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Young confirmands dedicate themselves to Mary in living rosary Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
In a candlelit living rosary liturgy that appealed to both the senses and the soul, the seventh grade confirmation classes of St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco dedicated themselves to Mary and crowned the holy queen on May 3. The 57 confirmation students attend Convent & Stuart Hall Schools, The Hamlin School, Town School for Boys and some public schools in the San Francisco Unified School District. “The program was intended to be an evening of reflection for our seventh graders,” said Mark Diamond, the parish’s director of faith formation. “Then we invited parents and it swelled into a quasi-community event.” The living rosary and Mary crowning commemorated three major Marian events: In 2017, the 100th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima and see mary, page 6
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The seventh grade confirmation classes at St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco dedicated themselves to Mary and crowned the holy queen during a May 3 living rosary and Mary crowning liturgy commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions, the consecration of the archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the 160th anniversary of the miracle at Lourdes.
VATICAN CITY – For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis wrote. The future pope’s “direct experience of Nazi totalitarianism led him from the time he was a young academic to reflect on the limits of obedience to the state in favor of the freedom of obedience to God,” Pope Francis commented in the preface to a new book. “Liberating Freedom: Faith and Politics in the Third Millennium” is a collection of essays written over the course of several decades, including see B16, page 22
Parish turnout proves enduring fascination with Shroud of Turin Christina Gray Catholic San Francisco
If there was one thing that Bill Wingard proved with absolute certainty on April 19, it’s that almost 2,000 years after his crucifixion, death and resurrection, Jesus Christ’s purported burial cloth continues to transfix believers and even some skeptics. Nearly half of St. Dominic Church in San Francisco was filled for the free presentation by Wingard, a Catholic layman whose life is devoted to educating others about the existence and authenticity of what is known as the Shroud of Turin. After two decades of research and study, Wingard began hosting free “Shroud Talks” at churches and universities and all over the country in 2013. He was invited to share his program at St. Dominic by the parish’s Friends in Christ ministry, which hosts a monthly speaker series. “How in the blazes did something like this, if it is the real thing, come from the tomb in Jerusalem and end up in Turin, Italy, and what does it tell us?” the folksy speaker asked. With a laser pointer, Wingard gestured to the life-sized replica of the shroud he set up on the altar characterized mostly by symmetrical dark red stains. In reverse image though, like a photographic
‘What does the Shroud of Turin tell you personally? That’s the quest here tonight.’ Bill Wingard
Shroud of Turin educator negative, the unmistakable outline of a man with long hair and a beard, his hands crossed in front of him – can be seen clearly – an accidental darkroom discovery made by an Italian photographer in 1898. But does it necessarily mean that the man is Christ? “You be the judge,” Wingard said. It was clear, however, that Wingard’s conclusion is that the shroud, housed since the 17th century in the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, is the genuine article. The 90-minute presentation led by Wingard with evangelical passion, traced the shroud’s centuries-old journey from Jerusalem to Turin. He also meticulously catalogued scientific attempts to prove or disprove the authenticity of the shroud, sometimes in unexpectedly gruesome detail.
He recalled a conversation between a doctor and scientists who doubted that the still-red stains on the shroud could be human blood, which turns brown when exposed to air. “That’s bilirubin,” the doctor told the scientists. He said that a “sustained violent death” like a crucifixion would lead to shock that could build up a very high bilirubin content in the blood that does not oxidize the same way. Wingard said that the point of his talk is much bigger than proving skeptics wrong. The mission of “Shroud Talks” is to bring Catholics to the fuller awareness of the enormous sacrifice undertaken by Jesus Christ to set us free from sin. “What does the shroud tell you personally? That’s the quest here tonight,” he said. Wingard added that nothing except the Eucharist comes as close as the Shroud of Turin to putting Jesus Christ front and center. “But the shroud is a visual that I believe we’ve been given to help us in our quest to go into the heart of Jesus,” he said. Friends in Christ organizer Mike Chen noted the intense debate among theologians, historians and scientists about the authenticity of the shroud, including the fact that a portion of its linen fabric see shroud, page 2
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Shroud: Fascination with an enduring Easter symbol
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was carbon-dated only to the Middle Ages. “Fill us with the Holy Spirit and help us to listen attentively and think critically so that during this Easter season we may fully appreciate the gifts of the resurrection and redemption, which is really what the Shroud of Turin is really about,” he said in a prayer before introducing Wingard. According to Wingard’s research and sources, the burial cloth he and others believe is the shroud existed in secrecy for many years after Christ’s death, leaving Jerusalem for nearby Antioch possibly with the apostle Paul. Written records about the shroud in this period are not good, he said. “Back then, any of the relics of the crucifixion were kept quiet because there was a tremendous movement to wipe out any relics of Jesus, any remembrances of him at all,” Wingard said. From Antioch, it is believed that the shroud went to nearby Edessa, where it has “kept in a box between two stones above the water line,” according to Wingard. From there it is believed it went to Constantinople from 944-1204, before going off the radar for 150 years and resurfacing in France. The possession of an aristocratic family there, it was transferred to Turin in 1578 where it was been since the 17th century. In 1983, the shroud was given to the Holy See. The Catholic Church has neither formally endorsed nor rejected the Church Goods & Candles
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Archdiocese remembers Msgr. James Tarantino Catholic San Francisco
Hundreds of mourners gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral on May 3 to remember longtime pastor and administrator Msgr. James T. Tarantino, who was described as a charismatic priest with a vision for big projects and an abidMsgr. James T. ing belief that Christ Tarantino put the good news in the hands of the faithful to proclaim it publicly, never to hide the light. Msgr. Tarantino died April 25 after a long illness. He was 66 years old and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for 36 years. He was named a Prelate of Honor to His Holiness, with the title of monsignor, in 2010. For Msgr. Tarantino, discipleship could not be merely private, one of his oldest priest friends, now-Spokane, Washington, Bishop Thomas Daly said in his homily at the funeral Mass he concelebrated with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone. Public discipleship in the spirit of Matthew’s Gospel, shining one’s light before others, was a common theme throughout Msgr. Tarantino’s career and characterized his service as president of Marin Catholic High School and later as pastor of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. He made a mark on both organizations with his pastoral and organizational skills, often served up with musical and dramatic flair. Msgr. Tarantino “was considered a builder
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Brother priests were among hundreds of mourners who gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral on May 3 for the funeral Mass for Msgr. James Tarantino, who died April 25 at age 66. Several bishops and Cardinal William J. Levada also were in attendance. in more ways than one,” Bishop Daly said. Msgr. Tarantino served in his last official role as pastor of St. Mark Parish, a small church in San Mateo County where the slower pace was restorative. “I found him to be at peace at St. Mark’s,” Bishop Daly said. Ordained by Archbishop John R. Quinn on Nov. 28, 1981, Msgr. Tarantino served at parishes including St. Gabriel, San Francisco and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City, before his appointment as president of Marin Catholic in 1991. He was appointed pastor of St. Hilary in 1997, serving for 13 years. In 2010, Archbishop George Niederauer appointed Msgr. Tarantino vicar general, vicar for administration and
moderator of the curia. In 2014, he was assigned to St. Mark. Msgr. Tarantino served on numerous committees of the archdiocese, including terms as dean in southern Marin and dean in southern San Mateo County, and membership on the Priest Personnel Board, the Presbyteral Council and the College of Consultors. For many of those years, he also represented the archbishop as the designated liaison for Charismatic Renewal of the archdiocese, and was a founding member of the Northern California Charismatic Renewal Coalition. Diagnosed with “terminal” cancer in his early 20s, Msgr. Tarantino had refocused his life on God’s will, the archdiocese said in a message to priests, religious and laity. Following
his unexpected recovery, he had often reflected on the life he had been given. The message shared a parting quote from Msgr. Tarantino: “Were it not for the difficulties of my youth, I would likely never have appreciated the years that followed. God’s call and invitation to become a priest was dramatic; in fact, a miraculous experience. I thank God for loving me and for offering me the grace to choose the right path, even though at times I did so reluctantly. For any and all failures, especially those that may have hurt others intentionally or unintentionally, I ask for forgiveness and truly offer my deepest sorrow and apology. “To my family, and to my friends along the way who have been such a tremendous support in good times, and in not so easy times, I say in love, thank you for all eternity for your love and support,” Msgr. Tarantino said. “Finally, my thanks to God for allowing me the opportunity to represent Him even though at times I did not live up to the grace given. I thank You for everything for You are everything. Without You I was nothing. Without You, I am nothing. With You I am everything. Thank You for all of the love that made my life worth living.” Survivors include Msgr. Tarantino’s siblings and their spouses Donald (Treva), Richard (Jeanette), Peter (Gerda), Mary (Steve), Maryann, Anthony (Jeanette), and Vincent (Angela). He is predeceased by his sisters Mary Louise and Mary Joan. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
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‘Much grace and many blessings in leading Catholic elementary school community,’ retiring principal says Tom Burke catholic San Francisco
Mary Ghisolfo has been a Catholic elementary school educator for 43 years, 37 at San Francisco’s Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires from where she will retire as principal at end of this school year. “There was Mary Ghisolfo something about the ‘French thing’ that attracted me to NDV,” Mary told me via email. “I found it to be a vibrant and exciting learning community. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange and the Marist Fathers and Brothers were present and very helpful, and committed to Catholic education and creating faith-filled learning environments.” Mary taught sixth grade at NDV for six years when the position of principal became available and others encouraged her to apply. “I thought, ‘Why not?’. If I get the position, it will be a new adventure, and if I do not, I will be able to keep doing what I love to do, and that is teach.” Mary still remembers the call from the pastor offering her the job: “Mary, it is you!” he told her. Mary is the third oldest of 14 children: “I had many opportunities to be teacher with my 11 younger siblings,” she said. “Chores and other responsibilities around our little farm where I grew up called for creative and fun ways to get the work done. I think that translated beautifully into a teaching career. My mother was an amazing role model and a deeply faith-filled woman, and along with a strong work ethic, I learned the importance of faith in my life and how my faith helped me through many tough times and to more fully enjoy the beauty and blessings in life. I embraced the ‘can do’ attitude early on that was modeled daily by both my father and mother.”
