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‘Defend Mother Earth, our common home’ Pope Francis says problems with the current economic system are obvious and the Gospel contains principles that can help

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Nu Guazu Park in Asuncion, Paraguay, July 12.

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SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia – Meeting with an international gathering of grassroots activists, Pope Francis not only encouraged, but tried to add fuel to their fire for “standing up to an idolatrous (economic) system which excludes, debases and kills.”

Addressing the World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz July 9, Pope Francis acknowledged he did not have a “recipe” for a perfect economic-social-political system, but he said the problems with the current system are obvious and the

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The activists – including labor union representatives and people who organize cooperatives for the poor who make a meager living recycling trash or farming small plots or fishing – combat “many forms of exclusion and injustice,” the pope said.

“Yet there is an invisible thread joining every one of those forms of exclusion,” the pope said. They all are the result of a global economic system that “has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”

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The current global finance system is “intolerable,” he said. “Farmworkers find it intolerable, laborers find it intolerable, communities find it intolerable, peoples find it intolerable. The earth itself – our sister, Mother Earth, as St. Francis would say – also finds it intolerable.”

At the meeting, sponsored by the Vatican and organized with the help of Bolivian President Evo Morales, Pope Francis shared the sense of urgency shown by participants, who adopted a long statement of commitments promising to mobilize in the defense of the rights of the poor and of the Earth.

“Time, my brothers and sisters, seems to be running out; we are not yet tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common home,” the earth, he said.

“Perhaps the most important” task facing the world today, the pope said, “is to defend Mother Earth. Our common home is being pillaged, laid waste and harmed with impunity.

Cowardice in defending it is a grave sin.”

“Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: Harm, perhaps irreversible harm,

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Precious Blood fathers answer call to shepherd Castro parish Christina Gray

‘God is here. We didn’t bring anything special other than being instruments of God and calling people to Christ.’

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Every weekend for the first few months of 2014, Precious Blood Father Matthew Link removed his collar after Mass at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon where he was serving as parochial vicar and slipped across the Golden Gate Bridge and into a back pew at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco for evening Mass.

What began as curiosity about the tight-knit parish located in the heart of the Castro District turned into a profound calling to serve it, Father Link told Catholic San Francisco a week before his July 5 installation as pastor.

“I experienced warmth and welcome, a vibrant and beautiful liturgy and a faithful and loving community at prayer,” he said. “This wonderful little parish won my heart.”

Worshipping incognito with a parish that draws a diverse group of parishioners and visitors to Mass each week, a third of which come from outside San Francisco – some up to 50 miles away – was an act of private discovery and discernment for Father Link, who 10 years earlier left a longtime teaching career to join the Missionaries of the Precious Blood order.

The Missionaries is an apostolic society whose stated charism is to “bring the Word of God where it is most needed,” according to its website.

Members are held together by a bond of charity and live in community to offer reconciliation, love and hope for anyone who feels “left out of the circle of God’s love.”

The outsiders’ circle could be a big one on the residential streets of the Castro, where rainbow flags adorn porches and windows and the aged, hungry and homeless share the sidewalks with tech workers and baby carriages.

Father Link felt that the parish, pastor-less after the reassignment of Father Brian Costello to St. Anthony of Padua in Novato, and thriving but operating in relative isolation from other Catholic churches in the city, represented a wonderful opportunity for the Precious Blood fathers, the neighborhood and the archdiocese.

He requested permission from his provincial to be considered for the vacancy, then coaxed 70-year-old Precious

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Precious Blood fathers Jack McClure, left, and Matthew Link are the first non-archdiocesan priests in Most Holy Redeemer’s 115-year history. The Missionaries of The Most Precious Blood is a religious community that works to offer reconciliation and hope for anyone who feels rejected by society.

Blood Father Jack McClure out of semiretirement in Kansas City with the idea of joining him.

The priests won over Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone too. He appointed the Precious Blood fathers to the parish last July when they became the first non-archdiocesan priests to lead the parish in its 115-year history.

The older and more experienced Father McClure served as pastor for the first year, with Father Link as parochial vicar. But the priests insist they acted as a team during their first year and don’t have any big plans or agendas.

“We didn’t come here to change anybody,” said Father McClure who sat with Father Link near the parish’s memorial fountain where the founders of the parish’s 30-year-old AIDS Support Group ministry are honored, including ninth pastor Father Anthony McGuire.

Behind them on a stone wall are the words of Corinthians 1: 13:13: “But now faith, hope, and love remain – of these three, the greatest of these is love.”

“God is here,” said McClure. “We didn’t bring anything special other than being instruments of God and calling people to Christ.”

The AIDS Support Group was initiated by the parish in 1985 at the height of AIDS epidemic when it

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Signs heralding “God’s inclusive love proclaimed here” have been a beacon to LGBT Catholics and visitors who represent more than half of the parish community. But “inclusiveness” is also what brought Kate Deaton, 29, and Akaash Gupta, 31, both of San Francisco, to the parish.

“This is the kind of faith community I want to be a part of,” said Deaton, 29, a family therapist and member of the Young Adults Group. Relative newcomers to San Francisco from Long Beach, she and her fiance Akaash Gupta, a lawyer, began attending Most Holy Redeemer’s popular Sunday evening service about a year ago. Father Link is preparing the couple for Catholic marriage next March.

“I’m Catholic, and Akaash is not, but he has always been supportive of my faith and comes to church with me,” she said. She said she felt instantly welcomed by the parish community.

“But more importantly to me, Akaash feels welcome and accepted, even though he isn’t Catholic.”

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Fathers Link and McClure said the parish’s media reputation as the nation’s largest “gay parish” is both short-sighted and changing.

“We don’t see ourselves in just that way,” said Father Link. Members of the parish community don’t identify or organize themselves based on their sexual orientation and the parish does not have even a ministry defined or directed specifically to the gay or LGBT community.

“We are a very Catholic parish, with the universal ‘c,’” he said. Differences here don’t necessarily mean division, he said. He called it a “moderate parish” where traditional and progressive, young and old, gay and straight Catholics find peace and comfort sitting next to each other in Mass and working together in service and outreach.

Bill Ryan, 87, has been taking up the collection faithfully each Sunday at the 8 a.m. Mass for more than 30 years.

He lives nearby with his wife, Wilma.

“It’s a wonderful place,” he said.

“There are so many people who go out of their way to do things for each other and people in the neighborhood.”

A long-running Wednesday night sit-down supper for homeless men and women in the parish’s Ellard Hall continues to flourish thanks to a ready roster of parish volunteers. The Castro Senior Center leases the same hall weekly to feed neighborhood seniors and the AIDS Support Group endures 30 years later.

The parish has so many ministries and programs including a centering prayer program, a reconnection ministry for “disconnected Catholics,” a children’s ministry and a social justice ministry that it recently brought Mercy Sister Erma Dillard on staff from St. Boniface as the director of ministries. see MHR, page 11

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 17, 2015

200 local pilgrims to attend Serra canonization LORENA ROJAS SAN FRANCISCO CATÓLICO

Two important reasons have motivated the vicar for Spanish-speaking in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to organize a large group of pilgrims to go to Washington, D.C., to be with Pope Francis in September.

“In the first place, folks will get to see the pope during his U.S. visit,” Father Moises Agudo said.

“The pope is the most important figure of the Catholic Church,” and it could also be the only chance for those who live in the U.S. to be near the Holy Father.

Also, Father Agudo said, pilgrims will have a chance to attend the canonization of Father Junipero Serra – a great opportunity to “partake in this historical moment when a Hispanic saint is canonized on U.S. soil.”

The archdiocesan Hispanic pastoral leadership team has been organizing the pilgrimage of about 200 parishioners from throughout the archdiocese to attend the canonization Sept. 23. Pilgrims will depart from San Francisco International Airport Sept. and return Sept. 25.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will travel to Washington to participate activities on the occasion of the pope’s visit. Talks between the Archdiocese and church officials in Washington are underway to coordinate the celebration of a Mass Sept. 23 during the papal visit.

Serra statue to stay in US Capitol – lawmaker backs down VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A California lawmaker has postponed his efforts to have the statue of the first Hispanic saint removed from the U.S. Capitol – at least until after Pope Francis’ visit and Blessed Junipero Serra’s canonization Sept. 23.

