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Pope: Many couples do not see marriage is for life Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

The archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools is in the midst of increasing the salaries across the board for elementary school teachers, for the 2017-18 school year, said Associate Superintendent for Professional and Educational Leadership Bret E. Allen. A draft of the proposed new threeyear salary scale is being prepared by an ad hoc committee which will share it with pastors and principals for their input, he said. The archdiocese serves a total of 25,000 students. It has 59 elementary schools in total, including 49 parish schools, two archdiocesan schools and eight independent Catholic schools. There are four high schools directly under the archdiocese and 10

ROME – Because most people today do not understand that sacramental marriage really is a bond that binds them to each other for life, many marriages today can be considered invalid, Pope Francis said. Raising a point he has raised before, and one also raised by nowretired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis insisted June 16 that the validity of a marriage implies that a couple understands that sacramental marriage is a bond that truly binds them to another for their entire lives. “We are living in a culture of the provisional,” he told participants in the Diocese of Rome’s annual pastoral conference. Answering questions after giving a prepared talk, Pope Francis told the story of a bishop who said a university graduate came to him saying he wanted to be a priest, but only for 10 years. The idea of commitments being temporary “occurs everywhere, even in priestly and religious life. The provisional. And for this reason a large majority of sacramental marriages are null. They say ‘yes, for my whole life,’ but they do not know what they are saying because they have a different culture,” he said. The Vatican press office, publishing a transcript the next day, adjusted the pope’s words to read, “A part of our sacramental marriages are null because they (the spouses) say, ‘Yes, for my whole life,’ but

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An unidentified man walked into the Mission Dolores gift shop June 15 and made a donation for 49 St. Francis of Assisi candles at $7 each and lit them in the Mission Dolores Basilica in honor of those who lost their lives in the June 12 mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, said Gustavo Torres, Mission Dolores staff member. “May we be instruments of peace,” following the parishioner’s example, Torres said.

Teacher shortage hitting archdiocesan Catholic schools Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

A long-predicted California teacher shortage is now hitting Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with many parish schools still looking to fill one or more positions at a time when principals usually have next year’s staff roster wrapped up. “We do have a tremendous shortage,” said Maureen Grazioli, principal of St. Charles School in San Carlos. “The shortage exists not just in the Catholic schools, but in the public schools.” A scan of the San Mateo public school job postings showed about 200 vacancies listed online, she said. Four years ago the spring archdioc-

‘The challenge at least for us is that our pay rate is not the same as public schools and a lot of schools are facing the shortage.’ Marie Bordereau

Principal, St. Hilary School, Tiburon esan teachers’ fair drew “an amazing selection” of teacher candidates, Grazioli said. “Last year and this year there were more principals at tables than visitors,” the San Carlos Catholic school principal said.

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Need to know Note to readers: In a cost-saving move to conserve resources for the CSF print edition, which is readers’ overwhelming preference, we’re discontinuing the CSF e-edition and related mobile and online archive products. If you prefer to read the paper on screen, it remains very easy to do so by visiting catholic-sf.org and downloading the PDF of the current issue from the Digital Paper link visible in the upper left of the home page. If you’d like an email alert when a new issue is posted, just send an email address to csf@sfarch.org and we’ll send you our email newsletter, which goes out after every new issue goes to press and highlights articles as well as other timely information. Another option is Facebook, where many of our readers congregate and where we post an alert whenever a new issue goes to press in addition to ongoing sharing of local Catholic news and information. Many parishioners and people in the community request research assistance from the paper to locate articles and photos. CSF staff has access to individually searchable digital versions of all issues since the paper started on Feb. 12, 1999, and we’re working to make these publicly accessible on our website. If you have a research request, please narrow the date and subject to the extent possible and we’ll do our best to help. Cuban emigre celebrates 60 years a priest: Father Guillermo Rodriguez will celebrate 60 years as a priest with a 9:30 a.m. July 17 Mass at St. Brendan Church, San Francisco, followed by a reception. Longtime parochial vicar at St. Philip the Apostle, St. Brendan and chaplain at Laguna Honda Hospital, Father Rodriquez escaped Castro’s Father Guillermo Cuba and is today known for his religious art in tapestry. For more Rodriguez information, call (415) 681-4225. Archbishop writes on liturgy and leadership: A new book titled “Liturgy in the 21st Century: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives,” with a chapter by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on “Liturgical Leadership in a Secular Society: A Bishop’s Perspective,” is due out July 14 from Bloomsbury T&T Clark. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan and African Cardinal Robert Sarah have written messages to introduce the book, which will be available in e-versions and in print. Visit bloomsbury.com. MOTHER TERESA DISPLAY: An exhibit on Blessed Teresa in anticipation of her Sept. 4 canonization will be available at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cathedral Hall, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Aug. 27, 28 and Sept. 3; the exhibit is open 3-5:30 p.m. Aug. 29 through Sept. 2. A Mass of thanksgiving with Archbishop Salvatore J. Codileone as principal celebrant and homilist will be celebrated Sept. 4 at 11 a.m. at the cathedral.

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independent Catholic high schools. The independent Catholic schools set their own salary scales. “We’re trying to have a balance between what a school can afford and making sure we are giving the teachers a fair, honest wage,” said Allen, who said there are openings at many schools at a time when normally principals have hired all their teachers. Most parishes do not subsidize the parish school any longer so tuition is the primary source of income for elementary schools, he said. Teachers at the four archdiocesan high schools are unionized and have a higher salary scale. Catholic schools’ mission differentiates them from often endowed private schools who charge higher tuition as well as from taxpayer funded public schools, Allen and Grazioli note. “Many of our families have three and four children. It is important to keep our Catholic schools affordable,” Grazioli said. Marie Bordeleau, the principal of St. Hilary School in Tiburon, said she has staffed her school for this year, but it is getting harder. She has lost committed teachers who could not afford to live on the salary, Bordeleau said. “The challenge at least for us is that our pay rate is not the same as public schools and a lot of schools are facing the shortage,” she said. “It has become a real issue in our area,” said Vince Riener, principal of All Souls School in South San Francisco, noting some principals are looking for teachers outside of the U.S. Teachers relocating to the Bay Area from elsewhere in the U.S. are also among new hires, Grazioli said. A California credential requirement that teachers have one semester of public school teaching experience can hamper hiring too, Riener said. The requirement can make it harder for Catholic school teachers hired with a college degree to get their credential while continuing to work at a Catholic school. A June 10 Catholic San Francisco search for teacher job postings on EdJoin.org, the educator job portal, returned 8,292 job postings for a total of 16,044 job vacancies listed in California. Earlier, in mid-October, two months after the 2015-16 school year stated, EdJoin.org still listed more than 3,900 open teaching positions in California, double the number in 2013, according to “Addressing California’s Emerging Teacher Shortage: An Analysis of Sources and Solutions,” by Linda Darling-Hammond, Roberta Furger, Patrick M. Shields and Leib Sutcher, published by Learning Policy Institute in 2016. High cost of living and the lure of better paying jobs in the tech sector are factors when teachers consider Bay Area schools, Grazioli said. “What’s sad is that our teachers have difficulty in being able to afford living in the Bay Area. When we do get young teachers, three or four are sharing a house,” Grazioli said. A first-year Catholic elementary teacher with a

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Principal, St. Charles School, San Carlos bachelor’s degree and a California education credential will make $46,512 in the 2016-17 school years in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Allen said. A starting teacher with just a bachelor’s degree but not yet with a credential will make $41,600, Allen said. San Francisco Unified School District’s salary scale lists a first year starting salary for a credentialed teacher as $52,657. With 34 percent of teachers statewide age 50 and older, and nearly 10 percent age 60 and older, retirements will continue to be a factor, for the next 5 to 10 years, according to “Addressing California’s Emerging Teacher Shortage.” However, non-retirement attrition is more significant, typically accounting for two-thirds of teachers who leave, the report by the Palo Alto think tank, said. At the same time, the supply of new K-12 teachers overall is at a 12-year low, partly because of years of layoffs and salary freezes in the public school systems which discouraged students from choosing teaching. That is now being reversed in the improved economy, according to the report.

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Vocation anyone? High school boys get chance to discern priesthood Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

High school is a time when teens are considering what to do with their lives – and the Archdiocese of San Francisco is offering young men an opportunity to learn a bit more about the priesthood and religious life. Archdiocesan vocations director Father David Schunk is launching a vocations discernment camp July 31-Aug. 2 where young men of high school age can learn about the priesthood and religious life in a relaxed and reflective environment. Discernment weekends for high school students are a growing trend, said Father Schunk. “This is spreading; more and more dioceses are doing it,” he said. “This camp is to help high school age boys explore the possibility of a vocation,” said Father Schunk, “or to talk about a vocation. I’m not looking to sign people up right away, but this is a way to just plant that seed.” Seminarians will help with the weekend at the Diocese of Oakland youth retreat center in Lafayette. The St. Thomas the Apostle/St. Monica youth and family minister Ryan Dilag will help Father Schunk run the weekend. There will be guest speakers, opportunities for prayer, and recreation. Families are asked to contribute $50 for the camp but scholarships are available. Application deadline is July 1.

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Some of the seminarians are pictured here during their visit to Washington, D.C., for the canonization of St. Junipero Serra. A man needs to have graduated from high school, at the earliest, to be accepted for priestly formation, and Father Schunk said right now there is one seminarian who is college age. Most of the men are in their 20s and 30s. The weekend is a chance to think seriously about – or rule out – the priesthood or religious life, he said. “Sometimes priests and religious, there’s this mysterious aura about them,” said Father Schunk, who entered the seminary at 24, is an avid Giants baseball fan and graduated from college with a music major. “We think they are different. They are just like everyone else with likes and dislikes. You don’t have to be a perfect

person to be a priest – but we have to hopefully moving in that direction, trying to grow holier.” “Priests are football fans, sports fans, enjoy music, cooking food, and laughter,” he said. “They have pets, like gardening – all types of things.” In his homily at the ordination to the priesthood of Andrew Ginter on June 4, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, said “God plants one’s vocation in one’s heart.” “We respond to God’s call no matter what, because it is the path to authenticity,” the archbishop said. For more information, contact Father Schunk at vocations@sfarch.org or by phone at (415) 614-5683.

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Though staying on the job until June 30, 2017, to “ensure a smooth and successful transition for his successor,” the retirement of Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities of Jeff Bialik the Archdiocese of San Francisco for almost eight years, has been announced. “The board of directors will launch an extensive and comprehensive search for a new executive director beginning this summer,” Catholic Charities said. “Serving as executive director of Catholic Charities has been the most rewarding work of my lifetime,” Bialik said in a statement from Catholic Charities. “Thanks to Jeff’s vision, skill and leadership, today Catholic Charities is financially stable, organizationally strong and able to quantify the positive impact our programs have had on people’s lives,” said Simon Manning, president of Catholic Charities’ board of directors. With Bialik at the helm, Catholic Charities expanded programs and services; launched a new brand identity, logo and website; increased fundraising efforts and increased engagement with volunteers, Catholic Charities said. “Catholic Charities is successful today because of the hard work and commitment of our staff, volunteers, board, donors, community partners and clients,” Bialik, a parishioner of St. Isabella in San Rafael, said.

