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Lead by example: Pope offers abuse victims open ear, open heart CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

In California, Catholic agencies and other community-based groups have already begun to respond.

“Catholic Charities, working in collaboration with directly affected dioceses and other service organizations, is mobilizing to help these immigrants in centers of hospitality and assistance,” the bishops said. “Many individuals have contacted our parishes and social service agencies asking how they can help. This reflects the best of the American spirit.

“We are particularly concerned about the safety and security of the thousands of unaccompanied children that have crossed our border, without a parent or guardian and without family ties to the U.S. They desperately need our help.”

Some parishes in the Diocese of San Bernardino are serving as temporary way stations for women and children fleeing violence and drug cartels in Central America. For example, St. Joseph Parish in Fontana became the first to accept the refugees, when 25 mothers and their children began temporary stays at an unused convent,

VATICAN CITY – More than a meeting and homily, Pope Francis laid out a clear road map for the church when he celebrated Mass and welcomed abuse survivors to the Vatican.

The morning he dedicated to six men and women who Pope Francis had been abused by clergy was a powerful combination of upholding the importance of having the letter of the law and displaying the proper spirit behind it.

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a German psychologist and psychotherapist who accompanied the two abuse survivors from Germany July 7, said: “This is not only about the letter of the law.

This has to come from the heart if this is to really take fruit” and make real, lasting change.

The homily-plan of action repeated calls for zero tolerance and accountability for the “despicable” crime of abuse and underlined continued commitment to vigilance in priestly formation and better policies, procedures and training for the implementation norms.

But most striking that day, some of the visiting survivors said, were not the pronouncements at Mass, but the heart that went into the patient, oneon-one listening later, in private.

While Pope Benedict XVI began the highly symbolic meetings with groups of survivors with his 2008 visit to Washington D.C., Pope Francis took the practice further.

He invited survivors to the heart of the church in Rome for a real sit-down conversation – devoid of aides and officials, for a total of two and a half hours.

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Migrants sit at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church temporary shelter in McAllen, Texas, June 27. Most of them fleeing violence from their Central American countries, they received temporary food and shelter after being ordered to appear in immigration court.

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The Catholic bishops of California are coming to the aid of children of families fleeing violence in Central America, saying the crisis calls for a humanitarian response.

“In recent days, the people of our state have witnessed the arrival of hundreds of displaced people, mostly women and children, to various locations in Southern California,” the California Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops, said in a statement July 9.

“The bishops of California wish to express our solidarity with these immigrant brothers and sisters who are coming to our state and to offer our prayer that God will deliver them to the safe environment they seek.”

The bishops said they also “recognize our responsibility as a church of compassion to come to their aid and help provide them with the practical and pastoral support they so need.”

These children and families have journeyed to the U.S., fleeing violence and destitution in Central America, but “Sadly, their experience in California has thus far been marked

‘The gravity of this situation transcends politics; it is truly a humanitarian crisis that calls all of us.’ by hostility and near chaos. They are exhausted, afraid and clinging to hope,” the bishop said.

“The gravity of this situation transcends politics; it is truly a humanitarian crisis that calls all of us, Catholics and others of good will, to respond with compassion and with urgent action.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has detained 47,017 unaccompanied children from October 2013 through May 2014, an increase of 92 percent from the same period a year earlier. A draft internal Homeland Security memo from May, reviewed by The Associated Press, said U.S. Border Patrol agents could arrest as many as 90,000 unaccompanied children crossing the Mexican border this year.

President Barack Obama called it a “humanitarian crisis.”

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Farewell to Marin Catholic sisters Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield, Class of 2014 graduate Madeleine Spiess says goodbye to “my favorite people on campus,” Dominican Sisters Miriam, Thomas Aquinas and Maria Jose. After three memorable years assigned to the students of Marin Catholic, Sister Thomas Aquinas and Sister Maria Jose are moving on to new assignments, leaving Sister Miriam, Sister Maria Catherine (not pictured) and three new and yet unnamed sisters to carry on as teachers, spiritual guides and much more. The sisters were brought to campus to fill the religious void left when the school’s last priest president moved. School president Tim Navone said the sisters’ pastoral presence “adds a whole new aspect to our faith program” by showing students young people who have given their lives to their faith.

St. Dominic starts blog for parish community CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

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Author makes a Catholic case for humane treatment of animals CHRISTINA GRAY CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Giving up meat is more than a Lenten sacrifice for Charles Camosy, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, and a lifelong Catholic.

After reading about factory farming practices while a graduate student, Camosy became convinced that if he wanted to be “authentically and consistently pro-life,” he would have to stop eating animals. Ten years later he has written a book he hopes will help convince Catholics to extend the principles of their faith to animals.

In “For Love of Animals; Christian Ethics, Consistent Action,” the 38-year-old moral theologian argues that Catholic ethics on the dignity of life and justice for the vulnerable are principles that can and should be extended to animals, broadening the acceptance of pro-life values in the process.

“Concern for the vulnerable is not a zero-sum game as if, somehow, caring more for animals means caring less for humans,” Camosy said in an email interview with Catholic San Francisco. “Indeed, consistently applying our pro-life principles makes them that more persuasive and effective.”

While Camosy is a vegetarian, the book is less about converting meateaters than it is a call to consciousness about the application of ethics

and action in what some Christians consider a strictly secular arena.

“Christian justice means being consistent when applying our principles,” he said. “As pro-lifers, we care about the fetus because she is a vulnerable, voiceless, victim of violence.” If we care about justice and consistency, we will care about other vulnerable, voiceless victims of violence wherever we find them, he said.

From a Christian perspective, he said, animals may count less than humans, but they still matter quite a lot.

“Yes, we have dominion over animals,” Camosy said. “But whatever dominion means must be consistent with other passages of the Bible which surround it.” Those passages include the pronouncement that animals were considered “good” independent of human beings.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church says it is contrary to human dignity to cause animals unnecessary suffering or death, except in the case of great need, and that our dominion is not absolute but “requires a religious respect for the integrity of creation” (CCC 2415).

Camosy blames cultural forces such as “the overwhelming drive to consume,” violence and the “freedom to do as one chooses” for turning animals into mere “products,” making it easier for Charles Camosy even Christians to turn a blind eye to how their own behavior and consumer habits are contributing to injustice and violence.

“When consumerism dominates our culture as it does today, the injustice done to vulnerable populations becomes virtually invisible,” he said.

Camosy said that even the faithful can be inconsistent in the application of their own ethical principles if it goes against self-interest. The result is ethical contradiction, which secular folk are just as prone.

“People ignore the dignity of the unborn because it would force them to confront uncomfortable positions on abortion – even when they generally favor nonviolence and protection of the vulnerable,” he said.

Camosy also discusses the “culture war” between Christians and animal advocates that he and other Catholic moral theologians including John Berkman of Regis College, the Jesuit school of theology at the University of Toronto, hope to end.

“Many traditional Christians associate animal rights activism as a challenge to their fundamental

beliefs about God and about the value of human life,” said Camosy. “Their rejection of animal concerns becomes a way to defend their faith.”

Camosy provokes pro-lifers, on the one hand, to consider the implications of their consumption practices, and provokes animal advocates, on the other, to consider how their concern for vulnerable animals correlates to their moral outlook on the value of a prenatal human being.

“As I try to show in my book, not only does being pro-life not conflict with a concern for animals, it actually bolsters that concern,” he said.

Mary Eberstadt, a political conservative and a Catholic, wrote the introduction to Camosy’s book and praised it in National Review magazine. She said that Camosy convinces Catholics that “those of us who follow Jesus Christ,” in particular, “should give animals special moral consideration and attention.”

In his apostolic letter “Evangelii Gaudium,” Pope Francis writes: “There are other weak and defenseless beings who are frequently at the mercy of economic and indiscriminate exploitation … We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures.”

“Perhaps I’m reading my own hopes into it, but I think all signs point to new teachings on the treatment of animals from this pope,” Camosy said. “God knows our culture needs a wake-up call on these issues.”

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nity to build students’ confidence so that they can be successful in ways they didn’t dream possible.” The senior class chooses the winner of the Tarantino honor by vote. “I love working in a cohesive community where everyone has the same focus in helping our students develop into self-actualized young adults,” Rick told Catholic San Francisco.

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The “wonder years” for Ben Taft just seem to keep on coming. Following graduation from San Mateo’s St. Gregory School and Junipero Serra High School it was off to Santa Clara University for Ben and upon completion of sociBen Taft ology studies there, eight years as a youth counselor in a program at San Francisco General Hospital.

Still wanting to do more and inspired by male nurses he had met, he enrolled in an accelerated nursing program at Oakland’s Samuel Merritt University for those already holding undergraduate degrees. Ben graduated the nursing program in April and passed his state boards June 12.

Ben’s aim is to specialize in emergency room pediatrics. He is currently seeking a job in Washington, D.C. He is a certified Emergency Medical Technician.

Ben’s mom is Betsey Taft. His dad, Ray, is deceased. His late grandparents who called St. Greg’s home for many years are Rose and August Ruggiero.

“He loves children and is great with them,” Betsey told me. “Ben is such a caring individual and always keeps his wit about him, and always sees the positive in people, that nursing is the next natural step in his life’s journey.”

TEACHER HONOR: Marin Catholic High School presented its Reverend James T. Tarantino Distinguished Teacher Award to Rick Luther at the school’s baccalaureate Mass June 4. Rick has taught math at MC for 17 years inRick Luther cluding honors and AP classes. “Mr. Luther is known for

SPEECH PATTERNS: Brigid O’Brien, a 2014 graduate of Mercy High School, Burlingame, has been honored with a Laurent Clerc Medal for her studies in American Sign Language. The award, named for the man whose work is credited with the beginnings of ASL, is the highest honor awarded to a high school senior for American Sign Language with only six winners named nationwide.

“Brigid not only met, but exceeded the stringent requirements for this award, and maintained an A- average in all ASL coursework while maintaining at least a 3.7 GPA in all other subjects,” Mercy, Burlingame said.

“Brigid showed a continuous desire to learn American Sign Language and a compassion for the culture which made her a leader in classroom.”

Brigid will attend Philadelphia’s St. Joseph University in the fall.

YMI HONOR: Tom Fourie is pictured here with his wife Pat at ceremonies in June naming him the Young Men’s Institute 2014 Man of the Year. The award was presented in June at a Grand Council Convention at Lake Tahoe. “During his tenure with the YMI, Tom has demonstrated leadership and served as his council’s president and the organization’s Grand President,” YMI said. Tom and Pat are longtime members of All Souls Parish, South San Francisco, and Tom has been part of South San Francisco YMI Council #32 for more than three decades. Today, the YMI is active in three states with more than 2,100 members.

