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WASHINGTON – As Oregon scientists announced May 15 that they had successfully converted human skin cells into embryonic stem cells, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities warned that the technique is morally troubling on many levels.

Scientists at the Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center announced that they had successfully reprogrammed human skin cells to become embryonic stem cells, which are capable of transforming into other types of cells that could replace those damaged by illness or injury.

Many news reports on the announcement referred to the research as human cloning, but the university’s release and a full report on the work in Cell magazine carefully avoided the term, except to say taking the work in the direction of reproductive cloning is unlikely.

The Oregon research team developed the unfertilized embryonic cells to seven days’ growth in a lab. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, who chairs the bishops’ committee, said the process created and destroyed more than 120 human embryos, which the church considers human life that must be protected.

“Creating new human lives in the laboratory solely to destroy them is an abuse denounced even by many who SEE STEM CELLS, PAGE 20

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run abortion mills throughout our country.”

A Philadelphia jury May 13 found Gosnell guilty of murder in the deaths of three babies born alive during abortions and acquitted him of

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The “full social and legal effects” of state lawmakers’ decision to legalize same-sex marriage “will begin to manifest themselves in the years ahead,” said the Minnesota Catholic Conference.

“Today the Minnesota Senate voted to redefine marriage in Minnesota.

The outcome, though expected, is no less disappointing,” the conference said in a statement.

The state Senate in a 37-30 vote gave final approval May 13 to a same-sex marriage bill. The state House passed the measure May 9. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed it May 14.

The law is to take effect Aug. 1, making Minnesota the 12th state to allow same-sex couples to marry. Earlier in May, Rhode Island and Delaware became the 10th and 11th states, respectively, to legalize same-sex marriage.

“The church, for its part, will continue to work to rebuild a healthy culture of marriage and family life, as well as defend the rights of Minnesotans to live out their faith in everyday life and speak the truth in love,” said the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops.

“Some wish to believe that sexual relationships outside of the marital context of husband and wife are innocuous, choosing to ignore the fact that they are actually harmful to individuals and to society as a whole,” said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.

“There are many of us Americans, including many Minnesotans, who stand for the natural and true meaning of marriage,” he said in a statement released late May 14. “They

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Spirit takes wing Pope Francis holds a dove before his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 15. Anticipating the feast of Pentecost May 19, the pope focused on the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding the lives of the faithful and the church to the truth.

Archbishop: Gosnell case shows ‘ugliness of abortion’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Kermit Gosnell may have been convicted May 13 of murder at his Philadelphia abortion clinic, but “nothing can bring back the innocent children he killed, or make up for the vulnerable

women he exploited,” said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.

And, he added, “the repugnance of his clinic conditions” must be remembered.

In a May 14 statement, the Philadelphia archbishop said, “Gosnell is not an exception. Others just like him

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NEED TO KNOW ST. RAYMOND ADMINISTRATOR BECOMES US CITIZEN: Father Edward Inyanwachi, the administrator of St. Raymond Parish in Menlo Park, became a U.S. citizen after beginning the process 10 years ago. “It feels good,” said Father InyanwaFather Edward chi, who returns to Inyanwachi Nigeria after 14 years in this country, finishing an 18-month stint as administrator at St. Raymond in June. Father Inyanwachi took the oath of citizenship and then said the pledge of allegiance in a ceremony in Oakland on April 23. “I have truly enjoyed my priestly ministry here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. I am grateful for the opportunity granted me to serve in the archdiocese. I have learned so many things and have been deeply enriched in my faith. I take back to Nigeria the wealth of experience that I have gained, the lovely memories of this great city by the bay and the many friends that I have made for life. I am proud to call the United States my ‘home away from home,’” Father Inyanwachi said.

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Left, Paloma, a parishioner at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish and an undocumented immigrant, listens to speakers at Mission Dolores after telling her story at a May 13 press conference by the archdiocese. She is holding her son, who was born in the U.S. Right, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone blesses those working for comprehensive immigration reform. Standing behind the archbishop is Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck. At right are Mission Dolores pastor Father Arturo L. Albano and Nellie, an undocumented immigrant who also told her story.

Archbishop calls immigration reform bill ‘historic opportunity’

SISTER, PRIEST CELEBRATE 75 YEARS OF CONSECRATED LIFE: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will celebrate 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on May 26 to honor men and women in consecrated life in the archdiocese, including 44 Dominican (San women religious, Rafael) Sister one cloistered Joanna Browne woman religious and six men religious marking jubilarian anniversaries. The honorees include two celebrating 75 years of consecrated life: Dominican (San Rafael) Sister Joanna Browne Salesian Father and Salesian Father Austin Conterno Austin Conterno. The celebration is a witness to the fidelity and commitment of men and women to religious life. There are 650 women religious in the archdiocese, representing 48 communities.

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone reiterated his support for bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform legislation before Congress, calling it “an historic opportunity to fix the broken immigration system.”

He was joined by two undocumented women who also spoke at the May 13 press conference on the steps of Mission Dolores in San Francisco.

“The current system fails both the nation and those seeking to contribute to American society,” said Archbishop Cordileone. “I join the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in calling on our legislators to act now so that all our families can step out of the shadows and become full citizens of this nation.

“Our country has a right and a responsibility to protect its borders, and effective immigration laws are part of that enforcement,” he said.

The archbishop also called for

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“What we’re doing is not only supporting families with the resources they need” but also getting them involved in the debate of immigration reform “so they can tell their stories, so they can make their voices heard,” said Lorena Melgarejo, archdiocesan parish resource coordinator for immigration reform.

The archdiocese is encouraging all parishioners to lobby Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, she said.

The archdiocese has launched a campaign called “Healing the Wounded Family: A Campaign for Citizenship and Dignity.” On April 29, supporters of immigration reform began a daily prayer vigil outside the San Francisco office of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

The U.S. Catholic bishops support legislation that would include a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented people in this country; a temporary worker program to allow migrant workers to enter safely and humanely; and

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Paloma, a married mother of two and parishioner at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, told her story of crossing the desert with her husband to get to this country from Mexico and of her fear of one or both of them being deported or separated from their children, 10 and 4, born in this country.

Nellie, also a mother, told of going to the police for help from an abusive boyfriend and instead being jailed for three days and then detained for eight months because she did not have legal immigration status. Nellie is now appealing her case. “We need support, we need to stop being separated from our children,” said Nellie.

Melgarejo asked that the women’s last names not be published since they are not legal residents of the U.S. The press conference concluded with the archbishop blessing those present who are working for immigration reform.

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Archbishop ordains Thomas Martin to priesthood CHRISTINA M. GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Many of the faithful who waited in line to be received by Father Thomas Vital Martin after his ordination Mass May 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral received a blessing and the same humble request Pope Francis made in St. Peter’s Square less than two months earlier: “Pray for me,” Father Martin repeated to well-wishers after the two-hour ceremony that included a homily by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone exhorting a “prophecy of faithfulness.”

The cathedral was filled to near-capacity with relatives, friends and men and women religious celebrating the ordination, at age 49, of the San Francisco-born and -raised deacon who left a long career in politics for the vocation of the priesthood. “I am grateful to God for the blessing of this vocation,” said Father Martin, who entered St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park in 2008 after a year of discernment at St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae.

Accompanied by the cathedral’s choir and 4,842pipe organ and translated into both Spanish and International Sign languages, the Mass and rite of ordination was solemnly commenced at 2 p.m. by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

The rite began with the candidate’s presentation to the archbishop, who testified to Deacon Martin’s worthiness for the order of the priesthood. “Could anyone ever be worthy of all that a priest is called to be?” asked Archbishop Cordileone as he began his homily with the suggestion that worthiness is not found in a man’s own merit. “It is by relying on the help of God and Jesus Christ,” he said. “It is God who makes the priest worthy.”

The archbishop reiterated the Gospel message of Christ’s light leading others out of darkness. “Adhere to Christ in radical fidelity,” he said. “And he will make you a light for his people. Imitate what you celebrate, and conform yourself to the myster-

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Father Thomas Martin and Father Kenneth Westray give Communion at Father Martin’s ordination Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. ies of this life.”

Among those attending the celebration was Janet Rydberg of San Francisco, a former family baby sitter who looked after the nine Martin kids some 45 years ago. She said that while the pull toward the priesthood appears to have come late in life for Thomas, he has in fact been “practicing” to be a priest since he was a child. “He and his brothers would set up a little altar and use sheets and towels and cups from the kitchen,” she recalled.

At a reception for her son’s ordination which fell on the eve of Mother’s Day, an elated but emotional Anita Martin wished that her husband, who died in 2006, could have been there to share the day.

“Thomas is a faithful and charitable man, just like his father,” she said. “He will be a good priest.”

DEACON WITHDRAWS PETITION Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice made this announcement at the Mass for priestly ordination May 11 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must make the following announcement. Only one person will be ordained today. Rev. Mr. Juan Alejo (Justo) has withdrawn his petition to be ordained at this time to the order of priesthood. After personal reflection and consultation with the archbishop, he has made this decision. I have assured him that he will have our ongoing prayers and support.”

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Youth have plenty to say on importance of faith TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Congratulations to Mercy High School, Burlingame senior Grace Osborne, high school division winner of this year’s Serra Club of San Mateo’s essay contest. Grace’s mom, Bernadette and dad, Michael, were in the audience for the April 17 awards luncheon and essay presentation in St. Gregory Parish hall in San Mateo. Zelie Zshornack of Our Lady of Angels Grace Osborne Parish, Burlingame religious education program and an eighth grader at Taylor Middle School took the grand prize in the elementary school division. Her proud folks are Mitos and Errol Zshornack. More than 600 students entered the competition with answers to “What is my commitment to my faith?” on the high school level and “How is my faith important to me” for the grade schoolers. Grace focused her essay on why “commitment is key to any relationship, especially one with God” and “described how she was able to overcome personal events in her life with the help of her faith,” Mercy, Burlingame said. Serra President Jeanette Barrett and Deacon Jim Shea coordinated this year’s event.

MRS. WIZARD: St. Charles School science teacher Nicole Shimshock has been named California State Science Fair Teacher of the Year. The educator was nominated by students and St. Charles principal Maureen Grazioli and presented with the honor in Los Angeles in April. An interview panel was particularly “impressed with her approach to instruction and in particular Nicole her model of mentoring students Shimshock through interactions with scientists from within the community,” the school said.

MAIN STREET BEAT: Catholic Worker of Half Moon Bay led the way for immigration reform in an interfaith parade April 13, on Main Street in Half Moon Bay. Eric DeBode, director of Catholic Worker called it a “Parade for Peace and Justice.”

More than 200 people took part with Father Juan Manuel Lopez, administrator of HMB’s Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, blessing everyone on their way in Spanish and English. “After presentations

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ESSAYISTS HONORED: More than 40 winners were awarded $15,000 April 13 in the Young Men’s Institute, St. John Bosco #613 Jim Calabretta Essay Contest. Topics for the essays were “pick a role model” for junior high writers; high school students were asked if the 2012 Olympics was influenced by politics, religion or race; college entrants were asked to defend the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

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Students reach out to Africa’s poorest with pencil mission LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Drawn to the idea of making a difference a world away, a group of fourth and seventh graders at St. Hilary School in Tiburon is collecting used pencils so Africa’s poorest children can get an education.

The participants in Pencils for Africa – a program originated by Kenya native and former St. Hilary parent Karim Ajania and overseen by art teacher Chyah Weitzman – are erasing misconceptions, extending resources and empowering peers in conflict-ravaged regions where impoverished families cannot afford the simple writing implement required for school admission.

Since the project’s January launch, Mackenzie Dennis, 10, of Larkspur, Lucia Doty, 10, of Corte Madera, Athena Manthouli, 12, of Tiburon, and Gloria Robinson, 13, of Sausalito, have amassed some 360 pencils for the overseas outreach and innumerable insights into the homeland and heritage of its recipients.

Beyond underscoring the value of recycling, the earth-friendly enterprise – which declines donations of cash, checks and new purchases to discourage consumerism in favor of self-giving – engenders equality, said Weitzman, a faculty member for 16 years.

By bridging the world of SMART Boards and iPads in every classroom with that of no electronics and only a baobab tree for a schoolhouse, “it sets somewhat of a level playing field in a universe that’s very uneven,” said Ajania, who designed Pencils for Africa on a model developed in 2005 by human

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Pictured from left are Pencils for Africa student leaders at St. Hilary School in Tiburon: Mackenzie Dennis, 10, fourth grade; Lucia Doty, 10, fourth grade; Athena Manthouli, 12, seventh grade; Gloria Robinson, 13, seventh grade. rights activists touched by Darfur children’s pencil depictions of war.

“When I found out the pencil that I’m using would be going to Africa and be used by a child there, I felt that was really cool,” Athena said.

The experience has broadened her sense of community and her desire to “give back,” she said.

“Americans once thought Africans had no purpose in life and made them slaves,” Mackenzie said. “Now, we’re reaching out to Africans and giving them what they need so they can go to

school, get an education and get a job.”

To drive that point home, Ajania looks to 9- to 13-year-olds, the age range researchers deem most open and impressionable. He focuses on the sufferers and witnesses of Africa’s blight: children forced into labor or military service, genocide, civil strife, loss of parents to violence.

Ajania, who spent the first seven years of life in Nairobi, considers it “cowardly” to keep these truths, painful as they may be, from the children’s more fortunate contemporaries. He sees a “duty” to bring to light the plight of marginalized minors “made invisible because no one cares.”

“We need a full and fair understanding of what it means to be global,” said the MIT- and Harvard-educated writer, editor, educator and advocate who counts South African Bishop Desmond Tutu among his mentors and colleagues.

“It means your brothers and sisters are suffering, and you should know they are suffering and be aware of all the dedicated people working on their behalf,” he said.

To that end, the St. Hilary team conducts in-depth interviews that are published on the Pencils for Africa website, pencilsforafrica.com.

Learning about a Uganda man who broke his pencil into five pieces so each of his five children could attend school made Lucia realize that one person’s rubbish is another’s riches.

“I just take a pencil and throw it away, and they’re treasuring these pencils forever,” she said. “I think we need to treasure a lot of stuff we take for granted.”

All four girls said Pencils for Africa has left a lasting impression that makes them want to continue their leadership roles next year.

