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NEED TO KNOW CSF LOOKING FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND MEMORIES OF 2 POPES: Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II will be canonized on April 27. For this unusual canonization of popes who lived in our own times, Catholic San Francisco would like to publish our readers’ memories and photos of the popes. While we would love photos of you with the popes, and also your memories of any exchanges with them, we are also looking for your thoughts on what Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII meant to you.

Comments of 100-150 Pope John XXIII words or less are most likely to be published. Send photos and thoughts to schmalzv@sfarchdiocese.org.

ORDINATION MASSES: Ordinations of archdiocesan clergy will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday, May 31, at 11 a.m. for the diaconate and on Saturday, June 7, at 10 a.m. for the priesthood.

NDNU STUDENTS HELP NEEDY: Instead of going home to relax this spring break, 17 Notre Dame de Namur University students traveled to Nicaragua and Bakersfield to help those in need. Ten students went to Nicaragua March 1, where they volunteered at the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur ministry and service sites, the Belmont school announced. They also engaged in education and reflection with local leaders and people in the Matagalpa community.

The remaining seven students spent their break in Bakersfield March 1-5, learning about issues facing the Central Valley as well as the realities of living, working and studying in rural agricultural communities. The students also worked directly with the Dolores Huerta Foundation youth group to inspire young people to attain a college education.

Pro-lifers hold ecumenical prayer service in Marin CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Nearly 60 men and women from local Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican and other faith communities gathered at St. Sebastian Church, Greenbrae, Feb. 28 for an ecumenical music and prayer service in memory of lives lost or injured by abortion.

Titled “Be the Light,” the event featured three California-based speakers whose work supports women facing unplanned pregnancies: Robin Strom, executive director of the Marin Pregnancy Clinic in Novato; Dana Cody, executive director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation in Napa; and Gil Baillie, founder of The Cornerstone Foundation in San Diego.

Presented by the San Francisco Interfaith Committee for Life, which includes St. Sebastian pastor Father Mark Taheny, the 27th annual service was held in Marin County for the first time this year.

Strom and the work of the Marin Pregnancy Clinic received special recognition from the committee. The clinic offers confidential prenatal care and support for the first seven months of a pregnancy.

Strom said the clinic, which also provides free pregnancy testing, ultrasound, adoption referrals, maternity and infant clothing and post-abortion counseling, supports women living in poverty and those suffering emotionally from abortion.

“Something we offer that the abortion industry doesn’t is hope,” she said.

Cody said her work as a pro-life lawyer is to help “light extinguish the darkness before the darkness can extinguish the light.”

“Our mission is to save lives,” she said. “But ultimately aren’t we all here to glorify God?” Baillie acknowledged the event’s sparse crowd by referencing the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” where Henry tells his comrades that they should be happy that there are so few of

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Interfaith Committee for Life board member Mary Ann Eiler of St. Peter Church in Pacifica, left, accepts a rose in the name of the unborn from Marin Pregnancy Clinic’s Rita Freeman of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato, center, and Andrea Bizzanelli of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, right, at the 27th Annual Interfaith Memorial for the Victims of Abortion on Feb. 28 at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae. them present and those who stay to fight will have something to be proud of the rest of their lives.

“When I look out and see you have come out tonight in a local setting that is so inhospitable to the work you are doing, that’s inspiring,” Baillie said.

“Over the long haul, if this culture and Western civilization is going to be saved, you are the point of the spear.”

Baillie reminded participants of the urgency of awakening a moral conscience “that’s gone dead.”

He said it is not only the lives of innocent babies that are at stake but also the survival of a social moral conscience.

“My message to you as you are focusing on the things right in front of you, know that you are showing an example of moral intentionality and courage that is absolutely essential to our world.”

National Catholic Sisters Week connects sisters with public The first National Catholic Sisters Week will be celebrated March 8-14 with storytelling events, prayer services and special vocation retreats throughout the U.S. The week honors sisters’ legacy of creating many of the nation’s hospitals, schools, churches and other institutions.

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Rector leads shrine’s ‘realignment,’ renovation CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When Capuchin Father Harold Snider was installed almost eight months ago as rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis, he was blessed with responsibility for a spiritual and historic landmark bearing the name of a beloved saint, a city and now a pope. With that he inherited a beautiful but aging facility and the projects, priorities and problems of previous administrations. Today, with new staff, new faces on the board of trustees, new docent and music ministries and a $400,000 gift from an anonymous donor, Father Snider is charting a new course for the shrine.

“I would say we are in a process of realignment,” Father Snider said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco at his office at Vallejo Street and Columbus Avenue in San Francisco’s North Beach.

Catholic worship on the spot dates to 1849, when St. Francis of Assisi Church opened its doors to Gold Rush-era Catholics. After a long history as a parish church, the site became the National Shrine of St. Francis in 1999 and is now run by the Capuchin Franciscan friars under the auspices of the archdiocese.

Father Snider brought on a new business manager, Chris Greenawalt, last December. In February he announced three additions to the shrine’s board of trustees, including Trish Herman as chair; shrine music director Vince Stadlin as vice chair; and building contractor Peter Comarato.

The changes come at a difficult time for the shrine, which announced Nov. 22 that it terminated former volunteer board chair Bill McLaughlin and “will undertake a comprehensive review of alleged improper behavior” on the part of McLaughlin and a fired shrine employee, Jhona Matthews.

Matthews has sued for wrongful termination. “We’re looking forward to the complete version of this story being told in the legal process,” said shrine spokesperson Larry Kamer.

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National Shrine of St. Francis rector Capuchin Father Harold Snider reviews the new volunteer handbook organized and written by docent Rosario Tardio. The new docent ministry team includes Tardio and Steve Cady, Jovie Abriam of St. Paul the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco and Jenny Sager-Scott of St. Anselm Parish in Marin County.

Father Snider said re-evaluating decisions made before his arrival is part of the realignment. He said he has scrapped plans for a proposed $1.5 million pet columbarium in the church’s basement. The idea had been put forward by proponents as a revenue-generating attraction for the shrine and a tribute to St. Francis’ love for animals.

“I put my feelers out to the religious community and did a random sampling of the core congregation and of the neighborhood,” Father Snider said. “It seemed clear that more of the faithful would be served by using our facilities in a different way.”

In the shrine church’s cavernous basement the rector described his vision for the arched alcoves that would have housed the remains of pet dogs

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During the renovation of the shrine church floors and pews, daily and Sunday Mass will be celebrated in adjacent Porziuncola Nuova, a scaled replica of St. Francis’ Porziuncola chapel in Assisi, Italy.

and cats. “The idea in my head is to create a prayer grotto to Franciscan saints; St. Francis, St. Anthony, St. Clare and Padre Pio,” he said, adding that the project would require approval from Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

Instead of housing a pet columbarium, the basement will be open to community organizations such as the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which wants to use the space for pet adoptions, Father Snider said. The basement formerly housed Francesco Rocks gift shop -- now moved off-site to Grant Avenue.

Pointing to water damage from a leaky roof streaking across a mural in the shrine, the rector ticked off a list of necessary upgrades including painting the exterior and cleaning and restoring artwork. But a major renovation project sparked by an unexpected gift of over $400,000 late last year will come first.

Father Snider said the anonymous donor narrowly specified the gift be used for the renovation and replacement of the church pews and wood floor. Installed following a fire that gutted the interior of the church in the 1906 earthquake, both have served the faithful for almost 100 years and are “well-used and loved,” he said.

All 56 hand-carved oak pews will be restored while the wood floor will be replaced with a tri-tone inlaid granite floor featuring a cross design. New hydraulic kneelers that will hit the stone gently and quietly are included.

The project, due to start this month, will close the church portion of the shrine for up to three months. Daily and Sunday Mass will be celebrated in the back section of the adjacent La Porziuncola Nuova chapel.

In the meantime the rector and his staff are busy with pre-project design code testing that will determine the type and weight of granite that will be used. “Our music directors are thrilled to hear we will have stone floors,” Father Snider said. “They tell me the best music can be heard in rooms with stone floors.”

