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Dublin archbishop: Laity key to Irish church’s renewal BETH GRIFFIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Renewal of the Catholic Church in a “post-Catholic” Ireland depends on a homegrown effort by the laity to overcome clericalism and witness the Christian message in a secular society, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin told a New York audience.

Once considered “one of the world’s most deeply and stably Catholic countries,” Ireland, like other parts of Europe, can now be classified as post-Catholic because of sociological changes and lingering fallout from the child sexual abuse scandals that swept the country in recent years, Archbishop Martin said April 24 in a speech at Fordham University.

“You can only define post-Catholic in terms of the Catholicism that has been displaced,” he said.

The prelate described the Catholic Church in Ireland as being trapped in an illusory self-image SEE RENEWAL, PAGE 22

Philippine laity backs pro-church senators SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of lay religious groups dominated by Catholic conservatives has endorsed Senate candidates it says would oppose legislation that would “destroy the foundation of society.”

The so-called White Vote movement, made up of 41 organizations, came together following passage of a reproductive health law after more than a dozen years of being shot down by lawmakers who had strong support from the church.

The coalition said April 30 it is picking candidates it believes will oppose proposals that it says would destroy the family, society’s cornerstone. Twelve of the 24 Philippine Senate seats are being contested May 13, and so far the group has endorsed nine candidates.

White Vote member Aurora Santiago, president of SEE PHILIPPINES, PAGE 22

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Pope confirms young people from 22 nations Young people walk forward to receive the sacrament of confirmation from Pope Francis during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 28. The pope confirmed 44 people, including two teenagers from the United States, Anthony Merejo, 17, and Brigid Miniter, 14, second and third from left respectively. The teens are from Ridgewood, N.J. See story on Page 7.

Researcher: Science still can’t explain shroud LAUREN COLEGROVE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Even with modern scientific technology, the Shroud of Turin continues to baffle researchers.

Barrie Schwortz was the documenting photographer for the Shroud of Turin research project in 1978, an in-depth examination of what many people believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus.

Raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, “it took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that I’m a Jew and involved with probably the most important relic of Christianity,” Schwortz told Catholic News Service.

“Isn’t it funny how God always picks a Jew to be the messenger,” he said.

Schwortz said that he, along with the other members of the research team who came from

‘We know of no mechanism to this day that can make an image with the same chemical and physical properties as the image on the shroud.’

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NEED TO KNOW MARY IS TOP NAME FOR U.S. CATHOLIC PARISHES: With May the month of Mary, it is worth noting that one in five Catholic places of worship in the U.S. has a place name that specifically references Mary. That statistic is from the Nineteen Sixty-four research blog for the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. While there’s been a decline in the number of Americans naming their daughter Mary, with the name remaining outside the top 100 names for girls since 2009, a form of the name of the mother of God is still the top name for parish churches, missions, chapels, cathedrals and basilicas, the blog noted. About 4,000 churches are named for Mary in the U.S., according to CARA. The next most common church name is to Joseph, at 6 percent of the total, the blog said.

CATHOLIC VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT: Children of Mexico International is seeking Catholic volunteers to serve disabled children and their families in Mexico. Since 2007 founder Margarita Fajardo, a parishioner at All Souls Parish in South San Francisco and an active member of Our Lady’s Prayer group at St. Bruno Parish in San Bruno, and teams of Children of Mexico International volunteers have served disabled children in Guadalajara, Jalisco and in rural Michoacan. Professionals – speech therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, counselors, social workers, teachers, nurses, doctors – as well as non-professionals are needed to serve. The group plans a mission to Mexico July 2-13. Visit www.childrenofmex.org to download an application. For more information, call Fajardo at (650) 784-6092 or email childrenofmex@gmail. com.

CCCYO SECOND COLLECTION: The 2013 Catholic Charities CYO Sunday second collection will be the weekend of May 11-12. Throughout the archdiocese, volunteer speakers will support the collection by highlighting the work the organization does to reduce poverty in the lives of thousands of children, families and individuals in the Bay Area.

To volunteer to participate as a speaker or to donate, visit www.cccyo.org.

SANTA CRISTO SOCIETY: The 100th anniversary of the Santa Cristo Society of South San Francisco will take place May 4-5 at All Souls Church, with a rosary at 6 p.m. May 4 and a parade at 9 a.m. May 5 followed by Mass at 10:30.

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Virtual Lourdes pilgrimage comes to archdiocese May 3-5 VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

VIRTUAL LOURDES PILGRIMAGE

What if you could obtain the blessings of Lourdes without taking a plane to France?

This weekend, May 3-5, a virtual pilgrimage that recreates the blessings of the Marian shrine in France is coming to four parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco: St. Dominic, Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Brendan the Navigator in San Francisco and St. Raymond in Menlo Park.

“I am getting calls from people as far as San Jose bringing up their loved ones,” said Angela Bernadette Testani, a nurse and parishioner of St. Dominic and Holy Name parishes who is organizing the events. “Some are going to all four churches. They are ranging from people away from the church for years to young people to people who have been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The calls I’m getting are just heart-wrenching.”

“They are going to actually wash in the water of Lourdes and touch a rock from the grotto and receive a eucharistic blessing,” said Shelley Goodale, director of community life and disciple formation at St. Dominic.

“It is going to be a really beautiful experience – it is more an experience than a lecture,” Goodale said.

“I think it will be good not just for the devotees of Mary but for those who do not know her that well. I am hoping it will bring a lot of people to Christ.”

Since Mary appeared to 14-yearold Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 while she was gathering wood near what is now the Lourdes Grotto, Lourdes has become one of the major pilgrimage destinations in the world. In the more than 150 years since the apparitions, 68 healings have been judged “inexplicable” by a special independent medical board that subjects them to rigorous years-long scrutiny. About 5 million visit Lourdes annually, according to Catholic Online.

“Nobody leaves empty-handed even if people don’t get up and walk away or they aren’t able to

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A Marian statue in Lourdes Grotto, Lourdes, France see, there is always a grace. No one leaves empty-handed from Lourdes,” said Marlene Watkins, president of Syracuse, N.Y.-based Our Lady of Lourdes Hospitality North American Volunteers.

The organization is a nonprofit and a “public association of the Christian faithful” under the authority of Syracuse Bishop Robert Cunningham and the direction of the bishop of Lourdes, France, Watkins said.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the experience at local churches will present the key parts of a pilgrimage, said Watkins. Views of Lourdes will be presented on a large screen, and the virtual pilgrimage includes a eucharistic blessing and a candlelight rosary procession.

Each pilgrim will be able to wash in the Lourdes water in a bowl, will receive a small bottle of the water, and will be able to kiss the Lourdes grotto rock given to the organization for this purpose, Watkins said.

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By apostolic decree, Pope Benedict XVI declared that from July 16, 2012, to July 15, 2013, a plenary indulgence is granted to anyone attending the Lourdes pilgrimage or going to Lourdes with the group, according to information at lourdesvolunteers.org. A plenary indulgence is a Catholic devotional which removes temporal punishment for sin and can also be offered for someone who has died. It is subject to a number of conditions, including receiving the Eucharist, making a sacramental confession and praying for the pope’s intentions.

The Lourdes Volunteers association is the only Lourdes hospitality organization of the Americas among about 270 associations devoted to assisting pilgrims at Lourdes. The associations grew from townspeople helping the sick and disabled from the trains at Lourdes as the spontaneous worldwide pilgrimage to the shrine began in 1858, Watkins said.

Groups of Lourdes Volunteers go to France more than a dozen times a year either to volunteer in the sanctuary with the pilgrims or to bring sick and disabled to Lourdes. Volunteer groups include high school and college student volunteers as well as adults. In separate trips to Lourdes, Lourdes Volunteers bring disabled veterans and other sick and disabled, Watkins said.

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Study: Child sponsorship improves school, job prospects RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Children who receive aid from international child sponsorship programs are more likely to finish high school and university and find good jobs when they reach adulthood, according to a study of sponsorship programs in six countries.

Researchers used first-hand data from a study of Compassion International, a leading child sponsorship organization, to examine the adult life outcomes of more than 10,000 individuals in Bolivia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, the Philippines and Uganda.

A key finding: Compassion’s focus on children’s aspirations, self-esteem and spiritual and ethical values as well as their material needs made a crucial difference.

“What excites me is we found something that works,” said University of San Francisco economics and international studies professor Bruce Wydick, who co-authored the study with Paul Glewwe and Laine Rutledge.

“As a development economist, one gets used to carrying out impact studies on development programs that have small or, at best, modest positive effects,” he said. “With this child-centered development model of Compassion, we found something that has statistically significant effects in every country.”

The researchers published their findings in the April issue of the Journal of Political Economy. Their paper, “Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes,” is the first published study to attempt to determine

‘We need to move away from feel-good giving to impact USF professor giving. There are Bruce Wydick many types of development programs people put a lot of effort into that have no evidence of impact.’ whether the $3 billion-plus international child sponsorship industry actually benefits the children it is intended to help.

Wydick said child sponsorship led to a one-third greater chance of the child finishing high school, a 50 percent higher probability that the child finished university and a 35 percent greater likelihood of the child earning a white-collar job on reaching adulthood.

“The precise dynamics are difficult to pin down, but what we see in our large study is a significant impact on adult lives in follow-up studies,” he told Catholic San Francisco. “We see greater levels of self-esteem, optimism and aspirations. We can’t establish a causal effect between increased aspirations and adult life outcomes but we believe greater aspiration plays a significant role in enhancing life outcomes.”

He said the child sponsorship indus-

try is divided into two sectors. In one model, sponsors’ contributions go to programming that directly benefits the child, including nutrition, tutoring, after-school programs and school fees. In the other model, exemplified by Compassion, significant resources go into direct mentoring.

He said the Christian-centered Compassion works through local churches, who support children’s practical needs as well as developing their aspirations, self-esteem and spirituality.

The study found that Compassion’s impacts were greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, where existing conditions are relatively worse.

“I always tell people if you want to do something great in the world, sponsor a girl in sub-Saharan Africa, because we see enormous impacts in the sponsorships of little girls in places like Uganda and Kenya,” Wydick said.

“If you sponsor a girl in sub-Saharan Africa, she’s likely to obtain three more years of education, she’s far more likely to finish high school” and also has a greater chance of finishing university and getting a salaried, white-collar job in adulthood.

Sponsored children are also more likely to become leaders in their communities, Wydick said.

“This is exactly what you want to see – developing people rather than

infrastructure. In the end it’s about the development of people rather than about merely providing things for people.”

Wydick said “we need to move away from feel-good giving to impact giving.

There are many types of development programs people put a lot of effort into that have no evidence of impact.”

He said donors who want to make sure their contributions have an impact should first look at the website of the sponsorship organization. Look for the website to offer published, thirdparty academic data on the effectiveness of the organization’s work, he said.

A high rating on Charity Navigator, he noted, is not a guide to effectiveness, he said. “It just means they’re not misusing money,” he said. “Look for a rigorous, scientific study that proves the program is effective.”

Wydick said it is important for the donor to consider the impact of a gift on the receiver.

“When we give something to a poor person we send a subtle message that we don’t think they can provide that thing for themselves,” he said. “We have to be careful with our giving. We have to train people to be givers rather than receivers. Any program should be empowering people to give back to their communities.”

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Wonder pushes students to science fair heights TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

San Domenico School students took ideas of many kinds and sizes to the Marin County Science Fair and two brought home grand prizes: Fourth grader Jack Bober won his section with “Does Parachute Size Matter?”

– a study on Jack Bober whether the size Katie Shearin of a parachute impacts the rate at which it falls. Fifth grader Katie Shearin topped her age bracket with “Who Else is in the Room?” – a study on electromagnetic fields. The young theorists’ proud parents are Leanne and Chris Bober and Diane and John Shearin.

ANNIVERSARY: Happy 60 years married to Peggy and Bill Walker of St. Patrick Parish, Larkspur, where they were married in the parish church March 21, 1953. Peggy, who grew up in Corte Madera, is a one-time medical assistant and she and Bill met when he was a patient of a doctor she worked for. Bill is retired after 32 years with San Rafael Fire Department. The couple celebrated the milestone with dinner at the Sonoma Hotel with their four children and families.

Peggy and Bill renewed their vows for their 25th anniversary with then-young Archdiocese of San Francisco priest now Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester presiding. They remain friends and fans of the prelate. “Bishop Wester is the example of the good priest,” Peggy told me.

WELCOME ABOARD: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral/ Holy Family Chinese Mission Parish and its St. Mary’s School and Chinese Catholic Center welcome Paulist Father Richard Sparks as parochial vicar and Jeffrey Kwong as principal. Father Sparks was born in Illinois and holds a doctorate in moral theology from The Catholic University of America. He is a former editor of Paulist Press and former pastor of Holy Spirit Parish-Newman Hall in Berkeley. Father Richard is a “real and reel” fan of the Old West and this summer will be on horseback to various John Wayne film sites in Monument Valley. “I’m delighted to be part of the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral/ Holy Family Chinese Mission parish team,” he said in a recent bulletin. Jeffrey is 2001 alumnus of St. Mary’s School later attending Lowell High School and Harvard

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University. He is currently a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego. He is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese. “Jeffrey comes to us with some exciting innovations in education and technology that will make St. Mary’s a premier school in San Francisco and the Bay Area,” Paulist Father Daniel McCotter, pastor, said.

PHILLY IMMERSION: Emma Lavelle, a sophomore at Mercy High School, Burlingame was among 10 Mercy women to travel to Philadelphia during Easter break for service with agencies there.

