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Book bearers carrying the Book of the Elect for their respective parishes lead the Rite of Election procession March 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The Rite of Election, a step in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, took place at St. Mary’s Cathedral March 5 in an afternoon prayer service with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presiding. More than 1,300 people were in the assembly. An estimated 150 catechumens, men and women who will receive all three sacraments of initiation – baptism, Eucharist and confirmation – at the Easter Vigil, became the elect at this annual liturgy. Another almost 200 people in RCIA programs, already baptized Christians coming into full communion with the Catholic Church and known as candidates, were recognized in a Rite of Welcome. Candidates make a profession of faith

to the Catholic Church, are confirmed and receive first Eucharist, also at the Easter Vigil. The liturgy was bilingual in English and Spanish. The catechumens and candidates represented more than 40 parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In his homily, Archbishop Cordileone asked that the catechumens and candidates be warmly welcomed to the “faith that Christ calls to be a light.” The Rite of Election always takes place on the First Sunday of Lent at the cathedral and celebrates the acceptance of the archbishop of those who have been preparing to enter the Catholic Church at Easter into the order of the elect – meaning they have see rite, page 12

Faith communities collaborate in unified response to deportation fears Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

About 125 members of San Francisco faith communities, including several Catholic parishes, signed up at the St. Dominic parish hall on Feb. 24 to serve on a unified “rapid response” team to support immigrants during anticipated enforcement actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The event, “Practicing Solidarity During Immigration Raids,” was hosted by St. Dominic’s Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Ministry, formed last year to help parishioners reflect and act on issues relevant to Catholic social teaching. The archdiocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity, Pangea Legal Services, PICO California and California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance co-hosted the two-hour training.

The meeting took place three days after U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary John Kelly issued orders to DHS staff on implementing President Trump’s recent executive orders on border security and enforcement of the immigration laws. Agencies are to deploy “all lawful means” to secure the border with Mexico, to prevent further illegal immigration into the United States, and to repatriate illegal aliens “swiftly, consistently, and humanely,” DHS said in a news release. DHS also is authorized to add 5,000 border agents and empower state and local law enforcement to support federal enforcement of immigration law, “to the maximum extent permitted by law, and to ensure that prosecution guidelines place a high priority on crimes having a nexus to our southern border,” the agency said. “With extremely limited exceptions,

DHS will not exempt classes or categories of removal aliens from potential enforcement,” the agency said. The actions also authorize DHS to expand expedited removal of undocumented immigrants, although as of Feb. 20 no details had been released, according to the Immigration Action Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Since the actions were announced, local immigrant families have been fearing the “5-o’clock-in-the-morning knock on the door” from ICE, said Lorena Melgarejo, parish organizer for the archdiocese. The goal of the meeting, said Melgarejo, was to form one broad network of trained individuals prepared to offer “sanctuary in action” for local undocumented families who call a hotline before, during or after an ICE action. Rapid response teams from St. Agnes Parish and others will be

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wrapped into the one larger network, she said. “When ICE comes to your door, you can’t run,” said Melgarejo. “So the idea is, we bring the congregation or sanctuary to them.” A rapid response team is a network of committed individuals trained to witness, accompany and advocate for immigrants when ICE shows up. They serve as a presence for the family, verifying the raid and serving as moral and legal observers if it is one. Nilou Khonsari, executive director and an immigration attorney for Pangea Legal Services, a San Francisco-based agency that provides direct legal representation to immigrants especially in the area of deportation defense, talked to the group about how and why to document in detail what’s happening during an ICE action. see immigration, page 3

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Need to know 40 Days for Life: The 40 Days for Life apostolate takes place around the country during Lent. Please consider joining the vigil for a few minutes, or even an hour, to witness to the value of life and offer support for these young women in crisis. Contact Ed Hopfner at HopfnerE@SFArch.org or (415) 614-5547; or local coordinator Claire Herrick at sf40daysforlife@gmail.com or (408) 840-3297. Mass for immigrants: A special Mass to embrace all immigrant families and refugees will be held on Saturday, March 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Peter Church, 1200 Florida St., San Francisco, Archbishop Cordileone and Father Moises Agudo celebrating. Following Mass, there will be a forum in English and Spanish to inform immigrants about rights and resources.

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March 11: Mass for Immigrant Dignity, St. Peter Church, 11 a.m. March 15: Chancery meetings; Mass for CSLA convention, cathedral 5 p.m.

Families exit St. Boniface Church after the dispensation of ashes following the 12:15 Ash Wednesday Mass March 1. Homeless people, the disabled and their caretakers, nearby office workers and immigrant families filled the pews of the multiethnic parish in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Franciscan Father Franklin Fong, who is St. Boniface’s pastor and also a calligrapher and watercolor artist, gifted each Massgoer with a handpainted card that included the Franciscan Tau cross and a line of Scripture for Lent.

March 16: Chancery meetings March 17: Hibernian Newman Club luncheon March 19: Vespers, Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland March 22-24: USCCB bishops’ workshop, Washington, D.C.

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Using her iPhone, Khonsari showed prospective team members how to record an action in process from a safe distance, identifying agents and their vehicles and capturing what is actually said and done. The information can help support a legal team preparing a defense. Connecting to undocumented families after immigration officials have left is also the work of the rapid response team. The team members will be present to the family, and make sure it is connected to a local legal network. Team members may also support the undocumented with rides to social services, to appointments and court hearings and to vigils to support their case. Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that deporting “dangerous criminals” is the priority, the loose interpretation of criminality is cold comfort to immigrant families and those who do not want to see them torn apart because of minor infractions. “The word criminal is being expanded a lot,” said Melgarejo. Undocumented people are afraid because they do not know they have rights or what they are if ICE knocks on their door, said Natalie Terry, executive director of The Ignatian Spiritual Life Center at St. Agnes Parish. “We are the mobilizers,” said Terry, whose parish trained more than 400 people to serve as rapid responders. “We are mobilizing God’s people to love the world, and the best way we feel we can do that is to stand in solidarity with people who are living in fear.” On Feb. 23, Bishop Joe S. Vasquez of Austin, Texas, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, said the provisions in the DHS memos “will harm public safety rather than enhance it” since the trust that “currently exists between many police departments and immigrant communities” will be eroded if local agencies are tasked with deporting the communities they’re asked to protect. In his statement, Bishop Vasquez said “taken together, these (new policies) constitute the establishment of a large-scale enforcement system that targets virtually all undocumented migrants as ‘priorities’ for deportation, thus prioritizing no one.” While he voiced concern for all immigrants who could be affected, Bishop Vasquez said it was particularly worrisome that the memos seem to “eliminate important protections for vulnerable populations,

