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Off to World Youth Day! A group of 12 Marin Catholic High School students, two campus ministers and two Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist at the airport July 24 before boarding a plane to fly to Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day. Events were to kick off July 25, with Pope Francis joining the pilgrims July 28.

WASHINGTON – In light of recent incidents of violence and racial tension in communities across the United States, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited all dioceses across the country to unite in a Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities. He has also appointed a special task force to support bishops in marking that Day of Prayer, and more broadly, in promoting peace and healing during this time of great strain on civil society. In his response to the racially-related shootings in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, noted the need to look at ways the Catholic Church can walk with and help these suffering communities. The initiatives announced July 21 begin to address that need. “I have stressed the need to look toward additional ways of nurturing an open, honest and civil dialogue on issues of race relations, restorative justice, mental health, economic opportunity, and addressing the quessee prayer, page 15

Blessed Teresa canonization: Local Jesuit wrote music for papal Mass Sept. 4 Tom Burke Catholic San Francisco

Jesuit Father Bob Fabing continues his long relationship with the Missionaries of Charity with writing music for Mother Teresa’s canonization Mass in Rome Sept. 4 as well as concelebrating the Mass with Pope Francis. Father Fabing also had music duties for Mother Teresa’s funeral Mass in 1997 and her beatification in 2003. He and the future saint “became close friends in the early 1980s Father Bob when they first met in Kolkata” Fabing, SJ where Father Fabing gave a series of talks at a Missionaries of Charity’s novitiate, according to Genesis, alumni magazine of St. Ignatius

College Preparatory, San Francisco where the priest graduated in 1960. “I met Mother Teresa about 80 times, all over the world,” Father Fabing told Oregon Catholic Press, the group that publishes his music. He said he “went and knocked on the door” of the sisters’ novitiate in San Francisco 38 years ago and has been celebrating 7 a.m. Mass there every Wednesday since. A Mass setting by Father Fabing named for Mother Teresa will be used for the canonization Mass, according to OCP marketing materials. “I wanted a melody that all of those who Mother Teresa reached out to—the poor: physically, emotionally, and spiritually—could relate to and which would bring them all to Christ at his eucharistic liturgy,” said Father Fabing about the composition. He will be a vested concelebrant at the canonization Mass, in the sanctuary with Pope Francis, he

told Catholic San Francisco. “Mother Teresa and Pope Francis are major figures of hope for me,” Father Fabing told Catholic San Francisco, noting he is grateful the pope has indicated the two will be able to meet while he is in Rome. Songs that Father Fabing wrote over the years with Mother Teresa in mind and that will be sung Sept. 4 include “Your Song of Love;” “Fill Me with Your Love”; and “Only Your Love.” According to Oregon Catholic Press, songs written by Father Fabing still popular today include “A Canon in Thanks”; “Open Our Hearts”; and “Your Song of Love,” already named as an element of the canonization Mass. Father Fabing will also be handling music for days of celebration leading up to the canonization Mass. Father Fabing is director of the 30-Day Retreat Program in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius at the Jesuit Retreat Center, Los Altos.

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Correction “Fiorina: 2016 election choices ‘excruciating,’” July 14, Page 6: The article incorrectly stated that The Susan B. Anthony List endorsed Donald Trump for president against Hillary Clinton. President Marjorie Dannenfelser supports Trump but the organization has not formally endorsed him, the organization said.

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco website, sfarch.org, will livestream EWTN’s coverage of World Youth Day events in Krakow, Poland. Just go to the front page of the website to watch—keep in mind the nine-hour time difference when scheduling your viewing. World Youth Day is July 25-July 31. Pope Francis will join the gathering July 28. This gathering of young people from around the world is held every three to four years and includes teaching, eucharistic adoration, prayer, and Mass with Pope Francis. American bishops who will present catechesis this year include New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Boston Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, Chicago Archbishop Blaise Cupich, Bishop Robert Barron, and eight others. About 40,000 pilgrims from the United States, including 85 bishops, are attending the event. This is the largest US contingent ever to a World Youth Day outside North America.

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Is Pokémon Go a tool for evangelization? Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

Is your parish church a Pokémon Go stop? Chances are—yes! At Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, director Monica Williams has directed employees to greet Pokémon Go players with respect and perhaps share something of the history of the Catholic Pikachu. cemetery. “If they do look up and look around, they can see what an extraordinarily beautiful place this is. That is the best possible outcome. You appreciate these iconic places in our faith community,” Williams said. At the Monastery of Perpetual Adoration in the Haight Ashbury, the painted iron representation of the monstrance above the gates glows with a white light in the Pokémon Go game. Just about every church, of any denomination, is a Pokémon Go stop. At St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, a destination for tour buses, docent and greeter Patricia Hernandez said, “I’ve been seeing more and more people coming in and when they come in, I see the game.” Even the pope’s window is a Pokéstop: Catholic News Service tweeted “Swiss Guard better be on alert.” Since its release July 6 by Niantic Lab, Pokémon Go has become so popular that within a couple of weeks

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it is on pace to pass Twitter in number of users. The app uses augmented reality, a real world environment that incorporates computer-generated elements, such as GPS data, sound and video. Pokémon Go takes users through their real-life neighborhoods in order to “catch them all.” Points, prizes and levels are gained by catching Pokémon and by going to Pokéstops – tagged locations in the real world where users can stock up on gear and points for the game.

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“We’ve definitely seen an increase in the visitors who are walking around staring intently at their cell phones,” said Williams, director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. At Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, there are a several Pokémon Gyms. The gravesite of famous San Franciscan, New York Yankees baseball player and Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio is a Pokémon Gym, she said. “What I’ve told our staff to tell visitors is, ‘If you can be careful and you can be respectful, you can be here. If you can’t, you have to leave,’” Williams said. The cemetery has a lot of trees and uneven ground, so it is important for people to walk carefully. “More importantly, the cemetery is

sacred space and we have an obligation to protect the nature of that.” What should the church’s response be to Pokémon Go? In the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Julianne Stanz, director of the Department of New Evangelization, says it should be go – as in “go and make disciples of all nations.” Stanz and members of her department created a Pokémon Go resource guide for parishes, “A Parish Primer: Responding to Parish Questions and Concerns.” The four-page guide gives a description of Pokémon Go, a definition of key words, the history of Pokémon and an explanation why parishes should care about the game. The guide is available at www.gbdioc.org/images/Pokevangelization.pdf. The game builds community as people congregate but, as always, one should keep in mind the usual cautions in dealing with strangers, experts say. The game is catching fire across generations. “It’s something I can do with my sons,” said one mother, a tourist with her two teenage sons, catching Pokémon at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park. “Anytime we have an encounter with another human being it is an opportunity for evangelization,” said Father Ryan Kaup, pastor of Cristo Rey parish in Lincoln, Nebraska. “Cristo Rey being a Pokéstop brings people to our doors who never would have come otherwise.” -Catholic News Agency and Catholic News Service contributed.

