diplomatic process in which he was trained and which characterized his years as Vatican secretary of state under his more mercurial predecessor, Pope Pius XI. The actions of the Vatican in the aftermath of the war are also taken up in some detail, since the

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But Ventresca is careful to place this in the context of the activities of the Allies themselves and their “ratlines” in assisting Nazi and Ustashi leaders to escape justice. There was, he concludes, no systematic Vatican “ratline” comparable to those of the Allied powers, including the United States.

Ventresca describes the significant contributions of Pius to the key theological, biblical and liturgical studies that established the framework for the Second Vatican Council.

The book concludes with an overall appreciation of Pius and a cautionary note that further historical work needs to be done before history can render a “final judgment.”

FISHER is professor of Catholic-Jewish studies at St. Leo University in Florida.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 REUNION: Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae of San Francisco Mass and Luncheon, 10:30 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd.

Honorees are classes of ‘63, ‘38, ‘43, ‘53, and ‘73. Katie O’Leary, (415) 2826588 or email nuttydames@aol.com.

SCHOOL REUNION: St Matthew Alumni Association is looking for alums. An all class reunion is planned to celebrate parish’s 150th Anniversary at 5p.m. Ann Connelly, aconnelly@stmatthewcath.org or (650) 344 7622, ext. 104.

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

FATIMA MASS: Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St. San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Brian Costello, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. zonia@zoniafasquelle.com.

ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL: 60th anniversary Mass and reception, 10 a.m., St. Dunstan School, Millbrae. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presides.

Bishop William Open to the J. Justice community with a special welcome to all alumni, parishioners, alumni parents, school parents, teachers, and staff past and present.

Visit http://st-dunstan.org or call (650) 697-8119.

Church, 1310 Bayswater Ave. at El Camino Real, Burlingame, 2:30 p.m., with Mass, Benediction, veneration and rosary, 3 p.m. Judy Miller, (650) 342-1988.

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

Unless otherwise indicated, a free-will offering will be requested at the door.

Free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext 213.

SUNDAY, APRIL 14 ICF SPRING FLING DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 annual meatballs and pasta dinner at Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No host bar at 4 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m., wine for purchase with dinner. Raffle and silent auction features sports memorabilia. Adults $18, children $5 (14 and under). Sandra, (650) 697-4279. RSVP by April 10.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16 FASHION SALON: Discarded to Divine and silent auction, 6-9 p.m., Gensler, San Francisco, 2 Harrison St., $75 tickets include hors d’ouvres and wine reception and auction of more than 75 items by established and emerging designers. Proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul Wellness Center, San Francisco, serving people with mental health and addiction issues. www.discardedtodivine.org. srosen@svdp-sf.org. (415) 552-5561, ext. 301.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20 FRIDAY, APRIL 12 FASHION: “Discarded to Divine� preview, 5:30-8:30 p.m., de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park. Meet established and emerging designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, and view fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned April 16. Proceeds benefit St. Vincent de Paul Wellness Center, San Francisco. www.discardedtodivine.org. srosen@ svdp-sf.org. (415) 552-5561, ext. 301.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 7 CHAPLET: St. Catherine of Siena

St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco honoring the women religious of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for “Faith in Action.� www.cccyo.org/loavesandfishes.

CCCYO GALA: Catholic Charities CYO Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner & Gala,

TASTING PARTY: Dads of St. Brigid School present “A Taste of San Francisco II,� 6-10 p.m. at the school, 2250 Franklin St., San Francisco. Event features cuisine from eight San Francisco restaurants, live jazz music, live and silent auctions and CBS 5 sports reporter Dennis O’Donnell as host. Tickets are $50 per person. Visit saintbrigidsf.eventbrite.com. Email sbdads@gmail.com.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 22, 2013

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS COLMA Robert David Allen Adelaida V. Andres Amanda Aragon Jesus Arevalo Anthony “Tony” Bacich Merle Leroy Balis Eileen M. Barrett William West Bates Robert H. Bierman Angela Blandon June Bonini Joseph I. Bosso Rosalie D. Boyd Frank P. Camilleri Eugene J. Campi Sr. Maria Mercedes Campos, AP Yolanda Cashman Mafalda Cerri Kevin R. Cotter Ralph Crumb Nicholas Curran Hazel G. Czapowski Rose Carmella Davenport Thomas Joseph Dee Alphonsine A. Delagnes Slavo Dijanic Vera Anne Doherty Barbara Jean “Bobbie” Dollard Rev. Heribert Eugene Duquet, MEP Sr. Janet Marie Egan, SND Gloria A. Escobar Frank “Frankie” Fahey Charles J. Fava

Harold F. Flynn Raymond “Remo” Fornaciari Stanley Gaddini Rose C. Galassi Mary Galea Alberto Galiano Carlos D. Garcia Gonzalo Raphael Garcia Enriqueta B. Gervacio Crensencio Go Beatrice Gold Aurora Sedano Gonion Walter Daniel Gonion Marcelle Theil Granger Henry Gray Faye Darlene Thoroughman Grenci Otilia E. Guadamuz John “Jack” J. Heath Elisa B. Hernandez Kathleen Hiatt Genevieve E. Holland Coach Rick Huertas Enrique Jimenez John Chee Keet Lin James W. Kelly, Jr. Wanara “Eva” Kumala Michael A. Lang Maria Llacuna Paul A. Love, Sr. John J. Madden Louis J. Maniscalco Mae Katherine Marino Maria Mariucci Lena Marovich Laura Martinez Thomas James McGeoy, M.D. Margaret M. Merritt

Gilbert P. Metzgar Betty Bruna Mordus Angela E. Moretton Julie A. Mullen Catherine I. Murphy Robert G. Navarro Mirtha Evelyn Nazario-Lopez Badea Nazzal Leonardo Nunag John Park-Htaik Nyaung Octavio Ocon Raymond Parker Marian Perasso Linda Peters Maybelle Lama Pinson Lilia Ponce Eileen Pueyo William J. Raffetto, III Flora A. Raggio Concepcion Ramirez Max F. Ramos Glenn Raposa John Reidy Aldo Reynaga Reyes Erik Reynaga Reyes John F. Rossi Frances Roys John J. Ruggiero Margit Russ Adele Jamil Saadeh Nabih Salem Conchita San Miguel Alan S. Sarraga Ralph Schreiber Carolyn Semenza Sara Goding Smith Richard Smoley

Julia C. Sorrentino Louis G. Spadia Jasmin Suliguin-Rios Ricardo T. Tagle, Jr. Palu Takapu Gloria Taormina Angela Tardio Shirley Veronica Taylor John L. Tomasello Julia Lopez Valdez Clarita V. Valle Cataleya Vega Serge Vishnevsky Eileen Woodhouse Najib Yamini Ling-Chi Yu

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Ezequiel Bejines Anguiano Salvador Arteaga Mireya F. Escobar Teresa M. Kevin Virginia Fegley Ramirez Crescenciano Rebollar John F. Smith Simone Warner

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Elsie C. Clayton Catherine O’Looney Enos Guadalupe Grajeda

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 88TH ANNUAL MASS HONORING FATHER PETER Y ORKE Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 10:00 am. | Rev. Joseph Walsh, Celebrant Sponsored by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco Pearse & Connolly Fife and Drum Bands

FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, April 6, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am.

Rev. Paul J. Rossi, Celebrant | Pastor, St. Pius Parish

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.