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Survivor: Panel must achieve real change SARAH MACDONALD CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DUBLIN – The lone clerical abuse survivor nominated by Pope Francis to sit on the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the commission needs to achieve concrete change in order to “show other survivors that the church is going to get it right.” Marie Collins, who was abused by a chaplain as a sick 13-year-old at Crumlin hospital in Dublin in the 1960s, told Catholic News SerMarie Collins vice that many survivors will be watching the new Vatican commission “with interest, but many will have written it off as merely a PR exercise.” “Survivors will not be satisfied with more words or promises, they need to see real change,” she said. Collins, who campaigns on behalf of abuse victims, said her priority is “a strong worldwide child protection policy which would include sanctions for any member of the church in a position of authority who ignored these rules.” She added that too many bishops who have protected abusive priests have been allowed to remain in place undisciplined. “I would like to see the way survivors and their families have been treated change. The concentration on often-abusive legalistic responses instead of caring for those hurt needs to end,” she said. The cultural attitude within the church and laws that “categorized child abuse as a moral lapse rather SEE SURVIVOR, PAGE 17

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Cub Scout and St. Anselm School student Mac McGrath, son of Order of Malta members Matthew and Ann McGrath, served guests at the Handicapables Mass and luncheon March 22 at Marin Catholic HIgh School.

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About 30 developmentally and physically disabled adults from Marin County enjoyed fellowship, food and fun with their families, caretakers and each other at Marin County’s Handicapables Mass at Marin Catholic High School March 22. The quarterly Handcapables Mass is sponsored by the Marin members of the Order of Malta, a 900-yearold lay religious order whose charism is helping the poor and the sick.

As Mass started, a high-spirited woman named Lisa from Cedars of Marin, a group home for adults with developmental disabilities in San Rafael, ran over to the resident of another local group home, David. He flashed a grin as she hugged his neck. Recognizing a handicapped person’s need for friendship is the whole idea behind Handicapables, a charity founded nearly 50 years ago by Nadine Calliguri, a young San Francisco woman born with cerebral palsy. She knew from her own experience SEE INTO THE LIGHT, PAGE 17

Author: Christian persecution a ‘global pandemic’ ALBERT C. PACCIORINI

The persecution of Christians and other people of faith is a “global pandemic” that is largely unnoticed by most media because of a bias that views Christianity as a Western oppressor, a Boston Globe expert on Catholicism told an audience at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland. “This is no laughing matter. It is the transcendent human rights story of our time,” said Boston Globe associate editor and former Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter John Allen Jr.

“In effect, our era is witnessing the rise of a new generation of martyrs,” with 150,000 Christians dying for their faith every year, Allen writes in his book “The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of AntiChristian Persecution” (Random House, 2013). John Allen Eighty percent of violations of religious freedom in the world today are directed against Christians, according

to the secular International Society for Human Rights. Underlying the global war on Christians is the demographic reality that more than two-thirds of the world’s 2.3 billion Christians live outside the West, often as a beleaguered minority up against a hostile majority – whether it’s Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, Hindu radicalism in India, or state-imposed atheism in China and North Korea, Allen said. SEE PERSECUTION, PAGE 17

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NEED TO KNOW ‘FESTIVAL OF FORGIVENESS’: Pope Francis announced that a “special moment of penance” called the “24 Hours for the Lord” will be held March 28-29 in St Peter’s Basilica and in many churches in Rome and around the world. “It will start with a celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica Friday afternoon,” the pope said after his Angelus March 23. “Then, in the evening and overnight some churches in the center of Rome will be open for prayers and confessions. It will be a festival of forgiveness, which will also take place in many dioceses and parishes around the world.” He said “we must celebrate the forgiveness the Lord gives us, as did the father in the parable of the prodigal son who, when the latter returned, organized a party, putting out of his mind all the things the son had done.” Before the Angelus, the pope focused his meditation on forgiveness, mercy and our “truer spiritual needs.” He was inspired by the Gospel in the day’s Mass (John 4:5-42), which describes Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman who went every day to draw water at Jacob’s well. “Jesus was not that thirsty for water,” the pope said, “as he was of meeting a parched soul.”

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Parade brings out the green from Catholic schools The Catholic Schools Marching Band performed in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in San Francisco March 15. The band includes students from St. Robert, Our Lady of Mercy, Good Shepherd, St. Gregory, St. Timothy and St. Catherine of Siena schools in San Mateo County. “The students all memorize their parts, which takes quite a bit of time,” bandleader William McClanahan told Catholic San Francisco. McClanahan teaches band at each of the schools. “We actually begin preparing for the parade in October” but the school bands don’t rehearse together until the Wednesday before the parade, in a session at St. Timothy, he said.

Youth council seeking teen leaders from each parish VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Check your church bulletin for the ad – the archdiocese is expanding its outreach to teens by asking each parish to delegate a high school student to serve on the Archdiocesan Youth Council. The initiative will expand the council from 12 to 90 high Ynez Lizarraga school representatives. The deadline to apply is May 11. “Our hope is to have one youth representative from every parish in the archdiocese serve on the youth council,” said Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, who sent a letter to pastors dated March 4. The call for new members is a

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huge expansion for the youth council which now numbers just 12 teenagers, mostly from San Mateo parishes, said Lizarraga. There are 90 parishes in the San Mateo, Marin and San Francisco counties. “Those who are on the youth council will be able to get to know one another, learn from each other, and gain ideas about youth ministry,” Lizarraga said. They will serve as a connection between the archdiocese and the parishes, bringing what they learn at meetings and events back to the youth and youth leaders at their church. The initiative is aimed at building up Catholic youth ministry throughout the three counties. Who is the ideal youth council member? A Catholic who has received the sacrament of confirmation, is currently a high school student, is willing to commit to attending meetings once a month at the archdiocesan pastoral center in San

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Francisco, is willing to express his or her opinions and “is willing to lead or facilitate large events,” Lizarraga said. The youth council’s purposes are: to help plan and lead archdiocesan youth events such as the archdiocesan confirmation retreats, the annual Youth Mass, Youth Rally, and Lenten Food Fast; and act as a liaison between the archdiocese and parish youth ministries. That will include informing parish youth and youth leaders about events and building up the parish youth ministry program. Current youth council members said the experience is well worth it. “Being a part of the youth council was a spiritually enlightening experience for me,” said Angela Perez de Tagle of St. Mark Parish in Belmont. “The best part about being a part of the council is meeting other teenagers and youth group leaders that share the same ideals and goals.”

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“I had an extraordinary amount of fun!” said Angelo Novello of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. “I have learned all kinds of leadership and event organization skills. I am very thankful to have been able to meet all my fellow council members and will forever cherish their friendship.” The Youth Council will meet on the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco. Each youth council member will be required to attend youth leadership training (with the $30 fee waived) on June 7 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Mercy High School, San Francisco. The youth council application can be found at http://sforeym.org/node/331. For more information, please contact Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis, at LizarragaY@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Breakfast club: Decades-long ritual for St. Veronica Massgoers VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The morning Mass group is a staple at most parishes – a group of devoted daily Mass attendees who bond each morning before and after Mass, as they share faith and time despite whatever differences the rest of their lives hold. At St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco, the camaraderie spills over after the 8:30 a.m. Mass into coffee and maybe an Egg McMuffin or oatmeal at the McDonald’s a few blocks away on El Camino Real – and it’s been that way for nearly 30 years. The group is such a staple of life at McDonald’s that the parishioners use a special meeting room, although often so many come they extend into the tables in the main part of the restaurant. For the group, all of whom are retired, this is a way to give a little structure to the day, and check in with friends who are supportive and share the same time of life. “That’s how you start the day is going to Mass,” said Mira McTiernan, who attends Mass with her husband Jim. Before retirement she was a regular at 6:30 a.m. Mass and her husband, who retired five years earlier, went to the 8:30 a.m. Mass. Now they go together. “It nourishes you,” said June Heise of morning Mass. “It’s hard to imagine starting your day without it. Especially when you are older, you are thinking about eternity.” The Mass-breakfast group’s “faith, friendships, joy, and service are an inspiration – and a precious gift to the parish community,” said St. Veronica pastor Father Charles Puthota. “Their practice underlines the fact that we need support from each other both at prayer and social gatherings and enjoy the human connectedness,” said Father Puthota, noting many in the group date their involvement in the parish to its founding in

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St. Veronica 8:30 a.m. Mass breakfast club members gathered recently for a group photo. Standing, left to right: Dave McCann, John Collins, Peg Collins, Jim McTiernan, Mira McTiernan, Nita Ricotta, Barbara Lozar, Mary O’Keefe, June Heise, Fran Murphy and Midge (Emanuele) Damonte. Seated, from left: Anna Venturini, Jo Buckley, Fay Buckley, Mary Fabian, Lynn Cinquini, Carolyn Damonte. 1951 and are generous supporters of the parish “ministries and mission.” “I’d been going to daily Mass and so had my husband. After my husband passed away six years ago I was invited to come and join the group,” said Mary Fabian. “It has been really wonderful for me, especially with the loss of my husband. It’s been a very healing experience.” Though, she said with a laugh and nod of the head toward Emanuele Damonte, one of the founding members of the McDonald’s group, “Sometimes they aggravate me. They torture me; they love to get me started.” “Lots of room in this inn,” joked Damonte, in a play on his namesake. “I only speak the truth.”

