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Consecrated Life Mass celebrates women and men religious ‘A cumulative 1,765 years of union with and witness to the poor, chaste and obedient Christ’ CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

In his homily as celebrant of the Consecrated Life Mass on April 26 honoring the nearly 700 women and men religious of the archdiocese, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone described their lives as “perfect charity in union with witness to Christ.” The Consecrated Life Mass pays annual homage to sisters, brothers and priests celebrating milestone anniversaries, called jubilees. With two 25-year, two 35-year, three 40-year, nine 50-year, 10 60-year and five 70-year jubilarians present, the archbishop said the Mass “represents a cumulative total of 1,765 years of union with and witness to the poor, chaste and obedient Christ.” Five 75-year jubilarians were honored but not present. This year’s Mass, reception and luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral held special context this year in what Pope Francis designated The Year of Consecrated Life. “A radical approach is required of all Christians, SEE CONSECRATED, PAGE 12

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Presentation Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, one of five 70-year jublilarians at the Consecrated Life Mass on April 26, processes into St. Mary’s Cathedral along with other women and men religious in the archdiocese honored that day.

5,000 join March for Marriage on eve of Supreme Court arguments NATE MADDEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called same-sex marriage “the greatest social experiment of our time” and said that “children do not need experiments,” but rather the love of a mother and father at the third annual March for Marriage rally supporting traditional marriage on Capitol Hill. Addressing a crowd April 25 estimated at 5,000 by the National Organization for Marriage, march sponsors, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, described traditional marriage between one man and one woman as a “beautiful truth,” saying its protection is necessary to “protect the children.” When asked afterward to elaborate on his statement, Archbishop Kurtz told Catholic News Service that “basically, every child comes into the world through a mother and a father. That child not only deserves to know, but to be loved by the mother and father. Children flourish when they are able to be loved and raised by their mothers and fathers.”

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Supporters of traditional marriage gather near Capitol Hill in Washington during the third annual March for Marriage April 25. The Supreme Court heard cases April 28 for states to honor the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.

A pre-march rally began with a prayer from Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, in which he thanked God for “the diversity” of the group present and asked for the protection of religious freedom in the United States. When asked about the religious liberty language in his prayer, Archbishop Lori told CNS that “the word marriage appears hundreds of thousands of times in federal, state and local laws.” “If that’s completely redefined across the board, it represents a sea change. And not only our preaching and our worship, but also our social services, our education, all the things we do for the common good rest on the understanding that marriage is between one man and one woman and that it’s a lot to do with bringing children in the world and their well-being,” he said. “So (a marriage redefinition) will raise a lot of religious liberty questions. It raises the question of whether or not churches and individuals who SEE MARRIAGE, PAGE 12

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Archdiocese announces clergy appointments

St. Rita embraces pope’s Earth Day message in special liturgy CHRISTINA GRAY

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has announced the following appointments, effective July 1, 2015, unless otherwise noted. Some of these assignments have already been made known. INCARDINATIONS, EFFECTIVE MARCH 26, 2015: Father Luello N. Palacpac, Father Arsenio G. Cirera, Father Alner U. Nambatac. PASTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS: Father Moises Agudo, administrator, St. Anthony of Padua, San Francisco, continuing as pastor, St. Peter Church; Father Arturo L. Albano, pastor, Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption; Father Agnel de Heredia, pastor, St. John the Evangelist Church; Father Marvin P. Felipe, pastor, St. Thomas More Church; Father Francis M. M. P. Garbo, pastor, Mission Dolores Basilica; Father Manuel D. Igrobay, pastor, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church; Father Alner U. Nambatac, pastor, St. Timothy Church; Father William H. Thornton, pastor, St. Matthias Church. CONTINUED AS PASTOR AFTER TWO TERMS: Father Lawrence C. Goode, St. Francis of Assisi Church, East Palo Alto; Msgr. Steven D. Otellini, Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: Father Armando J. Gutierrez, Canon Law studies, Rome. CHAPLAINCIES: Father Vito J. Perone, chaplain, Star of the Sea School, San Francisco; Father Bernard B. Poggi, chaplain, Arab-American Community with residence at St. Thomas More; Father Marvin P. Felipe, chaplain, San Francisco State University Newman Center. RETIREMENTS: Father Clifford A. Martin, independent residence within boundaries of the Archdiocese of Seattle; Father Craig W. Forner, independent residence within boundaries of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. DEPARTURES: Father Lucas N. Chacha, ALCP; Father Calixto A. Pablo; Father Jose Pelagio Padit; Father Elias M. Salomon, effective 9/30/15; Msgr. Adolfo Valdivia, effective 4/30/15.

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Just hours after Pope Francis took to Twitter urging Catholics to reflect on the spiritual and moral imperative of caring for the environment, St. Rita School students and parishioners gathered for a special Earth Day Mass Apr. 22. “You have to keep the land so that it can continue to be, as God wants it, the source of life for the entire human family,” Pope Francis tweeted on the eve of Earth Day, celebrated worldwide on April 22. The spirited, song-filled liturgy was a collaboration between the school’s science and religion teachers and sixth, seventh and eighth grade students who also wrote the prayers of the faithful and proclaimed the Scripture readings. Father Ken Weare has turned Earth Day into an annual teaching moment for his parish community in Fairfax since he became pastor 11 years ago. He began offering a special Mass to celebrate “God’s great gift to us” he told Catholic San Francisco. “We gather here to thank God for the Earth,” he said. “It is sacred because God gave it to us as our home out of his love for us.” None of the students and few of the faculty of St. Rita School were born when the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, so Father Weare briefly explained its origins and legacy to the young congregation before his opening prayer. “Our Lord God, you fill the earth with your glory and gave it to us as a home. Teach us to recognize its wonders, to treasure its variety, to respect its diversity and to protect its fragile beauty,” he said. Student Cristian Antonini followed with a reading from Isaiah: “I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually, I guard it night and day so that no one may harm it.” Classmate Catherine McGibben read Psalm 4:2: “How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?” Walking up and down the main

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St. Rita School students were lectors during an Earth Day Mass at St. Rita Church April 22. aisle with a microphone he held out at turns to students eager to answer questions in his dialogue-style homily, Father Weare compared the earth with the home parents provide for their children out of love for them. “At the end of your school day where do you go?” he asked the students. We go home, the students answered. Who gave them their home and why, he continued. “My parents gave it to me so I could be safe” and “So I have a good life,” came replies. “Parents provide you with a home for a good life because they love you,” said Father Weare. “God gave us the gift of the Earth for the same reasons!” But just as parents expect us to treat our homes with respect, God expects the same of our earthly home, he said. “At the end of the day, you don’t just throw your clothes in a corner, do you?” he said. It is not just for this generation we take care of the world, he said. “It’s for all the children of the future, and all their children and their children after that.” Student-read intentions reﬂected gratitude. “Lord, help us to be thankful for the beautiful things you give us, help us to love and care and pray for each

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Marin’s ‘action plan’ on disengaged Catholics CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

After a full year of discussion, Marin County parishes are getting closer to announcing a collective action plan this summer for revitalizing the Mass and reversing the dwindling numbers in their pews. On April 25, parish leaders from 11 of Marin’s 13 churches met at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae for the sixth time since last March to ﬁnd solutions to a deanerywide decline in eucharistic celebration. “We’ve been talking for a full year about how can we make the Mass more appealing to those who have disengaged themselves from the practice of Sunday Eucharist,” said Father Cyril O’Sullivan, pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in Lagunitas, who launched the initiative last spring. “How then, will we put legs on this as a deanery?” Over the course of the year, the pastors and the parishioners they polled shared their observations about why they feel Catholics in the county have become increasingly distanced from the regular celebration of Sunday Mass, the practices of their faith and parish life in general. A lack of appreciation and understanding of the rituals of the Mass and the Eucharist, even among longtime Catholics, was identiﬁed by the deanery as a leading indicator of declining Mass attendance, as was a sense of institutional “aloofness”

and a failure to warmly welcome new or returning members of the parish community. “One of the things that has happened for this generation is that the baton got dropped,” said St. Hilary pastor Father William Brown. “Many people who sit in Mass don’t actually know what we are doing or why, or they don’t remember.” Others repeated the refrain that gaps in faith formation and changes in parish community life and certain Catholic practices was a key reason for waning Mass attendance. The need for two distinct strategies emerged: how to revitalize the Mass for Catholics who do attend – if even irregularly – and how parishes can attract back to the Mass those who have left parish life or the faith altogether. Father Brian Costello, pastor of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato, singled out one Marin

County church for its welcoming community, full pews, music and ongoing catechesis as having a “template” that works. “Without incurring the wrath of my brother priests, I think we have a very good model here in Marin County, and that’s St. Vincent’s,” he said. “I know it’s not a parish, but people are driving miles and miles to go to Sunday Mass here.” Few in the room disagreed. St. Vincent’s Church in San Rafael is not a selfstanding parish but is affiliated with nearby St. Isabella. Still, it “attracts people from all of our parishes,” said St. Anselm parish coordinator Anne Roggenbuck. She said she and her family often attend the 9:45 a.m. Sunday Mass there and said, SEE MARIN, PAGE 16