Mary put herself through college earning along the way an undergraduate degree in natural sciences, an elementary teaching credential and a graduate degree in education with an administrative services credential. Her favorite moments over her more than 40-year career include “inspiring students to believe in themselves, and to know that they are capable of doing great things with their learning and in their lives” along with “the hugs, birthday cards, notes and expressions of gratitude from staff and parents and the idea that you are helping to create a community with a faith based focus and all that that entails enriched the experience.” Mary’s advice to future educators “is to come with an open mind, and a listening ear” and to “not be afraid of asking for help,” she said. “Also know that there is much grace and many blessings in leading a Catholic elementary school community. You are there to help everyone keep their eye on the mission of the school teachers, students and parents.” SUNG PRAYER: Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan turned 90 in October. “I have had enough celebrating to last a lifetime,” Sister Suzanne told me. The beloved teacher and composer received 17 pounds of See’s Candy among Sister Suzanne her natal day gifts. Toolan, RSM “Fortunately I didn’t eat it all,” she said with a smile. Candy aside, Sister Suzanne’s longtime suite-tooth has been the mode of sung prayer called Taize. Sister Suzanne brought Taize to Mercy Center, and many say to America, in the early ‘80s, and still plays for the first Friday Taize services there. Her place for a Taize Retreat for youth and young adults May 18, 19 at Mercy Center will also be at the
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Dorothea and George Chrisman celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary April 12. The couple was married at St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco and have been parishioners of Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, for 48 years. “We love our faith,” George said for them both. “We have three wonderful successful sons, three daughters-in-law and eight grandchildren.” piano. Coordinating the retreat and leading the proceedings are Taize Brothers John and Emile, and Mercy Sister Jean Evans. “It is always such a special time for us and I love the theme of this event, ‘Inexhaustible Joy,’” Sister Suzanne said. “The days will be an opportunity to dig deeper into the wellsprings of joy. We always end with ‘Jesus Christ, Yesterday, Today and Forever.’” The litany is part of the Mass setting Sister Suzanne composed for the papal Mass with now-St. John Paul II at Candlestick Park in 1987 and that has echoed through countless churches since then. The retreat, open to people ages 16-35, begins Friday at 6 p.m. with dinner and concludes Saturday at 9 p.m., youths under age 18 must be accompanied on the retreat by
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April HOLY CROSS, COLMA Mary Aguilar Elizabeth Sweeney Aguilar Anita C. Aranda Guadalupe Armstrong Betty M. Balunes Richard David Barsi Eva Boggeri Charles Vincent Borg Jaime Ramon Buitrago, Jr. Patrick J. Callagy Mary M. Caradeuc Manuel F. Carluen Loretta Monahan Cavagnaro Josephine I. Cendali Myra Y. Centanni Bruce Chester Kim Kuan Chu Chua Charles R. Colety Joyce Marie Conciatori Marian Ellen Connelly Marie F. Conroy-Salbi Marie P. Cooney Jose S. Corpuz Leonel Estiven Monroy Cortez Marvin Anthony Crockett Bernard M. Crotty Frank D’Amico Sofia Del Mar Margaret DelDebbio Anita Elena Demidovich Martin J. Dempsey Adoracion F. Domingo Norma P. Edar Artie S. Ella Cecilia “Cee” Enright Jose Espina Marlene S. Espinosa Sean Edward Farley John Robert Fedelin Giulia Figone George H. Finn, Jr. Theodore Fred Genis John Cristobal Gomez Sr. Mary Laurana Grose Mark Vincent Groshong Lester Hance Sister Maryann Healy,PBVM
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him within us when we receive Communion,” read one student. “How can I then bring Jesus to others? Perhaps I can call or write my grandparents to let them know how much I love them and not expect anything in return.… Can I be a friend to someone who’s lonely?... Instead of laughing at a classmate strugEmma Burns gling can I offer them assistance Convent School seventh and an encouraging word?” grader and St. Ignatius altar Many of the students had server created homemade rosaries together and Father Bonfiglio called them to the altar to have each rosary blessed. One of the many goals of the liturgy was to give students a taste of what their confirmation will be like and to “introduce students to Marian devotion and the rosary with all of its benefits,” Wersinski said. Emma Burns, like her mother decades before her, was chosen to carry the crown up to the altar for Mary’s crowning. “It was a very sacred moment for me,” said the Convent School seventh grader and St. Ignatius altar server, who added that it was a symbol of becoming, like Mary, “a strong and powerful woman in the world.”
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the consecration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and in 2018, the160th anniversary of the miracle at Lourdes. Organized by parish volunteers and parents Sue Ann Wersinski and Diane Gutierrez, the liturgy began around sundown as students accompanied by parents, parish staff and pastor Jesuit Father Greg Bonfiglio, processed into the church still abloom with Easter flowers. The Golden Gate Boys Choir on the altar led the processional hymn “Sing of Mary.” Each participant held a votive candle representing a single rosary bead as the group encircled congregants as a visual, human rosary. According to Diamond, the votive candles also represented the fire of the Holy Spirit, which the students will receive at their confirmation next year. The same candles later in the program were arranged in the shape of a rosary at the feet of Mary. The rosary’s joyful mysteries, which reflect Mary’s life with Jesus as a child, were the focus of the liturgy with reflections on the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, the Presentation, and Jesus is found at the Temple, delivered by students between decades of the rosary. The child-centered reflections offered the young confirmands day-to-day examples of the fruits of each mystery. “Jesus is present in the Eucharist and we carry
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St. Ignatius pastor Jesuit Father Gregory Bonfiglio smiles as Taddeo Quinn places a rose in a vase on the altar during a May 3 living rosary and Mary crowning liturgy where the parish’s seventh grade confirmation classes dedicated themselves to the Blessed Virgin. The event was attended by parents, other family and members of the community.
