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Marin County pastors and pastoral associates listed a lack of Catholic faith formation and identity in parish families and what they described as a tarnished, aloof church as key reasons for a decline in Mass attendance and participation in the sacrament of the Eucharist at their parishes.

At the March 13 meeting of Marin County deaneries held at St. Sebastian Church, Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas, opened a frank first discussion in what will be a yearlong initiative focused on the Eucharist. The goal, he said, is to come to some agreement about the issues related to the diminished understanding, interest and participation in the sacrament, and to work on solutions.

“Many teenagers don’t understand or believe that the Eucharist is the body of Christ,” Father O’Sullivan said of the young people he has prepared for the sacrament of confirmation. It is clear that they think of the sacrament as merely a symbol, he said. “If the teens are thinking this way, the parents must be too.”

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This poster commemorated the historic meeting in 1964 of Greek Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI, healing the Great Schism that split Christendom in 1054. The East-West tie is set to be renewed May 25 when Greek Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis meet in Jerusalem.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is inviting Catholics to join him and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos at an April 8 Lenten prayer service commemorating the 50-year anniversary of the historic meeting of Patriarch Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI. Archbishop Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos will venerate a relic of the true cross possessed by the Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross in Belmont and pray for the upcoming meeting in Jerusalem of Greek Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis May 25-26.

Pope Francis will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, considered “first among equals” of the Orthodox bishops, May 25 in Jerusalem and again the following day. On May 25, the two are scheduled to sign a joint declaration. “We are called to be one, and the pope is coming to remind us of this and renew the spirit of unity and fraternal love,” Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem said at a Jerusalem news conference May 27.

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Vietnamese immigrant, tech entrepreneur finds Catholic faith VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Social media entrepreneur Andromeda Abushady will be entering the Roman Catholic Church at Easter Vigil at St. Bartholomew Church in San Mateo –a “mind-blowing” result of her commute but also of a long spiritual quest.

“I started taking some classes at CSM and was working full time at a computer company. What that did was put St. Bartholomew between school and my home,” said Abushady, who founded Edmodo, a social learning platform for K-12, which is now used by about 80 percent of schools.

As she drove by St. Bartholomew, she wondered, “what is that?” recounted Abushady, who came to this country as a 6-month-old infant and was raised alone by her mother who had been left behind in Vietnam by her American soldier husband. “A Catholic church, that sounds intriguing.”

“I looked it up online, I went through every page.

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Andromeda Abushady, right, is pictured with her mother Lynn Brooks.

church, Abushady said. And when she found the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program, she called RCIA coordinator Ingrid Pera.

“It was exactly what I was desiring. It just rang the right bell,” Abushady said, adding that the RCIA program was starting the next week so she was “just in time.”

“I did not know it was the true church,” said Abushady, who will receive first Communion and will be confirmed at Easter Vigil.

“I had no clue walking through the door what was about to happen,” said Abushady, who quit her job two months later to immerse herself in study of Catholicism.”In November, I decided, it was really a hard decision. I started the company – I left the company” telling her coworkers “I love you all but I am going to do something. My relationship with them is still close.”

“These are very non-me-like decisions,” she said.

I was looking for the liturgy of the Mass so I could follow along in my own church,” an Episcopalian

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NEED TO KNOW MASS ON THE BORDER: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration and bishops who attended the Mass on the Border and “Mission for Migrants,” in Nogales, Ariz., March 31-April 1, invited all Catholics to unite in prayer, fasting and action for immigration reform. The Mass, led by Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston and brother bishops in memory of migrants who have died trying to cross the Arizona desert, was celebrated April 1 at 9 a.m. on the West Coast and was live streamed. The bishops encouraged Catholics to follow the Mass or participate in a Mass or prayer service in their own communities. They also urged Catholics to advocate for immigration reform by sending an electronic postcard to members of Congress or by calling 1 (855) 5895698 to “support a path to citizenship and oppose the SAFE Act,” and by fasting in solidarity with migrants and immigrants. For more information: www.usccb.org/about/migrationpolicy/mass-on-the-border.cfm.

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The initial design developed in the late 1950s for the new Holy Name of Jesus Church called for a traditional rectangular structure, resembling many of the missions built throughout California. The final design, left, reflecting the liturgical changes of Vatican II, provided for more of a sense of community around the altar and brought worshippers closer to the celebrant. Right, the church as it appears today.

Holy Name Church celebrates 50th anniversary V2-influenced worship space called ‘most modern, functional church of its time’ This Sunday, April 6, Holy Name of Jesus Parish will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the “new” church at 39th Avenue and Lawton Street in San Francisco.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate Mass honoring the anniversary, 50 years almost to the day after Msgr. William Flanagan, pastor from 1956 through 1978, presided at the dedication Mass on Sunday, April 5, 1964.

The new church was the fulfillment of the dream of the founding pastor, Father Richard Ryan.

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by Holy Name, the Outer Sunset, was one of the last portions of the city to be developed. In response to the rapid influx of new residents, many of them of Irish descent, Father Ryan, originally from Bartlemy, County Cork, founded Holy Name of Jesus Parish in October 1925. He erected a church on 38th Avenue between Irving and Judah streets until a new “temporary” church was built at 40th Avenue and Lawton Street in 1940. A year later he was able to add an adjoining parish school and welcomed 304 students. By 1950 the school had reached its capacity of 900 students.

Because the church could only seat 700 worshippers, Father Ryan’s vision had always been to eventually build a grander church. He spearheaded a fundraising drive in 1954, hoping to raise the funds needed to retire the existing

INTERFAITH SHELTER WALK: Winterfaith Shelter Walk 2014, sponsored by the San Francisco Interfaith Council, will take place Sunday, May 4, at Lake Merced.

Walkers will meet at the parking circle at the intersection of Lake Merced and Sunset boulevards.

The 4.5.-mile walk supports the San Francisco Interfaith Winter Shelter for the homeless. Information and registration: http://winterfaithshelterwalk.dojiggy.com.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE: Visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco for vigil calendar and locations in San Francisco, or email themunns@ yahoo.com for San Mateo County to reserve times to pray at the vigil sites every day until Palm Sunday.

40 Days for Life is a national pro-life campaign to end abortion through prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil.

PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR APRIL: The Vatican announced that Pope Francis’ universal prayer intention for April is: “That governments may foster the protection of creation and the just distribution of natural resources.” His intention for evangelization is: “That the risen Lord may fill with hope the hearts of those who are being tested by pain and sickness.”

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Msgr. William Flanagan, pastor of Holy Name Parish in San Francisco from 1956 until 1978, is pictured on the rectory terrace with the new church under construction across the street, probably in 1963. debt and provide a down payment on a new church that was estimated to cost $800,000. Father Ryan succumbed to an illness in November 1956, so his dream was passed on to his successor Msgr.

Flanagan. The new pastor continued the fundraising effort and together with a committee of enthusiastic parishioners they finalized the plans for the new church in 1960.

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The initial design developed in the late 1950s for the new church was a traditional rectangular structure, resembling many of the missions built throughout California. But by the time Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken presided over the groundbreaking for the new church on Sept. 30, 1962, the plan had changed dramatically. The Second Vatican Council had convened that year and Msgr.

Flanagan and his advisers seemed to anticipate the liturgical reforms that were being discussed in Rome. The final plan called for a seating capacity of 1,100 with the floor gently pitched toward the altar for better viewing and to enhance the feeling of community surrounding the altar. The church would have only 17 rows of pews forming an arc around the altar, so that everyone would be close to the celebrant. The design was controversial at the time and Archbishop McGucken’s initial reaction to it was to call it “interesting.” Ultimately the plan got the green light and construction commenced. In December 1963, only months before the completion date, the plan was revised as the archbishop gave permission to install the main altar facing the congregation. As a result Holy Name became one of the first churches in the U.S. to incorporate this feature. Msgr.

Flanagan proudly called the church “the most modern, functional church of its time.”

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Century-old art restored at St. Raphael Church LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Just in time for Holy Week, St. Raphael Church in San Rafael beckons with freshly restored Stations of the Cross painted nearly a century ago by an Italian artist who left his imprint on private palaces, public edifices and dozens of churches on two continents.

The generosity of longtime parishioners, the late Bill and Rose Marie Webb, made possible the salvage of the 33-by-31-inch oils on canvas by Hector Serbaroli, whose handiwork also graces Hearst Castle, the Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Sts. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco and the dome of the Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto, Italy, among other historic structures.

The Webbs’ four children donated $45,000 of the estate to St. Raphael, as the father had requested before his death in 2010.

The parish, where the Webbs were active members since 1956, used about half the sum to refurbish the ailing art, damaged over the decades by leaks, lighting and sloppy repairs.

In storage until workers installed watertight window frames and new lighting, the collection portraying Christ’s passion, crucifixion and burial returned to the 95-year-old church during Lent.

“We felt this use of our gift would be in keeping with my parents’ lifelong giving to the community,” said Judy Schriebman, the executor of the estate.

“These exquisite, beautifully restored paintings will not only benefit the parishioners but also attract more people to the church, something my mom and dad would greatly enjoy and appreciate.”

It took experts at the South Coast Fine Art Conservation Center in Santa Barbara half a year of labor to revitalize the masterpieces.

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Pictured at St. Raphael Church with one of the church’s 12 restored Stations of the Cross paintings are, from left: St. Raphael stewardship and development director Susan Todaro; Teri Brunner, curator for the Mission San Rafael Arcangel Museum from 2005 to 2013; and Judy Schriebman, the executor of the estate and daughter of longtime parishioners Bill and Rose Marie Webb, now deceased, who donated $45,000 to the church.

“The paintings had flaking and lifting paint due to water damage … a thick layer of deteriorated varnish and surface dirt,” said company owner Patty West. “They had been badly restored in the past with large areas of over-paint, meaning someone painted over not only the damaged areas but original paint.”

West and associate Teen Conlon applied a “consolidant” into the flaking areas, heated the lifting paint, removed soiled varnish, dirt and old repairs, touched up faded spots, filled in gaps and sealed the 12 paintings.

The original set, completed between 1919 and 1920, contained all 14 Stations of the Cross, but two works disappeared during previous fixes and were replaced with replicas.

Parishioners hope the lost artworks will resurface.

“The multicultural heritage of the artist, who was born a Roman, lived in Mexico, married a Mexican woman and created spectacular frescoes in San Francisco and Los Angeles, adds an incredible dimension to these treasures,” said Teri Brunner, curator for the Mission San Rafael Arcangel Museum from 2005 to 2013.