FILM ON CONSECRATED LIFE AT CATHEDRAL MAY 15

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Holy Name School eighth grader takes winning look at ‘study techniques’ TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

If truth be told, not only were my notes as a student poorly organized, if I tried to use them more than a few minutes after I took them I couldn’t understand my handwriting. What is the value of note taking as a study technique? That’s a question Jonah Nascimento sought to answer and his experiment took first place in a March Jonah Bay Area Science Fair in the Nascimento behavior and social sciences category. It looked at note taking and its effect on memory. Students take notes every day in school and Jonah wanted to see how it helps them retain information, he said. “I gathered 30 eighth grade subjects and showed them a 3-minute video,” Jonah said. He asked half of them to take notes and half to rely on their memory. After the video, Jonah collected the notes and then gave the whole group a quiz. “My hypothesis was that the group that did not take notes would perform better than the notetaking group because they were paying more attention to the video instead of writing down notes,” Jonah said and he was right. The group that did not take notes averaged a score of 58 percent on the test while the group that did take notes scored 54 percent. “Although the results did support my hypothesis I feel that the small difference in the results and the small subject size does not clearly indicate that one is better than the other,” Jonah said. “I continue to take notes in school because notes are still useful for studying.” Jonah’s folks are Leonel and Lency Nascimento. His uncle is Father Dan Nascimento, pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish. Jonah will attend Lowell High School in the fall. ME TOO: Daly City’s Our Lady of Mercy School class of 1965 is planning a 50-year reunion for Sept. 12, time and location still to be determined. Member of the class Mike Thompson, mike@ gtfcpa.com; (650) 349-1040, told me a dozen or so of the class are whereabouts unknown. As I was among the hard-to-find for my reunions I can only say how glad I am the folks in Philly for grade school and Jersey for high school tried to find me.

PRIEST BROTHERS: Happy birthday to Capuchin Fathers Jude and Brian McKenna, both 80 years old on Valentine’s Day. Not just born on the same day, the twin Ireland-born brothers entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order the same day and were ordained together in Letterkenny Cathedral in Donegal, Ireland June 1, 1966. Father Jude, the taller, is a missionary in Zambia. Father Brian is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Though in touch often, it was the first time they had celebrated their birthday together in more than 40 years. Millbrae’s Fiddler’s Green Restaurant was the site of a Feb. 15 birthday party for the priests where more than a few hundred people came to wish them well. THE DOCTOR IS IN: Congratulations to Archbishop Riordan High School English instructor Jennesis Jensen who recently earned her doctorate in international and multicultural education from the University of San Francisco. Her area of research was student-selected reading. The title of her dissertation: “Comprehensive Self-Selected Reading and Student Engagement with the Novel: A Program Evaluation.” HAIL MARY: A contemplative rosary will be prayed May 14, St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater Ave. at El Camino Real, Burlingame, 7 p.m. Composer Bob Hurd’s setting of the Glorious Mysteries will begin a Pentecost Novena this evening of the traditional Ascension Thursday. Music will be led by St. Catherine’s music ministry under the direction of Sister Anne Marie McKenna, BVM; (650) 766-0364; music@stcsiena.org.

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Catholic Charities Sunday: Loving our neighbors in Marin Catholic Charities, the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, serves more than 35,000 individuals, children and families in the Bay Area. On May 9 and 10, 2015, Catholic parishes in the three counties of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take a second collection to support the work of Catholic Charities. This is the third of three articles that feature stories of people at-risk in our communities who are supported by Catholic Charities. JEFF BIALIK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CATHOLIC CHARITIES

In previous issues of Catholic San Francisco, we highlighted the work of Catholic Charities in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. In this issue, we turn our attention to their work in Marin County. Catholic Charities history of responding to the needs of at-risk individuals in Marin dates as far back as 1855 when the agency’s St. Vincent’s School for Boys was founded as a nurturing home for orphans of the California Gold Rush. Today, Catholic Charities serves thousands of individuals in the areas of Children and Youth Services, Behavioral Health Services, and Refugee and Immigrant Services. Each of these areas offers tangible ways to love our neighbors in the North Bay. Here are a few stories of people in

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our community who, because of your generosity, are being lifted out of poverty by Catholic Charities today: Catholic Charities Canal Family Support runs a special program called Kids Club, based at the Albert J. Boro Community Center at Pickleweed Park in San Rafael. Carlos Garcia, senior program director for Catholic Charities Canal Family Support, recalls a special story from this past summer: Just days before the program started, an 8-year-old boy named Luis arrived from Cuba to live with his stepmother and father for the summer. He did not speak English, and was apprehensive about joining Kids Club as he had never participated in any such program before. It didn’t take long before Luis was totally engaged in the summer program, making new friends, learning English, and experiencing things he had never done in his home country. He immediately was taken under

the wing of kids who became his translators and were always making sure he was included and understood the directions or instructions of a particular activity, game, or class. Of the estimated 20 million refugees that exist worldwide today, up to 90,000 of them settle in the United States a year. Recently, a family of four arrived in the Bay Area ﬂeeing the devastation of war in their homeland with only the possessions they could carry. Normally the staff of Catholic Charities Refugee and Immigrant Services has 90 days to make arrangements for a refugee family, but this time they had one week. RIS staff contacted St. Hilary Catholic Parish in Tiburon to help with the resettlement and, within days, two parishioners responded and began gathering all the clothing and household goods the family needed to help them get settled into temporary housing and a new life.

Catholic Charities St. Vincent’s School for Boys serves boys 7 to 17, many of whom struggle with emotional disturbances resulting from severe parental abuse and neglect. Steve Compagno, the veteran basketball coach at Larkspur’s Redwood High School, was at St. Vincent’s gym delivering balls last November, and noticed the youngsters’ less-than-ideal equipment. He was so moved by the mission of the program and need for new equipment that he assigned his varsity boys’ basketball players to serve as mentors for the St. Vincent’s youth living in the residential treatment home in San Rafael. Kent Eagelson, division director of Youth Residential Services and program director of St. Vincent’s, said, “A lot of these kids don’t have anybody rooting for them from their families, but now there is a group that has kind of adopted them. It has raised their selfesteem, their positive outlook – and now they also have another activity to enjoy, which is to go to Redwood games.” Luis, the refugee family, and the boys at St. Vincent’s are our neighbors. Please consider giving to this year’s Catholic Charities Sunday second collection at your parish on May 9 or 10. By putting your faith in action, you show your love for thousands of brothers and sisters in your community.

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Augustinians: Living in community as pictured in the Acts of the Apostles ORDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE

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Labor representatives and archdiocesan high school teachers were among more than 200 people who demonstrated in front of the archdiocesan Pastoral Center April 27 to support the teachers in their contract negotiations with the archdiocese. A press release given out at the demonstration at One Peter Yorke Way in San Francisco said the teachers rallied “to protect their rights as workers and to ensure that their schools remain safe for all students.” The statement noted concern over any contract changes that would “eliminate antidiscrimination and other workplace protections” for school employees. The statement also mentioned concern over teachers’ job security under proposed revisions to the high schools’ faculty handbook designed to

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Archbishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, newly appointed archbishop of Santa Fe, said in an April 27 news conference in New Mexico that he was humbled by his new assignment and has “complete trust in God’s loving providence and in the Holy Spirit, at work in this local church.” The San Francisco native, 64, is succeeding Santa Fe Archbishop Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan, who has Wester headed the Santa Fe archdiocese since1993 and turned 75 last year, the age at which a bishop is required under canon law to submit his resignation to the pope. Archbishop Wester will be installed in his new post June 4. Archbishop Wester, who has headed the Salt Lake diocese since 2007, said that as he approaches his new role his weaknesses are his own but his strengths are “the result of the love and support I received from God’s holy people in Utah and from those with whom I served in San Francisco as auxiliary bishop.” After his ordination May 15, 1976, for the San Francisco archdiocese, Archbishop Wester served as a parish priest, as teacher, campus ministry director and then president of Marin Catholic High School and as assistant superintendent for archdiocesan high schools before becoming administrative assistant to Archbishop John R. Quinn. He was pastor of St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco for four years before becoming vicar for clergy. In 1998, he was made an auxiliary bishop and became vicar general of the archdiocese.

