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Archbishop George H. Niederauer, 1936-2017: Eighth archbishop of San Francisco Catholic San Francisco

Friends, faithful, priests and brother bishops remembered retired San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer as a gentle shepherd who led the archdiocese with wit, intelligence and a thoroughly pastoral but at times unapologetically countercultural proclamation of the Gospel.

“To follow the Gospel is to swim against the current,” Archbishop Niederauer told an October 2008 gathering of young adult Catholics at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco, two weeks before an election that included church-supported Proposition 8 on the California ballot.

Archbishop Niederauer, 80, who served as the eighth archbishop of San Francisco from 2006-12 and led Utah Catholics for 11 years before that following a career as an English professor, died May 2.

He had been living at Nazareth House in San Rafael for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.

Viewing hours are Thursday, May 11, from 4-7 p.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, followed by a vigil with San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy as homilist. Bishop McElroy served with Archbishop Niederauer as an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 12, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, followed by a procession to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma and interment. Cardinal William J. Levada, the seventh archbishop of San Francisco and a lifelong friend of the late archbishop, will be principal celebrant and homilist. see george H. neiderauer, page 5

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With a smile on his face and his hand over his heart, Archbishop George H. Niederauer passes media cameras as he approaches the doors of St. Mary’s Cathedral on Feb. 15, 2006, for his installation as eighth archbishop of San Francisco.

Archbishop to consecrate archdiocese to Immaculate Heart of Mary Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The 100th anniversary of the appearance of the Blessed Mother to three young shepherd children at Fatima will be marked in San Francisco by the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the annual rosary rally Oct. 7.

“In these times when we face ever more serious challenges to living out our faith and proclaiming the Gospel, we need to engage at a spiritual level asking God’s blessing and God’s assistance,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said of this special act of entrustment to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

‘This is a way of asking for specific graces upon the archdiocese in the here-and-now.’

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Our Lady of the Pillar administrator With the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary “we ask Our Lady to intercede to her son for us that we may be more perfectly aligned with his will and be more deeply committed to sharing his

love with others,” Archbishop Cordileone said, noting he decided to do the consecration in response to “many requests from the faithful.”

The Immaculate Heart of Mary is a devotional name used to refer to the interior life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, her joys and sorrows, her virtues and hidden perfections, and, above all, her virginal love for God the Father, her maternal love for her son Jesus, and her compassionate love for all people, according to the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s webpage devoted to the topic, sfarchdiocese.org/ihm.

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Catholic Charities names Jilma Meneses chief executive officer

Need to know TV CANONIZATIONS: Tune-in to EWTN for Canonization and special 100th anniversary programming from Fatima! EWTN is airing the celebration including the historic canonization by Pope Francis of the Fatima visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta Marto on May 12, 13.Visit ewtn.com/fatima/programming.asp for a full list of programming. EWTN is broadcast on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH satellite 261 and Direct TV 370.

SUPPORT IN ILLNESS: Beginning June 2, St. Mary’s Cathedral: “Strength for the Journey Ministry,” Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 1-2:30 p.m., Msgr. Bowe room. This is a monthly support group, for those with lifethreatening illnesses such as cancer, HIV, stroke.

Sessions provide spiritual support as well as guidance on Catholic teaching and the preparation of health care directives for medical care. No charge. Deacon Christoph Sandoval facilitates.

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CHARISMATIC Conference: “Go Therefore, and Make Disciples of all Nations,” Northern California Renewal Coalition, May 26, 27, 28, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, with San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath and other speakers and principal celebrants. Seminars in English for adults, young adults, teens and children.

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plify the support of both the Catholic and the nonCatholic community as Catholic Charities, like other nonprofits, anticipates funding cuts from the Trump administration.

San Francisco raised Jilma Meneses has been Catholic Charities already has a lot of support named new chief executive offrom Catholics and non-Catholics, “but we have to ficer of Catholic Charities of the increase that,” she said.

Archdiocese of San Francisco, “We have to really make it known how importhe organization said April 27. tant it is now, more important than in many years, Meneses, an attorney, currentfor us to stand together,” Meneses said. “Whether ly serves as the chief operating it’s a $10 donation or a $10 million donation it officer and chief general coundoesn’t matter. We’re asking them to join us.” sel for Concordia University in Organizing the broader San Francisco commuPortland, Oregon. She has also nity to stand together in support of this cause may served as dean of Concordia’s Jilma Meneses take a new approach, said Meneses, whose vision law school. She will assume includes “rebranding” Catholic Charities in a way her new post July 1, 2017, and that persuades others to “join a cause, not just replaces Jeff Bialik in the top role at the archdiohelp the poor.” cese’s social services arm.

“We will have to demonstrate that an investment Meneses grew up in San Francisco’s Mission disin Catholic Charities is not just for the poor or vultrict and is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Lewis nerable person; it’s for themselves, their children and Clark Law School in Portland.

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Carol Grewal is the new associate superintendent for faith formation and leadership in the schools department. Grewal currently is principal of San Francisco’s St. Brendan School.

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Right, students at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco attended a vocation day on April 28, organized for the second year in a row by Contemplatives of St. Joseph founder and Star of the Sea parochial vicar Father Vito Perrone. Above, a group portrait of some of tthe presenters.

Vocation day emphasizes living ‘in rhythm’ with God Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Waving their hands, stamping their feet, singing and at times shouting in time to the drums, Star of the Sea students got a sometimes raucous perspective on religious life at a vocation day at the San Francisco Catholic elementary school on a sunny Friday morning.

“I thought that the rhythm, the beat, in music was going to satisfy my soul completely,” Los Angeles seminarian Brian Humphrey, a former Los Angeles music producer and engineer, told a roomful of fourth through eighth graders who he led in beat sounds in time to drumming by Contemplative of St. Joseph Brother Andre Moreno.

“But it didn’t. It didn’t.”

Humphrey told the children he left the music business after 16 years even though he had had the chance to work with big names including Bruno Mars and Beyoncé. “I decided to give up the rhythm of music alone,” Humphrey said.

“God is king of the universe. I am now working with music, the music of God’s love.”

Humphrey and Brother Andre Moreno’s presentation led into the culminating performance by a quartet of eighth graders on drums and guitars of “This is Amazing Grace” by artist Phil Wickham, with lyrics that begin “Who breaks the power of sin and darkness? Whose love is mighty and so much stronger? The king of glory, the king above all kings.”

“Parents, teachers, and kids are all talking about vocation day! And many of the kids said they are now thinking about a religious or priestly vocation,” said Contemplatives of St. Joseph founder and Star of the Sea parochial vicar Father Vito Perrone, who organized the April 28 vocation day for the second year in a row.

The idea, Father Perrone said, “is to expose the children to religious vocations – to the diaconate, priesthood, religious brothers and sisters. To help them realize this is really an option in their lives.”

About seven years ago, recently deceased Archbishop George Niederauer approved Father Perrone’s concept and the diocesan priest founded the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, an archdiocesan order of priests and brothers which combines contemplative and active life. The monastery is located on the grounds of Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco.

The day also included short talks by three sisters of the Daughters of Carmel, a contemplativeactive order whose U.S.-Canadian headquarters are in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, St. Mary’s Cathedral Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval, soon to be Dominican seminarian Brendan Ford who is music director at Star of the Sea Parish, and others.

Each of the speakers spoke very briefly about hearing God’s call. The stories ranged from Daughter of Carmel Sister Theofila, who grew up in a Buddhist family and converted to Catholicism at age 14, to Contemplative Brother Chris Coyne, who was the sixth child in a large Catholic family. He was encouraged by his parents to become a priest but avoided it for years, he told the children. He is now preparing to enter the

seminary to study for the priesthood, Father Perrone said.

The sisters, Father Perrone and Brother Chris Coyne then visited the classrooms of grades K-3 after lunch, and prayed and chatted with the younger children.

Father Perrone said the vocation day brings “people who are living this sort of life to speak to the children and to encourage them, so that if they are hearing a call, they will have the courage to respond. And that they have the encouragement from what happens today to say, ‘hey, I can do this.’”

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Helping poor has ‘expanded my portfolio as an artist and as a person,’ Sally Green says

role in taking the TOP idea to the larger community and gaining support.

“Sally brought beauty to TOP presentations to our guests and supporters. It has become an enduring distinguishing quality for our ministry,” Debbe said, noting Sally has designed the TOP logo, elegant annual posters and promotional communication collateral using her graphic art and painting skills.

“We are very fortunate to have Sally Green as our Table of Plenty artist,” said Notre Dame Sister Jeanette Braun, TOP director. “I love the elegant simplicity of her designs that grace our logo and TOP publications. Sally has brought distinction to our ministry that serves struggling, families, homeless and hungry.”

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For artist Sally Green “every experience has had its purpose” and her work demonstrating that will be on display beginning May 1 and continuing through June 30 at Mercy Center Art Gallery on the Mercy Sisters’ camSally Green pus in Burlingame.

“The paintings were selected from my ‘Life and Work’ and ‘Leaders with a Lasting Impression’ collections,” Sally said in materials promoting the show. Sally does not miss a chance to stay busy and in that vein she has been house artist for the Table of Plenty in Half Moon Bay since the group’s founding in 2012. Her artwork welcomes “struggling families, elders, homeless and hungry” when they gather each week for dinner at Table of Plenty.

On her website, Sally said the Table of Plenty connection is among “many unexpected opportunities that have expanded my portfolio as an artist and as a person for which I am grateful.” Sally creates all graphics and printed materials for TOP. Debbe Kennedy, an original TOP volunteer and who handles media for TOP, filled us in a bit more on Sally’s story. Sally calls Debbe a “lifelong friend.”