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Our Lady of the Visitacion School has had Lynn Ellison on its team for 38 years and “will dearly miss her,” the school said about the retiring educator. Lynn came to OLV as a volunteer in 1976 when her son Lawrence was a first grader. She helped out with reading groups and other classroom responsibilities as a teacher’s aide. Through the next Lynn Ellison four decades Lynn would also serve in roles including physical education teacher, coach for kickball, basketball, and volleyball teams as well as founder of an afterschool program and the student council program. Lynn and her husband, Jim, are Visitacion parishioners and live in Brisbane. Lynn has come to know many parish and school families and will miss the family atmosphere of the school. “She loves seeing how her children grow educationally and spiritually,” the school said. Lynn’s advice to people choosing a vocation as a teacher is “to do it with love,” she said. “You are not there for the money, but you become rich because of the children and their families.” Catholic schools are important because of the effort to educate the whole child, Lynn said. During her 38 years at OLV Lynn has worked with many children and their families, during school and out of school. She has gone to baptisms, first Communions, confirmations, and graduations to always offer support and love. After 38 years of being around young people, Lynn looks forward to taking things a little slower, but still giving back to her community. ALL HATS OFF: Members of Catholic Charismatic Renewal have said final farewells to longtime companion on the journey Mario Vierneza who died May 28 at age 67 and was remembered at a funeral Mass June 8 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Prayers for Mario were also said in rites at St. Elizabeth Church, San Francisco. Father Raymund Reyes, vicar Mario Vierneza for priests for the Archdiocese of

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Survey: Readers say paper keeps them connected to their faith, community Catholic San Francisco helps keep local Catholics rooted and active in their faith life, according to a survey of the paper’s readers initiated late last year. “The message is loud and clear – continue printing and delivery,” concluded Trinity Direct, the New Jersey-based independent market research firm that delivered a 75-page report to the archdiocesan paper last month detailing the survey’s statistical and anecdotal findings. More than 2,000 readers responded anonymously to the survey, which sought basic demographic information and attitudes toward the paper’s editorial content, size, frequency of publication and delivery method, among other topics. Trinity Direct built a database of all responses submitted. More than 150 responded to a concurrent online survey, with data and comment from that survey included in the report.

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Nearly 70 percent of readers who responded to the survey were female and 75 or older, and retired. Almost 93 percent reported attending Mass weekly. As a whole, the readership is fairly affluent, with almost 30 percent of the readership reporting an annual household income of $91,000 or higher. The survey received a broad geographical response from throughout the archdiocese, with returns from 97 ZIP codes and 15 or more responses each from more than 50 parishes, topped by Our Lady of Loretto, No-

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Catholic San Francisco is far and away the primary source of Catholic news for readers in the archdiocese, the survey revealed. Even the ubiquitous church bulletin came in a distant second. “For some, this is the only way they get information and updates on church teachings and activities,” Trinity Direct stated in a page of conclusions and recommendations. Catholic San Francisco supports a reader’s faith by providing a better and broader understanding of church teachings, motivating him or her to pray and attend Mass regularly and support Catholic causes, the report said. More than 35 percent of readers said the paper helped “clarify church teachings” and increased their “understanding of and appreciation for their faith.”

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“It refreshes my brain and my soul,” one respondent replied when asked to describe the paper’s value. More than half of the respondents reported that articles from the paper were often the subject of lively discussion among family, friends and fellow parishioners. More than 10 percent said they felt inspired to become more active in their parishes. A majority of respondents read every issue of the paper thoroughly and found the news and information mix “well-balanced.”

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A number of readers, however, urged the paper to remember to reflect the breadth of Catholic life in the archdiocese by highlighting individual parishes, ethnic communities, women and laity. “Start talking about issues of local Catholics in everyday life, less on hot political issues,” was a comment in that vein, as was: “Please give balance to nationalities, old and young parishioners,” and “More women writers, please, we count, too.” Some of readers’ favorite features were local ones, including Tom Burke’s long-running “On the Street Where You Live” column, calendar of events, letters to the editor and Around the Archdiocese pictorial highlights. “I think letters to the editor are the most interesting part of the paper,” said one respondent, suggesting that a diversity of Catholic voices is appreciated in the paper by most readers. A “man on the street” column that asks a wide spectrum of local Catholics for their response to the same question was suggested. Top-ranked opinion writers included Bishop Robert Barron, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Father Ron Rolheiser and George Weigel. Many of the readers who disagreed with the opinion or style of a writer seemed to find value in the expression itself. “Weigel is a bit too conservative for me, however he is articulate and I do read him,” said a respondent.

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Jay and Suzie Trexler manage the farm. Right, Don came to the farm last year and this year. He is a fisherman and also works other odd jobs when he can.

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Summer at Potrero Nuevo/Abundant Grace Farm Coastside Worker collaborates with Potrero Nuevo Farm, located a few minutes south of Half Moon Bay. The farm donates use of its land, farm equipment, harvest support, seed and other materials, according to Coastside Worker’s website. Coastside Worker raises money to employ homeless people and farmworkers to plant and harvest over 20,000 pounds of fresh, organic produce every year. The produce is distributed for free at five sites along the coast – “addressing issues of food justice, access to organic fruits and vegetables, obesity and disease prevention, and sustainable, environmental farming,” Coastside Worker says.

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House hearing looks at threats to religious freedom WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, said June 16 that “religious liberty is called America’s ‘first freedom.’” “(Religious liberty) is the right to believe, or not to believe, and to practice one’s religion according to the dictates of one’s own conscience,” said Smith, who convened a hearing on Capitol Hill on global threats to religious freedom. Smith, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, is chairman of its Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. He was joined by panel of witnesses:

David N. Saperstein, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom; Robert P. George, McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University; and M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Smith emphasized that religious liberty is not only an “American value,” but a “universal principle.” “The right to religious freedom flows from the dignity of every human person and, as such, deserves to be protected everywhere and for everyone,” said Smith. Despite the universal right to religious liberty, Smith said that it is not a right that is offered to all people.

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religious minorities will happen again and again.” Smith proposed the idea that religious liberty is not only a “human rights concern,” but “a key component of our national security.” Eighteen years ago, Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, making the protection of religious liberty a priority of U.S. foreign policy, said Smith. Recently, Smith introduced the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, H.R. 1150, along with Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-California. Wolf, for whom the bill was named, was the primary author of the original international freedom measure and a “tireless champion of the poor and persecuted,” said Smith. suicide. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program providing health care services to those of low income. California would pay an estimated $5,400 per patient just for the drugs yet Medi-Cal participants are not currently offered a Medi-Cal benefit for palliative care designed to improve the quality of life for patients and their family facing serious illnesses, the bishop’s conference notes. Catholic San Francisco

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number of institutions able to claim exemption from state anti-discrimination laws, including those governing sexuality, on religious grounds and would impose extensive requirements for publicizing the exemption. Sen. Lara said in a press release that Senate Bill 1146 closes “a loophole that allows private universities to discriminate against students and staff based on their gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.” It passed the state Senate 26-13 on May 26. If approved by the Assembly appropriations committee, it could be before the Assembly for a full vote by the end of June. The bill is “a solution in search of a problem,” said Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the California bishops. “SB 1146 would impede the ability of these schools to operate consistent with the

“The world is experiencing a crisis of religious freedom that poses a direct challenge to U.S. interests in the Middle East, Central and East Asia, Russia, China and sub-Saharan Africa,” said Smith. He mentioned how countries around the world are “facing systematic violence and discrimination” by both the government and “non-state actors” such as Islamic State militants in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa. “These non-state actors have created global instability through their murderous religious intolerance,” said Smith. “If the U.S. does not have a comprehensive strategy to deal with these groups – genocide, killings, beheadings and sexual violence targeting

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Catholic san francisco | June 23, 2016

Youngest Orlando shooting victim just graduated from Catholic high school Matthew Gambino Catholic News Service

PHILADELPHIA – Akyra Murray, who just recently graduated from West Catholic Preparatory High School, was the youngest victim of the Orlando nightclub shooting June 12. According to news reports, Murray’s family went to Orlando to celebrate her graduation, and she and her cousin and friend decided to go dancing at Pulse, which admits teens. When the gunman opened fire, Murray and her cousin escaped, but they returned inside the club to find their friend and the three young women then hid in the bathroom until police broke in three hours later. Murray, who had been shot in the arm, lost a significant amount of blood. Her cousin, Tiara Parker, and friend, Patience Carter, survived the shooting and were recovering from injuries. The mass shooting at the gay nightclub left 50 dead, including the gunman, and more than 50 wounded. Police said identified the lone gunman as 29-yearold Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, who opened fire inside the Pulse club in Orlando in the early morning hours of June 12. News reports said that Mateen, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, died in a gun battle with SWAT team members. At the start of the attack, Murray sent a text to her mom pleading for their help. She also called her and told her she had been shot and was bleeding. Murray’s mother told The Associated Press that her daughter didn’t drink and wanted to have fun that night. “Our hearts are broken, but together we will mourn Akyra’s loss and provide comfort to one another to honor the memory of such a wonderful young lady,” said a statement on West Catholic Preparatory High School’s website. Murray transferred to the school her junior year. By the time she graduated this spring, she had become a career 1,000-point scorer for the girls’ basketball team and was named a Second Team All Catholic by coaches of the Philadelphia Catholic League.

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An honors student, she also ranked third in her graduating class. Murray had earned a full athletic scholarship to Mercyhurst College in Erie, founded by the Sisters of Mercy, which she was planning to attend in the fall to study criminology. “May God bless Akyra’s soul and provide comfort to all family and friends during this very troubling time,” the school’s statement said. “At a time like this, let us work together to move beyond fear. Let us come together to find peace and strength in God, seeking comfort from our loved ones – and in our community.” Another message on the school’s website was posted by Murray’s basketball coach, Beulah Osueke. “Losing Akyra is heartbreaking,” she said. “This is a very difficult day, not just for the Murray family but for the West Catholic family and all that were touched by Akyra’s warmth and magnetic embrace.”

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Catholic san francisco | June 23, 2016

Catholics learns to live with Europe’s cult capital in English countryside Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service

GLASTONBURY, England – On Magdalene Street in this southwestern English town, proud parents gather before the stone facade of Our Lady St. Mary Church, as their offspring, smartly attired, prepare for first Communion. Along the thoroughfare, near the walls of a ruined monastery, the Goddess Temple offers sessions in tarot reading and bio-resonance, while up ahead a traveler with beads and dreadlocks window-shops outside The Speaking Tree. Welcome to Glastonbury, Europe’s hippie capital, where ancient churches stand alongside New Age bookstores and shamanic restaurants. “It takes some getting used to, but we have long experience of living together here,” said Catherine Woolmer, administrator of the Shrine of Our Lady of Glastonbury at the church. “Whatever their differences, people of all faiths and none make every effort to get along and work for the community,” she told Catholic News Service. First settled in Neolithic times, Glastonbury was a well-established village a millennium before Jesus was born. Today’s population stands at less than 9,000. It’s famous for its links with energy points and ley-lines, Celtic mysteries and Arthurian legends. In the Middle Ages, when it was surrounded by marshlands, local monks said it was the mystical Avalon, final resting place of King Arthur, and even claimed, in 1190, to have discovered the grave of Arthur and his queen, Guinevere. Glastonbury Abbey, where the remains were reburied, was endowed in the seventh-century by King Ine of Wessex and enlarged by its bestknown abbot, St. Dunstan. But some chroniclers claimed it was founded by St. Joseph of Arimathea and that Jesus visited Glastonbury as a child – a legend which inspired Romantic poet William Blake’s poem, “Jerusalem.” Research has shown how such legends were promoted to make the abbey profitable as a pilgrimage center. But remnants of the Glastonbury Thorn, which supposedly grew from St Joseph’s staff, can still be seen in the town. The abbey, by now one of England’s richest, was brutally suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII in 1536, when its last abbot, Blessed Richard Whiting, was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor. He is one of 19 Catholics with local associations who have been beatified by the church as martyrs. “Glastonbury draws people for all kinds of reasons, but what underpins its attraction is that it’s an ancient, dynamic place of prayer,” explained

Glastonbury Abbey was brutally suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII in 1536, when its last abbot, Blessed Richard Whiting, was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor. He is one of 19 Catholics with local associations who have been beatified by the church as martyrs. Father Christopher Whitehead, evangelization director for the Catholic Diocese of Clifton, in which Glastonbury is located. “Everyone is welcome, and there’s harmony and tolerance here. Most people, whatever their backgrounds, have something of the joy of faith written on their faces.” The ruined abbey is linked to Glastonbury’s Anglican St. John the Baptist Church, which runs an open forum with other denominations to foster “sharing and fellowship.” It also shares the town with at least 70 sects and cults from the International Order for Krishna Consciousness to the Ancient Order of Druids. Many such groups converge for the annual Glastonbury Festival, a performing arts event that attracts 200,000 fans in late June. Glastonbury’s Christian links are highlighted each July with an ecumenical pilgrimage and procession. Father Whitehead said he is impressed by the warm reception given by Glastonbury’s non-Christians. “The pilgrimage is a very public witness, which takes in the whole town, and though we get the odd taunt, this isn’t intended anti-religiously,” he said. “It’s a wonderful gathering under Our Lady’s patronage of the peoples and cultures who’ve made their home here, walking the same cobbled streets where the faith has been upheld over centuries.” The area’s mystical links are most vivid on Glastonbury Tor, a hill rising sharply just east of the town that commands views towards Stonehenge and the Anglican cathedral of Wells. Early writers cited the tor as location of the Holy Grail, while some researchers say it represents Aquarius on a gigantic astrological zodiac.