State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, on July 2 placed his resolution into the inactive file, ending for this year his campaign to replace the statue of Blessed Junipero Serra with astronaut Sally Ride who died in 2012. Each state has two statues in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection.

California’s other statue is of former California governor, President Ronald Reagan.

Ride, who was born and grew up in Los Angeles, would be the first woman to represent California in the collection and the first known gay person, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Father Serra has become a controversial figure that some claim was associated with repression of the California native Americans, but a number of historians and the Catholic Church say that is false, citing documents showing Father Serra consistently tried to protect them, and traveled to Mexico City to ask for a military governor’s removal because of his poor treatment of the California Indians.

A California lawmaker has postponed his move to replace the Father Junipero Serra statue in the U.S. Capitol.

The California Catholic Conference applauded the reprieve.

“We are grateful to Senator Lara for referring his resolution, SJR4, that proposed replacing the statue of Fray Serra in Statuary Hall in D.C, to the SEE SERRA, PAGE 11

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Serra’s life and legacy topic of area gatherings July 24-25 The life and legacy of Father Junipero Serra is the topic of a panel discussion at Santa Clara University and July 24 and a presentation July 25 in Fremont by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose.

“Junipero Serra: The Man Behind the Canonization Controversy” takes place July 24 from noon-1 p.m. at the SCU’s Harrington Learning Commons, St. Clare Room. The event is co-sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education.

Rose Marie Beebe, professor of Spanish, modern language and literatures at SCU, and Robert Senkewicz, professor of history at SCU will speak about their just-completed book “Junipero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter and Visiting Scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, moderates.

The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose’s Center for Education & Spirituality hosts “Junipero Serra – Saint and Sinner,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 25 in the auditorium at 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont. Andrew Galvan and Vincent Medina, cousins and Ohlone Mission Indians and Catholics who work at Mission Dolores in San Francisco, offer different opinions on the upcoming canonization of Father Serra.

Register at http://bit.ly/MSJSerra or tschmidt@msjdominicans.org. A $25 donation is payable at the door and includes lunch. Registration begins at 9:30am.

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Same-sex marriage ruling settles one legal question, leaves many others PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court June 26 ruled that marriage licenses cannot be denied to same-sex couples nationwide, it may have settled one legal issue, but it left many more unanswered questions, particularly in the realm of religious objections.

Within hours of the 5-4 ruling, worried speculation raised the possibility of repercussions: for religious colleges that wouldn’t want same-sex spouses in their married student housing; for church-run social service agencies morally opposed to enabling gay couples to adopt; and to the tax-exempt status enjoyed by churches that may not want to acknowledge same-sex marriages.

Although some critics of the decision suggested clergy would be required to conduct marriage ceremonies that conflict with their faiths’ teachings, most legal observers said that clearly would not pass legal scrutiny. Catholic priests, for instance, already are able to refuse to preside over weddings of people they believe are unsuited for the sacrament of marriage, even though they are legally entitled to be married.

But there are many other possibilities for legal conflicts arising from objections to same-sex marriage that are rooted in religion.

A few states already are acting to protect faith-based objections. In some places, county clerks quit their jobs rather than issue marriage licenses. In others, clerks who also didn’t want to issue licenses refused to quit.

The 5-4 ruling written by Justice Anthony Kennedy found a right for same-sex couples to marry under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which provides for equal protection under the law. Kennedy’s opinion gave a nod to those who believe same-sex marriage to be wrong “based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises.”

He said the First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and individuals are protected “as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling ... and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered.”

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Supporters of traditional marriage rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 26, shortly before the justices ruled 5-4 ruling that states must license same-sex marriages and must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

John Roberts said the ruling “creates serious questions about religious liberty.” He observed that in each of the states in which same-sex marriage was allowed either by voter referendum or legislative action, the law included accommodations for “dissenting religious practice.” Of the 36 states and the District of Columbia that permitted same-sex marriage before June 26, in only 10 jurisdictions did that come about through laws that were adopted by the legislature or voters. In the rest, it came about through a state or federal court ruling.

Roberts noted that the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges created no accommodations for religiously based objections. He said though the First Amendment guarantees “the freedom to ‘exercise’ religion ... ominously that is not a word the majority uses.”

Among the “hard questions” he predicted would arise would be those involving married student housing at a religious college, religious adoption agencies and tax exemptions of religious institutions.

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Father J. Bryan Hehir, secretary for Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston, returned to work in the archdiocese just as samesex marriage was becoming a factor there. He had spent several decades working in Washington, as president of Catholic Charities USA, at Georgetown University and at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“Adoption was the big issue for us,” he told Catholic News Service. “We felt we had no other choice” but to withdraw from handling adoptions.

Other social service agencies picked up adoptions when Catholic organizations phased out of them.

Otherwise, said Father Hehir, there haven’t been implications for how the charitable agencies under his jurisdiction operate.

He said religious entities figuring out how to adjust to the new reality of same-sex marriage nationwide need to be conscious of the distinction between political and legal questions and the pastoral issues that will arise.

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“We don’t say, ‘Are you hungry and Catholic,’” he said. “We just ask, ‘Are you hungry?’”

At least one Catholic school in Massachusetts recently was in the news for firing a school employee when it became known that she had a wife.

Similar situations have arisen in other states.

A statement from Christian Brother Robert Bimonte, president of the National Catholic Educational Association, said: “Teachers in Catholic schools are held to high standards and each diocese determines their own employment policies. In upholding those standards, each local diocese must ensure that mutual respect, compassion and pastoral sensitivity prevail.”

A 2012 Supreme Court ruling over the firing of a teacher at an Evangelical Lutheran school still sets the standard, said the NCEA statement.

In Hosanna-Tabor vs. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the court affirmed that churches, their schools and other religious groups “must be free to choose their teachers and employees when their primary duties consist of teaching, spreading the faith, church governance, etc., without government interference,” the NCEA noted.

Mark Chopko, a partner at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young who specializes in legal issues affecting religious and nonprofit organizations, told CNS he expects legal challenges will arise over tax exemptions, employment and accommodations such as the rental of parish halls to the public.

“To a certain extent none of these questions are new,” said Chopko, who formerly was general counsel to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“They have been around in some form for 20 years, since Hawaii first introduced the idea of same-sex marriage as a right protected under the state Constitution.”

He said he doesn’t expect threats to churches’ tax exemption will be a serious legal issue.

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Pro-life leaders fear health care rationing PETER FINNEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW ORLEANS – An Obama administration proposal to pay doctors for “advance care planning” for Medicare patients is fraught with dangers for the elderly and those facing serious illnesses, according to the National Right to Life Committee.

Congress needs to act quickly to protect those patients from making uniformed decisions about their care, Burke Balch said during the organization’s annual convention July 9-11 in New Orleans.

Balch, director of the NRLC’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics, said an Obama administration proposal to institute “advance care planning” is designed to “nudge” patients to forgo life-saving treatment and even assisted feeding by giving them “unbalanced, distorted and even inaccurate information” about their condition and the effectiveness of treatment options.

Citing a 2013 Health Affairs article titled “Decision Aids: When ‘Nudging’ Patients to Make a Particular Choice is More Ethical Than Balanced, Nondirective Content,” Balch said advance care planning is touted as a means of drastically cutting health care costs.

Balch said the NRLC favors advance medical directives – it has developed its own “Will to Live” document – and supports alternatives that “provide truly informed consent to decisions about medical treatment.”

The 2013 Health Affairs article offered advice on how doctors could persuade men with prostate cancer to agree not to undergo expensive surgery.

“If incontinence and impotence are presented as plainly stated – that is, with no detailed description of these risks – men with early stage prostate cancer may be swayed toward the option of surgery,” the article said. “If instead those possible side effects of surgery are presented vividly via personal stories, men may be swayed away from the surgery option.”

The Powell Center report – available at www. nrlc.org – cited other widely available advance care planning materials that violate the principle of informed consent by presenting unbalanced facts so that patients might be convinced to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation, IV fluids and medically assisted feeding.

12 years in, sex abuse charter faces ongoing challenges NANCY FRAZIER O’BRIEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Because the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” is a “living document” open to differing interpretations, those in charge of implementing the charter at the diocesan level face a variety of challenges, according to the head of the bishops’ national office.

“We’re dealing with a charter Francesco that is loose in the way it is written Cesareo ... in order to respect the bishop’s right to govern his own diocese,” said Deacon Bernie Nojadera, executive director of the Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.

