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CARMEL VALLEY – The Second Vatican Council teaches that the Catholic Church “is constantly on a pilgrimage toward the heavenly kingdom, guided always by the Lord,” San Diego’s new bishop said at his installation Mass at St. Therese of Carmel Church. “This image of the church as the pilgrim people of God demands that the ministry of a bishop be enmeshed in a culture of mutual accompaniment that suffuses the local church,” Bishop Robert W. McElroy said in his homily April 15. “The theological foundation for this culture of mutual accompaniment lies in the priesthood of all believers and the universal call to holiness,” he said. For the disciples of the Lord, their most important religious identity is not found “in any particular office that they hold, or any status in orders or consecrated life, but in the grace of baptism which brings membership in the church,” Bishop McElroy said. SEE SAN DIEGO, PAGE 12
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Meeting the archbishop Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone greeted children leaving Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park after celebrating Mass for the School of the Nativity April 20 as part of his parish visit. With the archbishop is Deacon Dominick Peloso.
VATICAN CITY – With so many women and men being killed because of their faith in Christ, the church today is a church of martyrs, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. And, in a message to the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, he also urged the world’s leaders to hear the cry of all the Christians who are victims of violence, cruelty and killings. “The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil. All the more this cry must be heard by those who have the destiny of peoples in their hands,” the pope told Patriarch Mathias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in a message sent April 20. Pope Francis sent his condolences to the patriarch for the execution of more than 20 Ethiopian Christians at the SEE MARTYRS, PAGE 12
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VATICAN CITY – The canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra will give the United States its first Hispanic saint, which should help more Americans realize that the country was settled by both Hispanics and Anglos, said the secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Guzman Carriquiry, the Vatican official who hails from Uruguay, told reporters he hoped the canonization would promote greater acceptance of Hispanic Americans, recognition of the Catholic contribution to U.S. history and a more accurate understanding of how the United States became a country. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, announced April 20 that Pope Francis planned to canonize the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan missionary the evening of Sept. 23 during a Mass on
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Capuchin Father Vincenzo Criscuolo speaks next to the “positio,” or position paper on Blessed Junipero Serra during a press conference at the Vatican April 20. the lawn of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. The announcement, and Carriquiry’s comments,
came during a Vatican news conference about Pope Francis’ visit to the Pontifical North America College, the U.S. seminary in Rome, May 2 to conclude a study day about Blessed Serra. An “Anglo-centric” reading of U.S. history, Carriquiry said, ignores the fact that Spaniards explored much of its eventual territory and made important contributions to the histories of California, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. The “anti-Catholic, anti-Hispanic” sentiments do not die easily, he said, but the canonization of Blessed Serra should help more people recognize the contributions Hispanics have made and continue to make. A more accurate vision also will “help break down walls of separation between what is Anglo and what is Hispanic, between the Protestant and Catholic traditions, between the United States and Latin America.” SEE SERRA, PAGE 12
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Longtime RCIA teacher ‘humbled’ to bring children into faith CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
St. Isabella parishioner Judy Rosenbloom speaks with motherly pride when she told Catholic San Francisco on April 16 that Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will confirm 77 new people in the faith when he visits the parish on Apr. 26. Along with students of St. Isabella School and the parish religious education program, the archbishop will confirm 24 children in the parish’s Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults adapted-for-children program, run by Rosenbloom, 73, for 16 years. She started the RCIA-adapted-for-children program at St. Isabella in 1999 when her grandsons, whose parents are not Catholic, asked if they could be baptized and receive the sacraments, “just like their grandma.” Like many parishes, St. Isabella did not have a program for them. “It’s God’s program,” Rosenbloom said, deferring the praise her fellow parishioner Susan Egisti offered in a letter to the newspaper. “It’s very humbling to think families trust you with their child’s faith life.” Every Sunday at 1 p.m. from September through the end of May, Rosenbloom’s RCIA-adapted-for-children class meets in the parish social hall. Students are encouraged to bring family members and friends because, “there are no breaks or holiday,” she said. RCIA-adapted-for-children is not well understood
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St. Isabella parishioner Judy Rosenbloom has run the parish’s Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults adapted-for-children program for 16 years. or supported, admitted Rosenbloom, who described it as meant for children from families who are new to the Catholic Church and not enrolled in Catholic schools, or for families that for a variety of reasons, never got around to having their kids baptized or confirmed. Sometimes children and parents are going through RCIA together. There is not an actual program called “RCIA for Children,” said Rosenbloom. Unlike religious educa-
tion classes which have a formal curriculum and teaching materials, the RCIA adapted-for-children program adapts the adult program to make it suitable to a younger audience. “We don’t do all the things that the adult program does,” she said. There is a part of the program called the “scrutinies” where RCIA students look at what’s sinful in their lives. “For little kids we don’t do that.” “It’s not meant to be a program to catch up kids that fall through the cracks, but in a sense it is that,” she said. Since the program is not offered at all parishes, families come from all over the county. It started with two or three children and their families and each year since, more and more have been coming. Last class was close to 90 people. They carried the flags in procession, had their feet washed on Holy Thursday, processed the canopy over the Eucharist to the altar of repose, carried the gifts at the offertory, took up the collection with ushers and pronounced the prayers of the faithful. From Palm Sunday to Easter, Rosenbloom’s RCIA students participated fully in Holy Week activities. Though her husband, Al, who is Jewish, is very supportive of his wife’s devotion to the program, Judy knows the day will come when she must retire and is looking for volunteers who will carry the torch. “There is so much joy in this,” said Rosenbloom. “I feel very spoiled.”
NEED TO KNOW BISHOP DALY FAREWELL MASS, RECEPTION MAY 3: The Diocese of San Jose will bid prayerful farewell to Bishop Thomas A. Daly with a Mass and reception May 3 at 11:30 a.m. in Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, 80 South Market St., San Jose, where Bishop Daly was ordained bishop May 25, 2011, by San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath. Bishop Daly was appointed bishop of the Diocese Bishop Daly of Spokane by Pope Francis March 12, 2015. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco May 9, 1987, and served in the archdiocese in roles including president of Marin Catholic High School and vocations director. The farewell Mass is open to all and will be followed by a reception in Cathedral Hall, the diocese said. CHARITIES SECOND COLLECTION MAY 9-10: The 2015 Catholic Charities Sunday second collection will take place at parishes in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties on the weekend of May 9-10. The second collection benefits programs operated by Catholic Charities, the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the archdiocese. Catholic Charities works to address homelessness and provide stable housing, cares for the aging and sick, enriches the lives of children and youth, offers counseling in difficult times, and welcomes newcomers with respect and dignity.
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Catholic Charities Sunday: Loving our neighbors in San Mateo Catholic Charities, the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, serves more than 35,000 individuals, children and families in the Bay Area. On May 9 and 10, Catholic parishes in the three counties of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take a second collection to support the work of Catholic Charities. This is the second of three articles that feature stories of people at risk in our communities who are supported by Catholic Charities.
‘The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!’ POPE FRANCIS
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In the previous issue of Catholic San Francisco, we highlighted the work of Catholic Charities in San Francisco County. In this issue, we turn our attention south to their work in San Mateo County. Since 1943, Catholic Charities has been responding to the human services needs in San Mateo County. Today, the agency serves more than 700 individuals in the areas of Aging Services, Behavioral Health Services, and Refugee and Immigrant Services. In addition to these services, Catholic Charities teaches Christian values of respect, love, compassion and support through CYO Athletics team sports programs for youth in northern coastal San Mateo County. The agency also helps severely abused boys from San Mateo County
find healing and hope at Catholic Charities’ St. Vincent’s School for Boys. And it provides healthy growth opportunities for San Mateo County children who attend CYO Outdoor Environmental Education and Summer Camp. Each of these areas offers tangible ways to love our neighbors on the Peninsula. Here are a few stories of people in our community who, because of your generosity, are being lifted out of poverty by Catholic Charities today: Jim is an 88-year-old retired music teacher. After he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, he was not able to live alone any longer. Jim’s daughter tried placing her father in several care facilities, but eventually had to bring him home with her due to the expense. That’s when she decided to try an adult day program so she
could have some respite. Within one month of arriving at Catholic Charities Adult Day Services San Mateo County, Jim became very engaged in all the activities offered. Combined with the respite provided by the center, Jim’s daughter will be able to maintain her health as well. This will not only increase her quality of life, but will also help her to take the best care of her father possible. Francis is a 50-year-old man who has struggled with psychosis since adolescence. He lives in public housing with no family and no ties to the outside world. He speaks with his Catholic Charities’ behavioral health services therapist daily and meets with her weekly to help him negotiate even the simplest things, such as buying groceries or just getting through the day. Catholic Charities charges
just $5 per week to provide psychotherapeutic services to Francis. Often people like Francis have nowhere to turn, but Catholic Charities cared for him with dignity and respect. Maria, a hardworking child care provider in San Mateo County, came to Catholic Charities’ Refugee and Immigrant Services for emergency travel assistance. Her family still lives in her home country, and she needed help to get back home quickly because her father was dying. When her mother passed away a couple of years ago, Maria was unable to get the assistance she needed, and missed the chance to say “goodbye” and support her family through the grieving process. Catholic Charities staff were able to file documents the day that Maria came into the office, and she was able to travel in time to say “farewell” to her father and support the other members of her family. Thanks to Catholic Charities, Maria was able to safely return to the U.S., had no trouble with her employer, and was better informed about the process of getting her travel documents as well as her immigration benefits. Agnes, Francis and Maria are our neighbors. Please consider giving to this year’s Catholic Charities Sunday second collection at your parish on May 9 or 10. By putting your faith in action, you show your love for thousands of brothers and sisters in your community.
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Campus ministry 24/7 endeavor at San Domenico Schools TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
Even as this school year winds to a close, San Domenico School campus ministry director Loretta Johnson is putting things in place for continuing faith formation in the fall. “A large portion of our work for the rest of the year will be spent planning with student leaders and faculty for next year’s calendar,” Loretta, who oversees campus Loretta Johnson ministry for all of San Domenico’s 12 grades, told me via email. During the next school year San Domenico will commemorate its 50th year at its current San Anselmo location, the 165th anniversary of the San Rafael Dominican Sisters arrival in California, and the 800th anniversary of St. Dominic’s founding of the Dominican Order. Loretta holds a theology degree from Georgetown University and a graduate degree in the subject from the Jesuit School of Theology of the University of Santa Clara. She “gained a desire to engage students on a spiritual level” as an elementary special education teacher in Louisiana as part of Teach for America. “The outpouring of imagination, creativity, and insight that flows from the minds and hearts of inspired young people” and “their capacity for hopeful questioning and genuine openness” is what moved her toward campus ministry, she said. With her close-up view, I asked Loretta if she found students have an interest in learning about faith. Christ’s teachings encourage students to seek truth, she said. “Students’ inquiry into the meaning of faith, religion, and spirituality is ongoing,” she said and present everywhere be it classroom, vans on the way to sports events, or other everyday locations. “His messages of love and forgiveness, justice and compassion, resonate with their own innate sense of being kind and loving toward one another and those in need.” San Domenico students carry out the call in commitment to service, social justice and community building in local and global communities; daily concern for the care of the ecology, and energetic participation in prayer services and liturgies, Loretta said. Campus Ministry fully has a place at the school table, Loretta said and for many reasons. “Its focus
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weekly all-school Lenten reflections as well as daily Lenten reflections made available to faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and board members online throughout the 40 days. A World Peace Prayer Service also has a special place for her. “Students from kindergarten through the 12th grade led us in a meaningful service for peace and peacemakers of our world,” she said. “They shared written reflections, music, art, and their own prayers for peace.”
