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‘Laudato’: Parishioners encouraged to ‘be the driving force’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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A participant addresses the audience at an April 23 workshop on putting Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical into effect at the parish level. More than 100 parishioners, several pastors and Archbishop Cordileone attended the event at St. Anne of the Sunset Church.

Participants of a weekend workshop organized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco to help clergy and laity embrace Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical at the parish level stood at the end of the four-hour event and told organizers that they were leaving with a better sense of where to start. “It’s nice to have some concrete next steps to take back to our congregation,” said one of the 100-plus parish and local community members who attended the April 23 “Laudato Si’: A Parish Response Workshop.” The workshop was organized by the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns and held at St. Anne of the Sunset parish hall. Others said they appreciated the archdiocese’s efforts to implement the principles set forth by the pope in “Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home.” “This event will legitimize the efforts in our parish,” another participant said. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said that the principles set forth by the pope “can unite us all,” in his opening remarks. “Right now, it seems that there is an awful lot that divides our nation,” he said. “The polarization seems to be getting sharper, the rhetoric more bitter. But no matter where you are on the political spectrum or the church spectrum, we have newness with this encyclical.” The workshop included a keynote address on “Climate Change and the Poor” from St. Rita pastor Father Ken Weare and presentations from the “green team” at SEE ‘LAUDATO’, PAGE 7

Pope to teens: When it comes to happiness, there’s no app for that JUNNO AROCHO ESTEVES CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Happiness “is not an ‘app’ that you can download on your phones nor will the latest update help you become free and great in loving,” Pope Francis told thousands of teenagers. Youth from around the world flocked to Rome for a special Year of Mercy event for teens aged 13-16. The celebrations began April 23 with confessions in St. Peter’s Square. The pope caught many off guard as he made an unannounced visit to the square. After greeting several people, he placed a purple stole over his shoulders and sat down, joining more than 150 priests offering the sacrament of reconciliation. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the pope “listened to the confessions of 16 boys and girls,” spending more than an hour in the square. Celebrating Mass with the young people April 24,

the pope told them true freedom is priceless and comes from making the courageous decision to do good and not from the mediocre belief that happiness can be easily obtained through worldly possessions and fashion. A person’s happiness has “has no price and cannot be bought,” the pope told them during the Mass in St. Peter’s Square. Gray clouds looming over St. Peter’s Square did little to deter an estimated 100,000 young teens and pilgrims from attending the final Mass of the jubilee celebration. In his homily, the pope encouraged the youths to carry out the “enormous responsibility” entrusted to the disciples by Jesus in the Sunday Gospel reading: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Love, he said, is the “only valid ‘document’ identifying us as Christians” and the only path to happiness. SEE POPE, PAGE 9

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A girl looks through binoculars before Pope Francis arrives April 24 to celebrate a Mass for the Youth Jubilee in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

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SISTER NORMA PIMENTEL HONORED AT CHARITIES GALA: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco honored refugee advocate Sister Norma Pimentel with its Loaves & Fishes Award. About 300 people joined in the April 16 celebration at the St. Regis Sister Norma Hotel in San Francisco, raisPimentel ing more than $400,000 for old of Castelnovo Charities programs. Sister Norma is known for work with refugees and immigrants on the Texas-Mexico border. A crisis relief center she founded has assisted more than 32,000 people seeking refuge. “It vince of Capuchin is very trueFranciscans that there is something wonderful happening here (in the Bay Area),” Sister Norin their locations throughout ma said during a live interview at the dinner si invites everyone to welcome with Thuy Vu of KQED. “These families that h. The morning will begin with have arrived here and have gone through so much San Francisco does not rocession to bearcan’t themake relicsit ifinto here is doing a will be held help afterthem. the Catholic mass inCharities the wonderful job making sure they get the help oys Chorus they willneed.” perform Last music. year, Catholic Charities supported more than 8,000 refugees and immigrants through immigration workshops, legal and counseling support, shelter assistance, housing, child care and youth development.

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RELICS AT SHRINE: A Capuchin Franciscan relic tour, with relics of St. Pio (1887-1968) and St. Leopold (1866-1942), will stop on May 1 at Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Columbus Avenue at Vallejo Street, San Francisco, at 10:30 a.m. A gathering will be held at the shrine chapel followed by procession with St. Leopold relics to shrine church with Mass at 11 a.m. A boys choir concert will be held at 12:15 p.m. with reception at 1:15. The shrine has custody of the relics for May, September and November. The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy concludes on Christ the King Sunday, Nov. 20. Call (415) 986-4557; visit www.shrinesf.org. CATHOLIC COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN MAY 21, 22: Parishioners assist communications nationwide and on the local diocesan level with donations to the Catholic Communication Campaign at Masses May 21, 22. Proceeds are split equally between the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the national office in the United States bishops’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. Contributions locally help support Catholic San Francisco, the Spanish language San Francisco Catolico, “Mosaic,” a public affairs program which airs Sundays at 5 a.m. on KPIX 5, as well as the archdiocesan website and some programming on Immaculate Heart Radio.

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Forgiveness is theme of ‘Mary, Mercy and Music’ night at St. Hilary Parish RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The virtue of forgiveness is the theme of a Maryinspired May evening of hospitality, faith-sharing and entertainment at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. A wide-open Year of Mercy invitation to regular Massgoers and beyond, “Mary, Mercy and Music” is the second in the parish’s series of evangelizing “Spiritual Happy Hours.” The night combines Marian spirituality – the feast of Our Lady of Fatima is the same day, May 13 – a concert with Marin resident Narada Michael Walden and guests; a book signing and talks by author Nicole Lataif, who wrote a children’s book on forgiveness; and a keynote speech by Air Force Capt. Guy Gruters, who was held for five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp and came to forgive his captors through the power of the rosary. “The whole theme for the night is being released from resentment and anger and finding a way to forgive and show mercy for people,” said St. Hilary parochial vicar Father Roger Gustafson, who started the “Spiritual Happy Hours” series as an outreach to busy locals whom he sensed were longing for connection. “Mary, Mercy and Music” is designed “to enrich our parishioners who are faithful but also to reach out and bring in people who might not ordinarily come to a Mass but might be willing to come to a concert or listen to a great speaker,” Father Gustafson said. “In the two years I’ve been here I’ve gotten to know the parishioners quite well and a lot of them tell me they’re traveling a lot and they have a lot of things to do, but I also sense within them a deep need for spirituality,” Father Gustafson said. “They’re very busy people with a lot of options in life, good options, but they’re also hungering for something.” The priest noted that Marin County is “the most dechurched county in the United States” – home to many who identify as spiritual but not religious. “What I’m hoping is that through personal connection that they will find that the Catholic Church is not unwelcoming, is not inhospitable but rather that they can connect deeper to their faith by connecting with other people,” Father Gustafson said. “I believe that faith often comes from a deeper con-

‘Mary, Mercy and Music,” May 13, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon. Free child care. All-you-caneat taco bar $15, kids $7.50. Sign up for complimentary tickets at SpiritualHappyHours.com. Book signing with Nicole Lataif, 5 p.m.; dinner, 5:30-6:30; keynote speaker Capt. Guy Gruters, 6:30; Mercy Concert with Narada Michael Walden and guests, 7:30.

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nection with other people who have faith.” This model of outreach is mirrored in the parish’s new ministry catalog, with section headings in this order: Connect, Pray, Heal, Grow, Love. “What I personally believe is those things should often come in that order,” Father Gustafson said. The parish is hoping the event will build momentum for small groups that will meet to delve into the topic of forgiveness. Discussion groups are planned over the next four weeks around Allen R. Hunt’s book “Everybody Needs to Forgive Somebody.” Father Gustafson has the outreach for the wider evangelization campaign mapped out: The parish is being divided into 20 neighborhoods, with a leader in each assigned to invite neighbors to the small-group discussions. He believes that a personal invitation with the opportunity to join in conversation with a few neighbors can be a powerful combination. St. Hilary attracts about 650 weekend Massgoers but with 1,200 registered parishioners the number could be higher, Father Gustafson said. “A lot of people are just waiting for an invitation,” he said. In an email to Catholic San Francisco, St. Hilary pastor Father William Brown said, “I am very grateful to the Stewardship Team from our parish for putting this May 13 event together, and for organizing the “Spiritual Happy Hours” that will flow from it. Saint Hilary Parish has a long history of small-group faith-sharing, but this time around it’s different in that a specific book and topic will be part of the experience, the group will only commit to a set time, and we’re also trying to help people get to know one another by offering meetings in the homes of various people throughout the parish: Mill Valley, Belvedere, Tiburon, etc. This might be a great way for neighbors to finally get to know each other, even though they attend Mass at different time slots!”

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‘Storytelling and Scripture’ series CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

(PHOTO COURTESY FATHER DAN CARTER, OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH)

A Catholic priest in Tanzania’s Diocese of Bunda blesses a new tractor delivered to local farmers who cultivate their fields by hand.

San Francisco parishes buy tractor for Tanzanian village CHRISTINA GRAY

Storytelling comes naturally to Don Leach, who learned the power of a good story in his father’s barbershop in Salinas where he heard the Irishman spin a yarn or two. The St. Anselm parishioner, who has spent the last 30 years telling tales and sharing their power with others, will make Scripture “come alive” during a “Storytelling and Sacred Scripture” series launching May 18 at 7 p.m. at St. Anselm’s Centennial Hall. The free three-part series presented by three different local storytellers was conceived to show how our spiritual tradition began with the passing down of stories before the Hebrew Bible was compiled and how they continued through the parables of Jesus. The other sessions are set for Aug. 3 and Nov. 30. Leach, a member of the local chapter of NAPS (National Association of the Preservation of Storytelling), said he asks people to share their favorite Scripture or saint story. “Which one do you really love dearly?” he said. “One of my favorites is David, how he became king and his struggles with Saul and Bathsheba.

It’s so touching, admittedly he said, because he recognized more than a little of himself in the story. “Almost all of those stories that we remember vividly were told for hundreds of years as folktales,” he said. The Jewish people call those “midrash,” he said, a method of interpreting biblical stories that goes beyond simple distillation of religious, legal, or moral teachings. It fills in gaps left in the biblical narrative regarding events and personalities that Don Leach are only hinted at. Leach said that anyone can be a storyteller, and everyone can benefit from storytelling. “It can begin right here,” he said, bringing his hand down on the kitchen table. He’s cultivating the art of storytelling in his young granddaughter, born in the era of text messaging and Snapchat. A storyteller lives a story three times, he said. “First I hear it, then it lives inside me because I feel it, and it touches my heart and soul. And the third time you live it through the people you are telling it to. It’s a new creation and you live it through their joy.”

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The rural villagers of Malya Kwimba in Tanzania, East Africa, are giving thanks for a heavensent tractor that will help them more efficiently cultivate the fields they have worked by hand. The tractor was a gift from parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Church/All Hallows Chapel in San Francisco who took up approximately $9,000 in collections to have the tractor purchased and shipped to Tanzania according to pastor Father Dan Carter. Parishioners learned about the village’s need for a tractor from Father Carter and Father Narcis Kabipi, a visiting priest from the Diocese of Bunda in Tanzania, who has spent the past few years helping out at the parish. “Since I grew up in that area, I know people don’t have much means to cultivate the land,” he said. Hand cultivation is still a common, but laborious and inefficient means of growing food. There are around 9 million Catholics in Tanzania, about a quarter of the total population. Father Carter said a group of people in the parish decided to “take it on” and in a matter of weeks had raised the funds for the tractor that was purchased by Father Kabipi from a Japanese company and shipped to Tanzania. Father Kabipi is now serving as chaplain with St. John of God Parish near the University of California, San Francisco, but remains close to his friends at Our Lady of Lourdes/All Hallows Chapel. “We are just a little church in our corner of the city,” said Father Carter. “But it is good to know a small group of people can come together to help in such a practical way.”

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Mercy, SF’s first graduates ‘proud, grateful’ women TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Mercy High School, San Francisco, “Where young women prepare to make a difference in the world,” graduated its first class, dubbed “the Pioneers,” in 1956. The women gather for a 60th reunion Sept. 17. I had the pleasure to speak via email with two members of the class, Patricia McNally Keller and Anne Marra Doran.

