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PITTSBURGH (CNS) – The Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania, one of the largest regional ecumenical agencies in the United States, urged the Obama administration to broaden the religious exemption in the federal government’s mandate requiring that most health plans cover the cost of contraception, sterilization and some drugs that can induce abortion. As it stands now, religious employers who are morally opposed to such coverage may be forced to shut down various ministries, including outreach to the poor, which would result in an “immense injustice” to those in need, the organization said in a statement. It said the mandate violates the Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom and also called “health care for all” a “moral imperative.” The statement, released April 13 at a news conference at the organization’s headquarters in Pittsburgh, was signed by the leaders of several church bodies, including the Catholic Church. “Our deep concern over this mandate does not arise from the varying convictions we have on the moral content of this mandate, but from our common commitment to the right of religious freedom that all people of faith expect to enjoy in this country,” the statement said. “The Constitution of the United States guarantees every religious institution and its affiliated bodies the inalienable right to define its own identity and ministries and to practice its own beliefs, not just its freedom of worship,” it added. The signatories included Bishops David A. Zubik and Lawrence E. Brand, who head, respectively, the Latinrite dioceses of Pittsburgh and Greensburg and Father Eugene Yackanich, interim administrator of the Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh. (Archbishop William C. Skurla was to be enthroned as head of the archeparchy April 18.) “Many religious institutions are now placed in the untenable position of (a) violating their consciences, (b) ceasing health insurance and paying ruinous fines, or (c) INJUSTICE, page 3

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Saving baby James Alison Lynch is pictured in San Mateo April 15 with her son James Lopez-Lynch, whose birth became a celebration in part because of support by parish Gabriel Project volunteers for a young mother at a difficult time. Alison attends high school and hopes to become a paralegal.

‘We cannot just stand by and watch’ Filipino priest who opposes mine to protect indigenous people’s land wins Goldman prize By George Raine The indigenous people of Mindoro, the seventhlargest island in the Philippines, eke out a living growing upland rice, root crops and bananas, but the crops are grown on their ancestral land and to destroy it by way of mining for metal would destroy them. Imagine the harm toxic waste would do, wending its way into Mindoro’s water resources and forests, dumping into the sea to kill the fishermen’s catch. This is the nightmare of Father Edwin Gariguez, a Catholic priest for the island’s mission who has led a dogged opposition to a Norwegian company’s ambitious plans to mine nickel. The work has led, at least temporarily, to the suspension of the developer’s permit and thwarted the project. For his determination and courage – he has earned a place on a list of “dissident terrorists” drawn up by the military in the Philippines – Father Gariguez on April 16 was one of six recipients of the prestigious

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2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, awarded in San Francisco. The awards, established in 1989 by the late San Francisco civic leaders and philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman, are given to, as prize administers note, “a group of fearless emerging leaders working against all odds to protect the environment and their communities.” Father Gariguez’ campaign to protect Mindoro Island’s biodiversity and its indigenous people, known as the Mangyan, began only a few years after his ordination in 1993. He had come from Quezon Province on the Island of Luzon. He asked for the Mindoro assignment, as pastor of the Mangyan Mission Church, seeing it as an opportunity and a challenge. The challenge came in spades when Intex Resources of Norway began laying plans to mine nickel, abundant in the island’s soil. He told the story during an interview in San Francisco prior to receiving the prize. He said Intex – which did not respond to an email from Catholic San Francisco GOLDMAN, page 4

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke St. Timothy School students participated in Operation Rice Bowl, a program of Catholic Relief Services, raising $2,149 for the Lenten cause. In the process of studying about children in Madagascar, Vietnam, El Salvador and Zambia, the kindergarten class gained a practical understanding of Radin Bumban Catholic social teaching, the school pours out his rice said. “Some people don’t have bowl. clean water to drink” and “We can help them” are observations from the youngsters. • St. Catherine School fifth grader, Alessandro Franco, took first place in the Burlingame Lions’ Club spelling bee with the correct spelling of “decaffeinated.” A little math, too, as the win added up to $400 in prize money for St. Catherine’s. Alessandro • Charity is also ringing in the hearts of Franco students at Star of the Sea School where during the last six years the school’s Pennies for Patients campaign has raised more than $15,000. “All those boxes, bags, and jars of pennies have added up to a lot of good,” said second grade teacher, Cindy Conway, who oversees the good work, and who has been raising money for leukemia cure progress for 10 years. “The money that we have raised has helped doctors research new medicines, helped patients pay for drugs, and given people hope that one day a cure will be found.” • Church of the Good Shepherd parishioners prayed a rosary for life at a San Mateo Planned Parenthood facility on Palm Sunday. Handling the decades were Gil Eliares, Nelly Agdeppa, Jerry Henderson, Catherine Argel, Martha Cordero and Jeff Patino. • St. Stephen Parish offered a Lenten soup and salad series on forgiveness featuring talks from representatives of the Stanford-Northern Ireland HOPE Project. More than 100 people attended each of the four exhortation evenings. Father Paul Warren, pastor, gave opening and welcome remarks. • Mighty proud of their son, Nick Schorno, are his folks

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Gabriel Project parish ‘angels’ watch over troubled moms, families A teen whose baby united a family that had pressed her to abort him, a young woman whose toddler returned home from foster care just in time for Christmas, an abandoned new mom whose infant opened the door to a loving friendship – all believe the Gabriel Project “angels” who took them under their wing can work miracles. For their part, volunteers in the nationwide, parishbased program named after the bearer of the good news of Christ’s birth to Mary attest that making a difference in the lives of others has changed their own. Many participants in the Gabriel Project retain close ties long after completing their official mission of bringing comfort, consolation and care to troubled mothersto-be during their pregnancy. “I cannot begin to describe how incredibly fulfilling this ministry is,” said Patsy Gonzalez of Redwood City, an “angel” at Church of the Nativity Parish in Menlo Park. Staying in touch, she was asked to be the godmother of one of the newborns she supported and was joined on a recent Walk for Life West Coast by the child’s grandmother, who made the initial contact in early 2010. At the time she first called the Gabriel Project hotline, Phyllis Palmer, a hospice nurse in San Mateo, was desperately seeking support for her 15-year-old pregnant daughter, who wanted to have and keep her baby despite adamant opposition from her father and stepparents. “Patsy was always there to talk about (my) concerns and to stand by me,” Palmer said. Her daughter, Alison Lynch, now 17, sees Gonzalez as a cornerstone in the foundation of love and faith she’s convinced will help her son James defy the discouraging odds facing most babies born to teenagers. “It was God’s grace and the Holy Spirit that brought Patsy into our lives,” said Lynch, who plans to pursue paralegal studies after graduating from Peninsula Continuation High School in San Bruno on May 31. Her son’s birth on Sept. 24, 2010, transformed her life and family dynamics. “Even my father, who wanted nothing to do with me when I refused to have an abortion, has come around and has a wonderful relationship with James, carrying his picture and acting the proud grandpa,” Lynch said. Having served as a guide on this “very rocky journey,” Gonzalez considers her involvement “a true blessing” and Palmer’s friendship “a great gift.” Her sentiments resound with other “angels” in the 13 Archdiocese of San Francisco parishes participating in the project born of a similar program started by a Houston priest in the wake of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. “I’ve worked with a lot of ministries and social justice causes, but this one has such an amazing impact, it’s indescribable,” said Mila Ramirez, who coordinates the

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10 “angels” and assistant “angels” at St. Andrew Parish in Daly City. “It’s by far the most hands-on.” In one case, Ramirez and her team took turns babysitting a baby for five months so his mom, a 29-year-old with two other children who had been set on terminating the pregnancy, could work. The young woman’s mother had asked the “angels” to pray that her daughter have a change of heart. They did, and she had. Matthias was born Aug. 19, 2011. “He’s wonderful and cute, robust, healthy and handsome and loves to be cuddled,” said Helen Reguindin of Daly City, a member of the Gabriel Project at St. Andrew who helped care for the baby for two months. “I can’t think of a better way to spread the love than to give our time and effort in such a fulfilling way.” Thanks to that time and effort, Marlyn Fuentes, 33, of Daly City got “the best Christmas present of my life” last year – her 2-year-old son Patrick, who had been taken away by social services 11 months earlier when the family became homeless. Ramirez worked tirelessly to secure them shelter and provide guidance that brought the little boy home on Dec. 19 and his sister Judith Antonielli into the world two months later. “They never imagined there would be people who would help them the way we did,” Ramirez said. “That’s restored their confidence in God and in people.” The children’s father was baptized Catholic on Easter Sunday. The couple plans to wed on July 14 in a religious

“Operation I Do” ceremony at St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco for those in civil or common-law unions. “Mila is the reason I believe in miracles,” Fuentes said. A lasting friendship also developed between Dawn Scannell of Our Lady of Loretto and St. Anthony of Padua in Novato and Eva Ugarte, a single mom deserted by her now 6-month-old daughter’s father when he learned of the pregnancy. Ugarte felt “desperate, hopeless and totally alone” when she glimpsed a “Gabriel Project” sign through her tears as she walked by St. Anthony Church. One phone call and a couple meetings later, she had rent money for the next month, piles of baby items, a maternity wardrobe and a blossoming relationship with her “angel.” By the time Gianna was born Sept. 13, 2011, Scannell had fully opened up her heart and home to Ugarte, her baby and her 7-year-old daughter Natalia from a previous marriage. She invited the trio to holiday dinners, family functions, the movies and a celebration for Ugarte’s 26th birthday. Such blessings have rekindled Ugarte’s faith in God and her future. She is returning to the Catholic Church and to school to earn a degree in phlebotomy, the drawing of blood samples. “Because of the Gabriel Project,” Ugarte said, “I have hope, confidence and, most special of all, an ‘angel’ without whom all of this would be impossible.” For more information on the program, call (415) 6145551 or email sfgabrielproject@gmail.com.

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What might have been a family tragedy became a cause for celebration and renewal when Alison Lynch, lower right, gave birth to James Lopez-Lynch 18 months ago. The healthy birth and the teenage mom’s success at motherhood were in part the result of support by Gabriel Project volunteers at Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park, led by project “angel” Patsy Gonzalez, upper right. Pictured in San Mateo April 15 with baby James is the child’s grandmother, Phyllis Palmer, who also played a crucial part in the success story. The Gabriel Project is a parish-based program, dedicated to the sanctity of life, to help women in what might seem to be a crisis pregnancy.

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Goldman . . . ■ Continued from cover seeking comment – was given a permit to proceed, which Father Gariguez believes reflects corruption. Father Gariguez began his research and concluded the mine as proposed would destroy the province he, the Mangyan, the farmers and the fishermen wanted sorely to protect. Moreover, he found encouragement and rationale in his faith: His bishops support him, and the second plenary council of the Philippines, in 1991, had set a direction for the church that gave impetus to the effort. It was to become the church of the poor and be a community of disciples. “In this regard, we take on the challenges to be on the side of the poor and the marginalized, and they are the indigenous people who will be displaced and the farmers and

April 20, 2012 the area. “You’ve always stayed Bavarian and we’re very grateful for that,” he told the pope.

WASHINGTON – Saying civilian lives are at risk, Catholic leaders appealed to the international community to step up efforts to prevent full-scale war from erupting over disputed territory along the tenuous Sudan-South Sudan border.