JUST GOOD FOLKS: Happy to post this picture of representatives of the San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. The group has long been ahead of its time in support of women in the church. Pictured, from left, are SFACCW board members Diana Heafey, Josephine Longhitano, Kathy Parish-Reese, Mary Ann Schwab, Mary Ann Eiler, Joan Higgins, and Sue Barry. The SFACCW maintains an office in the chancery – I’m proud to call them neighbors – and can be reached at (415) 614-5629. is integrated into all facets of life on campus. Campus Ministry prayer services, retreats, and liturgies invite school levels to gather, celebrate, reflect, pray and share deep loving gratitude.” Loretta has many “best moments” in her work including recent Lent-focused rites that included
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Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur: ‘Hearts as wide as the world’ SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR
Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.
FOUNDED: Feb. 2, 1804, Amiens, France ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO ARCHDIOCESE: March 31, 1851
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It was 2:30 in the morning of March 31, 1851, when Sister Loyola Duquenne and Sister Catherine Cabareaux landed at the port WAKE UP THE WORLD ! of San 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Francisco. In her memoirs, Sister Catherine described their arrival: “We conducted to the archbishop’s house but he was not there. In a few days his Lordship returned. He saw Sister Loyola and exhorted her to found an establishment where she thought it was most convenient, that as San José was the capital and such a healthy place, he advised her to go and see it. The good farmer Mr. Murphy came to bring us to Santa Clara and San Jose. We had no convent, but Dr. Vancamhegen, an honest man from Brussels with another Italian doctor had a little hospital then unoccupied near their drug store. They concluded that we would occupy two rooms to sleep and to admit us at the table for meals.” Sister Catherine’s first students were the daughters of the early California Suñol family: “The young ladies Suñol accepted lessons of writing (and so forth) from 10 till 12. The young ladies had compassion on me. I did not know Spanish and nonetheless had undertaken to teach them the principles of writing. They rendered me great
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FIRST MINISTRY: School and College of Notre Dame in San Jose CURRENT MINISTRIES INCLUDE EDUCATION IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS: Schools, university, ESL programs, pastoral and service ministries CURRENT NUMBER OF SISTERS IN ARCHDIOCESE: 40
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Sister Carolyn Buhs, a graduate of St. Dunstan School in Millbrae, Mercy High School, Burlingame, and the College of Notre Dame, Belmont, prepares teachers in South Sudan. service, they helping me to learn their language.”
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The sisters found a small house for Notre Dame, San José. In 1856 they opened College of Notre Dame in Marysville and, in 1866, Notre Dame Elementary, San Francisco. College of Notre Dame, San José, was chartered to give baccalaureate degrees by the state of California in 1868. That school grew into a large campus in bustling San José and moved to the quiet, rural beauty of Belmont in 1923. The lively Belmont campus is now home to students at Notre Dame Elementary, Notre Dame High School and Notre Dame de Namur University.
True to Sister Catherine’s commitment to the Suñol sisters, NDNU is the only private university in Northern California to receive the presidential designation Hispanic Serving Institution and the resulting honors and grants in support of students and programs.
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Sister Aloyse of the Cross Jenkins, Sister Magdalen de Pazzi Penard and the novice, Sister Anna Raphael arrived in San Francisco in 1866 to open Notre Dame School on Dolores Street. Father John Prendergast was pleased that he finally had his “two sisters
and a half !” The numbers of students, boarders and sisters grew rapidly, and room after room was added to the original building. Finally, in 1898, a four-story, state-of-the-art boarding and day school, was completed. The new school, destroyed by fire during the 1906 earthquake, was rebuilt and opened in August 1907. For decades, it provided a high quality education to thousands of young women. Sisters also taught at Notre Dame Elementary and Mission Dolores schools. As the times changed, high school enrollment declined and the sad decision was made to close the school in 1981. The school building, renovated, and still resting on its firm 1898 foundation, is now Notre Dame Senior Plaza. Owned by Mercy Housing Services, the Plaza offers beautiful, affordable apartments for very low-income seniors. SEE SISTERS, PAGE 18
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SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco archdiocese said the full-page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle April 16 urging Pope Francis to oust San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone over morality clauses and other policies “is a misrepresentation of Catholic teaching.” The ad also is “a misrepresentation of the nature of the teacher contract, and a misrepresentation of the spirit of the archbishop,” the archdiocese said in a statement released the day before the ad’s pub-
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riage, artificial contraception, and other tenets of the faith. The handbook and contract changes reiterate more strongly what archdiocesan officials say is the responsibility of teachers and staff not to contradict Catholic teaching in school and in their public lives. Signers of the ad said that “teachers, students and parents are overwhelmingly opposed to the archbishop’s proposal and said the “mean-spiritedness” of the proposed language for the faculty handbook “sets a pastoral tone that is closer to persecution than evangelization.” The ad also claimed the archbishop “disregards advice from his priests” and instead relies on a “tiny group of advisers” recruited from outside the archdiocese. The San Francisco Archdiocese in its statement said that local church officials have “met with a broad range of stakeholders” and have “engaged in a constructive dialogue on all of the issues raised in this ad. We welcome the chance to continue that discussion.”
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idea of mercy is getting put into practice. This is the first time we have ever had a year of mercy. In a way, this is John Paul’s spirituality taking hold of the church.” St. John Paul established the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday in 2000 to emphasize the connection between the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the mercy and forgiveness that flow from the paschal mystery to his disciples. The Year of Mercy will begin on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is Dec. 8, and conclude Nov. 20, 2016, which is the feast of Christ the King.
WASHINGTON – A former Swiss Guard who has penned a memoir on the leadership qualities of St. John Paul II said the extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy officially declared by Pope Francis April 11 is “one of the many fruits of the teachings of John Paul.” Andreas Widmer, a member of the Swiss Guard from 1986 to 1988, highlighted the importance of mercy to the late pope as part of a reflection during a Divine Mercy Sunday observance at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington. “The significance of the Year of Mercy that’s been declared as a holy year is the implementation of what John Paul started with the devotion to Divine Mercy,” Widmer said April 12. “The whole
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Each child is provided a travel bag, a photo with his or her parent, and meals for the day (breakfast, snacks, lunch at the prison, and dinner). On the trip home, a teddy bear with a letter from their parent and post-event counseling. Get On The Bus is a program of The Center for Restorative Justice Works, a non profit organization (Not-for-Profit Tax ID # 68-0547196) that unites children, families and communities separated by crime and the criminal justice system founded by Sr. Suzanne Jabro.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
Nuncio: Humans’ need to profess beliefs ‘cannot be smothered’ MARIE MISCHEL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
OREM, Utah – Every human being “is a seeker of truth of his own origin and of his own destiny” and has thoughts and questions that “cannot be repressed or smothered,” the U.N. nuncio told an Archbishop audience at Utah Auza Valley University in Orem. Such questions are by nature religious and “to fully manifest themselves, they require freedom,” Archbishop Bernardito Auza said April 13. “The human person wants to be able freely to profess his or her religion in private and in public as individuals and as groups.” The Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations made the comments in a keynote address at the public university’s daylong Mormon Studies’ Conference on the topic “Mormons and Catholics, From the Margins to the Mainstream.” The archbishop began by discussing the state of religious freedom around the world and how the
international community must confront threats to such freedom and the atrocities taking place against Christians. He also outlined several ways he said Catholics and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are working together to protect and promote religious freedom. Religious freedom has been enshrined as a civil right in international documents, and “every government bears the proud responsibility to guarantee in its constitution religious freedom for its people, and must uphold religious freedom both in principle and in fact,” Archbishop Auza said. However, governments for years have been “trying to curtail, if not completely stop, people from exercising their religious freedom in public,” said the archbishop, adding that the state of religious freedom in the world today is “very worrisome.” “Today, religious persecution – be it open or discreet, overt or private – is the emerging trend; today religious freedom is more and more curtailed,” he said. Even in some Western democracies, he said, “the long-standing paragons of human rights and free-
doms, we find instances of increasingly less subtle signs of persecution, including the legal prohibition of the display of Christian symbols and imagery, and the legal imposition to choose between one’s religious conviction and law, between conscience and law.” Religious persecution has never been as barbaric as it has been recently, he added. He gave an overview of the atrocities being committed against Christians worldwide, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. “Even as we speak, thousands are being killed, persecuted, deprived of their fundamental human rights and being discriminated against simply because they profess a belief which is different from the persecutors, and especially if they are Christians,” Archbishop Auza said. However, “it seems that the international community, specifically the (U.N.) Security Council, has not yet found a way to confront that,” de-
spite the resolutions that have been signed stating that governments have the responsibility to protect their citizens against such violence against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, he said. Historically, he said, Catholics and Mormons in particular “did not always find a welcome mat” in the United States, and “in that crucible” learned “how to welcome and provide for others, especially for those in need.” As a result, “our churches have built institutions to embrace, to educate, to help, to nourish, to ensure, and hospitalize those in need, as much as our generosity could afford,” the archbishop said. “Rather than wallowing in self-pity and playing the card of the victim, Catholics and Mormons both took advantage of the freedoms and opportunities still available in the United States to build institutions that have endured the passage of time.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
Pope accepts resignation of Bishop Finn CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, who was convicted in 2012 on one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse. The Vatican announced the bishop’s resignation April 21, specifying it was under the terms of the Code of Canon Law, which says, “A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.” The Vatican offered no further comment. The pope’s acceptance of Bishop Finn’s resignation comes after members of the Pontifical Commission for Child Protection announced that one of their priorities was to ensure measures were in place to promote the accountability of bishops in protecting children and upholding the Vatican-approved norms for dealing with accusations of child abuse made against church workers. In an interview published April 20, Marie Collins, a member of the commission and a survivor of abuse, told the news site Crux, “I cannot understand how Bishop Finn is still in position, when anyone else with a conviction that he has could not run a Sunday school in a parish. He wouldn’t pass a background check.” Bishop Finn is the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official to face criminal charges related to the priest sex abuse scandal that erupted within the U.S. church in 2002. In September the Vatican had asked Canadian Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa, Ontario, to make an apostolic visitation to the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
On Sept. 6, 2012, Bishop Finn was convicted of one count of failing to report suspected child abuse and acquitted on another count in a brief bench trial. Diocesan authorities’ failure to immediately report a computer technician’s discovery of child pornography on a computer used by Father Shawn Ratigan, then pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Butler, Missouri, led to Bishop Finn being charged with misdemeanors for failing to report suspected child abuse to state authorities. The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph faced similar charges. In August 2012, the former pastor pleaded guilty to five counts of producing or attempting to produce child pornography. He received 10 years for each count. In September 2013 he started his 50year sentence in federal prison. After the priest entered his guilty plea, the diocese filed a petition with the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that he be laicized. The child pornography was first discovered in December 2010. Authorities were not notified until six months later, when a search of the priest’s family home turned up images of child pornography. Judge John M. Torrence of Jackson County Circuit in Missouri issued the verdict and sentenced the bishop to two years’ probation. The charges carried a possible maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Torrence dismissed the charges against the diocese after sentencing the bishop. Several of the steps taken by the diocese to address abuse, including mandatory training of all staff and all clergy and putting in place reporting requirements, were among conditions Torrence set for Bishop Finn’s probation. Bishop Finn, 62, is a native of St. Louis. Ordained to the priesthood in 1979, he was named coadjutor bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph in 2004 and became bishop in 2005. Jack Smith, diocesan communications director, said in a statement that Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has been named apostolic administrator until a successor to Bishop Finn is appointed.