“We’re 12 years into the (sex abuse) crisis and we’ve done quite a bit to get to where we are,” he added, referring to the first audit after the 2002 adoption of the charter by the bishops in Dallas.

“But there are always things to learn.”

Deacon Nojadera said U.S. Catholics at every level need to guard against “a tendency for complacency” toward the sex abuse crisis.

“We have established procedures and policies, and we think that we have that in place,” he told Catholic News Service. “There might not be that ongoing mindfulness and certain small things might start to slide. They are not really paid attention to the way they should.”

In a separate interview, Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the National Review Board, echoed Deacon Nojadera’s concerns. The board is the alllay group that monitors dioceses’ performance in dealing with sexually abusive priests and creating a safe environment for children throughout the church.

“We have made significant strides in the church to deal with questions of sexual abuse, and many aspects of the charter are now instituted in dioceses and parishes,” said Cesareo, who is president of Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

“But we have to make sure that we pay attention to the details in the charter and be diligent.”

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In a June talk to the U.S. bishops in St. Louis, he outlined a number of recommendations to boost the charter’s effectiveness and clarify its requirements. Some of those recommendations might be incorporated into proposed charter changes that will come before the bishops in November;a draft of the proposed changes has not been made public.

Asked which of his recommendations he considered the most crucial for the bishops to adopt, Cesareo said he believes every allegation of sex abuse or boundary violations should be presented to the diocesan review board.

“This allows the bishop not to have to rely on a gatekeeper to determine if an allegation needs” further investigation, he said. “Every allegation is given that same level of scrutiny. ... In our review of cases that went wrong, what we found often is that allegations did not go before the diocesan review board.”

Another problematic area is that the charter calls for diocesan review boards to meet “regularly” but regularly is not defined, Cesareo said. “In many dioceses the board meets quarterly, others only once a year,” he said. “Some only meet when there is an actual allegation.”

But for review boards to work effectively, they “have to come to understand their role and know how to effectively implement that role,” he added. A meeting might be scheduled just to review diocesan policies and to discuss the board’s role, he said.

Another challenge facing the bishops’ child protection efforts is budgetary concerns, Deacon Nojadera said. “Some of our colleagues are wearing four or five hats,” he said. “They are trying to do what they can with a limited budget.”

Only a few church jurisdictions have the resources that the Archdiocese of Chicago, for example, devotes to its child protection efforts. Its Office for the Protection of Children and Young People has four divisions – child abuse investigations and review, office of assistance ministry, safe environment office, and prayer and penance program – and a staff of 10.

But in some dioceses, the chancellor or school superintendent might also head up the local church’s child protection office. In others, Deacon Nojadera said, it might be “a one-person operation” or an office entirely staffed by part-time volunteers. “It runs the gamut,” he said.

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Undercover video: Planned Parenthood official discusses apparent sale of aborted baby parts Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal orders investigation of organization in his state VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

An undercover video released July 14 appears to show a top Planned Parenthood official discussing the sale of parts of aborted babies for research, including discussing ways the abortion procedure can be altered to preserve specifically requested body parts.

The nearly 9-minute edited video produced by The Center for Medical Progress quickly went viral David Daleiden and Planned Parenthood denied making a profit on the sale of aborted baby parts.

“Planned Parenthood’s criminal conspiracy to make money off of aborted baby parts reaches to the very highest levels of their organization,” said David Daleiden, who led the undercover investigation.

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In the video released July 14, a woman identified as Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Medical Services Department, says: “We’ve been very

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In the video, Dr. Nucatola says specific body parts go for $30 to $100 and fetal livers are in high demand.

As head of PPFA’s Medical Services department, Dr. Nucatola has overseen medical practice at all Planned Parenthood locations since 2009. She also trains new Planned Parenthood abortion doctors and performs abortions herself at Planned Parenthood Los Angeles up to 24 weeks, according to CMP. Planned Parenthood Federation of America acknowledged it sometimes charges for aborted fetuses’ body parts used for research. However, Planned Parenthood vice president of communications Erin Ferrero said in a statement, “There is no financial benefit for tissue donation for either the patient or Planned Parenthood.” Ferrero questioned the credibility of the video, calling it “heavily edited,” and saying the money mentioned is for actual costs such as transportation costs.

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“This public revelation about Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in human body parts obtained as a byproduct of abortion is long overdue,” said Vicki Evans, respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Evans investigated the fetal tissue in industry in a 2010 report published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center, titled “Commercial Markets Created by Abortion: Profiting from the Fetal Distribution Chain.”

An undercover investigation of a Planned Parenthood affiliate conducted by Life Dynamics, Inc. in 2000 resulted in similar findings, Evans said. Congressional hearings to investigate trafficking in fetal organs and tissue by private companies were held but nothing was done, Evans said.

“I hope this time, there is enough public outrage to finally stop the abortion giant from continuing to exploit women and their unborn children to increase its obscene profits,” Evans said.

Under the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act, the revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1987 and the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, human fetal tissue or organs cannot legally be bought and sold in the U.S., said Evans. Money can change hands only to reimburse for expenses incurred.

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In the July 14 undercover video, Dr. Nucatola says that the abortion procedure can be altered if the abortionist knows in advance what body part is desired by the buyer, saying extraction of the baby can be changed to breech to get more of the body intact for researchers.

“What’s she’s describing is a partial birth abortion,” said Katie Short, Life Legal Defense Fund’s vice president for legal affairs. “She’s basically confessing to something illegal.”

The July 14 report renewed calls for an end to the more than $500 million in state and federal funds Planned Parenthood receives annually.

“Why should the government fund an organization that is so corrupt as to be selling the brains, livers, eyes, legs and other body parts of the babies it kills – not to mention being corrupt enough to kill them in the first place,” said Priests for Life national director Father Frank Pavone. ”The tragedy exposed here is another sign that the safe, legal, and rare approach to abortion was never a tenable position,” wrote Dominican Brother of the Province of St. Joseph Dominic Bouck in a post on First Things. “The dehumanization of unborn children leads to the dehumanization of those who perform abortions, leading from killing living human beings to treating them explicitly as commodities.”

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Detroit archbishop exhorts preachers to facilitate ‘encounter with God’ MIKE STECHSCHULTE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DETROIT – Preaching at Mass is the “best opportunity” most bishops, priests and deacons have on a regular basis to facilitate an encounter with Jesus, so it’s critical for preachers to make the most of every homily, said Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron.

He made the comments in a new pastoral letter to clergy of the Archdiocese of Detroit titled “The Archbishop Preacher – Servant of the Word of Vigneron God.” It is his third pastoral as archbishop of Detroit, following 2012’s “Forward in Hope to Share Christ,” on pastoral plans and priorities of the Archdiocese of Detroit, and 2013’s “In Union With Christ’s Dying and Rising,” on Catholic funeral rites.

In the new letter, the archbishop draws heavily on themes from Pope Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,” which he noted has been called the “playbook for the church” for the new evangelization.

In it, he said, the pope “treats in no small detail the homily as the single moment in which most of us as bishops, priests and deacons have the best opportunity to be God’s instruments on a daily, or at least

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weekly, basis and help our brothers and sisters to have an encounter with God.” Archbishop Vigneron said the coldness and indifference of many in the pews necessitates a renewed emphasis on the importance of preaching, especially given that many who attend Sunday Mass are otherwise disengaged from their faith.

“Despite the fact many people in the pews would say that they’ve heard ad nauseam ‘God loves you,’ many of them simply do not know it – and will readily admit as much if asked,” he said. “And this love, knowledge of this love, an encounter with this love, is what changes lives. ... Until a person knows this, the faith simply looks like rules and regulations.”

The archbishop noted many or even most churchgoing Catholics have been “sacramentalized but not evangelized,” and preaching without knowing the audience’s needs is “like trying to plant seeds in concrete – nothing will grow.”

His letter was released June 30, coinciding with the annual archdiocesan priests’ jubilee Mass at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.

In a 10-part section titled “Preaching the New Evangelization: 10 Axioms,” the archbishop said preachers must contend with several types of indifference, from “the spiritual nonreligious” to “the bored and the blase” and even those biased against the reasonableness of the Catholic faith.

