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Catholic workers’ co-op installing sustainable mini-farms on Peninsula and beyond VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The grounds of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University boast row upon row of broccoli, Swiss chard, kale and strawberries this spring, products of a new parish Catholic workers cooperative created in a venture among the seminary, Guadalupe Associates and the parish of St. Francis of Assisi, East Palo Alto.

“I was actually surprised we yielded so much the first year,” said Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens, rector of the seminary who along with San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone approved the use of seminary grounds to grow the crops as part of NanoFarms USA’s pilot project. The website is nanofarms.com.

NanoFarms’ primary product for sale is small, sustainable produce gardens installed for homeowners, SEE FARMS, PAGE 2

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PHILADELPHIA – As Catholics and non-Catholics alike prepare for Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September, the pontiff’s message of greater solidarity with poor people is resonating with a wide-ranging group of faith-based social justice advocates.

Almost 300 representatives of parishes and organizations from 50 dioceses across the United States aligned with the PICO National Network gathered at St. Joseph’s University April 30 and May 1 to launch a yearlong effort of faith formation and social action on poverty to take advantage of the momentum building around the papal trip.

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Co-op member Marcella Jasso harvests produce at the NanoFarms USA’s mini-farm at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

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The economy ‘is a system that is ill from the inside and needs healing’ because it ‘is centered in money and markets, not the human person.’

CARDINAL OSCAR RODRIGUEZ MARADIAGA with the PICO National Network, a coalition of faith-based advocacy organizations, in the effort.

Event organizers cited the pope’s apostolic exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the Gospel”) and its searing critique of social and economic injustices as motivation for the initiative.

Joseph Fleming, executive director of PICO New Jersey, said the yearlong faith formation project was developed because “Catholic parishioners are hungering to connect peace and justice.”

Catholic organizations make

up one-third of PICO’s 1.2 million members nationally, making them a prime audience for the effort, he added.

While specific programs will be developed locally, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, president of Caritas Internationalis and one of the pope’s advisers on Council of Cardinals, provided those gathered with a Gospel-based explanation of why it is important to engage with and advocate on behalf of poor people.

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VATICAN CITY – Peace takes hard work and must be built one person at a time working each day by forgiving others, ending injustice and stopping greed, Pope Francis told elementary school children.

People also have to do more to stop condemning those who have made serious mistakes and instead help those who are incarcerated, especially juveniles, to start over and return to society, he said.

“It’s easier to fill prisons than help” them learn how to make better choices in life, Pope Francis said May 11 during a one-hour encounter with thousands of children, parents and educators taking part in an Italian initiative called “The Peace Factory.”

During the encounter a girl gave the pope a white safety helmet and a boy tied two bracelets with the initiative’s logo onto the pope’s wrists, making him “a special worker in the peace factory.”

Meeting in the Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall, the pope listened to a dozen elementary school kids asking him questions, including: why children suffer, why some powerful leaders choose war over peace, if the pope ever fought with his siblings, if he ever wanted some peace and quiet in his busy day and what if someone wanted to stay mad and did “not want to make peace with you? What would you do?”

“That’s a very good question,” he said.

The only thing to do, he said, was respect that person’s freedom to think and feel the way they wanted.

One should pray for that person and “never, never take revenge,” he said.

An Egyptian boy asked why some powerful people do not help schools, but the pope said the question should be broadened to ask “Why do many powerful people not want peace? Because they live off of war: the arms industry,” he said, explaining how the industry will arm all sides in a conflict.

This highly profitable “industry of death” is driven by greed, which “is very harmful,” he said.

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FARMS: Catholic workers’ co-op installing organic mini-farms on Peninsula and beyond FROM PAGE 1

with the option of ongoing maintenance by NanoFarms on a weekly or monthly basis, said Brendan Ford, NanoFarms manager. The cost for an installed 8-by-5 foot garden starts at $899.

NanoFarms’ planned structure is to franchise to parish worker cooperatives Brendan Ford – and the first one is the St. Francis of Assisi East Palo Alto co-op.

“I had other jobs and I earned good money but I think none is so beautiful as this job,” said St. Francis of Assisi parishioner and co-op member Ernesto Jasso, who was selling produce grown at the seminary to St. Charles School parents and grandparents after school April 20. Jasso and his wife Marcella, who lead their parish respect life group, are among five members of the co-op. Produce will also be sold regularly at St. Pius, St. Denis and Our Lady of Mount Carmel parishes. But the primary product of the co-op will be installing gardens on a fee basis, mostly at residences.

NanoFarms is a Catholic faithbased workers’ cooperative along the lines of a very successful Spanish workers’ cooperative Mondragon, now the 10th-largest corporation in Spain, which was founded in 1941

by Basque priest Father José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga, Ford said.

“It is working through the capitalist system for people to own what they do,” said Jesuit Father George Schultze, a seminary professor. “The core of this is spiritual – the understanding that we are all interconnected, that we help each other become more fully who we are.”

The idea is to create income and employment for low income people suffering from the skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area, said Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, where the poor, mostly Latino city is squeezed alongside wealthy Silicon Valley enclaves.

“The economy has not been nice to us,” said Father Goode. “We’re kind of the ones at the end of the line.”

“My experience is that if people

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MINI-FARMS AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE THEORY

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The NanoFarms USA venture based at the seminary and St. Francis of Assisi Parish sells produce at other parish locations in the archdiocese, including St. Charles in San Carlos, pictured here.

‘I was actually surprised we yielded so much the first year.’

SULPICIAN FATHER GLADSTONE STEVENS Rector, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University

want to improve they have to have an economic source of well-being. This is a small attempt at that. It is doing it from a spiritual basis,” said Father Schultze, who brainstormed with Father Goode and Guadalupe Associates/Ignatius Press founder Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio before coming up with NanoFarms.

The gardens at the seminary are a pilot project and a training ground for the co-op members. The gardens, now about 10,000 square feet, will continue, supplying produce for sale and for the seminarians. Father Stevens envisions seminarians taking the techniques and philosophy of NanoFarms to their assignments as priests.

Guadalupe Associates is funding the startup costs of NanoFarms, including paying Ford’s salary and for training in the specialized farming techniques for Ernesto and Marcella Jasso, who are sharing what they learn with the other members of the St. Francis co-op, Ford said.

NanoFarms is using aspects of the “biointensive” farming method, as

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taught by John Jeavons of Grow Biointensive, because of its focus on sustainability in agriculture, Ford said.

However, NanoFarms is not using all of his methods. The intense use of resources is well-suited to semi-arid California, particularly during this time of drought because much less water is used, said Ford, NanoFarms USA West Coast regional manager. In addition, at the seminary, well water is used.

The idea of selling the installation of organically tilled produce gardens for households was a middle-of thenight brainwave by Father Fessio last April. He said he woke up with the thought: “All of these people on the Peninsula are interested in sustainable agriculture. What if we trained some of the people who don’t have professional skills to install little organic gardens? What do we call it?

NanoFarms. A billionth.”

“The largest farm in the world is thousands of acres, one billionth of that is several hundred feet. A NanoFarm,” Father Fessio said.

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The NanoFarms USA project at the archdiocesan seminary and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto is implementing the Catholic social justice theory of distributism envisioned by thinkers G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc in the early-20th century, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University professor Jesuit Father George Schultze said.

Distributism places the family at the center, extolls family homeownership, and includes the idea of co-ops where workers own the means of production and share in the profits within the framework of a capitalist economic system. It comes out of Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (“On Capital and Labour”) released in 1891 in response to the inhumanity of unregulated 19th-century capitalism, the advent of socialism and atheistic Marxism, and the rise of trade unions. The encyclical is the foundation of modern Catholic social justice thought.

NanoFarms founders including Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio hope for a national movement of parish-based worker owned cooperatives embodying the economics and Catholic spirituality of G.K. Chesterton.

Already Lighthouse Media in Chicago is helping develop NanoFarms USA in Chicago, Father Fessio said “The few people who have helped us are doing it because of their faith,” said Father Schultze. “It is important for us to maintain our spiritual foundation because everything depends on God.” “It is one attempt at creating work and income among others,” said Father Schultze.

“I see the NanoFarm effort as a means of contributing to the income of families and that ownership of one’s work is a worthy goal. It encourages initiative and personal investment.”

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Evergive: Tithing technology with a community-building bonus CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is banking on a Silicon Valley startup called Evergive to make fundraising quick, easy and rewarding with a free, faith-based computer app being officially launched to the archdiocesan community May 15.

Evergive is just “one more way” faith communities can give to the church, including writing a check, donating online and using the collection basket, Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro, the archdiocese’s interim director of development, told Catholic San Francisco.

The Palo Alto-based Evergive is targeting a new generation of Catholics who occupy digital communities and use their smartphones or computers for social and financial transactions.

“We know many of our young parishioners don’t even have a checkbook anymore,” he said.

According to Father Giampietro, Evergive’s developers created the technology to help mission-driven communities, such as churches and other nonprofits, form trusted digital communities for inspiration, communication and, given its name, fundraising.

“A hundred years ago, a church was the central hub of a community,” said Evergive chief executive officer and co-founder James Ioannidis. “Now they’re engulfed in this digital realm.

There needs to be a new platform that supports these things. We want to bring the parish experience to the smartphone.”

Palo Alto-based Evergive is targeting a new generation of Catholics who occupy digital communities and use their smartphones or computers for social and financial transactions.

Mary Minno, Evergive’s vice president for partnerships, said that while “we have a lot of pastors who say college students love this,” Evergive attracts a broad demographic. “Our average user is a 50-year-old woman,” she said.

The free Evergive app, which can be downloaded to any smartphone or

accessed online, offers users a digest of daily inspiration and information, including daily Mass readings and prayers, communications from the archbishop, Pope Francis’ Twitter feed, headlines from Catholic San Francisco and, naturally, fundraising appeals.