Born Jan. 7, 1881, Ettore (Hector) Serbaroli was placed in a home for orphaned and single-parent boys when his mother died.

His talent and tenacity earned him awards and the chance to work alongside Cesare Maccari on what turned out to be the famed muralist’s masterpiece, the frescoes that adorn the cupola of the Basilica di Loreto.

His work took him from Mexican mansions to Hollywood studios, where he designed sets and sketched stars’ portraits for 20 years.

From the late 1940s until his death Dec. 19, 1951, Serbaroli returned to what he loved best.

“Of the vast amount of art he produced in a wide variety of styles and media over seven decades, he found his religious work most meaningful,” said Joseph Serbaroli Jr. of Yonkers, N.Y., who is writing a biography of his grandfather.

The restoration of his legacy at St. Raphael is part of a multi-year, $5.5 million campaign to revitalize and renovate the parish, said development director Susan Todaro.

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‘Honor and joy’ to head worship office, director says TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

With about 100 parish communities, the Archdiocese of San Francisco could well be the site of some 1,400 Masses and prayer and devotional services per week, and that’s a conservative estimate. Laura Bertone, director, Office of Worship for the archdiocese, helps all of it take place.

“I am a proud alumna of Marin Catholic High School and Santa Laura Bertone Clara University,” Laura told me in an email. Laura spent 20 years around the world auditing for Bank of America but always felt called to liturgy. She took a sabbatical from finance to study full time at the University of Notre Dame where she completed a graduate degree in liturgical studies.

Laura’s heart is in her work as head of the worship office. “I like being able to prepare and organize so that liturgy is the best that it can be and that means from the smallest Mass in a chapel to the most grand archdiocesan celebrations with all the smells and bells,” Laura said. “When a liturgy goes off well and you can see people truly celebrated and prayed, it’s wonderful.”

Laura boiled the job down for me: Advising the archbishop on matters of liturgical policy such as when the Vatican announces something new or we need to discuss some practices in parishes; preparing and organizing all large archdiocesan liturgies such as chrism Mass, ordinations, Rite of Election and certifying and training lay liturgical ministers so that they are properly prepared.

Laura appreciates the job from many perspectives but says “working with the parish clergy and our lay leaders is the best. We have such dedicated people including paid staff members, fulltime clerics, and volunteers who are so dedicated.

It humbles me and excites me.”

Laura said she is “amazed that I get to do this job. I work with and for great people and it’s an honor and joy to come into work each day.”

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Mass. In order to earn this rank, an Eagle Scout must demonstrate that he is “trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.” We at the cathedral can certainly attest to all that in Fernando’s case, and we wish him every blessing and Fernando Lopez success in all his future endeavors. Fernando’s proud parents are Guillermo and Nireysa Lopez.

SCOUT’S HONOR: “We are all so proud of him here” led a note to this column from Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, St. Mary’s Cathedral about parishioner Fernando Lopez who had recently earned scouting’s highest honor Eagle Scout. The following expressed the achievement to the cathedral community and now the rest of us: Congratulations to cathedral altar server and St. Brigid School graduate, Eagle Scout Fernando Lopez, who

CURTAIN CALL: Recently, Dean Bennett, a wonderful friend 20 years my senior and ages older in wisdom, died in Newtown Square, Pa. Dean and I met during a run of “The Music Man” in Downingtown, Pa. in the early ‘70s. The show was a four nights a week commitment and most of the company had jobs outside of the production.

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PRIZED SCRIBES: Young Men’s Institute, St. John Bosco 613, hosted the Jim Calabretta Essay Contest banquet March 22 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church. Scholarships totaling $15,000 were awarded to 46 students. First place winners were: High school, Julia Roy, St. Ignatius College Prep; middle school, Maya Roy, St. Cecilia School; college, Angela Bottarini, Santa Clara University. Pictured from left are top winners with YMI president Mike Amato: Angela Bottarini; Scott Serrato, SI; Tara Flynn, St. Cecilia; Mike Amato; Maya Roy; Ava Ragasa, St. Thomas More; Julia Roy; Jenna McCormick, Mercy High School, Burlingame; Brendan Dimech, Oregon University; and Kristen McCormick, UC Santa Cruz.

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Helping married couples live happily is core of new marriage ministry VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Helping married couples discover happiness with each other will reclaim for Christ a world that is morally disintegrating, say a couple who created their Catholic marriage apostolate in gratitude to God for saving their marriage.

“Very few of us know and understand that God has a plan for marriage,” said Greg Alexander, co-founder with his wife Julie of Alexander House Apostolate and a parish marriage enrichment program, Covenant of Love, which has taken hold in more than 100 parishes nationwide.

“Unfortunately many of us today are deviating from the plan and expecting to have these great and happy relationships,” said Alexander, who with his wife related the story of how they were ready to divorce when a kind priest’s words sent Greg Alexander to read what the Bible and the Catholic Church teaches about marriage.

“We have a society today that wants us to treat our marriage as if the other person is disposable. That, my friends, is not God’s plan and design for marriage,” Alexander said.

“When was the last time you gazed into the eyes of your spouse and had a sense of awe?”

The Alexanders’ speaking and workshop tour of the archdiocese

‘When was the last time you gazed into the eyes of your spouse and had a sense of awe?’

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Covenant of Love program March 21-30 was a first step toward a new priority – supporting married couples in their marriages, said marriage and family life director Ed Hopfner.

“Pretty much any profession in the world, you want to do ongoing training. Now, we take the most important vocation of all, which is marriage – and where is the ongoing formation?” asked Hopfner, shrugging. “It’s kind of goofy.”

“That is what our Protestant brothers and sisters do very well and what we need to start doing a lot more of in the Catholic Church,” he told a packed room of married couples gathered to hear the Alexanders at St. Brendan the Navigator parish hall March 27.

The Alexanders “are going around the country talking about marriage, trying to do the very thing the church needs to do,” said Hopfner of the Texas-based couple, “getting parishioners involved in the feeding and care of marriage.”

Julie and Greg Alexander Hopfner said he hopes to bring to parishes the Alexanders’ Covenant of Love, and its monthly “Date Night,” which has proved very popular elsewhere.

The archdiocese was without a marriage and family life director for 10 years before hiring Hopfner, who had served in a similar position for five years in the Diocese of Oakland. The creation of the marriage and family life position was one of the recommendations of a marriage task force formed in reaction to a precipitous drop in the number of Catholic sacra-

mental marriages. Marriages in the archdiocese dropped 47 percent from 1990 to 2010, with 1,985 marriages in 1990 falling to 1,060 marriages 20 years later.

The drop mirrors national trends.

The number of Catholic marriages has fallen from 415,487 in 1972 to 168,400 in 2010 — a decrease of nearly 60 percent — while the U.S. Catholic population has increased by almost 17 million, according to a report in Our Sunday Visitor. This is a shift from 8.6 marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 1972 to 2.6 marriages per 1,000 Catholics in 2010.

“You all know we are in trouble,” said Julie Alexander. “As Blessed John Paul II stated: Family is the foundation of the society. As the family goes so goes the nation. You know what is wrong with our nation? It is our marriages. They’re not very good.”

“There is a battle going on. It’s the battle between God and the devil. God loves you so much he wants you in heaven. Satan hates it,” said Alexander. “You have a chance in your marriage to be a reflection of God to the world. Where do you think Satan will attack? Your marriage.”

But, Alexander said, “God has a plan. He has a purpose for your marriage. God’s purpose for your marriage is to help each other get to heaven. “ “We’re going to change marriage and the culture of marriage back to the way it’s supposed to be,” Alexander said.

“THE LEGACY OF THE JESUITS IN SPIRITUALITY, ART, SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND HISTORY.” On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary, 1914 - 2014, of the first mass at the current Saint Ignatius Church in San Francisco and the 200th Anniversary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus after it had been suppressed in the eighteenth century, you are invited to a special 12 part lecture series offered by St. Ignatius Parish and the University of San Francisco. Free and all are welcome!

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April 23: The Jesuits and Paraguay Reductions, with Authur Liebscher S.J., Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Santa Clara.

April 30: The Jesuits in Japan (as in China, the Jesuits had influence in Japan, in art and spirituality), with Antoni Uceler S.J. associate Professor of East Asian Studies and director of research, The Center for the Pacific Rim. Free parking in these USF lots: X-Arts behind Fromm Hall and Gleeson Library lot, both on Golden Gate Ave; upper and lower Koret Center (Turk Blvd. & Parker.)

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Mikaela began a science club at her high school when she was a sophomore to expose students to other fields of science besides the normal biology, chemistry and physics classes, she said. “Ultimately I see myself becoming a surgeon, possibly a pediatric surgeon,� Mikaela said. “I think that medicine is one of the best ways to use my knowledge to help others in a dramatic way. After I become a doctor I hope to travel with Doctors without Borders to give back to communities that need so much.�

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Mikaela has been very happy at Convent of the Sacred Heart. “I love the supportive and encouraging environment that my school provides,� she said. “Here I have been able to flourish and expand my passion for science and math.�

A class dealing with DNA taught by Ray Cinti was a high-impact experience for Mikaela. “This class allowed me to get hands-on experience with experimentation,� Mikaela said, noting it gave her “the courage to continue experimenting with science.� Last summer, Mikaela was a research intern at Stanford University Medical School. “I was able to hone the critical thinking skills that I learned not only through Mr. Cinti’s class, but through my whole Convent experience.� “My faith has allowed me to take action with issues that I see in the world,� Mikaela said. “I work as a teaching assistant for a math enrichment program for underprivileged children.

This is one of the many ways that I try live my faith.�

Mikaela said her Convent education has prepared her to tackle any issue she feels is important. “One issue that I am passionate about is the achievement gap in education between different geographical areas or races,� she said.

Mikaela will one day be a doctor. “I think that this would be a great way to impact people’s lives in a positive way as well as my passion for science,� she said. “I want to continue my work with underserved kids throughout college and beyond, I think it important work that can sometimes be forgotten about.�

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Fundraiser marks decade of ‘Sacred Sleep’ at Gubbio Project CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An eclectic crowd that included Franciscan brothers and sisters, local business leaders, young Catholics, aging activists, hipsters and the homeless celebrated the 10-year anniversary of The Gubbio Project on March 27 at a fundraiser that included an on-stage conversation between Gubbio founders and longtime supporter actor Martin Sheen.

