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Thirteen archdiocesan deacon candidates were installed into the Ministry of Reader on June 19 at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Daly City. Their wives accompanied the candidates as they received the blessing and charge from Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice to share the Word of God through their ministries and in their daily lives. First row from left: Griselda Gomes, May Cepriano, Christine McLoughlin, Mildred Rolandelli, Erlinda Te, Bishop Justice, Laura Campagna, Cora Mariano, Nariman Khoury, Josephine Nepomenceno. Middle row: Sergio Gomez, Ric Cepriano, Bill McLoughlin, David Rolandelli, Edward Te, Jossie Abad, Sal Campagna, Ferdinand Mariano, Abbie Nepomenceno, Katharine Ornido, Eileen Salcido. Top row: Deacon Mike Ghiorso, Olet Abad, Lucy Michel, Juan Michel, George Khoury, Deacon Rich Foley, Dino Ornido, Jimmy Salcido.

Housing crisis: Redwood City tenants protest eviction VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Eight families at 910 Clinton St. in Redwood City organized a June 30 rally to protest their eviction and to ask for more time to find housing – but the property owners issued a statement two days later saying all were legally required to vacate under rental agreements and California law.

Following “significant construction,” the apartments will be leased “at market rate prices to qualified applicants,” according to FPI Management Inc., the property management company for the new owners, OAMC 910 Clinton Investments, LLC. The building was sold in April for just over $6 million, double its $2.98 million sale price in 2010.

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A mother, holding her toddler, attended a rally in Redwood City June 30 by the residents who have been ordered to leave an apartment building that is undergoing renovation.

The primary sponsors of legislation legalizing physician-assisted suicide pulled the bill hours before a state Assembly hearing July 7, with its authors saying the bill is dead for this year.

A group of Southern California Latino Democratic assembly members broke ranks with their party to oppose the bill, a move assisted-suicide advocates blamed on the Catholic Church, specifically Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles created a website, ahardpill.org, with information and advocacy tools. The bill had already passed the state Senate, largely on party lines.

“The compassion that doctor-assisted suicide offers is hollow. And this legislation has dangerous implications for our state, especially for the poor and vulnerable,” Archbishop Gomez wrote.

Effective lobbying by the coalition of all opponents was key, said Steve Pehanich, director of communication and advocacy for the California Catholic Conference, the bishops’ public policy arm.

The bill’s authors, Democratic Senators Lois Wolk of Davis and Bill Monning of Carmel, had already postponed a vote by the Assembly Health Committee last month, because they did not have sufficient support from Democrats on the committee.

“We are very pleased at the outcome and grateful for the hard work done by the assembled coalition at Californians Against Assisted Suicide,” said California Catholic Conference executive director Ned Dolesji in a statement, attributing the victory to the longstanding coalition of physicians, health care workers, disabled advocates and religious groups.

“Those of us advocating on behalf of disability rights organizations understand that choice is a myth in the context of our health care reality,” said Marilyn Golden, senior policy analyst for Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund.

San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier & Ross had attributed the bill’s dwindling prospects to lobbying by Catholic parishioners, writing July 5, “The lawmakers’ hesitancy comes as the Catholic Church in Los Angeles, which is home base for many of the Assembly members and strongly opposes the bill, is urging parishioners to call legislators and voice their objections.”

Primary advocacy organization Compassion & Choices is likely to fund an initiative to place physician assisted suicide before voters in 2016, Pehanich said.

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NEED TO KNOW NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING: “Male and Female He Created Them” is a two-day event Aug. 21-22 about NFP with keynote address by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, who also will celebrate the closing Mass.

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Lorraine Moriarty, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County, Archdiocese of San Francisco, took part in an interreligious dialogue at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, June 22-27 that included 22 Buddhists and 23 Catholics reflecting on the theme “Suffering, Liberation and Fraternity.”

The dialogue between faith traditions sharing strong values of mercy and compassion was sponsored by the U.S. bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Religious Affairs in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The 45 attendees, mostly clerics involved in interreligious dialogue or social action, were from San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C., and were supported by their archdioceses.

“The dialogue strengthened mutual understanding concerning human suffering and means of liberation, as well as deepened relationships as a basis for interreligious cooperation based on shared values,” the bishops’ committee and the Vatican council said in a joint statement. “The objective of this ‘dialogue of fraternity,’ as it was called by Pope Francis, is to create new and practical forms of collaboration reaching out to those in need in the cities of the participants” in the United States.

‘WOMEN AND SPIRIT’: “Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in California” will be on exhibit at the Museum on Main Street in Pleasanton from Aug. 5-Oct. 11. The photos, artifacts and memorabilia tell the stories of courageous, pioneering Catholic sisters who journeyed far from their homes to found orphanages, schools, hospitals, and countless other ministries in California. Among items displayed are a travel bag and reading glasses belonging to Dominican Mother Thomasina Buhlmeier who traveled from the East Coast to the Northwest Territory in 1888. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

“Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in California,” Museum on Main Street, 603 Main St., Pleasanton; Tuesday-Saturday, 10-4 p.m.; Sunday, 1-4 p.m. Phone (925) 462-2766, website www. museumonmain.org. An online version of the exhibit is available at www.womenandspiritcaliforniaonline.com.

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Lorraine Moriarty, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County, met Pope Francis in the Vatican during the U.S. Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue at Castel Gandolfo near Rome June 22-27. Also pictured is David Barringer, SVdP national executive director.

Participants are returning to their cities to explore joint interreligious social action initiatives on climate change; outreach programs for youth; prison/jail ministry and restorative justice; developing resources for the homeless, such as affordable housing; and collaboration between Catholic parishes and Buddhist communities to address neighborhood social issues.

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nessing our shared commitment as brothers and sisters, our religious values and spiritual practices, and our social collaboration with our religious communities and others in our cities.”

“The USCCB was instrumental in making this happen,” Moriarty said in an email to Catholic San Francisco. “There was a Northern CaliSEE SVDP, PAGE 19

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Two Catholic San Francisco journalists received first- and second-place awards for investigative and feature writing from the 2015 Catholic Press Association newspaper journalism competition. The awards, honoring work published by member publications in the United States and Canada in 2014, were announced June 23 at the CPA convention in Buffalo, New York.

Assistant editor Valerie Schmalz won first place in the national cate-

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Gray also was awarded second place for “Best Feature Writing” in the 40,001-plus diocesan newspaper category for the story “Curbside Catholics evangelize on streets of San Francisco.”

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Daughters of St. Paul: A century of media ministry Catholic San Francisco is featuring one religious congregation from the archdiocese in each installment of this periodic column marking the Vatican’s Year of Consecrated Life.

SISTER NANCY USSELMANN, FSP

Since the foundation of the Daughters of St. Paul in 1915, methods and means of communication have expanded and developed to ways undreamed of in the past. The congregation began by printing WAKE UP THE WORLD ! diocesan newspapers in 2015 Year of Consecrated Life Northern Italy and soon expanded to writing, DAUGHTERS OF ST. PAUL printing and distributing books, magazines and litNAME OF COMMUerature worldwide. Their NITY: Daughters of St. founder, Blessed James Paul.

Alberione, of whom the sisters have recently FOUNDING: Alba, Italy, produced a professional June 15, 1915. documentary film about his life and work, called ARRIVAL IN ARCH“Media Apostle” (see DIOCESE: Arrived in www.mediaapostle.com), Bay Area in 1966, first and available at their to Oakland and then to Pauline Books & Media San Francisco in 1971. store, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, was one MINISTRIES: Media of the first biblical film evangelization ministry producers in Italy in the – book and media cen1930s. Today, as apostles ter and media outreach. of Jesus Christ living in and working through a LOCATION: Pauline digital media culture, the Books & Media, 935 sisters are fully immersed Brewster Ave., Redin social media – producwood City. ing iPhone apps, digital magazines, e-books, NUMBER OF MEMonline retreats, as well as BERS: 2,200 members Facebook pages, Twitter worldwide, five sisters feeds and Instagram acin archdiocese. counts.

In 1965 Oakland Bishop Floyd Begin invited the sisters to Northern California and a community and book center were established in Oakland. A book center was then opened in San Francisco in 1971; first on Market Street, then on Geary Boulevard. Through that center, the sisters met people from all over the world who visit San Francisco.

As Sister Bernardine remembers, “We were there in the heart of downtown San Francisco reaching out to assist in the spiritual needs of humanity. It was like a microcosm of the world.”

In 2005 the Daughters of St. Paul convent and book center moved to Redwood City and continues to serve all of northern and central California through various media outreach programs. The Daughters of St. Paul are one branch of the 10 institutes founded by Blessed James Alberione. In 2012, the sisters established in Redwood City the branch of lay associates, the Pauline Cooperators. This group shares the spirituality and mission of the Pauline Family within their particular vocation and

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One particular development in their mission has been to provide media literacy education presentations, workshops and retreats to youth, young adults, catechists, parish and ministry personnel.

This allows people to create a dialogue between their faith and their media consumption, see God’s grace present in the world and become critical engagers with the popular culture. These sisters who are movie reviewers, film producers, editors, retail managers, recording artists, speakers and present-

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A local community member and Oakland native, Sister Armanda Santos, says of this centenary, “We are particularly blessed by God for these 100 years to guide people along their faith journey and to discover a rich and profound relationship with God. A book, a song, an app, a movie can be an occasion of a life-changing encounter with Jesus Christ.”

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In retirement, Marta Courtright will preside more as grandmom than grade school teacher but her 58 years in the classroom are one great story.

“I have been teaching first grade at St. Gabriel’s for 38 Marta Courtright years,” Marta told me via email. “I taught second grade in Maryland for seven years and nine years in other California schools. My chemistry teacher at Presentation High School, Sister Mary David, inspired me to be a teacher.”

Marta’s tenure covers four generations of students from baby boomers forward. “Classes used to be 50 or more,” she said. “Every activity was pencil and paper and teacher directed.”

She has continued to adapt to the changing education model. “Now it is student-teacher interaction with age appropriate activities,” she said.

