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Archbishop ordains 4 new priests at St. Mary’s Cathedral Emphasizes role as shepherd, importance of celibacy to vocation VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone ordained four men to the priesthood June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, exhorting them to live their lives as Christ the good shepherd and embody “pastoral charity” in every moment of their lives.

“Pastoral charity is love in action,” Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily.

“Charity is love and love means presence. The essence of pastoral charity is pastoral presence,” he told the four men and their family and friends, as well as the many archdiocesan priests, deacons and other supporters and well-wishers who filled the cathedral’s pews for the more than two-hour Mass.

The newly ordained priests, Father Mark D. Doherty, Father Anthony S. Vallecillo, Father Andrew Spyrow and Father Roger Gustafson, have been assigned to parishes as parochial vicars beginning July 1. Two will also serve as part-time chaplains at archdiocesan Catholic high schools, Junipero Serra High School and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

From left, Father Andrew Spyrow, Father Mark Doherty, Father Tony Vallecillo, and Father Roger Gustafson joined Archbishop Cordileone for a portrait after their priestly ordination Mass June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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Pope: In life and sports, aim to win, have fun, don’t hog the ball VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged athletes to live life the same way they play sports: Don’t hog the ball, don’t fall back on defense, and make sure to keep it fun.

He also called on policymakers and communities to guarantee all kids have access to sports, education and jobs early on in life, “and I guarantee that there will be no addictions to drugs, alcohol and many other vices.”

The pope made his comments during a gathering in St. Peter’s Square June 7 with tens of thousands of children, young adults, coaches and athletes to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Italian Sports Center, the Catholic Action’s sports association in Italy.

The square had been turned into a “sports village” with makeshift basketball and volleyball courts, minisoccer fields, and gymnastic equipment.

The pope told participants to make sure sports always stayed fun.

“Only if it stays a game does it do the body and spirit good,” he said.

He urged athletes to approach life the same way they approach sports by “putting yourself in the game on a

quest for the good, in the church and in society, without fear, with courage and enthusiasm.”

“Put yourself in the game with others and with God; don’t settle for a mediocre ‘tie,’ give it your all, spending your life on the thing that really matters and lasts forever.

“Don’t be satisfied with these lukewarm lives, lives (marked by) ‘unexceptional draws,’ no, no! Keep going, always seeking victory,” he said.

The pope underlined “the beauty of teamwork,” which “is very important in life.”

He warned against “individualism” and just playing or living for oneself.

The pope, an avid soccer fan, said nobody likes to see a player who “hogs the ball.”

“Don’t hog the ball, play as a team,” shunning selfishness and seclusion, and aiming for solidarity and reciprocal respect, he said.

The pope encouraged parishes and church groups to use sports as a vehicle to evangelize and teach Gospel values.

“But these sports associations must be run well, in a way that is in sync with the Christian community; if it

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isn’t in sync, it’s better it not be around,” he warned.

He said inclusion and a welcoming attitude are key so that “everyone may play, not just the talented ones, but everybody, with their merits and limits – better yet, give priority to those at a disadvantage like Jesus did.”

The pope thanked the organization for nominating him as the team captain of its athletes.

“As your captain, I’m going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match – the Gospel, together.”

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FORTNIGHT AT MATER DOLOROSA: For the third successive year, Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco is answering the call from the U.S. bishops to pray and fast for religious freedom for 14 days, beginning with 5 p.m. Mass June 21 followed by adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, praying of the rosary and a screening of the classic film “A Man for All Seasons” about St. Thomas More.

This year’s “Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Serve” will focus on the freedom to serve the poor and vulnerable in accord with human dignity and church teaching.

“At Mater Dolorosa we ask, what is our country without religious freedom? What will we leave for future generations if we don’t act on our religious beliefs and protect them? We believe that prayer and fasting are the most powerful and peaceful weapons that we have,” the parish said. The parish invites people to fast from whatever activities they are involved in (such as television, sports, Internet, phones, shopping) and to pray with the community as well as fast personally. On each Sunday, following noon Mass, and weekdays at 7 p.m., the church will offer adoration, praying the rosary and distribution of handouts about religious freedom. On July 4, participants will pray the rosary at 9:30 a.m. with the closing Mass at 10 a.m., followed by a celebration with hot dogs, chips and apple pie. For a detailed schedule email diana@mdssf.org.

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On a Saturday morning in May at St. Dominic Church, a group of parishioners filed into the Aquinas Room, a quiet multipurpose room outside the doors of the church, each toting what for them has become an important spiritual aid: a yoga mat.

St. Dominic began offering the parish community free, clergy-sanctioned yoga classes last year. Even though there are more than a dozen yoga studios within a mile radius of the church at Bush and Steiner streets, the initiated and uninitiated, the apprehensive and the enthusiastic, the fit and not-as-fit, showed up.

“I was thrilled to be able to practice two things I love in one place,” said Patricia Yang, who has done yoga at secular yoga studios for years.

Yang’s parents had concerns about yoga distracting their daughter from her Catholic faith or diluting it. But Yang has no such concerns. “It clears the clutter from my mind so I can remain longer in prayer,” she said.

“My ambivalence was unfounded,” said Rob Crea, who arrived at his first class six weeks ago, a skeptic. Raised in what he described as a “new age” home, he converted to Catholicism 14 years ago. “Yoga is helping me develop a deeper, more authentic spiritual conversation with God and with others,” he said.

He also likes the tension-taming effect of yoga and his improved muscle tone.

Dominicans have a rich history of combining physical postures with mental and vocal prayer, said St. Dominic pastor Dominican Father Michael Hurley, who offers unguarded support for the practice of Christian yoga and meditation.

“The ‘nine ways of prayer’ of St. Dominic himself show us how our souls can connect with the Lord using different postures,” he said. “The body and mind are connected, so it makes good sense that intentional physicality can lift our spirit to God,” he said.

“Most Americans think that yoga is just a series of physical poses,” said certified yoga instructor Linda Bracanovich, a St. Dominic parishioner and former lapsed Catholic who said she was led back into the church in 2007 through the study and practice of yoga.

Bracanovich said that an intense period of yoga practice and study “led to an aliveness of spirit that reopened my heart to God and returned me to my

CORPUS CHRISTI: The Dominican nuns at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park, celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi June 22 with Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by a procession, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and adoration. The public is cordially invited to join the nuns in this beautiful tribute to the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. The celebrant and homilist is Dominican Father Ambrose Sigman, who was ordained to the priesthood in the Order of Preachers in 2013 and serves as parochial vicar at St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park.

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Rob Crea, right, had qualms about yoga before taking his first class at St. Dominic but says “my ambivalence was unfounded.”

‘The body and mind are connected, so it makes good sense that intentional physicality can lift our spirit to God.’ DOMINICAN FATHER MICHAEL HURLEY St. Dominic pastor

Catholic roots.” She believes yoga can help other Catholics develop a greater capacity for worship and prayer and could be a useful tool in the “new evangelization.”

Her “Heart-Opening Yoga” class is held on the first and third Saturday morning of each month, and a separate yoga class is offered once a month for senior citizens.

The hour-and-15-minute class holds much the same form as any classic, “flow yoga” class in the secular world.

But the language used and the environment is pointedly Catholic.

Bracanovich opened and closed the Saturday class with a focused intention on the upcoming feast of Pentecost.

Paintings of St. Dominic and Mary and Jesus adorn front and back walls. And donations received from students for the free class are given to the Lima Center, St. Dominic’s homeless ministry.