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SUPERVISORS OK BUFFER ZONE

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 May 7 to approve an ordinance creating a fixed 25-foot buffer zone at all exits and entrances and driveways of free-standing reproductive health clinics.

The ordinance will push pro-life advocates farther away from the Planned Parenthood Mar Monte clinic on Valencia Street, and make it harder to sidewalk counsel women and men coming to the clinic, said Cathleen Gillies, who has been praying outside the clinic with 40 Days for Life of San Francisco.

The Valencia Street clinic performs surgical abortions and also dispenses medications for chemical abortion or RU-486.

After the ordinance was passed, Gillies addressed the board and asked that “we can continue the dialogue going forward� on behalf of the unborn and pregnant women.

CORRECTION A story in the March 29 issue misstated the penalty for violating the buffer zone law. The penalty for a first offense would be up to three months in jail or a fine of up to $500, or both; for a second offense, up to six months in jail or a fine of $1,000, or both.

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Left, St. Robert School student Timothy Butler, pictured with his brother and Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, was honorable mention recipient in the first and second grades category in the 24th annual archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest. Right, Sergio Vasquez and Raymond O’Connor, Stuart Hall faculty members, are pictured with Liam Lynch, high school grand-prize winner, and Liam’s parents, Bill and Carmelita Lynch.

Respect Life Essay Contest breaks records VICKI EVANS

On Mothers’ Day, we celebrated the 24th annual archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest at St. Mary’s Cathedral with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and nearly 500 students, their families and teachers. “Another essay contest?� you ask. Our answer, “This one is special!� Not because of the prizes or recognition it brings our students but because, like the Walk for Life West Coast, it brings important pro-life issues front and center for our archdiocesan schools and parish religious education programs.

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Author of Life: None of us lives as his own master and none of us dies as his own master. While we live we are responsible to the Lord, and when we die, we die as his servants.� We translated this passage into essay questions that challenged students to think of an elderly, sick or disabled person they knew and asked them to write about how they could help and support that person by putting the works of mercy into action. The junior high and high school students tackled the related question of suicide, which is now the leading cause of injury-related deaths in America, and why assisted suicide is not only against Catholic Church teaching, but a universal affront to human dignity. The students, with guidance from their teachers, rose to the occasion and entered many insightful and sensitive essays into the contest.

Liam Lynch, our high school grand prize winner from Stuart Hall High School, expressed the case against physician-assisted suicide eloquently. “The clever ploys of those that attempt to support (physician-assisted suicide) are based upon incomplete truths that try to characterize the killing of a person as just. Physician-assisted suicide is in no way just... . Elderly patients could be convinced into believing that they are burdens upon society and are wasting valuable public money, time and supplies because they remain living. There would be no way to detect or monitor this type of brainwashing, and it would most likely become widespread because the vulnerable in society are so defenseless and susceptible to influence.�

Trevor King, our first grade grand prize winner from St. Matthew School, showed profound insight into love and caring for others in his handwritten essay. He wrote this about his grandmother: “Her parents died but lots of people

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THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES: Grand prize, Victoria Rodriguez, Our Lady of Loretto; first San Francisco, Fiona Baxter, St. Anne; first San Mateo, Isabella Alterio, St. Veronica; first Marin, Katrina Quinn, Our Lady of Loretto.

FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES: Grand prize, Jenna Yandle, St. Anselm; first San Francisco, Lauren Lee, St. Thomas the Apostle; first San Mateo, Emily Daza, St. Veronica; first Marin, Grace Hood, Our Lady of Loretto.

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES: Grand prize, Jacqueline Nguyen, St. Monica; first San Francisco, Edward J. Chin, St. Thomas the Apostle; first San Mateo, Isabella Vincenzi, St. Veronica; first Marin, Sydney Ratto, St. Isabella.

NINTH THROUGH 12TH GRADES: Grand prize, Liam S. Lynch, Stuart Hall; first San Francisco, Syrena Bui, Sts. Peter & Paul religious education; first San Mateo, Maria Miramontes, St. Timothy religious education. showed her love and she looked to God. Now she is the best grandmother ever because she takes care of everyone, sharing God’s love, giving it back.�

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 24, 2013

Area Catholics recall impact of 100-year-old Carmelite VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Cloistered Carmelite Sister Mother Mary Joseph died May 5 at the age of 100 years and eight months, having lived a life of prayer and sacrifice inside the walls of the Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey in San Francisco for more than 70 years.

Her sense of humor, loving personality, sharp mind and prayers lifted up many people who came to know her, friends and admirers said in the days after her death.

Sister Mother When she entered the monastery Mary Joseph, OCD on Parker Avenue, the Carmelites were still learning English after fleeing the Mexican government’s persecution of the Catholic Church.

The monastery was established in 1927 and Mother Mary Joseph entered in 1941 at age 29, arriving from El Paso. She was bilingual in English and Spanish and as a postulant was given the responsibility of helping with correspondence because of her prudence and wisdom, said Mother Elizabeth.

Many in San Francisco came to know Mother Mary Joseph from her time “behind the turn,” a reference to the turnstile behind a wood-paneled wall in the foyer of the monastery where people can speak with the sisters during specific times.

The turnstile is used to pass letters, cards and other items.

“So many people, those who knew Mother know that she had in her cell pictures of who she called her gang. Dictators and thieves and bad people,” said Father Kevin Kennedy, including Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and others. “She spent her life praying for them. And she said when I cross, I will see all of them in heaven.”

“She called them ‘her sons,’” Carmelite Sister Inez said.

“She had a great devotion to silence,” and taught the younger sisters about how to be “quiet in the presence of God,” said Sister Inez. “The last part of her life, she spent it in prayer just in front of the Blessed Sacrament.”

Mother Elizabeth and the other Carmelites spoke face to face with visitors from behind an opening in the grill in the monastery chapel May 9, the evening of the rosary for Mother Mary Joseph. Her funeral was May 10. The contemplative Carmelite vocation is to serve God exclusively through prayer, sacrifice, and penance in a hidden way in joyful community, according to a description at the Institute on Religious Life website, and the sisters rarely interact face to face with the outside world and spend all but a couple of hours a day in silence.

Mother Mary Joseph “devoured books,” said Mother Elizabeth, but was delicate and didn’t really like sports. She “loved to tell funny jokes” and “She had a nice serious side to her as well,” said Rosario Cortes, a friend whose husband’s cousin, a Carmelite, was one of Mother Mary Joseph’s good friends. She was an organist and loved ballroom dancing before she entered the order, Cortes said.

Until a few months ago when she turned 100, Mother Mary Joseph continued to help with the

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“She always made you feel like you were the most important person,” said Doreen Glynn Pawski, a secular Carmelite, who is one of about 70 lay Carmelites affiliated with the monastery. “She never forgot anything, even though she was over 100.”

“She called me her little bambino,” said Tony Batshon, who first met her decades ago when he was 13, she was Sister Mary Joseph, and he was helping his father deliver food from their restaurant, John’s Ocean Beach Café.

“She would always have a smile on her face and she would always have a glow,” said Dawn Williams, who stayed several weeks at the monastery before determining she did not have a vocation to the community.

Mother Mary Joseph was more than ready to go to the Lord, said Father Kennedy, who led the rosary.

“It was decades of waiting to see the Lord, decades of waiting, but those decades were spent like Mary in the heart of the church, serving that church as a discalced Carmelite. Therefore, serving, witnessing through prayer,” said Father Kennedy.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 24, 2013

Extraordinary form of Latin Mass debuts at Star of the Sea VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

At the initiative of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco will debut the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass on May 26, Trinity Sunday. The Mass will be offered every Sunday at 11 a.m.

“I received very many requests from the faithful to establish this Mass here in the city,” Archbishop Cordileone said of his decision to ask Star of the Sea pastor Father Mark Mazza to learn how to celebrate the extraordinary form and offer it at the parish.

“It’s very exciting and I am looking forward to it,” said Father Mazza, who has spent months learning the complicated rubrics of the Mass, using both videos and direct tutelage from an expert in the liturgy, Benedictine Father Samuel F. Weber.

“It’s very focused on our Lord. I think it speaks to the heart,” said Jay Balza, who attended an information session May 7 at Star of the Sea. The extraordinary form had been celebrated at Most Holy Redeemer Parish by Father William Young but when he moved to Marin last year, it was no longer of-

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“At Star of the Sea Parish I found a church suitable for accommodating this form of the Mass that is centrally located and with a pastor willing to learn how to celebrate it in order to provide it to his people,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

Archbishop Cordileone noted that Pope Benedict XVI in a “motu proprio” issued in 2007, “Summorum Pontificum,” guaranteed the faithful the right to attend the Latin Mass according to the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal in any parish where there is a stable group of parishioners desiring it. “In accordance with my pastoral duty, I sought to respond to their legitimate request,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The extraordinary form is sometimes called the Tridentine Mass in reference to the Council of Trent (1545-1563), although the basic form of the Mass can be traced all the way back to the apostles. The form of the missal in use in Rome at the time was implemented

by Pope St. Pius V in 1570 after the council decided to mandate the Roman rite for the whole Western church due in part to local abuses that contributed to the Protestant Reformation, according to “The Extraordinary Form of the Mass Explained” by Father Richard Whinder. However, those areas and communities that had their own proper form of the Mass in use for more than 200 years could retain it if they so chose, as, for example, the Archdiocese of Milan and the Dominican order did, among others.

The missal has undergone various editions with slight modifications since then, with the last version published by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1962. After the Second Vatican Council, the 1962 Roman Missal form of the Mass remained valid, but for decades its celebration was discouraged by clergy and bishops who felt its practice was against the spirit of Vatican II. In the extraordinary form, the priest prays the canon and many other parts of the Mass facing the altar with the people, rather than facing toward the people, in “the ancient image of the Church turned toward its Savior,” Father Whinder writes.

Holy Communion is always distributed by the priest on the tongue to faithful kneeling at a communion rail (while this practice has not been abrogated, bishops’ conferences are allowed, if they so choose, to establish that communion is to be received standing and that the communicant has the option of receiving communion in the hand, as is the case in the United States).

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Making this form of the Mass available “promotes Pope Benedict’s vision of the ‘mutual enrichment’ of the two forms of the Roman rite,” the archbishop said.

“As he reminds us, what was once held as sacred and beautiful remains such; it is not repudiated by new forms of worship. On the contrary, both forms of the Roman rite – Mass according to the Roman missals of Pope John XXIII of 1962 (“Extraordinary Form”) and Pope Paul VI of 1970 (“Ordinary Form” or “Novus Ordo”) are valid, retain their value, and can enrich each other in a way that furthers the Second Vatican Council’s vision of ongoing liturgical renewal,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

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Bishop decries Vermont doctor-assisted suicide law AT A GLANCE

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WASHINGTON – Now that Vermont allows doctor-prescribed suicide, “the magnificent landscape of this state, which echoes life from its majestic mountains to its powerful waterways, no longer is reflected in the laws which govern the Green Mountain State,” said the head of the statewide Diocese of Burlington.

“Vermont is now identified as one of the few death states where it is legal for life to be terminated at its beginning and end stages,” said Bishop Salvatore R. Matano in a statement issued May 20, a little more than an hour after Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide.

“It is a tragic moment in the rich history of our state that our elected officials have passed and signed into law legislation placing medical professionals in the position of legally prescribing medicines with the sole intention of terminating human life,” the bishop said.

Vermont becomes the first state to have such a law passed by the Legislature.

Under Vermont’s new physician-assisted suicide law, doctors can prescribe death-inducing drugs to terminally ill individuals who want to commit suicide who then administer the medication themselves. The Vermont law limits the prescriptions of death-inducing medications to residents of the state.

Physician-assisted suicide also has been legalized in Oregon and Washington by a ballot initiative and in Montana by court ruling.

“This new law asks those in the medical profession, which is a vocation dedicated to the

UNDER VERMONT’S DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE LAW, doctors can prescribe death-inducing drugs to terminally ill individuals who want to commit suicide.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DIOCESE OF BURLINGTON said that passage of the law in Vermont is likely to encourage other New England states to take similar action.

PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE also has been legalized in Oregon and Washington by a ballot initiative and in Montana by court ruling.

OPPONENTS SAID TIMELY PALLIATIVE CARE is an ethical alternative for patients who might desire physician-assisted suicide when they fear or lack control over their dying and death. service of life, to destroy the very lives they have pledged to save and to comfort at life’s most critical moments,” Bishop Matano said.

From the beginning of his term in January 2011, Shumlin has made it a priority to pass physician-assisted suicide legislation. “As governor, I will strongly champion death with dignity legislation ... I will make this a top priority and ask the Legislature to take this civil rights issue up,” he said in 2010.

A spokesman for the Diocese of Burlington told CNS that passage of the law in Vermont is likely to encourage other New England states to take similar action. He noted a recent push to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Connecticut.

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The bill is “dangerous and irresponsible,” attorney Margaret Dore, president of Choice is an Illusion, a national bipartisan lobbying group against physician-assisted suicide, said in a May 14 statement.

“The patient is required to have a ‘terminal condition,’ defined as having a medical prediction of less than six months to live ... doctor predictions of life expectancy can be wrong,” she said.

Medical advances have made it more difficult to accurately pinpoint life expectancy, Jon Radulovic, vice president of communications for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, told CNS. “When hospice is gotten in a timely fashion, issues like pain control can generally be addressed,” he said, explaining that people might desire physician-assisted suicide when they are afraid or lacking control of their end-of-life situation.

The Vermont Medical Society believes that palliative care and training will provide a “strong alternative for patients who ask for assisted suicide,” said spokesman Justin Campfield.

“This poorly crafted bill has even fewer safeguards than the Oregon law,” Dr. Edward Mahoney, president of Vermont Alliance for Ethical Healthcare, said in a May 20 statement.

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Catholics told to be ‘fearless leaders’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In dealing with several serious issues confronting the church and society today, “the only question is how you respond, not whether you should,” said Helen Alvare at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held May 9 in Washington.

The response Alvare suggested to her audience: “As our leader (Pope Francis) is fearless, let us be fearless leaders.”

Alvare, an associate professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va., a suburb of Washington, said Christians can’t merely find issues on which to work. “Rather, they find us,” she added.