PANEL: SERRA’S AMBIGUITIES SHOULD NOT DISCOUNT SAINTHOOD

WASHINGTON – Although the upcoming canonization of Blessed Junipero Serra has stirred mixed reaction, a group of panelists April 22 said the ambiguities around the friar should not discount the good work he did or the positive dialogue and reconciliation that could result from his sainthood. “He made a lot of mistakes, but he was a man of his time. He was Blessed ﬂawed but heroic,” said Franciscan Junipero Serra Father Joe Nangle about Blessed Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan who established missionaries in the U.S. Father Nangle, associate pastor of Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Arlington, Virginia, was a panelist in the “Founding Padres” discussion held at The Catholic University of America. It focused on three Catholic priests represented in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall: Blessed Serra and Jesuit Fathers Jacques Marquette and Eusebio Kino. Much of the discussion focused on Blessed Serra, particularly since his canonization will take place

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SPEAKERS: CIVIL DISCOURSE COUNTERS POLARIZATION

LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania – People who wish to overcome polarization within the Catholic Church must first talk to each other in the familial terms that date from the beginnings of Christianity: as brothers and sisters, parents and adult sons and daughters, panelists in a conference at the University of Notre Dame said. The panel, the first session of a two-day event titled “Polarization in the U.S. Catholic Church: Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal,” called for improved understanding rather than acrimony among Catholic who holds differing views on various social issues. The discussion was streamed online. Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, said baptism links church members to Christ and through him to each other, but there has been a loss of confidence that the members of the church love one another. He said that loss of confidence, when played out publicly, harms the church, especially when conversations and comments are filled with anger. Echoing Bishop Flores, Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, said “the acrimony of many of our conversations” tends to drive people away from the church. “Harsh, polarizing language” is not meant to attract others to one’s point of view, but “to galvanize the like-minded,” Father Jenkins said. Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith warned against presuming that polarizing issues and their proponents are equally divided across age groups,

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BALTIMORE – As the city cleaned up after a night of riots, looting and ﬁres following the funeral of Freddie Gray, Archbishop William E. Lori said the church’s place is to pray, be a voice for peace, and participate in a wider community dialogue to solve the systemic issues that led to the unrest. Gray, 25, died April 19, one week after being arrested on a weapons charge and sustaining a severe spinal cord injury in West Baltimore while in police custody. After his funeral April 27, peaceful protests turned into unrest later in the day, leading to damage of buildings and cars, and looting and ﬁres seen nonstop on national TV news networks. The next morning, as Archbishop Lori, Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden and other archdiocesan leaders toured the West Baltimore neighborhoods affected, adults and children with brooms and trash bags were as numerous as the rioters the night before. “First of all, let’s pray … ,” Archbishop Lori said. “We need to strengthen our communities that they might be a force of peace. We need to participate vigorously in a citywide dialogue on the systemic issues that have really bubbled up to the surface here. It seems that’s our role in this.”

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VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pope Francis offered his prayers to all of those affected by a deadly earthquake in Nepal, encouraged rescue and emergency workers in their efforts and sent an initial donation of $100,000. More than 4,300 people were known to have been killed and an estimated 1 million people were left homeless after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit a mountainous region near Kathmandu April 25. The devastation included not just buildings collapsing from the tremors, but also people and villages being buried by landslides and avalanches triggered by the quake and aftershocks. The number of casualties was expected to be much higher as rescue teams tried to make their way into more remote areas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I pray for the victims, those wounded and for all those who suffer because of this calamity,â&#x20AC;? Pope Francis said after reciting the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Regina Coeliâ&#x20AC;? prayer with visitors gathered in St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square April 26. Before leading people in praying the Hail Mary together, he expressed his hope that those affected by the disaster would â&#x20AC;&#x153;have the support of fraternal solidarity.â&#x20AC;? The PontiďŹ cal Council Cor Unum, which promotes and coordinates charitable giving, announced April 28 that Pope Francis had sent â&#x20AC;&#x153;a ďŹ rst contribution of $100,000â&#x20AC;? to assist the victims.

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A woman weeps as she and other relatives watch during a mass cremation ceremony near Kathmandu, Nepal, April 28, three days after an earthquake hit the country. The money, it said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;which will be sent to the local church, will be used to support the assistance efforts underway on behalf of the displacedâ&#x20AC;? and others impacted by the quake. The papal donation is meant to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;a ďŹ rst and immediate concrete expressionâ&#x20AC;? of the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal concern for all the quakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victims, Cor Unum said, adding that bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conferences and Catholic charities from around the world already have taken an active role in helping survivors.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pope Francis was deeply saddened to learn of the earthquakeâ&#x20AC;? and the damage it caused, said a telegram sent April 25 by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to Bishop Paul Simick, apostolic vicar of Nepal. The pope expressed his prayers and solidarity, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;he offers encouragement to the civil authorities and emergency personnel as they continue their rescue efforts and assistance to those touched by this tragedy,â&#x20AC;? the telegram said. Huge â&#x20AC;&#x153;tent citiesâ&#x20AC;? have sprung up in Kathmandu to shelter those whose homes have collapsed or been damaged and those who dare not return as strong aftershocks continue, Caritas

Internationalis reported in a press release April 27. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We hope to go back to our house soon, but are hesitating because of the aftershocks,â&#x20AC;? said Renuka Magdalene Thakuri, 54, who sought shelter with other families in Assumption Church in Kathmandu. Jesuit Father Pius Perumana, head of Caritas Nepal, said the Catholic charity has been supplying tarps, tents and food, and was trying to help protect people from the rain and cold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are still trapped in buildings and we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know whether they are dead or alive,â&#x20AC;? Father Perumana told Caritas Internationalis, the Vaticanbased umbrella organization for more than 150 Catholic relief and development organizations around the world. It said Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. Caritas partner, was sending relief materials from north India and working with Caritas Nepal to procure additional relief materials locally and in India. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What the people need immediately is shelter. Temperatures are dropping at night and there is also rain. Children are sleeping outside at night. It is really traumatic for them,â&#x20AC;? Father Perumana said. Immediate shelter as well as water and sanitation were among the top priorities, Caritas Internationalis said. Santosh Kumar Magar, 29, said he was attending the ordination of a new priest in Okhaldhunga, a remote part of eastern Nepal, when the earthquake hit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came out of the room, and saw two, three houses falling down around me. Some of the animals died around the same time. The people were saved because all the villagers were gathered for the ordination,â&#x20AC;? he told Caritas.

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POPE: EDUCATE FAITHFUL ABOUT GOD’S PLAN FOR FAMILIES

VATICAN CITY – Even if the peoples and culture of Benin are still deeply religious and fairly traditional, they need support and a deeper faith to withstand the gathering winds of secularization that are blowing around the world, Pope Francis said. Meeting the country’s bishops April 27, the pope thanked them Pope Francis for their prayers for the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the family and for the reﬂections on the synod’s theme that took place around Benin. “I can only encourage you to continue with determination your efforts to support families, both in their faith and in their daily lives,” the pope wrote in a message handed to the bishops at the end of their meeting with him. The bishops were at the Vatican for their “ad limina” visits to report on what is happening in their dioceses. “I know that the marriage ministry is difficult given the concrete social and cultural situation of your people,” he said. Polygamy was banned in Benin in 2004, although polygamous unions contracted before that date are still recognized by the government. “Do not be discouraged,” Pope Francis told the bishops. “Persevere constantly because the family as defended by the Catholic Church is a reality desired by God; it is a gift from God that brings people and societies joy, peace, stability and happiness.”

for priestly ordinations; but as he has done in the past, he added his own reflections as well, including his homily tips. The prepared homily speaks of the effectiveness of a holy priest’s example. The pope added, “examples edify, but words without examples are empty words, they are just ideas that never reach the heart and, in fact, they can harm. They are no good!” Pope Francis told the thousands of people gathered for the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica that the men were accepted and put forward by their bishops. “And the bishop risks – he risks! – and chooses them, just as the Father has risked for each one of us.”

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but religious persons are called upon to follow the Lord in a special way: They are men and women who can awaken the world,” the pope said last year after his declaration. The archbishop reminded those present at the Mass that women and men religious have been and always will be at the heart of the history of the archdiocese and the city of San Francisco itself. “Franciscan friars first preached the Gospel here and established the mission from which San Francisco takes its name,” he said. The city’s first Catholic schools, colleges, hospitals and orphanages were established by sisters, brothers and priests who “left everything dear to them – home, family, country – to carry out the great commission of the risen Christ.” “And you my dear religious, continue to do so today, in ways both old and new,” the archbishop said, noting those who have worked in education, health care, and service to the poor have, and will continue to meet new challenges, such as the scourge of HIV/AIDS, the needs of immigrants and the horrors of human trafficking. “The city and entire Bay Area have benefited enormously from this face of God’s mercy translated into concrete reality by the services provided by consecrated religious,” he said. “This world would be a very different place, and a much sadder place, without you.” The archbishop noted that as crucial as this service is, “ultimately it is not what religious men and women do but why you do it that really makes the difference.”

Sister Eva Cambros, who has been with the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady of Peace for 25 years, said she has “a lot of admiration” for her sisters with multiple decades of religious life behind them. She is on the pastoral staff of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish.