“It’s a wonderful way to start the day,” said Damonte, who attends with his wife Carolyn. “Any of them would go out of their way for you.” “I like the camaraderie,” said Dave McCann, who calls himself ‘a Lenten guy’ who attends daily Mass and comes for coffee during the penitential season. At first the 8:30 Mass friends would congregate after Mass for a coffee and donut at the donut shop but at McDonald’s they have the meeting room each morning, Monday-Saturday. The friendship at Mass and afterward is wonderful, said Heise. “And you know, when you’re old, everyone has aches and pains. You can stay home and feel sorry for yourself or you can get out and get over it.”

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‘Always give thanks,’ says prelate celebrating 80th birthday TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang celebrated his 80th birthday Feb. 27. He was honored at a surprise birthday party Feb. 18 at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco where he has long Bishop Ignatius resided. Wang Those there to offer their congratulations included retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, Holy Name pastor Father Arnold Zamora, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy, retired Holy Name pastor Donald D’Angelo as well as Bishop Wang’s nieces, nephew, and great grand nephew. Bishop Wang spoke to me via email before leaving to see his sister Clare in China who is suffering with cancer. “I’ll be in the air when you get this missive,” he said. High points of his 80 years include knowing priests as a child in China who were “always so happy and joyous” and whom he would model in his own priesthood. His being named an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco in 2002 was “certainly a big surprise and a milestone,” he said. “It is said, when you retire, you are busier! How true,” Bishop Wang said. “My sister Clare in China started chemo before Christmas. I wished to visit her, but have no time until now.” Bishop Wang maintains his regular schedule in retirement: up at 5:30 a.m. reading his breviary and Mass at 7:30 a.m. His “luxury time” of “breakfast with the papers” follows. The day goes by quickly, he said,

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Daughters of Charity receive Daly City Women of the Year award Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC, this month accepted the 2014 National Women’s History Month Woman of Excellence Award on behalf of the Daughters of Charity, Province of the West. The award, given annually by the city of Daly City for the past nine years, honors a woman who has demonstrated courage, vision and commitment in contributing to the betterment of life within Daly City. The ninth annual Women’s History Month reception was held March 13 at City Hall, marking the first time a group of women, as opposed to one woman, was honored. The sisters were cited for their service to the sick and those living in poverty in San Mateo County and Daly City. The Daughters were nominated in the “Special Recognition” category. This year’s theme was “Celebration of Women of Character, Courage and Commitment.” “We are grateful to receive this award. It must be shared with all of our pioneer sisters who laid the foundation for our ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area and with the many Daughters of Charity who have followed them in dedicated service to the sick and poor,” Sister Marjory Ann said. “They were certainly women of character, courage and commitment.” The Daughters were recognized by the City Council for serving the community for more than a century, especially for sponsoring Seton Medical Center.

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Patricia Martell, city manager of Daly City, is pictured with Sister Marjory Ann Baez, DC; Sister William Eileen, DC; and Sister Mary Hale, DC. The sisters represented the Daughters of Charity at the Daly City Women’s History Month awards ceremony March 13 at City Hall. After arriving from Emmitsburg, Md., in 1852 at the request of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, first archbishop of San Francisco, five Daughters of Charity set up an orphanage and school. By 1889, a generous San Franciscan shared her vision for health care leading to the construction of Mary’s Help Hospital, which opened its doors on Guerrero and Brosnan streets in 1912. In 1965, a new hospital opened at 1900 Sullivan Ave. in Daly City, and in 1983 was renamed Seton Medical Center honoring St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the foundress of the American Daughters of Charity and the first American-born canonized saint. The National Women’s History Project, headquar-

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Stanford marriage conference protested by LGBT students Archdiocese urges Catholics to attend campus student event on marriage, family and media VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A Stanford University student group’s conference on marriage and chastity has lost university funding and is expected to face protests, but the Stanford Anscombe Society “Communicating Values: Marriage, Family and the Media” conference will go forward, organizers said. The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s director of marriage and family life is encouraging local Catholics to attend the event April 5. “I hope to attend, and I would encourage attendance by all thoughtful Catholics interested in marriage and family, and how they intersect with society,” said Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of marriage and family life. “This conference is an outstanding opportunity to see how natural law supports and explains the teachings of the church.” In an email to Catholic San Francisco, senior Judy Romea, president of the Stanford Anscombe Society, said the society’s primary goal “is to promote rational and, more importantly, respectful discussion on the topics of marriage and family. Such discourse is vital at a university which prides itself on freedom of thought and intellectual diversity. We have a duty to voice our beliefs, and this voice should no longer be silenced.” However, some of the speakers for the conference have drawn opposition from some on campus.

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President, Stanford Anscombe Society After initially allocating $600 toward the Communicating Values conference, the Graduate Student Council rescinded its grant by a 10-2 vote at a March 5 meeting. The following day the undergraduate student council rejected an Anscombe Society request for $5,000 toward conference costs. The main objection to the conference speakers came from GradQ, the homosexual graduate student organization, according to the Stanford Daily and minutes of the Graduate Student Council meeting. “A lot of students who are queer come to Stanford because it’s one of the most LGBT-friendly places in the world,” said Brianne Huntsman, a Stanford junior, according to the Stanford Daily and minutes of the March 5 Graduate Student Council meeting. “Stanford is supposed to be a safe space for us.” “This is an event that hurts the Stanford community, to express a belief that, for some reason this event is not discriminatory, is completely off-base,” said Ben Holston,

chair of the undergraduate Senate, according to the graduate student council meeting minutes. “This event as it stands, given the speakers, and given that they have said the event is supposed to ‘promote one man one woman’ which promotes stripping away rights of people in this room, is unacceptable on the Stanford campus,” Holston said, according to the March 5 minutes. The Stanford University administration, after initially saying it would require the Anscombe Society to pay for the $5,600 cost of 10 security guards, revised its position and will now handle security costs. “The goal is to support free speech, not inhibit it, by providing a safe environment for individuals to express their views,” said Stanford senior director of strategic communications Brad Hayward in an email to Catholic San Francisco. Among the speakers scheduled are California State UniversityNorthridge assistant professor of English Robert Oscar Lopez, who wrote “The Colorful Conservative:

American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman”; and the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan Anderson, co-author of “What is Marriage? Man & Woman: A Defense.” Kellie Fiedorek, an attorney with pro-marriage Alliance Defending Freedom, will be speaking at a Friday pre-conference reception. The Stanford Anscombe Society is part of a network of 25 similar student organizations on campuses including Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia that make up the Love and Fidelity Network. While many of the Anscombe Society members are Catholic, the organization is without religious or political affiliation, said Romea, who was one of two freshmen who founded the group in 2011. In the About section of its Facebook page, the Stanford Anscombe Society states: “We hold that the family is the key unit of a stable society, and we define the family as one man and one woman bound together by marriage, along with any children that they might have. SAS defines marriage as a union, until death, between one man and one woman.” The Stanford Anscombe Society’s first annual conference “Communicating Values: Marriage, Family & the Media” is 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. April 5 at the Oberndorf Event Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Business attire. For more information: www.stanfordanscombe.org/.

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Parish, pontifical university collaborate on second Holy Land pilgrimage CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Walking once in the “footsteps of Jesus” was not enough for Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishioner Barbara Buoncrisitani. The Mill Valley resident traveled to the Holy Land with other pilgrims last summer for the first parish-produced pilgrimage that follows the path of Jesus through the most significant sites of the Old and New Testaments and awards catechists with a university certificate at the end. Buoncrisitani was Mike Morison among the first to enroll for the parish’s second Holy Land pilgrimage, “Discipleship: In the Footsteps of Jesus,” June 8-23. The 14-day pilgrimage is a collaborative ministry between the Mill Valley parish and a priest at the Salesian Pontifical University of Jerusalem. Led by theologians and pastoral caretakers, the pilgrimage puts the Scripture into a spiritual, geographical and historic context that can be transformative for participants like Buoncrisitani. “Write about an orange and try to tell me how it tastes,” said Buoncrisitani, in an effort to explain the difference between reading about the scripturally significant places in Jesus life – or even seeing them from a packed tour bus – and the experience of praying in them together with a small group of other Catholic pilgrims. There is “no substitute,” she said, for walking upon sacred soil with your own two feet and beholding places to which only the mind had traveled before. Pastoral associate and facilitator Michael Morison conceived the pilgrimage as a parish

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Pope wants people to be ‘on fire with love for Christ,’ cardinal says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said Pope Francis is a quintessential Ignatian Jesuit who has melded Jesuit and Franciscan spirituality into his approach to the papacy. “Our pope is thoroughly Jesuit and thoroughly Ignatian, right down to the fascination with St. Francis,” he said. And he is helping the world redisCardinal Sean P. cover the joy of the Gospel for O’Malley the greater glory of God, the cardinal said. St. Ignatius founded the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits. Its motto is, “For the greater glory of God.” Cardinal O’Malley, a Capuchin Franciscan, spoke to more than 175 people at a March 19 forum on the Jesuit pope’s first anniversary, held at the American Bible Society. The forum was co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York Catechetical Office and Crossroads Cultural Center. It was the second of three anniversary discussions led by Cardinal O’Malley – in Baltimore, New York and Chicago.