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Being the Mercy Pioneers was very important then and it is a distinction that no other class will ever have, Pat said. The Pioneers even now are a close group of women who have gone through life with hills and valleys in the road but we always knew we had each other. The Sisters of Mercy made sure we were ready for the world through our education and our faith. They endeavored to give us all an education that we have used all our lives (and still are using). We are the first group of women who didn’t have to be nurses, we could be doctors (and some are) and we didn’t have to be secretaries we could be lawyers. We were a very lucky generation that knew the world was ours if we worked for it! I learned to persevere through good times and bad, and the power of prayer. The world was not all roses but most of the Pioneers have made a lasting footprint in the world. Thanks to my education at Mercy I was lucky enough to work in the sports medicine field. I enjoyed my professional life very much. I have learned with retirement there is still a world out there if you go out and find it. I have enjoyed working as a volunteer at the local hospitals wherever I have lived. We are coming full circle: We have lost a number of our classmates and all know that we won’t be here forever, but we are going to have a good time as long as we can. Thank you Mercy for all you have done for us.

Mercy High School, San Francisco, Class of 1956 on the first day of school in the fall of 1952.

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When I walked into Mercy in 1952, little did I realize I was beginning a journey that would last a lifetime, Anne said. The school was new, not even com-

pleted. We were a small group of girls who grew up in four years to become young women. We were the top class all four years which helped us immensely with leadership skills. We named ourselves the Pioneer class. Being educated by the Sisters of Mercy made a big impact on my life. And attending Mercy helped form a strong faith that is with me to this day. In my senior year I took business classes which unknowingly paved the way for my career. After a year of college, married life beckoned. Four children arrived very quickly and I was a stay-at-home mom. I ultimately worked as administrative assistant in the South San Francisco Unified School District. The

hours were flexible (I had many summers off) which allowed me to spend time with my children. I like to think that the woman I became from my Mercy years played a big part in how my children turned out. I look at my 11 grandchildren and am so pleased at the way they were raised. I have somehow taken on the role of communicator for the Pioneers. I keep my classmates advised of the happenings in our special group. I have formed lifelong friendships – all because I decided to attend Mercy those many years ago. I am grateful to the Sisters of Mercy for giving me such a well-balanced life and am proud to be a member of Mercy’s first graduating class.

CATHEDRAL ANNIVERSARY: It will be a grand night May 6, for St. Mary’s Cathedral 45th Anniversary Gala in the cathedral’s lower halls. The evening begins with evening prayer in the main church Archbishop Franc led by Archbishop Cordileone D’Ambrosio Salvatore J. Cordileone. Event includes dinner, music and a special appearance

by Franc D’Ambrosio, renowned singing star of “Phantom of the Opera,” and remembered for his performances at anniversary celebrations of the Porziuncola Nuova in North Beach. The cathedral’s lower halls are major meeting places for Northern California events including workshops, meetings, dinners and awards ceremonies. In addition, the cathedral, designated by the Red Cross and San Francisco, is an official safety site in the case of disasters local and otherwise. The cathedral welcomed St. John Paul II in his historic visit to San Francisco in 1987 and has been the site of funeral Masses for bishops, clergy, and religious as well as the faithful. Father Alturo Albano is pastor.

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CATHOLIC CHARITIES SUNDAY

Together, we are Catholic Charities: A volunteer and donor perspective Catholic Charities in our archdiocese serves more than 37,000 people locally. This is the last of a three-part series focusing on the agency’s work as expressed by staff, clients, volunteers and donors. Together, we are Catholic Charities. Catholic parishes annually support this work during the second collection on Catholic Charities Sunday, this year May 7 and 8, 2016. LORI WHITNEY CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOARD MEMBER, VOLUNTEER AND DONOR

Our family’s rewarding and meaningful experience in donating and volunteering at Catholic Charities began with a family consensus decision in 2014 to find a way to help others. Everything jelled: Both of our boys, Jason, 25, and Peter, 22, were impressed by Pope Francis, an advocate for the poor. My husband, David, and I, senior advisors at a national financial services firm, meantime, were able to set aside funds for a charitable interest. The four of us weighed priorities. A light bulb went off: We should do a gift to Catholic Charities, we all agreed, and also volunteer as a family. We were impressed that Catholic Charities has such a wide reach in terms of services.

When the boys moved away to pursue college and career opportunities, David and I continued to mull how we could deepen our engagement with Catholic Charities beyond giving. We considered different volunteer opportunities and settled on Catholic Charities Rita da Cascia Community, which provides case management services for formerly homeless women and their children, many of them living with chronic HIV/ AIDS. Our role, on Thursday evenings in the summer of 2014, was to prepare and serve a dinner meal at Rita da Cascia, which was followed by a counseling support group for the women while we played with the kids. The women were incredibly gracious and appreciative and freely shared de-

tails about their day-to-day challenges. It occurred to me that these moms have the same worries and concerns as I do; they just have so much less in the way of resources or opportunities to tackle the challenges. I noticed, too, that the women, who receive public assistance, ran out of money at month’s end. At those Thursday dinners, I heard the women compare notes about where they could purchase the most meat and milk for their children. As a financial advisor, I knew I could help. I had the idea that it might be worthwhile to teach the Catholic Charities caseworkers at Rita da Cascia budgeting tips and skills that they in turn could teach their clients. We set up a workshop at which I pro-

vided the caseworkers handouts and other budgeting tools. In early 2015, I was honored to join the board of directors of Catholic Charities. At the board meetings, I learned about the more than 30 different programs that Catholic Charities operates to support families living in extreme poverty in the Bay Area. As my husband, David, has said, you have to go into their environment and get to know them as people without judgment – talk and connect to them on a variety of levels. It creates a new dimension to your life and their life. It’s good for your spirit. It is also true that the clients of Catholic Charities are not that much different from me and my family. We share the same values and aspirations of wanting good schools, a safe place to live and hot, nutritious meals for our children. I am very proud to be a volunteer and I am inspired by the other volunteers whom I have met. I am able to see the difference that I can make, but more importantly, I have seen the difference volunteering has made in me. When I speak at my parish on Catholic Charities Sunday, May 8, that will be my message; each of us is helped when reaching out to our neighbors in need.

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Fundraiser benefits Dominican Sisters’ urban schools ministry You can help get kids across the education finish line May 21 at Golden Gate Fields. The racetrack is the site for Vision of Hope’s Day at the Races, an annual fundraiser benefiting tuition assistance for students at eight inner-city Catholic elementary schools affiliated with the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose including St. James and St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception in San Francisco. In its first eight years the event has raised $300,000. More than 300 people are expected for the fun that includes live broadcast of the Preakness Stakes. Races begin at 11:45 a.m. and the fun continues all day with a huge silent auction of gift baskets, gift certificates, vacations and tickets to sporting events. Specials include raffle of owner’s and premium tickets to Giants games, including games against the Dodgers and A’s. Tickets include admission to the Turf Club, breakfast and prime rib buffets as well as valet parking and a racing program. Purchase online at www.visionofhope.org or by calling (510) 533-5768. Prices are $120 for premium ticket, $80 for regular, $60 for children. Tickets should be purchased by May 1.

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A step closer to sainthood for Dorothy Day CNA/EWTN NEWS

NEW YORK – A new stage has begun in the process toward possible canonization for Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York has opened the canonical “inquiry on the life” of Dorothy Day, the archdiocese announced April 19. Dorothy Day Starting this week, the archdiocese will interview some 50 eyewitnesses who had firsthand experience with Dorothy Day. Their testimonies and other evidence will be collected, examined to determine whether Day lived a life of “heroic virtue,” and will eventually be presented to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Saints and to Pope Francis. In addition, Cardinal Dolan will appoint experts to review the published and unpublished writings of Dorothy Day, considering their adherence to doctrine and morals. George B. Horton, liaison for the Dorothy Day Guild, noted that this will be an extensive project. “Dorothy Day created or inspired dozens of houses of hospitality throughout the Englishspeaking world, but she was also a journalist who published The Catholic Worker newspaper,” he said.

“Her articles in that paper alone total over 3,000 pages. Add her books and other publications and we will probably surpass 8,000 pages of manuscripts.” Born in Brooklyn and eventually raised in Chicago, Day was baptized Episcopalian at the age of 12. She displayed signs at a young age of possessing a deep religious sense, fasting and mortifying her body by sleeping on hardwood floors. Her life soon changed as the 1910s brought about a stark shift in the U.S. social climate. A key turning point in her life and personal ideology came when she read “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair’s scathing depiction of the Chicago meat-packing industry. Day dropped out of college and moved to New York, where she took a job as a reporter for the country’s largest daily socialist paper, The Call. After fraternizing with the Bohemians and Socialist intellectuals of her time – and after a series of disastrous romances, one of which included an abortion that she later deeply regretted – Day fell in love with an anarchist naturelover by the name of Forster Batterham. She eventually settled in Staten Island, living a peaceful, slow-paced life on the beach with Batterham in a common-law marriage. Conflict arose, however, when Day became increasingly drawn to the Catholic faith – praying rosaries consistently and even having their daughter, Tamar, baptized as a Catholic. Batterham, a

staunch atheist, eventually left them and Day was received into the Catholic Church herself in 1927. She returned to New York City as a single mother where her deep-rooted and long-standing concern for the poor resurfaced. Along with French itinerant Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933. Living the Catholic notion of holy poverty and practicing works of mercy, the two started soup kitchens, self-sustaining farm communities and a daily newspaper. In the course of her 50 years working among the poor and marginalized, Day never took a salary. Her legacy lives on today in some 185 Catholic Worker communities in the U.S. and around the globe. In a 2012 meeting of U.S. bishops, Cardinal Dolan called Dorothy Day “a saint for our time,” describing her as “a living, breathing, colorful, lovable, embracing, warm woman who exemplifies what’s best in Catholic life” and shows the church’s commitment to both the dignity of human life and social justice. The Vatican opened the canonization process for Dorothy Day, naming her a “Servant of God,” in 2000. The road to canonization is a lengthy one, normally requiring many years and several stages, including examination by a diocesan tribunal and a Vatican congregation, as well as the approval of two miracles attributed to the saint’s intercession. Ultimately, the pope has the final say in canonizing saints.

POLL: GOVERNMENT ‘UNFAIR’ TO LITTLE SISTERS

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – According to a Marist Poll survey, a majority of Americans say it is “unfair” how the federal government is treating the Little Sisters of the Poor in the ongoing dispute over compliance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate. Fifty-three percent of those polled called it unfair, while 32 percent said it was not. The poll was conducted by telephone, in English, April 8-12. According to the New Haven-based Knights of Columbus, which commissioned the question and is a sponsor of the Marist Poll, 1,020 Americans were asked. The poll was part of an “omnibus” survey in which Marist allows different clients to “purchase” questions to be asked, according to Barbara Carvalho, Marist Poll director. In the dispute, the federal government has sought compliance from most employers, including religious employers, with the contraceptive mandate, requiring them to provide contraceptives – including those that could induce an abortion – as part of employees’ health insurance plans – even if the employer morally opposes the coverage. The U.S. Supreme Court has signaled a 4-4 deadlock on the issue, but on March 29 the court asked both the government and the sisters to submit new filings. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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‘LAUDATO’: Parishioners encouraged to ‘be the driving force’ FROM PAGE 1

St. Teresa of Avila Parish in San Francisco; Father Larry Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto; and Katia Reeves, parishioner at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto (San Jose diocese). Parishioners Gail Kendall and Stephen Miller of St. Teresa shared their experience forming the archdiocese’s first formally registered green team with the support of pastor Carmelite Father Mike Greenwell. They recommended it as a first step for interested parishes. “Formalizing a green team is an important step, of setting intention,” Miller said. They registered their team with the Catholic Climate Covenant (a nonprofit formed and supported by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops)

ARCHDIOCESE NAMES NEW VICTIM ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR

St. Paul parishioner Rocio Rodriguez is the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s new victim assistance coordinator, a position created to coordinate assistance and support for victims of sexual abuse. Rocio Rodriguez In the part-time archdiocesan position she will be the point person for new sexual abuse allegations. She will communicate with the Independent Review Board and assist with education programs to prevent child abuse. Rodriguez is a licensed bilingual,

and communicated that back out to their congregation. “We are an entity; we wanted to be visible and intentional about our efforts.” Participants broke down into smaller sessions led by moderators in three topical areas: environmental performance benchmarks of the parish; educating and inspiring parishioners; and creating a model for engaging parishes and the local community around the principles of “Laudato Si.’” In one workshop, participants wrote down their ideas, including zerowaste hospitality events, encouraging priests to include “Laudato Si’” in their homilies and integrating environmental concerns into confirmation preparation. The idea of “pushback” or resistance from priests and/or parishioners came up repeatedly throughout the workshop, bicultural family therapist who has been working in the social services and counseling field for over the last 15 years with individuals, couples and families in outpatient treatment settings, mental health clinics, and in private practice settings. In addition to her clinical practice, Rocio also provides mental health assessments and evaluations for immigration cases with regard to the U visa, political asylum and deportation hardship waiver cases. Anyone who has reason to believe or suspects that a child has been or is being abused should report their suspicions first to civil authorities and then to the archdiocese’s victim assistance coordinator. Contact Rocio Rodriguez at (415) 6145506.

with some participants seeking more formal “authority” from the archdiocese in implementing change at the parish level. Others, such as Angela Pollock, archdiocesan director of young adult ministry, suggested that the Catholic teaching on subsidiarity means that no person above should be making a decision for parishes. “It’s important for us to go to our pastors and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got this whole committee who believe that this is important to living out our faith.’”