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3040s Group serves often-overlooked Catholic demographic LEARN MORE

VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

What do you do when you feel the tag “young adult” no longer really applies to you, or you marry and the very single vibe of the 21-to-40 Catholic group doesn’t quite jibe with your new life?

“Being involved with the young adults group, I really saw as people got married and started a family, they, regardless of age, would drop out of the group,” said Trish Beckman, a St. Dominic parishioner who is married with a 2-year-old. “Or if they were near aging out of the group, they simply disappeared from the parish once they weren’t engaged socially with the young adults group.”

Beckman, who joined St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco mostly because of the vibrant young adults group, wanted to stop the trend. “As someone who loves St. Dominic’s as a parish, I recognized there was potentially a need for that next group.”

The St. Dominic 3040s Group was launched to immediate success two years ago, said Karen Gniadek, who was on the leadership team that spent a year building the group’s structure before

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THE GROUP GATHERS the fourth Thursday of each month in the Parish Hall, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco, with social hour at 7 p.m. and a presentation at 7:30. its official inauguration. The group appears to be unique in the archdiocese, organizers said.

“The fact that we grew from 35 to over 350 in and of itself feels like there is a need,” said Beckman, who helped found the group with her husband and a leadership team of about seven.

The group tries to host two events a month. Happy hours, once a month at a downtown location, typically draw 25 to 35, Beckman said. The second event each month is usually an educational lecture, picnic, hike or volunteer opportunity.

The first 3040s Group retreat this year drew 54 people, its capacity, Beckman said.

“There are more single Catholics than any time in history,” said Ed Hopfner, marriage and family

life coordinator in the Diocese of Oakland Department for Evangelization and Catechesis, and a member of the 3040s Group. According to the U.S. Census, 44 percent of all people over 18 were single in 2011, including widowed and divorced.

Still for Catholics, “especially if you are single, it is harder to plug into a group. Parishes tend to be set up around families and there’s not a whole lot for single Catholics,” said Hopfner.

“It’s sort of like the tide coming in. I’m watching lots of people not only from our other group, the young adult group, transitioning over but seeing new people,” said Shelley Goodale, director of community life and disciple formation at St. Dominic.

The 3040s “gave us a place that we could continue that spiritual path that we started with the young adults group,” said Gniadek, who is in her late 30s.

The focus is on adults because the parish already offers many family ministries but events are scheduled that are convenient for those with and without children, Beckman said.

“It’s an opportunity for people to get together, share conversations in our faith and be open about that, pray before having a meal and have that be very comfortable,” said Beckman. “Everything is tied to these great faith relationships.”

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Explosion-shattered town buries victims CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WEST, Texas – The town of West all but shut down April 25 as most of its 2,800 residents headed to Baylor University in Waco, 20 miles south, for a memorial service for the first responder victims of an April 17 factory explosion.

A dozen flag-draped coffins accompanied by photos of the lives they represented lined the front of the university’s Farrell Center for a public memorial service attended by President Barack Obama.

Visiting Waco after attending the dedication ceremony in Dallas for the presidential library of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, Obama first flew by helicopter over the blast site in West to see the damage.

After tributes to the emergency workers who made up the majority of the 15 people killed, Obama offered his condolences and words of hope to the people of West and the thousands more who filled the sports arena.

“I see in the people of West, in your eyes, that what makes West special, isn’t going to go away,” Obama said. “Instead of changing who you are, it’s revealed who you always were.”

In West, the weeks after a massive blast at West Fertilizer Inc., had been filled with a series of funerals. At least eight funerals were scheduled for the town’s sole Catholic church, Assumption Parish.

The parish website has included schedules of wakes and funerals for parishioners and other town residents.

The predominantly Catholic town was settled by Czech immigrants who retain

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Members of the audience become emotional during an April 25 memorial ceremony for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, attended by U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. their heritage with Czech restaurants and a bakery and an annual Westfest, focused on cultural traditions.

The dead included Joey Pustejovsky, son of the parish secretary. He served as city secretary, effectively its manager, and a volunteer firefighter, one of 12 emergency workers killed. The others included two tenants of a nearby apartment complex that had the wall blown off of one side, and a 96-year-old retired farmer, Adolph Lander, a resident of a nursing home who was injured as he and other residents were being evacuated as a fire at the plant grew.

The explosion, strong enough to register as a mild earthquake felt 50 miles away, destroyed the plant, a school,

nursing home, apartment block and nearby homes, and severely damaged hundreds of buildings within a fiveblock radius.

Inspectors reported to the city council April 25 that just three of 157 damaged homes were safe, 70 others are unsafe and uninhabitable, and 84 houses were damaged but could safely be open for limited access.

As the town’s public works agencies struggled to restore water, gas and electrical service to the damaged areas, the St. Vincent de Paul Society was overseeing assistance from Catholic organizations. Austin Bishop Joe S. Vasquez had asked parishes in the diocese to hold special collections to aid relief efforts.

ARCHBISHOP: TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE ‘BEST FOR CHILDREN’

MIAMI – Traditional marriage is “best for children” and efforts to legalize same-sex marriage will “open a Pandora’s Box of unforeseen and, to be sure, unintended consequences,” Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said during the homily at the annual Red Mass April 23.

Archbishop Wenski said the growing movement in support of same-sex marriage would “redefine marriage for all as existing solely for the gratification of two consenting adults” rather than for the creation of life. He said that in recent decades, American jurisprudence has moved away from its Judeo-Christian roots – which hold that truth is “not constructed but received” – to “a radical autonomy” in which truth is determined “by one’s own will.”

“There is little reason for optimism (on same-sex marriage),” Archbishop Wenski said, alluding to the Supreme Court’s earlier decisions in Casey v. Planned Parenthood and Roe v. Wade, both of which barred the government from banning abortion. “We have gone from ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights’ ... to a new secular religion based on the ‘right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.’” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 3, 2013

Pope to young: ‘Swim against the tide; it’s good for the heart’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Administering the sacrament of confirmation to 44 people, including two teenagers from the United States and two from Ireland, Pope Francis encouraged them to “swim against the tide; it’s good for the heart.�

In a partially improvised homily at Mass April 28 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis encouraged young people to hang on to their ideals and pursue them. “We Christians weren’t chosen by the Lord to do little things,� he said.

After making the sign of the cross with chrism on the foreheads of those being confirmed, Pope Francis rubbed the oil all over their foreheads, sealing them with the Holy Spirit. After wishing them peace, he gave each a quick kiss on the cheek.

The two U.S. teens confirmed were Brigid Miniter, 14, and Anthony Merejo, 17, from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Ridgewood, N.J. The two young people from Ireland were Edmond Roche, 13, and Emily Mulcahy, 12, from the Diocese of Cloyne.

An estimated 70,000 young people who have been confirmed or will be confirmed this year also were present for the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, one of the major events scheduled months ago for the Year of Faith. The Vatican said more than 100,000 people gathered in and outside the square, and in neighboring streets for the Mass and the recitation of the “Regina Coeli� prayer afterward.

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Pope Francis kisses Malia Petulisa Malani, 18, of Tonga after administering the sacrament of confirmation to her during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 28. The pope confirmed 44 people from 22 countries. came from 22 countries and ranged in age from 11 – two Italians and a Romanian – to 55-year-old Maria Silva Libania from Cape Verde. The usual age for receiving confirmation is set by local bishops, not the Vatican. Malia Petulisa Malani, 18, traveled the greatest distance for the Mass; she is from Tonga in the South Pacific.

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, council president, said the candidates were chosen to reflect “the face of the church present where people live and suffer in order to give everyone hope and the certainty of a future.�

In his homily, Pope Francis said the Holy Spirit brings “the new things

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to it, he said, the Holy Spirit starts making things new now, in this life, in preparation for “the ultimate newness which awaits us and all reality: the happy day when we will see the Lord’s face – his beautiful face – and be with him forever in his love.� “How beautiful it would be,� he said, if each person allowed himself or herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Each night he or she would be able to review the day and say, “Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love toward one of my friends, my parents, an older person.�

Pope Francis said he wanted to be realistic; “the journey of the church and our own personal journeys as Christians are not always easy; they meet with difficulties and trials.�

But the Holy Spirit gives believers the strength and courage to overcome trials, Pope Francis said. “Let us trust in God’s work. With him we can do great things; he will give us the joy of being his disciples, his witnesses.� “Let’s not get discouraged,� he said.

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Pope: Confession not like ‘torture’ CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Going to confession isn’t like heading off to be tortured or punished, nor is it like going to the dry cleaners to get out a stain, Pope Francis said in a morning Mass homily.

“It’s an encounter with Jesus” who is patiently waiting “and takes us as we are,” offering penitents his tender mercy and forgiveness, he said April 29.

Members of the Vatican’s investment agency and a group of religious women joined the pope for the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the pope lives.

“God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all,” the pope said, quoting from the First Letter of John.

While everyone experiences moments of darkness in life, the verse refers to the darkness of living in er-

People must go before the Lord with courage, even joy, ‘with our truth of being sinners.’

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ror, “being satisfied with oneself, being convinced of not needing salvation,” he said.

People have to start out with the humility of realizing “we are all sinners, all of us,” he said.

Even though it is embarrassing to admit to and tell the truth about one’s thoughts and deeds, embarrassment or “shame is a true Christian and human virtue” linked to the traditional virtue of humility.

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The pope said confession isn’t like “going to a torture session” where Jesus “is waiting to lambaste me.”

Confession “is going to praise God, because I – the sinner – have been saved by him,” who always waits and always forgives “with tenderness.”

People need to believe that when they sin, Jesus will defend them because he is just and wants people to have “that peace that only he can give.”

However, people must go before the Lord with courage, even joy, “with our truth of being sinners,” he said.

“We must never disguise ourselves before God,” who “asks us to be humble and kind” and truthful.

In his homily April 27, the pope said Jesus invites Christians to go outside their comfort zone and proclaim the Gospel with joy.

Do not be afraid of the joy of the Holy Spirit, who opens the path “forward,” outside of oneself, he said.

The pope warned against the formation of “little groups” of self-righteous whose hearts are closed “to the freshness of the Holy Spirit” and who “bargain with power” and try to solve problems alone, “among ourselves.”

VATICAN CITY – Retired Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to move into a remodeled convent at the Vatican May 2, the Vatican spokesman said.

The spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said Pope Benedict would arrive at the Vatican in the early evening by helicopter, “weather permitting.”

Pope Benedict has been living at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, since Feb. 28, the date his resignation took effect. Pope Francis traveled to the villa March 23 to talk, pray and eat lunch with the retired pope.

Father Lombardi said a group of Vatican officials would welcome Pope Benedict at the Vatican helipad, but he would not specify further.

Pope Benedict will live in the remodeled Mater Ecclesiae Monastery with Archbishop Georg Ganswein, his secretary, who also serves Pope Francis as prefect of the papal household; and with four laywomen who are consecrated members of the Memores Domini group, Father Lombardi said.

Serving as a residence for a retired pope is only the latest use of the building. A small portion of the current building had been a gardener’s house. In 1960, it became the headquarters of a Vatican archaeological research institute, then was used for a time by Vatican Radio.

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French Catholics vow to try to block same-sex marriage law CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PARIS – French Catholics have vowed to continue attempts to block a law allowing same-sex marriage, despite its passage by the National Assembly April 23.

“We’ll tell our president we don’t care about the views of parliament and government – we’re against this foolish law,” said Antoine Renard, president of France’s National Federation of Catholic Family Associations.

“MPs are well aware public opinion has been shifting against this law. So we must hope the head of state may still hold back because of the situation in the country,” he said April 24.

France’s National Assembly voted 331-225 to enact the “Marriage for All” bill, which allows gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children. The legislation must be signed by President Francois Hollande to become law. However, the law has been appealed to the Constitutional Court, which must hear such appeals within a month.

Renard said his federation had helped draft the Constitutional Court appeals and hoped they could still prevent Hollande from signing the legislation into law. He added that Socialist Party legislators had been denied a free vote on the bill, in violation of parliamentary rules, and said opponents were ready to take the issue to the European Court of Justice.

PAPUA PRELATE CONDEMNS DEATH PENALTY

MOUNT HAGEN, Papua New Guinea – Mount Hagen Archbishop Douglas W. Young condemned the pro-capital punishment campaign in Papua New Guinea, saying the church supports a moratorium and abolition.

“The reaction of many … is to ask for the death penalty. But it is precisely this that the nation intends to tell young people: That if someone does any harm, is the best remedy simply to kill him?” the archbishop said in a statement to the church missionary news agency Fides, reported April 26.

“It is already well known that the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime,” he said. “Those who commit these crimes do not think they will be caught and even fewer who will be condemned. The important deterrent for crime is not the severity of punishment, but its certainty. Speaking of the death penalty, one is injecting in the society and culture the same vengeful mood that is part of our current problem.”

The archbishop invited institutions and social and religious communities to “support programs that help young people to find work, identity, and satisfaction in life,” rather than look for shortcuts with violence.

In addition, he said, “We must strengthen the capacity of the police to find, arrest and prosecute the criminals, giving a clear message that those who commit crimes will be punished.” As a church, “we put our attention to policies that actually address the scourge of violence, not to those that only serve to8:41 further swcGatorSports1303.eps 1 2/12/13 AM brutalize the nation.”

“France often shows a lead to other countries, so we’re worried many Europeans will now see homosexual marriage as an inevitability,” Renard said.

“We must now transfer the fight to the European institutions, making it clear to them that we don’t want these gender theories imposed on us.”

He told Catholic News Service that surveys suggested 57 percent of citizens now opposed the law, adding that he was “not surprised” by violent reactions to the vote.