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Court may compel priest to break confessional seal in abuse case CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana’s Supreme Court has ruled that a priest may be compelled to testify as to what he heard in the confessional in 2008 concerning an abuse case.

The priest, Father Jeff Bayhi, faces automatic excommunication if he breaks the seal of the confessional. But he also could face jailing if found to be in contempt of the court should he refuse to testify.

In the case, a girl who was 14 in 2008 said she told her parish priest – Father Bayhi, pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish in Zachary – in the confessional that she was abused by a now-dead lay member of the parish.

The girl’s parents sued Father Bayhi and the Diocese of Baton Rouge for failing to report the abuse. The parents won at the district court level about compelling the priest to testify, but lost in Louisiana’s First Circuit Court of Appeals, before the state’s highest court reversed and vacated the appellate court’s decision.

“As you know, one of the great sacraments of healing in the church is the sacrament of reconciliation/confession. It has given hope and comfort to all Catholics throughout the centuries and continues to do so today,” Father Bayhi said in a July 7 statement.

“The seal of confession is one that can never be broken. Through its use the faithful must always be protected, so much so, that as a priest I cannot even say someone has come to confession, let alone divulge the contents of what was revealed.”

The Baton Rouge diocese, in its own statement July 7, said the state Supreme Court violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in its decision.

“A foundational doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church for thousands of years mandates that the seal of confession is absolute and inviolable. Pursuant to his oath to the church, a priest is compelled never to break that seal,” the diocese said. “Neither is a priest allowed to admit that someone went to confession to him. If necessary, the priest would have to suffer a finding of contempt in a civil court and suffer imprisonment rather than violate his

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ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS ARCHBISHOP ORDERS INTERNAL INVESTIGATION OF CLAIMS MADE AGAINST HIM

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis told priests and staff about recent allegations against him involving events alleged to have occurred a decade ago before he began serving in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, calling them “absolutely and entirely false.”

The claims do not involve minors, and they do not implicate any kind of illegal or criminal behavior.

The new allegations were made public in an article posted on Commonweal magazine’s website. The article notes an internal investigation Archbishop Nienstedt ordered after he became aware of the allegations.

“I have ordered that the investigation be conducted for the benefit of the archdiocese.

It would be unfair to ignore these allegations simply because I know them to be false,” Archbishop Nienstedt said in a July 1 statement sent to all priests, deacons and archdiocesan staff, and posted at archspm.org.

Commonweal, a lay-run magazine published in New York, quoted the archdiocese’s former top canon lawyer, Jennifer Haselberger, as saying the claims involve “sexual impropriety on the part of the archbishop.”

In a written response, Archbishop Nienstedt told Commonweal the allegations are nothing more than a “personal attack against me due to my unwavering stance on issues consistent with church teaching, such as opposition to so-called same-sex marriage.”

“The statutes involved in this matter address ‘sacred communications’ which are confidential and are exempt from mandatory reporting.”

DIOCESE OF BATON ROUGE sacred duty and violate the seal of confession and his duty to the penitent.

“This is not a gray area in the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. A priest/confessor who violates the seal of confession incurs an automatic excommunication reserved for forgiveness to the Apostolic See in Vatican City.”

The diocese added, “In this case, the priest acted appropriately and would not testify about the alleged confessions. Church law does not allow either the plaintiff (penitent) or anyone else to waive the seal of confession.

“This matter cuts to the core of the Catholic faith, and for a civil court to inquire as to whether or not a factual situation establishes the sacrament of confession is a clear and unfettered violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution of the United States,” it continued. “This matter is of serious consequence to all religions, not just the Catholic faith. The statutes involved in this matter address ‘sacred communications’ which are confidential and are exempt from mandatory reporting.”

The diocese said, “For a civil court to impinge upon the freedom of religion is a clear violation and the matter will be taken to the highest court in the land by the church in order to protect its free exercise of religion.”

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Full effects of Hobby Lobby ruling will evolve over time PATRICIA ZAPOR

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was barely out of the clerk’s box June 30 before pundits, partisans and parties to related lawsuits were staking out claims about what the decision means.

About 50 cases already before various federal courts hinge on how the ruling is applied. Another 50 or so cases raise related questions about whether nonproďŹ t organizations must comply with the provision of the Affordable Care Act challenged in the Hobby Lobby case, or with procedures established for religious groups to opt out of it.

The 5-4 ruling said Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, the two companies that sued, need not comply with a federal mandate to include a full range of contraceptives in employee health insurance.

Both companies’ owners are Christians whose family members run the businesses and who follow faith-inuenced practices such as closing on Sundays.

They had objected to having to cover all the forms of contraception in the government’s requirement, because some act as abortifacients.

The court said the federal government could have chosen ways to provide uniform access to contraceptives that were less of an infringement on religious rights. It said under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, known as RFRA, such “closely held� companies can assert religious views that protect them from the mandate.

There were some near-immediate effects on pending cases. The Eternal Word Television Network, Mother Angelica’s operation, was granted an injunction allowing it to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage without being ďŹ ned while its legal challenge proceeds.

Half a dozen cases up for review by the Supreme Court were kicked back to lower courts to consider in light of the Hobby Lobby ruling. And a Christian college was granted an injunction while it challenges a requirement to submit paperwork for an accommodation allowing it to opt out of the mandate.

The ruling clearly changed the legal environment for faith-based objections by some for-proďŹ t employers to the contraceptive mandate. But realistically, what else it means will take years to shake out.

The 49-page majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, and a 35-page dissent by Justice Ruth Bader

WASHINGTON – In a letter sent July 14 to all U.S. Senators, Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore stated their “strong opposition to the misnamed ‘Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014’ (S. 2578).� Cardinal O’Malley and Archbishop Lori chair the U.S. ConferCardinal ence of Catholic Bishops’s O’Malley Committee on Pro-Life Activities and Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, respectively. “Though cast as a response to the Supreme Court’s narrow decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the bill ranges far beyond that decision, potentially attacking all existing federal protections of conscience and religious freedom regarding health coverage mandates,� they wrote, according to a press release by the U.S. bishops.

The two bishops identiďŹ ed several areas of concern with the bill, including its unprecedented curtailment of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993; its potential for overriding other federal conscience protections, including the Hyde-Weldon amendment on abortion; its application to coverage mandates beyond the HHS contraceptive mandate; its application to employers beyond for-proďŹ t businesses; and its denial of religious freedom for employees and their minor dependents, not just employers.

Ginsburg set the stage for an immediate outpouring of analysis that covered a range of views. – “Stunningly bad for women’s health and starkly dismissive of women’s own religious beliefs,� wrote Marcia D. Greenberger, co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, in a piece posted on SCOTUSblog, an online forum about the Supreme Court. – “Justice has prevailed,� said a statement from Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky.,

president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Now is the time to redouble our efforts to build a culture that fully respects religious freedom.â€? The archbishop’s statement noted that the court clearly did not decide whether Catholic charities, hospitals and schools would have to comply with a paperwork-ďŹ ling provision in the government’s accommodation for such groups, to which some entities, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, have also objected to on religious grounds. – “Contrary to the doom and gloom about all manner of religious objections to come, the court recognized that RFRA claims would continue to be assessed on a case-by-case basis as they arise,â€? wrote Travis Weber, an attorney who is director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council, on a SCOTUSblog post. “The ‘sky is falling’ response is not credible in light of the court’s opinion.â€?

The sky may or may not be falling, but the ruling left plenty of issues up in the air.

For instance, what will constitute a “closely heldâ€? corporation? About 50 for-proďŹ t companies have pending lawsuits challenging provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The Becket Fund, a religious liberty law ďŹ rm that represents Hobby Lobby and many other plaintiffs against the government, said in its online status report that 49 for-proďŹ t company cases will now return to lower courts for consideration in light of the Supreme Court ruling.

Among the considerations in lower courts will be whether those companies ďŹ t Alito’s construct of “closely held.â€?

In her dissent, Ginsburg said the family-owned Mars candy company, with 72,000 employees, would qualify, though it has not challenged the mandate. Newsweek reported that according to a Copenhagen Business School survey, about 90 percent of U.S. companies might qualify. On the other hand, Newsweek pointed out, the Internal Revenue Service has its own deďŹ nition of “closely heldâ€?: at least 50 percent ownership by ďŹ ve or fewer individuals.

As Archbishop Kurtz noted, Alito said the federal government already has a system – the accommodation – under which nonproďŹ t religious organizations can self-certify that providing insurance coverage for contraceptives violates their religious beliefs. But Alito said the opinion should not be understood to mean any religion-based objection to requirements of the Affordable Care Act would withstand court scrutiny.

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Utah to appeal ruling on same-sex marriage ban CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah’s attorney general said July 9 the state will go straight to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of overturning a federal appellate court’s ruling that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

On the same day in neighboring Colorado, a judge overturned that state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The decision by Colorado District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree “advances a misinterpretation of the institution of marriage in modern society, reducing marriage to a sheer emotional arrangement that can simply be redefined to accommodate the impulses of culture,” said a July 10 statement by Colorado’s Catholic bishops.

“As Catholics, we have a duty to protect and preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman in our laws and policies. We are called to make this stand because redefining marriage will only further erode the family structure of our society,” the bishops added.

Colorado and Utah were two of six states affected by a 2-1 decision issued June 25 by a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said states could not deprive people of the right to marry because they chose partners of the same sex. The other four states are Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Wyoming.

It marked the first time a federal appellate court had struck down state same-sex marriage bans. Crabtree’s ruling marked the 16th time a state judge had overturned its state’s samesex marriage prohibition. In both cases, the judges put their rulings on hold pending probable appeals.

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The judge, Andrew Hamilton, noted, though, that every state judge issuing a ruling in the past year had declared same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional, and that Colorado’s own ban was “hanging by a thread.”

Voters approved Utah’s same-sex marriage ban in 2004. Colorado voters had done the same in 2006.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes chose to bypass the full 10th Circuit in a bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court hear Utah’s case. The high court is under no obligation to hear the appeal. It often does not consider appeals unless there are conflicting judgments from other federal or state courts.

At the federal judicial level, a ruling is expected soon by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Virginia’s statewide ban; the case was heard in May. Federal courts are also due to hear arguments in August and September for cases out of Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio and Tennessee.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert had said he hoped the state would appeal directly to the Supreme Court, his office said recently. He added the state already budgeted money needed to defend the law. It has already spent about $300,000 paying three outside attorneys to defend its same-sex marriage ban, and estimates paying another $300,000 to argue its case before the Supreme Court.

