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Pope names Bishop McElroy to head San Diego diocese VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Pope Francis has appointed San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, 61, to head the Diocese of San Diego, filling a see left unexpectedly vacant with the death of its ordinary in September.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone congratulated his auxiliary on the appointment as the sixth bishop of San Diego, which was announced in Washington by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the Bishop McElroy United States.

“San Diego’s unique position as a major metropolis separated by an international border from another major metropolis, Tijuana, presents distinctive challenges and opportunities,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “Bishop McElroy’s proven track record of outreach to the poor and marginalized, along with his ability to understand and articulate the complexities involved, will serve him well in responding to Catholics of the Diocese SEE BISHOP MCELROY, PAGE 5

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Enrolling in the Book of the Elect A catechumen from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo signs the parish’s Book of the Elect Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at the annual Rite of Election, held the first Sunday in Lent. Some 400 catechumens from parishes throughout the archdiocese gathered with their sponsors, other parish supporters and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone to proclaim their desire to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil. Story and more photos on Page 14.

Rice Bowl beneficiary: Hunger is world’s ‘greatest evil’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Ghana-born orphan Thomas Awaipo wasn’t looking for an education when he got up each morning and walked five miles to school in the African heat; he was looking for something to eat.

The Global Solidarity Program Coordinator for Catholic Relief Services told Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students at a social justice assembly on March 2 that he and his three brothers were on their own after losing both parents when he was about 10 (he said like many in his village, he does not actually know the date or even the year he was born).

Hunger and thirst drove them to walk for miles in search of water which they “competed with the animals for,” despite the fact it carried waterborne diseases. Two brothers died, one in his arms.

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Thomas Awaipo, Global Solidarity Program Coordinator for Catholic Relief Services, shows off the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory hat and sweatshirt he received as a gift from the school.

is, it is a child going to bed hungry,” Awaipo said to the all-school crowed gathered in the school auditorium for “Act to End World Hunger.”

The social justice assembly was planned by the school’s Community Life Team with students organizing the format, introduction and comments.

Sometimes students recommend speakers, which in the past have included Sister Helen Prejean (author of “Dead Man Walking”) and Father Greg Boyle (author of “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion”).

According to Catholic Relief Services, hunger causes the death of about 5 million children each year, more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

Students Gino Gresh and Mairead Ahlbach opened the assembly invoking Pope Francis and St. Vincent de Paul, one of the school’s spiritual founders.

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Project seeks life stories of 50s-era San Francisco Irish CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Irish-American Crossroads, a cultural nonprofit that aims to share the Irish experience in the Americas, wants to bring the contributions of Irish San Franciscans to life with a project called the Irish Oral History Father Michael Archive.

Healy “Part of what we are driven by is to record the Irish experience and cherish our history for future generations,” Irish Crossroads coproducer Margaret McPeake told Catholic San Francisco.“The story of the Irish community in this region has not been well recorded or well written about.”

The archive is seeking men and women from the 1950s generation of Irish immigrants to San Francisco, said McPeake. Her team of interviewers is talking to people born in Ireland in the earliest part of the 20th century who came to the Bay Area between 1948 and 1963.

McPeake says interview subjects who volunteer to become part of the archive talk about why they came to San Francisco, what community they lived in, what kind of work they did and what traditions, values and practices they maintained.

“We are also committed to capturing the stories of the descendants of Irish immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area, including men and women who are second, third, fourth, and fifth generations removed from the immigrant experience,” she said.

Samples of the archive’s interviews can be viewed at irishamericancrossroads.org. Included is Father Michael Healy, pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo.

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Left, Monica Hardeman, founder of the Equine Rescue Center, is pictured with Chippy, a retired racehorse adopted by students at St. Matthew School. Center, students are pictured with another rescue horse during a fundraiser for the center. Right, members of the school’s Baking Club raised enough money to purchase and deliver 500 pounds of carrots for the center’s horses.

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Chippy the retired racehorse spent the last of his 30 years cherished by students at St. Matthew School in San Mateo.

The junior high students in the school’s “Saints at Your Service” community service program spent $140 raised in a bake sale last fall to sponsor his care at the Central California horse sanctuary where he and other aging or neglected horses have found a home.

They raised another $300 to buy the large brown quarter horse with the white muzzle a raincoat and blanket with his name on it, and they each added their own.

Though Chippy reached the end of his long life in December, “his story still lives in the hearts of our students,” Mary Doherty, St. Matthew’s junior high religion teacher told Catholic San Francisco on Feb. 24.

“I found out during Christmas break that Chip passed away,” said seventh-grader Ella Catalano-Dockins, who told her class the sad news.

“He was wearing our raincoat.”

Doherty said she revamped and renamed the school’s community service program to help students “own” their service to the community by identifying their own passions

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and using their individual gifts for the greater good.

“In the past year I have seen remarkable results, when students pursue projects they choose themselves,” she said.

“Saints at Your Service” is made up of more than a half-dozen student-chosen service “clubs” including the Project Gabriel Club, which helps women facing an unplanned pregnancy, the Baking Club, which sells baked goods to fund the school’s other clubs, the Music Club which performs concerts at senior centers and the Shelter Pets Friends Club, which helps bring comfort to shelter dogs and cats.

Doherty said the popular Equine Rescue Club was formed after school parent Michelle Trumpler asked if the “Saints” could volunteer at a fundraiser in Woodside for the Equine Rescue Center and Sanctuary.

Trumpler’s friend, Monica Hardeman, founded the Equine Rescue Center to save “throwaway horses” – often former racehorses whose careers ended due to age or injury and ceased to be profitable for their owners – from neglect or black market slaughter.

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According to Doherty, there were a lot of St. Matthew students who felt passionate about horses. They supported the sanctuary’s fundraiser on Oct. 6 by preparing and serving dinner to the guests and caring for the rescue horses in the stables at the event site. Over $20,000 was raised.

Eighth-grader Taylor Brennan cared for four rescue horses at the fundraiser, including a mother and a new foal. The mother had been up for auction for slaughter when Hardeman rescued her. Within a few weeks, the mother horse gave a surprise birth to a little colt.

“Nobody knew that Monica was saving two lives,” said Brennan.

“After hearing the stories of the rescue efforts of the mistreated horses in class, I talked about the sanctuary with my family,” said seventh-grader Josh Dehoff. His father, who owns Dehoff’s Key Market, immediately donated a large crate of carrots.

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Couple provides much-needed ‘continuing education’ for marriages RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Saying “I do” at the altar was the last word on the sacrament of marriage for Greg and Julie Alexander – until painful, humbling experience taught them the real meaning of sacrificial love in a marital union.

The San Antonio, Texas, couple went on not only to resurrect their nearly failed marriage but also to create a resource for other couples to help them avoid the predictable mistakes that flow from a common spiritual blind spot – not to realize that a marriage of integrity models the sacrificial love of Christ on the cross.

The Alexanders see themselves as instructors in the prayerful and practical aspects of marriage. Providing what they call marital “continuing education,” they help fill what they say is a widespread need for ongoing marital formation. It was on the brink of divorce 16 years ago, investigating a possible annulment, when they realized that parishes typically do not follow up with couples or offer any organized support after vows are taken.

Rather than dissolve their marriage, they rose to the challenge put to them by their archdiocesan tribunal vicar. “What is God’s plan for marriage?” the priest asked.

Leaving behind the materialism that had governed their relationship and almost wrecked it, they turned to Scripture and to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Alexanders learned that the church has all the answers, but the problem was “we hadn’t heard it,” Julie said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco last week.

Co-founders and co-directors of Alexander House Apostolate, the parents of seven children are on a mission to proclaim the answers they found. They take to the road four to five times a year to meet with other couples – “to wake them up,” as Greg says – and to promote ongoing marriage formation in parishes.

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Greg and Julie Alexander are pictured in San Francisco Feb. 26 with their 4-year-old son Justin.

Traveling by RV, they are touring the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Rosa and San Jose dioceses this month, offering parish talks and workshops in what they call their “Covenant of Love Marriage Challenge” program.

The tour includes talks and workshops at St. Raphael Parish, March 19; St. Cecilia, March 23; Good Shepherd, March 24; St. Anne, March 25; St. Gabriel, March 26; and St. Hilary, March 27. All events are from 7-9 p.m.

The couple also will provide “Marriage on Fire” retreats at St. Joan of Arc Parish in San Ramon, March 14 from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., and Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, March 21 from 3-9. For more information, visit marriage-onfire.com.

“We give couples a practical way of learning how to pray together,” said Julie, holding the couple’s 4-yearold son Justin in her lap. “Second, we help them understand God has a purpose, a plan.”

The program covers chastity, forgiveness and healing, communication and how partners can serve one

another – “to assist each other in growing in holiness,” as Greg put it.

“One of the problems we find with couples is they’re unaware God even has a plan for marriage,” Greg said. “God’s ultimate plan is to experience his love through each other here on earth.”

The sacrament of matrimony, Greg said, “is the visible sign of an invisible reality.”

Not knowing this truth put the Alexanders’ marriage on shaky ground.

“Ignorance is not bliss, and that ignorance had caused so much hurt and pain even to the point of rejecting God’s plan,” Julie said.

Julie said the couple cohabitated before marriage.

That turned out to be a consequential choice “that blocked us from getting to know the true person,” she said.

She added, “We didn’t have a relationship with God and we made each other our gods.”

“God desires to be a part of our marriage, and when we don’t do it, it’s a living hell,” Julie said.

The high divorce rate and the aversion to marriage among young people have their roots in such examples, the Alexanders said.

“We have not modeled it well,” Julie said.

Greg drew an analogy to basketball star Lebron James. “If we gave off the same impression of the awareness of our marriages, kids would emulate that,” he said.

He said that marital trouble such as he and his wife experienced “is God’s simple of way of allowing us to understand we got off track.”

Grace enters marriage when couples emulate Christ’s “dying to the self for the sake of the beloved,” Greg said. This leads to the emotional fulfillment that couples chase but never seem to grasp when their relationships are not based on sacrificial love.

“Enjoy your marriage,” Greg said “We can only do that by living the fullness of what God intended us to be.”

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Teacher’s love for kindergarten started in kindergarten TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Of all of her 16-plus years of schooling, Janel Worley says “Kindergarten was my favorite year!” Thus began our email interview about Janel’s 36 years as educator and kindergarten teacher at St. Matthew School, San Mateo, time over which she has taught some 2,500 students.

“Kindergarteners love to learn!”

Janel said about the kids she spends her days with. “They are Janel Worley totally open and they view new concepts and the world without prejudice. They forgive from the heart, they fall over each other to help someone new, and they tell me I am beautiful!”