Marta takes special care with her young learners. “The fundamental task in teaching reading and math is to ensure students have a solid foundation,” Marta said. “I use our document camera to show my students’ work and also to model the lessons I teach. I also use the iPad to enrich my lessons. It was challenging to be a savvy technician in the beginning but I am catching on.”

Marta has been fascinated from day one by students’ reactions. “I love to see the expressions on my students’ faces when they grasp a concept” she said. “They get so excited!”

Marta has found students to always be curious about their faith.

“It’s inspiring for me when parents inform me of family discussions about our religion classes,” Marta said. “These are my favorite moments.”

SEAMLESS: Beginning as the Sewing Group more than 50 years ago, Holy Name of Jesus Parish honored the merry and long-serving stitchers June 6 with special attention to milestone birthdays among the ladies: Alice Dickson, Winifred Downing, Dolores Kelly and Natalie Lagomarsino are now 90 and Sally Harrington is 80. All of the women’s children attended Holy Name School. Pictured from left at a dinner that followed prayers for them all at Mass are Joyce McHugh, Mary Solvin, Kay Kelly, Winifred Downing (seated), Alice Dickson, Natalie Lagomarsino, Dolores Kelly, Rene Rodigou, whose late wife Marguerite was a member of the group, and Sally Harrington.

IAMB YOU ARE: Reading from their own works May 5 among winners of the 2015 Marin County Poetry Center High School Poetry Contest were San Domenico High School seniors Rosalind Hernandez and Bella Gosman, and sophomore Vanessa Gutierrez. Rosalind’s “one day” took the competition’s first prize, the Clyde Childress Award, and $200.

All three of the poets’ verse is published in the anthology “It is Hard Sometimes to Be a Dreamchaser.”

Rosalind Hernandez and Bella Gosman Marta’s advice to those entering the teaching profession is “to keep a positive attitude” and “don’t bring personal concerns to the classroom.

Love your students!”

Marta’s work with wonderful teachers and staff, parents and students has been a humbling experience, she said. “I look forward to coming to school every day.”

INSPIRING RELIGIOUS: Presentation Sister Mary David, now Sister Rosemary Campi, celebrated 70 years in consecrated life in 2014.

Sister Rosemary serves today as a member of the Diocese of San Jose

Anti-Human Trafficking Network and the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking. She also volunteers at Sacred Heart Community Services, San Jose.

REUNION: Dave Lopez is rounding up St. Cecilia School’s class of 1970 for a reunion Sept. 4 at Oyster Point in South San Francisco. Dave says the plan is to have a follow-up gathering the next day too. “It’s time to see everyone again,” Dave told me.

“Your grammar school friends are the ones you grow up with.” Dave is the contact person at dgl94127@

yahoo.com or (415) 994-1834. Also pitchin’ in on the effort are DD Wolohan who is flying in from Arizona for the event and Claire Mibach-Fugate. On Facebook, classmates can check it out under events “SC Class of 1970 – 45 year reunion.” Dave has been a teacher and athletic director at St. Brendan School for 33 years. His wife Marcy is a graduate of St. Brendan as are their sons Tim, Steve, DJ, and Matt. Dave said special thanks to St. Cecilia alumni director Veronica Granucci. “She was great getting me addresses and contacts for our class,” Dave said.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: “Congratulations” was the special note from St. Rita Parish to longtime parishioners Bev and Mike Vanni who celebrated 65 years married June 11.

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HOUSING CRISIS: Redwood City residents fight eviction as prices spike FROM PAGE 1

While the company did not respond to a question about whether it would file for courtordered evictions, on July 1 a tenant who sent in July rent had it returned via certified mail, said Gabriel Banuelos, who lives in the building.

The mostly Latino and Spanish-speaking residents of the 18-unit complex are just the latest to feel the pressure of exponentially rising Bay Area real estate prices and a high-pressure rental market that is pushing working- and middle-class families out of the area.

The families at 910 Clinton St. received 60-day eviction notices in April and were to be out by midnight June 30, the day of the rally. Eight remained. While several local organizations, including St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo and Fair Oaks Community Center are among the groups which provide rental assistance, they can only help once the families find a place they can afford, the tenants said.

The rally also called for rent control laws. San Mateo County does not have rent control. Of the municipalities in the county, only East Palo Alto has a rent control ordinance, said Lorena Melgarejo, a community organizer for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and also lead community organizer for the San Francisco Organizing Project.

“I am really proud to see this happening because this is happening everywhere and people are quiet,” Melgarejo said. “They are standing up.”

“We are doing this for everyone, because we don’t want their families to go through what we are going through,” said Maria Valdez, who works part time in a laundry and dry cleaner and spoke at the rally in front of the apartment complex. Valdez, her husband and three of her children, ages 14, 9, and 5, have resided at 910 Clinton for 10 years she said. Her son ninth grader Gabriel Banuelos, 14, who was one of the rally organizers, said, “We want them to give us at least a little more time, another month or two.”

Carlos Rojas, an auto mechanic, said in Spanish that his family of four was not yet sure where they would go. “We have a plan but it requires $6,500” which they had not raised.

“This is not against the law, but it should be,” said one of the protesters.

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The mostly Latino and Spanishspeaking residents of the 18-unit complex are just the latest to feel the pressure of exponentially rising Bay Area real estate prices and a high-pressure rental market that is pushing working- and middleclass families out of the area.

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Schools superintendent stepping down after 13 years The Archdiocese of San Francisco announced July 2 that longtime Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington is stepping down from her position at the end of the current school year, effective July 17.

Associate Superintendent Nina Russo has been appointed interim superintendent for the 2015-16 school year. Russo has been an educator for over 30 years and received her doctorate from the University of San Francisco.

‘Her patient, careful work with administrators and advisory boards has strengthened our schools in both the short and long-run.’

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Huntington joined the archdiocese in 2002 as superintendent. She had previously been superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Orlando, Florida.

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tington created highly functioning special needs programs in each elementary and secondary school and established a network of 21 preschools in the system. In 2005 she led the creation of the Archdiocese’s Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools, providing education and professional excellence for schools educating underserved students.

Huntington worked with special focus to train future elementary school principals.

“We now have a bench, that is, a group of administrators with all the credentials and experience needed to run an elementary school,” she said.

She also regularly visited all elementary and secondary schools throughout the archdiocese, in so doing building strong relationships with these principals.

Archbishop Cordileone added, “I am very grateful for Maureen’s leadership during some difficult patches over these 13 years. We all certainly wish her well in her next undertaking.”

sity on the Hegelian metaphysics of Trinitarian theology and has taught systematic theology at Heythrop College, University of London.

He was head of the Theology Department at Heythrop until he founded and was director of the Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Society in 2004. When he finished as director he was seconded to work as the theological consultant to the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales. Although his main field is systematics, he has also held the Veale Chair in Ignatian Spirituality, The Milltown Institute, Dublin and he has also lectured and written on education, health care and the church’s response to contemporary culture.

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Men, women religious celebrate jubilees DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SAN RAFAEL

Pictured from left are Sister Patricia Riley, OP, 40 years; Sister Joanne Cullimore, OP, 60 years; Sister Patricia Ottoboni, OP, 50 years; Sister Marie Sagués, 60 years.

The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael will celebrate 2015 jubilarians July 26 with Mass and a reception in San Rafael.

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Sister Karen Mary Conover, BVM is celebrating 50 years in religious life entering July 31, 1965. Sister Karen was a secondary school music and chemistry teacher at St. Paul High School, San Francisco, where she also served in campus/youth ministry and as vice principal. She currently teaches high school in the Sister Karen Mary Diocese of Oakland. “I treasure the sense of ‘sisterhood’ which binds us Conover, BVM together in the spirit of our foundress Mary Frances Clarke,” Sister Karen said.

Sister Loretta Hubl, BVM

Sister Loretta Hubl is celebrating 50 years in religious life entering July 31, 1965. Sister Loretta served as bookkeeper and teacher at St. Paul School, San Francisco.

She has also served in ministry in Iowa and Southern California. “I am so blessed to have such a beautiful and supportive BVM family. I have always had the desire to serve the poor,” Sister Loretta said.

Sister Anne Marie McKenna is celebrating 50 years in religious life entering from St. Paul Parish, San Francisco on July 31, 1965. Sister Anne Marie served as elementary school teacher at St. Paul and also served in Oregon, New York, Chicago and Iowa and the Diocese of Oakland. She is currently the Sister Anne Marie liturgy and music coordinator at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in McKenna, BVM Burlingame.

“It is a wonderful feeling of connection when someone sees ‘BVM’ after my name, and tells me about their BVM connection – aunt, teacher, school – and often far from California!” Sister Anne Marie said.

Sister Kathleen Sinclair is celebrating 25 years in religious life entering on Sept. 9, 1990. Sister Kathleen was area director and program coordinator at the Jesuit Volunteer Corps SW in San Francisco and served additionally in Iowa and Illinois, where she currently serves at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein. “God’s grace Sister Kathleen and the guidance of the Holy Spirit Sinclair, BVM has allowed me the good fortune of working for a variety of educational institutions during my years as a BVM sister,” Sister Kathleen said.

“Each was a grace and blessing for me.”

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Brother Lawrence Scrivani, SM celebrates 50 years profession having taken first vows Aug. 15, 1965. Born in San Francisco, he is a graduate of School of the Epiphany and Archbishop Riordan High School. Now living in the Marianists’ Cupertino residence, he will be 69 years old Aug. 27. He currently Brother Lawrence assists as a volunteer archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Scrivani, SM “Jesus said that anyone who gives up family and property for the sake of his kingdom will receive many times as much in this life as well as life everlasting to come. I have found his words to be exactly fulfilled.”

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Pictured from left is the evening’s panel: Sister Kathleen Marie O’Shea, Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet; Mercy Sister Celeste Nuttman; Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto; Canossian Sister Necy Guan; Dominican Father Stephen Maria Lopez; Brother Gabriel Crawford, Oratory of St. Philip Neri; Chris Mariano, youth minister, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame.