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The first major teaching project of St. John Paul’s pontificate was a series of short talks given between September 1979 and November 1984 focusing on the meaning of the human body, authentic love, sexuality and marriage in light of biblical revelation. In his theology of the body, which is not just about sexuality, but also about how people are called to live as humans, the late pope teaches that the deepest desires of the human heart are for the divine.

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Vatican formally recognizes international association of exorcists CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican formally recognized an international association of exorcists founded by Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest renowned for his work in dispelling demons.

The Congregation for Clergy signed the formal decree June 13 approving the group’s statutes and granting it “private juridical personality,” which recognizes the group’s autonomy as an organization of Catholics not operating in the name of the Catholic Church, but as having some accountability to the Vatican.

The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published the news July 3.

The International Association of Exorcists is headquartered in Rome and was co-founded by Father Amorth and the French exorcist, Father Rene Chenessau.

Father Amorth, who works as an exorcist in the Diocese of Rome, started bringing Italian exorcists together in the 1980s in response to an upsurge in interest in Satanism and occult practices. The aim was to have exorcists gather regularly to exchange their experiences and best practices, the Vatican newspaper said.

The first international conference was held in 1994, and since then, an international gathering has been held every other year. The association claims 250 exorcist-members from 30 different countries, the newspaper said.

The association’s president, Father Francesco Bamonte, a member of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, said receiving Vatican approval

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An exorcism took place in this Bel-Nor neighborhood home in St. Louis, Mo., in 1949. The Vatican June 13 formally recognized an international association of exorcists founded by Pauline Father Gabriele Amorth, an Italian priest renowned for his work in dispelling demons. is a “reason for joy, not just for us members, but for the whole church.

“Exorcism is a form of charity, helping the people who suffer; it is part of, without a doubt, the works of corporal and spiritual mercy,” he said.

The Catholic Church has explicit rules and rituals for exorcism, and any attempt at exorcism must follow those rules precisely. The exorcist – always a priest – also must be explicitly assigned by the local bishop to perform the rite and he must be certain the person is experiencing real demonic possession, and not some kind of emotional or psychiatric disturbance.

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VATICAN CITY – The Congregation for Catholic Education has named Angeline Franciscan Sister Mary Melone, 49, to a three-year term as rector of Rome’s Pontifical Antonianum University, making her the first woman to head a pontifical university in Rome.

The Antonianum is run by the Order of Friars Minor – the Franciscan fathers and brothers – and offers degrees in canon law, theology, philosophy, biblical studies and archaeology, Franciscan spirituality and medieval studies.

In 2011, Sister Melone’s all-male colleagues elected her the first woman dean of a theology department at a pontifical university in Rome. She also is president of the Italian Society for Theological Research.

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, after she was elected dean of theology in 2011, Sister Melone was asked what she thought about “feminist theology” or “women’s theology.”

“I’m against these kinds of labels,” she said, even if “perhaps in the past there was a reason” women theologians had to assert themselves. “Certainly, much more room for women must be guaranteed.”

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Senior Anglican leaders support assisted suicide CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANCHESTER, England – Senior Anglican leaders have voiced their support for assisted suicide just days before a crucial debate on the subject in the British Parliament.

Lord Carey, who served as archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, each said they were in favor of the practice.

Anglican Bishop Alan Wilson of Buckingham also has declared Lord Carey his support for “assisted dying,” making him the first serving bishop of the Church of England to say that doctors should be legally permitted to help their patients to commit suicide.

“Today we face a central paradox,” Lord Carey wrote July 11 in the Daily Mail newspaper. “In strictly observing the sanctity of life, the church could now actually be promoting anguish and pain, the very opposite of the Christian message of hope.”

Under the 1961 Suicide Act, the offense of assisting a suicide is punishable in Britain by up to 14 years in prison.

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But the Assisted Dying Bill, which will be debated during its second reading in the House of Lords July 18, aims to change the law by allowing doctors to supply lethal drugs to people expected to die within six months and who are mentally competent.

The Church of England has opposed the bill on grounds of “patient safety, protection of the vulnerable and respect for the integrity of the doctor-patient relationship.” This position, according to the Church of England’s website, is consistent with successive resolutions against assisted suicide by its governing General Synod.

In his Daily Mail piece, Lord Carey announced that he would dissent from such policy and vote for the bill. “The fact is that I’ve changed my mind,” he wrote. “The old philosophical certainties have collapsed in the face of the reality of needless suffering.”

The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have encouraged the laity to write to politicians to ask them to oppose the bill. Catholic Bishops Mark Davies of Shrewsbury and Mark O’Toole of Plymouth have issued pastoral letters condemning the bill, and Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth has announced that he will open the churches of his diocese for a “Holy Hour” of prayer and adoration July 17.

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Bishop Francesco Milito of Oppido MamertinaPalmi, Italy, said those who bowed during the July 2 procession in Tresilico “are clearly far from even a minimum spirit of pure, correct and authentic faith.”

In protest the local commander of the Carabinieri, the Italian military police, and members of his squad who had been accompanying the procession with the statue of Our Lady of Grace left the procession.

The ritual bow was made in front of the home of Peppe Mazzagatti, 82, sentenced to life in prison, but serving his sentence under house arrest because of ill health. He was convicted in connection with his presumed ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia.

Bishop Milito told SIR, the Italian bishops’ news agency, that “the lack of a correct reaction on the part of participants in the procession, including clergy and people active in the life of the church,” shows just how “hardened and dulled” people’s consciences are to the evil that is organized crime.

Pierluigi Natalia, a writer for the Vatican newspaper, wrote in the July 8 edition that “it certainly was not the first time something like this has happened in a region where the perversion of religious sentiment” is a characteristic of the Mafia.

Because of the cultural ties to the Mafia that some religious processions have had, Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari of Cosenza-Bisignano, president of the Calabrian bishops’ conference, said he would stop all religious processions in the region for at least two years.

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said the latest published interview with Pope Francis, in which he says fighting sex abuse and the Mafia will be priorities of his pontificate, should not be considered a record of his exact words.

According to the article, published July 13 in the Rome daily La Repubblica, the pope also spoke about failings of the modern family, the nature of divine forgiveness and possible changes to the discipline of priestly celibacy.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, promptly released a statement confirming that the article “captures the spirit of the conversation” between Pope Francis and journalist Eugenio Scalfari, but cautioning that the “individual expressions that were used and the manner in which they have been reported cannot be attributed to the pope.”

Suggesting that the “naive reader is being manipulated” by certain portions of the article, Father Lombardi expressed particular skepticism about two statements attributed to Pope Francis: a claim that some cardinals have been guilty of sexually abusing children, and a vow to “find solutions” to the “problem” of priestly celibacy.

According to Scalfari, the article was based on his third private conversation with the pope, an hourlong meeting at the pope’s Vatican residence July 10.

The men’s dialogue began when Scalfari, an avowed atheist, publicly addressed the pope in a pair of articles on religious and philosophical topics over

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged a group of economists and financiers to help reverse the current “throwaway” culture and put people at the center – not the fringes – of monetary strategies and policies. Children, the elderly and young adults are all being rejected “because they’re not useful,” he said.

“Who’s going to be disposed of next? Let’s stop ourselves in time, please,” he said July 12, speaking to a group of experts participating in an interna-

the summer of 2013, and the pope replied in a letter that La Repubblica published last September.

In their latest meeting, Scalfari writes, Pope Francis said “reliable data” indicate 2 percent of Catholic priests are guilty of sexually abusing children.

“This statistic ought to reassure me, but I must say it doesn’t reassure me at all,” the pope reportedly said, three days after his first meeting with a group of sex abuse survivors. “The 2 percent who are pedophiles are priests and even bishops and cardinals. And others, even more numerous, know but keep quiet, punish but do not say why. I find this state of affairs unsustainable and it is my intention to address it with the severity it deserves.”

Pope Francis noted that a large proportion of sex abuse cases take place in the home.

“This situation is frequent in families, practiced by parents, grandparents, uncles, friends of the family,” the pope reportedly said. “Often other members of the family know but do not intervene, ensnared by self-interest or by other forms of corruption.”

The pope reportedly said modern families increasingly fail in their duty to educate the young in the right values.

The pope, who declared in late June that members of the Mafia have excommunicated themselves, also spoke about the church’s relationship to organized crime.

“Some priests tend to pass over the phenomenon of the Mafia,” he reportedly told Scalfari. “Naturally they condemn specific crimes, honor the victims, help their families when they can, but the public and constant denunciation of the Mafia is rare.”

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Individuals, he said, are also being run through a sort of “organizational” distillery – transforming their original essence, making them “lose their humanity” and “become an instrument of the system.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 18, 2014

‘There, in that tomb’: Pope speaks openly of ways his pontificate may end CINDY WOODEN

‘My work is not easy,’ Pope Francis told the Rome diocesan pastoral conference in June.

Smiling, he added: ‘It’s a bit unhealthy.’

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VATICAN CITY – Sympathizing with all the unknowns facing young people today, Pope Francis – half joking – said it is easier for a pope because he knows where his earthly life will end.

“I think the pope’s definitive path is more certain. Where will the pope end up? There, in that tomb,” in St. Peter’s Basilica where most popes are buried, he said June 28 to a group of young men involved in a vocational discernment process run by the Diocese of Rome.

But that is not the way things turned out for St. Celestine V, who until 2013 was known as the last pope to voluntarily resign. When he renounced the papacy in December 1294, after only five months in office, his successor had him imprisoned. He died in custody and, eventually, his remains were interred in L’Aquila, the town where the cardinals had met and elected him pope.

Pope Francis opened a special Celestinian Year July 5 in Isernia, the southern Italian city that claims to be where St. Celestine was born 800 years ago. The date of Pope Francis’ visit was the anniversary of St. Celestine’s election as pope.

Standing outside Isernia’s cathedral, Pope Francis focused on Pope Celestine’s simplicity, his love for the poor and his ministry of proclaiming God’s mercy. The only mention of Pope Celestine’s resignation came in Pope Francis’ final prayer at the end of the 35-minute meeting.

The prayer praised God for choosing Pope Celestine and for having “inspired him to renounce the ministry of supreme pastor. Help us, inspired by him and with his intercession, to always seek your will in prayer and to faithfully safeguard our love for the church,” the pope prayed.