WASHINGTON – A Catholic Democratic House member has urged New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan to call on Congress to prioritize the needs of poor and vulnerable Americans as the 2013 federal budget is debated. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., ranking Democrat on the labor, health and human ser-

vices and education subcommittee, suggested in an interview with Catholic News Service April 16 that the U.S. bishops, and Cardinal Dolan in particular, might do well to open a public campaign to protect programs aiding the country’s poor. DeLauro outlined her concerns in an April 13 letter to Cardinal Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The 22-year member of Congress cited the recent passage in the House of Representatives of the 2013 budget resolution that was written by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. She said the plan would be devastating to millions of out-of-work and low-income Americans. Cardinal Dolan had no immediate response to the letter. New York archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling told CNS the afternoon of April 16 he was not certain the cardinal had seen the letter yet. DeLauro told CNS that the budget deserved as much attention from Cardinal Dolan and the nation’s bishops as that being given in a two-week campaign in support of religious freedom June 21-July 4. The bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty announced the “fortnight for freedom” April 12, saying American Catholics must resist unjust laws “as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith.” – Catholic News Service

the fisher folks who will be affected by this mining operation,” said Father Gariguez. “So we cannot just stand by and watch,” he added. “It is part of our prophetic mission, to denounce injustices, even if we might offend people in business.” Here’s his Gospel inspiration, he said, Father Edwin quoting Matthew 25: Gariguez “And I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.” First, Father Gariguez co-founded a coalition of Mindoro residents, elected officials, civil society groups, church leaders and indigenous people who oppose mining on the island, called the Alliance Against Mining. Despite its name, the group is not wholly opposed to mining per se, but believes there must be measures

to protect the environment and the rights of communities of indigenous people, and ensure a fair distribution of economic benefits. As is, that’s not in place on Mindoro, he said. Under the current mining proposal and law in the Philippines – in addition to environmental hazards – the developer would pay no royalties to the Philippines, only a 2 percent excise tax. “We are giving our minerals for free,” said Father Gariguez, who argues that “the right of the people should take precedence over corporate greed.” The struggle has become dangerous. At least one homicide, of a Protestant church leader who was a coalition member, gunned down on the steps of his church, has been linked at least in the minds of some to promining forces opposed to the coalition. An 11-day hunger strike Father Gariguez led in 2009 was successful, and forced the federal Department of Environment and

Natural Resources to promise it would investigate the mine’s alleged environmental and social violations, and the department went on to revoke the company’s license. A review is still under way. In addition, Father Gariguez took the fight to Europe, where he addressed the Norwegian parliament and Intex shareholders, and filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Devleopment. Intex Resources has promised a payoff for Mindoro, saying some 10,000 people would be employed as the mine is built, while another 2,000 would have permanent jobs during operations, in addition to other benefits. Some of the indigenous people have been co-opted by the mining company, said Father Gariguez, attracted to the money, but most leaders are with him, he said. “Because they know that the land is what they really have for life,” he said. “Land is life for them, and without the land they cannot live.”

Chinese bishops detained HONG KONG – Two Chinese bishops not recognized by the government were freed by authorities on Easter, church sources told the Asian church news agency UCA News. Coadjutor Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou, in eastern Zhejiang province, and Bishop Peter Jin Lugang of Nanyang, in central Henan province, were detained, respectively, for four weeks and for four days. Bishop Jin was taken away in early April by officials wanting to prevent him from celebrating the chrism Mass, which symbolizes a bishop’s communion with his clergy, and other Easter liturgies. Bishop Shao was detained March 19. Church sources said his detention included “brainwashing” on the country’s religious policies.

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Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok Kur of Khartoum, Sudan, said in an email to Catholic News Service that tensions between Sudan and South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, could be defused if the United Nations and the African Union would mediate the differences and attempt to determine the proper border between the two countries. Bishop Adwok, who is from the South, said civilians in the disputed area around Heglig, a small town in Southern Kordofan state on the edge of rich oil fields, are being victimized by attacks from both sides. Dan Griffin, Sudan adviser for the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services, told CNS April 17 that fears are very real that a “looming disaster” exists and that the current border conflict could give rise to a new war. “We need to help the church with its voice and advocacy,” he said.

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Catholics urged to resist unjust laws, join in ‘fortnight for freedom’ WASHINGTON (CNS) – American Catholics must resist unjust laws “as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith,” a committee of the U.S. bishops said in a new statement on religious liberty. Titled “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty,” the 12-page statement by the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty also calls for “a fortnight for freedom” from June 21, the vigil of the feasts of St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, to July 4, U.S. Independence Day. “This special period of prayer, study, catechesis and public action would emphasize both our Christian and American heritage of liberty,” the committee said. “Dioceses and parishes around the country could choose a date in that period for special events that would constitute a great national campaign of teaching and witness for religious liberty.” Made public April 12, the document was approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Administrative Committee during its March meeting for publication as a committee statement. The ad hoc committee opened its statement with several “concrete examples” of recent threats to religious liberty, saying that “this is not a theological or legal dispute without real-world consequences.” Cited first was the Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that most health plans must include contraception, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs free of charge, even if the employer is morally opposed to such services. “In an unprecedented way, the federal government will both force religious institutions to facilitate and fund a product contrary to their own moral teaching and purport to define which religious institutions are ‘religious enough’ to merit protection of their religious liberty,” the statement said. “These features of the ‘preventive services’ mandate amount to an unjust law.” Among other examples of “religious liberty under attack” the bishops named: – Immigration laws in Alabama and other states that “forbid what the government deems ‘harboring’ of undocumented immigrants – and what the church deems Christian charity and pastoral care to those immigrants.” – An attempt by the Connecticut Legislature in 2009 to restructure Catholic parishes. – Discrimination against Christian students on college campuses. – Government actions in Boston, San Francisco, the District of Columbia and the state of Illinois that have “driven local Catholic Charities out of the business of providing adoption or foster care services” because the agencies would not place children with same-sex or unmarried heterosexual couples. – A New York City rule that bars small church congregations from renting public schools on weekends for worship services, while allowing such rentals by nonreligious groups. – Changes in federal contracts for human trafficking grants that require Catholic agencies “to refer for contraceptive and abortion services in violation of Catholic teaching.” The statement quotes the Founding Fathers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to bolster its arguments. Rev. King, writing from jail in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, described an unjust law as one “that is out of harmony with the moral law,” and said he agreed with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” “An unjust law cannot be obeyed,” the bishops’ statement said. “In the face of an unjust law, an accommodation is not to be sought, especially by resorting to equivocal words and deceptive practices. “If we face today the prospect of unjust laws, then Catholics in America, in solidarity with our fellow citizens, must have the courage not to obey them,” it added. “No American desires this. No Catholic welcomes it. But if it should fall upon us, we must discharge it as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith.”

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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien

Catholic nuns walk in a eucharistic procession following a special Mass and prayers for the protection of religious liberty and life in the neighborhood surrounding St. Constance Church in Chicago March 29. The U.S. bishops, in an April 12 document, have again urged Catholics to pray, study and take public action in light of recent government rules and laws they say threaten religious liberty in the U.S.

The bishops also distinguished between conscientious objection and an unjust law. “Conscientious objection permits some relief to those who object to a just law for reasons of conscience – conscription being the most well-known example,” the committee said. “An unjust law is ‘no law at all.’ It cannot be obeyed, and therefore one does not seek relief from it, but rather its repeal.” The statement also raised the issue of religious freedom abroad and said “the age of martyrdom has not passed.” “Assassinations, bombings of churches, torching of orphanages – these are only the most violent attacks Christians have suffered because of their faith in Jesus Christ,” the bishops said. “It is our task to strengthen religious liberty at home, ... so that we might defend it more vigorously abroad.” The statement called on “American foreign policy, as well as the vast international network of Catholic agencies” to make “the promotion of religious liberty an ongoing and urgent priority.” The bishops assigned special responsibility for advancing religious freedom to several groups: – Those who hold public office must “protect and defend those fundamental liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights,” regardless of their political party. – Leaders of Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies “who may be forced to choose between the good works we do by faith, and fidelity to that faith itself” were encouraged to “hold firm, to stand fast and to insist upon what belongs to you by right as Catholics and Americans.” – Priests must offer “a catechesis on religious liberty

suited to the souls in your care,” a responsibility that is shared with “writers, producers, artists, publishers, filmmakers and bloggers employing all the means of communications.” In addition to the “fortnight for freedom” June 21 to July 4, the bishops designated the feast of Christ the King – Nov. 25 this year – as “a day specifically employed by bishops and priests to preach about religious liberty, both here and abroad.” Editor’s note: The full text of “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty: A Statement on Religious Liberty” is available at www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religiousliberty/our-first-most-cherished-liberty.cfm.

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As a man grows older: Papal milestones prompt celebration, speculation wonder whether I can make it even from a purely physical point of view.” VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI’s 85th Last fall, the pope stopped walking in processions up the birthday, April 16, and the seventh main aisle of St. Peter’s and started anniversary of his election, April riding a mobile platform instead; in 19, were obviously occasions for it was revealed that he someNo clear-eyed observer March, wishing the pope well and reflecting times walks with a cane. The pope’s on the events of his reign thus far. schedule grew lighter last year, as can deny that Pope Inevitably, however, these milestones he stopped meeting one-on-one with also prompted speculation about most visiting bishops. During this Benedict is unusually what Vatican officials and observyear’s Holy Week liturgies, television ers refer to diplomatically as “papal viewers around the world could see robust for his age. transition.” unmistakable signs of fatigue on the Pope Benedict, after all, is already pontiff’s face. the sixth-oldest pope since the 1400s, While none of this suggests that when records became available. It has been almost two years the pope does not have years of life ahead of him, a number since he told a German interviewer, “My forces are dimin- of commentators have asked in print, and many more have ishing” and that, when it comes to public appearances, “I done so off the record, if he might be getting ready to step down. Pope Benedict himself has said that a pope might have an “obligation to resign” once he “is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office.” Americans may be especially inclined toward such speculation at the moment, encouraged by last month’s release of the Italian movie “We Have a Pope,” in which a fictional pontiff flees from the demands of office. As tempting as filmmakers and journalists might find so dramatic a scenario, the evidence for it is less persuasive when seen in proper context. Consider, for example, that the public first saw Pope Benedict walking with a cane as he was about to board a plane for a 14-hour flight to Mexico, the first stop on a six-day trip that also took him to Cuba. Less than 78 hours after returning from Havana to Rome, the presumably still-jet-lagged pope was offering Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, the first celebration in his busiest week of the liturgical year. No clear-eyed observer can deny that Pope Benedict is unusually robust for his age. He is reportedly at work on the third volume of his bestselling “Jesus of Nazareth” series and is presumed to be writing at least one encyclical: on the theological virtue of faith, to follow his works on charity (“Deus Caritas Est”) and hope (“Spe Salvi”). The pope will be traveling to Lebanon this September, and the Vatican has done nothing to discourage the widespread assumption that he will follow established papal precedent by attending World Youth Day celebrations next summer in Rio de Janeiro. As the pope told former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, also 85, at a meeting in Havana in March: “Yes, I’m old, but I can still carry out my duties.” Pope Benedict’s vitality is strikingly clear when one compares his physical and mental state with that of his predecessor. The current pontiff is already older than Blessed John Paul II was when he died in 2005, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease and other ailments. The contrast between the two men is especially significant when one considers that Blessed John Paul seriously considered resigning on at least two occasions, his 75th and

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80th birthdays, according to books by his former personal secretary and the postulator for his canonization. The postulator, Msgr. Slawomir Oder, has written that Blessed John Paul sought the guidance of experts as he pondered resignation, “consulting in particular then-Cardinal (Joseph) Ratzinger,” now Pope Benedict. Whatever Cardinal Ratzinger may have advised, Blessed John Paul finally decided that it was, in his own words, his “duty to continue to carry out the job for which Christ the Lord has called me, as long as he, in the mysterious designs of his providence, will want.” If a leader as traditional as Pope Benedict does not consider Blessed John Paul’s example a binding precedent, he clearly sees it as an inspiring standard for his own conduct. Concluding his homily at Blessed John Paul’s beatification Mass last May, Pope Benedict paid a personal tribute to his predecessor’s “witness in suffering.” “The Lord gradually stripped him of everything,” Pope Benedict recalled, “yet he remained ever a ‘rock,’ as Christ desired. ... In this way he lived out in an extraordinary way the vocation of every priest and bishop to become completely one with Jesus, whom he daily receives and offers in the church.”