Pope Francis has embraced the vocation of being a follower of St. Ignatius who wants to be a saint like St. Francis, Cardinal O’Malley said. He lives his Jesuit vocation with intense missionary spirit, a love for community that supports the mission and a disciplined life that does not want to waste anything, especially time. The cardinal said Pope Francis embraces the introspection central to Jesuit spirituality, which is part of St. Ignatius’ plan to keep Jesuits focused on God, despite their activist lifestyle. The pope’s discernment “frees him from doing some things in a certain way because it was always thus” and he is comfortable enough in his own skin that he is “not restrained by practices of pontificates in the past,” Cardinal O’Malley said. Cardinal O’Malley, one of eight members of the pope’s advisory Council of Cardinals, said Pope Francis is on a steep learning curve, particularly with respect to the church in the United States. “He doesn’t know the church in America well, but he is interested in learning more, the cardinal said. “His openness and inquisitiveness is encouraging to me.”

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ March 19 designation of a center in Washington as the St. John Paul II National Shrine reflects U.S. Catholics’ love for the late pope, said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky. As president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, he signed the decree declaring the designation for the site of the former John Paul II Cultural Center. It takes effect April 27, the day Pope Francis will canonize Blessed John Paul II and Blessed John XXIII. Liturgical celebrations, a reception and a gathering of young people will mark the occasion. The center, which first opened in 2001 as a cultural center, named for the pope, with a research component, museum and gallery, sits on 12 acres in Washington’s northeast quadrant just steps from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and The Catholic University of America. The Knights of Columbus took ownership of the facility in 2011, with plans to create a shrine dedicated to the pope and his contributions to the church and society.

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WASHINGTON – Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, is preparing to build a new cathedral in Awali, Bahrain, called Our Lady of Arabia, that will serve a Catholic population that is expanding throughout the oil-rich Persian Gulf region with the arrival of a growing number of workers migrating for manual labor and domestic service work. King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain donated more than two acres to the bishop last year to build the cathedral complex. Work is set to begin in October and the new cathedral should open in 2016. The bishop, who spoke to Catholic News Service March 13 during a U.S. visit, pointed out that although the church structure itself will be a symbol of Christianity, there will be no exterior symbols such as crosses. “The religion of this country is Islam and we have to respect laws of the country,” he said. “What is essential for us is for Christians to witness the love of God.”

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Ruling to allow same-sex marriage ‘regrettable,’ say Michigan bishops CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LANSING, Mich. – A U.S. District Court judge’s March 21 ruling that Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional does not change the fact “marriage is and can only ever be a unique relationship solely between one man and one woman,” said the state’s Catholic bishops. “Nature itself, not society, religion or government, created marriage. Nature, the very essence of humanity as understood through historical experience and reason, is the arbiter of marriage, and we uphold this truth for the sake of the common good,” they said in a statement released by the Michigan Catholic Conference in Lansing. “The biological realities of male and female and the complementarity they each bring to marriage uniquely allows for the procreation of children,” they said. The Catholic conference is the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, a Detroit-area couple who are raising three children together, filed suit in 2012 to challenge the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The law also prohibits same-sex couples from jointly adopting children; only heterosexual married couples are allowed to do so. U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman in Detroit overturned the same-sex marriage ban – which voters passed overwhelmingly in 2004 – saying it violated the U.S. Constitution because it deprives same-sex couples the same rights guaranteed to heterosexual couples. He also said barring same-sex couples from adopting children was unconstitutional. “Many Michigan residents have religious convictions whose principles govern the conduct of their daily lives and inform their own viewpoints about marriage,” Friedman wrote in his 31-page rul-

ing. “Nonetheless, these views cannot strip other citizens of the guarantees of equal protection under the law.” Friedman did not stay his ruling, and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a request for an emergency stay with a federal appeals court March 21 to prevent same-sex couples from getting marriage licenses immediately. Late March 22 the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati granted the stay until at least March 26. Before the appeals court acted, however, several hundred same-sex couples went to county clerks’ offices around Michigan to get married. With Friedman’s ruling, Michigan becomes the 18th state to allow same-sex marriage. In their statement, Michigan’s Catholic bishops said the judge’s decision “to redefine the institution of marriage by declaring Michigan’s Marriage Amendment unconstitutional strikes at the very essence of family, community and human nature.” “In effect, this decision advances a misunderstanding of marriage, and mistakenly proposes that marriage is an emotional arrangement that can simply be redefined to accommodate the dictates of culture and the wants of adults,” they said. “Judge Friedman’s ruling that also finds unconstitutional the state’s adoption law is equally of grave concern.” “Every child has the right to both a mother and a father and, indeed, every child does have lineage to both,” the bishops said. “We recognize not every child has the opportunity to grow in this environment, and we pray for those single mothers and fathers who labor each day to care for their children at times amid great challenges and difficulties. They deserve our constant support and encouragement.” The bishops declared, “Persons with same-sex attraction should not be judged, but rather accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.”

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CHARTER FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE To Promote Healing and Reconciliation with Victims/Survivors of Sexual Abuse of Minors ARTICLE 1. Dioceses/eparchies are to reach out to victims/survivors and their families and demonstrate a sincere commitment to their spiritual and emotional well-being. The first obligation of the Church with regard to the victims is for healing and reconciliation. Each diocese/eparchy is to continue its outreach to every person who has been the victim of sexual abuse as a minor by anyone in church service, whether the abuse was recent or occurred many years in the past. This outreach may include provision of counseling, spiritual assistance, support groups, and other social services agreed upon by the victim and the diocese/eparchy. Through pastoral outreach to victims and their families, the diocesan/eparchial bishop or his representative is to offer to meet with them, to listen with patience and compassion to their experiences and concerns, and to share the “profound sense of solidarity and concern” expressed by His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, in his Address to the Cardinals of the United States and Conference Officers (April 23, 2002). Pope Benedict XVI, too, in his address to the U.S. bishops in 2008 said of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, “It is your God-given responsibility as pastors to bind up the wounds caused by every breach of trust, to foster healing, to promote reconciliation and to reach out with loving concern to those so seriously wronged.” We bishops and eparchs commit ourselves to work as one with our brother priests and deacons to foster reconciliation among all people in our dioceses/eparchies. We especially commit ourselves to work with those individuals who were themselves abused and the communities that have suffered because of the sexual abuse of minors that occurred in their midst. ARTICLE 2. Dioceses/eparchies are to have policies and procedures in place to respond promptly to any allegation where there is reason to believe that sexual abuse of a minor has occurred. Dioceses/eparchies are to have a competent person or persons to coordinate assistance for the immediate pastoral care of persons who report having been sexually abused as minors by clergy or other church personnel. The procedures for those making a complaint are to be readily available in printed form in the principal languages in which the liturgy is celebrated in the diocese/eparchy and be the subject of public announcements at least annually. Dioceses/eparchies are also to have a review board that functions as a confidential consultative body to the bishop/eparch. The majority of its members are to be lay persons not in the employ of the diocese/eparchy (see Norm 5 in Essential Norms for Diocesan/Eparchial Policies Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests or Deacons, 2006). This board is to advise the diocesan/eparchial bishop in his assessment of allegations of sexual abuse of minors and in his determination of a cleric’s suitability for ministry. It is regularly to review diocesan/eparchial policies and procedures for dealing with sexual abuse of minors. Also, the board can review these matters both retrospectively and prospectively and give advice on all aspects of responses in connection with these cases. ARTICLE 3. Dioceses/eparchies are not to enter into settlements which bind the parties to confidentiality unless the victim/survivor requests confidentiality and this request is noted in the text of the agreement.

To Guarantee an Eﬀective Response to Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors ARTICLE 4. Dioceses/eparchies are to report an allegation of sexual abuse of a person who is a minor to the public authorities. Dioceses/eparchies are to comply with all applicable civil laws with respect to the reporting of allegations of sexual abuse of minors to civil authorities and cooperate in their investigation in accord with the law of the jurisdiction in question. Dioceses/eparchies are to cooperate with public authorities about reporting cases even when the person is no longer a minor. In every instance, dioceses/eparchies are to advise victims of their right to make a report to public authorities and support this right.