Pope Celestine had issued a decree making it theoretically possible for a pope to voluntarily leave office. A

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Pope Benedict XVI places a white stole on the remains of St. Celestine V, a 13th-century pope, during his 2009 visit to the earthquake-damaged Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L’Aquila, Italy. St. Celestine was the last pope to voluntarily resign before Pope Benedict stepped down in February 2013. Pope Francis has said Pope Benedict’s resignation has opened the door to the possibility of future popes stepping down from their position. week later, he invoked the decree, citing his lack of physical strength and desire to return to his life of prayer as a hermit. More than 700 years later, the possibility of papal resignations still is ensured in the law of the church, although it is not very detailed.

“If it happens that the Roman pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone,” according to Canon 332.2 of the Code of Canon Law. In office for more than 15 months, Pope Francis has not been coy about the possibility of a pope resigning.

In fact, he has said that given how smoothly things have gone since Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by resigning in February 2013, the position of retired pope has become “an institution.”

On the way back from the Holy Land in May, he told reporters that

Pope Benedict had “opened a door, a door to retired popes. Will there be others? God knows. But this door is open.”

As for himself, he said, “I will do what the Lord tells me to do. Pray and seek God’s will.”

“A pope who feels that his strength is failing – because these days we are living longer – has to ask the same questions Pope Benedict asked,” he said.

However, on more than one occasion, Pope Francis also has mentioned the possibility of dying in office.

In an interview June 29 with the Italian television news station TGCom 24, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, said “a few days ago” he and Pope Francis were walking in the grotto under the basilica and passed the chapel where the tomb of St. John Paul II had been before his beatification in 2011.

“He said, jokingly – but underneath

his meaning was clear – he said, ‘Don’t forget, leave that one for me,’” the 70-year-old cardinal said. “And I, joking in return, said, ‘Holy Father, let’s see who gets there first.’”

Cardinal Comastri said it had nothing to do with the 77-year-old pope’s health, even though just a few days earlier the pope cancelled a visit to a hospital and university at the last minute. “For a Christian,” the cardinal said, “physical death flings us into the arms of God... This is why the pope can be so serene about the prospect of his own death.”

Such talk is not new for Pope Francis. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he discussed the topic with two journalists for the 2010 book, “El Jesuita.” Asked if he ever thought of his own death, he responded, “For a while now it’s been a daily companion of mine. I’m over 70 years old and the thread of life I have left on the reel isn’t long.”

Cardinal Comastri told the television station: “Overall, his health is good. The pope is generous and sometimes he accepts more commitments than he has strength for, so once in a while he is forced to say, ‘I can’t do it anymore. I have to stop for a moment.’ But it’s just to catch his breath.”

Pope Francis might not disagree with Cardinal Comastri’s diagnosis.

Earlier in June, opening the annual Rome diocesan pastoral conference, the pope ended with his usual blessing and request that people pray for him. But he added, “My work is not easy” and, smiling, he said, “it’s a bit unhealthy.”

Philippine bishops reiterate call to be more like Pope Francis SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANILA, Philippines – The head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reiterated a call to be more like Pope Francis as the Asian country prepares for the pontiff’s upcoming visit.

Archbishop Socrates Villegas of LingayenDagupan, conference president, said in a pastoral letter that the Philippines should adopt the pope’s guiding motto “Miserando atque eligendo,” a Latin phrase that literally means “by having mercy, by choosing him.”

The conference released the letter to serve as a guide for the faithful’s “spiritual preparation” for Pope Francis’ arrival in January. Archbishop Villegas implored Catholics to place mercy at the center of these spiritual preparations.

“Let us make mercy our national identity,” he said in the four-page letter. “Trust in God’s mercy is part and parcel of our traditional Filipino Christian culture.”

During a briefing with reporters in Manila, Archbishop Villegas and other prelates, including Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, also addressed how spiritual preparations for the pope’s visit can be practiced while one of the biggest political corruption scandals to rock the Philippines plays out.

Archbishop Villegas said: “It is very easy to point the finger at people (accused of corruption) for their

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Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, gestures during a press conference at the Pope Pius XII Center in Manila July 7. The archbishop reiterated a call to be more like Pope Francis as the Philippines prepares for the pontiff’s upcoming visit. crimes, for their sins. But it takes a lot of courage and honesty to be able to say, ‘I also have a remnant of that disposition that I carry in my soul.’ So maybe it is time for individual soul-searching and to purify our consciences, attitudes and dispositions.”

Prominent lawmakers have been charged with plunder for a scheme in which they received kickbacks after allegedly allocating money to bogus

nongovernmental agencies. The $230 million scam opened the door to scrutiny of another funding program created by President Benigno Aquino’s budget officials. It allows for unspent funds to be released immediately for public projects. In early July, the Philippine Supreme Court found parts of the so-called Disbursement Acceleration Program to be unconstitutional.

Cardinal Tagle said practicing honesty would help, especially as part of the bishops’ 2014 “Year of the Laity,” which has a goal of bringing Jesus’ teachings to the secular world.

“In the workplace, in business, in politics, in schools, in the families, hopefully a culture of integrity with some criteria to be observed could be embedded in us,” said Cardinal Tagle.

In a speech during the Philippine bishops’ July 5-7 plenary meeting, Archbishop Villegas said if the church leaders wanted to “walk in cadence with Pope Francis,” then it was time to “reconsider our approach at solving the cancer of Philippine society, which is graft and corruption, by talking more about the beauty of integrity and honesty rather constantly denouncing the evil that we experience.”

The archbishop said Pope Francis has steadily led the church “from being a dogmatic, self-engrossed and authoritative sick institution to being a gentle, outreaching, compassionate and persuasive church through the power of love and mercy.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 18, 2014

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don’t know what possesses me to watch “Real Time With Bill Maher,” for Maher is, without a doubt, the most annoying anti-religionist on the scene today.

Though his show is purportedly about politics, it almost invariably includes some attack on religion, especially Christianity. Even during a recent FATHER ROBERT interview with BARRON former President Jimmy Carter, whom Maher very much admires, the host managed to get in a sharp attack on Carter’s faith. Just last week, his program included a brief conversation with Ralph Reed, the articulate gentleman who used to run the Christian Coalition and who is now a lobbyist and activist on behalf of faith-related causes.

Reed and Maher discussed the social science concerning children raised in stable versus unstable families, and Reed was scoring quite a few points in favor of the traditional understanding of marriage. Sensing that he was making little headway, Maher decided to pull the religion card. Maher said, “Now you’re a man of faith, which means someone who consciously suspends all critical thinking and accepts things on the basis of no evidence.”

Astonishingly, Reed said, “yes,” at which point, I shouted at the TV screen: “No!” Then Maher said, “And I believe that you take everything in the Bible literally,” and Reed replied, “yes,” at which point I said, “Oh God, here we go again.”

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ne of the tactics used by the “evangelists” of the new atheism is to make the claim that we don’t need God to find meaning in life, motives for virtue, or happiness.

One atheist I debated during a Q-and-A session after a talk I gave at MIT informed me that, “Life is very meaningful without God. It’s about CHRISTOPHER wonder and disSTEFANICK covery. And the fact that we get to experience it in this vast universe is a miracle.”

Of course, anyone who knows an atheist knows that a faithless person can have meaningful experiences of life, and more, that they can be virtuous, empathetic, and generous people.

However, it’s important to note that all of that isn’t because of their atheistic worldview. It’s despite it.

If an atheist were to take his claim that there’s no God to its logical conclusion, he’d have to admit that human existence is meaningless.

Something that’s unintended, or an “accident,” is always meaningless.

In the words of the famous atheist, Bertrand Russell, man’s “origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms … no fire, no heroism, no intensity of

Maher then did what I knew he would do: He pulled out a sheet of paper which included references to several of the more morally outrageous practices that the God of the Bible seems to approve of, including slavery. Pathetically, Reed tried to clear things up by distinguishing the chattel slavery of the American south from the slavery practiced in the classical world, which amounted to a kind of indentured servitude. “Oh I get it,” Maher responded, “God approves of the good kind of slavery.” The audience roared with laughter; Reed lowered his head; Maher smirked; and the cause of religion took still another step backward.

Faith, rightly understood, does not involve any surrender of one’s critical intellectual powers, nor is it tantamount to the acceptance of things on the basis of no evidence. What Bill Maher characterizes as “faith” is nothing but superstition or credulity or intellectual irresponsibility. It falls short of the legitimate standards of reason. Real faith is not reason but above reason and inclusive of it. It is beyond reason precisely because it is a response to the God who has revealed himself, and God is, by definition, beyond our capacity to grasp, to see, fully to understand. It involves darkness to be sure, but the darkness that comes, not from an insufficiency of light but from a surplus of light.

As for the Bible, the moment you say, as Ralph Reed did, that you take the entirety of the Scriptures literally, you are hopelessly vulnerable to the kind of critique that Bill Maher raises.

In its marvelous statement on biblical interpretation, “Dei Verbum,” Vatican II says that the Bible is the word of God in the words of men. That laconic statement packs a punch, for it clarifies why the fundamentalist strategy

of scriptural interpretation is always dysfunctional. God did not dictate the Scriptures word for word to people who received the message dumbly and automatically; rather, God spoke subtly and indirectly, precisely through human agents who employed distinctive literary techniques and who were conditioned by the cultures in which they found themselves and by the audiences they addressed. Therefore, to ask, “Do you take the Bible literally?” is about as helpful as asking, “Do you take the library literally?”

A further implication of “Dei Verbum’s” statement is that there is a distinction between, as William Placher put it, “what is in the Bible and what the Bible teaches.” There are lots of things that are indeed in the pages of the Scriptures but that are not essential to the overarching message of the Scriptures. A good example of this would be the references to slavery that Maher cited. The institution of slavery was taken for granted in most ancient cultures and therefore it is not surprising that biblical authors would refer to it or even praise it, but attention to the great patterns and trajectories of the Bible as a whole reveals that the justification of slavery is not something that “the Bible teaches,” which is precisely why the fight against slavery in the Western culture was led by people deeply shaped by the Scriptures.

There is much more that can be said concerning these two complex areas of theology. Suffice it to say the kind of conversation that Bill Maher and Ralph Reed had is decidedly not the best way forward.

FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/ president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

Atheism = empty thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave . . . all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system … the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.’

I’m going to guess that no one called Russell the life of the party. But at least he was consistent.

Furthermore, if the atheists are right that there’s no soul, then man is pure matter. He is no more than a complex system of springs and widgets that emerged from an intergalactic sludge and has achieved selfconsciousness. In the words of George Wald, “Four hundred years ago there was a collection of molecules named Shakespeare which produced Hamlet.”

Of course, we all know that a piece of “stuff” has no inherent value or dignity. As Sir Francis Crick, another consistent atheist said, “‘You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.”