Sally was brought into the church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults in 2012 at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay, Debbe said. “It was through this process of discerning how she could use her artistic talent to serve in the church that she be-

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FIELD TRIP: Students from Convent & Stuart Hall schools spent a week in Italy exploring “sprawling Roman ruins, ancient architecture, art museums, cultural landmarks and the world’s smallest country, Vatican City,” the school said in a note to this column. Latin teacher Scott Roos organized the trip. “We used a binder of Latin texts that in some way related to the sites that we were visiting,” Scott said. “We read Latin at some of those sites and English translations of Latin at other sites.” The trip during winter break gave students a brief but intense exploration of ancient societies, history, art and architecture, the school said.

REUNION: Almost 200 alumnae of San Francisco’s St. John Ursuline High School joined together for the school’s annual reunion April 23.”We were able to raise funds to donate to our beloved Ursuline Sisters,” Theresa Keane, class of 1977 and alumnae president told me in a note to this column. “The event ended with all of us joining hands to sing ‘Serviam,’ our school song.” Pictured are members of the St. John’s class of 1967 who were honored with Golden Diplomas. Photo by Lilli Ann Funkhouser, ‘84. came part of the initial founding volunteer leadership team for Table of Plenty.” TOP follows Christ’s ex-

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George H. Niederauer: Eighth archbishop of San Francisco FROM PAGE 1

“Archbishop Niederauer was known for his spiritual leadership, intelligence and wisdom, compassion and humor, and was always focused on his responsibility to live and teach the faith,” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said in a May 2 announcement to the priests of the archdiocese.

“When he was named archbishop, he was asked what he would want the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to know about him,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “He answered, ‘I’ve chosen the motto for my coat of arms, ‘to serve and to give’, because I am convinced servant leadership in the church defines the role of the bishop. This is the message of the Gospel, as in the reading from Mark, Chapter 10, which was included in my installation Mass. There we hear James and John asking for special places next to Jesus. He says to all his apostles that the one who would ‘be first among you must be the servant of the rest because the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for the many.’ Leading by serving: it’s easily misunderstood, but it seems central to me.”

At his inaugural press conference on Dec. 15, 2005, Archbishop Niederauer said he sees the role of bishop as “priest, prophet and shepherd” and was immediately asked by reporters how he would reconcile the “conservative” positions of the church with the “liberal” city of San Francisco, the National Catholic Register reported at the time. “I want to get past labels,” Archbishop Niederauer said. “I think the ministry of Christ, the ministry of Christ in his church is to meet men, women and children everywhere ... to teach the good news which is good news for right, left, and center.”

Former Los Angeles archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahony remembered his longtime friend and seminary classmate for his “engaging wit and humor” that “became hallmarks of his open and loving personality, and he always had just the right words and the turn of a phrase to help defuse tensions and to uplift people – no matter what cloud was overhead.”

On the celebration of his 50th anniversary of priestly ordination at St. Mary’s Cathedral in 2012, former San Francisco auxiliary bishop and Salt Lake City bishop and now – Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester commented on how Archbishop Niederauer’s motto “to serve and to give” matched the archbishop’s approach to his vocation.

The motto “is perfect because that’s what he does,” Archbishop Wester told Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Catholic newspaper. “He’s a real pastor and I admire him greatly. He’s a real servant of Christ.

He’s been an inspiration to me in my own ministry.”

Msgr. J. Terrence Fitzgerald, the retired vicar general at the Diocese of Salt Lake City and a friend of Archbishop Niederauer for 25 years, said of him at that time, “He is one of the most authentic human people that I have known. St. Thomas Aquinas said grace builds on nature. And I think that is really true in the archbishop’s case because he is such a good, warm, personable individual. His presence reflects a certain grace of the church’s presence.”

Msgr. Jack Stoeger, director of the Cardinal Manning House of Prayer for Priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a longtime friend, recalled the archbishop as “a very sought-after and admired spiritual director,” distinguished as available to everyone and non-judgmental. He said Archbishop Niederauer was “a wonderful discerner” who “knew how to make decisions that would reflect a belief in God -- common-sense, rooted in the Earth and in the world but very committed to doing the right thing.”

He also had “this incredible capacity for friendship,” Father Stoeger told Catholic San Francisco. “I don’t know of anybody who had as many friends as he had.”

On his 50th ordination anniversary, Archbishop Niederauer told Catholic San Francisco reporter George Raine, “I am grateful to God for calling me to spend my life meeting and serving Jesus Christ in my sisters and brothers in the church. The church is truly my family in faith.”

Raine captured Archbishop Niederauer in the following passage in the April 20, 2012, issue of Catholic San Francisco.

“He’s regarded as a master homilist, a wit, a holy and keenly intelligent and well-read man,” Raine wrote. “He’s as likely to quote the Gospels’ parables as he is the poetry of paradox – perhaps the story of the Pharisee’s braggadocio as he gives God thanks

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Archbishop Niederauer at St. Mary’s Cathedral at a 2012 interfaith conference opposing federal policy on deportations. Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is at the archbishop’s right.

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Archbishop Niederauer celebrates Mass at the cathedral, with retired Archbishop John R. Quinn and Cardinal William J. Levada. that he is not like the rest of men and the prayerful tax collector who admits he’s a sinner (it’s the lone Gospel passage in which Jesus is a satirist, the teacher notes, referring to the Pharisee’s bad prayer) or perhaps Oscar Hammerstein II in ‘The Sound of Music’ on giving in order to have: ‘A bell’s not a bell ‘til you ring it, A song’s not a song ‘til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay, Love isn’t love ‘til you give it away.’ Both tell the truth.”

Raine wrote that Archbishop Niederauer’s favorite short story by the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor was “Revelation,” which tells of a smug woman who looks down on people of a lower class but at story’s end sees them at the front of the line “climbing upward into the starry field and shouting hallelujah.”

As archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Niederauer left behind a Utah diocese in an area

heavily influenced by the traditional values of the Church of the Latter-day Saints to grapple with a number of controversial issues. In 2008, he supported the California ballot measure Proposition 8 defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The measure passed but was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The policy director for the Mormons credited Archbishop Niederauer’s outreach to the Church of Latter-day Saints with its decision to commit doorto-door campaigning and $20 million to the Yes on 8 campaign, the San Francisco Chronicle reported at the time.

While the ballot measure was approved by California voters, it was later overturned by a federal court in 2010. That ruling was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2013.

The campaign was so divisive that Archbishop Niederauer published an open letter in the Dec. 5, 2008, Catholic San Francisco titled, “With God’s grace and much prayer, we can all move forward together.”

“Tolerance, respect, and trust are always two-way streets, and tolerance, respect and trust often do not include agreement, or even approval,” he wrote. “We need to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. We need to stop talking as if we are experts on the real motives of people with whom we have never even spoken. We need to stop hurling names like ‘bigot’ and ‘pervert’ at each other. And we need to stop it now.” see george H. neiderauer, page 20

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Catholics offer ‘out-of-the-box’ health care In brief remarks before leading the opening prayer, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone praised “this very timely and important conference.”

“The church, of course, from the very start has been a leader in providing health care, truly Christ-centered health care to care for the whole person. So, we need to, in the changing circumstances of our day continue to find new ways to deliver Christ-centered health care to those who are suffering,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

“We are all paying for health care that is garbage,” said Dr. Michel Accad, a San Francisco cardiologist, who said health insurance requirements have turned the physician into the “middleman.”

“Medical care today is increasingly mechanical,” the Catholic physician said, and lost its sense of the human being as body and soul. Doctors’ ability to practice has become hostage to

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The state of health care in the U.S. is in flux, but no matter where the nation’s laws and regulations end up, a small group of Catholic health care innovators are plunging ahead with solutions aimed at offering individualized, affordable medicine that respects Catholic values.

That’s a tall order, as speakers at the archdiocesan Respect Life Conference on “Restoring Affordable Michael O’Dea Catholic Healthcare” April 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral event center in San Francisco acknowledged. In some ways, the solutions are a work in progress, but they also work – even if not for everyone and not all the time, the speakers said.

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what insurance companies decide are necessary, he said.

His solution was to become a direct primary care doctor. Accad said in his practice he has restored the physician as steward of the patient’s health by eschewing health insurance and instead operating on a model where patients pay a monthly fee for an ongoing relationship. Accad refers his patients for tests, services and to specialists who take insurance as well as directly paid fees, but believes with his model he provides direct, personalized care that allows him to get to know his patients and spend more time with them.

“The direct primary care movement is an affordable arrangement that aims to repair the doctorpatient relationship and reduce or remove conflicts of interest,” said Accad. see health care, page 7

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health care: Catholics offer ‘out-of-the-box’ options in shifting landscape FROM PAGE 6

Direct primary care pediatricians, family doctors and internists are a “small but fast-growing movement,” according to a March 17 Business Insider article that said the rise of high deductible insurance plans makes the model more attractive. In the past five years, the number has increased from less than 200 to about 1,000, said Accad.

Another conference presenter offered an alternative to health insurance known as health cost sharing.

Michael O’Dea, founder and execu-

tive director of Christ Medicus Foundation based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, first got into the field several decades ago as a volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center when he realized that almost all health insurance plans paid for abortion, artificial contraception and sterilization.

Since then, O’Dea has been working on a state and national level for conscience rights and used his expertise from a career in insurance to devise solutions aimed at providing affordable but ethical health care financing options.