According to executive director Laura Slattery, approximately 250 supporters paid $100 each to attend the fundraiser held at the Kelly Cullen Community Center; another 40 volunteers and participants of the program were guests. “We have so much need in one of the richest cities in the world,� said Slattery. “We’re here tonight to transform our church as much as we are to help the homeless.�

The center is across the street from St. Boniface Church, which through The Gubbio Project, offers the refuge of its back pews to an average of 75 homeless men and women a day between the hours of 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. The outreach has been dubbed “Sacred Sleep� by the organization, which is funded entirely by donations.

Gubbio’s annual operating budget of $180,000 pays for salaries and benefits for four full-time staff members plus rent, utilities, insurance, cleaning and other costs. Toothbrushes, socks, blankets and other supplies offered to the homeless by volunteer hospitality monitors from a cabinet next to the confessionals comes from

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Gubbio Project co-founders Shelly Roder and Franciscan Father Louis Vitale were on stage with actor Martin Sheen during a March 27 fundraiser for the ministry that provides safe shelter in St. Boniface Church for the homeless. Jerry, who was in the audience for the event marking the project’s 10th year, said it is nice to be able to sleep in the pews sometimes because “it’s dangerous out there.� in-kind donations. So does the vast majority of food for the weekly hot breakfast program. “Let us pray, God, that we will see the homeless not just as clients, but as brothers and sisters who show us your face,� said Gubbio board chairwoman Karen Gruneisen, who kicked off the event with a prayer and a short movie narrated by some of the homeless who have rested in the pews of St. Boniface.

A soft-spoken man standing near the hors d’oeuvres could have been

one of them. “I sleep at the church sometimes,� a man who identified himself as Jerry told Catholic San Francisco as he looked out at the streets where he said he has lived for four months. “It’s nice to be in here.

It’s dangerous out there.�

Slattery was hired in 2010 to continue the vision of Gubbio’s founding father, Franciscan Father Louie Vitale, a former pastor of St. Boniface Church. Vitale formed Gubbio just before Easter a decade ago after despairing of the increasing num-

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Co-founder Shelly Roder, a young Catholic activist known in the neighborhood as the “Mother Teresa of the Tenderloin,â€? reunited with Vitale at the event and engaged Sheen in a conversation about his faith and its extension into his career as an actor, author and activist. “We were taught early that you serve best when you serve others,â€? said Sheen, when asked how he came to be a “radical Catholic activistâ€? for peace, social justice and human dignity for all. He grew up as RamĂłn Antonio Gerardo EstĂŠvez, in a Spanish-Irish Catholic home, but fell away from the church after leaving home.

He returned in 1981 after meeting Catholic activist Dorothy Day and being swept away with the ideals of the Catholic Worker Movement. He went on to play Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin in the 1996 movie “Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.� “I did not want to return to a church of piety,� said Sheen, who, like his old friend Vitale, has been arrested multiple times for acts of civil disobedience. “Along the Way,� the book Sheen wrote with son Emilio Estevez about their spiritual and physical journey along the Camino de Santiago, Spain, was auctioned off at the end of the evening, several copies going for more than $500. “Service is the real spirit of the church,� said Sheen, who sat next to Father Vitale signing books to benefit The Gubbio Project.

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Jesuit who was staff scientist at Vatican Observatory dies CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LOS GATOS – Jesuit Father William R. Stoeger, a staff scientist for the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, died March 24 in the Regis Infirmary at the Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos after a struggle with cancer.

He was 70 and had been a member of the Society of Jesus for 52 years.

A funeral Mass was to be celebrated March 28 at the Sacred Father Stoeger Heart Jesuit Center, followed by burial at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery in Santa Clara. A memorial service will be held in Tucson at a later date.

The Vatican Observatory – which has had its headquarters in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, since 1935 – established the Arizona research center in 1981.

Father Stoeger specialized in theoretical cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and interdisciplinary studies relating to science, philosophy and theology. He investigated the physics of black holes, mathematical issues of theories of gravity, and the origin of the universe, among other issues.

“The eight volumes of the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences series on ‘God’s Action in the World’ attest magnificently to this broad-based work,” according to a statement from the Vatican Observatory Foundation.

He was known for his knack of explaining the theoretical concepts he was dealing with in layman’s terms, often using hand-drawn diagrams and spidery writing on transparencies.

He was remembered by the foundation and his fellow Jesuits as “a real scholar who had a gift and passion for talking with people about matters of faith and science. He had a wry and gentle humor, was always self-effacing but not afraid to speak the hard truth.”

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Texas abortion ruling called ‘great victory’ for life CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Right to Life said the March 27 decision by a federal appeals court upholding Texas abortion restrictions has given the state another “historic pro-life victory.”

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld sections of a law passed last July that requires abortion clinic doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and that the RU-486 abortion drug be administered under direct supervision of a doctor according to Food and Drug Administration protocols.

The all-female panel, as Texas Right to Life pointed out in a statement, “rejected Planned Parenthood’s argument that (the law) imposes an ‘undue burden’ on abortionists, abortion facilities and women seeking abortion.”

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Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood which brought suit against the law, called it a “a terrible court ruling,” and was not the “last word.”

“The latest restrictions in Texas will force women to have abortions later in pregnancy, if they are able to get to a doctor at all,” Richards said.

Republican Gov. Rick Perry said the decision was “good news for Texas women and the unborn, and we will continue to fight for the protection of life and women’s health in Texas.”

Texas Right to Life pointed to other recent court action that favored pro-life supporters. In 2011, the 5th Circuit upheld a Texas sonogram law requiring a woman seeking an abortion to first have a sonogram; the court also upheld a policy that kept abortion providers and Planned Parenthood out of the taxpayer-funded Women’s Health Program.

In this latest court challenge, Planned Parenthood “may have overestimated” their arguments that the admitting privileges posed an undue burden on women seeking an abortion, the pro-life organization said.

According to Texas Right to Life, Planned Parenthood in testimony before the appeals court “conceded that at least 210 women in Texas annually must be hospitalized after seeking an abortion.”

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WASHINGTON – Oral arguments in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court March 25 focused on whether for-profit corporations have religious grounds to object to the new health care law’s requirement that most employers provide contraceptive coverage in their employee health plans.

Crowds on both sides of the issue gathered outside the Supreme Court on a cold, snowy morning, holding aloft signs and chanting for their cause.

Inside the court, the arguments lasted for 90 minutes, an extension of the usual 60 minutes, and the justices in their questions for the lawyers arguing the cases seemed divided on the issue. At the center was a close inspection of the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, known as RFRA, which allows for religious exceptions in certain circumstances.

The cases – Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius – made their way to the Supreme Court after federal appeals courts issued opposite rulings about the companies’ claims to a religious rights exemption to the contraceptive mandate of the health care law.

At issue is the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that most employers, including religious employers, provide employees coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs free of charge, even if the employer is morally opposed to such services.

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Blessing the beasts Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay, Wis., pets a goat that was brought to St. Mary Church in Crivitz for a blessing of animals following the annual Rural Life Day Mass March 27. The observance marks the beginning of the spring planting season and is an opportunity for the local community to give thanks to God for farming and to pray for a successful growing season.

NEW YORK – Following an 18-month investigation, the Pontifical Mission Societies announced March 25, in a joint statement with the Office of the New York State Attorney General, the recovery of about $1.4 million in funds stolen by a now-deceased official of the organization.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman praised the Pontifical Mission Societies for its full cooperation in the investigation, including for reporting financial irregularities as soon as the staff verified missing funds that had been diverted .

“Today’s agreement also ensures that these organizations will continue to enhance their controls to operate in a responsible fashion and prevent any future abuses,” he said.

“It’s crucial that victimized organizations come forward and, like the Pontifical Mission Societies, take necessary steps to guard against future misconduct.”

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Phone scam hits Seattle archdiocese CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A nationwide telephone scam targeting taxpayers that is being investigated by federal agencies has involved more than 1,000 current and former employees and volunteers of the Archdiocese of Seattle.

Greg Magnoni, archdiocesan communications director, told Catholic News Service March 28 that forensics experts hired by the archdiocese have joined investigators from the Internal Revenue Service and FBI in attempting to determine how personal information from the employees and volunteers was obtained.

The IRS said the victims are among thousands nationwide who have lost

more than $1 million in recent months in the scam.

According to the agency, individuals claiming to be IRS agents place unsolicited calls to people and tell them they owe taxes. They are told they must pay immediately by prepaid debit card or a wire transfer or they could face arrest or deportation or lose their business.

“The IRS and FBI are continuing their investigations. We’re cooperating with them to get to the bottom of this. It’s a multipronged investigation at this point to get to the source of the problem,” Magnoni said.

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Church audit: Allegations down, spending on training up in 2013 CHILD PROTECTION AUDIT HIGHLIGHTS

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WASHINGTON – The number of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy declined in 2013 while diocesan spending on child protection programs increased under the U.S. Catholic Church’s “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” according to a church-sponsored audit.

Dioceses and Eastern-rite eparchies reported 370 new allegations of abuse of a minor from 365 people against 290 priests or deacons, said the Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, which gathered data for the report.

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ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE by clergy declined, and 69 percent of the allegations reported last year occurred or began between 1960 and 1984. Threequarters of the alleged offenders are either deceased or removed from active ministry.

AUDITORS FOUND widespread compliannual audits of compliance with the charter by dioceses and eparchies under an arrangement with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

About 69 percent of the allegations reported last year occurred or began between 1960 and 1984. Three-quarters of the alleged offenders are already

ance in training on child protection programs but found outdated and insufficient materials and other gaps.

DIOCESES AND EPARCHIES that responded to the survey reported allegationrelated costs of $109 million, of which insurance paid 21 percent. deceased or removed from active ministry. Eight of the alleged perpetrators were deacons while 282 were priests, the report said.

Meanwhile, the increase in spending on child protection programs by dioceses, eparchies and religious orders jumped to $41.7 million in 2013 from nearly $26.6 million in 2012.

While the report gave no reason for the 57 percent increase, Deacon Bernard Nojadera, director of the USCCB’s Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection, in a statement cited that “the rechecks of background for a majority of diocesan personnel” was one reason contributing to the increase.

He said background checks also were extended to people working in broader roles within each diocese.

The audit reported that more than 99 percent of clergy members, 97.6 percent of employees and 99.5 percent of educators had undergone safe environment training. At the same time, the report said, more than 4.6 million children – nearly 95 percent of the total in church programs – had received training.

Background evaluations were conducted on more than 99 percent of clergy; 99.5 percent of educators; 98.6 percent of employees; and 98 percent of volunteers.