She approached parish leaders about teaching a yoga class six months after becoming a parishioner there.

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“I believe that if yoga could bring me back to my Catholic roots, it might help others too,” Bracanovich said.

That belief led her to take a sabbatical from her job with a brand development company to pursue a master’s in theological studies at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and to teach yoga to other Catholic communities, among them the Verbum Dei community in San Francisco.

Bracanovich got approval from longtime pastor Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto last spring. When Father Lavagetto left the parish last summer for a campus ministry post at Stanford, Dominican Father Emmanuel Taylor became the shepherd of the program.

Clergy and staff gave their unanimous approval last fall despite some initial grumblings from a few parishioners.

“People are fearful of what they don’t know about,” Bracanovich said. “I understand that.”

For Bracanovich’s students, yoga with a Catholic twist is just what they were looking for.

“Yoga is now an essential part of my spiritual journey as a Catholic,” said Feysel Neri, a recent convert who turned to yoga two years ago to heal his shoulder after a sports injury.

“I always made it ‘Catholic yoga’ no matter where I was,” said Tammy Durst. “But I love holding a posture and looking over and seeing the Virgin Mary.”

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Road-weary prison families find hot food, comfort from Marin County Catholics

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Left, Patricia Berry of San Diego and 12-year-old daughter Aleeya Gordon prepare to depart from St. Sebastian Church for San Quentin State Prison after a hot breakfast hosted by the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club on June 6. Aleeya saw her father for the first time in five years thanks to “Get on the Bus,” a program that unites children with their mothers or fathers in prison. Vanessa Muro, right, woke up to a stack of pancakes in the St. Sebastian parish hall, after traveling all night from Visalia with her mother and brothers to see her father Benito at San Quentin.

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More than 150 sleepy-eyed children and their mothers and grandmothers, some dressed in pajamas or wrapped in blankets after an all-night bus ride, were greeted by a hot breakfast prepared by the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club as they shuffled into the St. Sebastian Parish Hall at dawn June 6.

The travelers journeyed from as far away as San Diego and Los Angeles to the Bay Area for a Father’s Day visit with sons, fathers or grandfathers incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. The trip was made possible by “Get on the Bus,” a program that unites children with their mothers or fathers in prison.

The Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, a fraternal organization made up of Marin County Catholics, founded in 1999 by St. Patrick parishioner Denis Ragan, has been waiting at the end of the line to calm both hunger and nerves for the past four years.

“Some of these kids have never seen their fathers,” Ragan told Catholic San Francisco as club members Wayne Batmale of St. Sebastian Parish and Pauline O’Brien-Delory of St. Anselm Parish scurried between kitchen and tables with pancakepiled plates. “They are so excited they can hardly eat.”

St. Sebastian Church is located only three miles from San Quentin State Prison. Within the hour “Get on the Bus” travelers were at the prison gate.

Six-year-old Max Flores, who boarded the bus at 2 a.m. in Visalia with his mother and sister Vanessa, swished leftover syrup around on his plate as he described how he wanted to play with his dad, Benito, whom he had not seen in almost two years. When asked what the first thing he was going to do when he saw his dad, he answered the same way every child who was asked that morning did: “Tell him that I love him!”

“Get on the Bus” is a nonprofit organization based in North Hollywood that offers free transportation to the children of men and women jailed in 11 California state prisons. It was fueled by the vision of founder Sister Suzanne Jasbro, who as the director of detention ministry for the archdioceses of Los Angeles and Seattle, saw the devastating family fallout that occurs when a parent with children is incarcerated.

According to the organization’s website, an estimated 856,000 children in California have a parent currently involved in California’s adult criminal justice system. Their caregivers, often grandparents or single parents, are often unable to

make the drive for a family visit due to distance or expense.

“We don’t have the resources to travel up here,” said Patrice Berry of San Diego, whose daughter Aleeya, 12, hasn’t seen her father, Mark Gordon, since he was transferred from Soledad State Prison to San Quentin five years ago.

After learning about “Get on the Bus” from prison staff, Gordon begged Berry to bring his daughter to see him.

“Look at that smile,” Berry said looking at her daughter as the two returned to their seats on the bus after their breakfast at St. Sebastian.

“She is overjoyed. And that means so am I.”

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Pentecost Sunday in Bolinas Parishioners, visitors gather at historic church for Mass, retreat, reflection

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A surprising number from the morning congregation had traveled the 35 miles from San Francisco to the white, one-room church built in 1863 on Horseshoe Hill Road. Others arrived from nearby Stinson Beach, Point Reyes or Inverness Park for fellowship and an after-Mass walk in the historic Catholic cemetery that predates the church by 25 years. Don Gregorio Briones, a successful early California rancher, and the brother of San Francisco “founding mother” Juana Briones, gave the land to the church as a gift so that a chapel could be built overlooking the Bolinas Lagoon.

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World financial system built as ‘new idolatry,’ cardinal tells forum ‘The human being was not made for the economy, but the economy was made for the human being’ MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The world financial system “has been built as a new idolatry,” charged Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, at a June 3 forum in Washington sponsored by The Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies.

During his keynote address, Cardinal Rodriguez issued a ringing endorsement of the church’s competency to critique economic systems.

Some of the church’s critics ask, “What is the hierarchy of the church doing in the economy? They know nothing about the economy,” Cardinal Rodriguez said in his remarks at the forum, “Erroneous Autonomy: The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism.”

The church knows about the economy because “we know about the human being,” the cardinal said. “The human being was not made for the economy, but the economy was made for the human being.” Pastors “smell like the sheep,” he added, borrowing a phrase from Pope Francis, and said libertarians and economists could benefit by being closer to the people.

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Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, president of Caritas Internationalis, gives his keynote address during a conference at the Bread for the World headquarters in Washington June 3. company town. Workers were paid in scrip redeemable only at the “company store,” he said. His dad and granddad were clubbed by the “coal and iron police” as they were chased up the steps of the Catholic church in town – the only parcel of land not owned by the company – for trying to start a union, until the parish pastor, crucifix in his hands, stepped between his parishioners and the police, declaring, “This is sanctuary.”

Upon hearing these travails, Cardinal Rodriguez said to Trumka, “I thought you were describing the mining situation in my country in the 1900s.”

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Bread for the World is a member of the Circle of Protection, as is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The “circle” is an alliance of faith-based organizations that has been pushing Congress this decade to spare the poor from the brunt of budget cuts.

However, in the fiscal year 2015 budget proposed by the House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., programs benefiting low-income Americans would be on the receiving end of 69 percent of the budget cuts, according to an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Ryan, a Catholic, had once been an ardent follower of libertarian philosopher and author Ayn Rand, although in 2012 he rejected Rand’s philosophy as atheistic. But Ryan has since come under criticism from some Catholic academics for misstating Catholic social teaching when issuing federal budget proposals.

Libertarians argue for maximum individual autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing political freedom, voluntary association and the primacy of individual judgment.

While dialogue between Catholics and libertarians should not be ruled

out, it can be “difficult,” said Meghan Clark, an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University in New York, “because you don’t share the same vocabulary.”

While libertarians may say they embrace the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, which holds that decisions are best made by the smallest or least centralized competent authority, they are silent on the subject, Cardinal Rodriguez said, “when it comes to banks and corporations.”

“Many of the libertarians do not read the social doctrine of the church,” he added, “but now they are trembling before the Book of Piketty,” a reference to French economist Thomas Piketty,” whose 700-page book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” examining wealth inequality around the world, has become a surprise bestseller.