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In a Lent message, California’s Catholic bishops urged immediate attention to ‘neighbors who are migrants and refugees, especially those immigrants who are undocumented.’ including unaccompanied children and asylum seekers” and “greatly expand the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border.” Jeanne Atkinson, of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., a nonprofit legal services agency founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops, said Feb. 22 on the “Son Rise Morning Show” that while President Barack Obama earned the moniker “deporter in chief” because of the record-breaking 2.5 million deportations that took place under his administration, the arrests and removals during his two terms in office focused on expelling serious criminals or those who posed an imminent threat to the nation. What Trump is doing, Atkinson said, is different and signals an “expansion” of deportations in which people who haven’t committed crimes, other than crossing the border without permission, and don’t pose an imminent threat, could be sent back into perilous situations in their native countries or become separated from their families. The California Catholic Conference in a Lent message issued on Ash Wednesday said “it is long past time for our leaders to stop allowing this issue to be used for political advantage and set themselves to the

task of fixing our broken immigration system.” The conference, which is the public policy arm of the state’s bishops, asked the Trump administration and Congress to “ease the climate of fear that is now gripping our communities” and asked Catholics and “people of goodwill” to stand in solidarity with the “vulnerable and excluded in our society” referencing migrants and refugees who are “being unjustly targeted and vilified.” The bishops asked for reforms in visa and guest worker programs, reforms that keep families together, due process for those who are detained and an “immediate path to regularize” the status of “those who are here and contribute to our economy and society but without documentation … with an eye to one day becoming citizens.” The March 1 statement makes a plea that during Lent, “a time when Christian people devote ourselves more intentionally to the spiritual and corporal works of mercy in an earnest effort to reform our lives in the image of Jesus Christ,” urgent attention be given to “neighbors who are migrants and refugees, especially those immigrants who are undocumented.” The bishops said they are concerned about widespread deportations that will break up families and communities. “Fear is now growing in our neighborhoods and schools,” their statement said. “The work of businesses and farms is being disrupted. We seem to be turning away from our nation’s long history of renewal and innovation inspired by successive generations of immigrants and refugees.” Catholic News Service contributed.

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Sheila Ortega has been part of Catholic education since 1989 and teaching at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, since 1991. “I was honored to work alongside Sheila as co-vice principal from 2010-2013,” Corrine Muscat, who became OLPH principal in 2013, told me. “Sheila’s love for our school is unparalleled. She cares deeply and passionately about the comSheila Ortega munity she serves. Sheila Ortega is an exemplary Catholic school educator.” Sheila currently teaches seventh grade and serves as vice principal at OLPH. The school spoke of Sheila, this year celebrating her 25th year at OLPH, in its “Perpetual Light” newsletter. In her quarter century there Sheila has “made numerous contributions” at OLPH, the school said, including donating personal time to write grant requests that have secured funding to introduce and upgrade the technology program, provided scholarship money for families in need, and helped fund school repairs. Sheila also oversees the school’s student council. “Mrs. Ortega’s passion for teaching centers around her love of children and her ability to make lasting connections with her students. Her kind, caring demeanor and leadership skills are unparalleled,” the school said. HELLO AGAIN: Was happy to run into Msgr. Floro Arcamo, retired pastor, Star of the Sea Parish, San Francisco. “I am even busier now,” Msgr. Arcamo told me about his retirement schedule. He helps out at St. Veronica’s, Our Lady of Mercy and Holy Name and considers himself “on call” as needs arise at those parishes and others. Msgr. Arcamo lives at St. Cecilia Parish. “It is a very happy Msgr. Arcamo house there,” he told me. “Msgr. Mike Harriman is a very good pastor, very warm and we all have dinner together most nights.” Msgr Arcamo has been a priest for 51 years and is 76 years old. Along with his good work at Star of the Sea, he is former pastor of St. Augustine, South San Francisco

A MAN FOR ALL: Marianist Father Jack Russi (1939-2011) received Archbishop Riordan High School’s 2017 Chaminade Award posthumously for his dedication to Marianist education. He served at Riordan, Archbishop Mitty in San Jose, and many other places, and “was known by thousands as a kind, generous and fair man, and expert employer of ‘tough love,’” the school said. His family by birth, from left, Jan Mangini, Joe Russi, Cathy Thomas, and Patrick Russi as well as his Marianist brothers were all part of the celebration. service. The archbishop remained near the baptismal font at the end of Mass and greeted everyone.” Ken is one of the Order of Malta coordinators of the liturgy that welcomes sick and disabled persons and their caregivers for prayer and anointing. “My one wish is simple, to get more people to attend and experience the healing and love of the sick that is renewed in my heart every year,” Ken said. Ken and his wife, Kathleen, have been married 34 years and live in, what Ken eloquently called, “the newest parish in the archdiocese, St. Monica-St. Thomas the Apostle.”

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St. Benedict Parish adds programs for deaf Catholic San Francisco

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church in San Francisco, which primarily serves Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties with outreach to the ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, announced that four programs have been added for deaf parishioners who attend Sunday Mass. The programs are led in American Sign Language, and one of them has an Father Ghislain interpreter for hearing parishioBazikila ners’ access.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Every first Sunday after Mass from 12:30-1 p.m. After the Sunday ASL Mass, the parish hosts social time, followed by adoration. “Everyone who is at the parish, everyone who is interested in adoring the eucharistic Lord, and everyone who would like to practice the attitude and growth in the adoration of the Eucharist is welcome,” said Father Ghislain Bazikila, who is in residence at the parish and directs

new programs. Adoration begins with an entrance song both signed and voiced, following by a short reflection or presentation and then silent adoration. “During the shortened eucharistic adoration service, we pray especially for all our living and deceased deaf parishioners and of the all the places or communities that we have met, for our sponsor members, for the disabled people in our archdiocese, and for other needs or persons,” Father Bazikila said.

Reconciliation and confession theater

Planned for the fourth Saturday or Sunday after Mass from 12:30-1 p.m. The purpose of the theatrical reconciliation is to assist deaf and hearing faithful who experience struggles or difficulties with the sacrament of reconciliation. Reconciliation theater will consist in choosing a picture of a saint (Jesus, Mary, Joseph, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Mother Teresa, St. Dominic and others), individually dialoging with the picture in examining your personal spiritual life or sins, and then requesting answers for your questions to help you prepare for the sacrament of the reconciliation at any parish you would like, Father Bazikila explained.