On June 9 at St. Monica Parish in San Francisco, some 65 parishioners and friends gratefully remembered the past 300 years of dedication by a variety of religious communities presented in the documentary “Women and Spirit.” The film was followed by a panel of sisters, a brother, a priest and a lay youth minister sharing the joy of the Gospel, and inspiring many to live the challenge of the baptismal call to discipleship by presently making the invisible Christ visible.

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Analyzing ruling’s implications will take time, say church officials JULIE ASHER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Analyzing the ramifications of the June 26 samesex marriage ruling for the Catholic Church at the national, state and local levels will take time, said Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore.

It has implications for “hundreds, if not thousands” of laws at all levels, and there is “a difficult road ahead for people of faith,” he said.

Archbishop Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, made the comments in a teleconference for news media held about three hours after the Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision that states must license same-sex marriage.

Joining him in the media briefing were two members of the bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military, and Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas; and Anthony Picarello, associate general secretary and general counsel at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“Tragically, the court was wrong,” said Archbishop Broglio, adding that this is “not the first time” a “false understanding of marriage” has been forced on the country, as by lower court rulings.

“Clearly the decision was not required by the Constitution (and) the narrowness of the decision reveals it is not settled,” he continued. “Marriage is unchangeable.”

The ruling ‘recognizes free speech, the right of religion to teach or advocate with regard to the true definition of marriage, but it does not acknowledge (that) the First Amendment also protects freedom of religion and the right to follow our teaching.’

ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM E. LORI Echoing an earlier statement by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, USCCB president, Archbishop Broglio said the church will continue to follow Christ, “in solidarity with pope,” in adhering to the church’s teaching on marriage being between one man and one woman.

Archbishop Lori acknowledged that the court’s decision in Obergefell v.

Hodges “makes a nod in the direction of religious liberty.” But that, he said, is too narrow.

The ruling “recognizes free speech, the right of religion to teach or advocate with regard to the true definition of marriage, but it does not acknowledge (that) the First Amendment also protects freedom of religion and the right to follow our teaching,” he said.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, recognized in several places the role of religious beliefs in the questions surrounding same-sex marriage, saying that “it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine pre-

cepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned.”

Kennedy also said in part that “those who believe allowing same-sex marriage is proper or indeed essential, whether as a matter of religious conviction or secular belief, may engage those who disagree with their view in an open and searching debate.”

But Archbishop Lori said free speech is not at issue. Under the ruling, “we retain the right to think what we want at home and within the confines of the church” but it does not address the First Amendment’s guarantee to free exercise of religion. The church should be able to operate “our ministries ... without fear of being silenced, penalized,” he said.

Through social services, “we serve millions of people every day. We do it well and we do it lovingly,” he added.

He foresees many legal challenges and controversies as the church seeks to protect itself from the fallout of the marriage ruling by advocating at the federal, state and local levels for protections for its faith-based practices.

Some areas where there will be legal disputes, Picarello said, were outlined

by Chief Justice John Roberts, including tax exemptions, campus housing, academic accreditation, employment and employee benefits.

The U.S. Catholic Church will have to look at internal ways to protect itself against legal challenges, Picarello said, and “advocate externally for legislation, regulation and, if necessary, litigation.”

Picarello said free speech protections for opponents of same-sex marriage were already under attack.

Within a couple of hours of the decision being issued, he said, a newspaper in Pennsylvania announced it will no longer accept op-eds criticizing same-sex marriage.

“Some things will happen immediately,” as seen by that newspaper’s announcement, he said, and some will take time to unfold,” like challenges to churches receiving tax exemptions.

Another area that will require study, Archbishop Broglio said, is the military chaplaincy, because the Catholic priest-chaplains whom his archdiocese oversees also come under civil authorities.

While polls show a majority of Catholics say they approve of samesex marriage, Catholic teaching is “never determined by numbers but by the truth,” Archbishop Broglio said.

“We have to be faithful to the teaching of the Gospel.”

“It is evident we are living in an age of dramatic cultural shift,” said Bishop Flores, and the church has to think about how to share its teaching and “announce the good news ... as creatively as possible in current cultural context.”

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Pope will visit as ‘pastor,’ not ‘politician’ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis will make history during his visit to Washington in September, when he becomes the first pope to address a joint meeting of Congress and he says the first canonization Mass to be celebrated in the United States.

Cardinal Wuerl Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl outlined details of the pope’s Sept. 22-24 visit to the nation’s capital at a news conference at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington June 30, after the Vatican published the detailed schedule of Pope Francis’ Sept. 19-22 visit to Cuba and his Sept. 22-27 visit to the United States.

St. Matthew Cathedral also is on the pope’s U.S. itinerary, as is a visit to an outreach program operated by Catholic Charities, where he will meet clients served by the agency. “The Holy Father is visiting our home, he is coming to visit us,” Cardinal Wuerl said, adding that the pope will be visiting “not as a politician, but as a pastor.” The theme

OKLAHOMA ARCHBISHOP DECRIES TEN COMMANDMENTS STATUE RULING

OKLAHOMA CITY – By ordering the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the state Capitol grounds, the Oklahoma Supreme Court is ignoring the historical significance of the moral code “in the formation of our state,” said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley.

The justices in their 7-2 ruling also disregarded “the ancient law code having prominence at the place where

of the papal visit to the Archdiocese of Washington is “Share the Joy, Walk With Francis.” It is the first leg on his first U.S. trip, which also includes stops in New York City and Philadelphia.

The 30 hours or so Pope Francis will spend in New York will be relatively brief, but “his presence here among us will have a profound and lasting impact on all New Yorkers, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan. The pope is scheduled to depart Washington at 4 p.m. (local time) Sept. 24 and arrive at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport an hour later. That evening he will celebrate vespers with priests and men and women religious in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and deliver the homily.

The pope’s first stop when he visits Philadelphia the morning of Sept. 26 will be the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul to celebrate a special Mass for the people of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The pope will give an afternoon address Sept. 26 at Independence Hall, birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and will visit with incarcerated men and women at the Curran-Fromhold Correction Facility, the largest in the Philadelphia prison system with 30,000 inmates,

lawmakers work to enact wise and just laws,” Oklahoma City’s archbishop said in a statement. “The court’s dismissal of these established facts is deeply concerning and disappointing.”

The state’s high court ruled June 30 that the Ten Commandments chiseled into the 6-foot-tall granite monument are “obviously religious in nature and are an integral part of the Jewish and Christian faiths” and therefore violated the state constitution.

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FIVE TEXAS MISSIONS, INCLUDING THE ALAMO, DECLARED WORLD HERITAGE SITES

SAN ANTONIO – Five centuries-old Spanish missions in Texas newly declared as World Heritage Sites by a U.N. agency “have helped to shape the face of San Antonio,” Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said July 6.

“They are still a haven of culture and history,” he said. “We especially value that they continue as active parishes of the archdiocese, where hundreds of families on the city’s south side continue to gather for prayer within the original walls.”

The missions are: San Jose, Concepcion, San Juan, Espada and San Antonio de Valero, better known as the Alamo. They were constructed by Spanish missionaries in the 1700s and “illustrate the Spanish Crown’s efforts to colonize, evangelize and defend the northern frontier of New Spain,” the UNESCO website said.

KEY TO PEACE, JUSTICE IS KINSHIP, JESUIT PRIEST TELLS FELLOW CLERGY

ST. LOUIS – The key to peace and justice is kinship, said a Jesuit priest who has worked with Los Angeles gangs for years.

“If kinship were our goal, we wouldn’t be seeking justice, we’d be celebrating it!” Father Greg Boyle said June 29 at the assembly of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests.

Father Boyle, who started Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, told of rival gang members, “Youngster” and “Puppet,” who had only hatred for each other, but who had to work together.

“Being one” is kinship and it means there is no “us” and “them,” there is only “us,” said Father Boyle. “Without kinship there is no peace, without kinship there is no justice.”

Iowans urged to ‘buckle down, get to work’ on environmental problems ANNE MARIE COX CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa Catholic leaders, interfaith leaders, clean energy advocates and others encouraged Iowans to take action in light of Pope Francis’ historic encyclical on the environment, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.”

Des Moines Bishop Richard E. Pates encouraged Catholic Iowans to take advantage of the state’s firstin-the-nation role in the presidential electoral process to keep in mind the issue of caring for the environment as shared by Pope Francis in his encyclical as they talk with those who seek to lead the United States.

He invited all Iowans to conserve energy, use energy-efficient appliances, invest in renewable energy systems and talk with their local, state and national leaders, urging them to “exercise leadership in protecting the earth.”

Bishop Pates encouraged all people to consider what role they can play in caring for God’s creation during a news conference July 2 in front of a wind turbine on the Ankeny campus of Des Moines Area Community College, where students learn job skills for employment in the clean energy industry.

Pope Francis, in “Laudato Si’,” explained that human life is grounded and intertwined with God, each other and earth itself, said Father Robert “Bud” Grant, an environmental theologian and instructor at St. Ambrose University in Davenport. Climate change and overconsumption have created social, economic and spiritual consequences, he said.

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The world’s poor, who contribute the least to environmental problems, are bearing the heaviest consequences, said Father Grant.

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Working toward solutions will take “profound political courage,” but the encyclical goes deeper than a political debate, Father Grant said.

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Pope: Families need prayers, mercy, courage, including from synod CINDY WOODEN

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GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – Even if a pastoral proposal for helping a Catholic family with problems seems scandalous at first, it is possible God could use that proposal to bring healing and holiness, Pope Francis said.

Encouraging and celebrating family life during a Mass July 6 in Guayaquil, Pope Francis asked people to pray for the October Synod of Bishops on the family, and he tied the synod to the Jubilee of Mercy, a yearlong celebration that will begin in December.

The synod will be a time for the church to “deepen her spiritual discernment and consider concrete solutions to the many difficult and significant challenges facing families (CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING) in our time,” the pope said.