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SAN FRANCISCO – A new 12-part video series on marriage from Ignatius Press will provide ongoing formation that many couples need “to help us to live the art of marriage well,” said a theology professor who is content director of the series. “Everybody knows that there’s a great crisis in marriage in the culture today,” said Edward Sri, who teaches at Augustine Institute in suburban Image shows video series “Beloved: Denver. “We all know Finding Happiness in Marriage.” of various legal battles that are being fought related to marriage and various pundits making their case for marriage in the media and the public square,” he said in a teleconference about the series, called “Beloved: Finding Happiness in Marriage.” Ignatius Press in San Francisco collaborated on the series with Augustine Institute and Lighthouse Catholic Media in Sycamore, Illinois. “Much of the discussion tends to be at the level of ideas, and those ideas are worth fighting for certainly. But we also need help in taking those ideas and bringing them into the daily lives of real married couples,” Sri said. “I think one of the greatest things we can do in the culture today is to help build stronger marriages and families.” Sri, who also is one of the video series’ presenters, is an author and a nationally known speaker on Scripture and Catholicism. Among those joining him for the April 8 teleconference were Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila and Teresa Tomeo, an author and syndicated Catholic talk radio host. St. John Paul II said marriage and family life “is going to be crucial for the new evangelization,” and Pope Francis has “called for greater marriage preparation efforts, as well as ongoing formation for marriage,” added Sri. The two main audiences for “Beloved” are engaged couples and married couples, he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
Cardinal George touched nation, world with his intellect, leadership CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
CHICAGO – To say that Cardinal Francis E. George was an intellectual would be an understatement. To try to quantify his impact on the Catholic Church in the United States and in the world would be an underestimation. “He’s the closest thing in recent American church history to what you would think of as sort of the all-star European cardinal intellecCardinal George tualist,” veteran Vatican journalist John L. Allen Jr. told the Catholic New World, Chicago’s archdiocesan newspaper, in December 2013. “Prior to George in Chicago, the American Catholic Church has never really produced such a thing.” Cardinal George, who retired in 2014 as Chicago’s archbishop, died April 17 after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. The late churchman’s intellectualism was sharpened during stints teaching philosophy at several Catholic universities across the nation, and then further honed when writing doctoral dissertations in philosophy and theology. “He is acutely aware that words carry meaning. They shape ideas, and ideas shape actions,” Father Thomas Baima, vicar for ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the Archdiocese of Chicago and vice rector for Mundelein Seminary, said during an October 2013 speech on Cardinal George. Probably the most famous words spoken by Cardinal George came during a talk before a group of priests, in which he warned about the dangers of a completely secularized society. The comment went viral, leading Cardinal George to write about it in an Oct. 21, 2012, column for the Catholic New World. “I am (correctly) quoted as saying that I expected to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. What is omitted from the reports is a final phrase I added about the bishop who follows a possibly martyred bishop: ‘His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.’ “What I said is not ‘prophetic’ but a way to force people to think outside of the usual categories that limit and sometimes poison both private and public discourse.” However, papal biographer and columnist George Weigel believes Cardinal George’s writings and speeches sounded a warning bell early on, especially on threats to religious freedom. “His calm insistence that there were and are deep
cultural problems in American democracy was a needed wake-up call for many,” Weigel wrote in a December 2013 email to the Catholic New World. A blatant example is the 2011 federal Health and Human Services mandate requiring nearly all employers to offer coverage of abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations and contraceptives. The exemption for religious employers is so narrow that most religiously affiliated organizations – such as Catholic Charities or Catholic hospitals and universities – do not qualify. Nonexempt religious employers can opt out of providing the coverage using what the administration calls a “work around” by notifying the government of their objections to the coverage then the government tells insurers they must cover the services. But what religious employers still find this objectionable. The contraceptive mandate is part of the Affordable Care Act, which became law in early 2010. In a 2009 address as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal George reiterated the bishops’ long-standing support for making “health care more affordable for low-income people and the uninsured. We remain deeply concerned that immigrants be treated fairly and not lose health care coverage that they now have.” But he also said the bishops would continue “to insist that health care reform legislation must protect conscience rights.” Health care professionals and institutions “should know that their deeply held religious or moral convictions will be respected as they exercise their right to serve patients in need.” In a November 2012 YouTube video posted by the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal George said: “The church is her ministries as well as her worship, and
the government has told us, ‘No, you’re not. You’re just your worship.’” His American peers looked to his intellect and leadership, electing him to a three-year term as USCCB president in November 2007. Just this January, the Knights of Columbus presented Cardinal George with the organization’s highest honor, the Gaudium et Spes award. He was not without his critics, however. Father Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and rector of Mundelein Seminary, noted in a talk about Cardinal George delivered to the seminary on the 50th anniversary of his priesthood that both “liberals” and “conservatives” often felt stung by Cardinal George’s words, when he was merely calling for life true to the Gospels. “What he proposes, finally, is neither liberal nor conservative Catholicism, but ‘simply Catholicism,’ which means the faith in its fullness, mediated through the successors of the Apostles,” Barron said. For all of his accomplishments, however, Cardinal George remained unassuming. Law professor, pro-life advocate and author Helen Alvare recalled meeting him when he was bishop of Yakima, Washington, and was surprised at his small apartment and humble furnishings. “The other thing I noticed about his living quarters was there were more books than anything else,” she told the Catholic New World in December 2013. That lifelong intellectual pursuit will shape “the George legacy,” Allen said. “What we’ll mean by that is the recovery of a kind of sixth sense of what it means to be Catholic,” he said.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
Sister: Religious must assess attitudes toward abuse, celibacy LAURA IERACI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ROME – After the sex scandals in the church, consecrated men and women must honestly assess their attitudes toward abuse, as well as toward celibacy, said Sister Mary Lembo, a research assistant at the Center for Child Protection at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. Sister Lembo, a member of the Congregation of St. Catherine, was part of a panel on “Formation for Affectivity Following the Sexual Scandals” at an international congress in Rome for novice directors and others involved in formation. She spoke to Catholic News Service April 10, during the congress organized by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Sister Lembo said it is important to begin by assessing attitudes toward celibacy and toward “the reality” of the sex abuse scandal lived in the church. “Are we afraid of it or can we face it?” asked Sister Lembo, who also teaches in the Gregorian’s psychology department. “Do we really think it is possible to live (celibacy), especially in light of the scandals?” Consecrated life is not an obligation; it is a decision, she said. And if people decide to enter consecrated life, then they “have to live it according to Jesus,” Sister Lembo told CNS. Celibacy is linked to the affective dimension of a person, including one’s emotions, sexuality and
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Dutch archdiocese, laity at odds over parish closures JONATHAN LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
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WARSAW, Poland – When Catholics compare their cardinal’s actions to those of Islamic State militants, it is hard to dialogue with them, said a spokesman for a Dutch archdiocese. Bezield Verband Utrecht (Animated Connection Utrecht), or BVU, collected 12,000 signatures on a petition to Pope Francis urging Cardinal Willem Eijk, president of the Dutch bishops’ conference, to prevent the mass closure of churches in the central province. They said he was “destroying church communities.” Roland Enthoven, spokesman for the Utrecht diocese, told Catholic News Service April 21: “They have
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their agenda and they’re clearly not on the same page when it comes to church teachings. “They’ve accused the cardinal of doing the same to church life as Islamic State is doing to Christians in the Middle East. This makes it hard to engage in dialogue.” Enthoven said plummeting church attendance had made current churches and parishes unsustainable, but added that Cardinal Eijk had merely warned of the need for cutbacks, rather than making decisions himself. “Although we still have 4 million Catholics in the Netherlands on paper, church attendance is now very low, and if trends continue, there’ll be only a few elderly people at Mass on Sundays,” Enthoven told CNS. SEE CLOSURE, PAGE 20
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Vatican, LCWR announce successful end to reform process CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican approved new statutes and bylaws for the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious, ending a sevenyear process of investigating the group and engaging in dialogue with its officers to ensure greater harmony with church teaching. Conference officers met April 16 with Pope Francis, the same day the Vatican announced the conclusion of the process, which included oversight for three years by a committee of three bishops. LCWR has more than 1,500 members, who represent more than 80 percent of the 57,000 women religious in the United States. Four LCWR officers spent 50 minutes with Pope Francis, discussing his apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” which, they said, “has so deeply impacted our lives as women religious and our mission in the world. Our conversation allowed us to personally thank Pope Francis for providing leadership and a vision that has captivated our hearts and emboldened us as in our own mission and service to the church.”