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The first graduating class of St. Timothy School, San Mateo, 1966, met for a 50th reunion July 8-10. Alumna Deborah Rutkowski-Hines spoke with me via email. “We have already begun planning for our reunion next year which will take place in Portland,” Deborah said. “We were busy doing things together all weekend long. We had a blast as usual!” Deborah, who now lives in St. Junipero Serra Parish in Lancaster, said right away that the class staying in touch has been “a group effort.” At St. Tim’s, Deborah was “given the precious gift of true friendship,’ she said, noting the classmates were like siblings. “We were in the same class every year, so we had to learn to live with each other and get along. When you also consider that all of our parents were friends, because they went to the same church, we were part of something that was central to our community.” The era was a time of crowded Catholic schools and classes of 40-50 students. A dozen of St. Tim’s first graduates were able to attend the July reunion. “At this point, all of us know each other’s life stories and each other’s tragedies,” Deborah said. “Our reunions are a time of renewing our friendship, so we remember throughout the year that we have true friends who will helps us through anything that we go through. Of course one of the biggest highlights is when we have someone new show up, which happens every year.” While Deborah’s time at St. Tim’s helped her as a Catholic, it hasn’t all been smooth spirituality sailing. Ascribing herself a “survivor of St. Tim’s,” she noted that others of her class feel the same way. “I believe that all people must go through a crisis of faith of some sort to really accept God in their heart,” Deborah said. “All of us have engaged in group talks about religion and faith and questioning God. I maintain that even though there were some rough times while we were growing up, all of us were eventually led to have a strong sense of faith. That happened because we went to St. Timothy’s.” RETIRING: Mercy High School, San Francisco says goodbye to John Stering “after a long and successful teaching career,” the school said. John came to Mercy in 1985. “Over the years, many students were lucky to have had John as a teacher. Because he taught all levels of Spanish as well as the AP classes and Native Speaker classes, many alumnae will fondly remember his classes, his wonderful sense of humor and of

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More than 700 Native American Catholics gathered in Burlingame July 20-24 to celebrate their faith and tribal traditions and discuss their unique goals and challenges during the 77th Annual Tekakwitha Conference. The national conference takes its name from St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a young Mohawk/Algonquin woman baptized into the Catholic faith April 5, 1676 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI Oct. 21, 2012. This year’s theme, “St. Kateri – Bridge Between Our Faith and Our Traditions” invoked her legacy in daily Mass, prayer, music and educational presentations. Mission Dolores curators Andrew Galvan and his nephew Vincent Medina, whose Ohlone ancestors are among the 5,000 indigenous Californians who helped build the mission, helped open the conference by greeting the delegates in Chochenyo, the Ohlone tongue. The event drew eight Catholic bishops and 50 priests to the altar at the conference Masses, many of whom have worked in ministry to Native American populations, burdened by high rates of unemployment, homelessness, drug abuse and suicide. Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark of Los Angeles offered a straightforward apology to the delegates representing indigenous nations throughout North America in his opening welcome. “As a bishop of California I want to ask your forgiveness, the forgiveness of all Native Americans but especially of California Native Americans, for the failures of the church and whatever the church, past and present, has done, either directly or indirectly, to participate in, cooperate with, or indifferently ignore the oppression, the enslavement, and the genocide, yes genocide, of Native Americans. I ask your forgiveness,” he said. “Here in California, in the last few years, the bishops have become more and more aware of the history and the needs of our Native American communities and we are resolved to see that the truth is told and our care for Native Americans improved.”

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A University of Notre Dame study that said just 3 percent of Latino children attend Catholic schools while Latinos comprise 35 percent of U.S. Catholics— and 67 percent of practicing Catholics aged 18-34— caused James Everitt to sit up and take notice. As an administrator at Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton, Everitt was already committed to the school’s policy of providing generous financial aid to low income families but the Notre Dame report in 2009, “To Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic Schools, and Educational Opportunity,” drove him to do more, he said. In just a few years, the Sacred Heart Sophie Scholars Program has changed the lives of several dozen students and young adults and is on track to double in size in the next year. The Sophie Scholars program is a middle school enrichment program that prepares students from under-served neighborhoods for the competitive environment of Sacred Heart Preparatory. It is named for the 18th century Frenchwoman St. Madeleine Sophie Barat of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the religious order which founded Sacred Heart Preparatory. A major piece is the program’s close cooperation with Catholic elementary schools, Everitt said. “It has been important for me for it to be a really Catholic program,” said Everitt, who after nearly nine years as principal recently was appointed director of Mission Initiatives and Institutional Planning. Sophie Scholars enrolls sixth, seventh and eighth grade students primarily from two Catholic schools, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School in Palo Alto which draws its students from East Palo Alto. It also works with the Beechwood School, a private school supported by the California Family Foundation, and with the Holy Family School in Redwood City. Some public school students are also accepted. “The kids have the skills. They’re already pretty talented,” said Elaine Barry, director of the Sophie Scholars Program, who noted the rising juniors who completed the Scholars program and are enrolled in Sacred Heart Preparatory currently have an average GPA of 3.7 which is about a half of a point higher than the average student there. “It’s just access to time in the classroom. When given access, these students soar. They meet or exceed their peer group in high school.” The goal is for 20 students per year to successfully complete the Sophie Scholars three-year middle school program and be accepted, virtually tuition-free for

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four years of high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory, Everitt said. “Our goal is 20 kids a year in the freshman class. We’re close,” Everitt said. The rising junior class at the high school, the class of 2018, is the first set of graduates from the Sophie Scholars Program in its current expanded and more intensive iteration, Barry said. The program has been in existence in some form for more than a decade. Sophie Scholars have proved their mettle: There are about 29 students now in college, and college graduates are working at Tesla, the Mexican consulate, as engineers, in computer science and as recruiters, she said. The Sophie Scholars program attend a six-week summer program each summer. During the school year, they meet once a week with a Sophie Scholar tutor and also attend enrichment activities and a Saturday class. To qualify, Sophie Scholars must have

demonstrated academic talent and commitment, and be eligible for the federal free or reduced lunch program. Barry is also director of the Barat College Access Fund which provides am average of $15,000 a year to Sacred Heart Preparatory graduates who were Sophie Scholars. The fund was created by teachers who realized former Sophie Scholars were falling short in the financial aid needed for items such as texts, airfare, even tuition and room and board. Dania Reed now works as a recruiter for a start-up company called MapR. She said because of the Barat fund, she graduated on time. “I am forever grateful for the help of Dr. James Everitt and the staff at SHP for having such an amazing fund set into place and truly keeping their promise to help me get into college but also being a vital part in helping me finish,” Reed said.