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What’s certain is that it was the site of a church destroyed in a 1275 earthquake, of which only the tower, dedicated to St. Michael, now survives. The Rev. Diana Greenfield, an Anglican priest who advises on “alternative spiritualities,” said her own church has “robust and healthy relations” with Glastonbury’s cults and sects, seeing them as part of the area’s “rich spiritual heritage.” Phil Gibbons, spokesman for the Clifton Diocese, agrees. “Glastonbury gains vibrancy from all the spiritual things on offer, but we practice the Catholic faith here as we would in any other town,” Gibbons said. “We welcome everyone who wishes to join with us, and we count on other groups welcoming us too. I’ve never heard of any interfaith tensions.” Our Lady St. Mary Church, built in the 1930s to replace a Marian shrine destroyed in the Reformation, is hosting a Holy Door for the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Along the road, a couple of gray-haired women in black cloaks stride past shops with names such as Moon Mirrors and Ying and Yang, while a bearded man in a gold bowler hat emerges from Glastonbury’s Labyrinth bookstore and heads into the Wonky Broomstick cafe. Woolmer doubts that Catholics have much inclination to dabble in Glastonbury’s alternative faith scene, but says sect adherents routinely visit Our Lady St. Mary Church in search of peace and quiet. Father Whitehead is similarly relaxed. He thinks Glastonbury, in all its strangeness, is just a microcosm of society. “I think we’re still exploring our spiritual natures, and it’s the yearning for a deeper sense of meaning which draws such an eclectic group of people here,” Father Whitehead said. “The church’s role is to live alongside society in all its diversity, gently accompanying it on its path of discovery. Some may find Glastonbury odd, but I’m sure there are odder places.”

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Catholic san francisco | June 23, 2016

Renew efforts to build peace, help refugees, pope says

this year on outreach to families in Rome in light of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”). Pope Francis made a formal presentation, with several impromptu additions, and then answered questions at the end, speaking mainly from his pastoral experience in Argentina, but also as pope. In the question-and-answer session, he assured participants that his exhortation was thoroughly reviewed by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, a respected theologian. The document, he said, fully conforms to Catholic doctrine, but some people “want doctrine that is mathematically precise. That does not exist!”

VATICAN CITY – Assist and accompany refugees while working to build peace in the world, Pope Francis urged on the eve of World Refugee Day. “Refugees are people like everyone, but war took away their home, work, relatives and friends,” he said in the run-up to the United Nations-sponsored day June 20. Seeing the faces and hearing the stories of refugees should lead Christians “to renew our obligation to build peace through justice,” he said after praying the Angelus with people gathered in St. Peter’s Square June 19. “This is why we want to stand with them – to encounter them, welcome them, listen to them – in order to become together with them artisans of peace, according to God’s will,” the pope said, referring to the day’s theme, “We Stand #WithRefugees.” The pope’s appeal followed a joint effort by the Vatican police, the Greek government and Rome’s Sant’Egidio Community to bring a group of Syrian refugees to Italy. The Vatican police accompanied nine refugees – six adults and three children – from Athens to Rome June 16. The community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic lay organization, was arranging their housing.

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VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church needs laypeople who look to the future, take risks and aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty, Pope Francis said. While laypeople must be “well-formed, animated by a straightforward and clear faith” and have lives truly touched by Christ’s merciful love, they also need to be able to go out and play a major role in the life and mission of the church, he said. The pope met June 17 with members, consultors and employees and their family members of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, which was holding its last plenary assembly June 16-18. Established by Blessed Paul VI after the Second Vatican Council, the office was meant to encourage and support laypeople’s involvement in the life and mission of the church, Pope Francis said, underlining the Italian word “incitare,” meaning to spur, urge or encourage. “The mandate you received from the council was exactly that of ‘pushing’ the lay faithful to get ever

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Pope thanks circus performers A tiger reacts after being petted by Pope Francis during an audience with circus members in Paul VI hall at the Vatican June 16. Meeting with acrobats, clowns, carnival workers, street performers, musicians and magicians, the pope thanked the artists for bringing beauty and joy to an often dark, sad world. more and better involved in the evangelizing mission of the church,” he said. Lay involvement was in no way meant to be a “proxy” of the hierarchy, he said, but to participate in the saving mission of the church as baptized members. People enter into the church and its mission, through the “door” of baptism, he said, not through priestly or episcopal ordination. “You come in through baptism and we have all come in through the same door,” he added.

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VATICAN CITY – Asking God for help in forgiving one’s enemies is the best prayer anyone can say, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. The ability to forgive is very important, to forget, forget offenses, that healthy habit” of knowing when to let things go and let it be up to the Lord in order to avoid “rancor, resentment and the desire for revenge,” the pope said. Pope Francis talked about the Lord’s Prayer in his homily during Mass June 16 in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where he lives. It’s important to start every prayer with addressing God as “father,” he said, because it reminds people they are children of God. “Without feeling that we are children, without feeling oneself a son or daughter, without saying ‘father’ our prayer is pagan,” he said; it is an empty prayer built only on words. It’s fine to pray to Mary and the saints, he said, “but the cornerstone of prayer” is the father, Vatican Radio reported the pope saying. All prayers must begin with God, the father, also because he knows his children and what they need even “before we ask him.”

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BONN, Germany – Father Hermann Scheipers, the last surviving priest who was imprisoned in the notorious Dachau prison camp, died June 2 in his North Rhine hometown of Ochtrup, Germany, at age 102. He was arrested in October 1940 by German authorities because of his staunch Catholicism and taken to Dachau, near Munich, five months later. The camp held a large number of priests. Father Scheipers was sympathetic with Polish forced laborers, celebrating Mass with them and hearing their confessions prior to being taken into custody, reported KNA, the German Catholic news agency. He later learned the reason for his arrest after coming across his Nazi file. “Scheipers is a fanatical proponent of the Catholic Church and thus likely to cause unrest among the population,” the German authorities wrote. Father Scheipers recalled the camp commander’s greeting when he arrived with a group of internees: “You are without honor, without help and without rights. Here, you can either work or perish.” The greeting reflected the message on the large iron gate at the camp’s entrance, which read in German “Arbeit macht frei,” which in English means “Work will make you free.”

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Bishops call on Filipinos not to bully, harass gay community Catholic News Service

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Catholic bishops called for vigilance against bullying, ostracism and harassment of gay people in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. “No matter that we may disapprove of the actions, decisions and choices of others, there is absolutely no reason to reject the person, no justification for cruelty, no reason for making outcasts of them,” the country’s Catholic bishops said in a statement. The bishops described the incident in which a gunman entered a nightclub, began shooting patrons and held some at gunpoint for several hours as a “hate crime” that was perpetrated against persons for their sexual orientation, ucanews.com reported. The church leaders said the Philippines must address discrimination, explaining that many Filipinos are forced to the peripheries of the human community because the norms of “decent society” forbid association with people of different sexual preferences. “We must continue the dialogue

Pope: Before you judge, take a good look in the mirror

VATICAN CITY – Christians must take a good look at their own sins before calling out their neighbor’s faults, Pope Francis said. “Look at yourself in the mirror, not to put on makeup so your wrinkles can’t be seen; no, that’s not (Jesus’) advice. Look at yourself in the mirror to see yourself as you are,” the pope said June 20 during the Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The day’s Gospel reading from St. Matthew recounted Jesus telling his disciples to not judge so “that you may not be judged.” “You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye,” Jesus says. Pope Francis said it is clear that Jesus “gets a little bit angry here” and is reminding the disciples that

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People gather at a June 14 candlelight vigil in Manila, Philippines, in memory of the victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. and the conversation with (the gay community) over the things about which we disagree,” read the statement signed by Archbishop

Socrates Villegas of LingayenDagupan, president of the bishops’ conference. “This dialogue must always be an

those who judge put themselves “in God’s place. … This is why it is so awful to judge. Only God can judge, only him!”

which is a mystery of the faith: martyrdom.” Asked how young people can find courage to live their faith, Pope Francis said the Gospel calls Christians to give witness to their faith in Christ and to the reality that he died to redeem

Martyrs called witnesses to faith, not just genocide victims

VATICAN CITY – Using the word “genocide” to describe the persecution of Christians in the Middle East risks downplaying the courage and witness of those who boldly profess faith in Jesus Christ even in the face of death, Pope Francis said. “I want to say clearly that I do not like it when people speak of a ‘genocide of Christians,’ for example in the Middle East,” the pope said, responding to questions June 18 during an afternoon visit to Rome’s Villa Nazareth. Calling the persecution”genocide,” he said, is using a juridical and sociological category to speak of “something

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encounter of brothers and sisters, an encounter of friends in the Lord,” the bishops added. They said the shooting “challenges us to ask ourselves how we can all, not Americans alone, become a better people after having recovered from our grief.” In his statement, Archbishop Villegas said it is regrettable that the tragedy occurred in the midst of the observance of the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Mercy. “This grim event merely underscores how right Pope Francis was in convoking this year as a year of mercy,” he said. “The heartlessness with which so many were cut down in their youth or in the prime of life only makes clear how much the world needs mercy,” Archbishop Villegas added. The Filipino bishops also expressed their condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the tragedy. “We can and should never reconcile ourselves with violence in society – whether this be the violence of lawless elements, the violence of the self-righteous, the violence of vigilante groups or the violence of government,” the bishops said

sinners “but is alive,” working in the lives of individuals and communities. Martyrdom is the fullest expression of Christian witness, he said. “It’s the maximum, heroic.” Catholic News Service

Catholic san francisco | June 23, 2016

Honoring our retiring Catholic school teachers Catholic San Francisco is glad to assist our Catholic schools in their fond farewells to retiring and moving teachers and staff.