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The San Francisco arts and historic preservation commissions are seeking a review of a city Board of Appeals ruling denying their decision to remove the “Early Days” public sculpture near City Hall as offensive to community standards. The bronze, part of the James Lick Pioneer Monument, is a tableau of California’s founding depicting a friar, a Native American man and a Spanish cowboy. The friar points heavenward over the recumbent figure of the indigenous man, a relationship that critics of the sculpture say is degrading by today’s standards. The gift of philanthropist James Lick, the sculpture was one of a group intended to illustrate California history from the early settlement of the missions until 1874. “This is an exceptional case and a reversal will prevent a manifest injustice to the community,” the commissions argue in an April 27 joint brief. The arts commission heard more than 20 public comments against the statue, many from Native
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American representatives, during a hearing on the matter last Oct. 2. A challenge to the preservation commission’s Feb. 21 decision certifying the statue’s removal as appropriate was filed with the Board of Appeals by Petaluma attorney Frear Stephen Schmid and granted by a unanimous 5-to-0 vote on April 18. The board said the commission acted incorrectly because its review was inconsistent with the typical review of historic pieces. That decision places the board at odds with elected officials in the community, the arts and preservation commissions said in their bid for review. “The elected representatives have expressed community values here, in particular in avoiding public sponsorship of monuments in the seat of city government that are racially offensive in their treatment of minority groups, including the Native American community,” the commissions said. see ‘early days’, page 21
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Encuentro delegates prepare for ministry Maria-Pia Negro Chin Catholic News Service
VISALIA – Hope, energy and the drive to unite to share the Catholic faith filled the Visalia Convention Center, as nearly 1,300 delegates – including laypeople, priests and 21 bishops – gathered for a regional encuentro. “This is the moment when the church is listening to the Hispanic community in an effort to understand us better, but also in the hopes that we will become missionary disciples and become more active in our own faith,” Benito Medrano, Hispanic ministry coordinator in the Diocese of Fresno told the delegates during the April 2729 event. The gathering served as a prelude to the Fifth National Encuentro, or V Encuentro, set for Sept. 20-23 in Grapevine, Texas. The multiyear encuentro process, which includes similar regional gatherings across the country, seeks to discern the needs, aspirations and faith practices of Hispanic Catholics in the United States. Hispanics represent 40 percent of the U.S. Catholic population. Given the continuous growth of the number of Hispanic Catholics, the encuentro also is expected to identify thousands of new pastoral leaders. “It’s a pastoral approach, an effort to involve the grass roots in reflecting about the realities that affect the life of church,” said Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, a theologian and expert on Latino studies at Loyola Marymount University. “These encounters are a great contribution to the vitality of the U.S. church.” In his keynote address, Father Deck emphasized that contributions of Hispanic Catholics go beyond growing numbers and the youth of its members. He listed four ways Latinos contribute
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Delegates from the Archdiocese of San Francisco pose with Archbishop Cordileone on April 28 after a daylong work session during the encuentro in Visalia. to church life: a family and communityoriented spirit; a “living faith that is experienced at home and society”; a supportive attitude to the church’s preferential option for the poor; and a joyous spirit emerging from the presence of God in people’s hearts. Delegates came from California, Nevada and Hawaii, which encompass the U.S. church’s Region XI. Prayer also was central to the weekend, with bishops celebrating Mass daily. The opening Mass included a procession of symbols from the 15 dioceses in the region, along with candles listing the names of Hispanic ministry pioneers. Delegates also discussed findings from consultations at the parish level. Concerns, ideas and hopes in 10 ministerial areas were collected to update a regional working document, which will be shared at the national encuentro. “We are hoping to participate and make our contribution for the future of
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State’s bishops: ‘Dire need’ for care and ministry for those with mental illness California Catholic Conference
In a new pastoral letter, California’s Catholic bishops lament the “heartbreaking prevalence of mental illness in our society and the dire need to move past stigmatization toward ministry and care” and for closer ties between faith and medicine. The document “Hope and Healing: A Pastoral Letter from the Bishops of California on Caring for those who Suffer from Mental Illness Addressed to All Catholics and People of Goodwill,” was released May 2, marking Mental Health Awareness Month. “Persons with mental illness often suffer in silence, hidden and unrecognized by others,” the bishops said. “Consider this stark contrast: A person with a medical illness – such as cancer – will usually receive an outpouring of sympathy and support from their parish and community; a person diagnosed with a mental illness – such as
depression, crippling anxiety, or bipolar disorder – frequently experiences isolation and inadequate support, often because of the unjust social stigma of mental illness. This should not be so in our civic communities, and cannot be so in our Catholic communities.” The statement examines several facets of mental health including the current opioid crisis, suicide and addiction, and embraces the bond between science and religion. “It is time now to build bridges between science and religion, health care and pastoral care. Clergy and health care professionals, families and mental health advocates should work together to encourage a “both-and,” rather than “either-or” approach to psychological and spiritual healing. We welcome and encourage advances in science and medicine,” the bishops said. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in five adults in the U.S. suffered from a mental disorder
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over the past year and nearly 10 million American adults (one in 25) have a mental illness that is severe enough to cause serious functional impairment. Fully 20 percent of adolescents currently have, or previously had, a seriously debilitating mental disorder. In “Hope and Healing,” the California bishops seek to get past the stigmas associated with mental health and eradicate the fear of engaging and interacting with those with a mental illness. “We Christians have to get to know people, to befriend them, to listen generously to them, to walk with them,” the bishops said. “This is not because we have all the answers to their problems or can cure all of their afflictions, but simply because these encounters – these small acts of love and compassion, understanding, and friendship – are precisely what people need most.” UC Irvine psychiatry professor Dr. Aaron Kheriaty reflected on the document in an extended interview with Valerie Schmalz, director of the Office of Human Life and Dignity at the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “I believe this document is a unique
contribution toward overcoming unjust stigma around mental health,” he said. “It’s the first document from American bishops, that I am aware of, that addresses this issue directly. I anticipate this statement from the bishops will provide consolation to many Catholics who suffer from mental illness, as well as their families who struggle to care for them. It is important that these members of the church feel that their experiences are understood by our pastors, that their unique forms of suffering matter, and that Catholics are committed to walking in solidarity with them.” For those who are interested in seeking guidance, the document includes a list of mental health resources available in every archdiocese and diocese in California. The complete document is available at www.cacatholic.org/resources/mental-health. Visit www.sfarch.org/ mental-health for a list of mental health resources including a link to the full text of the interview with Dr. Kheriaty, which may be downloaded as a PDF. Catholic San Francisco contributed.
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PITTSBURGH – After three years of discussions, Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik said the 188 parishes of the diocese will be placed into 57 groupings that will eventually become new parishes. Designed to promote vibrant faith and revitalize parishes, the move to groupings – part of a diocesan planning initiative called On Mission for The Church Alive! – was to take effect Oct. 15. No church closings are part of the plan’s first phase but the groupings are expected to merge into new parishes between 2020 and 2023. “No matter how the church is structured, it is the responsibility of all the faithful – bishops and priests included – to make faith, hope and love remain alive in the world around us,” Bishop Zubik said April 28 in announcing the plan. “Our churches will continue to be places where local Catholics gather to be nurtured and nourished by the God who loves us. Yet, On Mission! gives us a new context and new opportunities to make ever more alive a faith that abides both within and outside of our church walls,” he said. The plan is being driven by reduced Mass attendance and participation in the sacraments and a declining number of priests. The diocese reported that since 2000, Mass attendance decreased more than 40 percent and participation in the sacraments fell 40 percent to 50 percent. Meanwhile, the number of diocesan priests available for active ministry is expected to decline from about 200 to 112 by 2025.
kind of higher power, Pew found in a December 2017 survey of 4,700 U.S. adults. Fifty-six percent profess faith in God as described in the Bible and 33 percent say they believe in another type of higher power or spiritual force. One in 10 says they don’t believe in God or a higher power of any kind. Overall, 80 percent of Christians said they believed in God as described in Bible. This number went up for historically black Protestant traditions, 92 percent, and evangelical traditions, 91 percent, but only 69 percent of Catholics and 72 percent of mainline Protestants had this view. Catholic News Service
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Sunday readings
The Ascension of the Lord ACTS 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”
PSALM 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness, For the Lord, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the Lord, amid trumpet blasts. Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise. God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. EPHESIANS 1:17-23 Brothers and sisters: May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ, raising
him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way. MARK 16:15-20 Jesus said to his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs. The Ascension of the Lord is observed on Sunday, May 13. 2018 in place of the Seventh Sunday of Easter for our Metropolitan Province as approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and confirmed by the Congregation for Bishops.
