May 31, 2013

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Revisiting the US bishops’ 1983 call to be, like Christ, ‘peacemakers in our time’

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New Oakland bishop inspired by pope’s vision of church MICHELE JURICH THE CATHOLIC VOICE

In a joyful celebration that incorporated the many gifts of the diverse communities that make up the Diocese of Oakland, Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, was ordained and installed as the fifth bishop of Oakland on May 25 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was the ordaining bishop of Bishop Barber, who succeeds him in Oakland. Other ordaining bishops were Bishop Carlos Sevilla, Bishop Michael SJ, bishop emeritus of Yakima, C. Barber, SJ Wash., and San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly.

With his brother, Jesuit Father Stephen Barber, at his side, and his brother, Kevin Barber, serving as reader, Bishop Barber, 58, became the first Jesuit to be seated as bishop of Oakland. He is also the first priest to be named bishop of Oakland. All previous bishops had previously been ordained bishops.

During his remarks, Archbishop Cordileone told the new bishop that he could count on the support of his brother bishops.

During the rite, in which chrism was poured on his head and hands to anoint him, Bishop Barber received the ring, miter and crozier before being invited to occupy the cathedra, the bishop’s seat in the cathedral.

At the end of the Mass, the new bishop moved through the cathedral, blessing the people and receiving applause.

“People have asked me, ‘what is your vision as bishop?’” he said as he made remarks from the ambo. “I would like to do for Oakland what Pope Francis is doing for the whole church.”

He was interrupted by applause.

“My vision is this: The priests take care of the people. The bishop takes care of the priests. And we all take care of the poor, and the sick and the suffering.”

The new bishop thanked three people “here today who have played an important role in my life.” He thanked retired San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn, who ordained him to the priesthood in 1985.

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Men, women religious honored for service Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated a special Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral May 26 for men and women in consecrated life, with honors for 44 women religious, one cloistered woman religious and six men religious marking jubilarian anniversaries of 25 years or more of service. Front row from left, Sister Kathleen Healy, PBVM; Sister Denise Bourdet, PBVM; Sister Virginia Espinal, PBVM; Sister Patricia Elower, PBVM. Second row, Father Thomas Whelan, OSA; Sister Jean Marie Fernandez, RGS; Sister Anita Marie Torres, PBVM; Sister Carmen Rodriguez, RSM; Sister Constance Madden, PBVM; Sister Judith Romero, PBVM. Third row, Sister Redempta Scannell, RSM; Sister Mary Margaret Hoffman, RSCJ; Sister Nancy Morris, RSCJ; Sister Anne Davidson, RSCJ; Father John Itzaina, SDB; Father Austin Conterno, SDB. Fourth row, Father Ray Allender, SJ; Sister Esther McEgan, RSM; Sister Marilyn Morgan, RSM; Sister Marguerite Buchanan, RSM; Sister Bernice Garcia, OP; Sister de Chantal Selenger, RSM. Not pictured, Sister Delia Obenza, OP-Philippines. More photos on Page 9.

Gauchos and God: Pope draws life lessons from Argentine cowboy culture CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Dressed in a woolen poncho, leather boots and silver spurs, the traditional gaucho was the cowboy of Argentina’s immense plains, herding cattle and living a simple, hard life far from family and close to nature.

Though a little rough around the edges, gauchos were generally known to be respectful, loyal, honest and proud, rooted to a code of ethics that valued work and solidarity.

“The gaucho culture is an attitude toward life, and I believe Pope Francis is highlighting precisely this aspect in his current mission,” said Roberto Vega Anderson, an Argentine gold- and

silversmith who is the curator of a newly opened exhibit at the Vatican.

The show, “Argentina, the Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith,” opened May 17 and runs until June 16 in the Vatican’s Braccio di Carlo Magno – a hall next to St. Peter’s Basilica.

Planning for a Vatican exhibit on Argentine gauchos had begun last summer, well before Pope Benedict XVI announced plans to resign and cardinals convened to elect the first pope from Latin America.

Organizers said it was “providential” and “lucky” the show opened under a new pope from Argentina.

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NEED TO KNOW WORLDWIDE EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: A Worldwide Eucharistic Adoration will be broadcast from St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican this Sunday, June 2, from 5-6 p.m. local time. Its theme is “One Lord, One Faith.” “It will be an event occurring for the first time in the history of the church, which is why we can describe it as historical,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, said in an announcement May 28.

The cathedrals of the world will be synchronized with Rome and will, for an hour, be in communion with the pope in eucharistic adoration. “There has been an incredible response to this initiative, going beyond the cathedrals and involving episcopal conferences, parishes, lay associations, and religious congregations, especially cloistered ones,” Archbishop Fisichella said.

The dioceses will be synchronized with St. Peter’s and will pray for the intentions proposed by the pope.

The first intention is: “For the church spread throughout the world and united today in the adoration of the most holy Eucharist as a sign of unity. May the Lord make her ever more obedient to hearing his word in order to stand before the world ‘ever more beautiful, without stain or blemish, but holy and blameless.’”

The second intention: “For those around the world who still suffer slavery and who are victims of war, human trafficking, drug running, and slave labor. For the children and women who are suffering from every type of violence. May their silent scream for help be heard by a vigilant church so that, gazing upon the crucified Christ, she may not forget the many brothers and sisters who are left at the mercy of violence. Also, for all those who find themselves in economically precarious situations, above all for the unemployed, the elderly, migrants, the homeless, prisoners and those who experience marginalization.”

The adoration is one of two worldwide events celebrating the Year of Faith, The second, The Day Celebrating the Evangelium Vitae, titled “Believing May They Have Life,” will take place June 15-16.

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‘I tell you, it’s time. We need a physician and the physician is Christ.’

(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

A prayer service was held in San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood May 22 for homicide victim Cameron Myers, 20. From right, pictured praying the Our Father are St. Brendan Parish pastor Father Daniel Nascimento, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, archdiocesan Restorative Justice coordinator Julio Escobar, Divine Word Missionary Father Ben Beltran from St. Bruno Parish, and St. Paul of the Shipwreck pastor Conventual Franciscan Father Paul T. Gawlowski.

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Archbishop leads street-corner prayer service for homicide victim VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Cameron Myers was just 20 years old when a 15-year-old allegedly stabbed him to death an hour after midnight in San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood on May 15.

On May 22, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone joined four Catholic priests, two Protestant pastors and community members and activists, including a mother who lost her own son to violence 18 years ago, to pray for Myers, his family and those who caused the young man’s death.

“Loving and merciful God, we entrust our brother to you in your mercy,” the archbishop prayed. “You loved him greatly in his life. Be with his family and friends in this time of sorrow.”

“Lord we ask you to send your spirit upon our whole community,” Archbishop Cordileone prayed. Blessing the ground with holy water, he said, “May Almighty God bless this ground; turn this place scarred by violence into a place of peace, a place of life.”

The archbishop told reporters after the prayer service that faith leaders have a role to play in transforming the culture of violence.

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Archbishop Cordileone said there is a “need to reach out and educate our youth in how to resolve conflict and give them opportunities for work, they need jobs.”

“There are so few opportunities, there is a brain drain,” said Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish. He said the area is being hit from both sides because there are also scant jobs for college-educated youth who want to return to the community.

Youth need education and “a sense of accomplishment in life,” the archbishop said. “I don’t mean education just in a sense of book knowledge but in developing a sense of self worth and virtue in order to maintain their commitments in life.”

“There is sickness in our culture and we need the power of God to heal us,” Archbishop Cordileone said, echoing comments made during the prayer service by Mattie Scott, a mother who lost a son to gun violence in 1996 and who is a founder of The Healing Circle for the Soul Support Group, a group that supports parents who have lost children to violence or prison.

“I tell you, it’s time,” said Scott. “We need a physician and the physician is Christ.”

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“That young man who took Cameron’s life, we have to reach out to his family. They are tired and they are hurting and they are in a lot of pain,” Scott said.

The prayer service at the corner of Innes Avenue and Arelious Walker Drive, within sight of San Francisco Bay, with the backdrop of a barbedwire fence and frequently punctuated by the heavy sounds of passing trucks, was the latest of 32 such prayer services organized by the archdiocesan Restorative Justice Ministry, and frequently led by St. Brendan the Navigator pastor Father Dan Nascimento and parochial vicar Father Michael Quinn. A similar prayer ministry is performed by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County and Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, at murder sites on the Peninsula.

San Francisco police Officer Albie Esparza said a 15-year-old male was booked in Nevada County on May 19 pending extradition for the stabbing.

He said the investigation was still open and more arrests could be made.

Both Myers and the alleged perpetrator were from Nevada County, Esparza said May 24.

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Syrian crisis close to home for area Maronite community JIM GRAVES CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is home to Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Millbrae – Northern California’s only Maronite parish, which is an Eastern Catholic church in union with Rome. Although its parishioners are predominately Lebanese, the parish also serves other Middle Eastern Catholics, including Syrians. Of its 250 registered families, three are Syrians fleeing their country’s two-year civil war, said Father John Nahal, Our Lady of Lebanon’s pastor.

“Here in the Bay area we’re protected from the physical effects of the war, but it still affects us emotionally,” said Father Nahal. “We all have family and friends in the region, and we care about their safety. So, we pray every day for peace in Syria.”

He added, “The war has not been good for anyone, especially Christians.”

Civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, and Islamic fundamentalists have come into the country to challenge the secular regime of Bashar Assad.