What an utterly one-dimensional view of man!

To walk further down the dark road, if man is no more than matter, he doesn’t really matter. A gathering of self-conscious cells has no more inherent value than an ant or a rock,

and any claim that he’s worthy of love, charity, or even decency would be completely arbitrary.

Within that warped worldview, there’s a perfectly logical consistency to the claims of the atheist, professor at Princeton, Peter Singer, who said it’s justifiable to kill a disabled infant if, “the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed.”

How utterly empty it is to follow the premises of atheism to their logical conclusions. Thank God atheists are wrong. And because they’re wrong, most people, even most atheists, would read Singer, Crick, and Russell and find their statements both repulsive and utterly inconsistent with their experience of reality.

So what is consistent with the atheist’s experience of reality? God. If atheists experience love, joy, the attraction to goodness, and if they act altruistically, it’s not because of their philosophy that life is an accident and man is no more than a collection of molecules.

It’s because they were created with a purpose, they have a soul that is drawn to goodness, they experience the inherent value of their fellow man, and ultimately, because they’re created in the image and likeness of God, just like you and me.

And you don’t have to believe in gravity to experience it pulling you to the ground.

VISIT STEFANICK at www.RealLifeCatholic. com. His column is distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Denver archdiocese.

A biblical model of inspiration

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hat should our national leaders focus on most in order to be more inspiring and effective?

In St. Matthew’s Gospel (11:25), Christ gives us the answer: “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden FATHER EUGENE these things HEMRICK from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.”

Christ says this because while the wise and learned may possess great knowledge, they sometimes act as uneducated persons, lacking character, honesty and authenticity.

Being schooled and learned, and being educated, are not the same thing. A person may be brilliant. He or she may be capable of sending rockets to the moon but can still be uneducated. To be educated is to be cultured, which doesn’t solely mean being capable of storing knowledge.

It means to also know about virtue and ethical principles.

To be educated is to have read a person like Roman orator Cicero or Blessed John Henry Newman on topics that speak of fulfilling our most important duties, such as generating kindness and “speaking with propriety, clearness and elegance,” as Cicero tells us.

It is to have internalized virtues lauded by Christ.

Recently, I asked parishioners, “What inspiring quotes have you heard recently coming from Capitol Hill, or, for that matter, in the news?”

I’m sad to say I heard no answers.

Our nation’s leaders may be wellversed in world events, but they could be much more in touch with the ethical and moral principles praised throughout the ages. These principles are the ones on which inspiring and effective statesmen rest.

At the end of St. Matthew’s Gospel (11:29), Christ goes to the very heart of what education means when he says: “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.”

Unlike some of the “learned” people Christ berates, a truly educated person exudes a sense of docility, avoids a know-it-all attitude and, most of all, is humble. It is this virtue, humility, that St. Gregory the Great praises as the mother and mistress of all virtues. To be truly educated is to meekly know one’s place in God’s plan and to bow before it.

We must wonder how much more inspiring our leaders would be if they were better educated. Would we experience more authenticity, better reasoning and cooperative agreement from them? Would they place greater attention to the needs of the common good? Would they do less foolish finger-pointing and incite less gridlock while moving toward more unified action?

Would they inspire us to appreciate our blessings better and to work together better, following their example?

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JULY 18, 2014

Countering ‘anti-popery’ with grace BROTHER LARRY SCRIVANI, SM

Fourth in an occasional series marking the birth bicentennial of Joseph Sadoc Alemany, the Spanishborn Dominican missionary priest who served as the first archbishop of San Francisco (1853-1884).

San Francisco excited the Victorian imagination. A fairy-tale place that sprouted in one lifetime from a cove among sand hills to a port in the shadow of skyscrapers. Visitors stood in wonder on Market Street imagining how it had advanced so swiftly from the adobe mission at one end to the Palace Hotel at the other.

But Joseph Alemany only had to remember.

During his 35 years as bishop many figures colorful and commanding had filled the public stage but none as long as he had.

At the end of his career when asked about Gold Rush days he would reply that his memories were no better than any others. With these words he declined to remember what was better forgotten.

In those days the churches had stood together as an institution of civic cohesion. The camaraderie uniting the miners existed among priests and ministers.

Just when it seemed like the commotion had settled down by 1859, a new gold discovery at Carson Canyon in “Washoe” (today’s Nevada) reignited the rush for riches. The fabulous Comstock Lode at Virginia City sustained that rush throughout the 1860s.

The newcomers knew nothing of the shared hardships of the 1850s. Old sectarian customs returned and to newcomers a “Romish Archbishop” on his “papal throne” was a threat to the republic.

Then there were Alemany’s priests. Mostly volunteers, they spoke about seven mother tongues.

Some were missionaries but others were adventurers snooping for advantage in the chaos. Critics sensationalized clergy misconduct into lurid public scandals.

Alemany did not challenge his critics to public debates as was the custom in other locales.

Instead he explained his faith. A French miner, Henri Prosper, described one such sermon in

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Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco is pictured in the 1870s-1880s, toward the end of Archbishop Alemany’s tenure.

1871 at Placerville where Alemany addressed a large crowd that included the local “Protestant aristocracy.” Prosper wrote: “He addressed them a discourse, as his Grace knows how, unpretending, devoid of all Latin phrases, within the reach of the intelligence of every one; upholding the supremacy of the Catholic Church, yet taking care to wound the susceptibilities of nobody. In

fine, his Grace during his brief stay here left the impression that he is even too unassuming for a prince of the church.”

Alemany offered the Catholic Christian faith to everyone. He published a leaflet “A Short Daily Exercise for Christians” and recommended it for “all the people of California.”

In 1869, California rested from riches to remember its … centennial. What? How could the society of the ’49ers be a hundred years old in 1869? Because they counted from the foundation of the first Old Mission in 1769, that’s how. Civic attention focused on Junipero Serra as the “first pioneer.” Yes, he was a priest, but one who had lived as a true son of St. Francis.

Five years later in 1876, the United States celebrated its centennial and San Francisco proudly announced to the rest of the country that it too was 100 years old. How? Because Mission Dolores and the Spanish presidio dated to 1776.

Alemany seized the moment. He defended the Indian missions founded by his compatriots. He said their work was not wasted but continued because the Gospel was the only blueprint for society. And finally, that the Catholic faith was in no way incompatible with self-government.

He told his flock that “anti-popery” would pass away as the social witness of lay Catholics defeated the expectations of the critics.

But secretly a feeling of failure nagged him. He volunteered his resignation to the Holy See but Rome declined it.

MARIANIST BROTHER LAWRENCE SCRIVANI lives in Cupertino. His email is scrivani@juno.com.

Disciples with many faces

n a new book, “Jesus of Nazareth,” famed German Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink describes how people in the Gospels relate to Jesus in different ways. Not everyone was an apostle, not everyone was a disciple, and not everyone who contributed to Jesus’ cause even followed him. Different individuals had their own way of connecting to Jesus.

“We may say that the Gospels, especially Mark, are aware of a great variety of forms of participation in Jesus’ cause. There were the Twelve. There was a broader FATHER RON circle of disciples. There ROLHEISER were those who participated in Jesus’ life. There were localized, resident adherents who made their houses available. There were people who helped in particular situations, if only by offering a cup of water. Finally, there were the beneficiaries who profited from Jesus’ cause and for that reason did not speak against it.”

Lohfink then says: “These structural lines that run through the Gospels are not accidental. ... In today’s church, because it is a shapeless mass, we can find all these forms expressed. It is a complex pattern, as complex as the human body. The openness of the Gospels, the openness of Jesus must warn us against regarding people as lacking in faith if they are unable to adopt a disciple’s way of life or if it is something completely alien to them.

In any event, Jesus never did.”

If what Lohfink says is true, this has implications as to how we should understand the church, both as it is conceived in the abstract and how it is understood practically within our parish

Each of us has his or her own history of being graced and wounded, formed and deformed, and so we all come to adulthood with very different capacities to see, understand, love, accept love, and give ourselves over to someone or something beyond us. structures. Simply put, the similarity to Jesus’ time is obvious. When we look at church life today, especially as we see it lived out concretely within parishes, it is obvious that it is made up of much more than only the core, committed congregation, namely, those who participate regularly in church life and accept (at least for the main part) the dogmatic and moral teachings. The church also contains a wide variety of the less engaged: people who practice occasionally, people who accept some of its teachings, guests who visit our churches, people who don’t explicitly commit but are sympathetic to the church and offer it various kinds of support, and, not least, people who link themselves to God in more privatized ways, those who are spiritual but not religious. As Lohfink points out, these people were already around Jesus and “they were not unimportant” to his mission.

This does not mean that there are tiers within discipleship, where some are called to a higher holiness and others to a lower one. There were some centuries in church history where Christian spirituality suffered from exactly this misun-

derstanding, where it was common to think that monks, nuns, contemplatives, priests and other such people were called to live the full Gospel while others were exempt from the more demanding of Jesus’ invitations. The church may never be divided into the perfect and less perfect, the better and the half-baked, full participation and partial participation. The full Gospel applies to everyone, as does Jesus’ invitation to intimacy with him. Each individual chooses how deep he or she will go and some go deeper than others, though ideally everyone is meant to go its full depth.

And, given human history and human freedom, this is not surprising. There will always be a great variation in both depth and participation. Each of us has his or her own history of being graced and wounded, formed and deformed, and so we all come to adulthood with very different capacities to see, understand, love, accept love, and give ourselves over to someone or something beyond us. None of us is whole and none of us is fully mature. All of us are limited in what we can do.

Hence, religiously, nobody can be expected to respond to something that is completely outside of his or her sphere of possibility and so we will inevitably gather around Jesus in very different ways, depending upon our capacity to see and to give ourselves over. Jesus, it seemed, was okay with that.

In his view, there was no such a category as a “cafeteria-disciple” or a “disciple-light.” There shouldn’t be such categories either in our understanding. We are all around Jesus in our different ways and we must be careful not to judge each other.

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

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Identical twins answer the call to priesthood

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gnes Koenigsknecht had the look of an airtraffic controller, the one that strikes so many mothers of the bride.

“We need one round table on the stage,” she instructed on a Friday morning in June, the eve of the big day. Her legion was in full force, a swirl of activity in the church hall: Hauling tables, wheeling chairs, folding linens, slicing carrots. A 72-year-old uncle surveyed the scene, while a 9-month-old nephew scooted about.

Agnes’ mind was on logisCHRISTINA tics, the “controlled chaos” CAPPECCHI she had been anticipating.

But it was clear she was enjoying every minute. “This is all part of the celebration,” she told me.