Janel calls St. Matthew’s “a community that works together for the formation of its children” and said the “St. Matthew clergy, administration, faculty, and staff make me know that I am never alone in what I seek to do each day.”

Her best compliments? “I am deeply touched when my former students whose own children are now in my class say it gives them peace and confidence to know I am teaching their babies,” Janel said.

The school day has its own rewards she said. “I get to pray for goldfish, and on my birthday, my students guess that I am turning 23! Witnessing a child learning to read is about as good as it gets!”

When I was in kindergarten we got to nap from all the hard work of finger painting and such but no snoozin’ for Janel’s students.

“There is way too much to learn, see and do,” she said. “They read, write, create, pray, solve math problems, decompose numbers, and share presentations across the curriculum.”

Do we learn everything we need to know in kindergarten? “Of course we do,” Janel says with the bulk of it in character development from Bible stories including the good Samaritan and giving presentations on lives of saints. Kindergartners also establish themselves as “active Christians with Catholic vision” raising money throughout Lent to help the St. Vincent de Paul Society,” Janel said, and responsible citizenry starts with recycling, sharing and taking turns as leaders.

Janel’s advice to those considering the profession? “Make sure it is a calling, a true vocation, and something about which you are truly passion-

TAKING PART: Students from Mercy High School, Burlingame recently dove into what the school calls its “urban plunge” where they “enter service in a more reflective and intensive state of mind so better to process the many dimensions of an issue such as immigration and poverty.” Students helped at St. Peter School in San Francisco and made and delivered sandwiches with a local agency to people of low income in the city. Pictured from left are plungers Kelcey Dobson, Arlayna Kane, Sara Mustafa, Jada Chappel, Krista Semenero, Grace Leaf, Kiley O’Brien, Maeve Murphy. ters was glad to bring their third child, a son, into the church with baptism at Our Lady of Angels Church, Burlingame. Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor, administered the sacrament. “I asked the younger daughter to offer a prayer for her brother,” Father Michael told me. “She asked God to ‘bless him and keep him and please let me get along with him because I sure don’t get along with my sister.’”

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BISHOP MCELROY: San Francisco auxiliary named to San Diego diocese FROM PAGE 1

of San Diego, as he builds upon the many graces they have received from God and helps Catholics confront their needs with hope and confidence in the Lord.”

Bishop McElroy is to be installed April 15 in the diocese of about 1 million Catholics.

A pastor for 14 years before his appointment as auxiliary, Bishop McElroy is a scholar of history and politics and a strong public advocate for Pope Francis’ goal of eradicating the structural causes of poverty that the pontiff expressed in the apostolic exhortation “Joy of the Gospel.”

“The cry of the poor captured in ‘The Joy of the Gospel’ is a challenge to the ‘individualistic, indifferent and self-centered mentality’ so prevalent in the cultures of the world; it is a call to confront the evil of economic exclusion and begin a process of structural reform that will lead to inclusion rather than marginalization,” Bishop McElroy wrote in the Oct. 23, 2014, issue of the Jesuit magazine America.

The San Diego diocese stretches across the southern border of California with Mexico, with about 1 million Catholics and a total population of 3.1 million people in San Diego and Imperial counties. The diocese includes 98 parishes, 14 missions, 46 Catholic elementary schools and six high schools.

Bishop McElroy will fill the see that became vacant when San Diego Bishop Cirilo Flores died in September of cancer, just a year after his installation. His predecessor Bishop Emeritus Robert Brom retired in 2013 after serving as ordinary from 1990. San Diego is Archbishop Cordileone’s hometown, and is also where he was ordained a priest, and ordained as San Diego auxiliary bishop, serving there from 2002-2009.

Born Feb. 5, 1954, in San Francisco as one of four children, Bishop McElroy was ordained as

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Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy blesses the new Holy Angels statue at Holy Angels Church in Colma during the community’s centennial celebration last October. auxiliary bishop of San Francisco by then-Archbishop George Niederauer Sept. 7, 2010. His family resided in Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City and Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.

He entered the minor seminary at age 14 and was ordained to the priesthood April 12, 1980, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco under Archbishop John R. Quinn, serving as Archbishop Quinn’s secretary from 1982-85. He was pastor of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo 1996-2011 and also had stints as parochial vicar in the parishes of St. Cecilia in San Francisco and St. Pius in Redwood City.

As assistant bishop to Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and prior to that Archbishop Niederauer, Bishop McElroy has tackled a number of public policy areas and continued writing on

issues of national and international concern. He was elected in December 2013 as vice president of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. He also serves on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

In San Francisco, he was lead archdiocesan advocate for the archdiocesan Catholic schools in the face of the city’s new seismic retrofit reporting requirement – a role that Archbishop Cordileone called “invaluable” in remarks after the appointment was announced March 3. Bishop McElroy acted as interim director of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, helped guide a report on marriage within the archdiocese, as well as a report on young adults which led to the hiring of a director of young adult ministry under Archbishop Cordileone.

He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard. He earned a licentiate in sacred theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.

He was awarded a master of divinity degree from St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park in 1979.

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Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Serving ‘the young, the poor and the vulnerable’ since 1876 Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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Collaboration with lay colleagues, non-profit organizations and regional agencies has shaped the Sisters’ “Bold Awakening” and taken the congregation in new directions. They continue to faithfully express their founding charism and carry their educational mission into the future as “preachers of the Word.” Their motherhouse is open for business, welcoming women interested in religious life, hosting retreats and spiritual programs and teaching youth and adult students to play piano, guitar, flute and violin in their School of Music.

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DATE ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO: Nov.11, 1876 ORIGINAL MINISTRY: Education of San Francisco’s German-speaking immigrant children CURRENT MINISTRIES: Catholic and inner-city elementary and secondary education (Northern and Southern California); School of Music; pastoral, parish and social ministries; motherhouse programs including retreats and spirituality, the arts, daytime memory care (ASEB – Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay) St. James School principal Sister Mary Suzanna Vasquez, OP, is pictured with Francisco Vega, an eighth grade student who graduated in 2013.

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The other service clubs chipped in too, and that’s how they met Chippy.

“Our Baking Club raised enough money to purchase and deliver 500 pounds of carrots for the horses,” said Doherty. “We had an extra $140 left and we asked Monica how we could use that money to help her horses.” Hardeman said they could sponsor Chippy.

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By listening to poor, mission of ‘Gaudium et Spes’ lives, cardinal says DENNIS SADOWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – By listening to people’s suffering, joys and daily endeavors, Catholics bring the vision of the Second Vatican Council to the world, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, told an audience at The Catholic University of America.

Such action demonstrates that the church values the dignity of every person, especially the poor, and that it welcomes encounters with the world without fear, as expressed in “Gaudium et Spes,” the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Cardinal Tagle said in delivering the annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture March 2 in Washington.

Cardinal Tagle’s talk focused on the final document of Vatican II, released nearly 50 years ago in December 1965. The document, whose Latin title means “joy and hope,” was intended to lay out the church’s relationship to a rapidly changing society.

Mixing the message of “Gaudium et Spes” with personal stories of his encounters with people living their faith and behind-the-scenes occurrences from Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines in January, Cardinal Tagle described a church that could carry out its mission of bringing good news to a troubled world.

When “Gaudium et Spes” was promulgated, Cardinal Tagle said, many Catholics wondered why the church wanted to engage the world and whether the church had any business being concerned with political and economic issues and peacemaking.

The council’s intention was to come in contact with people of all walks of life as a sign of respect for their dignity, he said.

“Through ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ the council manifests the church’s amazement at the value and dignity of every human being. ‘Gaudium et Spes,’ from one perspective could be considered an ode of the church to the beauty, the value of the human person,” he said.

“The council was very clear that it presents this teaching for no other reason than to evangelize. There is mission involved here,” the cardinal continued. “It is to share the good news. It is not so much to present a parallel government, a parallel economic system.

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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, an alumnus of The Catholic University of America, smiles while delivering the university’s annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture March 2. Cardinal Tagle’s talk in Washington focused on the final document of Vatican II, released nearly 50 years ago in December 1965.

It presents valuable insight coming from revelation and presents modest contribution to humanity as it searches for a better life, a better world.”

In demonstrating that love, he explained, the church is called to engage with people where they are in life: in families, including those where spouses practice different religious traditions, and in neighborhoods, the workplace, politics, and Christian and non-Christian religious communities.

“We can start building a presence and become agents of reconciliation,” Cardinal Tagle said.

He said that in the years after “Guadium et Spes” was promulgated, Catholic bishops in Asia began to meet regularly, leading to the formation of the Federation of Asian Catholic Bishops in the early 1970s.

The bishops recognized their numbers were small – around 3 percent – and that necessitated respecting the various cultures that make up the world’s largest continent.

The federation recognized that even if the church is a “tiny minority,” it could not abandon its mission of evangelization and it did so by listening, especially to the poor and to young people, and by respecting the long-held values of the ancient Asian cultures, Cardinal Tagle said.

“It’s evangelization, that big word, happening through dialogue, but dialogue happens through human interaction, making the other person feel that he or she matters, that he or she in his or her culture matters. This is the main method of penetrating cultures, entering the heart, the mind of the human person,” he said.

Poor people, including those who are forced to migrate for economic reasons, refugees fleeing war, people who are trafficked for sex or labor, and street children are in particular need of people to listen to their stories, he said.

“It’s part of the mission of the church in Asia to show the richness of the Gospel and its universal values of truth, values open to all human beings.

That this should happen in human interactions for in Asian, part of the culture is the person,” the cardinal said.

Cardinal Tagle cited the actions of Pope Francis during his visit to the Philippines that demonstrated how “Gaudium et Spes” can be lived out through encounters with others when he blessed disabled people, visited street children living in an orphanage and listened to the stories of the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan.

“He was not just a teacher. He was a listener,” Cardinal Tagle said of the pope.

“We are called to be in solidarity with the suffering and the poor. An evangelizing moment comes when you encounter people, real people,” he added.

Cardinal Tagle’s visit was a homecoming of sorts.

He studied at The Catholic University of America in the late 1980s and early 1990s and holds a licentiate and doctorate in sacred theology from the school. He also received an honorary doctorate in 2014.

The lecture was sponsored by the school’s School of Theology and Religious Studies. It is held annually in honor of Cardinal John F. Dearden, archbishop of Detroit, for his role in Vatican II.

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Texas bishop frames theological call to be ‘with the immigrant’ PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The faith and social justice considerations of immigration might be viewed theologically with an eye not just toward how migrants change “by being with us,” said Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, but also “are we willing to change by being with the immigrant?”

In a lecture Feb. 24 at The Bishop Daniel E. Catholic University of America Flores in Washington, Bishop Flores wove together theology, personal stories from people at various stages of the immigration continuum and philosophical perspectives of several novelists.