Despite the high percentage of involvement in training, auditors said they found “gaps in outdated and insufficient materials, unacceptable means of disseminating information to those who are to be trained, especially children, and inaccurate or no documentation on who received safe environment training.” Auditors also expressed concern with the accuracy of diocesan records of those who had been trained and undergone background checks.

“The Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection is concerned that after 10 years there are still questions or uncertainties, a lack of confidence on the local level regarding certain issues.

We have dealt with diocesan concerns around the issues of boundary violations, letters of suitability and how often diocesan/eparchial review boards should meet. The audit found diocesan policies that do not include the revised June 2011 additions to the charter,” the report said.

Dioceses and eparchies that responded to the survey for the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection reported costs related to allegations in 2013 at $108,954,109; religious orders reported costs at $14,411,168.

Editor’s note: The report can be found at www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/childand-youth-protection/upload/2013Annual-Report.pdf.

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Pope asks Curia to implement ‘Joy of Gospel’ in its work CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called together the heads of all Vatican offices to discuss how they could integrate into their work the teaching of his apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”).

The Vatican said the meeting, held April 1 inside the Apostolic Palace, lasted two and a half hours.

The subject of the meeting was “a reflection on ‘Evangelii Gaudium,’” said Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office.

He said the pope wanted the group to talk about how the papal document, which calls on Catholics to be living examples of joy, love and charity, “can influence the work of the Curia.”

Those attending the meeting discussed their “reflections on and reactions” to the pope’s apostolic exhortation and “the prospects that are open for its implementation,” the Vatican said in a brief statement issued at the end of the discussion.

Pope Francis held a similar meeting last September when he called together top Vatican officials to hear their questions and suggestions about his ongoing reform of the Vatican bureaucracy.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, had said the September meeting lasted nearly three hours and, except for a brief greeting by the pope, was devoted to remarks by the other participants.

In “The Joy of the Gospel,” released in November 2013, Pope Francis laid

out his hopes for a truly missionary church – driven by “a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation.”

The document was meant as a stimulus for Catholics, parishes, organizations and the church hierarchy itself to follow a path of deepening conversion and to recognize it “cannot leave things as they presently are. ‘Mere administration’ can no longer be enough,” the pope wrote, and “excessive centralization, rather than proving helpful, complicates the church’s life and her missionary outreach.”

In an effort to help the church and her ministers be more faithful to Jesus and his teachings, “I invite everyone to be bold and creative in this task of rethinking the goals, structures, style and methods of evangelization in their respective communities,” the pope wrote.

“A proposal of goals without an adequate communal search for the means of achieving them will inevitably prove illusory,” he wrote. “I encourage everyone to apply the guidelines found in this document generously and courageously, without inhibitions or fear. The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters, and especially under the leadership of the bishops, in a wise and realistic pastoral discernment.”

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12 WORLD VATICAN ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF GERMANY’S ‘BISHOP BLING’

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has accepted the resignation of a German bishop who was at the center of controversy over expenditures for his residence and a diocesan Bishop center.

Tebartz-van Elst Following a diocesan investigation, the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops studied the audit’s findings and accepted the resignation of Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg.

Auxiliary Bishop Manfred Grothe of Paderborn was appointed to serve as apostolic administrator of Limburg in the meantime, the Vatican announced March 26.

Bishop Tebartz-van Elst would be assigned, “at a suitable moment,” another unspecified assignment, the Vatican statement said.

In Berlin, Bishop Grothe told a news conference that the situation had “hurt many people.”

He said he would “carefully and prudently reappraise what happened” and ensure “the path to a new beginning.”

Bishop Tebartz-van Elst has been at the center of controversy over the remodeling and building project in Limburg, which was estimated to have cost about $40 million. Media dubbed him the “luxury bishop” and “Bishop Bling.”

In a separate controversy, the bishop agreed in November to pay a court-ordered fine of 20,000 euros rather than contest charges that he perjured himself before the Hamburg District Court. Hamburg prosecutors had charged him with lying to the court in a case involving the magazine Der Spiegel.

The bishop had sued over an article alleging that he had flown first class on a trip to India for charity work when he told a Der Spiegel reporter that he flew business class. Although the bishop denied that he said he flew business class, the reporter had a recording of his words.

POPE: GOOD YOUTH MINISTRY YIELDS VOCATIONS

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis encouraged the Salesians in their work with young people, saying that religious vocations are the fruit of good pastoral youth ministry.

“Sometimes vocations to consecrated life are confused with choosing to do volunteer work, and this distorted vision does no good” to congregations and religious orders, he told more than 250 religious taking part in the Salesians’ general chapter in Rome Feb. 22-April 12.

The full beauty of religious life needs to be shared with young people – not incomplete or biased points of view, which risk promoting “fragile” vocations that are based on “weak motivations,” he told them during a private audience at the Vatican March 31.

Religious vocations are “ordinarily fruit of good pastoral care of youth,” he said, and people discerning a religious vocation need prayer and special attention, personalized formation, guidance and support from young people’s families.

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Recognize your limits, open yourself to Christ’s light, pope says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Only those who recognize their own limits can accept the great gift of salvation in Jesus Christ, which is why Catholics with disabilities are such important and powerful witnesses of faith, Pope Francis said.

Meeting March 29 with close to 7,000 members, staff and volunteers of the Apostolic Movement for the Blind and the Little Mission for the Deaf, Pope Francis insisted it is “truly blasphemous” to believe that a physical limitation or disability is a punishment from God. “Jesus radically refused that way of thinking,” he said.

“The person who is sick or has a disability, precisely because of his or her fragility and limits, can become a witness of the encounter: the encounter with Christ who opens one to life and to faith; and the encounter with others, with the community,” Pope Francis said.

“Only one who recognizes his own fragility, his own limits, can construct relationships that are fraternal and marked by solidarity in the church and in society,” he said.

The key to being a trustworthy, effective witness to Jesus, he said, is first having had the experience of meeting Jesus.

“A witness to the Gospel is one who has encountered Jesus Christ, who knows him or, better, feels known by

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Pope Francis greets a man during an audience with people who are deaf or blind in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 29. Catholics with disabilities are powerful witnesses of faith, the pope said. him, recognized, respected, loved and forgiven. This encounter has touched him deeply, has filled him with new joy and given his life new meaning,” the pope said.

Discussing the story from the Gospel of St. John about the man born blind – the same Gospel story read at Masses around the world March 30 – Pope Francis said the man becomes a believer and witness to Jesus and to “the life, love and mercy” of God. Father Delci da Conceicao Filho, a

member of the Little Mission for the Deaf, told Pope Francis that too many parishes have, in effect, closed their doors to Catholics who are deaf because they make no provision for sign language or other forms of assistance.

Too often, he said, those who are deaf are “without catechesis, without the sacraments and with faith. They are unable to have a personal encounter with Christ because there is no one to sign for them or no one willing to make subtitles for them.”

Pope and Obama discuss religious freedom, life, immigration CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – In their first encounter, Pope Francis received U.S. President Barack Obama at the Vatican March 27 for a discussion that touched on several areas of tension between the Catholic Church and the White House, including religious freedom and medical ethics.

During an unusually long 50-minute meeting, the two leaders discussed “questions of particular relevance for the church in (the U.S.), such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection as well as the issue of immigration reform,” the Vatican said in a statement.

The mentions of religious freedom and conscientious objection presumably referred to the contraception mandate in the new health care law, which has become a major source of conflict between the administration and the church.

According to the Vatican statement, Pope Francis and Obama also had an “exchange of views on some current international themes, and it was hoped that in areas of conflict, there would be respect for humanitarian and international law and a negotiated solution between the parties involved.”

The Vatican did highlight two points of harmony with Obama in the discussions: immigration reform, on which the administration’s position is

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican March 27. closer to that of U.S. bishops than that of the Republican opposition; and a “common commitment to the eradication of trafficking in human persons in the world.”

Later in the day, at a joint news conference with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Obama said he had spent the “largest bulk of the time” with the pope discussing “issues of the poor, the marginalized, those without opportunity and growing inequality” and the “challenges of conflict and how elusive peace is around the world,” particularly in the Middle East.

Obama said Pope Francis “did not touch in detail” on the contraception

mandate, but that in the president’s subsequent meeting with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, “we discussed briefly the issue of making sure that conscience and religious freedom was (sic) observed in the context of applying the law.”

“I pledged to continue to dialogue with the U.S. conference of bishops to make sure we can strike the right balance” on the issue, Obama said.

At the end of their talk, Pope Francis gave Obama a bound edition of his apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”), published last November. The gift prompted the president to respond: “You know, I actually will probably read this in the Oval Office when I am deeply frustrated, and I am sure it will give me strength and will calm me.”

“I hope,” the pope replied with a laugh.

In a December speech, Obama quoted a passage from the exhortation in which the pope lamented: “How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?”

Pope Francis also presented Obama with a pair of bronze medallions, one commemorating the 17th-century construction of the colonnades around St. Peter’s Square; another portraying an angel that brings together the world’s North and South in “solidarity and peace founded on justice.”

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Prayer, charity surround John XXIII, John Paul II being declared saints CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The rite of canonization for Blesseds John XXIII and John Paul II April 27 will use the standard formula for the creation of new saints, but the Mass will be preceded by the recitation of the Divine Mercy chaplet, and it is possible retired Pope Benedict XVI will attend, the Vatican spokesman said.

“He is invited,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman.

“But there is still a month to go. We’ll have to see if he wants to be present and feels up to it.”

Discussing preparations for the canonizations with reporters March 31, Father Lombardi also said the popes’ tombs in St. Peter’s Basilica would not be disturbed, other than to change the inscriptions from “blessed” to “saint.”

Pilgrims can visit the tombs after the April 27 Mass.

Relics from the two popes will be presented during the liturgy, the spokesman said. The relic of Blessed John Paul – a vial of his blood encased in a reliquary featuring a silver sculpture of olive branches – will be the same that was used for his beatification in 2011.

A matching reliquary has been made for a relic of Blessed John, said Msgr. Guilo Dellavite, an official of the Diocese of Bergamo, where the pope was born. When Blessed John was beatified in 2000, no relic was presented, the monsignor said, because no blood or body parts had been preserved for that purpose. However, when Blessed John’s tomb was opened in 2001 and the remains treated before being reinterred in St. Peter’s Basilica, some bone fragments were removed.