Police clashed with thousands of demonstrators during the April 23 vote on the legislation, which would make France the 12th country worldwide to allow same-sex marriage. Earlier in April, New Zealand passed a same-sex marriage law that will take effect in August, and Uruguay’s legislature passed a law that the president has indicated he would sign.

The French bishops’ spokesman, Msgr. Bernard Podvin, said he was “deeply saddened” by the National Assembly vote, which he said would not “create social cohesion.”

He added that the Catholic Church, to which twothirds of France’s 60 million inhabitants belong, would “continue to use its free speech” on the issue “always with respect for the institutions and with nonviolence.”

“When one sees how the polls fluctuate and how demonstrators express themselves, how can one claim public opinion desired this reform?” the priest said.

“To those who say this is ‘equality,’ I respond that marriage is a base and not just the extension of a right. It was entirely possible to respect the homosexual person profoundly without approving this reform.”

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Becoming worldly, weak is church’s biggest threat, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The biggest threat to the church is worldliness, Pope Francis said in his daily morning Mass homily.

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The pope celebrated the Mass with members of the Vatican’s investment agency in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives.

The day’s reading from the Gospel of St. John recounts Jesus telling his disciples, “I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming;” but Satan “has no power over me.”

The pope said, “If we don’t want the prince of this world to take the church in his hands, we have to entrust her to the only one who can defeat the prince of this world.”

“Entrusting the church to the Lord is a prayer that makes the church grow” and is an act of faith because “we can do nothing. All of us are

poor servants of the church,” he said.

While people of faith can care for and look after the church, only God “can keep her going, safeguard her, make her grow, make her holy, defend her, defend her from the prince of this world and those who want the church to become, in short, more and more worldly.”

“This is the biggest danger,” he said, “when the church becomes worldly, when she has the spirit of the world within herself.”

The peace the church needs is the kind only Jesus, not the world, can give, he said. It is a “peace that is a true gift of the presence of Jesus in the midst of his church.”

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Pope Francis and Peres expressed hopes for a resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians so that “with courageous decisions and availability on both sides, as well as with the support of the international community, an agreement that respects the legitimate aspirations of the two peoples can be reached,” the statement said.

A resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would contribute to peace and stability throughout the region, the Vatican said.

The two leaders also spoke about “the conflict that plagues Syria” and the need for a political solution in Syria that favors reconciliation and dialogue.

VATICAN CITY – Israeli President Shimon Peres officially invited Pope Francis to Israel and left their meeting at the Vatican telling the pope, “I am expecting you in Jerusalem and not just me, but all the people of Israel.”

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told reporters, “The pope would be happy to go to the Holy Land,” although there are no concrete plans for the trip.

The Vatican said that during their half-hour private conversation April 30, the pope and the president discussed “the political and social situation in the Middle East where more than a few conflicts persist.”

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Archbishop to ordain Deacons Martin, Justo to priesthood Deacon Martin: Long road from politics to priesthood VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Deacon Thomas Vital Martin is a local boy who took a long road home to his vocation as a priest.

Deacon Martin, 49, is a former political advisor, former Jesuit seminarian, former staffer for Mayor Willie Brown for more than six years, and one of nine children raised in St. Anne of the Sunset Deacon Thomas Parish. He graduated Martin from St. Paul School, Sacred Heart High School and from the University of San Francisco with a degree in history and philosophy. His eight siblings include his two triplet sisters and older brother, Kevin, who retired in the fall from the San Francisco Police Department after spending 10 years as the second in command in the police officers’ union.

As a seminarian, Martin has served as one of the Police Department chaplains for the past 2½ years. Never one to stop moving, Deacon Martin continued to organize projects in the midst of seminary studies at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University and organized bringing seminarians from the Western U.S. to the Walk for Life West Coast shortly after his arrival at the Menlo Park campus.

Deacon Martin’s father died in 2006, but his father’s best friend is retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn, who Deacon Martin credits for long chats that led to his decision to enter St. Patrick’s in 2008. “Throughout my life, even in my professional life, people would often say, ‘Why aren’t you a priest?’ ‘Have you ever thought about being a priest?’ And I can say with a certain degree of modest pride, when I worked in politics what I derived most was the benefit of being able to

Deacon Justo: Seeing vocation through the eyes of 2 popes VALERIE SCHMALZ

ORDINATION MASS AT CATHEDRAL MAY 11

Deacon Thomas Vital Martin, a San Francisco native from a large Catholic family, and Deacon Juan Alejo Justo, who was raised in Mexico and whose parents were Third Order Franciscans, will be the first two priests ordained

by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The ordination Mass will be held May 11 at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Both deacons have completed their formation at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park. use resources to better people’s lives,�

Deacon Martin said in an interview a few weeks before his ordination.

Growing up, his parents’ example of public service and their many priest friends were inspirations to him, Deacon Martin said.

His desire to enter the seminary was confirmed during the two years he spent following his father’s death with his mother in Arizona, Deacon Martin said. With help from Father Tom Daly, Archbishop George Niederauer and friend and then-St. Sebastian pastor Father Ken Westray, Deacon Martin spent a year of discernment at St. Sebastian Parish, he said.

Asked what made him feel he had a vocation, Deacon Martin said, “A close relationship with Jesus, who gave of himself totally for others, has been translated into my passion for service. I also knew priests who were great role models, men who were good priests and who would equally have been good fathers and husbands.

Watching their happiness and their energy was very inspirational to me.�

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Deacon Juan Alejo Justo sees his call to the priesthood as one of teaching and walking with the people, he said. “This is a special call. God is asking us ‌ to give ourselves through the people of God, trusting this church,â€? said Deacon Justo, 37. “We need to accompany people, learn from them.â€?

Deacon Justo, is Deacon Juan the seventh of 12 Alejo Justo children, raised in Carapan, MichoacĂĄn, Mexico, by parents who were devout Third Order Franciscans. His older brother is a Franciscan priest and five of his sisters became religious sisters. A brother and a sister are married with children. “I grew up in a family that is very Catholic,â€? said Deacon Justo.

He entered the Franciscan seminary in Mexico after high school, and decided to apply for the Archdiocese of San Francisco priesthood during a visit to his older brother, who was then stationed at St. Elizabeth Parish in Oakland. “Juan has made the Eucharist the center of his life,� said St. Charles Borromeo pastor Father Moises Agudo, describing Deacon Justo’s participation in the parish since shortly before his ordination as a transitional deacon in September along with St. Patrick Seminary & University classmate Deacon Thomas Martin. “He joins our parish family daily for the Eucharist and his homilies are Christ-centered,� wrote Father Agudo. “His thoughtful approach to parishioners reveals openness to the power of the Holy Spirit working in the community of believers.�

Deacon Justo has been serving full time at the parish since he

‘This is my faith. Showing what I truly believe. Even St. Francis says, sometimes we don’t need words to preach Christ by living.’ DEACON JUAN ALEJO JUSTO completed his seminary studies in December.

Deacon Justo says the priesthood is about living the Gospel. “I want to work and to give ‌ not to be afraid as John Paul II was telling us,â€? said Deacon Justo, quoting Blessed John Paul’s first words as pope, “Be not afraid.â€? “We don’t have to be afraid,â€?

Deacon Justo said, despite whatever turmoil is going on. “Trust in him.�

Most of Deacon Justo’s family will be in attendance when he is ordained, but both his parents died months apart in separate car accidents four years ago.

After high school, Deacon Justo went on a Franciscan retreat to “check it out� and stayed to study philosophy for four years, the equivalent of a master’s degree. In all, Deacon Justo studied and lived as a Franciscan for seven years in Mexico. Then he was sent as a missionary to a Franciscan house in New Mexico and came for a visit to his Franciscan priest brother in Oakland.

Deacon Justo said he was enthralled by the Korean, Chinese, Hispanic and other cultures and languages and applied to enter the seminary for the Archdiocese of San Francisco with then-vocations director Father Thomas Daly. “I like this kind of ministry of the parish, SEE JUSTO, PAGE 13

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Women from diverse backgrounds drawn to cloistered life PEGGY WEBER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

TYRINGHAM, Mass. – They come from California, Delaware, Pennsylvania and India.

One is a nurse; another was an assistant manager at a Walgreen’s. They have different life experiences and span several decades in age.

However, the four newest members of the Visitation Monastery in Tyringham have one thing in common: They all feel drawn to the life of a cloistered nun.

Their calling – and response – to this vocation were highlights of National Vocation Awareness Week Jan. 13-19.

The week has been celebrated in the U.S. Catholic Church since 1976. Starting next year, the annual observance to promote vocations will be held during the first full week of November.

The newest members of the Sisters of the Visitation of Holy Mary acknowledge they are choosing a life that is definitely different.

Nestled in the Berkshire Hills, the Monastery of Deux Coeurs (Two Hearts), as it is also called, is a place of quiet. There is no cellphone service and life is guided by the ringing of the tower bell as the community of 18 sisters is called to prayer.

Sister Joanna Armstrong, 28, is a novice who entered last February.

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Visitation Sisters Anna Thannical, Jennifer Mendenhall, Bernadette Heffernan and Joanna Armstrong spend time in the circular library at the Visitation Monastery in Tyringham, Mass., Jan. 4. The four women will learn about the history of their 400-year-old community and discern their vocations as they spend time in the novitiate.

She holds a degree in environmental science and chemistry, with a minor in theology, from De Sales University in Allentown, Pa. She grew up in Pittsburgh and made her first retreat in Tyringham 10 years ago.

She said it took her a while to figure out where she belonged.

The Lord is my Shepherd

She did a year of service at a home for homeless, pregnant women in Arizona. She then worked with the Little Sisters of the Poor and entered the Carmelite order until she considered returning to the sisters she had known for 10 years and who have been like a family to her.

Sister Joanna said that many people don’t understand or support a vocation to the religious life – especially the cloistered life but she feels this lifestyle enables her to do so much through prayer which is her favorite part of her newfound life.

“I like the ebb and flow,” Sister Joanna said. “There is continual movement and yet you’re continually still. You are present always in the chapel and always moving to and from the chapel at all times. So, no matter what you are doing you know you’re always headed to the chapel, even when you are walking out of the chapel.”

She said her biggest adjustment is learning to go to bed early, since she has always been a night person. She said she does not miss her cellphone or the Internet and “just feels free from it all.”

Sister Mary Emmanuel Dominguez, directress of novices for the community, said she gets an email inquiry about the Visitation order almost every day and the community is currently connecting with four more women who want to enter.

“We’re looking for someone with enthusiasm, someone who’s very interested in the religious life, someone who is a deep, faithful Catholic,” said Sister Mary Emmanuel. She said that anyone considering religious life has to be open, willing to take a risk, and be someone who dares to be different.

Sister Anna Thannical, a 48-year-old native of India, said she had wanted to be a cloistered nun since she was a little girl.

Her path didn’t directly lead her to the monastery. She came to America in 1989 after graduating from college.

She was married and started a career.

She became an assistant manager at a Walgreen’s in Norwalk, Conn.

“In my heart, I knew something was missing. I found the missing piece here,” she said.

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Local Franciscan recalls friendship of Padre Pio What do you remember about his Masses?

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They were very devout, particularly during the consecration. He’d say the words of consecration very slowly: “Hoc … est … enim … corpus … meum.” As he elevated the host, his hand trembled a bit. I didn’t spend much time looking up during the consecration, however. When the bell rang, we’d bow our heads.

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It is the 45th anniversary of the death of St. Pio of Pietrelcina (1887-1968), better known as Padre Pio. Last June, the church celebrated the 10th anniversary of his canonization by Blessed John Paul II. The Capuchin friar is a popular saint among many San Francisco Catholics, particularly among those of Italian descent.

Padre Pio was ordained a priest in 1910, and for 50 years bore the stigmata, the wounds of Christ in his hands, feet and side. Although the padre did not preach sermons or write books, he was a popular confessor who drew throngs of pilgrims to his friary at San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy.

One who came to visit Padre Pio regularly and became his friend is Franciscan Father Guglielmo “William” Lauriola, 86, pastor emeritus of Immaculate Conception Church in San Francisco. Father grew up in Monte Sant’ Angelo, 16 miles east of San Giovanni Rotondo. A lay brother from the friary would come to his father’s store seeking donations for the community. The family began making regular bus trips to the friary in the 1930s. Father Willliam became a Franciscan and visited Padre Pio until his death in 1968.

Father William recently spoke with Catholic San Francisco about his friendship with St. Padre Pio.

What are your earliest memories of Padre Pio?

We started visiting San Giovanni Rotondo in 1932.

We were always happy to go see him. I was a little boy of 5 or 6, and I’d go into the sacristy where he was hearing confessions and give a tug on the white cord around his habit to let him know we were there.

He’d give me a gentle tap on the head. Even though he was a very busy person, he would make himself available to see you. He’d ask me questions like, “Guglielmo, do you love the Blessed Mother?”

I remember as a boy I was a bit scared by his stig-

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The Holy Spirit kept pulling him toward his vocation, Deacon Martin said, noting his middle name is Vital, after another of his father’s friends, Father Vital Vodusek, who was the pastor of the Slovenian Church of the Nativity.

“Confluence of those things, and then being really inspired by the Christian Brothers at Sacred Heart and the Jesuits at USF,” he said, “and the fact it is a great archdiocese. It’s a great place to be a priest. The people are very active.”

“I definitely see the DEACON THOMAS MARTIN priesthood as a bringing of the people of God to a deeper awareness of God’s love, God’s forgiveness,” Deacon Martin said. “One of the things I am so looking forward to as a priest is hearing confessions.”

Deacon Martin hopes to inspire other young men and women to answer God’s call to the priesthood and religious life, he said. “One of the things I hope to do as a priest is to go out there and bring in solid vocations because I believe they are out there. I am convinced they are because I’ve met so many young men and women who come to me ... and they’ve asked me a lot of questions about the priesthood and religious life, especially high school and college students,” Deacon Martin said. “I can’t quantify it beyond that. I know it, I can feel it.”