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He said many Catholics operate from a default secular perspective, spending far more time with worldly media and devices than with the word of God. “This constant barrage of a secular, consumer worldview simply cannot leave them – or us – unaffected. It is often practically atheistic; it doesn’t outright reject God, but it operates as if he did not exist, or as if he has nothing practical to offer us,” he said.

Because of this, preachers must adapt to this realization to make the Gospel message hearable – first by making it matter, he said. To do that, it is critical for a person to know God’s immeasurable love for them.

“Until they have been warmed by the love of God, and unless we allow ourselves to be his agents in doing this when we preach, we will be trying to bend cold steel,” Archbishop Vigneron said. “This warming of the heart done by the Holy Spirit is why the Gospel truly is good news: We are loved beyond all telling! Our lives matter!”

From a liturgical standpoint, the archbishop said too many view the Gospel and homily as simply “reading and commentary,” meaning that “they first listen to someone read the Scriptures dealing with events from long ago – often events that are hard to understand, especially if taken out of context – and then listen to the priest or deacon get up to offer some comments – hopefully not too long and somewhat funny – on those same often unintelligible readings.”

He said the proper way to understand the homily is as “proclamation and response,” and offered a few tips for preachers, including focusing on what Jesus is saying and asking today, and offering a call to action – such as a visit to a local shelter or an invitation to return to the sacrament of confession – based on the day’s readings.

The role of personal testimony also can be a powerful preaching tool and shouldn’t be ignored, the archbishop said. This requires vulnerability, he added, but not necessarily to the point of “inappropriately self-disclosing.”

“Throughout the New Testament, we see that the Gospel spreads most effectively by someone telling others the difference Jesus made in his or her life,” he said. “We need to tell our story.”

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Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas Hudson of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster and Clare Ward, home mission adviser of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, address media July 7 in London about creating evangelization teams for every parish in England and Wales.

English, Welsh bishops launch initiative for ‘missionary parishes’ SIMON CALDWELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LONDON – Catholic bishops in England and Wales hope to establish evangelization teams to transform about 5,000 churches into “missionary parishes.”

However, there will be no place for proselytizing, “door-stepping” or “cold calling” in an attempt to win converts, said Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

“Proselytizing is a one-way street,” Cardinal Nichols told a press conference July 7. “It is saying, ‘I have got something you must have, and I’m going to make you receive it whether you like it or not.’ Evangelization is essentially an invitation, and it is an invitation which will draw people closer together in their humanity, in their human experience.

“We don’t go in for doorstep evangelization because it is impossible without a relationship, and you don’t begin to form a relationship of lasting quality if it stays on a doorstep,” the cardinal said.

“What we want is to do is show something of our own life and to let that speak for itself,” Cardinal Nichols said.

The invitation to parishes to set up the teams will be made formally at the National Catholic Evangelization Conference in Birmingham July 11. Some 850 delegates from

‘This is not a managerial exercise to get people into pews,” Cardinal Nichols said, “this is genuinely a deep, deep desire to share something immensely precious, immensely life-giving and what I believe is very much needed in our world today.’

CARDINAL VINCENT NICHOLS OF WESTMINSTER English and Welsh dioceses will attend workshops focusing on the questions of how to create a vision and strategy for parish evangelization, how to evangelize young people, how to reach out to those who have no experience of the church, how to share testimony in one-to-one evangelization, how to reach out to Catholics who do not attend Mass, and how to make prayer the foundation of the missionary parish.

Speeches, interviews and testimonies from the event will then be collected into an online “legacy document” which will be made available to the evangelization teams in late September so they can develop and improve their own strategies within their parishes.

Auxiliary Bishop Nicholas Hudson of Westminster, who has responsibility for the evangelization conference, said he expected the process to “surprise us” by unlocking huge potential for the growth and life of the church.

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Cardinal Nichols added that the success of the initiative, “Proclaim 15,” would not be measured by “quick returns” or a sudden increase in the numbers of people attending Mass.

“This is not a managerial exercise to get people into pews,” Cardinal Nichols said, “this is genuinely a deep, deep desire to share something immensely precious, immensely life-giving and what I believe is very much needed in our world today.”

NAIROBI, Kenya – With U.S. President Barack Obama set to visit Kenya July 24-26, the head of the nation’s bishops’ conference said the church will resist any pressure to accept same-sex marriages.

“We are not going to allow samesex marriage,” said Bishop Philip Anyolo of Homa Bay, noting that the Kenyan church considers this unacceptable and urges its advocates to “stop the debate.” Bishop Anyolo, president of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops, told Catholic News Service in early July that while the bishops welcomed Obama’s visit, the church “has a prophetic mission to protect holy matrimony,” which “the Bible (makes) clear” is between a man and a woman.

Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto told a church congregation in Nairobi July 5 that “homosexuality is against the plan of God,” according to media reports.

In most of Africa’s 54 countries, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have to hide their sexual orientation for fear of persecution or criminal prosecution.

PHILIPPINE BISHOPS TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE

MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines tackled climate change on different fronts and also addressed a host of other issues, from equitable education to sovereign disputes at its biannual plenary session July 6-13. Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, newly re-elected president of the conference, told Catholic News Service that the group was taking “all possible approaches” in the fight for climate justice.

Archbishop Villegas said that apart from officially creating a climate desk, “a group of bishops have been assigned to draft a position paper, and hopefully it will be ready for the Paris convention ... and many bishops have affixed their signature to the petition” of the Global Catholic Climate Movement. On July 5, the church in the Philippines signed on to the movement’s appeal to world leaders who will attend the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 U.N. climate summit in Paris to come up with a policy statement that will help control rising global temperatures.

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South America, Cuba-US trip itineraries show heart of pope’s faith CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ASUNCION, Paraguay – With almost every step Pope Francis takes on his foreign trips and with his every embrace, he pleads for dialogue and inclusion.

His denunciations of a “throwaway culture” – cultures in which certain people and most material goods are deemed disposable – are passionate and well-explained in his speeches and writings. But his point is demonstrated first of all in the events he personally insists be included in his itinerary, whether in South America July 5-12, or for his upcoming trip to Cuba and the United States.

Visiting Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, he fulfilled diplomatic obligations by meeting with the nations’ presidents and posing for photos with their families. He also gave each of them copies of his exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel,” which contains large sections about the moral obligations of political and economic power, as well as copies of “Laudato Si’,” his new encyclical on protecting the environment.

The formality of the meetings gave way quickly, though, to the heart of his trip: visits with residents of a home for the indigent elderly in Ecuador, a prison in Bolivia and a poor settlement in Paraguay. He also made unscheduled stops in Paraguay at a women’s prison and at the St. Rafael Foundation, which cares for poor patients with AIDS and cancer, runs centers for abandoned and abused children and homes for the elderly.

In many ways, the pope’s decision to travel first to Cuba in September before arriving in the United States is the same kind of choice, said Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, editor of the influential journal, “La Civilta Cattolica.”

“The two great ‘excluded ones’ on the September trip are Cuba and the prisoners” the pope is scheduled to visit at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in northeast Philadelphia, Father Spadaro told Catholic News Service.

The U.S. leg of the trip also will include meetings with homeless people in Washington Sept. 24 and with children and immigrant families at a Catholic school in Harlem when he visits New York Sept. 25.

The choices are not casual and the meetings are not private. The informal and spontaneous Pope Francis obviously enjoys the informal and spontaneous atmosphere the meetings usually have, but it also is clear he truly believes the heart of the Gospel is revealed best in the enduring faith of the

People wait for Pope Francis’ arrival to Banado Norte, a poor neighborhood in Asuncion, Paraguay, July 12. poor and disadvantaged.

Pope Francis knows that believers who are better off have a much harder time publicly acknowledging just how much their lives are the result of God’s undeserved mercy.

When Pope Francis thinks about who he is, being a recipient of God’s mercy is his most important characteristic.

At Bolivia’s notorious Palmasola prison July 10, it was clear prisoners saw him as a powerful advocate who could help pressure the government to speed up the nation’s judicial process, improve prison conditions and put an end to practices that they said amounted to buying and selling justice.

But the pope stood before them and introduced himself as “a man who has experienced forgiveness. A man who was, and is, saved from his many sins. That is who I am. I don’t have much more to give you or to offer you, but I want to share with

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you what I do have and what I love: It is Jesus Christ, the mercy of the Father.”