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“It is our hope that this program can help many to rehearse the sacramental guide and prayers, to get skills in examining their sins, to find a quiet moment of holy thinking and discover the great values of penance and of strengthening our attitudes or virtues of ascetic in today‘s world,” Father Bazikila said. “The saints who themselves loved confessing will teach you a lot and will lead you to learn much. Every moment with God, every moment with the sacrament is precious in heaven for our souls.” He said deaf people will be able to confess easily in their natural sign language and also practice the act of the contrition and other usually assigned prayers of penance. He said reconciliation theater program can also benefit children with autism. “We believe in the goodness and power of a holy image,” Father Bazikila said.

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A new approach to city’s housing crisis Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco

Joyce Calagos had two reasons for seeking a housemate last year to share the three-bedroom home she had lived in with her parents before they died. One was practical, the other spiritual. “I needed some extra income,” said Galagos, a parishioner at Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco. As pressing, she said, was her desire to “live the Gospel” by sharing her home with someone who needed an affordable room in a city where the average one-bedroom apartment rents for about $3,500.

Providentially, Calagos heard about HomeMatch, a nonprofit launched last year that matches homeowners who have rentable rooms with compatible, thoroughly screened renters who earn less than 90 percent of Area median income. According to HomeMatch, that is $67,850 for one person. Joyce Calagos After an application and interview with the program staff who also visited her home, Calagos met her match: a newly

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separated single Catholic mother who pays a reasonable $775 for a private room and bath and shares all common areas of the home. “We just clicked,” said Calagos of her first meeting with her prospective boarder at HomeMatch offices on Turk Street. Staff supervised that encounter and once the parties “chose each other,” helped them draft a housing agreement detailing mutual expectations and household rules. Her new roommate moved in Dec. 1. At a Christmas tea hosted by HomeMatch for clients, Calagos arrived with her housemate and her housemate’s teenage daughter, a student at St. Ignatius College Preparatory who lives in another location. “Joyce didn’t just get a lodger,” HomeMatch director Amie Spencer said. “In many ways she gained a second family.” HomeMatch is a joint program of Northern California Presbyterian Homes & Services and Episcopal Senior Communities and is partially funded by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. It was conceived by San Francisco Supervisor Katy Tang, who sought to ease the housing shortage for students, teachers, nonprofit staff, health care workers and other lowand moderate-income renters. With deposits and associated costs, moving can cost up a person up to $10,000. “For a person who makes 40-60k a year, that’s nearly impossible,” said Tina Cheung, program manager of HomeMatch.

Because of the housing crisis, schools and universities, churches, hospitals and nonprofits are among the employers in the city having trouble recruiting qualified job applicants, Cheung said. So far, Cheung has established relationships with 10 San Francisco churches including St. Gabriel, St. Anne of the Sunset and Holy Name of Jesus parishes. St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School and the University of San Francisco are also promoting HomeMatch. “The high cost of housing in San Francisco affects who can attend our school, it affects our staff and also our parishioners,” St. Anne pastor Father Daniel Nascimento said. “HomeMatch is a great concept and we hope it works.” St. Anne includes an ad for HomeMatch in the parish bulletin. The program also has a special interest in helping homeowners find compatible housemates who can provide additional income. Spencer said HomeMatch is an especially good option for aging homeowners who wish to remain in their homes but need help with certain household chores or errands and may be able to offer a rent reduction in exchange. “We are able to ask questions and get to know people applying to the program in a way that they may not be comfortable or able to do,” she said. Visit homematchsf.org or call (415) 351-1000.

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Trump signs new executive order on refugees

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s new executive order temporarily banning refugees from certain majority-Muslim countries, signed March 6, now excludes Iraq from the ban. Iraq had been one of seven nations in the original order, issued Jan. 27 but the implementation of which was blocked in the courts. The new order will not take effect until March 16. Citizens of four of the countries still part of the ban – Iran, Libya, Somalia and Syria – will be subject to a 90-day suspension of visa processing. This information was given to Congress the week prior to the new executive order. The other two countries that remain part of the ban are Sudan and Yemen. Lawful permanent residents – green card holders – are excluded from any travel ban. While the revised executive order is intended to survive judicial scrutiny, those opposed to it have declared plans to mobilize their constituencies to block it. Church World Service and the National Council of Churches announced March 2, that they will unveil a new grass-roots ecumenical initiative in support of refugees. Kim Pozniak, CRS’ communications director, spent a week in mid-February in Amman, Jordan, where untold thousands of refugees are living – two and three families at a time – in small apartments in the city. “I’ve met with people that are worse off than they were three years ago (when she last visited), simply because they’ve started losing hope,” Pozniak told CNS. “One woman, for example, said they’re so bad off they’re considering moving back to Syria.” Pozniak said the woman’s sister, who still lives in Syria, told her “Look, even if it’s so bad that you have to eat dirt, don’t come back here.”

Archbishop in pastoral calls on Catholics to ‘show forth image of God’

LOS ANGELES – The answer to society’s dysfunctions can be found in one person: Jesus Christ. That message is at the core of a new pastoral letter by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez – “For Greater Things You Were Born” – released March 1, Ash Wednesday. The letter is a 16,000-word mediArchbishop Jose tation on human nature, which the archbishop maintains can only be Gomez understood in relation to God. “Jesus Christ alone knows who we are and he is

the one teacher of life,” he writes. “He alone shows us the way to live in order to lead a truly human life.” The elections revealed rifts in American society. The archbishop notes in particular “the persistence of racist thinking,” class divisions, “cruel indifference to the sufferings of immigrants” and efforts to “normalize” abortion and euthanasia. “In place of a coherent national spirit and ethos, we see in our society new expressions of radical individualism and new forms of domination by the strong against the weak,” he writes. The “divisions and dysfunctions” in American society expose unanswered questions about the meaning of life, Archbishop Gomez writes. By forgetting God, society has lost a common foundation on which to build, he says.

Veto on Planned Parenthood funding called ‘deeply offensive’

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has again “demonstrated his unwavering commitment to the nation’s largest abortion provider” by vetoing a bill that would have defunded Planned Parenthood, said the state’s Catholic conference. They said his action comes at the “expense of comprehensive health care for women” because the defunding measure would have redirected state dollars to community health centers that provide primary care to women and their families. The comments came in a statement issued Feb. 21 by the Virginia Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. Earlier that day when McAuliffe vetoed the bill, known as H.B. 2264, Planned Parenthood and its supporters held a veto ceremony on the steps of the governor’s mansion in Richmond. He vetoed a defunding measure last year as well. “Attempts to restrict women’s access to health care will impede the goal of making Virginia the best place to live, work, and run a business,” he said in a statement.