“The bottom line is young people want to be committed to the nobility of serving as priests and as religious. I can feel it in my bones,” Deacon Martin said. “I see a real sea change coming. Young people are going to lead a real rejuvenation of the priesthood in this archdiocese.”

‘I see a real sea change coming.

Young people are going to lead a real rejuvenation of the priesthood in this archdiocese.’

How did Padre Pio react to your decision to become a Franciscan?

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Franciscan Father Guglielmo “William” Lauriola, pastor emeritus of Immaculate Conception Church, San Francisco, draws inspiration from St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who died 45 years ago.

As a young man growing up near Padre Pio’s friary in southern Italy, Father Lauriola knew and befriended the Capuchin friar who famously bore the stigmata in his hands, feet and side. mata. He’d tell me not to look at it. I was worried that it caused him a lot of pain. You could see the suffering on his face; it was almost visible. He seemed to particularly suffer on Fridays. I’d ask him, “Why do you have to suffer so much?” He’d tell me, “These wounds are to make up for my sins and the sins of others.” I told him that my uncle was a doctor, and I would ask my uncle for some medicine to help him.

Padre Pio would say, “No, medicine won’t do any good.”

I remember going to Padre Pio’s funeral in 1968.

I knelt before his body and prayed. I saw his hands and feet. They were clean, like the stigmata had never been there.

I didn’t tell him at first, because I wasn’t sure if I’d go through with it. When I finally told him I was headed for the seminary, he said, “Oh, beautiful. I will pray for you.”

I was ordained a priest in 1953, and I’d go as often as possible to see him and ask him questions about my ministry. I told him I was going to be a missionary in Korea – I was there from 1957 to 1964 – and he said to me, “Remember, there is only one God.” I didn’t understand what he meant at the time.

However, I came to understand. We missionaries go abroad and do good work helping people and can be tempted to pride, believing we are saints.

Padre Pio was reminding me to give the glory to God. I’d also call on Padre Pio for help, even when he was alive. I believe he heard me. One time, I was traveling in a small boat to an island off Korea. We were caught in a big storm, and I didn’t know if we’d survive. I started calling on Padre Pio to help us, and we made it. I think he knew I needed him.

And you’re still devoted to him today?

Oh, yes. I’ve been doing exorcisms in the archdiocese since 1970. I always pray to him, “Padre Pio, help make my faith in Jesus strong and help these people who are coming to me.” He helps me.

I love him very much. I am grateful for all he’s done for me. I tell everyone, if you need something, ask Padre Pio. He will help you.

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working with all the different groups – very multicultural,” Deacon Justo said.

Deacon Justo spent six years studying and working toward the diocesan priesthood, including one year of English, four years of theology at St Patrick’s, and one pastoral year. “It’s worth it to take the time” to discern his vocation and to understand the culture of the society where he will be a priest as well as to master the language, said Deacon Justo.

Pope Francis’ call to go out into all of society, to its edges, resonates with Deacon Justo. Being

a priest is not just about individual prayer life, and going to a job as a priest, he said. In this time when the church is facing sexual abuse scandals, and conflict in society that rejects many of its values, one of the most important things for a priest is to draw on his own prayer life and relationship with God to teach what the Catholic Church teaches, he said. “We need to be respectful in teaching the values we have to teach from the church,” he said.

“Sometimes we need to (say to God), tell me whatever you want. This is my faith. Showing what I truly believe. Even St. Francis says, sometimes we don’t need words to preach Christ by living.”

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This includes support for some 9,000 clinics, almost 10,000 orphanages, and more than 1,200 schools, where the poor receive an education, health care, and come to know the reason for all our hope. The Societies also provide support for some 80,000 seminarians and for the training of some 9,000 religious Sisters and Brothers. They receive no public funds to do their work and rely entirely on the generosity of individuals.

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The Boston bombings and their aftermath ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT

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iolence and grief in the Boston area have rightly dominated our news media for the past week.

The latest terrorist bloodshed is not at all senseless. It’s the work of calculated malice. Innocent people, including children, have paid the price for other people’s hatred. Our most important task right now is to pray for the victims and their families.

God exists, and God can heal even the worst suffering, despite every human attempt to ignore him and every terrible sin that seems to “disprove” his presence. And yet it’s fair to ask: How can a good God allow this kind of evil to happen?

The answer is both simple and hard.

There’s nothing soft-focus or saccharine about real Christianity. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for the brave; not the complacent, and not cowards.

The world and its beauty give glory to God; but we live in it with divided hearts, and so the world is also a field of conflict. God’s son died on a cross and rose from the dead to deliver us from our sins. He didn’t take away our freedom to choose evil. Until this world ends, some people will do vile and inhuman things to others.

The irony of human dignity is that it requires our freedom. It depends on our free will. We own our actions.

And free persons can freely choose to do wicked things. Spend an hour browsing through Scripture: It’s the story of a struggle between good and

(CNS PHOTO/JESSICA RINALDI, REUTERS)

Flowers lie on the sidewalk at the site of the first Boston Marathon explosion as people walk along Boylston Street April 24. The street reopened to the public for the first time since April 15 bombings. evil that cuts bloodily through every generation in history. And the story is made bearable, and given meaning, only by the fidelity of God – the constancy of his justice, his mercy, his solace, his love.

Within hours of the Boston bombings, public officials were telling the nation that terrorists would not be allowed to destroy “our way of life.”

It’s the duty of leaders – an important duty – to reassure and strengthen their people in times of tragedy. Our

country has a vast reservoir of goodness built up by generations of good people. America’s best ideals are well worth fighting for. But we also need to remember that our way of life is as mortal as every other great power; and sooner or later, America will be a footnote in history. Only God is forever.

In the coming weeks, in the wake of the Boston tragedy, we’d do well to ponder what “our way of life” is beginning to mean. No one deserved to die in Boston. Terrorism isn’t washed

A prophet at the end of the week of fear and evil

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hat funny little man with the bad haircut peering through binoculars from a bunker into the distance, a staple on every evening television news the week before, was suddenly gone.

Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea, had been a constant in the news for promising a nuclear attack. There is no reason to fear, authorities said, North Korea does not have a delivery system capable of reaching the United States.

(This recalls the observation made by comedian STEPHEN KENT Mort Sahl concerning the then-feared China: “They have an atomic bomb, but we’re told not to worry, they have no delivery system. But with 650 million people, they can line up and pass it hand by hand.”)

North Korea and almost everything else was suddenly gone from television and replaced by continuous coverage of the attacks at the Boston Marathon.

Later in the week, there was the explosion of a fertilizer plant in Texas, killing 15 and injuring about 200. No doubt when it was built to combine highly explosive material, the community was told not to fear, that there were safety regulations and inspections in place.

The last Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection of the plant was in 1985. By the end of the week, attention turned to the Mississippi River. Again, there had been assurances that the dikes would hold. We saw in mid-April fear and evil. Answers were sought.

“Most of our institutions that we use to stabilize ourselves and our country are damaged, crippled,” said Stuart Fischoff, a professor of media psychology at California State University Los Angeles, in an interview with The Associated Press. “What you’re having is a kind of an emotional, cognitive anarchy.”

If there is no anchor in society, could that be

due to organized religion having less and less adherents? Does evil exist? Yes. “I think it is fair to say that this entire week we’ve been on a pretty direct confrontation with evil,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Is evil recognized? Not always.

Too often, evil, as presented by the devil, the spirit of evil, is scoffed at as no more than a cartoon figure of Satan with pitchfork and tail.

Government assurances are not sufficient to cast out fear. Love has no room for fear, St. John says in his epistle. Perfect love casts out all fear.

The love John speaks of is the same kind that builds and continues to nourish communities.

There is a coming together. People act selflessly, but then it declines until the next disaster.

“Our challenge is to keep this spirit of community alive going forward. As people of faith, we must commit ourselves to the task of community building,” Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said in a homily on the Sunday at the end of the week.

“As believers, one of our tasks is to build community, to value people more than money or things, to recognize in each person a child of God made in the image and likeness of our Creator.”

One child of God was 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was killed in the bombings. He became a posthumous prophet by virtue of a photo with a sign that said: “No more hurting people. Peace.”

The thought was written on a poster drawn

by Martin in a class. There was no telling when it was done. Was it after Newtown, after Aurora?

A prophet is one who communicates God’s will and calls his people back. Martin’s message is not new. Of all that was said and eulogized during the week of fear and evil, his was the most pithy, poignant and prophetic.

Let’s take it to heart this time.

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

clean by claims of psychological instability or U.S. policy sins abroad.

And no one should be eager to see in the carnage of innocent spectators God’s judgment on a morally confused culture here at home.

And yet, something is wrong with our way of life, and millions of people can feel it; something selfish, cynical, empty and mean. Something that acts like a magnet to the worst impulses of the human heart. We’re no longer the nation of our founders, or even of our parents. Some of their greatness has been lost.

The character of our way of life depends on the character of my way of life, multiplied by the tens of millions. We shouldn’t waste time being shocked or baffled by the evil in the world. It has familiar roots. It begins in the little crevices of each human heart – especially our own.

In the days ahead, we need to pray for the dead and wounded in Boston, and their families. And then, with the help of God, we need to begin to change ourselves. That kind of conversion might seem like a small thing, an easy thing – until we try it. Then we understand why history turns on the witness of individual lives.

This column by Philadelphia Archbishop Chaput was posted April 19 on on CatholicPhilly.com, the news website of the Philadelphia archdiocese, and redistributed by Catholic News Service as an example of current commentary in the Catholic press.

LETTERS Let us start with love and stop all killing Is it not mind-boggling to observe the human response to the tragic killings and maiming of the fine folks in Boston? Our daily prayers go out to those killed and others who must live with a lifelong tragic experience. What is the difference between the Boston tragedy and other killing?

Of course this killing frenzy is nothing new. Killings take place every day, and more so in today’s society. In my life, the experience of terrorist attacks and murder are familiar events, unforgettable, yet most revealing and interesting. Simply put, regarding American culture, “Society needs to find the careful balance between personal freedom ...and thought ... and the responsibility to the common good” (Father Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR).

American culture exalts “individual freedom” over most “values.” Does it not make sense to reevaluate our mindset and ask ourselves what is the difference between the killings and maiming in Boston, the killing of law enforcement officers and children in our schools and other victims and the killing of nearly 3 million heartthrobbing fetuses and newborns since the emergence of Roe v. Wade passed by a politically correct, spineless Supreme Court?

What an evil society we have become. Yet we have such a great opportunity to renew our God-given morals that American society was based upon. Catholicism requires sacrifice, discipline, faith and, above all, charity and love.

Let us start with love and refrain from the continued murder of all unborn and born life and cast out all those political folks who profess killing of the innocent. Are we a spineless, selfish society or Americans in an American society based on moral common sense?

Richard Bodisco San Francisco

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‘42’ and us: Applause for moral courage

aseball and movies don’t often play well together. William Bendix as a Marine who dies happy in “Guadalcanal Diary” because he’s just heard that the Dodgers have won is an icon of 1940s Americana; the same William Bendix as the Bambino in “The Babe Ruth Story” is a sad business, to be consigned to the (bad) memory bank. “The Natural” and “Bull Durham” have their moments, but when push comes to shove, they’re both, finally, about something other GEORGE WEIGEL than baseball. “61*,” Billy Crystal’s made-for-HBO flick about Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and the chase for Ruth’s single-season home-run is a terrific story of male friendship (and gave this lifelong Yankees-deplorer a soft spot for the 1961 Bronx Bombers); but computer-graphic reconstructions of old ballparks being what they were when it was made in 2001 – i.e., not that persuasive – “61*” just misses being a great baseball movie.

Now comes “42,” the long-awaited cinematic telling of the Jackie Robinson story, which I recently saw on a snowy April Sunday afternoon in the Twin Cities. I wouldn’t call it a great movie (like, for example, “The King’s Speech”); but it’s a very, very good movie, and an entirely plausible challenger to “61*” as the best baseball movie ever made. Chadwick Boseman captures some of the fierce intensity, and a lot of the raw courage, of the man who broke baseball’s color line. It wasn’t easy to imagine Han Solo, Indiana Jones, or President James Marshall (“Air Force One”) as Branch Rickey, the cigar-chomping, ultra-Methodist general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers whose Christian decency and shrewd business sense led him to take on the entire baseball establishment by signing Jackie Robinson; but Harrison Ford pulls off that role with aplomb. Kudos, too, to Nicole Beharie for capturing the steely grace, beauty and guts of Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s wife, who put up with all the racism that her husband endured and who, with him, embodied for millions of Americans the meaning of the civil rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome.”

Columnist George F. Will once wrote that Jackie Robinson was second – a “very close second” – to Martin Luther King Jr. in the pantheon

Celebration of the Jackie Robinson story holds an important lesson for the country’s religious and political leaders. of African Americans who reversed a nation’s racial attitudes and helped create what is, today, the most racially egalitarian society in history.

“42” is a useful reminder of just how much those men, and others, had to overcome: Robinson’s teammates are, to put it gently, unenthusiastic about his presence among them; the Phillies’ race-baiting manager, Ben Chapman, mercilessly harasses Number 42 when he comes up to the plate; the Cardinals’ Enos Slaughter deliberately spikes Robinson on a routine play at first base; Pirates’ pitcher Fritz Ostermueller throws a killer pitch that smashes into Robinson’s temple (in the days before batting helmets); pottymouthed fans remind us just how foul American racial epithets could be – and how children were taught to imitate the sins of their parents.