Father Giampietro and development coordinator Florian Romero are,

for now, the archdiocese’s Evergive administrators, feeding the content and campaigns that will be seen by Evergive users. Ultimately the Communications Department will manage Evergive, said Father Giampietro.

Users will be able to ask for prayers SEE EVERGIVE, PAGE 18

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‘I want everything for people,’ says Woodside Priory junior TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“You can’t judge people by face value,” says Woodside Priory junior Lilly Johnson, January’s Steward of the Month at the Portola Valley school. “I really, really, really, want to work with people who feel down in the dumps. I want Lilly Johnson to be able to have an open mind. I’m really interested in psychology and social services.”

Lilly’s interface with the poor takes place at locations including Samaritan House where she volunteers each Christmas season, and Table of Plenty, a weekly sit-down dinner for the poor at Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. Beyond that, she is also an aide in the OLP religious education program each Sunday.

Priory’s Steward of the Month is named from nominees of students and faculty. The award is presented at a chapel assembly.

“I’ve learned not to judge people by their appearance and be more understanding of situations that lead to unfortunate circumstances,” Lilly said. “It’s been a unique experience to see different people sharing a meal not just for nourishment but for company. They sit together and are treated with dignity and respect, bringing some comfort in their lives.”

Lilly serves meals at Table of Plenty at least once a month. She has a special place in her heart for the homeless who come for the meal. She even knows where they like to sit.

“I like to serve that table,” Lilly said. “They’re telling me their backgrounds and how they had amazing potential. This woman’s a great poet.

This guy, I don’t know, you can just see everything in their eyes. They had potential and they kind of lost it. As a person, I’m really empathetic.

Sometimes I would go home and cry because that just breaks my heart. I want everything for people. If I could fix that for someone it would make everything worthwhile.”

MUCH TO CELEBRATE: St. Timothy Parish celebrated the 90th birthday of longtime – more than 60 years – parishioner and volunteer Lou

THANK YOU: Carmel Tickler, part of the life and administration of Star of the Sea Parish, San Francisco, for 25 years, was honored at a parish retirement dinner for her April 18. In remarks, Carmel called parish volunteers a “formidable force for good.”

Pictured with Carmel at the dinner are back from left, Ivan Ruiz, student, Oratory of St. Philip Neri; Father Patrick Driscoll, Star parochial vicar; Father Martin Muruli; Gabriel Crawford, oratory student; Father Mark Mazza, former Star pastor; Father Joseph Illo, Star administrator; front from left, Cameron Pollette, student St. Patrick’s Seminary; Msgr. Floro Arcamo, former Star pastor; Carmel Tickler; retired Father Benedict Chang, former Star parochial vicar; Father Raymund Reyes, vicar for clergy for the archdiocese.

Mass, helping take up the collection and fixing the parish vacuum cleaners, St. Tim’s said. Lou and his wife Denise celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary April 26.

TOP HONOR: Archbishop Riordan High School recognized three young men it calls “newlyminted Eagle Scouts” April 12: seniors Michael Archer and Gregory Schoepp, and 2014 alumnus Ryan Glenn. Joey Klobas; principal Vittorio Anastasio, and David Elu, all Riordan faculty who helped them on their way took part in the ceremony.

REUNION: San Francisco’s St. John Ursuline High School held its annual Mass and luncheon April 19. More than “200 wonderful women” attended said Ursuline Sister Shirley Garibaldi, a 1964 alumna of St. John’s as well as the school’s principal when it closed in 1990. She is now principal of St. John Elementary School. “It was fabulous,” Sister Shirley told me, noting alumnae “dedication and devotion to St. John’s never ends.” Pictured at the event from left: Jeannie FanucchiPorter, Kathy Grimley-Baker and Karen Grimley all St. John’s ‘75. “There is a Facebook page faithfully maintained by Theresa Keane,” Karen told me. “It is people like Theresa who help keep our legacy alive.”

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Benedictines’ Woodside Priory heir to 1,500 years of a monastic tradition Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

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The Order of Saint Benedict, usually referred to as the Benedictines, has been a powerful influence in the history of the Catholic church since the sixth century when a charismatic Roman young man, Benedict, left the city of his birth WAKE UP THE WORLD ! to live the life of a her2015 Year of Consecrated Life mit. Roman civilization was at that time under siege from the Barbarians on the outside and moral and political corruption on the inside.

Although Benedict chose to live a solitary life in a cave, he was soon recognized as a holy man by others who wished to Father Egon Javor, OSB, follow Christ in a comfounder of Woodside Priory munity setting, and thus School was born the Benedictine way of life.

Benedict was regarded as the father of a growing number of followers and thus became known as Abbot, the Latin word for “father.” Around the year 540, Benedict saw the need to formulate some guidelines for community living and so he wrote a short set of rules which became known as The Holy Rule. It is that same rule which

Pictured at Woodside Priory are members of the current Priory monastic community. From left: Father Martin Mager, OSB, Monastic Superior; Father Maurus, OSB; Father Pius, OSB. guides Benedictine monasteries worldwide to this day.

Woodside Priory is heir to 1,500 years of a monastic tradition of learning guided by the influence of the Holy Rule. This rule is unfolded at Woodside Priory School that was founded by seven Hungarian monks from the monastery of Pannonhalma in 1957. The founding of the school followed the revolution of that decade when Hungarian patriots made a valiant effort to overthrow the Russian Communist regime that had oppressed citizens and targeted religion as an enemy of the state. The seven escaped the country and came to the United States. After a few years, they came to California to

establish the Priory School as a college preparatory school for boys.

Seeing the need for a less European influence, the Priory was joined by monks from St. Anselm monastery in New Hampshire in 1975, a collaboration that has existed ever since with the St. Anselm Abbot as spiritual father of both houses.

The Priory remained an all-boys school until 1991 when it became coed. The Benedictine values of Community, Individuality, Spirituality, Integrity, and Hospitality are the hallmarks of the educational philosophy at the Priory. Classes are kept small so that interaction between teacher and student may be spontaneous and supportive of student initiative. The concept of listening is emphasized for both teacher and student so that learning may take place in an environment of creative respect.

In addition to a rigorous academic program, students are encouraged to become involved in the arts, drama, athletics and extracurricular activities and to risk going beyond their comfort zone. It is expected that each student will become involved in community service activities at a serious level.

Seniors must fulfill a senior project requirement that involves intense focus on some area of interest which is unrelated to the school curriculum. Each senior must make a presentation before faculty members as well as students to complete their project.

The Benedictine community was welcomed into the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop John Mitty over a half-century ago, and has been privileged to serve in many parishes over the years.

Their ministry has touched others in a variety of ways through retreats, Cursillo activities, Taize services as well as liturgical celebrations that include people who have no affiliation with the school. The monks are grateful for the many years that they have been welcomed by the clergy and laity of the archdiocese.

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Religious honored at Consecrated Life Mass Women and men religious who attended the Consecrated Life Mass with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone April 28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral included, front row from left: Father Rey Culaba, CSsR; Sister Celina Cruz, OSJ; Sister Eva Cambros, MFP; Sister Eileen Pazmino, RSM; Sister Jane Meuse, RSM; Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, PBVM; Sister Anna Marie Zacher, lsp; Archbishop Cordileone; Sister Feliciana Surtido, MCHS; Sister Peggy Offley, SNDdeN; Sister Jacinta Martinez, SNDdeN; (wheelchair) Sister Eileen Canelo, PBVM; Sister Nelia Pernecia, OP (Phil); Sister Ita Cleary, PBVM (Union). Back row from left: Father Michael Mahoney, OFM Cap; Sister Drita Maris, MC; Sister Jeanenne Weis, SNJM; Sister Patricia Riley, OP (San Rafael); Sister Kathleen Curtin, PBVM; Sister Carl Fischer, PBVM; Sister Virginia King, PBVM; Sister Marie Sagus, OP (San Rafael); Sister Patricia Ottoboni, OP (San Rafael); Sister Catherine Cappello, FdCC; Sister Krista Ramirez, RSM; Sister Teresa Ebanen, OP (Phil); Sister Otelia Fortaleza, OP (Phil); Sister Rosario Tuvida, OP (Phil); Sister Judith Roach, RSCJ; Sister Joanne Fitzpatrick, RSCJ; Sister Anne Marie McKenna, BVM.

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Sisters of the Presentation celebrated jubilees as women religious at a community celebration April 25, at Presentation Convent in San Francisco. Jesuit Father Robert Fambrini, a student of Presentation Sister Virginia King as a seventh grader at St. Elizabeth School in San Francisco, presided.

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Lourdes pilgrimage ‘a sneak preview of heaven’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A pilgrimage to Lourdes is “like a sneak preview of what heaven is,” said Florian Romero, who helped organize a trip to Rome, Assisi, Florence, Barcelona, and Lourdes for a group of Catholics from San Francisco and the Philippines.

A highlight of the pilgrimage came during the pilgrimage to Rome when Pope Francis picked up and blessed Romero’s baby grandniece.

“Lourdes is a place where you get the sense that the vast majority are there as pilgrims,” said Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro who led the April 20-May 3 pilgrimage, concluding in Lourdes, France.

The grotto at Lourdes is where the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous 18 times during 1858. The water from the spring St. Bernadette dug from the mud at the Blessed Mother’s direction flows freely, from fountains, and down rocks, and pilgrims are free to take as much as they want, said Romero. The Catholic Church has recognized 68 miracles attributed to the waters at Lourdes.

The International Medical Committee of Lourdes, a group of about 20 physicians, has certified another 2,000 unexplained cures.

“That our Blessed Mother appeared to a simple girl as St. Bernadette in a grotto gives one the sure knowledge that God the Father, through the mother of his son, comes to us constantly, although perhaps not so dramatically,” said Mary Podesta, a parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Belmont.