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Pope Francis meets with representatives of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious in his library in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 16. LCWR promised that materials it publishes first will be reviewed to “ensure theological accuracy and help avoid statements that are ambig-
“From the beginning, our extensive conversations were marked by a spirit of prayer, love for the church, mutual respect and cooperation,” said a joint statement of the LCWR officers and the U.S. bishops appointed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to oversee the conference’s reform.
uous with regard to church doctrine or could be read as contrary to it.” In addition, programs sponsored by the conference and speakers chosen for its events will be expected to reflect church teaching, the statement said. In addition, it said, the doctrinal congregation, the bishops and LCWR officers had “clarifying and fruitful” conversations about “the importance of the celebration of the Eucharist; the place of the Liturgy of the Hours in religious communities; the centrality of a communal process of contemplative prayer practiced at LCWR assemblies and other gatherings; the relationship between LCWR and other organizations; and the essential understanding of LCWR as an instrument of ecclesial communion.” The new statutes, the statement said, sought “greater clarity in expressing the mission and responsibilities” of the conference as a body “under the ultimate direction of the Apostolic See” and as a group “centered on SEE LCWR, PAGE 19
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
MARTYRS: Church leaders must respond to victims’ cries, pope says FROM PAGE 1
hands of Islamic State militants in Libya. A video of the killings was released April 19. “With great distress and sadness I learn of the further shocking violence perpetrated against innocent Christians in Libya,” the pope wrote. He assured the patriarch of his “closeness in prayer at the continuing martyrdom being so cruelly inflicted on Christians in Africa, the Middle East and some parts of Asia. It makes no difference whether the victims are Catholic, Copt, Orthodox or Protestant. Their blood is one and the same in their confession of Christ.” At a time when Christians worldwide were still celebrating the joy of Easter, he said, “we know that the life we live in God’s merciful love is stronger than the pain all Christians feel, a pain shared by men and women of good will in all religious traditions.” Pope Francis highlighted the fate of the martyred Christians April 21 at his early morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, as the day’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles (7:51-8:1) described the stoning and killing of St. Stephen – the church’s first martyr. “How many Stephens there are in the world these days. We think of our brothers whose throats were
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Islamic State militants lead what are said to be Ethiopian Christians along a beach in Libya in this still image from an undated video made available on a social media website April 19. slit on the beach in Libya; we think of that young boy burned alive by his fellow citizens because he was Christian; we think about those migrants who were thrown into the high seas by others, and many others whom we don’t know about, who suffer in prisons because they are Christians,” he said. “Today the church is a church of martyrs: They suffer, they give their life and we receive God’s blessings for their witness,” the pope said, according to Vatican Radio.
Those who judged and persecuted St. Stephen could not bear to hear his condemnation of their sins and their opposition to the Holy Spirit, he said. That’s because “the word of God always displeases certain hearts. The word of God irritates when your heart is hardened, when you have a pagan heart because the word of God asks you to go further, searching and feeding you with that bread Jesus spoke of” that comes from God, he said. Those who persecuted St. Stephen and the prophets believed that they were acting on God’s behalf, “to give glory to God, they believed that (by doing) this they were faithful to God’s doctrine,” the pope said. However, he said, their hearts were corrupt and hardened to the work of the Holy Spirit. In fact, there are also “hidden martyrs, those men and women who are faithful to the power of the Holy Spirit, to the voice of the Spirit, who make inroads, who look for new ways to help brothers and sisters and to love God better,” he said. For that reason “they come under suspicion, are slandered, persecuted by many ‘modern Sanhedrins’ who believe they own the truth,” he said. “Let us unite ourselves with so many brothers and sisters who suffer the martyrdom of persecution, slander and murder in order to be faithful to the only bread that satiates – Jesus,” he said.
SAN DIEGO: New bishop pledges ‘mutual accompaniment’ with people FROM PAGE 1
“St. Augustine expressed this reality clearly: For you, I am a bishop; with you, I am a Christian.” Bishop McElroy, a native of San Francisco, is the sixth bishop of San Diego. He succeeds Bishop Cirilo B. Flores, who died Sept. 6, 2014. He was an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco when Pope Francis named him to head the Diocese of San Diego in March. Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles installed the new bishop during the Mass in Carmel Valley. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, was present, as were Cardinal William J. Levada, former archbishop of San Francisco and a former Vatican official, and Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles. Many of Bishop McElroy’s brother bishops and priests from both the Diocese of San Diego and the Archdiocese of San Francisco were in attendance. Near the beginning of the liturgy, Archbishop Vigano read the apostolic mandate from the Vatican appointing Bishop McElroy as San Diego’s bishop. The apostolic letter was then formally presented to the diocesan chancellor, Rod Valdivia, and then to the college of consultors and the people of San Diego. Bishop McElroy, who was at first seated in a solitary chair immediately in front of the first pew, was then led by Archbishops Gomez and Vigano to a seat in the sanctuary, symbolizing the taking of his rightful place as the new diocesan bishop.
As a gesture of welcome, selected representatives from the diocese approached the new bishop to greet him. These included representatives from the Hispanic Commission and the Filipino, Vietnamese, African-American, Tongan and Irish communities, as well as the armed forces, Catholic universities, consecrated life and the diaconate community. “Accompaniment” was an overarching theme of Bishop McElroy’s homily, which he opened by describing the feat that two free climbers, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson, accomplished. They scaled the most challenging side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, reaching the top in 19 days, from Dec. 27 to Jan. 14. As free climbers, they used no ropes – just their bare hands and sticky-soled shoes. Bishop McElroy noted that Jorgeson struggled more than Caldwell and knew he was holding up his climbing partner, especially at one especially difficult point, but “Tommy made clear that he would never abandon his friend.” They made it to the top together. “The grace of mutual accompaniment. This was the real miracle that occurred on El Capitan in January of this year,” the bishop said. “And it is this grace of mutual accompaniment that must form the heart of the relationship of a bishop with his local church.” “Pope Francis has movingly described the elements of Christian accompaniment: It is rooted in a sense of the sacredness of the other and requires a continual stance of listening,” Bishop McElroy continued. “Accompaniment reflects the closeness and
compassionate gaze of Christ which heals, liberates and encourages growth in the life of the Gospel. “Accompaniment embraces prudence, understanding, patience and openness to the Spirit. Most importantly of all, mutual accompaniment demands a sense of collaboration among the bishop, the priests who are his primary collaborators, lay leaders, those in consecrated life and the diaconal community in a manner which deepens the unity of the people of God and increases the harvest of the Gospel within the local church.” Bishop McElroy said that as he begins his “ministry of service in this magnificent local church of San Diego, I pray that it will always be shaped by this vision of mutual accompaniment.” “And I pray that this will be especially true in facing three central challenges which the Scriptures and the universal church place before us at this moment in the history of our diocese,” he added. He said those three challenges are: proclaiming “the unlimited mercy of God”; always witnessing “to the grace of God which is present in the cultural diversity of the c”; and seeking “to be a builder of bridges in our contemporary world.” “And as a builder of bridges, we must foster pathways both within and outside the Catholic community to rebuild the shattered civic and political unity of our nation, which is essential to the realization of the common good for our society and our world,” he said.
SERRA: Canonization highlights Hispanic contribution to US FROM PAGE 1
“And it will allow many millions of Hispanics who live in the United States to free themselves of a mentality that says they are barely tolerated and frequently discriminated against foreigners on the margins of society,” he said. Instead they should see themselves “in continuation with a line of Hispanics who for centuries have inhabited large areas of what is now the southwestern, central and eastern United States. They can rightly affirm, ‘We are Americans,’ without having to abandon their best cultural and religious traditions.” Asked about the California Senate’s vote April 12 seeking to replace the statue of Blessed Serra in the U.S. Capitol with a statue of the astronaut Sally Ride, Carriquiry said, “what could this be saying? Bury in oblivion an ideal, the extraordinary Hispanic Catholic contribution a missionary made not only to the history of California but also of the United States? What could it mean in a state where many millions of Hispanics live and the great majority of them venerate Blessed Junipero Serra? They want to eliminate the only Hispanic – the only one – represented among the country’s notables” in the Capitol? He said the vote – which still must be approved by
the California Assembly and by Gov. Jerry Brown, seems particularly ill timed when “the first Hispanic pope in history proposes to canonize him.” Capuchin Father Vincenzo Criscuolo, an official in the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, told reporters the 1,200-page “positio” or position paper outlining why Blessed Serra should be canonized, relied particularly on 191 handwritten letters and reports by Father Serra about his life and his work in the California missions he founded. In contrast with charges that Blessed Serra mistreated native peoples, he said the letters prove that Father Serra was an “intrepid defender of the rights of native people,” a position that often put him at odds with local Spanish military officers and government leaders. Although the Catholic Church believes he was holy, Father Serra was “a man of his time,” Father Criscuolo said. Corporal punishment was almost universally accepted at the time, he said, so “the fact that he believed some corporal punishment could be beneficial in the education process, including of native peoples, cannot be excluded. But to claim he supported genocide or even the use of the death penalty – this, certainly not!” Objections raised to the canonization, including
some that are obviously “prejudicial, are completely contradicted by the documentation,” he said. Carriquiry said the real atrocities against the native peoples of California came long after Father Serra’s death with the 19th-century California gold rush and the push for California’s incorporation into the United States. Thousands died of disease or were forcibly removed to less fertile land elsewhere. Born on the Spanish island of Majorca in 1713, Father Serra went to Mexico in 1749 to work as a missionary. He began his ministry in what is now California in 1769, eventually establishing nine missions and evangelizing local Indians before his death in 1784. St. John Paul II beatified him in 1988. Pope Francis announced in January his decision to canonize the Franciscan. The official “positio” petitioning canonization had not been completed, Father Criscuolo said, nor had any work been done on verifying a miracle attributed to his intercession as a “blessed” – both of which normally are part of the sainthood process. While the cardinals and bishops who are members of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes will still vote on the cause, he said, the pope – who is the supreme legislator in the church – already has decided to proceed.
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Who am I to judge?