Presentation Sister Ita Cleary, who celebrated a 70-year vocation, told Catholic San Francisco that the special day “gives me more energy to keep on going.” When asked if she has retired, she said with a faint Irish brogue: “Heavens, no!”

“Whatever practical good has been done, is being done, and will be done by religious women and men in the archdiocese, your greatest contribution remains the witness of your consecrated life,” he said. A life of freely chosen poverty, chastity and obedience remains a mystery, especially to those “whose horizons are deﬁned by this present world.” “Many people admire what you do, but they are

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50-year jubilarian Sister Anna Marie Zacher, a member of the Little Sisters of the Poor, said “It’s been an awesome day, a great day to celebrate our life with God.” Her community serves the elderly poor.

puzzled, or even scandalized by why you do it – as disciples of Jesus Christ,” he said. The archbishop called each relationship with Christ, “profoundly personal” but also ecclesial, as it is lived out within Christ’s body, the Church. “May many of our young people be inspired by the joyful gift of your lives in service to God and others so that they, too, will experience the exhilaration of leaving all things to follow Christ,” he said.

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sincerely believe this might not be penalized or denied contracts or the ability to serve the common good,” the archbishop explained. The march came three days before the U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to hear arguments April 28 in four cases weighing whether states that bar same-sex marriage must recognize such unions that are legal in other states. Participants remained enthusiastic throughout the march despite the gloomy, cool weather as they heard from a variety of speakers. Many carried signs and voiced chants in support of traditional marriage. Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage president, said planners wanted to bring a diverse group of people together for the event to highlight to the Supreme Court “that people have embraced the redeﬁnition of marriage is simply untrue.” “Marriage is based upon the fundamental, biological reality of husband and wife, mother and father, and that the court has no authority to redeﬁne that truth,” Brown said. Stressing the march’s theme of religious liberty, Jennifer Marshall, vice president for the Institute for Family, Community and Opportunity at the

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Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, speaks at the March for Marriage near Capitol Hill in Washington April 25. The Supreme Court heard cases April 28 for states to honor the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Heritage Foundation, said standing for traditional marriage often comes with a cost. She cited recent incidents in which individuals have lost jobs and business because of their public expression of traditional marriage.

Marshall called such actions unjust, saying that “marriage existed before this government or any government,” and that marriage is “two halves of humanity coming together for the future of humanity.” Speakers from groups such as the Family Research Council, Central Biblico Internacional, the Coalition of African-American Pastors, and the American Orthodox Institute also addressed the march. The demonstration was not without opposition. As the column of marchers approached the Supreme Court, they were met by a wall of protesters waving rainbow flags. One of the protesters told CNS he questioned “what God (the marchers) are serving.” Another said, “This is the United States of America. You should be able to marry whomever you want.” In anticipation of the Supreme Court arguments, a large coalition of faith leaders, several of whom were at the march, penned an open letter April 23 to elected officials and people in public service. “As religious leaders from various faith communities, we acknowledge that marriage is the foundation of the family where children are raised by a mother and a father together,” the letter said.

High court considers place of same-sex marriage in states that bar it PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The questions raised by Supreme Court justices as they considered April 28 whether they should rule that same-sex marriage should be made legal nationwide covered a gamut of rights concerns – religious, equal protection, state’s ability to enact their own laws. In two and a half hours of oral arguments, the line of questions and the answers by attorneys representing both sides made clear that all concerned recognize the potential for the court’s ruling to be history-making. Even the justices who sounded inclined to allow states to continue to ban same-sex marriage and refuse to recognize such marriages from other states seemed to recognize that it is no longer a question

of “if” but “when” and “who decides” that samesex marriages are allowed. “The issue is not whether there should be samesex marriage, but who should decide,” said Justice Antonin Scalia in an exchange with Mary Bonauto, attorney for James Obergefell and other petitioners seeking the right to have same-sex marriage allowed or recognized in their states. Chief Justice John Roberts observed that the country has moved quickly from ﬁrm opposition to such marriages – and a nationwide prohibition on them – to the current status of broad acceptance and a majority of states allowing same sex marriage. He seemed to draw a connection to the speed with which the nation was made to accept the legality of abortion when the court ruled in 1973 that it is constitutionally protected. “If you prevail,” he told Bonauto, the nationwide

legal debate about the issue will be over, but the people who are still making up their minds how they feel about same sex marriage will be deprived of the chance to weigh in about how their states act. “People feel very differently about something if they have a chance to vote,” Roberts said. In consolidated oral arguments, the court took up cases from the states of Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky and Ohio. As of late April, 37 states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriages, most due to federal and state court rulings. In the remaining states, a combination of state laws and constitutional provisions limiting marriage to one man and one woman have all been challenged in court. Some counties in Missouri also have been issuing marriage licenses and the state respects same-sex marriages performed in other states.

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Remembering Number 84

e scored 40 times in an eight-year NFL career, best known, now, for the touchdown he didn’t score, as the sun set over Yankee Stadium on Dec. 28, 1958. His wife of 59 years, Joan, said that Jim Mutscheller, who died on April 10, wanted to be known as a man “who had led a good life,” for he was “quiet, humble, and so conservative that he’d eat crabs with a suit and tie on.” And therein lies a tale—and a yardstick by which to measure pro sports then and now. Born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (as was Joe Namath, about as different a character GEORGE WEIGEL as you can imagine), Mutscheller’s father was known locally as the “best bricklayer in Beaver County.” The son graduated from Notre Dame, having played offensive and defensive end on the 1949 national championship team in the days of single platoon football. He then spent a couple of years in the Marine Corps – including a stint in Korea that convinced Mutscheller, whose look “would bore a hole in a vault” (as one sportswriter put it), that getting knocked around on the football field wasn’t so bad a deal after all. He was a tight end in the days when you could be 6 feet tall, weigh 190, and play that position, what with no 350-pound behemoths on the other side of the line. But he was also reasonably fleet afoot, he could block, he had those great hands, and there was … that look. All of which helped bring him and the Baltimore Colts to the Bronx on a bleak December afternoon in 1958, for what’s now known as The Greatest Game Ever Played. It wasn’t, in fact, all that great a game. But it had a lot of drama; it ended with the first (and thus far only) sudden-death overtime win in the history of NFL championships; and Jim Mutscheller was in the pivot of the action. With strong men ready to collapse from exhaustion after four-and-a-half quarters of play, the Colts, having

driven to the Giants’ 6-yard line, were poised for the game-winning touchdown. The immortal John Unitas brought the Colts out of the huddle, having called a running play for “The Horse,” Alan Ameche (who looked more like a tenor in a Verdi opera than a Heisman Trophy-winning fullback). Unitas, however, noticed, a chink in the Giants’ pass defense and checked off at the line of scrimmage, calling for Mutscheller to run an out pattern to the near corner of the end zone. It was intended to be a touchdown pass, and would have been except that Unitas deliberately led Mutscheller a bit more to the outside than usual; Number 84 couldn’t get traction on the icy surface, slipping out of bounds at the 1-yard line. On the next play, Ameche drove in for the winning score, with Mutscheller throwing a key block that took out Giants’ linebacker Cliff Livingston. Years after the game that changed the way America spends fall Sunday afternoons, Unitas would kid Mutscheller, saying, “Geez, Jim, I tried to make you the hero.” To which Mutscheller replied, “If I’d scored that touchdown, Ameche wouldn’t have been able to sell all those hamburgers.” (Extra credit for anyone who can remember the name of the double-stack burger at Ameche’s.) They’re almost all gone, now, these Catholic sports heroes of my extreme youth: Ameche ﬁrst, in 1988; Unitas in 2002; Artie Donovan in 2013; now Jim Mutscheller, whom I used to see at daily Mass, head bowed after receiving the Mystery. Only Gino Marchetti is left; and since it was “something inside Gino” that, according to Lenny Moore, held the Colts together, that is right and just. But I’ll think of them all during the parade of oversized young studs, oozing self-esteem and entitlement, who’ll walk across the stage to get their handshake/hug from Commissioner Roger Goodell on NFL draft day. And I’ll remember that, once upon a time, Catholic men from working class families could be sports idols – and role models as well.