On his last morning in Paraguay, before celebrating a public Mass, Pope Francis traveled to Asuncion’s Banado Norte neighborhood, meeting families who have almost nothing and who see their humble homes repeatedly threatened each year by flooding. He encouraged the residents in their faith, but he also allowed them to nourish his own reflection on what it means to believe in God. “Faith brings us closer,” he told the residents. “It makes us neighbors. It draws us closer to the lives of others. Faith awakens our commitment, our solidarity. The birth of Jesus changes our lives. A faith which does not draw us into solidarity is a faith which is dead. It is a faith without Christ, a faith without God, a faith without brothers and sisters.

The first to show this solidarity was our Lord, who chose to live in our midst.”

Pope says he’ll read critiques of his economic thought before US trip CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PARAGUAY – Before arriving in the United States in September, Pope Francis said, he will study American criticisms of his critiques of the global economy and finance.

“I have heard that some criticisms were made in the United States – I’ve heard that – but I have not read them and have not had time to study them well,” the pope told reporters traveling with him from Paraguay back to Rome July 12.

“If I have not dialogued with the person who made the criticism,” he said, “I don’t have the right” to comment on what the person is saying.

Pope Francis said his assertion in Bolivia July 9 that “this economy kills” is something he believes and has explained in his exhortation “The Joy of the Gospel” and more recently in his encyclical on the environment.

In the Bolivia speech to grass-roots activists, many of whom work with desperately poor people, the pope described the predominant global economic system as having “the mentality of profit at any price with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”

Asked if he planned to make similar comments in the United States despite the negative reaction his comments have drawn from some U.S. pundits, politicians and economists, Pope Francis said that

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Pope Francis gestures as he answers questions from journalists aboard his flight from Asuncion, Paraguay, to Rome July 12. now that his trip to South America has concluded, he must begin “studying” for his September trip to Cuba and the United States; the preparation, he said, will include careful reading of criticisms of his remarks about economic life.

Spending almost an hour answering questions from journalists who traveled with him July 5-12 to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, Pope Francis also declared that he had not tried coca leaves – a traditional remedy – to deal with the high altitude in Bolivia, and he admitted that being asked to pose for selfies makes him feel “like a great-grandfather – it’s such a different culture.”

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Sept. 19-27 was mentioned frequently in questions during the onboard news conference. U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro publicly thanked Pope Francis and the Vatican last December for helping them reach an agreement to begin normalizing relations.

Pope Francis insisted his role was not “mediation.” In January 2014, he said, he was asked if there was some way he could help. “To tell you the truth, I spent three months praying about it, thinking what can I do with these two after 50 years like this.” He decided to send a cardinal – whom he did not name – to speak to both leaders.

“I didn’t hear any more,” he said.

“Months went by” and then one day, out of the blue, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, told him representatives of the two countries would be having their second meeting at the Vatican the next day, he said.

The new Cuba-U.S. relationship was the result of “the good will of both countries. It’s their merit. We did almost nothing,” the pope said.

Asked why he talks so much about the rich and the poor and so rarely about middle-class people who work and pay taxes, Pope Francis thanked the journalist for pointing out his omission and said, “I do need to delve further into this magisterium.”

However, he said he speaks about the poor so often “because they are at the heart of the Gospel.

And, I always speak from the Gospel on poverty – it’s not that it’s sociological.”

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is being done to the ecosystem,” Pope Francis said.

“The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished” by the effects of pollution, exploitation and climate change.

“And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called ‘the dung of the devil’ – an unfettered pursuit of money,” the pope said.

When money becomes a person’s god, he said, greed becomes the chief motivator of what people do, permit or support. In the end, he said, “it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home.”

In a talk that had harsh words for those who exploit the poor or destroy the environment, Pope Francis also very formally spoke to the indigenous people present about the Catholic Church’s cooperation with the Spanish and Portuguese who settled much of the Americas.

“I say this to you with regret: Many grave sins were committed against the native peoples of America in the name of God,” the pope said. “Here I wish to be quite clear, as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not only for the offenses of the church herself, but also for crimes committed against the native peoples during the so-called conquest of America.”

At the same time, Pope Francis asked the meeting participants to recognize that many Catholics – priests, nuns and laity – willingly gave their lives in service to the continent’s peoples.

Most people, including the poor participating in the Santa Cruz meeting, he said, wonder how they can make a difference in the face of such huge

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Pope Francis and Bolivian President Evo Morales try on traditional hats as they participate in the second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, July 9.

problems and an economic system that seems to shrug off any effort at accountability.

The pope urged participants to look to Mary, “a humble girl from small town lost on the fringes of a great empire, a homeless mother who turned an animals’ stable into a home for Jesus with just a few swaddling clothes and much tenderness.”

The pope and the Catholic Church do not have a program or “recipe” for solving the problems of injustice and poverty in the world, he said. But it is clear that the economy should be “at the service of peoples. Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money.”

“Let us say ‘no’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money rules, rather than service.

That economy kills. That economy excludes. That economy destroys Mother Earth,” he said.

The change the popular movements are working for and the inspiration for Catholic social justice efforts cannot be an ideology, he said; it must be about people.

A person with a heart, the pope said, is moved not by cold statistics, but by “the pain of a suffering humanity, our own pain, our own flesh.”

Pope Francis said the goal must be the creation of “a truly communitarian economy, one might say an economy of Christian inspiration.” Its hallmarks are respect for human dignity, guaranteeing a right to land, housing and work, but also access to education, health care, culture, communications and recreation.

“It is an economy where human beings, in harmony with nature, structure the entire system of production and distribution in such a way that the abilities and needs of each individual find suitable expression in social life,” he said.

Such an economy is not a dream, he said. The people, the talent and the resources exist.

In working toward a new economy, Pope Francis called the popular movements “social poets,” people who are “creators of work, builders of housing and producers of food, above all for people left behind by the world market.”

One does not need to be rich or powerful to impact the future of humanity, he said. The future “is fundamentally in the hands of peoples and in their ability to organize.”

“Keep up your struggle and, please, take great care of Mother Earth,” the pope told the gathering.

“I pray for you and with you.”

At the end of his 55-minute speech, Pope Francis made his customary request that his audience pray for him, but knowing that many of the meeting participants are not believers, he asked those who cannot pray to “think well of me and send me good vibes.”

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Longtime parishioner Mary Coomey enjoys a laugh with Precious Blood Father Matthew Link, installed as pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Parish July 5.

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Jim Stockholm, a longtime parishioner and “minister of communications and public relations,” said the texture of the neighborhood is changing for the same reason the entire city is: the lack of affordable housing.

“We recognize that many people just can’t afford to live here anymore,” said Stockholm, who is helping lead a sophisticated social media campaign that has been effective in attracting younger visitors or parishioners, like Deaton and Gupta. The parish Facebook page promotes the parish’s many ministries and programs, including a Sunday evening “praise and worship” Mass featuring a popular new music ministry that has replaced the traditional performance choir.

Only two years ago the parish population of 900 registered parishioners was 70 percent male and 30 percent female, said Stockholm, and today the mix is closer to 60-40.

“We are even experiencing, and wonderfully so, a lot of children,” he said. The church installed a “crying room” in 2012.

Assembly inactive file,” said California Catholic Conference executive director Ned Dolejsi. “It recognizes that all of our attention right now is focused on the first visit to the United States of Pope Francis and the upcoming canonization of Father Junipero Serra on Sept. 23.”

“It is always a momentous occasion when world religious leaders visit our country,” Sen. Lara said in a statement released by his office.

“There is no doubt that Pope Francis’ visit this fall will provide a much needed space for introspection for many Americans during this critical time.”

“Debating such a bill just before the pope’s visit would have conveyed a terrible message to him and millions of Catholics around the world, contradicting California’s reputation as a tolerant and welcoming place for all people,” said Republicans California Assemblyman William P. Brough and Sen. Pat Bates, in a joint statement.

The 18th-century Spanish Franciscan who established the first nine of the 21 California missions will be the first saint to be canonized in the geographical United States. “He is being canonized by the first Hispanic pope — the first to speak the Spanish language as his native tongue, and a pope who himself is an immigrant’s son,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez noted in a May 2 address at the Pontifical North American College in the Vatican City State.

Pope Francis said in his May 2 homily at the Pontifical North American College: “He was one of the founding fathers of the United States, a saintly example of the Church’s universality and special patron of the Hispanic people of the country.”