“Having never been on a pilgrimage or

Pope Francis kisses pilgrim Florian Romero’s grandniece Filumena Tambunting April 22 at St. Peter’s Square. Right, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is pictured with pilgrims, including Father Anthony Giampietro, Florian Romero and Mary Podesta. to Europe, I was particularly struck by the deep faith of all the pilgrims one encounters and the immensity of the history of Catholicism,” said Podesta.

“It’s a place where people from all around the world pray together every night,” said Father Giampietro, who is interim development director for the archdiocese, noting the candlelight rosary procession draws 60,000 people nightly. The procession during their visit included the Knights of Malta who bring the sick and handicapped to the healing waters of Lourdes, Father Giampietro said.

“You have people who in this country are the upper crust, serving the malades (French for sick),” he said.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was in Lourdes with the Western Association, USA, of the Knights of Malta.

The archbishop celebrated Mass and shared a meal with the 18 travelers.

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California bill targets state’s abortion-alternative pregnancy clinics CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

California’s 71 abortion-alternative pregnancy medical clinics may be forced to inform pregnant women considering their services that publicly funded programs that provide abortion are available to them if a fast-moving bill becomes law.

AB 775, called the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency Act, is needed to ensure all women have knowledge and access to a full range of publicly funded reproductive health care options, say bill authors Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, and Autumn Burke, D-Los Angeles, But Catholic prolife leaders and the directors of pregnancy medical clinics and pregnancy resource centers in California, which offer free prenatal care to women but do not refer them to abortion services, say the bill specifically and unfairly targets them.

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Robin Strom, executive director of Marin Pregnancy Clinic in Novato, told Catholic San Francisco that if California bill AB 775 becomes law, clinics that provide abortion-alternatives to women in need will be forced to post visible notices at their entrances stating that publicly funded family-planning services including abortion are available to them. She is pictured inside the clinic’s entrance. to publicize abortion,” Vicki Evans, the archdiocese’s Respect Life Coordinator, told Catholic San Francisco Apr. 20, three days after an Assembly Judiciary Committee passed the

bill by a vote of 7-3. It is now with the Committee on Appropriations.

“This bill is about abortion, plain and simple,” said Robin Strom, executive director of Marin Pregnancy

Clinic, one of the licensed medical clinics that would be affected if the bill becomes law. Strom said the clinic, though not Catholic-run, is “life affirming,” offering women free pregnancy testing and prenatal care but not birth control or abortionservices referrals.

Standing in the entryway of the Novato clinic, Strom pointed to a spot on the wall behind a glass door where if AB 775 passes, she may have to post a sign notifying anyone walking into the clinic that the state has programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to family planning services including prenatal care and abortion.

Leaders of other crisis pregnancy clinics providing abortion alternatives say that AB 775 is not only unconstitutional, it’s insulting to women.

“Women are smart,” reads the website, stop775bnow.com. “They know they have pregnancy options and they know where to find them. California should stay out of women’s reproductive decision-making process.”

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TSARNAEV REMORSEFUL, SISTER PREJEAN TELLS BOSTON JURY

BOSTON – Sister Helen Prejean, the death penalty abolition advocate, told a jury May 11 that convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev expressed remorse in discussions with her.

Sister Prejean, Dzhokhar the Sister of Saint Tsarnaev Joseph of Medaille and author of, “Dead Man Walking,” said during the defense’s portion of the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev’s trial that she had met with him five times since March.

In their conversations, she said, he eventually discussed his feelings about the victims of the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three and left more than 260 people injured.

“He said emphatically, ‘No one deserves to suffer like they did,’” Sister Prejean told the jury, according to various news sources. She said she believed Tsarnaev was sincere in the regret he voiced.

Although he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, as his trial opened, Tsarnaev’s attorney acknowledged he had a role in the bombings.

The defense strategy through the main trial and the penalty phase focused on the influence of the elder brother as the principal organizer of the crimes. Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 counts on which he was indicted, including use of a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death.

Some of the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.

Sister Prejean said she was invited

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REPORT: CLOSE IMMIGRANT DETENTION SYSTEM

WASHINGTON – A scathing new report on the conditions under which immigrants are detained concludes with the U.S. bishops’ recommendation that the current system be dismantled and replaced with less Bishop Nicholas drastic approaches DiMarzio for keeping track of people whose immigration cases are pending.

Drawing on international law, analyses of who is detained, how the mostly for-profit prison industry manages detention and bishops’ personal experiences with people in detention, the report called instead for more supervised release, better case management and community support programs to ensure that people show up for court appearances or deportation orders.

The report released May 11, “Unlocking Human Dignity: A Plan to Transform the U.S. Immigrant Detention System,” was a joint project of the Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Center for Migration Studies, a Catholic migration policy think tank.

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RICHMOND, Va. – Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of Richmond and Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington said it was time to shift the conversation from who should be executed and how to execute people to why the death penalty continues to be applied, especially when other means to protect society without taking a human life exist.

Citing the words of Pope Francis in opposing capital punishment, the bishops said in a statement released May 6 that by ending the death penalty in the state, “we would take one important step ... to abandon the culture of death and embrace the culture of life.”

They pointed to the tenets of Catholic teaching, which hold that all human life is sacred, fueling the church’s drive to advocate for the needs of poor and vulnerable people, the elderly, the unborn and immigrants and refugees.

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mitting brutal crimes which have brought them the ultimate penalty, the penalty of death,” the bishops said.

APPELLATE COURT REVERSES OAK RIDGE PLOWSHARES SABOTAGE CONVICTION

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The court’s majority opinion said the Sabotage Act under which the three were convicted does not define “the national defense,” calling the act is too vague “for the government to speak in terms of cut fences or delayed shipments or pens stolen from the Pentagon.”

SCHOLAR’S 3 LESSONS FROM VIET WAR

WASHINGTON – Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, David Cortright, director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame – and a Vietnam dissenter while serving stateside in the Army outlined three hard lessons.

“One is what I would call ignorance of the conditions we were addressing,” he told Catholic News Service May 7. “We had no idea what was going on in Vietnam when we went over there. Very few (U.S.) people spoke the language. We didn’t know the culture.”

Cortright’s second lesson was “arrogance. We believed that our military was invincible. We believed we could just push aside these peasants, and bombed enough and sent enough troops, they would certainly submit to our will. We underestimated the tenacity and the willingness of these people to suffer unbelievable losses and destruction and casualties.”

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CASTRO ‘COULD START PRAYING AGAIN’

VATICAN CITY – After spending close to an hour with Pope Francis, Cuban President Raul Castro told reporters he is so impressed by what the pope does and says that he might start praying and could even return to the church.

“I had a very Raul Castro agreeable meeting this morning with Pope Francis. He is a Jesuit, as you well know. I am, too, in a certain sense because I was always in Jesuit schools,” Castro told reporters May 10.

“When the pope comes to Cuba in September, I promise to go to all his Masses and will do so happily,” the president told reporters at a news conference he held later in the day with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

“I read all the speeches of the pope,” Castro said, and he told reporters that

he already had told Renzi, “if the pope continues to speak this way, sooner or later I could start praying again and return to the Catholic Church. I’m not kidding. I’m a communist, (a member) of the Cuban Communist Party. The party has never admitted believers.”

POPE’S JULY VISIT TO SOUTH AMERICA

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will begin his July 5-12 three-nation South America tour in Ecuador before moving on to Bolivia and Paraguay, the Vatican announced May 8.

The pope will meet with the three countries’ presidents and with other “civil society” leaders, but the heart of the visit is expected to be his public Masses and the time he spends with people often on the margins of society.

On July 8, he will visit a home for the aged run by the Missionaries of Charity in Quito; in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, he will address participants in the second World Meeting of Popular Movements, a group of grass-roots activists, and will

visit a prison; and in Asuncion, Paraguay, he will visit a pediatric hospital and one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, Banado Norte.

FATIMA ‘LIFTS VEIL’ ON EVIL

VATICAN CITY – The so-called “secrets” of Our Lady of Fatima tell of today’s Christian persecution, in addition to the martyrdom of the past century, said Cardinal Angelo Amato.

The prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes opened a conference May 7 on “The Message of Fatima between Charism and Prophecy.” The text of his talk was published May 8 on the website of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

Cardinal Amato said he had “the privilege” of reading the original manuscripts of the secrets of Fatima when he served as secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2002 to 2008. “I meditated on them at length because they cast a light of faith and hope on the very sad events of the past century,” including Christian Martyrdom, he said.

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hat’s the use of an old-fashioned, hand-held lantern? Well, its light can be quite useful when it’s pitch dark, but it becomes superfluous and unnoticeable in the noonday sun. Still, this doesn’t mean its light is bad, only that it’s weak.

If we hold that image in our minds, we will see both a FATHER RON huge irony and ROLHEISER a profound lesson in the Gospels when they describe the arrest of Jesus. Gospel of John, for example, describes his arrest this way: “Judas brought the cohort to this place together with guards sent by the chief priests and Pharisees, all carrying lanterns and torches.” John wants us to see the irony in this, that is, the forces of this world have come to arrest and put on trial, Jesus, the Light of the world, carrying weak, artificial light, a lantern in the face of the Light of the world, puny light in the full face of the noonday sun. As well, in naming this irony, the Gospels are offering a second lesson: when we no longer walk in the light of Christ, we will invariably turn to artificial light.

This image, I believe, can serve as a penetrating metaphor for how the criticism that the Enlightenment has made of our Christian belief in God

LETTERS Catholics have the answer Thank you for your answers to the misguided signers of the ad to Pope Francis. Thanks to our controlled media, we have a lot of misguided people. We are in the middle of a world crisis – thousands of people fleeing their homelands, defending and keeping their faith. We in the U.S. have already been targeted. We need the church to be strong and lead us away from our complacency and self-interest. We live in a secular world, attractive but dangerous. As Catholics, as Christians, we have the answer.