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QUITO, Ecuador – Catholics will never be effective evangelizers if they are squabbling among themselves, and they cannot show the world how faith in Christ responds to the human yearning for freedom and peace if they are divided, Pope Francis said.

The pope’s Mass July 7 at Quito’s Bicentennial Park was billed as a Mass for evangelization, but the pope insisted Christians would convince no one of the power of the Gospel if they could not demonstrate in their lives and behaviors that faith pushes a person beyond self-interest to concern for others.

Christians do not look at the world through rose-colored glasses, the pope said, but they can dream. Like

Jesus, they see the world’s flaws, but also like Jesus, they love the world God created.

“It is precisely into this troubled world that Jesus sends us,” he said.

“We must not pretend not to see or claim we do not have the needed resources or that the problems are too big.

“Instead we must respond by taking up the cry of Jesus and accepting the grace and challenge of being builders of unity,” he said.

To evangelize is to live as brothers and sisters with all people, he said.

“This is the new revolution – for our faith is always revolutionary – this is our deepest and most enduring cry.”

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I Q UtheEstory of the wedding recounted feast at Cana where the wine ran out and Mary asked Jesus to do something about it. Jesus turned water into wine.

As with the guests at the Cana wedding, who were offered the finest wine at the end of the celebration, Pope Francis insisted, so, too, for families today “the richest, deepest and most beautiful things are yet to come.”

Pope Francis said he knows “all the

variables and statistics which say otherwise,” but “the best wine is yet to come for those who today feel hopelessly lost.”

Speeding up his delivery and increasing his volume, the pope made “the best wine is yet to come” into a litany.

“Say it until you are convinced of it,” he told the crowd. “The best wine is yet to come.”

“Whisper it to the hopeless and the loveless,” the pope urged.

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12 “LAUDATO SI’, ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME”

‘It is now up to us, in great ways and small’ Here is Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s statement on the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical.

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t is gratifying to us in the City of St. Francis that the opening words of the long-anticipated encyclical of Pope Francis, “Laudato Si’,” are taken from the famous “Canticle of the Creatures” composed by our mutual patronal saint, the ARCHBISHOP Little Poor SALVATORE J. Man of CORDILEONE Assisi, who is such a model for all of us of care for all of God’s creation.

Pope Francis’ recurring use of the image of our “common home” weaves together the importance of responding to the environmental crisis in all of its complexities, from the economic inequities that create an everwidening gulf between the rich and the poor to the underlying spiritual hunger felt by so many today. These issues are all interconnected, and solutions must be found by involving men and women of many perspectives and disciplines. This is highlighted by the fact that among the participants in the press conference held in conjunction with the release of the encyclical there were a prominent Greek Orthodox bishop and theologian, a scientist, the president of Catholic Relief Services here in the United States, and a teacher who has devoted her life to serving the poor on the outskirts of Rome. If we are going to repair creation and safeguard the dignity of every human being living on “our Sister, Mother Earth,” it will require cooperation, sacrifice, and good will from everyone.

Pope Francis voices an urgent plea for Christians to revere and cherish what God has entrusted to us, while at the same time urging us to work in concert with others of good will, regardless of their beliefs, to heal our planet and share more equitably the goods of this world. It is a call to all of us to be wise and responsible stewards of all the resources the Creator has entrusted to us, spiritual as well as material, so that we may put an end to waste and provide for the basic needs of all.

Pope Francis has offered us a challenging moral vision; it is now up to us, in great ways and small, to apply his teachings where we find ourselves living in “our common home.”

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Local Catholics respond to pope’s environmental encyclical CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Here’s a sampling of reaction to Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudito Si’,” On Care for Our Common Home,” by archdiocesan parishioners, men and women religious, church workers and Catholic leaders who finished reading the 180-page, 40,000-word document.

Responses received by the paper ranged from wildly supportive to mildly critical.

“The Sisters of the Presentation are especially delighted with Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change. He has affirmed one of our congregational justice goals – to do all in our power to fight the conditions that lead to global climate change. His integral approach to the moral and justice issues that are related to, or flow from climate change – poverty, hunger, migration of peoples, always disproportionally affecting the poor – is an approach that calls all of us to action for justice; justice for the Earth and for all its peoples.

Presentation Sister Rosemary McKean, San Francisco By the Pope’s calling this most serious issue to the attention of all, not only Catholics, we can pray that people of good will everywhere will heed his call, and examine their own need for lifestyle change, and contribute to the healing of the Earth community.

Dominican Sisters of San Rafael “It takes a strong person with courage to stand up and say these things on a global stage. The encyclical is really asking us to be human, to be a part of the human community, to respect and care for what God has given us so we, and others of God’s community, may enjoy and be cared for by this wondrous gift which we have so far taken for granted.

“The concepts of the encyclical will be opposed by many because it requires change – change to areas of life we have yet to embrace or understand – it requires the denial of the corruption which we have learned to accept as the way to survive and make gains over others: It will be difficult but, as shown, necessary. Now as members of the community of humanity the encyclical calls us together, regardless of religion or even faith, to save this Earth and our children’s Earth.

This encyclical needs to be passed to all as it is for humanity and not just Catholics.”

Will Silverthorne, St. Rita Parish, Fairfax “I’m pleased that Pope Francis talked about concern for the protection of nature being incompatible with the justification of abortion, research using human embryos, and population control. But I think he missed an opportunity to elaborate on examples explaining why resorting to contraception and abortion to slow population growth is shortsighted. Not only does this disrespect God’s greatest creation – mankind – but in practice, population control has been used as a weapon against the poor, which has not met with acceptable environmental or humanitarian results.

Vicki Evans, Respect Life Coordinator, Archdiocese of San Francisco “It was kind of a pleasant surprise that it was so holistic and so well organized and really focused on how we change our view of what human

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In this 2007 file photo, a Malian farmer tends to his field on a dry plain in Mali, Africa.

‘I was really struck, and moved even, by the profound understanding he has of the human condition and how he sees our ecological problems of symptomatic of a larger problem.’

VIVIAN DUDRO life and human happiness and fulfilment is.”

Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, founder of Ignatius Press, San Francisco “I may be mistaken but the Holy Father seems to be calling us not just to be better stewards of God’s creation but he’s calling us to be more holy: ‘The external deserts in the world are growing because the internal deserts have become so vast.’ The ecology crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion. A profound message for those who read it to the end.”

Father Larry Goode, pastor, St. Francis of Assisi Church, East Palo Alto “I am very glad to read that Pope Francis repudiated any form of population control as a means of addressing today’s environmental concerns. ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it,’ God’s first commandment to humans in the Bible, is as relevant today as it was ‘In the beginning.’”

Rob Graffio, vice chancellor, Archdiocese of San Francisco “I think it is clear, that as leader of the Catholic Church and in his personal life, Pope Francis will always work to protect the poor… As Catholics we should feel good that Pope Francis is providing the leadership and has taken this step toward good stewardship of this Earth.”

Tony Medunic, St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael “The Mercy Sisters see the encyclical as a reinforcement of their longtime efforts and their advocacy for a policy which strongly supports the environment. We believe climate change is one of the great moral issues of our time and for us a compelling and urgent call to respond … In our ministries throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Philippines, we see vividly the links between climate change and environmental degradation and the plight of immigrants, women and children, and those victimized by violence and racism.”

The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame “The first great teaching is in the title of the encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” words of praise spoken by St. Francis

of Assisi to Our Lord. We should hear the joy and the contrition in this exultation of the poor one, il poverello, whose example of holy service and simplicity should inspire us all today.

Ultimately, the pope’s encyclical is our best hope of conversion to a healthier understanding of the divinely desired relationship between humanity and the world that God has given us in trust as not only our home but also as our place of encounter with God. Our stewardship will be holy only to the extent that we remain obedient to, and attentive to God, who asks us to care for all of creation, for all of creation is destined for perfection in the second coming of Christ. But for us to become holy in this universal vocation, we need to leave behind an anthropocentric, utilitarian mindset and retrieve a theocentric, teleological union of mind and heart.”

Jesuit Father Paul Fitzgerald, president, University of San Francisco “This pontificate is marked by a very pastoral approach to human problems.

I was surprised that his pastoral approach comes out so strongly. I was expecting more political-economic gobbledygook or Vatican boilerplate and I was really struck, and moved even, by the profound understanding he has of the human condition and how he sees our ecological problems of symptomatic of a larger problem.”

Vivian Dudro, editor, Ignatius Press, San Francisco “Pope Francis is asking Catholics and all persons of good will to collaborate in caring for our earthly home. Every element of creation has the mark of the creator. Without God, nothing would be in existence. With bodies made from chemicals of the earth, yet each blessed with an eternal soul, humans have a unique and transcendent place within creation. We contemplate a sunset, marvel at the stars and the planets, treasure the beauty of a child who is filled with joy and wonder. Also, honored with free choice, we produce garbage and waste that may never be integrated back into the natural world. We pray to be worthy recipients and worthy stewards of the abundant gifts God is giving to us every moment of our lives.”

Basilian Father Anthony Giampietro, archdiocesan interim development director

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A banner calling attention to climate change is seen in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 28. Some 1,500 people marched to the Vatican in support of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment.

Sisters, scholars reflect on ‘Laudito Si’’ MELANIE LIDMAN AND DAN STOCKMAN GLOBAL SISTERS REPORT

KANSAS CITY, Missouri – “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis’s 184-page treatise on the environment, ranges from technology to spirituality, carbon emissions to copper mining and environmental justice to materialism.

Global Sisters Report interviewed a number of sisters and academics around the world who have long worked on environmental issues, some for decades. Overwhelmingly, the sisters talked about feeling excited, optimistic and also grateful about the encyclical.

The sisters and scholars also know setbacks and frustrations are ahead.

But they said the clear language of the encyclical leaves no room for doubt: The world is in peril, human beings are the cause, and we can also be the solution.

Their responses are organized by the encyclical’s six chapters.