She suggested passionate parishes “take the smallest step you can” and said that most pastors will be fully supportive “if they don’t have to do all the work.” Father Weare agreed. If a pastor or some parishioners are not going along with an idea, that should not stop you, he said. “Be the driving force,” he said. “You are the church. You are baptized, you are confirmed and the Holy Spirit is with you. It should give you a lot of courage and confidence and hope to move beyond any obstacles along the way.”

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Ex-PP official tells students about abortion’s reality; cardinal decries ‘choice’ rhetoric CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood employee of the year who has become an outspoken pro-life advocate, told Georgetown University students April 20 that even the most strident abortion provider can have a change of heart. “I’m standing in front of you today as a testament to the power of conversion. No one is beyond the power of conversion. No one is beyond the power of Christ,” Johnson said. Her address – attended by nearly 100 people – came just hours after a controversial lecture on the Jesuit campus by Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood. Noting that the president of the largest abortion provider was invited to speak at the Catholic university, Johnson said, “I keep thinking, I keep believing and I have faith that one day instead of me standing here speaking on defending the sanctity of human life, it will be Cecile Richards standing here.” Michael Khan, a sophomore at Georgetown and president of the university’s right-to-life chapter, criticized Georgetown University’s defense of having Richards deliver a lecture on campus as an issue of academic freedom and free speech. “Cecile Richards is not an academic. She is an activist,” he told the Catholic Standard, newspa-

per of the Washington archdiocese. “Even if you believe in open dialogue (on the issue of abortion), she brings nothing substantive to the table. I am disappointed in Georgetown’s leadership for allowing her (Richards) to speak unchallenged.” One day after Richards’ speech, Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl celebrated a University Mass for Life for college students at a nearby

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WASHINGTON – As the U.S. Treasury announces the legendary Harriet Tubman as the new face of the $20 bill, she also drew praise from religious freedom advocates for her deep and abiding Christian faith. “Harriet Tubman was a woman of faith who was not afraid to act on her beliefs to fight for justice,” said Kristina Arriaga, Harriet Tubman executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “Her incredible moral and physical courage is an example to all Americans, as is her willingness to act on her Christian faith. She is an icon of religious liberty.” Known for helping rescue hundreds of fugitive slaves through a network called the underground railroad, the Civil War-era hero will replace former president Andrew Jackson, whose image will imprinted on the back of the bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced April 20.

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College students pray during an April 21 University Mass for Life at Epiphany Catholic Church in Washington, one day after Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, gave a speech at nearby Georgetown University at the invitation of a student-led group.

WASHINGTON – If Christians and other religious minorities disappear in Iraq and Syria, “pluralism and stability leave with them,” the head of the Knights of Columbus told a congressional commission April 19. Supreme Knight Carl Anderson said the United States must help stop the genocide of Christians and others now taking place in the Middle East. But the nation also must act to prevent its recurrence and to ensure the future of the affected communities, he said. In testimony before Congress’ Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, Anderson said the situation “also implicates the national security of the United States.” On March 17, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that atrocities carried out by Islamic State militants against Yezidis, Christians and other minorities were genocide, the first U.S. declaration of genocide since Sudanese actions in Darfur in 2004.

‘PRO-LIFE GIANT’ TO RETIRE FROM USCCB

WASHINGTON – “Pro-life giant” Richard

Catholic church, encouraging them to stand up for God’s gift of human life. In his homily at the April 21 Mass at Epiphany Catholic Church, Cardinal Wuerl warned about a powerful politically correct movement and environment “all around us. ... It says to set aside such things as the value of human life and substitute the politically correct position that actually you should be free to choose to kill the unborn child. But the word of God says to us, ‘Don’t conform yourself to this age.’” He encouraged students not to be “deceived by the politically correct rhetoric that uses words to hide true meaning. Those in favor of killing the unborn child often speak of ‘the product of conception’ as opposed to the child in the womb. They speak about ‘facilitating the conclusion of the life cycle’ instead of ‘assisting a suicide.’ So it is with that buzz word ‘choice.’ When you use the word ‘choice,’ you have to complete the sentence. What is it you choose?” He noted that students aren’t free to smoke in the university cafeteria or park wherever they want without consequences. “Choice only makes sense when you complete the sentence,” Cardinal Wuerl said. “The word ‘choice’ is a smoke screen behind which those killing unborn children take refuge. Every chance you get, blow that smoke away, so everyone knows what it is we’re talking about.”

Doerflinger will retire as associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities on April 29 after 36 years of service to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Nebraska Catholic Conference executive director Greg Schleppenbach has been hired as new associate director of pro-life activities and begins May 16, the USCCB announced. “Greg Schleppenbach has been a respected friend and colleague for many years,” Doerflinger said. “He thoroughly understands the church’s pro-life witness, and has always found new ways to bring people together in support of life. I will keep working on these issues in retirement, but am delighted to leave this particular job in very capable hands.” Doerflinger joined the conference in 1980 and has served as associate director of pro-life activities since 2008. He has received awards for his pro-life work, including the University of Notre Dame’s inaugural “Evangelium Vitae” medal in 2011. He also serves as a public policy fellow at the university’s Center for Ethics and Culture and at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE, CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, USCCB

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Religious films showcased at Hollywood festival CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Religious movies with a Catholic focus will be among those showcased at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, California, April 28-May 1. Hosted by the Turner Classic Movies cable channel, the annual festival, now in its seventh year, offers an extensive lineup of vintage titles. The event also features appearances by stars (Gina Lollobrigida, Faye Dunaway) and filmmakers (Francis Ford Coppola) as well as presentations, panel discussions and more. This year’s theme, “Moving Pictures,” highlights films that, according to the organizers, “bring us to tears, rouse us to action, inspire us, even project us to a higher plane, from coming-of-age pictures to terminal tear-jerkers, from powerful sports dramas we feel in our bones to religious epics that elevate our spirits.” “Religious films are such an important part of film history,” noted Charles Tabesh, TCM’s senior vice president of programming, in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. “There have been good ones, and not so good ones, and some real true classics. This is one of those categories that we always wanted to dive into a bit more, but it was never a natural fit with our past festival themes.” Saints, sinners, priests, nuns and even the Lord himself are featured in the festival’s lineup. A likely high point will be the screening of the 1928 silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” which histo-

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Haya Harareet and Charlton Heston, right, star in a scene from the 1959 Christian-themed “Ben-Hur.” Religious movies with a Catholic focus will be among those showcased at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood April 28-May 1. rians and critics alike regard as one of the finest movies ever made. Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer has been praised for his cutting-edge cinematography, conveying emotion through extreme close-ups of his star, Maria Falconetti, as she portrayed the Maid of Orleans during her trial and execution. A live orchestra and choir will accompany the picture. They’ll present composer Richard Einhorn’s 1994 oratorio “Voices of Light,” which was inspired by Dreyer’s work. “It’s a visually stunning film, and the score is especially beautiful,” Tabesh commented. Film reviewer Sister Rose Pacatte, a Daughter of St. Paul who is director

of the Pauline Center for Media Studies, will introduce two movies. “The Song of Bernadette” (1943) – based on Franz Werfel’s 1941 novel and newly restored by 20th Century Fox – features Jennifer Jones’ Oscar-winning performance as St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary of Lourdes. The second film, 1961’s “King of Kings,” is an epic costume drama about the life of Jesus (Jeffrey Hunter). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer financed this ambitious remake of the 1927 silent film “The King of Kings” following the studio’s blockbuster success with 1959’s Christian-themed “Ben-Hur.” Sister Rose recently hosted “Condemned,” a monthlong series of 27

films shown on TCM, all of them deemed objectionable by the former National Legion of Decency. (Catholic News Service’s Media Review Office is the Legion’s present-day successor organization.) The festival also will see the world premiere of a restoration of 1944’s “The Keys of the Kingdom,” adapted from the 1941 best-seller by A.J. Cronin. Gregory Peck received his first Oscar nomination for his moving portrayal of a priest who goes to China as a missionary and finds fulfillment evangelizing the poor. Last, the 2015 journalism drama “Spotlight,” (winner of the Best Picture Oscar) will be included in a unique way. The film, which tracks the uncovering of the clergy abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston by a team of reporters on the staff of that city’s Globe newspaper, has frequently been compared to the Watergate dramatization “All the President’s Men.” “Spotlight” director and co-writer Tom McCarthy will join his script collaborator, Josh Singer, for a discussion marking the 40th anniversary of the earlier movie. “It was Carl Bernstein who suggested we connect the two films,” Tabesh observed, referring to the Washington Post reporter whose investigative partnership with colleague Bob Woodward is celebrated in “All the President’s Men.” Bernstein will also speak at the festival screening. For more information on the TCM Classic Film Festival, visit www.tcm.com/ festival.

POPE: When it comes to happiness, there’s no app for that FROM PAGE 1

True love is free “without being possessive” of people or worldly things, he said. “There is always a temptation to let our affections be tainted by an instinctive desire to take, to have what we find pleasing; our consumerist culture reinforces this tendency. Yet when we hold on too tightly to something, it fades, it dies and then we feel confused, empty inside,” he said. The freedom that comes from love, he continued, does not come from “doing whatever you want,” which

only makes people “self-centered and aloof,” but is a gift that comes from “being able to choose good.” “Be skeptical about people who want to make you believe that you are only important if you act tough like the heroes in films or if you wear the latest fashions. Your happiness has no price; it cannot be bought,” the pope stressed. The first day of the celebration ended late April 23 with music and testimonies at Rome’s Olympic Stadium for an estimated 70,000 youth. In a video message played at the rally, Pope Francis compared the absence of Jesus

in one’s life to being somewhere without a cellphone signal so it is impossible to connect with each other. “Just remember that if Jesus is not in your life, it is as though there was no signal,” he said. “Let’s always place ourselves where we have the signal: the family, the parish, the school, because in this world we will always have something to say that is good and true.” The youths had made a pilgrimage to the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica, and the pope told them, “Do not forget that the door is the encounter with Christ, who introduces us to the

Father who asks us to be merciful as he is merciful.” Reminding them of the importance of simple gestures in carrying out works of mercy, the pope said that to be merciful with others, one must first be able to forgive. Resentments or the desire for revenge are like a worm that “eats away at the soul and does not allow us to be happy,” he said. “Let us forgive and forget the wrong done to us; in this way we can understand the teaching of Jesus and be his disciples and witnesses of mercy,” he said.