erhaps the single, most-often quoted line from Pope Francis is his response to a question he was asked vis-à-vis the morality of a particularlydicey issue. His, infamous-famous reply: “Who am I to judge?” Although this remark is often assumed to be flighty and less-than-serious; it is, in fact, on pretty safe ground. Jesus, it seems, says basically the same thing. For example, in his conversation with Nicodemus in John’s Gospel, he, in essence, says: I judge no one. If the Gospel of John is to be believed, then Jesus judges FATHER RON no one. God judges no one. But ROLHEISER that needs to be put into context. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t any moral judgments and that our actions are indifferent to moral scrutiny. There is judgment; except it doesn’t work the way it is fantasized inside the popular mind. According to what Jesus tells us in John’s Gospel, judgment works this way: God’s light, God’s truth, and God’s spirit come into the world. We then judge ourselves according to how we live in the face of them: God’s light has come into the world, but we can choose to live in darkness. That’s our decision, our judgment. God’s truth has been revealed, but we can choose to live in falsehood, in lies. That’s our decision, our judgment to make. And God’s spirit has come into the world, but we can prefer to live outside that spirit, in another spirit. That too is our decision, our judgment. God judges
no one. We judge ourselves. Hence we can also say that God condemns no one, though we can choose to condemn ourselves. And God punishes no one, but we can choose to punish ourselves. Negative moral judgment is self-inflicted. Perhaps this seems abstract, but it is not. We know this existentially, we feel the brand of our own actions inside us. To use just one example: How we judge ourselves by the Holy Spirit. God’s spirit, the Holy Spirit, is not something so abstract and slippery that it cannot be pinned down. St. Paul, in the Epistle to the Galatians, describes the Holy Spirit in terms so clear that they can only be rendered abstract and ambiguous by some self-serving rationalization. How does he describe and define the Holy Spirit? So as to make things clear he sets up a contrast by first telling us what the Holy Spirit is not. The spirit of God, he tells us is not the spirit of self-indulgence, sexual vice, jealousy, rivalry, antagonism, bad temper, quarrels, drunkenness, or factionalism. Anytime we are cultivating these qualities inside of our lives, we should not delude ourselves into thinking we are living in God’s spirit, no matter how frequent, sincere, or pious is our religious practice. The Holy Spirit, he tells us, is the spirit of charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and chastity. Only when we are living inside of these virtues are we living inside God’s spirit. So then, this is how judgment happens: God’s spirit (charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness, and chastity) has been revealed. We can choose to live inside the virtues of that spirit or we can choose to live instead inside their opposites (self-indulgence, sexual vice, rivalry, antagonism, bad temper, quarrels, drunkenness and
Dialogue: Essential for peaceful relationships
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ccording to The New York Times, during a White House luncheon in 1954 Winston Churchill said, “To jaw-jaw ([talk-talk) always is better than to war-war.” While clearly not a pacifist, the United Kingdom’s World War II prime minister had seen upfront the absolute horror of war, and became convinced that tirelessly striving to resolve disputes through respectful dialogue was always preferable to war. Yes indeed, “to jaw-jaw always is better than to TONY MAGLIANO war-war.” But then why is it that when faced with differences of opinion we often opt for violence instead of dialogue? When harsh words are directed at us, why do we often respond with a harsh reply? When spouses continue to hurt each other, why do they often resort to a mean-spirited divorce? And when different ethnic groups, tribes, religions and nations find themselves at odds, why do they so often take up arms to kill each other? I suspect that the sin of pride – the foundational sin of all other sins – is at the center of all this. Pride puffs up the ego, which tempts each one of us to selfishly concentrate on what we want, often with no thought of the God-given rights of others. Instead of taming the pride-filled ego with honest humility, we often allow it to dominate our thoughts, words and actions which make respectful dialogue nearly impossible. And when respectful dialogue is absent, violent words, violent actions, murder, and the mass murder of war take over. Unfortunately, many people often rationalize that violence must be met with violence. They have not learned the tragic lessons of history. Violence never leads to genuine lasting peace. Instead, it plants the seeds for future violence which grows like weeds. Respectful dialogue is absolutely necessary to root out the weeds of violence. Respectful dialogue communicates first and foremost from the heart. It speaks from the heart and listens from
In the words of Pope Francis, ‘All wars, conflicts and troubles we encounter with each other are because of a lack of dialogue.’ the heart. It is heart-to-heart communication. It tries to genuinely understand the other person’s legitimate needs, and the pain of not having those needs met. Respectful dialogue walks in the other person’s shoes. The late Marshall Rosenberg, teacher of peace and founder of The Center for Nonviolent Communication insightfully said, “When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving”! The late Jewish philosopher Martin Buber offers wise and lovely insight here. In his book “I and Thou,” Buber explains that there are two primary ways of being in relationship with others: “I-Thou” or “I-It.” We are in an “I-It” relationship when we think of, and treat another person as an “it,” that is, as an object to be measured, manipulated and used. How sad it is so many persons today are treated as an “it.” But when we are in an “I-Thou” relationship we see each other as another self – another human being of equal dignity. Buber further explained that this respectful view toward each other invites us to relate our entire being to another person. This in turn leads to a response of give and take for the mutual good of both persons. This is what respectful dialogue is all about; where, as Buber points out, real communion with each other is possible, and God’s presence is experienced. In the words of Pope Francis, “All wars, conflicts and troubles we encounter with each other are because of a lack of dialogue.” Instead, we must “dialogue to meet each other, not to fight.” MAGLIANO is a regular guest on Immaculate Heart Radio’s “Bay Area Catholic” magazine show. You can listen to his latest segment on KSFB 1260 AM on May 9 at 7 a.m., May 10 at noon and May 11 at 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Email tmag@zoominternet.net.
factionalism). One choice leads to a life with God, the other leads away from God. And that choice is ours to make; it doesn’t come from the outside. We judge ourselves. God judges no one. God doesn’t need to. When we view things inside this perspective it also clarifies a number of misunderstandings that cause confusion inside the minds of believers as well as inside the minds of their critics. How often, for instance, do we hear this criticism: If God is all-good, all-loving, and all-merciful, how can God condemn someone to hell for all eternity? A valid question, though not a particularly reflective one. Why? Because God judges no one; God punishes no one. God condemns no one to hell. We do these things to ourselves: We judge ourselves, we punish ourselves, and we put ourselves in various forms of hell whenever we do choose not to live in the light, the truth, and inside God’s spirit. And that judgment is self-inflicted, that punishment is self-inflicted, and those fires of hell are self-inflicted. There are a number of lessons in this. First, as we have just seen, the fact that God judges no one, helps clarify our theodicy, that is, it helps deflate all those misunderstandings surrounding God’s mercy and the accusation that an all-merciful God can condemn someone to eternal hellfire. Beyond this, it is a strong challenge to us to be less judgmental in our lives, to let the wheat and the darnel sort themselves out over time, to let light itself judge darkness, to let truth itself judge falsehood, and to, like Pope Francis, be less quick to offer judgments in God’s name and more prone to say: “Who am I to judge?” OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
A Lenten lesson to practice throughout life
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n a recent trip out West, I once again became aware of one of St. John XXIII’s reasons for initiating the Second Vatican Council: to encourage the church to adjust to changing times. It’s no exaggeration to say that much of today’s life is shifting dramatically and calling for drastic changes. When I was in California, residents there were talking about passing laws and taking other measures to preserve water, since the state finds itself going through a historic drought. After my visit to California, FATHER EUGENE I traveled to Portland, Oregon. HEMRICK At the airport, I rode its light rail into the city, and while in the city, I noticed its vast transformation over the decades. In both experiences, the common denominators seemed to be conservation, sacrifice and austerity. In the case of water consumption in California, the public was asked to cut down on watering their lawns, among other measures. Hotels and institutions were asked to curtail excessive use of water, and recycling water was highly encouraged everywhere. Because of the drought, a plant to remove salt from ocean water is under construction near San Diego. In Portland, people had to endure streets being torn up and trains invading their neighborhoods in order to have fewer cars on the road to reduce pollution. They also had to endure losing some of city’s antiquity because of the rail. In both cases, there was resistance. It is no exaggeration to say that any politician running on a platform of conservation, sacrifice and austerity would have little chance of winning. And yet if droughts continue, if air pollution increases, if global warming continues and the fish in our oceans become scarce or disappear, Mother Nature just might create its own age of austerity. During Lent, we were reminded to do with less in order to better appreciate God’s blessings. Austerity is one of life’s golden rules! We can appreciate this lesson beyond Lent. Perhaps austerity can be used as a means to effectively cope with change, to create a brighter future, if we practice it throughout life and learn to take better care of our resources.
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‘Wolf Hall’ and upmarket anti-Catholicism
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olf Hall,” the BBC adaptation of Hillary Mantel’s novel about early Tudor England, began airing on PBS’s “Masterpiece Theater” Easter Sunday night. It’s brilliant television. It’s also a serious distortion of history. And it proves, yet again, that anti-Catholicism is the GEORGE WEIGEL last acceptable bigotry in elite circles in the Anglosphere. The distortions and bias are not surprising, considering the source. Hillary Mantel is a very talented, very bitter ex-Catholic who’s said that the church today is “not an institution for respectable people” (so much for the English hierarchy’s decades-long wheedling for social acceptance). As she freely concedes, Mantel’s aim in her novel was to take down the Thomas More of “A Man for All Seasons” – the Thomas More the Catholic Church canonized – and her instrument for doing so is More’s rival in the court of Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell. Hillary Mantel does not lack for chutzpah, for Cromwell has long been considered a loathsome character and More a man of singular nobility. In the novel “Wolf Hall”, however, the More of Robert Bolt’s play is transformed into a heresy-hunting, scrupulous prig, while Cromwell is the sensible, pragmatic man of affairs who gets things done, even if a few heads get cracked (or detached) in the
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process. All of which is rubbish, as historians with no Catholic interests at stake have made clear. Thus the president of the U.K.’s National Secular Society, historian David Starkey, finds “not a scrap of evidence” for Mantel’s retelling of the More-Cromwell tale; Mantel’s plot, he claimed, was “total fiction.” And as Gregory Wolfe pointed out in a fine essay on “Wolf Hall” in the Washington Post, historian Simon Schama has written that the documentary evidence he examined “shouted to high heaven that Thomas Cromwell was, in fact, a detestably self-serving, bullying monster who perfected state terror in England, cooked the evidence, and extracted confessions by torture.” So why did Hillary Mantel win
Britain’s most prestigious award for fiction, the Man Booker Prize, not once, but twice, for “Wolf Hall” and its sequel, “Bring Up the Bodies?” Because the books are terrific novels. Because well-crafted novels that make a hash of history for the sake of defaming the Catholic Church and one of its English icons are, in today’s literary culture, quite all right, thank you very much. And because Britain’s literary high culture is still in thrall to the Whig view of British history, and seems oblivious to the deep transformation that’s taken place in English Reformation studies since Eamon Duffy’s extraordinary book, “The Stripping of the Altars,” was first published in 1992. There, Duffy demonstrated beyond
WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
The implications of 3-parent embryos
n ethical Rubicon was crossed when the first in vitro fertilizationconceived baby came into the world in 1978. With human reproduction no longer limited to the embrace of a man and a woman, people felt empowered to take their own sperm and eggs, or those of others, and create their much desired children bit-bycellular-bit. As they mixed and matched these cells, they soon were drawn into other FATHER TADEUSZ twists and turns PACHOLCZYK of the advancing technology, including screening the genes of their test-tube offspring and eugenically weeding out any undesired embryonic children by freezing them in liquid nitrogen or simply discarding them as laboratory refuse. Recent developments have exacerbated this situation by offering additional options and choices for generating children, recasting human embryos as modular constructs to be assembled through cloning or through the creation of three-parent embryos. While cloning involves swapping out the nucleus of a woman’s egg with a replacement nucleus to create an
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Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell stars in “Wolf Hall,” which premiered April 5.
cavil what Simon Schama alluded to in his Financial Times article on the BBC version of “Wolf Hall:” that Henry VIII was a proto-totalitarian who, with his Protestant heirs, imposed his version of Christianity on England against the will of the great majority of plain folk, who stubbornly clung to the old faith until the overwhelming power of the state extinguished most of English Catholic life, and “anti-popery” got set in cultural concrete as modern nationbuilding went forward in Britain – often funded by expropriated Catholic properties. Protestant anti-Catholicism in the U.K. has long since been superseded by secular anti-Catholicism, but the cultural afterburn remains virtually identical: to the Hillary Mantels of 21st-century Britain, Catholicism is retrograde, priggish, obsessive, fanatical, and, well, un-English. Where all this could lead was made clear in the run-up to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Great Britain in 2010, when just about every hoary anti-Catholic bromide in the playbook was dusted off and deployed in the media – and with a few notable exceptions, the British Catholic hierarchy proved itself incapable of rising to the defense of the Church and the pope, a task that was left, in the main, to laity. Which is fine, but was unhappily reminiscent of the English bishops’ performance under Henry VIII, when all but John Fisher truckled to the spirit of the age and joined in declaring Henry “Supreme Head of the Church in England.” Thus “Wolf Hall,” while bad history, is also a cautionary tale for today.
embryo, three-parent embryos are made by swapping out additional cellular parts known as mitochondria through the recombination of eggs from two different women. Even more baroque approaches to making three parent embryos rely on destroying one embryo (instead of an egg) and cannibalizing its parts so as to build another embryo by nuclear transfer. We risk trivializing our human procreative faculties and diminishing our offspring by sanctioning these kinds of “eggs-as-Lego-pieces” or “embryos-asLego-pieces” approaches. Ultimately there is a steep price to be paid for the ever-expanding project of upending our own beginnings and rupturing the origins of our children. Part of that price includes the significant health problems that have come to light in children born from IVF and other assisted reproduction techniques. Researchers have found an overall doubling in the risk of birth defects for children born by these technologies when compared with rates for children conceived in the normal fashion. For retinoblastoma, a childhood eye cancer, a six-fold elevated risk has been reported. Assisted reproduction techniques are also associated with heightened risks for a number of rare and serious genetic disorders, including Beckwith-Wiedmann syndrome, Angelman’s syndrome, and various developmental disorders like atrial septal and ventricular septal defects of the heart, cleft lip with or without cleft palate, esophageal atresia and anorectal atresia.