Christ Medicus now offers CMF

CURO. The health cost-sharing ministry provides Catholics and evangelical Christians with an economically and morally favorable alternative to the Affordable Health Care Act that is exempt from the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate and the mandate that individuals purchase insurance, O’Dea said. To join, members must have a letter from their pastor saying they are a member or parishioner in good standing.

While the program has limitations, including not covering pre-existing conditions, he said, “It’s amazing how much people can save under this pro-

gram and it does not have the large deductibles.”

“Our most difficult thing is getting the word out,” O’Dea said. “It’s not insurance. Rather, it’s just Christian, sharing, caring with your brothers and sisters.”

O’Dea said direct primary care comprehensive medical centers that are faithful to the Ethical and Religious Directives of Catholic Health Care and the magisterium are also needed, particularly to provide a place for those facing terminal illness or chronic disabling conditions who insurance companies may decide to stop covering.

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Sheltering homeless families in San Francisco Catholic Charities executive director. “Thanks to the financial support of so many in our archdiocese, our services continue today to help families become self-sufficient by overcoming the chronic problems that cause homelessness.”

In June 2008, the shelter moved to a location in the Mission District where it continues to operate today. Over the last 20 years, St. Joseph’s Family Center has served over 1,000 families. Of the families supported, 75 percent have moved out to permanent or transitional housing. Catholic Charities Homelessness and Housing Services offers 13 programs, resulting in over 3,500 individuals who were stably housed last year alone.

“We believe that families must be supported and strengthened,” said Bialik. “By providing homeless families with a safe and supportive place to live, we are breaking the cycle of homelessness. Thank you to everyone in the archdiocese whose gifts of time, talent and treasure have made our work possible.

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Twenty years ago, San Francisco was facing a housing crisis similar to the one we are witnessing today.

Families with nowhere to turn found themselves without options, and without hope. In response to the increased number of homeless families, Catholic Charities St. Joseph’s Family Center opened its doors in April 1997. A collaboration between Catholic Charities, the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the City of San Francisco, the new family shelter was located South of Market at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The church had been closed due to structural damage from the Loma Prieta Earthquake in October 1989, and the archdiocese opened the large property and three of the buildings for the shelter: the rectory, the convent, and the Hall Building.

“Catholic Charities St. Joseph’s Family Center was developed to provide services to homeless families with extensive support services that include

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Church leaders view religious freedom order as positive step

WASHINGTON – Many religious leaders viewed President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious freedom, which he signed in a White House Rose Garden ceremony May 4, as a step in the right direction.

In a ceremony for the National Day of Prayer prior to signing the executive order, Trump told the assembled religious leaders: “We’re taking big steps to protect religious liberty” and he assured them the government “won’t stand for religious discrimination.”

Three religious leaders, including Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, offered prayers during the ceremony.

Before the event, Cardinal Wuerl and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, bishops, met with Trump about the order. In later interview, Cardinal DiNardo said the meeting was brief but productive.

Earlier, in a statement, the cardinal said the executive order “begins the process of alleviating the serious burden of the HHS mandate,” referring to the mandate issued by the federal Department of Health and Human Services requiring most religious employers to provide coverage of artificial birth control for their employees even if they morally oppose it.

The text of the order, “Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty,” states that cabinet offices “shall consider issuing amended regulations, consistent with applicable law, to address conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate.”

During the White House ceremony, Trump told some of the Little Sisters of the Poor in the crowd: “Your long ordeal will soon be over.” The sisters are

just one of the groups that challenged the federal contraceptive mandate to the U.S. Supreme Court.

care for the largest number of people, in the interest of maintaining dignity and quality of life, as our faith calls us to do. It is immoral to restrict access to care for anyone, but especially for the most vulnerable, including those who need consistent treatment and our aging population, said Patrick Carolan, executive director of the Franciscan Action Network.

“As arguably the most powerful, developed country in the world, it is inexcusable that our health care system is failing so many. We can and must do better,” Carolan said.

The bill’s passage “is a dangerous and irresponsible step … It violates Christian and Catholic faith teaching and the values of our nation,” said Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service who is executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.

born care, hospitalization and pediatric services; includes ‘per capita caps’ and weakens coverage for pre-existing health conditions – all of which will hurt disabled persons, especially and including children and adults with autism, the elderly and the working poor,” Smith said in a May 4 statement.

Those opposing the bill cited reductions in coverage and cost increases.

Those favoring the bill cited its pro-life provisions.

“The vote falls far short of protecting the millions of Americans who have insurance or gained it under the Affordable Care Act,” said a May 4 statement from Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. “It also fails to provide access to affordable health care for the millions who still live without coverage.”

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AHCA has ‘major defects,’ says bishops’ committee chair

WASHINGTON – The American Health Care Act that passed by a fourvote margin May 4 in the House has “major defects,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Social Development.

“It is deeply disappointing that the voices of those who will be most severely impacted were not heeded,” Bishop Dewane said in a May 4 statement.

“The AHCA does offer critical life protections, and our health care system desperately needs these safeguards.

But still, vulnerable people must not be left in poor and worsening circumstances as Congress attempts to fix the current and impending problems with the Affordable Care Act.” He added, “When the Senate takes up the AHCA, it must act decisively to remove the harmful proposals from the bill that will affect low-income people – including immigrants – as well as add vital conscience protections, or begin reform efforts anew. Our health care policy must honor all human life and dignity from conception to natural death, as well as defend the sincerely held moral and religious beliefs of those who have any role in the health care system.”

One of 20 Republicans to vote against the bill was Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus.

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Pope: Priests should ease, not add to, faithful’s burden

VATICAN CITY – A priest who does not willingly embrace Christ’s cross and who does not try to lighten the burdens of his people is not worthy of the name, Pope Francis told 10 men he was about to ordain. “A priest who perhaps has studied a lot of theology and has one, two or three degrees, but has not learned to carry the cross of Christ is useless,” the pope said May 7. “He might be a good academic, a good professor, but not a priest.”

The pope used the prescribed homily

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To the admonition that priests nourish their people with sound doctrine, Pope Francis added a request that they speak simply and clearly.

“Speak simply, speak to people’s hearts, and this preaching will be true nourishment,” the pope said.

Pope Francis asked the new priests to be particularly merciful with penitents in the confessional. “Don’t lay on the shoulders of the faithful burdens that they cannot carry and that you couldn’t either. That is the reason Jesus rebuked

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Prayer is the answer to God’s surprises, pope says

VATICAN CITY – God, who created the world, continues to work in it, surprising people and making some of them nervous, Pope Francis said. The phrase “it’s always been done this way” reflects an attitude that “kills,” the pope said May 8 at his early morning Mass.

“This kills freedom. It kills joy. It kills fidelity to the Holy Spirit, who always is at work, leading the church.”

In his homily during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, Pope Francis concentrated on the first

reading from the Acts of the Apostles, which recounts the heated debate in the early Christian community about Peter entering the homes of pagans, sharing the Gospel with them and baptizing them. Peter is courageous, the pope said. “He was able to accept God’s surprise” and to move in a new direction under the guidance of the Holy Spirit while other members of the community “certainly were afraid of this novelty.”

The pope said it is possible that a new idea comes from “the spirit of the world or the spirit of the devil.” In response, the church must ask the Holy Spirit for the gift of wise discernment.

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“Macron has been elected in an important manner – we must hope he succeeds for the good of our country, otherwise it will be catastrophic,” said Archbishop Pontier.

“Priorities for his new five-year term must include struggling against unemployment, which is so destructive for families, for prospects and for projects, as well as the necessity of staying in Europe – and giving this Europe the means of retaining the respect of every people.”

Macron won the second-round presidential ballot with 66.1 percent of votes against 33.9 percent taken

PARIS – The head of the French bishops’ conference welcomed the election of President-elect Emmanuel Macron and said he hoped June legislative elections would not place the country “in an ungovernable situation.”

Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille, president of the French bishops’ conference, told Vatican Radio May 8 that French Catholics had also been left “divided like the rest of French society” and said he counted on Macron and his new government “being able to function.”

by Marine Le Pen, head of France’s National Front. Macron ran on a pro-market platform that included support for the European Union and cuts to public administration, as well as lower corporation taxes and measures to defend secular values.

At 39, the new president is France’s youngest head of state for two centuries. He swept to victory just a year after setting up his 200,000-member

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Pope Francis to meet Trump at Vatican May 24

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will visit the Vatican and meet with Pope Francis May 24 as part of his first foreign trip as president.

White House officials said the visit will be part of a trip that will include stops in Israel and Saudi Arabia before Trump attends a NATO meeting in Brussels May 25 and the G7 summit in Taormina on the island of Sicily May 26-27. The trip was an attempt to unite three of the world’s leading religious faiths in the common cause of fighting terrorism, reining in Iran, and “unifying the world against intolerance,” White House officials said May 4.

The pope’s meeting with Pope Francis was to take place in the Apostolic Palace and will include Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop Paul Gallagher, secretary for relations with states.

Pope Francis, on his return flight from Egypt April 29, told reporters that he had not yet been informed by the Vatican secretary of state’s office about a request for an audience from U.S. officials. But he added, “I receive every head of state who asks for an audience.”

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Media reform must be intelligent, even fierce, pope tells Vatican office

VATICAN CITY – To best respond to new challenges in the field of communication, the Vatican needs smart, courageous teamwork, not nostalgia for a glorious past or doomsday forecasts, Pope Francis said.

As the Vatican continues to integrate and coordinate its numerous media outlets under the Secretariat for Communication as part of a wider process of reform, the pope said “we must not be afraid of this word,” reform.