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Was Shakespeare a secret Catholic? CNA/EWTN NEWS

ROME – April 23 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the playwright, poet and actor widely considered to be the most influential literary figure in the English language. Yet, there’s one mystery which continues to elude scholars to even this day: What exactly was Shakespeare’s relationship with the Catholic Church? And, could he have been a secret Catholic, forced to conceal his true religious identity in an era of persecution? At the time of Shakespeare’s writing, Britain was in a period of religious upheaval. Its people were still caught in the crossfires of the English Reformation that had begun decades earlier when Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church of England. Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, outwardly followed the state-imposed religion, since it was illegal at that time to practice as a Catholic in England. However, scholars say he nonetheless maintained strong sympathies with the Church of Rome. Shakespeare’s writings “clearly points to somebody who was not just saturated in Catholicism, but occasionally argued for it,” said Clare Asquith, an independent scholar and author of a book on Shakespeare called “Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare.” He “was definitely putting the Catholic point of view to an intellectual audience,” she said. An example of this relationship with Catholicism comes out in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” a play which

scholars say captures the sense of conflict experienced by the population as the country transitioned to the Church of England. “Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, dramatizes the position of all these people, torn apart like Hamlet, having to play a part like Hamlet, pretend they were irresponsible, perhaps mad, and yet, having to make a decision about what to do about this,” Asquith told CNA/EWTN News. Shakespeare She said that this conflict is particularly represented through the ghost of Hamlet’s father in Act I. “Everything about the ghost is the old order, which has been displaced by a brand new Tudor state with the monarch as the head of the church, which was still highly, highly contentious,” she said. “I think scarcely anyone in England went along with it at that point. They did superficially, out of self-interest, and it gradually did produce a creeping secularism.” Hamlet’s mother, who had married his uncle very soon after the king’s death, represents the “England that has given into the new order, reluctantly,” while urging Hamlet to go along with it, Asquith said. “On the other hand, he has his father saying: ‘No, Hamlet. Stand up against it. You must do something about it.’” Author of “Through Shakespeare’s Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays,” scholar

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Joseph Pearce takes this conflict with Hamlet a step further by saying the play is speaking out against England’s persecution of Catholic priests. “The play illustrates the venting of Shakespeare’s spleen against the spy network in England which had led to many a Catholic priest being arrested, tortured and martyred,” said Pearce, who is director of the Center for Faith and Culture in Nashville, Tennessee, and author of three books on Shakespeare. “The ghost of Hamlet’s father is clearly a Catholic in purgatory who exposes the wickedness of the usurping Machiavellian King Claudius.” Pearce reiterates that more people at that time had Catholic sympathies than is commonly believed. “Although the anti-Catholic laws made it necessary for any writer, Shakespeare included, to be circumspect about the way that they discussed the religious controversies of the time,” he said, “it is clear that Shakespeare’s plays show a great degree of sympathy with the Catholic perspective during this volatile time.” While scholars agree that Shakespeare’s writings indicate sympathies for the Catholic cause, definitive proof from his life that he was a covert Catholic is harder to come by. In fact, Asquith said, there is even resistance among the academic community regarding his possible relationship with the Catholic Church, despite the evidence from the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. “People want Shakespeare to be an enlightened secular humanist, and they are not going to move an inch in the direction of him being committed in a religious sense at all.” Few pieces of hard biographical evidence support the case for Shakespeare’s Catholicism, but there are other clues. For instance, his daughter Susanna had been brought before the court of the recusant because she, like many Catholics, refused to swear allegiance to the reigning monarch as head of the Church of England. In 1613, Shakespeare purchased the Blackfriars Gatehouse in London and immediately leased it out as a safe house for Catholics. The property would be used to harbor Catholic priests and fugitives, among other activities. “Shakespeare’s purchasing of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, a house well known as a base for the Catholic underground, would be enough to prove Shakespeare’s Catholicism,” Pearce said.

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New nuncio: ‘First thing is to learn, listen’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the new nuncio to the United States, said he is ready to learn about the Catholic Church in the country and will try his best to be Pope Francis’ emissary, particularly in promoting a church that is close to those who suffer. The archbishop, who had a private meeting at the Vatican with Pope Francis April 21, gave interviews the next day to the English and the Italian programs of Vatican Radio. The 70-year-old French native has been in the Vatican diplomatic corps for almost 40 years and said a nuncio’s job is to help the pope fulfill his ministry of building up the local churches, respecting their diversity, while keeping them united with the universal church. “The difficulty or the challenge,” he said, is “to listen, to be careful about what’s going on, to understand, to exercise dialogue – I think that’s very important – to discover the beauty, the richness of the culture of the people, the way the people live (and) to help the inculturation of the Gospel in a particular culture.” At the same time, he said, a nuncio’s mission is “to help the pope understand – the pope and those that work with him – to understand what’s going on.” “The richness of the Catholic Church,” Archbishop Pierre said, comes from that combination of valuing peoples and cultures and their local expressions of faith while being united universally. The archbishop told Vatican Radio’s English program, “I’m quite excited – sometimes fearful,” about leaving Mexico and going to the United States. He said his reaction was “oh” when the pope told him of his new assignment “because it’s such a big country, such a big history, but you know I’m trustful in God and very, very grateful for this mission which is given to me.” “I know I have to learn in the same way that when

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Pope Francis poses with Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the new apostolic nuncio to the United States, during an April 21 meeting at the Vatican

I arrived in Mexico nine years ago I had to learn a lot and I’m still learning, so I’m sure that during this year the American people – particularly the bishops, the priests, the religious, the laypeople – will be my teachers,” he said. “I’m ready to learn.” The first mission the pope gives his nuncios, and the whole church, obviously is to proclaim the Gospel, he said. Next there is “the way the pope wants us and the church to be close to people, especially those who suffer, the poor. This is also what I’ve perceived in what he has told me and I will try my best to be a faithful emissary of the pope.” Speaking to the Italian program, Archbishop Pierre said being nuncio to the United States is “an enormous, difficult” ministry, but he is ready to take up the task. “The first thing is to learn, to listen, and I think that one of the qualities the pope asks of us is to be able to listen and not go in with preconceived ideas.”

IN BRITAIN, DISAGREEMENT OVER EFFECTS OF GENDER-NEUTRAL FACILITIES

MANCHESTER, England – Catholic schools that voluntarily set up gender-neutral toilets or changing rooms to accommodate increasing numbers of transgender students could be sued in the event of a sex attack, a Catholic lawyer warned. Neil Addison, director of the Liverpool-based Thomas More Legal Centre, said schools that adopted such arrangements voluntarily would leave themselves open to legal action if a crime was committed because of their policy. Britain does not have a law that would force schools to set up such facilities. His remarks came just days after Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector schools and head of Ofsted, the government body regulating standards in state schools, suggested head teachers might introduce gender-neutral facilities. But Addison said such arrangements would be reckless. “We are getting cases of young children getting arrested for sexual offenses even below the age of criminal responsibility,” he told Catholic News Service in an April 15 telephone interview.

NUN: CHURCH NO LONGER ‘CHURCH OF THE POOR’

COCHIN, India – One of the prominent female Catholic theologians in India said the church has lost its identity as “church of the poor.” “Today the church is no more the church of the poor, but one can even say it is the church of institutions,” said Presentation Sister Shalini Mulackal, president of Indian Theological Association. “Starting from the ‘70s and extending to late ‘80s, there was a great zeal in the church to be at the service of the marginalized,” Sister Mulackal told the Eighth Congress of Asian Theologians April 20. “Individuals and groups were fired with the zeal of Jesus, who took the side of the poor and the outcast.” “Now churches own many institutions and, regrettably, some are mere money-making institutions,” she said. CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE, CNA/EWTN

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Know the difference between sin and sinner, Pope Francis says ELISE HARRIS CNA/EWTN NEWS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis stressed the importance of knowing how to distinguish between sin and sinner, adding that God’s mercy is not afraid to reach out and touch our sins in order to forgive them. “The Word of God teaches us to distinguish between the sin and the sinner,” the pope said April 20, noting that when it comes to sin, there are no “compromises.” When it comes to sinners, “which are all of us,” it’s important to reach out to them, he said, adding that sinners “are like the sick who are healed, and in order to be cured the doctor must be close to them, visit them, touch them.” However, Francis also clarified that in order to truly be healed, a sick person must first “recognize their need for the doctor!” Pope Francis spoke to the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday general audience. He continued his catechesis on mercy, turning to the Gospel passage in Luke in which Jesus dines at the house of Simon, a Pharisee, and forgives a “sinful woman” who washes his feet with precious oils. In his speech, the pope said that the episode brings out a comparison between two figures: Simon, the faithful and zealous follower of the law, and the anonymous sinful woman, who expresses repentance. “While the first judges others based on appearances, the second with her actions expresses her heart with sincerity,” Francis said, noting that while Simon doesn’t want to compromise himself or get involved

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Pope Francis meets traditional singers from Croatia during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 20. in Jesus’ life, the woman fully entrusts herself to the Lord “with love and veneration.” As a Pharisee, Simon finds it incomprehensible that Jesus allows himself to be “contaminated” by sinners, as was the common mentality at the time. “He thinks that if Jesus were really a prophet he must recognize and stay away from (sinners) to avoid being stained, as if they were lepers.” This attitude, Francis said, is typical of a certain understanding of religion which emphasizes

the radical opposition between God and sin. However, the pope stressed that the Word of God teaches us to distinguish between “the sin and the sinner.” When it comes to the Pharisee and the sinful woman, “Jesus sided with the latter,” the pope observed, explaining that since the Lord was free from “the prejudices which impede the expression of mercy,” he allowed the woman to continue her act of love and repentance. “He, the Holy One of God, allows himself to be touched by her without

Pope: Post-synod headlines missed the real family crisis CNA/EWTN NEWS

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE – Pope Francis has said that the family is in crisis, and that is a much bigger issue than Communion for the divorced-and-remarried. He suggested the news media had focused too much on the latter issue during the synod and in coverage of his recent document on the family. The Pope spoke with journalists on his plane flight back from visiting refugees on the Greek island of Lezsbos April 16. A reporter from the French newspaper Le Figaro asked why his post-synod document “Amoris Laetitia” treats access to the sacraments for the divorced-andremarried in a footnote. In response, Pope Francis noted a recent pope’s reflections on the Second Vatican Council. There was the council as it took place in St. Peter’s Basilica, and there was the “council of the media” that covered the event, Pope Benedict XVI had said in February 2013. “When I convoked the first synod, the great concern of the media was Communion for the divorced and remarried, and, since I am not a saint, this bothered me, and then made me sad,” Pope Francis said. “But do you not realize that that is not important?” he asked. “Don’t you realize that instead the family is in crisis, don’t we realize that the falling birth rate in Europe is enough to make one cry? And the family is the basis of society.”

‘When I convoked the first synod, the great concern of the media was Communion for the divorced and remarried, and, since I am not a saint, this bothered me, and then made me sad.’ POPE FRANCIS “Do you not realize that the youth don’t want to marry?” he asked. “Don’t you realize that the lack of work or the little work (available) means that a mother has to get two jobs and the children grow up alone? These are the big problems.” He said he thought this aspect of the family crisis is certainly in a footnote in “Amoris Laetitia” because he spoke about it in “Evangelii Gaudium,” his 2013 apostolic exhortation. “Amoris Laetitia” is the Pope’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation published April 8. It reflected upon the bishops’ synods on the family in October 2014 and 2015. In a previous question during the Pope’s April 16 in-flight press conference, Francis X. Rocca of the Wall Street Journal, had asked Pope Francis about access to the sacraments for the divorced-andremarried and “Amoris Laetitia.” “Some sustain that nothing has changed with respect to the discipline that regulates access to the sacraments for the divorcedand-remarried, that the law, the pastoral praxis and obviously the doctrine remain the same,” Rocca said. “Others sustain that much

has changed and that there are new openings and possibilities.” Rocca asked: “Are there new, concrete possibilities that didn’t exist before the publication of the exhortation or not?” Pope Francis answered: “I can say yes, many. But it would be an answer that is too small.” The pope recommended Cardinal Christoph Schonborn’s presentation of the exhortation. “You’ll find the answer there,” the Pope said. Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna, led the April 8 press conference releasing the document. The cardinal had said there had been “too much concentration” on the questions regarding the pastoral care of the divorced-andremarried. “It’s a trap to focus everything on this point because you forget the sum total of the situation,” he said. Cardinal Schonborn said the experience of the poor is a key to reading “Amoris Laetitia.” “In the families of the poor, little steps on the path of virtue are experienced that can be much greater than those who live in ‘comfortable success,’” he said.

the fear for being contaminated,” Francis said. In forming a relationship with this woman, “Jesus puts an end to that condition of isolation to which the merciless judgement of the Pharisee and his fellow villagers, who insulted her, condemned her.” Pope Francis then contrasted the hypocrisy of the doctors of the law with the humble and sincere act of the woman, whose conversion happened in front of everyone. “All of us are sinners but many times we fall into the temptation of hypocrisy, to believe that we are better than others,” he said, and cautioned that instead of looking at others’ sins, we must first acknowledge our own faults and mistakes. When Jesus responds to the woman’s act he doesn’t give an explicit answer, but instead her conversion takes place “in front of everyone’s eyes and shows that in (Jesus) shines the power of the merciful God, capable of transforming hearts.” The sinful woman “teaches us the link between faith, love and gratitude,” the pope said, noting that even Simon had to admit that the one he loves most is the one who has been forgiven more. “God has locked up everyone in the same mystery of mercy; and from this love, which always precedes us, we all learn to love.” Pope Francis closed his audience by encouraging pilgrims to give thanks to God for his “great and unmerited love,” and urged them to allow the love of Christ “to be poured into us: it is from this love that the disciple draws and on which he is based; from this love each one can be fed and nourished.”