Drawing from material by novelist Walker Percy, Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI and other writers, Bishop Flores also sprinkled his remarks with references to the play and movie “Into the Woods.” He drew a comparison between the comparatively ordinary lives of Hobbits and the more exotic existence of other magical creatures of the “Lord of the Rings” books and put his thoughts in context of the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Bishop Flores framed a challenge to the church and to all who believe in Christ’s model of justice, saying they are called to break free of “paralysis ... the human affliction of our time,” that keeps people from acting to protect those most in need.

Bishop Flores’ talk was the third annual Hispanic Innovators of the Faith Lecture at the university. A native of the Mexican border region of Texas, he heads a diocese that was in the apex of the surge last summer of unaccompanied minors and family immigrants from Central America that overwhelmed governmental and social service resources.

He illustrated his more theological and philosophical points with stories of individuals he met in immigrant detention centers in the U.S., in a shelter for repatriated youths in Honduras and in a Guatemalan community of people determined to make a better life for themselves amid poverty and violence in their country.

Bishop Flores distinguished between the “economically and technologically advanced West,”

or ETA West as he called it, that defines the lives of most North Americans, and the more struggling version of the West experienced by the poor of Central America. A feature defining the ETA West is a sort of inertia brought on by the many distractions of society.

“As a novelist, Walker Percy (shows) us modern persons in motion, or at least attempting to move. His characters are individuals, flawed, self-consumed at times, anxious, yet longing to get over some kind of internal paralysis. Paralysis is for Walker Percy, the human affliction of our time,” Bishop Flores said. Some of Percy’s characters are severely paralyzed, he observed, while others are “more or less paralyzed, depending on how successful they are in regaining self-possession of themselves as selves.

He compared such characters to the opening chapters of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation

“Evangelii Gaudium,” “as a call to the church to overcome a kind of sweet paralysis not unlike what Walker Percy elucidates. The Holy Father, writing 30 years later, describes the way the general ailment diagnosed by Percy as epidemic in the modern West shows itself in the particular context of the church’s members.”

The human mind, particularly the theological mind, is involved in an immigrant journey, a kind of itinerant trek in search of something better, Bishop Flores said. “When we are honest with ourselves, in moments of lucid self-awareness, we know that this is an urgent journey. It is not a vacation journey, it is more like a hike wherein we seek signposts in a strange land, in search for real food. Intelligibility is the food of the mind, and without it we wither to listless foraging on ideas that do not nourish, they only anesthetize.”

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Political figures, Notre Dame leaders remember Father Hesburgh CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, who died Feb. 26 at age 97, was known simply as “Father Ted� by Notre Dame students and was well known

by U.S. presidents and other political figures, church leaders and members of Congress.

The following quotes from several U.S. leaders about the late priest were among many collected by Notre Dame about the late priest, who was president of Notre Dame for 35 years, from 1952 to 1987, a charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and more than 100 honorary degrees. – Former President George H.W. Bush: “His reputation as one who stood for and worked for world peace goes far beyond any political boundary, far beyond the boundary of the United States of America. He was a true man of peace.� – Andrew Young, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: “The key to the success of the civil rights movement was to keep it from being a radical leftist movement, and recognize that it was truly a movement coming out of the Judeo-Christian, U.S. Constitutional tradition of justice. Well, nobody could represent all of those forces like Father Ted could. And he did it in such a quiet, unassuming, non-judgmental way that

‘Various American presidents and congressional leaders always turned him loose in areas filled with emotion, fear, guilt and racism. And he would always bring reason to the fore.’ FORMER U.S. SEN. ALAN SIMPSON, R-WYOMING when he was with you, you didn’t have to worry about who was against you.� – Former President Jimmy Carter: “His dynamic leadership in expanding the scope of the university’s Center for Civil (& Human) Rights to worldwide concern for the basic rights of all people has given him an international reputation that brings credit to our country, to his faith, and to the great educational institution that he leads.� – Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, RWyoming: “No one ever gave my friend Father Ted any of the soft issues to deal with in America. Various American presidents and congressional leaders always turned him loose in areas filled with emotion, fear, guilt and racism.

And he would always bring reason to the fore.� – Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, current president of Notre Dame: “One

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Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of the University of Notre Dame, died Feb. 26 at age 97 in the Holy Cross House adjacent to the university in South Bend, Indiana He is pictured in a 2006 photo. of the great lessons for me in leadership was to talk to Father Ted, and at the end of our conversation – he spoke about his life and his work – he stood up, knelt down and asked for my blessing.

Here I was a very young superior of that community, and here was this great man, this great figure, kneeling and asking for my blessing. It taught me a great deal about leadership, about being a priest, and about service. It epitomizes so much of what Father Ted has taught me and so many others.� – Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington: “He

was always extraordinarily kind to everybody. I was a young priest at the time (of our first meeting) and he was as thoughtful and as gracious to me as he was to the major figures who were there and sometimes demanding attention. I will never forget that personal touch and that personal kindness. It was a mark of his life and it went hand in hand with an extraordinary ability to lead and to guide the organizations he played so often so key and vital a role.� – Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz: “If Reader’s Digest asked me to write about the most amazing person I’ve ever met in my life, my answer would be, without a doubt, Father Hesburgh. I was blessed and fortunate to be under his tutelage while I coached at the University of Notre Dame. His knowledge, wisdom and care of other people were not only sincere, but very obvious. You can sometimes feel when you’re among greatness, and you always had this feeling when you were with Father Hesburgh. Yet, at the same time, he was so humble and always made you the center of conversation.� – Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny: “I was struck on that occasion (a 2012 visit to Notre Dame) by his fine mind, his integrity and his spirituality. Father Hesburgh served on many U. S. presidential commissions but was still very proud to be the recipient of an Irish passport. He has left an indelible mark on that great university, having personally driven its transformation into a great American institution. He will be mourned by all who had the privilege of knowing him and I join with them in extending my sincere condolences on the passing of a truly extraordinary person.�

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Homeless man of deep faith given funeral, burial in Vatican City CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – A homeless man who faithfully attended Mass at a church inside Vatican City for decades was buried in a Vatican cemetery after it was discovered he had died and was left unidentified in a hospital morgue.

Willy Herteleer was well-known by the Swiss Guards keeping watch at St. Anne’s Gate, by local business owners and a number of clergy who brought him food, took him to lunch or treated him to his morning cappuccino, according to news reports. “He attended 7 o’clock Mass every day for more than 25 years,� Father Bruno Silvestrini, the pastor of the Vatican’s Church of St. Anne, told Vatican Radio.

Though Herteleer lived on the streets with all of his belongings packed in a folding grocery cart, “he was a rich person of great faith,� the priest said. “He was very, very open and had made many friends,� Father Silvestrini said. “He spoke a lot with young people, he spoke to them of the Lord, he spoke about the pope, he would invite them to the celebration of the Eucharist,� which Herteleer always said was “his medicine.�

Msgr. Americo Ciani, a canon at St. Peter’s Basilica was another friend of Herteleer, and he told Vatican Radio that the elderly man – thought to be about 80 – would lean against a lamppost along the road that led tourists and city residents to and from St. Peter’s Square and talk to them about their faith. “Very often he would engage with someone, asking, ‘Do you go to confession every now and then? Look, going to confession is necessary because if you don’t, you won’t go to heaven!’� the monsignor recalled.

He was such a regular at St. Anne’s that Father Silvestrini paid homage to

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A homeless man carries possessions in a trash bag as another, left, stands outside the Vatican press office near St. Peter’s Square last Nov. 13. Public restrooms in St. Peter’s Square will be renovated to include showers so the homeless can wash. Dozens of homeless people live within sight of the Vatican.

Herteleer by including a figurine of a homeless man among the shepherds in the church’s annual Nativity scene.

Those who looked after Herteleer became worried when he seemed to have vanished in mid-December, reported the Italian daily, Il Messaggero, Feb. 25.

It turned out Herteleer had collapsed one cold December night and was brought to a nearby hospital after passersby saw he needed help and called an ambulance. He died at the hospital Dec. 12, but his body had remained unidentified and unclaimed at the hospital morgue until friends tracked him down, the newspaper reported.

Msgr. Ciani led the funeral Mass together with the canons of St. Peter’s Basilica in the chapel of the Vatican’s Teutonic cemetery Jan. 9.

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In his homily, Msgr. Ciani said he thanked God for letting them get to know Herteleer, “a man who appeared

to be alone, but who never felt alone because God’s grace was present in him.�

The casket was adorned with floral wreaths and two portraits of Herteleer – one a watercolor, the other a pastel – that the Italian monsignor had made of him.

Msgr. Ciani said giving Herteleer his final resting place in the Vatican cemetery was “in perfect harmony with Pope Francis’ incisive messages in which he always talks about the excluded, those who do not count in our society ... but instead are held dear by, not just the pope, but by the Lord Jesus, who always loved and preferred the poorest.�

Msgr. Giuseppe Antonio Scotti, adjunct secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told reporters Feb. 26 that the huge amount of media attention surrounding the man’s burial at the Vatican was further proof of the “throwaway culture� and the inverted values Pope Francis often speaks about. “The death of an elderly man on the streets made the news, not because he died, but only because he was buried in the Vatican,� he said. “The burial was more important than the death of the man.�

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Historian: Pope has enemies in, out of church GLEN ARGAN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

EDMONTON, Alberta – Pope Francis is a radical reformer who is facing enemies – inside and outside of the church – opposed to at least some parts of his agenda, said a prominent church historian.

Massimo Faggioli, an expert on the Second Vatican Council and the author of several books, said the pope is not a liberal who exalts the individual as the center of the world and who sees a minimal role for the church in public life.

Rather, he sees the church as having a role in society and indeed, “in everything humans go through,” Faggioli said at the annual Anthony Jordan Lectures Series Feb. 28 at St. Joseph Seminary.

“That is not a liberal thought; it’s a radical Christian thought.”

Faggioli is a theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books, including “Pope Francis: Tradition

The historian said he has never seen such opposition to the pope in any recent pontificate: ‘This is something that worries me.’ in Transition,” which will be published by Paulist Press in May. Pope Francis, Faggioli said, sees himself as having two mandates for reform. The first mandate he received from cardinals at the March 2013 conclave, which made him its surprise choice for pope. That mandate is to deal with problems of Vatican finances, corruption, sexual abuse and curial reform, Faggioli said.

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The popular mandate, Faggioli said, is defined by his comment, “Who am I to judge?” in reference to a gay person “who is seeking God, who is of goodwill.”

“This is the real challenge he is offering the church.

It’s where he’s making some enemies.”