Considering the various harsh and unnatural steps involved in moving human reproduction from the marital embrace into the petri dish, it should perhaps come as little surprise that elevated rates of birth defects have been observed, even when certain genetic defects may have been previously screened out. As children born by assisted reproductive techniques become adults, they are starting to be tracked and studied for various psychiatric issues as well. A growing number of young adults are vocalizing their strong personal concerns about the way they were brought into the world through techniques like anonymous sperm donations, because they find themselves feeling psychologically adrift and deprived of any connection to their biological father. It should be obvious how any approach that weakens or casts into question the integral connection between parents and their offspring will raise grave ethical concerns. Whether it be three-parent embryos, anonymous sperm donations or surrogacy, we need to protect children from the harmful psychological stressors that arise when they are subjected to uncertainties about their own origins. As one fertility specialist bluntly commented, “As a nation, we need to get a conscience about what we are doing here. Yes, it’s nice when an infertile couple is able to build a family, but what about the children? Shouldn’t their needs be in the mix from the very beginning too? I think it is ridiculous that a donor-conceived
child would need to ‘research’ to find out their genetic origins. Give me a break. What if you had to do that? Is it fair?” Beyond these immediate concerns about the well-being and health of our progeny, we face further serious concerns about our human future in the face of these burgeoning technologies. As procreation becomes reduced to just another commercial transaction, and our children become projects to be assembled piecemeal in the pursuit of parental desires, we invariably set the stage to cross another significant ethical line. That bright ethical line involves the creation of humans that have heritable genetic modifications (changes that are passed on to future generations). When the first three-parent baby is born, which will likely take place in the next year or two, we will have stepped right into the middle of that hubris-filled brave new world of manipulating the genetic traits of future children. We will have transitioned to a paradigm where biomedical experimentation on future generations is seen as acceptable and justifiable. Now is the time to ponder carefully the implications of our rushed reproductive choices, and to stand firm against the preventable injustices that inexorably flow from assisted reproductive technologies. FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org
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The last trimester of life: The spirituality of aging
n Sacred Scripture our Lord reminds us in Psalms, Chapter 90 that God turns humanity back to dust and that “Seventy is the sum of our years, or 80, if we are strong; Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and we are gone.” Here we encounter God’s call to grow – to grow toward him – to grow old gracefully. The last trimester of life is a time to pause, a time to reflect and a time to answer God’s final call to us. Baby boomers as a group (people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom between the DEACON years 1946 and 1964) are also CHRISTOPH called senior citizens, older SANDOVAL adults and elders in a youthobsessed culture that causes most of us to become invisible. Our experience is monopolized by losses such as the loss of loved ones, a decline in physical functioning, and a significant drop in income. The accumulation of such losses – and the increasing realization of our own deaths lead us to an intense exploration of spiritual issues. We cannot ignore the signs of aging. For many this period of life is marked by a deterioration of physical abilities such as walking, sight, hearing and the onset of chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood
pressure and arthritis. Add to that list may be the potential loss of bladder control and alternating bouts of insomnia and aches and pains that sprout like mushrooms. Our mental abilities are also impacted by a decreased ability to multi-task, memory lapses and mental fatigue that require mid-afternoon siestas to recharge. For many seniors, the focus on external and worldly pursuits held throughout young adulthood and middle age give way in later years to a focus on the interior life. Many seniors experience a shift from doing to being. We find meaning and a purpose for life in the beauty and mercy of God and his church. Our faith in Jesus Christ becomes the compass by which to navigate the last trimester. On the world stage all is not lost. We do have perks. We qualify for senior discounts at fast food restaurants, public transportation, and at the movies. We get to sit in senior citizens- and disabled-designated seating on public transportation and in concert halls. And let’s not forget we qualify for Medicare! But there is something more. We come to the realization that we are part of the divine plan, that we are destined to live forever and that we will actually experience the embrace of Christ Jesus as we enter into heaven. As we begin to return the gifts of youth and middle age back to God’s library of time, talent and treasure we find joy in becoming what we’re intended to become – sons and daughters of the eternal father by becoming what we receive in Eucharist. In the last trimester of life we receive the gift to become dispensers of God’s
love in a world intent on hate, truth tellers in an age dominated by the father of lies and evangelists who proclaim the word whether convenient or inconvenient. In our fair city we have a landmark message from a prior generation who fought the good fight. Under the clock face of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral appears the words: “Son, Observe the Time and Fly from Evil” (Ecclesiastes 4:23). This sentiment was aimed at the men who frequented the surrounding brothels in the 1850s. It is good to remember that the clock is ticking and the harvest is abundant but the laborers are few. St.Paul warned us that, “For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths.” Such is the time we live in. As elders we are called by God to convince, reprimand and encourage our generation through patience and teaching so that, like runners, we can pass on the baton of the Gospel of the good news to the generation that follows. Jesus runs with our feet and issues his invitation to all men and women through our lips and by the witness of our lives, lived in him, with him, through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. If we say yes to his call we too can say, “I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.”
was made of the increase in illegal settlements on Arab lands, nor the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation of Israel for “carrying out war crimes,” nor the blockade which prevents Gaza from being rebuilt nine months after the “war” which killed, injured and displaced hundreds of thousands. Carefully forgotten was Prime Minister Netanyahu’s pre-election day pledge of “No Two State Solution.” The situation in the Holy Land is truly tragic. The instances of letter writers attacking an informed, peace activist, journalist who has written for many years, in numerous Catholic publications, on matters consistent with Catholic social teaching, was totally political. More critically, it was pure, uninformed character assassination. On behalf of Mr. Magliano’s West Coast readers, I want to personally apologize to him. I hope that Tony Magliano will continue to shed light on the critical moral issues that we followers of Christ must know about, and be prepared to act on. Stan Fitzgerald San Jose
social justice. Will “The Catholic Community of Salt Lake City” now ask Pope Francis to remove Bishop Wester (my former spiritual director) because he advocates for the rights of undocumented immigrants, which angers many conservatives? Third, the letter says that Archbishop Cordileone has not consulted “Retired Priests.” I know many fine retired priests, but I also know some of them are used to having things their own way. They disparage the Rosary Rally, ignore the Walk for Life, and generally avoid issues that do not embrace “San Francisco values.” Perhaps the writers of the letter resent the fact that Archbishop Cordileone seeks the advice of younger, “John Paul priests,” who embrace the genuine spirit of Vatican II, but who are not stuck in the 1960s. Finally, as a former trustee of Archbishop Riordan High School, I am puzzled why the letter omitted the name of Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan, the second Archbishop of San Francisco, from its list of the archbishops who built our “immigrant church.” Was Archbishop Riordan, himself an immigrant, also too conservative for their tastes? Roger Ritter San Francisco
DEACON SANDOVAL serves at St. Mary’s Cathedral.
LETTERS Supporting the archbishop I am in full support of what our archbishop is trying to do. Protecting the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage as the guardian of life, even as the Holy Father recently pointed out in his Angelus message last Wednesday, is fundamental if we are to protect against so many degrading elements in our culture, from the Armenian genocide, to the violence among those abandoned by their fathers who hang out in the street and are caught up in the thug life, to the current push to legalize euthanasia. I am in full support of what Father Illo and Father Driscoll are trying to do at Star of the Sea. They are simply carrying on the legacy and spiritual inheritance left by the great Msgr. (Cornelius) Burns (Star of the Sea pastor, 1976-1995). Father John Jimenez St. Charles Borromeo Church San Francisco
Thanking the auxiliaries Let us give thanks to our two stalwart auxiliary bishops, Most Rev. Robert McElroy and Most Rev. William Justice, who have served us constantly, faithfully and with cheerful hearts, and a sense of humor as they administered the sacrament of confirmation throughout our 90 parishes in addition to numerous social events and official engagements. Remembering also their efforts to meet personally with victims of sexual abuse by priests and hear their stories face-to-face setting a good example for other dioceses in the healing process in response to the pedophile scandals. I wish Bishop McElroy god speed as he begins to lead the Diocese of San Diego and hope that the more salubrious climate there will preserve his health for a long time so his talents and capability can become as big an asset to that area as they have been to our archdiocese. We say to him au revoir, not goodbye. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield
Apologies to Tony Magliano I have the wonderful experience of being able to enjoy reading both the San Jose and San Francisco diocesan newspapers. The latest issue of the Valley Catholic in San Jose contains the article by nationally syndicated columnist Tony Magliano, which prompted two caustic and scathing letters in the latest issue of Catholic San Francisco where the same column appeared two weeks earlier. I read the letters first and was eager to see what triggered this vitriol. I should have guessed that the letters were purely political. They were silent on the apartheid taking place in Gaza. No mention
Concerns about Chronicle ad I read with dismay the letter to Pope Francis that appeared on the last page of the Chronicle on April 16. I have several concerns. First, it claims to be from the “Catholic Community of San Francisco.” In fact, it does not represent the entire Catholic community, and it certainly does not represent me, my family, or all the other moderate, conservative, and traditional Catholics in the archdiocese. Second, the letter claims Archbishop Cordileone has focused on one issue to the exclusion of others, and has even called children “evil.” Not only have his words been taken out of context, but it is the archbishop’s duty to uphold the teachings of the church, especially where they are unpopular with our secular culture. Whatever disagreements we may have with the archbishop regarding either his management of archdiocesan schools, or his selection of pastors, do not call for his removal by the Holy See. If our archbishop can be removed because he affirms church doctrine regarding marriage – a doctrine the pope has never altered, despite the spin put on his remarks by some – then a bishop in another diocese could be silenced for affirming church doctrine on
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Ad not money well spent As far as I can judge from their Chronicle advertisement, the self-proclaimed “Catholic Community of San Francisco” seems to find it objectionable that Archbishop Cordileone believes in the teachings of the church. They seem to think that it is “mean-spirited” (their term) to believe that those teachings should mean anything. Do they believe that an archbishop should only talk about those teachings of the church which are popular? Is that what they think Pope Francis is trying to say? It was estimated that the advertisement would have cost tens of thousands of dollars. That seems to be a great deal of money for Catholics to give to a newspaper which has shown itself to be as proabortion as Planned Parenthood. Did it occur to none of the signers that that sum of money might have been better spent in any number of other ways? Albert Alioto San Francisco
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SUNDAY READINGS
Fourth Sunday of Easter
‘This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.’ JOHN 10:11-18 ACTS 4:8-12 Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and elders: If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. He is the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.” PSALM 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26, 28, 29 The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me and have been my savior. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes. The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; we bless you from the house of the Lord. I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me and have been my savior. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his kindness endures forever. The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. 1 JOHN 3:1-2 Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s
children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. JOHN 10:11-18 Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them. This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”
The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep
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he figure of the Good Shepherd has captivated the Christian imagination from the earliest days of the church. The most ancient image of our Lord Jesus in the catacombs of Rome is a depiction of Him, at once heroic and tranquil, as the shepherd carrying the sheep on his shoulders. We love intuitively the security and peace that come from being in the care of the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep. In our Gospel this Sunday, our Lord speaks to us of bad shepherds, hirelings, who flee when the wolf comes because they work for pay and not for love. These bad shepherds FATHER JOSEPH are shepherds because they PREVITALI love themselves. Their love for the sheep is relative to their own well-being. As long as the good of the sheep is to their advantage, they will take care of the sheep. But when the shepherd and the sheep are threatened with mortal danger, the bad shepherd leaves the sheep to be scattered and devoured by enemies.