Second, if we, like Jesus, in fact love those who share the same faith with us but from whom we are separated, it should be painful for us that our eucharistic table is not complete, that some of our family are not at table with us, that our table has empty places. Roman Catholics are not a whole family. Protestants are not a whole family. Evangelicals are not a whole family. Free Christian churches are not a whole family. Only together do we make a whole family. A eucharistic prayer that prays only for ourselves as a community and for our pope and our bishops is somehow incomplete, as if we had no need to acknowledge and feel the real absence of so many sincere persons who are not with us as we celebrate the real presence of Christ on our table and experience the intimacy this gives us. Finally, there is too a practical consideration, sensitivity and hospitality: More and more, whether it be at funerals, weddings, interdenominational retreats, or other such events that draw other Christians into our Roman Catholic Churches, we are celebrating the Eucharist in situations that require, or at least should require, a keener ecumenical sensitivity. In these situations, personally, as a priest, I ﬁnd it awkward and not fully hospitable to pray for our Catholic community, for our pope, our bishops, and our clergy, without any solicitude for, or mention of, other Christian churches, their leadership, and their struggles for community in Christ. I think that hospitality asks of us (dare I say, demands of us) a greater ecumenical sensitivity than we have been offering at present. Wouldn’t everyone beneﬁt if we did this? What would we be compromising by doing this? What are we protecting by not doing it? Would we not be more sensitive to the Gospel and Jesus’ words and actions by doing this? So this is my straightforward plea: Please add an explicit invocation within each of our eucharistic prayers that prays for other Christian churches and their leadership. You will be on safe ground. Jesus did this. I offer this suggestion in all respect, as a loyal son of the church.

n Sunday night the email landed in Mike Foss’ inbox: He had been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30,” the business magazine’s annual list of rising stars younger than 30. Mike Foss, the soccer player from Springfield, Virginia, the kid who had been homeschooled through 12th grade. This sent Facebook abuzz: Boldfaced evidence that homeschooling actually works. Once the announcement was made on the first Monday of January, inquiring minds began lobbing CHRISTINA questions at Mike’s mom, CAPPECCHI Elizabeth. How did she do it? What curriculum had she used? What colleges did she recommend? What was the exact formula of devotions, multivitamins and Mozart? “Y’all,” she wrote on her blog that Friday, “I have no idea!” But when pressed, the mother of nine reflected on her news-making firstborn, a 26-year-old Catholic. “Michael learned his most important lessons at the dinner table. All I really did was cook the meal. His daily repartee on Twitter? Totally sounds like banter among my boys. His brothers are as much behind that award as I am,” Elizabeth wrote. “Iron sharpens iron.” She credited her husband, a sports broadcaster and mentor, and mused about “the effect of having nursed (Mike) in nearly every college sports venue up and down the East Coast,” elaborating: “We hung together. The lot of us. Every day. All the time. That’s being educated by his real life.” Mike’s first post-college job brought him to USA Today. He was working as a senior social media editor when he began developing a new sports website intended to be an entry point to the paper’s main website. During a coffee-fueled period of eight months he hired 10 people, reserved some 20 web domains and got married. “It was insane,” Mike told me. “I don’t remember sleeping.” The vision was to create a site with a delicate mix of original sports features and aggregated articles – journalistic standards plus blogging agility – chronicled in a more earnest voice than the average sports story and aimed at a broader audience. “For The Win” launched on April 22, 2013, and became one of the fastest growing mobile websites in history. “We won,” Mike said, “big time.” He believes his entrepreneurial spirit was fostered by the counter-cultural decision to homeschool – why do things like everyone else? – and the freedom to customize his education. He’s now a sought-after tech star and, for better or worse, a serious contender in the frenetic pursuit of online popularity. “There’s always a score, in terms of performance,” he said. “I’m competitive.” That results in long work days perched behind a 30-inch computer monitor with an iPad and iPhone at his side and a flat-screen TV mounted above alternating between CNN and ESPN. The blinking, linking 24/7 digital world can render the mind a hamster wheel. Mike tries to counteract it by unplugging every evening. He loves comic books and C.S. Lewis, just finished his fifth read of “Mere Christianity.” The twin pillars of his life, faith and family, keep his ego in check. “I don’t get absorbed in any of it. That plays into family unit. You sit around a table at a Foss family dinner and it doesn’t matter who you are: We roast each other.” Attending Mass, he said, quiets any pressure to continue on a headline-making career path. “You listen to a homily or look up at the cross and it puts things in perspective. It makes it easier to be present in the faith and to be present in your life.” And if you ask his mom, who became a grandma one year ago when Mike’s daughter, Lucy, was born, her son’s over-30 work will be even more significant. “He’s only just begun to answer God’s call in his life.”

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

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and the editor of SisterStory.org.

WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Praying for those not of this fold: An open letter to Roman Catholic bishops ear Bishops, I write to you as a loyal son of the Catholic Church, with a particular request: Could you make an addition to our present Eucharistic Prayers to include an explicit invocation for other Christian Churches and for those who lead them? For example, could the prayer for the church and its leadership in our various eucharistic canons have these additions: Remember, Lord, your entire church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with N. our pope and FATHER RON N. our bishop, together with all ROLHEISER who help lead other Christian Churches, and all the clergy.” Might our eucharistic prayers have this kind of inclusivity? Why? Why pray for other churches inside of our eucharistic prayer? For three reasons: First, we should pray explicitly for other Christian churches during our Eucharist prayer because Jesus did. In John’s Gospel, Jesus prays explicitly for those who hold the same faith but are separated, for whatever reason, from the community to whom is speaking at that moment. He prays for “other sheep that are not of this fold” (John 10, 16). Raymond Brown, perhaps the most-respected scholar on John’s Gospel, among others, submits that at the time when John’s Gospel was written (somewhere between the years 90 and 100 A.D.) there were already divisions within the church, akin to our denominational divisions today, and that Jesus’ prayer for “other sheep that are not of this fold” is in fact a prayer for other Christians who were separated in theology and worship from the community within which John places this particular saying of Jesus. And Jesus, with a heart for everyone and not just for those who are members of this particular community, prays for those others: “I must lead these too. They too will listen to my voice, and there will be only one ﬂock, one shepherd.”

Rise of a homeschooled Catholic tech star

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Leading from the center, not the top

’ve been thinking a lot these days about the geometry of leadership. Those thoughts are prompted by invitations I’ve had to speak to college students about leadership and also by the recent death of a great educational leader, Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, and by the emergence in Iowa and New FATHER WILLIAM Hampshire of J. BYRON, SJ presidential hopefuls as the primary season begins to heat up. By mentioning the “geometry of leadership,” I’m calling attention to a top-of-the-pyramid perspective on leadership. Many impute a “king of

the hill” attitude to the mind of the leader. Draw a triangle and picture yourself at the top; the horizontal line running from left to right below can support a wide base of potential followers. They may or may not be responsive to orders from above. If they are, you are exercising leadership. If not, you are whistling in the wind. And note, by the way, the possibility of impalement that is associated with a position at the top of the triangle! It can be lonely at the top. The top can also be an out-of-touch, can-hardlysee-you, certainly-can’t-hear-you perch that is usually accompanied by title and perks, but is largely ineffective as a power source or center of inﬂuence. I recommend instead a “center-of-thecircle” image of leadership. There you are, at the center, on a level plane, able to be seen and heard as you yourself see and hear, able to lift (encourage) and touch (pat on the

back) because you are also one of the on-the-ground followers even though you carry the title of leader. I urge students to keep in mind the geometry of leadership as they approach graduation and the world of work, indeed as they work their way toward the top in any career, understanding as they go that the top is really in the center and on common ground with their partners in the enterprise. Few business schools teach that leadership is a blend of humility and ambition. I recommend that blend, however; it is an amalgam of humility and ambition known as “humbition,” a word worth adding to the would-be leader’s vocabulary. Most ﬁlms and novels about business overlook humility altogether in their portrayal of business leaders and in their depiction of the qualities of effective leadership. The qualities that are needed to be a good leader in any organization

forming Roman Catholic education by creating private, orthodox elementary and secondary schools staffed only by bona fide practicing Catholics who, indeed, would be certified as “ministers” vs. as lay teachers. The model could be borrowed from Jewish Hasidic tradition: Concerned with keeping themselves spiritually clean, the Hasidim are focused on biblical concepts of purity and contamination. “In this ordering of values, separation from outsiders is inevitable and understandable: It is a mode of self-protection, as well as a keeping straight of categories. They preserve their orthodoxy through a separate school system. In fact, one of the very first things the Hasidim did upon settling in America was to found schools and yeshivas” (“Life Apart: Hasidism in America,” PBS broadcast, Aug. 25, 1998). Such private Roman Catholic schools would accept students based upon parental signed agreement to adhere to the canons of Roman Catholic moral teaching as mandated by episcopal authority in their own lives and the lives of their children. Tuition and tuition assistance would be underwritten by private payment and private philanthropy; no government funding would be sought or accepted. Of course, the archdiocese would have to reevaluate its mission of education – for the many or for the few? Orthodoxy has its place; presumably truth no longer would be trumped by apostasy. But do we really want to become an island unto ourselves? Antoinette Doyle San Rafael

encountered ridicule from friends and colleagues who somehow regard Catholicism as outdated and in need of reform. And then I recall that Catholicism has never been a popularity contest – one need only study the lives of the martyrs throughout history to get the reality check. Perhaps the best response to the attacks on Archbishop Cordileone is a statement by a woman named Rilene who tells her story of abandoning a destructive lifestyle and returning to her Catholic faith. “I am so grateful to the Catholic Church for not having changed in those 35 years.” Rilene shares her testimony in the poignant documentary “Desire of the Everlasting Hills” (https://everlastinghills. org/). This is precisely what parents should expect when sending their children to Catholic schools: The timeless, undiluted essence of the faith that has not caved to the latest whim of social engineering. Long after those parents are gone, the truth and the beauty of authentic Catholicism will provide the spiritual compass that will sustain their children on their earthly journey – and beyond. Susan Emily Jordan Chicago The writer is an adviser to Courage International, an apostolate of the Catholic Church. Courage produced the documentary “Desire of the Everlasting Hills.”

are integrity, honesty, intelligence, creativity, character, service and commitment. To gain an even fuller understanding of the nature of leadership, you have to add some additional qualities: decisiveness, compassion, respect for human dignity, persistence, perseverance, steadiness and vigor. A will to succeed has to be there, too; without it, not much is likely to happen. So there you have it, the geometry of leadership. It applies to business, politics and any form of organizational life. Let those who want to lead ponder the meaning of all the qualities I’ve listed. Let those who elect or appoint others to positions of leadership use these qualities as selection criteria. JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@ sju.edu.