“Adam Smith (the colonial-era U.S. essayist) never thought of this” when he came up with his “invisible hand” theory of the economy, Cardinal Rodriguez said. “The invisible hand has become (a) thief. That is the problem. The hand has become so invisible it started stealing everything, corruption.”

Despite the ills of the current system, Cardinal Rodriguez said political action may help change it. “Politics is often regarded as a dirty game,” he said. “Who else but committed Christians can clean it up?”

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‘Fortnight’ emphasizes connection between religious freedom, service JULIA WILLIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – For Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the third annual Fortnight for Freedom is an opportunity to consider the link between religious liberty and service to the poor. “People who value their Catholic faith will understand that there is an organic connection between what we believe and how we practice our faith in service well beyond the borders of the church,� said Archbishop Lori. “We want to be able to practice it unabashedly, whether in church or in the workplace or as part of church ministry.

We don’t think we should have to compromise our beliefs in order to observe.�

As chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, Archbishop Lori has been involved with the fortnight movement from the beginning. Originally stemming out of a 12page statement released by the committee in June 2012 titled “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty,� the fortnight aims to protect religious liberties from government infringement.

For the Catholic Church, chief among threats to religious freedom is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that most employers, including Catholic hospitals, schools and charities, provide insurance coverage for contraceptives, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs.

Although the event mainly targets Catholics, Archbishop Lori cites the fortnight as a chance for individuals of all faiths to educate themselves regarding the issue of religious freedom. “The aim of the Fortnight for Freedom is to build a prayerful awareness not only among Catholics, but among all people of good will, of the impor-

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Participants pray during a rosary rally for religious freedom at St. Bernard Church in Levittown, N.Y., May 24. tance of religious freedom,� he told Catholic News Service June 3. “This year, we are working with

ecumenical and other faith groups to lay foundations over time for a larger, unified religious freedom movement.�

Archbishop Lori will open this year’s fortnight with Mass June 21 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. After two weeks dedicated to prayer, study, catechesis and public action, this year’s program will end with Mass celebrated by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on July 4.

Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, will be the homilist at the Independence Day Mass. Archbishop Kurtz is president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Discussing this year’s fortnight theme, “Freedom to Serve,� Archbishop Lori said, “While almost everyone in our culture gives acknowledgement to freedom of worship, it is when churches step beyond their walls and reach out to the poor that religious freedom is sometimes challenged. Individuals have a duty to fulfill their life’s mission in accordance with the faith and what we believe.�

As the church celebrates a series of great martyrs who remained faithful in the face of political persecution throughout the two-week event, the archbishop hopes that campaigns like this will provide hope to religiously persecuted individuals everywhere. “This is a time for individuals to come to understand better what religious freedom is, what the church teaches about it and how that affects the way we exercise good citizenship and an appropriate love for our homeland,� said Archbishop Lori. “We believe that the flame of freedom ought to be kept burning brightly within this country as a beacon of hope for religiously persecuted people around the world.�

D-Day remembered In Ranville, France, British World War II veteran Frederick Glover poses for a photo June 5 as soldiers parachute down during D-Day commemoration. About 18 heads of state attended ceremonies bringing together 3,000 veterans along France’s Normandy coast where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, in a seaborne invasion that sped up the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. At the Vatican, Pope Francis said people must continue to recognize the sacrifice of the Allied soldiers who liberated Europe from “Nazi barbarism� but also should not forget the German soldiers “dragged into this drama.� The pope believes “present generations should express their full recognition to all those who made such a heavy sacrifice,� said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, in a message commemorating the invasion of Normandy. Cardinal Parolin said Pope Francis hoped the commemoration would “remind us that excluding God from the lives of people and society cannot but bring death and suffering.� The pope prayed, “May European nations find in the Gospel of Christ, the prince of peace, the roots of their history and the source of inspiration for forging bonds that are always fraternal and marked by solidarity.�

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Bishop: No ruling can change nature of marriage CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MADISON, Wis. – Marriage is – “and can only ever be” – a relationship “solely between one man and one woman, regardless of the decision of a judge or any vote,” said Bishop Robert C. Morlino of Madison.

“This is not based on any private sectarian viewpoint, but on the natural moral law that is universally binding on all peoples, at all times, and inscribed into our human nature, as man and woman from the beginning of creation,” he said.

Bishop Morlino made the comments in response to a late June 6 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb, who declared as unconstitutional a 2006 amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution that outlawed same-sex marriage.

Almost immediately county clerk offices in Wisconsin began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Crabb was to decide later whether she would stay her decision while an appeal moved through the courts.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Wisconsin ultimately on behalf of eight same-sex couples. It argued the state ban on same-sex marriage violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to equal protection and due process.

Crabb and the court have “shaken one of the most precious and essential building blocks of our civilization,” Bishop Morlino said in his statement.

“It bears repeating that, we must respect, love, and care for every individual we encounter, regardless of who they are, where they come from, or how they define themselves.,” he said. “This will never change. It is at the core of who we are as members of Christ’s church.”

Christ’s love and mercy “can heal all divisions that separate us,” he added. “However, however, we must acknowledge the divisions that exist – notably those we choose through our actions.”

The Catholic Church teaches that sex outside of marriage between one man and one woman is sinful.

Bishop Morlino said he was “deeply saddened”

by Crabb’s ruling. “I will continue to speak strongly about the truth and beauty of marriage and encourage my brother priests and deacons, and all the lay faithful, to do the same.”

Marriage between “one man and one woman with openness to children, is an element of the very first ‘domino’ of civilization,” Bishop Morlino said.

“When that first ‘domino’ falls, everything that is good, true, and beautiful, which is rooted on the natural family, is seriously threatened,” he said.

With Wisconsin, same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Other courts’ decisions have been stayed, pending appeals.

In mid-May, Oregon became the 18th state to allow same-sex marriage after a federal judge there repealed that state’s constitutional marriage amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Oregon Catholic Conference called it “a travesty of justice that marriage, as the foundation of society, received no defense in the U.S. District Court.”

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A woman carries a sign opposed to same-sex marriage while people in support of it walk behind her outside the Federal Court House in Detroit March 7. With a June 6 federal court ruling in Wisconsin, same-sex marriage is now legal in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Other courts’ decisions have been stayed, pending appeals. underway. Earlier the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to grant a stay.

The May 19 ruling allowing same-sex marriage and its consequences “will have a profound effect on all of us,” said Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore. “From the beginning, our efforts to prevent this from happening were never about demeaning or attacking the dignity of persons who happen to be homosexual,” he wrote in his column for the Catholic Sentinel, the archdiocesan newspaper. “Their dignity as human persons must never be called into question or denied.

“This has always been about upholding and protecting the unique institution in our society that we call marriage.” He continued: “Let us be clear. We all know people who identify themselves as gay or lesbian. They are our friends, our neighbors, our coworkers, and members of our own families. We love and cherish them.”

Archbishop Sample said the Catholic Church is “deeply aware” of the complexity and sensitivity of the same-sex marriage issue. “In no way do we wish to add to any existing discrimination against those who identify as gay or lesbian,” he said. “The Catholic Church fully teaches that all human persons, including those who are gay, are sacred, valued, have an innate dignity, and are loved by God. “We believe that all people should be treated with love, dignity and respect, regardless of what they think, how they act, or who they are. We welcome those who are attracted to people of the same sex into our churches and into our hearts.”