It also includes dealing with new issues that have arisen since the Second Vatican Council, such as the role of women in the church, the family and marriage, he said. It further includes his creation of the ninemember Council of Cardinals that meets every two months to help him govern the church.

The creation of the council, Faggioli said, “means basically telling the Roman Curia, ‘You are fired.’”

In the past, whenever something new was created in the church, it was still within the Curia, he said.

Instead, six of the nine members of the pope’s council are cardinals who head or have recently retired as head of dioceses.

Some bishops at Vatican II in 1963 wanted to create a council similar to the one Pope Francis launched, but received a secret letter from the Vatican secretary of state telling them they had no right to propose such a thing, Faggioli said.

“Pope Francis has changed some things. It is a kind of change that has produced a remarkable and disturbing series of reactions.”

A cardinal saying he would resist the pope if the pope undermines church unity is “something new; it’s unprecedented,” he said without naming specific cardinals.

The historian said he has never seen such opposition to the pope in any recent pontificate. “This is something that worries me,” he said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 6, 2015

Carmelite draws from life of Elijah for pope, Curia’s Lenten retreat LAURA IERACI

Christians are called to ‘come out into the open,’ to free themselves of all ‘ambiguity’ and to have the courage for an authentically Christian life.

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VATICAN CITY – The Lenten journey of conversion requires Christians to rediscover the “deepest truth” about themselves, cast off their masks and take on the courage to live truth, a prominent Carmelite priest told the pope and Vatican officials.

In the first days of Lenten spiritual exercises for the Roman Curia, the church’s central administration, Carmelite Father Bruno Secondin drew from the life of the prophet Elijah to invite Vatican officials to reflect on whether their hearts “really belong to the Lord” or whether they rely on external gestures.

Pope Francis chose the Italian priest, who has authored dozens of books, including a series on praying with Scripture, to lead the exercises on the theme “Servants and Prophets of the Living God.” The Feb. 22-27 retreat was held at the Pauline Fathers’ retreat center in Ariccia, 20 miles southeast of Rome.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported on the first few meditations, offered by Father Secondin.

On the second day, the professor of spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University urged Curia members to put

themselves “at the school of mercy” and, like Elijah, to live in the periphery.

Elijah moved toward the centers of power but mostly toward “the peripheries and the geographical and existential frontiers,” he said.

Elijah, who came from the periphery “with a traditional religiosity,” became angered by Israel’s “religious and social depravation,” “loss of identity and moral and religious confusion,” he said. The situation resulted from new social and economic systems – and even new gods – which had “bewildered” the people; God was for “backwards people,” he said Feb. 23.

Despite his anger, Elijah heeded God’s word, left Israel and entered into solitude. God asked Elijah to detach himself, to stand aside, to learn to obey and to leave things up to him, said Father Secondin. During this time, Elijah was purified and learned to trust God, without “anticipating things” or seeking immediate results, he continued. He also suffered from depression, a condition “which is not so rare, even

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God eventually called Elijah out of hiding to face King Ahab and to convert the people of Israel. In the same way, Christians are called to “come out into the open,” to free themselves of all “ambiguity” and to have the courage for an authentically Christian life.

Elijah’s confrontation with the king is a provocation to those in the church

who, with their constant calculations and putting off, fall “victim to words and diplomacy,” he said.

Just like in Elijah’s time, many people today are also “fearful spectators” of life, and many men and women religious are fascinated by “mega” projects and favor glory over the poor.

Father Secondin urged reflection on whether church leaders involve the faithful in the church’s mission or whether they keep it to inner circles.

He also noted how “certain sensitive issues” in the church have caused much suffering.

“We must not hide our scandals,” he said, adding it is important that “the victims of injustice are led to healing through our humility in recognizing the errors.”

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900 diverse Catholic elect from 52 parishes gather at cathedral RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco will welcome 1,000 newcomers to the Catholic faith at the Easter Vigil on April 4, and 900 of them gathered with their sponsors and other supporters from 52 parishes and with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral to proclaim their desire to enter into full communion with the church.

The group at the annual Rite of Election on Feb. 22 included 400 catechumens – Greek for “one in whom word echoes.” With their parish Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults sponsors at their sides, the catechumens signed the Book of the Elect at the rite. They left the cathedral as those elected for baptism at the Easter Vigil, to be initiated as full disciples of Christ on the night the church anticipates Christ’s Resurrection.

The catechumens were joined by 500 people who have been baptized in another faith and are now candidates for entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.

The Rite of Election, usually held on the first Sunday of Lent, marks the catechumens’ and candidates’ final preparation for the sacraments of initiation, Sister Jeanine Marino said in a U.S. bishops’ article on the Catholic conversion process.

“On the First Sunday of Lent, those taking classes at parishes gather with the archbishop, and if he approves they can be welcomed into the church at the Easter Vigil,” said Laura Bertone, archdiocesan director of worship.

Among those gathered were eight from the RCIA class at the cathedral, with cathedral administrator Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

“There is no typical candidate,” Bertone said. “They’re every age, every ethnic background. The youngest you can be is 7. The oldest is in her 70s. They represent the archdiocese pretty well. It really is remarkable

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Top left, Archbishop Cordileone and Deacons Pete Pelimiano and Mario Zuniga process at the Rite of Election Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Top right, sponsor Matt Reina with elect Marina Shimoyama from Notre Dame des Victoires Parish. Bottom left, from St. Mary’s Cathedral, sponsor Joseph Steward with elect Rosa Jimenez-Cano, and sponsor Maria Carmen Fonseca with elect Brian Charles Gonzales, as Mary Baynes holds the Book of the Elect. Bottom right, from St. Anselm Parish, director of religious education Nicholas Case with elect Scott Pirtle and sponsor Mac Lingo. how (they) represent the diversity of the archdiocese.”

The annual assembly at the cathedral is significant because it is the one chance the elect have to greet everyone from other parishes, Bertone said. They may return to the cathedral for the annual Neophyte Mass the week after Easter.

“If they’re in a little church, when they come to the cathedral they see

this is a big church,” Bertone said. “It really opens their eyes.”

In his homily to the gathering of 1,400, Archbishop Cordileone spoke in English and in Spanish about discipleship and stewardship and quoted from Pope Francis’ Lenten reflection.

The reception of the sacraments at the Easter Vigil is one step in the Catholic conversion process, which

continues with formation and education and continues at least until Pentecost in the period of the post baptismal catechesis, which is called “mystagogy.” Newly baptized members reflect on their experiences at the Easter Vigil, continue to learn about the Scriptures, the sacraments and church teachings, and reflect on how they will serve Christ in the church’s mission and outreach activities.

RICE BOWL: A child going to bed hungry is ‘the world‘s greatest evil’ FROM PAGE 1

“The scandal that millions of people suffer from hunger must not paralyze us, but push each and every one of us to act to eliminate this injustice,” said the pope. “Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them,” said the saint.

Awaipo’s visit to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco was part of a cross-country tour this Lent to talk to Catholic parishes and school about CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl program, a Catholic response to famine in Africa that started 40 years ago.

The program of “prayer, fasting and almsgiving” is designed to spread awareness of the tragedy of world hunger and to raise funds for food programs in developing countries and in the U.S. Donations, or Lenten “sacrifices,” are collected by individuals in small cardboard “bowls” and returned to CRS at Easter.

Operation Rice Bowl helped Awaipo escape the fate of his brothers. CRS built a school in Wiaga, his village in northern Ghana, and his empty belly and the school’s feeding

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Thomas Awaipo drops to his knees for a blessing from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students, faculty and staff moments before his presentation at the “Act to End Hunger” assembly on March 2. program (funded by Operation Rice Bowl) lured him to the classroom each day.

Smiling, he said “he was tricked” into going to school knowing that he would get a snack there.

“Who is God for me? I would tell

you it was that little snack,” he said.

“That is the power of a little snack in the story of a young child. That is justice.”

Eventually Awaipo learned that “education is liberation” and earned a scholarship to college and eventually

a master’s in public administration in the United States.

Wanting to return what he had received through “God’s pure grace,” Awaipo returned to Ghana and took a job with Catholic Relief Services training community leaders. Though he said he was “this close” to becoming a priest, he met a young woman while in seminary who changed his mind. They married and have four children.

“Today I stand before you,” he said.

“I’m still alive, very happily and joyfully alive, and my children have never known hunger.”

“I am so happy I can look into your eyes today and say thank you,” he told the students, urging them to use their blessings to “pay it forward” to help end world hunger, starting with Operation Rice Bowl.

“You may call it the Rice Bowl, I call it the Gospel of love,” he told them.

At the close of the assembly, school officials gave Awaipo a green Sacred Heart Cathedral hat and sweatshirt while students waited to take iPhone photos with him.

As part of the school’s Lenten almsgiving, Sacred Heart Cathedral will collect money to support Operation Rice Bowl and its twin school in Eritrea, East Africa.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 6, 2015

The church can be a great ally

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ecent contract negotiations for San Francisco’s archdiocesan high schools have ignited a robust debate about Catholic teaching and its impact on society. The intense back and forth in the media underscores the tensions that exist between the church and American society – a relationship that has never been FATHER entirely easy.

ANTHONY It also demonGIAMPIETRO, CSB strates rather dramatically just how at odds many Catholics are with the teachings of their own church. Some people may not fully understand the church’s positions on issues such as the ordination of women, abortion, contraception, homosexuality, gay marriage, immigration reform, income inequality, etc.

But there is no denying that in many cases both Catholics and non-Catholics alike understand what the church is saying and they simply reject it.

Often they think the church itself is the problem.

Freedom of religion is an American right guaranteed by the Constitution. But some Americans are asking just how far that right should extend.

When it comes to things like contraception, abortion, and same-sex marriage, the church, some claim, wants to impose its values on the rest of society. And we Americans are very wary of being coerced. At the same time, we believe that society can benefit when adherents of a religion freely express and live by their beliefs

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Perspectives from Archbishop Cordileone and guest writers and deepest convictions. So how do we square these two American values which increasingly seem to be at odds?

The recent government mandate to include contraception in all insurance plans highlights the challenge we face.

The Catholic Church maintains that sexual intercourse outside of marriage is immoral and that the use of contraceptives within marriage is also immoral. In stark contrast to this position, a few years ago a committee commissioned by lawmakers came to the conclusion that access to contraception is a basic human right and that women should have free access to it through their insurance plans. In other words, a woman’s co-workers have a duty to defray the cost of making her less likely to get pregnant whenever she chooses to engage sexual intercourse. The woman would be taking the pill not because she is sick, but because she is healthy. Having freely decided to engage in sexual intercourse, her fellow citizens are expected to cover the cost of preventing a normal consequence of a decision she has freely made.