And through it all, Jackie Robinson, in that first, crucial season, stuck to the promise he had made Branch Rickey: He would have the courage not to fight back, save in playing some of the most electrifying baseball ever seen, especially on the base paths.

Branch Rickey was dubbed “the Mahatma” by a Brooklyn sportswriter who thought the Dodger G.M.’s style akin to that of Mohandas K. Ghandi, whom John Gunther once described as “an incredible combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall and your father.” And to the credit of screenwriter Brian Helgeland, “42” doesn’t gloss over Rickey’s Christian faith, or Jackie Robinson’s, and the role that Christian conviction played in forging their relationship and their ultimate victory. Still, when the packed crowd in that Minneapolis theatre burst into applause at the end of the movie a few weeks ago, I didn’t read it as an endorsement of Methodist theology or piety.

Rather, it seemed to me welcome evidence that, amidst vast cultural and political confusions, Americans still believe in moral truths, moral absolutes, and moral courage – and yearn for opportunities to celebrate them. There’s an important lesson in that for the country’s religious and political leaders.

WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Does the election of Pope Francis signal great change ahead?

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n April, The Wall Street Journal featured an article written by Stacy Meichtry and Alessandra Galloni entitled “Fifteen Days in Rome: How The Pope Was Picked.”

Most insiders never seriously considered Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to be a contender.

He was already 76 and the cardinals were said to be looking for a younger candidate.

How did this unknown cardinal from South AmerFATHER JOHN ica break through the CATOIR ranks to gain the endorsement of a sharply divided College of Cardinals?

According to the article, the tide began to turn in his favor March 7, the day he delivered a speech to the assembled cardinals. Each cardinal is allowed to speak to the entire college before the voting session. Many cardinals focused on specific issues such as evangelization and church finances.

“Cardinal Bergoglio, however, wanted to talk about the elephant in the room: the long-term future of the church and its recent history of failure,” the The Wall Street Journal said.

“The leaders of the Catholic Church, our very selves, Cardinal Bergoglio warned, had become too focused on its inner life,” Meichtry and Galloni wrote. “‘When the church is self-referential,’ he said, ‘inadvertently, she believes she has her own light; she ceases to be the “mysterium lunae” and gives way to that very serious evil, spiritual worldliness.’”

Wow. Think about that sentence. He went on to say, according to the article, that the church needed to “shift its focus outward, to the world beyond Vatican City walls, to the outside.”

More than 50 years ago, Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens was chosen by Pope John XXIII to help him design the agenda of the Second Vatican Council. Together they wrote the council agenda amid flurries of controversy and concluded that the council had two goals, namely, to reform the church “at the interior” and “at the exterior.”

The writers wrote that when he became Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Bergoglio said, “The core mission of the church is not selfexamination, rather it is getting in touch with the everyday problems of a global flock most of whom were battling poverty, and the indignities of socio-economic injustice.”

Before the start of the conclave, a new narrative was beginning to take hold among the cardinals and Cardinal Bergoglio now was a contender. The rest is history.

Gosnell trial exposes abortion’s horrific downward spiral

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his case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors,” states a Pennsylvania grand jury report regarding the alleged procedures of Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

From his Philadelphia abortion mill euphemistically named “Women’s Medical Society,” Gosnell performed late term abortions with few TONY MAGLIANO questions asked. “Too young?

No problem. Didn’t want to wait? Gosnell provided same-day service,” states the report.

“The real key to the business model, though, was this: Gosnell catered to the women who couldn’t get abortions elsewhere – because they were too pregnant.

“Most doctors won’t perform late second-trimester abortions, from approximately the 20th week of pregnancy, because of the risks involved. … But for Dr. Gosnell, they were an opportunity. The bigger the baby, the more he charged.”

The mostly pro-abortion U.S. media has been downplaying this grisly story – afraid that the public’s abhorrence for murderous infanticide might cause people to begin to look at murderous abortion with the same abhorrence.

The grand jury also reflects this prejudice. At the beginning of their report they write, “Let us say right up front that we realize this case will be used by those on both sides of the abortion debate.

We ourselves cover a spectrum of personal beliefs about the morality of abortion. For us as a criminal grand jury, however, the case is not about that controversy; it is about disregard of the law and disdain for the lives and health of mothers and infants.”

Well, I hope at least those of us who respect the life and dignity of each and every human being – from conception to natural death – will not buy into this false dichotomy.

The brutal inhumane murder of a baby outside the womb is substantially no different than the brutal inhumane murder of a baby inside the womb.

The humanity of the child in both cases is equal.

The only significant difference is a legal one – the location of the child. Inside the uterus, murderous abortion is legal in most industrialized nations.

Outside the uterus, murderous infanticide is illegal.

However, murdering children – either inside or outside the womb – is logically and morally horrific.

Nearly everyone abhors the killing of a newborn baby. Yet, millions of people are indifferent to the killing of an unborn baby. The adage, “out of sight, out of mind,” helps explain this inconsistent way of thinking.

The sight of a newborn baby imprints an innocent precious image of that tiny child in our minds and upon our hearts. And so, when we even hear that one of these little ones has been murdered, we react with horror and sadness.

To help appreciate the innocence and preciousness of the unborn, people need to see an unborn baby. Modern technology now provides us with ultrasound images of unborn babies. You can see some of these wonderful images on the Internet.

And the highly acclaimed PBS Nova film titled “The Miracle of Life” presents astonishing cinematography of human development from conception to birth. Believe me, it’s worth watching.

Then, after watching the miraculous development of human life during its first nine months, go to The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (www.abortionno.org) to see the shocking hideous truth of what abortion does to the miracle of life.

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Sixth Sunday of Easter Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him.’

JOHN 14:23-29 ACTS 1-2, 22-29 Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved.” Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question. The apostles and elders, in agreement with the whole church, decided to choose representatives and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The ones chosen were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brothers. This is the letter delivered by them: “The apostles and the elders, your brothers, to the brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia of Gentile origin: greetings.

Since we have heard that some of our number who went out without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturbed your peace of mind, we have with one accord decided to choose representatives and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, who have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So we are sending Judas and Silas who will also convey this same message by word of mouth: ‘It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities,

namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage.

If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’”

PSALM 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 O God, let all the nations praise you!

May God have pity on us and bless us; may he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation.

O God, let all the nations praise you!

May the nations be glad and exult because you rule the peoples in equity; the nations on the earth you guide.

O God, let all the nations praise you!

May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you! May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him!

O God, let all the nations praise you!

REVELATION 21:10-14, 22-23 The angel took me in spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. It gleamed with the splendor of God. Its radiance was like that of a precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal. It had a massive, high wall, with 12 gates where 12 angels were stationed and on which names were

inscribed, the names of the 12 tribes of the Israelites. There were three gates facing east, three north, three south, and three west. The wall of the city had 12 courses of stones as its foundation, on which were inscribed the 12 names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb. I saw no temple in the city for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb.

The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb.

JOHN 14:23-29 Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.”

Can we be settlers and pioneers at the same time?

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s a theology student years ago I enjoyed reading Ladislas Orsy’s book “The Evolving Church and the Sacrament of Penance.”

Orsy describes two historical models of granting forgiveness: the Mediterranean and Irish. In the first model prevalent in the first 500 years, penitents were admitted only for major sins like murder and theft; the process of confession, contrition and forgiveness was done in public; penance was severe, often involving loss of civil and ecclesial rights.

Only a bishop could admit one back into community.

Everyone knew the sinner, sin, penance and forgiveness.

The second model, introFATHER CHARLES duced by the Irish monks in PUTHOTA the sixth and seventh centuries, required the seal of confession; anyone could confess major or minor sins to a bishop or priest; books with lists of sins and appropriate penances were distributed. No one knew the penitent’s sin or penance. No public humiliation was involved. This brilliant form of reconciliation became popular and is practiced to this day.

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS PATH OF FAITH DOES NOT ALIENATE

The journey of faith is not alienating – it is a preparation for arriving at our final destiny, Pope Francis said April 26 in Vatican City. Commenting on the day’s Gospel, the pope said Jesus told his disciples “I am going to prepare a place.” The pope said “all of Christian life is Jesus’ labor, the Holy Spirit’s, to prepare us a place …. Above all, to prepare our hearts … to love, to love more.”

I would summarize Orsy’s conclusions along these lines: Jesus commissioned the apostles to offer God’s forgiveness. The church has to find the structures, signs and symbols for the changing times. If the Mediterranean model could be replaced with the Irish one, the church could evolve new forms for our times. The forms can be created or altered so long as they mediate God’s forgiveness to people.

This insight brings us face-to-face with the evolving church in the Acts of the Apostles. That they raised questions and resolved issues in the first century is relevant for the 21st century. In today’s first reading they raise a question: Should a gentile male converting to Christianity be circumcised or not? They decide with the divine guidance (“It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and us …”) that circumcision is not essential to embracing faith in Jesus Christ.

The other controversy was that the Greekspeaking widows felt neglected in the distribution of food (Acts 6). So a new structure of the deacons was created to address the need of the poor and end discrimination.

Should the good news be preached to the gentiles was another issue. Peter sees the Holy Spirit descend on the Roman official Cornelius’ family in Caesarea and has them baptized, which became controversial in the Jerusalem church (Acts 10, 11). They now realize that the good news is for the whole world.

Whether the Jewish dietary laws applied to new converts was another thorny question. The church early on decided that, except for “meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals” Christians could eat what they wanted (Acts 15).

The church is a settler and a pioneer. It is settled because we are rooted in Jesus Christ who is the same, yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

At the same time, the church is a pioneer because it is evolving. The unchanging Christ encounters us in our ever-changing lives and the world.

Reconciling these two models of church’s identity is made possible by the gift of the Holy Spirit, the advocate. The Spirit of Christ can help us push the frontiers of spiritual, ecclesial, theological, social and economic quests.

The “theological narcissism” Pope Francis spoke of can lead us to being “self-referential.”

We need to ask honest questions about everything that we are and do in the church: our structures, rituals, devotions, sacraments, scripture, and ethics. While being faithful to the mind and heart of Christ and respectful of the tradition of the church, the church has to continue to change, creating new forms and expressions for eternal truths. Can we be settlers and pioneers at the same time?

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

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, MAY 6: Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 16:11-15. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b. Jn 15:26—16:4a.

THURSDAY, MAY 9: Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. Acts 1:1-11. PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9. Eph 1:17-23.

TUESDAY, MAY 7: Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 16:22-34. PS 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8.

Jn 16:5-11.

FRIDAY, MAY 10: Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter.

Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster, priest.

Acts 18:9-18. PS 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Jn 16:20-23.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8: Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 17:15, 22-18:1. PS 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14. Jn 16:12-15.

SATURDAY, MAY 11: Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Acts 18:23-28. PS 47:2-3, 8-9, 10. Jn 16:23b-28.

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Guidelines for the long haul – revisited

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wenty-five years ago, I wrote a column titled “Guidelines for the Long Haul.” Revisiting it recently, I was encouraged that my principles haven’t swayed during the past quarter-century, only taken on more nuance.

I still recommend those same commandments, nostalgically revisited, somewhat redacted, but fully re-endorsed: 1) Be grateful ... never look a gift universe in the mouth!

Resist pessimism and false guilt. To be a saint FATHER RON is to be warmed by gratiROLHEISER tude, nothing less. The highest compliment you can give a gift giver is to thoroughly enjoy the gift. You owe it to your Creator to appreciate things, to be as happy as you can. Life is meant to be more than a test. Add this to your daily prayer: Give us today our daily bread, and help us to enjoy it without guilt.

2) Don’t be naive about God ... God will settle for not less than everything!

God doesn’t want part of your life; God wants it all. Distrust all talk about the consolation of religion. Faith puts a rope around you and takes you to where you’d rather not go. Accept that virtue will give you a constant reminder of what you’ve missed out on. Take this Daniel Berrigan counsel to the bank: “Before you get serious about Jesus, consider carefully how good you’re going to look on wood!”

3) Walk forward when possible ... or at least try to get one foot in front of the next!

See what you see, it’s enough to walk by.

Expect long periods of confusion. Let ordinary life be enough for you. It doesn’t have to be interesting all the time. Take consolation in the fact that Jesus cried, saints sinned, Peter betrayed. Be as morally stubborn as a mule; the only thing that shatters dreams is compromise. Start over often. Nobody is old in God’s eyes; nothing is too late in terms of conversion. Know that there are two kinds of darkness you can enter: the fearful darkness of paranoia, which brings sadness, and the fetal darkness of conversion, which brings life.

4) Pray ... that God will hang on to you!

Distrust popularity polls. Trust prayer.

Prayer grounds you in something deeper. Be willing to die a little to be with God since God died to be with you. Let your heart become the place where the tears of God and the tears of God’s children merge into the tears of hope.

5) Love ... if a life is large enough for love, it’s large enough!

Create a space for love in your life. Con-

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sciously cultivate it. Know that nothing can be loved too much. Things can only be loved in the wrong way. Say to those you love: “You, at least, shall not die!” Know there are only two potential tragedies in life: not to love and not to tell those you love that you love them.

6) Accept what you are ... and fear not, you are inadequate!

Accept the human condition. Only God is whole. If you’re weak, alone, without confidence, and without answers, say so; then listen. Accept the torture of a life of inadequate self-expression. There are many kinds of martyrdom. Recognize your own brand. If you die for a good reason, it’s something you can live with!

7) Don’t mummify ... let go, so as not to be pushed!

Accept daily deaths. Don’t seize life as a possession. Possessiveness kills enjoyment, kills relationships, and eventually kills you.