ARTICLE 5. We affirm the words of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, in his Address to the Cardinals of the United States and Conference Officers: “There is no place in the priesthood or religious life for those who would harm the young.” Sexual abuse of a minor by a cleric is a crime in the universal law of the Church (CIC, c. 1395 §2; CCEO, c. 1453 §1). Because of the seriousness of this matter, jurisdiction has been reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Motu proprio Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela, AAS 93, 2001). Sexual abuse of a minor is also a crime in all civil jurisdictions in the United States. Diocesan/eparchial policy is to provide that for even a single act of sexual abuse of a minor—whenever it occurred—which is admitted or established after an appropriate process in accord with canon law, the offending priest or deacon is to be permanently removed from ministry and, if warranted, dismissed from the clerical state. In keeping with the stated purpose of this Charter, an offending priest or deacon is to be offered therapeutic professional assistance both for the purpose of prevention and also for his own healing and well-being. The diocesan/eparchial bishop is to exercise his power of governance, within the parameters of the universal law of the Church, to ensure that any priest or deacon subject to his governance who has committed even one act of sexual abuse of a minor as described below shall not continue in ministry. A priest or deacon who is accused of sexual abuse of a minor is to be accorded the presumption of innocence during the investigation of the allegation and all appropriate steps are to be taken to protect his reputation. He is to be encouraged to retain the assistance of civil and canonical counsel. If the allegation is deemed not substantiated, every step possible is to be taken to restore his good name, should it have been harmed. In fulfilling this article, dioceses/eparchies are to follow the requirements of the universal law of the Church and of the Essential Norms approved for the United States. ARTICLE 6. There are to be clear and well publicized diocesan/eparchial standards of ministerial behavior and appropriate boundaries for clergy and for any other paid personnel and volunteers of the Church in positions of trust who have regular contact with children and young people. ARTICLE 7. Dioceses/eparchies are to be open and transparent in communicating with the public about sexual abuse of minors by clergy within the confines of respect for the privacy and the reputation of the individuals involved. This is especially so with regard to informing parish and other church communities directly affected by the sexual abuse of a minor. To Ensure the Accountability of Our Procedures. ARTICLE 8. By the authority of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse is renewed, and it is now constituted the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. It becomes a standing committee of the Conference. Its membership is to include representation from all the episcopal regions of the country, with new appointments staggered to maintain continuity in the effort to protect children and youth. The Committee is to advise the USCCB on all matters related to child and youth protection and is to oversee the development of the plans, programs, and budget of the Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection. It is to provide the USCCB with comprehensive planning and recommendations concerning child and youth protection by coordinating the efforts of the Secretariat and the National Review Board. ARTICLE 9. The Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, established by the Conference of Catholic Bishops, is to staff the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People and be a resource for dioceses/eparchies for the implementation of “safe environment” programs and for suggested training and development of diocesan personnel responsible for child and youth protection programs, taking into account the financial and other resources, as well as the population, area, and demographics of the diocese/eparchy.

The Secretariat is to produce an annual public report on the progress made in implementing and maintaining the standards in this Charter. The report is to be based on an annual audit process whose method, scope, and cost are to be approved by the Administrative Committee on the recommendation of the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. This public report is to include the names of those dioceses/eparchies which the audit shows are not in compliance with the provisions and expectations of the Charter. As a member of the Conference staff, the Executive Director of the Secretariat is appointed by and reports to the General Secretary. The Executive Director is to provide the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People and the National Review Board with regular reports of the Secretariat’s activities. ARTICLE 10. The whole church, especially the laity, at both the diocesan and national levels, needs to be engaged in maintaining safe environments in the Church for children and young people. The Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People is to be assisted by the National Review Board, a consultative body established in 2002 by the USCCB. The Board will review the annual report of the Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection on the implementation of this Charter in each diocese/eparchy and any recommendations that emerge from it, and offer its own assessment regarding its approval and publication to the Conference President. The Board will also advise the Conference President on future members. The Board members are appointed by the Conference President in consultation with the Administrative Committee and are accountable to him and to the USCCB Executive Committee. Before a candidate is contacted, the Conference President is to seek and obtain, in writing, the endorsement of the candidate’s diocesan bishop. The Board is to operate in accord with the statutes and bylaws of the USCCB and within procedural guidelines developed by the Board in consultation with the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People and approved by the USCCB Administrative Committee. These guidelines set forth such matters as the Board’s purpose and responsibility, officers, terms of office, and frequency of reports to the Conference President on its activities. The Board will offer its advice as it collaborates with the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People on matters of child and youth protection, specifically on policies and best practices. The Board and Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People will meet jointly several times a year. The Board will review the work of the Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection and make recommendations to the Director. It will assist the Director in the development of resources for dioceses. The Board will offer its assessment of the Causes and Context study to the Conference, along with any recommendations suggested by the study. ARTICLE 11. The President of the Conference is to inform the Holy See of this revised Charter to indicate the manner in which we, the Catholic bishops, together with the entire church in the United States, intend to continue our commitment to the protection of children and young people. The President is also to share with the Holy See the annual reports on the implementation of the Charter.

To Protect the Faithful in the Future

ARTICLE 12. Dioceses/eparchies are to maintain “safe environment” programs which the diocesan/eparchial bishop deems to be in accord with Catholic moral principles. They are to be conducted cooperatively with parents, civil authorities, educators, and community organizations to provide education and training for children, youth, parents, ministers, educators, volunteers, and others about ways to make and maintain a safe environment for children and young people. Dioceses/eparchies are to make clear to clergy and all members of the community the standards of conduct for clergy and other persons in positions of trust with regard to children.

ARTICLE 13. Dioceses/eparchies are to evaluate the background of all incardinated and non- incardinated priests and deacons who are engaged in ecclesiastical ministry in the diocese/eparchy and of all diocesan/eparchial and parish/ school or other paid personnel and volunteers whose duties include ongoing, unsupervised contact with minors. Specifically, they are to utilize the resources of law enforcement and other community agencies. In addition, they are to employ adequate screening and evaluative techniques in deciding the fitness of candidates for ordination (cf. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Program of Priestly Formation [Fifth Edition], 2006, no. 39). ARTICLE 14. Transfers of clergy who have committed an act of sexual abuse against a minor for residence, including retirement, shall be as in accord with Norm 12 of the Essential Norms. (Cf. Proposed Guidelines on the Transfer or Assignment of Clergy and Religious, adopted by the USCCB, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM), the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), and the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR) in 1993.) ARTICLE 15. To ensure continuing collaboration and mutuality of effort in the protection of children and young people on the part of the bishops and religious ordinaries, two representatives of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men are to serve as consultants to the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. At the invitation of the Major Superiors, the Committee will designate two of its members to consult with its counterpart at CMSM. Diocesan/eparchial bishops and major superiors of clerical institutes or their delegates are to meet periodically to coordinate their roles concerning the issue of allegations made against a cleric member of a religious institute ministering in a diocese/eparchy. ARTICLE 16. Given the extent of the problem of the sexual abuse of minors in our society, we are willing to cooperate with other churches and ecclesial communities, other religious bodies, institutions of learning, and other interested organizations in conducting research in this area. ARTICLE 17. We commit ourselves to work individually in our dioceses/ eparchies and together as a Conference, through the appropriate committees, to strengthen our programs both for initial priestly formation and for the ongoing formation of priests. With renewed urgency, we will promote programs of human formation for chastity and celibacy for both seminarians and priests based upon the criteria found in Pastores Dabo Vobis, the Program of Priestly Formation, the Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests, and the results of the Apostolic Visitation. We will continue to assist priests, deacons, and seminarians in living out their vocation in faithful and integral ways.

14 WORLD ENGLISH BISHOP: HARSH BLOGGING A ‘GRAVE MATTER’

MANCHESTER, England – An English bishop asked Catholics to use Lent as a time to repent of sins committed on social media. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth described the uncharitable use of blogs, Facebook and Twitter as a “grave matter.” Using social media for abuse or to attack the reputations of other people was a direct sin against the Eighth Commandment, forbidding people from “bearing false witness” against their neighbors, he said in a pastoral letter released March 19. “We must exercise discretion, respect others and their privacy and not engage in slander, gossip and rash judgment,” the bishop wrote in the document that was to be distributed in parishes the weekend of March 22-23. “We must avoid calumny, that is, slurring and damaging people, and not spread abroad their sins and failings,” he said. The bishop encouraged the faithful to ask themselves “How do I use Facebook or Twitter? Am I charitable when blogging? Do I revel in other people’s failings? “All this is grave matter,” he said. The bishop’s comments came a week after Bishop Michael Campbell of Lancaster asked a deacon in his diocese “to voluntarily pause from placing new posts” on his Protect the Pope blog. Bishop Campbell also asked Deacon Nick Donnelly “to enter into a period of prayer and reflection on the duties involved for ordained bloggers/ website administrators to truth, charity and unity in the church,” according to a statement released by the Lancaster diocese in early March. The blog often was controversial because it was critical of the actions of church leaders, accusing them of violating church teaching. Father Tim Finigan, a priest of London’s Southwark archdiocese and author of the Hermeneutic of Continuity blog, questioned in a March 16 post the “practical wisdom of attempting to censor the blogosphere.” He argued that censored bloggers would find new ways to express their thoughts.