The Catholic Church teaches contraception is immoral and has come out strongly against the contraception mandate because it is wrong to force a

person to participate in, or to encourage, someone else’s sinful act. The church rejects the view that access to contraception is a basic human right.

In our society anyone is free to buy and use contraceptives, as one is free to do lots of things the church thinks a person ought not do. A woman choosing contraception would be using her freedom poorly, according to the church, and the good use of human freedom is what brings us closer to God, closer to being the person God wants us to be, closer to authentic happiness. Yes, the church thinks all people would be better off if they would recognize this truth and live according to it. However, it is simply wrong to think that the church is trying to impose this view on others. Rather, what we want is for the government to let Catholics believe what they believe and live according to those beliefs. The acceptance of this principle should not be controversial. After all, it is basic to how Americans have always wanted to “live and let live.”

The contraceptive mandate is just one among many moral questions we must wrestle with as a society. Today’s prevailing attitudes about religious freedom and human rights are dangerously inadequate for the task. The

Catholic intellectual tradition offers principles that provide a more adequate framework for understanding and promoting authentic individual freedom along with social responsibility. A few examples highlight the need for this better approach: A gay florist would prefer not to provide flowers for the ordination of a Catholic priest who holds that homosexual activity is immoral. Should he be compelled to provide the flowers?

A government-commissioned task force concludes that education in natural family planning must be included free of charge in all health insurance plans. Should those who disagree with this conclusion be forced to subsidize such education?

A man in his 20s is tired of life. He is perfectly healthy but simply does not want to live anymore. He fears that he will be a burden on others, and he would like a doctor to help him die in the most painless and peaceful manner possible. By what reasoning might one argue that the state should not permit a doctor to help this young man die the way he wants to die?

Our society has been living on the “fumes” of a coherent understanding of personal autonomy and social responsibility. The tragic irony is that the very institution that can be of supreme help in addressing our foundational challenges – the Catholic Church – is considered by many to be a major obstacle. But just the opposite is true. The Catholic Church can be a great ally in articulating principles for resolving these and other important matters. A future column will explain how.

BASILIAN FATHER GIAMPIETRO is the interim director of development for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

World Christianity by the numbers

he annual “Status of Global Christianity” survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers: Some are encouraging; others are discouraging; many of them are important for grasping the nature of this particular moment in Christian history.

This year’s survey works from a baseline of 1900 A.D., and makes projections out to 2050. Within that century and a half there’s some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when rememGEORGE WEIGEL bering the bad news of the 20th century and the early 21st. For example: In 1900, 27.6 percent of adults in a world population of 1.6 billion were literate. In 2015, 81 percent of the adults in a global population of 7.3 billion are literate, and the projection is that, by 2050, 88 percent of the adults in a world of 9.5 billion people will be literate—a remarkable accomplishment.

Of the 7.3 billion human beings on planet Earth today, 89 percent are religious believers, while 1.8 percent are professed atheists and another 9 percent are agnostics: which suggests that Chief Poobah of the New Atheists Richard Dawkins and his friends are not exactly winning the day, although their “market share” is up from 1900.

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century. Yet in the last quarter of the 20th century Catholicism was displaced by Islam as the world’s largest religious community, as the global Muslim population grew from 571 million in 1970 to today’s 1.7 billion.

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the

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A man attends weekday Mass at the archdiocesan headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, in this 2010 file photo. The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined. past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin America and European Christians combined. Twenty-first century Christianity is also a far more urban reality than a century ago. In 1900, 29 percent of the world’s Christian population lived in cities; it’s 65 percent today, although that’s projected to decline to 59 percent by 2050. But perhaps the most astonishing numbers in the survey involve Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. There were 981,000 of these souls in 1900; there are 643,661,000 of them today; and there are projected to be over 1 billion charismatics and Pentecostals in 2050. In raw numbers, then, charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity is the fastest growing phenomenon in world religious history.

These three phenomena – African growth, urbanization and the rise of Pentecostalism – also help account, I suspect, for the greater fragmentation of the Christian world. What might be called entrepreneurial Christianity – founding your own church – is very much a part of all three, and that helps explain why the number of Christian denominations grew from 1,600 in 1900 to 45,000 today, with projections of 70,000 in 2050.

For all the admirable growth noted in the survey, Christianity seems stuck in something of a rut, if the measure is Christians-as-a-percentage-of-worldpopulation. Christians were 34.5 percent of global population in 1900, 33.3 percent in 1970, 32.4 percent in 2000, and 33.4 percent today, with projections to 33.7 percent in 2025 and 36 percent in 2050.

Figuring out how much of this is due to the decline of European Christianity as a percentage of world Christianity would require number-crunching beyond my capabilities. But it’s worth noting that, in a century of dramatic, aggregate Christian growth, European Christianity had the lowest annualized growth rate (0.16 percent), and the European share of world Christian population has shrunk from 66 percent in 1900 to 23 percent today – thus raising more questions about the warrant by which European Christian leaders, Catholic and Protestant, pass judgment on the pastoral practice of fellow-Christians around the world.

One more disturbing number: According to the survey’s projections, only 14 percent of nonChristians today know a Christian – a number that speaks to both the isolation of religious groups from each other and the failures of evangelization.

So there’s a lot of work to do in fulfilling the Great Commission, especially with those who have no contact with the faith.

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

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MARCH 6, 2015

Beating swords into plowshares

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n the days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills,” writes the prophet Isaiah.

“Many peoples shall come and say: Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain … that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in TONY MAGLIANO his paths. …

“They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.”

This prophesy will certainly be fulfilled when Christ comes again and his kingdom is totally established. There’s no stopping it. But it could happen even before then. If only we would go up to the Lord’s mountain and allow him to instruct us in his ways, and wholeheartedly walk in his paths.

But instead it seems like so much of the world, and so many people in power, are committed to going down into the dark valley of violence and war, ignoring the Prince of Peace’s way.

As I write, the U.S. Congress is poised to grant President Obama’s request to

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Syrian Kurdish refugees stand at the back of a truck as they cross the Turkey-Syria border last Oct. 18. At the time some Catholics expressed concerns about bloodshed in the Middle East and cause for action against the Islamic State militant group. Now, Congress is poised to grant President Obama’s request to use expanded military force – including boots-on-the-ground – to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State. use expanded military force – including boots-on-the-ground – to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

In his request known as the “Authorization for Use of Military Force,” Obama is asking Congress to approve the deployment of U.S. troops to Iraq for “enduring offensive ground combat operations” for at least three years.

Didn’t the nearly nine years of war in Iraq teach us anything?

Military action against the Islamic State is playing into their hands. They want to draw the U.S. into a ground war, so they can trumpet the mes-

sage that “Christian crusaders” have launched an invasion upon Islam. Such a scenario would flood their ranks with radical Islamists from around the world.

After the start of the first Gulf War in 1991, St. John Paul wrote, “No, never again war, which destroys the lives of innocent people, teaches how to kill, throws into upheaval even the lives of those who do the killing and leaves behind a trail of resentment and hatred, thus making it all the more difficult to find a just solution of the very problems which provoked the war.”

ileone is ordained to teach Catholic doctrine. They also know “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”

The apostles did not need a handbook to teach all nations; all they needed to hear was, “Father, forgive them.”

They did, and it worked. It’s the only way.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

is and should be open to all faithful Catholics regardless of gender. When I saw altar girls only at my parish Mass yesterday, I saw children with a Catholic upbringing. When father applauded the Sisters of Carondelet, I saw people who had, as Father said, “given up having many things for themselves” in order to serve the people of God. I fail to see the necessity to differentiate when it comes to gender.

Andrea Iida San Francisco

It can be strongly argued that the devastation caused by the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq largely set the stage for the birth of the Islamic State and several other Jihadist groups.

Instead of fueling more war and terrorism, we need to pressure our government to provide far more humanitarian assistance to our fellow Christians, and all others, who are suffering from the barbarism of the Islamic State.

Also, we need to kindly consider making a generous donation to Catholic Relief Service’s emergency fund for the Middle East (http://bit.ly/17YCZ8g).

In his famous 1967 “Beyond Vietnam” speech, Rev. Martin Luther King said, “Our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice. We must with positive action seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity and injustice which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism grows and develops.”

And the same is true with terrorism today. If we will muster up the faith and courage to redirect the vast resources dedicated to war, and instead put them at the service of removing “those conditions of poverty, insecurity and injustice which are fertile soil” in which the seed of terrorism grows and develops, we will have then finally beat our swords into plowshares.

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

LETTERS A true shepherd Hooray for Archbishop Cordileone!

He is a true shepherd. He has insisted that our Catholic schools transmit the Catholic faith, the whole faith, and nothing opposing the faith. And multitudes of faithful Catholics are cheering him for this.

Now while it is no surprise that the depraved secular culture should oppose the archbishop, sadly, it reveals the deplorable lack of the Catholic faith being transmitted when students and their families and alumni join in that opposition.

And the opposition fails to grasp two things: One is that the church teaches the truth as revealed by he who is the truth. This truth cannot be changed as then it would be a lie.

And the other is that the church was formed by Jesus to teach, preserve and faithfully transmit this Truth to successive generations. This was the reason to found schools.

Also, no one is forced to work for, or attend, the schools.

Thank you, Archbishop Cordileone, for all the good you have done and are doing.

Jessica Munn Foster City

Virtuous leaders I have read the archbishop’s recent statement on the church’s teachings and can only say that we are blessed that there still virtuous leaders in the Catholic Church willing to stand against the dark and immoral influences in our society and remain faithful to the church’s moral teachings.

Count me in as a supporter and I will help financially when I can.

Brand Cooper Medford, Oregon

No handbook for Apostles Catholics know Archbishop Cord-

Altar service should not differentiate on gender

Re “Role of boys and men at Mass,” letters, Feb. 27: The writer makes various commentary and assumption about attending a church where predominately females attend the altar. She feels “uncomfortable” and “can’t imagine that boys really want to follow in the girls’ footsteps.” Why does she feel uncomfortable? Doesn’t the church need altar servers? Would she rather have father perform all services himself ? And I would like to clarify that boys are not following anyone’s footsteps. In my day, when I was a child, the church couldn’t even count on the boys who were actually scheduled to serve. And it was mandatory that they serve back then. I remember sister screaming her lungs out – frequently – at boys in class who didn’t show up to serve.

So perhaps this parishioner should lament the lack of commitment on the part of boys in this parish. As far as her comment about women doing “everything except actually say Mass” in this parish, well, that would nearly apply in my parish as well. But we all know the reasons for that. To her quoting a writer’s comment that “women don’t have to act like men in order to shine in the world,” my response is this: The role of altar server is not acting like a man. That position

Lifetime spiritual growth Please consider the following topics to be addressed in our archdiocese: For young adults, invite them to be eucharistic ministers and lectors, as they need to be involved in our parish community; involve them in projects such as working with the poor at St. Vincent de Paul and other ministries so they will believe they are doing worthwhile work for themselves and the church; encourage them to join choirs.