Reform is not brushing a bit of fresh paint on things, but “reform is giving another form to things, organizing them in another way,” he said May 4 in a speech to the secretariat’s members, directors and officials, who were holding their first plenary assembly since the pope instituted the body in 2015.

Reform, the pope added, must be done “with intelligence, meekness, but also, also, allow me (to use) the word, with a bit of ‘violence,’ but kind, good violence, in order to reform things,” he said in off-the-cuff remarks.

“Let’s not allow the temptation of clinging to a glorious past to prevail. Instead, let us make great team players in order to better respond to the new challenges in communications that today’s culture demands of us without fear and without imagining apocalyptic scenarios.”

The pope had created the secretariat to coordinate the work that had been done individually by

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the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Vatican press office, Vatican Internet office, Vatican Radio, the Vatican television production studio and the Vatican newspaper, printing press, photograph service and publishing house. The statutes say the coordination was needed to unify the many Vatican communications and media operations for a more “coherent” effort in evangelization and to respond to the growth of digital media and “factors of convergence and interactivity” in social communications.

Pope Francis said in his speech that the reform wasn’t merely about coordinating disparate entities or merging old offices, but was about the “construction of a true and actual institution ‘ex novo,’” from scratch.

As of next year, he said, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, will be part of the secretariat and will have to find a “new and different” way to reach a greater number of readers than it currently does in print format. Fewer than 10,000 copies of the daily edition, printed in Italian, are printed a day.

This will require a willingness to find “a new plan for production and distribution,” he said. “The work is great, the challenge is great, but it can be done, it must be done.”

Vatican Radio also will need to be “rethought according to new models” and updated with new technologies to meet the needs of today’s listeners.

However, the pope emphasized efforts were being made to “rationalize” short-wave radio broadcasts for countries, like those in Africa, with little access to modern technology.

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Pope: To evangelize, get up, go out and listen

VATICAN CITY – The best formula for Catholic evangelization is “go and listen,” not “go and proselytize,” Pope Francis said.

“All men and women have a restlessness, whether good or bad, in their hearts. Listen to that restlessness,” the pope said May 4 during morning Mass.

The first step in sharing the faith, he said, is always to go out and the second is always to listen to the joys, questions and concerns of the people one meets.

To evangelize one must know what the other person thinks. “But if they have wrong ideas? I want to hear those wrong ideas in order to understand where the restlessness comes from,” he said.

Pope Francis told those attending Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae that the first eight chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, used for the Mass readings in the Easter season, “summarize the whole history of the church,” from the initial preaching of the apostles, to the miracles and

persecutions, but also the “ugly sin” of those like Ananias and Sapphira, who used their position in the early Christian community for their own gain.

The day’s first reading was from the eighth chapter and described the story of the Apostle Philip and the Ethiopian.

The “angel of the Lord” tells Philip to “get up and go” along the road where he will eventually meet the Ethiopian.

“To evangelize,” the pope said, one must “get up and go. It does not say, ‘Stay seated, relax, make yourself at home.’ No. To be faithful to the Lord, the church always must be on its feet and walking.”

Next, the angel tells Philip, “Go and join up with that chariot” in which he found the Ethiopian reading the Book of Isaiah. Philip draws near and asks the Ethiopian what he thinks the prophet is saying, giving Philip an opportunity to explain who Jesus is.

“But this was possible only because Philip drew near and listened,” the pope said.

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Servants of the Lord: Archbishop to ordain 13 to diaconate

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Ferdinand Mariano and Corazon Mariano

Manuel ‘Olet’ Abad and Jossie Orense

Jimmy Salcido and Eileen Salcido

Juan Manuel Michel and Lucy Michel

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he permanent diaconate ordination Mass for the 13 members of the diaconate class of 2017 will be held May 20 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. With the sacrament of holy orders, the deacons are configured to Christ, who made himself the “deacon” or servant of all.

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Interests: Church, music (guitar and dance music production), technology, cooking, science, being a father to my two beautiful kids, and loving my wife.

I was overjoyed and scared when I received my acceptance letter from the permanent diaconate formation program five years ago.

I didn’t think I would be considered!

My family’s faith journey started at St. Luke in Foster City. It was there that I witnessed what I thought was the impossible; my preteen kids were baptized along with my wife, a former atheist. And, it was here that I reignited my Catholic faith. We went from a completely secular home to one in which the Scriptures were regular conversation at our dinner table. We became the domestic church. It was Father Jonathan Paala and Deacon Paul Lucia of St. Luke who planted the seeds for my diaconate vocation. Father Jonathan called upon me and asked if I was interested in becoming a deacon. Without thought, I answered “Yes!” I was seeking more ways to deepen my faith and to serve, so the diaconate felt right for me.

Currently, we are parishioners of St. Dominic in San Francisco, where my wife and I minister in the marriage preparation program. I have been so fortunate to have met the Dominicans; they have been crucial pillars of support during all my formation years. As ordination draws near, I am increasingly joyful and I feel the light of Christ burning brighter in me.

Ferdinand Mariano (Corazon Mariano)

47, St. Patrick, San Francisco Place of birth: Guagua Pampanga, Philippines Interests: Oil painting, gardening, music My journey in the diaconate began when I carefully and prayerfully reflected on the will in following God’s call. I know that I cannot do this task alone but with the help and understanding of my family particularly my wife. There were times that I have been reaching out with my spiritual director for spiritual advice and prayers. During the course of the past four years I felt that God was moving my heart in a way that I had never experienced before.

A feeling that God was asking me to do more which is more challenging. I was able to become more aware of God’s presence in my life and through prayer I was able to strengthen my relationship with God and be open to God’s will rather than my own. My discernment has invited me to the diaconate.

A life of following Jesus, a ministry of helping those who are less fortunate and the commitment in serving others. I am very thankful for the kind support and understanding of my family, siblings, relatives, friends and parish communities where I served. I have to know that I am in the right direction, a journey that God has wanted me to travel and I have accepted the request. Unless I em-

brace the concept of myself as a co-worker of God in his divine plan of salvation it will be difficult to grasp the spirit of God that will always lead me to the right path. If God lives in me, I allow God to work in my life and he will take care of things at the right time. It is important for me to maintain, as a good servant of God, sincerity, and a sense of justice, good manners, fidelity to my word, a spirit of fellowship, service and readiness to work with others. St. Paul said “The one who calls me is faithful and he will accomplish it.

Manuel ‘Olet’ Abad (Jossie Orense)

58, St. Stephen, San Francisco Place of birth: Manila, Philippines Children: Seve, 23; Olivia, 21 Interests: Traveling, cooking, eating, watching movies, reading and Bay Area sports teams (Warriors, Giants and 49ers).

As I look back, my permanent diaconate journey started way back during my college years. I became a member of the University of the Philippines Student Catholic Action, which exposed me to social justice issues among the rural and urban poor. Since then, I have been cognizant of the ever-widening chasm between the haves and the have-nots.

Fast-forward to the present. My volunteer work at the Lima Center (St. Dominic Church), The Gubbio Project, and Comunidad San Dimas (ministry to the juvenile incarcerated) has given me the grace to see Jesus in the eyes of the poor, the marginalized and the forgotten. I try to live by the words as written in Matthew 25:35-40, that what I do to the least of my brothers and sisters, I do to our Lord Jesus Christ. I know I cannot change world events but I can minister within an arm’s reach and do God’s will with joy. I am most grateful, too, to those who have accompanied me on this journey specially my wife Jossie and our children; the community of St. Stephen Parish including the deacons and priests who encouraged me to pray and answer God’s call and say, “Here I am, Lord.”

Jimmy Salcido (Eileen Salcido)

69, St. Dominic Birthplace: San Francisco Interests: Traveling with Eileen, nonfiction books and movies, spending time with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren It’s mind-boggling to think that five years has passed so quickly and what was accomplished. I now look at life through a spiritual lens. Formation has given me the blessing to see Christ at every turn. With four children, 15 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren, I’m praying they see the presence of the Lord every time they see me. Parish life shares the top of my agenda along with Eileen. I started volunteer work at St. Dominic in 1999 and feel truly blessed that I could keep up the pace.

I can remember in 2005 when Father Peter Rodgers was leaving for a new assignment, his parting words were, “Jimmy, you need to do more around here.” I don’t know if he was being humorous or he saw something in me that I didn’t know was there. The last two years

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Eileen and I had a meeting with Archbishop Cordileone and he asked me, “what stands out in the last five years of formation?” It has to be the classes on homiletics. Father David Pettingill made sure that we understood that the liturgy of the Eucharist is the central part of the Mass, and therefore the homily has to bring everyone to the table to share in the Eucharist. Father Sergius Propst, OP, taught us that life experiences as reflected, should parallel the teachings of the written word.

Juan Manuel Michel (Lucy Michel)

60, St. Charles Borromeo, San Francisco Married to Lucy Michel for 36 years. We have nine children and six grandchildren. I have been working in retail for 30 years as a store manager. I am a member of the Neo-Catechumenal Way for 30 years. One of the principal structures of the Way is to live and to form communities just like the Holy Family of Nazareth whom lived in humbleness, simplicity and worshipping where the other brother is Christ. I first felt this call when I traveled with my community to do a step along with my catechists in Loreto, Rome. When we were singing the creed in the Roman Coliseum I thought of all the Christian martyrs that were put to death just for professing that they were Christians then this call was born within me to serve our Holy Mother Church knowing that I have been saved from my situation of sins through the announcement of the good news in that particular moment that I was living in my life. This announcement saved me and my marriage and was given to me for free, and I wanted to do the same for the community. It’s been five years and the call remains within my heart, to become a servant of the church and faithful to my archbishop.