Floribeth Mora Diaz, a Costa Rican whose recovering from a brain aneurysm was the miracle accepted for the canonization of Blessed John Paul, and French Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, whose cure from Parkinson’s disease

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Left, Archbishop Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the future Pope John XXIII, is pictured in 1926, the year after he was ordained to the episcopacy. Right, the future Pope John Paul II is pictured during his time as archbishop of Krakow. Karol Wojtyla was installed as Krakow’s archbishop in early 1964, was named a cardinal in 1967 by Pope Paul VI and was elected pope Oct. 16, 1978. Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II will be canonized April 27 at the Vatican. was accepted as the miracle that paved the way for his beatification, are both expected to attend the Mass April 27, Father Lombardi said. Pope Francis waived the requirement for a miracle for the canonization of Blessed John.

The canonization Mass is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. the Sunday after Easter, which the church celebrates as Divine Mercy Sunday. Pilgrims are expected to begin filling St. Peter’s Square early in the morning, Father Lombardi said, and will have an opportunity to participate in the recitation of the Divine Mercy chaplet, a series of prayers focusing on the gifts of God’s mercy, especially shown through the passion of Christ.

The Vatican, he said, is not issuing tickets for the Mass, although large sections of St. Peter’s Square will be reserved for official government delegations, for bishops and priests, and for members of the Vatican diplomatic corps. Other than that, space in the

square will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. Because the Vatican is not handling ticket requests, it cannot predict how many people will attend the ceremony, he said.

“We hope many people will come and we are making preparations to welcome them,” Father Lombardi said.

“We invite people to come to Rome with trust and serenity without excessive fear.”

“If people filled St. Peter’s Square and (the main boulevard) back to the Tiber River, we calculate there would be between 200,000 and 250,000 people,” he said. Forecasts, including by city of Rome officials, that mention millions of pilgrims trying to attend the event appear exaggerated, Father Lombardi said.

“Come to Rome. Don’t be afraid,” he said.

Cardinal Agostino Vallini, papal vicar for Rome, told reporters that the diocese was focusing on a spiritual

preparation for the canonization of “two pontiffs, two bishops of Rome, who lived and experienced their faith, becoming messengers of the Gospel, but also of great humanity.”

The cardinal will lead an evening for young people April 22 along with the postulators – official promoters – of the sainthood causes of the two popes.

The night before the canonization, 11 churches near the Vatican will be open all night for prayer, meditation and confessions. The program will be offered in English and Italian at the Basilica of St. Mark the Evangelist at the Campidoglio and in Italian and Spanish at the Jesuit Church of the Gesu.

The diocese also has launched a special website – www.2papisanti.org – and several social media initiatives with the help of communications students at a Rome university. The Facebook fan page is “2popesaints,” the Twitter account is “@2popesaints,” the Instagram account is “#2popesaints” and the YouTube channel search term is also “2popesaints.”

The Diocese of Bergamo, where Pope John was born and ordained a priest, has put much of the focus of its celebration on acts of charity, Msgr.

Dellavite said. The diocese is contributing the equivalent of $1.1 million for the construction and three years of operating costs of a St. John XXIII School in Haiti; it is building a church and pastoral center in Shengjin, Albania, at a cost of about $830,000; and it is remodeling a former military barracks in Bergamo to serve as a shelter and assistance center for the poor.

In addition, he said, the 900 priests of the diocese are being asked to donate one month’s salary and take up a collection in their parishes to strengthen the diocese’s “family and home” fund, which helps families in difficulty with rent, mortgage payments and utilities. The diocese also is selling some of its property to increase the fund’s principal.

Bless me, Father: Pope leads by example, goes to confession CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Leading a penitential liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis surprised his liturgical adviser by going to confession during the service.

After an examination of conscience March 28, the pope and 61 priests moved into confessionals or to chairs set up against the walls to offer the sacrament to individual penitents.

However, as Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, was showing which confessional the pope would be using to hear confessions, the pope pointed to another confessional nearby, indicating that he himself was going to first confess.

The pope, dressed in a simple white alb and purple stole, spent about three minutes kneeling before the priest’s open confessional and received absolution. The priest also clasped the pope’s hands and kissed his simple silver ring.

Pope Francis then went to another confessional and spent about 40 minutes hearing confessions.

In his homily, the pope said following God’s call to conversion is not supposed to happen only during Lent, but is a lifetime commitment. He also

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Pope Francis hears confession from a man during a penitential liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 28. spoke about two key characteristics of Christian life: putting on a “new self, created in God’s way” and living in and sharing God’s love.

Renewal in Christ comes with baptism, which frees people from sin

and welcomes them as children of God and members of Christ and his church, he said.

“This new life lets us see the world with different eyes without being distracted anymore by the things that don’t matter and that can’t last for long,” he said.

Shedding sinful behaviors and focusing on the essential become a daily commitment so that a life “deformed by sin” can become a life “illuminated by grace” from God. When hearts are renewed and “created in God’s way,” good behavior follows, he said, for example: “always speaking the truth and steering clear of all lies; no stealing, but rather, sharing what one has with others, especially with those in need; not giving in to anger, rancor and revenge, but being meek, magnanimous and ready to forgive; not taking part in malicious gossip that ruins the good name of people, but looking mainly for the good side in everyone.”

The second aspect of Christian life is living in God’s eternal love, the pope said. God never tires of looking out for his children, both those who have lost their way and those who have remained faithful by his side.

Jesus, in fact, calls on everyone to imitate this same merciful love and

become “credible disciples of Christ in the world,” he said.

God’s love cannot be held inside, “it’s open by its very nature, it spreads and is fruitful, it always generates new love,” he said.

In that missionary spirit, the penitential liturgy opened an initiative called “24 Hours for the Lord,” sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization.

The council asked dioceses around the world to have at least one parish open all day and night March 28, so that anyone could go to confession and take part in eucharistic adoration. It’s part of the pope’s focus on celebrating God’s mercy and power of forgiveness.

Young people belonging to different parishes and different movements in Rome were to be out on the streets during the night, inviting their peers to go into the churches to pray, to confess or just to talk to a priest.

“Tell them that our father is waiting for us, our father forgives us, and even more, he celebrates,” the pope said.

Even with all of one’s sins and mistakes, God, “instead of scolding us, he celebrates,” the pope said. “And you have to tell this, tell this to lots of people today” so they can experience God’s mercy and love.

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Opening our arms to all of God’s children This editorial from the March 16 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly based in Huntington, Ind., was written by the editorial board and redistributed by Catholic News Service as a sample of current commentary from around the Catholic press. The views or positions presented in this or any guest editorial are those of the individual publication and do not necessarily represent the views of Catholic News Service, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops or Catholic San Francisco.

According to the latest information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, one in six children born in the United States is diagnosed with some kind of developmental disability. By definition, this could include anything from ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) to autism spectrum disorder to hearing and vision loss.

A CDC study released in 2012, which examined information gleaned between 1997 and 2008, noted a 17 percent increase during that time in children with developmental disabilities. The result is that 10 million U.S. children (15 percent) currently are struggling with some type of developmental delay – or worse. With this increase, Catholic dioceses and parishes – and even publishers – increasingly have been looking for catechetical expertise, tools and resources to better serve this specialized population.

The U.S. bishops laid the groundwork for this work back in 1978, when they published a statement on people with disabilities. A few years later, the National Catholic Partnership on Disability was formed to help parishes and dioceses implement the statement.

The U.S. bishops provided another resource in 1995, with their “Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities.” Nearly 36 years after the first document was published, parishes continue to work at

LETTERS Handicapables: Letting their light shine Many thanks to Christina Gray and Catholic San Francisco for the lovely story (“Out of the shadows and into the light,” March 28) on our Handicapables gathering at Marin Catholic High School March 22. Marin Catholic has been closely associated with Handicapables of Marin for over 30 years under the auspices of our Christian Service program.

Nadine Calliguri For three years now we have served as its permanent home. Marin Catholic students have hosted, served lunch, and entertained guests through those years. Last Saturday, for example, several MC student volunteers helped serve lunch, and all the delicious desserts were made and donated by MC’s Chef Wildcat group.

Inspired by the determination and generosity of spirit of our founder, Nadine Calliguri, I am proud to have been associated with Handicapables throughout my career as a teacher at Marin Catholic, as are many of my colleagues and hosts of MC students who are helping, as Nadine and our school motto for the year declare, to let their light shine.

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This photo by AP photographer Gregorio Borgia of Pope Francis embracing 8-year-old Dominic Gondreau, who has cerebral palsy, captured the attention of people around the world. The moment took place after the new pontiff celebrated his first Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 31, 2013. implementing faith formation classes – including sacramental preparation – for special-needs children.

Unfortunately, this hasn’t always been successful, and parents sometimes feel as if the church is just one more place where they must advocate for their children. Some dioceses offer support at

the chancery level. Others leave the parishes to develop their own programs. Some parishes offer no support at all. While reasons for this gap in services vary, they no doubt include the difficulty of training and even recruiting catechists, as well as the sheer magnitude of the ministry. Catechists knowledgeable in the field of special needs are even more difficult to recruit than catechists for abled children, and even well-established programs such as Special Religious Development and the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Program cannot meet all needs in the wide-ranging category of “disability.”

Perhaps the biggest lingering concern for parents of special-needs children, however, has nothing to do with sacramental preparation, but rather simply with feeling welcomed in a parish environment. For many parents, attending Mass with their special-needs children can be one of the most difficult hours of the week. With shorter attention spans and often high anxiety, many children with autism or other developmental disorders have difficulty remaining quiet during the liturgy and as a result often are the recipients of frustrated looks or stares from fellow parishioners.

At these times, the challenge for all is to remember the words of Jesus: “Let the children come to me and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”

We are given no better example than that of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, who has made a point during his pontificate to embrace, literally, those with disabilities. Nothing could illustrate this love better than an image on a prayer card published by Our Sunday Visitor of Pope Francis embracing Dominic Gondreau, 8, who has cerebral palsy. While the photo was snapped last spring, it endures as a timeless reminder of Jesus’ words and of the responsibility of us all to open our arms to all of God’s children.

The big reveal: Looking back at God’s plan

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lue or pink? That was the secret contained in the cake.

My younger brother and his wife are always looking for an excuse to throw a themedparty – a World Series game for the Cardinals, an end-of-the-world prediction, the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. They couldn’t resist the opportunity to kick-start the celebration of their firstborn by hosting a gender-reveal party, so we gathered on a chilly Sunday afternoon to learn CHRISTINA about the baby due in July.