Invite girls to be altar servers.

Eliminating girls will discourage them from possibly becoming sisters.

As you know, the numbers of sisters are dwindling. We need sisters also, not just priests.

After parents baptize their children, form groups for them to discuss issues of parenting and child rearing, keeping them involved in church activities.

We need to attract children, young

adults, and young parents with tasks for spiritual growth in their lives as Catholics. We need to challenge and motivate them.

Patricia Hageman South San Francisco

Church not stagnant In George Weigel’s recent review of the “60 Minutes” segment on Pope Francis (Jan. 28), he states that Catholics have been discussing controversial issues such as “family planning, the nature of human love, and the indissolubility of marriage” for years and have come to the conclusion that the Catholic church’s view on these issues has not changed and will not change.

I politely disagree with the second part of Weigel’s assessment. I am in agreement with the idea that topics such as gay marriage, birth control and other current topics are not new topics in the church; and the church has not tried to ignore these topics or make blanket statements against them without allowing for discussion.

However, I disagree with his assertion that discussion on these topics has ended and those with “dissenting” ideas have effectively lost the debate.

The fact that those high in the church hierarchy continually meet to discuss how the Catholic faith is being carried out is proof that the church is not stagnant.

Chelsea Reidy Oakland

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Confession for what ails us

ecently, I went with my family and our grandson Jack for his first confession. It was a happy affair.

Children at age 7 or 8 are unique in that they are awkward and not at all self-conscious about confession. Thirty of them in procession down the aisle look like a drill team from the Ministry of Silly Walks.

But I was impressed – edified would be a better word – at how long each child spent with the priest. When they came out, they repaired to a vacant spot in the church and gave devoted attention to their penances. There were hugs JOHN GARVEY and some tears (mostly from parents) when they rejoined their families.

I don’t know whether this first experience of reconciliation will engender good attendance habits down the road. I hope so. I have been pleasantly surprised at the frequency with which some of our children receive the sacrament.

At The Catholic University of America, where I work, the supply and the demand are good. The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the edge of our campus has confessions five hours every day, including Sunday. During Lent, our priests in campus ministry offer the sacrament in the residence halls.

For a generation after the Second Vatican Council, reconciliation was our most neglected sacrament. Part of the reason is that we lost sight of what it was for.

In an essay he wrote in 1984, Robert Coles observed an unfortunate tendency to substitute psychoanalysis for the sacrament. “I am tired of watching ministers or priests mouth psychiatric pieties,” he said, “when ‘hard praying’ (as I used to hear it put in the rural South) is what the particular human being may want, and yes, urgently require.”

There are sick minds in need of healing, but it is a mistake to treat our sins as symptoms of a disease.

They are usually just sins, not evidence of some “complex” or of some deeper neurosis.

With advances in neurochemistry comes a slightly more modern version of the psychological dodge. We will hear that a person who cheats on his wife – not

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In this 2013 file photo, a priest hears a confession of a mother with her daughter as Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. just once or twice, but often – has “a sexual addiction.”

Poor guy, he can’t help it, his neuropeptides are out of balance.

There are two things wrong with turning our sins over to the brain doctors. First, it ignores the role of free will in our lives. It is strangely unpopular to say nowadays, but sins are things we choose to do. It is I (not my subconscious or my brain chemistry) who is at fault. Second, when we make the wrong diagnosis, we will prescribe the wrong cure. What we really need, in order to feel (and be) better, is forgiveness.

Pope Francis has preached about mercy and forgiveness from the day he became pope. His message is the short-form statement of Christian belief: Jesus suffered, died and rose again to redeem us.

We affirm that lesson when we say in the Nicene Creed that we believe in the forgiveness of sins. We put that belief into action when we receive the sacrament of reconciliation. And if we really believe, we confess frequently – not from some overweening guilt complex, but because we know it is good for us.

God has made his mercy available. Who would not take advantage?

If, on the other hand, we seek out a priest just for deeper self-awareness, then what we will get is a session of free amateur doctoring. There is something to be said for that, but in these days of affordable care, a good health plan will pay for such things. For the forgiveness of sins, there is no substitute for the confessional.

Letting love in during Lent

y love goes out to all of you this holy season of Lent. Now that I am an old man, I see more clearly that love is the only thing that really matters in life. Things you have acquired, like wealth or power or fame, are not really important. All that matters is how much of God’s love you’ve shared with those in need.

Every Lent we celebrate God’s gifts, especially the gift of eternal life. We aspire to attain heaven by striving for greater perfection. As we approach the joy of Easter, we are facing the challenge of using our gifts well.

FATHER JOHN In his loving wisdom, God CATOIR has given each of us two great gifts: a life to live and a love to share. St. Paul wrote: “But the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:13). To have a good Lent, we all need to focus on the desires of the heart. Do you have the right attitude toward others?

Think about your gifts and talents. How are you using them? Focus on the ways your gifts can bring a smile to a child’s face or a warm feeling to an elderly person in need of kindness.

Your talent for helping others should not become mere good intentions. Take action as best as you can.

What are you good at? We all have talents that aren’t used as well as they should. If there is something you enjoy doing, do it soon for someone who needs your special touch.

There is still time to think of ways to share your talents with the people you love. Bake a cake, sing a song or just be there for someone who needs a little cheer.

Since God delights in loving us, we need to take delight in loving others. We do this best by sharing our gifts with them. Spread your love around. You can

LETTERS Unwarranted attacks on church, clerics I am concerned at what I see as an increasing crescendo of anti-Catholic, or at the very least, anti-clerical attacks upon the Catholic Church in San Francisco. I know of no other religious group that is so thoroughly trashed in the popular press and media as is our church. For example, in January my family and I walked up Market Street, along with some 50,000 other people, to support the value of human life and to express our concerns about abortion on demand. Not only were we not joined by any public official, but the official attitude is to ridicule our efforts and to suggest that we are somehow out-of-step with “San Francisco values.” The archbishop is constantly under attack in the local press for maintaining the teachings of the Catholic Church on marriage and family. Worse, the same press sets up a false comparison between him and Pope Francis, suggesting that some of the pope’s statements about not judging others and treating all people with compassion – which are themselves core Catholic teachings – have somehow changed Catholic moral teaching on marriage and sexuality, when the pope has changed the emphasis, not the teaching itself.

The recent coverage over what is basically an employment contract issue – the so-called “morality clauses” – has been used as yet another opportunity to attack the archbishop and the church. All the archbishop has done is to restate the teachings of the church, citing the specific sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church upon which they are based.

Many of those teachings that are reaffirmed in the document, e.g., the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality. The local press has of course focused on those that do. The document also expressly states that it deals with public behavior, not private conduct, but that important distinction is also conveniently overlooked. The archdiocese and the union are trying to resolve disputes over that language.

Frankly, I do not understand why the Board of Supervisors has taken sides in a private labor issue that is being negotiated between the archdiocese and the unions, when neither side has requested such intervention.

Finally, no other religious group in San Francisco is constantly being attacked for its teachings on marriage, family and sexuality.

I regret having to write this letter, but I regret even more that our church, whose adherents founded this city, and who named it after a Catholic saint, is subject to such unrelenting attacks.

Roger Ritter San Francisco

Convince, not demand

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The three traditional pillars of Lent are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. break out and bring joy to those who have no claim on your kindness.

God’s joy is contagious. Since you know that you are a carrier of divine love, why not figure out ways to help those near you? Think of ways to bring joy especially to those who may live in fear.

Fear is the enemy of joy. The reason God said to us in Isaiah 41:10, “Do not fear: I am with you; do not be anxious: I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you” is that he wanted us to enjoy our lives. To begin doing that, we have to rid ourselves of needless worry. Immediately put on the will to bear discomfort and smile.

Some are better than others at shedding fear. I know this because I was born a worrier. I was born in 1931.

My mother carried me in her womb for nine months during the Great Depression and my father was out of work. Her fears seeped into my genes.

Today I am free of all that because I made a concerted effort to trust God more and more. I no longer let anxiety get a foothold in my psyche. If fear does strike, I immediately think of it as a gift and a test to see how quickly I can show the Lord that I trust him implicitly.

His loving protection covers us in all circumstances.

In the past few weeks, we have been seeing a phenomenon that has become all too common across this country and which shows a major weakness in the Catholic Church. This is the movement of bishops and pastors from one area to another with the belief that their new territory is “their” parish or diocese. In being given the position of pastor, they believe that, as Article 87 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “… the faithful (shall) receive with docility the teachings and directives that their pastors give them in different forms.”

Unfortunately, that is the thinking of a century ago when less than 10 percent of the people had a high school education. Even as few as 50 years ago, just as Vatican II took place, only 40 percent of Americans had graduated from high school and less than 8 percent had college degrees. Today, more than 30 percent have college degrees, and between television and the Internet, most of the society has a great deal more knowledge than even the most educated of those past times.

Docility no longer enters the equation. In addition, Vatican II said that the church is the people of God, and parishes and dioceses are no longer the sole property of the pastors. Those pastors are now to serve the people, not command them.

Add to that equation the democratic form of selecting leaders and we have a society which is far less likely to accept being told what we are supposed to do. Today you must convince people, not demand that they obey.

Denis Nolan Daly City

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Unsung stories highlight National Catholic Sisters Week

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elinda Monahan has analyzed more than 100,000 animal bones in Armenia dating back from the early Bronze Age (1,200 B.C.) to the medieval period.

For the 44-year-old archaeologist from New Jersey, the thrill never wears off. “When you look at a stork’s lower-leg bone,” she says, “it’s about as long as my lower-leg bone.

It’s kind of startling! And it’s always fun to look at bears. I look at their claws and think, ‘Oh, those are cool!’”

This winter Belinda’s impressive resume – including a CHRISTINA doctorate from Northwestern CAPPECCHI University and her current job as a research assistant at the University of Chicago – picked up another distinction: fully professed Catholic sister. She made her final vows as a Benedictine Sister of Chicago, becoming perhaps the only person on the planet who is both an expert on paleozoology of the Bronze Age and the Rule of St. Benedict.

Her work in archaeology deepens her faith, Sister Belinda told me. “Seeing the different patterns and the different ways people live makes me aware of God’s movement in human life.”

About 1,000 women are in formation to become Catholic sisters. I’m fascinated by the colorful experiences they bring to religious life. Sister Dian Hall was the only woman in a rock band – and the drummer, no less, at a time when drummers were always men.