Let go gracefully. Name your deaths, claim your births, mourn your losses, let the old ascend, and receive the spirit for the life you’re actually living. Banish restless daydreams; they torture you. Keep in mind that it’s difficult to distinguish a moment of dying from a moment of birth.

8) Refuse to take things seriously ... call yourself a fool regularly!

God’s laughter fills the emptiness of our tombs. Keep in mind that it’s easy to be heavy, hard to be light. Laughter is a direct insult to the realism, dignity, and austerity of hell.

Don’t confuse sneering with laughter. Laugh with people, not at them. Laugh and give yourself over to silliness; craziness helps too, as does a good night’s sleep.

9) Stay within the family ... you’re on a group outing!

Don’t journey alone. Resist the temptation to be spiritual, but not religious. Be “born again,” regularly into community. Accept that there are strings attached. The journey includes family, church, country and the whole human race. Don’t be seduced by the lure of absolute freedom. Freedom and meaning lie in obedience to community: Community humbles, deflates the ego, puts you into purgatory, and eventually into heaven.

10) Don’t be afraid to go soft ... redemption lies in tears!

All of Jesus’ teaching can be put into one word: Surrender. If you will not have a softening of the heart you will eventually have a softening of the brain. Hardness pulls downward. Softness rises. A bird can soar because a bird is soft. A stone sinks because it’s hard.

Fragility is force. Sensitivity defines soul.

Tenderness defines love. Tears are saltwater, the water of our origins.

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

Does forgiveness have limits?

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In Matthew 18:21-22, we are given a standard of forgiveness which I interpret to mean that we are to forgive always (“not seven times, but seventy seven”). I’m at a loss, though, as to how to apply that in my case. For a long time, I’ve had a terrible relationship with my mother, who lost custody of two of her three children (including myself) for continually putting us in unsafe and inappropriate situations.

I’ve never had a problem feeling compassion for my mother and I often pray for her. But I decided a long time ago that when I had children of my own, I would love my mother from a distance and not give her the chance to hurt or influence my chilFATHER dren. A few times since then, KENNETH DOYLE I’ve tried giving her opportunities to redeem herself only to find out that I was wrong – to the detriment of my children’s well-being.

Despite this, I am forever being asked by friends and family to give my mother another chance by allowing her some controlled interaction so that she’ll know the blessing of grandchildren. What I’m struggling with is this: Is it enough that God knows I’ve forgiven my mother, or must I show it by giving her another chance with my children? (Rochester, N.Y.) You are correct in thinking that the mandate for a Christian is to strive to forgive always.

From the facts as you’ve explained them, I believe that you’ve done that. (Bringing the person before the Lord in prayer is a good first step to forgiveness, because it reminds us that all of us are flawed and in need of God’s help.)

I hope that your mother knows you’ve forgiven her, and I imagine you’ve been able to communicate that to her.

Forgiveness, though, does not demand that you put your children in peril, and you, as their parent, are in the best position to know what would cause them harm. It is difficult for me to make a clear call here with limited information: I have no idea what your mother’s original missteps were that caused her to lose custody, nor what damage you perceived when you tried giving her the chance to be an active grandmother, nor what sort of “controlled interaction” your friends and family are now suggesting.

In situations like this, you are probably best advised to have a face-to-face discussion with a priest or other trusted counselor where all of the circumstances can be reviewed.

QUESTION CORNER

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

The parish as the third most important gathering place

hird place” is a sociological category that marks the next most important living space, after home and workplace, for most of us. I’m not talking about winners and losers when I refer to third place. I’m talking about human connectedness.

And I’m raising the question because I think it is important for pastors to see that there is a lot of work to be done in making their parishes a third-place magnet in the lives of their parishioners.

We connect primarily in the home. In order to make a living, we connect in the FATHER WILLIAM workplace. But there is a lot J. BYRON, SJ more to life than home and work and that more – as in the case of family life and work life – is usually associated with connecting with others in some identifiable place.

For many, the third place is the club, or entertainment complex, or some cultural or recreational center.

John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, boasts of establishing tap rooms inside his stores as a third place for customers. Beer on tap is available for immediate consumption there in the middle of the store.

“The new venue was hugely successful from the day it opened, with very strong sales and high profit margins. It turned out that customers identify Whole Foods Market (as they do Starbucks) as a third place where they enjoy hanging out.”

Typically, a parish has no pull on the loyalties of parishioners except for weekend worship, although the parish does have the potential to provide socialization – a sense of community – as well as gathering and meeting space for a variety of activities that can make lives fuller and more meaningful.

Church planners have to begin thinking of how the space under their control – the physical space that they own – can be used not only for meaningful liturgies, but also to attract members of their faith community to a fuller experience of social life.

Some have parochial schools that add vitality to the place Monday through Friday. All could have libraries with associated lectures and discussion groups. Some have “job seekers” support groups. Others have sports leagues, potluck suppers, dances, young adult groups, child care, adult day care and a variety of other activities that go well beyond the after-Mass coffee-anddoughnut gatherings on Sunday mornings.

But none of this will work if the people have no desire to come together. They won’t come together if they don’t know one another. And they will surely not come together unless they are summoned out of their isolation in creative ways.

This will not happen without the on-the-scene presence of welcoming volunteers. Hence pastoral planning has to begin with the people. What do they want?

Who will lead? Who will open the doors and turn out the lights?

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

Email wbyron@sju.edu.

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A woman of our time and an example for Christians to follow DAVID GIBSON

PROPHETIC WOMEN

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Dorothy Day must have been about 63 when I saw her in the early 1960s at Benedictine-run St. John’s University in central Minnesota where I was a student. I recall following along as she walked across campus to deliver a speech to a crowd of young Catholics.

It was not what she said that day that seared itself into my memory, however. I already knew of her strong positions on war and peace. I knew of her, too, as co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, and of her convictions about feeding, clothing and loving the poor.

What remained with me long after that day was the stark simplicity of Day’s very appearance, even the plainness of her clothing. Later I would learn of how ordinary the rooms she called home in New York looked. The ways of the surrounding, consumerist world decidedly were not her ways.

It mattered immensely that I saw her that day.

The image I internalized was of a laywoman in the church who did not stand off from the poor people she served but was one with them. Her words and style of life matched each other.

Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta once characterized leaders as people known not just for the quality of their ideas and an ability to articulate them, but for the example they provide. Moral leadership that transforms and elevates others “is most successfully achieved by leaders who have an integrity to the whole of their lives,” he said in a 2003 speech.

For me, Day was that kind of leader. Thus, many were drawn to her and the remarkable work she furthered. In the poor, she insisted, she recognized Christ’s presence.

The image of Day fixed in my mind’s eye is important, but that is not to say her words were unimportant. In fact, she was a leader who helped form other leaders with a message about living as a Christian in a world of great need.

“Among the clergy and seminarians of my era, I can think of no Catholic who was a more inspiring figure or of one who was held in higher esteem” than Day, Archbishop Gregory commented. He did not think it took anything away from others to suggest that “achieving what she did as a laywoman” made her contributions all the more impressive.

As a youthful college student, I found Day a compelling figure. Partly that may have been because, at the ripe old age of 19 or so, I was unacquainted with Catholic laywomen fulfilling highly influential roles like she did.

The fascinating story of Day’s life is told often, even in the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults. “As a young woman Dorothy became in-

Though they did not have the privilege of being counted among the Twelve Apostles, women have served, nonetheless, as evangelists, teachers, healers, prophets and missionaries. One of the obvious examples for Catholics in the U.S. is that of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. In November 2012, U.S. bishops endorsed the sainthood cause for Day, a tireless worker for the poor, advocate for workers and a woman who underwent conversion in a variety of ways.

Some other examples: – Sister Kathleen Ross, a leader in higher education who founded and was president of Heritage University in Washington state, where she helped disadvantaged students earn college degrees.

– The woman in Proverb 31: “She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. ... She is clothed with strength and dignity, and laughs at the days to come.”

(CNS PHOTO/MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY)

Dorothy Day, who died in 1980, was a journalist and social justice advocate who co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1933 during the Great Depression. volved in several love affairs,” it notes, adding that she “had an abortion for which she later deeply repented.”

She “went down many blind alleys before she found the road that Christ was pointing out to her all the time,” the catechism states. It describes Day, who became a Catholic in the late 1920s, as someone who dedicated herself “to seeking holiness, defending life and promoting social justice and peace.”

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston mentioned Day in a speech to the February 2013 annual Catholic Social Ministries Gathering in Washington. “It is healthy for young people today to hear about our saints and contemporary heroes like Dorothy Day, who after having an abortion and another child out of wedlock became one of the most outstanding persons in the history of the church in our country,” he said.

The concerns Day focused on as a Catholic leader – poverty, war, farmworkers’ rights – are not “women’s issues” in any sense of the term. Yet, they represent areas in which Pope Benedict XVI thought women tended to make unique contributions.

“Think of all the places afflicted by great poverty or devastated by war, and of all the tragic situations resulting from migrations, forced or otherwise. It is almost always women who manage to preserve human dignity, to defend the family and to protect cultural and religious values,” the pope told women in Angola in March 2009.

In an often-quoted comment of hers, Day said: “Don’t call me a saint. I don’t want to be dismissed so easily.” Nonetheless, during their November 2012 fall meeting in Baltimore, the U.S. Catholic bishops endorsed her sainthood cause, now promoted by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, where her Catholic Worker ministry was based.

Day died in November 1980. Msgr. George G. Higgins, a widely known U.S. expert on social issues, spoke during a January 1981 memorial Mass for her.

Few “have measured out as much as she did in love and dedicated service and sheer respect for the dignity of all God’s children,” Msgr. Higgins said.

He thought she taught by example more than by words.

“Dorothy would object to my saying so,” he added, but “for millions of men and women, and for the church itself she was a true sign of God after the example of Christ himself.”

GIBSON served on Catholic News Service’s editorial staff for 37 years.

Inspired by powerful sisters who led with loving kindness RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Having come from a family largely composed of women, I never felt limitations related to the type of work that I could or couldn’t take up. Women, particularly my grandmother, always fed the curiosity my oldest sister and I shared.

Similarly, as my curiosity and doubts regarding the Catholic faith entered in my late teens and early 20s, it was the religious sisters who walked with us in our struggles that I looked to for guidance.

One of them was Sister Lupita from Mexico. She wasn’t the type of woman who would lecture us, tell us we were bad for having doubts, which she could sense. Instead, she always made a point of listening to us, smiling, making a joke as a way to massage a certain sense of guilt. I remember a particular moment when she approached me and my friend, who loved “telenovelas,” the soap operas popular in some Latin American households.

She knew my friend watched the shows and asked her to tell her about the latest one she was watching. My friend talked, Sister Lupita laughed. And then she said, “That’s just how I feel when I read the Bible! There’s this story ...” My friend was so excited. She went home and read the Bible, a particular chapter Sister Lupita had recommended.

I always admired the way she handled that situation, with a lot of love, listening and understanding, not judging a woman who watched “telenovelas,” as I did. When I came to have responsibilities, I wanted to handle others based on the actions of Sister Lupita.

Later in my professional life, when I worked as a reporter at a newspaper in central Washington state, I came across the path of Sister Kathleen Ross. She was president of what was then Heritage College, now Heritage University. She had established the school as a way to serve a large American Indian population. She was a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, or “genius grant.”

She was part of the community of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. She found out I was Catholic and invited me to visit her community.

Even when she wasn’t at work she championed her students and staff. She was vocal about it when they walked by and told her what they were working on. She championed them in the ears of others when they weren’t there to listen. They learned to believe they were great because she told them so.

I never told her this because it would have crossed the line of objectivity I needed to keep as a reporter, but I aimed to model her behavior whenever I was charged with interns at the various newspapers. I tried to listen, champion their work,

let them know of other opportunities, tell them how great they were.

On the East Coast, I met Sister Maria Elena Romero, a Capuchin sister originally from Mexico who lives in Delaware. I visited her often as I found myself in the middle of office politics and struggles.

Though she’s a cloistered nun, without knowledge of the goings-on of the workplace, she nevertheless found ways to transmit the Gospel to me in applicable ways. Some of what she said made no sense in a tense workplace: We were made to serve each other, not to compete.

She always listened to my gripes but also gave me tools to keep calm, to help carry my cross when events like layoffs and office conflict brought disarray. I’ve always been surprised how she found examples of other women in the church who faced struggles, who didn’t work in an office but carried a cross that has evolved in modern times.

Some say they would like to be like the immortal heroes of history, many who are men. But in the Catholicism I’ve experienced as a woman, I would like to be like those whose name I carry in my heart for being so loyal in their lives to the teachings of our savior.

GUIDOS is associate editor at Catholic News Service.

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Historian argues that West grew from chaotic 10th century REVIEWED BY BRIAN WELTER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“THE BIRTH OF THE WEST: ROME, GERMANY, FRANCE AND THE CREATION OF EUROPE IN THE TENTH CENTURY” BY PAUL COLLINS. Public Affairs Publishers (New York, 2013). 496 pp., $29.99.

In “The Birth of the West,” historian Paul Collins successfully highlights the tendency toward integration present among the 10th century’s violent disintegration.

First the disintegration: Monarchs held on by the skin of their teeth, as they had no real administration or concept of statecraft. Politics therefore returned to the local and often to the barbaric. Warlords waged constant campaigning across Europe, with power as the only currency.

Even the papacy had lost sight of the larger picture of Christendom. The biggest problem it faced was, according to Collins, the “claustrophobic nature of Roman society ... a parochial, self-referential world in which the papacy increasingly became the plaything of local power brokers.” In other words, the popes of the period were largely the creatures of the Roman clans constantly vying for power over the lucrative pilgrimage trade and taxation of the papal lands. St. Peter’s successors therefore tended to get overly involved in this localized view, and left the church in the rest of Europe to itself.