John Bermudez Riordan

Jordan Jimenez Riordan

Brian Kosewic Riordan

Sean Hampton St. Ignatius

Miles Suter St. Ignatius

Elizabeth Ford St. Ignatius

Allyson Abad St. Ignatius

Gavin Doyle St. Ignatius

Jose Sandoval Serra

Miles Todzo Serra

Michael Takla Serra

SACRED HEART SCHOOLS, ATHERTON

Olivia Holmes San Domenico

Juliana Johnson San Domenico

Kayla Holman Sacred Heart

William Horvath Sacred Heart

Stephanie Camacho ICA

Ronnette Herico ICA

Peter Jankowski Marin Catholic

Hugo Kostelni Marin Catholic

Hugh Mac Neil SHC

Ekaterina Lavroushina Clark SHC

Zach Avila Stuart Hall

Above photo: Joan Eagleson, campus ministry and lower school religion teacher, 27 years; Cookie Cattaneo, lower school teacher, 20 years; Pat Roberts, instructional librarian, 23 years; Sacred Heart Sister Martha Roughan, formation to mission director, eight years. Photo on left: Carrie Bozzo, preschool teacher, 25 years; Cee Salberg, preschool and kindergarten principal, 28 years; Janet Wildey, preschool and kindergarten registrar and admissions assistant, 38 years. Mary Traub, theater manager, 16 years; Bob Fraser, technical director, 12 years were unavailable for photos.

Students pictured are among those honored at recent commencement rites.

Liana Lum Convent

Serena Grown-Haeberli Notre Dame

Bharathi Chinnakotla Notre Dame

Hannah Sidhu Mercy, Burlingame

Cassandra Miller Mercy, Burlingame

Cierra Zaldivar Mercy, SF

Kaitlin Nori Mercy, SF

John Gregory Priory

Hana Marsheck Priory

More than 1,900 graduate from Catholic high schools in archdiocese ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL

Archbishop Riordan High School graduated 176 young men May 28 in the James Lindland Theatre. Joseph Conti, president, and Vittorio Anastasio, principal, presented diplomas. The Class of 2016 was accepted to more than 186 colleges and universities, earned millions of dollars in scholarships, and will be attending schools in 21 states.

ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP

St. Ignatius College Prep graduated 358 seniors June 4 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 120 colleges and universities throughout the world and were offered more than $24 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Jesuit Father Edwin B. Harris, school president, and Patrick Ruff, principal presented diplomas. Among the graduates are Sean Hampton, valedictorian; Miles Suter, salutatorian; Elizabeth Ford, Ignatian Award; Allyson Abad, Father Anthony P. Sauer, SJ Loyalty Award; Gavin Doyle, General Excellence Award.

JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL, SAN MATEO

Junipero Serra High School graduated 209 students May 28 at St Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 200 colleges, earned $16.5 million in scholarships and completed 37,576 hours of community service. Diplomas were presented by school principal Barry Thornton, Ed.D. Valedictorians were Jose Sandoval, Michael Takla and Miles Todzo.

SAN DOMENICO HIGH SCHOOL, SAN RAFAEL

San Domenico High School graduated 36 students June 10 on the school cam-

pus. Graduates received more than 251 acceptances to more than 121 colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad, winning more than $7 million in scholarships toward their college educations. John Berry, director, Upper School, and Cecily Stock, head of school, with Paul P. Spaulding, board chair, distributed diplomas.

SACRED HEART PREP, ATHERTON

Sacred Heart Preparatory graduated 144 students May 27 at its 118th commencement ceremony at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton. Valedictorian William Horvath will attend Yale University. Salutatorian Liam Clancy will attend the University of Southern California. Graduates, 27 of whom earned recognition by the National Merit Scholarship program will attend 70 different schools; 18 have committed to play collegiate athletics.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY

Immaculate Conception AcademyCristo Rey graduated 62 seniors on June 3 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 80 colleges and universities throughout the United States, earning over $3 million in scholarships toward their college educations. Dominican Sister Diane Aruda, president, and Lisa Graham, principal, presented the diplomas. Valedictorian was Stephanie Camacho, Ronnette Herico was salutatorian.

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Marin Catholic presented diplomas to 174 graduates on June 2 at the Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium at the Civic Center in San Rafael. This year, graduates reported to have received nearly 1,000 acceptances to colleges and uni-

versities nationally and internationally. Presenting diplomas were Tim Navone, president and Chris Valdez, principal. Valedictorian was Peter Jankowski, salutatorian, Hugo Kostelni.

college educations. Maryann Osmond, head of school, presented diplomas. Valedictorians were Serena Grown-Haeberli and Bharathi Chinnakotla.

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY

Mercy High School Burlingame graduated 104 seniors June 5 at St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. Graduates were accepted to more than 160 colleges and universities throughout the United States winning more than $5 million in scholarships toward their college education. Karen Hanrahan, head of school and Lauren Conklin, assistant head of school for academics conferred the diplomas. Valedictorian was Hannah Sidhu, salutatorian Cassandra Miller.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory graduated 284 seniors May 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. Students were accepted to 221 colleges around the country and internationally. Diplomas were presented by Christian Brother Ronald Gallagher, Ph.D., president and Gary Cannon, principal. Valedictorian was Ekaterina Lavroushina Clark, Hugh Mac Neil salutatorian.

STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL

Stuart Hall High School graduated 47 students May 20 at its San Francisco campus. Diplomas were conferred by Mark Tellini, board chair; Ann Marie Krejcarek, president; and Tony Farrell, head of school. Valedictorian was Zach Avila.

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School graduated 61 students May 20 at its San Francisco campus. Diplomas were conferred by Mark Tellini, board chair; Ann Marie Krejcarek, president; and Rachel Simpson, head of school. Valedictorian was Liana Lum.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT

Notre Dame High School, Belmont celebrated 135 students June 2 at St. Pius Church, Redwood City. Graduates were accepted to more than 200 colleges and universities throughout the United States and beyond, winning more than $6.1 million in scholarships toward their

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO

Mercy High School, San Francisco graduated 81 young women at Holy Name of Jesus Church. This year’s graduates were accepted to 140 colleges and uuniversities throughout the United States winning $1.4 million in scholarships toward their college education. Rita Cutarelli, associate principal for Mission and Campus Life, and Dan Meyers, director of academic affairs presented diplomas. Valedictorian was Cierra Zaldivar, salutatorian Kaitlin Nori.

WOODSIDE PRIORY, PORTOLA VALLEY

Woodside Priory School graduated 68 students May 28 at Father Christopher Field on the Priory campus. Graduates were accepted to more than 100 colleges throughout the world and offered more than $7.5 million in scholarships. Brian Schlaak, head of the upper school recommended the graduates to head of school, Tim Molak, who presented them with their Priory diplomas.

Farewell to principals Carol Trelut

Trelut is retiring after 20 years at Nativity School, Menlo Park with 15 years as principal. As a teacher and administrator within the archdiocese of San Francisco Trelut said she has been “dedicated to CathoCarol Trelut lic education” with “profound commitment to the Catholic communities” served. Her time in Catholic schools “has been a joy and labor of love,” Trelut said.

Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, OP

Sister Susanna, who has served as teacher and principal in Catholic schools for 41 years, is leaving after 12 years as principal of St. James School, San Francisco, where earlier she also taught Sister Mary Susanna for six years. A graduate of San Vasquez, OP Francisco’s St. Anthony School and Immaculate Conception Academy, she is off to

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Pictured from left: Larry Gondola, 42 years teaching English, typing, computer and PE plus service as varsity football coach; Susie Woodall, 44 years teaching PE and math, plus service as volleyball coach, athletic director; Carol Teller, 24 years as librarian; Rich Woodall, 34 years teaching PE, math and computer plus service as department head and coach; Sandy Vasquez, 16 Years as receptionist, executive assistant to president and principal.

ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP

a yearlong sabbatical that includes “walking the Camino de Santiago in September and October,” she told me. “After the year off, who knows? God will determine that. I hope, though, to still be involved in education. I believe that Catholic education plays a significant role in the mission of the church. Catholic schools are pools of evangelization, transformation and beacons of light for the world.”

Elizabeth Purcell has taught at SI since 1995 in areas including English and American literature plus service as department chair and moderator of the school’s magazine and newspaper. Art Cecchin is a 1963 SI alumnus and has served at the school since 1973. He was admissions director through 1989 and oversaw the school’s transition to a co-ed facility. Since that time he has taught history and economics at SI.

Tara Rolle

Rolle, who holds a doctorate in educational policy with a focus on Catholic school marketing and enrollment, is moving after five years as principal of St. Raymond School, Menlo Park, to a position as assistant Tara Rolle superintendent of schools for the Drexel School System in the Diocese of San Jose, a “model for the future of Catholic education” to ensure Catholic schools are accessible, high achieving and sustainable, she said. “In partnership with parents and guided by the values of our faith, it is my great passion to serve our community through service in Catholic education.”

Kathy Mountain Mercy, Burlingame

Eileen Horan Mercy, Burlingame

Ted DeSaulnier Archbishop Riordan

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME

Kathy Mountain has taught English and social studies at Mercy since 1980; Eileen Horan has taught English at the school since 1987 and also for five years during an earlier time at Mercy.

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL

Ted DeSaulnier has taught at Riordan for eight years with a previous six years at Marin Catholic High School and three years at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton. At Riordan he has served as religion instructor and department chair and as a campus minister serving in similar roles in his years at Marin Catholic and Sacred Heart schools.

14 opinion letters Need help understanding indulgences

Editor’s note: As a policy we don’t print anonymous letters but we make an exception for the following, addressed to the editor and postmarked San Francisco June 10. We welcome helpful letters in response. Re “Indulgences,” Year of Mercy Pilgrimages special section, Page P4, May 26: Could you possibly explain in simple terms what this “treasury” is? It’s very vague. I envision a kind of ATM machine. Who has access to it? “This treasury is the power of the divine love coursing through the veins of the mystical body of Christ” – this is also very difficult to understand. Help us, please. Also from that article is this statement: “Finally the church has the power to ‘super-charge’ the good actions of the faithful with the merits from this treasury.” Pope Francis has said that we should not be teaching “complex doctrine” only. My fellow parishioners are clueless about the magical treasure.

Temptations at both extremes

Re “Ordinary goodness and our spiritual journey,” Father Ron Rolheiser, June 9: Agreed. A puritanical outlook is an unhealthy extreme to be well-avoided. But surely our current culture is overwhelmingly tempted by the opposite extreme, don’t you think? Jay Strickwerda San Francisco

Where is justice in rent proposal?