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California bishops support death penalty repeal lot measure to repeal the death penalty, 52-48 percent. With 747 people on death row, California has the largest population of death row inmates in the nation. It would save $150 million a year by halting the practice, according to the Yes on 62 website. However, no one has been executed in California since 2006. The existing law was approved by voters in 1978. The bishops said their opposition to the death penalty is also rooted in “our unshakeable resolve to accompany and support all victims of crime” for whom the suffering over the loss of a loved one due to a criminal act rarely ends with the execution of the convicted. Beth Webb, the sister of a woman gunned down by her ex-husband in a Seal Beach hair salon with eight others in 2011 favors repealing the death penalty. “I’m here to say that neither me nor my Mom will find closure in the death of another human being,” she said. Speakers at the Yes on 62 campaign launch in Los Angeles included former death penalty proponent Ron Briggs, who led the campaign to bring the death penalty to California in 1978.

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California Catholic bishops announced their support July 14 for Proposition 62, a voter initiative on the November ballot that would repeal the death penalty. “During this Jubilee Year of Mercy, we, the Catholic Bishops of California support Proposition 62 which would end the use of the death penalty in California,” the bishops said. Proposition 62, “The Justice That Works Initiative” would replace the death penalty with life without possibility of parole and would require convicted murderers to work and pay restitution to their victims’ families. The bishops also announced their opposition to Proposition 66, on the November ballot, which would expedite executions in California. “All life is sacred – innocent or flawed – just as Jesus Christ taught us and demonstrated repeatedly throughout his ministry … Each of us holds an inherent worth derived from being created in God’s own image. Each of us has a duty to love this divine image imprinted on every person,” the statement said.

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Pictured outside San Quentin State Prison on a 2013 pastoral visit by a delegation of California Catholic bishops are Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, and San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. If approved by voters, California would become the 20th state to ban the death penalty. The initiative faces a divided electorate. In 2012, California voters defeated Proposition 34, a bal-

Dr. Death: Sinister one-stop shop opens in Berkeley “I think that what we have said about assisted suicide is predictably happening, which is [that] some individuals in the healthcare industry will take advantage (of these laws) and see this as a business opportunity, and take advantage of people and families at their most vulnerable time,” Tim Rosales, political director for the Patients Rights Action Fund, said.

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The United Nations Association Film Festival has selected the documentary of female genocide, “Petals in the Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls” to screen at its film festival Oct. 20-30 in Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Palo Alto and San Francisco. “As they are focused primarily on human rights, we believe this is an excellent platform to raise awareness, broaden the reach of the film and shed light on the condition of an endangered people in one of the most populous, culturally and economically vibrant countries in the world, modern India,” said Nyna Pais Caputi, Bay Area Catholic film maker who grew up in India. Because of a preference for boys, “50 million women were killed in India in the last century, that is more than the number of people killed in World War I

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Latino Sacramento bishop who died in 1991 declared ‘venerable’ Tonia Borsellino Catholic News Agency

The cause for sainthood of a Sacramento auxiliary bishop known as the ‘Bishop of the Barrio’ advanced earlier this month when Pope Francis authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Servant of God Alphonse Gallegos. Venerable Gallegos, who was a priest of Los Angeles for many years, was auxiliary bishop of Sacramento from 1981 until his death in 1991 in a car accident at age 60. One miracle through his intercession is needed for beatification and two for canonization. “This is wonderful news for all those who knew him,” Father Eliseo Gonzalez, vice-postulator of Venerable Gallegos’ cause of canonization, told Catholic News Agency. Father Gonzalez is a member of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, in which Bishop Gallegos was ordained a priest in 1958. Venerable Gallegos’ cause for canonization opened in December 2005. Venerable Gallegos was born Feb. 20, 1931, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was a twin, the eighth of 11 children. He was born with a “severe myopic condition.” Though he had many surgeries, the bishop’s poor vision remained chronic. Venerable Gallegos’ parents moved the family to Watts in Los Angeles in the early-1930s where they began attending San Miguel parish, which was run by the Order of Augustinian Recollects. He entered the order as a novice in 1950. His vision deteriorated so much that in the seminary he prayed the rosary because he could not read his breviary. Despite some doubts about his preparation for the priesthood, he was ordained a priest May 24, 1958 in the Order of Augustinian Recollects, given his holiness, humility and community spirit, Father Gonzalez said. He first served as a priest for eight years in the order’s major seminary, Tagaste Monastery, in Suffern,

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New York, and then as novice master for the Augustinian Recollects’ Province of St. Augustine in Kansas City, Kan. In 1972, he returned home to be pastor at his home parish in Watts, a predominantly poor and African American area that remained plagued with gangs and crimes after the Watts riots in the 1960s. The priest made it his priority to focus on the local children, greeting them daily at the parish’s school, according to his biography. On the weekends, Venerable Gallegos would spend time with the lowriders of the community, blessing their cars and encouraging the Hispanic youth to pursue a college education. He also took care of the elderly and opened his home to anyone in need. He later served at Cristo Rey parish. Word spread of his service, and in 1979 Venerable Gallegos was appointed director of the newly-created Hispanic affairs office of the California Catholic Conference. In this role he worked with bishops in both New Mexico and California on issues including immigration and evangelization. St. John Paul appointed him auxiliary bishop of Sacramento in 1981. “He was Hispanic, yet he ministered to a very diverse group of people,” Olympia Nunez, Venerable Gallegos’ long-time secretary, said. “We had a Korean community, Chinese, African-American, Hispanic, and he was the person in charge of all these groups.”