The author brings out the wickedness of these people quite vividly, relying on primary sources and historical episodes.

All across Europe, the Carolingian Empire, established by Charlemagne and his father Pippin, was unraveling in the face of this localism as well as from the Viking raids from the north and Muslim raids from the south. Europe was a dangerous, anarchic place, and readers are introduced to the names and situations that reflect this.

Collins cites the writing of the monk Paschasius Radbertus as “typical of the defeatism and despair that infected many in France” under Viking attack: “Who would have ever believed or thought possible that in our place and time we would be overrun by such fearful misfortunes? So today we are frightened as these pirate bands violate the borders of Paris and set on fire the churches of Christ on the banks of the Seine.... Who could have determined that such a glorious kingdom, so fortified, large, populous and strong would be humiliated and defiled by such a filthy race?”

The only hope for integration came from the faith. Despite all the invasions and political fragmentation, Christendom as an idea remained and united the continent. It is here, in the hearts of the people and in the monasteries, that the author locates the tendency to panEuropeanism, something that would grow in the 11th century and afterward.

Ironically, given the unifying power of faith, the laity followed an eclectic mixture of Christian and pagan belief and practice. As well, “the borders between the terrestrial and non-natural worlds were permeable,” the author observes, noting that death and disease, the weather and crop success or failure were up to God or other spiritual factors, including the people’s sinfulness.

Collins gives us repeated glimpses of the external, ritualistic nature of faith, such as the fierce competition among pilgrimage sites to

attract visitors. The more ornately beautiful a relic’s presentation, the more spiritual power that pilgrimage church possessed, folk believed.

Collins shows why this sort of thing played such a vital role: “People felt that their lives were manipulated by irresistible forces, both good and malign, that needed to be propitiated.”

All this faith made the 10th century, despite the lack of political unity and coherence, an important period liturgically, as the Ottonian emperors of Saxony unified the Franco-Romanic liturgy, and as liturgical embellishment increased. Collins notes that the more ornamental priestly vestments reflected the increasing gulf between clergy and laity, though he fails to provide reasons for arguing so.

Despite this concern for the political, Collins also discusses the popular culture and social issues of the time. People lived not under the shadow of institutions but within webs of personal relationships, including protective ones with a lord, that brought some level of integration at the local level. Most peasants were not serfs, though they did owe service for the protection they received. Not surprisingly, they lived close to the land in a hand-to-mouth existence.

“The Birth of the West,” while bogging down on occasion with all the names and places thrown around, particularly in relation to politics, opens a strange world to us, even to Catholics typically enamored by the Middle Ages. The 10th century is well before the more commonly known eras and movements, such as the Crusades, friars, scholastics and mystics of the 11th to 14th centuries.

Collins argues his main point successfully that these later centuries, and the modern world they created, grew out of the chaotic 10th century. This book will give readers a fuller understanding of the whole medieval period.

WELTER is studying for his doctorate in systematic theology and teaching English in Taiwan.

Book on church architecture much more than pretty pictures REVIEWED BY ANN CAREY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“THE CHURCH BUILDING AS A SACRED PLACE: BEAUTY, TRANSCENDENCE AND THE ETERNAL” BY DUNCAN G. STROIK. Liturgy Training Publications (Chicago, 2012). 175 pp. $75.

A new book by University of Notre Dame architecture professor Duncan G. Stroik has so many exquisite photos of churches that one might think at first glance it is another beautiful coffee-table book. But “The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence and the Eternal” is so much more than pretty pictures.

Stroik writes in clear prose what every Catholic should know about the way a church building’s exterior and interior should reflect and enable the sacred actions that are celebrated within its walls. Helping to illustrate and enforce these concepts are more than 170 photographs and drawings that date from early Christian places of worship to churches built in the 21st century.

In his introduction, Stroik argues that the book is not a history of architecture. Nevertheless, the average person will learn a great deal about the architectural history of the Catholic Church in virtually every one of the 23 chapters in the book. Those chapters are divided into four parts: Principles of Church Design; Church Architecture Today; Modernism and Modernity; and Renaissance and Renewal.

Throughout the book, Stroik – who considers ecclesial architecture a “noble ministry” – displays a firm grounding in theology and philosophy as he explains the principles of Catholic architecture. He alludes frequently to various church documents such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (“Sacrosanctum Concilium”) and the General Instruction of the Roman Missal.

As a practicing architect who has designed several significant new churches and extensive

renovations himself, Stroik also offers concrete solutions for renovating or building churches that will evoke a sense of the sacred and will be fitting symbols of God’s house for generations to come.

Many of the chapters in the book were written as essays by Stroik over the past 18 years and published in journals, while some were composed for this book. Thus, the chapters do not necessarily build upon each other, but each treats its subject matter in a complete manner that allows the reader to understand the chapter’s topic independently from the other chapters.

A fascinating appendix in the back of the book on “The Sizes of Churches” allows the reader to compare the size and scale of many famous Catholic churches in Europe to some prominent churches in the United States.

One does not have to read far into the book to learn that Stroik dislikes churches designed by modernist architects over the past century that look like modern secular buildings and are configured like theaters or auditoriums with minimal iconography. However it is not just his personal dislike, but rather a strong sense that such churches give no visible indication of the sacredness of the building or the celebration that occurs therein, and they do not serve the needs of Catholic liturgy. (Indeed, this reader was struck by one photograph of the interior of a modernist church that looked very much like a prison with its plain concrete walls.)

“We need an architecture that helps raise our hearts and minds to heaven,” he writes, and he proves his case throughout the book by citing official Catholic Church documents.

Meeting-house style unsuited for Catholic worship

In his section on modernism, Stroik contends that many modernist architects were influenced

by Protestant meeting-room-style churches as well as a desire to conform ecclesial design to the latest secular buildings. The result, he writes, are functional-looking buildings that do not function well for Catholic worship.

He builds a strong case for his assertion that classical and medieval churches are still relevant to contemporary culture, for they are a timeless “catechism in paint, mosaic and stone” that appeals in any age. Indeed, he notes that it often was a poorly formed liturgist and not the people in the pews who demanded many of the renovations – some would say “wreckovations” – of Catholic churches after the Vatican II. Stroik writes that sacred architecture is part of our Catholic patrimony, but he does not advocate simply copying famous Catholic churches of the past. Rather, he believes that church renovators and designers should learn from those classical models and apply to contemporary buildings what they learn about making a church beautiful and evocative of the sacred.

To prove his case, he presents photos of several Catholic churches built in the last few years that are innovative and modern while at the same time beautiful examples of ecclesial architecture.

“As architects and artists regain the balance between tradition and innovation, architecture will become a humanistic enterprise once again,” Stroik writes.

Stroik’s final chapter contains 20 “prophecies” about the future of Catholic architecture in which he predicts: “A renaissance of Catholic architecture will ensue, when large numbers of the lay faithful and the church leadership begin demanding beauty in the house of God.” Many Catholics probably hope that Stroik is a prophet in his own time.

CAREY is a freelance writer based in Indiana.

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RENEWAL: Prelate says laity key to Christian witness in secular world FROM PAGE 1

when he became the archbishop of Dublin in 2004, but that the demographic majority the church enjoyed hid “many structural weaknesses” and that the church had become insensitive to them.

“The church leadership was out of touch with the religious sentiment of the people,” he said.

“The Catholic Church in Ireland had for far too long felt that it was safely ensconced on a ‘Catholic country.’ The church had become conformist and controlling, not just of its faithful, but of society in general. ... Anyone who might have thought that ‘Catholic Ireland’ was anything like a perfect society must now be very disillusioned,” Archbishop Martin said.

Trusting in God’s love

Faith in Jesus requires looking beyond human horizons, changing the accepted way of thinking and trusting in God’s love, rather than in the tangible securities of day-to-day life, he said. “When faith leads to conformism, it has betrayed the very nature of faith.”

Further, the archbishop explained, the sexual abuse scandals involving clergy and religious men and women were mismanaged by Irish church leaders. Although the overwhelming majority of priests in Ireland live exemplary lives, it is impossible to “explain away the huge number of those (children) who were abused and the fact that this took place undetected and unrecognized within the church of Jesus Christ,” he said.

“One of the great challenges the Irish Catholic church still has to face is that of strong remnants of inherited clericalism,” the archbishop added.

“The days of the dominant, or at times domineer-

Clericalism will be eliminated only by fostering a deeper sense of the meaning of the church and genuine renewal of faith in Jesus rather than Archbishop Diarmuid Martin through media strategies and simple structural reforms, Archbishop Martin said. ing, role of clergy within the institutional church have changed, but part of this culture still appears in new forms from time to time.”

Clericalism will be eliminated only by fostering a deeper sense of the meaning of the church and genuine renewal of faith in Jesus rather than through media strategies and simple structural reforms, he said.

The Irish Catholic Church can no longer rely on society to be the principal instrument for passing on the faith, Archbishop Martin said. People who reject the church but still consider themselves believers in Jesus run the risk of drifting into something that is of their own creation rather than a challenging, personal, rigorous, intellectual encounter with their faith, he said.

Predicts vigorous lay leadership

Archbishop Martin predicted the church will relinquish many of the institutional roles it has

SHROUD: Image source still unexplained FROM PAGE 1

“We were there to gather information ... to do empirical science and do it to the best of our abilities,” Schwortz said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with my personal religious beliefs. It has to do with the truth.”

The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen that has a full-length photonegative image of a wounded man on the front and back of the cloth. The scientific team spent five days analyzing the chemical and physical properties of the shroud, paying special attention to the topographical information showing depth that was encoded in the light and dark shading of the cloth.

“Our team went to Turin to answer one simple question: How was the image formed?” Schwortz said. “Ultimately, we failed.

“We could tell you what it’s not – not a painting, not a photograph, not a scorch, not a rubbing – but we know of no mechanism to this day that can make an image with the same chemical and physical properties as the image on the shroud.”

Testing has been performed on the shroud since the initial analyses, and the results continue to be contested. In 1988 carbon testing dated the cloth to the 12th century, leading many to conclude that the shroud is a medieval forgery.

In a paper published in 2005, chemist Raymond Rogers, member of the 1978 research team, challenged the claim that the shroud is a fake. He said the sample used in the 1988 carbon testing was a piece used to mend the cloth in the Middle Ages and that the methodology of the testing was erroneous.

Even though the controversy over the origin of the cloth does not seem like it will be determined any time soon, Schwortz said the shroud can still be regarded as a bridge between science and faith.

“I think the implication of the shroud, for those particularly of the Christian faith, is that this is a document that precisely coincides with the Gospel account of what was done to the man Jesus,” he said.

Schwortz said the public online technical database – www.shroud.com – that the team created should be used as a tool to learn more about the physical attributes of the shroud, but that individuals should draw their own conclusions about what it means for their faith.

held in Ireland, but achieve a vigorous presence in society through the example of the laity working in social, economic, political and cultural settings.

Against a backdrop of cultural and political secularization, the church must respond to the desire of “Irish Catholics for deep renewal in formation in faith and in prayer,” Archbishop Martin added.

Archbishop Martin said Ireland needs homegrown answers for homegrown problems.

While it shares similarities with other Englishspeaking countries, its Catholicism developed differently. There are even differences between practice in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Leadership in the future church will need to come from parishes with active lay people, he said, while more attention must be given to young people. “Dealing with young people about faith is very demanding and requires time. They have need for a purpose and they won’t take superfluous answers,” the archbishop said.

Although it is tempting for the hierarchy “to close ranks and make sure nobody speaks out of tune,” Archbishop Martin said the people need “an Irish church that has the capacity to enter into dialogue with all those areas where Irish culture is taking place.”

Jesuit Father Joseph M. McShane, Fordham University president, conferred an honorary doctorate of humane letters on Archbishop Martin, citing “his efforts on behalf of social justice around the globe and his enlightened leadership of the Catholic church in Ireland.”

The event was sponsored by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture.

PHILIPPINES: Catholic laity mobilize FROM PAGE 1

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The Shroud of Turin is seen on display in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, in this 2010 file photo.

“People often ask me, ‘Does this prove the resurrection?’” Schwortz said. “The shroud did not come with a book of instructions. So the answer to faith isn’t going to be on that piece of cloth, but more likely in the eyes and the hearts of those who look upon it.”

A video interview with Schwortz will be available at the Catholic News Service YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/CatholicNewsService.

the Council of the Laity of the Philippines, spoke at a regular weekly meeting hosted by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

“They were asked to sign a covenant,” she said, “that they will prevent the passage of any anti-life, anti-family, anti-church and anti-religion bills in congress.”

The group is particularly concerned about a pending divorce bill and proposals for same-sex marriage.

In December, President Benigno Aquino signed the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012. Among other measures, it provides for government-funded contraception for the poor, sex education for middle- through high-school students and mandatory medical care to women who have had abortions.

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines, but the new law is still controversial in this majority Catholic country. Catholic officials have argued that it is a population control method, and readily available contraception would promote promiscuity and a permissive mindset that could lead to choosing abortion.

In March, the Supreme Court put the new law on hold for 120 days, while it looks over about 10 petitions filed against it.

In February, the Diocese of Bacolod produced lists of those who supported and opposed the reproductive health legislation. The controversial lists, labeled in Filipino “Team Death” or “Team Life,” were on bright red and gray banners on the outer walls of the San Sebastian Cathedral.

The Commission on Elections ordered the diocese to take down the banners because they violated campaign poster-size limits on private property. The diocese argued it was a violation of its right to freedom of expression and filed a Supreme Court case, which is pending.