William Joseph McLoughlin (Christine McLoughlin)

66, St. Paul, San Francisco Place of birth: San Francisco Interests: Family, parish, books, sports, outdoors, gardening, and our dog Scooter God’s formation for me has been happening through days at St. Cecilia and St. Ignatius schools, through all the friends I have met, who have shared their love and dreams with me, in person and in spirit. I am so greatly blessed by my family. I have also been touched by the hand of God by the many priests and

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sisters who helped me on the way. I thank God for the chance to serve all those around me.

George Khoury (Nariman Naber)

72, St. Thomas More, San Francisco Place of birth: Jerusalem, Palestine Interests: Reading, writing, music, jogging I felt the call of God to serve him early on in my life at the age of 16. I entered the Latin Seminary of Jerusalem, and finished high school, four years of philosophy and theology, and learned several languages beside Arabic. I wanted to be a priest. However, family issues came in the way and prevented me from pursuing God’s call to the end. I changed plans and came to the U.S. in 1969.

I got a B.A. and a master’s in French and Spanish language and literature. In 1975, I moved to California. In 1990 I got my doctorate degree in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. I have taught foreign languages most of my life. I am married to Nariman Naber, who works as a research scientist at UCSF. We have three daughters, Linda, Noura, and Dina. It was Father Labib Kobti who suggested that I should pursue a diaconate program if I were to serve God’s church more thoroughly. I wish I knew of the existence of this program earlier but as Italians are fond of saying, “Meglio tardi che mai” (better late than never). I pray that the Lord will sustain me and strengthen me in my diaconal ministry and that I’ll be in his hands a humble and docile instrument to the glory of his name.

Sal Campagna (Laura Campagna)

50, St. Gregory, San Mateo Place of birth: San Francisco Interests: Photography, amateur radio, computers About 15 years ago, having only been baptized, I fully entered into the Catholic Church. About five years after, I found that God, through the prompting of Deacon Steve and Barbara Fox, as well as my pastor, Bishop Robert McElroy, was calling me to think deeper about formation. While neither my wife nor myself would have been ready 10 years ago, we found ourselves at the right point in our lives to start formation about five years ago. Looking back on the last five years, I’m really amazed on how fast they have gone by. I’ve come to realize that our formation no longer means just time in the “classroom.” But that all our experiences, time with the homeless at St. Vincent de

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Paul, time with the priests and deacons, catechists and ministers of our parish, family and friends all contributed to our formation for the diaconate. They have all taught us something about life. More often than not, they are great examples of selfless service.

They are examples of Jesus the servant, which our ordination configures us to. Many are the ones to be served, the ones that allow us the honor of serving Jesus through them.

St. Francis said, “It is no use walking anywhere to preach, unless our walking is our preaching.” Our ordination now prepares us to make our walking our preaching!

David Rolandelli (Mildred Alvarez-Rolandelli)

65, St. Matthias, Redwood City Place of birth: San Francisco Interests: Hospital ministry; reading nonfiction, especially history, politics, current events, biographies, works of spiritual authors.

Our diaconate formation program has taken me on a remarkable journey, although a journey that actually began long before our formal program. It began with the love and support of my wife, my parents and family, my friends, and my parish community, along with all those who have touched me in some way – even those unknown to me – throughout my life. God’s love connects us all, a love that transcends time and space; it is that unifying presence of God’s love that identifies who we are and what we are to be in relationship with each other. It is the love manifested by Christ through service to others, especially to the alienated and marginalized. Pope Francis asks us to enter fully into the reality of other people’s lives, to be fully present with them in their joys and sorrows, to listen to them and to touch their need. I pray that as servants of a servant church, we will respond to that call with the humility and compassion of Christ through a ministry that touches people’s hearts, shining the goodness of God’s love on a hurting world.

Sergio Gomez (Griselda Gomez)

36, St. Paul of the Shipwreck, San Francisco Place of birth: San Francisco Interests: Working with youth, serving anyone who may need me, worshipping together with my family, helping others know God’s love, going to movies with family.

I was in a down moment when God helped me get up. I was called to start a youth group at St. Paul of the Shipwreck. Then a few

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thought I would be good as a deacon. I had no idea how or where to start but thanks to the support of Father Paul Gawlowski, a Franciscan priest; Deacon Larry Chatmon; and Sister Eva, a Franciscan nun; as well as our church family. We were able to understand our calling. My wife has always been supportive. I also asked my daughters at the time (there where two) and my wife was pregnant.

(Samantha, Valeria, and Elizabeth) what they thought of me being a deacon. Our oldest answered, “If you think it is God calling and you want to go with it, then don’t ask us.

Because you said to always follow God.” Here we are now days away from ordination. We have learned so much and are still receiving so many blessings.

Abbie Nepomuceno (Josephine Nepomuceno)

57, St. Thomas More Place of birth: Manila, Philippines Children: Catherine, Julie Ann and Abigail.

Interests: Church history I was educated in engineering by the Salesians of Don Bosco and work in quality control for a Bay Area oil refinery. We all need a place to practice our faith, have a sanctuary for worship, a place to nurture family and create friendships that go beyond time and space. I joined St. Thomas More in 1994 and found that particular place for me and my family. I also found priests and laity who give all that they are to the church. “All that I have is yours, I am nothing ... I can still hear and see clearly, like yesterday. These many acts of self-giving drew me incessantly and from within my inner most being came a yearning to respond to a call. I conveniently missed responding to the diaconate formation calls until 2012, when I began my discernment. I cannot help but be thankful to my wife, my family, the Salesian educators, men, women and families of St. Thomas More for the many moments of practicing and teaching what they believed.

Edward Te (Erlinda Te)

58, Sts. Peter & Paul, San Francisco Place of birth: Quezon City, Philippines Children: Emmanuel Interests: Reading, teaching, raising tropical fish, sightseeing, eating I work as a senior property accountant in a real estate management company. The diaconate formation has been a good journey with my wife Erlinda, my classmates and their beloved wives. My vocation started with

Ricardo R. Cepriano and Marilyn R. Cepriano the love of teaching children through the religious education program at our parish. I share the gift of faith with children as the director of religious education and with adults in baptism preparation and other parish functions. Continuous education in our ministry is important to further knowledge and faith. I have learned and matured spiritually in deepening my prayer life, and intellectually with the rigors of coursework and class discussion.

Through formation I am able to act more humanly, justly and kindly to the people I meet, working and serving in the various pastoral and liturgical ministries of the church. Living in the culturally diverse city of San Francisco, education, shared faith, and compassion are very much needed. The call and desire for ordination as the next stage in my spiritual and service-oriented formation becomes clearer.

With the grace of God and inspired by the rich spiritual traditions that have formed me. “Da Mihi Animas Cetera Tolle, Ora et Labora, Luceat Lux” – may I imitate them in my ongoing humble service to God.

Ricardo ‘Ric’ R. Cepriano (Marilyn ‘May’ R. Cepriano)

61, St. Dunstan, Millbrae Place of birth: Manila, Philippines Interests: Walking, tennis, basketball Opening up myself to the formation program one week at a time over the last five years enlightened me on the importance of the Scriptures in my daily life, as well as the meaning of the church traditions in my faith and belief that the Catholic Church teaches and defends. My five-year formation led me into a greater appreciation of the beauty of the Catholic faith and my love for it grew even more. Having my wife on my side as we both go through the formation program is very beneficial not only for our marriage, but to our children, and the various ministries that we serve as well. I became more aware of the needs of my wife, children, which led me into strengthening my relationship with them and then, all of us building a working relationship with the parishioners as a family. My involvement in the parish as a member of pastoral council, altar society and liturgical ministries is an indication that my faith formation does not stop here. The more I learned about my faith and Jesus Christ as my savior, the more I want to continue to learn and deepen my spiritual life. As I look forward to serving the people of my assigned parish and all the people of God, I look forward to a lifelong learning process to be the servant that God wanted me to be.

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orothy Day is alleged to have said: “Don’t call me a saint; I don’t want to be dismissed that easily!” A new biography on her by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy, “Dorothy Day The World will be saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of my Grandmother,” will, I believe, go a long way in preventing anyone from turning Dorothy Day, soon to officially be canonized by the church, into what she feared, a plaster saint who can be piously doted upon and then not taken seriously.

We’re all, I’m sure, familFATHER ron iar with who Dorothy Day rolheiser was and what her life’s work was about. Indeed, Pope Francis in addressing the U.S. Congress, singled out four Americans who, he suggests, connected spirituality to a life of service in an extraordinary way: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. This new biography gives us an honest picture of who this remarkable woman actually was.

This book is extraordinary for a number of reasons: Kate Hennessy is a very good writer, the book is the product of years of research, she’s Dorothy’s granddaughter and had a very close and special relationship with her, and she manages

in telling Dorothy’s story to keep both a healthy critical and aesthetic distance. Her insight is both privileged and rare, privileged because of her intimate relationship with Dorothy and rare because most authors who are that intimately tied to their subject cannot maintain a balanced critical distance. Hennessy admits that doing this was no easy task: “That is the danger of holiness on your own doorstep, in your own family. Either you cannot see it for the view is too close, or if you do, you feel you haven’t a chance of being the person she was.

You feel it is a sad mistake that you are related.”