As American leaders debate what role the U.S. ought to take in the conflict, neither the rebels nor the Assad government has been able to gain the upper hand. The war has been bloody; the United Nations estimates that 70,000 have died in the conflict, mostly civilians. Many homes and businesses have been destroyed. There have been many kidnappings. In April, two Greek Orthodox bishops were abducted from the northern province of Aleppo. Christian leaders, including Pope Francis, have pleaded for the release of the two clerics.

While the Syrian civil war has been primarily between Muslim groups, Christians in the region have fled not only to escape violence, but out of concerns that a fundamentalist Islamic state will be established. Such a regime could lead to a similar persecution experienced by Christians under a resurgent Islam in Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt. Additionally, there are fears that the war will mag-

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First communicants are pictured May 5 at Our Lady of Lebanon Church, a Maronite Catholic community in Millbrae. At the far left are Luna Fadlallah and her cousin Christine Sulieman, whose families left Syria to escape the effects of the civil war in their native country. nify long-standing hostility that some Muslims have toward the Christian minority and lead to violence. Syrian Christians have fled to Jordan and Lebanon, Father Nahal noted, and for those who are able, to the United States and other Western countries.

Waaed Fadlallah is from Daraa, in southwest Syria along the Jordanian border. She is a Christian; Daraa is predominantly Sunni Muslim, a group which has opposed the Assad government. It was in Daraa where the civil war began with demonstrations in spring 2011.

Fadlallah and her husband first moved to the United Arab Emirates and worked for the government, bringing their three daughters, now ages 3, 7 and 9. Due to the violence in Daraa they were not able to return home, but obtained a travel visa and joined extended family in San Francisco a year ago. Her husband did not come; Fadlallah explained, “He wants to come, but he needs a good job first.”

The Fadlallah family currently lives in South San Francisco and has found a spiritual home at Our Lady

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of Lebanon. Her oldest daughter, Luna, just received her first Communion on May 5. Also receiving her first Communion was Luna’s cousin, Christine Sulieman, the 9-year-old daughter of Fadlallah’s sister, whose family also has stayed away from Syria because of the violence.

Fadlallah said, “This war has been dangerous for Christians. People threaten to kill us and our families if we don’t give them money. We’re happy to be far away from there.”

The first Communion celebration was a welcome respite for the Our

Lady of Lebanon community from concerns about the violence in Syria.

Eighteen children received first Communion, said volunteer teacher Jano Saade. She remarked, “It was a happy occasion. The kids were humble and sweet. It was a perfect day.”

The moving highlight of the celebration was the reading of intercessions by the children. They were able to pick the prayers themselves; they opted to pray, in both English and Arabic, for peace in Syria and the entire Middle East. Saade recalled, “Everyone was crying. We were so moved when we thought of the suffering there.”

Saade continued, “We talked about the civil war, and I told them that they are so fortunate to live in a community without war. I said we need to pray for these other kids that they may be safe and live in peace.”

It hasn’t been easy for Fadlallah to make a new home in the United States. Her English skills are still evolving, the family has had to find housing and she has found the Bay Area expensive. She has not been able to work herself, and must rely on the money her husband sends and the generosity of her family. She is also worried about the fate of her family and friends in Daraa.

Yet, despite the challenges, she is grateful to Our Lady of Lebanon parishioners for their friendship and support. She said, “They’ve been very kind. They’re good guys.”

GRAVES is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach with roots in the Bay Area.

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Couple wired for each other celebrates 6 decades TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

“Hugo and Lucille Phillips celebrated 60 years of happiness May 4 at St. Isabella Parish hall in San Rafael,” said Hugo in a note to this column.

Their four children, three grandchildren and 60 friends cheered them on.

The couple met through AT&T – Lucille worked in a Chicago office and Hugo and Lucille Phillips Hugo in the Point Reyes Overseas Radio Receiver Station, now closed, and married in the Windy City May 2, 1953. The marriage was blessed May 5 at St. Isabella, Father Edward Phelan presiding.

FOR THE LONG TERM: Congratulations to Barry Stenger, who has been named executive director of the St. Anthony Foundation now branding as St. Anthony’s. Barry had been serving as interim director. Barry is the seventh boss in St. Anthony’s 63 years and his roots in St. Anthony’s are firm.

Barry is a former volunteer at St. Anthony’s and had the privilege Barry Stenger of serving at the side of late Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker, St. Anthony’s founder. “Barry has proven himself as a leader in communicating Franciscan values as a way to live out Catholic social teaching,” St. Anthony’s said in announcing the appointment. “St. Anthony’s is a venerable organization that has been at the heart of San Francisco for a long time,” Barry said. “The biggest challenge I see is for us is to find the right institutional expression to communicate Franciscan concern for the poor in new and contemporary ways. People are attracted to Franciscan values because they are human values.” Barry holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, taught ethics at the Graduate Theological Union, and has experience in fundraising including eight years as development director at St. Anthony’s.

St. Anthony’s has begun construction of the new $22.5 million St. Anthony’s Dining Room expected to open in the fall of 2014. Barry will guide St. Anthony’s through one of its biggest institutional changes during a time in which the Tenderloin/ Mid-Market district is experiencing rapid growth, St. Anthony’s said. Visit www.stanthonysf.org.

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ORDER IN THE COURT: Immaculate Conception Academy welcomed California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin April 10.

The jurist spoke of the importance of goals, making connections and building strong relationships. Pictured from left are Dominican Sister Diane Aruda, school president; ICA’s Tim Szarnicki, Justice Ming Chin; Patricia Cavagnaro, ICA director of development, and attorney, Stephen Lanctot, an ICA board member.

GROWING UP: Congrats to the Laura Vicuña Pre-Kindergarten in North Beach now celebrating 25 years of helping kids get ready for grade school.

Barbara Simons has been director at the school for all of the two and a half decades. Laura Vicuña, part of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish and school, “is the oldest pre-kindergarten program in the San Francisco archdiocese,” Barbara said, and “since it opened in 1987 more than 600 children have enjoyed their introduction to Catholic education there.” An anniversary event in December raised more than $10,000 for Laura Vicuna.

QUIZ WIZ: Archbishop Riordan High School won the Bay Area Catholic High School Quiz Bowl championship April 20, an event it has hosted for the past six years and the first for the school to take the crown. Junipero Serra High School finished second and Stuart Hall High School third. The following weekend, Matthew Pilli, a freshman on the Riordan quiz bowl team, competed at the U.S. Geography Olympiad and National History Bee in Washington, D.C. Pictured from left are John Ahlbach coach, team members Trevor Peralta, Chris Suen and Matt Pilli, and Jeff Isola coach. sented to Jean Henderson, Good Shepherd Parish; Marie and Ronald Derenzi, St. Veronica Parish; Joven Corpus, Holy Angels Parish; Emma Chan.

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Committee approval moves immigration bill on to full Senate PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform expressed optimism and hope for a law to pass this summer after the Senate Judiciary Committee May 21 finished wading through 300 proposed amendments – accepting about a third of them – and passed the massive bill on to the full Senate.

Comments lauding the committee’s effort came from faith groups, young adults who would benefit from the DREAM Act, which is included in the bill, and even from a Catholic bishop in Ireland.

A statement from the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration May 23 lauded the bill’s progress and encouraged legislators to broaden the potential number of participants in its legalization provisions and to rethink those that would eliminate some categories of family reunification immigration.

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles said the bishops and their staff had been advocating to change the eligibility cutoff date and make other changes that will allow more people to participate.

“To leave a large population behind would defeat the purpose of the bill, which is to bring persons into the light so they can become full members of our communities,” said his statement.

In the final hours of the fifth day of the bill’s markup, agreements were reached on two areas that

threatened to derail the bipartisan alliance that wrote the bill and will be crucial to its passage by the Senate.

One agreement wrangled by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, would expand the number of visas the bill would provide for highly skilled workers. The other was a concession

by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the committee, to withhold an amendment he supports that would include same-sex married couples under the provisions for family reunification visas.

The proposed provision would Archbishop Jose have been a deal-breaker for at least one of the so-called “gang of eight,” H. Gomez the bipartisan group of senators who drafted the bill, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Some of the faith groups that have been active in pushing for comprehensive immigration reform but oppose same-sex marriage, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, also worked to keep the amendment off the bill.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., another of the bill’s authors, said he thought leaving out the provision amounts to “rank discrimination,” but added, “as much as it pains me, I cannot support this amendment if it will bring down the bill.”

Leahy read a statement saying that after more than 50 years of marriage he “cannot fathom how I would

feel if my government refused to recognize our union or if the law discriminated against me based on who I fell in love with.”

He said his amendment wouldn’t have changed a single state law – more than 30 prohibit same-sex marriage – and likened those current laws to the era of miscegenation laws, which barred marriage between people of different races.

The federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, means same-sex spouses currently are not entitled to the immigration benefits that heterosexual spouses may seek. That law is under constitutional review by the Supreme Court, with a ruling expected before the end of this term in late June.

Faced with the prospect that the amendment might mean the end of the whole bill, Leahy said he would withhold it, after having concluded, “it is not the bill I would have drafted and falls short of what I had hoped we could accomplish, but it may well be the best we can do in the present partisan circumstances.”

Archbishop Gomez’s statement on the bill said family reunification “based on the union of a husband and a wife and their children, must remain the cornerstone of our nation’s immigration system.”

The bill will move to the Senate floor for debate probably in mid-June. A House comprehensive immigration reform bill is reportedly in the works.

Survey finds majority of priests dislike missal translation CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A majority of U.S. priests said they dislike the translation of the Roman Missal introduced at Advent 2011, a new survey found.

Overall, 59 percent of responding priests said they disliked the new English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal. At the same time, 39 percent of respondents said they liked the text.