THOUSANDS OF RARE VATICAN MANUSCRIPTS TO GO ONLINE

VATICAN CITY – Thousands of rare manuscripts until now accessible only to scholars at the Vatican will go online over the next four years, thanks to help from a Japanese information technology company. Officials of NTT DATA Corporation and the Vatican Library announced their joint project at a news conference March 20. The library, founded by Pope Nicholas V in the 15th century, preserves some 82,000 manuscripts dating back to the early centuries of Christianity. Among its treasures are an illustrated edition of the works of the Roman poet Virgil, produced around the year 400, and illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy by the 15th-century Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli. The library has been scanning its collection for several years with help from various nonprofit groups, and has already digitally archived 6,800 manuscripts, said Msgr. Cesare Pasini, the library’s prefect. But so far only some 300 documents are accessible on its website (vaticanlibrary.va). The library plans to offer a total of 15,000 manuscripts online, free of charge to all visitors, by 2018. Among the documents to be scanned are some from the library’s Asian holdings, which include an oath signed by Japanese Christians vowing to defend their missionaries to the death.

JOB CREATION ESSENTIAL FOR PROMOTING HUMAN DIGNITY, POPE SAYS

VATICAN CITY – In making economic policies and decisions, solidarity is too often treated as “a dirty word,” yet the only way out of the global financial crisis is to put people – with their dignity and creativity – first, Pope Francis said. Meeting March 20 with about 1,700 officials, employees, retirees and laid-off workers from a large steelworks in Terni, Italy, Pope Francis said each person will have to make some sacrifices in order to help the entire community. “If everyone does his part, if they all put the human person and human dignity – not money – at the center of their concern, if they can consolidate an attitude of solidarity and fraternal sharing inspired by the Gospel, then it will be possible to get out of the swamp of an economic and employment situation that has been hard and difficult,” the pope said.

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Pope to Mafiosi: Resist road to hell FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – Surrounded by survivors of innocent people killed by the Mafia, Pope Francis made an emotional appeal to Italian gangsters to give up their lives of crime and avoid eternal damnation. “Men and women of the Mafia, please change your lives, convert, stop doing evil,” the pope said at a prayer vigil March 21. “I ask on my knees and for your own good. “This life you have now, it will not give you pleasure, it will not give you joy, it will not give you happiness,” the pope said. “The power, the money you have now from so many dirty deals, from so many Mafia crimes, bloodstained money, bloodstained power – you will not be able to take that with you to the other life.” “There is still time not to end up in hell, which awaits you if you continue on this road,” Pope Francis said. “You had a papa and a mamma. Think of them, weep a little and convert.” Every year since 1996, the Italian anti-Mafia group Libera has observed March 21, the first full day of spring, in memory of innocent victims of organized crime. According to the group, the approximately 700 people gathered with Pope Francis in a Rome church this year represented the families of an estimated 15,000 such victims across Italy. In his greeting, Father Luigi Ciotti, founder of Libera, denounced the Mafia as the “assassin of hope” and recalled a range of its victims. The priest mentioned women caught up in human trafficking, people fallen ill owing to illegal disposal of toxic waste and even children, including Domenico Gabriele, an 11-year-old shot to death while playing soccer in 2009, and Nicola Campolongo, a 3-year old murdered in January, reportedly to avenge an unpaid drug debt. Father Ciotti thanked the pope for coming, saying, “We thought we had found a father, we have also found a brother.” The pope listened for about 45 minutes, head bowed

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People read names of Mafia victims at Rome’s Church of St. Gregory VII March 21 after a papal prayer service. and hands folded in prayer, as members of the congregation stepped up to the lectern and recited, in some cases with breaking voices, the names of people killed by the Mafia. “Let us pray together to ask the strength to move ahead,” the pope said, “to be not discouraged but to continue to struggle against corruption.”

Wisecracking J23 lived with keen sense of humor EMILY ANTENUCCI AND CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Blessed John XXIII, who will be made a saint April 27, is remembered by many for his warmth, simplicity, social conscience and sense of humor. Pope Francis, who will canonize “the Good Pope,” recalled his predecessor as being holy, patient and a man of courage, especially by calling the Second Vatican Council. “He was a man who let himself be guided by the Lord,” Pope Francis has said. But the Italian Pope John was also guided by his cheerful disposition, his simple, peasant background and tongue-in-cheek, wisecracking Italian culture. Here’s a look at some of this soon-to-be saint’s funny quips: 1. Visiting a hospital he asked a boy what he wanted to be when he grew up. The boy said either a policeman or a pope. “I would go in for the police if I were you,” the Holy Father said. “Anyone can become a pope, look at me!” 2. “It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about the serious problems afflicting the world and I tell myself, I must talk to the pope about it. Then the next day when I wake up I remember that I am the pope.” 3. In reply to a reporter who asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” he reportedly said: “About half of them.” 4. When a cardinal complained that a rise in Vatican salaries meant a particular usher earned as much as the cardinal, the pope remarked: “That usher has 10 children; I hope the cardinal doesn’t.” 5. When he went to visit a friend at the nearby Hospital of the Holy Spirit in the evening, the nun answering the door said: “Holy Father, I’m the mother superior of the Holy Spirit.” He replied: “Lucky you! What a job! I’m just the ‘servant of the servants of God.’” 6. Not long after he was elected pope, Blessed John was walking in the streets of Rome. A woman passed him and said to her friend, “My God, he’s so fat!” Overhearing what she said, he turned around and replied, “Madame, I trust you understand that the papal

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Blessed John XXIII, who will be made a saint April 27, is remembered by many for his warmth, simplicity, social conscience and sense of humor. He is pictured in his undated official portrait. conclave is not exactly a beauty contest.” 7. He once wrote: “There are three ways to face ruin: women, gambling and farming. My father chose the most boring one.” 8. When he was cardinal and patriarch of Venice, the future pope was talking with a wealthy city resident and told him, “You and I have one thing in common: money. You have a lot and I have nothing at all. The difference is I don’t care about it.” 9. When a journalist asked the then-patriarch of Venice what he would be if he could live his life all over again, the future pope said, “Journalist.” Then he said with a smile, “Now let us see if you have the courage to tell me that, if you could do it all over again, you’d be the patriarch!” 10. A Vatican official told the pope it would be “absolutely impossible” to open the Second Vatican Council by 1963. “Fine, we’ll open it in 1962,” he answered. And he did.

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Lent: The annual catechumenate

istorians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and the adult catechumenate (by Vatican II) as two of the signal accomplishments of the 20th-century liturgical movement. I wouldn’t contest that claim, but I’d add something else to the highlights reel: GEORGE WEIGEL the recovery of the baptismal character of Lent for every Catholic. Back in the day, Lent was about what you didn’t do: Eat candy, smoke, drink, whatever. And of course the three classic methods of keeping the 40 days – fasting, intensified prayer and almsgiving – retain their perennial significance. What I discovered three years ago, however, was that those practices come into clearer spiritual focus when they’re “located” within an understanding that Lent is the season when all of us – not just those who will be baptized or received into full communion with the church at Easter, but all of us – become all is plural, in a sense, catechumens. Shortly before I spent Lent and Easter

LETTERS We must look for strength outside ourselves

In the conclusion of Father Robert Barron’s article “What is our fundamental problem?” (March 14) he asked two questions: What is fundamentally the problem spiritually speaking? Why are so many of us so unhappy? Following these questions, he said there is no better guide to answer them than Chapter 3 of Genesis. Yes, the answers can be found in there. Reading it, we can conclude that it is human weakness, a very part of human nature that is the fundamental problem that leads to unhappiness. Adam and Eve succumbed to this weakness and sinned. Paul observes in himself this weakness when he said he cannot understand why what he wants to do, is what he hates to do (Romans 7:15). We therefore understand the cause of the fundamental problem. Now, how to face the cause, weakness, is the next question to consider. How? It is the will to overcome the weakness to succumb to the temptation that we need. But even the will we apply may not be capable of sustaining itself. What then can we do? We have to look for strength outside ourselves. It is in Jesus who said “apart from me you can do nothing.” And so, to strengthen our will, we have to seek the assistance of Jesus, the assistance of his grace, so that in the end with that strong sustaining will in us, we might reach happiness. Luis Magarro San Francisco