And that combination makes for an extraordinary book that lets us see a side of Dorothy Day we would never see otherwise. Beyond this being a close-up of Dorothy Day, Hennessy shares stories about some of the key people surrounding Dorothy: Her relationship to the man who fathered her child Forster Battenham, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. Hennessy’s biography shatters the myth that upon her conversion Dorothy coldly and forever turned her back upon this man. Not true. They remained close their whole lives and Foster, until her death, remained an intimate companion and a faithful supporter.

Central too to this biography is the story of Dorothy’s daughter, Tamar, who, while vitally important in Dorothy’s life, is unfairly absent in virtually everything that’s known about Dorothy in the popular mind. Tamar’s story, which holds its own richness and is not incidental to the history

of the Catholic worker, is critical to understanding Dorothy Day. There’s no understanding of Dorothy without understanding her daughter’s story and that of her grandchildren. To understand Dorothy Day you also have to see her as a mother and grandmother.

Hennessy shares how, when her diaries were opened some years after Dorothy’s death, Tamar initially was bitterly resistant to having them released for publication and how that resistance was only lifted when, thanks to the man who transcribed them, Robert Ellsberg, the family and Tamar herself realized that her resistance was rooted in the fact that Dorothy’s diaries themselves were unfair in their neglect of Tamar’s story and the role of her story within the bigger narrative of Dorothy’s life, work and legacy.

The book is a story too of some of the people who played key roles in founding the Catholic Worker: Peter Maurin, Stanley Vishnewski and Ade Bethune.

This isn’t a story that follows the classical genre for the lives of the saints, where form is often exaggerated to highlight essence and the result is an over-idealization that paints the saint into an icon.

Hennessy highlights that Dorothy’s faith wasn’t a faith that never doubted and which walked on water. What Dorothy never doubted was what faith calls us to: hospitality, nonviolence, and service to the poor. In these things, Dorothy was singleminded enough to be a saint and that manifested itself in her dogged perseverance so that at end she could say: “The older I get the more I feel that faithfulness and perseverance are the greatest virtues – accepting the sense of failure we all must have in our work, in the work of others around us, since Christ was the world’s greatest failure.”

That being said, her life was messy, many of her projects were often in crisis, she was forever overextended, and, in her granddaughter’s words: “She was fierce, dictatorial, controlling, judgmental, and often angry, and she knew it. It took the Catholic Worker, her own creation, to teach her lessons.”

This is hagiography as it should be written. It tells the story of how a very human person, caught up in the foibles, weaknesses, and mess that beset us all, can, like St. Brigid, cast her cloak upon a sunbeam and see it spread until it brings abundance and beauty to the entire countryside.

Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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Reformation at 500: Year of unparalleled opportunity

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n his new book “Martin Luther: An Ecumenical Perspective,” Cardinal Walter Kasper notes that our ideas about Martin Luther have undergone transformations in a number of ways over the past 500 years.

Historically, for Catholics, Luther was the church father of Protestantism, the heretic to blame for the division of FATHER tom the Western ryan, csp Church.

But in the 20th century, Catholic scholars made a notable shift in their research on Luther. They recognized his genuine religious concerns and came to a more balanced judgment with regard to his responsibility for dividing the church. Even recent popes have adopted this new perspective.

Luther’s concern was the Gospel of the glory of God’s grace. While he was a reform-minded person, it was not his intention to become the founder of a separate Reform church. His goal was the renewal of the Catholic Church from the perspective of the Gospel.

The 14th and 15th centuries, the period known as the Late Middle Ages, was a period marked by major crises which led to radical changes in all areas of society: Demographic collapse

due to a series of famines and plagues; popular revolts leading to civil wars within countries as well as international conflicts between countries such as France and England in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). And religious upheavals with three church leaders simultaneously claiming to be the true pope (the Western Schism 1378-1417).

Reform was needed. The church held great political power in addition to ecclesiastical power. The pope was also a king (of the papal state). The bishops were also princes and secular rulers. It was a financial boom to become a bishop because it brought with it lots of land and money. And princes were allowed to elect the emperor. Church and state functioned in a symbiotic relationship.

So it’s not surprising that in the view of contemporary scholars, the Reformation period was marked by a complex series of interdependent religious, social, and political movements. And Luther’s call for reform was not heard by pope or bishops. He was answered with polemic and condemnation.

His posting in 1517 of the 95 theses titled “Disputation on the Efficacy and Power of Indulgences” was intended as an invitation to an academic discussion. But it never happened. And today, notes Cardinal Kasper, “Rome bears its fill of complicity in the fact that a church-dividing Reformation developed out of the reform of the church.”

Common historical studies now enable us to recognize Luther as a teacher of the Gospel. Many aspects of Catholic

life now find better expression because the Second Vatican Council responded, at last, to many of Luther’s appeals for reforms.

Examples: The priority of grace over works; the centrality of Scripture; an ecclesiology based on the church as the people of God; the priesthood of the faithful’ a vernacular liturgy; Communion under both species; a renewed emphasis on preaching; an active participation of the laity in worship (hymnody); an understanding of ministry as service; the principle of religious freedom; need of continual reform in the church.

And as the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification cosigned in 1999 by officials of the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation indicates, there is now a consensus on a truth central to Christian faith: “By grace alone, in faith in Christ’s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works” (par. 15).

The joint declaration was a decisive step forward in overcoming division within the church. The experience of speaking the truth of the Gospel together is helping us to see one another in a new light. The last 50 years of dialogue enable us to see history anew

and to heal our common memory. We share the same DNA. In the fall of 2016, the North American Academy of Ecumenists met at the Candler School of Theology in Georgia under the theme of “Commemorating the Reformation: Churches Looking Together Toward 2017 and Beyond.”

One of the speakers, Catherine Clifford, a Catholic theologian from St. Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, noted that this anniversary is an unparalleled opportunity to enter into the process of healing and reconciliation.

“We need to make ‘new memories’ together,” she said. “This anniversary is an occasion to receive the fruits of our dialogue – fruits of the last 50 years together. To see our relationships with one another in a new light. To discern the presence and action of God’s spirit in each other’s communities. The healing of memories is an essential and necessary step on the way to full and mutual recognition. We must move once and for all beyond the conflictual dynamics of the Reformation era. For the first time we will commemorate the anniversary of the Reformation together.”

Paulist Father Ryan directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Fifth Sunday of Easter ACTS 6:1-7 As the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. So the Twelve called together the community of the disciples and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table.

Brothers, select from among you seven reputable men, filled with the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint to this task, whereas we shall devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” The proposal was acceptable to the whole community, so they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them. The word of God continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly; even a large group of priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

PSALM 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting. Give thanks to the Lord on the harp; with the ten-stringed lyre chant his praises.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kind-

ness of the Lord the earth is full.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

1 PETER 2:4-9 Beloved: Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it says in Scripture: Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame. Therefore, its value is for you who have faith, but for those without faith: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and a stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall. They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny. You are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

JOHN 14:1-12 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In

my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.

If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.”

Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip?

Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.”

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, May 15: Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Isidore. Acts 14:5-18. Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16. Jn 14:26. Jn 14:21-26.

Tuesday, May 16: 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 17: 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.

Friday, May 19: Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Acts 15:22-31. Ps 57:8-9, 10 and 12. Jn 15:15b. Jn 15:12-17.

Thursday, May 18: Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. John I, pope and martyr.

Acts 15:7-21. Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10.

Jn 10:27. Jn 15:9-11.

Saturday, May 20: Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, priest.

Acts 16:1-10. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 5.

Col 3:1. Jn 15:18-21.

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It may come as news to many, but Peter is addressing himself to all the baptized, which means that Peter maintains that all members of the church are called to be built Father Mark up in the priestDoherty hood of Christ.

Often enough we go about our Christian business thinking that the priesthood of Christ – its prerogatives and responsibilities – only concerns the “ordained” priests among us. Nothing could be further from the truth, and to go about our Christian business with these notions is to deprive ourselves of the rich marrow that is meant to inform our Christian lives.

The truth is this: All those who are baptized and grafted onto the body of Christ are incorporated into the common priesthood of Christ. While there are some among us who, through the sacrament of holy orders, are incorporated into the ministerial priesthood, which involves a different kind of participation in the priesthood of Christ (and thus, different prerogatives and responsibilities), all the baptized are called to embrace and live out their share in the common priesthood of Christ.

But what is the priesthood all about?

And how am I as a baptized Christian supposed to be “built into a spiritual house?”

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mission of the priesthood is essential to life because life is all about communion, about friendship. When people ask me what happiness consists in, what full living is all about, I always tell them it’s about developing and deepening relationships. Therefore, we can say that the essence of a Christian’s mission to participate in the priesthood of Christ is to help generate and nurture the bonds of communion between God and us.

This helps us understand what Jesus is telling Philip in today’s Gospel. Jesus tells Philip and those gathered around the table that they have seen the Father. How so? Precisely because as high priest, as the bridge builder between God and man, Jesus is bringing the face of the Father to us and reconciling man to God. Jesus is re-establishing the bonds of communion. What else can this mean than that men and women, through the Lord, can now come to know God the father? Hence, why there are rooms a plenty in the Father’s house for those who wish to live in the family communion of the kingdom.

But how is the generative and nurturing power of the priestly office realized? How is it all “done”? The short but essential answer: Sacrifice.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Talk of building bridges and communion, of weaving deep, loving relationships remains ethereal without the lifeblood of sacrifice. And when I say lifeblood I mean just that, because that’s what sacrifice entails. A sacrifice is a tangible, visible sign of an inner spiritual oblation to God, hence why Peter speaks of spiritual sacrifices. What does this look like? Sacrifices come in all shapes and sizes, but one thing they have in common is that they cost us, really. To exercise our priesthood we must literally offer things up for the purpose of deepening the bonds of loving communion. This means offering up our time, our energy, our talents, our hurts and grievances, our sins and failings, our plans and dreams, our treasures of this or that sort… and so on, all for the purpose of finding something better, richer, and eternally life-giving. Of course we don’t just offer things up, sacrifice things willy-nilly and haphazardly. Love always seeks to find out what the other needs, is truly asking for. What is God asking me to sacrifice in this or that circumstance so that the bonds of communion may deepen?