The survey by the Godfrey Diekmann, OSB Center for Patristics and Liturgical Studies at St. John’s School of Theology-Seminary in Collegeville, Minn., also found that 80.1 percent of respondents found some of the language in the missal “awkward or distracting.”

Researchers conducted the survey from February through early May. A total of 1,536 priests participated, a response rate of 42.5 percent. All 178 Latin-rite dioceses in the U.S. were invited to participate in the survey; 32 dioceses accepted the invitation. There are more than 14,000 priests in the U.S. Chase Becker, the survey’s project manager, de-

scribed the results as surprising in an interview with Catholic News Service.

“When you look through the optional comments that priests were able to leave, I just was really struck by the things that surfaced,” Becker said. “A lot felt the translation affected negatively on their own prayer life or the ability to connect with their parishioners.

“These priests have devoted their lives to their work, and the celebration of Mass is the huge part of their work and their own identity as priests. Clearly this is something that has touched them on a very deep level,” he said.

Father Daniel Merz, associate director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship, welcomed the findings, but was cautious in accepting them without question, especially after a more detailed survey of lay people last fall by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University found that 70 percent of respondents said the translation was a “good thing.”

“The (bishops’) Committee on Divine Worship and the bishops will be very interested in studying the full

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Hearing focuses on proposal to ban abortion past 20 weeks CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The fetal nervous system and brain structures that communicate pain are already in place by the 18th week of gestation, a neurobiologist from Utah told a congressional hearing May 23.

“There is universal agreement that pain is detected by the fetus in the first trimester,” although if it is not known if that pain is experienced in quite the same way as it is in adults, said Maureen Condic, an associate professor of neurobiology and adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City.

She also said that unborn babies are anesthetized when undergoing fetal surgery because, she explained, doctors have observed that fetuses do experience pain.

Condic was one of several witnesses testifying at the hearing sponsored by U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, RAriz., as chair of the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

Franks, with several co-sponsors has introduced the Pain Capable Unborn Protection Act to prohibit abortion nationwide after 20 weeks of gestation, approximately the stage at which scientists say unborn babies are capable of feeling pain.

Franks recently reintroduced a measure that would outlaw abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks, and he and a number of other members of Congress want to amend it to make it nationwide.

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At a press conference a day before the hearing, Marilyn Musgrave, who is vice president for government affairs at the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, said the measure is timely “as the nation grapples with the horrific details of the Kermit Gosnell trial as well as the continually emerging evidence of the utter brutality of late-term abortion.”

At the hearing witnesses included opponents of Franks’ bill who said evidence of fetal pain is unfounded and argued that a woman should be able to choose to have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, especially in cases of fetal deformities.

Christy Zink, a mother from the District of Columbia, testified against any prohibition on when a woman could get an abortion. She gave examples of cases, like her own, when a fetus is found to have anomalies after 20 weeks and continuing the pregnancy in her view would be cruel. In Zink’s case her pregnancy was at 21 weeks when doctors told her and her husband her unborn baby, a boy, would missing a part of his brain if her pregnancy was brought to term. The central connecting structure of the two parts of his brain was missing.

Another witness, Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB-GYN who used to perform late-term abortions, showed the instruments used in an abortion to extract an unborn baby from the mother.

He talked about the improbability of performing an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy in a medical emergency to save the life of the mother.

“Before a suction D&E (dilation and evacuation) procedure can be performed, the cervix must first be sufficiently dilated,” he said. “In the mid-second trimester, this requires approximately 36 hours to accomplish. In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion ‘to save the mother’s life’ would entail undue and dangerous delay in providing appropriate, truly life-saving care.”

Regarding abnormalities doctors discover a fetus to have, Levatino asked those in the hearing room if “children with Down syndrome are not entitled to a chance at life? Children with different types of brain injuries are not entitled at a chance to live? Is that what we’re championing here?”

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In a statement, the organization said the decision to review the organization’s ban on accepting homosexuals as members was made based on “growing input from within the Scouting family.”

“Today, following this review, the most comprehensive listening exercise in Scouting’s history, the approximate 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone,” the statement said.

The organization said it did not reconsider its ban on homosexual adults as Scout leaders and that the policy remains in place.

“The Boy Scouts of America will not sacrifice its mission, or the youth served by the movement, by allowing the organization to be consumed by a single, divisive and unresolved societal issue,” the statement added.

The National Catholic Committee on Scouting said it will determine how the change may affect Catholic chartered Scout units and activities. “In doing so, we will work within the teachings of our Catholic faith and with the various local bishops and their diocesan Scouting committees,” the committee said in a statement.

The Catholic Church teaches that people “who experience a homosexual inclination or a same-sex attraction are to be treated with respect recognizing the dignity of all persons,” the statement said.

“The church’s teaching is clear that engaging in sexual activity outside of marriage is immoral,” it continued. “Individuals who are open and avowed homosexuals promoting and engaging in homosexual conduct are not living lives consistent with Catholic teaching.”

The Washington archdiocese said the policy change “does not affect the teachings of the Catholic Church and the manner in which the Archdiocese of Washington conducts the Scouting programs under its purview.”

“The church, through its clergy and lay leaders, has the responsibility to teach the Gospel and encourage all people to live out the teachings of Christ – regardless of their sexual preference,” it added.

The Denver archdiocese said that the church “agrees that no group should reduce a person to their sexual orientation or proclivity. However, the moral formation of youth must include a firm commitment to respecting and promoting an authentic vision of sexuality rooted in the Gospel itself.”

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Pope: Human rights ‘trampled’ in world ‘where money rules’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Human trafficking is “a despicable activity, a disgrace for our societies, which describe themselves as civilized,” Pope Francis said.

Refugees, displaced and stateless people are particularly vulnerable to “the plague of human trafficking, which increasingly involves children subjected to the worst forms of exploitation and even recruitment into armed conflicts,” the pope said May 24 during a meeting with members of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.

With many victims of trafficking forced into prostitution, Pope Francis said that “exploiters and clients at every level must make a serious examination of conscience before themselves and before God.” “In a world that talks so much about rights, how many times are human rights trampled,” he said.

“In a world that talks so much about rights, the only thing that seems to have them is money. Dear brothers and sisters, we live in a world where money

tion, traumatic events, fleeing their homes and being in refugee camps uncertain about their futures.”

At the same time, he said, Christians must learn to appreciate “the light of hope” shining through the eyes and lives of refugees and displaced people.

“It is a hope that is expressed in their expectations for the future, their willingness to make friendships, their desire to participate in the society that welcomes them, including through learning the language, entering the job market and sending their children to school.”

Pope Francis, whose four grandparents were born in Italy and immigrated to Argentina, said, “I admire the courage of those who hope to gradually resume a normal life in the expectation that joy and love will once again brighten existence. swcGatorSports1303.eps 1 their 2/12/13 8:41 AM All of us can and must nourish their hope.”

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VATICAN CITY – Visiting an ordinary Rome parish for the first time as the city’s bishop, Pope Francis gave a group of children their first Communion and a catechism lesson on the meaning of the Trinity.

The pope celebrated Mass May 26, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, outside the Church of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah, about nine miles north of Vatican City in the Rome suburb of Prima Porta.

Pope Francis arrived at the church by helicopter shortly after 9 a.m. and went inside to hear the confessions of several people, before celebrating Mass at an altar under a canopy in front of the church. In the rural setting of rolling hills, sheep could be seen grazing in a nearby field.

“We understand reality better not from the center, but from the outskirts,” he told the several thousand people in attendance at the beginning of Mass.

Most of the pope’s short homily was addressed to the children.

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GENEVA – More than 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith, and millions more face bigotry, intolerance and marginalization because of their beliefs, a Vatican official said.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to U.S. agencies in Geneva, told the Human Rights Council May 27 that “credible research” by Massimo Introvigne, a former representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on combating intolerance

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First communicants wait in line as Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah Parish on the outskirts of Rome May 26. The pope gave first Communion to 16 children at the parish.

“How many Gods are there?” he asked. “One? But they told me that there are three: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! How do you explain that?

“They are three in one, three persons in one,” he said.

and discrimination against Christians, “has reached the shocking conclusion that an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are violently killed because of some relation to their faith every year.”

In addition, he said, “in some Western countries, where historically the Christian presence has been an integral part of society, a trend emerges that tends to marginalize Christianity in public life, ignore historic and social contributions and even restrict the ability of faith communities to carry out social charitable services.”

“The Father creates everything, he creates the world; Jesus saves us,” the pope said. “And the Holy Spirit? He loves us!

“How does Jesus give us strength?” he asked. “In Communion.”

‘BUILD COMMUNITY IN BROTHERLY LOVE,’ POPE TELLS BISHOPS

VATICAN CITY – The depth of a bishop or priest’s love for Jesus and his willingness to give up everything for God are the litmus test for how well the pastor is fulfilling his ministry, Pope Francis said.

“We are not the face of an organization or an organizational necessity,” he told hundreds of Italian bishops during a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica May 23. “We are called to be a sign of the presence and action of the

“Does a piece of bread give you such strength?” the pope asked. “It is not really bread. ... It is the body of Jesus.”

Pope Francis later administered first Communion to 16 white-robed children and gave the sacrament to another 28 who had received their first Communion in recent weeks.

During his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II visited 317 of the 333 parishes in Rome. Pope Benedict XVI made such visits much less frequently, typically during Advent and Lent.