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Bishop challenges Catholics to combat ‘ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry’ Denis Grasska Catholic News Service

SAN DIEGO – San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy is challenging U.S. Catholics to take an active role in combating “the scourge of antiIslamic prejudice.” “We are witnessing in the United States a new nativism, which the American Catholic community must reject and label for the religious bigotry which it is,” he said in a keynote address delivered Feb. 17 in the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. The evening event took place against the backdrop of the first national Catholic-Muslim dialogue, which was held Feb. 17-18 at the Catholic university. Last May, after more than 20 years of regional dialogues with representatives of the U.S. Muslim community, the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established a national Catholic-Muslim dialogue.

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Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego and Muslim leader Sayyid M. Syeed discuss the “ugly tide of anti-Islamic bigotry” in keynote speeches at the University of San Diego Feb. 17. Facilitating the discussion was Ami Carpenter, center, who is an associate professor at the Catholic university’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. Motivated by the call of “Nostra Aetate,” the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on the relationship

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between the Catholic Church and nonCatholic faiths, the dialogue seeks to foster understanding and collaboration between Catholics and Muslims. Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich has been named its first Catholic co-chairman.

In addition to Bishop McElroy’s speech, the evening also featured a keynote speech by Sayyid M. Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America’s Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances, who reflected on the state of Catholic-Muslim relations from the Muslim perspective. A discussion with both men was conducted on stage by Ami Carpenter, an associate professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, with members of the audience invited to ask questions. In his remarks, Bishop McElroy exhorted Catholics “to recognize and confront the ugly tide of antiIslamic bigotry” in the United States, to actively seek relationships with Muslims on a personal level, to accompany the Muslim community as it wrestles with religious liberty issues, and to join with them “to witness to and fight for” a Middle East where Christian, Muslim and Jewish communities can coexist peacefully. Bishop McElroy said U.S. Catholics should view with repugnance the “repeated falsehoods” that Islam is inherently violent, that Muslims seek see dialogue, page 20

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Catholic college’s basketball chaplain is a 97-year-old nun Catholic News Service

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CHICAGO – Religious and clergy alike do their part to help the Ramblers’ men’s basketball team at Loyola University Chicago. The team’s chaplain since 1994 has been Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is now 97 years old. She also is the newest member of Loyola’s sports hall of fame. She was inducted Jan. 21. Sister Jean has become a fixture on campus, even getting her own bobblehead day before a game in appreciation for her service. She keeps an office in the Student Center where her door is always open, and she lives in a dorm with 400 undergraduate students, where she also serves as their chaplain. She leads the team in a pregame prayer. A writer for ESPN who listened in before one game characterized it as a mix of prayer, scouting report and motivational speech. She begins each prayer with the phrase “Good and gracious God.” “I love every one of them,” she told the Chicago Catholic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago. “I talk about the game to them and then they go out and play.” In addition to the team, Sister Jean also leads the entire crowd in a prayer before tip-off. The 5-foot nun can be seen at every home game of the men’s team. She’s most often decked out in Loyola gear and wearing her trademark maroon Nike tennis shoes with gold laces that have “Sister”

teaching in that city. She coached everything from girls’ basketball, volleyball and softball to Ping-Pong and the yo-yo. She told ESPN she had her girls’ team play against the boys to “toughen” them. In 1961, Sister Jean took a teaching job at Mundelein College, the women’s college that prepared its students to teach. Mundelein merged with Loyola in 1991, and she moved along with it. In 1994, Sister Jean became chaplain of the men’s basketball team. She has missed only two home games since then. Before home games, Sister Jean waits for the team and sits on a bench near the entrance to the court where the players come in. After games she emails each player pointing out what they did well and what they can work on. Off the court, she reviews the stats of Loyola’s next opponents online and confers with the players and the coach. She recalled the time when she was near the scorer’s table as the opposing coach approached to submit his starting lineup. “Oh, do you want me to do your lineup for you?” Sister Jean asked. The coach agreed. She provided the jersey numbers for four of the players the coach had planned to submit, then turned back to him and said, “The fifth one’s on you.”

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Riordan journalists invoke St. Francis de Sales, patron of scribes

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his permission to be baptized. The rite includes the elect coming forward with a godparent and signing their parish Book of Elect whose pages sometimes go back decades showing all who have become Catholic through that parish. As Lent further unfolds the elect will go through a series of rituals called scrutinies in which they evaluate their desire to become Catholic and are prayed over by the pastor and community. They continue their formation classes in a more intense way as Easter nears. At the Easter Vigil, both the elect and the candidates for full communion receive the proper sacraments and are fully Catholic. Catholic San Francisco talked to candidate Karen Perry and catechumens Joanne Annuzzi and Gale Stafford before the service. Perry will come into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Burlingame. Perry, 57, was baptized into the Covenant Faith Church later joining a Baptist congregation. Perry said she has

been inspired to join the Catholic Church by the Catholic faith of her husband, Brian, and most recently by the dedicated Catholic faith of family members in North Carolina. Perry looks forward to “growing in faith and learning more about the mysteries of the Catholic Church.” Annuzzi is a catechumen who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil at St. Peter Church, Pacifica. Annuzzi, 66, said she has been “surrounded by Catholicism all my life” and thought the faith to be always part of her life as now it will be in truth. “I am so happy to have people around me that I am now at one with.” Joanne’s husband Jack is Catholic. Annuzzi’s sponsors are Maria SierraBell and Vivian Queirolo. Stafford is a catechumen who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil at Our Lady of Angels Church, Burlingame. He said he was drawn to the Catholic faith by his wife, Ana, who “was raised in the faith in Venezuela and the example of Capuchin St. Padre Pio.” Ana is Stafford’s sponsor. Stafford, 43, looks forward with his wife to “going deeper into the faith, doing retreats at Mercy Center and to keep going with it.”

Student staff of Archbishop Riordan High School’s newspaper The Crusader were recently presented with prayer cards remembering St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists. Father Cameron Faller, school chaplain blessed and presented the cards. The paper has about 50 students on staff, Crusader adviser Susan Sutton told Catholic San Francisco. “Last year, our students won 15 awards, including a national first place winner for Environmental Writing in a contest sponsored by the National Federation of Press Women.” Sutton has been teaching and advising high school journalists for 16 years, three at Riordan, and has been awarded Certified Journalism Educator status by the Journalism Education Association. “I graduated from Immaculate Conception Academy, where I was on The Megaphone staff for all four years, under the guidance of Dominican Sisters Mary Louis Seal and John Martin Fixa,” Sutton said. “Early in the year, we began calling on St. Francis de Sales to help us overcome writer’s block, meet our deadlines, and report news in an ethical and efficient manner,” Sutton said. “We end our class prayer with: ‘St. Francis de Sales, pray for us.’ Calling upon the saints to help guide us in our daily lives is important because it gives us the strength and courage to persevere when tasks seem insurmountable. I wanted students to have a constant reminder that through faith and confidence, we can achieve success.”