The proportions of the Christian life begin to emerge as we come to understand that by virtue of our baptism the Lord invites us to share in this work of establishing friendships. Really, it’s all about bringing the face of the Father into the lives of those the Lord has entrusted to our care. Do my children see the loving face of God in my face through my gestures, attitude, efforts, devotion? Through my sacrifices on their behalf ? Do my neighbors and co-workers? My community? My fellow parishioners, and so on.

In Jesus the Apostle Philip saw the face of the Father; now the Lord, through our baptism, calls us to share in his work of revealing the face of the Father to those who have not yet encountered him.

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From 1975, two pioneer sisters commuted daily from Pretoria, beyond the Apies River and over the Suiderberg mountains to an area reserved for Tswana people. Some years before, thousands of Tswanas were forcibly removed when the White Afrikaans government declared certain areas around Pretoria for whites only.

When I arrived in 1984, I was put to work in the high school teaching physical science and a course called biblical studies to 10th graders. We lived at the mission and most afternoons, I accompanied several sisters and lay teachers to a more remote area where we offered afternoon classes for adults who hadn’t completed their GED. At the mission there was a severe water problem.

The village had no municipal water services, just a few wells that served most of the population sporadically. There was also no sewer system. People got by with outhouses, known locally as “long drops.”

With a student population in both schools totaling well over 1,400, the lack of restroom facilities was a huge challenge. However, one enterprising sister managed to get a grant to have a block of pit toilets built – complete with roof, concrete flooring, individual compart-

ments, and separate sections for boys and girls.

At the end of the year, high school students took their exams in the large community hall of the Skills Training Center. One day in the middle of an exam, a junior girl ran out of the exam room. The gardener saw her running down the dirt roads of the village.

She looked quite distraught. When the principal heard this, she jumped into the car to find the girl.

The newly built ablution facilities sat on a stretch of grassy land about 40 yards from the front of the high school. That morning as some first graders were walking across the yard from the primary school, a few youngsters heard the sound of a baby crying and alerted the teacher. Within minutes, some of the high school boys had left their classrooms and were standing around the toilet building trying to isolate the cry and find the baby.

Without blinking an eye, an eighth grade boy jumped into the waist-deep excrement, reached around under the concrete floors and found the baby girl still crying, still alive. Meanwhile, the sisters were called and one of them, Red Cross – trained, began doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the infant while the other sister broke speed limits to get the newborn to the nearest hospital.

To the amazement of everyone, the child survived.

Meanwhile, the principal had found the traumatized mother in the village and brought her to the hospital for treatment. Sometime later, when asked her baby’s name, the new mother replied, “Tsogo.”

“We have been born anew to a living hope in the resurrection of Christ, a heritage that can never be spoilt or soiled…” (1 Peter 1:3-4).

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George H. Niederauer: Eighth archbishop of San Francisco FROM PAGE 5

Earlier, in 2006, Archbishop Niederauer ended the archdiocese’s 99-year Catholic Charities adoption agency, and in 2008 severed ties with a contracted adoption agency after the Vatican directed an end to adoptions by gay families. During that period, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution urging Archbishop Niederauer to “defy” the Vatican and accused the Vatican of being a “meddling … foreign country.”

In 2009, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi contended in a Newsweek interview that freedom of conscience meant her advocacy for abortion rights was compatible with her Catholic faith. Archbishop Niederauer responded in a January 2010 column in Catholic San Francisco. “While we deeply respect the freedom of our fellow citizens, we nevertheless are profoundly convinced that free will cannot be cited as justification for society to allow moral choices that strike at the most fundamental rights of others,” he wrote. “Such a choice is abortion, which constitutes the taking of innocent human life, and cannot be justified by any Catholic notion of freedom.”

Archbishop Niederauer also defended religious freedom, opposing a proposed ban on circumcision by the Board of Supervisors. He regularly attended the Walk for Life West Coast.

“Throughout his episcopate he joined us at the Walk for Life West Coast in promoting the culture of life

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Archbishop Niederauer with then-St. Mary’s Cathedral rector Msgr. John Talesfore and Archbishop Cordileone at the cathedral’s 2013 Assumpta Awards ceremony. and defending the littlest among us, and we will never forget it,” said Eva Muntean, co-chair of the Walk for Life West Coast.

Archbishop Niederauer actively supported immigrant rights.

“Because we are a nation of immigrants, one of my unfulfillable fantasies by way of a time machine would be to get our Catholics who are very intolerant of immigration alone in a room with their great-grandparents, and talk about immigration,” he told Catholic San Francisco in 2012.

Born June 14, 1936, in Los Angeles,

the only son of a banker-turned homebuilder and a homemaker, George Hugh Niederauer graduated from St. Anthony High School in Long Beach and attended Stanford University for a year before entering the seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood April 30, 1962, for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

He earned a doctorate in English from the University of Southern California in 1966, and spent 27 years as English professor, spiritual director, theology teacher and rector at the seminary and at Mount Saint Mary’s

College in Los Angeles before his 1994 appointment by Pope John Paul II to serve Catholics throughout Utah as bishop of Salt Lake City.

Archbishop Niederauer earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from Loyola University Los Angeles in 1962. He also earned a Ph.D. in English Literature at University of Southern California in 1966.

In retirement, Cardinal Levada and Archbishop Niederauer shared a home on the grounds of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, where Archbishop Niederauer frequently ate in the dining room with the seminarians, joshing and chatting. During his nearly five years of retirement, he generously responded to frequent requests to give retreats – to bishops, priests, deacons, men and women religious and seminarians. In January this year, he moved to Nazareth House during his final illness.

During his active ministry, Archbishop Niederauer served as the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Communication and as a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. He is the author of “Precious as Silver: Imagining Your Life with God” (Ave Maria Press, 2003), which explores biblical images of Christian life and reflects on spirituality centered on Jesus.

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Remembering Archbishop George H. Niederauer

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Archbishop Niederauer greets well-wishers at his 50th ordination anniversary Mass, St. Mary’s Cathedral, April 30, 2012.

The archbishop in prayer, Holy Thursday 2011 at the cathedral.

(Photo by Dennis Callahan/Catholic San Francisco)

Enjoying the moment during a musical tribute as honoree at the 15th annual Catholic Charities Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner, April 28, 2012. On being a part of the Catholic Charities community, the archbishop said, “I feel more a part of it than I feel a part of anything that I have had.”

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Brother bishops from Northern and Southern California and Utah welcome Archbishop Niederauer during his 50th ordination anniversary Mass at the cathedral in 2012.

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At the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco, an event the archbishop supported with his presence throughout his tenure.

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Priestly ordination, Los Angeles, 1962. With friends at the St. John Vianney Luncheon supporting retired priests, Nov. 5, 2015. Father Tony McGuire is at the archbishop’s right. Right, Archbishop Niederauer greets a young parishioner and his dad at St. Charles Borromeo Church, San Francisco, March 25, 2012.

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Mary: Archbishop to consecrate archdiocese to Immaculate Heart FROM PAGE 1

While devotion to Mary under the title of Immaculate Heart had grown up organically for several centuries, it was at Fatima that Mary revealed her Immaculate Heart, surrounded by thorns, for the first time.

In 2013, Pope Francis consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as did Pope Pius XII in 1942 and Pope St. John Paul in concert with the world’s bishops in 1984. Pope Pius XII and St. John Paul also consecrated Russia as the Blessed Mother requested at Fatima.

“This is a way of asking for specific graces upon the archdiocese in the here-and-now,” said Father Joseph Previtali, administrator of Our Lady of the Pillar parish in Half Moon Bay who plans to consecrate the Pacific coast parish May 13. Father Previtali is writing a series of essays about the apparitions that are posted at sfarchdiocese.org/ihm.

A handful of U.S. dioceses have consecrated themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, including the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, and the Dioceses of Winona, Minnesota, and Springfield-Cape Girardeau, in Missouri. On May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph E. Strickland will consecrate that diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Kansas City-St. Joseph Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. will consecrate his diocese on May 13 too. In February, English Cardinal Vincent Nichols re-consecrated England and Wales to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Westminster Cathedral.

“We are living in a difficult time and in a difficult place for Christians and Mary is our spiritual mother,” said Ray Frost, a pro-life advocate and a Legion of Mary member. Frost

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Cardinal William J. Levada was principal Mass celebrant at a Marian Retreat on May 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco in preparation for the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Right, worshippers pray the rosary during the event, which also included small-group sessions in English and Spanish and concluded with Benediction and adoration. said he has been writing to leaders of the archdiocese for decades requesting the consecration. The Second Vatican Council “reminded us that grace came through Christ and through her hands since she brought Christ into the world.”

California recently legalized assisted suicide and recreational marijuana and has unrestricted access to abortion. San Francisco was the first place where same-sex weddings were performed at City Hall, officially sparking the movement and case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015. High housing costs make the area one of the most expensive in the nation, and Legion of Mary chaplain and St. Francis of Assisi, East Palo Alto, pastor Father Lawrence Goode said he hopes the consecration will “soften the hearts” of landlords.