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Above, Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of marriage and family life, spoke to 40 Days for Life volunteers outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 1650 Valencia St. in San Francisco.

Top right, Hunt Hanover with his two daughters and, lower right, Alpha Pregnancy Center nurse manager Ranelle Calub and pregnancy center director Chastidy Ronan were among those who gathered March 2 to kick off the Lenten prayer campaign.

Mass outside Planned Parenthood clinic kicks off 40 Days for Life prayer campaign VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

St. Peter parochial vicar Father John Jimenez celebrated Mass for about three dozen people on the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic on Valencia Street to kick off the Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign March 2 in San Francisco.

“I think it gives hope that Jesus is with us in struggle and God loves all of us and the power of God’s love can turn hearts and help those who are very desperate,” said Father Jimenez, who celebrated the 3 p.m.

Mass on a folding table facing the clinic doors with 40 Days for Life supporters gathered along the sidewalk in front of the clinic.

“We’ve been out here since the 6-year-old was 1,” said Hunt Hanover,

a parishioner at St. Vincent de Paul and St. Dominic parishes, who came with two of his three children. “We are here to pray for life and for the unborn and for an end to abortion.”

The ecumenical 40 Days for Life campaign began March 5 and ends Palm Sunday, April 13.

“We’re wrestling against powers and principalities,” said Ed Hopfner, archdiocesan director of marriage and family life, who said the first job of each of those praying outside the clinics is to work personally to be a saint. “It’s a spiritual battle. It is really important to remember that and keep it always in our minds.”

“We’re really out there to pray for the conversion of hearts and salvation of souls. It’s not just the children – the children are innocent,” said Hopfner.

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Forty Days for Life is a pro-life campaign with “a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion,” according to its website. Since the first 40 Days for Life campaign in 2004 in College Station, Texas, the movement has spread. Since it became a coordinated national movement in 2007, there have been 13 coordinated 40 Days campaigns that have mobilized people in all 50 states, and numerous other countries including Germany, Ghana, Uganda and Portugal, according to 40 Days for Life. More than 600,000 people have participated, 44 abortion clinics have closed, and numerous clinic workers have quit.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco this Lent, there is a 40 Days campaign scheduled at the Planned

Parenthood clinic at 1650 Valencia St.in San Francisco and at the Planned Parenthood clinic at 35 Baywood Ave. in San Mateo.

At the San Francisco site, the volunteers will need to stay outside a 25-foot buffer zone outlined with a yellow painted line on the sidewalk and street around the clinic during clinic hours, according to a law passed by the Board of Supervisors last May. “We’re not protesting,” said University of San Francisco junior nursing student Patrice Robison, who is president of USF Students for Life and plans to bring a group together to pray at the Valencia Street clinic. “We just want to help out the mothers. We want to be here to be a friend and help them have a happy life.”

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VOX POP

What is your focus going to be for Lent?

Asked by Valerie Schmalz at St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Archbishop Riordan High School.

“I would like to pray for rain but have it not fall on the homeless.”

JOHN AHLBACH, Theology teacher, Riordan high school “Peace for the world, especially in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and all those places. Just to have peace and the Christians to be in a safe spot. I will pray and I will fast for that. This my mission for this Lent.”

REMOUZ MALEK, Riordan mother, St. Gabriel parishioner

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“My personal focus for Lent is to continue to work with the catechumens and candidates working toward the Easter vigil for their baptism and confirmation.”

DEACON NES FERNANDEZ, Deacon, St. Augustine Parish “My focus for Lent is focusing less on indulgences and more on what really matters. The simple things: family, friends, health. So with deference to that, I would like to pledge to give up fast food for the entire Lenten season.”

MICHAEL O’BRIEN, Riordan dean of curriculum “I am going to give up soda for Jesus. Just to sacrifice for Jesus. He died for us so we need to pay him respect.”

JIMMY VELASCO, Riordan freshman “My focus this year for Lent will be spending a lot more time with my family, considering it is my senior year. With the last few months coming down the line, I am really going to focus on spending time with my family, my grandparents.”

STEFANO MAFFEI, SI senior “My focus this Lent would be being mindful of

giving up complaints. Just realizing what is really important in life and taking time to focus on positives more and the things we take for granted.”

JACQUELINE BOLAND, SI senior “Lent for me is a time to challenge myself with seeing things in a different perspective. For example, if something bothers me – talk about it with someone instead of letting it build up or pushing it aside. That may be uncomfortable at first but it will at least help me to grow in my relationships and my friendships.”

ANDREW STRANAHAN, SI senior

“I see Lent always as an invitation to deepen my relationship with the Lord. And to be more intentional about setting aside that time in my day for prayer and quiet time and rest with the Lord.”

ANDREW LAGUNA, Jesuit seminarian, SI religion teacher “For me what I really want to do is try to give back and be in solidarity with others. Try to remember what the whole season is about , which is Jesus giving himself up for us.”

MICHELLE HECKERT, SI senior

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High rate of Bible illiteracy among general population ‘no surprise’ NAVAR WATSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In a recent class at Wheaton College, English professor Leland Ryken asked his students what John Milton was referring to when he mentioned “the broad way” in one of his sonnets.

Not one student in the class of 35 at the Rev. Billy Graham’s alma mater acknowledged it as a reference to the broad path of destruction in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.

“There’s no reason for anyone to be surprised at the extent of biblical illiteracy in the general population,” Ryken said in an email to Catholic News Service. “The Bible has been systematically excised from the curriculum in public education and from culture generally.”

As part of its “Pass it On” campaign, the British Bible Society released a study showing many British citizens could not identify certain Bible stories, going as far to say 43 percent of children had never heard the story of the Crucifixion. This trend, however, is not exclusively British.

Ryken said biblical literacy “is only marginally better” in the United States.

Last year, the American Bible Society showed 57 percent of U.S. adults ages 18 to 28 read their Bible fewer than three times per year or never.

Jacques Berlinerblau, director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, said the only people one would expect to know Bible stories are those raised in Sunday school.

There used to be “an undercurrent of people having a vague familiarity of the Bible,” even if they did not attend a church, said Cackie Upchurch, director of the Catholic-based Little Rock Scripture Study in Arkansas.

“That’s not the presumption anymore at all,” she said.

Even within the church, Upchurch said, many find it “embarrassing” how much Catholics don’t know about the Bible.

In a September 2010 survey of Americans’

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Andy Park looks up a Scripture passage during a 2010 Bible study at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Last year, the American Bible Society showed 57 percent of U.S. adults ages 18 to 28 read their Bible fewer than three times per year or never. general religious knowledge by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, white evangelicals correctly answered an average of 5.1 out of seven Bible questions, compared with 4.4 among atheists and agnostics and 4.3 among Jews. Catholics averaged 3.8 correct; only 42 percent of U.S. Catholics who responded could correctly identify Genesis as the first book of the Bible.

“There does seem to be a lack of enthusiasm for it,” Marianne Tasy, a Bible study coordinator at Immaculate Conception Church in Annandale, N.J., said.

“People tend to think it’s old history or dead history.”

After attending a conference of predominately Protestant speakers, however, Upchurch was “surprised to see Protestants were concerned about the exact same things.”

Ryken was “sorry to report” that biblical illiteracy had indeed reached the evangelical subculture.

He then addressed why one should know the Bible from solely a literature standpoint. The Bible is “the single greatest frame of reference” in English and American literature, he said.

Upchurch said biblical literacy is also important just in understanding certain idioms in everyday speech.

If a person says, “That was a Goliath effort,” someone else might not catch the reference.

The trend of people lacking knowledge of Bible stories is “obviously troubling,” Upchurch said, but “at the same time, it’s an opportunity. ... It tells us there’s a possibility of ways to reach other people.”

Movements like the Bible Literacy Project Inc. are dedicated to encouraging the study of biblical literature in public schools. The Bible Literacy Project specifically promotes schools to add its textbook, “The Bible and Its Influence,” into their curriculums.

Berlinerblau, however, thinks enforcing biblical literature classes in all public schools is an impractical goal. Someone will always oppose the idea.