CAPPECCHI A gender-reveal party takes the news captured at an ultrasound and announces it in a more dramatic fashion: pulling a sheet out of an envelope, Oscars style; slicing into a blue- or pink-colored cake; opening a box of balloons. The concept took off in 2011, according to BabyCenter.com, which reported an explosion of discussion threads. It is the antithesis of a baby shower, heavy on obligation and estrogen. A gender-reveal party centers on the surprise, delivering a sweet payoff for a breathless audience – the promise of big news and bakery-made cake.

Its popularity has surged with Pinterest, where pregnant women dream up a million ways to decorate with light pink and powder blue. My brother hung a cascade of pink and blue balloons in the entrance of his home and used his pitcher’s arm to fling crepe paper onto the ceiling fan in his two-story great room.

When Tony and Jodie lifted a slice of blue cake, I felt a flicker of that hospital thrill right there in the dining room. My voice broke when I congratulated him. “You’re going to have a son!”

Later that day, after I’d downloaded my pictures, I found myself thinking about the idea of a big reveal. So few major events can be known

in advance through an announcement or alert.

It’s in the looking back, not looking ahead, that we can trace the hand of God. We are guided along in extraordinary ways, through ordinary means. For Sister Mary Madonna Ashton, a 90-year-old Sister of St. Joseph, it was the neighbor girl who happened to attend a Catholic high school and persuaded her to enroll, which led to her conversion to Catholicism and pursuit of religious life. For my husband, the impromptu decision to stop at my college one afternoon – which turned out to be registration day – led our paths to cross.

Disappointments also take on new meaning in retrospect. My friend Natalie’s labor did not go according to her labor plan – which, she later told me, was apt preparation for parenthood.

Learning to deal with the space between fantasy and reality is how we grow up. For one mother of five, praying a daily rosary takes the edge off pinched holiday expectations, helping her keep calm and carry on when her visions of a Victorian Christmas go unfulfilled.

When I review my 20s, I can see how an unwelcome no paved the way to a blessed yes.

Doors we never would’ve closed on our own lead to opened windows, once we pick ourselves up and look around. Sorrow softens us, kneading our hearts into doughier, more compassionate organs.

This long winter has reminded me that I can’t mastermind my future with a spreadsheet and a stopwatch. Life doesn’t unfold in even numbers and rhyming couplets. I’m learning what it means to be open to life, the church’s charge to married couples, on a broad level. It can be scary to trust God, to dive headfirst when you can’t see the net beneath you. But I want to operate on grace, not strategy. I’m entering into Easter, the ultimate surprise.

God’s plan for my life is different from mine – and, I have no doubt, better.

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and editor of SisterStory.org, the official website of National Catholic Sisters Week.

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‘Cosmos’ and one more telling of the tired myth

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eth MacFarlane, well-known atheist and cartoonist, is the executive producer of the remake of “Cosmos,” which recently made its national debut. The first episode featured, along with the science, an animated feature dealing with the 16th-century Dominican friar Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake by church officials. A brooding statue of Bruno stands today in the Campo de Fiori in Rome on the very spot where the unfortunate friar was put to death. In MacFarlane’s FATHER ROBERT cartoon, Bruno is portrayed as a hero of modern sciBARRON ence, and church officials are, without exception, depicted as wild-eyed fanatics and unthinking dogmatists. As I watched this piece, all I could think was … here we go again.

Avatars of the modern ideology feel obligated to tell their great foundation myth over and over, and central to that narrative is that both the physical sciences and liberal political arrangements emerged only after a long twilight struggle against the reactionary forces of religion, especially the Catholic religion. Like the effigies brought out to be burned on Guy Fawkes Day, the bugbear of intolerant and violent Catholicism has to be exposed to ridicule on a regular basis.

I will leave to the side for the moment the issue of liberal politics’ relation to religion, but I feel obliged, once more, to expose the dangerous silliness of the view that Catholicism and the modern sciences are implacable foes. I would first observe that it is by no means accidental that the physical sciences in their modern form emerged when and where they did, that is to say, in the Europe of the 16th century. The great founders of modern science – Copernicus, Galileo, Tycho Brache, Descartes, Pascal, etc. – were formed in church-sponsored universities where they learned their mathematics, astronomy and phys-

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Can we, once and for all, dispense with the nonsense that Catholicism is the enemy of the sciences? When we do, we’ll expose the Seth MacFarlane telling of the story for what it really is: not scientific history but the basest sort of anti-Catholic propaganda. ics. Moreover, in those same universities, all of the founders would have imbibed the two fundamentally theological assumptions that made the modern sciences possible, namely, that the world is not divine – and hence can be experimented upon rather than worshipped – and that the world is imbued with intelligibility – and hence can be understood. I say that these are theological presumptions, for they are both corollaries of the doctrine of creation. If God made the world in its entirety, then nothing in the world is divine; and if God made the world in its entirety, then every detail of the world is marked by the mind of the Creator. Without these two assumptions, the sciences as we know them will not, because they cannot, emerge.

In fact, from the intelligibility of the universe, the young Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) constructed an elegant argument for the existence of God. The objective intelligibility of the finite world, he maintained, is explicable only through recourse to a subjective intelligence that thought it into being. This correspondence, in fact, is reflected in our intriguing usage of the word “recognition” (literally, to think again) to designate an act of knowledge. In employing that term, we are at least implicitly acknowledging that, in coming to know, we are rethinking what has already been thought by the creative intelligence responsible for the world’s intelligibility. If Ratzinger is right, religion, far from being science’s enemy, is in fact its presupposition.

Secularist ideologues will relentlessly marshal

stories of Hypatia, Galileo, Giordano Bruno and others – all castigated or persecuted by church people who did not adequately grasp the principles I have been laying out. But to focus on these few exceptional cases is grossly to misrepresent the history of the relationship between Catholicism and the sciences.

May I mention just a handful of the literally thousands of Catholic clerics who have made significant contributions to the sciences? Do you know about Father Jean Picard, a priest of the 17th century, who was the first person to determine the size of the earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy? Do you know about Father Giovanni Battista Riccioli, a 17th-century Jesuit astronomer and the first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free-falling body? Do you know about Father George Searle, a Paulist priest of the early 20th century who discovered six galaxies? Do you know about Father Benedetto Castelli, a Benedictine monk and scientist of the 16th century, who was a very good friend and supporter of Galileo?

Do you know about Father Francesco Grimaldi, a Jesuit priest who discovered the diffraction of light? Do you know about Father George Coyne, a contemporary Jesuit priest and astrophysicist, who for many years ran the Vatican Observatory outside of Tucson? Perhaps you know about Father Gregor Mendel, the Augustinian monk who virtually invented modern genetics, and about Father Teilhard de Chardin, a 20th-century Jesuit priest who wrote extensively on paleontology, and about Father Georges Lemaitre, the formulator of the big bang theory of cosmic origins.

Can we please, once and for all, dispense with the nonsense that Catholicism is the enemy of the sciences? When we do, we’ll expose the Seth MacFarlane telling of the story for what it really is: not scientific history but the basest sort of anti-Catholic propaganda.

FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

Our need to share our riches with the poor

e need to give away some of our own possessions in order to be healthy. Wealth that is hoarded always corrupts those who possess it. Any gift that is not shared turns sour.

If we are not generous with our gifts we will be bitterly envied and will eventually turn bitter and envious ourselves.

These are all axioms with the same warning, we can only be healthy if we are giving away some of our riches to others. Among other things, this should remind us that we need to FATHER RON give to the poor, not simROLHEISER ply because they need it, though they do, but because unless we give to the poor we cannot be healthy ourselves. When we give to the poor both charity and justice are served, but some healthy self-interest is served as well, namely, we cannot be healthy or happy unless we share our riches, of every kind, with the poor.

That truth is written inside human experience and inside every authentic ethical and faith tradition.

For example: We know from experience that when we give of ourselves to others we experience a certain joy in our lives, just as when we selfishly hoard or protect what is ours we grow anxious and paranoid. Native American cultures have forever enshrined this in their concept of Potlatch, namely, their belief that, while everyone has a right to private property, there are real limits to how much someone may own. Once our wealth reaches a certain point we need to begin to give some of it away – not because others need it but because our own health and happiness will

Catholic social doctrine tells us that we can be moral and healthy only when we view private ownership in a larger picture that includes the poor. begin to deteriorate if we hoard all of those possessions for ourselves.

Jewish spirituality shares the same idea: Again and again in the Jewish scriptures, we see that when a religious leader or prophet tells the Jewish community that they are the chosen people, a nation specially blessed, that affirmation comes with the admonition that this blessing is not for them alone, but that, through them, all the nations of the earth might be blessed. In Jewish spirituality, blessing is always intended to flow through the person receiving it so as to enrich others. Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic spiritualities, each in their own way, also affirms this, namely that it is only in giving away some of our gifts that we ourselves can remain healthy.

Jesus and the Gospels, of course, teach this repeatedly and without compromise: For instance, the Gospel of Luke, a Gospel within which Jesus warns us that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of Heaven, nevertheless praises the rich who are generous, condemning only the rich who are stingy. For Luke, generosity is the key to health and heaven. In the Gospel of Matthew, when Jesus reveals what will be great test for the final judgment, his single set of criteria have entirely to do with how we gave to the poor: Did you feed the hungry? Give drink to the thirsty? Clothe the naked? Finally, even more strongly, in the story of the widow who gives her

last two pennies away, Jesus challenges us to not only give of our surplus to the poor, but to also give away some of what we need to live on. The Gospels, and the rest of the Christian scriptures, strongly challenge us to give to the poor – not because they need our charity, though they do, but because our giving to them is the only way we can stay healthy.

We see the same message, consistent and repeated, in the social doctrine of the Catholic Church.

From Pope Leo XIII’s “Rerum Novarum” in 1891 to Pope Francis’ recent “Evangelii Gaudium,” we hear the same refrain: While we have a moral right to own private property, that right is not absolute and is mitigated by a number of things, namely, we only have a right to surplus when everyone else has the necessities for life. Hence, we must always be looking toward the poor in terms of dealing with our surplus. Moreover, Catholic social doctrine tells us that the earth was given

by God for everyone and that truth limits how we define what is really ours as a possession. Properly speaking, we are stewards of our possessions rather than owners of them. Implicit in all of this, of course, is the implication that we can be moral and healthy only when we view private ownership in a larger picture that includes the poor.

We need, always, to be giving some of our possessions away in order to be healthy. The poor do need us, but we also need them. They are, as Jesus puts it so clearly when he tells us we will be judged by how we gave to the poor, our passports to heaven. And they are also our passports to health. Our health depends upon sharing our riches.