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The evangelical Catholicism of the 21st century and the third millennium demands more of Catholics than the culturally transmitted and culturally comfortable Catholicism in which many of us were raised. Week 2011 in Rome, preparing “Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches” (Basic Books), a friend suggested to me that the reformed liturgy of Lent fell into two broadly-defined periods. Digging into the liturgical texts of Lent on a daily basis in 2011, after attending Mass at the Roman station church of the day, persuaded me that he was quite right. The days immediately following Ash Wednesday and the first two weeks of Lent have a penitential character, as the biblical and patristic readings at Mass and in the Liturgy of the Hours ask each of us to undertake an extended examination of conscience: Am I being the witness to the kingdom and the evangelical missionary that I ought to be? What within me needs purifying if I’m to become a better friend of Jesus Christ and a true embodiment of his saving grace and mercy? With whom must I be reconciled? The tone shifts with the third Sunday in Lent, as the church begins three

weeks of reflection on the meaning of baptism and the liturgy asks all the baptized to consider how well we are living in imitation of Christ. The questions posed come from the three great catechetical Gospels read on the third, fourth, and fifth Sundays in Lent: Jesus and the woman at the well; Jesus curing the man born blind; Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. In the early church, the explanation of those Gospels completed the catechumens’ preparation for baptism. For those already baptized, as I wrote in “Roman Pilgrimage,” they prompt a searching reflection in preparation for our being blessed with Easter water, which is baptismal water: “How am I responding to Christ’s thirst for my friendship in prayer, in light of Jesus’s invitation to the Samaritan women, whom he asked for a drink of water? How are my eyes being opened to the demands of my mission, by the Christ who gave sight to the man born blind? Do I, like Martha,

truly believe that Jesus is the son of the living God, with power to raise me, like Lazarus from the bonds of sin and death?” Reflecting on those questions, the already-baptized experience a new catechumenate, a period of preparing to go up to Jerusalem with Jesus, who will meet his messianic destiny there – and who, in embracing that destiny in obedience to the Father, will be revealed as the risen Lord who makes all things new, including our brokenness. The evangelical Catholicism of the 21st century and the third millennium demands more of Catholics than the culturally transmitted and culturally comfortable Catholicism in which many of us were raised. Confronting a culture that rejects the biblical vision of the human person and human relationships – converting that culture – is not easy. But it can be a great adventure, when it’s lived in the confidence that what is revealed at Easter is true: Love is stronger than death. That is what Lent is for. The “annual catechumenate” of Lent prepares us to be missionary disciples who can display the divine mercy because we have known it in our lives. WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Groaning beyond words – our deeper way of praying

hen we no longer know how to pray, the Spirit, in groans too deep for words, prays through us. St. Paul wrote those words and they contain both a stunning revelation and a wonderful consolation, namely, there is deep prayer happening FATHER RON inside us ROLHEISER beyond our conscious awareness and independent of our deliberate efforts. What is this unconscious prayer? It is our deep innate desire, relentlessly on fire, forever somewhat frustrated, making itself felt through the groaning of our bodies and souls, silently begging the very energies of the universe, not least God himself, to let it come to consummation. Allow me an analogy: Some years ago, a friend of mine bought a house that had sat empty and abandoned for a number of years. The surface of the driveway was cracked and a bamboo plant, now several feet high, had grown up through the pavement. My friend cut down the bamboo tree, chopped down several feet into its roots to try to destroy them, poured a chemical poison into the root system in hopes of killing whatever was left, packed some gravel over the spot, and paved over the top with a thick layer of concrete. But the little tree was not so easily thwarted. Two years later, the pavement began to heave as the bamboo plant again began to assert itself. Its powerful life force was still blindly pushing outward and upward, cement blockage notwithstanding.

Life, all life, has powerful inner pressures and is not easily thwarted. It pushes relentlessly and blindly toward its own ends, irrespective of resistance. Sometimes resistance does kill it. There are, as the saying goes, storms we cannot weather. But we do weather most of what life throws at us and our deep life principle remains strong and robust, even as on the surface the frustrations we have experienced and the dreams in us that have been shamed slowly muzzle us into a mute despair so that our prayerlives begin to express less and less of what we are actually feeling. But it is through that very frustration that the Spirit prays, darkly, silently, in groans too deep for words. In our striving, our yearning, our broken dreams, our tears, in the daydreams we escape into, and even in our sexual desire, the Spirit of God prays through us, as does our soul, our life principle. Like the life forces innate in that bamboo plant, powerful forces are blindly working inside us too, pushing us outward and upward to eventually throw off whatever cement lies on top of us. This is true, of course, also of our joys. The Spirit also prays through our gratitude, both when we express consciously it and even when we only sense it unconsciously. Our deepest prayers are mostly not those we express in our churches and private oratories. Our deepest prayers are spoken in our silent gratitude and silent tears. The person praising God’s name ecstatically and the person bitterly cursing God’s name in anger are, in different ways, in radically different ways of groaning, both praying. There are many lessons to be drawn from this. First, from this we can learn to forgive life a little more for its frustrations and we can learn to give ourselves permission to be more patient with life and with ourselves. Who of us does not lament

that the pressures and frustrations of life keep us from fully enjoying life’s pleasures, from smelling the flowers, from being more present to family, from celebrating with friends, from peaceful solitude, and from deeper prayer? So we are forever making resolutions to slow down, to find a quiet space inside our pressured lives in which to pray. But, after failing over and over again, we eventually despair of finding a quiet, contemplative space for prayer in our lives. Although we need to continue to search for that, we can already live with the consolation that, deep down, our very frustration in not being able to find that quiet space is already a prayer. In the groans of our inadequacy the Spirit is already praying through our bodies and souls in a way deeper than words. One of the oldest, classical definitions of prayer defines it this way: Prayer is lifting mind and heart to God. Too often in our efforts to pray formally, both communally and privately, we fail to do that, namely, to actually lift our hearts and minds to God. Why? Because what is really in our hearts and minds, alongside our gratitude and more gracious thoughts, is not something we generally connect with prayer at all. Our frustrations, bitterness, jealousies, lusts, curses, sloth, and quiet despair are usually understood to be the very antithesis of prayer, something to be overcome in order to pray. But a deeper thing is happening under the surface: Our frustration, longing, lust, jealousy and escapist daydreams, things we are ashamed to take to prayer, are in fact already lifting our hearts and minds to God in more honest ways that we ever do consciously. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fourth Sunday of Lent They said to the blind man, ‘What do you have to say about him, since he opened your eyes?’ He said, ‘He is a prophet.’ JOHN 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 1 SAMUEL 16:1B, 6-7, 10-13A The Lord said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen my king from among his sons.” As Jesse and his sons came to the sacrifice, Samuel looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is here before him.” But the Lord said to Samuel: “Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.” In the same way Jesse presented seven sons before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen any one of these.” Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” Jesse replied, “There is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep.” Samuel said to Jesse, “Send for him; we will not begin the sacrificial banquet until he arrives here.” Jesse sent and had the young man brought to them. He was ruddy, a youth handsome to behold and making a splendid appearance. The Lord said, “There – anoint him, for this is the one!” Then Samuel, with the horn of oil in hand, anointed David in the presence of his brothers; and from that day on, the spirit of the Lord rushed upon David. PSALM 23:1-3A, 3B-4, 5, 6 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. EPHESIANS 5:8-14 Brothers and sisters: You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth. Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore, it says: “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

JOHN 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38 As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” which means Sent. So he went and washed, and came back able to see. His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is, “but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” He said, “I am.” They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees. Now Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on a sabbath. So then the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.” So some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them. So they said to the blind man again, “What do you have to say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” They answered and said to him, “You were born totally in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out. When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered and said, “Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.” He said, “I do believe, Lord,” and he worshipped him.

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he story of the blind man recovering his sight is a lawyer’s paradise. This Gospel appears to be a courtroom drama featuring a defendant tried in absentia (Jesus); the defendant who is brought to trial (the healed man); the accusation (the healed man lied, blasphemed, and conspired with a sinner to commit a criminal act, is faking his healing and defying religious law); the panel of judges (Pharisees); the zealous district attorneys bringing accusations against the defendants (skeptical Judean leaders); the un-subpoenaed witnesses (man’s neighbors); and the subpoenaed witnesses who try to avoid the accusation laid on their son (blind man’s parents). But of course, the focus SISTER ELOISE of interrogation is not ROSENBLATT, RSM thethe trial process. It’s about a healing that symbolizes one’s coming to faith – and the social consequences – for following Jesus because your eyes have been opened. The choice to name Jesus as one’s healer can divide the community. The person who

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POPE FRANCIS HUMILITY, PRAYER NEEDED TO HEAR WORD OF GOD

All who desire to hear God’s word must first be humble and then capable of prayer, the pope said March 21 during Mass at his Vatican City residence. Otherwise, people take possession of God’s word and turn it to their own uses, he said. “The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit,” he said in his homily based on a parable of Jesus in Matthew.

answers, “Here is how my eyes were opened,” creates confusion. Following Jesus challenges other people’s expectations and biases. What is true? What is truth? This is a basic question for lawyers, judges, defendants, accusers and witnesses alike. The purpose of a court hearing is to establish what facts are true, who are the persons who have done particular actions, and what in fact happened? What witnesses saw and heard underlines defendants’ guilt, or argues for their innocence. If there is a crime committed, how should the perpetrator be punished? If there is damage to anyone, who is responsible for paying compensation for the harm? These courtroom dynamics give structure and narrative energy to John’s account. But this passage is not really about a crime. It’s about the experience of coming to recognize Jesus as “the one who healed me.” John’s question is, “What is the foundation for your belief in Jesus?” Answer: Speaking the truth about your own experience. The truth is not complicated. “He made clay, anointed my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’” It’s the untruth that gets expressed in a host of deviations from a person’s experience and their simple report of what happened. Untruth is an illogical, false picture of God as punisher: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (How could a man be guilty of sin before he was born, and

thus born blind as punishment?). Untruth is denying what someone says about herself as reliable or trustworthy. Untruth is diverting the issue of someone’s simple human experience to an ad hominem attack or a debate about a legal issue (“This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.”) Untruth is an attempt to bully and threaten witnesses so a mother will be too afraid to speak the truth, even when she has personal knowledge about her child (“Is this your son, who you say was born blind?”). Faith in Jesus is not first a recitation of the Nicene Creed. Faith starts with giving an answer to the question, “How were your eyes opened?” True faith is a communication to others about what happened to you individually. We describe, each of us personally, what it was we saw after our eyes were opened. What hadn’t we seen before? What was the mysterious, but simple procedure we followed to move from not seeing to seeing? For the man once blind, he stumbles upon Jesus who affirms faith as a reunion, “You have seen him, the one speaking to you is he.” The personal recognition of Jesus as healer begins by answering the question, “How were your eyes opened?” MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and an attorney in private practice in areas of family law and wills and trusts. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 31: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent. IS 65:17-21. PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b. JN 4:43-54.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent. EX 32:7-14. PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23. JN 5:31-47.