The effort to replace Serra’s statue ran into significant opposition in the state legislature, said Ruben Mendoza, professor of the Archaeological Science, Technology and Visualization Program at California State University, Monterey Bay.

‘Debating such a bill just before the pope’s visit would have conveyed a terrible message to him and millions of Catholics around the world, contradicting California’s reputation as a tolerant and welcoming place for all people.’

REPUBLICANS CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLYMAN WILLIAM P. BROUGH AND SEN. PAT BATES Mendoza, who is of both Hispanic Catholic and Yaqui Indian descent, and testified about Blessed Junipero Serra’s contributions to California agriculture and viticulture, his support of the American Revolution, and his importance as a Latino historic figure.

“How can you as a Chicano, who believes in self-empowerment, legitimately advocate for the erasure and removal of the sole Hispanic Catholic figurehead represented in our nation’s capital?” Mendoza asked Sen. Lara during the hearing July 2.

Mendoza noted the lack of historical reference to Latinos during his school education growing up in California and said, “What greater symbol of empowerment than that offered by Fray Junípero Serra himself can we offer our youth? I ask that this legislative body seriously reconsider this politicized effort to minimize and erase one of the most substantive Hispanic and Latino contributions to our nation’s history.”

Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize Blessed Junipero Serra on Sept. 23 in Washington, D.C., during an afternoon Mass on the east portico of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the university mall of at The Catholic University of America.

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Progressive Catholic authoritarianism: An enduring problem

ack in the day (the late 1960s or thereabouts), Father Andrew Greeley – the model of an oldfashioned liberal Catholic – accused Father Daniel Berrigan (the beau ideal of postconciliar Catholic radicalism) of harboring an authoritarian streak in his politics.

By which Greeley meant that, were Berrigan and his radical friends to achieve power, their aggressive sense of moral superiority would lead them to put Greeley and his liberal friends in jail. It was classic Greeley hyperbole, but like some of Andy’s GEORGE WEIGEL polemics, there was a grain of truth in it.

The ‘60s Catholic radicalism that shaped what is now self-styled “progressive” Catholicism did have a pronounced authoritarian streak in it, despite its disdain for traditional forms of authority (including church authority). So as old-fashioned Catholic liberalism morphed into today’s “progressive” Catholicism, forms of authoritarian bullying, shaming, and exclusion that would have appalled 1950s Catholic liberals – who knew what it meant to be stung by the lash of conservative clerical authoritarianism – made their way into the kitbag of contemporary progressive Catholicism. There they remain, an offense against the openness, tolerance and commitment to “dialogue” for which progressive Catholicism habitually pats itself on the back.

The most obvious example of this involves Catholic higher education in the United States. The anti-modernist denunciations of the early 20thcentury “Sodalitium Pianum” damaged reputations and destroyed careers in an attempt to enforce a

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ll of us live with some wounds, bad habits, addictions and temperamental flaws that are so deeply engrained and longstanding that it seems like they are part of our genetic makeup.

And so we tend to give into a certain quiet despair in terms of ever being healed of them.

Experience teaches us this. There’s the realization at some point in our lives that the wounds and flaws which pull us down cannot be simply be turned off like a water-tap. Willpower and good resoluFATHER RON tions alone are not up to ROLHEISER the task. What good is it to make a resolution never to be angry again? Our anger will invariably return. What good is it to make a resolution to give up some addictive habit, however small or big? We will soon enough again be overcome by its lure. And what good does it do to try to change some temperamental flaw we’ve inherited in our genes or inhaled in the air of our childhood? All the good resolutions and positive thinking in the world normally don’t change our makeup.

So what do we do? Just live with our wounds and flaws and the unhappiness and pettiness that this brings into our lives? Or, can we heal? How do we weed out our weaknesses?

There are many approaches to healing: Psychology tells us that good counselling and therapy can help cure us of our wounds, flaws and addictions.

Therapy and counselling can bring us to a better self-understanding and that can help us change our behavior. But psychology also admits that this has its limitations. Knowing why we do something doesn’t always empower us to change our behavior. Sociology too has insights to contribute: There is, as Parker Palmer puts it, the therapy of a public life. Healthy interaction with family,

Precisely the kind of academic closed shop that old-fashioned liberals deplored after ‘Humani Generis’ is now being unblushingly enforced by progressive Catholics on many college campuses. narrow form of Catholic intellectual life; so did the below-the-belt machinations that followed the 1950 encyclical “Humani Generis.” Both of these episodes are now widely and rightly acknowledged as disgraceful violations of evangelical freedom.

But hasn’t something similar been happening on Catholic campuses in recent decades, now that progressive Catholics (who claim to have learned the lessons of 20th-century ecclesial authoritarianism) have the whip hand?

For example: It is widely known that it would be impossible for a young scholar, no matter how talented, to get a tenure-track position in the theology department of certain prestigious Catholic universities, if he or she had, during the course of their doctoral work, or in their early teaching and publishing, promoted “Humanae Vitae” as both true and prophetic. Or had defended John Paul II’s declaration in “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis” that the church has no authority to admit women to the ministerial priesthood. Or had written in support of the catechism’s teaching that homosexual inclinations are a sign of spiritual disturbance. Or had signed any of the recent declarations in defense of marriage classically understood.

Precisely the kind of academic closed shop that old-fashioned liberals deplored after “Humani

Generis” is now being unblushingly enforced by progressive Catholics at Fordham, Boston College, Georgetown, Seattle University and on many other campuses – and, as in the past, Catholic intellectual life is being crippled when it isn’t being reduced to incoherence.

Then there is the Catholic blogosphere. Authoritarian bullying and shaming are certainly not a monopoly of progressive Catholic blog-post writers; there are plenty of ignorant, ill-informed, graceless and narrow-minded folk on the other end of the spectrum. But those boys and girls don’t regularly congratulate themselves on their openness and tolerance of diversity. That the progressive Catholic blogosphere does so is almost as bad as its penchant for misrepresentation and calumny.

I’ve cited it before, but it’s so prescient that it’s worth citing again. Thomas Merton, who was no one’s idea of a traditional or conservative Catholic, was nonetheless attacked by the Catholic left of his day for alleged offenses against the orthodoxies of radicalism. His response, in one of his charming “nonsense letters” to his friend and fellow-poet, Robert Lax, has a certain prophetic ring to it, read at a distance of 48 years: “I am truly spry and full of fun but am pursued by the vilifications of progressed Catholics. Mark my word man there is no uglier species on the face of the earth than progressed Catholics, mean, frivol, ungainly, inarticulate, venomous and bursting at the seams with progress into the secular cities and Teilhardian subways. The Ottavianis was bad but these are infinitely worse. You wait and see.”

Progressive Catholic authoritarianism is, one might say, an enduring problem.

WEIGEL is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Healing – a theory A higher power is needed, and that higher power is found in ritual, communal support, radical honesty, admittance of our helplessness and a turning over of ourselves to a someone or something beyond us that can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. friends, community and church can be a wonderfully steadying thing in our lives and help take us beyond our lonely wounds and our congenital missteps.

Various recovery (12-step) programs also contribute something valuable: These programs are predicated on the premise that self-understanding and willpower by themselves are often powerless to actually change our behavior. A higher power is needed, and that higher power is found in ritual, communal support, radical honesty, admittance of our helplessness and a turning over of ourselves to a someone or something beyond us that can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Recovery programs are invaluable, but they too aren’t the answer to all of our problems.

Finally, not least, there are various theories and practices of healing that ground themselves in spirituality. These range from emphasizing church-going itself as a healing, to emphasizing the sacrament of reconciliation, to recommending prayer and meditation, to counseling various ascetical practices, to sending people off to holy sites, to letting oneself be prayed over by some group or faith healer, to undergoing long periods of spiritual guidance under a trained director.

There’s value in all of these and perhaps the full healing of a temperamental flaw, a bad habit, an addiction, or a deep wound depends upon drawing

water from each of these wells. However, beyond this simple listing, I would like to offer an insight from the great mystic, John of the Cross vis-àvis coming to psychological, moral and spiritual healing.

In his last book “The Living Flame of Love,” John proposes a theory of, and a process for, healing. In essence, it runs this way: For John, we heal of our wounds, moral flaws, addictions, and bad habits by growing our virtues to the point where we become mature enough in our humanity so that there’s no more room left in our lives for the old behaviors that used to drag us down.