“You live when you live, in the place where you’re put, and you’re given the issues you’re given,” Alvare said.

The prime issue she raised in her talk was that “our government is today endorsing a view of intimate human relationships we might call ‘sexual expressionism.’ That is, it is championing as a cherished right, any consensual sexual act, with an emphasis on those (acts) divorced intrinsically or technologically from having kids, and even often divorced from forming any lasting adult relationship!”

She referred specifically to matters of abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage.

Alvare cited “decades of experience with sex, marriage and parenting practices that violate Catholics’ and, really, most Americans’ deeply held beliefs about what promotes the flourishing, of women –

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She added, “We know – even using the limited tools the world accepts as legitimate, that is, empirical data – that the new sex, mating and marriage marketplaces have treated women terribly – women, who were supposed to reap most of all of the advantages of separating sex and marriage and kids via contraception and abortion.”

Alvare said, “Policymakers are all too often trying to deal with the gap between the advantaged and the disadvantaged on the cheap, right? First with more contraception, then more abortion, then when those don’t work, more long acting, invasive contraception – marketed especially to the poor – or emergency contraception, even for kids, then by forcing even religious institutions to go along with their program.

“And all this despite evidence that the only groups who have in the past received free contraception and sometimes government funded abortion, are the very groups who thereafter suffered the highest rates of nonmarital births, abortions and sexually transmitted infections,” Alvare continued.

Alvare said the nation’s poorest “don’t seem to be anywhere near the top of anyone’s political agenda,” despite evidence that they are suffering.

“They are disproportionately ill, intergenerationally downwardly mobile, and increasingly bereft of the fundamental goods of marriage and marital parenting, access to which I would argue should be the basis even for a new human rights, new civil rights struggle for those disadvantaged men and women who are called to marriage and parenting.”

the motion, meaning the law cannot go into effect in August as scheduled, pending the resolution of the legal issues.

Originally passed over Gov. Mike Beebe’s veto by the Republican-led Legislature, the law narrows the window for most abortions in the state to prior to 12 weeks, the point at which a baby’s heartbeat can typically be detected. The law makes exceptions for cases of rape, incest, threat to the life of the mother or lethal fetal abnormalities. The law was, at the time of passage, the most restrictive abortion law in the country.

Arkansas Right to Life executive director Rose Mimms said the action was not unexpected, nor was the outcome. However, she said even as she granted the injunction, the judge was intrigued by other elements of the bill.

“The judge was very sympathetic to the informed consent provisions in this law,” she said.

“She was interested in the parts that give a woman information about her child that could make a difference in her decision to abort the baby in the first place.”

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BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley did not attend Boston College’s commencement this year because the college honored the prime minister of Ireland, who has supported a bill to introduce legalized abortion in that country.

In a statement May 10, Cardinal O’Malley said he cannot support the Jesuit-run university when it confers an honorary degree on Prime Minister Enda Kenny at commencement ceremonies, which took place May 20 – an event traditionally attended by Boston’s archbishop.

Cardinal O’Malley, chairman of Cardinal O’Malley the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, referenced a 2004 declaration by the USCCB in his statement.

“Because the Gospel of life is the centerpiece of the church’s social doctrine and because we consider abortion a crime against humanity, the Catholic bishops of the United States have asked that Catholic institutions not honor government officials or politicians who promote abortion with their laws and policies,” he said.

The cardinal said he recently became aware of the invitation of Kenny to speak and receive honors at the commencement.

“I am sure that the invitation was made in good faith, long before it came to the attention of the leadership of Boston College that Mr. Kenny is aggressively promoting abortion legislation,” he said.

Since the university has not rescinded the invitation and the prime minister has not declined, the cardinal said he will not attend but promised to keep students graduating that day in his thoughts and prayers.

Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn said in a statement the university invited the prime minister in recognition of its close relationship with Ireland.

He also said that Kenny “has encouraged individuals to read the proposed bill and his position statement, which reaffirms the constitutional prohibition on abortion in Ireland and attempts to clarify and regulate Ireland’s response to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.”

As a Catholic institution, Boston College supports the church’s commitment to protecting the unborn, he added.

Despite a 2011 campaign promise by Kenny not to introduce abortion to Ireland, the Irish government proposed legislation in 2012 that would decriminalize abortion in cases where the mother faced a threat to her life, including the possibility of suicide.

In 2013, in a speech after the Irish government published the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, Kenny defended it, noting the judgment by the European court. “This bill restates the general prohibition on abortion in Ireland,” he said.

“We are a compassionate people. This is about women, it is about saving lives – the life of the mother and the life of the unborn,” he said.

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Pope: Don’t be ‘couch potato Christians’ CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The church doesn’t need couch potato Catholics, it needs believers with “apostolic zeal,” willing to preach the uncomfortable words of Christ, Pope Francis said.

“And if we annoy people” with this zeal for Christ, then “blessed be the Lord,” he said in his daily morning Mass homily May 16.

The pope celebrated Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives, for employees of Vatican Radio and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The pope concelebrated the Mass with Cardinal Peter Turkson and Bishop Mario Toso, respectively president and secretary of the justice and peace council.

In his homily, the pope talked about the day’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles. St Paul caused a near riot during his trial in Jerusalem when he addressed a group of men divided over the belief in the resurrection of the dead.

“Paul is a nuisance” in his preaching, his work and his attitude, the pope said, “because he proclaims Jesus Christ.”

Evangelization “makes us uncomfortable; many times our comfort zones, even Christian comfort zones, are bothered” by it, he said.

God wants people to always move forward, even despite the trials and obstacles, and to not “take refuge in an easy life or in a cozy world.”

St. Paul, by preaching the Lord, “annoyed people,” but he kept at it “because he had that very Christian attitude inside of apostolic zeal, he had real apostolic fervor,” the pope said.

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But going forward and sharing Jesus with the world meant St. Paul always found himself in trouble, not because he wanted to create trouble, but it was trouble for God’s sake, Pope Francis said.

Apostolic zeal is not just for missionaries, it is for everyone, the pope said.

There are “lukewarm Christians” in the church who “don’t feel like going forward,” he said.

“There are even couch potato Christians, right?

Those who are well-mannered, all perfect, but they don’t know how to bring people to the church” with evangelization and zeal.”

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MANCHESTER, England – England’s Catholic leaders have asked politicians to “think again” about redefining marriage to include same-sex couples, but to protect conscience rights if they pass the legislation.

The Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill poses “grave risks to freedom of speech and freedom of religion,” said Archbishops Vincent Nichols of Westminster and Peter Smith of Southwark, president and vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

“If the bill is to proceed through Parliament, we urge members to ensure it is amended so that these fundamental freedoms we all cherish are clearly and demonstrably safeguarded,” they said in a May 15 statement. The bill was headed for its report stage and third reading in the House of Commons May 20-21.

The archbishops said the bill would effectively destroy the understanding of marriage as a lifelong union between a man and a woman open to the procreation and education of children.

They set out their fears in a six-page briefing released with their statement. The briefing explains in detail how the church would suffer if the bill was not amended.

Among the threats, according to the May 9 briefing, is the possibility that Catholic schools will be compelled “to promote and endorse same-sex marriage” because the 1996 Education Act imposes a statutory obligation on schools to ensure that children learn about “the nature of marriage and its importance for family life and the bringing up of children.”

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Rare painting of Native Americans revealed CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – A little bit of spring cleaning or a much needed renovation can turn up the most unexpected things – especially if you’re sprucing up or digging through the Vatican.

Home of hundreds of thousands of artifacts, archived documents, ornate frescoes, plaster niches and underground tombs, it can be heavenly for a treasure hunt.

The latest precious find came after restorers tackled the Borgia Apartments, which were decorated by the Renaissance master, Bernardino di Betto, better known as Pintoricchio.

The Vatican Museums’ director thinks what restorers found under soot and successive coats of color are the very first painted depictions of Native Americans.

Antonio Paolucci told the Vatican newspaper the recently unveiled portion of the fresco shows a cluster of “nude men, ornate with feathers, in the act of what seems to be dancing.�

The mysterious men appear in the background under a Risen Christ in Pintoricchio’s fresco of “The Resurrection� in the Room of the Mysteries of Faith in the Borgia Apartments.

Paolucci said it wasn’t inconceivable that the Renaissance painter included the then-recently discovered inhabitants of the New World.

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This is a detail view of what a Vatican Museum official believes may be the first painted depictions of Native Americans.

The male figures appear just below the depiction of the risen Christ in Pintoricchio’s fresco of “The Resurrection.�

Spanish Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, whose country of origin was funding the voyages, was elected Pope Alexander VI in 1492, just a month before Christopher Columbus sighted land in the Americas. “The Borgia pope was interested in the New World,�

Paolucci said. The process of decorating the apartments finished in 1494 and it is unlikely the pope “was in the dark about what Columbus saw when he arrived to the ends of the earth.�

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Commenting on the day’s Gospel passage – Mark 9:30-37 – the pope said that while Jesus is talking about his upcoming passion and death, the disciples argue who is the greatest among them. “The struggle for power in the church isn’t something recent,� Pope Francis said in his homily at the Mass May 21 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

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German Catholics discuss expanded service, ministerial roles for women JONATHAN LUXMOORE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

OXFORD, England – A German church spokesman denied the country’s Catholic bishops are divided after the bishops’ conference president, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, provoked controversy by advocating a form of diaconate for women.

“There are no new facts – Archbishop Zollitsch has declared himself in favor of a specific deaconry for women, which means without ordination,” said Robert Eberle, Archbishop spokesman for Germany’s southRobert Zollitsch ern Freiburg archdiocese.

“The bishops want more women in positions of responsibility in the church on the basis of Catholic doctrine. So there’s no division over reform issues like this,” Eberle said in a May 8 statement to Catholic News Service.

Archbishop Zollitsch made his proposal April 28 at the close of a Freiburg archdiocesan assembly on church reforms, at which 33 separate recommendations were debated by 300 participants.

He said he supported “a further deepening of the common priesthood of all baptized persons,” and would promote “a variety of services and ministries.” He also said both men and women “should be respected and taken seriously in the church,” adding that he believed work posts should also be offered to people with “different lifestyles.”

The archbishop added that he was also “committed to new ecclesiastical services and ministries open to women,” including “a specific deaconry for women.”

Eberle said Archbishop Zollitsch was speaking only “in his capacity as local archbishop” and referred to a similar Feb. 20 proposal by Cardinal Walter Kasper, former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, during the

German bishops’ spring plenary at Trier.

The German bishops’ conference press office declined to answer questions about Archbishop Zollitsch’s remarks.

The archbishop’s remarks generated reaction in Germany.

Ute Hucker, spokeswoman for the German Catholic Women’s Association, said a “specific deaconry” would “not be enough” when women made up 80 percent of the country’s “engaged Catholics.”

“It’s good he said something about women – but Catholic women’s organizations want more than just a special, second-rank position,” Hucker told CNS May 8.

“We don’t want women as priests, since we recognize this isn’t possible theologically. But we want women to have the same rights as male deacons, to be trained and ordained for work in the same office.”

The Catholic Church permits only men to be ordained as deacons. Permanent deacons can preach and preside at baptisms, funerals and weddings, but may not celebrate Mass or hear confessions.

Some historians say women deacons existed as a special category in the early church.

However, in a general audience talk in February 2007, Pope Benedict XVI said the New Testament reference to Phoebe as a “deacon” was an indication of her important responsibility in the community at a time before the title took on a “hierarchical” meaning, implying ordination.

A 2002 study by the International Theological Commission concluded that the role of women deacons in the early church cannot be considered equivalent to that of ordained male deacons. It also concluded that the permanent diaconate belongs to the sacrament of orders – which the church says is limited to men only.

Archbishop Zollitsch’s suggestion was not to go against that opinion, but rather to open up a new role in the church, a form of diaconate for which women would be blessed, but not ordained.

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The young man, who was among dozens of people in wheelchairs greeted by the pope at the end of Mass May 19, appeared somewhat agitated when the pope approached. A priest with him said something to the pope, who then prayed over the man.

“The Holy Father had no intention of performing an exorcism, but – as he often does with the sick and suffering people presented to him – he simply intended to pray for the suffering person before him,” said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

Father Lombardi issued his statement late May 20 after Italian papers began reporting the story, citing TV2000, the satellite television station owned by the Italian bishops’ conference.

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Dropped back into civilian life after active duty, service men and women find the support they need in each other DANA PERRIGAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle once observed that there were no atheists in foxholes.

Judging from Iraq war veteran Daniel Acree’s experience during airborne training, there probably aren’t too many among those waiting to jump out of airplanes either.

“As those doors opened and I saw the earth flying by, the first thing I did was pray,” said Acree. “I said, “Hey, we don’t talk a lot, but I could really use your help right now.’”

While it takes courage to leap from the belly of a plane, medical health professionals say that it requires an equal or even greater amount of the right stuff to make the transition from military to civilian life. Even those fortunate enough to escape serious physical injury from combat wounds face formidable challenges. Support is crucial.

For Acree – and hundreds of other veterans who enrolled in City College of San Francisco after their military service – that support can be found at the recently renamed Walter Newman Veteran Center. The first in the nation to offer an on-campus Department of Veterans Affairs satellite office, the 3-year old center, which started out in the basement of Conlan Hall, is there to serve the school’s 1,300 vets.

Special help for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans

Now located in two adjoining classrooms in Cloud Hall, the center offers veterans convenient access to VA enrollment and health services. There is a special program to help Iraq-Afghanistan vets. It also offers counseling for individuals, couples and families, referrals, academic help and career planning.

“We try to make it a one-stop shopping model,” said Bridget Leach, a licensed clinical social worker. “We do a little bit of everything.”

The center also has a lounge where veterans can study, relax and just hang out with their peers.

“When you get out of active duty, you go from where you do everything as a team to being a lone wolf – out of the pack,” said Acree. “I’ve been blessed with supportive friends and family, but a lot of vets don’t have that.”

“The center didn’t exist when I first came here,” said Army veteran Aundray Rogers, credited by other student veterans as being one of the center’s pioneers. “But we realized that, being vets, trained to serve, there was a lot that we could do for the community. And don’t forget – there are plenty more of us coming back now.”