CARDINAL: CANADIANS WILL REGRET LEGAL ASSISTED SUICIDE

TORONTO – The coming legalization of assisted suicide in Canada will threaten the vulnerable, hide killing with euphemisms, and threaten the consciences of those who oppose it, Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto has said. “We’re all deeply concerned that this is a sad day for Canada,” the cardinal told CNA April 14, when the Canadian government introduced legislation to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia under the federal criminal code. The legislation was mandated by a February 2015 Canadian Supreme Court decision. While people see assisted suicide as a “simple solution,” Cardinal Collins said, once people begin to consider what the practice really means to society, and its threats to the vulnerable, “they begin to realize that this is not the way to go.” He said “the very people who are most involved in helping people by the bedside while they are dying or while they are suffering are the ones most opposed to killing those entrusted in their care.” The cardinal said Catholics should strongly encourage palliative care for those in severe pain and for the terminally ill. This, not suicide, is true medical assistance, he maintained. He said the government also has an obligation to support palliative care if it is going to set up a legal euthanasia regime. In this “cold world of euthanasia,” there must be “places where you know where you will be safe,” he said. The cardinal also worried about pressures on the elderly to “hurry up” and die. CNA/EWTN

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | APRIL 28, 2016

Porn and the curse of total sexual freedom

he most recent issue of Time magazine features a fascinating and deeply troubling article on the prevalence of pornography in our culture. The focus of the piece is on the generation of young men now coming of age, the first generation who grew up with unlimited access to hardcore pornography on the Internet. BISHOP ROBERT The statistics BARRON on this score are absolutely startling. Most young men commence their pornography use at age 11; there are approximately 107 million monthly visitors to adult websites in this country; 12 million hours a day are spent watching porn globally on the adult-video site Pornhub; 40 percent of boys in Great Britain say that they regularly consume pornography – and on and on. All of this wanton viewing of live-action pornography has produced, many are arguing, an army of young men who are incapable of normal and satisfying sexual activity with real human beings. Many 20-somethings are testifying that when they have the opportunity for sexual relations with their wives or girlfriends, they cannot perform. And in the overwhelming majority of cases, this is not a physiological issue, which is proved by the fact that they can still become aroused easily by images on a computer screen. The sad truth is that for these young men, sexual stimulation is associated not with flesh and blood human beings, but with flickering pictures of physically perfect people in virtual reality. Moreover, since they start so young, they have been compelled, as they get older, to turn to ever more bizarre and violent pornography in order to get the thrill that they desire. And this in turn makes them incapable of finding conventional, non-exotic sex even vaguely interesting.

t seems odd, even a bit repulsive, when we encounter tales of elderly men running after women who are young enough to be their granddaughters. The wheelchair-bound billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall was 89 years old when he married the 26-year-old Anna Nicole Smith. He had met the Playboy model and reality TV star in a strip club. Anna insisted that she really did love the old man, and wasn’t in it for the money. With age should come FATHER TADEUSZ wisdom. It’s PACHOLCZYK appropriate and fitting for older men to leave behind their former ways, and no longer live and act like college frat boys. It’s right to expect growth in self-control as we mature, and to expect a more reflective and sober approach to

MAKING SENSE OUT OF BIOETHICS

PRIEST: TREATING PORN ADDICTION NEEDS TO BE PART OF MAINSTREAM MINISTRY

On a practical and local level, pornography addiction treatment programs need to be part of a parish’s mainstream ministry and not seen as an obscure ministry needed by the few, Father Sean Kilcawley, a priest of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, said in an interview with Catholic News Agency. “Anti-pornography ministry is not a peripheral ministry,” said Father Kilcawley, program director and theological advisor for Integrity Restored, a Catholic apostolate that addresses pornography issues and addiction in families, individuals and clergy. “We don’t just need tools to help a few people, we have to take those tools and incorporate them into an evangelization plan that’s trying to evangelize within an entire culture that’s being affected by pornography,” he said. “Pornography is the biggest obstacle to evangelization that we’re facing as a church,” the priest said.

This state of affairs has led a number of men from the affected generation to lead the charge to disenthrall their contemporaries from the curse of pornography. Following the example of various anti-addiction programs, they are setting up support groups, speaking out about the dangers of porn, advocating for restrictions on adult websites, getting addicts into contact with sponsors who will challenge them, etc. And all of this, it seems to me, is to the good. But what really struck me in the Time article is that neither the author nor anyone that he interviewed or referenced ever spoke of pornography use as something morally objectionable. It has apparently come to the culture’s attention only because it has resulted in erectile dysfunction! The Catholic Church – and indeed all of decent society until about 40 years ago – sees

“Because the core beliefs of an addict are I’m unlovable, if people really knew me they would reject me, no one can meet my needs, not even God.” Part of what Father Kilcawley does for his anti-pornography ministry is to talk to the parents of his first communicants at a retreat about motherhood and fatherhood within the context of the church’s teaching on the theology of the body. He also spends an hour on Internet safety and sex education. “Pastorally speaking, the best approach is to focus on prevention and focus on relationships within the family, evangelization within the family, and protecting kids from pornography, and the more we talk about it in that way, it’s both bold and less threatening, and then it gives people the freedom to come to the church to look for healing,” he said. CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY

pornography as, first and foremost, an ethical violation, a deep distortion of human sexuality, an unconscionable objectification of persons who should never be treated as anything less than subjects. That this ethical distortion results in myriad problems, both physical and psychological, goes without saying, but the Catholic conviction is that those secondary consequences will not be adequately addressed unless the underlying issue be dealt with. It is precisely on this point that we come up against a cultural block. Though Freud’s psychological theorizing has been largely discredited, a fundamental assumption of Freudianism remains an absolute bedrock of our culture. I’m referring to the conviction that most of our psychological suffering follows as a consequence from the suppression of our sexual

desires. Once we have been liberated from old taboos regarding sex, this line of argument runs, we will overcome the neuroses and psychoses that so bedevil us. What was once the peculiar philosophy of a Viennese psychiatrist came to flower in the 1960s, at least in the West, and then made its way into practically every nook and cranny of the culture. How often have we heard some version of this argument: As long as you’re not hurting anyone else, you should be allowed to do whatever pleases you in the sexual arena. What the Time article articulates in regard to the specific issue of pornography has been, in point of fact, glaringly obvious for quite some time: Freud was wrong. Complete sexual freedom has not made us psychologically healthier, just the contrary. It has deeply sickened our society. The valorization of unrestricted freedom in regard to sex – precisely because it is morally corrupt – proves psychologically debilitating as well. Whereas Freud, in the manner of most modern thinkers, principally valorized freedom, the church valorizes love, which is to say, willing the good of the other. Just as moderns tend to reduce everything to freedom, the church reduces everything to love, by which I mean, it puts all things in relation to love. Sex is, on the biblical reading, good indeed, but its goodness is a function of its subordination to the demand of love. When it loses that mooring – as it necessarily does when freedom is reverenced as the supreme value – it turns into something other than what it is meant to be. The laws governing sexual behavior, which the Freudian can read only as “taboos” and invitations to repression, are in fact the manner in which the relation between sex and love is maintained. And upon the maintenance of that relation depends our psychological and even physical health as well. That to me is the deepest lesson of the Time article. BISHOP BARRON is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

On ‘aging gracefully’ life. Growing old invariably offers us the opportunity to redirect our focus, and as our body weakens, our mind and soul can be drawn to consider matters we may have previously avoided, like death and that which awaits us beyond death’s threshold. Our later years can powerfully provoke us to come to terms with our destiny and with higher truths. In a recent column, Father Ron Rolheiser, quoting James Hillman, speaks to the graces that aging and infirmity can bring our way: “Why have God and nature so structured things that as we age and mature and are finally more in control of our lives, our bodies begin to fall apart, and we need a bevy of doctors and medicines to keep functioning? Is there some wisdom in the very DNA of the life process that mandates the breakdown of physical health in late life? Hillman says, yes. There’s an innate wisdom in the process of aging and dying: The best wines have to be aged in cracked old barrels. The breakdown of our bodies deepens, softens, and matures the soul.” I once overheard a hospital nurse chatting with one of her patients and was caught a bit off guard when she nonchalantly declared, with a little twinkle in her eye, “... when we get to

be over 40, who doesn’t have hemorrhoids?” The comment, I thought, reflected a healthy, positive attitude toward aging and infirmity. Unavoidably, our bodies decline. Our strength wanes. We get hemorrhoids and warts and cancers and high blood pressure and male pattern balding. In the midst of it all, we can accept our lot with grace and gratitude. A serene acceptance of our struggles, and even of the specific death that awaits us, is surely a great virtue. But aging gracefully is not something many of us tend to do well. We resist the idea. We may cling to the fantasy of eternal youth. Some in our society even push the notion that we shouldn’t have to put up with the challenges of infirmity, and instead ought to receive help from the medical system so we can beat a hasty retreat to the exit. By pushing for physician-assisted suicide, they encourage us to despise the good of our own lives and to reject the graces that arise from our struggles by choosing to ingest any of a number of doctorprescribed poisons. On the other hand, by embracing our particular path into death, and by offering up our trials, we acquire a poise of

soul and human maturity that orients us toward our destiny, a destiny in the hereafter that so many seem largely oblivious to. By letting our infirmities existentially speak to us, and coming to realize how true it is that we have no permanent dwelling here, we begin to grapple with that mysterious truth that heaven and home are synonymous. Aging gracefully also involves recognizing and accepting the shortening of the time ahead of us and the lengthening of the time behind us. Even as we achieve a much-sought independence in our lives, we begin to cycle back toward a renewed dependence on others, on caregivers, family and the community, and we may even come to the realization that our own mind will have to be surrendered if dementia comes our way. All of this can instruct us, if we accept it with grace, in the wisdom of relinquishing our own willfulness once again like little children, and returning to a humble framework of interdependence in our shared destiny with others and with God. FATHER PACHOLCZYK is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center. See www.ncbcenter.org.