Nunez said the bishop was incredibly kind and outgoing, and never complained about his disability. “Once a year for his birthday, everyone got together and celebrated with different ethnic foods and customs,” Nunez reflected. “He brought all these people together.” The bishop’s episcopal motto was “love one another.” He advocated for the culture of life, and personally paid Catholic school tuition for the poor. Father Gonzalez called Venerable Gallegos an inspiration and example of hope and fortitude for all. “If he was able to accomplish such great things, why can’t we? With God’s help we can also accomplish great things.” On Oct. 6, 1991, Bishop Gallegos and his driver were returning home from Gridley, about 60 miles north of Sacramento. They had car troubles, so the two got out and started pushing the car to the side of the road. Another vehicle, driving in the same direction, struck the bishop. More than 2,000 people were present at his funeral, and lowriders formed one of the longest funeral processions ever documented, according to his biography. In addition to his pastoral concern for the poor, Venerable Gallegos was known for his commitment to the culture of life. He had been at a gathering in Gridley to pray the rosary for an end to abortion the day he died. With the announcement of the bishop’s cause advancing, Nunez said: “He doesn’t belong to just Sacramento or California, he now belongs to the United States in general, and to the world, as an example of a good, humble, generous human being.” The faithful are encouraged to visit Venerable Alphonse Gallegos’ body at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in downtown Sacramento, his life-size statue in Bishop Gallegos Square, and a mini-museum displaying the bishop’s personal items in Oxnard, some 65 miles west of Los Angeles.

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Angels with sickles and God’s Fury

ere’s a haunting text in the Book of Revelation where poetic image, for all its beauty, can be dangerously misleading. The author there writes: “So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and cut the earth’s vintage. He threw it into the great winepress of God’s fury.” A fierce angel cleansing the world! God in a boiling anger! What’s to be understood by that? Like so many other things in scripture, this is to be taken seriously, but not literally. Clearly the text, as other texts in scripture FATHER ron which speak of God’s jealrolheiser ousy, anger, and vengeance, has something important to teach, but, like those other texts which have God jealous and angry, it can be dangerously misunderstood. What it doesn’t teach is that God gets angry, that God is sometimes furious with us, and that God wreaks havoc on the planet because of sin. What it does teach is that the chickens always come home to roost, that our actions have consequences, that sin wreaks havoc on the planet and on our own souls, driving us to anger, self-hatred, and lack of self-forgiveness, and that this feels as if God is angry and punishing us. God doesn’t get angry, pure and simple. God is not a creature, another existent among others, a being like us. God’s ways are not our ways. This has been affirmed from Isaiah through 2,000 years of Christian tradition. We cannot project our way of being, thinking, and loving unto God. And nowhere

is this truer than when we imagine God as getting angry. Mercy, love, and forgiveness are not attributes of God, as they are for us. They constitute God’s nature. God doesn’t get angry like we do. Scripture and Christian tradition do, of course, speak of God as getting angry, but that, as Christian theology clearly teaches, is anthropomorphism, that is, it is a projection of human thought and feeling into God. In saying things such as God is angry with us or God is punishing us for our sins, we are not, in essence, saying how God feels about us but rather how we, at that moment, feel about God and how we feel about ourselves and our own actions. For example, when St. Paul tells us that when we sin, we feel “the wrath of God” he is not telling us that God gets angry with us when we sin. Rather we get angry at ourselves when we sin. The concept of God’s wrath is a metaphor, illustrated, for example, by a hangover: If someone is immoderate in his or her use of alcohol, God doesn’t get displeased and give that person a headache. The wrath issues from the act itself: Excessive alcohol dehydrates the brain, causing a headache. The pain is not from God, though it feels like divine punishment, like God’s fury at our irresponsibility. But this is a projection on our part, anthropomorphism. We flatter ourselves, and do God no favors, when we say that we offend God and that God gets angry with us. God is not just the ground of our being, our Creator, the Unmoved Mover. God is too a person who loves us individually and passionately, and so it is natural to imagine that God sometimes gets angry, natural to project our own limits unto God. But God’s love and mercy infinitely dwarf our own thoughts and feelings and limited capaci-

ties to actualize love in our lives. Imagine, for example, a loving grandparent picking up his or her newborn grandchild: Is there anything which that newborn can do to offend that grandparent? God’s maturity, understanding, and love infinitely dwarf that of any grandparent. How is God to be offended? Yet, still, isn’t the language of God’s anger a vital part of our tradition, our Scriptures, our prayers, our psalms, and our liturgy? They all speak of us as offending God and as God getting angry. Are these simply to be written off? No. They teach an important truth, even as they must be called for what they are: anthropomorphisms. They are meant to challenge the soul the way indigestion challenges the body. God doesn’t punish us for eating the wrong things or for overeating. Our own biology does and, in doing so, it sends us a nasty signal that we’ve been doing something wrong. Metaphorically speaking, indigestion comes at you like a vengeful angel and throws you into the great winepress of biological fury. God doesn’t hate us when we do something wrong, but we hate ourselves; God doesn’t wreak a vengeance on us when we sin, but we beat ourselves up whenever we do; and God never withholds forgiveness from us, no matter what we’ve done, but we find it very difficult to forgive ourselves for our own transgressions. There is indeed an angelic razor and a winepress of God’s fury, but those are names for the experience of discontent and self-hatred inside of us whenever we are unfaithful, they have nothing to do with God’s nature. Oblate Father Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Letters ‘Ad orientem’ suggested, not mandated

I hope that the letter “Facing our Lord in worship” in the July 14 edition did not elicit replies to Catholic San Francisco similar to some of the perfunctory responses wallpapering the Internet after Cardinal Sarah’s remarks promoting “ad orientem” worship made at the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in London. Cardinal Sarah’s address was not a mandate from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to celebrate Mass “ad orientem” as many are claiming in outrage. It was a polite suggestion by the cardinal as a speaker addressing a conference on the revitalization of the liturgical life of the church. His comments were prefaced by phrases such as “I want to make an appeal to all priests ...” and “I humbly and fraternally ask you to implement this practice.” Unfortunately the media (and even some clergy) have mistakenly spun these suggestions out of proportion, claiming Cardinal Sarah is “mandating” a change that he cannot make! Have they even read his remarks? I hope that our archbishop takes Cardinal Sarah’s polite suggestions to heart and encourages his priests to at least try facing our Lord when they lead the people in offering the holy sacrifice of the Mass. And if he does this, please beware of those who may find it somehow outrageous and put their own spin on such a suggestion. Mary Bordi The writer is a member of Our Lady of Refuge Mission of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish.