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Irish survey finds gap between church teaching, self-identified Catholics DUBLIN (CNS) – Three out of four Irish who identified themselves as Catholics find the church’s teaching on sexuality “irrelevant,” according to new research published by the Association of Catholic Priests. The survey – conducted by the research association Amarach – also showed that almost 90 percent of those surveyed believe that divorced or separated Catholics in a stable second relationship ought to be able to receive Communion at Mass. Under church law, divorced and remarried Catholics who have received an annulment may receive Communion. The figures were compiled from a sample of 1,000 Catholics and, according to researchers, have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. According to the results, 35 percent of those surveyed attend Mass at least once a week; 51 percent attend at least once a month. Five percent of Irish who identify themselves as Catholics never attend Mass. The Association of Catholic Priests, which represents about 20 percent of Ireland’s priests, is campaigning for changes in the church. Its members maintain that they are mainstream church and not dissidents; their founder, Redemptorist Father Tony Flannery, has been asked by the Vatican to quit writing for his order’s monthly magazine. The survey appeared to reveal a wide disparity between what the church teaches and what the self-identified Catholics believe. Eighty-seven percent disagreed with church teaching on an unmarried priesthood and said they believed that priests ought to be allowed to get married, while 77 percent said the church should admit women to the priesthood. When asked “to what extent do you agree with the Catholic Church’s teaching that any sexual expression of love between a gay couple is immoral,” 61 percent said they disagreed while 18 percent of those surveyed believed homosexual acts to be immoral. Two out of three surveyed want a greater role in choosing their bishop. The survey results were released April 12. One week earlier, during his Holy Thursday Mass, Pope Benedict XVI cautioned against dissent from church teaching, saying it was not a legitimate path to reform. In March, the report of an apostolic visitation to the Irish Catholic Church in the aftermath of clergy sex abuse scandals criticized what it described as a “fairly widespread” tendency among Irish priests, religious and laypeople to dissent from the church’s teaching. Father Sean McDonagh, a member of the leadership team of the Association of Catholic Priests, told Catholic News Service that the survey “confirms that those who are advocating for change in the church are not a tiny minority, but are, in fact, at the heart of the church.”

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Bishops pray for courage to defend religious liberty ROME (CNS) – Bishops from California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah began their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican with prayers for courage in defending religious freedom and in sharing faith in the risen Lord. Celebrating Mass April 16 at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, the bishops listened to an account from the Acts of the Apostles about Sts. Peter and John being taken before the Sanhedrin, a religious court, and explaining how they performed miracles in the name of the risen Jesus. In his homily, Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, said, “As we look at what faces us in our own civil courts, not religious courts, we may be called upon in the not-toodistant future to be bold in our speech in defense of our religious rights.” The bishop made his comment as questions continued over the religious freedom issues involved in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that most health plans must include contraception, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs free of charge, even if the employer is morally opposed to such services. The Mass began with the bishops gathering around the basilica’s main altar, built over what is believed to be the tomb of St. Paul, and singing the creed in Latin. Visits to the apostle’s tomb and to the tomb of St. Peter in the basilica at the Vatican are the key moments of prayer in every visit “ad limina apostolorum” (to the threshold of the apostles). The visits also include meetings with Pope Benedict XVI to report on what is going on in their dioceses and meetings at Vatican congregations, pontifical councils

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Nearly all US dioceses’ abuse policies found to comply with charter By Nancy Frazier O’Brien

Abuse Report 2011

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Ten years after passing their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” the heads of nearly all U.S. dioceses are in full compliance with the 17-point document, according to recently completed audits. Two dioceses – Baker, Ore., and Lincoln, Neb. – and six Eastern Catholic eparchies refused to participate in the audits, as they had in past years, and were found to be noncompliant. In dioceses where the audits took place, however, only one diocese was found in noncompliance with one article of the charter. The Diocese of Shreveport, La., was found to be noncompliant because its diocesan review board had not met in two years. The diocese had not “experienced any charter-related violations in at least four years,” and the board was immediately convened when the diocese was notified of the gap, according to the report from StoneBridge Business Partners of Rochester, N.Y. StoneBridge conducted the audits for the first time in the year ending June 30, 2011. Earlier audits had been carried out by the Gavin Group of Boston. The 2011 annual report on implementation of the charter was published April 10 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “As we were introduced to the various dioceses/eparchies around the country this year, we were impressed by the dedication of the safe environment coordinators and other diocesan and eparchial representatives who oversee the implementation of the charter on a daily basis,” said James J. Marasco, director of StoneBridge Business Partners, in a letter submitted with the audit report. “It is our hope that with our help, the Catholic Church in the United States may continue to restore the trust of the faithful and heal the wounds caused by abuse,” he added. Marasco noted in his letter that the bishops had updated the charter for 2012 to include child pornography and abuse against vulnerable adults as violations. “It is important for everyone in the dioceses and eparchies to be made aware of these changes so that safe environment programs can be modified accordingly,” he said. “The ability to remain fluid and open to suggestion are key attributes in building and maintaining a strong system.” Two dozen dioceses or archdioceses also agreed to audits at the parish level, which uncovered some inconsistencies in where and how records are maintained on such matters as background checks and safe environment training for employees and volunteers and training for children, the report said. The audit teams found that dioceses “in quite a few

The U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” mandates an annual audit of clergy sexual abuse and the efforts to safeguard children. 1,200

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505 495

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1974 or earlier

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1975-1994 1995-2010

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Source: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

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states” were relying on local public schools to provide safe environment training for children, without confirming that the training was actually taking place or that the programs were in accord with Catholic moral teaching. In a chapter of recommendations, the 2011 report noted: – “The audits in 2011 revealed a growing complacency in areas of frequency of diocesan review board meetings, safe environment training programs, and revising related policies and procedures. Training programs and policies need constant refreshing to meet the demands of an everchanging society.” – “A tremendous disconnect exists among parishes within most dioceses/eparchies as to how they account

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for their employees and volunteers. This also bodes true among dioceses/eparchies. While some have implemented advanced database systems, others are still using manual paper files, which can hinder diocesan oversight. A concerted effort should be made by dioceses to identify strong programs currently being used by some of their parishes and standardize them throughout.” – “During the audits, numerous dioceses communicated their current challenges in being able to monitor priests who have been ‘chartered’– are on safety plans or are living a life of prayer and penance. The facilities and resources needed for these programs are beyond the capabilities of most dioceses. This issue needs to be addressed by the bishops.” – Catholic San Francisco contributed to this story.

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Performing the 13th station – Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross – in a Holy Week re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross at Mission Dolores Academy are Cynthia Gomez, Daniela Interian and Frida Gonzalez as women of Jerusalem; Tyler Racklin as Mary Magdalene; Carlos Covarrubias as the Apostle John; Nikie Abillano as Mary, the mother of Jesus; Michael Araula as Jesus; Christopher Ross as Joseph of Arimathea; Marcus Flowers as Nicodemus.

Mission Dolores Academy students bring Stations of the Cross to life The Passion of Jesus Christ came to life during Holy Week for the 217 students at Mission Dolores Academy in San Francisco when the eighth grade class presented a silent re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross. The students created a tableau for each station, reverently drawing the congregation into a prayerful reflection of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The re-enactment, which took place in the Basilica of Mission Dolores, was narrated by students Marcelle Valdez, Natassja Hernandez and Adrile Roque. Other students, led by Michael Araula as Jesus Christ, pantomimed each station as a choir of eighth grade girls sang “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” Jerome Lenk, director of music and liturgy for Mission Dolores Basilica, provided accompaniment at the piano. Students in kindergarten through grade seven witnessed the re-enactment. The eighth grade performance

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Youth New Orleans-bound For the fifth consecutive year, St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael is organizing a service mission to New Orleans, where young people will spend a week in July rebuilding homes and other structures destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, helping people who lost everything. Thirty-eight young people will make the trip this year, July 7-14, and this spring they are raising funds at bake sales, car washes and letter-writing efforts to cover their expenses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; about $1,000 per person. The trip is led by Beth and Matthew McMurphy, the parish youth minister and her husband, a third grade teacher at St. Raphael School. The group of 38 young people, 15 and older, includes St. Raphael alumni and members of the English-speaking youth group and the Spanish-speaking youth group at the parish. Several are college students, and the group includes those making the trip for the first time and others who served in previous years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They work long days in heat and humidity, doing all manner of construction, to bring Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love and message of hope to those who have gone so long without it,â&#x20AC;? said Beth McMurphy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They return physically tired but spiritually energized, ready to share stories of their experiences with friends and family and to worship together with their parish in a New Orleans-style liturgy,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Father Michael Healy speaks March 4 at the blessing of the parish center at St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo. Archbishop George Niederauer, who presided at the rites, is at right. Parish council member Bill Hill and Deacon Peter Solan, who assisted, are in back.

St. Bartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedicates center Porziuncola art exhibit The Porziuncola Nuova and the Knights of St. Francis of Assisi welcome â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Madonna Exhibitâ&#x20AC;? in special ceremonies May 3 at 6 p.m. Mass will be celebrated at 5 p.m. in the adjoining National Shrine of St. Francis, Vallejo Street and Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro will be principal celebrant. Franciscan Fathers Massiomo Lelli and Saul Tambini are accompanying the art from Assisi, where they both serve at the original Porziuncola. The 16 paintings and one sculpture, which arrived April 11, depict the Virgin Mary through the centuries and come directly from the Porziuncola Museum in Assisi. St. Francis of Assisi was devoted to Mary, often praying to her in the Porziuncola. The Order of Friars Minor developed under the protection of St. Mary of the Porziuncola. The showing continues during regular Porziuncola hours through Oct. 31. The chapel and gift shop are open every day but Monday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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The velvet dresses didn’t really work for the street people that St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco clothes with donated discards at the society’s Help Desk. And some of the more raggedy donations to the Catholic nonprofit weren’t suitable for client use either. Then came Sally Rosen’s inspiration. The Help Desk volunteer, herself a seamstress had an idea: What about a fashion show using recreated discards and enlisting the help of the plethora of designers and student designers in the San Francisco Bay Area? “A lot of designers are struggling to survive on their creativity,” said Rosen, a member of St. Kevin Parish whose husband is a deacon assigned to St. Stephen Parish. “This is a way they can give back by doing what they love.” Thus began “Discarded to Divine,” a fashion show and auction that enlists home and fashion designers, professionals and students. The complimentary show, which began in 2005, was held April 13 at the De Young Museum as part of its “Friday Nights at the DeYoung” series. Lead singer Emily Jayne from the rock group “Fashion Slave” wore a “Discarded to Divine” creation from 2009. The piece, called “Asianism,” was designed by Bo Choi, then a student at the University of Washington, and inspired by the painting of Japanese kimonos at the deYoung. The second show, the fundraiser, is April 26 at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria. Tickets are available at discardedtodivine.org for the reception and auction. The finished one-of-a-kind outfits, accessories and pieces of home decor are reclaimed from 50 percent discarded, donated clothing and materials. Last year the event netted more than $100,000 for St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s programs. The event also builds visibility and connections among a community that might not naturally gravitate to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Rosen said. More than 60 percent of the 110 selected participants are students at the Academy of Art University, the California College of Art, City College of San Francisco, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and Apparel Design & Merchandising students at San Francisco State University, St. Vincent de Paul Society organizers said. “I very much support students doing community engaged scholarship,” said Connie Ulasewicz, associate professor of apparel design and merchandising at SF State. “Part of it is for students to understand ways they can contribute outside of the traditional economy and make a difference.” The merchandising class staged the De Young show and the designers in the class contributed pieces, Ulasewicz said. This semester her class designed the display windows for Goodwill stores at Van Ness and Market streets and in West Portal, she said. “My belief is that these young people need to understand they are fitting in with the community,” she said. “Studies have shown they will be more engaged citizens if they understand how they fit in.”