Also on May 26, after praying the noon Angelus from the window of his study in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis addressed the crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

Noting the beatification May 25 of Father Giuseppe Puglisi, who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in 1993, the pope spoke of the “sufferings of the men and women, and even of children, who are exploited by the different mafias, who exploit them by forcing them into work that makes them slaves, with prostitution, and with many societal pressures.”

“Let us pray to the Lord,” Pope Francis said, “to convert the hearts of these people.”

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Keeping watch over oneself and one’s flock is necessary to avoid becoming a “lukewarm” pastor, the pope said. He said a lack of vigilance makes a pastor “distracted, forgetful and even insufferable; it seduces him with the prospect of a career, the enticement of money and compromises with the spirit of the world.”

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GAUCHOS: Pope inspired by simplicity of homeland’s cowboy culture FROM PAGE 1

Pope Francis, like most Argentines, is no stranger to the gaucho culture.

The hardworking horsemen who ranched cattle across the continent’s southern grassy Pampas plain became a symbol of national pride in the region.

Jose Hernandez epic 19th-century Argentine poem, “Martin Fierro” – about a fictional gaucho outlaw who fights for a better life – represents “the heart of our national identity,” the future pope once wrote.

Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires published an essay in 2002 using the famous literary gaucho as a figure for reflection about the future of the nation.

The future pope said the gauchos had something to teach the country because “we Argentines have the dangerous tendency to think that everything just started today, to forget that nothing appears out of thin air or drops out of the sky like a meteorite,” he wrote in the essay titled, “A Reflection Starting with Martin Fierro.”

The future pope wrote that in the idyllic world of Fierro, the gaucho lives in harmony with nature, works with joy and skill, has fun with his friends, and lives simply and humanely surrounded by few material belongings.

As the exhibit shows, the gaucho used the poncho as a coat and blanket at night, ate with his knife – the “facon” – and carried a hollowed out gourd or ox horn for drinking his herbal tea called mate. When they could, gauchos would embellish their tools and horse trappings with ornately designed silver.

Then-Cardinal Bergoglio highlighted the fortitude and can-do attitude of the gaucho, who ‘takes his destiny into his own hands’ with what little he has instead of pining for more or waiting for someone else to act.

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This lithograph by W. Holland from 1808 called, “A Peon of South America Throwing the Laso,” is part of the Vatican exhibit, “Argentina, the Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith,” which runs until June 16.

Then-Cardinal Bergoglio highlighted the fortitude and can-do attitude of the gaucho, who “takes his destiny into his own hands” with what little he has instead of pining for more or waiting for someone else to act.

“Rebuilding isn’t the task of a few but of everyone,” he wrote.

Father Angel Bartolome Hernandez, vice rector of Rome’s Pontifical Argentine College in Rome, said the gaucho had a hard life, but “knows how to put on a happy face during hard times.”

Suffering “made you stronger and there was always the hope of a better tomorrow,” he told Catholic News Service. The gaucho learned “to

OAKLAND: Bishop Barber, SJ, installed FROM PAGE 1

Dolores Church back in 19-hundredand,” he said, running his hand across his mouth to playfully obscure the date, “He’s here today. Father John Cummins, the second bishop of Oakland.”

“Thirdly, the Dominican sister who taught me in the eighth grade,” Bishop Barber said. “You may not realize it but this sister has taught every person in the Diocese of Oakland because she taught me the faith, and I will hand it on to you. In honoring her, I honor all consecrated religious women, all teachers and all catechists in our diocese.

Thank you, Sister Mary Jude.”

He offered greetings to Gov. Jerry Brown, who had trained three and a half years as a Jesuit, before becoming governor of California, twice, and mayor of Oakland.

“Governor, I’m honored that you are here today, because on this day, only here in Oakland, in the state of California, in the United States of America, do you have a Jesuit bishop, to go with a Jesuit pope and a Jesuit governor.”

Bishop Barber’s career as a priest focused on education, with assignments including assistant professor of theology at Gregorian University in Rome; researcher and tutor at Oxford University in England; director of the School of Pastoral Leadership in the Archdiocese of San Francisco; assistant professor of systematic and moral theology and spiritual director at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park; and director of spiritual formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Mass.

‘My vision is this: The priests take care of the people.

The bishop takes care of the priests. And we all take care of the poor, and the sick and the suffering.’

make do with what he had and rely on himself ” given there weren’t any supermarkets in sight, he said.

The fertile Pampas plain helped cultivate a benevolent view of the world because “all you had to do was toss a seed and it would bloom by itself.” And life was a lot like crops: Some years were good, others bad, “so it paid to take advantage of the good ones to gather strength and the means to get through the bad,” he said.

Father Hernandez said the pope’s Italian roots – not just gaucho traditions– also influence his world view.

Like many immigrants, the pope’s Italian grandparents had to start from

scratch, but hard work helped pull them from poverty, the priest said.

The pope’s experience of seeing that care and effort reaped benefits means the dignity of work is very important for him, as is the culture of savings and taking care of creation, he said. The gaucho culture is similar in its “faith in mother earth, who needs to be respected and safeguarded because it supplies us with everything.”

Many things the pope has said reflect this unique lens on life: his calls for protecting creation and for dignified employment, the importance of simplicity and hope, as well as his idea of “pressing on” even when carrying a burden.

Even if the gaucho lost his few possessions after racing his horse against another or in a friendly game of cards, “he was ready to get back to his journey toward fresh sacrifices, to regain what he had lost even if it meant it would take the rest of his life,” one section of the Vatican exhibition said.

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BISHOP MICHAEL C. BARBER Bishop Barber said that until three weeks ago it never entered his mind that he would be bishop of Oakland.

In his initial nervousness, he said he recalled that Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the previous apostolic nuncio had told a priest who was nervous about being made a bishop: The Lord himself is going to be bishop of your diocese. You’re only going to help him.

“That’s what I’d like to do,” he said.

“I’m helping our Lord here be the bishop of this diocese. I know I’m unworthy, but I do know one other thing: That for all eternity, in the mind of God, to be bishop of Oakland has been my vocation. With God’s help, and your prayers, and the love of Mother Mary, I intend to fulfill it.”

The bishop left the cathedral to the “Navy Hymn,” in tribute to his service as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy.

JURICH is associate editor/staff writer for The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Oakland diocese.

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Sister Anne Davidson, RSCJ, is pictured with Archbishop Cordileone. Sister Anne, with 43 other women religious, one cloistered woman religious and six men religious, was honored at a special Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral May 26. The Mass celebrated the contributions of all men and women in consecrated life and their communities in the archdiocese. There are 650 women religious in the archdiocese, representing 48 communities.

Salesian Father Austin Conterno was honored for 75 years in consecrated life.

Born in Italy, Father Conterno entered religious life Sept. 8, 1937. From 1963 to the present, he has served in parish ministry in several Salesian parishes especially in that of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco, his assignment since 1985.

Now 97 and officially retired, he still offers Mass in English, Italian and Latin, always aware of the cultural background of the worshippers.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | MAY 31, 2013

In the tricentennial year of the birth of the Franciscan friar who founded the California mission system, historians reflect on the legacy of a complex figure of ‘sheer willpower’ – a man so tough he seemed to be made of ‘all wood and nails,’ was ‘on fire for spreading the Gospel’ and had surprisingly modern ideas about establishing a society of faith, peace and plenty in the New World .

JIM GRAVES CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Father Junipero Serra (1713-84) is a significant name in California’s history. Revered by some, reviled by others, the dedicated Franciscan friar launched California’s mission system in 1769, and would ultimately oversee the founding of the state’s first nine missions. Twenty-one missions would be founded by the Spanish in all, including the sixth mission, Mission Dolores, founded in San Francisco in 1776.

Serra was born in the island of Majorca, a Spanish island possession off the eastern coast of Spain, and joined the Franciscan order at age 17. He quickly distinguished himself for both his piety and learning, and spent more than a decade preaching and teaching at the university level in Majorca.

Inspired by the example of the great missionaries of his order, he sailed for Mexico on 1749. He spent the remainder of his life evangelizing the indigenous peoples of Mexico and California.

At age 56, he began his apostolic missionary work in California; his goal was to bring the Catholic faith to the Indians and make them citizens of New Spain. His missionaries also brought with them the crops and livestock which would make California prosper.

Pope John Paul II, believing Serra lived a life of virtue and is a role model for Catholics, declared him venerable in 1985. In 1988, the pontiff accepted that a miracle had been worked through Serra’s intercession and beatified him. Another miracle is needed to make him St. Junipero, and various cases are currently being examined.

Serra’s contribution to California has been recognized by civil authorities as well. In 1931, a statue of Serra was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol.

As the church celebrates the 300th anniversary of Serra’s birth, Catholic San Francisco spoke with six California historians about Serra and his legacy.

Andrew Galvan

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Andrew Galvan has served as curator of Mission Dolores for 10 years. He is a former Franciscan brother, and his ancestors include the Ohlone Indians (the inhabitants of the Bay Area before the arrival of the Spanish). His job at Mission Dolores, he said, is “to focus on the Indians who built the missions for Indians.” Insufficient focus is often given to the California Indians at some of the state’s other missions, he said.

He is also a member of the board of

directors of the Junipero Serra Cause for Canonization. Although some who identify themselves as descendants of the California Indians have criticized Serra for his treatment of the Indians, Galvan has a different perspective. He said, “I believe Serra is a saint, and I’m waiting for him to be declared one.”

Galvan has been active in the support of Serra’s cause for canonization since 1978, when he met Serra biographer and Franciscan friar Father Noel Francis Moholy (1916-98) at Mission San Jose. Father Moholy devoted over 40 years of his life to seeing Serra canonized as vice postulator of Serra’s cause, and stood with Galvan at the Vatican to see Serra beatified. Galvan is hopeful that a miracle will soon be accepted by the Vatican that will make Serra a saint.