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The church recognizes that “gay people can experience deep friendships, commitment, loyalty, generosity, and love just like anyone else,” but “men and women were made for each other by God in a unique and complementary way. ... The future of humanity passes through the union between one man and one woman.”

Catholic teaching is “not meant to engender attitudes of disrespect or hostility, and perhaps we don’t always do the best job of stating them,” he said.

“The Catholic Church is not interested in numbers in the pews or money in the collection basket, but only in bringing people to Jesus, serving the poor, reaching out to the lost and the broken, and in helping lead all to eternal salvation in Christ,” the archbishop said. “Where we are failing in these areas, we need to change, but we cannot change Christ’s call to be faithful to the truth of the Gospel.”

“Further dialogue is needed to ensure that each individual’s civil rights are being upheld,” he added.

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Ireland investigates report of children buried at former religious home CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DUBLIN – The Irish government established a working group to address details emerging about Catholicrun, state-funded mother-and-baby homes and the burial of deceased children.

Minister for Children Charlie Flanagan said June 4 that the initiative would result in a report to the government on how best to address “a shocking reminder of a darker past in Ireland.”

Revelations that 796 infants and children died at a home for unwed mothers and their babies in Tuam in western Ireland has put renewed focus on such

institutions. The Tuam home was run by the Bons Secours sisters between 1925 and 1961, during which time the children, some as old as 9, suffered a death rate of nearly one every two weeks. Their bodies were buried in a disused septic tank and their grave was unmarked.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, June 5, urged the people responsible for running any of the mother-and-baby homes or other people with information about mass graves to talk with investigators.

“The Gospel message is that authentic faith is measured by how we treat children who represent Christ, he said June 5. His statement described the

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A day earlier, he said it was important that the stories of the homes be collected “to get an accurate picture of these homes in our country’s history.

Archbishop Martin also said that “where there are reasonable grounds,” he supports “excavating what may be unmarked graves” and “the setting up of monuments at any unmarked grave sites with, where possible, the names of those who died.”

Following research by local historian Catherine Corless into the Tuam home, it emerged that up to 796 children may have died during its 36 years of operation.

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UK moves a step closer to allowing 3-parent babies SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – Great Britain moved a step closer to becoming the first country in the world to legalize technologies that would lead to the creation of “designer babies” after a state regulatory agency declared that controversial procedures were not “unsafe.”

The Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority said in a report published June 3 that it had seen no evidence to suggest that two mitochondrial replacement techniques were dangerous.

British politicians earlier complained to Jeremy Hunt, secretary of state for health, that the creation of so-called “genetically modified” children from the genetic material of three or more parents may carry unforeseen consequences that will harm generations to come.

However, Peter Braude, a member of the HFEA review panel, said in a statement that the technologies offered “great hope” to children with inherited mitochondrial disorders.

He said that three years of research by the panel would possibly result in “a shining example of evidenced-based regulation.”

The report by the regulator comes four months after the British government published draft regulations for the use of maternal spindle transfer and pronuclear transfer procedures to prevent mothers from passing on serious mitochondrial diseases to their children.

Neither of the techniques has been carried out on humans around the world and they remain illegal in the U.K., but research has been conducted on animals. The technologies also are prohibited by the European Union, are opposed by the United Nations, and have been under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which stated earlier this year that the “full spectrum of risks ... has yet to be identified.”

The HFEA report allows the British government to move forward on creating a legal framework on the techniques later this year.

Pro-life parliamentarians criticized the HFEA report.

“Given the safety concerns which have been raised, the unresolved ethical questions, and a practice which runs contrary to international consensus, it would be prudent for the U.K. to wait at least until these issues have been resolved before

being stampeded into a decision which has such far reaching consequences,” Lord Alton of Liverpool, a Catholic member of Parliament, said in a statement.

“This ranks alongside our earlier unwise decision to fly in the face of the concerns expressed about the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos, subsequently shown to be without scientific merit and ethically flawed,” he added.

Fiona Bruce, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, said in a statement that Britain risked “isolating itself from the rest of the world.”

“Many MPs are gravely worried about the safety of these proposals, the fact that they have not been properly tested, and the very real risk that they could open the door to designer babies,” she said.

The government argues the technologies, which utilize in vitro fertilization, are necessary to create between five and 10 healthy babies a year for couples who might pass on mitochondrial diseases.

Mitochondria are the biological power packs that give energy to nearly every cell of the body.

Genetic defects can leave the cells starved of energy, causing muscle weakness, blindness, heart failure and death in the most extreme cases. It is estimated that defective mitochondria affect one in every 6,500 babies in the U.K. annually.

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GUETTEVILLE, France – Franciscan Father Ignatius Maternowski was remembered for his bravery and commitment to serving soldiers in the battlefield during a ceremony in Normandy marking the 70th anniversary of the Allied-led D-Day invasion, a major turning point in World War II. Father Maternowski, 32, a Conventual Franciscan, was the only Father Catholic chaplain killed during Maternowski the assault in northern France that began June 6, 1944.

Conventual Franciscan Father James McCurry, minister provincial of the order’s Our Lady of Angels province, recalled during a commemorative ceremony June 4 that the young priest was motivated by charity, love for freedom and justice and an adherence to ideals that bound Americans and French citizens alike.

Father Maternowski, who held the rank of Army captain, was killed by a German sniper after volunteering to parachute into France with members of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. He landed safely and immediately began searching for a building that could serve as a field hospital, Father McCurry recalled.

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Father Maternowski’s body remained on the ground for three days before Allied forces were able to advance into the area near Guetteville. He was buried near Utah Beach one of the key invasion points in Normandy. In 1948, his remains were returned to the U.S. and buried at the Franciscans’ Mater Dolorosa Cemetery in South Hadley, Mass.

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Nigerian cardinal supports offer of amnesty to insurgents “The motivation has to be the pursuit of peace and reconciliation with people who admit wrongdoing and are ready to repent,” Cardinal Onaiyekan explained.

During a Democracy Day broadcast May 29, Jonathan discussed an offer of amnesty to Boko Haram insurgents who lay down arms and embrace dialogue.

His offer came in an effort to rein in increasingly destructive attacks on civilian targets.

Boko Haram is an Islamist militant group with a somewhat undefined leadership and structure. It is in the fifth year of a violent campaign that has included bombings, attacks on churches, assassinations and abductions in an effort to overthrow the Nigerian government and create an Islamist state.

A day later, the Administrative Board of the Nigerian bishops’ conference called for six months of prayer for peace in response to the violence that has rocked much of Africa’s most-populous nation. The bishops outlined a series of prayerful actions that individuals, clergy, religious and parishes can take from July through December.

Cardinal Onaiyekan wrote that offering amnesty “is a great challenge, which calls for a lot of commitment, sincerity and consistency on the part of government and its agents.”

He also said amnesty should not be a “case of enthroning impunity,” which encourages the militants to “blackmail government in the future through violence.”

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ABUJA, Nigeria – Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja supported Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to offer amnesty for any Boko Haram militants who stop fighting and embrace peace.

In a June 3 letter, Cardinal Onaiyekan said any amnesty arrangement must be undertaken with the goal of reconciliation among the government, militants and victims of violence.

The letter was the fifth the cardinal sent from Rome to Nigeria to address violence in his country. The cardinal said he is in Rome tending to church-related business.

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Pope tells presidents only God can bring peace to Holy Land FRANCIS X. ROCCA CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Praying for peace in the Holy Land alongside leaders of long-antagonistic nations, Pope Francis called on God to act where human efforts had failed, to end what he described as violence inspired by the devil.