In short, we get rid of the coldness, bitterness and pettiness in our hearts by lighting inside our hearts enough warm fires to burn out the coldness and bitterness. The algebra works this way: The more we grow in maturity, generativity and generosity, the more our old wounds, bad habits, temperamental flaws, and addictions will disappear because our deeper maturity will no longer leave room for them in our lives. Positive growth of our hearts, like a vigorous plant, eventually chokes out the weeds. If you went to John of the Cross and asked him to help you deal with a certain bad habit in your life, his focus wouldn’t be on how to weed out that habit. Instead the focus would be on growing your virtues: What are you doing well? What are your best qualities? What goodness in you needs to be fanned fan into fuller flame?

By growing what’s positive in us, we eventually become big-hearted enough so that there’s no room left for our former bad habits. The path to healing is to water our virtues so that these virtues themselves will be the fire that burns out the festering wounds, addictions, bad habits and temperamental flaws that have, for far too long, plagued our lives and kept us wallowing in weakness and pettiness rather than walking in maturity, generosity and generativity.

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

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Facing a new reality The following editorial from the July 12 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly based in Huntington, Indiana, was redistributed

by Catholic News Service in response to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press. It was written by the newspaper’s editorial board.

With the Supreme Court’s sweeping legalization of same-sex marriage June 26, the church is facing a difficult road ahead – a truth spelled out in the pointed remarks by the four dissenting justices in the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

Wrote Chief Justice John Roberts: “It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same-sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority’s ‘better informed understanding’ as bigoted.” Justice Samuel Alito concurred: “I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers and schools.”

These concerns are shared deeply by many Catholics whose understanding of and belief in traditional marriage was the uncontested law of the land and culture a scant 15

years ago. But by reframing the legalization of same-sex marriage as a civil rights battle rather than one that redefines a millennia-old institution serving as the fundamental building block of society, advocates advanced their cause in remarkably rapid fashion and now have declared victory.

So what happens now? We offer five suggestions.

We need to pray. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops published a prayer to St. Thomas More, patron of religious freedom, which includes: “Give us the strength of mind and heart to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened; give us courage in making our voices heard on behalf of the rights of your church and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.”

We can also petition St. Joseph and our Blessed Mother, and we should ask particularly for God’s guidance in our conversations on this challenging topic.

We need to educate. One of the primary tasks facing Catholics will be to educate both ourselves and each other in what the church teaches and why. As USCCB President Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz wrote: “We have perhaps not done enough to teach the beauty of marriage and the purpose and inherent design of family life.” We have an opportunity now to renew our own understand-

ing of church teaching on the sacrament of marriage and to recommit ourselves to engaging in a pastoral education campaign that relates the beauty of this sacrament to others.

We need to be merciful. When it comes to same-sex marriage, tensions and emotions are high on all fronts. As Archbishop Kurtz says, we must remain firm in our beliefs, but also “speak and act with love.”

An attitude of charity, especially to individuals who struggle to accept the church’s teaching on marriage, will most effectively project the message of Jesus.

We need to be prepared. As the dissenting justices indicated, the fundamental right to religious freedom for those unable to accept the redefinition of marriage slowly will be eroded. Lawsuits seeking religious protections will be considered guises for discrimination and will be fought at every turn. Catholics must be prepared for a difficult road ahead.

We need to remember that all is not lost. We are a people of hope, and the church has faced more difficult times than these. While praying, educating and advocating for the truth of Christ, we also must remember to take the long view. We may have suffered a setback in the battle for marriage, but Christ has already won the war. Now is the time to live faithfully and work together to witness Christ to the world.

Supreme Court does not decide what is or is not a sacrament

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n amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010 added acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the list of federal hate crimes.

President Barack Obama signed it into law on Oct. 28, 2009.

It was the first major piece FATHER WILLIAM of federal J. BYRON, SJ legislation in support of the rights of homosexuals and, when passed, was compared with the passage of 1960s civil rights legislation that empowered countless African-Americans.

This law acknowledged the dignity of people regardless of their sexual orientation and, as such, was a development to be welcomed by anyone committed to the principles of justice and human dignity.

News of the passage of that legislation in 2009 triggered expressions of hope from gay-rights activists that same-sex marriage would, sooner rather than later, be legally permissible anywhere in the United States.

That day arrived with a decision of the Supreme Court on June 26, 2015.

Legal recognition of same-sex unions, and calling those unions “marriage,” was promoted as an anti-discrimination issue, but it consistently drew opposition from the Catholic community that sees not discrimination but defense of marriage – a sacramental union between

a man and a woman – as the issue.

In the Catholic understanding, bride (female) and groom (male) confer that sacrament on one another; the priest or deacon is simply the official witness. There is no room for a same-sex union in the Catholic understanding of marriage. Defending this position is now, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, an enormous challenge for the church.

Catholic opposition to same-sex marriage will be more persuasive to the extent that it is explained by spokespeople who are unambiguous in their support of protection by the state of the rights of homosexuals in the matter of hate crimes, workplace discrimination, military service and similar situations.

The Catholic commitment to justice should also support partners in a same-sex union having, as a spouse would have and as the Supreme Court has now mandated, inheritance rights and access to a partner’s hospital bedside in times of illness.

Permitting partners in a same-sex union to have adoption rights is another matter. Here, Catholic opposition should be grounded in sound theory and solid data, evidence that the arrangement would not be good for children. It should rest on discretionary, not discriminatory, grounds and in no way impugn the dignity of any homosexual person.

The church has the ongoing challenge of defending its distinction between homosexual orientation (morally neutral) and homosexual behavior (morally impermissible).

Pastoral explanation of this distinction remains a challenge for the church, which is not to say that it cannot be met.

Marriage, in the eyes of the church, is a sacrament. If the separation of church and state means anything, it certainly means that the state is not free to decide what is and what is not a sacrament, even though the state and other civic jurisdictions do, without objection from the church, issue what are called marriage licenses.

Now that the state has decided to approve and protect same-sex unions, the church can insist that the state has no right to call these unions “marriage,” but it is more difficult now than ever to make that case.

The long-standing acceptance of marriage licenses issued by the state poses a difficulty for the church in making that argument.

Without yielding any moral ground, however, the church could, if necessary, accept a two-tier system, common in other countries, of having Catholics appear before a civil authority in a civil ceremony to be followed by a church ceremony where the sacrament is conferred.

Other religions may, if they wish, welcome partners in a civilly recognized same-sex union to a subsequent religious ceremony of commitment.

Some denominations will surely do that. The Catholic Church will not.

Its refusal to do so must be respected as an expression of commitment to sacramental marriage, not a condemnation of those with other views.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

His email is wbyron@sju.edu.

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Letting worry out the door while trusting in God

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he kingdom of God is within you.

We’ve all heard this truth, but few of us fully understand it or make an effort to put it into practice when we need it. In signing off my letters to friends and others, I often write, “May the Lord be your strength and your joy.”

For me, it is a way of reminding people that they can rely on the Holy Spirit FATHER JOHN to do their heavy CATOIR lifting. In order to protect yourself from needless worry, you have to know how to enjoy the present moment.

I recall this quote attributed to Thornton Wilder: “My advice to you is this, don’t ask why or wither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.

That’s my philosophy.”

And I tend to agree with that sentiment. Yes, God wants us all to carry our cross, but with courage. We need to banish needless worry. A holy person is one who listens to the words of Jesus and strives to obey them.

If you have trouble with this, begin with the simple statement: Yes, Lord, I want to be holy.

Once you say yes to God, your main task is to trust him. Trust is the purest way to show your love. Keep in mind that the enemy of trust is doubt. Doubt can cloud your best intentions and weaken your spirit. It is basically a fear that you may be a fool for believing in the supernatural or in something that can’t be explained.

Don’t be taken in by those who urge you to doubt everything unless you can prove it scientifically. Remember that as Catholics, we believe in mysteries. And keep in mind that others have never been able to prove scientifically that God does not exist. It’s not for you to ask why they pretend to be so sure that there is no God. What you can and should do is take responsibility for your holiness and happiness. Train your mind to believe and to trust God with your whole heart. Don’t live in the mental swamp of doubt and guilt. If you do, I can guarantee you that you’re always going to feel miserable and unworthy.

Strive for a clean conscience and be active about your holiness. To do this, renew your good intentions, go to confession. And then begin the process again, even if you stumble a few times.