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I believe in mystery

few years back, listeners of National Public Radio would recognize the program titled “This I Believe.” Around the same time I was in campus ministry at Dominican University in San Rafael. One of our student leaders who was active in our ministry wanted to reach out to students who were trying to SISTER CARLA figure out what KOVACK, OP was important in their lives. He suggested we do a weekly version of “This I Believe” in which faculty, staff and students would be invited to offer a prepared reflection of their core beliefs. When it came to my turn, the word MYSTERY kept tugging at my consciousness. And it became my topic sentence: I believe in mystery. I do believe in MYSTERY, the mystery of God, of faith and yes, the mystery of a call to religious life. When I was young and felt that mysterious attraction I was neither wise nor fully mature. At 17 I just knew that I had

My life is a witness that deep inner joy or happiness can remain through times of both joy and challenge. to explore that deep attraction to be love in the lives of others. I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives and decided that in community the shared desire to offer God’s love would multiply and have a deeper impact. I had mixed reactions from my parents: My mother was overjoyed, my father asked why do you want to do something so unnatural as to choose to not have children … what did your mother and I do to make you want such a life? I assured him I was not running away from love and intimacy of marriage rather I was seeking it in a relationship with God. I couldn’t explain this attraction but I knew I had to try it out. For most of us celebrating jubilees, we have been privileged to live the span of years of renewal of religious life given to us by the council fathers of Vatican II. We witnessed and lived a focus on the Gospel way of life, a return to our charism and adapted our lives to modern society. As a Dominican sister I have turned to the Gospels and deepened my commitment to follow the way of Jesus as a teacher

LETTERS Mideast refugee crisis

I’ve been reading about all these Catholics taking Iraqi and Syrian refugees into their homes. Tony Magliano wrote that the best way to handle the Mideast refugee problem is to supply them in the surrounding countries where they are accepted so they don’t have to try to make the trek to the West. This would be the best economic and all-around solution. Don’t you read your own articles? Dennis J. McGraw Sacramento

Excellent exhortation coverage

Thanks for an excellent issue (April 21). The coverage of Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation is first-rate, starting with the archbishop’s frontpage, positive commentary, the fine article by Bishop Barron and the focused Q-and-A with Barron and, finally, sections of the primary text. Great. A lot to chew on. John Weiser Ross The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish.

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and preacher. I have appropriated St Dominic’s way of life in which study and contemplation within a community feeds the joy and vitality of service in witnessing to the presence of the risen Christ in our midst. Fifty-plus years ago my father was concerned that I would have no children. While this choice has been a sacrifice, the life of celibate loving has offered a freedom to love all those who cross my path. As a young sister I was an elementary school teacher spending 11 years with first graders. Our daily engagement taught me how to be human … the children lived in the present, they would say sorry after a fight and mean it; they were vulnerable enough to welcome the care of friends and their teacher, and they absorbed stories of Jesus who loved each one of them in a unique way. The mystery of God’s unfolding love continued as I served in roles of leadership, formation and vocation ministries. My father, when he gave me a blessing to leave home for the convent, made me promise him one thing … if I ever found myself not

happy I would come back home. My life is a witness that deep inner joy or happiness can remain through times of both joy and challenge. The fidelity of God’s love and our freely offered response is witnessed by each religious here. We continue to give our lives in service of others. We believe that God’s love of us is mirrored in our loving others. We believe that our years in religious life are fruitful in ways we often don’t realize. We believe that others who follow us will continue to cooperate with the attraction of God’s love given in service of those on the margins of societies, those who are different from us, those who seek the mercy of God made flesh in us. Yes, I believe in mystery, the mystery of love given and received, the mystery of vocational call, the mystery of the risen Christ in our midst. Yes, I believe in mystery. DOMINICAN SISTER CARLA, who is on the leadership team of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, gave this reflection at the Mass of Consecrated Life on Good Shepherd Sunday, April 17, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass included celebrations of significant anniversaries from 25 to 75 years of men and women religious in the archdiocese.

Marking an anniversary

hat we cease to celebrate we will soon cease to cherish. This year, 2016, marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the religious congregation to which I belong, The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. We have a proud history, 200 years now, of ministering to the poor FATHER RON around the world. This ROLHEISER merits celebrating. As a writer, I don’t normally highlight the fact that I am a professed religious, just as I don’t usually highlight the fact that I’m a Roman Catholic priest, because I fear that labels such as “Catholic priest,” “Father,” or “Oblate of Mary Immaculate” attached to an author’s name serve more to limit his readership than to increase it. Jesus, too, was pretty negative on religious labels. Mostly though I avoid writing under a specific religious label because I want to speak more through the wider prism of my humanity and my baptism than through the more specific prism of my priesthood and vowed religious commitment. It’s a choice I’ve made, respecting the choice of others. With that being said, I want to break my own rules here and speak more specifically through the prism of my identity as vowed religious. So I write this particular column as Father Ronald Rolheiser OMI, proud member of The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Let me begin with a little history: Our congregation was founded in Southern France in 1816 by Eugene de Mazenod, declared a saint by the

church in 1995. Eugene was a diocesan priest who immediately upon entering the ministry saw that the Gospel wasn’t reaching many of the poor and so he began to focus his own ministry very much on reaching out to the poor. It takes a village to raise and child and, soon enough, he realized that it takes more than one person to bring about effective change. It takes a community to make compassion effective: What we dream alone remains a dream, what we dream with others can become a reality. So he sought out other likeminded men, diocesan priests like himself, and called them together around this mission and eventually they began to live together and formed a new religious congregation dedicated to serving the poor. That was 200 years ago and the Oblates (as we’re commonly called) have had a proud, if not always comfortable, history since. Today we are ministering in 68 countries on every continent on earth and our mission is still the same. We serve the poor. That’s why you’ll find us ministering mainly on the margins of society, where mainstream society prefers not to cast its glance, on the borders with migrants, on Native reservations, in immigrant areas of our cities, in tough inner-city places where the police are reluctant to go, and in developing countries where access to food, health, and education are still scarce commodities. Our mission is not to the privileged, though we try to bring them onside with our mission, and our members themselves are often drawn from among the poor and our message to the young men entering our ranks is: If you join us, consider what’s not in it for you! And we’re missionaries, meaning that we understand our task to be that of establishing communities and churches, helping them to become self-sufficient, and then moving on to do this over and over again. That

may be a noble task, but it’s also a formula for heartache. It isn’t easy on the heart to be forever building something only to give it over to someone else and move on. You don’t ever get to have a permanent home; but there’s a compensation, as a missionary, after a while every place is home. We aren’t a large congregation, we’re only about 4,000 members scattered in some 68 countries, humble in comparison to the likes of the Jesuits, Franciscans, and Dominicans. Indeed in an early version of the famous French Larousse Dictionary, we were described as “a kind of mini-Jesuit found mostly in rural areas.” We are flattered by this description. Our call is not to be in the limelight, but to be at the edges. No accident that it’s there, at the edges, in a rural area, where I met the Oblates. We also pride ourselves on being robust, practical, earthy, and close to those we serve, and our dress often betrays this. Our families and close friends are forever buying us clothing to try to upgrade our less-thanstellar wardrobes. It’s not that we deliberately cultivate an image of being somewhat unkempt; it’s more that we tend to draw men to our ranks who have other priorities. And our founder? He wasn’t an easy man, obsessed as he was, as sometimes saints are, by a singlemindedness that doesn’t easily tolerate weaknesses among those around him. He could exhibit blessed rage sometimes. I’m secretly glad that I never met him in person, fearing his judgment on my own weaknesses; but I’m wonderfully glad for his charism and for that motley group of men, often over casually dressed, who continue his mission. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Sixth Sunday of Easter ACTS 15:1-2, 22-29 Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.” Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. The apostles and elders, in agreement with the whole church, decided to choose representatives and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The ones chosen were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brothers. This is the letter delivered by them: “The apostles and the elders, your brothers, to the brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia of Gentile origin: greetings. Since we have heard that some of our number who went out without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturbed your peace of mind, we have with one accord decided to choose representatives and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, who have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. So we are sending Judas and Silas who will also convey this same message by word of mouth: ‘It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities, namely,

to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” PSALM 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 O God, let all the nations praise you! May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation. O God, let all the nations praise you! May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity; the nations on the earth you guide. O God, let all the nations praise you! May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you! May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him! O God, let all the nations praise you! REVELATION 21:10-14, 22-23 The angel took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It gleamed with the splendor of God. Its radiance was like that of a precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal. It had a massive, high wall, with twelve gates where twelve angels were stationed and on which names were inscribed, the names of the 12 tribes of the

Israelites. There were three gates facing east, three north, three south, and three west. The wall of the city had twelve courses of stones as its foundation, on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. I saw no temple in the city for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb. JOHN 14:23-29 Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.”

Peace I leave with you, give to you

learned early on that the world is fragile and peace is precarious. My first real job, not babysitting, was doing small tasks in a religious goods store up the street from my grade school. For days I kept bumping into stand-alone plexiglass displays in the annex. Several times I knocked over plaster statues of saints – onto their backs, their faces, their sides. A miracle I didn’t break anything. Saints are forgiving. But a safer task was gift-wrapping missals with precisely tucked corners, neat taping and colored bows. Political and family life can sometimes feel like maneuvering around plexiglass displays. Inevitably, someSISTER ELOISE thing gets knocked over and ROSENBLATT, RSM shatters beyond repair. The more people, the more conflict. Antagonisms break out like weeds after rain. How do you restore peace, start better today, and untangle the roots of arguments? In the midst of the church’s conflicts, Pope Francis prays to Mary as “Our Lady of Knots.” The early church was riven with ethnic tensions

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

and doctrinal disputes. Paul loosened the rules for uncircumcised gentiles in mission territory so they could join the congregation. This did not sit well in Jerusalem. Paul was a charismatic personality, but also like a problem family member. If he showed up, dissension broke out. Luke, admirer of Paul’s ministry, describes how disagreements were smoothed out. Is this revisionist history? Perhaps Luke anticipated the “forgiveness project” of Fred Luskin at Stanford University. People foster inner peace and social peace by the way they retell the story of a tragic, hurtful past – as in Germany, Ireland, Rwanda or Yugoslavia. With great effort they practice re-narrating in public their stories of being raped, their parents slaughtered in front of them, friends shot, their houses burned. They don’t “forgive and forget” by denying horrible truths. But they imagine a different ending than centuries-long grudges. In Acts 15, Luke retells the story of a polarizing chapter in ecclesial history – but ending with believers choosing peace and adopting a common purpose. In Revelation, the city Jerusalem – an image of personal restoration and political peace – descends from heaven as a gift of God. It is radiant, stable, beautiful, orderly, illuminated and suffused with divine presence. What was the real first-century situation? Terrorization and killing of defenseless Christians and destruction of their property by Roman military and regional

gangs. Christian minorities, like Jewish groups, adopted this symbol of an orderly, peaceful city as their anticipated end to bloody social upheaval. The holy city “coming out of heaven from God” orients the mind to expect a better end than can be achieved right now. The words of Jesus in John are a timeless meditation, a mantra we could recite in centering prayer: “Peace I leave with you.” However, who would not feel anxiety and grief at this peace? “You are going away, so you leave behind peace like a postcard, a souvenir of our time with you? Are we supposed to carry this peace like a bookmark, a reminder of the past?” But then Jesus reassures and says, “My peace I give to you.” So this peace is not a disembodied concept, an inspiring thought left behind as he departs. “My peace” is what Jesus is giving right now, continuously – his own abiding, constant, personal presence. This peace is alive. It won’t ever be gone or die. “My peace” doesn’t end when Jesus moves into his post-death presence. Jesus gives this peace each day, as he grants our prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread.” We experience this peace as we hear it read to us, as its assurance descends on us today.

FRIDAY, MAY 6: Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter. ACTS 18:9-18. PS 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. SEE LK 24:46, 26. JN 16:20-23.

Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster, priest; St. John of Avila. ACTS 20:17-27. PS 68:1011, 20-21. JN 14:16. JN 17:1-11a.

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Ph.D. theologian and attorney in private practice in family law. She lives in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 2: Memorial of St. Athanasius, bishop and doctor. ACTS 16:11-15. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. JN 15:26b, 27a. JN 15:26— 16:4a. TUESDAY, MAY 3: Feast of Sts. Philip and James, apostles. 1 COR 15:1-8. PS 19:2-3, 4-5. JN 14:6b, 9c. JN 14:6-14. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. ACTS 17:15, 22—18:1. PS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. JN 14:16. JN 16:12-15. THURSDAY, MAY 5: Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. ACTS 1:1-11. PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. EPH 1:17-23 or HEB 9:24-28; 10:19-23. MT 28:19a, 20b. LK 24:4653.

SATURDAY, MAY 7: Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter. St. Rosa Venerini. ACTS 18:23-28. PS 47:2-3, 8-9, 10. JN 16:28. JN 16:23b-28.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11: Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. ACTS 20:28-38. PS 68:29-30, 3335a, 35bc-36ab. JN 17:17b-17a. JN 17:11b-19.