“More than once we have been on the verge of peace, but the evil one, employing a variety of means, has succeeded in blocking it,” the pope said June 8 at an evening ceremony in the Vatican Gardens. “That is why we are here, because we know and we believe that we need the help of God.” The pope addressed his remarks to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during an “invocation for peace” in the Holy Land, to which he had invited them during his visit to the region two weeks earlier.

“I was young, now I am old. I experienced war, I tasted peace,” Peres said in an English portion of his statement. “Never will I forget the bereaved families, parents and children, who paid the cost of war. And all my life I shall never stop to act for peace for the generations to come. Let’s all of us join hands and make it happen.”

According to an official translation of Abbas’ prepared Arabic text, the Palestinian president said: “We want peace for us and for our neighbors. We seek prosperity and peace of mind for ourselves and for others alike.”

The event, at which Christians, Muslims and Jews prayed in each other’s presence, was almost certainly the first of its kind at the Vatican, according to Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office.

The starting time of 7 p.m. had been chosen in part to avoid the midday heat, yet temperatures were still in the mid-80s less than an hour earlier, when Peres arrived by car at the Vatican guesthouse, where the pope lives. Abbas arrived at 6:30 p.m., and 15 minutes later the two presidents embraced in the presence of the pope.

“Nice to see you,” Peres and Abbas told each other in English.

Joining the group was Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, whom Father Lombardi had described as one of the event’s “four protagonists,” and Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, custos of the Holy Land and the principal coordinator of the event.

The five men rode together in a white minivan the short distance to the site of the ceremony, a triangular swath of lawn walled off by tall hedges along two

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Pope Francis and Israeli President Shimon Peres arrive for an invocation for peace in the Vatican Gardens June 8. Also pictured is Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, left. sides. The setting had been chosen, according to Father Lombardi, because of its “neutral” appearance, lacking in religious imagery.

Pope Francis and the two presidents sat at the corner of the triangle where the two hedges met.

Along the hedge to their left sat what the Vatican described as “political” members of the Israeli and Palestinian delegations, including both nations’ ambassadors to the Holy See; Christian religious leaders, including Patriarch Bartholomew, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and Palestinian Lutheran Bishop Monib Younan; and musicians who performed between prayers during the ceremony.

Along the other hedge sat various Muslim, Jewish and Druze religious figures, including Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud, longtime friends of the pope from Buenos Aires and leaders respectively in their city’s Jewish and Muslim communities, who accompanied Pope Francis during his visit to the Holy Land.

Members of the Palestinian and Israeli delegations and guests of Pope Francis read a selection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim prayers, in order of their religions’ historical precedence. Each set of prayers praised God for creation, begged forgiveness of sins and asked for peace in the Holy Land.

Patriarch Bartholomew read in English from the Book of Isaiah: “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent – its food shall be dust.”

At the end of the ceremony, which lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, the pope, patriarch and the two presidents kissed each other on both cheeks, then took up shovels and added dirt to the base of a newly planted olive tree. They then spent about 15 minutes speaking privately inside the nearby Casina Pio IV, a 16th-century villa which now houses several pontifical academies.

POPE APPOINTS US-BORN PRELATE TO CLERGY CONGREGATION

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has reconfirmed most members of the Congregation for Clergy and confirmed three new members.

The new members named June 9 were U.S.-born Archbishop Gintaras Grusas of Vilnius, Lithuania; Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Betori of Florence, Italy; and German Cardinal Rainer Woelki of Berlin.

The departing members of the congregation include Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone, retired Vatican secretary of state; Joachim Meisner, retired archbishop of Cologne, Germany; Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid; Dionigi Tettamanzi, retired archbishop of Milan; Paul Cordes, retired president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum; and 69-year-old Polycarp Pengo of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Pope Francis also confirmed 19 current members of the congregation, including U.S. Cardinals Sean P. O’Malley of Boston; Donald W. Wuerl of Washington; and Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

The prefect of the Congregation for Clergy – the office responsible for the formation, ministry and life of priests and deacons – is Italian Cardinal Beniamino Stella, whom Pope Francis appointed in September 2013.

Archbishop Grusas, 52, was born to Lithuanian parents in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Los Angeles area.

Before his priestly ordination in 1994, he served as a technical consultant for marketing at IBM. He served as secretary-general of the Lithuanian bishops’ conference and was head of Lithuania’s military ordinariate before being named archbishop of Vilnius in 2013.

GROUPS VOW TO FIGHT QUEBEC’S NEWLY PASSED EUTHANASIA LAW

OTTAWA, Ontario – A Catholic leader joined several organizations opposed to euthanasia in condemning Quebec’s “dying with dignity” law that brings Belgium-style euthanasia to the province.

The new law, Bill 52, passed June 5 by a 94-22 vote.

It outlines the conditions under which terminally ill Quebeckers can request medical aid in dying.

The law treats euthanasia as health care, which falls under provincial jurisdiction, while the Criminal Code, which lists the practice as culpable homicide, is under federal jurisdiction.

“I hoped until the last moment that our members (would) not vote in favor of this bill, which introduced euthanasia with all its consequences. I am very disappointed,” Cardinal Gerald Cyprien Lacroix of Quebec said in a post on his Facebook page. “Now, we will have to work with even more zeal to accompany the people at the end of life so that they do not have to request euthanasia.”

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Before they are ordained priests, the four men prostrate themselves before the altar as the congregation asks for God to pour out his grace upon these men so that they will never be without his assistance in their future ministry. Archbishop Cordileone and concelebrating priests then each laid their hands on the four men’s heads, followed by the archbishop praying the prayer of consecration.

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The earliest known image of Jesus is in the catacombs of Rome – a young man with a lamb lying across his shoulders and another beside him, the archbishop said in his homily after the men were presented as candidates but before they received the sacrament of holy orders.

“From the beginning this has been one of the most beloved images that our Lord uses to describe himself in the Gospel. It is a beloved image that goes all the way back to Old Testament times,” the archbishop noted, saying God described himself as the shepherd of Israel and that King David was the shepherd king.

“By the virtue of their consecration priests are configured to Jesus the good shepherd,” as St. John Paul II said in the 1992 papal document on the formation of priests “Pastores dabo vobis” (“I Will Give You Shepherds”), Archbishop Cordileone said.

Celibacy is central to the priest’s call to “pastoral charity” because the priest represents Christ as the spouse of the church. “I fear this ancient discipline of the church is sorely misunderstood,” the archbishop said, viewed just as a practical solution “so the priest can have more time to do his job.”

But, the Second Vatican Council emphasized celibacy for priests as the greatest expression of their call to “pastoral charity,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

Priestly celibacy enables the “gift of self in and with Christ to the church,” the archbishop said: It allows a “total and exclusive love.”

“This is the love of spouses which opens us up to the true meaning of the priest’s commitment to celibacy,” Archbishop Cordileone said.

The priestly sacrament of holy or-

Deacons Cameron Faller and Patrick Summerhays stand with the archbishop as they listen to the proclamation of the Gospel where Jesus describes himself as the good shepherd.

Celibacy is central to the priest’s call to ‘pastoral charity’ because the priest represents Christ as the spouse of the church. ‘I fear this ancient discipline of the church is sorely misunderstood,’ viewed just as a practical solution ‘so the priest can have more time to do his job.’

ARCHBISHOP CORDILEONE ders was bestowed in several parts, beginning with the presentation of the candidates to the archbishop before his homily. After the homily, Archbishop Cordileone questioned the men about their willingness to accept the responsibilities of the

priestly office, including renewing their promise of respect and obedience to the archbishop and his successors.