Jesus did not turn his back at the Last Supper

In response to the letter writer who is so happy that Cardinal Sarah calls for priests to face away from the people because “he is leading us to offer God the holy sacrifice of the body and blood of our Lord on our behalf” I can only say that the writer should have held her joy in check for a few days. Pope Francis clearly stated, when he visited the offices of the Congregation for Divine Worship July 9, “that the ‘ordinary’ form of the celebration of Mass is that foreseen by the missal promulgated by Paul VI,” and that the extraordinary form permitted by retired Pope Benedict XVI “should not take the place of that ‘ordinary’ form.” We are celebrating as the people of God, with the priest as presider,

eucharistic liturgy. Jesus died, once and for all, was raised and made source of Spirit, breathed into everyone and everything on the planet. We are not recreating the cross. It’s done and we rejoice. The priest as presider leads us in celebrating that reality. Can you imagine Jesus turning his back on his Apostles at the Last Supper? I think not. The beloved disciple leaned on his chest. We are being obedient to Christ when we celebrate as community, eat and drink as brothers and sisters at the table of the Lord, and serve as Jesus served. To quote the author of the letter, “Surely we will receive blessings from God for this.” Sue Hayes San Francisco

God is all around us

“I have been crucified in Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now lived in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” As baptized Christians at worship it makes no difference which way we face. I think of St. Patrick’s famous prayer: Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit, Christ when I stand, Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear in hears me. I am thinking of the priests in prison in secret finding crumbs of bread and drops of wine sharing with others in the dark, not knowing which (way) they faced in regard to geography. Mary Margaret Flynn MD San Carlos The writer is a member of St. Charles Parish.

Preserving parking in North Beach

I noted with interest the large ad in support of the “Piazza St. Francis -- The Poets’ Plaza.” I hope the Archdiocese of San Francisco will oppose the piazza as depicted and described, as it will not only close Vallejo Street in front of The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi but will also result in the loss of four parking garages in the shrine’s rectory. As anyone who has ever sought parking in North Beach knows, four existing parking spots are a priceless asset. They are necessary for the shrine’s staff and resident clergy to live and work there. I would encourage your readers to visit the website http://sosvallejo.com/index.html where they can read about neighbors’ objections to the proposed closure of Vallejo Street and view several drawings of alternative proposals that would not require closing the street and will preserve access to the rectory garages. Any one of these plans would satisfy concerns of residents further east on Vallejo Street regarding traffic flow and emergency access, as well as better serve the needs of The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. Father Gregory Coiro, OFMCap The writer is former rector of The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi.

Need for witness against Roe v. Wade

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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ECCLESIASTES 1:2; 2:21-23 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation; even at night his mind is not at rest. This also is vanity. PSALM 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17 If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. You turn man back to dust, saying, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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You make an end of them in their sleep; the next morning they are like the changing grass, which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Fill us at daybreak with your kindness that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the Lord our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. COLOSSIANS 3:1-5, 9-11 Brothers and sisters: If you were raised with Christ, seek what is

above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory. Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. Stop lying to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed, for knowledge, in the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all and in all. LUKE 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who ap-

pointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Then he told them a parable. “There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, ‘What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?’ And he said, ‘This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’ Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God.”

Spiritual richness in poverty of spirit

ou shall not covet your neighbor’s goods” is surely the most overlooked commandment by practicing Catholics today. In our Gospel this Sunday, Jesus makes sure we can’t miss His liberating teaching about our proper relationship to riches. “Take heed, and beware of covetousness,” Our Lord says in response to the brothers who are fighting over the inheritance, “for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.” Our Savior’s teaching on covetousness is strikingly practical. He wants us to know that life cannot be about riches, either now or after death. St. Cyril of Alexandria reminds us that “… covetousness is unprofitable …” because “as the Lord says, You shall build houses Father Joseph of hewn stone, and shall not Previtali dwell in them.” This inability of riches to bring us true and lasting happiness is illustrated in the parable Our Lord tells in the second part of our Gospel. Here we have the rich man who, after an abundant harvest, tears down his barns to build new ones, so that he can store all his

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grain for himself, to sustain him in what he imagines will be long-lasting comfort and security. Jesus gives us the delusional interior dialogue that the man had with himself: “And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” Theophylact of Ohrid comments that Jesus gives us this interior dialogue “to rebuke the motives of the covetous, who seem to heap up riches as if they were going to live for a long time. But will wealth ever make you long lived?” Sure enough, just as the covetous man is putting the finishing touches on his new barns, he hears those dread words from God Almighty: “You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?” This is a sobering wake-up call for all us. How, then, are we to find happiness in our use of our riches? Jesus teaches us about being what He calls “rich toward God.” This spiritual richness is achieved by our embrace of the Beatitude of poverty of spirit. To be “poor in spirit” means that we acknowledge the reality that everything we have ultimately comes from God. St. Basil the Great explains: “Observe also in another respect the folly of his words, when he says, I will gather all my fruits, as if he thought that he had not obtained them from God, but that they were the fruits of his own labors.” Indeed, everything we have has been given to us by God in order to care for our needs and the needs of our neighbors.

Thus, we become rich toward God and poor in spirit when we distribute our excess goods to the poor. “Why do you abound while another begs? unless that you should gain the rewards of a good stewardship, and be honored with the meed of patience,” St. Basil the Great writes. “Are not you then a robber, for counting as your own what you have received to distribute?” Those are startling words from St. Basil: If we keep our excess wealth for ourselves, we are stealing from the poor. As Pope Leo XIII taught, “Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.” In His Wisdom, God has made rich and poor so that the rich may grow holy by giving to the poor and so that the poor may grow holy from humbly receiving from the rich. This is the path to life in Christ with regard to riches. It sets us free from covetousness and makes us rich in the things of God, which are the only things we can take with us into eternal life. “For in vain he amasses wealth who knows not how to use it,” preaches St. Ambrose. “Neither are these things ours which we cannot take away with us. Virtue alone is the companion of the dead, mercy alone follows us, which gains for the dead an everlasting habitation.” Father Previtali is administrator of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish, Half Moon Bay.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings Monday, August 1: Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, bishop & doctor. Jer 28:1-17. Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102. Mt 4:4. Mt 14:13-21. Tuesday, August 2: Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop and Optional Memorial of Saint Peter Julian Eymard, priest. Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22. Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23. Jn 1:49b. Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14. Wednesday, August 3: Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time. Jer 31:1-7. Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13. Lk 7:16. Mt 15: 21-28. Thursday, August 4: Memorial of St. John Vianney, priest. Jer 31:31-34. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. Mt 16:18. Mt 16:13-23. Friday, August 5: Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Dedi-

cation of St. Mary Major. Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7. Dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41. Mt 5:10. Mt 16:24-28

rence, deacon and martyr. 2 Cor 9:6-10, Ps 112:12, 5-6, 7-8, 9, Jn 8:12bc, Jn 12:24-26

Saturday, August 6: Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Dn 7:9-10, 13-14. Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9. 2 Pt 1:16-19. Mt 17:5c. Lk 9:28b-36

Thursday, August 11: Memorial of Saint Clare, Virgin. Ez 12:1-12, Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 6162, Ps 119:135, Mt 18:21–19:1

Sunday, August 7: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Wis 18:6-9. Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22. Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 and Heb 11:1-2, 8-12. Mt 24:42a, 44. Lk 12:32-48 and Lk 12:35-40.