Embracing the gift of the Spirit
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ust as the Passion cannot be understood without the Resurrection, so too the Ascension cannot be understood without Pentecost. If the Ascension were to stand on its own it would make a mess of the message the Lord spent his earthly life delivering to all who would listen, namely, that God is with us (Emmanuel), and he wants us to be with him always. On its own, the Ascension makes it seem that just when things seemed to be really coming together, the Lord decided to leave us, to return at a later, unspecified time. OnlookFather Mark ers could be forgiven for not Doherty grasping how to make sense of this development. Only in the light – or, more precisely, fire – of Pentecost do we come to understand that the Ascension was a necessary step on God’s quest to draw us ever more intimately into communion with him. Through the gift of Pentecost God comes to dwell with us in an even more intimate way because in the gift of the Spirit the Trinity comes to dwell within the very depths of our being. In ascending to the Father the Lord made way for the gift of the indwelling of God. The gift of the Spirit helps us make sense of the commission the Lord gives to his disciples to go throughout
the whole world and baptize men and women in the name of the Trinity. My experience has taught me that many Catholics (and Christians more generally) do not realize that the essence of the good news, of the Gospel, is the gift of friendship, of communion, that God extends to us. When we speak of salvation, of our being saved by God, what we ought to understand by that is first and foremost the gift of friendship that God extends to us. As creatures, on our own, we are completely incapable of establishing communion or friendship with God, who as the only un-created, is infinitely beyond our grasp. In the gift of the Spirit, through baptism, God divinizes us, he changes our very being, he elevates it in such a way that we are now able to participate in the life of God. In the gift of the Spirit, through baptism, God both gives us the (created) grace by which we are capable of entering into friendship with him, as well as the (un-created) grace by which he himself really does come to dwell within us. We can now see that being a Christian is not primarily about being a ‘good’ or ‘moral’ person. Christianity is first and foremost about the gift of divinizing friendship that God grants us. Of course, as a result of this friendship we are spurred on to become good and moral people, but it remains the case that Christianity is not simply or primarily an ‘ethical code,’ or that Jesus was simply a wise moral teacher. There is more. Friendship means communion, dwelling or being together. It implies a heart-to-heart exchange. What is mine I share with you and vice-versa. This is one
aspect of intimacy, and the gift of the indwelling of God gives form to this. But friendship, and the intimacy it entails, also has another aspect that is equally important, namely the sharing in a work, a project, a mission. The fulness of friendship requires a sharing in a mutual work. Hence the Ascension and Pentecost are both characterized by an outward movement. Go out into the world and proclaim the good news! Go out and preach! To be in a relationship is to be entrusted with responsibilities, some share in the work of the family. The reading from St. Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians speaks to this reality. In the gift of the Spirit, not only are we made capable of friendship with God; not only does God come to dwell within us; but the Spirit also distributes gifts, charisms, by which we are all ennobled with a share in the work of building the kingdom. That is why the sacrament of baptism is hitched to the sacrament of confirmation. They are both sacraments of initiation. Confirmation ‘completes’ or makes ‘whole’ the gift first given in baptism because the gift of the Spirit at confirmation endows us with the gifts and strength we need to assume our share in the work of building the kingdom. Let us, then, pray for the gift of the Spirit, and let us embrace and appreciate more fully the proportions this gift entails. Father Mark Doherty, who serves at St. Peter and St. Anthony parishes in San Francisco, is studying moral theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, May 14: Feast of St. Matthias, apostle. Acts 1:15-17, 20-26. Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. See Jn 15:16. Jn 15:9-17. Tuesday, May 15: Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. Isidore. Acts 20:1727. Ps 68:10-11, 20-21. Jn 14:16. Jn 17:1-11a. Wednesday, May 16: Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Acts 20:28-38. Ps 68:29-30, 3335a, 35bc-36ab. See Jn 17:17b, 17a. Jn 17:11b19. Thursday, May 17: Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Acts 22:30; 23:6-11. Ps 16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11. Jn 17:21. Jn 17:20-26. Friday, May 18: Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter. Optional Memorial of St. John I, pope and martyr.
Acts 25:13b-21. Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab. Jn 14:26. Jn 21:15-19. Saturday, May 19: Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter - Mass in the Morning. Acts 28:16-20, 3031. Ps 11:4, 5 and 7. Ps 11:4, 5 and 7. Jn 21:20-25. Sunday, May 20: Pentecost Sunday - At the Vigil Mass. Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:114 or Jl 3:1-5. Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30. Rom 8:22-27. Jn 7:37-39. Monday, May 21: Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. Optional Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes, priest and martyr, and his companions, martyrs. Optional Memorial of St. Eugene de Mazenod, bishop. Gn 3:9-15, 20 or Acts 1:12-14. Ps 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7. Jn 19:2534.
Tuesday, May 22: Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Rita of Cascia, religious. Jas 4:1-10. Ps 55:7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11a, 23. Gal 6:14. Mk 9:30-37. Wednesday, May 23: Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Jas 4:13-17. Ps 49:2-3, 6-7, 8-10, 11. Jn 14:6. Mk 9:38-40. Thursday, May 24: Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Jas 5:1-6. Ps 49:14-15ab, 15cd16, 17-18, 19-20. See 1 Thes 2:13. Mk 9:41-50. Friday, May 25: Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin. Jas 5:9-12. Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12. See Jn 17:17b, 17a. Mk 10:1-12.
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Poverty, chastity, and obedience in a secular age
ardinal Francis George was once asked what he thought of the radical pacifism of people like Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan, prophetic figures who believed in absolute nonviolence. How can this be practical, he was asked, it’s utterly naïve to believe that we can live without police and without soldiers. This was his FATHER ron reply: The rolheiser world needs pacifists in the same way as it needs vowed celibates: They’re not practical. They’re out of place in this world. But they point to the eschatological world, the world of heaven, a world within which there will be no guns, where relational exclusivities will not exist as they exist now, where family will not be based on biology, blood, or marriage, where there will be no poor people, and where everything will belong to everyone. I thought of that recently as I was conducting a workshop on religious life for a group of young people who were discerning whether or not to enter vowed religious life. My task was not to try to persuade them to join a religious community but to help them understand what that life, should they join it, would entail. That meant, of course, long discussions on the three vows that people take to be in religious life: poverty, chastity, and obedience, classically termed “the Evangelical Counsels.” What’s to be said about poverty, chastity, and obedience in a world that, for the most part, places its hope in material riches, generally identi-
fies chastity with frigidity, and values individual freedom above all else? Well, no doubt, poverty, chastity, and obedience are seen as radically counter-cultural; but that’s mostly because they are generally not very well understood (sometimes even by those who are living them out). For the most part they are seen as a drastic renunciation, the sacrificing of a full life, the unnatural denial of one’s sexuality, and the adolescent signing over of one’s freedom and creativity. But that’s a misunderstanding. Poverty, chastity, and obedience are not a missing out on riches, sexuality, and freedom. They are rather a genuine, rich, modality of riches, sexuality, and freedom. The vow of poverty isn’t primarily about living with cheaper things, not having a dishwasher and doing your own housework. It’s also not about renouncing the kinds of riches that can make for the full flourishing of life. A life of voluntary poverty is a lived way of saying that all material possessions are gift, that the world belongs to everyone, that nobody owns a country, and that nobody’s needs are first. It’s a vow against consumerism and tribalism, and it brings its own wonderful riches in terms of meaning and in the happiness and joy of a shared life. Likewise for the vow of chastity: Properly understood, it is not a missing out on the joys of sexuality. It’s a rich modality of sexuality itself, given that being sexual means more than having sex. Sexuality is a beautiful, God-given drive within us for lots of things: community, friendship, togetherness, wholeness, family, play, altruism, enjoyment, delight, creativity, genital consummation, and for everything that takes us beyond our aloneness and makes us generative. And so the very real joys that are found in community, friendship, and service of others are not a second-rate substitute for sex. They bring their
own sexual flourishing in terms of leading us out of our aloneness. The same holds true for obedience. Properly understood, it’s not a missing out on real freedom. Rather it’s a rich modality of freedom itself, one practiced by Jesus (who repeatedly says: “I do nothing on my own. I do only the Father’s will.”) Obedience, as a religious vow, is not an immature sacrificing of one’s freedom and adulthood. It’s rather a radical submitting of one’s human ego (with all its wounds, desires, lusts, private ambitions, and envies) to something and someone higher than oneself, as seen in the human and religious commitments in persons from Jesus, to Teilhard de Chardin, to Dag Hammarskjold, to Simone Weil, to Mother Teresa, to Jean Vanier, to Daniel Berrigan. In each of these we see a person who walked this earth in a freedom we can only envy but clearly too in a freedom that’s predicated on a genuflecting of one’s individual will to something higher than itself. Our thoughts and our feelings are strongly influenced by the cultural software within which we find ourselves. Thus, given how our culture understands riches, sex, and freedom today, this may well be the most difficult time in many centuries to make the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and live them out. Small wonder religious communities are not over-flooded with applications. But because it is more difficult than ever, it is also more important than ever that a number of women and men choose, voluntarily, to prophetically live out these vows. And their seeming sacrifice will be amply rewarded because, paradoxically, poverty brings its own riches, chastity brings its own flourishing, and obedience provides us with the deepest of all human freedoms. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
In praise of mothers Father Ed Dougherty, MM
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t’s fitting that we celebrate Mother’s Day during May, a month that we also dedicate to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Knowing a good mother opens a window onto a spiritual relationship with Mary. And for those who have not been blessed with that earthly relationship, Mary can fill the void when our hearts are open to her tender guidance. During this month, parishes and schools around the world will honor Mary with crowning ceremonies, processions, and prayers all aimed at calling to mind her holiness. Similarly, on Mother’s Day, we will honor mothers for the sacrifices they make in bringing new life into the world and nurturing that life with love and devotion. Mary both embodies the ideals of motherhood and serves as a role model for all mothers. When the angel Gabriel announced to her that she would conceive the son of God, her response was, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” What a profound moment of acceptance of God’s will and a beautiful example of the openness to life the church
asks of all married couples as they embark on their lives together. Every mother is representative of Mary in the moment she says “yes” to the new life entrusted to her care. When we see single mothers or mothers who we think might be facing a crisis pregnancy due to poverty or other circumstances, we should recall the Blessed Mother in the early days of her pregnancy. She stood isolated, awaiting Joseph’s “yes” and fearful of the scorn of society. The “yes” of mothers in crisis pregnancies echoes the courage of Mary’s “yes” in a way that should gain the respect of all people of faith. In Jesus’ youth, Mary served as protector, as seen in the “finding in the Temple,” when she frantically sought him out after he had gone missing on a journey. How often have our own mothers acted as protectors, keeping us safe and guiding us down the right path? Mary was present for Christ’s first miracle, acting as intercessor by approaching him with the concern that they had run out of wine at the wedding at Cana. Isn’t that so like our earthly mothers, to be there for all of our great accomplishments and to be the one who can call upon us to use our talents for the good of all?