“It shows you sanctity is alive in America today, as is evidenced by cures being brought about through Serra’s intervention,” he said.

Galvan described Serra as a hard worker, “all wood and nails.” Examination of his skeletal remains and written accounts indicate that he was 5-feet-2-inches tall, had blue eyes and a dark complexion. But, most notably, “Serra was on fire for spreading the Gospel message.”

In studying the friar, however, it is important to remember that his was a perspective of a man of the 18th century, different from that of many people today, Galvan said.

As a teenager, Galvan continued, Serra was inspired by the example of the Spanish Franciscan St. Francis Solano (1549-1610), who came to present-day South America to preach the Gospel to its inhabitants. He also stressed that Serra was heavily influenced by the teachings of philosopher-theologian Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308).

Galvan remarked, “It became Serra’s life dream to preach the Gospel in a place where it had never been brought before.”

Although he is grateful for the Catholic faith the Spanish brought to California, he is a critic of what he calls “colonialism,” or the attempt to impose a foreign culture on California’s Indians. The Spanish objective was to absorb the natives into their society – “to teach them how to be both a good Spaniard and a good Catholic at the same time.”

He added, “It was the lesser of three evils.

With French or British colonialism, the native people were gone within three years.”

He believes that Serra was “a good man living out the Gospel in a bad system …

Serra was trying to protect the Indians as he best knew how, using both bureaucracy and prayer.”

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Msgr. Francis Weber

Msgr. Francis Weber of Mission San Fernando is a priest and archivist for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He has written “seven or eight” books on Serra, including “Life and Times of Fray Junipero Serra” in 1987. He shared Galvan’s fondness for Serra, but offered a more sympathetic perspective of the California mission system.

Although he and Galvan disagree in some areas, they share the conviction that Serra is a saint. Msgr. Weber said, “Serra is one of the great heroes of California, and a great exemplar for young people. He was an outstanding person.”

One of Serra’s most notable qualities, said Msgr. Weber, was curiosity, which “impelled him to do all kinds of things.” He was curious about the lives of the California Indians, for example.

A seasoned historian, Msgr. Weber encourages those who want to learn about Serra to begin by reading the ample writings of Serra himself, and historical accounts written about Serra by those who knew him. Msgr.

Weber recommended the work of Franciscan priest and historian Maynard Geiger (190177), a defender of the California mission system, whose works include books on Serra himself and compilations of Serra’s letters.

Msgr. Weber continued, “Historians are literary detectives. They need to examine the evidence presented by people who lived in the time (of people such as Serra). Also, we must remember not to judge a person by our

sion San Juan Capistrano for 13 years. He is past president of the docent society, its education chairman, and has done an extensive study of Serra.

Spidell described Serra as a man “extremely dedicated to the Catholic Church.

Everything he did, from the time he was a boy, was to promote the Catholic Church.”

He continued, “Serra was always looking to expand the church. He asked his superiors for permission to found a mission, they’d say no, and he’d do it anyway.”

He was an able leader, Spidell said, and effective at defending his actions to his superiors. “He had to travel to Mexico several times to do this, and he was good at it,” Spidell said.

Serra’s determination led him to overcome many challenges. When he first arrived in Vera Cruz, Mexico, he was bitten by a bug. The wound never properly healed, and it caused him much suffering the rest of his life. Shortly before his death, Serra walked from Carmel to Mission San Gabriel

‘Serra was always looking to expand the church. He asked his superiors for permission to found a mission, they’d say no, and he’d do it anyway.’ standards, but by the standards of the time in which they lived.”

Serra and many of his fellow missionaries were university professors who left the comforts of home to bring the Catholic faith and “what they considered a better way of life to the aboriginal people of California,” Msgr.

Weber said. “The Native Americans had no formal education, and the missionaries’ idea was to bring them to the missions, (introduce them to) agriculture and raise cattle and other livestock.”

Relative to today, there were few people in California and wild game plentiful, Msgr. Weber said. But, he added, “If you’d kill a beast you’d have to eat it that day, as you’d have nothing to refrigerate it with. They didn’t have what we’d consider the necessities of modern life.”

It was the idea of the Spanish, he said, to “elevate” the life of the California Indians: “They thought, ‘Our society offers a better way to live life out.’”

Msgr. Weber rejected the notion that Serra had ever mistreated the Indians: “There’s no single recorded example in the official documentation of the period that Serra mistreated the Native Americans … in fact, he walked all the way to Mexico City to get a bill of rights issued for them. He was a great man all around.”

Bob Spidell

Bob Spidell has served as a docent at Mis-

(in the Los Angeles area), virtually not eating for 18 days. “He did this on sheer will power,” he said.

Serra’s contribution to California was enormous, Spidell believes: “Without someone like him, California would be a much different place. It’s not clear that Spain would have expanded into California at all.”

Spidell, too, said there was nothing in historical documents to indicate that Serra had mistreated the Indians; in fact, “he was protective of the Indians, such as when the Spanish soldiers were cruel to them. He looked after them as part of his flock.”

Spidell added that considering one culture had completely dominated another, he was “surprised there wasn’t more friction between them.” The Spanish converted the Indians from hunter-gatherers to farmers and ranchers, he said, which allowed for a much more stable food supply. Spidell quipped, “The Spanish had a good business model. If you join our church, we’ll feed and clothe you.”

Kristina Foss

Kristina Foss is museum director of Old Mission Santa Barbara, vice chair of the California Missions Foundation, has taught Native American Studies at Santa Barbara City College for 40 years and is a descendant of the Muscogee Indians.

She recently traveled to Serra’s birthplace, Majorca, and visited sites of historical

significance in Serra’s life. “As a native person,” she went with some negative attitudes about Serra and the missions, but came home from Majorca “with a different take than I thought I would.”

She saw Serra as a classroom philosophy professor, influenced by the writings of Scotus, wanting to establish “a perfect Christian community, in which everyone would share.

There would be no fighting and everyone would be kind to and love each other.”

He thought such a community could not be achieved in Europe, she said, but the native people “free from his cultural trappings” could. She continued, “I saw Serra from his time period. He was trying to come to the New World to bring what he believed was cultural and social Christian improvement, not merely establishing the political policies of Spain.”

She discovered that the homes in Indian villages built in Santa Barbara were modeled after Serra’s own boyhood home in Majorca.

She continued, “He thought he was bringing social change that would be beneficial to California. He went up in my estimation.”

What is considered mistreatment today – such as corporal punishment – was commonplace in Europe at the time, she added, and was not considered mistreatment at the time.

Some of the harm that came to the California Indians, such as diseases brought by the Spanish or illnesses caused by the introduction of a new diet, was not intended by the padres and “I think was a cause of sorrow to Serra.”

She believes it is fitting to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Serra’s birth because “whatever your political view, Serra is incredibly important in what happened to California.”

Bob Senkewicz

Bob Senkewicz, a professor of history at Santa Clara University who is currently writing a book on Serra, agreed that Serra “is one of the most important figures in California history before the Gold Rush.

Serra is also a symbol of what California has become, he said. He explained, “California is a place where people of different points of view come together, sometimes amicably, sometimes filled with tension. I think California is still that way today.”

Serra was not an American but a Latin American missionary, he added, in a long-established mission system: “He was extremely committed to his mission of evangelizing non-Christians. He was trying to save people’s souls.”

GRAVES is a freelance contributor to Catholic San Francisco. He lives in Newport Beach and served as a volunteer docent at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

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30 years after the bishops’ call for a ‘theology of peace’

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hirty years ago, the United States was giving aid to brutal regimes like the military led government of El Salvador, was committed to building the B-1 bomber and MX missile, was planning the implementation of an anti-ballistic missile shield, and was preparing to deploy Pershing nuclear misTONY MAGLIANO siles in Western Europe.

In the midst of all this conventional violent conflict, and accelerated nuclear war preparation, the U.S. Catholic bishops wrote “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response” – arguably the most radical pastoral letter ever written by the American hierarchy.

“We cannot remain silent in the face of such danger. We are simply trying to live up to the call of Jesus to be peacemakers in our time and situation,” wrote the bishops.

They stated that Catholic theology’s historical focus on limiting the devastation caused by violent force – the “just-war theory” – is not a sufficient modern response to the Second Vatican Council’s challenge “to undertake a completely fresh reappraisal of war.”

The bishops added that a fresh reappraisal of war requires a “developed theology of peace” that involves active, engaging dialogue within the church, and with those outside the church.

Where is this active, engaging dialogue today? The silence is deafening!

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An X-47B pilotless drone is launched for the first time off an aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush off the coast of Virginia, May 14. The United States’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles to hunt down suspected terrorists poses serious moral questions stemming from just-war principles, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. On May 23, President Obama pledged to impose a higher standard on drone strikes.

Nearly all of our seminaries, Catholic colleges, high schools, churches and pulpits are not actively engaged in developing a theology of peace.

There is instead a silent acceptance of the unjust and insane wars we fight, outrageous military budgets, the very lucrative military-industrial-complex, drone assassinations, torturing of prisoners, ROTC on Catholic campuses, military bases around the globe and nuclear weapons. All of this amounts to

making the military an idol. And sadly, far too many parishioners support much of the above.

A theology of peace is waiting to be developed.

A major step forward in the development of a theology of peace would declare that nuclear deterrence – the belief that nuclear war can be prevented by possessing nuclear weapons, along with the threat to use them – is an extremely dangerous policy that is totally unacceptable to the prince of peace

and the Catholic Church.