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Bringing people together I feel I should defend the writers of the open letter to Pope Francis that was published in the Chronicle. As far as I know, we still have free speech in this country. If those who are dismayed by the open letter want to publicly express themselves, they can pay for their own open letter to Pope Francis in the Chronicle. Apart from that, I understand the disappointment as expressed by the writers of the letter. Pope Francis represents the same dogma of the Catholic Church, but his emphasis is on the poor. Pope Francis brings people together, including non-Catholics.

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The sword and the lily In his column (“Who am I to judge?” April 24) Father Ron Rolheiser says that we, not Christ, judge ourselves. While I see how someone might appreciate his heartwarming and inspirational Pablum, Father

Too often we unwittingly agree with our critics that faith is a naivete. We do it by believing the very thing our critics assert, namely, that if we studied and looked at things hard enough we would eventually lose our faith. stands before what it is criticizing.

That criticism has two prongs.

The first prong is this: The Enlightenment (modernist thought) submits that the God that is generally presented by our Christian churches has no credibility because that God is simply a projection of human desire, a god made in our own image and likeness, and a god that we can forever manipulate to serve self-interest. Belief in such a god, they say, is adolescent in that it is predicated on a certain naiveté, on an intellectual blindness that can be flushed out and remedied by a hard look at reality. An enlightened mind, it is asserted, sees belief in God as self-interest and as intellectual blindness.

There is much to be said, positively, for this criticism, given that much, much of atheism is a parasite off of bad theism. Atheism feeds off bad religion and, no doubt, many of the things we do in the name of religion are done out of self-interest and intellectual blindness. How many times, for instance, has politics used religion for its own ends? The first prong of the criticism that the Enlightenment makes of Christian belief is a healthy challenge to us as believers.

But it’s the second prong of this criticism that, I believe, stands like a lantern, a weak light, dwarfed in the noonday sun. Central to the Enlightenment’s criticism of belief in God is their assertion (perhaps better called prejudice) that faith is a naiveté, something like belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny, that we outgrow as we mature and open our minds more and more to knowledge and what’s empirically evident in the world. What we see through science and honest observation, they believe, eventually puts to death our belief in God, exposing it as a naiveté. In essence, the assertion is that if you face up to the hard empirical facts of reality without blinking, with honesty and courage, you will cease to believe in God. Indeed, the very phrase “the Enlightenment” implies this. It’s only the unenlightened, pre-modernist mind that still can believe in God. Moving beyond belief in God is enlightenment.

Sadly, Christianity has often internalized this prejudice and expressed it (and continues to express it) in the many forms of fear and antiintellectualism within our churches.

Too often we unwittingly agree with our critics that faith is a naivete.

Rolheiser does no one a favor by allowing us to forget we all must render an account of our discipleship: “For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God … So [then] each of us shall give an account of himself [to God]” (Romans 14:10-12).

Christ will certainly judge us all and has established a day on which he will judge the world with justice. We face our particular judgments at the hour of death, and the general judgment at the end of time. The icon of Christ seated in glory is often depicted with a sword on his left and a lily on his right, representing justice and mercy respectively; there is no mercy without also justice. The beautiful message of Divine Mercy, gushing forth for those who might only ask, only makes sense in a world where there is something to be saved from: Sin, death, hell. “The one who judges me is the Lord” (1 Corinthians 4:4).

In denying Christ’s judgment, I’m afraid Father Rolheiser strips him also of his beautiful mercy and forgiveness. Being told to judge ourselves, we can all too easily invent our own religion, picking and choosing the doctrines we prefer. We can forget Christ instead says: “Deny yourself; follow me.”

Michael Stallman San Mateo

the Lepanto Institute, fished around in public records and discovered that the CRS vice president for overseas finance, a 16-year veteran of the agency, married another man two years ago, and complained. CRS, busy with the Nepal crisis, has only responded that they are “in deliberations.”

The people of Nepal don’t care that one of the key players expediting aid to them got “gay married” two years ago nor, in my opinion, does God. Neither CRS nor the church needs this un-Christian kind of thing happening. I pray this kind of spiritual cancer doesn’t metastasize to our blessed archdiocese.

Greg Smith San Francisco The writer is a parishioner of St. Monica Parish, San Francisco.

Avoiding ‘witch hunts’ I was pleased to read Archbishop Cordileone’s statement that he doesn’t want “witch hunts” in our archdiocese. It might be helpful to see what a witch hunt looks like so we can avoid them. As Catholic Relief Services is facing one of the greatest humanitarian emergencies in its history, an obscure group in Partlow, Virginia,

Drought a teachable moment It is a major issue, one that affects us all: the California drought.

I still remember, during the drought in the 1970s, the drought was incorporated into practically every subject of my grade school.

In math we figured how much water we were using in our homes per day.

In science we learned about droughts, precipitation and groundwater. In history we learned about past droughts and what impact they had. In English we wrote essays about the drought and researched ways to conserve

We do it by believing the very thing our critics assert, namely, that if we studied and looked at things hard enough we would eventually lose our faith. We betray this in our fear of the intellectual academy, in our paranoia about secular wisdom, in some of our fears about scientific knowledge, and by forever warning people to protect themselves against certain inconvenient truths within scientific and secular knowledge. In doing this, we, in fact, concede that the criticism made against us is true and, worse still, we betray that fact that we do not think that the truth of Christ will stand up to the world.

But, given the penetrating metaphor highlighted in Jesus’ arrest, there’s another way of seeing this: After we have conceded the truth of the legitimate findings of science and secular wisdom and affirmed that they need to be embraced and not defended against, then, in the light of John’s metaphor (worldly forces, carrying lanterns and torches, as they to arrest the Light of world to put it on trial), we should also see how dim are the lights of our world, not least, the criticism of the Enlightenment.

Lanterns and torches are helpful when the sun is down, but they’re utterly eclipsed by the light of the sun.

Worldly knowledge too is helpful in its own way, but it is more than dwarfed by the light of the Son. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

water. Even in art, we did projects related to water. I remember this all these years later.

My youngest child is in eighth grade at one of our archdiocesan K-8 schools. At the beginning of the school year, I asked our principal if the drought would be incorporated into the curriculum. I was told there wasn’t time.

In Genesis 1:26 we’re told, God made us in his image and that we are to have dominion over all the fish in the sea and birds in the sky. In other words, we are charged with the stewardship of our Earth. Wouldn’t this fall under the curriculum of our students?

It is time to encourage our bright young children to be ready for the future and be part of the present: To awaken in them a love of learning, to show them how learning is all around them in our everyday lives.

It is an opportunity for our archbishop to be a leader of stewardship and humility as opposed to simply being viewed as a critic who is stifling dynamic education. As the Holy Father is showing us, it is time to lead by example.

This drought is certainly something that affects us all, and something that all of us should work together to overcome.

Sandra Firpo South San Francisco

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The beauty of Christian marriage Catholic San Francisco will present Vatican Information Service reports on the pope’s catechesis on the family given at his Wednesday general audience in Vatican City.

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The beauty of Christian marriage, which is not “simply the beauty of the ceremony that takes place in church, but rather the Sacrament made by the Church, giving rise to a new family community,” was the theme chosen by Pope Francis in the catechesis of his Wednesday general audience May 6.

“It is what the apostle Paul summarizes in his famous expression: “This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church.’ Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Paul affirms that the love between spouses is the image of the love between Christ and the Church.

An unimaginable dignity! But in reality it is inscribed in God’s plan of creation, and with Christ’s grace countless Christian couples, even with their limits, their sins, have achieved this.”

St. Paul, speaking of new life in Christ, says that “all Christians are called to love each other as Christ has loved them, that is ‘submitting to one another,’ meaning at each other’s service. Here he introduces the analogy between the husbandwife couple and that of Christ and the Church. It is clear that this is an imperfect analogy, but we must

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“‘Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies,” says Paul; ‘as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.’” grasp the spiritual meaning, elevated and revolutionary but at the same time very simple, within the reach of every man and woman who trust in God’s grace.” “‘Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies,” says Paul; ‘as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.’ The effect of this radicalism of the devotion required of man, for the love and the dignity of the woman, based on the example of Christ, must have been enormous within the Christian community itself. This seed of evangelical newness, that re-establishes the original

reciprocity of devotion and respect, has ripened slowly throughout history, but in the end it has prevailed.”

The sacrament of marriage “is a great act of faith and of love: It bears witness to the courage of believing in the God’s creating act and of living that love that drives us always to go onwards, beyond ourselves and even beyond the family itself. The Christian vocation to love without reserve and without measure is such that, with Christ’s grace, it is at the base of the free consensus that constitutes marriage.” Furthermore, the Church herself “is fully involved in

the history of each Christian marriage: she is built on its successes and suffers in its failures. However we must ask ourselves seriously: Do we accept fully, ourselves, as believers and pastors, this indissoluble bond of the history of Christ and the Church with the history of marriage and the human family? Are we willing to take on this responsibility seriously?”

The decision to “marry in the Lord” also contains a missionary dimension, which means having at heart the willingness to become conduits of God’s blessing and the Lord’s grace for all. Indeed, Christian couples participate in the mission of the Church inasmuch as they are couples. … And thus the life of the Church is enriched every time by the beauty of this matrimonial alliance, just as it is impoverished every time it is defaced. The Church, to offer the gift of faith, love and hope to all, is in need of the courageous faithfulness of married couples in the grace of their sacrament. The people of God need their daily progress in faith, love and hope, with all the joys and the hardships that this path involves in a marriage and in a family”.

“Yes: St. Paul was right, it is a great mystery,” concluded the pope.