Chapter One: What is happening to our common home

“It’s very clever to use the word ‘our home,’” said Maryknoll Sister Marvie L. Misolas, who runs environmental seminars and retreats in the Philippines and advocates for the government to adopt green policies. She appreciates the direct and simple language of the encyclical, which she plans to use in her seminars with indigenous farmers to encourage them to stop burning trees for agriculture, a major cause of deforestation in the Philippines and around the world.

“The encyclical has that tone of ‘this is ours; this is not only for

‘It is a time for all of us to wake up.’

PRESENTATION SISTER TERESITA ABRAHAM Catholics, but it’s for everyone,’” she said. “It gives people that sense of ownership. The term ‘our home’ is very important for me – it has a lot of connotations for all of us.

Home is where we live, where we are acknowledged. In connection to the planet it is a very beautiful metaphor.”

Sister Simone Campbell, who is executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, said she appreciates the way the encyclical addresses our care of the environment as a culture, not just an abstract idea.

“Our culture becomes how we care for the environment around us,” said the Sister of Social Service.

“Some corporate interests want to level everything, to say everything should be the same for everyone.

Pope Francis is saying, ‘No, the global reality is complex and needs to embrace diversity.’”

“The income and wealth gap in our world is part of the problem,” Sister Campbell explained. “To see the intersection of climate, economic disparity, migration, hunger and poverty, housing and transportation – they’re all connected and recognizing this is hugely important for moving forward.”

Chapter Two: The gospel of creation

Franciscan Sister Dawn Nothwehr said Pope Francis has given the discussion a prominence it never would have otherwise. She is a professor at Catholic Theological Union in

Chicago, where she researches environmental ethics through the lens of Franciscan theology, particularly the effects of global climate change on the poor. She is the author of “Ecological Footprints: An Essential Franciscan Guide for Faith and Sustainable Living.”

Sister Nothwehr said that the biggest effect of the encyclical will be the global awareness it raises, because people will be forced to confront environmental issues.

“People really don’t know. But once people know and understand what’s going on, they begin to say, ‘We really do have parts of the city where we have higher asthma rates and children have higher levels of lead in their blood. Something’s not right,’” she said.

That, she said, can lead to the changes in individuals that create large-scale changes.

“It is a time for all of us to wake up,” said Presentation Sister Teresita Abraham, originally from India and now living in Zambia, where she is creating the Garden of Oneness, an eco-spiritual organic garden and retreat center. “Looking at Zambia, when I came 27 years ago, the air was clean and the soil was clean and the rivers were clean. Today, so much pollution. There was no plastic anywhere, but now everything is strewn with plastic.”

She added: “We must wake up, not only to care for the earth. It is about that communion with God, with one another, and all of creation.”

Chapter Three: The human roots of the ecological crisis

Thomas A. Tweed likes the links the encyclical makes between environment and justice. Tweed holds the Harold and Martha Welch Endowed Chair in American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Tweed has served as the president of the American Society for the Study of Religion, and is currently president of the American Academy of Religion.

“What strikes me as most helpful moving forward is that sustainability is imagined both ecologically and socially,” Tweed said. “We can’t just ask if there’s clean air and water, we also have to ask if there’s peace and justice. ... The document makes clear that we don’t have to decide between worrying about the poor or ecological destruction – we have to worry about both because it’s the poor who suffer the ecological destruction.”

Mary Evelyn Tucker said the fact that the pope classified the environment as a moral issue changes everything. Tucker is a senior lecturer and senior research scholar at Yale University where she teaches in a joint master’s degree program between the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Divinity School. She directs the forum on religion and ecology at Yale with her husband, John Grim.

“To contribute to global warming and compromise our planetary life systems is seen by the pope and many others as morally problematic,” Tucker said. “This is a watershed moment – a broadening SEE SISTERS, PAGE 17

14 OPINION

The church and the ‘new normal’

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n the wake of the Supreme Court’s marriage decision, these sober thoughts occur: (1) The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision that puts the court at odds with the Constitution, with reason, and with biblical religion.

(2) SCOTUS has gotten it wrong before. It got it wrong on race in Dred Scott and it repeated the mistake in Plessy v. Ferguson (which upheld segregated public facilities). It got it wrong by concocting a constitutional “right” to GEORGE WEIGEL abortion-on-demand in Roe v. Wade and doubled-down on that mistake by getting it wrong on abortion again in Casey v. Planned Parenthood. Now SCOTUS has gotten it wrong on marriage. There are remedies to SCOTUS getting it wrong; one of them is a careful re-examination, during the 2016 campaign, of the theory of “judicial supremacy,” which holds that the Constitution means whatever a majority of the court says it means.

(3) The marriage battle was lost in the cultxure long before it was lost in the courts. The foundations of our culture have eroded; now, the new normal insists that literally everything is plastic, malleable, and subject to acts of human will. The result is a moment of profound moral incoherence in which understandings of human nature and human happiness that have stood the test of experience for millennia are being discarded as mere rubbish – and those who resist trashing the moral patrimony of humanity are dismissed as irrational bigots, religious fanatics, or both.

This new normal is willfulness-on-steroids, especially when that willfulness involves human sexuality.

(4) The Catholic Church in the United States bears its share of responsibility for this incoherence. It was clear 60 years ago that the old mainline Protestant cultural hegemony was fading, that an alternative cultural foundation for American democracy was necessary, and that a new cadre of citizen leaders, capable of articulating the moral truths on which the American democratic experiment rests, had to be raised up – and the prime candidate for doing all that was the Catholic Church. It might have happened. But too much of the church’s clerical and lay leadership lost its nerve after “Humanae Vitae.”

(5) The new normal will not leave the Catholic Church alone. Like everyone else who contests the new normal’s ideology of anything goes, the Catholic Church will be aggressively attacked for daring to oppose that ideology. So the church must learn, fast, how to play good defense, defending the right of our people and our institutions to be themselves; it will do a service to America in the process. (A good primer for thinking through these issues is the recent pastoral letter by Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, “Being Catholic Today: Catholic Identity in an Age of Challenge.”)

(6) The long-term answer to the new normal – and to the dictatorship of relativism the new normal is trying to impose on the universities and professions (without encountering much resistance), on traditional religious communities (less successfully, so far), and on individuals (through reprehensible but effective bullying and shaming) – is the reconversion of the United States to right reason, moral truth, and a biblical way of seeing the world. This is a multigenerational project; it will necessarily be ecumenical and interreligious. From the Catholic point of view, the only possible response to the new normal is a robustly evangelical Catholicism: One that displays true happiness in lives of solidarity with others; one that links that happiness and solidarity to friendship with Jesus Christ and the truths his church teaches, inviting others to consider “a still more excellent way” (1 Corinthians 12.31).

(7) And that means a thorough catechesis of the Catholic people of the United States, not least through preaching: Preaching that forthrightly challenges the too often typical Catholic shrug at the new normal; preaching that calls Catholics to deeper friendship with Christ, meaning deeper conversion to his truth.

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

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LETTERS Prayer for charity and understanding

Civil gay marriage is now constitutional in the entirety of the United States. That is a reality found to be unpleasant by many, including many in our Catholic community.

Amid all of the angst and hand-wringing, however, some basic facts are easy to overlook.

First, no civil authority has or will mandate that the Catholic Church do anything. The church remains free to define sacramental marriage in the way that it always has. That is the benefit of our system of separation of powers.

Second, my sacramental marriage is in no way diminished by the fact that gay couples can avail themselves of civil marriage status.

The Catholic Church, particularly in San Francisco, now faces one of its biggest challenges. My hope and prayer is that our gay parishioners and their civil husbands or wives will be treated by us with Christian charity and understanding and welcomed as full members of our church community.

For us to do otherwise would diminish us as Christians.

Jim Hargarten San Francisco

Correcting the record

Re “Dinner at Greek Orthodox Metropolitan’s House,” photo and caption, June 19: I always enjoy reading “Around the Archdiocese” articles every week – always informative and enjoyable for the most part!

However, when I read the caption under the picture of our Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone with the Greek priests, the host’s name was left out! No mention of His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco. That was a boo-boo if I ever saw one!

I had the honor and privilege several times of meeting Metropolitan Gerasimos and found him to be a kind, gentle and unassuming man. I think an apology is in order here!

Barbara Demattei South San Francisco

Regrettable analogy

After the Supreme Court decision regarding marriage last week, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, the president of the USCCB, wrote a statement lamenting the decision.

His argument associating the court’s abortion decision to its marriage decision was regrettable. Regardless of acceptability or the degree of immorality, comparing two adults begging to manifest their love, loyalty and commitment in full witness before God to the murder of an unborn child inflames the exhausting animosity we need to release.

The archbishop then claimed a child does better where there is a father and a mother, demonstrating a utopian notion of what makes preferable parenting.

Certainly hetero and single parenthood have had spectacular successes and withering failures. Same-sex parenting is a new phenomenon in its earliest stages and hasn’t weathered the passage of time that would reveal its benefits or detriments. Children are vulnerable, not because of parental gender but because of the treatment they receive from the adults responsible.

I hope to see the archbishop reveal a sense of compassion even in his disappointment and formulate more persuasive arguments on this matter.

John McCord San Francisco Editor’s note: Archbishop Kurtz’s statement on the Obergefell v. Hodges decision may be read at www. usccb.org/news/2015/15-103.cfm.

Charities’ legacy on prison hospitality

Your article of June 19 (“San Quentin prison families visit dads, granddads”) on the “Get on the Bus” visiting program of the children of the incarcerated reminds me of the humble beginnings of the prison visiting program now in place at California’s 33 prisons.

In the spring of 1971 Seamus Kilty, the Marin County director of Catholic Charities, happened to be making a visit to San Quentin as a member of the county grand jury. It was early morning on a very foggy and wet day, Kilty saw a large group of women and children lined up in the cold against the cyclone

fence waiting to “process” for a visit with a dad, a son, a brother who was incarcerated. The scene really changed Kilty’s life for good. He sought permission from his boss at Catholic Charities to establish a “hospitality” program for visitors. The program would be a place to rest after a long journey, a place to have a cup of coffee, a place for children to be children before entering the prison, which was built in the 1800s. He formed a board of directors, and hired a nun, Sister Maureen Fenlon, as the program’s first director.