In their pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace” the bishops stated that their “strictly conditioned moral acceptance of nuclear deterrence” was a temporary acceptance. “We cannot consider it adequate as a long-term basis for peace.”

But in the 30 long years since then, the U.S. government has continued maintaining and modernizing its nuclear forces, making it obvious that the American government remains firmly committed to the policy of nuclear deterrence – as its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review clearly affirms.

It would be encouragingly hopeful if today’s bishops acknowledged that it’s time overdue to declare nuclear deterrence immoral and unacceptable.

In “The Challenge of Peace” the bishops prophetically wrote, “We must re-emphasize with all our being, nonetheless, that it is not only nuclear war that must be prevented, but war itself. Therefore, with Pope John Paul II we declare: ‘Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare – whether nuclear or not – makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.’”

Three decades ago the U.S. bishops offered “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response” as a “first step toward a message of peace and hope.” It’s time we take the second step!

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

LETTERS

Extraordinary form promotes ‘full conscious and active participation’ I was struck by two of the quotations in the May 22 article (“Extraordinary form of Latin Mass debuts at Star of the Sea’) discussing the newly offered traditional Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal, at Star of the Sea Church. Father Samuel Weber, OSB, said that all Catholics should have some familiarity with both forms of the Roman rite, and Archbishop Cordileone said that the traditional Mass can enrich the newer form of the Mass. I know several priests who primarily offer the newer form of the Mass but who have sought and received training in the celebration of the traditional Mass, and as a result have seen their “ars celebrandi” (the art of celebrating Mass) sharpened and elevated. Also, those who have only attended the newer form of the Mass for many years, but now attend both forms, find that their increased attention and devotion at holy Mass have given them a new appreciation for the “fully conscious and active participation” that was called for by the fathers of the Second Vatican Council.

It bears repeating that the traditional Mass has been the nourishment of the saints for many centuries. People should experience it for themselves.

Robert Graffio Petaluma

Latin Mass has launched many saints Thank you to Valerie Schmalz for

her fine article regarding the extraordinary form of the holy sacrifice of the Mass, also known as the Tridentine or traditional Latin Mass. How good of Archbishop Cordileone to initiate it into a central parish in San Francisco for city residents.

The Latin Mass has been the fertile field which has brought forth many saints of the church. It is filled with tradition, beauty and reverence. It is where the priest leads everyone in the worship of almighty God at the foot of his throne. It is only fair for those who appreciate it to be able to attend such a Mass.

In San Mateo County, it needs to be known that in addition to the Latin Mass in East Palo Alto, there is a more centrally located Latin Mass on the fourth Sunday of each month (which is not always the last Sunday!) at St.Catherine of Siena in Burlingame, at 4:30 p.m. A priest from the Diocese of San Jose generously travels the distance to provide it. And preceding the Mass the rosary is prayed in Latin. Booklets with the Latin words for both rosary and Mass are provided.

Jessica Munn Foster City

Why pray in Latin?

I am 63 and amazed that people much younger than I am want to

return to the world before I was 13.

When people want to celebrate liturgy in a language they don’t read or understand, I have to ask why. I read and write Latin, but I don’t want to pray in it. I respect other’s spirituality, as I hope they would mine, but why do people want to return to 1570 and then dress it up in terms of furthering the Second Vatican Council’s call for “ongoing liturgical renewal?”

How is renewal defined as going back over 400 years? When someone says that the Tridentine Mass is “very focused on Our Lord … it speaks to the heart,” are we supposed to take that as that the “novus ordo” of 1970, or even the new Roman Missal, with its arguably difficult and less than grammatically correct translation, is somehow not focused the same way and doesn’t speak to the heart? Or, is it that when you are present for the Tridentine liturgy, you don’t have to be bothered by any interaction with the community? I don’t know where this will go, but if we don’t stop forc-

ing what Thomas Merton called “a vanity of vanities, for merely to retrace one’s steps would be a vanity on top of vanity, a renewal of the same absurdity in reverse” we will never embrace the ever-new beginning that has no end. I’m all for the Holy Spirit, myself.

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

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LETTERS Immigration policy isn’t broken

Ernie Pyle’s faith

Re “Archbishop calls immigration reform bill ‘historic opportunity’” (May 24): Historic opportunity for what? Historic opportunity for whom? Immigration policy isn’t broken. It’s ignored! Ignored by the Democratic Party, which, for a vote, provides (the undocumented) with food stamps, housing, education and medical care; and the Republican Party, which just plain uses them for cheap labor.

What responsibility does the government of the United States have to people who are not citizens thereof ? And why do we have to get (the undocumented) involved in the debate? These millions upon millions made a choice to come here, legally or not. We did not drag them here. This means they also can go back if separation is the issue. That is their choice. But to break the law, deplete our resources, then demand to stay is beyond sensibility. We, as individuals, have a responsibility to help the poor. It is a task that our dear Lord clearly charged us with; but this should be conducted through private charities and not be a perpetual entitlement thrown on the backs of the hard-working American taxpayers, and it definitely should not be dictated by those who entered the country illegally.

Noelle Martinez South San Francisco

Contrary to what Dana Perrigan writes in “The Long Road Home” (May 24), Ernie Pyle did not share the idea that there are no atheists in foxholes, even though that line is often attributed to him. If you look carefully at the May 1943 column in which the phrase appears, you will see that he is quoting someone else: “Sergeant Harrington is the only soldier I’ve ever seen who digs round foxholes instead of rectangular ones. He says that’s literally so it will be harder for strafing bullets to get at him, but figuratively so the devil can’t get him cornered. He says he’s convinced the adage is true that ‘there are no atheists in foxholes.’”

Pyle was baptized and confirmed as a Methodist, but a careful reading of his columns and letters show someone who in his adult life developed grave doubts about his faith. He particularly didn’t like “holier than thou” types. He most respected believers who served their brothers and sisters, such as the Catholic fathers who worked in the leper colony Kalaupapa in Hawaii.

Owen V. Johnson Bloomington, Ind. The writer is a journalism professor and adjunct history professor at Indiana University.

Coming out as gay

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ational Basketball Association veteran center Jason Collins and professional soccer player Robbie Rogers recently announced they are gay. Some commentators called these revelations “pedestrian” and “extremely normal” as this same scene is played out millions of times in homes, families and workplaces across the world.

Collins, a Stanford University graduate, decided to tell his story in a thoughtful and dispassionate first-person narrative in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated. He did not glamorize his decision or elevate himself FATHER GERALD above those who opt to make a D. COLEMAN, SS different choice. He said that “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center.

I’m black. And I’m gay.” He named his announcement as a “journey of self-discovery and self-acknowledgment” and indicated that he wanted to be “genuine, authentic, and truthful.”

Collins first revealed himself to his aunt Teri, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco. Her supportive response brought him “relief” and finally “comfortable in my own skin.” Teri simply responded with love: “I’ve known you were gay for years.” When he told his brother Jarron, he was “downright astounded” but “full of brotherly love.”

Each time he tells his story, he feels stronger. He wrote, “When I acknowledged my sexuality, I felt whole for the first time.” Collins believes that he has finally “embraced the puzzle that is me (but) I don’t let my race define me anymore than I want my sexual orientation to.” He concluded, “Being gay is not a choice. This is a tough road and at times the lonely road (but) being genuine and honest makes me happy. I’m glad I can stop hiding.”

Collins feels that he forged solidarity with other gay people by wearing jersey number 98 with the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards. In 1998, in a contemptible anti-gay crime, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, tortured and lashed to a prairie fence. He died five days after he was found. The Trevor Project was founded this same year, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention to kids struggling with their sexual identity. Collins said that “when I put on my jersey I was making a statement to myself, my family, and my friends.”

Robbie Rogers’ announcement mirrors in many ways the unadorned story by Collins. Rogers comes from a close-knit conservative Catholic family. An American soccer player, he represented the U.S. 18 times in the Olympics, including the 2008 games in Beijing. Entitled “The Next Chapter,” he made his announcement via a heartfelt, crisp entry on his blog. He wrote, “For the past 25 years I have been afraid to show who I really was because of fear that judgment and rejection would hold me back from my dreams and aspirations.”

On an emotional level, he wrote, “Try convincing yourself that your creator has the most wonderful pur-

pose for you even though you were taught differently.”

He feared that those closest to him would abandon him if they knew his secret. He then writes, “Life is simple when your secret is gone. Gone is the pain that lurks in the stomach at work, the pain from avoiding questions, and at last the pain from hiding such a deep secret.” At age 25, he retired from professional soccer on Feb. 15. He wrote, “It’s time to discover myself away from soccer.”

Rogers blogged that “secrets can cause so much internal damage. I always thought I could hide this secret.

Soccer was my escape, my purpose, my identity. My secret is now gone (and) I am a free man.” He wrote that he realized he was gay when he was about 14 years old and felt he was an “outcast … I just couldn’t tell anyone because high school in the states is brutal. You’re going through puberty and kids can be vicious.”

When Rogers told his mother, “she made me cry (as) she was so loving and positive. She just said, ‘I love you so much.’”

In “Always Our Children” (1997), the U.S. bishops wrote that same-sex attraction “cannot be considered sinful, for morality presumes the freedom to choose.

God loves every person as a unique individual. Sexual identity helps to define the unique persons we are, and one component of our sexual identity is sexual orientation.”

When a person chooses to reveal that he or she is gay/ lesbian, sometimes at great personal risk, that person deserves the respect and support of others. Speaking the truth about one’s sexual identity is consonant with, and not opposed to, a life of integrity and faith. No one should be pressured to reveal his or her sexual orientation, but no one should be ashamed to do so either.