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

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifth Sunday of Lent It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’

JOHN 11:3-7, 20-27, 33B-45 EZECHIEL 37:12-14 Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people!

I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land; thus you shall know that I am the Lord. I have promised, and I will do it, says the Lord.

PSALM 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication.

With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered.

With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word.

More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord.

With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

For with the Lord is kindness and with him is plenteous redemption; And he will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

ROMANS 8:8-11 Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit dwelling in you.

JOHN 11:3-7, 20-27, 33B-45 The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was.

Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home.

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give

you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.”

Martha said, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept.

So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?” So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”

Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

And when he had said this, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.” Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.

What the tears of Jesus say to us

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s people of faith, and as Christians, we face a twofold problem when considering human suffering. Not only must we cope with the experience of suffering, but also we must seek to reconcile the fact of suffering with our Christian faith. Through the life and teachings of Jesus, we have come to believe in a God who is both all-powerful and all-good. We have learned to call God “Father,” and we are told that he can be trusted because he loves us, unconditionally and eternally.

Of course, if we were atheists, we would not have this problem. We could leave God completely out of the picture and regard everything in life, whether good DEACON or bad, as nothing more than FAIVA PO’OI a cosmic accident. The plain truth is that our Christian faith does not have a complete explanation for the problem we face in comprehending suffering. It does, however, propose a few possible answers.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS DON’T BE ‘TOURISTS’ ON FAITH’S JOURNEY

Stay focused on Jesus on your faith journey and do not wander aimlessly like a tourist, Pope Francis said during his homily at Mass March 311 in the Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican. Before God asks anything of us, the Pope said, he always promises us a new life of joy, so the essence of our Christian life is always to journey in hope and trust toward those promises, Vatican Radio reported.

In today’s Gospel reading, we hear a story about human suffering. A body was broken by disease.

A home was broken by death, and hearts were broken by sorrow. Jesus was there, and his involvement offers some insight into the mystery of God and human suffering.

The Gospel tells us that when Jesus observed the grief of Mary and Martha and their friends, “He was troubled in spirit, moved by the deepest emotions.” Then it adds this simple but significant statement: “Jesus began to weep.” That, to me, is one of the most meaningful sentences in the entire New Testament. It tells us something about God that we desperately need to know. So often it seems that our lives are at the mercy of a cold, impersonal, uncaring fate. But the tears of Jesus speak to us of a warm, personal and caring God who is intimately involved in the lives of his children.

A co-worker once told me about a night when she, her husband, and their only child, a little girl, all became sick. When the child’s fever shot up to a dangerously high level, they called the doctor. He prescribed the usual remedies. They tried them all, but nothing worked. Finally, the doctor told them to fill the bathtub with ice water and put their tiny daughter into the tub. The parents followed the instructions, but it nearly broke their hearts to

do it. The shock of near-freezing water on the hot little body was quite painful, and the child cried pathetically. The father could hardly stand to do that to his little girl, so he pulled off his clothes, got in the water with her, and held her in his arms until the fever subsided. Our Christian faith does not provide us with a full explanation of human suffering, but it does tell us that God suffers with us. “Jesus began to weep.” He shared the sorrow of his friends.

The last thing we need to know is that God not only permits suffering and shares in our suffering, but he also is able to bring good out of suffering.

In the Letter to the Hebrews, Paul says of Jesus: “For the sake of the joy which lay before him, he endured the cross.” That cross is the supreme example of human suffering, and it is also the most redeeming power in the history of the human race.

Jesus endured it for the sake of the joy he could see on the other side.

Even though our Christian faith does not give us a complete explanation for the existence of suffering in our lives, it does provide us with the strength and power to endure and to overcome it. This is why in the very dying is the rising to eternal life.

DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, APRIL 7: Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent. Optional Memorial of St. John the Baptist de la Salle. DN 13:1-19, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or DN 13:41c62. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. JN 8:1-11.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent. GN 17:3-9. PS 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9. JN 8:5159.

TUESDAY, APRIL 8: Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. NM 21:4-9. PS 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21. JN 8:2130.

FRIDAY, APRIL 11: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent.

Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr. JER 20:10-13. PS 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7. JN 10:31-42.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent. DN 3:14-20, 91-92, 95. DN 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. JN 8:31-42.

SATURDAY, APRIL 12: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent. EZ 37:21-28. JER 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13. JN 11:45-56.

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MARIN: Parishes focus on Eucharist FROM PAGE 1

Though a deanery-wide plan to fortify the Eucharist at the parish level will be the end result of discussions, Father O’Sullivan, the elected dean of one of Marin County’s two deaneries or parish administrative groups, got a head start last month with the start of Lent.

During each Sunday of Lent, he is spending a few minutes before each homily to explain the significance of key steps in the Father order of the Mass that parishioO’Sullivan ners see at Mass each week, such as the priest’s reverencing of the altar at the start of Mass and the meaning behind the offertory prayer.

Others around the deanery meeting table, which represented more than eight parishes, said they see that even parishioners who were raised in the Catholic Church or attended Catholic schools are not always well catechized.

“Most of our parishioners don’t really understand the sacraments,” said Mike Morison, pastoral associate of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley. “They don’t understand divine relationships and have no understanding of the Trinity. If they don’t understand what a sacrament is, how are we going to attract them to partake in it?”

He said deanery members need to speak from the same context, however, when discussing the Eucharist. He suggested the Vatican II document “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.”

“We are trying to respond to a moment in time in our church,” Morison said. “Before we talk about challenges, we need to be rooted in who we are, what we are about and our relationship to the world.”

Pastoral associate Vicky Otto of St. Raphael Church in San Rafael said the church is “tarnished” and that pastoral leaders need to take more responsibility for waning interest in its sacraments.

“We sit on our laurels too often,” she said.

“How can we expect people to come to the Eucharist if they are not in a relationship with the church and with Christ?”

An authentic sense of welcome is the best foundation for evangelization, according to deanery members who described the church as remote from its parishioners.

“Before we start talking about the faith, we have to welcome people first,” said Ann Roggenbuck, parish coordinator at St. Anselm Parish.

“Once they have the experience of being a part of a parish family, we can more effectively start to catechize them.”

ECUMENICAL: East-West prayer service FROM PAGE 1

VI and Patriarch Athenagoras healed the Great Schism of 1054, establishing a special relationship between the two churches whose split over the primacy of the pope created the first division in Christendom 900 years earlier.

The Catholic Church recognizes the validity of all Orthodox sacraments, the Catholic News Service stylebook notes.

“Rejoice, O Cross Guardian of the World,” is an “Ecumenical Father Howell Service of Salutations to the Holy Cross” at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross at 900 Alameda, Belmont. A reception and discussion will follow immediately.

The Belmont prayer service is an outgrowth of a long-standing neighborhood friendship between the pastors and parishioners of Catholic Immaculate Heart of Mary and Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross, said IHM pastor Father Stephen H. Howell and Holy Cross pastor Father Peter Salmas.

Church of the Holy Cross was given a relic of the true cross by Mount Athos, a monastic community in Greece in 2006, said Father Salmas, and for eight years has invited Immaculate Heart of Mary to join it in Lenten prayer. “The service is the Salutation to the Holy Cross which is the service that helps us remember the place of the cross in the history of the church and the salvation of mankind,” Father Salmas said.

“Father Peter and I have been friends for years,” said Father Howell, with IHM advertising the

annual Labor Day Greek festival and parishioners attending the festival. The Orthodox church shared its facilities with Junipero Serra High School when Father Howell was president of Serra, he said, and Orthodox children attend IHM elementary school.

“It is an opportunity to pray together so our people would have the opportunity to experience the Eastern Christian tradition and also have an opportunity to venerate the true cross,” Father Howell said of the annual prayer service.

The Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches split in 1054, when the patriarch of Constantinople and the papal delegation from Rome excommunicated each other in a dispute over the primacy of the pope. The schism gradually hardened because of political divisions, atrocities on both sides and Orthodox objections to the “filioque” addition to the Nicene Creed which changed the original creed from saying the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father” to the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son,” Catholic News Service stylebook states.

After meeting in 1964, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras in 1965 annulled the mutual excommunications. In 1979, Blessed John Paul II and Patriarch Dimitrios created the International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches.

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CONVERSION: Immigrant, tech entrepreneur finds Catholic faith FROM PAGE 1

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Abushady was considering getting a doctorate in neuroscience but now is investigating a rhetoric degree in conjunction with the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and UC Berkeley, she said.

Abushady and her mother were on one of the last planes out of Vietnam in the 1970s. In the United States, the two were alone, largely unconnected to the Vietnamese community here. Her mother never learned English well, so from an early age, Abushady handled all the business and other transactions.

When Abushady was in college, her mother converted from a non-practicing Buddhist to Catholicism. Because of her mother’s conversion to

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Born in San Francisco, Sister Marion Loretta completed undergraduate work at University of San Francisco in 1955 and completed doctoral work in education at USF in 1981.

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Sister Marion Loretta served as the first national communication director for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. In 1976, she began as an English literature professor and writing specialist at USF and retired from teaching in 1996.

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“Within two seconds of walking in the door, they had me in baptismal clothing and dunked,” she said. “I did not know what was going on. There wasn’t a catechism process for that.”

She was very attached to the pastor and when he moved on after a year-and-a-half she did as well she said, although she retained her Christian beliefs.

With Abushady’s embrace of Catholicism, her relationship with her mother is transformed. She found her mother a Vietnamese parish in Benicia, where her mother is able to understand the liturgy and the two are discovering the faith together. “It’s probably one of the biggest blessings, unknown blessings to come from this,” Abushady said.

“I think it is St. Francis of Assisi,” Abushady said. “I was listening to a talk on his conversion story. He’s in a cave for a while. He comes out and says the world is upside down. When I heard that – it couldn’t be more true. Everything that was before was true and everything that didn’t make sense, makes sense through the lens of Christ.

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Disabled Catholics in Congo underserved by untrained clergy, says priest RELATED STORY

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Deaf, blind and disabled Catholics in the Congo are underserved by untrained clergy in its 10 dioceses, according to a deaf priest from San Francisco who returned to his Congolese homeland for a visit in March.