As in the case of all good things, a small house just outside the prison gates went on the “for sale” market.

Kilty convinced Catholic Charities to buy the building. The building is still known to many visitors and Marin residents as “The Yellow House.” The purchase was the first of 33 visitor centers that were established over the next 44 years throughout the state. Since that time, several million visitors have taken advantage of the centers which were operated by Centerforce, the newly formed nonprofit, until the mid-2000s. The centers continue to this day in the spirit of Catholic Charities and Seamus Kilty, who passed away this spring. The “Get on the Bus” program is the next step in the effort to help families stay together in spite of tough times when father is at San Quentin.

Peter Breen Sam Anselmo The writer is a member of St. Anselm Parish, Ross.

‘We’re here for the nuns’

Your June 19 edition highlighted the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. I congratulate the paper for that wonderful story. For those of your readers who remember the late ABC broadcaster Paul Harvey, there is “the rest of the story” deserving to be told about the sisters.

In the 1960s, the late Philip J. Siggins, then director of the San Francisco Board of Permit Appeals under Mayor Joe Alioto, recruited me to assist him in delivering provisions to the sisters at their Downey Street location in the Haight. Phil Siggins was a gem. His late father, Martin “Pat” Siggins, had been an agriculture inspector at the old San Francisco Produce Market.

According to Phil, at the holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter, his father would have his “red tags” at the ready down at the old Produce Market terminal. Pat would not hesitate to tag various boxes of fruit, vegetables and other edibles from the vendors during those holidays and those red-tagged boxes would find themselves at the doorstep of the sisters’ convent.

When Pat passed away, the torch of provisions for the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration was passed down to his son Philip. Not being an agriculture inspector with red tags, Phil would take me with him to the produce market along with our truck a day or so before these holidays and cajole the various vendors out of a few 50-pound sacks of potatoes from George Burger and Co., a few more boxes of fruit and juice from the Lippi Brothers and vegetables from the John DeMartini Co. There was no discrimination; no vendor went unscathed! In fact, as the years went on, it would be funny to watch them see us walking toward their venue at the market and you could see the visible wincing as in “Oh, no, here they come again!” Phil was most concise to all of them. “We’re here for the nuns,” he would proclaim! The vendors, especially the Catholic ones, could never deny the nuns. After leaving the produce market we would then bring our truck to a major grocery store and Phil would personally buy the meat, dinner trimmings, coffee, tea, milk and plenty of desserts.

Phil Siggins did this for the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration up until his own passing in the early 1990s.

To this day, that torch of provisions has been carried

by Phil’s son, Justice Peter J. Siggins of the California Court of Appeal. Peter has faithfully carried on this great tradition and on each of these holidays I, as well as a loyal, but small, group of supporters, continue to receive a handmade “thank you” from the sisters. In addition to Peter Siggins, archdiocesan friends of the sisters for this endeavor include Joseph Kelly, Larry Simi, Wil Hardee Jr., the McNaughton boys (Kevin, Mike, Rich and Matt) and the Siggins boys (Greg and Marty).

And that, friends, is the “rest of the story.”

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The value and power of ritual

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oday we no longer understand the value and power of ritual. This is more than an individual failing. It’s the cultural air we breathe. In the words of Robert L. Moore, we’ve gone “ritually tonedeaf.” The effects of this can be seen everywhere: Allow me two examples: First, we see this today in the failure by so many couples to grasp the need to formalize their relationship in a ceremony of marriage.

They make a private commitment to live together but feel no need to formalize this before a civil authority or FATHER RON inside a church. Their belief ROLHEISER is that their love and private commitment to each other is all that’s needed. What does a formal ceremony or a church blessing add to that commitment? The prevalent feeling is that a formal ceremony, ideally even in a church, is nice as a celebration and as something to please others, but, beyond that, it adds little or nothing in terms of anything important. What does ritual contribute to actual life?

We see this same view in many current attitudes towards church-going, prayer and the sacraments.

What’s the value of participating in something when seemingly our hearts aren’t in it? What’s the value of going to church when we feel it’s meaningless?

What’s the value of praying formally when, today, our hearts are a million miles away from what our words are saying? Further still, what’s the value in going to church or in saying prayers at those times when we feel a certain positive repugnance to what we’re doing? Indeed these questions are often expressed as an accusation: People are just going through the motions of church and prayer, parroting words that aren’t really meaningful to them, going through an empty ritual! What’s the value in that? The value is that the ritual itself can hold and sustain our hearts in something deeper than the emotions of the moment.

Matthew Crawford, in his recent book “The World Beyond Your Head,” suggests that ritual acts positively even when our feelings are negative. His words: “Consider as an example someone who suffers not from some ragging emotion of lust, resentment, or jealousy … but rather sadness, discontent, boredom, or annoyance. A wife, let us say, feels this way about her husband. But she observes a certain ritual: she says “I love you” upon retiring at night.

She says this not as a report about her feelings – it is not sincere – but neither it is a lie. What it is is a kind of prayer. She invokes something that she values – the marital bond – and in doing so turns away from her present discontent and toward this bond, however elusive it may be as an actual experience. It has been said that ritual (as opposed to sincerity) has “subjunctive” quality to it: one acts as if some state of affairs were true, or could be. … It relieves one of the burden of ‘authenticity’. … “The ritual of saying ‘I love you’ … alters somewhat the marital scene; it may not express love so much as to invoke it, by incantation. One spouse invites the other to join with her in honoring the marriage, something one could honor. It is an act of faith: in one another, but also in a third thing, which is the marriage itself.”

What Crawford highlights here is precisely, “a third thing,” that is, something beyond the emotions of a given moment and our faith in each other, namely, the institution of marriage itself as a ritual container, as a sacrament that can hold and sustain a relationship beyond the emotions and feelings of the moment. Marriage, as an institution, human and divine, is designed to sustain love inside of and beyond the emotional and affective fluctuations that inevitably occur inside of every intimate relationship. Marriage allows two people to continue to love each other despite boredom, irritation, anger, bitterness, wound, and, in some cases, even infidelity. The ritual act of getting married places one inside that container.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, when preaching at marriage ceremonies, would frequently give this counsel to couples: Today you are much in love and you feel that love will sustain your marriage. It wouldn’t. But marriage can sustain your love. Being ritually tone deaf, we struggle to understand that.

The same holds true for church-going, the sacraments, and private prayer. It’s not a question of going through the motions on days when the feelings aren’t there. Rather it’s going through the ritual as an incantation, as an honoring of our relationship to God, and as an act of faith in prayer.

If we only said “I love you” when we actually felt that emotion and if we only prayed when we actually felt like it, we wouldn’t express love or pray very often. When we say “I love you” and when we do formal prayer at those times when our feelings seem to belie our words, we aren’t being hypocritical or simply going through the motions, we’re actually expressing some deeper truths.

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

Resistance to Pope Francis’ encyclical

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ecently, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said the pope should “leave science to the scientists.” His sentiment is echoed by those who deny climate change and contend that the church should stay out of the debate – following the release of “Laudato Si’” and the conversation that the pope’s encyclical letter on the environment has generated.

Before dismissing the church and its role in science, those who deny climate change need to study history, and they will see that Catholic scientists have radically FATHER EUGENE changed the world. Some of HEMRICK them include Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel and Roger Bacon.

Mendel is an excellent example of the church’s contribution to science. Mendel is known in scientific circles as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Almost anyone who has taken a biology or science class probably has heard of his pea plant experiments. They helped establish the rules of heredity. What they probably don’t know or remember is that he was an Augustinian friar.

You may not know this, but Holy Cross Father Julius A. Nieuwland discovered synthetic rubber while at the University of Notre Dame. He studied at The Catholic University of America, where he also made some discoveries. We must wonder about other sci-

ence students at Catholic universities throughout the world who have made discoveries over the centuries and whose contributions make life better for everyone.

Yet throughout church history, some Catholics and church authorities have contended that involvement in science and other areas of society should be secondary with the church’s main emphasis on theology.

This sentiment also was apparent when Catholics marched to protest racial injustice in the United States and were seen as diverting attention away from the church’s main mission.

I can still remember a friend who was a priest and was shot while marching in Alabama to end segregation. He returned home only to be shunned as a renegade by some priests and parishioners. They said he was involved in what they considered “nonpriestly work.”

Fortunately, this sentiment is waning as the church broadens the understanding of social justice.

A stickier point regarding the encyclical – which focuses on ecology and our duties as Christians – is that giant conglomerates and politicians are trying to downplay or attack what’s being discussed in the encyclical. How much of this resistance is about economics and political clout? Are some so steeped in entitlement to power that they are threatened by this document?

Encyclicals raise prudent questions aimed at producing greater knowledge. We can only hope we will see this as a result of Pope Francis’ encyclical.

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Remembering another great encyclical

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hile Pope Francis’ new encyclical “Laudato, Si’” is enjoying wide publicity, few people are aware this year marks the 20th anniversary of another powerfully prophetic social justice and peace encyclical: “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”).

Trying to awaken the conscience of the world to reject the “culture of death” which creates “structures of sin,” Pope St. John Paul II wrote in “Evangelium Vitae,” “How can we fail to consider the violence against life done to TONY MAGLIANO millions of human beings, especially children, who are forced into poverty, malnutrition and hunger because of an unjust distribution of resources between peoples and between social classes?

“And what of the violence inherent not only in wars as such but in the scandalous arms trade, which spawns the many armed conflicts which stain our world with blood?

“What of the spreading of death caused by reckless tampering with the world’s ecological balance, by the criminal spread of drugs, or by the promotion of certain kinds of sexual activity which, besides being morally unacceptable, also involve grave risks to life?”

John Paul continued, “We shall concentrate particular attention on another category of attacks, affecting life in its earliest and in its final stages …

Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection.”

Then St. John Paul tackled the death penalty. He said due to improvements in the penal system, the need to execute a dangerous criminal in order to defend society was not necessary. “Such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent,” he wrote.