And Mary was one of the few people to stand by Christ in his darkest hour, when he hung on the cross. Think of all of the most difficult moments in life, such as illnesses we have faced, mistakes we have made, and moments when we have been accused, falsely or otherwise. Mothers are the first to forgive, to lend a helping hand, to point us in the right direction when we go astray. As Mary stood beside John at the foot of the cross, Christ said to her, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to John, “Behold your mother!” Christ extends this invitation of spiritual adoption to all people, calling us to cultivate a relationship with the Blessed Mother. When we answer that call, we will find our relationship with our own mothers deepening in respect and love. So remember Mary this month, and on Mother’s Day let’s also recognize how much our earthly mothers embody the grace of the Blessed Mother, who guides their actions and inspires their loving service to the world around them. Maryknoll Father Ed Dougherty is a member of The Christophers’ board of directors.
Letters Music and worship
I continue to love your paper. Thank you for the good work you do. The letter from Richard Bodisco is a beautiful testimony about the Mass. I completely concur with every point – especially loud conversation – with one important exception. Even King David used tambourines when he worshipped the Lord. See especially 2 Samuel 6:5 and 1 Chronicles 13:8. Surely how we make music and what instruments we use are culturally determined. No music is objectively bad, however contrary to one’s own taste. I haven’t been to a single Mass in the Bay Area in the last three years since moving here that had any kind of music that young people would like, for example. It’s not the only reason they don’t attend Mass, but it can’t help. I’m not young, but my heart sinks when I find myself at a chanted Mass. That’s just my own personal disinclination – comparable to Mr. Bodisco’s aversion to the tambourine. Music is an important element of the worship service, but in our modern world we have a vast array of preferences. How do we bridge this divide? Mary Salim San Mateo P.S. The links on conscience were so convenient to use! Thanks. P.P.S. Father Rolheiser (always good) hit it out of the park in his article about “Moral outrage.” They should read this aloud at the Georgetown gathering about polarization in June (Page 6).
Culture of life, or death
Several articles and comments found in the recent Catholic SF (April 26) really highlight the confusion and ambiguity in the teaching – or rather, lack of it – on abortion. One thoughtful letter notes the amount of disagreement in the interpretation of the “Humanae Vitae” papal guidance. The conclusions drawn there and elsewhere seems to lead to the importance of one’s “conscience” in such life-or-death decisions. The eminent Catholic writer George Weigel leaves no ambiguity at all in his column “Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome.” The article “Poll: Americans still consider abortion a complicated issue” states that abortion remains a complicated and complex issue after half-a-century of legality. Fordham professor Charlie Camosy writes that an “Encyclical draws connections necessary to oppose abortion,” which seems to marginalize the issue. An adjacent column “America’s children crusade for gun reform” by Father Gerald Coleman of Santa Clara University praises the demonstrations in SF and other cities. This really is the same subject. St. Teresa of Calcutta defined it most eloquently and simply when she said “If you can’t tell a woman not to kill her own child, you can’t tell anyone not to kill anybody else.” We’ve let our culture of life lapse, and we need to get it back. It can only happen after abortion is stopped. Jerry Heckert San Mateo
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Cowboys, infertility and deeper moral questions
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ost people still remember the story of Nadya Suleman, dubbed “Octomom,” a single woman who used in vitro fertilization to become pregnant with eight babies simultaneously. Suleman had asked her fertility specialist, Dr. Michael Kamrava, to implant at least a dozen embryos into her uterus, leading to the birth of the famous octuplets in 2009. Dr. Kamrava’s medical lifather tadeusz cense was later pacholczyk revoked by the California Medical Board. In commenting on the case, Judith Alvarado, deputy attorney general in California,
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concluded that Kamrava had acted “like a cowboy” in ignoring fertility industry guidelines. When it comes to the “Wild West” of infertility – a field of medicine with little oversight and unbridled profit margins – there are a lot of cowboys out there. Recently there was the case of Kelli Rowlette who, after having her own DNA analyzed in 2017 through a genealogy website, shockingly discovered that her biological father was actually a fertility specialist who had once treated her mother. Without her mother’s knowledge or consent, the specialist had used his own sperm to impregnate her, while falsely claiming he was using a mixture of sperm from her husband (who had low sperm count) and a donor who was supposed to have been an anonymous university student with features similar to her husband. Another infamous case involved Bertold Wiesner who, back in the 1940s, established a fertility clinic in London to help women struggling to conceive. His clinic supposedly
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relied on a small number of highly intelligent men to serve as sperm donors for artificial insemination, with more than 1500 babies being born. More than 70 years later, based on DNA testing of people who had been conceived at the clinic, it turned out that as many as 600 of the babies born may have relied on sperm from Mr. Wiesner himself. There was also the troubling story of Dr. Cecil Jacobson of Fairfax County, Virginia. He was accused of a “purposeful pattern of deceit” during the 1980’s when he fathered up to 75 children using his own sperm for artificial insemination with his female patients. He was eventually sentenced to five years in prison and had his medical license revoked. Another notorious episode relied on DNA testing and other evidence gathered by police in Brazil. They discovered that many of the 8,000 babies born after IVF treatments at the clinic of Dr. Roger Abdelmassih in Sao Paulo were not genetically related to the couples who were raising them. Authorities believe that Abdelmassih misled many of his clients during the 1990s and early 2000s and impregnated them with embryos formed from other people’s eggs and sperm, in a bid to improve his clinic’s statistics for successful implantations and births. Yet another nefarious incident involved Drs. Ricardo Asch, Jose Bulmaceda and Sergio Stone, three fertility specialists and faculty members at the University of California at Irvine who ran a campus fertility clinic during the 1990s. They were accused of fertilizing eggs they had harvested from women and implanting the resulting embryos into unrelated women, as well as selling some of the embryos to scientists and researchers. Dozens of women and couples filed lawsuits against the doctors and the university. One of the reasons these acts of deception by fertility specialists are so offensive to us is that we realize
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ith the exception of the two consistories held by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and 1959, every creation of new cardinals since Pope Pius XII has decreased the percentage of Italian members of the College of Cardinals while internationalizing it. (John XXIII’s first consistory actually increased the Italian membership to 40 percent of an expanded college.) That pattern of internationalization and, if you will, deItalianization has continued with Pope Francis and the college now includes members from 15 countries (such george weigel as Tonga, Laos, and Papua New Guinea) that have never given the church a cardinal before. There are obvious advantages to this internationalization, in terms of the cardinals’ role as an ecclesiastical senate of senior papal counselors and their responsibility for electing the pope. A wider representation of countries and ecclesial experiences should, in theory, allow for a broader-gauged reflection on the Catholic reality in different parts of the world, both in the Roman offices, in whose work the cardinals participate and in a papal conclave. But that broadening can’t happen if the cardinals don’t meet with some regularity as a body – and they haven’t in a long time. Since the Extraordinary Consistory of 2014 (during which Cardinal Walter Kasper opened the argument about marital permanence and sacramental discipline that continues, unabated, today), there has been no meeting of the college as a body, because Pope Francis has not called one. Cardinals who wish to see their new brothers invested in the college may attend the installation ceremony, but there have been no formal meetings of the whole body of cardinals since February 2014. This would seem to be a problem, for the blunt fact is that the members of the College of Cardinals