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April 20, 2012

Students raise funds for Darfur children Eighth grade students at St. Gabriel School raised more than $2,300 in a “Pennies for Darfur” campaign during Lent. Seventh graders held a bake sale that brought $500. The proceeds benefit Kids for Kids, an organization offering direct help to children of Darfur. The class has been supporting the charity since third grade when classmate Makayla Alba Swanson came up with the idea. Pictured with Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal, left, and teacher Marie Gahn, right, are, from left, Rose Murphy, Briana Sabella, Gina Rose Montarano, Jack Rutherford, Georgina Stiegeler, Caroline Maguire, Makayla Alba Swanson.

Be grateful, optimistic in face of challenges, rep tells students By Dana Perrigan Speaking before an assembly of several hundred juniors and seniors at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, presented a dire warning to the next generation of Americans. “We are challenged, because we are losing our compass,” said Speier, who represents the 12th Congressional District. She said the country the students will soon inherit is reeling from a decade of wars in two countries, a national debt that could reach $15 trillion dollars, an ailing and expensive educational system, a global energy crisis, partisan politics, gender inequality and the threat of a new war with Iran. Despite the challenges, Speier found reason to be optimistic and grateful. “There is never a time when we shouldn’t feel how lucky you are and I am to live in this great country,” she said. Drawing on the experiences of her own eventful life, Speier – who was invited to speak by the school’s Democracy Life Club – told the students that life “won’t be a bowl of cherries for any of you.” She told the students the story of her fact-finding mission in 1978 to investigate complaints of human rights abuses by the Rev. Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers in Jonestown, Guyana. After being shot five times, the 28-yearold congressional aide lay wounded at the remote jungle airport for 22 hours without medical aid.

“I thought, ‘Oh, my God, this is it,”’ she said. “Like a good Mercy girl I said the act of contrition and I waited for the lights to go out.” During her long recovery, one went on. “I decided that I was not going to be a victim for the rest of my life – I was going to be a survivor.” Speier went on to survive several early election losses, the death of her first husband in a car accident, single motherhood and near bankruptcy. “Your life isn’t going to be particularly the way you wanted it,” Speier said. The values she learned at Mercy High School in Burlingame – which her daughter now attends – said the 61-year-old congresswoman, helped her through the tough times, along with friends and family. She went on to become the youngest member of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, and to serve in both the California State Assembly and Senate. In 2008, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Recently appointed to the House Armed Services Committee, Speier told the students that their country spends more on defense than all the other countries in the world put together. A student planning on joining the Marine Corps upon graduation asked Speier for her analysis of Iran. She told him that she fears Israel may unilaterally attack Iran and draw the U.S. into the conflict. She believes sanctions are the best option. “We really don’t know if they’re close to having a nuclear weapon,” she said.

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Speaking on education, Speier said that California was last in the nation on spending for K-8, and that higher education is becoming prohibitively expensive. “I believe higher education should be free,” she said. She would help pay for it by instituting an oil severance tax and tax on Internet commerce. Asked by a student to comment on the Obama administration’s health care mandate that would require insurers to pay for birth control pills, Speier said she believed it was unfair and even discriminatory not to have the coverage. “Birth control is not about abortion,” she said.

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By Tom Dermody PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) – “Heroic Catholicism, not casual Catholicism” is required to confront state and federal threats to religious liberty and the church’s public ministries, Peoria Bishop Daniel R. Jenky told more than 500 Catholic men who marched through the city’s downtown in a steady rain April 14 in a public defense of the faith. “We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction,” said Bishop Jenky. He warned participants in the “A Call to Catholic Men of Faith” rally that Catholic schools, hospitals, and Newman Centers “could easily be shut down” rather than cooperate with the government’s mandate that most health plans cover the cost of contraception, sterilization and some drugs that can induce abortion. “Because no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the instrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb,” the bishop said. After joining the men on a silent, mile-long walk from the Peoria riverfront to St. Mary’s Cathedral, Bishop Jenky used some of the strongest language yet by a church official in protesting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate. The bishop mentioned President Barack Obama three times in his homily at the rally Mass. “In clear violation of our First Amendment rights,” said Bishop Jenky, “Barack Obama with his radical, pro-abortion and extreme secularist agenda now seems intent on following a similar path” as other governments throughout history who “have tried to force Christians to huddle and hide only within the confines of their churches.” The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate includes a religious exemption, but leaders of various Catholic and other faith-based organizations say it is too narrow and they will still be forced to provide coverage they oppose. The administration has defended the mandate as “preventative care,” but religious groups that oppose it say it infringes on their religious liberty. A new federal proposal issued March 21 suggested thirdparty administrators pay the costs of contraceptives for religious employers who object, but the U.S. bishops said even with that, the mandate remained flawed. To sustained applause, Bishop Jenky said no matter what happens in “this passing moment,” “Christ wins” and the church will survive current threats, just as it has endured persecutions from the Roman Empire through Nazism and communism. “In the power of the Resurrection,” Bishop Jenky said forcefully, “the church will survive the hatred of Hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry. “The church will survive the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government,” he continued, “and even the calculated disdain of the president of the United States, his appointed bureaucrats in HHS, and of current majority in the federal Senate.” Bishop Jenky said “this is not a war where any believing Catholic may remain neutral.” “No Catholic ministry – and yes, Mr. President, for Catholics our schools and hospitals are ministries – can remain faithful to the lordship of the risen Christ and to his glorious Gospel of Life if they are forced to pay for abortions,” said Bishop Jenky. He said every practicing Catholic “must vote, and must vote their Catholic consciences” in the fall elections.

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By late April 12, the majority of justices had announced their votes. The Brazilian bishops’ conference asked Catholics to hold prayer vigils outside of the court to encourage justices to consider the life of the unborn child prior to their vote. “We understand that the principles of the inviolable right to life, the dignity of the human person and the promotion of well-being, without any form of discrimination (stated in the Brazilian Constitution) also includes anencephalic fetuses,” said a document distributed by the bishops’ conference to parishes around the country. Archbishop Orani Joao Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro led a vigil for unborn children and the preservation of life April 10. “Even if (life is) brief, everyone has the right to life,” he said. In a statement the archdiocese said, “If the Supreme Court defines this type of abortion as constitutional, it may open up precedence to the legalization of other forms of abortion.”

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‘Stand your ground’ The following editorial from the April 16 issue of America, a national Catholic weekly magazine, was redistributed by Catholic News Service in response to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press. It was written by the magazine’s editors. In Sanford, Fla., an African-American teenager in a hoodie and a self-appointed neighborhood guardian with a gun clashed on a dark night in late February. Trayvon Martin, 17, lay dead. George Zimmerman, 28, a former altar boy of white and Hispanic origin and a criminal justice major at Seminole State College, had pulled the trigger. Zimmerman had followed Martin, against the advice of a 911 operator. Over the past 14 months, he had called police 46 times to report problems and suspicions in his gated community. Zimmerman has twice been accused of violence or criminal misconduct; but he has a concealed weapons permit and remained at large for 45 days, because Florida, like 23 other states, maintains a “stand your ground” statute that allows individuals to use deadly force if they have a “reasonable fear” of harm. (On April 11, Zimmermann was jailed without bond after turning himself in; he has been charged with second-degree murder.) Martin, 6 feet 4 inches tall but weighing only 140 pounds, earned extra money washing cars. He baby-sat for his younger cousins. His offense that night was to be a black youth delivering a bag of Skittles to his soon-to-be stepbrother. The Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson described the tragedy best: Martin may have been killed because of “the bull’s eye that black men wear throughout their lives” and for failing to obey “the vital imperative to never, ever be caught on the wrong street at the wrong time.” Martin’s death has sounded a national wake-up call

regarding the still imperfect status of race relations in the United States, but it also calls for an examination of a decades-long retreat from rational gun control. A brief period of legislative progress for gun control in the 1980s following the shooting of President Ronald Reagan was met by a counteroffensive from U.S. gun lobbies, principally the National Rifle Association, that continues to this day. Legislators and citizens who should have known better wearied of the struggle to better regulate America’s “militias,” thinking perhaps that gun-rights advocates would eventually be satisfied with various incremental victories against gun controls. But instead, each extension of gun-use rights has only provoked hunger for more. What has been the effect of this unilateral cease-fire? Pro-gun rationalizations that used to be dismissed as parody have moved into the mainstream. Events at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech, the shootings in Tucson that left Gabrielle Gifford gravely wounded and other deadly incidents should have driven the nation toward more rational gun restrictions, but America has gone the other way and seems closer to a gun-happy dystopia than ever before. Thirty-six states have relaxed restrictions for concealed weapons permits under so-called “shall issue” procedures. Four states require no registration of handguns at all. Other states have severely curtailed common sense restrictions on where handguns may be carried. Now Second Amendment enthusiasts carry guns into shopping malls, bars, college campuses, restaurants, even churches. On March 21 Indiana’s Gov. Mitch Daniels signed legislation that allows citizens to use deadly force against the police if they perceive police actions to be unlawful. This has created an entirely new arena for unintended, mortal collisions between police and the public.

In 2005, Florida became the first state to expand broadly the right to use deadly force for self-defense, obliterating the “duty to retreat” from threats in public places. In this new situation, once self-defense has been invoked, the burden is on the prosecution to disprove the claim. “Stand” laws have led to the multiplication of cases in which gang leaders, drug dealers and bar-room pugilists have killed those who have provoked them and gone free. Justifiable-homicide claims in Florida have more than tripled since the law was passed. The incident in Sanford raises questions about race, ethnicity, neighborhood tensions and violence in U.S. culture. A common factor in these issues is the failure of politicians to stand up to the NRA and insist that the safety of the nation’s young people, for example, has a higher priority than a guntoter’s absolutized version of Second Amendment freedom. Trayvon Martin paid the ultimate price for the public’s declining interest in responsible limitations on gun ownership. Even if Zimmerman is prosecuted, gun worship will remain. The Martin tragedy has not discouraged the NRA’s current press for a national right-to-carry reciprocity bill that would nationalize concealed-carry permits. Only a national law that restricts who can own a gun or carry a concealed weapon and limits where guns may be kept can confront this crisis. Rational gun control might save the lives of future Trayvon Martins of every race and age entitled to walk city streets; but it will require courageous civic leaders who really value human life and will stand their ground against the NRA. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service or of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Working to change Latin America’s culture of violence against women By Ezra Fieser SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) – On a Friday in mid-March, Dominican police were called to a three-story hotel that sits off a major highway in a busy neighborhood here. Inside, they found a grisly crime scene: a woman, strangled to death, and the 37-year-old man who’d killed her hanged dead with the bed sheets. Police said the murder-suicide was the result of a fight between the couple. Human rights groups called it something else: an example of the growing trend of violence against women. “Women are being killed and are subjected to abuse just because of their gender,” said Virgilio Almanzar, director of the Dominican Human Rights Committee in Santo Domingo. The murder became the country’s 53rd case of femicide in 2012. The term, commonly used in Latin America but rarely seen in the United States, originally meant the targeted killing of women, but has since expanded to include all murder of women. “It’s a serious problem, not just in the Dominican Republic,” Almanzar said. “It’s a problem we share with other countries in Latin America.” A majority of the most dangerous countries in the world for females are found in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where historical patriarchy is increasingly clashing with a changing role for women. While some, including Catholic officials working on the issue, see signs of progress, such as new laws and public awareness campaigns, observers say changing the deep-rooted culture is a slow process. Of the 25 countries around the world with the highest homicide rates for women, 14 are in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent survey by Geneva-based research organization Small Arms Survey. The three most dangerous countries were El Salvador, Jamaica and Guatemala, respectively. The countries were ranked by female homicide rates for 2011. Women are killed far less frequently than men, the study’s authors noted: “Men are up to 10 times more likely to become victims of a homicide in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.” But women in these countries are often subjected to violence simply because they are women and seen as the weaker sex. What’s more, the increase in drug-related violence has translated into more gruesome crimes against women, including decapitations and torture. The issue is a particularly touchy one for the Catholic Church. Church workers have been effectively working with women to reduce violence in hotspots throughout the region, often in trying circumstances. Meanwhile, Catholicism has received sharp criticism for not taking a stronger position on the issue. Editorial writers criticized Pope Benedict XVI for not highlighting the issue in his two-country visit to Latin America in March. “He arrived in Mexico while the country is fighting two deadly battles: drug trafficking and femicide. On the first, he