“You just can’t pull this thing off in America today,” he said. “It’s not that it’s a bad idea. It’s an impossible idea.”

So far, more than 580 schools in 43 states have adopted the textbook, according to the Bible Literacy Project homepage.

As for the Catholic Church, Upchurch stressed the idea of making Bible stories come “alive.”

Ever since the work of Catholic biblical scholar Jeff Cavins, creator of “The Great Adventure Bible Study” series, came out, parish-based Bible studies are “spreading out all over the place,” Tasy said.

Furthermore, Upchurch said Catholics need to find a balance between dogma and storytelling.

Pope Francis, as an example, uses “very parabolic language,” she said, whereas previous popes spoke mainly on doctrine.

“We are at a prime place in our history to remember that stories speak to people and capture people’s imaginations,” Upchurch said.

Margi McCombs, who has a doctorate in education, said in a Feb. 18 blog for the American Bible Society that Bible stories “shaped my childhood in vivid, indelible ways.”

The British Bible Society’s “Pass it On” campaign also strives to educate children about Bible stories.

“If we don’t use the Bible,” group chief executive James Catford said, “we risk losing it.”

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Christian leaders pledge action on high rate of incarceration in US CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEWARK, N.J. – Leaders of Christian Churches Together in the U.S.A., of which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is a member, issued a pledge to engage the American public on the issue of mass incarceration in the United States.

“The church in the United States has a moral and ethical imperative to protect human dignity and must address the problem of mass incarceration in our nation,” the coalition said in a statement issued at the end of its Feb. 4-7 meeting in Newark, during which religious leaders heard from experts in the field – including a New York Baptist minister who himself had been jailed before entering the ministry.

“We recognize that the legacy of the dehumanization of people of color has borne lasting effects in current-day society,” citing slavery and Jim Crow laws as examples of “subjugation” until civil rights laws passed nearly 50 years ago tried to right it. “We see the vestiges of these systems of human control in America’s current system of mass incarceration.”

Christian Churches Together added,

“These systems are not only affecting African-Americans. They are now impacting all people of color, the poor, the marginalized, and the immigrant in the United States. Latinos and other immigrants, in particular, are experiencing the brunt of increased detention rates in the midst of their struggle for immigration reform.”

“While there is a role for prisons to address violent offenses, we recognize that our nation’s justice system has lost the hope embodied by its historic vision to ‘correct’ and restore broken people back to society. As followers of Jesus Christ, we believe in the redemption and reconciliation of all things, rather than retribution. This includes the prisoner and broken systems. This is the essence of the Gospel.”

Attending on behalf of the USCCB was Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Retired Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Calif., Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas; and Bishop Nicholas J. Samra of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton, Mass., also attended, along with USCCB staff.

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PHOENIX – Concerns about the need to protect religious liberty are not unfounded but a bill allowing businesses and others to refuse to serve same-sex couples on religious grounds was “broadly worded and could result in unintended consequences,” said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Feb. 26.

She vetoed the measure, known as S.B. 1062, saying that it sought to protect businesses, “yet the business community overwhelmingly opposes the proposed law,” she said.

Before making the decision to veto the bill, Brewer met with both supporters of the bill and its opponents. She also acknowledged that some state lawmakers who originally backed it changed their position.

“To the supporters of the legislation, I want you to know that I understand that long-held norms about marriage and family are being challenged as never before. Our society is undergoing many dramatic changes,” she said in a statement.

But she said S.B. 1062 “has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. It could divide Arizona in ways we cannot even imagine and no one would ever want. Religious liberty is a core American and Arizona value.

So is nondiscrimination.”

figured into Christians Churches Together’s statement: – With only 5 percent of the world’s population, the U.S has 25 percent of the world’s imprisoned people.

– U.S. incarceration rates have increased from 500,000 inmates in jail and prison in 1980 to more than 2.2 million in 2010.

– The “war on drugs” increased the U.S. prison population from 41,000 drug offenders in 1980 to 500,000 in the same 30-year span.

– One in three African-American men, and one in six Latino men, are likely to be imprisoned at some point in their life, compared to one in 17 white men.

“Mass incarceration must stop,” Christian Churches Together said. “We are challenging ourselves together with government and the nation to seize this moment when multiple forces are aligning toward positive action to correct the injustices within our ‘justice’ system.”

The USCCB has been participating in Christian Churches Together since 2004. Other faith groups involved with the organization include historic Protestant, evangelical/Pentecostal, Orthodox, and historic black churches.

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Archbishop: Marriage needs to be ‘preserved,’ not ‘redefined’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Marriage needs “to be preserved and strengthened, not redefined,� San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said Feb. 28 in support of the State Marriage Defense Act of 2014, introduced into the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. “Every just effort to stand for the unique meaning of marriage is worthy of support,� the archbishop said in a letter to Cruz.

The archbishop, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, sent a similar letter in January to U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, when he introduced a companion bill in the House Jan. 9.

Archbishop Cordileone urged the U.S. Senate to pass the measure, saying it is necessary to keep the federal government from circumventing state laws defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

JUDGE: STATE MARRIAGE LAWS MUST BE CONSTITUTIONAL

SAN ANTONIO – A U.S. District Court judge Feb. 26 struck down a Texas constitutional amendment that defined marriage as being only between one man and one woman.

Judge Orlando Garcia also said it was unconstitutional for the state not to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states. Garcia put his decision on hold until it can be appealed.

The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by two gay couples against the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, which had been in place since 2005. One of the couples who sued was wed in Massachusetts and wants Texas to recognize the marriage. The other gay couple wants to get married in Texas. “Regulation of marriage has traditionally been the province of the states and remains so today,�

Garcia wrote in the 48-page ruling. “However, any state law involving marriage or any other protected interest must comply with the United States Constitution.�

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Cruz introduced the bill Feb. 13, with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, as a co-sponsor. “We should respect the states, and the definition of marriage should be left to democratically elected legislatures, not dictated from Washington,� Cruz said in a statement on introducing the measure.

CATHOLIC LEADERS JOIN IN ASKING OBAMA TO PROTECT NATION’S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

WASHINGTON – Two Catholics joined with eight evangelical leaders in asking President Barack Obama to defend religious liberty in the United States as he has defended it in other countries. “As you promote religious freedom abroad, please also give attention to preserving the First Amendment freedoms of all Americans here at home,� said the letter, dated Feb. 26. “Some Americans are concerned that your administration’s domestic policies do not fully protect the religious convictions of all our citizens. Your leadership abroad will be strongest as you point to the robust religious freedom protection that is provided even to those who may be critics of your administration.�

The two Catholics who signed the letter, which was distributed by the National Association of Evangelicals, were Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Stephen F. Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Stud-

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In Windsor, the high court ruled June 26 in a 5-4 opinion that the federal Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage as between one man and one woman, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.

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WASHINGTON – American Catholics’ opinions on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically in the last decade, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Public Religion and Research Institute in Washington.

The survey, released Feb. 26, indicated that 58 percent of white Catholics and 56 percent of Hispanic Catholics now favor same-sex marriage. This is up 22 percentage points from 2003, when only 35 percent of Catholics overall supported same-sex marriage.

Among American Catholics who said they attend Mass weekly, opinions were more divided, with 45 percent of Mass-going Catholics in favor.

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Cardinal sees paths to Communion for divorced, remarried Catholics CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church needs to find a way to offer healing, strength and salvation to Catholics whose marriages have failed, who are committed to making a new union work and who long to do so within the church and with the grace of Communion, Cardinal Walter Kasper told the world’s cardinals.

Jesus’ teaching on the indissolubility of sacramental marriage is clear, the retired German cardinal said, and it would harm individuals and the church to pretend otherwise. However, “after the shipwreck of sin, the shipwrecked person should not have a second boat at his or her disposal, but rather a life raft” in the form of the sacrament of Communion, he said.

Pope Francis had asked Cardinal Kasper, a well-known theologian and author of a book on mercy as a fundamental trait of God, to introduce a Feb. 20-21 discussion by the College of Cardinals on family life. The Vatican did not publish the cardinal’s text, but Catholic News Service obtained a copy.