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Under the current rules, the conclave begins balloting almost immediately after it’s immured (i.e., locked up, with no contact with the outside world except for the famous smoke coming from a stack atop the Sistine Chapel). This rapidity of balloting should be reconsidered. Why not change the rules so that the actual cardinal-electors (as distinguished from the cardinals over 80 years old who do not vote in a conclave but who participate in the “general congregations” of cardinals during a papal interregnum) have three days by themselves to conduct discussions and get to know each other better? Wouldn’t such a pause for common prayer, reflection, and fraternity, with no outside interference, help facilitate
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here has been a major shift taking place on the political landscape that has been evolving for decades. It is called secularism, and it has been changing a faith-filled community into a society which questions and often disrespects basic religious values. This sad fact was recently expressed in the March 23 Wall Street Journal article by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York: “The Democratic Party no longer welcomes Catholics,” proclaimed Cardinal Dolan. He cited an instance where FATHER JOHN the Democratic Party’s CATOIR National Committee chairman Tom Perez insisted that pro-life Catholics have no place in the modern Democratic party. A recent example of this was when pro-life Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski “was effectively blacklisted.” The cardinal was quite frank, “It seems the “Big
tent of the Democratic Party has become a pup tent.” He recalled how the Democrats were once the party of inclusion. They went out of their way to support poor families, but recently legislators unanimously blocked a tax cut that helped lowincome and middle-class families. The relationship between the Catholic Church and Democratic Party has been strained for quite some time. The growth of secular values in the party has been steady. I was pleased to see Cardinal Dolan telling it like it is. In my view, the whole controversy is a spiritual problem, not merely a political one. It goes without saying that a Catholic prelate has every right to denounce any system which adheres to secularist principles, which aspire to being free of all religious scruples. There is in the heart of every human being an energy that comes from the love of God. Pride leads to spiritual deafness. People become deaf to the voice of God. This passive rebellion has hidden itself behind the words, “I am personally against abortion, even though I won’t denounce it as evil.” But it is evil, and it has gradually grown to become a powerful force in opposition to the faith of our fathers.
The cardinal gave another example, “Under the proposed New York Assembly Reproductive Health Act, doctors would not be required to care for a baby who survives an abortion. The newborn would simply be allowed to die…and abortions would be legal up to the moment of birth.” I am writing this column not for any political purpose, but to open the eyes of many well-intentioned Catholics who support the Democratic agenda. Many do not realize that the Democratic Party has abandoned them. When the Catholic cardinal of New York, the host of the annual Al Smith Dinner, denounces the Democratic Party for its adversarial position toward Catholic beliefs, he is acting as a good shepherd. Timothy Dolan recalled his Irish grandmother whispering to him when he was a boy, “We Catholics are Democrats, and we don’t trust the Republicans.” He now says, “Such is no longer the case, a cause of sadness for many … I’m sorry to have to write this, but not as sad as you are to know that it’s true.” May the Lord be your strength and your joy. Father John Catoir is a canon lawyer and a priest of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey
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the kind of prudent decision-making the church always hopes for in a papal election? Such a built-in “pause” would also minimize the pressure that has been felt in recent conclaves to reach a decision quickly in order to demonstrate the church’s unity before the world media starts speculating about divisions, crises, and so on. If it were clear to everyone that there
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Presentation Sister Kathleen Healy (religious name Sister Mary Daniel) died April 21 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 92 years old. Sister Kathleen is a former principal of San Francisco’s St. Agnes and St. Teresa schools and served as a pastoral associate at St. Teresa Parish for almost 25 years. She is a Sister Kathleen founding member of The Lantern, Healy, PBVM a literacy and hospitality center for immigrants in San Francisco, and served at St. Anthony Foundation providing social services in the dining room and visiting the poor in residential hotels in the Tenderloin. Three of Sister Kathleen’s sisters, all now deceased, were also Presentation sisters: Sister Nancy Healy, PBVM, Sister Doreen Healy, PBVM and Sister Maryann Healy, PBVM. A sister Honora Lowe is also deceased. Sister Kathleen held a doctorate in ministry from the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley. “This was a loving Irish family who surrounded and nurtured her with their Catholic faith and love for justice which supported her as a Sister of the Presentation for 75 years,” the community said in a statement. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Teresa
Church, May 5 with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.
Sister Maryann Healy, PBVM
Presentation Sister Maryann Healy (religious name Sister Mary Eugenia) died April 4 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 98 years old and a Sister of the Presentation for 81 years. Sister Maryann taught for 40 years at schools including San Francisco’s St. Anne, Epiphany, St. Elizabeth, St. Teresa and St. Agnes. “Known as an excellent teacher, she genSister Maryann erously mentored many young Healy, PBVM teachers,” the Presentation Sisters said in a statement. Three of Sister Maryann’s sisters, all now deceased, were also Presentation Sisters: Sister Nancy Healy, PBVM, Sister Doreen Healy, PBVM, and Sister Kathleen Healy, PBVM. Another sister, Honora Lowe, is also deceased. Sister Maryann is a former low –income housing manager, and served for seven years as a grief counselor at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Sister Maryann volunteered at sites including Good Samaritan
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Sister Joan Maga, BVM
Sister Joan Maga, BVM, 80, died April 13. Sister Joan was a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 62 years. Born in Los Angeles, she entered the BVM congregation Sept. 8, 1955 from Incarnation Parish, Glendale. Sister Joan taught for almost a decade at San Francisco’s St. Brigid School. A funeral Mass was celebrated May 5 at St. Bernard Church, Los Sister Joan Angeles with interment at Forest Maga, BVM Lawn, Glendale. Survivors include a brother Frank, and nephews. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.
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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament All Souls Parish: 315 Walnut Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-871-8944. 1st Friday: Immediately after the 5:15 pm (English) Mass or 6:30 pm (Spanish) Mass.
St. Anthony of Padua Parish: 1000 Cambridge St., Novato 94947; 1-415-883-2177. 1st Friday: 9:30 am to 5 pm; Tuesday: 8:30 to 9 am.
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption: 1111 Gough St., San Francisco 94109; 1-415-567-2020. 1st Friday (24 hours): 8:30 am Friday- 8 am Saturday.
St. Bartholomew Parish: 300 Alameda de las Pulgas (at Crystal Springs), San Mateo 94402; 1-650-347-0701.
Church of the Assumption of Mary Parish: 26825 Shoreline Hwy., Tomales 94971; 1-707-878-2208. Sunday: 6pm; Monday, Tuesday; noon (bilingual). Church of the Epiphany Parish: 827 Vienna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-7630. 1st Friday: 8:30 am5 pm. Church of the Good Shepherd Parish: 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044; 1-650-355-2593. Friday: 7:30 am-5 pm. Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish: 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas; 1-650-593-6157. 1st Friday: 7-8 pm Holy Hour. Church of the Nativity Parish: 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-7914. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Church of the Visitacion Parish: 655 Sunnydale Ave., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-494-5517. 1st Friday: 7:30 am6:30 pm (7 pm Mass). Holy Angels Parish: 107 San Pedro Rd., Colma 94014. 1-650-755-0478. Monday: after 5:45 pm Mass; 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm. Holy Name of Jesus Parish: 1555 39th Ave., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-664-8590. Every Wednesday: after 9 am Mass-noon (Benediction).