LETTERS Holy Week and the Chronicle ad Holy Week, the Easter triduum, and the wrenching memory of Jesus’ painful suffering and death, hardly forgotten some days ago, seemed too far behind us to resurface partially in the protests and posturing against our archbishop in mid-April. Selfdescribed “Catholics” posed at the television cameras, demanding Pope Francis’ presence in San Francisco to oust Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. And they placed a full-page ad in the city’s major newspaper, listing their names in objection to new guidelines for Catholic school teachers in the San Francisco archdiocese, as if they took as personal affront those rules that save our children from influence by morally unqualified adults hired to teach them. In hearty contrast to that derogatory full-page spread, we can thank our own real, faith-driven Catholics for their half-page ad in Catholic San Francisco, stating in big, bold print: “San Mateo Pro-Life supports Archbishop Cordileone’s efforts to ensure Catholic schools uphold Catholic teaching.” At one point in Good Friday services, we heard readings from voices shouting jeers and jibes at Jesus Christ as he dragged the cross before a taunting crowd. Their similarity to the protesting “Catholics” can’t escape us. Nor can we miss the significance of our archbishop’s name: Salvatore being the name for savior, for the salvation performed by Christ in his sacrifice; the middle name, Joseph, representing the humble carpenter who headed the Holy Family; and Cordileone, the heart of a lion. The name tells us who is Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, who has saved families from worrying about unholy ideas being forced on their children in school. Robert Jimenez Burlingame

Yeshiva model for Catholic education Re “Supporting doctrinal integrity,” April 17, letter by Tom Spencer, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah: My ﬁrst reaction to Archbishop Cordileone’s letter to Catholic high school teachers was perplexity. Reading Mr. Spencer’s letter I wonder, however, if it might be time to consider the radical idea of trans-

A reflection on Catholic education Catholic education – this is something I have cherished since growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s: I graduated from St. Cecilia School, St. Rose Academy and Dominican University of California. As I have followed the current controversy in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, I have reﬂected on the essence of my faith – especially in times of personal and family crises, including my cancer diagnosis in 1995 and the sudden death of my niece’s son in 2002. My faith is the deep reservoir from which I draw healing, hope and renewal. As an observant Catholic (i.e., one who makes a sometimes feeble attempt to fulﬁll that baptismal promise), I have

Opportunities for forgiveness With all that’s going on let’s thank God for the opportunities offered daily to practice lessons of forgiveness and not judging, as found in Matthew. Whatever position anyone takes on the issues now exercising our wits and taxing our neighborliness, we’re all being offered the opportunity to forgive each other, to refrain from judging each other and to pray that God will forgive all those who don’t know what they’re doing. Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

Ad inadvisable On April 16, a full-page ad ran in the Chronicle asking the pope to replace Archbishop Cordileone. The ad complete with misleading information was engineered as part of an anti-Catholic campaign, and included the names of 112 people who signed as representing the Catholic community of San Francisco. It characterized the archbishop’s directive to educators and staff in Catholic high schools to adhere to a morality code suitable to a Catholic education as a prosecutorial, mean-spirited violation of individual consciences and California labor laws. The real intent of those behind the ad is to further a movement to not only oust the archbishop, but to influence Catholic principles regarding sexuality and same-sex marriages. As to the signers of the “ad,” their self-importance in assuming they know best for all of the 425,000 Bay Area Catholics is truly astonishing. If these people want a church designed around their own wishes, then there are alternative churches and religions that might better suit their needs. Some would be well advised to rethink their position at this time and not let their social status, or perceived influence deceive themselves into thinking they are more important to the entire Catholic community than they really are. Such influences may work in politics, but they do not define the true person of faith, or the Catholic Church. Ads like this only serve a different agenda. The archbishop has accomplished much in a short time. He has restructured a troubled seminary, championed the rebirth of the pro-life movement, and is striving to make Catholicism more meaningful and relevant in today’s society. As a practicing Catholic, these signers do not represent me or the vast majority of Bay Area Catholics willing to give the archbishop a break before they crucify him. Tony Hall San Francisco

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. …’ JOHN 15:1-8 ACTS 9:26-31 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him to the apostles, and he reported to them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus. He moved about freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in the name of the Lord. He also spoke and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him. And when the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him on his way to Tarsus. The church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace. It was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord, and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit it grew in numbers. PSALM 22:26-27, 28, 30, 31-32 I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. I will fulﬁll my vows before those who fear the Lord. The lowly shall eat their ﬁll; they who seek the Lord shall praise him: “May your hearts live forever!” I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; all the families of the nations shall bow down before him. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. To him alone shall bow down all who sleep in the earth; before him shall bend all who go down into the dust. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. And to him my soul shall live; my descendants shall serve him. Let the coming generation be told of the Lord that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born the justice he has shown. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people. 1 JOHN 3:18-24 Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. Now this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have conﬁdence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do

what pleases him. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us. Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he gave us. JOHN 15:1-8 Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a ﬁre and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father gloriﬁed, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”

Grafted to the true vine

ll the religious traditions of history except the Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) have maintained that the heart of reality is mankind’s quest for the divine, for God. What sets the Abrahamic traditions apart from the others is that they insist that things work the other way round, namely, that the heart of things is God’s quest for us. That’s the central reason why Christians call their message “good news.” That God is the initiator, that God quests for us more than we quest for him, tells us that he loves us and wants to draw us into relationship with him. There can be no greater or better message than that God has loved us so much FATHER MARK that he went to the point of DOHERTY assuming our nature, becoming one of us, so that we might become like him. But while this message may be good, it’s also quite daunting, and it often incites within us a spirit of fear and resistance. Because if God is the

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one in search of us it means that he is his own person, with his own mind and will and whatnot. If the initiative rests with God it means I can’t decide for myself who I want God to be, nor what I want his will for my life to be. I can’t decide for myself what true life consists in. I can’t graft myself onto a vine of my own making. There is one God, one true vine, so the challenge put to each one of us is whether I will accept to be grafted into a real relationship with God or whether I will undertake the futile effort of setting up an alternate life-source, an alternate vine. Where and how do we resist God’s revelation of himself and his plan for our life? In every age the point of resistance is different. In chapter six of John’s Gospel we learn that a large number of those who were initially interested in Jesus turned their backs on him when they found out that to have life in God, to be grafted to the vine, involves eating the body of the Son of Man and drinking his blood. This was a “hard saying” for many, so hard that they turned away after failing to pressure Jesus into changing his message. Today there isn’t so much open controversy or resistance about the doctrine of the Real Presence, but there are surrounding doctrines treating human nature and marriage. As Jesus was clear and insistent in his teaching about the bread of life, so

too was he in his teaching about marriage. He met strong opposition from his interlocutors in both areas; in both areas he held ﬁrm, even to the point of accepting the loss of large numbers of followers. In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles today we learn how surprised the early disciples were to learn that the very man who had been most zealously persecuting them – Saul – was now most zealously preaching the Gospel. Saul’s conversion was surprising precisely because it entailed his surrendering his own position and accepting to be grafted to the true vine. Saul’s surrender included the loss of his position in the community, his reputation, his livelihood, his friends and colleagues; in short, everything he had worked to build up and accumulate for years. Think of the staggering loss he endured. No wonder the disciples of Jesus were so surprised to learn that he was now preaching the Gospel. Paul turns and puts the question to me, to us: How do I resist Jesus? How do I seek to graft myself to a vine of my own making and choosing? How ready am I – as Saul was –to lose status and friends for the sake of being securely grafted to the true vine?

ACTS 15:22-31. PS 57:8-9, 10 and 12. JN 15:15. JN 15:12-17.

us, martyrs; Optional Memorial of St. Pancras, martyr. ACTS 16:22-34. PS 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8. SEE JN 16:7, 13. JN 16:5-11.