SCRIPTURE REFLECTION
POPE FRANCIS POPE WARNS AGAINST WORLDLINESS, PAGAN LIVING
To avoid living like pagans, Christians must guard against “slipping toward worldliness and power” and of seeking Jesus only for material gain, said Pope Francis. “This is the daily temptation for Christians, for all of us who make up the church,” he said at his morning Mass April 20 in the Domus Sanctae Marthae in Vatican City. When one tries to profit from following Jesus – an attitude frequently shown in the Gospels – then one “risks not understanding” and even obscuring the “true mission of Jesus.”
The Good Shepherd is not like this. This is what causes the church to rejoice in him! He lays down his life for the sheep. He dies for them. He sacrifices his own comfort, security, and temporal well-being so that the sheep do not suffer harm. He even seems to have a love for the sheep that is mysterious, that is greater than the goodness of the sheep themselves. Indeed, as the Scriptures teach us, while the sheep had gone astray, while we were yet sinners, the Good Shepherd still loved us first. On Good Shepherd Sunday, the church especially meditates on the glory and dignity and responsibility of the holy priesthood of Jesus Christ. She prays for her priests and she prays for more priests. She prays that all priests – present and future – will exercise their ministry according to the heart of the Good Shepherd. She prays that her priests will love the sheep enough to die for them, to lay down their lives for them, especially when the wolf comes. She prays especially that her priests will be renewed in their love for Almighty God, which love alone mysteriously allows them to love so generously the sheep, who belong to him. The church prays for priests this Sunday because she knows also that it is possible for priests to be bad shepherds, hirelings or wolves, who lead the sheep astray, causing them to be scattered and devoured by sin. She knows
with great sadness that it is possible that her priests will flee when danger comes, that they will love themselves rather than God and the sheep, that they will seek comfort and success and acceptance by the world rather than suffer the persecution that comes from being a faithful shepherd. On Good Shepherd Sunday and always, therefore, we must pray for priests. We pray for their flourishing in the love of God, in whom they delight and find refuge. We pray that they will love God and us enough to tell us the truth, even when it is difficult or unpopular. We pray that they will seek only the glory of God and the salvation of souls, having no care for their own temporal well-being. We pray that all priests will be good shepherds after the heart of the Good Shepherd, who lays down his life for the sheep. He is the risen Lord who has taken up his life again, who has conquered sin and death forever! He desires with great desire to sanctify his priests with a special love! Good Shepherd, make all priests holy in your truth and love; keep them close to you, so that they will speak only with your beautiful voice, which your sheep know so well, that there may be only one flock and one shepherd. FATHER PREVITALI is parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS THURSDAY, APRIL 30: Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Pius V, pope; Optional Memorial Blessed Marie de l’Incarnacion, religious (Can). ACTS 13:13-25. PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 and 27. SEE RV 1:5ab. JN 13:16-20.
MONDAY, APRIL 27: Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Our Lady of Montserrat (CAN). ACTS 11:1-18. PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4. JN 10:14. JN 10:110. TUESDAY, APRIL 28: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, priest and martyr (NZ, Feast); Optional Memorial of St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest; Gianna Molla, mother (Italy). ACTS 11:19-26. PS 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7. JN 10:27. JN 10:22-30. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29: Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena, virgin and doctor. ACTS 12:24— 13:5a. PS 67:2-3, 5, 6 and 8. JN 8:12. JN 12:4450.
Saints for Today
FRIDAY, MAY 1: Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker. ACTS 13:2633. PS 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab. JN 14:6. JN 14:1-6.
St. Pius V, pope
SATURDAY, MAY 2: Memorial of St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor. ACTS 13:44-52. PS 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4. JN 8:31b-32. JN 14:7-14.
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MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, KENTFIELD: Math Club teams took part in tests of engineering aptitude, mathematics, and science at Stanford University Feb. 21. Students spent the day working through challenging questions regarding wind energy, solar power, hydropower, smart homes and more. Pictured are Math Team members, back from left, seniors Charlotte Kwok, Stephane Peltereau-Villeneuve, Djosy Charles, Andrew Narcomey; sophomore Alex Kassil; junior Peter Jankowski; seniors Megan Phan, Austin Narcomey; and front from left, seniors Chris Yates, Cristy Banuelos, Alexis Perez; junior Pearl Lynch; sophomore Sarah Kwok.
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faith leaders and advocates gathered on the steps of the church for a candlelight prayer march, an act of solidarity with millions of undocumented families around the country who face deportation in light of antiimmigration lawsuit challenging President Obama’s stays on immigration. The vigil was led led by the Hispanic Pastoral Council of Archdiocese of San Francisco and the San Francisco Organizing Project/Peninsula Interfaith Action.
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ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Mayor Willie Brown and the Riordan band gathered at John’s Grill in San Francisco April 17 to commemorate the city’s rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake.
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Sisters opened schools in San Mateo County, starting with Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City in 1885 where they shared the first convent with a ghost. The founding of St. Dunstan’s, Millbrae, brings back memories of the monstrous vehicle that carried sisters from Belmont to Millbrae each day. St. Charles, San Carlos and Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont were part of the suburban expansion, too. Today sisters continue to serve in a
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LCWR: Vatican, sisters announce successful end to reform process FROM PAGE 11
Jesus Christ and faithful to the teachings of the church.” After asking Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Connecticut, in 2008 to carry out the doctrinal assessment of LCWR, in April 2012 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith called for the revision of LCWR’s statutes and bylaws. The reform, the Vatican said, was meant to ensure the conference’s fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality. The organization’s canonical status is granted by the Vatican. The assessment said, “Addresses given during LCWR annual assemblies manifest problematic statements and serious theological, even doctrinal errors.” LCWR members and even officers had been known to protest Vatican decisions, including those “regarding the question of women’s ordination and of a correct pastoral approach to ministry to homosexual persons.” And, it said, there was “a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith in some of the programs and presentations sponsored by the LCWR.” Releasing the assessment, the Vatican had appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to provide “review, guidance and approval, where necessary, of the work” of the conference and its reform efforts. Archbishop Blair and Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, were named to assist him. The process of arriving at new statutes and bylaws was not always smooth. Meeting conference officers last year, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the doctrinal congregation, said, “We are glad to see that work continue (on the statutes and bylaws) and remain particularly interested that these foundational documents reflect more explicitly the mission of a conference of major superiors as something centered on Jesus Christ and grounded in the church’s teaching about consecrated life.” The cardinal also said the doctrinal assessment was accurate and the reforms were necessary to ensure that the LCWR remain solidly in harmony with the teaching of the church. Responding to Cardinal Muller’s remarks in 2014, the LCWR said it was “saddened to learn that impressions of the organization in the past decades have become institutionalized in the Vatican, and these institutionalized perceptions have led to judgments and ultimately to the doctrinal assessment.” “We do not recognize ourselves in the doctrinal assessment of the conference and realize that, despite that fact, our attempts to clarify misperceptions have led to deeper misunderstandings,” the officers said. As the Vatican announced the conclusion of the process, it released a statement from Cardinal Muller saying his office was “confident that LCWR has made clear its mission to support its member institutes by fostering a vision of religious life that is centered on the person of Jesus Christ and is rooted in the tradition of the church.”
‘Our work together was undertaken in an atmosphere of love for the church and profound respect for the critical place of religious life in the United States, and the very fact of such substantive dialogue between bishops and religious women has been mutually beneficial and a blessing from the Lord.’ ARCHBISHOP J. PETER SARTAIN Such a vision, he said, “makes religious women and men radical witnesses to the Gospel, and, therefore, is essential for the flourishing of religious life in the church.” Sister Sharon Holland, LCWR president and vice president of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was unable to attend the meeting at the Vatican April 16. However, the Vatican released a
statement from her expressing pleasure that the process had reached a successful conclusion. The process involved “long and challenging exchanges” that were “conducted always in a spirit of prayer and mutual respect,” she said. The process brought the sisters, the bishops and Vatican officials “to deeper understandings of one another’s experiences, roles, responsibilities and hopes for the church and the people it serves. We learned that what we hold in common is much greater than any of our differences.” Archbishop Sartain said, “Our work together was undertaken in an atmosphere of love for the church and profound respect for the critical place of religious life in the United States, and the very fact of such substantive dialogue between bishops and religious women has been mutually beneficial and a blessing from the Lord.” The Conference of Major Superiors of Men, which represents leaders of U.S. men’s religious institutes, said the final report “illustrates the good will, graciousness, and commitment to the Gospel that all parties have displayed since the assessment mandate was initiated. The willingness of these leaders to dialogue serves as a strong example for all ecclesial communities as they proclaim and live the Gospel message with joy.”