Next, the four to be ordained prostrated themselves before the altar as the community prayed a litany of

intercession to the saints. The heart of the ordination rite followed. The archbishop laid his hands on each of the four men’s heads. This was followed by more than 100 concelebrating priests laying their hands on the men’s heads as well.

Following the laying on of hands, the archbishop prayed the prayer of consecration. The newly ordained men were then vested by brother priests in a chasuble and stole, the vestments of priesthood.

The new priests then knelt before Archbishop Cordileone as he anointed the hands of each of the four with the sacred chrism, an ancient sign of the delegation of God’s power.

Family members then presented the new priests’ chalices and patens to the archbishop who in turn handed them to each man for the celebration of the Eucharist. After the presentation of the chalices and patens, all the bishops and priests, beginning with the archbishop, gave the newly ordained men the fraternal kiss of peace.

Fathers Spyrow, Gustafson, Vallecillo and Doherty then joined the archbishop and retired Archbishop George Niederauer, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy and retired Bishops Daniel Walsh and Ignatius C. Wang on the altar to celebrate the Eucharist.

Father Doherty will be parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish in San Francisco and will be chaplain part-time at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep. Father Vallecillo will be parochial vicar at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo and part-time chaplain at Junipero Serra High School. Father Gustafson will be parochial vicar at St. Hilary in Tiburon and Father Spyrow will be parochial vicar at St. Raphael in San Rafael.

Above, Father David Schunk, archdiocesan vocations director, joined 100 other concelebrating priests in laying their hands on their newly ordained brother priests. Right, the four new priests gather with Father Schunk at the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine in St. Mary’s Cathedral. For the new priests, one journey has ended and now another begins.

From left, Father Andrew Spyrow, Father Mark Doherty, Father Tony Vallecillo and Father Roger Gustafson greet well-wishers after Mass.

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The regrets we can live with

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n her recent book “The Invention of Wings,” Sue Monk Kidd presents us with a deeply conflicted heroine, Sarah, a highly sensitive woman who grows up the daughter of a slave owner and a child of privilege. But Sarah’s moral sensitivity soon trumps her sense of privilege and she makes a series of hard choices to distance herself from both slavery and privilege.

Perhaps the most difficult among those hard choices was the choice to refuse an offer of marriage from a man. Sarah badly wants marriage, motherhood, and children; but, FATHER RON when the man she has loved ROLHEISER for years finally proposes, there were things inside her that she won’t compromise and she ends up saying no. What was her hesitancy?

When her suitor, Israel, finally proposes, Sarah asks him whether, inside their marriage, she could still pursue her dream to become a Quaker minister. Israel, a man of his time who could only grasp a woman’s role as that of wife and mother, is frank in his reply. For him, that could not be a possibility. Sarah immediately intuits the implications of that answer: “It was his way of telling me that I could not have him and myself both.” Her suitor then further aggravates the situation by suggesting that her desire to become a minister is simply a compensation, a second-best, for not being married. She turns down his offer.

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But a renunciation does not cease being painful just because it’s been made for a noble reason.

Throughout her life, Sarah often feels an acute regret for her choice, for having her principles trump her heart. However she eventually makes peace with her regrets. Feeling the bitterness of her loss more acutely on the day of her sister’s wedding, she shares with her sister how: “I longed for it (marriage) in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life that she didn’t choose. But sitting here now, I knew if I’d accepted Israel’s proposal, I would have regretted that too. I’d chosen the regret that I could live with the best, that’s all. I’d chosen the life I belonged to.”

There will always be regrets in our lives, deep regrets. Thomas Aquinas wrote: Every choice is a renunciation. For this reason, we find it so difficult to make hard choices, particularly as these pertain to any type of permanent commitment. We want the right things, but we do not want to forego other things. We want it all!

But we can’t have it all, none of us, no matter how full of talent, energy, and opportunity we are; and sometimes it takes us a long time to properly understand why. At one point in Kidd’s story, Sarah, in her 30s, single, unemployed, mainly alienated from her own family, frustrated by society limits and her limited choices as a woman, is living as a guest with a woman friend, Lucretia, a Quaker minister. One evening, sitting with Lucretia, lamenting the limits of her life, Sarah asks: “Why would God plant such deep yearnings in us. ... if they only come to nothing?” It was more of a sigh than a question, but Lucretia replies: “God fills us with all sorts of yearnings that go against the grain of the world – but the fact that these

Called to the middle ground

n the words of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, “There are not 100 people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” While some people wage a war on the truth, I think most people who hate the church today are waging a war against their misperceptions of what the church is. Perhaps this is truer now than ever before. It’s especially true when it comes to the marriage debate.

After Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was forced to resign because he had donated money CHRISTOPHER to support Proposition 8 three STEFANICK years ago (it’s worth noting that 52 percent of Californians supported Prop. 8), the dating website OKCupid, which spearheaded the attack on Eich, issued a statement that clarified their motives: “Those who seek to deny love … are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.”

Since love is willing the good of another, desiring “nothing but failure” for another is hate, by definition. And so, Eich was targeted because he was hated for his ideas. The same was true for Elaine Huguenin from New Mexico, who was fined $7,000 for refusing to photograph a gay wedding. There are more examples of this with every passing week. A baker in Lakewood, Colo., Jack Phillips, has no problem serving gay customers, but he refused to make a same-sex “wedding” cake for a couple because it violated his belief about marriage. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has labeled this “illegal,” despite the fact that gay marriage is not even legal in Colorado, and ordered him to submit quarterly reports showing that he’s changed, and to train his employees to avoid discrimination (also known as to support gay marriage), or he risks losing his business. A priest friend of mine in Vermont was recently asked to perform a marriage ceremony for a lesbian couple. They threatened to sue after he refused. There’s no longer any doubt that “gay marriage” is an effective tool to dig up and bludgeon into submission all who disagree with the gay lifestyle, or to force them out of society.

Of course, the difference between these ever-mounting acts of hatred against those who support “traditional” marriage and true “hate crimes” is both clear and tragic: The latter are generally motivated by mindless aggression, the former by misperceptions.

If the perceptions of the gay rights movement about

people like me were correct, I couldn’t blame them for calling me “enemy,” not that these perceptions are unique to the gay community. Most people seem to think that there’s no such thing as objective moral truth and that disagreeing on a moral issue is an arbitrary attempt to assert control over others. The central dogma of the sexual revolution is that we are primarily sexual beings and that restraint amounts to a denial of who we are. Many have come to see marriage as no more than the expression of affection between two people, making things like lifelong commitment optional and procreation an afterthought. Given those misperceptions, it’s only natural to presume that people like me are bigots, bent on depriving my fellow human beings of happiness for no apparent reason. If all that were true, I’d consider me an “enemy” too. Of course, none of it is true.

Regardless, it’s becoming ever more dangerous to stand in defense of a definition of marriage that is rooted in natural law, divine law and the good of children rather than a definition that is based solely on the affection of two consenting adults.

So what do we do when we’re the target of hate?

There are two “safe” options, and I see countless Catholics retreating to each of them. One is the far “left”: to simply “come down from that cross” and stop addressing the issue. Stop offering cogent defenses for our sexual ethics and teachings about marriage – and not because the world has stopped asking questions, but rather because we think it’s more loving to avoid conflict, or we are afraid. The second option is the far “right”: to see the church as a fortress designed to keep the “sinners” out (as if we aren’t all sinners!) and to become angry and entrenched.