FATHER DOHERTY is a parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and a member of the faculty at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 4: Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter. ACTS 14:5-18. PS 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16. JN 14:26. JN 14:21-26. TUESDAY, MAY 5: Tuesday of Fifth Week of Easter. ACTS 14:19-28. PS 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21. SEE LK 24:46, 26. JN 14:27-31a. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6: Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter. ACTS 15:1-6. PS 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5. JN 15:4a, 5b. JN 15:1-8. THURSDAY, MAY 7: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter. St. Rosa Venerini (Italian). ACTS 15:7-21. PS 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10. JN 10:27. JN 15:9-11. FRIDAY, MAY 8: Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter.

SATURDAY, MAY 9: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter. ACTS 16:1-10. PS 100:1b-2, 3, 5. COL 3:1. JN 15:18-21. SUNDAY, MAY 10: Sixth Sunday of Easter. ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. PS 98:1, 2-3, 3-4. 1 JN 4:710. JN 14:23. JN 15:9-17. MONDAY, MAY 11: Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter. ACTS 16:11-15. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. JN 15:26b, 27a. JN 15:26-16:4a. TUESDAY, MAY 12: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Sts. Nereus and Achille-

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima. ACTS 17:15, 22-18:1. PS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. JN 14:16. JN 16:12-15. THURSDAY, MAY 14: Feast of St. Matthias, ACTS 1: 15-17, 20-26. PS 113: 2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. JN 15: 9-17. FRIDAY, MAY 15: Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Isidore. ACTS 18:9-18. PS 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. SEE LK 24:46, 26. JN 16:20-23.

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broadcast in recent weeks that exaggerates and mischaracterizes the archdiocese’s intentions with regard to the proposed teacher contract,” the statement continued. “Some information reported has been incorrect for at least two months. Some of the information in these stories has been so inflammatory as to cause genuine pain and unease with many teachers. “Most disturbing is the suggestion that the contract negotiations are being used only to provide an excuse to fire teachers. That could not be further from the truth. Today Archbishop Cordileone met again with some administrators from the archdiocesan high schools and reiterated his determination to keep teachers, not fire them. There will be no ‘witch hunts,’ no prying into people’s personal lives, no shaming, no hidden agendas. This is something the archdiocese has sought to make clear from the beginning,” the statement said, referring to a question-and-answer article published in the Feb. 6. issue of Cathollic San Francisco. “The archdiocese reiterates its commitment to do what we can to listen to teachers’ ongoing

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Olga Miranda from Service Workers International Union Local 87, representing janitors, addressed the rally. concerns, to restore respectful discussion, and to heal any rifts that may remain,” the statement concluded. “(The archbishop) understands that the teachers want to make sure that the ﬁnal language in the contract both promotes Catholic identity and protects the rights of the teachers. He too wants language that protects the rights of the teachers, and he is willing to make adjustments to ﬁrmly secure those rights.”

“I hate to admit it, but I see lots of St. Anselm’s people there,” including school nuns and parish lectors. Under the direction of Mgsr. Robert Sheeran, director of ministry at Marin Catholic High School, the congregation has grown dramatically. She said he makes the Mass relevant and riveting to people of all ages and by integrating brief explanations of readings or rituals. Paul Gallagher of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Novato said that while other parishes are struggling with what he called “casual Catholics,” or irregular Massgoers, he doesn’t believe that is who St. Vincent is attracting and the deaneries should take a closer look at what they are offering.” “It’s a welcoming community,” he said. “Honestly, we have to ask ourselves, do our parishes offer a welcoming community?” Other suggestions during the meeting included a countywide eucharistic congress, a liturgical renewal course already used with success by Father Pat Michaels of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The Marin deaneries will meet again in June.

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Wills’ book fails to deliver on promised look at future under Francis REVIEWED BY KATHLEEN FINLEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH POPE FRANCIS” BY GARRY WILLS. Viking Press (New York, 2015). 249 pp., $27.95. In the ﬂurry of books published since the beginning of the papacy of Pope Francis, many have attempted to size up where the church may be headed under his leadership. Unfortunately, Garry Wills’ “The Future of the Catholic Church With Pope Francis” doesn’t really do that. What it does do is to give a rather detailed account as to where the church has been in a number of areas, including the use of Latin, the relationship to governments, attitudes toward Judaism, sexuality with natural law and the sacrament of confession. In each of these areas, Wills gives the reader a detailed look at how we got to where we are now, at times in language too detailed and technical, which can leave the general reader puzzled. Wills knows a lot of interesting tidbits about various

historical eras and issues, but that doesn’t always lead to an adequate view of the overall issue that the church has faced – or is facing now. He can tell some fascinating stories, for example, about connections between the inﬂuential Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray, and, of all people, John F. Kennedy. Not only is his view a detailed one but at times it doesn’t seem to be particularly balanced, instead clearly coming just from his liberal, critical standpoint. One example is when he discusses issues of sexuality and why the abuse of children was allowed to occur: “The answer lies in the men who had to face this challenge of accountability – the bishops,” Wills writes. “How could men trained in submission as apparatchiks of Rome muster the wisdom, empathy and resolution to face such an issue? Every instinct of their situation told them to stay ignorant, or feign ignorance, or evade or hide – anything but

face or prevent or do penance for the multiplying scandals. They had to do this, by their lights, ‘for the good of the church.’ Acting otherwise would have required courage, and openness, and humility, from which they had been systematically disabled.” In the section on sexuality, he also makes an unfortunate and somewhat common mistake, confusing natural family planning with the rhythm method, which is different. Pope Francis is almost never mentioned until the epilogue in the ﬁnal several pages, and even then the comments about him are rather general. So, if a reader is looking for some juicy bits about various areas of church history, this book would be helpful; if, instead, one is looking for a longrange view on where we may be headed with Pope Francis, there are other books that would be more helpful. Finley is the author of several books on practical spirituality, including “The Liturgy of Motherhood: Moments of Grace,” and has taught in the religious studies department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, for many years.

Slim volume offers amazing depth in look at history of Jesuits REVIEWED BY DAVID GIBSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“THE JESUITS: A HISTORY FROM IGNATIUS TO THE PRESENT” BY FATHER JOHN W. O’MALLEY, S.J. A SHEED AND WARD book published by Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland, 2014). 129 pp., $22. With the 2013 election of history’s ﬁrst Jesuit pope, interest mounted exponentially in the nowworldwide Society of Jesus that St. Ignatius Loyola, with nine friends, founded in the 16th century. What Pope Francis’ election means for the Jesuits “remains to be seen,” writes Jesuit Father John W. O’Malley. But he points out in “The Jesuits”

that “having a Jesuit as pope” represents “an eventuality that through the centuries seemed almost unthinkable.” The reasons it virtually was unthinkable are, from one perspective, what Father O’Malley’s brief, easy-to-read history of the Jesuits is about. Over the course of time, “myths and misunderstandings about the Jesuits” entered so deeply into the public mind that “they seem impossible to eradicate,” he observes. Histories of the Society of Jesus written over the centuries often reﬂected a certain “bifurcation.”

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broadly learned clergy in the church, no matter what may have been the limitations of their intellectual culture.” Thus, suppression constituted a loss. A fascinating, brief section of this book recalls the surprising role in the Jesuits’ ultimate survival of Russia’s Catherine the Great, who refused to implement Pope Clement XIV’s suppression decree. Father O’Malley writes, “She appreciated the contribution the Jesuits made to cultural life, and, imperious person that she was, she saw no reason to implement in her empire a decree from a foreign government.”

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YOUTH FOOD FAST: High school youth from across the Archdiocese of San Francisco took part in a food fast with Catholic Relief Services April 18 at St. Peter Parish, Pacifica. “The youth fasted for the day while learning about the poverty and hunger afflicting San Francisco and the world,” said Ynez Lizarraga, director of youth ministry for the archdiocese.

TRANSITIONAL DEACON ORDAINED: Newly appointed Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly ordained Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarian Andrew Ginter as a deacon on April 18. Also ordained was Ronald Manango of the Stockton diocese. Deacon Ginter, pictured at right, entered the seminary during the time that Bishop Daly was vocations director for the archdiocese.