Collins and Rogers received an overwhelming amount of positive and supportive responses. They also received negative reaction. Writing in USA Today, NBA insider Chris Broussard translated the Collins/Rogers announcements as approval of “an openly homosexual lifestyle.” He cites the Bible and concludes that openly living such a lifestyle “is a sin … If you’re living in unrepentant sin, I think that’s walking in open rebellion to God and to Jesus Christ.” The Christian Science Monitor wrote that these announcements will “likely put wind in the sails of the trend of acceptance of gay rights in U.S. public opinion.”

These reactions demonstrate the moral and pastoral necessity to distinguish support and respect for gay and lesbian persons and an automatic approval of an agenda that avows the overturn of the traditional meaning of marriage by support of same-sex marriage.

The church teaches that homosexual persons exist and deserve our respect and support. In the case of Collins and Rogers, courage defeated fear, acceptance trumped self-doubt, and truth overcame shame.

These achievements can be duplicated by our acceptance of homosexual persons and our understanding of the burden they bear when their sexual identity is jeopardized due to fear, rejection or violence.

SULPICIAN FATHER COLEMAN is vice president, corporate ethics for the Daughters of Charity Health System.

Sexual conduct on campus

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t The Catholic University of America, where I serve as president, we have been working on some revisions to our code of student conduct. We’re finding that it’s challenging because we need to send students two different messages about sex that can at times clash awkwardly.

One pertains to sexual abuse – rape, sexual assault, sexual battery. The message here is fairly obvious.

It is both a crime and a JOHN GARVEY sin against justice and charity. Its distinguishing mark is the element of coercion – of forcing sex on an unwilling victim.

Sexual abuse is not only forbidden by state criminal law. It is also addressed by federal laws that apply to colleges – Title IX, the Violence Against Women Act, and the Clery Act (which requires colleges to report sex offenses near campus).

College student conduct codes will usually tell students that the difference between sex and sexual abuse is the element of consent.

And they will use a formula something like this to define consent: “Consent is informed, freely given, mutually understandable words or actions that indicate a willingness to participate in sexual activity.”

But that’s not the end of the story from a Catholic perspective. Consensual sex between students matters, too. It’s not a crime (fortunately), but it is a sin against chastity when it takes place outside of marriage.

Chastity is an unfashionable virtue nowadays, but the idea is not hard to understand. Casual sex is harmful even if there is no coercion.

It plays at love for sport. It makes promises that the players don’t intend to keep. It insults the dignity of the other person by treating him or her as a sex toy rather than a child of God. It divorces sex from the creation of new life and the unity of a family.

At The Catholic University of America, as at other universities, there should be exact and uncompromising justice for the crime of sexual abuse. At the same time, we want to steer our students toward something better than merely avoiding violence. We want them to embrace virtue and avoid vice.

Risk managers (accountants and lawyers) want us to be very clear with our students about what counts as sexual abuse: “Make sure your partner is a willing participant in any sexual activity. Get consent for every move you make.”

If we’re not explicit about this, they say, we may be guilty under Title IX of creating a hostile environment, and risk losing federal funds.

That makes some sense. But if we do follow the accountants’ and lawyers’ advice, it’s a bit awkward to turn around then and say, “But wait – that sexual activity we told you to get consent for? You should not be doing it at all.”

There is no logical inconsistency between the goals of preventing sexual violence and promoting chastity. The two are actually quite harmonious. The awkwardness in explaining this arises because our culture doesn’t want to hear the message it needs. It wants to prevent violence while preserving promiscuity. It is forbidden to consider that for some subset of the population, the latter can lead to the former.

Casual sex is a disordered activity. If you engage in it, it creates terrible habits in you and degrades your partner. For some, it will also create a sense of entitlement to sex without commitment. And this sense of entitlement is quite dangerous. To discuss such topics as date rape without providing this context is to play a game of pretend.

Like all virtues, chastity produces good habits in those who practice it. The promise to avoid and prevent sexual violence is one we can all keep. We can keep it more easily if we practice and respect this old-fashioned virtue.

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SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured.

LUKE 9:11B-17 GENESIS 14:18-20 In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

PSALM 110:1, 2, 3, 4 You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The scepter of your power the Lord will stretch forth from Zion: “Rule in the midst of your enemies.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

“Yours is princely power in the day of your birth,

in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedek.

1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26 Brothers and sisters: I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

LUKE 9:11B-17 Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured.

As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve approached him and said, “Dismiss the crowd so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms and find lodging and provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.” He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.” They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have, unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.” Now the men there numbered about 5,000. Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about 50.”

They did so and made them all sit down. Then taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied. And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled 12 wicker baskets.

Eucharist as abundance

“B

abette’s Feast” was a Danish film that won an Oscar for best foreign film in 1987. Its heroine is a former chef who escaped the bloodshed of post-Revolutionary Paris. She finds refuge by taking a job as housekeeper to two elderly sisters who live on a rugged, dreary stretch of the coast of Denmark. Their deceased father had founded a religious sect which stressed sacrifice of human pleasures and self-abnegation. He had rejected their suitors. Now, as spinsters, they stay loyal to their father’s teaching with a dwindling band of followers as impoverished as themselves.

Babette tends house and cooks for the sisters for 14 years.

Then one day, the lottery ticket a friend had kept renewing for SISTER ELOISE each year back in Paris ROSENBLATT, RSM her pays off – 10,000 francs. Everyone thinks she will return to France. She plans a stupendous dinner to honor the deceased founder, and orders food from France.

Half the film is the preparation of the feast. The boat

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE FRANCIS BE SALT OF THE EARTH, NOT ‘MUSEUM CHRISTIANS’

Christians are called to be the salt of the earth, and if they don’t share the flavor of their faith, hope and love with others, they are simply “museum Christians,” Pope Francis said. “Salt kept in a bottle, with the humidity, loses its strength and is useless,” he said in his homily during his early morning Mass May 23 in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican. Commenting on Jesus’ line from the Gospel of Mark, he said God gives Christians flavor, or salt, in order for them to share it with others and make a difference in the world. “When salt is used well, you don’t taste it. Salt improves the taste of the dish, making it better and helping preserve it,” he said.

unloads its cargo at the dock, the likes of which have never been seen before – live turtles, ducks, quail, fish, assorted vegetables, cheeses and wines. The sisters and their friends cannot reject Babette’s invitation to dinner, but they are in a quandary because it would be such self-indulgence. So they agree they will eat but not enjoy the food, and will show no sign of taking pleasure in it. What happens, however, is that in the course of this extraordinary banquet, they begin to smile, warm up to each other, laugh, converse, even express forgiveness for old hurts. Then the question: Was this Babette’s farewell? She confesses that she spent the entire 10,000 francs on the meal and is now just as poor as they are. She will remain with them.

Both the film and today’s Gospel encode themes about the meaning of Eucharist, which today’s feast celebrates.

First is abundance. Babette’s generosity inspires her to spend her entire fortune on a dinner which itself is over and beyond what anyone in the household could imagine. The food is more than anyone could eat at one sitting. Just so, when Jesus feeds 5,000 people it is beyond comprehension how so many could benefit at the same time.

Second is gift. Babette’s dinner is a gift, her gratitude for finding refuge and her life saved. The 5,000 people gathered on the hillside also receive the food as

a gift. It comes from a humble beginning, five loaves and two fish, mysteriously multiplied. Hungry people receive this benefit when they come near Jesus.

Third is improved relations with God and each other. Babette’s guests are frozen, isolated and determined to stick by their ideas of a demanding God. By the end of the meal, they have begun to act more spontaneous and connected with each other. In Luke’s gospel, Jesus has the disciples direct the crowd to sit in groups of 50. They have a sense of place, and can engage in dialogue. The distribution of the meal is not to a mob rushing the food distributors in a frenzy of desperation, as at refugee camps when the U.N. food trucks pull up. Instead, the food that Jesus gives promotes a sense of peace and orderly relations.

Fourth is permanence of presence. Babette does not go back to Paris. She remains with her employers and their impoverished neighbors. The early Christians shared the bread and the cup, signs of the body and blood of Jesus. It memorialized their experience that Jesus never left them, but would always remain with them. The bread for today would be the bread he would give them always.

MERCY SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose. Email eloros@ sbcglobal.net.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 3: Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, martyrs. Tb 1:3; 2:1a-8. PS 112:1b2, 3b-4, 5-6. Mk 12:1-12.

BONIFACE c. 675-754 June 5

TUESDAY, JUNE 4: Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Tb 2:9-14. PS 112:1-2, 7-8, 9. Mk 12:13-17.

Boniface, the apostle of Germany, started out as an English monk, a popular teacher, preacher and writer who was ordained at 30. He compiled a Latin grammar and wrote many biblical instructions. But he felt called to missionary work, and in 716 landed in Friesland, now in the Netherlands. After a brief stay, he traveled to Rome, where he received a broad commission to evangelize central Germany. By 722, he had become bishop of Germany, where he organized the church and secured its ties to Rome. Later, as archbishop of Mainz and papal legate, he was asked to reform the Frankish church. He was martyred in Friesland.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5: Memorial of St. Boniface, bishop and martyr. Tb 3:1-11a, 16-17a. PS 25:2-3, 4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9. Mk 12:18-27.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6: Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, bishop. Tb 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a. PS 128:12, 3, 4-5. Mk 12:28-34.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7: Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ez 34:11-16. PS 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Rom 5:5b-11. Lk 15:3-7.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8: Memorial of the Immaculate

Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Tb 12:1, 5-15, 20.