Preparations in the archdiocese formally began with a Marian retreat May 6 which included Mass celebrated by Cardinal William J. Levada, archbishop emeritus and

former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and will conclude with the consecration Oct. 7, the memorial of the Most Holy Rosary at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The consecration will be the high point of the annual rosary rally.

A detailed and regularly updated section of the archdiocesan website is devoted to the topic.

“I thought that this year, the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima when Our Lady revealed her-

self as the Immaculate Heart would be the appropriate time, preceded though with catechesis and spiritual preparation,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

Archbishop Cordileone urged Catholics to pray the rosary, as the Blessed Mother repeatedly urged during her five monthly appearances to Jacinta, Francesco and Lucia in Portugal, and to observe the five see mary, page 24

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first Saturdays devotion as the Blessed Mother requested. The archdiocese is also sponsoring an art and essay contest for youth.

Pope Francis plans to canonize Blessed Jacinta and Francisco when he visits Fatima May 13, the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s first appearance to the children.

Lucia died in 2005, and the diocesan portion of the cause for her beatification was completed in February and sent to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.

At Fatima, Mary showed the three children a vision of hell and said, according to the oldest, Lucia, “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart.” The Blessed Mother asked that the Holy Father consecrate Russia to her Immaculate Heart, saying “and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world.” In

a later appearance to Lucia, the Blessed Mother asked that the world be consecrated.

In the Archdiocese of Portland, the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 2014 has led to increased prayer and intangible benefits, said Todd Cooper, director of special ministries for Portland Archbishop Alexander Sample. “What this does, it opens the doors to grace,” Cooper said.

“Everything is based on our yes to God, our yes to grace.”

“It’s not magical,” Cooper said.

“The Blessed Mother does lead us to her son and helps us observe and practice here God’s will.”

Ando Perlas, president of the Legion of Mary in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he was among the many who asked for the consecration. What is important, “number one is for families and children to go back and ask the Blessed Virgin for help and graces.

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Born in San Francisco, Father John Ring attended St. Anne School moving on to St. Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View and St. Patrick Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

Father Ring was ordained to the priesthood June 10, 1961 by Bishop Merlin J. Guilfoyle at St. Mary’s Cathedral and celebrated his first Mass at St. Anne of the Sunset Church. He served as a parochial vicar at parishes including Most Holy Redeemer and St. Brigid, San Francisco; St. Patrick, Larkspur and St. Matthew, San Mateo and is a former pastor of Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco.

Father Ring was pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish for 24 years, retiring in 2011.

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 10 at St. Vincent de Paul Church.

Remembrances may be made to the Priests Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

Sister Mary Berchmans, SNJM

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• Supporting, promoting and implementing the principles of Catholic education, as set forth by the Archdiocese of San Francisco; • In consultation with the Pastor, recruiting, interviewing, selecting, supervising, and evaluating faculty; • Directing the professional and spiritual development of faculty and curriculum planning, as well as overseeing scheduling procedures and teacher assignments; • In consultation with the School Advisory Board, the parish Finance Committee, and the Pastor, assisting in the preparation of the annual budget for the school and monitoring budgets for consistency with school goals, educational priorities, and good practice; • Developing a shared educational vision for the school, which is reflected in the curriculum, methods of instruction and assessment, utilization of technology, and in professional development programs; • Administering the contract and salary schedule, and maintaining personnel records, for faculty and school staff; • Maintaining effective communications and cultivating positive relationships with parents and other stakeholders of the school. Overseeing the timely communication of school information to faculty, staff, students and parents; • Maintaining overall responsibility for enrollment including the recruitment, admission, and retention of students; • Ensuring policies and procedures for a safe school environment and verifying that planned fire, disaster, and lockdown drills are conducted; • Working with the Pastor to ensure that the operation of school facilities supports the programs of the church and school; • Ensuring compliance with State and Archdiocesan policy, where applicable, in the operation of the school; and • Engaging in personal, spiritual, and professional development programs.

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Applicants must complete an application and establish a personnel file with the Department of Catholic Schools. The application packet may be obtained by calling (415) 614-5668 (please ask for Ofa).

Materials may also be downloaded from the Department of Catholic Schools website, www.sfarchdiocese.org/catholicschools.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be returned to: Bret E. Allen Associate Superintendent for Educational and Professional Leadership Department of Catholic Schools, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Applicants with personnel files already established with the Department of Catholic Schools should send a letter indicating an interest in applying for the position and contact Bret Allen by phoning (415) 614-5665 or by e-mailing at allenb@sfarch.org to update files.

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St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco: Helpers for a “Personal Safety in the 21st Century” presentation April 26 included San Francisco police inspector Julie Lazar and Sgt. Marina Chacon with age-appropriate safety tips on being “aware of your surroundings” and “walking with confidence.” Inspector Lazar’s daughter, Grace, is a third grader at St. Brendan. The demonstration was for the fifth grade junior Girl Scout troop and, in addition to the SFPD instruction, included taekwondo self-defense moves from siblings and black belts Sloane Mullin, a St. Brendan fifth grader, and Stella Mullin, a seventh grader. “These are helpful self-defense moves that give the girls confidence in handling any situation,” the school said. “The troop was eager to try out these new self-defense moves.”

Mercy parish and school April 28-May 1. Shown here are a group of first graders who made bishops’ mitres in honor of his visit.

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St. Brendan Parish and School, San Francisco: Lent was certainly a prep time for Easter but also a time for looking ahead at ways of serving others. In a note to Catholic San Francisco, principal, Carol Grewal, said a focus at St. Brendan has been global hunger.

“Parishioners heard homilies, read bulletin articles, and attended soup suppers during Lent to learn more about the problem,” Grewal said.

She said letters “to express their concerns” about global hunger were written by parishioners and students to congresswomen Nancy Pelosi and Jackie Speier and “delivered by students of the school, along with the pastor, parish manager, and principal to staff from both offices.”

Upper-grade students raised $500 to donate for overseas food deliveries, according to Grewal. In another activity, students were given tickets and were then offered the portion of a meal represented by the ticket. “So, one student might receive 40 percent of a meal while another child might receive 2 percent of the same meal,” Grewal said. “This taught the students about the amount of food that we consume in the U.S. when compared with other nations.” St. Brendan’s as a community is dedicated “to ending global hunger by 2030,” Grewal said.

Pictured are Grewal, pastor Father Roger Gustafson, parishioners and students before delivery of letters on world hunger to local offices of congresswomen Jackie Speier and Nancy Pelosi.

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Archbishop visits St. Agnes, St. Ignatius parishes, San Francisco: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spent the weekend of April 21-22 visiting St. Agnes and St. Ignatius parishes in San Francisco. The visit to the Jesuitrun communities began at St. Agnes on April 21 with youth confirmation for both parishes. The archbishop celebrated Masses at both churches the next morning. St. Agnes pastor Jesuit Father Ray Allender said the archbishop spent 30 minutes with each of the six priests serving the two parishes. “It was an honor and a pleasure to have the archbishop’s visitation. I think he really enjoyed himself especially the personal contact with staff and parishioners,”he said. The archbishop is pictured greeting parishioners at St. Agnes.

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THURSDAY, MAY 11 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo, new members welcome.

Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

FRIDAY, MAY 12 TV CANONIZATIONS: Tune-in to EWTN for Canonization and special 100th anniversary programming from Fatima! EWTN Global Catholic Network is airing the celebration including the historic canonization by Pope Francis of the Fatima visionaries May 12, 13.

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FRIDAY, MAY 12 OPUS DEI MASS: Liturgy commemorating feast of Blessed Alvaro del Portillo, the first successor of St Josemaria Escriva as head of Opus Dei, Star of the Sea Church, Blessed Alvaro 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 7 p.m. All are welcome. Menlough Study Center, (650) 327-1675.

THURSDAY, MAY 18 BENEFIT LUNCHEON: St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s “Humor, Heart and Hope for the Homeless,” Four Seasons, San Francisco, 757 Market St., $95,

comedian Michael Pritchard, featured emcee. thopper@svdp-sf. org; (415) 757-6561, www.svdpsf.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 20 FRIDAY, MAY 26 3-DAY CHARISMATIC: “Go Therefore, and Make Disciples of all Nations,” Northern California Renewal Coalition, May 26, 27, 28, Santa Clara ConvenMsgr. James tion Center, 5001 Tarantino Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, with San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, Msgr. James T. Tarantino, Father Raymund Reyes and other speakers and principal celebrants.

Seminars for adults, young adults, teens, and children, praise, worship and song with spirit-led music ministers. NCRCSpirit.org; John Murphy, (650) 261-0825; Norma G. Guerrero, (650) 2194556.

STAR FESTIVAL: Star of the Sea Parish and School, 345 Eighth Ave. beMichael tween Geary and Clement, San FranPritchard cisco, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Food, games, crafts, bouncy house, Touch-A-Truck, live entertainment and more! Open to P U B L I C A T I O N S the public. Admission to the festival is CHURCH TOUR: In honor of the p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Cenfree. Food and game tickets start at Blessed Virgin Mary the docents of ter, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San 50 cents and $10 for unlimited access St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Francisco. Separated and Divorced to the Touch-A-Truck area, 2-4 p.m.

Steiner San Francisco, will lead tour 10 Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, Music by The Harkenbacks. Visit www. a.m. highlighting the virtues and beauty drop-in support group. Jesuit Father staroftheseasf.com/news/festival17/. of Our Lady in the altar and windows of Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grossthe Lady Chapel. Meet outside in the kopf@usfca.edu.

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This year a special prayer box will be presented during Mass at Holy Cross in Colma.

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