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Novena to St. Jude Thaddeus St. Jude, glorious apostle, faithful servant & friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many. But the Church honors & invokes you universally as the patron of difficult and desperate cases. Pray for me who am so miserable. Make use, I implore you, of that particular privilege accorded to you to bring visible & speedy help where help was almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation & help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations & sufferings, particularly (here make your request) & that I may bless God with you & all the elect throughout all eternity. I promise you, O blessed Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, & I will never cease to honor you as my special & powerful patron & do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. St. Jude, pray for us & for all who honor & invoke thy aid. (Say the Our Father, Hail Mary, & Glory be to the Father 3 times) Thank you, St. Jude. – M&LP

Lucia dos Santos was one of the three children to whom the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared at Fatima, Portugal in 1917. Pray as Lucia dos Santos did for “miracles needed”. Three Hail Marys and one Our Father TPW

PRAYER TO ST. PEREGRINE

O great St. Peregrine, you have been called “The Wonder Worker” because of the numerous miracles which you have obtained from God for those who have had recourse to you. For so many years you bore in your own flesh this cancerous disease that destroys the very fiber of our being, & who had recourse to the source of all grace when the power of man could do no more. You were favored with the vision of Jesus coming down from His Cross to heal your affliction. Ask of God and Our Lady the cure of the sick whom we entrust to you. (mention names of those you are praying for ) Aided in this way by your powerful intercession, we shall sing to God, now & for all eternity, a song of gratitude for His great goodness & mercy. Amen. (Say the Our Father, Hail Mary, & Glory be to the Father). Thank you, St. Peregrine. – M&LP

JOB DESCRIPTION 1. YOUTH MINISTER St Gabriel’s Pastoral Staff operates in a “team” ministry atmosphere. This position involves being part of the Pastoral Staff which meets regularly for prayer, business, planning, and evaluation. In addition, as a Pastoral Staff member this position also requires attendance at appropriate parish meetings (e.g. Parish Council, Parish Social and Liturgical events).

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(Patron Saint of Cancer Patients)

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3. PASTORAL MINISTRY: YOUTH MINISTRY A. Work with the Youth Ministry Magi Leadership Team (adults and older teens) to develop appropriate and effective youth ministry efforts in the parish.

Santa Sabina Center

May 12, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. ~ Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen as contemplative practice, through the Ear to the Heart. This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music. Suggested offering, $10-20. May 13, 9:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m.~ Contemplative Day of Prayer led by Fr Joe Nassal, cpps. The day includes presentation, personal reflection and Eucharist. No reservations required. Suggested offering, $20. May 13, 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.~ Robert Lax: Poet-Mystic-Sage, evening of reading, reflection and conversation with Steve T. Georgiou.t No reservations required. Suggested offering, $20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael, 415-457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org

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B. With the assistance of the Magi Leadership Team plan, implement, and evaluate all parish youth activities which include the following: 1. Weekly youth meetings with spiritual, service, and social dimensions. 2. Twice monthly Sunday 5:30 pm Youth Mass. 3. Magi Team meetings 4. Liaison with parish and youth 5. Provide one-on-one ministry to the youth 6. Participate in appropriate Archdiocesan events/committee for youth. C. Coordinate Confirmation Faith Formation Program 1. Recruit, train, and direct adults and teens for participation in the Magi Leadership Team for the parish Confirmation Program. 2. Implement the following: a. Regular Confirmation class and group meetings with candidates. b. Confirmation Overnight Retreat c. Liturgical Services (rite of Enrolment and Reception of the Sacrament). d. Record Keeping.

e. Plan and Coordinate St. Gabriel 8th grade Day of Prayer

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FRIDAY, MAY 1 MASS AND TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club beginning with Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae followed by breakfast and talk from University of San Francisco president Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald. Members breakfast $8, visitors $10. (415) 461-0704, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sugaremy@aol.com. CANCER MASS: Feast of St. Peregrine, patron saint of those suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other incurable diseases; St. Gregory Church, 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo, 7 p.m., with sacrament of anointing as part of the liturgy. (650) 345-8506.

SATURDAY, MAY 2 MERCY SF REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, all classes, 4-7 p.m. in the school’s McAuley Pavilion with wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. $35 per person. www.mercyhs. org/. Audrey Magnusen, (415) 3377218; amagnusen@mercyhs.org. FOOD FAIR: Food and fellowship at the St. Ignatius College Preparatory International Food Faire, 4-8 p.m., featuring 11 multicultural all-you-can-eat food booths, unlimited photo booth, live entertainment, and DJ Dance party. Reserve early bird tickets at www.siprep. org/Food. $15/adult, $10/student, children 5 and under free; $20/adult, $15/ student at door. Miriam Sweeney, (415) 407-1197; mimi@babyleodesigns.com. CONTINUED SERVICE: Companions in Ignatian Service and Spirituality engages women and men, retired and semiretired, who have a desire to serve those most marginalized while deepening their spiritual foundations. Ignatian Companions integrate their personal journey of faith with their own conviction to act for justice within local nonprofits. We are currently accepting applications for the 2015-2016 program year and will be welcoming new

SUNDAY, MAY 3

at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Chaplet of Divine Mercy is prayed at 3 p.m. All are welcome. www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com

EWTN HOST SPEAKS: “An Evening with Raymond Arroyo,” the long-of-EWTN host speaks on people he considers signs of hope including St. Padre Pio, Raymond Arroyo 7 p.m., Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Avenue, San Francisco. Admission is free. (415) 751-0450.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Augusto Villote, pastor, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, Daly City, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 7562060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 22

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

CHARISMATIC CONVENTION: Catholic Charismatic movement, Northern California Renewal Coalition convention May 22-24, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist of the event’s opening Mass and Msgr. James Tarantino will preside at Mass later in weekend. Talks will be offered for adults, young adults, teenagers and children. Speakers include Ed Horodko, long the voice of Immaculate Heart Radio. For registration, complete schedule and additional details visit www.NCRCSpirit. org; call (415) 350-8677.

‘JOY OF GOSPEL’: Pray, read and discuss Pope Francis’ teaching during presentations on Pope Francis’ new document, 7 p.m., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd., entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Dominican Sisters Ingrid Clemmensen and Marcia Krause facilitate. www.msjdominicans.org.

participants until our program is filled to its capacity, St Agnes Parish, San Francisco. For more information email ignatiancompanions@gmail.com; visit www.ignatiancompanions.org. PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova, Vallejo Street

PEACE MASS: All Hallows Chapel, 1715 Oakdale Ave., San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Daniel E. Carter, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

CELEBRATING MOTHERS: Epiphany Center luncheon honoring mothers, St. Francis Yacht Club, 700 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Hosted by the Epiphany League, volunteer women dedicated to the center and its work of caring for at-risk women, children and families. www.epiphanycenter.org; (415) 351-4055. CONSECRATED LIFE: The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Gather@Grand series welcomes Dominican Sister Mary Hughes, 7 p.m. The speaker is an Amityville, New York Dominican and past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. She will present her views on the essence and future of consecrated life. Gather@Grand is open to all and includes light refreshments and time for questions and answers; Gathering Space at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. RSVP by calling (415) 453-8303 or email

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MONDAY, MAY 11 HOLY LAND: A meeting regarding the construction of a conference and multi-media center being built near Jerusalem in memory of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, late prelate of Opus Dei, 7 p.m., San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel. RSVP saxumsanfrancisco@yahoo.com; (415) 481-0592.

THURSDAY, MAY 14 CONTEMPLATIVE ROSARY: The Glorious Mysteries, St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater Ave. at El Camino Real, Burlingame, 7 p.m. Pray with us Bob Hurd’s setting of the Glorious Mysteries to begin the Pentecost Novena on the traditional Ascension Thursday led by our parish music ministry; (650) 766-0364; music@stcsiena.org. PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December, 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 16 SOLEMN HIGH MASS: Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 9:30 a.m., Dominican Father Ambrose Sigman, principal celebrant. Liturgy is followed by presentations from Dominican friars, nuns and laity about Dominican life as well as a reception. The morning com-

memorates the Year of Consecrated Life. “Founded by St. Dominic 800 years ago, the Order of Friars Preachers was commissioned to contemplate God and share with others the fruit of that contemplation, preaching the Gospel for the salvation of souls,” the Dominican Sisters said in a statement. “Today, the sons and daughters of St. Dominic continue to embrace and live out that charism as religious friars and nuns, sisters and laity.” For more information, contact Dominican Sister Joseph Marie, DominicanNuns@nunsmenlo.org; (650) 322-1801. The Mass will be according to the Dominican rite, a form of the extraordinary form unique to the Dominican Order. HANDICAPABLES MASS: The first 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with monthly Mass and lunch at noon in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865.

as well as chairs and blankets. The day is in support of the ministry of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Donations to help with costs are welcome at www.gofundme.com/ archbishop. For complete details on the event visit www.SFCatholics.org; email SFCatholics@gmail.com.

SUNDAY MAY 17 FAITH FORMATION: “Sunday Morning Conversations with the Jesuits and Their Lay Partners,” St. Ignatius Church, Fromm Hall, Parker and Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, 10:50-11:45 a.m. Free and open to the public. Free parking in all USF lots, Dan Faloon (415) 422-2195; faloon@usfca.edu; Jesuit Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu. May 17: Manresa Gallery talk about exhibit on religious garments in St. Ignatius Church. www.stignatiuscff. org/adult-faith-formation/.

PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10. Beverages available for purchase. A tradition of the local church for more than 50 years.

FAMILY PICNIC: Sponsored by SFCatholics.org, Sue Bierman Park next to Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Families are asked to bring their own picnic foods and beverages

SATURDAY, MAY 30 ROSARY: Mary’s prayer will be said at noon, Civic Center Plaza at One

PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New Members welcome; Jessica (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

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