Never say, “Why do I have to go to Mass?” That’s the equivalent of saying, “Why do I have to thank God?” Remember that God has given you everything: your life and your ability to love and be loved. Attending Mass is the best way to say thank you to God. The Mass is a ritual of thanksgiving, which comes naturally when you let go of worry, when you learn to trust in what the Creator has in store for you.

God wants you to live gladly because of his love. Put on the will to take charge of your thoughts and be more positive, more uplifting, more trusting. I promise, the reward will be great.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

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In his days Judah shall be saved, Israel shall dwell in security. This is the name they give him: “The Lord our justice.”

PSALM 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

EPHESIANS 2:13-18 Brothers and sisters: In Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, he who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity, through his flesh, abolishing the law with its commandments and legal claims, that he might create in himself one new person in place of the two, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile both with God, in one body, through the cross, putting that enmity to death by it.

He came and preached peace to you

who were far off and peace to those who were near, for through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

MARK 6:30-34 The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

‘Come away and rest a while’

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ccording to USA Today, (May 25, 2014) the ratio of priests to parishioners in 2010 was 1:1,653. That would mean if each priest spent six minutes with each parishioner, he would have two hours and 42 minutes left per week to eat, sleep, pray and rest. No doubt the ratio has increased since then.

When asked by a parishioner, “Why do priests need a day off?” I responded simFATHER WILLIAM ply, “Because NICHOLAS they work on Saturdays and Sundays.”

Rest is an important part of Christian spirituality. God rested on the seventh day, and commanded His People, newly freed from slavery

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in Egypt, to keep the Sabbath holy.

Jesus, after the 72 disciples returned and reported all that they had done, instructed them to take time to rest.

We too are called to take a day of rest; not a day in which we do nothing, but one set aside from our busy lives to build up the communities of family and church, and give a little time to the worship of God; a day in which we rest and pray; a day that, as it did for the Hebrews, manifests our freedom, even from the slavery of worldly concerns.

The spirituality of taking a day of rest has unfortunately been lost in today’s fast-paced, nonstop culture.

We are living in a time in which the vast majority, even of Catholics, does not observe the Lord’s Day as a day of rest and worship. How many of our children learn from their parents that they do not go to Mass on Sunday because they are “too busy” to take a day of rest? Are we so enslaved by our busy schedules and worldly concerns, that we reject the divine invitation to spend time with family and God?

extended period of time is spent to more intently focus on our relationship with God. St. Ignatius of Loyola composed a 30-day period, the “Spiritual Exercises.” Priests and religious take one annually. Engaged couples, take periods from a weekend to a few days as part of their preparation to marry, and “marriage encounter” is available to married couples. Even those preparing for Christian initiation through RCIA or our youth preparing for confirmation, take a day in which they pray, reflect and prepare.

In our “busy” world, how conscious are we about taking time to rest, not just for ourselves, but for our God? Let us resolve to return to that charism of rest for our well-being and our relationship with God. It is Jesus who invites us, as God commands us, to “come away and rest a while.”

FATHER NICHOLAS, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is on temporary assignment as parochial vicar at St. Rose of Lima Parish, Simi Valley. His website is frwcnicholas.com.

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ASUNCION, Paraguay – Christians cannot force anyone to believe, but at the same time, no one can force Christians to stop being welcoming, loving and living in solidarity with others, Pope Francis said.

On the last day of his July 5-12 visit to South America, Pope Francis celebrated Mass with close to 1 million people at Asuncion’s Nu Guazu Park. Artist Koki Ruiz designed the altar and stage, which was made of coconuts, corn cobs, gourds and other plants and vege-

Our society was not always like this. Time was when people took a day of rest. How different might our society be if we returned to that practice; if shops and stores returned to closing on Sundays, if twenty-four hour news took a weekly day off, if the internet was unavailable? Would the anxiety of “resting” be too much to bear?

In Scriptures the command to take a day of rest is a gift from God, to liberate us from the slavery of the burden of work; a day in which we slow down from all distractions and worldly concerns, to spend time with family and God, to physically and spiritually recharge for the week ahead. In some cultures, to refuse a gift is among the gravest of insults, yet it was necessary for God not only to give us a gift, but to add to his Ten Commandments that we accept it.

We have that weekly gift from God, to rest from our busty lives, and for which, in worship, we priests are your servants.

Our Catholic faith also has a grand tradition of the retreat, when a more

tables. The artist built the massive structure at his studio and brought it to the park in pieces.

“Our communion with God always brings forth fruit, always gives life,” Pope Francis said in his homily. A firm trust in God, he said, is learned within a family and within a community that has experienced the transforming power of God’s grace and knows it is called to share that grace with others.

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MONDAY, JULY 20: Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr. EX 14:5-18. EX 15:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-6. PS 95:8. MT 12:38-42.

TUESDAY, JULY 21: Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and doctor. EX 14:2115:1. EX 15:8-9, 10 and 12, 17. JN 14:23. MT 12:46-50.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22: Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene. EX 16:1-5, 9-15.

PS 78:18-19, 23-24, 25-26, 27-28. JN 20:1-2, 11-18.

THURSDAY, JULY 23: Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time.

Optional Memorial of St. Bridget, religious. EX 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b. DN 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56. SEE MT 11:25. MT 13:10-17.

FRIDAY, JULY 24: Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhloof, priest. EX 20:1-17. PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11. SEE LK 8:15. MT 13:18-23.

SATURDAY, JULY 25: Feast of St. James, apostle. 2 COR 4:7-15. PS 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6. SEE JN 15:16. MT 20:20-28.

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FRIDAY, JULY 17 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 18 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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REUNION: Class of 1965 Reunion for Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Redwood City, noon, in school’s large hall; Joan deCesare, (408) 734-8175.

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TO ADVERTISE IN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO VISIT www.catholic-sf.org | CALL (415) 614-5642 EMAIL advertising.csf@sfarchdiocese.org

COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

60TH REUNION: Archbishop Riordan Class of 1955, Presidio Golf Club, 11 a.m., $60 per person. Anyone needing further information may contact Jack McCloskey, (650) 992-9139 or seanabu@att.net.

GRACENTER DAY: “A Taste of Au-

construction

Italian American Social Club of San Francisco

THURSDAY, OCT. 15

PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20

HOME SERVICES

dining

tumn” luncheon and silent auction benefiting Good Shepherd Sisters’ Gracenter, 11 a.m., Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco, www.gsgracenter.org; (415) 3371938.

DALY CONSTRUCTION GENERAL CONTRACTOR Lic. #659078

• Interior & Exterior • Remodeling

Discount to CSF Readers

415.368.8589 Lic.#942181

eoin_lehane@yahoo.com

M.K. Painting Interior-Exterior Residential – Commercial Insured/Bonded – Free Estimates

415-753-6804 Fax 415-759-8911

dalynjk @ msn . net

License# 974682

Bill Hefferon Tel: (650) 630-1835 Painting

roofing

Bonded & Insured

CA License 819191

HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND CA LIC #817607

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235

Cell 415-710-0584 Office 415-731-8065

Bill Hefferon Painting

Bonded Residential & Insured Cell

plumbing

Lic. #742961

TUESDAY, AUG. 11

10% Discount 415-710-0584

CA License 819191 BHEFFPAINTING@sbcglobal.net Seniors & Office 415-731-8065 Commercial

Parishioners

10% Discount to Seniors & Parishioners Residential 10% Discount Serving the Residential

Commercial Commercial

(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227

Bay Area for Seniors over 30 Years

& Parishioners

Serving the Bay Area for over 30 Years

S.O.S. PAINTING CO. Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal Serving the Bay Area

Bill

Lic # 526818 • 30 Senior Discount Hefferon for over Years

415-269-0446 • 650-738-9295 www.sospainting.net F ree E stimates

Bill Hefferon

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 17, 2015

Modern Dentistry | Classic Values

We believe in providing our patients with warm, friendly service in a comfortable setting.

Come see for yourself: drop by the office to have a complimentary cup of coffee or tea with us!

Se habla español

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Call for a free phone consultation, no obligation.

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Good for 90 days. New patients only. Patients must be assessed by Dr. Kim before beginning treatment.

Dr. Stella Kim, DDS SF Dental 800 Santiago St. Suite B, San Francisco CA 94116 415-566-3305

www.sfdental.com