TUESDAY, APRIL 1: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. EZ 47:1-9, 12. PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. JN 5:1-16.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4: Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Isidore, bishop and doctor. WIS 2:1a, 12-22. PS 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23. JN 7:1-2, 10, 25-30.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Francis of Paola, hermit. IS 49:8-15. PS 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 1718. JN 5:17-30.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5: Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Vincent Ferrer, priest. JER 11:18-20. PS 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12. PS 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12. JN 7:40-53.

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PERSECUTION: ‘Global pandemic’ FROM PAGE 1

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Julie DeVoto, right, of Kentfield, and her father Terry, left, listen to St. Sebastian pastor Father Mark Taheny sing Irish songs at the Handicapables luncheon March 22 at Marin Catholic High School.

INTO THE LIGHT: Handicapables Mass FROM PAGE 1

that disabled people can go “unseen” and suffer from social isolation. Handicapables has been one remedy. “I wanted to bring the handicapped out of the shadows and into the light,” said Calligiuri, who sat in the front row of the Mass celebrated by Father Mark Taheny, pastor of nearby St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae. “I prayed to God to help me overcome some of my disabilities so that I could help people like myself.” With the support of the archdiocese and a network of volunteers, Handicapables began to bring the disabled out of group homes, nursing homes and other care facilities to Masses, lunch and entertainment in San Francisco. Handicapables Masses are now held monthly throughout Northern California. During the prayers of the faithful, Calliguri prayed aloud for the needs of the disabled and those who try to meet them. Among them is Terry DeVoto, who held hands and traded smiles with his 31-year old daughter Julie, who sat next to him in a wheelchair. DeVoto also has a disabled older son, Tommy. Terry DeVoto is the brother of Randy DeVoto, the Marin Handicapables charity coordinator for the local Order of Malta chapter. DeVoto orchestrated the day’s activities with his wife Marlene, and Ann and Matthew McGrath, all parishioners at St. Anselm parish and local members of the Order of Malta.

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Randy DeVoto, Order of Malta charity coordinator for Marin Handicapables, gives a hug to Handicapables founder Nadine Calliguri. “Activities for the handicapped are really important,” said Terry DeVoto at the luncheon that followed Mass in the school cafeteria, the highlights of which were the meal prepared by volunteer Tom Lippe, a teacher at Marin Catholic, and a trio of rollicking Irish tunes sung by Father Taheny. When Cynthia Adam, a young woman with Down syndrome, was asked if she enjoyed Mass in the chapel she nodded but then pointed toward heaven with a somber look. “My dad is up there,” she said. Her mood quickly passed when a plate of cupcakes was set down in front of her by a smiling young Cub Scout, one of three who volunteered to serve food at the luncheon. “We don’t know why some people are born with disabilities and some are not,” said Marlene DeVoto. “But we are all children of God and we need to help one another.”

“Christians are not the only ones suffering persecution,” Allen said, but while “Christians have no monopoly on persecution, the statistics show that Christians are more likely to be victims of persecution.” The most numerous victims of Muslims are Muslims, Allen said, noting there is persecution among linguistic, ethnic and cultural minorities toward each other. He spoke to a group of about 200 people at the March 18 lecture in Oakland. While Islamic radicalization is a real and present danger to minority groups, including Christians, Allen said, most media ignore the real story. “Christians uniquely have a hard time of getting their story told,” Allen said. Westerners are wealthy, compared to the rest of the world, and think of Christian persecution in a historical context, as in the medieval Crusades or Salem witch trials. “In the U.S., the threat to religious freedom is you might get sued,” he said. “In other parts of the world, you get shot.” “We don’t grow up facing such threats,” Allen said, and because Christianity is identified with the West, people in other countries find it easy to take out their frustrations on Christians. “Christians are the most persecuted group on the planet,” Allen said. In 139 nations, he said, there is some form of legal persecution of Christians. In 1950, Mideast Christians were 20 percent of the population; that’s dropped to 5 percent today, Allen said, citing five recent examples of Christian persecution and martyrdom in China, Nigeria, Ukraine, Sri Lanka and Syria. Persecution comes from many sources: in India from Hindus, from Buddhists in Sri Lanka, from drug dealers in Colombia and from the government in China. In Syria, the entire Christian community is at risk of extinction, he said. Before the civil war began four years ago, there were 2.1 million Christians, 7 percent of the population. Today it has diminished to 1 million. “Acts of anti-clerical persecution have become common,” in many countries, Allen said. “Colombia is the most dangerous place to be a Catholic priest in last 20 years.” Persecuted Christians “have a profound sense of being abandoned,” Allen said, “Don’t forget about them.” Support organizations providing relief to Christians and as Americans, he said, insist policymakers take the needs of Christians into account in its foreign aid and policy. PACCIORINI is editor of The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Oakland diocese.

SURVIVOR: Church needs ‘strong worldwide child protection policy’ FROM PAGE 1

than a criminal offense also have to be tackled,” she told CNS. The Dubliner is seeking greater transparency because “the secrecy of the past led to enormous failures.” The initial eight members of the commission will be free to decide what issues they are going to deal with, how they are going to work and who else will join the commission, Collins told CNS. Though it is in its early stages, she said her understanding is that the commission will make its recommendations directly to Pope Francis and will not communicate through any Vatican departments. Asked who else she would like to see on the new commission, she told CNS she would like to see Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin because he “is the template for how child protection should be handled at ground level,” and also Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who really “got it” when it came to addressing clerical sexual abuse. Collins told CNS that she met another commission member, Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, in 2011 as he led the Vatican investigation of the

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Irish abuse victim Marie Collins, left, who was assaulted as a 13-year-old by a hospital chaplain in her native Ireland, attends a 2012 vigil in Rome. Archdiocese of Dublin and was “very impressed with his openness and his ability to listen.” She also worked with another member of the commission, Baroness Sheila Hollins, during the Toward Healing Symposium at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2012. “I feel we worked very well together. She is very devoted to the cause of the vulnerable adult and has great expertise in this field. I am looking forward to working with Cardinal Sean and Baroness Hollins.”

However, Collins said she was “disappointed” listening to Pope Francis’ recent comments when he said no one has done more on the issue of child sexual abuse than the church, and yet the church is the only one to be attacked. “He seemed to miss the point that the huge anger directed at the Catholic Church has not been caused by the fact it had abusers in its ranks but by the unique situation whereby those in authority were willing to protect these men. This has been shown in inquiry after inquiry around the world,” she told CNS. She said it was up to the new Vatican commission to change the pope’s mind on this. Asked what it means to have a survivor on the commission, Collins said in the past there had been a fear of survivors and “an inability to handle their justified anger.” At other times, survivors were seen as people who could be placated by words of apology but this “underestimated the damage done to lives and the hurt and anger and thirst for justice that so many survivors feel.” “In this context it is a big step for the church to include a survivor on the commission, but a very necessary one,” she commented.

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Around the archdiocese ST. ROBERT SCHOOL, SAN BRUNO: The student choir, under the direction of Aura Jose, had the honor of singing the National Anthem at the Stanford Cardinal vs. Utah Utes basketball game March 8 at Maples Pavilion. “What a wonderful memory for everyone,” said St. Robert principal Margo Wright.

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Shanghai Bishop Fan was ‘a prisoner for Christ,’ says parishioner Bishop Fan, born Jan. 13, 1918, converted to Catholicism in 1932. He was ordained a priest in 1951. Released in 1978 after 23 years in prison and labor camp, Bishop Fan was consecrated a bishop in 1985. “He was never free,” Chien said, recounting that Bishop Fan was arrested many times, always under government surveillance, his house searched, and money given to him for support of the underground Catholic Church confiscated. When he died, Chien said, Bishop Fan had been “a prisoner for Christ the past 60 years.