It was a double celebration for Agnes: not a daughter’s wedding but the priestly ordination of her twin sons. Identical twins with individual callings to priesthood.

She likes to stress that part to the people who express incredulity or ask who had the idea first, Todd or Gary. Agnes and her husband, Brian, checked in with each of the twins as high school freshmen to inquire about their future plans.

In private conversations, both teens expressed an interest in priesthood, unbeknownst to the other. The discovery of their mutual goal was a happy surprise – and an enduring blessing during eight years of seminary.

“It felt natural,” said Father Gary, now 26. “It was very helpful to have a twin brother to spur each other on.”

At 18, the twins from Fowler, Mich., made a big decision, setting out for college seminary in St. Paul, Minn. They made it after much prayer, with great maturity. Their 20s have been defined by

Father John Linden, vocations director for the Lansing, Mich., diocese, can’t resist a playful moment after the ordination Mass of Father Todd, left, and Father Gary Koenigsknecht, holding a chasuble up to their 19-year-old brother, Lee, who just finished his first year of seminary. intense growth: study, sacraments, service. Their work was embedded in a robust fraternity among their fellow seminarians, including some who’swho twin hijinks. One involved drawing a mole above Father Todd’s right eyebrow to replicate Father Gary’s – hence, eliminating the most clearcut distinguisher of the two.

In this day and age, many Catholics and nonCatholics alike are mystified by the priesthood. The

What really happened in the 1934 waterfront strike in San Francisco?

BILL ISSEL

Eighty years ago, the city of San Francisco experienced one of the most important events in the shaping of its contemporary political culture: the strike by waterfront workers from May 9 to the end of July, the settlement of which played a significant role in the relations between labor and business from then until now.

The account of the strike presented in “When waterfront became Archbishop battlefield” in the July 5, 2014, Hanna San Francisco Chronicle is deeply flawed because it fails to acknowledge a fundamental historical reality. Catholic social justice activists who operated largely behind the scenes were indispensable allies to the striking unions, and their efforts were instrumental in crafting a final strike settlement that contained significant gains for the workers.

Archbishop Edward Hanna’s public leadership was recognized by the public and by the media of the time, but two Catholic laymen also played important roles: police commissioner and supervisor Sylvester Andriano and attorney John Francis Neylan. They, like Mayor Angelo Rossi and countless other men and women at the time were active in a church program called Catholic Action. Catholic Action is often remembered for its robust opposition to Communism and its “moral apostolate” campaigns, but it was equally strongly opposed to anti-union, laissez faire capitalism. Andriano convinced Mayor Rossi that as the city’s chief executive, he should insist that the waterfront employers submit to arbitration, not crush the unions by force, and the mayor then refused to agree to employer demands to request that the California National Guard be summoned. (It was the governor

who took that action against Rossi’s advice after two men were shot and killed by police on July 5, “Bloody Thursday.”) Andriano also talked the mayor into insisting that the longshoremen’s union must be an equal partner in the operation of a hiring hall established after the strike was settled.

Neylan, who is today more often remembered for his service as counsel for William Randolph Hearst, used his influence to call the waterfront employers to lunch at his Woodside home. He demanded that they renounce their intransigent anti-union position, arguing that their take-no-hostages strategy was fundamentally unjust according to religious principles governing labor relations. Also, he reminded them, continued refusal to settle would permanently damage the city’s future business reputation. Neylan’s actions in 1934, like his previously serving as the pro bono attorney representing Communist Party member Anita Whitney in challenging California’s criminal syndicalism law, were direct and explicit expressions of his Catholic social justice principles.

These Catholic Action activists were motivated by faith-based principles, and their willingness to act on their beliefs played a major role in ensuring the positive terms of the strike settlement at the end of July. Today, when few residents of the Bay Area realize the long and positive role played by Catholics in the creation of one of the nation’s most important urban areas, these Catholic activists of the 1930s deserve to be remembered along with the heroic strikers and other fellow San Franciscans who participated in this episode that contributed to the progress of social justice in the city of St. Francis.

ISSEL is professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University, visiting professor of history at Mills College, and author of “Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in 20th Century San Francisco.”

prospect of celibacy and obedience seem increasingly foreign, baffling even. But when you talk to Father Gary and Father Todd, there is no sense of angst or sacrifice. There is deep contentment bubbling into boyish joy. They can’t stop grinning.

Above all, the twins exude freedom – the freedom that comes from answering your call from God, going all in and never looking back.

“They’re both very intelligent,” Bishop Earl Boyea, head of the Lansing, Mich., diocese, told me. “They engage people very easily. There’s a simplicity about them. They’re not complicated.”

That may be what I appreciated most, and it flows from their rural upbringing, a lifestyle that is fully integrated. Everything is home grown at the Koenigsknechts’ organic dairy farm, where Agnes gardens, bakes and fills the basement with canned foods.

She and Brian raised 10 kids in an old farmhouse that, absent a TV, centered on conversation, euchre and prayer.

The fruits of their efforts were on full display June 14, when the twins received their holy orders. Agnes looked radiant in a layered ruffle dress that shimmered in the light, her silver hair neatly curled under.

As Father Gary and Father Todd processed into St. Thomas Aquinas Church in East Lansing, Mich., backlit by a two-story stained-glass mural of Jesus, I was overcome by the moment: the trumpets, the incense, the opening hymn, “Go Up to the Altar of God.” Once they reached the sanctuary and looked out at their family, filling a block of front-and-center pews, the twins beamed.

In a heartbeat, I felt a measure of Agnes’ maternal pride.

“How do you feel?” I asked her after Mass.

“Beyond words!” she said.

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and editor of SisterStory.org, the official website of National Catholic Sisters Week.

LETTERS Commending novelist Follett The letter from Richard Bodisco (‘Countering sectarianism,’ June 20) gave short shrift to the excellent novels by Ken Follett that he recommended. Having read both “Fall of the Giants” and “Winter of the World” in recent months, I have to say that Bodisco’s summary of the books in that they “surface cause and effects of the historical problems that plague us today” hardly captures the depth of the main themes nor does it begin to indicate a proper respect for the skill and selective sensibility of this novelist whose careful research of historical events has not deadened his compassion for individuals swept up in the currents of war and social change.

He manages to keep the reader entranced with his very fascinating story of several families plowing their way through the most challenging problems of the 20th century. Follett I think ought to be commended for his brave and thoughtful attempt to understand and interpret the difficult dilemmas in personal terms. He deals with racism, sexism, the class system, prejudice of many kinds and does well with all of them. As a woman I appreciated his sympathy for the women’s suffrage movement: An issue now on the back burner in the U.S. but a long and bitter struggle for equality here and in the U.K. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

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SUNDAY READINGS

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time He spoke to them another parable. ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.’

MATTHEW 13:24-43 WISDOM 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. For you show your might when the perfection of your power is disbelieved; and in those who know you, you rebuke temerity. But though you are master of might, you judge with clemency, and with much lenience you govern us; for power, whenever you will, attends you. And you taught your people, by these deeds, that those who are just must be kind; and you gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins.

PSALM 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 Lord, you are good and forgiving.

You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness to all who call upon you. Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer and attend to the sound of my pleading.

Lord, you are good and forgiving.

All the nations you have made shall come and worship you, O Lord, and glorify your name. For you are great, and you do wondrous deeds; you alone are God. Lord, you are good and forgiving.

You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and fidelity.

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an good people fix bad situations by getting rid of evil? Like a determined housecleaner, should they sweep the dirt out once and for all? Shall they police the promotion of virtue and protection from vice? Shall they restore law and order by condemning the evildoer, and harshly punish sin as a deterrent?

I have known a parish or two which has self-appointed “faith police” whose task is to enforce compliance of all parishioners – including the pastor – with a certain code of correct thoughts. Faith police have a clearer idea than anyone else about what evil consists of, and who the lawbreakers are.

What is the approach the readings give for dealing with SISTER ELOISE Wisdom 12 presumes ROSENBLATT, RSM evil? that God sees evil as sin, as deviation from divine law. God is the judge with masterful power to condemn and punish sin. In Genesis 18, we recall that humorous story of Abraham bargaining with God to spare Sodom

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Turn toward me, and have pity on me; give your strength to your servant.

Lord, you are good and forgiving.

ROMANS 8:26-27 Brothers and sisters: The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. And the one who searches hearts knows what is the intention of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy ones according to God’s will.

MATTHEW 13:24-43 Jesus proposed another parable to the crowds, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.

When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my

barn.”’ He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’” He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.” All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables, to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world. Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil.

The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.”

Fixing evil from destruction: “What if there are a hundred good people … what if there are only 50 good people … what if there are but 10 good people, will you destroy the city?” In other words, Sodom was so evil that not even 10 righteous people existed to justify its survival.

But in Wisdom 12, the inspired writer is like a defense attorney and takes a somewhat different tack with God. Instead of bargaining with God like a street seller, this pastor pleads the criminals’ cause by cozying up to God, affirming God’s compassionate power and capacity to be merciful. “You judge with clemency and with much lenience you govern us.”

The pastor utters a “prayer for relief” to God the judge. Like the closing argument by a public defender, the prayer here is “let them off easy” – this gang of perps in orange suits and bound in leg chains. The argument? Since God is so powerful, God can afford to be compassionate. These are not just strangers, but God’s own children, so shouldn’t they be given a chance to repent instead of harshly punished?

This tack seems to have worked with God, so it gets recorded in the Book of Wisdom for all future public defenders of errant human beings. It’s the same spirit as the psalmist: “You, Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness.”

The parable in Matthew considers a more complex problem: How does God view evil in the world, and

what, correspondingly, is the stance a God-eyed believer takes? What is the origin of evil? Evil is not just noncompliance with God’s law. Here, it’s the pervasiveness of venality, corruption, violence, pathology, divisiveness, exploitation, dishonesty, cruelty and destructiveness in human institutions, traditions, cultures, the church and the family. How did these weeds infest a field of good wheat? “An enemy has done this.” What is the proportion of wheat to weeds?

What does it feel like to know you are wheat, but you can’t see anything but stalks of weeds around you?

The master says to us as servants or to us as wheat: “Wait until harvest.” Good and evil are so intermingled that evil cannot be uprooted without destroying the good. What impatience the God-eyed believer feels! Evil takes a lot of work to deal with. It has to be identified, constantly watched, distinguished from the wheat and its presence endured. Even at the end time, the angels will have more work dealing with evil. It has to be collected, tied, bundled and burned.

Good wheat can simply be gathered in.

One take on the parable: Evil may be having a field day, but good wheat, know who you are and stand your ground.