Re “Advocates press initiative for San Mateo rent law,” June 9: Rents in the Bay Area have hit all-time highs, forcing many to stretch their budgets to the limit. This phenomenon is due to a steadily rising population while housing construction has grown only slightly over the last several years. The solution being proposed in San Mateo is to limit the ability of older units to raise rents while exempting new and proposed rental units from rent control. Proponents know they must exempt new units from rent control or construction of new units would stop immediately. Where is the justice here? How is it fair to tell the owners of older apartments what they can charge but allow owners of new units to charge whatever the market will bear? And what about owners of old buildings who are retired and dependent on the income to support themselves. We are living in difficult times, but requiring one class of apartment owner to support others, while exempting another group of owners, is completely unjust. The fact that rent control has been mandated in San Francisco for several years without a serious constitutional challenge, has lulled us into concluding that this system is somehow just. It’s not. There are other means of giving rental assistance to low-income renters without placing the burden on the backs of a small segment of property owners. Jim Dempsey Redwood City

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Catholic san francisco | June 23, 2016

Two Catholics and the Catholic game

aseball is by far the most Catholic of the sports on which we lavish such attention and passion. Because it’s played without a clock, baseball is like the liturgy: A foretaste of the time-beyondtime, which is God’s time, which is eternity. Baseball is also spatially eschatological or infinite: In theory, a basegeorge weigel ball field could extend forever – as center field in New York’s old Polo Grounds seemed to do, except when patrolled by a higher spirit in human form who made space (and Vic Wertz’s home run in the 1954 World Series) disappear: Willie Mays. And let’s not forget baseball and Catholic social doctrine. The social doctrine has four foundational principles – human dignity, the common good, subsidiarity, and solidarity. Each of them may be found in baseball, a game played by communitarian individuals who live freedom for excellence such that personal achievement contributes to the general welfare through a well-ordered division of hierarchical responsibilities exercised in cooperative teamwork. (I once tried to explain this to Pope John Paul II: without success, alas.) The Catholicity of baseball also extends to many of the pastime’s noblest people, on and off the field. Two of

them come to mind as the 2016 season unfolds. The first is Bill Freehan, an 11-time All-Star catcher for the Detroit Tigers who deserves a good look by the committee responsible for correcting the mistakes made by earlier Hall of Fame voters. Freehan’s greatest season was 1968. And without him the Tigers wouldn’t have won the World Series that year, for he made the crucial play at the plate that prevented the Cardinals’ Lou Brock from scoring, thus turning the tide in game five, which the Tigers went on to win – along with games six and seven. Freehan’s daughter Cathy is a member of my parish and I had the pleasure of meeting the Tiger great on a few occasions when he was visiting his grandchildren. We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he’d enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees. Bill Freehan, a serious Catholic and a true sportsman, is now in hospice care, another victim of Alzheimer’s disease. He has my support in prayer and I hope he has yours, too – even if you’re a St. Louis fan with unhappy memories of 1968. Then there’s 88-year-old Vin Scully, who’ll retire from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast booth at the end

of this season, having called games involving Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Kirk Gibson, and Clayton Kershaw over the course of an extraordinary six-decade career. If Scully’s mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft-spoken, southernaccented master of the homely analogy – “This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day” – Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II – “Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-today. [Pause.] Aren’t we all?” Vin Scully has lived through tragedies that would have crushed or embittered others: the death of a wife; the death of a son. He openly credits the Catholic faith with which he grew up in the Bronx as his life’s anchor. You can find him on Sunday at St. Jude the Apostle Church in Westlake Village, being fed by word and sacrament before he brings a lifetime of learning and that melodious voice into the homes, cars, and earbuds of millions later in the afternoon, from his post behind the microphone at Chavez Ravine. Bill Freehan and Vin Scully: Two craftsmen, two family men, two gentlemen, two Catholics, both heading into the twilight. They will be missed, above all for the example of decency, nurtured by faith, they set for us all. Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

The struggle to love our neighbor

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he most damaging idolatry is not the golden calf but enmity against the other.” The renowned anthropologist, Rene Girard, wrote that and its truth is not easily admitted. Most of us like to believe that we are mature and bighearted and that we do love our neighbors and are free of enmity toward FATHER ron others. But is rolheiser this so? In our more honest, more accurately perhaps, in our more humble moments, I think that all of us admit that we don’t really love others in the way that Jesus asked. We don’t turn the other cheek. We don’t really love our enemies. We don’t wish good to those who wish us harm. We don’t bless those who curse us. And we don’t genuinely forgive those who murder our loved ones. We are decent, good-hearted persons, but persons whose heaven is still too predicated on needing an emotional vindication in the face of anyone or anything that opposes us. We can be fair, we can be just, but we don’t yet love the way Jesus asked us to, that is, so that our love goes out to both those who love us and to those who hate us. We still struggle, mightily, mostly unsuccessfully, to wish our enemies well. But for most of us who like to believe ourselves mature that battle remains hidden, mostly from ourselves. We tend to feel that we are loving and forgiving because, essentially, we are

well-intentioned, sincere, and able to believe and say all the right things; but there’s another part of us that isn’t nearly so noble. The Irish Jesuit, Michael Paul Gallagher, (who died recently and will be dearly missed) puts this well when he writes: “You probably don’t hate anyone, but you can be paralyzed by daily negatives. Mini-prejudices and knee-jerk judgements can produce a mood of undeclared war. Across barbed wire fences, invisible bullets fly.” Loving the other as oneself, he submits, is for most of us an impossible uphill climb. So where does that leave us? Serving out a life sentence of mediocrity and hypocrisy? Professing to loving our enemies but not doing it? How can we profess to be Christians when, if we are honest, we have to admit that we are not measuring up to the litmus test of Christian discipleship, namely, loving and forgiving our enemies? Perhaps we are not as bad as we think we are. If we are still struggling, we are still healthy. In making us, it seems, God factored in human complexity, human weakness, and how growing into deeper love is a lifelong journey. What can look like hypocrisy from the outside can in fact be a pilgrimage when seen within a fuller light of patience and understanding. Thomas Aquinas, in speaking about union and intimacy, makes this important distinction. He distinguishes between being in union with something or somebody in actuality and being in union with that someone or something through desire. This has many applications but, applied in this case, it means that sometimes the heart can only go somewhere through desire rather than in actuality. We can believe in the right things and want the right things and

still not be able to bring our hearts onside. One example of this is what the old catechisms (in their unique wisdom) used to call “imperfect contrition,” that is, the notion that if you have done something wrong that you know is wrong and that you know that you should feel sorry for, but you can’t in fact feel sorry for, then if you can wish that you could feel sorry, that’s contrition enough, not perfect, but enough. It’s the best you can do and it puts you at the right place at the level of desire, not a perfect place, but one better than its alternative. And that “imperfect” place does more for us than simply providing the minimal standard of contrition needed for forgiveness. Marilynne Robinson submits that, even in our failure to live up to what Jesus asks of us, if we are struggling honestly, there is some virtue. She argues this way: Freud said that we cannot love our neighbor as ourselves, and no doubt this is true. But since we accept the reality that lies behind the commandment, that our neighbor is as worthy of love as ourselves, then in our very attempt to act on Jesus’ demand we are acknowledging that our neighbor is worthy of love even if, at that this point in our lives, we are too weak to provide it. In continuing to struggle, despite our failures, to live up to Jesus’ great commandment of love we acknowledge the dignity inherent in our enemies, acknowledge that they are worthy of love, and acknowledge our own shortcoming. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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World’s 20 million refugees deserve a compassionate hand Mercy Sister Diane Clyne and Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey

orld Refugee Day was observed June 20, a time to consider the plight of refugees both historically and currently, not only in the Mediterranean but the world over. There are about 20 million refugees in the world now, a ghastly statistic that cannot possibly be ignored or convey the distress it holds for the people involved. Today the focus is on those fleeing violence in many countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, but we must remember that steady streams of those seeking shelter have come to U.S. shores since the country was founded and were not turned away. Refugees in the U.S. are a subcategory of immigrant (anyone born elsewhere who now sees U.S. as home). The Sisters of Mercy have stood by and served immigrant and refugee populations in California since we arrived in 1854. The sisters came to San Francisco to care for and educate the poor, especially Irish immigrants during the Gold Rush, but our 26-year-old leader Mother Baptist Russell learned Spanish on the boat from Ireland so she could reach out to the needs of the Spanish speaking people already here. In the 1980s the Sisters of Mercy provided sanctuary on our property in the Bay Area for families fleeing the wars in Central America. We sheltered refugees who were at risk

of violence if they returned home to El Salvador, Honduras or Guatemala. We and other communities of women religious want to continue to serve those who live in the gray area between a country they fear to return to and a new country that threatens to deport them. In our work, we have seen firsthand the plight of refugees in Thailand and Sudan and have witnessed the conditions including violence that are causing them to flee their homes. We tutor those learning English as they struggle to integrate into our society. Sister Martha Larsen recently

volunteered at the Loretto Sisters’ Nazareth House in El Paso which aids people journeying north to relatives from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in fear of their lives. Sister Martha sees our services for those fleeing their homelands as important but not enough. She asks these questions: “Why are hundreds of people leaving Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador risking so much to come north? What are the root causes? People come because of the constant violence of gangs, police and military. Corruption and violence are part of everyday life.”

Sister Diane Clyne served in El Salvador and Honduras, in Mercy Housing in California, and as chaplain at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. Sister Marilyn Lacey, founder of Mercy Beyond Borders, has worked for over 30 years with refugees from all over the world, including South Sudan.

Seeing through intersex confusion

n rare occasions, babies can be born with ambiguous genitalia, and parents and physicians may be uncertain about whether a newborn is a little boy or a little girl. While testing for sex chromosomes is invariably part of figuring out these cases, the genetics alone may not always tell the whole story. Both genes and physiological factors like hormonal conditions in the womb can contribute to father tadeusz our primary pacholczyk and secondary sex characteristics and, unsurprisingly, disorders in our genes or our in utero hormonal milieu can contribute to deflecting the development of our maleness or femaleness. For the most part, our genetic sex (XX female or XY male) serves as the best guide to the true sex of an individual, though in rare situations, even the sex chromosomes themselves can have anomalies. For example, when somebody is born with Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) they develop not only as a male due to the presence of the Y chromosome and its testosterone-pro-

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Syrian refugees are seen in 2015 at a makeshift camp in the Turkish city of Adana. A U.N. summit seeks more efficient, sustainable and humanitarian ways of helping the world’s millions of refugees.

Many refugees in California today are fleeing conditions in Central America, brought about and encouraged by our lifestyle: our use of water, drugs and oil. Our government has supported dictatorships which have resulted in more oppression. What action should we propose? At the very least, our communities could reach out a compassionate hand to those whose lives are in danger and not reinforce walls of prejudice. The Mercy community continues to support immigration reform, which has been blocked in the House. This year we are sending this message to Congress: “As a person of faith, I am writing to ask you to speak out against fear and using inflammatory rhetoric about refugees. I oppose any legislation that would block the resettlement of refugees of any nationality or religion, both those refugees who have asylum and those who flee violence to seek asylum in the United States of America.” We suggest careful, compassionate thinking about the vision and viability of a country which rejects those most in need.

ducing influence, but also as a “feminized” male because of the influences of the additional X chromosome. When strong hormonal influences are at play, as in another disorder called congenital androgenital syndrome, a genetically normal XX female can have increased testosterone production by her adrenal glands, resulting in the development of external male-like genitalia, even though she also has ovaries, a vagina, and a uterus. While the term “intersex” is sometimes used to describe situations where an individual has non-standard genital anatomy, it typically has a broader range of meanings. Some have argued that a person has to be born with both ovarian and testicular tissue to count as being intersex, but “intersex” is an imprecise term that can describe a range of situations in which a person is born with an internal reproductive anatomy or an external sexual anatomy that is not in accord with the typical expectations for femaleness or maleness. Sometimes the suggestion is made that intersex individuals are, in fact, neither male nor female, but fluid, malleable or “bisexual,” with sexual identity residing somewhere between male and female. This kind of explanation is untenable. Human beings, along with most other members of the animal kingdom, are marked by an ineradicable sexual “dimorphism,” or “two forms,” namely, male and female. When problems arise in the develop-

ment of one of these forms, this does not make for a new “third form,” or worse, for an infinite spectrum of different sexual forms. Instead, intersex situations represent cases in which a person is either male or female, but has confounding physiological factors that make them appear or feel as if they were of the opposite sex, or maybe even both sexes. In other words, the underlying sex remains, even though the psychology or gender they experience may be discordant. Put another way, intersex individuals may be “drawn away” from their intrinsic male or female sexual constitution by various anatomical differences in their bodies, and by opposing interior physiological drives and forces. This can be further complicated because of strong cultural forces that contribute to the confusion by sanctioning a paradigm of complete malleability in human sexual behaviors that militates against an understanding of sex-based “hard-wiring.” Even though it may not be popular to affirm the fact, people suffer from sexual development disorders in much the same way that they suffer from other kinds of developmental disorders, whether of the cardiac/circulatory system, of the nervous/intellectual system or others. No one, of course, should be subjected to bias or mistreatment due to a bodily disorder they may have been born with, but in treating such persons, we always strive to return their cardiac or intellectual functions to their proper

baseline, rather than inventing a new abnormal as the norm and defining that as a “treatment,” as some are tempted to do with sexual development disorders. While a newborn’s “intrinsic maleness” or “intrinsic femaleness” may be difficult to assess in certain more complicated intersex cases, the point remains that there is an “intrinsic” or “underlying” sexual constitution that we must do our best to recognize, respect, and act in accord with. We must carefully acknowledge, nurture and accept our given embodied sexual nature as male or female. Willfully denying or acting against that given nature will constitute little more than a prescription for disillusionment and dishonesty. Pope Benedict, in a December 2013 address, echoed these concerns when he mentioned the errors found in various new philosophies where “sex is no longer a given element of nature that man has to accept and personally make sense of….” To live in an ordered way, with an ordered masculinity or femininity, is certainly one of the great challenges of our time, and we can only undertake this important task by insisting on the correspondence of our minds to reality — especially to the deeply inscribed reality of our unique embodiment as male or female. Father Pacholczyk is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusets and Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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Sunday readings