“Men and women, courageous enough to place this treasure in the clay vessels of our humanity, are an essential resource for the Church, and also for all the world. May God bless you a thousand times for this!”

The difference Cardinal George made

n September 2, 1939 the House of Commons debated the British government’s response to the German invasion of Poland the previous day. The ruling Conservative Party was badly divided between those demanding that Britain fulfill its obligations to Poland and those addicted to the habits of appeasement. “Party loyalty” was being invoked to drown out Conservative opposition to Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain when the deputy leader of the opposition Labour GEORGE WEIGEL Party, Arthur Greenwood, rose to speak. Then, from the Tory back benches, came the voice of an anti-appeasement Conservative, Leo Amery, who cried, “Speak for England, Arthur!”

Who speaks for country and principle, not just for faction or party? It’s a perennial question.

I was reminded of it, and of Leo Amery, when my friend, Sen. Henry M. Jackson, died in 1983, and one of his aides said, “We’ve just lost the last adult in the Senate.” When I asked what that meant, he replied, “There was only one man here who, when a crisis was at hand and the country was at risk, had the personal authority to say, in effect, ‘Close the door; let’s get serious and get this settled.’” That’s what the death of Scoop Jackson meant: The last reference point had left the scene. (And if you want a sense of that aide’s prescience, look at the U.S. Senate today.)

Legislative bodies with contending factions and ideas need that kind of leadership: They need someone – or, preferably, several someones – with the authority to speak for the common good and get others to think outside the narrow confines of their own concerns and interests. And so (if

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A tribute to Cardinal Francis E. George, who retired as archbishop of Chicago in 2014, is seen April 20 in the window of a house in the neighborhood where he grew up near St. Pascal Church in Chicago. Cardinal George died April 17 after a long battle with cancer.

I may stretch an analogy just a bit) do bishops’ conferences.

The death of Cardinal Francis George on April 17 opened a breach in the life and work of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Since Cardinal John O’Connor’s death in 2000, Cardinal George played the role championed by Leo Amery and embodied by Scoop Jackson in another sphere of action: Cardinal George was the man with the authority, in this case, to “speak for the church,” and to get his brother bishops to

bracket their differences and act as one for the good of the church. He did it quietly, but he also did it effectively. And he could do it because of who he was: His character and insight made him the reference point when things were very serious.

When Francis George was appointed Archbishop of Chicago, an auxiliary bishop who will remain nameless said, “Oh no, he’s the one who gets up at the meetings and uses those words the bishops don’t understand.” Well, that now deceased bishop may not have understood, but others did.

And those who didn’t necessarily have the same breadth of learning and culture as Francis George nonetheless followed his lead because they knew him as a man of erudition and humility who thought things through, who had the courage to follow his convictions, and who could be trusted to speak for the church, not just for his point of view or his “party.”

It was immensely important that the bishops elected Cardinal George their conference president in 2007. For it was his leadership that created the broad consensus about the Catholic future in America that led to the election of Cardinal Timothy Dolan as conference president in 2010 – and that made possible the bishops’ stalwart defense of religious freedom in the face of an administration determined to bend the church and its work of healing, educating and empowering the poor to the government’s will.

That contest is by no means over, for the modern state – whoever is in charge – seems to have an irresistible urge to expand its reach, shrinking the sphere of civil society in the process. This tendency is a direct challenge to the core Catholic social doctrine principle of subsidiarity. And it must be resisted, even as the church works to marry subsidiarity to solidarity with the weakest among us.

So: Who will now “speak for the church”?

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

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep students cross the street near the campus in San Francisco. That Asians constitute 31.2 percent of the school’s 1,280-member student body coincides with the 2010 San Francisco census that identifies a total Asian population of 33.3 percent. This comparable fact is a reminder of the rich diversity that underlies contemporary San Francisco archdiocesan Catholic secondary education.

Sacred Heart Cathedral: Students from China at the crossroads This is the third in a series of articles on the mission church in China, highlighting historic and current work by clergy, religious and laity from the San Francisco area. Passionist Father Robert Carbonneau, who is executive director, of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau in Berkeley and resides with the De LaSalle Christian Brothers at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, suggested the series “to encourage San Francisco Catholics to learn about and respect the contribution of Chinese Catholic identity.”

Previous articles ran in the March 6 and April 3 issues.

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hen you find yourself sitting in your car at the red traffic light at the crossroads of Gough and Ellis streets by St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, take the opportunity to watch classmates at the urban campus of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep trudge between buildings. That Asians constitute 31.2 percent of the high school’s 1,280-member student body coincides with the 2010 San Francisco census that identifies a total Asian population of 33.3 FATHER ROBERT percent. This comparable CARBONNEAU, CP fact is a reminder of the rich diversity that underlies contemporary San Francisco archdiocesan Catholic secondary education.

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Presently, archdiocesan high schools mirror the national trend, which has Catholic schools entering into a relationship to teach a small cohort of students from the People’s Republic of China. SHC hosts six. Archbishop Riordan and Junipero Serra educate 34 and 13 respectively. At this time, Marin Catholic has no mainland students.

Due in part to the Catholic missionary effort to China, history shows that throughout the 20th century, students from China matriculated in numerous American Catholic colleges and high schools. In 2014 a total of 275,000 Chinese students came to the U.S. The Institute of International Education stated this was 31 percent of the total number and consequently the largest sending country.

Currently, Catholic high schools recruit on their own or via professional companies. Chinese parents seek out American Catholic high schools because of their stability, inclusiveness and tradition of excellence. In turn, students from diverse Chinese provinces now at SHC stated they wished to become more proficient in English and develop creative learning skills unavailable in many parts of China and prepare for college. Insight gained from host families, teachers and classmates has motivated these students to face new cultural challenges and appreciate the pulse of American life. One student proudly admitted that he and his friend decided to start a Chinese Club wherein they both share confidence beyond the routine of

day to day study and reflecting on their international experience.

Lunchtime proctor De LaSalle Brother Martin DeMartini has found conversations with the Chinese students quite engaging. Admitting he asks as many questions as they do, he now reads China news with greater awareness. He believes their presence at SHC coincides with the educational mission of the LaSallian Christian Brothers and Daughters of Charity – the latter having sent missionaries to China for decades.

The six Chinese SHC students look to their teachers and international student advisors such as Angie Pfahnl to assist them in balancing issues of day to day life. Their teenage encounters with housing, homework, diet, cultural socialization and distance from home parallel their classmates. Pfahnl seeks to engender respect for their Chinese voice without diluting standard pedagogical and religious principles. Unquestionable is her belief that international students offer and share in the life-giving pulse of the changing world in and beyond SHC. So next time you are stopped in traffic at Gough and Ellis, ponder the growing rapport between San Francisco Catholic high schools and students from mainland China.

Visit the U.S. Catholic China Bureau at www.uscatholicchina.org. Email Father Carbonneau at director@uscatholicchina.org.

The elderly as poets of prayer

t 6 o’clock each morning, we Little Sisters gather in the chapel to begin our day with an hour of prayer. Most days we are joined by a petite, frail old woman who wheels herself into the chapel, strains to reach the holy water font, blesses herself and then settles in to begin her daily devotions.

By the time we are ready to sing the divine office a half hour later, several more women and a retired priest have joined us. When I pass through the chapel midmorning a whole group of residents is already there SISTER praying as they wait for CONSTANCE Mass to begin. Again in VEIT, LSP the late afternoon they are there – fingering their rosaries or thumbing through tattered prayer books as they prepare to join us for evening prayer.

Our elderly residents are a constant presence in our chapel. They are like the biblical figures Simeon and Anna, whom Pope Francis recently called “poets of prayer.” “The prayer of grandparents and of the elderly is a great gift for the church, it is a treasure!” he proclaimed at a recent general audience. Prayer is “a great injection of wisdom for the whole of human society:

Above all for one which is too busy, too taken, too distracted.”

“Prayer is the purpose of old age,” said Pope Francis, quoting Olivier Clément, a 20th-century Orthodox theologian: “A civilization which has no place for prayer is a civilization in which old age has lost all meaning. And this is terrifying. For, above all, we need old people who pray; prayer is the purpose of old age.”

Clément’s insight captures so eloquently the witness given by the residents of our homes. Although I am a consecrated person, I often become too busy and too distracted, as Pope Francis said. But each time I see the elderly quietly praying in the chapel, I am reminded of the sharing of spiritual goods through the communion of saints, and of St. Therese of Lisieux’s words that prayer is a lever capable of lifting up the world. What a debt of gratitude we owe the elderly who offer prayers of praise, gratitude and remembrance, making up for the sentiments that, in our overly busy lives, we forget to offer God! Pope Francis encourages his contemporaries to pray on behalf of others: “We are able to thank the Lord for the benefits received, and fill the emptiness of ingratitude that surrounds us. We are able to intercede for the expectations of younger generations and give dignity to the memory and sacrifices of past generations. We are able to remind ambitious young people that a life without love is a barren life. We are able to say to young people

who are afraid that anxiety about the future can be overcome. We are able to teach the young who are overly self-absorbed that there is more joy in giving than in receiving.”

Grandparents, the pope said, “form the enduring ‘chorus’ of a great spiritual sanctuary, where prayers of supplication and songs of praise sustain the community which toils and struggles in the field of life.” These are strong and moving words from Pope Francis, but his message is more than mere spiritual rhetoric. Just as cloistered religious believe that their vocation is to spend their lives interceding for the church and the world, I believe that the prayers of the Simeons and Annas I know are invaluable in interceding for me and the whole world.

Every day I witness, as Pope Francis said, “The prayer of the elderly is a beautiful thing.” I find it moving to realize that just when their physical energies are waning and the dominant culture considers them a useless burden, the elderly have such great spiritual power. How profoundly grateful I am to be able to share my life with such ‘poets of prayer!’”