The Catholic Church needs to find a way to help divorced and remarried Catholics who long to participate fully in the life of the church, Cardinal Kasper told the cardinals. While insisting – for the good of individuals and of the church – on the need to affirm Jesus’ teaching that sacramental marriage is indissoluble, he allowed for the possibility that in very specific cases the church could tolerate, though not accept, a second union.

From the first moments of creation, the cardinal said, God intended man and woman to be together, to form one flesh, to have children and to serve him together. But sin entered the world almost immediately, which is why even the Bible is filled with stories of husbands and wives hurting and betraying one another, he explained.

Christ, who came to set people free from the bonds of sin, established marriage as a sacrament, “an instrument of healing for the consequences of sin and an instrument of sanctifying grace,” he said.

‘A pastoral approach of tolerance, clemency and indulgence’ would affirm that ‘the sacraments are not a prize for those who behave well or for an elite.’

CARDINAL WALTER KASPER Because they are human and prone to sin, husbands and wives continually must follow a path of conversion, renewal and maturation, asking forgiveness and renewing their commitment to one another, Cardinal Kasper said. But the church also must be realistic and acknowledge “the complex and thorny problem” posed by Catholics whose marriages have failed, but who find support, family stability and happiness in a new relationship, he continued.

“One cannot propose a solution different from or contrary to the words of Jesus,” the cardinal said.

“The indissolubility of a sacramental marriage and the impossibility of a new marriage while the other partner is still alive is part of the binding tradition of the faith of the church and cannot be abandoned or dissolved by appealing to a superficial understanding of mercy at a discount price.”

At the same time, “there is no human situation absolutely without hope or solution,” he said. Catholics profess their belief in the forgiveness of sins in the Creed, he explained. “That means that for one who converts, forgiveness is possible. If that’s true for a murderer, it is also true for an adulterer.”

Cardinal Kasper said it would be up to members of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in October and the world Synod of Bishops in 2015 to discuss concrete proposals for helping divorced and civilly remarried Catholics participate more fully in the life of the church.

A possible avenue for finding those proposals, he said, would be to develop “pastoral and spiritual procedures” for helping couples convinced in conscience that their first union was never a valid mar-

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As a diocesan bishop in Germany in 1993, Cardinal Kasper and two other bishops issued pastoral instructions to help priests minister to such couples. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, made the bishops drop the plan.

A similar proposal made last year by the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Germany, was criticized by Cardinal Gerhard Muller, current prefect of the doctrinal congregation.

Citing a 1972 article by then-Father Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal Kasper said the church also might consider some form of “canonical penitential practice” – a “path beyond strictness and leniency” – that would adapt the gradual process for the reintegration of sinners into full communion with the church used in the first centuries of Christianity.

To avoid the greater evil of offering no help to the divorced and remarried, cutting them and most likely their children off from the sacraments, he said, the church could “tolerate that which is impossible to accept” – a second union.

Pope urges sympathy, outreach to couples CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Those who recognize marriage as a sacrament, a divine blessing and a reflection of God’s love for humanity should have even greater sympathy for husbands and wives whose relationships have failed, Pope Francis said.

“See how beautiful this love is, Pope Francis how beautiful marriage is, how beautiful the family is and how much love and closeness we must have for our brothers and sisters who have experienced the calamity of a failure in love,” the pope said Feb. 28 at his morning Mass.

According to Vatican Radio, Pope Francis’ homily focused on marriage as part of God’s plan for man and woman and as a reflection of God’s faithful love.

He repeated the Gospel passage, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

But, the pope said, “when this love fails – because many times it fails – we must feel the pain of the failure and accompany those who have failed in their love. Not condemn them! Walk alongside them.”

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SYMBOL AND ENCOUNTER: Gestures, choices are teaching moments as pope urges flock to evangelize, help the poor

From the moment Pope Francis, dressed simply in a white cassock, stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time and bowed March 13, 2013, he signaled his pontificate would bring some style differences to the papacy.

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SOME NOTABLE PAPAL PHRASES

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VATICAN CITY – From the moment Pope Francis, dressed simply in a white cassock, stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time and bowed, he signaled his pontificate would bring some style differences to the papacy.

Some of the style changes are simply a reflection of his personality, he has explained. Others are meant to be a lesson. But sometimes the two coincide.

Answering questions from students in June, he said the Apostolic Palace, where his predecessors lived “is not that luxurious,” but he decided to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a Vatican guesthouse, “for psychiatric reasons.”

Living alone or in an isolated setting “would not do me any good,” he said, because he’s the kind of person who prefers living in the thick of things, “among the people.” However, he added that he tries to live as simply as possible, “to not have many things and to become a bit poorer” like Christ.

Unlike his choice of residence, his decision to travel in Rome in a blue Ford Focus instead of one of the Mercedes sedans in the Vatican motor pool was meant to be a message.

Meeting with seminarians and novices in July, he said too many people – including religious – think joy comes from possessions, “so they go in quest of the latest model of smartphone, the fastest scooter, the showy car.”

“I tell you, it truly grieves me to see a priest or a sister with the latest model of a car,” he said. For many priests and religious, cars are a necessity, “but choose a more humble car. And if you like the beautiful one, only think of all the children who are dying of hunger.”

A few days after his election, Pope Francis told reporters who had covered the conclave, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor.”

In October, he traveled to the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi and met clients of Catholic charities in the room where St. Francis had stripped off his cloak and renounced his family’s wealth. The pope said he knew some people were expecting him to say or do something similarly shocking with the church’s material goods.

Living simply is important, he said, not just out of solidarity with the poor, but because it is so easy to get attached to worldly possessions, turning them into idols. The church, he said in Assisi, “must strip away every kind of worldly

‘An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral’ (from the encyclical “Evangelii Gaudium”).

‘Be creative. Be audacious. Do not be afraid’ (to young people at World Youth Day in Rio de Janiero).

Be ‘shepherds living with the smell of sheep’ (urging priests and bishops to spend time among people).

‘I tell you, it truly grieves me to see a priest or a sister with the latest model of a car’ (meeting with seminarians and novices).

‘How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor’ (to reporters a few days after his election).

‘One could deny Communion to a public sinner who has not repented, but it is very difficult to check such things’ (from a 2010 book written with Buenos Aires Rabbi Abraham Skorka).

‘The church doesn’t need apologists for their own causes, nor crusaders for their own battles, but humble sowers who trust in the truth ...’ (from a speech to the Congregation for Bishops).

spirit, which is a temptation for everyone; strip away every action that is not for God, that is not from God; strip away the fear of opening the doors and going out to encounter all, especially the poorest of the poor, the needy, the remote, without waiting.”

The first year of Pope Francis’ pontificate also has been one of encounters.

A pope, like priests around the world, celebrates Mass every day. Before he became very infirm, Blessed John Paul II would invite visiting bishops and special guests to attend his early morning Mass in the chapel of the papal residence. Pope Benedict XVI’s morning Mass generally was more familial, including his secretaries, his butler and the women who ran the apartment.

With a much larger chapel in the Domus Sanctae Marthae and more priests and bishops in residence there, Pope Francis has had a larger congregation for his morning Masses. Although the Masses are considered private by the Vatican, Pope Francis has been inviting Vatican employees to attend, beginning with the garbage collectors and gardeners.

While transcripts of his morning homilies are not printed in the Vatican’s official daily news bulletin, excerpts are provided by the Vatican newspaper and Vatican Radio.

In the first months of his papacy, especially as the weather warmed up, he’d go for a walk, dropping in on Vatican workers in the garage or the power plant. And, when he has a request of a Vatican office or wants to make sure something he requested is being done, he simply picks up the phone.

Every Vatican office – not to mention the Jesuits and other religious orders – has a funny story about someone answering the phone and thinking it’s a joke when they hear, “This is Pope Francis.”

But his phone calls go well beyond the inner circle of the Vatican and the church. Pope Francis has called journalists and people either he has read about or who have written to him with stories of suffering and desperation. His telephone calls, in some ways, have taken the place of his Buenos Aires habit of riding public transportation and walking the streets of the poorer neighborhoods to stay in touch with how people really live.