NOTE ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY

The feast of St. Patrick, March 17, is a solemnity within the Archdiocese of San Francisco. St. Patrick is the principal co-patron of the archdiocese. March 17, 2017, is a Friday. While normally Lenten observance requires abstinence from meat on the Fridays of Lent, canon law includes the exception: “unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday” (Canon 1251); therefore, within the bounds of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the faithful are not required to abstain from meat on March 17, 2017.

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Australian archbishops: Leadership on abuse was ‘catastrophic failure’ Catholic News Service

SYDNEY – Five Australian archbishops testified before a government commission on child sexual abuse, reiterating apologies and taking responsibility for actions that occurred before they were church leaders. They also said they believed the culture of church and society had changed enough that it would help such abuse from occurring in the future. The abuse of children in the church was “a catastrophic failure in many respects, but primarily in leadership,” Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Feb. 23, near the end of three weeks of public hearings. Gail Furness, the counsel assisting the commission, asked four other archbishops if they concurred with the assessment, and all agreed. The commission is wrapping up more than three years of investigation into the Australian Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse. During the initial hearings Feb. 6, the commission reported on summary data showing that between January 1980 and February 2015, 4,444 people made allegations of child sexual abuse that related to more than 1,000 institutions. The statistics did not differentiate between allegations and proven cases. “Precisely because we have failed so badly, our society has a right to expect us to do what we can to contribute to a solution, if we can,” Archbishop Costelloe said. “I mean, there may be many people who would think that our record and our reputation is so damaged that we have nothing to offer, and I would understand that, but I think that, tragically

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and unfortunately, we have learned an awful lot about this terrible scourge.” Archbishop Costelloe – along with Archbishops Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Denis Hart of Melbourne, Anthony Fisher of Sydney and Philip Wilson of Adelaide – told the commission about times they had apologized for the church’s actions and what steps had been taken in their archdiocese to ensure such abuse did not occur. But they also spoke of times they had spent listening to victims, often under the protocols set up in the bishops’ 1996 document, “Towards Healing.” One of the recurring questions in three weeks of public hearing has been how the abuse could have

happened on such a massive scale without people being aware of it. “Part of the difficulty that we’ve had in responding to this crisis about sexual abuse was simply based on the fact that people just didn’t know and understand what they were dealing with,” said Archbishop Wilson. “I don’t think they really understood the nature of sexual abuse of children and the effect that it had on the children.” “I think there were people that were just like rabbits in the headlights,” said Archbishop Fisher. “They just had no idea what to do, and their performance was appalling.” Archbishop Costelloe reiterated earlier testimony that, in the past, the church “was a law unto itself, that it was somehow or other so special and so unique and, in a sense, so important that it stood aside from the normal things” that would exist in society. That kind of culture often trickled down to priests in parishes, he said. Archbishop Hart said bishops operated differently in past decades. “They just sort of floated above it, and it just didn’t – you know, the awful reality of these crimes didn’t make contact with them,” he said. “I don’t understand why, but I do know that the way we act now is very, very different, the way we consult, the see australia, page 18

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Discovery of Earth-sized planets boosts hope of finding alien life Carol Glatz Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – The quest to find life on other planets got a boost when astronomers confirmed the existence of at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star just 40 light years away. Three of the planets are located in the so-called “habitable” zone, a kind of “Goldilocks” sweet spot in that their distance from the sun makes them not too hot, not too cold, but just right for having liquid water – an essential ingredient for life. The pope’s own astronomers applauded the new discovery around the dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, named after one of the many telescopes that detected the planets. The study’s results were published in Nature magazine Feb. 22. “The discovery is important because, to date, it has revealed the highest number of Earth-sized planets revolving around a single parent star,” U.S. Jesuit Father David Brown told Catholic News Service. “Depending on different factors, all of the planets could potentially harbor conditions for the possible existence

An artist’s depiction shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1f. of life on them,” he said in an email response to questions Feb. 24. “It is also significant because it shows the existence of such exoplanets – planets outside of our solar system – around low-mass – smaller than the Sun – cool, red, dim stars, which are the most common types of stars in galaxies and which have long lifetimes,” said the astrophysicist, who

Abuse survivor quits papal body, citing Vatican resistance to safeguarding

VATICAN CITY – One of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has quit over what she described as resistance coming from Vatican offices against implementing recommendations. Marie Collins, who joined the commission when it was established in 2014, said: “The reluctance of some in the Vatican Curia to implement recommendations or cooperate with the work of a commission when the purpose is to improve the safety of children and vulnerable adults around the world is unacceptable.” “It is devastating in 2017 to see that these men still can put other concerns before the safety of children and vulnerable adults,” she said in an editorial published online March 1 by the National Catholic Reporter. “This has been directly due to the resistance by some members of the Vatican Curia to the work of the commission. The lack of cooperation, particularly by the dicastery most closely involved in dealing with cases of abuse, has been shameful,” she said.

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studies stellar evolution at the Vatican Observatory. He said scientists and astronomers will now want to use newer and more powerful telescopes to learn more about the TRAPPIST-1 solar system, such as the planets’ atmospheres. “The aim is to look for signs of the presence of chemicals like water, methane, oxygen and others by looking at

Pope to priests: Defend marriage ministering to those in irregular unions

VATICAN CITY – Reaching out to and guiding couples in cohabitation with tenderness and compassion is essential to promoting and defending the sanctity of marriage, Pope Francis said. Couples who have chosen to live together without getting married in the church “are, in spiritual and moral terms, among the poor and the least, toward whom the church, in the footsteps of her teacher and Lord, wants to be a mother who doesn’t abandon, but who draws near and cares for,” he said in an audience with parish priests Feb. 25. Look upon such couples with “tenderness and compassion,” he said, urging the clergy to remember that ministry to the least and the neediest “is an essential part of your work in promoting and defending the sacrament of marriage.”

Local bishop says again Mary is not appearing in Medjugorje

VATICAN CITY – “The Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje,” said Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which includes Medjugorje. Two weeks after the Vatican announced Pope Francis was sending a Polish archbishop to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and the thousands of pilgrims who flock to Medjugorje each year, Bishop Peric posted his statement Feb. 26 on his diocesan website.

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Three of the six young people who originally claimed to have seen Mary in Medjugorje in June 1981 say she continues to appear to them each day; the other three say Mary appears to them once a year now. Bishop Peric noted that a diocesan commission studied the alleged apparitions in 1982-1984 and again in 1984-1986 with more members; and the thenYugoslavian bishops’ conference studied them from 1987 to 1990. All three commissions concluded that it could not be affirmed that a supernatural event was occurring in the town.