On stage, the self-proclaimed introvert came alive.

“We thought we were stars,” she said.

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Sister Belinda Monahan is an archeologist and just made her final vows as a Benedictine Sister of Chicago.

She cherished the camaraderie, whether they were practicing Beatles songs in a garage or driving around the outskirts of Atlanta for low-paying gigs.

Now the 61-year-old Georgia native has joined another band, one that is helping her become her “best self,” she says: Last August she made temporary vows with the Sisters of St. Joseph. “I believe in our community. I believe we’re making a difference in the world.”

Sister Dian considers religious life the greatest adventure of all. “I see lots of exciting years ahead.

I look back and I think everything I’ve done has taught me and brought me to where I am now. I just thank God!” Megan Graves, a 22-year-old postulant with the

Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, echoes that enthusiasm when asked about her future. A native of Chicago’s South Side, Megan wears stylish glasses, closely cropped hair and a nose ring. The piercing is a frequent conversation starter at the Catholic school near Milwaukee where she teaches religion.

“So many of the girls come up to me and say, ‘You want to be a nun, but you have a nose ring?’” Megan told me. She welcomes the question, eager to broaden their notion of who can be Catholic sisters.

(Megan knows several other 20-something postulants who have nose rings. It’s not a major symbol or statement, she says. “It’s a hipster thing.”)

She’s seizing National Catholic Sisters Week, March 8 to 14 – an official addition to Women’s History Month – as an opportunity for myth busting and for celebrating the remarkable influence of women religious. She’ll take to Facebook and host in-person gatherings to discuss the “sisterhood” she sought in a college sorority and found in a convent.

Sister Belinda, who helps the Benedictines with vocation ministry, will be having similar conversations with prospective postulants. “The first thing that holds them back isn’t fear but lack of exposure,” she said. She’s quick to rave about the women in her community, like 100-year-old Sister Mercedes, who has been involved in hurricane relief, RCIA instruction and hospital chaplaincy.

“These stories are not heard. The sisters have done amazing things, but they don’t publicize them.

They do them so quietly that nobody outside the monastery knows.”

Here’s a chance to change that.

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and the editor of SisterStory.org.

Catholic education: The best investment MSGR. ADOLFO VALDIVIA

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hen I was asked by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to help him in his ministry at the parish of St Anthony Padua, I somehow had an idea on the pastoral and financial accomplishments made by the people of God guided by the

Franciscan friars for over a century.

Franciscan Father Guiglielmo Lauriola is still going strong as the only Franciscan friar. He was ordained as a priest when I was 1 year old. I thank Father William for his ministry and for strongly supporting Catholic schools.

I inherited a parish pastorally and

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St. Anthony of Padua administrator Msgr. Adolfo Valdivia is pictured with students at the parish school, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception in the Mission District of San Francisco. financially very different than a century ago.

Pastorally speaking, to have ministered at this parish for more then six months has opened a corner in my “Mexican heart.” I have truly appreciated the cultural and religious diversity of those people who make up this faith community.

I shall continue with the same spirit until I go back to Mexico this July 1.

Something that has been of a challenge is our Catholic school. I am the product of Catholic education.

Thanks to the priest from my village, I was able to get a scholarship to finish fifth and six grades before I entered the seminary at the age of 13.

Having a Catholic school here at St. Anthony has been a “worthy challenge and experience.” I totally and unconditionally support Catholic Schools because of the quality of academic formation and teachings the children receive on our Catholic values.

Personally, I have enjoyed visiting the children in their classrooms, playing sports with the eighth graders and most of all bringing the children

to the table of the Lord and providing for them the word and the body and blood of Jesus.

I know our Catholic school is financially struggling because of the low number of students; by the way we have lots of room for your children. The low number reflects on the finances yet we have people who are very generous and the parents themselves make big sacrifices to pay for the tuition. I hope anyone who is reading this article may have a generous heart and help us help financially speaking our children. Please give me a call.

Recently our archbishop said that a challenge is to “get” the Hispanic population of the archdiocese to enroll their children in our Catholic schools.

I hope the Hispanic people who are reading this article may consider our Catholic schools for this year and for the future. We are here for you and for your children. We want to help you get the best Catholic education.

MSGR. VALDIVIA is administrator of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, San Francisco. The parish phone number is (415) 647-2704.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Third Sunday of Lent

He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables …

JOHN 2:13-25 EXODUS 20:1-17 In those days, God delivered all these commandments: “I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth; you shall not bow down before them or worship them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their fathers’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation; but bestowing mercy down to the thousandth generation on the children of those who love me and keep my commandments. “You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. For the Lord will not leave unpunished the one who takes his name in vain. “Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the Lord has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy. “Honor your father and your mother, that you may have a long life in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you. You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male or female slave, nor his ox or ass, nor anything else that belongs to him.”

PSALM 19:8, 9, 10, 11 Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple.

Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the command of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eye. Lord, you have the words of everlasting life. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them just.

Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

They are more precious than gold, than a heap of purest gold; sweeter also than syrup or honey from the comb.

Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:22-25 Brothers and sisters: Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser

than human wisdom; and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

JOHN 2:13-25 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of Scripture: Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for 46 years, and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken. While he was in Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, many began to believe in his name when they saw the signs he was doing. But Jesus would not trust himself to them because he knew them all, and did not need anyone to testify about human nature. He himself understood it well.

The cleansing of the temple

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t. Augustine tells us that there are in the world two fundamental and opposing ways of living our lives and ordering our loves, two “cities”: “Two loves formed two cities: the love of self, reaching even to contempt of God, an earthly city; and the love of God, reaching to contempt of self, a heavenly one.” In our Gospel for this Third Sunday of Lent, Jesus reveals to us the war between the two cities: “Make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.”

The temple was meant to be a holy place consecrated to the worship of God, to the ordering of men’s loves to God even unto contempt of themselves, to the building up of the heavenly city. Instead, Jesus finds in the temple FATHER JOSEPH the operation of the earthly PREVITALI city: Man was being served, not God. The Fathers of the Church teach us in their commentaries that the disorder of the temple was principally an interior

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disorder: that the temple needed to be cleansed above all of the self-serving evil spirit that had made the house of God into a house of merchandise and made the worship of the Jews carnal and lifeless.

Jesus tells us in his response to the Jews that the sacred temple is a figure of his sacred body: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

John clarifies for us: “He spoke of the temple of his body.” By cleansing the temple, Jesus is revealing that his own body is the new temple, the new “place” of worship, of ordering men’s loves to God, of building the heavenly city. With the new temple, we are able truly to worship God in spirit and in truth, unto eternal life.

The purification of worship begins in our own individual hearts. My soul is the temple and Jesus wants to come in with a whip of cords and drive out all the beasts of vice and all the greed of the moneychangers. He wants to purify and cleanse my soul so that it can be truly a temple consecrated to the love of God even to the contempt of self. He wants to make me a true member of the heavenly city. The Fathers of the Church take this as a favorite theme of the spiritual sense of this passage.

They also refer the cleansing of the temple to the cleansing of Our Lord’s body, the church. Our Lord purifies his church from all self-seeking shepherds,

from all those who work in the church for their own good, for their own glory, and not for the glory of Christ. He cleanses his church by giving it shepherds after his own heart, shepherds who will love God even to contempt of self, who will proclaim the truth of the Gospel even when it is not popular, who will lay down their lives for the flock, even when the flock would rather be lost.

The full weight of the cleansing of the temple comes to bear on the life of the church and the individual Christian in the holiest of holies, the sacred liturgy. Here we have the purification of the individual soul and the reform of the church united. As we have seen, Our Lord cleanses the temple above all to establish right worship. He longs to rid his church of self-seeking and self-worship in individual souls and in the church, but above all in the sacred liturgy. He desires with a holy zeal for his Father’s house – zeal which consumes him! – to purify the church’s worship, to make it God-centered and rightly-ordered.

He wishes above all to make efficacious in his church and in our hearts the sacrament of divine love, to make the holy sacrifice of the Mass the apex of the glory of the heavenly city.

of Lent. JER 7:23-28. PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. JL 2:12-13.

LK 11:14-23.

MONDAY, MARCH 16: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent. IS 65:17-21. PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b. AM 5:14. JN 4:43-54.

FATHER PREVITALI is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 9: Monday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, religious; Feast of St. John Ogilvie, priest and martyr. 2 KGS 5:115ab. PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4. SEE PS 130:5, 7. LK 4:24-30.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10: Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent. DN 3:25, 34-43. PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9.

JL 2:12-13. MT 18:21-35.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11: Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent. DT 4:1, 5-9. PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 1920. SEE JN 6:63c, 68c. MT 5:17-19.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12: Thursday of the Third Week

FRIDAY, MARCH 13: Friday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 14:2-10. PS 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17. MT 4:17. MK 12:28-34.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14: Saturday of the Third Week of Lent. HOS 6:1-6. PS 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab. PS 95:8. LK 18:9-14.

SUNDAY, MARCH 15: Fourth Sunday of Lent. 2 CHR 36:14-16, 19-23. PS 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. EPH 2:4-10.

JN 3:16. JN 3:14-21.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor. EZ 47:1-9, 12. PS 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. PS 51:12a, 14a. JN 5:1-16.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. Is 49:815. Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18. Jn 11:25a, 26. Jn 5:17-30.

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Fear masking itself as piety

t is easy to mistake piety for the genuine response that God wants of us, that is, to enter into a relationship of intimacy with him and then try to help others have that same experience.

We see this everywhere in Scripture. For example, in Luke’s Gospel, after witnessing a miraculous catch of fish, Peter responds by falling at Jesus’ knees and saying: “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!” At first glance that would seem the appropriate response, a wonderfullypious one, an acknowledgement of his littleness and FATHER RON unworthiness in the face of ROLHEISER God’s abundance and goodness. But, as John Shea points out in his commentary on this text, Jesus names Peter’s response differently and invites him to something else. What? Peter’s response manifests a sincere piety, but it is, in Shea’s words, “fearfully wrong”: “The awareness of God makes him

(Peter)] tremble and crushes him down. If he clings to the knees of Jesus, he must be on his own knees. Peter does not embrace the fullness; he wants to go away.

This is hardly the response Jesus wants. So he instructs Peter not to be afraid. Instead, he is to use what he experienced to bring others to the same experience.

As Jesus has caught him, he is to catch others.” Jesus is inviting Peter to move out of fear and into deeper waters of intimacy and God’s abundance.

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ROLHEISER: Fear and piety FROM PAGE 20

be rendered this way: God is not a law to be blindly obeyed. Rather God is a loving, creative presence that invites us into intimacy and then gives us energy to be more creative in the light of that relationship.