St. Brendan Parish: 29 Rockaway Ave., San Francisco 94127; 1-415-681-4225. Wednesday: 7-8 pm; Saturday: 4-4:45 pm. St. Bruno Parish: 555 San Bruno Ave. West, San Bruno 94066; 1-650-588-2121. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. St. Cecilia Parish: 2555 17th Ave., San Francisco 94116; 1-415-664-8481. 1st Friday (24 hours): 7 am Friday-7 am Saturday. St. Cecilia Parish, Lagunitas: 450 W. Cintura Ave., Lagunitas 94938; 1-415-488-9799. Monday: After 8 am Mass. St. Charles Parish: 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070; 1-650-591-7349. 1st Friday: 9 am-10 pm. St. Dominic Parish: 2390 Bush St., San Francisco 94115; 1-415-567-7824. 1st Friday: 2-4:30 pm; 9 pm-7:30 am (Saturday). St. Elizabeth Parish: 459 Somerset St., San Francisco 94134; 1-415-468-0820. 1st Friday: after 8 am Mass (Holy Hour in the church). St. Finn Barr Parish: 415 Edna St., San Francisco 94112; 1-415-333-3627. Monday-Thursday: 8:30 am-4 pm; Friday: 8:30 am-6 pm (Closed on holidays). St. Francis of Assisi Parish: 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto 94303; 1-650-322-2152. 1st Friday: 7:30 pm-8 am (Saturday); 1st Saturday: 7:30 pm-7 am (Sunday). St. Gregory Parish: 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403; 1-650-345-8506. 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass.
Mater Dolorosa Parish: 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-583-4131. 1st Friday: 8:3010 am
St. Hilary Parish: 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920; 1-415-435-1122. Monday-Friday: 9 am-6 pm; Saturday: 9:30 am-5 pm (in the side chapel).
Mission Dolores Basilica: 3321 16th St. (at Dolores St.), San Francisco; 1-415-621-8203. 1st Friday: 6 pm (Adoration) (Old Mission, bilingual English/Spanish).
St. Isabella Parish: 1 Trinity Way, San Rafael 94903; 1-415-479-1560. 1st Friday: 9:30 am-12noon
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley 94941; 1-415-388-4190. Tuesday: 8:30 am; Wednesday: 7:30 am. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish: 60 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014; 1-650-756-9786. 1st Friday: 8:30 am6:30 pm; Wednesday: 8:30 am-6:15 pm. St. Andrew Parish: 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City 94015; 1-650-756-3223. 1st Friday: after the 7 pm Mass. St. Anne of the Sunset Parish: 850 Judah St., San Francisco 94122; 1-415-665-1600. 1st Friday: after 8:45 am Mass until 10 am (Benediction).
St. Luke Parish: 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City 94404; 1-650-345-6660. Thursday & 1st Friday: after 8:30 am Mass-7:30 pm. St. Matthew Parish: One Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo 94402; 1-650-344-7622. Monday-Friday: 7 am-9 pm (in the chapel). St. Patrick Parish: 114 King St., Larkspur 94939; 1-415924-0600. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-3:00 pm St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish: 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco 94124; 1-415-468-3434. 1st Friday: after 7 pm Communion Service.
St. Peter Parish: 1200 Florida St., San Francisco 94110; 1-415-282-1652. 1st Friday: 10 am-7 pm. St. Peter Parish: 700 Oddstad Blvd. (at Linda Mar), Pacifica 94044; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: 8:30 am-5:30 pm. St. Pius Parish: 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061; 1-650-361-1411. 1st Friday: Friday 8:30 am to 9 pm St. Raymond Parish: 1100 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park 94025; 1-650-323-1755. Saturday: Following 8:15 am Mass. St. Thomas More Parish: 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco 94132, (Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way) ; 1-415-452-9634. 1st & 3rd Friday: 7-8 pm St. Veronica Parish: 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco 94080; 1-650-588-1455. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm (except holidays and special events in the church). Star of the Sea Parish: 4420 Geary Blvd. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.), San Francisco; 1-415-751-0450. Tuesday: 7-8 pm, in Church: Parish Holy Hour, concluding with Benediction; Tuesday: 8 am-Saturday 4 pm, in Chapel, Adoration concluding with Benediction 2nd Sunday: 3:15-4:15 pm
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‘Early Days’: Debate continues over public statue FROM PAGE 6
The commissions said the board may have been unaware that on Feb. 9, the mayor signed into law a Board of Supervisors ordinance amending the city’s administrative code to declare the second Monday in October to be Indigenous Peoples Day rather than Columbus Day. The ordinance references “the historic racism and violence inflicted upon indigenous peoples in the United States” and that an important purpose of Indigenous Peoples Day is to “condemn the atrocities” committed against them. The commissions also said their appeal arises in the broader context of a national examination of the naming of public buildings, streets (Photo by Catholic San Francisco) and schools and the The “Early Days” statue near placement of statCity Hall in San Francisco is ues and monuments part of the James Lick Pioneer relating to historical Monument depicting California figures and events history from the early settlement of the missions until 1874. that many people now see as “racist, highly offensive and deeply hurtful to minorities who have suffered so much pain rooted in that history.” “The power of art is such that explanatory words can only do so much to salve the pain art causes,” the commissions said, adding that the harm is magnified when the government as owner of the art appears to be sponsoring the message. “The city cannot relieve the pain that Native American and other community members feel when they pass by ‘Early Days’ by telling them, in effect, ‘Don’t be hurt, it’s just history,’” the commissions said in their argument for review. Although most speakers at last October’s arts commission hearing favored removal of the statue, Reid Stuart, in a September 2017 letter to the commission, called for a broader historical perspective. He called the statue a “meta-historical relic” and commented that the creators probably felt it showed the priest helping the seated indigenous man. “It is important to realize that cultures come and go,” he wrote, according to commission records. “The Pioneer Monument was cast in 1894. Spanish rule over California del Norte (as depicted in ‘Early Days’) ended in 1821 and the Mexicans lost control of the state in 1847. Even the subsequent eminence of English-speaking
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incinerated much of the historical legacy of China and Tibet during the Cultural Revolution, and post-Soviet Russians felled and decapitated statues of Lenin and Stalin. “All of the self-righteous people who destroyed these statues felt justified by their belief that attacking artwork would strike a blow against a perceived evil,” Reid wrote. “Yet in every case, this iconoclasm deprived future generations of reminders of past history, both in its positive and negative aspects.”
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Praying the Rosary The rosary is prayed at the following locations on days and times specified. St. Cecilia Church, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, Monday through Saturday, 8:35 a.m. Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Saturday 3:20 p.m.; second Sundays 3:15 p.m. for priests and vocations; Holy Rosary Society third Sundays 1 p.m., St. Joseph Perpetual Adoration Chapel; 2,000 Hail Mary Devotion, second Saturday after 8:30 a.m. Mass; Tuesdays 7:30 p.m. before the Blessed Sacrament in the church. (415) 751-0450; www. starparish.com admin@starparish.com Facebook: starparishsf. St. Monica Church, 24th Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. before 8:30 a.m. Mass. St. Gabriel Church, 40th Avenue at Ulloa, San Francisco, Monday through Friday after the 8:30 a.m. Mass. Sts. Peter & Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. across from Washington Square, San Francisco, second Sunday of the month in Cantonese, parish pastoral center, 11:30 a.m., Kelly Kong (510) 794-6117; Wednesday, 7 p.m., English, http://salesiansspp.org/. National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 624 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco, Porziuncola Chapel, Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy. www.ShrineSF.org, info@ shrinesf.org, (415) 986-4557. St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church, 1801 Octavia Street, San Francisco, rosary in sign language, all Sundays except June, July and August, 9:45-10:15 a.m.; stbenz1801@ gmail.com; www.sfdeafcatholics.org. Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ stbenedictparish. St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, Monday through Friday, following the 12:05 p.m. Mass; Saturday, before the 8:00 a.m. Mass, (415) 422-2188. Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, Monday through Friday following 8 a.m. Mass, Saturday following 8:30 a.m. Mass; Sunday 7 p.m. St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Monday through Saturday 7:50 a.m. St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, rosary in Spanish Sundays before 9:30 a.m. Spanish Mass; (650) 322-2152. Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Road, Colma, Monday through Saturday approximately 8 a.m. following 7:30 a.m. Mass, (650) 755-0478. St Dunstan Church, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Monday through Saturday, 7:40 a.m. before 8 a.m. Mass. St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City, Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m., Monday and Wednesday 4:40 p.m.; mary246barry@sbcglobal.net. St. Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, Monday through Saturday following the 8:30 a.m. Mass. St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, Monday, 5 p.m. includes four mysteries, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, adoration; (415) 479-1560. St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato, Monday through Saturday after 9 a.m. Mass.