Friday, August 12: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (USA). Ez 16:115, 60, 63 and Ez 16:59-63, See 1 Thes 2:13, Mt 19:3-12

Monday, August 8: Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest. Ez 1:2-5, 24-28c, Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14, See 2 Thes 2:14, Mt 17:22-27 Tuesday, August 9: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 2:8—3:4, Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131, Mt 11:29ab, Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday, August 10: Feast of Saint Law-

Saturday, August 13: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32, Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19, See Mt 11:25, Mt 19:13-15 Sunday August 14: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Jer 38:4-6, 8-10, Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18, Heb 12:1-4, Jn 10:27, Lk 12:49-53

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U.S. House members in bipartisan vote pass Conscience Protection Act Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON – When the U.S. Congress reconvenes after Labor Day, legislation to protect the right of conscience will be before the Senate after the House on July 13—in a bipartisan 245182 vote—approved the Conscience Protection Act. The Conscience Protection Act would provide legal protection to doctors, nurses, hospitals and all health care providers who choose not to provide abortions as part of their health care practice. “We’re grateful to House Speaker Paul Ryan for bringing the Conscience Protection Act to a vote, to all the co-sponsors for their leadership, and to those members of both parties who support the civil right of conscience,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore in a statement, just one day before Congress recessed for its summer break. The cardinal is chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and the archbishop heads their Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. “Even those who disagree on the life issue should be able to respect the conscience rights of those who wish not to be involved in supporting abortion,” they said. The measure, also known as HR 4828, also provides “much-needed protection for religious employers,” they said. “In light of disturbing recent developments, even churches and religious organizations are being required to cover abortions in violation of their beliefs.” Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Lori urged Congress “to move this vital legislation forward as part of this year’s must-pass appropriations package.”

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Dr. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot, president-elect of the Catholic Medical Association, speaks during a July 8 forum on the Conscience Protection Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House passed the bill July 13.

HR 4828 was introduced in the House last March. It was introduced in the Senate in May as S 2927; it has been referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other supporters of the Conscience Protection Act say it closes several loopholes in current law that they say are allowing states to mandate abortions be performed or covered by Catholic and other faith-based hospitals and health care providers. In 2014, California began demanding that all health plans under its Department of Managed Health Care cover elective abortions. The state allows no exemption of any kind. In a ruling

issued June 21 of this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the state can “continue forcing all health plans under its jurisdiction to cover elective abortions, including late-term abortions.” Like California, New York state is mandating that all health insurers operating in New York require small-group employers – including faith-based nonprofits and Christian businesses – to cover all abortions with no exemption. In addition, a trial court in Washington state issued a ruling June 21 that public hospitals in that state must perform abortions if they also offer maternity services. Washington’s attorney general says the requirement applies even if a public hospital is acquired by a Catholic health care provider. The Conscience Protection Act would “ensure that those providing much-needed health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government to help destroy innocent unborn children,” Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Lori said in a July 7 statement. In a March letter to Congress, they said the measure “takes the core policy” of the federal Weldon Amendment of 2005 “and writes it into permanent law” to protect “those who decline to perform, pay for, refer for or provide coverage for abortion.” Other signers of the letter included the Christian Medical Association and Catholic Medical Association; the National Council of Catholic Women; the March for Life Education and Defense Fund; the National Association of Evangelicals; Religious Liberty Commission; the Knights of Columbus; National Right to Life; and several associations of physicians and nurses.

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Does ancient heresy explain headlong rush to accept gay marriage, abortion, transgender bathrooms? Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

The rapid transformation of society’s values—so that a teenage girl can be labeled a bigot because she doesn’t want to share locker room showers with a boy who believes he is a girl – can be traced to a second century heresy of Gnosticism, a Princeton University constitutional scholar Robert George says. “My friends, we’re in trouble. I won’t mince words with you,” said Robert George, McCormick Professor of Juris-

prudence at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. “For many of us, it is difficult to understand. How did we get from there to here? How is it that today you are considered a bigot if you think biological males should not be in the women’s shower rooms in high school? Are you wondering how did that happen? Wasn’t it just yesterday that it was common sense that girls shower with girls and boys shower with boys?” George said. Opposing beliefs of what it means to be a human being define the conflict between Judeo Christian and natural law worldviews and “social liberalism” based on neo-Gnosticism, George said in a talk to several hundred people during

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University president defends Catholic hiring for Catholic identity Valerie Schmalz Catholic San Francisco

A majority of a university’s faculty “must be Catholic” for a university to be Catholic, said the president of The Catholic University of America in a speech in Napa. “I want to make one point. Building a Catholic university is not a complicated thing,” John Garvey said July 7 during the Napa Institute’s annual conference, held July 6-10. “The plan was laid out in 1990 by St. John Paul in the apostolic constitution ‘Ex Corde Ecclesiae,’ a document that runs about 50 pages. “But the kernel of the argument is in four short lines near the end. St. John Paul says for a university to be Catholic a majority of its faculty must be Catholic,” Garvey said. “He did not say he and the other bishops should superintend the Catholic character of a Catholic university,” Garvey said. That was the pontiff’s “way of saying bishops are not academics,” he continued. “We don’t know how to build university faculties. The only thing we insist on is that you choose Catholics to do it. This is, as I say, a fairly simple plan. If the university follows it, the university will be Catholic. If it doesn’t, it won’t.” In the introduction to the apostolic constitution on the Catholic university, St. John Paul states: “A Catholic university’s privileged task is ‘to unite existentially by intellectual effort two orders of reality that too frequently tend to be placed in opposition as though they were antithetical: the search for truth, and the certainty of already knowing the fount of truth.’” Garvey said that requiring commitment by faculty and administrators to a Catholic intellectual tradition and culture is not in opposition to academic freedom. “The defense of originality does not

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demand the rejection of orthodoxy,” Garvey said, although there is “resistance in the academy” or university establishment to that idea. The Catholic University of America is the only pontifical university in the U.S. Three popes have visited the school - St. John Paul in 1979, Pope Benedict XVI in 2008, and Pope Francis last September, when he canonized St. Junipero Serra during an outdoor Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception right next to Catholic University. The Mass was on the east portico of the national shrine with the congregation gathered on the university grounds. “Building a Catholic university, building a Catholic faculty is not tribalism,” Garvey said. “It is a recognition that in order to create a distinctive Catholic intellectual culture we need to build an intellectual community that is committed to our Catholic worldview. A shared commitment to