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said something strong. ... On the second: nothing,” wrote El Telegrafo, a daily newspaper in Ecuador. “The violence (against women) must be part of the central concern for the Catholic Church. It cannot ignore femicide.” A 2011 U.N. study of worldwide violence found that, as a region, the Americas, including the U.S. and Canada, ranked second to Africa for female homicide rates. While females represent only 10 percent of murder victims in the Americas, the sheer level of violence in the region, particularly in Latin America, puts women at risk. “The smaller share of female victims among the total number of homicides in the Americas does not equate to a lower female homicide rate there in comparison to other regions,” the report concluded. From the patriarchy of Spanish conquistadors to the machismo for which many of its countries are infamous, Latin America has long cultivated a culture in which women are particularly vulnerable to violence. More recently, the region has elected several female presidents, including Dilma Rousseff, who in 2011 became the first female president in the region’s largest country, Brazil. Political successes underscore the changes for women in the workplace. “Women are not just wives and mothers. They’re also increasingly providers in the family” in Latin America, said Hilary Anderson, a specialist with the Inter-American Commission of Women, part of the Organization of American States. “Neither the state nor the church has kept pace with

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the changes in Latin America, or any other part of the world.” Women’s groups have blamed the church for reinforcing stereotypes, such as blaming women for violence because of the way they dress. Last year, for example, activists demonstrated in front of the cathedral in San Jose, Costa Rica, after a bishop urged women to dress “modestly” and with “decency” and to not become “an object anymore.” The marchers chanted, “Out with the bishops!” and, “What are we going to burn? The Episcopal Conference!” according to news reports. Signs exist, however, that the tide is slowly turning. The issue of violence against women is starting to receive attention from governments and church officials alike. Several countries have passed laws specifically targeting violence against women. Governments and civil society organizations have teamed to produce awareness campaigns. And, in several cases, dioceses have established gender-based violence programs. Guatemala, the third most violent place in the world for women, passed its own law targeting violence against women in 2008, making it one of the first countries in Central America to do so. Four years later, the law has rarely been employed, underscoring a larger hurdle found throughout the region. “The legal framework is in place in Latin America. It’s a matter of implementation,” Anderson said. “Laws are on the books. But women are still finding it difficult to pursue their cases.”

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A time to plant and a time to reap Prices, from gas to food, continue to rise and budgets get tighter. How might we counter this? Consider becoming an agrarian. I thought about this because recently I received a book on Tuscan cooking. As a cook, I savored every recipe. Why were the recipes so attractive? They were simple and called for herbs I grow that are inexpensive to produce. In our parish garden, we grow sweet basil, thyme, rosemary, cilantro, lettuce, eggplant, parsley, peppers and tomatoes. I often take a simple piece of chicken and pasta and convert them into a gourmet dinner, thanks to the herbs from the garden. I make big portions because, like good wine, the mixture of herbs with meat, poultry and pasta ferment with time, creating a richer, fuller taste the second time around. A side benefit of cooking at home is the joy of creativity. Too often we tend to go the fast food route and leave the creativity to others. Experimenting with food is a way

of heightening our entrepreneurial spirit. Instead of feeling paralyzed by rising prices, creative cooking puts us into action. It gives us a weapon to combat budget woes. Now is the time to plan and plant a garden. Even if you don’t have a plot of land, you can still grow herbs and tomatoes in an apartment or on a balcony. Working with the earth not only produces food for the body, but also mental food for our psychological well-being. Some years ago, I found myself fighting depression. I had taken on too many jobs. Depression tends to paralyze us, create panic attacks and the feeling that nothing has meaning. The wisdom of an old Benedictine monk helped me to reverse this. During one of his classes, he told his students, “You have enough under your skull cap, now it’s time to get out into the garden and get dirt under your fingernails.” I dropped everything, put on overalls, and worked the soil in our garden. My depression disappeared. Gardening puts us in touch with the life the earth con-

tains. When we are deeply in touch with it, we are in touch with life-giving powers. Today, many of us work in offices that are often artificially lighted. We inhale secondary air Father Eugene and seldom, if ever, touch soil. As a consequence, Hemrick we are deprived of the earth’s life-giving powers. During this season of planting, get in touch with soil and enjoy its effects on your cooking, health and psychological outlook. Father Eugene Hemrick’s column is carried by Catholic News Service.

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Andrew Sullivan’s non-threatening Jesus The cover story for Newsweek magazine during Holy Week, penned by political and cultural commentator Andrew Sullivan, concerns the “crisis” that is supposedly gripping Christianity. Weighed down by its preoccupation with doctrines and supernatural claims, which are incredible to contemporary audiences, compromised by the corruption of its leadership, co-opted for base political ends, Christianity is verging, he argues, on the brink of collapse. The solution Sullivan proposes is a return to Christianty’s roots and essential teachings. And here he invokes, as a sort of patron saint, Thomas Jefferson, who as a young man literally took a straight razor to the pages of the New Testament and cut out any passages dealing with the miraculous, the supernatural, or the resurrection and divinity of Jesus. The result of this Jeffersonian surgery is Jesus the enlightened sage, the teacher of timeless moral truths concerning love, forgiveness and non-violence. Both Jefferson and Sullivan urge that this Christ, freed from churchly distortions, can still speak in a liberating way to an intelligent and non-superstitious audience. As the reference to Jefferson should make clear, there is nothing particularly new in Sullivan’s proposal. The liberation of Jesus the wisdom figure from the shackles of supernatural doctrine has been a preoccupation of much of the liberal theology of the last 200 years. Hence, Friedrich Schleiermacher turned Jesus into a religious genius with a particularly powerful sense of God. Rudolf Bultmann converted him into the prototype of the existentialist philosopher. Immanuel Kant transformed him into the supreme teacher of the moral life. And this approach is very much alive today. Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle, to give just two examples among many, present Jesus, not as the Godman risen from the dead, but rather as a New Age guru. The first problem with this type of theorizing is that it has little to do with the New Testament. As Jefferson’s bible makes clear, the excision of references to the miraculous, to the resurrection, and to the divinity of Jesus delivers to us mere fragments of the Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were massively interested in the miracles and exorcisms

of Jesus and they were positively obsessed with his dying and rising. The Gospels have been accurately characterized as “passion narratives with long introductions.” Further, the earliest Christian texts that we have are the epistles of St. Paul, and in those letters that St. Paul wrote to the communities he founded, there are but a tiny handful of references to the teaching of Jesus. What clearly preoccupied Paul was not the moral doctrine of Jesus, but the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. And in the evangelical preaching of the first disciples – preserved in the Acts of the Apostles – we find, not articulations of Jesus’ ethical vision, but rather affirmations of the resurrection. St. Peter’s “you killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead, and to this we are witnesses” (Acts 3:15) is absolutely typical. And from this followed as a consequence the affirmation of the lordship of Jesus. One of the commonest phrases in the writings of Paul is “Iesous Kyrios” (Jesus is Lord), which carried a very provocative connotation indeed. For a watchword of Paul’s time and place was “Kaiser kyrios” (Caesar is Lord), meaning that the Roman emperor was the one to whom final allegiance was due. In saying “Iesous Kyrios,” Paul was directly challenging that political and social status quo, which goes a long way toward explaining why he spent a good deal of time in jail. And this leads to the second major problem with a proposal like Sullivan’s: It offers absolutely no challenge to the powers that be. It is precisely the bland and harmless version of Christianity with which the regnant culture is comfortable. Go back to Peter’s sermon for a moment. “You killed him,” said the chief of Jesus’ disciples. The “you” here includes the power structures of the time, both Jewish and Roman, which depended for their endurance in power on their ability to frighten their subjects through threats of lethal punishment. “But God raised him.” The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the clearest affirmation possible that God is more powerful than the corrupt and violent authorities that govern the world – which is precisely why the tyrants have always been terrified of it. When the first Christians held

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Commitment to healing The article on the front page of the March 30 issue, on “Promise to Protect, Pledge to Heal,” brought me to write this letter. I am

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a survivor of clergy abuse and worked with the archdiocese for the past nine years with Barbara Elordi. She was a wonderful, understanding and compassionate person and played a significant role in my healing. She will be missed. So, I want to thank the archdiocese for their commitment on healing with this article. George Corns San Francisco

Is Occupy prophetic? The documents of Vatican II invited us to examine the signs of the times and reflect and how we ought to respond. The Occupy

up the cross, the greatest expression of statesponsored terrorism – they were purposely taunting the leaders of their time: “You think that frightens us?” The opening line of the Gospel of Mark is a Father direct challenge to Rome: “The beginning of the Robert Barron good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God” (Mark 1:1). “Good news” (“euangelion” in Mark’s Greek) was a term used to describe an imperial victory. The first Christian evangelist is saying, not so subtly, that the real good news hasn’t a thing to do with Caesar. Rather, it has to do with someone whom Caesar killed and whom God raised from the dead. And just to rub it in, he refers to this resurrected Lord as “Son of God.” Ever since the time of Augustus, “Son of God” was a title claimed by the Roman emperor. Not so, says Mark. The authentic Son of God is the one who is more powerful than Caesar. Again and again, Sullivan says that he wants a Jesus who is “apolitical.” Quite right – and that’s just why the cultural and political leaders of the contemporary West will be perfectly at home with his proposal. A defanged, privatized, spiritual teacher poses little threat to the status quo. But the Son of God, crucified under Pontius Pilate and risen from the dead through the power of the Holy Spirit, is a permanent and very dangerous threat. That’s why I will confess that I smiled a bit at Andrew Sullivan as I read his article. Like the young Thomas Jefferson, I’m sure he thinks he’s being very edgy and provocative. Au contraire, in point of fact. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

movement is surely a sign of the times, not only in the United States but throughout the world, albeit sometimes with a different name. What is our response as church – people of God – to the Occupy movement? Are we closing our eyes and ears to the new prophets rising in our midst? How very sad. Society of Helpers Sister Laetitia Bordes San Bruno

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this. Isn’t this the sort of behavior that made the sex scandal so much worse? It causes others to believe that secrecy, lies and deceit are a way of life in the church hierarchy. John Lister Corte Madera

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Articles about the troubles between the Vatican Bank and European regulators have been in the news. Vile rumors about how the Vatican Bank invests its money have also circulated. I’ve not seen any reporting on this in your paper. Recently, the media focused on the Vatican’s efforts to uncover the “disloyal” members leaking information about

Questions for President Obama Your tears on the death of your beloved grandmother made me believe you are a pro-life president. Would you/could you reverse the “culture of death” being passed in your administration in the guise of HHS regulations on preventative services in health plan coverage? Where would you be now, Mr. President, if your parents had used contraceptives or aborted you, or your grandparents had done the same? Rose M. Jardin San Bruno

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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 3:13-15, 17-19 Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence when he had decided to release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did; but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9 Lord, let your face shine on us. When I call, answer me, O my just God, you who relieve me when I am in distress; have pity on me, and hear my prayer! Lord, let your face shine on us. Know that the Lord does wonders for his faithful one; the LORD will hear me when “You are witnesses of these things” – Luke 24: 48 That Mahatma Gandhi was taken up with the teachings of Christ, especially the Sermon on the Mount, is well known. His conclusion was that whoever spoke those words and did those deeds recorded in the Gospels was truly an inspired and enlightened man. However, when Gandhi looked around, especially in South Africa and India, where the rulers were Christian, he was shocked at the scandalously wide gulf between the profession and practice of faith. Some of those calling themselves Christian practiced violence, oppression, exploitation and discrimination. Hence the following quotes attributed to Gandhi: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” “I would suggest first of all that all of you Christians, missionaries and all, begin to live more like Jesus Christ.” “Oh, I don’t reject Christ. I love Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.” These sentiments seem to echo George Bernard Shaw’s observation: “Christianity is a good idea, if people ever tried it.” As we “easter” in the risen Christ, the important questions we need to ask are: Are we credible when we call ourselves followers of Christ? Do we listen to our master’s voice? Do we live by the values of Christ? Is there a connection between what we do in religion and how we live our life? Can we feel the sacredness of the deep-