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 KINGS 19:16B, 19-21 The Lord said to Elijah: “You shall anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah, as prophet to succeed you.” Elijah set out and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with 12 yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please, let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and I will follow you.” Elijah answered, “Go back! Have I done anything to you?” Elisha left him, and taking the yoke of oxen, slaughtered them; he used the plowing equipment for fuel to boil their flesh, and gave it to his people to eat. Then Elisha left and followed Elijah as his attendant. PSALM 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 You are my inheritance, O Lord. Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you. O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot.” You are my inheritance, O Lord. I bless the Lord who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

You are my inheritance, O Lord. Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption. You are my inheritance, O Lord. You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever. You are my inheritance, O Lord. GALATIANS 5:1, 13-18 Brothers and sisters: For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another. I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh. For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want.

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law. LUKE 9:51-62 When the days for Jesus’ being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there, but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they journeyed to another village. As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.” But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.” To him Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Enough for all

nce someone asked me about evangelization and I will rephrase the question here: As Christians, doesn’t Jesus call us to cultivate relationships with those who are hostile to the faith so that we might bring them closer to Christ? In some cases, wouldn’t it be a stronger choice to focus on those who are “unwelcoming” rather than those who will receive the Gospel more easily? Each situation calls for its own discernment. There will be times when God calls us to persevere at the side of the hardhearted. But I think there is an unexpected answer to my friend’s question, here: As Christ is in via, he does not stop for those who will not hear the message. sister maria Christ never says, “Let us catherine, op arise and go to the Pharisees, and preach to them.” Christ doesn’t tarry for the unwilling, although mysteriously he continues to call each person.

scripture reflection

Like the king that he is, Christ processes with his entourage toward Jerusalem with deliberate steps, sending messengers ahead of him. Similarly, Christ’s language and travels indicate that he casts the net wide: The invitation is open to all, but he lingers only with those who are willing to be taught. Jesus’ lack of reception by the Samaritan town is a providential sign that Christ will be rejected by the whole world. Even his followers misunderstand him: “Do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” Jesus had indeed invested his Apostles with this power, but they were still undiscerning of their master’s purpose. It is not time for judgement. Christ’s invitation is freely given and has to be freely accepted, but he does not vacillate about his next move. He presses on, as planned. Jesus’ reactions, too, are extremely straightforward in these encounters. Although Luke does not note who the speaker is, Matthew’s Gospel tells us that in the later part of this passage it is a Temple scribe who emphatically states “I will follow you wherever you go.” In his meditations on the Gospel of Matthew, Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis writes, “to follow the Son of Man ‘wherever’ means to follow him into nowhere-that is, into the realm of non-comfort, non-security, non-certainty...The Son of Man promises himself to the scribe-nothing else. Generosity

answers generosity...the living word gives himself in all his burning immediacy.” To another, Jesus responds like Elijah did to Elisha “Let the dead bury the dead…” Duties discharged to family presumably take precedence, even in the law, but Jesus rejects this and sets himself above these obligations. “No one who sets a hand to the plow…” Jesus’ responses seem cutthroat and unrelenting. Our culture, our world, desperately needs the directness that Christ models for us. Who knows how much time any of us have for conversion and repentance. Has your response been like these three? The first wants comfort, if not in reputation, at least physically; the next puts the world’s obligations first before the demands of Jesus’ personal invitation; the last wants his family’s approval. Although simply stated, Jesus is firm about the kind of claim he possesses on each soul. His words that strike to the heart are meant not for fear, but for renewal. Is this directness what you offer to others in your personal witness? Jesus says, I can only give you myself - free gift for free gift; leave everything to follow me; and be decisive - I will be enough for you.

Saturday, July 2: Saturday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time. Am 9:11-15. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 1112, 13-14. Jn 10:27. Mt 9:14-17.

Week in Ordinary Time. Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9. Ps 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16. Mk 1:15. Mt 10:7-15.

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Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, June 27: Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor. Am 2:6-10, 13-16. Ps 50:16bc-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23. Ps 95:8. Mt 8:1822. Tuesday, June 28: Memorial of St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr. Am 3:1-8; 4:11-12. Ps 5:4b-6a, 6b-7, 8. Ps 130:5. Mt 8:23-27. Wednesday, June 29: Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles. Acts 3:1-10. Acts 3:1-10. Ps 19:23, 4-5. Gal 1:11-20. Thursday, June 30: Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome. Am 7:10-17. Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11. 2 Cor 5:19. Mt 9:1-8. Friday, July 1: Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Junipero Serra, priest. St. Oliver Plunket, bishop & martyr. Am 8:4-6, 9-12. Ps 119:2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131. Mt 11:28. Mt 9:9-13.

Sunday, July 3: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Is 66:1014c. Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20. Gal 6:14-18. Col 3:15a, 16a. Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 or Lk 10:1-9. Monday, July 4: Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22. Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9. See 2 Tm 1:10. Mt 9:18-26. Tuesday, July 5: Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Zaccaria, priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal. Hos 8:4-7, 11-13. Ps 115:3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10. Jn 10:14. Mt 9:32-38. Wednesday, July 6: Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr. Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12. Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Mk 1:15. Mt 10:1-7. Thursday, July 7: Thursday of the Fourteenth

Friday, July 8: Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Hos 14:2-10. Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 and 17. Jn 16:13a; 14:26d. Mt 10:16-23. Saturday, July 9: Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs. Is 6:1-8. Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5. 1 Pt 4:14. Mt 10:24-33. Sunday, July 10: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Dt 30:10-14. Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 or Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11. Col 1:15-20. cf. Jn 6:63c, 68c. Lk 10:25-37. Monday, July 11: Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot. Is 1:10-17. Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. Mt 5:10. Mt 10:34-11:1. Tuesday, July 12: Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Is 7:1-9. Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8. Ps 95:8. Mt 11:20-24.

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Our Lady of Refuge, patroness

ur Lady of Refuge is patroness of both Californias. Franciscan missionary Francisco Diego Garcia y Moreno was the first bishop of the Californias – Baja California (lower California in what is now Mexico) and Alta California (upper California in the present U.S.). He proclaimed Nuestra Señora brother john del Refugio, m. samaha, sm patrona de las Ambas Californias. The official proclamation was made by Bishop Garcia Diego on Jan. 4, 1843, at Mission Santa Clara in Alta California.

The episcopal proclamation

The entire text of Bishop Diego’s declaration is recorded in Mission Santa Clara’s Libro de Patentes. “We make known to you that we hereby name the great Mother of God in her most precious title, ‘del Refugio,’ the principal patroness of our diocese.” The bishop planned to establish his episcopal seat in Santa Barbara with the name of Our Lady of Refuge. But when California was ceded to the U.S., Bishop Thaddeus Amat moved to Los Angeles and constructed his cathedral there under the patronage of St. Vibiana, an early Roman martyr whose relics he had obtained.

The liturgical feast

In 1981 the California Catholic Conference of Bishops petitioned the Vatican Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship for authorization to observe the feast of Our Lady of Refuge on July 5 as an obligatory memorial. This was approved by official document dated January 15, 1982. The dioceses of Baja California celebrate this patronal feast on July 4. Because of Independence Day, the dioceses of Alta California chose July 5, and the memorial is listed for that day in their ordo. The feast of Our Lady of Refuge has its own proper prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. The renewal of interest in this Marian feast honoring the patroness of the Golden State was stimulated by the 1987-1988 Marian Year observance and St. John Paul II’s encouragement to revitalize interest in special, local feasts of the Virgin Mother Mary.

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The entire coat of arms of Bishop Garcia Diego included only the image of Our Lady of Refuge. A painting of Our Lady of Refuge holding her child, usually the product of a local or native artist, graced each mission church af-

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All California missions, and the parishes established later, celebrated this patronal feast with great solemnity. For a time in the mid-19th century the Franciscans operated a seminary with this name at Mission Santa Inez. And Refugio State Beach is a geographic landmark named for her.

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. T.R.

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Oversees the campus administration staff with direct supervisory responsibility for the Physical Plant Manager, Environmental Services Manager, Food Services Manager, Retreat Center Director, and Assisted Living and/or Skilled Life Care Center Administrator. • Responsibilities include hiring, performance appraisals and development, compensation, culture, fiscal and project oversight. • Provides oversight, implementation and compliance with the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community Human Resources policies and practices in conjunction with the WMW Human Resources Director. Recommends changes to policies to carry out objectives of the organization more effectively. • Works with WMW Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Finance staff to develop, implement and monitor annual campus operating and capital budget for each department or campus entity supervised. Responds to variance reports monthly and/or as requested. • Provides leadership to develop and strengthen organizational programs and services, with a focus on quality improvement, values implementation and productivity enhancement. • Facilitates the awareness that the organization’s mission, vision and values are a priority and are communicated, understood and modeled within the organization. • Collaborates and communicates regularly with the Mercy Convent Coordinators and other direct reports on campus-related issues (Burlingame campus only). • Implements the strategic plan with WMW Community COO, CFO and key managers on campus. • Establishes collaborative relationships with various constituents (i.e., religious community members, civic community, vendors, Mercy ministries, consultants, etc.) as needed. Represents the organization to the greater civic community and addresses issues/concerns of the community and surrounding neighborhood as needed. • Acts as a peer colleague liaison between the Campus and the greater West Midwest Community (relating regionally) and the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Institute (relating nationally). • Maintains visibility in all service areas to solicit feedback regarding organization’s performance, needs, etc. • Oversees the owned residences, vacation houses and other properties assuring repairs and maintenance are done in a timely manner in collaboration with the WMW Property Manager, Controller and Plant Manager. Develops long-range capital, financial and preventive maintenance plan for Campus and other off-site properties in conjunction with the WMW Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Property Manager, Plant Manager and residents. • Ensures the Campus Emergency Plan is implemented and updated on an annual basis. • Oversees and coordinates the scheduling process of events for the campus that includes all programs/ministries and services on the campus and in conformance to local city requirements as applicable. • Supports and maintains an awareness of sustainability programs and environmental initiatives to allow for energy savings in the areas of property management, utilities and water conservation. • Communicates campus news and events to Sisters (on and off-campus) and staff. • Performs other duties as needed to support the efficient operations of the campus. QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field required. Master’s Degree preferred. Comparable experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. • Minimum five to seven years in a management position with a strong operations background. Leadership and operational experience in a not-for-profit, healthcare or faith-based organization preferred. • Demonstrates an ability to understand women religious and personal commitment to support and communicate the Mission and Values of the Sisters of Mercy in all aspects of the job. • Strong computer literacy skills (word, excel, powerpoint, etc.). • Possesses the ability to articulate a clear vision of the organization and to provide leadership and management to achieve organizational goals. • Possesses initiative and demonstrates the ability to work both independently and within a large, matrix-style organizational structure. • Possesses strong financial acumen including the ability to develop and administer budgets up to $15 million. • Demonstrates excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. • Ability to resolve conflict justly and in a collaborative spirit. • Demonstrates knowledge of managerial and leadership skills including a proficiency for coaching and evaluating personnel. • Understands cultural differences as it relates to the employees and implements practices that support anti-racism efforts and inclusivity for all employees • Possesses the ability to exude a welcoming spirit, be hospitable to all bringing energy, drive and optimism to the position on a daily basis. • Ability to travel on occasion. To Apply: Qualified applicants should send resume and cover letter to: Julie Moreno, MBA – Human Resources Director Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community 7262 Mercy Road, Omaha NE 68124 (402) 393-8145 (Fax) | jmoreno@mercywmw.org