Father Ghislain Cheret Bazikila, a San Francisco archdiocesan priest who has led an American Sign Language ministry at St. Benedict Parish at St. Francis Xavier Church for the Deaf and has just begun a new assignment to serve deaf Catholics in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., wrote a letter to Catholic San Francisco describing his trip back to the Congo where he was raised and ordained in 2008. Though the trip was a personal one, he spent time with the archbishop of Brazzaville, the largest city in the Congo, to discuss their mutual interest in educating clergy to better minister to the deaf and disabled people of Brazzaville.

The Church of the Resurrection is the only deaf parish in Brazzaville, which has a population of almost 2 million.

“Archbishop Anatole Milandou is encouraging priests to specialize in pastoral ministry to the deaf and disabled,” said Father Bazikila, who was born in a village outside Brazzaville and had to travel to the Church of

Pope Francis met in Vatican City March 29 with 7,000 members, staff and volunteers of the Apostolic Movement for the Blind and the Little Mission for the Deaf.

He said disabled Catholics are powerful witnesses of faith. See Page 12.

(PHOTO COURTESY FATHER GHISLAIN CHERET BAZIKILA)

A nun at a village parish in the Congo is pictured with 17-year-old Maria, a deaf parishioner.

Many religious and priests in the Congo are inadequately trained to minister to deaf Catholics, says Father Ghislain Cheret Bazikila, a Congo native who has long served in deaf ministry. the Resurrection to learn ASL and get involved with the deaf community.

The archbishop told Father Bazikila, who moved away from the Congo to work in deaf ministry, that be believes that the young priests he assigns to deaf ministry in parishes lose interest after a few years because they receive no training.

“Priest and nuns may become easily frustrated trying to catechize those with special needs without training of knowledge,” he said Father Bazikila said during his visit he was also invited by the priests and nuns of four small village parishes, including his home parish of St. Joseph, to visit with their deaf community.

None have any training to work with the deaf.

“The nuns are very interested in the deaf youth of the area,” he said. “They are eager to help them become more independent.”

Archbishop Milandou would also like nuns to learn to minister to the deaf or people with other disabilities.

According to Father Bazikila, the archbishop hopes to develop a Catholic Center of Information and Culture to include resources for both clergy and family members dealing with deaf and disabled members. This may include book or video training in ASL and interpretation, training in the care of people in wheelchairs, and training in working with the blind and disabled people.

“Any donations of computers, laptops, video projectors as well as ASL books and DVDs would be appreciated,” Father Bazikila said.

For more information, contact Father Bazikila at goodpastorale@yahoo.com.

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A difference in today’s athletes, according to Agresti, is that athletes on a large scale play only one sport and focus everything into that sport. She also said kids now are a “lot bigger and stronger” and weight training and diets are “far advanced” from her high school days in Stockton.

“I played three varsity sports and I think those other sports helped me to cross train and become quicker and stronger,” Agresti said. “I was also able to escape a lot of injuries because my body kept getting pushed in a new sport every three months.”

Coaching at NDB is top-notch, Agresti said. “We have a very advanced group of coaches who encourage their athletes to be the best they can be on and off the court,” she said.

Agresti has been coaching for more than a decade on the Peninsula and during that time has helped place athletes at schools including Princeton, Columbia, Yale and her alma mater Washington State.

School officials said that Agresti’s new job is a first in Bay Area high schools as far as they know.

by step of what they need to do in order to make this happen,” Agresti said. The list is comprehensive including basics like contacting schools and more elaborate steps such as producing a “highlight reel” of their work on the court or field.

“I think for the most part the families I have interacted with have been very realistic about earning a college scholarship,” Agresti said. “They really want to know what to do in order to make this happen and the proper steps to take. That is where I come in.”

Agresti said the NDB crop of athletes is very worthy of a look by colleges. The school currently has alumnae attending colleges on various levels of scholarship in crew, softball, soccer, basketball and volleyball.

“There is a lot of scholarship money available across all divisions,” Agresti said, noting schools today are offering more “partial scholarships” that can include sometimes books, sometimes a few semesters paid for, sometimes room and board.

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Agresti knows her way around college athletic scholarships, having attended Washington State Jennifer Agresti University on the proverbial “full ride” playing volleyball.

Catholic San Francisco spoke with Agresti via email where she outlined how many families are new to the athletic scholarship process and that some students are not aware they can play at the next level. She also noted that part of her job will be letting kids know if their ability warrants the rigors of looking for college funding through athletics.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4 FASHION PREVIEW: Discarded to Divine, de Young Museum, a complimentary 5:30-8:30 p.m. sneak peek at more than 50 one-of-a-kind items up-cycled from donated clothing to St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco. Open to the public. Meet designers, enjoy music and no-host refreshments, view fashions, accessories and home decor that will be auctioned to benefit the SVdP-SF’s Wellness Center. www.discardedtodivine.org. Margi English, menglish@svdp-sf.org; (415) 977-1270.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 5 CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Capuchin Father Brian McKenna, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060; www. holycrosscemeteries.com. Those with family interred at Holy Cross especially invited.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5 PEACE MASS: St. Finn Barr Church, 9 a.m., 415 Edna St. at Hearst, San Francisco, Father William McCain pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. Zonia Fasquelle, zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

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

LEARN EAST AND WEST: Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, the former St. Monica convent, San Francisco, with catechetical lecture on the first Saturday of each month, 10 a.m. Divine Liturgy, noon, fellowship and luncheon, 1 p.m. lecture. All are welcome throughout the day. Parking is available in the St. Monica parking lot.

REUNION: 60th anniversary, St. Pius School, Redwood City, with tours of the school from 3:30 p.m., Mass at 5 p.m. and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres 6 p.m. in Fitzsimon Center on campus at 1100 Woodside Road.

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CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr.

day Morning Conversations with the Jesuits” with Jesuit Father Paul Devot on “Questions on Facing End of Life Issues - for a Parent, a Loved One, Yourself,” 10:50-11:45 a.m., Xavier Auditorium in Fromm Hall, Parker Avenue at Golden Gate, on USF campus. Father Paul is associate pastor at

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SF 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: 40 days of prayer to end abortion at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia, San Francisco, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. daily through Palm Sunday.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 8 ‘WE ARE CHURCH’: Lenten lecture series, St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax beginning with soup supper at 6:15 p.m. followed by talk from retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn, “Vatican Council II: Collegiality and Structures of Communion.” (415) 456-4815.

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Song stylist and actress Andrea Marcovicci, who has joined the likes of Barbara Cook and Maureen McGovern as a principal at New York City’s and the nation’s most select music rooms, will entertain. www.cccyo.org/ loavesandfishes.

BOCCE BALL: Bocce tournament and silent auction benefiting God Squad Productions and the Catholic TV Mass, Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B St., San Rafael. Gates open 8:30 a.m. for breakfast and practice. For entrance fees and details contact Jan Schachern, janschachern@gmail.com; (415) 244-0771.

THEOLOGY CAFÉ: A speaker series at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City.

April 24 retired San Francisco Archbishop Archbishop John R. Quinn John R. Quinn.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca.edu.

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CRUSADER COUNTRY: Archbishop Riordan High School’s annual event to support the school’s tuition assistance programs. Western attire or country casual encouraged. Tickets start at $150 per person, and event sponsorships are available. Reserva-

MARRIAGE HELP: Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi) has helped tens of thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. This program can help you too.

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Raffle prizes and silent auction featuring sports memorabilia and Giants tickets, adults $22, children 17 and under $5. RSVP by April 22. Sandra, (650) 697-4279.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

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BOCCE BALL: St. Veronica Parish tournament, no experience necessary, Orange Memorial Park bocce ball courts, One W. Orange Avenue, South San Francisco, check in 8 a.m., games start 9 a.m., limited to first 64 players, $30 entry includes coffee and donuts, lunch. Mike Dimech, (650) 922-2667; Mdimech7@gmail.com; www.stveronicassf.com.

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Six rotating rounds will be played with prizes for the top three highest scoring pairs awarded after lunch, St. Bartholomew’s Parish Hall, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo. 9:30 a.m. check-in, 10 a.m. game time. $50 per person includes lunch, register by April 14. Lynda, (650) 592-7714; lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net.

REUNION: Alumnae of Notre Dame de Namur High School, San Francisco’s 111th Mass and beginning with 10:30 a.m. Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by lunch at Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. Honorees are graduates from 1964, 1939, 1944, 1954 and 1974. Theme is 49er faithful so wear 49er gear. Katie O’Leary, (415) 282-6588; nuttydames@aol. com.

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Preschool Director Star of the Sea Preschool, located in the Richmond District of San Francisco, is a Catholic multi-age pre-primary program inspired by the principals and methodology of Maria Montessori. Our Preschool currently has an opening for a Director, a practicing Catholic, preferably with Montessori teaching and administrative experience. This year round, full time position will start July 1, 2014.

We seek an individual who will manage the Preschool program’s State of California licensing requirements, guide the Montessori curriculum and teaching staff, as well as bring talents and interests that coordinate well with the Elementary and Parish communities. The Preschool program operates on a ten-month calendar with a four to six week optional summer program and is open daily from 8am to 6pm. We offer a competitive salary and full benefits through the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Please send resume and statement of qualifications to: Terrence Hanley thanley@staroftheseasf.com

CLASSROOM ASSISTANT POSITION OPEN St. Brendan Parish School is seeking to employ a classroom assistant for the 2014-2015 school year.

Qualifications: • Associate degree/Bachelors degree • Ability and willingness to assist the teacher and work under his/her direction. Ability to communicate well with the children.

• Preference given to practicing Catholics Reports to: Teacher Specific Duties: WITH CHILDREN ➢ Work with small groups or individuals under teacher guidance. ➢ Work in centers with small groups. ➢ Assist teacher during whole group instructions by working with individuals who may be experiencing difficulty in following directions and or understanding concepts taught.

WITHOUT CHILDREN When children do not require help or attention, classroom assistant will: ➢ Prepare materials for classroom projects and activities with direction from the classroom teacher ➢ record grades in grade book, file work papers ➢ help with classroom bulletin boards, ➢ assist with any other areas as instructed when necessary ➢ supervise yard duty on assigned day(s) Hours: 25 hours per week.

Wages: $16-$19 per hour worked. Benefits apply.

Please submit resume and references to Carol Grewal, Principal, at cgrewal@stbrendansf.com on or before April 14, 2014 St. Brendan School, mindful of its mission to be witness to the love of Christ for all, admits students of any race, color, and national and/or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at this school. St. Brendan School does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, and national and/or ethnic origin, age, sex or disability in administration of educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Likewise, St. Brendan School does not unlawfully discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of age, sex, disability, race, color and national and/or ethnic origin.