April 20, 2012

Third Sunday of Easter Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Psalm 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9; I John 2:1-5a; Luke 24:35-48 I call upon him. Lord, let your face shine on us. O Lord, let the light of your countenance shine upon us! You put gladness into my heart Lord, let your face shine on us. As soon as I lie down, I fall peacefully asleep, for you alone, O Lord, bring security to my dwelling. Lord, let your face shine on us.

that you may not commit sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world. The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Those who say, “I know him,” but do not keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF JOHN 1 JN 2:1-5A My children, I am writing this to you so

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 24:35-48 The two disciples recounted what had

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

Are we witnesses? est longings of people everywhere? Can we care for those who cannot care for themselves? Do we bring about transformation of society, culture and, civilization by being, as Gandhi would say, “the change we want to see in the world”? Another way to ask these questions is simply: Are we witnesses? The risen Jesus says to the “startled and terrified” apostles: “You are witnesses of these things.” Interpreting the scriptures, Jesus says “that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.” The indicative part of being witnesses is to accept the Risen Jesus. The imperative part of witnessing is that they had to preach “repentance for the

forgiveness of sins … to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.” To understand the meaning of the resurrection is to share its riches and rewards for the wellbeing and reconciliation of the world. Peter in the Acts spells out for the crowds the indicative aspect of witnessing: “God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.” The imperative dimension is that people should “repent … and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.” The power of the Resurrection will enable us to help reconcile us with God and one another. John in his letter too makes the connection between Jesus being the expiation for the sins

taken place on the way, and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.” of the world, the resurrection effect (indicative), and the call to “keep his commandments” (imperative). The meaning of the Resurrection is simply that Jesus is alive. He is not confined to the tomb, even though the world might conspire to keep him entombed. To live our lives in the light of the risen Christ is to be witnesses. To arrange and organize the world and all its institutions from the perspective of the Risen Christ is truly to be witnesses. To ensure that the world is not fragmented by religion and race, economic and social class, is to witness for the resurrection. To ensure that everyone is entitled to food, education, medical help, safety, security, peace, justice, and dignity is witnessing for the risen Jesus. The followers of Jesus will bring the presence of the risen Christ to their quests and endeavors. Along with him, we can overcome the overwhelming odds in order to make abundant life possible for all. When the followers of Christ are authentic and effective witnesses of the risen Christ, there can be no gulf between faith and service. There will be an inseparable connection between Christ and the followers of Christ. Gandhi’s disappointment may be addressed by our being witnesses, aligning ourselves with Jesus for the transformation of the world. Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

Question Corner

Four Gospels mentioned in the Bible Question: As you are aware, the four Gospels in the Catholic Bible are based on the writings of Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But recently, as I was channel surfing, I came across a television program that spoke of the Gospels of Judas Iscariot, Peter the Apostle and Mary Magdalene. When I mentioned this to a couple of Catholic friends, they told me that there are in fact many different Gospels, in addition to the four we all know and the three referenced on television. If that is so, then why doesn’t our Bible include all of the Gospels? (Camp Hill, Pa.) Answer: From the earliest days of the church, and certainly from the midpoint of the second century, four and only four Gospels have generally been regarded by Christian authors as the official (or “canonical”) Gospels and have thus found their way into the Bible, namely, the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It is true that there are several dozen other documents (or fragments of documents) which are sometimes referred to as “Gospels,” including the ones your question mentions. Those, however, have never been widely regarded as authentic and contemporaneous accounts of the words and actions of Christ, and are commonly called “apocryphal” Gospels. The differences between canonical and apocryphal Gospels are notable. The canonical Gospels were written, broadly speaking, during the apostolic period, while the apostles of Jesus or

their immediate disciples were still alive. Those narratives were given nearly immediate acceptance by the Christian churches of the East and the West and universally recognized as authentic. In fact, around 140 A.D., the author Tatian produced a harmonization of excerpts from the four canonically recognized Gospels. Accounts from the apocryphal Gospels, on the other hand, were used only sporadically by scattered groups and never gained wide acceptance. References to the apocryphal Gospels are found later on, around the end of the second century. In addition, the canonical Gospels are fairly straightforward and largely consistent accounts of the life and sayings of Jesus, while the apocryphal ones are rife with stories of a legendary and unique nature. In trying to meet the demands of popular piety, they often conceive of events (e.g., “miracles” performed by Jesus while he was still a child) which the canonical Gospels mention not at all. Question: I would like to know whether watching Mass on television fulfills one’s obligation. My husband never goes to church, but he does watch Mass on TV every Sunday. I attend Mass regularly, although I have missed church recently because of my health. (Louisville, Ky.) Answer: The simple answer to your question is “no.” Watching Mass on television does not fulfill one’s Sunday obligation. Assuming that your husband is a Catholic and is in reasonable health, he is required to be at Mass in per-

son. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in section 2180, specifies that the Sunday obligation is satisfied by “assistance” at Mass, and every commentator I have read views that to mean attendance at a Father eucharistic celebration. Kenneth Doyle Although taking holy Communion at Mass is not required to satisfy the Sunday obligation, it seems clear that those who participate most fully are the ones who receive back from the Lord the sacred food offered in sacrifice. That gift, of course, is not available to television viewers. But shut-ins can derive real spiritual benefit from following the prayers and readings of the Mass on television. I would suggest that shut-ins can multiply that benefit by asking to be placed on their parish’s Communion list so that an extraordinary minister of holy Communion will visit them regularly. Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

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Augustinian Father Richard G. Cannuli paints an icon of St. Augustine during a demonstration about how to create an icon in Rome April 12.

Making an icon is pilgrimage of faith, says US Augustinian artist By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) – The Philadelphia-born artist priest slowly inhaled, opened his mouth wide over an unfinished icon and released a long, belly-deep breath. Augustinian Father Richard Cannuli was warming the thick layers of a mixture of red clay, glue made from animal hide and a drizzle of honey that had been painted in the shape of a halo on a wooden panel. He then gently affixed a strip of 23-carat gold leaf to the dried clay. “I breathe three times so that I want to get my breath moist” and warm so the clay gets tacky enough for the thin gold leaf to stick to it, he said. It’s like re-enacting creation, he said, when God breathed life into Adam – a name that comes from the Arabic “Adeem” for “skin of the earth” or clay. “God formed humanity out of clay and breathed life into the clay,” he said. “The gold then represents the spirit of God that’s entering the icon through the gold.” Surrounded by powdered pigments, paintbrushes and gesso-covered birch plywood boards, Father Cannuli demonstrated the long, slow process of painting an icon in the ancient Russian-Byzantine tradition. He had just wrapped up a two-week icon-making workshop held in an empty side chapel at the headquarters of the Augustinians in Rome, just steps from St. Peter’s Square. The precise 22-step process of making an icon is like a spiritual journey and a reflection of the Christian faith, he told Catholic News Service April 12. The icon is painted on wood, which represents the tree of the garden of paradise, Noah’s ark of salvation and the wood of the tree Christ was crucified on, he said. The yolk and water used in the egg tempera represent life and baptism. Father Cannuli, who has taught studio art at Villanova University for 33 years, has been teaching icon-making at the Catholic university for the past 13 years. The priest is currently on a one yearsabbatical in four European cities to conduct workshops and display his latest mixed media art installation on Sicilian roadside shrines. An icon, which is a form of religious art of flat painted images, is a term that comes from the Greek “eikon” for image. Just as clicking a colorful desktop icon will “take you somewhere else,” a religious icon, too, opens up onto a new world beyond

Father Cannuli creates the outline of an icon.

Father Cannuli holds a partially created icon.

A finished icon

the image, he said. “It’s a window that opens up to eternity.” Father Cannuli said he sees a resurgence of traditional iconic figures in the United States. “One thing people are going to learn is patience” when they tackle painting an icon, he said as he brushed red clay onto the tip of a metal compass to make a clean arc along the halo’s outer edge. There is a lot of waiting time between

painting with hand-mixed egg-based tempera and letting the medium thoroughly dry, he said. One nine-by-12 inch small icon may take up to 40 hours – spread over seven to 15 days – to complete. While waiting for a layer to dry, “students ask, ‘What can I do next?’ I usually say pray, read, keep yourself occupied because there is nothing they can do” to work ahead or speed up the process, he said.

In fact, it is the quiet, reflective nature of making icons that leads many students, even non-Christians, to experience some kind of spiritual growth. Working with icons was what led Father Cannuli to decide to be ordained into the priesthood in 1999. “When you’re working with an icon there’s this very tight communication between you and the prototype of the image that you’re painting,” he said. He said one Russian master iconographer told him he should pray to the person being portrayed for guidance in everything from what color to use next to whether one’s life is on the right track. Then-Brother Cannuli thought his life was going along fine “and then all of a sudden everything was turned upside down.” Over the next six years, he worked with a spiritual director and decided to become a priest. He said making an icon “has nothing to do with the individual painter,” but is more about a person’s ability to let God be in control. “It’s like all along I was creating and now all of a sudden I let go and let God create,” he said. Individual expression in iconography is muted by the fact that the paint must be pooled on the board, avoiding all brushstrokes that would leave a kind of “signature” of the painter, he said. Only the name of the saint is inked on the final piece. The process for traditional icons is always done with the same elements and techniques, in the same order, and using images that are not products of the artist’s imagination, but are exact tracings of copies of ancient iconographic figures, he said. Icons, which are venerated, not worshipped, are believed to act as channels of divine grace. In fact, every icon of Christ, the Mother of God, a saint or archangel almost always has at least one ear prominently exposed toward the viewer, he said, “so the prototype you are painting can hear your prayers and bring them to the father” in heaven. Father Cannuli collects old icons and said he gets a sense of comfort looking at the ones that have been held and handled for so many years in prayer. “You don’t worry about them once they’re finished. They get damaged or chipped, it’s meant to be, you just have to let it go. “You don’t have control over it. It has a life of its own,” he said.