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Survey: Readers say paper keeps them connected to faith, community FROM PAGE 5

instead of to homes to cut costs. Combined printing and postage costs for an issue are about $17,000. “If cost is a real factor, then I will pick it up from church,” one parishioner said. Others said that some people don’t know the paper is a free benefit to parishioners. “Would love to see copies of the paper at the parish, many parishioners don’t receive the newspaper.” The idea of a larger appeal for voluntary reader financial support met with some resistance for reasons ranging from limited income to those who believe they already pay for it by contributing to the archdiocesan annual appeal. T R A V E L W I T H S T. J O H N ’ S A B B E Y

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“I contribute enough to the appeal every year and my parish,” was a response repeated in kind by a number of readers. “The paper should be delivered.”

Value of newsprint affirmed

Readers were basically satisfied with the frequency and size of the paper, but when it comes to reading it, 94 percent said they prefer newsprint to a computer, tablet or smartphone. While a number of older readers said they don’t have computers, the report showed that more than half of respondents were accustomed to a variety of communication devices and platforms including Facebook and email. Still, more than 85 percent responded “negatively” to reading Catholic San Francisco on screen. This became apparent to editor Rick DelVecchio over the last year. Because of high costs and low impact, he recently discontinued outside vendor publication of online versions of the paper started in 2013. A downloadable PDF of the paper remains available at catholic-sf.org, and Facebook users and CSF email newsletter subscribers continue to receive alerts of new issue postings. In concluding recommendations, the consultant said the church could be more proactive in helping older parishioners feel more comfortable with social media and digital tools while attracting a

younger demographic of Catholic readers. Parishhosted technology clinics geared to older parishioners was among a host of suggestions.

Resource for the paper

The report is a resource for the paper as it evaluates fiscal efficiency and content development, said DelVecchio. “CSF readers are perceptive, diverse and engaged and the quality and quantity of their feedback has been inspiring and compelling,” he said. He added, “I think the affirmation of the value of a print product for the Catholic consumer is an important one at a time when we may think that digital alternatives are maybe as powerful or cheaper and more far-reaching.” The survey already has been useful in forming a virtual focus group composed of survey respondents who agreed to serve as an email sounding board for modifications large and small the paper is considering. The group consists of more than 80 people from throughout the archdiocese. In May, the group responded favorably to a proposed small, cost-saving reduction in the physical size of the paper. The report is available on request to archdiocesan pastors. Please email csf@sfarchdiocese.org.

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AIR TRANSPORTATION: Round trip San Francisco/Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv/San Francisco on economy class jet via El Al or any other IATA member. Based on 6-day minimum/21-day maximum advanced purchase fare, subject to participation of ten persons on entire flight itinerary. If cancellation is effected by passenger after 11/30/2016, or after air tickets are written, Catherine Pelletier, SND whichever comesSister first, 100% of airfare will be forfeited by passenger in addition to the penalties mentioned above. All airfares a Sister Catherine (Agnes St. Jude) Pelletier, are subject to government approval and change without notice.

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• CAMBODIA • LAOS • THAILAND TOUR PRICE: Based on tariffs and currency exchange rates in VIETNAM effect on 5/4/2016 and subject to change without notice should there be a revision in rates prior to departure of tour. The tour October 29 - passengers. November 2016 price is based on a minimum of 36 Should 19, there be fewer, there could be a surcharge. 22-day tour, including air travel from LAX, hotels, andormost meals ACCOMMODATIONS: deluxe In first class hotels better, based on double or triple occupancy with private facilities. Single-room supplement isFor $75 pricing per night and based on availability. Requests and intinerary details, visit: for a roommate are assigned on a first-come, first served basis and arewww.saintjohnsabbey.org/your-visit/travel-tours/ not guaranteed. The single-room supplement will be assessed if a roommate is not available when the group is finalized. For more information:

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Sister of Notre Dame for 73 years,

INSURANCE: Insurance died is NOTJune included in age the tour price. Be6 at 93 at Mercy cause of the cost of medical care outside the United States, Retirement and Care Center the fact that Medicare does not provide coverage outside the in United States, the possibility that your own insurance provider Oakland. may not cover you outsideSister the United States, andgrew due toup thein Catherine potentially high cost of escorted air evacuation, travel insurance Oakland attending Notre Dame is strongly recommended. Consequently, for the protection of our clients, you will be mailed a travel insurance brochure/policy in event Alameda. She enalong with an insurance High waiver School form in the you choose tered the Notre Dame to decline coverage. The effective date of coverage willCommunity be the date that the insurance premium is paid and not the date of the in 1943. initial deposit.

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She also served as librarian for Notre Dame High School, San Jose, and Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. In retirement she assisted in the congregation archives. “Sister Catherine will be lovingly remembered and greatly missed by her remaining sister, Mary Ann Moore, many nieces and nephews, To T Tour our ur 7 70302 03and 0302 03 02 0 2 grand-nieces and nephews, former students colleagues, and her Sisters of Notre Dame,” the sisters said. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 15 at the Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center in Belmont with interment invi at in Santa invites in nvi vMission te es you you Cemetery tto o jjoin oin oin oi Clara. Most Reverend J. Hying Remembrances may beDonald made to Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520ofRalston Ave., Belmont 94002. Bishop Gary, Indiana

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The Blesseddelay, Mother,injury, St Joseph, St damage or SIGHTSEEING: By modern motorcoach, services of an 11-day on na n1 11 1 1-d -dDay -d ayy 9: Wednesday 10/26, DUBLIN / GLEND a OUGH / DUBLIN nonperformance occurring inwith connection with these land arJohn the Evangelist, and an altar a Lamb upon it were English-speaking guides and entrance fees to places included Glendalough (pronounced Glen-dole-lock) is a brief seen by 15 townspeople. The saints were silent; no mesrangements. El Al and other IATA carriers, steamship lines and Day 1: Tuesday, October 18, 2016, USA / DUBLIN in the itinerary. Masses at churches indicatedanare subject to mile drive south of Dublin. We visit the monastic s sage was given to thecompanies people, only whose an example of prayer Pilgrims are welcomed attours international airport for our other transportation services are featured in travel availability. tlement established in the 6th century by St. Kevin, w andtours a richare symbolism appearances. Wefor visit theact, omission departing flight to the Emerald Isle aboard a wide-bodthese not to in betheir held responsible any was born in 498 of royal blood but rejected his life location of thethe apparition, the Basilicaare of Our Lady, and their conied jet, arriving the next morning. Meals are served on or event during time passengers not on board NOT INCLUDED: 1: Airport fees, departure taxes and fuel surprivilege to live as a hermit in a cave there. He foun have the opportunity explore the From there, board the aircraft. veyance. The passagetocontract in grounds. use by these companies when charges (est. - $765); 2: tips to guides and drivers, meal servers the monastery and also went on to create a cente we head west into Westport to check in at our hotel for MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED DAILY issued shall constitute the of a heavenly apparition. The Blessed Mother, St Joseph, St sole contract between the companies Day 9: Wednesday 10/26, DUBLIN / GLENDALlearning devoted to the care of the sick and the co and luggage handlers ($132.50); and 3: optional travel insur- John the Evangelist, Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN / DOWNPATRICK / dinner anda overnight. [B,D] OUGHTh / DUBLIN and an altarpurchaser with Lamb upon itthese were tours and/or passage. The T h he e and the of BELFAST ing and illumination of manuscripts. Amid the ruins, Gallarus Oratory ance. An amount toDaycover these items will be added to your Glendalough (pronounced Glen-dole-lock) is a brief 30seen by 15 townspeople. The saints were silent; no mes1: Tuesday, October 18, 2016, USA / DUBLIN mile drive south of Dublin. We visit the monastic set- can feel the powerful sense of peace and tranquility. Upon our in Dublin, we Day 5: sage was given to the people, onlySaturday an example10/22, of prayerWESTPORT / CROAGH PATPilgrims welcomed at andomestic international airport for arrival our fees, original invoice. Also notareincluded: baggage tlement established in the 6th century by St. Kevin, who return to Dublin, a city known for its modern influe MISCELLANEOUS must be in writing and may andescort, a rich symbolism in RICK their appearances. WeFEES: visit theAll changes departing flight toDownpatrick the Emerald Isle aboard a wide-bod/ KYLEMORE / CONNEMARA / WESTPORT meet our full-time tour passport and visa fees, laundry, wines, liquors, meals notoninclud- location of the apparition, born in 498/ GALLARUS of royal blood ORATObut rejected his life of Basilica of Our and Day 7: Monday 10/24,was LIMERICK ied jet, arriving the next morning. Meals are served incurAfter atheper-person charge for each revision. received breakfast we Lady, drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’sDeposits Holy board private coach, and ed in the itinerary, sightseeing or services other thanour those speprivilege/ to live as a hermit in a cave there. He founded es combined with the beauty and heritage of the p have the opportunity to explore the grounds. From there, board the aircraft. / SLEA HEAD / DINGLE LIMERICK Mountain. St.hotel Patrick fortyadays Lent in proceed north to Downpatrick. 92 daysinHere of departure maythe incur lateof registration fee.RY Elegant shops, hotels, galleries, coffee houses an the monastery and also wenttoonthe to create we head west intowithin Westport to check at our for spent cifically mentioned and items of a personal nature. Note: Due to Our day begins with the journey southwest Din- a center of the year 441 AD in prayer and fasting. Our journey conWe stop in for theand St.overnight. [B,D] learning devoted to the care of the sick and the copy- stunning variety of restaurants have sprung up on alm Day 2: Wednesday 10/19, DUBLIN / DOWNPATRICK / a visit at dinner limited storage space on motor coaches, Pentecost enti-where gle Peninsula which thrusts out into of the Atlantic Ocean BELFAST ing and illumination manuscripts. Amid the ruins, one every street in the capital. The group will enjoy a city to Gallarus Oratory tinues to the shores of Kylemore Lough to visit Kylemore, Patrick'sTours Centre, Dr. LAND ARRANGEMENTS: The tour operator reserves the right arrival in Dublin, we to claim Ireland’s mostcan westerly point. Here, Day 5: Saturday 10/22,a WESTPORT / CROAGH PATfeel the powerful sense ofmajestic peace andhills tranquility. We tles each passenger to one checkedUpon bagour and one carry-on bagspeak gothic the castle, now a Benedictine We enjoy time Tim Campbell will on Downpatrick where we see the statue-lined O’Connell Street, Georg to/ CONNEMARA change itinerary because Abbey. of emergencies or extenuating / KYLEMORE / WESTPORT meet our full-time tour escort, to Dublin, a city known for its soar in ORATOhues of green return and purple over vast bowls ofmodern un- influenc- Squares, Phoenix Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. O that meets airline “size/weight” allowances. Domestic baggage RICK exploring the beyond Abbey, gardens, andDay the7:walk along the lake Monday 10/24, LIMERICK / GALLARUS St. Patrick's we we circumstances After breakfast drive to Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s Holy board our private coach, andvision. Then, es combined with the beauty andto heritage of the past. our control. streams tumble down lakes, RY / SLEA fees, overweight baggage charges, and fees for upspent to the chapel. sites HEAD of the/ DINGLE Conne-/ LIMERICKspoiled valleys. Mountain Mountain. thebeautiful forty days of Lent in We enjoy visit the Downbags Cathedral, the Here St. Patrick proceed north to additional Downpatrick. Elegant shops, hotels, galleries, coffee houses and a of Dublin's top tourist attractions, the Guinness Brew day begins with the journey southwest to the Dinhedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden beaches stretchup on almost will be our last stop. We tour the historical 7-floor bu 441 AD in prayer and fasting. Our journey We stop in for historical a visit theburial St. while stunning variety of restaurants have sprung fall under the responsibility of the passenger. Be ataware, mara, characterized byconpeat bogs,Our mountainous place the ofyear Saint glerugged, Peninsula which thrusts out into the Atlantic Thelush Pentecost Tours does its best to provide foryou miles. Ocean The Dingle Peninsula place of intense, tinues to the shoresERRORS: of Kylemore to visit Kylemore, Patrick's Centre, where Dr. every streetisinathe capital. The groupshifting will enjoy a city tour, ing that is continually updated to present guests wit terrain Lough and countryside that isstaff home a great variety you may agree to pay fees for additional luggage, there Patrick and visitmay his grave. We to claim to Ireland’s most westerly point. Here, majestic hills a gothic castle, nowwith a Benedictine Abbey. We enjoy time Tim Campbell will speak on where we see the statue-lined O’Connell Street, Georgian beauty. visit Gallarus Oratory, an ancient dry stone billing, brochures, etc. However, inpurple the over event in hues green and vast of bowlsWe of unofaccurate wildlife. returnthe tolake Westportsoar where theofremainder continue towe Belfast andexploring proceed not be room on the motor coach. St. Patrick's vision. the Abbey, gardens, and the We walk along Then, Squares,testifies Phoenix Park, and St. of Patrick’s Cathedral. One natural balance of industrial tradition coupled with a c construction whose longevity to the skill its builderror, verbal or written human errors, we reserve the spoiled valleys. Mountain streams tumble down to lakes, of the day is free to Conneexplore independently. This evening, toCathedral, Mass at up to the beautifulcomputer chapel. We enjoy sites of the visit the Down the Saint Malachy's of Dublin's top tourist attractions, the Guinness Brewery temporary flare. The Storehouse also boasts unique m hedgerows blaze with fuchias and golden ers.beaches Heldstretch together completely stones (no tobogs, invoice, re-invoice, or and forward materials. mara, characterizedright by peat rugged, mountainous historical burialChurch place of (subject Saint must will be ourby lastthe stop.weight We tourofthe historical 7-floor build- chandise promoting its global, world-famous brand. wander the streets of Westport samplecorrected authentic Irish to confirmaASSISTANCE: Pilgrims who require personal assistance for miles. The Dingle Peninsula is a placemortar) of intense,the shifting building has wind updated and raintofor more terrain and lush countryside home to a great variety Patrick and visit his grave. We ingwithstood that is continually present guests with a evening, indulge in the culinary delights of Ireland at farethat atisthe restaurant or pub of your choice as dinner tion), the 3rd oldest beauty. We visit Gallarus is Oratory, an ancient dry stone be accompanied by a paying passenger will that ofCatholic wildlife. We return to Westport where the remainder continuewho to Belfast andprovide proceed natural of balance of industrial tradition coupled with a conthan 1000 years. It is typical the type of church in which CALIFORNIA REGISTERED SELLER OF TRAVEL on your own. After dinner, choose from the endless opconstruction whose longevity testifies to the skill of its buildChurch in the city of Belfast. It'sis free to explore independently. This evening, pub or restaurant of your choosing as dinner is on y of the day to Mass at Saint Malachy's temporary flare. The Storehouse also boasts assistance. St. Patrick himself worshipped. Then, we wind around theunique merREGISTRATION NUMBER: CST-2037190-40 ers. storefront Held together completely of stones (no tions of pubs occupying every other and enjoy by the weight ecclesiastical style was inspired by the Tudor period but TIPS AND TAXES: Those normally appearing on hotel and restaurant bills as “service” are included, as are all governmental and local taxes on hotels and meals. Airport fees, departure taxes, and fuel surcharges are estimated on the original invoice and adjusted at ticket time.