Many Catholics, as well as many other Christians, hold inconsistent opinions regarding the protection of life.

Some condemn abortion, but fail to oppose the mass murder of war – which mostly kills innocent people. Others work to protect the environment while promoting the murder of unborn children through abortion as a distorted means to control population.

But all life issues are morally and logically linked. It’s what the Catholic Church refers to as the “consistent ethic of life.”

St. John Paul explains: “Where life is involved, the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. It cannot tolerate bias and discrimination, for human life is sacred and inviolable at every stage and in every situation; it is an indivisible good. We need then to ‘show care’ for all life and for the life of everyone. …

“As disciples of Jesus, we are called to become neighbors to everyone (see Luke 10:29-37), and to show special favor to those who are poorest, most alone and most in need. In helping the hungry, the thirsty, the foreigner, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned – as well as the child in the womb and the old person who is suffering or near death – we have the opportunity to serve Jesus.”

Quoting St. John Chrysostom, St. John Paul wrote, “ ‘Do you wish to honor the body of Christ?

Do not neglect it when you find it naked. Do not do it homage here in the church with silk fabrics only to neglect it outside where it suffers cold and nakedness.’

“What is urgently called for is a general mobilization of consciences and a united ethical effort to activate a great campaign in support of life. …

The purpose of the Gospel, in fact, is to transform humanity from within and to make it new.”

MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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PSALM 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

I will hear what God proclaims; the Lord —for he proclaims peace. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land.

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven.

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

The Lord himself will give his benefits; our land shall yield its increase. Justice shall walk before him, and prepare the way of his steps.

Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

EPHESIANS 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him.

In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according

to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.

MARK 6:7-13 Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick – no food, no sack, no money in their belts.

They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

Living out of a deep spirit of Christian joy

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he world into which Jesus sent the Twelve to preach the Gospel is different than the world into which today’s evangelists labor. More than anything else, residents of our contemporary Western world are imbued with a naturalist mentality. The supernatural realm, that of grace (St. Paul), of eternal life (St. John), is not as palpable a reality as it was for pre-modern peoples.

It becomes evident, then, that a chief task of the evangelist today is not only to propose to people that Jesus is the one, true God, but that there is a God at all (who is not simply a therapeutic mental concept (Feuerbach), and that opening one’s self to God’s grace will have an unimaginably transformative effect on one’s life.

FATHER MARK The key to persuading our DOHERTY contemporaries of the reality of the life of grace is the joyful quality of our own lives. Look at the example of St. Paul and the joy he exudes in the opening verses of his epistle to the Ephesians. In our days, the joyful charisma of Pope Francis is key to understanding why he has been able to draw the attention of so many. He understands that joy (which

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VATICAN CITY – Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox must pray together and work hand-in-hand helping the poor, Pope Francis said.

If the devil “unites us in death, who are we to divide ourselves in life?” he told more than 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square July 3 for an ecumenical gathering of reflection, prayer and song dedicated to praying for unity and for those killed for their Christian faith around the world. He said Christians need to pray together in a “spiritual ecumenism, an ecumenism of prayer.”

is utterly different than the cheap, gauzy spirit or aura of ‘wellness’ so many – in thrall as they are to the new therapeutic religion – chase after today) is a defining, authenticating characteristic of the higher life of grace, and that it must be a central feature of our evangelization efforts.

But living out of a deep spirit of Christian joy is not easy. It cannot be fabricated. It must be received, precisely because it is a fruit of the life of grace. The obstacles to harvesting the fruit of joy are substantial. They can only be overcome by cultivating the life of the three theological virtues: faith, hope and love.

Joy is the fruit of possessing the object of one’s love. To the extent to which I love God I will bear the joy of possessing him in the life of grace. The difficulty all of us face is that we vacillate in our love for God. Our love is lukewarm. Part of us wants God, but often enough we find ourselves drawn more powerfully to creatures. As a result, our ‘Christian’ life can be characterized by angst, irritation, dejection, and even bitterness more than it is by joy because we are caught in the no man’s land between love of God and love of creatures. We can be resentful and jealous of the people around us who are living lives of indulgence because we want to live a life of indulgence as well. The more I receive the grace of love of God, the more I truly want God first and last, the more joy I will exude.

The world is rife with problems and crises of all sorts; and not only the world. How often does it seem

like the church is teetering on the verge of collapse?

Things don’t seem to be moving in a good direction, and we can’t seem to muster the wherewithal to get a grip and change course. To the extent to which this is our primary lens on reality we will not harvest joy.

Instead, we will harvest dejection, anger, forlornness, sloth, tepidity and fear. None of these qualities is attractive; none will convince anyone of the reality of the life of grace. We must aim to cultivate the virtue of hope by which Jesus, in the midst of the apparent dissolution of his life’s work, was able to confidently and joyfully proclaim: “Fear not: I have overcome the world!” (John 16:33) Lastly, life in our fallen world is full of suffering.

The closer this suffering hits home, the more we are drawn to a spirit of anger, resentment and vindictiveness. Jesus suffered many grievous injustices, but he remained joyful because he lived in the assurance and conviction of the Father’s providence. He knew that the Father would transform all suffering into new life; that his suffering was life-giving. To live in Christian joy we must cultivate the virtue of faith by which, in the midst of our dark nights of suffering and loss, we can rest assured that God is actively transforming our sufferings into newer and greater life.

FATHER DOHERTY is parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, and chaplain at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 13: Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of St. Henry; St.Clelia Barbieri, foundress. EX 1:8-14, 22. PS 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8.

MT 5:10. MT 10:34-11:1.

TUESDAY, JULY 14: Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin. EX 2:1-15a. PS 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34.

PS 95:8. MT 11:20-24.

THURSDAY, JULY 16: Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. EX 3:13-20. PS 105:1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27. MT 11:28. MT 11:2830.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15: Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor. EX 3:1-6, 9-12. PS 103:1b-2, 3-4, 6-7. SEE MT 11:25. MT 11:25-27.

FRIDAY, JULY 17: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. EX 11:10—12:14. PS 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18. JN 10:27. MT 12:1-8.

SATURDAY, JULY 18: Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (USA). EX 12:37-42. PS 136:1 and 23-24, 10-12, 13-15. 2 COR 5:19. MT 12:1421.

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SISTERS: Women religious reflect on pope’s encyclical on the environment “Part of the way we think of moving the needle is educating the next generation of clergy,” he said. “Religion is the largest organization in the world, and if it’s not part of the solution, there’s not going to be a solution. That’s why your priest should be talking about it.”

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of ethics to include both humans and nature.

Just as the move from segregation in the ‘60s was sparked by moral voices, so too the growing turn from unsustainable environmental and economic practices is being encouraged by ethical concerns now led by the pope. It is no wonder there is push back!”

Chapter Six: Ecological education and spirituality

The encyclical changes the foundation of the church’s thought, explained Sister Campbell, and will affect everything that comes after.

“It’s a totally different approach. (The pope) talks about humans depending on the Earth. So we’re beholden to the Earth, beholden to the environment,” she said. “That’s a huge shift. That’s as big as the shift from figuring out the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe. For once, we’re ahead of the curve.”

Sister Abraham said Presentation sisters have made a concentrated effort to honor the part of their charism of celebrating the interconnectedness of everything, including God and nature, by implementing projects like an educational organic farm in Zambia and a series of educational seminars across the country called “For Our Care of the Earth, Our Responsibility.”

“There is a huge awakening in humanity, that we cannot care for the poor without caring for the earth that sustains the poor,” she said.

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Dominican Sister Margaret Mayce said that for too long, issues have been addressed in isolation.

Sister Mayce is the nongovernmental organization representative for the Dominican Leadership Conference at the United Nations and works in social development.

The pope is “emphatic about the reality that everything is connected,” she said. “The United Nations has had a silo approach to everything: Economics has its place, the environment has its place and the social has its place, and that’s why the world is such a mess now.”

She also loves that the encyclical calls for common but differentiated responsibility, meaning that while we’re all responsible for, say, carbon emissions, wealthy countries that produce more carbon, like the United States, should bear a larger burden of responsibility than a poor country.

Passionist Sister Gail Worcelo said the encyclical ushers in a new “moment of grace” for the church. She is a co-founder of Green Mountain Monastery in Vermont, dedicated to the healing and protection of Earth and its life systems.

“It’s calling the whole human community, saying that we’re all interconnected and share a common home,” Sister Worcelo said. “It’s not just for the Catholic community, it’s for the world community.”

The monastery’s co-founder was the late Passionist Father Thomas Berry – regarded as the dean of those working to relate ecology to spirituality.

“We have felt like lone voices for many, many years now,” Sister Worcelo said about the many people like her who have long made the connection between the spiritual and the natural worlds.

“We’re just thrilled that the pope, who has the capacity to influence the world, has come up with a document like this. I really think for the church, it’s its next moment of grace.”

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Environmental activists hold banners in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 28.

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Sister Patricia A. Siemen, an Adrian Dominican, appreciates the way the pope calls for legal frameworks to make the needed changes. Religion has a role in solving the environmental problem she said, but governments and international organizations must take action as well.

“He talks about it in a language common people can understand,” she said. “You don’t have to be a policy analyst.” Sister Siemen is an attorney and currently serves as the director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at Barry University School of Law in Orlando, Florida.

“I’m very pleased with his blend of spirituality, science and common sense,” she said, referencing the title’s language in particular. “Catholic social teaching is about the common good. ... This addresses the common good and the good of the commons, the common air, water and soil. That’s kind of a lone cry today.”

Rabbi Yonatan Neril, the director of the Israelbased Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, said one way to implement the encyclical’s lessons is through educating religious leaders.

According to a study the center was to publish soon, out of 231 religious learning institutions surveyed in North America, including seminaries and universities from all religions, only a quarter – 64 institutions – have courses on ecology.

A 2014 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and the American Academy of Religion found that about 60 percent of U.S. Americans who attend religious services said their clergy rarely or never speak about the environment, Rabbi Neril pointed out. However, the same survey found that among congregations that did hear about environmental issues in a religious setting, people were much more likely to be concerned about climate change. This emphasizes the importance of the religious response to help heal the environmental issues.