While he will pose with pilgrims for photos and “selfies,” reciprocate when given a big hug, sign autographs for children and accept cups of “mate” – an herbal tea popular in parts of Latin America – he learned in Argentina that there are times when the ministry of an archbishop or pope can be used by the powerful, and he has taken steps to make sure that does not happen.

At his morning Mass and at his large public liturgies, Pope Francis gives Communion only to the altar servers and deacons, then he sits down and prays.

In a 2010 book written with Buenos Aires Rabbi Abraham Skorka, Pope Francis said that at large Masses for special occasions – Masses attended by government officials and leading business people – “I do not give Communion myself; I stay back and I let the ministers give it, because I do not want those people to come to me for the photo op. One could deny Communion to a public sinner who has not repented, but it is very difficult to check such things.”

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A constant refrain to ‘Go forth’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ most frequent advice and exhortation to Catholics – from laypeople in parishes to bishops and cardinals – is “Go forth.”

In Italian, the phrase is even snappier: “Avanti.”

As the world’s cardinals gathered at the Vatican in early March 2013 to discuss the needs of the church before they entered the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, “avanti” was at the heart of a speech by then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The speech captured the imagination of his confrere, Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, who received permission to share it after Pope Francis was elected.

“Put simply, there are two images of the church: a church which evangelizes and goes out of herself ” by hearing the word of God with reverence and proclaiming it with faith; and “the worldly church, living within herself, of herself, for herself,” Cardinal Bergoglio told the cardinals before they elected him pope.

He also used another image that has become a frequent refrain during his first

year as head of the church: “In Revelation, Jesus says that he is at the door and knocks. Obviously, the text refers to his knocking from the outside in order to enter, but I think about the times in which Jesus knocks from within so that we will let him come out.”

The need for the church to go out into the world with the Gospel also was the central theme of his first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”), published in November.

In the document, the pope called on Catholics to go out into the world, sharing their faith “with enthusiasm and vitality” by being living examples of joy, love and charity.

“An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral,” he wrote.

Over and over during the first year of his pontificate, Pope Francis has asked practicing Catholics to realize the grace they have been given and accept responsibility for helping others experience the same grace – especially the poor, the sick and others left on the “peripheries” or margins of society.

The health of the church depends on it, he has said. If Catholics jealously hoard the gift of being loved by God and the joy of

salvation, not sharing it with others, “we will become isolated, sterile and sick Christians,” he said in his message for World Mission Sunday 2013.

“Each one of us can think of persons who live without hope and are immersed in a profound sadness that they try to escape by thinking they can find happiness in alcohol, drugs, gambling, the power of money, promiscuity,” he told parish leaders from the Diocese of Rome in June.

“We who have the joy of knowing that we are not orphans, that we have a father,” cannot be indifferent to those yearning for love and for hope, he said. “With your witness, with your smile,” you need to let others know that the same Father loves them, too.

Even in countries like Italy where the majority of inhabitants have been baptized, most people do not practice their faith.

“In the Gospel there’s the beautiful passage about the shepherd who realizes that one of his sheep is missing, and he leaves the 99 to go out and find the one,” Pope Francis told the parish leaders. “But, brothers and sisters, we have only one. We’re missing 99! We must go out and find them.”

Sheep metaphors are frequent in Pope Francis’ speeches and homilies. Urging priests and bishops to spend time among

people, he told them they should be “shepherds living with the smell of sheep.”

In a morning Mass homily Feb. 14, the feast of the great evangelists Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Pope Francis said Christians always remember they are sheep in Christ’s flock. They must preserve their humility as they go into the world with the Gospel, even if they find themselves among wolves.

“Sometimes, we’re tempted to think, ‘But this is difficult, these wolves are cunning, but I can be more cunning,’” he said. “If you are a lamb, God will defend you, but if you think you’re as strong as the wolf, he won’t, and the wolves will eat you whole.”

Celebrating Mass with an estimated 3 million young people at World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro in July, Pope Francis said, “Evangelizing means bearing personal witness to the love of God, it is overcoming our selfishness, it is serving by bending down to wash the feet of our brethren, as Jesus did.”

The obligation to share the Gospel and care for others comes with baptism, and no one is excused from the task, he said.

“Jesus did not say, ‘One of you go,’ but ‘All of you go.’ We are sent together.”

Pope Francis told the young people in Rio, as he told others before and since: “Be creative. Be audacious. Do not be afraid.”

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Above, Pope Francis blesses a child dressed as the pontiff as he arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Feb. 26.

Above left, the pope embraces Vinicio Riva, 53, during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Nov. 6. Riva, who is afflicted with neurofibromatosis, said receiving the pope’s embrace was like being in paradise. Riva is from a small village near Vicenza in northern Italy.

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Pope Francis greets a disabled person during a meeting with UNITALSI, an Italian Catholic association for the transportation of sick people to Lourdes and other Marian shrines, in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 9.

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he Catholic Church began compiling “martyrologies” – lists of saints, typically martyrs – during the first centuries after Constantine. In the pre-Vatican II breviary, a reading from the Roman martyrology, or what we might call the Catholic Book of Witnesses, was an integral part of the Office of Prime, the “hour” recited after sunrise. The day’s date was given, followed by a reading of the names of the saints commemorated that day, with information about each saint’s origin and place of death – and, if the saint were a martyr, the name of the perseGEORGE WEIGEL cutor, a description of tortures endured, and the method of execution. It was a bracing way to begin the working day and a reminder of Tertullian’s maxim that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.

It is somewhat ironic that the loss of prime from the Liturgy of the Hours – and thus the loss of a daily liturgical reading from the Roman martyrology – coincided with the greatest century of persecution in the history of the church. It’s a point well-established but little appreciated within American Catholicism: We have been living, and we’re living now, in the greatest era of persecution in Christian history. More Christians died for the faith in the 20th century than in the previous 19 centuries of Christian history combined. And while the character of the persecutors has changed, from the lethal heyday of the 20th-century totalitarianisms to the first decades of the 21st century, the assault on the Christian faithful today is ongoing, extensive, and heart-rending.

Solidarity with the persecuted church is an obligation of Christian faith. Reflecting on how well each of us has lived that obligation is a worthy point on which to examine one’s conscience during Lent. And that brings me to a suggestion: Revive the ancient tradition of daily readings from the Roman martyrology this coming Lent by spending 10 minutes a day reading John Allen’s new book, “The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of AntiChristian Persecution” (Image).

The longtime Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and CNN’s senior Vatican analyst, Allen has recently moved to the Boston Globe as associate editor, where he (and we) will see if talent and resources can combine to deepen

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Men light candles during a vigil to commemorate Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti in Lahore, Pakistan, March 5, 2011. Bhatti, a Catholic, was ambushed, shot and killed by gunmen in Islamabad March 2. He was an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws. a mainstream media outlet’s coverage of all things Catholic, both in print and on the Web. Meanwhile, Allen will continue the Roman work that has made him the best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever – work that has given him a unique perspective on the world church, and indeed on world Christianity.

His extensive experience across the globe, and his contacts with everyone who’s anyone in the field of international religious freedom issues, makes him an ideal witness to what he calls, without exaggeration, a global war on Christian believers.

That witness includes, in his book, a continent-bycontinent overview of anti-Christian persecution, a debunking of various myths about anti-Christian persecution, and some counsel on what can be done to support those who are literally putting their lives at risk for love of the Lord and the Gospel. Most poignant for Lenten reading, of course, are those parts of Allen’s book that truly are a contemporary martyrology: his telling of the stories of such martyrs

of our time as Shahbaz Bhatti of Pakistan, Ashur Yakub Issa of Iraq, the Tibhirine monks of Algeria, and the pastors and church elders who were crushed to death by a bulldozer in front of their North Korean place of worship.

In pondering these cases, and the hundreds more that Allen cites, one gets a new understanding of “hatred of the faith,” that ancient “odium fidei” that identified the deaths of martyrs. “Odium fidei” expresses itself in many ways, of course, not all of them lethal. Allen’s close focus on those who really are at risk of life and limb for the faith is a useful reminder that, whatever the contempt orthodox Christians are called to suffer today for fidelity to biblical truth in the comfortable, decadent, and increasingly intolerant West, others are being called to suffer far more. Their witness should strengthen ours.

WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

The human struggle with sexual energy

he church has always struggled with sex, but so has everyone else. There aren’t any cultures, religious or secular, pre-modern or modern, postmodern or post-religious, that exhibit a truly healthy sexual ethos. Every church and every culture struggles with integrating sexual energy, if not in its creed about sex, at least in the living out of that creed. Secular culture looks at the church and accuses it of being uptight and anti-erotic.

Partly this is true, but the church might well protest that much of its sexual reticence is rooted in the fact that it is FATHER RON one of the few voices still reROLHEISER maining who are challenging anyone toward sexual responsibility. As well, the church might also challenge any culture that claims to have found the key to healthy sexuality to step forward and show the evidence. No culture will take up that claim.

Everyone is struggling.

Part of that struggle is the seeming innate incompatibility between what Charles Taylor calls “sexual fulfillment and piety,” between “squaring our highest aspirations with an integral respect for the full range of human fulfillments.”

Commenting on this in his book “A Secular Age,” Taylor suggests that there is a real tension in trying to combine sexual fulfillment with piety and that this reflects a more general tension between human flourishing in general and dedication to God. He adds: “That this tension should be particularly evident in the sexual domain is readily understandable. Intense

and profound sexual fulfillment focuses us powerfully on the exchange within the couple; it strongly attaches us possessively to what is privately shared. ... It is not for nothing that the early monks and hermits saw sexual renunciation as opening the way to the wider love of God. ... Now that there is a tension between fulfillment and piety should not surprise us in a world distorted by sin ... but we have to avoid turning this into a constitutive incompatibility.”

How can we avoid doing that? How can we avoid somehow pitting sexual fulfillment against holiness?

How can we be robustly sexual and fully spiritual at one and the same time?

In a soon-to-be-released book “The Road is How: A Prairie Pilgrimage through Nature, Desire and Soul,” Trevor Herriot suggests that human fulfillment and dedication to God, sex and holiness can be brought together in a way that properly respects both of them. How? Without using the word that is at once so-honored and so-maligned, he presents us with an image of what chastity means at its true root. Much like Annie Dillard in her book “Holy the Firm,” Herriot draws a certain concept of chastity out of the rhythms of nature and then presents those rhythms as the paradigm of how we should be relating to nature and to each other. And, for Herriot, those rhythms cast a particularly enlightening beam on how we should be relating sexually. His words: “These days, we watch truckloads of grain pass by and sense that something in us and in the earth is harmed when food is grown and consumed with little intimacy, care and respect. The local and slow food movements are showing us that the way we grow, distribute, prepare, and eat food is important for the health of our body-to-earth exchanges. The next step may be to realize that the energy that

brings pollen to ovary and grows the grain, once it enters our bodies, also needs to be husbanded. The way we respond to our desire to merge, connect, and be fruitful – stirrings felt so deeply, but often so shallowly expressed – determines the quality of our body-to-body exchanges....

In a world bathed in industrial and impersonal sex, where real connection and tenderness are rare, will we sense also that something in us and in the earth is being harmed from the same absence of intimacy, care, and respect? Will we learn that any given expression of our erotic energies either connects us to or divides us from the world around us and our souls?

We are discovering that we must steward the energies captured by nature in the hydrocarbons or in living plants and animals, and thereby improve the ways we receive the fruits of the earth, but we struggle to see the primary responsibility we bear for the small but cumulatively significant explosions of energy we access and transmit as we respond to our own longings to connect, merge and be fruitful. Learning how to steward the way we bear fruit ourselves as spiritual/ sexual beings with a full set of animal desires and angelic ambitions may be more important to the human journey than we fully understand.”

Chastity, as imagined by Charles Taylor, Annie Dillard and Trevor Herriot, has always been the one thing that properly protects sex, the white dress adorning the bride, the means of squaring our highest aspirations with an integral respect for the full range of human fulfillments, and, not least, the trusted guideline for how we can access and transmit our sexual energy with intimacy, care and respect.

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

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SUNDAY READINGS

First Sunday of Lent ‘It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’

MATTHEW 4:1-11 GENESIS 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed.

Out of the ground the Lord God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?”

The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’”

But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with

her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

PSALM 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always: “Against you only have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight.”

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

ROMANS 5:12-19 Brothers and sisters: Through one man sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned—for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin after the pattern of the trespass of Adam, who is the type of the one who was to come. But the gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one, the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ overflow for the many.

And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned. For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation; but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal. For if, by the transgression of the one, death came to reign through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. In conclusion, just as through one transgression condemnation came upon all, so, through one righteous act, acquittal and life came to all. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so, through

the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

MATTHEW 4:1-11 At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, and afterward he was hungry.

The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you and with their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.” At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.” Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.

Only God offers a way out of sin and death JEFF HENSLEY

QUESTIONS:

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My daughter, at a very young age, began to ask questions about how people could fool themselves into believing that abortion was OK. The inverse ratio between people’s acceptance of abortion and the number of years of their education was a puzzling part of this question.

Adam and Eve were just bright enough to allow themselves to question what God had commanded, just smart enough to talk themselves into disobedience, and so sin was introduced into the world.

So it is with many who receive just enough education to allow themselves to question the evidence of their senses and deny that an unborn child is indeed a living, separate being. Those with less education are often less susceptible to verbal arguments that a child in the womb is less than a child.

The Genesis reading makes clear what God offered the first man and his mate: “Out of the ground the

Do you sometimes ponder the ways people deceive themselves into acting against God’s will? How can we make God’s mercy more apparent and more available to others?

‘For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so, through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.’

ROMANS 5:19 Lord God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food.” They had everything they needed, but that wasn’t enough.

The serpent convinced them that God was keeping from them the ability to be like him. Encouraging them to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he said, “No, God

knows well that the moment you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods.”

And all of us have fallen prey to the evil that began with that act.

Many have repented from following their own ways and have sought God’s mercy for their rebellion. The psalmist says, “Have mercy on me, O

God in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.”

I’m reminded of Bernard Nathanson, the abortion doctor who presided over so many deaths but came to repentance and belief in the one who came to bring relief from the burden of sin and guilt. Only the blood of the one who redeems us could take away a guilt so great.

Only the God who offered a way out of the sin and death that come from going our own way could redeem the infamous abortionist – and each of us.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MARCH 10: Monday of the First Week of Lent. LV 19:1-2, 11-18. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 15. MT 25:3146.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12: Wednesday of the First Week of Lent. JON 3:1-10. PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19.

LK 11:29-32.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14: Friday of the First Week of Lent. EZ 18:21-28. PS 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8. MT 5:20-26.

TUESDAY, MARCH 11: Tuesday of the First Week of Lent. IS 55:10-11. PS 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19. MT 6:7-15.

THURSDAY, MARCH 13: Thursday of the First Week of Lent. EST C:12, 14-16, 23-25. PS 138:1-2ab, 2cde3, 7c8. MT 7:7-12.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15: Saturday of the First Week of Lent. DT 26:16-19. PS 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8.

MT 5:43-48.

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Books explore sisters in crisis, in transition and in film REVIEWED BY ALLAN F. WRIGHT CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“SISTERS IN CRISIS REVISITED: FROM UNRAVELING TO REFORM AND RENEWAL” BY ANN CAREY. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2013). 422 pp., $24.95.

“RELIGIOUS LIFE AT THE CROSSROADS: A SCHOOL FOR MYSTICS AND PROPHETS” BY AMY HEREFORD, CSJ. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2013) 206 pp., $20.

“VEILED DESIRES: INTIMATE PORTRAYALS OF NUNS IN POSTWAR ANGLO-AMERICAN FILM”

BY MAUREEN SABINE. Fordham University Press (New York, 2013) 326 pp., $27.

In “Sisters in Crisis Revisited,” Ann Carey offers the best-documented study of the collapse of Catholic women’s religious orders to date.