Always give homeless a handout, pope says

VATICAN CITY – People who don’t give money to the homeless because they think it will be spent on alcohol and not food should ask themselves what guilty pleasures they are secretly spending money on, Pope Francis said in an interview published Feb. 28. “There are many excuses” to justify why one doesn’t lend a hand when asked by a person begging on the street, he said in an interview published the day before the beginning of Lent. But giving something to someone in need “is always right,” and it should be done with respect and compassion because “tossing money and not looking in (their) eyes is not a Christian” way of behaving, he said. The interview, published Feb. 28, was conducted by the monthly magazine, “Scarp de’ Tenis” (Tennis Shoes), which serves homeless and marginalized people in Milan. Catholic News Service

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Sunday readings

Second Sunday of Lent GENESIS 12:1-4A The Lord said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you.” Abram went as the Lord directed him.

him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

PSALM 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear

2 TIMOTHY 1:8B-10 Beloved: Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God. He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began, but now made manifest through the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus, who destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

MATTHEW 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with him. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised their eyes, they saw no one else but Jesus alone. As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, “Do not tell the vision to anyone until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”

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hen you go to a spiritual director so you can grow closer to God more consciously, you may be asked about a “peak spiritual experience.” The director invites you to recall a time when you felt God’s presence unforgettably. For many parents, feeling overcome by transcendence happens when their first child is born. Some remember the well of courage when they got a cancer diagnosis, or when a spouse was dying—they felt convinced that God was with them, supporting them, and this peace has never left them. For some, recognizing a vocation to religious life, leaving a non-marriage, or stepping across a chasm of uncertainty in a career sister Eloise change–these moments can Rosenblatt, RSM be accompanied by dramatic physical calm, clarity, freedom and joy. A person has no doubt this is God’s assurance, the way forward, and a good and holy decision. Some surface a moment at Mass, Benediction, or saying the rosary. In the middle of an ordinary time of prayer, they feel overwhelmed with a sense

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of God’s love. Other people recall their view across the night sky, the ocean’s horizon or a desert expanse, feeling ecstatic, more fully alive than they’d ever felt before, like being utterly in love. Coma survivors report an “out of the body” floatingsensation, moving into a welcoming, serene light, before “coming back,” then knowing they hadn’t died after all, but now feel deep peace without fear of death. I remember a striking insight of Dominican Father Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, noted New Testament scholar, one of my professors at the École Biblique, the French Dominican school of biblical studies and archeology in Jerusalem. We visited Mount Tabor, the traditional site in Galilee associated with the phrase, “He took them up a high mountain by themselves.” Exegetical studies typically consider the Transfiguration a narrative about the disciples witnessing a mysterious, other-worldly encounter of Jesus with the Father. However, Father Jerry proposed that the Transfiguration was, most fundamentally, a restorative, bracing moment of spiritual renewal for Jesus himself at an anguished period in his ministerial life. The human Jesus had to have felt anxiety. He had to have been shaken by the political quicksand under Herod’s rule, and a looming personal threat at the imprisonment and beheading of his cousin John the Baptist. Where could he find the courage to

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, March 13: Monday of the Second Week in Lent. Dn 9:4b-10. Ps 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. See Jn 6:63c, 68c. Lk 6:36-38.

7. Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. Rom 5:1-2, 5-8. Cf. Jn 4:42, 15. Jn 4:5-42.

Tuesday, March 14: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent. Is 1:10, 16-20. Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Ez 18:3. Mt 23:1-12.

Monday, March 20: Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 1214a, 16. Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 27 and 29. Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22. Ps 84:5. Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a.

Wednesday, March 15: Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent. Jer 18:18-20. Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16. Jn 8:12. Mt 20:17-28.

Tuesday, March 21: 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.

Thursday, March 16: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent. Jer 17:5-10. Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6. See Lk 8:15. Lk 16:19-31.

Wednesday, March 22: 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.

Friday, March 17: Friday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Patrick, bishop and confessor. Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a. Ps 105:1617, 18-19, 20-21. Jn 3:16. Mt 21:33-43, 45-46.

Thursday, March 23: Thursday of the Third Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Turibio de Mogrovejo, bishop. Jer 7:23-28. Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9. Jl 2:12-13. Lk 11:14-23.

Saturday, March 18: Saturday of the Second Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, bishop, confessor and doctor. Mi 7:14-15, 18-20. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12. Lk 15:18. Lk 15:1-3, 11-32.

Friday, March 24: 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.

Sunday, March 19: Third Sunday of Lent. Ex 17:3-

Saturday, March 25: Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord. Is 7:10-14; 8:10. Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11. Heb 10:4-10. Jn 1:14b. Lk 1:26-38.

continue if a similar fate awaited him, if his own name were on a death list? Up on the mountain, the entire mood lifts. Light envelopes Jesus. He feels taken out of himself and drawn into a halo of holy presences–Moses and Elijah. They speak to him as family friends, timeless ancestors, lending him their centuries of strength and reliance on God. Moses also ascended a mountain, Sinai, and brought down God’s commandments, then went on to lead his followers forward. Elijah from Galilee, like Jesus, also endured political persecution, fled into the desert, was fed by a raven, found shelter with a poor woman, and restored her son to life. He was taken up into heaven. The anxiety of Jesus gets subsumed into a grand vision of his mission. He is not alone. And then an overpowering, unmistakable consolation. He hears the Father’s voice: “This is my beloved son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When Jesus touches his disciples, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid,” he is passing on to them the divine reassurance that has just rejuvenated his heart and mind. They too can get up and go on, no matter what the future brings. This Sunday is a time to recall your own “transfiguration moments” and take courage. Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a Ph.D. theologian and an attorney in private practice in family law. She lives in San Jose.

Pope Francis Pope: Bible, like cellphone, should be carried always

VATICAN CITY – Christians should care about reading God’s messages in the Bible as much as they care about checking messages on their cellphones, Pope Francis said. As Christ did in the desert when tempted by Satan, men and women can defend themselves from temptation with the word of God if they “read it often, meditate on it and assimilate it” into their lives, he said before praying the Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter’s Square March 5. “What would happen if we turned back when we forget it, if we opened it more times a day, if we read the messages of God contained in the Bible the way we read messages on our cellphones?” the pope asked the crowd. The pope’s reflection centered on the day’s Gospel reading (Matthew 4:1-11) in which Jesus is tempted by the devil while fasting in the desert for 40 days and nights before beginning his ministry. Catholic News Service