Rogers and Acree serve, respectively, as president and vice president of the Veterans Alliance, an organization dedicated to helping student vets.

“A lot of us here have PTSD, brain trauma – a lot of us here have been there,” said Acree. “And if we can’t help them, we can direct them.”

Growing up in a small town in the Cali-

fornia foothills, Acree quit college to join the Army when he was 19. In 2003, he was deployed to Tikrit, Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s hometown and the site of his capture.

“They called it the ‘wild west,’” said Acree. “We didn’t even have sandbags yet. It was fascinating to be a 19-year-old kid from the small town of Sonora and to be there.”

Faith played a role ‘when things got scary’

Raised as a Catholic, Acree believes that his faith did play a role during his military service – especially when things got scary.

“All I had, basically, was my relationship with God,” he said. “I knew I could get through it, that I had some support.”

After working several years for the Teamsters Union, Acree decided to return to college to pursue a career in law enforcement.

Now 29, his perspective on war has changed somewhat.

“Now I have classes with 18- and 19-year-old students and I ask myself, how can we ask 18and 19-year-old kids to fight in a war?”

About a year after his discharge in 2005, Acree said he started having nightmares and what he calls “reactionary behavior.”

He felt isolated and found it hard to connect with people his age, so he joined the Army Reserves.

“I definitely had some symptoms (of PTSD),” said Acree. “Had I known the help and support I needed were here at school, I would have used them.”

Acree doesn’t regret his time in the Army or serving in Iraq, and he is thankful for the benefits that will help him reach his educational goals.

There is something else for which he is grateful.

“My uncle was in Vietnam during the Tet offensive and he was looked at as a baby killer,” said Acree. “I just feel really fortunate to live in an era where I don’t have to go through that. I receive the same support my grandfather received after he came home from World War II.”

‘You go from where you do everything as a team to being a lone wolf – out of the pack. I’ve been blessed with supportive friends and family, but a lot of vets don’t have that.’

‘We realized that, being vets, trained to serve, there was a lot that we could do for the community. And don’t forget – there are plenty more of us coming back now.’

‘I came in here my first day and there were all these guys.

The brotherhood is amazing. There’s so many veterans at this school and they’re all different, they’re all unique.’

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AUNDRAY ROGERS

ROBERT YARNALL

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learned a lot from her military experience.

“One of the biggest things is compassion for people who are different,” she said. “It made me see how nothing in the world is black and white.”

Aware of what she calls “the stigma of the messed-up vet,” she cautions others to avoid making assumptions about veterans.

“I think people should never assume about someone’s service,” she said. “If you’re a woman, they assume that you weren’t in combat. They assume that everyone who came back has PTSD, or that all vets with PTSD are crazy.

“Finally, don’t ever ask us if we killed someone: I hate that.”

Like Guy, Iraqi veteran Robert Yarnall emerged from his time in the military with more compassion for people living in other countries. As a bulk fuel specialist in Iraq, he worked closely with contract laborers from Sri Lanka and Uganda and other Third World countries, poor people who worked 12 hours a day under the hot sun for a few hundred dollars a month.

Struggling to make the transition

Like Acree, Army veteran Dottie Guy struggled to make the transition to civilian life after serving in Iraq as an MP guarding and transporting high-value prisoners. Discharged in 2008, Guy said she later started having trouble sleeping. After experiencing a panic attack while out shopping with some friends one day, she sought help from a VA counselor.

“I was in the Foot Locker, there were all these shoes, and I felt overwhelmed at having to make a choice,” said Guy. “I finally made the saleslady pick out a pair for me.

I didn’t want to make a choice because in Iraq, if you made the wrong choice, someone could get killed.”

Guy went home and, not wanting to talk to anyone, stayed there for a month.

Initially, said Guy, she didn’t think her problems were as severe as they were. And she didn’t seek help at what was then called the Student Resource Center.

Iraq War veteran

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Iraq-Afghanistan veterans at City College of San Francisco raise their organization’s banner during a recent event on campus. The organization is a resource enabling former service men and women to help one another in the transition to civilian life.

“A lot of people when they get out of the military, they don’t want anything to do with it,” she said. “I didn’t really use it because in the military I was around so many men and I didn’t want to be in that culture again.”

Her VA counselor, she said, helped her a lot.

“I still have my days,” she said. “I slept pretty decent last night.”

Unlike Acree, religion didn’t play much of a role when Guy was in the war zone.

“I grew up in the South, in the Bible Belt where everything was a sin,” she said.

“There was a lot of hypocrisy. Our pastor sued the church for more money, and church was more of a fashion show. I do consider myself a spiritual person, though. I’m definitely not an atheist.”

No longer a student at City College, Guy

said she now serves her country as a VA outreach coordinator, making sure other veterans get the help they need. She barely remembers the short debriefing she received prior to her own discharge.

“The military knows a lot about how to transform people into warriors,” she said, “but not so much how to transform them back into civilians.”

Like Acree, Guy believes she has

‘The brotherhood is amazing’

Raised in Portland, Ore., Yarnall said he was a poor student in high school, and something of a troublemaker, who never thought about going to college. Following his discharge in 2011, however, he decided to move to San Francisco and enroll at CCSF. “Now I have a 3.4 GPA and I’m going to the University of San Francisco in the fall,” he said. “I couldn’t have done it without the veteran bill (Post-911 GI Bill) and the vet center. I came in here my first day and there were all these guys. The brotherhood

is amazing. There’s so many veterans at this school and they’re all different, they’re all unique.”

For Yarnall, the transition was mainly one from the male-dominated, testosterone-laden culture of the Marines, where everything depended upon brute strength and strategic planning, to the critical thinking skills he has since learned to use as a student.

“I thought I was kind of laid-back, but I was kind of mean when I got out,” said Yarnall, “My first semester I took a psychology course and that put me in my place.”

Last year, said Yarnall, was the best year of his life. He and another veteran went to Staten Island to help victims of Hurricane Sandy during Thanksgiving break.

“I’m not a religious person,” said Yarnall, “but I do believe in a higher power. I believe in doing good.”

Keith Armstrong, director of the Veterans Outreach Program at CCSF, said the transition from military service to civilian life can be overwhelming.

“You go from having all your basic needs met to a whole new style of responsibility,” he said. “If you were in combat . . . you go from being concerned about being killed to having people complain about things that you feel aren’t very important.”

The author of “Courage After Fire” and “Courage After Fire For Parents,” Armstrong said the program at CCSF has now been replicated at more than 20 other colleges and universities.

“I think it is our duty to be really reaching out to our veterans where they are, instead of the old model of waiting for them to come to us when they’re sick,” he said. “We’re in their corner. They deserve this – they’ve served.”

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Sisters’ anti-trafficking campaign moves forward SISTER DOLORES BARLING, SNJM

Did you read Pope Francis’ Easter homily? It was entitled “God Always Surprises.”

He really got that right. Wow! Many of us have felt God’s surprises in our personal lives. I was surprised one night in Rome, in 1976, when I went into anaphylactic shock and had no blood pressure and no pulse. In the morning, thanks to good medical care, I was alive. Wow: What a surprise!

Astounding surprises happen in the corporate world as well. This is true for a recent decision made by top management of a large, international hotel corporation that has several hotels and franchises in the Bay Area. Management’s decision was to advance the timeline on training their hotel employees to recognize and report possible incidents of human trafficking on their premises. Training will be completed before the final America’s Cup races in August and September.

Human trafficking, as you probably know, can be a matter of forced labor or the enslavement of women and young girls for sexual exploitation.

Frequently this takes place at large sporting events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl where the demand is great. With utter disregard for the injustice to victims of human trafficking, criminals operate huge systems and rake in enormous amounts of money. Worldwide, this crime is one of the most lucrative.

Here in the United States this corporation is in the process of creat-

Members of the STOP SLAVERY Northern California coalition of Catholic sisters are, back row from left, Sisters John Paul Chao, SMSM; Therese Randolph, RSM; Fran Tobin, RSCJ; Dolores Barling, SNJM; coordinator Lyn Kirkconnell. Seated, from left, Sisters Mary Ann Foy, RSCJ; Judy Lu McDonnell, OP; Marie Gaillac, CSJO; Catarian Chu, DC. Not pictured are Ruth Robinson, Sister Rosemary Campi, PBVM. ing a Web-based, worldwide training program but, since the program needs to be implemented in the next few months here in the Bay Area, personnel will come to San Francisco for on-site training of hotel employees.

Human trafficking instruction usually asks employees to be alert for clues such as evidence of women being controlled, bruises or other signs of physical abuse, fear or depression, girls and women not speaking on their own behalf, lack of identification etc.

If such signs are noticed, the usual

procedure is for hotel employees to tell hotel security or management who investigate and then call the police, if necessary.

While not called “Nuns Against Slavery,” religious women have united in a global effort to combat the evil of human trafficking. In the United States the Leadership Conference of Women Religious has been engaged in this effort for years. Many religious communities have taken corporate stances against human trafficking and are working in various ministries to

it, is true. However, another chart category is “allows civil unions” which essentially describes California’s domestic partnership program.

“Civil unions provide legal recognition to the couples’ relationship and provides legal rights to the partners similar to those accorded to spouses in marriages …. Three states (one of which is California) have adopted broad domestic partnerships that grant nearly all state-level spousal rights to unmarried couples. Domestic partnerships are available to both same-sex and opposite-sex couples” (www.ncsl.org/issues-research/ human-services/civil-unions-anddomestic-partnership-statutes.aspx).

“California, Hawaii, Maine, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia have domestic partnership laws, which are fundamentally similar to civil unions” (www.factcheck. org/what_is_a_civil_union.html).

The distinction between civil unions and domestic partnerships warrant California being recognized differently from what the chart does.

Jim McCrea Piedmont

Far from this inspiration to seek solidarity with those who struggle, was the other writer, Stephen Kent,who strayed from Effie Caldarola’s observation that Jesus urged his disciples to “always keep the poor with you, always.”

Kent’s regard for poverty begins with his discomfort, as a cramped airline passenger, and drifts into a critique of government spending cuts and sequestration, as if lawmakers bear responsibility for poverty, and are to blame for expenditures he is unhappy about.

He completely misses the importance of Effie Caldarola’s respect for the work of Jesus and the two martyrs, who gave generously of themselves to make life better for the poor.

With this enlightenment, we can rise above the perception that it’s government’s role to heap taxation’s burden on us all while scattering money onto the poor who might be prospective voters.

So, while Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” he led us on the true way to help the poor: by following Jesus.

The answer, we can conclude from these two opinion pieces, is not in government, but in following what is taught us by the word of God. Robert Jimenez Burlingame

assist victims of this horrid crime.

In addition, many communities join their resources in socially responsible corporate investments, thus giving them a voice to influence corporate policy by shareholder resolutions and by dialogue.

The decision of the hotel corporation to bring its training to the Bay Area before the America’s Cup races is a result of various efforts coming together: the commitment of the international corporation to work against human trafficking, the efforts of the local sisters’ coalition to draw attention to this at area hotels, and the sisters’ voices as socially responsible investors.

We can rejoice in this new partnership between a religious coalition and a hotel corporation. One can imagine the delight of women religious involved in this effort which at times has been very discouraging (see “Confession of One Nun,” Catholic San Francisco, March 22). The hotel management’s decision exemplifies God’s Easter promise of making all things new, even at the corporate level.

God rescues victims from the evil of human trafficking and, as the Book of Revelation promises, “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” Alleluia for a committed hotel corporation, for the STOP SLAVERY coalition and for the San Francisco Bay Area!

And may these efforts result in alleluia moments for victims of human trafficking.

HOLY NAMES SISTER DOLORES BARLING lives in San Bruno.

LETTERS From breeze to whirlwind Pope Francis is in a hurry. With his dogged perseverance and fortitude, and with his excellent body of cardinals who can be trusted, he will rebuild a church more faithful to Jesus and the Gospel. He has already made it clear that he will be different and will not be boxed in by the Vatican hierarchy. His Jesuit shrewdness in selecting cardinals from every continent, taking into account their wisdom, will give the Vatican a global representation and step out from its walled city state.

It makes laudatory sense. It will not be just the church of Rome, but a deep sense of local belonging, and at the same time universal.

The challenge for the church today, is to win back those who have abandoned their faith, and have them cherish the church that God has given them. He will modernize the Vatican. Our electronic age has allowed rapid global communication, and he may learn much from the private sector, especially in creating and moving some of the departments outside the Vatican and reform and overhaul the Vatican bureaucracy.

Pope Francis is a gift from God. He came in like a gentle breeze and now has gradually become a kind of whirlwind.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

Thoughts on marriage chart The chart accompanying “Archbishop: RI’s same-sex marriage law ‘serious injustice,’” (May 10) gives erroneous information.

It lists California as a state that “allows marriage only between a man and a woman” which, on the face of

Following Jesus is the one true way In the May 10 issue of CSF, two sideby-side opinion writers took on the subject of poverty, and one, Effie Caldarola, got the issue right, focusing on Christ’s choice of simplicity over using more, to thus achieve solidarity with those who struggle; as did the heroic Archbishop Romero, and Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande, when they stood firmly with the poor in opposing Marxists and oligarchy alike, until they were assassinated and became martyrs for following Christ to the end.

A pope with doctrinal discipline Pope Francis is a Jesuit with humility, sanctity and doctrinal discipline.

The son of an immigrant is with the poor – not “for the poor,” as we Catholics so easily proclaim. Father Jorge, SJ, was with the poor when it was not easy: As provincial superior of the Society of Jesus in Argentina, he opposed liberation theology that beguiles the poor into generational dependency on the state. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he defended marriage and family and sought social changes to enable the poor to “build their own future … not from the golden mouth of politicians.”

This humble Jesuit again will be with the poor: He does not honor politicians who consider 54 million abortions a “choice,” and state-assisted suicide and euthanasia to be “health care.”

Some Catholic universities are honoring “Catholic” politicians who advocate taxpayer-funded abortifacients, contraception, assisted suicide and euthanasia. These Catholics need guidance and the universities need doctrinal discipline. They are suggesting support for politicians and “reforms” that marginalize the unborn, aged, weak and disabled.