Actually, we’re called to a different place: A middle ground where we might be hated by both the far right and the far left within our own church as much as we’re hated by the people at OKCupid. We’re called to teach the truth in love, remaining uncompromising and clear on moral issues and in defense of marriage, while at the same time offering a supportive community to people with same-sex attraction.

It’s that middle ground of uncompromising truth and undying love that got our Lord crucified. It’s that middle ground that cost St. Thomas More his head when defending marriage before King Henry VIII almost 500 years ago. That middle ground, where the cross is planted and where martyrs are made, is where we’re called to dig our heels in today.

STEFANICK’S column is distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Denver Archdiocese. His website is www.RealLifeCatholic.com

yearnings come to nothing, well, I doubt that’s God’s doing. ... I think we know that’s men’s doing.”

For Lucretia, if the world was only fair, we’d have no broken dreams. Partly she’s right; much of what’s wrong on this planet is our doing. But our frustrations ultimately tap into a deeper, less culpable root, the inadequacy of life itself. Life, this side of eternity, is not whole. We, this side of eternity, are not whole.

This side of eternity, nothing is whole. In the words of Karl Rahner: In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we ultimately learn that in this life all symphonies must remain unfinished.

This has many implications, not least the simple (though not easily digestible) fact that we can’t have it all or do it all. Our lives have very real limits and we need to stop crucifying what we have and what we have achieved by what we haven’t got and what we haven’t achieved. Despite the current myth to the contrary, no one gets it all! Most of us, I suspect, can relate to some of these regrets: I’ve raised my children well, but now I will never go anywhere professionally.

I’m very successful at work, but I am less successful as a husband and father. I never married for the wrong reasons, but now I am single and alone. I’ve sacrificed ordinary life for an ideal, but now I fiercely miss what I’ve had to give up. Or, like Sue Monk Kidd’s Sarah: I’ve never compromised my principles, but that has a brought a brutal loneliness into my life.

It’s never a matter of living with regrets or without them. Everyone has regrets. Hopefully, though, we’ve chosen the regret we can live with best.

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

A church capable of surprising VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE

A church that lives out the promise of its birth in the event of Pentecost is one that disconcerts and surprises, Pope Francis said in his meditation before praying the Regina Coeli on June 8, Pentecost Sunday, with thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

“A fundamental element of Pentecost is surprise,” the pope said.

Pope Francis “Our God is the God of surprises, we know,” he said.

“No one expected anything more from the disciples: After the death of Jesus they were an insignificant group, the defeated orphans of their master. Instead, an unexpected event occurred, that inspired wonder: The people were unsettled as each heard the disciples speaking in his own language, recounting God’s great works.

“The church that was born on Pentecost,” the pope continued, “is a community that inspires wonder as, with the strength that comes from God, she proclaims a new message – the resurrection of Christ – with a new language, the universal language of love. … The disciples are invested with power from above and speak with courage; a few minutes earlier they were all cowardly, whereas now they speak with courage and frankness, with the freedom of the Holy Spirit.”

In Jerusalem some would have preferred that the disciples stayed home so as not to disturb anything. It’s no different today, the pope said.

“Instead,” he said, “the risen Lord sends them into the world: ‘As the father has sent me, so I send you.’”

Some would have preferred that the disciples stayed home so as not to disturb anything.

It’s no different today.

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SUNDAY READINGS

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes … might have eternal life.

JOHN 3:16-18 EXODUS 34:4B-6, 8-9 Early in the morning Moses went up Mount Sinai as the Lord had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets. Having come down in a cloud, the Lord stood with Moses there and proclaimed his name, “Lord.” Thus the Lord passed before him and cried out, “The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, “If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people yet pardon our

wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own.”

PSALM 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56 Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever; and blessed is your holy and glorious name, praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.

Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.

Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you on the throne of

your kingdom, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.

Glory and praise forever!

Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne upon the cherubim, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.

Glory and praise forever!

2 CORINTHIANS 13:11-13 Brothers and sisters, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the holy ones greet you.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.

JOHN 3:16-18 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Sharing in Jesus’ embrace JEAN DENTON

‘If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company … and receive us as your own.’

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We three women stood in a parking lot the other night, finishing up the conversation we’d started over supper together. Sherry, Barbara and I are close friends – so close that we all know and love each others’ grown children.

As we were about to part, Barbara related what had happened earlier that week when she drove her youngest, Will, back to college after spring break.

The drive-up loading zone in front of his dorm was gridlocked. With an impending storm, everyone was arriving at the same time to drop off their students and hurrying to leave. “There was no place to park and I needed to keep moving,” she told us, reliving the frenetic moment. “Will had to just grab his bag and jump out of the car. All I could say was, ‘I love you. I’m sorry, honey, but I can’t stop.’ His face looked stunned, and I’m sure mine did, too. As I drove away I felt terrible. A few minutes later, my cellphone rang and it was Will. He said, ‘Well, that was awful.’”

They didn’t get their hug.

Sherry and I listened intently as Barbara’s story unfolded. We sighed at the end as though it had happened to us.

We felt it, the missing embrace.

EXODUS 34:9

REFLECTION QUESTION: Who are the people you hold in the embrace of your life?

How do you describe your relationship with the three persons of the one true God?

For Barbara and Will, of course, it was just a momentary loss. After Barbara finished telling the story, we three moms in the parking lot shared a group hug and all felt better. We understand about embracing.

The truth is that the parent-child

relationship, from beginning to end, is sealed by the embrace: the welcoming, the comforting, the shared joy, the parting. In embracing, we cling to each other as one. When we miss the embrace, we miss something vital.

This oneness is what we celebrate on

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JUNE 16: Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 21:1-16. PS 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7.

MT 5:38-42.

POPE FRANCIS

ALOYSIUS GONZAGA 1568-1591 June 21

CHRISTIANITY IS HANDS-ON

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18: Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time.

2 KGS 2:1, 6-14. PS 31:20, 21, 24. MT 6:1-6, 16-18.

Born to a noble Italian family, Aloysius served as a page in Spain and Italy. His father opposed a religious vocation, planning instead a military career for his oldest son. But Aloysius joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1585, taking his vows two years later. His health had been compromised by kidney disease, but he served in a Jesuit hospital opened in Rome when plague struck the city. He died of plague while ministering to the sick. St. Robert Bellarmine, his spiritual director, said the young Jesuit’s austere religious practices and penances were so extreme that others should not follow them. Canonized in 1726, Aloysius later was declared protector of young students and patron saint of Catholic youth.

THURSDAY, JUNE 19: Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, abbot. SIR 48:1-14. PS 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7. MT 6:7-15.

FRIDAY, JUNE 20: Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 KGS 11:1-4, 9-18, 20. PS 132:11, 12, 13-14, 17-18. MT 6:19-23.

TUESDAY, JUNE 17: Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 21:17-29. PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16. MT 5:43-48.

Trinity Sunday: God the Father and God the Son are one, held together by the embrace of the Holy Spirit.

It is their embrace that draws us into the all-loving relationship of Father and Son. This welcoming, Holy Trinity of love calls us, too, into its life.

John 3:16 explains it: God loves us so much that he invites us to share in the embrace of his Son, and that redeems us.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21: Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious. 2 CHR 24:17-15. PS 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 3334. MT 6:24-34.