SUNDAY, MAY 8: Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord or The Seventh Sunday of Easter. ACTS 7:55-60. PS 97:1-2, 6-7, 9. REV 22:12-14, 16-17, 20. CF. JN 14:18. Jn 17:20-26.

THURSDAY, MAY 12: Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs; Optional Memorial of St. Pancras, martyr. ACTS 22:30; 23:6-11. PS 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. JN 17:21. JN 17:20-26.

MONDAY, MAY 9: Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Acts 19:1-8. PS 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab. Col 3:1. JN 16:29-33. TUESDAY, MAY 10: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of

FRIDAY, MAY 13: Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima. ACTS 25:13b-21. PS 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab. JN 14:26. JN 21:15-19.

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heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After her death, when her body was examined, she was found to have had a perforation of the heart. It was in this way that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical experiences. Our journey continues as we travel through the picturesque countryside to the lovely 12th century walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. [B,D]

St. Paul and Visiting the 7 Churches of the Book of Revelation, plus Patmos and theDay Island of Cyprus 7: Saturday 10/15, PAMPLONA / SANGUESA /

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Day 9: Monday 10/17, LOURDES / train to Paris / heart, leaving it “on fire with a great love of God.” After ed her ab Our journey from Lourdes to Paris will be traveled by raildeath, when her body was examined, she was found to have had a perforation of the heart. It was in this way wh Day 1: Sunday, 2016, USAtrain / LISBON LOURDES onOctober the TGV 9, high speed (non-stop, first class). We that science confirmed one of her greatest mystical excon Tour membersdepart are welcomed this evening at an We depart Pamplona this morning and travel to Javier at 10:30AM and arrive in internaParis at 4:30PM. Upon periences. Our journey continues as we travel through and tional airport for departing to Lisbon, arriving in the region of Navarra to visit the family castle and ourour arrival in Paris,flight we board our motor coach for Lisieux, the picturesque countryside to the lovely 12th century Fr. Mario, a Franciscan who holds a PhD in New Testament, has the next day. birthplace of St Francis Xavier. As a close personDay 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS where we check in at our hotel for dinner and overnight. Da walled city of Avila. Upon our arrival in Avila, we proThis morning welived visit the Monastery of theand Incarnaal friend of St to Ignatius and one of the original seven [B,D] in the Holy Land has been leading pilgrims the Holy LO ceed to the hotel to check in for dinner and an overnight. Day 2: Monday 10/10, LISBON / SANTAREM / FATIMA tion and the convent of St. Teresa, where the saint members of the Society of Jesus, St Francis performed We [B,D] Upon our morning arrival in Lisbon, we visit the birthcontinuously theThispast The miracles, Franciscans have the gift of tongues, foretold was granted experienced her Places remarkable vision of the for angel. af- 39 years.many in place of St. Anthony of Padua, the Lisbon Cathedral, ternoon we travelbeen to Segovia, where the sacred of relicthe of StHoly Places thefor future, official custodians overhealed 700 countless years. people, and baptized over bir Day 5: Thursday 10/13, AVILA / SEGOVIA / BURGOS St Jeronimo’s Monastery, and Belem Tower. From 10,000 people in just one month’s time. St Francis Xavier John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor al This morning we visit the Monastery of the Incarnathere, we stop in Santarem to visit the Church of St. of St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expeis regarded as one of the most zealous missionaries of me tion and the convent of St. Teresa, where the saint Stephen, where in the 13th century a Eucharistic Mirall times. From there, we cross the spectacular Pyrenees riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s forema experienced her remarkable vision of the angel. This afacle took place. When a woman attempted to steal a most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We Mountains and continue to Lourdes, where the Blessed the ternoon we travel to Segovia, where the sacred relic of St consecrated host from Mass, the host turned into flesh Virgin Mary appeared to St Bernadette in 1858. Upon visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed John of the Cross is enshrined. St John was the confessor 10, and began to bleed. To this day the precious relic reby the Templars, where the mortal remains of Saint John our arrival, we check in at the hotel for dinner. After dinis r of St Teresa and often conferred with her on their expemains incorrupt for all to see. The church has since been riences in the spiritual life; he is one of Christianity’s foreall of the Cross are buried. Inside the city walls we also see ner, we participate in the Candlelight Procession and renamed the Church the Holy We events continuein Normandy Scenesof from the Miracle. historical Mo most authorities on spiritual and mystical theology. We rosary with pilgrims from all over the world. Overnight the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman our journey into Fatima to check in at our hotel for a visit the convent near the Vera Cruz church, constructed Vir in Lourdes. [B,D] Empire. In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old engiwelcome dinner and overnight. [D] Day 10: Tuesday 10/18, LISIEUX / NORMANDY / ou by the Templars, where the mortal remains of Saint John neering marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the LISIEUX of the Cross are buried. Inside the city walls we also see ner Spanish gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; We take a day trip to the Normandy area to spend Fatima ros the best-conserved aqueduct of the Imperial Roman we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for time at the Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Omaha Empire. In addition to viewing this 2000-year-old engiin L Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Museum and other sites associated with World War II. marvel, we visit Alcazar castle, the last in the neering continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Our journey today concludes as we return to our hotel in gothic style to be constructed. Time permitting; Spanish Lisieux for dinner and overnight. [B,D] we enter the famous castle, which was an inspiration for Basilica in Walt Disney when he created his Cinderella castle. We Day 11: Wednesday 10/19, LISIEUX / PARIS Loyola continue to Burgos for dinner and overnight. [B,D] Most of today will be spent Basilica in in Lisieux, Loyola home of St. Day 3: Tuesday 10/11, Therese of FATIMA the We spend today in Fatima. One of the greatest events of Child Jesus. this century took the village of Fatima, Portugal, Sheplace is theinone Grotto of Massabielle in 1917. The Mother appeared to three shepherd whomof God Pope children, instructing to bring the message of the Pius Xthem called Gospel back to a world that “the greatest was slipping away from it. Day 8: Sunday 10/16, LOURDES She told the children, desire that a chapel be built here saint of“I modBetween February 11, 1858 and July 16, 1858, Our Lady in my honor. Iern amtimes. the Lady Weof the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask parappeared 18 times to a 14-year-old girl named BernavisitPeople Les Buidon for their sins. must pray the rosary every day dette Soubirous. The young saint described Our Lady as Da Day 6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA in Lisieux sonnets, thethat God sends them.”Basilica and bear all the sufferings We a “girl in white, the same height as myself, who greeted Bet Our first stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one familyda home begin in the Cova Iria, where we visit the Chapel me with a nod of her head. This girl was beautiful beyond app of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. where Therese spent the early years of her life before of the Apparitions, the Basilica that houses the tombs det description. She had a blue sash around her white dress Day 6: Friday 10/14, BURGOS / LOYOLA / PAMPLONA Then, we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace entering Carmelite Convent at the age of fifteen. We of Francisco and Jacinta,the and the Perpetual Adoration a“ and yellow roses on her shoes. A long rosary hung from Ouroffirst stop today is the Cathedral in Burgos, one of St Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). next visit the convent which houses the sacred relic Chapel. We continue to Aljustrel, where we visit the me her arm, and she seemed to invite me to pray with her.” of the finest examples of Gothic architecture in Europe. There, we will see the magnificent 17th century basilica body. From there, we spend time at the beautiful home of theher Marto family (the birthplace of Jacinta des Then, we travel to Loyola, where we visit the birthplace Our Lady gave Bernadette secret messages for herself dedicated to the saint. 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At this andan agreatest rich symbolism in We visit thetime a great conversion took place flight to the Isle aboard a wide-bodresawas of Avila, ofpeople, the Church’s mystics. Wetheir appearances. mile drive po sage given one to the only example ofto prayer Pilgrims are welcomed at andeparting international airport for Emerald our in Ignatius; approximately 13 years later he founded the increase/decrease at 30 days prior location of We the visit apparition, of Our Lady, and ied Isle jet, aboard arrivingathe next morning. Meals on in their also seeserved her incorrupt heart. In her autobiography, tlement and a are rich symbolism appearances. the St the Basilica uloe departing flight to the Emerald wide-bodSociety of Jesus. The place of his conversion is indicathave theofan opportunity toher explore the grounds. From there, board the aircraft. Teresa of spoke of the angelthe who thrust arrow into was born location the apparition, Basilica Our Lady, and ied jet, arriving the next morning. 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Then,now wea Benedictine soar huesalong of green and purple over vast valleys. bowls of Mountain unthe Abbey, gardens, and the along thechapel. lake St. Patrick's vision. Then, we spoiled streams tum Squares, P to walk the beautiful We spoiled enjoy sites of the Conne-streams tumble visit the Down thechapel. We up valleys. Mountain down to lakes, up toCathedral, the beautiful enjoy sites of the Connevisit the Down Cathedral, the Dublin' hedgerows blaze with fuchiasof and gold mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint hedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden beaches stretch mara, characterized by peat bogs, rugged, mountainous historical burial place of Saint will beplac ou for miles. The Dingle Peninsula is a countryside thatfor is home a great miles. to The Dinglevariety Peninsula is a place of intense, shifting Patrick and terrain visit his grave. We and lush countryside thatterrain is homeand to alush great variety Patrick and visit his grave. We ing that ais Wedry visit Gallarus Oratory, beauty. Gallarus Oratory,beauty. an ancient stone of wildlife. Weremainder return to Westport whereWe thevisit remainder continue to Belfast andWe proceed of wildlife. return to Westport where the continue to Belfast and proceed natural ba whose to construction whose longevity testifiesconstruction to the skill of its build-longevity testifies of the day isThis free to explore independently. This evening, to Mass atofSaint Malachy's the day is free to explore independently. evening, to Mass at Saint Malachy's Heldoftogether completelytemporary by the w ers. sample Held together completely weight stones (no wander theauthentic streets ofIrish Westport and authentic Irish by theers. 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Then, tions of pubs occupying every other and enjoy every other tionsstorefront of pubs occupying storefront enjoy ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but Ovew coast Slea Head and Dingle, returning to Limpicturesque coast Slea Head and Ding a glass ofadaptation Guinness or a mug ofaIrish ale.of The city boasts its fan vaulted ceilings are its an fan architectural adaptation glass Guinness or a mug ofpicturesque Irish ale. The city boasts vaulted ceilings are an architectural for dinner and overnight. [B,D]erick for dinner and overnight.Day [B,D] one of the most well-known and one visited around, Matt 10: T from the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster The in Westminster of pubs the most well-known anderick visited pubs around, Matt from the HenryAbbey. VII Chapel Abbey. The Malloy's. of at the pubs, including MattMany Malloy's, have Dublin is church boasts the largest bell in Belfast which Malloy's. of the pubs, including Malloy's, have church boasts thesounds largestatbell in Belfast which Many sounds Day 8:Matt Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK /Day ROCK CASHEL / 8: OF Tuesday 10/25, LIMERICK as well. Trinity/ R least three times daily. After Mass, we times check daily. in at our traditional IrishOvernight music and/or dancing as well. Overnight least three After Mass, traditional we check Irish in atmusic our and/or dancing KILKENNY / DUBLIN KILKENNY / DUBLIN in Westport. [B] which ho hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] in Westport. [B] hotel for a welcome dinner and overnight. [D] The Rock of Cashel is an impressive Themedieval Rock ofcomplex Cashel is an impressive 9th-centu called “The Acropolis of called “The Acropolis of Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEof Kells”. Ancient Ireland" and is one Day 3: Thursday 10/20, BELFAST / GIANT'S CAUSEWAY / BELFAST Ancient Ireland" and is one it there a WAY / BELFAST of the most spectacular Our morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see to see St of the most spectacular archeological sites in the morning begins as we travel 60 miles north to see the see Giant’s Causeway,Our a unique geological landC archeological sites in the Pro country. Dating from the theplace see else Giant’s Causeway, scape that is truly unlike any on earth. The a unique geological landThe re country. Dating from the 4th century, it was originally scape that is trulyresulting unlike any place else on earth. The causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, 4th century, it was originally of the da used as a fortress. Mighty causeway’s interlocking hexagonal columns, resulting from the basaltic lava of an ancient volcanic eruption used as a fortress. Mighty to explo stone walls encircle a comthe basaltic of an ancient volcanic eruption 6 million years ago, foreverfrom changed County lava Antrim’s stone walls encircle a com- pendently plete round tower, a roofmillion years forever changed County Antrim’s northern coast, earning it 6the prestige of ago, a “Unesco less abbey, a 12th century plete round tower, a roof- interested World Heritage Site” title. northern Reading and hearing aboutit the prestige of a “Unesco coast, earning s Romanesque chapel, and less abbey, a 12th century venir the causeway does not begin offer any realistic WorldtoHeritage Site” title. Reading and hearing about should ch numerous other buildings Romanesque chapel, and Carroll's glimpse into this natural phenomenon. Only seeing the causeway does notis begin to offer any realistic Kylemore Abbey and high crosses. Northnumerous other buildings stores off believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. into Then,this we natural return tophenomenon. Only seeing is glimpse east ofKylemore the Rock ofAbbey Cashel is and high crosses. North- selection Belfast for a city tour and time at the Titanic Museum. believing! Therefore, we shall “see”. Then, we return to Kilkenny, a charming inland east of the Rock of Cashel is chandise The museum was master-planned over 185 acres of the 6: Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Belfast for a city tour and time at theDay Titanic Museum. city. Overlooking the River heritage site where the Titanic designed built. Kilkenny, ADARE / BUNRATTY Rock of Cashel a charming inland reasonabl Thewas museum wasand master-planned over 185 acres of the / LIMERICK Nore is a famous fortress, Dayfor6:the Sunday 10/23, WESTPORT / CLIFFS OF MOHER / Our day concludes as we return to the hotel for dinner This morning we depart Westport incredible and city. Overlooking the River This even heritage site where the Titanic was designed and built. BUNRATTY Kilkenny Castle, which was and overnight. [B,D] dramatic Cliffs of Moher, whereADARE nearly 5/miles of layered/ LIMERICK Nore a famous fortress, Rock meet of in Our day concludes as we return to the hotel dinner occupied upincredible until 1935 and when the exorbitantiscost of upkeep Thisdefiantly morning we almost depart Westport for the black shalefor and sandstone cliff rock soars Kilkenny Castle, resulted in the 1967 donation of the castlewhich to was tel lobby and overnight. dramatic ofOcean. Moher, whereeventually nearly 5 miles of layered Day 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO /[B,D] KNOCK / 700 feet above the aggressive might of theCliffs Atlantic transporta occupied up until 1935 when the exorb the country Ireland. We visit the castle and also one of WESTPORT black shalephenomenon and sandstone cliff rock defiantlyofsoars almost The grandeur of this natural Thedonat Merr resulted in the 1967 4: Friday 10/21, BELFAST / SLIGO / KNOCK / breathtaking the country's medieval treasures, St.eventually Canice’s Cathedral, We bid farewell to Belfast Day and drive southwest to Sli700 country feet above the aggressive might of the Atlantic Ocean. makes it a "must see" for locals and guests. The nerthe to the countrywe of spend Ireland. We visit ca that natural dominates the city skyline. Timethe permitting, go, birthplace of WB Yeats,WESTPORT Ireland’s best known poet. The grandeur this breathtaking phenomenon best vantage point (weather permitting) is fromofO’Briens in Dublin. the country's treasures, St. C time at guests. the Kilkenny which has medieval boastWe bid farewell to Belfast southwest Sligo is best known for its spectacular countryside and and drive it atravel "must see" for locals some and country TheDesign Center Tower locatedto on Slithe highest cliff.makes Next, we to Adare, that dominates the city skyline. Time ing rights to some of the most magnificent retail goods, go, birthplace ofSligo WB Yeats, knownmanicured poet. the town’s only surviving medieval structure, Ab- Ireland’sa best vantage point (weather permitting) is from O’Briens beautifully village best of thatch-roof cottages. Day 11:pF china, crystal, knitwear, Irish jewelry, timepottery at theand Kilkenny Design Cent bey. We visit there before continue to Knock, a humble Sligo is best known for its spectacular and Church and Wecountryside visit Holy Trinity thenlocated continue BunThis morn Tower ontothe highest cliff.including Next, wemore. travelContinuing to Adare, through some so much the midland counties, ing rights to some of the most magn village whose shrine attracts pilgrims over themedieval structure, the town’sfrom onlyall surviving Sligo Abratty to explore the grounds and Bunratty CasStates. W a beautifully manicured village our of journey thatch-roof $attend $ todaycottages. ends in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city. crystal, We knitwear, including china, Irish world, including John Paul IIbey. (1979) Teresa continue tle's Weand visitMother there before to Knock, a humble festive Medieval Banquet,We a traditional-Irish dinner saints and visit Holy Trinity Church and then tofor Buncheck in continue at our hotel dinner and overnight. [B,D] Continuing through (1993). On August 21, 1879,village the evewhose of the Octave the pilgrims so much more. shrine of attracts from all over the experience with story-telling and song. Afterwards, we majesticthla ratty to explore the grounds and attend Bunratty CasAssumption, the parish church of Knock was John the scene our journey today ends in Dublin, Irelan to Limerick. Limerick. [B,D] world, including Paul II (1979) proceed and Mother Teresa Overnight in tle's festive Medieval airline Banquet, taxes a traditional-Irish dinner * Estimated and final surcharges checksubject in at our hotel for dinner and ove (1993). On August 21, 1879, the eve of the Octave of the experience with story-telling and song. Afterwards, we Assumption, the parish church of Knock was the scene proceed to Limerick. Overnight in Limerick. [B,D] to increase/decrease at 30 days prior