The documentation is taken from original sources such as essays, journals and firsthand accounts that illustrate that the demise of traditional religious communities was not a result of happenstance or the “spirit of change” during the 1960s, but rather a well-thought-out and intentional dismantling of traditional religious life from within.

The current state of the majority of women’s religious communities in America, many of which have not witnessed a new vocation in decades, is a result of a theology based on a new vision of ecclesiology formulated and packaged as a legitimate interpretation of the Second Vatican Council even before Vatican II came to a close.

“Every major study of religious life done since the early 1990s has found that religious communities that embraced (this) philosophy of democracy and liberation ... have experienced diminishing membership, loss of corporate identity, fracturing of community, and an uncertain future,” Carey writes.

Her terminology throughout the book reflects a successful attempt to be balanced in her assessment of the causes for the demise of women’s religious orders.

“Change-oriented” sisters are held in contrast to “traditional sisters.” While the book is filled with

documentation, it is not laborious to get through and speaks forcefully of the intentions of a small group in leadership who had their own vision for religious life which was not in line with the magisterial thinking of the church.

Carey first documented the demise of orders of religious sisters in her 1997 book, “Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women’s Religious Communities.” Her latest book covers much of the material while adding very little about the renewal or signs of life that are evident and emerging in the Catholic Church. Those who read the previous book may find little added value to this “revisited” assessment. The story is painful to read, but Carey documents how once-thriving communities chose the path of self-destruction.

In “Religious Life at the Crossroads: A School for Mystics and Prophets,” Sister Amy Hereford, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, acknowledges the obvious fact that religious life in the United States over the past 60 years has changed dramatically.

This change, however, is not to be viewed in despair or through the eyes of nostalgia, but is seen through the lens of hope for new and invigorated communities that are emerging. These communities reflect “the renewed commitment to the choice of radical Christian community that inspired, attracted, and sustained the religious of every age.”

In the introduction she states that many of the religious orders that are dying are not “giving up,” but rather “letting go” of ministries and of many of the works and institutions they have served admirably for a century or more. It is not defeat but rather the completion of an impressive chapter in the history of religious life.” She is charitable in her

assessment.

The overall aim of the book is to explore the reimaging of religious life with its new expressions.

In doing so she brings forth the perspectives of St. Augustine, St. Benedict, St. Francis and St. Clare as well as Dorothy Day and Jean Vanier. Those who have only a traditional idea of religious life are asked to consider small Christian communities as the emerging, broader expression of religious life.

“Veiled Desires; Portrayals of Nuns in Postwar Anglo-American Film” by Maureen Sabine, a professor of literary, cultural and religious studies at the University of Hong Kong, explores the portrayal of religious sisters through films such as “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” “Black Narcissus,” “Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison,” “Sea Wife” and “Agnes of God,” to name a few.

Behind every portrayal of religious life on film there is an underlying theology that is often implied. In “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” there is a scene where Father O’Malley asserts that he will not overrule the school’s principal and will not “order her to do anything.” Yet, as he says this the cinematography is clear in portraying the pre-eminent power of his priestly position.

Sabine observes, “As he says this, Father O’Malley stands in the right-hand side of the frame while a high-angle shot looks down over his shoulder to where the nun is sitting. The high angle of the camera erases her authority as school principal at her desk and gives the impression that she is lower, kneeling in a quasi-confessional mode and looking up in a beseeching manner at the priest.”

These observations are interesting and do give an insight into the mind of professional actors, writers and directors who depict and characterize Catholics with whom they have little or no real contact. As with most secular representations of nuns, there is always the fascination and tension with sexuality and eroticism which the author explores.

Also of interest: “Dedicated to God: An Oral History of Cloistered Nuns” by Abbie Reese. Oxford University Press (New York, 2014). 272 pp., $34.95.

WRIGHT is academic dean for evangelization in the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., and the author of several books. He lives with his wife and three children in New Jersey.

Author explores spiritual underpinnings of Gandhi’s politics, life CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“GANDHI: A SPIRITUAL BIOGRAPHY” BY ARVIND SHARMA. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn., 2013). 206 pp., $28.

Arvind Sharma has produced the definitive spiritual biography of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948), a carefully researched and written book that will help Catholics understand why the U.S. bishops some 30 years ago cited Gandhi’s example

of pacifist resistance, along with those of Dorothy Day and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., as having had “profound impact upon the life of the church in the United States.”

Sharma reveals the deeply spiritual wellsprings of this pacifist nonresistant vision, quoting Gandhi’s disclosure in his own autobiography that “what I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve these 30 years – is self-realization, to see God face to face. All that I do by way

of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.”

Sharma avoids the temptation of hagiography, portraying Gandhi in the full range of his humanity – including, for example, his lack of a completely satisfactory relationship with his sons. He wanted them to follow in his footsteps, but that was neither their wish nor their mother’s. As Sharma quotes Gandhi, writing in his autobiography, “I did not prove an ideal father.”

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‘Son of God’ an epochal event for believing moviegoers JOHN MULDERIG

A reverent but uneven screen version of the Gospel story ranks as a worthy revival of the Hollywood biblical epic.

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NEW YORK – As the first wide-release film in nearly 50 years to focus on the life of Jesus as a whole, “Son of God” (Fox) represents an epochal event for believing moviegoers.

Though not the most powerful mass media treatment of its subject – that accolade continues to belong to Franco Zeffirelli’s 1977 television miniseries “Jesus of Nazareth” – director Christopher Spencer’s reverent but uneven screen version of the Gospel story ranks as a worthy revival of the Hollywood biblical epic.

The screenwriters, led by Nic Young, find an efficient entree into their narrative by entrusting it to an aged St. John the Evangelist (Sebastian Knapp) during his exile on the island of Patmos. This is theologically helpful because the opening lines of the Beloved Disciple’s Gospel, as recited here, describe the Incarnation, a mystery without which all that follows could easily be misconstrued.

Early scenes leading up to and including the Nativity will remind at least some viewers that “Son of God” is an outgrowth of last year’s highly successful miniseries on the History cable channel series, “The Bible.”

The new footage that follows is at its best in its portrayal of the events that culminated in the crucifixion of Jesus (Diogo Morgado).

Thus Judas (Joe Wredden), Caiaphas the high priest (Adrian Schil-

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Diogo Morgado stars in a scene from the movie “Son of God.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-III – adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. ler) and Pontius Pilate (Greg Hicks) are all assigned believable motives, while Morgado succeeds in blending messianic vision with very human pain in a thoroughly compelling way – one that accords, moreover, with the scriptural account.

Catholic viewers will also appreciate the unqualified acknowledgement of St. Peter (Darwin Shaw) as the leader of the Apostles as well as scenes highlighting Mary’s (Roma Downey) closeness to her son. And, though the portrayal of the Last Supper seems somewhat noncommittal as to the meaning of the Eucharist, a rough-and-ready celebration of the

sacrament is shown to be the chosen moment for the Lord’s first post-Resurrection appearance to the Twelve.

As for the ministry and preaching that precede the passion – during which Jesus draws the disapproving attention of Simon the Pharisee (Paul Marc Davis) – there are moments that range from the moving to the awkward.

Morgado brings the requisite gravity to bear in announcing that the passage from the prophet Isaiah he has just read aloud in Nazareth’s synagogue has now been fulfilled.

But the story of Lazarus’ death and revivification is truncated – and

drained of much of its impact – by the absence of any hint of Jesus’ previous friendship with him and with his mourning sisters.

Despite such shortcomings, as produced by Downey, Mark Burnett and Richard Bedser, Spencer’s picture offers some solid catechesis and an easy introduction to the Lord’s earthly biography. That’s all the more valuable given the erosion in religious literacy our society has experienced since the appearance of “Son of God’s” most recent – yet far distant – predecessor, George Stevens’ 1965 Gospel drama “The Greatest Story Ever Told.”

In that context, and despite its unflinching treatment of the redeemer’s sufferings, “Son of God” is probably acceptable for older teens.

The film contains strong gory violence. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III – adults.

The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

MULDERIG is on the staff of Catholic News Service.