Some years ago, a young mother shared this story with me. Her son, 6 years-old and now in school, had been trained from his earliest years to kneel down by his bed each night and pray aloud a number of ritual prayers. One evening, shortly after starting school, when his mother took him to his room, he crawled into bed without first kneeling to say his prayers. His mother asked him: “What’s wrong? Don’t you pray anymore?” “No,” he replied, “I don’t pray anymore. My teacher at school (a nun) told us not to pray but to talk to God … and tonight I’m tired and have nothing to say!” In essence, this is the response of King David, asking the priest for the consecrated loaves. This young boy had an intuitive grasp that God is not a law to be obeyed but an intimate presence that resources us.

A number of the great Christian mystics have taught that, as we grow more deeply in our relationship with God, we gradually become more bold with God, that is, fear gives way more and more to intimacy, legalism gives way more and more to resourcefulness, judgment gives way more and more to empathy, and the kind of piety that would have us clinging to the knees of Jesus paralyzed by our own sinfulness gives way more and more to a joyous energy for mission.

Of course, there’s an important place for piety. Healthy piety and healthy humility are gifts from the Holy Spirit, but they do not paralyze us with an unhealthy fear that blocks a deeper, more joyous, and more intimate relationship with God. David had a healthy piety, but that didn’t stop him from acting boldly and creatively inside the intimacy of his relationship to God. Jesus too had a healthy piety, even as he was constantly scandalizing the pious around him.

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OUR LADY OF LORETTO SCHOOL, NOVATO: On Feb. 11, fifth graders crossed the Golden Gate Bridge with their teacher Sandra Reeder and some school parents for a field trip to the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. The day included a tour of the cathedral and lunch and concluded with a demonstration of the imposing Ruffatti organ by the cathedral organist. “My favorite part of the field trip was when we got to go up on the sacred altar and see what it is like from the point of view of a priest saying Mass,” said student James Reeder.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: Students put their hearts and effort together to benefit the long standing work of Mercy alumna Michele Ostertag in Kenya. The young women raised more than $3,000 to buy school uniforms for children helped by programs instituted by Ostertag there.

“Mercy girls are committed and will continue their almsgiving through service, acts of kindness and philanthropy throughout the season,” the school said about how Mercy students are aligning themselves with Pope Francis’ Lenten call to help others.

Sister Doris Cavanaugh, PBVM, (religious name Sister Mary Concepta) died Feb. 23 at the Presentation motherhouse in San Francisco. A native of Los Angeles, Sister Doris was born July 28, 1928, and was a Sister of the Presentation for Sister Doris Ca70 years. Sister Doris vanaugh, PBVM leaves her sister Margaret Gaines (Dave); her brothers Charles and John; her sister-in-law, Jackie (Ralph); and many nieces, nephews and their families. Sister Doris was the daughter of Grace Carpenter and George Cavanaugh. She was predeceased by her brother Ralph.

Beginning in 1947, for 23 years, Sister Doris served in teaching and administrative positions in Catholic

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NOVENAS Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

M.T.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

L.T.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

M.T.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

M.T.

Prayer to St. Jude

Prayer to St. Jude

Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

E.A.K.

Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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The Director of the Department of Pastoral Ministry, as a member of the Archbishop’s Cabinet, has the responsibility to manage the Pastoral Ministries Offices including Religious Education, Child and Youth Protection, Marriage and Family Life and Young Adult Ministry.

Key Responsibilities and Duties • In work situation and dealing with co-workers and public, adhere to the Mission Statement of the Pastoral Center and follow policies and procedures of the Archdiocese and the Pastoral Center.

• Religious Education • Serves as the delegate of the Archbishop on catechetical matters and youth ministry.

• Directs the development and administration of training and certification policies for the catechist according to the guidelines established by the Bishops of the California Catholic Conference.

• Child and Youth Protection • Directs the development and implementation of systems for tracking compliance by adults with the Safe Environment Program.

• Works with the Legal Office in publishing, revising, and maintaining the “Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines on Child Abuse.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6 FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Church of the Visitacion, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland, San Francisco; Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Items include clothes, furniture, books as well as a new items booth. (415) 494-5517.

MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bob Air Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast and talk from Consul General of Ireland Philip Grant; members breakfast. $8, visitors. $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Tony LaTorre, pastor, St. Philip Parish, San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

NURSES: Join the National Association of Catholic Nurses and become a part of the Catholic nurses’ voice. Acquaint yourself with the organization at a “Meet & Greet” event 10-noon, Alma Via Retirement Center, One Thomas More Drive, San Francisco; Vicki Ev-

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SATURDAY, MARCH 7

TAIZE: All are welcome to Taizé prayer around the cross, Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 8 p.m. Taizé prayer has been sung on first Fridays at Mercy Center with Mercy Sister Sister Suzanne Suzanne Toolan Toolan since 1983. (650) 340-7452.

UNITED FOR LIFE: United for Life dinner, Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. Guest Dana Cody of the Life Legal Foundation speaks on euthanasia. (415) Dana Cody 567-2293. uflsf. com. uflsf@yahoo.com.

ans, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is guest speaker. Mary Ann Haeuser, (415) 4540979, haeuser@comcast.net; www. naacn-usa.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the public. Free parking in all USF lots, Dan Faloon (415) 422-2195; faloon@ usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. March 8: “Preparing Couples for Marriage,” with Jesuit Father John Coleman. www.stignatiuscff.org/adult-faith-formation/.

HOLOCAUST PLAY: “Etty,” an internationally acclaimed play of a young woman’s struggle to sustain humanity in the face of the brutality of the Holocaust, 3 p.m., Mercy High School, San Francisco, with overview from Holocaust survivor Jacob Boas. Reception follows in theatre lobby. Free admission. Please RSVP by March 2 tabney@mercyhs.org, www.mercyhs. org. (415) 334-7941.

MONDAY, MARCH 9 GRIEF SUPPORT: St. Pius Grief Ministry is offering a facilitated nine-week support group session through April 20, 7 p.m., St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City. If you are in the early stages of your loss or have not previously attended a grief support group, this program may benefit you. (650) 361-0655; griefministry@pius.org. Walk-ins are welcome.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10 LENTEN TALKS: St. Stephen Parish, Donworth Hall, 401 Eucalyptus Drive next to Stonestown YMCA, soup supper and talk March 10 with Taize prayer service March 17, 6:30 p.m., Franciscan Brother Michael Minton speaks on the season and Islam, the religion. Veronica Wong, (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 ‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., March 11, Apr. 15, May 6; Dominican Sisters of MSJ

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MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples talks through March 27 at sites throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m., freewill offering, www.marriageonfire. info. Ed Hopfner HopfnerE@SFArchdiocese.org.

LENTEN TALK: The Challenge of an Interior Life with Carmelite Father Jack Welch, 7 p.m., followed by a Q&A, St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco. The Carmelite tradition encourages an interior life of availability to God. It challenges today’s pilgrim to live beneath the surface of life; info@stteresasf.org; www.stteresasf.org. (415) 285-5272.

SHRINE MASSES: Wednesdays during Lent Mass will be celebrated at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach at 12:15 and 6:30 p.m. with confession available 11-noon and 5-6:15 p.m.

(415) 986-4557. www.shrinesf.org; info@shrinesf.org.

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

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OLPH ANNIVERSARY: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 60 Wellington Ave. Daly City, celebrates its 90th year with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant of Mass at 9 a.m. followed by parish procession and reception. (650) 755-9786; olphrectory@gmail.com.

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DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the Wounds, a divorced and separated Catholics support group, second Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8 p.m., professional child care available at $10 per child. Karen Beale, (415) 250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120; Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 4351122.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 FESTIVAL MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Northern California Choral Festival Mass, 5:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Student singers from the Archdiocese of San Francisco and around the Bay Area lead song under the direction of Richard Robbins of the music faculty at University of Wisconsin-Superior. A choral prelude will precede the liturgy. Visit www. pcchoirs.org.

YMI MASS: Young Men’s Institute celebrates 132 years, St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco, 4:30 p.m. with barbecue dinner following in parish hall, $20 per person. All are welcome to attend, reservations required. Mike Dimech, (650) 922-2667; mdimech7@ gmail.com.

ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: Men’s Club at St. Anne of the Sunset St. Patrick Dinner and Dance in Moriarty Hall, 6 p.m. with special appearance by Bush-

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25

ST. PATRICK LUNCH: The Hibernian Newman Club crosses its 50th year with this event benefiting campus ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, 11 a.m. Westin St. Father Paul Francis Hotel, 333 Fitzgerald, SJ Powell St., San Francisco. Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco is keynote speaker. Tickets $100.

Event includes traditional Irish music and entertainment. www. hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415) 386-3434.

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

mill’s Irish Piper Band of San Francisco plus traditional Irish-American dinner, Irish entertainment from the WhelanKennelly Academy and dancing to music of The Spinheads. $30 adults/$10 children 12 and under. Patty Diner, (415)566-7500.

FASHION LUNCHEON: Marin Catholic High School parents association’s “The Great Gatsby” luncheon/dinner and auction at Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall in San Rafael with lunch seating at 10 a.m. and dinner seating at 5 p.m. Tickets are $75 lunch/$165 dinner. For tickets and information www.marincatholic.org; (415) 4643800.

CASINO NIGHT: Mercy High School, San Francisco, McAuley Pavilion, 3250 19th Ave., 6-10 p.m., $50 per person advance, $60 at door, includes appetizers and dessert bar.

Mike Gutierrez mgutierrez@mercyhs. org.

ST. PATRICK’S DINNER: Our Lady of Loretto Knights of Columbus Council 3950 St Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance, 6 p.m.,Our Lady of Loretto Parish hall, Virginia Avenue at Grant, Novato featuring McBride Irish Dancers; $32 per person, no-host bar; child care available. Dick Caldwell, (415) 892-3834; Chick Kretz, (415) 892-3913.

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ANNIVERSARY: St. James School, 321 Fair Oaks St., San Francisco, celebrates its 90th anniversary with 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. James Catholic Church, 1086 Guerrero St., followed by tours and refreshments at the school. 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Constance Dalton, cdalton@ saintjamessf.org, (415) 647-8972.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 LENTEN SERIES: Reawakening your discipleship with Father John Hurley, 7 p.m., St. Gregory Parish, Vanos gym, Hacienda at 28th Avenue, San Mateo, 7 p.m.; coffee and dessert follow. (650) 345-8506.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 MARRIAGE SERIES: Marriage Challenge, inspirational talks for couples talks through March 27 at sites throughout archdiocese, 7-9 p.m., freewill offering, www.marriageonfire. info. Ed Hopfner HopfnerE@SFArchdiocese.org.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on grief process, and tips on coping with loss of a loved one; Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the group; Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

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