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St. James School, parish hosts archbishop VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“What’s your name?” one of the St. James first graders asked Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone during his visit to the school April 22. “When you go to Mass and the priest prays for Salvatore our bishop – that’s me.” “Ohhh,” said several of the youngsters clustered around the archbishop. Archbishop Cordileone visited St. James School April 22, bestowed confirmation April 23, and celebrated Mass in Spanish and English on Sunday, April 24. It was the latest of the visits he is making over the course of five years to each of the 90-plus parishes in the archdiocese. St. James School was founded in 1924 by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose during the building boom that followed the 1906 earthquake. Daniel Valdez, whose son Daniel attended 20 years ago, is proud that his grandson Lucas attends first grade. As the archbishop visited one of the classrooms, Valdez told Catholic San Francisco St. James’ strong Latino culture was important to him, saying his son came in sixth grade and “got a great education.”

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Archbishop Cordileone visited St. James School in San Francisco’s Mission District April 22. “Now that Lucas is starting even younger, he is going to form friends here, tighter friends, and that foundation for a better education, for high school,” said Valdez, who often picks up or drops off Lucas because his son works the graveyard shift. Located on Fair Oaks Street, behind Immaculate Conception Academy, St.

James student body is drawn from deeper in the Mission as the rapid gentrification of the area around the school is making it harder to afford for families who are working hard to make ends meet, said pastor Father Jose Corral and several parents. The school receives significant support from Vision of Hope, a foundation

created by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose 21 years ago to support eight inner-city schools, said Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez. “Folks here know how to hustle,” said Jay Watan, a Protestant Army chaplain who lives in the outer Mission with his wife, his fourth grade son Rowan and 3-year-old. “I think our teachers are kind of brilliant.” More important is the sense of God that his son is receiving, Watan said. “That is one thing this Catholic school education really gives a kid: That your faith is not removed from the world. We’re called by Jesus to be God’s light in the world.” “Almost every parent says the same thing – they love the school. They love the closeness, a sense of community, a sense of togetherness,” said Father Corral. St. James graduate Kevin Munoz was helping out in the office because he had the day off. The Archbishop Riordan High School sophomore’s sister is in the third grade. “I just love the teachers and the people here. They are just so amazing. It’s really hard to explain,” Kevin said. “You can feel the love, the whole, like walls, the love just bounces off.”

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DENVER – Jesuit Father Raymond Thomas Gawronski, professor of dogmatics at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, died April 14 of complications from cancer, at the age of 65. He was remembered for his love of Christ, formation of seminarians and witness to the beauty of the priesthood. Father Raymond “Certainly he was an excellent T. Gawronski, SJ classroom lecturer, but it was his real interest in the (seminarians), and their spiritual development, and his desire that they have a real relationship with Christ – that was his constant theme,” said Father Gladstone Stevens, the rector and president of St. Patrick’s Seminary. “He was such a great witness to what priests could be.” Father Stevens told CNA that while Father Gawronski had not been at the seminary for very long, “when you think about the disproportion between the time he was here and his impact, it’s just incredible: he was such a presence here, in such a positive way.” Brooklyn-born Father Gawronski was ordained a priest of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus in 1986. He went on for further studies in Rome, earning a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, and a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He spent the last two years of his life serving as a spiritual director and professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary. He is the author of “Word and Silence: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Spiritual Encounter Between East and West” and “A Closer Walk with Christ: A Personal Ignatian Retreat.” He appeared in an EWTN series and his articles appeared in such publications as Communio, New Oxford Review and America. Father Stevens reflected that he appreciated Father Gawronski’s insistence that “we have to do a better job bringing together the intellectual and spiritual life” of seminarians, which he shares. A funeral Mass and burial were planned for April 26 in Colorado.

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ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE, SAN FRANCISCO: St. Thomas preschool and pre-K learning center rode their way to more than $2,200 to benefit St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, April 21. This is their sixth time in the St. Jude Trike-A-Thon.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT: Jessica Flores, a junior, has been chosen to represent the United States Pony Clubs team at the USPC 2016 International Tetrathlon Exchange in Ireland this summer. “This is a great accolade as only five people were selected nationally and Jessica is the youngest age that is eligible to apply,” the school said. The event combines horseback riding, shooting, swimming and running. Jessica has been competing in the “tetrathlon since she was 10 years old and riding since she could walk,” NDB said. “I can’t wait to participate in the international competition with a wide variety of people from all over the U.S.,” Jessica said. Pictured are Jessica and her horse, The Mighty Pip. Jessica’s parents are Karen and Dan Flores.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME: Senior Maddy Gomes has signed on to play water polo at Santa Clara University in the fall. Maddy played water polo, basketball and swam at Mercy and was captain of the water polo team this year. Pictured are Maddy and her parents Laura and Fred Gomes at the signing ceremony.

YOUNG MEN’S INSTITUTE: YMI St. John Bosco Council #613 held its annual essay contest award banquet April 9 for students from sixth grade through college. Scholarship awards totaling $15,500 went to 50 students. Among those honored were Matthew Ordona, Sacred Heart Cathedral, first place high school; and Isabella Luppino, St. Cecilia School, first place middle school; pictured with Mike Amato, YMI #613 president.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28 ‘FARM TO TABLE’: “Hands and Hearts Making a Difference” farm-to-table dinner and auction, Viognier Restaurant, Draeger’s Market, San Mateo benefiting work of Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County, 6 p.m. hosted cocktail hour; 6:30 p.m. dinner with wines and Fund-a-Need auction with Richard and Mary Ann Draeger; www.svdpsm.org for tickets.

SUNDAY, MAY 1 MERCY TALKS: Manresa Gallery Show on Jesuit Maps, 10:50 a.m., Fromm Hall by St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Fulton, San Francisco, free and open to the public, free parking all USF lots, jacoleman@usfca.edu, Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195.

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SATURDAY. APRIL 30 SCHOOL CENTENNIAL: St. Paul School, San Francisco, two-day celebration of its first 100 years, with Mass at 4 p.m. Saturday, with reception following; food Cardinal Levada and beverages will be available for purchase, Cardinal William J. Levada, principal celebrant, and Sunday family Mass at 9:15 a.m. followed by pancake breakfast at $5 per person; www.stpaulschoolsf. org; (415) 648-2055.

FRIDAY, MAY 6 BREAKFAST TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, Mass, 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and talk from Dominican Sister Carla Kovack, breakfast $10 members, $15 others, (415) 461-0704, 9- 3p.m. or Sugaremy@aol.com.

CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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