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Of winners and losers

ur society tends to divide us up into winners and losers. Sadly, we don’t often reflect on how this affects our relationships with each other, nor on what it means for us as Christians. What does it mean? In essence, that our relationships with each other are too charged with competition and jealousy because we are too infected with the drive to outdo, out-achieve, and out-hustle each other. For example, here are some slogans that pass for wisdom today: Win! Be the best at something! Show others you’re more FATHER ron talented than they are! Show rolheiser that you are more sophisticated than others! Don’t apologize for putting yourself first! Don’t be a loser! These phrases aren’t just innocent axioms cheerleading us to work harder; they’re viruses infecting us so that most everything in our world now conspires with the narcissism within us to push us to achieve, to set ourselves apart from others, to stand out, to be at the top of the class, to be the best athlete, the best dressed, the best looking, the most musically talented, the most popular, the most experienced, the most traveled, the one who knows most about cars, or movies, or history, or sex, or whatever. At all costs we drive ourselves to find something at which we can beat others. At all costs we try to somehow set ourselves apart from and above others. That idea is almost genetically engrained in us now. And because of that we tend to misjudge others

and misjudge our own meaning and purpose. We structure everything too much around achieving and standing out. When we achieve, when we win, when we are better than others at something, our lives seem fuller; our self-image inflates and we feel confident and worthwhile. Conversely, when we cannot stand out, when we’re just another face in the crowd, we struggle to maintain a healthy self-image. Either way, we are forever struggling with jealousy and dissatisfaction because we cannot help constantly seeing our own lack of talent, beauty, and achievement in relationship to other’s successes. And so we both envy and hate those who are talented, beautiful, powerful, rich, and famous, holding them up for adulation even as we secretly wait for their downfall, like the crowd that praises Jesus on Palm Sunday and then screams for his crucifixion just five days later. This leaves us in an unhappy place: How do we form community with each other when our very talents and achievement are cause for jealousy and resentment, when they’re sources of envy and weapons of competition? How do we love each other when our competitive spirits make us see each other as rivals? Community can only happen when we can let the talents and achievements of others enhance our own lives and we can let our own talents and achievements enhance, rather than threaten, others. But we’re generally incapable of this. We’re too infected with competitiveness to allow ourselves to not let the achievements and talents of others threaten us and actualize our own talents in a way so as to enhance the lives of others rather than to let ourselves stand out. Like our culture, we too tend to divide people into winners and losers, admiring and hating the former,

looking down on the latter, constantly sizing each other up, rating each other’s bodies, hair, intelligence, clothing, talents and achievements. But, as we do this, we vacillate between feeling depressed and belittled when others outscore us or inflated and pompous when we appear superior to them. And this becomes ever more difficult to overcome as we become more obsessed with our need to stand out, be special, to sit above, to make a mark for ourselves. We live in a chronic, inchoate jealousy where the talents of others are perennially perceived as a threat to us. This keeps us both anxious and less than faithful to our Christian faith. Our Christian faith invites us not to compare ourselves with others, to not make efforts to stand out, and to not let ourselves be threatened by and jealous of other’s gifts. Our faith invites us to join a circle of life with those who believe that there is no need to stand out or be special, and who believe that other people’s gifts are not a threat, but rather something which enriches all lives, our own included. When we divide people into winners and losers then our talents and gifts become sources of envy and weapons of competition and superiority. This is true not just for individuals but for nations as well. One of these competitive slogans within our culture tells us: Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser! Well, seen in this light, Jesus was a loser. People were shaking their heads at his death, and there was no championship ring on his finger. He didn’t look good in the world’s eyes. A loser! But, in his underachieving we all achieved salvation. Somewhere there’s a lesson there! Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Other persons are a gift

few days ago I met a very little girl who made a big impression on me. Grace and her older brother Benedict suffer from a rare genetic disorder that has resulted in serious hearing impairment and limited physical growth. The two come to our home for the elderly each week with their mother to pray the rosary with our residents. Watching Grace and Benedict interact with the elderly, I was amazed by their maturity and graciousness. I almost felt that I was in the presence of angels – such was the radiance of these two beautiful little ones in the Sister midst of our frail seniors. constance In all likelihood, Grace and veit, lsp Benedict will never make an impact on the world scene, and yet I believe that they, and so many other little, hidden souls, make a huge difference in our world spiritually. This is what our Holy Father is suggesting by his Lenten message this year. The theme he has proposed for our 2017 journey through Lent is The Word Is a Gift. Other Persons Are a Gift.

Using the parable of Lazarus and the rich man from St. Luke’s Gospel, Pope Francis turns our attention to those whom we might usually ignore. He compares the anonymity of the rich man, who is never named in Scripture, with Lazarus, who appears with a specific name and a unique story. Lazarus “becomes a face, and as such, a gift, a priceless treasure, a human being whom God loves and cares for, despite his concrete condition as an outcast.” The Holy Father continues, “Lazarus teaches us that other persons are a gift. A right relationship with people consists in gratefully recognizing their value.” Lent, he says, is a favorable season for recognizing the face of Christ in God’s little ones. “Each of us meets people like this every day,” says the pope. “Each life that we encounter is a gift deserving acceptance, respect and love. The word of God helps us to open our eyes to welcome and love life, especially when it is weak and vulnerable.” This is what our foundress St. Jeanne Jugan did so beautifully. Mindful of Christ’s promise that whatever we do to the least of his brothers and sisters we do to him, she opened her heart and her home definitively to the needy elderly of her day. She often counseled the young Little Sisters, “Never forget that the poor are our Lord … When you will be near

the poor give yourself wholeheartedly, for it is Jesus himself whom you care for in them.” Jeanne Jugan looked upon each elderly person with the loving gaze of Christ and so she saw each one as a treasure worthy of reverence and loving care. She knew that despite outward appearances, each person to whom she offered hospitality was someone for whom Christ died and rose again; each one was someone worthy of the gift of her own life. Pope Francis’ prayer this Lent is that the Holy Spirit will lead us “on a true journey of conversion, so that we can rediscover the gift of God’s word, be purified of the sin that blinds us, and serve Christ present in our brothers and sisters in need.” Let us pray for one another, he concluded, “so that by sharing in the victory of Christ, we may open our doors to the weak and the poor. Then we will be able to share to the full the joy of Easter.” I thank God for my recent encounter with Grace and Benedict, for they opened my eyes anew to the beauty in each human person. My wish for you this Lent is that God might lead you to a similar lifechanging encounter. Sister Constance Veit is the director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Letters Authoritarian but not authoritative?