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Orlando: More Catholic leaders react to nation’s worst mass shooting FROM PAGE 8

that moves us. Rather, it ought to be our faith,” he said. He also urged the congregation not to “pass judgment as the perpetrator did on a group of people. It’s easy for us to do. It’s easy for us to blame the whole Muslim world simply because this individual was a Muslim.” Chicago Archbishop Blaise J. Cupich said in a statement, “In response to hatred, we are called to sow love,” he added. “In response to violence, peace. And, in response to intolerance, tolerance.” In a letter to the Chicago archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach, Archbishop Cupich said: “For you here today and throughout the whole lesbian and gay community, who are particularly touched by the heinous crimes committed in Orlando, motivated by hate, driven perhaps by mental instability and certainly empowered by a culture of violence, know this: The Archdiocese of Chicago stands with you. I stand with you.” In a June 13 blog post, St. Petersburg Bishop Lynch said “it is long past time” for a ban on sales of assault weapons for non-military uses. “If one is truly prolife, then embrace this issue also and work for the elimination of sales to those who would turn them on innocents,” he said. Bishop Lynch added, “Second, sadly it is religion, including our own, which targets, mostly verbally, and also often breeds contempt for gays, lesbians and transgender people. Attacks today on LGBT men and women often plant the seed of contempt, then hatred, which can ultimately lead to violence. Those women and men who were mowed down early yesterday morning were all made in the image and likeness of God. We teach that. We should believe that.” Bishop Lynch also said that “responding by barring people of Muslim only faith from entering the country solely because of their stated faith until they can be checked out is un-American, even in these

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Pope: Many couples do not see marriage is for life FROM PAGE 1

they do not know what they are saying because they have a different culture.” Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said transcripts of the pope’s off-thecuff remarks always are reviewed for precision and clarity prior to publication. “When dealing with particularly important topics, the revised text always is given to the pope himself. That happened in this case, therefore the published text was approved expressly by the pope.” Attitudes toward marriage are influenced strongly by social expectations, the pope said, telling the story of a young man who told the pope he and his fiancee had not celebrated their wedding yet because they were looking for a church with decor that would go well with her dress. “These are people’s concerns,” the pope said. “How can we change this? I don’t know.” Pope Francis told participants that when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he banned “shotgun weddings” from Catholic parishes because the strong social pressure to marry placed on a couple expecting a baby could mean they were not fully free to pledge themselves to each other for life through the sacrament. It was important, he said, that the couples were not abandoned, but were assisted by the church. Many of them, he said, “after two or three years would marry. I would watch them enter the church – dad, mom and the child holding their hands. They knew well what they were doing.” “The crisis of marriage is because people do not know what the sacrament is, the beauty of the sacrament; they do not know that it is indissoluble, that it is for one’s entire life,” he said. “It’s difficult.” Meeting in July 2005 with priests in northern Italy, Pope Benedict also raised the question of the validity of marriages that, while performed

in church, bound together two baptized Catholics who had little understanding of the faith, the meaning of the sacraments and the indissolubility of marriage. Asked about Communion for a divorced and civilly remarried person, Pope Benedict had responded, “I would say that a particularly painful situation is that of those who were married in the church, but were not really believers and did so just for tradition, and then finding themselves in a new, nonvalid marriage, convert, find the faith and feel excluded from the sacrament.” Pope Benedict said that when he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith he asked several bishops’ conferences and experts to study the problem, which in effect was “a sacrament celebrated without faith.” He said he had thought that the church marriage could be considered invalid because the faith of the couple celebrating the sacrament was lacking. “But from the discussions we had, I understood that the problem was very difficult” and that further study was necessary. According to the Code of Canon Law, “For matrimonial consent to exist, the contracting parties must be at least not ignorant that marriage is a permanent partnership between a man and a woman ordered to the procreation of offspring by means of some sexual cooperation.” In a formal speech in 2015 to the Roman Rota, a marriage tribunal, Pope Francis said: “The judge, in pondering the validity of the consent expressed, must take into account the context of values and of faith – their presence or absence – in which the intent to marry was formed. In fact, ignorance of the contents of the faith could lead to what the code (of canon law) calls an error conditioning the will. This eventuality is not to be considered rare as in the past, precisely because worldly thinking often prevails over the magisterium of the church.

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FRIDAY, JULY 1

3-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: St. Peter Parish, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Linda O’Brien Gym, snack bar available, Friday 6-8 p.m., early bird, $5 admission, entrance free Saturday 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25 RUMMAGE SALE: San Mateo Pro Life rummage sale, St. Matthew Church auditorium at El Camino Real and Ninth Ave, San Mateo, 9 a.m., Janet (650) 931-5467. BRUNCH BENEFIT: ICA Cristo Rey Young Professionals Group brunch, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Mission Rock Resort, $40, Jeannie Lechich at leannielechich@ gmail.com. OPUS DEI MASS: Mass of St Josemaria Escriva, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 11 a.m. with confessions from 10 a.m.; www.opusdei.org; Menlough Study Center (650) 327-1675.

SUNDAY, JUNE 26 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

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ROSARY: Dominican Nuns of Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, celebrate “Mary Queen of the Most Holy Rosary” with Mass at 9 a.m. followed by rosary and Eucharistic adoration and a light reception in visiting parlors for those who wish to meet the nuns; DominicanNuns@nunsmenlo. org or www.nunsmenlo.org.

CHARISMATIC MASS: Liturgy commemorating first Friday of the month, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon, with praise and worship 6:45 a.m. and Mass Father Reyes at 7:30 a.m., Father Ray Reyes, vicar for clergy, principal celebrant and homilist, reception after Mass, John Murphy (650) 261-0825; www.SFSpirit.com.

HANDICAPABLES MASS: Mass at noon then lunch in lower halls, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people, caregivers invited. Volunteers welcome, Joanne Borodin, (415) 2394865; www.Handicapables.com. GUATEMALAN FIESTA: Kateri Tekakwitha Fund helps women’s programs in Guatemala, Church of the Good Shepherd Multipurpose Center, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 6-9 p.m.; food, music, dancing, prizes, $40 and $50 after June 24, sponsor a table for $225/$250 after June 24, Kay (650) 557-1591; info@mission-guatemala.org to make reservations or for more information.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 27 SUNDAY, JULY 17 MERCY SERIES: “To instruct the ignorant and counsel the doubtful,” Presentation Sister Stephanie Still: The archdiocesan Office for Consecrated Life hosts a series of Sunday afternoon talks commemorating the Year of Mercy, Presentation Sisters’ convent, 2340 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 2-4:15 p.m. with talk, refreshments, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the final hour. Registration required, conrottor@ sfarch.org, (415) 614-5535, no fee for these events but a freewill offering is accepted and later will be donated to St. Anthony’s Dining Room, Catherine’s Place, Mercy Housing and St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County.

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