East Palo Alto Community Prayer Walk for Peace

The Archdiocese Restorative Justice Ministry with St. Francis of Assisi church members, survivors of violent crimes community leaders and other faith congregations will join in a Prayer Walk for Peace in an effort to Stop the violence in East Palo Alto.

Most Rev. William J. Justice and Rev. Lawrence C. Goode and other faith clergy will lead the Prayer Walk for Peace to Stop the Violence with Families of murdered victims. The event will include a Memorial Service and Remembrance of Life reception which will take place after the Prayer Walk at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo.

Program

Jo oin us Saturday, March 8, 2014

Opening Prayer Prayer Walk begins Memorial Service Remembrance of Life Reception

Time:

Location:

9:00 a.m.

9:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m.

St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto, CA

Organized by The Restorative Justice Ministry for Victims and Families of Violent Crimes, under the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and St. Francis of Assisi Church.

For more information contact Julio Escobar 415 861-9579 or Rev. Lawrence C. Goode (650) 322-2152.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Mother’s Club, Church of the Visitacion, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland, San Francisco, March 7 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and March 8 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Chose among clothes, books, and new items too.

PRO-LIFE: Volunteers to peacefully witness the message of life at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, Fridays, 2-4 p.m. Group prays and offers help with accurate information verbally or with pamphlets. Jessica, (650) 5721468; themunns@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8

FRIDAY, MARCH 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

HEALING MASS: Archdiocese of San Francisco Charismatic Renewal, St. Anselm Church, Ross, rosary 6:45 p.m. Mass 7:30 p.m. All welcome to fellowship in parish hall following Mass. Father Ray Reyes, liaison charismatic renewal; Father Mike Quinn, pastor, St. Mary Star of the Sea; Father Mark Taheny, pastor, St. Sebastian, Greenbrae are among the concelebrants. www.sfspirit. com/; queenofpeacemarin@ yahoo.com; (415) 302-8982.

LENTEN EVENING: Carmelite Father David Simpson leads “Praying with St. Teresa of Avila,” 7 p.m., St. Teresa of Avila Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco (415) 285-5272; info@stteresasf. org; www.stteresasf.org.

CRAB FEED: St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, 6 p.m. no-host social, 6:45 dinner, music by Dino, menu includes all you can eat crab or chicken and accompaniments.

Tickets $45. (650) 345-6660.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

SUNDAY, MARCH 16

‘ART OF DYING’: Catholic teaching, tradition and spirituality; pastoral and moral dimensions of the church’s care for the dying to help Catholics approach this sacred process with greater peace and ease, 10 a.m.noon, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, near Rock Hill Drive, Tiburon.

Catholics understand death is an inevitable part of life and transition to eternal life. Yet, we struggle with making difficult medical decisions, often unaware of the church’s ethical and religious directives, which offer much needed guidance and comfort.

We may also be unaware of the church’s rich tradition of sacraments, prayers, and pastoral care for the dying, whose purpose is to help us or our loved ones spiritually and emotionally prepare for our final journey.

Hospice and palliative care, advance healthcare directives, and communicating wishes to loved ones will also be addressed. Diana Rittenhouse, (415) 435-1122, ext. 110; DianaR@ StHilary.org. All are welcome but we do need to know how many are coming to prepare materials.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m., Lisa Wallace, harp; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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2-DAY FLEA MARKET: St. Elizabeth Parish flea market , 490 Goettingen Street, San Francisco, Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., (415) 672-4903; Sophielady7@aol.com.

MARTINIS AND MORE: “Martinis at the Mansion” benefiting Mercy High School, Burlingame, 6 p.m. Come and experience the 100-year-old Kohl Mansion in a whole new light! Flair performing bartenders as seen in films like “Cocktail,” food stations featuring Toast Catering, dancing and of course, martinis. Tickets are $80 person. Patricia Glasser, (650) 762-1199; pglasser@ mercyhsb.com; mercyhsb.com.

SUNDAY, MARCH 9 ICF ANNIVERSARY: St. Dunstan Italian Catholic Federation anniversary with dinner at 5 p.m. in the Parish Center, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae; $25 per person. (650) 692-4029; r.morando@ aol.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 FASHION SHOWS: “Beyond the Blue,” lunch and dinner fashion shows and auctions benefiting Marin Catholic High

TUESDAY, MARCH 11 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, “Jesus, Light, Vatican II and Us.” (415) 456-4815.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from Kristin Heyer, “Immigration and Family Values: Catholic Moral Perspectives.” (415) 456-4815.

School, Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall, San Rafael. Both events will feature Marin Catholic students modeling clothes from local boutiques and stores throughout Marin. Lunch event begins at 10 a.m. and dinner event at 5 p.m. with

meals by Il Fornaio. Tickets for lunch are $70-140; dinner show tickets are $150300. Visit www.marincatholic.org.

FOOTBALL DINNER: Alumni Football Dinner: Archbishop Riordan High

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HIBERNIAN LUNCH: St. Patrick Day Lunch benefiting campus ministry work of the Hibernian Newman Club, Westin St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St., San Francisco, 11 a.m. no-host reception with lunch at noon. Television’s Regis Philbin is guest speaker. Traditional Irish music also part of the day. Tickets are $100 per person. www.hiberniannewmanclub.com; (415) 386-3434.

Sponsored tables at $1,000 include pre-event to meet Philbin and his wife Joy, who is joining him on the trip. The longtime talk and game show host is appearing without fee. jring@siprep. org; (415) 386-3434.

PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

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School invites all alumni and guests to celebrate the legacy of Crusader football. 6-9 p.m. in Chaminade Hall.

Tickets are $50 per person and include hosted bar and dinner. Reservations requested by March 10. www.riordanhs.org; (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

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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 the west side of the parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

FRIDAY, MARCH 21 3-DAY VOCATION: Monastic immersion weekend with monks of the Abbey of New Clairvaux for Catholic men age 18-36 to experience the ancient yet living monastic tradition this Lent. Participants will learn about monastic prayer, Trappist spirituality, monastic history and saints as well as hear monks share their vocation stories. Meals and lodging are provided in the monastery guesthouse; the weekend is paid for by the Abbey. Visit www.newclairvaux.org; call (530) 839-2161.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, San Francisco, 1974 graduates, 6 p.m., Gold Mirror Restaurant on Taraval. Email Christine Gigliotti, gigliottiposta@comcast.net, call (650) 513-1065; (415) 860-9071.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27 THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100

SATURDAY, MARCH 8 ‘THEOLOGY OF THE BODY’: Presentation on Pope John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” 9 a.m.noon at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park by Ed Hopfner, director, Ed Hopfner Office of Marriage and Family Life, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Talk will present Catholic Church teaching on marriage and sexuality in a way attuned to the modern person capable of reaching people in everyday life. Cost is $10 per person and includes coffee and scones. rachel@vallombrosa.org; (650) 325-5614.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 HANDICAPABLES MASS: All disabled people and their caregivers are invited to a Marin County chapter Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, Marin Catholic High School, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Bou-

Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City featuring topics associated with Vatican II and the church of today. March 27: Brian Cahill, retired executive director, Catholic Charities CYO, Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Norberta (650) 361-1411, ext. 115; srnorberta@pius.org.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4 FASHION PREVIEW: Discarded to Divine, de Young Museum, a complimentary 5:30-8:30 p.m. sneak peek at more than 50 one-of-a kind items up-cycled from donated clothing to St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco. Open to the public. Meet designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, view the unique fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned to benefit the SVDP-SF’s Wellness Center. www.discardedtodivine.org.

Contact Margi English, menglish@ svdp-sf.org; (415) 977-1270.

SUNDAY, APRIL 6 CHURCH ANNIVERSARY: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass commemorating 50th anniversary of the dedication of Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue and Archbishop Lawton, San Salvatore J. Francisco, 10:30 Cordileone a.m. with reception following in Ryan Hall. (415) 664-8590; hnchurch50th@gmail. com; www.holynamesf.org.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5 FASHION SHOW: “Pretty in Pink,” 11 a.m., Olympic Club Lakeside benefiting St. Stephen School, San Francisco. sylviaflores@me.com.

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