Whatever your problems or worries may be, confide them to the elderly Simeons and Annas you know. They will not fail to take your concerns to heart and to present them to our merciful Lord on your behalf.

SISTER CONSTANCE is communications director for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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America’s pornography pandemic “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.” Matthew 5:28

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he pornography pandemic is proof of a spiritual battle that is going on in our nation. Pornographic images are intentionally designed to enter through the human eye to trigger unbridled human lust to distort, deprave and destroy the human spirit, mind and body.

It is Satan’s counteroffer to God’s design for human sexualDEACON ity. He is aided CHRISTOPH and abetted by SANDOVAL unconscionable human profiteers who collaborate with the Evil One to prey on men, women and children, destroying the very fabric of love in our families.

The pornography industry pollutes the Internet and uses our computers, iPads, mobile devices and adult television programming in hotels across the country to seduce, the gullible into addiction. Before long addicts begin to live double lives, frequenting adult bookstores and theaters,using phone sex lines, and ordering X-rated materials through the mail. Pornographic and suggestive imagery has been purposely spilled into our nightly television, billboards and advertisements infecting the innocent. We now live in a sexually saturated culture of death whose proponents openly conduct a war in the name of human rights to de-Christianize our country.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors the public), since each

RESOURCES SEX & LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: www.slaa-sfeb.org/ SEXUAL ADDICTION PSYCHOTHERAPISTS: sexaddicthelp.com/Links/index.htm FATHERS FOR GOOD (INITIATIVE FOR MEN BY THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS): www.fathersforgood.org/ ffg/en/news/pornography/special.html THEOLOGY OF THE BODY: www.theologyofthebody.net/ CHASTITY SF: http://chastitysf.com/ one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense.”

Pornography addiction gets it foot in the door by repeated exposures to suggestive images. Soon after pornography enslaves the addict with insatiable and escalating cravings for visual perversion. This mental intoxication leads to escalation compelling the addict to look for more deviant hard-core pornography that would have disgusted him prior to his attachment. Now it excites and stimulates the addict with imagery to feed an unquenchable appetite. Eventually, the addict starts to become numb and enters into a stage of desensitization. Ultimately even the most graphic and degrading pornography doesn’t excite anymore. Invariably the addict becomes desperate to feel the same high again but can’t find it. At this point, many addicts make a dangerous leap and start acting out sexually. They move from pornographic images to enact the story lines and suggested pornographic scenarios in the real world, wreaking havoc.

In James 1:14-15 we are told “each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.” Science agrees. Studies show addicts attempt to keep up with the physiological dopamine-adrenaline overload by overstimulation with pornography. The net effect is that

the brain will cripple and eventually incapacitate its dopamine receptors. In due course the dopamine system is hijacked by pornography addiction and results in neuroplasticity (rewiring the brain). Spiritually our willpower is deactivated by repetition, which turns on a form of hypnotic automation – like a plane being put on autopilot.

Pornography destroys personal identity, families and communities and undermines and distorts a person’s moral compass and ultimately separates us from communion with our God. Abstinence and chastity are keys to the recalibration of the dopamine/ adrenaline system. When the overstimulation of dopamine and adrenaline stops, the brain gradually restores the dopamine balance. Chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being.

Using a spirit, mind and body approach, pornography addicts can regain impulse control. The spiritual practice of abstinence and chastity can help us minimize triggers, refute permissive thoughts, and interrupt reaction formation behavioral sequences. Mentally, cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly recommended to assist patients in understanding the relationship between triggering events and the automatic response in one’s thoughts, emotions and self-defeating behaviors. Physically, cardiovascular exercise helps in anchoring permissive thoughts in a deactivated position and helps to stabilize related depressions and anxieties. The temptation from the Evil One (“just one more time”) can be silenced by prayer, perseverance and holy purity.

St. Josemaria Escriva once issued this challenge, which is still relevant today: “To defend his purity, St. Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, St. Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, St. Bernard plunged into an icy pond. You – what have you done?”

It’s time to answer this question. One thing is spiritually certain: Holy purity keeps God in the center of all our loves and all of our lives.

DEACON SANDOVAL serves at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Pornography on the supermarket shelves MARTA REBAGLIATI

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his past April 22, a coalition that has brought together the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, doctors, activists and community leaders launched the “Cosmo Harms Minors” campaign seeking to “inform, expose and equip communities to take action and protect minors,” according to their National Press Club news conference release. Their nationwide survey results can be found here: www.EndSexualExploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/ Cosmo-Harms-Minors_National-Survey-Results.pdf.

Spearheading the campaign is Victoria Hearst, founder and president of Praise Him Ministries in Colorado and granddaughter of the late media tycoon William Randolph Hearst whose multinational media group publishes Cosmopolitan (Cosmo) magazine. Appearing on “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Hearst claimed that Cosmopolitan’s content “fits the dictionary definition of pornography, fits the rational man definition of pornography,” besides infringing on obscenity laws and laws

restricting material harmful to minors in almost all 50 states. The campaign’s goal is not to boycott the magazine nor put it out of business – but rather to have it classified as graphic, sexual and adult material to be sold exclusively to adults in wrappers or behind blinders away from the lollipop and candy rack by the checkout line in supermarkets.

Asked whether it was the parents’ job to keep children away from reading it Hearst replied, “Then why should Playboy be put in a wrapper and labeled adult material? You can say that about Penthouse and Hustler: Leave it up to the parents to decide whether their kid should buy that or not.’”

Dr. Alveda King, pastoral associate and director of African-American outreach for Priests for Life and also a part of the kickoff campaign, was interviewed by the Media Research Center and went a step further by stating that Cosmo magazine was not alone in this endeavor but blamed Planned Parenthood also for promoting hyper-sexuality among young girls and thus “lining the pockets of the abortion industry.” In 2014 Planned Parenthood honored Cos-

mopolitan and other “brilliant, fearless” journalists, activists and social media innovators with the 2014 Maggie Award Winners for Media Excellence.

This ostensibly systematic crusade against minors also caught the attention of the American Life League back in 2012 when the group released a shocking report on YouTube entitled “Hooking Kids on Sex II.” revealing Planned Parenthood’s push for community activities aimed at kids as young as 10 and up.

Planned Parenthood’s most widely distributed persuasion tool is a pamphlet available to everyone online called “It’s Perfectly Normal,” illustrated with graphic images and information about “puberty and sexual health for today’s kids and teenagers,” for which the book has also received many distinction awards. The American Life League tellall video is still available on YouTube for all concerned parties with a warning to keep children away from it at www. youtube.com/watch?v=j7XR9yH2ETk. REBAGLIATI is a member of Our Lady of Grace Parish, Castro Valley.

Remembering Cardinal George

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e are never quite the same after experiencing endearing moments that touch us. The recent death of Cardinal Francis E. George, retired archbishop of Chicago, reminds me of cherished moments.

Right after the FATHER EUGENE death of HEMRICK my father, I had to fly to the town of Yakima, Washington, to work with Cardinal George, who was then the bishop of that diocese. He was working on a study being contemplated by the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference in Washington, D.C. When I arrived at the airport, Cardinal George picked me up in his car and gave me a tour of his diocese, which had a growing Latino population.

I will never forget how consoling he was when he heard of my dad’s death. When he found out, he let business wait. He wanted to be there for me. It was an endearing moment in which a lifelong friendship was born.

This past year, my brother died.

The day after my brother’s burial, I stayed at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago and concelebrated Sunday Mass with Cardinal George. At one point, I broke down. Cardinal George put his arm on my shoulder, giving me the courage to continue. Again, he was there for me.

No matter what rank, power or possessions a person has when he or she dies, what counts most is how they reached out to others who needed their support, how they stood at the side of another person and shared his or her pain.

Entering into another person’s pain is most difficult because it is a reminder that we, too, will someday experience it. It’s a thought most of us run from.

The record will show that as busy as Cardinal George was, he dealt with the problems of those around him. Even though he was fatigued, he dropped everything around him to be at the side of one who needed a priest, not a cardinal, but a priest with a loving, understanding and compassionate heart.

Cardinal George had another side to him: that of being an intellectual. He loved ideas and was also known for strongly advocating orthodoxy and following the rules, which he felt was his job. He could be a stickler, and yet he was a priest first.

One of the expectations of the priesthood is being a consoler. At times, when a death or tragedy is extremely difficult to bear, a priest is called and is expected to be at the side of the bereaved. He need not say anything, he only needs to be there. And Cardinal George did that for me.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.’

MARK16:15-20 ACTS 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up

from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”

PSALM 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness, For the Lord, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the Lord, amid trumpet blasts. Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise. God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

EPHESIANS 1:17-23 Brothers and sisters: May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in

his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

MARK16:15-20 Jesus said to his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.

Called to witness, to the ends of the earth

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isheartened, the abbot of a renowned monastery consults with a holy man living in the mountains about steeply declining numbers of his monks. He wonders what sin might have led to this situation. The holy man calls it the sin of ignorance, that is, one of the monks is the Messiah in disguise and everyone is ignorant of his presence. Back at the monastery, the abbot calls the monks together and reveals that one of them is the Messiah. They are stunned. What if this monk or that one is the Messiah? How could they recognize him if he is in disguise? So they take to treating one another with respect and kindness. The new atmosphere soon turns FATHER CHARLES the monastery into a place PUTHOTA of vibrant joy. Before long, dozens of aspirants are lining up to become monks. Once again the monastery reverberates with the holy chants of the monks aglow with love.

This Ascension Sunday, we uphold the truth that

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the Messiah is among us and in us – and will always be. The risen and ascended Jesus having completed his mission is now the Christ in the Spirit. “I will be with you always,” he says. So we had better take to treating each other with love and respect.