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Spirituality for Life

A stone’s throw away from everyone Truth finds us in different ways. Sometimes we learn what something means, not in a classroom but in a hospital. Several years ago, I was visiting a man dying of cancer in a hospital room. He was dying well, though nobody dies easy. He felt a deep loneliness, even as he was surrounded by people who loved him deeply. Here’s how he described it: “I have a wonderful wife and children, and lots of family and friends. Someone is holding my hand almost every minute, but ... I’m a stone’s throw away from everyone. I’m dying and they’re not. I’m inside of something into which they can’t reach. It’s awfully lonely, dying.” He had borrowed his salient phrase from Luke’s Gospel where we are told that on the night before his death Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane with his disciples. There he invited them to pray with him as he struggled to find strength to face his death; but, as Luke cryptically adds, while he sweated blood, he was “a stone’s throw away” from them. How far is a stone’s throw? It’s distance enough to leave you in a place where no one can reach you. Just as we come out of the womb alone, we leave this earth alone. Jesus, like the man whom I just described, also faced his death knowing that he was loved by others but also knowing that in the face of death he was entering a place where he was deeply and utterly alone. And this emphasis on aloneness is in fact one of the major points within the Passion narratives. In describing Jesus’ death, perhaps more than anything else, the Gospels

want us to focus in on his aloneness, his abandonment, his being a stone’s throw away from everyone. Many of us, I am sure, have seen the famous film by Mel Gibson, “The Passion of the Christ.” While the film is, no doubt, a worthy piece of art, it is more distracting than beneficial in terms of helping us understand Jesus’ passion. Why? Because the film so strongly emphasizes the physical suffering of Jesus, which is precisely what the Gospel accounts don’t do. Rather, the Gospels deliberately understate what Jesus had to endure physically because they want us to focus on something else, namely, his moral and emotional suffering, particularly his sense of abandonment, his aloneness, the absence at the most crucial time in his life of any deep human support, intensified by the seeming absence of God. In his loneliest hour Jesus was without any human soul mate and without divine consolation. He was, in the words of Gil Bailie, unanimity-minus-one. There is no deeper sense of abandonment. And it is within that utter aloneness that Jesus has to continue to give himself over in trust, love, forgiveness, and faith. It’s easy to believe in love when we feel loved; to forgive others when they are gracious toward us; and to believe in God when we feel strongly God’s presence. The difficulty, the “test,” comes when human love and divine consolation collapse, when we find ourselves surrounded by misunderstanding, abandonment, distrust, hatred, and doubt, especially at our loneliest hour, just at that moment when life itself is eclipsing. How do we respond then? Will love, trust, forgiveness, and faith collapse in our

hearts when the emotional pillars that normally sustain us collapse? Can we forgive someone who is hurting us when that person believes that we are the problem? Can we continue to love someone who hates us? Can we Father Ron continue to believe in trust Rolheiser when everywhere around us we are experiencing betrayal? Can we let our hands and hearts be opened, stretched, and nailed to a cross even when we are fearful? Can we continue to have faith in God when every feeling inside us suggests God has abandoned us? Can we still hand over our spirit when we feel absolutely no human or divine support? Where are our hearts when we are “a stone’s throw away” from everyone? That, and not the capacity to physically endure scourging and nails, was the real test inside of Jesus’ passion. That will be our test, too, in the end. One day each of us will also have to “give over” his or her spirit. Inside of that unanimity-minus-one, will our hearts be warm or bitter? Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas. www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Photographs of the Titanic taken by the late Irish Jesuit Father Frank Browne. “Father Browne’s Titanic Album” has been reprinted to mark the centenary of the demise of the massive liner. Father Browne became a prominent documentary photographer and a muchdecorated chaplain in the British army in World War I.

Seminarian took photos of Titanic’s infamous voyage By Sarah MacDonald DUBLIN (CNS) – Commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago put the spotlight on a young Irish priest whose photographs are some of the only surviving images of life onboard the liner on its first and last voyage. Jesuit Father Frank Browne, 1880-1960, became a prominent documentary photographer and a muchdecorated chaplain in the British army in World War I. A collection of his photographs, “Father Browne’s Titanic Album” has been reprinted to mark the centenary of the demise of the massive liner, which was constructed in Belfast, Ireland, and was believed to Jesuit Father Frank be unsinkable. Browne, 1880-1960 More than 1,500 people died when it sank April 15, 1912. England, to Cherbourg, France, and on to Queenstown, The new edition of the book is edited by Jesuit Father Ireland. Edward O’Donnell, and the foreword is written by While onboard, the self-taught photographer managed Robert Ballard, who first located the ship’s wreckage in to obtain pictures of the first-class accommodation and September 1985, the same month as a chance finding of dining rooms. He also captured the gymnasium, the library 42,000 of Father Browne’s photographs in the basement and passengers enjoying a stroll on the promenade, as of the Jesuits’ headquarters in Dublin. well as many passengers in third class, recording some of Frank Browne lived an eventful life. As a novice he those who would later perish in the freezing waters of the met Pope Pius X in 1909 when he accompanied his uncle, Atlantic. He took the last image of the Titanic’s captain, Bishop Robert Browne of Cloyne, to a private audience Edward Smith. at the Vatican. He was also a university classmate of Irish Father Browne’s images of the ship’s accommodation writer James Joyce, who featured the young seminarian and passengers have been pored over by maritime hisas “Mr. Browne the Jesuit” in his masterpiece “Finnegans torians, engineers and filmmakers seeking answers to a Wake.” tragedy that still grips the public’s imagination. Hollywood In 1912, the Jesuit novice was still three years from film director James Cameron used his photographs to reordination. Because of a gift from his uncle, he was able create sets for his blockbuster movie. to experience the Titanic’s luxurious accommodation in The Jesuit’s image of 6-year-old Robert Douglas the initial stages of its maiden voyage, from Southampton, Spedden playing with his spinning top on the promenade,

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Historian offers unsentimental look at Irish urban experience “THE IRISH WAY: BECOMING AMERICAN IN THE MULTIETHNIC CITY” by James R. Barrett. Penguin Press (New York, 2012). 369 pp., $29.95.

Reviewed by Peggy Weber (CNS) If you are looking for a sentimental book about Irish immigrants in America – “The Irish Way” is not it. James R. Barrett, a professor of history and AfricanAmerican studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, takes an honest, well-researched look at the Irish influence on the new, urban American identity. It is part sociology and part history. A lot of the information is neither romantic nor endearing. However, facts are facts. It is a big undertaking. Barrett looks at how the Irish influenced their world. He focuses on their role in several major American cities and their interaction and influence with other ethnic groups. He examines all of this with the background of the street, the parish, the workplace, on stage, through the machine and in the nation. It is a daunting task. However, the 73 pages of footnotes show that the author has done his homework. He writes in the introduction: “My object is not to advance a universal theory of Irish Americanization. The size and location of their communities varied. ... A legacy of real and imagined slights shaped Irish Catholic consciousness and their defensive urban culture. They told themselves and others that their success was hard-won, that they must

stick together and take care of their own. At its best, this mindset led Irish-Americans to support integration and reform for other oppressed migrant peoples; at its worst; it became an excuse for racial and ethnic intolerance such as the Irish themselves had faced.” The book explains how the Irish, some of the first immigrants, certainly suffered. Barrett notes: “In the 1830s and 1840s, Protestant gangs invaded Irish Catholic neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Boston and New York, burning homes, convents and churches.” It also chronicles how the Irish, in turn, developed turf wars with other ethnic groups in cities such as Boston, New York and Chicago. The church also shares the dual nature of this book. It shows a caring and compassionate group, but also a church that is ruled by Irish hierarchy and not necessarily open to welcoming others to predominantly Irish parishes. Nuns receive high praise, for the most part, in the book. Barrett especially notes that “the curriculum in schools taught by Irish nuns resembled that of the public schools, though it also included Catholic religious instruction. Irish

nuns were responsible not only for the upward mobility of many Irish women but also in the long run for Americanizing them.” (Here Barrett credits historian Sarah Deutsch). In terms of politics, the Irish certainly created a strong political machine. For example, Barrett writes: “From 1908 to 1933, every Lower East Side Tammany candidate for the board of alderman, the state assembly and the state senate was Irish.” Of course there are the stories of patronage and power. This book shows the darkness and light of the Irish immigrant experience and how this influenced others. Barrett acknowledges this when he writes: “An abiding tension between inclusiveness and exclusiveness, between cosmopolitanism and parochialism, lies at the heart of the Irish-American relations with other groups. This story turns on the dynamic between those impulses.” Barrett’s book shows a lot of the negative behavior of Irish immigrants. It notes that there were some positive outcomes but mostly it shows how one group can affect so many others. The book pieces together a lot of information and facts. It is a sociological study that has a nice conversational tone. And it allows the reader to make his or her own conclusions about what the Irish did or did not do to develop the urban experience. Weber is the social media editor for Catholic Communication for the Diocese of Springfield, Mass.

How 3 postconciliar American cardinals changed Catholic-Jewish relations “CUSHING, SPELLMAN, O’CONNOR: THE SURPRISING STORY OF HOW THREE AMERICAN CARDINALS TRANSFORMED CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS” by James Rudin. Wm. B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, Mich., 2012). 157 pp., $18.

Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher (CNS) Rabbi James Rudin has been involved in JewishChristian relations for the American Jewish Committee since the late 1960s, and his writing reflects both sound research and a wealth of personal experience. “Cushing, Spellman, O’Connor: The Surprising Story of How Three American Cardinals Transformed CatholicJewish Relations,” engagingly written for general readership, tells the story of three key American cardinals who, among others in this country and in Europe, profoundly influenced the development and implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s groundbreaking declaration, “Nostra Aetate,” which redefined and set a new direction for Catholic-Jewish relations after nearly two millennia of mistrust. Rabbi Rudin sets the context for the mid- to late 20thcentury story he tells by going back to its beginnings in the New Testament, a collection of books written by Jews for other Jews presenting a Jewish case for the significance of the life and teaching of the Jew, Jesus. The argument

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ancient Jews as “morally inferior” to their pagan neighbors. He said in his statement that he should have described the ancient Jews as “‘historically’ or ‘culturally’ unequal.” “My reference to ‘morally’ was interrupted,” he explained, “but ... I would never describe the Jewish people at any stage as morally inferior to their pagan neighbors. I was attempting to establish a counter poise to my earlier comment when interrupted.” He also said during the program in response to a question about suffering and the Holocaust that, referring to World War II, “probably no people in history have been punished the way the Germans were.” The cardinal said he was attempting to cite the work of Jewish writer David Berlinski, whose “thoughts point us to the mysterious ways in which great crimes are sometimes brought home to those who have committed them.”

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MONDAY, APRIL 30 JUBILEE MASS: Archbishop George Niederauer celebrates Mass commemorating his 50th year as a priest at 10:30 a.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. The faithful are invited and encouraged to attend.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 27 REUNION: Sacred Heart High School, class of 1952, at St. Francis Yacht Club, noon-2:30 p.m. Frank Noonan, (415) 454-0243.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 ROARING GOOD TIME: “A Roaring 20’s Evening,” from 6:30-10 p.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul auditorium, 660 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco. Tickets are $100 per person, adults only. Evening features live and silent auctions, dancing, live music, custom cocktails, and appetizers. Be sure to dress up! Proceeds benefit arts, science and library programs at the parish school. Call (415) 421-5219. REUNION: St Matthew School, San Mateo for all St. Matt alums begins with 5 p.m. Mass with Father Kieran McCormick, class of ’52, presiding. A casual gathering follows in the gym from 6-8:30 p.m. with complimentary refreshments and appetizers as well as fun raffle. Email aconnelly@stmatthewcath.org or call (650) 344 7622 x 104 for catering purposes. SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: Mass of Thanksgiving marking 80th anniversary of the Good Shepherd Sisters’ work in the Bay Area. Mass is at 10:30 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Church, Wayland and Somerset streets, San Francisco, followed by a reception in St. Elizabeth Church Hall. For more information, email Sister Barbara at b.beasley@earthlink.net. REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of 1972 in San Francisco. Contact Michele Clark at (916) 607-5691or mclark2514@comcast.net. ELDER CARE: “Our Family, Our Future,” a free seminar 1-3:30 p.m. At St. Robert Church, Hennessy Hall, 1380 Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno. Email Albert Reyes at arichreyes@aol.com or Sasa Puchbauer at sasapuch@pacbell.net. VOCATIONS: The Daughters of St. Paul invite young women, ages of 16-30, to drop in from 9:3012:30 p.m. and join the sisters in their mission, prayer for the needs of the world, and lunch at 3079 Oak Knoll Drive, Redwood City. Call (650) 368-3184 or email daughtersredwood@gmail.com. Casual participants welcome; bring a friend. YOUNG ADULTS: “The Church and I,” with Jesuit Father Lucas Chan, 2-5 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Call Office of Ethnic Ministries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at (415) 614-5574 by April 25. OUR LADY OF MANAOAG: Anniversary Mass at St. Thomas More Church, Brotherhood Way, San Francisco with novena beginning at 1:30 p.m. Bring Our Lady of Manaoag statues for blessing. Contact Victoria Medina at (415) 377-1398; Nelly Sarmiento (415) 939-3678. Reception follows. Parking is available.