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CELIBACY: ‘Affective formation’ called crucial FROM PAGE 10
ability to enter into healthy friendships, and is “very complex,” she said. She offered several guidelines for affective formation, which she emphasized should not just be for the initial stages of consecrated life but should be lifelong. The first step is to ensure novices are aware of the affective dimension of their personalities and their human desire to be loved and to be in relationship, said Sister Lembo. Some novices and religious believe they are not supposed to feel, that they have to behave in a “holy” way, and “cancel the affective aspect” of their lives, she said. Many “don’t know how to build friendship with members of the opposite sex,” she added. She also urged novice directors to practice selective screening. “We need to see who is able to live this life,” she said, adding that not every candidate should be accepted. “Preventive education,” including education about sexuality, she said, is also important. Ideally, it would be done in families, she said. However, it is necessary for communities to understand the types of families in which novices were raised – if they lived in an abusive home or where sexuality was not discussed – and then help them grow in understanding. The fourth guideline, she said, is to build a faithful and trusting relationship with God.
In terms of ongoing affective formation, Sister Lembo said practical aspects of life must be reviewed when promoting the affective health of religious communities, including their daily rhythm of work, prayer and community life, the books and movies being consumed, and the places where members socialize. Novice directors also must be able to help novices “filter bad advice” they may receive, including from parish priests, she said. “In our place,” she said, referring to her home country of Togo, “sometimes some people say to girls who want to enter religious life, ‘You have to know a man before entering, if not you will be stupid.’... I mean, intimate relations. I don’t think it is advice that is helpful ... and sometimes, unfortunately, it is coming from priests.” The priests “can abuse them and after say, ‘OK, now you can enter,’” she said; some priests even continue taking advantage of the girls when they return home for holy days. The exploitation of female novices is more common in Africa and Asia than in the West “where girls are more assertive,” she continued. “But in our places, the woman is not (so) much assertive to say, ‘No, what you are saying is not true.’” “In our place, a man has more power,” Sister Lembo said, and a priest “is the most important person in the village. ... People believe in him because he belongs to God ... so when he says something, the girls, those who are not really prepared, they believe.”
CLOSURES: Dutch archdiocese, laity at odds FROM PAGE 10
“This is why we’ve issued this wake-up call; and while we don’t think enough people will wake up to keep all our diocese’s present churches open, we hope they’ll at least realize there’s a cost to being a church community both in money and in voluntary work.” In its petition to the pope, Bezield Verband Utrecht said “catastrophic consequences” would follow if Cardinal Eijk “forced the closure of churches while simultaneously prohibiting believers from maintaining regular celebrations in their towns and villages.” “You have repeatedly warned of the dangers of denying parishes a life of their own and engulfing and destroying them with an overarching structure,” the group told Pope Francis. “The salvation of large numbers is at stake, and we ask you to help us avert this calamity.” Around 16 percent of the more than 16 million inhabitants of the Netherlands belong to the Catholic Church, according to 2010 National Statistics Office figures. Participation has declined sharply in the country, which was Europe’s first to legalize brothels, marijuana, euthanasia and same-sex marriage. In a December 2013 Vatican Radio interview during the Dutch bishops’ “ad limina” visit to Rome, Cardinal Eijk said only 5 percent of Catholics attended Mass, compared to 90 percent in the 1950s. He added that Islam was officially forecast to become the country’s second-largest religion by 2020 and said his church was forced to downsize to stave off “nearcollapse.” Last November, in a letter to parishes, the cardinal said the Utrecht archdiocese’s 326 Catholic parishes would be “melted down” into 48 larger territorial units, each with a single church as “eucharistic center.” He warned that “old church structures” would not exist by the time he retired in 2028. “In my ‘ad limina’ speech to the Holy Father, I voiced the expectation that by 2020 one-third, and by 2025 two-thirds, of our churches would be withdrawn from divine worship,” Cardinal Eijk told Dutch Catholics. “The pope was shocked, but repeated that we should move forward and not surrender to nostalgia for a past which will never reappear.”
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 24, 2015
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 DIVINE MERCY: North American Congress, April 24-26, Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland, with theme of “Divine Mercy-Fullness of the Faith,” Oakland Bishop Michael Barber is among the presenters with EWTN’s Jesse Romero and others. www.mercycongress.org; (925) 432-6404; (413) 298-1131. EVENING PRAYER: Sisters of Mercy invite women to four Fridays of evening prayer and conversations about vocation, 7:30 p.m., Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, Mercy Chapel: April 24,”Walking Joyfully in the Spirit.” RSVP to Mercy Sister Jean Evans, (650) 373-4508; Jevans@mercywmw.org.
FIESTA: Mater Dolorosa Parish, 307 Willow at Miller, South San Francisco, commemorates the feast of Our Lady of Manaoag, noon rosary, Mass at 1 p.m. Father Mark followed by Ruburiano procession and reception. Father Mark Ruburiano, pastor, St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael, principal celebrant and homilist. OL Manaoag statues will be blessed. (650) 9528238.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25 MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: Restore, rekindle, renew one-day Marriage Encounter, Saturday’s through June 6, Nativity Parish, Menlo Park, 7-9:30 p.m. (650) 366-7093. REUNION: St. Matthew all-school reunion, 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, 5 p.m. Mass, followed by dinner, and memories in school auditorium, tickets $20 can be purchased online at www.stmatthewcath.org; aconnelly@ stmatthewcath.org. (650) 343 1373, ext. 139. PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com. YOUNG ADULTS: “Living Life at the Speed of Love,” 9:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose motherhouse, 43326 Mission
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SATURDAY, APRIL 25
FRIDAY, MAY 1 MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, GreenFather Paul brae followed Fitzgerald, SJ by breakfast and talk from University of San Francisco president Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald. Members breakfast $8, visitors $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com.
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INTERFAITH: Author Steven Nightengale reads from his new book “Granada – a Pomegranate in the Hand of God,” 7:30 p.m., Presidio Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop, San Francisco. sarah@ theregenerationproject.org; www.sfinterfaithcouncil.org/granada-interfaithreflection-and-discussion.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 ‘EAT YOUR HEART OUT’: Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County signature fundraising event, “Eat Your Heart Out” dinner at Viognier Restaurant, Draeger’s Market, San Mateo. This year’s Fund-A-Need will provide compassionate care and support for the homeless through SVdP’s Homeless Help Centers. Jodie Penner, director of development, (650) 3730622, jpenner@svdpsm.org; www. svdpsm.org. HOMELESSNESS: “Responding to Homelessness on Our Doorsteps,” training, 9 a.m.-noon, free admission, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Cynthia Zamboukos, (415) 474-1321; cynthiaz@sfinterfaithcouncil.org. Register at http://conta.cc/1P3G60r.
FRIDAY, MAY 1 CANCER MASS: Feast of St. Peregrine, patron saint of those suffering from cancer, AIDS and other incurable diseases; St. Gregory Church, 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo, 7 p.m., with sacrament of anointing as part of the liturgy. (650) 345-8506.
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FOOD FAIR: Food and fellowship at the St. Ignatius College Preparatory International Food Faire, 4-8 p.m., featuring 11 multicultural all-youcan-eat food booths, unlimited photo booth, live entertainment, and DJ Dance party. Reserve early bird tickets at www.siprep.org/Food $15/adult, $10/student, children 5 and under free; $20/adult, $15/student at door. Miriam Sweeney, (415) 407-1197; mimi@babyleodesigns.com.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 ‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate. www.msjdominicans.org. CELEBRATING MOTHERS: Epiphany Center luncheon honoring mothers, St. Francis Yacht Club, 700 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Hosted by the Epiphany League, volunteer women dedicated to the center and its work of caring for at-risk women, children and families; www.epiphanycenter.org. (415) 351-4055. CONSECRATED LIFE: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Gather@Grand series welcomes Dominican Sister Mary Hughes, 7 p.m. The speaker is an Amityville, New York Dominican and past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. She will present her views on the essence and future of consecrated life. Gather@ Grand is open to all and includes light refreshments and time for questions and answers. Gathering Space at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. RSVP by calling (415) 4538303 or email CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org.
FRIDAY, MAY 8 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Healing the Wounds, a divorced and separated
SUNDAY, MAY 3 EWTN HOST SPEAKS: “An Evening with Raymond Arroyo,” the long-of-EWTN host speaks on people he considers signs of hope including St. Padre Pio, Raymond Arroyo 7 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco. Admission is free. (415) 751-0450.
FRIDAY, MAY 22 CHARISMATIC CONVENTION: Catholic Charismatic movement, Northern California Renewal Coalition convention May 22-24, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Archbishop Great America Niederauer Parkway, Santa Clara. Retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer presides at a healing Mass on Saturday. Talks will be offered for adults, young adults, teenagers and children. For registration, complete schedule and additional details visit www.NCRCSpirit.org. (415) 350-8677.
Catholics support group, second Friday of the month, Tarantino Hall, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon, 6:30-8 p.m. Professional child care available at $10 per child; Karen Beale (415) 250-2597; Amy Nelis, (916) 212-6120; Father Roger Gustafson, (415) 4351122.
SATURDAY, MAY 9 ‘WHALE OF A SALE’: St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with vendors of all kinds; vendor spaces available, $35, with room for one 8-foot table and you bring your own table. whalesale94904@gmail.com; (415) 4610704. MEMORIAL MASS: The life of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, late prelate of Opus Dei, will be commemorated May 9 with Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Blessed Alvaro del Portillo was beatified on Sept. 27, 2014. All are invited. Msgr. James Kelly of Opus Dei’s Menlough Study Center can be reached at (650) 327-1675. AUDITIONS: Auditions for the San Francisco Boys Chorus in San Francisco, San Rafael and Oakland; boys ages 5-12 with unchanged voices are encouraged to apply. Members receive vocal training and gain music appreciation, self-confidence and selfdiscipline. Boys trained by San Francisco Boys Chorus have performed in San Francisco Opera productions since 1948 and tour domestically and
SATURDAY, MAY 16 FAMILY PICNIC: Sponsored by SFCatholics.org, Little Marina Green, 3651 Yacht Drive, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Families are asked to bring their own picnic foods and beverages as well as chairs and blankets. The day is in support of the ministry of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Donations to help with costs are welcome at www.gofundme.com/ archbishop. For complete details on the event visit www.SFCatholics.org; email SFCatholics@gmail.com. DAY AT THE RACES: Fundraiser at Golden Gate Fields benefiting Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope inner-city elementary schools. Racing starts 11:45 a.m. Deadline to purchase tickets is May 4. (510) 533-5768 or register online at www. visionofhope.org.
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May 12, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. ~ Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen as contemplative practice, through the Ear to the Heart. This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music. Suggested oering, $10-20. May 13, 9:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.~ Contemplative Day of Prayer led by Fr Joe Nassal, cpps. The day includes presentation, personal reflection and Eucharist. No reservations required. Suggested offering, $20. May 13, 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.~ Robert Lax: Poet-Mystic-Sage, evening of reading, reection and conversation with Steve T. Georgiou.t No reservations required. Suggested oering, $20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, 415-457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org
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