The White Vote movement’s Santiago said there was no reference to the names “Team Death” or “Team Life” in its endorsements. However, all six candidates labeled “Team Life” are backed by the White Vote. She said while the bishops’ conference gave guidelines on what kind of candidate to back, it was up to the lay organizations of the coalition to name who they would support.

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CCCYO honors archdiocese’s 650 women religious, 48 congregations

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San Francisco Archbishop emeritus George Niederauer, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone and Jeff Bialik, executive director CCCYO, are pictured at the CCCYO Loaves and Fishes award dinner and gala April 18.

Catholic Charities CYO honored the 650 women religious of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and their 48 congregations with the 2013 Loaves and Fishes Award for Faith in Action.

“From the founding of St. Vincent’s School in Marin by two Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1855, Catholic Charities CYO has enjoyed a long, rich partnership with women religious in providing compassionate care and services for the neediest of our brothers and sisters,” said Maureen Sullivan, longtime CCCYO board member.

The awards dinners and gala April 18 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francico included a display of the sisters’ contributions through California history; song from international mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; and a video tribute to the women religious of the archdiocese.

The nearly $500,000 raised by the event will benefit the 34 programs of Catholic Charities CYO serving more than 35,000 individuals each year in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties.

ST. ANSELM STUDENTS HELP CANCER PATIENTS

Third grade students at St. Anselm School, San Anselmo, are supporting the Pennies for Patients Program that helps blood cancer patients.

Teacher Allison Pheatt motivated the kids to get onboard with the fundraising campaign. “Last August, one of my close friends was diagnosed with leukemia,” Allison said. “This past school year my students have sent cards and pictures to Danny, and have continuously kept him in their thoughts and prayers. I thought that the Pennies for Patients Program was a great service project for the third grade to participate in and to make a difference in the lives of those diagnosed with blood cancer.” The students are shooting for a $200 goal.

ST. EMYDIUS PARISH CELEBRATES! 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR PARISH FOUNDING Sunday, May 05, 2013 Mass of Thanksgiving at 9:30 a.m.

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Visiting bishop confirms 5 Bishop George Pallipparambil of the Diocese of Miao, India, is pictured with Most Holy Redeemer parishioners who were confirmed at the San Francisco church April 7. From left are Linda Robertshaw, Angela Mazzaferro, Ronald Guerrero II, Wilson Fang, Carmela Clendening. The visiting bishop celebrated Mass, with pastor Father Brian Costello concelebrating. The Diocese of Miao, in the remote northeast corner of India, has a sister diocese relationship with the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Miao is a relatively new diocese, established in 2005, with very young Catholic communities. The diocese has 59,000 Catholics, 14 percent of the total population, served by six diocesan and 54 religious priests. Bishop Pallipparambil is a Salesian.

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St. Patrick School, Larkspur, celebrates 50th As St. Patrick School in Larkspur turns 50 years old this year, it’s not uncommon to find not only multigenerational family legacies but also teachers and staff who have served the school for multiple decades.

Shirley Derner, one of St. Patrick’s physical education instructors, has been teaching at the school for 29 years. Her children attended “St. Pat’s,” and now all of her grandchildren do as well.

Jenn Lynch, a fifth grade teacher, was in the very first kindergarten class at St. Patrick. Years later she became a full-time teacher at the “school of her dreams.”

The school principal, Linda Kinkade, has been with the school for 26 years. “St. Patrick School is a community of many caring people who work together to instill a love and respect for Catholic traditions, a strong academic foundation, and a reverence for life,” she says.

Part of the legacy, and a pillar of the St. Patrick School mission, is service. Early on, the children learn to give back to their community by working with Helping Hands, a nonprofit organization serving Marin seniors and persons with disabilities. In

addition, students volunteer to make lunches for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Each student must complete 20 hours of community service before graduating, but most students go well beyond those hours by helping with various school events and service projects, peer tutoring, and assisting during the after-school extended care program.

Now with 250 K-8 students from throughout Marin County, St. Patrick School has come a long way since the Dominican Sisters from Adrian, Mich., came to Larkspur in September 1963. Recognizing the educational and spiritual needs of a growing community, the school opened its doors to 160 students, staffed by the sisters. who resided in a temporary residence at 22 Locust Ave. in Larkspur until the school and convent construction was completed. The four-grade school opened with the dedication by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken on April 25, 1964.

OBITUARY FATHER WILLIAM QUINN, 83 – RETIRED HOLY NAME PASTOR

Father William Quinn, retired pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco, died April 24 at Nazareth House in San Rafael. Ordained on June 11, 1955, by Archbishop John J. Mitty, Father Quinn was a priest for 57 years. He was 83 years old.

Father Quinn’s nephew, Father Michael Quinn, a parochial vicar at St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco, Father William was homilist at the funeral Mass Quinn April 30 at Holy Name of Jesus Church. San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath was principal celebrant. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was present in the sanctuary.

Born in Butte, Mont., Father Quinn moved with his family to San Francisco and St. Philip Parish, where he attended grade school, and St. Paul Parish in Noe Valley. Father Quinn had been heard to say that he had been “drawn to the priesthood because of his positive experiences at St. Paul.”

Father Quinn served as a parochial vicar at Holy Angels Parish, Colma, and St. Cecilia Parish and St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco. Father Quinn was ordained at a time when the Archdiocese of San Francisco included geographically what are now the dioceses of Oakland, Stockton, Santa Rosa and San Jose. Given that, his service as an associate pastor also included St. Augustine Parish, Oakland.

From 1970-77, Father Quinn served in the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In 1977, he was named pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco, and in 1990 pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish. He retired in 1999, and lived at Serra Clergy House, San Mateo, until early this year when his health declined. He had been residing at Nazareth House in San Rafael since midJanuary.

In addition to Father Michael Quinn, Father Quinn is survived by his brother Thomas Quinn of Novato. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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FRIDAY, MAY 3 SUNDAY, MAY 5 LOURDES: Experience Lourdes at St. Dominic Church, Steiner at Bush, San Francisco, 7 p.m. Virtual pilgrimage. www.LourdesVolunteers.org. Angela Testani, (415) 586-5754.

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.

SATURDAY, MAY 4 YARD SALE: “The Best Yard Sale in Marin,” St. Anselm and St. Rita schools, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Rita campus, 102 Marinda Drive, Fairfax off Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Food, games, prizes and bargains on wide selection of merchandise. Proceeds benefit schools and Guatemala mission program. (415) 456.1003.

CATHOLIC NURSES: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of the National Association of Catholic Nurses meeting 10 a.m.-noon at Alma Via, One Thomas More Way, San Francisco. Refreshments provided. You will receive one Continuing Education Unit for Patient Centered Care from the Catholic Perspective.

Please come and invite your nursing colleagues. No charge. Mary Ann Haeuser, Haeuser@comcast.net or (415) 454-0979.

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100TH ANNIVERSARY MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of a 100th anniversary Mass at St. Emydius Church, 286 Ashton Ave. at De Montfort Ave., San Francisco, Father William 9:30 a.m. The Brady celebratory liturgy will be the only Mass that day at St. Emidius, the parish said. Father William Brady, pastor, will concelebrate. Email stemydius@sbcglobal.net or call (415) 587-7066. The event can also be found on Facebook, St. Emydius SF Centennial.

munity, Mercy Center 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 9 a.m.-noon. David, (650) 340-7408.

LOURDES: Experience Lourdes at St. Raymond Church, 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, after 5 p.m. Mass.

Virtual pilgrimage. www.LourdesVolunteers.org. Angela Testani, (415) 586-5754.

LOURDES: Experience Lourdes at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton, San Francisco, 10 a.m. Virtual pilgrimage. www.LourdesVolunteers. org. Angela Testani, (415) 586-5754.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Gary Desmond, organist. All recitals open to the public.

Unless otherwise indicated, a free-will offering will be requested at the door.

Free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

LIVING ROSARY: All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Young Ladies Institute #182. Sue Elvander, (415) 467-8872.

TUESDAY, MAY 7 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.

THURSDAY, MAY 9

MONDAY, MAY 6

GOLF: St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, 119 years in Bernal Heights, holds its Golf Tournament at TPC Harding Park. $200 golf and dinner, $150 golf only, $50 dinner only. $200 tee sponsorship. Proceeds fund tuition assistance. Constance Dalton, (415) 642-6130 or Dalton_constance@yahoo. com, or visit www.saicsf.org.

CCCYO GOLF: Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day, the oldest charitable golf tournament in the Bay Area, at Stanford University Golf Course and Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club.

Proceeds fund CYO Camp scholar-

BENEFIT LUNCH: San Francisco chefs including Charles Phan will be whipping up a midday meal benefiting Mission Dolores Academy at the city’s Julia Morgan Ballroom. Tickets start at $150. (415) 346-0143 or email development@mdasf.org.

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LOURDES: Experience Lourdes at St. Brendan Church, 29 Rockaway Ave. off Portola, San Francisco, 1 p.m. Virtual pilgrimage.www.LourdesVolunteers. org. Angela Testani, (415) 586-5754.

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COMMUNITY DAY: “Caring for our Community” at Seton Medical Center, Daly City, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. promotes healthy lifestyles. Event offers blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, and interactive booths with information about nutrition, fitness, diabetes management, wound care, as well as orthopedics, physical therapy and cardiovascular health. The day will also feature a strawberry tasting courtesy, children’s activities including a “veggie forest” and cooking demonstrations and tastings to offer fun ways to learn about healthy eating. Visit www.setonmedicalcenter. org. (650) 991-6464.

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FRIDAY MAY 10 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.

DAILY TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and a 4 p.m. Mass Monday through Friday.

EWTN is carried on Comcast 229, AT&T 562, Astound 80, San Bruno Cable 143, DISH Satellite 261 and Direct TV 370. In Half Moon Bay EWTN airs on Comcast 70 and on Comcast 74 in southern San Mateo County.

SATURDAY, MAY 11 HANDICABAPLES MASS: Father Kirk Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary’s 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.

Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865. ‘GRACE GALA’: Evening benefiting Gracenter, a work of the Good Shepherd Sisters, at Delancey Street, 600 Embarcadero, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m. Cocktails, dinner, dancing silent auction. Friendship House leader Helen Waukazoo will be honored.

Tickets $150. (415) 586-2845. www. gsgracenter.org.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 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.

FRIDAY MAY 10

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15

‘THE FANTASTICKS’: Presented by the 16th Street Players, enjoy the musical that includes “Try to Remember� introduced by original cast member Jerry Orbach as the show’s first El Gallo. Show’s creators Harvey Schmidt Jerry Lenk and Tom Jones also composed musicals including “I Do, I Do� and “110 in the Shade.� Schedule includes May 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at Mission Dolores, 16th Street at Dolores, San Francisco. Jerome Lenk, director of music at Mission Dolores, conducts. Admission is free. (415) 864-4467, or email johnjack214@gmail.com for curtain times.

NEW START WEEKEND: San Francisco’s St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish will pray its fifth Pentecost Revival May 15, 16, 17, 7 p.m., with guest revival leader Josephite Father Anthony Bozeman, pastor, St. Raymond/St. Leo Church in New Msgr. James Orleans. “Father Tarantino Anthony’s preaching will set your heart on fire,� information from the parish promised. Evenings feature music from Shipwreck’s Inspirational Voices Choir. Msgr. James Tarantino, vicar for administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is principal celebrant of a gospel Mass, May 19, Pentecost Sunday, at 10:45 a.m.

Visit www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org.

THURSDAY, MAY 16 PARENTING AND FAMILY: Darby Furth Bonomi, consulting psychologist and parent educator, speaks at Holy Family Day Home, 299 Dolores St., San Francisco, 11:30 a.m. Bonomi will explore strategies for creating an optimal family environment in which both children and parents flourish.

The talk is the keynote of a fundraising luncheon. Tickets are $85. Holy Family Day Home continues a tradition established in 1900 by the Sisters of the Holy Family. Visit www.holyfamilydayhome.org or call (415) 565-0504, ext. 201 or 203.

FRIDAY, MAY 17 POMEROY CENTER: “Banner of Love Gala� honoring San Francisco Fire Department and Chief Joanne Hayes White with 2013 Humanitarian Award.

Evening includes dinner, live, and silent auctions, Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center, 207 Skyline Blvd. San

Francisco, across from Lake Merced, 6-11p.m., $150 per person. Maria Crespin, (415) 665-4100, mcrespin@ prrcsf.org or visit www.prrcsf.org.

BEGINNING EXPERIENCE: A weekend retreat for widowed, separated and divorced, Jesuit Retreat House, Los Altos.

Take a step toward closure, find renewed hope. (650) 692-4337, email sjbeginexp@ aol.com. Scholarships are available.

TWO-DAY TRIP: Father Jess Labor, pastor, and Church of the Good Shepherd Mission pilgrimage to Santa Barbara and the first Filipino landing site in 1587, Monastery of Poor Clare Sisters. $300 ticket includes meals and lodging. Proceeds benefit parish. Catherine Argel, (650) 3552564, catherine.argel@gmail.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 18 DAY AT RACES: The Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, highlight the Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope Day at the Races at Golden Gate

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MISSION TOUR: St. Sebastian Parish Young at Hearts tour three North Bay Missions, plus lunch and wine tasting in Sonoma with vigil Mass at Mission Dolores.

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SUNDAY, MAY 19 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls, St. Brigid School Honor Choir, Spring Concert. All recitals open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, a freewill offering will be requested at the door.

Free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

TUESDAY, MAY 21 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, MAY 24 THREE-DAY CONFERENCE: Retired San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer presides at opening Mass of Northern California Renewal Coalition’s Catholic Charismatic convention, “Jesus Christ is Lord,� May 24-27 at Santa Clara Convention Center. 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.

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