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Archbishop George Niederauer Walk around Lake Merced, 1:30 p.m. registration and 2 p.m. start time at parking circle at Sunset and Lake Merced Boulevard. Proceeds from the walk will help fight homelessness in San Francisco. Visit www.cropwalksf.org. SPRING FLING: Italian Catholic Federation Branch173 meatballs and pasta dinner at Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No host bar at 4 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m. Raffle and silent auction features sports memorabilia. Tickets are $15 adults and $5 children. Call Bea at (650) 344-5276. RSVP deadline is April 25.

TUESDAY, MAY 1 AGING ADVICE: “Medi-Cal, Long-Term Care and Estate Asset Protection,” with attorney, Paul Hunt speaking on Medi-Cal, tips, traps, solutions at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Morrissey Hall, 2250 Hayes St., San Francisco, 2-3:30 p.m. How to find the best nursing homes, use the Medi-Cal system properly, best methods for allocating income, spending down assets and transferring property, and how to protect your home against Medi-Cal reimbursement claims. Call (415) 7505790 or email stmarysfoundation@dignityHealth.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 3 MADONNA COLLECTION: “The Madonna Collection” at San Francisco’s Porziuncola Nuova through Oct. 31. The 16 portraits and sculpture depict the Virgin Mary through the centuries and come directly from the Porziuncola Museum in Assisi, Italy. St. Francis was devoted to Mary, often praying to her in the Porziuncola. The Order of Friars Minor developed under the protection of St. Mary of the Porziuncola. The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach, are open every day but Monday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofstfrancis.com. Call (415) 434-8700.

SUNDAY, MAY 6 VISITING ARCHBISHOP: Archbishop Paul Cremona of Malta celebrates Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Maltese-American organizations, families and friends as well as all the faithful are invited. Lunch is being served after Mass in the cathedral’s Patron’s Hall. Contact Ninfa Pace at (650) 697-1079. GRADS’ MOMS: Riordan High School Alumni Moms Brunch, “Hats Off To Moms,” at the Lake Merced Golf Club. All alumni moms and their guests are welcome. Contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org. CONCERT: St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St. at Wayland, San Francisco, concert celebrating 25th anniversary of the church’s Schoenstein Pipe Organ at 3 p.m. David Schofield will play. St. Elizabeth Parish, Light of God Fil-Am and Knights of Columbus choirs will lead the singing of several hymns. Admission is free. Donations accepted.

Reception follows. Free street and lot parking is available. Visit www.stelizabethsf.org or call Karen Haslag, music director at (707) 996-9113.

MONDAY, MAY 7 PERSPECTIVES: The Social Justice Committee of St.Matthias Parish, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, hosts the League of Women Voters with information on upcoming ballot propositions at 7:30 p.m. Contact Evie Dwyer at (650) 368-9372. GOLF: 53rd Annual Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day benefiting Catholic Charities CYO’s Summer Youth Programs - CYO Camp and CYO Athletics summer programs. Former 49er, Ronnie Lott, and Jim McCabe head up the Golf Day Committee, we look forward to another successful day of golf, friendship, and fundraising. This year’s tournament will be held at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club and Stanford University Golf Course. Complete information is available at www.cyogolfday.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 8: BREAKFAST TALK: Joseph Russoniello is guest speaker for Catholics at Work at Crow Canyon Country Club, 711 Silver Lake Drive, Danville. Russoniello is a former U.S. attorney and is also known for his experience in defense of the Catholic Church. Talk begins at 8:15 a.m. A full buffet breakfast is served starting at 7 a.m. Mass is celebrated at 6:30 a.m. at the same location. Tickets are $20 for members and $25 for non-members. Visit www.catholicsatwork.org.

FESTIVAL: St. Anselm School Festival of Fun, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., St. Anselm School campus, 40 Belle Ave San Anselmo. Carnival rides, midway games, live music, delicious barbecue cafe. No admission charge. Discount ride tickets available. Call (415) 454-8667. REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of ’67 at the school. Contact Stephanie Mischak Lyons at (415) 242-9818 or smlyons@ earthlink.net or on Facebook at Mercy SF ‘67. REUNION: St. Cecilia School, class of ‘55 reunion, at noon at Whitehall Lane Winery, St. Helena. Contact Andi Thuesen Ibarra at andi49ers@yahoo.com or call (415) 665-0959 if you are interested in attending.

THURSDAY, MAY 17 ASSUMPTA AWARDS: The 2012 Assumpta Award Dinner in St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center honoring Joanne and Martin Murphy, Patricia Coleman, Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, and Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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SATURDAY, MAY 19 NEW PRIESTS: Rev. Mr. Armando J. Gutierrez, Rev. Mr. Felix B. Lim, Rev. Mr. Jerome M. Murphy are ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. REUNION: Class of ’51 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City at the 16 Mile House in Millbrae. Search for classmates continues. Call Janet Cirimele at (650) 490-0731.

SATURDAY, MAY 26 ROSARY CRUSADE: “Public Square Rosary Crusade,” at San Francisco’ UN Plaza, Eighth Street and Market Street at noon led by Father John Jimenez. “Don’t let God be pushed from the public square,” organizers said. Call Juanita Agcaoili at (415) 647-7229 or Helen Rosenthal at (415) 661-1991.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 BOCCE BALL: Riordan Bocce Ball Tournament at Orange Park, South San Francisco. Contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org. ALUMNAE DAY: Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@ comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.

SUNDAY, JUNE 24 NEW DEACONS: Archbishop George Niederauer will ordain candidates to the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco at 3:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@yahoo.com.

REUNION: Marin Catholic High School, class of ’62 at Jason’s Restaurant, Greenbrae. Visit www. marincatholic62.com or call Jeannie at (415) 4793838 or Mergie, at (415) 453-7714.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1982, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Elks Lodge, 920 Stonegate Drive, South San Francisco. Tickets at $40 per person include delicious brunch. Email Kathy Cooney Eagles at kathycooney@hotmail.com or call (650) 892-7310.

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Help Wanted PRINCIPAL POSITION AVAILABLE 2012-2013 SCHOOL YEAR ST. TIMOTHY CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SAN MATEO Saint Timothy School is a Catholic elementary school in San Mateo, Grades K to 8, serving an ethnically diverse population. It has instructional aides, teachers for Spanish language instruction, computer science, general and instrumental music, and P. E. It offers a full-day Kindergarten, a special needs program, an art program, extended care before and after school, an athletic program, a departmentalized junior high, a rigorous comprehensive curriculum, and a secure environment. QUALIFICATIONS FOR A PRINCIPAL: • A practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church • A valid teaching credential • Five years successful teaching experience at the K-8 level (at least three in Catholic schools) • A Master’s degree in educational leadership and an administrative credential(preferred) • Five years successful administrative experience at the K-8 level (at least three in Catholic schools) APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW: Applicants must complete an application and establish a personnel file with the Department of Catholic Schools. Materials may also be downloaded from the Department of Catholic Schools website, www.sfcatholicschools.org. The requested material plus a letter of interest should be returned to: Mr. Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational and Professional Leadership Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Applicants with personnel files already established with the Department of Catholic Schools should send a letter indicating an interest in applying for the position and contact Bret Allen by phoning (415) 614-5665 or by e-mailing at allenb@sfarchdiocese.org to update files. SALARY: Salary for the position will be determined according to Archdiocesan guidelines based upon experience as a teacher or administrator and graduate education. Medical, dental and retirement benefits are included.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SOUGHT The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20122013 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

Please send resume and a letter of interest by April 30th, 2012 to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational & Professional Leadership One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, California 94109 Fax (415) 614-5664 E-mail: allenb@sfarchdiocese.org

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA Joan Accordino Dora Ahumada Edwina R. Alcairo Milton Edward Anderson, Jr. Helen Aquilina Mary Augsburger Robert Aviani Elisa E. Banayat Lillian P. Barbe Noel V. Barquira Lina V. Beck Maria Antonietta Bonavolonta Engracia Escobar Borja, M.D. Jo Anne Joyce Branch Grace McCarthy Bray Catherine Sheldon Burke Ruben Cabrera Bonifacio C. Camarao, Sr. Anna Zlongst Capelletti Terence L. Carroll Bridget Carroll Michael Nicholas Casella Loraine M. Casentini Cecilia L. Chan Jesse P. Chaves Leonidas Chavez Edith Giosso Ciarlo John “Jack” Collins Leopoldo Contreras Ignacia Costelo Juan Q. Cuellar Harold F. Cullen Beatrice Degliantoni Herminia Trance Deinla John Raymond Dunn Rose V. Duque Clara C. Ella Jon Elu Cecilia T. Epting Robert Lee Fidler, Sr. Athene G. Fragakis Antonio Gallegos Edward Gallegos William Earl Giguiere Sr. Virginia Gillis Richard Glimpse Angelica Gomez Anna Gonella Doris M. Grady Peter J. Grove Margaret Teresa Hanly Gloria Hart John Francis Hippely Kathleen Howard Keith Johnson Josephine “Fina” Jovel Ethel Kane Lillian “Lily” Kastl Sarah M. Kelechava Patrick J. Keogh Stephen Klim Amalia S. Loyola Alice A. Luhman Nannie Lustan Richard Magat Norma Marenzi Margaret Sheehan McCarthy Nancy L. McDermott Thomas A. McGurk William H. McLemore Dolores Metkus

Apolonia R. Miran Hetzie Mohrmann Bridget L. Molloy Eleanor Mondali Ronald A. Monzon Maria Elba Morales Michael Joseph Murphy Concepcion Narvaez Lauro Z. Navarro Mary Nelson Rosario F. Nepomuceno Anne Nieri Alice O’Connell Brian Dennis O’Hara Mary M. O’Neill Mary O’Shea Peter O’Shea Joseph A. Oliphant Elfrida S. Olivas-Byrd Emma Orozco Teresita Malig Paras Jorge “Boxer” Prieto Patricia C. Ramirez Dorothy Marie Regan Michael C. Rengstorff Evelina Ricci-Pereira Jack R. Rivers, Sr. Dali Rizzetto Helen Robatto Anthony P. Rodriguez Florence Gulli Rossi Antonio Santiago Emmons A. Scheidegger Gilda D. Silvestri Alice G. Sommerauer Francesca Marie Springer Dolores Streeter Jesse P. Tabarez Eleanor Tapella Bernadette M. Tredinnick Helen F. “Peggy” Tredinnick Kenneth Allen Troche Robert J. Ughe Remedios Afable Valdez Joseph Vassallo Alfredo Velasquez Aida Vides Helen F. Viner Aaltje Vital Amelia Vitrano Jane Wackerman Mary K. Walsh Charles M. Williams Barbara J. Woods Patricia Wright Ralph Zamacona George Zeisz

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL (BURIED IN FEBRUARY) Vilma Burgos Albert DeMello Glenn Gallaven Yolanda Mary Ghilotti James J. Jarocki Bernadette Miller-Gallaven Gail F. Trainor Alice Elizabeth Young

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Harold “Hal” C. Brown, Jr. Dorla D. Camara Paul Dennis Clary, III Shirley Lorraine Bush Peterson DeRose Donna Jean Dowing Margaret A. Hericks Lea M. Lamperti Noemi M. Lazio Thelma Galli Massara Judge William T. McGivern, Jr. Jane “Bette” O’Connell E. A. Sam Renati Jay Dee Wark

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK John M. Gilbert John “Jack” Malone Adele M. McPartland Francis C. McPartland Mark F. McPartland Gordon W. Newell Daniel Ramos Maria Alonso Rodriguez Eleanor Rattigan Rubin Elizabeth Skrabo

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR, HMB Fidel Lopez

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, May 5, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am •

Rev. William Brady, Celebrant

MEMORIAL DAY MASS – Monday, May 28, 2012 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – COLMA Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am • Bishop Robert McElroy, Celebrant HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY – MENLO PARK CEMETERY – SAN RAFAEL – HALF MOON BAY Outdoor Mass – 11:00 am Outdoor Mass – 11:00 am Outdoor Mass – 9:30 am

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