ELOISE ROSENBLATT is a Sister of Mercy, a Ph.D. theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, JULY 21: Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and doctor. MI 6:1-4, 6-8. PS 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23. MT 12:38-42.

7-8, 12-13. PS 36:6-7ab, 8-9, 10-11. MT 13:1017.

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

TUESDAY, JULY 29: Memorial of St. Martha, virgin.

JER 14:17-22. PS 79:8, 9, 11 and 13. JN 11:19-27 or LK 10:38-42.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23: Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Bridget, religious. JER 1:1, 4-10. PS 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15 and 17. MT 13:1-9.

SATURDAY, JULY 26: Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary. JER 7:1-11. PS 84:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a, 11. MT 13:24-30.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30: Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor. JER 15:10, 16-21. PS 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18. MT 13:4446.

SUNDAY, JULY 27: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1 KGS 3:5, 7-12. PS 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127128, 129-130. ROM 8:28-30. MT 13:44-52.

THURSDAY, JULY 31: Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, priest. JER 18:1-6. PS 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab.

MT 13:47-53.

THURSDAY, JULY 24: Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel (Charbel) Makhloof, priest. JER 2:1-3,

MONDAY, JULY 28: Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. JER 13:1-11. DT 32:18-19, 20, 21. MT 13:31-35.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1: Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & doctor. JER 26:1-9. PS 69:5, 8-10, 14. MT 13:54-58.

TUESDAY, JULY 22: Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene. MI 7:14-15, 18-20. PS 85:2-4, 5-6, 7-8. JN 20:1-2, 11-18.

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SURVIVORS: Pope offers abuse victims open ear, open heart FROM PAGE 1

“The pope gave so much time. There was no hurry, there was no clock watching. Each survivor got the time they needed to tell the pope their story or whatever they wanted to say,” said Marie Collins, who accompanied one of the two survivors from Ireland for the closed-door papal meeting.

“It was wonderful to see the pope listening so intently, for the survivor to feel heard and have the opportunity to say everything they wanted to say,” said Collins, who is also a survivor of clerical abuse.

The eye contact, the silent reflection and how the pope reacted all showed how “it must have been hugely emotional for him as well as for each of the survivors,” she said.

This seemingly simple feature of limited distractions and formalities ended up being an unexpected turning point for many of the visitors, Collins said, even “life-changing” for another who later spoke to the press.

Collins and Father Zollner, both members of the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, said listening not just to groups but to the personal stories of individual survivors is a message to all bishops of what they should be doing in their own countries.

“Now every victim in the world can say, ‘Look, you have to do what the pope did,’” Father Zollner said.

Collins said: “It’s a win-win situation.

For the survivors it can be very healing to be listened to” and when church leaders hear and learn more about the nature and effects of the abuse, “it can help them” in seeing what should be done.

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Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet, Ill., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People, said no matter what gets done for victims or perpetrators, “it won’t repair the damage.” Marie Collins, a clerical sexual abuse survivor from Ireland and a member of the new Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, was present during Pope Francis’ July 7 meeting with six men and women who had been abused by clergy. “It was wonderful to see the pope listening so intently,” she said.

But because what can be done and how to go about it are not always clear, dozens of church leaders meet every year for the Anglophone Conference on the Safeguarding of Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults.

Founded in 1996, the annual conference brings together experts and church delegates from around the globe, to share best practices and develop solid norms in the prevention and handling of the scandal of sexual abuse.

Collins and Father Zollner were among the speakers at the July 7-11 conference, which was being held in Rome the same week the pope met with victims.

Deacon Bernard Nojadera, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, said the Anglophone conference “is like a think tank” where people can bounce ideas around and have a healthy dialogue.

There can never be a “cookie-cutter approach,” said Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the U.S. National Review Board, because different cultures have different attitudes about how to talk about sexuality.

But, he said, common sense patterns emerge and, with input from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the conference “brings a realistic sense of what can be done.”

Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Joliet, Ill., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People, said in one sense, responding to the abuse crisis should seem very simple. After all, “it is shepherding and a caring for the flock, but the milk is out of the bottle,” he said, adding, “Humpty Dumpty is broke.”

No matter what gets done for victims or perpetrators, “it won’t repair the damage,” he said.

Cesareo said that’s why so much talk must look at the future.

“How will the church prevent the same level of abuse? We should be prepared for the future and that’s more difficult,” he said.

“This is just planting the seeds,” Deacon Nojadera added.

Problems will still exist and some forms of abuse will happen, he said, but the church must have “a culture that’s reliable,” where everyone knows what warning signs to look for and where to get help.

In the church’s decades-long evolution of grappling with the reality of abuse within its own walls, Father Zollner said laws won’t matter unless there is “a whole change of culture within the church,” one that is no longer “drawn to secrecy,” cover-ups and siding with the perpetrator, but to openness to the truth and listening to victims.

Helping church leaders listen to survivors is key to getting leaders to see the importance of norms and enforcing them, he said.

Hearing their stories “changes your life and your attitude toward the whole issue,” he said, “if your heart is not made of stone.”

A heart hardened to human suffering and misery is one of the worst things that can happen, the pope has said, and that’s perhaps why, in his homily for victims, he prayed “for the grace to weep, the grace for the church to weep and make reparation.”

Along with reparation, therapy and support, Father Zollner said, “There is nothing that is more important than an open ear and an open heart, because this is the way reconciliation can start.”

BISHOPS: Catholic leaders say refugee crisis calls for humanitarian response FROM PAGE 1

according to a post on the Catholic conference website.

Parishioners, under the guidance of local Catholic Charities personnel, will help the refugees arrange travel to the homes of relatives or others in the United States until an immigration court can decide whether to grant them asylum or not.

Federal officials believe that groups of migrants will continue to arrive throughout the summer, the bishops said.

“The most affected dioceses will be asking parishioners and others for donations of time and money,” they said.

“We ask you to respond to this call. In this critical moment, Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan reminds us of what we are called to do.”

In San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone called upon all people of the Bay Area to pray for a peaceful and just solution in solidarity with migrants, especially the children, according to a press release.

In Washington, a petition delivered July10 to members of Congress, President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson called for a humanitarian approach to the surge of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala that has overwhelmed the government’s capacity to handle them.

In Mexico City, the Vatican’s secretary of state pledged full support for addressing the issue of child migrants streaming out of Central America in search of safety and family reunification in the United States.

Pope Francis, meanwhile, described the situation a “humanitarian emergency” and called for the international community to act. Speaking at Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat July 14, Cardinal Pietro Parolin repeated a recent call of bishops in five countries for Catholics and society at large to lend a helping hand for the young migrants.

To make a contribution, contact Catholic Charities of California, Inc./Children and Families Emergency Fund, 1107, 9th Street, Suite 707, Sacramento, CA 95818.

Catholic News Service contributed.

Central American refugees flee violence CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Central American deportees describe desperation in their daily lives, in which violence is reaching intolerable levels and increasingly impacting children, who can be killed for coming from the wrong gangcontrolled neighborhood, or forced into lives of crime as gangsters.

“They roughed me up,” said Oscar Mancilla, 17, another deportee waiting to be processed. “(The gangs) ask you to join, even if you don’t want to.”

The violence is forcing some families across Central America to send their children unaccompanied toward the United States; sometimes they pay a smuggler to accompany them. Often, though, they often just wish the youngsters well as they steal rides through Mexico, where the risks range from robbery to rape to having their limbs cut off by the northbound trains they ride.

Migrants now leave Central America with something new, however: hope, especially that this time the children arriving will receive asylum or permission to stay, even though there has been no change in U.S. policy. Coyotes – human smugglers – are likely responsible for spreading such rumors.

“It’s a lie, but it’s been propagated throughout the country,” said Carlos Flores Pinto, director of the border project at Casa Alianza (Covenant House) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

‘In any place we go, there’s violence.’

RAFAEL ARDON, 22

San Salvador, El Salvador “Mothers and fathers decided this is the opportunity to save their children or, if they (parents) were already (in the United States,) the chance to see their kids again,” he said.

El Salvador has experienced a similar story of poverty and violence, especially with gangs, which have their origins in the Salvadoran immigrant enclaves of Los Angeles and were brought back with deportees in the 1990s. A gang truce produced a pause in the violence by driving down the homicide rate by 40 percent in recent years – but the truce has since unraveled.

“It strengthened the gangs’ leaderships,” while everyday crimes such as extortion continued, Father Salomon Perez, pastor of San Jose de Flores Parish in Tonacatepeque, on the outskirts of San Salvador, said of the at-times unpopular truce, which was also attacked for a lack of transparency.

Father Perez has helped negotiate a truce between local gang leaders and the community to reduce extortion attempts and curb killings. Still, parishioners spoke of suffering when someone leaves the community.

“In any place we go, there’s violence.

On top of that, there’s enormous poverty, which generates more violence,” said sales representative Rafael Ardon, 22.

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SISTERS OF THE HOLY NAMES OF JESUS AND MARY: Sisters of the Holy Names celebrated jubilees June 1 in the congregation’s chapel at Convent of the Holy Names in Los Gatos. Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester presided. Pictured at left: Sister Mary Louise Guenther, SNJM, 80 years; Sister Mary Anselm Grover, SNJM, 70 years, and, standing, Sister Therese Ottman, SNJM, 70 years. Not available for the photo was Sister Helena Gleeson, SNJM, 70 years. At right: Celebrating 60 years as Sisters of the Holy Names were, back from left, Sister Dorothy Nolan, SNJM; Sister Dianne Fagan, SNJM; Sister Rita Josephine McKernan, SNJM; Sister Elizabeth Davis, SNJM; Sister Jacqueline Quinn, SNJM; Sister Joan Bourdon, SNJM. Pictured front from left are Sister Miriam Mark Eddy, SNJM; Sister Rosemary Everett, SNJM; Sister Patricia Bussman, SNJM; Sister Inez Sherwood, SNJM. Not available for the photo was Sister Mary Alice Hein, SNJM.

CAPUCHIN FRANCISCANS ELECT NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL: The Capuchin Franciscans’ Western America Province of Our Lady of Angels announced election of a new provincial council June 11. The Capuchin friars have served the people of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, where Father Michael Mahoney is now pastor, since its founding in 1926, at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi where Father Harold Snider is current rector as well as in chaplaincy and other ministries in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The congregation’s province offices are also in Burlingame. Pictured from left are Father Tran Vu, OFM Cap., second councilor; Father Robert A. Barbato, OFM Cap., vicar provincial; Father Harold N. Snider OFM, Cap., provincial minister; Father Antonio E. Marti, OFM Cap., fourth councilor; Father Michael Mahoney OFM, Cap., third councilor.