He has permeated the material world. So we had better protect the earth with gentle care. He has forever entered the human history. So we had better shape our history in a progressively loving and peaceful ways. We are not orphaned. Jesus is alive in us in whole new, surprising, and transforming ways. This conviction we celebrate this Ascension Sunday.

There are two divine mysteries related to the Ascension that we could treasure and explore – and of which we could become stewards and sharers.

First, the ministry of Jesus continues today.

Jesus inaugurated the kingdom as a radically new way of relating to God and to one another.

He needs us to continue his mission and bring the kingdom to its fruitful conclusion. He sends us out: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” He trusts us enough to have passed on the baton. We run the relay race now, carrying the life-giving message of Jesus from one person to another, from one generation to another. He says, “You will be my witnesses … to the ends of the earth.” Our work is not to be

“standing there looking at the sky” but to go help and heal, to love and serve, to touch and transform the world. The Ascension empowers us for this mission.

Second, we are called to a life in the Spirit. We cannot externalize what is not internal. We cannot proclaim in words and deeds what we do not cherish deep within. We cannot help extend the risen-ascended Christ into space and time if we do not invite him into our lives first. As individuals and church we need to luxuriate in Christ who is in the Spirit. The Spirit will transform us into new beings. In prayer, contemplation, worship, the word of God, silence, sacraments, devotions, and liturgical celebrations, we can sense Jesus saying, “I am the vine, you are the branches … Remain in me as I remain in you.” Paul’s prayer “May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened” means that in our inner vision, imagination, and desire, we shall see and feel Jesus so that we can share him with conviction with others.

The Ascension of the Lord enables us to become authentic disciples by living a life in the Spirit and impels us to become ardent apostles sent out to complete Jesus’ kingdom mission.

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS POPE FRANCIS CHURCH LOOKS TO SPIRIT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS WITH DIALOGUE

When the church has a problem to solve or a big decision to make, the Holy Spirit works by helping people discuss the issues openly and frankly, not by fomenting gossip and backroom deals, Pope Francis said. “In a church where people always argue and there are factions, and brothers and sisters betray each other, the Spirit is not there,” he said in his homily May 8 at his morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae in Vatican City.

MONDAY, MAY 18: Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. John I, pope and martyr. ACTS 19:1-8. PS 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab.

COL 3:1. JN 16:29-33.

TUESDAY, MAY 19: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. ACTS 20:17-27. PS 68:10-11, 20-21. JN 14:16. JN 17:1-11a.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20: Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, priest. ACTS 20:28-38. PS 68:2930, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab. SEE JN 17:17b, 17a. JN 17:11b-19.

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

FRIDAY, MAY 22: Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Rita of Cascia, religious.

ACTS 25:13b-21. PS 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab. JN 14:26. JN 21:15-19.

SATURDAY, MAY 23: Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter. ACTS 28:16-20, 30-31. PS 11:4, 5 and 7. JN 16:7, 13. JN 21:20-25.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE: Program geared to papal trip focuses on inequities FROM PAGE 1

Cardinal Rodriguez urged the gathering to continue pressing policymakers to assure that the rights and lives of poor people are not ignored.

Many in the packed conference room cheered the cardinal’s comments on the theme, “Year of Encounter: Confronting the Economy of Exclusion.”

“There is money to rescue the banks but no money to rescue the poor. This is unjust!” he told the faith-based advocates, which included clergy and women religious. “People who have lost their homes (to foreclosure) were victims of an unjust system. Foreclosure is a crime against the poor.

“The poor person is the victim of entrepreneurs (who give) work but

without paying a minimum wage.

They are thieves!” Cardinal Rodriguez said.

The economy, he explained, “is a system that is ill from the inside and needs healing” because it “is centered in money and markets, not the human person.”

He identified the problem of economic inequality as stemming from the root of the biblical question that Cain, after murdering his brother Abel, put to God, which Cardinal Rodriguez called “the terrible syndrome of Cain.”

“Am I the guardian of my brother?

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Where there is no justice, there is no peace, he said, pointing to the eruptions of violence in the United States over the killings of poor black men by police in the last year, most recently in Baltimore.

Only when people recognize the equality of one another, “that we have the same rights, we will have respect for each other and love each other,” he said.

While Cardinal Rodriguez might have been preaching to the choir of social justice advocates in the room, he also challenged them to get to know poor people.

In the Holy Year of Mercy that Pope Francis has proclaimed beginning in

Advent, the cardinal urged his listeners to “take your heart to suffering people. How the Year of Mercy will be bearing fruit is to convert to the suffering of concrete people.”

He also encouraged the mostly Catholic and Christian participants to work to convince politicians not to seek their own self-interest but the greater common good for society.

“Be united in forming communities of faith and take concrete actions,” he told the attendees. “We are community. You as organic communities are working for the common good. Do not be tired. Never become discouraged.”

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ST. ROBERT SCHOOL, SAN BRUNO: Students held a “Books, Board Games, and Baked Goods” fundraiser April 24 benefiting the Missionary Childhood Association. The event led by seventh graders raised $660 for the cause.

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ECOLE NOTRE DAMES DES VICTOIRES, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s Blue Dragonbots robotics team was selected as semifinalists in the first Lego League global innovation held in St. Louis in April. The team had a busy week presenting their project called “Simubot.” More than 200 students competed in their division. “The NDV team made an excellent presentation to the judges and we are proud of all of their efforts and the way they represented NDV,” the school said. Congratulations too to coach, Greg Herlein, and to Patty Hoyt, Jahan Raissi and Brian McNamee, chaperones on the trip. Pictured from left are the Blue Dragonbots: Mario Hemann, Sebastian Kutz, Jackson Seltenrich, Luigi Barassi, Darian Raissi, Eamon McNamee, Luca Herlein and Luka Hettenkofer.

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LOAVES & FISHES AWARDS: Kristine and Jim Silva were honored with the 2015 Award for Faith in Action at Catholic Charities’ 18th Annual Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner and Gala held April 18 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, celebrating Catholic Charities Homelessness and Housing Services. They are pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Catholics Charities Executive Director Jeff Bialik.

Supporters of Catholic Charities Homelessness and Housing Services were recognized for their vital role in providing funds for programs that serve the formerly homeless families and individuals throughout San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo Counties.

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St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Rosemarie Carroll died April 24. Sister Rosemarie was 75 years old and a religious for 57 years.

Sister Rosemarie attended San Francisco’s St. Monica School and graduated from Star of the Sea Academy. She ministered in Northern California for 45 years at schools including St. Emydius and Star Sister Rosemaof the Sea in San Francisco and rie Carroll, CSJ Our Lady of Loretto in Novato.

“Sister Rosemarie was both a loved teacher and principal for almost 50 years in Catholic elementary schools,” the sisters said in a statement.

Sister Rosemarie is survived by a sister Holy Names Sister Colette Carroll of Campbell.

A funeral Mass was celebrated April 30 at Carondelet Center in Los Angeles with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

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• Must have a clean driving record; DMV H-6 printout required • Drug testing, fingerprinting and background check required • Must be at least 18 years old • Must be responsible, punctual, and team-oriented • Full & Part time hours available • We offer excellent benefits package and competitive pay If you are already a certified school bus driver, join our team and receive a hiring bonus of $1,500 after 90 days of employment.

Please contact Bill Avalos, Operations Manager at: bavalos@catholiccharitiessf.org or 650.757.2117

DIRECTOR FOR YOUTH MINISTRY AND CONFIRMATION PROGRAM FOR ST. GABRIEL PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO The Confirmation Program and Youth Ministry Director, a person willing to work as part of a ministry team. This 20 hour per week position involves the recruitment, training, and supervision of volunteer adults and teens who participate in the Confirmation Formation Program – as well as the Youth Ministry Program of the parish Contact Person: Matthew Shea, Pastoral Associate Email: mattshea@sgparish.org | Phone: (415) 731-6161 JOB DESCRIPTION 1. YOUTH MINISTER St Gabriel’s Pastoral Staff operates in a “team” ministry atmosphere. This position involves being part of the Pastoral Staff which meets regularly for prayer, business, planning, and evaluation. In addition, as a Pastoral Staff member this position also requires attendance at appropriate parish meetings (e.g. Parish Council, Parish Social and Liturgical events).

2. SUPERVISION: Pastor (Secondary administrative supervisor Matt Shea- Pastoral Associate).

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

B. With the assistance of the Magi Leadership Team plan, implement, and evaluate all parish youth activities which include the following: 1. Weekly youth meetings with spiritual, service, and social dimensions.

2. Twice monthly Sunday 5:30 pm Youth Mass.

3. Magi Team meetings 4. Liaison with parish and youth 5. Provide one-on-one ministry to the youth 6. Participate in appropriate Archdiocesan events/committee for youth.

C. Coordinate Confirmation Faith Formation Program 1. Recruit, train, and direct adults and teens for participation in the Magi Leadership Team for the parish Confirmation Program.

2. Implement the following: a. Regular Confirmation class and group meetings with candidates. b. Confirmation Overnight Retreat c. Liturgical Services (rite of Enrolment and Reception of the Sacrament). d. Record Keeping. e. Plan and Coordinate St. Gabriel 8th grade Day of Prayer

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Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

C.G.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

C.G.

RENTAL WANTED Hello Catholic friends.

I’m a new Catholic medical resident starting internship at St. Mary’s Medical Center (450 Stanyan St, SF) this June. I’m legally blind, and therefore looking for a place near the hospital. The salary at this hospital makes it extremely difficult to keep up with the severe rent inflation occurring in the city at present. If you are a renter interested in renting to a highly responsible and respectful visually impaired, devoutly Catholic physician, please contact me. I’m also married, but open to either a single room for just myself or a space large enough for my wife to come to the city with me, depending on what is available. Kind thanks for reading.