Ad multos annos, Pope Francis.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

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Making room for women at the highest rungs of business

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n the early 1970s I began to notice what I then called the feminization of Jesuit higher education. I was dean of arts and sciences at Loyola University in New Orleans and then moved on to the presidency of the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania – both Jesuit schools.

Female enrollment was growing on both campuses and I remember wondering whether previously maledominant Jesuit colleges were up to the challenge of preparing women for positions of leadership in a changing world.

FATHER WILLIAM In the 1990s I found myself J. BYRON, SJ teaching at the Georgetown University business school where the female enrollment was high and the women students were giving serious thought to how they were going to strike a balance between work and family in their careers.

I had all my students write a personal mission statement to be carried with them as they picked up their diplomas and ran. Invariably, the women incorporated something about a balance between family and career into that mission statement.

Now there are more women than men in colleges all across the country. The challenge of educating them (and helping them educate themselves) for leadership is still there. So is the concern about balancing work and family responsibilities.

Fortunately, for many females and their male friends who are wise enough to want to explore that issue together, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has produced a book titled “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.” It opens up issues that men and women should be discussing

together as they prepare to enter the world of work.

As they celebrate the growing recognition of equality between men and women in America today, men and women have to be encouraged to understand that, while equal, men and women are not identical.

There are differences, and those differences have to be recognized and respected if women are to overcome their underrepresentation in the leadership ranks of American business. They also have to be respected if there is to be a fair distribution of housekeeping and child-rearing responsibilities in the two-career family.

Women tend, for example, to be more relational than men and more vulnerable to loneliness; men tend to be more achievement-oriented and thus more vulnerable to discouragement. This is not to say that women do not want to achieve and men are never lonely. It is simply a question of predisposition and propensity. There are differences.

The April issue of the Harvard Business Review carries an interview-article with Sandberg titled “Now Is Our Time.” Women and the men with whom they will be cooperating and competing in the workplace, as well as the men with whom they will marry and establish families, will find here not only food for thought but an agenda for planning their respective careers.

Similarly, the “women’s centers” that are cropping up on previously male-dominated campuses should not exclude men but engage them as listeners and contributors to the conversations about what it will take to lift the glass ceiling and lower the barriers to advancement that women now confront in the world of work.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.

Email wbyron@sju.edu

Social movements and swimming against the tide

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ame-sex marriage is one of the most successful social movements in American history.

Writing in Commonweal, Andrew Koppelman said “its claims were outside the realm of political possibility as recently as the early 1990s.

“Now its victory is probably inevitable,” wrote Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University.

Based on current evidence, it is difficult to argue with Koppelman’s opinion. The pressure to enact same-sex marriage laws in the states as well as at the STEPHEN KENT federal level is moving as an avalanche roaring over obstacles in its way – including the Catholic Church.

In May, Delaware became the 11th state to legalize same-sex marriage.

A social issue such as same-sex marriage gains more support than the moral issues of abortion, capital punishment, immigration rights.

Same-sex marriage proponents rely heavily on arguments of justice to gain support for their cause. But if justice can be seen as convincing in a social question, why isn’t justice convincing in moral issues involving the protection of human life such as capital punishment and abortion?

Some progress is being made against capital punishment, but it is taking centuries to accomplish.

In early May, Maryland became the 18th state to repeal the death penalty. The first state to repeal it – Michigan – did so in 1846.

“This has been a long hard push for us since 1987 when we succeeded in winning legislation prohibiting the execution of juveniles, and two years later banning the execution of persons with mental retardation,” said Richard Dowling, former director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

In the 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, those who oppose it have been working for a Constitutional amendment based on the belief that life begins at conception.

At the other end of the spectrum, from concep-

tion to natural death, is “death with dignity” or physician-assisted suicide. Only two states, Washington and Oregon, have it but efforts are underway in other states.

Koppelman believes the same-sex marriage success is due to many opponents being inarticulate and failing to pass their views on to their children.

Koppelman notes that a Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans favor same sex-marriage. Its support has doubled in 15 years, he says.

A 2013 Wall Street Journal/NBC poll found that a majority of Americans believe in legal abortion, and seven out of 10 oppose efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Culture is encapsulated within and carried forward by religion throughout history.

Sociologists from the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University found in a recent study that the number of people who do not consider themselves part of an organized religion, called the “nones” for their lack of affiliation, has jumped dramatically in recent years.

In the 1930s and 1940s, the number of “nones” hovered around 5 percent, one of the researchers who conducted the study said. Since then, the number of people who don’t consider themselves part of a religion has increased to 30 percent, according to The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

“The liberal conception of religion being allowed only in places of worship, and the elimination of religion outside it, is not convincing,” said thenCardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, in 2010.

More recently, the pope offered words of encouragement.

“Listen carefully, young people, swim against the tide; it’s good for the heart, but it takes courage,” Pope Francis said at Mass April 28 in St. Peter’s Square. “We Christians weren’t chosen by the Lord to do little things.

“Let’s not get discouraged,” he said. “We have the strength of the Holy Spirit to conquer these tribulations.”

KENT is the retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. Email considersk@gmail.com.

Demanding dignity and safety despite the cost

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hat a spring it has been for news. With everything from a terrorist attack in Boston to a new pope in Rome (along with an old pope in Rome), it has been news overload.

I must confess, the day they locked up Boston and searched for the second bomber, I was riveted to the news channels. But soon, it’s off to the next “breaking news.”

I’d like to make a pitch for one news event that should remain in our consciousness but is quickly receding even as I write this – April’s EFFIE CALDAROLA horrifying building collapse in Bangladesh.

More than 1,000 people were killed, many of them trapped amid rubble screaming for help, and some even hacked away their own limbs in an effort to free themselves. Appallingly, officials and owners had been warned that the building was unsafe. Most of those people – many women – were garment workers, and some of us may now be wearing clothes sewed by them.

Immediately, there were outcries against the big-name companies whose clothes are produced in Bangladesh. The garment industry, according to a BBC story, accounts for almost 80 percent of Bangladesh’s annual exports and provides employment for about 4 million. This was not the first shocking disaster in the garment industry there, and each time there has been a fire or a collapse someone suggests things will change.

For those of us who want to be responsible consumers, part of the problem lies in the issue’s complexity. Some blame the government, which could enforce better building and safety codes. Many blame the clothing companies who do not demand decent conditions and pay for their laborers. The companies, in turn, pass the blame on to subcontractors, as if that absolves the big names of responsibility.

Finally, many blame you and me – the Western consumer who wants closets full of clothes, all at a bargain.

What can we do? First of all, let’s remember our sisters and brothers who were forced to labor in a crumbling building despite its imminent demise. Our initial response might be, “I’ll never buy anything with a Bangladeshi label again,” but that isn’t fair to the folks who depend on that industry for their livelihood – and if Bangladesh is targeted, companies may just move the problem to another developing country.

The issue will be solved when we demand clothing manufacturers unify in their determination to promote better working conditions in all factories, despite the tiny cost increase that may mean to us.

Last year, a book called “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion,” by Elizabeth Cline took us to task for overshopping at rock bottom retailers. We all know kids today who shop almost as if clothes were disposable, as they nearly are at some cheap outlets. A “fashion repeat” must be avoided in a school wardrobe.

But it’s not just kids.

People shop thoughtlessly, out of boredom, wanting to score a “find,” not necessarily a need.

Bad for us, and bad for the planet, says Cline.

Remember when your grandmother bought a winter coat to last for years? Remember when a classic black dress lasted over the decades? Who shops like that now? And who demands that kind of quality and is willing to pay for it?

Let’s examine our closets. Expunge what we don’t need, what doesn’t fit, what was ridiculously trendy and now looks merely ridiculous.

Let’s regret that impulse buy that fell apart after a wash or two. Let’s research websites that address the Bangladeshi disaster and promote “green” clothes. Let’s be more conscious consumers.

Let’s shop smarter and use less.

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SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity ‘He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.’

JOHN 16:12-15 PROVERBS 8:22-31 Thus says the wisdom of God: “The Lord possessed me, the beginning of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; from of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth.

When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet the earth and fields were not made, nor the first clods of the world. “When the Lord established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep; when he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; when he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command; then was I beside him as his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the human race.

PSALM 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place: What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him?

O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet.

O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

ROMANS 5:1-5 Brothers and sisters: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through

whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

JOHN 16:12-15 Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.

But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”

The greatest mystery of all

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love mystery novels. There’s nothing better than sitting down with a good book and reading how the protagonist puts together all the different clues and eventually brings the bad guys to justice. It’s all very satisfying and rewarding.

Life, unfortunately, isn’t always so well ordered. We often run into mysteries that are never adequately solved or explained. Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?

What happened at Roswell in 1948? Are the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot real? These are all fascinating questions, and while it’s quite possible that the answers can be found in the secret Vatican archives, it’s unlikely we’ll DEACON MICHAEL solve these mysteries any time soon. However, that MURPHY doesn’t stop us from trying!

Of course, the greatest and most important mystery of all is God himself. From the very first moment we could put together a coherent thought, humans everywhere have been driven to figure out who God is and what he is all

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS ASKING FOR A SHOW OF HANDS

If people open themselves up to the Holy Spirit, he is the one who transforms the heart inscribed with God’s word and law and makes it new, “giving us the intelligence of the things of God,” Pope Francis said May 15 at his weekly general audience at the Vatican. This intelligence “can’t be reached with our own efforts,” he said. “If God doesn’t enlighten us within, our being Christian will be superficial.”

The pope asked the crowd in St. Peter’s Square whether they pray and are open to the Holy Spirit every day. Looking for a show of hands, the pope said, “hmm... not many, not many, but we have to do what Jesus wanted: Pray every day to the Holy Spirit so that he opens our heart to Jesus.”

about. People have struggled with this for thousands of years, hoping that in better understanding God, we might come closer to knowing and loving him in very real and tangible ways. Yet no matter how hard we’ve tried, the answers to these vital questions have often seemed very elusive and far away.

Recognizing our frustration, and wanting very much to be closer and more intimate with us, God has actually revealed a great deal about himself.

While we sometimes misunderstand, God’s generous revelation has indeed helped us to better know him and grow in our relationship with him. One of the most important teachings concerning our Lord is celebrated this week in the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. In Sunday’s Gospel, the evangelist John has Jesus, the son, speaking of both the father and the Spirit. This beautiful reading hints at God’s awesome beauty and complexity and points us in his direction so we can now begin to understand him more fully.

Of course, the doctrine of the Trinity can be one of the most difficult to truly comprehend. Yet we shouldn’t despair, because as is true with all revelation, God is simply trying to make clear how much he loves us and how very much he wants to be a part of our lives. Everything else is details!

Father Michael Hines, a speaker in the San Fran-

cisco archdiocese’s “Forward in Faith” program, says part of the confusion when speaking of the Trinity may rest with language. In using the phrase “One God in three persons,” we may make the mistake of thinking of the Trinity as three people working collaboratively, as if in a committee, or as three independent thinkers coordinating their wills. Father Hines makes clear that is not the case!

Instead, he prefers to use the fascinating phrase of “One God in three relationships.” In these three relationships, God, who is love, expresses the totality of what it means to be God as he gives himself to all of us. God the Father constantly gives himself to us through the gift of being, and everything in existence comes to us because God loves us so much. God the son constantly gives himself to us by healing and forgiving without limit, sharing our humanity and transforming us. God the Spirit constantly gives himself to us as he forms relationships with us and leads us to loving relationships with others, both individually and as church.

We may never solve the mystery that is God, yet in discovering him through the Trinity, we once more get a hint of how much God loves us, and for now, that’s enough!

DEACON MURPHY serves at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos, and teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 27: Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop. Sir 17:20-24. PS 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7.

Mk 10:17-27.

TUESDAY, MAY 28: Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 35:1-12. PS 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and 23. Mk 10:28-31.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29: Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 36:1, 4-5a, 10-17. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. Mk 10:32-45.

THURSDAY, MAY 30: Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time. Sir 42:15-25. PS 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9.

Mk 10:46-52.

FRIDAY, MAY 31: Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16. Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. Lk 1:39-56.

URSULA LEDOCHOWSKA 1865-1939 May 29 Born into a distinguished Polish family in Austria, Julia Maria entered an Ursuline convent in Poland at age 21, taking the name Maria Ursula of Jesus. She taught in a girls’ school for 20 years, and in 1907 went to St. Petersburg to head a new school. Expelled from Russia at the start of World War I, she eventually returned to Poland in 1923 and founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, known as Grey Ursulines.

SATURDAY, JUNE 1: Memorial of St. Justin, martyr.

Sir 51:12 cd-20. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Mk 11:27-33.

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The wages of celibacy

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ecently an op-ed piece appeared in The New York Times by Frank Bruni, titled “The Wages of Celibacy.” The column, while provocative, is fair. Mostly he asks a lot of hard, necessary questions.

Looking at the various sexual scandals that have plagued the Roman FATHER RON Catholic ROLHEISER priesthood in the past number of years, Bruni suggests that it’s time to re-examine celibacy with an honest and courageous eye and ask ourselves whether its downside outweighs its potential benefits.

Bruni, in fact, doesn’t weigh in definitively on this question; he only points out that celibacy, as a vowed lifestyle, runs more risks than are normally admitted. Near the end of his column he writes: “The celibate culture runs the risk of stunting (sexual) development and turning sexual impulses into furtive, tortured gestures. It downplays a fundamental and maybe irresistible human connection. Is it any wonder that some priests try to make that connection nonetheless, in surreptitious, imprudent and occasionally destructive ways?”

That’s not an irreverent question, but a necessary one, one we need to have the courage to face: Is celibacy, in fact, abnormal to the human condition? Does it run the risk of stunting sexual development?

Thomas Merton was once asked by a journalist what celibacy was like. I suspect his answer will come as a surprise to pious ears because he virtually endorses Bruni’s position. He responds: “Celibacy is hell! You live in a loneliness that God himself has condemned when

Merton says that despite, or because of, celibacy’s abnormality, it can be deeply generative both for the one living it and for those around him or her. he said: ‘It is not good to be alone!’”

However, with that being admitted, Merton immediately goes on to say that just because celibacy is not the normal human condition willed by the creator doesn’t mean that it cannot be wonderfully generative and fruitful and that perhaps its unique fruitfulness is tied to how extraordinary and abnormal it is.