NEW CHRISTIAN BROTHERS DISTRICT ANNOUNCED – SAN FRANCISCAN ELECTED NEW PROVINCIAL: The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools has announced the new District of San Francisco New Orleans in the LaSallian Region of North America. It combines the districts of San Francisco founded in 1868 and New Orleans-Santa Fe founded in 1921.

Brother Donald The Christian Brothers established the Johanson, FSC Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Sacred Heart High School in 1874 later becoming Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in cooperation with the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1987.

Christian Brother Donald Johanson, a graduate of St. James School and a 1964 graduate of Sacred Heart High School where he has also taught, has been elected provincial of the new district. “I grew up in San Francisco, Brother James am from St. Kevin’s parish,” Brother Joost, FSC Donald told me in an email. He continued: “The Institute of the Lasallian Brothers of the Christian Schools has seen many changes since its founding in 1680. The July 1, 2014, joining of two large districts in the United States is one more event in our long history that tries to meet the educational needs of young people, especially the poor; needs that are brought to us as Brother Tom we respond to the ‘signs of the times.’

Westberg, FSC I am confident, as St. John Baptist de La Salle was those many years ago, that this work is God’s work and that it is especially important today.

It will continue because we do this work with so many committed partners in our mission of education.”

Christian Brother James Joost a graduate of St. Anne

School and a 1979 graduate of Sacred Heart High School has been named auxiliary provincial. “I have very fond memories of the St. Anne Novena, serving Mass and devotions with my brothers and friends of the time; and have a special regard for Mrs. Noreen O’Reilly, who inspired me in eventually majoring in English and becoming a teacher,” Brother James said.

O’Reilly, who died 10 years ago, was eighth grade English teacher at the school. “My mom is still an active member of the parish.” Brother James said brothers and lay teachers who taught him at Sacred Heart “especially for religion class” were instrumental in nurturing his vocation.

Currently there are seven brothers living in the San Francisco Christian Brothers community with four working in Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and one at DeMarillac Academy. Two brothers are retired. Brother Tom Westberg is director. The new district’s composition will include 134 De La Salle Brothers, more than1,300 Lasallian partners, and more than 12,000 students in 20 primary, secondary, and postsecondary educational ministries in states including California, Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, and Oregon as well as in Mexico.

Operations for the new district will emanate from the congregation’s wine country properties: De La Salle Institute Mont La Salle, 4401 Redwood Road, P.O. Box 3720 Napa 94558-9708; (707) 252-0222; www.delasalle.org.

‘FRANCIS OF ASSISI’: Dominican Father Augustine Thompson at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco on his new book “Francis: The Man and the Myth,” Aug. 6, 7 p.m.

The event is sponsored by St. Dominic Church and the Dominican community and is part of the Dominican Speakers Series, bringing leading Catholic thinkers, celebrated authors and Father Augustine theologians to the Bay area. Father Thompson is currently a professor Thompson, OP

SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: Sister Rosemary Campi, PBVM, 70 years, right, and Sister Joan Riordan, PBVM, 60 years, marked jubilees with Mass and reception at the congregation’s Presentation High School in San Jose. Sister Rosemary is a former member of the faculty at San Francisco’s St. Anne and St. Agnes schools and the sisters’ Presentation High School. Sister Joan taught for almost 50 years in schools throughout the Bay Area. The sisters are joined in the picture by retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins who assisted in the special rites. of history at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in history, the University of Oregon and the University of Virginia. He is the recipient of the prestigious Italian Flaiano Prize for outstanding achievement in literature.

Contact Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor, at frmichael@stdominics.org.

SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: Sister Donna Bebensee, BVM, and Sister Victoria Smurlo, BVM marked 50 year jubilees as religious July 13 at the congregation’s Mount Carmel Motherhouse Chapel in Sister Donna Sister Victoria Dubuque, Iowa. The Bebensee, BVM Smurlo, BVM sisters entered the congregation July 31, 1964. Sister Donna is a former member of the faculty at San Francisco’s St. Paul High School. Sister Victoria served as senior program planner at San Francisco’s Stonestown YMCA. SALESIANS’ NEW PROVINCIAL: Salesian Father Ted Montemayor has been named provincial of the Salesians of Don Bosco in California and Texas. Father Angel Fernandez, superior general of the order announced the appointment June 23.

Father Montemayor professed vows as a Salesian in 1972 and was ordained a priest June 11, 1983, at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco where Salesians of Don Bosco have served Father Ted Monthe Italian Catholic community and temayor, SDB people of North Beach since 1887.

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ST. SEBASTIAN CHURCH, GREENBRAE: San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly was the main celebrant of a vocations Mass on June 29 on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The Mass was attended by more than 150 people including 14 Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, four of which have served on the faculty of Marin Catholic High School over the past three years. Concelebrated by St. Sebastian pastor Father Mark

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ST. MARK PARISH, BELMONT: Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice celebrated the 50th anniversary of retiring pastor Holy Ghost Father Al Furtado. Pictured with Bishop Justice and Father Furtado are Knights’ color corps members.

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

‘FRANCIS OF ASSISI’: Dominican Father Augustine Thompson at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco, on his new book “Francis: The Man and the Myth,” 7 p.m. The event is sponsored by St. Dominic Church and the Dominican community and is part of the Dominican Speakers Series, bringing leading Catholic thinkers, celebrated authors and theologians to the Bay area. Father Thompson is currently a professor of history at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley where he received his doctorate in history, the University of Oregon and the University of Virginia.

He is the recipient of the prestigious Italian Flaiano Prize for outstanding achievement in literature. Contact Dominican Father Michael Hurley, pastor, at frmichael@stdominics.org.

SUNDAY, AUG. 10 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Paul Fejko, organ and piano.

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

THURSDAY, AUG. 14 PRO-LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life meets second Thursdays except December 7:30 p.m., St. Gregory Worner Center, 138 28th Avenue at Hacienda, San Mateo. New members welcome.

Jessica, (650) 572–1468; themunns@ yahoo.com.

SATURDAY, AUG. 16 HANDICAPABLES MASS: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at a Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, in lower halls of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and their caregivers are invited.

Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne Borodin, (415) 239-4865.

SUNDAY, AUG. 17 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Suzy Webster and Heidi Fleischbein, organists. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public, freewill offering accepted at the door. www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

Ample free parking.

SUNDAY, AUG. 24 SATURDAY, AUG. 16 HANDICAPABLES: Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant and homilist at a Handicapables Mass and lunch, noon, lower halls St. Archbishop Mary’s CatheCordileone dral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Gough Street entrance. All disabled people and caregivers invited.

Volunteers are always welcome to assist in this cherished tradition. Joanne, (415) 239-4865.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20 PASTA: A tradition of the old Mission, in historic Bernal Heights – the “spaghetti lunch” at the Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St. just up from Cesar Chavez, noon. All the great pasta, meatballs and salad you want, family style, $9. Bring your friends!

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

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3-DAY ENGAGED ENCOUNTER: San Francisco Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. Take time to prepare for your marriage. All faiths welcome; scholarships available. Visit www. sfcee.org; email or catholicsfee@gmail. com; call Dave and Lorraine Hayes, (650) 619-0689.

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CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4 p.m., Christoph Tietze, organist. (415) 567-2020, ext. 213. All recitals open to the public. Freewill offering accepted at the door. www.stmarycathedralsf.org. Ample free parking.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of June HOLY CROSS COLMA Mario Anthony Alas Joseph Alioto Rose M. Anzalone Rachel Respicio Apalit Mariano N. Aspillera Jocelyn S. Avanzado Larry A. Baldridge Gloria Bertolucci Balzarini Joven C. Bareng Alice F. Beeker Thelma H. Bennett Ashton Best Harold Todd Bevan Helen M. Bodeman John Bonjean Patricia Bowler Grace Ann Brown Victoria A. Butler Angela Campos Chien-Ping Chen Adrienne Chavez Coleman Dell Ora Conlan Carmela F. Corritore John I. Daly Barbara Segale Davini Gregoria DeLapina Sonia Delgadillo Mary S. Dizon Hannelore Edwards Peter Farragher Farid Y. Flefel Kathleen R. Fleming Joveno N. Floresca Aldo Fornesi Raul Franco Sr. Joseph Mary Galli Janet T. Geraty Lorraine Gillis Margaret E. Giuliani Pilar Vaez Graham Anna Marie Grilli Elvira V. Grimm Leoncio F. Guituan

Laura Hernandez Cornelius Hill Margaret C. Hodgdon Esperanza C. Jaboneta Tillie Johnson John Kaplan Diane Downey Kast Timothy Knadler Vera Kosovich Elen Letizi Melba A. Lissi James Kenneth Lynch Rina Maciel Irene Jerusha Mariani Chris M. Marinos Frank E. Marques Darwin Michael McTighe Aurora G. Medrano Alfred M. Medrano Robert N. Molinari Gladys E. Moore Dorothy J. Morgan Rose M. Mulhall James A. Muzio Magdalena J. Naguit Isabel Neff Helen “Day” Noceti Mamerta S. Norona Rosita Obligacion Mary Jane Ortiz Robert Raymond Padilla Dorothy A. Papina Dennis Wayne Pawson Angela T. Pedro Delfina Pena Socorro Perez Merilyn Pezzuto Angela Pineda Anthony Pineda George R. Plante Gino L. Pucci Morris Quinlan Elizabeth Margaret Ravella Carl E. Reed Edmond Reynolds Octaviano “Tavis” Rios Colleen Risner

Bernard A. Ritter George P. Romios Stanley N. Russell James F. Russi Helen J. Sacco Charles Khalil Sahourieh Jesus Sanchez Baby Jesus Santiago Josephine M. Sarcletti Joseph Scalmanini Gloria E. Simoncini Virginia Jean Spano Vincent Dante Spano, M.D. H. Robert Stahl Jung Ja Suh Margaret P. Tay Richard Carl Thompson Manuel Tirado Teodosia D. Zamora Jrouh I. Zumot

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL Ida Cardellini Arruda Norma Louise Capella Mariliz Carneiro Marilyn Kennedy Charbonneau Sarah Crawley Hearn Tom Jenkins Robert R. Lollick Edward P. Medeiros George “Duke” Mitchell Mary Elizabeth (Cull) Molinari Tuscolo Nuti Fedora Barbera Taormina Lilyon B. Tonkoff Adolfina Ocampo Villavicencio

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Armando Juan Carranza Cesarea Naranjo De Sosa James Harrington

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, August 2, 2014 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. John Ryan, Celebrant St. Catherine of Siena

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.