Pax Christi (480) 459-8807 or 3terrymeehan@gmail.com.

HELP WANTED Director of Human Life and Dignity Archdiocese of San Francisco Looking to make a difference?

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a qualified leader to join the Archdiocese as the Director of Human Life and Dignity, the Director position is a public policy position that reports directly to the Moderator of the Curia and Vicar for Administration. This office specifically promotes “protect life” initiatives and more generally advances social justice. In addition to directing members of the Office of Human Life and Dignity, the Director also articulates how the work of various reporting units is rooted in and motivated by Scripture and Catholic teaching.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities • Supervises professional staff overseeing the following areas: Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Justice and Peace, Parish Organizing and Leadership Development, and Project Rachel.

• Promotes in the Archdiocese the work of Catholic Relief Services and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

• Develops policy positions in consultation with the Archbishop and the Moderator of the Curia that are relevant to the mission of the Catholic Church locally, nationally, and internationally.

Work Experience/Qualifications • An excellent writer and public speaker.

• Competent in dealing with the press in relation to important issues of social justice.

• Able to ground any public policy issue advanced by the Archdiocese in Scripture and Tradition.

• A practicing Catholic.

• An undergraduate degree, preferably in theology or public policy • Experience articulating social policy that is grounded in and in conformity with Catholic teaching.

• At least five years of experience in a social policy area relevant to Catholic social teaching.

We offer a competitive salary in a non-profit environment plus excellent benefits (including free, gated parking at our Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, Pastoral Center.)

For consideration, please e-mail resume and cover letter to: Archdiocese of San Francisco | Attn: Patrick Schmidt 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, Ca 94109 | E-mail: careers@sfarch.org Equal Opportunity Employer; qualified candidates with criminal histories are considered.

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SATURDAY, MAY 16

SUNDAY MAY 17 CHARISMATIC CONVENTION: Catholic Charismatic movement, Northern California Renewal Coalition convention May 22-24, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Archbishop Parkway, Santa Salvatore Clara; Archbishop Cordileone Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist of the event’s opening Mass.

Talks will be offered for adults, young adults, teenagers and children. For registration, complete schedule and additional details

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

HANDICAPABLES MASS: The first 50 years of this good work continues to be celebrated throughout 2015 with monthly Mass and lunch at noon in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

DAY AT THE RACES: Fundraiser at Golden Gate Fields benefiting Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope inner-city elementary schools. Racing starts 11:45 a.m. Deadline to purchase tickets is May 4. Call (510) 533-5768 or register online at www. visionofhope.org.

PORZIUNCOLA ROSARY: Knights of St. Francis Holy Rosary Sodality meets Saturdays for the rosary at 2:30 p.m. in the Porziuncola Nuova,

FAMILY PICNIC: Sponsored by SFCatholics.org, Sue Bierman Park next to Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, 11 a.m. Families are asked

visit www.NCRCSpirit.org. (415) 350-8677.

SATURDAY, JUNE 13 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at Mass commemorating 50 year anniversary of the Handicapables at noon, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance with lunch following the liturgy.

All disabled people and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

to bring their own picnic foods and beverages as well as chairs and blankets. The day is in support of the ministry of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Donations to help with costs are welcome at www. gofundme.com/archbishop. For complete details on the event visit www.

SFCatholics.org; email SFCatholics@ gmail.com.

SPRING DANCE: Fil-Am Friendship Network event, St. Francis Episcopal Parish Hall, Ocean Avenue at Portola, San Francisco. Tickets $25.

Proceeds benefit Dominican Sisters of the Holy Rosary in the Philippines and FAFNET scholarship programs.

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DON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group, Sts. Peter and Paul Salesian Parish, 7 p.m., parish center; the study group has met for several years to study the history, educational and spiritual philosophy of St. John Bosco and the Salesian movement within the church in preparation for the 200th bicentennial of St. John Bosco’s birth in 1815 in Turin, Italy. No reading is necessary for attendance. Frank Lavin, franklavin@ comcast.net; (415) 310-8551; (415) 421-0809.

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

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SOLEMN HIGH MASS: Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 9:30 a.m., Dominican Father Ambrose Sigman, principal celebrant. Liturgy is followed by presentations from Dominican friars, nuns and laity about Dominican life as well as a reception. The morning commemorates the Year of Consecrated Life. Founded by St. Dominic 800 years ago, the Order of Friars Preachers was commissioned to contemplate God and share with others the fruit of that contemplation, preaching the Gospel for the salvation of souls. Today, the sons and daughters of St. Dominic continue to embrace and live out that charism as religious friars and nuns, sisters and laity. For more information, please contact Dominican Sister Joseph Marie, DominicanNuns@nunsmenlo. org; (650) 322-1801. The Mass will be according to the Dominican rite, a form of the extraordinary form unique to the Dominican Order.

FRIDAY, MAY 22

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20 PASTA LUNCH: Immaculate Conception Church, Folsom at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, noon, with meal of all you can eat pasta, meatballs, $10. Beverages available for purchase. A tradition of the local church for more than 50 years.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on west side of parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions provide information on grief process, and tips on coping with loss of a loved one; Deacon Christoph Sandoval leads the group. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

women religious in the United States will be shown June 4 as part of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael “Gathering@Grand” series, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 7 p.m. followed by a panel of four sisters speaking on their work in affordable housing, preschool education, ecology, sustainability and the use of social media to promote peace and justice, and refreshments. Call (415) 453-8303; email CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org. “Women and Spirit” chronicles the history of the thousands of sisters who came to the United States and founded the Catholic school system, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the poor, mental institutions, and many more programs.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6 SATURDAY, MAY 30 ROSARY: Mary’s prayer will be said at noon, Civic Center Plaza at One Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco for the conversion of hearts. Juanita Agcaoili, (415) 647-7229.

SUNDAY, MAY 31 COUNTRY BREAKFAST: Church of the Assumption, Tomales, 9 a.m.2p.m., Tomales Town Hall, 27150 Maine St., $10 adults/$7 children, choices include pancakes, eggs, sausages as well as Filipino and Mexican selections, baked goods available for purchase and raffle. (707) 878-2208.

THURSDAY, JUNE 4 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

CONSECRATED LIVES: “Women and Spirit” a documentary on the work of

PEACE MASS: Holy Name of Jesus Church, 1555 39th Ave. at Lawton, San Francisco, 9 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail.com.

THURSDAY, JUNE 11 CONSECRATED LIVES: “Women and Spirit” a documentary on the work of women religious in the United States will be shown in Foudy Hall at St. Monica Parish, 23rd Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by a panel of men and women religious speaking about religious life, and refreshments. Visit www.stthomasapostlechurchsf.org. “Women and Spirit” chronicles the history of the thousands of sisters who came to the United States and founded the Catholic school system, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the poor, mental institutions, and many more programs.

SUNDAY, MAY 24 FAUSTINA PLAY: Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church, 600 El Camino Real, Millbrae, 2 p.m., ample free parking and wheelchair accessibility. No tickets Nancy Scimone required, freewill offerings will be collected.

Catholic performing artist Nancy Scimone created the one-woman show on St. Faustina’s life.

Music@nancyscimone.com, www.SaintFaustinaDrama.net, (571) 232-1873.

SATURDAY, MAY 30 RESOURCE FAIR: Free seminar. 1-3:30 p.m. on building healthy family relationships and caring for elders, Our Lady of Mercy Parish Hall, One ElFather Domingo mwood Drive, Orimico Daly City. Paulita Malay, (650) 871-7717. Sponsored by Alliance for Community Empowerment. Father Domingo Orimico, Our Lady of Mercy pastor, is among speakers.

grams; 716 Newhall Road, Burlingame, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Friday and Saturday.

Jean Watterson, (650) 343-6225.

SUNDAY, JUNE 28 RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation event, Our Lady of Angels

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‘SACRED IN EVERYDAY’: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael Gather@ Grand series hosts award-winning poet and author Kathleen Norris, 7 p.m., speaking on finding the sacred in our everyday lives. She will share selections from contemporary authors who have found God in moments of daily life. Kathleen’s New York Times bestsellers include “The Cloister Walk,” and “Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith.” She is a visiting professor at Providence College in Rhode Island.

Gather@Grand is open to all. There will be light refreshments and time for questions and answers. The Gathering Space at the Dominican Sisters Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, between Acacia and Locust. RSVP at (415) 453 8303 or email CommunityRelations@ sanrafaelop.org.

THURSDAY, JULY 9 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome. Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

HEALING: Mindfulness meditation, July 15, Oct. 21, 10 a.m., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Center for Education and Spirituality at motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont. Each session includes a spiritual focus and practice.

Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska, facilitator. Freewill offering accepted. www. msjdominicans.org; (510) 933-6335.

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MONDAY, JUNE 29

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FRIDAY, JUNE 19 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation event in support of the group’s scholarship and charity pro-

School gym, Burlingame, with no-host cocktails at 4 p.m. and dinner at 5 p.m. $22 per person/family of four for $50.

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

MEMORIAL DAY MASS PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON

MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015 AT 11:00 A.M.

COMMEMORATING OUR NATION’S HONORED DEAD AND OFFERED FOR THE SOULS OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED Shuttle available at main gate from 10a.m. until 1p.m.

Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park Memorial Day Mass – Outdoors – 11:00 am Rev. Christopher Baldok, Celebrant

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery, Half Moon Bay Memorial Day Mass – Outdoors – 9:30 am Rev. Joseph Previtali, Celebrant

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael Memorial Day Mass – Outdoors – 11:00 am Rev. Paul E. Perry, Celebrant

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

The names of those you wish to remember and your message of love and affection may be written on Memorial Day Tribute Cards.

You may pick up a Tribute Card in the Cemetery Office or All Saints Mausoleum.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679