What Merton is saying, in essence, is that celibacy is abnormal and dooms you to live in a state not been willed by the creator; but, despite and perhaps because of that abnormality, it can be deeply generative both for the one living it and for those around him or her.

I know this to be true, as do countless others, because I have been deeply nurtured, as a Christian and as a human being, by the lives of vowed celibates, by numerous priests, sisters and brothers whose lives have touched my own and whose “abnormality” served precisely to make them wonderfully fruitful.

Moreover, abnormality can have its own attraction: As a young priest, I served as a spiritual director to a young man who was discerning whether to join our order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, or whether to propose marriage to a young woman. It was an agonizing decision for him; he wanted both. And his discernment, while perhaps somewhat overly romantic in terms of his fantasy of both options, was at the same time uncommonly mature. Here (in words to this effect) is how he described his dilemma:

I am the oldest in my family and we lived in a rural area. When I was 15 years old, one evening, just before supper, my dad, still a young man, had a heart attack. There were no ambulances to call. We bundled him up in the car and my mother sat in the back seat with him and held him, while I, a scared teenager, drove the car en route to the hospital some 15 miles away.

My dad died before we reached the hospital. As tragic as this was, there was an element of beauty in it. My dad died in my mother’s arms. That tragic beauty branded my soul. In my mind, in my fantasy, that’s how I have always wanted to die – in the arms of my wife. And so my major hesitation about entering the Oblates and moving toward priesthood is celibacy. If I become a priest, I won’t die in any human arms. I’ll die as celibates do!

Then one day, in prayer, trying to discern all of this, I had another realization: Jesus didn’t die in the arms of a spouse; he died differently, lonely and alone. I’ve always had a thing about the loneliness of celibates and have always been drawn to people like Soren Kierkegaard, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Jean Vanier and Daniel Berrigan, who don’t die in the arms of a spouse. There’s a real beauty in that way of dying too!

Bruni is right in warning that celibacy is abnormal and fraught with dangers. One of the fundamental anthropological dogmas that Scripture teaches us is contained in the story of God creating our first parents and his pronouncement: It is not good (and it is dangerous) for the man to be alone! Celibacy does condemn one to live in a loneliness that God himself condemned, but it’s a loneliness within which Jesus gave himself over to us in a death that’s perhaps the most generative in human history.

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

Are you a doubting Thomas? I doubt it

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on’t be too quick to label yourself a true doubter until all the facts are in.

There is a distinction to be made between real doubting, and the discomfort we feel when pondering theological mysteries.

All intellectual mysteries baffle FATHER JOHN us, but we CATOIR accept them because Jesus revealed them and we trust him.

For instance, I feel intellectual discomfort when I study the doctrine of the Incarnation: Jesus Christ is true God and true man.

Despite my discomfort, the Lord’s miracles and both reason and grace have persuaded me to trust his word.

We do not accept supernatural

mysteries because we comprehend them. We accept them because that’s precisely what faith is: the acceptance of mystery.

Back to the original question, Are you a “doubting Thomas”? I doubt it.

When Thomas said he would not accept the idea that Jesus rose from the dead, I think he was more in shock than anything else. It was something like Peter trying to walk on the water.

My friend, Jesuit Father Bill O’Malley put it this way, ‘Remember that while the greathearted Peter stoutly tried to dissuade Jesus from facing the dangers in Jerusalem, it was doubting Thomas who said, ‘All right! Let’s go up to the city and die with him.’”

Father O’Malley rightly concludes that Thomas’ all-in attitude is evidence enough to show that a critical mind doesn’t preclude a stout heart.

Perhaps your occasional hesitancy in faith may be more a sign of your natural sales resistance than any loss of faith. Be patient with

yourself. If someone should say they doubt that there is an afterlife, and then goes on to explain the reason is that they can’t imagine what it would be like, maybe it’s time to consider that this may be more an imagination problem than a doubting problem.

A thing is true whether you can imagine it or not. Can you imagine a subatomic particle?

Doubt is a refusal to assent to a proposition unless hard evidence can verify it to be true. Our hard evidence is this: Jesus told us it is true.

Catholics believe in the mystery of the Incarnation, not because they have scientific evidence to prove it but because they have made a decision to trust the words of Jesus. They accept all of his teachings because they know through faith that he is telling the truth.

Faith will pull you through and enable you to trust the Lord. You believe in order to understand the truth: You don’t refuse to believe until you understand the mystery.

Protestants, Catholics and tithing

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I grew up in a Protestant church but converted to Catholicism.

Sometimes it seems to me that Catholics give a lot less money to their churches than Protestants do.

(The Sunday collections reported in our parish bulletin would, I think, be dwarfed by some Protestants parishes much smaller than our own.)

On the other hand, Catholics do seem to give a lot to charities overall. (Just in our own town, FATHER there is a Catholic KENNETH DOYLE hospital, several Catholic schools and many programs of human service supported by Catholic Charities). I’m wondering what the Catholic Church’s view is on tithing and whether money given to Catholic, nonparochial institutions can count as tithing. (Illinois) Your question brings to mind a comment I once heard from a Catholic pastor. He said: “If a Catholic couple has $50, they go out to dinner; $20, they go see a movie; $10, they get fast food. But if they have $1, they go to church.”

There is some truth behind the complaint. A national study in 2003 showed that Protestants typically give 2.6 percent of their income to their local churches, while Catholics give 1.2 percent. Some analysts speculate that, because an average Catholic parish in America numbers 3,100 people while Protestant congregations are usually one-tenth that size, Catholics have a diminished sense of personal responsibility.

As your question suggests, however, the percentages given above are only part of the story. Catholics also support the nation’s largest network of private health care institutions and social service agencies. And while the thousands of dollars paid by parents for Catholic school tuitions are technically not charitable donations, they do in fact contribute to the overall religious mission of the church.

Many Catholic dioceses recommend that their members contribute 5 percent of their take-home pay to their parish and an additional 5 percent to other charities. There is, though, no strict obligation for Catholics to tithe. Tithing is based on several Old Testament passages, such as Leviticus 27:32, which says: “The tithes of the herd and the flock, every tenth animal that passes under the herdsman’s rod, shall be sacred to the Lord.”

Among Christian believers, Mormons are the most strict in carrying that prescription forward. A recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life showed that 79 percent of Mormons tithe to their church. The Catholic obligation is more general: As the Catechism of the Catholic Church expresses in No. 2043, “The faithful ... have the duty of providing for the material needs of the church, each according to his abilities.”

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Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY, 12208.

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GOSNELL: Doctor’s murder conviction shows ‘ugliness of abortion’ FROM PAGE 1

a fourth similar charge. He also was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death by a drug overdose of a patient who had an abortion.

Gosnell, 72, was charged with snipping the spines of babies born alive during illegal late-term abortions. Pennsylvania law prohibits abortions after 24 weeks of gestation.

“We need to stop cloaking the ugliness of abortion with misnomers like ‘proper medical coverage’ or ‘choice,’” Archbishop Chaput said in his statement. “It’s violence of the most intimate sort, and it needs to end.”

A few weeks earlier in the six-week trial, after the prosecution had rested its case, Judge Jeffrey Minehart of the Common Pleas Court, dismissed three other murder charges against Gosnell, saying they lacked evidence.

Late May 14, prosecutors said the doctor agreed to give up his right to an appeal so he would not get the death penalty. The judge then gave him two consecutive life sentences with no chance for parole on two of three first-degree murder convictions.

At a May 15 sentence hearing, Gosnell received a third life sentence for the third murder conviction and another two and a half to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Those sentences also are consecutive. He also was convicted of hundreds of violations of Pennsylvania abortion regulations.

Both supporters of legal abortion and abortion opponents praised the verdict, though they pointed to different underlying problems.

Michael Geer, president of the Harrisburg-based Pennsylvania Family Institute, said in a statement, the Gosnell case in all its details points to “the big remaining question that the trial exposed for all Americans to see: How is it murder to kill a late-term baby outside the womb, but legal to kill it minutes earlier while still in its mother’s uterus?”

Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said in a statement that “justice was

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Dr. Kermit Gosnell, left, is shown in a courtroom artist sketch during his sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia May 15. served to Kermit Gosnell and he will pay the price for the atrocities he committed.” She described Gosnell’s clinic and practices as “a peek into the world before Roe v. Wade made legal a woman’s right to make her own choices.”

Hogue said “anti-choice politicians and their unrelenting efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortion care, will only drive more women to back-alley butchers like Kermit Gosnell.”

Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said the “self-interested indifference of an unrepentant, unregulated and unmonitored abortion industry stood front and center among the tragic events that led to the conviction of Kermit Gosnell.”

Yoest’s statement said “the legacy of Gosnell’s trial will be big abortion’s collusion in bringing about America’s ‘red-light district of medicine’ – today’s back-alley abortion clinics and renegade abortion profiteers.”

She said “pro-life Americans must fight big

MARRIAGE: Bishops vow to rebuild culture FROM PAGE 1

know that men and women are important; their complementary difference matters, their union matters, and it matters to kids. Mothers and fathers are simply irreplaceable.”

Archbishop Cordileone called it “the height of irony” that the final vote on “the redefinition of marriage” and the governor’s signature on the bill occurred just a day “after we celebrated the unique gifts of mothers and women on Mother’s Day.” In November, Minnesota voters rejected a ballot measure to amend the state constitution to define marriage as only a union between a man and woman, but polls show Minnesotans remained sharply divided over legalizing such unions.

According to Minnesota Public Radio, a recent survey showed a majority are against same-sex marriage.

The measure changes the definition of marriage from “between a man and a woman” to “a civil contract between two persons.” A prohibition against marriage between relatives, such as first cousins, remained in place.

In a statement about the earlier House vote, the conference said lawmakers by approving samesex marriage “set in motion a transformation of Minnesota law that will focus on accommodating the desires of adults instead of protecting the best interest of children.”

“This action is an injustice that tears at the fabric of society and will be remembered as such well into the future,” it said.

The Catholic conference said the bill posed “a serious threat to the religious liberty and conscience rights of Minnesotans.”

It includes legal protections for clergy and religious groups that don’t want to marry samesex couples, but the conference said lawmakers failed “to protect the people in the pew – individuals, non-religious nonprofits, and small business owners who maintain the time-honored belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.”

According to the conference, lawyers on both sides of the issue have stated that no accommodations for “the deeply held beliefs of a majority of Minnesotans will result in numerous conflicts that will have to be adjudicated by our courts.”

In a separate statement issued after the House vote, Duluth Bishop Paul D. Sirba said the church “will continue to uphold and propose to the world what we know, through sound reason and through divine revelation, to be the authentic nature of marriage: a permanent union between one man and one woman, uniting a mother and a father with any children produced by their union.”

No civil authority, he said, “has the authority or competence to redefine marriage. Civil authorities have the obligation to protect and defend true marriage for the sake of justice and the common good.”

Bishop Sirba acknowledged that many disagree with the church’s stand on the issue and expressed dismay over the negative tone the debate over same-sex marriage has taken toward the church.

“We are particularly mindful of our brothers and sisters who have same-sex attractions,” he said. “Our hearts break that this debate has often been used as an occasion to sow mistrust and doubt, as if followers of the God who is love, and whose love for all people we proclaim each day as the body of Christ, are acting instead out of some sort of ill will.”

“To all those with same-sex attraction, we continue to extend our unconditional love and respect. For those who have heard God’s call and respond in faith, hope and love, striving to walk in his ways, we also offer our pastoral support,” the bishop added.

In Rhode Island May 2, Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed into law a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in that state. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence expressed “profound disappointment” that the measure to “legitimize same-sex marriage” passed the Legislature.

Same-sex marriage became legal in Delaware May 7; the law goes into effect July 1.

abortion as they attempt to block common-sense attempts to regulate and monitor abortion clinics where we know that some women and girls have suffered and even died.”

Yoest said the case underscores why abortion clinics must be subject to medical standards and regular inspections. Gosnell’s clinic had not been inspected for nearly two decades, she said.

“Kermit Gosnell is not the aberration that abortion advocates claim,” Yoest added. “Over the last three years at least 15 states have initiated investigations into the conditions and practices of abortion clinics. These investigations were triggered by women’s deaths, reports of dangerous and unsanitary practices that exposed women to injuries and infections, and infants born alive following attempted abortions.”

Gosnell was arrested in 2011 and charged with seven counts of infanticide and one count of murder in the case of a woman from Virginia who died during an abortion.

Several former workers in the clinic, including Gosnell’s wife, Pearl, a cosmetologist by training, earlier pleaded guilty to charges including third-degree murder, racketeering and performing illegal, late-term abortions.

Prosecutors said one of the babies Gosnell killed was at nearly 30 weeks of gestation and was so big that Gosnell joked it could “walk to the bus,” reported The Associated Press.

The involuntary manslaughter charge came in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, a refugee from Bhutan who lived in Woodbridge, Va., and who was given repeated doses of powerful drugs to induce labor and sedate her.

The jury also found Gosnell guilty of infanticide, racketeering and more than 200 violations of Pennsylvania laws, for performing abortions past 24 weeks or failing to counsel women seeking abortions 24 hours before providing the procedure.

He still faces federal drug charges over abuse of prescriptions for OxyContin and for letting staff members make out prescriptions to patients who paid cash.

STEM CELLS: ‘Morally troubling’ FROM PAGE 1

do not share the Catholic Church’s convictions on human life,” said Cardinal O’Malley’s statement. He also decried the conditions to which the women who volunteered for the experiment were subjected to increase the number of eggs they produced, saying it “put their health and fertility at risk.”

The researchers said their goal is to produce genetically matched stem cells for research and possible therapies, but Cardinal O’Malley said the same goals can be achieved “by scientific advances that do not pose these grave moral wrongs.”

Research using adult stem cells, or those derived after someone is born, as opposed to cells from embryos, has provided promising possibilities for treating some illnesses or injuries. The reprogrammed stem cells can be used to replace damaged cells.

A statement from the university said the process announced May 15 “is a variation of a commonly used method called somatic cell nuclear transfer. ... It involves transplanting the nucleus of one cell, containing an individual’s DNA, into an egg cell that has had its genetic material removed. The unfertilized egg cell then develops and eventually produces stem cells.”