Being a good Christian demands concrete action and deeds, Pope Francis said. And, he said, the “how-to” manual is found in the beatitudes and the Last Judgment, which spells out the consequences awaiting those who fail to help others in need. Jesus offers a guide to life that is “so simple, but very difficult,” the pope said June 9 during his early morning Mass at his Vatican residence. It’s difficult because Christianity is “a hands-on religion; it isn’t for thinking about, it’s for putting into practice, to do it.”

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SATURDAY, JUNE 14

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SUNDAY, JUNE 15 TV MASSES: EWTN airs Mass daily at 5 a.m., 9 a.m., 9 p.m. and at 4 p.m.

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

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

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HANDICAPABLES MASS: Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Father Kirk Ullery is principal celebrant and homilist. All Father Kirk disabled people Ullery and their caregivers are invited. Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

‘CONVERSATIONS IN CULTURE’: “Habits of Being, Habits of Grace: The Intersections of Literature and Faith,” with retired San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer and facilitator Stephen Archbishop C. Córdova, 7:30 George p.m., Msgr. Bowe Niederauer Room, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, parking lot level, Admission free. (415) 567-2020.

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All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. Ample free parking. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213; www.stmarycathedralsf.org

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 GRIEF SUPPORT: Free monthly grief support, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, third Wednesday of each month, 10:30- noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of the Cathedral. These sessions provide information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Facilitator is Deacon Christoph Sandoval. Mercy Sister Esther, (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Mauro Correa, guitar. All recitals open to the public.

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Sacrament and adoration. The public is cordially invited to join the nuns in this beautiful tribute to the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. The celebrant and homilist is Dominican Father Ambrose Sigman, who was ordained to the priesthood in the Order of Preachers May 31, 2013, and serves as parochial vicar at St. Raymond Church, Menlo Park. www.nunsmenlo.org; (650) 3221801.

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

FRIDAY, JUNE 27 SUNDAY, JUNE 22 CORPUS CHRISTI: The Dominican Nuns at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi with Mass at 10:30 a.m. followed by a procession, Benediction of the Blessed

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SUNDAY, JUNE 29 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Victor Xie, viola, with Xiyan Wang, piano. All recitals open to the public. Ample free parking. Freewill offering accepted at the door. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

(415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 DIVORCE SUPPORT: Meeting takes place first and third Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese and include prayer, introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698; grosskopf@usfca. edu.

FRIDAY, JULY 4 FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

SUNDAY, JULY 6 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Karen Beaumont, organist. All recitals open to the public.

Freewill offering accepted at the door.

Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

SATURDAY, JULY 12 DISCERNMENT DAY: Visit the Domini-

SATURDAY, JULY 5

OPUS DEI MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist for Mass commemorating the 39th anniversary of the Archbishop death of Opus Salvatore J. Dei founder Cordileone St Josemaria Escriva at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. St. Jose’s first successor, Venerable Alvaro del Portillo, will be beatified Sept.

27 in Madrid. For information about the Mass, call Menlo Study Center, (650) 327-1675; email msgr.james.kelly@gmail. com.

‘LOOKING EAST’: Come to Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, 5920 Geary Blvd. at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco for Divine Liturgy at 10 Father Kevin a.m.; luncheon Kennedy at noon and a talk by Father Kevin Kennedy, pastor, at 1 p.m. All are welcome throughout the day. Series continues first Saturdays of the month.

Parking is in St. Monica Church lot. www.byzantinecatholic.org; (415) 752-2052; OLFatimaSF@ gmail.com.

can nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, and get a chance to explore and see behind the veil of female religious life and experience the same hidden life of love that has been lived since A.D. 1206.

RSVP by July 5 or for more information contact Sister Joseph Marie at vocations@nunsmenlo.org or visit www. nunsmenlo.org/vocation-discernmentevent. The day begins with Mass at 8 a.m. followed by Divine Office, adoration, rosary, conferences and vocation stories by Dominican nuns and friars.

SUNDAY, JULY 13 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Justin Takamine, bassoon, with Xiyan Wang, piano. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. Ample free parking. www.stmarycathedralsf.org; (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Raymund Reyes, pastor, St. Anne of the Father Raymund Sunset Parish, M. Reyes San Francisco, principal celebrant and homilist.

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MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: Lynn Gray, longtime firstvoice at the MC reception desk, is retiring after 19 years there.

Gray has also served in the school bookstore.

“Lynn will be missed,” the school said.

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL: Over spring break the Archbishop Riordan High School Band – a cohort of 90 students and 30 faculty and parents – brought their musical talents west to the Aloha State.

Highlights included a performance on the deck of the USS Missouri and a Mass with students at fellow Marianist St. Louis School, Honolulu.

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UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: USF athletics donated more than 20 boxes of new and used sports apparel to the St. Anthony Foundation on June 4 as part of a year-end clothes drive, according to Jim Young, associate athletic director. All 15 of the university’s athletic programs, including over 200 student athletes and department staff members donated at least one item of previously-worn sports apparel. Baseball players Logan West, Derek Atkinson and assistant coach Steve Domecus personally delivered the boxes of team sweatshirts and pants, hats, socks, shoes and new USF polo shirts to St. Anthony’s.

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DOMINICAN CLERGY ORDAINED: Brother Corwin Low, OP; Rev. Brother Justin Gable, OP; Oakland Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ; Rev. Brother Peter Hannah, OP; and Brother Gabriel Mosher, OP, are pictured May 31 at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco, where Brothers Corwin and Gabriel were ordained to the diaconate in the Western Dominican Province and Rev. Brothers Justin and Peter were ordained to the priesthood.

DAUGHTERS OF ST. PAUL, REDWOOD CITY: The community known for the Pauline Books & Media Center at 935 Brewster Road is marking the centennial of Pauline media evangelization with Mass Sunday June 29 at 3 p.m. at St. Pius Church, Redwood City, Archbishop Cordileone presiding. Pictured from left are community members Sister Nancy Usselman, FSP, local superior; Sister Armanda Santos, FSP; Sister Gioan Linh Nguyen, FSP; Sister Neville Christine Forchap, FSP; Sister Bernardine Sattler, FSP.

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SCOUT AWARDS: Local Boy and Girl Scouts were honored May 31 at St. Philip Church, San Francisco, with pastor Father Tony LaTorre presiding.

The Catholic Scouting Emblems and Recognition event recognized scouts from San Francisco, Redwood City, San Bruno, Burlingame and South San Francisco. Pictured from left are Ad Altare Dei award recipients Jack Calvin, Michael Altman and Pablo Dekovic.

All are 2014 graduates of St. Philip the Apostle School. Jack and Michael will attend Archbishop Riordan High School and Pablo will attend Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. The annual scouting awards ceremony recognizes Scouts in the archdiocese for their accomplishments, said Ynez Lizarraga, associate director for youth ministry and catechesis for the archdiocese.

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ST. PATRICK’S SEMINARY & UNIVERSITY, MENLO PARK: Seminarian Raul Barriga, a parishioner of St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park and seen here with his parents Bertha and Ricardo Barriga, is a 2014 graduate of Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon, having earned a degree in philosophy and religious studies. He will continue his formation and study for the priesthood at the seminary this fall.

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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, SAN MATEO: The society held its annual “Eat Your Heart Out” event May 1 at Viognier Restaurant at Draeger’s Market. Over 160 guests enjoyed a delicious meal and helped raise more than $200,000 in support

of SVdP’s mission to the poor. Proceeds benefitted SVdP’s Peninsula Family Resource Center, a homeless-

ness prevention program. Pictured are supporters Karen Leonardini and Danette Magilligan.