Catholic ideas about creation, and providence of human beings, and human beings made in the image of God will spur creativity and the development of a culture that expresses those ideas.” “We can’t predict exactly what sort of culture such a community would produce,” Garvey said. “History suggests it will be something distinctive and wonderful.” The Napa Institute was created in response to “a growing trend toward secularization in American culture, with Catholics facing dwindling relevance, threatening their ability to be heard.”Its mission statement says: “By leading participants to a deeper understanding of the truth behind the faith, the Napa Institute emboldens Catholics to live and defend their faith with a peaceful confidence that is borne out of solid formation, fellowship and spiritual enrichment.” Besides Garvey, this year’s conference included as speakers New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Princeton University scholar Robert George, former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations. The Napa Institute was founded by Tim and Steph Busch, who also are major benefactors of Catholic University. Earlier this year, Catholic University announced it would rename its business school the Tim and Steph Busch School of Business and Economics. The Busch Family Foundation’s lead gift of $15 million was the largest financial commitment the university had received, according to the university, and was part of a $47 million total of six commitments to the school. In introducing Garvey at the July 7 event, Tim Busch credited him with doing “an amazing job to make The Catholic University of America Catholic, because sometimes it wasn’t.”

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WASHINGTON – Two leading U.S. bishops have spoken out in favor of a proposed law which would ensure federal religious freedom protections to individuals and faith-based organizations who disagree with same-sex marriage. In a joint statement, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore voiced support for the First Amendment Defense Act. Archbishop The legislation “is a modest but William E. Lori important step in ensuring conscience protection to faith-based organizations and people of all faiths and of no faith who believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman,” they said. Archbishop Cordileone chairs the U.S. bishops’ committee on the promotion and defense of marriage, while Archbishop Lori heads the committee on religious liberty. The First Amendment Defense Act was introduced by Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in response to the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling last year. The proposed law would protect individuals and organizations from being penalized for their views on marriage. The Obergefell v. Hodges ruling last June federally validated marriage licenses between same-sex couples and has since been a source of concern for individuals, small businesses and faith-based organizations who could lose their tax-exempt status or licenses for upholding their beliefs on traditional marriage. Over the past year, various small business owners have worried about losing their businesses, and other faith-based organizations are wondering if their tax-exempt statuses are in jeopardy. “The increasing intolerance toward religious belief and belief in the conjugal meaning of marriage makes these protections essential for continuing faith-based charitable work, which supports the common good of our society,” the bishops’ statement said. “Faith-based agencies and schools should not lose their licenses or accreditation simply because they hold reasonable views on marriage that differ from the federal government’s view.”

Although controversy has swirled around the First Amendment Defense Act as an anti-LGBT provision, both Archbishop Cordileone and Archbishop Lori stated that the definition of marriage “has nothing to do with disrespect for others, nor does it depend on religious belief.” “Rather, it is based on truths about the human person that are understandable by reason,” the archbishops wrote, stating that marriage between one

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VATICAN CITY -- In an effort to help contemplative women religious renew their life and mission in the church and the world, Pope Francis issued a series of new rulings dealing with formation, assets, prayer life, authority and autonomy. All institutes of contemplative women religious

will need to revise or update their constitutions to implement the new norms and have those changes approved by the Holy See. Titled “Vultum Dei Quaerere” (Seeking the face of God), the document focuses on the life of contemplative women religious. Dated June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, it was released by the Vatican July 22, the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. The 38-page document contains 14 new articles ruling on various aspects of life within monasteries and their jurisdiction, including a regulation outlining the criteria needed for a monastery to retain juridical autonomy or else be absorbed by another entity or face closure. The Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life is now charged with creating a new instruction to replace what had been the current -- but now no longer in effect -“Verbi Sponsa” -- the congregation’s 1999 instruction on contemplative life and cloistered nuns. The pope highlighted 12 aspects of contempla-

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tive and monastic life that needed particular attention and renewed norms for women: formation; prayer; the word of God; the sacraments of the Eucharist and reconciliation; fraternal life in community; autonomy; federations; the cloister; work; silence; media; and asceticism. Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo, secretary of the congregation, told reporters July 22 that the new apostolic constitution is meant to fill the legislative gaps that have become apparent since Pope Pius XII’s apostolic constitution “Sponsa Christi,” issued 66 years ago. The document also notes today’s pervasive “digital culture” and calls for “prudent discernment” in the use of new media. The pope praised contemplative women and expressed the church’s long-held esteem for men and women who chose to follow Christ “more closely” by dedicating their lives to him “with an undivided heart” and in a prophetic way.

Munich, Kabul attacks are call to pray for peace, pope says

VATICAN CITY – While recent terror attacks in Germany and Afghanistan bring sorrow and death to the world, they are also a reminder for Christians to pray fervently for peace, Pope Francis said. After reciting the Angelus prayer with thousands of visitors in St. Peter’s Square July 24, the pope conveyed his sadness at “the tragic events in Munich, Germany, and in Kabul, Afghanistan, where many innocent people have lost their lives.” “To the extent that the difficulties seem more insurmountable and the prospects of security and peace seem more unclear, our prayer should be more insistent,” he said. On July 22, 18-year-old gunman David Ali Sonboly shot and killed 9 people and wounded 35 others before killing himself during a shooting spree at a shopping center in Munich. Investigators said that they could find no clear motive and no known links to terror organizations. The following day, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives during a peaceful protest by a group of Shiite Muslims in Kabul, Afghanistan. A third bomber was killed by security forces before he could detonate his bomb. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack that claimed the lives of more than 80 people and left more than 240 wounded. The same day, a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded at least 35 others in an attack in a neighborhood of Baghdad. The Islamic State group also claimed responsibility for that attack.

Criminal charges dropped against Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Standing before reporters and cameras July 20, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda said the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis failed in its handling of the case of Curtis Wehmeyer, a former priest who pleaded guilty in two courts of abusing three brothers while pastor of Blessed Sacrament in St. Paul. The archbishop’s statement followed the announcement that the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, under the leadership of Ramsey County Attorney John Choi, had dismissed criminal charges filed last year against the archdiocese, and the parties had amended a settlement agreement they reached in December on a related civil petition. “Words are not enough,” Archbishop Hebda acknowledged. “We must, we will and we are doing better. Far-reaching changes are underway.” In June 2015, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, whose jurisdiction includes St. Paul, filed criminal charges and a civil petition against the archdiocese, alleging it failed to protect children in its handling of Wehmeyer’s case.