Although the university’s explanation of the breakthrough noted that the research “does not involve the use of fertilized embryos, a topic that has been the source of a significant ethical debate,” that doesn’t address the Catholic Church’s moral objections.

Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, told Catholic News Service that as soon as human cells begin to divide into an embryo they are considered human life and that the destruction of such embryos is immoral.

The university release called it an “important distinction” that “while the method might be considered a technique for cloning stem cells, commonly called therapeutic cloning, the same method would not likely be successful in producing human clones.”

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St. Dunstan School celebrates 60th anniversary St. Dunstan Parish School in Millbrae celebrates its 60th year anniversary this year, with the theme “Precious Memories and Future Dreams.”

To mark the 60-year dedication, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice celebrated Mass April 28 with Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor, and a rededication of the school. The Sisters of Mercy and Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who formerly staffed the school were among the assembly.

Bishop Justice also blessed a mosaic tile wall, which was conceptualized by St. Dunstan alumnus Matthew Lum, now a freshman at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, as part of his Eagle Scout project.

With parent and staff support in the preparation, the wall consists of tiles designed and painted by students in celebration of the school’s 60th year and its theme.

Matthew, and his fellow Eagle Scouts, spent several weekends building the wall andz setting the tile.

St. Dunstan School, which is under the spiritual direction of the Holy Ghost Fathers of Ireland, has 287 students, 13 full-time teachers and eight support staff, including a reading specialist, resource specialist, counselor and technology teacher.

The school, which has a strong

HISTORY OF ST. DUNSTAN SCHOOL OPENED IN 1952, dedicated and blessed by Archbishop John J. Mitty on April 23, 1953.

THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR originally staffed the school.

In 1972, these sisters were called to serve elsewhere, and the parish began the search for a religious order to continue their work.

THE SISTERS OF MERCY from Doon in County Limerick, Ireland, came to St. Dunstan and administered and taught from 1972 to 1990.

Pictured recently at St. Dunstan School are Holy Ghost Father Diarmuid Casey, pastor; Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; Bruce Colville, principal; Irma Pacheco, grade six; Sue Pallari, vice principal/grade four; Laura Sandoval, grade two; Shirley Nussbaum, former principal/teacher; Catherine Aveson, grade seven. emphasis on prayer, Christian service and moral responsibility, offers a full-day kindergarten, art classes, and Spanish for grades K-8 and full array of athletic teams.

St. Dunstan graduates have consistently strong acceptance rates in all of the archdiocesan secondary

schools as well as other private secondary schools in the Bay Area.

The yearlong celebration will continue into the fall with a formal dinner dance Sept. 28 at the Green Hills Country Club. Email stdunstanschool60th@gmail.com or call the school office at (650) 697-8119.

DURING THE MERCY SISTERS’ TENURE, a number of physical improvements were completed, including the addition of the kindergarten class in 1977, construction of the parish center and religious education office in 1983, and the refurbishing of a multipurpose room in 1986 that now functions as the math classroom for grades six to eight.

THE MERCY SISTERS returned to Ireland in 1990. From that time to 2004 the school had an all-lay administration and faculty. From 2004 to 2009, Sister Mary Lorraine Mullins, SM, was the only sister on staff and served as the school’s learning specialist. From 2009 to 2011, Sister Dee Myers, BVM replaced Sister Lorraine in the same capacity.

The field of ‘dreams’ at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery JEAN BARTLETT

Like baseball, a cemetery is loaded with history and the memories of legends, both saints and sinners, who have come and gone. And like baseball, every life has its ups and down, its journeys into fear or bravery, its chances of doing the impossible and its lessons of patience – and of course its mistakes, which sometimes seem much bigger than they really are, except of course when they are big. When one stands on the edge of a cemetery green, just as one stands at the field of a famous diamond, the possibilities of what has taken place in this fenced in area by those who fully participated in the game cannot fully be imagined.

In June 2012, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma marked its 125th year of serving families in their time of greatest need. And within its 300 acres are 370,000 individual stories. Some are the stories of San Francisco’s beloved firefighters and police officers. Some are stories of the locally or even nationally famous – businessmen and women, winemakers, politicians, artists, writers, adventurers, newspaper founders, hoteliers, actors, soldiers, farmers, architects, educators, inventors, athletes, labor activists, suffragists, scientists, medical personnel, archbishops, priests and nuns. Many are famous only to their circle of family and friends. Some arrived alone, though never to be forgotten.

There are also plenty of baseball players at Holy Cross, Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999) being the most famous. Also known as “Joltin’ Joe” and the “Yankee Clipper,” DiMaggio played his entire 13-year Major League Baseball career for the New York Yankees. The center fielder, three-time MVP winner and 13-time All-Star, had a 56-game hitting streak in 1941, a record that still stands as one of the greatest achievements in baseball history.

Owen Molloy, proprietor of the historic Irish pub Molloy’s Tavern, across the street from Holy Cross, remembers the day DiMaggio was brought to the cemetery.

“When Joe DiMaggio passed, March of 1999, there was a giant procession for him as he was taken to Holy Cross,” Molloy said. “And there were a lot of people here in the bar, and at all the businesses along this street, and we all went outside and lined the sidewalks to pay our respects.”

The following is a list of those baseball greats now at rest at Holy Cross.

Bill Lange (Little Eva), 1871-1950, center field and

Infielders Bill Lange, left, of the Chicago Colts and Chicago Orphans (1893-1899) and Tom Tennant of the San Francisco Seals (1909-1911) are buried at Holy Cross. second baseman, played his entire 7-year career for the Chicago Colts and Chicago Orphans (1893 to 1899).

Frank Bodie (Ping Bodie), 1887-1961, outfielder, played for the White Sox, Yankees and Athletics (1911-1921). Pete Standridge, 1892-1963, pitcher, played for the Cubs and Cardinals (1911-1915). Cy Falkenberg, 1879-1961, pitcher, Naps, Senators, Hoosiers, Pepper, Athletics (1903-1917).

Frankie Crosetti (Crow), 1910-2002, shortstop and third baseman, Yankees (1932-1948). Dario Lodigiani (Lodi), 1916-2008, third baseman and second baseman, Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox (1938-1942, 1946).

Charlie Fox (Irish), 1921-2004, catcher for the New York Giants (1942). Ed Hallinan, 1888-1940, shortstop, second baseman and third baseman, Browns (1911-1912).

Jim Britt, 1856-1923, pitcher, Atlantics (1872-1873). Tom Tennant, 1882-1955, pinch hitter, St. Louis Browns (1912) also first baseman, San Francisco Seals (1909-1911). Pete Sweeney, 1863-1901, third baseman, second baseman and outfielder for the Nationals, Browns, Athletics and Colonels (1888-1890). Charlie Geggus (Buck), 1862-1917, pitcher, center fielder and shortstop, Nationals (1884). Joe Corbett, 1875-1945, pitcher, shortstop and left fielder for the Orioles, Cardinals and Senators (1895-1904). Pete Meegan (Steady Pete), 1862-1905, pitcher and left fielder, Virginians, Pittsburgh Alleghenys (1884-1885).

Frank Zupo (Noodles), 1939-2005, catcher and pinch hitter for the Baltimore Orioles (1957). Hank Sauer (The Honker), 1917-2001, left fielder, Cubs, Reds, Giants, Cardinals (1941-1959). Italo Chelini (Chilly or Lefty), 1914-1972, pitcher, White Sox (1935-1937). Joe Oeschger, 1892-

1986, pitcher for the Braves, Phillies, Robins and Giants (1914-1925). Joe DiMaggio (Joltin’ Joe or The Yankee Clipper), 1914-1999, center fielder, Yankees (1936-1951).

Bill Cunningham, 1894-1953, outfielder, Giants, Braves (1921-1924). Joe Chamberlain, 1910-1983, shortstop and third baseman, White Sox (1934). Jim Byrnes, 1880-1941, catcher, Athletics (1906). Jim McDonald, 1860-1914, third baseman, center fielder and shortstop, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Bisons and Nationals (1884-1885). Mike DePangher, 1858-1915, catcher for the Philadelphia Quakers (1884).

Jim Nealon, 1884-1910, first baseman, Pirates (1906-1907).

Bob Blakiston, 1855-1918, outfielder, third baseman and first baseman for the Athletics and Hoosiers (1882-1884).

Jim Roxburgh, 1858-1934, catcher and second baseman, Orioles and Athletics (1884-1887). Ralph Pinelli (Babe), 1895-1984, third baseman and shortstop, Reds, Tigers and White Sox (1918-1927). Roy Corhan (Irish), 1887-1958, shortstop, Cardinals, White Sox (1911-1916). Julio Bonetti, 1911-1952, pitcher, Browns, Cubs (1937-1940). George Puccinelli (Pooch or Count), 1907-1956, right fielder, Athletics, Cardinals, Browns (1930-1936). Charlie Graham, 18781948, catcher, Americans (1906). Ed Montague, 19051988, shortstop and third baseman, Indians (1928-1932).

Josh Reilly, 1868-1938, second baseman and shortstop, Colts (1896). James Caveney (Ike), 1894-1949, shortstop, Reds (1922-1925). Jake Caulfield, 1917-1986, shortstop, Athletics (1946). Joe Sprinz (Mule), 1902-1994, catcher, Indians, Cardinals (1930-1933). Eddie Mulligan, 1894-1982, third baseman and shortstop, White Sox, Cubs, Pirates (1915-1928). Mark Creegan, 1864-1920, center fielder, catcher and third baseman, Nationals (1884). Billy Orr (1891-1967), shortstop, third baseman and first baseman, Athletics (1913-1914). William Swett (Pop), 1870-1934, catcher and right fielder, Reds, 1890. John Johnson (Youngy), 1873-1936, pitcher, Phillies, Giants (1897-1899).

Harry Krause (Hal), 1888-1940, pitcher, Athletics, Naps (1908-1912). George Kelly (High Pockets), 1895-1984, first baseman, second baseman and outfielder, Giants, Reds, Dodgers, Cubs and Pirates (1915-1932).

Joe Giannini, 1888-1942, shortstop, Red Sox (1911).

Herman Iburg (Ham), 1873-1945, pitcher, Phillies (1902).

Marino Pieretti (Chick), 1920-1981, pitcher, Senators, White Sox, Indians (1945-1950). William Brown (Big Bill or California), 1866-1897, first baseman, catcher and outfielder, Giants, Colonels, Phillies, Orioles and Browns (1887-1894).

BARTLETT is arts and features writer for the Pacifica Tribune. This article first appeared in the May 30-June 6 issue of The Peninsula Progress.

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ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY: Jesuit Father Anthony Sauer president, teacher, fundraiser at SI for the last 40 years, will leave the school in September for a new ministry assignment at St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix, next door to SI’s sister school, Brophy College Preparatory. “It’s been a long, great ride,” Father Sauer said in a Father Tony release from SI announcing his Sauer, SJ new assignment. “I have SI and its students, faculty and staff, fellow Jesuits, parents and families written in my heart.

I will never forget them.” John Knight, SI president, wished Father Sauer “only the best as he leaves for his new adventure in Phoenix knowing full well that he always has a home at SI.” As SI president from 1979 to 2006, Father Sauer was a prime mover in the school’s transition to coeducation and in building endowment funds to a point where SI now distributes $2.8 million in tuition assistance annually.

OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH, NOVATO: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone confirmed 44 youths at the church May 4. Pictured after Mass are Archbishop Cordileone with, from left, parish administrator Father Honesto Gile; Our Lady of Loretto School principal Annette Olinger; Deacon Alex Madero, Amy Reeder, Annie Troy, Father Francisco J. Gamez, Patrick Reeder, and Ursuline Sister Jeanette Lombardi.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY, SAN FRANCISCO: As part of a Food Education Wellness Program, students are learning how gardening and healthy lifestyles go hand in hand. Students are tilling soil on campus, growing “flowers and vegetables which will add color and beauty to our common space,” the school said. Planting and picking are ICA freshmen Claudia Alvarez, Elizabeth Luna, Amelie Lacayo, Vanessa Munoz and Mylene Munda.

SISTER HELEN PREJEAN: The Congregation of St. Joseph sister is pictured with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Rabbi Ryan Bauer at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, May 9. The author of “Dead Man Walking” spoke on efforts to eliminate the death penalty in the U.S.

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ST. STEPHEN SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Junior high English teacher Elaine Kouches has been recognized with an Herbst Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. The presentation took place at the Lakeside District school May 6. Elaine, who has been a teacher for 35 years, nine at St. Stephen, received $5,000 from the foundation with a like check going to the school. The school called Elaine, pictured here with principal Sharon McCarthy Allen and Jerry Harris from the Herbst group, “a truly deserving recipient” who “exhibits the highest personal and professional standards in all of her interactions with students, peers, and parents.”

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ST. CHARLES SCHOOL, SAN CARLOS: The school is this year’s first-place finisher in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Academic Decathlon. Team members include front from left: Hannah Cevasco, Jack Glenn, Laura McGann, Emily Lippert, Kelly Sala, Grace Casarez, Ben Hora , and back from left, John Wilson, Jake Dorais, Vinnie Armanino, Schafer Kraemer, Mike York, Justin Gala, Dominic Marques.

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ST. HILARY SCHOOL, TIBURON: The school’s technology program has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished Program. The honor is part of a nationwide Apple effort to identify exemplary learning environments using

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Apple products. “I am most proud of this distinction because it’s been a collaborative effort among parents, teachers, and students to create dynamic, student-centered educational opportunities on a daily basis,” said principal Charlie Hayes. The school has an iPad program for students in grades three to eight, featuring class-specific applications; and iPad and computing centers for the junior kindergarten

through second grade. All classrooms have wireless connectivity to display student projects and presentations from their iPads.

ST. EMYDIUS PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: From left, Father David Pettingill, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and pastor Father William Brady are pictured at the parish’s centennial celebration May 5.

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USF HONORS BISHOP BLAIRE FOR LEADERSHIP ON SOCIAL ISSUES

The University of San Francisco presented an honorary doctorate in humane letters May 17 to Stockton Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and a national leader on economic justice issues.