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Survivors hope pope will act against abuse ‘epidemic’
ROME – Three Chilean abuse survivors who met with Pope Francis said his apology to them must be accompanied by concrete actions, not only against those who commit sexual abuse, but against those who cover it up. “I have never seen someone be so contrite about what he was telling me,” Juan Carlos Cruz told journalists May 2. “I also felt that he was hurting, which for me was very solemn. I don’t know what word to use because it’s not often the pope really says sorry to you and apologizes to you. He said, ‘I was part of the problem, I caused this and I’m sorry.’” Jose Andres Murillo, another of the Chilean survivors, said, “All of us had different experiences with the pope, and even if we saw the forgiveness the pope asked, we’re waiting for actions.” The Chilean survivors have alleged that Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno – then a priest – had witnessed their abuse by his mentor, Father Fernando Karadima. In 2011, the Vatican sentenced Father Karadima to a life of prayer and penance after finding him guilty of sexually abusing boys. Briefing journalists, the survivors read a prepared statement saying they appreciated the pope’s “enormous hospitality” but criticized the Chilean bishops for their role in “misinforming the pope” on the reality of sexual abuse.
Cardinal Pell ordered to stand trial
MELBOURNE, Australia – After a monthlong pre-trial hearing, an Australian judge ordered Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse of minors, charges the cardinal consistently has denied. While dropping some of the charges, including what Cardinal Pell’s lawyer described as the most “vile,” Magistrate Belinda Wallington announced May 1 that she believed there was enough evidence presented in connection with about half the original charges to warrant a full trial. The Melbourne court did not publish a complete list of the allegations, but news reports indicated they involved alleged sexual offenses committed in the 1970s at a pool in Ballarat, where then-Father Pell was a priest, and at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne in the 1990s when he was Archbishop of Melbourne. The 76-year-old Cardinal Pell, head of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, took a leave of absence from his position in the summer of 2017 to face the charges. His lawyer told the court May 1 that he had already surrendered his passport.
Pope: Bishops must protect their flock from danger
VATICAN CITY – A true bishop always stays close to his people, protecting them from “wolves” and from losing their way, Pope Francis said. “A bishop is the one who keeps an eye out, the one who keeps watch,” looking out for danger “in order to defend the flock from the wolves that come,” the pope said in his homily May 4 at morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. Pope Francis’ homily focused on the day’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles (15:22-31), which recounted how the apostles sent representatives with a letter to the faithful of Antioch to clarify and reconfirm specific laws after “some of our number who went out without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturbed your peace of mind.” Like the apostles, today’s bishops must stand with the people to defend and strengthen them in the faith, he added. A bishop’s vocation, he said, is to be a shepherd who keeps watch, which means “being engaged in the life of one’s flock.” Jesus shows how clearly distinct a true pastor is “from an employee, from someone who is up for hire and doesn’t care if a wolf comes and eats one” of his own, the pope said.
Romero Trust chair sees Romero’s influence on Francis
LONDON – Blessed Oscar Romero is a “great guiding light” in the pontificate of Pope Francis, said the chairman of the Archbishop Romero Trust. Julian Filochowski said he could perceive the influence of the martyred archbishop of San Salvador in the work of Pope Francis, particularly in his care for the poor. Blessed Romero’s “theology of the beatitudes,” he said, was echoed particularly in the teachings of the pope in “Gaudete et Exsultate,” the apostolic exhortation on the universal call to holiness, issued in April. “So much of Oscar Romero – his courage, his language, his praxis and passion for the poor – are so visible in the words and deeds of Pope Francis, most especially in ‘Gaudete et Exsultate,’ with its central focus on the beatitudes,” said Filochowski. Blessed Romero was killed by a single bullet fired from an assassin’s gun March 24, 1980, while he celebrated Mass in the chapel of the San Salvador cancer hospital, where he lived. Catholic News Service
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during Pope Benedict’s eight years as pope. It is scheduled to be published in Italian by Cantagalli in May 11. The website Vatican Insider posted Pope Francis’ preface May 6 and Vatican News posted an English translation the next day. Pope Francis said that when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger worked alongside St. John Paul II, “he elaborated and proposed a Christian vision of human rights capable of questioning on a theoretical and practical level the totalitarian claim of the Marxist state and the atheist ideology on which it was based.” Pope Francis said the contrast Cardinal Ratzinger saw between Christianity and Marxism or communism definitely was not the focus on the poor and the need to fight inequality. “We must learn – once again, not only at the theoretical level, but in the way we think and act – that alongside the real presence of Jesus in the church and in the sacrament, there exists that other real presence of Jesus in the little ones, in the trampled of this world, in the last, in whom he wants us to find him,” Pope Francis quoted the cardinal as writing. The key difference between Marxism and Christianity in the retired pope’s writing, he said, lies in the relationship each sees between redemption and liberation. “Does redemption occur through liberation from all dependence or is the only way to liberation the complete dependence on love, which would then also be true freedom?” he quotes Pope Benedict as writing. The retired pope’s insight is relevant and urgent today, Pope Francis wrote. “In fact, today more than ever there is the same temptation to refuse any dependence on love that is not a person’s love for his own ego, for ‘the I and its desires,’ and, consequently, the danger of the ‘colonization’ of consciences by an ideology that denies the basic certainty that humankind exists as male and female to whom the task of the transmission of life is assigned,” Pope Francis said.
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THURSDAY, MAY 10 EPIPHANY CENTER LUNCH: The center’s “Celebrating Mothers Luncheon” featuring orchid sale, silent auction, and lunch on the bay, 11:30 a.m., St. Francis Yacht Club, 700 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, (415) 567-8370; TheEpiphanyCenter.org. The event raises funds for San Francisco’s most vulnerable women and children.
SATURDAY, MAY 12 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon, Marin Catholic High School, Sir. Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road, Kentfield then lunch in school cafeteria. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome. Cheryl Giurlani, (415) 308-4608; www. Handicapables.com.
SUNDAY, MAY 13 FESTIVAL OF MARIAN HYMNS: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., John Renke conducting. More information: benedictinstitute.org/featured-events.
TUESDAY, MAY 15 ‘LIFE IN SPIRIT’ SEMINAR: All are invited to this series, Tuesdays, 7-8:45 p.m., St. Dominic Church, parish hall, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. Evenings will include praise and worship music, small group discussions, and refreshments. Come explore a deeper relationship with Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit. Speakers include Father Ray Reyes, vicar for clergy, Archdiocese of San Francisco; Deacon William Brennan, Salesian Father Thomas Thodukulam. Sponsored by the SF Catholic Charismatic Renewal. For more information or to RSVP, go to sfspirit.com or call Deacon Ernie at (650) 906-3451.
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3-DAY CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC CONVENTION: “The Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done,” May. 25, 26, 27, Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway. Speakers and Bishop Sam G. Mass celebrants Jacobs include retired Louisiana Bishop Sam G. Jacobs, Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia, Father Raymund Reyes, Father Gary Thomas. Days include liturgies, Holy Hour, veneration of Our Lady with sessions in English, Vietnamese and Spanish. Seminars for adults, young adults, teens, and children’s program, www.NCRCSpirit.org; Norma G. Guerrero, (650) 219-4556
EPISCOPAL ORDINATION: Bishop-designate Robert F. Christian, OP will be ordained to the episcopate by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, Bishop-desigSan Francisco, 11 nate Christian a.m. A reception for the public will follow the ordination in the cathedral conference center. The archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop is a San Francisco native and graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep, San Francisco. He entered the Dominican order in 1970 and was ordained a priest in 1976. Mass will be livestreamed at www.sfarchdiocese.org.
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SATURDAY, MAY 19 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch, both in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Please RSVP by contacting Diane Prell, activities coordinator, (415) 452-3500; www.Handicapables.com. Dates are subject to change.
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