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JUBILEE: “I am a priest in the line of Melchizedek” began Father Guillermo Rodriguez’s homily of the Mass of his 60th anniversary of priesthood, celebrated at St. Brendan Catholic Church in San Francisco July 17. From left to right: Father Peterson Tieng, new pastor Father Roger Gustafson, Daniel James, Father Guillermo Rodriguez (in center) Jack Mona (behind Father Rodriguez), Gary Giubbini, Bryan McDermott, former pastor Father Thomas Parenti.

NATIONAL WINNER: Leah Sangalang, of Holy Angels School, Colma was a national winner in the 2015 Christmas Artwork Contest of the Missionary Childhood Association of the Propagation of the Faith.

MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION: The artwork of a dozen Catholic school students represented the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the 2015 Christmas Artwork Contest of the Missionary Childhood Association of the Propagation of the Faith. With their MCA certificates are Zophia Dalisay, Alannah Guevara and Kenneth Beltran of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City. Other recognized student artists included Kyle Lactaoen, Mary Grace Ella, Holy Angels School; Jeremiah Mateo, Alyssa Hernandez, Ethan Maxion, Bebinna Kacher, Celena Yu, Rylie Bautista, Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City.

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MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO: The school’s Class of 1966 enjoyed a day of memories celebrating their 50th Golden Diploma Reunion at the Lake Merced Golf and Country Club June 5. Chief organizer was classmate Nancy Dito. Pictured are some of the 90 Mercy revelers.

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SUNDAY, JULY 31 CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Boulevard at Gough, San Francisco, 4 p.m., featuring local and international artists, free parking, freewill donation requested at door, (415) 567-2020, ext. 213, www.stmarycathedralsf.org.

FRIDAY, AUG. 5 DISCERNMENT RETREAT: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Circle, Fremont, Friday 4 p.m. until Sunday noon for single Catholic women 18-40, Dominican Sister Mary Yun, mary@ msjdominicans.org, (Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.; www.bit.ly/discernRLife ; www.msjdominicans.org.

TUESDAY, AUG. 2 ‘MYSTICS’: James Finley, a Thomas Merton scholar, on the contemplative life, 7-8:30 p.m., Dominican Sisters’ Center, 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, a relaxed evening with light refreshments and time for questions; RSVP CommunityRelations@sanrafaelop.org, (415) 453-8303. PORZIUNCOLA INDULGENCE: Commemorating feast of Our Lady of Angels, Masses in shrine church, Vallejo Street at Columbus, San Francisco, 12:15, 3, 7 p.m.; confessions 11 a.m.-noon, 2-2:45 p.m., 5-6:30 p.m. Following the 7 p.m. Mass a procession of the Blessed Sacrament will go to the Porziuncola for a Holy Hour including adoration and prayer. To receive the indulgence Aug. 2, one must go to confession and receive Holy Communion at Mass during the period beginning eight days before the feast and extending eight days after. On the feast day itself, one must visit a church where one prays at least the Creed and an Our Father for the intentions of the pope. For questions, contact the Shrine office at (415) 986-4557, or email admin@ shrinesf.org; visit http://www.KnightsofSaintFrancis.com.

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SATURDAY, AUG. 6 ‘THEOLOGY OF THE BODY’: Workshop on the topic with John Hamlon on church’s teaching on sex and sexuality, marriage and family; St. Dominic Parish Hall, Bush at Steiner, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-noon, suggested donation: $10; register www.stdominics.org. PEACE MASS: Church of the Good Shepherd, 901 Oceana Blvd, Pacifica, 9 a.m., Father Luelo N. Palacpac, pastor, principal celebrant and homilist, (650) 580-7123; zoniafasquelle@gmail. com. CEMETERY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum, 11 a.m., Father Mike Quinn, pastor, St. Mary Star of the Parish, Sausalito, principal celebrant and homilist. (650) 756-2060, www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

TALES: Storytelling with acclaimed storyteller Cathryn Fairlee in a program filled with life lessons, music and humor from our Jewish roots, 7 p.m., St. Anselm Church, Cathryn Fairlee Centennial Hall, 97 Shady Lane, Ross, (415) 453-2342. www.saintanselm.org.

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MEDICAL FUNDRAISER: Father Edward Inyanwachi of Nigeria and Angela Testani, a nurse, speak about needs of population of Ebonyi, Nigeria, and raising money to supply medical/surgical supplies and equipment to facilities there: Aug. 21, Our Lady of Loretto Church, Novato after 10 a.m. Mass; Aug. 27, Holy Name of Jesus Church, Flanagan Center, San Francisco 6-9 p.m.; Aug. 28, St. Raymond Church, Menlo Park after 10 a.m. Mass until 2 p.m.; Sept. 11, St. Catherine of Siena Church, Burlingame after 11:30 a.m. Mass until 3 p.m. Angela Testani (415) 586-5754.

SATURDAY. SEPT. 24 ANNIVERSARY REUNION: Holy Name of Jesus School, San Francisco is celebrating its 75th anniversary and looking for alumni. This is a new date than previously made known. Forward contact information to hnparishsecretary@gmail. com or visit alumni page at http:// holynamesf.org/holy-name-schoolalumni/.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of June HOLY CROSS, COLMA Ann Marie Anderson Mary Jane Andrews William Joseph Armento Mary Artola Paula Asuncion June Cosio Baggiani Ida Mae Ballardo Sr. M. Josepha Baumann SHF Brian Beliso Charlotte C. Birsinger Gloria A. Borg Dorothy Botelho Judy Amanda Bowen Rev. Eugene J. Boyle Agnes G. Bria Rita Asturias Burns Luisa S. Cabral Rogelio A. Cabrera James Peter Cahill Julie Capizzi Bernadette M. Casha Lino Cesca Estelle W. Compton Paula Cordova Richard J. Cottrell Stephan A. Crisafi Leo A. Cummins Esperanza De La Pena Igor Alex De Lipski Kathryne I. Delorio John H. Despanie Eleanor M. Dolan James P. Doyle John Joseph Dubrovich Leonardo Dunlap Phyllis Dolores Feudale Yelba Freij Daniel Frias Jacques Gaiddon Arthur Legaspi Galang Sr. Concha Garcia Dorothy K. Gilmour Richard D. Gilmour Elena L. Granelli Josephine G. Harris Carol Healy Cristina Lynn Seastres Hermoso Patricia M. Howe Harold Hutchison Jr.

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Beach Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1675

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.