“He speaks from the heart and with deep conviction on issues from the perspective of Catholic Social Thought on

poverty, immigration, health care, gun control and other pressing questions facing this country,” said Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, USF president, who conferred the degree during the graduation ceremony for 179 graduate students of USF’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Along with other bishops, Bishop Blaire has written to members of Congress calling for a “circle of protection” around programs for the poor, including food assistance, school breakfasts, housing and education.

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FRIDAY, MAY 24 MONDAY, MAY 27 3-DAY CONFERENCE: Retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the opening Mass at the Northern California Renewal Coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 26th annual Catholic Charismatic convention, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus Christ is Lord,â&#x20AC;? May 24-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Event features daily Mass and speakers for young and old in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Food, books and religious articles will be available for purchase. Conference is sponsored by Monterey, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton and Santa Rosa dioceses and Archdiocese of San Francisco. Visit www. ncrcspirit.org or call (925) 828-6644 for information in English, (650) 834-0108 for Spanish and (408) 661-6751 for Vietnamese.

MEMORIAL DAY MASSES: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Msgr. James Tarantino, celebrant; Holy Cross Cemetery, Menlo Park, outdoor Mass, Father Larry Goode, celebrant; Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael, outdoor Mass, Father Paul Perry, celebrant, all at 11 a.m.; Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery, Half Moon Bay, outdoor Mass, Father Juan Manuel Lopez, celebrant, 9:30 a.m. (650) 756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m., followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

Msgr. James Tarantino

Father Paul Perry

Father Larry Goode

Father Juan Manuel Lopez

MONDAY, MAY 27 CHECK-UPS: Free blood pressure screening, noon-1 p.m., St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, Sister Mary Philippa Health Clinic, 2235 Hayes St. (415) 750-5959.

LEARNING OPP: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living Well with Diabetesâ&#x20AC;?: Learn how to care for your diabetes, what to eat and why to check your blood sugar level, 4-5 p.m., St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., Cardiology Conference Room, Level C, free. (415) 750-5513.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 MEDICARE QUESTIONS: Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program (HICAP), assistance with Medicare and health insurance problems, 1-3 p.m. Please schedule an appointment in advance. St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco. (415) 750-5800.

HEART DISEASE QUESTIONS: Explore ways to improve and maintain health and coping skills in order to lead a positive and productive life, noon-1 p.m., St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, 2250 Hayes St., third floor, San Francisco, free. (415) 750-5617.

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SENIOR DISCOUNTS: Discounted senior meals, 6:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center cafeteria, Level B, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco, lunch $5, breakfast 20 percent off all items.

DINNER DANCE: St. Kevin Parish, 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco, silent auction starts at 6 p.m. Tickets at $40 advance/$50 at door include raffle ticket and complimentary beverage.

(415) 648-5751.

SENIOR YOGA: Gentle Yoga class, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medical Center, St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hall, 2255 Hayes St., Room H2-07, San Francisco, free.

(415) 750-5800.

MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Brian Costello, pastor, Most Holy Redeemer Parish, San Francisco, celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

AMBULATING: Mall walking, 9-10 a.m., Stonestown Galleria Center Court, 3521 20th Ave., San Francisco, free.

(415) 750-5800.

FRIDAY, MAY 31 PARISH FESTIVAL: St. Pius Festival May 31, 6-10 p.m.; June 1, 1-10 p.m.; June 2, 1-8 p.m., 1100 Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City.

Enjoy food, games, and live entertainment with an international flair.

New this year is a Lego exhibit with elaborate creations from around the world.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 5-DAY GOSPEL MUSIC: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rawn Harbor Gospel Music Workshopâ&#x20AC;? June 5, 6, 7, 7-9 p.m.; June 8, 9 a.m.-noon; June 9, 10:45 a.m. Gospel Mass, St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122 Jamestown Ave. near Third Street, San Francisco. $20 fee includes lunch on Saturday. No singing experience necessary. www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org/ GospelWorkshop.php. (415) 587-1382.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 1 MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m.

Father Brian Costello, pasFather Brian tor, Most Holy Costello Redeemer Parish, San Francisco, celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060. www. holycrosscemeteries.com.

Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com.

(415) 584 8794.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15 HANDICABAPLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

Lunch follows. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this ongoing tradition of more than 40 years. Call Joanne Borodin at (415) 239-4865.

CHANTICLEER: “La Serenissima,” Mission Dolores, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco, 8 p.m. Tickets $10-$50.

(415) 392-4400. www.chanticleer.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11 SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7 p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough

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p.m. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

THURSDAY, JUNE 27

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 SUNDAY, JUNE 16 WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. (415) 614-5643, janschachern@aol.com.

DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T

HOME SERVICES

ICF RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 ravioli dinner at Our Lady of Angels Parish gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No-host bar at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Wine available for purchase with dinner. All are welcome. Tickets are $20 adults/$5 age 14 and under. Sandra, (650) 6974279. Buy tickets by June 19.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 SEPARATED DIVORCED: Meeting takes place second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Bartholomew Parish Spirituality Center, Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 7

VATICAN II TALKS: “Ecumenism and Interfaith,” with Father P. Gerard O’Rourke, St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

FRIDAY, JUNE 28 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr.

Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo. miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794.

FRIDAY, JULY 5 6-DAY VOCATIONS: Live-in experience with the Dominican Sisters if Mission San Jose, July 5-11, at the sisters’ motherhouse in Fremont: six-day experience of living, ministering and praying for Catholic single women ages college-39. The days include weekend silent retreat, service, and time for fun and relaxation. Email blessings@ msjdominican.org by June 15. (510) 933-6333. www.msjdominicans.org. mkrause@msjdominicans.org.

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HELP WANTED Spiritual Care Manager Sojourn Chaplaincy at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) is seeking a Spiritual Care Manager to oversee and coordinate the delivery of spiritual care services at SFGH. The Spiritual Care Managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time will be divided between strategic management and oversight, provision of direct chaplaincy service, coordination with interdisciplinary teams, and student training.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated pastoral care and counseling skills, management experience with a program providing pastoral or health services, and familiarity with a public health setting. More information can be found at www.sojournchaplaincy.org/SCMJobDescription.pdf

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Quali ied candidates should apply to soccernmath@yahoo.com or send a cover letter and resume to Attn. Parish Coordinator P.O.Box 1061, Ross Ca. 94957.

No phone calls please.

HELP WANTED

PRINCIPAL Saint Rita Catholic School, located in Fairfax, CA. (Marin County) is now seeking a full time Principal for grades K through 8th.

Saint Rita School is an integral part of St. Rita parish. The parish works directly with the school to ensure a quality academic, social, religious, and physical education for all students.

The students in the school participate in monthly family Masses and monthly school Masses, as well as prayer services, outreach to the community, and daily prayer within the classrooms. A strong spiritual leader is vital to the growth of faith in the school and parish.

Saint Rita School serves a wide variety of learning abilities including the gifted and the challenged learners. The school offers an engaging curriculum, and supports a multi-aged program in the lower grades to promote student growth.

Art, music, band, P.E., drama, and other electives are available to the students in the school. The school has two separate programs: 1) a multi-aged K, 1-2 and 3-4; and 2) a middle school program of grades 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Saint Rita students are a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Community of Learners, Believers and Friendsâ&#x20AC;?. This is demonstrated through our Student Learning Expectations and conduct and effort in our classrooms, and beyond.

Saint Rita School is seeking a Catholic administrator, knowledgeable in curriculum, the common core and mapping as well as recruiting, marketing, and who will serve as an authentic model of academic excellence and mature religious faith.

Desired Qualifications: â&#x20AC;˘ A Master of Arts degree â&#x20AC;˘ A valid teaching credential â&#x20AC;˘ A practicing Roman Catholic in good standing â&#x20AC;˘ An administrative credential (preferred). â&#x20AC;˘ Five years teaching experience at the K-8 level (at least three years in Catholic Schools). â&#x20AC;˘ Financial experience (preferred). â&#x20AC;˘ Willing to attend night meetings and weekend events. â&#x20AC;˘ Become an active member of the Saint Rita Parish (preferred).

Please send resume and cover letter by June 15, 2013 to: Mrs. Carol Arritola, Principal, Saint Rita School, 102 Marinda Dr., Fairfax, CA 94930 email: carritola@strita.edu

A Six-day Live-in Experience for single Catholic women (18-39yrs.) who are seeking the meaning of life by exploring a call to become a Sister.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live in me and I will live in you...â&#x20AC;?

Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose When: Friday July 5 to Thursday July 11, 2013 [begins Friday @ 5 PM; ends Thursday 1 PM after lunch]

Where: Dominican Sisters MSJ Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539 (entrance on Mission Tierra Pl.) RSVP: Sister Frances Mary 510-933-6335 or email blessings@msjdominicans.org by Saturday, June 15 To register give: Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Cell phone, e-mail

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Be a part a growing ministry that connects the faithful in the 90 parishes of the archdiocese. If you would like to add your tax-deductible contribution, please mail a check, payable to Catholic San Francisco, to: Catholic San Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109.

Registration confirmation will include a follow-up telephone conference with Sister Marcia Krause, vocation director.

Experience will include a silent retreat, opportunity for discernment, sharing, quiet, community, Mass, prayer, study & service Overnight accommodations, meals & snacks provided.

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Prayer to St. Jude

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.

H.G.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

M.P.

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.

M.P.

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St. Jude Novena

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NOVENA 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.

M.C.

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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us.

St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

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A.M.

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.

M.P.

HELP WANTED Seeking a full time Director of Music (organist/pianist/choir director) for Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church in beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a mountain resort near Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

Duties include music for three masses weekly plus Holy Days, planning and providing funeral and wedding music, conducting choir and ensemble. Strong proficiency in organ, piano, and choral conducting desired and good interpersonal skills. Minimum bachelor’s in music. Goal is a blended contemporary and traditional program. Salary negotiable depending on experience/education and includes benefits and housing supplement.

Job description at www.olmcatholic.com. Email letter of interest and resume to Tamra@olmcatholic.org

“125 Years of History, Ministry & Service” A book celebrating the story of Holy Cross Cemetery

Books now available $20.00 Books may be purchased at the cemetery office or by mail.

If you wish to purchase by mail, please add $3.00 and send request to: Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 24, 2013

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April

HOLY CROSS COLMA William “Bill” Affolter Alise Ammari Christopher M. Arcilla Donna Avtonomoff Genaro C. Badiable Marie-Louise Baules Raquel Benavides John A. Benelli Lillian M. Benelli Blanche M. Bianucci Edith L. Boquiren Antonio Botones Faeq “Ed” Boury William J. Bousquet Jerry Bowers Jose Carlos Briancesco Sidney W. Brown Wayne Brown Jose G. Campos John J. Carroll Frank A. Casagrande William J. Casalata Ronald A. Castillo Horace C. Castro Irenea G. Chan Claudia Chiang Mary Catherine Connolly Joan Kiernan Coyne Eugenia Cubero Warren Cubero Lillian D. Curd Rea Ancheta DeCastro Rosa A. Denis Anthony G. DeSousa Dorothy Helen Donnelly Irene V. Doyle Mae Durrenberger

Kathryn M. Dwyer Maria Sabado Evangelista Anthony Alfonsz Faraldo Edna Mary Fegan Dennis P. Flanagan Mary L. Forese Eleanor Francis Fox Eric E. French Mary M. Friman Emily Gallardo Frank Gallardo Andrew Wah Gee Melodi Rose Gheno-Barri Amanda Gibson Raymond G. Grandona Maurice B. Griffin Marijan Grskovic Maria Elena Gutierrez Mary Scannell Hansen Mary Ann Hansen Blanche D. Hardy Adele Hider Paul M. Hupf Emilio Icabalceta Beverly A. Johnson Peggy Jones Dottie Dee Kelley Narciso L. Lasola Miguel Leon Rita Loretz Melinda Irene O’Brien LoSavio Janet Carmen Lossa Eduardo Magbitang Aloysius A. Mangan, Jr. Jacqueline Manning David J. Martin Marion Jane Mattes Helen E. Matulich Maria E. Maya Katherine E. McCarthy Sr. Mary Geraldine McDonnell, RSM

Edward J. McEntee Ida McGrath William J. McPartland Blanca “Blanche” Melhado Mario J. Menconi Domenica Mezzadri Elias Joseph Michael, M.D. Mary Catherine Murphy Linda Ann Murphy Joseph P. Murray Anne U. Newsom Dorothy A. O’Connor Raymond S. O’Neill Donald Robert O’Reilly Margaret A. O’Shea Matias I. Orque Lorraine Ortega Phyllis M. Ostraco Leo Padreddii Antonio B. Pilapil Vicky Pinto Menotti Robert Pioli John Pizza Rev. William Quinn Leo Quiriconi Aida M. Ramirez Beatrice Ramirez Julian Ramos Henrietta A. Ryan Pedro Saldana Aurelia Saldana Maria M. Sanchez Andres R. Sanchez Donna J. Sartori Evelyn C. Schenone Amelia Siino Mary Ann Soldavini Joann A. Sommers Josephine “Jo” Sommerville Carol A. Stephens Connie Stephens

William A. Stewart Aldo N. Strambi Joan Theresa Sullivan Walter C. Swan, Jr. Godofredo Tablante John J. Tenge, Jr. Stanley J. Thompson Carla M. Tocci Angelina Tortorelli Juan J. Trasviña Roy Tripp Jacob Enrique Valdiviezo Lt. Ronald Joseph Van Pool Alicia Venegas Barbara Kathleen Wait Frank Zocchi

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Phyllis Claudia Botto Jean Etcheverria John H. Marshall Jack “Monty” Montgomery Loretta E. Vacha William G. Weissenberger Joanne Willis

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Joanne Bischoff Rose Marie Escobar John M. Geaghan Zoila Reyes John Everett Spiva

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Kathleen L. Leonardi

MEMORIAL DAY MASS – Monday, May 27, 2013 HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – COLMA Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11am Rev. Msgr. James T. Tarantino, Celebrant

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY – SAN RAFAEL Outdoor Mass – 11am Rev. Paul E. Perry, Celebrant

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – MENLO PARK Outdoor Mass – 11am Rev. Lawrence Goode, Celebrant

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY – HALF MOON BAY Outdoor Mass – 9:30 am Rev. Juan Manuel Celebrant

FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, June 1, 2013 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11am Rev. Brian L. Costello, Celebrant – Pastor, Most Holy Redeemer

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.