Tb 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8. Lk 2:41-51.

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Respecting life’s ‘ordinary time’

n a marvelous little book titled “The Music of Silence,” David Steindl-Rast highlights how each hour of the day has its own special light and its own particular mood and how we are more attentive to the present moment when we recognize and honor these “special angels” lurking inside each hour. He’s right. Every hour of the day and every season of the year have something special to give us, but oftentimes we cannot make ourselves present to meet that gift.

We grasp this more easily FATHER RON for special seasons of the ROLHEISER year. Even though we are sometimes unable to be very attentive to a season like Christmas or Easter because of various pressures and distractions, we know that these seasons are special and that there are “angels” inside them that are asking to be met. We know what it means when someone says: “This year I was just too tired and pressured to get into the Christmas spirit. I just missed Christmas this year!”

And this isn’t just true for special seasons like Christmas and Easter. It’s true too, perhaps especially true, for the season we call Ordinary Time.

Each year the church calendar sets aside more than 30 weeks for what it calls Ordinary Time, a season within which we are supposed to meet the angels of routine, regularity, domesticity, predictability, and ordinariness. Like seasons of high feast, this season too is meant to bring a special richness into our lives.

But it’s easy to miss both that season and its intent. The term Ordinary Time sounds bland to us, even as we unconsciously long for precisely what it is meant to bring. We have precious little ordinary time in our lives. As our lives grow more pressured, more tired, and more restless, perhaps more than anything else we long for ordinary time, quiet, routine, solitude, and space away from the hectic pace of life. For many of us the very expression, ordinary time, draws forth a sigh along with the question: “What’s that? When did I last have ‘ordinary time’ in my life?” For many of us ordinary time means mostly hurry and pressure, “the rat race,” “the treadmill.”

Many things in our lives conspire against ordinary time; not just the busyness that robs us of leisure, but also the heartaches, the obsessions, the loss of health, or the other interruptions to the ordinary that make a mockery of normal routine and

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rhythm and rob us of even the sense of ordinary time. That’s the bane of adulthood.

Many of us, I suspect, remember the opposite as being true for us when we were children. I remember as a child often being bored. I longed almost always for a distraction, for someone to visit our home, for special seasons to celebrate (birthdays, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter), for most anything to shake up the normal routine of ordinary time.

But that’s because time moves so slowly for a child.

When you’re 7years old, one year constitutes oneseventh of your life. That’s a long time. In midlife and beyond, one year is a tiny fraction of your life and so time speeds up – so much so in fact that, at a point, you also sometimes begin to long for special occasions to be over with, for visitors to go home, and for distractions to disappear so that you can return to a more ordinary rhythm in your life. Routine might be boring, but we sleep a lot better when our lives are being visited by the angels of routine and the ordinary.

Today there’s a rich literature in both secular and religious circles that speaks of the difficulties of being attentive to the present moment, of meeting, as Richard Rohr puts it, “the naked now,” or what David Steindl-Rast calls, “the angels of the hour.” The literature varies greatly in content and intent, but it agrees on one point: It’s extremely difficult to be attentive to the present moment, to be truly inside the present. It’s not easy to live inside ordinary time.

There’s a Chinese expression that functions both as a blessing and a curse. You make this wish for someone: May you live in interesting times!

As children, had someone wished that on us it would have meant a blessing; our lives then were replete with routine and the ordinary. For a child time moves slowly. Most children have enough of ordinary time.

However, as adults, for most of us, that wish is probably more curse than blessing: The pressures, heartaches, illnesses, losses, demands, and seemly perpetual interruptions that beset our lives, though perhaps not normally recognized as “interesting times,” are indeed the antithesis of routine, regularity, domesticity, predictability, and ordinariness. And they deprive us of ordinary time.

The church challenges us to be attentive to the various seasons of the year: Advent, Lent, Christmas, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. Today, I submit, it needs to challenge us particularly to be attentive to ordinary time. Our failure to be attentive here is perhaps our greatest liturgical shortcoming.

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

To run or to stand and confront

o say the least, the news is anything but comforting. Take, for example, news about the Boston bombing, the kidnapping of three girls who were enslaved for a decade, thousands killed in Syria and hundreds of thousands more now refugees, horrendous forest fires, first-time snows in May and a multitude of services being cut because of the sequester. If we listed all of our present woes, they would fill a voluminous book.

Coping with a constant flow of bad news pounding FATHER EUGENE our psyches constitutes one of the greatest challenges HEMRICK of our postmodern era.

Plato felt our corruptible bodies and the world enslave us and our only hope of coping with them is to escape from them.

Others realize that you can’t escape. The best you can do is become matter-of-fact and live with it.

As much as denial, escapism and indifference offer temporary relief, they are not the answer to living an enjoyable life. What then is the answer?

I suggest we stand and confront the difficulties of our times. And how do we achieve this? We do so through education. We go to school, learn and try to confront what is wrong.

In his description of education, Cardinal John

Henry Newman writes, “Education shows (us) how to accommodate (ourself) to others, how to throw (ourself) into their states of mind, how to bring before them [our] own, how to influence them, how to come to an understanding with them, how to bear with them.”

To combat our 24/7 age of distressing news, Newman would encourage us to ask: Are we complacent, or are we upgrading our critical thinking and asking what is essentially happening, why it’s happening, how did it happen? Is it related to anything else, is it an abnormal occurrence, and where is it happening most? Are we retreating to the privacy of our homes with our entertainment centers, or are we conferring with others to discuss the most pressing matters? Do we just talk about or study our problems, or are we speaking up and confronting those responsible for ameliorating them?

I lived in a neighborhood in which robberies occurred frequently. As a consequence, the residents formed a neighborhood watch and invited the local police to a street party. The result was fewer robberies and a more united and vigilant neighborhood.

I believe we have all experienced concerned citizens storming city councils and because of their vociferous outcries immediate action was taken.

There is a saying, “Fight fire with fire.” In our ferocious times, a fire is needed in which our education and the questions and actions it creates are raised to new heights.

Bowing head at name of Jesus; who counts as a Catholic?

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Could you please tell me why Catholics no longer bow their head at the name of Jesus? I seem to be the only one still doing that – even the priests don’t. When and why did this stop? (Ocean City, N.J.) The tradition of reverencing the name of Jesus takes its origin from St. Paul, who wrote in his Letter to the Philippians 2:9-10: “God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend ... and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. ...”

The custom was formalized at the Second Council of Lyons in the 13th century, which decreed the special honor due, “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow; whenever FATHER that glorious name is recalled, KENNETH DOYLE especially during the sacred mysteries of the Mass, everyone should bow the knees of his heart, which he can do even by a bow of his head.”

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which currently governs celebrations of the Mass, goes beyond that and says in No. 275, “A bow of the head is made when the three Divine Persons are named together and at the names of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the saint in whose honor Mass is being celebrated.”

So, to your question, you are correct in bowing at the name of Jesus, and everyone else should be doing it, too. It lifts us all from the mundane and serves as a convenient reminder that there are lofty realities that transcend and beckon us.

When Pope Francis was elected, it was often stated that he would be the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. Whom does that number include? Is it just active Catholics? (In my own extended family, unfortunately, only a few are regular churchgoers, and the others seem to be Catholic in name only. Do all of them count in the 1.2 billion?)

(Little Falls, N.Y.) The 1.2 billion figure is, by any reckoning, a “soft” figure. That is to say, in a world of 7 billion people, it is beyond difficult to determine with any real accuracy how many of them belong to each faith community. This is particularly so because demographers differ on what constitutes “belonging” to a religion.

In church law, baptism makes you a Catholic and you remain one forever unless you are excommunicated or formally renounce your faith. So, the Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook counts 1.196 billion Catholics worldwide, which is likely the source reporters used at the time of Pope Francis’ election.

The difference in criteria is best illustrated by varying estimates of the number of Catholics in the U.S. The Pew Research Center sets that figure at 75 million. Pew collects census and survey data and simply accepts the word of those who self-identify as Catholic.

The Official Catholic Directory, which tabulates figures compiled by the nation’s dioceses, sets the total at 66.3 million, but that initial compilation is something less than an exact science. (As a pastor, I can verify this.)

The Glenmary Research Center publishes a U.S. religion census in which local church leaders are asked to estimate the number of their congregants, and Glenmary’s latest calculation shows 59 million U.S. Catholics.

If you were to consider only Catholics who formally register in a parish, the totals would probably drop substantially, as they certainly would if you tallied only those who attend Mass each weekend.

So, to get back to your question, the flock of our new shepherd, Pope Francis, is certainly very large, but it is, literally, countless.

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

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

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 1 DINNER DANCE: St. Kevin Parish, 704 Cortland Ave., San Francisco. Silent auction starts at 6 p.m. Tickets at $40 advance/$50 at door include raffle ticket and complimentary beverage.

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 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.

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The institute presented $75,000 to Junipero Serra High School, Mercy High School, Burlingame, and Notre Dame High School, Belmont in May toward new YMI scholarship programs at the schools. A $2,500 scholarship will be awarded annually at each school on behalf of the YMI. The gifts were made possible by a bequest from the late Noel Miller. Pictured from left at presentation ceremonies are YMI Grand Director George Terry; Tom Fourie,YMI business manager; Rita Gleason, principal, Notre Dame High School, Belmont; Mercy Sister Katherine Doyle, president, Mercy High School, Burlingame; Lars Lund, president, Junipero Serra High School; Jack Albrecht, YMI grand treasurer.

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