Reading the opinion article on the church’s resolution of bioethical questions, by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk (Feb. 23), one must ask, “What is wrong with this message?” One answer is “Everything historical in the article is true, but needs further interpretation.” Take as example the quote from Pope Pius XII: “…. artificial insemination is immoral and absolutely unlawful.” Put it in context of the hundreds of statements Pius XII made to medical professionals and researchers, and since he had no science background whatever, the opinion he expressed in that one speech could not have been personal. It expressed the opinion in the church at that time. Let us take four more statements made about the same pope (all from Wikipedia). (1) “Pius XII was very careful not to close any doors prematurely. He was energetic on this point and regretted the case of Galileo”; (2) “To Pius XII, science and religion were heavenly sisters, different manifestations of divine exactness,

who could not possibly contradict each other over the long term”; (3) Pope Pius XII himself established a new policy for more liberal investigations by theologians; (4) “Pope Pius XII often reconsidered previously accepted truth, thus he was first to determine that the use of pain medicine in terminally ill patients is justified, even if this may shorten the life of the patient, as long as life shortening is not the objective itself.” The same pope who made an opinion 60 years ago, with knowledge of that day, was willing to change. Would he now change, because religion and science are in the process of resolving contradictions? For science and religion to converge, new policy has to be established. That will only happen if the church is willing to substitute theologians for “church leaders” in the discussion with medical professionals. The leaders to whom Father Pacholczyk refers may give authoritarian but not authoritative guidance. Alex M. Saunders San Carlos

Abortion’s toll

The pulpits of Catholic churches have maintained a perpetual forbearance of preaching against the evil of abortion. Since the decision making abortion legal, millions of potential soldiers of Christ have died. Roy Domenico Petri Sonoma

Letters disheartening

I just read the letters to editor section (Feb. 23). It’s not happy reading. Although there are letters expressing opposite points of view, the bottom line is depressing. You know I’m in the liberal-progressive camp, but it’s all quite disheartening, no matter where you stand. Each side totally believes in their point of view and allows no other to have any possible validity. On the bright side, I love our Pope Francis and what he stands for. I asked for mercy because of him. Charles Leyes San Francisco

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Archbishop visits St. Matthew Parish and school: Archbishop Cordileone is pictured with St. Matthew School kindergartners and teacher Janel Worley. The archbishop visited the parish and school in San Mateo beginning Feb. 9, when he confirmed 54 young men and women of the parish. Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, concelebrated. Monday was his time in the school, Adrian Peterson, principal, told Catholic San Francisco. “We began with morning assembly which is new for the school this year. The archbishop loved that we began our morning in community and in prayer.” Peterson said. “It was a fun time with the archbishop.”

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OUR LADY OF MERCY SCHOOL, DALY CITY: A full court press on loneliness began Feb. 10 at OLM with the first of its No One Eats Alone Days. OLM school counselor Lisa Perez learned about the effort from Beyond Differences, an organization striving to end social isolation. OLM was one of over 2000 schools across the United States who participated in the event. Students usually eat lunch in their classrooms and sit at their own desks or move their desks around to sit with their friends. “The goal of the event was to make sure that no one ate alone and to get to know something new about their classmates,” Perez told Catholic San Francisco. Enjoying the day are, from left, third graders Ava Chiappari,

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Priests are sought to celebrate Mass and hear confessions at the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno on specified dates from 5:306:30 p.m. Contact Julio Escobar, archdiocesan restorative justice ministry, 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109; phone (415) 6145572; email escobarj@sfarch.org.

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manity and brotherhood, a Trentino of which all of us can be proud. He left a huge hole on the two sides of the ocean, but we preserve forever the memory of his activity and his personality.”

Franciscan Father Efrem Trettel, best remembered for his television Masses on Apostolato Radio Christiana which he personally created and produced for 43 years, died Jan. 20 at the Mercy Care and Retirement Center in Oakland. He was 96 Father Efrem years old and served Trettel, OFM 77 years professed and 73 years ordained. Father Trettel was a friar from the Province in Trent, Italy, where he was born on May 17, 1921. He came to San Francisco in 1953. Services were held at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, with burial next to his brother, Franciscan Father Flavio Trettel. “Friar Guglielmo Lauriola preached the homily in Italian before a large crowd, and was accompanied at the altar by 10 other priests, including a Salesian friend from Efrem’s native city of Trent,” Franciscan Father Tom West said in recalling the service. “In honor of Efrem’s television ministry to the Italian-speaking community, San Francisco’s Channel 26 announced that the last of his ‘Seeds of Love’ ferverinos would be aired on Jan. 29. Friars in attendance included Martín Ibarra, Tom West, John Gutierrez, Dennis Duffy, and Louie Vitale.” The Trentini nel Mondo Association stated: “We participate with sadness and emotion at the sorrow for the death of Father Efrem. An extraordinary person. With his intense communications activity, by radio and television, he had become a pillar of the Trentino (and Italian) community of San Francisco. He was a charismatic man, a religious who personified the teachings of St. Francesco, a sensitive and versatile artist, an example of hu-

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Sister Margaret Mollan, BVM

Sister Margaret Mollan, BVM (Laurice), 94, and a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 77 years, died Feb. 26, at Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. Funeral rites and burial took place at the sisters’ chapel and cemetery there. Sister MargaSister Margaret ret taught at San Mollan, BVM Francisco’s St. (Laurice) Brigid School in San Francisco and in schools in Des Moines, Iowa; Chicago and Mundelein, Illinois; Kauai, Hawaii; Lincoln, Nebraska; Butte, Montana. She also served in San Jose. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

Sister Joanne Fitzpatrick

Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Joanne Fitzpatrick died Feb. 16 at the sisters Oakwood residence in Atherton. She was 84 years old and a religious for 64 years. Sister Joanne attended Sacred Heart schools in Missouri. Sister Joanne Fitzpatrick, RSCJ She held an undergraduate degree in English and graduate degrees in counselor education from Northwestern University and religious studies from St. Louis University.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 11 MERCY SF GALA: Mercy High School, San Francisco, “Get Ready to Set Sail,” silent and live auction, elegant dinner and dancing; www.mercyhs. org/gala; Bekah Paige (415) 334-7941, bpaige@mercyhs.org. HEALING MORNING: Mass, breakfast and encouragement at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., San Francisco, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Franciscan Father William Lauriola, principal celebrant, $10 donation requested; Vilma Merlos, (415) 525-6434, (415) 860-5637. LENTEN EXHORTATION: Father David Pettingill on the Catholic place in the world, a talk especially for Lent, at St. Raphael Church, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, 2-4:30 p.m. followed by Mass at 5 p.m. Father Pettingill, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for 54 years, is a former member of the faculty at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and principal of Marin Catholic High School and well known for his enlightened and enlightening retreat talks and days of recollection. RSVP ebsmith1940@att.net.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 18 CATHEDRAL LENT TALKS: “Grace and the Lenten Season,” with Dominican Father Robert Christian, master of students, Western Dominican ProvFather Robert ince; adjunct Christian professor of sacramental theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley; 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. (415) 567-2020; www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS, COLMA

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Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.