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SVDP: San Mateo leader takes part in Catholic-Buddhist dialogue FROM PAGE 2

‘I see it as a reflection of a maturing of the relationship, where the dialogue shifts from verbal understanding to cooperation in community service.’

fornia (wider geographical territory) dialogue group set up in 2003 by the Archdiocese of San Francisco (at that time by Bishop John Wester) under the auspices of the USCCB which met for eight years, alternating hosting between the Buddhists (City of 10,000 Buddahs, San Francisco Zen Center) and the Catholics (Mercy Center, Russian River).

“This encounter in Rome brought together several from the original group and some Buddhists from different sanghas,” said Moriarty, who serves on the USCCB’s National Advisory Council and has served on the California Catholic Conference’s Restorative Justice Committee. “Those who went to Rome will begin meeting shortly to

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Other attendees at the dialogue were: Father James Fredericks, professor of theological studies, Loyola Marymount University, and specialist on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Rev. Ronald Kobata of the Buddhist Church of San Francisco; Rev. Hozan Alan Senauke of the

Berkeley Zen Center; Mushim (Patricia) Ikeda of the East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland; Ven. Abbot Thich Tu-Luc of the Compassion Meditation Center, Hayward.

Kobata said the June meeting marked new, practical approaches to interreligious dialogue. “I see it as a reflection of a maturing of the relationship, where the dialogue shifts from verbal understanding to cooperation in community service,” he said.

“Moving from talking about what we’d like to do, to doing what we can to promote the well-being of our communities, we can see that compassion is not the monopoly of any faith tradition,” said Kobata. “As the saying goes, ‘People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.’”

Kobata said Pope Francis has been a significant influence.

“My impressions are that Pope Francis’ leadership, sincerity and dedication to promoting interfaith cooperation have inspired the participants in this dialogue to bring our communities together in cooperative efforts to promote peace, alleviate suffering, and live responsibly with our natural environment,” Kobata said.

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take pictures, make new connections and see the campus again, the school said. Mercy invites everyone back every five years. Pictured from left are 1982 alumnae Donna Flanigan, Eva Woo, Julia Zarich Ardoin, Joanne Hayes-White, Daniella Simonetti Ellicott, Kathy Liu.

ST. THOMAS MORE PARISH, SAN FRANCISCO: Fifteen couples received the sacrament of matrimony during this year’s “Operation I Do” celebrated June 27. “There were guests who got so hyped that they will convince their relatives, friends, co-workers to spread the word around about ‘Operation I Do,” said organizer Joe Espinueva, who added that St. Bruno Parish plans its own “Operation I Do” on July 11 with St. Andrew Parish following in October with its first group wedding celebration.

ST. PETER PARISH, PACIFICA: St. Peter Parish, Pacifica, is this year’s “Most Valuable Angel” in the eyes of the Kateri Tekakwitha Fund, which for more than 20 years has done tremendous work in support of women of Guatemala. Each year the fund recognizes a person or group that has assisted in their work that includes educational scholarships, micro-loans, and the purchase of fair trade goods. St. Peter pastor Father Jerome Foley accepted a “Most Valuable Angel” banner for the parish at the fund’s pasta party, and pastoral council president Deidre Watson accepted an award certificate.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: Mercy High School, San Francisco welcomed more than 75 alumnae representing the classes 1956-2014 for an all-class reunion on May 2. The event provided a great opportunity to reminisce with old friends,

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ST. VERONICA PARISH: Congratulations to “La Pazzzos,” winners of this year’s St. Veronica Parish Bocce Ball Tournament held June 6 at South San Francisco’s Orange Park courts. “More than 50 people attended as players and spectators, enjoyed a delicious lunch and had the chance to win dozens of raffle prizes all in support of the third and final phase of St. Veronica’s three-year capital campaign for the repaving and beautification of our parish grounds,” Karen Guglielmoni, parish faith formation coordinator, said. Pictured from left is the winning team with pastor Father Charles Puthota: Rich Vaznaugh, Larry Fioranelli, Father Charles, Germano Colombano and Steve Hawthorne.

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AFTERNOON TEA: Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Flanagan Center of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, Lawton Street between 39th and 40th avenues, San Francisco; tickets $20 per person; Cathy Mibach (415) 753-0234.

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HUMAN TRAFFICKING: What is it and how can people make a difference? 9 a.,m.-2:30 p.m.; Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond St., San Francisco with anti-trafficking advocates providing general information about the topic. The session includes a video showing a survivor’s story. A light lunch will be served; to register or for more information email socialjustice@ mhr.org.

ST. ANNE’S GALA: A formal affair benefiting St. Anne of the Sunset Church, San Francisco, beginning 5:30 p.m. with no-host cocktails in Moriarty Hall on the parish campus followed by appetizers, silent auction and a sit-down dinner. Entertainment begins at 7:30 p.m. and includes songs from Broadway and opera plus songs from Italy and the Philippines performed by San Francisco artists; free parking in church lot. Tickets at $100 per person must be purchased by July 1. Larger sponsorships opportunities beginning at $300 are also available; Preciosa Agaton, (415) 564-7487; Bernadette Hynson, (415) 420-7925; rbbsfo@ comcast.net.

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SUNDAY, JULY 19 MISSA CANTATA: Singer participants in Star of the Sea’s Summer Workshops in Sacred Music perform the Mass in Dorian Mode by Herbert Howells with Gregorian chant propers in the context of the traditional Latin Mass, 11 a.m., Star of the Sea Church, Eighth Avenue at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, admission is free, donations welcome; sven@starparish. com.

POPE’S PERSPECTIVE: “Pope Francis on the Environment: A Prophetic Voice on a Controversial Topic,” Jesuit Father Tom Reese, 10:45-11:45 a.m.; Xavier Auditorium, Fromm Hall behind St. Ignatius Church, Parker Avenue at Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco.

Free and open to the public with free parking in all USF lots; Father John Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu, Dan Faloon (415) 422-2195, faloon@usfca. edu.

FRIDAY, JULY 24 CONSOLATION MINISTRY: A summer workshop series at Church of the Good Shepherd, Ministry Center, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 7 p.m., on topics including coping with feelings of loss, affirming yourself toward strength, solutions amid the chaos, caring for yourself in grief; all are welcome, no fee, please RSVP to Suzanne Chin (650) 359-2367; suzannechinn1@ sbcglobal.net.

SATURDAY, JULY 25 SERRA TALKS: “Junipero Serra-Saint and Sinner,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Center for Education and Spirituality with Ohlone

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19

BASKET EXHIBIT: “Interwoven,” through Nov. 1, Thacher Gallery in Gleeson Library, Geschke Center, Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, San Francisco on USF campus featuring native California basketry made during the Mission era to the early 20th century telling a remarkable story of Native American culture including the worldrenowned weavers of the Chumash and Pomo people. Exhibit is free and open to the public; www.usfca.edu/ library/thacher; Glori Simmons (415) 422-5178; thachergallery@usfca.edu.

PROJECT RACHEL MASS: Outdoor bi-lingual Mass remembering children who died before, during or shortly after birth whatever the cause, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Archbishop Colma, 11 a.m. by Salvatore the Rachel MournCordileone ing shrine. Signs at the cemetery will direct you to the site. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist. Sponsored

by Project Rachel Ministry and the cemeteries; (415) 614-5570, (415) 717-6428.

Mission Indians Andrew Galvan and Vincent Medina Jr., Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Auditorium, 43326 Mission Blvd. (entrance oon Mission Tierra Place, Fremont; $25 donation payable at the door; lunch included; RSVP by July 13, rosemarie@ msjdominicans.org, http://bit.ly/MSJSerra.

SATURDAY, AUG. 1 RUMMAGE SALE: San Mateo Pro Life event at St. Matthew Church auditorium, El Camino Real and Ninth Avenue, San Mateo. Doors open at 9 a.m.; Janet (650) 931-5467.

SUNDAY, AUG. 2

FRIDAY, JULY 31 CONSOLATION MINISTRY: A summer workshop series at Church of the Good Shepherd, Ministry Center, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 7 p.m., on topics including coping with feelings of loss, affirming yourself toward strength, solutions amid the chaos, caring for yourself in grief; all are welcome, no fee, please RSVP to Suzanne Chin (650) 359-2367; suzannechinn1@ sbcglobal.net.

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REUNION: Holy Name School, all class reunion, 10 a.m. open school, 11:30 a.m. Mass, followed by reunion festivities. Please pass the information on to siblings and classmates; register as a HN alumni, http://holynamesf.org/holyname-school-alumni/; join the Facebook page, Holy Name School San Francisco.

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PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro Life meets second Thursday of the month except in December; 7:30 p.m.; St. Gregory’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome; Jessica, (650) 572-1468; themunns@yahoo.com.

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CONSOLATION MINISTRY: A summer workshop series at Church of the Good Shepherd, Ministry Center, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica, 7 p.m., on topics including coping with feelings of loss, affirming yourself toward strength, solutions amid the chaos, caring for yourself in grief; all are welcome, no fee, please RSVP to Suzanne Chin (650) 359-2367; suzannechinn1@ sbcglobal.net.

FAMILY SYNOD: “The Synod on the HANDICAPABLES MASS: The 50 Family: Sex, Marriage and More,” years of this good work continues to Jesuit Father Tom Reese, 10:45be celebrated throughout 2015 with 11:45 a.m.; Xavier Auditorium, noon Mass followed by lunch, in lower Fromm Hall behind St. Ignatius halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Church, Parker Avenue at Golden Geary L Boulevard, San FranP Street U at B I C A T Gate Avenue, San Francisco. Free cisco, Gough Street entrance. All disand open to the public with free abled people and their caregivers are parking in all USF lots; Father John invited. Volunteers are always welcome Coleman, jacoleman@usfca.edu, to assist in this cherished tradition.

Dan Faloon, (415) 422-2195, faloon@ Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865; www. usfca.edu.

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