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Shanghai ’s Vatican-approved bishop, Joseph Fan Zhong Liang, SJ, died at age 96 on March 16 – a Jesuit and convert to Catholicism who resisted Communism and affirmed his Catholic faith during more than 20 years of prison and labor camp, followed by decades of surveillance, arrests and harassment. “He was never free,” said St. Cecilia parishioner Mary Bernadette Chien, who knew Bishop Fan from before 1955. Both were among the thousands arrested on Sept. 8, 1955, by the Communists in a sweep that netted thousands of lay Catholics, priests, seminarians and nuns. “He was loyal to Christ, his church, to the end,” Chien said. Bishop Fan refused to affiliate with the government controlled Catholic church, the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. “Fan’s passing marks the end of the generation of Chinese bishops in Shanghai who lived through China’s transition to a Communist country,” Anthony E. Clark, author of “China’s Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing, 1644-1911,” and an assistant professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University, wrote on IgnatiusInsight.com. Asia News reported that70 priests, of both the open and the underground Catholic Church, concelebrated the funeral Mass at a funeral parlor, and about 5,000 Catholics attended the Mass. The priests wore red stoles for martyrdom, priests told Asia News. Bishop Fan could not be buried in the cathedral, Asia News reported because the government never acknowledged him as bishop but friends bought a plot in a cemetery where his cremated remains were to be buried. Longtime San Franciscan Chien herself was imprisoned for her Catholic faith in 1955, spending a year and nine months in prison in Shanghai before being allowed to leave for Hong Kong and eventually the United States, she said, calling imprisonment a time of “great joy” because she knew she was suffering for her faith.

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Preschool Director Star of the Sea Preschool, located in the Richmond District of San Francisco, is a Catholic multi-age pre-primary program inspired by the principals and methodology of Maria Montessori. Our Preschool currently has an opening for a Director, a practicing Catholic, preferably with Montessori teaching and administrative experience. This year round, full time position will start July 1, 2014. We seek an individual who will manage the Preschool program’s State of California licensing requirements, guide the Montessori curriculum and teaching staff, as well as bring talents and interests that coordinate well with the Elementary and Parish communities. The Preschool program operates on a ten-month calendar with a four to six week optional summer program and is open daily from 8am to 6pm. We offer a competitive salary and full benefits through the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Please send resume and statement of qualifications to:

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

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 LUNCHEON: Mission Dolores Academy Benefit Luncheon, 11:30 a.m., Julia Morgan Ballroom, San Francisco; tickets start at $200. Sponsor packages are also available. Slanted Door chef and owner Charles Phan teams up with other top San Francisco chefs for the event. (415) 638-6212; development@mdasf.org. DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4 FASHION PREVIEW: Discarded to

sories and home decor that will be auctioned to benefit the SVDP-SF’s Wellness Center. www.discardedtodivine.org. Margi English, menglish@ svdp-sf.org; (415) 977-1270.

LENT OPPORTUNITIES SUNDAY, MARCH 30 TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County. CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109; (415) 614-5643; janschachern@aol.com. SF 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia, San Francisco, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily through Palm Sunday. Ron, (415) 668-9800; (360) 4609194; konopaski@yahoo.com. Visit www.40daysforlife.com/ sanfrancisco for vigil calendar and register to reserve times to pray at the vigil site. SAN MATEO 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo 7 a.m.-7 p.m. daily through Palm Sunday. Contact Jessica at (650)

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from retired Spokane Bishop William Skylstad, “A Reflection on Stewardship of the Earth in Light of Pope Francis and Church Teaching.” (415) 456-4815.

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CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Capuchin Father Brian McKenna, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060;, www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn, “Vatican Council II: Collegiality and Structures of Communion.” (415) 456-4815.

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ANNIVERSARY MASS: St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception School celebrates 120 years since Archbishop Riordan founded St. Anthony Church and School and placed their administration in the hands of Franciscan priests and Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose with Mass at 9 a.m. followed by a hearty brunch, tours of the school and visits with alumni. There is no charge for the event. Constance Dalton, (415) 642-6130; dalton_constance@yahoo.com; www. saicsf.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a dropin support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 12 ICA REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy alumnae reunion, 11 a.m. social with lunch at noon, $50, Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. Patricia Cavagnaro, pcavagnaro@icacademy. org. CRUSADER COUNTRY: Archbishop Riordan High School’s annual event to support the school’s tuition assistance programs. Western attire or country casual encouraged. Tickets start at $150 per person, and event sponsorships are available. Reservations requested by April 1. www. riordanhs.org; (415)586-8200, ext. 217. BOCCE BALL: Bocce tournament and silent auction benefiting God Squad Productions and the Catholic TV Mass, Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B St., San Rafael. Gates open 8:30 a.m. for breakfast and practice. For entrance fees and details, contact Jan Schachern, janschachern@gmail.com; (415) 244-0771.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 6

SATURDAY, APRIL 12

OPUS DEI MASS: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy will be principal celebrant and homilist of a Mass remembering Venerable Alvaro del Portillo who succeeded Opus Dei founder St. Josemaria Escriva as leader of the group Bishop McElroy and will be beatified Sept. 27 in Madrid. Liturgy is at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. A reception follows.

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

CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO: Loaves & Fishes Gala. Catholic Charities CYO honors Cecilia Herbert, Rita Semel and Maureen O’Brien Sullivan with the 2014 Loaves & Fishes Cecilia Herbert Award for Faith in Action at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco. Noted song stylist Andrea Marcovicci will entertain. www.cccyo.org/loavesandfishes.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. April 23: Retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn. Sister Norberta, (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca. edu.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25 MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi) has helped tens of thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. This program can help you too. For confidential information about or to register for September program beginning with weekend April 25-27. (415) 893-1005; SF@RetroCA.com; www. HelpOurMarriage.com.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26 REUNION: Alumnae of Notre Dame de Namur High School, San Francisco’s 111th Mass and beginning with 10:30 a.m. Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. Honorees are graduates from 1964, 1939, 1944,

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BOCCE BALL: St. Veronica Parish tournament, no experience necessary, Orange Memorial Park bocce ball courts, One W. Orange Avenue, South San Francisco, check in 8 a.m., games start 9 a.m., limited to first 64 players, $30 entry includes coffee and donuts, lunch. Mike Dimech, (650) 922-2667; Mdimech7@gmail.com; www.stveronicassf.com. HANDICAPABLES MASS: Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Father Kirk Ullery is principal celebrant and homilist. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

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BRIDGE PARTY: Join bridge players from all parishes on the Peninsula for a fun bridge tournament and luncheon with all proceeds benefiting St. Francis Center, Redwood City. Six rotating rounds will be played with prizes for the top three highest scoring pairs awarded after lunch, St. Bartholomew Parish Hall, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, 9:30 a.m. check-in, 10 a.m. game time. $50 per person includes lunch. Register by April 14. Lynda, (650) 592-7714; lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS, COLMA Douglas Aberle Grace Ambrose Vivian Clare Andrews Blanca P. Arias Ann M. Armato Catherine Arruda Leoncia Atangan Rodney Auzenne Carmen C. Balcita Cesarina Bana Joyce R. Barden Franklin G. Bell Isabel J. Bennett Isabel Bonilla John Henry Bower, Sr. Rita C. Champlin Nelly R. Chavez Henry Colombat Kathleen M. Corcoran Agnes C. Creed Ernesto N. Cruz Josefina R. Datangel Theresa N. Delander Lydia D. DelRosario Agnes “Kelly” deVera Lucille Doggett Camilo M. Domingo Betty M. Donohoe Barbara T. Driver Audrey C. Edwards Duck Elia John Simone Franco

Elvera L. Fusco T. Kim Gaier Thomas P. Galli Francisca R. Gerardo Joseph Gordon Alfredo A. Gumban Larry G. Gumms Jack Haber Isagani C. Halili Rosemary Halloran Richard D. Hanel, D.V.M Alice S. Hansen Maria Celia Hernandez Marie A. Horton Eligio G. Iniguez Marianne Irving Ernest G. Jaboneta Stuart Michael Jakabcin Ruben P. Joaquin Atsuko Jurenes Natividad V. Kimpo Mykola Kis Joseph Anthony Kochly Norma G. Lasian Lily M. Navarro aka Lily M. Baxter Benjamin C. Lising, Sr. Robert J. Lustenberger Celedonio A. Mangoba Francis J. Masler Margo S. McCabe John J. McDonagh Richard Keane McKenna Hector R. Morales Natividad Araullo Morelos John F. Muao Virginia E. Murphy

James N. Nuernberg Marie Silvestri Paletta Norma Parenti Josephine J. Patterson Anselma L. Perez Rita Marie Phipps Stefan Pietraszek Casey J. Pino Beverly Putnam Rolf R. Qvist, Jr. Carolyn M. Ranken Ann M. Ratti David W. Ratto Stephen Otto Reichmuth Teresa Reilly Marie S. (Acri) Rinaldi Sr. Mary Jude Ristey, PVBM Blanca H. Rodriguez Linnet Trefts Rogers Martha J. Rojas Christina Sanchez Rosalia Briones Santiago Ernesto “Ernie” Sebastian Leonora Marie Segali Shirley Ann Shine George William Siegel Nadia Sorokowski, M.D. Norma Strack Gilbert Charles Sylvia Artemio D. Tanjuaquio Antonio R. Trejo Joseph Visneski Dorothy J. Wallace Joan Wicksten Anna Maria Zabala Mabel Zamacona

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Adele Barrow Francisco Chacon Jeannette Trottier Hawkins Ida “Toni” Krutt O. William (Bill) Leidel Joan Hope Leonardi Margaret Mary Ryan Michael J. Sanchez Marie Slattery

HOLY CROSS, MENLO PARK Ursula Leonardi Barbara M. Mason Salwa J. Nawas Mele M. Vaipulu

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A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.